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Queer Letters Received From Many Parts of the Country. The President gets a large number of "fake," or "queer," letters every day from insane people all over the United States and Europe. The executive receives a great quantity of mail, but few people have an idea of the amount of this "fake" mail that it falls to the lot of the President's secretary to open. The mail for the President is handled in the official mail room at the city postoffice in Washington and is delivered at the White House by a special carrier detailed from the force of employees at the executive mansion. There are six letter cases in this room and each case contains one box for the mail of the President and his family. The number of letters for the President alone runs from 300 to 400 a day and from 10 to 15 of these are the "fake" letters. There is one man out in California who has been writing to the various Presidents for a number of years. He numbers each letter and the last received was No. 360. In the upper left hand corner is written the rather startling information, "From Jesus Christ." One of these missives was opened some time ago by permission of the President's secretary and found to contain only a number of unintelligible hieroglyphics something like shorthand. Of course they find their way ultimately into the waste paper basket at the White House, but they are not allowed to be destroyed at the restoffice. Another "freek" who has also been writing to the President for long years scorns envelopes and stamps and uses postal cards altogether. If he does not finish what he has to say in one he takes another, numbering them consecutively. Sometimes he uses as many as five or six. He signs himself "Michael, King of Heaven," and his communications are usually in the forms of commands to the President on the way in which the United States should be run. During the period of the Spanish war he wrote almost every day and gave orders as to the movements of the fleets in Asiatic waters. Not long ago a letter was received addressed to "George Washington, President of the United States." Letters come addressed to the President in all sorts of ways. His real title is "The President," but he gets them all, "His Majesty" and "His Excellency," down to simple "Teddy Roosevelt." Of course every Christmas scores of letters come for Santa Claus, care of the President, from children who imagine he is a sort of fair godfather—Pittsburg Gazette. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The Largest Charcoal Iron Plant. Cordwood in excess of 100,000 cords is now piled up along the tracks of of the Marquette & Southeastern railroad, ready to be hauled to Marquette, Mich. for use in making charcoal for the Pioneer iron company's million dollar blast furnace soon to go into commission and for the company's Carp river furnace, also located in Marquette. It will require 6,400 cords of wood to charge the eighty kilns at the new furnace, each being of eighty cords capacity, and with the plant in operation 225 cords daily will be required, or the capacity of three kilns. This will be the largest charcoal iron plant in the world. Close to 2 million acres of hardwood lands, comprising the pick of the upper peninsula, are owned by the company, also three railroads with an aggregate mileage of 150, valuable mines and mineral lands in the Ishpeming-Negause district that assure an ore supply for a generation to come. Saccharine Proscribed in France. Highest North American Peak. New measurements confirm the re- port that Mount McKinley, in Alaska, is the highest peak in North America. Deadly Carbolic Acid Gas. One cannot survive in an atmos- phere containing more than one part of carbonic acid gas to 233 of air. A Big Business With Colonies. England does $1,971,377,000 worth of business with its colonies, which cost about $12,000,000 a year. Many Deaths from Tempests. The deaths from storms and floods in 1902 were 12,000. OKLAHOMA BRIEFS. The Oklahoma potato crop is now all planted. Potato ground in Oklahoma rests but sixty days and it makes two crops a year. A pious old lady wrote to Dennis Flynn and asked him if it was true that a painting in the nude was hung on the wall of the White House, and he wrote back, "It is the naked truth." Seven years ago Farmer White, president of the Pottawatomie Potato Growers' Association, quit politics and devoted his attention to growing potatoes. He is now worth $60,000 and every dollar is profit from his Oklahoma farm. An assay has been made of the ore from the molybdenum mine, near Lawton. It shows 57.15 per cent pure metal. Molybdenum is worth about $2,500 a ton. There is a large lead of this ore in the Wichita mountains and it means a fortune for the owners. Mrs. Alta M. Woods, wife of the late J. R. Woods, who drew the lucky number one in the great Ian lottery here, was married to Oliver Powers, a civil engineer of San Francisco, last week. The wedding took place in Lincoln, Neb. They will make their home in Lawton. Statistics compiled in the office of the territorial secretary show that the total amount of premiums collected by life insurance companies in Oklahoma in 1902 was $496,672.68, as against $280,657.52 in 1901. Fire insurance premiums in 1902 amounted to $716,054.72 and in 1901 to $558,251.34. Peaches begin to blossom in Oklahoma as early as March 10 and as late as March 20. Usually blossoms opening before March 20 are frozen, and those opening after March 20 escape the frost. This year the blossoms