Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 October 1903 — Page 7

ConflictOv-. .oucht to He Near Uei ..... -< stc.l m the Foe in Clneh <>\;i x cnezu< la Uncle Sam’s Aleuts Are Mert. r According to a W s'aingto । correspondent, the general ^taff of the army, ■ xx hose duty it is to prepare plans for war with ex possible antagonist, has concluded that the defense of tin* Monroe doctrine will some day, perhaps soon[er than is generally expected, cause a war between the United States and one or more European powers, Germany is regarded as the country that is most likely to cause trouble. When the war comes, the officers of the general staff believe, many campaigns will be fought in South America. In ofder that comprehensive plans may be prepared in advance for the struggle the military resources of the South American republics are being thoroughly studied. An exhaustive study of Venezuela, ft with a short side trip to the isthmus of Panama, has been completed by Captain Chauncey B. Humphrey of the Third infantry and First Lieut. Ernest V. D. —Murphy jf the Twenty-seventh infantry. They were sent to Venezuela in June before the general staff was formally organized. Their assignment to this detail was one of the first acts of the.provisional general staff and the promptness nnd secrecy xvith which they were sent Indicates that some of the staff officers believe that the possibility of war is not remote. To give them an official status these two officers were appointed military attaches at Caracas, but the appointment was not announced, nor was the State Department informed of it. The officers spent only enough time in Caracas to disarm suspicion as to their real purpose. Then they inspected the sea coast and plunged into the interior, studying the country from a military standpoint and familiarizing themselves with the facility with which armies might be handled to the best advantage. Every point, including the size of the army Venezuela could be expected to raise and the time it would take properly to equip it, was investigated. The officers returned byway of Panama and investigated the resources and defenses of the isthmus. While there they had several conferences with Major Black of the engineer corps, who is stationed at Panama in donnectiou with the canal project. The officers’ report, which was made to the division of military information, was received xvith great satisfaction. Aside from its military aspect they made a report on political conditions in Venezuela, which xvas highly important. Other officers will be sent at once on similar missions to all of the South American countries. To give them a status they will be accredited as military attaches, but the utmost secrecy will be observed in their assignments. Venezuela was selected as the country to be investigated first, for the reason that the stuff officers believe trouble is most likely to break out there. There is reason to believe, says the correspondent, that the general staff has learned that Germany has had military agents and spies at work in Venezuela 2 for some time, in preparation for an invasion of that country. Some of the staff officers privately admit that they believe Germany is preparing to resist any intervention by the United States in defense of the Monroe doctrine. This-means tb-at they think the Kaiser is preparing for the xvar xvith the United States which he knows would folloxv an attempt to acquire territory in Venezuela. The general staff proposes to be equally ready for it. The staff officers fear there will be trouble over the collection of the customs receipts that xvere to be set aside by President Castro for the payment of the foreign claims and that this xvill be used by Germany as an excuse for seizing the custom houses and precipitating trouble. U?-;. sSISSS The report of the Big Four for August shoxvs gross earnings of $2,001,296. The Central of Georgia has completed grading and laid foundations for its new freight depot at Atlanta. Minnesota and North Dakota millers want the merger roads to abolish the transit charges on wheat. On Oct. 1 freight rates on flour and mill products from the Northwest were advanced 2 cents a 100 pounds. All xvooden bridges on the Illinois Central betxveen Memphis and Louisville are to be replaced xvith steel and concrete structures. Winter tourist rates to the South, the Southeast and Southwest have been agreed upon by the Central Passenger Associations. fßm-xMLxvuy cuxwmittee of the Canadian Senate has passed the bill to incorporate the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail- ' way Company without important changes. Gruss earnings of the Rock Island system for the fiscal year ended .Tune 30 were $44,376,019. Operating expenses and taxes absorbed $20,378,464, leaving net earnings of $14,998,155. The Uljnois Central’s Chicago and Mattoon accommodation train' recently made the distance betxveen Champaign and Mattoon, forty-five miles, in thirtytxvo minutes. This is ht the rate of 84.33 miles per hour. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad has signed an agreement xvith the 8.000 employes of its car and locomotive repair shops, which grants recoghition of the union, provides for a union stexvard in each shop, and gives the men an increase in wages varying from a cent to txvo and a half cents an hour. The Pennsylvania Railroad has ordered a xvholesale reduction of its xvorking force. By the end of August the corporation will have reduced the number of its employes by about 1.500 men. One of the local officials xvhen asked the reason for this retrenchment said: “We are handling as much freight as ever, but we have been xvorking under too great an expense. The discharge of so mans men xvill not affect the system, nor doe? it mean thlnt business is decreasing. W< have laid off about 200 men in the shops because of the enormous expense wt have been under in putting in nexx- ma chinery. We must reduce the payroll sc • as to make a financial shoxviag for al the business the lines are doing.”

