Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — Page 7

Professional Forgers. A bard of professi nal forgers, before starting out, always agree upon a basis of division of all moneys obtained on their forgery paper, writes Robert Pinkerton, the famous detective, in the North American Review. The division might be about as follows: For a presenter. where the amount to be drawn does not exceed $2.1,00, 15 to 25 per cent.; biqt where the amount to be drawn is from 11,I 1 , CO J toS',oo9 and upward, the presenter receives from 35 to 4* per cent. The price goes up as the risk Increases, and it is generally considered more pf a risk to pas: a check of a larger denomlmtion than a smaller one. The middleman gets from 15 to 25 per cent. His worx is mo-e and his responsibility is greater, but the risk is less. Middlemen ar 3 plenty, but the presenters are scarce. The ‘'shadow,” when one accompanies the band, is sometimes paid a salary by the middleman and also his expenses but at other times he is allo.ved a small percentage, not to exceed 5 per cent., and his expenses, as with ordinary care his risk is very slight. The backer and forger get the balance, which usually a counts to from 40 to 00 per cent. The expenses that have been advanced the men who go on the road are usually deducted at the final division. Money in Winter Wheat—lOO Bu. That’s the way. Farmers who sowed Salzer s new World’s Fail’ wheat report it yielded all the way from 40 to 70 bush, per acre, and a good many are so enthusiastic over this wheat, that they claim 10J bush, can be grown per acre. The monster winter rye yields 70 bush, per acre, which pays tremendous profits. The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.. send their fall catalogs and samples of wheat and rye for 4c postage. C The Latest. A shorthand tyj ewriter is the latest invention.

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TALE OF THE TARIFF

WHAT WAS DONE WITH THE FAMOUS BILL IN CONGRESS. Hastily Sketched History ot the Most Stubborn Battle Ever Fought by American Law-Makers—The Inception of the Wilson Bill and Its Struggles. Men Who Did the Work. Washington £orresrordenej: The 4th day of March, 189?, marked an era in American history. Upon that date for the first time in the lifetime of a generation the Democratic party returned to the control of every branch of the law-making power of the United States Government. Congress met Aug. 7. Two weeks later the Ways and Means Committee of the House was appointed. Its C hairman was William L. Wilson of West Virginia. With his colleagues of the majority party, men of more or less experience in the consideration of economic subjects, Mr. Wilson began at once the work of framing a tariff bill. The labor was one which necessarily required gieat care and deliberation, but, notwithstaeding this, delay and procrastination seemed to possess the committee. The extra session adjourned with the bill still in an inchoate state; it was not ready when the regular session was called together, and finally the new year came with the measure still unreported to the House. When it was at last submitted in the month of January it met wit a a storm of disapproval. Coal and iron were on the free list, much to the displeasure of the Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Alabama Democrats; the bjunty on sugar was to be abolished by | gradual degrees, while raw mgar was continued as a free importation, a con- . dition which gave the Louisiana men ground for complaint; the C aliforma 1 iruit growers threatened hostility be--1 cause of the low duty on competing ' products coming from abroad, anil, lastly, the Eastern Democrats were up in arms at the radical cuts made in the tariff on near y all manufactured articles. The extent of this feeling of opposition was manifest in the first parliamentary stage oi the bill. Two weeks were occupied in the delivery of set speeches. It was during the w*eek set apart for the consideration of intendment i that the free-trade element scored its victories. It was during this time, too, that the party added to the bill an amendment incorporating a tax of 2 per cent, upon incomes over $-1,000.

