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THE PASSING SHOW. THEIR CASH GONE. People Who Invested in the Get- Rich-Quick Scheme. fflDIAHAPOLIS OPFIOE IS CLOSED, And JnTe.t«r» In That Town Are Out S3OO.OOO—Tobacco Men Protest Against the State Committee of Wm. Sutlierlin for Own Death Fifteen Yearn Ago.

Indiajiapolis, April were fully 300 callers at the local offices of the E. P. Dean Investment company in the Commercial club building yesterday. They had heard of the telegram from New York to the effect that the New York office of the company was closed, and they called to find out what it all meant- Several days ago the local office began calli.ng»for margins. A card on the door of the office announced that the agent had gone to New York, and that the New York office was also closed.

This was all the satisfaction that the investors could obtain. The. agent of the company in this city was Miss M. E. Jlassey.

It is estimated that the Dean company in this city has taken at least ISOO.OOO out of Indianapolis. Protest Against the Tobacco Tariff 1 Indianapolis, April. ufac-lurers' Association of-Indiana, representing a membership of 700 manufacturers, met in this city yesterday and formulated a protest against that part of the Dlngley tariff bill which increases the rate on leaf tobacco. The product states that the rates under the present law are so excessive and burdensome that it is not possible to live under them. It also denies that the proposed rate will afford any protection to the growers of leaf tobacco.

The petition is long and will be forwarded to Senator Morrill, chairman of the senate finance committee. The Order of Eqnity Matter. Indianapolis, April Allen, 1n the circuit court yesterday, refused to grant the petition to set aside the selection of Jesse H. Blair as assignee of the Order of Equity and to appoint a receiver in his place. The court held that it would be a waste of time to ask for a receiver unless it were shown that there had been irregularities previous to the appointment of Blair.

C. S. Judge. Indianapolis. April Indianapolis Bar association is engaged endeavoring to decide what course it ought to pursue in dealing with Judge Baker, of the United States supreme court, for having remarked during a trial of a case in his court: "If I had my way I would hang some of these men to a lamp-post." The case on trial before the federal judge involved one phase of street railway litigation in this city, and thejudge referred to certain street railway managers.

The committee has reported in favor of dropping the investigation, but it has been decided to continue the committee and learn just what the judge did say. Will Select Gowdy's Successor. Indianapolis, April call has been issued by Gowdy for a meeting of the Republican state committee next Tuesday, April 12, to accept his resignation and elect a successor. For over six weeks there has been a quiet but exceedingly intense struggle over this question. The choice of Gowdy and the rnen who have controlled "the committee during the past six years has fallen upon George F.

McCulloch, of Muncie, who has proven the strongest man on the TRIAL OF WILLIAM SFTHERTAX. the date and on looking It up after Martin's death found it to read: 'John Martin says that he will die on the 28th of day of February. 1897." Martin was at the potui of death on the date mentioned and died two days later. for the Man Who iald Off. Jeffersonville, April 7.

John Shoemaker, of the and Terre Haute railway, is a fireman. About a year ago, while "firing" for Engineer Al Lyon, he requested that he be permitted to remain at home on account of illness. That trip his engine went into the ditch and the fireman was killed. During the recent high water in this state Shoemaker again wr.s taken ill a.ncl remained at home one trip. On that trip his engine, with an express train, went through a bridge, killing the fireman.

Trouble Over the New Reformatory. Jeffersonville. April Huhbard, of South Bend, holds that he new law by which prisoners over 20 years of age are sent to tho reformatory for larceny is unconstitutional. The decision of Judge Kubbard caused Governor Mount tn telephone to General Superintendent Hert, of the reformatory, to defer the transfer until the supreme court takes up the decision of the lower court. It is thought that the decision can be handed down by the supreme court within a week.

Freight Train Reduced to Splinters. Greencastle, April 7. Fast freight train No. 41 on the Vandalia was wrecked at the crest of the gradi, just east of this city. The train follows the fast mail, which passed the switch safely.

