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The Job department of the PRESS Is complete •r.d affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAKTICULAII ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear r,ges are paid, except at the option of the pub lsher. Papers sent out of the county must be paj for in advance II is an undeniable fact that hank wreckers afc- among the most danger ous criminals, and The \\ or at of that, therefore, so- Criminal*. c ; e , y j g b(JlJnd to punish their crimes with a severity corresponding with the injury result ing therefrom. By their violation of the trust reposed in their assumed in tegrity they reduce families from com fort to penury. They blast the for tunes of business men, dissipating the fruits of long years of honest effort. They rob the widow and the father less. They are more guilty than the common thief or bank burglar, be cause these miscreants violate no trust. Hut, strange to say, it is easier to convict a dozen burglars or a thou sand vulgar thieves than one of these bank looters. And stranger and more regretable still, it is next to impos sible to keep one of these "prominent citizens" in prison for any considera ble length of time after his long-de layed trial has finally resulted in a sentence and commitment. Abuse of sympathy is t lie cause of this. The best and most influential citizens will unite and persevere in a movement for executive clemency toward a man who has dissipated the funds of a bank by wild speculation and covered his tracks by false swearing and falsify ing of accounts. Such efforts are in imical to the ends of justice. They produce executive action that not only encourages crime, but tends to pro mote the too prevalent feeling that equality before the law is a myth. Eighteen months ago. says an In diana exchange, Scott Smith, a col ored man at In- Inn't TIIIN One (11 an a polls, was a horribly burned by the bursting of a coal oil lamp. Skilled medical attention by many physicians failed of relief. Several days ago he was transferred to the city hospital, and, as a last resort, it was decided to try the grafting proc ess with the skins of freshly laid eggs. After the portions had been cleansed with antiseptic lotion the egg« were carefully broken, the yolk and albu men were emptied out aiul then the filmy skin was taken out and placed over the injected portions. The skin of the egg is now a part of Smith's body, susceptible to heat and cold to touch. The blood circulates through the new skin as it did through the old, but the new skin retains its orig inal velvety whiteness, and it may be that the pigment which colors a ne gro's skin will not enter the new tis sue. Smith, says our informant, is much alarmed over the situation, fearing that feathers will appear where the new skin has formed, and he is continually watching the prog ress of the affected parts with the aid of a hand glass, looking for feathery sprouts. Modern science has brought to light nothing more curiously interesting than the fact that worry will kill. More remarkable still, it has been able to determine, from recent dis coveries, just how worry does kill. It is believed by many scientists who have forwarded most carefully the grpwtli of Ilie science of brain dis eases that scores of the deaths set down to other causes are due to wor ry, and that alone. The theory is a simple one —so simple that anyone can readily understand it. Briefly put, it amounts to this: Worry in jures beyond repair certain cells of the brain, and the brain being the nutritive center of the body, the Other organs become gradually in jured, and when some disease of these organs, or a combination of them, arises, death finally ensues. There is a man in Philadelphia who will sell a wooden leg cheaply. It be longed to his wife's first husband. She kept it as a memento of the departed, displaying it in a prominent place in the parlor. As might have been ex pected, however, it was banished when she married the second time, but when the ardor of the honeymoon began to diminish she restored the leg to its old position. The husband's objec tions have failed to remove whiit to him is a disagreeable object, but he thinks that a fair pecuniary otl'er for the appendage would tempt the quondam widow to part with it. DEFEND THE BILL. Senators Cullom and Depew on the Porto Rico Tariff. CoDxifler It a l.iliernl Measure anil (.noil for lll*' People jiiml I lie In il IIN t r lew oft lie Imln ll<l. In discussing the tariff bill for Porto Rico in the senate April 2. Sen ators Cullom and Depew spoke in part as follows: "Some of our friends on the other side of the chamber, because the government