St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 February 1891 — Page 3

CAPTIVES THREE YEARS AMERICAN SA'LORS IMPRISONED IN RUSSIAN MINES. Punished for Encroaclung on Fishing Grounds—Forced to Dig Coal for Two Years and Ten Mouths—Terrible Sufl’ering and Death—Given Up for Dead —Final Release of the Victims. [Boston dispatch.] One of the greatest outrages ever inflicted upon American citizens by tho decree-of a foreign power has been the imprisonment of four New England sailors—one of them born in Boston —for two years and ten months in a Siberian coal mine. One American died, after starving upon rice soup and being eaten by vermin. This seems also to have been the fate of the twelve or fifteen Japanese who made up the rest of the crew. The first member of this litt'e party to reach home after being mourned as dead is Capt Joseph W. Norris, of this city. He had made one successful expedition to the islands in Behring Sea, and then he tried it again. The second t'me he had an experience which has effectually cured him of poaching in Russian territory. The schooner made a successful run to the islands, secured a full cargo of skins, and was headed for Yokohama, when a Russian man-of-war overhauled her. The man-of-war proved to be the ,s Rasabonach. It took the schooner in tow and reached Vladivostock without incident. The trial was conducted in Russian. They told their stories in English, and they were translated for the benefit of the court, but were ignorant of the testimony against them. They were taken to the town jail, a small stone building with cemented floor. Their cells were 16x20 feet, walled with stone a .d lighted with slits in the wall with bars across. When they reached Nicolaski they learned that they were sentenced to work in the mines three years Capt. Morris was the first to go down, and he did not again see the light of day for two years and ten months. * When Morris came out he found F. C. Crocker, of Searsport. Me., one of his crew, had just been released. Together they walked 150 miles to Vladivostock, the Russians refusing them transportation. An American vessel took them to Nagasaki, where the United States Consul provided them with clothing, and they took their first hot bath in three years. PENNY POSTAGE. A Bill Introduced for the Establishment of a Parcels Post. The annual report of the Postmaster General has piovoked considerable inquiry as to the necessity for reform in postal rates The ideas advanced by different writers upon the subject as to the most desirable changes that could be made are generally prompted by personal or business interests. Many believe that the public genera’ly will take the view that the Postal Department was established for the safe and rapid transmission of letters of a business or personal nature, and for the prompt dissemination of news matter, and that all other undertakings of the Postal Department shou'd be secondary to this. The public demand not only the rapid and safe transmission of letters "“'and news matter, but that the rates on ' this legitimate class of mail matter shall be placed at the lowest figure consistent . Thn - report of tho Postmaster General shows that the present 2 cent per ounce ratoon letters yielded the Government during the last year, $38,000,000. and that the actual cost of carrying and delivering such letters for the same period was but $8,000,000, » leaving a clear ] r >tit of $30,000,000. But the final balance shown in the report shows that, instead of there being a profit cf $30,000,000, there was an actual deficiency or loss of $5,768,300. Inquiry into the causes of this deficiency disclores the fact that it is due— First, to carrying thtoagh the mail-, at rates largely under cost, tons of matter compcsed principally of advertising schemes and dodges of every character, and merchandise packages of every nature, . oxerbuj^hitig the already overtaxed faHiiies of the mails to such an extent as to render the prompt transmission and delivery of legitimate mail matter almost an impossibility. Second, to the shipment through the mails of Government frei'^it that could and should be forwarded through other channels at much lower cost. In the face of this report a bill has been introduced in Congress for the establishment of a parcels post, wit ch proposes still lower postal rates than are now in effect on a class of business that has been largely instrumental in reducing a profit of $30,009,000 to an actual loss of $5,768,300. It is not of as much importance to the average citizen that the cost for the transmission of a package of merchandise or other articles of like character through the mails shall be less than the government pays for transporting it, as that the rates of postage on regularly established newspapers and personal and business letters which are the province and property of all shall be placed within the reach of all. The revenue of the Postal Department, if properly applied, fully justifies the reduction of rates on letter postage, and it is undoubtedly the duty of every voter to urge upon their Representatives in Congress to legislate ^fer penny postage on letters and ^or the continuance of the present reasonable rates that are afforded the legitimate newspaper interests of the country. The surplus revenues of the Postal Department shonjd be used for this purpose, and for the improvement of the facilities for local delivery of letters and newspapers, and for the extension of mail routes to regions of the country not already favored with acceptable pos al communications, and they should not be used tg build up a branch of public service that is not required by the public, and which experience lias demonstrated will exhaust the revenuesand absorb the facilities needed for other and mere important branches of the postal service.— Chicago Eagle. A number of young unmarried women, employed in various shoe factories of Brockton, Mass., have fori J a syndicate for the purchase of real-estate for investment. Already they have bought nine lots and are negotiating for another block. It is their intention to build on all the lots and rent. A large stone sarcophagus of the Roman age has just been found close to tho railway station of Hadra, in tho suburbs of Alexandria. It is richly ornamented with Scripture, but is not sufficiently disinterred to bo opened.

