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VICTORY FOR REPEAL.
Free CoiQdp Defeated in tlie tee by
a Vote of 239 to 110.
The Bland Amendments Were AH Toted
Down by Large Majorities.
Sixteenth Day. —The five-minute
debate in the house on the Wilson bill
began Thursday morning with a speech
by Mr. Waugh, of Indiana, who spoke
for repeal as to the interest of bi-met
allism. Mr. Somers, of Wisconsin,
favored bi-metallism, but would not
vote for unconditional repeal. Mr.
Johnson, of North Dakota, spoke for
silver. Mr. Pickier, of South Dakota,
asked unanimous consent to change
the voting order bo as to take a vote
Monday on the amendment confining
free coinage to the American pro
duct. This was objected to by
Wilson, in charge of the admin
istration bill. Mr. Pickier then
tried to arrange for a vote on the
American product free coinage propo
sition after the Wilson bill had been
passed, but again objection was made.
He then proceeded to criticise Presi
dent Cleveland as being under English
influence. Lucas, of South Dakota, and
Mr. Hartman, of Montana, spoke for
free coinnge. Mr. Barthold, of Mis
souri, declared for repeal and the ex
tension of bank circulation. Mr.
Henk, of Ohio, spoke for uncondi
tional repeal. Mr. Heard, of Missou
ri, was against the Wilson bill, hold
ing that the people were entitled
to something more. Mr.
Dingley, of Maine, advocated tho
repeal of the purchasing clause. He
had voted for the Sherman bill only
because it contained restrictions that
would postpone the evil day.
Seventeenth Day.— At the close of
the routine morning business of the
senate, Friday, which comprised no
matter of public interest, except the
presentations of communications from
the treasury department, adverse to
any special legislation in regard to tho
penalties on the whiskey tax. Mr.
Hill addressed the chair and was rec
ognized. He yielded, however, to Mr.
Vest, who sent to the clerk’s desk and
had read, a communication from the
director of the mint giving statistics
as to the purchase, cost and coinage of
silver. Mr. Hill then resumed the
floor. The announcement that Mr.
Hill wqs to speak once more
made the senate chamber the
focus of public interest. He spoke
for something over two hours. There
was accorded him the strictest atten
tion from the start to the finish. Since
his sensational support of Peffer’s
resolution there lias not been consid
erable curiosity as to his real position.
He declared himself to be on the dem-
ocratic platform, and in favor of un
conditional repeal. The pledge to bi
metallism was more than empty
words. Now was not the time
for experimental legislation or tho
discussion of ratios. The sen
ate, he predicted, ‘would repeal
the Sherman act as soon as possible.
There would be no filibustering. He
said congress should adjourn as soon
as the repeal was enacted. His speech
was admirable in argument. There is
no denying its strength or its effect.
Eighteenth Day.— The question of
the right of the governor of a state to
appoint a senator to fill a vacancy
caused by the expiration of a regular
term, and not happening by resigna
tion or otherwise, was decided by the
senate Monday in the negative. The
final vote in the two cases from Mon
tana and Washington deciding Mantle
and Allen not entitled to seats was 32
to 29. There was no vote necessary
to be taken in the third of those eases,
that from Wyoming, Mr. Beckwith
having resigned his appointment
more than a month ago. The remain
der of the day’rf session was occupied
in the consideration of the bill allow
ing national banks to increase their
circulation up to the par value of the
bonds deposited by them to secure
circulation. The amendment which
Mr. Cockrell had offered some time
ago to allow the redemption of the
$25,000,000 2 per cent bonds and pay
ment for them in anew issue of legal
tender notes was rejected by a vote of
23 to 29.
THE HOUSE.
