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From the Times Paw Paw VI
A resident of this town who has lost
two JiiMrcn during the past six years
by violent deaths has been utterly pros
trated by the shock and seriously sick as
a result of it One child aged 9 was
killed by a cyclone in 00 while at school
another three years later was run over
by a Burlington R R train That griefs
and misfortunes may so prey on the mind
as to lead to serious physical disorders
has been well demonstrated in this case
As a result of them her health was shat
tered and she has been rf constant sufferer
since 1S00 Her principal trouble has
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been neuralgia of the stomach which was
very painful and exhibited all the symp
toms of ordinary neuralgia nervousness
and indigestion Physicians did her no
good whatever She was discouraged
-and abandoned all hope of getting well
Finally however a certain well known
pill was recommended Dr Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People
She supplied herself with a quantity of
them and had not taken them two weeks
when she noticed a marked improvement
in her condition She continued taking
the pills until seven or eight boxes had
been consumed and she considered herself
entirely cured She can now eat all kinds
of food which is something she has not
been able to do for years and is not trou
bled in the least with nervousness
If any one would like to hear more of
Ihe details of 2ier suffering and relief
gained by the use of Dr Willi uns Pink
Pills for Tale People they may be obtain
ed probably by writing the lady direct
She is one of our well known residents
3Irs Ellen A Oderkirk Paw Paw 111
Oldest English Business
iTrobably the oldest business in En
gland is an ancient linen drapery con
cern which has been in existence since
1G00 Under the title of the Sign of
the Croune the industry has been car
Tied on in the old town of Shefford in
Bedfordshire nearly 300 years for
more than half of which time it has
been in the hands of a single family in
an almost direct line Since 1750 this
ancient drapery shop has been under
the control of Cator Sons -who occu
py the original building
Never wear a short stocking or one
-which after being washed is not at
ieast one half inch longer than the foot
Bear in mind that stockings shrink Be
-sure that they will allow your toes to
spread out at the extreme ends as this
keeps the joints in place and makes a
strong and attractive foot As to shape
of stockings the single digital or one
toe stocking is the best
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A Good Blood Purifier a Ne
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foods Sarsaparilla Unequaled for
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The necessity for taking a good Spring
Medicine to purify the blood and build up
-the system is based upon natural and un
avoidable causes In cold weather there
jhas been less perspiration and impurities
bave not passed out of the system as they
Food has consisted largely of
-rich fatty substances and there has been
Jess opportunity for outdoor exercise The
Jesuit is the blood is loaded with impuri
ties and these must be promptly expelled
or health will be endangered Hoods
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because it is the best blood purifier and
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What Arc His Specifications
The Hamilton Club assured President
McKinley by telegraph that it felici
tates lum on the magnificent results
and the fulfillment of tine Republican
promises of 1S90 achieved during the
first year of his administration
What results magnificent or other
beyond the prompt passage in special
session of a drastic and onerous trust
measure known to the world as the
Dingley tariff What else Has there
been currency reform If the President
wants it he does not indicate a plan
and the Republican House has no pros
pect of agreeing upon any that may
emanate from him or from anybody
else There is no currency reform af
ter a years administration under Mc
Kinley The annexation of Hawaii is
promised but not accomplished It is
due to McKinley -however to say that
he has done his level best to bring that
calamity about The Nicaragua Canal
was promised as a national work but
it has not been undertaken The Danish
islands were to be purchased No ne
gotiations to that end have commenced
Cuba was to be free But Cuba is not
free We were to have an end of for
eign immigration at least that much of
foreign immigration as was incapable
of passing an examination for a New
England university but while the Sen
ate has passed Mr Lodges bill the Re
publican House looks on it and dafe
not pass it Territories were to be ad
mitted Alaska was to be represented
but why go over all the promises that
were so freely made by the Republi
cans of 1S9U
It would have ben far more to the
point if the Hamilton Club had given
specifications Its generalizations were
well enough as Republican assertions
but facts do not support them Chi
cago Chronicle
Too Much Protection
The cotton industry has a tariff
schedule entirely satisfactory The ex
perts do not know how to better it or
to make it more protective But the
industry languishes Shutting down
the mills lias been tried in order to
starve the market without bringing re
covery Wages have been reduced
Still though prices be phenomenally
low there is an unsold surplus
The Manchester N H Union con
ning the statistics of the export of cot
