Show J -- na"M - f jr I & ‘ x -a “- -( J J 1 3 n OUB WOMEN IN WAE VOICES OP WIVES AND DAUGHTERS ARE NOW HEARD ) i erals” (Tut to Join tho Service i Nurse or The woman who would be the most si Alda of Any Kind — Noble Deeds of conspicuous of her sex in a great war Women on Both Sides During the between the United States and Spain is Civil War Miss Clara Barton president of the president and secretary of war ire receiving letters from patriotic romen all over the country anxious to ee mustered into service A letter received at the White House aud addressed "President McKinley Washington D C" reads: “I write asking if I would be of any use to you In this Cuba trouble I am only a Woman but I can nurse the sick and Wounded I only wish I were a man t would go and volunteer to take one of our unfortunate ones’ place who went down with the Maine If you need women to nurse or if in any way I can be of service to you for my country’s sake please let me know ' I am strong weigh 150 pounds height five feet five and Inches age 27 years and a good nurse Hoping to be of service to my God and my country I am at your command" Another says: "I was one of the first volunteer nurses during the war of the rebellion experience on transports and in hospitals If there is another war I am ready” A Canadian woman who says her brother fought for our flag in the late war offers her services and adds in her letter to the president: "Failing the position of nurse I shall be glad to give my services in any other capacity where I may be of use” From 'away down in Colorado another woman who addresses her letter "War Department” offers her services In these words: “Should there be a war between the United States and Spain would there be any Bhow for us to get transportation We are nurses and strong healthy women There are two of us aged 35 years” These are" but several examples of the correspondence being received from American women In the event of an outbreak with Spain positions in the army will be open to many women the number of course depending upon the extent of the struggle During the late war hundreds of women served in many capacities with relation to the army most of them as nurses some as spies and others as purveyors laundresses etc Should a great war break out the hospital corpd of the army would have to employ a great number of women nurses Secretary Alger would probably appoint unexperienced woman as superintendent of nurses In 1861 at the beginning of the civil war Secretary of War Cameron appointed Miss The ! f j with Spain is not the "new woman" but the same patriotic creature who offered herself to her flag ih 1861 General Sherman called "Mother Bickerdyke” the celebrated nurse of the civil war one of his "best gen- American Red Cross who is now caring for the starving Cubans Should a war break out with Spain woman’s most valuable military service will be done at home As soon as the first gun of the civil war was flrod woman’s work for both the Union and Confederate causes began in earnest Within a month after President Lincoln called for the first army of 75000 volunteers an association of New York women had chosen from hundreds of wta oaught by the enemy and hangs! to a tree Martial law which states that “the spy is punishable by death by hanging by the neck” has no respect for sex i v - 11 4 l i I t f t f $ I ? 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I t I J 1 i CLARA BARTON Dorothea Dix for this duty She offered her services without compensation and nurses selected by her were found upon every battlefield from Bull Run to Appomattox They were in Union every hospital While the typical army nurse Is always described by the idealist as a youthful tender "angel of mercy" with a beautiful face it is interesting to know that generals in command of arand homely mies prefer middle-age- d women for such service A circular distributed by the superintendent of nurses in 1861 read: "No women under 30 need apply All nurses are required to be very women Their dresses muBt be either brown or black with no bows no curls or Jewelry and no hoop plain-looki- aar-row- ly 25-0- ' t i 1 J U Ou of Prevention Found of Cure Is Worth m Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co ChiDear Sirs: I used one bottle of your "5 Drops” and it did ms more than any medicine I ever good UBed It did me more good than all the medicine I have taken from the doctors for two years besides suffering the entire time In three days after I commenced using the "5 Drops” I recommy pains all disappeared mend it to all sufferers of rheumatism Very respectfully R L Martin Anguilla Miss Feb 7 ’98 Every family should have a bottle of "5 Drops” on hand especially at this season of the year Changes in the weather are so liable to cause rheumatism la grippe and many other diseases that "5 Drops” cures For another thirty days you can secure a sample bottle of "5 Drops” for 25 cents The manufacturers have 100090 sample bottles which they intend to distribute for this small cago luck would have it I was just out of amount I 4 ' Write today to the Swanson Rheuhis reach I kept dodging his legs as Cure Co 167 Dearborn street matic came down This continued my they 111 This company is rsliabls Chicago said for half an hour bat he was boys very much occupied watching my who were shooting and shouting from some distance off At one moment he lay on me and I expected every moment to hear the bones crack but suddenly his weight was shifted off me and I pretended I was dead and not wishing to see the coup de grace coming closed my eyes and remained quite still The boys told me that he gun-beare- If the United States should be comcandidates 100 competent nurses to be trained by the physicians and surgeons pelled to undertake a war