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An Aretic Incident. “I’m after you,” cried the hunter. “I don’t give a wray,” retorted the 1 rhereupon he skinned off.—Philadel- phia Press. Prosperity for 1900. Indications point to great prosperity for the coming yes s a sign of a healthy uceess of a country an individual, depends upon health. If you stomach trouble try Hostette’ tters which cures dyspepsia, in- gestion and biliousness. A Pessimist. iovernment by the people,” declared 1, “is a failure.” I wouldn’t take my defeat for § is the legislature so 1 h to heart,” rejoined McMany.~ Philadelphia North Americnn, PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. 1, Wilmot, 8. I Ww. kker, .» pipe yheat- , Mount: hn ‘T. Morris, Minn tank valve; Minn., photog carrier: Olson, F tus; John as app Wester, Triumph, Minn, ck holder, Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attor- s, 911 & 912 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul nomy- o's wife heard of a desper- y. Of course she went 5 i A man with a month’s »f beard op Fhe room, cer eerful. but in one ¢ uinly, wasn’t ve rner there wa Loil stove, which was still burning, ch fter 10 o'clock. tell > id to the mar why u » your stove burning all Oh, mum,” he answered, “we ain't n’ if we put it out we it in.” —Life. « Deafness Cannot Be Cured a ications, as they cannot reach the r. There is only one ss, and that is by consti- es. Deafness 1s caused by an condition of the mucus lining of the an Tube. When this tube is inflamed e a rumbling sound or imperfect hear- , and when it is entirely closed deafness is result d unless the inflammation can be i this tube restored to its normal nearing will be destroyed forever; Sout of ten are caused by catarrh, nothing but an inflamed condition of he mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case f Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot »d by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for fe EY & CO., Toledo, 0. are the best. Leveling said the zs ru to the le Worse than th red nose. “It level of the Journal, solemn man, of the brute.” said the man often brings floor. * Pugilism,” Had Been T Irs. Gillian Before. r overcoat on I » tell s. Wykoff a t. (illian—All right. I'll just go y ha t cut and meet you on Ne » York Press. 1 s the wonian who gives her Serve Ayer's | 20th | Century Almanac ( Not the ordinary kind) POR EEIIILE A handsome year-book filled with beautiful illustrations, and a complete calendar. It is sold on all news-stands for 5 cents, and it's worth five times that amount. It is a reliable chronology of the progress of the 19th century and a prophecy of what may be expected in the 2oth. are a few of the great men who havo eu for it: Secretary W Sen. C son, on Agriculture M. Depew, on Politics on Finance “ Electricity “ Land Warfare “ Naval Warfare Sports 1 Hic hborn, “AL” Smith, “ You will enjoy reading it now, and it will be 2 book of reference for you through the years to come. Sixty-four pages, printed on ivory finish paper. SE, If your news-dealer cannot sup- ply you with it, cut out this ad, and send it with three one-cent stamps and receive this elegant book free. Address ).C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. w& “ PISO"S CURE FOR iy CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS a bed Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use PY in time. Sold by drugs CONSUMPTION ned the door for } Indan- off. we | y. While | s to members of her own | ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY. The Father an Assassin, But Is Free. The wedding last year of Miss Eva Sickles, daughter of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles of New York, and Dayrell. BE. M. Crackenthorpe, secretary of the British legation in Madrid, brought to mind one of the most remarkable tragedies of the last generation. The father of the charming bride shot and killed Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key, the author of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” on a street in Washington, D. C., Sunday night, Feb. 27, 1859, because he had broken up his home. Gen. Sickles then forgave his wife, and, after reinstat- ing her in his home, made a_ world | famous answer to his incensed friends. He said: “I am not aware of any statute or moral code which makes it infamous to forgive a woman, nor is it usual to make our domestic life a subject of consultation with friends, no matter how near and dear to us. And I cannot allow even all the world combined to dictate to me the repudi- ation of my wife when I think it right to forgive her and restore her to my confidence and protection.” It is the daughter of such a forgiving father as the man who wrote this par- agraph ,whose beauty and charm of manner attracted to her side the man whom she later married—Dayrell Crackenthorpe. Mrs. Crackenthorpe is a beauty of uncommon distinction and brilliance. She has auburn hair, dark, lustrous which so closely concerns Gen. Sickles without recalling the memorabie trial in which he was the chief actor. That trial established for America the rule that a man who Kills the destroyer of his domestic happiness will not be convicted of murder. Philip Barton