Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1895 — Page 2

THE 531) CONGRESS. ITS RECORD BETTER THAN THAT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST. "What Has Been Done Will Remain Forever a Permanent Benefit to the Country—Price of Sugar Is Highest Where Duty Is Highest. Has Done Much Good. Many things expected of the Fiftythird Congress have not been accomplished. Its record has not been such as to make all true Dem .crats rejoice, and it has been called "incompetent” by not a few prominent Democrats and Democratic newspapers. Many of its most severe critics, however, recognize that as compared with the Fifty-first or McKinley Congress of 1890. the record of the last Congress is excellent It is not disputed that the McKinley Congress was more effective in that it did more of what it was planned to do. But that is just why the record is so bad—it planned nothing for the good of the country at large. It accomplished nothing—aside from making ordinary appropriations—for the good of manufacturers. mine-owners, bounty grabbers and subsidy hunters. It greatly increased the protection to the mill-owners, but left labor unprotected, to compete, on a free-trade basis, with the Italians and Muns imported by the mill-owners to beat wages down. It added considerably to the sawdust protection given to farmers. and attempted the new bunco game called "reciprocity.” which was to open up great markets for our farm products iu South America, as if the great desire of South Americans was to exchange their wheat and pork for our pork and wheat. It threw bounties and subsidies in all directions, so that, by March. 1893, the 8100,000,000 surplus held by Cleveland in 1889 was entirely exhausted and the treasury was on the verge of bankruptcy. The Fifty-third Congress has accomplished a great <h»il. First, it undid the Sherman silver purchase act of "Is'.D, which, with Republican extravagance, was responsible for the panic and depression which had already begun before Harrison left the White House. Second, it repealed the Federal election laws, which no leading Republican. except Senator Force Bill Lodge, would now rehabilitate. Third, it gave us fre wool and reduced tariff duties generally about as much as McKinley increased them. Fourth, it gave us the income tax. which, though it is not perfect, is yet a great improve- j ment upon any tariff system of taxation. It is noticeable that Republicans are not advocating the repeal of this tax. Fifth, it abolished the payment of bounties to sugar producers. Sixth, it lessened the net protection to the Sugar Trust, but. unfortunately, increased the duty on refined sugar about one cent per pound. But for two or three traitors iu their ranks—" Senators from Haveraeyer"—the Democrats ..would have given us free sugar and left no protection to the trust. It is noticeable that the most that the Fifty-third Congress did. or attempted to do, was to undo the work of the Republican Congress of 1890. So far as it has succeeded, it has done excellent work. Practically, all that the Fifty-first Congress did was bad. and all that the Fifty-third Congress has done is good. And yet the Democratic Congress receives kicks and cuffs from all sides, because it could not. in two years, undo all of the evil legislation that Republicans have, for thirty years, been fastening upon this country. The Democrats have partially failed because they undertook too big a contract What they have done will remain forever a permanent benefit to this country. Not even the Republicans will dare to advocate many of their .old laws which the Democrats have repealed.—Byron W. Holt Prices of Sugar in Different Countries. The Sugar Trade Journal (organ of the sugar trust) cannot understand why there is such a howl from one end of the country to the other, because the duty on refined sugar has been increased. To show us how well off we tire the Journal of Feb. 21 quoted the prices of sugar in various countries. "The retail price of granulated sugar iu the United Kingdom.” it said, "is now Hid per pound (2.54 cents), while the same sugar sells in Germany at ‘ld 1G.09 cents), in Russia at 4%d (9.13 cents), in France and Belgium at (11.07 cents), and in Italy at 6<l (12.18 cents), and in the United States at 3.74 cents per pound. If there was no duty the price would be 2\ cents per pound for American granulated and 2’ 2 cents for foreign granulated in the United States, or quite as low as In the L niter! Kingdom. All the other countries tax the consumers of sugar heavily and pay the bounties on the exports out of .he money so raised. Compared with the people of the world the United States is the most favored nation as regards the cheapness of its sugar supply.” These prices prove too much. Comparatively we may be better off than most other protected countries in which sugar is highly taxed. But why are not our people entitled to 2% cent sugar? As the Sugar Journal says only the duty is iu the way. And this would not have been in the way but for the sugar trust—which now is undoubtedly the most hated of all our large brood of protected trusts. Do we see any evidence of the blessings of high-priced sugar in Italy, France, Russia or Germany? Does it make their citizens happy and prosperous? The great masses of the citizens of these countries cannot afford to cat sugar at all, at the prices which they nitr-t jiay for it. The per capita consumption of sugar is small in ah of these countries as compared with rhe consumption in this country or in Great

