Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 4

1 J' 7'V- '-i -v LFyyiSTON EjraijriNG 'JOURNAL WEDBDAYJUNE is 1898' 1 THE DUTY 0T-MOTHERS THE ETENHI6 JOHHHE' is undoubtedly tne greatest 1 Health Drink in the world for while it is refreshing and thirst subduing it acts in a beneficial manner on the stomach and it does nourish the nervous system 1 Druggist sell Moxie by the glaaa 1 Any Grocer will dellver it to you at your House try the bottfe- Daughters Ghiided in iould be OareftaUy Gariy Womanhood What suffering frequently results from a ignorance or more frequently from a neglect to properly instrnet her daughter 1 Tradition says must and young wromen are so taught There is a little truth and a great deal of exaggeratkjn in this If a young woman suffers severely she needs treatment and her mother should see that she gets li Many mothe hesitate to take their daughters to a physician for examination bnt no mother need hesitate to write freely about -her daughter or herself to h(rs Pinkham and secure the most efficient advice' without charge Mrs address is Maas The following letter from Miss Ussn Joint Bon Ce itrslia Pa shows what neglect will do and tells how hra Pinkham helped her health became so poor that I had to leave school I was tired all the time and had dreadful pains In my side end backj I was also troubled with irregularity of menses I was very weak ana lost so much flesh that my friends pecame alarmed My mother who isja firm believer in your remedies from experience thought per haps they might benefit me and wrote ou or advice I followed the advice you gave and used Lydia ES Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as you directed and am now as well as I ever was I have gained flesh and have a good color I am completely cured of irregularity" boon to flc-iihy people to n-llere chafing ii stop and Lieut! Blue was an outr-flelder? Where do you think that the brain and brawn of' the Chickamauga army is ex-eept among its ball-play erg Out of that force lying there under the hot Georgia 'sun you can pick 40000 men with a batting average of over ZOO and you can find all kinds of star-players from South paid twirlers to home-run hitters Talk about the fate of nations the depleting Influences of conquest the dangers of enervation by luxury they are but imaginary! The real danger lies in public Indifference at this moment to the fact that "Olfi Man is coming to New York and that Paddy home run hit won the game tor Boston on Saturday 1 Until the American people appreciates that the base-ball field is the breeding place of heroes and the nursery of belligerency ft will never have received its Just dues at the hands of the publio A Word on Lewiston Sidewalks Alderman plan tor compelling good sidewalks In Lewiston be shunted off but fairly in the light of good business and' economy Can Lewiston afford it -is the' question? A good Christian keeps his sidewalks' clear of snow In 1 winter- and mud in summer maintains the Integrity of his sink-spout-and the free delivery of his sewer If he' does less than this his soul is in peril in spits of his prayers A good city afford to do'less' "By its walks ye shall know says the modern testament pf municipalities Rumford Falls has better sidewalks than Lnwlston Collego' street has been a pitfall a slough of despond a place of mire and misery for years College girls do long jumps and acrobatic manoeuvres to avoid quicksands Whole stretches of Pine street have been friends of wet feet and pneumonia Half our days are spent going to Land fro by the old-fashioned route of shanks mare and it is time that sidewalks and streets should be in good up-to-date trim all say that we will have good streets and good walks and we shall get them TENEMENTS LET BETTER SICKNESS IS AVOIDED EXPENSE IS LESSENED BY HEATIN6 YOUR HOUSE BLOCK HOTEL BY MODER'N METHODS 1 1 Such iq the work I do guaranteeing satisfaction and plenty of heat I have found out by experience -that tbe HEATER Never foils to satisfy Let me tell you why and show you i names of present users ARNOLD 71 Main St Auburn A Postal will Secure Call Lewiston Wednesday Jttne 1598 The Troubles of Mr Chamberlain-- America has hall forgotten Mr Joseph Chamber I airr'e Birmingham speech about the possibility of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes- waving together in Anglo-Saxon alliance against all the I world England however still harps upon 'It all of the current issues of her magazines and reviews being full to the brim with