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Evening star., 1898-12-13

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Evening star., 1898-12-13
SUBURBAN PROPERTY.

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sewer and water Where you do as we'll?
MILES FULLER.
de1-Stf 5o4 l1th St
A HOME AT CLEVELAND PARK. $5.s0u TO
$4,000 na2a-tf
Evening star., 1898-12-13

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Evening star., 1898-12-13

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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04

This points at once to the most urgent
reform, viz, make the commanding
general the real working head Of the
army, instead of the secretary of war
'nc results have come to the ser
vice by the extension of the secretary
powers in Grants first administration.
Most Of the evils Of the service can be
traced to the fact that the general COM
manding has since that time been pIac-
ucally deprived of his proper functions
and the real head of the army has been
a politician, usually not versed in mill
itary science. Promotions in the serN-
ice should never depend upon political
influence in any department, nor should
the recommendations of a politician
carry any weight in the military service
more than they would in those offices
filled through the civil service exam
nations alone. The restoration of It's
proper functions TO the office of the
general commanding, as Grant eXer-
cised them when he was commander
in-chief, would be a long step in the
right direction. 1t would put the ad-
minlstration Of the army in the hands
OF soldier, and that would be an or
igin of all other necessary administra-
tive refOrms.-From "Our Army Supply
Departments and the Need of General
Staff" by Lieut.. John II. Parker, in the
American Monthly Review of Reviews
for December
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
The Man That Women
Write To.

There's a man in Buffalo who has with
out doubt larger number Of women cor
resondents than any other person, man
or woman in the entire country. And
yet not one in a thousand Of the women
who write have ever seen the man they
write to. For after all it's not the man
they write to- but the physician. There s
no sex in medicine. The physician with
this extensive correspondence is DR.. r.
V. Pierce, chief consulting physician of
the Invalids Hotel and Surgical lnsti-
tute of Buffalo, N. Y
Undoubtedly DR.. Pierce owes his great
popularity among women 10 his many and
wonderful cures of that class Of diseases
known as "female troubles" To the
treatment and cure Of these diseases he
has given over thirty years of his pro-
fessional life and has established him
self as the specialist par excellence in
the treatment of diseases peculiar to
women
The esteem in which Dr.. Pierce is held
by women is not to be wondered at when
it is known that in the thirty years and
over in which he has given attention to
women's diseases he has, aided by his
staff Of nearly a score Of experienced
and skilled specialists, treated over q
half a million women, and with such sue
cess that ninety-eight out of every hun
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04

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Wt ~ ''ili lii9li uCItoHs % lHe PnSalcI'tH
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~ ~ % lESLClstr 10 oneL tlieii IeilSa from
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and {ne loea urea tnelts
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6 a. GrdW me MI botenJioh Oh Women IN their
GLlIecli on me ne most holapIe teatqre of
et1,9S "lielIoils y lhat, women WIN dan-
iIt. uIsSdsg9 ttIg uibeu 10 consult by
lGt5er some one WHO Is not a physician
' auu las neitier tne euuca9onaI AFFINITY
49, ~ lcs''t iiSIt " lsdt uIseaSei ana
some Soiiletliles' because II Is impossible for
LI5ese auNefllseIS 10 Jay clalm TO the title
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"ll5e TO woman Woman under
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
LET EN- ALL COME"
London Says This When It Means to
Be Facetious.
lFrom the Londor MaiI.l

A new epidemic has broken out in
the metropolis. 1t is of a highly dan
gerous type; vaccination will not pre-
vent it, neither has it any respect for
the conscientious objector." The chief
symptom of the disease is that persons
afflicted when spoken to display a Curl
Gus and weird smile and say with gus
to: Let EN- all come"
When you first hear it, it sounds
rather vulgar but you repeat it two
or three times by way Of a scientific
test, and then it seems witty. By
this time you have caught the COM
plain, and have acquired an irTepres-
sible propensity for saying it yourself.
You can not keep it out of your con-
versation any more than you can keep
your feet out of puddles in wet wealth
er.
The phrase is said to have originated
in a song sung by a well-known come
dian, but, be it noted, at certain cele-
brated music hall where the song is
not being sung there are AZ turns, and
in each turn this phrase is used at
least once.
1t was said by a conductor at the
Elephant and Castle when II pas
sengers tried to squeeze into the last
bus
A Nonconformist minister nearly
said it last Sunday In his sermon, and
his congregation nearly smiled.
If you are a young man ledger and
want to bring a half-dozen boon COM
panions home to supper or are think
ing of asking a friendly manager for a
few stalls for self and a small party of
relatives from the country, or seek
"diggins" somewhere in the suburbs
where there is no objection to eleven
squalling children, it is quite safe to
make your request, for the reply is sure
to be: LET 'em all come"
Or, suppose you are a nervous man
Now is the time to screw up courage
If you hear that you may expect bur
glars, or, you know your creditors are
planning d raid, or your most distant
relatives seem to be contemplating a
long stay, or YOU read in the evening
paper that the French have deter
mined to claim an outlet on the Thames
somewhere near yoHr little plot of
back garden-upon hearing the news
you are sure to feel brave and eXclaim
heroieally: what do | care-'Let EN-
all come
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04

