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Show Get Fixed Nov Any, Jewelry that should be repaired or made over. We will be very busy later on. DELIGHTS OF RAILWAY TRAVEL THROUGH HONDURAS. ST. The vicissitudes of a trip over the c rhllway are numerous and harrowing, says a writer in the Jsew Orleans dating his letter from San Pedro Sulu, Honduras, which he reached after a journey of 37 miles in 18 hours. Our leaving time was six o'clock, says the writer, but we didnt pull out of Puerto Cortes until ten in the The nondescript affair morning. which they call a train down here, consisted of a engine, four flat cars and a passenger coach. Our crew waa composed of an engineer, a half dozen firemen, one braketnan and the conductor. , There was an extra man, but in the whole vocabulary of railroads 1 find no name for him. Ills position, however, was a commanding one, and as important one. lie perched himself on the front of the engine, above wjere the cowcatcher should be, and ladled upon occasion industriously sand from a box beside him to the rails In front. Our numerous firemen passed the wood from the cafs to the engine, and, at various points along the road turned into a bucket brigade and supplied water from nearby streams to the engine. The engineer was a Jamaican Imbued with an extraordinary pride for the land of his nativity and given upon occasion to declaring that he was not a native of Honduras he was a British object. Jerry, I fear, Is something of a gay Lothario, and on his frequent trips over the road has worked sad havoc in the hearts of dusky maidens all along the line. He Invariably announced our approach to a village by putting the hard pedal on the whistle, and the entire population turned out to greet us. Jerry's etrenuous musical efforts came near causing a catastrophe at one point where we encountered a rade. 'Just before we very heavy reached the top of the bill Jerry thoughtlescly pulled the whistle cord, and In the screaming blast that followed the steam gave out and the train began to slip back. Although the cars were without brakes of any kind, ibe company bad prepared for such emergencies by ( providing a mahogany log on the rear platform, to be dropped under the rear wheels. Unfortunately the rear hrakeman was asleep on a flat car in front, and before be awakened the momentum of (the train was so great as to render our remedy unavailing. We ran so fast and so far In the next 15 minutes that it took us four hours to get back. Leaving Laguna, the train plunged Into a tropical swamp and forest The foliage was Indescribably luxuriant and beautifuL Mile after mile we passed through archways of bending palms, gigantic In size, and through groves of corozo trees.- - To my mind the latter is the most perfect repre sentatlon of the picturesque In tropical vegetation. Its trunk Is clad In the richest attire of parasitic life; Its wonderful feathery leaves, often 30 or 40 feet in length, bend in elegant and graceful curves under the weight of their own luxuriance or the burden of ornamental vines, while beneath all this mass of tropical richness may be Been clusters of those delicious cahorn nuts hanging like Immense cornucopias and containing two or more bushels. For a distance we passed beside a deep, swift stream, which flowa for miles through a wild Jungle. In the eternal shadow of the gigantic celba, cedar and rubber trees, between whose moss and vlneclad trunks prow palm trees of every description. Nature, all giving and bountiful. Is here revealed. Precious woods are so common that rosewood is often used for telegraph poles, and the ties are of mahogany. Emerging from the Jungle, we came to the banana plantations, and here 1 learned that this remarkabio railroad transports to the steamers CO per cenL of the bananas which enter New Orleans. Practically all of the bananas consumed west of the Ohio river are carried on the railroad to the Inter-Oceani- SALT, LAKE CITY. UTAH. Times-Democra- Union Assay Office o. M4KUS. M. . 4 V. AOIIH. SILT l lu. p OIT, K TRIUMPHED EVEN OVER Remarkable 14. UT4H DEATH. Deed Ascribed to Bandit of 1680. Aus-tria- n wood-burnin- Dr. Loye tells the following strange tory, taken from the archives of an Austrian police officer, and relating to an execution said to have taken place In Vienna in 1680: A ban dlt named Schavenburg was caught, together with four of his associates, and they were ail condemned to death. They were already on their knees, ready to submit to their fate, when. Schavenburg addressed the judge, asking that his four companions might be ranged in single file in front of him at a distance of eight feet from each other. If," he said, after I am beheaded, I get up and walk to the first of my comrades, will you pardon him?' The judge thought he was pretty safe in complying with the request. "But if I walk up to the second, the third, and the fourth, will you pardon those also? The Judge replied that he would obtain their pardon from the emperor. The