either commendation or criticism of the truculent speech of Mr Chamberlain to his constitutents This fact is significant It shows that contingency what rhetoric and that England views as America ascribed to where we supposed that a politician was talking to the galleries they feel that he was discovering to the world the hopes and fears of a great people' Indeed the ser- loua tone prevading the English press is xnore serious than even Mr Cbamber-' Iain's suggestions If it were merely ora torial wind let it' blow over If it is buncombe let it alone and it will sprout' a day and is die idle If it to' talk is idle about talk it as It But any Tit seem to be held of these England seems to be worrying and while it holds its position jbo far as entangling alliances goes it still fears a combination of Great Powers of such a nature that not even the most hot headed politician would be able to contemplate it withouta certain sense of uneasiness On one side if we may credit the latest advices it looks to Germany in event of a Russo-Franco alliance and on the other in event of a general comblna-" tion it stretches out its bands to America 'I -Yes jt is certain that England is mak-dng it hot for Mr I Joseph Chamberlain and while they seme him for his utterances they acknowledge that he voiced only a national fear No one would have known "Usf it if they had! let it pass unnoticed iThe perturbation of the' press and the public simply emphasize the fact that England feels that before many months jome one is going to get an almighty lick-ling What more natural than that she jehould want our Deweys and our Hobsons to be in at the killing! TThe Princeton Batalaareate President Patton of Princeton has joined the speaking force of college presidents who set all creation into order by Logic Unlike Prof Norton of Harvard he does mot refer contemptuously to the present Wir and unlike Prof Norton he with the world in general because ws are cleaning the sore-spots of Cuba 1 But the Princeton president in his baccalaureate to Princeton students on Sunday -does- regret keenly that the "boom of is making the people of America forget farewell address President Patton affords an excellent illustration of a certain sentiment of fatal-' ism that seems to- fexist among the educated classes especially as it relates to public policy They cast the table of av erages- from the first to the last syllable -of recorded time 'and' declare that because civilization: has moved thus and so in-the past it must move thus and so in future They are convinced by the sub- tleties yf their own logic The fault with such learned objectors Is that they get hold of the wrong thread in the snarl There is no doubt "logic of an "inevitable" in history a certain march of events aycb as President Patton spoke of in hia baccalaureate but it is not true -that because Admiral Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and silenced the fleets of the Spanish admiral this war was subverted to greed of conquest or that a nation has turned aside for all time from ways of peace I to ways of war President Patton may tkll his students that we are in danger of getting pulverized under the wheel jof war if we engage in deeds of conquest but he should not forget that not America -but Spain declared this war Logic may be easier to deal in than solid shot argument may be more certain to be-- accurate than the I aim but there will be suffering and death until this war is over and un- til the Spaniard is retired from his posset aiohs in the New Farewell Address exalted truth and right and the Princeton presi-dent would find It hard to convince the stolid Virginian who sleeps at Mt Vernon (were he on earth to-day) that the sober temperate pulse of the American people to-day beats with anything but love for rights to all The principles that Washington explained trill endure as per- manent appeals to reason long after this f- war is over The logic of events lies not dn the deeds but in the principles of a people and beneath It all in this "inevit- war is that strong abiding faith that this nation is doing right A Great National Peril It's tough but it -looks as though minor league base bail must go The New England League it drawing patrons enough to pity the water-boy and very little more-The strong Western League is dying deaths daily The Eastern League is having hard work to pay the butcher and the baker and the printer and the National -League is playing to audiences of less than 2000 a day All this