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Underground Marvel. Particulars have Just been published of a wonderful series of underground caves In the Stalden district of Can ton Schwytz. The existence of these places had before been vaguely known, but they have now for the first time been fully explored by a party which went down provided with 5,000 yards of rope ladders, acetylene lamps, rugs and provisions for eight days. They were underground for two full days, penetrating for a distance of 2,500 yards ( through vast halls (brilliant with stalactite . and other crystals, and with other great recesses branching from them. There were also found swift subterranean tor rents, powerful enough to work great Industrial undertakings; Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Ja nine times king, twice a grand duke, once a grand prince, four times a mar grave, and the multitudes of his titles as count and so forth is past enumera tion. In addition as King of Hungary he bears the' title of "most apostolic," which is one of the four honors be stowed by the Pope. Asth "One of my daughters had i terrible case of asthma. We tried almost everything, but without re lief. We then tried Aver's Cherrv 1 Pectoral and three and one-half bottles cured her." Emma Jane Entsminger, Langsville, O. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral certainly cures many cases of asthma. And it cures bronchitis, hoarseness, weak lungs, whooping-cough, croup, winter coughs, night coughs, and hard colds. 1 Three sizes: 26c., enough for an ordinary cold; 500., just right for bronchitis, hoarse ness, hard coids, etc.; gl, most economical for chronic cases and to keep on hand. J. C. AXEK CO., Lowell, mass. 4at,jasv m It remorsi the cans. 1 nl 1 IC H soothes ths nerves and 1 1 Em W relieve, the aches and COLDS AND 0RIPPEf;'."Jti beadache and Neuralgia also. No bad effects. 10c, 23o and SOo bottles. (Liquid.) SaRAWFURS Wanted For London January sales. Opossom Muskrat, Mink, fckunlc. Raccoon and others, Hlgbenl cash price paid. Write A.K.Burk hardt.Maln & 2d, Clnciunatl.O. f TrllTrKAM(. BCRXIIiS. Pmtt Attorn. T I A I I- N I X " Bond Building, WaRhlngton. 1. U. I 4 L. II I Ofaiknts PKOMPTLV (X1UU. Bookiataa BaUuU Mat FKBS. CURES WHlRt ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Byrup, Tastes Good. Use in time. Hold by drnffrtts. Singing Cattle to Sleep. A curious instance of the power of music comes from the western ranches, where the cowboys have learned that they can sing cattle to sleep. At "bedding time" a rider will ride to the front of a herd, stop it, and then he will ride rapidly around and around it till the cattle are herded close together. He usually sings or -whistles while he is doing this, and presently one of the herd lies down, to be followed in quick succession by the others, till in ten minutes the herd of 500 may be all down. The cowboy now rides slowly around them, stopping occasionally if he desires to, and whistling or singing, as he likes. But should the herd get up . or be come excited in the night he rides around rapidly or sings until they are quiet. New York Tribune. Better an honest Lazarus than a suc- BEGINS cleansing cessiui jjives. do. y. acids that produce RHEUMATISM, driving out all the dangerous germs that infest the body that is Other medicines treat symptoms; Rhtumacide remsvts.tbt cause, and, therefore, its CURES ARE PERMANENT,' Helps the digestion, tones up the system. Sample bottle free on application to Bobkitt Chemical Co., Pro prietors, 316 West Lombard St., Baltimore, Md. t RAMMED BY A SWORD FISH. Monster cf the Sea Nearly Sinks Fish ing Craft. The fishing schooner Actor sailed into Boston last week badly leaking, as the result of an encounter with a mammoth swordfish off the Georges banks. The big fish struck the schoon er with terrific force in a head-on collision. The force of the Impact shook the large schooner from stem to stern, and at first the crew thought the vessel had struck some half sunken wreckage. Shortly afterward the vessel began to leak rapidly. An examination was made, and under the starboard bow, about two feet below the water line, there protruded the sword of a gigan tic swordfish. Further examination showed that the big sword had pene trated the hull of the vessel, extend ing several inches within the hole. The vessel was headed for Boston, and during the voyage it was necessary to keep the pumps working a large part of the time. FITSoermanentlyoured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer.$2trial bottle and treatisefree Dr.R.H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. The House of Representatives costs $3, 000,000 a year and the Senate $1,400,000. . Mrs Winslow's Soothln-? Syrup for ohildrea teetbinjr, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays patn,oure3 wlndoolto. 25o. a bottle Cork has the best dressed and most pros perous looking population in Ireland. I do not believe Plso's Cure for Consump tion has anequal for coughs and colds.