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DROPS OF WATER

may in time wear away the hardest rock.
tickling in the throat. a slight cough,
may be the danger sign of the consumptive
OF tomorrow. Nature is generally Consid-
crate and gives a signal and a warning
that those who would be healthy had better
heed
There are times when the overwrougbt
system needs artificial assistance. when the
wheels OF the human machine are elogred
and it's smooth working impaired.
A pure stimulsnt like Duffy's Pure Malt
Whiskey is invaluable as a tonic when you
are run down and depressed. when the
heart is weak and the blood sluggish. Ii
assists failing nature to resume its func-
tions and imparts vim and energy to every
part of the body.
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Doctors know its value They know that
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4 Railroad Detective shot During a
Fight i'm Missouri.

HOLDEN, Mo-, Jan. 30.-JOhn Jackson. a
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad de-
tectiye, has been shot and killed by train
robbers. Superintendent Hardy was in
formed by woman on Sunday that plot
had been laid to hold up the Missouri Pa
cifc train at that point. Hardy organized
a posse at Sedalia and at Warrensburg
The train was forty-fve minutes late, and
the bandits evidently feared a trap. for
they made no attack.
AS the robbers did not appear the posse
went to their rendezvous. AS they APP
preached the house the door was thrown
open and a man fred point blank at Jack
son, killing him instantly. A second ban
dit then appeared. and the firing became
general, one OF the robbers crying out, Il
am shot" as he fed.
The posse captured John Burgess and
Jesse Snead, who were taken to Warrens
burg, and are being strongly guarded TO
prevent lynChing Henry Shores, another
of the gang. was captured later.
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ACTIVITY IN COAL LANDS.



GRAFTON, ". Va. Jan. S0.-Wiliiam NJ.
o. Dawson, Secretary OF State for West
Virginia. was at Kingwood. Preston eoun-
ty, last week, negotiating for the purchase
OF coal lands. He has purchased coal TN
der many farms. The greatest develop
ment in West Virginia in the near future
promises TO be in Preston county. The
Preston Coal and Coke Company. OF which
j. NJ. Guffey, Of Pittsburg, is at the head.
has consolidated its 80. .O0e acres Of Preston
land with 20, 900 acres adjoining. which had
been purchased by Eastern capitalists. A
stock company will be formed. with Mr.
Guffey at the head and with Sc 600. coo
capital. to operate one OF the largest coal
producing plants in the world. Operations
will soon be commenced.
Stories of wondrous development are
brought from ConneIlsville coke region,
traversed by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. The Standard Coke Company has
lust completed 100 new coke ovens and viii
begin the erection of 200 more. The Colo
NAL Coke Company has just begun the con-
structien Of 100 ovens at Smock
The demand for soft coal in the Far
East. where considerable of the CUmbeT-
land output goes. is increasing IL Is SAID
this is largely due to consumers buying IN
the open market, not having contracted for
coal enough last year TO carry them through
to April L 1t is thought that mine owners
will advance prices so or - cents ton on
orders accepted. Car supply is reported to
have greatly improved and is now but a
small per cent below the actual needs OF
consumers The Baltimore and Ohio has
been receiving many nev pressed-steel coal
cars Last week whole trains OF new steel
cars loaded with coal or coke went East.
The cars are painted light brown and
form very attractive train.
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been no time for regularity, no consider
alton of right food. The stomach and
other organs of digestion and nutrition
become diseased and then begins the
bitter and varied suferings al the man
with stomach trouble"
Yet this condition can be cured The
stomach and other organs of digestion
and nutrition, can be restored to nor
NAL condition of sound health. Thou
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the blood, that it breaks the bonds of the
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ical Discovery.
81 was sufferer from what tie doctors Iass-d
indigestion but after irving several eminent
Mcriclc. P. o. Box AS. Independence, Jackson
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constipation; some times soreness would extend
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DIR. Pierce'S Pleasant Pellets do not
become a necessity to the system they
have relieved of accumulations and OBJ
struCtlOnS.
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BRYAN IN BOSTON.
\ Warm Greeting for the Nebraskan
at the Hub.


