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PebsOX* leeTiog town for tbe season, •ad rammer trerelera, eta have Tbe News mailed to them, poetpald, for 50 cents per month, the addreaa being changed as often M dtrired. Tbe News will be sent to any address in r-'ope nt $1 per month, which iaclodes the ooean pottage. WITH each cool, comfortable, and yet withal health-firing weather as this July section ia now, the people hereabout might well hare the temptation which it aaid auaHa the Freneh people once in a while— whether they are really worthy of the wonderful climate of the country which Cod has giron them. The New York Snn is already beginning to print "big-headed” and “double-leaded” communications from all aorta and condition of men to show why Tilden ahoold be the democratic presidential nominee in 1888. If the national democracy doesn’t cohere any better than the Indiana democracy, it will not make a deal of difieranoe whom it nom-

The oleomargarine tax has been finally fixed at S cento n pound by the aenate and ao goes to the president for affirmation or denial. This Is better than the exorbitant rates at first proposed, bnt it ia doubtful if It fa not worse than nothing. The measure strikes ua as simply an Internal protective tariff meaeuro to oempeUfmoplo to buy batte* ^^,*,**!*,**-*, Ouhmtonb to ont; but that to a mere formal expression of4he result oi the recent elections. There will, be no doubt abont the liaosre pleasure with which Victoria will receive the resignation. There are several people whom the likes better than aha does Gladstone, but it to doubtful if there are any top’ o’ ground whom she dislikes more. He’s a G. O. M. all the same; and hen’s wishing him length of days and strength of m(nd and body to free Inland; then, Lord, let thy servant depart in pesos! ■t9W9aeeaec9Bms-9=-9 The democratic state committee did well pfoterday, so far as It went, in resolving to certify the troubles in the various congressional districts to tbe coming state convention for action. Bat if the convention doesn’t gel nay nearer the bull’s horns than this, and also’fompa the fence with the recommendation of reference to the* various districts, “as a local question’ 1 like the tariff, then then to likely to be an exemplification of the meaning of the phrase "Sheol on the Wabash,’’ all around tbe horison of Indiana; and the republican party won’t play the part of Baehel, refusing to be comforted. If we get an accurate reflection of the proceedings in the Crawford-Dilke case, the reopening thereof which to in process in London to to tbe vast advantage of Sir Charles, and there will be a hope that as a lesnlt ho may regain hto opportunities for public usefulness. He swears as he did before that there was nothing wrong in hto relations with Mn. Crawford. If he to lying be to doing what every one believes the Prince ot Wales did in the Mordaunt divorce case and for which Great Britain rang with praise of him:—"Perjured himself like a gentleman, by blank, sir!” On the other hand Mn. Crawford not only reiterates her loathsome story, but in addition confesses that she has been guilty of adultery with another men, one Captain Foster, and what to worse if possible, that ahe never loved her bosband end married him simply beoanae her heme with her mother waa miserable. If the speaks truly, Sir Charles Dilke to not guilty of the crime with which he waa charged, that is of alienating her affection for her husband and raining hto home. __________ Thk republican prohibitionists, in conventiouhere yesterday, did well, and not the least, as a matter of practical application, ia •ppeeing the third-party, straight-out prohibitionists, A political party to for aH aorta and conditions of men. It proposes various thing*, not all of which its adherents can approve, but it attracts those to whom it present* more of the things they want than does the opposing party. To attempt to erect a parly mi aa .“ism’' like prohibition is an attempt to make a pynmid stand on its apex. We behave Mr. Witooo, of Goehea, struck the oore of the matter whan he gave h as his expertones that a real, straight-out, thirdparty prohibitionist would not vote with the republican party If it were to declare for out-and-oat prohibition. And, we repeat, that this eeatlmeat reflected in the convention's opposition to a third party lor prohibition was one of its wisest resolves. For the restit declared for tonal opttoo, and then, by an exercise of grace, brought itself to declare Ha, willingness for a law which would give those oemmunities that could aetanpprem the liquor traffic by local option ft chance to teg it inn measure somewhat eosnmenearate with the public expense it ■eased. In ether words, these proiubitkmtoto will stay ia the republican party and work tor and be satisfied with the adoption by that party for oae of its purposes the passage of a keel option and high tax law. Qoodt Very, very good! Lsrwrappoce, as we may, without traneMRdinf tiht itatffti of fOMOMblft ttai Um tori* onA ihoir ^muootot" alltoe form a gcrarnirant that will make leaslation. and the legislative body topnevidnit, and will proreed tor she fovorite tocy prom

