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Story of Ur. Ilnilen.
Dr. William Hailes, of the Albany Medi
cal college, is very fond of a joke, and can
tji\o as wpII ns take one. Among the stu
dents in anatomy is one who answers to
the somewhat unusual cognomen of Crow
—when he answers at all—for this student
was as the doctor facetiously observed a
week after the opening of college, when
tor the first time he answered roll call
a rare bird. After an unusuallv prolonged’
period of abseneeism, the student present
ed himself the other day. and one of his
classmates tried to explain that he must
ha\e been detained by a game of crowkuet!
1 Me racket which succeeded this remark
made no impression on the doctor. With
out heeding the diversion, he proceeded to
express his great pleasure at the wander
er S return, and then convulsed the class
by quickly remarking: “Why I am de
lighted to see you, Mr. Crow, what is both
?i ing me is whether there is any necessary
connection between the absence of vour
caws and the 'caws’ of your absence.”—
Golden Days.
I'sefnl Accomplishment.
“Mrs. Hedder never lias the least bit
of trouble getting through the shopping
crowds, said Mrs. Fosdick.
\\ ell, she was the best basket ball player
in college. Mrs. Keedick explained.—De
troit Free Press.
New I'se for Money.
Nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of
soiled and torn bank notes is destroyed an
nually by our government. Ihey are re
duced to pulp and then used for making rail
road car wheels. This transformation is
about as radical as the one brought about
in the case of sickly people who will use Hos
tetter’s Stomach Bitters. Good health i.s
sure to follow its use. Be sure to try it. It
will cure indigestion, dyspepsia, constipa
tion, biliousness and malaria.
Ilovy About Those f
“Jf you want to improve your mind.”
said the sage, “associate only with persons
who know more than you do.”
“But if they iollow the same rule,’’ said
one of those who were learning wisdom at
his feet, “what are we to do’?”—Chicago
Tribune.
To Cure n Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists ref und money if it fails to cure. 35c.
“He’s a self-made man.” “Well, lieought
to dap on a mechanic’s lien.” “A mechan
ic s lien?" “Yes, so as to be more self-pos
sessed.”—Town Topics.
Peace of mind is often the result of not
knowing any better.—Chicago Daily News.
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Nice Bisc Dolls for little girls, *
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Best Steel Shears and Scissors too
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Buttonhole Scissors we send along,
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Six Hairpins of the same, as well i
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And Watches, too, for either sex.
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BUYING BRITISH AND OTHER CANALS.
C'ni'Koen of Grain. Etc., Will, shortly
Ho Shi].i.o.l From Duluth. Minn.,
on the Same Hill of l.uiituK. <o
Many Points In 1-]n*4iHn(1, France,
Germany uutl Italy.
London, Jon. 12.—One of the most
important American commercial en
prises in Europe has just culminated
here. 11 consists of securing all-wa
ter routes for American cargoes of
grain and other commodities from
inland ports of the United States to
inland ports of England, and includes
the purchase, by American capital, of
several British and other canals.
Frank YY. llawlev, vice-president of
the Erie Canal Traction Co., has been
on this side several months, quietly
.securing concessions for the opera
tion of European canals by electrici
ty- The Erie concern has secured
control of about 5,000 miles of canals
in England and on the continent. As
a result, cargoes will shortly be
shipped on the same bill of lading
from Duluth, Minn., to Brussels,
Bruges, Ghent and Cologne, and, la
ter, to many points in the United
Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy.
At the forthcoming session of par
liament the British legislators will be
asked to grant permission for the
erection of central power stations for
l he propulsion of traffic on at least
two British canals. These will be. op
erated with American capital, though
their control will nominally remain
in British hands.
Mr. llawley said to a press repre
sentative:
“Yes, it is true that the Traction
company is making considerable
progress in securing all-water routes
by electrically-operated canals
throughout Europe. I can not tell
you yet the names of the English ca
nals, owned by railroads, which do
not make a very good financial show
ing; but 2,768 miles of English ca
nals, independent of railroads, show
earnings of £729 per miTe, which are
greater than those shown by many
American railroads. However, we
have been able to get control of a
portion of these, because their ope
ration and maintenance expenses are
over 70 per cent, of their gross re
ceipts. The largest canals in Eng
land, viz; the Birmingham, Grand
Junction, Leeds and Liverpool, Ox
ford and Bridgewater, are not far re
moved from sources of electric power
supply, at least, nothing like so far
removed as is the canal at Oakland,
Cal., where the power is transmitted
from the ATiga river, a distance of 1-tD
miles. Therefore, it is merely a ques
tion of getting the necessary consent
of parliament for the conveyance of
this electric energy before the Eng
lish canals will be equal to the canals
of America and Belgium, where elec
trical energy has resulted in in
creased facilities with a correspond
ing reduction in the cost of opera
tion.”
