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Treating club and I would like very
much TO become a member of same. 30
hoping hat, you viii. kindly accept me,
/ remain" etc.
"A German up the state" continued
Mr.. Reece, sent four cents for a but
ton and said he wanted to join the club
because he was fond of drinking HIM
self. but did not believe in X
other people drink 1t his expense. A
great many Germans are Joining the
club. by the way. They nearly all be-
long to one bowling club or more. and
they all say that they wan to intro
duce the idea among BOWERS so that
they will be of one mind ON the sub
ject. Many of the applications seem to
come from laboring men who can III
AFFORD to indulge In the treating habit.
MIR. Monett writes me that he knows
of numberless cases where men who
were drawing salaries all the way from
81. 500 &c 81, 200 a year are now working
for $40 and $50 a month as clerks IN
offices and such places, and glad
enough they are to get that. Not one
of them will ever be on top again. and
yet they were at one time capable OF
ma a department. What was the
cause OF their downfall? Treating.
Nothing more. nothing less: Ii was not
because they were slaves to drink. u
slaves TO custom. / know a man here In
New York who had a magnificent sal
airy i'm "A corporations office. and treat
ing and accepting treats ruined him.
When he started out he cared nothing
for drinks. hut he tried to be a good
fellow and was ruined. He up in
the Tombs for Incorporating his en-
ployer's funds. and after his friencs got
him out of that scrape ! don't know
what became OF him. but they all said
that the treating habit had ruined him.
But. as I sal at the outset. this club
was not organized to lnstil temperance
doctrines into men. hut common sense.
II isn't the money that a man spends
in treating that Worries him.
he gets his treats back drink for drink;
h he does mind Is being tanked up
with a lot OF stun that he doesn't want
but doesn't dare TO decline for fear OF
giving ~offense."
How have the people In this neigh
borhood taken to your stand I'm this
natter" asked the interviewer.
Many of them are angry abou IT,"
answered Mr.. Reece. but I haven't a
any out-and-out trouble on o of
my badge and principles yet. IN tell
you one thing. though. all the saloon
keepers favor the Non-Treating club. or,
at least. l know many who do. and all
ought TO. You see, when a saloon
keeper treats. which he II expected to
In the saloon else he will offend people.
and drive away custom"
Are women admitted 20 membership
I'm the club"
Certainly they are" was the reply,
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DRINK, BUT DON'T TREAT
That's the Principle of a Society
Now Growing Rapidly.
A RAILROAD MAN STARTED
The Non-Treating Club in Chicago and II
Is Spreading Itself over the Country.
Money to Be Saved by Its Mem
bers-its Growth in N. Y.

