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Show I History of Mew York. SKETCHES. New York was named in honor of GAMFFIHK Jamea, Duke of York, in 1154, at which time it waa captured from the SOME SHORT STORIES FOR THE Dutch by the English. It then conVETERANS. tained a population of about 3,000. The flrat settlement on Manhattan inland waa made by the Dutch in 1615, and Fart Cobb, a Kansas Military Fust, That the flrat public wharf waa built aa late Will Boon Ha Only a Moiaorjr Its aa 1658. Lesn than 300 yeara hare Importance at tha Outbreak of tba panned alnce the first occupancy of the Civil Wan apot on which now atanda New York, and in lean than two and a half cenTHE FAHgIKU OF THE SWORD; turies her population haa lncreaaed Russian army authorities have (The from 3,000 to 8,500,000. decided to equip their officers with firearms instead of the traditional DleqnaUfyiK Man for Klagkssd. mentioned in the Book sword. Tba leading military nations of Judge, waa captured by the Jewa, did the same some time ago, and the smaller ones will follow suit in due who cut off his thumbs and (rent toes. This waa done to prevent his making order.) attempt to regain his throne, aa in the east a maimed man could not No more Ill flash In a headlong dash. Or gleam in the thundering charge, bo a king. When the troopers about leaps madly doni-beze- k, A Carious Custom. No document can have the authority of the imperial throne of China unless it bears a red mark placed there by the eoverelin. With this seel upon it, the paper becomes official. The aenulne Hostet- ler's Stomach Hitters must have their Private Die Stamp over the neck of the bottle. For flfly years it has been the reoornised remedy for stomach, liver and kidney complaints, it will cure dyspepsia, Indigestion, constipation and bilious- -, also prevsnt malaria, fever and ague. Kmplsjrmsst Is Hop Flslda. The American hop fields employ about 240,000 men, women nnd children as pickers alone, for there are hop vinea to be stripped, and the crop in n good season is worth 00 316.000.000. Mrs. Winslow's Southing Syrup. For children Issthlne, sofiane the gams, ya pais ears wind soils. reduecala-aasuiatloB.sl- is Has bowls Ths Reichstag. The Reichstag is' composed of 891 member, about one for every 132,000 Inhabitants, who are elected by universal suffrage for a term of five years out On the red fields amoldring marge; My glory's over! Ill feel no more The grip of a harrying hand. And the smiting quick in the melee Of thick the Inst, wild, desperate stand. I'll crash with the lightning's flash When steel bites deep In steel, And the leaping spark lights billets No more stark. Where the frenzied foemen reel; At last! At last my guerdon past. No more my crimsoned blade Will seal the fate of a sinking state, Whose empire erst I made. in history's mornj And ever ndown the years, when warring man in his fierce elan On my corse-pile- d path appears, I've hewn his name amid battle's flame. With all the world aghast; And stainless still I obey his will. And live In the splendid past My fame was born THREE CHICAGO DOCTORS Hurrah for the sword, that its fortlme Failed to Do for Hiss Mabelle L. Hath put from his grasp sway. One vale long ere Im sheathed among The dead of an elder day; For my storied brand, that for nye is lord LaMonte What Was Accomplished by Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. I "Dear Mrs. Piskkam: waa In an awful state for nearly three years With a complication of female trouble! which three physicians called by different nnmes, but the paine were all the asms. I dreaded the time of my bann'd To sleep in the dreamless dust. Hath blazed the way to this ruthless day When I redden with naught save rust Edward F. O'Sullivan, in Boston Pilot FAMOI'H OLD FORT. lrsnwTJ.V! L. LaMOXTE. monthly periods for it meant a couple of days in bed in awful agony. 1 finally made up my mind that the good doctors were guesting ; and hearing from different friends such good reports of Lydia E. Plnkliams Veg- etable Compound, 1 1 tried that. I did, for it waa the dawning of a new life for me. 1 used five bottles before I waa cured, but when they were taken 1 waa a well woman once more. Your Compound is of my eertainly wonderfnL (Several friends have used it since, nnd nothing but the beet do I ever hear from its use," Yours, Mabelle L. LaMorti, st K. 81st 6fc, Chicago, 111. 