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lor in advance.
In every country town the great
question in spring is that of weeds.
The country- news-
The Cutting J .„
papers soon will j
of A\ eed». begin to publish
the admonition: "Cut your weeds,"
and later will follow it by attacks on
those who fail to take their advice and
appeals to the public spirit of the neg
ligent or parsimonious. The lowa leg
islature undertook to regulate the
matter of weed cutting by statute, and
the last general assembly passed a law
requiring land-owners to cut the weeds
on highways and adjacent to their
land, and providing that if tliej - failed
to comply with the law the weeds were
to be cut and the expense charged up
against the land. The result, says the
Chicago Tribune, has been trouble in
every part of lowa. When the law is
enforced there is complaint and when
jt is not there is complaint, and so the
local authorities have had their hands
full. At the present session a bill was
introduced by Representative Wilson,
of Keokuk, to authorize the supervisors
to cut the weeds and pay for the work
ns for any other improvement. The
importance of weed cutting being
recognized by the villagers and the
new law being ineffective, the bill
passed the house without difficulty.
When it came before the senate, how
ever, it met with the determined op
position of Senators Harriman and
Wallace, who declared that the present
law should be enforced and the coun
ties' money might better be spent for
other improvements. Like the coun
try editors, they believe it is the duty
of every man to cut his own weeds.
And so the bill failed in the senate. It
is just as well that, it did. The present
law should be enforced, and if any
man lacks the public spirit to cut his
weeds the country editors will prob
ably see to it that he is mulcted.
"Every once in awhile we have per
fect hemorrhages of righteous indig
„. . nation upon the
Edward link
subject ol divorce,
on, Divorce. writes Edward Bok(
of"The Ease With Which We Marry,"
in the Ladies' Home Journal. "We say
divorce must stop, or that there must
be no divorce. But wouldn't it be a
bit better if we let this subject alone
for awhile and concerned ourselves
with the evil which leads to ddvorce?
The fact of the. matter is that there
is a notion, which is altogether wrong,
that divorce is easy in this country.
Divorce is not easy. I am far from
saying that our divorce laws are what
they should be. But it is a senseless
thing to make those divorce laws more
stringent while we allow our mar
riage laws to be ns loose as they are.
Let those who cannot see any farther
than the revision of present divorce
laws ask themselves this question: Is
it fair to allow foolish, inexperienced
girls to be led into what they believe
to be a fairy-palace, and then, when
they find it to be a prison—yes and
worse, a positive suburb to the infernal
regions—to refuse to let them out, if
they can get out? Is that merciful?
Is that just? Would we not come
closer to the common sense of this
whole question if, before we go any
further in this campaign against di
vorce, we turn back and tighten the
door which leads to it? Divorce is not
to easy but that we can afford to leave it
precisely where it is for the time be
ing. It isn't a particle easier than it
should be, so long as we allow mar
riage to be as loose as it is."
It is stated by a responsible medical
journal that a surgeon in the French
army has just discovered that stamp
collectors maj' be the means of dis
seminating tuberculosis by means of
the stamps. A man in his employ was
a great stamp collector and occupied
his spare time in fixing the stamps in
albums or on sheets of gummed paper
for sale, moistening the stamps for
the purpose with his tongue. Three
hundred of the stamps were placed in
sterilized water and with some of the
water eight guinea pigs were inoculat
ed. Each died with characteristic
tuberculous lesions. Children, says the
journal, should be warned against
placing any stamps near their mouths
in order to moisten them and foreign
stamps should be disinfected in a tive
per cent, solution of carbolic acid be
fore adding them to collections.
BRYAN BOUND TO SILVER.
Without That INHUC the Cheap Money
Champion Mould Stand for
\<>(lilnK.
It is n&eless to attempt to discredit
the logic and the consistency of Mr.
Bryan's reply to Oswald Ottendorfer,
the eminent editor of the New York
Staats Zeitnng, concerning the sug
gestion that the silver issue be
dropped from the platform to be
adopted at. Kansas City.
Editor Ottendorfer recently gave ex
pression to his personal preferences
for Mr. Bryan as a presidential candi
date, but, also expressed the belief
that lie could not command the sup
port of the sound money democrats
in the coming campaign upon the new
issues unless he discarded the old. In
pursuance of this belief he addressed
Mr. Bryan a letter in which he sug
gested that he might command almost
the entire German-American vote in
this country in the next election if
he would drop the silver issue and
confine himself to anti-expansion and
the trusts.