ton cloths finds that in nearly every
part of the western hemisphere there
has been a falling off in shipments It
gives the following table of exports for
1S9G and 1S97
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Yards
British Xorth America 3V10HS0
Central America
iv -V 11
Santa Domingo
Porto Rico
Argentina
Urazll
Colombia
Other South America
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317200
7208007
20H77G
244350
293310
4313130
o005S
744202
215040497
3397
Yards
14378247
9118989
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1ST4121
20S539
09539
2128807
7803000
lS4r03
22047022
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There was a trifling net gain in the
total amount of cotton cloths exported
of about 4000000 yards principally in
sales to the Asiatics but the losses in
our near by markets are exasperating
Evidently there is such a thing as too
much protection Our best foreign
market is Canada and that has al
ready been cut down more thau cne
half
Disagreement in the Cabinet
Here we have Secretary Alger assert
ing that the United States is nearer war
with Spain than it has been at any time
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REVOLT OF THE NORTHWEST
The temper of the Northwestern
States of the Union on the subject of
monopolies and grabs of public fran
chises is unmistakable It shows itself
at every opportunity Great cities Mice
New York Chicago and Philadelphia
may if they choose yield themselves
helplessly to the spoiler but in the second-rate
cities more public spirit is an
to develop itself and somehow too it
seems to more easily iind leaders and
accomplish results Under such guid
ance municipalities like Detroit Tole
do and Syracuse have entered upon a
new career and their residents have
devoted themselves to civic economy
the ownership and operation of then
franchises low street car fares cheap
gas and similar reforms The enthu
siasm dashed with self interest -widen
it has been found so dillicult to awak
en or rather so easy to suppress in
the greater class of cities there finds
full vent aud effect
Nor is it only on the pavements that
this spirit manifests itself the opn
fields aud country roads witness the
same march of progress Governor
Pingree called an extra session of the
State Legislature of Michigan His
call announces that a revision of the
State tax law is necessary that the
corporationsthe railroad express
telegraph and telephone companies
which own one third or more of the
property -within the State have suc
ceeded in so arranging legislation that
they pay only about
part of the taxes and that the schools
asylums and other public institutions
are therefore left to be supported by
the farmers laborers and manufactur
ers and other individual producers
The decisiou of the Supreme Court
at Washington against the railroad rate
law of Nebraska is also likely to result
in an extra session of the Legislature
in order to pass a new law for the re
straint of the unjust freight charges of
the corporations In fact everywhere
in the West restlessness under corpo
ration tyranny and exaction is begin
ning to be seen and felt New York
News
since the beginning of the present
crisis and on the other hand a dis
patch from Cleveland Ohio credits
Secretary Gage with frankly declaring
that he does not believe that the pres
ent complications -with Spain will lead
to war The people of the country
Mr Gage is reported as saying are
getting used to this -war talk and they
understand that it means little or noth
ing Boston Herald
More Taxes to Be Paid
Now Mr Dingley steps to the front
and tries to take advantage of the lib
erality of the country and of Congress
Although ho has insisted ever since the
production of its first deficit that his
tariff bill would produce more than
nough revenue for all the needs of the
government he considers this a good
time 1o announce that we had better
submit to some more taxation whether
we are going to war with anybody or
not
Of course this was inevitable It
was only a question of how long he
and those responsible for our present
tji riff muddle would keep up the pre
tense of expecting the Dingley law to
prove equal to the treasurys require
ments Under it the deficit has been
already increased by something like
00000000 which added to the equal
sum voted the other day by Congress
as an emergency fund to be expended
by the President in any way he lilies
makes us as a nation one hundred mill
ions poorer than we were eight mouths
ago
Naturally -we must expect that the
neAv taxes to be imposed will be taken
out of the pockets of those least able
to pay them This is the usual Repub
lican way which is not likely to be de
parted from The trusts corporations
aud the rich generally almost invaria
bly escape their share of such burdens
and they will undoubtedly keep on do
ing so as long as Mark ITanna occupies
a seat in the Senate and has a bedroom
reserved for him in the White House
The Line Js Drawn
The vote in Congress has decided the
money status of the two political par
lies The Republican party has de
clared for gold and gold only while
the Democrats are for both gold and
silver The Republican party cares
nothing for the people but depends
upon the monopolists to furnish money
to corrupt the voters at election times
according to the Hanna idea If they
can so fix the finances of this- country
that the bondholders can make mil
lions out of the people it can readily
be seen that a huge campaign fund can
be raised to keep that party in power
