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Adulteration Checked.
Connecticut has a food adulteration
law under the provisions of which the
presence of any antiseptic or preserva
tive not evident and not known to the
purchaser or consumer marks the ar
ticle as adulterated anel unfit for sale.
The state maintains an experimental
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proilucts, whence information of cases
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ple machinery has proved <|uite effect
ive in limiting the vagaries of fooel
sophistieators in Connecticut, since the
publicity given to the analyses of the
experimental station usually results in
driving the depreciated article out of
the market. In a recent instance the
state chemist found "pure fruit jelly"
to consist, solely of "starch paste sweet
ened with glucose, artificially flavored,
eoloreil with coal tar dye and preserved
with salicylic acid." This is excellent
public work which should be under
taken on an enlarged and liberal scale
in every populous state in the union.
The American llay Fever association,
so far as known, is the only society in
the United States bound together by
the ties of disease. There is no diph
theria club or pneumonia circle, or in
dependent order of rheumatics, or
other organizations where a common
malady forms a bond of union. Only
members of the American Hay Fever
association, says the Kansas City Star,
hlow their noses and wipe their eyes
in unison. The Hay Fever association
was first heard of a-frood many years
ago, when Henry Ward Beecher was a
leading spirit, and the gathering
ground of fhc organization was said to
be the White mountains in Xew Hamp
shire. Later New Mexico was pro
claimed the sneezer's Mecca, and Capt.
Philip lieade, U. S. A., appeared as chief
scribe. Now it is given out that Mar
quette, Mich., is the head center in
place of Fetoskey, originally selected,
and it is said that the fall meeting of
the association will see a thousand
members in attendance.
What is colled the kissing bug is
found to be an old acquaintance, not a
newcomer from the Philippines. Sci
entists at Amherst confirm its impos
ing name of Mclanolestes Picipes, but
it belongs to the squash bug family,
and is widely distributed in the United
States, especially in the south and
west. It is black, tinged with red,
with shining wings, is somewhat hairy,
and over half an inch long. Unless
roughly handled it is not likely to at
tack a person, and then it pierces and
sucks, for it cannot bite. Usually it
lives under stones and logs, preying
upon subterranean insects. Its sting
when aroused is severe, but as far as
mankind is concerned it acts in self
defense. The theory that it seeks the
lips before plunging in its weapon is
not accepted by the scientific.
While a young lady of Hickman coun
ty, Ky., was eloping with her sweet
heart recently, the buggy upset and
one of her arms was broken and a wrist
dislocated. Nevertheless, after her in
juries had received the attention of a
physician she insisted that the mar
riage should not be postponed and tbe
ceremony was performed, although
both of the bride's arms were incased in
splints.
A volume of clippings valued at $2,500
is to be presented to Admiral Dewey
upon his arrival. The book contains be
tween its solid silver covers a wealth of
printed matter, from profound editor
ials on the admiral to humorous poetry
regarding him, and from the comments
of the president and cabinet flown to
the jokes of street, gamins.
If the Pennsylvania professor who
has discovered that asphalt can be made
out of red herrings would now turn
the process end for end and show how
red herrings can be made out of asphalt
the process would possess an enhanced
commercial value.
The latest test of sobriety is a word
of letters. It is eleetropliotomicrog
raphy, and the meaning as there given
is "photographing by electric light ob
jects magnified by the microscope."
The absorption of soeia water and ice
"•m during the summer season di
tlie consumption of eandv
'• cent.
DEMORALIZED HOPELESSLY.
Tbe Drmarmc} IK H < rumlilinu I'nrty
M li u Self-I>e*l roj lug
Pulley.
ITou. James 11. Eckels, of Chicago,
who was comptroller of the currency
in the second Cleveland administration,
has been giving the New York Times
his views of ilie democratic party of to
day. Mr. Eckels was one of the oracles
of his party a few years ago, and his
views will be of interest not only be
cause they are justified by the apparent
facts, but because he speaks the opinion
of many who once did not hesitate to
avow their membership in the demo
cratic party. The former comptroller
calls attention to the fact that in the
present leadership of the democratic
party there is not a name that com
mands national respect. Theparty is in
the hands of an aggregation of little
men of small repute. He might have
added that not a democrat who in past
years has given fame to his party
would have consented to be allied with
such lightweights as now usurp the con
trol of that party. Of the democratic
party of to-day Mr. Eckels says:
"It has not now, and it cannot grain, the
confidence of any considerable part of the
conservative elements of the country as
long as it has a leadership preaching dis
content and engendering class hatred.