It is quite evident from Mr. Bry
an's reply that he does not believe
the entire German-American vote
could be marshalled against "trusts"'
or "expansion," or else he. is of the
opinion that he could gain nothing by
sacrificing principles for party expe
diency. In either case Mr. Bryan's re
joinder is creditable to his judgment
and his candor.
llow could Mr. Bryan drop or re
nounce free coinage at. sixteen to one
without proclaiming himself before
the world as the most arrant dema
gogue that ever walked in shoe leath
er? A majority of the American peo
ple believe Mr. Bryan to be radically
wrong in his financial and economic
views, but they have never believed
him to be dishonest. Mr. Bryan be
lieves in the free and unlimited coin
age of gold and silver at the ratio of
sixteen to one. The theories upon
which that belief is based are not al
tered by the law recently enacted by
congress committing the nation per
manently to the gold standard, al
though it removes all possibility of
tampering with the currency system
for at least six years.
If Mr. Bryan is an honest man why
ask him to drop the issue for which
he most conspicuously stands? Why
should Mr. Bryan drop Bryan? llow
could he drop the issue with which
his name is inseparably linked, in
which he honestly believes, without
forfeiting tne respect of all classes of
people and without advertising him
self as a shameless hypocrite?
Can the leopard change his spots?
Bryan without free silver would stand
for nothing. He declares he would
rather suffer defeat than repudiate
his obligations to his faithful follow
ers. This is spoken like a man. Bry
an and free silver will go down in tie
feat together; the silver issue will
then be permanently retired from
American polities, and the democratic
party can get together once more on
the new and living national issues.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
PROSPERITY INCREASING.
Under Republican Hulc the Financial
Condition of the Country Uoe«
on Improving.
Those are very interesting figures
and full of suggestion contained in the
"circulation statement" just issued by
the treasury department. They point
to the signboard of these republican
times of industrial progression where
on is emblazoned in bold characters
"Prosperity," and that, too, with an
exceedingly large "I*." It is interest
ing to make casual comparison of the
present condition of the country and
that of the democratic years that pre
ceded the inauguration of this repub
lican administration, and coincidental
ly of business revival and industrial
awakening. It is also a most gratify
ing retrospect. On all sides evidence of
prosperous times is abundantly mani
fest and constantly multiplies.
For three years the country has been
steadily and upon an ever increasing
scale enlarging its commerce and ex
panding its industries. With the in
coming of the republican administra
tion came confidence. With confidence
capital came out of hiding, mills start
ed up. manufacturers awakened, idle
labor found employment and prosper
ity ceased to be a promise and became
an accomplished fact. Preceding this
period there had been four years of
democratic mismanagement, legisla
tive bickering and incompetent inter
ference with industrial principles, in
consequence of which confidence had
been destroyed, capital driven into
hiding, business stagnated and labor
forced into idleness and want. Ihe
comparative, pictures are familiar to
all. Xo man's memory is so short that
it cannot easily comprehend eight
years.
The lesson of these eight years is the
lesson of history. Republicanism
stands for prosperity, democracy lor
disaster. And while democracy of the
old kind was bad enough, that of the
new school is far worse. Bryanism is a
banc that, no party can bear and live;
that no country will fasten upon the
administration of national affairs.—
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
CTIn a speech in the state of Wash
ington Mr. Bryan said: "Distinguish
between expansion ant' imperialism.
Expansion means extension of the lim
its of the republic; imperialism is the
policy of empire. We have expanded
before. We never had imperialism be
fore." We have none now, cither. Ex
pansion is the republican policy and
Ilryan is trj ing to hedge in opposing it.
—St. Louis Glohe-Deinocr.it.
(C'l'lie New York World wants to
know if Mr. McKinley is inevitable.
i!e may not be inevitable exactly, but
I he is mighty imminent.—Chicago Jour-
I nal.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900.
IMPORTS AND IMMIGRATION.
Democratic Itepreaiilon Una tiiven
Way to Re i>ul>l lean Prosperity
and Progress.
