anaheim-gazette 1903-03-19

SOME CLOSE CALLS. INSTANCES OF NARROW ESCAPES TOLD BY RAILWAY MEN. A locomotive's Remarkable Jump—The Sleeping Car Passenger on a Rough Road—Trains That Left the Track and Returned Running at Full Speed. There is no question that well authenticated cases are on record where disastrous wrecks of railroad trains have been averted by almost seeming miracles. James E. White, general superintendent of the railway mail service at Washington, relates the particulars of a remarkable jump of 28 feet made by a locomotive. As Mr. White tells the story, it was on the 1st of September, 1892, when a New York and Chicago mail train on the New York Central, which was behind time and running at a very high rate of speed, reached New Hamburg, where a 28 foot draw of a bridge was open, which open space it is claimed the engine cleared and landed safely on the main portion of the bridge, the rest of the train going down through the opening. While the engine, it is said, made the leap of 25 feet in safety, the engineer and firemen, not having time to jump, were both killed. John H. Cain, a postal clerk, was killed, and M. E. Towney, olerk in charge, was seriously injured. The other postal clerks escaping unhurt. While none of the local railroad men knows of any locomotives that are as good jumpers as White's or that do the bounding jockey act, some of them know of miraculous and hairbreadth escapes. Carlton Paris of the old Ohio and Mississippi for many years and more recently with the B. and O. S. W. tells that he and Ed Swift a number of years ago were riding on a train over the Ohio and Big Sandy road when, an accident was narrowly averted. But let Paris tell the story: "The road was about the roughest at that time I had ever ridden over. There were only a few passengers on the train. Swift and I were in the forward coach talking to the conductor when the solitary sleeping car passenger came staggering in and said: 'Mr. Conductor, your road is so rough I can't sleep in my berth. I have been pitched out of my berth twice in the last quarter of an hour. There must be something the matter.'" "The conductor picked up his lantern and said: 'Come on, and I'll go back." PLAGUE OF LEGISLATORS. Why Some of the States Once Had Two Capitals. Baton Rouge freely translated means red stick. That is the limit of my understanding of the affair, however. It is a quiet old town, consisting chiefly of river. When I studied geography several decades ago, I knew that Louisiana had two capitals, one at New Orleans and the other at Baton Rouge. They have got tired of entertaining legislators at New Orleans of late years and have unleaded the whole job upon the smaller and more nearly defenseless city. Looking back to those old days, I recall that Louisiana was one of the very few states which required two vents for their legislatures. Connecticut was one with Hartford and New Haven as capitals, and Rhode Island, the smallest of states, was another, with Providence and Newport. Of late years there has been a sort of centralization of capitals. The fashion of having one at every enterprising city in a state has fallen into disuse. You might tramp all over any of the states nowadays and not run the risk of blundering into a legislature in full blast where it might have been least expected. I asked the Pooatello man what he thought was the reason for the wealth of capitals in earlier times. "In those days," he said, "the states were young and tender and had not fully developed their muscle and their power of resisting great assaults. It was therefore to distribute the evil of a legislature sitting over a great deal of country so as not to give any particular city the worst of it. As time went on and a town showed especial hardihood and ability to stand great calamity the legislature was switched upon it as a perpetual and permanent institution. New Orleans and Newport and other towns which in other days were capitals had the good luck to draw two aces and to win out, sending the legislature in the one instance to Baton Rouge and in the other to Providence. It takes a game town to stand a persistent plague of legislature." —Chicago Record. Tragedy Averted. "Just in the nick of time our little boy was saved" writes Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City, Ohio, "Pneumonia had played sad havoc with him and a terrible cough set in besides. Doctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, and our darling was saved. EARLY FRENCH EXPLOREMENT The Work of Cartier, Champlain and others In the Great Lakes. W. S. Harwood writes in St. Niolas of "The Great Lakes." Mr. Wood says: Jacques Cartier, who shipped St. Malo in 1534, explored the coast Newfoundland and made the circuit the gulf of St. Lawrence, and had much else, too, for New France in eing up negotiations with the many Indians who thronged though strong and friendly from all the regions in and about Quebec and Montreal Ottawa and Kingston. Another man of St. Malo—Francis Greve—began colonization of the land. About nine in France, Samuel de Champlain born, and when he reached the early manhood he, too, joined in new world exploration in the north above the great lakes. The king France were much interested in new land and did all in their power only to explore the region, but to size and develop it. Champlain 1615, made an expedition up the Océan bay and penetrated as far as Georgian bay, thus touching on theirs of Lake Huron. In 1618 Etienne Brule, an older preter, came into Champlain's with the news of the discovery of Superior Lake Erie, with Ontario probably discovered some time than this. Nicollet, in 1634, stated a canoe from the head of Georgia skirted the eastern and northern of Huron and at last found Sault Ste. Marie, or the