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LIKE A MIRACLE.
An Amherst Lady Relates Her Ex-
perienoe to a Reporter.
Salt Rheum, Impure Blood and a
hacking Cough That Bamed Ply
sicians, Finally Cured.
Springfield lAIassl Republican.

In the town Of Amherst Mass, Mr.. Geo. n.
Fierce and bis mother are widely known as the
Mrs. Pierce has been a sufferer for a long time
with salt rheum and distressing cough that fore.
health and vgor. Hearing of this a reporter
ya a On Mrs Pierce, aud the following experience
r,. For long time l was sufferer from salt
r i,n said Mrs Pierce. but about two .ears
make my salt rheum worse. / can't begin TO tell
the agony was in, my limbs became a mass of
would say they we're afad SeSd noi hrena as
LAM an1'ner sprins, and thought 50, too. Wen,
and DIR. David keRnedy's Salt Rheum Cream:
sent Tor them and commenced using them, and In
night walked mile. and am sixty three Years
~ R. age. IL shows that DIR. kennedys Farorite
me ply scians, for they made me we'll after my
doctors told me l was incurabe. / must also ten
he to use, which did as much Cor me i, is Dr
David henncdy's Cherry Balsam. 1 have had a
doctors in this part Of the state nnted the Ssss
that IL was incurable. and that 1t was only a
my sleep was restless, l would lie awake for
hours. ! well recollect the first time l used Dr.
at once and 1 slept all through that night. which
was the irst iuii nights rest L had in several
cured"
Mrs: Pierce's nelghtors confirm her statement.
and II was fouad that Dr., kennedy's Fayorite
Remedy, Cherry Balsam and Salt Rbeum Cream
had made othe;s in Amherst happy by curing
them of some disease
Favorite Remedy ranks with the medical pro.
IL ssion as the most perfect OF all blood and nerve
medicines. 1t restores the liver TO a healthy con-
dition, and cures constipation. 1t Is a certain
cure for all diseases and weaknesses peculiar to
females, and affords protection from attacks that
originate in change Of life. 1t scrofula salt
rheum, ulcers, tumors, rheumatism, dyspepsia, all
kidney bladder and urinary diseases, gravel, dia-
betes and Brights disease. In this last disease IL
has made many cures where all else failed
DIR. David kennedy's Cherry Balsam viii cure
the asthma. bropchitis
colds, incipient consumption, whooping cough or
Group. Taken In connection with FavOrite Remedy,
Ii has never been known to fail. Price, 25c., soc.
and Sl.00 a bottle. DIR. David Kennedy's Salt
Rheum Cream is for external application and is
sold at zoe. a package. DIR. David kenncdy's
Favorite Remedy costs S1.0O a bottle or six bot
ties for 500.
Full directions accompany each bottle, so that
any readily Understand Jus how to takS
them for the different complaints
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APANESE NAIL WAGONS