--Jons F.Bqyeb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. There are nearly 270 different religions in the United Kingdom. - Putna Fadeless Dtes color more goods, brighter colors, with less work than others. The latest cure for nervous diseases, ac cording to a Swiss doctor, is tea made with melted snow. Southern Tobacco Works, Bedford City, Ya., wants three or four reliable travelling salesman in each state. Reasonable pay to new men who want to work up. At the burial of a South London man his x dogs, draped in black, followed the cortege. Why Do We Ile ? Vital statistics classified show the re spiratory organs to be the feeble point in man. Diseases of the lungs are out of all proportion in fat Jty. Take Taylor's Cher okee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein for coughs, colds and consumption. At druggists, 25c, 50c. and $1.00 a bottle. Only one out of every 1000 married couples live to celebrate their golden wed ding. Germans Away from Home. In Great Britain and the, colonies live 150,000 Germans, as against 120, 000 in Austria, 112,000 in Switzerland, 100,000 in Russia and 00,000 in France. Chrysanthemums. Among flowers the chrysanthemum Is said to live the longest after being cut. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O. ' We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him terfectly honorable in all business transac tors and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West 4 Tbtjax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waldino, Kinnan & Mabyin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Ball's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Damascus now contains about the came number of Jews that it had in the time of St. Paul. In the middle of the first century of our era some 10,000 Jews lived in Damascus and were gov erned by an Ethnarch; the present Jewish community is computed at about 11,000. Prospectus ready, weans GOLD for you : 82 Arizona claims, float Assay. $4333. Monthly payments Guar anteed. Write Gladys Mining Co., Big Bpringrs, Tex. Honor is the first element in honesty. J WORK with1 the first dose, the blood of all the poisonous the way cures are effected by 1 GOOD ROADS. I i General Miles Speaks on Good Roads. The recent retirement of Nelson A. Miles gives especial interest to his pub lic utterances. The most important speech made by the General recently was one on "Good Roads and National Greatness," delivered at the time of the dedication of the St Louis Expo sition. Among other things he said: "I know of no one element of civiliza tion in our country that has been more neglected, than the improvement of onr roads; yet this is the element that marks the line between barbarism and civilization in any country. "The founders of our Government strongly advocated the necessity of opening up and improving the means of Internal communication. The im mortal Washington retired from the pomp and circumstance of glorious war to occupy the honorable position of a sovereign citizen, and while conduct ing the affairs of his plantation was President of a transportation company. The author of the Declaration of In dependence, the founder of one of our great universities, and the eminent statesman who gave to us this vast empire west of the Mississippi, was right when he said, in a letter ad dressed to Humboldt: It is more re munerative, splendid, and noble for the people to spend money on canals and roads that will build and promote social intercourse and commercial fa cilities than to expend it on armies and navies.' He was again right when he said, in a letter to James Ross: 'I ex perience great satisfaction in seeing my country proceed to facilitate in tercommunication of several parts by opening rivers, canals and roads. How much more rational is this disposition of public money than that of waging war! "During the past hundred years the people of this country have devoted more capital, industry and enterprise to the construction of great commercial railways than have the people of any other country. "Our Government has expended more than $440,000,000 for the improvement of our harbors and waterways. If such "expenditures of the National treasure have been made in the past for the development of railroads and water ways, is it not now most appropriate that the improvement of our roads should receive National attention and Government aid? "Any measure that brings to the homes of the American people the daily news of the world, that gives the sovereign citizen the truth concerning the affairs of his own country, that affords him a knowledge of the condi tions and necessities of his own people, enables him to dischange his duties of citizenship, benefits the entire country and gives strength and character to the Nation. . "The wealth of the Nation comes pri marily from the ground. The factory and foundry utilize the products of the soil and mine. As agriculture is our principal industry, so the great mass of our rural people are our main depend ence, their patriotism, their public spirit, their welfare must ever be the salvation and glory of our Republic, Therefore, every measure, whether by the National Government, the State, county, or municipal authorities, that can promote their welfare should be earnestly advocated." Keeping Roads In Order. One of the essentials in keeping a road in repair is to keep it well round ed to allow the water to run off after each rain. This is accomplished by running a grader, over the road. As soon as the newly crushed stones are packed the grader is run along each side and all loose stones are thrown back into the road. Again before spring the road Is gone over, and all loose stones thrown into the road, and the two ridges between the centre and the wheel tracks are cut off and thrown into the low place in the centre that has been worn by the one horse traveling In the middle of the road. The grader