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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Happenings from Day to Day in tie
National Capital
Appointments In the Various Depart¬
ment!—-Other Notes of Interest.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed W. H. S. Burgwyn, of Hend¬
erson, North Carolina, a national bank
examiner.
The president, on Monday, ap¬
pointed Charles W. Dayton, of New
Yor kand city to be postmaster of that
city. Charles H. Mansur, of Mis¬
souri, treasury. to be second comptr&jtler * of the
The president, Tuesday, made the
following appointments: Clinton C.
Duncan, of Georgia, to be Indian in¬
spector; Frank Flynt, of Georgia, to
be principal clerk of surveys in the
general land office.
The proclamation for an early ses¬
sion was discussed at the cabinet meet¬
ing Tuesday and it is expected to be
given out immediately. A large num¬
ber of the senators still maintain that
it will be found to be absolutely nec¬
essary to call it much earlier.
President Cleveland returned to
Washington Sunday morning from
his short fishing trip at Cajie Charles,
Va. The brief respite from business
has had the effect of refreshing him
both mentally and physically. Ho
has had good sport and is much pleas¬
ed with his trip.
Senator Manderson had an interview
with Secretary Carlisle on Friday on
the question of tho Omaha public
building. There has been some trou¬
ble as to what class of material the
bids call for. Senator Manderson
wishes the building to be built of
granite, and he will insist that this be
used.
Secretary Carlisle has dispensed
with the services of eighteen inspect¬
ors of rags stationed at ports in Eu¬
rope and directed that the work per¬
formed by these inspectors be hereaf¬
ter discharged by United States con¬
suls and United States marine hospi¬
tal officers stationed at the several
ports.
The total net gold in the treasury
at the close of business Friday was
$91,439,271. This did not take in the
gold engaged for shipment from Now
York Saturday. Bocause of the heavy
shipments of gold from New York
Secretary Carlisle has ordered gold
shipped from three other subtreasu-
ries to New' York to keep the supply
there and this gold is now on the way
to New York.
The first negro to be recognized by
this administration is Henry Clay
Smith, of Birmingham. Tuesday he
was promised the consulate at Tama-
tave, Madagascar, in place of the pres¬
ent republican consul, John L. Walter.
Quincy sent for him and told him ho
was ready to make the appointment,
and gave him his commission. Smith
has been an unfaltering democrat for
years, and the appointment was a re¬
cognition of his services in the demo¬
cratic ranks.
HmuffgllnK .loli ii ('hinumn n.
Important disclosures as to a sys¬
tematic underground railroad arrange¬
ment for smuggling Chinese into the
United States by way of Canada aro
contained in a report just made to the
treasury department by Special Agent,
C. J. Smith, stationed at Boston, Mass.
He report the arrest on the charge
of fraudulently introducing Chi¬
nese into the United States of
five persons, named Charles L.
Smith, Will Hopkins and Mrs. AVill
Hopkins, all of West Charleston, Vt.;
China Poy, of Lindenville, Vt., and
Frank C. Park, of St. Jolinslmry, Vt.
The report says: “The two last
named are Chinamen, and I beg to
state that warrants have also been is¬
sued for the arrest of A. F. Miles, of
Stanshead, P. Q., and Frank Boss, of
Charleston, Vt.—tho latter the father
of Mrs. W. Hopkins—on the same
charge, but as yet these two parties
have not been apprehended.
Of Interest to .Hillers.
The department of agriculture is in¬
formed that the exhibit of milled pro¬
ducts to be held at Mainz, Germany,
in August next, is a matter that will
be of great interest to millers in thid
country. It is expected to bring to¬
gether thousands of bakers from all
parts of Germany and continental Eu¬
rope. At the same time, the national
association of bakers will meet there,
of which tliree-fourths of the bakers
in Germany are members, and
Switzerland, Holland and Austria
will be represented, An exeel-
lent opportunity will bo afforded
American cereals, in view of the re-
eent. modification by Germany of the
discriminating tariff imposed upon
milled as compared with unmilled
products, which was an almost effectual
barrier to the introduction of Ameri¬
can flour materials, etc., into that
country. Tho duty is now the same
on cereals, whether milled or unmilled ;
and this duty is consideraly less than
that levied on Russian cereals. Before
tho reduction was made, the tariff was
about three time as great as it is at
present.