Sixteenth Day.— The house joint
resolution as to town sites in the Cher*
• okee outlet was reported in the senate
Thursday morning and an attempt was
made to have it passed but objection
was made and it was placed on the
calendar. A question of precedence
between Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, and
Mr. Pefter, of Kunsas, as to which
was entitled to the floor, was
decided in favor of Mr Stewart,
who then offered to yield his right
if Mr. Pefter desired particularly to
address the senate. Mr. Peffer de
clined the offer, but said that he
would be very much pleased if he
could proceed now. [ Laughter. ] The
vice-president, however, took Mr.
Stewart at his word and recognized
Mr. Peffer. Mr. Pefter thereupon
proceeded to address the senate on the
silver question. He requested that he
should have a patient and attentive
hearing (such as he had given to other
senators), as he represented at least a
million and a half of voters who be
lieved just as he did.
Seventeenth Day. —Friday was the
day of the debate under the
live minutes-rule in the house. Noth
ing sensational transpired. Aside from
the speeches delivered by Mr. Burrows
and Mr. Springers there was none
that commanded the attentian of the
members; and, indeed, these two
speeches were not listened to with the
interest they deserved. They day was
a day of calm—a precursor of the
storm to be precipitated Saturday. A
large number of members addressed
the house, but for the greater part
they wasted their eloquence on empty
benches, ihe silver debate was be
gun promptly by Mr. Pendleton, dem
ocrat, of Texas, who expressed his in
tention to vote for the free coinage of
silver at any ratio that had been sug
gested, but at the same time he held
the purchasing clause of the Sherman
act responsible for the pres
ent hard times. Others who
spoke were Mr. Bowers, repub
lican, of California, for free silver;
Mr. Piggott,democrat, of Connecticut’
spoke in favor of repeal; Mr. Doc! erv,
democrat, of Missouri, for free coin ge;
Mr. Cobb, democrat, of Alabama, for
free coinage; Mr. Marsh, republican,
of Illinois; Mr. Joseph, democrat, of
New Mexico; Mr. Mooney, democrat,
of Mississippi, all in favor of free coin
age. At 5 :45 o’clock the house took a
recess until 8 o’clock p. m., when the
debate under the five minutes rule on
the silver question was concluded.
Eighteentil Day —The galleries of
the house were full of spectators
Saturday morning before the hour of
meeting, attracted by the announce
ment that the last day of the great
silver debate was to be signaled by ft
battle of the oratorical giants of the
house. The chaplain, in his opening
prayer, asked God’s blessing on
the closing hours of this long bebate.
The speaker announced the order of
the day’s proceedings. Under the
hour rule, he said, the time in favor
of the bill would close with the mem
ber from West Virginia (Mr. Wilson)
and tin? time in the opposition to it
by the member from Missouri (Mr.
Bland). The first thirty minutes was
assigned by Mr. Wilson to Mr. Clarke,
democrat, of Alabama. He believed
it the duty of congress to fix the ratio
between silver and gold at
10 to 1. He was followed by
Tom Reed, of Maine, the giant of
the republican party. Mr. Reed was
never in better trim, aud has never
delivered a speech to equal this one.
He demonstrated a broadness of views
aud a generosity of interest which
has seldom been heard from him.
After Mr. Reed came Mr. Dearmond,
of Missouri, in favor of uncondition
al repeal, and then Mr. Williams, of
Illinois, who opposed repeal. Then
came Private John Allen, of Missis
sippi, who delivered one of
the most humorous speeches of
his life. He argued for free coinage.
Mr. Cockran, the Tammany orator,
then took the floor arfd made the
greatest speech of his life and by odds
the strongest argument which has yet
been made in either house of congress
in favor of the unconditional repeal of
the Sherman law. Mr. Bland fol
lowed Mr. Cockran. Several oth
er brief speeches were delivered,
after Mr. Bland’s, and then
the debate was closed in a strong
twenty minutes’ speech by Mr. Wil
son, of West Virginia, the author of
the repeal bill. His most significant
utterance was that the administration
would, after the repeal of the Sher
man law, endeavor to enact legislation
looking to the continued use of silver
as a money metal. At the night ses
sion there were a number of good
speeches delivered, the principal one
being by John R. Fellows, the New
York orator, and the great debate was
closed.