will hardly be out before the 20th. The buds are just beginning to swell and the ground is wet and cold. The Logan county grand jury has examined all local witnesses subphoennaed to testify as to boodling in the legislature, but has uncovered nothing that would warrant an indictment. Several council clerks and members of the lower house were subphoennaed. It is alleged that witnesses believed to be in possession of sensational evidence denied all knowledge of corruption. The general opinion is that the grand jury will fall to return a single indictment. The grand jury will be in session for eight or ten days before making its report. Forty acres of pure plaster of paris from ten to fifty feet thick, is the result of the effort of two boys to smoke a rabbit out of a hole under a ledge on Gloss mountain, Woods county. The gypsum ledge was formerly the homes of numberless wild creatures, which lived in the crevices of the rocks, using dry cow chips, sticks and other rubbish for their nests. The whole mountain side was a mass of flames almost immediately when the fire was applied, and it burned for days. Only 300 degrees is required to convert gypsum into plaster of paris, and the ledge is being transformed into white powder. INDIAN TERRITORY Thousands of ducks and geese are on their regular feeding ground at this season of the year, on the Otoe reservation north of Pawnee. Five boys ranging from 5 to 10 years were drowned in a mill pond at Chant, last week. The lads were playing on an old raft when it capsized. Sillas Waul, who has been jilted by two women in as many days, in Kansas City, is a blacksmith and lives at Checotah, I T So fa) as can be learned he has a wife and family and they are still living at Checotah By the supplementary treaty between the Choctaws and Chickasaws, ratified last summer, provision is made that coal lands to not exceed 500,000 acres shall be segregated and set aside as coal lands, and that these lands shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder within two years. There is no way of estimating how much the property will bring, but those who are best posted as to the value of the lands expect the sum will be received to exceed $50,000,000. Upon application of the Dawes commission, United States Marshall Hackett, of the Central district, has issued process on Daniel Bell and forty-five other Choctaw Snakes who oppose allotment of Indian lands, and who have refused to enroll, warning them to appear and file on their allotments April 1, failure to do which will place them in contempt of the federal court. The obstructionists are scattered over the territory and their leader is in Washington. Emperor Willian has determined to have a grouse moor of his own in the royal domain about Koenigsburg. The grouse does not exist in a wild state in Germany. CANCER CURED WITH SOOTHING, BALMY OILS. Cancer, Tumor, Osteoporosis. Cancer, Tumor, Osteoporosis. Write for Illustrated Book. Sent free Address DR. GYE, BV. Xunaa M. Mc. Oral Surgery. STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE. Thunder Mountain's Monument Rear-Edited Without Man's Aid. One of the most remarkable natural curiosities on the earth is to be seen in a rugged and almost inaccessible part of the newly opened but already famous Thunder Mountain gold region in Idaho. This strange freak of nature is called "Sheep-eater's Monument," and is said to have derived its name from a tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the district. The monument is 70 feet high and consists of a rough shaft, composed of boulders and gravel, tapering slightly upward, and capped by a huge irregular rock whose weight is estimated at not less than 50 tons. The cap resists an slender projections from the shaft that are gradually being worn away by the elements, threatening the eventual all of the great stone. The monument stands on the slope of a ridge which lies 1,000 feet and descends 500 feet from the site. It was undoubtedly formed by erosion. The surface of the felicity has been for centuries and is yet being washed away by water, the result of melting snows and rainfalls. Originally the cap-stone was stationed on the ground, but gradually the soil surrounding it was carried away a narrow vertical section just under it being left intact, owing probably to hard cementing substance in the conglomerate and possibly also to the direction in which the eroding torrents expended their force. How long a time was required to form the shaft may be only partly realized when it is stated that there are trees not far away taller than the monument. As the erosive process continues, the shaft is likely to increase in length unless a soft spot should be reached under the present surface, in which case the curious formation might topple over and break into pieces.