Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 October 1894 — Page 3

A RAILWAY IN MIDAIR. The Inclined Road Up Echo Mountain in California. One of the Greatest Engineering Feats of the Nineteenth Century—The Crowning Work of Prof. T. 8. C. - Lowe’s Useful Career. [Special Pasadena (Cal.) Letter.] Prosaic people will tell you that there are no magicians in these days, none of those marvelouscreatures who, peering into the secrets of nature, wrest from earth her mysteries and make them subservient to their will. Prosaic people are sometimes wrong, for never has such a mighty race of wizards lived in the world as may be found to-day in laboratories and workshops, concocting plans and formulas beside which those of the astrologer and alchemist of old are puerile. ‘l'ney have achieved in the last hundred years work which shames the combined re¥ sults of the centuries. Of these mighty wizards the civil engineers are the Titans, and they would no doubt try to scale the heavens, piling Pelion upon Ossa should they desire to do so, and in the attempt not- risk the consequences that befell the giants of the Greek legend. : .

T will not say that southern California is the wonderland of the continent, for that is already trite. You have been told all about its climate, productions, scenic beauty and the fertility of the soil. All these were made available to the rest of the world by these same magicians, the- civil engineers, who were the pioneers of_the railroads. Through the terra incognito of the far west, among wild mountain passes, blinding snows, desert heats, dangers and disasters of all kinds, they blazed the way for the railroad and civilization, and to them we owe a debt of gratitude that, it is safe to say, we will never liquidate. Upon all of the great railroad systems of the country, east and west, there are remarkable examples of the subduing of natural obstacles. Gorges are spanned by trestles so lofty that. the passenger, safely seated in the luxurious coach, fears to move hand or foot as he is whirled rapidly over them, being oppressed with a ridiculous sense that his doing so will precipitate the whole train into the yawning abyss. Tuwmnels burrow -under mountains, serpentine tracks climb over mountains, and. winding about, find a foothold upon the edge of cliffs, cleave rocks, defy storms and snowslides, rush down into timbered canyons and leap wide rivers. C

There is up the slope of Mount Washington, as there is on dMount Vesuvius and Mount Pilate, a railroad, by means of which passengers reach the top. These feats of engineering in their day excited ‘the admiration of the world, but they are far surpassed by a veritable railroad in midair which has already climbeda spur half way to the summit of one of the loftiest mountains in southern California, and will in a short time be extended to the very peak of Mount Lowe, six thousand feat above sea level. .

Man has a natural aspiration towards the heights. The valley is for everyday life, its occupation, pain and performance; the mountain top is for the sublime mood, the wider horizon, the purer existence. In southern California the mountain walls seem in the dry season to be but brown battlements cast out by nature in hurry and travail to protect from the desert heats her chosen valleys. In the wet seasons these battlements turn from brown to green, -and always there are magic lights playing about them. Tender hazes veil their distance, purple garments reach down to the nearer plains and sunlight dwells on their summits, glorifying their crowns of pinec and locks of snow. Climbing any of these slopes over the rugged narrow trails, every wrinkle on the face of these Alps of the west is found to be a- deep gorge green with gigantic trees, decked with laurel, clematis, lilac and bay where the canyon walls tower skyward, and made