; HORROR UNDERGROUND' WATER ENDS THE CAREER OF EIGHTEEN MINERS. ; Six Underground They > Are Overwhelmed by a Deluge In Five . Minutes—Only a Few Escape — Distrbss- . lug Scenes Reported. [Hazleton, Pa., dispatch.] Eighteen men in watery graves mark . the result of the most awful mine horror that has ever occurred in this region. ’ Jeansville, the nrioing village of J. C. > Hayden & Co., two miles across the mountains from this place, is the scene . >f the disaster which has resulted in such loss of life and brought desolation and inguish to so many homes. The lost are: Lawrence Reed, married, eight children. James Griffiths, married, one child. Edward Gallagher, married, two children. James Ward, married, eight children. Harry Bull, married, seven children. Joseph Matsko witch, married, four thildren. Barney McCloskey, single. Patrick Kelly, single. Jake Wiasto, single. Mike Smith, Hungarian. John Borno. Tom Glik, married, one child. Tom Tomaskaskay, married, three children. Joe Astro, single. Bosco Frinko, single. Thomas Greko. single. John Boyle, single. Samuel Porter, single. At 11 o’clock this morning, while Charles Boylo and Patrick Coll, of LevIston, were engaged in drilling a hole in their chamber in tho lower lift of No. 1 slope, they broke into old No. 8 slope, that has been idle for five years and had i been flooded to tho mouth with water. William Brislin, a driver, was driving at the bottom of tho slope when he felt the wind coming and cried out: “Boys, for God’s sake, run for your lives or we will all be drowned.” In a moment the force of water camo and Brislin I aroly escaped with his life. Besides him six others—Henry Gibbon, John Neems, John Boylo, Charles Boyle, William Coyle, doortender, and Patrick Coll—were saved. Tho water rose rapidly, and before any attempt could bo made to rescue tho rest of the workmen the slope, which is 624 feet deep, was ' filled to tho mouth, and the eighteen men were buried in watery graves. Tho news of tho disaster created the wildest excitement, and tho mouth of tho slope was soon thronged with people, frantic in their efforts to obtain information of the inmates of tho mine. When all the men who escaped reached tho surface, and it was known who the lost were, the excitement Increased, and in less than half an hour hundreds of men, women, and children gathered around the slope, and the terrible scenes of anguish that ensued cannot be depicted. Wives imploring piteously of tho miners standing by, who knew only too well the fatal result, to save their husbands from tho terrors of a watery grave; little children crying for tho papa who would never return; relatives and friends wringing their hands in sorrow and distress, and apjioaling to a merciful providence to save all, when within each breast was tho certain feeling that their prayers would be unanswered. A puinp was got in-working order in a short time, and every stroke was watched anxiously by tho onlookers, who seemed to count tho throbs of the mighty engine as it forced tho gallons of black and sulphurous water from tho mouths of the huge column pdpe.; at the entrance of the slope. A large duplex Cameron pump was also at work by 7 p. m., and every minute it takes 1,500 gallons from the slope where the men are er - tombod. Hayden & Co. will pump tho water out as rapidly as machinery p a ed in position can do the work. How long it will take is a question, since no definite idea of the volume of water can be ascertained. Mr. Brislin, one of tho escaped miners at the bottom of the slope, said: “I was waiting at tho bottom of tho slope for a trip to come out. Suddenly I heard a loud noise and I thought it was the trip. Thon a fearful blast of wind came and knocked mo down the gangway. I cried out to Jarnos Griffiths. Thon the wind blow his light out as suddenly as it did mine. -I tried to run for tho slope, but stumbled and foil. Then John Boylo and John Neems camo running out. Neems’ lamp was burning and through the aid of Neems’ light we got to tho slope. The water came pouring after us as we ran. We got to tho slope then tho light went out. Wo clambered up as fast as wo could, and the water camo rushing after us, rising very quickly. In five minutes tho water rose 208 yards to tho mouth of the slope, the