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HOW TO MAKE MONEY!

If you are out of employment and Want a DO siJion, paying you from s5O to S1OO mon .uIy lear above expenses by working regularly, UT, if you want to increase your present income rom s2UO to $500 yearly, by working at odd LImes, write the GLOBE CO, T23 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa., stating age, whether married or single last or present employment, and you can secure a position with them by which you can make more money easier and faster than you ever made before in your life.
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The national debt is now SIS Al for each individual. In 1867 it was $69.26.
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There are over professional feath. CT curlers in London.
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Thirty-five years makes a generation. That is how long Adolph Fisher, of Zanes- vile, O., suffered from piles. He was cured by using three boxes of De eWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. W. D. Heald.
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The Swedish mountain Gelivara is esti. mated to contain about 8, ,OOO, ,OOO, ,OOO tons of iron.
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An Earnest Bidder.

Daughter, do you think young Thompkins means business?''
 "Of course, papa. have just received his sealed proposal. "-Chicago Record
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As soon as a woman begins to fuss with a nickel chaffing dish, she begins to think less of her bread pan.
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The Best Eminent. nt.--''Chamberlain Pain Balm is the best on earth" write Edwards & Parker, of Plains, Ga. This is the verdict of all who use it. For rheu- mstism, lame back, sprains, swellings and the numerous slight ailments and ac- cidents common to every household, this liniment has no equal. With it in the house great deal of pain and suffering may be avoided. For sale by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and G. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
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The hottest region on earth is on the southwestern coast of Persia, where Per- sia borders the gulf of the same name. For 40 consecutive days in July and Au- gust the thermometer has been known to fall lower than 100 degrees, night or day. and often to run up as high as 12s degrees.
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There are five comets foretold by as. tronomers for the year 1898.
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How TO CURE A CoLD.-Simply take Otto's Cure. We know of its astonishing cures, and that it will stop cough quick CT than any known remedy. If you have Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption or any disease of the throat and lungs, few doses of this great remedy will surprise you. If you wish to try, call at our store and we will be pleased to furnish you 8 sample hottie free of cost. Large bottles soc. and 25c. B. Taft, Stafford Springs;
 w. P. Fuller, Somers. 1
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It is under contemplation to attach a photograph department to the British museum, in which would be stored in
 ROBBED THE GRAvE.-A startling incl dent, of which Mr. John Oliver of Phila- delphia. was the subject. is narrated ny him as follows: II was in a most dread full condition. My skin was almost yell low. eyes sunken. tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appe- tite-gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying Flee tric Bitters; y and. to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks. and ana now we'll man. 1 know they saved my life. and robbed the grave of another victim" No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cents per bottle at E. K. Taft's Drug Store. 6
 MT. Glads' one was feeling sufficiently we'll the other day to take a stroll in the garden.
 A little boy asked for bottle of "get mp in the morning as fast as you can. |" The druggist recognized a household name for "D-Witt's Little Early Risers," and gave him bottle of those famous little pills for constipation. sick headache. liver and stomach troubles. w. D. Heald. If writing ink is too thick add few | drops of vinegar, and shake the bottle | well.
 A torpid liver robs you of ambition and
 ruins your health. DeWitt's Little Early l Risers cleanse the liver, cure constipa.
 tion and all stomach and liver troubles l w. D. Heald.
 | There are five comets foretold by as
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The Czar and Czarina will receive their friends at the Paris Exposition in 1900 in their own pavilion, which will cost $45,- OO0
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The wo-year-old son of w. l.. Furga- son, of Bolton, Miss, had whooping cough. After several physicians had prescribed for him, without giving relief, !" writes MT. Furgason, II persuaded my wife to try % cent bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. The first dose had the desired effect, and in forty weight hours he was entirely free fl om all cough. consider your remedy the best in the market, especially for children, and rec ommend it at all times" The % and 50 cent sizes for sale by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and G. L.. Phillips, South Cov- entry.
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The new warships purchased in England will be classed with the so-called protect ed cruisers and will be named after some American cities.
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The New York stock brokers are said to wear out the floor of their stock ex- change every five years.
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HELP FOR BRONCHITIS

That is almost instantaneous, and nearly always permanent. To overcome the cough, soreness, inflammation and puru- lent discharges that accompany this aff1iction take
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SUFFER- LEVEE ROAD.
The Supervisors VIII Shortly Go
and Iuspect 1t.