CIVIC DUTY HIS PLEA. rueoKlriit Cleveland Urues Unseb •a}; ratriotiam on All Citizens. Hi- speech n plea for civic duty, for > wxelisiu in the industrial xvorld and .1 patriotism unmixed xvith selfishness > i sloth, ex President Grovei 1 Cleveland iddressed members of the Commercial Club at the Auditorium Hotel. His subject xx as ‘'American Good Citizenship.” He avoided politics xvith an almost religious care, but dealt in keen sarcasm for the man who says “1 am not a politician." He said: "Every citizen should be politician enough to bring himself xvithin the true meaning of the term as one xvho concerns himself xvith ‘the regulation or government of a nation or a State for the preservation of its safety, peace and prosperity.’ This is politics in its best sense, and this is good citizenship.” The speaker xvas applauded frequently. The most noticeable applause came xvhen he announced his creed of “American Good Citizenship,” which was: “Their creed should bind together in generous co-operation all xvho are xvilling to fight to make our government xvhat the fathers intended it to be—a depository of benefits xvhich, in equal current and volume, should floxv out to all the people. This creed should teach the xvickedness of attempting to make free opportunity the occasion for seizing especial advantages, and should warn against the danger of ruthless rapacity. “It should deprecate ostentation and extravagance in the life of our people, nnd demand in the management of public affairs simplicity and strict economy. It should teach toleration in all things save dishonesty and infidelity to public trusts. It should uphold the interests of EX-rR'SIDKXT CLEVELAND. labor and advocate its fair treatment, but i should sternly forbid its interference xvith j those contented xvith their toil, and its attempt to force compliance xvith its demands by violent disturbances of peace and good order. । "It should recognize in the wide distribution of capital and industrial enterprise the best assurance of intelligent, xvholesomcly interested political conduct . and should condemn unnecessary, unnatural and speculative combinations ia trade or enterprise as teaching false business lessons and putting our con- ’ Burners at their mercy. “It should enjoin respect for the law [ ■ aS the quality that cements the fabric , i of organized society and makes possible . I a government by the people. And in ev- > I ery eentenpe and every line of this creed i of good citizenship the lesson should be taught that our country is a beautiful . and productive field to be cultivated by loyal Americans, xvho, with weapons ■ near at hand, whether they soxv and reap or whether they rest, xvill always be • prepared to resist those who attempt to . despoil by day or pilfer in the night.” Other excerpts from the address are: “The abandonment of our country’s ■ watch towers by those xvho should be on guard and the slumber of the sentinels , xvho should never sleep, directly invite | । the stealthy approach and the pillage 1 . and the loot of the forces of selfishness . , and greed. । “Can any of us doubt the existence of ! , odious and detestable evils xvhich, xvith ■ steady cankering growth, are, more di- ! rectly than all others, threatening our safety and national life? I speak of the corruption of our suffrage, open and notorious, of the buying and selling of political places for money, the purchase of political favors and privileges, and the traffic in official duty for personal i gain.” Closing his speech, he said: "It is as clear as noonday that if th< patriotism of our people is to be aggressively vigorous and equal to our national ; preservation and if politics is to sub- I serve a high purpose instead of degenerating to the level of a cunning game, our good men in every walk of life must arouse themselves to a consciousness that ’ the safety and best interests of theii 1 country involve every other interest, and 7 that by service in the field of good citizenship they not only do patriotic duty, s but in a direct xx'ay save for themselves 3 the share of benefits due them from oui free institutions.” 1 FAITH HEALERS GIVEN BLOW. New York Court Says Dependence in Sickness Is a Crime. 3 Especial interest attaches to the de 1 3 cision handed down by the Nexv Yorii Court of Appeals in the case of the peoj pie against Pierson, declaring dependi ence upon faith healing in the case ol P sickness to be criminal negligence. Pier son lives at White Plains and early it ’ Jbol wus sentenced to a SSOO fine oi 500 days' imprisonment for criminal neglect. in failing to provide a licensed phy- ' sician to attend his 16-months-old adopted daughter in a case of bronchial pneumonia. xvhich afterward proved fatal. The conviction xvas secured under ths 5 penal code, xvhich holds that a person 3 xx ho omits, without lawful excuse, to per ’ form a duty by law imposed upon him to furnish food, clothing, she’d er or medi 1 cal attendance to a minor, is guilty,” etc f Justice Bartlett, in the prevailing opini ion in the appellate division, held thai - the ‘’medical attendance” referred to it f the statute does not mean exclusively the attendance of a medical practitionei j - in the general sense of the term, and th< e appellate dixision reversed the conviction e The Court of Appeals noxx- sustains th< a first decision, xvhich imposed a fine erf - SSOO or 500 days’ imprisonment. 1 , BIG ELECTRIC LINE, o • Project Contemplates Connecting Chi- •- cago anti Pitt’burg. g A scheme has been developed in Soutl i- Bend, Ind., xvhich contemplates connect I f ing Chicago and Pittsburg, Pa., by ai e electric system. It will be the largesi i- electric rnihvay system in the xvorld. e The utilization of the vast xvatei it power resources in Ohio at St. Mary’i ,t reservoir, just across the Indiana line - y is comprehended in the project. Thii is reservoir covers 17,000 acres and at pres e ent supplies water for the Miami ant is Erie canal, which is about to be aban e doned. Power xvill also be obtained fron i- the gigantic dam now being built in tin io St. Joseph river four miles east of Soutl 11 Bend, and on which $1,500,000 has al ready been spent.