With the present leadership no matter how
wise a platform might be adopted, nothing
would be gained. No party can come into
power which, on analysis, .shows the lead
ers of it in every local community almost
lacking the confidence of all who make up
the business part of such community. It
will be found on investigation that from
national politics down to local no one Is
taking an interest in democratic affairs
who is making a living outside of the pale
of politics. Of course, no party will be in
trusted with the conduct of important gov
ernmental affairs which commands the
services of party politicians only. It must
be willing now and then at least to pay
attention to the advice of thosi who have
some property interests at stake, and it
must be able to have their respect and
confidence. The struggle which democracy
is now making seems to have as its sole
object the driving away of all who own
property, no matter whether the amount
be large or small. Those who map out its
policy art- making the serious mistake of
counting the number of discontented of
the country to be larger than that of the
contented. This is the basis and the blun
der of demagoglsm always."
Such a policy already has proved itself
self-destructive. Mr. Eckels need not
lay great claim to prophecy to be able tej
say safely that the disaster of isOti will
be repeated in 1 'JOG. Of the demageiguish
obstinacy and its sure result Mr. Eckels
says:
"The very fact that 'free coinage of sil
ver' is announced as again to be the chief
democratic Issue of 1900, despite the dead
ness of it, must convince every thoughtful
democrat of the sham and pretense of
those who lead the party. These leaders
must know that they cannot even com
mand a respectful hearing upein that phase
of the Chicago platform, much less win
the election. They hold to it simply be
cause it is the most convenient rallying
cry to bring together the elements of dis
content to which they pander. They have
turned the party over to socialism, and
made it helpless for public good."
The crumbling of the party speaks
for itself in the le)ss of political pres
tige. The democratic critic of the dem
ocratic party says:
"Since the advent of the sentimental
rhetoric of Mr. Bryan and the cunning and
perverted Intellect of Jlr Altgeld as con
trolling forces in the party's councils
democrats have seen every democratic
United States senator in the north but one,
and he from the state of .Montana, lost,
and in addition two senators from MV. st
Virginia, two from -Maryland and one
from Ketucky and Delaware, Illinois, Indi
ana, New York. New Jersey, Ohio, Wiscon
sin.Connecticut and Delaware have all been
driven from the party. There Is not a
single democratic governor north of .Ma
son and Dixon's line. The governors of
Minnesota and -Montana are populists."
The result of the freak performance
at Chicago, w hen Uryan broke loose and
the democratic party tendered him a
quitclaim deed, is expressed in forcible
contrast by Mr. Eckels. The party got
Bryan, who is described as follows:
"Mr. Bryan, with his too apparent eager
ness to gain the presidential office, and his
want of any employment outside of poli
ties, couplc-d with his lack of profound
thought, and surface knowledge of pub
lic questions: .Mr. Bryan, with his delight
in preaching discontent, arraying class
against class, no matter how honest he
may be with it all, can never commend
himself to a people whose common sense
always at the critical time asserts itself.
Hut this is what the party lost:
"The result of the leadership of the dem
ocratic party as to-day constituted and the
principles advocated in the platform to the
party, 1 think, may very properly be
summed up as follows:
"First—The party given over to social
ism in principles, leadership and following,
with the consequent result of loss in both
leadership and following of all the busi
ness and independent elements of the coun
try.
"Second—The falling away of the organi
zation as a national one, and the making
of it almost wholly a local one bent only
on obtaining local standing and local of
fices.
"Third—The elimination of it as a force
in tiie north and the lessening of its im
portance in the south.
"fourth—The repudiation by it of oil
democratic principles, history and teach
ing concerning the money question, the
tariff, the country and the making possible
for political bastardy to claim democratic
parentage.
"Sixth—The depriving the country of the
beneficent effects of a strong, intellectual,
conservative opposition party at a time
when grave questions of public policy, far
reaching in their effects, are* being dealt
with by the party in power, without the
restraining influence that would fc 110w if
the democratic party stood for something
more than mere agitation and opposition."
Democrats who are loyal to the tradi
tions of democracy once had a party.
