Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1891 — Page 3

MARCH OF VETERANS. THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF THE G. A. R. More than Two Thon.nnd Old Soldiers, Soldiers’ Wives and Soldiers’ ’on« Tramp Decatur Streets to the strains of Martial Music—Sketch of the Order and Its Founders. The silver anniversary of the Grand Army of the Republic was celebrated in Decatur, 111., the birthplace of the order. The annual department encampment of the Illinois G. A. R. was held at the same place, at which nearly 2,000 delegates were present, besides over 300 delegates to the annual meeting of the .Woman’s Relief Corps. Wheelock G. Veazey, Commander-in-chief, accompanied by all the members of his staff and officers of the national encampment, and hundreds of other distinguished G. A. R. men, were in attendance. The line of march formed and the head of the column moved under, the >5? o WIW B. F. STEPHENSON, ORGANIZER ? OF THE O. A. R. direction of Grand Marshal Steele, First Adjutant of I’ost No. 1, G. A R. Steele was followed by Goodman’s Band'of twenty-one pieces. Then came Dunham Post, the successor of old Post No. 1, with 355 veterans. Then camo a carriage with the Governor and Commander Veazey, and after it other carriages-con-tainlng important people, members.of local committees, in all 140. Another bedecked vehicle held seven of the officers of the Woman's Relief Corps, Department of Illinois; following was State Commander Distin and his sta'ff, mounted on the best horses in town. The department headquarters and a band from Decatur were’ sandwiched fee- «*■ tween the horsemen and Post N 0.,, 1 of Rockford, which was 170 strong. Lowell Post of Newman, 111., had 106 vets and they sang “Hurrah, hurrah; We’ll Shout the Jubilee, ” from the time they started till the column broke ranks. The Stephenson Post of Springfield had 106 men in line. Grant I’ost, No. 28, of Chicago, Charles A. Dibble’’commanding, was 58 strong, but every man had on a brand-now suit and titan made the number seem greater. De Molai Band from Bloomington followed with 21 blpwers, and W. T. SlttMuqaii Post, No. 140, kept step behind this band 150 strong. . La Place (111.) Post. No. 294, had 25 men, Jordan Post of Marion had 50, and Cerro Gorao l'o<t had 80. Lanken s Band came behind with 15 pieces. Moultrie County Battalion had 132 men, the drum corps from Marshall had 15, Mattoon Post, No. 21, had 25. Pope Post. No. 411, showed up 9'5 strong. Then came an old man, paralyzed, in an invalid chair. This was Capt. Jackson. of the Twenty-second Illinois Infantry. Protecting this old man was the remnant of the Eighth Illinois—- / st® zfU GEN. w. g. veazey’, commander- n-chief. twenty-nine survivors. Surely there was a war! ~ These men were cheered by the multitude, and in response, they lifted their hats and bowed and passed on with a Quick .step, but not so briskly as they did years ago when they marched through > these . very streets to go to war. They were in command of George S. Durfee, of Company Aof the old Eighth Following these were the Sons of Veterans, 100 in number, commanded by Col. Stedden. of Springfield. They were followed by the Zouaves of Decatur, twenty-five boys. E. H. Martin's corps of star cyclers, forty strong, came after, their wheels wrapped in the national colors. The above constituted the men in the line of “march. The grand anniversary camp-fire was kindled in the mammoth tent constructed for the purpose, and, although capable of accommodating an audience of 10,000. people, standing room was unobtainable. Other rousing camp-fires and love feasts were held the following evening, and every comrade who refused to. sing a song or tell a story was prompt'}’ courtmartialed and forced to submit to such penalties as the “boys” saw fit to inflict. w-The Grand Army has now attained such proportions, is’so widely extended, and has on its muster rolls so’ many eminent men in American military history that a brief sketeli of its organization -and present condition is of general interest. ' The'first post of the Grand Army was organized in Decatur April 6, 1866. The mSn to whose ability, loyalty and perseverance the order is indebted for its existence and magnificent organization were Benjamin Franklin Stephenson and * Rev. W. G. Rutledge, both of Illinois. Comrade Stephenson was born in Wayne . County, Illinois, in 1822, and spent his A early youth and manhood in Sangamon County. He entered the army in 1861 I and rade Ruwcuge, who was serving as Chap- [ lain in Sherman’s expedition of that I year. These two comrades conceived and discussed plans for the organization of a permanent society to preserve the friendship of war and provide mutual aiji in time