There was some little spice of uncertainty as to the fate of the bill when the final day arrived. The occasion had been duly announced, and the public response was s mething unprecedented in the history of the Capitol. People began to arrive at 8 o’clock in the morning, three hours before the assembling of the Hou e. By lb o clock the lobbies were impassable, and the galleries were suffocating with the compaginated mass of human beings. Contrary to the ru'es of the House, the floor was invaded by the excited ana eager throngs and presented a unique and kaleidoscopic spectacle in the rich and brilliant costumes of the ladies. The orators of the day, in the order of their appearance, were Mr. Reed, Speaker Crisp and Mr. Wilson. The efforts of these distinguished leaders were thoroughly in keeping with the spirit and the importance of the occasion. Mr. Reed was largely didactic and philosoohic. Mr. Crisp was direct, practical and logical. It was reserved for Mr. Wilson, however, to be the hero ,oJf a reception such as has never besj_ witnessed upon the floor. The appeal was pot without its effect. WhQnJhd roll was called—Mr WiLon 1 to it as a roll of honor—onty>ev.erl teen Democrats voted against the.biH, which-was carried by a vote of 204 to T4O. ' Bill <»6ee.to she Senate, Feb, ?, 1’894, the bill wai laid beforethe Senate.” In that body it confronted conditions vastly different from which obtxine'd in the lower branch of Congress. The Democratic strength was exactly forty-four, or one more than the required figure. The Republicans numbered thirty-seven, and the Populist party had four adherents, whose political symnathies inclined to the Republican and Democratic sides in equal proportion. Under these circumstances it bt came absolutely essential for the Democrats to command every vote in their own party for any measure which might frame. It is true that there was still the possibility of overcoming any defection by gaining the votes of the two Populists, who sat on the Democratic side of the chamber. It is equally true that in due time this support aided in making more secure the narrow, perilous, and < scillating bridge across which the measure was fir ally conducted to safety. Senator Voorhees still remained Chairman of the Finance Committee, but lacking the physical strength to assume the gigantic task of preparing and managing a bill, Mr. Voorhees practically abdicated his position and the labor passed into the hands of a subcommittee ccnsisting of Messrs. Jones of Arkansas, Vest of Missouri, and Mills of Texas. The latter was a temporary addition ti the memoetship of the Finance Ccmmittee, takinq- the place of Mr. McPherson of New Jersey, whose health was also precarious. When the bill passed into the keening of this subcommittee two methods of procedure were open to them. They uould have framed it according to their individual ideas, reported it to the full committee and to the Senate, and then, careless as to its fate and indifferent to its mutilation, have allowed it to be attended by the combined strength of the always hostile Republicans and the conservative Democrats. That such a course would have eventually resulted in th? utter defeat of all tariff legislation it seems idle to doubt. If, on the other hand, a bill could be so formulated within party lines as to command a united Democratic support it was reasonable to hope that some legislation at least would be effected.

The necessity for party unity became all the me ve apparent as rumors grew apace that the subcommittee, while remodeling the bill, had not departed in any marked degree from the House I rates. Threats of bitter antagonism now began to be heard. The subcommittee paused in its work. A caucus followed. Three days were they in session. Behind the" closed doors of the caucus chamber the represent! ves of special interests made their appeals for Consideration. The Louisiana Senators and sugar; the Maryland and West Virginia Senators and coal; the Alabama Senators ,»ad iron ore; the New York, New Jersey and Ohio senators and manufacturing interests generally—while on his solitary pedestal stood Senator Hill of New York in an attidude of uncompromising hostility .to the income tas. Amid all these i breakers the tariff bill plunged and . careened. Mutual Concessions Made* The counsels of expediency prevailed. Mutual concessions were made i and the bill was sent bick to the com- ■ mittee to be reea-t along line-i which | would compound the solid Democratic

