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Three Bees.

II you are not well call on the Bees;
they cure you of your Rheumatism,
Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Kidney Diseases,
Coughs, Colds, Group, and Constipa-
ton; and cleanse your Blood and your
System. II you have no Bees Of your
own get some OF Blakeslee & Heinz
man or Green & Bentley, the popular
druggists. 149d6-3lw4
Closing out sale of Blankets and
Robes at VIM. Mattison & Sons.
Now is the time to buy. Big reduc-
ton in price. 3iw2
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The Best Salve in the World

is Banner Salve. 1t is ma le by pre-
scription by world wide known skin
specialist and is positively the most heal
ing salve for piles, burns, scalds, ulcers,
running sores and all skin diseases
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
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Have you seen the stock of Trunks
and Valises at VIM. Mattison &
Sons. 31w3
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A man named Z. Presson, of Presson-
vile, Kans., wrote letter the other d:
saying the opinion of everybody in his
town who had used Foley's Honey and
Tar is, that it is the very best medicine
for la grippe, colds, coughs, etc. Green
< Bentley Drug Co.
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BRUTUS,

the celebrated Percheron stallion,
record No. 43,203 in Stud Book of
France, and q, 457 in Percheron Stud
Book of America, will be kept at the
Geo. Hillery place 3 miles north of
Rose Hill, for the season of 1900.
Terms: SIS to insure foal.
31w5 GEO. HILLERY, Keeper. @
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Cleanses the system, makes new, rich,
healthy blood, cures dyspepsia, kidney
and liver ailments, skin diseases and
nervous weakness-Beggs' Blood Puri-
fer Two bottles cured me of blood
disorder and weakness" says Mrs. Belle
NJ Miller, Kensett, Ark All Drug
gists.
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Births. Deaths. Marriages.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

The following is list of the mar
riage licenses issued by the clerk since
our last report:
NO. NAME. RESIDENCE. AGE.
eooo Barclay @. Taylor, Oskaloosa "a
oA'' Clara Porterfield, Oskaloosa %
eoao M. F. Kuntz, Adams TIP -. 81
o' | Katie Hickox, Union Tp.... 30
coz, Jesse Emanuel, Eddyville. 20
oN'i | Minnie M. Watkins, Eddyville II
COZ, G. r. Reay, Beacon ........ %
oAfA Lizzie E. Phillips, Beacon. =. %
600 James Sefrit, Madison Tp.. 81
O-'o ! Jennie Barrett, Madison TIP. Is
COZ, Frank Rysdam, Blk Oak TIP. %
OA'' Florence May Smith, Blk Oak Is
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Ticket Agent, who will give
you all the information you
want ....... Mary Hettie Campbell
Bride and groom and other pass
engers, members of chapter X.
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phone connections-noton only with each
other, but with government buildings
in Pretoria. Searchlights are mounted
in each structure so as to command
the surrounding country at night. The
magazines are underground and are
reported to be mined. Report has it
also that the near approaches are mined
and that the electrical construction is
such that considerable portions of an
enemy's army might be blown into
eternity before surrender came. For
food, in the event Of siege, enormous
quantities of maize have been accu-
mulated-enough, it is said, to feed
the army and the population of Pre-
toria for five years. The supply of
ammunition is calculated to be suf-.
fcient for two years. :
The center of the system of forts
lies about 5000 feet to the westward
OF the northern end of Pretoria, and
has radius of something more than
1000 yards. The center OF the city is
only about 1900 feet, nearly due
south, on the fort on Signal Hill,
which is about 400 feet above the
plain on the west side of the railway
to johannesburg, and about $4,000
feet from the fort on the hill to the
east of the railway and the Aapies
River running to the north. Between
this fort and the river are the foun-
tains that furnish the water supply of
Pretoria. The distance between the
forts on either side of the railway is
ZOO feet. The railway station, where
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distance of 81, 900 feet from the city's

distance of 81, 900 feet from the city's
center. There is a powerful redoubi
to the southwest on the range of hills
through which the transport road to
johannesburg passes. This com.
pletes, with various earth batteries,
the circle of the larger works defend.
ing the Boer capital. Behind the
great redoubt are the principal maya.
zines, one excavated out of the solid
rock, with bombproof roof, and the
other built into the kloop, also bomb
proof. Communication between the
redoubt and the aforementioned maya.
zine. is by means of a covered waS.
Roads connect all these forts with the
capital, and they have pipes laid for
water, aswell as electric lights for the
search lights.
The Beers call the ranges about Pre-
toria Magalies. The town was laid
out after 1885 by them and named
after Pretorius, one of their first and
strongest leaders. He was the first
President of the Republic and Com
mandant General of their army. The
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A Hawaiian Temple of Refuge.