to oempiem into untev discordant popular element* that can only be held in co-opera-tion by the mnttml “give and take” of all distinct nationalities or races living under on* gmmral government. And let ns farther suppose, ss to mods probable by pest demonstrations, that tbe nationalists are as well indined to force and vindictive methods as the Ulster men, what may we look for ee the outcome of this ill-fitting, compulsory connection? Certainly it will surprise nobody if tbe nationalists make such trouble for the landlords, against the collection of rents and evictions that Irish estates, under the nationalist’s "ban/’ become about as worthless asj»roperty in Sahara. It will take half of the English army to enforce the payment of repudiated rents, or the alternative evictions, and the turbulence may grow into a state of guerilla warfare. This will ruin all the advantages of the conservatives and landlords in the Imperial government, and make Ireland not worth holding, ao far as the value of Irish estates in English hands are coace rued. It will simplify Gladstone's land bill ont of existence. This seems so probable that we can not think an oppoeitiou ministry will dare a recurrence to the old system of constabulary constraint and military intimidation. The Irish will probably be given a sort of local government under imperial revision, and they won’t have it; at least, they won’t be oontani with it, and the tnbulence and hostility to landlordism will go on, less fiercely and generally, no doubt, bnt dangerously, all the same, and constantly growing worse, till the popular feeling ia trained up to the Gladstone advance. That need not be long, seeing that, in the total parliamentary vote, the majority against Gladstone and homerule to not more than 70,000 in a total of nearly 3,000,000 votes. Those who think they aee Irish local independence ahead, have more reason for their opinion than those who fancy that a revolution is going to roll back to the old condition of arrogance and abuse on one side, and anllen submission or silent hostility on the other. -*T The New Extradition Treaty. The London Standard think* the new extradition treaty defective, because it does not provide for the suppression oi conspiracies against the representative governments. It will be rather hard to contrive a treaty to suppress hostile combinations and operationa in a country that avowedly makes no offense of any political action. This new treaty expressly excludes all political offenses on the part of both nations. To contract with Great Britain, or Germany, or Rossis, that we would allow no meetings, no movements, no money contributions, the purpose of which was hostile to either government, to be held or maintained here, would be a good deal worse bargain than that of the fellow who sold the bear-akin and bad the bear to hunt afterward. We could not keep such a pledge as that, and we wouldn’t try. Such operations as those of the Chicago anarchirts could be dealt with effectively, no doubt, bat, as every nation would he looking out for its own interest, it wouldn’t care much for the accidental security another nation might give it. The London paper probably has in view the meeting of home rule clubs and conventioni here, and the money they have raised and sent to Ireland for political purposes. There may easily be two opinions of the prudence of publishing the meetings and contribations of homerule sympathizers in this country, but there can be only one opinion of the right of the people to hold them and of the government to permit it. When our government takes on ao much of the paternal character as to meddle with the meetings and proceedings of its eitiaens, it will be ready for the final change, when civil laws and human agency will be needed no more forever. It to not ao absurd as -one might think at the first suggestion that an English paper should hqfl such views of the duties and righto of governments, for a tory paper to not troubled with many scruples as to the righto of the people, but still U most strike an American aa a queer relic of the notions and systems of old. that a newspaper of to-day, and a good one, able, enterprising and widely reed, should think it within the limite of a government’s dnty to prevent its people from holding meetings and making speeches advene to the views of a party in another country. As a rule, we, in the United States, follow Jefferson’s dictum: "Error can do no harm as long as a truth to free to combat it,” but we allow exceptions, as in the case^f Spies and Fielden, and their kind? The trouble with the London paper’s views is that it want* to treat ftU the meetings and people it don’t like aa we would the anarchists, and a government proceeding on tfiat system would soou be rather worse than none, a meddling, paternal affair that would make a man report to an officer every time he washed hi* hands, or pay a cent every time he ate an apple. The new extradition treaty, if the published form of it is correct, to a very sensible amendment, and there is ao very conspicuous reason why the senate could not ratify it now as easily as to wait till next winter. An immediate ratification might atop a remaining cashier or two who will now be able to get and live well on the plunder that the treaty would save lor the victims. Over the Veils In • Cask. rNta*ara Falls special New York Herald.] Carlisle D.Graham, the Philadelphia coopeg who went through the whirlpool last Sun-sreto-dar ’ —- j