5000 ,ftrftlt If aaas tsdwssM a passf. If Lydia E. Plnkhamg Vegebless the day table Compound could cure Mias 'LaMonte why not you ? Try it and see for yourself. Mrs. Pinkham advises alck women free. Address, Lynn, Mass. THE CONTENTED FANNER Is ths man who never has a failure in crops, sis splendid returns for his labors, and bss 1 best social and religious advantages, together with splendid climate and excellent health. These we give to the settlers on the lends of Western Canada, which comprises MbAMHwMhalthe great grain and r lnnds of Manitoba, AssniboTs. Alberta and Saskatohfj'an. . Exceptional advantages ead low rates oi fare are given to those desirous of Inspecting ths fall grunt lands Ths handsome forty pace Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. Apply to F. Pedley, Superintendent Immigration. Otises, Canada, or to W. V. Bennett, Canadian Agent; Hi New York Life Bldg, Omaha, Neb. ITfil 1 1 HU I ITVISSSW-- S I 5Jrthi?,,'C0 GBF1T AOTIAUIX KIXFDT To convince uih of id wonderful cans ties power, wt will wed a ft TRIib fMlilili FBIf. A Phwciahi Cm to Hu-asi- tv. Scaled fits frost gent DR. RZVNER GOULET. Depart went A. Ik 5 acsam euto. Cat. NO GUESS NEEDED. When you weigh on a Jones 800 Lb. Seals PARTICULARS. Sa OO. FULLTHE FREIGHT.) JOKKS (IIE SlMiliAUTON. X. V. FRICK rtn DDnUfl I AY Contains No few hour., DnUITIU'LnA Cum eoldi In a Quinine. turns hrertachs la s minute. --ears, no bed cllCrta like uuitnn and ak for per box. He ,1110 Trule nupplied hr N lillLti CO. or Z. 0. M. 1., Hall 2- ) preimrailuus. Hrum'i-ls- ir.wm.fw If PENSION IIU KKOKII, VlBAhltigdin. D. C., they will receive quirk replies B. SthN.H.Volc StaS loth Corps. ProMcutiit Claimtslsccl874 nDHDCV OI u lYk NEW DISCOVERY! gtvsa qnlck relief and cures wont sir if treatment cam. Book of teMlmnnlsls sad is W. N. U. Salt Lake. No. 50.1801 I3B333I35$1I IdliitS Wlltiit All Uhl i Ails. t Cough Sjrup. Taona IPod. ftnto hr dniTiK . ?CON6U M-R.- pi Fort Cobb, noted in the annals of the southwestern country, will soon be nothing more than a memory. The land upon which the fort and the adjacent buildings stood, writes a Wichita (Kan.) correspondent, has been purchased by a colonization company and will soon be cut up into farms. Some famous battles have been fought around Fort Cobb, and some desperate chances have been taken there by white, men in settling up the country surrounding the historic old spot. In 1861 Fort Cobb, Arbuckle and Washita were the principal trading posts and government forts west of the Mississippi river. The headquarters of the military department of the Texas were located at Fort Cobb, and Its soldiers did duty along the entire Mexican frontier ,as well as guarding against Indian uprisings along the Washita and Little Missouri rivers. Fort Cobb attained its greatest fame because of the surrender of Gen. David E. Twiggs there at the outbreak of the civil war. Gen. Twiggs was at the time the commander of the United States forces In the nepsrtment of the Texas, and on Feb-11861, he surrendered his entire command to Gen. McCullough, a United States officer who had gone over to the cause of the south, with his command, nnd who was at that time stationed at Indlanola. It was one of the earliest defections from the Union forces of the civil war, and waa solely due to the leaning that Gen. Twiggs had to the cause of the south, and not because he was outclassed by a superior force. Gen. Twiggs was dismissed from the Union army in disgrace. He afterward Joined the southern forces nnd waa given n commission in its army. Fort Cobb had not been long In the possession of the Confederates before it was. recaptured by the Union forces and placed in charge of MaJ. S. D. Sturgis, of the Fourth United States cavalry. This was in the early part of 1862. Some o ' the men under hla com6, Writes IsuSlag st s Flssty. on their arrival In the land of thV Literary workers have usually n southern Indian to study his traits The old buildings afforded plenty of great struggle to force themselves to room, and were the scene of many irork, and one novelist haa solved the brilliant social entertainments. Here difficulty in an unusual way. He built It was that Sam Houston in an early u beautiful house on the Kentish const, day wooed and won his Cherokee with a study fitted with every conbride; here it was that John Howard venience and an outlook on the chansong, nel. ?)t Is so beautiful a study that Payne wrote his Home, Sweet Home, and it la the when he is in it he cannot think of place where Remington drew some of 'anything else. So. In despair, he has the Indian pictures that have since tented a room in an inland farmhouse, which has no comforts and commands made him famous. a view of a pigsty. Thither he retires when seiloua work is