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Show CHINESE HISTORICAL METHODS W'ilent Not rubli.hfd TUI Long After Dynasty's Clone. The Chinese court historian's work does not tee the light until the reigning dynasty conus to an end, says the St. I.ouis Republic. In this way these celestial historians have an opportunity to describe most truthfully the virtues and vices of the various rulers and the real significance of the events which take place during their They can write what they regime. please without tear of censure, for they enow that their work will not be published as long as the reigning dynasty lasts. This lias been the ruie for more than 2,00 years. The duty of these historians is to write a plain account of all events that occur during their tenure of office. At regular intervals their completed work Is taken from them and locked up in an iron Safe or vault. There it remains until the first member of a new dynasty ascends the throne. It is then given, with' all the other histories in the vault, to the court historian who la then living, and from the mass of documents he is expected to prepare a truthful history of the dynasty which hes just expired. The present dynasty has been reigning since 1614, and. consequently, no court history has been published since that time. ROMANCE OF A VOICE. tVork of JASON CROW. OSCARVILLE, GA. Writes us. May 31, 1S99: "I feel it my duty to write and let you know what Four medicine, '5 Drops, has done for me. I have had rheumatism about eighteen years, but was able to be up most of the time until a year ago last May, when I war taken down and not able to move akjut. About six weeks ago 1 saw ychir advertisement and wrote for a sample bottle. After taking a few doses It did me so much good that 1 ordered some more for myself and friends, and In every case It has done wonders and given perfect satisfaction. "Dr. Woodliff, my family physician, who has had rheumatism for fifteen years, is taking the 5 Drops, and says It is the most efficient rheumatic medicine he has ever used. 5 Drops Is the most powerful specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless. It Is a perfect cure for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, Catarrh, La Grippe, Neuralgic Headache, etc. If you or any of your frleads are suffering, do not delay, but send for a Large-sise- d botbottle of 5 Drops. tles (300 doses), $1. For the next thirty days we will mail a sample bottle for 10 cants. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO.. 160 to 164 E. Lake Street, Chicago, 111. 25-ce- nt For Taking; a Drink. Discharged brakeman on the Consolidated road, which was formerly a part of the old New England railroad system, was discharged by the company for entering a saloon and taking a drink. He was Informed that he was forever barred from being employed by the company In any capacity whatsoever, for breaking the rule that forbids the use of Intoxicating liquors at all while on duty, and the excessive use of them while off duty. A Kidneys, Liver and Bowels Cleanses -E- I the System FFECTUALLY UAL PERMANENTLY IT5tt'ttaVECTS Buy fOft the SAU GENUINE 6Y All - M AN'F 0 BY 50t PtR WTHL. rtaiHiiissflrni the best ink made but du dearer than the poorest THE -- story of a singer OVE OF VIRGINIA. Ha Made a Flacky Struggle for Kecoif nitioii During Her Dark l)aa Mia Met a Hr lie factor Wlm I to Hrcouie llcr II uftbdiHi. Here is a charming romance of today, fresh from the lapidarys wheel, a seven-starrebrilliant of a story for a novelist looking for-plot: Sanders was a Virginian. He was well to do; had many slaves, and a fine old Southern home of the Ante-bellukind. When the civil war began, he entered the artillery and served with distinction on the Confederate side. The war burned up his fortune. But he did not let misfortune break his heart. When the war was over he took off his coat and earned a modest competency for his wife and the girl child who came Into the family later. Col. Sanders died in 1S80, when .Margaret was little more than a baby. He left a few securities, a little money in the bank, a small life insurance, for the support of his widow and the baby. When Margaret passed from girlhood to d a m MARGARET SANDERS. young womanhood it was found that she had a sweet soprano voice, which promised great things. Encouraged by the best teachers of Richmond, Va., where they lived, the mother spent freely of her small fortune to have the voice cultivated. My voice Is my fortune, said MarWe must make it support U3 garet. In the future. She believed that with It she would be able to climb the hard but golden ladder which leads to success on the concert platform or the operatio stage. When Richmonds teachers had done all they could for her, Margaret and her mother went to New York and sought an engagement where there are so many places to be filled and so many singers to fill them. She made the round of the agencies. She called upon the persons to whom She she had letters of introduction. steeled her heart against many rebuffs, which often made her weep on her mothers breast, and refused to take No for an answer. She was tried by the Castle Square management and was rejected. She tried to get an audience with Mr. Grau and failed. At last she got the premise of a chance to sing in a church in New York in case the soprano soloist should be taken ill. But she was a healthy girl, who went through the season without so much as suffering from a cough, says Miss Sanders, who can smile now over