po°i showing the big waves and varying car rents to somo friends. "I have pot got the same nerve I had last Sunday,” said Graham, "for I did not ap-

the water looks smooth, there are boilers which shoved the cask up and down. That’s where people said they saw Captain Webb treading water. It was the boilers forcing him np and flown. The waves would break a man’s neck. Webb did not dive, bnt waa thrown down the hills of water the same aa my barrel went. No man can ro through there alive with any cork suits or Hto pre-

aver ths barrel I have now to unfitted for the tremendous foil, which would kill me. In the barrel I am planning I might do it if the waters did not keep the cask under too long. I shall aend about thirty barrels over, aad if twenty of them earn be recovered within reasonable time I will make tbe attempt. There to ao nee doing it if the nndertow of the current to certain to retain the cask to tongjs to rafboate me. The danger ia very HOHSPORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE noDCCXS SWEXT asd matckal sleep. • Dr. C. E. Delta. Belleville. 1%, ®ye: "I have found It, sad ft slope, to produce sweet and nsturel sleep in easto erwakefolaem earned by over, week c* tint brera. wfctefc often ocean wtth ective

The Two Lights. •‘When Fm a man!" is tbe poetry of youth, ••When I watyoang.’" to the poetry of old age. “When Fm a men.” tbe stripling cries. And strives the coming yean to scan, "Ah, then I shall be stroux and wise. When Fm a man." “When I was yoong,” the old man sighs, • -Bravely tbe Urk aad linnet song Their carol under tunny skies. When I was young.” “When I’m a man I shall be free Tt> guard tbe tight, the truth uphold." “When i was young I bent no knee To power or gold.” "Then shall I satisfy my soul With wonder prize, when I’m a man.” "Too late 1 found bow vein the goal To which I ran.” “When Fm a man these idle toys Aside forever shall be flung.” “There war no poison in my joys When I was young.’ 1 The boy’s bright dream is all before; The man’s romance lie? for behind. Had we the present and no more Fate were unkind. But. brother, toiling In the night. Still count yourself not all uubtesl If in tbe East there gleams a light. Or In the West —{Blackwood’s Magazine. For the Indianapolis News. Tan tains. Am I not doomed, as was that eastern king of old. To ever see bej ond my reach the things 1 need? So near my poor parched lips is held the goblet How near to my hot hands sweet Lethe's waters leadl -{Win Meredith Nicholson.

REALLY MEANS IT.

“SCRAPS.”

"Water communism” to the rising issue in California politics. The original meaning of the word Halifax is red hair, of Colfax black hair, of Fairfax

blonde hair.

Of the 365 convicts in the Iowa penitentiary 353 lay tiie cause of their downfall to the efiects of liquor. Lydia Thompson has been released from her Americao engagements, and will not be seen in this country next season. An amphibian is an animal that lives on land ana water. The socialist is not an amphibian, because he lives on land and

beer.—[Puck.

A party of Uqited States geological surveyors will explore Crater Lake in National park, where they have to be lowered 1,000 feet to reach the water. Dr. R. H. Colge, of New Orleans, has won the prize of $25,000 offered by the government of India for a machine that would prepare the fiber of the ramie plant. It is said that a woman paid full table board for her pug dog at a leading Cincinnati hotel rather than that it should associate with other dogs and eat tbe table leavings. A Poe would find a tbeme in the wanderings of the Hatteras whistling buoy, which has finally been captured and brought to port after drifting all over the Atlantic ocean and scaring and misleading sailors by its ghostly hooting in strange latitudes. Washington Lawyer—You say you are en-

titled to a pension? Patriot—Yes, 1 think so. Lawyer—Were you wounded? Patriot— No; but I laid out $800 in hard cash for a

THAT CIVIL SERVICE CIRCULAR.

So Marray Beys of President Cleveland —People Nat Surprised At Anything That Comes From the President.

substitute. Lawyer—Ah. yes. I see. Just give me a ten-dollar bill ami fill out that blank.—[Harper’s Bazar. A table giving the price of gas in ninetyfive of the principal cities of the United States shows a total range in price of from 90 cents to $1 per 1,000 feet. The lowest price is in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and Wheeling, W. Va., near the heart of the coal regions, and the highest rules in Galveston and San Antonio, Tex., new places and far removed from

coal.

