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Show ffhen the Cloud Lift. The low foothills that lie at the base tf some Alpine country may look high when seen from the plain, as long as the snowy summits are wrapped In It, but when a little puff of wind comes and clears away the fo from "the lofty peaks nobody looks at the iiittle green hills in front. So the world's hindrances and the world'L difficulties dif-ficulties and cares look very lofty till the cloud lifts. But when we see the great white summits everything lower does not seem so very hiph after all. Look to Jesus, and that will dwarf the difficulties. Alexander Marlaren. Six Million Uollara Spf-nt by the I'nlon Pacific Pa-cific Katilroiad Company In improving what was originally the fiDfst track in the west. Result! A comparatively straight and level road bed, ballasted with dustless Sherman granite, rendering possible the highest rate of speed, together with the greatest degree of safety. The magnitude of the work must be seen to be appreciated. What dfes it mean? Solid comfort, security and pleasure to our patrons. Are you goiug Kast? If so you cannot afford to g via any other than this royal highway. Further information on application personally or by letter to F. I! I'hoate, (Jeneral Agent, Salt Ialf p ' i t v. The Prohibition party, while in form and method necessarily partisan, is in fact a simple group of independent voters, who have purposed in their hearts that they will not attempt to cleanse society by defiling themselves, but that they will "not cease to exercise exer-cise for its clwnsing all the powers that inure in citizenship: John G. Woolley. oldest mn in America Tells How He Escaped the Terrors of Many vinters by Us in (j reruna. 'J Try i. .i ft' is tur I 1.1 I:r."..-k. th.- OHt-.-t I -.it. . I sm:es Man In the Isaa;- Hrock, of Mclennan county, coun-ty, Tex., has attained the great age of 111 yctrs. having been born in lihS. II-- i an anient frieml to Pe-runa Pe-runa and sjM'iik.s of it in. the following terms: ' During my lone; life I have known a rrc-at many remedie-s for coughs, co. ds, catarrh and diarrhoea. I had always .--.ipiioseJ !h's- affections to be different dis'as.s. hut I have learned from Dr. llartman's books that these affections are the same and are properly called catarrh. "A; for Dr. Hart man's remedy, Pe-rana, Pe-rana, I have found it to be the best, if nor t.io only reliable remedy for ths' affections. "Pcruna hes been my stand-by I bor, England, is missing, and the au-for au-for many years, and I attribute my thorities fear that it has capsized. good health and my extreme age . . . . . . . J . BlOO Reward SIOO. x" " revjt-uv. mi Kx.ai.iiy uiccia all my requirements. " have comp to rely upon it almost entirely tor the many little thing3 for which I need medicine. I believe it to be especially valuable to old people." Isaac Brock. Catnrrh is th greatest enemy of old ape. A person entirely free from catarrh ca-tarrh is sure to live to a hale and hearty oil ae. A free book on catarrh ca-tarrh pent by The Peruna Medicine Co., Coltrnbus. O. Genuine arters Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Slgnatu-e o See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Tcx7 BsaaJl rn.uA easy to take as avirar. F2S HEADACHE FOR EI7HKESS. rca ciucusKESS. FC3 TORPID LIVER. FOZ C0MSTIPATI0N. FC3 SALLOW SKIN. FOS TKECOMPLEXIQM CARTERS TSrrnr. a IB mm ILLS. . OMt'INB MUST mvt StOSATWSt. rSTE3SrS5WSSW CURE SICK HEADACHE. Don't Stop tobacco suddenly It injures nervous system to do so BACO-C-URO is the only curt- that REALLY CURES and notifies you wheu to flop. Sole with & fuarantw thut three Iw.xes will cure any case bl fn fMtpri is vegetaoie and harmless. Unas MUJH'UlJ cured thousau Is. it wih cure you At al ur-,uistt jr or iaii orpaid il box: ? tx-'X-f J" Hi. F.xiHiet free. Write fe-.'r (.He w t 4 C-. La Rrosss- Wis Dl 1VC Manu-cript or prin rl fi I A catai. viif. rsn ted. Stamp for em Manuscript jike. I tah. AfE'rjfS WITHOIT FEB 1 unlruviirrrMful Sn description; m m, m nmj m r anil et ixpopiniua. T. S. -t;-M:h Strtt. XV AH IN4iTO, IK C. Branc h otti' t'hi'art, 1'leT-i;ntl and Itroit. IF CLAIMANTS FOR PFNSION !: HI Oi.K. tliiiieioii. I). C. they will receive euirk rfrlies. R 5th N.H.VoU btaft sutn t on s. rro.-cut n; LiaiUissincei8 7a nDflDQVNEW DISCOVERY; gives W I quick reliersndcores wont cm'a. IVjoIc of teAtim'nft..s and III DATS treatment tbXJL. DB. IL. U. fcULXX S SONS, In K, Aliaato. tia. Challenge -Gordon Talenrrtl ,u'v Au-' Feb- Au'-'' '90- alcD" Feb. VI. July T7. Aug. iC. Jsn. -ys. The only job press with the fallowing recent re-cent pat. n is and improvements: im-provements: Nc Noiseless Ti; Mo im New Imprti ion ThrnoH Htm Denressib'e Gripper. Cojnietta anced P: ei. Whieh make it th lisbtest ninakf and fastest j:;b press in th market, .