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ee RT AN EXTENSIVE | ADDITION Being Made to the Indiana Mineral Springs (Indiana) Hotel AT AN OUTLAY OF $30,000. Growth of Enterprise Representing Ex- penditure of $250,000—Success- ful Management of H. L. Kramer, Ten years ago the ground where the magnificent hotel property of the Indi- ana Mineral Springs Company is locat- ted at Indiana “Mineral Springs, In- diana was wholly unimproved and al- most a. wilderness, Now, owing to the discovery of the valuable medicinal Qualities of the springs and the heal- ing virtue of the soil itself, together with the enterprise of Major H. L. Kramer, there is located there one of the finest sanitariums in the United States. The natural picturesque sur- Toundings have been made more at- tractive and the hotel is a model of conifort and elegance. For the greater accommodation of guests who come in constantly increas- ing numbers from every section of the United States, arrangements have now been made for the enlargement of the hotel buildings. The contract was let yesterday by Major Kramer for addi- tions that will cause an outlay of over 30,000. The improvements will consist of a new bath house and an addition to the hotel. The addition will be two stories in height and will occupy a ground space 80x160 feet. It provides forty additional guest chambers. The entire addition will be handsomely end elegantly furnished. The bath house, when complet2d, will be the finest in the United States, Besides the bath house and the guest chambers there will be on the first floor a dining hall, a music rou.n, a billiard hall, physician's offices and a barber shop. In connection with the bath house there will be ladies and gentlemen’s dressing rooms and cool- dng rooms. The dressing and cooling rooms will be elaborately decorated and the floors will be laid in white tile. In both cooling rooms will be built large ornamental fire places which will be used for heating pur- poses in addition to the regular steam heating. The work will be entirely completed in 90 days. The improvement and the entire ar- rangements of the hotel and grounds are made, keeping in view the artistic effect of the whole, and when the im- provements arranged for are complet- ed the hotel and surroundings will be much more attractive than before. Major Kramer states that a still fur- ther addition to the hotel is contem- plated, and that plans are now being prepared for an additional structure to contain 150 rooms for guests. Already a quarter of a million dol- lars has been expended on the In- diana Mineral Springs enterprise and under the present management greater growth and development in the future 4s assured.—Attica Daily Ledger. The Dueber Watch Works, at Canton, 0. form the finest and most complete watch plant in the world. The twin factories producing both watch movements and Watch cases are devoted exclusively to the manufacture of high-grade watch movements and watch cases, Every re- 4 every effort is concentrated gle direction of making watch and ch cases as nearly ies within human power. All common watches are pendant set, and consequently dangerous and unreliable. The Hampden 17 jewel watch is Lever fet and pronounced by all experts as the most reliable amd accurate watch on the market. In buying a watch, get the t you can afford. It will be the n the end and give the great- est satisfaction. Railroad men, in the nature of theit employment, are neces- sarily good judges of a timekeeper. They will tell you that no watch made equals the “Special Railway 23 Jewel’ manu- factured by the Hampden Watch Co., Canton, Ohio. jousands of these watches are the ndard in train ser- vice, and their accuracy of movement and reliability under all conditions have earned for them the enviable reputation of surpassing all others in the world. The latest production of the Dueber- Hampden factories is the smallest ladies’ watch made in America. The name of this unique production is “The Four Hundred.” Any lady who fs the proud pessessor of one of these gems has a thing of utility and beauty not exceeded by anything that money can purchase. The mechanical equipment of the Due- ber-Hampden Watch factories is of the finest quality, and its experienced work- men stand without peers in the watch industry. To-day the Dueber-Hampden watch is supreme; and the Dueber-Hamp- den Works the greatest watch plant in the world. All first-class jewelers keep these goods, demand the Dueber-Hamp- den watches and accept no substitute.~ Irish World, July 7th, 1900. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. James Burke, Minneapolis, Minn., pipe-coupling; Jake Friedlander, Far- go, N. D., manifolding device; Frank Kremer, Duluth, Minn., train anchor* Henry J. Lawrence, Elmore, Minn., ex- pansion drill; Oscar Nygren, Lake City, Minn., check valve; Bengt. Peterson, Dassel, Minn., flue cleaner; Robert Seeger, St. Paul, Minn., vapor burner. Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attor- neys, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot Feach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a biood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it youmust take internalremedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts Girectly on the blood and mucous surfaces. 