Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 August 1899 — Page 7

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The Rattlefleld floate. The veterans of C1 and 63 and their friends who are going to attend the thirty-third 0. A. II. annual encampment at Philadelphia ia September could not select a better nor more histoilc route than the Big Four and Chesapeake & Ohio, with splendid service from Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis on the Big Four, all connecting at Indianapolis or Cincinnati, and thence over the picturesque Chesapeake & Ohio, along the Ohio river to Huntington, W. Va.; thence through the foothills cf the Alleghanies over the mountains, through the famous

eprings region of Virginia to Staunton, Va., between which point and Washington are many of thr most prominent battlefields Waynesboro, Gordonsville, Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock, Kettle Run, Manassas, Rull Run. Fairfax and a score of others nearly as prominent. Washington is next, and thence via the Pennsylvania Ilne direct to Philadelphia. There will be three rates in effect for this business first, continuous passage, with no stop-over privilege; second. going and coming sarr. route, with one stop over in each direction; third, circukous route, going one way and back another, with one stop-over in each direction. For full information as to routes, rate?, etc., address J. C. Tucker, G. N. A.. 234 Clark street, Chicago. , Altered Since UN IMay Day. It was in Malta harbor on a sultry day that a four-foot-eight midshipman came to join his first sea-going ship. Having duly reported himself to his captain an officer of some six feet two inches the latter, literally looking down tipou the boy, said: "Well, youngster, so you've come to join eh?" "Yes, if you please, sir," meekly responded the midshipman. "What is it same old yarn, sent the feel of the family to sea eh?" "No, sir," ingenuously replied the youngster. "Oh, r.o; things have altered since your time, sir." "Co away!" roared the captain, and the middy flew below a fast as his little legs would carry him. Fpare Moments, Chicago Crcat "Western Increase. The earnings of Chicago Great Western Ry., "Maple Leaf Route." lor the second week of July, 1899, show an increase of ?2G,oOD.74. Total increase since beginning of fiscal year (July 1st) to date $61,355.43. Circular issued today by S. C. Stickney. General Manager of the Chicago Great Western, announces the appointment of Mr. Tracy Lyon as General Superintendent, vice Mr. Raymond Du Puy resigned to accept service with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. At the same time a circular has been issued by Tracy Lyon, General Superintendent, appointing Mr. David Van Alstine Master Mechanic, vice Tracy Lycn promoted. I!. A O. Kailroad I st Crude Oil. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad Is now using crude oil on its tracks, though not so extensively a.s lines which do not use crushed stone for ballast. There are many road crossings, stations, etc., where dust flies üfter the passage of fast trains, and these places are being heavily coated with oil. Fo far the results have been gratifying. Heuert Arres Reclaimed. More than 2,000,000 acr?s of the Sahara desert have been made useful for raising crops with the aid of artesian wells. The smile of love becomes a frown nhen the cupboard is bare. IT iA A A A DOCS V01IP r. Uikad Ac&e ? I Are your nerves weak? Can't you sleep well? Pain in your back? Lack energy? Appetite poor? Digestion bad? Boils or pimples? These are sure signs of poisoning. From what poisons? From poisons that are always found in constipated bowels. If the contents of the bowels are not removed from the body each day, as nature intended, these poisonous substances are sure to be absorbed into the blood, always causing suffering and frequently causing severe ' ' A N N 4 4 4 4 A A 4 disease. mere is a cjramon sense cure. They daily insure an easy and natural movement of the bowels. You will find that the use of 'arsa&ariüd 4 J with the pills wi?i hasten recovery. it titausts mblocd from all impurities and is a great tonic to the nerves. Wrl.'o tho Bo'or. Ovr Medical Tparttnpnt has ort of tue inrt eminent physicians in Vii I'nited Slate. Tell the doctor Juit how yim r nuttcrine. Voa will retrieve tho Iwst medical adfice without cost. Addrvs. in:. J. ater. LowCU, Mass. 4 V b-j lj ii mß v y y v .A r r afatOa&aatC BATTLEof MANILA Wabash Ave.. S. of Auditorium. Chicago. A 'wcuUerfiil reproduction of tin, frrcatent naval Victory la history. J 'fwey'B voyage from Honst Kon across the Chinese pea. A tropical Minuet. The tilsc tyrhoon at nti;nt with new and startling electrical effect. The American fleet ensuring the fcpar'hhattcrles at th entrance of Manila Pay. Tin Kayoi Manlia lv moonlight. The wonderful lljrhtlni; effects La Old Manila and t'avlte at nfirht. Tropical tainrlse. The dlocovery and complete destruction of the spanl.sh üeetoS C av ite. Open f ruin a.m. tu lu r.x. a dlUsi WHtUf AI (Kf lillSL 17.1 Best CuuKb By run. Tastes Uood. Use 1In time. Hold tir drmririta.