first collected this sum from the Porto Kicans. put it In the treasury, and th n. un der act of congress, authorized the presi dent to take it out and give it back to them, complain and criticise the performance. "If it went back to the same parties who paid it, who were, in fact, a part of the sugar and tobacco trusts, it would seem to he a useless performance. The fact is, it was paid by a few persons, importers con nected with the sugar and tobacco mo nopolies. One of the firms who paid a part of this t:tx of $2,000,000 is now suing the United States to recover the amount paid, which suit shows that th«>s»' great oorpora tions, trusts and monopolies, instead of being in favor of the proposed tax. are really opposed to it and advocate 'free trade' between Porto Rico and the United States. "The fact is, this amount collected on the imports from Porto Rico, which was largely paid by the bankers and agents of the American Sugar Refining company and the tobacco trust, as I am informed, goes back to relieve distress and help build up that country." SII.VN (lie 1111l IM IJll»Erill. Further along 1 Mr. Cullom said: "No man can truthfully say that if this bill shall become a law congress is not deal ing most liberally with the people of Porto Rico. It Imposes no hardship upon these people; it provides the least possible rate of duty upon a few things in order to raise a little money to run their gov ernment, and that 'little' only for a little while, until they can get a start in taking care of themselves by their own system of taxation, at which time absolute free trade is established between the United States and the island. "Let the truth be known. This whole •free trade' scheme is nothing on earth but a deception, delusion »tnd a snare to make our people believe that we are oppressing poor Porto Rico. L.et the truth be known, whatever may happen. Any candid man, 1 think, must admit that this bill is in the interest of the people of Porto Rico. "I am amazed to see the wave of misin formation which has swept over the coun try as to this question of a Porto Rieon tariff. It is high time to call a halt to this wild misrepresentation, backed up as it is by the direct personal insistence of rep resentatives of the monopolistic interests." Depew Defends (lie Tariff. Senator Depew then asserted that at the outset there was no dispute among repub licans as to the constitutional right of the congress to legislate for Porto Rico. The contention that no tariff duties can be im posed is confined entirely to the democrats, he said. The opposition among the people to the imposition of such a tariff, he claimed, is based on mistaken ideas of the situation and a sentimental feeling that Porto Rico, having sought American rule, should be treated with especial considera tion. "Porto Rico had been pictured as if it were a Massachusetts or an lowa, re:uly now to assume the obligations of state hood. In fact, it is a fertile, densely popu lated island, with no resources except from agriculture, and a population largely ig norant and extremely poor. With «'t popu lation of 1,000,000 of whom are ne groes, L' 50,000 of mixed blood and the re mainder of white, !'OO,OOO can neither read nor write. Of this 1,000,000 of inhabitants, 800,000 derive their living from agricultural pursuits, and are almost all in dire poverty. The best wages paid are 30 cents a day, while the cost of living often is as low as five. "The profits on agriculture, due to the cheapness of labor and fertility of the soil, are great. With poor machinery, and paying the prices of the Dingley bill, the planters made money, even when paying from 10 to 25 per cent, interest. The average value of the exports of the island for the last five years has been $16,(100,000 a year, of which $10,000,000 was coffee, $4,000,000 sugar, $700,000 tobacco and the rest molas ses, cattle and hides. Coffee is the great staple, and under the proposed tariff law it comes in free. "Then came the hurricane, which did so much damage. Its worst effect was to de stroy the coffee plantations, which it will take five years to restore. Sugar and to bacco can be grown in the next crop. The United States government at once relieved the distress by dividing $1,000,000 of avail able money into a charity fund, but it was impossible to raise money for roads, courts, police, schools or other needed purposes. Out of this condition came the necessity lor some means of revenue, and in it was the reason for the pending bill. PurpuMeN of (IK* Hill. "We come naturally now to the question of hardships upon the Porto Rican people and of cruelty to the inhabitants of our new possessions by the proposed legis