pitch"of which is 83 degrees. ” « Tho civil engineer in charge of tho mines was a man from Pottsville, LeFevre Womelsdorf. Many theories are advanced as to tho cause of tho disaster. Some charge it to neglect to notify the workmen of tho dangerous proximity of the water. Tho slope where '■■he accident occurred is a new slope walch was sunk from tho bottom of a worked-out slops. The latter has been flooded for at least sixteen months, and only a few of the old miners knew of the presence of that great body of water, and many a time had the remark been made that if the lower gangway workings were driven up too near a dreadful accident '”ould be the result. None of the worn men had any idea that the workings were driven as near to the water as they were. A Chemical Feat. A chem’st has lately performed a feat of no common order. The explosion and fire at Antwerp reduced to a charred mass a bundle of one thousand florins of Austrian obligations. Without presentation in some identifiable form there could be no payment. The imperiled obligations were given to a chemist, ana he succeeded in separating the whole of them and finding out the numbers, and upon his report the money has been paid. Capitalists owe innumerable obligations to science. The largest Hocking Stone. Buenos Ayres appears to have the largest “rocking stone” on record. It is situated on the slope of the mountain of Tandil, in the southern part of the province, and measures ninety feet long by eighteen feet broad, and twenty-four feet high. Its bulk is 5,000 cubic feet, and it weighs at least twenty-five tons. Nevertheless, it is so touchily poised that a single person can set it rocking. When the wind blows from the southeast the stoue which is pyramidal in form, sways to and fro on its foundation like the branches of a tree.

, TIIESENMEANP^OUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWmakersA Proceedings of the BTeiiat« and Bouse of Represontativmr—lmportant Measures Discussed ana Acted Upon—Gist ol tho Business. On Die 2d and 3d the Senate accomplished nothing of importance. The fortification bill, contemplating coast defenses at Boston, New York, San Francisco, Hampton Roads, and Washington, received some attention, as did also a measure proposing an International conference upon the question of the slave trade and the trade in gunpowder and liquors in Africa. In both houses a bill was passed to amend section 108, Revised Statutes, so as to read: “Vacancies (in the Cabinet) occasioned by death or resignation shall not be temporar".y filled under the three preceding sections for a longer period than thirty days.” (The present law limits the time to ten days, and the bill has special reference to Ilie appointment of a successor of the late Secretary Windom.) The Senate bill was passed by the House (with an amendment striking out the appropriation clause) providing for the erection of a public building at St. Paul, Minn., at a cost of SBOO,OOO. In the Senate, among the bills reported and placed on the calendar on the 4th were the following: Senate bill, to provide for the inspection of vessels carrying export cattle from the United States to foreign countries; Senate bill, to prevent adulterations of food and drugs. Mr. Blair presented the credentials of his successor, Jacob H. Gallinger, and they were plac^Un file. After a short executive session the were reopened, and resumed. Tn Main* reported from the Silver T J.iitteo a resolution discharging J. from the custody of the Sergeant -at-■. aims Adopted. Mr. McKinley a sk .edl unanimous llat {hirl tIH . remain- f der of the sessionTh^L, ue s h u H meet at | 11 o'clock a. m. Mt Trn>n [ „ f Arkansas objected. The House then wenYlmo executive committee of the whole on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. In the House, on the sth, it was ordered that during the remainder of the session the hour of meet ing shall lie at 11 o'clock a. m. Mr. Bootliiuan, of Ohio, reported a resolution for the prlntingof a digest of the election cases decided by the Fifty-first Congress, which was adopted. and the House went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. The Senate took up the pen.ion appropriation bill. It appropriates for pensions for the year $133,175,085; for fees and expenses