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6 5 , o o ELEPtiANTS
KILLED FOR 1\79...R.Y.
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Terrible Slaughter Goes on Annually
and Fortunes Are Made in Tusks;
(By Frank G. Carpenter.)
Zanzibare-Sixty-five thousana ele-
phants were killed in Africa. last year
and more thau a million and tt, half
pounae of ivory were taken from them
awl. shipped off to Rome. Of this fully
one-third. eaum from Zanzibar, another
third was from Portuguese East eine
West Africa, aud a large part of the
Wane() wae from the valley of the Cou-
go. Cape Colony furnithed a hundred
thousaed pounds, Egypt three hundred
thousand peunde, and a large part came
from, the Niger teritoriee 'Ina Lagos.
During the bet six months I have been
traveling through the lands Gt ivory
end elephants, I saw tueks for JAM in
the Egyptian Sudau. At Mombasa,
aliONV11 $60,040 worth of ivory in one
pile, anti duriug my travels through
legenda, ana German Last Africa I pass-
ed ,eiany long lino of porters carrying
elephants' tualts on their heads or tied
to long poke or rested on their
shoulders.
Great Ivory Market.
Zanzibar has for years peen oue of,
the chief ivory markets of the world.
There are companies here which have
their buyers and tradere scouring Ger-
man and British East Africa, as well as
the Portuguese possessions, farther
south, These men take beads, cottons,
and other merchandise vo trade with the
natives, and when they have actiumulat.
ed a cargo they send it on the heads of
porters down to the seacoast. Much is
now coming to Lake Victoria and over
the Uganda Railroad to elombesa. A
oreat deal goes to Tabora, in the centre
of Getman East Afriea, and thetace on
east to Bogomoye, on the coast oppo-
site Zanzibar, while other -caravans bring
ivory to•Mogoro and it is sent thence by
railroad to Dar es Salaam.
There are herds of elephants about the
slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, and the
hunting goes on in the forests of the
Great Rift valley. In British East Aiel-
lo. it costa $250 for the right, to shoot
elephante, and a hunter dares not kiU
inoie'tlitin two during a season. lt is
against the law to kill the baby ele-
phants or the cow elephants there, and
the Bathe regulations prevail in Uganda.
In the British Sudan a license is requir-
ed to shoot any kind of big game, and
this is also true of British. Central Af-
rica. In German East Africa hunters are
charged a few yupees for thoir elephant
shooting licenses, but they must pay a
royalty to the government ou all the iv-
ory they get. As it it ,there is consider-
able profit in the business and in .the
German colonies a fairly good huntee
often. makes big Money. A single ele-
phant May give tusks worth a thousand
. dollars and upward, and an old bull may
produce three ar four hundred pounds
of the choicest ivory.
African Ivory the Bast.
This African ivory brings the highest.
prices in the markets. It is superior to
any other in the size of the tusks. I have
seen some which are nine feet long and
there are some which weigh 200 pounds
each. The average weight of a tusk is
much less -than this, and one of a hun-
dred pounds is quite valuable. in India
the average tusk does not weigh fifty
pounds, but that of the African elephant
is much heavier. Many of the tusks are
broken when they are brought into the
market. The elephants use them for
plowing up roots and tearing down trees,
and also for fighting their enemies. The
average tusk is strong and elastic; but
it eau be broken, and the ends are some-
times snapped off. Ivory tusks are al-
ways sold by weight, and the traders
tell me that in buying them of the nat-
ives they have to be careful to see that
pieces of iron or bits of stone have not
been driven into the hollows of the
horns to make them weigh more,
Pulling an Elenhant's Teeth.
Many of you have been in the hands
of a d,entist and have seen how he almost
breaks your jaw in pulling a molar with
a long root. The tusks are really ele-
phants' teeth, and it Is difficult to get
them out of a dead elephant. They are
fitted into a bony socket and the roots
•go almost up to the eyes. A tusk eight
feet long may heve two feet of its root
imbedded in the skull, and if it is taken
away at once the head has to be chopped
to pieces to get it out.
In addition to the tusks the elephant
has six great teeth inside lie; mouth on
each side its jaw above and below and
these are almost as firmly imbedded as
the tusks themselves. The tusks are
hollowed about half way up. The small.
eat forms a big load for a man, while
one weighing 150 pounds requires four
porters 'to carry it. Such men are paid
from 3 to 5 cents a day for their labor,
so that the cost ot transportation is not
heavy.
-C onNs CURED
IN 24 HOSTS
You can painlessly unmet> ally cum, mess
hare, tent or bleeding, 1 y applying Putnam's
cern Extractor, it no er nui us, leaves en sear,
contains Rendus; harmless Ins...sites. animated
only of healing mune and Mena. Moe some in
nee. Cure guarauteed. soul by ditiegIsts
betties. Ileitis° substitutes.
PUTNAM'S PAINLESS
CORN EXTRACTOR
prepared by making fire in a hole and
toying the foot on the Imeninis :seek
utouth df the help and a layer of green
leaves ie spread upon them. :1 &-
meet of earth ie placed on top and the
meat is allowed to eook and steam for
several hours. After it is taken out ths
skin is removed, when the jelly-like inter -
lox is ready for eating, 1 am told that
it is so tender that it can lei scooped up
with a moon, The ordinery elepli int
steak is black in mime end when enoked
it looks and tastes a little like corned
beef.
Groat Ivory Trust.