BOSTON. Jan 3c.-Col. William Jennings
Bryan reached Boston this morning soon
after o'clock cheerfully ready to meet the
programme of hard work which the Bry
an Club and the Massachusetts Democratic
State Committee had arranged for him.
The morning was cold and frosty, but
hundreds had gathered at the Southern
Union station TO greet the visitor. One
hundred and twenty-five policemen were
on hand 10 keep order in the crowd.
Colonel Bryan was met by Robert Treat
Paine. ir. recently Democratic candidate
for governor: Christopher 7. Callahan, OF
Holvoke Chairman of the State Committee;
Hon. William S. McNaTy, secretary Of the
same; z. Gerry Even, representing the
Bryan Club, and several OF the other lights
OF the Massachusetts, Democracy.
Accompanying Colonel Bryan from
Providence were Representatives Lentz Of
Ohio; Mayor Greene. of Woonsocket R.
L.: Col A. c. Brinkwater, of Braintree,
aud @. T. Washburn. of the Bryan Club.
Carriages were taken to the American
House where an informal reception and
breakfast were given in the visitors honor
by the Bryan Club. On entering the hotel
George Fred Williams followed Colonel
Bryan. At the reception Frank I. Sauborn,
OF Concord, n. H.. paid his respects as an
apti-imperislist, while Thomas J. Gargan,
lately a goldbug. showed his fealty to his
new beliefs by his warm greeting. Colonel
Bryan was in great spirits during the en-
tire morning. He looked fresh and not at
all worn One of the party said to him:
Colonel Bryan, you do so much work 1
cannot see how you have any constitution
left
Bryan answered, laughingly: The con-
stitution went long ago. / am living on
the bylaws now"
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THE PLAY DESTROYED.
Two Fighting Bulldogs Necessftate
It's Entire Rewriting.


It's Entire Rewriting.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Sounds indicative
of a canine battle disturbed rehearsal OF
when We Were Twenty-one," at the
Knickerbocker Theatre yesterday. Two
blue blooded English bulldogs belonging to
N C. Goodwin caused the turmoil. Mr..
Goodwin had brought the dogs to the thea
tre and they were left in his dressing
room. the door of which he had locked for
safety.
Before the comedian could open the door,
the brutes, both of them fighters, had set
tied a long -existing feud by a battle that
left one with broken leg, badly chewed
ear and sundry lacerations in his hide,
while the other received scarcely mark.
George J. Appleton. Mr.. Goodwin's mana
ger. and Harry Mann, manager OF the
Knickerbocker, aided Mr. Goodwin in sub
during the beliicose bulldogs.
When the excitement had subsided the
discovery was made that the dogs had
wrought other mischief than that inflicted
on each other. The manuscript OF Clyde
Fitch's play, THE Cowboy and the Lady.
which the actor had carelessly left on
chair, had been torn into a million frag-
ments. There was not a whole page left
and not a fragment sufficiently legible to be
of any further use.
II am sorry for Fitch" commented Mr..
Goodwin. He will have TO rewrite the
play from the parts given to the various
artists in the cast. aided by his memory,
for we had no other copy"
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INSANE OVER THE WAR.
\ Loyal Briton Takes His Life BE
cause England Met Defeat.

HARTFORD. Conn, Jan. 3e.-James
Judd, an Engiishman. residing in New
Britain. went crazy over the reverses Of
his eountrymen in South Africa, and after
breaking into his neighbor's house cut his
throat with carving knife. He has been
following the war news closely. and has
has been much depressed by it. The night
before the deed he complained that he
could not live, and Arthur Harmer and
John Brewin sat up with him. While his
companions were not looking he slipped
out about midnight. His friends soon
missed him, but he was not found Judd
evidently wandered about the streets in
his delirium.
About l O'Clock yesterday he was near
the house of Daniel Mcneil, with whom ne
was on friendly terms. He jumped
through the kitchen window. A carving
knife was on the table, and seizing 1t, he
drew it across his throat, severing the
jugular vein. The McNeils heard the noise
and hastened to the kitchen, fearing bur
glars. They found Judd leaning against
the table, vainly striving to cut himself
again. He died before a physician ar
rived
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NEW ARMY RETIREMENT PLAN.
Officers Desire the Adoption of the
Naval system.