The society young ladies of Butte, Moat., have organized a boycott club, owing to the lax atteutions of the young gentlemen, especially as regards the theater and the opera. About twenty-five voung damsels joined. One night last week they engaged the entire first and second rows in the dresscircle of their home theater and attended in

a body with a chaperone.

A small girl of Boston, in a composition describing difierent nationalities, wrote: "Chinaman—Color, yellow; habits, eats rats and smokes opium; occupation, washing and ironing. Negro—Color, olack; habits, likes liver; occupation, beats carpets. American —Color, white; habits, eats beans and fishballs Sunday mornings; occupation, builds

churches and school houses.”

- Thomas Stevens, the bicvelist, who is traveling around the world k sailed from Constantinople for India on June 23. He was held nineteen days a prisoner in Afghanistan when within ten days’ journey of Calcutta and could easily have reached his goal had the English military authorities uot had strong reasons for not letting him behind the

scenes on the British frontier.

The Boston Post says that a salary of $350 a year is deemed an ample return in one of the richest churches in Boston for the services of an organist of the very first grade. It also aays that recently one of the foremost organisto in America was offered $600 a year to play the organ in a rich New York church, and he replied that, while he could earn as much as that driving a street-car, be would not degrade his calling by accepting such an

offer.

A Jacksonville (Fla.) woman went home the other day and found a strange baby lying on her bed. She was about to turn it over to the police aa a wail when it woke up and she fell in love with its eyes. Just then another woman appeared aad claimed the baby, saying she had intended to leave it with a friend, but had made a mistake in the bouse. Tha foster mother refused to give np the child; and the question of its ownership is still unsettled.

[Correspondence of Tbe Indianapolis News] Washington, July 19.—The president’s polite card to office-holders i* received here with very little sarpri'£. To use the equivocal language of a southern congressman, “Nothing to snrprising that emanates from the white house.” It will not surprise those who understand the character and aims of President Cleveland and give him credit for honesty of pnrpcie. If his pioclamation of warning to followed along about election time by a number ofdismissals on the ground of offensive partisanship I shall not be astonished. There will probably be a great howl raised over this manifesto of reform. On one side it will be deemed on unwise policy to cut off “the workers” from party management; on the other it will be proBounced another evidence of hypocrisy and political buncombe. Of course the two extremes can not together exist, but no matter. Radical republican spoilsmen will see only a clever trick in the president’s proclamation, and radical democratic spoilsmen will rebel against it as an outrage and a political mistake. A rascal can never understand tbe feelings and modes of thought of an honest man. It would seem after what has occurred in onr political history during the last twenty years there woald scarcely exist a doubt among intelligent men as to the proper relations between the federal office-holder and the people. Yet it to deemed necessary by the president to warn all government officials not to trespass upon the rights of the public they are appointed and sworn to serve. If there is anything that has been demonstrated time and again in this country it is that tbe undue influence of federal officials with local political aflairs of the various states and with general elections is more harmful to the party to which the office-holders belong than to the opposition or the country at large. The uprisings against "the machine” and bossism in various states and the disasters, in a long series, which befell y tr after year the great republican party, are, or should be, indelibly impressed upon the memory of every politician in the land. Party government by officeholder* is what brought the party down from a two-thirds majority in both bosses of congress to a minority party. Federal interference with elections has kept the south solid against the republicans. The federal machine became so oppressive in Pennsylvania that the republican party split and the democratic party elected their state officers in a state that, undivided, went republican by 80,000. The federal machine lost New York to the republicans and elected a democratic president. There is scarcely a congressional district in the United States, for that matter, which has not at some time felt tbe obnoxious influence of some federal officeholder who has assumed political bosspowers and run, or attempted to run, his party machine. The immediate apparent result of bossism is often success; the ultimate result of federal office-holder bossism is invariably political defeat. The very fact that party management can be reduced to a mere machine makes the control of that machine the objective point of ambitions politicans. Machine politics embraces rewards and punishments. Worthy and modest men must give way to those whose qualifications are cunning, energy, unscrupulousness an^ gall. Machine politics embrace*, also, dictatorial powers on the part of the few and loss of self-government on the part of the many. When the dictatorial few are headed by an internal revenue collector or postmaster, or or other federal official, the bonds by which the many are bound are only the more galling. Under the machine system the party strength is combined, solidified and made apparent. But it is diminished in numbers by the very causes which produce these conditions. The spirit of self-government and resentment of dictation is there all the time. It crops out at the primaries, at county conventions and state nominating conventions, and while most of the discontented are whipped in usually before elections, the party grows thinner and thinner by constant abrasion and friction. It is a mistaken idea that a man who has been nominated and confirmed to a federal office becomes immediately endowed- with superior political wisdom. I know it is a prevalent one. By what mysterious process