IL you meet a man wearing a big
white button about the size of a silver
quarter in the lapel Of his coat. with he
letters IN. T. C." stamped on II in
bright blue, dom stand and stare at
him and wear your brain round and
smooth trying to figure out h sort
Of new political bird he is. Tina; but
ton has no political significance what
ever. IL is the badge OF a brand new
club here In town called the Nom
Treating club. This club is a mans
club. Of course, but all the women who
know about IL a hat II Is a very fine
thing. And it ought TO be. for IL Is
founded on exceedingly liberal princi-
pies and The membership Is increasing
with amazing rapidly.
The club was founded by +. T. Mo-
nett. general Western passenger agent
of the New York. Ontario a Western
railroad. In Chicago on Sept. 5 with one
member. and that was himself. BY Dec.
5 Mr.. Monett expected his books to show
a membership of $1,000. New York has
taken hold Of the movement under the
leadership OF ]. +. Reece. who has been
appointed secretary for this state and
has established headquarters at 227
West One Hundred and Thirtieth street.
Mr.. Reece Is q young man and for sew
eral years has been victimized by the
treating habit. He H. engaged in bust
ness at the corner OF Fifth and Lewis
streets. where treating Is rather more
compulsory h voluntary. and that's
how he came TO take enthusiastic inter-
est In the Chicago organization. When
Asked TO talk about the Non-Treatiag
clubs and its objects. Mr.. Reece said:
First Of all. make IL perfectly plain
that this Is not a temperance movement.
have been many non-treating
organized heretofore. but they
formed in the interest OF temper
nee and all fell through One reason
FOR their not succeeding may nav been
thsf they had no insignia and M rules.
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afterwards the sore healed mp and vas cure1
the best blood remedy made"
1t matters not how they are acquired
or what treatment has failed, 8. 8. 8.
will cure the most obstinate, deep
seated sore or ulcer. It Is useless to
expect local treatment Of salves, To-
tions, ETC., to effect . cure, because
they can not reach the real cause Of the
trouble, which 10 the blood. 8. 8. 8.
drives out every trace Of impurity in
the blood, and in this way per.
manently the worst cases. II is the
only blood remedy guaranteed
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wound. IL developed
into . running sore and
gave me . great zeal
OF pain and ~inconven-
fence. I was treated
by many doctou and
took . number Of blood
remedies. but none did
me any good and did
not seem to cheek the
progress of the SORE I
had heard Swift's Spe-
cific Is. 8. ST. highly
recommended for the
blood. and concluded TO
give it q trial. and tho
result was very g-atify-
ing. 8. 3. g. seemed to
get right ut the trouble,
ard forced the poison
-, -, Al244s aAAa
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front. yet Miss Russell IL up and doing
after apparently falling fiat upon her
face, and has not suffered any Ill effects
from IL so far.
Blanche Walsh made something of the
same effect WI IN she fell I'm THE Great
Diamond Robbery" only Miss Walsh.
after falling upon her face. rolled down
a flight Of steps.
Mary Anderson's fall In 'Romeo and
Juliet is recalled as one of the most eff
fective bits of stage work known I'm the
a~tricals. II is said that John w. Norton
coached her in IL. When Miss Anderson
made her fall in the potion scene her
body seemed to relax, and she fell to the
floor apparently because there was no
cellar handy. Judging by her apparent
condition as she fell she would have
gone head foremost into a well or any
other yawning abyss that happened to
be in the vicinity. Blu 10 was noticed
that Miss Anderson's right hand al
Ways struck the floor first. being adroit-
ly used to break the fall.
In the same scene Margaret Mather
used to fall down a flight of stepsgaf:er
taking the supposedly sleep giving po-
ton. Her fall was sensational. but was
regarded as a trick fall" In other
words. there was no possible danger at
tached to IL.
While playing Svengali Wilton Lack
aye used to fall over a table i'm his dying
scene. This was also a trick fall. and the
only chance for Mr.. Lackaye to break
his neck would be to place himself i'm
such a condition as to render IL impos-
siblc for him TO make any estimate as
to his surroundings. Happily. Mr.. Lack
aye never found himself In such a con-
dition while playing Svengali. He went
through nearly two seasons of "Trilby"
without breaking his neck.
Virginia Harmed used to roll dow five
steps I'm THE Dancing Girl" but her fa1
was would properly be described
as an easy one by the average actor.
Mrs. Langtry's fall over the back OF a
sofa in "As In a Looking Glass" was
regarded az sensational al the time. II
was a carefully rahearsed fall. however.
and Maurice Barrymore used TO declars
that Mrs. Largtry would never try II
until Is stage hands demonstrated that
II was a harmless undertaking.
Sarah Bernhardt. with her muscles
apparently In a state Of riciditv. used
to fall fiat on her face IN la Tosca."
but the madame. who Is VIGOROUSLY
given to trickery. used To fool the pub
lie by wearing chest protectors. She
didn't fall on her face AZ all.
Fanny Davenport In Ia Tcsca" used
to spin around like n top several times
II then fan in n heap.
Robert Mantelt. - Loris ~Ipanoff.
vert through soine FrOnnd and lofty
gymnastics, finally dropping to one
knee before his body hit the ficor.
Julia Arthur. who is now playing at
Wallack's. probably mad one Of the
most sensational STAGE falls ever known
in q piece called THE Plack Mask. ="
when she Wheeled round n round.
and finally fell after making a circuit
of h stage.
Mrs. y. w. shannon. who played
Mother Frochard in THE Two Or
phans" i'm support Cf Kate Clayton.
finally met her death as The result of n
difficult fall which she introduced in
that Niece.
Lotta's retirement from the stage Is
due to n fall which she sustained I'm n
OF her plays several years ago.
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Purely Vegetable