of peace. After the .close of the war Comrades Stephenson and Rutledge met by appointment at Springfield, 111.,,in March, 1866, and prepared the. ritual of the order, and after much discussion finally selected the “Grand Army of the Republic” as the name most appropriate and expressive for the order. It was then decided to print the ritual, and Captain John S. Phelps, at the suggestion of exGovernor Oglesby, went to Decatur from Springfield, to supervise the printing. While there Captain Phelps spoke of the proposed , organization to several old soldiers and the result was that an application was made to Comrade Stephenson for a charter to form a post On April 6, 1866, the charter was granted and the first post of what is now a mighty organization was instituted there with twelve charter members. .. . ’ • • ■

For several years the order did hot thrive. Its aims and purposes were misunderstood; it was by many regarded as a purely political organization. But during the last ten or fifteen years this erroneous impression has been gradually removed, and the true aims and principles of the order are becoming better understood and appreciated. It is now bedoming recognized as a great benevolent order, the principal purposes of which are to preserve the spirit of comradeship cemented on many a battlefield; to minister to tho sick and disabled, bury the dead and assist the widow and orphan. In doing this it has expended many millions during the twenty-five years of its existence. The rrports of the adjutant-general for the last fiscal year show taat .8221,350 were expended during that period for the relief of comrades, ex-soldiers and their families, and nearly 29,000 veterans and their families, were thus relieved. Tho growth of tho order has been marvelous. In less than twenty-five years it has outgrown every other fraternal order in this country except the Masons* and Odd-Fellows. The Grand Army has now 7,000 posts scattered over the United States and Canada, with a membership of nearly half million, and about eight hundred thousand-veterans of the Union army yet to recruit from. During the last few years the order has devoted considerable attention to the erection and maintenance of homes for the aged and infirm, and the building of monuments to heroes of the war and memorial halls in various parts of the country. The most important undertaking of this nature is the plan for tho erection of a magnificent memorial hall at Decatur, that will stand as a perpetual memento to the Grand Army, and which will be constructed so as to preserve the records of departments and posts, trophies, relics, curiosities, literature, pictures, and whatever may serve to illustrate the history of the Union army and its achievements, The hall is to bo erected by voluntary contributions from members and posts, arid will probably be maintained by a small assessment annually levied on members of the Grand Army. One of the most interesting incidents ot the G. A. R. encampment at Decatur, 111., was the presentation of a silver and gold gavel to the Department of Illinois,

A CAMP FIRE OF 1563.

G. A. R. bv the Department of Illinois, Woman's Relief Corps. The gavel, which has appropriate and artistic chasings and is richly jeweled, bears the inscription: ; Department of Illinois, W. It, C„ ; : to V : : Department of Illinois, G. A.vR. ; : 1866. April 6. 1891. V t The presentation was made Ay Mrs. Julia G. Sine, of Corps No. 1, Roc'kford, 111., W. R. C.. A River that Flows Inland. There is an interesting instance of water flowing inland from the sea. It is fcund on the island of Cephalonia. in the lonian sea, west of Greece. The phenomenon occurs on the southwest side of the island near the small town and port of Argostoli. Two streams flow at a short distance from one another, straight from the sea, for a few yards, and then follow different courses. One turns at right angles and runs for some ways parallel with the shore and close to it. Then it turns again toward the sea, and running, of course, deeper and deeper, doubles completely~under itself, thus forming a loop, and finally passes out. of sight deep down in a landward direction. In its course it turns two flour mills, which will give an idea of the strength of the current. There is no tide in the sea here, and the flow of the salt water brook is perfectly steady and continuous. The other stream disappears in the ground in a similar way. This curious phenomenon has not attracted much attention because Argostoli is not* on one of the regular tourist routes. No one knows what becomes of this water, but it probably flows to some subterranean reservoir, and it may have something to do with the earthquakes that occur in that neighborhood once in a long while, or, possibly, it feeds some distant volcano, for, as is well known, the most generally accepted theory of the cause of' volcanic eruptions is, that they are due to steam generated from water, admitted through cracks in the earth’s crust, or in some other way.