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____ m^^======a
leri .0 Lacos>te, selected as mayor
of Havana by (Jen. Ludlow, while a-na
tive of Cuba, is an American citizen,
having' been naturalized in Cincinnati.
A Xew Yorker who has just attempt
ed to secure a world wide patent on a
simple invention finds that it w ill cost
him $14,000. There are 04 countries in
which an invention may lie protected by
patent.
An artificial stone has been invented
that is a nonconductor of heat, cold
and noise. It is especially intended
for roofs and floors. The so-called stone
is made of purified pulp mixed with
various ingTediants to harden it. Fapy
ristile is the name.
Col. George i'armelee Webster, who
died a few days ago in New York, cast
the deciding vote in the Kentucky leg
islature at the beginning of the civil
war, which kept that state in the
union. He was the last to vote on the
motion to secede and the \ote when it
came to him stood a tie.
The British colonial system is evi
dently misunderstood by many who re
fer to it as opposed to the ideas of home
rule. Eleven of the 40 distinct British
colonies have elective assemblies and
locally responsible governments. No
two colonies are exactly alike in the
extent to which they are allowed to reg
ulate their awn affairs.
Mis:s Mary (iregg. of St. Louis, being
desirous of marrying Joseph 11. Dillon,
and being heiress to a considerable
fortune, left her by an uncle on condi
tion that she does not change her name,
tiie difliculty has been neatly solved by
the changing by legal process of the
name of the prospective husband to
Joseph 11. Dillon Gregg.
Ambassador Choate is credited with
saying many pleasant and clever
things. Once at a dinner party he was
asked whom he would like to be if he
vould not be himself. He paused a few
seconds, as if thinking over the list of
world's eelebrites, and then his eyes
rested upon his wife. "If," he answered,
"I could not be myself, I should like to
be Mrs. Clioat's second husband."
William Condon died recently at East
Bloomfield, N. V., of th_* grip, at the
age of 111 years, as attested by records
in the possession of his family* In
early life he was a soldier in the Brit
ish army. He used tobacco all his life
and boasted that he had "made more
smoke than the battle of Waterloo."
(111 the same day a woman died in
Brooklyn at the age of 101 years who
lu'id never used tobacco. So there you
are.
There is a remarkable condition of
affairs, in New Jersey. \\ itliout any di
rect state tax there is a surplus of over
$1,000,000 in the state treasury, and this
is increasing so steadily that Gov. \ oor
hees finds it proper to call the attention
of the legislature to the matter. The
receipts last year were $2,354,022, al
most all of which came from the taxes
on corporations, the collateral inherit
ance tax and the fees, turned into the
state treasury.
Another tradition has. been swept
away. In a train accident it lias.been
supposed for years that "on seeing dan
ger the engineer whistled 'd.own
brakes,' reversed the lever and jumped
off." But now comes: an iconoclast who
-ays the engineer does not do this, and
has not for many years. What lie does
do is to "shut oil' steam, apply the air
brakes, open the sand box. and jump."
If he is afraid to jump he is either killed
or becomes a hero.
liasing his computations on values
shown by records of real estate, build
ing, merchandise and railways, Mul
liall, the statistician, shows that the
United Stales is now the richest na
tion on the globe. His figures are:
United States, $31,750,000,000: Great
Britain, $50,030,000,000; IVan-a■•<%~,950,-
000,000; Germany, $40.200'.y.,000; Rus
sia, $32,125,000,000; Austin. $22,500,000.-
000; Italy, $15,800,000OuO; Spain, sll,-
300,000,000. And we are just beginning
to "get a move."
The police of Brussels have un
earthed a manufactory of fake master
pieces of art, where imitation pictures
by famous masters have been made and
passed upon an unsuspecting public.
Pictures, claimed to be genuine -Millets,
Baudrys and I'uvisdu Chuvannes, were
seized, and it was evident that the
sharpers have been doing business on a
large scale. They have made a fortune
,of a million francs, and the dispatch
telling of the matter says that "most
of the pictures have been palmed off on
wealthy and aristocratic hut unknow
ing Americans."
SILVER MONOMETALLISM.
The Ileal Meaning of I<"ree Coinage
ut the Itntlo of suieen
to One.