The Board of Supervisors yesterday
adopted the resolution submitted on the
preceding day in reference to the res
ervation, construction and protection
of side paths along the county roads.
Grove L. Johnson appeared before
the board as counsel for the Golden
Gate Dredging Company, which con-
structed the levee road on Sutter ISL
and, and urged the payment of the re-
mainder of the company's demand.
Judge McKune also addressed the
board on behalf of the trustees of the
reclamation district
On motion of Chairman Morrison, it
was decided to put off action in the
matter until after the members OF the
board and County Surveyor Boyd shall
visit Sutter Island and inspect the
work.
The report of Surveyor Boyd as to
the quantity of material placed on the
road was read and placed on file.
The report states that 1S7, ,S41 cubic
yards of earth was deposited, which at
six cents per yard amounts to SILL
270 40.
The remainder of the days session
was devoted to the examination and
allowing of demands against the coun-
ty and several reclamation districts.
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Real Estate Transfers.

The following real estate transactions
have been recorded since our last re-
port:
Simon Roth to Wilhelmina 3. Roth
West half of lot 8, K and L. Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets; east a feet of
lot {, I and j. Fourth and Fifth streets
west quarter of lot Z, and J, Sixth and
Seventh streets.
Mary L. Mertens to Amelia E. Beer
North 30 feet of south II feet inches
of lot /, P and @, Fourth and Fifth
streets.
Joseph D. Robertson to Catherine
Robertson for life, and then to w. H.
and Z. I. Robertson-Two acres in
north half of northwest quarter Of
section 80, township 5 north, range q
east.
J. L. and L. G. Siller and wives to
G. B. Carr-South half Of east half of
lot 4, P and @, Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets.
Thomas B. Hall to Marie c. Davis
West half of lot 2, H and I, Twenty
eighth and Twenty-ninth streets.
Eugene H. Davis to same-Same as
above
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CARROLL DISCHARGED.
Justice Davis Says the Proprietors
Were the Responsible Parties.