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LIKE BANQUO'S GHOST.

Question of Conductors and Fenuloa to the Fore Again. It was in a suburban trolley last Sunday that the question of the conductor's reluctance to receive pennies in change came up again, says th New York Herald. This penny question is like Banquo's ghost and will not down. A woman passenger had given the conductor a nickel and five pennies for two fares. "I would rather change $" for yen, madam, than take those pennies," the conductor said, in a grumbling yet perfectly respectful tone. "Why?" asked the woman. "Because the company will not take them from us. That is the only objection I have to railroading. We must turn in nickels or silver when our work is done." "Rut why do you not sometimes give those pennies to men? You always palm them off on women." ' Well, the women always seem to keep them specially for us. Now, if the public could only know what a trial they are to u sometimes they might understand our reluctance to take them. For instance, one of the extras, a man who had been out of work for a long time, after making the number of trips required of him, found he had fifteen pennies among his change. lie did not have a cent belonging to himself, and there was no money at home, and the pay that was coming to him at the office for his week's work was needed by his wife and children for bread. They would not take the pennies at the office, and he could not draw his pay until his fares were accounted for. When, after considerable trouble, he got three nickels for fifteen pennies and returned to the company's office it was closed, and he had to go home without his pay." SEWED A BUTTON On Her 1'iiiger villi a Machine That Ilm lie. I it to the 1 lesh. New York Sun: Kosie Pierre, 1C years old, of 341 Madison street, met with a singular accident in Joseph Klein & Co.'s tailor shop, at C2G Broadway, yesterday. She was putting buttons on trousers, using for that purpose a machine that stamps them on and clinches them on the other side. She got her hand into the machinery. It did not stop. It went right on. Tho next button was sunk deep into flesh of the last joint of her index finger, and clinched all right on the nail side. "With it so fixed she was taken over to police headquarters. The button was fastened as if it were never to come off. An ambulance was sent for, but the surgeon knew of no way to get It off. He took her over to St. Vincent's hospital. The surgeons at the hospital cut the button out. It had been clinched into the f.eh, and it was necessary to put the girl under ether to perform the operation. ARISTOCRATS IN TRADE. The duke of Northumberland, the heir of all the Percys, with a direct descent from one of William Is favorites, has a reputation for excellent butter, says Tit-Bits, and the ducal brand is in great demand within a radius of many miles from Lyon House, Brentford. The most noble the marquis of RIpon has an ideal dairy at his seat, Studley Royal; and its products, yellow butter and delicious cream, are sold in two dairy sTiops, one in Leeds and the other at Ripon. Another marquis still better known in the world of trade is Lord Londonderry, whose coal is as unimpeachable as his family escutcheon. Time was when the earl of Hardwicke, as Viscount Royston, was a cigar merchant. He has now transferred his energies to Capel Court and is half stock broker and half newspaper owner. The earl of Harrington supplements his income from 13,000 acres by the profits of a green grocery shop at Charing Cross, to which the fruits and vegetables grown at his Derby seat, Elvaston Castle, find their way. The earl of Ranfurly has for many years been an active and successful fn.it grower at Moldura. Victoria. His farm there is the envy and pride of the fruit colony, and its condition is due very largely to the earl's own personal work on it. The seventeenth earl of Caithness has been literally nursed as a farmer, and is prouder cf his American ranch, covering over twenty square miles, the fruit of his years of hard work, than of Iiis earl's coronet. The last earl of Seafield was a bailirf and small farmer in New Zealand, and his successor, the young earl of today, iz also engaged in industrial pursuits at Oamaru. The late Viscountess Hampden, when ho was released from the exacting post of speaker of the house of commons, turned his attention to milk and butter, and his (Ilynde dairy was noted for its excellence. Lord Rayleigh. the great scientist and brother-in-law to Mr. A. J. Bal four, takes a? much interest in mi!k as in argon and the doings of the Royal society. lintel Keepi'r Dock All 111 Own Work. Vinalhaven, Me., has a ho.-l proprietor who docs all his carpei.tcr work, paints his house, drives his hack to the ferry, or will take passengers to North Haven, nine miles distant. He does all his cooking and chamberwork, and one morning recently got up in the morning and got breakfast for his two boarders and family of five, ana then did his weekly clothes washing, Invin.g It on the line to dry before many of the people in the town were up. At 9 o'clock he went down town and bought articles for dinner, and while these were cooking the landlord amused himself by scrubbing tho floor of the hotel office. No Diatiirlmnee. Mrs. Gofrequent Your husband goes out a good deal, doesn't he? Mrs. Seldom-Holme Yes, but we always have seats next to the central aisle, and It never disturbs anybody.