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Probably Adam and Eve began with Piatonic friendship. w Ww Ww w w w ¢ w w WwW A Strange Romance w w w w w w w Ww w Ww w w w es % Chicago Girl Who ¥ ¥ Came Near, WwW a Marrying a Twin NY, g Brother. NY, Chicago Cor. St. Louis Republic: Uanitai Le Clerque, a Chicago girl,liv- ing at Fifty-fifth street and Cottage Grove avenue, has a life story beside which the plot of a Balzac novel is uninteresting. Uanitai’s own brother never knew of the girl’s existence. She was adopted out of an orphan asylum when three months old and carried to India by wealthy foster parents who idolized her. She was educated in two of the most fashionable schools in the coun- try, after living sixteen years in India. She fell in love with her twin brother and would have married him but for the chance discovery of her real mother, and of the relationship between herself and her brother. She is now engaged to marry her foster brother. A few weeks ago Mrs. May Wright Sewall of Indianapolis, who goes to the Paris fair as commissioner from that state, offered Miss Le Clerque a position as private secre- tary. Miss Le Clerque planned to go, but her fiance opposed the proposition on the ground of fear that the mys- terious young woman is likely to dis- appear altogether, The story of Uanitai Le Clerque be- gins twenty-two years ago, for that was when she was born in Rochester, N. Y. A short time before her birth her mother and father had separated. Mrs. Le Clerque left her husband in New York City, and went to live with her relatives in Rochester. Uanitai was one of the twins. Her brother was a splendid healthy baby. Uanitia was a puny child, and not much in- clined to fight for her delicate life. When her mother began to reeover from her long and almost fatal illness she asked at once for her child. “Here he is,” said her sister, bring- ing in the little boy. The relatives meantime had decided that in case the mother did not recover two or- phan children would be a rather se- vere tax upon their charity. In case she did live, they reasoned, one child was burden enough for the mother, without the extra tax of a sickly little girl, so, while the mother was uncon- scious, they took the girl and placed her in the New York Orphan’s Home. Her mother was not told of her ex- istence. By a strange oversight of the relatives, who were so anxious to conceal the fact of her birth, the child was entered at the orphan asylum un- der her own name. But for this her identity would never have been dis- covered. Three months after Uanitai was placed in the asylum a Mr. and Mrs. N. Maywood came in search of a child to adopt. They had three sons and the dream of their lives was a little daughter. Uanitai suited them ex- actly. They took the child, adopted her by process of law and insisted that all evxience of her name and history be destroyed. Immediately after adopting the child they sailed for In- dia. The Maywood family remained in India sixteen years. They gave their little girl her strange and musi- cal Indian name, and the child be- lieved that she was theirs by birth. When the world’s fair year arrived the Maywood family decided to return to America. Then they came to Chi- cago and stayed during the season of the fair, afterward going to New York to live at the Metropolitan hotel. Uanitai was placed in Miss Phelps’ school in New York and graduated there after a couple of years. She then came to Indianapolis to Mrs. May Wright Sewell’s school. After a term there the girl went to visit relatives of her foster parents at Jacksonville, il. In Jacksonville she met a handsome young fellow, Willie Le Clerque. He was there with his father, a fine-look- ing, middle-aged man of soldierly bearing. The girl and Willie Le Clerque fell in love with each other and when she went back to New York they began a correspondence. “Willie Le Clerque,” repeated Mrs. Maywood, in a frightened voice when the girl told her of it, and all the fam- ily fell into strange confusion at the name. Investigation proved that the man and woman were twins. Uanitai learning that the marriage was im- possible because the two were brother and sister, communicated with her brother and learned that their mother, who was divorced from their father, was living in Chicago, married to John Smith. She came here, and the mother, who had never known that she had borne a daughter, recognized at once the young woman as her child. The girl had documentary evidence with her. Uanitai’s foster parents were reconciled in a measure to the girl’s reunion with her mother, for they expect her back soon as the wife of Fred, her foster brother, a young business man in New York City. Wil- lie Le Clerque is as devoted to his sis- ter as though they had been sweet- hearts. : The Million Guinea Fund. Robert William Perk, member of Parliament for the Louth division of Lancashire, Eng., is the founder of the “1,000,000 guinea” fund for the cause of Methodism. Subscriptions are lim- ited to Methodists of England, Scot- land and Wales, and the fund after being raised, will be expended in that territory alone. The basic idea of the fund is that contributions of one gui- nea shall be made by 1,000,000 people, whose names shall be inscribed on the historic roll of Methodism’s British army. The fund is to be raised by the end of this year. It is the purpose of Mr. Perk, who is one of the most rad- ical Methodists of Great Britain, that $1,000,000 of the fund shall go into the educational training of preachers. For chapels, schools and mission halls $1,350,000 is to be expended. The fund is of such magnitude that even the great Thanksgiving fund of the Wes- leyans ($1,000,000) in 1860 sinks into insignificance. Becoming a Desert. The northwest of China is gradually but surely becoming a desert. The un- controllable water of the Hoang-Ho, the Yellow river, is with persistent regularity overflowing its banks, de- vastating the country and leaving be- hind a deposit of sand carried down from the Mongolian deserts. The in- evitable consequence is that the whole country is becoming desiccated, and a previously fertile country is now al- most treeless and verdureless. The