j. Carroll appeared in the City Justice
Court yesterday on a charge of expos
ing fresh sturgeon for sale during the
close season.
Game Warden Helms testified that
he was inspecting the stalls in the mar
ket where Mr.. Carroll is in charge, and
found the sturgeon exposed for sale in
the stall, Carroll acknowledged that he
had taken the sturgeon from the ice
box and placed it on the counter.
Carroll testified that he was employed
by D. Dierssen & Co., as general
clerk and did not have charge of the
fish department The fish had been in
the ice box since last Friday and had
been overlooked He did not intend
to sell it and had only put it on the
counter in order to put it away, as 1T
sale.
The court held that as Carroll was
only clerk he could not be held re-
sponsible, even though the fish had been
in his possession, and that the proprie-
tors were the resOnsible parties.
Warden Helms said that at the time
he made the arrest neither of the pro-
prietors were in, and as he found Gar
zoli in possession of the fish, he arrest
ed him, as the law says shall not
have in possession"
CARROLL was discharged, the court
saying that from his testimony it ap-
peared that he had not intended to sell
the fish
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vending its way westward until it en-
tered the Hudson Straits, thence up the
bay to the mouth of Fish River. and
up that stream to Island Lake, where
the men disembarked and prepared for
an overland trip with dogs and SledS
across an elevated plateau or open
country, comparatively level, Of several
hundred miles, reaching Fort Resolu-
tion on Great Slave Lake, the head
waters of the Mackenzie River. There
the party built a boat and descended
the Mackenzie River, suffering great
hardships and narrowly escaping the
periIs Of the terrible rapids, finally
reaching the mouth of the Dahadinee
River
This stream they ascended, finding no
trouble in rowing their boats for many
miles, for the current was sluggish for
mountain stream, until they reached
the base of the Rocky Mountains, when
it became so rapid that they had to
abandon the stream and take TO the
dogs and sleds and make their way
across a very rough country over the
Rocky Mountains to Fort Pelley, situ-
ated on the lake of the same name, the
head waters of Pelley River. They
descended the Pelley for many miles be-
fore it became navigible, and then they
went into camp for some time to en-
able them to saw lumber for a large
boat, as they had very long journey
by water before them and would be able
to use sails down on the main
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A snug little schooner Of some sixty
tons capacity now lies at the foot of
2 street, ready to take on a cargo
of merchandise and mining appliances
for the Yukon River, for which she will
Set sail about the Goth of this month.
For many weeks past the vessel has
been undergoing changes to fit her for
the proposed expedition, and crowds of
people go down to the river daily to
watch the carpenters and machjnists
at work on her There has been built
some thirty persons and the vessel has
been supplied with two iron water
tanks of 1000 gallons each.
The owners of the vessel are Thomas
Norton and Charles E. Spencer, who
have organized a company to locate
and work some unknown ground near
the Yukon River the discovery of
which is said to have been made years
ago by a Hudson Bay Company's trap
per now dead, but whose maps and
charts the Sacramento company own
and possess. The story leading up to
this undertaking is given below, in
the words Of one Of the members Of
the company.
The vessel is one Of the stanchest
that ever rode the waves, and the
owners say they expect to reach the
Yukon River inside Of four weeks Ee-
side carrying an ample spread of new
canvas, the vessel is rugged with a
propeller, to be operated by gasoline
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until his contract with the company
was up. Then he prepared a good,
strong boat and descended with his
I furs to ST. James Mission on the Yu-
kon River to await the coming of the
company's boat to receive his stock
and pay him off, He had to wait but
few days, when one of their light
draft boats came and took him to st.
Michael, where he received his money
and engaged passage for San Francis
CO, Cal.
Arriving in San Francisco, he pro-
! ceeded to do just what nine out of ten
men the world over would do under
the same circumstances-have a good
time-entirely forgetting Mary, his
good old parents, and everything else
but the desire to enjoy himself. He
was nearly broke, but was still happy,
when he chanced to wander down on
Montgomery street, where a show
window attracted his attention. Some
thing yellow-something that was very
familiar to him-was displayed to pub
! lie view. and he wondered why people
should prepare such expensive glass
boxes to hold such common stuff So
he wandered inside. He afterward