bandit was satisfied, bent his head, received the mortal blow, and his head rolled down; but to the great surprise of the judge and the spectators, the body got up, walked alone, passed the first, second, third and fourth pf the condemned men, and fell down. The occurrence was told to the emperor, who, according to promise, pardoned the four criminals. well-know- Boys Will Be Boys." There were a couple of old down in Tombstone, forty-nine- rs Arls.," said a tourist the other day, who were great friends. One of them was 80 years old and the other 81. They were taking their learning toddy one day and fell into a disagreement over the date of some pioneer occurrence. Each was insistent upon his own recollection of It, and finally they got into a regular quarrel. Backing away from the bar, they drew their guns and blazed away at each other, but their sight was so dim and their hands so unsteady that all the bullets went wide. When their guns were emptied the barkeep emerged from beneath the counter and made them shake hands and make up. The local paper, the Epitaph, in describing the occurrence, treated it In an indulgent vein and closed by saying: Well, boys will be boys.'" - s " We Make Travel Easy. Five trains dally via' the Atchison. Topeka A Santa Fe, Colorado to Kansas City, St Joe, Chicago. Galveston, El Paso. City of Mexico. Ask me about reduced rates. C. F. Warren, G. A A. T. A S. F. Ry.. 411 Dooly Block. Sait Lake City. Utah. Sunshine Helps Sugar Cane. The effect of sunshine on sugar growing Is said by the New Orleans Picayune to make the crop more pro- ductive. Thus Spain has become as successful with beet-suggrowing inas with ber established cane-sugdustry, notwithstanding an arid climate. On the other hand, the storms and fogs that envelop the British Islands are said to have prevented the Indusr development of the try there. England's annual average hours of sunshine are only 1,400, nm knurs. while Spain ar ar bset-suga- California Recovering. California bank deposits amount to 1540,000,000 and the banks In which they are held are credited with assets of (693,000,000. The loss suffered by San Francisco, by the earthquake and fire, was unequaled by any similar catastrophe .n the history of the world, but despite its magnitude, some of Its appalling force Is lost in the contemplation of the financial showing made by the entire state. There Is great promise of large crops of grain and fruits, the mines and oil wells are turning out new wealth more rapidly than ever before, and if the Insurance companies would pay up their losses and the striking sailors return to work at the highest wages ever paid for similar employment, the Bay City would biosaom Into its old time splendor at a rate that would astonish the world. Hie Stay Too Short Office Boy Want to see the guv'll or! What name shall I say?" vis-Ito- r "Herr Schweitssslsburghausen." "Oh, I shan't be able to pronounce all that I'm leaving at the end of the week." Cheap Slghteeeing Trip. A London firm has organized a system of teeing London In sli days for (10.50, Including n midday meal every day. The tourist will have an opportunity to Inspect everything, "wbeth-- r of picturesque or historic interest" ia the capital and Its suburbs. Musical Falle.' The Thorndike band gave a sacred concert at Forest Lake last Sunday afternoon. Dishes fell off pantry helves ns far north ns Barrs Datna. rainier Register. Worn Down by Five Years of Suffering from Kidney ComplainL Mrs. Remethe Myers, of 180 South O., says: "I have worked hard. In my time and have been exposed again and again to changes of feather. It Is no wonder my kidneys gave out and I went ail to pieces at last. For five years I was fading away and finally so weak that for six months I could not get out of tlje bouse. I was nervous, restless and sleepless at night, and tome and Sometimes sore in the morning. everything would whirl and blur be fore me. I bloated so badly I could not wear tight clothing, and had to put on shoes two sizes larger than usual. The urine was disordered and passages were dreadfully frequent. I got help from the first box of Doans Kidney Pills, however, and by the time I had taken four boxes the pain and bloating was gone. I have been In good health ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-MilburCo., Buffalo, N. Y. Tenth St., Ironton, Numerous and Harrowing Vicissitudes Told Of by Writer Lack of Brakes Gave Crew an Exciting Few Minutes. 