Free Coinage Defeated.
Eighteenth Day.— The public gal
leries of the hall of the house of rep
resentatives were filled before ten
o’clock Monday morniag, and many
members were in their seats on the
floor at that hour. The surrounding
corridors and lobbies of the floor were
also filled with a throng of people.
When tlie speaker commanded order
at noon, nearly every seat in
the hall was filled, an un
mistakable evidence of general
and individual interest in the matter
on hand. After the reading of the
journal, Mr. Weaver, ot New York,
appeared at the bar of the house on
arm of his colleague, General Tracy,
and was sworn in by the speaker.
The house then began to vote on the
Bland free coinage substitute, fixing
the ratio at 16 to 1 at 12 o’clock, and
it was defeated—yeas 123, nays 225.
Sixteen to one is believed to be the
strongest substitute. The majority
against 16 to 1 w r as at least 30 votes
higher than the anti-silver men
claimed. The 17 to 1 amendment was
defeated—yeas 100, nays 240. On a
vote at 17 to 1, besides the loss
of populist votes, the members of that
party withholding their votes, there
were several negative votes from those
who voted in favor of the ratio of 16 to
1. The 18 to 1 free coinage amend
ment was rejected. Yeas, 102; nays,
239. The 19 to 1 amendment was re
jected. Yeas, 105; nays, 237. The
20 to 1 amendment was likewise re
jected. Yeas, 119; nays, 220. On the
substitute reviving the Bland-Allison
act, the vote was, for 136, against 213
—majority against, 77. In the final
vote to repeal the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act, the Wilson bill, the
vote stood 239 against 110—a majority
of 139 votes for repeal. After Mr.
Catehings had given notice that he
would call up the house rules Tuesday
the house, at 3:30 o’clock, adjourned.
DECIDING BY VOTE.
Employes of the Louisville and Nash*
Resist a Cut in Wages.
According to a previous arrange
ment the representatives of the differ
ent labor organizations employed on
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
system, met in Nashville, Tenn., Fri
day to count the vote recently taken
by the different divisions as to wheth
er they would submit to the ten per
cent cut in wages ordered by the road
and which, if not otherwise ordered,
was to go into effect on September the
first. The representatives were com
posed of the chairman of each organi
zation in their respective divisions
and the general chairman of the di
vision. The different bodies repre
sented were the engineers, telegraph
operators, conductors, brakemen,
switchmen, firemen and machinists.
By an overwhelming vote the employes
decided to resist the unconditional
reduction in wages. The main point
of difference, it is leatned, between the
railroad and its employes is the nam
ing of date for the between for the re
turn to the present schedule of wages.
It was ot this point that the men were
so overwhelmingly agaist a reduction.
It is not know n when they will present
to the management the result of the
It is expected that the negotiations
will extend over several weeks.
Ravages of Cholera iu Russia.
A supplementary official cholera re
port issued at St. Petersburg, Russia,
Thursday gives the following statis
tics of the ravages of the disease in
the affected governments during the
past week: Orel, new cases 647, deaths
213; Cossacks of the Don, new cases
498, deaths 202; Koorsk, new cases
296, deaths 103; Viedimir, new cases
156, deaths 5$ ; Lomza, new cases 52,
deaths 22; Moscow, new cases 72,
deaths 24; Viatka, new cases 47, deaths
22; Voronezh, new cases 30, deaths
23.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Coiitaei from Our Most Imporlanl
TeleirapMc Advices
Aud Presented in Pointed and Reada*
ble Paragraphs.
The Western Brass Foundry, at St.
Louis, Mo., was burned Thursday.
The loss is very heavy.
A special of Sunday to the New York
Timeg from Boston says Josiah Quin
cy mailed a letter to President Cleve
land Friday night in which he tender
ed his regignation of the oflice of as
sistant secretary of state.