falls Mary, now shortened to "Soo first white man," it believed, this key to the noble lake beyond went as far as Green Bay, on Lake Michigan, and so the various lakes came into the actual knowledge explorers and were no longer mute. But as these French explorers tinned to develop new and hitherto dreamed of possibilities of emigration began to take deep into the region—an interest little less than that they were then taken their schemes of colonizationginia and Massachusetts.Again through the years that for threads cross and recross, not a beautiful garment of harm tangling in a wretched snarl work of disputes between the Entanglement followed meant, wars harassed the land.last the English were master northern lake region for all t less some day we shall see tha The road was about the roughest at that time I had ever ridden over. There were only a few passengers on the train. Swift and I were in the forward coach talking to the conductor when the solitary sleeping car passenger came staggering in and said: 'Mr. Conductor, your road is so rough I can't sleep in my berth. I have been pitched out of my berth twice in the last quarter of an hour. There must be something the matter.' "The conductor picked up his lantern and said, 'Come on, and I'll go back with you and see what's wrong.' Swift and I sat where we were talking, and very soon we saw that the bellcord was being very violently pulled and the engineer was whistling for brakes. The train finally came to a standstill, and Swift and I kept our seats and kept on talking. As, after five minutes or more, there were no signs of the train going ahead, we concluded to go back and see what was the cause of the delay." "The conductor and trainmen were grouped about the sleeper with their lanterns, and we soon found out that the sleeper had left the track and had been running over the ties for how far we knew. The night was pitch dark and it was raining very hard. It took the men at least three hours to get the sleeper on the rails again. The wheels were very near the end of the ties, and had the train gone 100 yards farther the sleeper would have been off the ties and over a high embankment." Frank Martin of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas said: "I remember of a disastrous wreck being almost miraculously averted on the Memphis and Little Rock road along about 1883. A passenger train was traveling at a high rate of speed when the engine threw a piece of rail about three feet long out of the track. This piece of rail was thrown at least 25 feet from the track. Strange as it seems, the tender, baggage car, coaches and sleepers went over this place where the rail was out and gained the rail again without one of the cars leaving the track except when the wheels went down on to the ties at one end of the broken rail, only to mount the rail again at the other end of the track. About all the inconvenience the passengers experienced was a slight shaking." Assistant General Passenger Agent Ryan said: "I remember two instances when the lives of engineers and firemen were saved by a seeming intervention of Providence. A number of years ago a new trestle was being put in, and false works had been erected to permit of the temporary passage of trains. The workmen had failed to put in some necessary bolts. The first train that came along was a freight. As soon as the engine struck the false work it gave way, and down went the engine. The fall was one of 50 feet, and in falling the engine made a complete revolution and alighted on the ground upon its wheels right side up, and the engineer and fireman both escaped injury, although they were probably pretty badly jarred by the fall. "The other case I know of is that of a train running at a good speed when the engine ran into a large rock that had fallen on the track just at the bottom of a trunk. The impact caused towns which in other days were capitals had the good luck to draw two aces and to win out, sending the legislature in the one instance to Baton Rouge and in the other to Providence. It takes a game town to stand a persistent plague of legislature."—Chicago Record. Tragedy Averted. "Just in nick of time our little boy was saved" writes Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City, Ohio. "Pneumonia had played sad havoc with him and a terrible cough set in besides. Doctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, and our darling was saved. He's now sound, and well." Everybody ought to know, it's only care for coughs, colds and all lung diseases. Guaranteed by J. P. Hatzfeld, drugist. Price 50c and $1.00: Trial bottles free. Life In Mars. Megamicros, as we shall call our man of the earth transported in his sleep to the new Mars, wakes up, opens his eyes and finds himself in bed in his room. All things in it are familiar to him—the furniture, clothes, books and wares are just where he had left them overnight. He does not suspect the trick that has been played on him. He stretches himself, throws up his arms, leaps from his bed, goes to the washstand, lifts the pitcher, puts on his clothes—and is greatly surprised. All these actions are of a common character and consist in raising masses to a certain height. His water pitcher, for instance, holds two liters, new measure. On the earth these two liters, representing two kilograms, require a certain effort to be raised, say, to the height of 30 centimeters. But on Mars these two liters weigh only two Martian kilograms, or 16 times less in earthly weight. Further, he does not have to lift them to a height of 80 centimeters, but of only 15 centimeters, his size being diminished one-half, so that the work to be performed is reduced to one-thirty-second. On the other hand, his strength, which is proportioned to the volume or the mass of his muscles, is only reduced to one-eighth. Consequently the effort he is required to make is four times less. His water pitcher seems extremely light, so do his clothes. He probably remarked the same thing when he threw up his arms and jumped from his bed, but simply thought he was in unusually good spirits. M.J. Delboef in Popular Science Monthly. A Physician Writes. "I am desirous of knowing if the profession can obtain Herbine in bulk or prescribing purposes? It has been of great use to me in treating cases of lyspepsia brought on by excess or overwork. I have never known it to fail in restoring the organs affected, to their healthful activity." 