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Show Tha Irreverent Caddie. ' Lieut Gen. Miles has tiijken to golf. ITbe other day he was going the rounds of Chevy Chase at Washington, having a critical young person as caddie. "The general, who as yet Is far from being an expert, rolled ' the ball Into a depression from which he seemed onable to drive it He struck the trlct of Columbia three or four mighty whacks,, but only succeeded In moving the ball few feet. The fourth 'prodigious efTort was a humiliating failure and tbe caddie said: See here, old chap, you'll have to do better or quit" HOW HE MIGHT LOSC. Millionaire Could Not See Why He Should Buy Burial Lot. Not long ago a prominent financier, Vhose mosi prominent characteristic, ac'ordlng to tbe popular opinion, is was tbe recipient of a visit from an agent whose line It Is to solicit orders for burial lots. On emerging from the private office of the moneyed man the agent was met by a colleague who had been waiting for him, and who Inquired anxiously as to the success of his inclose-flstednes- terview. The agent shook bis head regretfulNo go, said he; he was afraid ly. he might not get the full value of his Investment." "Wbat could he mean by saying thatf Confound It, a man must die some time, even though he is a mil- lionaire. "Thats what I told him," replied the agent, ' "but he only answered, 'Suppose I should be lost at sea? " Diet of Lizards. Mr. J. W. Phillips, M. P., has received a telegram from London saying that the Times on Saturday published a telegram from Buenos Ayres aaylng that the maize crop In Santa Fe and Cordoba was lost because of an Invasion of lizards! The Argentine lizards seem to have changed their diet of late! Perhaps some one was "seeing things" after a dose of cana de maize. Jluenps Ayres Weekly Herald. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake Into your shoes, Alleua Foot-Easa powder for the feet It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y. e, Not Too Healthy. Shopkeepers In Old Greenwich village have a quaint way of taking their customers Into their confidence In the signs they put in their windows. On the window of a little cookshop In that region Is Inscribed In green paint Good things the following legond: to eat; healthy, .but not too healthy." all-fire- Halls Catarrh Cura It taken internally. - Price, 75c. y t Enthralled the Congregation. It Is related that a stranger once entered a cathedral In Sicily and begged to be allowed to try the organ, which was new and a very fine Instrument that even the organist did not understand. With some reluctance the organist allowed the stranger to play, and soon the cathedral was filled with ounda that its walls had never beard before. As the stranger played, pulling out stops never before combined, and working slowly up to tbe full organ, the cathedral filled, and It was not until a large congregation had wondered at his gift that the stranger told his name. He was Dom Lorenzo PerosI, the young priest composer, whose latest oratorio, "Leo," was r rently performed at the Vatican dun i log the celebration of the Pope's Jubh 'lee. Governor Saves Boye Life. It Is fortunate for one Georgia youth that Gov. Garvin of Rhole Island Is a physician and surgeon of standing. Tbe governor and a number of northern friends were at Andersonvllle to attend the dedication of a monument t In memory of Rhode Island soldiers who died In Andersonvllle prison. While the exercises were In progress a carriage team took fright, ran away and upset the vehicle. Edwin Callaway, one of the occupants, had hts leg oroken, the jagged bone severing an artery. Gov. Garvin, on hearing of the boy plight, hurried to his help, tied the severed artery and cut the broken bone, just In time to save the sufferer from bleeding to death, 'fci j, n " EXPERT TESTIMONY. Coffee Trledand Found Guilty. No one who has studied its effects on the human body can deny that coffee Is a strong drug and liable to cause all kinds of Ills, while Iostum Is a food drink and a powerful rebuilder that will correct tho ills caused by coffee when used steadily In place of coffee. An expert who has studied the subject says: I havo studied the value of food and the manufacture of food products from personal Investigation and wish to bear testimony to the wonderful qualities of Postura Cereal I was an excessive coffee I'offee. although I knew It to be a alow poison. First It affcctod my serves and then my heart, but when I once tried Postum I found it easy to give up the coffee, confirmed coffee fiend though I was. Postum satisfied my craving for coffee, and since drinking Postum ateadlly Is place of the coffee all my troubles have disappeared and I am again healthy and strong. I know that even where coffee U pot taken to excess It has bad effects on the constitution In some form or other, and I am convinced by my Investigation that the only thing to do If health and happiness are of any vnluo to one Is to quit cofTeo and drink " Name given by Postum Co, Latllt Creek, Mich. l'os-turn.