Officers Desire the Adoption of the
Naval system.
Army officers in all grades of the line
as well as of the staff corps favor bill
which has been introduced by Representa-
tive Mccall, of Massachusetts,, extending
feature of the new naval system of serv-
ice retirement to the army.
The provisions of the bill are that on his
own application any officer of the active
list below the grade of brigadier general
who served with credit in the civil and
Spanish American wars may be retired
with the rank and pay of the next higher
grade. The object of the bill is to pre-
vent stagnation and to permit the ad-
yancement Of capable officers to higher
rank by encouraging officers whose best
days of activity have passed to stand
aside for the good of the service.
With such opportunity offered to them,
it is believed that many of the older men
who are now choking the upper grades
and are unfit for arduous field duty would
gladly request retirement. The service is
full OF such cases as those OF men serving
twenty and thirty years In the grade OF
lieutenant, and nearly as long as captain.
These men are aware that they can never
be competent general officers after being
stagnant so long In subordinate rank, but
they cannot afford to retire until deaths
and retirements above them finally pro-
vide vacancies near the top, which they
reach in a state of helpless inability to
grasp what is going on about them.
Amy officers believe that this bill, which
gives the President discretion to retire the
afnr Of farm in 4 ha nnxt fUhn
grade, would do much more for the eff
cheney of the service than Secretary Roots
plan to make promotion by selection. That
proposition is open to the objection that
under most circumstances pull rather
than merit would govern the selections.
With the naval service retirement. there
is deep conviction that meritorious Off
GERS reaching the higher grades would re-
main in the service, and that undesirable
men--those without the true military ge-
nius and spirit-would embrace the
chance to retire as soon as possible in that
manner, making room for more good men
to reach the top.
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THE INSURANCE BANQUET.
The Most Successful Affair of the
Kind Ever Held Here.

The banquet of the Fire Underwriters
Association at the Arlington last night
proved to be one OF the most successful af-
fairs of the kind ever held in the city
There were nearly 200 prominent business
men present Myer Cohen acted as chair
man.
Before relinquishing his post as chair
man of the meeting Mr.. Cohen said he de-
sired to say few words. which would
probably interest the merxSers If not the
guests. He said that the assemblage was
as large and equally as intelligent as those
which have heretofore gathered round the
banquet board at the annual dinners given
by the Underwriters, therefore it was only
fair that they should be given the benefit
of the thoughts that had come to the mind
of the chairman of the board as he eontem-
plated the occasion Of the dinner. No one
doubted, he said, that the Fire Depart
ment and its auxiiiaries Of this city were
as fine as the amount of money expended
could purchase.
There was still one matter that should
be attended to with relation to the work
assist the Underwriters. and conduce to
the best interests of the city, and that
was the organization and establishment OF
a salvage corps which woula accompany
the department at all times, and be val
ued assistant to the Underwriters in their
work. Such an institution would not only
be a saving of much insurance. but it
would save property for the citizens as
well, and in many other ways would be
to the community.
The Commissioners desired to have such
a corps established, the speaker said. and
in doing this they needed the assistance of
every member Of the Board Of Underwr1t-
ers. They owed 1t as duty to them
selves as well as their duty as good citizens
to help in the organization Of such a valued
auxiliary to the Fire Department. In Bos-
ton the salvage corps had cost the corpora
tion SIC, 600 per year. but 1t had saved the
citizens many times that amount in the
work il had performed. This community
is ripe for such an organization, Dir. Co
hen continued. and 1t should be established
as soon as possible. The average amount
of premium paid on fire insurance policies
in the District for nineteen years had been
81 cents per 800, as against an average
rate in the United States of 164 per $l0o-
Coupled with the great increase in losses
throughout the United States it is 20 be
expected that the District would not es
cape a readjustment of rates.
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A WRECK FROM CIGARETTES.
A Seyenteen-Year-0ld Boy Smoked
Eighty on Sunday.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.-The robust
constitution of serenteen-ye Henry
Quinn. Of 4021 Fairmount Avenue, is Civ
ing way under the constant use OF cigar
cites. For the second time within two
months he is receiving treatment at the
Presbyterian Hospital for vertigo and
weakened heart caused by cigarette smok-
ing since his early youth. After smoking
over eighty cigarettes during Sunday. the
boy started from a Lancaster Avenue club
for his home early yesterday morning. and
fell in a helpless condition, at Forty sixth
Street and Lancaster Avenue, from on at
tack Of vertigo.
At the hospital the boy told the physi-
clans that the habit had such a hold on
him that he had not strength enough TO
resist the temptation that is gradually
wrecking his health. Young Quinn said
that he became addicted to the use of the
weed when six years old. At first he
smoked only a pack daily. but his taste
has grown so strong OF late that at times
1t is not even satisfied with 100 cigarettes
a day.
Mrs. Quinn visited her son at the hos
pital yesterday. and while there she told
the physicians that the boy frequently
smoked himself TO sleep
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CANAL TRUSTEES WORRIED.