The Public Debt Statement.
The public debt statement issued
J? .. rutay, shows that there
was a de¬
crease of $739,425.99 during the month
of May. Of this $657,175.50 was in
the amount of the bonded indebted¬
ness of the government and $82,250.49
was in the increase of the cash in the
treasury. The interest bearing debt
increased $300; debt on which interest
has ceased since maturity, decreased
$37,480, and the debt bearing no in¬
terest $619,695.50. The aggregate in¬
terest and non-interest bearing debt
May 31st was $961,750,888.63; on
April 30th it was $962,407,764.13. The
certificates and treasury notes offset
by an equal amount of cash in the
treasury outstanding at the end of the
month was $594,531,017, an increase
of $1,485,604. The total ca^h in the
treasury was $754,121,982.87, the gold
reserve $95,048,640, and the net cash
balances $26,516,514,30. In the month
there was a decrease of $5,674,749,32
in gold coin and bars, the total at the
close being $196,518,609.76. Of silver
there was an increase of $5,173,874.48.
Of the surplus there was in national
bank depositories $11,649,142.54,
against $11,270,696.69 at the end of
the previous month.
The Rti««inn Extradition Treaty.
The Russian extradition treaty,
which has been the subject of corre-
spondence between the two contract¬
ing parties for more than six years,
and has been amended again ami
again and was threatened with de¬
feat in its final stages, has at
last been formally proclaimed and will
henceforth be the law of the land un¬
til it is superceded by another treaty.
The ratifications were exchanged in
St. Petersburg nearly two months ago,
but because it was necessary to ob¬
serve extraordinary precautions to se¬
cure the Bafe transmission of the doc¬
ument to the United States the treaty
M as not received at the department
until a late day last week. The
treaty M-as in the French language and
it Mas necessary to translate the docu¬
ment into English and make very care¬
ful comparisons between the transla¬
tion and the original. This M'ork M as
completed Monday and the president
saM- it for the first time Tuesday M hen
Secretary Gresham carried it to the
cabinet meeting. All that remained
to be done was to make the official
proclamation and that mbs done Tues¬
day afternoon. The proclamation
simply recited the provisions of the
treaty and the announcement that it
would go into effect tM'enty days from
date—that is to say on June 24th.
Tlie President's Views.
'President Cleveland in reply to a
direct question by a representative of
the Associated Press Monday evening
said that he intended to call an extra
session of congress not earlier than
the 1st or later than the 15th of Sep¬
tember. unless some unexpected con¬
tingencies should necessitate an earlier
meeting. He further said: “While
there has been no mystery nor secrecy
in regard to my intention in this mat¬
ter,! think it not amiss that our peojde
should be informed authoritatively that
the time is at hand Mhen their repre¬
sentatives in congress will be called
upon to deal with a financial condition
M-hicli is the only menace to the coun¬
try’s welfare and prosperity. It is
well for the people to take up the sub¬
ject for themselves aud arrive at their
own conclusions as to the merits of a
financial policy M’hich obliges us to
purchase idle silver bullion with gold
taken from our reserve. One does not
need the eye of a financier to see that
this gold thus subtracted from the gov¬
ernment’s stock is eagerly seized by
other nations for the purpose of
strengthening their credit at our ex¬
pense. It does not need the art of
statesmanship to detect the danger
that awaits upon the continuance of
this action. Already the timidity of
capital is painfully apparent, and
none of us fail to see that fear and ap¬
prehension in monetary circles Mill
ultimately bring suffering to every
humble homo in our land. I think
that between now and the meeting of
congress much depends upon the ac¬
tion of those engaged in financial
operations and business en-
terprises. Our national re¬
sources and national credit are
abundantly sufficient to justify them
in the utmost faith and confidence.
If, instead of being frightened, they
are conservative and contribute their
sharo of help and steadiness, they will
perform a patriotic duty, and at the
same time protect their own interests.