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* —■■■ 111 The published forecast of the result of the Alaskan boundary arb . substantially confirms the American viexx- as to the meaning of the < Ration treaty provisions whereby Russia and Great Britain fixed this bouiu 182 u. Those provisions are so clear that notwithstanding the chance t n British and Canadian arbiters xvould defer to the pressure of Canadia iat * lO ment a verdict in favor of the United States xvas expected. The a a sentlthus a surprise only as an instance in xvhich the sentiment or preju '' <ll d is patriotism lias yielded to the superior claims of exact justice. Because , ' e of attitude of the British mmuber of tiie board of arbitration, ify 1 ' Justice Alverstone, the highest judicial authority in England, / ? ,^.l has been made to afford a notexvorthy and impressive instance of* 'Z"' 1 1 1 . bilities of peaceable and fair inquiry. ; 116 P oss ‘" Ilie map shows the boundary betxveen Canada and Alaska, as < the treaty commissioners. America claimed rights over the Portb. Vs ' T but this contention, it appears, the commission has set aside and. U1 a,1:l ’ channel entirely under British control. The Canadian claim n ’ uts the treaty as meaning the line from headland to headland of the ” .erpreted including in Canadian territory not only Dyea and Skaguay, but ast thus entire length of Lynn Canal; also Glacier Bay. in xvhich the fad most the glacier is situated, and other important points along the coast. finding all this territory will remain under control of the United St i" 1 ,I!'° United States boundary, as defined by the decision of the commi 1 ? e ascends slightly west of Portland channel, and the claim of the < , S On ’ noW th.,‘it their boundary should start up the northern arm of the Behn -anadians, declared to be untenable. Canal, is As an example of the advantages of arbitration when wisely a: ately undertaken the axvard xvill have a highly beneficial effect. T< temperextent it may have also the effect of stimulating friendly feeling b< a certain British and American governments, though the Canadians can hat th® pected to take this viexx- of the matter. The fact xvhich xvill Impre ,ly cx " that they have been shut out from the sea by a decision which ,s ^ em the United Stales more firmly than ever in its position ns the ntrenches poxver of the Pacific. Any resentment they may feel must be dominant since their ease xvas weak and they knew it, notwithstanding the ‘horthved, efforts to make it look presentable. r labored