Where is the party now'.' As Mr. Eckels
predicts, the election of 15100 will answer
that question.—Troy Times.
[CThat it is the market price and not
a coinage law which gives value to any
metal i.-> well proven by theimportaiion
of ~5() tons of copper coins from India.
Copper for commercial uses is worth
IS V» cents a pound, and at this price the
coins can be sent to this country and
melted tip at a considerable profit.
Copper in bulk is worth more than the
face value of the same amount of cop
per coin simply because Ilie con;mcreial
demnitd is heavy. If the time ever
comes when the commercial demand
for silver grows so heavy as to tax the
capacity of the silver mines the price of
the white metal will rapildly rise, but
:io coinage law v,'ill affect that result.—
I'rov Times.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1899.
ALGER'S RETIREMENT.
"Potato" I'liiitree t>i<> Cmmo of Co a
tetilion lidil»t» l*r<>Mlileiit
and Sforftnry,
While Gov. Pingree tries to make it
appear thut President McKinley forced
Secretary Alger out of the cabinet to
put a stop to the unfriendly criticism
of his administration, it is apparent
that the effusion of spleen which Ihe
"potato patch" reformer gave off re
cently w.ts due to his certain knowl
edge that Mr. Alger's retirement was
directly due to the Pingree-Alger po
litical alliance.
Pingree gives the lie to his own state
ment by saying that Secretary Alger
had frequently offered to resign if his
remaining in the cabinet was an eini
barrassment to the president,'and that
the president had "protested empliat
icall that he had the utmost confi
dence in the secretary and his conduct
of the war department, and that the
country could not afford to lose his
services."
That is the truth. We are confident
that MH. McKinley would never have
demanded the resignation of Secretary
Alger as a means of putting a stop to
the criticism of his administration by
the yellow press. There was never any
serious talk of Gen. Alger's retire
ment. until Pingree announced that he
! and the secretary had formed a politi
cal alliance for the purpose of retir
ing from the senate Senator McMillan,
who has been a firm friend of the ad
ministration's. A political partnership
between Secretary Alger and the presi
dent's bitterest opponent in Michigan
was more than the friends of the presi
dent could tolerate, and the matter was
brought to an issue. That is why the
secretory resigned.
The president showed clearly in his:
letter accepting the secretary's resig
nation that he approved the hitter's of
ficial course, for he thanked htm for
the "faithful service" he h:ul rendered
the country at a most exacting period.
Naturally Pingree desires to obscure
the fact, that he is responsible for the
retirement of Secretary Alger, but he
will hardly succeed in his attempt to
convince the people of Michigan that
(ien. Alger was sacrificed on the ad
ministration altar. The people will
know better.— Cleveland Leader.
ANYTHING TO WIN.
The Tide Astninxt Uryllß IK <'nti4ti>U
If iin !<• Cuml About
fur Help.
William Jennings P.ryan is making
suspicious clutches at straws, which
certainly justify the belief thathe finds
the tide against which he is striving to
swim too strong. When lie was in In
dianapolis he said that he expected that
his anti-expansion talk would bring to
the democratic party many German
voters who left it in lS!)ti because of the
free silver plank in its platform. He
expressed the belief that they are more
opposed to expansion than they are to
free silver.
Mr. Dry an offered no argument to
sustain his belief; he presented 110 evi
dence upon which it could be based;
he merely makes the statement, just as
he makes a multitude of other state
ments which are not substantiated by
evidence, and which cannot be sus
tained by argument.
It has always been thus. Whenever
the democracy has found itself in sore
siraits, and threatened with defeat, it
has sought to keep up its courage with
a statement that, the German vote was
going against the republicans. It will
oe remembered that in this state last
fall the German voters were about to
accomplish the defeat of Theodore
Koosevelt. according to the stories put
in circulation by the democrats before
elect ion.—Alba ny J our nal.
DRIFT OF OPINION.
E7"Good health to McKinley; I hojie
he will be our next president." —Ad-
miral Dewey.
P"Mr. Hryan's efforts to pose on the
Philippine question as a superior states
man and advocate of higher law are not
very successful. The lion's skin has to
be pieced out with too much of the
fox's.
E7"As another evidence of the direful
effects of the brutal policy pursued by
the republican party in relation to home
industries it is mentioned in the dis
patches that the Juliet mills cannot find
men enough to run the furnaces full
time. —Chicago Inter Oean.