The Forum for January has an article
by James Kerr, secretary of the demo
cratic congressional campaign commit
tee, on"The Recent Election and Its Re
sults," In that article Mr. Kerr states
that "011 the financial question the
democratic party is committed to bi
metallism, while the republican party
is irrevocably committed to the single
standard." In another place Mr. Kerr
iisserts that—
"The near approach of the campalßn of
1900 may discover that 'free silver at sixteen
to one' is not the acute Issue it was in 1&96,
by reason of the fact that for a time other
Issues, that must he settled, may assert
themselves, and, alonf? with bimetallism,
claim recognition from the people."
Thus Mr. Kerr alleges that the demo
cratic, party, of which he is a member, is
for "bimetallism," and that "sixteen to
one" is "bitmetallism." Neither of
those statements is true. Mr. Kerr,
who is a reasonably intelligent man, is
aware of the fact that neither of them
is true. Tie makes them simply be
cause he hopes some of the readers of
*he magazine in which those state
ments are made will believe them to be
true, and, being deceived, will vote the
democratic ticket next year.
The democratic national platform of
1800 defines the status of the party on
"the financial question." That plat
form demands specifically "the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and sil
ver at the ratio of sixteen to one." But
free coinage at that ratio cannot be "bi
metallism," when the present commer
cial ratio is more than thirty-four to
one. Until 44 cents in silver can be
shown to be the equivalent in value of
100 cents in gold there can be nothing
savoring of "bimetallism" in a scheme
which contemplates the free coinage of
silver dollars worth 44 cents and gold
dollars worth 100 cents and assumes
that they will circulate concurrently.
There can be no "bimetallism" with an
impossible ratio. Not even the plat
form of the democratic party can ac
complish impossibilities.
If Mr. Kerr believed that the demo
cratic party favored "bimetallism"
there are some questions which might
properly be put to him in order to find
out what his conception of '"bimetal
lism" was. He might be asked whether,
because there once was a time when
the free coinage of 10 ounces of silver
as the equivalent in value of one ounce
of gold was "bimetallism," that free
coinage at the ratio of sixteen to one
must be "bimetallism" always, no mat
ter how- much the value of silver may
decrease. lie might be asked, in other
words, whether he believes that be
cause 3711/4 grains of silver once ex
changed freely in the market for 23 1-5
grains of gold that exchange can be
made now anywhere on the face of the
earth. If not, then all monetary poli
cies based on the former equivalence in
value of 10 ounces of silver and one
ounce of gold must be abandoned.
The democratic party is for "sixteen
to one." Therefore, it is against "bi
metallism" and for silver monometal
ism, which is what free coinage at the
ratio of sixteen to one implies. The re
publicans are bimetallists only to the
extent to which bimetallism is possible
when the commercial ratio is de
parted from. The republicans com
bined the free coinage of 23 1-5 grains
gold dollars with the limited coinage on
government account of 371 '/ 4 grains sil
ver dollars. They have been able to
keep in circulation at par nearly 500,-
000,000 of 371% grains legal tender sil
ver dollars, or the certificates which
represent thein and are redeemable in
them.
Rut when in ISO 3 the volume of the
silver dollars in circulation and of the
treasury notes paid out for silver bul
lion grew alarmingly large, and the
business men feared that the process
of silverizing the currency would con
tinue indefinitely, a frightful panic
broke out. The panic, due to the fear
that excessive doses of silver would de
base the currency, cost the country 1
three times over what all the silver in
the United States was worth. It took
four weary years for the country to re
cover from the fear that it was going
to be plunged into what Mr. Kerr men
daciously calls "bimetallism."
It would be impossible to impanel a
jury, except in some peculiarly be
nighted part of the United States,
which would bring in a verdict to the
effect that the free coinage of gold and
silver at the ratio of i»i*teen to one is
"bimetallism." A jury which returned
such a verdict would have to decide that
there is no difference between a ratio
of sixteen to one and thirty-four to one,
or, in other words, that two is equal to
four and a fraction over. An unlettered
jury would stick at doingthat. Butac
cording to Mr. Kerr this manifestly ab
surd proposition that sixteen to one is
"bimetallism" is to figure in the demo
cratic campaign in 1900. —Chicago Tri
bune.