The things just now needed are cool¬
ness and calmness in financial circles
and sturdy reflection among our peo¬
ple.”
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development During
the Past Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
south for the past week shows the organization
of a brick and tile manufacturing company
with $100,000 capital, at Nen' Orleans, La., by
the Southern Brick and Tile company; of a
cotton mill company with $100,000 capital, at
ciates; Laurens, 8. C., by J. H. Traynham and asso¬
of an ice factory at Denison, Texas,
with $50,000, by tho (Jlioctaw Ice company; of
a $50,000 cotton buying and manufacturing
and company others; at Dublin, Texas, by A. A Chapman
and of the building of an oil mill,
costing E. Pease, $50,000, at Meridian, Miss., by Charles
of Dayton, Ohio.
There is also reported tlio formation, at Van-
dernere, N. C., of tho Bay River Lumber Com¬
llichmond, pany, with $30,000 Va., capital; of a box factory at
with $24,000 capital, by tho
Alleghany Box Company, and of a $20,000
lumber mill at Claremont, Vs., by John Holle r.
Forty-time new industries were established or
incorporated during the week, together wnh
nine enlargements of manufactories, and four¬
teen industries important new buildings. Among tho
new not above referred to are ebctric
lighting plan's at Opelousas, La., and Rock-
port, Tex.; flour and grist mills at Falmouth
aud Crider, Ky., Hartshorn, Dealville and Mt.
Holly, N. C., and Portland and Virtue, Tenu.,
and a machine shop at Ocala, Fla. Mines are
i, Ala., Newcomb, Tenn.,
., and a quarry at Quarry,
Tex.
An oil and gas company is reported at
Monnd'Ville, Vi. Va.; a phosphate company
reorganization at Ocala, Fla.; and the building
of cotton mills at Bellmont, N. C.; Johnston
and Rock Hill, 8. C., and knitting m 11s at
Brookhaven, Saw and Miss., and Newport News. Va.
Cedar Talley, planing mills are to be built at
N. C., Paris, Glimp, Sweetwater,
and Johnson City. Tenn., Reeder’B Mills, Ala.,
LeCoropte, W. Va., La., wheel Conroe, Texas, and Pickens,
and a factory at Durham, N. C.
Water works and an electric lighting system
are to be established at Quincy, Fla., and water
works for the at week Newport, include Tenu. The enlargements
Atlanta. Ga., electric lighting plants at
and Fernand na, Fla., iron works
at Washington, Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn..
cotton mills at Rockingham, N. C., and a car¬
riage factory at New Borne, N. C. Among im¬
Covington, portant new Ky., buildiugs are business houses at
Wichita Falls, Texas; Lewisburg, Tenn., Taylor and
Ky.. Orangeburg. S. churches and at Bellevue,
college C., Lynchburg, Va.;
amt school buildings at New Orleans,
Texas, La., and Quanab, Texa-; jails at Paducah,
Asheville, and N. Logan, W. Va , and residences at
(Chattanooga, C., and Roanoke, Va,—Trades¬
man Tenn.
The Kaiser Replies.
The Carlsruhe Zeitung in its issue of
Monday says that the German emperor
replied to a telegram from the Grand
Duke Frederick and the congress of
military unions of Baden, pledging
their support to him as the military
chief of the empire, in the folloM'ing
language:
Tour resolution of self-sacrifice and loyal co¬
operation strengthens the confident hop® that
where the safety of the empire is at stake the
German people will, regardless of political dif¬
ferences, onite in a firm resolve to mainttin
what was won in a memorable time with tin
active co-operation of your royal highness.
The Homestead Trials E nded.
All of the charges of murder, etc.,
against H. C. Frick and others of the
Carnegie Steel company officials, as
well as the Pinkerton detectives, were
dropped in court at Pittsburg, Pa.,
Saturday morning. In turn all the
strikers who had been arrested and as
yet untried, have been released on
their own recognizance. This virtual¬
ly ends all of the Homestead cases in
connection with the big strike of last
year.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
Rotes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Karaner & Ingram, of Florence, the
largest hardware firm in northwest
Alabama, were attached Monday for
$1,700 for rent. This will cause other
creditors to press their claims. Dur¬
ing the boom the firm did an immense
business, but the dull season and stop¬
ping of bnildihg effected them serious¬
ly. The firm had a commercial rating
of $10,000 to $15,000 and owed about
$3,500.