Kawaihae's one remaining point O,
interest is the ruins, back on the hillf
of temple of refuge built by Kane
hameha the Great. It Is the very
last of the Heiaus, where in the old
days, during strife, the peaceful
sought and obtained immunity from
harm-for into these temples a man
might not pursue all enemy. This
ruin indicates q very substantial
structure, in. parallelogram form,
about 220 feet long by 100 feet wide.
Entrance is gained through q narrow
passage between two high walls, and
the interior is laid off in terraces and
paved with smooth fiat stones. The
wall uphill is eight feet high, and on
the dowuhill side twenty feet high.
and both are twelve feet thick at base.
-Harper's Weekly.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
A GIRLS FIRST LOVE.

. A GIRL s FIRST LOVE.
When Dolores entered Mary Ham
ilton's room, she found the latter,
still tremulous and weak, seated in
her favorite chair-a deep, wide,
bamboo chair, almost as large as q
lounge and filed with bright-colored,
silk-corered cushions. Dolores had
come quickly, feeling that if she
paused to think sho would never have
the courage to seek her at all; and
now, with the impetus of that thought
still on her, she entered and went
swiftly toward her friend, only to
stop suddenly and quite overcome at
the sight of the white and stricken
face before her; for Polly had risen to
to her feet and had come forward a
step or two to meet her.
For quite half-minute, the two
girls stood and looked deep into each
others eyes, Polly pleading, pathetic,
submissive, and Dolores suddenly
strong and helpful, for she had ex-
pected tears and passionate re-
proaches, such as she knew not how
to meet or answer. But what she
found was so entirely different, that it
helped her in what she had already
decided that she must do.
Instinctively she opened her arms
as a mother might have approached a
grieved child, and Mary flung herself
into that protecting, loving embrace.
"Oh, Lorita!' she said, her arms
clinging about the other girls neck
and her head resting on her shoulder.
"He loves you! He loves you! How
am 10 bear it?'
"No, Maruja, he does notlove me, !"
returned Dolores, with an accent of
calm conviction, that had an immedi.
ate effect on her listener.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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at work. More than one has been
carried away to the hospital badly
wounded in the fights which have fol-
lowed. Besides this they have the
confidence of the natives and, have
been able to INFORM the officials of dam
gerous plots. or the presence of insur-
gent agents.
All this has resulted in the appoint
ment Of more native policemen and
the establishment of more stations.
Colonel Williston is satisfied that the
experiment has proved q success.
Among other things it shows that the
work of reconstruction will be made
easy, for there is growing confidence
in the ability of the native to admin
lister his own affairs.
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Where Tommy Atkins Gets His Name.

s Every British reader should know
the origin OF the sobriquet Tommy
Atkins" Tommy Atkins was the
name of sentry who, when the Euro.
peans in Lucknow were flying for the
Residency, froma the mutinsers, re-
fused to leave his; post, and so per.
ished. After that it became the fash.
ion to speak Of q conspicuously heroic
soldier in the fights with the rebels
as ga regular Tommy Atkins. LON
don Daily News.
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,recipitous banks of Aapies River,
he narrow gorges-so few in number
the innumerable "spion" or lookout
1opjes that seem literally to leap from
he bosom of the plain and suddenly,
silently oppose access to the capital
.ity.
You look up to the mountain fronts
ls your train struggles to find its way
nto Pretoria and wherever the eye
.ests there appears to be the lines of
fort, redoubt, the front Of masked
batteries or the domes of bomp- proof
life and cannon pits. To the north,
,ast, west and south these engirdle
he city. They command the few
,ery few-narrow entrances to Pre-.
,oria. They watch like great dogs
he dusty, sun.rotted-veldt over which
my English troops coming from the
south must pass. They blink at the
,ne railroad to Johannesburg:and the
one to Lorenzo MARQUES. Theyf ce
;he north at Winderboom and guard
he ways to 'Beersheba, Hebron and
Polonia. Their location has been
With purpose. Captain Schiel, now
Is English prisoner, constructed the
,ne at Daspoort from plans obtained
n Berlin. he brought special assist
,nts from Berlin to aid him in the
york. Amsterdam engineers built
,thers of the defenses. After them
.ame French engineers, and thea
hose of Italy, so that the completed
structures represent the genius OF
tour nations.
No one just knows-or will admit
znowing-tho inward mechanisms OF
;hese forts, the mysterious battery 10.
cations. When the forts were build
.ng workmen employed on one part of
he structures were not allowed to
work on another part. Sentries were
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A Golf Yarn From ENGLAND.