170 Gossip About Chicago FADED TO A SHADOW. IN SOUTH AMERICA. g Lectures for Railroad Men. Arrangements are making by officers of the Railroad Young Men's Christian association for a course of lectures, to be given next fall and winter for the benefit of employes In emy depart ment. The lutended course will Include more than 40 lectures. It will Include talks on shop organization and methods, how to secure the full benefit of power from modern lxoniotlves, economical use of fuel, tools and lubricating, handling of locomotives, forms of tickets, principles of problems of transfer stations, through billing beyond Junction points, classification and yard facilities, accounting. etc. The lectures will .be delivered by department heads of the company, who are experts In the subjects with which they will deni. The use of electricity as a motive (tower also wilt be discussed in the lecture course. n Didnt Have Auk Eggs. Prof. Edwin Ray Lancaster, president of the British association, was busy In his study one morning recently when a country woman sought an interview with him.' Laying a parcel on his desk Bhe said, triumphantly: Theres two of em." "Two of what! said the professor. Two awka eggs. I ear they are worth 1,000 pounds apiece." The distinguished scientist undid the parcel carefully, looked fit the eggs and said with a smile. "These are not auks eggs. Those that , are so valuable are the eggs of the auk "Ch, hauk," said the woman. "Wait till I get old of my son, for sendEnery. Ill give im wot-oing me on . a wild goose chase." h Natural Color of Puro Water. It was long ago dlscoverel that the natural color of pure water Is blue, and not white, as most of us usually supposed. Opinions have not agreed on the cause of the green and yellow tints; these. It has been discovered by W. Spring, are due to extraneous substances. Dissolved calcium salts, though apparently giving a green tint, due to a fine Invisible suspension, have no effect on the color of the water when adequate precautions are taken. The brown or yellow color due to Iron salts Is not seen when calcium Is present The greon tint Is often due to a condition of equilibrium between the color effect of the Iron alts and the precipitating action of the calcium salts. Scientific American. FINDS VIRTUE IN OLD CLOTHES. Jt Chatter hr old suit Certainly no man can possibly be hla natural self in evening dress. "I have noticed again and again how different the same people are when wearing different clothes. I went, for Instance, to a large family gathering some time ago, and for some reason everybody had donned full evening dress. What a difference it made! We were all on terms of Intimate friendship, but somehow the clothes brought In an element of coldness and formality. We atl felt It even the women, although, of course, the fair sex are not easily persuaded of thO merits of garments. But no man who has discovered, the ease and comfort of them will readily give them up. As for the artistic side of modern clothes, it only comes when they have mellowed by Windy City Officiab-K- haki Among City Postal Clerk Join Labor Union. WELL PEOPLE TOO Po-lic- X. Plnkhsm-- I VegeJL s SUFFERING IN THE GHETTO DISTRICT. While the recent humid spell caused more or less Buffering throughout the entire city, over in the crowded "Ghetto" district on the West side the agony was most Intense. Afetr a hot and sweltering day in that district the night comes on torrid and almost unbearable. The whole region appears to be one huge steamroom in a Turkish bath. Not a breath of air fans the locality. The atmosphere is thick and hot and heavy. The little frame buildings have absorbed the rays of the sun all day long and at night they seem to radiate this pent-utorrldlty like so many ovens. The streets and alleys are like avenues leading to bake ovens. Night in that huddled community is different from night in another portion of the city. It is bad enough over near the lake front, where a wayward breeze once In awhile creeps across the sluggish waters and affords a moment si relief. It is hard enough to bear in comfortable flats, with baths and all the comforts of modern life, but down there, where baths are a luxury and where the people are packed in like sardines, it is a thousand times worse. Words fall to describe the conditions In the ghetto on a humid summer night. It Is almost beyond the imagination to conceive of the suffering and the misery of that place. Old and young, the tiny infant of a few weeks and old people in their dotage, are all in the grasp of the heaL which seems to be a monster endeavoring to deprive these people of breath Itself. It seems to have a hand on every throat and to be tightening its hold on every of lungs. It Is utterly Impossible for these people to sleeppair within doors. They would suffocate, and so they seek relief from their hot and stuffy abodes out under the night sky. They overflow to the sidewalks, the roofs and fire escapes. They lie in picturesque attitudes in doorways, on stairways and on the earth in alleys. Children curl themselves up like kittens and the sidewalks. Groups of men and women nod and nap in the sleep along doorways of stores and up on the flat roofs of frame stores It is almost to step Impossible without treadlag on sleeping persons after midnight has passed. p CROWDING THE CITY. Within the last few weeks, Chicago h reached a stage in wholesale commercial act ity that has carried Its trade to a higher pol than It has ever reached before. Thousands buyers from