C. The resignation of Secretary Alger
will be a good thing for the administra
tion and a good thing for Alger himself.
It w ill relieve the administration of the
largely unmerited odium of the wide
spread popular feeling against Mr. Al
ger, while the public sit large will feel
far better disposed to give Alger the
justice which Is his due when he is out
of office than while persisting in hold
ing it in face of a hostile public opin
ion.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
tC7The outlook for strikes is promis
ing, if not altogether pleasing; but
1 here is an s.speet of the sit nation which
makes t he prospect less forbidding than
it would be otherwise. Such strikes as
are likely to occur will not be against
reductions of wages made necessary by
a falling market, but will be for in
creased wages, making a belief in the
return of prosperity. In other words,
the strikes that may occur will not be
manifestations of discouragement, but
expressions of hope of better things.—
Chicago lleeord (Itid.).
CAnd, furthermore, "the democrat
ic party, while declaring its unalter
able fealty to the Heavenly-ordained ra
tio of sixteen to one and its unchange
able devotion to the peerless leader,
William Jennings liryan, views with
alarm the sh-kenlng tendency every
where manifested by the owners of pro
tected industries in this country to ad
vance the wages of their employes, as
shown, for instance, by the increase of
1(1 per cent, in the pay oT employes of
the Republic iron and ste< 1 works in St
Louis." —Chicago Inter Ocean
FOUGHT IN THE MUD.
(■en. 'lneArtluir"«i Soldier* Attack and
Ilereut u l,ar;r Portion ol the Fili
pino Army.
Manila, Aug. 10.—Details of Gen.
MacArtbur's advance beyond San Fer
nando yesterday show that the Amer
icans covered five miles in the first rive
hours and at 2 o'clock had advanced
six miles along the railway, stretch
ing on each side of it for two miles
and resting at night three miles from
Angeles, which will be made the nor
thern base of operations, instead of
San Fernando, where a garrison of
iiOO men has been left. The casual
ties are between 30 and 40. The Fili
pinos were surprised, expecting i
American forces to move against Tico.
They followed their usual tactics of
holding their trenches until they be
came too warm and then retreating
in disorder.
The Twelfth and Seventeenth regi
ments had the sharpest engagements.
The country our troops passed over
is covered with rice fields and bamboo
thickets, the hardest possible ground
for marching. The mud, in places,
was knee deep.
Angeles is one of the richest "towns
north of Manila and is considered a
better base of operations than San
Fernando.
The American position had long been
unpleasant. The rebels almost sur
rounded the town and fired nearly
nightly into it, the Americans not re
plying, except on extreme provocation.
It was necessary to keep 500 to 600
men on outpost duty constantly.
The attack was opened at 5 o'clock
in the morning, a battery of the First
artillery shelling Ilacolor, on the left.
Simultaneously Hell's Thirty-sixth in
fantry struck Ilacolor from the rear
and drove the rebels out. Armored
cars, each with a six-pounder and two
Gatliug revolving cannon on board,
then moved out on the railroad track
in the center of our lines. Soon after
wards these guns did sharp execution.
Battery M, of the Third artillery, and
100 men of the lowa regiment made a
feint towards Mexico, while the main
body of troops, consisting of the lowa
regiment, the Seventeenth regiment
ind a battalion of the Twenty-second,
under Gen. Wheaton on the right, and
the Xinth regiment. Twelfth regiment
and Hell's regiment, under Gen. Lis
ctim, on the left, advanced steadily,
pouring their fire into the rebels and
receiving a heavy fire in return.
The rebels were well protected by
trenches and sccmd not to lack ammu
nition. Hut they were unable to
withstand for any length of time the
hail of shots our artillery and infan
try poured in on them and retreated,
leaving many dead and wounded oi>
the field. \ dozen prisoners were
captured by our troops. The weather
was extremely hot and our troops suf
fered greatly.
("apt. Deems, with a provost guard,
has captured a noted Filipino fakir,
who. by means of ventriloquism, has
persuaded the natives that he lias
supernatural powers. He raised much
money, ostensibly for the insurrec
tion. which he kept for himself. Our
soldiers surrounded his house ami
corralled 30 Filipinos. >«ntiy others
escaped. The troops also captured
M.ooo.