that no other institution has equal
cilities for the treatment of chronic
eases.
In the work of the Worlds Dispenst
and Invalids Hotel and Surgical In
tute there is real philanthropy as well
real medical and surgical skill. The b
recognition Of the philanthropic asp
of this work comes from the citizens
Buffalo, DR.. Pierce's home town, v
elected him state senator, and later g;
him a seat in congress. From the lat
position Dr.. Pierce resigned before
expiration of his term. That he sho
prefer to give up a high and honora
position in the councils of the nation
serve the sick is conclusive evidence
his devotion to their interests and of l.
for his profession Perhaps we can Of
our readers no better summing up
DR.. Pierce and his work than that
President Garfield, who said: HE is
of The best men in the world. and he is
the head of one of the best institution.
the world.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
HOW'S THIS !?

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case Of eatarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
II. J. Cheney & Co. Props, Toledo, O.
we, the undersigned, have known r. J .
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm
West & Tfuax, wholesale druggists To-
ledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, wholesale
druggists. Toledo, o.
: HANS Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon The blood and mus
coUs surfaces OF the system. Price 75e
per bottle Sold by all druggists. Testi-
moniats free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
TAKE THE ARMY OUT OF POI
TICS.

The most urgently needed reform
the absolute enforcement of the arm
in all of it's departments from polltic
1t is absurd to expect the same tho
ough efficiency and preparation foui
in other departments of the public SO
vice unless the same methods are use
Military service is certainly as In
portant as civil. s nv ce-more so in tin
of emergency. Its administr" N Dug
TO be conducted with the same sing
we to efficiency, and no departing
f the army should be more exem
from political influence than the sta
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04

We have talked about the prowess
OF the man behind the gun;
We have told in song and story
How he made the Spaniards run;
But the highest pitch of glory
For this brave, intrepid man
Is attained in Boosting of it
To-the girl behind the fan
Chicago News
Weary Watkins-Wouldy you die fer your
principles?
Hungry Higgins-I ain't done it yet, but
I've took the chance A doctor told me
once I'd die if ! didn't take exercise. -
indianapolis Jouruol
Cousin Flaviiia IS too lazy to live"
why do you say SOP
She keeps her button hook on the
floor. Chicago Record.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
FRENCH COLONIES A FAILURE.


CIV. Alleyne ireland In the December
Atlantic)
France has obtained little honor and less
profit from her colonial ventures, says W.
Alleyne Ireland in the December Atlantic.
Her ambition has been to achieve In the
tropics what England has achieved in Aus
tralla, New Zealand, Canada and her
other non-tropical Colonies-the founding
of hardy dependencies, populated by a
race mainly of the home stock and bound
70 the mother country by all the ties OF
afeetion and loyalty-depende which
IN the hour Of need would prove a source
81 strength to the nation The failure OF
france is due rather to the fundamental
Ufnculues of tropical colonization than TO
ihe evil effects of maladministration; for
It is, doubtful whether even any of Eng
iand $ tropical possessions, loyal rs they
undoubtedly are, would prove a source Of
strength in time of war Frenchmen
nave not emigrated to the French colon
ies' because to most white men the trop-
lJs oiter little inducement as a home. The
unSence OF all those conyeniences and lux
9Iles which form so large part of our
QQsslly lte becomes uncomfortable as soon az
rs eae novelty Of strange land has wor@
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18

