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Show ORAM A IN MADAGASCAR. Almost Crazed. a Performance Four European Witness ! Before Royalty. . THOUGHT CHILD HER WAS :GOINC TO DIE En -- Her ' , that will Touch A Story "the Heart of Every , ' ; " Terrible Ordeal of a Motbei Little Girl Almost Faded Away Saved in the Nick of Time - Mother. " - From the Journal, Detroit. Mich. A very grateful mother is Mrs. A. L. Hartness, of 676 Grandy Avenue, Detroit, for the wonderful cure which her daughter has received by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Said Mrs. tartness: "Yes, my daughter's ltfe has been saved by using Pink Pills, thanks to a kind friend who recommended' them '"y.iS-'to me. "Blanche was sick for over three years. She had the care ofno the best expense physicians procurable, and or trouble was spared to give her relief. She was so thin that she was fairly skin of and bones, her digestion was out had the most awful headorder and-shre: ' e aches. We gave up all hope of her covery. Her long, thin, listlessweface aid made me nearly half crazy, and her to our give in power every thing an in- and induce her to take strength terest in anything. the "One day a friend told me aboutdown went Hartness Mr. and Pills, ' Pink had town and got three boxes. She to my one when, box, taken about I heard her amazement, one morning I could hardly beplaying on the piano. lieve it, for it had been over a year ns th nfano had been opened. "Soon she began to take short rides went sm&-on her bicycle, and soon sneown our happy, the house, around ing little daughter once more. on her hearty "She thinks nothing of a spin wheel over to Mt. Clemens or Pontiac, and is as well as she ever was. "1 had a girl living at our house who was a great sufferer from impoverished blood, and who received instant and permanent relief from the use of one box of the pills. "If this information can be of any use to help some poor sick one, it is given with the greatest of pleasure.'! The proprietors of Dr. Williams Pink Pills state that they are not a patent medicine but a prescription used for practitioner many years by an eminent who produced the most wonderful with them, curing all forms of weakness arising from a watsry condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful causes of almost every ill to which flesh is heir. They are entirely harmless and can be given to weak and sickly children with the greatest good and without the slightest danger. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. T. Wrong DIt gnosis "What you need is exercise," said Dr. Morbus after an examination- - of Mrs. Bellefleld, who had called him up by .telephone. "Doctor," replied the good woman, "being an unmarried man you do not know that bargain days and remnant sales have been going on in the dry goods stores for about a month." "O, er, in that case, what you need is perfect rest. I think I shall have to order you to the Bermudas for six or eight weeks." Pittsburg Chronicle. re-sa- lts Earliest Radishes and Peas. The editor urges all readers to grow the earliest vegetables. They pay. Well Salzer's Seeds are bred to earliness, they grow and produce every time. None o early, so fine as Salzer's. Try his radishes, cabbage, peas, beets, cucumbers, lettuce, corn,i etc! Money In it for you. Salzer is the largest grower of vegetables, farm seeds, grasses,- clovers, potatoes, etc. If you will, ent this oat and send to the John A Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., with 10c postage, you will get sample package of Early Bird Radish (ready in 16 days) and their great catalogue. Catalogue alone 5c postage. w.n. - ' - Another Kind of a 8 well. D& Fitz coming here again Ethel?" 