The European nations whielt have colo-
nies in sSfetea are trying to keep the
elephants from being destroyed. This is
especially so of Belgium, which hopes
some day to form an ivory monopoly. A
great part of the elephants. are' etill liv-
ing in the valley of the Ceugo, and so
many have died that it is expected that
ivory will grow more valuable from year
to year As it is now., the amount sold
brings in millions of dollars, and most
of this comes from the aactions at Ant-
werp. In that city there are- several
hundred thousand pounds of ivory on
hand, and sales are made abont four
times a year. These sales are duly*Std-
vertised- and buyers frpm everywhere
come to attend them. The other chief
markete are Liverpeol and London,
Daring a recent visit to the Colonial
Museum at Brussels I saw one of the
heaviest elephant's tusks ever found. It
weighs over 200 pounds, and as I stood
beside it it reached high above my bead.
The biggest ivory tusk ever discovered
wee brought to Wpm,. in Geiman East
Africa, in 1880, 'and. was shipped from
there to Hamburg, It was almost ten
feet hi length.
America Gets the Best.
The ivory dealers here tell me that the
best of the ivory goes to America, and
that the second and third class tusks are
consumed in Europe. Tho fourth grade
ivoey is sent to East India for filagree
work, and the poorest .of all goes to
China, here it is used for inlaying fur-
niture and boxes, The best quality of
ivory is employed in making piano keys
and fan sticks and also. for the little
statuettes cut out by -the Japanese, Much
of the produet goes into• billiard balls,
knife handles, emnbs and fancy articles.
During a. visit I once paid to Sheffield,
England, I was shown about $100,000
worth of ivery which had been brought
there to be used for knife handles, and
I saw them sawing up the tusks- into
strips for this purpose. In such work
every scrap of the material is saved, the
shavinge sind dust being valuable for
making ivory black. or artists' pigments:
Mammoth Spechnene of Ivory.
at tits head of the lake, there are. four
Ettrepeane, and at Bismarekburg, on the
southern end, there are only two, both
nhont are officials. At Alwasuss on
Lake Visteria. II, found abont twenty
Europeees, equally divided between the
military and eivil braueltee of the Gov -
(ailment.
Anion& th•e Washashi.
There is a queer town on Lake Vic-
toria belonging to the (lemons which I
have not ment•itivell in my Katmai let -
term. 1 eallea there during my tour
around the lake, It is knowu as Shir-
ati, anti it lies near the bouudary of lire
tish East Africa, Ihe country alma
is beautifully rallies The 11111S slope
gently up from the l'5ake, and upon them
staud. hundrede of thatelied huts, an tn.
dian businees ecetion, and a fort belone.
ing to the Germans, .The people are lac
the Kavirondo and a little like the
Masai. They are dark brown in eolor,
are well formed, and of a good height,
I talked. with mi. chid who was fully
seven feet tall, standing like a giant
above his fellow% who 'imaged, I judge,
about 5 feet O.
• 'Die Washashi, like the leavirondo, do
not woery over their wardrobes. Those
saw were almost naked. Many of the
womeu had oulya string of beads about
them, and sante wore fringes of beads
two . or three inches long hanging from
their waist belts. The men were -often
clad in 4 single goittskiu, which was
shifted so that it covered now the back
and now the frout ref the persou.
wore jewelry, I saw many dandlea who
ha& on great coils of wire, and one whose
arms and legs weee weapped 'with brew;
wire the fake of a lead pencil, Another
man had coils of this wire on his. upper
arm, end that so tight that ;the flesh
seemed to be growing over them. e
counted the strands on one woman's
calf. It had eighteen parallel strands of
the thicknes-s of a lead pencil, from
where the sweiliug began to the knees.
Otherwise the lady was bare to the
fringe apron which ran around her
waist.
Rook. for Cattle and Men.
Many of these natives had shieles of
enormous size made of skirts fastened to
e framework and painted in bright col-
ors, ane they haditead dresses of ostrich
feathers which looked odd in contrast
with their nude bodies beneath. They
all carried spears, and were celebrating
a war dance.
The houses of Shirati are round huts
with thatched, roofs and walls of up-
right sticks clinked with mud. ¶the in-
terior of each house is divided into two
compartmeetts, one for the men and the
'other for the cattle. The cooking fire is
made in the centre of the hut, the blaze
being usualise started by means of fric-
tion, just as our Indians made fire be-
fore Columbus came. The people sleep
on the ground, using- pillows of wood.
Outside many of the huts I saw gran-
aries. Tbese are tail, round wickerwork
baskets made of cane or plaited yushes,
clinked tight witb cow dung,
Some of the most remarkable ivory
used within recent yeare is that which
has come from the mammoths found in
the tuhdras • of Siberia. This is from
huge animals which lived ages ago, but
whose bones, protected by the frozen.
soil of northern Asia are as good to -day
as when the animal's died. It is even
said that in some cases the entire car-
casses of the mammoths have been
found, their frozen flesh, skin and hair
having been thus kept for these thou-
sands of yeare. The first of thie frozen
ivory was found over 300 years ago, and
about seventy years since the annual
output was estimated at over 100,000
pounds. It is said -that more than 1,000
mammoth tusks were sold in the year
1872. At present the greater part of.
said ivory is going to China. It does not
compare in quality with our elephant
ivory, the greater part of it being poor,
while some is absolutely worthless. :
Germans Enter Into Competition.
Digging Up Dead Ivory.
Have you over 'heard of deaa ivory?
There is a. vast quantity of it still left in
Africa, and thousands of pounds are
shipped to the ports every year. Dead
ivory comes from animals which have
died a natural deeth, or front tusks
which have been gathered by the chiefs
of the villages and stored away. Iiory
has always been an evidence of wealth in
Africa, and some of the petty African
kings have piled up ivory as our misers
hoard money at home. Some of them
have buried it neat their villages and
others have made stockades of ivory
tusks about their dtvellings, During re-
cent years some of stich Ivory has been
gathered together but there is said to
be much buried ye't to be unearthed, In
addition 'to this is the ivory of elephants
which have died natural deaths, This is
(imposed of the etotmoits tusks of aged
elephants Which have dropped in their
tracks or have beee killed by lions and
other wild bettets. Their bones lie where
the huge animals fell, and. the earth and
leaves have covered. them so that they
are frequently hidden front view. I am
told that the pygmies have killed many
elephants with poisoned arrows, but, not
knowing tbe value of 'the tusks; lutve
left them lie idle where they fell. Some
of this dead ivory has been injured by
the forest fires, but that imbedded in the
Mud or covered with. vegetation is still
of great value.