those dark days. Meanwhile the little stock of money was dwindling. The New York music master was eating up the dollars in huge mouthfuls. Mamma, said the young Virginian one day, I am going to do something desperate. We will go to London, engage the best singing teacher we can find, spend our last dollar if necessary and command Dame Fortune to be kind. Make or break's the motto. If I cant become a singer I'll turn They went. In her pocket were letters which Albert G. Smith, a young business man of New York city and a fellow pupil here, had obtained for her from influential people. She engaged for a teacher an of note in London, who brought out the latent possibilities of her voice wonderfully, and soou secured profitable concert engagements for her. Mr. Smith went to Europe last spring. He met Miss Sanders at the home of a friend in Kensington. She thanked him for the help that he had given her, and told him that her professional future was assured. She sang several times that evening, and Mr. Smith listening to the new notes which had been discovered in the liquid voice, grew strangely jealous of the public. This story ends as all good love stories should. But not until Mr. Smith had come back to this country and spent a summer in the Adirondaeks did the answer come to the question which he had asked the sweet Virginian in London city. They will be married in the spring. SEVEN-U- IOLER1DC5 AND OPIUM HASIT. P On the Hotly of Thrii Comrade Thus Keeping a Compact. 1 seen have Washington Post: gambling in nearly all its forms, said an old employe of the postofSce department the other day, but I think the most unique performance I ever witnessed along that line was a game of seven-u- p during the civil' war. I was a member of an Ohio regiment that had a part in some of the fiercest fighting of the whole four years struggle. Among my comrades were three privates who were devotedly attached to one another. They were the Annuls, Porthos and Athos of the regiment, with d'Artagnan left out. During the days in camp they weie inseparable and they spent most of their time playThey did not gamble, ing seven-ufor it is doubtful if their friendship would have remained as steadfast if money had been laid on the cards. The trio made a compact, which was sworn to over a drumhead, that if one of them was killed in battle the remaining two on his would play a game of seven-u- p dead body. Of course the agreement carewas made with all tiie lessness of the soldier, but it was as binding as if it had been an pledge on a more serious subject. Possibly they never thought they would have to execute it. At any rate, it was known throughout the regiment that the contract had been made, and it was the subject of more or less comment. But the time came when they were called upon to perform the agreement. It was at the bloody battle of Stone river that one of the triumvirate died with a bullet through his heart. He was one of those chosen to add to the awful carnage of the day. Then came the opportunity to see the true metal of the soldier of that day. The other two carried the body of their dead comrade off the field when the fighting was over, and laid it in their tent. I was there when they came in. They looked at the lifeless form for a long, long time, and at the same moment each looked at the other. Get the cards, Jake, said one. The pack was produced, the cards were shuffled and dealt. The faded blue coat of their comrade, with the bullethole through the chest, was the table on which they played. The tears rolled down their cheeks so that they could hardly see the spots, and the sobs stifled their voices until they could not say whether they begged or gave. They played the game out, but I dont believe either knew which had won. p. dare-dev- il oath-boun- d How the Great Author Acquire, the , iatal Practice. The following has been ften netted, hut ii cannot be too widely knowt- - It Is an account in Colei idge's own words of how he was led into the fataJ habit of using opium: "I wrote a few stanzas twenty-thre- e years ago, soon after my eyes had been opened to the tiue nature of the habit into which I had been ignorantly deluded by the seeming magic effects of opium in the sudden removal of a supposed rheumatism, attended with swellings in my knees and palpitations of the heart and pains all over me by wrhich I had been bedridden for nearly six months. Unhappily among my neighbors and landlord's books were a large parcel of medical reviews and magazines. I had always a fondness a common case but most mischievous turn with reading men who are at all dyspeptic for dabbling in medical writings, and in one of these I met a case which I fancied very like my own, in which a cure had been effected by the Kendal black drop. In an evil hour I procured if; it worked miracles the swellings disappeared, the pains vanished; I was all alive, and all around me being as ignorant as myself, nothing could exceed my triumph. I talked of nothing else, prescribed the newly discovered panacea for all complaints and carried a bottle about with me, not to lose an opportunity of administering instant relief and speedy cure to all complainers simple and gentle. Need I say that my own apparent convalescence was of no long continuance? But what then? The remedy was at hand infallible. Alas! it is with a bitter smile, a laugh of gall and bitterness, that I recall this period of unsuspecting delusion, and how I first become aware of the maelstrom, the fatal whirlpool to which I