TALMAGK'S SERMON.

"BUYERS AND SELLERS." LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. 'It 1 Naught, It Is Naught S.iyclli the liuyer, but When He 1 (Jone III Way, Then lie Uo:tet h" l'rov. SO: 14. (Copyright lr:t by Iu:i? Klop.h.) I'alaces are not such prisons as the world imagines. If you think that tho only time kings and queens come forth from the royal gates is in proce.-sicn and gorgeously atter.ded, you are mistaken. Jncognitio. by day or by night, and clothed in citizen's apparel, or the dress of a working woman, they come cut and see the world as it is. In no other way could King Solomon, the author of my text, have known everything that was going on. From my text, I am sure he must, in disguise, some day have walked into a store of ready made clothing, in Jerusalem, and stood near the counter, and heard a conversation between a buyer and a seller. The merchant put a price on a coat, and the customer began to dicker and said: "Absurd! that coat is not worth what you ask for it. Why, just look at the coarseness of the fabric! ! See that spot on the collar! Besides that, it does not fit! Twenty dollars for that? Why, it is not worth more than ten. They have a better article than that, and for lower price, down at Clothem, Fitem &. Brother's. Besides that, I don't want it at any price. Cood morning." "Hold." said th merchant; "do not go off that way. I want to sell you that coat. I hav some payments to make and I want the money. Come, now, how much will you give for that coat?" "Well," said the customer, "I will split the difference. You asked twenty dollars, and I said ten. Now, I will give you fifteen." "Well." said the merchant, "it is a great sacrifice, but take it at that price." Then the customer with a loll under his arm started to go out i.nd enter his own place of business, and Solomon in disguise followed him. He heard the customer as he unrolled the coat say: "Boys, I have made a jreat bargain. How much do you guess I gave, for that coat?" "Weil," said Cue, wishing to compliment his enterprise, "you gave thirty dollars for it." Another says. "I should think you got it cheap if you gave twenty-five dollars." "No," said the buyer, in triumph. "I got it to: fifteen dollars. I beat him down and pointed out the imperfections, until I really made him believe it was not worth hardly anything. Tt takes me to make a bargain. IIa! IIa!" Ü. mar, you got the goods for Je-s than they are worth 1 positive falsehood; and no wonder. when Solomon went back to his p:i!ace and had put off his disguise, that he sat down at his writing desk and made for all ages a crayon sketch of you. "It. is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way. then he boa-:teth." There are no higher styles of men in all the wo: Id than those no,v at the head of the mercantile enterprises in the great cities of this continent. Their casual promise is as t'oo.l as a band with piles cf collaterals. Their reputation for integrity is as well established as that of Petrarch residing in the family of Cardinal Colonna. It is related that when there was great disturbance in the family, the cardinal called all his people together, and put them under oath to tell the truth, except Petrarch; when he came up to swear, the cardinal put away his book and said: "As for you Petrarch, your r,'ord is sufficient." Never since the world stood have there been so many merchants whose transactions can stand the test of the ten commandments. Such bargain-makers are all the more to be honored, because they have withstood, year after year, temptations which have flung so many flat, and flung them so hard, they can never recover themselves. While all positions in life have powerful besetments to evil, there are specific forms of allurement which are peculiar to each occupation and profession, and it will be useful to speak of the peculiar temptations of business men. First, as in the scene of the text, business men are often tempted to sacrafice plain truth, the seller by exaggeiating the value of the goods, and the buyer by depreciating them. We cannot but admire an expert salesman. See how he first induces the customer into a mood favorable to the proper consideration of the value of the good-?. He shows himself to be an honest and frank salesman. How carefully the lights sre arranged until they fall just right upon the fabric! Beginning with goods of medium quality, he gradually advances towards those of more thorough make and of more attractive pattern. How he watches the moods and whims f his customer! With whit perfect calmness he takes the order, and bows the purchaser from his presence, who goes away having made up his mind that he has bought the goods at a price which will allow him a living margin when he again sells them. The goods were worth what the salesman said they were, and were sold at a price which will not make it necessary for the house to fail every ten years in order to fix up things. But with what burning Indignation we think of the iniquitous stratagems by which goods are sometimes disposed of. A glance at the morning papers shows the arrival at one of our hotels of a young merchant from one of the inland cities. He is a comparative stranger in the great city, and, of course, he must be shown around, anil it will be the duty of some of our enterprising houses to escort him. He is a large parchaser and has plenty of time and money, and it will pay to be very attentive. The evening is spent at a place of doubtful amusement. Then they go back to the hotel. Having just come to town, they must, of course, drink. A friend from the same mercantile establishment drops in, and usage and generosity suggest that they must drink. Business prospects are talked over, and the stranger is warned against certain dilapidated mercantile establishments that are about to fail, and for such kindness ad magnanimity of caution agaiust the dishonesty of other business couaea, of course It Is expected they