STATISTICS OF WHEAT CROP.
rim* Average Yield for 1001 wiih Con
siderably Above the Average
For the Past Ten Years.
Washington, Jan. 12.-—The statis
tician of the department of agricul
ture estimates the average yield per
acre of wheat in the. United States,
in 1901, at 14.8 bushels, as compared
with 12.3 bushels in 1900, 12.3 in 1899,
15.3 in 1898 and 13.3 the mean of the
averages of the last ten years.
The newly seeded area of winter
wheat is provisionally estimated at
32,000,000 aci'es, an increase of 5.0
per cent, upon the area estimated to
have been sown in the fall of 1900.
The newly seeded area of winter
rye is provisionally estimated at 1,
250,000 acres, an increase of 2.9 per
cent, upon the area estimated to
have been sown in the fall of 1900.
The department has no reports as
to the condition of winter wheat
later than December 1. At that date
it was SO.7 per cent, of the normal,
as compared with 97.1 in 1900, 97.1 in
1899 and 92.0 in 1898.
The department will not issue any
further estimate of the total produc
tion of any product of the soil nor
of the number of farm animals until
it has made such adjustments of its
estimates for the last years as may
seem to be required by the reports
of the census, based on an actual
farm-to-farm visitation, now in
course of publication.
Triple Trnjjedy.
Galesburg, 111., Jan. 12.—Following
a domestic quarrel, Friday evening.
Ed Cheney, an ex-convict, shot his
wife and her sister, Mrs. l„ettie Gos
born, through the back and lungs
rnd then killed himself with a shot
dirough the head. Doth women are
fatally wounded.
A ration Mill Tragedy.
Manchester, X. II.. Jan. 12.—Annie
lleaudry shot Jennie Gagnon in one of
he Amoskeag corporation mills, here,
Saturday, and then committed sui
cide. Miss Gagnon is alive, but :n a
critical condition.
May lie Held In JerUNAlem.
t bieago, Jan. 12.—A movement has
seen started looking to the holding
if the world’s Sunday school conven
tion in Jerusalem in March, 1904.
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Congressman Cummings. of New York, in a letter
written from New York city regarding the merits of
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and know it. It relieved me immensely on ray
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AMOS CUMMINGS.
Judge A. T. Gooflwyn.
lion. A. T. Good wvn. Congressman from Alabama,
in a recent letter to Dr. Hartman, says:—
** I have now used one bottle of Pe-ru-na and am
a well man to-day. I could feel the good effects of
vour medicine before 1 had used it a week.aftor
suffering with catarrh for over a y ar.”
Representative Sheppar«I. of Texas.
Congressman John L. Sheppard, of Texas, writes
the following commendation of Pe-ru-na from
Washington, I). O. f'ongretssman Sheppard uses
Pe-ru-na in his family and says:—
** I have used Pe-ru-na in my family and found it
to be a most excellent remedy for all catarrhal com
plaints."
Chief .Justice William I-.ec Chambers.
In a recent letter to The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co.,
Chief Justice William Lee Chambers says the fol
lowing of Pe-ru-na:—
"I have tried one bottle of Pe-ru-na. and I can
truthfully say it is one of the best tonics I ever
used, and I take pleasure in recommending it toall
sufferers who are in need of a good medicine. I
can recommend it as one of the very best remedies
for catarrh." W.L. CHAMBERS.
Mpii of prominence nil over the
United States are recommending" I*e
rnnn. Over forty members of Con
gress have written their indorsement
of it. Scores of ether government
officials speak in high praise of it.
Thonsands of people in the humbler
walks of life rely upon it ns a family
medicine. Send for free book of tes
timonials.
If you do not derive prompt #and satisfactory re
sults from the use of Peruna. write at once to Dr.
Hartman, pivinp a full statement of your case, and
he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice
prat is.
Address Dr. Llartraan. President of The Hartman
Sanitarium. Columbus, Ohio.
Hard on the Chickens.