of examining surgeons. $1,500,000; for salaries of eighteen pension agents. $72,000; for clerk hire. $300,000. The latter item is increased by an amendment of the Committee on Appropriations to $400,000. Another amendment reported from the committee strikes out the proviso limiting to $2 the compensation of a pension attorney, and inserts in lieu < f it a proviso limiting such compensation to $5. There was a long discussion on the latter amendment. In the House, on the Oth, Messrs. Flower. Wilson, Vaux, and others pitched into World's . Fair matters in a vicious way. They denounced the whole, managerial machinery as extravagant, cumbersome and blundering, and attacked the constitutionality of any appropriation by Congress. Mr. Vaux's perfi Finance was so amusing that his time was extended two or three minutes. The old gentleman was in his quaintest mood. He told stories on • General Jackson, cracked jokes at the ex- I ponse of tlie Farmers' Alliance, and for fifteen minutes kept tlie House in uproarious laughter. Fr?c coinage is believed to lie killed by tlie decision of tlie Speaker that no amendment of existing lawscan be made in an appropriation bill. In the Senate Mr. Morrill made a speech in opposition to the eight-hour bill. He said that he was convinced that the eight-hour law of 1868 was wrong, and that it would inflict upon tlie class it was specially intended to benefit a grave and jiosslbly an irreparable injury. '1 he House passed tlie Senate bill amending the land forfeiture act of Sept. 29, 189). But little was done by Congress on the 7th. except to consider World’s Fair matters. After a long discussion concerning salaries of officials, Col. Davis. Director General, was awarded $7,500 per year, and his p< sition was made a national one. The President will lie paid $5,000, Vice President $4,000, the Secretary $3,000. and SB,OOO will be devoted to clerk hire. These figures are greatly reduced; but the action of tlie House in recognizing tho Director General as v national officer is regarded by the Fair officials as a great victory, as it stamps the enterprise as a national one and will give assurance to foreign exhibitors that private interests do not control it. President Palmer regards tlie action of reducing salaries with disfavor, but says he should work as hard for nothing as Im would for a big figure: and he says tl.e exhibit is to be the grandest tlie world ever saw. Cleanliness of the 'Japanese. In his article upon Japan, in the January number of Sribner’s Magazine, Sir Edwin Arnold says: “There are eight or nine hundred public baths in Tokio, where 300 persons bathe daily, at a charge of one sen three rin (about a cent) per head, and less than a farthing each for children. The poorest may, therefore, bathe, and always do; so that, lately, in the time of dear rice, when money was given to the poor, a " h-part Was allotted to bathing tickets. Besides Hie public bathing establishments, every goolUßnise also possesses its own Lath. The Japanese have a proverb: ‘Everything can be cured by a bath except love.’ They are the greatest lovers of ‘the tub’ in the world, and undoubtedly the cleanest of all known penpie. A Japanese crowd has no odor whatever, and your jinrikisha man perspires profusely ■without the smallest offense to the nicest sense of his fare close behiud. True, they were no underlinen and put on the same garment after the bath, but these articles of clothing are constantly being washed.” ~aw — — How to Preserve the Eyesight. Avoid all sudden changes between light and darkness. Never begin to read, write, or sew for several minutes after coming from darkness to a bright light. Never read by twilight or moonlight, or on dark, cloudy days. When reading it is best to let the light fall from above obliquely over the left shoulder. Do not use the eye ight by light so scant that it requires an effort to discriminate. Go, <1 Manners. Never try to outshine, but to please. Never press a favor where it seems undesired. Never intrude ill-health, pains, losses, or misfortunes. Never unavoidably wound the feelings of a human being. Never forget that vulgarity has its origin in ignorance or selfishness. Never urge another to do anything J against his desire unless you see danger, before him.