g 2 &=i B . GI k :; N QAN bt = \ N Q I "IN\ PROF. Ty 8. C. LOWE. ‘ brilliant with myriads of flowers and ferns,where the peak-born streams’steal in the bottom of the cleft. To elimb on foot or the back of a burro to one of these summits is an experience to be remembered forever. Wherever you look a prospect of enchanting beauty or stupendous grandeur is spread out before you, but the danger and difficulties of these ascents can be endured only by the strong and hardy. Pasadena Ras a superb mountain background, and visitors to this lovely town see far up one of the mountains, perched upon a lofty spur, a white building, and running sheer down from it until it is lost in the purple a line like a thread. This thread is the famous Mount Lowe cable incline railway, already completed to the top of Echo mountain, and in the near future to be extended to the summit of Mount Lowe, seven miles further, by the route already surveyed, and terminating at a point where the loftiest. observatory upon the continent is to be built from the abounding granite. The incline is approached by an electric trolley roaa three miles long, which winds abont the base of the mountain, passing cool green canyons, and traversing the mesa named long ago ‘‘Capa do Oro” by Cabrillo. whodescried the gold of its poppies sixty miles away upon the sea. The trolley road terminates at Rubio canyon; where the traveler alights and seating himself in a strangely-shaped six-seated white chariot, makes the ascent of the incline. The grade is 60 per cent. half the way, then 62 for a short distance, then 53, and finally 48 mear the top. In the 3,000 feet of the glistanee, it makes a direct ascent of 1,300 feet. So steep a grade was not the only difficulty to be overcome in building the road up the incline. Gigantic rocks had to be hurled from ‘their resting places, monster cuts made jn the mountain, and all this arduous work upon a slope so steep that burros eould B'knot be used for carrying ma-

terial, and men were obliged to transport upon their shoulders the cement and water for the consiruetion of the buttresses necessary in- places, before the track could be.laidi On one of the stupendous ¢cuts as many workmen as could find foothold were engaged for cight months, before a single tie could be laid, and one of the trestles two bundred feet long stands a hundred feet. higher at one end than at the other. | ‘

" When, the track was finished, supports upon which there were wheels were fastened in the mountain by the side of the road-bed. A windlass had before this been transported to the top in sections on the backs of iburros and then put together. To this a heavy strong rope was fastened and passed downward over the wheels and attached to the end of the cable which was then hoisted. Of the finest steel, and tested to stand-a weight of a hundred %ons, this cable was arranged upon the principle of a double bucket windlass, lowering one car while it hoists the other.

i The cars of the cable incline are built on such a slope that, the passengersare upon an apparent leveland feel no discomfort from the smooth easy motion, and as the chariots are open at the top, an unobstructed view of the scenery is obtained. : - The machinery of the incline is unique, being operated by water conveyed in pipes from the summit of Echo mourntain and by immense gas engines and dynamos = situated at at the base of the mountain at the Altedena terminus of the trolley line. The current is carried by copper conductors to the power-house on the summit, with the strength of 100 horse

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power, giving the motor 80 revolutions a minute, which is reduced by gears to 17, the rate of the turr of the grip sheave, which is a heavy wheel with 70 automatic steel jaws. As the wheels turn the jaws seize the cable and move the cars. Both chariots loaded to the utmost weigh but five tons, and, as the cable is tested for twenty times this weight; breakage is impossible. Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, the magician who has thus made mountain c¢limbing ‘easy, and has put within the reach of the frailest invalid the healing air of the heights, the sublime views from Mount Echo, where the fairest valley on the continent, fourteen mountain ranges and twen®y villages greet the eye, is widely known as the chief of the aeronautic corps of the United States army during the civil war, the inventor of machinery for making water gas and a device for producing artificial ice. Not content with what he has accomplished for his adopted state, Prof. Lowe will continue the incline to the summit of Mount Lowe. The cost of every mile, exclusive of power, material, surveying and ‘‘brushing out,” will be $25,000, but, as astronomy will reap priceless benetit from the undertaking, and thousands of people will be enabled to enjoy the healthful air of the great altitudes, the vast expenditure is more than justified. The monster search-licht which attracted so much attention at the world’'s fair has found a lasting home half way,.between the summit of Echo mountain and the top of Mount Lowe, and so placed that its light may be seen 200 miles out at sea. Itis a beacon to all southern California, beckoning to the enchanted valley of San Gabriel and tl# glorious heights above fair Pasadena. Lou V. CHAPIN.

