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IN CONGRESSIONAL HALLS. Daily Rontine ot Boa H«s o! tto Filty-Second Congress. Measures Discussed and Bills Passed By Our National Law-Makers. THE SENATE. Mr. Teller, in the senate, Friday, in presenting some petitions against the re¬ peal of the Sherman act, declared that, in his judgment, there was a decided majority on both sides of the chamber opposed to the repeal of that act, and also that in his opinion it could not be made a political question at the next ses¬ sion whatever might be the inclination of the incoming president. Mr. Hill said that, in his judgement, the best way to test the sense of the senate was by a di¬ rect tice motion, and he, therefore, gave no¬ that on Monday, during the morn¬ ing hour, he would move to take up the hill to which Mr. Sherman referred. The senate then proceeded to other business. The house bill to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Cherokee na¬ tion of Indians, of Indian Terri¬ tory was taken up and many amend¬ ments were offered, discussed ar.d dis¬ posed of. The bill was laid aside with¬ out final action and at 3 o’clock the bus¬ iness of the senate was suspended in or¬ der that fitting tributes might be made to the memory of the late Senator Bar¬ bour, of Virginia, who died in the city of Washington on the 14th of May, 1892. Eulogies of the dead senator were pro¬ nounced by Messrs. Daniels, MandersoD, Faulkner, Gallinger, Platt, Hill, His- cock and Hunton, Mr. Barbour’s success¬ or in the senate. The usual resolutions were agreed to and the senate—as a fur¬ ther mark of respect to Mr. Barbour— adjourned till 11 o’clock Saturday. Saturday morning the senate proceed¬ ed to the consideration of the house bills on the calendar. The first takeD up was the bill to promote the safety of em¬ ployes and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driv¬ ing wheel brakes. At the suggestion of Mr. Harris, the bill was laid aside tem¬ porarily without action, Mr. Harris stating his belief that its passage would put into the hands of receivers a majority of the railroads of the south. Consideration of house bills was inter¬ rupted to permit Mr. Teller to report from the judiciary committee a new bill to submit the McGarrahan claim to the court of private land c!aim9 and it was placed on the calendar. The hour9 as¬ signed to the consideration of house bills on the calendar having expired, the con¬ ference report on the bill concerning tes¬ timony in criminal cases under the inter¬ state commerce law was presented and agreed to. Mr. Harris asked unani¬ mous consent that the consideration of house bills on the calendar be continued in the morniug hour Monday, and that the quarantine bill shall not be sub¬ ject to objection. Mr. Frye suggested as an objection that Mr. Hill had given notice that he would move to take up the hill to repeal the Sherman act in the morniug hour of Monday. After some time this point was waived and Mr. Harris gave notice that he would immediately, on the con¬ clusion of routine business on Monday, move that the senate proceed to the con¬ sideration of the quarantine bill. The senate thorize then passed the senate bill to au¬ the construction of a railroad bridge across St. Mary’s river between the states of Florida and Georgia. Memo¬ rial proceedings in memory of Mr. Gam- bee, of South Dakota; Ford, of Michi¬ gan, ami Stackhouse, of South Carolina, late members of the house of representa¬ tive?, were begun at 4 o’clock p. m. and after eulogies on each of the dead repre¬ sentatives the customary resolutions were agreed to aud the senate adjourned until Monday at 11 o’clock. In the senate, Monday, Mr. Morgan demandc I the regular order of busiuess, and the vice president decided that the regular order of business was the motion of Mr. Hill to take up the bill to repeal the Sherman silver act. After a good deal of confusion aud parliamentary wrangling the question was brought to a direct vote on Mr. Hill’s motion to take up the hill to repeal the Sherman act, and the motiou was defeated—yeas, 23; nays, 42. Twelve democrats and eleven republicans voted to take up the bill—all the free coinage senators voted together. Several who had not been advocates of free coinage voted against the motion. This vote, however, cannot be considered a test of the silver question in the senate, because should it have been adopted Senator Hill’s bill would have become the regular order and would have oc¬ cupied the time of the senate every day after 2 