Ten cars and the engine passed over a switch before the switch-end broke or spread and the result was that five cars were smashed-to pieces and the track was Blin-l Man Who Is a Rascal. Columbus, April W. Simmon, aged 76 years, and totally blind, indicted by the grand jury for embezzling $1,500 belonging to his sister, Mrs. Margaret Keeling, has been arrested by Sheriff Cox, after being pursued for a week through Ohio and Indiana and finally overtaken near Indianapolis. Dying of a Mysterious Ailment.

Muncie, April B. F. Dragoo died at Cammack Monday. Four days ago her brother, James McKinley, died suddenly and another brother, Robert McKinley. Is at the point of death.

Physicians are having trouble diagnosing the ailments. All are second the president. Millions in Hidden. Richmond, April 7. Messra.

Stewart and Clifford, tax experts of Connersville, claim to have located several million dollars in secreted taxables in this and want their contract with the city council extended another year. MISSISSIPPI FLOOD SITUATION. Before The east was the cradle of civilization, but if Turkish rule continues and It may prove its Journal. The United States now produces 36,000,000 chairs annually, and still it is necessary to hang on to straps while going home at Leader. The new baseball rules adding to the umpire's powers arc a remarkable indorse- ment of an unlimited despotism in the national game of a Louis Republic.

The comic valentine seems to have gone bv and good riddance to it. It hud developed into pretty poor Herald. Got one, did Plain Dealer. For the benefit of the Xew York preachers who are discussing the ideal newspaper it may be said that the ideal newspaper will be hero when the ideal preacher Tribune. Discipline saved the lives of the 600 boys in the house of refuge on Kanrtall's island.

The fire drill is a better firo escape than'must of the patented appliances now on the Express. Virginia reports that the southern cabbage crop this year will be enormous. If Wcyler stops tobacco exports from Cuba, the American consumer may just puc that in his pipe and Times- Herald. Although President Eliot's request for $10,000,000 additional donations to Harvard was made "several days ago, the amount has not yet been sent in. This shows how hard times Journal.

Miss Susan B. Anthony would like to see a general law compelling every husband to give half his earnings to his wife. A great ninny husbands who have been, giving their wives all their earnings will do their utmost to have this law enacted. Courier. It seems strange that so many boarders should be shooting their landladies for love.

Shooting a landlady for love is preposterous. There is only one reason why a landlady should be shot. That is bad food, und most of the class have overdue dates with the Inquirer. DAIRY AND COW. THE LISTENER.

The dairy cows of the state of Xew York 330 pounds of cheese per annum. Devonshire butter contains 82.7 fat, 16.8 water and 1.1 per cent of other substances. Mulball says English cows average gallons of milk a year, and the butter product of a good cow is about 140 The Dutch settlers on Manhattan Island brought the Holstcin breed from Holland about the beginning of the last century. Esperienced dairymen say that the common old fashioned dasher churn is about as good for butter making as any other kind. The well known medicine, lactic acid, was discovered from its production in sour milk.

It is now manufactured in Che laboratory. The Indian buffalo, which in Hindustan is the substitute for the domestic ox, horns IS inches in girth und 2 to 4 feec long. The ox is found in every country of the world in a wild state. Even in the United States there arc herds On the western plains of wild and often dangerous cattle. It is believed by gome chemists that one cause of milk poisoning is the introduction into tho milk of low forms of vegetable life which exist in the water drunk by the cow.

In 1887 the United States consumed 560.000 tons of butter and cheese; the United Kingdom, 32S.OOO tens; Russia. Germany, 185,000, and Austria. tons. Many methods of preserving and condensing milk are employed in different countries, and the process has within recent years been brought to a state of comparative perfection. The people of Canada eat more butter and cheese per' capita than those of any other country.