Elephant Meat Geed to Eat.
The Germans are now competing with
the British for the transcontinental
trade of Central Airica. The old slave
route began at Ujiji, on Lake Tangan-
yika, and came across German East Af-
rica to Bogomoyo, and thence by boat to
Zanzibar. The slave traders loaded their
slaves with ivory tusks and made them
carry them across country. When they
aot them here they sold both slaves and
ivory to the Zanzibar berehants. In such
cases many of the slaves. were female,
and were used to supply the harems of
Arabia, Syria and Turkey, as well as of
Egypt and other Mohammedan countries
of North Africa. Such merchandise was
known as black ivory, in tontradistitic-
tion to the elephants' tusks, called White
ivory.
amee Germany has gotten possession
of the niainlana opposite here the ivory
trade has been diverted to Dar es
Salaam, and a large part of the preduct
now goes there. This trade will in-
crease with the building of the railroad,
which is now being pushed on toward
Lake Tanganyika. It will go to Tabora,
and from there probably on to 'Ujija
with a branch to the Victoria Nyanza.
The shipping of Dar es Salaam is rapid-
ly increasing. That port lets a good
harbor and. the largest steamers are
now ca'lling there.
Queer African Natives, •
The Germans tire rapidly exploring
their colonies, and they are finding some
strange things away out here In the Af-
rican. wilds. They have altogether 7.-
000,000 ,,or 8,000,000 of the natives fa
their trart of the white man's burden,
and they are divided up into many nes
tions and tribes. Some of tbe most in-
telligent are about Tabora, and it. is
front there that the colony expecte to
get the labor to eultivitte the pinata.
tions along the sea coat, The natives
of Mat region have a king and subor-
dinate chiefs, and woinen are so highly
regarded that they are sometimes eleat-
ed as the chiefs of their respeetive vil-
lages. These people believe in 'spirits,
and they think that the dead live again
as mullets. Every chief has a hut in
which the eplrite are eimposed to dwell.
They have medicine men and 'witch
doctors, end. they think that a good
medieine man ean change hinatelf into a
astimal at will And thus torment lds
etiemiee.
Edutation of the Negroes.
The Germans are ruling these people
to some 'extent through their chiefs,
and they are establishing erhools te
teach them. The misaionariee ate aiso
at -work itt different parts of German
East Africa and the Government has
high satiate and manual training
schools, with European teachere, who
use colored essistante. This work is
just in the beginning, but it promiees
to grow. Eifty-two eolored tettehers are
alreedv employed, and the eeliools have
several thousand pupils.
There are but few whites in the in-
terior of that, colony, and almost none
exteptitig officiate. in Tabora there are
eight foreigners,_ of wlicart six are Mita
tary offieete. In 'flip, en take Teta
'walla there are only fonr white men,
I met the other night an ota elephant
hunter who has matte many thousands of
dollars in ivory. Ite has not only ;shot
elephantis, bet retort them, and he tells
me the meat Is not al all bad, A good
eleea animal often weighs as inuch as
five tone, aed when MT is killed the
natives come in for miles around and
hlt46 greet best. They cut up the
huge besot with Tt3t,S IsniVes and
tear tbe meet off In attips anti muoke it
as we smoke beef. They nuke elephent
eteitits ana rietsts and they eook the
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WEDDING OUTFITS
ARF, CliEAPER.„
DIFFERENOE if; IN QUANTIV,
NOT IN, QUALITY.
The Oside of To -day Is Willing to Buy
Frocke Soon After $:se is Married
and Even to Weal. a Travelling
Gown That .Has Been UeetiseBuy-
Abroad.
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AFTER FIVE YEARS
Of SUFFERING
Dodd's Kidney Pills Effect An-
other Grand Cure in Nova
Scotia.
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•all 11.e tells about hard Utiles and
the exteavegan e S\ elothee
have heard nothing; at I 1 about the fall-
ing off in bridal enters," s.tid dreee-
maker long in basitiees. "At one Ohm we
all 11Sett 1,0 get 4011,0 ,,N0it14 Wil011
vie -tomer risme in with a tem.:liter to
order a wedding troeeeeau, (vett timegli
801110 Of the Nice knew that before tile
order was -finielred they might, hove to
work Welds.
"After one or two interviews with
mother and daughter I myself, 1 remote -
her, 011 0110 Or two ma %Moue used tO
wske up in the- Misfit and begin to figure
out poeeible profit.; and man !tee.
should invest them; and it never imp -
period that the peofite were less thou 1
espeeted or the trottsseatt smaller time
we at firet planned. On the contrary, as
the time. for the wedding grow near one
extra garment After anothr would. ba
taeked on until, as we all expeeted, the
last few days toned us pushing all other
ordere one side to put the finishing
stitches in fifteen or twenty gowits mut
wraps, to say nothing. of negligees mid
the wedding. drese
"After the last try on of the wedding
dress, on which occesiou nearly °My
employee in the house would. eome to
the fitting room door to get a peep- at 11
and the bride, when the sainiug satin
wao packed away in billows of team pa.
per and carried home by tied or my
trustiest measengere, we actlialty felt
lonely mall the next wedding' order
came in, Occesionally we had two wed-
ding orders on the earpet at. the same
time, ill which case the excitemeut was
more intense. Every leading dressmaker
at the time- speak of had this expert-
ence.