o’clock until disposed of. The senate, Tuesday, ratified the Rus¬ sian extradition treaty with amendments. The Norfolk and Western railroad bill was reached on the calendar and laid aside on account of the absence of Mr. Gorman. In response to the senate reso¬ lution the chief of engineers of the United States army submitted several communications showing that the mate¬ rial used in tho construction of the new library building consists of imported from foreign countries and not home production. The material is Vienna and African marble imported in rough, to cost about $40,000; Italian marb’e im¬ ported in rough, costing about $57,000; foreign mahogany wood costing bills $6,000. A number of unobjected passed, house on the calendar were among them sixteen private the relief pension of the bills; assignees also .*enate le¬ bills for or gal representatives of John Roach, de¬ ceased, to pay the balance due on the United States ship Dolphin. THE HOUSE. The anti-option .... bill the . came up m house the thing Friday morning, The speaker rendered a dec sion that the bill would first have to be referred to one of the standing committees of the house and when report*.1 back to the house, being a revenue hill, it must be consid- ered in committee of the whole. Mr. Hatch then moved that the bill be ferred and to his the motion committee demanded on agriculture the j upon pre- vious question. After considerable de- bate, in which Mr. Boatner.of Louisiana, was the principal speaker on the part of the opposition, a v ;te was taken and the bill was referred to the committee on ag¬ riculture by 151 to 54. There was an unusual scene on thefl ?or of the house Saturday morniDg. The con- house aD ‘lt ^T^JVb^ t of sff Georgia, the chairman of the foreign tirs cotninithc. Mr. Blount retires from congress on the 4th of March after a service of twen y yiars. T e man- agetUvtit of this bid on the floor was 1‘ oktd upon theref re. as probably the last conspicn u> tet of the Geer- gian on the floor of the house. In view of this fact bis colleagues had determined to do him honor. Their determination was, however, unknown to the Georgian. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, was the first speaker. To the surprise of a majority of the members of the house he began in eulogistic terms of Mr. Blount as a legis¬ lator and patriot. Among other things he said: “I know that there id general regret on the part of the gentlemen here that this distinguished gentleman volunta¬ now retires from legislative duties, rily, and seeks the peace of his own fireside at home. I feel assured that I speak the general sentiment of every member when I say that the retire¬ ment of Mr. Blount from his high po¬ sition in congress takes from the legisla¬ tive duties one of the most conscientious and upright legislators and gentlemen who have ever figured in our affairs, and I feel assured that he will carry with him the respect and confidence, and C3teem of every gentleman comprising this great house, and that the general wish will follow him for his future happiness and prosperity.” (Applause.) Mr. Hitt, re¬ publican, of Illinois, speaking for the minority, endorsed every word that Mr. liolman had uttered. Messrs. Bland, Springer and O’Neil also made highly complimentary addresses. Mr. Blount was very much moved when he rose to respond to the expressions of the friend¬ ly feelings of his colleagues. As he took his seat he was warmly and earnestly ap¬ plauded and he was for the remainder of the day the recipient of congratulations tor being the first member of the house who ever received such a tribute of re¬ gard aud esteem from his colleagues. Monday was suspension day in the house and absolutely nothing was done, although the body was in session five hours and under the rules any measure having a two thirds majority of the members present in favor of it, could be passed under a suspension of all rules. Oates, of Ala¬ bama, expected to call up the bankrupt¬ cy bill, and had arranged to be recog¬ nized for this purpose. Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, who has been fighting this meas¬ ure all the tim a , began filibustering as soon as the house met and continued his tactics all day. It was nearly three hours after the house met before the journal could be read and approved. Tutsday morning in the house, the reading of the journal having been com¬ pleted, the speaker stated that without objection it would stand approved. The routine business haviug been disposed of, the house proceeded to the consideration of the legislative appropriation bill. CAPITAL GOSSIP. After many delays the Panama investi¬ gation was begun Monday morning by the special committee appointed by the house for the purpose. The agricultural committee of the house met Saturday morniug and de¬ cided to report the viDti-option bill back to the house and non-concur in the senate amendments and ogrte to the request of the senate for a conference. Senator Gordon introduced a big peti¬ tion from Columbus, Ga., Friday, asking for an Increase of the appropriation for the public building, also petitions bear¬ ing the names of nearly all the corpora¬ tions, bankers and business men of Sa¬ vannah asking the repeal of the Sherman bill. The report of Representative Oates on the investigation into the Pinkerton sys¬ tem and Homestead troubles was at last piloted Tuesday, tbroughdhe judiciary committee the comittee by c majority vote ordering it reported to the house with leave to the minority to file their separate report. The committee on rules has reported the resolution providing for the consid¬ eration of the silver bill on the 9th aud 10th of February. A cloture amend¬ ment will be offered in the house pro¬ vided the advocates of the bill to repeal the Sherman law have sufficient votes to vote down the previous question on a report. The senate judiciary committee, on Monday,took up the nomination of Judge Jackson, but its consideration was post¬ poned until next Mondsy on account of objections made by democratic members. It is understood that at the next meeting of the committee an effort will be made to cause the nomination to be favorably reported to the senate. The placards bearing the word “Closed,” which has been displayed on the front door of the white house ever since the day before Christmas, when the president’s grandchild was stricken with scarlatina, were removed Tuesday, and the public part of the house is once more open to visitors. The president will now probably the resume his tri-weekly receptions to public. The naval committee of the bou*e has decided upon a policy of economy this year, and no provision will be made in this year’s naval appropriation bill for new cruisers or new battle ships. The committee Tuesday morning practically agreed upon the bill it will report to the house. One new gun boat, to cost not exceeding $400,000, is the only new war vessel provided for. The bill is of a more routine character than usual, and, | roughly speaking, its aggregate appro¬ priation iast is about $2,000,000 less than year’s act. The indications are that Judge Jack¬ son’s nomiration to succeed Justice La- i mar as justice of the supreme court will | not be confirmed. Senator Harris, of i Tennessee, is vigorous in his oppos tion of! j to the confirmation, »s are a nraber other senators, including many republi- i cans. ference There Judge seems to bo marked iudit- j to Jackson on the part ol all the senators. The demoersts. bn as a rule, seem to oppose his nominal on the ground that they do not want Presi- ! dent , Harrison • to .. appoint . . republican ... a as circuit judge m the district over which Judge Jackson now presides. j . m ill Abandon Their Petition. Advocatts m the bouse of the repeal of the Sherman law held a conference Tues adopted Jay declaring , aft . en ? 00D ;, that it had been ^ dis- 3S covered that a majority of the house was in favor of the repeal of the Sherman silver bullion purchase act and that it had been decided to abandon the attempt to get a majority of the democrats to sign the cloture petition and to make a fight on the floor of the house, where all friends of honest money—whether dem- cents or republicans-might the join in the attempt to secure repeal of the law. : _ A COMPRESS EXPLODES ± nd Thirteen Men Probably Killed, Besides a number Badly Injured. j The Planters’ compress boilers at Vcks- | Burg, Miss., exploded at 11:30 o’clock ■ Thursday, lhe compress was torn to pieces. Three men so far have been taken out dead. Ten people are still in the ruins. Seven men have been taken out . more or less injured. ; - TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. TDe News ol the World Condensed Into Pithy amd Pointed Paragranl^. Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers. The Michigan supreme court handed down a decision, Friday, in the contest¬ ed election case in the fifth congressional the district, seating Charles E. Belknap, republican candidate. The Pennsylvania house of representa¬ tives, Tuesday, by vote of 150 to 18, passed a bill to prohibit the manufacture Mid sale of cigarettes within the common¬ wealth. The bill now goes to the senate. A c tble dispatch of Tuesday to the New York World from London says: Algerncn Sartoris, who married Nel ie Grant, daughter of Genaral Grant, died Friday at Capri, Italy. He had not lived with his wife for some years. A Indianapolis special of Tuesday says that a strike is threatened by the engin¬ eers on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. They had asked for three and a half cents for passenger men and were refused. The question of a strike in consequence is being considered. The First National bank of Little Rock, Ark., closed its doors Thursday. Its liabilities are understood to be over half a million dollars. The cause that lead to the suspension was the issuance of fraudulent paper by former officers ol the bank to the amount of several hun¬ dred thousand dollars. Fire at Philadelphia early Saturday morning at the Twenty-fifth ward gas works totally destroyed the purifying house and two sheds, one of which was owned by the city. The total loss is es¬ timated at $150,000, of which the city loses $25,000, the remainder falling upon the Philadelphia Gas Improvement Com paDy. An explosion occurred Thursday night in mine No. 11 owned and operated by the Osag Coal and Mining Company, at McAllister, I. T. Two men were killed and perhaps more, it not being known how many miners were exposed to the explosion. A windy shot being fired in an entry east from the main shaft was the cause of the accident. Cablegrams of Tuesday are to the ef¬ fect that the city of Brisbane, in Queens¬ land, continues completely isolated by floods. In the region about Wide Bay, Queensland, hundreds of houses were de¬ molished by the rushing waters; thous aDds of destitute people have taken re¬ fuge in the hills, without shelter and nec¬ essaries. At Brisbane business is com pletely suspended. A dispatch from Scranton, Pa., sa}s: Miss Anna E. Dickenson, lecturer and actress, on Saturday brought three suits in the circuit conit of the United States, directed against tight persons, two of whom are physicians, asking damages aggregating $150,000. These suits are directed against the persons who wcr<- instrumental in lodging her in the Dan¬ ville asylum for the msane iu February, 1891. A Kansas City, Mo , dispatch says: Cass county judges, who have been in jail for nearly a year for contempt of court, appeared before Judge Phillips Tuesday morning and reported the adop¬ tion, by over 2,000 majority, of the 70 cent bond compromise proposition sug¬ gested by Judge Phillips. He accord¬ ingly discharged them and remitted their fines. If the bondholders accept the com¬ promise new bonds will be issued. A rear end collision and explosion of two car loads of powder occurred on the Lake Shore railway three qu trters of a mile east of Strycker, O., Thursday af¬ ternoon. Westbound local freight No. 8 ran into the rear end of extra freight No. 583, w T hick had parted from the main part loads of the train, explodeding two car¬ of powder and blowing the ca¬ boose and three cars to atoms and badly damaging the engine. The engineer and firemen saved themselves by jumping. There was no one in the caboose and no loss of lives resulted. A special of Saturday from Hampton, Mich., says: A terific b,izz mi has raged for the past two days with mercury 30 to 40 degrees below. Snow - drifts are as high as the tops of passenger coaches. Mineral Range and Hancock and Calumet pas¬ senger trains, consisting only of one coach and baggage car, takes two and three powerful engines to haul them. The mines are shut down for lack of fuel and stamp mills for 1 ke of rock. Train¬ men are having their faces badly frozen. It has been more than a quarter of a cen¬ tury since there was so many’ - continuos blizzards and such low temperature. THE TEXAS BURNING. Governor Hogg Wauts legislation f Against g ? lnSt Mob 00 Law A . special . dispatch , of , iuesday , , from Au8t 1D » Texas t sa J s -' A message con- . the burning of the Smith cerm °g negro Hogg for .J 1 ® submission 8 . n _. P_ re to P a I^ the d V legislu y G / jVrrnor u e. The governor says it becomes his pain¬ ful duty to emphasiz: the necessity of taking some steps to prevent mob vio¬ lence in Texas. That the recent terri¬ ble holocaust at Paris is but an illustra¬ tion to what extent a mob will g° when the „ laws . „ are inadequate . ...... to check It. “• “ “ ^ affair was f. o:° f an auoeioiig a barbaroiis crime, nn te was