and contains not q particle Of potash.
mercury, or other mineral. s. s. 8.
cures Contagious Blood Poison, Scrof.
ula, Cancer, Catarrh, Eczema, Rheu-
matism, Sores, Ulcers, Boils, or any
other blood trouble. Valuable books
on these diseases will be mailed free
to any address, by the Swift Specific
COMPANY. Atlanta, Georgia.
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out into o running
sore. This soon spread
10 other parts of the
scalp and ran down the
side Of the mech .increas-
ing In severity and fear
fully d~ishguring her.
She was then placed un-
der the care OF the fac
ulty of . we'll
hospital. but even the
treatment she received
there failed to arrest the
terrible sore. Reading
Of the mary cures OF
blood troubles effected
he Y : g we decided to
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DR.. Mitchell says in diff
cult cases of Anemia, be adds
cod-liver oil half an hour
after each meal and he likes
to use it in an emulsion ; that
he has watched with grow
ing surprise some listless,
feeble, creature gathering
flesh, color and wholesome
ness of mind and body from
this treatment.
"Scott's Emulsion" is cod
liver oil combined with by
pophosphites. 1t regenerates
tissue, invigorates the nerves
and brain, rnriches the blood
and adds fat and strength.
soc. and o 90, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New forh
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Often in the morning there comes a feeling Of
WEAKNESS, indescribable; not exactly i'll, nor fit to
work, but too near well to remain idle.
A Ripans Tabule taken at night, before retir-
ing, or just after dinner, has been known to drive
away that WEAKNESS for months.
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Il Matters Not How Oh.
stinate, or What Other
Remedies Have Failed.

Obstinate sores and ulcers, which
refuse to heal under ordinary treat
mont, soon become chronic and deep
seated, and lead to conditions most
serious. They r caused in different
ways, but in every case the blood Is
involved, and no amount of local treat
ment ear have any effect. The poison
must be eliminated from the blood
before o cure can be had.
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THROWN FROM A 3

Mr.. II. Kuhn. Of Marion. Kansas. writes:
About three years ago my granddaughter. Der
TIA wildwood. was thrown from q horse, re-
cciving . wound of the scalp. Though under
the treatment Of physicians for several months,
the wound remained about the same. until IL
finally became very angry-looking. and broke
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try IL. and Il relieved her promptly. In . few
months she WAS entirely currd. and scarcely
. mark now remains where the disease held
full sway"
A 0UNSHOT WOUND.
Capt. J. IT.. MeBrayer, the well-knowu dis
tiller, OF La renceburg,K Ky, says:
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a rare treat IL IN store for lovers Of
Hoytian humcr next Thursday evening
at the Grand. when IN Contented
Woman" will make its initial bow In
this city. The production is a sumptu-
ous one, and all the scenery used in the
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Richard Mansfield said not long ago
that he never went near the theatsr
except to dress for n play his rart,
and Augustin DAILY. 1t Is eaid. never
sets foot inside any theater save his
own or where his company happens to
be playing.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
1T WAS HARD ON HIS NERVES.

The old proof reader, who had been for
more than a score of years correcting
the thousand and one minor errors
which the haste of newspaper-making
allows to cheep into copy before it
reaches the printers hands, was a most
methOdical man, as proof readers are
likely to be. He came to work at the same
honr and minute every evening, worked
in the same methodical way and knocked
off at the same time, starting Immediate
ly for home with one particular chum.
But one night he made a change in his
mode of procedure, which was the more
remarkable coming from him.
1t was the end of the week, and like
all well-regulated printers, he borrowed
his weekly dollar and started for home.
| But instead of taking the nearest road
he struck off on a roundabout course.
whats the natter" inquired his
partner, why don't you go down
Twelfth street tonight instead of taking
this long route.
The proof reader hesitated a moment
and then said:
"Well, I'll tell you. I'm getting so !
can't bear Twelfth street any more, the
signs over the stores are so badly spell
led and p~unctuated.'
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
GALLERY GODS.