Britain. Let the United States be a« wise as England rather than as foolish as Italy or Russia. Cheap food and clothing is a blessing to the citizens of any country. The only point thoroughly demonstrated by these prices is tliflt the tariff —at least on sugar—is a tax. Trices of sugar are highest in Italy, because the duty is highest there; and lowest iu England, because sugar is free there. If sugar were free in all of these countries the price would vary but little tn different countries. What Free Wool Is Doing. The Dry Goods Economist, one of the best authorities on the subject, said editorially Feb. 23, on the effects of free wool: The American woolen industry has now entered a period when the heat of the conflict has passed and the combatants are iu a frame of mind to listen to the Bober logic of cold facts. Never have these been better presented for the consideration of those interested than in the letter prepared by Abraham Mills, the well-known New York wool broker, for the use of the Chamber of Commerce, a copy of which will be found on page 9of this issue. Mr. . Mills very justly characterizes the adoption of free wool under the new tariff as a revolution; for so it was. succeeding. as it did, a policy of protection which had lasted for upwards of eighty years, during many of which years the tariff rate was preposterously high. According to the opponents of reduced tariff rates, the reduction of duties on the manufactured fabrics was to result in the closing of the majority of the mills and the abolition of the wool duties was to annihilate the flocks. But what are the facts as they st.-iisl revealed to-day? More woolen factories are open than in the active times of 1892, and a considerable number of new woolen mills have either been built or are now commenced. The sheep flocks of the country numbered at the end of 1894 42.294,064. against 45.048,017 at the end of 1593. and showed a decrease in value of 20 per cent., against 25 per cent, in other farm animals, such as horses. This, it must be remembered, is the result five months after the removal of duties which had been supposed to be the back bone of the sheep raising industry for the greater part of a century. Further comment is unnecessary. Mr. Mills draws attention to the fact that since the abolition of the wool duties foreign wools have not found so large a market here as was anticipated, and those that have are chiefly in the coarsest and finest grades, the domestic wools being preferred in the medium prices and qualities. The deluge of foreign wools, which was to sweep everything before it, has not materialized and the prices of the domestic product have held their ground with wonderful firmness when it. is considered that the world's product of wool is now admitted to be in excess of the requirements. Equally delusive and without foundation were the statements of the high protectionists that the inrush of foreign woolen fabrics under the ne.w tariff would supplant the larger portion of the products of the domestic manufacturers, facts already demonstrating that the quantit of foreign goods entered early iu the year was less than expected. So far from the domestic woolen industry being destroyed, nothing is more plainly apparent, after five months’ experience, than that the majority of the best makes of domestic woolens and worsteds are well able to hold the home market against foreign competition. He’ll Het the Tariff’s a Tax, He sat at his door at noonday, lonely and gloomy and sad. Brooding over the price of his corn crop and figuring how much he had. He had worked from early springtime early and iate and hard, And he was counting his assets and figur ing out his reward. He figured that it took two acres to buy bis two hoys new boots, And ten acres more on top of this to fit them out with new suits. To buy his wife a protected dress took a hundred bushels more, While five acres went in a solid lump fo> the carpet on the floor. His taxes and h;s grocery bill absorbed his crop of oats, M hiie the interest on his farm mortgage took all his fattened shoats. The shingles on his cowshed and the lumber for his barn Had eaten up his beef steers and the balance of his corn. So he sat in his door at noonday, lonely and gloomy and sore, As he figured up his wealth a little less than it was the year before. “By gum. they say I’m protected, but 1 know there's something wrong; I’ve bec-n deceived and gulled and hood winked by this high protection song. They told of r< bullions traitors and fielq up the bloody rag. And I followed along like a pumpkin, and now I am holding the bag. But from this time on I'll investigate, and get to the bottom of facts. And I'll bet four dollars, to begin with, that the tariff is a tax.” —Kingman. Kan., Democrat. V» omen Medics in France, At present there are 155 women studying medicine in Paris, of whom only sixteen are natives of France, the largest number being Russians. On the other hand, of 164 women attending the faculty of belles lettres, 141 are French women. In a careful investigation by two Italian meteorologists, it has been found that a veil of cirrus clouds absorbs as much as 30 per cent of the sun’s rays, while a slight fog. equally diffused in all directions, may intercept from fiftyeight to ninety-two per cent, of the solar rays that would be transmitted with a clear sky. Spain has a magnificent domain of 119,000 square miles, a territory as large as the combined area of Missouri and Illinois.