The immigration figures tell the
story of American prosperity and
"good McKinley times." During the
years of depression under a democrat
ic tariff and Cleveland administration
there was a tremendous falling off in
the arrivals of foreigners, especially
in the number of those most desirable
as additions to our population—the
honest., industrious workers who came
here to dwell permanently find im
prove their own condition and that of
the. country at large through thrift
and good citizenship. Now the tide is
again at full flow. While a large pro
portion of these immigrants are of
the desirable class, there is no doubt
that many are objectionable and
should be subjected to the closest
scrutiny. Our laws relating to immi
gration have been amended from time
ti time, but they still permit a dan
gerous laxity.
As to importations of foreign goods,
it is to be noted that they show a very
healthful condition in-our trade. Near
ly one-half of them, in value, are for
use in our factories. That is, the
Cnitcd States is importing many mil
lions of dollars' worth of crude mate
rial which it can obtain abroad more,
readily and cheaply than at home,
and is working it up into the finished
products of American skill. Again, an
other quarter of the importations com
ing into the United States are articles
of food, most of which cannot bo pro
duced here in sufficient quantities for
the use of its population, the February
importations of "articles of food and
live animals" having amounted to
$10,254,153, or 21!.03 per cent, of the
imports for that month. Taking the
eight months ended with February,
articles of food formed 25.15 percent,
of the total imports; manufacturers'
materials, including articles in a crude
condition and articles wholly or par
tially manufactured for use in the me
chanic arts, amounted to 45.02 percent.
It appears, therefore, that while our
imports have considerably increased
that about one-half represents mate
rials for tisc in our industries, one
fourth food articles which we do not
produce and the other fourth manufac
tures and articles of luxury bought
abroad to meet the requirements or
gratify the taste of the American peo
ple. This is a very wholesome and sat
isfactory condition of affairs.—Troy
Times.
FREE TRADE FOR TRUSTS.
Allies and < V H t spnivh of the Monopo
lists Opposed the Porto
Klean Hill.
Tn his recent speech on the Porto
Jlican bill, Congressman MeCleary, of
Minnesota, completely refuted the
charge that the decision to impose a
tariff on goods imported from Porto
Uico is a concession to the trusts.
As coffee is on the free list and will
remain there if the pending bill be
comes a law, it need not be considered
in a discussion as to the proposed tar
iff. The products of the island which
are next in importance are sugar and
tobacco. Mr. MeCleary pointed out as
the visible supply of those two products
in Porto Rico is no longer owned by
the planters, but is held for shipment
at the order of the purchasers, in Por
to Rican warehouses, the reduction of
the tariff is a benefit to the purchasers;
free trade would be a ; reater benefit.
Surely the purchasers of the sugar and
tobacco now in sight in the island
would not ask for the. imposition of
any tariff.
Mr. MeClerary further directed at
tention to the statement made in the
report of Gen. Davis, military gover
nor of Porto Rico, that the American
Tobacco company (the tobacco trust)
has lately bought the largest cigarette
manufactory in the island. It may be
taken for granted, in view of this, that
it is t«e tobacco trust which pur
chased the tobacco crop of the island
and is holding it.and if that is so tliei
it would be to the interest of that trust
to have the tariff wiped out.
"So far. then, as I can discover," said
Mr. MeCleary, "both the sugar trust
and the tobacco trust, if they have any
interest at all in this matter, would
naturally favor immediate free trade
with Porto Rico. If so, what more
natural thing could they do, knowing
the great feeling against trusts in the
United States, than to cause to be scat
tered broadcast the idea that they are
against immediate free trade?"
That is, knowing that anything
which they would seem to favor would
be opposed, they sought to accomplish
their real purpose by pretending to
desire something else. It appears,
then, that the men who were opposing
the Porto Hican bill are either the allies
or the catspaws of trusts.—Albany
Journal.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
(CTlie Kansas City Journal wants to
know what has become of John P.Alt
geld. lie blew out the political gas and
retired. — Chicago Tribune.
C? When Col. Bryan finally an
nounces his retirement from the dem
ocratic party there will be a great
many dry eyes. — Ohio State Journal.
lE?"Senator Ilanna :;ays that the peo
ple will choose the republican candi
date for the vice presidency this year.