50c bottle at J.P.Hatzfeld's drug store. No Wonder Be's Successful. One of the most successful colored politicians in North Carolina is Cicero Urkart, according to the testimony of his home paper, which says of him: "Cicero was elected constable of Woodville township at last election. In the interval between election and bonding time Cicero put in his nights, it is alleged, stealing cotton from William Hardy, colored. Cicero was in tinned to develop new and brighter dreamed of possibilities of emigration ginia and Massachusetts. Again through the years that for threads cross and recross, not a beautiful garment of harm tangling in a wretched snarl; work of disputes between the entanglement followed men, wars harassed the land; last the English were master northern lake region for all less some day we shall see their schemes of colonization ginia and Massachusetts. A London "Pawn" In London exists an institute pawner. She is usually aged widow and flourishers localities where every man of the people living gions are poverty stricken have seen better days and terra pawnshop. The pawn or twice a week upon her when she departs her son with sundry articles which mission-on-the-sum raised us to her interest to have pawnshop keeper. As a penny for every 2 shillings The business is a paypawn boasts a list of 22 people who employ her to off wearing apparel on a rededeem it on Saturday she that her two daughters. Women of For temporary passage of trains. The work men had failed to put in some necessary bolts. The first train that came along was a freight. As soon as the engine struck the false work it gave way, and down went the engine. The fall was one of 50 feet, and in falling the engine made a complete revolution and alighted on the ground upon its wheels right side up, and the engineer and fireman both escaped injury, although they were probably pretty badly jarred by the fall. "The other case I know of is that of a train running at a good speed when the engine ran into a large rock that had fallen on the track just at the mouth of a tunnel. The impact caused the tender to bend up from the rear end and form a protecting hood over the engineer and fireman in the locomotive cab, and they were uninjured. Had this not occurred, they would either have been badly injure or had their lives crushed out." Another passenger man said yesterday: "When I was a sleeping car conductor on the old Bee line, about 20 years ago, the train was late, and we were going along at a pretty lively gait. We were within about five miles of Indianapolis when the engine and four cars jumped the track, and we thought there would be a smash up, but before the train could be stopped every wheel was again on the rails without the least damage being done to any part of the train or any of the passengers, barring the fighter we all had." —Cincinnati Enquirer The CLEANSING AND HEALING CURE FOR CATARRH is Ely's Cream Balm Easy and pleasant to use. Contains no injurious drug. It is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at once. It Opens and Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Allays Inflammation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Size, 50 cents at Drugstores or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 50 Warren Street, New York. An Ancient Foe To health and happiness is Scrofula—again since time immemorial. It causes bunches in the neck, disguises the skin, inflames the mucous membrane, wastes the muscles, weakens the bones, reduces the power of distance to discuse and the capacity to recovery, and develops into conspicuous appearance. It left side of wound. It caused pain, was lanced, became a cumulative wound. I went into a social decline. I was persuaded to try God's Sarsaparilla, and when I had taken tablets my neck was injured, and I have been any trouble of the kind since." —K. P. Savage, Troy Ono. Food's Sarsaparilla and Pills will rid you of it, radically and permanently, as they have rid thousands. No Wonder He's Successful. One of the most successful colored politicians in North Carolina is Cicero Urkart, according to the testimony of his home paper, which says of him: "Cicero was elected constable of Woodville township at the last election. In the interval between election and bonding time Cicero put in his nights, it is alleged, stealing cotton from William Hardy, colored. Cicero was inflicted for larceny, and while the jury was out Cicero ran away. The jury failed to agree—standing 11 white men for conviction and a negro preacher for acquittal. Cicero went down to Norfolk, where he lived happily ever afterward." Balzac looked at her eighth second and then laughed bent over to explain me marked in a serious voice weighing every word he saw the secret lies in the sin of the woman of 20 must be the older woman of 40 truss and the older woman's pity not as has been so often standing and making them own charms, but in company with happy tact calling on the most of the good quail whose favor she sees. A Curious Dear An apothecary having up his seat in a theater lady, the officer felt he and sent him a challenge