means the collapse of tremendous interests Millions of dollars are invested in base ball in this country We know because we have invested some of it here in Lewiston Thousands of men are indirectly responsible to it for bread and butter 1 In view of this condition of affairs we suggest that the nation is in peril With base ball gone all that would be lift would be horse-trotting peaknuckle old sledge tucker whist lawn tennis and the demoralizing foot ball and the back bone of the nation would bo broken How do you suppose we could have bred all these fighters been for base bail? Were you aware that Admiral Dewey first learned to fight from being an umpire in a hot game between the Coloss ia ns and the Philippi ans in school-boy Did pou know that Ensign Hobson was a back -X Deep meadows shower Wide azure skies where bright clouds soar A 'bobolink in singing flight buttercups or daisies white A dappled lane where cows go through In lazy loitering 'mong the new Rich grass With bare and curly head Young Teddy loiters -too in the bed Of strawberries 'turned attempting red there a red thruah preens hfa coat The while there bubslee from his throat The sweetest notes tile lad' e'er heard The bordering sweet brier' lightly stirred Br wandering breese wafts to his face Its damp warm scent Now he must-race To catch the cows the idling-drone But all his own 1 Transcript Preparing "comfort for the soldiers is in order now Old Sol has pulled the cork out of the bottle and got out at last Ccrvvra would like to borrow the cork-screw for the "Dewey a soon-to-be-established corps of Watenrille 19 year olds Hats off to the Maysville High School 'sweet girl graduate who during her entire course has never been absent or tardy and never ranked less tharf 100 in any study the kind of girls to And we forgot to mention that she had to walk three miles daily to school There is a satisfaction to some not personally' interested in this particular case in tho news that two who haveg been stealing plants from a Waferville cemetery were caught in the act and made to pay dearly for their thefts It ought not to be laid up against the shipbuilders of Richmond that once upon a time a vessel used in Cuban trade and built in that town was christened "Morro It is the Kennebec Journal that is guilty of this outburst: "What can be sweeter that the sweet girl graduate with her essay and- diplonta and houque? Nothing unless it is two of a People who have been gtumbling about the late lamented weather may be pleased to learn from the United States department of agriculture that the weather conditions been almost perfect for the development of crops throughout New England during the past week though in northern Vermont crops are beginning to show the effect of the drought Drought! Good gracious! What allegedBiddeford yachtsmen term a joke was the railing of a board across the keel of a rival yacht early last summer removing it in the toll the owner being in total ignorance of his handicap until recently wheki the perpetrators decided that it was tod good to keep Pprtunately the owner of tho -yacht was too good natured to make trouble which should make the jokers more ashamed of themselves thaw ever One would think that the troops At Chiakamaugua arid thoe at Port Popham were engaged in a contest as to who should report the biggest mosquitoes The Portland boy who wrote home to his fuller that one of the men in his company at Chickamaugua had captured ono as big as a kitten was ahead at last accounts The sun has shown tar -several hour now and already it has so burned away the feggy feeling that talk is heard of school picnics People who have been wondering about what postage would bo required on letters to their soldiers after these huve moved on Spanish territory are informed that the rate in such cases will not bo foreign postage nr tbe usual rate to the Philippines or to Porto Rico but simply United States domestic rates This order is of the more importance as many articles including clothing and general merchandise which are sent freely in the United States domestic mails are entirely prohibited from foreign mails and would not be allowed either to- Porto Riqo Cuba or the Philippines in the usual course of foreign mails The Portland Express is told this touching Story by one of the soldiers lately returned to Portland with the recruiting detachment "At be said "an aged woman catuo up to the car windows and spoke to me In her hands she carried a letter and with tears in her