4Yes, papa, and I hope you'll be nice to him, forhe's a real swell." "All right, but if he stays as late as he did. last night he'Jl be a howling swell." Detroit Free Press. "Is that to-nig- . Walter Baker & Co., Limited, Dormanufacchester, Mass., the turers of Breakfast Cocoa and ; other Cocoa and Chocolate preparations, have n extraordinary collection of medals and diplomas awarded at the great interna-uonai ana otner exhibitions m .Europe and America. The house has had uninterrupted prosperity for nearly a century and a quarter and is now not only the oldest but the largest establishment or me Kind on tnis continent. The high degree of perfection which the company has attained in its manufactured ucts is the result of long experience prodcombined with an intelligent use of the new forces which are constantly being introduced to increase the power and improve the quality of production, and cheapen the cost to the consumer. The full strength and the exquisite natural flavor of the raw material are preserved unimpaired in all of Walter Baker & Company's preparations; so that their products may, truly be said to form the standard for purity and excellence. In view of the many imitations of the name, labels and wrappers on their goods consumers should ask for and be - sure that they get the genuine articles made wn i -- t Dorchester, -- Mass.- ac-comp- ore - r? ALL GODSONS OF EUGENIE. r.-3TV- Nervous Dyspepsia. The exrwJ simple. It is found in that lnjpure lloodt sport, winter skating is , This,; pre-emine- nt. of course, has reference to no roller-skatin- g, which re- bears the same lation to the splendid sport on ice that an apologetic tallow dip does to a brilliant incan descent light. There is an exhilaration In its enjoyment; that makes the whole world seem very merry and which sends the blood tingling with pleasure through your veins. This is the case when you know how. If you don well; it might not seem so very merry, but your blood jwill tingle just the same, though, perhaps, not exactly from pleasure. It has been said that no exercise ex- cept swimming gives a free motion to all the muscles simultaneously. While this, no doubt, is perfectly true, the same may be said in no less degree of skating. Not only this, but a very important point in the latter's favor is that while skating the body is kept in its normal position, which is not the case in swimming. When skating, even while learning the art, there is uot a muscles in your entire anatomy that is not in almost constant action, and this condition obtains so long as the blades are fastened to your feet. When sufficient skill is gained so as countant receiving $1,225 a year. At the present time the number of employes is 1,500.: No note of the 50,000 or so issued daily is ever issued again. Each note as it Is paid in is cancelled and an account kept of Its filings. One of the curiosities of the bank is a note which was paid In after being out 111 .years. In the bank album for large notes and other curiosities is a bank note which was once Issued for convenience in a transaction involving a large amount of money. Whether lost or stolen, the bank's; notes will always be paid. Once a clerk ran away with $100,000 worth of notes1. For six months the theft and number of notes were advertised, and at the end of that time a Jew appeared with' them and demanded that they be paid. On being' refused he went to the exchange and raised such an outcry, saying that as the bank refused to pay its own notes, it must, be insolvent, that the bank called him back and paid him the full amount of the stolen notes. Another time one of the directors deposited $150,000 and took a single note. He put the piece of paper on the mantle piece and fell asleep. On waking he found the note gone. He thought it had fallen into the fire, and got another note, giving a guaranty that if the first note ever turned up he would be responsible for it. Thirty years later, the man having died in the meantime, the first note was presented for payment at the bank, and the bank stood the loss. The man's estate had been $ ; 25-pou- nd 1,000,-000-pou- nd - : ; It is said that the u' has recently made, her will, and in it has bequeathed a ;trifling legacy to each of her godsons whose names and addresses she still preserves. .The origi- -' nal number; however, must have been sadly depleted by death in the nearly forty years which have elapsed, and of bearded men who will claim their bequest when Eugenie dies there may be Isthe One True Blood Purifier. AlUflruggista f less than half a thousand. .. The contrast between that March day Hood's Pills nearly four; decades! ago and the ex' empress' present fortune is striking. Then the reign of Napoleon III. was in the heyday of its power, and the nation, drunken with military glory, fishHARNESS The hpced as heartily as its ruler for an heir to the throne. Early on the morning foerS of the 16tnl the