THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBU RG. . PA
A DINNER TO HARLAN ,
Supreme Court Justice on the
Bench Twenty-five Years.
i
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
Brilllnnt Aaspmtilnste Attfnili the
Vanctlon Three Suva nttd Ituncli
ter of the Kentucky Jnrlut
Grace the Ocraalun.
WASHINGTON, Dec. lO.-The din
r by the bar of the supremo court
if the United States at the New Wll
lard hotel to Mr. Justice John Mnr
hnll Hnrlan In recognition of the com
pletion of twenty-five yenrs of service
an the bench of the supreme court wne
brilliant function. The banquet hall
rue handsomely Illuminated and the
tables elaborately decorated with
palms. American Uenuty roses nud
laurel.
In the absence of Attorney General
Knox Mr. Wayne MacVengh presided.
When the guests bad been seated,
JUSTICE HARLAN.
trace vrna said by the Rev. Richard
D. Harlun of Lake Falls, III., the eld
.at sou of the justice, who bad come
Washington especially for the oc
casion. Justice Harlnn was In his hap
piest mood and gave every evldonce
ot his appreciation of the honor be
stowed on him. Ills two other sons,
James S. Harlan, chief justice of Por
to Rico, nnd John Maynard Hnrlnn of
Ohlcago, were also present while Mrs.
and Miss Harlan and a host of friends
were Interested spectators In the gal
lery. A hidden orchestra played popu
lar airs throughout the evening.
Interest In the banquet outside of
Justice Harlnn centered In Tresldent
Roosevelt. His arrival shortly after
J:30 o'clock was the signal for a great
outburst of applause. The president
warmly congratulated Justice Harlan,
raftping him by both hands before
Caking his seat Those at the banquet
Included members of the cabinet sev
eral senators and representatives,
members of the supreme court of the
United States, of the court of claims
tnd of the local courts and quit a
.lumber of eminent lawyers from out
dde the city.
' Speaker Nixon III.
JAMESTOWN. N. Y., Dec. 10.
Speaker 8. Fred Nixon Is ill at his
home In Westfleld. He has had a'n at
tack of heart trouble, to which he Is
mbject. Mr. Nixon has not been well
for several weeks. Eurly In October
lie was confined to his bed for a week,
but had grown better again and was in
Albauy most of last week, returning
ionic Friday morning in a much weak
ened condition. Saturday he was poll
ened to his bed and since then has not
oeen permitted to receive callers. His
ihysiciuns say that with absolute quiet
for the present he will recover his
strength. His condition has been
brought on by overwork, and rest Is
necessary.
A Horrible Tnle of Daeterln.
WASHINGTON, Dec. G. - Twelve
million bacteria Inhabit the skins of
'.ialf a pound of cherries, according to
Dr. Elirllch, a German scientist, who
'jas made extensive experiments In re
;ard to the Infection of fruit with bac
teria. Currants come next, with 11,
00,000 to every hnlf pound, and grapes
jest, with 8,000,000. An account of
iheso experiments has been transmitted
!o the state department by United
States Consular Clerk Murphy, at
Frankfort. Dr. Khrlich urges that all
fruit be cleaned by either peeling or
cashing before It Is eaten.
MinlntiT llu.'U I1U- Suddenly,
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5.-Tho Jap
anese minister has notified the state
lepartment that while Alfred E. Buck,
.he United Status minister to Japan,
-.vas on a hunting trip he was taken
suddenly ill nnd expired. The deceased
minister was born in Maine, but was
ippointed to his post from Georgia ou
April 13, 1S07. His service covered a
i.-rlticul and important chapter of Jap
anese history.
Blahon Donne l-lrmln Rrurnti.
ALBANY, N. T.. Dec. 5.-At n meet
ing of the state board of regents the
tight Rev. William Croswell Donne,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Albany,
.vas elected chancellor, to succeed the
late Anson Judd Upson, and Regent
Whitelaw Reld was elevated to the po
sition of vice chancellor, to succeed
Bishop Doane.
Women ('Hrrjlnyr Malla.
WASHINGTON. Dec. fl. It has re
cently been brought to the attention of
Postmaster General Payne that about
twenty-live women are holding posi
tions as carriers In the rural free deliv
ery service.