eyes she asked if I would try and find her son to whom it was addressed and deliver it when I reached Chickamauga I assured her that I would do my best and upon arriving at the park I made a careful search for the party It was to days' before I found1 liim ard when lie reud the letter he turned as while as a sheet and fainted dead away Later he told me that nine years ago he had run away from home for a fancied grievance and that his folks had never heard from him up to that day Ilis mother last re sort bad sent the letter to Chickamauga thinking that her son if alive might huve enlisted She did not have the slightest Idea whether he was really there or not arid it seems as if the hand of God must have directed her Tho boy was completely overcome with remorse and wrote a long letter to his -mother at once thus undoubtedly lifting a weight of sorrow from her He told me that if he returned alive he would go right home and make up in the future for the trouble ho had caused his parents In the Tho United States evidently does not intend to be held responsible for any damage that may result from taking the mines from tho Maine rivers Mayor Torrey of Bath on Tuesday' received a1 letter from Major Hoxio saying that he was instructed to upon a buoyed channel- through tho mine field in the Kennebe'c upon the assumption of the city of Bath through the mayor as tbe official representative of the city of all responsibility attaching to this serious impairment of lh defence of the city Mayor Torrey so the Bath Times reports replied that he would ryot assumo the responsibility and the matter will be laid before the city government THIS PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND DELAWARE June 15-l-Hon Gray vice-president of the Pennsylvania lines has placed a 'special car at the disposal of President McKinley-who has to attend the centennial cf Ohio Methodists which will- be celebrated here next week -The train will leave Washington at 345 Monday afternoon arriving In this city tbe following morn- lng The reception will ocJ our on Tuesday evening after which he will leave for 1 Washington arriving there Wednesday morning 1 MAINE FARMING Secretary McKeen has made up tbe farm statistics for the June bulletin The following general average of the condition of farm crops for the State 1s Condition of grass fields 108 per cent Condition of pastures 110 per cent Amount of young stock turned to pasture: Colts 90 per cent young cattle 103 per cent sheep 105 per cent Blossom of fruit trees Apples110 per cent plums 103 per cent berries 109 per cent other small fruits 104 per cent Acreage in 110 per cent corn 107 per cent Amount off hay on hand 122 per cent 1 PREPARING AGAINST DROUGHT Just now all over the country the ground Is everywhere saturated with moisture It does not follow however that there is no danger or little danger from lack of moisture later in the season The present wet condition of soil with high temperature is making weeds grow with great rapidity No i time should be lest after the-ground Is dry enough in going through hoed crops with a cultivator not only to destroy these robbers of soil fertility and moisture but to make a rnulch which wil! save the moist earth beneath from becoming parched through capillary attraction and evaporation from the1 surface I Eastern i Maine Fair Races -The following is the speed program of the Eastern Maine State Fair: TUESDAY AUG 30 Purse 1 3-mln stake trot or pace $400 slake trot or pnee 400 Vs-mlle -running 200 4 £27 trot or pace 30U WEDNESDAY AUG 31 stake trot or pace- $400 class trot or pace 409 class trot or pace 300 8 Six furlongs running 2J Green horse trot or pace 300 THURSDAY SEIT 3L No stoke trot or pace 3400 No class trot or pace No etnke trot or pnee 400 No Kive furlong running 200 No 3-year-old stake trot or pace 400 FRIDAY SEPT 2 No class trot nr pace 3300 No clas trot or pace' No 17 running 200 Htuke races closed June 1 Class races close Aug 20 excepting No 4 which will close July 1 CONDITIONS National rules to govern all harness vacos except Rule 2S which requires a -license for- drivers and will not le enforced-All horses in the stake races must be named August 1 Nos 1 2 5 10 12 14 are stake races now closed Nos 4 6 7 9 11 15 16 aro class races and entries close Aug 20th except No 4 which closes July 1 Entrance fee 5 per cent which must accompany nomination und 5 pur cent will bo deducted from winners Nos 3 8 13 17 arc running races flat best 2 in 3 American Jockey Club Rules will