lation. We were told with wonderful elo quence and passionate rhetoric that it was our plain duty to return to the people who have paid the duties under the Ding ley tariff act since our occupation the money which had been collected. The whole policy of the republican party, from the president to congress, has been to give back to Porto Rico all the taxes levied and collected upon her products—to give them back to her for the purposes of her gov ernment and for the purposes of her im provement and her progress. "These duties had beun paid by the sugar trust, which controls the sugar prod ucts of the island, and the tobacco trust, which controls the tobacco product of the island—two of the richest and greatest •monoymaking corporations in the world. They had bought the sugar and tobacco at a price which included the Dingley tariff duties, and sold them to the people of the United States at a large profit after the duties were paid. "Jn the bill which we have just passed, Instead of paying these duties back to these corporations, which have been the sub ject of so much abuse, and with whom we h «• been charged withjjeingallied, we have given them back to the people of Porto Rico for their schoolhouses, for their roads, for the relief of their starving and for the employment which will come in the proper administration of the fund." Continuing 1 , Senator Depew said the men who would have to pay the tariff taxes would be the men who are get ting rich out of Porto .llico. and the poorer inhabitants would get the ben efit of them iu the way of schools and roads. lie denied the tariff would stifle the industries of the island. a> under it coffee would be free and SII; ar and tobacco would have to pay much less than the same Cuban prod ucts. with Cuba I'orto Rico's oniy competitor. Food stuffs would he practically admitted frc.e. so there would be no perceptible increase iu the cost of living, and the tariff is onlv to last two years and may be repealed sooner. It e*lr ie ( m (be Trusts. Continuing Senator Depew said: •This bill is the people's law. It restricts, CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AI'IRI. 12, 1900. as far as can he (lone, the power of trusts or combinations or concentration of in dustries. It puts upon the free list these products going from the I'nlted States Into Porto Rico-the food products from the American farmer- -a> that the American farmer has his market free as against the agriculture of other countries, whose im ports must pay Dingley tariff rates. It gives to the Porto Kicans the fullest oppor tunity for cheap food. Agricultural im plements. which are so necessary for the resurrection of island cultivation, and the adoption of modern machinery to aid in lower cost and larger crops, are free. Rough lumber for mills, coopers' materials for sugar, molasses and tobacco, anil bags for coffee, are free. "Carriages to cheapen transportation and trees and plants to give variety in crops by raising large and small fruits, for which the island is particularly adapted, are free, as are all drugs which are used in the malarial diseases of tropical coun tries. In a word, every product of the farm or factory in the i'nlted States which will help Porto Rico, enable her to rise triumph ant from her ruins and give remunerative use for capital and employment and wages to her people. Is on the free list. "The luxuries consumed by the prosper ous are, as they ought to be, taxed for the support of the government." In conclusion the senator repeated his claim that the opposition to the bill was largely based on misinforma tion and had been helped along by the democrats for party reasons. TOO MUCH POOR TIMBER. Plunk* in the Popoerntle Struc ture Tim I llulge and ISuckle. The platform written in Nebraska hy Mr. Bryan for himself to stand on, having been measured for liryati and not for the democratic party, does not exactly suit the latter. Complaint is made by prominent democrats that there are too many planks and of not the right kind of timber. A well-known democrat of lowa says that Bryan's platform means that the republican majority of 05.