cer- J 1 laws punubmenl of the under state tbeconsti- Cmlizi- rc’oltmg execution of he age, in which a large | number of citizens openly, ^derlk in broa d publicly become m by 7 met hods shameful to humanity. That crime committed at Paris is a pisgrace to the state. Its atiocity, in- humanity and sickening effect on the people cannot be obscured by a reference to the previous act of the culprit in bru- tally taking the life of the innocent cb To'contend i i( j that his executioners can cej^er be indicted nor tried in the co Unty where the crime was committed U a pretense nnd mockery. He says if the legislature will enact suitable laws and pUce tbem at bis command every pe^ ^ bo takes part in a mob sball brougbt s t0 tria! ’ the strength of the macb icerJ of jus tice fhall be thoroughly test€( j j n tbe e g or { A POPULIST SENATOR Elected by the Nebraska Legislature After Much toting, A specUl from Lincoln, Nebraska, says: Judge W. B. Alien, popu ist, was elected United States senator Tues- day morning, receiving seventy votes; four more than were necessary to a choice. BUSINESS REVIEW. Reports of Bradstreet and Dun & Co., for Past Week. Bradstreet’a report of business for the past week says: Features of the business week include an unusually large number of decreases in prices for staple articles, among which are pig iron, 21 cents; finish¬ ed iron, 50 cents; wheat, 1-2 cent; corn, 7-8 cent; oats, 7-8 cents; lard, 3-4 cents; cotton, 5@ 1-16; raw sugar, 1 16 cents; hogs 10 cents, and steel, billets, petroleum there and high has wines as well. In contrast been an advance of 1 cent in special grades of domestic woo', 1-2 cent on sole leather, 1-8 on hides and pork 50 cents, as well as advances for rubber goods, shoes and bricks. East and south milder weather has opened up the ave¬ nues of trade, but in the northwest a seoond cold snap has further restricted business. So far as heard from the vol¬ ume of transactions throughout the coun¬ try in January, with few exceptions was the largest of any in that month on rec¬ ord. * REPORTS FROM THE SOUTH. Business in the south has been favored by the opening up of traffic routes, and advices from the larger cities announce an improvement in the demand for spring goods. Some delay in placing orders for hardware and clothing is experienced. Wholesale merchants at Baltimore report collections in the south freer and trade improving. At Richmond the demand for groceries aud shoes is relatively most active, but there is a good request for plug tobacco, cigarettes acd cheroots, while the lack of demand for pig iron causes prices to tend downward. There is no change in trade conditions at Charleston, where the prospects for spring business is good. Memphis mer¬ chants report considerable activity in hardware and planters’ supplies. A like state of trade is reported at Birmingham, where the volume equals the average for the season. Wholesale business at At¬ lanta is active aud of satisfactory propor¬ tions, but warm and damp weather has checked tbe retail trade. Generally favorable commercial con¬ ditions in the region tributary to New Orleans promise much for the merchants produce of that city. The movement of is large, exci pt that of meats, which has bern checked on account ol higher prices. Large sales of sugar and rice cause prices to tend upward. The production of cotton goods at eastern mills is heavier than in any pre¬ vious year. There are no stocks in hand. The output of print cloths is sold ahead to April and there are no stocks at Fall River against 229,000 pieces held there a year ago. WHAT DUN SAYS. Dun’s weekly review of trade says*. Actual business is surprisingly large for the season, and yet fears about the fu¬ ture are also large. Congressional uncer¬ tainties cause fears, but the prosperity and needs of the people make business what it is, and never before has the dis¬ tribution of it products to consumers been larger than has been thus far this year. Hence industries are remarkably pros¬ perous. The volume of trade measured by the clearings in January was nearly 12 per cent larger than in any previous year, and the railway movement sbow9 a great increase in thetODuage transported. Yet it is probably safe to eay that rarely, if ever, except in a time of panic, has business been more cautiously and con¬ servatively regulated. Monetaiy uncer¬ tainties are excused by tbe continued outgo of gold, but the passage of the anti-option bill by the senate has had no effect upon the market as yet. At Louisville, prospects are