"It was not so common for the moth-
ers of girls now in society to run over
to Europe as soon as they got engaged
and buy part of their trousseau as. it is
'now, and none that I met ever dreamed
of waiting until she was married to buy
this, that or the other garment, lt
was about eigbt or tea years ago thet
the trousseau bad 'reached its greatest
point of luxury from a dressmaker's
point of view. Even then, however,
there was a great falling off to be sure
in the quantity of bed and table' linen
and underwear included in a rich New
York girl's bridal outfit, but that didn't
effect the dressmaker's profits et all.
Both in quality and quantity evening
gowns, street and calli•ng costumes,
writes end negligees and fancy eeekweer
were at their most extravagant point,
end it was ahnoet never that the bridal
gown was bought on the other side, •
"Here is one order just as ie is put
down In my November ledger of 1809:
Six dinner dresses.
Four ovening dresses cut dancing
lomvothu;
afternoon eeception costumes
cut demi-train, high in the .bodice;
Four canine eostumes, three of them
matched with° fauey coats.
Three street eostumes.
Four. tea gowns -cue .witk a long
traTiilvLo long evening wraps, -
_Three negligees -long. ,eli kia.tfe
Three negligeee-ehort.
Two long afternoon wraps.
"The evening wraps were of white•and
gold brocade, white chiffon and yards
and yards of fine Viennese lace, and of
pink satin and velvet brocade combined
with quantities of creamy lace, I have
forgotten exactly what kiva. The after-
noon evra.ps were made of dark velvet,
combined. in one ease with fur, embroid-
ered white satin and lace, in the other
with fine eloth of lighter BIM& elabor-
ately embroidered and braided, The
street costumee each lina its coat. The
dinner gowns were of the richest satins
and velvtts . offset with superb laces,•
and the bell gowne. although made of
tulle, 'chiffon and other thin goods in -
eluded also quantities of handsome laces'
and embroideries.
.0.0f the reception gowns there 'were
two . to be Worn at the two first. mere
tions given by the bride, and these were
handsomer than the others. One, I re-
member, waS almost entirely of white
Irish point lace, and another was of pale
blue crepe de chine almost covered With
hand embroidery. Iltis order was not
exceptional then or for two or three
Pilaeraftelartetlt.at there was a decline not in
quality hut in quantity, the last two
yeare showing a sharp cutting down in
the number of gowns and wraps ordered
In New York by even the wealthiest -
brides. In- seine easee economy has noth-
ing at all to do with it. It ie no longet
the fasetion to have mote gowns than
are needed to take the bride over one
season. In the ease have quotedsthe
bride planned reception, (linnet and even.
ing gowns enough to last from Deeembee,
When idle was married, tm to the next
Deeereher, and negligees . sufficient to
last even longer.
"Brides of to -day heve stopped doing
that, I am sorry to say. It is no longer
considerea bad 'form to buy new clothes
three months after the wedding" and
Charge them up to the husSatel. A feW
weeks ago the mother of bride who is
rich in her own right told nie when or-
dering the wedding gown: 'Make it so
that it eati be need Afterward for a din-
thheirnggotwonLe.vhich is now quite it e0111111011
"Trusteed of laying away her bridal
dress the modern bride Weill% it, slightly
changed, at hoe first reception or et stic.
eeeding reeeptions given in het honor, oa
else has fhe 'coreage etit low se that it
can do duty in the evening.
"The bride I refer to, who expecte
go South after her marriage 'next week,
is ordering mostly summer dresses, fled
itok many of them at that; for in April
elle will sail for Eurepe to spend slit
months in travel and naturally will buy
what she needs in Europe, tanning
probably with it lot of new things for
next whiter. So far she has ordered
-from sue her wedding gown, two dinner
dreseee, one handctome street teeturne,
five dainty eostutnes, made mostly of
lace, lawn and ehiffon; tWo negligees, a
light .evening wrap and one Meg carriage
s Tap.
"There is no attempt to economite ie
wife: the vest of these things; that is net the
"'Rey, send the kid 'ilowit to the news- point. The modern New York bride gee;
paper offite to tell the editor want on the whole far letrelsomer elothee then
my eta/store jast so soon as bee done ed- her mother or her granthnother dreaMed
Wit' the papet There's. gent lusee of 'buying, and part hriee Mueh for
waitin' for 11 air cute "--Washington them; but ehe (aloha as to quantity..
Star. mut that ie Nut for the dresantakere end
for the dealere in line thaterie, N.Vhote
What Was 'Handed to Him. former generation, ef loides bought me.
Pastor -What have sem dom. with all dergatmenie by the dmen at leas:. this
year Chrietmae preeentst generation Wive them by the, half 1102C11.
Shylle---MitdC. Inge Pool ITOWI: of
Mrs. Margaret Brady Tells How They
Relieved Her of Rheumatism and
Made Her Stronger in Every Way.
Green's Brook, Pietou County, N. Bs
Feb, 1.---(Speeicile-That diseased. Kid-
neys lit% the cause of the ills from whieh
so many women suffer, end that they
are cured eonspletely and. permanently by
Dodd's Kidney Pills, is once more proved
in the case of' Mrs. Margaret Brady, of
this place.
"For five years," says Mrs, Brady,
when interviewed regarding her sickness
and cure, "I was ill with Kidney and
Liver complaint, which ea,used Rheuma-
tism, Neuralgia, and Heart Flutterings.
My neevotte system. was affected and. my
blood seemed to lack vitality.
"I tried medicines and was under the
doctor's care, but received no benefit
till I Used Dodd.'s Kidney Pills, and Dia-
mond -Dinner Pills. They relieved me of
Rheumatism and inede me droner and
better in every way. These remedies
and. no other eurea me."