Tn an Ohio town last fall the African
Methodist Episcopal church of that dis
trict held1 a conference, and for a week
the town was tilled with colored pulpit
orators. A few days after the conference
closed its sessions one of the leading col
ored women of the town drove out to Pea
Ridge to purchase chickens of an old mam
my who had supplied the family for years.
Aunt Hanna, coming to the gate, said:
“Pin sorry, Miss Allie. 1 ain’t got a chicken
left. Dey all done enter de ministry.”—San
Francisco Argonaut.
The Lesser Evil.
A father, fearing an earthquake in the
region of his home, sent his two boys to
a distant friend until the peril should be
over. A few weeks after the father re
ceived this letter from his friend:
“Please take your boys home and send
down the earthquake.”—Tit-Bits.
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No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without a gripe or pain, produce
easy, natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C.
stamped on it. Beware of imitations.
A Plansi hie Theory.
She—I wonder why a man’s hair turns
gray before his beard.
He—Oh, that is easily explained. There
is usually about 20 years’ difference in their
respective ages.—Chicago Daily News.
Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infalli
ble medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W.
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900.
Is he a rich man? He hasn’t endowed
any universities.—University of Michigan
Wrinkle.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are as
easv to use as soap. No muss or failures.
The number of amateur singers who are
compelled to quit Art and go to work is
growing larger every year.—Atchison Globe.
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Notice increase of sales in table below:
1808 = 748,700 Pairs.
1899 =
1900= 1,359,754 Pairs.
1901 = 1,506,720 Pairs.
Bisines, More Than Doubled In Four Years.
THE REASONS:
\\\ I.. Douglas makes and sails more men’s SH.OOancl
$.'5.50 shoes than any other two inan’f’rs in the world.
W. L. Douglas $3.00 aiul $C.C0 shoes placed side by
side with $5.00 and $G.0O shoes of other makes, are
found to l»e just as good. They will outwear two
pairs of ordinary $3.00 and $3.50 shoes.
Made of the best leathers, including Patent
Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo.
Fast Color Eyelets and Always Black Hooks used.
W.L.Douglas $4.00 “Gilt Edge Line’* ennnot be equalled.
8hoes by mail £.>e. extra. Cain log tree.
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WHISKY ard other drug
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Small crops, unsalable veg
etables, result tom want of
Potash.
Vegetables are especially
fond of Potash. Write for
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READERS OF THIS PAPER
DESIRING TO BUY ANYTHING
ADVERTISED IN ITS COLUMNS
SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING
WHAT THEY ASK FOR. REFUSING
ALL SUBSTITUTES OR IMITATIONS.
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
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PI SO,>5 CURiE TOR
A. N. K.—I
1900
WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS
pleo.no state that you now the Advertise*
! meat in this paper.
1 like it ou earth. Sulzer’a N cw 20th
i^Xfjs^Sr Century Out take* the cake, cariics llrst
'mmv prizes as tho biggest yielder everywhere. The fact
‘w/jSy is, Salzer's oats arc bred to produce. The IT. S. Depart* ^KZs
'fSKm mentof Agricuitureclainis thatouiof over 400samples and 'fife
Bm kinds tested, Kalzer’a wore the best. How do sou like that,
Mr. Farmer? Our new 20th Ccutiyy Oat ia bound to completely ^
B revolution ire oat growing nnd we expect dozens of farmers to report v
f yield* i.i 1902 running from 1200 to 800 bushels per acre. Price is
f dirt cheap. D-» in the swim and buy this variety this spring to sell to
your neighbors the coming fall for 3oed. It will surely pay you.
Saber's Matvei Wheat—42 bus. pet Acte
Tha only spring wheat on earth that will yield a paying crop north, east, south,
and west and in every stale in the Union. Wo also have the celebrated Macca
roal wheat, yielding on our farms, Ci bushels per acre.
The moat marvelous cereal and hay food on earth, producing from 60 to 80 bushale
of grain and 4 ions of rich hay per act e.
TTo are the largest growers and our stock of earliest Peas. Beans, Sweet corn end
all money making \ e^etables is enormous. Prices are very low. Onion sesd CO
oeuts and up a pound. Catalogue tells.
rielding 109 bushels; our Triple Income Corn, going 4U0 bushels;
our potatoes, yielding b it bushels per acre; our grass and clover
mixtures, producing 6 tons of magnificent hay; our Pea
V Oat. with its 8 tom of hay, and Teosinte with 80 tous a
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worth $100 to any wido awake gardener or
Eimiflh- faruu'i.with 10 farm seed samples,—worth
fiO to get a start— is mailed you ou
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