IT IS THE
EAGLE'S TURN TO LAUGH.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
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BOON TO CONVENE; MUCH TO
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The Caban and the Hawaiian Questions
' Likely to Be the First and Hoet Im
portent to Come Cp for Cunilderatlon
■ — Repnblleane Control the Honee bat
Hot the Bgante.
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(Washington Letter.)
In about a fortnight the Fifty-sixth
congress of the United States will be
in session with a Republican working
majority in the lower house, but with
a minority in the senate. It Is unfor
tunate that the party in control of the
executive branch of the government Is
not In" a majority in the senate as well
as In the house, as questions of great
'importance are to be considered and
jthe responsibility for action or inac
tion will be laid upon the shoulders
of the Republicans, even though they
may be powerless to fully carry their
points in the upper branch of congress.
] Matters of great Interest and concern
|Wlll undoubtedly be presented and dis
cussed at an early date after conven
tion of congress. They will affect this
,country*s relations with Spain and Ja
pan, and are national and International
.in character, rather than partisan In
any sense, so that their adjustment
wHl be closely watched by foreign na
tions;
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me moit aimcuit question to do
dealt with Is that relating to Cuba. It
has been Intimated from time to time
that congress, when convened, would
not stand the Indefinite and procrasti
nating policy pursued by Spain In con
nection with this government's In
quiries relative to Cuba, and even that
Spain’s attitude toward the United
States In the matter has not been sat
isfactory to the President. It Is gener
ally thought that one of the first ques
tions to come up after congress con
jVenea will be Cuba, and the state de
partment correspondence, which has
{been accumulating to a certain extent,
,wlll be published and the whole situa
tion placed before the country, as well
as congress. Then It remains to see
what action, will be taken as to the rec
ognition of belligerent rights In that
Island. It Is known that the President
Is strongly In favor of a peaceful solu
tion of the problem It that be possible,
but that It Is not the desire of the ad
ministration tLat Cuba shall be devas
tated and destroyed by the continuance
of Weylertsm. There is no question
but that the people of the United States
are, by a large majority, In sympathy
with the Cubans and desire to see, in
some way, the freedom of the island
accomplished.
i Then there Is the almost as Import
ant question of the annexation of Ha
waii. It Is safe to say also that the
people of the United States, by as great
a majority, favor the annexation of the
Islands in a territorial form of govern
ment. The annexation treaty was pro
claimed by the President comparative
ly early In the administration and has
been ratified by the Hawaiian congress.
Our own senate will undoubtedly take
reasonably prompt action upon It after
action upon the Cuban matter.
Neither of these questions ere party
questions, and neither will divide con
gress on party lines, but nevertheless
It Is unfortunate that the Republicans
have not a majority in the senate. The
foreign polloy of the Republicans has
always been clear and vigorous, the
Democrats being the conservatives and
the llliberals, and, as above stated, the
Republicans, although not in a major
ity In the senate, will have to bear the
burden of responsibility for whatever
action Is taken, so that to secure their
beat results they should have no ob
structive opposition, in any case ac
tion of some sort Is probable very
early la the cession on these two ques
S:MSv
The Democrat* who have been trying
to moke capital against the new tariff
law by pointing to the monthly treas
ary deficit will eoon be obliged to turn
llbetr attention to other field*. While
the receipt* bom custom* under the
sow law have heretofore been less than
the expenditures, or eren than the re
ceipt* of the Wilson law during the
eeneepondlng period of last year, for
jWJ good reasons, they hare been
M0
steadily gaining'week by week, and
now, according to the treasury figures,
they are larger than they were a year
ago. The prediction that the new year
will see a wiping out of monthly de
ficits seems likely to be fulfilled. "It
is simply a Question of time, greater
or less, which cannot be told exactly,"
said a treasury official, "when the new
law will get into normal working or
der and will produce a surplus Instead
of a deficit. It Is doing remarkably
well considering the way it was handi
capped by excessive importations,
many of which are still in the coun
try."
According to Attorney-General Mc
Kenna, the Government will be as fully
protected in the matter of the Kansas
Pacific Railroad as was the case in the
Union Pacific transaction. The owner
ship of the Kansas Pacific is part of
the scheme of the reorganisation com
mittee. The committee holds certain
liens on the road which it is bound
to protect. It can only protect them by
getting possession of the road, and this
can only come through its making bids
which will clear the road of all In
debtedness to the Government. The
Government is master of the situation
and everybody who knows anything
about the facts knows this, none bet
ter than the reorganization committee.