The paid admissions to World’s fair
Saturday were 164,800, making a total
for the week of over 1,000,000. This
is the banner week of the fair, the av
erage attendance, including Sunday,
when the attenance was over 21,000,
being over 143,000.
A conservative estimate places the
total loss by Thursday’s fire in south
Chicago at $600,000. The heaviest
loss w T as on the Simday Creek Coal
Company’s dock, which w’as damaged
to the extent of $125,000.
A London cable dispatch says: At
the regular w eekly meeting' Thursday
of the directors of the Bank of Eng
land, it was decided to raise the bank’s
rate of discount to five per cent. This
is an advance of one per cent.
The town of Merced Falls, Cal.,
was destroyed by fire Thursday. The
Merced woolen mills, valued at $125,-
000; Nelson’s flour mills, $25,000;
and the warehouse of the woolen mill,
containing goods worth $50,000, were
burned. The town has about 150 in
habitants, mostly employes of the
mills.
The free silverites held a meeting at
Cooper union, New York City, Thurs
day night. There w r ere 3,000 persons
present and much enthusiasm was dis
played. Resolutions favoring the free
coinage of silver were adopted.
Speeches were made by Hon. W. J.
Bryan, of Nebraska, John G. Boyd
and Gen. A. J. Warner.
A Toledo, 0., dispatch of Sunday
says: The famous personal damage
suit against P. M. Arthur, chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineer, for $300,000, commenced last
March, immediately after the strike of
the engineers on the Ann Arbor rail
road, has been settled out of court.
What the exact terms and conditions
of the settlement are, the public will
probably never know.
Fire broke out Thursday afternoon
in South Chicago. A gale was blow
ing and the flames quickly swept
through five blocks to the lake. Most
of the buildings destroyed were frame
dwellings occupied by employes of the
large steel mills of the Illinois Steel
• company. Two hundred and fifty
houses w r ere burned and 7,000 people
were made homeless. The money loss
is estimated at a million dollars,
At 6 o’clock Saturday morning a
Baltimore and Ohio freight train was
derailed at Black Lick, near Newark,
0., while running at a high rate of
speed. The engine and several cars
w r ere piled up in a huge mass of
wreckage. Fireman S. C. Stoneburn
er, of Newark, was terribly scalded
and will die. Curley Mitchell, a friend
of Stoneburner, w r ho was on the en
gine at the time, was crushed to death.
The appraisement of the personal
effects of the banking firm of E. K.
Smith & Cos., of Columbia, Pa., which
failed recently, shows their affairs to
be in a deplorable condition. The
cash on hand with the securities will
amount to less than $4,000. The de
posits amount to $151,000, and the
claims of preferred creditors, not de
positors, to over $69,000; so that, un
less the latter are set aside as fraudu
lent, the creditors will get next to
nothing.
A special from the Salt Lake, Utah,
says that, in speaking of the conven
tion of the western and southern
states, which he has been petitioned
to call, Governor Stone said that he
W’ould be glad to do anything that was
essential and proper for the well be
ing of the south and west. He said
that such a convention for the consid
eration of questions affecting particu
larly tohse two sections without refer
ence to the east, might result benefi
cially.
A dispatch of Thursday from Little
Rock, Ark., states that a movement is
on foot in that state to have the gov
ernor call an extra session of the leg
islature. The legislature abolished the
convict lease system at its last session
and only appropriated $30,000 to
maintain it the next two years. This
fund is likely to be soon exhausted,
the state being unable to hire them
out. The session is to be called to
enact legislation that will enable the
state to use the convicts in building
railroads to be ow ned and controlled
by the state.
CONFEDERATE CAMPS.
A Summary by States—-One Hundred
New' Applications.
Adjutant General George Moseland
furnished a list of the summary of
camps of United Confederate Veterans
by states for the information of the
veterans and the public, and states
that applications for papers for organ
ization have been received already
from over 100 new camps, which, he
believes, with the 371 now registered,
will, unless the stringency of the times
prevents, marshal the representatives
of 500 camps at the Birmingham re
union on October 2d and 3d. He says
that the change of the date of the re
union to October 2d and 3d gives the
greatest satisfaction to every portion
of the south and a large and enthusi
astic meeting is expected.