" A Business Man. - The drummer stepped into a store in a western town, where the proprieter had a stock of gurnsand musical instruments. “Isn’t this a rather queer combina-~ tion?” he asked. “There’s money in it to me,” replied the proprietor. “I don’t see how.” : ““That’s because you ain’t up on our ways.” _ “Well, put me up.” “It’s this way,” explained the proorietor. “I sell ‘'a man a cornet or panjo or fiddle or something like that, and by the time he has practiced a weel his neighbor comes in and buys a shotgun or revolver or something like that, and I get a profit goin’ and comIn’. See?” ' . It doesn’t take a drummer long to see, and this one was in possession of ull his faculties.—Detroit Free Press. Polly’s Guilt. It is not always easy to be generous, try as one may. Gk *I was mean to Georgy this morning when you gave me the bread and butter,” confessed eight-year-old Polly to her mother at bedtime. _ “Why, Polly,” said Mrs. Jenks, *I thought you were quite generous; didn’t yom give Georgy the larger piece?” . . “Yes'm,” sighed Polly, ‘“but I kept the butterest piece myself!”—Youth’s Companion. o " A Request to Charge. Judge How do you account for the fact that the man’s watch was found in your pocket? : _ Prisoner—Your honor, life is made up of inexplicable mysteries, and I trust your honor will se instract the jury ~Puck, 5 : ;

AGRICULTURAL HINTS. IMPROVING THE ROADS. Suggestions That the Work Be Carried Forward by the Government. There is no longer any necessity for piscussing the desirability and economy of good roads. These two pcints have been pretty fully established, and people generally admit the importance of improving our country highways. The great obstacle to getting to work is the dispute as who shall undertake the work and pay for it. .

It is inconceivable to many how the idea can be entertained for a moment that the construction and maintenance of highways can be safely intrusted to individuals or private corporations for gain. Only a little in advance of this, it is declared, however, is the so-called subdistrict road supervisor system. County control, as a rule, shows still a marked improvement over the two plans named, and wherever the states have entered into | the field of road building with effective legislation an even greater improvement is noted. But of all roads ever constructed in the United States those which the national government has built unquestionably are or have heen the best. A striking illustrationgof the comparative merits of national and local management of public roads is to be found in Germtany. The best roads of that country were built by the states which now constitute the empire while they were yet independent kingdoms, and were thus the creations of national governments. Absorbed into the empire the states were no longer distinct nations. What had been national before to them now sunk to the rank of the provincial. The roads had been constantly improved previous to the formation of the empire. Now: narrower and cheaper roads are. built, and the highways of the fatherland, excellent as tß€y are, do not compare favorably with those of France, over which national authority is exercised. ) :

As regards the cost, it has been estimated that, in addition to the good roads already possessed, in order that a system equal to the best in Europe may be had, it would be necessary to build or rebuild about 1,000,000 miles, a reasonable estimate of the cost off which is 4,000 a mile, or $4,000,000,000 for the whole country. g Until recently the inhabitants ot cities i this country have generally regardéd the building of country roads as an undertaking which belonged to the farmer alone, the expense of which he should bear.. Of late, through natural causes and the general agitation of the question, a better understanding has been reached. The mud blockades in various sections of the country in the last few years have served to bring merchants of towns and smaller cities to a realizing sense of what bad roads mean. Three years ago the merclhants of an Ohio city of 30,000 inhabitants lost, on account of muddy roads, in two weeks of the holiday season over $lOO,OOO of trade. Smaller cities and towns, of course, suffered still more in proportion, being more directly dependent upon the ‘trade which the farmers supplied. The subdistrict and township plans of building and maintaining roads have been given ample trial and have sadly disappointed those who favored them. In the light of experience there is a desire to know if it is not time to forsake these worse than wasteful plans and adopt a system which others have proved eminently successful. The quickest and most satisfactory, and, in fact, the only sure way to secure good public highways throughout the country, in the opinion of many, is for the national government to step in and exercise its rightful authority. There exists in the country a strong sentiment adverse to the issuing of additional national bonds. Can the roads be built without running the government into debt? By building a reasonable portion of the roads each yearuntil all shall have been constructed, and by apportioning the expense among the nation, the states and territories, theé counties and possibly the townships, it is believed it will be found possible to secure the coveted good roads without' issuing bonds. Twenty years would be a reasonably short period for the building of 1,000,000 miles of suitable highways. This would require the construction of 50,000 miles per year. Two hundred millions of dollars would be the annual expense. :