- FIRE Tbe tton in the residence district work of rescuing' and 'caring for the flood survivors is being carried, for- The property loss,. from the best es- OVER TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN TOPEKA, KANSAS. timates now possible, will amount apof whole The to 11,000,000. proximately Probably One Hundred Persons Killed North Topeka Is still under water sev-- ' People Driven to the Roofs of Their and Many Homes Destroyed Ai eral feet deep. While the 200 people Houces by High Water, Many of Least 200 People Injured. that are penned up la the second stpr-leThem Dropping Into the Ragof houses have plenty of food, ing Torrent After BecomJust after the noon hour Monday they are In great need of good drinking Exhausted. the city of Gainesville, Ga., was struck ing water, which is being supplied as by a terrific cyclone, killing probably rapidly as possible In barrels and cans. The conditions at Topeka, the capone hundred persons, unroofing tho Tbe great fear at present Is that ital city of the state of Kansas on City hotel, other large buildings, and some of the buildings in North Topeka account of the flood in the Kansas cotton may collapse because of their foundadestroying the Gainesville Over two river, are truly appalling. mills. The greatest loss of life Is re- tions being undermined. There Is no hundred lives have thus far been lost, that the placing the losa of life at. the lowest ported in the district, of the cotton immediate apprehension mills, where about eighty people are woolen mill will go down, but every estimate, and the finacial loss will run reported killed and scores Injured. effort will he made to extricate people into the millions. Eighteen persons were killed In the from that point as quickly as possible, To add to the horror of the situacity between the center of the town to avoid any further loss of life. tion, fire broke out In the northern and the railroad station, where four part of the city and about four hunKANSAS CITY FLOODED. large stores were blown down. The dred houses have been burned. storm had driven away many persons Several hundred people are on the at work In the cotton mills when the Town is Absolutely at Mercy of roofs of their houses, the buildings beWaters. eyclone struck. The mill was a surrounded by water. Many of With gas and electric lights extin- ing building. Tbe first story was becoming exhausted after hours them, left standlug, but badly wrecked. Tbe guished, the water works shut down of have dropped into Imprisonment, second and third floors were complete- and the city practically at the mercy the waters and drowned. The flooded the employes were of the first fire that shall break out; district Is In the northern part of the ly demolished, under the wreckage and with railroad transportation feeble and caught city. mangled, tl Is estimated that there uncertain, Kansas City, Mo, may, If Latest reports from the stricken within the not recede do waters the wore at least seventy-fivbodies un- next two or three days, be compelled town of Topeka, Kansas, state that der the wreckage of the third floor, to fight for her very life. the present' condition of the flood Is: and It Is not known how many persons The first authentic information Between 170 and 250 people dead; on the socond floor of the building from Kansas City. Kan, shows that In are home 8,000 people without houses; $4,000,. were killed. Tho store of Joseph Lo- that district 20,000 people cannot be esti- 000 worth of property destroyed. which A number less. gan, near the Gainesville cotton mills, mated have been drowned, and tbs Five dead bodies have been found was crushed to ruins by the wind, and property loss has been heavy. The and identified; twenty floating bodies have been seen. The number of peo- Contributions ward systematically. are being rushed Into the relief committee. Citizens are opening their homes to survivors and every Indication is that the city will be well able to, care for those who have lost their homes. Every public building In the city ,1s sheltering scores of homeless CYCLONE IN GEORGIA PILES OF DEAD IN THE PATH OF per story of tbe woolen mllL They are well fed, but extremely uncomfortable. BY FLOOD AND , STORM. s three-stor- CHANGE OF L people. Number of Dead. The number of dead Is merely a matter of estimate. Twenty members of rescuing parties tell of how they Baw people drop from houses only to be swept away by the flood, and others tell of men, who, terrified at the approach of the fire, dropped Into the water, where they sank and did not reappear. The estimated number of dead does not Include