Texas, 127; Alabama, 50; Missis
sippi, 37; Louisiana, 30; Florida, 26;
Kentucky, 24; Arkansas, 18; Tennes
see, 15; South Carolina, 13; North
Carolina, 8; Georgia, 7; Virginia, 7;
Oklahoma, 4; division of the north
west, 2; Indian Territory, 2; Mis
souri, 1; District of Columbia, 1.
Total, 372.
Banks Resume Business.
The Farmer’s Exchange National
bank at San Bernardino,Cal., re-open
ed its doors for business Friday.
The Bank of River Falls, Wis.,
which suspended a week ago, resumed
business Friday,
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drift ol Her Progress and Pros
perity Briely Hotel
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
F. C. Turner k Co.’s sash factory at
Mobile, Ala., a two-story brick build
ing, was burned Thursday night. Loss
$20,000; insurance SIO,OOO.
The board of health of Wilmington,
N. C., met Friday and declared quar
antine against Atlanta and Columbus,
Ga., because of the number of refu
ges at those places from fever infected
ports.
The Standard Oil company has pur
chased a lot in Spartanburg, S. C.,
and will erect three oil tanks with a
capacity of 25,000 gallons each. Spar
tanburg will be made a bulk station
and distributing point.
Chairman T. A. Goodw r yn, of the
Alabama state Jeffersonian democratic
executive committee,has called a meet
ing of that body to be held on Sep
tember 7th in the city of Montgomery.
The call announces that matters of im
portance will he considered and acted
upon.
A Nashville, Tenn., special of Sat
urday says: Without taking a vote on
the proposition, the employes of the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
railroad have, through their author
ized representatives, accepted the re
duction of the 10 per cent, in w ages.
The Columbia, S. C., Clearing House
Association held a meeting Saturday
night and perfected arrangements for
issuing clearing house certificates. The
plan adopted was to issue certificates
for two-thirds value of securities de
posited with the association, and to
the amount of 20 percent of the bank
ing capital.
The directors of the first national
bank of Dayton, Tennessee, have de
cided to suspend the payment of de
positors for sixty days and a circular
to that effect has been mailed to the
depositors. The assets are more than
double the liabilities, but the strin
gency in the money market makes the
stoppage of business necessary. The
bank hopes to resume in tw r o months
or less.
A Nashville dispatch of Wednesday
says: Jere Baxter has secured back
ing and will at once proceed with the
completion of the Nashville and Knox
ville railroad,which is intended to run
from Nashville to a point on the Cin
cinnati Southern. The road is already
in operation from Lebanon to the
Crawford coal field, a distance of fifty
six miles, having eighty-four miles to
be built.
An Austin, Texas dispatch says:
Cotton planters tell a doleful tale
about the condition of cotton, which
is suffering for rain, and they assert
that they will not make more than a bale
to six acres. Buyers are promptly pay
ing for all offered, the ruling price
being 6J cents for middling. Many
farmers refuse to take this, and haul
their cotton home to hold, for higher
prices.
The Fourth National Bank of Lou
isville, Ky., one of the five Louisville
banks to suspend payment during the
recent panic, resumed business Satur
day. The City National and the Mer
chants’ National will also resume
within a few days. An informal meet
ing of the stockholders of the Ken
tucky National bank will be held to
discuss the matter of re-opening that
institution.
The liabilities of the Buchanan
River Lumber Company, of Wheeling,
W. Va., which failed Saturday will
reach $200,000, with assets that will
more than cover that amount. The
creditors are principally banks that
hold the company’s paper. The con
cern was one of the largest in the state
and employed SI,OOO men. It is
thought an arrangement can be made
with the creditors to permit the works
to resume soon.