CTMt will lie a gloomy task for the
democratic party to attempt- to rrivide
politically within a year a nation which
at present is not divided. The north
and south are one again. There is 110
democratic-republican disagreement
about the tariff. The country is sub
stantially one on the question of ex
pansion, and again as to the building of
the Nicaragua canal. There is 110 »p
--portunity for the Chicago platform
party to offer serious opposition to the
republicans, except through the more
extreme passions of Rryanism, and
those are impotent in a land that flour
ishes like the United States.—N. Y.
Sun.
Bryan declares: that he "will
live and die on the Chicago platform."
lie is already politically dead under it,
having been crushed by its weight; but
apparently he isn't aware of the fact,
and keeps right on. talking as though
he was.the funeral director instead of
1 he political corpse. —Minneapolis Trib
une.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899.
COMING DISINTEGRATION.
The I>einne rn cy la Showing Signs
of llnpidly (iolnir to
Pieces.
Not since the years that followed
close upon the civil war has the demo
crats party been in such a critical con
dition as it is to-day. The conference
of national committeemen which was
held here in Chicago was an exhibition
of irreconcilable differences which were
emphasized by the arbitrary demands
of certain extremists. Apparently it is
the purpose of these men to rule at all
hazards, and an examination of Iheir
programme demonstrates conclusively
that their rule means ruin.
Their test of fidelity is acquiescence
iu the old dogma of sixteen to one and
in the new dogma of anti-expansion.
The two are to l>e inextricably united,
and so a situation that was discourag
ing enough before is rendered more
than ever intolerable. Senator Teller,
who is everywhere acknowledged to be
>he ablest of the silverites, will resign
from the national ways and mentis com
mittee because he believes that it is im
politic to oppose expansion. This de
fection is of the utmost importance.
The senator isa republican still, in spite
of his affiliations with democrats, and
his influence upon the silver w ing-of his
party is greater than that of any other
man in or out of its rauks. Naturally
his followers will be disconcerted by his
action, and many of tbi-tn will be in
clined to desert their allies*. Asa result
the latter will be deprived of support
which they themselves have considered
indispensable.
But this is not the full extent of the
revolt. Kx-Gov. Stone, of Missouri, sup
plements the republican with a demo
cratic secession. The ex-governor is a
pronounced expansionist and has been
almost from the first. He is probably
too much of a party man to bolt a con
vention, but he is ready to lead a fac
tional fight which will scatter the seeds
of dissension and weaken the forces.
It is to be noticed also that while
these silver leaders have been offended
and repelled, the silver utterances of
the controlling faction have undergone
no modifications. Mr. Bryan and Sena
tor Jones both declare that sixteen to
on* w ill be insisted upon as strongly us
ever. And ex Congressman Towne, n
republican who unites with them in
radical denunciation of "imperialism,"
says:
"I believe the convention of 1900 will re-
Iterate the Chicago platform of 1800 on the
money question. It will do it,l believe, for
the reason that public sentiment will de
mand it and for the additional reason that
the machinery of the party is in the hands
of the friends of silver and will continue
so."
Here we have an uncompromising
notification to the gold democrats that
they are ostracised and that no help is
expected or desired from them. The
old wounds are kept fresh while new
ones are being inflicted.
At the same time signs are multiply
ing all over the country which goto
show that the silver cause is steadily
losing ground on its own demerits.
Taken by itself it holdsoutnopromi.se
of success. With anti-expansion added
it is doomed to one of the greatest fail
ures that, have ever been recorded in the
annals of Americn politics. The ma
chinery of which Mr. Towne boasts is
leading the democratic party to de
struction.
Though it is true, a» Its friends as
sert, that this great historic organiza
tion has survived many terrific shocks
and trials, there was never a time when
it contained so many essentially disin
tegrating factors as it does at present.
Even the south is turning from it, while
there is no basis for a reunion such as
was found in national politics after the
war. —Chicago Times-Herald.
PRESS OPINIONS.
CCroker has come out in favor of
expansion and against sixteen to one.
There is another strange bedfellow for
somebody. —Cleveland Leafier.
he silverite who contends that
gold bullion has no intrinsic value ha si
never been known to threw away any
ui It as worthless. —Sound Money.
latest device of the democratic
campaign managers to raise funds is>
to place a cigar an the market. Why
not try the one-fried-oyster-with-evcry
subscription plan?—Washington Post.