vote. The income tax was to b« retained in less cb ectionable form, the opponents of radical reductions were to be placated by satisfactory duties on articles in the production or manufacture of which their States were intimate'y concerned. Remaining for another month in the crucible of recon- ; struction the bill was finally reported on the 20th of March from the com- | mittee to the Senate. It was no longer the Wilson bill The principle of free raw material had been in large degree e iminated. Coal and iron ore were dijtiablg at. {he re.tj of forty ; cenls a lon a tax~of a Cent 3. pound was laid upon raw sugars, with an inciden- ■ tai protection of an additional onefourth of a cent a pound on the refined aaticle the rates in the metal, glass, earthenware, woolen, cotton, and agricultural schedules had been increased. j and the duty on collars and cuffs had been raised very nearly to the McKin-1 ley rate in order to make certain the ■ vote of Senato? Mu phy, a resident ot Troy, N. Y., where the manufacture of the e articles affords a livelihood for I thousands of people. Salt lumber and wool atill remain d on the free list. The general debate began April 2 i and closed April 2', after which the bill was considered byparazr phs until 1 July 3, when the final vo:e was taken. During these three months the battle waged with more or less vigor. As a season of oratory it has already passed from the public mind, half a dozen speeches, including the opening arguments of Senator Voorhees and Allison for their respective sides, and the addresses of Senators Hill and Smith against the income tax. will perhaps be recalled as rising above tbe dead level of the commonplace. The Republicans con'ented themselves largely with guerrilla warfare, their forces being in charge of Senator Aldrich of Rhode Lland. On the eve of the anniversary of national independence and after five months’ consideration and debate, in the Senate, the bill was passed by a vote of 39 to 34. The income tax had previously been ii corporated by an overwhelming majority. The votes in favor of the bill were cast by thirty-seven Democrats and two Populists, Kyle and Allen; the negatives were thirty-one Republicans, two Populists—Pe :er and Stewart-and one Democrat—Mr. Hill. The hill went to conference, and a deadlock immediately occurred. Under the conditions which had resulted in the passage of the measure through the Senate, the conferrees of the latter body were hampered and restrained. The House conferrees. on tne other hand, contended for their original propositions. Two weeks were occupied in a vain endeavor to agree. Sugar, coal, iron ore anl the woolen and cotton schedules were the main factors in dispute. A disagreement was reported. In the House, Mr. Wilson, whose appearance with his neu-ralgia-stricken head wrapped in a handkerchief, excited sympathy, delivered an address cjun-eling the Hou.e t 3 further resistance Mr. Wilson, in concluding his speech, produced a letter trom President Cleveland in which the Senate bill was denounced as a treacherous departure from Democratic principles; in which Senators were accused of party perfidy and dishonor: in which the free importation of coal and iron ore was contended for a-t the redemption of w party pledge and a duty on sugar advocated. When this letter was road to an astonished Home it seemed as if the world, the flesh -and the devil had combined against a fated bill. The effect of the President’s open declaration of war upon the Senate was immediate. The Democrats of the Home arrayed themselves under its banner on the side of the President and against the Senate. The crisis became more acute. In this juncture Mr. Gorman of Maryland stepped into the arena and delivered one of the most remarkable, speeches ever heard in the Senate of the United States. Bill I■» Accepted. The deadlock continued. The Presidentcontending through Mr. Wilson for vindication and the Senate stubbornly insistent were the millstones between which tariff reform seemed destined to be crushed. Bropositions were made and rejected, tentative agreements were reached only to be repudiated. The tension grew daily more unbearable. Bitterness of fe -ling between the conferrees led to more than one open rupture. In the House the impatience of the Democrats who were willing to accept the Senate bill led to a caucus which accomplished nothing beyond a further respite for the administration Defeat for the latter, however, was at hand, for Monday. Aug. 13. the House, after a preliminary caucus, with no other alternative, ended lhe strugg e by receiving the bill from the hands of Mr. Wilson and accepting the Senate bill in its entirety.

THE LATE MR. CHIKO.

Thn Most Famous Chimpanzee Ever Exhibited 'in Nevr York. Everybody in New York remembers Chiko and a good many people outside the city recollect him as well. He was

the big chimpanzee at Central Lark, and in his palmy days as many as 25,000 people have gone there in one day to stare at the simian monster. But now Chiko is dead. The end came at Dayton, 0., in the Barnum & Bailey circus of which he was a shining light.

CBIKO.

Chiko was the mest famous member of the simian tribe e\er exhibited in New York, and he was said to be the largest chimpanzee in captivity. He succeeded the lamented Mr. Crowley in the curiolity and esteem of NewYorkers. He arrived in that city April 19, 1893, from Lisbon, Portugal. He was captured seven years ago in the jungle in Portuguese East Africa, and his captor gave him his own name. Subsequently he was sold to a rich

HOW TREY CRIED WHEN CHIKO DIED.

merchant, who took him to Lisbon, ; where he was kept on exhibition for a few years. He was supposed to have , been about 9 years old at the time of his death. Mr. Bailey is said to have ■ refused an offer of $16,000 for him. Chiko was a handsome animal in the chimpanzee style, and his size, strong h I and agility must have made him a ! g.eat swell when he was at home in the African jungle. Chiko, on the j whole, was a good-humored animal, 1 but he did sometimes take a dislike to , his keepers. One he nearly killed ! and another's finger and toe he bit off, but excepting these things his record *w blameless. ■ |

CROP OUTLOOK.