money, as did also France and Holland.
Japan. in taking back the money from the
United States. felt. Of course, very CRATE
full, but said that she would like to put 1t
into some memorial representative of the
kindness of the United States. and an at
tempt was made through an American
connected with the foreign Office in Japan,
to have Congress endow hospital or q
school or something of that kind in Tokyo,
which should be known as the American
school. This was not doEe, however, and
Japan was told to use 1t as she pleased.
Here John Bull got In his fine work. He
thought big breakwater or pier at Yoko-
hama would be good thing for his ships,
and If it was made by English contractors
Ii would put money into his peoples pock-
cts. How it was done l do not know, but
the English got the Japanese government
to devote this money to building that Yoko-
hama pier, and the contract was given to
an Englisbman, and noY that 1t Is about
completed 1T Is found to be of good
whatsoever At the same time, John Bull
Is juggling his seven hundred and eighty
five thousand dollars in his pockets. and
is sending over some of the remains of
lis surplus to buy the bonds which we are
compelled to issue to support our reserve
in the Treasury Department. Oh, he's
nice philanthropist! He Is Remember
how strongly he came in on the opium deal
with China! And remember-but am
writing about Japan.
Japanese Railroads.
Speaking of locomotives, there is Won
derful railroad development going on in
Japan. New roads are being extended In
every direction, and with the indemnity
which the country will probably get from
the Chinese there will be an enormous in
crease in all kinds of public improvements.
During my stay in Japan 1 met many of
the chief railroad men of the country, and
L was told that the revenues of nearly
every railroad there are increasing. The
government roads gave a net profit of more
than s2,OOO0OO in 1898. and the increase in
passenger receipts over the year preced-
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WORKING UP WOOD WORK.
The Great Difference Between This
Country and Great Britain.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
British manufacturers in the working up
of wood for house construction, furniture
work ETC., are in the habit of making 1t as
their forefathers made 1t. American manu-
facturers had no forefathers to speak of,
and, consequently, they We're compelled to
originate and devise special means Of man.
ufacture. Taking the class of work to DO
done, the American manufacturer thought
1t best to see If machinery could not be
brought into play, and as a result of efforts
in this direction machinery became used
more and more. until nothing Of any con-
sequence whatever is made by hand; every
thing, indeed, in any kind of woodwork, is
made by machinery. The Englishman.
somehow or other, holds on to the old
thing, the old method, the old-time way
that his father before him used, and he
knows no better. at least 1t seems
Handwork Is laborious, 1t Is slow, 1t is
eXpenslve; then, too, as Englishmen are apt
to forget, each and every part Is not alike.
In handHork 1T Is difficult to make all
is absolutely accurate. Passing through
large shops throughout Great Britain, one
is amazed with the simplicity, and the way
back times way Of manufacturing wood
work Perhaps this comes from the con-
servatism of English people, no doubt it
does. There Is a lack of desire to change
from the old thing to the new.
One great trouble with the Britisher Is
that in the selection of woodwork he Is, II
a buyer. compelled to take what Is offered
him; that is to say the woodwork manu-
facturer has a style or styles that have
been made by his father, and probably by
his grandfather before him. and the buyer
has no opportunity Of selection. In the
United States. II a man wants to build a
house and his architect says that he ought
to have his woodwork according to his
selection. and the plans are drawn up with
the styles of the woodwork that he desired
in the spec fications, the contractor building
the house goes to his woodworking manu-
facturer, tells him that he wants the wood
work of such a description, that manufac-
turer is compelled of necessity to make that
woodwork or devise the means whereby 1t
can be made, or loses the contract. That
is the difference between a British and an
American manufacturer in this one point.
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that nut, which was of such a nature
that 1t could have come from no other
place than from the English competitors,
had been placed in one of the valves. They
found other things misplaced, but fortu-
nately were able to get the locomotive in
to fairly good shape before the trial, and
half-crippled as she was, they beat the En-
glsh. The United States would have got
ten the contract, but on figuring the low
est possible cost price, including the heavy
freight rate &C ross the United States, the
builders found that they could not compete
as to prices, and the difference was so
great that the English got the contract.
How Great Britain "Hogged, Our
Present to Japan.
Speaking of the English, the new pier
which is now being built at Yokohama, and
which, am told, is of no earthly good, is
an instance of their hoggishness and I'M
adulterated cheek. The story of this pier
dates back TO the fight at the Shimonoseki
straits in 1863, in which our gunboat, the
wyoming, was blown up. Foreign vessels
mad been warned to keep out and some of
the old Daimios had concluded to shell all
foreign ships coming through these straits
and there was French ship and a Dutch
one also fired upon. The combined fleets
of America, France, Holland and Great
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rather queer, and thought had not CIV
en- him enough, and was about to hand
him out twenty more when, to our sur
prise, he gave me back five cents, aud cur
guide told us that we were to keep the pots
and the cups This was two teapots, two
cups and about one quart Of tea for the
sum Of five cents or for two and a half
cents in American money. Such a teapot
at home would cost at least twenty-five
cents, and other things were proportionate-
ly cheap. There is no place in the world
where you can travel better and more
cheaply than in Japan, and there Is no
place where you get so much for the mon
ey. There are good hotels everywhere, and
the best hotels Of Tokyo, Yokohama and
Kobe are equal to the best hotels of New
York. The hotel rates at the best houses
are from four to five dollars a day in sill
yer, which is just half those amounts when
reduced to American money. Clothes and
other things are proportionately cheap, and
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SecOnu-CIuSs cars, by Japanese Artist
1 cent per mile. All these fares are in sill
yer, which is just half the amount figured
in American money. so that Japan has
about the cheapest fares in the world The
second-class cars are for all the world like
an American street car, with wide cushions
running under the windows. They are well
upholstered and very comfortable. They
are seldom filled, and are used largely by
the well-to-do Japanese. There are doors
at the side, near the end, and these open
vestibule as with us. You find all classes
within them, and you may ride for hours
with pretty japanese girls, Buddhist priests
and the thousand and one characters which
make up the life of Japan. Many Of the
Japanese ladies squat on the seats, tucking
their long gowns under their knees and ex-
posing about an inch or two of bare skin
between their little foot mittens and their
kimonos. You meet many Japs in European
clothes, and now and then one will take off
his Japanese clothes pull a foreign suit out
of his bag and dress in the car right before
your eyes. No one pays any attention, nor
seems to think 1t strange.
The Third-Class Cars.
The third-class cars are uncushioned and
they are filled with the poorer classes, who
trot through the stations in clogs, many Of
them having their dresses pulled up to
their knees. They carry their baggage on
their backs. and push and crowd In. They
patronize the station restaurants, and every
time the train stops there are peddlecs of
cookies and tea who come to the car win
dows. You buy all sorts of food very
cheap, and you can get a teapot of Jap
anese tea, with teacup on top anywhere.
| remember riding one day with Mr.. John
w. Thompson, Washington banker, snd
when the hour for lunch came we con-
cluded to buy two pots of tea. got them
and offered the man ten cents. He looked
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A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT.
And the Minister Tells the Story as
Against Himself.