The same vigilance and intelligence
will be displayed in the management
of the branch road as was shown in the
sale of the main road, which every
body now concedes redounded to the
credit of the officials managing the
sale. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS.
i ——————
Uaela asm’s Turn WU1 Come.
John. Bull laughs now, but Uncle
Sam’s turn will come when Congress
passes a law for the protection of
American shipping.
Mo Prosperity for Him.
"The long and short of this business
is that we are no nearer prosperity
than we were two years ago. The on
ly benefits which have come to our
people since the election of McKinley
were the result of the disasters to
wheat crops In foreign lands by what
the law calls a "visitation of God.”
Thus the Cincinnati Enqulrer.whose
anxiety Just now Is centered upon the
political-complexion of the new Ohio
legislature. Everything depends upon
that. There can be no real, simon
pure, copper-bottomed, all-wool, yard
wide, sure enough prosperity visible
In the Enquirer office until John Mc
Lean succeeds In breaking into the
United States Senate. Peqdlng that
consummation, civilisation Is a failure
and progress Is played out!
It OoMttlN Many Theorist.
"As a matter of fact,” says the Lan
cashire Courier, "certain Industries
have been carried In America to a de
cidedly more advanced stage of devel
opment than that which they, have as
yet attained In the old country." Pre
cisely so; and these American Indus
tries are increasing so rapidly in num
ber and Importance as to attract tbe
attention of the civilised world to the
results of protection In the United
States. No country more than Eng
land feels the effect of America’s mar
velous Industrial ^ strides. It is a
shock In more ways than one, this
triumph of protection, for It not only
tends to unsettle English faith In free
trade theories, but It U hurting Eng
lish trade all over the world.
REPUBLICAN OPINION
The Democracy is rapidly losing Us
grip on the South. Look at the senate
of the United States. Maryland Is now
to have two Republican senators; West
Virginia has one and ts likely to have
another; Kentucky has one Republican
and one other who refuses to co-oper
ate with the Democrats on the cur
rency question; Louisiana has one
Democrat refusing to Join with his
party on the tariff; South Carolina has
one and Georgia two who kicked over
the traces on the tariff; North Carolina
has no Democratic representative, one
of her Senators being a Republican and
the other a Populist; one Texan Dem
ocratic senator refuses to support free
silver. In fact, the number of Southern
senators who follow time-honored
Democratic doctrines is becoming ex
tremely small.
Now that Mr. Bryan has finished his
attempt to “bury Mark Hanna,” he
can go to Mexico and congratulate the
people of that country on the fact that
their dollar has fallen 20 per cept in
value In the past year.
The balance In favor of the United
States in Its trade with England was
greater last year than at any time pre
vious during the last fifteen years, if
not than any previous year.
Mr. Bryan declared that he didn’t
see any evidence of prosperity while
in Ohio. Probably the smoke of re
opened factories Injured his eyesight
while in the state.
With two Republican senators and a
Republican delegation In the house,
the old state of Maryland will not be
able to recognize herself in the politi
cal mirror.
Railroad earnings are at a high fig
ure, and the bank clearances of the
country were 22.2 per cent higher last
week than in the corresponding week
of last year.
The farmers of Ohio, Iowa,Maryland,
Kansas and South Dakota showed by
their votes in the recent election
that free silver has no more charms
for them.
r<tople who really want to pay their
debts in depreciated dollars should re
move to Mexico. The silver dollars
of that country have fallen 20 per cent
in value in the past year, and the man
Who owed $1,000 a year ago can pay it
with $800 worth of silver now. This
is a condition that would delight the
people who last year were insisting
upon an opportunity to pay debts in
depreciated dollars.
Mr. Bryan did not call on ex-Gov.
Boles during his recent trip through
Iowa.
The twelve counties of Ohio in which
Mr. Bryan made speeches in the cam
paign just ended gave 907 more Re
publican majority than they did in
1896. Considering that Mr. Bryan os
tentatiously announced that he "came
to bury Hanna, not to praise him,”
this result is rather amusing—to every
body except Mr. Bryan.
