Show T 1 THE MAINE BLOWN UP IN HAVANA HARBOR A FRIEND’S ADVICE ' ’ t ’ ' ' t The ‘ And what it led to It et a common occuroc that n friendly word ihould be the meant of giving nearly iorty years of happineaa and health to person heeding the advice it carried This was the case with Mary U many a younger woman Sver sines my recovery I have taken a couple of bottles of Dr Ayer's Sarsaparilla each spring aad am quits satisfied that I owe nay good health to this treatment I give this testU monlal purely in the hope that it may meet the eye of some poor sufferer"— Maxy XIMOAXD Woodstock Oat i many a younger Dr Ayer's Sarsaparilla has won its way woman aad look back on thirty-si- x to corner of the world by the praise of industry But of every happy healthful years its friends those who have tried it and let her tell her story t who know they were cured by the use of “Thirty-siyears ago I had great trouble the remedy There is nothing ao strong with my liver The doctors allowed that as this personal testimony It throws all were tumors there theories and fancies to the winds and growing on it and blistered my side in an effort to givethey me stands solidly upon the rock of experirelief I was at that time earning my ence challenging every skeptic with a as a tailoress but for five living positive “ 1 know” Ayer’s Sarsaparilla between the pain in my side andyears the with its purifying and vitalising action on blisters I was in constant misery aud the blood is a radical remedy tor every work was a drag to me with no prospect form of disease that begins in tainted or of relief fortunately for me however a impure blood Hence tumors sores friend advised me to take Dr Ayer's Bar nlcers boils eruptions and similar disand finally persuaded me to take eases yield promptly to this medicine saparilla course of it When I first comSome cases are more stubborn than others regular menced taking the my side but persistence with Dr Ayer’s Sarsapa-rill- a cure was so painful that I Sarsaparilla could not fasten my usually results in a a bottle aad dress and for a time 1 did not get any Mary Lingard began withcomplete relief but my friend advised me to per- went on to a course of Dr Ayer’s Sarsipa-rill- a severe aad relief was sure to come aad When she was cured she realised eome it did This happened as 1 aay that a medicine that could' cure disease thirty-si- x years a(o My liver has never could also prevent it So she took n couple of bottles each spring and kept in perfect and du troubled me since heAth There arc thousands of similar I have passed throuj of a cases on record Some of these are womai period athered into Dr Ayer’s Curebook a little at sixtyoae ticular trouble aad y of am active and strong and y the yearsto doage I a day’s work that would upset J C Ayer Co Rowell Hass Write for it able great x Hat Seod foe the Homo rWfct do you think of that doctrine?" asked one of another after ihearinc a recent infidel lecture “It’i spicy and amusing” was the answer :“bot I wouldn’t like my wife or daughter to believe in it” Exactly What You Want The day for nauseating nos- life seems but a dreary boy who has to wear his dad’s made-ov- ei trousers HEATTIaE unquestionably best an cheapest starting point and outfitting sta tion for Alaska and Klondike does not or advise you to go but yon will finj Beattie’s facilities stocks and experlenci prices the very lowest unsurpassed and nas Klondikes or its own Washington state I Beattie is the chief city Strangers art protected by Public Comfort Bureau Ad dress Chamber of Commerce Seattle Wasl A girl never thinks much of a play unles) she got so excited she forgot to eat he trum La past People now want a laxative that is purely vegetable gentle but poeitive of action pleasant to the taste antiseptic convenient to carry at a popular price The only one combining all these desirable qualities ia candy To Cure Headaehe in IB Minutes All Take Dr Davis’ con-gripi- ng Anti-Headac- Druggists Age makes some only stubborn people wise and other Doubles the Pleasure of a Drive t A fine carriage doubles the pleasure ol driving Intending buyers of carriages can save dollars by sending for the large free catalogue of the Elkhart Carriage and COY CATCAOTIO A booklet and sampts frae for tha asking or you can buy a box for toe esc joc at your drug stem Satisfaction guaranteed 76 Itarling Remedy Ce Chicago Montreal NewYerk lO-TO-- a&mxrinr&iEi tic CUtE YOUISELFI U S deal