From the San Francisco News-L
The Rev. George R. Dodson. the popular
Unitarian minister of Alameda, tells rather
good story at his own expense. While
spending the summer vacation at Skagg's
Springs one of his greatest friends was a
fellow hoarder, a little girl about eight
years old. The two were constant COM
panions, and the child daily accompanied
the clergyman on his excursions in the
neighborhood. One evening the little girl
remarked 10 her fellow diners:
II like going out with Mr.. Dodson."
''Why?' queried a stranger, hoping to
draw the child out
Because he has no morals" was the
startling reply.
When the summer boarders had recover
ed their equanimity they instituted an in
vestigation, the upshot of which was the
discovery that the Curly-haired maiden
possessed an Unsuitable craving for stories.
This desire was frequently gratifed by
Mr.. Dodson, but unlike the anecdotes of
the child's mother, the minister's tales
were never pointed with moral for the
youngsters govern ment.
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LaShes and Eyebrows.

From the Post Dispatch.
Never cut or trim the eyebrows. Their
beauty includes delicacy-delicacy in curve.
width and texture. Trimming them de-
stroys this by causing them to grow
coarse, stiff and wild" To get the we'll
defined, narrow arch, many beauties pinch
the eyebrows. after amounting them with
Oil to make tho hair glossy. A stray wiry
or gray hair may be removed with a pair
of tweezers, but should never be cut. On
the other hand, eyelashes are cultivated
by clipping them once year. Hairdress-
ers call it topping them and the term
Is pertinent. Only the irregular tip ends
should be cut. and this can only be done
by another. Cutting the lashes weakens
the eyes, remember that.
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Betrayed.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
In 1915-"You needn't tell me that Mary
Parsay is not more than twenty three
years old. She is nearer forty-three and
l can prove It."
But how"
Just you watch her when she goes to
cross a muddy street. Just notice how
she grabs at her trousers to hold them
out of the mud-the way women did twenty
years ago, when they wore skirts"
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japanese Postmnn, by Native Artist.
best long staple cotton comes. from the
United States. We ought to have the
trade"
How England Fights for Foreign
Trade.
England is very anxious to have the
United States and the other countries of
Europe act as the cats by which John Bull
as the monkey pulls his commercial chest
nuts out of the celestial fire. China has
foreign trade of about three hundred mil
lion dollars a year, AMI England gets the
hulk of it. 1t naturally does not like to
see this paralyzed by the war. and it will
he very glad if Uncle Sam or the Russian
Rear will step in and quiet matters for 1t.
AS far as commercial matterS are concern
cd II is the hog of the far east, and the
business methods of some Of It's people
ere by no means so clean as they might be.
one of the meanest tricks upon record
and this is upon record-occurred IN hoko-
hama shortly before L arrived there. 1t
was in connection with a contract for rail-
road locomotives. The Japanese are very
friendly to the United States, and the gov
eminent when it found that 1t had to nave
new engines. send word to our consulate
and asked that some of our engine-build-
ing firms would compete. This request was
forwarded to America, and one of our chief
establishments sent locomotive to Tokyo.
There was to be a competitive test of the
English and American engines, and on the
day before this to take place the
Americans tried their locomotive and ii
ran very we'll. 1t was oiled and put into
thorough shape. but not thinking that
they were dealing with a set of profess
siOnal race-cOurSe sharperS, the Americans
failed to leave a jockey engineer to sleep
the night previous to the race with their
iron horse. The next morning, however,
for some reason or other-I can't tell why
they conc luded to give the engine one more
trial before entering the race. They fired
up and turned on the steam. There was a
grating and crashing. and the engine stop
ped. Upon examination, II was found that
the engine had been tempered with, and
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The Incrcnsr Partly Explained.