MERRILL MAY RETIRE. Venerable Preacher May Ask to Be Relieved from Active Work. Bishop Stephen M. Merrill. senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, probably will bo relieved from active work, according to reports in «■ V y' j ~A < - K\'' < A-- x x w K ' k BISHOP MERRILL. church circles- The bishop is said to have told his friends that he had no desire to continue in the work as an active officer of the church, and it is thought he will ask to be classed as an advisory bishop in the report of the episcopal committee to the general conference. Bishop Merrill is 78 years old. and has been in the Methodist ministry, for more than half a century. He is a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, received his appointment as a Methodist preacher from the Ohio conference in 1846, and was made a bishop in 1872. As a writer of books on religions subjects he is well known. It is said that he wishes more time for literary work, and probably will devote himself entirely to this field of endeavor after the next general conference. TRAIN BREAKS SPEED RECORDS. Special on Illinois Central Makes Fast Time to New Orleans. Nearly 100 general passenger agents from all parts of the country, who arrived at New Orleans on a special Illinois Central train to attend the fortyeighth annual convention of the American Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents, were treated to a record-breaking ride which they will long remember. The run was the most remarkable in the history of southern railroads —ISO miles were made in 187 minutes, 105 miles in 90 minutes, including stops, and 396 miles in 420 minutes, exclusive of stops. At times and for short distances of one mile and under the speed indicator in the observation car registered 94.4 miles per hour. According to recent speed tests this is within six-tenths of a mile of being as fast as it is possible to run a modern passenger train. The train was composed of engine, buffet, library car, diner, five standard Pullmans and an observation car. The total weight of the train was about 551 tons, or 1,102,000 pounds. BOSTON HOLDS WIDOW RECORD. State Official Collects Statistics—Their Lot a Hard One. A Boston State official who has been Investigating the subject for Prof. Friedrich Prinzing of Paris has discovered that Boston has more widows, in proportion to its population, than any other city in America, even Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and other large centers. The young widow, he says, is one of the most unfortunate of beings, and not at all the gay butterfly which popular fancy has pictured.

DIE IN BRIDGE CR, b H. Nine Killed by Crane Aceh MonotiKaliela Kiv< " n * on the As ihe result of Jlie hre;,. r * ; traveler crane on the Pittsburj n the new Wabash bridge over th gahela river nine men xvere I ‘ ^ O,uon ' many xvere injured. Hied and The cause, as far ns ear||l from the accounts of eye wiP ie * earne, l due to the traveler being o| nesses, xx as The traveler projects beyondl erxveighted. part of the bridge for the \ ! * ie placing an addition in posi j purpose Oi lowing the builders to xvoi ‘l on nn '^ 9 1 ' many men were at xvork o Mhile tioaal section the projecting 1 n udiand fell. It landed on the ,| nr KQa l’P e< l xvas being placed in position t‘'< tion that it to give xvay. On this see caused men were at xvork and they 1,111 se ' er:, l with the xvrecknge into the ? re <,ar ,p e<l traveler and section of the b >"e r - Jne a barge loaded with steel am Gge fp 011 the nexv bridge, on which iore ' l under xx ere at xvork. ami this xvas । exeral men Those on the section of , , were crushed and some ins , r! „ xvhile those in the barge wei UHly killei. drowned. Near the brid crushed or United States snag boat I wns , 110 ruff, whose crew immediate " ° od ' work of rescue. The towb ’ Watson camo across from at *’ obn ybank and joined in the worl ‘'® °PP os * ta of relief. 1W 3 ; Chicago marble dealers xvorkers are giving each otin n ‘ heart “ ie murol® King Edward may want , , . strenuous nephew, the Kak* 1 saow his

are others. * that there I China has not yet assente? i conditions I“—Mniurfuiri. hn I sent is not necessary. ' With the corn crop threaten, hop crop reduced compulsory j and the may receive a great boost ne- libition Chicago is 100 years old 3ar ’ other centenarians has smol some its life, as its atmosphere j arly all Before commending Ken | shows, too highly it xvill be well justice that Curtis Jett’s sentence , remember executed. 5 J®t to be Titis year the football America have begun in a x trocities in gests the need of intervent <y that sugcert of parents. n by a con-