L niton’s Fogs Pescrfbed. I A letter recently sent to Punch bv an irate London humorist gives some faint idea of tho terrors of the fogs there. The writer says: “I have read several letters in the papers complaining of the fog, and a king not only how one is to protect the system from its injurious effects, but also soliciting information as to how one is to safeguard one’s self against street accident if obliged .j quit tho premises during its prevalence. The first is simple enough Geta complete dive’s suit, put it on, and let an attendant follow you with a pumping apparatus for the purpose of supplying you with the fumes of hydra-bicarbon in a state of suspension. This will assist considerably in breathing. To avoid street accident wear an electric light, 500candle power, on the top of your hat, round the brim of which, in case of accident you have arranged a dozen lighted mght-hghts. Strap a duplex reflector on to your back and fasten a hansom-cab amp to eas h knee. Let a couple of hoys, bearing flaming links and beating dinner gongs, clear the wav for you, while you yourself shout. ‘Here comes the bogie maul’ or any other appropriate ditty through a fog horn, which you carry In one hand, while you spiing a policeman s ancient rattle vigorously with the other. Nou will, if thus provided, get along capitally. Be careful at crossings, for your sudden appearance might possibly frighten an omnibus horse or two and cause trouble. I haven't tried all this yet myself, out a friend of mine at Colney Hatch assures me he has and found it a groat success. ” To Bo Robbed of Health By a pestilential equate. by a vocation entailing constant exposure, physical overwork, or sedentary drudgery at the desk is a ha^( lot. Yet many persons originally pots‘ssed of a fair constitution suffer this deprivation before the meridian of life is passed. To any and all subject to conditions inimical to hialth, no purer or more agreeable preservative cf the gr« atest earthly bl-Hsings can be recommended than Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which inures the system to climatic changes, physical fatigue, and mental exhaustion. It eradicates dyspepsia, the l ane of sedentary brain workers, preserves and restores regularity of tbs bowels and liver, when disordered from any cause, annihilates f?ver and ague and prevents it, checks the growth of a tendency to rheumatism aud gout, and neutralizes the danger to be apprehended from causes productive of kidney, bladder, and uterine ailments. To be convinced of the truth of those statements, it is only necessary to give this sterling preparation an impartial trial. The Indian Scalped Them. Two young women were alone one day when a young Indian brave whom they I knew came to see the man of the hou-e. The man was away aud the Indian sat down to wait for him. During this interval the girls, being of a lively turn, began asking him questions about his former mode of life: among other things they asked him to give a war-whoop and show them how they scalped people, but I he gave no answer. Some time after, : when they were talking of other subjects, and had forgotte.i all about him, he spnang up sudden’y, gave a warwhoop that made the house top ring: then snatching a big knife that lay on the table with ono'hand, ho took the topknot of one of the girls in the other, and ran tho back of the knife around her j scalp. They were each scalped in this j manner and were nearly frightened out I of their wits, but he sat down and began J to laugh and told them that he had only done what they asked Him to do They soon le'ovcred from tho shock, and laughed heartily at the Indian’s joke. No Matter How Hard Any druggist tries to sell you his own cough medicine, remember he does it because lie makes more money on It. Insist on naving K>rnp’s Bulsuni for the thn at and At there !• no cough remedy su jU^^nd WIN* so quick to breu k up a cold. Kr Influenza. soreness of the throat and tickling irritation, with constant cough, Kemp’s Balsam is an immediate cure. Large bottles 50i_ and sl. At all druggists. The baton used by conductors of con-1 certs is tald to have Icon introduced into | England by Spohr in 1820. Crying all tho time. Poor child. I know what makes you so peevish aud cross. Mother must get you a box ot those sweet little candies called Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. By mail. 25 cents. John D. l’ark. Cincinnati, Ohio. I lx this world full often our joys are [ only the tender shadows which our sor- I rows cast. have been occasionally troubled with ’ Coughs, and in each case nave used | BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, which I have never failed, and I must say they are | second to none in the world.”