cannon- boomed (from ;k breeching the Invalided,, announcing the deliverf23 double harness ance of the empress. Paris bent, an U6. S25 1 hJJ?nS anxious listening ear, counting the uovn stw guns. A hundred and one. It was a tor boy. "Conquerer in the Crimean !cam- - decedred by worthless imitations ut ortw ' paign. the arbiter chosen by Europe at gB the congress of .Paris," says Andre D pred Mueller, 1413 Larimer gtS imHis Martinet in jK3& BWamination. history of the prince perial, "Napoleon III. felt more firmly x 9mknrrrm .MtM Dlaced on his brOW by this birth the III Mwhinery, etc. Pipe threadiandS3 f eleratorB. Nock & . ex-empr- ess U mm Oarsapanlla f S SgS Denver Direetorv - - , t . WbwVrnW j hut, oi x,tL. t. w nearly 8,000,000 votes. France, radiant In her rejuvenated glory and her reconquered prestige, drowned with: the noise of fetes the first cries of the imT perial infant." More than 20,000 admiring people viewed at the Hotel de Ville, before the birth of the royal baby, the cradU ! j v.tt Freight -- Qaraide. : ? - ltts-ili- S' VZygg AMERICAN HOUSE Denver's Old Beliable UoteV' i , CUTTFRSIffisi MDSE GREEK B0I1E rilX It. A. WATKlNa . m. iism.xi. j ! kinraS lowumiiiim;!), ! ; I vTorg8 0& Market SsrMs? STATE ORE I DEimiis OO., II I1U hlndi 111 1 i P I mailed fit,. t ! PIAN05TA1I i! Catalogue free. Knight Music Co., 1508-1- 0 AraDaha' a Steam Goods, Paektnn Trimmings, PlinilJE L. II U I II L Hose, Asbestos Goods, Eadlator tgtet? dtc., Denver Engineer Supply Co., 11 Curtii jfc '29-- STEAM AMD HOT WATER ft J. BEILLY, te HEATIKC CUH1 IS STREET. 1423 S2Sra Co., JOBS IIEVS L'olo. HK Printing Ink and Roller CHEAP FARMS ! Order Ra ;apw, 1810 i Blak, of i cloeed properties for uimt 74a ;ost. The Central Trust Co. Equitable B'g, Denrr !t NEW YORK WALL PAPER CO.'Sb paints PAPER, WALiTj ar.Asis Itui - !rii ! ;Inf n occn unnor nni Office 152115th, war. UUL.U. ULLU IIUUOL barteldesaoo it aouse warden field nrr O nni irn ait-i- 8 Dtt Wazee,Den'r harden tools, etc Largest stock in OUrrLItgi the 6tate esped tlly adapted to Colorado. Catalogue free. DENVER'S er ' u proof Jiuropean Hotel. men's o.nfn ntteh 1 Baggage taken to end from the depot need' snarge. Bates reasonable. Located corner lTth' Mid azee Sts , one- - half block from Union Depot I PERFECT FITTING u L fii. new THE OXFORD well-develop- ed ten SPECTACLES.! j Curtis Transits, Levels, Microscopes and e Suppliei.; STOP3 Tie New St Ja AT , j -- Curtis Street, opv. Tabor Opera Houtt, American PIv Absolutely new, aouse . Kates reasonable. first-clas- old-tim- to be ; st . ! i ; . ' - good-size- ed divided and nothing could be recovered. Clerks of standing and character are selected to remain at the bank every night of the year and on Sundays and bank holidays. A guard of soldiers is on duty every night, and they are assisted by a body of watchmen, consisting of porters and workmen, fully trained to act in case of an emergency. The Supreme Political Question. At a meeting in Exeter Hall, London, Cardinal Manning eloquently said, concerning the liquor traflic: "What are all our politics compared with this great question? We want, a good helmsman at the wheel, and .we want a sober crew on board! And if there be one thing which demoralizes a people more rapidly than any other, it is that which makes the brains of men reel and their hearts to be passionate and inflamed, and the wills of men to be unsteady and weak, in the hour of temptation; and when I know that intoxicating drink is doing all this, and frost-bejewel- ed ill-bre- j " where he was to lie. It was in the form of a boat, made of rosewood, and at its head stood the image of a beautiful woman, personifying the City of Paris, with drawn sword, and holding aloft a protecting shield. March 15 the cradle was taken,to the Tuilleries. That night the soldiers waited, with lighted matches beside the cannon. At 3:10 in the morning the roar of the guns awoke the city. Some time previous the emperor had issued a proclamation announcing the fetes that would be held when his child was born, and closing with these words: "The emperor has decided that he will be godfather, and the empress godmother of all the legitimate children born in France upon the auspici ous day." Napoleon II. intended that the title of "godson" which he thus bestowed should be a purely decorative