was drawing, just then the current was beyond my strength to stem. The state of my mind is truly portrayed in the following effusion, for which God knows that moment I was the victim of pain and terror, nor had I at any time taken the flattering poison as a stimulus or any craving after pleasurable sensations, I needed none, and oh, with what unutterable sorrow did I read the Confessions of an Opium Eater, in which the writer with morbid vanity makes a boast of what was my misfortune, for he had faithfully anu'with an agony of zeal been warned off the gulf and yet willfully struck into the current. Heaven be merciful to him! STRIKE! Hundred of Thousands Are Involved. r rootle in an Important Part of the OrganizaPerfectly tion Affects All the R.st-- A Harmonious System Easily Thrown Out of Gear. Organized labor ha tliliappy Colnobleiue. Creditor I wouldnt ask for the reached such a affecting a particular stage that anything branch of it draws all the rest into the difficulty. It Is exactly the same way with differtoo ent organs of the human body. XVork exhard, eat too much, drink too much, in ercise but little, be a little irregular any way, and the liver quits work. and Then the bowels become constipated the stomach goes on strike. The heart is every affected, the brain follows suit, and part in the body is dragged into the trouble. The only way out of It is to go at the source of all this the liver. Square your-to self with the liver and all will get back work. regular natural Cascarets Candv Cathartic make things They perfume the right with the liver. food from souring on the breath, preventtone to the bow eis. strengthstomach, give en the intestinal muscles, while they are and stirring up the liver to re cleaning newed activity. No matter how long a case lias been Into put curable, Cascarets are guaranteedand set right as they should bt, And you things the whole machinery mail or by can get them at any drug store bterling for price 10c, 5c. or 50e. AddressYork. New or Co., Chicago Remedy This is the CASCARKT tablet. Every tablet of the only bears tle genuine Cascarets Look magic letters C C C. you buy. before the tablet at -- Saloons in the Philippines. Bishop Thoburn, writing to the Indian Witness concerning the PhilipEvery alternate place of pines, says: business seems to be a liquor shop of some kind, and the soldier has temptation before his eyes whichever way he may turn. Drunken soldiers meet me everywhere, and it is painful in the extreme to remember that many of them have come from Christain homes. RINEHARTS INDIAN PICTURES, In the summer of 1898 the Government Indian Bureau invited all tribes of Indians in this country to send delegates to an Indian Congress, and they gathered from far and near with their ponies and tepees and gaudiest trappings in the Exposition Grounds at Omaha. Never before had there been and never again will there be such a gathering. There were about five hundred of them, some partly civilized, but the greater portion picturesque In original savagery. Strange as it may seem at this late day many of the Indians declared that before coming to Omaha they had no idea what multitudes of white men there were or how hopeless it was to try to stand against them. This was probably the last time that so complete and spectacular a view of the North American Indian will be possible and those who had the privilege of witnessing it are to be counted fortunate. At the time of the Indian Congress a prominent photographer obtained permission to take the photographs of the most noted chiefs present and succeeded In obtaining a collection which never will be equaled. Mr. Rinehart, the photographer, copyrighted all these pictures and d placed in a few art stores some which, notwithstanding proofs their high price, sold at once, and these Indian pictures have become the fad of the year. The Chicago Great Western Railway has succeeded at large expense in obtaining from Mr. Rinehart the privilege of reproducing the best four of these pictures, Chiefs Wolf Robe, Hollow Horn Bear, and Louison, Hattie Tom, and have incorporated them in an art calendar for 1900, which is pronounced the most artistic production yet attempted. The heads are 6x8 inches, one on sheet, wonderfully reproduced in all their original colors, aid when framed make most striking and effective pictures, particularly suited for holiday gifts. Owing to the expense but a very small edition has been issued. They will be sent, however, while the supply lasts to any person sending 25 cents in stamps or silver to cover the royalty charges and the expense of packing and mailing to F. II. Lord, General Passenger & Ticket Agent, 113 Adams street, Chicago. Facts About the Twelfth Century. The nineteenth century Moses with The fall winds that sigh through the year 1900. Immediately after midthe village of Hickory Swamp in the night, therefore, of Dec. 31, 1900, Is Shenandoah valley, Pennsylvania, blow when the twentieth century begins. In over a grave in which lies the body other words. It begins with the first who one second of the first hour of the first day of Mrs. Mary Kelchinski, to death. of January, 1901. The twentieth cenherself danced recently night Mrs. Kelchinski, buxom, handsome, a tury will open on a Tuesday and closes perfect picture of health, bade good-b- y on a Sunday. It will have the greatest to her four children at home, and number of leap years possible for a The year 1904 with her husband, a brawny miner, century twenty-fouwent over to the patch to a dance. will be the first one, then every fourth None there were who could dance a year after that to and including the prettier step than she, and none there year 2000. February will three times were who were more fond of dancing have five Sundays in 1920, 1948 and than this same merry Mrs. Kelchinski. 