"In spite of less active trade during
October in most sections of the coun
try, and the virtual stoppage of busi
ness at the South as a result of the
yellow-fever scares and quarantines,
the aggregate total for that month ex
ceeded even September’s immense to
tal, and marks the heaviest month’s to
tal since January, 1893. This result
was accomplished, too, with the same
number of business days in the month
as in September.”—Bradstreet’s.
With Arthur Pue Gorman beaten,
Mark Hanna as good as re-elected, Re
publican gains in Kansas, free silver
again repudiated in Ohio, Iowa, Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts and New
York, the Democrat who can extract
comfort from the result of this year’s
elections must be a veritable political
Mark Tapley.
What has become of that trio of
silver advocates who went to Japan to
find evidence that the "gold powers”
had forced the Yankees of the Orient
into action recently taken in favor of
| the gold standard? They have been
l gone nearly four months and not a
sound has been heard from them.
The talk of co-operation of a few
Ohio Republicans with the McLean
Democrats of that state in the ap
proaching senatorial election is pro
nounced by Ohio men of both parties
the merest "moonshine." It would be
political suicide for any man who
would undertake it or attempt to prof
it by it
With ex-Governor Altgeld organising
a paper-money party, ex-Governor
Boia denouncing the 6-to-l proposi
tion, Senator Stewart telling, the peo
ple that they may as well fall in with
prosperity and drop the silver issue, it
looks as though the white metal would
have few friends left by 1900,
The circulation of the country is, in
round numbers, $80,000,000 greater
than it was one year ago. Tet the
country didn't get tree coinage, and
Bryan said that the only way to in
crease the circulating medium of the
country was by the adoption of free
silver. An error in Judgment.
The 65th Congress had a larger num
ber of Republicans from the South
than was ever before elected to any
Congress from that section. And now
the 56th Congress is to (have an addi
tion to the Southern Republican
strength by another Republican sena
tor from Maryland.
The conclusions are that tt was an
"off year" tor Hanna In Ohio.
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TURN ON THE RECORD
POPULISTS TAKE BACK TRACK
ON SCHOOL FUNDS.
They Amend Their Original Protesta
tions—What Wm Hlack Two Tears Ago
Mow Appears Very White—Buying
State Warrants to Help Themselves and
the Brokers.
Schemes of the Pops.
Lincoln Correspondence Omaha Bee:
The populist state officials who con
stitute the state board of educational
lands and funds hare a great scheme
for keeping their hands upon the
money belonging to the permanent
school fund. Before the populists
came into power they were loud in
their denunciations of Bartley and hi3
associates for refusing to invest these
trust funds in bonds as contemplated
by the law. Govenor Holcomb, it will
be remembered, made great capital out
of the fact that he had exerted him
self repeatedly but in vain to have the
idle school funds converted into in
terest bearing securities. But no soon
er was the republican board supplant
ed by a populist board than the pop
- lists turned their backs completely
upon their former professions and
they are now engaged in using thl3
money in a gigantic warrant scheme.
- Just after the last election returns
were annouced showing that the bonds
voted by Douglas county for refund
ing purposes and in aid of the expo
sition were carried the state house of
ficials sent out through their organs
the statement that the board had met
and agreed to bid for 9100,000 of the
bonds, but that they had no expecta
tion of having their bid accepted for
the reason that they would not bid
more than par for them, in the face
of the certainty that other bidders
would offer a good premium. ‘'The
state board is handicapped,” said this
semi-official proclamation, “in its com
petition against outside bidders for
the Douglas county bonds, in that
there is no means by which they can
bid more than the par value for them.
The bonds are regarded as an excel
lent Investment and if the board
could properly use the school money
in paying premiums on them it is
more than likely it would do so. The
matter of the purchase of the bonds
has been under consideration for some
time by members of the board, and
the conclusion to enter the lists as a
bidder met with the unanimous ap
proval of all the members.”