"Not all of the gallery gods eat peanuts
and whistle and stamp and utter cat
calls said a man who had begun saving
have heretofore been accustomed to the
orchestra: now / have tried the gallery,
and here is my experience:
ut was tremendously hot and the bust
ness was light, and l suppose / did better
by buying a ticket in advance; but any
how | had a good seat in the from row.
l had to climb a good many stairs and
when I got up there the gallery looked
pretty steep, so that as ] skirted around
the back of 1t to get to my aisle I Rugged
the bank, so to speak, and went care
fully down the stairs, but when I got to
my place / found an orchestra chair with
a folding back-they are all like that
with a wire hat-holder in order, and that
indeed seemed to be a characteristic of
the place. 1t was by no means elaborate
in adornment, but everything appeared
to be looked after and kept in trim.
We'll, 1 sat down in my seat and look
ed down into the orchestra where I had
sat the last time I had been in the thea
ter, and it seemed a good ways down.
Their I looked around where l was.
saw there people just as good as I was;
| maybe they'd hin themselves better,
and a variety of people. There was one
sailor there that night, and he conducted
| himself as precisely everybody else there
did, with perfect decorum. There was at
tention to the play and interest In it,
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Fanny retired for the night, land how
fortunate that heaven has sent US such
a kind, good sister as Fanny
Richard said nothing, and I recalled
afterwards hat he looked a little queer
as he nodded his head.
The first of it came something like
this:
Richard returned home late one night,
and, instead Of bounding up stairs to our
little private sitting room, as usual, he
fingered down stairs in the hall. When
he came up l noticed that he had on his
smoking Jacket and slippers and held in
his hand a we'll filled pipe.
THAT was thoughtful of you, puss,'
said he, reaching for a match to light
the pipe, "everything ready for me down
below"
THAT m have been Fanny's work."
I said, laughing, but where did the child
get your slippers? l thought they were
here
Richard laughed and looked at me a
little keenly; and at that moment 1
thought 1 heard the rustling of a skirt
in the hall, though it might have been
Richard coughing.
The next time Richard was late the
same thing happened. When he came
up stairs, midnight though it was, he
had on the smoking jacket and slippers;
and once he mentioned that Fanny had
been down in the drawing room waiting
for him by the open fire, holding his coat
to warm 1t.
1.-The poor girl will make herself sick
for u.s." I said; II must speak to her
about it,
But when I mentioned the subject to
Fanny she seemed so grieved that ] said
no more; and when she did not come
down to supper that evening l blamed
myself for bringing on one of her head
aches, and, myself, carried her supper up
to her, which she refused to touch. But
when Richard, whose business detained
him down town late many evenings in
the week, returned at II o'clock that
night he found Fanny waiting as usual
for him down stairs.
You mustn't let her take your place,
puss," he said, quietly.
And / noticed that he threw the coat
aside, saying it was too warm.
One day, coming in quietly, l heard
Richard talking in loud, firm tones tc
Fanny, and Fanny sobbing out a reply
Running in, I caught the poor girl in m
arms, and turned to Richard with a sur
prised look.
Nothing at all, my DEAR" said he
''only an unpleasant topic Fanny and
We're obliged to talk over
Something about Fanny's estate"
thought, poor girl, how she grieves."
One day, as / was about to go out tC
meet Richard, Fanny said:
Il wouldn't go, if l were you. Richard
said he was going to be very busy"
Strange he did not tell me-" said L.
well, he told me- said Fanny, purs.
ing up her lips and tossing her head.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
TURKISH BATH FOR THE STOMACH.

Probably the people who DOM know
that they AVE any stomachs will not
be interested in this latest medical dis
had a twinge or a pain from Indigestion
it promises quick relief without medi-
cines.
washing out the tomac and putting
that organ through a set of ~gymnastic
exercises. Americas Enfield, of Bedford,
Pa, a member of the Medical Board of
that state. has written a description of 1t
for a local paper. The process is really
an internal Turkish bath. But instead
of the bath-rubber applying himself fierce
ly to the skin, the doctor inserts a brush
into the stomach and turns a pivot. This
sets up such a whirlwind of bristles that
the stomach walls are scraped clean.
Then a hose is run dow to flush it out,
and finally the muscular walls are set to
work like a prize fighter in training.
Yet in all this astonishing process. in
| which the stomach is treated as if it We're
a leg or arm that could be taken in the
hands and manipulated, the patient sits
as tranquil as if being manicured. To
| make the diseased organ wake up from
it's lethargy DR.. Enfield forces oxygen gas
or indicated air into the stomach. AS
the bellows drives the gas or air into the
caVityithe walls of the stomach begin a
~convulsiVe movement of expansion and
contraction.
Still another method is by putting a
coil of, medicated cord INTO the cavity.
| 1t is left there till the sides of the stomach
| contract about it.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
TEMPERANCE IN PICTURES.