—Lesite's Weekly. A Cure for Rheumatism. Alhambra, Ill., Mar. 23rd:—Physicians are much puzzled over the case of Mr. F. J. Oswald of this place. Mr. Oswald suffered much with Rheumatism and was treated by doctor after doctor with the result that he got no better whatever. They seemed unable to do anything for him and he continued to suffer till he heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Oswald began a treatment of this remedy which very soon did for him what the doctors had failed to do and they cannot understand it. This is the same remedy that cured Hon. Fred A. Busse, our State Treasurer, of a very severe case of Rheumatism some years ago and which has since had an unbroken record of success in curing all forms of Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble. There seems to be no case of these painful diseases that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure promptly and permanently. A Pension Widow's Record. Pension Commissioner Ware has just completed an investigation that revealed a strange case of a woman"s love for the army. The charge was recently made that Mrs. Ashton of New Albany, Ind., was drawing four pensions. A search of the records brought to light the fact that Mrs. Ashton has had four husbands, and that each one of them was either a soldier or an ex-soldier. It also shows that she drew two widow's pensions of $8 a month, although she did not draw them simultaneously. Her first husband died soon after the war, and in course of time she was given a pension. When she married again her pension stopped, but it was not long until she asked to be restored to the pay roll, owing to her second husband's death. Her claim was verified and she got the pension. Then she married again, and her third spouse went the way of the others, while she went back to the pension office. Before the necessary formalities could be gone through, however, she accompanied a fourth battle-scarred veteran to the altar, so she received no pension. Powerful Tone, Beautiful and Satisfy ing Story & Clark Piano Co. Gentlemen:—I cannot speak too highly of your planos, which I have listened to with much interest and pleasure. The tone throughout—from the rich and powerful bass to the top treble—is beautiful and most satisfying, and, both for solo work and for accompanying the voice, they seem to be unsurpassable. Faithfully yours, R, Watkin Mills. UNFAMILIAR FACTS. The United States has the highest murder rate of any country in the world. But one-fifth the population and one-eleventh of the area of Turkey is in Europe. Eleven per cent of the immigrants to the United States in the last four years have been Jews. A. C. Bird, the new traffic manager of the Gould railway lines, receives a salary of $50,000 a year. The numerical strength of the standing armies of the Danubian states are: Servia, 63,600; Roumania, 38,000, and Bulgaria, 33,400. The stars in the Milky Way are equally distributed in a uniform ring in the heavens, and are several times as bright as stars in other regions. NEWPORT'S MEDIAEVAL CASTLE. Palace Built to Look as If It Had Been Standing Hundreds of Years. Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell Clark of this city are building an Italian house at Newport. It lies three miles beyond the center of the city and at least two from the last row of five houses, those that border the Cliff Walk. A mile to the east of Eaton's Beach and back half a mile from the junction of Purgatory and Paradise roads, Mr. Clark's new house rises among rocky little hills, to look over a foreground of lake, promontory, sandy shore and unbroken ocean. In that part of the island where nature is wildest it sks already, before it is finished, as if it had been standing many hundreds of years. The stone is almost black, and the mortar used has been darkened to match it. The result is a building that already looks hoary with age, a castle taken bodily, settings and all, out of the traditional past and set down in the modern city of Newport. The estate upon which it is building is the former farm of O. H. P. Belmont, Gray Craig, and the pudding stone that everywhere crops out of the soil has been made use of in the construction. By this means the architect, Abner J. Haydel, the man who designed Castle Gould, on Long Island, has been able to make it appear almost as if the castle were a part of the land about it. Last April the work began, and some time this spring it will be completed. Mrs. Clark is herself an artist, and the results of her skill are shown in many ways about Gray Craig The Italian gardens back of the castle have been her special field. There early in the work she went out one day and with a sharp stick drew a maze of graceful curves—each detail a finished design—and had her gardner fill in her lines with box and a variety of trees and plants. In the center are Italian urns, and bordering the maze are rhododendrons and several kinds of spruce, juniper and yew trees. In their travels through Europe, and particularly through Italy, Mr. and Mrs. Clark collected many beautiful pieces of statuary and entablature, which they are now using to adorn the house and its surroundings. Bass reliefs and medallions taken from the catacombs of Rome have been cemented into the walls of the building here and there. The old keystones in the Gothic arches at the base of the 65-foot tower, under which the main entrance to the castle is gained, were also imported from Italy. Along at the other end of the front there is near the loggia and imbedded in the face of the wall a curious ornament, the device of the workmen themselves. It is made to represent a wreath of yellow flowers encircling a horseshoe, which is held in place by a nail driven beneath the middle of the curve. An old Delia Robbia "sopra porta" will surmount a door opening on the terrace. Nearby will be a beautiful old Italian fountain and four life-sized marble statues typifying the seasons. The countryside is rich in Indian legends and Mr. Clark has secured a piece of statuary, the work of a French sculptor, which represents a young Indian girl sitting down and shading her eyes with her hand as she scans the horizon for the sight of the return of her tribe. At the edge of the court yard and close to the