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Eating and Dxspepsia.

1t Is an old German adage that
"Mere people dig their own graves
with their teeth than with Spades
and verify, ii would seem so, If we
look at the immense number of
dyspeptic, rheumatic, and equity
individuals, creeping through life
in pain and wreichedness. Yet 1t
is next to impossible to induce
even thinking people to control
their appelltes, and to eat such
things and at such times as nature
shows them are necessary and
right. DE- dali declares unhesi-
tatingly that 1t is wrong to eat
without an appetite, for it shows
there Is no gastIic juice in the
stomach, and that nature does not
Iced food; and not needing it.,
there being no fluid to act up n 1t,
it remains there only to purify,
the very thought of which should
be sufficient to deter any man
from eating without an appetite
the remainder of his life If q
tonic is taken to whet the appetite,
It is mistaken course, for its only
result Is to cause ono to eat more,
when already All amount has been
eaten beyond what the gastric
juice is able 70 prepare. The OBJ
ject to be obtained is large sup
ply Of CAST ic juice; whatever fails
to accomplish that essential object
failsto have any efficacy toward the
cure of dyspeptic diseases. The
formation of gastric juice il d.
rectly proportioned tOthe wear
and tear OF the system, which it ia
to be the means of supplying, and
this wear and tear can only take
place as the result of exercise. The
efficient remedy for dyspeptics is
wOrk-OutdoOr wOrk-beneficial
and successful in direct proper
tion as 1t is agreeable, interesting,
and profitable.
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The Decline In Gold.

Were it not for our political
complications, we should perceive
a marked decline in gold, or
rather Il marked rise i'm the valne
of the paper dollar. The turn in
the balance of trads is bringing
gold into the country to the
amount of between one and two
millions a week, and as the i'm
ports continue to shrink, the de-
mand tor gold to pay customs du-
ties is light. A few months con.
finance of the present receipts OF
gold, with political tranquility,
might take the question ofresump.
tion out of the limbo of politics,
though some legislation might be
necessary to prevent a recurrence
ofdrain. The gold premium was
down TO 1881 Wednesday, and
closed at 1888. Al this rate the
paper dollar is worth 81 cents in
gold.
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How to Make COLLECTIONS.

There lisa collector in Virginia
City who knows a thing or two,
When he drops in on republican,
he remarks:
"Well, they've settled it final
ly.'
'How's that ?"
"Tilden gives up the fight. En-
terprise just got the dispatch and
SO did the Chronicle"
Good enough. Eurrah for
Hayes !"(Jumps around the room
and yells.)
by the way. I've got little
bill of $45 against you"
"All right. just receipt it, aud
here's your coin, I'll pay any man
$45 for such good news as that
Now I'll 90 out and collect my
bets Exit republican in a state
Of hilarity to collect a sos bet on
Hayes.)
The bill collector now reaches a
Tllden man, and opens up as fol-
lows.
"Well, Hayes gives it up.
Whole thing settled"
BULLY for our side knew it all
the time"
"Pve got little bill here-$63.-
80.
Pass it right over here's the
coin. I'll win five times AS much.
Guess I'll 60 out and collect my
bets" Exit rilden democrat to
rake In his lucre. )-Virginial New
Chronicle.
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ADeceptfve Widow.

From N. Quad's Detroit Free Pressl
James Rohbin> of National ave-
nue., has been missing for several
days, but there Is no anxiety
around his house to learn his fate.
His wife knew what caused him
to disapp, ar, and she is willing to
let him get good ready to come
back. Robbins married lone
widow about four months ago, and
they had not been welded two
weeks more when he gave her
beating. She overlooked 1t then,
thinking he would soon tone
down, but in week more he
BACKED her eyes. In brief, Rob
bins turned out to be a brute of a
husband, and the ex-widow is said
to be meek and humble i'm spirit
and Robbins had no excuse for his
brutality. -Four or five days ago
he knocked her down and started
OF up town, and the wife crawled
over to q butchers, to see about
having Robbins arrested. The
butcher, who weighs one hundred
and ninety pounds and has a fist
like a maui, knew a better way
than going to the police, and he
unfOlded q plan.
When Robbins reached home
that evening the house was dark,
and the butcher, dressed in wo-
mems clothes and with his jaws
tied up set In the rocking chair.
"Why in blazes isn't supper
ready?' howled Robbins as he
stosd in the door.
The butcher grOaned
"Grunting around again, are
you?' shouted Robbins. "What's
the matter now?"
The butcher groaned again.
you f ell too high-toned to an
swer me, do you?" grOWled the
wife peater. swell well see about
that. Just tase this will YOU"
He struck out, hut the disguised
butcher caught his wrist, sprang
up; and there was fun in that cot
tage. He cllOked Robbins almost
to death, tied him up ia hard
knots and united him, drew him
around by the heels and hair, and
finally picked him up and tossed
him over the fence into tie mud.
The wife-beater kept up a steady
forOm the first attack, and As he
arose from the mud and sped down
street he seemed to think that
Sitting Bulls whole fighting force
were after him Ateleven O'Clock
that night he entered a Michigan
avenue saloon and told u slo,y
about six men robbing him, and
half an hour later, rs he was Prov
ling around a shed to find u place
TO sleep, /. policeman heard him
saying:
Nose smashed. eyes bunged up.
sore throat, bruised ail over, and
awful sleepy what u deceiving
person q widow W man is !"
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Political Facts and Fancies