encourag¬ ing; at Nashville, business is good, and at Kuoxville, improving with money ir better demnad. At Little Rock collee tions are slow and many planters are be¬ ing carried over, but at Mobile trade is very satisfactory with good prospects. with Business at New Orleans is quiet money in good demand aud easy; cotton more active and sugar strong and trade in rice improving. The wonderful de¬ mand for textile fabrics is unabated. For brown and bleached cotton the mar¬ ket is said to be the best for twenty years and some makes of sheeting have advanced. The price for manufactured products of iron and steel are depressed beyond all precedent and nevertheless sales continue remarkably large, and the volume of bus¬ iness is greater than in any previous year, Tbe stagnation in steel rails has beer broken by the placing of orders fo« 00,000 tons by the Pennsylvania railway, ha^ and in plates orders for 20,000 tons been placed for Cramp’s, at Pittsburg mills, though at very low prices. Large structural contracts have also been placed for buildings in New York. The uncer¬ tainty about the monetary future retards business engagements, but in other re¬ spects trade is most satisfactory, and per¬ haps all the more safe and healthy for the feeling of caution that prevails. Business failures duviug the past week number, for the United States, 255; Can¬ ada. 46; total. 301. HEADING THEM OFF. An Uncle of Hawaii’s Queen Reaches Washington Ahead of Commission. A Chicago special of Thursday says: John M. Cleghorn, from San Francisco, an uncle of Princess Kaiuliani, the heir- apparent to the Hiwaiian throne, stole a march on the Hiwaiian commissioners, who are on their way to Washington to present the claims of the provisional gov¬ ernment. As soon as the news of the revolt be¬ came known, Cleghorn packed his grip and took tbe first train for Washington with the result that be arrived in Chicago forty-eight hours ahead of the commissioners, and will reach the capitol that much in advance of them. His purpose is to present the claims of his niece to the United States govern¬ ment before tbe commission appointed by the provisional government arrives at the national capitol. He is a brother of A. S. Cleghorn, whose deceased wife was the sister of the depcsed queen Lilinokalani, and whose daughter, the heir apparent, is at a fash¬ ionable school in England. He will lay before President Harrison the claims of bis neice, Friocess Kaiuluni, and will plead for the establishment of a protectorate with the princess as queen. MRS. WHITNEY DEAD. Wife of the Ex-Secretary of the Navy Dies Suddenly. Mrs. William C. Whitney, wife of the ex-secretary of the navy, died at her home, No. 2 West Fif ty-seventh Sunday street, New York City, at th ree o'clock morning, of heart disease. Only Mr. Whitney and the nurse who at’ended her during her illness, were present at the death bed, the end coming unex¬ pectedly. Feather Beds. Dr. Kellogg, in “Domestic Sanita¬ tion,” sums up their objectionable quali¬ ties thus; “The usunf feather beds may be shown to be detrimental to health in several ways, but we wish to call atten¬ tion to the fact that they may be a source of contaminati on of the air immediate¬ ly surrounding a person during sleep. Feathers themselves not only undergo a slow decomposition, evolving foul and poisonous gases, but, on account of their remarkable hydroscopic properties, in which they are equalled by few other substances, they absorb the fetid exha¬ lations from the body which are thrown off from the skin during sleep. As this c >nt nues, often for a long time, the accumulations may become very great and the feather bed bs converted into a hot-bed of diseased germs. As feathers suffer little loss by use, the feather bed often becomes an heirloom and is passed down from one generation to another. The older it be¬ comes, the worse it is. It is somewhat alarming disease to reflect upon the amount of genns which may bo stowed away in a sack of feathers which has done service during a hundred years or more. Subject to all the accidents and emergencies of domestic life, it has, per¬ haps, carried a half dozen persons through typhoid fever, and pillowed the last months of the gradual dissolution of a consumptive, besides being in constant use the balance of the time.” Wanted Some Excitement. Petted Boy—“Mamma, may I go sled¬ ding?” Fond killed Mamma that (nervously)—“A boy was on hill last winter, and two boys were hurt only last week.” “May I go skating?” “Horrors, no? You might break through and get drowned!” “May I go play in thestree?” “There was a terrible runaway right past the house only three days ago, and there’s no telling what moment another may happen. Sit down, and I’ll read to you.” “Well, mamma, please read me some nice little story about a boygettiu’ struck by a meteor while his mamma was read¬ ing to him.”