Key, whom Gen. Sickles shot, was dis- trict attorney for the District of Co- lumbia. He was a brilliant ornament to Washington society, tall, well built and handsome, The meetings of Key and Mrs. Sick- les became the talk of Washington. On Feb. 24 Gen. Sickles had a dinner party at his house, after which he went with his guests to a dance at Willard’s hotel. As he started out he received a note which he put in his pocket unopened. On his return home he read the letter, which spoke of his wife. The husband sent an in- timate friend to watch the trysting place mentioned in the unsigned com- munication, and the spy returned to confirm the allegations. Mr. Sickles accused his wife, and she at once con- fessed everything and begged forgive- ness. She made a long written state- ment, which Mr. Sickles laid before his friend, Mr. Butterworth, and asked his advice. As they were talking an- other friend rushed into the house and announced that Key was even then outside making signals with a hand- kerchief to Mrs. Sickles. The advice of Mr. Butterworth was: AN UNCROW NED QUEEN. Miss Eva Sickles, in the beautiful dress worn at the Bradley-Martin ball. eyes, an olive complexion and regu- lar features. Her figure is tall and slender, but at the same time lithe- some and full of grace. She is about 23 years old. She was educated at the convents in Paris and Madrid, and has lived in this country but little, though she has made and still continues to make oc- casional visits to the home of her father on Fifth avenue, New York city. Three years ago she came to America and spent a year here, dur- ing which time she attended the fa- mous Bradley Martin costume ball, dressed as Queen Louise of Prussia, and was the object of much enthusi- astic admiration. The picture pre- sented of Mrs. Crackenthorpe in the issue of the New England Home Magazine was taken of the young woman in the costume she wore at the ball. Taken altogether, she spent a very brilliant season in the social whirl of the gay metropolis that year. Mrs. Crackenthorpe’s mother was a Miss Creagh, a Spanish woman of Irish descent, whom Gen. Sickles mar- ried while he was minister to Spain. Mr. Crackenthorpe, who captivated the American girl and carried her off to live across the water, is a son of Montague Hughes Crackenthorpe, who is a queen’s counsel and one of the leaders of the English bar. The young secretary of the British legation is known to his intimate friends as “Reley,” a corruption of his given name, Dayrell. He is a very different person from his late brother, Hubert, who was a contributor to the famous “Yellow Book” in its most virulent days. It is impossible to refer to an event “If you are sure that this is common knowledge, there is but one course left to you. You need no advice.” According to the subsequent testi- mony of Butterworth, he then left the house to come face to face with Key on the street. He greeted him and turned to leave. Just then Mr. Sick- les came from his home, and, seeing Key, exclaimed, in a loud voice: “Key, you scoundrel, you have dis- honored my house! You must die.” Key grasped Sickles and attempted to hold him, but Sickles freed him- self and drew a pistol. As Key was backing away Sickles shot at him, fir- ing three bullets, two of which went to the mark. The wounds were mor- tal, and Key died in a short time. Mrs. Sickles regarded her husband's action as the only one he could take. In letters to him she expressed the | deepest admiration for him, and con- trition for herself. He treated her gently, but took away her wedding ring and wedding presents. In re- sponse to a heartrending appeal he re- turned the wedding ring, but it was broken. In jail Mr. Sickles received the visits of members of the cabinet and eminent personages. President Bu- chanan sent a message of condolence. The trial excited world-wide inter- est. More than a hundred talesmen ; were rejected, because they declared they would acquit Sickles. Mr. Sickles wept copiously during the trial, and betrayed intense mehtal suffering. The verdict was ‘“‘not guilty.” It was received with thunderous and uncon- trollable applause. Then a thing happened which as- tonished the public even more than the slaying. Mr. Sickles took back the wife whose conduct had caused him to kill a man. It appeared that he had frequently expressed his intention of forgiving his wife in case he should be acquit- tea. Mr. Sickles’ action raised a storm of comment, largely disapproving. It offended against: the moral code of many men who had applauded his act of destruction. It was then that Mr. Sickles issued the eloquent apology, which deserves \to live. Lovely, broken-hearted and penitent, Mrs. Sickles survived only a few years. She left a daughter to the care of the husband who had forgiven her so much. Gen. Sickles lived to become one of the nation’s prominent men. He fought through the war and commanded the Third army corps at Gettysburg, where he lost a leg. Since then he has held many offices and been con- cerned in many events. Today he is a conspicuous figure in New York life—rich, active in spite of his years; one of the regular fivst- nighters at theaters—Home Magazine. GATES OF WASHINGTON’S TOMB Circumstances That Make It Impossible