cary presented himself meeting at the appointed however, that he was to the use of firearms, propose another way of putte. He then drew from pill box, took from it tous addressed his antique of honor, you wont to fight me only on equate two pills, one comp deadly poison and the harmless. We are on we each swallow one your choice, and I promise take the one you leave laughed heartily at the end and shaking hands, the friends. FACTS ABOUT ANAHEIM. Sketch of the industries and Resources of this Most Beautiful Part of California. The City of Anaheim, with a population of 2500, is situated in the northern part of Orange county, in Southern California, 12 miles from the ocean, 41 miles from the foothills, and 1481 feet above sea level. It is 27 miles from Los Angeles, the second largest city in the State of California. The climatic conditions are the most favorable for out-door life to be found in Southern California. The temperature is extremely uniform, seldom rising above 90 degrees in summer, or falling below 32 degrees in winter. The abundance of sunlight and the absence of sharp frosts and cold winds make it a place especially acceptable to those desiring to escape the severe climate of the east. The country is very attractive. It is practically level, with just sufficient slope from the hills to afford adequate drainage. The roads are level, well graded, and well kept, affording excellent opportunities for cycling and driving. The soil is a rich sandy loam which never bakes, making it a very easy ground to work; thus lending itself readily to the cultivation of berries, nuts, oranges, etc. The variety of products, and the possibility of procuring small tracts of land at low figures, and on easy terms, make our section of the county very attractive and advantageous for truck raising, or for farming on a small scale. The following are a few of the products: oranges, lemons, walnuts, grapes, peaches, apricots, sugar beets, berries and vegetables of all kinds. Anaheim is the possessor of a Building and Loan Association, Water company, two railroads, fruit cannery and drier, large oil industry, ostrich farm, bank, several adequate commercial houses, two hotels and two newspapers. The city also owns The Message on the Bank Note—A Baffled Tigress—The Dentist's Chance. Willing to Assist Him. Some years ago the cashier of a Liverpool merchant received a small Bank of England note, which he held up to the light to make sure it was genuine. In doing so he noticed some indistinct brownish marks as if words had been traced on the front of the note and on the margin. Out of curiosity he tried to decipher them. In a weak solution of acid the words came out much more legibly, and he was able to read the following sentence: "If this note should fall in the hands of John Dean of Longhillmar, he will learn thereby that his brother is lan guishing a prisoner in Algiers." Mr. Dean, when the note was shown to him, lost no time in asking the government for assistance and finally secured the freedom of his brother on payment of a ransom to the day. The unfortunate man had been a prisoner for 11 years and had traced with a piece of wood for pen and his own blood for ink the message.—Gentleman. A Baffled Tigress. An officer of the Bengal lancers, who was seized by a tigress owed his escape to a curious accident. The tigress seized him by the breast of his coat and shook him till he became unconscious. On recovering he heard a strange noise at a little distance, as if somebody was Backed up by other remedy for the makers of Dr. Pierce in legal money of the Falling of Womb, we means of cure. Their financial United States, with this fact it will read precedented and renamed unparalleled record out" as the saying most remarkable recourse especially therefore stands ably warrant its main $3,000 FOR below, and also of publishing, thus pre- Miss ROHRBACK, New York City, and its sive Union, wrote the f I am satisfied that I really ails their patient needs of the sick pared a reliable remedy. Two years ago I began off of the summer nearly yea was ill prepared to take headache, backache, and sleep more than two hours Dr. Pierce's Favorite result. Within a year timed using the Fa and then stopped, for your medicine has been recommended it to every To Dr. R.V.Pierce. French and English Crusoes. French men of letters have not enough of the stardacious spirit of the English, says Henry D. Sedgwick in The Atlantic. They troop to Paris, where they have been accustomed to sit on their classical benches since Paris became the center of France. The romance of Villon is the romance of a Parisian thief. The romance of Ronsard is the romance of the Parisian salon. Montaigne lives on this seignior while England is topsy turvy with excitement of new knowledge and new feeling. Corneille has the nobleness of a jenne fille. You can measure them all by their ability to plant a colony. Wreck them on a desert island, Villon will pick blackberries, Ronsard will skip stones, Montaigne whittle, Corneille look like a gentleman, and the empire of France will not increase by a hand's breadth. Take a handful of Elizabethan poets, and Sidney would chop, Shakespeare would cook, Jonson dig, Bacon snare, Marlowe catch a wild ass, and in 24 hours they would have a log fort, a score of savage slaves, a windmill, a pinnae, and the cross of St. George flying on the tallest tree. Cures Scatic Rheumatism. Mrs. A. E. Simpson, 509 Craig St., Knoxville, Teenn., writes, June 10th, 1899: "I have been trying the baths of Hot Springs, Ark., for sciatic rheumatism, but I get more relief from Ballard's Snow Liniment than any medicine or anything I have ever tried. Enclosed find postoffice order for $1.00. Send me a large bottle by Southern Express." Sold by