one, but many of the fond parents did not so understand it, and applied to the emperor for a more substantial endowment. There are a few Instances on record w&ere'the quest was not in . . that in the great centers of our industry, just there where the people are Vain.. crowded together, where the national No end of was written on the life is intensified, as it were, into a occasion, andpoetry one quatrain of Theophile focuswhen I know that, the evil is Gautier has survived. In it the poet spreading itself with the greatest in- says that the royal heir is a blonde "What we are about? How Christ tensity, I ask, child; who bears in his little is it that men who profess to be states- hand for a globe the peace of the waste their time men and 1508 Curtis St., Denver, Nr. St. James Hotel Trusses, Orutches, Batteries, Rubber Goods, Silk Elastic u I ! politicians, and the time of the legislature before they take this subject in hand ?" Established Telephone, 1667. E E. BURLING AME'S And ; . '; r , P'TP"" ; ; ' (Established 1866.) 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DURBIN, ANIGHT SCENE AT A CHICAGO SKATING PARTY. in repose while in motion, which paradoxically expresses the exact condition, there is nothing that so closely approaches the much talked of "poetry of motion" as a graceful skater. It Is when swiftly gliding over the shimmering surface of a good bit of ice that one so keenly enjoys an indefinable exuberance of spirits. This bubbling over of good feeling is as spontaneous as it is infectious, and accounts for the irrepressible, boisterous merriment that characterizes. a skating crowd. llcycle Book Is the Latest It is indeed a pity that such an inThere have been: address books, ac count books, and calling-libooks, vigorating and delightful sport asof this the now comes the bicycle book. These should in any way have a touch There fashion. of is, books' are small in size, made of good freekishness more no when moderately indulged In, paper and have a linen parchment or health-giving so-sport in the world than leather cover. They are used as a is very gratifying to and it of diary; of one's trips on the wheel, skating, and also to record the. speed and length note that it Is becoming more popular than ever. Never before in its history of, eaih ride. has skating been in such favor as during; the present season. This does not LABOR NOTES. only apply to Chicago, or the rest of Women are jnow being taught silk the United States, but in all countries ribbon weaving,; in the Pennsylvania where ice is available the same condimillsi the trade; having been exclusively tion holds good, says Chicago Chronconfined to men hitherto. icle. Good progress is being made in the Skating In the open air is absolutely to the highest enjoyment of essential to efforj; bring all; woodworkers In the United' States and; Canada into one the sport. A skater's greatest delight d sheet of gleamis to have a international organization. in set the ice Of the 8,000 applications for employpicturesque frame of ing a ment filed with the California labor landscape; with an octree or clump commissioner at San Francisco, not a casional of deep green pines to break the tailor was among the number. whiteness. Our Ohio has' a law prohibiting children notony of the of under 16 years from being employed in picture shows a party skaters on the factories, but it Is enforced no better lake at Lincoln park, Chicago. than that of Michigan where I the age" j I DENVER, COLORADO. " tv,ot . JaSfffil TSIK rencebook, valuable to ore shipper?, mo-dazzli- ng 06-co- L. Ssita : r - world and the happiness of human kind. "The Song; of the Godsons" was; the Harper's Uazar. title of another, interesting bit of .verse '.;! If the Baby is Catting Teeth., .Be sure and use that old and d that was printed and sold on the bouremedy, Has. How to Reduce Corpulency. "S'ixsloWs SooTHiNQ S""7P for Children Teethlntr- at levards time and was extremely When you are dieting to reduce flesh popular.;- that ;?:r--:'-:r Smith "Blumer is one of the most thought. eat stale bread and give up must ful men I ever saw." Jones "What has h you i f been doing; now?" Smith "The other day TBeaanl ' on George Eliot. peas, beans, r potatoes, rice, beets, corn,cocoa he sent for an umbrella I had borrowed from A .Young Engineer. indeed, The