On the convenient supposition that the nation at large should bear onehalf and that the states and territories, together with the counties and towns, should bear the balance, the general government would be compelled to appropriate annually $100,000,000. This would not represent a very considerable additional burden, for now three-fourths of that amount is expended by the postal department on highways. Of the remaining ' $25,000,000 a large share, say $10,000,000, would be wiped out by employing regular army: forces on the roads in those sections where their presence is required. As a rule, it may 52 said, no less than 20,000 men, who w find army life irksome, because of its idle monotony, could be employed to good account on the highways.

The majority of the state governments, as well as the counties %nd townships, it is believed, could also so provide for the expense which they would be expected to bear that the tax burden would not be greatly increased during the period of construction. Moreover, the expense could be made even less onerous by the employment of the thousands of criminals in each commonwealth, and at the same time remove from freelabor an objectionable class of compeétitors.—N. Y. World. S

HORTICULTURAL NOTES.

FALL-PLANTED trees should be set as early as possible. CELERY and asparagus are crops that c¢an be grown with profit in the irrigation districts. - . E Tur Wisconsin cranberry crop was injured by the forest fires to the extent of®o per cent. Tue orchard needs as much attention as any other crop. We cannot get something from nothing in the orchard any more than we can in the corn field. Ax Indiana man thinks it would be profitable to sprinkle corn in times of drought from a water-tight wagon bed and to plant the rows far enough apart to enable the wagon to run between the rows. The plan is not praetieal, If irrigation in that way was practical the regular street-sprinkling wagons would be tbe best means.— Farmers Voice. de e

- THE SCREECH owi. "~ Mice Form a Large Portl:n of the Food s of This Bird. The screech owl belotgs to a group of birds that are readily distinguished from all other classess. Like most other families of the ammmal kingdom, some birds of one family usually graduate into their allies in another without any radical change in their external characteristics; hence, to a novice, it is often a difficult task to mention the order or family to which a given bird belongs. Not so with the owls. Their peculiar conformation makes most representatives of their order unmistakably owls in the eyesof the most casual observer. From time immemorial there has been in the minds of the ignorant a superstitious dread associated with the owl. It noiseless flitting by night, often in the most unexpected places, suddenly appearing and disappearing, have long g.ven it a place in popular writings with the spirits of those who have shaken off this mortal coil. . In addition to the halo of superstition fhat surrounds this bird, its reputation as a chicken thief condemns all owls as public enemies, and consequently most farmers lose no ‘time in destroying every kind of owl that approaches the dwelling. The subject of this sketch is among the best known of the owl family. Ever in search of mice and other vermin around the barns and garden, it is often met with and too frequently killed. The screech owl has long been. famous for its sad, tremulous notes which oftegp resemble the cooing of a dove, but are rendered more melancholy by their utterance in the dead of night. From its low, mournful notes, as well as its sluggish, sleepy appearance in daylight, one would expect this species to be an easy-going, inactive bird. However, such is not the case, for immediately after darkness conceals its movements thie screech owl becomes one of the most active of birds, darting here and there with the energy characteristic of a sparrow hawk. A bird thus equipped, with a keen eye and active, mufiled wings, its power for good around its much favored haunt—the farmyard—is almost incalculable.