does a government salary produce this change? The assumption of political functions, ex officio, by federal office-holders has

lall pox.” “Great heavens! Mr. Bnyder," the hurried reply, “don’t come nere,” ■nd the clerks rapidly disappeared in various directions. “Vot’s der madder mit yon fellers anyhow?” panned Snyder, "I haf der schmall pox full of butter oud in mine wagon vot der Mrs. Schmidt orterded last week alreoty.” When Isaiah Thomas, of Massachusetts, was printing hto almanac for the year 1780 one of the boys aaked him what -he should pnt opposite the 13th ot Jnlv. Mr. Thomas, being engaged, replied: ’'Anything, anything.” Tbs boy, thus ordered, returned to the offiee and set “Rain, hail and snow.” The country was all amazed when the day arrived, tor it actually rained, hailed and snowed violently. From that time Thomas’s Almanac was In great demand. For many yews Captain Hanaoombn lived in Mrtne. He was in the West India trade and made a fortune. In 1881 his ship went down in a storm off Florida, and . all were lost excepting two sailors. Among tbe articles washed ashore was ft tin box containing the captain's will, a document drawn np by nimseli, and giving nil his property to his daughter. Winifred L. Hanscomoe. It was discovered that he had left a fortune of over $250,000. For n long time efforts were mode in vain to find the heiress. A clew was obtained recently, and a detective traced her to Old Orchard, where she is employed by a wealthy family. She will not be compelled to live at service any longer. Daring the days of the commune in 1871 a company of Bourg-la-Reine, under a young lieutenant, was ordered to carry with the bayonet a barricade which commanded the Paris rend. The men were ont of cartridges and the officer knew that the deed when done would be rewarded by the cross of the Legion of Honor. The lieutenant in foiling in his men was disconcerted to find his colonel come on the Mens, bnt he was la undress with a cone In hto hand, and only attended ee amateur. It was the dusk of the evening and tbe little party advanced stealthily, taking ad vantage of eovsr until within range of the cemmnaists. Suddenly the sentry at the barricade challenged “vjui va la?” “We most rush on them now,” said ths Itontenant to his colonel, “bnt we shall lose a nnaber of men.” "No occasion,” replied tbe commander. “PH rush forward myself;

himself to the rifles ot the communists aad, aa b* predieted, their volley missed him. Before the smoke cleared the lieutenant waa through the burrinudu, which he curried with tbft lees ef one men. The colonel spoken of to now General Boulanger, French minister of war.

done more to destroy respect and veneration for the federal government in the minds of the people than the most obnoxious .laws ever enacted. Why is it necessary, then, that the president should issue a formal proclamation to warn those connected with his administration from undue meddling with political aflairs? For the same reason I write this paragraph—because there are very many people who need instruction and argument to make plain even the plainest and commonest principles. It is surprising that political leaders, who can not help but be conscious of the truths i have stated, will deliberately ignore them. Ths bands of federal office-holders who pack every national convention of the party in power is what Mr. Cleveland has to fear more than the many republican candidates who have so often been wrecked by these officials. Let Mr. Cleveland’s proclamation be posted at every crom-road. Let the words be pasted on every ballot-box in plain red letters: “Federal office-holders, keep hands off.” With such pure principles as these rigidly enforced by the executive departments, the democratic party under this administration will have commended itself to the conntry. Colonel Wm. R. Morrison has long been a candidate for the presidency. L donot know whether ha yet really entertains presidential aspirations or not. I shudder to thiakof the possibility of such a man as Morrison in the white house. Morrison is a sound, hardneeded fellow to be such a crank and run in such a narrow groove. I have seen a good deal of him since I have been on the row and he is one of tbe most uncertain of all the public men I ever had any communication with. One evening you find him loafing about his hotel In a common-place suit ot clothes, hands in his pockets, his rumpled slouched hat mashed over one eye and more resembling a country horse-trader than the leader of the house of representatives, talking affably with everybody between drinks. The next evening yon address him In the same familiar manner, and he will stare at yon as if yon have taken an unwarranted liberty, and probably tarn his back on yon at once. The newspaper correspondent who approaches him can not foil whether tbe Illinois statesman will take him off in n corner and fill him np with information, or bluntly tell him, “It is non* of your busi- < ness.” Not till the experiment is tried. He is likely to do one or tta* gther. He will stand np to the bar and diink whisky and tall stories in the most affable way one night and the next make himself unapproachable. When you get on the inside of his unoertaia ■hell jou will find him as erratic and cranky as a man well can be. - He is as foil of petty prejudices as a dog is fall of fleas. He carries them around with him and dizplavs them on the floor of the honse and In private without regard to tbe feeliqgs of other people or tbs ridicule drawn npon himself. He to for punishing somebody all the time. The man who does not believe in his theories he puts down os a blarsted idiot. Like most public men of hto temper, he to exceedingly sensitive to newspaper criticism and delights to wither critics with his sarcasm. If Morrison had his way he would abolish the reporters’ gallery, or at least bar from it the representatives ot jonraals hostile to his ideas of reform. The boys on the row have respect for Morrison’s brains, but ft goes hard if they are compelled to risk hto ilfnumore by aakieg him questions. A correspondent who was personally unknown to , Morrison hunted him np one day to get