in question. DECORATES HIS OWN GBAYE. Few indeed have the strange priviCatarrh raaaot Its Cared lege of decorating their own graves. with LOCAL as they cannot Such n person, however, Is to found reach tue seatAPPLICATIONS, of tha dlwiMt Catarrh is a oreonaiitutlonal dlaMute, and in order to in Corona, L. I. He enlisted in the blood cure It you muil take internal remedied. Hull's Cure is taken internally, and acts Flushing Regiment nnd in the battle Catarrh dirtH-ilon the blood and mucous surfaces. of Vicksburg was hit with ths fragHall s Catarrh Cure is nut a quark medicine. ment of n shell. For n whole day he It was prchoitd liy one of the best physicians .in tills country fur years, aud la a regular prelay in the trenches. They thought him scription. It is computed of ths best louirs dead. When he came to, his mind and knowu. combined wtifi (he best blood puritrn, cm the mucous acting Tbs directly memory were gone. Strangers found perfect combination of ths two surfaces. ingredients is him nnd asked him who he was. He what produces such wonderful results in curing Bend for testimonials, free. could not tell. He was like n child. He Cstarrh. F. J. CHENEY A (XX, Props., Toledo; Q Bold by druggist. prfee Tta. was transferred, and after the war was Hull s Family Pills are the best taken to the soldiers' home in Washington. There he learned once more Beggars Durans Carnegie. to rend nnd write, to converse nnd While In Pittsburg ths other day thus began life over again. One day, Andrew Carnegie was forced to leave thirty years after the battle that house in which ne was staying by the man robbed him of his senses, the woke up, as it were. The pressure on n rear door and drive off in n carriage his skull was relieved. He came to to escape a crowd of people begging his old self. His first question was money for charitable objects many of Mr. Carnegie them for libraries. about the battle. over 300 begging letters n day. What battle ?H they asked. y. Why, the battle I was In Was I hit? They told him that he had been bit thirty yeara before. He had been restored to his former Identity. All memory of the Intervening years now faded as completely as that which had gone before had faded prevloualy. Who are you they asked. He told them. Tien he started the long Jorrney back to Long Island, In search of hla former home nnd friends. Arriving at Flushing, one of the first objects that met his gaze was ths soldiers monument. It stands in front dated of the old Quaker meeting-hous- e, 1661, and which waa used alternately as n federal and a British stronghold during the revolution. The old man naturally paused and read the familiar names of his martyred comrades. To his consternation he saw his own name enrolled there. That waa soma yeara ago. Since that day the old veteran haa never missed Decoration day in Flushing. He cornea- with n big wreath and lays It on the mound under his own name. soul-stirri- r The leading article in the Iiccember Atlantic la a discussion of Expansion through Reciprocity by John Ball Osborne. Referring to President McKinley's last ail dress, Mr. Osborne continues with a brief resume of former reciprocity movements, and a survey of the pieseiit proposed treaties, closing with s strong expression of lielief that our present foreign expansion cannot lung eon tin ne without meeting vigorous tariff opposition from foreign governments. unless we disarm Midi oppo- Drinking Harbor's Crashing Answer; When it was too late the barber's customer discovered that the operator he had aelected to manipulate the razor had been Indulging in strong drink. But he sank back in his chair, trusting to luck for n successful shave. The Inevitable happened, however, when the nerve-racke- d barber jabbed n piece of euticle from the victim's chin Now, you see, sir, what hard drinking will do." wailed the damaged person Yes, it dors make the skin tender, said (he man of shears and blade New Yoik Times sition in advance by reciprocity. Identifying First Riven Men tinned. The first rivers mentioned in authentic history are alluded to in Genesis. They are the Plson, ' the Gihon, the Hiddekel and ths Euphrates, which are said to have flowed from the garden of Eden. Various attempts have been made to identify these streams, hut no agreement has been reached among the authorities save in the case of the last. How is Keep Eggs Fresh. One good housekeeper told me she always had perfectly fresh eggs when eggs were not always fresh, and this is the way she did it: When they were cheap and fresh shs dipped them for an instant in hot, thin, water, draining them in n wire plate drainer, nnd then packed them sway in the dark. Mrs. Lnrned in Womans Home Companion. gum-nrsb- lc : I I PRICE. 