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CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FREE


Ono o1 the GRanaest O1ers Ever Made.
The first five persons procuring the
Endless Chain Starch Book from their
grocer will each obtain one large loc
package of Red Cross" starch, one large
10c package of "HUBINGER'S BEST"
starch, two Shakespeare pictures,
printed in twelve beautiful colors, ~
natural as life, or one Twentieth Gen.
fury Girl Calendar, the finest Of its kind
everprinted, allabsolutely free. All 9TH
ers procuring the Endless Chain Starch
Book will obtain from their grocer two
large 1oc packages Of starch for SC, and
the beautiful premiums, which are be-
ing given away. This offer is only made
for a short time to further introduce
the famous RED CROSS" starch, and
the celebrated "HUBINGER'S BEST
cold-water starch. "RED CROSS" laun.
dry starch is something entirely new,
andis without doubt the greatest inven-
ton of the Twentieth Century. It has
no equal. and surpasses all others. It
has won for itself praise from all parts
OF the United States. It has super
seeded everything heretofore used, or
known to science in the laundry art
It is made from wheat, rice and corn,
and is chemically prepared upon scien-
tific principles, by ]. C. Hubinger, IN
expert in the laundry profession, who
has had IS years Of practical experience
in fancy laundering, and who is the
first successful and original inventor
of all fine gradesof starch in the United
States. II you would have the best, ask
for RED CROSS" and "HUBINGER'S
BEST" which are the finest starches
on the market to-day. The jobbing
houses all handle It, the retail grocer
has it on his shelves. you find it in all
the homes, while the careful house
wife has adorned the walls of the home
with the beautiful Shakespeare pic
lures, which are being given away in
RED CROSS and "HU.
BEST" starch.
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medicine lodge. In the course of long
ceremonial, an Indian took a bag about
the size of large handkerchief, and
manipulated it in such a manner as to
show that it contained nothing. Then
he danced around the lodge slowly,
holding the bag between his fingers by
the upper corners. Presently the heads
of two snakes appeared from the mouth
Of the bag. and about foot of the
length of each snake became visible.
But it Glanced that the juggler in his
dancing passed by the open door of the
lodge, and then understood the fake
The light shining Through the bag
showed that il contained5 NO snakes
What had appeared from the bag was
merely the stuffed heads and bodies for
a short length of couple of rattlers.
They were made to stick out by pulling
taut the pieces of tape to which they
were attached" SMITH D. FRY.
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Tal.ass ana the Carpenter.

@Many. years ago. when my sermons first
attracted the atteh don of city editou,s said
Dr. Ialmage IN q recent conversation, you
reporters used to make me fume and fret,
but since have come to know you better
have transferred my wrath to your adver-
sary, the compositor. My eyes were opened
when, after annoying blunders in print,
determined to report my own sermons for
=. certain New York morning paper. Il
CHANGED that the first time 1 reported my
self was preaching . sermon on the Peni-
tential Psalms, in which sermon said, with
emphasis:
"You will notice that in these verses
the name OF God does not appear once. Il
not this significant
Calm and confident that this time the
sense Of my sermon would not be distorted
by careless reporting, picked up the paper
on Monday morning and read:
You will notice that in these verses the
name Of God does not appear once: Il not
this magnificent? "-Philadelphi SATURDAY
Poat
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ABUSES IN SURGERY.
DIR. Mcdonald Declares In IN Address
That Many Operations Are
Brutal and Criminal.