That Michigan man who for stealing hot stoves mi ^as arrested ; ing. He should have been :e d his calloffice Department. * n PostEleven babies an hour \ hattan is an eloquent and a 'rn in Manargument in reply to Presi> ’.answerable velt’s recent remarks. ut RooseIt has been decided that st in Alaska is theft, though ^’g a dog fill if the miners wait for ? doubtcision when they catch a dog ^burt deNot being able to think o 1 T' offenses to charge against m fresh I ble German editors suddenl 1 amia- i covered that Uncle Sam is try iU 'e disHayti. - “’4I 0 grab It is denied that Alfonso | J Perhaps he wants to wait un 1 wed. ing between this country a KI > feelgrows warmer, that he ma; Spain American girl. ch an Apparently the next gra- D confronting the Postoffice De — — roblem . going to be the question wh 1 neat is . storage room for the Beaver <8 to find i ehen indictments. 1 MaI

THE SPINSTER IN GERMANY. A Hard Country for the Unmarried Woman to Karn n I.ivir.g, The education of a German girl begins at 6; it is compulsory, and the rule for attendance is strictly enforced. A mother cannot keep a delicate or ailing child at home without a doctor’s certificate. Work is carried on at the fullest stretch, and the stiain on mind and body is such that many a German | girl leaves school xvith her nerves ■ ( . shaken and her health injured for life. R Lltth- time is allowed for gymnastics 1 or outdoor games, though some change 1 in this resp ;et is nuxv being made, ami ( nt 16 the girl leaves school, after pass- j ing numberless examinations, her । studies having included languages, his- ( tory, science, mathematics, dancing j and singing, a thorough course in cookcry and needlework. It is of th se last ; txvo accomplishments that she makes the most use in after life. The rest lead to nothing, and in the majority of cases the girl might just as well have been spaied the strain of acquiring so much superfluous education. Marriage is considered as much a sine qua non xvith a German as xvith a French girl, but it Is not arranged In the same businesslike way, unhappily, it xvould seem. It is left to the young woman herself to attract a husband, and as splnsterhocd in Germany has fexv attractions, the girls I are continually occupied with their I ^nii'llDunlttl v n„.,cCS. An unmarried xvoman Is an absolute failure. While her parents live site

remains in entire subservience to them, and xvhen they die she Is usually terribly poor, while If of good birth she would rather starve than work for pay. If she belongs to an aristocratic family she may obtain a small allowance of about $125 a year, xvith board and lodging in a Stiff, or sort of lay convent, endoxved by successive benefactors for the support of these unmarried daughters and spinsters. Resi-

dence in the Stift Is onlj- compulsoryfor a few months in the year, and the Stiftdame may visit and receive friends as much as she likes. Teaching is the principal occupation open to those women obliged to earn their oxvn livelihood, but the government examinations are severe, the pay poor and the xvork hard, and there are few' opportunities for rising. Os late years women are beginning to work for university degrees, so that they may take equal places with the men In the schools, some to more satisfactory positions. Hospital nursing Is almost the only other profession open to the sex. Dentists are numerous, but medical degrees must still be obtained abroad, and feminine journalism is confined to the realm of fashion. —Ladies’ Field. For a Bad Back. Sabra. Mont., Oct. 19.—A great many I men in this neighborhood used to cornplain of pains in the back, but now scarcely one can be found who has any such trouble. Mr. Gottlieb Mill is largely responsible for the improvement for it xvas he, who first of all found the remedy for this Backache. He has recommended It to all his friends and neighbors, and In every case it has had wonderful success. Mr. Mill says: "For many years I had been troubled with my Kidneys and pains in tire small of my back. I tried many medicines but old not derix-e any benefit until last fall, when I bought a dozen boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. After I using them a few days I began to irni prove, my back quit aching and I felt better and stronger all around. "1 xvill keep them in the house right i along, for in my opinion they are the best medicine in the market to-day. and If my back should bother me again. I xvill use nothing else." Could Not Tell a Lie. 'Tourist—You say you saw Washington at Valley Forge? Old Negro—Well. Ise kain’t ’zactly Bay Ise saw’d him forge, but 1 seed him at de valley, snh. Tourist—l suppose you field him when he xvas a baby? Old Negro—No, sah, I kain’t tole a lie. Youse see, sah, Go’ge Waxhingtuur wasn't bolm den. Only a Watch Dog. Fred —But. really, dear, I don't see what use that dog is. He was actually in the room xvhen that burglar felloxv stole the clock. Ethel—Ah, but. Fred, he's only a watch dog. So it’s excusable.—Comic Cuts. We use Piso’s Cure for Consumption in preference to any other cough medicine. I —Mrs. S. E. Borden, 442 P street, Washington, D. C., May 25, 1901. Quentin Massys was a blacksmith who determined to quit that trade for art.