This will, no doubt, surprise some of
the democrats who have supposed that
Mr. Ilanna would settle all that him
self.—Cleveland Leader.
statement attributed to Sec
retary Gage that the present revenue
laws yield a large surplus which can
be safely reduced will now lie used
with the utmost avidity by the same
people who were not long ago con
stantly asserting that the republican
i revenue laws would yield only a deficit.
—N. Y. Tribune.
IN THE Oil) PATHS.
Qrover Cleveland AHks Domocrate
to Walk.
Ei'tioirrnor < itmpbell In a Speech at
a llHii«|iiet Declares tliat tlic !<> to
1 IKNIIC IN Head and toil,
us Any Alliance \% Itli
Populist*.
New York, April 19. —At the ban
quet. given in Brooklyn last night by
deiYiOeVats, the following letter from
ex-President Cleveland was read:
"Princeton, N. J., April 17.
"To Louis F. Burcbard —Dear Sir: I
regret that I am unable to aec#pt
your invitation to attend the dinner
to be given by the Brooklyn Demo
cratic club on the 18th inst., to com
memorate the birth of Thomas Jef
ferson.
"Though the faults of the party in
power are many and though its of
fenses against the political health of
the country are flagrant, these
things should not encourage us to
base an expectation of success upon
the shortcomings of our adversaries.
"Whatever successes may have at
tended a party of opportunity, with
sails spread for every transient breeze
of popular sentiment, or excitement,
experience has demonstrated that
democracy is only strong when cour
ageous in the right, and only victori
ous when its forces are marshaled
under its old standards.
"Our principles are so simple that,
they are easily understood by the
democratic masses. As a result of
this, there has never been a time
when false leadership of our party
and a departure from simple demo
cratic faith have not been quickly dis
covered and rebuked by defeat. These
consequences have thus far been so
inevitable that the lessons they teach
cannot be disregarded without invit
ing calamity."
Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, made a
speech, in which he said:
"The political party founded by
Thomas Jefferson cannot survive half
democratic and half populistie. There
must be either dissolution or restora
tion of pure democracy. It is true
that many thousands of us will again
support the nominees of our party,
no matter into what mistakes it may
fall, but it is equally true that many
other thousands will forever abandon
the party if it again supplants truth
with error. Democracy means the
opportunity, elevation and reign of
the individual, but populism is that
perverted form of socialism which
can lead onjv to the tliralldom of the
individual and the enthronement <»f
the plutocrat.
"The Chicago platform enunciated
many great and enduring truths, but.
it coupled them to at least one fatal
error-—tin- un-.leffersonian and (un
der existing commercial conditions)
the impossible proposition of 'lO to I.'
"A majority of the electors of the
201111 try were bimetal lists. Forced to
choose between the two forms of
monometallism they chose gold. By
this choice they were not only sad
dled with the gold standard, but also
with a financial bill which creates
that most powerful and dangerous of
nil trusts—money trust. It is suffi
cient to know that 'lO to 1' is dead,
and that just so long as we proclaim
our intention to resurrect, it, just
that long will our resurrection be
post poncd."
Mr. Campbell declared the army of
voters had plenty of work, at good
wages. < ontinuing. lie said:
"It will lie hard to enlist their co
operation to destroy oppression in
Porto Rico, or stay imperialism in
the Philippines, unless we first aban
don the menace to their own prosper
ity.
"Not only did the fusion with pop
alism result in disaster, but defeat
did not seem to teaeli us anything.
The party of Jefferson has ever sine •
continued to masquerade in the livery
of populism, swearing eternal fealty
to doctrines voted down again and
again by the people, until for four
successive years the election returns
show that it has steadily fallen low
er and lower in public estimation.
"Labor is jailed or shot at Coeur
D'Alene, treaties arc made which bar
ter away the Monroe doctrine and
bind us captive to the chariots of
Kuropean potentates; the constitu
tion of tin- I'nited States is debauch
ed and reconstructed until we are un
certain of our own rights—certain
only that our unhappy captive lands
have no rights that a white man is
bound to respect; scandals in army
contracts, purchases of ships, sales of
custom houses, favored bank deposits
and in all other forms of money
grabbing are rife on every hand:
great corporations, already glutted
with profit, are to be suosidized under
the specious pretext of restoring our
wasted merchant marine.