Itnanuel. as the fakir is generally
known, has been predicting the fall
of Manila. Ilis "prophecies" have
created excitement among the natives
who believe them.
Reports from rebel sources say 15f
Filipinos were killed in Gen. Hall's en
gagement at Calamba ami in the sub
sequent skirmishes.
FATAL SHOCK FOR FOUR.
Omalia Firemen ( nine In c (intact with
an Klectrlc Current and are Killed.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10.—Four fire
men lost their lives last night in a
blaze on an upper floor of the Mercer I
Chemical Co.'s building. The lire in
itself was insignificant, the fatalities
resulting from contact with a live
wire. The dead firemen are:
Joseph Adams, lieutenant.
Otto Geike, tillermun.
(ieorgc Henson, pipeman.
Charles Hopper, relief driver.
Fireman George Farmer and Albert
Livingston, of the chemical company,
also suffered severely from shock.
When the fire had been brought un
der control the firemen set to work to
lower the big extension truck upon
which they had been working. Sud
denly there was a spluttering and
succession of flashes such as occur
when a connection is made with a live
wire carrying a high voltage of elec
tric current. The men who were
working at the crank lowering th •
ladder writhed in agony a inoti •
then fell to the pavement, limp and
apparently lifeless. In lowering the
ladder it had come in contact with a
live electric light wire, carrying a
current of 2,000 volts.
The injured men were at once car
ried into an adjoining building and
doctors who were present used e.very
known means to revive them. Ilop
per revided in a few minutes and, say
ing he was all right, started to walk
away. He had gone about 50 feet
when he dropped dead. Geike showed
signs of reviving, but when only par
tially revived fell back dead. The
other two at no time showed signs of
animation and were doubtless dead
when picked up.
Walter (iearhnrt, an employe of the
firm, was knocked down a flight of
stairs while working in th.» building
during the fire and was not noticed
for some time. When found he was
unconscious from inhaling the smoke
and was revived with difficulty.
Seven People Killed.
Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 10.—The Ottawa
express which left Montreal Wednes
day morning for Ihis city on the Can
ada Atlantic railroad was wrecked
near Cot can Junction, while running
at a fast rate. The engine left the
track, taking with i1 the baggage car
and a second class coach. The first
class coaeli and two Pullman ears did
not leave the track. Seven people
were killed. A number were injured,
tint none of them seriously. ft is not
positively known what caused the ac
sident, but it is believed that the rails
ipread.
SWEPT BY A HURRICANE.
A Fierce Sturm < au»ea (.rral Lu>* Ol
Idle anil Property In tile Went
Indies.
Washington. Aug. 10, —Meagre de
tails of the West Indian cyclone began
to reach the war department late
Wednesday afternoon in the shape of
the following messages:
"San Juan de Porto Itieo, Aug. 9. —
Terrible hurricane; cavalry barracks
destroyed: storehouses and other
buildings damaged; iron roofing and
lumber required. Clem."
"San Juan de Porto liico, Aug. 9.-
Cyclone just passing over island pros
trated telegraph and telephone lines;
several killed; my quarters wrecked
and signal barracks partially demol
ished; many other public buildings
likewise; hundreds of native houses
destroyed; center and south probably
fared worse, (i lass ford."
The navy department received a
cable from C'apt. Snow, in command
of the naval station at San Juan, an
nouncing that the hurricane had de
stroyed about $2,000 worth of property
at the station there.
Puerto Plata, Aug. 10. —A hurricane
has swept the north coast of Hayti
since Tuesday and increases in vio
lence. Shipping in the port is in
peril, but no vessels have been da/n
--nge,d. The destruction on land will
probably be considerable.
St. Thomas, West Indies, Aug. 10. -
Advices from St. Kitts state that on
Monday a very severe hurricane with
a velocity of 72 miles an hour de
stroyed about 200 small houses in the
towns and did considerable damage
to the estates. No fatalities were re
ported. Antigua also suffered severe
ly in damage to estates and buildings
in the towns. There were few fatali
ties.
Later reports from St. Croix in
crease the amount of damage done
there. Nearly every estate has been
wrecked. large buildings in the towns
have been unroofed, stock has been
killed and 11 deaths occurred among
the laborers.