ICTThey say Col. Bryan has dropped
one €<f his little oratorical jokes. He
no longer opens his remarks by asking
hia audience if they have seen anything
of Gen. Prosperity. This joke has been
apocryphal. — Boston Herald.
Col. Bryan is hopelessly en
amored of a decadent, theory let him
fondly linger ami dot the scenes of the
political past. But the country finds
new issues pressing it forward and it
will not wait for him. —Detroit Free
Press (Dem.),
Maybe Mr. Bryan, having con
cluded that there is not a presidency in
ti.e sixteen-to-one issue, and being
shrewd enough, let it be hoped, to dis
cover that there is not a presidency in
the anti-expansion issue, may flush a
winning issue in the question whether
the twentieth century begins with the
year 1000 or 1001.—Louisville Courier-
Journal (Dem.).
CJ'While Hon. William J Bryan was>
vociferously denouncing the gol.l
standard and protection in his Jackson
day speech in Chicago the savings
banks of the city were figuring up the
largest first week of January deposits)
on. record. Thus do the hard facts of
American, business continue to punc
tuate the jeremiads of the professional
calamity howlers. Boston Journal,
iCThe suspicion of some of Col.
Bryan's real friends that his daily
speech iu ah i tig or other public utter
ance is pursuant to the advice of pro
fessed friends who are secret foes is
well grounded. There are plenty of
democrats w ho hail Col. Btyan with ap
parent enthusiasm, but who hope tosee
him out of the way before the next na
tional convention. —Indiarapolis Jour
ual.
NEW SENATOR CHOSEN.
\iitlinn 11. Scott (Rep.) Uleoleil li /
\\ «*»t Virginia I,e« l*ln tnre A
Sli«*tcll of 11 i h 1J IV.
Charleston, W. Ya., Jan. 20.—Nathaa
B. Scott was elected United States sen
ator Wednesday in joint assembly.
Scott received IS \otes, McGraw 40 and
Goff 1. Necessary to election, 48. One
seat in the senate and one in the house
was vacant. Hunt voted first for Bliz
zard and afterwards changed his voto
lo Scott. The announcement was re
ceived with the wildest applause.
After the joint assembly declared the
election of Mr. Scott to the senate c.t
the United States, Hon. J. F. McGraw,
the caucus nominee of the democratic
party for that office, made a statement
which indicates that he will contest the
election on the ground of illegality. He
says two of the votes cast for Mr. Scott
were the votes of state senators who
had forfeited their seats by the accept
ance of lucrative offices under the fed
eral government—commissions in the
army. Therefore, Mr. Scott in reality
and in law received only 40 legal votes.
The vote therefore for him was 40, the
vote for McGraw w as 40 and the vote for
Judge Goff was one. and in consequence
there was no election.
[Nathan Hay Scott was born In Guernsey
county, ()., in 1842. He enlisted in the union
army and was mustered out in 18G5. Settling
In Wheeling shortly afterwards, he went to
work as an employe of the Central Glass
company. In a short time he was employed
as manager and soon afterwards was se
lected president of the company, which po
sition he filled for years. He served two
years as president of the second branch
of the city council of Wheeling. He was
elected in 1882 as a member of the state
senate, and again in 1880, serving eight
years. In the last race he defeated Hon.
John O Pendleton In a strongly democratic
district, Mr. Pendleton being afterwards
elected to congress. While a member of
the senate he passed the mutual savings
bank law of the state. For live years he
was West Virginia's member of the repub
lican national committee and during the
entire time was a member of the executive
committee. During the campaign of 18SS
he was selected by President McKlnley to
serve with Gen. Powell Clayton and Vice
President Hobart in the headquarters at
New York city. In recognition of his serv
ices President McKinley appointed him
commissioner of internal revenue. He or
ganized the first savings bank in the state
of West Virginia and is still president of
that institution.!
THE MANUFACTURERS.
Spirit of (lie National Convention ut
(iiiciii natl Kavornhlr to ft£xpan
k ion an ii Co in in ere la 1 i*ropo»t i tion.