best English authority gives the him and had my name engraved on the George Eliot was extremely milk, cream, all sweets, locomotive enginor Pearson's" Weekly. Georgia's youngest even suggests sugar This anything which average wages in the United Kingdom plain, awkward, eer is to believed a be tea boy but i4 years starch. Dry toast without butter, Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump-'tlo- of those who follow manual labor as makes her career all the more wonderHe an old runs engine on a sbort road cured me of a bad lung trouble. Mrs. J. follows: Men,1 $6.62 a. week; women, ful. For, consider, first, she conquered without either milk or sugar, rare meat 1805. ; March 20, various Ind., sawmills and their Princeton, Kichols, the respect o the philosophic world by with no fat, and as far. as possible no connecting ?3.04; lads,' $2.14, and girls, $1.52. source of supplies. It is stated, furThe poster fad is growing at aa alarming in the Westminster. Then vegetables at all should form your diet. her papers Aj conference will soon be held In New inthe at wonder large rate, and still people thermore, that he has had charge of York to prepare a bill for introduction she conquered the unphilosophlc .world Take all the exercise you can in the the crease in nervous prostration. same engine since he was 19 years no physical way of walking; go twice a week to a in Congress providing for a postal or by her novels; then with she gained tbe love and devo- Russian bath (where possible) and In- old, and that he is regarded by the own-- ; become Iwful Physicians; course by mall. federal HOW to 1H. system of savings banks, the charms ers of the road as an entirely capable Health University, Chlcngro. same as was Indorsed by the American tion of one man not a mean or common variably go to bed hungry. Anybody l man of considerable under- brave enough to live up to these laws engineer.' Federation of Labor at its convention. man, but athen CRIPPLE CREEK she around her will certainly lose flesh. Ladies' Home gathered our big paper 3 mos. for 25o. in stam pa. ' Indianapolis factories and railroad standing; a crowd of admirers to whom she be- Journal. BuildLnBtn the ClydL ILXUSTBA.TED WEEKLY, DENVER, COLO. have hitherto burned that natural snpps came an oracle and a prophetess; she One firm on the Clyde, without makgas are returning to coal, as gas is lived an ideal kind of life the slightest fuss about It, built, all authoring Factory Girls Faint.' Wiiwwii BOTERICK'S FATTZ.EJIS. diminishing. It is feared the dimin- ity, luxury, dignity and honor and "a launched and delivered to the agents a In few New Haven at Write for catalogue of Spring Faahloaa, free. ution may result in the closing of some though she delied the laws of society days agofactory of a to the the Spanish government within six girl fainted and fell of the industries with which gas is es- she" was spared all unpleasantness and floor, of receiving the; order, six fairly, months w.itioiritis, of out joiin sympawhereupon, pure ; a vl Washington, X). C, sential, particularly the bicycle facto- - she'died w& before her novels ceased to be thetic nervousness, eleven other girls powerful gunboats for service In patroll' r 'Mu?PessfS!Y Prosecutes Claims. U.S. pension Bureau. j Principal JxiEn!aer Besant. !t&d. waltor 3 ing and guarding the Cuban coast.! fainted, one after the other, yrain last war, 15 abjudicating claims, atty eiace. han--die.- , ing the nerves on refuse instead of th- i ments of strength and vigor. Opiate compounds simply deaden and do n ..""Te. Hood's Sarsaparilla feeds rich blood ; gives natural sleep, iP. ill p''e, tion, is the true remedy for all nervous troiles ex-Empre- ss? I; snow-cover- weil-trie- . ur S an ideal rr. People wonder why their nerves are gov" , why they get tired so easily ; why thev T'5 sleep naturally ; why they have frecm 1 M ' aches, indigestion and ful WHAT! FAST SKATERS REQUIRE. Physical Needs of These Who Desire to Excel In Ice Racing. has a short The typical speed-skatbody, cipacious, round chest, with back; his thighs are strong and very long,; as are also his legs. His feet art! large and flat. His weak points are his calves, due to the long, flat skate tof which his flattened foot is so closely pound, The muscles of his chest are not exercised, and his