—• Goldthwaite’s Geographical Magazine. Tlie Greatest of Copper Minos. President Agassiz, of the Calumet and Hecla mining company, has made the statement that, in his opinion, .‘the mine pf which he is the chief officer can be continued in existence for a period of forty years at an annual production of about double its present output. At the end of that time it may be assumed that the supply of the ore upon which it depends will have been exhausted. Looked at from'the present standpoint, it may seem that an output of double the present volume would be a fair and ample average cf the probable production ; but when one takes into account the enormous increase that has been made in the use of copper, and the probable extension of that increase, due not only to the growth in population, but the introduction of new electrical devices of all kinds, the estimate made by President Agassiz of what the future yield of his mine will be seems a low one. We are inclined to believe that unless great changes occur, the Calumet and Hecla mine in the year 1900 will be found producing three or ’ four times as much copper as in the year 1890. This will, of course, cut down the possible life of the mine, assuming the correctness of President Agassiz’ estimates, and thus, although large returns Will be paid in the interval, we should say that in twenty-five years from this time there would be very little life left in this mining property. The Calumet and Hecla has paid $34,500,000 in dividends.— Boston Herald. ■ " , ’ 1 One reason why New, Mexico is settled so slowly is that the great majority of land grants are held by native Mexicans, oje Don sometimes owning an entire county. '• • 4 N* --M.w ’•'< 'aL'

GLORIOUS SUNSHINE GLADDENS THE EARTH AND BRIGHTENS INDIANA NEWS. Prospects for a Good Fruit Crops—Delaware County Poultry Association Organized — Ten-Found I o>» Killed Near Columbus—Deaths, Accidents, Etc, —Jackson County brags of its prospects for fruit. —Prison north’s library consists of 3,000 standard volumes. —A new and very powerful gas well was developed at Jonesboro. —Sadie Hanes, an abandoned woman, committed suicide at Goshen. —An attempt was made to assassinate Editor J. T. Buck, Bridgeton Jfews.? —William Bowman, Paragon farmer, had a fine horse killed by lightning. —Charles Pearson was run over and instantly killed by a train near Stillwell. —Eli Wagner, an old colored citizen of Jeffersonville, was killed by a suburban train. —Near Plainfield, Asher Kellum was caught by a falling tree and seriously injured. —Dr. P. Bird, Owensville druggist, had both eyes destroyed by an explosion of chemicals. —By the accidental discharge of a gun Mrs. Viola Jones, of Pattonville, was seriously shot. , —James Oustott, of Rochester, arrested for the murder of Michael Overmyer, has been released. —Miss Molliq Jackson, of Tipton, attempted suicide, and her life was saved with difficulty. —A Kankakee farmer wouldn’t take 65 cents a bushel offered for his 10,000 bushels of corn. —The contract has been let for a new church at Paoli, for the New Friends denomination. —A farm-house occupied by Mrs. Mc.Cormick, at Spencer, was jeslroyed by' fire. Loss, §I,OOO. —William Jones, of Baltimore, Md., killed by cars near Valparaiso; stealing a ride on a freight. —W. C. Brooks, over 80 years of age, and a pioneer of Jackson County, recently cut a new set of teeth. —Charles Null, aged 12, was fatally burned by the explosion of an empty gasoline barrel at Lebanon. —Four men were arrested at Columbus for violating the law protecting gravel roads from heavily-loaulM wagons. —Four children of Noah Sullivan’s, near Mexico,* were buried-the same day, and two others are dangerously ill. —Columbus tax-payeris don’t like the way assessors are listing* their property, and many of them talk’ of injunction suits. —Sarah Bender, of Bedford, was standing before an open fire, when her clothing caught fire, burning her seriously. —During a thunder-storm at Seymour the residence 4 of Gotlieb Winkler was struck by lightning and considerably damaged. —Samuel Gaddis, Petersville farmer, has a 30-acre field which he has planted in corn 50 successive years and never lost a crop. —lncreased facilities will be added to tho Martinsville schools this season to accommodate the rapid increase in school population. —Mrs. Charlotte Keifer, of Fort Wayne, who had been ill with pneumonia, attempted to walk across the floor, and fell