Dr. James Monroe Mcdonald talked
to large audience at the Peoples in
ststute at Chicago the other evening
upon the use and abuse of surgical OPP
erations. His subject was Horrors Of
Modern Surgery" He said. in brief:
''Surgery may be divided into conserv-
alive and destructive surgery. One is
wise and humane, the other is brutal
and criminal. The field of true surgery
is the field Of traumatic LESSONS. The
fractured bone, the dislocated joint, the
lacerated tissue, these may be operated
upon because they arc in the line Of con-
sentative surgery. Beyond this surgical
science should not go.
ITO lop of organs which are neces-
sary in normal organism is nothing
but criminal and murderous empiri-
cism, because such procedures cannot
reestablish normal equilibrium to the
organism. On the incarnatlized affairs
of surgical science thousands annually
Law down their lives under the bloody
hands of so-called brilliant operators
Abdominal surgery is the most brutal,
cruel, murderous fad that has ever
cursed the world. In the last decade the
surgeons knife has slain more than war
and holocausts. Humane people are
crying out against the vivisection OF the
lower animals. 1t is time the people
cried out against the cruel vivisection OF
suffering human beings, which are oc-
curing every day in the hospitals and
clinical theaters all over the world. We
charge the abdominal surgeon especial
ly. with increasing disease and death.
Many of them are honest but ignorant
criminals, but very large class adopt
surgical procedures in abdominal pa
thologies on account of the large fees and
the great reputation they can acquire.
The one class ought to be prevented
from practicing surgery because OF ig-
norance, the other class ought to be
hung for murderOus cruelty.
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BITS ABOUT pEopIh

Il Il said that Queen Victoria IL ths
shortest adult sovereign in the wo.ld
She IL only four feet eleven inches high,
and tips the beam at III pounds.
Cornelius Vanderbilt inherited less
than sec, o0o, 900 in 1885, and in IA years
increased It to more thep @10o, 900 900.
William K. Vanderbilt is known to have
been equally successful.
The first prize Of $4,000 for designs
of The new buildings for the University
Of California, has been awarded to .
French architect, Z. Bernard, of Paris.
The second, third, fourth and fifth
prizes 200, $4,000, $4,000 and 81, 900
respectively = al went to American
architects. SAB
Gov. Johnston, Of Alabama, has just
granted a unique pardon to John Bos-
ton, negro of Russell county. Boston
was serving term for stealing chick
ems and the governor granted him par
don upon condition that for IL months
hesshould not buy. steal or eat another
chicken or any portion thereof.
DR.. Price while persuading Gov.
Roosevelt to speakon President McKin
ley's policy to the Methodists at Ocean
Grove. pointed out the rather remark
able fact that the presiding officer Of
the convention that nominated Mr.. Nc
Kinley was a Methodist; that he, him
self, was local preacher; that the man
who nominated him WAS a Methodist.
that the man who seconded the nominal
ton was Methodist; that large num-
Der of the delegates were Methodists.
and that when the house of representa-
tives was chosen 26S of tie members
were Methodists.
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have been permanent disgrace. There
was one chance out of hundred, per-
haps, that the marksman might miss.
He decided to take the chance, and so
permitted the volunteer executioner to
take deliberate aim and fire at him
from distance of half dozen PAGES.
An instant later he fell dead; the bullet
had passed through his brain.
I'm some tribes of Indians it used to
be the rule that sorcerer who failed
three times must pay the penalty of
death. That regulation has been re-
markably widespread among savages.
understand it to have been accepted as
far south rs Patagonia on this con-
tiHent, and undoubtedly it survives to
this day in parts of Africa and else
where. But there was an ingenious
magician of my acquaintance who saved
himself from this fate by little device
of his contriving. Being permitted to
furnish the bullet by which he was to
be shot, he made One in mold in which
q piece of paper was inserted in such a
manner that the ball was cast in two
hemispheres. These he put together,
causing them to hold by rubbing the
edges with his knife-blade. In this way
a the same time the deception was con-
cealed. On being fired from the gun,
che bullet few in halves, which, being of
such shape, scattered and left the man
untouched. BY this means he escaped
on several occasions the penalty which
AnUhf IN fofun hn pv>l s.
failure. Finally, however, he was found
out and executed.
once saw an interesting trick per-
formed inside of 4 ceremonial wigwam.
There was lot of dancing and num-
merry. in the midst of which a woman
came forward and struck the ground
in the middle of the lodge. Then mys-
terry man took his turn and began
scratching with a stick on spot where.
the woman had struck. In q minute or
two were exposed to view the leaves Of
. full-grown wild turnip. The vegetable
was dug upand thrown among the spec
tators. TO show that there was NO de-
ception and to quell the appetite Of the
hungry public. Scratching some more
with his stick, the magician produced
several more turnips-two or three
dozen of them. It was really wonder
full. should have been more aston
ished. however. If, being an initiated
member Of the secret society, had not
been present in the morning and seen
the woman bury the turnips.
In the Nenomoni tribe to-day there
b juggler of great reputation. One
q his best tricks is done with : bears
eIa, and small dish-shaped pockee
lon He takes the mirror in one
nd and the bears claw in the other.
3hea. swaying ~ body hom aide to
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| side and keepingppa monotonous chant
ing, he brinxs the claw nearer to the
mirror. until finally there is contact
between the two and the claw stands
upon its point upright on the mirror.
Presently, by sudden movements the
glass il turned. upside down, and the
claw still remains attached to it by the
point. II is quite surprising, but par
ticle of ordinary spruce gum does the
whole business. 1854
ssTbe late Garrick Mallery. OF the bu-
reau of ethnology, once told me of some
thing quite mnaccountable which he
witnessed at White Earth in 1860. There
was present a famous mystery man,
who made a bet with the local govern
ment agent that the latter could hottie
him with ropes in such manner that
he would not be able to disengage HIM
self offhand. The agent, assisted by
Mallory and other white men, tied the
Indian up in the most elaborate fashion
and put him inside of conical wigwam
in the middle of an open space. No
body else was permitted to come near
him. AS quickly as they had with
drawn, tremendous humping sounds
were heard from the hut, which swaye.i
from side to side as if it would be torn
to pieces. Two or three minutes later
the Indian called out, telling them to
go to a certain house several hundred
yards away where they would find their
ropes. One of the white men was sent
to the house. and he found the ropes,
with all of the complicated knots UNI
tied.
'The tieing committee opened the
wigwam then, but found the wizard
a pipe, with his black magic
stone on his lap. Neither pipe nor stone
had been there previously. The head
priest of the wizards society, having
heard of this exhibition, sent word that
he would be killed if he repeated such
performance for gain. Evidently it was
deemed improper that religious busi-
ness of that sort should be thus prosti-
tuted.
81 was much mystified on one occa-
sion by trick saw performed in big
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Hene.t laetAeas wiz.