Owing to the stringency of money
and general depressed condition of af
fairs, the city of Birmingham, Ala.,
Wednesday night voted to issue city
paper. Scrip or promises to pay bear
er will be issued in denominations
from 25 cents up. It is estimated that
$75,000 at least will be issued in this
form. The bond sale the first of next
year will liquidate the paper which
will be discontinued. The interest
and bonds to be taken up between now
and Janury have been provided for.
A dispatch of Thursday from Fort
McKavett, Texas, states that the nu
merous cattle thieves and smugglers
who infest that section of the upper
Rio Grande border, are being rounded
up and that there is much excitement
over the arrests which have already
been made. Sheriffs from Valverde
and the surrounding counties have
been out night and day for the lust
week; in all, about fifty men. The
hunt is not over yet, and more arrests
are exected to follow in a few days.
The employes of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railway met in
a general mass meeting at Knoxville,
Tenn., Saturday night to discuss the
propof • and cut in salaries as ordered by
the iec eivers. A committee com
posed of one man from each division
was finally appointed to wait upon
the receivers and ask the road to take
their salaries as a loan or state some
specified time as to when they would
be restored. The committee was in
structed to consult with the employes
at Atlanta, Macon and Selma, where
the road has other large shops.
The New Orleans Clearing House
Association met Thursday and took
action on the proposition made to is
sue clearing house certificates for
small sums to take the place of cur
rency. The recent action of the banks
left the planters without the money to
move the crops and a plan to over
come this state of affairs was thus ren
dered advisable. After discussion the
following plan was adopted: Issue cer
tificates of deposit to persons having
money on deposit, payable to them
selves or bearer, in sums of $5, 810
S2O or more, and make the certificates
payable through the clearing bouse.
Another Fever Case at Brunswick.
A special of Wednesday says: An
other new case of yellow fever has de
veloped in Brunswick. The victim is
a ehild, five years old, who had no
connection with the other cases.
WHILE IN THE WAR
==::= I was taken ill with spl
nal disease and rheuma
// / tism. 1 went home and
ft l B w "’as confined to my bed,
l! fc* gg? \\unable to help myself
B ley jEj) U for eo m onths. After
Q pi Ijyears of misery a com
ft Jpt // pan ion machinist advis
\ V ft&ir // ed me to take Hood'*
// Sarsaparilla. I' got a
bottle and could quickly
JT note a change for the
*<rpnj^>.Y-f better. Alter taking 7
W i,'i„ r bottles I was ■well and
Mr. Wheeler. hfty6 not since beeQ
troubled with my old complaints.” JA9. A.
Wheeler, 19u0 D.vision St., Baltimore, Md.
Hood’s Cures
Hood’s Pills cure liver ills. 35 cents per box.
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Stove Polish
Do Not Be Deceived
with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the
hands, Injure the iron and burn red.
The Rising Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor
less, Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin
or glass package with every purchase.
How to Clean the Face.
Theatrical people know that oil
cleans the skin better than water.
Generally other people do not. If ac
tresses undertook to get their makeup
off with water, they would need soft
soap and a scrub brush to do it, and
the skin would inevitably come with it.
They used once cocoabutter. Now they
use cocoa oil, which is a better prepa
ration of the same thing. Drug stores
keep it. Some keep it fresh, and
some keep it rancid. Take care not
to patronize the second class, and in
cocoa oil you will have the most de
lightful of all emollients for the oil
bath.
If you want to see how effective it
is, come in from a railway journey on
a hot day, when the windows have
been up and you have had as much
benefit of the smoke and soot as the
fireman. Take the most vigorous bath
you can devise or endure, then spread
some cocoa oil on the face and rub it
off. The blackened towel will tell the
tale of failure for the bath and tri
umph for the oil.— Boston Gazette.
His Only Fear.
First Boy—“l’m savin’ up money to
buy a gun. I’m going west to fight
Indians.”
Second Boy—“I ain’t.”
“No, ’cause you’re ’fraid of the In
dians, that’s what you are.”