For every evil under the sun
 There is remedy or there is none. If there be one. try and find it. If there be none never mind iti'
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18
FORREST CITY, ARK, AFTERNOON NOVEMBER s 1sg

must have found you a heavy load. Then Mary ran 10 my house-fulI quarter of mile away-snd left word for me to come here as soon as got home. I found her working over you, and your scalp was all ready for the stitches when I came. She's a clever girl. was studying to be a nurse. but unfortunately the money gave out, and she couldn't go on. She had to turn nursery governess. instead.'
 And the other, the sharp one, who's she?"
 "The elder sister, Susan. Her tongue is sharp-but her hearts all right and she's seen trouble enough to turn sweet grapes sour. That's all the fam fly left now, except the mother, crip- pied with rheumatism, poor soul. Well, then. I'll tell them you are to be on their hands here for day or two. I'll see you again, toward night, and bring you some things you will need, until you can get back to town. Any thing can do for you? Any message you want to send?"
 The stranger dictated a telegram. explaining his detention to a mem Der of well-known firm in the city
 When the doctor he ard the name, he looked up in surprise. ''Then you came here from them-about the mortgage, I suppose?"
 "I did-confound the entire busi- ness!"
 "H'n." said the doctor, and went on writing a the strangers dictation.
 The signature was also a surprise 10 the doctor. willard Blackwell, Why, then, you are the head of the firm yourself!"
 T am-is there anything strange about that?"
 "oh, mol" said the doctor; but in- voluntarily he sighed, and to him.
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18

denly experienced gave him sufficient food for thought.
 1 When the doctor came back at dusk he found a remarkable change had | taken place in his grumpy patient, whose gruffness had now entirely van- | ished.
 T beg your pardon, doctor, for my bad humor this morning. As you could plainly see 1 had been-well- | upset. And thank you for your kind ness in loaning me these things. Could l ask another favor of you now ?' Blackwell spoke with curious. anxious diffidence. Tt occurs 70 me that these-these kind ladies may not be entirely prepared for my sudden descent upon them-and, tomorrow | being Thanksgiving, you know--well, thought that perhaps they might al- low me to supply the table, for one thing, while l am with them and | would you mind explaining to them that l would like to do so? And then. is there any place in the village from where you could send them in a gc cd :, fat turkey. and plenty of fruit and vegetables, and anything else you think they might like? I'd be no end obliged and grateful to you-and you don't think they'd be offended, do you :? I'm such duffer, and I've made such bad impression to start with, that 1 must depend on you to nelp me out" The doctor had looked at him Tn ut- ter amazement; but, as their eyes me he nodded and smiled; and. muttering his thanks, Blackwell thrust a -oll of bank notes into his hand.
 Hes not bad fellow, after alli" the doctor said, triumphantly, to him. self; and presently the matter was all arranged and the good doctor went re- joicing on his way.
 But as soon as Blackwell was clone again, strange and discomforting fan cies swarmed through his mind. Would not this seem to his hostess merely selfish man of the worlds discourte- ous protest against the frugal fare which was all that they had been able to set before him? And he seemed to hear Susan's shrewd interpre taiion of his action, and her scornful eplthet of "Pig."
 His dinner and supper on that event. ful day had certainly been meager enough, though they were daintily served by Mary herself; and his break fast. next morning, was frugal, too but no' so the Thanksgiving dinner.
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18

self he added: Poor things, poor things!"
 Another telegram was written to Mir. Blackwell's friends. to explain his enforced absence from their dinner party on the morrow, and theE the doctor left him, and Blackwell set tied himself in grim endurance of the evils from which he could not es- cape.
 By and by the door was softly opened, and, through his half-closed eyes, he saw pretty girl looking in upon him.
 Hush. he's asleep-I'm glad of that" she said; and. from her pleas ant voice he knew her to be Mary North. Then she drew back, and the door was quietly closed.
 But the next moment he heard her voice again, and so plainly that he thought she must be in the room, al- though he had certainly seen the door close upon her. He opened his eyes and looked about him curiously; and at last he saw that the room he was in was connected with the one adjoin- ing it-where the speakers were-by an uncovered stovepipe hole. The voice of Susan spoke up sharp ": Heres another thing to be thank full for! To think of it being Willard Blackwel.-of all persons in .he world! If l had known that, he might have died outside there-I never would have lifted my hand to carry him in here!,'' "Oh, Susan, yes, you would!"
 Indeed. wouldn't And, after all those awful letters he's written to mother; now he has come here just to turn Us out. You saw how ugly and cross he was-we can't expect one grain of kindness at his hands"
 ''I shouldn't ask it;" and here Mary's pleasant voice grew sad. But it's matter of business, Susan, and we mustn't blame him for it. We owe all that money; we can't pay it; so the mortgage is to be foreclosed, and we must go. He knows nothing about its always having been our home, and that all this trouble has come about withou. our knowledge. It's not his fault that we must go. I only wish I knew where we were to take poor mother. and how we could make it comfortable for her"
 "On nothing year!" supplemented Susan. "Yes, and if that selfish Mrs. Grosvenor hadn't decided 10 go of to tee south. at moments notice, and
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18