This 10 . fact that sometimes il oyer
looked in these days Of hurry and scramble
but it is fact none the less. The success Of
the John NJ. Smyth Co, Chicago. whose
DER. Is a marked iIlustration in POINT. A
tremendous business has been built up BY
this firm strictly on its merits. Good goods
properly described and offered at very low
price, the unlimited capital of the firm en-
sbling it to buy on extremely advantageous
terms. See the striking advertisement else
where in this issue and write the John NJ
Smyth Co, $50 to l66 West Madison st.,
family should have it.
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Cnc.e neing : spectator.

ChOse Being . Spectator.
Aunt Sophia-And is Tommy good
little boy at school?
Tommy-Yes, auntie.
Aunt Sophia-And Why il Tommy .
eocd little boy?
Tommy-'Cause it's better -1n to see
the other boys get q licking than to get
one yourself.-Boston Transcript.
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Rr y, Peeitixe.

Narie-Oh, there was such dreadful
beetle in my room last night! A big
q 4 mouse. A yellowish-br6wn thing
ugh! / Chased him half an hour.
Jack-Um-it was m electric beetle
/ guess.
Marie-It must have been, for 1t nm
like iightning.-Judge.
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Another view Of the Mattev.

A0Ofhef View u ne MaVscNs
81 firmly believe" she said, that
woman should have the right 10 pro-
pose"
s'Of course, II woman proposes" he
replied, "she would give an engagement
ring and other presents, instead OF re-
ceiving Them"
ION second thought" she answered.
spcrhaps it would be better not to
change existing conditions" - Phila-
delphia Call.
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Want ys1r moustache or beard beaufiful
StoW1 q YicA blackf Then uso
McklnGhAm'S DYE tx ,sseess,,
@ q esssss. - q = 49, o. nss.s.A, =. =,
a weak Memory.