Drought In the West Baa Ruined Much Vegetation Beyond Hope. The weather bureau, in its review of the weather and crop indications issued from Chicago for the week, says: 1 On the PaclLc coast, in lhe plau uu . regions, west Gulf States and Atlantic coast, tiom Virginia northward, except in ox- , treme Southwestern New England, the week has teen cooler than usual From the Upper Missouri Valley and Middle Rocky Mountain slope eastward to the South Atlantic coast, including tbe central valleys and lake regtons, the week was warmer than usual ‘ While more than the usual amount of rain fell during the week over a considerable portion of. '.he Southern States and over limited ureas in the Ohio, uppey Mississippi and Missouri valleys, there has been less than lhe usual amount over much the greater portion ot the country. Exceptionally heavy rains -fell In some | onions of Arkansas, Alabama. Louisiana and Texas, and copious showers occurred over portions of Ohio, Indiana and on the middle Atlantic coast, but over an extensive area Including Kansas, portions of Nebraska, Missouri and Western Tennessee, there was no ap reelable rainfall during the week. Drought has been relieved over tbe greater part of lowa and in portions ot South Dakota, Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, but continues in Kansas, Nebraska, Mlssurl. Southern Illinois Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, New York. New Jersey and in portions of Kentucky, Tennesse and Arkansas. Besides the damaging effects of drought to crops in the .States named plowing for fall seeding is’being retarded. Recent rains have teneHted corn In Minnesota and in portions of Ohio, but in Nebraska. lowa and South Dakota tbe greatei part of the crop has been permanently ln« jured. Unfavorable reports are also received from Kansas, where corn is being generally cut to save fodder. In ths southern States, however, except in Kentucky. where the crop Is threatened In some localities, the corn Is reported to be in excellent condition, and an unusually heavy yield In sections is now practically assured. AVAILABLE SUPPLIES OF GRAIN. Bradstreet’s Report on Stocks of Wheat, Corn and Oats. Special cablo and telegraphic advices to Biaustreet’s,' - covering the principal points of a cumulation in the United States, Canada and Europe, indicate the iollowing changes in stocks of grain last Saturday, c. inpared with the pre.eding Saturday: Bushels. Wheat, east of Rocky Mountains, increase 2,875,0CX Corn, cast of Rocky Mountains, decrease 579.00 C Oats, east of Rocky Mountains, increase 1,020,000 Wheat, west of Rocky Mountains, decrease 4,000 Wheat, afloat for and in Europe, decrease 1,264,00 f Larger incransoi ot domestic wheat stocks eust ot the Rocky Mountains not reported in the official visible supply statement Include 220,00 J bushels at Newport News, 357,000 bushels in Chicago private elevators, 170,000 bushels at Louisville, and 60,000 bushels in Minneapolis private elevators. Oorres >onding decreases include 209.000 bushels in Northwestern interior elevators and 108,000 bushels at Fort William, Ont.

CASH FOR UNCLE SAM.

Treasury Officials Count On Much from the Whisky Tax. There was great activity in the United States Internal Revenue Offices following the final passage of the tariff bill. Distillers were anxious to get their whisky out of bond'at the revenue rate of ! 0 cents, and the receipts were phenomenally large. Commissioner Miller estimates receipts from the whisky tax at about a million and a half dollars per uay for twelve days. This will add about $18,000,001) to the $0,927,590 alroidy collected from internal revenue during August, and Commissioner Miller believes tho figures may run even higher and cArry the total lor the month to $10,000,000. The customs receipts will reach abo.it $12,00j,000 per month at the present rate, and will make the total receipts $42,000,000. The tide has turned with the beginning <f the new fiscal yeir in the foreign trade of the Un.ted States and imports exceeded exports < f merch ndise f'r t e month of July by $12,537,914. The aggregate impoits were larger than for any month since the outbreak of the panic in July, 1893, and reached a total ot $05,251,057, of which $3c,959,913 were articles subject 11 duty. This increase of the dutiable imports were larger than in any month since August, 1893. The total exports for July were $52.713,133, against exports in July, 1893, of $69,113,857. The seven months ending July 31, showed almost exactly the same exports for both 1893 and 1894, the figures in the first ca e being $457,911,384 and in the second $457,142,411. The imports for the same period were $520,383,574 in 1893, and only a>io ,194,353 in 18J4. The falling off in articles imported free of duty for the seven months was about $30,000,000, while in dutiable articles it was nearly t 90.000,000. Expendituies thus far in August have been $15,505,000, of which $8,782,009 has been for pension payments. The total expenditures for the month will probably reach about leaving a surplus of $14,090,000 and carrying the cash balance in the treasury to $134,009,000.

Sparks from tho Wires.