Dodd's Kidney Pille alwaye cure
diseased Kidneys and all diseases that
are caused by diseaeed..Kidneys or
imptire blood."
trunks arid feet in hotel in the ground. wo are thallium, one being a dotter
Zhe foot le tessesidered dellemi. It is and the other a trailer, At titennberu,
AND THEY NEVIM GOV IT.
Stich Uncle lebenezer-So you are named
atter me. aro you
entail Slephew-Yee. Ma sald it was too
bad but we needed the money bedly.
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Speedy Barber in Squash.
an 'mg one of those sleepy, one-horse,
baelswetet towns, like Squesh," ;mid
Repreeentative Burton, describing at. a
Hot Springs dinner town that he die -
liked,
"Squash is the limit. A gentZensan ar.
eived there thasother day and wattle a
hair ent. Ifewfound the barber shop,
and, after shaking the barber vigoroasly,
managed to awaken him,
"'Haw long will it take you to tut
my heir, barber?' he asked.
"Not long, boss,' said the barber.
. "And he rose, yawnea end etretclice.
himself, Then he called -upstairs V; hie
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Some :Idea of the Dimensions. of the
NO A WOMAN'S WORK.' coastroPhoe
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Te"\-
LYDIA, E. P NKHAM
Nature and a woman's work cour
billed have prod.uced the grandest
remedy for wountres ills that the
world. has ever known. •
In the good old-fit4hioned days of
our grandmothers they relied upon,
the roots and herbs of the field to
cure disease and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
Plains to -day can produce roots and
h.erhs for every ailment, and cure
.cliseases that bailie the most skilled
Physicians who have spent years in
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia E. Pinicham more than
thirty years a,g.o gave to the women
of the world a remedy for their pe-
culiar ills, more potent and effica-
cious than auy combination of druzs.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for wontan'a
Ifxs..T. M. Tweedale, 1:2 Napanee
Street, Toronto, Canada, writes to
Mrs. Phikhaan:
"I was a great sufferer froin female
troubles, had those dreadful bearing
down pains, and. during my monthly
periods I suffered so I had to go to bed.
I doctored for a long time but the doe-
ter's treatment failed to help me. My
husband saw Lydia E. Pinklman's Vege-
table Compound. advertised and got a
bottle for me. I commenced its use and
soon felt better. I kept on taking It
I was well and. an entirely differ-
ent woman. I also found that Lydia E.
Pinkham's 'Vegetable Compound made
childbirth much easier for me. I :vvould
recommend your Vegetable Compound
to every woman wile, is afilicted -with
female troubles.'
What Lydia, E. Pinkbaan's Vegeta-
ble Compound did f or Mrs.`riveedale,
it will do for other suffering women.
(Toilette Settialey' Nighte
In attempting to gawp the dimenehme
:11 the tettnettutale e 1 11.1011 by the earth.
quake in Calabria and Hens, one le aidea
eome extent by the litter detalie ap-
peering in the English masa We are
tied, for instance., that a train, crowded
with paseengers and running at 'full
speed. along ths seashore, was etignifed
by the tidal wave and disappeared in an
instant, and thet two trains, lull of .pasio
engem ready to start fano the station
at le eelo, were wallowed hi the same
way and that nobody escaped. 'lettere
ere many storiee of the fate of individ.
.ehowing how petty are human pae.
elone put:oats in the preeeuee ee
huge 0 'diria.,ter, The Duke of Aosta,
in wa ver the rei ne 01 Palate
eante upon the Leidy of 0 dead man,
iu hoth of Ills entd bands silver
and bank notes. As tee world collapssti'
he seized his money, but it was of no,
use to Idol. In tenting away wreckage
Meesitut the seitiehere bawd the bodiee
of two polieemen, and between them the
remains 01 prkoner With halldertft4 04,
hie wrietse here the outlaw and the
agents of jitetice met like sentenee, Two
erieets„ who arrived in Messina, declared
that -they were .the ouly maims of the
five thousand inhabitants of Scylla, and
explained their escape by the feet that
they happened to eave been in the vault
of a eltareh when the shock came.
Stories. ate told, too, of great sacra
acre and aets of heroism, A Russian
sailor, on teaming teat a lumber of wo-
men and children were Imprisoned in the
third staeey of a wrecked house, climbed
the wall with great dariag, and rescue
the people. No sooner were they le the
street than the wall collapsed,- burying
reseued tuttl rescuer in one grave, In
another easa a company of eeldiers were
working desperately to release seine un-
fortunates who were pinned down under
heavy timbers, when an aajoining brick
wall collapsed, killing all the soldiers
and ending the agonies of these whom
they were trying to rescue, Of two regi-
ments, stationed at NeesIna, only ten
men survive. Of another nature was the
experience of the Marquis of Seminole,
who Was bnried alive in the ruins, but In
reeponse to shouts replied: "Snk.e others!
Don't think of me. I. am in a. bar and
have ail I want ent and drink."
William Maxwell, the English war cor-
re.spondent, declaree thet the Chineee
tete. of Port Arthur, after bombardment
by eea and land, was not half so ruinous
as Messina. "Six months' cannonade by
all the artillery in the world." he says,
"would not produce the results of ten
seconds of Nature's riot." We are told
that the epeetnele. when witnessed by the
commander of the British steamer, Elbe,
was so horrifying that hie hair turned
wbite 0 moment under the greet elinek
that he eustainea. ft.
The dimensions of the disaster may be
realized front `the following table giving
the destroyed cities and towns with their
populations and the numbers stair::
The chief towns destroyed arei
Messins 100,000 .. l00,000
Reggio 80.000 .. .55,000
Monteleone. „. „ 10,000 .. 1,800
Pizzo 0,000 • Deetroyee
Palmi 34,00-0 .. Obliterated
.