"Dir. Duolvy" Murrleil.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.FInley Pe
ter Dunne, nuthor of "Mr. Dooluy,"
fend Miss Margaret Abbot, daughter
ht Mrs. Mary Abbot, formerly of Chi
cago, have been married In this city.
:llKED BD1M 1)00MKD
Congressmen Are Tired of Being
I Bossed by the Speaker.
' .Col. Ilendnrann's Surcrsor Will lie
Simply n frealdlnw Ollleor and
Rot the Autocrat of
CnnitrcM,
Special Washington Ietter.
A N'D now, in accordance with
the constitutional duty de
volved, upon me, 1 declare
hid house adjourned without day."
Exactly at noon on March 4, 11103,
jlhose word will be pronounced by
Speaker Henderson, the heavy gavel
iwill re-sound end the Fifty-seventh
congress will come to a close. Speak
er Henderson, who retires to prhTite
life, will be the last presiding otll
(cer of the national house- of repre
sentative who ehnll wield imperial
powers over his- colleguo.
! Thev rules if the house of repre
sentatives, which have been known as
the Heed rules, ever since they were
promulgated in December, lS'.tt), have
given autocratic power to the speak
er. Time and again effort hnve been
made to change those rules, but to
no purpose. The republican have always-
pointed with pride to the great
advance made in nationnl legislation
while Reed was- speaker; and both
parties' have agreed that Reed wns
right in declaring that "a visible
quorum" wn the constitutional quo
rum which could proceed "to do
jbusines."
I Hut. a majority of the house of rep
'resentatives has been in favor of
changing the rules, in some particu
lars, for at least ix years. Con
gressman Hepburn, of Iowa, has
been the leader in the attack upon.
the Reed rules?, and he will continue
to be the leader in the fight. It is
well known that Col. Hepburn had
a majority of the republicans in cau
cus assembled, in December, 1899,
and lie could have then forced im
portant changes in the rules, but he.
'forbore. His. colleague nnd friend,
!Col. Henderson, had just been select
ed for the speakership, and it would
have seemed exceedingly ungracious
in a member from his own state to
piave insisted on curtailing his pow
ers before he was inducted into his
high oflice. If any other than Col.
Henderson hnd been selected for the
ispeakership in December, 1899, the
rule would have been surely
changed.
There is a great d"eal of speculation
already concerning the speakers-hip
of the next congress, but one thing
imay as well be regarded a settled,
and that is, no mntter who secures
he- prize of that exalted position, he
iwill be simply a presiding officer, as
jthe constitution intended him to be,
and not a ruler of representatives se
lected, by sovereign, cons-tituencies
precisely a he was himself selected.
The rules will be carefully emend
ed, the main, point to be observed be
,ii.g that each representative shall
Really be a representative one
whoye voice and vote shall command
attention and respect.
Speaker Reed, was autocratic.
Speaker Henderson has not been. No
more conservative speaker ever oc
cupied the chair than Mr. Crisp, of
Georgia, for be was not autocratic.
There is no complnint concerning the
man who may have been, or who
mny be, speaker of the house of rep
resentatives. Criticism exist con
cerning the rules rather thnn con-
HON. WM. P. HEPBURN.
(Iowa Congressman Who Will Lead At
tack on Heed Rules).
cerning the man who enforces them.
Tom Jieed not only ruled the house,
but rudely ruled it, at times-. Hut
his majority was slender, and he had
to be a big boss, or no boe-s at all.
Whoever shall be chosen for the
speakership when, the new eongrewi
hnll have convened on the first Mon
day of December, 1003, will in all
probability be allowed the power of
the appointment of the committees
and committee chairmen; and that
will be power enough for one man. to
wield- over his fellow representatives.
But he will not be allowed to com
mand all legislation through the
committee on rules. There is where
the representatives will check the
one-man power of which fco many
have complained during the past six
years.
vIt is) well remembered that Speak
er Reed blandly smiled when a pe
titlon signed by a majority of the
house of representatives1 was pre
sented to him, praying for consider
ation of the bill for the Niearaguan
canal. Remember, a majority of th
members of the national house of
representatives think of itl That
majority had elected, Lad created
the speaker, but tinder their rules
those representatives- were obliged
to petition their creature, the speak
er, and pray for permission to legis
late as- a majority desired to repre
sent. And what came of It? Speaker
Reed said that- he would "give it con
sideration." He was. a good as his
word. He did give the matter con
sideration until the close of the con
gref, but he did not permit, the ma
jority to rule. He never allowed the
bill to come before the house at all.