-k-e this won derful press before placing u urj For Sale bv KESTEHS !EKPAPE INION. Salt Lake City. I tah. To whom write fur circulars and net prices. SECURITY. w - P 5 Di Mary and Her Lamb. The "Mary" who had "a little lamb" was a little Massachusetts girl who had adopted one of a pair of twin lambs. The lamb strayed away, and on her way to school Mary found it and actually did take it to school with her and to the class. A young man named Rowlston, the son of a Boston riding master, who was fitting himself at Harvard, was at school that day, and wrote the lines which have become immortal. The lamb lived to be a very old sheep, and was finally killed by an angry cow. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Anti-Semitic Feeling In French Anr7. The anti-Semitic prejudice still rages in the French army, and has Just been the cause of a most disagreeable and significant incident at the Fountaln-bleau Fountaln-bleau Ecole d'Application. Captain Coblentz, an artillery officer, was recently re-cently transferred thither from a northern garrison, exchanging with an instructor in the school who had finished fin-ished his turn of servK . Captain Coblentz Cob-lentz is a Jew. Upon his arrival at Fontainbleau he left cards on his new comrades, but his calls were not returned. re-turned. Get Three Barrels of Whisky. Thieves got into a baggage car on the Santa Fe overland express last night, says the Chicago Record, and as the train sped through Bridgeport they rolled off three barrels of whisky and made their escape. The loss was discovered dis-covered at Joliet. Chicago detectives who were put to work on the case found where the barrels had been dropped off and evidently taken away in a wagon. It was concluded that the thieves secreted themselves in the baggage bag-gage car before the train started, but the manner in which they themselves got from the train could not be explained, ex-plained, as no stops were made after 16th street was passed. Woolley Criticise Great Fartles. Every issue joined by the great parties par-ties in thirty years has made it a condition con-dition precedent to voting on either side of it, that the voter should accept, ratify, embrace, and fellowship the liqjor traffic as a social fixture, or, as I say, drink wine. John G. Woolley. Prosperity for 1901. Indications point to great prosperity for the coming year. This is a sigD of a healthy nature. The success of a country, as well as of an individual, depends upon health. If you have any stomach trouble try Hostetter"s Stomach Stom-ach Bitters, which cures dyspepsia, indigestion in-digestion and biliousness. Resolutions indorsing the Payne-Ilanna Payne-Ilanna ship subsidy bill were adopted by the industrial convention in New Orleans. Uest for the Bowels. Xo matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASOARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware Be-ware of imitations. A boat with several bluejackets from a torpedo-boat destroyer in Dover har- Te rPaders of this pper will be pleased to i learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the onl v positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh beini? a constitutional constitu-tional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. treat-ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces sur-faces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and gi vine the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro-prtetors pro-prtetors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. Address K. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, a Sold bv druggists 7ro. Hall's Family fills are the best. Tb.3 president has sent to the Senate Sen-ate the nomination of George V. L. Myer of Boston to be ambassador to Italy. Your Storekeeper Can Sell Ton Carter's Ink or he can get it for you. Ask him. Try it. Car loads are snt annually to evorj state In the Union. Do you buy Carter's? A Chinese ediet deprives General Tung Fuh Siang of his rank and titles, but permits him to retain command of the troops. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT. Tuke Laxative Bkomo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. V. Urove'8 signature is oj the box. 25c. Civilian passeng-er traffic with Capo Colony is al.nost suspended from Pretoria Pre-toria and native traflic absolutely so. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds. John F Butir, Trinity Sp-'n-s, Ind., Feb. .5, 1900. The Commissioner of Labor reports to Congress expenditures aggregating 817!,349 during the last fiscal year. Mrs. Wlnslows Soothing: Syrup. For children teething, softens the eim, reduces lir ftammaUoa, silsyt pain.curs wladcollc 25csbottla Lord Kitchener has stopped payments to burghers for the use of their wagons until Boer resistance ceases. If you want "(food digestion to wait upon yonr appe'tite" you should always chew a bar of Adams' Pepsin Tutti Frutti. The census returns show Berlin has a population of 1,884,345, compared with 1,677,304 in 1895. The rharm of beauty Is uesntlfnl hair. Secnre It with Parkub's H mb Halsam. Hinpkrcokks. the bent cure for corn. IScts. . Secretary Gage's report has made an excellent impression in financial circles cir-cles in Berlin. C. H Crantree. I s Moines. lows, will on revues expiato all about the Uladiator Gold-Mioins company com-pany ; extremely Interesting: write me. The Arbuckles have advanced the price of re Sued sugar five points. oeocioooooCJwOwOwa o a a a 0 a a a a a 0 0 0 0 0 Tied Up When the muscles feel drawn and tied up and the flesh tender, that tension is Soreness and Stiffoess a a o o a 0 from cold or over exercise. it lasts bvt a short time after St Jacobs OH is applied. The cure is prompt and sure. 0O000O00000OO k !i ! sii ti i Mi LOST ON THE.... VELDT - CHAPTER IV. (Continued.) "Was it anything, dearie?" She uttered ut-tered an exclamation as she saw Bluebell's Blue-bell's wh.te face. "The Boers they're going to attack us. Bluebell? Is that it?" "No, no, auntie not so far as I know," said the girl, with an attempt at a wan smile. "At least, that wasn't what dad wanted. But don't ask me tonight, auntie, I'm tired. Good night." Miss Elizabeth was all of mother she had ever known. "Good night. God keep you, dearie," the elder woman whispered. Her words remained with Bluebell after sne had shut herself into her room. God keep her! There was One to whom she should turn now for help in this most terrible crisis of her young life. Bluebell threw herself on her knees, burying her face in her hands. Oh, God, show' her what was the right thing to do. Help her, oh, God, for there was no other who could tell her what she must do! Save her father from the consequences conse-quences of a deliberate crime by selling herself to this scoundrel! It was a fearful sacrifice! Did God demand it of her? Nay, would she be doing right in making it? Bluebell was a good, sweet, true-hearted girl. She had always al-ways shown respect and affection for the most unlovable man who was her father, even when he was least worthy of respect; but she had an unusual amount of common sense for a young girl, and was not likely to be betrayed into any sentimental and maudlin course of action. As she knelt there a sudden thought came to Bluebell, bringing the warm blood in a palpitating wave over the pallor of her white face, and quickening quicken-ing the throbs of her heart that had been beating so low and despairingly. It was the thought of Adair Rothes. "If he were only here," Bluebell said to herself, "I think he would help me. He said he was my friend." Her thoughts wandered from the terrible crisis of the moment to the brief time of happiness in the afternoon after-noon when Rothes had first met her. It had not lasted long, that was true; but somehow the memory of Rothes' clasp of her hand, of his long look into her eyes, brought a kind of brief sweetness into Bluebell's heart, which even the pain v.nd sorrow of the present pres-ent could not quite blot out. When she ro:je from her knees her mind was quite made up. "I shall not marry that man," she said, and her eyes were full of a strange, deep determination. "It would not make dad's sin the less if I did so. It would be a sin on my part to marry a man like that. It would be adding sin to sin. Dad must escape, but it will be in some other way. I will help him to do so. He mut escape to England, Eng-land, and trnntie and I will carry on the farm here." This determination brought a certain cer-tain restfulness to Bluebell. She undressed, un-dressed, got Into bed, and presently went to sleep, though it was a sleep disturbed by troubled dreams of Boers attacking New Kelso, setting fire to It, and tying up all its occupants to stakes in order that they might be burnt also. Adam Leslie had a worse night than his daughter. He was up at daybreak and "riding over his farm. As he was returning about 7 o'clock he saw a tall, dark figure approaching him on horseback. horse-back. He recognized it at once, and his heart sank. Moore rode quickly up to him. Mr. Leslie could see some excitement on the usually dark, impassive face. "News, Leslie great news!" he exclaimed, ex-claimed, as