will and so they do take a drink. Other merchants lodging in adjoining rooms find it hard to sleep for the clatter of decanters, and the coarse carousal of these "hail fellows well met" waxes louder. But they sit not all night at the wine cup. They must see the sights. They stagger forth with flushed cheeks and eyes bloodshot. The outer gates of hell open to let in the victims. The wings of lo-;t souls iiit among the lights, and the

steps of the carousers sound with the J rumbling thunders of the lost. Fare- ! well to the sanctities of home! Could j mother, sister, father, slumbering in j the inland home, in some vision of that j night catch a glimpse of the ruin j wrought, they would rnd our their hair by the roots and bite the tongue till the blood spurted, shrieking out: "God save him!" What suppose you. will com? upon such business fitablishments? and there are hundreds of them in the cities, l hey may boast of fahuhms sales, and they may have an unprecedented run of buyers, and the ranie cf the house may he a teiror to all rivals, and from ibis thrifty root there, may spring up branch houses in other cities, and all the partners of the firm may move into their mansions and drive their full-blooded span, and the families may sweep the street with the most elegant apparel that human art ever wove, or earthly magnificence ever achieved. But a curse is gathering surtly for those men, and if it does not seize hold of the pillars and in one wild ruin bring down the temple of commercial glory, it will break up their peace, and they will trembie with sickness and b'.oat with dissipations, and, pushed to the precipice of this life, they will try to hoM back and cry lor help, but no help will come; and they will clutch their gold to take it along with them, but it will be snatched from their grasp, and a voice will sound through their soul, "Not a farthing, thou beggared spirit!" And the judgment will come and they will stand aghast before it, and all the business iniquities cf a lifetime will gather around them, saying, "Do you remember this?" and "Do you remember that?" And clerks that they compelled to dishonesty, and runners and draymen .and bookkeepers who saw behind the scenes, will bear testimony to their nefarious deeds, and some virtuous soul that once .stood aghast at the splendor and power of these business men will say. "Alas! this is all that is left of that great firm that occupied a block with their merchandise and overshadowed the city with their influence, and made righteousness and truth and purity fall under the galling fire of avarice ard crime." Vhi!e we admire and approve of a!l acuierif ss and tact in the sale of goods. we must condemn any process by which a fabric or product is represented as posse-sing a value which it really does not have. Nothing but sheer falsehood can represent as perfection boots that rip. silks that speedily lose their lustre, calicoes that immidiately wash out. stoves that crack under the first hot fire, books insecurely bound, carpets that unravel, old furniture rejuvenated with putty and glue, and so'd as having been recently manufactured, gold watches made oat of brass, barrels cf fruit, the biggest apples on the top, wine adulterated with strychnine, hosiery poorly woven, cloths of domestic manufacture shining with foreign labels, imported goods