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Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: I am glad to greet the Democrats of the Ninth congressional district in convention assembled. While I am not a delegate to this convc.ition I am in sympathy with the object of your meeting and will rejoice with you should the result of your deliberations prove acceptable to the rank and lile of our party. When Democrats meet to take counsel of one another they should never forget that it is tlio duty of the minority to submit to the will of the majority. 1 live such faith in the unadulterated Democracy of the Democrats of this dis?cict that I feel the choic* of this convention will receive the vote of every Deiroerat in tin district. If loyalty prevails in our party Mr. Landis will surrender his seat in congress to your nominee and the citizenship you represent will have a protector and defender against those influences that make against our national life.

The Rlue ami the Gray United.

We meet, my friends, under unusual circumstances. More than 80 years ago the great civil war em'.ed that threatened the life of our nation, but unfortunately the bitter animosities kindled by that conflict have manifested themselves In some manner in every campaign since the close of the struggle. Party leaders have not hesitated to seek party advantages by fanning anew the dying embers of sectional strife. To-day, iwever, public opinion demand that Mason and Dixon's line be '-bliterated, that it may no longer lie a flamiup wall—.in impassable barrier to a friendly intercourse between the north and south, a ad that the differences out of which the w.ir came must not be cited as a reason for the ascendency of any particular party.

The boys who wore the blue have clasped hands across the bloody chasm with tho boys who wore the gray, and shoulder to shoulder they are .standing this hour under the folds of one flag in defense of a common country. Fortunately for us we are not now engaged in war among oursel ves. Within our own boundaries we are at pence.. We are united as one man against Spanish tyranny and Spanish oppression. We have heard the voice ot the oppressed in a neighboring island, and, yielding to ihe dictates of humanity, we have determined, it matters not how great the cost may be in blood and treasure, to deliver the

Cubans from bondage. This is the purpose and mission of the American people regardless of party affiliations', for in this war there should be no politics and so long as the object and purpose for which war was declared are adhered to and good faith prevails in its prosecution, damned should be the man or party that shall attempt to gain a partisan advantage through it. Democrats First For Cuban Independence.

It is to be regretted that the suggestion is occasionally made that Indiana should go Republican at the next election because the present administration has the war on its hands. My friends, it is true that the president, who is the command-er-in-chief of our armies and navy, is a Republican, yet the Democratic party stands ready to strengthen tho president's hands in every way possible, and through its representatives in congress it will gladly join in voting every man and every dollar necessary to aid in prosecuting the war to a speedy and successful conclusion.

And I now irn our Republican friends that if they insist that the voters of Indiana should support the Republican tickct next fall because of the war, we shall not hesitate to remind them that Marcus Banna and his administration wero ugainst the war until the excoriation of public opinion lashed them into it. The Democratic party was demanding the independence of Cuba when the Republican party was in a state of lethargy on the subject. Wall street had sat down so heavy on Mr. McKinley and his advisers in opposition to the war and in favor of tho holders of Cuban bonds, that the presence of leading Republicans of Indiana was rendered necessary in Washington to point out to the executive the disiute. grating influences at work in their party ranks and to impress upon him that all chances of Republican success at the com ing election would be lost unless war was declared.

Democrats Win the Victories.

We shall not stop here. If it becomes necessary we will nof allow the voters to for get that the man who on that memorable morning of May plowed his way at the head of the American fleet through the engines of death and destruction in Manila harbor, and who, after a battle that amazed and startled the civilized world planted the stars and stripes on Philip pine soil, was commodore, now Rear Ad miral Dewey, who is a Democrat.

We will not forget to tell them that Hobson, who destroyed and sunk in the Santiago channel the vessel that bore him above the waves while hell was belching her fury on him from the Spanish forti en all the hills around, and who lingered his time in a Spanish prison, is a Democrat. We will tell them, too, with becoin ing pride that the man gnder whose direction uud command Cervera's fleet wai swept from the Beas and the arm of Spain paralyzed in war was the daring, dashing Schley, a Democrat.