The greatest excitement exists in
Brethett county, Ky., over the blow¬
ing up of the Hustler office by unknown
parties Sunday night about 11 o’clock.
The Hustler is a weekly paper edited
by Rev. J. J. Dickey. Dynamite was
placed under the door of the building
and wrecked the entire structure. Tho
paper was the sole'cause of the local
option law, recently passed in that
county.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: The
suit of the Catholic Knights of America
against the Fidelity and Casualty Com¬
pany, of New York, for $50,000, the
amount of defaulting Treasurer
O’Brien’s bond, was concluded Tues¬
day and resulted in a verdict for $15,-
790 for the knights. This was the
amount which was stolen, between the
last examination by the knights of
O’Brien’s books and the discovery of
his shortage.
According to a Washington special
of Monday dividends have been de¬
clared in favor of the creditors of in¬
solvent national banks as follows;
First National bank, Palatka, Fla.,
second dividend, 10 per cent., making
in all 45 per cent, on the claims proved
amounting to $274,303. First Nation¬
al bank, Wilmington, N. C., third
dividend, 10 per cent., making in all
40 per cent, on claims proved amount¬
ing to $530,483.
A New Orleans dispatch says: Gen¬
eral Murphy J. Foster arrived in the
city Friday for the purpose of negoti¬
ating with banks for a loan of $50,000
to aid the sufferers from the recent
overflow in the Lake Providence dis¬
trict. There are over 1,000 persons,
nearly all negroes, homeless, and star¬
vation is imminent. The state at
present has no funds wherewith to
meet the emergency; therefore, the
governor is obliged to seek assistance
from the banks.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her daugh¬
ter, Miss Winnie, will, it is now pret¬
ty well settled, make their home in
llichmond, after a few months. It
has been an open secret ever since sho
selected the city as the final resting
place of her husband that it was her
wish to again become a resident of
Virginia’s capital, where, during her
residence of nearly four years, while
the war was in progress, she formed
many strong attachments and was the
recipient of universal kindness.
A Raleigh, N. C., special of Monday
says: The commissioner of agricul¬
ture states that the June crop reports
now coming in show that the increased
acreage in cotton will not be so great
as was believed a month ago. The
talk about great damage to the fruit
crop by frost is found to have been
without foundation. The trees are
loaded with fruit, particularly peaches.
Wheat is ripening rapidly and is an
exceedingly large and fine crop. A
great improvement in crops has oc¬
curred in the past few days.
A rate meeting of the Southern Rail¬
way and Steamship Association was
held in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday. The
chief subject settled at the meeting
M as the adjustment of the lumber rates
from the south to the north and west.
So sharp has been the competition
with roads west of the Missisippi that
lumber rates had been forced down
until the revenue amounted to only
about three mills a mile. A general
lining up was done. The association
adjourned to meet in New York June
14th to take up the subject of the re-
neMal of the contract for the ensuing
year.
Advices of Tuesday from Columbus,
Miss., are to the effect that the enor¬
mous rainfall of the past three M-eeks
has injured the corn and cotton crops
fully 30 per cent. High winds have
accompanied the rain and the ground
is beaten doM-n in places and the crops
completely ruined. Tomb and Tuxa-
pilla rivers are very high and have
submerged crops to the lowlands.
From the present outlook it is safe to
predict as high floods as were had last
year. No work has been done for
two weeks, and the crops are more
backward than they have been in
years.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
In the matter of the intervention of
the state of Alabama asking the re¬
ceiver of the Central railroad of Geor¬
gia be directed to pay certain taxes
due to the state of Alabama, Judge
Bruce, of the United States court, on
Monday, granted the order and di¬
rected the said receiver to pay the
proper tax collectors Mithin twenty
days from date all state, county and
municipal taxes, which have been law¬
fully levied and assessed against said
property, of which he is receiver M'ithin
this state. The total amount of this
indebtedness due is nearly $50,000.