to Open Them for the President. The one hundredth anniversary of the death of Washington, Dec. 14, re- calls an act of vandalism of the civil! war. The grounds of Washington's home and tomb were neutral during that conflict. They constituted the one spot upon which Union and Confeder- ates could meet and fraternize. And it was while the pickets of both armies were thus at free quarters that an at- tempt was ‘nade to desecrate the sarcophagus. There was only one gate to the tomb at that time. The iron bars of this gate did not extend to the ceiling of the entrance. The man who committed the depredation climb- ed over the top of the gate; reached the sarcophagus, and broke a talon from the marble eagle above the re- ceptacle. That was the extent of the act. This led to the construction of the double gate which now shuts in the dead. So close are the bars of the two gates that when the place is strewn with flowers they are passed through the bars by means of long poles. The loquacious individual whe has the post of guard and guide in- forms visitors that on Dec. 14 the gates are to be open, and that Presi- dent McKinley will place flowers on the receptacle containing the remains of Washington. But this is only a fancy of the old man. Under the strictest orders of the Mount Vernon association the gates of the tomb are never to be open. Whatever is done in the way of floral offering by the president will be done in the usual manner observed four times a year, Feb. 22, Decoration day, July 4 and Dec. 14. After the double gate was constructed the outer one was locked and the key thrown into the channel of the Potomac river. The channel was chosen because the Potomac is the haunt of oyster dredgers and fisher- men, and they operate in the shal- lows, and the man who threw the key away was specifically drop it in the channel of the stream. Pilgrims of recent years to the shrine will recall the old guard, Gilbert Par- ker, now dead, who was the last of the Washington family’s domestics. His | successor is a bronze hued old man who for many years was the sexton of | Pohick church, where Washington worshiped when the condition of the road to Alexandria prevented his at- tendance at the church at the lattei place. The present guard is one of the last of the slave families of the Lees. He is more fluent than Parker, but ir reckless with dates and name Business Conscience. The Sunday morals of many a com- | munity are an improvement upon those of ordinary workdays. Some- how conscience seems to sleep wher the hand is busy, particularly if the hand be employed upon some profitable work. A London artist tells of a curi- ous incident that came under his notice some little while ago. I had ar old English bracket clock that I toox myself to a wholesale firm of clock- makers: to be repajred. Whilst in the shop I noticed a _ peculiar piece o! mechanism, the purpose of which puz- zled me, so I sought for information. “Oh!” replied one of the firm, “that’s a special order for a temple in China; it is to work an idol and make him move.” Presumably that clock-maker was an excellent Christian in his own estimation. I do not know whether there was anything in my-look that be considered called for an explanation but he added: “Business is business. you know. You'd be astonished to learn what funny orders we sometimes have in our trade. Only the other day a firm asked us if we would make some imitation ‘genuine’ Elizabethan clocks; they sent us one to copy. But we re- plied aeciiu...,, Lorely saying that we had so far conducted our business hon- estly, and intended always to do so.” So, according to the ethics of our in- formant, it is not dishonest to make clockwork intended secretly to make an idol move, but it is dishonest te make imitation medieval clocks! Not Given to Complaining. Buggins—Wigwag is the most sub- lime optimist I ever knew. Muggins —In what way? Buggins—He's laid up with a sore throat, and when 1 sympathized with him he said it wasn’t as bad as it might be if he were a giraffe. instructed to} PERSONALLY CONDUCTED Another Holy Willie. One may safely conclude, from the following story, that the good old faith of Calvin is very much alive yet. AB American lady who was in the High- lands shooting with her husband, at- tended the local kirk one Sunday morning, but left it with scandalous precipitancy. For an hour the good minister had been fiercely raging at his benighted congregation, and wound up: “And pairhaps” (with pious cun- ning) “ye’ll be thinkin,’ ye wairthless waistrels, that ye can daddle_intae paradise by clootchin’ tae my coatrails! Dinna be deceiyit, for mark weel” (a pause, of stern and holy joy) “when the trump of Gabriel soonds, I'll sneck them aff!’