In golf competition at Windermere
one of the players, after drive,
found his ball ediately behind o
birds nest, in which were three eggs.
To play the stroke meant destruction
to the nest and it's contents, 80 with
tender consideration he played his
ball to the side. The nest and eggs
ultimately cost him five. By IN e1-
traordinary coincidence the same
player, in agsubsequent stage of the
competition, again found his ball lying
close Sto8a BIRDS nest, which con-
tanned three Seggs, and to save that
nest and its contents cost him two.-
Surrey tEngland) Times. ..
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FILIPINO POLICE.
Under American Supervision Natl l,s Keep
Order In Manila.

Native police were all experiment
once in Manila. Now they aro fix.
ture. They carry their reviewers and
swing their clubs in an independent
manner, hold their heads high and
wear yellow shoes with all the dignity
of one to the manner born. Colonel
Williston, the Provost Marshal, hesi-
tated long time before he would per-
NIT the natives to carry arms. But
at last Major Tiernan, who belongs to
the First Artillery by rights, and who
is Chief Of Police by virtue of his ap-
pointment and ability, persuaded the
Colonel to select small number OF
the natives to patrol the streets that
were not as prominent as the Escoita
or as public as the Luneta.
Kahki, in q different shade from
that wora by the soldier, was chosen
as the uniform. At first there was q
question as to how they should carry
something to enforce the laws of the
highway and the city. So they were1
given clubs. Now, club is effective
so long as it is within reach OF the
evil-doer, but as there was more Oh;
less robbery going on among the ma
tives it became a necessity to arm the
police with something that would
shoot. That is how it came about
that the native police were armed with (
revolvers as large as those carried BY
the American soldiers, ~
Each policeman wears o cap, and
that gives him military air. His
uniform is tailor made and fits him.
perfectly. The trousers are long
enough to reach below the tops Of !
yellow shoes and sometimes are
stuffed inside the lacings. On the
breast is silver badge showing
number and precinct. The officers I
are designated much as they are in
the army, either by stripes on the
sleeves or straps on the shoulders.
They travel out of their stations in
twos, one walking along each side of Z
the street.
One thing these uniformed men dc
is to keep the streets clean of all dirt
and refuse. A garbage wagon daily
comes along every street, the native
driver rings bell and the householder
is supposed to send a servant out
with the days accumulation from the
kitchen and the stable. It is one of
the duties Of the police to see that
the caraboa cart is not kept waiting
too long at the door. 3
The men composing the force are
brave. They have been compelled to.
rush into houses where robbers were
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Cannibal Captain Dead.

The recently announced death Of
Thomas Dudley from bubonic plague
at Sydney recalls the terrible story
in connection with the loss of the
yacht Mignonette, of which he was
the master, in 1894, when she foun.
dered. Dudley, with two other men
and boy, was adrift for many days
in an open boat. During this time
the men killed the boy sud titled to
eat his body, for which, after their
rescue, they were sentenced to death
in England. This sentence, however,
was subsequently committed to sly
months Imprisonment.
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European wealth 81 countries.