I cannot tell you of tho bravery of these men. My words are too few and toe

foM •». "'hp poot 1 whorls* aro ret to be born wh.ise, pens can adequately por trny thv iuisilfi:.h patriotism, the love of man for man, and tho dauntless heroism they have displayed in their effort to free their opp 'c.-M'-t fellow man. But while we rejoice in hi- parts Democrats are taking in bis war, we do not wish to d' tract from the honor and glory due tho president and every man under him, down to the hiinil'le.st in the ranks of the army. To them all we concede a genuine patriotism and cheerfully acknowledge tho debt of gratitude we owe them.

Democracy's ll-corl In Indiana.

There are other tliiigs. however, for which the Democratic party is to be commended aside from its position on tho .Spanish war. Whenever an Indiana Democrat consults the record of hi party in this state or in the nation he rinds cause for congratulation. With pride he points to the common school system of Indiana and her magnificent benevolent institutions as an evidence of Democratic philai.'throphy and statesmanship. The law that overthrew the notorious schoolbook trust and reduced fully one-half the cost of a child's education, was-passed by a Democratic, legislature. i'inkerronisin was driven from the btate and the power to rob the wage-earner was denied the proprietors of the pluck-me" stores by the Democratic party. The tax law that incurred lie special enmity of Republican leaders, while it was in process of enactment, and thai since lias been condemned by t.he Republican press and Republican speakers, v\ a-: also passed by a Democratic legislature and upheld by Democratic officials until the com ts sustained it. Un dcr this law the lui't-oratu wealth of the et.vo lias been forced to bear its fair share of the expense-' of our state government and tho tute 'bt has been set in process of liquidation.^-- .--'

And in shis connection it is especially pleasing to a Democrat, who is always a stronger patriot than a pu-iisan, to be able to recall that his party gayo this state the law having for its object the preservation and perpetuity of our free institutions through tiie purity of the ballot. The suppression of corruption at the polls, however, has never met the approval of the Republican party, and consequently it has never lest an opportunity to decry the election law and to change and weaken its most salutary provisions. Unlimited aiul Independent liimetallism.

But, gentlemen, while in tho campaign we are preparing to enter, we shall consider state issues, and the records the two great parties have lr.ade touching state affairs, we propose to go further and resubmit to the voters of Indiana the Gnancial question. 1 am not indifferent *o the charge frequently heard that the silver question is dead, but I remind those who talk thus, that 110 question is ever settled in this country until it has been settled right.

Gold triumphed in 1800, but a victory achieved through slander, villilication, coercion and wholesale corruption, can never be permanent. The methods of Colonel W. \V. Dudley, the notorious refugee from justice, in his blocks of-llvc scoundrelism in 1SS8. were tho methods ol the Sunday school teacher when compared with the means resorted to in 1890 to pinion this nation to the accursed gold standard.

We wili enter tho contest then in sup port of the doctrine cf free, unlimited and independent bimetallism. In demanding the unlimited coinage of both gold and silver into standard money at a fixed ratio by law, arc not departing from the traditions of our party, nor are we seeking to engraft anew or novel scheme of finance upon the country. We are but pleading for the restoration of the monetary system of our fathers, whose virtuous operation can be cited by its supporters in the absence of famine, starvation and the application of the gambler's art on the board of trade.

Our position, we know, is impregnable. We insist that gold and silver at rates flsed by congress constitute the only standard of value allowable under our constitution, and that the people have the right to the use of both metals in the monetary form, in the discharge of all debts, both private and public. We submit that, if the constitution has made the standard of value to consist of the two metals, congress has no authority to increase the value of tho measuring standard in the interest of the money-changer and against the wcalth-producor by demonetizing silver, and thereby shifting the monetary demand responded to by the two metals onto gold alone.

Statesmanship and the Supreme Court on the Side of Silver.

We are not without authority, high and respectable, in support of our theory. The ripest scholarship, the ablest statesmanship and tho evenly pfoiseu judicial mind have indorsed it. It has been taught in the foremost colleges anu universities in the world. It has been expounded in the forum of statesmanship and approved judicially from the bench.

Daniel Webster, perhaps the greatest constitutional lawyer the world over knew, said in a speech in 1S30 from his seat in the United States senate that "The legal tender, therefore, the constitution 1 standard of value, is established and can not be ovei-tnrowii. Iam certainly of the opinion that gold and silver, at rates fixed by congress, constitute the legal standard of value iii this country, and that neither congress nor any state has authority to establish any other standard or to displace this.

James G. Blaine, once the idol of Republicans, took strong ground against the authority of congross to demonetize either gold or silver.