the large number classed as missing, who cannot otherwise be accounted for. Neither does it Include the number who are supposed to have lost their lives in the fire. In the latter class there Is absolutely no means of arriving at even an approximate number of victims. . y Millions of Dollars Lost by Flood in Kansas City. The greatest flood In the history of Kansas City, Kan., and the bottoms of Mo., Kansas prevails, and City, will loss of dollars millions result. A great body of water the west swelled from coming e . Kansas the morning, causing Kan., Sunday City, a most alarming rise. Waters rushed with terrific force over the outlying railroad tracks ' and the crowded wholesale districts of the west bottoms and finally Into the union depot The losses in the wholesale district will aggregate well Into the millions, and the losses to the various packing houses nearer the river will be treKansas river at ple missing is placed at 200. Houses to the number of 200 have been destroyed by fire, two banks have collapsed, a number of wholesale grocery stores have been flooded, while at least twenty-fiv- e big business blocks are liable to fall at any minute. A more conservative estimate places tbe number of dead at 175, but the higher number Is as likely to bo correct at tbte lower. mendous. A special from Topeka says: BurnFlood at Des Moines. ing hjbuses are floating about, setSo far as Is known, but seven auting fire to others. The lower stories of tbe burning buildings contain ten thenticated fatalities have been refeet of water. The current Is so strong ported as a result of the flood at Des that no boat can approach any of the Moines, Iowa. Reports of a score or burning buildings. People are gather- more have been received from that ing on the tops of houses and will section of tbe city that is cut off from meet death either by fire or drown- communication, but canot be verified. ing. The cries for help can be dis- The Northwestern operated one train tinctly heard a mile away. The fire out from the city limits Sunday, was started by a live electric wire, mail being conveyed to it by boat and at least 150 lives have been lost The other lines are tied up. The water and electric light and power plants as a result of tbe fire. When It Is stated that North To- are still running, but it is only by the peka has 10,000 Inhabitants the extent employment of several hundred men to mac the pumps and work on tbe of the disaster can be realized. levees. to of roofs are tbe clinging People bouses and the limbs of trees, and Site of Town Marked by Tops of BuildDeadly Automobile In Its Dally Tour. many are giving up In despair and ings. dropping Into the waters below to bo A Kansas City dispatch says: etght men who had taken refuge in it situation there Is a parallel to the sit- carried away by the swift current. It with a population of 16,000 were Instantly killed. The Jones gen-er- uation In Kansas City, Mo, apparently Is death by lire or drowning to 400 no better and no worse. There Is no Is be found can means for deserted, and its site marked store met a similar fate, and In unless people. great probability that there will be people the ruins two persons, one man and further loss of life, if the river does their rescue. only by tbe tops of buildings and a one woman, were crushed to death. not rise very suddenly. It lsl lkely Every. foot of North Topeka, Inhab- number of fires. Seven fires, believed Reports from White Sulphur Springs, that the number of fatalities In the ited by 10,000 people. Is under water. to be chiefly box cars burning, can be seven miles from Gainesville, are to city will approximate fifty. Tbe current Is so swlit that no boat seen from the bluffs. There Is some the effect that the storm struck there can live 4n It. Several thousand peo- danger that the flames will spread to FLOODS IN KANSAS. with terrific force, killing a dozen peobuildings, ple have escaped to the south side the partially submerged to tbe is as District well as posconfirmed. already heavy adding not This Long cared for greatly Submerged however, are Is, ple. and 200(Miles being and Three to Fifteen Wide. Another report soys that 100 people sible. The remaining large number loss. The fires started by the Intru. were killed and at least 200 Injured, Not since the Galveston flood has have not yet been accounted for. They sion of the flood into a t while 200 buildings In all were demol- water created such terrible havoc and have been seen on tops of houses and Workmen Drowned, Twenty-seveished. wrought such destruction of lives and watting for the water to subside or be jj A been reeelved from has so message aro safe long only property as has Just been experienced rescued. They LOSS OF LIFE EXAGGERATED.. ' Kansas that twenty-seveCity, stand. saying houses The as the in tbe Kaw valley of