From the Detroit Tribune.
'In closing" wrote the Fool Killer in his
annual report 81 take great pleasure in
making the usual acknowledgements to
those who have helped me in my work.
But I also feel constrained to embrace this
opportunity to call YOUR attention to the
fact that fewer women get off street cars
backward year by year, while the practice
CT blowing out the gas has become practi-
cally obsolete. all of which seems TO en-
phasize the reasonableness Of my request
for a regular assistant"
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Britain then attacked the forts and ST
fenced them. Not single British ship was
injured, but in the settlement of the case
Great Britain said she must have a part of
the indemnity, which amounted to some
thing like three million dollars. This was
divided equally among the four powers, but
the demand was contrary to international
law, ard the United States, feeling that it
was an unjust one. by an act of Congress
gave back the seven hundred and eighty
odd thousand dollars to Japan. England,
which had not been injured at all, kept it's
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- - - - - ~ A - -
come and parties
mey go, but there
will yet remain with
us an Industrial sys-
tenn under which the
workers who do the
most work will re-
ceive the least pay.
and the problem Of
how best to secure a
just and equitable
distribution of the
products of labor is
still unsolved. Men Of
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and good goods. / spent some weeks
among her factories last summer and
found smokestacks going up all over the
empire. The city of Osaka Is nearly as big
as Chicago, and it is the Pittsburg of
Japan. 1t has about a million people, and
1t is a great business and manufacturing
center. 1t has always been noted for its
factories, but within the past ten years 1T
has been Introducing modern machinery,
and, as 1 told you in my talk with Count
Ito, 1T has now forty-six cotton mills, with
100000 spindles. New machinery Is being
put in every day, and by the end of this
year it is thought that the number of spin
dies will be more than 600. 900, and it may
yet be the chief exporter of cotton to
China. India and even to the United States.
TSe japanese are the greatest colorists of
the world. They are a nation of artists,
and they can make designs which We can
not produce. Already they are shipping a
great amount of cotton here, and we are
now buying Japanese rugs by the millions
of yards every year. A great deal of the
cotton used in the Japanese mills is of
American growth, and l was told in Yoko-
hama that Japan used SilOOO,0O0 worth of
Americ an cotton every year. / asked our
consul general how this could be when we
sold only about $3,O0O,OOO worth of goods to
Japan yearly. He replied:
II Will tell you. 1t comes through Eng
land. Just think of it! Fourteen million
dollars worth OF our raw cotton is used
here every year, and England gets a profit
out of the sale. We first ship il to Liver
pool, and il is then sent here via the Suez
canal 1t ought to come direct from Amer
lea. and our trunk lines could make a good
thing If they would cut down their freight
rates low enough to compete with England.
If we could have this cotton sent direct,
we would have the balance of the Japanese
trade, and as ii is, England gets the bulk
of it,"
How much do we buy from Japan every
year," / asked.
about S17,GlO,OO0" was the reply.
''How much does England buy"
about S3,OOO,O00'
"How much does she sell to JAPAN"
About seventeen million dollars, and
fourteen million dollars worth of this Is
Americ an cotton. You see, Japan has to
have the American cotton. The India and
Chinese cottons are short staple, and the
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November
Clearance List 1904.
Secondhand and Shop.
worn Wheels.
PNEUAiATICS.