thought how verdant he looked at the
time and why the clerks We're all
laughing at him. But he imagined he
was very tony in his Alaskan furs,
though really he was greener than
any gourd that ever grew.
However he asked what that yeller
stuff was 'in them glass boxes"
THAT stuff, you simpleton! Why, that
is gold dust, quartz, specimens and
nuggets"
He gasped for breath; his strength
failed him, and he thought he would
fall to the floor. He was sober as
a Judge, but he barely mustered
strength to drag himself out into the
open air, for he was smothering. He
realized, with crushing force, that
through his inexcusable ignorance he
had lost millions of that precious stuff
that makes or unmakes nations-that
for which he had suffered the terrOrs
of seven long Arctic winters-and now
he did not even possess the smallest
gold coin.
He felt in his pockets and found just
80 cents, enough, he thought with
which to buy rope to tie to his neck,
with a rock at the other end, and
| jump into the bay to meet the fate he
justly deserved.
He started for the wharf but found
| himself very weak, as he had eaten
| very little for several days, and had
kept up on stimulants. Presently he
| fell in dead faint. How long he lay
| there he did not know. but strong
| hands lifted him up, and he realized
that he was saved.
He would go and get something to
eat, and then go down to the docks
and try and work his way up the river
as a deckhand. He succeeded in get
ting work on the Chrysopolis. one of
| the Sacramento River boats. He was
] young and strong, and determined on
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going to the interior to make a stake
and return to his log cabin in Alaska.
Dear old Alaska he unused. You
have millions awaiting me if l will
returnl'
He went to Sacramento, and soon
got work at Hartwell, Hotchkiss q
Stalker's big planning mill, and after
ward worked for Minford & Bassett,
and later for Amsden, Pierce & Bur-
nett at their mills at Twelfth and j
streets, always commanding the re-
spect of not only his associates, but
his employers. He had often told his
story and experience in Alaska, and
everybody believed him, for he was
honest and truthful.
After working a few years for Mr..
Amsden, a very warm friendship
sprung up between them, and Aleck
took the old gentleman into his conf
dence, and told him his secret-how
he had seen tons of that yellow stuff
on the creek above his. cabin. He had
builded his house in a beautiful little
valley, thickly wooded and warm. The
creek rose rapidly above until it
seemed to cut into, or through, with
almost perpendicular banks, a great,
reddish-yellow ledge of vulcanized
quartz, very peculiar-looking rock
He had often knocked off pieces off
this rock with his hatchet and then
pulverized it, and many times had
taken pieces in his hand and crushed
it on powders, leaving strings like
coarse grass or weed-roots, and where
the bedrock was exposed, or in pools
below this ledge. he had picked up
handfuls of this pretty yellow stuff, -
as he always persisted in calling it.
And often, when he had strayed away
too far from his cabin to go home for
his dinner, he would build a fire on the
frozen ground, and when it had thawed
down into the gravel and burned out
he would pick up specimens.
But simple, honest Aleck never
dreamed it was gold, though he was
surrounded by millions. He thought it
was vulcanized "copper" or something
else.
Mr.. Amsden had confidence in linn,
and they organized a company to go
up there one spring, and made their
charts, plans and maps. But alas!
poor Aleck was stricken with a Sc
we're attack of pneumonia and eventu
ing.
But when Aleck died he left the old
gentleman the charts and maps. Mr..
Amsden pigeon-holed them, and never
thought of them again until the Klon
dixie excitement broke out last sum-
mer, when he looked them up and or
ganized a company to go up this spring
in search of this mountain of gold.
The stanch little ship now lies
moored at the dock in Sacramento,
awaiting the cargo Of freight and gold
seekers she is to take to Alaska. She
will be commanded by Captain Lewis
Larsen, a thorough seaman and navi-
gator of twenty eight years expert
ence. She will carry her two owners,
Tom Norton COur Tom,' as he is ia
miliarIy called, and Charlie Spencer.
Who doesn't know Charlie? "Plucky
man! 1 know he will succeed" said one
yesterday who has known him long and
well.
Mr.. Norton is also just the kind of
man to make success of such al un-
dertaking and when their stanch lit
tie ship unfurls her sails and stands
away down the river headed for the
Pacific and Alaska, there will be many
old and warm friends there to bid them
God-speed and wish them success in
their enterprise.
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TO SEARCH FOR GOLDEN
NUGGETS IN ALASKA
Company of Sacramentans Leave Shortly in Schooner
for the Arctic Regions.
They a SpotW WhereIt Load
Nuggets O

