Ligonier Banner., Volume 36, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 February 1902 — Page 2

: e v o ¢ > The Ligonier Lanues LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. m The kaiser’s brass band will accompany Prince Henry on his American trip. This will give us an opportunity to hear how the ‘“Star Spangled Banner”. sounds in German. Amopg; those married in Chicago on a recent day were Thomas Kijanowski to Stanislawa Izedovek, Frank Wiszowaty to Jozefa Hoinowska, and John Wisniewski and Julijanna Wichlenska. Much joyski! v

A Paris dispatch says a scientist has discovered that the use of cigarettes made with coffee leaves will cure the tobacco habit. They are not unpleasant,can be smoked without injury, and produce an unconquerable aversion to tobacco. . ,

It is doubtful if history furnishes.a parallel to the case of the young man who has just returned voluntarily to serve out a sentence in the Indiana reformatory from which he escaped more than a year ago, since when he has served a.year in the British army in South Africa.

With-a very highly commendable local patriotism, State Representative Righter, of New Jersey, has written a book to prove that the bite of the maligned New Jersey mosquito is good for rheumatism. There is no doubt that it makes a man forget his rheumatism and every other ailment.

The ecommission the Englishman, Alfred Moseley, is organizing to visit the United States in the fall to investigate American industrial methods is a fine compliment to America. We are getting so many of these compliments nowadays that it will be a wonder if our heads do not become irretrievably swollen. ’

The post office department has issued an order that hereafter a written designation on the wrapper—such as ‘“book,” “printed matter” or ¢“photo”’—shall be construed as a permissible “nscription” upon mail matter of the third class. This revokes a previous eonstruction forbidding such writing. -

An interesting illustration of the quickness with which international strifes are forgotten is found in the fact that Spain has asked that the United States shall be specially represented at the festivities in honor of the coming of age of the young king in May next, and 'this government has promised to send a special commissioner. s '

The “swearing in” of new cabinet officers has taken on unwonted dignity of late. The oath of the present postmaster general was administered by the chief justice of the United States supreme court and that of the mew secretary of the treasury by Justice Shiras, of that court. A notary public could do it as well, and that used to be the custom.

An official anti-corset crusade has been inaugurated in France. It lis proposed to enact a law to forbid every woman under 30 years of age from wearing corsets. There’s strategy for you! Of course such a law would apply to practically all Frenchwomen, for what woman in her senses would acknowledge being more tlan 30, even to secure the privilege of wearing stays? One feature -of western civilization has just made its first appearance in Japan, where a native woman has brought suit for a breach of promise, hithetto an unknown procedure in the land of the chrysanthemum. The Jady in question is a wise young widow, who induced her well-to-do wooer to sign an agreement that in case either party wished to back out he or she should forfeit a sum of money to the other. The prospective bridegroom broke the engagement. .

Habitual drunkenness is' a direct cause for divorce in 35 states of the union. It could be extended to the remainder with great justice to women who occupy the unfortunate and hopeless position of the drunkard’s wife. The supreme court of West Virginia recently decided a case of this kind in favor of the wife, the deciding justice saying: “No woman is compelled to live' with that worst of all brutes—a drunken brute—to the peril of her health and life.” :

The city of Galveston has about made up its mind to accept the plans prepared by the board of engineers for the protection of the city from gulf storms such as overwhelmed it in September of 1900. The plans include the building of a sea wall along the gulf front of the city rising 17 feet above low water mark, and the raising of the city’s grade for 18 feet for 200 feet back from the water front with a gentle slope down to the sea wall. The improvement is to cost $3,500,000, and will make the city safe from all future storms. The first shoe factory in the United States was erected at Danvers, Mass., in 1786—just 116 years ago—and is still standing. Previous to that year all the footwear of the people of the United States was imported from England and France. Now the shoe industries of this country employ more capital and labor than all the industries of the United States employed in 1786. That indicates the unequal growth of industriés in this nation, and shows the lasting benefits that can be gained when the citizens will labor for the upbuilding of their own markets. The New York Times publishes in its literary supplement a list of gifts and bequests for public uses made in the United States during the year 1901, showing the enormous total of $107,360,000, far outdoing all pi'evious records. The highest previous record for any one year was $62,750,000. Of this total for 1901, Mr. Carnegie gave the colleges and libraries $31,000,000, his gifts to libraries alone having been nearly $14,000,000. The Times points out that this total of $107,360,000 equals one-third of the cost of the Boer war to England for the year,