for the deliv- of the city At the same time women throughout the country organized soldiers’ aid societies sewing circles fairs and entertainments of various Borts for the purpose of furnishing the brave boys both necessities and delicacies Trains running into Washington were weighed down with a tremendous accumulation of freight for this purpose Its distribution was finally turned over to the sanitary commission which cooperated during the war with women’s clubs and societies throughout the entire North After each battle agents distributed the supplies as received MORTAR erance of ELEVATED Cuba to necessary FOR FIRING would doubtless be employ volunteers but would form at least the it the regulars nucleus of any army of occupation and it would make a great deal of difference whether the regular army had 52000 or only 23000 fighting men From the latter number scattered all over the continent on the coast on the northern and southern frontiers and in the Indian country not many could be spared If the ranks were filled to the maximum a very respectable force would he available in else of war THE STEAMER OLIVETTE (In the Service of Unci Sam Between Havana and Key West) Statistics show that during the late war the women’s organizations raised Horror of War altogether $50000000 among their so"War” said the old colonel as h cieties in the Northern states tho stirred his toddy “Is too terrible to amount recently appropriated by congress to put the nation upon an effective defensive footing The little girls of the North by their miniature fairs and handiwork contributed $100000 Women might serve this government as Bpies in a great war That a woman cannot keep a secret herself or let any one else keep one is not borne out by certain secret archives kept in a large safe in the war department fire-pro- of THE (Now Belongs O’HIGGINS to Chile But May Be Purchased by Uncle Sam) It should not be lightly contemplate spoken of sir It Is a serious sad have two graves in Virginia one In Tennessee and three in Kentucky and but for war the men who fill them would be living yet!” “Your sons colonel?" asked the listener in an awed voice The colonel tossed off his toddy neat and stroking his gray "No sir my substitutes beard Bald: the brave men who fought bled and Then the listener coughdied for me ! ’ ed and observed that whisky was not as good now as it was before the war affair skirts" li DO NOT DELAY s ng The pay given to nurses in the late war was $12 a month but it is said that hundreds of women of social rank and position without waiting to be formally mustered in served without She who is pay or hope of reward now volunteering to aid in a conflict BY AN ELEPHAN1 Explorer CavendUh’ Thrilling Be— p From Death In Africa From the London News: H 8 H Cavendish gave an interesting aocerunt of his recent trip to Africa before the The Regular Army Royal Geographical society Among Our army under existing laws conthe incidents he related was the folsists of ten regiments of cavalry seven lowing account of a fight with a wounded elephant In which he regiments of artillery and twenty-fiv- e escaped death: “I tried to dodge regiments of infantry This organization provides for a total strength of him but he was too quick for me and about 52000 enlisted men — say 11000 as I neared the thin mimosa bush 1 saw him just over me with his trunk cavalry 12000 artillery and 29000 inIn the air so I threw myself to the limitBut'the afe enlistments fantry left on my face and kept still thinked by act of congress to a total of He so that the actual present strength ing that the elephant might go on immediately and of the army Is but 6000 cavalry 4000 however stopped artillery and 13000 Infantry in round spinning around knelt down behind me with his head right over me and Enlisted men in various numbers staff departments bring the number up took a drive at me with his tusks which I luckily avoided by rolling in closer to the limit imposed under his chest Ho then pushed me under him with hid trunk and tried to pound me with his knees but-a- one-ha- lf 1 ATTACKED The (One of Spain’s Military Leaders in Cuba) active and reliable late war was a wosuccessfully for a Eventually however she One of the most Union spies in the man who worked long period I postage memoration Exposition stamps of the are their appearance are much and of a colors larger issued in Trans-Mississip- beginning to In the malls than variegated com- pi make They the usual assortment size of rs and promptly fill every order Duty sad Joy The duty should open into Joy but it may fail of joy and still be duty If the joy is not there still hold the duty and be sure that you have the real thing while you are holding that Be all the more dutiful though it be In the Do' righteousness and forget dark and so it is most likely that happiness got up and backed off my body and happiness will oorne This will help knocked his leg against a log of wood you to be hopeful without Impatience lying close behind Mistaking the log and patient without despair— Phillips for me he vented his rage upon it Brooks He must have been badly wounded NEW SLEEPING CARS After a time I heard the boys coming closer and waiting until they were To Denver Omaha St Louis Chicago and fairly near in case the elephant might Boston not have gone far I looked earefullly The Denver A Rio Grande railroad— round and saw him standing some 170 Scenic line of the World— announces new yards off I got on my legs as fast as and important additions to their already my bruises would let me and stag- well arranged sleeping car service In the gered toward my pony The boys on future this popular line will run through seeing me get up were dumbfounded weekly Pullman Tourist sleepers to Omaand my groom who was a great