WORK OF CONGRESS. LARGELY A RECORD OF IMPOTENT EFFORTS. Review of the Session Shows that Several Important Measures Have Been Debated, but Have Not Become Law. Has Accomplished Little. Washington correspondence:

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REVIEW of the work of this last ses- , sioti of the Fiftythird Congress must I necessarily deal more with what was at- . tempted to be done ■ thau that which was | accomplished, since 1 most of the impor- ! tant business consid- I ered has been rele- | gated to the firs' class. The term has (been particularly marked by the inabilI ity of the Senate and • the House to agree upon any of the most important problems

presented by them. Congress met on the 4th of December last, with one imperative and perennial task, to frame and enact the various appropriation bills. Not in importance was the financial question, for which no definite plans of settlement beyond many free silver bills and various individual schemes were then in view. Several important bills came over as a heritage from the preceding session. Foremost among them were, in the House, the Nicaragua Canal bill, the railroad pooling bill and the bill for the settlement of the indebtedness of the Union Pacific railroads, known as the Reilly bill. The Xicnrngiia Cnnal project has not been able to secure a hearing in the House. Largely through the enthusiastic efforts of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, the Senate bill was pushed to a vote in that body after protracted debate, and was sent to the House, where she conference committee substituted its own bill, which had been on the calendar throughout the session and which differed in several points from the Morgan bill. The pooling bill was passed by the Hbuse early in the session, but the Senate refused to consider it by a negative vote of 42 to 24 on the question of consideration. Strong opposition to the Reilly bill was developed in the House, and after a very sharp debate it was recommitteed to the committee without instructions. Several important bills were placed on the calendar of the Senate at the beginning of the term, handed down from the long session when they had been passed by the House. Prominent among them was the bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy, which was debated inter mittently, but finally sidetracked. An other unsuccessful measure was the anti- I option bill. There were also on the Sen- • ate calendar the four bills which the i House had sent over, to place on the free • list sugar, coal, iron and barbed wire, but i the attempt to secure consideration of the free sugar bill was negatived by a small | majority, and the opposition to the three i others was so apparent that they have been allowed to pass into oblivion. The most interesting chapter of the history of the session is made by the attempt at financial legislation in both houses. These are too well known to require recapitulation. No financial legislation has yet resulted from the host of bills introduced during the session, with more or less weight of authority behind them. The Appropriation Bills. The principal class of legislation accomplished by the short session was that making appropriations for the support of the Government. Not a little general legislation was incorporated into the appropriation bills. These bills, in the order in which they were passed by the House, were: For the military academy (West Point), army, pension, fortifications, diplomatic and consular. District of Columbia, postal, agricultural, Indian, sundry civil, legislative, executive and judicial, navy and general deficiency. When the last week of. Congress began the House had passed all except the general deficiency, and the Senate had the last four yet to enngider • The pension bill, as enacted, contained ■ provisions that pensions shall not be paid ■ to non-residents who are not citizens of ’ the United States, except for actuai dis- j abilities incurred in the service, directing examining surgeons to state the ratings I to which they think the applicants are i entitled, and fixing the lowest rate of pension at $6 a month. The diplomatic and consular bill increased the salaries of several foreign representatives, and the Senate placed in it an amendment authorizing the President to contract for laying a cable between the Hawaiian Islands and the United States, and to use $500,000 in the work, an amendment which the House n fused to accept. The agricultural bill empowered the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce rules for the inspection of live cattle whose meat is intended for shipment abroad in any form, and regulations tn prevent the shipment of condemned carcasses abroad or from one State to another, and fixed heavy penalties for violation of such regulations. Considerable legislation was included in the sundry civil bill, and much more was attempted in the Senate by proposed amendments. The completion of several public buildings was provided for in the bill as it passed in the House, and sums were added in the Senate for new buildings. Another Senate amendment provided for the purchase for $150,000 of the site of the Blaine mansion. Provision'was also included for the transfer of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., to the Department of Justice, to be known as the United States penitentiary, and maintained for keeping United States prisoners who have heretofore been held in State prisons under contracts. The naval bill was notable because of the “new’ navy” provision for two battleships and six torpedo boats, and the increase of the enlisted force by the addition of 1,000 men. The general deficiency bill reported to the House amounted to $6,519,539. An amendment requested by the Secretary of State to pay the claims of Great Britain for $425,000 damages for seizures of sealers in Bering Sea was voted down by the House. The most conspicuous personal legisla-