Now it does not require a consti
tutional lawyer to explain that the
constitution of this republic of the
people never intended that one mn.n
should throttle the representatives
of the people, and prevent them
from legislating. That- Is the stand
which I taken by Col. Hepburn nnd
a majority of the house; and that
is the reason that It is easy to fore-
HON. CHAS. E. LITTLEFIELD.
(Maine ConKrossmiin Who Wnnts to
Succeed Speaker Henderson).
see that the rules will be changed,
so that no man who may occupy the
chair of the speaker shall have such
imperial power in this republic. It
isi barely pos-s-ible that the house will
name its owr. committees, n-s the sen
ate does; but that reform is not so
imminent.
So long as the speaker is permit
ted to name the committee' and dole
out the chairmanships, there will be
deals possible in contests for the
speakership. For example, four
years ago, a New York man was a
candidate for the speakership, and,
if he had succeeded, a -Kansas- man
would have taken his- place as chair
man of the committee on Indian, af
fairs. Naturally enough the Kan
sas! man supported the New York
man for the speakership, and there
by consulted his own self interes-ts.
Under existing rules no representa
tive of the people is allowed to lift his
voice in debate, no matter what out
rages (according to his opinion) may
be under contemplation. The speaker
sits in bis exalted position, and never
sees nor hears any representative of
the people who may clamor for recog
nition, uuless the representative shall
have previously called and stated his
business and secured permission from
the speaker to address the house, la.
that event, if the speaker fully under
stands the situation and agrees to
"give recognition," as they term it,
the representative of the sovereign
people may be recognized and heard.
It will be news to a majority of
readers that the representatives of the
people do not present unything at all
under existing rules in the bouse of
representatives. The member of con
gress is regarded as a great man at
home, but as he ncars Washington he
shriuks. When he gets, here, he finds
that he is only one of a small herd of
individuals who have no rights what
ever, except which are accorded char
itably by the older members and the
speaker.
Under existing rules every bill of
fered is referred to an appropriate
committee for consideration. That
looks well on paper. Hut the presiding
officer sculls the bills, and informs the
chairman of each committee which
bills shall be considered and which
shall not be considered. To such an
autocratic condition have the rules
brought the house that not even, be
fore a committee of the house does
a representative of the people have
any chance of success, without the
consent of the speaker. For exumple,
you or some friend may have a bill
providing for the payment of a claim
arising out of the civil war. A bill
is introduced and referred to the com
mittee on war claims. Your bill may
not amount to more than $1.(KX), and it
may be a just claim. But the speaker
tells the chairman of the committee
that the claims in all similar bills
amount to upwards of $9,000,000, and
that none of those bills shall be re
ported. The chairman, who was ap
pointed by the speaker, does as he is
ordered; and your bill dies, with all
others by that, peremptory order
no matter whether right and justice
are on your side.
After the damnable outrage of the
centauries, the villiany of all cycles of
civilization, the explosion of the bat
tleship Maine in Havana harbor, while
all of our people were clamoring1 for
vengeance, determined .upon war to
drive from this continent the nation
thut hnd requited our friendly visit
with assassination, Speaker Reed re
fused the petitioners of the house per
mission to consider resolutions for the
declaration of war. On thnt occasion
the people rode over the speaker and
all rules, because the provocation was
so great.
But, ordinarily, the speaker rules
congress, and the time Is not far dis
tant when those rules must be
changed. SMITH D. FRT.
Inrrrmo In Woorea.
Within 60 years the wages of
American factory workers have
doubled.
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TH0MA8 NAST DEAD.
Our Conaitl nt nnnynqnll Snrrnmba
tn Yellow Fever.
OUAYQU1L, Ecuador, Dec. 8.-Con-sul
General Nast Is dead after a three
days' Illness with yellow fever, lie
was Interred nt 5 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon. The funcrr.l was attended by
the governor, the consular corps, the
American colony and by many friends.