Chicago River May Have to Be
Dredged to Allow Navigation.
CHICAGO, Jan. 30-As a result of the
heavy flow through the drainage canal the
Chicago River has lowered three feet. The
canal trustees are worried. 1t had not
been believed the flow through the canal
would have the effect of lowering the river
more than q few inches.
With the river at it's present stage
navigation, except by few light draught
boats. is impossible, and the canal people
are beginning to have visions of damage
s'aggregating millions of dollars. The
only way TO give relief is to dredge the
river three feet for its entire length. As
navigation will open in six or eight weeks.
something must be done to avoid the de-
lay of vessels.
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RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.
Postal stations to Be Established in
Carroll County, Md

WESTMINSTER, Nd, Jen. 30.-Post-
master Milton SchaeffeT, of Westminster,
has been officially notified by the Post
office Department at Washington. d. c..
that rural stations for the collection and
delivery of mail will be established in
Carroll county. Four of these stations will
be established at points where there seems
the greatest need. and where dissatisfac-
tion is pronounced against the re y sy ten
OF rural free mail delivery.
I Mr. A. w. Machen. Superintendent OF
the the Free Mail Delivery Service IN tns
United States. wili be in Carroll couaty
on Thursday, when he will personally take
charge of the establishment of the sta
tions. There will be four in number-one
at Manchester. with Charles J. II. Ganter
in charge: at UnIontown. with Mrs. Car
rie 8. Eckard: at Pleasant Valley. under
Levi Myers and at Harney, under the
charge Of r. Suider. The station at
Harrsy win serve Tor Taneytown also.
Several changes have been made In the
personnel of the carriers. Mr.. Horace q.
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SEARCHING FOR GOLD.
Treasure Hunters at work Near
BcrryyfIIe, Va

Trensure Hunters at Work Near
BerryyiIIe, Va
BERRYVILLE, Va. Jan. 30.-Quite a
stir has been created in this vicinity by
the announcement that cave has been
discovered on the farm of Mrs. Hattie W.
Dortch and her sister, Miss Selma Will
liams. The property was formerly owned
by Mr.. James E. Tyson, OF Baltimore, a
brother-in-law of the present owners. and
is about three miles from Berryville.
The circumstances which led up to the
discovery of the cave seem almost too
strange to be true. but the prominence of
the parties who yeuch for their truth
leaves no room for doubt. Mr.. Henry A.
Williams, a brother Of the ladies above
named, tells the following story: He says
that some weeks ago his sister, Mrs.
Dortch. was visiting in Baltimore. In the
same house she was staying was an old
blind lady, recently from Scotland, her ma
tive country. Mrs. Dortch was told that
this old lady had at various times foretold
the discovery of money, and one day, more
from curiosity than from any real belief
in her powers OF divination, she said to
her:
Il wish you would tell me where to find
fortune on my farm in Virginia" For
few minutes she said nothing, and then,
turning TO Mrs. Dortch, she described ae
curately the farm here; told her that just
west Of the house was an old spring; at so
many feet from that large tree. and that
il an opening was made at point between
the two, which she described, cave would
be found; in that cave a well of water,
human bones, and a chest of gold and pre-
cious stones.
So impressed was Mrs. Dorteh with what
had been told her that upon her return
here she told her family Digging was be-
gun two weeks ago, the cave was found,
and in it the well and bones, just as fore
told. The cave contains several quite
large rooms, and work is now being push
ed steadily on in the hopes that the chest
of gold will also be unearthed.
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CLAIMS AGAINST SPAIN.
4 Certain Class Must Wait on New
Treaties.