foot of the tower there will be an orange house. Upon entering the castle one finds one's self in an immense hall, occupying the center of the building and thirty feet from floor to ceiling. Here is to be placed a pipe organ by W. B. Goodwin. It will rest on a platform, and upon either side is a high stained glass window, beneath which, extending the length of the platform on either side of the organ, a row of old choir seats from Spain will form the wainscot. In the center of the high ceiling will be placed a leaded glass skylight, and sixteen feet from the floor a balcony will extend round the entire hall, forming the corridor on the second floor which will lead to the boudier apartments. The mantelpiece for the hall is now being made in Rome. It is the design of Mrs. Clark, who also planned the front door, the locks and keys of the house and much else that is both original and artistic. Ancient as the castle will be in looks, some of the accessories will be most modern, both in appearance and in reality. They will be kept out of sight, however, as much as possible, for, while they may be convenient and comfortable, even indispensable, they belong to the Twentieth century, and so scarcely harmonize with a castle of the Middle Ages. There will be no stables. Only automobiles will be used, and the house for them in the courtyard is concealed behind a medieaval lookout.-New York Tribune. Windmills Again in Favor. Windmills are returning to use in England. To deliver one suitable for pumping purposes the Royal Agricultural Society offers prizes of $250 and $50. Woman's Strange Bequest. At Edinburgh, Scotland, a lady has been found insane who left $2,000 to provide a fund for the rescue of sane persons improperly placed in lunatic asylums. Temperament of Animals Temperament of Animals. Speaking generally, wild creatures inhabiting hot countries are more savage than those of cold or temperate countries. Result of Running. Running lessens the blood supply in the legs. Three Principal Exports. Bulgaria's chief exports are wheat, wine and otter of roses. BONFIRES OF BANKBILLS. Manner in Which Old Notes Are Destroyed by Great Foreign Banks. Few people are aware that a Bank of England note leaves the bank but once, and that the moment the "Old Lady of Threadneedle street" regains possession of the crisp sheet of paper its doom is sealed, even though it has been but five minutes in circulation. Like the Imperial Bank of Germany, our national banking institution destroys its old notes by fire; but the Bank of France and the United States treasury prefer to destroy their old paper currency by chemical processes, though the first named used also to infilge in banknote bonfires. Every year notes of the face value of £18,000,000 are consigned to the flames in the Bank of England furnace; not all at once, of course, for that would be an operation too lengthy and monotonous for the officials who must be present to witness it, to take at one sitting. Fifty thousand notes of various denominations are daily issued by the bank, and in packages of 50,000 they are destroyed. But ere it it is burned a returned note is kept in the banknote library for five years, in case it may be required for reference. It is one of 77,000,000 notes, the number usually in stock, but if it is required it can be turned up in five minutes, so perfect is the system of filing. This dead stock is kept in 13,400 boxes, each of which measures 18 inches in length by 10 inches in width and 9 inches in depth. Ere they are burned a hole in punched through the figure showing their value, and the chief cashier's signature is torn off. They are packed into the furnace while the officials look on, the fire is lighted and in a short while a little ash is all that remains of what once represented many thousands of British sovereigns. The Imperial Bank of Germany burns over 100,000,000 notes yearly. It seems a number that should represent a truly colossal sum; but then many of them are for small amounts and the majority for not more than 5 marks. Twelve million pounds is the amount representing the annual destruction of 600,000 notes of the Bank of France. They used to be burned in a cage rotating over a huge fire, but now they are reduced to a pulp in the presence of several directors, after being first punched and stamped "Cancelled." Such destructions take place every fortnight. Comparatively few pound notes are seen in Great Britain, but in the United States it is different; one sees more paper currency than coin. Indeed, in no country in the world are so many notes in circulation. Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of bills, varying in value from $1 to $500, are issued by the treasury, while more are issued by the innumerable small banks all over America, secured on a cash deposit with the government. The treasury will redeem these in any quantities for gold or new bills at any time. Old notes are always being sorted and when their numbers have been verified and cancelled they are made up in packets of 100. Before they are ready for the destructor four holes are driven through each bundle by a great punch machine; next the packets are cut in halves, and one half goes to be again counted and checked. All being found correct, the mutilated bundles are passed on for further bad treatment, this time being placed in a huge machine, the interior of which is fitted with numberless sharp blades. When these revolve they cut the bills into minute fragments. Still they are not finished with From the macerating machine the fragments are sent to the vats and boiled in a chemical preparation. All that remains after the boiling is pulp, useless as currency, but useful for molding busts of the presidents and models of America's famous buildings, for which purpose it is readily bought by manufacturers of these and similar articles.