The coffin wns wrapped In the stars
nnd Rtrlpos. The British consul recited
a prayer In the cemetery.
The death of Mr. Nnst Is deeply la
mented by the natives, who bold him
in high esteem.
Thomas Nnst wns nominated consul
general nt Guayqull Mny 1, 1!MVJ, and
left New York for his post July 1. lie
arrived nt Guayaquil the latter end of
the same month. Consul Nnst was
born in Landau, Bnvnrin, Sept. ST,
1S40, nnd came with bis parents to the
United States six years later. He early
developed the nrtlBtle ability which
made him famous as a cnrlcaturlst and
cartoonist. For years be was traveling
nrtlst for British nnd American news
papers and In 1800 nnd 1S01 was with
Garibaldi In Italy. Afterward be wns
with Harper's Weekly as political car
toonist. PRODUCES HEART BEATS.
Intereal Inw 1)1 aon very Keporteil From
the t nlvi-plt)- of t'lilenirn,
CHICAGO, Dec. O.-The discovery of
e new means of causing rhythmic bents
in a strip of heart muscle Is announced
from the University of Chicago. The
stimulus Is oxygen, and Dr. David J.
Llngle Is the discoverer. He has been
working on the lines of Professor
Loeb's announcement made two years
ago thnt n solution of salt would start
a heart to pulsating,
vlt has long been known that the
henrt Is extremely seusltlvo to ogygun
and to carbon dloxldu, the gas pro
duced In vitiated air, but heretofore the
action of oxygen bns been thought to
be confined to the purification of the
blood. Dr. Llngle shows that this gas
has the power directly to sustain the
beats of a strip of heart muscle re
moved from the body of a turtle aud
to keep It going for from twenty-four
to seventy-two hours. Eveu then the
muscle stopped only because dissolu
tion set In, and, in fact, the strip con
tinued to beat for twenty-four hours
of the seventy-two with part of It al
ready dead.
Santlniro to llnrnns 7 Hnll.
SANTIAGO. Cuba. Dec. O.-Two
thousand persons, among them the
American representatives of the Cuba
company, witnessed the departure at 7
o'clock yesterday morning of the first
regular train to Havana with 150
through passengers. The crowd gava
the train an enthuslnotlc aend off. The
Cuba company publishes liberal freight
and passenger rates, and it is antici
pated that the opening of the railroad
will lead to the, rapid development of
the interior of the island.
Shot While Flnylnv Indian.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y., Dec. . Ford
L. Messlnger, the fourteen-year-old son
of Charles G. Messlnger, a prominent
contractor of this city, wns shot by a
companion, Arthur Morris, with whom
be was playing Indians. The boy re
ceived the charge of a shotgun which
was supposed to be unloaded, destroy
ing bis right eye and Inflicting wounds
which may prove fatal.
Aetor Johnstone Dend.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8.-After
lingering for nearly a Week Barry
Johnstone, the actor who Inst Monday
night shot himself nfter killing Kate
HaBsett, a member of Keith's Bijou
theater stock company, Is dead at the
Hahnemann hospital.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
ClnaiUK Stock Qaotatlona. -
Money on call firm at 8 fier cent. Prime
mercnntlle paper, 0 per cent. Sterling ex
change) ateady, with actual buslnesa In
banktira' bills at $1.8725 for dumand and at
$4.SjiU'i4,3'i'i for (0 days. Posted rates,
and $4.88. Commercial bills, 14 .f.76'(
4.8325. Par silver, i'o. Mexican dollars,
37c. Government bonds ateady. State
bonds inactive. Railroad bunds Irregular.
Closing prices:
Atchison S214 Ontario & West. 29V.
Ches. & Ohio... 4fi4 People's Uaa ...lul',t
Del. & Hudson. ir,K3; Reading 5!l
Krle 33'i Hock Island .... 41",
Lead 2iV4 St. Paul 172-
Louis. & Na8h..l2B Sugar Uutlnery.Ul
Manhattan Con.Wi Texas Pucllto .. 41
Missouri Pac....lmi Union Paellio .. M
N. Y. Central... 1537i Wubaah pref. .. iZ-fr
New York Murketa.