Joseph Boshek died at St. Louis oi sunstroke. William Clipton, 74, veteran ol the Mexican war, died at Decatur. Frederick Kette committed suicide at Waukegan, HL, by taking poison. A death from cholera is reported al Amsterdam. Cholera is reported ai Marseilles, France. Eighty-eight Coxeyites sent to jail by the Maryland authorities Were put to work on the public roads. Twenty fre h cases of cholera and several deaths from the same disea e have been reported at Liege. John T. Hancock, a prominent merchant of Dubuque, lowa, is dead. He was 70 years old, and was born in Lebanon, 111. Discharged for drunkenness, Jailei Jerry Murphy liberated all the prisoners in the Leavenworth (Kan.) jaiL Four voluntarily returned. Three hoys, Frank Burns, William Slattery and Matthew Slattery, aged 10 to 13 years, wore drowned while swimming in Bloody Run, near Norwood, O. M. Teresita CAUSZi.Garibaldi’s daughter, is writing a life of her father. The work, it is said, will give the most intimate details of the career of the Italian patriot. Col. James H. Platte, president oi the Denver Paper Mills Company, and who has served four terms in Congress, was drowned in Green Lake, Colo., I hile fishing. ' Daniel Small and Harvey Mills escaped from the asylum at Logansport, Ind. Small was sent back, but Mills, who is a crafty lunatic, has not yet been secured. The Chinese have apparently come to the conclusion that it is no longer safe 1o bring coolies into San Francisco, and the “merchants’' are now coming by way of Mexico. Paul Schumacher, aged 46, a carpenter out of work ana despondent, took morphine at Columbus, Ohio, and hh body wae found in * fence oorner just out of the city limit*.

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Heroic Measures.

Talking of obesity, recalls a story which seem i to confirm the idea that afflicted ones have the means to cura in their own hands. M. de la Reynie. traveling one day incegnito, met a man of enormous obesity at the inn where they changed the horses on the road to Paris. He was a farmer, and be had with him two letters of recommendation from the governor of his province —one to the king's physician and the other to a celebrate i lawyer. Whe i they arrived in Paris. La Reynie took the man to his own hotel, and assured him t.iat he was in a position to help him in his quest. He at once led him to a dungeon where there was a jug of water and a piece of brea I suspended by a string from the ceiling, and coolly imprisoned him. The man’s protests and cries of rage were in vain. In the nalure of things, he was presently compelled to attempt to get the only food he had, and, after numerous jumps and as many tumbles, he succeeded at length in paining po-session of the bread. After two months of this diet and these gymnastics, la Reynie gave him his liberty. The man, still hot with rage, threatened to complain to the police. “But why?” asked La Reynie. “You came to Paris to cure your obe tty. You now itand before me as thin a d slender as a young man. Resides that, here are docum mts to how that you have won the lawsuit you came about and which you told mo on the ,'ourney you were so anxious to win." Amazed and stupefied, the farmer was only able to stammer his thanks, and at once returned to his count y homo.

Unavailing Efforts.

Do not try to thwart nature; it is annoying to i e either too fat or too thin, but eithe" state is often impossible of remedy. No one can fight against one's constitution. It stands to reason that if a man or woman comes of a big loned. stoutly-built stock he or she may reasonably be expected to inherit the tendency to corpulence. Conversely, suppose a man is born of a family stock which ii notab e for its thinness and slimness, it may be. and generally is, worte than folly for h.m to expect, by any process of feeding orotherwl o, to become a stout and well-favored person. So let us rcall-e this big fact at once: that we have to face the question of our constitution, first of all, and, as sensib e peopfe, to see and discove • whether o r fatness or our thinness is part and parcel of our natural build. Rest assured, if we a e at by nature, it is useless to attempt by diet or otherwise to reduce our bodies to very slim proportions. Many a man and woman has paid the penalty of such rashness by inducing an incurable disease, Yet it is possible to keep even a fat body within its own limits by reasonable care in uiet, just as it may be possible to iatton up a thin fierson (within limits again) by a reguated course of food. Whatever yo i ma.v do in the way of t inning or fattening, jou can never safely or i what is more to the purpose permanently attain your aim by the use of drugs. If there is any cure for fatness at all, be sure it is to be fourd in the food, and in the food alone. Let us be sensible, then, and accept what we cannot remedy.