To be a Republican means the gold
standard To be for bimetallism one
must vote with the Democrats The
line is drawn and cannot be changed
till after 1000
Secrets of a Corrupt Campaign
If Matt Quay and John Wanamaker
should fall out in the present contest in
Pennsylvania and tell all they know
about each other it would make the
spiciest reading ever introduced into
Pennsylvania politics When Quay
was chairman of the National Commit
tee and wont out to buy the Presidency
John Wanamaker looked pious and fur
nished tlie money to do the bribing and
pay for the stealing On account of
their mutual interest in that incident it
will probably not get hot enough in the
fight to bring out the facts though
there is no tolling What such a man as
holy John may conclude to do Louis
ville1 Dispatch
Why They Want a Bigger Army
The bond syndicate and its creatures
care nothing for national honor It is
nothing to thorn that thousands of
wretched people are being starved and
tortured in Cuba They are for peace
peace at any price for war would cause
a flurry in stocks they fear and their
dividends might be affected These
financiers were with the President
heartily with him When he strength
ened the army aud bought guns and
amunition They approve soldiers and
believe in standing armies but not for
making Avar They want the military
ready in case the laboring class grows
desperate and revolts Kansas City
Times
Trouble for the Sujjrar Trust
The sugar trust is undergoing the
fatal experience which sooner or later
overtakes all such monopolistic viola
tions of the laws of trade New re
fineries are springing up and the trust
must submit to their competition or buy
them off on their own terms Each suc
cessive purchase at heavy cost of
plants that are not needed reduces the
resources of the monopoly and at last
will come the collapse The sugar trust
has had a long and prosperous run but
there is no mistaking the signs of re
volt against its power
Need of an Andrew Jackson
The question of the moment is wheth
er President McKinleys backbone is
equal to the crisis The money powers
are centering their combined influence
upon him to avert war even if he shall
have to go to the extent of making us
a nation of crow eaters and he is more
or less dominated by the money powers
The Spanish and Spanish Cuban bonds
which the money powers hold would
greatly depreciate in value were war to
ensue and there is the rub Would that
an Andrew Jackson were in the Presi
dential chair Kansas City Times
The oldest tree in the British Isles
is said to be the Barbourne Yew in
Kent
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DEATH OF LOUIS XV
The Kins Died of the ZVIost Violent
Form of Smallpox
Marie Antoinette as Dauphine is
the title olan article by Miss Anna L
Bickuellfn the Century Miss Bicknell
says
On ApVilj28 1774 Louis XV felt the
first symptoms of illness while at Tri
anon his favorite summer palace ad
joining Versailles to which he return
ed immediately During the night of
the 29th the characteristic eruption of
smallpox appeared in its worst form
With admirable devotedness the Kings
daughters came to his bedside not
withstanding the dreadful danger of
contagion and remained there day and
night till his death Marie Antoinette
had asked admittance to his room but
for very evident reasons neither the
heir apparent nor his wife was allowed
to breathe an atmosphere so dangerous
that more than fifty persons took the
smallpox merely from having crossed
the gallery before the door of the
Kings room Monsieur Letories took
the disease fatally merely through
having opened the door to look at the
King for two minutes
Regardless of danger the Archbishop
of Paris came to Versailles He was
anxious to secure the means of repent
ance and a Christian death to the
wretched sinner but at the same time
lie declared that he would not allow
the last sacraments of the church to be
administered to the dying man unless
Madame du Barry were previously dis
missed from the palace On the 4th of
May the Duchesse dAiguillou took her
to a country house belonging to the
Due dAiguillou There was conse
quently no further obstacle to the ad
ministration of the last rites of the
hurch Shortly afterwards his condi
tion became more alarming and It was
evident that the end was at hand
The courtiers crowded in the large
room called the Salle de lOeil do
Boeuf where they habitually awaited
the Kings pleasure The carriages
were in readiness to take the royal
family to Choisy a lighted candle
placed in the window of the Kings
apartment was to be extinguished as
the signal for departure which the fear
of contagion in addition to other con
siderations caused to be impatiently
expected
The candle was extinguished the
great clock was stopped at the fatal
hour p m It was the 10th of May
1774 The rush of the courtiers with
the noise like thunder as they hasten
ed to pay homage to the neAv sever
eigu was the first announcement of
the great event to the young heir and
his wife Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
burst into tears and with a
joint impulse fell on their knees ex
claiming Cod help us and protect us
We are too young to reign The King
was not yet twenty the Queen was in
her nineteenth year
Madame de Noailles came into the
room where they had remained togeth
er in seclusion and anxious expectancy
and addressing them by their new ti
tles begged them to receive the digni
taries who had come to pay homage to
the King and Queen The Queen ap
peared leaning on the Kings arm