the smaller cities and .towns s thronging to the city by the trainload. Net before in the history of the city have such a vi number of retail men come from remote points the south and southwest. This steady Influx buyers will In all probability keep up until t middle of October. Several causes are ascribed for the unp cedented rush of country and small city sto keepers to Chicago. Railroads entering the cl have been making special rates all summer lot People can come from New Orleans. Vleksbui and Mobile and return for an unheard-o- f rate 815. Retail dealers living along the Mlssoi nver were given a rate of eight dollars for t round trip. Equally as low fares were made to points, but the mt feature of the railroads Inauguration was that other a whole summer was allowed. Railways have also been advertising Chicago as the greati summer resort. The Commercial association has cooperated with the roa n this. "The result is that not only do the buyers combine sjj t,,e though dry goods purchased predominate, buying Is by io ccfnflnert ' this line. Every conceivable article of merchandise is finding a marl among the thousands of merchants of the south. are perfectly weH aVX0?' hear everyday the same again. Idonotf so tired all the time 661 wUi sm-o- ver I 1 ls Lla mtueODuinn a:r;ururr,.a,'i.bomt Dr snera lowlth Thus Lost Is e In-ect- ,h SUFFERINGTHESUREPtu 'Poo. offl-ria- Im G ecov How many women than likely She yon 8pealc tvJ words yourself, far from well. traced to some of male organs which manifest) tW m depression of spirits. rolncW,: anywhere or do anything. ,PJ josi-- fi bearing-dow- ieW the ood el !01 n pains, flatuknW ousness, sleeplessness, or otWl male weakness. DO Willi , hutwJ k.Ti,6y,rnPtoms vi?ere,:.sdg(',Lab.etula life of fori state - .Wi suffering or ,!. id is the Inevitable operation result The never- failing remedy foralltV ,oo . symptoms is Lydia E. Pinkhamitt dim tC. etable Compound. Miss Kate McDonald of Woodbr N. J., writes : Dear Mrs. Finkhsm: . - " Restored health has meant to muck fc help from telling about it the sake of other suffering womon. I that I cannot J "Fora longtime I suffered untold with a female trouble end trregutarik which made me a physical wreck, and not thought I would recover, but Lydiu S.W ham Vegetable Compound hat ntu cured me. and made me well and art I feel it my duty to tell other nifTeriuri 1 what a splendid niediefne it is." For twenty-fiv- e daughter-in-la- years Mrs. Pinkhif of Lydia E Phuu, has under her direction, and sincel decease, been advising siukwomeif of charge. Her advice is free t always helpful. Hlnky Dink and Barrie, I j v H. O. Wells of England, tha fe vl cast-novman and soclologiit, j an Interesting person ln Chicago a f ln a magazine article tells all ik I I made," lie of V the experience. "the acquaintance of AldermuK na, who is better known I bi throughout the states as HinD saw his two saloons and somethin the Chinese quarters about him. I Is a compact, upright little mu, Iron-grahair, a clear blue eye ik dry manner. He wore a bovkt j through all our experiences Is mon and kept his bands ln hit pockets. He filled ifie with s ridi loua Idea, for which I apologize, I had it alien to tbe lot of J. M. I to mis a university education I Mi keep a saloon In Chicago and c looked Toters, he would have I y i brother to Mr. Kenna." Impossible Advics. old roon ' workmen Booking, England, Is upon a wine flagon imbedded brickwork. A page of foolscap bt Htf Aug.'lS, 1783, found Inside the oi 4 building the of details gave chimney of Josiab Reeve, the with the names of "ye "toaster ter and "y masterbrlcklayer. 1 Josiah Reeve, istlffj concluded: In pulling aown an ej six children, leaves this memorujU in this place. His wife was EliuX Link Houston, of Great St. Helens, to whom he was married Marcs U 1773. Reader, go thou and do wise." 1 Tyrant Cat "Do you really mean to . be known as the National Federation of Tost Office Clerks, Is the first national labor union in America to be composed exclusively of government employes. Delegates attended the convent Ion from Milwaukee, Louisville, The V"lSa,1,Frr,r0'. s Indianapolis other cities are ready to Join the and several movement soon as the organization Is fairly started am of the branrhes that sent to the ventlon are now chartered by the Fed! American ertttkm of lnbor om locul unions, and the innv. ment to start the national has the am, rosal of Samuel Gompcrs and bis colleagucT , The order Issued by President t!i.W'U ve funcll. ar aK,)- - ln w hlblted government employes iiHMnni?100 or asking roi legislation In their Ix lialf. exrent thLiic iheL corJ!r' Is largely responsible h"d of K.U.r ,.h b weaslon. has expressed the oph.uln ' 'L.v! r'e,d,.nt U"""PVltdepartn on s to Join labor unions, and In Ids aiinL? have a last tlon among ihein. message he encouraged orgi Chi-cag- Wise Doctor Civet Postum to So ctrtin A wise doctor tries to give nature Its best chance by saving the little strength of the already exhausted