The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION All the Latest News of Interest from Washington, From the East, the : West and the South. o THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. After a brief discussion the United Sfcates senate on the 4th passed the bill providing for a 25 per cent. increase in the salaries of United Sta_tes judges, and during the remainder of the session the urgent deficiency appropriation bill was under consideration. In the house Delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii, introduced a bill increasing annual salaries as follows: President of the United States, $100,000; vice president, $25,0600; cabinet officers, $15,000 each; members of congress, $lO,OOO. A joint resolution was introduced inviting Paul Kruger to visit the United States as a guest of the nation. The oleomargarine bill was further debated.

The United States senate on the sth passed the urgent deficiency bill, and a bill was introduced by Senator Hoar increasing the salaries of senators and members of the house to $7,500 and the salaries of the speaker of the house and the president pro tem of the senate to $15,000 each. The committee on foreign relations ordered a favorable report on the treaty to acquire the Danish West Indies. In the house a joint resolution was introduced providing for statehood for Cuba, and the oleomargarine bill was further discussed. The Philippine tariff bill caused another warm debate in the United States senate on the 6th between Senators Foraker, Hoar and Tillman. Senator Scott (W. Va.), in a speech advocated an investigation of the San Blas route for an isthmian canal. The house spent the day on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. Mr. Griflith (Ind.) introduced a bill to provide for coupon currency, in order that small sums, in multiples of five cents, may be conveniently sent by mail. FROM WASHINGTON. So far this season three hundred bills for public buildings have been introduced in congress, calling for an appropriation of $35,000,000. Of this amount Illinois’ share is $1,475,000; Towa, $1,818,000; Indiana, $1,325,000, and Wisconsin, $860,000. > Gov. Taft told the senate Philippine committee if political rights are to be granted to the islanders the ballot should be given.to women instead of the men. Publicity hasbeen givento the treaty for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The price to be paid is $5.000,000. It is acknowledged by the state department that negotiations for the release of Miss Stone have come to an end and that there is no present prospect that the brigands will be wiiling to reopen them. A

Gov. Taft informed the senate committee that the majority of the Filipinos favor American-rule.

The marriage of Miss Helen Hay, daughter of Seeretary Hay. and Payne Whitney, son of W. C. Whitney, took place in Washington. i THE EAST. . :On their way from Newport News to Boston three barges loaded with coal, were lost and crews of 13 persons were drowned. At the annual alumni dinner of Manhattan college in New York a priest scored Carnegie for not giving to Catholie schools. James E. Russell, a Brooklyn (N.Y.) doctor, offered his body to surgeons for purposes of vivisecticn for a year unless he dies sooner. | On'a farm near Depeyster, N. Y., gold assaying $75 a ton has been discovered. ; VEST AND SOUTH. F. E. Baker, of Indiana, took the oath of office in Chicago as United States circuit judge for the Seventh circuit. ,

At Ogden, Utah, four men wereg fatally injured in an explosion at the Pintsch gas works.. .

In Chicago gas mains exploded, wrecking two buildings and Xkilling Otto Trostel and his wife and six children and three other persons. Over twenty persons were injured. At Bloomington, 111., Merritt Chism, a wealthy man, has been convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment. In a message to the Minnesota legislature Gov. Van Sant gave the details of -the state’s fight against the railroad merger. :

Trustees of a church at Newmarket, Md., refused to permit it to be used for the funeral of a tuberculosis vietim.

In St. Louis three more bodies have been recovered from- the ruins of a fire, making seven in all. '

At Clarksville, Ark. three men robbed a bank of $6,000 and escaped, after killing the sheriff. . March 11 will be Illinois day at the Charleston exposition. At Waterloo, lowa, Mrs. Kushner and two children were burned to death. S s

At Lynchburg, Tenn., Euless Whittaker (colored), charged with the murder of John Dorster, was taken from jail and hanged by a mob. A judge in Cincinnati ruled that strikers must not employ persuasion or any other means to interfere with nonunion men desiring to work.