The distinguished jurist, Justice Clifford, in his able dissenting opinion in the celebrated "legal tender cases." says: "Argument to show that the national treasury was organized on the basis that the gold and silver coins of thu United States were to be the standard of value, is unnecessary, as it is a historical fact which no man or body of men can ever successfully contradict. Very strong doubts are entertained whether an act ot congress is absolutely necessary to constitute gold and silver coins of the United Statet, fabricated and stamped as such by the proper executive officers of the mint, a legal tender in payment of debts. Constituted as such coins are by the constitution, the standard of value, the better opinion would seem to be that they become legal tender for that purpose if minted of the required weight and fineness, as soon as they are ooined and put into circulation by lawful authority.

Currency is a word much more comprehensive than the word 'money,' a* it may include bank bills and even bills of exchange, as well as coins of gold and silver, but tne word 'money,' as employed in the grant of power under consideration, means thu coins of gold and silver fabricated and stomped as required by law, which, by virtue of their intrinsic value as universally acknowledged and their offioial origin, become the medium of exchange and the standard by which all other values are expressed and discharged!"

In the same cases Justice Field, whose

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wiv,ct:s tin the •-tp.-.'um bench of tinUnited Slates cover a period exceeding that of any other man in -.he history of the court, supplements the opinion of Justice Clifford elms: I "The inhibition upon the states to coin money and yet to make any- hing but old anil silver coin a tender in payment of debts must be read in connection with the crant of the coinage power to congress.

The two provisions taken -.ogether itulicafe beyond question that the coins which the national government was to fabricate, I nyd the foreign coins, tho valuation of which it was to regulate, were to consist principally, if not entirely," not of the one only, but both, 'of gold and silver.' "Money being a standard, its coin or pieces are necessarily a legal tender. The provisions in the different coinage acts that the coins to be struck shall be such legal tender are merely declaratory of their effect, when pffereil.in payment, and are not essential to give them their character."

Thus it is seen that the views of the bimctallist today are in harmony With the opinion of these eminent statesmen and jurists, and when he insists upon the right of the people to the use of both gold and silver, not as currency, but as money, he demands for them only their constitutional right. So my friends, if the opinion a man entertains on the financial question may render him a dangerous member of society, as we were told in 1890, it would not be difficult, taking as a criterion the utterances of the gentlemen I have quoted, to point out and designate the real a'.iarchists of this country.

It is not enough for the single standard advocate to say lie is opposed to bimetallism because of the ratio proposed. If Webster and Blaine, Clifford and Fields have correctly interpreted the constitution, and the present ratio is 'i erroneous one, which we deny, bimetallism should be supported at. a correct: ratio, and he who is not willing to do this, but on the contrary favors the destruction of one ot' the metals as money, brands himself as an infractor of the -ganic law of the nation.

We hear it frequently observed that the Democratic party is an unsafe guide on the money question, and yet I am practically within tho truth when 1 renrind you that tho monetary system prevailing in this country from its organization until lSTli, and under winch this nation fought its wars, contriuuted us share to the swelling tide of civilization anil made its most giant-like, stride in material progress was the out growth of Democratic statesmanship. Republican P.irty Not Entitled to Leadership On Financial Questions.

When was it the Republican party became the embodiment of the financial wisdom of this country? It was not born until 1&56 and its platform of that-year contained no reference to money. In 1800 it conducted a national campaign without saying in its platform what it thought about the financial question. In 1804 it favored "promoting the use of national currency," but by tho time 1S0S came around it had forgotten what it had thought on the subject four years prior thereto, and so it omitted to incorporate a money plank in its platform. Its mem ory was still no better in 1873, nor had its stock of information been added to, and the result was it adopted another platform without a money plank. In 1870, however, 30 years after it was born, it gave its first but very slight premonition of having a financial idea, as was evidenced by its platform declaration in favor of "a steady progress to specie payment."

It would not be expected, of course, of a party to make very rapid progress in the development of a sub, ect about which it required 20 years to get an idea, and so no particular surprise was manifested when this selfconscituted guardian of national honor went before the country in 1880 on a platform containing no money plank.