"This may be our last stand. Let
the party of plutocracy once more
succeed, and the census niuHhe elec
tion statistics will become the pow
erful weapons whereby the democrat
ic south shall be deprived o/ ner
rights under the tattered remnants
of the constitution. If the men of
the south love populism more than
they love truth, let them adhere to
it, let them again fling to the breeze
the banner of the lost cause of 1(5 to
i, and once more, and for all. drive
the knife into the vitals of Jefferson
ian democracy. '1 heir day of re
pentance will come, but it will then
be too late.
Mr. t antpbell praises the platform
adopted by the Pennsylvania demo
cratic convention and advises its
adoption by the national convention.
Pettlt to be Court-martialed.
New York, April 19. —A dispatch
from Manila announces tnat Col.
James S. Pettit, of the Thirty-first
volunteers, in command at Zamboan
ga. will be court-martialed for bantl
ing a prisoner of war over to Presi
dent Medell, of Zamboanga, who kill
ed the prisoner at once, without trial.
Pettit is the officer with whom Lieut.
Col. Webb C. Hayes, who recently re
signed. is said to have quarreled, ow
inf.r to I'ettit's dickering with a Morro
ditto for ilie right to laVid troops and
compelling his men to submit to in
dignities from the :;ati^es.
SENATORIAL COURTESY.
The Gentleman from the South Gnrc
Way and tlie Senate Wan
Adjourned.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, is the most
owl-like member of the senate. He is so
ponderously solemn that he is unconscious
ly humorous.
Mr. Pettus will be SO years old next July.
He belongs to the old school of southern
statesmen now fast diseappearing. It is easy
to Bee, in the dogmatic manner in which lie
lays down the law to his senatorial col
leagues, that he has been a judge. He speaks
with great deliberation, at the rate of about
six words a minute, and each word is em
phasized by the waving of his chin whiskers.
His gestures are confined to a wide sweep of
his arm from his body and an inverse mo
tion. Everything he does or says is serious.
Even when he wants the senate to adjourn,
he goes about it in a way that is the very
quintessence of solemn dignity. For in
stance, the other afternoon, when Air.
Spooner was talking on the Quay case, Mr.
Pettus arose.
"I should like to ask the senator to give
way for a motion, if he pleases," remarked
Mr. Pettus, uttering each word as if the
fate of the nation depended upon the an
swer.
"I will agree to anything the senator
wants me to," replied Air. Spooner, smiling
ly, "except to vote against my convictions on
a constitutional question."
"I am not asking you to do that," said
Mr. Pettus, still mysterious, "but I want
you to give way to a motion."
"Well, what is it?" asked Mr. Spooner.
"It is to adjourn," answered Mr. Pettus,
in his melancholy voice and without a
smile.
Ever}' member of the senate laughed, and
the motion to adjourn was carried.—Wash
ington Post.
W UK nt'r in Dispute.
"Do you admire Wagner?" she inquired
at the musieale, looking up at him soulfully,
for, although they had met but ten minutes
before, there already seemed to be a bond
betsveeu them.
"Not much, after the bum article of base
ball he's been imiking us stand for here in
Washington all these years," was the em
phatic reply, and then she was forced to the
conclusion that he, too, was lacking in ap
preciation of the higher and nobler. —Wash-
ington Post.
No Danger Whatever.
"Don't on any account sleep on an
empty stomach!" was the advice of a
physician to a patient.
"No danger of that," was the reply;
"I always sleep on my back!"— Ti
t "
112 A 7Eit troll'* .TllMake.
Mr. Brown (explaining - to a visitor)
—This is my wile's maiden effort at
lan (I sea pe pa i niti ng.
Mrs. B.—Now, John, you know bet
tor. I'd I><><'ll married more than a
year when I pa.inlted it.
One of Them.
"Look here," said the approached; "Igave
you ten cents not live minutes ago. Now you
are at me again."
"I'm such an absent-minded beggar," said
the mendicant, apologetically.—Philadelphia
North American.
Nome City, Alaska,
I« twenty-eight hundred miles from Seattle,
via ocean. Is said to be the richest gold
field discovered up to this time. The first
tteamer will leave Seattle on or about May
10, 19(10. For full particulars address Geo.