A local Newspaper woman is q member
Of . colony Of her sex in downtown fat.
II was her turn this week to do the buying
Of the light housekeeping supplies. Prob.
ably she relied = little too implicitly op heI
memory. AnyvaI she was overheard At the
phone calling p one the big groceries,:
want half dorm cakes Of suppreBed
order she could remember.-C2evelandP Plain
n>a1ne
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n r~esgAles

There is something peculiar about
that old darky's family"
what Is it -
HE has seven boys and not one Of
them Is named George Washington. -.
Ohio Stste Journal
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aens Seekefs' Exearsiens va sDs0
FouF Route.~
TO the North, West, Northwest, South
|kest, South and Southeast. Selling dates:
August 18th, September 5th and 18th; and
ON October ID and 18th, 1879, & one fare,
plus @2.00 to authorised points in the fol-
lowing states: Alabama, Arizona. Arkan.
sas, British Columbia, Colorado. Florida,
Georgia, Iowa, Indian Territory, Idaho,
Kansas, Kentucky. Louisiana. lichigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Manitoba, New Mexico, Nebraaka, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Okla
homa, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas,
Utah, virginiA Wisconsin, WSppinG,
Washingtons Fer fun inform0tion ~ Dat
ticulars ~ to rates, routes, tickets, limits,
stop-over privileges, etc., call on Agents
big Four Route" or address the under.
signed. w. p. Deppe, A. g. T. = Z. At,
Warren ]. Lynch, Gen. Pass. Z 1kt. Az,
Cincinnati, @. &.
There is nothins more diseouraGns 70 Z
girl than to return ho0e from 1. biz town
with I new wrinkle in style and 6nd that II
has preceded her-Atchison Globe.
H Care ca u - ~
Take LAXATIVE Bromo Qmniae Tables. IN
druggists refund money Ills faibt cure 80.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears I bonnie,
il which 4 large-sized political bee is con,
tinually buzxing.-CAicaao Daily NeWs.
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The Best Prescription for Calls
and Fever II bottle Of Groves TAsTeI.ess
Cu;iL Tonic. tits simply iron and quipinein
atsstelcss form. No curc-no pay Price, s0c.
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eeea for Girl. o.lx.

Dewey anecdotes relate that the admiral
traces his start in life to severe whipping
solved to lead new life. This anecdote will
Be read out loud by the mothers, but it will
not fool any boy. It is harder to fool boy
than girl with fairy tales.-Atchison
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Have you heard the motto Of the govern.
ment Of Siam? And having heard Il, haSs
you repeated it? And having repeated it.
have you caught its purely personal apn'i
cation? And hevipa caught II have ytu
tried il on your frishds?, This il the motto:
"Ah Wa To Mas Siam" It sound. unintel
lcng Is you can and a. fast a you can and
you Will discover at last that the eastern
patois has . western sense that aptly clash
hes many. = remorseful subject Of Uncle Sam
For Al Wa Ii Mas Siam" il easily evolved
into "Ah, what an as am.6QhicaSa
Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-11

4 I'm JeaTne Of % any honest ~ .
ing wrong that he i constantly surprisei
that be doesn't 10 out behind the 1arn ~
try - hold himself ups-Atchisoa 0lobo.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-11

He latter the fourteenth round)-ssHov |
love to dance!" She-"Then / should think
youid learn.".Town Tories.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-11

PUTNAM HADELEss DYES q n
STAIN the haads q spot TIE kettls. sa,d b
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Mugsins- "Your face is sight. Why
don't you change your barber!" Buggins-
Never! He may slash me bit, but he's
deaf mute. my boy" -Philadelphia Rec
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ing-down pains. or tired
feelings. and am we'll and
hearty. Ishall recommend
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound to all my
suffering friends as the
greatest remedy for ~
female weakness"
MRS. SUSIE ]. WEAVER,
1871 Callowhill St.. Phila'
delphia, Pa. writes:
y "DRAR MRS. PINKHAlG--l
had inflammation of the
womb and painful mem
situation. and by your
advice / began taking
Lydia E. Pinkhan's Vegc-
table Compound. Have
taken four bottles and use
one package of Sanativ
Wash AMI feel like q new
woman. ! thank you so
much for what your medi- Z
cine has done for me-"
MRS. NJ. BAUMANN, III n
Chicago. ILL.,. writes: al
months trial of Lydia E. ri
not say enough in praise
with womb trouble when ]
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-11

It II better to wear your heart on
your own sleeve than in some woman's
bonbon box.
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The wife Of the henpecked man may be
outspoken, but the Elmira Gazette seems to
seldom outspoken BY her husbands Oswego
Record.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-11