The annual consumption in the United States per inhabitant is 20 pounds, and in the United Kingdom 19 pounds per Louis Globe-Democrat. DRESS PARADE. the Area Tliat State Makes Out a Had Case for the Man Accused of Murder. Plymouth, April second day of the trial of William Sutherlin, Indicted for the murder of Edwin Fetters in Starke county on Nov. 16, 1W, opened in the circuit court yesterday morning with the court room packed to suffocation with citizens of five counties in attendance.

All Monday was consumed in selecting a jury, tlie regular panel and a special venire of forty being nearly exhausted. Yesterday eight of the state's witnesses were examined without adding materially to the already damaging chain of evidence the state has accumulated against the defendant. The movements of Sutherlin and Fetters from the time of leaving Plymoth four days previous to the murder up to the night of the murder, the pistol shots and quarreling heard near Election school house, and the finding and identification of the body as that of Fetters were brought out as the result of day's work by the attorneys. The case will probably last a week or more as there are a. great many witnesses for both state and defense.

Those Young Chicago Thugs. Fort Wayne, April Hopkins. Willie O'Leary and Will Lynch are the names of the three Chicago boys arrested in Fort Wayne with J160 in gold In their possession. When first arrested the boys gave fictitious names. Last Saturday night Hopkins and O'Leary met a drunken man on Bonfleld street, Chicago, and each made a dive for the man's pockets, and O'Leary pulled forth a little bag filled with gold.

They ran away through a side street and met Lynch, whom they invlted to take a trip with them, and net until Monday did young Lynch know the money was stolen. Whore Did the Come Fort Wayne, April Kappell has rendered his verdict in the case of Will E. Colerick. who was found dead March 13 in the apartments of his fiance. Miss Mae Hall.

He finds "Will E. Colerick's death was due to accidental asphyxiation, caused by the poisonous products of a combination of gases." Fourteen experts were examined, and only one, Dr. Porter, who brought Miss Hall back to life, testified that death resulted from escharodc poisoning. This finally disposes of one of the most sensational deaths ever recorded In northern Indiana. the Two Days.

Farmland, April years ago, John K. Martin, the Winchester poet whose remains were buried last Friday, happening in the office of C. W. Difga. a prominent attorney of that city, remarked that he had a premonition of his own death and desired Diggt to write down the date and no- tt not correct.

Diggs Never IViis Overflowed Xiiiv Under Water. Memphis, April feature of the flood condition in the Mississippi delta is the gradual spread of water over an area that hitherto was never overflowed. The upper crevasse iu Tunica county is 2,000 feet wide, and so great is the" outpour that water from below the break is being drawn up to and spilled over the fertile valley through the crevasse. All of the country east to the main line of the Yazoo and Mississippi valley road is flooded, and in many places the water has gone over the tracks, filling the Yazoo river. The fall in the main channel at Helena, Greenville.

Vicksburg and Arkansas City is due to the filling up of the d'elta and the lower White river country. The supreme question is the duration of the flood. If the lower levees along Louisiana and Southeastern Arkansas should may be they will not emptying of the delta and St. Francis basin will be slow. If they break and the river continues, to fall at Cairo the upper St.

Francis basin and delta will be clear of water by May 5. If this should prove true there will be no difficulty in growing cotton. Greenville. April situation in the Yazoo-Mississippi delta valley is growing daily more desperate. WH are confronted with a calamity the like of which has not been written in the history of floods.

Fully 700 towns art- today under water, and many more sur- rminded and cut off. There is no cessation of the constant in-pour of flood water into this valley from the five rivers hourly deluging the country. We Have a Fast Torpedo Boat. Baltimore, April boat No. 3 returned yesterday from a builders' trip in Chesapeake bay.

The new fiye" carried a maximum of 250 pounds of steam and an average of 205. He- screws made 390 revolutions per minute and averaged 307, and she accomplished twenty-five knots an hour with no difficulty." It is asserted that at one time she "was traveling at the rate of thirty knots, and she can do this whenever called upon. If she makes thirty knots on her official trial she will be nearly equal to the best European boats. The Weather That Comes. Washington.