de- sert is almost within sight of the walls of Pekin, and it will not be long before Pekin and the district around it will be enveloped by the stand storms of the encroaching desert. TALK ON CANNIBALISM... As Explained and Defended By an Expert To a University Class... “Cannibalism Explained and De- fended by an Expert” was the theme of Prof. Frederick E. Starr’s discourse to the anthropology class at the Uni- versity of Chicago the other day. The professor came to the big insti- tution of learning on the Midway with a toothpick in his teeth and a napkin in his pocket. At the breakfast table he had read of the fate of German traders in New Britain. Though he did not say that he preferred any par- ticular kind of flesh for his own table he confessed that he could not blame the natives for eating a white trader whenever opportunity offered, and said in this case the Germans got just what they deserved. When the professor had concluded the students discovered that it was time for luncheon, but none admitted he was hungry. In part this is what Prof. Starr said: “There are some things I do not pretend to know about cannibalism, but I do know why the natives prefer human flesh, and I know the charac- teristics of the various brands of can- nibals. “First, their religion demands that they kill, cook, and eat human beings. “Second, they eat human flesh. for the same reason we eat a porterhouse steak—because they like it and be- cause they can get it. “Third, their traditions command them to devour the hearts and livers of their first foe slain in battle. They believe in this because they think they can assimilate all the courage of the late lamented enemy. “Fourth, they kill and eat out of re- venge. “There, now you have # in a nut- shell. These German traders were slain and broiled, I doubt not, because they came under the fourth class. They had been cruel to the natives, perhaps, because they could not make as much money as they wanted. It was another case of ‘out of the frying pan into the fire,’ with realistic embellishments. “It is notorious that men belonging to the most enlightened white races are often more savage, cruel and beastly when they are far from home among native savages than the say- ages themselves. I have visited tribes where the women and girls are terror- ized when they hear of the arrival ot foreign traders and soldiers, They ac- tually flee to the mountains and re- main until the visitors have departed. There is no doubt in my mind that the traders provoked the attack of the can- nibals, and that they deserved to be killed. “I do not believe that the spread of Christianity and civilization has been the chief cause of the decrease of can- nibalism. Undoubtedly Christianity and religion have had some effect on cannibalism, but there were a great many tribes which practiced cannibal- ism and abolished it before civilizea man ever reached them.” Dr. Starr said that some races prac- tice cannibalism for a time and then leave off for years only to take it up again when provoked to take ven- geance in war. He feels that the New Britain cannibals looked upon the traders as being at war with them and that it was right for them to eat them. According to the professor the New Britain cannibals are not known, un- til this time, to have eaten foreigners for a number of years. A MAIL CONTRACT Secured by a Stage Line to Protect the Bullion Carried. “Until very recent years,” said a man who used to live in the west, to the New Orleans Times-Democrat, “there has always been more or less scandal connected with the ‘star routes’ of the postal service. Star routes are those over which mail is carried by special contract, and the ex- pense of keeping up some of them has certainly been monstrous. In other cases, however, the price paid has been ridiculously low. I remember one route in Nevada where the service was kept up over a distance of about eighty miles for $5 a year, when,the actual ex- pense was $25 a trip. How that con- tract was really made profitable in- volves a curious little story, which I will tell without mentioning names, because the parties interested still have business relations with the de- partment. The stretch of road to which I refer lay between two pretty lively mining camps, and a stage line plying over it did a very fair business. Among other ‘things it frequently carried bul- lion, and holdups were of no uncom- mon occurrence. The rugged, lonely character of the country was peculiarly favorable to that kind of deviltry, and the stage people were at their wits’ end to know what to do to stop it. At last they had a bright idea, and put in a bid for carrying the mail, which had been handled by a private contractor, a cartandamule. They made their bid $5 so as to be certain of getting the job, and then had a heavy, iron-bound compartment constructed in the boot of each of the stages for carrying both the pouches and their regular express matter. To break it open would have taken at least ten or fifteen minutes, and that meant delaying the mails. The Western desperado has a holy hor- ror of running foul of Uncle Sam, be- cause he knows that means relentless hunting down, with all the resources of the government behind the pursuit, and as soon as the stages became mail carriers they ceased to be molested. So the five-dollar contract was really a good business proposition. After the country became more settled it was kept up merely as an advertisement, It gave the line a certain air of stability, like the words, ‘Government Depos itory’ on the window of a bank.” AGE OF NERVES, {t Is Also an Age of Chatter, Says Lord Russell. Lord Russell of Killowen says this is an age of chatter and that no one has time to think of anything serious- ly. Our