- (100 in that state will be repeated. Former Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson said the other night: "I had hoped that the democratic party would be allowed to write its platform this year. When the l.incoln party begins by readopting the Chicago platform entire, and then proceeds to reassert it in particu lars, and we are given to understand that this platform is to bo offered to the demo crats later on, perhaps we are to be dis appointed." Senator Daniel, of Virginia, said that as it was a joint, democratic and populistic platform, he did not believe that he cared to express any opinion about it. Even Senator .Tones, of Arkansas, Bryan's public backer, objected to the plank on the initiative and referen dum. He also doubted the propriety, if the Filipinos were given independ ence as Bryan proposes, of guaran teeing to protect them against any and till comers. Oh,what a tangled web they weaved when populism they achieved, and left their party, north and south, to lie a trump for Bryan's mouth. Troy Times. SAM HOUSTON'S SECRET. U I. y He I.eft Ills Wife and Joined the Cherokee** Is a Mystery to 'Miis liny. A mystery in which the American people were once deeply concerned j was that which shadowed the life of line of the most remarkable char acters of the country. In 182!) Samuel Houston, or, as he called and signed himself. "Sam" Houston, was gov ernor of Tennessee. It was in the midst of a campaign for reelection to the gubernatorial chair that Tennes see was startled by a report that he had resigned his office. He had been married to the daughter of an in fluential family; three months after ward she returned to her father's house, and her husband resolved to pass the rest of his life in the wilder ness. Houston betook himself to the tribe of Cherokees in the Indian territory; he adopted their costume, appearing in all the trappings of an Indian brave, letting his hair grow down his back and visiting Washington with it buckskin hunting shirt, yellow leg gins, a huge blanket and turkey feath ers around his head. Xo one could in duce him to reveal the secret of his metamorphosis and his abandonment of th - ways and habits of civilization. Ho married again after he emerged from his Indian life, and he lived to be tin old man, dying in the midst of the civil war, but no one was ever able to persuade him to unlock the mystery of his life. Nor would his first wife, who also married again, throw any light on the mystery.— Wil liam Perrine, in Ladies' Home Jour nal. Biltecr for Gold. Nicaragua boasts a volcano called Misa.va. about which a curious but hardly credible story is told. When, in 1 .'jll'J. the Spaniards overrun the stilte. the volcano was very lively. Many of the victorious Spaniards thought that the raging fire at the foot of the crater was neither more nor less than purest gold in a molten state. The puzzle was how to gx't it. But at last a few men. more foolish and more venturesome than their mates, had themselves lowered down until, by means of an iron chain with a bucket at the end of it. they could reach the fiery muss. Of course, as soon as the bucket ncared the sur face il was melted in a moment, and the silly fellows, when drawn up. were half dead from the heat and the poisonous smoke. Cincinnati Knipiir er. C>'Fighty-seven democrats in the house \oted : gainst the biil turning over to I'orto l.'ieo the duties collected, or to be collected, on its goods sent to this country. As there was no other plan for immediate rel'"f the demo crats who ranged tin i-iselves in the negative can say no nn.ve about sympa thy for the i.-iand. St. Louis Globe- Democrat. A WELL LAID THAI' Britons Walked Into It and Lost Six Pieces of Artillory. A Number of NnMirr* in Cliarsje oldie lliyr ('HUM Were Ainu Captured- - An Aniliiiiili Kleur tClot-in lontelu Cronje Nails lur SI. Helena. Bushman Kop. April 2.—The British force commanded by Col. liroadwood, consisting of the Tenth Hussars, household cavalry, two horse batteries and a force of mounted infantry under Col. I'ileher, which had been garrison ing Thaba Xchu, was obliged, in con sequence of the near approach of a large force of iSoers, to leave on Fri day night. Col. liroadwood marched to the Bloemfontein waterworks, south of the Modder, where he encamped. At dawn Saturday the camp was shelled by the enemy from a near point. Col. Broad wood sent off a convoy with the batteries, while the rest of the force remained to act as a rear guard. The convoy arrived at a deep spruit, where the Boers were concealed, and the entire body walked into an ambu.-h and was captured, together with six guns. Pretoria, April 2. President Kruger «ays that the last expressed desire of the late (Jen. Joubert was that IK should be succeeded as commandant genera I by Louis Botha. Maseru, I'asutolar-d, April 2.