Valparaiso. Aug. 10. —A tidal wave
hursted in the bay Tuesday evening,
tearing down the embankment and
sweeping off a number of cars, locomo
tives and tons of merchandise. The
loss is estimated at $1,000,000.
THE IVIARCH OF THE PLAGUE.
It IN Slowly hut Surely Tlovinu Went
ward Toward* ICorope.
Washington, Aug. 10.—The steady
westward advance of the plague and
the conditions prevailing at its latest
point of .attack in Alexandria, Egypt,
arc discussed in reports made to the
state department by Consul Robert
C. Skinner at Marseilles. He says that
the appearance of the disease at Alex
andria, shows a constant movement
westward and from its location there
it is a menace to the great Mediter
ranean ports of Europe, most of which
have adopted rigid quarantine meas
ures.
The state of affairs in Alexandria
is set forth in a letter to the commer
cial authorities at Marseilles. It says
the epidemic neither increases nor
diminishes, but that about two new
cases appear daily. The municipality
and the sanitary service of the city
display tireless zeal in adopting meas
ures of prevention. All suspects are
immediately removed to a lazaret. A
premium of two francs Cis cents) is
given to any individual who will in
form the authorities of a case of
plague and a premium of one franc
CIO cents) is offered for the head of
every rat dead of the plague.
HE CONDEMNS OTIS.
Commander of a ICrilfMi emitter Stiy*
Hint the General I* I tterly Incom
petent.
Victoria, 1!. C., Aug. 10.- —Commander
St. John, of the I'ritish cruiser Pea
cock. who has arrived here from Ma
nila. declares that (ien. Otis is "utter
ly ignorant of the necessities or re
sponsibilities of a campaign in the
tropics." He has .1.000 dead to his ac
count. the British officer declares, and
his hesitation has already shown his
forces that he has no grasp of the
situation.
Otis' field transport service is de
clared to be wretchedly insufficient
and his hospital corps a farce: and
his plan of campaign calculated to
advance the enemy's interests as no
other could. A serious breach is de
clared to exist between the United
States army and navy at the front and
St. John says the "first thing the Uni
ted States government should do is
to recall this man. It is pitiful to
are the sacrifice of the splendid men
of his army."
Commander St. John savs that the
press censorship is carried to the ex
treme in Manila to save Otis from be
ing swept down in a flood of popular
indignation.
IMheonlent timing tllnern.
Wilkeslmrre. Pa.. Aug. 10.—There is
much discontent among miners of the
anthracite regions and strikes are an
every day occurrence. Organizer
James, id' the United Mine Workers,
pays there are 10,000 miners in the
anthracite region now out on strike
and unless the companies show a more
liberal spirit dealing with the men
there will be more. John Mitchell,
national president of the United Mine
Workers, lias called a convention of
miners to be held in this city August
25. Delegates will be present from
Luzerne, Lackawanna. Schuylkill and
Carbon counties. The convention will
discuss the various grievances of the
miners.
IHiliilti Lend* in Lumber Shipment*.
Dulntli. Minn., Aug. 10.—Thirty-two
lumber vessels were loaded in Duluth
harbor during the past two days, and
the two week's shipments will be the
greatest on record. Last week they
were 21,000,000 ftjet and no preceding
week had come within 2.000.000 feet
of that amount. Eleven lumber ships
loaded Tuesday at one mill here. The
rate on cargoes hits advanced to $2.50
per thousand feet. A year ago it
was $1.37%. Mills in the Duluth ilis- i
trict will saw 750,000,000 feet this sea- |
son, making this the leading lumber !
manufacturing center of the world. I
44 Honor is Purchased
by Deeds We Do.";;
Deeds, not -words, count in battles of ■
pe&ce as 'well as in ivar. It is not'what •
\ <zue say, but 'what Hood's Sarsaparilla ,
does, that tells the story of its merit. It,
1 has<VL>on me.ny remarkable victories over
the arch enemy of mankind—impure ,]
■, blood. It is the best medicine money can •
buy. Be sure to get only Hock's, because ■
POINT IN THE CASE.
Jlkr Dldii't Mind Ihr Charcr Airnlmt
Him, He Wanted to Know
Something.
How a greater trouble overshadows a
lesser was aptly illustrated in one of the
minor courts the other day. The accused
was a big, strong, honest German, greatly
excited and disposed to do more talking
than is permissible under such circum
stances. The court distinctly said that the
big man was charged with disturbing the
peace and asked him whether he was guiity
or not guilty.