Judge Brown decided a novel and
interesting ease at Baleigh, N. C.,
Friday. Kowan Roger, the last re¬
publican sheriff of Wake county, de¬
faulted for some $12,000 in his county
taxes. This his bondsmen for these
taxes paid. These bondsmen recently
brought suit against Rogers and the
bondsmen for his state taxes, making
the claim that Rogers had, in making
a full settlement of his state taxes,
used part of the money received from
county taxes. They claimed that for
such part of the funds Rogers and his
state tax bondsmen were liable. Judge
Brown decides adversely to the plain¬
tiffs, who appealed to the supreme
court. There was never such a suit
before. Money for all taxes is collect¬
ed promiscuously, and the settlement
of state taxes is always made first.
It is proposed to build a big dam at Lake
Albert Nyanza for the purpose of giving
Egypt low a plentiful supply of water plan’is during entirely the
Nile. Experts say the
feasible, and the beet yet suggested.
BUSINESS RATHER DULL.
Dun & Co f s Report of Trade for the
Past Week.
R. G. Dun A. Co.’s review of trade
for the past week says: More dis¬
heartening conditions have prevailed
during the past week and those who
saw the beginning of a permanent re¬
covery in the better tone a week ago
are disappointed. The money mar¬
kets have been closer, especially in the
interior, and manufacturing and trade
are more affected than before. Some
important failures have occurred, in¬
cluding one bank at Milwaukee.
Gold has gone out again in large
amounts, the exports for the week be¬
ing about $5,000,000 and the treasury
gold reserve has been drawn down to
about $90,000,000.
In nearly all the departments of
trade the uncertainty about the future
has a depressing influence, which is
now clearly perceived in the decrease
of new business, and while most of tho
manufacturing works are yet employed
on- full orders, as these run out the
number of works that are closed has
increased.
Cotton and corn are moving liberal¬
ly, but loans are curtailed to the mini¬
mum and there is no market for local
securities, save at the buyers’ prices.
At Little Rock trade is dull, with col¬
lections slow and at Knoxville not im¬
proved. Atlanta reports fair trade,
close money and slow collections.
Augusta reports a slight improvement
in trade, with improved farm pros¬
pects, but tight money and slow col¬
lections. Columbus, Gn., reports col¬
lections less favorable and money very
tight, and at Macon trade is quiet, col¬
lections slow and money close. Mobile
finds trade reasonably good with larger
shipments of vegetables and money
easy. At New Orleans business is only
fair, but building materials are very
active and crop prospects, though
backward, are promising. Jackson¬
ville notes a little falling off and at
Charleston trade in dry goods and
shoes is dull and in groceries fair, but
jobbers nro cautious in selling.
The uncertainty about freights, la¬
bor, crops and finances make the iron
trade gloomy, The prospect of
trouble with the amalgated associa¬
tion sustains the present demand for
finished products, and higher freight
rates raise the price of pig, not to the
advantage of the seller. The structu¬
ral mills are yet well employed, but at
prices which return scanty profits.
The exjjort of products still fall be¬
low last year’s in value and there is
much withdrawal of money loaned in
this country on foreign account. The
fact that $5,000,000 of such loans ma¬
ture within the next week leads to tho
expectation of further exports of gold.
Money on call at New York has some¬
what advanced, but there is a strong
complaint of the difficulty in getting
commercial loans.
The failures during the past week
have been 238 in the United. States
against 175 last year, and 21 in Cana¬
da, against 32 last year.
WIND AND FLAME.