represented as rare and hard to get, because foreign exchange is so high, rolled out on the counter with matchless display. Imported indeed! but from the factory in the next streei. A pattern already unfashionable and unsalable palmed otf as a new print upon some country merchant who lias come to town to make his first purchase of drygoods and going home with a large stock of goods warranted to keep. Again business men are often tempted to let their calling interfere with the interests of the soul. God sends men into the business world to get educated, just as boys an sent to school and college. Purchase and sale, loss and gain, disappointment, prosperity, the dishonesty of others, panic, and blank suspension, are but different lessons in the school. The more business the more means of grace. Many have gone through wildest panics unhurt. "Are you not afraid you will break?" said some one to a merchant in time of great commercial excitement. He replied, "Aye, I shall break when the fiftieth p-a'm breaks, in the fifteenth verse, 'call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee. " The store and the counting house have developed seme of tne most stalwart characters. Perhaps originally they had but little spriglitlincss and force, but two or three hard business thumps woke them up from their lethargy, and there came a thorough .feTC?Qpment in their hearts of all that was good and holy and energetic and tremendous, and they have become the front men in Christ's army, as well as lighthouses in the great world of traffic. But business has been perpetual depletion to many a man. It first pulled out of him all benevolence, next all amiability, next all religious aspirations, next all conscience, an.! though he entered his vocation with larse heart and noble character, he goes oui cf it a skeleton enough to scare a ghost. Men appreciate tho importance of having a good business stand, a store on the right side of the street, or in the right block. Yet every place t,f business is a good stand for spiritual culture. God's angels hover over the world of traffic to sustain and build up those who are trying to do their duty. Tomorrow if in your place of worldly engagement you will listen for it, you ma heard a sound louder than the rattle of drays and the shuflle of fVet and the chink of the dollars stealing into your soul, saying: "eek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you." Yet some of those sharpest at a bargain are cheated out of their immortal blessedness by stratagems more palpable than any "dropgame" of the street. They make investments in things, everlastingly below par. They put their valuable in a safe not fire-proof. They give full credit to influence that will not be able to pay one cent on the dollar.

They plunge into a labyrinth frrus which no bankrupt law or "twothirds enactment" will ever extricat them. They take into their partnership the world, the flesh and the devil, and the enemy of all righteoasne-ra will boast through all ages that the man who in all his business life could not be outwitted, at last tumbled into spiritual defalcation, and was swindled cut of heaven. Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New York in $33. Aged men teil us that it bewared all description. cSome stood on the housetops of Brooklyn and looked at the red ruin that swept