he came close to the other man, and flung himself off his horse. "Listen, man; but first" he dropped his voice "what of my love affair. How have you succeeded with the little bride-elect?" Leslie's rubicund face blanched, but he endeavored to put on an air of assurance. as-surance. "My dear Moore, she will come round; I am, not afraid of that. Of course you must allow for a little reluctance re-luctance at first; but there isn't the slightest fear but she will give in. But you'll give us a day or two more of grace, will you not?" His tone of abject entreaty told more than his words did to the keen ear of Gerald Moore, who turned aside for a moment, and passed his hand over his lips as if to conceal their expression. "Yes, I will give you a day or two more," he said presently, "for there's some work before you, Mr. Leslie, if, as I think, you feel inclined to tell something which the British general at Ladysmith would give his ears to know. In a few days some of the biggest men on the Boers' side may be made prisoners. Ha! is that not tidings worth hearing? I could give the information myself, but I wish you to have, the chance of a little glory, and also of a pecuniary reward. You do not need to sell this information under several hundred pounds." The eyes of Adam Leslie glistened. Avarice was one of the man's besetting beset-ting sins. It was the haste to be rich which had landed him in the net of the billionaire Gerald Moore. He grasped Moore's arm. ' "And you can give me this information informa-tion I? For pity's sake, let me know all.- Moore." The other man bent his head, and for a few minutes spoke in a low but deliberate and distinct voice. Leslie drank in every word. His hatred of the Boers was only equaled by his lust for gold, and the two passions, seeing a way to be satisfied here, rendered his rubicund face agitated and convulsed con-vulsed with emotion. "You are willing to inform? Then go, and at once!" exclaimed Moore. "Not a moment is to be lost! It is utterly impossible that the information informa-tion can be carried to Ladysmith in any other way. I solemnly assure you that no one else knows it but myself. You can reach Ladysmith by 9 o'clock. So then, without more ado, go!" As Adam Leslie, full of the design that was to deliver the very leaders of the Boer army into the hands of the enemy, hurried within his steading, stead-ing, the other man looked after him with a smile. "So you have worked into my hands, friend Leslie." he muttered. And he rubbed these useful members together as If Leslie were literally between them. "Now my path will be easy. Yes, my charming Bluebell, you will find Gerald Moore Is capable of revenge as well as love!" And he laughed. "And & 544 1 3 A STORY OF THE BOER CAMPAIGN IN NAT AL TCTCTC ft ft ft ft ft ft By H. B. Mackenzie if you will not yield to persuasion, my dear young lady, why, then, we must needs try force!" CHAPTER V. Bluebell had come down prepared to give her father her answer, and to make her proposal to him, in the morning; but to her surprise and consternation, con-sternation, she learned that he had gone off on horseback, no one knew whither, not saying when he should return. "It was Sam who saw him go," said Miss Elizabeth, in a frightened tone, "and he says he went in the direction of Ladysmith; but of course he may be going much farther than that he may be going by train. Do you know nothing about it, Bluebell?" Bluebell shook her head. She was more put about even than her aunt by this new move. What could it mean?" "Dear auntie, you're not afraid of the Boers, are you? They have never done us any harm, why should they now? Though they are fighting with Britons, it is. with British soldiers armed themselves, not with helpless,-unarmed helpless,-unarmed people, especially women." The day passed, the women going about their usual avocations; but Adam Leslie did not return. It was not till late in the evening that he rode at a hard pace up the avenue and into the steading, right up underneath the stoop or veranda. Bluebell went down to meet him, then turned away with a shudder, for she could see he was deeply deep-ly flushed and his eyes blazing, while he staggered slightly as he got off his horse. "Sam!" cried Bluebell to the Zulu servant who had apppeared at the sound of the horse's hoofs, "take my father's horse. Father, take my arm," she said, in a low voice. But he flung her off with an oath. "Away into the house! You are a disobedient creature, and I will have nothing to do with you!" he snarled. He himself staggered into the sitting room, where he lay down on a couch and fell asleeep, without even removing