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“With my nightly rest broken, owing , to irregularities of the kidneys, suffering intensely from severe pains in the | small of my back and through the kidneys, and annoyed by painful passages of abnormal secretions, life xvas anything but pleasant for me. No amount of doctoring relieved this condition, and for the reason that nothing seemed to give me even temporary relief I became about discouraged. One day I noticed In the nexvspapers the case of a man who was afflicted as I was and xvas cured by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills. His words of praise for this reewedv, were. so., slncnre^tb^ qfistrength of his statement I went to the Hugh Murrey Drug Co.'s store and got a box. I found that the medicine

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box. A Five-Dollar Smoke. Five dollars for a cigar! And If you bought a hundred of them you xvould pay SSOO. with no discount off for cash. “No, xve don’t sell many of them,” said a clerk to a curious customer. “Sometimes a sporty-looking Individual. evidently from out of town, comes in here and wants ‘the best cigar in the shop.’ He means the most expensive, of course, and the five-dollar cigar is shown to him. This is the way we get rid of most of them. Os course, they are xvorth five dollars. If you don't care for expenses. They are all Havana, including the wrapper. This is what makes them cost so much. The cigars are five times as large as the ordinaryone, and It is extremely difficult to get a leaf of Havana large enough for a wrapper. In 1,000 ‘hands’ of tobacco we won't find one leaf of the requisite size and quality. “The last one we sold xvas txvo weeks ago. A boy of the messenger type came in here and sidled up to the counter. “ 'Gimme a fi' dollar cigar,’ he demanded. “ Run along,’ I said. “By xvay of answer ho threw a fivedollar bill on the counter and repeated his request. I gax-e the cigar to him and he went out. I suppose some one must have sent him for it—possibly a cigar manufacturer, xvho wanted to keep his identity hidden.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. Declined xvith Thanks. Oldbeau — Miss Buddington — er — ■ Clara, from our first meeting I have loved you. May 1 hope that you will some day return my love? Miss Buddington—Certainly, Mr. Oldbeau. As I haven’t any earthly use for it, I'll return it at once. How’s Thin We offer One Ilimilreil Dollars Reward for any ca-e of Catarrh that cannot be cured b. Hall’s Catarrh ( uro. I''. ,1. CH ENET & CO.. Props.. Toledo. <> We the undersigned have known P. J. Cheney tor the last 15 years, and believe him pertectlv honorable in all business transactions and linan < .ally ablo to carryout auv obligation made lr. their firm. West &Trcax. Wholesale Druggists.Toledo,O. W.ioixo. Kinnan &. Marvin, Wholesal Druggists. Toledo. O. Hal!’- Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, actin ■ directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces o the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by a. Driundsts. Testimonials free. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. The rural schools of New York average twenty-seven pupils each. In each of 3.628 schools there are ten or less. You can do your dyeing in half an hour with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.—Bartol. Xlrs. XVlnslow's Soothing Strut for Children teething; softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle.