—Presi dent Steyn i,s reported to have gone to Ladybrand to stir up the burghers there to renewed rosisitance. The Dutch who surrendered their arms ait Ladybrand are now suffering seizures of their live stock. Great things are expected by the Boers of the new commander-in-chief, Gen. Botha, who ha* made his reputa tion wholly during the present cam paign. Foreign officers serving with the Boers have expressed surprise at his clever tactics. London, April —The latest news from the front adds little to the public knowledge of the convoy disaster. The disaster is regarded as a direct result of (the inability of (Jen. French to cut off the commando of Gen. Olivier and the other commandos when escaping from the Orange river. The war office has received a dis patch from Lord Hoberts in which he gives a partial list of the missing Brit ish officers. Of "Q" battery, four offi cers were wounded, two of whom are missing. One gunner was killed and 40 non-commissioner officers and men are wounded or missing. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, describing the loss of the convoy, says: "The Boers opened with a murder ,ous fire. It was simply slaughter. The Kaffir drivers of 'the convoy ran away, leaving their teams and it was impossible for our men to hit the hid den enemy. "Our gunners fought brttrely trying to save the guns, but our people were greatly hampered by the Kaffirs, who ran hither aind thither looking for cover from the fearful lire that pour ed in on all sides. Meanwhile the enemy were hoitly pressing Col. liroad wood. whose mounted troops were completely surrounded. "The British showed magnificent bravery. The opportune arrival of re 'hxforcements siaved Col. Broad wo Of I from annihilation. One hundred wag ons were lost through the cowardice of the Kaffir drivers. It is reported that two guns have been recaptured. The whole force is retiring on Bloem fontein." Cape Town, April 4.—Gen. Cronje, Col. Schiel and 1.000 Boer prisoners sailed for St. Helena last night. Two small parties of Boers escaped from the Green point track. One party was traced to a railway train, which wa« stopped and searched near Cape Town. The Boers jumped through one of the windows of the train anci got away. London, April 4. —No news has yet been received of the expected battle between Gen. French and the Boers. There is now but a remote prospect of the recapture of the guns. This, lie - ever, is regarded as tpiite trifling com pared with the political effects of 'the disaster. As the Bloemfomitein corres pondent of the Times remarks. Com mandant Olivier's strategy in re-occu pying Ladybrand and Thaba N'Chu was bold and even brilliant. Most of his force is composed of Free Staters, and the advantage gained by them will have a disturbing effect o>n ithe mind of the Free State population. London, Aprn s.—lt looks a? though the Boers had conceived tin audacious plan of attempting to in vest Lord Hoberts fit Bloemfontein or at least to endeavor to delay liif northward advance by harrassing tlie British lines of communication. On his side Lord Roberts is concen trating bis forces and preparing tc take every advantage of the bold but risky tactics of the enemy. He is not likely to strike at any of their forces nntii he is certain of delivering a crushing- blow. The situation, in the absence ol any official dispatch from Lord Rob erts, is both mystifying and interest ing. The Daily Mail has the following from Bloemfontein. dated Tuesday April 3: "Col. Porter, with 00 carbi neers and Scots Greys and two guns performed a brilliant deed Sunday lie charged a large body of Boers and rescued 00 odd British prisoners including 11 officers, who were cap tured Ihe previous day. There wen no casualties on the British side.*' Will Spend *IOO,OOO a Month. Washington, April Arrange meiat-s have been made bv the war de partment for the transfer of SOfiO,OOC of the $2,000,000 appropriated for the relief of Porto liieo <|o Cap!. William V. Judson, corps of engineers, at San Juan, who has been selected as the disbursing officer of that fund. Gov. Gen. Davis will expend the money in payment for labor on public improve ments at the rate of about SIOO,OOO a month. The efforts of the war de juarttnent officials so far have been di rected principally to providing means to relieve the great distress prevalent. OHIO tLECTIONS. The llt'Hiilt in Cincinnati, Cleveland, 'l'oli'do, < oliiiiiliiih mill (lilicr rillfn. Cincinnati, April 3.—The republi cans 'never sieore<l such a success over the fusionists as at the election here Monday for all the city offices. They also have all the members of t.he new board of public service for three years, which controls everything' except the police and lire departments. The board of legislation stands: Twenty four republicans and seven democrats and the board of education 24 republi cans and seven democrats. Cleveland. April 3. The republicans elected their entire ticket in this city yesterday. The most interest centered in the contest for director of schools. Bell, rep., has a plurality yf a/t least 10.