A Dual Visitation of (lie Elements
Upon Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha, Nebraska, received a dual
visitation from the elements Saturday
evening. All day rain had fallen in-
termittingly, southeast. the storm blowing from
the Shortly before dark
the wind went to the north, and in a
few r moments one of tho most severe
6torms ever experienced broke upon
the city. Tho rain was accompanied
by a heavy elecrical display and high
■winds, and in the midst of the flood
came a fire that entailed a loss of near¬
ly a quarter of a million dollars, with
the additional horror of four deaths
and many persons injured. The dead
knowm are George Coulter, B. J. Mor¬
ris, Mr. Cox and Mr. Morrissey, all
firemen. When the storm was at its
height flames burst from the fifth floor
of the building occupied by the Shiv-
erick Furniture company, on Farnum
street. In response to a general alarm
all the companies of the city fire de¬
partment responded, but the fire was
beyond control. The loss will be
fully $200,000. W T est of the Shiverick
building was a structure occupied by
Ed Maurer’s saloon and restaurant.
On top of this building six firemen had
gathered that they might better fight
the flames. While they were there the
west wall of the Shiverick block fell
outward. The firemen heard the cry
of horror from the crowd and leaped
from the building only to be buried by
bricks on the sidewalk. The Shiv¬
erick buiding is a complete wreck.
The loss on the building and stock will
reach $200,000, fully insured. Maurer
loses on building and stock $25,000.
He is also insured. The damage from
the storm is distributed all over tho
city.
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A BANK ROBBED.
Six Desperadoes Force the Cashier to
Fork Over $10,000.
A special from Bentonville, Ark.,
says: This town was thrown into the
wildest excitement about 3 o’clock
Monday afternoon by a band of six
robbers rushing in and with drawn
Winchesters robbing the Peoples’
bank of all the gold and currency,
amounting to about $10,000. At the
point of their guns they compelled
the cashier to hand out all the cash
in the vault and two of their num¬
ber stood guard at the door and
fired into the streets at every man that
showed his head. The citizens,however,
as soon as possible got what arms they
could and commenced a fusilade on the
robbers,finally wounding two of them.
Three citizens were wounded in the
fight.
The robbers quickly mounted their
horses, which were in waiting at a con¬
venient point, and made their escape.
As soon as possible the sheriff and
posse started in pursuit of the robbers.
About twelve miles west of Benton¬
ville is a postoffiee and a couple of
stores, forming the village of Decatur.
Here the robbers continued their dep¬
redations by robbing the stores. While
thus engaged the sheriff and posse
came up. A running fight ensued,and
three of the citizens’ horses were shot,
but no one was injured, The sheriff
and most of his men then gave up
the pursuit and returned to Benton¬
ville.
The Caravals on the Move.
A New York special says: The three
caravels, towed by a tug, passed around
the battery into the East river at 12 :2<J
Tuesday on the way to Chicago.
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Mrs. Theresa Hart son
Albion, Pa.
Misery Turned to Comfort
Kidney Troubles, Sleeplessness,
Distress—All CURED.
“ All ion, Erie Co., Pa., Feb. 18, TO.
“ 1 can truly say that Hood's Sarsaparilla
has don6 more for me than all the prescrip-
lions and other medicines 1 hive ever taken.
For 14 years I have suffered with kidney
troubles; my bac k being so lame at times that I
Could Not Raise Myself
up out of my chair. Nor could I turn myself
In bed. I could not sleep, and suffered
Ijre at distress with my food. 1 have taken
4 bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla with the mo >t
gratifying results. I feil like a new person,
and my terrible sufferings have all gone.
Life is Comfort
compared to the misery it used to be. I can
now go to bed and have a good night’s rest;
ran eat heartily without any distress. I am
Hood’s Sa ;> Cures
will m this should be published for others
good.” Mrs. Theuesa'Hartson.
HOOD’B PILLS cure constipation by restor-
lag the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal.
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Care of Bread After Baking.
Remove the bread from the pans as
soon as baked, and place the loaves
where the air can circulate freely
around them, thus allowing the gas
which has formed, but is no longer
needed, to escape. An old wire win¬
dow screen, too small for modern win¬
dows, with cleats on the ends to keep
them two or three inches from the
table, will answer as well as a cooler.
Many use a sieve, but that is too
small,and leaves the markof the larger
cross wires on the loaf. Never leave
the loaves on the table to sweat and
absorb the odor of the wood, and do
not cover them if yon want the crust
crisp.