arms, held lying idly along his back, are unused except in an occasional spurt, when they ak-- brought down and swung straight from the shoulder. They say that they catch less wind held that way, and that the position is restful to the tense extensors of the back. This i$ no doubt true, but the result is disastrous to symmetrical development j This type of figure is seen at its best in such skaters as the Donahues, e McCorinick, the professional, who still skates a fast race, although now 40 years of age, and in Wilson Breen.j a professional, who has been a winner of much gold and glory by means of his long legs and powerful thighs. The conclusion that speed skatis not a good exercise to deing alone well-built, symmetrical man velop a will be patent to anyone who reviews the facts. If Indulged in it should be, as dor e by McCulloch, in conjunction with other forms of athletics which bring into action the muscles of the arm, calf, shoulders and chest. Livi ill-fat- ed De-liffht- ' Hotel Proprietor "Why did you let thai countryman climb the stairs instead of taking: the elevator?" Clerk "He'll be so out f'of breath that ha can't blow out the gas." THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Something: About the Greatest Institu- Frenchmen Born the Same Day as tne , tion of Its Kind in the World. Prince Imperial Are Lucky. SKATING IS THE GREATEST On Uie 27th of the Three last July Bank of WINTER AMUSEMENT. thousand eight .hundred and male children were born in England reached its 200th birthday, thiry-fou- r on France the Bank March is 16, 1856, the same day says It the greatRegister. How tli Boys and Girls of Our Northest In the bank that the world. In its early days prince imperial came ern Climes Enjoy Themselves ) into fifty-fothe bank employed the world, says the New York clerks, Exercise and an Ideal Sport and the World. EuHis mother, to list amounted yearly salary Generally.; but little over $20,000, the chief ac- genie, became a godmother to them all. j ht, well-kno- From the Paris Figaro: Only four Europeans were invited to. thi3 performance, which took place at the court of the, Hova queen in July, that is in the midst of the Malagasy winter, and a 'still higher favor was that they were not compelled to pay for the honor, while ordinarily the guests of the queen have to pay a piaster ($1) and besides have ;o bring with them their chairs. The performance began at 8 o'clock in a badly jkept hall, Most of the windows Tvere broken and drafts circulated freely. Near the entrance to the hall the repremier minister, Rainilairivony, ceived the invited guests in person. Once )n the hall the European guests were shown to red plush stalls, placed next to the throne chair. This latter stood upon a slightly raised dais, upon whjch the queen, with her two little prenephews and: her niece, the heir their sumptive to the throne, had taken place. Upon the steps of the throne there iwas the inevitable cuspidor of green lass, which, it seems, must the queen wherever she goes. The stage was a very primitive affair. Four inen pulled up the curtain and held itj fast by ropes during the entire performance, standing in the background all the while. When the scene was laid in the open air some real trees and bushes were stuck into holes provided in the boards for the purpose. The male performers were gentlemen of the court in European society dress, around which the "lamba," the wide Malagasy cloak, was thrown; the nothing but short, highly colored! shirts; they were dancers of the queen. A number of short pieces were played all of Which related to theft, the national vice of the Hovas. In the first one a chicken was stolen, in the second a child, in the third a woman. The queen, who is remarkable for stolidity, anid who never smiles in public, seemedl to be thoroughly amused; she laughed heartily. The premier minister, whjo is at the same time the husband ojf the queen, was also satisfied; he threjatened the performers with his raised finger, which with the Hovas is a sign of great courtesy. The performance, however, was shorter than anticipated, the queen left without awaiting the end, and the curtain fell im mediately after she rose from her seat and sai ed out of the hall, accompanied by the premier minister and followed by her suite. L SPORTS ON THE ICE. . , 8p |