April Following are the weather indications for twenty-four hours from 8 p. m. yesterday: For Indiana and cloudy weather; probably licht locals lowers: light variable winds; warmer in northern portions. For Upper Jlichigau- Geuer.illy fair weather: northerly winds, becoming "variable. For Lower Cloudy, followed by fair weather: northerly winds." For this morning, followed br fair weather: liglit varwb.e winds; sligliily warmer.

For followed by fair weather; northerly winds, shifting to southeasterly; warmer in westera portion GLEANINGS. Manxmen ct the credit of being the most superstitious of all civilized people. Philadelphia consumed 1,996,734 barrels of beer in 1896, an increase of 177,630 over 1895. Apia, the principal town of the Samoan islands, has 836 inhabitants, and is without a wharf, a public school, a fire engine or a sidewalk. It is said thai the metal annually turned into pens weighs more than all the metal during year in the war implement of the world.

The prices of food and drink in Bula- wayo recall the palmy times of the California Argonauts. Potatoes are 12 cents apiece, eggs a dozen, beer SI a bottle and 1 116 15 India sweet, in Portland, is one of the oldest streets in Muine, if not tho oldest. The Expre?" chat city says it can be traced bati i- a path worn through the woods by the aborigines. Two young women of Moscow recently strangled an old female miser and took her money, they explained in court, "in order to provide themselves with funds for traveling abroad to complete their scientific education." A jury box still in use in Portsmouth, N. bears tin inscription reading: "Province of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, May 29, 1758.

Petit jurors for tho inferior courts." The box is of pine and has been in uninterrupted rise since the date recorded. Perhaps the most remarkable art exhibit in the world is that of the lunatics in the Yille. Evrard asylum in Paris. Most or the patients in the asylum have been painters or designers, and the physician in charge inaugurated a "salon" of their works. The effect on the minds of the patients is said to be exccllens.

TOWN TOPICS. THE MARKETS. Chicago. April 6. The Board of Trade was closed today on account of election and no grain quotations were given out.

Chicago Produce. Chicago, April 6. Extra creamery, per extra dairy, 17c; fresh packing stock. Eggs-Fresh stock Slic; per dozen. Live Poultry per ID: chickens, ducks.

Burbanks. ISc per bu; Hebrtms. Sweet per bbl. clover, per Ib: imperfect. to fancy, per bbl.

Milwaukee Milwaukee. April 2 spring, No. 1 northern. 74c; May, 3, 23C. 2 white.

2, 32c; samples, Rye- No. Chicago denies that any one is starving within her borders. Perhaps that drinking water is eatable Times- Union. In the rush and struggle for existence down here they snve a little time and a little ink by spelling it instead of (Fla.) Cor. Chicago Record.

Now that microbes 4 inches long are being discovered in Chicago drinking water, we suggest that, in addition to being boiled, it also be run through a sausage Commercial Tribune. Before Boston's chimpanzee died it learned to eat beans with a fork. A bronze statue of the animal in that inspiring attitude should be erected in the place left vacant by the removal of the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Philadelphia runs a municipal gas works and finds that the wastage last year was 1,132,646, IBS feet, or 23 per cent of the whole amount manufactured. What becomes of this enormous quantity is unknown.

It is simply marked on the books "unaccounted Louis Globe-Democrat. All women are advised to patronize newly popular princess dress. Jackets and short capes of fur will iOrn all through the spring. Conspicuous among the new garments offered T-olish coats of vivid red tailor clotb. braided in black.

use wU- ugain be made of pretty checked -x in two and three contrast- Ing -ud in varied weaves. The tenacious little French pelerine comes up with other spring temptations in all its glory and will remain in vogue throughout this and the summer season. New shirt waists of plain ecru, pink or blue linen, have tucked and corded yokes cords and tucks running the entire length of the blouse exactly in front and also at the back. One of the assured survivals of the past season is the short jacket under all its shapes and names, the Eton, zouave, bolero, Russian patrol and the French guard, with its gay military decorations. Skirts narrowly gored and then Gounccd from belt to hem are noted among fashionable dress models, also double skirts of equal length, each skirt being finished with a deop hem with three or four tucks above it.