—Life. Pullman Tour- is Sleeping Cars Via the Chicago Great Western to Kan- sas City and the Santa Fe Route to Los Angeles and Southern California. The true winter route, avoiding cold weather and snow blockades. Commencing Monday, Oct. 23d, and on every Monday following one of these new Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars will leave St. Paul at 8:10 a. m., via the Chicago Great Western for Los Angeles and Southern California, via Kansas City, and reaching Los Ange- les the following Friday morning, thus avoiding all Sunday travel. ‘These tours are personally conducted by an experienced railway official, who ac- companies the train to its destination. The cars are well equipped for a long journey, and are as comfortable as the Pullman Sleepers, while the price is only $6.00 for a double berth, less than half the price in the Standard Sleepers. For full information, inquire of J. P. Elmer, corner Fifth and Robert streets, St. Paul, Minn., or address F. H. Lord, General Pass. and Ticket Agent, 113 Adams St.. Chicago. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al} druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 2c. E, W. Grove’s signature on each box, A Reward in Sight. “What makes you so devoted to golf, . SERNA a ae aes ee irl ot phi th ae 9 Ee ; you see, somebod. gives a dinner after the ga anapolis Journal. always '—Indi- Trouble : ad. Mrs. W.—Did your stenographer ad- dress those “at home” cards of mine to the list I gave you? “Yes, but she made a slight error. She sent them to a list of our cred- itors.”—Life. cultural LANDS now opened for settlement in Western Canada. Here is grown the cel- ebrated NO. 1 HARD he highest price in the markets of the world ; thousands of cattle are fattened for market without being fed grainand without a day's shelter. Send for information and secure a free home in Western Canada. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green’s Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their adver- tisement in another column of this paper. Write the Superintendent of Immigration, Otta- wa. oraddress the undersigned, who will mai you atlases, pamphlets, ete., free of cost. Ben Davie: Bast ‘third St, St. Paul, or T. O. Currie, Stevens Point, Wis. 327 Millions Short WwW h eat As compared with the World’s crop of 1898, Send for our booklet “How to Sell a Crop and Have It,” and you will then know how large for tunes are made in Wheat speculation. Phone! 608M. W. H. HAMMOND & CO., Brokers, Bank Reference, Corn Ex., Minneapolis, Minn, DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH s CURES COUGHS AND COLDS. KILLER PR! EVENTS, CONSUME TIO N. ARTER'S INK ruggists, 25c. Is food for thought. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the best | of ali cough cures.—Geor; W.: Lotz, Fabucher, La., August 26, 1 The office boy who can go on steadily attending to his duties while a band is marching by is a genuine hero, Barbed wire fences are used extens- fvely in South Africa, and most of the material is imported from the United States. Cured After Repeated Failures With Others I will inform addicted to Morphine, Laudanum, Opium, Cocaine, of never-failing, harmless, home- cure. Mrs. M. H. Baldwin, Box 1212, Chicago, Ill. Some men show good judgment by showing a lack of self-confidence. When Answering Advertisements Mindly Mention This Paper. Avarice is always poor, but poor by its own fault.—Johnson, A small boy says the worst nation Z on earth is vaccination. N. W. N. U. —No. 52.— 1899. EADY GRIDLEY — FIRE. ARE R' DEWEY’S FLAG SHIP OLYMPIA—CAPTAIN GRIDLEY, COMMANDER. Mrs. Gridley, mother of Captain Gridley, who was in command of Dewey's flag ship, at the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Manila, says of our remedy, Peruna: « At the solicitation of a friend I used Peruna, and can truthfully say it is a grand tonic and is a woman's friend, and should be used in every household, After using it for a short period I feel like a new id Ann E. Gridley. person.’ Nearly all our ills are due to catarrh. We are liable to have eatarrh of the head? catarrh of the throat, catarrh of the lungs, stomach, kidneys, bladder and pelvic organs. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, for free book. KIKI IAI IAAI AAAI AIA 2S STAR "ta: *” your * “Star” tin tags (showing small stars printed on under side of tag), ‘‘ Horse Shoe,” ‘J. T.,” ‘Good Luck,” ‘‘ Cross Bow,” and “Drummond” Natural Leaf Tin Tags are of equal value in seouring presents mentioned below, and may be assorted. 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Z 6 French Briar Wood Pipe. ¥ 7 Razor, hollow ground, fine English eel. t : - 800 ver, full jeweled 1000 er, bandsome azee 8 Bs BREE 32 Revolver, Colt’s, eel. sti 33 Rifle, Colt’s, 16-shot, 23-calibe: $4 Guitar (Washburn), rosewood, 150 | 5 Mandolin, very handso! 36 Winchester Repeating Shot goods..... 150 18 Watch, nickel, stem wind and set.. 200| 22am eoeee sven 19 Carvers, good steel, backhorn 37 Remi ton, ‘double-barre mer Shot Gun, 10 or 12 gaug 22 Bt , Gent Ki nd Works: teat plated goods aisie td 500 | 40 Regina Music Box, 15} inch Diso. .6000 THE ABOVE OFFER, EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30TH, 1900. Plain “ Star” Tin Ta; ‘that is, Star tin tags with no sm7ll Special Notice ! ters printed on under site of tag), are not good for presents, ——— but will be paid for in CASH on the Lasis of twenty centsper hundred, if received by us on or before March Ist. 1900. t2@- BEAR IN MIND that a dime’s worth of STAR PLUC TOBACCO will lastlonger and afford more pleasure than a dimoe’s worth of any eherbrand MAKE THE TEST! Send tags to CONTINENTAL TOBACCO CO., St. Louis, Mo. * * Ne @ 0.4,0.0,0.0,0,0.0,.0.0, 0.0, 9,0.4 2h bE Ot s ——