govern Moneys divided in all but stake races 25 15 10 No horse paid hut oho money Horses distancing the Held entitled to first money only All harness races to be trot or pace best 3 In 5 live to enter and four to stnrt Tho fair management reserve the -right 'to change the order of program For entry blanks and nil information ad- dress Eastern Maino State Fair Lock Box 50 Bangor Me READ MARK! LEARS Some Pertinent Questions That Can' All Be Answered With One Reply Why is it that in Lewiston and its suburbs with a combined population of 22000 there is only one medicinal preparation which gives statements from residents to back up its representations Why is it that Kidneypills do this in Lewiston as'well as in eviiry other city and town of any importance in the Union? Why is it that there are advertised in every newspaper a dozen remedies and only one can supply local proof local endorsation of its claims? The solution of tho problem is simple 'Only one remedy has the curing and the staying power Other remedies make all kinds of gigantic yet futile efforts to get local proof but the attempt ends in producing a statement or two from places that as far as LeWiston is concerned might as well he in tho moon Here is Auburn proof which bocks up the merits of Kidney Pills: Mrs Charles McKay of No 9 Summer St Auburn says: Kidney Pills are worthy of the confidence of any who need such a remedy and who may bo under the itopression that it is dselieBS for them to try to obtain relief My reasons for stating the above are personal I used to have such a dull heavy aching continually across the small of my back and a dreadful tired feeling that when they left me and I know what brought the result about I cannot help recommending it to others With me kidnejt complaint had almost become chronic My back pained me in the day time and it pained me at night My appetite toiled me and I was in misery After I started using Kidney-Pills which were got for me at Wakefield drug store everything seemed tcf change throughout my whole system Tfye feeling of lassitude the lack of ambi-tiongave place to strength and energy My back grew well' and it has stayed well Let others who suffer as I suffered do as I did and -they will not be Kidney Pills are for salo by all dealers price 50 cents Mailed by Poster-Mfibum Co Buffalo sole agents for the Sr Remember- the name and take no other MAINE PENSION CHANGES WASHINGTON June 15 The following pension changes are announced: Origins! Asa Foye Farmington' 36 James Duffy Home Togus Supplemental William Smith Richmond 32 Increase Alexander Drape Pinneus 33 to 312 Original widow etc Mary Smedburg Unity 312 REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION City Hall August Tuesday une a8thi8g8 ARRANGEMENT OF 1 I The Republican Slate Committee lias made the following Railroad Arrangements for tho Republican State Convention Maine Central Tickets train Monday and Tuesday June 27th ana to Augusta godd to return from Augusta on any train Tuesday or Wednesday June 2Sth and 29th at one fare for the round trip from all points on the Maine Central Railroad and all Its leased lines Special train will be run from Farmington to Brunswick connecting with the' early morning train from Portland to Augusta and returning from Brunswick to Farming-ton connecting with the afternoon train' from Augusta to Portland after the convention Bangor and Aroostook One fare for the round trip Tickets good going to Augusta Monday and Tuesday June 27th and 2th: returning Tuesday and Wednesday June and 29th Boston and Maine Railroad One fare for round trip Tickets good going to Augusta Monday and Tuesday June Sith and 2Sth returning Tuesday und Wednesday June 2m and 29th Portland and Rochester One fare for round trip Tickets good going to Augueta Monday and Tuesday June 27th and 2ttg returning Tuesday and Wednesday June 28th and 29th Portland and Rumford Falls One fare for round trip Tickets good going to Augusta Monday and Tuesday June 27th and 2Slh returning! Tuesday- and Wednesday June 281 and 28th Grand Trunk Railroad One fare for round trip Tickets good goiing to Augusta Monday and Tuesday June 27th and 28th returning Tuesday and Wednesday June 28th and 29th Somerset Railroad One fare for' round trip Tickets good going to Augusta Monday and Tuesday June 27th and 28th re- -turning Tuesday and Wednesday June 28th'-and 29rh Sandy River Railroad One fare for round trip Tickets good going to Augusta Monday and Tuesday June 27th and 28th returning Tuesday