dead. ij— Mrs. May Maddox Boyse, of Richmond, a relative of George Washington, is dead. Her great grandmother was a 1 sister of Washington. -i-Fred Zolar, who left his home and family in Metamore twenty years ago—came Tjome last week and will settle down and care for them.. —Willie Bowman, aged 15, left La Porte some years ago without saying anything to anybody—now there’s a nice little fortune there waiting for him. —Ed Beier, 17, JEvansville, was fatally shot by James Walters. Mt Vernon from whose insinuating remarks he was defending a respectable young lady. —At Jeffersonville James Coward and his mother quarreled. She struck him with a rock, and he procured a pistol, loaded with shot, and discharged it full in her face, wounding her seriously. —Anten Ochs, a workman, was fatally injured in the Mount Vernon plan-ing-mill. An emery wheel burst, the fragments crushing the side of his head and destroying both eyes. He cannot recover, —Sherman Walton, a young man about 20 years of age, wds riding horseback through the back-waters in the river, at Shoals, when he was thrown from his horse and so badly injured that he drowned. —While a fire-proof safe, weighing two tons, was being hoisted up a stairway, at North Manchester, a rope broke, letting the safe roll down into the street, doing considerable damage to the building and the safe. —Alexander Snider, aged 70, was found dead in his hut at Goshen, his skull being crushed. Two tramps were arrested -for the murder and one of them confessed that they did it for the old man’s money. •> —The night telegraph operator at Fortville, whose name is Scoct, ejected three suspicious-loo’king characters from the depot. They afterwards attempted to assassinate him by shooting through the window. —The Business Men’s Association of Crawfordsville are arranging to hold a three days’ tournament. One day will be devoted to a contest between fire companies. Five hundred dollars in prizes will be offered, competition open to any company in the State. •—Noblesvillians have an idea that the skeleton found near there a few days ago is that of a soldier known to have mysteriously disappeared from their midst in 1867. —An employe of the Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad, named Anderson, was killed by a freight train near Stillwell. He was walking on the track and fell under the wheels. —There is great activity In the oil field near Portland. The Sisk and the Hart wells just drilled In are fair producers, and several companies will be In operat on there this season. ■ . W- v-g a

—A thief attracted the attention of Mr. Dale, a merchant of Salem Center, while he was counting his money. He started after the intruder, and when he returned a confederate had taken the money, amounting to $560, and disappeared. —Charles Ostman, a fireman on the Nickel Plate road, was instantly killed at Burr Oaks, his head being crushed to a jelly while he was looking out of the cab window. He leaves a widow and several children, who reside in Fort Wayne. —Frank W. Fitz-Hugh, at one time a prominent lawyer of New Castle, but for many years a slave to strong drink, was found dead in the rear room of a saloon there this evening. He had been drafting a legal paper, and still had the penin his ha>nd when found. —Charles Alips, who was stabbed by Dan Brusher at Newburg, last week, is dying, and, realizing the fact, fie sent for Brusher at Newbpi:g, took bis hand and forgave him. Both men were drinking at the time of the affray. —R. Westervelt, who left his home near Windfall, twenty-two years ago, a lad of 17, and went to Mexico, returned recently for the first time. His parents, who are still living, had thought him dead, he having never communicated with them since.his departure. —The dead body of a man was found at Rochdale, which proved to be that of E. P. Gallagher, a former yardmaster in the employ of the Moncn Railway Company at Bloomington. It is suposed that lie undertook to board a south-boUnd train, and falling beneath the wheels, was cut to pieces. He leaves a wife and child who live at Louisville. —Minnie Moore, the 7-year-old granddaughter of Andrew Moore, of Liberty Township, Wabash CJounty, was burned to death. She was assisting her grandfather in burning out stumps, and the 'Eheeze carrying her dress into the flames, her clothing took fire and she was so badly burned that death resulted soon afterward. The flesh on her limbs and face was literally cooked. —A shocking accident occurred tn the family of Policeman Vanarsdal, of Columbus. While he was asleep his wife* left their little child, a daughter, 2 years of age, iu the room with the father, and' went to a grocery store near by. In some manner the child’s clothing caught fire