PNEUMATICS.
PRICES NET CASH.
1 No. Z Diamond Rambler, No. 7346. ....... $3.50
No. Diamond Ramblers, Nos. i227 and
In good condition entirely new.
I 'Irwell," No. 1887. @. 4 J. "a pneu tires 5000
Brand new, simply shopw 30in- wheels
1 Ladies Lowell Safety, G. & J. tires
tirely new, but shop-worn; price reduced
from $llO to. Observation-Disclosures. 1000
/ Prince. 26-in pneumatic tires; second hand;
list 5000. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
Combination Ramblers, wheels 26x30 in.
ssed some. but In good riding condition;
Nos. 2175 and 4493. each. ................ 5000
Century Coumbas 's3 pattern; % @.
]. tires; Nos. e9S9 and 1506s; newly REIN
shed, each. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1000
l Dart, G. ]. pneumatic tires, % pattern,
8o-in. wheels. ........................ 5000
1 Columbia, model 81; "a pattern: Hartford
tires ..........-...-.......... 600
CUSHION TIRES
I Rudge, model d." No. 1850; new, and In
fine shape; cut from $4,000 to. .......... COCO
1 Psyche. very strong and durable wheel; for
mert $4,000, now cut to................. 1000
/ Girls Ideal Rambler; No 1852; almost
SOLID TIRES
Junos ladies' wheels; cut from $500 to
Drop frame: ball bearing. and In good condition
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Jnpanesc NtWsbOy, by NHtiNe Nrtfst.
ing was more than 100000. There was an
increase of $4,000 in freight receipts, and
this was an increase of more than IA per
cent There is line running from the
capital, Tokyo to Yokohama, the chief
seaport which has trains every hour, and
these are as well run as those between
Philadelphia and New York. The passen-
ger receipts on this road increased Is per
cent last year, and on the main line, which
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Why John Bull Would Like the War
to End.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURES
Wonders of Japanese Railroad
Building.
Railroad
ABOUT ITS NEWS p APP E r S
Copyrighted, 1894, by Frank G. carpenter.)

duN ant ciilt!lt " IilC II
Japan has made in
military matters is
surprising the world.
Il h g advancement
which she Is also
making in manufac-
turing Is not so well
known. Her army
h a s whipped the
Chinese. Her laborers
promise to beat the
whole world in turn
Ing out new goods
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Jnpan's Postal System.
Speaking OF Japan's postal system, the
people are as great letter-writers as any
you will find in the world, and they use
the post office and telegraph freely. You
must remember they had no postal system
whatever about twenty years ago. Still
they carried last year over two hundred
and twenty million letters, and more than
fifty million newspapers, while five million
books went through the mails. They have
money order system, and they make
postal cards much cheaper than we do
They make their own postage stamps and
they do the postal work of the east coast
OF Asia. If you wish to send letters from
Shanghai, China, you put Japanese stamps
on them-or you did before this war be-
gan-and they had also their post Off ,es
in Corea. Their mails are as safe as ours
and ii is an interesting thing to know that
their postal service was modelled lfter
that of the United States. 1t was founded
by Mr.. Samuel Bryan of Washington, who
left the Post Office Department here TO go
to Japan for that purpose. He did a good
job, and America has reason to be proud
of the work.
The "HeIlOa Girls" of Japan.
Japan has now a number of "helloa
girls" and in Central" station at Tokyo l
saw about fifty of them, with black rubber
receivers about their ears. screeching Jap
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Jnpan's Postal System.

carriages-you ride about, you know, In
jinrikishas-cost you from ten to fifteen
cents an hour.
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Mems Suits.

Black Cheyiot, Single and Double
breasted Sack Coats and Regent
Frock Coats, Silk Mixtures. Blarney
Tweed and Fancy Cheviots.
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BOYS LONG PANTS sUITs-s3.5o upward.
BOYS TW0-PIECE SUITS-S1 80 upward
MEMS PANTALooNS. THOUSANDS OF THEM
81 upward.
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Mems Suits.

OF these there Is such a for
midable array that We have neither
mn time nor space to go into detail
The styles, patterns and designs
are so numerous. Suffice 1t to say
that they are BARGAINS rich and
rare.