This has been followed up more re
cently by another announcement
emanating from the same source,laud
ing Treasurer Meserve for his great
work in finding Investments for the
permanent school fund and telling of
the .noble sacrifices undergone by the
state house employes in -selling to
him nearly 93,500 of salary warrants
at par when if they hawked them
about the markets they might possi
bly have secured a small fraction, of
1 per cent premium on them, amount
ing to 917 on the whole sum. In order
to pave the way for a treasury state
ment, showing the large amount of
school money uninvested in the treas
urer’s hands the public is Informed
that the treasurer is now at a great
disadvantage in the investment of the
school funds in warrants because he
has to compete with warrant brokers
who are willing to buy them up at'
one-half of 1 per cent premium. “If
the treasurer,” it continues, “was
driven out of the market as an In
vestor of the school fund and com
pelled to make arrangements to put
the school funds in other securities,
the warrant broker would have just
that much better chance of success
fully bearing the market.”
This is very plainly part and parcel
of a grand scheme to head off the in
vestment of the state school fund in
county bonds and keep the money in
the hands of Treasurer Meserve, os
tensibly for the purpose of investing
in state warrants. With the return of
better times and the prompter pay
ment of taxes, the outstanding war
rant indebtednes of the state is being
gradually reduced, and'the populist of
ficials see clearly that within a short
time the supply will be so curtailed
that the treasurer will not be able to
invest the money in warrants unless
he pays the same premium which
rules the market. As these warrants
are all going to populist employes and
appointees, the premium will be gath
ered in along with their monthly sal
aries and be equivalent to an increase
of so much per cent upon their earn
ings. If the money on the other hand
1b thrown back into the hands of the
treasurer, he will be able to follow
the footsteps of Bartley by farming
it out among favorite banks. Just now
he may perhaps have a smaller
amount of money in the permanent
school fund than his predecessor, but
should the suit on the Bartley bonds
men prove successful and the school
fundB embezzled by Bartley be re
turned to the state he would have over
9500,000 at his disposal for this pur
pose.
As a matter of fact tbere Is nothing
whatever In the law to prevent the
6tate board from buying the proposed
issue of Douglas county bonds at a
premium, or of making a bid equal to
or greater that the best bid which
any private individual may make. On
the contrary, the practice has been
common for the state board to buy
county bonds at a premium. It has
invested in bonds on a basis as low as
4 per cent interest, paying the differ
ence between, the rate and the rate
on th face either in a lump sum or by
detaching interest coupons from the
bonds. The trust funds, for example,
hold nearly $350,000 worth of l^ancas
ter county bonds upon which the peo
ple are receving interest at the rate
of 4 per cent. There is also a block
of $77,000 of Otoe county bonds which
are drawing only 4 per cent and the
$19,000 of state relief bonds, which re
cently became payable, bear only 4
phr cent interest. There is no reason,
therefore, whatever, why the state
lioard should not take up the entire
l>ond issue of Douglas county at a
rate equal to 4 per cent, and if It
made such a bid it would be reason
ably certain to secure them.
Governor Holcomb is a member of
the state board of educational lands
and funds, and if he has acquiesced la
the new policy of the board he has
suffered a most remarkable change
of heart. It is hardly a year and a
half ago that the governor was out
in a long open letter to the public re
plying to charges which had been
made against him by Churchill and
Russell that he had tried to obstruct
the investment of the school fund, in
which he took positive ground that
it was not only the right but the
duty of the state board to purchase
all the bonds of solvent counties that
might be offered on terms equal to or
better than the best that could be se
cured on the open market. In pursu
ance of this policy Governor Holcomb
presented resolutions for the Invest
ment of the school fund in United
States bonds, which were then quoted
in the neighborhood of 118, and in
sisted that there was no difficulty
whatever in paying the premiums re
quired to secure them. That part of
tho governor's letter which relates to
this subject in the light of the new
turn taken by the state board presents
some very interesting reading. Jt was
dated June, 1896, and is as follows:
1 have always been of the opinion
tli at the board should purchase all
Nebraska county bonds Issued, until
this entire fund has been Invested;
that there was a mutuality of Inter
ests between the counties issuing the
bonds and the state, as the Interests
earned by these investments would all
return to the different counties for the
benefit of the common schools. It have
always expressed the belief that the
board should purchase these bonds
bearing as low rate of interest as they
could be sold for In the markets at
par, or. In other words, that the board
should pay as much or a shade more
than other intending purchasers. This
is the position I have invariably as
sumed in the investment of these
funds and I believe it to be the only
logical conclusion to reach. It is the
duty of the board to purchase these'
bonds yielding as fair rate of interest
as can be obtained for the benefit of
the temporary school fund, but I con
tend that such investments must be
made solely with reference to their
fair market value and that the board
should be ready so long as the fund
remains uninvested to duplicate any
bona fide offer that may be made.