Regnant 10,000 1,000
Gavei 3,000 1,000
Sant' Farman_ .5,700 Handful of
Survivors
The eollowing Calabrian towns were
also-devaetatedi Villa San Giovanni, San
Robei•it, afaropa, Mlle, Santo Stefano,
Seminar's, Caunetello, Catasono, Boole,
Catena, Pillar°, Gioia Tauro, Galileo,
Mate, Villa San Guiseppe, Saa
ine, Gerace, Montebello, -Nieo-
tern, Gallina, Archireggio, Sinopoli, Cano
eso Calabro, Iotio„ -
The Sicilian towns. of Noto, San Ore-
gorio, and. Risopto were severely dam.
•eged.
. Iv
manship and fine lace, andenaturally she
doesn't care to lay in a eupply of such
expensive things to store them up to
get oldafashioned, When it collies to
costumes she feels the same way, prob.
lacbsii:i.sleintiment about the trousseau than
the eame now there is a good deal
there was formerly, brides of to -day be-
ing quite willing even. to wear a traveling
dress wilich has done duty several weeks
before the wedding, Sometimes they pre-
fer to do this, in fart. Catch a bride of
twenty years ago doing anything of the
sort. If -there wee one thing more than.
another abouleiterhieh she 'was fussy it
was her traveling dress. Now it is her
diuuer dresses that she cares most about,
and I must say that the modern trous-
seau contains far _more dinner gowns
than it used to, whether bought here or
on tbe. other side. •
"The popularity of European honey-
moons is another reason for, the cut in
size of some of the troessearta So soon
as a bride -elect tells me: ant going
abroad directly we are married,' I know
what to expect -that she. will wait ttutil
she cbmes back before ordering her most
expensive gOWIlS, and that a few of these
at ieast will be bought in Paris, London
or Vienna.
"The cost of the 180o trousseau I men.
tioned was $0,500. The cost of the trous-
seau I aux providing for the bride who
starts South after her wedding is $3,500,
Relatively the drop ie the number of
gamin*, tilde from lingerie, hosiery
and 'such things, containea iu the modern
'trousseau of wealthy New York giels is
SO per cent., and the drop in the relative
coat of the New York trousseau of ten
years ago and of te-day is 40 per cent."
--- se* 6
The lingerie, liswever, of ths -modern
tattle is a inoavel tIo way of work -
ENTIRELY OUT.
TkIBUTES TO THE WIRELESS.
(Boston HeraId.).
But Dr, Williams' Pink Pills Re-
stored ligorous Health.
mmion,,,, tio obt kind
Will $01110tilOPS 1.0111.Ve 010 eymptome
di.ra,e, though 'hey never tomb the
dieeaee itself - they never cure. etatin-
ary unelivinee leave behind them indi-
gestein, 0011.11ipa tion and Mathis -hes.
Purgatives leave those taking them fev-
anOweakentel. on the other 1180(1
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills do direct. good
to the body, the blood and the nervee.
They fill the relies with new Mt blood;
they tone and strengthen OW 11011%.
they ettre diseaee by rontiug it out of
the Wood. They always do good • they
eennot possibly do hams.
airs. George IL Moneton. N'e
B., saye: "A fesv yeers ago nfter con-
finement I coutraeted eevere cold and
although took eonsiderable medieine,
1 get no better. In fart, my conditinn
was gradually getting worse. was all
run down, had oo appetite 'and grew so
sveak that eoeld not do my homework.
At last the doctor who was attending
to1d my husband that I was going
into a decline, and I feared so meself,
for a sieter had died of consumption.
When almost in despair 41, friend. Hug -
wetted me taking Dr, Williams' Pink
Pills, and I got half a dozen boxes. Be-
fore Joie taken them all I began to
get better. Then I got another half
dozen hove, and before I had used them
nit I was aide to do my lioneework again
and was in better health than I had
enjoyed for years. 1 believe 1)1., *Wil-
liam' Pink Pills saved me from going
eonstunption and 1 warmly reeotu-
mend them to every weak persen.
Seta by all medicine dealers or by
mail et 50 cents a. box or six boxes for
$150 front the 14). 1:11lianee Medicine
Co„ Brockville, Ont,,
JAPAN'S WAR LOSSES.
Estimated to H;v-e-E-xceeded the Size
of Entire Peace Force,
"Aeeording to the information in' the
hantie of our General Staff," writes Gen,
Kuropatkin in :McClure's, eutire
peace 'force of the Japanese army con-
sisted Of 110,000 men, of which as many
as 13;000 were on perpetual leave. The
rAlie,Oroove omfenthe territorial army numbered
"Thus their entire force .of soldiers,
according ta our ealculetionss consisted
of only. 41$,000 men. But according to
calculations Made on the basis of data
published by the Japanese sanitary
to their colors, which erea.ted extra-
alauttilotiolr,ities, it is evident that daring the
war over 1,000,000 men were summoned
ordinary drain on the tomes of the popti-
"The losses in killed and wounded were
very great. In the cemetery of 'honor
Tokle alone 00,000 were buried who
had been slain in battle, and to time
meet be added 50,000 who died. of their
wounds, Thus the Japanese suffered
battle losses of 110,000 merea-that is to
sny, number almost equal to the entire
army otta peace. footing.
"Our lows, compared with our army.
1,000,000, were several times smaller
than those of the ,l'epanese. During the
war 554,000 men were .treated in the
Japanese hospitals, 220,000 of them be-
ing Wounded. Counting in with -the kill-
ed and woundee those who died from
dieease, the Japaneae lost 1 35,000 men."
• • O.
One cif the most significant and
virile Of the younger and "coining"
American poets is Harry H. Kemp.
In his poem, The Song of the Wire -
leas Telegraph, he touches on that
phase of the daily present-day miracle
which is uppermost in the public
mind just now because of the salve,
Bon of crew end passengers of the
Republic. The Wireless sings
With silent and lightning feet pass
swift as a dream.