H. Heafford. General Passenger Agent, Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Chi
cago, 111.
The I.atest.
Waggs—Have you heard the latest?
Dagg^—No, what is it?
"You're off your kopje." Ohio State
Journal.
Family Medicine.
Moves the bowels each day. In order to
he healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head
ache. Price 25 and 50c.
Those Names.
Johnnie—What's an iguana, paw?
Mr. Wise —Must be a sleeping-car.—Bal
timore American.
T am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.— Mis. Thos.
Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. V.,
Feb 17, 1900.
Teacher—"What is a synonym?" Bright
Boy—"lt's a word you can use in place of
another one, when you don't know how to
sue 11 the other one." —Sydney Town and
Country Journal.
To Care a Cold tn One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
"I suppose you have quite forgotten, Mr.
Jones, that you owe me a liver?" "No, I
haven't yet. Give me time and 1 will."—
Punch.
PRTN'AM FAIHXESS DYES do not stain the
hands or spot the kettle. Sold by all drug
gists.
Tt is somewhat disquieting to observe that
while it is notoriously impossible to live in
Washington on 95,000 a year, comparatively
few congressmen die in office. —Detroit Jour
nal.
Everybody thinks if a neighbor's dog bit
him. he would kill the dog, hut he wouldn't.
—Washington (la.) Democrat.
Sympathy. Watts "I think I feel as
bad as Mudge does over losing his job."
Potts—"l feel worse. lie has already
touched me for ten."—lndianapolis Press.
Ilark, from the tomb a doleful sound,
.lav Gould doth inourn and turn around.
Why dotli he moan anil seem in pain? It is
the count —Count Castelaine. Atchison
Globe.
Ini Thc-r Line. —"Why do you think paint
ing sta* scenery would he a g;<od occupa
tion for a woman?" "Oh, because there are
so many of them who love to inake a
scene."—Philadelphia llulletin.
The difference between "ill" and "sick"
was illustrated the other day by a Somer
ville man: "When 1 found that I was ill,"
he said, "I sent for a doctor. When I got
the doctor's hill it made me sick." —Somer
ville (Mass.) Journal.
"Next week we will begin running this
paper as Capt. Ividd would have run it. De
linquent subscribers may expect a call from
us with their accounts stuck in the muzzle of
a six-shooter. Otherwise this paper will be
running ;is the sheriff would run it."—Bow
ersville Clarion.
"Do you think the shortest route to r.
man's heart is through his stomach?" asked
Mrs. Gabby, as she prepared to exhibit her
skill with the chafing dish to young Dr.
Powdeis. "Oh dear no!" exclaimed the
young physician, swelling up with the
consciousness of his superior knowledge.
"The shortest way to the heart is by the
way of an incision through the left sub-elav
ial section of the thoracic parietes." Thus
is cold science wre;-:iing Cuiiid's weapons mi"
by one from the hands of the fair sex. —Ba-
timore American.
The novelist is in search of local color.
"My good man,"he says,"l am come
among you particularly to study your dia
lect." "Fair sir," replied the peasant, "in
vonder cabin there dwells a recluse. lit
reads much, especially magazine fiction, tie,
if anyone, can speak our dialect for you."
They are exceedingly courteous people,
these simple peasantry.—Detroit Journal.
There is more Catarrh in this section of
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 nroven
j 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 is
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a
teaspoonful. ft 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.
Certainly n I'rlrc Tlioutslif.
! A teacher of music in one of the public
j schools of the south desired to impress the
, pupils with the meaning of tlie signs "112"
ami "fl" in. a sung they were about lo sing.
After explaining that "112" meant forte, he
said: "Now, children, if '(' means forte,,
what does 'lf' mean?"
Silence reigned for a moment, and then he
was astonished to hear a bright Utile fel-
I low shout:
I "Eighty!"— New Lippincott.
ITIAKCII_ANI» AI'HIL,
Are the TJo«s "Months ott
Hie Year In the North.