hand and were protected by steel Officer en the Battle Ship The Maine was a battle ship of the shields two Inches thick The weight of a broadside of the second class and was regarded as one Maine new The would have been 2700 pounds navy best in the of the ships exclusive of the secondary battery officers of the Maine besides Commander Sigsbee are given at the navy Her Cost 88800000 The Maine had eight steel horizontal department as follows: Lieutenant Commander Richard boilers vertical inverted cylinder diWainwrlght rect acting triple expansion twin screw Lieutenants George F W Holman engines of 9000 Indicated horse power John Hood and Carl W Yungen She carried 822 tons of coal with which Lieutenants (junior grade) George P she could steam 2770 knots at 148 Blow John T Blandln and Friend W knots an hour or 7000 knots at 10 Jenkins: knots an hour She had a double botNaval Cadets Jonas H Holden' Watt tom and numerous water-tigcomT Cluverlus Amon Bronson and Da- partments vid F Boyd Jr The full complement of men carried Ryan paymaster by the Maine when she was put in comCharles P Howell chief engineer mission was 306 besides the officers and Frederick C Bowers past assistant forty marines engineer The Maine though a type of construcJohn R Morris and Darwin R Me- tion last improved upon was one of rritt assistant engineers the best vessels of America’s new navy Pope Washington and Arthur CrenShe cost all told $2500000 shaw naval cadets (engineer division) Captain Richard D Sigsbee who was Lucien G Heneberger surgeon In command of the warship Maine Is John P Chldwick chaplain one of the most popular officers in the Albertus W Catlin first lieutenant navy His record since he was graduof marines ated from Annapolis in 1863 is fine He Francis E Larkin boatswain served In Mobile Bay was an active Joseph Hill gunner participant in the work of the North George Pelms carpenter Atlantic blockading squadron in 1865 and helped in the attacks and In the Description of tho Mains The Maine was regarded as one of final assault upon Fort Fisher Not the most effective vessels in the Amerlong ago the Maine with Sigsbee In ican navy In speaking of her just after command found herself bearing down she was put In commission a naval off- on an excursion boat In the East river icer said that she "Is not a cruiser but Ahead was the excursion boat full of a fighting ship a floating fort She human beings On either side was a is meant strictly for business” barge The only clear way showed a The keel of the Maine was laid in the pier The old commander ordered his Brooklyn navy yard In October 1888 engines reversed and to the amazeThe dimensions of the hull were: ment of the beholders he steered Length over all 324 feet 4 inches straight for the pier and ran into it at water line 310 feet: breadth of beam amuck The pier was badly torn up 57 feet mean draught 21 feet disthe Maine’s nbse was bruised but sev6648 tons A area was eral hundred human lives were saved sail placement allowed of 7135 square feet to be used The excursion boat ran clear but ten barque-ri- g loaded freight cars that were standing on the pier went to the bottom of the Launched in 1800 Work progressed slowly for a plant river There is no doubt as to Captain had to be built up The vessel with- Sigsbee’s relative valuation of human out armor and Tlttings was launched life and property About $4000 in Nov 19 1890 in the presence of a great property was destroyed but 1000 lives crowd and with much ’ceremony her were saved That was not a bad ten minutes’ work for a man whose busisponsor being Miss Alice Tracy granddaughter of Secretary ness it is to kill Tracy then at the head of the nary de- Harness Manufacturing Co of Elkhart Ind Probably the most unhappy girl in the world is the one whose teeth ache ever time she eats candy TO CURB A COLD IN OWE DAT Take' Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Druggists refund the money if it fails to cure All 2St The wise man learns from experience and also a good deal from his wife 0 i Wil-merdl- ng A copy of the new edition of Miss P&rloa's Choice Receipts will be sent Her official trial took place postpaid to any of our readers who partment In October 1894 will make application by postal card armored The Maine was a note to Walter Baker & Co Lim or 7 r?r of the belted cruiBertype turret vessel ited Dorchester Mass that is having an armor belt to protect the vitals of the ship even