I leave behind on the wings of the
wind creatures of steel and
steam.
Who will gather. my fling reins and
bridle my headlong speed
Who will hold me back on 1117 whirl-
wind track as I carry the hid-
den' creed?
Do you think you have conquered
time, laud slaves of the narrow
tail?
.
Tourist -I understend you have
relics of the Battle of Waterloo for
sale.
Bost -Vo aid have, but they.are all
sold ate the swords father buried last
week won't get rusted before next
0111/1111er,
Odd Australian Aninials.
AUstralia prmluees those loWest of the
quadrupeds, the ditek-billed Water Mole
end the Australian porcupine aat eau.
They, Moll with the kafigarbos, may
be described as the gronndlings of the
mantnialieu family, for in respect of
their ettneture they are of a inueli
lower grado than, say, a dog or a tat,
This interiority et seen not only it the
brain, but in malty other details ef
their bodily anatomy.
In zoological eireles the prevalent
'opinion is that this mole le link be.
tweet' birds on the one bend it11(1 1114.11.
teals on the other. Theee "lowest"
.quadrepetle lay eggs birde, the
yoitug Wog, subsequently hatehea from
the aggs, whereas in the kangaroos anti
all higher mainnials the young are bon'
-tdive and 11011rieltett IlleittIS of milk.
A Vivid Recollection,
pert anecdote, not included in the
late Mem. Blaim's l'ettiiniSeente4, T4141.48
that else %sae met et. a public reception
by a former acquaintenet mho atked if
stshe hot forgoitets bets
"I 4o not recall your fece. hut re-
member emu diets veey seid
Ure.
I will leave yOu a thOusand nines be-
hind in the teeth of an open
Whengaledie storm -wrecked steamer
Drive through the mist and the
swirling spume
I push a way to the outer day and
tell of the vessel's doom.
I have come unseen with secret
speech, I have guarded the tate
upheard;
/ have put mine.eses on the journey's
end and delivered the faithful
word.
Don Marquis has hinted at the same
aplendor of achievement in his lines:
But now they may howl, the storms,
and growl- at, the rk of the
linemana,s hands,
But'gone is theif pride with the boast
of the tide that bit rit the deep
sett strands.
For sentence thrills through the
bastioned hills that has neithet
yoke nor form,
Not reeks of the. might '01 the elutes -
sprite that lashes the earth with
hie Storm. s
Tilted and btidled, and shoaled and
girdled end botind with a link -
The brute powers eotver at the
lberstisin7ain,
like poWet that dwelle lituntin
Ilfan has, stolln the wings f the
tleathlees 'rhinos. filet renge
where the spirit -is lord.
He is leegued anew with the Silente
through the etrtinets hi a Arend -
less eord.
• e.
Jersey's Summer Hotels.
It 1171 Militated that the :summer
ef the White litountaitie are
ot th $6,000.000 ; o . Vermeil t , the
aistne ; Mes saehnsetts, S10,000,000 ;
these Of the Catskills, 143,000,000: ssf
the Aditondeelss, $7.000,0e0: et Cow
neetleut, $4.000.000, nrtd those 01 NAY,
leratly Oyer tl$0,1)011ANI.e.-FrOm the
Hotel World.
Up in the World.
The Maideelio r know auythin'
about them people that list moved in
three doors bes•ant?
'I lie fl arl,age e ti --Na tit, I denim
nothin' alma Sen -but they have ase.
ful swell swill.--Tua.
Part la ly Reformed.
Mice Justice -4 ought to send you
up for a year. Yon a re 11 hopelees
Yagamond-With all due rcepeek,
• y'r honor, that ain't so. I'm bairenoughe
hut I ein't as bad as- I used to be. k"r
twenty-seven years, y'r honor, I was ti
baggage smasher ou a railroad!
A Working Passenger.
A persistent lawyer who had been
trying to establish a witness' suspicious
connection with au offending railroad
was at last elated by the witness' ad-
mission that he 'had worked on the rail-
road!'
"Ah!" said. the attorney, with a satis-
fied smile. "You say you have worked
on the P. T. & X.?"
"Yes,"
"For how long a period?"
"On and off for seven years, or since
I have lived at Peacedale, on their line."
"All! You say you were in the employ
of the P. T. & X. for seven years, off
and on?"
• "No. I did not my that I was emploee
ed by the P. T. & X. I said I had. work.
ed on the road, off and on, for that
length of time."
"Do you wish to convey the impres-
sion that you have worked for the P. T.
it X. for seven years without reward!"
asked the attorney.
. "Absolutely without reward," the wit-
ness answered calmly. "For seven years,
off and on, I've tried to open the win-
dows in the P. T. & X. ears, and. never
'owe have succeeded." -Youth's Com-
panion.
• 4.
A Grown Up Baby.
"You'd like to be in South America
during 4; revolution, woula you.? What
for's"
round,
I'd like ta YC'e the wheels go
Curiosity Gratified,
Former Customer (after a lorig
sence)-What has become of the, pretty
blonde that used to feea hungry at
this lunch counter?
Dark Shipned Waiter bee.
What yon goiu' to order, sir?
The Professor.
free easietil•Or W1114 writing ',meet/thee
in 0 small notelmok.
"Making au aciditiou -to my visiting."
he explained. to .the doetor.
”Toor visiting ilea queried the does
tor. •
"Yes; this is a reeeril of the elinie
cane havo hail in dc,ilgieg automo-
biles."
Its Claim to Immortality.
''I don't see anything remarkable in
your peem," said the editor, handing
it back.
"You don't?" howled the would -ix.
contribistor pointing with a quivering
finger at die word 'loathes" at the end
of the fourth stanza. "Dicl you ever 000
a poem before that had a perfect rhyme
for 'clothes'?"