I
! In the South, thoy nrethepleasantest ami
most agreeable. The trees and shrubs put
! forth their buds and flowers: early vee
j etablesand fruits are ready for eating, and
in fact all nature seems to have awakened
; from its winter sleep. The Louisville & Nash -
! ville Ilailroad Company reaches the Garden
I Spots of the South, nnd will oil the first and
| third Tuesdays of March and April sell
] round trip tickets to all principal points in
j Tennessee, Alabama. Georgia and West
j Florida, at about half rates. Write for par -
ticulars of excursions to P.Sid Jones.D.P. A.»
lnchargeof Immigration,Birmingham,Ala..,
or Jackson Smith, D. P. A., Cincinnati, O.
The tnrse of SIRIIK.
Mrs. Wayback—l wonder why that new
feller who was goin' to edit the Clarion left
town so rapid-like.
Mr. Way back—Well, when oleman Knott
died his' week the editor feller writ a item
j about it an' headed it "Knott Is Nit," an'
I the Knott boys run him out o' town. —Haiti-
j more American.
A HIXT Foil SPIUVG.
] When lli)n»pki , C|ier« Are I* r 11; h (<-n !n g
the Interiors ol" Their Homr«.
Now that the backbone of this remarkable
winter is broken, housekeepers are remark
ing the dingy look of the home interior. The
question of new wall coverings is up. Paper
is dear and short lived; kalsomines are darty
and scaly; paint is costly. The use of such,
a cement as Alabastine, for instance, will
solve the problem. This admirable wall
j coating is clean, pure and wholesome. It
j can be put on with no trouble by anyone;
| there is choice of many beautiful tints; and
| it is long lasting.
Itenltzeil the Sltnatlnn.
| The colored regulars in the Philippines are
| as quick at repartee as thc-y are prompt ta
i obey orders. A black sergeant was hailed by
a breezy western volunteer recently with:
"Well, nig, what are you going to do here?""
The negro replied: "We're going to take up
the white man's burden, I suppose."—Argo-
I naut.
Ghoxt of the Glacier
I Ami Other Tales, including Making a Revo
lution, Susquehanna Trail, Sculpture of the
Kit's, Once a Pillar of the World, Feathers of
Fashion, and others. A delightful volume,
beautifully illustrated. Ileady for distribu
tion about May 1. Send 10 cents to T. W.
Lee, General Passenger Agent Lackawanna.
Railroad. 20 Exchange Place, New York
City. Edition' Limited.
Hp«ppcU'(l Her Confidence.
Poetess—The iioem I sent you, Mr. Ed
itor, contains tne deepest secrets of my
soul.
Editor—l know it, madam; and no one
slra.ll ever find them out through me. —
Stray Stories.
Ask Your Dealer for Allen's I-'oot-Kase,
j A powder to shako into your shoes. It rests
j the feet. CuresCorns,Bunions,Swollen,Sore,
| Hot, Callous. Aching, Sweating feet and In-
I growing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes
| new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists
j and shoe stores. 23c. Sample mailed FREE,
j Address Allen N. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
A wise man never considers a woman's
j age. —Chicago Daily News.
I Pleasant. Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs
| is Hale's Honey of Horehound anil Tar.
j Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Stomach
Troubles
Sn Spring
Are THAT BILIOUS FEELING, bad taste
| in the mouth, dull fieudache, sleep
lessness, poor appetite.
No matter liow careful you are
about eating',everything- you take into
your stomach turns sour, causes dis
tress, pains and unpleasant gases.
Don't you understand what these
-
symptoms—signals of distress —mean?
They are the cries of the stomach,
for help! It is being overworked. It
needs the peculiar tonic qualities and
digestive strength to be found only in
HOOD'S
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The best stomach and blood reme
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are combined in the medicine, and
thousands of grateful letters telling'
its cures prove it to be the greatest
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II & 3.0
S4 to $6 compared
Nj\ with other makes. /
SI W| \lntlorned by over , . 2sa
ACJJ > 1,000,00*0 wearers,
Wi ftSjTh'fJ'ntiine have W. L. t 7
Hi 13H f >ou S' as ' name and price /-V
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t V Sj no substitute claimed to be /
m good. Your dealer
S3 should ke<»o them— ii
Vk— not, we will send a pair S^- 1 '
fflnn receipt of jjrice and 25c.
for carriage. State kind of leather,
size, and width, plain or can toe. Cat. tree.
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THE Pleasanlest, most powerful, effective and
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'lf all knew what thousands
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tveli as a Preventive of any Ache or
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