at each station, as it did not pay 10
have more to hunt and watch the traps.
Aleck was to be stationed up the Ia
mana River, so Jim and he tloated on
down the Yukon to st. James MISSION.
at the mouth of the Tanana River. For
tunately they had favorable winds and
We're able to sail UP about three hun
dred miles, when they came to beau
tiful creek deep enough to row their
boat about two miles uD to a little val
ley thickly wooded. Jim remarked:
Here's wood enough to last a life
time, and plenty of good logs for your
cabin. My boy you ought to be hap
py-only a little lonely at times"
Jim remained until Alexis cabin
was finished, and then bade him good
by. "Oh, JIM" he cried, how many
years have l got to be all alone?"
Until you return to Mary he said,
Keep up your courage, and in six OF
seven years you will have a nice little
stake Then go to California and send
for her.
Jim gone, Aleck set about making
himself as comfortable as possible, and
looked up good places for his traps.
During the daytime he was all right,
but, Oh, the nights He thought they
would never end How was he to en-
dure it for seven years?
For seven long years of the most
terrible hardships, with not living
thing to communicate with but his
faithful dogs-he endured this thing
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A POPULAR MISTAKE
Regarding Remedies for Dyspepsia an
In gestion.

Regarding Remedies for Dyspepsia and
Indigestion.
The national disease of Americans is
indigestion or in in it's chronic form,
dyspepsia, and for the very reason that
it is so common many people neglect
taking proper treatment for what they
consider trif1ing stomach trouble when
as a matter of fact, indigestion lays
the foundation for many incurable dis
eases. No person with a vigorous,
healthy stomach will fall a victim to
consumption. Many kidney diseases
and heart troubles date their beginning
from poor digestion; thin, nervous peo-
pie are really so because their stomachs
are out of gear; weary, languid, faded
out women owe their condition to i'm
perfect digestion.
When nearly every person you meet
is afflicted with weak digestion it is
not surprising that nearly every secret
patent medicine on the market claims
to be a cure for dyspepsia, as well as a
score of other troubles, when in fact,
as DR.. Werthier says, there is but one
genuine dyspepsia cure which is per-
fectly safe and reliable, and moreover,
this remedy is not a patent medicine,
pepsin (free from animal matter), veg
etable essences, fruit salts and bismuth
1t is sold by druggists under the name
of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. No ex-
travagant claims are made for them,
but for indigestion or any stomach
trouble, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are
far ahead of any remedy yet discovered.
They act on the food eaten no dieting
is necessary, simply eat all the whole
some food you want and these tablets
will digest it. A cure results, because
all the stomach needs is a rest, which
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets give by do
ing the work of digestion.
Druggists sell these tablets at so
cents per package. Little book on
stomach diseases and testimonials sent
free by addressing Stuart Co.. chemists,
Marshall Mich.
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Yukon River, for it is many miles wide
in places.
Finally they got under way and soon
reached Fort Selkirk, near the mouth
of the Pelley, where they halted Tor a
few days to rest and purchase lew
needed articles which they had lost
while descending the Mackenzie River.
Here their departure was fastened by
a very unexpected affair. Jim Howe,
the best scout, was slightly wounded
in a terrible encounter with vicious
Indian, who had tried to murder him
five years before while Jim was out
watching his otter traps. The Indian
had robbed his cabin and set fire to 1t
to cover his crime. Jim reached there
lust in time to catch sight of the In
dian as he was rounding a glacier. He
sprang after him. but it was a long
chase. He finally came up with him,
and there was a terrible encounter. jim
left him for dead, but carried away a
bad wound in his left arm.
/ When they met again Unexpectedly
and looked in each others eyes they
knew it meant death to one or the other.
The Indian died, and Jim carried away
a fresh wound in his left arm. So, To
escape complications. the party immedi-
ately pulled out After descending the
Yukon to the Yukon Flats they found
the river many miles wide and could
use. the sail to good advantage.
When they reached Fort Yukon, at the
mouth of the Porcuoine River, Tom
Mckay left them, as he was to be
stationed by the company on Porcupine
River. In a few days the party reached
Fort Hamlin. where another left tBlll
SMITH. and when they got to Rampant
City still another dropped out (John
Hays. That left only Jim Howe and
Aleck. Jim was to pilot the men TO
their different stations and then re-
turn. The company had only one man
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engine, so that lack of breezes or head
winds will not delay her.
The members of the mining company,
who will go with the expedition, are
o. R. Amsden, E. F. Amsden, Herbert
Earl. c. D. Whitmore, T. K. Barkwith,
B. J. Mcdonald Thomas Norton and
Charles Z. Spencer. The latter is
President, Norton Treasurer and Bark
with Secretary Of the company.
1t is the intention Of the company to
take a few passengers for Alaska and
full cargo Of provisions and merchan-
disc.
ALECK DUNBAR'S SECRET.
Twenty-Five years ago to-day a
sturdy. broad-shouldered Scotch lad of
20, Alexander Dunbar, bade adieu TO
his aged parents, little Bessie, his only
sister, little Tom, his brother, and many
friends who had gathered at the humble
matched cot by the sea shore to bid
this brave lad last farewell. And we
must not forget gentle, blue-eyed Mary
with a far-off look in her eyes, trying
to penetrate if possible the future ana
learn what it had in store for Aleck and
herself.
With wringing of hands and many a
'God bless you, my bairn!' last, long
embrace of his aged mother and his
almost fainting sweetheart, Aleck Dun
bar boarded the good ship Amsden of
the Hudson Bay Fur Company, bound
for the land of eternal snow, by way
of Hudson Bay.
Aleck almost imagined he could scent
the aroma of the orange blossoms and
flowers of far off California as he pc
rused the Record Union sent him by
a friend out here, and it fired him with
a hope that he might make a stake with
the fur company in Alaska and even
tually reach here by the Pacific.
The ship weighed anchor and glided
ou+ on the bosom of the mighty deep,
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They Want jury Trials.

Ed Dieterle and w. F. Peterson, who
were arrested on complaint of Chief
Engineer Guthrie of the Fire Depart
ment for maintaining awnings support
ed by posts on Oak avenue, in violation
Of the ordinance, pleaded not guilty yes
terday in the City Justices Court and
demanded a jury trial. Peterson's trial
was set for the 11th inst, and Dieterle's
for the 18th