“Huh! Who’s ’fraid of Indiaas?
I ain’t. I could vanquerish a dozen
of them with one hand.”
“Then what is you ’fraid of?”
“I’m ’fraid mebby a big alligator’ll
get after me and chase me up a tree,
and then a big cyclone might come
along an’ blow the tree here, an’ then
pop ud catch me aud lick me.”—
Street <1- Smith's Good News.
Daiuty Splashers.
In a summer cottage quite the effec
tive feature of every bedroom was the
washstand splasher. A wide piece of
cottage drapery, shirred on a slender
gilt rod and suspended by white rib
bon bands, formed the background of
the toilet stand, falling to the floor
and coming well out on both sides.
The protection of the delicate wall pa
per was perfect, and the graceful ban
ners imparted an airy effect that add
ed much to the prettiness of the
rooms.— New, York Times.
I
A Polite Dog.
Mother— : “Did you thank the gentle
man who carried you across the crowd
ocl street?”
Wee Son—“l tried to, but I didn’t
know what to say—the words wouldn’t
come somehow; but I guess it’s all
right, ’cause my dog wagged his tail
enough for both of us.”
Stock From Roasts.
Just before the roast is done pour
into the pan in which it is cooking
about a pint of hot water. Remove
the roast and turn the gravy into a
dish. When it is cold, there will be
found a supply of pure, rich meat
stock ready to flavor sauces or to im
prove soup stock.
A Wide Choice.
Guard (at the Wold’s Fair) —“I ad
vise you to go to your State building
and make that sort of a heardquarters
for receiving mail, writing letters,
resting, etc. What state are you
from?”
Drummer —“Well—er—which State
building is the most comfortable?”
A News Average.
Hustling Editor—“ How many mur
ders did that man commit?”
Assistant—“One reporter says three,
another says five, and another says
nine.”
Hustling Editor—“ Three, five, nine,
eh? Oh, well, we’ll have to strike an
average; make it 350.— New York
Weekly.
To Render Canned Goods Safe.
If you are the least bit nervous
about canned goods, soak them—peas,
lobsters, anything—an hour in iced
water before heating them. This will
remove any tinny taste that will be
noticed in them and take away the
least shade of reproach that may cling
to that best friend of the busy house
keeper, the canned article. — St. Louis
Republic.
Great Saving of Leather.
Little Dick—“ Papa, didn’t you tell
mamma we must economize?”
Papa—“l did, my son.”
Little Dick —“Well, I was thinkin’
that mebby if you’d get me a pony I
wouldn’t wear out so many shoes.”—
Street & Smith's Good News.
For Summer Cookery
Royal Baking Powder will be found the
greatest of helps. With least labor and
trouble it makes bread, biscuit and cake
of finest flavor, light, sweet, appetizing
and assuredly digestible and wholesome.
Good Manners in Children.
It is no wonder that there are so
many ill bred men and women in the
world when one sees the lack of pains
taken by parents to instruct their lit
tle ones in forms of table and social
etiquette that are so easily taught to
the pliable infant mind, but which,
left unnoticed, are soon supplanted by
actions that become bad habits in a very
short time.
It is no unusual sight to behold a
child drinking from its saucer wi th no
word of admonition from the mother
or nurse who sits near by. A thirsty
little one will drink from a cup in
which there is a spoon, and later years
will see no harm in continuing the
practice. Many a child eats with his
knife, and yet how easily could the
fork or spoon be substituted in its
place if the parents gave but a tiny bit
of attention to this branch of their
children’s education.
Selfishness is fostered so easily
through a lack of watchfulness. The
gentler courtesies that count for so
much are not instilled in childhood,
and in later years the man or woman
is regarded as a bore. Good clothes
are not everything. Even good health
is not the one point desirable in a
child’s makeup. Good manners should
be added to health and attire in order
to gain a perfect ensemble that counts
for so much in the world’s judgment.