Kansas.were men In work on the at are men of scores engaged town from Bolow affected stretches Number of People Who Perished at territory Lnlon Pacific when Thousands it suddenly bridge tree-tops- , for a help. to Kansas Brookville. yelling City, Kan, Topeka Is Thirty-four- . distance 200 miles long by three to of revolver shots and screams have went down. Every one of the twenty-beeIt now appears that the first reports fifteen miles in width. Almost the heard on the north side signals seven was drowned. It Is stated that of tha loss of life at Topeka, Kansas, entire territory Is submerged In water many persons saw the helpless men for aid. was greatly exaggerated. At this time from one to ten feet deep. It Is 1m-- j below the but were unable to be of any drown, water the with Houses possible to ascertain the number who known dead. there are thirty-fou- r -' assistance to them. aro the oxcepsecond-storwindows In or are have perished danger. yet About 200 people are still at North , The loss to cattle, homes, barns, fences Shot From Ambush. Hundred Homeless. Forty-fivTopeka, 150 of them being in the up- - and crops will run Into millions. ralt-maJohn Farmer and a young man Two-thirdof Argentine, a been killed NO RACE SUICIDE IN THIS FAMILY. and manufacturing town on the south named Whitaker havo bank of the Kansas river, six route near Bernstadt, Ky. A brother, of from Kansas City, Is Inundated l.y Whitaker was slighty wounded. Tho from ten to twenty feet, and prona1.lv survivor stated that he was riding e $500,000 damage has been done. Forty-fiv- some distance behind the other two buudred of tho 6.500 Inhabitants men when he heard Rhots fired. As are homeless, and nearly 3.000 aro In ho rame up to where his brother and destitute circumstances. Five brl lges Farmer lay dead In tho road, somo In tho shrubbery near tho have been swept away, nil the railroad persons roadside fired on him, wounding him under water, are tracks and factories lu tho arm. 1I0 fired four shots at and all business Is suspended. them and made his escape. THE 8PORT OF THE MILLIONAIRE. al Some sensible advice women passing through trying period. I The painful and annoying gyiJ 11 v toms experienced by mostVoJ at thi3 period of life are easily by Lydia E. Pinkham'iw 131 e Vegetable Compound. It is cst. T cialiy designed to meet the need! of womans system at the tryW ,, . ' time of change of life. It is no exaggeration to state that Mrs. linkham has over 5000 letters like the following' proving the gr d n value of her medicine at such times. I wish to thank Mrs. Pinkhamfci Joo-what her medicine has done for tut iQ My trouble was change of life. Foo I fe' years ago my tohealth began to fail, t! but head began the grow dizzy, my and times it seemed com fiained me, wouldatfail me, had terribh w ' pains across the kidneys, llot flask, were very frequent and trying, j friend advised me to try Lydia p s 5 E. Pinkliams Vegetable Cora, pound. I have taken six bottles of free from those trouble ; and am I canpot speak in high enough tera jUo to-da- y 1 of the medicine. I recommend it to l and wish every suffering woman wotic- fiP. give it a trial. .Bella Ross, 88 Monv in t clair Ave., Eoslindale, Mass.-.jjoof,n ok felt If original of sonnet bo produced, above iottor proving ginvlonm - V,r ; J tli' c. Mild Winter Not Unhealthy. til Contrary to the usual belief, a ml! winter does not Increase the deau rate; on the other band, severe fros' increase the .mortality rate. Durli! the great frost of 1895-- the Lond death rate rose to nearly 500 a wee..r in xccss of the corresponding weeb of the year before. 6 I - This Will Interest Mother. Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Chili ren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse a " Childrens Home, New York, Cure Fere., Lshness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders 3 move and regulate the bowels and destm Worms. Sold by all Dmggist-i.aSc- . Sampt FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.l F 'SJeaX A)xia nj ams Paiinn 0R1 psjsnsqxa eq in jo apjeg ojpejtr ns aqt sXbs XaAjns ijaotoa? q jo jojoojip H03ai a solJqo JOJJ jqBjs U opaejqiuv woiq To Cure a Cold in One dy. Take Laxative liromo Quinine Tablets. Al druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c Completed. The school teacher was very panic ular about the English her pupils used, and when a boy said, "I get up if f oclock" she corrected him. Yos amt I fits it say, I rise at 7 oclock. 