is used at least once each year, cutting off all high places and filling in the depressions. The road will now pack and cement together, and make a road as smooth and easy to travel over as a floor. This piece of road has been macadamized seven years. The building of this road cost about ?1000 a mile, $G00 being tax and $400 in donation. County Road Maps. Auditor Hempel, of Clayton County, Iowa, has set an example that should be followed all over the country, as good road maps are a prime factor in road improvement. He has made road plats of all the townships in the county in the form of a sectional map of each township, mounted on two heavy book covers joined, size twenty by twenty, and one opening shows the whole sys tem of roads in each township. Be sides the plat showing roads, each township clerk is supplied with a rec ord book in which to enter field notes of new roads established, or present roads that may be vacated by the Board of Supervisors; minutes of such actions to be certified by the county auditor to each township clerk. In addition to the above a liberal amount of sectional plats are furnished each clerk to make copies of roads for the use of road superintendents or con tractors. Good Roads Magazine. An Interesting Decision. An interesting decision was recently handed down by the Supreme Court in Connecticut in the matter of a new highway laid out by the Railroad Com missioners of the towns of Merlden and Cheshire to avoid the grade cross ing near Hough's Mills. The suit was brought to compel the Selectmen of the town of Merlden to make neces sary repairs to the new highway. The Selectmen, however, claimed that the highway was not properly construct ed. The road was constructed by the Merlden and Waterbury Railroad Com pany and approved by the Railroad Commission, in spite of the opposition of the town of Merlden. The decision is regarded of special importance, as it establishes the right of railroad com missioners to change the lines of ex isting highways and establish new ones. 1 , ORIGIN OF COFFEE; Dervish Discovered Uses of the Berry Cen turies Ago. As to the history of coffee the legend runs that it was first found growing wild in Arabia. Hadji Omar, a derv ish, discovered it in 1285, 617 years ago. He was dying of hunger in the wilderness, when, finding some small round berries, he tried to eat them, but they were bitter. He tried roasting them, and these he finally steeped in some water held in the hollow of his hand, and found the decoction as re freshing as if he had partaken of solid food. He hurried back to Mocha, from which he had been banished, and, in viting the wise men to partake of his discovery they were so well pleased with it that they made him a saint. The story is told that coffee was in troduced into the West Inudies in 1723 by Chirac, a French physician, who gave a Norman gentleman by the name of De Clieux, a captain of infantry, on his way to Martinique, a single plant. The sea voyage was a stormy one, the vessel was driven out of her course and drinking water became so scarce that it was distributed in rations. De Clieux, with an affection for his cuffee plant, divided his portion of water with it, and succeeded in bringing it to Mar tinique, although weak, not in a hope less condition. There he planted it in his garden, protected it with a fence of thorns, and watched it daily until the crop matured, yielding several pounds of coffee, which he distributed among the inhabitants of the island to be planted by them. From Martinique coffee trees in turn were sent to Santo Domingo, Guadaloupe and other neigh boring islands. The coffee tree is an evergreen shrub, growing in its natural state to a height of fourteen to eighteen feet. It is usu ally kept trimmed, however, for conve nience in picking the berries, which grow along the branches close to the leaves and resemble in shape and color ordinary cherries. The tree cannot be grown above the frost line, neither can it be successfully grown in the tropics. The most successful climate for pro duction is that found at an altitude of about 4000 feet. Anything much above this is in danger of frost, which is fa tal to the tree, and when coffee is grown much below this it requires arti ficial shade, which materially increases the cost of production and does not produce as marketable berries. It is owing to this particular requirement that coffee has never been successfully produced in the United States. Suc cess. Must Work Out West. The moment that winter breaks and save in the high altitudes, winter west of the Missirsippi is a mild and com fortable thing in comparison with our Eastern weather the police of St. Jos eph, Kansas City, Denver, in fact of all the towns and cities, wage relent less war on vagrants. The wide roar ing prairies, the railroads, the mills are all insatiable in their demand for un skilled labor. Crops rot in the fields for lack of harvesters, mills are idle for lack of men to drive the heavily laden wagons to their doors. The idle will not work so long as they can beg or steal. In the West they have little chance for either. On the average fifty men a week are arrested in Kansas City during the months of June, July and August. The police wisely refuse to burden the city with their support, and instead give these men the alternative of going to work honestly, and for high wages, or breaking stone for the improvement of the abominable Western roads. The choice nearly always is