Cincinnati, Jan. 20. —The National
Association of Manufacturers Wednes
day transacted most of its annual busi
ness, leaving the election of officers for
to-day. The spirit of the proceedings
indicated that the members were in
favor of expansion as a commercial
proposition and with a special view to
eliminating that question from poli
tics, as they favor the tariff, financial
and other questions being eliminated
from politics. Much attention was de
moted to resolutions urging the senate
to give prompt consideration to the
treaty of peace with Spain. During
the noon recess it was learned that the
senate would vote finally on the ratifi
cation of the treaty on February 6 and
then the question was dropped. Al
though most of the members favor ex
pansion, yet they do not desire to ex
press any official views on that ques
tion. They held that the business in
terests of the country as well as the
general interests of the Philippines
were suffering because of the delay
and that whatever action may betaken
should lie taken soon. The spirit of the
convention favors unanimous action on
whatever action is taken on anything
and for that reason the question of ex
pansion will not come up again. The
convention is a unit on the question of
a national department of commerce
and industry at Washington, with a
cabinet officer. It is argued that the
grangers kept up their agitation for
years until they secured a secretary of
agriculture and that the same recogni
tion must be accorded to the vast in
terests of manufacturing and com
merce and trade.
BIG BATTLE IN ECUADOR.
Government Forces Win n Decisive
Victory Over the KCIICIN Four
Hundred Killed on ilollk Sides.
New York, Jan. 20. —The latest dis
patch from the Herald's correspondent
at Guayaquil reports that a sanguinary
battle took place Tuesday between the
revolutionists and the government
forces at San Aucaja.
The fighting was desperate all day,
the advantage remaining finally with
the government's army.
The losses on both sides were heavy.
More than 400 men were killed and 300
were wounded.
Four hundred insurgents were taken
prisoners.
The rest of the defeated rebels fled
toward the province of Bolivar hotly
pursued by the victorious troops of
President Alfaro.
News of a decisive engagement be
tween the forces of the revolutionists
and the government troops has been
expected for some days. Becent dis
patches from I'anama stated that the
rebels, representing the clerical party,
determined to overthrow the Alfaro
administration, had invaded Ecuador
from Colombia and that an engagement
was looked for at Talcan, on the fron
tier.
t nine Too I. rite.
New York, Jan. 20. A sick and des
titute man 55 years old was taken from
an East side tenement house two weeks
ago to the department for out-door
poor, lie gave the name of Lawrence
Schraeder and lie was dying from want
of nutritive food. Wednesday a letter
addressed to Schraeder was brought to
the superintendent of the institution
It contained a check for $5,000 and had
been sent from England as Schraeder *
long-delayed share in his father's es
tate. Schraeder, however, had died and
the money arrived just in time to pre
vent his burial in the potter's field.
A HUSTLING HOST.
Ha Had a Little Sclienir for Maklßf
Ilia Ciut-stß I'ay for Thflr
Ulnorra.
It was an apparently innocent little din
ner invitation which drew a number of
California street heavyweights to the
handsome home of a capitalist on Pacific
lvenue, who is no longer popular in the
l'aeific Union club. After the dinner,
which was elaborately planned, perfectly
served and thoroughly appreciated, the
host led the way to the billiard room, where
he produced for the inspection of his friends
a new loulette wheel which he had just pur
chased.
After it had been examined and duly ad
mired monsieur proposed that his friends
tempt fortune with it, announcing that he
would be banker, and smilingly invited
them to "break him." The guests scarcely
expected this Hort of diversion, but they
hardly could decline the "entertainment"
which had been provided for them. Hav
ing carelessly undertaken to call the turn
on the black or the red, they expected to
lose a trifle to their host, but they did not
anticipate any such financial catastrophe
as overtook each of the players.
The bank won steadily. Soon all the
player guests were "broke," but the ho»t
offered, in an ofT-hand way, to stake one
and all, guarding against a loss of the
frequent loans, however, by taking the
checks of his friends. For the purpose, with
admirable forethought, he hail provided
himself with blank checks on every bank in
town.
There was no escape for his victims. They
were all thoroughly trapped and well
scorched before they were released. The
guests caught the first car home in the morn
ing, the urbane host, with unparalleled gen
erosity. presenting each guest with a nickel
to pay his fare.—San Francisco News-Letter.