remov-ing his great riding boots. Bluebell could not speak to him that night. She crept away, bitterly humiliated hu-miliated and distressed; and Miss Elizabeth came in and endeavored to comfort her; but it was such comfort as one who is ignorant of the real nature na-ture or depth of a wound can give. By the morning her father had slept off his drunken fit. Bluebell managed to get a few minutes alone with him after breakfast, during which he was sullen and silent, not exchanging a word with the women. Bad as Adam Leslie was, he had still a few instincts of a gentleman, and one of these told him that he had been guilty of a base and dishonorable act in sellling the information which was to betray the Boer leaders into the hands of an enemy. "Father, I must speak to you for a minute," Bluebell said, very pale but very determined. "I have been thinking think-ing over what you said last night. I cannot do what you wish. It would'be a crime to sell myself to a . man I loathe and fear. But but you must escape. This is the time to do it, when all the country is in confusion, and people are leaving every day. You must go down to Durban and get to England. Aunt Elizabeth and I shall stay on here, and we can send you the money we make. The only thing we have to do is to throw Mr. Moore off the scent." He had been glaring at her with a look that vaguely terrified Bluebell up to this moment. Now he interrupted her in a hoarse, sullen tone. "You are mad, child! You don't know what you are talking about! I am not going to escape, -or to do any such thing, in the meantime. As for you. you will have 'to make up your mind sooner or later to marry Gerald Moore; but he is not going to insist at once. You will have a week or two in which to accustom yourself to the idea that seems so disagreeable to you." He turned without another word, and walked out of the room. Bluebell looked after him, with mingled agony and humiliation in her heart. He had not always been like this. Bluebell could remember her early years of childhood in far-ofi Scotland, Scot-land, when a sweet-faced, brown-haired brown-haired woman ruleu the house, and Adam Leslie had been as different from what he was now as day is from night. Then the sweet mother had died, and Leslie had been turned out of the inheritance he had thought would be his, by a cousin, long supposed to be dead, turning up; and, in a sullen, defiant de-fiant mood, the man had set off for South Africa, taking his sister with him. The passion for making money had entered his heart, which seemed to have no longer any sweet home, affection to soften it since his wife died; and he had become harder and more sullen and more immerjin money making until this fearful en3 had come. A day or two passed. Gerald Moore seemed to have disappeared, and Bluebell Blue-bell began to breathe more freeely. Perhaps, after all, he was not so bad as. she had thought; perhaps her evident evi-dent aversion to the idea of marrying him had offended him, and decided him to act a more merciful part than he had at first intended. Meantime, too, they had heard no further news of the invading Boers. One night Bluebell had gone to her own room rather earlier than usual. She- had had a headache an uncommon uncom-mon ailment with her and, saying to her aunt that she felt sure that there was a thunderstorm coming, she bade her good-night and went to bed; but for a long time she could not sleep. The night was very hot an unusual thing at that season, when, though the days are swelterfngly warm, the nights are correspondingly cold and there was the strange stillness in the air which precedes a thunderstorm. Bluebell lay waiting for the first sudden sud-den clap of thunder, the first dazzling blaze of lightning, all her nerves unstrung, un-strung, not by fear, but by the overcharged over-charged electricity in the air, and her own throbbing temples. At last Bluebell's ears, strained to catch any noise, detected a strange throbbing sound; but it seemed to be very far away. It was certainly not the rumbling of thunder. Was it a real sound, or did it exist only In her fancy, in the throbbing tympanum of her ear? Bluebell lay still and listened. lis-tened. No. It was no fancy! She heard it again, and this time more distinct.' It was the sound of horses hoofs of; many horses' hoof Bluebell well knew, though the noise produced was. not that of several distinct sounds, but of one galloping along the wagon-path wagon-path of the. veldt. Bluebell started up in bed, a sudden trembling seizing her. The Boers! Of course it was the Boers! She did not have a doubt on the subject. But In what direction were they going. Ah! they