7 oclock," said the boy glibly, "cl; I I he hesitated a minute, U I set at 8 o'clock." I TORTURING lime-house- II n n - j Skin, Scalp and Bloo Humours n . From Pimples to ScroM ; From Infancy to . Age e s Speedily Cured by Cufic::--- . ' . Stand by Chamberlain. Among tho latest to express full approval of Colonial Secretary Chamberlains Follveretn plan Is Premier Sneddon of New Zealand, who that Germany's attitude toward Canada Is a blessing in disguise. Sir Murdered and Robbed. Word lias readied Kallspel, Mont., of the murder of an Ilullan railroad laborer near Itexford on the Great Northern cutoff. Tho Italian, with two fellow countrymen, went into a saloon at Itexford on Thursday to got , the lib- their checks cashed. A man named Henry eral leader In tho house of commons, O'Brien, who saw them get tho, money, has decided to drop Ul amendment on waited for them a few miles out of the subject, a the second reading town and commanded them to threw stage of tho financial bill will af- up their hands. Two of them com ford ample opportunity for further dis- piled. Tho third reached for his gun cussion of the matter. and was shot dead.' s Mr. and Mrs. Oacar Oscar Weber of Atlantic City prove his belief In the "Roosevcltan theory" by striving to pound out a living as a cabinetmaker for a family of thirteen children, ten of whom are boys. The oldest child has reached tbe advanced age of 25, and the youugest Is 'half RIOTOUS LAUNDRY GIRLS. Overturn a Wagon and Scatter Ite Content In the Street Several hundred striking laundry workers, Including many girls, raided the Derby laundry, 141 Ontario street, Chicago, and drove out all the employe at work there. Before entering the place they overturned a wngou and scattered its contents In the street. The striker then started for anotner laundty In the vicinity, but were mot by a wagon load of and dispersed. xdii Weber and Children. past three. Weber was boin In Baiooy and hi wife Is a Bohemian. The accompanying photograph of the family Is a chip thy. as one child was away from home when the camera was trained on the group. Campbell-Bannerman- Workmen Cooked Alive. Flower on the Water. While a gang of laborers were digMemorial day was observed In Ran ging a trench near one of the blast Francisco with more than usual Imfurnaces at the Colorado Fuel and pressiveness. At 7 a. m. tho governIron company's steel work at Pueblo, ment tug Flocum left tho transport ' "bosh, or vent at tho base of the dock with about M0 representatives furnace opened without warning, and of various ginlrlolte :1 Mtlotis on molten Iron and blazing gas came hoard. After passing r.rtja through the Golpouring out upon them. A number den Gale brief sirvin-were held on were borne down by the weight of tho the h open lm lite in memory of fiery material apild a cloud nf hissing men .who died Pr their country nd steam end smoke. Three of the men whose temb Is the eon 11. Flowers were literally cooked alive, their were Ihcn strewn on lie waters, whllo clothe burned (iff anil skin so Hied hy a Motuch. minute that they were unrorognlrable inept nf yuns.wiMe the naval n.llltia. s 1 d Forty People Injured. Overland passenger train No. 23 was derailed at a point about A mile south of Rincon, Ca!.,, Saturday night Four cars plunged down an embank ment forty feet high, two of them partly submerged In the sea. About forty people were Injured, somo of them seriously. sustained Many broken bones nnd were badly bruised. A woman whose nnnm was given as Mrs. J. C. Sin li h hnd both her arms crushed so badly .that they will have to tie amputated at the shoulder at once. When ' ft. "I Fails. All Else T jr ft The agonizing Itching and burning tho akin, as lu Eczema; tho fright!-- , t scaling, as In psoriasis; tho loss of and crusting of tho scalp, as In scsilf s head; tho facial disfigurements, as j acno and ringworm; tha awful sufr log of Infants, and anxiety of wor' ;j out parents, a In milk crust, tetter it i salt rheum, all demand a remedy (f almost superhuman virtues to sueewf , fully copo with them. That Cutlc Soap, Umtment and Resolvent sre h L stands proven bejord all doubL statement Is mado regarding them finis not justified by tho strongest ' ticnco Tho purity and sweetness, fit power to afford Immediate relief, c ertainty of speedy and permnnentcnc tho absolute snfeiy and great cconon" have niulo them tho standard euros, blond purifiers and humour rea dies of the civilized world. , Bathe tho affected part with water snd Cutlcura Soap, to clean surface of crests and scales and soli', tho thickened cuticle. Dry, wifi'9' rubbing, snd apply Cutlcura 01 ment freely, to allay Itching, IrrUai and Inflammation, and tootha snd h and, lastly, take Cutlcura Resolvent, Cool and cleanse the blood.' Thisc1 plrte local and constitutional treatin'1 affords Instant relief, permits rest , sleep In tho severest lorms of ecV't snd other itching, burning snd ,' humours of tho skin, scalp and M,v and points to a speedy, permanent economical euro when all else fH -- t- -' r ftoM torn iM, I (1 f 4 ft "iif'inflt IS axrl N.wotat , We, i if 0,11 ftM ft'ratttto ISttii 4 llntff ft t'N 9m. f'ftrp ' IU t 1 ft Ctrtlnn rr IT '; f'nlnroM Ib'PfMnrt. " U rjr |