"Dot vos not'ing, shudge," came the re
sponse. "Der prew'ry he hired me ter drive
dot vagon. Tony Velters, he say: 'Shake,
it vosbesser and you yoin der union,'und
den he say yhy I dond't vait a dleetle an
see how vos it. So I vait.
"l'urdy gwick der boss he say: 'Shake,
you can get your moneys und give up your
deam. We vos a union prewery.' 1 say I
vould see Tony und ask him vot der reason
mit him dot he adwise me out of a yob.
Vhen I find Tony he say did I haf some
sense, und I told him he vos schmarder und
I vos und he didn't know not'ings."
"But they say you argued with a club
and that Tony's strongest proposition was a
brick."
"Dot vos not der point, shudge. Vot I
vant der find ouit is, how do I stant on der
union labor guestion ?" —Detroit Free Press.
A Lucky Younger Son.
The case of a younger son is usually
pitied in England, but there was a
notable exception in the case of the
family of the late earl of Mansfield,
who died worth some $5,700,000. Vis
count Stormcnt, the father of the earl
of Mansfield, the great judge, was one
of the poorest lads in Scotland, and
"as poor as a Scottish lord" has long
been a by-word in England. This
younger son, William Murray, born in
1705, one of a family of 12 penniless
children, rode off to London on his
pony, to attend Westminster school,
and never, it is said, saw his native
land ngain. but he left an earldom
and a vast fortune to his oldest broth
er's heir. The earl who recently died
was the fifth of the title, and the sixth
earl is his brother.—N. Y. Sun.
Xexunt l Old Nunie.
Probably the fact is not generally
known that Texas was at one time and
for many years called the "New Phil
ippines." The first settlement in what
Is now Texas was made by French em
igrants in 1655. During the next 25
years there was an intermittent strug
gle between the French and Spanish
for supremacy, resulting in favor of
the latter, and in 1714 the name of the
New Philippines was given to the
country. This was its official name in
Spanish records for many years, and
until the name of Texas, from a tribe
of Indians, gradually came into vogue.
Slie AVa* Pleated,
Smirks —I'll never regret the way 'i
■pent this evening; the hours have
■imply f.own.
Miss Sharp —l am also happy to
know that they have passed.—Cleve
land Leader.
'"he completion of the million and a half
dollar terminals of the Burlington Railroad
at Quincy, 111., marks an important stage in
the development of that system. It was only
five years ago that the road built into St.
Louis, and established there an enormous
freight yard, with a capacity of 3,000 ears.
Elsewhere, at Chicago, St. Paul. Kansas City
and Denver, the Burlington has facilities
for handling freight and passengers that are
unexcelled.
Wit without wisdom becomes weari
some. —Chicago Daily News.
NO REMEDY EQUALS
SO THE WOMEN ALL SAY.
Miss Susan Wymar.
Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the Rich
mond school, Chicago, 111., writes the follow
ing letter regarding Pe-ru-na. She says:
"Only those who nave suffered as I have,
can know what a blessi*if it is to lie abie to
find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been my
experience. A friend in need is a friend in
deed, and every bottle of Pe-ru-na I ever
bought proved a good friend to me."—Susan
Wymar.
Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1211 North Su
perior St., Racine City, Wis., writes: "I feel
so well and good and happy now that pen can
not describe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to
me. 1 have taken several bottles of Pe-ru
na for female complaint. I am in the
change of life and it does me good." Pe-ru
na has no equal in all of the irregularities and
emergencies peculiar to women caused by
pelvic catarrh.
Address Dr. Ilartman, Columbus, 0., for
a free book for women «nly.
Remember that cholera morbus, cholera
infantum, summer complaint, bilious colic,
diarrhoea and dysentery are each and all
catarrh of the bowels. Catarrh is the only
correct name for these affections. Pe-ru-na
>s an absolute specific for these ailments
which are so common in summer Dr. Hart
man, in a practice of over forty years, never
lost a single case of cholera infantum, dysen
tery, diarrhoea, or cholera morbus, and his
only remedy was Pe-ru-na. Those desiring
further particulars should send for a free
oopy of "Summer Catarrh." Address Dr
Uartman, Columbus, O.