were coming towards New Kelso! She could hear their horses approaching approach-ing every moment. Almost mechanically Bluebell threw herself out of bed and dressed herself quickly, then thrust her feet Into her slippers. All the house was silent. It was about 1 o'clock in the morning, and every one was in bed. Should she go to wake them? Bluebell hesitated. hesi-tated. Perhaps the horsemen would pass right on; they must be going towards Ladysmith. Was it not better bet-ter that her father should sleep on in ignorance that the hated Boers were so near. If he knew of their proximity, prox-imity, who could tell what bad step his hatred of them migh.t Induce him to take? Bluebell determined to remain where she was and watch. She stood behind the muslin curtains, which alone protected pro-tected the unshuttered window, watching. watch-ing. Her heart beat fast and unevenly, un-evenly, and nervous little shoots of pain ran through the palms of her hads. . (To be continued.) USED SECOND-HAND WATER. How Dr. Kmery Saved His House When His Well Was Dry. Dr. W. E. Emery of Surry, in Maine, has made an invention for economizing economiz-ing water that is used at fires, which may be adopted with advantage by the fire departments in all the big cities. There have been many rainstorms the past winter, but the water could not penetrate the frozen ground, and last week, when Dr. Emery discovered a fire on the shingles of his house, ho was confronted with the problem o( putting out the blaze, with no water in his well and only a half hogshead of water on the premises. This had been hauled from a stream half a mile away, to supply the household. The roof of the house had been watertight water-tight until the fire began to eat a holo in the shingles. There was a tinned gutter at the eaves which conducted the rainfall to a spout at the end of the house. Under the spout was an empty hogshead tub that had held no water for a week. Dr. Emery took advantage ad-vantage of the situation without delay. He carried his halfhogshead of precious preci-ous fluid to the roof in pails and poured pour-ed it upon the fire, which took up what it could use and allowed the rest to flow down the shingles and escape tc the tub below the spout. When he had used up all of the hauled water he went to work on that which had leaked back from the roof, using it oter and over until the fire was extinguished. extin-guished. Not more than two pailfuls were left when the fire was out. Dr. Emery thinks he carried some of the water to the roof three or four times. He is very sure his buildings would have been burned if it had not beep for the tub which caught the overflow. Boston Globe. jji . - now expresses urop men. Tek," said a prominent business man of this city to a Mail and Express reporter, re-porter, "I noticed a peculiar railroad custom which interested me considerably. consider-ably. I happened to be In the last ear of the limited when the train stopped stop-ped in a desolate spot between stations. sta-tions. The rear brakeman, of course, dropped off and went down the track with a flag to warn any train that might be following us. In a moment or two we started up again, but minus the brakeman. I wondered at this, but was still more surprised later on to see the same thing repeated when we were obliged to stop on account of a threatened threat-ened hotbox. Upon inquiry I found that this was the custom on fast trains. 'Sometims.e if we have lots of time,' said the conductor, 'we whistle for the men to come in, but in most cases we leave them to be picked up by the next train, or to walk to the nearest station. 'But isn't that rather hard on the men?' I asked. 'Oh, it's all part of the business," he replied. 'I have known of cases where men dropped drop-ped off 4n this way were frozen to death, or wraylaid by tramps, but the ; railroads have to make the time, and that's why it is done. I have seen trains running with only a conductor aboard them at times, because the rest of the crew had been left behind in just this way.' " Uses of Birds and Bees. Isaac W. Brown of Rochester, N. Y., addressed the Audubon society recently recent-ly at its meeting at the Commercial club on Birds and Bees. The address was one of a series which has been planned by the society for the furtherance fur-therance of its object, fostering and protecting birds, bees and trees. Mr. Brown contended that poor crops of farmers and gardeners are in a great measure due to the destruction of the birds and bees, which, If allowed to ! live unmolested and with proper pro tection, would make their entire living liv-ing off the worms and insects that do so great damage