1976. The twentieth century will conBut among the number at the party tain 36.525 days, which lacks but onj were two of the neighbor women folk day of being exactly 5,218 weeks. The who declared that they would outmiddle day of the century will be Jan. dance the clever matron. The contest 1, 1951. Several announcements are was on. Dance after dance, all night made of changes to be inaugurated through, Mrs. Kelchinski laughingly with the opening of the new century. reeled and schottisched and polkaed The first of importance is that Russia until the gray streaks of dawn began to will adopt the Gregorian calendar. illuminate the eastern sky. Then the This will he done by omitting thirteen party broke up and Mrs. Kelchinski days, the amount of error that will was adjudged the victor intL terpsich- - have accumulated after the close ol February, 1900. The Russians will then write Jan. 1, 1901, instead o Dec. 19, 1900, or rather, instead of both, according to the dual system now in vogue in that country and in Greece. The other important announcement is that it is not at all unlikely that the astronomical day, which now begins at noon of the civil days, will begin with The speed of a carrier pigeon in calm the civil day, at midnight. The presis 1,200 yards a minute. With weather ent method of having the astronomical a brisk wind prevailing and blowing in day to begin twelve hours after the the direction of its a pigeon has beginning of the civil day is apt to be been known to makeflight 1,900 yards a minOn to other have the confusing. hand, the former begin at midnight, just ute. The dining car service of the Denver & when astronomers are often busiest, Rio Grande Railroad is proving a great will he to them somewhat inconvenconvenience to the traveling public. Eleient. U'" gant dining cars are attached to all trains Denver on this popular road, where MRS. KELCHINSKI. leaving Crediting Stamp I.osft. are served in a manner pleasing to meals orean contest. But the exertion necWashington Spe, New York Evening all travelers, and at moderate prices. The essary to win this distinction was paid Post: A good idea of the enormous of a trip through Colorado's life. became That day she for with her size of the postal business may be had enjoyment wonderful sionery that abounds along the 11, and despite the efforts of several by getting close to one of the big maroad is enhanced by the dining car and physicians, she died before another chines smallest wheels. Take, for exother conveniences that have be n adopted. sun had risen. Her grave, now moistample, the crediting of stamped enFor information, t!me cards, rates, etc., ened by the tears of her orphaned chilvelopes or stamps which have been acaddress S. K. Hooper, General Passenger a mute mad is the of retniuder dren, or rendered destroyed cidentally and Ticket Agent, Denver, or II. M. Cushfolly of the human race. worthless. This one duty occupies the ing, Traveling Passenger Atrenl, 109 West Mysteries of (lie llancliette. entire time of six men. During the last Second South Street, Sait Lake City. Dr. Parker, in a recently published quarter the books of the department New Dining Car Service. sermon, referred to a curious incident show that Chicago was credited with Effective June 1st, the Rio Grande Westin the preacher's own history. He was 21 cases of such stamped envelopes, railway began operating its new dinin the company of some friends who each containing 10,00(1. The losses ern cars. serving all meals on all its through ing were occupying themselves with come from many different causes. The arrangement included No. 3 trains. Dr. Parker promised that if it Often misdirected. envelopes are would answer a silent question of his Sometimes they are burned or get wet. leaving Ogden at 7:30 a. m. and Salt Lake City at 8:30 a. u. also No. 4 leaving Oghe would believe in it. It spelt out a A method by which stamps are freden at 6:25 p. m. and Salt l ake City at certain name, upon which he said: lost is the grinding of a mail 7 :40 p. m. The quently lb rough trains, most is I the That mysterious thing sack under the wheels of a train. This have ever known. The question which sometimes happens when an effort is both morning and night, will also carry diners. The cuisine is as perfect as it is I mentally asked was, Who is to be made to catch a mail sack from a train possible to make it. Service, a la carte the architect of the City Temple too rapidly. If the bag happens so that you can have your coffee and going The toy had actually written the name to slip, the pouch is pretty sure to be rolls for breakfast, or you can select from of a man who had thit day submitted sucked under the cars. a menu as elaborate and complete as the plans. Young Man. market of Utah can supply. DANCED HERSELF TO DEATH. r. hand-colore- II plan-cliett- e. ; west-boun- money if 1 wasnt awfully .hard up. Debtor And if I wasn't awfully hard TTe otir Ifme and Milrhnr tnKture for enra and up, you should have it. Curious coprevention of poab. Formula V K K K on application, write na for price on nulohnr K VOLLlJf A BOOTH, incidence, isnt it? Boston Transcript. fclLBKB COM. CO., iUua City, I . 8. A. SHEEPL1EFJ. PLAYED d |