The Belgian secretary of the interior
has published a call for competitive de-
signs to represent the horrors of inebria-
ty. The competition is open to everybody
four pictures being required on these
subjects: A scene in a d~runkard's home,
showing in detail unhappy and broken
family life; the happy home of a total alb
stainer; the wrecked nerves and phySiO-
logical chart of a drunkard's system,
and a similar chart of a temperate man.
For ZACH picture a prize of one thous-
and francs is announced, the meritotious
pictures to pass into the possession of the
government, to be photo-lithographed
and copies to be placed in all public
places and halls.
A Belgian newspaper says that some
| time ago Sir John Burke, the famous
English professor, was lecturing to a
London audience on the evils Of alcohol
ism. To impress his hearers with the
liquor the professor Illuminated two hug
charts, showing the contrast between tn
temperate mans tomach and the inc
b~riate'S.
A man with a decided blossom on hi
nose stood up and with the lecturers per
mission walked over to the two charts
Heregarded the d~runkard's stomach in
tently Tor a moment, and exclaimed, Il
that supposed to look like my stomach
Ugh. How ugly! Goodness! | can
stand this without a drink" and he calm
ly took a flask out of his pocket an
drank it's contents before the amaze
audience.
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welcome with which Richard greeted me.
Il declare, puss,' said he, this is pleas
ant. l thought you had delegated all
YOU welcomes to Fanny. She say she
tried in vain to persuade you to accom-
pany her last night and the night be-
fore"
l turned and gave Richard one look
one speechless look-and then we both
knew and understOod-our escape.
The walk home was quiet, but full of
resolve for us both. AS soon as we We're
in the house Richard turned and lifted
my face in his hands.
This is for what you ave suffered"
he said. and as for me, l shall make up
in love the line I've been losing the last
three days.
They have been a thousand years
long," l whispered.
And longer still to me-" Richard said.
Suddenly Richard turned, for there was
a rustling of the curtains behind him.
ut is Fanny I whispered. Don't
dear! Let her go quietly. We can afford
to be magnanimous, you and I, when we
have each other to live for"
Fanny remained in our family only a
week after that, sullen, baffled and full
of rage. Then she Went back to her
western home to finish out life as she
began ton a farm-wher Richard and
l both hoped she would learn the folly OF
coming between a man and his wife.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
MIDDAY NAP FOR BABY.

In a series of parlor talks given to
young mothers by a skilled physician, a
number of practical suggestions were
laid down regarding the sleep necessary
for infants and growing children. Never
wake a child unless absolutely necessary.
Good sleep is a necessity if health and
growth are to be maintained. A healthy
normal baby will sleep Is out of "a hours,
which gradually diminishes, until at 2
years Is out of "a hours will suffice. This
amount of sleep is gradually educed I'M
til at Is years old, II out the "a should be
spent in bed. The midday nap for babies
is most desirable. At this time they
should be entirely undressed and put to
bed. After the fourth or fifth year chill
dren will not sleep in the daytime. In
regard to a child's bed, a good spring
bed, q hair mattress and blankets not
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14

Well, it has been some time since then,
but neither Richard nor l have forgotten
it-our narrowest escape. From death?
YOU ask. F"om worse than death.
We had been married only a short time
when we took her into the family, a
cousin Of Richards fourth or fifth re-
moved, or something of that sort, distant,
but still sufficiently kith to be numbered
in the kin.
1 felt sorry for Fanny, that was her
name, for she had no home. So, getting
Richard alone one night. l whispered to
him all about her. How lonely she was,
how dependent, how in need of friends.
And Richard agreed to my plan. We
would adopt Fanny, with her sorrows
and her 20 years of life.
An orphan, with a small competence,
she had come to the city to add to her
mite by working out a living in the great
metropolis. But my plan was to take her
into the family and make a sister of her
for 1 longed for a sister; n as Fanny
was love hungry, we agreed that a sister
she should be to us all.
What a pleasant winter that was!
Fanny, Richard and l went everywhere,
and I can truthfully say now that / had
nothing without Fanny, for we divided
everything evenly.
what a blessed world it is" I said to
Richard one night after we had returned
from the theater and were sitting by the
hearth in our own pretty room, with