and Wednesday June 2Sth and 29th Phillips and Rangeley Railroad One fare for round trip Tickets good going to Augusta Monday anil Tuesday June 27th and 2-th returning Tuesday aiid Wednesday June 28th and 29th Franklin and Megantic One fare for round trip Tiekets good going to Augusta Monday and Tuesday June 27th ana 28th returning Tuesday and-Wednesday-June 28th and 29th Portland Sit Desert and Machlas Steamboat Line One fare for round trip to Bar Harbor Rockland or Portland and return' good from June 27th to July 1st inclusive ns delegates may desire and 1 at these places rull tickets can be proeured A CARD TO THE PUBLIC Having purchased a new up-to-date hearse which is ono of tho James Cunningham Son latest patterns with -plain top rubber tires hrmd-carved pillars plate glass black and white draperies I am now prepared to serve the! publio with the best funeral outfit east of Boston New horysr new backs new harnesses and everything first-class All orders will receive my personal attention Respectfully GEORGE CURTIS Telephone 3T2-12 at stable 12S-2 at residence 23-2 Drug Store maylbeoiltf The Worcester Polytechnic Institute WORCESTER MASS BKHDKHUAM President Courses of study In Jfechauicnl Civil and Elea trtcal Engineering Chemistry and Centra! gclrnoa Kew and extenatva lntrntoriea in EnKineerln Electricity Physic and Chemiatry Spelal facllp Ities in Steam anil Hydraulics fad-page Cntw lorue shoving positions filled by traduate mailed free Address JKMAK6IIALlKcglslra maylSWASSOt STATE OF MAINE Androscoggin si June 15-A 1MB This Is to giro notice Tbst oa the ninth day of June A t)93 a Warrant Jn Insolvency was isrned out of the Court of Insolvency for said County of Androscoggin against the estate of said Harris of Auburn 1 In said County of Androscoggin adjudged to be an Insolvent Debtor on petition of said Debtor which petition was filed on tho ninth day of Juno: A- IMS to which date Interest an claim is to be computed That the payment of any debts to er by said Debt' or and the trsnsfsri and delivery cf say property by him Is forbidden by law Theta Keeling of tha Creditors of said Debtor to prove their debts and in eoaa there ara assets aumdent te authorise ths name to ehoosa one or more aadgnaas of his estate will ba held at a Court of Insolvency te be helden at' ths Probata Court Boom In sc Id Auburn on tbs thirteenth day of July A 1998 at aina o'clock in tbs forsnoon Olvsa nnder my band tba date llrst above writ ten BKNJ HILL Sheriff As Hessen grr of tU Court of Inaolvaney for said County oi Androscoggin The Highland Military Academy Sept 14 188 A First Grads Preparatory School Modern Sanitation New Athlefie meld I Ire Teaching Small Classes Generous Table Visitor Ths -Bt Bsv WlUiani Lawrsnoe JOSEPH Ab DBS SHAW ATM Bead Kastsr WoroostsrUass' junl6HWF4Bt TO Furnished front-room Bhawmut down stairs Inquire at I Two boarders 2 boys ply to JOHN HALL 94 BJako 8t to 9 TO At Baileys Island two tenement cot tags of five room each Inquire of CRAFTS No 8 Continental Lewiston- Mo All furnlahaJ Jnnalfiodlw I WA Te hire 4 atone masons must ba strietlv tom pern to and good workman Address LOCK BOX rr Derrs VI JuneldcdSt Has the Spanish army decided to postpone its capture of Washington until the warm weather is over? General Wesley bride-to-be is ten years older than was first stated but still an ample margin between them on the age question A man' was fined one cent in Boston the other day for a Joking attempt to grab a watch What' would the fine have been had he been in earnest I "Pie and declares the San Francisco Call "are all right in their Undoubtedly the question of where that is that makes all the trou ble Even the mild and harmless study of botany now and then claims its victims for a Newburg (N Y) high school girl in pursuit of died of handling poison ivy: Bibles are wanted for the soldiers Is it because of that frequently-told story of the soldiers whose lives were saved from the deadly bullet during the Civil War by the Bible over their hearts? A Springfield paper is listening to the "tender -sibilation of red-winged blackbirds in the one editior that 's tired of the booming of Spanish guns off the coast of Massachusetts The cigarette ought to furnish three times three millions a year towards the war fund when remembered that 93 per cent of the rejected volunteers owed their rejection to the cigarette habit' That New York skirt dancer arrested for non-siipport of his family who is a female impersonator and can paint teach music