hulk- ha Chicago New York and Boston also to ing fellow wanted to carry me think- St ' Louis without change These cars ing I must have some boues broken will start from Portland Oregon thus but although my left leg was serious- giving benefit of through service on Orely bruised and my scalp damaged I gon Short Line as well as from all Utah was in other respects unhurt” points The excursions are personally conducted and furnish all the conveniences ONE MAN’S CHURCH of regular Pullman sleepers at less than half the cost The St Louis car will leave Colored Zealot Building a Hoot of O S L stations every Thursday and OgWorship Entirely Unaided den via Rio Grande Western railway Bon-ner A Georgia colored man Andrew every Friday morning The Omaha Chiby name is manifesting his reli- cago New York and Boston sleeper will gious enthusiasm in a substantial leave O E L stations every Wednesday though unusual way uonner is a sim- and Salt Lake eyery Thursday evening ple minded negro filled to overflowing thus affording the inestimable privilege of with what his admiring wife terms "de a twelve-hou- r r in Salt Laka ol time religion” He resides with her For rates and all details write to BCityF in College Park a village a few miles Nevins General Agent or H M Cushing from Atlanta His ambition for years T P A D A R G Railway Salt Lake has been to build a church for the ben- City or any Oregon Short Line or Rio efit of some of his own race the ma- Grande Western ticket agent terial used to be procured with his own earnings and no workmen to assist FAST TIME TO CHICAGO him in the rearing of the edifice With Via Bio Grande Western Railway utter disregard of legal measures Andrew selected two years ago a site for Commencing February 6 tho new time the church of his dreams which he ex- card of the Rio Grande Western goes into pects to be a monument to his mem- effect The Atlantic Express leaves Salt ory long after he has returned to dust Lake City at 9 a m arriving at Denver The fact that he does not own the at 9:80 a m the following morning and ground has never disturbed him Chicago at 215 p m the third day makfriends urged him ing connections with limited trains from When to wait until the ground could be Chicago to New York The evening train bought for the purpose he paid no heed leaves at 7:40 p m arrives at Denver at to the proposition but kept to his 9:15 p m the following night and Chicago Every spare pen- at 8 a m the third day making close conoriginal purpose him for lumber and nections with the fast morning trains for was spent by ny nails The work has necessarily been New York and Boston Both of these slow but now after twenty-fou- r through trains are splendidly equipped Andrew with all latest appliances and conveniences months of patient labor gazes with pride upon the building and carry Pullman Palace and Pullman wlilch is almost covered The old man Tourist sleeping cars as well as free Reis said to have sometimes denied bis clining Chair Cars Ticket office No 103 family bread that he might save money West Second South street (Postofflce coiner) for his pet project Life end Death What to life? ’Tls loving God Walking Erect To derive the greatest benefit from And loving man walking it is necessary to hold up the And serving both with spirit true As best we can head keep the mouth closed and move circumstances in is It these briskly What is death? It is to take that walking 1s really good for us The dear Lord’s hand Walking erect not only adds to the And let him lead us out of Night manliness of appearance but it deTo Morning’s Land velops the chest and promotes the gen—Emma C Dowd eral health in a high degree because New Route to Health the lungs being relieved of the presLittle fragrant palatable tablets In a sure made by leaning the head down- dainty enameled metal box right for ward and bending the chest in admit the vest pocket or the lady’sjust On the purse the air fully and freely If an effort tablets are stamped the letters "C C C” of the mind is made to throw the Cascaret Candy Cathartic Eat one like shoulders back a feeling of fatigue candy and the little tablet at once puriflei and awkwardness is at first experi- and destroys disease germs In the mouth To and throat stops souring of undigested enced but this is soon forgotten maintain an erect position or to re- food in the stomach stirs up tho liver tonei cover it when lost in a manner whleh and strengthens the bowels making-theis at once natural easy and efficient it act healthy and naturally They are weli widely advertised in the press but the is only necessary to walk habitually and best advertisement for Cascarets is their an on ahead fixed object the eyes with wonderful mild yet positive action which a little higher than your own— the top makes a Cascaret of a man’s hat for example— or simply tries them We convert of everyone who recommend them to all a horizonabove a keep the chin little our readers Is of these If either things tal line done the necessary easy and legiti- to It is easier to cut down a hill than it la drive over it 10000 times mate effect is to relieve the chest from more in easily pressure the air gels A Cheap Trick develops It more fully and permeates To a more a cheap kalsomine manufacture exclusively causing the lungs more perfect purification of the blood stuck on the wall with glue claiming imparting greater health and more It to be the "same thing” or "just as color to the cheek good” as the durable Alabastine or to buy aud sell auch goods on such repreThe banana peel is said to be an sentations would seem a excellent substitute for ice— on the Some resort to it To be cheap trick safe buy Alsidewalk abastine only in packages and properly labeled J lay-ove- ’ far-sight- $ ( m 1 I 4 i jgstor J ts |