—Street & Smith’s Good News. An Ignorant stranger. Stranger— “Where is the court -house!’ Boy—“Bout six blocks west from here.” Stranger—“But I don’t know which way is west.” Boy—“W’y jus’ stan’ with your face to th’ north, and’ then y’r right hand’ll point east an’ y’r left hand west. Thort everybody knew that.”—Street & Smith’s Good News. If Checkmated Early, Rheumatism is shorn of its terrors. When it is young, annihilate it with Hostetter’s Stom¬ ach Bitters and prevent life-long torture. If it is chronic, it is always liable to attack the heart with a fatal result. The poisons taken to themselves cure it simply dangerous alleviate its pangs, and • re in a slight overdose. Indigestion, liver or kidney trouble, costive¬ ness, ma aria and loss of appetite and flesh are remedied by the Bitters. Wife (significantly)—“That pocket-book you gave me for a Christmas present was empty.” Husband (grim y)—“Yes it was mine.” An Important Difference. 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Mrs. Wearie—“When you sweep little Johnnie’s room, don’t put the sweepings in the fire.” New Girl—“Why not, mum?” Mrs. Wearie—“The last time I did that the stove exploded.” TYOYAL BAKING POWDER imparts that pecul- JLv. • iar lightness, sweetness, and flavor noticed in the finest food, and which expert pastry cooks declare is not obtainable by the vise of any other raising agent. RpTAL v RpTAL B&lcir\<J pyw&ef* B&K ir Vj Ab&ol tttely Absol utely PuJ[re P u Ir e Royal Baking Powder is shown a pure cream-of- tartar powder, the highest of all in leavening strength. — U. S. Government Food Report. Royal Baking Powder is superior in purity, strength, and wholesomeness to any other powder which I have examined .—New York State Analyst. Good Manners at Home. The presence of good manners is no where more needed or more effective than in the household, and, perhaps, more rare. Wherever familiarity exists there is a tendency to loosen the check upon selfish conduct which the presence of strangers involuntarily produces. Many persons who are kind nnd courteous in company are rude and careless with those whom they love best. Emerson says: “Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices,” and certainly nothing can more thoroughly secure the harmony and peace of the family circle than the habit of making small sacrifices, one for anoth¬ er. Children thus learn good manners in the best and most natural ways, and habits thus acquired will never leave them. Courtesy and kindness will never lose their charm, while nil spurious imi¬ tations of them are to be despised.— The Republic. The Taxes We Pay. The Washington Post presents some interesting tax figures: For the next two year9 our government will spend annually more than $500,000,- 000. To pay one year’s expenses of the government it will take nearly the com¬ bined wheat and oat crop. Our annual output of gold, silver, copper, iroD, coal, Petroleum and lead will not foot our tax bill for twelve months. Nor can we do it with a year’s product cf cotton, wool, rye, barley, wine, potatoes and tobacco. The combined capiialization of our national banks is $509,000,000. One year’s taxes will nearly swallow it up. Now, all this 1 b the Federal tax. We have also to pay city, e unty and State taxes. We pretend to be a nation of plain people, with no aristocracy, no princes, no standing army and no expen¬ sive frills, and yet our taxes are more enormous than those of Austria, Germany and Great Britain. Bantams in the Garden. Most people prefer to leave fowls out of, rather than in the gard n. But they mean large fowls. Bantams will do some scratching, but not nearly so much as will the larger fowls. They are very act¬ ive and catch numerous insects and grub* and slugs i jurious to the garden plants. If one will use the feathered legged kinds, the Cochin and the booted ban¬ tams, he will find them to do les9 scratching than the clean legged breeds. About the best, as a gardener’s assistant, is the booted white bintam, for the im¬ mense growth of feathers on the toes— sometimes five inches in length—prevent these little fowls from doiog much in¬ jury with their feet.