and do beautiful embroidery seems to be a Jill of all trades and mistress of none That was an inconsiderate Brooklyn man whomade all arrangements for his funeral and then failed in his attempt -to commit suicide The undertaker will be quite justified if he sites the man for deceiving him I A If the Spanish' navy realizes the possibilities of our submarine boat the Holland must have the same creepy sensation that causes a woman to gather her skirts about her when going through a snake-in tested lot of land It must seem to ths Kentucky troops like a Sinful waste of good material when they fiear df that Kansas colonel who wants each of his men to carry a quart at whiskey with which to rub their feet after hard marching With his flags ret) white and blue streamers brass army buttons badges and star-spangled golf stockings the bicyclist is endeavoring to impress people with the patriotism that 'strong enough to lead him to enlist Helen Gould is going to England where her sister the Countess Castellans and children will visit her It must be inconceivable to many people that Mies Gouid really prefers untitled Americans to the sort of thing her sister married into If the "bicycle Is the entering wedge of friendly alliance between the and Canada there really any 7 thing else necessary lor the bicycle knows no law or creed rnd can be trusted to over ride all opposition Nothing stands before it and nothing can A 8t Louis man has been treated for all manner of known and unknown -diseases In the last 30 years and the cause of all HALLS IHAIR RENEWERl It can't make a single new root But if the root is there it will give you a thrifty glossy growth No gray hair No dandruff down to Portland and whoop-er-up for the July 4th festirivities nothing Tho Dominion has given Lewiston some its handsomest military and civic parades not all of them naturalized citizens either' Some hungry Iialiana pulled up about a bushel of a Centri il Park plant the other day and the polic rman who arrested them subsequently reported that the plant they were eating ly resembled the rheum raponticum or common Tammany had better discharge that policeman altogether too well educated to suit the needs of Crokerism After two week: of wedded life and Biother-ih-law aVi ew York man killed himself leaving a note stating that "Mothers-in-law i re the cause of much it that man had read tho papers he would- havo known something about mothers-in- law without the trouble of getting'marrier and committing suicide In order to find it out for himself No warning hiks heretofore had the slightest effect or the man who persists in leaning over tL handle bars of his bicycle in the scorcher's attitude The fact however tbit a great number of Volunteers were rejected simply because of the "scorching position mny induce the young man 10 would like to wear the blue to sit 1 little straighter The lungs and heart are so seriously impaired by this position that serious-diseases ro-sult while curvat ire of the spine is another attendpt evil -1v- Washington they generally believe that Capt Giant of the Charleston has lingered at the Laldrones on his way to Manila long ezAmghj to take them under control of the United States TheLodrone are needed In this campaign Commercially they hre not so very important but like ail other islands in vnst oceans "they lie in an important rategic position" Lying on the route from Honolulu to Manila they form conv or lent way for be tween our two mf in possessions in the Pacific The group is notably mountainous tho nort ism is'ands which are all -uninhabited' being especially so Separated fro these by a brood channel are tbe five mthern islands Guajan Aguigan Seypan Ifota and Tinian which cpntains perhaps 1 tight thousand people a good part of them colonists from the Philippines since th original Inhabitants tho Spanish conquest rm for the islands Islas of file do fared badly under cwn tfi do las Velas Latina or Islands Lateen Sails was prettier than Islas los Lad rones or It lands of tho Thieves iterred but the latter and has -never been later appellations even official Spapish This ly to be the one under will add them to his growing list It his been said that Capt orders wsn to raise our flag over -his was the reason why he waited at lonolulu for tha Peking to Join him There is no assertion howto perform the same ceremony for the Pelews which lie Southeast of Manila anjd therefore a little out that pleasure may be reserved tor the Philadelphia or the York-town '-i ZtZii.