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W axelnilva bottle. airless of hm tha ana of tha moot amlnaat physicians In tha Unltod Bums. Write freely aU tha THE WICKED CHINEE. AND WHERE HES BOUND FOR IN THE OTHER WORLD. Kes- 111 Knlntlvaa Coma to HI run anti Fool tlir Devil at a Tremendous Kate Various Phases of tlie Hereafter. Cnlene geda are like nightmares la At the temple doors are always two one on each side in the moat fearful position, twisting their faces and swinging mallets, and evident intent on doing something most d dangerous. Hes a foolish, chap ia the Chinese devil, for whereas ordinary mortals can see with even half an eye, and that with a cast in it, the guardian gods are only stucco, the poor deluded devil believes they are real, and, being afraid of receiving a bang over the bead, never ventures too far. When a Chinaman la buried he isnt really buried, but the coffin ia placed on tbe ground and earth la shoveled over blm until there ia quite a respectable heap. The greater the man, the greater the heap. The eldest son has to make sacrifice to the gods to Insure his parents temporary safety from discomforts due to fire. But it is expensive, killing men and animals as sacrifices. So there is quite a business preparing paper men and paper horses and paper money. These are all burnt in a bonfire. Thus sacrifices are made, after all, at ridiculously beneath cost prices, and the gods are splendidly fooled. Of course it la quite as likely as not that a son has the idea that hia old father haa not gone to heaven at all. Indeed, aa it la well within possibility he has gone to another place. It is necessary to conciliate the elders of that region. In the great city of Yan-na- n there is a place where you can see the seventeen Buddhist hells. The Chamber of Horrors la a sylvan bower in comparison. There, with lifelike Images, is represented to you the punishments that fall to the wicked. Chlne.--e Lroad daylight. half-witte- It is said that the snipe has a nerve runTWELVE FINGERS, ning clear down to the end of ita bill. The plumber must be that kind of a bird. wrecker Simon Rucca, a There should be more leisure for men of of Calbarien, Cuba, is a business and more business for men of and wonder. Based on the leisure. biped argument that if a is able to earn and lay by a moderate competency In sixty years, a one should be wealthy in the Watching, with same space of time, Simon Rucca should today be a rich man, retired from active life and looking back on a pathway marked with the It Cures Surdg. footprints over which he has trodden to ripe old age. But Rucca is a poor man, depending six-finger- ed ed five-finger- ed six-finger- ed 5itteth, Waiting and ST. JACOBS OIL Rheumatism. slx-dlgit- ed "THE POT CALLED.THE KETTLE BLACK. BECAUSE THE HOUSEWIFE DIDNT USE APOLIO oi everybody you know to save their tin tags for you Hu lx will pay for any one or all of this list of desirable and useful things -- and Natural Leaf you have your good chewing tobacco besides. find something Every man, woman and child in America can have FREE ! can and have to like would on this list that they send and address every tag you Write your name and plainly can get to us mentioning the number of the present you want. assortment of the different kinds of tags mentioned above i Any will be accepted as follows: nirb.l IS Nut Set, Cracker sndSPiclt,Uver 14 Nsil Pile, sterling silver, amethyM set, 15 Tooth Brash, sterling silver, ame- thyM set, 18 Paper Cutter, Merling silver, ame- thyM set, 17 Base RalL 'Asaociation. ' bestqual. and wind stem set, U Watch, giuian- teed good time keeper pr 85 as SO 5 SO 60 70 70 75 TS 80 100 100 100 300 10 Ahum Clock, nickel, warranted 30 Carrera, buckhorn handle, guod 300 wcel 31 Six Rogers Teaspoons, beat qiwL 325 33 Knivei and Fork, six each, buck- 350 hnm handle Calendar, 1 hermom- 31 Clock, 500 eter, Barometer 34 Stove, Wilson Healer, size No. 80 500 or No, 40 35 Tool Set, not playthings, but real 650 tools 36 Toilet Set, decorated porcelain, 800 handsome very 37 Watch, solid diver, full jeweled . 10(0 38 Sc win a Machine, first dais, with 1600 . all attachment! 