FLOUR Rulfiil uiet anil firm at old
prices; Minnesota patents, .Sll'4.16; win
ter straights. $.).4j'u3.5o; winter extrua.
J2.S'i(ii3.10; winter patents, $3.i0-ci3.90.
WHEAT Firm and fairly active on
higher cables, covei tnt; and sniull nui td
west reeelpts; May, Sci'yhO 5-16c.
RVK-Steady; state, 5l'ij54,4c., a I. f..
New York; No. 2 western, 5ic, t. o. b.,
ufloat; No. 2. BlUM'jC. truck.
CORN Advanced with wheat and on
steady cnbloa. coupled with light receipts
and local covering; January, aaViC ; Muy,
iitU 4!H.lc.
OATtf Dull, but firmer, with corn;
track, white, state, 37(u42c; track, while,
western, 37;42o.
PORK Steady; 'mess, I14Q18 50; family,
IlK'nlX 36.
LARU Firm; prima western steam,
ll.aue.
BUTTER Firm; state dairy, 20327c;
extra creamery, 30c.
CHEIOBK Finn: state, full cream,
fancy, small, colored, (September, 13' so.;
late made, 13c.; small, white. September,
13tye. ; late made, i;to.; lurge, colored, Bi-p-tember,
13V-; late made, 13u. ; large,
white, September, 13Vic: late made, 13c.
Ei!GS Firm; state and Pennsylvania,
average best, 30c; westirn, fancy graded,
2ti 2f o.
BUUAR-Raw firm; fair refining, 3 7-16
S'ic ; centrifugal. Mi test. 3 15-ltifii-to. ; re
fined firm; crushed, 5.4Sc. ; powdered, 4.65o.
TUHPKNTINI1: Steady at KiVuMo.
MOLASSES Firm ; New OrltuiiB, 30ffj
40c.
RICE Quiet; domestlo, 44'QCTiC.; Japan,
liflfi'ie . nominal.
TALLOW yultft; city, Oc; country, 6
v.
HAY Steady; shipping, E5(S70c; good to
choice, Web IL
Live Stock Market.
CATTLE Market steady; choice. JfifJ
1.10; prime, ta.iiue. 75; good, tf .2o'u5.40; veal
calves, I7U8.25.
HOdfl Market lower; prime heavies,
ii.30'iti.:ifi; mediums, d ltMi G. 1 5 ; heavy
Yorkers. 6.05'ii6.15: light Yorkers, $ti'u.03;
pigs. 15 iiO'ue; rough. if,iil.
SHEEP AND LAMUS-Market steady;
bail wethara, M904J4. 10; culls and com
mon. $1.S0J2; choice lambs, S5.4(KqS.6(.
Sickness steals more savings than the
burglar. Slowly, coin by coin, the
money that has been so hardly earned
is paid out for drugs and doctors.
Sickness Is the worst enemy of the work
ing man, and the common cause of the
working man's sickness is disease of the
stomach often involving the heart, lungs,
liver, or kidneys.
The use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery will stop the stealing of
the savings by sickness. It cures dis
eases of the stomach and other organs of
digestion and nutrition. It cures dis
eases of heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc.,
when these diseases are caused by the
diseased condition of the stomach aud
its allied organs.
"About ten years ago 1 began to have trouble
with my stomach. write Win. Connolly, of .
Walnut Utreet, Lorain, Ohio, "It g, an bnd I
had to lay off quite often two and three tnyi In
a week, my stomach would Mont, and I would
belch up ass. and was in awftil dilrr nt Mich
times. I have employed and been treated by
the tt doctors in the city but ant no help
whatever, lly some wsy or other 1 happened to
get hold of a vial of your Peltate,' and 1 thought
thev heljwd me. It was then I wrote to you for
advice. You told ine that by my symptoms you
thought I bad liver complaint, and advised the
use of your 'Gulden Mdical Discovery and
'Pleasant Pellets' in connection. These medi
cines I have taken as directed, aud am very
happy to state that I eonimtnced to get better
from the start and have not lost a day this
summer on account of my stomach. I feci tip
top, and better than I have for ten years."