For the summer season fashion is again going back to the Gainsborough days of hu-ge aureole hats, to gauzy fichus and other airy draperies crossed over the corsage, to skirts of diaphanous and floating textiles and to all sorts of lovely picture effects, Pink is a decided favorite for evening toilets, und shaded violets afford a strong contrast when used in conjunction with pink, a violent blending perhaps; but, granted the right shade of pink and the correct tine in purple, the is neither harsh nor York Post. THE MOTHERS' CONGRESS. The mothers' congress should have on Its programme the old Jewish saying, "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made Herald. The speakers at the congress of mothers in Washington presented some urgent subjects for consideration by the mothers of the land, and it is impossible that the plain and practical common sense exhibited in these speeches should be without Baltimore American. It is encouraging when the ambition of the mothers of the nation seeks enlightenment as to improved methods for caring for the physical and mental wants of children.

There is nowhere else so important a field for scientific observation and wise Times. The mothers' congress was a grand conception. hope the aim of its promoters will be realized. A fearful responsibility rests upon the mothers of America, and the sooner they can be made to understand and appreciate that responsibility the better it will be for them and for the people. Leader.

It IB said that Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, is much annoyed when he himself referred to as a Swede. Common pleas court No. 1, in Philadelphia, is known as the "Court of Busy Bees," because of its hardworking judges Bregy and Beitler. Philippe Grenier, member of the French parliament from Pontarlier, is a Mussulman.

He wears the traditional turban and bnrnoose, and prostrates himself in prayer in he public streets. Frank Thomson, the new president of the Pennsylvania railroad, was a pupil and protege of the road's inspiring genius, Tom Scott, and he has been continuously in its service since he was a boy of years tgo. Mr. Robert Urquhart of Forres, 'being 95 years of age, has resigned the office of town clerk, which he had held for 42 years. He is the oldest solicitor in Scotland, having been admitted 73 years ago, when George IV was king.

Hurry Furniss, the English caricaturist, now in" this country, says that the face of Senator Gorman of Maryland greatly resembles chat of the late Archbishop Benson, except that Senator Gorman has decidedly the more clerical und thoughtful face of the two. Chares L. Tiffany, the founder of the great jewelry house, has just celebrated his birthday. The firm which he established more half a century ago he still directs, and its success is due in great measure to his business energy and. perspicacity.

Frederick W. Vandcrbilt, through his interest in a southern railroad, has become the chief owner of a large and well appointed howl at Virginia JBeach. Sir. Van '-sj-bilt has become interested in that locality because of its picturesque and climatic attractiveness. Friends of Officer Frank Tagpart of Newburg claim that he is the tallest policeman in New York state.

His height is 6 feet UK inches, his weight 211 pounds. Policeman James FlanigaTi cf is 6 feec 2 inches in His weight is more than Taggarfs, being 286 pounds. Cardinal Svaropa, archbishop of Bologna, JB looked upon by the superstitious as Pope Leo's successor. His nama means "flames up," and the next is designated in the book of ignes ardeos. Moreover, he was previously bishop of Forle, whose patron 1 of the Fire.

The late Joseph Willarf Waghlngton supposed tohavfe jeft about 18,000,000. But his brother Henry is authority for the statement that the estate will run over $10,000,000. Joe Willard, as ho was known, leaves only one heir to his son living at Fairfax, who is a member of the Virginia legislature. Dr. D.

R. Brower of Chicago Bays he is the rightful owner of 600 acres of laud in the heart of Philadelphia, the present value of which is about $400,000,000. He remarks that if somebody will pay over to him Chat he won't do a thing to anybody. But, if the money is not forthcoming, just look out for a lawsuit. Mr.