J. P. Hatzfeld, druggist. A London "Pawner." In London exists an institution called the pawner. She is usually a middle aged widow and flourishes in those distal localities where every other house is let out in furnished apartments. Many of the people living in these regions are poverty stricken women who have seen better days and dread to enter a pawnshop. The pawner calls once or twice a week upon her clients, and when she departs her satchel bulges with sundry articles which she is commissioned to pledge. She is paid a commission on the sum raised, and hence it is to her interest to hangle with the pawnshop keeper. As a rule, she gets 1 penny for every 2 shillings obtained. The business is a paying one. One pawner boasts a list of 200 customers, people who employ her to pawn articles of wearing apparel on a certain day and redeem it on Saturday. So busy is she that her two daughters assist her. Women of Forty. THE TIGRESS SEIZED HIM. Sneezing violently. It was the tigress herself. He slowly turned round and gave a furtive gaze in that direction. He could hardly believe his eyes. There was the tigress slinking off with her tail very much between her legs and sneezing most violently and making the most piteous grimaces. The truth dawned upon him like a flash of lightning. In the operation of shaking him his snuffbox had flown open from his waistcoat pocket, and the tigress had received the contents thereof full of her face.—Cornhill Magazine. FACTS ABOUT ORANGE CO. The census bureau has issued a bulletin on agriculture in California which we quote from extensively in another part of this issue. One of the interesting features of the report is the paragraph giving the number of farms and acres of farming lands in the five Southern California counties. The pre-eminence of Orange county is apparent: Counties. No. farms. Acres. Los Angeles .6377 890,063 Orange .2286 890,063 Riverside .2286 890,063 San Bernardino .2350 219,132 San Diego .3598 890,419 But it is in the acreage of irrigated lands that Orange county takes easy precedence over the other counties of Southern California: Counties. Acres. Los Angeles .85,644 Orange .12,247 Riverside .12,247 San Bernardino .37,877 San Diego .16,022 The area of Orange county is 780 square miles; that of Los Angeles, 3880; that of Riverside, 7008; that of San Bernardino, 20,055, and that of San Diego, 8400 square miles. Orange county thus contains one-fifth the area of Los Angeles; yet its irrigated lands approach in area to one-half those of its neighbor to the north. Riverside embraces nine times its area, yet it irrigates 9000 more acres, or a fourth more than the belauded county on the east. San Bernardino is 25 times its size, yet its irrigated acres exceed those of this jumbo county by nearly 4000, approximately ten per cent. San Diego is eleven times its size, yet it irrigates 25,000 acres more than the county on the south—300 per cent is the former's irrigated area as compared with that of the latter—almost the irrigated area of San Diego and Riverside combined. Orange county possesses the finest system of irrigation, the most secure water rights, that exist in Southern California. That is what we have said many a time and oft. These figures prove it. It is the handsomest and most productive county that lies outdoors and is settling up faster than any other in the State. THE TIGRESS SEIZED HIM. Sneezing violently. It was the tigress herself. He slowly turned round and gave a furtive gaze in that direction. He could hardly believe his eyes. There was the tigress slinking off with her tail very much between her legs and sneezing most violently and making the most piteous grimaces. The truth dawned upon him like a flash of lightning. In the operation of shaking him his snuffbox had flown open from his waistcoat pocket, and the tigress had received the contents thereof full of her face.—Cornhill Magazine. FIRING ON THE MOB. The Scene After the Death Dealing Volley Had Done Its Work. The yelling mass below neared the walls. A whistle pierced the tumult.From the windows jetted swift lines of flame, and a shattering volley tore the air. A crash, and then stillness on the mob, an intense bush, a swift paralysis; a blue gray smoke cloud floated up the walls and out over the jailyard. Men gasped, then held their breath. Frozen their nests in the dives startled sparrows flew above the crowd with frightened twitterings. In the jail corridor sounded the clink, el�k of empty shells falling to the floor as nervous fingers fumbled at boxes or shoved fresh cartridges home with a snap snapping of breechblocks, while staring eyes were fixed upon the scene outside. From below came a new sound, the noise of agony. On the outskirts of the crowd men were running. The molested back from the jail walls. In the space left clear lay prostrate forms outstretched or huddled in attitudes of grotesque horror on the stone paved way One figure half arose, wavered back ward and then fell toward the retreat mob with a gasping cry. Men runing back from the crowd with apprehensive glances at the windows carried off the limp forms. In the crowd men bore up other men who reeled and staggered to and fro. The corridor was very still. The guard stood in silence. Here and there one drew a long breath, with a slow heaving of the chest and a lifting of shoulders. Turning their eyes with an effort from the mob, they glanced at each other as though seeking confirmation for their thoughts, to be assured that all this thing had happened, that the dark forms on the pavement had been a grim reality. A slight pale faced private throw his rifle to the floor and turned his face from the window, with a burst of shuddering sobs. Others swore apparently at nothing and busied themselves with their weapons. No one paid any heed to the private who wept except that his next rock man stooped and kicked up his nose. THE TIGRESS SEIZED HIM. Sneezing violently. It was the tigress herself. He slowly turned round and gave a furtive gaze in that direction. He could hardly believe his eyes. There was the tigress slinking off with her tail very much between her legs and sneezing most violently and making the most piteous grimaces. The truth dawned upon him like a flash of lightning. In the operation of shaking him his snuffbox had flown open from his waistcoat pocket, and the tigress had received the contents thereof full of her face.