15(0 39 Revolver, Colt's, hem quality 33-c1600 80 Rifle, Winchester, 81 Shot Gun, double barrel, hammer. .. .2000 leas, Muh twist S3 Guitar (Washhurn), rosewood, ia-3000 laid with mollier-o- f. pearl S3 Bicycle, staadaid nuke, ladies' or 3500 cents BOOKS 80 choice selections same each. ns last year's list, 40 tags BRANCH, St. Louis, Mo. ioooooooooooooooooooooooi SO'S URLS CANDY CATHARTIC Hnasnsni lust MltS. WHLNl ALL Syrup. Tastes Quod. Cl In time, gnlrl by (InnMa CONSUMPT Vhea Aasweriig Advertlscmeata Meatioa Thia per. ft Kiadiy W. N. U.. Salt Lake - No. O, hard-boile- JOYS OF THE HEREAFTER. care for a check, he can send tremendous chunks of silver. For sixpence full of A LONG RECORD. he can buy a clothes-baskcardboard boxes all covered with silver tinsel. These are consumed in tha Probably the oldest postmaster by sacred fire, and are Just as effective length of continuous service In the as though the boxes had really been United States was Elijah Watson of lumps of colld metal Everybody la Rushville, Buchanan county, Mo., who has resigned his office because of feeble health. TWELVE TOES. Watson was commissioned in 1853, number of fingers with which nature under President Franklin Pierce. bad so liberally endowed him. Rushville ia an old town, but hasnt Rucca has six fingers nn thpr.hand grown much. When Watson took the and six toes on his right foil, Which office it paid only 10 a year; now it he can use with perfect freedom. He pays but 8250, which may be one rea- is otherwise normally constructed. son why Uncle Llje was left for nearly There is nothing repulsive about hie half a century in peaceful possession. hands, as the fingers are all perfect, When Watson was appointed, the articulated and flexible. About ten town of SL Joseph, fifteen miles to the years ago Rucca was discovered by the north, was a trading post; now it has master of an American schooner which 80,000 inhabitants. Atchison, five went ashore on the rocks at the en- miles west, was unbroken- - prairies. trance to Calbarien harbor. He made Rushville had the start of both places him an offer to come to thia country because it was steamboat headquarters and exhibit himself at a museum. on the Missouri, and bade fair to become an Important town during the boom c;. 8 of the fifties. It was then known by the name of Columbus. Columbus was a mighty lively town in those days. However, when Kansas was opened and and the parties were pouring in to fight for its control, Columbus very quickly became an effete eastern town, and the railroads, pushing on into Kansas, made river transportation a minor matter. For that matter, the river itself deserted Rushville and now runs of a mile from about the seven brick stores that were once the towns chief pride. The railroad station Is a quarter of a mile from the postofflee, and Uncle Llje used to have the contract for carrying the mails from office to station and back again. He kept his office in a little box eight feet square In the end of a general store. Behind the was barely room for few pigeon-hole- s Watson to stand; there was no chair. He didnt need any. During lulls in a business which was. not very lively he sat on a soapbox outside and universal affairs, ( Watson is a Jacksonian Democrat,-whwould not vote for Cleveland, but who, in 1896, traveled all the way to see Bryan. He is approach- -' ing his eighty-thir- d birthday. He joined in 1845 a colony hound for the Platte Purchase and bought a claim near Rushville. Watsons photograph was shown In the postofflee exhibit at the Worlds Fair as that of the oldest He haa been married postmaster. sixty years, and his wife is still living. An effort will he made to get for him a government pension. et pro-slave- ry o This offer expires November 30, 1899s Address all your Tags and the correspondence about them to DRUMMOND red-stain- ed dls--cuss- ed TACS . . S00 5 3S coal-blac- three-quarte- rs The Tin Tags taken from Horseshoe, J.T., Cross Bow, Good Luck and Drummond 1 Match Boa, quaint design, imported from Japan 9 Knife, on blade, good Heel S Scissor, good Med ... . 4 ChtU'i Set, Knife, Fork and Spoon Salt and Pepper, one each, Quadruple plate on white metal . . . . 