Good Nebraska county bonds, as every
well informed person knows, can be
floated in the market at par when
drawing 4 to 5 per cent interest, and If
the board obtain any of them it will
have to take them bearing such rateB
of interest. The statement that guch
purchases has a tendency to reduce
the earning capacity of the school
fund so invested is entirely unsupport
ed, either by reason or experience.
"As to the statements made and re
iterated in these several articles that
a premium cannot be legally paid out
of the permanent school fund for this
class of securities, I desire to say that
this is, perhaps, a covert intimation
that when the test comes, if we should
ever be able to reach that point, a ma
jority of the board will be of the opin
ion that it is illegal to pay a premium
out of the permanent school fund, the
logical conclusion of which would be
that it is likewise illegal to purchase
at a discount, and that we would be
restricted to the purchase of bonds at
par or obtain them from brokers or
others who might be willing to de
tach coupons, as has been done in the
past, in payment of such premiums.
"This construction given to the law
is entirely unwarranted. It is con
trary to the opinion of the supreme
court, as found in 15 Neb., page 685,
where it is held that premiums may
legitimately be paid out of. the per
manent school fund; that the true
question to be determined is whether
the Investment of whatever sum may
be agreed upon is a proper one, and
that question is left entirely to the
judgment of the Board of Educational
hands and Funds; nor is there any
thing in the constitution or the law
prohibiting the payment of a prem
ium wherever It may be required in
order that this fund may be profit
ably invested. There has also been
established by the action of this
board heretofore, a well defined pre
cedent. for the investment of this fund
in this manner. An examination of
the recordp of the Board of Educa
tional Lands and Funds disclose that
heretofore in many instances prem
iums have been paid out of- the per
manent fund and the bonds purchased
upon an agreed rate of interest lower1
than that denominated in the bond.
To illustrate: February 8, 1894, the
records show that the board purchased
1150,000 Douglas county 4% per cent
bonds upon a basis of 4 per cent, pay
ing therefor *160,893.76 from the per
manent school fund, or 310,893,75 more
than the face of the bonds. Further,
on June 5, 1894, the board authorized
the purchase of $17,000 Nance county
bonds for $18,565.31, to be paid out
of the permanent school fund. These
bonds drew interest at 5 per cent and
were purchased on a 4 per cent basis,
a premium of $1,565.31 being paid
therefor. / -
£iAUC^Liug a Diuau loouG ui yu^uv
Valloy county 4% per cent bonds
which lay In the treasury vaults for
many months patiently awaiting the
action of the board finally taken, as
shown by the records, the third of the
month, all bonds which have al
ready been purchased or which there
appear to be any immediate prospect
of securing, unless different methods
are pursued than those now employed,
have been already mentioned. It Is
proper to remark here that the $100,
000 Saunders county bonds, the pur
chase of which has been so vocifer
ously announced, are not to be Issued
during the present year, and at the
rate this fund is increasing there
should accumulate in the state treas
ury before the first of the year an
amount sufficient to purchase them
without regard to the fund now on
hand. There was also a motion adopt
ed at one of the meetings of the board
to purchase about $30,000 of the out
standing state relief bonds, provided
they draw 4 per cent Interest, but
whether the! party holdin g these
bonds will part with them at this is,
so far as I am Informed, problemati
cal and very uncertain. Likewise a
motion instructing the treasurer to
purchase $35,000 Boyd county bonds,'
adopted April 18, 1896, does not in
sure the early employment of that
amount of the state's idle school fund,
as far as I am Informed, no further
steps have been taken In the matter
Professor Holmes.
Prof. George Frederick Holme# of
the university of Virginia, who has
Just died at the age of seventy-seven -
years, was a native of England. “He
was a brilliant man,” says the Balti
more American. “Ho was the second
eldest member of the faculty, and was
noted for his remarkable promptness
in attending mo classes,' missing not
more than five lectures during his
forty years' term of office. He was
retired from work at the beginning of
this session, being unable to go with
his lectures longer on account of fail
ing sight and bodily strength. His
ability as a writer and critic was
marked, he having written innumer
able essays on political questions and
numerous school books, particularly
for use In southern school and col
leges.”