uown tue streets and threatened to oj- . literate the metropolis, lint the corn- 1 men ial world will yot be startled by a r rafcr e.mfl i nfirm .von ?'m i-,if . . . . one. Bills of exchai ge. policies of inMtrance. mortgages and bonds and government securities, will be consumed in one lick of the flam p. The i Bourse and the United Suites mint will j turn to ashes. Gold will run molten i into the dust of the street. Exchanges I and sr:mite blocks of ninvh:in.!;.-:e wul fall with a crash that will make the earth t:enible. The flashings of the great light will show the righteous the way to their thrones. Their best treasures in heaven, they will go up and take possession of them. The toils of business life, which racked their brains and rasped their nerves for so many years, will have forever ceased. "There the wicked cease from troubling and tho wearv are at lest." TAXATION IN ITALY. Poor l":y Twice as Much Proportional! ly as the Huh. Xot only is everything taxed in Italy, but the taxes are so arranged that in the words of Sig. Ciolitti, the poor pay in proportion twice as much as the rich, says the Gentleman's Magazine. For in Italy it is the necessaries of life at least we should consider them as such the bread, the meat and the sugar, which pay, while the luxuries, though greatly taxed, too. bring in a comparatively small amount. One luxury, indeed, is an rx.-e-ption the Italian state lottery, in w h : a.i trasses of the community. down to the very poorest who can scrape 20 ccntesimi together, take tickets every wfk. A brilliant Italian novelist. Matilde Srrao. has shown in her admirable "Paese di Cuccagna," and in some cf her shorter stories, the far-reaching Inrm this system of state-encourage:! gambling causes, th? superstitions which it engenders, and the depr ; tion v.hich it sometimes r.ece.-.sitatc-s Hut it brings in C0.000.0O0 lire a year to the government, and all but the smallest places in Italy have their banco lotto, where tickets for Saturday's draw at the eight "wheels" can be taken, and where, on Sunday, lists of winning numbers, with perhaps a yellow and a red roe against those held by local gamblers, may be seen. But after all the lotto i; optional, while the taxes are not. So bread and sugar cost about thrice what they do in England, the sopratassa in railway tickets makes traveling in Italy dearer than anywhere else, while salt is heavily mulcted for revenue purposes. Hence genuine discontent arises, though here it is necessary to distinguish. In spite of the assertions of the Secolo and the other advanced papers, the right view appears to be so Milanese eyewitnesses of last year's riots inform me that whereas in most other places and especially in the south, the disturbances were ically due to want of food and abject poverty, there, on the contrary, where trade is much more flourishing and work much more plentiful than elsewhere, the agitation was industriously fomented for political ends. PECULIAR DRESS. YVh.it thu .Native In JHicron-si;i YV-nr to Church. Miss Elizabeth Baldwin, on her arrival at Ituk, wrote as follows of the native church" at that station, which serves also as a school house for the boys, says the Missionary Herald: "The church holds about 250 and is always well filled at service. Quite a number attend the services who have not forsaken yet their heathenism and their scanty, dirty clothing, immense ear ornaments, extending almost to the waist, and other barbaric adornments make the contrast very striking between them and the Christian natives. The Christian men wear trousers and a shirt, often having the shirt hanging loose over the trousers, and the women wear 'Mother Hubbards.' We have seen women attired in a shirt, and we have heard of a couple living on ccme one of these islands who, when the. communion season came around, said that they did not think they could come to the Lord's table, for they had been quarreling. When asked what they were quarreling about they said they hrd a new red shirt and had disputed as to which should wear it to church." A Slr:iiie Hu';::riaii Cimtom. An o'd and curious wedding ceremony with the Bulgarians is the public and solemn shaving of the bridegroom early on the wedding day. Whilst the barber performs this work the bridegroom is surrounded by a dancing f rcwd of girls and lads. His hair having been cut. it is carefully gathered by some girls, to b" preserved in a chest, of the bride. When the barber has done be gets as a present a linen eleth and from every one a small piece e.f money. Then th" bridegroom kisses the hand of each girl, washes his face, and puts on the wedding dress. The latter-not the perron, but his festive garment must be accurately weighed three times by a lad ere the bridegroom is allowed to put it on. This stranga custom is said to date back to remota times of tarly Slavonic heathendom, but still continues, being strictly ob' served, especially by the villagers. "Oh," said Mr. Barnes Tormer, "vre did well in the west. In fiioux Falls we eplayed to $10,000." "Eh?" Faid his astonished auditor. "Urn well of course, there was not that much In the box office, but I was told that the audience re-presented fully that much real estate."