(100 over Briggs, dem., while -May, the independent candidate, was left far in the rear. Toledo, April 3.—The republican city ticket was elected by about 2,000, but the democratic g-ains in the coun cil will probably give its control to that party. Columbus, April 3. —Complete re turns of Monday's election show that X. \V. Dick (deim.) has been elected police judge over M. I?. Karnha.it (rep.) by 50S votes. The total vole was 22.140. Last spring the republi cans elected a mayor by 1,500. Findlay, April Ceorge Neimeyer, democrat, was defeated for re-election as mayor by Charles E. Watson, rep., by 108 plurality. Lima, April 3. —The republicans car ried the city by 1,200 for mayor. They also elected five out of seven council men. At the last election the demo crats elected the mayor by 1.000. Hamilton, April 3.—The democrats elected the entire city ticket by a ma jority of 900, a failing off of about 100. Marietta, April 3.—The republicans elected their city ticket by 100. YV. E. Sykes was elected mayor. OUR FOOD IMPORTS. A Statement Shutting Unit Coffee anil Sugar are Ana)' 111 the Li-uil an Ite gaids Value. Washington. April 2. —An interest ing statement showing the sources of the agricultural imports of the United States during the live liscal years isui is'.is has been prepared by Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the foreign mar kets section of the agricultural de partment. Some of the more import ant statements it contains are as fol lows: During the five fiscal years 1594-189S the agricultural imports of the United States had an average annual value of $3(i8,748.457. Sugar, coffee, hides and skins, wool, silk, vegetable fibers, fruits and tea were the articles im ported most extensively. Measured in value, these eight 'litems formed over four-fifths of our total import trade in agricultural products for the period mentioned, their combined value av ?ro£>ing' nihout $300,000,000 a year. Of this sum more than half was paid for two commodities —sugar and cof fee. The average yearly value of the ■ugiir imports for 1894-1898 amounted to ,$90,41 S.(>B.">. and coffee $83,570,10(5. Brazil, which furnishes about, two thirds of the coffee imports, headed the 1 is*t. The agricultural imports from Brazil during the five years had in average annual value of $59,017,521. Cuba, the principal source of the sugar purchased by the United States, ranked next to Brazil ill importance. The average yearly wilue for 1894-1898 of our agricultural imports from the island amounted to $37,403,232, or 10 per cent, of the total. A COLD-BLOODED CRIME. A Kaunas (it)' flan Kill* IIIk Brotlirr in-Ij.-itv W lille the Latter tvak Head ing a Sunday-School Leuun. Kansas City, Mo., April 2.—Harbor .rig imaginary wrongs, John McKimni, iged 29, yesterday shot and killed Dr. B. F. Shau, his brother-in-law, as the latter sat reading the Sunday-school lesson to his 5-year-old da lighter. Mc- Kimni, who had been an inmate of an asylum and is believed to be insane, threatened to kill the other five mem bers of the family and was only re strained after a struggle. Dr. Shaw is si widower. His mother in-law. Mrs. McKimni, had cared for his children and his wife until she lied. The doctor, uk wa.s his custom, spent Sunday at the .McKimni bouse. After dinner Shaw seated himself in a •hair in the parlor and with his child before him was reading the Sunday school lesson to her. McKimni had If one to his room from the table and written a ramblimp statement in which he stated that he had not been treated rig"litly and that, lie intended wiping' out the entire family, consist ing of Dr. Shaw and his child, his mother, two brothers and a sister, rhen. descending to the ]>arlor, he slipped up behind Shaw, placed the revolver ag'aiiwst the latter and tired. Dr. Shaw died before the family could reach his side. As the other members oif the family came running to the scene. McKimni raised his revolver to fire at the first who appeared. Before he could fire a second time lie was overpowered by his two brothers. I'prrlH W heel to be IlemoliMhed. Chicago. April 2.—The Ferris wheel, one of the attractions ait the world's fair, is to be torn down and the 2,200 tons of iron and steel of which it is com|>osed will be sold as scrap iron. Thi' work of demolishing the wheel probably will commence on Wednes day. The removal of the wheel from the fair grounds to its present site, ten miles distant, crust $175,000. In order to meet this expense bonds for $300,000 were issued. The wheel failed to pay and it went into the hands of n receiver. IK II ichor b> 5ir, ,000,000. Chicago. April 2. — The I'niversity of Chicago i;. richer by nearly $5,000,000 than it has ever lieem before. John I). liockefi ller has confirmed his gift of $2,000,000 to the university and I'k'esi rlelit Harper and the trustees supple mented it with the Announcement of gifts in cash and land aggregating in value more than $2,000,000. Aih'itcur (Secure!