—Cornhill Magazine. TROOPS AND DENIALS The Curious Statistics Show ropean Nations Pay. The friends and adventors versal peace" and the force and incertainty are agreed that the expenses and war armaments are ages of intoxicating kind are unduly large. proverb—it is not a Sworn course—to the effect that drinks more than he like a Swiss," and it is perhaps—and residents of Switzerland say for that the fame of residue land for sobriety is no as the fame of the Scot for frugality. A recorder which has appeared should dual expenditures of both beer, cider and brandy francs, six times as much as army.Germany proper individual G$500,000,000 a year or cents, distilled or fired beer and Rhine wine-000 a year on the Germain expends in a year drink chiefly wine,a year on the maintenance of the republic.The $250,000,000 a year for cordials and $55 Italian army,the expected about same ratio as Austria-Hungary liquor in a year than about $225,000,000 who are familiar with blue Danube might come to this sum was of Vienna alone in Leningrad; however is not the coatinous districts,pay Tyrol,Transylvania very little wine is due Hungary produces an increasing amount... The pawner calls once or twice a week upon her clients, and when she departs her satchel bulges with sundry articles which she is commissioned to pledge. She is paid a commission on the sum raised, and hence it is to her interest to haggle with the pawnshop keeper. As a rule, she gets 1 penny for every 2 shillings obtained. The business is a paying one. One pawner boasts a list of 200 customers, people who employ her to pawn articles of wearing apparel on a certain day and redeem it on Saturday. So busy is she that her two daughters assist her. Women of Forty. Balzac, famous as a literary and so cial lion, was once attacked in a Paris salon by a pretty little miss of 17, who demanded why it was that he liked women whom she would consider passe. "Why, monsieur, even when they are as old as 40 you seem to enjoy their society!" Balzac looked at her earnestly for a second and then laughed heartily. He bent over to explain matters and remarked in a serious voice, as though weighing every word he said, "Perhaps the secret lies in the simple fact that the woman of 20 must be pleased, while the older woman of 40 tries to please, and the older woman's power consists not as has been so often said in understanding and making the most of her own charms, but in comprehending and with happy tact calling out and making the most of the good qualities of the man whose favor she seeks." A Curious Duel. An apothecary having refused to give up his seat in a theater to an officer's lady, the officer felt himself insulted and sent him a challenge. The apothecary presented himself at the place of meeting at the appointed time. He said, however, that he was not accustomed to the use of firearms, but he would propose another way of settling the dispute. He then drew from his pocket a pill box, took from it two pills, and thus addressed his antagonist: "As a man of honor, you would surely wish to fight me only on equal terms. Here are two pills, one composed of the most deadly poison and the other perfectly harmless. We are on equal ground if we each swallow one. You shall take your choice, and I promise faithfully to take the one you leave." The officer laughed heartily at the strange proposal, and, shaking hands, they parted good friends. THEDFORD'S BLACK-DRAUGHT THE ORIGINAL LIVER MEDICINE A sallow complexion, dizziness, billiousness and a coated tongue are common indications of liver and kidney diseases. Stomach and bowel troubles, severe as they are, give immediate warning by pain, but liver and kidney troubles, though less painful at the start, are much harder to cure. Theford's Black-Draught never fails to benefit diseased liver and weakened kidneys. It stirs up the torpid liver to throw off the germs of fever and ague. It is a certain preventive of cholera and Bright's disease of the kidneys. With kidneys reinforced by Theford's Black-Draught thousands of persons have dwelt immune in the midst of yellow fever. Many families live in perfect health and have no other doctor than Theford's Black-Draught. It is always on hand for use in an emergency and saves many expensive calls of a doctor. Mullins, S.C., March 10, 1901. I have used Theford's Black-Draught for three years and I have not had to go to a doctor since I have been taking it. It is the best medicine for me that is on the market for liver and kidney troubles and dyspepsia and other complaints. Rev. A. G. LEWIS. Curled Horsehair For Market. South America furnishes the greatest amount and best quality of curled horsehair, used for filling mattresses and stuffing furniture. On the wide pampa many thousands of horses are bred especially for the hair of their manes and tails. These between the round ups, which sometimes do not occur in three or four seasons, grow to great length, but owing to the lack of care and the state of the "camps," as the open country is called, the hair is usually tangled in what seems an inextricable mass. All over the camps grow many kinds of burs and thistles, and the