to growing crops. He cited instances where there had been great increase in crops on account ac-count of the protection thus afforded, and said that a hunter was endangering endanger-ing hi3 personal safety to attempt to go on some of the farms to shoot quail and other birds. He favored the building of hives for the accommodation accommo-dation of the bumblebees, which he claimed would greatly increase the yield of clover. Indianapolis Journal. Favorable Condition. "How's the esprit de corps among you military men?" asked the visitor in South Africa. "Well," answered the English soldier, sol-dier, "it is not so bad as it might be None of the officers have got to s point where they dislike one anothei as much as they do the Boers." Washington Star. Its Drawbacks. "Dreadful!' 'exclaimed Cholly Anglo-mane Anglo-mane a3 he looked at an old painting where the costumes included doublet and hose. "It's picturesque." "Perhaps. "Per-haps. But how could a man roll up his trousers like they do In London?' Washington Star. A lazy man's burdens are heaviest on his mind; put your interest in your work and your work will soon be to your Interest. HE IS PICTUKESQUE. INTERESTING CAREER OF MANY-SIDED MAN Whs Began Life Peldtinff Papers, and Wfc Sladc, Gave Away and Lost Fortunes Now a Bankrupt Brt a 6tat Senator. There are few more picturesque individualities in-dividualities in that home of pictures-queness pictures-queness the Pacific coast than Charles M. Shortridge. In the cours of 25 years he has gone from office boy to wealth ard powerful political influence ard back to poverty again. But o is still young, and declares that he has only begun to make and lose fj: tunes. Shortridge has owned three newspapers, has controlled thi political patronage of Santa Clara county, Cal., and has been almost a dictator in the councils of his party In that state. He has been a can didate for UEited Stntes senator from Nevada, has made end spent many hundreds of ihousands of dollars, and Is now a bankrupt. B u he is also a state senator in California, and it would suprise no one if he made good his word and accumulated another fortune. for-tune. When he was a boy ia Iowa Shortridge Short-ridge sold papers on the streets of De3 Moines. Spurred by poverty and ambition am-bition he put in his pocket $10.50 which he had managed to save, and set out tor California, riding in freight CHARLES M. SHORTRIDcm cars and talking his way to the Golden Gold-en state when he had no money. After Aft-er leaving Iowa, however, and before reaching California, he put in som6 tim in Utah and Nevada peddling and "doing odd jobs. When he rea.-hed California Shortridge lighted street lamps, sold papers in Colfax and San Jose, and put in some extra time at school. He was 16 years old then. After a short time he got a job as office boy in the office of the San Jose Mercury. For several years he worked in one capacity or another in the Mercury Mer-cury office. Finally he borrowed $S,-000, $S,-000, ran the paper for 1C years and sold it for $100,000. In the course of these years he made hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars and spent them with prodigality. He gava away thousands. thou-sands. As an example, he borrowed $10,000 one day, and gave away $4,000 of it before night. He bought the San Jose Herald, went into politics anu rode on the top wave of prosperity and popularity. Then he "got metropolitan metro-politan ideas into his head" as he expressed ex-pressed it and transferred himself and his money to San Francisco. He bought the Call of that city. He "vibrated with combativeness, egotism" egot-ism" and enthusiasm. Then he went down even more rapidly than he had gone up, and 25 years after he had been office boy in the Mercury office of San Jose, he was bankrupt and in a physical condition which made his death almost a certainty. But he did not die. ae newspapers set the ' death watch" on his house, but he got well, and, more than that, he pulled himself together and announced to the world that he was just beginning to fight. He went to Nevada, obtained the control of the Carson Appeal, and announced himself as a candidate for no less a position than that of Unitad States senator. For some reason he disposed of the Appeal, returned to his old home in San Jose, and announced an-nounced that he would like to be state senator. When he came back from Nevada he came glowing with a streak of picturesqueness in attire. He wore a cowboy hat and all the rest of the stage make-up. He announced that he would harvest the largest crop of votes ever given for a candidate in Santa Clara county. People laughed and tapped their