A moblynched Tom Brown (colored) at Nicholasville, Ky., for assaulting a white girl. . In Chicago 47 families were made homeless by a fire in a flat building. - Chicago’s health department is organizing a cooperative crusade to crush out smallpox in the middle west. With a reception at Knoxville, Tenn., Admiral Schley ended hia southern tour. : At Erwin, Tenn., Armstrong Hensley was hanged for the murder of his six-year-old stepdaughter,

Mrs. Dora Exteine, aged 104 years and 1 day and Mrs. Hannah Torrens, aged 104 years 7 months and 14 days, died in Toledo, O. In a fit of jealousy Joseph Kruml killed Mary Alexa in Chicago and then fatally shot himself, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. In Afghanistan Hadda Mullah, whose influence is said to dominate the ameer, is preaching holy war. In a speech Lord Salisbury declared England ready to accept any settlement in South Africa that recognized the rights of the sovereign and offered security to the empire.

Payment of Miss Stone’s ransom is blocked by the sultan of Turkey, and the United States government may ask for an explanation. The British have captured Gen. De Wet's last gun and his.chief lieutenant commander, Wessels.

The entire credit for preventing continental intervention before the Spanish-American war is claimed by Germany. o It is said that the Dutch government has given up the attempt to end the Boer war.

Japanese troops in Formosa killed between 300 and 400 bandits.

Up toJanuary 31 British lossesin the Boer war as officially given out. reach a total of 105,941 casualties, including surviving wounded. At Sofia the Bulgarian minister of public instruction was assassinated by a young man who failed to get a position he desired. The murderer committed suicide. . ‘ At Boca Chica, Colombia, 94 insurgent prisoners killed 17 guards and escaped. ] : LATER NEWSR, The Philippine tariff bill was further discussed in the United States senate »n the 7th and the pension appropriation bill was passed. In the house the iegislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, carrying $25,171,969, was passed and a bill for a national bureau of criminal identification in Washington was favorably reported, as was also a measure to suppress anarchy. : , J. Pierpont Morgan's special train ran from Philadelphia to New York, 90 miles, in 84 minutes. :

Miners’ delegates at Indianapolis adopted the report of the scale committee reaffirming last year’s rates without change. -

Frank Fennell killed Annie Johnson and himself at Great Falls, Mont., after a lover’s quarrel. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is ill with pneumonia at Groton, Mass., and. his mother left Washington for his bedside.

Frank Knapp, merchant and postmaster at Bertram, la., was run over and killed by a Northwestern train. -

Admiral Sampson filed a protest with the president against Admiral Schley’s claim that he was in command at the Santiago fight.

The Manila chamber of commerce sent an address to congress urging the sale of government lands to settlers.

Kaiser Wilhelm is taking steps to oppose the establishment of Christian Science in Germany.

Frederick Schultz was hanged at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., for the murder of Mrs. Craig, with whom he lived. :

Judge Taft, in explaining the situation in the Philippines, declared a tariff concession would greatly aid in the work of pacification.

President Roosevelt will not render a decision in the Schley case until his return from the Charleston exposition. e

Fire destroyed the Rock Island railroad ear works in Horton, Kan., the loss being $250,000, and P. . McKeon and W. H. Davis perished in the flames.

Capt. Grossman, an army officer, walked 20 miles on the Danube river with his newly invented shoes, towing a small boat.

- There were 247 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 7th, against 303 the week previous and 250 the corresponding week of last year. MINOR NEWS ITEM 3. Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn” are to be dramatized. A Chinese dressed as a woman attempted to enter Ogdensburg, N. Y., from Canada. : Local capitalists will construct a $lO,000,000 bridge across the St. Lawrence river at Montreal. Millions of: acres in Louisiana, California and Texas are offered to homeseekers by railroads. ; New York capitalists will construct a $10,000,000 bridge across the St. Lawrence river at Montreal. The Chinese government refused to pay $38,000 in salaries due foreign professors of the Imperial university. An arbitration board of preachers awarded a Baptist pastor at Portsmouth, Va., $250 f0r.202 sermons lost in a railroad wreck. A St. Louis judge ruled in a damage case against a street railway company that “smooth” nickels must be accepted at their face value.