* ISrolten. Sin Francisco, April 2.—Alfred I'law, oif the I'niversity of California, has smashed all amateur collegiate rec ords for the lli-pound hammer throw, »etulimr the missile 150 feet 0 inches. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. The pastor of the ~i"irst Presbyte rian church at I'ine Kluff, Ark., was telling- his congregation of his trav els in the Holy Lan'3, and closed his remarks with this incident, illustrat ing American enterprise: "When at 'Jacob's Well' he drew therefrom with his own hands a bucket of water; after doing so and looking at the tire bucket, he found it was a lard bucket with the name of 'Swift and Com pany' branded on same, which wa& the same as he had seen in Pine liliiflf many times."—Kansas City Gazette. A I.lterii ry Help. f'anniha! King (to poet laureate) —What's wrong with that coronation ode? Can't you finish it? Laureate—l can't get enough feet in the last_ stanzas. King Officer of the guard, go out and cut enough feet off those slaves to supply the poet laureate's needs. It shall never be said that King Oornbalenskago did not en courage literature to the limit.— Baltimore American. Ilow's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. y. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business tiansactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. HaTl's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot tle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonial' Hall's Family Pi"" are the best. Why Tliey Were Noisy. "Here, here! What arc you little girl* making so much noise about?' exclaimed the little girls' papa, looking up from his paper "We're just playing we're mamma's whist party," chorused the little girls.—Philadel phia lie cord. From Unity ill the Hi£li Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-O is good for the whole family. It is the long-desired sub stitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grains it is a food in itself. Has the taste and appearance of the best cotfee at J the price. It is a genuine and fcientific article and i9 come to stay. It makes for health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O- J SPRING- I 1 Annually SaysTaKe j J Hood's ! SarsaparilJa • | In the spring those Pimples, i 2 Boils, Kruptions and General • ■ Had Feelings indicate that there k T are cobwebs in the system. It ™ • needs a thorough brushing, and » t the best brush is Hood's Sarsa- A w parilla, which sweeps all humors * • before it. This great medicine • ■ eradicates Scrofula, subdues Salt C 1 liheum, neutralizes the acidity * which causes llheumatism —in J short, purifies the blood and B • thoroughly renovates the whole • A physical system. ¥ "Wehave used Hood's Sarsapa- J • rilla and it has given the best 2 A of satisfaction, especially as a A j spring medicine. It builds up ! 7 the general system and gives J ft new life." DWIGHT C. PARK, § it Reversible GO LINENE" Collars & Cuffs Z) Stylish, convenient, economical; made of \ in pure starch on / i m / I \ *** Urn / u Urs / KTC W are / wr i J? \ Y « ver I \ —'. j- Sible L.l give double «T» moc. MARK X service. No Laundry Work. When soiled discard. Ten collars or five pairs of cuffs. 25c. By mail, 30c. Send 6c. in stamps tor sample collar or pair of cuffs. Name size and style. REVERSIBLE COLLAR Co.,Def»t.lß, BOSTON ~ASw&llom? Is one cf the earliest harbingers of spring—an equally sure indication i« that feeling of lan guid depression. Many swallows of HIRESROOTBCCR are best for n spring tonlr—nml a fharlPS E. Hires IPX - .119 _ Is the best remcly for SB S bronchitis. It relieves the troublesome cough Cough Syrup cares iu a few days, l'rice 25c. at all druggists. PR9 S3 BJTCT Dr. WPlfams* Indian VMle» LQF* Ointment will curt' Blind, p a, ! (1 / lch ;^ ll I J', 'gives instant re »mrts. At druggistsor b/ mnil on receipt of price. ftO cents and WIkLIAMB MFG. CO.. Frops., CLEVELAND, OiilU ARTICHOKES SSS Knorinoiiayielcli-r.ainlth.-Brenloal root r un-iu r lot hiiKx.Hhei'li. c-oltsunil i-iittlc known Write- rori-ii-i-u L.U- <.l iwiir nil about them Till. .KIV'I MIU not U|i|HMir IIKUIII. W, K. MANI.KY, KtCHMOM', IND | snb«titatrsfor | jj THE FAY MAHIUA BOOfINO CO N.j. | VW n i^SS to manufacture most saie • Wa H yPfll able food 111 use. I'roliti' VB&iiuu J mW one-quarter. Highest ref- CAPITAL Use Certain Corn Cure. Price, 15c.
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