25 c. to-da- cts Geillyj - ' fids pie&.saLrvtlyf fids Beneficially SOLDIERS AKK HUMAN. Army officers are almost unanimous in asking the restoration of tha canteen feature of the army post exchanges. The subject is n sore one with temperance and prohibition advocates, whose position concerning the canteen is much misunderstood. The objection they make 1 that tha canteen gives a sort of official sanction. tp drink in other words, puts tha government into the business of selling beer. Advocates of the canteen assert that it cannot possibly be harmful, because only beer la Bold, nnd that of n good quality, and In such quantities and under such restriction aa to render intoxication impossible. Experience indicates that for many reasons the advocates of the canteen have the better of the argument. Soldiers ace human; and like many other human beings are averse to too much restriction. Few of them acquire the habit of drinking in the army; Indeed, with saloons on every corner In the cities from which most of them come, it is not likely that they would acquire habits of Intemperance through buying an occasional bottle of beer at the' canteen. Aa matters are, a soldier cannot drink In the post, but there is nothing to prevent his drinking outside. So that instead of having n bottle or two of beer every day he keeps hla money until he gets permission to leave the post and then spends the pay of several months In n vile orgy in one of the neighboring dens over which the military authorities have no control. Then he is tempted to desert, rather than face punishment for derellcitlon in returning, loses hla never saves his money, nnd goes out of the arm worse than when he entered it, simply because of the mistaken solicitude of persons who forget that he la only n man. Philadelphia Times. self-respe- ct, well-meani- WANTS UIH SALARY. mand were disaffected, and they had Among the residents of South Daformed a plan to turn the fort nnd nil kota is a veteran of the cIyII war who ita supplies over to the Confederate enjoys the unique distinction of havforces again. The latter were to ap- ing hia name still carried on the rolla cl the war department na a captain of proach under the guise of hostile and make a feint at attack, the volunteer army of the United when the post would be surrendered States. And because of this I'ncle Sam to them without resistance. When will be called upon to pay him back MaJ. Sturgis learned of this he resalary aggregating 122,264. The old ceteran Is Capt. Lockwood and his solved upon the burning of the ammunition and supplies to prevent their home la at Redfleld. He was commisfalling into Confederate possession. He sioned a captain of volunteers In 1865. succeeded in carrying out his plan, but The government at the close of the barely escaped with his life. In Octo- war notified him that he could be disber, 1862, Fort Cobb again came lntu charged t any time upon properly notice, because of a fight between the Identifying himself. Ily some overCherokecs as southerners and tie Sen-inol- sight he was never discharged. He had as loyal Indians. Several hun- not thought of the matter for about dred were killed in battle, th benii-nolthirty years until the other day, when finally winning. Tlio Cherokecs he came to the conclusion that if he soon afterward freed their slaves of had never been discharged from the their own accord and gave them Inc army he was entitled to hla salary aa right of citizenship. The battle deter- captain for the intervening years. His mined the status of the Indians they captain's salary waa 852 per month. years, says the Cincinnearly all Lecame Unionists. I'p to It Is thirty-si- x that time the Cherokee. Choctaw and nati Enquirer, since he drew his last Chickasaw Indians had been strong month's pay, and if the courts or war sympathisers with the south and a department decide that he has legally great many fights had taken place be- been a captain all this time he will tween them and the Semlnoles and draw from the treasury of the United Creeks. In 1870 the old fort was abanStates the neat sum of 322,264. He has doned, but has since then been used engaged the services of an attorney, as a rendesvous for travelers and In- who will prosecute the rlaim for him dian agents. It has been the place before the proper authorities Chicawhere artists nnd writers centered up- - go News. 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