Faithful Begg, M. incorporation in the royal arms of England of "a double headed lion passant guardant, the heads crowned, one for India, the other for the colonies," as a suitable way of marking Queen Victoria's long reign by "drawing the outlying portions of the empire more closely together." Dr. John P. Hnmbleton of Georgia, who died the other day, was said to have named one of his sons for the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, for which he was removed from government office. But a friend of the dead man tells the Atlanta Journal thut this was not the case.

He named his son John Wilkes after the English Riidica.1 member of parliament. PIMPLY FACES hlsckht.d., red, rough, motliy itching. dry, liin, and falling and prevented by- CcriCUBA SOAP, the effective purifying mnd beautifying totp iD the world, as ireil md fortoUci, bath, and nunczy. (pcura world. BLOOD HUMORS THE WRITERS.

CURIOUS CULLINGS. Cornish miners believe that it is unlucky to whistle underground. Yon clap your hands to call a waiter or stop a street car in Mexico. In some of the Hindoo temples of south India the collection is taken up by an elephant that goes around with a basket. Everybody contributes.

Philadelphia has a sign reading, "Ho Made Pies," and a barber shop in the same city bears this inscription on its window: Washington Smith, Tonsoruil Abattoir." An English coachman was asked to tie up a dog, and resigned on the ground that it -was the butler's duty. The butler declined and resigned, and after sis servants had gone the earl tied the dog up himself. STATE LINES. The Emperor Francis Joseph has made the poet Maurus Jokal a life member of the Hungarian house of magnates. Jose Echegaray, Spain's greatest playwright, is 64 years old.

He is an engineer and a mathematician. He was once a minister of state. He has written 52 plays. Walter Besant says that if he writes an autobiography he will not note the great men at whose tables he has sat or the ways and manners of poets he has known, but will commemorate remarkable men and women not known to the world. The assertion that Frank B.

Stockton "sometimes waits an hour for a word" has called forth the following interesting piece of information: "Alphonse Daudet has long periods of mental inertia in which he is willing to work, but feels unable to frame a sentence." M. Zola is going to keep on trying to get into the French academy. Perhaps he will "break the record of Laujon, the song writer, who was a persistent candidate for hall a century and was finally elected at the age of 82, "because," they said, "he would soon go to heaven, and it was well that he should go thither by way of the academy." SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Mrs. Martha Porter is vlsitlng: frieDds in Camdea.

Beware of Ointments For CaUrrh- That Contain Mercurj. as mercury will surely destroy the sense of gmell and cempletely derange the whole when enter nir It through the muooug surfaces. Such articles should never be used except OD prescriptions from reputable physicians, the damage they will do ie ten fold to the good ou can possibly derive from them. Hall'f Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.

Cheney Toledo, 0.. na mtrcury, and ie taken internally, acting: directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure- be sure you get the genuine. It is. taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.

J. Cheney Co. Testimonials free. druggists, 76c. Hall 1 Family Pills Mrs.

Jen ale Stine, at Ctnal street visiting Frankfort. Healthy, Happy Children are those whose mothers have been, and are, healthy. The best intentioned woman in the world will fall short or her duty to her children if she is worried and wearied with, weakness and sickness. Most all Irritable women are stck women. Most- all melancholy, listens, languid women are sick women.

Every woman, who will take the trouble to will find that at certain fixed periods she is nervous, cross, irritable and despondent. Any irregularity makes- tHe condition worse. Even a well woman is leas amiable than usual at these times. What can be expected rrom a' sick woman? When every movement is a dreary drag, when the nerves are all on edge in sympathy; with the particular ones when ic seems that death were very much preferable to can a woman do for children; then? It is every woman's duty to be well and healthy. There is no reason why she should be otherwise if only she- will take proper care of herself and take Dr.

Pierce's Favorite Prescription when she needs it. This celebrated remedy has been used In tue Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo, N. of Dr. Pierce is chief consulting physician and specialist, for over thirty years. Thousands of women been cured by it- Miss Belle MHler is visiting her parents at Converse.