for the better paying labor. Great wisdom is shown in the distribution of these men. Only one or two of a gang are sent to any one camp. Leslie's Monthly. The French Telephone Service. The telephone system of France seems to be in a most inefficient state. and complaints are coming in from all quarters. Communication with Paris from the suburbs is said to be practi cally impossible, one man having waited twenty-four hours in order to get a connection from Trouville. The central office in Paris is utterly unable to cope with the great increase in the number of subscribers. It is now pro posed to raise $2,000,000 for the pur pose of enlarging the entire system. DUCKS WERE DECEITFUL Ingenious Fraud Practiced by the Heathen Chinee. The ingenuity of the Chinaman is wonderful, surpassing at times the be lief of his European and American brothers. A striking instance of it, not unmixed with guile, was brought to light yesterday morning during the trading transactions of two foreigners at Boon road market. This husband and wife, having de cided that duck should figure on the menu of the day, went the round of the market in search of a fat, plump, well favored bird. After a while two were purchased. They were beautifully dressed ducks, young, but plump, and promised to show up well at the evening table. When the domestic pair got home the lady chanced to puncture one of the birds with a sharp knife, and it col lapsed like a toy balloon. The other, subjected to similar treatment, fol lowed suit. Their erstwhile inflated bodies became flat and bony and mere ghosts of the ducks that had been bought. Investigation showed that a thin piece of wire had been fastened round the birds' necks and elsewhere, and everything pointed to the conclusion that the ducks had been blown up with a bicycle pump. How the ducks had been drawn and then made to stand the strain of the air-pump is evidently an Oriental trade secret. When the young couple again go shopping for ducks they will take a skewer along with them. Shanghai Times. Birds and Epidemics. Many centuries ago Saint Augustine admonished his followers to "shun wickedness as swallows shun pestilent places," and from that a modern churchman tells us it is evident that the good saint in using this simile ut tered an important scientific truth. This modern churchman Is Father Victor. Writing from Palestine he draws attention to the fact that swal lows and other migratory birds inva riably shun those places which are in the slightest degree infected by nox ious microbes. Thus they are never to be found in districts where cholera, yellow fever, the plague and other epi demic diseases prevail, and Father Victor, who has paid close attention to the subject for some months, further maintains that the districts which they select as their temporary homes are in all respects the most healthy that can be found. It is evident from this that persons who are afraid of catching cholera or f other infectious diseases ought not to live in places which are shunned by swallows and other migratory birds. Thft foresight of birds as shown in the detection of a coming epidemic of chol era was commented upon by the Jar din Zoologique some years ago, and "the following instances were given in which this foresight was displayed. A few days previous to the terrible ravages of cholera in Gallicia in 1S72 all the sparrows suddenly quitted the town of Przemysl, and not a single bird returned until the end of Novem ber, when the disease had entirely dis appeared. The same circumstance was remarked in Munich and in Nu remberg. During the attacks of chol era at St. Petersburg and Riga in 1S4S, in Western Prussia in 1849 and in Han over in 1850 every swallow and spar row forsook the town and remained absent until the eradication of the scourge. Golden Penny. Ilearts of Hapsburgs. In the imperial burial vault in the Church of the Capuchins, in Vienna, Is a row of more than 150 crystal vases, mounted in gold and topped by a crown. Each of these vases contains the heart of a dead Hapsburg, a mem ber of the imperial family. In the thirteenth century the Duke Francis died in Switzerland and directed that his heart should be removed and sent to Vienna. Ever since this custom has been observed in the Hapsburg family,; On the death of a member the heart is removed and preserved in a crystal vase. In the vault there are now 152: such vases and 113 imperial coffins: The surplus of thirty -nine vases con tain the hearts of Hapsburgs whose bodies are buried elsewhere. The sole exception to this Hapsburg custom was that of the late Archduke Lr.dwig, whose will forbade the removal of his heart. France's fcew Bullet. V- The Patrie asserts in an article by M. Massard, the editor, who is an of ficer in the French reserves, that the French army is now in possession oif a new cartridge which must make it for the next four years the most for midable fighting force in the world. It is adapted to the 1SSG rifle, and its range is said to be twice that of the German rifle. The bullet tapers to a sharp point, and is longer and lighter than any cartridge now in use. As it cannot be used in the small bore rifles with which the armies of Europe are armed, M. Massard says that for the next four years, at least, it will be at the exclusive service of the French army. The Kongo State sells abroad annu ally over $13,000,000 worth and bays less than $3,000,000 wortl.
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