The total wealth of Europe, per.
sonal and real ;estate,is estimated at
$235, 900, 100000. From the point of
view of the absoluts riches of the
world the principal European cou,p-
tries range in the following order BY
billions:
England, SO; France, SO; Germany,
40; Russia, 80; Austria, %; Italy, Is;
Belgium, 5; Holland, 4.
In point of view4of; circulating
capital the classification is as follows:
England, 81; France. 13; Germany,
a. Russia s; Austria, 2: Italy, 10
Belgium, I 1-6; Holland, l l-3.
The Englishman. possesses on an
average sl4sO; the Dutchman, S72O;
the Belgian and the German, $3.50;
the Austrian and Italian, $500; the
Russian, $500.
The Frenchm an possesses $500.
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the rage of iealously to his original
hate, when you reappear in the
character of my husband. There will,
however, be one pair of eyes that can
not he blinded; there will be no deceiv-
ing Toddlekins. But she adores me,
and shall tell her, with my arms about
her neck, that you and I are one; that
she cannot injure you without injur-
ing me doubly, and that will settle it.
Toddlekins will give US no trouble.
But, last of all, there is Celestine.
That woman adores you, Carlos-I
mean Clarence-and the extraordinary
resemblance between these two men
is working in her mind like yeast in
-four. If living Clarence can 80 re-
semble her dead Carlos, why might
not dead Clarence resemble her liv-
ing Carlos! Already chat is to her
the one vital question of her life, and
the truth will dawn on her before
long"
A ferocious look overspread the
smiling face of the man who had been
listening with admiration 10 the un-
folding of mind keener and deeper
than his own to scheme and plan.
Olive had a momentary spasm of
alarm at this glimpse into dark and
cruel nature. But she had now no
thought of drawing back. Ambition
was her ruling passion, as the love of
gold was his; and she only trembled
for moment when he said, fercely:
"Celestine! She will never stand
in my way! I will take care of
Celestiner'
"Ah! Then there is nothing more,
I think" And Olive rose and held
out her hand. E"I have kept you
long time, but it will save all future
mistakes. Come again in the even
ing; I want to introduce you to my
uncle. It may be useful"
Stanley gallantly raised her hand to
his lips, and felt that he was now, at
last, on the high road to success.
When the door mad closed behind
him, Olive ran lightly to her room,
seated herself at her writing-desk and
scrawled, with her left hand, brief,
anonymous message.
IT don't know what his plan in
regard to Celestine may be- she
thought. 'My good Clarence! He
is immensely gifted, but he has a way
of just missing success. Now, with
my assistance, we will change all
that, so that he will hit the bull's-eye
every time"
She hastily scrawled an address on
the back of her letter..
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real growth Of the { q did not COM
roanca 1nfii after n, = ssfor.v AZ Nfair,ba