When the Liver Reprimands Us

For our neglect of it bv Inflicting upon ns Bick headache, by dyeing the skin yellow, coating the tongue with fur, producing vertigo, pains in the right side and souring the breath, we are little less than lunatics if we disregard the chastisement. If we call Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to onr aid, tranquility and health follow speedily, and with the departure of the symptoms mentioned departs also Irregularity of the bowels, which invariably attends disorder of the liver. In malarial complaints the liver is always involved. and it is a fortunate circumstance that this fine anti-bilious medicine is also the finest specific in existence for every form of malarial disease. Nor is it less efficacious for dyspepsia, failure of appetite and strength, nervousness and a rheumatic tendency. It renews the ability to sleep, and greatly promotes convalescence after wasting diseases.

An Egyptian Custom.

More than 1,000 years ago Herodotus observed a remarkable custom in Egypt, says Prof. Drummond. At a certain season of the year the Egyptians went into the desert, cut off branches from the wild palm, and, bringing them back to their gardens, waved them over the flowers of the date\palm. Why they performe 1 this ceiemony they did not know, but they knew that if they neglected It the date crop would be poor or wholly lost. Herodotus offers th" quaint explanation that along with these b.anches there came from the desert certain flies possessed of a certain “vivific virtue,” which somehow lent an exuberant fertility to the dates. But the true relation to the incantation is now exolained. Palm trees, like human beings are male and female. The garden plants, the date bearers, were females, the desert plants were males, and the waving of the branches over the females meant the transference of the fertilizing pollen from the one to the other.

A Reprieve of Ten Years.

An average business man’s life c»o easily be lengthened ten years by the occasional use of Rlpans Tabules. D> you know any one wbo wants those ten years?

And His Breakfast.

A fit of seasickness while crossing the English Channel cau ed Rev. Edward Gedge, of Rochester, England, to lose his sight Young women desiring to become nurses should address Polypathic Sanitarium, Chicago See adv. in another col - 4 Japanese bamboo has baen profitably grown in Louisiana. Fossil bisona have been unearthed . In Kentucky.

Court Jesters.

Learning did no| count for mu h In Russia in the time of Peter the Great: even a prince knew little beyond the simplest rudiments of education. Men li\ed to be amused, snd court esters and .dwarfs were hold in such high esteem that noblemen did not disdain to hold the office. As for dwarfs, the country was i eally alive with them. One old author says there was scarcely a nobleman ih the land who did not possesfi'dne of more of these “frisks* of nature. At almost all state dinners, if thesp pygmies wore fortunate enough to oscai e being served in a pie it whs their duty to stand behind their lord s chair holding his snu '-box or uwuiilng his comtrfand. They were usually gayly drewed in a uniform or livery of very bdstly materials. In 170 S Prince Menshikof sent to his wife in Russia two dwarfs whom he had made prisoners of wab in Holland. Accompanying the gift were the following lines: . “I tend you a present of two girls one of whom is very small and can servo as a parrot. She is more talkative than is usual among such little people and can make you much gayer than if she was a real parrot.” Ono of these dwarfs lived to be nearly a hundred years old. She had a babyish voice, and excopt when looking into her face, one would think her to bo u child five or six years old.

Surely a Mistake.

Poor Miko was very ill—almo t as ill as he was short, and what that meant those who knew him can lest say, for physically he was hardly more than u dwarf. The doctor was called in, and after investigation informed Mrs. Mike that her husband was suffering from actinomycocL, a name which appeared to strike terror to the soul of the anxious woman. “Act phwat?" said she. “Aetinomycocis,” replied the docter. "Him." o led Mrs. Mike. “Ah. decther, how can ye», say 1 hot? A little man loike Moikel Couldn't hould the name of ut, much lias th'dlsu.e thot goes wit utl”

An Old, Old Story.

Hero is an extract from the diary of a man who lived u hundred years ago: Women grow more frivolous every day. Young ladies sc rn housework and learn to embroider, to play the pluno and to flirt, while their mothers are engaged in all the drudgery of the household. They eschew all useful readin r, and prefer French novels or English classics. In selecting husbinds they choose dandies with social graces, rather than mon with solid attainments. They are full of strange, whimsical noti ns peculiar to the age. This is very much like the growl of the pessimists of our own day.

One Fare Excursion South Via C. E. I. R. R.

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French Can’t Stand IT.

A body of Saharra troops is to be raised by Franco for service in her arid African possessions, where the heat is fatal to French soldiers.

Caprice of Old Ocean.

Cocoanuts and the nuts of the mahogany tree are often cast ashore on the coast of England, un.mpaired by their long journey.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure

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