tion passed was the revival of the grad? of j lieutenant general of the army that Major General Schofield might be promoted to 1 the rank, while the act of greatest interest to the Government departments and Congress was the printing bill, which , practically places the control of all Gov ( printing in the hands of a joint ( committee of three members from each of the two houses. Laws affecting shipping were passed—to establish rules to prevent collisions on I the great lakes and tributary waters; another of the same effect, applying to har- , bors, rivers and inland waters, supplementary to the act of Aug. 19. 1890, for preventing collisions at sea. The time for making the report to the Board of Engineers, surveying canal routes from Lake Erie to the Ohio river, was extended to the next session of Congress. Numerous bridge bills were enacted. The commercial travelers’ organization secured an amendment to the interstate commerce law permitting the issuance ol joint interchangeable 5,000-mile tickets good over more than one road. The House adopted a joint resolution, or tu amendment to the constitution, providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people of the States, but the resolution was reported adversely by the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. The most important of the Senate bills which failed to pass the House was a joint resolution for inquiry into the practicability of deep waterways between the ocean and the great lakes and the bill for the regulation of steam vessels. Among important House bills which died was one for the reorganization of the line of the army and on? to punish train wreckers by capital punishment, and attempts at train wrecking by heavy terms of imprisonment. The only legislation affecting the tariff act was a resolution to extend to April 15 the time for making returns to the interrogatories under the income tax sections and modifying the questions required to be answered. Tnt.il Apprnpriationss The following figures show approximately the total appropriations made during the present session of Congress: Agricultural, $3,303,700; army, $23,252,605; diplomatic and consular. $1,575,073; Dis triet of Columbia. $5,916,533; fortifications, $1,904,557; Indian. $£>.976,948; military academy. $424,261; pensions. $141.381,570; post office. $89.5-15,997; general deficiency, $8,600,000; sundry civil, $47,140,000; urgent deficiency, bills passed parly in the session, $2,357,321; legisla tive, executive and judicial. $21,900,000; naval. $29,100,000; permanent annual. $113,073,956; miscellaneous. $50:000; total, $498,952,524. SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE. A Monument Erected on the Scene of the Bloody Tragedy, One of the most tragic incidents in the history of the West and certainly the most interesting event in the history of

the State of lowa, was the massacre at Spirit Lake, which occurred nearly forty years ago and in which forty-two persons were murdered. The massacre took place in 1857. at a time when the Sioux were very powerful in lowa. The gold fever was then at its height and thouIsands of people were .flocking westward. [Many thriving settlements sprang up along the line of emigration, one yf the • most beautiful in point of natural situ-

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ation being Spirit Lake, not far from the regular trail of the overland trains. In 1857 the settlement numbered fifty persons, who lived happily and contented. One night the Sioux Indians swept down upon the peaceful homes of the inhabitants and, taking them by surprise, murdered forty-two of them. At the time of the massacre four of them were absent. The remaining four were carried into captivity, where, after four months, they were ransomed by the Government of low*. Os the survivors of this uiur derous attack but two are now living. Some time since it was decided to commemorate this tragic chapter in lowa's history by a monument and the State made an appropriation for the The imposing shaft, a picture of which appears in connection with this article, is now almost completed and will probably be unveiled this spring. The menu ment is of granite, fifty-five feet high, and is located on the shores of Lake boji, near the scene of the commencement of the massacre. PHILADELPHIA’S NEW MAYOR. Charles F. AVarwick Elected by a Majority of About 50,000. The recent municipal election in Philadelphia resulted in the choice of Charles F. Warwick, the Republican candidate for Mayor, by a majority of about 50,000, and of William J. Roney, the Republican nominee for tax receiver, by about the MAYOR-ELECT WARWICK. same majority. Ex-Governor Pattison aad Colonel Sylvester Bonnaffon. Jr., the Democratic candidates, ran well, polling a much larger vote than has been cast for any Democratic ticket for years, but the Republican majority proved too great to be overcome. , The House Committee on Railways and Canals recommends an appropriation of SIO,OOO for a preliminary survey of a ship canal from the lower end of Lake Michigan tb the Wabash river.