young men talk of sport, our girls read nothing deeper than illus- trated magazines; we speak in jerks; the topics of the day are treated homeopathically. Without doubt there is much in what the lord chief jystice of England says, but what would he have us do? This is part of our mod- ern system of life; take out one brick’ and the entire structure would fall. Of course, it is regrettable in many ways that we live in a mental as well as a physical rush nowadays, but Lord Russell should realize that we cannot be wise, grave, thoughtful and pro- portionately slow in some things and slappish, time-saving in others. The pace is set for us, and we must needs follow it. Something must suffer as we rush along, and thus we become feather-brained chatterboxes with in- different manners and a_ lamentable lack of taste. Our only consolation must be that matters will be worse in a generation or two, unless the wheel comes full circle by that time. Apro- pos of this modern haste which the lord chief justice deplores, the medical and scientific world is seriously dis- cussing the chances of our descendants retaining their sanity. Nervous dis- eases are markedly on the increase, even the Eskimos, once wholly free from the diseases and failings of civil- ization, are developing nervous disor- ders, owing to increased trading op- erations and the undue consumption of coffee. In European countries, how- ever, people are outgrowing lunatic asylums. Obviously, therefore, the time has come to go backward a little. If only we could stop telegrams, make it impossible to travel anywhere faster than thirty miles an hour, have the sense to curb our pitiful little social ambitions and live quietly, in the coun- try, if possible, there might be some hope for us; as we cannot, or wi!!! not, the only thing to do is trust to luck. Testing Balls of Steel. Cast steel balls when made require to be examined in order that faulty ones may be cast aside. This exami- nation involves much time and labor, and even then faulty balls are not al- ways detected. A German has de- vised an apparatus for testing them in accordance with physical laws. The balls are placed on the top of a cylin- der in which works a piston rod; each ball is struck with the same force by the rod and falls on an inclined sur- face; at the end of this plane it strikes against an impact surface. If a ball is perfect it will have enough elasticity to rebound beyond a fixed barrier, but if it is imperfect it has an inferior degree of elasticity and falls short. All balls which do not pass the barrier may safely be re jected as faulty. ; American Automatic Machinery. An English electrical journal has suggested that the proprietors of an English factory shall bring over a large nnmber of American workmen in order to demonstrate the use of auto- matic machinery of American manu- facture. Ordinary floor laborers may be utilized to do the work of skilled mechanies by the use of this machin- ery. At the Hunt Dinner. Mr. MHardryder—Some apollinaris with your tipple, Miss Highflyer? Miss Highflyer—No, thanks. I'll go straight at it and take the water jump, —Smart Set. The American Working Man. Much comparison has been made be- tween the endurance of the Chinese and the American working man. Those with authority say that the average working man of America is as superior to the Chinese as Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is to any other dyspepsia cure. The Bitters also cures constipation, in- digestion and prevents malaria. The Dear Girls, Tess—She was boasting that she was a very good listener: Jess—Yes; what you might call a fluent listener. She loves to hear her- self talk.—Philadelphia Press, Are You Using Allen’s Foot-Easet It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burniag, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y. Taking the Census. Jones—Great Scot! Has that man been in an explosion or a railroad wreck? Brown—Neither. He’s a census enu- merator, who showed up a smaller pop- ulation in this town than it had ten years ago.’—Detroit Free Press. o-I—C When a preparation has an adver- tised reputation that is world-wide, it means that preparation is meritorious, If you go into a store to buy an article that has achieved universal popularity like Cascarets Candy Cathartic for ex- ample, you feel it has the endorsement of the world. The judgment of the people is infallible because it is im- personal. The retailer who wants to sell you “something else” in place of the article you ask for, has an ax to grind. Don’t it stand to reason? He’s trying to sell something that is not what he represents it to be. Why? Because he expects to derive an ex- tra profit out of your credulity. Are you easy? Don’t you see through his little game? The man who will try and sell you a substitute for CASCAR- ETS is a fraud, Beware of him! He is trying to steal the honestly earned benefits of a reputation which another business man has paid for, and if his conscience will allow him to go so far, he will go farther. If he cheats his cus- tomer in one way, he will in another and it is not safe to do business with him. Beware of the CASCARET sub- stitutor. Pemember CASCARETS are never sold in bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed “C” on every box : and each tablet stamped C. C. C, Lots of women marry a mushroom lover and then find that they have got a toadstool husband. Carter’s Ink 1s so good and so cheay afford to be without it. Is yours Carter's? Women liye by convention, men in spite of it. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of that no family can | Lydia | | Pinkham’s |Vegetable Compound ‘cures the ills peculiar to women. 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