animals as they graze or roll themselves about become covered with them. Their coats are naturally rough, the hair growing in an uneven, shaggy way. Stuck all over with burs and with mane and tail matted into nearly unwieldy masses, the poor creatures present a comical appearance. After they are shorn they seem to delight in the freedom of cropped necks and short tails. The hair when cut off is freed from dirt and roughness of all kinds and wound into ropes, by which means it is made curly. It sells for 38 cents or 48 cents a pound. The longest strands are kept separated and used for horsehair furniture, cloths, etc. New York Tribune. Acted as Toastmistress. Mrs. Emma S. Tyndale, the only woman in the freshman class of the law school at Michigan university, acted as toastmistress at the freshman law banquet on Feb. 22 by the unanimous request of the class. The Michigan papers say, "She presided in a pleasing and graceful manner, proving herself entirely equal to the occasion." $500 Reward for Women WHO CANNOT BE CURED. Backed up by over a third of a century of remarkable and uniform cures, a record such as no other remedy for the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to women ever attained, the proprietors and makers of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in legal money of the United States for any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb, which they cannot cure. All they ask is a fair and reasonable trial of their means of cure. Their financial responsibility is well known to every newspaper publisher and druggist in the United States, with most of whom they have done business for over a third of a century. From this fact it will readily be seen how utterly foolish it would be for them to make the above unprecedented and remarkable offer if they were not basing their offer on curative means having an unparalleled record. No other medicine than Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription could possibly "win out" as the saying goes, on such a proposition. But they know whereof they speak. They have the most remarkable record of cures made by this world-famed remedy ever placed to the credit of any preparation especially designed for the cure of woman's peculiar ailments. This wonderful remedy, therefore, stands absolutely alone as the only one possessed of such unrivaled curative properties as fully warrant its makers in publishing the remarkable offer above made in the utmost good faith. $3,000 FORFEIT will also be paid in lawful money of the United States, by the officers of the World's Dispensary Medical Association, if they cannot show the original signature of each individual volunteering the testimonials below, and also of the writers of every testimonial among the thousands which they are constantly publishing, thus proving their genuineness and the superiority of these medicines. WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Proprietors, BUFFALO, N.Y. Miss ROHRBACK, who lives at No. 73 Amsterdam Ave., New York City, and is Treasurer of the Woman's Progressive Union, wrote the following story of her experience: I am satisfied that half the doctors do not know what really ails their patients, while you have carefully studied the needs of the sick and worn-out, and have skilfully prepared a reliable remedy which will cure in a short time. Two years ago I began to feel "run-down," the extreme heat of the summer nearly prostrated me, and when fall came I was ill prepared to take up anew the burdens of life. I had headache, backache, and was very nervous; scarcely able to sleep more than two hours at a time. I was advised to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and was delighted with the result. Within a week I was sleeping splendidly. Continued using the 'Favorite Prescription' for eight weeks, and then stopped, for I was perfectly well. Ever since then your medicine has been my 'Favorite Prescription,' too. I recommend it to every one. To Dr. R. V. Pierce. Miss May Rohrbach. Miss CARRIE SPRECHER, of Mount Morris, Ill., writes Dr. R. V. Pierce, as follows: "I was back in my old home when your letter came. I will try and explain regarding the good I received from your medicines. For over one year I suffered from what my physician pronounced womb trouble. Had doctored with doctors in the East and also in the West but found only temporary relief. The next time of my sickness I found myself no better, and in that way it kept going on from time to time until I became discouraged. I finally resolved to write you for advice. I purchased two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription: two vials of his 'Pleasant Pellets,' and by using only that small quantity I have found wonderful relief. I say to all who are suffering from troubles similar to mine that it is unnecessary to be sick when one can use Dr. Pierce's remedies." I am satisfied their patients, while you have carefully studied the needs of the sick and worm-out, and have skilfully prepared a reliable remedy which will cure in a short time. Two years ago I began to feel "run-down," the extreme heat of the summer nearly prostrated me, and when fall came I was ill prepared to take up anew the burdens of life. I had headache, backache, and was very nervous; scarcely able to sleep more than two hours at a time. I was advised to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and was delighted with the result. Within a week I was sleeping splendidly. Continued using the Favorite Prescription' for eight weeks, and then stopped, for I was perfectly well. Ever since then your medicine has been my 'Favorite Prescription,' too. I recommend it to every one. Yours very truly. To Dr. R. V. Pierce. Miss May Rohrbach. HOW TO PRESERVE HEALTH AND BEAUTY is told in Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. It is FREE. For a paper-covered copy send 21 one-cent stamps to cover mailing ONLY; cloth binding 31 stamps. Address: Dr. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y. Children's Coughs and Colds. Mrs. Joe McGrath, 327 E. 1st St., Hutchinson, Kan., writes: "I have given Ballard's Horsebound Syrup to my children for coughs and colds for the past four years, and find it the best medicine I ever used." Unlike many cough syrups, it contains no opium, but will soothe and heal any disease of the throat or lungs quicker than any other remedy. 25c, 50c and $1.00 at J. P. Hatzfeld's drug store. TROOPS AND DRINK. The Curious Statistics Showing What European Nations Pay For Them. The friends and advocates of "universal peace" and the foes of intemperance and inebriety are pretty generally agreed that the expenses attending war and war armaments and liquid beverages of an intoxicating or exhilarating kind are unduly large. There is an old proverb—it is not a Swiss proverb, of course—to the effect that a man who drinks more than he should "drinks like a Swiss," and it is for this reason, perhaps—and residents of the republic of Switzerland say for no better one—that the fame of residents of Switzerland for sobriety is not as farreaching as the fame of the Scotch, for instance, for frugality. A recent computation which has appeared shows that the annual expenditures of the Swiss for wine, beer, elder and brandy are 175,000,000 francs, six times as much as is spent on the army. Germany expends, or, more properly, individual Germans expend, $500,000,000 a year on liquid refreshments, distilled or fermented—chiefly beer and Rhine wine—and $120,000,000 a year on the German army. France expends in a year $500,000,000 on drink, chiefly wine, and $140,000,000 a year on the maintenance of the army of the republic. The Italians expend $250,000,000 a year for liquors, wines and cordials and $55,000,000 for the Italian army, the expenditures being in about the same ratio as in other nations. Austria-Hungary expends less upon liquor in a year than any other country of the first class in Europe, amounting to about $225,000,000, though persons who are familiar with life along the blue Danube might not unreasonably come to the conclusion that $200,000,990 of this sum was spent in the city of Vienna alone in lager beer. Such, however, is not the case. In the mountainous districts, particularly in Tyrol, Transylvania and in Croatia, very little wine is drunk, and though Hungary produces a large and steadily increasing amount of wine a very large medicines. For over one year I suffered from what my physician pronounced womb trouble. Had doctored with doctors in the East and also in the West but found only temporary relief. The next time of my sickness I found myself no better, and in that way it kept going on from time to time until I became discouraged. I finally resolved to write you for advice. I purchased two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. two vials of his 'Pleasant Pellets,' and by using only that small quantity I have found wonderful relief. I say to all who are suffering from troubles similar to mine that it is unnecessary to be sick when one can use Dr. Pierce's remedies." FIRST-CLASS MAPLE BOWLING ALLEYS THE FASCINATING SPORT Ladies' Nights Mondays and Fridays GEORGE FITZMIER, Manager 1902 Improvements. THE SANDERS-ARNOTT DISC PLOW. The solid-cast frame now being used on the Sanders-Arnott Disc Plow is the most valuable feature added to the Disc Plow since they were placed on sale. See them before buying. No more sprung beams out of line or bolts sheared off. We have a new pattern four gang plow for the largest machines.' Any disc plow without the solid cast frame is old style.' Do not be mistaken into buying one. Made in one two, three and four gang patterns.' The most successful disc plow in the market. Draft reduced 50 per cent. Send for circulars. We have a liberal proposition to offer any rancher who wishes to investigate the merits of this plow. Write for it ARNOTT & COMPANY Waggae, Carriages and Farm Machinery. 126, 122, 124 Los Angeles Street Austria-Hungary expends less upon liquor in a year than any other country of the first class in Europe, amounting to about $225,000,000, though persons who are familiar with life along the blue Danube might not unreasonably come to the conclusion that $200,000,900 of this sum was spent in the city of Vienna alone in lager beer. Such, however, is not the case. In the mountainous districts, particularly in the Tyrol, Transylvania and in Croatia, very little wine is drunk, and though Hungary produces a large and steadily increasing amount of wine a very large proportion of it is exported to other countries. Relatively not much of it is kept for home consumption. The Austria-Hungarian army costs $70,000,000 a year, or less than one-third of the cost of the liquors consumed in a year. The Russians expend $890,000,000 a year in liquors and $150,000,000 a year, or one-half as much, for the maintenance of the army. England expends $480,000,000 a year on beer, ale, wine, porter, gin, rum and smoky whisky and $90,000,000 a year on the maintenance of the British army. No one knows exactly how much is spent in the United States on liquor in a year, especially in prohibition states, but it is supposed that the whisky taken for medicinal purposes costs each year more than does the maintenance of the regular army.—New York Sun. All the same. Brobson—It’s a disputed question which have the quicker tempers, blonds or brunettes. Craik—Is it? Brobson—Yes. My wife has been both, and I couldn’t see that it made any difference.—Boston Traveler. 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