—Feliz A. May, 1 Cashier, St. Paul, Minn. Galvanizep-iron horse-collars are still proving satisfactory in their trials for London draught-horses. Did you ever go within a mile of a soap factory? If so you know what material they make soap of. Dobbins’ Electric Soap factory is as free from odor as a ehair factory. Try it once. Ask your grocer for it. The plain man never feels at home on a -mountain, aud the man from the moontain top is lonely without a mouut-ain-near. Remember that “You are judged by your house as much as by your dress.” Stay at homo and mako it bright with SAEOLIO. It is used for all cleaning purposes. The man who claims to know all things is disagreeable to everybody else and a chestnut to himself. Fob a disordered liver try Beecham’s Pills. A pair of knee-fatigued trousers may be called a two-bagger. Bronchitis is cuiod by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. •V<T ■•vnua “JR qo.iv Issi ‘smra -JQ OJ puog 'ROSHOITJ o; “MJ Bjuoq ppi (XC; pm: ohibojj, ’samo snoqaA -jvßp'9sii s.XEp ;s.u; jupv sitj <>x mo.ioisoh oa.i»v s.Bunyi-.tu Aq oa.ij paUdois srj IIV— 'SXL’I

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A Tear In Clmrch. During divine service on a recent Sun- I * V/ 1 b f ar ’ whic ’ a ll «Td escaped from the stable of a neighboring public house, in which its owner, a travelling showman was located, entered a chapel at Mortlake, England. AVomen shrieked and children cr ed, and there was a general rush for the door. The bear, round whose neck was a thick chain, made its way to the empty choir stalls, where it lay down. Tlie minister, whose high and commodious pulpit h id suddenly become occupied by several female members of his congregation, was in tlie midst of his discourse at the time of tlie animal’s appearance, and had chosen for his text the words, “Be not afraid. ” Tlie sermon was brought to an abrupt termination. The anxiety of pastor and people was set at rest by the arrival of the owner I of the animal. The tear was got out of the chape] with ease, and taken back to I its quarters. Beware of Oiutm* nts for Catarrli I’iat I Contain Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of । smell and completily derange the whole system ■ when entering it through tho mucous surfaces. ' Buch articles should never be used except on ' prescripticns from reputable phvsiciauß as tho j damage they will do is tenfold to tho good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh | Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To- j ledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken in- i ternally, and acts directly .upon the blood an I mucous surfaces of the system. In buying I Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gonui* s. j It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, ! by F. J. Cheney & Co. «s~Sol J by Druggists, price 75c per bottle. Her Last Re-ort. Kickshaw—A woman is about to apply for a seat in the Stock Exchange. Mrs. Kickshaw—Because she can’t get one in the street car, I suppose.— New York Sun. What It < osts. “How much will it cost me to go to tho | races?” “How much have you got?” “About $75.” “Well! ” — Chleago News. About a Stand-Off.—lf there is anything in the world more fidgety than a man with two cigars and no match it is a boy in the house on a rainy day. This has no especial reference to “that tired feeling.” but ’ if you are “out of sorts,” with dyspepsia, | biliousness, headache and constipation, and feel tired all over, there is nothing that will bring you out as gently and effectually as Dr. White’s Dandelion. It is a perfect system renovator. It purifies the blood and makes the weak strong. Chlorine, a gas first obtained by j Scheele in 1774, by treating manganese with muriatic acid, Sir Humphrey Davy in 1810 stated to be an element, and named it chlorine. Prevention Is better than cure, and people who are subject to rheumatism, can prevent attacks by keeping the blood pure and free from the acid which causes the disease. This suggests the use ot Hood’s Sarsaparilla, unquestionably the best blood purifier, anl which has been used with great success for this very purpose by many people. Hood’s Sarsaparilla has also cured innumerable cases of rheumatism ot the severest sort, by it« powerful effect in neutralizing acidity of the blood, and in enabling the kidneys aud liver to properly remove the waste of the system. Try it. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Fold by all druggists, fl: six forss. ITepared onlv C. 1. HOVD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maas. 100 Doses One Dollar ’'A \ ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver aud Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the : only remedy of its kind ever pro- ; duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- I ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK. N.V. TAnntlK Sioo I® SI,OOO Cnrefull, Inrc.tMl here 4 ft AC IHUUmMI rlnc AMI AI.LV from TWENTY to I U W” Test os. TACOMA INVESTMENT CO., TACOMA, WASH. Al 1 lAKPT an< ^ F. M. B. A. men. Grangers. LabornLLinnuL Reformers, Green backers. »nd AntiMonopolists. send for sample copy Joliet 'ill.) News. rIENSION^SES^ ^Successfully Prosecutes Cfairns. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau^ 3 yrs in last war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since.

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