In 18S4 it was in favor of an interna tional agreement for the use of both gold and silver as standard money. In 1888 it loved lver and denounced the Demo cratie party for its unpatriotic attempt demonetize it. In 1892 it st:ll loved silver and hero in Indiana it was very vociferous in its congratulations of the country that along stride htui been taken toward the free coinage of the white metal.

But, my friends, in 189tl, to believe it story now, it began to see the error of it= way in forming an attachment for silver, and consequently in its St. Louis platform it made, over the the protest of Hyn. Richard W. Thompson, Henry M. Teller and 100 other leading Republicans, a halt-way confession of its sins.

And now, in this good year of 1898, this party of progressive ideas, of superior wisdom, of immaculate purity, is confessing by its course that in reality it never knew anything about the money question until recently, and since it has been placed uiider the command of its new leader, that distinguished statesman of finance, Hon. H. H. Hanna, doubtless a direct descendant of Marcus Aurelius I.-

I wish J. had time to take up and discuss the financial measure recently introduced in congress, back of which this gentleman and Wall street's monetary commission are standing. But I can give you briefly au idea, of this b-11, as 1 get it from Mr. Hanna himself. A friend to whom he addressed a letter in support of his measure was kind enough to hand the same to me. He says: "The Dill is politically the best measure that has been prepared." Tho word politically he has unilei scored, and 1 suppose he means thereby to suggest that it will call forth the sinews of corruption when the fight is on. Then he continues: "It meets the expectations of those who believe there can be no permanent business prosperity until the greenbacks are retired, and it does not oppose the prejudices of those who favor the greenbacks." Now, if you can conceive a measure embodying two theories of finance diametrically opposed and yet every part working harmoniously with the whole you will at least have a faint conception of what Mr. Hanna imagines he has in his bill. He is beyond question the right man to be at the hi_.id of the visionary commission which is pre tending to believe it should supercede congress in determining the monetary policy of this government.

A candid investigation will fail to establish the right of the Republican party to leadership on financial questions, it has rendered complex and thrown into confusion our mouetary system. Its statesmen have labored to unravel the web of idiocy running through its finmi cial legislation, but to no purpose. In making this charge I do not overlook its financial policy during the rebellion, but the policy it then adopted for the salvation of the nation it now condemns. It asseverates with great pretensions to wis dom in favor of the single gold standard, and yot you may take any two Republicans of your own selection and have them each evolve a theory of finance bottomed on the single standard idea and yon will find their conclusions to be as wide apart as the pole*.

An Appeal For Union of Forces. I appeal, than, to those Democrats who do not fully (indorso the financial theory

for wli.cti their party is standing, to give it their counsel and support-. I beg them to remember that the party with which tlwy have affiliated in the past the party of their choice .mil the party of their love, is greater by far than any one idea. I point them to its glorious past, and to t'uem I predict for it a still more brilliant future. It has been fighting for a century the tyrannical and centralizing influences in our national life. Wherever tho brazened features of monopoly have shown themselves the Democratic party has challenged their right to extort and fatten off the product (5T honest labor. And, to its credit the party of the sage of Monticello and of the hero of New Orleans has never in its great career joined hands with organized greed to assaalt the best interests of our country to pauperize the bone and sinew of our land and fasten about tho throats of Americans tho vicelike grip of plutocracy.

On flic other h^.nd, however, it has always stood for that form of government and for those measures and laws that take into account the citizenship of the man at the forge, in the factory and in tho shop of the boy in the ditch and in tho linn.' of the woman at the spindle, by the loom and over the tub, and guarantees to each and a-1 of thoni their fair share in life's achievements.

A party with such a past can be trusted in the future. And for the future of our country wo have much concern. The four quarters of the earth are at this time anxiously watching American statesmanship, and on every hand the concession is made that the destiny of this republic is largely dependent upon the question of annexation. It is well for us, therefore, to reflect in this hour of feverish excitement that territorial aggrandizement may lead to a national weakness and degradation. It is at least suggestive that the late secretary of state, Senator John Sherman, who was a fair representative of the ripest states manship of the Republican party, reserved the last paragraph of his "Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet" in which to sound a note of warning to his countrymen on this question. In conclusion quote his words: "The events ot the future are beyond tin vision

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mankind, but I hopo that oi

people will be content with internal growth and avoid tho complications ot foreign

acquisition.