INDIANS AS HUNTERS. they Do Not frighten the Game Out es Districts as White Men Do. “It is a remark often made by oldtimers who knew the western country when the red man was as common there as the tenderfoot is now,” says a sportsman from the Rockies, “that Indians never scare away game from a region in which they hunt. But. thev say, whenever the white man comes with his tirearms game is bound to be killed off or driven away. These sayings are true, with the qualifying statement that by reasonable game laws game of all kinds can be preserved and, even where nearly exterminated, restored to almost its original plentifulness in districts not too fully occupied by man and his domestic creatures. "Note the Indian in hunting as he searches out and steels upon the deer or wild turkeys with his soft tread of moecasined feet. In the twang of his bow string and the flight of the whistling arrow there is no explosive sound to alarm the creatures near the one that is struck. He, like themselves. is in sympathetic accord with the tints and tones of plain and mountain and forest, and while endeavoring to match their craft against his they are satisfied with trying to avoid him without abandoning the region where he abides. “It is when white hunters of the sportsmen variety invade its haunts, their presence heralded by the lead of their booted feet, their clothes alien in appearance to the huesand contours of the creatures of the wilds, and their purpose shown by the crack and crash of firearms, that game begins to migrate to other feeding grounds. Add to this the increasing and indiscriminate slaughter for slaughter’s sake that characterizes the white man’s hunting, and it is easy to see why the | depopulation of the forest and plain. I when unrestricted by law, is speed) I and sure. Ever since the general; adoption by Indians of firearms for t their hunting it has not been found that large game has diminished materially in regions in which the ■ white man is an infrequent visitor, i although Sir Samuel Baker, the i explorer, asserts of African game and j predatory creatures that ‘Animals can i endure traps, pitfalls, tire and even' j savage method of hunting; but tirearms will speedily clear them out from extensive districts.’ ” Use of Chloroform by Burglars. Burglars sometimes chloroform their victims in the hope that their work will be the more easily and effectually done. As the plan is to administer the ana sthetie while the patient sleeps, it is no wonder that failure attends the effort Happily it is one of the most difficult leats to accomplish, requiring the greatest care and the highe-t degree of skill. By many good observers it is claimed to be impossible. The latter may be looked upon as the rule, especially with novices. Before primary insensibility is obtained the victim awakes from the irritation of the inhaled vaj or, whence force is necessary for the completion of the purpose. In the meantime an alarm may be given, and the assailants may be captured. Fortunately the chances are always against the latter, as h’s victim. facing the horror of stranuglation. is instantly and almost instinctively roused >o desperate resistance. Taking all the chances, however, chloroform in the hands of a burglar should lie considered as dangerous to his victim i as a club, an ax. or a bullet, and its administration should be punished to that extreme limit of penalty which is due to the employment of other murderous measures. —Medical Record. The Advantage of Authority. A short time ago a grocery establishment w’as on the point of commencing business in London, and the manager proclaimed that the shop would open on a certain Monday at - o’clock sharp, and that the first person who entered should receive an entire ham gratis. Many poor people passed the night in the street in order to take up a place as near as possible to the door tn the morning; and. as the hour approaefied. a large crowd had collected, and confusion and disorder prevailed. At tlFee minutes to -a policeman .appeared on the scene, and. forcing his way through the crowd, advanced to the door, and peremptorily ordered the crowd back from it. Scarcely had he done so when the door opened", and, turning around quickly, he was tne first to enter the shop. He received -he promised ham.

March April L . / Are the Best Months in which to Purify Your Blood And the Best Blood Purifier is Hood’s Sarsaparilla Which Purifies, Vitalizes and Enriches the Blood.

At this season every one should take a good 1 spring medicine. Your blood must be purified or you will be neglecting your health. There is a cry from Nature for help, and unless there is prompt and satisfactory response you will be liable to serious illness. This demand can only be met by the purifying, enriching and Blood-Vitalizing elements tn be found in Hood's Sarsaparilla “My mother-ln law. Mrs. Elisabeth Wolfe, at the age of 72 years, was attacked with a violent form of salt rhenm; it spread all over her body, and her hands and limbs were dreadful to look at. At the same time my little daughter Clara, who was jnst one year old, was at- i tacked by a similar disease, like scrofula. i t appeared in large sores, which disfigured :