weeping bitterly she received the first
visits of the royal family and the prin
cipal officials but the physicians urged
the necessity of immediate departure
The carriages were read and the
whole court set off for Choisy leaving
the wretched remains of the late sover
eign to the care of servants and work
men The unfortunate man who solder
ed the lead coffin died within twenty
four hours The body was taken to
St Denis the burial place of the kings
of France during the following night
with a military escort followed by the
execration of the populace loudly ex
pressed on the way The scandalous
reign of Louis XV was ended a new
reign was beginning
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Vive le roi j iT 7
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The Enchantres3
She plnyed upon her sweet guitar
She smiled at him the while
Emboldened then she sang a bar
Or two in awful style
He yawned his larynx was displayed
She dropped her sweet guitar
Perhaps exclaimed the angry maid
You know what manners are
But if you do I must declare
You have concealed the fact
He went and kissed the maiden fair
He was a man of tact
Sweet little sorceress he said
I fell beneath a spell
And so I nearly lost my head
For you performed so well
Ah woman woman Flattery
Goes right into thy heart
It dries the tears it comforts thee
It soothes thy keenest smart
She gave her hand to him and so
She never plays to day
The first thing that he did was to throw
Her sweet guitar away
Cleveland Leader
Sparrows Vanquish a Cat
The little English sparrows are the
gamest birds that live They have
driven the bluebirds robins martens
and swallows away from most of their
old haunts and taken possession just
as the white man crowded the Indian
to ithe frontier ahead of civilization
Several persons watched a flock of the
brave little fellows try to drive a cat
cut of the park at the City Hall says
the Kansas City Star Hundreds of
sparrows hop about the lawn and catch
worms in the big flower bed all day
A large gray cat stole across the sward
and hid among the flowers She lay
motionless a long time watching a
chance to spring upon a sparrow but
the birds waitched her and kept out of
her reach Finally the flock seemed
to be holding a council of war They
grouped themselves on the turf a few
yards away from the cat and chat-
tered vociferously Then they began
hopping toward the cat forming a reg
ular line of battle
Puss became nervous as the big flock
i of birds came almost within her reach
and she backed away hoping that one
would be foolhardy enough to advanco
within her reach Suddenly the whole
flock of birds took wing with great
chattering and whirling and flew di
rectly over the cat It frightened her
and she fled
Then the sparrows settled among the
flowers and began scratching for
worms
NAMES FOR HEROES
Difficult Task to Select Appropriate
Titles for Characters
The invention of names for heroes
and heroines is always a ticklish task
When native authors baptize foreign
ers they often make the most egregious
blunders Not one writing Frenchman
in the thousand is there who tackling
with an English name makes a possi
ble one Unfamiliar names in novels
may strike you with their inaptness
but you may become accustomed to
them in time Ultra romantic names
are vulgar and are never assimilated
It is thenr a very nice thing in liter
ary art to make a judicious selection
We all know the Balzac method of ac
quiring a name for his characters The
great romancer hunted for them As
he walked through the streets he read
the signs Happening to have a per
sonage in his brain whose peculiar
traits he had emphasized when he saw
a name he appropriated it It the
name became the personal attribute of
the man of his imagination and it was
alive There is an anecdote related of
him which we think Miss Wormeley
repeats Balzac came home one day
highly elated and told that after a
whole months hunting he had found at
last over a tailors shop the precise
name he wanted
Dickens must have car ried out the
same process We all know that the
rickwicks as a family were not uncom
mon in England Somebody writes to
the Spectator that years ago when look
ing over some legal papers he found
in the one and same document several
of the names used by Dickens notably
Tupman and Winkle and the sup
position is that this same document
must have passed through a solicitors
office There is something ludicrous in
Gamp but hardly in Harris But
the probability is that Dickens had
seen them in conjunction
Thackeray was excellent in his no
menclature and never sought the ex
traordinary Henry James and Mr
Howells are not in the least fastidious
nor for that is Mr nardy But nev
ertheless was there ever any mortal
who was called Dick Swiveller
New York Times
It is not generally known that at the
time of his death Du Maurier had com
pleted two papers giving reminiscences
of the two celebrated caricaturists with
whom he was closely associated John
Leech and Charles Keeue as well as an
account of his own career as illustrator
The articles appear in Harpers Maga
zine accompanied hi drawings some
of which had never been published
With Marion Crawford at Sorrento
the Critic begins the second of a new
series of Authors at Home The
ticlq -presents an interesting picture of
the home life of the famous American
author who was born and brought up
in Italy and seems to have made that
country his permanent home thougu
at least one half of each year is spent
in America A new photograph of Mr
Crawford taken for the occasion and