Opinions of a Pessimist.
Polish may be laid upon wood to such
a thickness as to obliterate the grain. The
same thing may happen to a man.
l'eople who honestly tell us of our faults
may mean well, but they never run ahead
of their tickets, at the polls.
The man who prides himself upon his
good looks never acquires the student's
stoop.
Hard, steady, determined hammering is
a good thing, but the greatest battles of
life are won by strategy.
The philanthropist who gives to the poor
only that he may lay up treasures for him
self in Heaven, will be surprised if he ever
gets there, to see how little credit he got
for it. True charity is love for your fel
low man.-—Cleveland Loader.
Shell Porto Itico lie a StnteT
Our public men are trying to decide what
action should be taken regarding the status
cf Porto Rico. We have never before had to
deal with a similar condition where nearly a
million people of a foreign tongue have been
annexed. Neither have we ever had before
such a reliable medicine for malaria, fever
and ague as Ilostetter's Stomach Hitters. It
drives the poisons out of the system and es
tablishes strength to resist future attacks.
In Old MisHonrl.
Mrs. Olive—-It is rumored among the
neighbors that your husband beat you last
night. Is it true?
Mrs. Poplar—There isn't a word of truth
in the report. He struck at me several
times, but failed to hit me. You know, he
played with the St. Louis nine last sea
son."—Chicago Evening News.
A Remedy for lite Urlppe.
A remedy recommended for patients af
flicted with the grippe is Kemp's Balsam,
which is especially adapted to diseases of
the throat and lungs. Do not wait for the
first symptoms of the disease, but get a bot
tle to-day and keep it on hand for use the
moment it is needed. If neglected the grippe
has a tendency to bring on pneumonia. The
Balsam prevents this by keeping the cough
loose. All druggists sell the Balsam.
History.
Teacher of the Future — Who can tell me
who was Hobson?
One of the Countless Generation as Yet
Unborn—Please, he was the hero of the
merry smack.—lndianapolis Journal.
St. Jacobs Oil cures Soreness.
St. Jacobs Oil cures Stiffness.
On visiting Niagara for the first time one
is apt to carry away a falls impression.—
Harlem Life.
See! Bad sprain is cured. St. Jacobs Oil's
magic worked it.
An agreeable truth may lie at the bot
tom of a well, but a disagreeable one al
ways comes to the surface. —Chicago Daily
I*ews.
She—"That's just it —everything I say
goes in one ear and out of the other." He
Well, good gracious! You don't suppose
my head is enough to hold it all?"—Von
kers Statesman.
The story goes that when f.i Hung Chang
was in England an admirer sent him a spe
cially line bull terrier, intended to watch
over the veteran statesman's declining
years. The following letter —so the story
goes—was received in acknowledgment:
"My Dear : While tendering my best
thanks for sending me your dog, I beg to
say that, as for myself, I have long since
given up the practice of eating dog's flesh;
but my attendants, to whom 1 handed the
creature, tell me they never tasted any
thing so nice. Your devoted L".—House
hold Words.
Two little brothers in Bath, Me., were
confined indoors during a storm, and Sam,
the younger, made such an uproar that his
father humiliated him by a whipping. They
shared the same bed, and as they knelt side
by side at night, saying their prayers, the
elder thus closed his supplication: "And,
Lord, please make Sammie a better boy.
This Sam promptly resented by exclaiming:
"You shut up, Willie. I can pray for my
self."
Old Fogle—"The country is going to the
dogs. I'm as certain of it as 1 ever was of
anything." Old Keener—"By the way,
what'll you sell that acre lot on the cor
ner nf Mary and Martha street for?" Old
Fogle—"That lot is not for sale. I shall
hold onto it. In le<s than ten years it will
bring more than double what it would eeli
for to-day."—Boston Transcript.
"I think 1 am in love with that girl;
when she tomes around 1 get three new dis
eases." "What are they?" "Palpitation of
the heart, ossification of the head and
paralysis of the tongue."—N. O. Times-
Democrat.
For j^
The Kind You Have Always Bough!