Spring medicine is a necessity which Hood's Sarsaparilla grandly supplies It purifies and the blood and thus gives tone strength to the whole-system. Hood's Pills are the only pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparllla. Cure all liver ills, All that Nevada needs now Is a nice, broad lottery York Press. The Oklahoma legislature has abolished, the Oklahoma militia. Oklahoma society people couldn't stand the rivalry.

They all carry guns Times. Rhode Island's boast that there are only four towns in that state without public libraries, while there are 17 towns In Massachusetts in that condition, recalls the proud announcement of the boy who said he stood next to the head of his class in sehooL Thew; were oialy two boyi in tbt Herald. BUSINESS ESSENTIALS. The most successful retail stores are those of good location, plenty of room, every convenience and artistic arrangement. So long as comfort, convenience and eye pleasing luxury appear to accompany successful business, just so long will these things count in profit building.

The most successful factories are well kept, roomy, with the best cf sanitary arrangement, and each girl or man has a locker, a cake of soap and a wash basin. Shoes or overcoats or anything else may be sold in the store of darkness and dust, but more shoes and more overcoats and more of everything else is sold in cheerful places, well furnished and conveniently arranged. There may not be necessity for solid mahogany desks and leather cushioned chairs, but there is every reason why the office and the store should have some of the comforts of home and the appearance of painstaking NAVAL SALUTES. It is not true that the "Vesuvius is built of slippery York Press. The trouble with the Indiana appears to have been a tolerably clear case of Herald.

It is evident from their freakiness that Uncle Sara's battleships are all of the feminine News. The great trouble with our warships is that the builders neglect to fit them out with glass Kews. Before going ahead with the construction of any more battleships the United States government should advertise for bids for dredging the Leader. M. Levat informs the Academic des Sciences that steel tempered in commercial carbolic acid is much, superior to that tempered in water.

The Bulletin d'Apiculture states that holes can be easily drilled in glass with an ordinary drill if the spot is moistened with a few drops of a mixture composed of 25 parts of oxalic acid in 12 parts of turpentine. A French naval engineer, D'Humy, has devised a method of converting petroleum into a hard, fibrous, solid compound, so that it may be used for fuel more conveniently and cannot escape if the tank which holds it is punctured by a cannon shot. Professor Eudeloff ot Berlin recently demonstrated that both the strength and the yield point of vtrought iron and steel are increased by cooling below the freezing point. The angle through which the materials may be bent decreases, however, with the decrease in temperature. DON'T STOP TOBACCO SUDDENLY.

To do to Is in to the Nervous System. "BACO- OUBO" is recognized by the medical profession as the Scientific. Cure for the Tobacco Habit. It ta Vegetable and Harmless. "BACO-CUEO" curet while you use tobacco; It will notify you when stop.

"BACO-CUEO" Is guaranteed to cure where all others fail, and is sold wltna WRITTEN GUAEANTEE to cure any case, LO matter, how bwl, or money refunded with ten per cent One box tlree bores cure), IWO. at all dninriitt or sent, fllrw upon receipt of prioe. and prools. CbemloaJ Mfg. LaCrosHi.

Wis. HOWE'S HOMILIES. true It requires some courage to be ft friend. Wisdom costs so ranch that finally there Is no profit in it 111 temper is much more apparent than the reasons for it. The men who cany pistols are looking for pro-focation and do not need protection.

Don't imagine that wall flowers at a dance have no amusement. They make fun of the dancers. We've quit telling because when we tell one the other fellow wants to tell at least two. You ore no doubt punished a gnat deal, tut here is something worth thinking Tou do most of it Globe. HUMPHREYS' i 52 3 4 8 Cures Fever, Worms.

Infants' Disease Diarrhea. Neuralgia. 9 Cures Headache. Dyspepsia. Delayed Periods.

Leuchorrea, Skin Disessess. 13 Cures Rheumatism. Malaria. Whooping Cough- Kidney Diseases. Urinary Colds and Grip.

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