throw ycu out Of your position, we needn't have worried about that" she went on. And now she doesn't even pay you what she owes you"
 But she will. Susan. She said she would send me a check next week." Next week-when we need it now! We're in a fine fix, truly! It was bad enough before; but now that we are saddled with this grumpy, horrid. cross old man"
 The involuntary eavesdropper start ed suddenly-for in spite of few gray hairs upon his temples, Willard Black well had never thought of himself as old before-though grumpy and horrid and cross he most certainly had been.
 And our bitterest enemy!" the sharp voice went on. "He will expect all sorts of luxuries, suppose: and we haven't but few cents left in the house; and not thing to set before him but porridge and pork and bread without butter! And will not run any further in debt" "But your bread is delicious, Susan; and Pm sure he's welcome to the best we have"
 And he was to go to swell Thanks giving dinner ir the city, tomorrow, doctor said! He'll have to give thanks here, on very different fare, and, for that part, I'm almost glad!"
 "Oh, my goodness, Susan, look!"
 For pity's sake, what's the matter now?"
 err tove-pipe hole is uncovered" Mary ed, tragically; "and he can hear e y word!"
 Serve hiru right if he had! But you said he was sound asleep" The hole was quickly covered. and Willard Blackwell heard no more. But the various new sensations he had sud-
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18
The Next HOuge,

The following tables show the conn position of the next house as indicated by returns:
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18
A Climatic Complatnt

Look here" said the man who was standing in the doorway, shaking a water-soaked umbrella at the clouds, "are you the person who keeps saying that this old world is all right; that it's good sensible sort of world when you get right down to the facts?"
 Those are my sentiments" said the optimist.
 Tn spite of the fact that we've had about sixteen bad days to one when the sun shone?"
 Yes"
 Well, can't agree with you. Did you ever study astronomy
 "A little.'
 You propably know that there are around this planet"
 Yes
 Well, that being the case, I can't have any respect for an earth that hasn't sufficient intelligence to get in some place ot of the rain. Washing ton Star.
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18
Worked Botb wax..

A lady once engaged a Chinese cook When the Celestial came she called him up, and, among other things, she asked him his name.
 My name," said the Chinaman, smil- ing. lis Wung Hang Ho."
 "Oh, can't remember all that" said the lady. q will call you John"
 John smiled all over, and asked:
 What your namee?"
 ''Oh, my name is Mrs. Melville Lang don.'
 "Me no memble all that" said John. "Chinaman he no sayey Mrs. Membul London. l call you Tommy. y."-Cincin. nati Enquirer.
The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18

J Nor'h said, sadly.
 "Oh, no, it won't!" her sister Susan reJoined, sarcastically. Let me enu- merate all that we've had to be thank ful fer during this past year. To begin with. our stepfather died-and left us large legacy of debts"
 "Ot, now, Susan, don't!"
 And, then, we found that he had not only mortgaged our dear old nome. but had failed to pay the interest on it all these years, and that now-because we can't raise the money to pay it- the mortgage is to be foreclosed at once, and we will be turned out-for the town to take care of, I suppose. since mother is about helpless with rheumatism. and it takes all my time to care for her, and to keep us with clothes on our backs. And now that the Grosvenors have suddenly decided to go south, and no longer want you Tor nursery governess-the cup of our thankfulness is full, should say-and full 10 running over, tool"
 "Oh, don't, Susan, please don't." Mary had been pleading. Tt is all so dreadfully sad and hard for us; but still 1t might be even worse"
 "Worse!" ejaculated Susan.
 Yes, worse" repeated Mary. Why, suppose-just suppose it had been mother who died" her sweet voice trembled piteously. "Or, suppose, now that she is so helpless, you and I were not so perfectly strong and well. And, then. if she can keep so bright and cheerful with all that she is suffering, I'm sure we ought to keep up bravely if only for her sake And, Susan. it's foolish thought maybe, but can't help thinking that now-when every thing looks so dark and hopeless to us-daylight must be at hand. Per haps shall get something else to do very soon-and mother may get bet ter, so that she can be around again. and, anyway, God hasn't forgotten us Tn our trouble-and, I'm sure, He will not let us suffer needlessly."
 You're queer girl" Susan said, shortly. I'm not made on the thank ful-things-are-no-worse plan, myself. !" Well, I'm glad I am." said Mary. quite brightly, now. "I seem to be