though man in his bonnet he ii If a has a bee the other parts of the construction a sure of reasonably should be riddled with shot To Cure Constipation Forevor Tha la iaarlsa Ths Maine had for protection against (as POTATO Iarst Take Cascareta Candy Cathartic 10c ortSo a a lur’h Earllnt ytvIC gavaJ lwTrhr- flM C C C an to If eure falls opponent’s projectiles an armor belt Oar druggists refund money Prleta Air tbsaf ot ASA bachala par Mrs Worth Orsat fissA Bask 11 Parw SssA Baaylts inches thick tapering to seven twelve starA for IB aaA thla asUsa SIS U n A man would rather win fl on i wager inches beiow the water line The ends Nil A BALSSB BBBD CO La Cress WIs Wm than earn $5 at honest labor were unprotected by side armor hut at both ends there were transverse arSALZER’H GRASSES AND CLOVERS CONSERVATIVE MVESTORS Are warranted They produce! 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enough anywhere breech-loadin- breech-loadin- LAGRIPPE NEURALGIA RHEUMATISM ERRATIC but it seems to take a particular delight in refusing to point north for the subjects of the czar French find Russian scientists have recently been Investigating this subject on the vast central plain between Moscow and Kharkov The greatest aberrations were found in the province of Kursk the capital town of which ds some 600 miles almost due south of Moscow In the northern part of the province near Tim the needle deflects 20 degrees further south in the province of Staroi Oskol up to 30 degrees whil In the southeast of the province about 150 miles south of Tim the deflection rifles is over 96 degrees the needle standing of four in the two turrets and six almost perpendicular and pointing g rifles The secondary nearer east and west than north and south This reversal of the magnetic battery cohsifcted of four and four rapid-fir- e guns forces may have eome curious effects four revolving cannon A number of 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forttoonts A sample bottle will iHInll UAT 5 LUNblH sample von ’ Also largo bottles (M0 doses) 100 t bottles for ttM y Not sold by druggists only by us and ”7 wanted In new territory Write ns Dearborn St CHICAGO ILL SWAWON RHEUMATIC CURE CO 1S7-I6- 9 UNITED STATES CRUISER MAINE BLOWN UP IN HAVANA HARBOR to-da- lour 17E HAVE NO AGENTS AgT CAMUS hat have sold direst to the son sewer fer 16 yean at whole sal price saving him ths dealer’s unfits Ship any when for examination Everything warranted Ilfl styles sf Vehicles 5S styles of Hsrnsas Tep Baggies 361170 iU6 Cnrrl JhjSuIou Tree Wagon Bfififif-lMand Milk Irtlfg Wacom Send for lnrgn few' 'NSsrrey Prise wMknrtalu lumps Of aU our styles (hede spree ud feeders M AeieedMielUforgMb ABB BARIUM MTO CO W B FRATT Set’ ELK HAJtT IND on the berth boats and Hum Iimf Ii $od m mu fer 9 orthy of every state by prohibiting hrough the state pool selling book naklng or gambling of aay sort Fima m dal and commercial pursuits are by sounder and more eqnt iNe principle and practice In relation to tho property of deceased persons by prisdom justice and less cost Ctrl perils divorce lynching pauperism adulteration of foods penology and taany other subjects are wisely and exhaustively studied Moral legislation excellent systems of public schools clvl) service founded on ascertained merit Iludiciaries and executives of erudite jind incorruptible character are undeniable attestations of American moral progress The world does move It ought to be batter than it ia but it is better than it was and gives sure promise of brighter moral future In all rela- tions 8PRAY1NG FRUIT TREES question ot spraying fruit trees to the depredations of Inseat pests and The pre--Te- fungus diseases but a neoeseity Our renders Is do will do nt longer an experiment wet: to write Wm Stahl 111 and get hie catalogue St Qulnoy twentv-on- e of Spraying Outtsorlblng styles fits and full treatise on spraying tha different which fruit and vegetable crops for tho Asking and contains information Ho may be had much valuable Know IS Sir Richard Webster was once in a eab collision near the law courts and on alighting he gave his eabman his' jeard hi oase he should be wanted as The ease came on and Sip witness jRlchard on entering ths court wa asked to take a seat near the bench) The verdict wu given lu hie cabman’s jfavor and when Sir Richard went out (there stood the cabby waiting for him "Jump in elr” he eald "I’ll drive yer anywheres I knowed it 'ud be all