All' kinds of small animals fall an easy prey to this active little owl. It is especially fond of mice, which form a large portion of its food. Many injurious insects, as well as some small birds, are destroyed. The dissection of the stomachs of hundreds of these owls taken under all possible circumstances goes to show that the screech owl lis highly beneficial. In the months of May and June when its bungry owlets must be generously fed. it is less particular what food is procured, and young birds of all the smaller kinds are subject to its at-

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tack. DBut here again the owl’s fondness for the haunts of man has turned its| bird-catching propensities to a useful purpose, and while in search of its mouse diet around barns, far more English sparrows are discovered than native birds that mainly seek safety in the protecting branches of dense trees. The screech owl nests in hollow trees, where it is often compelled to spend most of its time during the day. When once spied by any common bird, an alarm is given that brings all the small birds in the neighborhood to the spot. Thus surrounded by a large hostile force, it finds no peace until safely lodged in some hollow tree. A description of the bird is almost unnecessary, as it is familiar to all. There are two distinet varieties—one grayish, the other bright rufous. The difference in color is what is termed

individual variation, the color having to.do with the sex or age of the individual. Thelength of this bird usually varies from eight to ten inches, while its breadth (spread) is about twentytwo. The screech owl is to be met with in all parts of the United States and north into Canada. . It is non-migra-tory in its habits, depending on a very small quantity of food to stem it over severe winter weather. It has often been known on warm winter nights to store -sufficient food for several succeeding days.—Charles B. Cook, in Country Gentleman. i How to Test Your Cows. The present cheap, rapid and easy method of testing cows leaves no excuse for every dairyman not knewing the quality of milk of each one'of his cows. If two tests are made of a mixed sample of four days’ milk, one being taken six weeks after the cow calves, and the othersix months after calving, the average of these two tests will agree almost exactly with the quality of the milk given during the entire milking period. There seldom is a difference of as much as a quarter of one per cent. of fat. If it is-desired to know from tests nearer together what quality of milk a cow gives, very accurate results will be obtained by making two tests fifteen days apart, four months after the cow calved, each test being on a mixed sample of four days’ milk. The average of these tests, with one-eighth of one per -cent. added, is surprisingly near the truth for the average quality of the year’s milk.—Vermont Experiment Station Report. i The Buttermilk Flavor,. Making butter with a buttermilk flavor can' in a majority of cases be easily stopped by washing the butter while in small grains in the churn. The work is easier done then than at any other time. : ‘A Dairy Convenience, : A paddle long enough to stir the cream in the cans will be found very conveniefit. . Have it square across the bottom with a handle long enough so that you ean stir thé eream fromothe bottom. e

_ Nothing Worth Writing About. Some days to the newspaper makers are kind— When sensations occur by the score, And the public is eagerly waiting to find 3 What happens by sea and by shore. Then the heart of ye editor's happy and

glad, : 1 For with news he is never without; 1 But the world to his gaze is distressingly sad : ‘When there's nothing worth writing about.

The people expect the poor newspaper man To fill his allotment of space; They're sure if he wants to he certainly can, Though there’s nothing worth- while taking place, : So when news is dull he his fancy must tax, And sometimes it happens, no doubt, That he has to imagine some things to be facts, ‘When there's nothing worth writing about.

On days when there’s nothing bccurring the eye ; Of the reader is likely to fall On pieces s 0 prosy he asks himself why 3 They ever were printed at all. ; But they have to be used as the fillers of space, Although they'd be petter left out; And jingles like this one are given a place When there's nething worth writing about. —Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Journal. A Century to Come. ‘Who'll press for gold our crowded streets, i A century to come? - Who'll tread our churches with willing feet, : A century to come? . Pale, trembling age and flery youth, ' And childhood with its‘brow of truth, The rich and poor on land and sea— . ‘Where will the mighty millions be A century to come?