To give the bread that soft, tender,
wafer-like consistency, wrap it in sev¬
eral thicknesses of bread cloth. When
cold remove the cloth, ns that absorbs
the moisture and gives tho bread an
unpleasant taste and odor. Place the
loaves in a stone jar or tin box wmll
covered and carefully cleansed from
crumbs and stale bread. Scald and
wij>o dry every two or three days. A
yard and a half square of coarse table
linen will answer for a bread cloth.
Keep a good supply of these, in order
that they may always be sweet and
clean, and never use them for other
purposes. — Exchange.
The Genuine Article.
Old Lady—“Is this a genine alliga¬
tor bag?”
Dealer—“Yes, ma’am. I shot that
alligator myself.”
Old Lady—“It looks rather shop¬
worn.”
Dealer—“That’s where he hit the
ground when ho tumbled off the tree,
ma’am.”— New York Weekly.
Learning the Business.
Lady (in drug store)—“I wish to get
a two-cent stamp.”
New Boy—“Yes’m; here’s one,
ma’am—ten cents, please.”— Street &
Smith's Good News.
A Matter of Health
i T costs more to make Royal Baking Powder
than any other, because its ingredients
are more highly refined and expensive. But
the Royal is correspondingly purer and
higher in leavening strength, and of greater
money value to the consumer. The difference
in cost of Royal over the best of the others
does not equal the difference in leavening
strength, nor make good the inferior work
of the cheaper powders, nor remove the
impurities which such powders leave in
the food.
Where the finest food is required, the
Royal Baking Powder only can be used.
Where the question of health is considered,
no baking powder but Royal can be used
with safety. All others are shown by official
analyses to contain lime, ammonia or alum.
“ MaTHPDCI
I v IV-F 1 Ii L r\0
Friend’*
MIKES CHILD BIRTH EASY,
Colvin, La., Dec. 2, 1886.—My wife used
[OTHER'S FRIEND before her third
confinement, and says sho would not bo
without it for hundreds of dollars.
DOCK MILLS.
bent oy express on receipt of price, $1.50 per bet-
tie. ook To Mothers mai ed free.
BRADFIELO REGULATOR CO.,
so* sals ay ala druggist*. Atlanta. QA.
_
Do LIS HI
Not Be Deceived ss m
with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the
hands. Injure the Iron and horn red.
The K Is tax Sun Stove Polish Is Brilliant, Odor¬
less, Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin
or glss* package with every purchase.
Table Etiquette in General.
Gloves are not to be worn at the ta¬
ble under any circumstances.
No argumentative or in anyway un¬
pleasant topic should be broached at
the table.
There should be no difference be¬
tween “company manners” and those
in daily use. folded, but is
The napkin is not
simply crushed and laid beside the
plate on rising. table
Teach the children to eat at
with their elders, and do it in a digni¬
fied manner.
Coffee may be served at any time
during breakfast, but should come at
the end of dinner.
Do not overload the plate of a guest,
or press upon anyone that which they
have once declined.
Remember the maxim of Confucius:
“Eat at your own tablo as you would
at the table of tho king.”
Never say or do, or countenance in
others the saying or doing, of anything
rude or impolite at tho table,
Never xx notice ,. or comment , upon any
accident, but redder unobtrusively any
assistance which may be necessary and
possible.
The side of the spoon is to be plaeed
1° the mouth, except .... in the case of - a
man wearing a moustache, when the
point of the spoon leads the way.
Over Eating.
A physician lately said: “Most per¬
sons eat four times as much as they
should.” The. proportion seemed
pretty large, but an eminent British
physician of a former generation said
almost the same thing—that one-
f()urtll q{ what we eftt goes ° to SU8tain
... life, while . .. three-fourths ,. , ,, to imperil
go
it. Another physician wittily remark-
ed that most people dig their own
graves with their teeth. Tho founda¬
tion of the habit of over-eating is apt
to be laid in childhood and youth,
since the stomach then seems almost
able to bear anything. There would be
little danger of eating too much if the
food w r ere always plain and simple ; in
that case the natural appetite w'ould be
a safe and sufficient guide. The trou¬
ble is that the natural appetite is too
often spoiled by cakes, pies, condi¬
ments and highly seasoned food.