from a stove in &n adjoining room and before, the clothing could be removed the child was burned in a horrible manner. It cannot recover. —Charles Heiser, a brakeman on the Monon, came to sudden grief at Bloomington. He was to have been married, but a few hours before that time the Sheriff of Washington County met him on tho street and informed him that he had a warrant for his arrest, made out at the instance of a young lady at Salem whom he is alleged to have wronged. Though Heiser protested his innocences the Sheriff refused to release him, and it was necessary to postpone the wedding. —The Delaware CountSy Poultry Association has been organized, with over a half-hundred members. The object of the association is to further the breeding of and raising fine poultry in the county.' The officers of the association are: President, H. C. Marsh; Vice President, J. W. Taylor; Treasurer, William Abbott; Secretary. Allen A. Wilkinson. I'he Board Os Directors are: Elmer Ross, F. S. McCrillus, Lewis 'Cowan, Mr. Van Metre and Mr. Thompson. —A dastardly attempt was made by a young “tough” named Byers to assassinate Rev. Dobson, a Methodist minister at Reed’s Station, . about thirteen miles* north of Mitchell. 'T’tje minister in his sermon repremanded some of the congregation for misconduct. Byers left the house, but returned in a short time, and walking up to the pulpit drew a danger-ous-looking knife and made an attempt to stab the minister, but by the prompt Interference of others he was prevented from doing any harm. . • —James Perry, the largest land-owner in Bartholomew County, has, some two miles north of Columbus, on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines, a large fish-pond, covering twelve acres or more. In this pond are a large number of German carp from one to three years old. For several days he has been greatly annoyed by a strange bird of the fishing variety of unusual large size. He had fired many times at it. but was unable to kill or drive it away. This news reached some expert shots from Cohffn-bus-who visited the pond and succeeded, on the fortieth shot, in killing it. The bird proved to be a loon, and weighed ten pounds. It will be mounted. —John McEdmundson is a farmer living south of Spiceland. The other day he, With his son, was absent from the house, leaving his wife 'and his sister at home. During ’the afternoon a couple of men entered tfie house, one flourishing a revolver and the other a bag of stones. They demanded money, but being £old there was no money in the house, one of them struck the lady of the house with the bag of stones, making a serious wound on her head, and knocking her down. They then attacked the other lady, offering her violence, but she escaped and began ringing the farm bell, when the villains ran away. There is no clew as to their identity, but are supposed to be tramps. —Judge Ellison, of the Madison Circuit Court, has rendered a decision in support of an ordinance recently passed by the City Council of Elmwood, requiting all screens and blinds to be removed from saloons on Sunday. —The City Council of Crawfordsville, in preparing to put in an electric light plant, has made contracts amounting to $19,000, and the buil&ng is yet to be purchased. Also, the eity is to pay for setting the poles, stretching the wires and placing the lamps. —Reports from a number of counties of the southern part of the State show that peaches, plums and pears have not been injured by the frost, and give promise o! abundantld. Oats an yied potatoes are a month behind . the season, but wheat is in excellent condition. —lt developed at the Coroner’s inquest that Major George W. Varble, who was found dead at his home at Madison, had killed himself with an electric battery, whether intentionally or accidentally will never be known. He suffered much from rheumatism. He was all alone, as his wife was visiting at Nashville. . -I ) ’

Stockton, Cal,, is the commercial center of the greiit double-linked valley of the San Joaquin. Not a stone as big as a fist obstructs the cultivator in all the great longitude and latitude of that rich and peerless plain of alluvial sediment. The soil is mostly adobe, surprisingly strong, fertile, black and unctuous; when wet, cloddy or slicy, and proof against harrows and cultivators; when dry, hard and impenetrable. In that country of very scanty rains plowing is, at all possible seasons for horse culture, mere lumpage and but half production. Horse cultivation is ill adapted to the work and unworthy of the far-famed repute of American agricultural machinery. Instead of only now and then, as with horse fieldwork, spiral steam blades would cut np, pulverize and seed the land the year around, with