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is already largo enough to create embarrassment in the senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions. Every new acquisition will create embarrassment. Canada and Mexico, as independent republics, will be more valuable to the United States than ii carved into additional states. Tho union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others. If my life Is prolonged I v/ill do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisitions of foreign territory."

Many newspapers, chiefly of the Republican persuasion, are criticising the administration of Secretary of War A1 ger for numerous blunders and sonic other things worse than blunders. Thi is done to shield the president, who responsible for the acts of his war sec retary.

It is now suggested that some narrowminded people will begrudge Major Mc Kiniey a vacation. This is improbable The general feeling toward the major is one of kindness and the wish is that lit had taken a vacation several montht ago, and taken Alger with him.

The request has been made in Tipton county for "all who voted for McKinley and are sorry for it" to hold up then hands. It is a train robber's request, and means danger to pocketbooks. Dt not do it.

It is claimed that the Diugley law if putting money in the pockets of the woolgrowers, but on the other hand the people who buy woolen goods, millions in number, are compelled to pay highei prices for them or suffer.

The campaign in the Philippines has been conducted in a way pre-eminently creditable to lim Ameiican nation, because Dewey luu the good sense to "cut the cable," so that \Ya.-. ington yawp could not reach mm.

It is undelete:id that, ilie D.ugley law has already reimbursed ihe patriots whe subscribed to Mark Hauna's corruption fund to elect Mi Km ley, ar.d that Iron this time forward tiie plunder of tin people will be clear proiit.

Secretary of War Alger, Republican? affirm, ought to be removed for incompetency li McKuiiey should responci and dismiss Alger, he might iind him s* lineal dese iid:int of tiaaui's donkey, able to talk and take care ot himself.

If we are to believi lican organs all the during the war Wire ington—and tb:it

cabinet coin man ships.

crta'ti ,e ub batile.- lough long in Y/.isli iviu.e .' as:-

led the armies ud ti:

No one can le-i-i ih^- Jivrr t\V ish rule in '.he i-iuuppa i!-l :u.i* blame the :.a:iv:is ti.v wi.i ,. .' even with the Sp mum.:-., Cuba ami t'orio i'l.c '.

It is now def::::*e Known t' blunders ot !se :I• !ti:- r.:. ion, S si last caused moie. .'t S.i.' than Spanish builds. ger squeals.

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Colonel William J. Bryan, Democrat, patriot, oral or anil soldier, at a bouin rose several points higher in military office than fell to the lot of Major McKinley.

The Republican party is a gold standard party, but in the St. Louis convention it gave a pledge to favor bimetallism if it could gain the consent oi leading European nations.

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AN OPEN LETTER

To MOTHERS.

WE ARE ASSERTING IN TIIE COURTS OUR EIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF TIIE WORD "CASTORIA," AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADEMARK. 7, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis3 Massachusettst

was the originator of "CASTORIA," the same that ihas borne and does now bear on ever$ the fac-simile signature of wrapper* This is the original "CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.

LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought on tho and has ihe signature of C&asty.wrap« per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President

Do Not Be Deceived.

Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he

C. M. Crawford is atteiding the Omaha exposition. Secretary of State, Owen, wiP speak here on.October I.

Ame Southard anil wife visited friends here this week.

Miss Valerie Wicker visited friends in Danville, 111., this week. Malachi Bill Spott is serving a jail sentence for intoxicption.

A large number from here attended the races at TerreHautfe tnis weeit. Joly Joel, [[Monmouth, III., was the guest of his brother, Jake, this week.

W. II. Evens has returned from Alaska and is the gueet of A. W. Binford and family.

George Durham has retired from the National bank. He has been succeeded by HarryJEvans.

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Ohio, Major McKinley's state, npon the hypothesis that lynching is one of its reserved rights—never

rendered to the federal government.

A Republican sheet calls attention to the fact that the government has propared a "hog cholera remedy." A yellow fever remedy would be better.

A gang of government painters were here this week painting the mail boxes. The new color is aluminum. ./

Rev. Albert Ogle, ef Iodianapolis, occupied the pulpit of the Missionary Baptistjchurch last Sunday.

Ollie Fry returned from Chickamauga Monday after being in the hospital there four weeks with typhoid fever.-

All the railroads have guaranteed special rates during the big peacejubilee and Btreet rair here next month.