The sum of nearly $1,000,000 was sent by postal orders from persons in the United States to friends in Norway during the year 1901. Prison guards at South McAlester, Ind. T., prevented the escape of 142 convicts by firing upon them. Two were shot and the rest surrendered. L. E. Cooley says 25,000 Americans can engage in profitable business along the Nicaragua canal right of way. Peace has been practically agreed upon by the big copper companies and a consolidation 'similar to the steel trust is reported under way. Foreign concerns are interested. : Steamship lines plying between America and England have reached an agreement and advanced freight rates. A material increase in carrying charges for grain,flour and provisions is made. Prof. Charles W. Pearson, of Northwestern university in Chicago, in a proposed book, “The Carpenter Prophet,” rejects virgin birth, divinity of Christ, miracles in general and the ascension. A British author has started a controversy over Bhakespeare’s writings, claiming that the great poet was a reincarnation of the Messiah, and that s

STRIKE IS AVERTED. Threatened Trouble in the Coal Fields Is Over. Conference of Operators and Miners ! at Indianapelis, After Long Deadlock, Adopts Last " Year’'s Scale, ; Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. B.—After a stormy session lasting until after midnight, during which there was talk of a great national strike, the United Mine Workers of America adopted the report of the joint scale committee made Friday night, thereby reaffirming<the scale agreement of last year without change. The report was decided upon at a meeting of the scale committee late in the afternoon. The miners had demanded a ten per cent: increase of wages, but their efforts in this direction had been successfully resisted by the operators.

President Mitchell called the delegates to order early in the evening and they at once went into executive session. When the report of the committee was read by Vice President Lewis, head of the miners’ scale committee, a furor ensued, and if the vote had been taken at that time the strong strike sentiment existing would have been manifested by an overwhelming vote to reject the report.

At least 20 miners were on ‘their feet at one time demanding recognition of the chair, but President Mitchell called them to order, and in a speech urged calmness in acting upon. the report. He said he thought it was best that the report as read be adopted. Vice President Lewis also urged the ‘adoption of the report as themost plausible and rational settlement of a complicated situation. W. D. Ryan, of Illinois; W. D. Reese, of llowa, and Secretary-Treasurer Wilson also advised the adoption of the report. j Finally, at 11:30, when the vote was taken there were but few who voted against the adoption of the report. The report as adopted provides for the following rate prices for miningi coal:

Mining Coal.—Pick mining, 80 cents per ton thin wvein, Pittsburg; 80 cents a ton, Hocking valley; 80 cents a ton, Indiana bituminous; % cents a ton, Indiana block. Run of Mine.—Forty cents a ton, Indiana bituminous; 40 cents a ton, Danville, Ill.; b 7 1-7 cents, Hocking valley, when run of mine exists; 513 cents, Pittsburg district. :

No change was made in the machine mining scale from last year, with the exception that a provision was made that where differences occur the same shall first be acted upon by the districts. The action taken Friday night will be presented as a matter of form to the joint .conference this morning at Tomlinson hall, where it will be ratified, and members of both sides on the scale committee appointed to draw up the contract for the next year.

N DISASTROUS FIRE. : Dig Car Works at Horton, Kan., De~ stroyed—Loss $250,000-Two Men Dead. . Horton, Kan., Feb. B.—Fire in the big car works of the Rock Island raiiroad Friday afternoon caused the death of two persons and the destruction of a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of property. The dead are P. H. McKeon, president of the board of education, and W. H. Davis, the oldest employe of the car works. McKeon lost his life in trying to save Davis. o It was thought that all the 300 employes had gotten out of the burning building safely when the absence of Davis, a prominent member of the working force, was noticed. McKeon, a spectator, remembered’in what part of the building he had last seen Davis, and, against the advice of his friends, made a futile effort torescue the workman. McKeon ran into the building through the smoke and flames, butina few moments regained the open air without Davis. McKeon’s heroic effort cost him his life, as he diéd from the effects of inhaling smoke. PRINCE AND PRESS. They Are to Be Entertained at a Banquet Given by New York Staats Zeitung, February 20, - New York, Feb. B.—Plans for the dinner in honor of Prince Henry, to be tendered the American press by the New York Staats Zeitung February 26, are nearing completion. = More than 1,400 invitations have been sent to representatives of daily papers throughout the country, .and the following ‘toasts have been arranged:

‘“Weltome to Our Distinguished Guest,” by Herrhan Ridder. Responded to by Prince Henry. “The Emperor of Germany and the Precident of the United States,”’ responded to.by Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune. ! ‘““The Press—the Tie That Binds,” responded to by St. Clair McKelway, of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. ; “*Saxon Blood—What We Owe to Germany in Literature, Art, Science and Music,”” responded to by Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadephia Press. ‘“‘lnternational Amity,”’ responded to by Charles W. Knapp, of the St; Louis Republic. ] Prominent Boer Leader Caught. Matjesfontein, Cape Colony, Feb. 8. —Lourens Erasmus, better known under the name of Commandant Marais, has been captured in the mneighborhood of Laingsburg. Marais was the leader of the Boers who operated in the Zwart Kop range in 1901. Knocked from Train and Killed. Chattanpoga, Tenn.; Feb. 8Charles M. Nelson, aged 33 years, supposed to be from P‘mouth, Mich., was knocked from the top of a Cincinnati Southern train at the outskirts of this city by a bridge and was killed. : To Restrict Polygamy, i Washington, Feb. B.—The movement for strong federal restriction of polygamy by means of an amendment to the constitution has taken form again, and in response to many petitions and letters urging action the house committee on judiciary has fixed February 25 for a hearing on the subject. , Wants Seat in Cabinet, . Washington, Feb. B.—lllinois will ask recognition in the cabinet should the proposed department of commerce be created, and Senators Cullom and Mason are hopeful of favorable presiden-

SAMPSON FILES A BRIEF. His Lawyers Place Short Docament on Schley Case in Hands of JPresident. Washington, Feb. B.—E. S. Theall, representing Stayton & Campbell, counsel for Rear Admiral Sampson, called at the white house Friday and filed with the president a brief in the Schley case. The document is short, and, while it has not ben made publie, it can be stated that it is devoted entirely to one subject, namely,a protest against the claim set up in Admiral Schiey’s appeal that he was.imsupreme command during the battle of Santiago. The paper will be considered by the president id connection with Admiral Schley’s appeal and the navy department's comment.

The principal point in the briefis the allegation that it was Sampson’s custom when moving about among his fleet to hoist the signal “Disregard movements of flagship,” but that he invariably hoisted a specific signal when going beyond signal distance of his fleet directing the second in command to assume command. The brief says this signal had been brought on deck of the New York, but had not been hoisted when the New York returned to join in the battle. . : :

President Roosevelt’s decision inthe Schley case will not be made public until after his return from Charleston.

. Washington, Feb.B.—Secretary Long Friday issued the following order regarding the retirement of Rear Admiral Sampson:

Navy Department. Washington, Feb. T, 1902.—Sir: In notifying you of your retirement, the department recognizing your services and deeply sympathizing with you in your impaired health, quotes with pleasure the following letter of the late President McKinley: The letter thus referred to is one in which President McKinley commended Admiral Sampson for his services in the West Indian campaign and recognized the admiral as commander of the fleet at the time of the Santiago battle. Washington, Feb. B.—lt was stated authoritatively late Friday that what, had been used as a basis for the reports of a serious change for the worse in the condition of Admiral Sampson was a slight attack of indigestion which caused no alarm among those nearest him, but which confined him to his room and bed for several days. Moreover, it was stated that Admiral Sampson’s condition was much improved Friday, and that he appears brighter than for some time past. It is confidently expected that he will be able to come downstairs to his meals today, and it is said that as soon as the streets dry the admiral will resume his daily walks, which have been interrupted by the attack of indigestion and the bad state of the weather. However, it may be stated that Admiral Sampson’s general condition is such as to give some basis of fact to the ever recurring bad reports. Yet, at present, it is said, absolutely no forecast of the end of the fight his vitality is waging can be made. ;