Tight when I eaw yer up there squaring the beak”— tid Bits -- AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS Wc are asserting in tho eourts our right to tho sod exclusive use ol ths word “CASTORIA” Mark “PITCHER’S CASTORIA” as our Trade J Dr Samuel Pitcher of Hyannla Massachusetts was ths originator of “PITCHER'S CA9-- 1 the same that has borne snd docs now (bear the signature of CHAS H 'FLETCHER on every wrapper This Is tho original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA" which has been asetl in the homes of ths mother ot America for over thirty years Look carefully i at tha wrapper and nee that it la “tha kind you have always bought” and han tha signature ol No CHAS H FLETCHER on the Wrapper on haa authority from mo to ns my noma except The Centaur Company of which Chan H Flatoher Is President March 8 1807 SAMUEL PITCHER M IX tort a” fao-siml- la ! Whiskey” WallNaaaad brand of whisky ia advertised called "Horn of Plenty” On this A writer rematrks that they choaen ths name wisely for out of tha thing designated shall come: "Plenty of poverty plenty of pain Plenty of sorrow plenty of shams Plenty of broken hearts hopes doomed and sealed have for tha potter’s fletd’’ — Philadelphia Methodist of graves (Plenty OH WHAT SPLENDID COFFEE 111 Mr Goodman Williams Go writes: “From one package Salser’s German Coffee Berry costing 15 I grew 300 lbs of better ooffee than I can buy In stores at 30 cents a lb” A package of this and big seed catalogue la aent you by John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse WIs upon receipt of 15o stamps and this notice wnm No man ever realizes the power of a woman's eloquence until after he gets married clubs were invented so that could worry about bow not to ry the women worry for Fifty Cents Guaranteed t baoco habit cure makes weak men strong blood pure 60oIL Ail druggists ao coa-eia- arnts New Jersey has Initiated a polio Tow Don’t-wor- t run run fI miliar than Bibles to the multltafiet The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway company has adopted a plan of handling locomotive ashes or cinders at' terminals and divisional points which has resulted in a saving of expenses The device consists of large pans holding about 3 cubic yards each which are placed in tho pit and when full are moved by a crane to the Tho macar where they are dumped chinery is handled by one man and tha results have been very satisfactory' ni wanson Coadiklnns Enoaaraglng Gambling so justly condemned M d4 jeeltful and malignant wrecking spirts ual and family life was a maddealnfi passion in 1837 Cards were mere ht to the ts t cruiser Maine which was blown to atoms In Havana harbor Tuesday night had been the object of Intense hatred at the hands of the Spaniards It will be a long time before the truth Is known about the cause of the explosion — whether It was done toy Spanish hands or was merely an accident In the meantime a bloody war may be fought It Is safe to wager lhat there Is no accident about It Time will most likely show that it was the result of a deliberate conspiracy to kill and murder the crew of a warship flying the American flagnot Pending an Investigation the American people to form hasty judgment This is asking a are asked to be patient and ? ‘ t i sixty-on- e one-ha- lf deck Two torpedo feet long drawing two feet of fourteen and two-thir- tons displacement were part ds of The turrets containing the guns were arranged en echelon so that) all four could be trained directly ahead or astern with a range arc of 240 degrees This arrangement of guns was most effectual in the case of the Japanese fleet at the h battle of Yalu River The rifles were planned to be worked by the equipment 10-In- ch six-inc- durability of their lines will sustain the long accepted theory that thosi rails last best which are parr&llel wltt Women They both never really kiss each other know it is only an imitation the magnetic meridians As these rug Star Tobacco Is the loading brand of east and west over a considerable par it Is the best of Russia it will be the north and sontl the world because lines that first show signs of wear It you don’t believe a woman can keep a whereas such lines in other oountrlet secret just ask one her age are the more easily maintained in re- Don't pair Why Tobacco Spit ant Smoke Yeur Isn’t the relict of a man whi dies of hay fever a grass widow? 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