Mrs. C. E. Rankin, of Grand Rapids' ha6j',been the guest of her parents, Mrand Mrs. Zack Mahoroey, this week.

Every town in the State to which soldiersj returned on furlough on last Saturday did itself proud in the welcome extendsd.

W. W. Stephens, near Salem, realized 3,900 bushels of wheat off mnety-tive acres—an average yield per acre of for-ty-one bushels.

The tirst day of the street fair will be veteran day. The G. A. R. post will have charge of that feature, and it is thought there will be 1,200 men in line during the parade.

Trustee Sam Gilkey was up from Alamo Tuesday. Mr. Gilkey reports the work on the new school building there as progressing satisfactorily and expects to have it ready for occupapcy by November 1.

The shops of the Vandalia at Terre Haute gave employment to more men last month than in any month for some years. A good deal of new work was turned out, in addition to the extensive repairs caused by the heavy traffic of the road.

James Tuttle, of Atlanta, III., secured nearly twenty years ago a promise of a

funeral oration from Robert G.Ingersoll Mr. Tuttle is now ninety-two years old and has drawn up a will in which 81,000 is set aside "to defray the expenses of Col. Ingersoll's journey."

An engineer of maintenance of way, who is well informed as to the improvements that havebeen made on the Monon, says that on no like mileage of any system in the United States has more been done in straightening curves, re

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grades, laying new steel, ballas-

tering and renewal of bridges than has been done on the Monon in the last four yeare, and renewals and rebuilding of rolling stock have kept

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THT CENTAUR COMPANY, 7T MURRAY STREET. NEWYORK CITY*

D. N. Morgan was in Chicago this week. John M. Sbultz has returned from West Bailee.

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improvement in other directions.

Rah! for the street fair. Circuit court began to grind Monday-^ Ed Knight was up from Brazil this week.

Major Dennis McAulill and family, have returned to Brazil.

MTF. E. M. Henkil, of Brazil, visited friends in the city this week. Scott Galey, a member of tho ir9tl\ regiment band, spent Sunday in tha. city.

Mrs/ Landon Rose, of Chicago, is the gueBt of her parents, Mr. and MrB. C. L. Thomas.

.Local sportsmen report abundance of quail this year, and thoy anticipate some royal sport this fall.

When the 158th regiment arrived at Indianapolis late Tuesday evening the news soon reached Linden that Dan and Feil McCallum were both down sick oil the hospital cars. John McCallum left immediately for Indianapolis and will bring the brothers home with him if he finds it posssible to do so.—New Rich* I tnond Record.

The victories of Ilood's Sareaparilla over all Forms of disease Conclusively prove That it is an unequalled Blood purifier. It conquers The demon, Scrofula, R?leaves the itching and burning of salt rheum, cures running soree, ulcere, boil6, pimples, and every other form of humor or disease originating in impure blood. The cures of Hood's Sarsapa rilla are cureB—absolute, permanent, perfect cures. They are based upon its great power to purify and enrich the blood.

Wall paper at cost, at the 99 cent store.

St. i.ouii Fall I'eHiivitica September It to October 21. For 10th annual exposition and coliseum the Clover Leaf will issue greatly reduced rate excursion tickets to St, Louis, Sept. in to Oct. 29. Tho attractions lor the exposition of '98 will be ot the highest order attainable, among them being the incomparable Sou a and his matchless band, giving four coDcerta daily.

For the great St. Louis Fair, held during the tirst week in October, a rate of one fair for the round trip will apply. The beautiful and mystifying Vailed Prophet Pagant, on the evening of Oct 4, will surpass in granduer any-: thing of the kind ever before attempted.

For fu'l particulars see any agent of tho Clover Leaf route, or address C. C. JINK INS,

Gen. Pass. Agt., Toledo, O.

TrniiN-MlMninslppl Exposition, Omntin, Neb. Are you going to attend the wonderful exposition, now at tho heighth of it$ glory, at Omaha? You will be surprisr ed at its magnitude, riveling the great World's Fair in many respects and even surpassing it in others. If you are contemplating making the trip, the Clover Leaf route offers special inducements. For lull particulars see any Clover Leaf agent, or address 0. C. JINKENS, Gen. Pass. Agent.

Toledo, O.

The demand for Government liquor license in prohibition Kansas this year has been the greatest in the history

the State.

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