POISONED The human body is constantly producing poisons, which are carried, off through the kldneyo and bow els. When these orgars become clogged, then look out. Constip ation,Sick Headache, Stomach Trot> • ble, Fevers and Biliousness result. Dr. Caldwell’s (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pep s i n acts gently on the liver, kidneys nnc> bowels. Cures Indigestion and Constipation permanently. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, 111

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vniMv in midp*. Corona is the highest grade Pat. Leaf her made. fast ('otor Eyelets us^d. Our $4 out Edge Line rnnnot be equalled at any price. Shoes by mall. 25 cents extra. Illustrated Catalog free. U. L. DOPtJLAS. Brockton, Maw, ~ ON RAINY DAYS WEAR 10WE)?;s Waterproof OILED | CLOTHING V W BUSCF: or YELLOW. — v\ y/ t rr makes every day count 0 no matlor Nulo u>ot Uto u/eathor. ] Y foor^ gnrmoat a rentrod. Ask your dealer If ho 1/ /? SDiU not suppty you. sond for price Ust o/ Slicken. Suits, Hott. Hone Covon, end Wno» Bnna. KwfewiHl H »w.l llfwll *1)1. It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma^ A certain cure for Consumption in first stages and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking th<r first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large* bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. UT A I T Q A I 1 The metropolis of the Wis. VaK ley. Capital of Marathon county.. Most beautiful,np-to-dato citv in Wiaconsin. Population Ifi.OOU, 10 mammoth graded school buildings. Nor- , mal school. Agricultural college, 25 churches, lui mense water power, millions Invested in manufacture , ing plants. Banner agricultural county. Center of thm • ’Clover Belt.” 50,900 rcres splendid Marathon count/ farm lands: lOOjW acres choice timber lands, for salo cheap on easy terms. A chance of a life time for farmers or others seeking safe and profitable in vestments. A alues will doube in 3 to 5 Years. A few fine busin esc • openings Fine improw d 12 -acre farm, C m les frpnj Wausau; 9-room brick house, frame barn SOxSflYvitb stone basement for Mock: 2-story granary machina ' ahnd; ice house; mi Ik hon^e; 60 acres in high stato oi cultivation; beautiful grove hardwood timber noaj • house; fine young apple orchard ibearing mile to » •chool and enuren; X mile to creamery; price SS,SCO, wh ch includes all farm machinery-, wagons, sleighs,etc. 10 head cattle, 7 sheep. 6 h gs, good young team and! harness. Hny^ oats and feed to last this winter. A grea^ 1 barga< n at this price. 82u- 'ere farm, 30 acres under cuL tiv tion. good frame house, 2 nnlea from Wausau; wllj make splendid stock farm, only |l6£o r>«T acre. Many other attractive bargains. For particulars address I b. < A CO., Wausau, Wisconttl*. I —— _ Sad way’s , Pills Purely rentable, mild and rellnblo. Camo po.a : feet Digestion, complete absorption and healthtul ; regulari.y. I For the core of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, 1 Bowels, Kidneys. Bladder, f emale Irregularities, Slos Ben iache. Biliousness. Dyspepsia, Indigestion. Consiq ation. Piles and all derangements of the Interdhl v iscera. 25 cents a box At all Druggists’or by mni). “Book of Advice h REE by mail. lIADWAY A t'O., s'» Elm Street, NEW \ORK. Send for “Fortune Te’lor,” froa) FREE TO WOMENS r ° prove the healing and cleansing power of Poitine Toilet Antiaeptio 'hl we wil! mail a large trial. I|l |l package with book of inHl structions absolutely 111 । free - This is not a tiny , kl sample, but a large package, S 53 enough to convince anyonoof its value. Women alb ^===^=========^^3 over the country are praising Paxtine tor what it has done in Incai treatment of female ills, curing all inflam-

mation and discharges, wonderful as a cleansing vaginal douche, for sore throat, nasal catarrh, as a mouth wash, and to remove tartar and whiten the teeth. Send to-day; a postal card will do. Bold by druggists or sent postpaid by us, 60 •ent*. Irrgc box. Satisfaction guaruntced. R. PAXTuN CO., 216 Columbus Ave , Boston, Mass,. uKI . ll^a Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use |•g»> Ba |3q in time. Sold by druggists. i—i I ! Thompson’s Eye Water I SL C. N. U. No. 43-1903 WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE SAV •» yea g*7/ the advertisemeot in this paper.