real growth of the "a ksafd not COM
mence until attert th6 S1ctorY at Majnba
Hill in 18s s6burg is the
center and homS 6f 81 Uitlanders--l
the nervous, ad dSen1a Bus element of
the Transvaal, BGt Pretoria is es-
sentially the center q the pastoral
Beers. TropieaI wers and plsnts
eoyer the valley IA which 4 lies, and
willows grow ia every direction
Nearly all of the buildings are white
in color. On; the dome Of the capitol
is a gold statue 81 Liberty. The
WitwatersraId mines, which yield
s1OO, 600, 900 annually, are but sshort
distance from the capitol. Howard,
G. Hillegas, in Harper's mentionsthe,
universal prevalence Of the bicycle in
Pretoria, OF the teephone aud xasl
electrician. The B6er congress-athe.
l4oiksyaa Ineefs III Pretoria; and
Pre- eHts Kyuger has lived there for
Years inericanss goods are
largely AIS dehce in the shops of the
town, and tf American shopman is
already therss large numbers. Pre-
toria does NOT ai5d has mot encouraged
the presence Of Eng ishmen, but Ger
mans and Frenchmen are Welcomed.
The str41ts are broad and clean, the
water suppl dde and ample.
IN spite d bloody war with Great
Britain The 0uth Atrican Republic
had time IA lau and complete a build
ing atith9. Iris position and to
make II RED 5 for Ia ;Trsnsyaal ex-
hibit. Eysfy visitor to th great ez-
position flI Ibe specially intsrested in
this dlspl8 he chief feasnre of the
exhibit fs5S ScofIsction Of native min
erals, inclH3Sne the gold sores of the
Rand and diamo ondss ! The ez-
hibit also: scf3n si,is specimens of the
agriculture @ ats of the Trsnsvaal,
such as fruif cereals. a collec-
tion, Of hunzif ophies, including
:thaakins 81 lioh Ia 81 lacpsrds and other
Wild Slli anal IioRs II IN what the Beers
30 efcpui}t ter "a their marches
rough tae derness. The
4 tWos 81 Hes, with 8 CEN
s. on the corners
]. j! q j i q j. !;
him: s':.,5 3; ~
Never both % ths sane lss
time. Wait your thfn S;s g
You were gentleman aid be-.
fore you were husband and wife
Don't forget it., r.
A blind love is a foolish love En-
courage the best. s:,S d
If you take libsrtiessb prepared to
give them. 81
There is only one thing lliS worse than
quarrels in public. het 6; ;caIesses.
The man who respecta his wife does I
not turn her into q meRdicant. Give
her a purse of her own.
If you can't then yoTI had betterAd do
without Q wife. x ~
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sea level, but 1100 feet lower than the
site of johannesburg to the south.
Onthe fourth side-the south and
facing the approach from Johannes
burg-the range aattens away to a
vast and level plateau, treeless, desc
late, exposed at every point to the
sweep Of any guns that may command
it. The town is 1850 miles from
Capetown, fifty from; johannesburg.
On the map it seems as> easy of ap-
oroach as a prairie village in Ne
oraska. But the map topographer
ails to present the lofty, barren hills
hat face the south plateau, the
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; Pretoria and 5
; Her Seven Forts 5
, How the Capital Of the Beers Has :
Been Fortified. c
Observation-Disclosures

Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal,
Is country town, asleep back of
mountain walls and the frowning
guns of seven modern forts. Here,
unless all present indications fail and
the war ends earlier than men expect,
the Beers will make their last stand
against the English and endure pos
sibly lengthy and bloody siege before
cnpitulation.
On three sides of Pretoria the
mountain ranges rise to elevations of
1000 and 1000 feet above the streets of
the city, which itself is $500 feet above
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Queen victoria's Famous Steer.

Although many people are aware o.
the fact that the Queen of England is
very fond OF all kinds of live stock, il
is not generally known that she goes
in for stock raising as very serious
business, and adds very materially to
the royal income by so doing. Such,
however. is fact, for the Queen has
long been known to be the happy pos.
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Drinking Water For Engineers.

To provide drinking water on loco.
motives q Southern man has designed
a tank to fit in one side of the large
water tank on the tender, the body of
the small tank being surrounded by
the water in the large tank to keep
the drinking water cool.
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PRESIDENT KRUaER's HOUSE, PRETORIA.

posted at all the entrances. Knows
edoe Of the details of the work was
Kent from all but the president and
the commanding officers.
In external, appearance the. seven
forts are alike They have masonry
fsces With esrthwork which covers
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Some Egyptian boats made OF cedar,
probably in use $500 years ago, have
been found buried near the banks of
the Nile. and furnish an interesting
proof of the power of that wood to
withstand the ravages of time.
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SCISSOR of some of the best and most
profitable live stock il the kingdom.
The accompanying illustration shows
her famous Hereford steer, which has
won prize after prize at different cat.
tie shows and has just been success
full in carrying off the blue ribbon at
the Birmingham cattle show. Queen
Victoria is said to take a great per-
soma pride in the handsome animal,
which has brought her in msuy hun
dred pounds of rrize money
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France eontains more people over
sixty years of age than are found in
any other European country. The
next greatest percentage Of old people
is found in Ireland,
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running together across the plain
through the Winderboom Poort.
Both river and railway pass under
the guns Of large fort 81, 900 feet
from the scenter of Pretoria. The
westernmost fort is on the range of
hills behind Pretoria, and lies at a
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For this letter she summoned no
servant, but, going out for a walk,
she presently dropped it, with her
own small steady hand, into a pillar
box, and drew quick breath of re-
lief.
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wherever shells from the enemy might
strike. There are many hidden re-
cesses, secret passages, complete tele.
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TIE BARON VoN HELMHoLTz,
No. nd Street, West,
New York City.