We all within our graves shall sleep, A century to come; : No living soul for us will weep, : A century to come; And other men our lands will till, And others then our streets will fill, And others shout and sing as gay, And bright the sunshine as to-day, : A century to come. —Dr. Gustavus Haas, in N. Y. Ledger. The Cycler’s Song. 0, it's joy to beupinthe morning when the dew is yet on the olover, . ~ And the air is full of a sweetness that makes -it a draught divine, - Tomount one’s wheel'and go flying, away and | away, & Tover : ' : In a wide, brigiht world of beauty; and all that . world is mine!’ e : \ ' There's a breath of balm on the breezes, a scent of the wayside roses, : A hint of the incense odors that blow through | the hillside pines, And ever a shifting landscape that some new, bright charm discloses, As I flash from nooks of shadow to plains where the sunlight shines. ¥ sing in my-care-free gladness; I am kin to i the wind that’s blowing: I am thrilled with the ?Jiss of motion like the bird that skims th€ down; ' I feel the blood of the gypsy in my pulses com=- . ing, going! . Give me my wheel for a comrade, and the king may keep his crown! | . —Eben E. Rexford, in Youth's Companion.

Question and Answer. Where are the fairies in pink and white, Clustered close together; ‘Who used to dance on the apple boughs In the beautiful May weather? They went away on a sunny day, And nothing was lett, alas! But rosy shreds of their lovely robes Lying upon the grass.

Come out to the orchard, and walk with me The autumn sun shines bright. On many a heavy-laden tree I will show you a wondrous sight; . Each fairy, that to the orchard brought Her loveliness and grace, When she went away on that sunny day, Left an apple in her place. * : —Mary F. Butts, in S. S. Times.

THE MARKETS. : NEW YORK, Oct. 15. LIVE STOCK—Cattle........ $350 @ 500 Sheepiicoscnricsoivinaiensn: 150 0@ 3% HOgS. i\ s anaime oo v 5100 (@ il FLOUR—Minnesota Patents. 310 @ 350 City Mills Patents........ 400 @ 415 ‘WHEAT-—-No. 2 Red........... 55%@ 5614 No: 1 Northern.i.cooiois.: 662?@ 6614 CORN--No: 2. i Hs%@ - 55% Ogtober... i i 534 @ bsl OATSENO, " 2iiiivee cviatviine 31%@ 31% RY B i eiiioiiovscraiein oy 49 @ 51 PORK—Mess New............ 1450 @ 15'50 LARD—Western. ........c.... 990 @lO 0) BUTTER—West'rn Creamery 15 @ 24 Western Dairy.. .. i ... 12Y%@ 16 - CHICAGO. BELVES—Shipping Steers.. 45 @ 625 S COWS s veiine vt o 1 200 @ 280 StOCKer! .o sdandsaeie s 220 @ R Y9O Feeders.. ...t iisianieis 280 3350 Butchers’ 5teer5.......... 315 @ 37 Bulls. v aiiar 00, 12002 @ 350 HOGS i .ivoiiiseviieeiiionei 410 005 60 SHEBEP. ... ..ot aovaaeas- 71 B @ 340 BUTTiß—Creamery.....:.... 4 @ 23 DALEY es T 12v%@ 20 BEGGS-—Fresh...i.ciiciviaiass: - 10@ 16% BROOM CORN (per ton)— 3 self W0rking.............. 90 00. @llO 00 New Dwarfc.. .. ccvivees.. 10000 @l2O 00 Al 8ur1.... 00l e 100:-00 @l2O 00 POTATOES (per bu:):.ciieecs 50 @ 66 PORK—MESS...c.cs..orne.neaee 1285 @l3 1244 LARD—Steam..........ccoczee 0 760 @ 770 FLOUR—Spring Patents...... 820 @ 3850 Spring Straights.......... .220 @ 260 Winter Patent 5............ 9280 @ 290 Winter Straights.......... 240 @ 260 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Red... 6l @ 52 Corn, No. 8.. ..o i, 49.@ 49% Oat 8: N 0 ..o siiinive s o 2NseEh 2814 : RYE, NO. 2. aaseisisasea 47% @ 48 Barley, Noi:2:. i aiiviins 531.@ 5514 LUMBER— | Plece Stufl. ... ..vaiivie. 600 @ U 26 JOlStS.c..coi i sivisavii i 12:00 Ay 13 o 0 Tlmbers. . i.. s anvesa . 2000001 00 Hemlocks.....v.viiiviiiiis, 600 @ 620 v lugth, DYy sliGsoaii i 1490 @ 170 Bhingles .. inlii e 1@ 20 : ST LOUIS, s 'CATTLE—Texas Steers......- 50 @ 3 10 Native 5teer5.............. 220 @ 4% HOGS .. e sviisgn 0200 @ 549 SHERP. ..o i ol 260 @ 2 7000 ~ OMAHA. : CATTLE—Steers........ ..... 00 @ 3880 TeEACTS. .. ivicteiinsvise 280 @ 265 HOGS: oo v ssviaidbanie s 450 @ 51D SHERP. ovsvievienaitsaa 02 80 @ 810