6 Razor, hollow ground, fine English Med T Butler Knife, triple plate, best qusL S Sugar Shell, triple plate, beat quality Stamp Boa, sterling ailver 10 Knife, Keen Kuttcr,,,two blades 11 Butcher Knife, "Keen K utter," blade Keen Rutter," 13 Shears, fooled; even Wong himself, one fancies, Is fooled a bit. The departments of these hells are presided over by gilt judges" or monsters twice the slxe of a man. They sit on a throne and looked fixedly at the work of the executioners and the squirms of the executed. The figures in the pit are a little under life alee. But theres plenty of realism and piled-u- p horror. The impB engaged in flaying, boring holes through chests, hanging men up by the toes, and generally making things lively, have often one glittering eye stuck in the center of a k head, the lower part of which Is literally mouth, stretching from ear to ear. Their laugh la something to remember in your dreams, so that you wake up in a fit of cold perspiration, yelling for it to be taken away. Accompanying Illustrations are made from drawings b Chinese artists. There was a victim being crucified, and the Imps were slowly shortening him at the knees with a eaw. Standing in front of the wooden bars that prevent the live public from coming In direct contact with this particular hell were two young men, flapping their long Chinese sleeves In agony of despair, swinging their pig tails in dismay, while tears trickled obliquely out of their almond-shape- d eyes because the monk at the entrance had told them that was the exact fate of their old father at that particular moment. They groaned and sobbed; then they got a gong and relieved their sorrow by thwacking It; they pushed a cup of rice and some d eggs through the bars as sustenance to their relative in hia trials; then they paid cash down for a big check that would be dispatched that night to the nether regions, conciliate the elders, and cease the sawing at tbe kneea. anti-slave- ry OCOCCCOOCCOOOCOOCOOOCCOI a ot tat six-to- He It is not nice to think that your father has to hit Indefinitely on a red-hoven. And if you cannot manage, all at once, to get him out of the nether regions, it is quite possible to bribe tbe stoker of that oven to slacken ardor. So somewhat In bis firing-u- p the Chinaman who has a father lu this unpleasant position goes to this great temple on the outskirts of Yunnan city. To an old monk at the door he planks down a few small coins, and In return receives a cheek for 91,500 on tbe Bank of the Under World. He marches to tbe temple, burns the check at a holy fire, and the sire receives the money forthwith with no discount for transmission. Or, if he does not 1889, Iron Graveyard for Veaeaaela. The Iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania have been asked to submit proposals to the government of Venexuela .or an iron cemetery, in which to reinter 25,000 bodies. The proposal la novel with iron Industries of that state, although there are a few Iron cemeSIMON RUCCA. teries in Southern dtlesrThe Venexue-lan- s for his bare existence on the few dolhave become tired of building Rucca, who shrinks from publicity, and lars he can earn at Infrequent inter- prefers bis humble existence in the stone graveyards. They have been vals in bis professional capacity as a land of his adoption to the glittering erected at great expense of marble fend wrecker. life of a dime museum freak, refused granite, and it is believed that iron Rucca Is a native of Andros Island, the offer. will answer every purpose. But it one of the British Bahamas, where he Rucca. although he took no part In must be waterproof. was born of African parentage In the the recent' war, is a rabid separatist days of slavery. Ills early life was and an earnest advocate of the cause Jnat What He Kspected. "Do you expect your wife to give you spent fishing for sponges on the barren of free Cuba. He is, like many others "Well, shot keys, an occupation for which fie was of his rare, a magniloquent orator, and anything for Christmas? has given me several hints already. eminently fitted by reason of the great can talk about anything. |