No one can estimate how great a
factor in life is the possession of good
manners. They are the open seasame
to the best of society. They are the
hall mark of the gentleman or lady, but
they must be acquired in infancy.—
New York Telegram.
Last Word.
A young girl once heard a bit of
wisdom from the lips of a very aged
woman—a woman who had rounded the
full term of ninety years, and with
eyes still bright and clear looked out
upon the inrolling waters of eternity.
The girl was impressed by the empha
sis with which the venerable dame said
to her, “Bessie, never insist on having
the last word.” The determination to
have the final word leads to more
quarrels and more bitterness of feeling
at homo than almost anything else in
domestic life. The fact is, that one
may so control her tongue and her
eyes that she may allow,her opponent
the pleasure of this coveted conclud
ing thrust and yet placidly retain her
own opinion, and in the homely, col
loquial parlance of the upcounty,
where one finds strong-willed people
living together in great peace with the
most pronounced diversity of charac
teristics, “do as she’s a mind to.”
Table Decoration.
All forms of table garniture are re
quired to be low. The tall vases are
used upon mantels in the drawing
room, the sitting-room and the little
reception room, but no longer upon
the table, where their height proves a
hindrance to dinner chat. The custom
of putting huge pieces in the centre
was never good, but so long as fashion
declares in its favor it held neverthe
less,and only very few had the courage
to denounce it. Now, when it is the
correct thing to arrange tempting bits
of color as low as can be, the wisdom
of the change cannot be denied, and
diners out gain an enlarged view of
their neighbors and vis-a-vis.—Ex
change.
Character In the Eyebrows.
Highly arched eyebrows are said to
denote vivacity and brilliancy, level
brows, strength of intellect; regularly
curved eyebrows express cheerfulness;
square ones, deep thought; irregular,
fickleness, versatility, excitability;
raised at the inner corner, melancho
ly ; joined over the nose, an unsettled
mind; thick and bushy eyebrows de
note physical strength.— Philadelphia
Ledger.
Over Many n League
Spreads the infectious air poison of chills and
fever, a complaint to the eradication and
prevention of which Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters is special'y adapted. Vast and fertile
districts are periodically visi'ed by this re
lentless malady. Fortify with the Bitters
and prevent it. Rheumatism, constipation,
biliousness, 1 ver trouble and nervousness
are conquerable in any stnge by this compre
hensive medicine, indorsed and commended
by intelligent physicians .every where.
Prayer is the language of the heart. Only
soul language is heard in heaven,
If your Back Aches, or you are all worn out,
good for nothing, it is general debility.
Brown’s Iron B.tters will cure you, make you
strong, cleanse your liver, and give you a good
appetite—tones the nerves.
Don’t repent over anything you have done*
Don’t do anything to repent of.
State or Ohio, City or Toledo, I
Lucas County. j "•
Frank J. Chkney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Chkney &
Cos., doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and t hat said tirm
will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of C ttarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of H all’s Catakrh
Cure. Frank J. CntNEY.
fwornto before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886.
, , A. W. Gleason,
< seal >
‘ r — l No tan/ Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure istaken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney 6s Cos., Toledo. O.
@P“Sold by Druggists, 75c.
We Care Rapture.
No matter of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J.
Hollensworth & Cos., Owego, Tioga 00., N. Y.
Price $1; by mail, SLIS.
“Lauvli and the world laughs with you.”
Wei p and the word laughs at you.
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brown’s Iron
Bitters. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria,
Indigest ion,Biliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes the Blood rich and pure.
Worry is the great ferti'izer of troubles. It
produces them arid it maks them grow.
Beecham’s Pills correct bad effects of over
eating. Beecham’s—no others. 25 cents a box.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr- Isaac Thomp
son’s Eve-water.Drusreists "=ell at 25.- per bottle.
KSOWIE^E
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
tei onan others and enjoy life more with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
IL t- vcellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and plea£
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Cos. only, whose name is printed on e very
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if ofiered.
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My wife suffered with indigestion
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