Ahralmtn Lincoln.
Austin Gollaher, th© old boyhood
friend of Abraham Lincoln, said re
cently: "Abe always remained at the
head of his class, and I' never knew
him to be turned down. His studious
habits made him a favorite with the
teacher, which caused a great deal of
jealousy among his classmates toward
him, and, not being generally liked
anyhow, it made him very unpopular."
WhlMlcr’ii
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer tells a
story illustrating the almost boyish
modesty of the poet Whittier. A little
woman forced her way into' the pen
etralia of a Boston mansion, when
Whittier was visiting there, and,
clasping both the poet’s hands in her
own, exclaimed: “Mr. Whittier, this
is the supreme moment of my life!"
Whittier stood first on one foot and
then on the other, withdrew his hands
agd clasped them behind his back, and
replied prosaicially, “Is it?”
Lupton, 111., Nov. 6,1897.
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Clarence Cook will contribute to the
December Century an article on Mr.
Clement C. Moore, who wrote the fam
ous poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas.”
The verses were written in 1822 as a
Christmas present for Dr. Moore’s
children. A young lady visiting the
family copied the poem into her album
and sent it, unknown to the author,
to the editor of the Troy “Sentinel,”
who printed it without the author’s
name in the issue of that journal for
December 23, 1823.
Reputations Made In a Day
Are precious scarce. Time tries the worth of
a man or medicine. Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters Is a forty-fivo years’ growth, and like
those hardy lichens that garnish the crevices
of Alaska's rocks, it flourishes perennially, m'
and its reputation has as Arm a base as tno /
rocks themselves. No medicine Is more high- A
ly regarded as a remedy for fever and ague, S
bilious remittent, constipation, liver and kid- W
ney disorders, nervousness and rheumatism.
It is better to say a little worse
than you mean than to mean a little
worse than you say.
We wish to call attention to the ad
vertisement in this issue of the Na
tional Correspondence Institute of
Washington, D. C. This institution is
thoroughly reliable and we cheerfully
recommend them to our readers. A
college education at home shows won
derful advancement in educational
matters.
The average weekly loss of vessels
on the seas throughout the world is
twelve.
Holiday Excursions.
On December 7 and 31 the Big Four Route
and Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. will sell ex
cursion tickets from points northwest, both
one way and round trip, at greatly reduced
rates to points in Virginia, North and South
Carolina and other southern states. Round
trip tickets will be good twenty-one days
returning. Write for particulars and
pamphlet descriptive of climate and Vir
ginia farm lands. U. L. Trutt, North
western Passenger Agent, 234 Clark St
Chicago.
What the superior man seeks Is In
himself; what the small seeks is in
others.
Beauty Is Blood Deep,
Clean blood meanB a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches,blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists. satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 35c, 50c.
Before submitting to the inevitable
It is wise to be sure it is the inevit
able.
Fiso’s Cure for Consumntion is our only
medicine for coughs and colds.—Mrs. C.
Belts, 489 8th Ave., Denver, Col., Nov. 8, ’95.
According to an eminent doctor, tne
excessive use of salt tend3 to paralyse
the sense of taste.
WHAT 8HALL I GIVE FOR CHRISTMAS?
Ton oan easily settle this question by sending
tor the grand new Illustrated Catalogue, show
ing 3,000 of the most beautiful things in Jewelry
and Silverwares of the Mermod & Jaccard
Jewelry Co., Broadway, Cor. Locust, St. Louis,
who will also. If you will enclose 35 cts., send
you a Solid Silver Handled Nail File.
Employes of the Hertford Street
Railway company have been ordered
not to chew tobacco while on duty.
TO CUKE A COLD IN ONE DAT.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AH
Druggists refund the money If It fails to cure. SEe
KlUtary Compliment.—Lieutenant— ,
Good evening, miss! You look like a
regiment of rose-buds tonight.—Flle
gende Blatter. ' "*
Since the establishment of a crema- Jr
tion society in France 20.000 bodies j
have been cremated in Paris. »
In giving thanks for your blessings
don’t forget the criticisms you have
received.
Train the growing tree so that only
dead and Injured limbs trill need re*
moving later on.
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