-London Tit-Bits. Live on Mere Pittance. The cost of living in Porto Rico is perhaps less, gauged from the natives view of necessity, than in any other quarter of the globe where modern civilization has obtained a foothold. Dr. Ryder, secretary of the American Missionary Association, who has recently returned from an inspection of the island, tells the following story to illustrate the scale of wages and living in the island. "I was riding through the interior on horseback, on my way to Ponce," he said, "when I saw ahead of me in the road a native carrying a log on his head. It was a log twelve feet long, and must weighed 200 pounds. He seemed to trot along with it on his head without any trouble. I asked my companion to stop and ask him about it. He did so, and the man said he had cut and 'ripped' the log, that is, got it ready to split into timber, although it was not loosened enough to fall apart, the day before; he had brought it 15 miles on his head that morning, and had three miles farther to carry it into Ponce. "And how much will you get for it?" asked my companion. "I hope to get 15 cents,' replied the man, 'but I may get only 12.' "But that sum would buy as much as $1.50 would up here," continued the doctor, "so the man was really working for about 75 cents a day. It is estimated that a man can support a family by three days' work a month. Food is practically free. Fruit is to be had for the taking, and the poorer classes practically live upon fruit. And as for a house, a convert borrowed a dollar from one of our missionaries to put up a house when he wanted to get married, and it was plenty."—Chicago Chronicle. STORY & CLARK PIANOS for tone, touch and durability. They present the highest type of American plano manufacture, and are fully warranted for ten years by one of the oldest and most responsible industries in the land. When you buy a STORY & GET in any other plano. SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS. STORY & CLARK Factories—Grand Western Salesrooms, 914 Walnut Stre and Salesrooms, Chicago, Ill. 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It is being said in many Eastern journals and not a few Western ones that the day of the poor man in mining is gone by; that no one but a big corporation can succeed in mining any more; that it takes big capital to do anything; that most of the good mining propositions are controlled by trusts or millionaires and that there is no longer opportunity for a min with a little money. This is all a mistake. The day of the "poor" mining man was never brighter nor greater than right now. The assertion that most of the good mines are owned by trusts or millionaires is heard most often, but there is least in that of any of the pessimistic utterances. One hears of the big millionaire owners more than he does of the thousands of substantial companies that go right on with little notoriety, paying good wages and monthly yielding dividends. 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Mr. Davis, the American who has expended considerable sums in exploring work near Thebes, Egypt, has found a splendid chariot in the tomb of King Thothmes. Wouldn't "Tell Tales." Senator Frye once refused to write his reminiscences for a magazine, declaring himself opposed to the telling by public men of "tales out of school." Dick Turpin's Pistol. Dick Turpin's pistol was sold in London recently for $26. From the West of Ireland. Oysters for King Edward are being obtained from the west of Ireland. H.E.P. Best clapping music building NOTHING PRUSS Makes He all Disease WOULD LOVE he wounded t PRODUCES that no wound 25 and 90c Pkg. Prussia Poultry The "Weber Junior" Pumper Can also be used for other purposes in the Pumper AS THE RY FOOD! Cholera. Roup and Helps Them Grow. Osmania. Wash, says Asian Poultry Food Co. St. Paul, Minn. Send for Our FREE CATALOGUE. The saddies for myself and brothel are giving me a free attendant. 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The projectors do not expect the concern will pay dividends for four years. Japan has small glass works, but their products is coarse and unsatisfactory. Comparing countries visited on his recent trip, Baron Shibusawa expressed the opinion that industries in the United States are somewhat overcapitalized and inflated. He found England ultraconservative, with old-time methods prevailing which prevent that country from meeting aggressive competition. Germany he considers a golden mean, where conditions of industry are normal and on a stable basis—New York Times. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. One-twentieth of the wealth of the German nation is in 6,900 share companies. France has a standing offer of $12,500 for the invention of a satisfactory substitute for phosphorus. Of the twenty-five men who have been president of the United States ten have today no descendants. Charged with begging, a Halifax man advanced the excuse that he was "lame through vaccination." Using pepper to deaden the pain of toothache has caused the death of a man at Middleborough through blood poisoning. Personally fitting dog blankets of sealskull can now be had for $50 each in New York, if made without hand- kerchief pocket.