4T ASSIST NATURE ,’QQQ a little now and then BT in removing offend- . »@'; 2 ing matter from the ﬁ}? ,‘ ) sto&nach and Eowc}e]s iy and you . thereby ﬁ",;@‘u p avoid a multitude ’“';: w 9 of distressing de'ﬁ 7 e rangements and dis- ) ;{3@{},} eases, and will have g 25’ less frequent need P-"‘f-;“ P of your doctor’s 1 R service, g s Of all known R ] (| agents for this purW Ry fheae - gose, Dr. Pierce’s leasant Pellets are £ RIS the best. Once A Sw> fidm used, they are .al= s e ways in favor. ot #iomes ‘Their secondary efe goesid ) fect is to keep the S R bowels open and regular, not to further coustipate, as / . is the case with other pills. Hence, their great popularity with sufferers from habitual constipation piles and their attendant discomfort and manifold derangements. ‘The ‘ Pellets?”? are purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition of the system. No care is required while using them; they do not interfere with the diet, habits or occupation, and produce no pain, griping or shock to the sirstem. They act in a niild, easy and natural way and there is no reaction afterward. Their help Zasis. P The Pellets cure biliousness, sick and bilious headache, dizziness, costivenéss, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dyspepsia windy belchings, ‘‘heartburn,” pain and distress after éating, and kindred derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels. In proof of their superior excellence, it can be truthfully said, that they are always adopted as a household remedy afier the first trial. Put up in sealed, glass vials, therefore always fresh and reliable, One little *‘ Pellet”’ is a laxative, two are mildy cathartic. As a ‘dinner pill,” to promote digestion, or to relieve distress from overeating, take one after dinner. They are tiny, sugar-coated granules; any chilg will readily take them. ’ : Accept no substitute that may be recommended to be ‘‘just as good.” It may be better for the dealer, because of paying{im a better Froﬁt, but 4e is not the one who needs help. yosl ; :

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FOGG—“POVGI’t}’ is a misfortune, not a crime.” TFigg—*l don’t know about that; at any rate poverty has been the cause of much poetry writing.” Fogg—'‘You mean the writing of poetry has been the cause of much poverty.”’—Boston Transcript. ot

Improvements on the Nickel Plate Road. A New Throuﬁh Car line has been established over the Nickel Plate Road and D. L. & W. R. R. between Chicagoand New York City. With theformer through car line to New York via the West Shore R. R. and'a Boston Car run over the'West Shore-Fitch-burg Route unchanged, this Line will. beyond a doubt become an important factor in the eastbound passenger business. : . A Matchless Dining Car Service has been rearranged so as to best accommodate its gatrons, and with their old motto ‘A Perect Passenger Service at the Lowest Available Rates”’ the¥J will no doubt secure the patronage of the traveling public. When contemplating a trip East, write Mr. J. Y. Calahan, at 199 Clark St., Chicago, 111., or any Agent of the Nickel Plate Road, for rates, maps and full particulars.

Mr. TrorTEß—*‘l told you that Cholly’s attentions to Emily Brown would never amount to anything.” Mrs. Trotter—Well, ¥\ou were wrong again ; they frightened Dick aster into proposing at last, and Emily has accepted him.”—Harper's Bazar.