▼*■ OB«TA«« • •■*«■▼. TT MU«MAY ITRIKT, Ml« ▼•MM •»▼▼,
Malty- People Cannot Drlnb
coffee at night. Jt spoils their sleep. Yoe
can drink Grain-O when you please and deep
like a top. For Grain-0 doe* not stimulate;
it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Yet it looki
and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous
persons, young people and children GrainO
is the perfect uririk. Made from pure grains.
Get a package from your grocer to-day. Try
it in place 01 coffee. 15 and 25c.
More Fact Than Fiction.
Miss Worth It's considered impolite t®
give jewelry to a girl to whom you're not
engaged.
Air. Strong—By whom?
"By all the other girls." Jewelers*
Weekly.
Oh That Delicious Coffee!
Costs but 1c per lb. to grow. Salzer has the
seed. German Coffee Berry, pkg. 15c; Java
Coffee pkg. 15c. Salzer's New American
Chicory 15c. Cut this out and send 15c for
any of above packages or send 30c anil get
all 3 pkgs. and great C atalogue free to .JOHN
A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, \ViS.[n.J
None to Turn Over.
"I thought you were going to turn over &
new leaf, .lohn," she said.
"I was,"he replied, "but I find I can't."
"Why not?"
"There won't be any new leaves until
spring."—Chicago Post.
There is more Catarrh in this section ol
the country than all other diseases put to
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it a local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It ii|
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a
teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., To
ledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
An Expedient.
Poet fgloomily)—l don't see how it is ga
irig to be possible any longer to keep the
wolf from the door.
Poet's Wife—You might sit on the door
step and read aloud one of your rejected
poems.—Somerville Journal.
A woman thinks it is all right in her own
case to marry a man younger than herself,
but how she howls 20 years later when some
woman older than her son wants to marrj
him!—Atchison Globe.
ConsthinK Lenda to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Goto your druggist to-day and get a
sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 5(
cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous.
If, as the poet Wither says, "care will
kill a cat," it might be well to hang a little
of it over the back fence where felines most
do congregate.—L. A. W. Bulletin.
i.ane's Family Medicine.
Moves the bowels each day. In order te
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head
ache. Price 25 and 50c.
Injustice of Fate. —"A man can't do mucb
without money." "No, and when he haj
money he doesn't need to do anything."—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
To Core a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
The man who always says exactly what
he means is more numerous than popular.—
Chicago Daily News.
Where's it gone? Ask St. Jacobs Oil. It
cured that bruise —gone.
Philosophy with some men means th»
love of their own wisdom.—Ram's Horn.
I could not get along without Piso's Cura
for Consumption. It always cures. —Mrs.
E. C. Moulton, Needham, Mass., Oct. 22, '94.
The bootblack always begins at the foot.
—Chicago Daily News.
It is easy, sure. It will vanish. Use St.
Jacobs Oil for Neuralgia. It's done.
NEiiYOl'S DEPRESSION.
[A TALK WITH MRS. PINKHAM ]
A woman with the blues is a very un
comfortable person. She is illogical,
unhappy and frequently hysterical.
The condition of the mind known as
" the blues," nearly always, with wo
men, results from diseased organs of
generation.
It is a source of wonder that in this
age of advanced medical science, any
person should still believe that mere
force of will and determination will
overcome depressed spirits and nerv
ousness in women. These troubles are
indications of disease.
Every woman who doesn't under
stand her condition should write to
Lynn, Mass., to Mrs. I'inkham for her
advice. Her advice is thorough com
mon sense, and is the counsel of a
learned woman of great experience.
Read the story of Mrs. F. S. BENNETT,
Westphalia, Kansas, as told in the fol
lowing letter:
" Deab Mbs. Pinkham:—l have suf
fered for over two years with falling,
enlargement and ulceration of the
womb, and this spring, being in such
a weakened condition, caused me to
llow for naarly six months. Some time
ago, urged by friends, I wrote to you
for advice. After using the treatment
which you advised for a short time,
that terrible flow stopped.
" I am now gaining strength and
flesh, arid have better health than I
have had for the past ten years. I
wish to say to all distressed, suffer
ing women, do not suffer longer, when
there is one so kind and willing to
aid you."
Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Com
pound is a woman's remedy for wo
man's ills. More than a million wo
men have been benefited by it.