Kofki’d on tbe Crest of the Ware,
The landsman tourist or commercial traveler,
speedily begins, and not only begins, but con¬
tinues, to feel the extreme of human misery
during Atlantic, his transit ncro-s the tempestuous
But if, with wise prescience, lie lias
provided Stomach Bitters, himself his with a supply promptly of Ifostetter’s mi li¬
pangs are
gated, and then cease ere tliecood snip again
drops thousands her anchor. This is worth knowing, and
of onr yacht men, summer voy-
agers, tourists aud busines-s men do know it.
The ri ofs of Egyptian temples nro com¬
posed of lingo blocks of stone laid from col¬
umn to column.
For Dyspep-ia, Indigestion and Stomach dis¬
orders, Tonic. use Brown’s Iron Bitters—the Best
If rebuilds the Blood and strengthens
the muscles. A splendid medicine for weak
and debilitated persons.
It i« estimated that one out of every 180 in„-
liabitants of tho United States owns or rides
a bicyclo.
The man or woman who is profitably employ¬
ed is generally happy. If you are not happy it
may be because you have not found your prop¬
er work. We earnestly urge all such persons to
write to I). F. Johnson & Co., R- 'chmond, Va.,
and they can show you a work In which you
can be happy and profitably employed.
We will give $100 reward for any case of ca¬
tarrh that cannot be cured with Ball’s Catarrh
Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
Even the misnamed trial by jury which pre¬
vails in Russia now was unknown there until
I860.
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Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys¬
tem by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which enriches
the blood, tones the nerves, aids digestion.
Acts like a charm on persons in generall ill
health, giving new energy and strength.
Pom ln y’s pi lar, at Alexandria, was neither
erecte a by Pompey nor to liis memory.
Beecham’s Pills are better than mineral wa¬
ters. Beecham’s—no others. 25 cents a box.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye-water.Drnggists sell at 25c per bottle.
p.Y.» 8l»ep Blessings Peacefully!
• light on him
• who invented that sleep-charmer, the
i pilgrim
j SPRING
• E2ET -Pk
•
• “ Sleep covers a man all over, thoughts
| and all, like a cloak. It is meat for the
• hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the
• cold and cold for the hot. In short,
• money that buys everything, balance and
# • weight that makes the shepherd equal to
the monarch and the fool to the wise.”
% The Pilgrim is made of Highly Temper-
Jed EASE, Steel Wire. will Ls the PERFECTION of
• • and last a LIFETIME. Be-
ware of cheap made common wire imita-
• tions, for “they are not what they seem.”
• ExblMteri at No. 31 Warren Street, New York;
• No. 2 Hamilton Place, Boston,
z For Rale by all reliable Dealers.
G See Brass Tag Registered Trademark on ail
• Genuine Pilgrims.
• Send for Money Saving Primer, Free.
• Atlas Tack Corporation, Boston.
J Wabehovsk*—B Chicago, Baltimore, oston, San Sew Francisco, York, Philadelphia, Lynn.
• Kactobjks—T Mass.; Falrhaven,
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KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly usoa. The many, who live bet¬
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, world’s by best more products promptly
adapting the to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure
laxative principles embraced in tho
remedy, excellence Syrup of Figs. its presenting
Its is due to
in the form most acceptable and pleas*
ant to the taste, the refreshing perfect and truly lax¬
beneficial properties of a
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
ana permanently satisfaction curing constipation. millions and
It has given to
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid-
neve, Liver and Bowels without weak¬
ening objectionable them and it is substance. perfectly free from
every Syrup Fig? is for sale by all drug¬
of
gists in 50e and $1 bottles, but it is man¬
ufactured by the California printed Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is cn every
package, also the name, Syrup will of Figs,
and being well informed, you not
accept any substitute if offered.
‘August 99
“ For two years I suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment after by a
physician. He finally, trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that I would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec¬
ommendation of a friend I procured
a bottle of August Flower. It seem¬
ed to do me good at once. I gained
strength and flesh rapidly. I feel
now like a new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me.”
Jas. E. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y.®
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