some information. He introduced himself to Morrison by saving that be represented the New York Bogle. “D—n the Bogle!” cried Morrison angrily, “I’ve got nothing to say to yon or it,” and he turnmi on his heel, leaving the astonished and discern IS tied newspaper man speechless. “Mr. Morrison.” aaid a reporter, approaching him respectfully in the Willani rotunda one night in my bearing, “when are yon going to report your tariff bill?” “Non# of your d—n business.’* said Morrison, grufflv. The boys 'wonder what has come over Morrison, for he didn’t use to be so cranky. He isn’t oothered much any more, as a man who has been insulted much does not throw himself in the way again if he can avoid it Tbe thought of a'man like that in the white house makes their blood run cold. The impudence of some reporters, let me say, now I am on the subject, often justifies men like Morrison in vigoroos treatment. I was told of a ease the other day ot a Chicago reporter who met Senator Teller and family and some friends going down to a yacht on The young oined him spent the day without invitation. There was no way to get rid of him except to kick him and tbe good natured senator probably didn’t wish to do that before the ladies. This same yonng man was engaged to a young lady here and had come on with his best man to marry her. He went to her father’s residence, sad when it was time to go asked for a bed in tbe house, as he said he didn’t feel very well. The next day he had them send his meals up to him. He seat for his valise at the hotel and took up his residence with the family. The old man stood it for about a week and then hinted th u the yonng man had better go. Tbe young mafl stayed. Then the young girl broke the engagement. Still the young man remained. The angry father peremptorily ordered him out of the house, but the young man set a date a week ahead and lived there till his time wns np, when his things were pnt into a hired cab and sent to the hotel. The young man followed very reluctantly. I forgot to say that the next morning after the Teller picnic the youth wrote a notice for a morning paper to the effect that “ex-Secretary Teller, Clarence Dresser,” and other people, “spent an enjoyable day down the river.” etc. And when the wedding was broken off he went himself and had the announcement put into the newspapers. If that Isn’t gall I do not know what to call it. An old citizen of Washington tells me that the morals ot our public men in tbe capitol are a good deal better than the morals of public men fifty years ago. He went on tosay that be knew'tne Clays and the Calhouns and contemporaneous public men. and gave me some choice stories of those (lays which can not be printed for general. circulation. We are pretty tough in the*e so-called degenerate days, but if half of what can be learned here of the life and habits of onr forefathers is tree, we are glad of it. We love to be thought better as we grow older. Murkay. ■■ ■ ■♦ ■■ Two Planks For the Platform. [Plainfield Progress.] Nothing could be fairer than a local-option law. It is democratic. Nothing is more just than to exact a high tax on the sale of liquors where it is permitted. Local option and high tax should be the republican platform this year. The Gopher Destroying Crops. It is said the failure of the crops in Northwestern territory, Canada, is due more to the ravages of the gopher than to the drought. The little animals are countless in number, and when they go through a field the crop looks as if it had been cut down with a knife. WHAT WE AHE INDEBTED TO THE SOUTH FOR. There appears in our columns to-day the advertisement o< the well-known (and universally used In the southern slates) Simmons Liver Regulator. Years ago It won its way Into every household of the south by pure, sterling merit. It there takes the plsee of a doctor and costly prescriptions. The medicine is becoming widely known in the north, and wherever used the demand for it has steadily increased. It is a family medicine, containing no dangerous and deleterious qualities, but purely vegetable, and so gentle in its action that It can be safely given to any person, no matter what age—the centenarian or the crowing youngster. Working people are often in that miserable state of health which really renders thCm unfit for labor; but they haven’t time to take medicine and be sick, Simmons Liver Regulator can be taken without causing any loos of time, and the system will be built up and invigorated by it. The Regulatoi promotes digestion, dissipates nasty sick beadache, and gives a strong, full tone to the system. In malarious climates it is Invaluable, both protecting attack from tbe disease and expelling the poison after it has entered the system. It has no equal as a preparatory medicine, and can be saiely used when a doctor cannot be called in.