Accept no substitute for " Golden Med
ical Discovery." Nothing else is "just
as good."
Dr. pierce's Tleasaut Tellets regulate
the bowels.
MoOlure's for Dtceaber
Ends the Year Boticr than Ever.
The Christmas McClures is prim
arily a holiday fiction number, but
the four articles represent the very
cream of the month's magazines writ
ing. Two of them make more ab
sorbing reading than ninety nine
stories in a hundred. That remarka
ble piece of pioneer invcs.igation,
Miss Tarbell's History of Standard
Oil, has for its second installment
" The Rise of the Standard Oil Com
pany." It is virtually a biogtaphy of
John D. Rockefeller from 1857, when
his name first appeared in the Cleve
land city directory, his occupation
given as bookkeeper, to 1872, when
the Standard, having absorbed or
crushed all the independent refineries
of Cleveland, was preparing to pounce
down on the Oil Regions and secure
its monopoly of the crude. The events
of these years unfold in Miss Tarbell's
narrative like the scenes of a great
play. Another article which tells a
true story more interestingly than
fiction is Lincoln Steffens', 44 The
American Man on Horseback." This
is an account of the annual bronco
busting contest at Denvjr for the
championship of the world. The
principal characters in it are the two
best riders and the two worst horses
in the West Thad Sowder and
Frank Minor, Steamboat and Dead
easy. The illustrations, all taken
fiom photographs, arc hair-raising in
tueir suggestion of broken necks.
John Mitchell's at tide on the Coal
Strike speaks for itself. Ot great
interest is the editorial announcement
that it will be followed by two articles
by Ray Stannard Baker presenting
the non-union miners side of the
question. John La Farge's noble ap
preciation of Albrecht Durer com
pletes his series of papers on old
masters, the most notable contribu
tions to art criticism of recent years.
The reproductions of Durer's famous
engravings are beautiiully done.
The fiction is of unusual merit
even for a fiction number. There
are four love stories, all first class and
no two alike. "At the Ebb of the
Tide," by Henry C. Rowland, intro
duces a band of castaways on a south
sea island a banker, an earl, a
countess and a Yankee mate; 44 Mr.
Potter's Vacation," by Herbert D.
Ward, shows a twentieth century
oroKer, with Marconrs aid, captain
ing a great commercial struggle across
1,000 miles of ocean; ''Thursday at
Three," by David Graham Phillips.
tells how an enterprising reporter got
a famous interview and his bride at
the same time; and "Briner's Wheat,"
by Charles Fleming Embre, is a
charming love tale of harvest time.
Herminie Templeton contributes the
best yet of her Irish folk lore tales.
44 Darby O'Gill and the Leprechaun."
"The Last Choice of Crusty Dick,"
is tne story ot an Apache massacre in
the desert, a piece of writing that
grips you like steel hooks. Two
stories of child life fully up to the
McLlure standard are "A Christmas
Present for a Lady," by Myra Kellv.
and 44 A Speedway Sermon," by
Empeigh Merwyn. The first is a
sketch of an east side school delight
fully droll and tender. Josephine
Dodge Daskam also has a pretty poem
01 cnnanooci called "Dreams." Alto
gcther the December number makes
a great hnish to a great year for
j r. ri . ir '
ina Kind You Have Always Bought
NEW POoTAGE STAMPS WILL BEAR
THE FLAG-
For The First Tims In our History National
Emblem Is Uied.
For the first time since 1869 and
practically since the establishment of
the United States postal system the
people will have the privilege of using
a postage stamp bearing the flag of
the republic, with the issuance ol the
new series of postage stamps no v m
process of printing.
The stamp displaying prominently
the Stars and Stripes will be the two
cent denomination, but it will bear
no resemblance to the two cent stamp
in use today. Washington's portrait,
which has appeared upon the common
letter postage stamp since the begin
ningof the use of postage stamps,
except during the single year 1869,
when the portrait of Washington wis
displaced to make room for a wild and
woolly,' wide-stacked, wood burning
locomotive of the "Rocket" type, will
again occupy the position of honor
upon the label, but the bust of Wash
ington, so long familiar to the public,
will disappear, probably forever.