When you hate man, either fight him or
say nothing.-Atchison Globe.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-11

eone people are mighty 'sindependent' il
their ways who have no reason to bes-Ateh-
isoa Globe. :
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Defnitio1-"To our silent heroes" little
Willie read. from the memorial bronze.
Pepper, what are silent heroes" Mar
ried men," said popper-Indianapoli Jour
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She--He is his own worst enemy" He
Most self-made men are."-Town Topics.
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Young Dr. Fresh-"Here comes that Mn.
fowler. Positively there isn't the first thing
that ails her" Old Dr.. Sage. Evidently
you are just the man for her case. Boston
Trnnscrint
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Cunning Assessor ito Kreesus' wife)-
wonder if could get an idea from you a.
to how much your husband Is worth.-
Truthful Wife-"I don't know. From the
way he stints me should say that instead
of being assessed for anything at all the
city ought to pay him something. - BOSTON
I1nDcTipt.
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Hall's Catarrh Cure
II taken Internally. Price fSc.
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euconhoea had continual pain i4 abdomen. Sometimes
could walk across The Aoor fdstbee fo weeks at
time Since using your medicine. now have bear
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In Chicaso-"She says II she couldn't have
q family crest without buying one she d do
without crest" Il dare say. She is mo-
Detroit Journal.
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HvERY wuann aig hG4 sgy female hesbl1 b. xts
Il helped hyaNs Ills statssepk = baaed d.
reasoning and unrivaled record Aultitudes
bless Mn Pnkham for competent
commandments advice Write 20 her you 40 i'll Her
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What Is the Adams apple. paw. IN
apple," replied his father, .'is this lump in
/ sins." aOh. / see" said Johnny. isn't
that what they call the apple Of discord!'-
st. Louis Republic.
Rock Island Argus., 1899-06-02
sHERRARD SHOTS.

Sherrard, MAY 31.-Milton Green
wood was in Viola Tuesday.
Richard Davis returned home Fri
day from Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vance Sherrard were
in Rock Island last Thursday.
Gus Anderson returned Monday
night, after four months visit in Col
orado.
William Humes, William Bell and
John George Atkinson have moved
their families to Moline.
Mrs. Catharine Amelia, of Cleve-
land. is visiting with her son, John
Amelia, and family, for a few days
Mrs. Oscar Lindstrom and children
left Saturday for Colchester. H.,
where they viii visit for some weeks
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thompson Wis
tied with Mrs, Thompson's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. : William Parker, at
Mirtha, Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Hu, hes and daughter
and Seth Grassland left Wednesday
for Birmingham, Ala, where they
join Mr.. Hughes and son.
Rock Island Argus., 1899-06-02
REYNOLDS RILIS.

Reynolds, MAY 31.-Mrs. Lizzie
Fricke, of Moline, and Mrs. Catherine
Vetter, of Marston, were in Reynolds
Wednesday.
w. j. Clark spent Sunday at Orion
with his son, Phil.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. 5. L. McEn-
tire, Monday night, a boy.
Miss Margaret Quist left Saturday
for Mt. Vernon, Iowa, to attend com
mencement exercises at Cornell col
lege.
Mrs. George w. Dunn and her three
boys were shopping in Rock Island
Miss Alma Hellpenstell, of Rock ISL
and, has been spending n week with
her cousin, Mary Freytag.
Rev. and Mrs. Robertson and Mr..
among those who took the early train
for Rock Island Tuesday.
Mrs. w. j. McEntire, Mrs. II. Ket-
zle and Miss Georgia Sperling attend
ed the funeral of Mrs. S. p. Archer at
Neponset, ILL.,. Sunday. Mrs. Archer
had many friends here, who are sorry
to hear of her untimely death. She
leaves a husband and two small chill
dren.
The 10th annual commencement of
the Reynolds High school occurred
last Friday night at Opera hall. The
graduates were: Edith Wilmerton.
Elizabeth Weaver. Robert Foster,
Christie Armstrong, Lester j. Clarke,
Charles Freytag. Robert Foster de-
livered the salutatory. His subject
was. The Brighter Side of Life. -"
Charles Freytag was valedictorian.
His subject was The Needs of the
Present Hour