THE HEAVIEST B. & O. TRAIN. When the receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad began the now famous series of improvements of the physical condition of the entire system, their object was to increase both the train load and the number of revejiue tons per mile and at the same time reduce the cost of transportation. Much has been done, and by the lowering of grades, elimination of curves, laying of new steel rails and the purchase of heavy motive power they have very materially added to the number of cars per train. But it was not until the 17th of March last that a demonstration was made of what might be

expected of the new Baltimore z Ohio - Railroad. Enough new 00-ton capac- j ity steel cars had been delivered to j give the operating depariment a chance to experiment. Fifty steel ears, each ! ! weighing 24.G00 pounds, were loaded with an average of 9S.000 pounds or i coal. To them was coupled a new ! 22x2S inch consolidation locomotive weighing 1GS.T00 pounds and having 54 inch driving wheels. The start was made from Cumberland, Md., and the destinati-J was Brunswick, Md., on the second division. In his report General Superintendent Fitzgerald says i the train was pulled with comparative ease and that the clas of engines used ; will be able to handle 00 cars of 50 j tons capacity each on that division ; without trouble. Hitherto the train i load on that division has been Z2Ö units ; of GV2 tons each or about 2.200 tons, a j 40 per cent increase over that of five j years ago. The 50 car train was ceim- i puted as containing 407 units, or 6.453,100 pounds gross. The net weight of ; coal in the train was 4.75S.100 pounds. ! it was by far the heaviest train ever handled over the line and demonstrat- ; ed that heavy power, modern eejuipment with safety appliances, and a ; good track, mean more revenue tons per mile and a decreased coit of trans- : portation Not a I.aii;h for Five Vc:trs. The extremity of Dreyfus' misery could not be more forcibly told than by the statement that he has just laughed for the first time in five years. We do not often stop to think of the meaning and importance of laughter, but the mere conception of the state ot mind which makes laughter impossible is horrible. I'rovidence journal. GIVEN AWAY FREE Trial Packages of Genuine Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life. Known for Over a Hundred Years as the Greatest of All Tonic Remedies. Every Header of This Faprr Should be Sure to Cict One of Those Free fea 111 pics. The great blood purifier, Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life, is to be given away free to readers of this paper. This famous remedy comes as near being a bodily restorer as one is ever likely to find. When taken into the stomach it acts so pleasantly upon the digestion that a good healthy appetite results; and the liver, bowels, kidneys and bladder all come in for a share of the new strength and vigor. Rheumatism, backache and headache, biliousness and all nervous diseases are rapidly cured as well as diseases peculiar to women. There are times when a person would give almost anything to be rid of a frightful headache. Zaegel's Swedish Essence will relieve it right away. And the sour stomach, constipation, lack of energy, backache and the hundred or more little ills with which we are attacked so frequenly will be quickly cured by this famous remedy. No one need trouble themselves to doubt whether this remedy will do all these things, for, although the regular price is 35 cents, you can have a free trial package first and sec what it does for you. Zaegel's Swedish Essence is so well known that probably quite a number of our readers are already using it, V.. 41,:.. m.,l.-r,o .lifWurw.o nc n fvno trial package will be sent to every one who writes, r- not neglect to get in your application at once. The best way is to sit down this minute, write a letter to M. It. Zaegel & Co., Uox $31, Sheboygan. Vis., and fay that you want a trial package of Swedish Essence of Life. This will be sent you by mail and is large enough to convince you of the merit of this celebrated household remedy. A 2-cent stamp should be i ncloscd in your letter to pay the postage on this free sample. ATLAS of WESTERN CANADA Containing live splendid Maps of Canada audits Provinces, as weil as a di-vri ip! itn of I tie resources or the 1 oniinion. will lc mailed Ir.v t all applicants d'siro"s of lcarninu smnci liin of the Crce Homestead Lands ( Western Canada. Address 1"'. l'cdlcy Supt. of Inimical i.-n. e t- j lawa. unada : or to e'. .1. limu'-liton. r.-ja Mo:iadnock Hlock. Chicago, 111., or Lveit tt and Kant., Fort Way i a, led CATHARTIC

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