SCOTT’S EMULSION OF PURE COD UVER OIL, WITH HYPOPHOSPH tTMl,

In Pulmonary Affections and Scrofulous Diseases Dr. Ira M. Lang, New York, says: ‘T have prescribed Scott’s Emulsion and used it in my family, and am greatly pleased with it. Have found it very serviceable in scrofulous diseases and

pulmonary affections,”

HOTELS AND ICE CREAM DEALERS, We have several large Ice Cream Freezers especially for hotel and saloon use, at low prices Call and see them. Also the patent Ice Crusher and new Perfection Refrigerator. Low prices to* close out stock. Special prices on 4, 5 and 6 ton Wagon Scales. Hildebrand «fc Fugate, 52 South Meridian street THE GREAT REGULATOR.

No medicine is so*~ universally used as' Simmons Liver Regulator. It won its way into every home by ’ pure, sterling merit. It takes the place of a doctor and costly prescriptions. It is a family medicine containing no dangerous qualitiM, but purely

vegetable; gentle in it? action, and can be

safely given what ag* Can take Simmons Liver Regulator without loss

AuvavA .->w* PWSBUUS UA lue XU Kilt; St character and eminence as THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINE. If a child has the colic, it is a sure and safe remedy. It will restore strength to the overworked father and relieve the wile from low spirits. headache, dyspepsia, constipation and like ills. Genuine has our Z stamp in red on front of wrapper, prepared only by J.;h. ZKILIN & CO., Philadelphia, Pa.

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Often follow the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla. The most severe easaa of serofnla, npoe which other preparation have been powerteee, yield to the saperior curative vows— of this medicine. The moat distresring cos** of dyspepsia, excruciating complaints •( tho kidneys and liver, the agonising itch and pole ef soft rheum, disagreeable cases of catarrh, and the aches and pains ef rheumatism, are eared hr this great medietae. Hood’s Sartaparilla p«rithe blood and at the same time toe— the stomach, creates an appetite, and glree streegth to erery fanctlee of the body. Try Hood’s Sarsaparilla gold by all druggists, fl; six for fts. Pro. pared only by O. I. HOOD ft OO., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar

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Mr. and Mrs. Everett Stobblns, Belchertown, Moss., write: ’’Our little boy wasterribly afflicted with Scrofuia, Salt Rheum, and Erysipelas ever since he was born, and nothing we could g.v* him helped him. until we tried Cuticura Remedies, which gradually cured him, until be la now

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Charles Eayre Hinkle. Jersey City Heights, N. J.. writes: My son. a lad of twelve years, was completely cured of a terrible case of Edema by the Cuticura Remedies. From the top of his head to the soles of his fret was one mass of scabs. Every other remedy and physicians had been

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“A LITTLE BOY CURED.” Nash & Nash, Covington. Ky., write: “One of our customers bought your Cuticura Remedies for his little boy, who had a kind of humor in the head, so that he was a solid scab of sores. He was entirely cured, and his father says he would not begrudge $500 for the good it has done him.” Sold everywhere. Pnrer Cuticura, 10c: Soap. 25c; Resolvent, ftl.00. Prepared bv the Pott ah BABr r " < 3l

Gas Engine* from X hone-power up. We sell to g*s consumers in this city only. Oft exhibition and for sole by the GAS COMPANY Na 47 South Pennsylvania Street BEST IN THIS‘WORLD. The only “SELF LIGHTING" Oetoollne Stove with oven underneath. We guaranto* the baking of this oven,

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P. HARITY, (The only Umbrella and] I Parasol manufacturer ini - the city. Covering of all^ * inds done to order. Umbrellas. Parasols and

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