WORDS OF CENSURE. The New York Central Company ‘Scored in Connection with the Recent Tunnel Disaster, Albany, N. Y., Feb. B.—The state board of railroad commissioners on Friday handed down its decision regarding the recent disaster in the New York Central railroad tunnel in New York city. The decision censures the company for allowing an inexperienced engineer to run a train through the tunnel and recommends that at some time in the future the roof be taken off the tunnel, using bridges at intersecting streets. However, in this connection it says that such a change would be intolerable unless electricity is substituted as the motive power for trains and’recommends legislation to allow such” change. The commission finds that the company “has been negligent, derelict and unprogressive in failing to take measures to increase its terminal facilities;,” and that it has also been negligent in “failing to examine more closely into the qualifications of new engineers.” The commission points to the interesting fact that in 1901 there were 177,450 trains moved through the tunnel, an average of over 486 per day Therefore, the commission says, the B. & O. tunnel at Baltimore and. the Liverpool tunnel under the river Mersey bear no comparison to the New York Central tunnel in respect to traffic. ;

New York, Feb, B.—~-Eight actions for damages, amounting in the aggregate to $185.000 for injuries received in the wreck in the New York Central railroad tunnel in this ¢ity on January 8, were.commenced in the supreme court at White Plains Friday. In Favorable Condition. Cleveland, 0., Feb. B.—The experts employed by the bankers’ committee of the Everett-Moore syndicate. to examine into the physical and financial condition of the Federal Telephone company, and its 23 subsidiary companies, have made a partial report. All of the plants now in operation are said to be in the best possible physiecal condition and with one or two exceptions_the = '~idiary companies are said to be ecarning from fair to excellent returns on investments. » Sent to Prison, New York, Ifeb. B.—G. Arthur Hill, the Washington clerk pardoned by President Roosevelt from a Washington prison on the plea that he was dying from consumption and afterwards brought to this city charged with petty larceny, wason Friday sentenced to six months in the penitentiary by Judge Foster, in general sessions. A Geénerous Landlord. Chicago, leb. 8.-—Thomas Byrne, owner of the University flats which was destroyed by fire Thursday night, gave each of the 47 families burned out $lOO. ]

Stranded Ship to Become Museum. New York, Feb. B.—The British ship Scindia, which went ashore at Ocean City, N. J.. some weeks ago, and which it has been found impossible to float, will become a museum. It will be a fixture on the beach, to which it wiil be connected by a pier. : Minneapolis Hotel Burned, Minneapolis, Minn.,, leb. B.— Fire gutted the Vendome hotel, a threestory building on Fourth street, between Hennepin and Nicollet avenues, early Friday, Many guests in the hotel had narrow escapes. Loss esti Wfififl%@é3 e s s bRI e :!,}i‘«.‘.» pnr,h“ SR S O E

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Handsomest Calendar of the Season, The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. has issued a beautiful Calendar in six sheets 12x14 inches, each sheet having a ten color picture of a popular actress. —reproductions of water colors by Leon Moran. The original pafffi%figs are owned by and the Calendars are issued under the Railway Company’s copyright. A limited edition will be sold at 25 cents per calendar of six sheets. Will be mailed on receipt of price.—F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. L = . - - An Accident. - ! " “Oh, John!” exclaimed the bride as the engine pulled ahead and whirled them away from their friends, “I've torn my dress!”’ “I thought something would happen when %ouf stepped on the train,” he replied.— -Baltimore News. | :Re g R Comfortable, Convenient Trains ‘ with Pullman Sleepers and dining cars'attached, leave Chicago daily from Central Station, 12th St. and Park Row (Lake ‘Front) via Wisconsin Central Ry., at convenient -hours for St. Paul, Minneapolis, -Ashland, Duluth and the Northwest. Ticket agents can give you further information, Jas. C. Pond, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Milwaukee, Wis. : ; l —_— Dick—“l say. Harry, I suppose you haven’t a dollar you want to lend me?” Harry—“By George, you've guessed right. Dick, with. your ability to see into the future you ought to be worth your weight in money.”’—Boston Transeript. : - e 3 - York, Pa., Nov. 28, 1901. _ We constder Piso’s Cure for Consumption a household necessity, and cannot speak too highly of it.—J. L. Bower, 4 North Water Street. . - : g g The more conspicuously the jewel of con~ sistency is worn the more likely it is to be paste.—lndianapolis News.

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