WetneS3.
Man 'with thn Bulging Brow-Awfel
sloppy, isn't it?
Men with the Bulbous. Nose -It ain't
half as sleepy for you as it is. for me.
aly overcoat's in soak.
•
THE NEW ARITHMETIC.
noses -How raticit Is two times oue, plus
047
Jog144,--Why, throe, ot course.
Bogge--elo; a man, wife and balsy; two and
elle t4 carry.
41.
The Queen's Maids.
The queen demands of her maids that
they shall be musical, neat in their at-
tire and whew picture hats. Otherwise,
the ia very easygoing with them, and
the kindest way miiisters to their plea-
sure whenever it is possible. A maid of
hobo nn longer receives the eoveted
"dot" of a thousand pounda on lter mar-
viage. as of yore, but the rank of "hon-
orable" is still here -Gentlewoman.
_
Proems Mustaches.
Moustaches are not worn by Imo eX•
posed to the. severity of an Alasken
winter. They wear full belittle to pro-
teet the throat nial face, lint keep tho
upper lip elean shaven. The moisture
(rem the breath emigrate so quickly
abet 1110114Ttlehtt becomes imbedded in
a mind Nike of iees and the atee at frozen
in a slime time.
Would be N.ice.
"These sectional hied:eases ere fine
thinge. You tee siart in a 4111:111 way
alai ttild to them ese ;von van afford it."
"Good idea. Why dome( soniebnay
invent a Factional hat for lailiess"
Willie -era, ineesage isn't -gona oat.
.Itt - Aro yon talking aheut
Willits -Why, Mr. Tangier. reir Simeet•
:Wool tometinteudtrit, kept felling us nee
the time totirty that eEtiti mild his
birthright for e pet of meeteage, seeton-
IrletS„
Terminology.
Offieieus Salesman -Wouldn't you like
to look at eome of our ovetcoatinge or
Suitilyrs?
Dyspeptic. Looking Customer -No, but
if you will be kind enough to tell me
m here the drtig department is I'll take a
look at your pillings and } orons plas-
tering." •
—.-
In Despair.
The campaign poet tore big hair.
Savagely ernmplirg (teem or more
sheets of paper in his hands, he threw
them Mtn the wnete baeket.
"No!" he exclaimed in a wild, hoarse
voice. "There is no rhyme for
king!'"
Untimely Interruption.
Orlando Speonainore bent OVP1' the
fair hand and reepectfttlly kissed it.
"Young 111,1111,"' sereehed the parrot in
the eage overhead, "is there anything
the mattei with my lies?"
For ExaMple. •
"To .make a long Story short," said
'Uncle Chinner, "we collected the maple
sap, emptied it into a huge iron. kettle.
and put it over a big wood fire -to boil
down------"
"To make your long story short, un-
cle," interrupted one of the listeners,
"suppose you boil that down, too."
Introducing Her Resolution.
. "johnny," said Mrs. Lapsling, putting
on Mr wraps, "I've been in the house ail
day ond 1 need the fresh air. If
mind baby a little while PH go anti take
a, preamble Around the bloek."
Length,
Excited. Caller -Sir, in the Thunder-
bolt this morning you saia niy speech
nt the bangeet Inet night, AVIA "about
2,000 yarde long." I want to know
what --
Reporter (with gasp) ---Colonel,
help me, I wrote it "2,000 words!"
eheettes
A Smile or Two. -
Patient -Neter, what do you. call Nisi
fever of miner
Doetor (looking at clinical thermome-
ter) --Well, I'd cell it a bargain --103 re-
duced to 08. ---The \Veep.
"Think the Jae:imam will liek us7"
"Not the slightest ditnger."
'Why not r
"Bemuse we won't let them." ---Nash-
ville American.
"Life is largely a pretense."
"Say the rest of it,"
"I used to have to pretend Mint T.
liked cigarettes when I was a kid, and
now it's the same with graud (mem"-
Washington Herald.
"Jennieee called the ola
from the top of the stairs, "give that
young man this dollar note."
"What for, papa?" asked hes daughter
in eurprise.
"Why, maul him to pay nur milk-
man his bill. I know he'll 1110(st 111/11 as
he goes -out,"
Not Disposed to Evade.
Paterfamilias (reading itooter's
dectoi, T have no paitetlon to paying yott
the utedieine, wilt mum the 71,11.4.
luott Twain.
-
Sob's Quandary.
fetnise 1.t.tul Is like a Ouse,
With drawers end things inside;
Some 11111 ter dates tied wits to seen.
Tit( its,t last dose mid wens
Vor STates 'bout 1,i..11 bey,. la 1.,:tr11.
..A11' ta.c.ltiets,-graIa ate 7.:0.:17
1119 111 an. 1',1 M.., 70 haaw
Whru rry drawer la noi.
Hot and GoId.
versa mai, ion. have uo oh....rved
Teat - 1...ratIrA r nee•-•
A isev nee: I 1 1,nria/Tt:: rani I
7lir!: ht. Vr.II 1141i1!4 11.7.
Poor Johia.
Al"..1.•w T t,'71 1014•‘,.: t% 1! illy 114%,,41,,
1.1. mesa Yri.tf
I., nth VI- 1 .1k,st 1,.;:r4:10
filt.w- 91... ...IT. "Ph ..'4
11- e..1.'1,,,:st) I .!tat.11 T... Iny
• ,
Wanted ttr Know.
071:: mete, • till sos1 e'er heae she if s
;aloft' the rutin blintfr 4,1.rt No 4.11I,
(..,1whiT,14. '11141,.: 14) IV:14 .1 1.try t.v).1
*Ito'. WI %Ws male
Na. TT Ti.tal. 1.4,o.. WItaI