and building up wasted energy with simple but powerful nourish- L ment "Five years ago." writes a doctor, "I commenced to use Postum In my own family Instead of coffee. X was so well pleased with the results that I had two grocers place It In stock, guaranteeing Its sale. I then commenced to recommend It to my patients In place of coffee, as a nutritions beverage. The conse-quonc- e Is, every store In town Is now selling It, as it has become a household necessity in many homes. I'm sure I prescribe Postum as often as any one remedy In the Materia Medlea in almost every case of Indigestion and nervousness I treat, and with the best results. "When I once Introduce It Into a Wind Cuts Out a Car. A heavy freight car, the sixth from family, It Is quite sure to remain. I a caboose, on the Northwestern train shall contlnuo to use It and prescribe neur Hcurvlllo station, a short dis- It In families where I practice. In convalescence from pneumonia, north of Mason City, la., was tance ? blown from the raila by a high wind, typholif fever and other cases, I give the drawbars Mug pulled out. The It as a liquid, easily absorbed dloL truln was nnvlng at the time, and no You may use my letter as a reference other cars were affected by the atorm. any way you see fit." Name given by No serlcju (lumng win done In tho Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Head "The Road to Wellville a pkgs. country, "There's a reason." tr rate-makin- KHAKI UNIFORMS FOR THE POLICE. The discomfort endured by i reemt hot weather owing tc ! 'n mlm,'y "'muter comes 1 wh iT. form .WI, u,p summer wear In arioptl the m Take The Right R use and at of "ample ho khaki is the f(Jbrc During the Invasion the regular armyrecent tmon Impressed by the r.sdne lhd tin ktmkl yf uniform material also ha the advJntare" thnu thtf tit no rhfh now In iimb by tho police I rah e saving he poll and lb foui?dL?Mi!!hprn and has war department wa sutuhii Li. ,t',.ry ,n PVPI a seeking In tho or ""Ifori tropics ixperlnient kbaki was found tho most sml'enidi dlfforei , J ,OmhorXuU' Chicago Great cUdhC' fin-me- 1 forHi!',,"'l'1",lnK h" l'?I'summer I Id DC Yes." "Well, well, I shouldn't think P want one about the house at al "Wa don't; but the cat Insists. Representatives of post office clerks In six the principal cities of the west met In convention here the other day are formed a national union under the auspices of the American Federation of The organization, which will of r hint More keep a cat?" well-wor- use!" Uz-ine- n CHICAGO' The lazy germ has been discovfilled the The Insidious microbe that has ered laziness for lo. these and with hall languor city credit tor Its many years is now known and the chief deputy Claffy, Thomas to discovery belongs sanitary inspector of the city. one day recently, Alone asid single handed, recesses the Intrepid inspector invaded the dark of the dungeon under the black ruinthathouses numerous other city Mayor Dunne and the end amid curtains of cobwebs, poisonous he made bis dls- gases and nauseating smells C'eAfter an honr spent in this region he stagfloor, where gered into his office on the fourth were aprestoratives other and salts smellii g to gasp able was finally the inspector plied f nd He had out the horrors he had experienced. faced eeath In many forms down in the dingy, hall should be hack firmly convinced that the city came and ark cellar cer-al- n aCainspeorrciafrv relates that after penetrating the thick darkness ofcame that gases encountered poisonous parts of the big. low cellar he smells emanated from tear asphyxiating him. Foul odors and nauseating by these dangers almost was overpowered He munltoles. and wem pen his companions when by of congratulations tho made hearty nd was lecipient encountered. had he of the perils ie had told endeavoring to discover For many years the people of Chicagoofhave beenofficials who have offices the city he cause of the torpidity and llstlessness as a man began to It has been a notorious fact that as soon n the building. N here he had formerly fork for the city his active habits left him at once. feet as falked with a brisk and sprightly step he soon began to drag hisand to movements lag his drag all began and lead with was shod hough he Ike a clock that Is about run down. when And so things went on for years, and the day finally arrived back with and came Claffy dsrnded into the bowels of the earth, Mens Garments Shaped to tho Flguro .BUYERS by Ago Catch Artist's Eye. To the eye of the artist the gar ments of the modern man are only tolerable when age has adapted them somewhat to the lines of the figure; to the average artist a new suit of clothes la an abomination. "It Is not only that new clothes are more ugly than old, said a knight of the palette who discussed the question; to my mind no one can be properly easy or graceful In them. I never feel that I properly know a man until I have met him wearing an 0r of Sommer Uniformi for Correiponde.t-C.- iiie VOMEflSjiJ UntqualledEHJ! J, |