scarce a week’s interruption. A steam plowing company has accordingly been formed to take advantage of these natural conditions of the soil. The locomotive plow would peem best suited to the San Joaquin valley. In England traction plows are an enforced necessity by ever-hurrying weather. In either system, thirty acres is a day’s work, seeded, covered and rolled. The Blissful Neapolitans. “I have seen happiness,” said a traveler. “In Naples there is a long sea wall, with a broad top. On one side is the bay, on the other the mountain You ■;know tfie sun generally shines in Italy, and you have read how brightly, how gently, how deliciously it shines. Well, every day thousands of Neapolitans come down to this wall and stretch themselves on it, and lie there in a line several miles long from early in the morning until sunset. They scarcely move. They breath gently. They doze. They look at you with unspeakable content in their eyes if you pass withhreasy range of them. It takes only a little fruit, a little wine and the fewest rags to make life possible. Their wives do all the work. They enjoy. I envy them.” To Dispel Colds, Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when fie blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, use Syrup ot Figs. He was Right. A young man of this city who prides himself on his musical talent, called upon a young lady, taking with him a banjo for which he had just paid a good price. “It won’t work,” he remarked mournfully as he handed it to her. “Perhaps you can get some music out of it.” “It’s n. g.,” she said, as she twanged the strings. “It needs a flat and a sharp to make it go.” . ‘ “They were bath there when I bought it,” he answered humbly.— Detroit Free Press. Ous. A. Dusois, a well-known resident of St. Louis, says: “I have used several bottles of Prickly Ash Bitters for biliousness and malarial troubles, so prevalent in this climate, and heat t ily recommend it to all afflicted in a like manner. It is the best remedy I ever used.” Miss Carter’s Queer Donation. At the Wilmington, Mass., town meeting, Miss Sabra Carter, a-wealthy and eccentric woman, made a proposition to donate to the town SIO,OOO, tfie income to be devoted to the painting of houses which may need itlfrom year to year, provided the applicant for paint does not own a dog and belongs to some teiqperance organization. A committee was'afc. pointed to consider the matter. Fona2e. stamp, sent with address, to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.. Lynn, Mass., ladies will receive free, a beautiful illustrated book. “Guido to Health and Etiquette.” Wanted a Smoke. Eugene Davis broKe into a tobacco store in Cincinnati after two hours’ hard work and helped himself to one nickel cigar and walked out again to be arrested. He said he wanted a smoke awfully bad, and halving no money he was obliged to break in some place and steal one. LOW RATE EXCURSION. A low rate excursion is announced to the wonderful city of Middlesborough. Ky., on April 21,1891. via the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. This excursion will go via Cincinnati and Lexington and return via Louisville and Cincinnati. It will be a grand opportunity to visit one of the marvels of the new South—a eity but a few years old, populous, with millions of capital and growing faster than ever. For rates and descriptive pamphlets address, George J. Clark, Excursion Agent, Toledo, Ohio. Both Hated It. She—Whew! If I’d known you’d smoke a horrid pipe Tnever would have married you. He—ls I’d known I couldn’t smoke cigars and support a woman, too, I never would have «married you.— New York Weekly. Your child is troubled with worms. That’s why he’s so peevish and cross. Give it Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. They taste good and will make them healthy. By mail. 25 cents. John D. Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. Alillionaires. New York is ahead of all other cities if individual riches running up into seven or more figures is meant. It is said that New York has over 1,000 millionaires, while London has 600, Paris 500, Berlin 200, and Vienna 100. The best cough medicine is Piso’s*- Cure for Consumption. Sold every where.<2sc. A traveler in Florida say that the most hospitable inhabitants of the State are the alligators.—Jfaveriek. When a hen retires for the night, it is quite proper to speak of her as a rooster. All Fits stopped free by Dr.KUne’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fite after first day’s use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and S2AO trial bottle free to nt cases. Send to Dr. Kline, 981 Arch St, Fhlla. Fa. “It is a mere matter of form,” said the lady as she adjusted her corset.