—L Fisher, Queens County, New York. ifl < M PS md-m r^l /3 # 1 tnCJ ••• Do Not Be Deceived '———-— - with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the hands, Injure the Iron and burn red. j 1 The Risinc Sun Store Polish Is Brilliant, Od or- less. Durable, and the consumer pa/s tor no tln glass package with every pur 1 or A Woman Has j very little desire to enjoy the pleasures of life, and Is entirely unfitted for the cares of housekeeping or any ordinary iutles.lf afflicted with SICK li KA D- ACHP. DAY A I'TKit DAY and there * s few diseases that yield more promptly to prop, r medical treatment. It is therefore of the utmost lin- EuS”?ss.*rss 2 .T?Sr.“.r» a a'xa» sstK^ssatfjs«.ts&iraf& PILLS, which be procured Drug Store, may at any or In will be mailed to any address on the receipt of 25c^ postage stamps. Purchasers of these Pills should be careful to procure the genuine article. There are several counterfeits on the market, well calculated to deceiTe. The genuine Dr. C. McLane’s Celebrated Liver Pills are manufactured only by FLEMING BBOTHEBS CO., Pittiburgli, P*. 1 SgGRflfli 5 POSES 25=] SHILOH’S I8H CUB? .CURE. Cores Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore Throat. Sold by all Druggist* on a Guarantee. as LIGHTNING The 60 Day Cabbage. Th:* is sbsnlatelr the earliest eibls/t in tie wo rW. Seed very scarce. Fkg., 15c.; % os , S5c ; Ji lb., ge, MM Jd. THE EARLIEST VEGETABLES re * ch ** 13 jikgs. Lamest YagataM* Novelties. ft, postpaid. FOR 14c. (WITH CATALOGUE, 19e.' TtceirtSfHk :*• °° r ***** v. send, postpaid, open 1 pncksje Si* Weeks - Riiith, 10e. * “ Silver Si«u Letmee. Ik Is all 9 rtrksfts. 1 Giant Prolific Toocto. 20c. Ikied nee hers 1 laut?Giant Cucumber, 10a sni'er 90e. * \ * Brilliant Flower Seeds, 36e. ALL FOR 14c. H mwj if SALZER’S SEED CATALOGUE .... ° T " £ - JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. A Latter-Day Marriage. D jwoton—“So you are really going to’ be married?” fixed, We’re 1 Upoton—“Yes, it’s all hired rented a furnished flat, and I’ve a dress suit for the occasion, and Mane uai borrowed her cousin’s wedding ng, ana new caterer has agreed to lend us his ■ a show-cake, provided I plaster of Paris mention his name in the papers. It is said that the custom of firing morning and evening salutes costs this government $1,000 a day. If this be so it would be economy to fire the custom. —Concord Standard. ____ The Marked Success of Scott’s Emulsion in consump¬ tion, scrofula and other forms of hereditary disease is due to its powerful food properties. Scott's Emulsion rapidly creates healthy flesh— proper weight, Hereditary taints develop only when the system becomes weakened. Nothing in the world of medicine has been so successful in dis¬ eases that are most menacing to life. Phy¬ sicians everywhere prescribe it. Prepared by Scett * Tourne. N. Y. All “German Just Syrup” bad cold, and hacking a a cough. We all suffer that way some¬ times. How to get rid of them is the study. Listen—‘ ‘ I am a Ranch¬ man and Stock Raiser. My life is rough and exposed. I meet all weathers in the Colorado mountains. I sometimes take colds. Often they are severe. I have used Germvi 1 Syrup five years for these. A few doses will cure them at any stage. The last one I had was stopped in 24 hours. It is infallible.” Jame9 A. Lee, Jefferson, Col. MERCURIALS^ “About ten I s.s.s. years ago con¬ tracted a severe case of blood poi¬ son. Beading physicians prescribed medicine after medicine, which I took without any relief. I also tried mercurial and potash remedies, with unsuccessful results, but which brought on an attack of mercurial rheumatism that made my life RHEUMATISM one of agony. After suffering four years I gave up all remedies and began using s. S. S. After taking several bottles I was entirely cured and able to resume work. (-1 s.s.s. Is the greatest medicine for blood poisoning to-day on the market.” Treatise on Blood and Bkin Diseases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS WITH THOMSON’S gif® SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. No too !« required. easily On!f and a hammer needed to drive Eli I c ine b th ra quick.?, ltav:ng the ditch Sbgo be utel, y smo m> th- R.-quItlng Civets. nr. hoe to be made in leai her ■ nd nor 1 burr lor t:.e Mil!to-.s They are strong, (ouch a rl nrahlr. no-* in use- Aii eneths. uniform «r ass-xteit, tut ui> In boxe*. A»k y« our dealer for them, or send 40c. in vtnmps for a box <jI assorted rises Man'td by JUDSON L THOMSON MFG. CO.. WAI.TH4JI, MASS. 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