The Department of State announced to-
day that fresh enquiries had been made at
the department respecting claims against
Spain which ante-date the outbreak of the
late Cuban insurrection. The department
remarks that claims of this character do
not belong to that class whose payment
was assumed by this Government In the
Treaty of Peace with Spain.
Claims of American citizens originating
prior to the outbreak of the insurrection
formed the subject of a recent report by
the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions.
IL is proposed that, as soon as new trea-
ties are made with Spain to take the place
Of those terminated by the war between
that country and the United States. the
Department OF State will take up these
claims with a view to their settlement.
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DIED.

MARSHALL Departed this life January %. 1900.
at III O'Clock A. m. MRS. EIiZABETH J. MAX
SHALL. beloved wife of John MARSHALL, aged
seventy-three years.
Day by day saw her fade,
And slowly pass away,
B,ft in Gun hearts often prayed,
That she might longer stay
She was too good and fair for earth;
None knew her bat TO love her;
Through all her pains at times she'd smile;
A smile OF heavenly birth.
And when the angels called her home,
She smiled farewell to earth.
BY HER SISTER. r. c.
Funeral from St Peters Church. I'd and G sts.
se THURSDAY. February ], az O'Clock a m
Frinesis and relatives invited to attend. Item
YETTON-On Saturday. January -, 1000, at
4:45 D. m, ANNIE, beloved wife of William
Yctton.
Funeral from her late residence. 2029 Ninth
Street northwest, TUESDAY. January 90, at
p. III. J@-o7SS
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In the Grave With His Babe.

SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, Jan. 3d.
When Louis Stauffer, aged thirty-three
years. lost his infant child by death last
week he expressed the wish that the babe
be not buried until yesterday, when he ex-
neral. He himself was afflicted with pneu-
monls. When the hour appointed for the
funeral arrived he had only strength sufii-
cient TO look at the remains. A minute
later he expired. The father and child
viii be buried in one grave on Wednesday
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SMALLPOX IN NORTH CAROLINA
The Disease Now Prevalent in Twen-
ty-six Counties,

RALEIGH, N c., Jan. 30.-Secretary r.
II. Lewis. OF the State Board OF Health,
says smallpox now prevails in twenty six
counties. There are over 400 cases in all.
In a word, the disease is spreading rapidly
now. The causes of such spread are failure
in previous cases to enforce proper disin-
fection of premises and personal effects of
patients, neglect Of vaccination and what
the secretary aptly terms the kicking
doctor''-what a layman would call a inedi-
cal idiot-who diagnoses the disease as
chickenpoX, German measles. etc.
Owing to the remarkable mildness of the
disease the death rate is thus far less than
per cent. There is great prejudice
against vaccination, and the mildness of
the type of the disease removes fear, which
would otherwise be a powerful force,
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A Bear Hunters Adventure.

HARRISBURG, IA, Jan. 30.-Two hunt
ers, Messrs. Peters and Eaton, were hunt
ing in Susquehanna county recently. While
resting they were aroused by the fierce
barking of their dog, and they discovered
a large black bear not more than thirty
PAGES distant. Eaton was for retreating
but Peters asserted that the bear would
run as soon as he injected a few small
shot into his hide. He blaZed away. and
the bear ran. but in the direction of the
men. Dropping their guns, the hunters
made for the nearest trees. Eaton got out
OF harms way, but as Peters drew himself
UP on a branch about ten feet high it
broke. letting his 1se pounds down forcibiy
on the back Of the bear. AS soon as bruin
could extricate himself he took off into the
mountains as fast as his legs would carry
him. Peters was not injured.
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An EXPERIENCED GENTLEM4N,s
IDEA.
The Situation Briefly Told by One
Who Has Travelled Through
the BOer Republic

The Boer Army in the mountains about Spiop
Kcp hiss an inestimsbe advantage. In the hills
the Boers are at home in every sense Were
General Butler to cross the mountains and EMERGE
on the open plain, he would have everything in
his own favor The English. il is true have
driven savages from even more difficult heights.
but the Beers are not sarages, neither are they
armed with antiquated weapons Defeating them
will be an undcrtaking of far greater magnitude
than the British realized when they embarked
in the war. Our task is quite different from that
of the British; 1t is our aim to conquer and
convince the people that Heurichs Maersen
Senate. and Lager are the hest, purest, and most
wholesome beer brewed. The only way to prove
and demonstrate this fact is to order q case
to be sent to your home by 'phoning six-thirty-
four, Arlington Bottiing Co.