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AN ALPENA MIRACLE. MRS. JAS. M. TODD, OF LONG RAPIDS, DISCARDS HER CRUTCHES. In an Interview with a Reporter She Reviews Her Experience and Telia the Real Cause of the Miracle. (Zresr Me ArfW. Alfena, -V.vA.) We have long known Mrs. Jas. M. T.kliL of Long Rapids. Alpena Comity, Mich. She has been a sad cripple. Many of her friends know the st< ry of her recovery; for the benefit of those who do net we publish it to-day. Eight years ago she was taken with nervous prostration, and in a few months with muscular and inflammatory rheumatism. It affected her heart, then her head. Her feet became so swollen she could wear nothing on them; her ban la were drawn all out of shape. Her eyes were swollen shut more than half (ho time, her knee joints terribly swollen and for eighteen months she had to be held up to be dressed. One limb became entirely helpless, and the skin was so dry aud cracked that it would bleed. During these eight years she had been treated hv a score of physicians, and has also spent much time at Ann Arbor under best medical advice. All said her trouble was brought on by hard work and that medicine would not cure, and that rest was the only thing which would ease her. After going to live with her daughter she became entirely helpless and could not even raise her arms to cover herself at night. The interesting part of the storv follows in her own words: "I was urged to try' Ur. Williams' Finis Pills for Pale People and at last did so. la three days after I commenced taking Pink I’ills 1 could sit up ami dress myself. and after usi»- tJsess six weeks I went home and commenced working, t continued taking the pills, until now 1 Ix .'in to forget my crutches, and can go up and down steps without aid. I am truly a living wonder, walking out ot doors without assistance. "Now. if 1 can say anything to indu'-a those who have suffered as 1 have to try. Pink I’ills I shall gladly do so. If other like sufferers will try I’ink Pills aecordisg to directions they will have reason tn th ink God for creating men who are abln to conquer that terrible disease, rheumatism. 1 have in my own neighborhood re* vinien I si I’ink Pills for the after etc is of la grippe, and vreak nomen with impure blood, and with good results.” Mrs. Todd is very strong in her faith in the curative powers of I’ink Pills, and says they have brought a poor, helpless cripple back to do her own milking, churning. washing, sewing, knitting, and in fact about ail of her honsehobl duties, thanks to Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Dr. Williams’ I’ink Pills contain all tho elements necessary to give new life tnd richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists. or may’ be had by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Scbeuv-e---tarlr, N. Y.. for 50c. per box, or six boxes for $2.50. At the Bottom of the Sea. A pear diver says that one of the strange effects of diving is the invaria lebad temper felt while worKing at the bottom of the sea. As this sua’.ty ya-ses away as soon as the surface is reached, it is probably due to the press re of the. ir a Tecting tho 1 ings, and thro gh them the brain. The exhilaration and good temper of the mountain climber is a contrary feeling j from and opposite caiße. A diver becomes so angry at some imaginary wrong doing on the part of those in the boat above that be gives the signal to be p died up, ’with the intention of knocking t’ e heads off the entire crew," only to forget what he came up for when the surface is reached.

In the British Navy. As early as the seventeenth century one finds traces o! a custom which is observed to-day, and of which it is impossible even to guess at the origin. If a captain of a boat be going alongside a ship at night, and if lie be hailed with the challenge. "Boat, ahoy " the proper reply from the boat is. "Victory." or "Triumph," or whatever the , name of the captain's vessel maybe. 1 If the visitor be a lieutenant, the reglationansw ir is ‘Hulloa ” But if the visitor be only a midshipman, tho reply demanded by ancient eti uette is, strange to say, "No. no!” although he | means "Yes.” Animal Mimicry. • Not only do certain aaltna s a opt the color of things about them, but they are said to change their habits and th' re .uirements of their n rvous system. Th is a certain butter !y inti tates the an earan _-e of a d ad leaf oh a twig, even to the e .tent of a transparent spot on its wi> gs. to re] rc-ont tho hole nibbled by in ects. A certain s a cla. -of earefu wo: '. i s. s ins aslov nly web so that its own l>ody may have a pro ■ r surrounding fol imitating articles blown by the wind. Certain fishes stand upright in the water to represent bulrusr.es.

each side of her neck: we had the attendance es the family physician and other doctors a long time, but seemed to g.ow worse. I d of many people cured of aerofu' by Hood's Sarsaparilla. As soon as we ravel <od's sarsaparilla to Clara she began to get better, and before the fint bottle was gone the sores entirely healed up. and there has never been any sign of the disease since. She is a Healthy, Robust Child. Her grandmother took Hood's Sarsaparilla at tbs same time, and the salt rheum decreased In its violence and a perfect cure was soon effected. It took about three months for her cure, and she ascribes her good health and strength at her advanced age to Hood's Sarsaparilla. It I “ rUin!y b *' ec » R-> ’send to my famlly.* Mbs. Sophia Wolfe, Zaleski. Ohio