a group of his children at the entrance
to Villa Crawford illustrate the article
Captain Mahan in his article in
Scribners asserts that while the cap
ture of Burgoyne has been classed as
one of the Decisive Battles of the
World it was only made possible by
the invaluable year of delay secured
to them in 177G by their little navy on
Lake Champlain created by the indom
itable energy and handled by the in
domitable courage of the traitor Bene
dict Arnold This little appreciated
naval campaign is expounded by Cap
tain Mahan in his usual philosophical
manner
The rarest autographs in the world
are probably Shakspeares Only seven
are claimed to exist Three signatures
to his will two of which are doubtful
two to conveyances of property one in
the folio edition of his plays doubtful
and one in a translation of Montaigne
this last is in the British Museum and
cost over 300 guineas This total ab
sence of record is as marvelous as his
genius itself He must have written
many thousands of words for it is not
likely that he employed a typewriter
yet all have vanished What would one
give not for a play but even for a let
ter of his no matter what the subject
written incontestable by himself How
we should like to know how he made
his very Cs his Us and his Ts
something that was in contempt of
question his own hand
The T st
Miss Millward You say you love me
but you must prove it Make some
great sacrifice for me and I will then
believe you
Mr Helmwood By Jove Ill do it
Ill limit myself to three packages of
cigarettes to morrow or your sake
The monkey has one advantage over
the Anglomaniac hes imported
Are you frequently hoarse
Do you hiwe that annoying
tickling in your throat Would
you feel relieved if you could
raise something Does your
cough annoy you at night and
do you raise more mucus in
the morning
Then you should always keep
on hand a bottle of
Ayers I
If you have a weak
throat you cannot be too
careful You cannot begin
treatment too early Each
cold makes you more liable
to another and the last
one is always harder to
cure than the one before it
dp Ageps ceppg Peciopa Piasrcp
protects ie leans Iron colds
Help at Hand
If you have any complaint
whatever and desire the best
medical advice you can pos
sibly obtain write the doctor
freely You will receive a
prompt reply
Address DR J C AYER
Lowell Mass
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Her Vulnerable Point
Its very foolish according to my
Ideas said Mrs Sampson addressing
the Ladies Sewing Circle during a lull
caused by a frantic hunt for a missing
pair of shears it is worse thau foolish
for people to give way to their nerves
as they do Now I may say with truth
that I havent a nerve in my body
which isnt perfectly under control
Its merely a matter of self control of
course every one knows
The ministers wife flushed uneasily
and Miss Marvin looked conscious but
defiant
Now Ive heard of people said Mrs
Sampson pursuing her theme with rel
ish who couldnt stand the ticking of
a little clock in a room where they slept
or even the ticking of a watch Theyd
wrap them up in flannel or some such
thing to deaden the sound It hardly
seems possible to me that anybody
could be so foolish but Ive been told
it for a fact
Then there are those who dont like
to hear wood sawed
Here the ministers wife breathed
freely her particular weakness having
been mentioned at the start she knew
that for her the worst was over
Now that seems downright ridicu
lous to me continued Mrs Sampson
A necessary sound like that I should
feel it my duty to sit in the woodshed
and listen to sawing till I had overcome
my nerves once for all
Miss Marvins nose was elevated and
she gave a distinct sniff
Ive heard of people who couldnt
boar to gee others rock continued Mrs
Sampson calmly and of those who
didnt feel equal to hearing the sound
of a hammer or rain on a tin roof or
water dripping from a faucet or a pen
that scratched once in a while or
squeaky shoes Ive heard that all those
things made certain people nervous
and other things just as foolish
Mrs Sampson paused to measure a
hem She wore an air of lofty supe
riority
Miss Marvin looked like one whose
hour of triumph has arrived She knew
her old neighbor like a book She
nicked one edge of a length of cotton
cloth with her scissors and proceeded
to tear it with great deliberation
Before the cloth was torn in two the
entire sewing circle was wreathed in
smiles for there sat the prophet of self
control with her fingers in her ears
The citizens of Berlin have a sum
mary method of stopping the danger
ous practice of carrying sticks and um
brellas horizontally As soon as a man
tucks his umbrella under his arm he
will promptly feel a quick blow on it
from behind There is no use in his
getting sngry with the person who
strikes the blow because public opin
ion sanctions his conduct
Russia constituted the country of the
Russ a tribe who overran it at a very
early period The Russian empire was
founded by Ruric or Rourik a Scandi
navian chief whose death took placa
In the year A D S79
The 2nfceas faurname
Queen Victorias surname is Wettln
by marriage but an expert in geneal
ogy says that by birth she is an Este
rather than a Guelph She has claims
also to Fitz Alan Plantagenet Tudor
and Stuart It is a wise Queen wno
knows her own surname
Depend not on fortune but on con
duct Dont wait for something to
turn up by which you may gain an
easy position and good salary Work
your way up its harder but surer
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