foreheads. The election elec-tion took place and the harvest of votes was all that he had predicted. He went into the state senate with flying colors, and is ther,e now. He is making a lawyer of himself. For a man whose early opportunities were so limited, Shortridge is a singularly well-educated and well-informed man. Shortridge is a Republican in politics and a most pronounced one. It looks now as if he would make his boast good and wring another fortune from the world. He is about 42 years old. Sale of Danlih West Indies Revived. The news of the renewal of the negotiations ne-gotiations for the sale of the Danisk West Indies was received at St. Thomas Thom-as with but little general excitement The statement of the Danish premie is considered there to refer to retrenchment re-trenchment rather than to change of flag, and also to the previous negotiations nego-tiations having proved abortive. The pro-sale party is holding aloof, noi wishing to enter the arena of newspaper news-paper polemics until sure of its ground. In St. Croix there is little doubt that, owing to the sugar interests, inter-ests, the majority of the planters are in favor of the sale, but at St. Thoma3 the advantages are not so apparent, for the hopes of the revival under the United States flag of the shipping, in-trade in-trade are counterbalanced by the fear that the alterations in fiscal and social conditions might outweigh those advantages. ad-vantages. H. Burrowes, In Chicago Record. Lon; Kfcord in Tolilic. Mr. George Craven, who has just died, at Rochdale, England, in his ninety-third year, had voted In every election in that city since it first secured se-cured parliamentary representation in 1832. Earlier still, he was an active worker for the reformers in Lancashire county contests, and he rode on horseback horse-back from Rochdale to York in 1831 to vote for Lord Brougham. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky, but the stars are there, nd will reappear. Carlyla. x mmin i m Faithfulness tn UUIa Things. Greatness In any direction Is an accumulation ac-cumulation of little faithfulness towering tower-ing Into sight of the world. Real accomplishment ac-complishment in any line comes, as the coral reefs are built, by the deposit de-posit of one tiny cell of fidelity to duty upon another, till thousands of unnoticed un-noticed fidelities loom into visible greatness. An isolated instance of devotion de-votion to duty is like a single drop of rain. Days full of such stern fidelities fidel-ities are like a fall of rain bringing the life to flower and to fruitage. Two sisters, one living in New York, the other in the suburbs, followed the advice of a broker and purchased shares of a certain stock a short time ago. Since then the stock has g'one down, and the sisters have been obliged oblig-ed to put up more money or lose all. "Of course I know we're going to come out all right," one wrote to the other the other day. "But I do wish I understood un-derstood a little bit better what it is we're doing. I know whit 'buying long means it's when a stock's low and you buy some and it go?s lower, and you sell it and still you make money. But this thirg we're doing now are we bull3 or bears, do you suppose?" THE DISCOVERER OF lyilia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound The Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills, v i .i ' No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful friends. Do not be persuaded that any other medicine is just as good. Any dealer who asks you to buy something else when you go into his store purposely to buy Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound, has no interest in your case. He is merely trying to sell you something some-thing on which he can make a larger profit. lie does not care whether you get well or not, so long as he can make a little more money out of your sickness. If he wished you well he would without hesitation hand you the medicine you ask for, and which he knows is the best woman's medicine in the world. Follow the record of this medicine, and remember that these thousands of cures of women whose letters are constantly printed in this paper were not brought about by " something else," but by Lydia E. Pinhhnm's f&ciaiiie Gompaunti, The Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's IHs. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want a cure. Moral Stick to the medicine that you iciv is Best. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health more than a million women, you cannot well say without try ing it, l I do not believe it will help me." 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