The Oldest System of Telegraphy Is that established between the brain and the nerves, which transmit instantaneously to the great organ of sensation and thought ever{; shock they experience. These electric shocks are very vivid, painfil and disturbing when the nerves are weak. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters strengthens, soothes and renders -the nerves tranquii. It induces sleep, sound digestionand apgetite, and conquers biliousness, malaria, rheumatism and kidney trouble.’ :

“Docror, ?’said Mrs. Weeds, “Ican’t get it out of my head that é)ossibly my poor dear husband was buried alive.” ‘‘Nonsense!” snorted Dr. Peduncle. “Didn’t I attend him myself in his last illness?’—Life. -

' He—**And am I really and trul‘s’rv the only man you ever loved?’ She—¢Well—er—l never had it seem so easy before.’’—lndianapolis Journal.

FroM a Legal Document.—*‘‘His only fault is that hehas no money ; butit must be added in extenuation that he never had any.”’— Fliegende Blaetter. Pt s e . 3 © McVicker’s Theater. ¢ ‘Mr. Jefferson will begin his annual tour on October 15, at McVicker's Theater. Itis more than likely that he will this year be seen in more characters than one. Frce—*Did I understand you to say that Impecune was meeting his bills nowadays?”’ Fogg—‘‘Yep; on every corner.”—Pittsburgh Chronicle Teiegraph. e > A ILITTLE boy, on returning from Sunday school said to his mother: ‘‘This catechism is too hard; isn’t there any kittychisms for little boys?’'—Tit-Bits. St “CpoLLy secems changed since his trip away, doesn’t he?’ Frances—‘‘lndeed he does—scems like another girl almost.”— Chicago Inter Ocean. : e s e et —— » “GarRLAND’ ‘Stoves and Ranges are no higher in price than the worthless imitations. Ask to see them. : el e EvERY youn%man should be taught that he cannot win his spurs in a game of poker. —Galveston News. : , Dox’t Neglecta Cough. Take Some Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar instanter. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. No AMOUNT of cultivation can make a thistle bear fruit.—Ram’s Horn. It is a pity that mirth is not as conta.gioua' as misery.—Milwaukee Journal. : i A e e . 3 Hall's Catarrh Cure L Is taken internally. Price 75c. L

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JILLSOXN saysthe girl whoseadorer tells her he loves ever&}xair in her head will befooled if she thinks lré won't kick like a ba¥l steer if ‘he should happen to find any of them in the biscuit after they are married.—Buffalo Courier. o . — BecAvUsE a man is industrious is no reason why we should choose him for an associate. Much as we admire the industry of a bee we do not care to cultivate his acquaintance.— Young Men's Era. - 7 ; e M “Now I know why-tpe milk we get here is.so weak,” said the agricultural editor to the farmer with whom he was boarding; “I just this minutesaw gnu give those cows water to drink.”—Philadelphia Record. | —_———— ; - “Why can't there be a fight without the shedding of blood?” asks #&ns.opponent of war. If he will ask any ﬁrominent pugilist he will find out exactly how the thing can be done.—N. Y. Tribune. : , A »maN who used to keep a cigar store re-, cently went into the butter business. He stag§ered his first customer by asking if he would have it ‘‘medium, mild or strong.”— Credit Lost. : LGt ‘“PARKER uses a great deal of cologne, it seems to me. - Awiul bad form!” saidgHawkins. ‘lt would ben you,” said Hicks, ‘“‘but it’'s family pride with Parker. He comes of old colognial stock.”—Harper’s Bazar. “Tals,’’ said the bachelor as he paid for sewing on a button, ‘‘is what is meant hy a single tux.”»—()leveiand Plain Dealer. You may safely love all men, but you may not safely tell all men so—unless ﬁou have left your purse athome.—Young Men’s JEra.

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