The portrait of Washington, dtawn
from Jean Atonie Iloudon's profile
cast, is abandoned, to be succeeded
by a photo direct from Gilbert
Stuart's famous patnting, which now
adorns the national Capitol building.
It is remarkable that considering
the dcfer;nce paid the flag by Ameri
cans that the flag ha?, hitherto, been
practically ignored in the designing of
postage stamps. Just one year, in
1859, and then upon a stamp the
general public rarely if ever saw the
thirty cent denomination has the
flag had a postal stratus. In the
stamp mentioned there was aneg'e
and a coat of arms with two flag?.
The public has many times indi
caed a desire that the flag should be
accorded a place of prominence upon
one of the much-used values, but un
til now the depattment has not re
sponded to this desire. When the
Columbian series, commemorating
the Chicago World's Fair in 1893,
was projected the department was
flooded with letters requesting that
one of the denominations be given to
the flag. Later, when the trans-Miss-
tssippi set was contemplated, another
avalanche of requests was hearled at
the departmeut; and two years ago at
the time ol the designing of the two
colored Pan American series the peo
ple clamored for a place for the Stats
and Stripes.
The department has not been un
mindful of the wishes of the people,
but mechanical difficulties have
seemed to preclude the possibility
of producing a "flag" stamp that
would meet the approval ol the de
partment, and no effort has been
made to produce one.
A man's conscience will always tell him
when somebody else is doing wrong.
A widow usually looks blacker than she
feels.
"I feel as if I should fly to piecej." How
often these words are on a woman's lips.
I hey express to the uttermost the nerve
racked condition of the body, which makes
life a daily martyrdom.
If this condition had come suddenly it
would have been unbearable. Hut the transi.
tion was nradual. A little more strain each
day of the vitality. Any woman would be
glad to be rid of such a condition. Lvery
woman tries to be rid of it. Thousands of
such women have been cured by Dr. Tierce's
ttrniment with his " l avorite rrescriplioit"
when local doctors had entirely failed tJ
cure.
"Favorite "Prescription " contains no
opium, cocaine or otheT narcotic.
The saloon presents a bar to many a man's
success.
The Cukisimas dinner. In spite of
the fact that the word dyspepsia means
literally bail cook, It will not be fair for
many to lay the blame on the cook if they
begin the Christmas Dinner with little appe
tite and end it with distress or nausea. It
may not be fair for any to do that let u
hope so for the sake of the cook I The dis
ease dyspepsia indicates a bad stomach, that
is a weak stomach, rather than a bad cook,
and for a weak stomach there is nothing
else equal to Hood's Sarsapaiilla. It gives
the stomach vigor and tone, cures dyspepsia,
creates nppeHe, and makes eating the
pleasure it should be
Nothing succeeds like success, unless it is
imitation.
Droi'SY and Heart Disease. "For
ten vears I stiiTered m-pjitlu from Heart Dis
ease. Fluttering of the Heart and Smother
ing Spells made my life a torment. Dropsy
set in. My physician told me to prepare for
. 1 i t . 1 . i r l.-.
ine worst. 1 triea ur. Agnew i i.urc iui
Ifptirt fin .inCA ..an, nntal mlipf on
bottle cured me completely." Mrs. Jaruei
Adams, Syracuse, N. Y. 54
ouiu oy "w. a. jiieim.
Gossip travels fast etiouiih without wire
less telegraphy.
Cinnamon-Coated Tills. Dr. Agnew's
Liver Tills are coated like a cinnamon drop,
very small and delightful to take. One pill
a dose, 40 in a vial for 10 cents. Their
populaiity is a whirlwind, sweeping competi
tors before it like chaff. No pain, no grip
ing, no inconvenience. 55
Sold by C. A. Kleim.
The dreamer seldom wakes up to find
himself famous.
Eczlma Kelievki) in a day. Dr. Ag
new's Ointment will cure this disgusting
skin disease without fail. It will also cure
Uarber's Itch, Tetter, Salt Rheum, and all
skin eruptions. In from three to six nights
it will cure Wind, Bleeding, and Itching
Tiles. One application brings comfort lu
the most irritating cases, 35 cents. 56.
Sold by C. A. Kleim.
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