SHILOH’S CONSUMPTION CURE. The success ofihis Great Cough Cure is without a parallel in the history of medicine. All druggists are authorized to sell it on a positive guarantee, a test that no other cure can sue* cessfully stand. That it may become known, the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home in the United States and Canada. If you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for it will cure you. If your child has the Croup, or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief is sure. If you dread that insidious disease Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for SHILOH’S CURE, Price io cts., 50 cts. and SI.OO. If your Lungs are sore or Back lame, use Shiloh’s Porous Plaster, Price 25 cts. To cure cost!veness the med! nine must be more than a purgative: it must contain tonic, alterative and cathartic properties. Tutt’s Pills possess these qualities, and speedily restore to the bowels their natural peristaltic

- It’s sometimes said patent medicines are for the ignorant. The doctors foster this idea. “The people,” we’re told, “are mostly ignorant when it comes to medical science.” Suppose they are! What a sick man needs is not knowledge, but a cure, and the medicine that cures is the medicine for the sick. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures the “do believes ” and the “ don’t believes.” There’s no hesitance about it, no “if” nor “possibly.” It says—“ I can cure you, only do as I direct.” Perhaps it fails occasionally. The makers hear of it when it does, because they never keep the money when the medicine fails to do good. Suppose the doctors went on that principle. (We beg the doctors’ pardon. It wouldn’t do!) Choking, sneezing and every other form of catarrh in the head, is radically cured by Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Fifty cents. By druggists. Can’t Always A Toledo doctor kept trace of two young men of the same age, build and temperament, one of whom smoked and the other didn’t In the course of two years the smoker had gained six pounds the more, and hadn’t been sick a day, while the other had been down twice, and had dosed with quinine half the time. THE WABASH LIXE. H-andsome equipment. E-legant day coaches, and W-agner palace sleeping cars A -re in daily service B-etween the city of St. louis A-nd New York and Boston. * 8-pacious reclining chair ears II -ave no equal E-ike those run by the I-ncomparuble and only "Wabash. N-ew trains and fast time. " E-ve'ry day,in the year. ' From East to West the sun’s bright ray, Smiles on the line that leads the way. MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running free reclining chair cars and palace sleepers to St. Louis, Kansas City, and Council Bluffs. The direct route to all points in Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska. lowa, Texas. Indian Territo,ry, Arkansas. Colorado. Utah. Wyoming, Washington. Montana, and California. For rates, routes, maps, etc., apply to any’’ ticket agent or address F. Chandler. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. How to Tell a Dry (Ilgar. A veteran smoker in picking a cigar at the Broad street station was observed to-hoid it to his ear like a sea-shell. Benng asked why, he said: “That’s howl 'tell if it’s dry. A dry cigar gives out a crackling sound in the ear. If you could put it on one of the machines that magnify sound it would sound like a roar.” —Philadclph In Record. • Completed to Deadwood. The Burlington route. C., B. & Q. R. R., from Chicago. Peoria, and St. Louis, is now completed, and daily passenger trains are running through Lincoln. Neb., and Custer. S. D., to Deadwood; also to Newcastle, Wyoming, Sleeping cars to Deadwood. Jamaica Ginger for JUalne. A Boston druggist says that enormous quantities of Jamaica ginger are shipped from the Hub into Maine, to be used by people who seek to avoid the Prohibition 1 laws. If Dobbins’ Electric Soap is what so many insist it is. you can not afford to go with?out it. Your grocer has it, and you ean decide for yourself very soon. Don’t let another Monday pass without trying it. A New York man is living -.vith a bullet m his brain, and a Newman man is still alive with his brain in a bullet. ' Beecham’s Pills cure Billions and Nervous Ills. A sign of an early fall —A bar of soap on the cellar steps.— Neve York Journal.

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