When your party does mean
thing you call ii fighting for the
right when the other party does
II you call it despicable trick. -
N. Y. Herald. An eel is not as
slippery az q politician, butt can
live on water longer. Andrews
Bazaar. And now the republican
papers speak OF the squad of sol
diers in the South Carolina state
house as the servant girl spoke OF
her untimely offspring-"a very
little one."-Worcester Press.
Kellogg had a little board;
As black as any crow,
And every way that Kellogg went
The board was sure to 90.
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HOTELS.
Everett House
CORNER QUEEN AND BuRKs STREETS.
VIM. Rutledge Proprietor

This popular House has been thorough
~ renovated, and the present proprie
tor who assumed charge on the LIST .
April, is now prepared to accommodate
guests in the most com portable and SAT-
isfactory manner. The House contains
"a chambers, all of which have been
handsomely furnished with new furnf-
ture.
THE TABLE will be we'll supplied
with the best the market affords, pre-
pared by experienced cooks. Charges
moderate.
THE BAR will be supplied with .
choice variety of Pure Wines and
Liquors.
Abundant Stable room. with atten-
tive Ostlers'
Myold patrons and the gener al pub
ic are invited to give me a call.
April 7.-1y.-W
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The cause of very much of hu-
man discomfort and suffering ex-
lists in the blood, when becoming
vitiated, poisons the system and
indexes Skin Diseases, Liver Com
plant, &c. DR.. Bulls Vegetable
Pills cleanse and purify the blood
and thereby remove the disorders
named. Price only 70 cents--5 for
81.
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ESTABLISHED 1895.
American and Foreign Pat.
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resenting the Second district in
Congress, who was minister to
France under President Buchan-
an, and an amateur member Of
.Stonewall" Jackson's staff dur
ing the war, is sometimes spoken
of as d competitor with mr.. Davis.
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Sheep and Cattle Raising

can be found anywhere. The soil is quite
productive, and adapted to clover aud
grass of all kinds. There is now growing
on it as fine crop Of wheat as caa be
found in the country. The CTS acres is
50 located that it can be easily divided
into three goad farms
Being DESTROYS o. moving into another
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FRUIT OF ALL KINDS

in good bearing condition, and large
young peach orchard The second tract
has good log house, eatherboarded
good barn and other outbuildings; good
fruit and good water in the yard. The
third tract has comfortable tenant
house good spring of water, &c.
A large portion &C the land is the finest
qnalty OF bottom, a. now in grass -
The farm is admirably "a Ap'ed to graz
ing, and no better location TO.
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VIII Sell at a Great Bargain

if application is made soon, and give the
purchaser easy terms on back payments.
Any one wishing TO engage in the sheep
and cattle raising business, will find this
especially splendid opportunity -
Persons desi ing further Information will
call on or address the subscrioor, living
on the farm r. NJ PAWLING,
Hedgesville, Berkeley Co,
West Virginia
May q, 1916. If,
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old Bounty Land Warrants.

The last Report OF the Commissioner Of
the General Land Office shows 2.S97, 5Ot
acres Bounty Land Warrants outstand
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1855 and prior acts. GILMORE l. co
pay cash for them. Send by reg stored
letter Where Assignments are imper
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Three Dwelling Houses,

and outbuildings. The first is a new
frame house containing eight rooms, good
frame barn and necessary outbuildings ;
good well of water in the ward
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United States General Land
Office.

Contested Land Cases prosecuted before
toe United States General Land Office
and Department ofihe Interior Priva.e
Land Claims, MINING and PRE- HMprI
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to-
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The midnight marauder should
not be banished from our dwelling
any more quickly than should a
cold Of any kind be driven from
the system. DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup quietly but positively places
all colds under it's control.
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675 ACRES;

divided into three tracts, 275 acres of
which are cleared and the balance HEAV-
lily TIMBEBED. Two never-failing
streams run through the farm. The farm
has on il
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There are upwards of 5000
school children in Monongalia
county.
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A man with four wives was

A man with four wives was
brought before a Dutch justice for
commitment on charge of biga-
my. -Four wives !" exclaimed the
astonished Hans, flour wives Dat
vas a most hinOciOus crime. Dis
charge him at vonst." "Why,"
protested tue prosecutor-"why
discharge MIN when the proof is
positive? "Will the court ex-
plain?" "Yes, I ecxsplains Of
he lif NIT four wives he got bun
ishment enough. / lif NIT Won,
und got too much punishment
already.
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I'm fp9fEF a . ard Morphine habit absolutely ey9
kUuHE WN speedily cured. Painless no publicly
h MILNE Send stamp for Particular Z. DR. Ca<s
w " ~ AEAton- Isl Washington ST. Chicago IN
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Dress Goods.

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A VALUABLE
Berkeley Co. Farm
FOR SALE

T>HR UNDERSIGNED, having deter.
mined to discontinue farming, OIL
fers at private sale his farm locaIed 81
miles west of Hedgesville, in Berkeley
County, West Va, and within d miles,
(nearest point) of the B. Il o. r. r., and
laying immediately on the Warm Spring
road. The farm CONTAINS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

Our committee OF citizens appointed -
urge upon the Republican Com mittee he Sc
lection OF Washington as thu place for hold
iDg the National Republican convention
have not succeeded In their mission. though
they labored strenuOusly that end. Politi-
cal considerations have entered into the
question ofthe place for the convention, aud
have settled the matter. Tue effort To have
1t held in Washington, though apparently
fruitless, is not really so. Communities, as
well as individuals, are respected very much
IN proportion as they respect themselves,
and as the people of Washington are entitled
10 claim that the National Capital in its
improved condition affords the best point in
the country for the holding Of ali kinds OF
national meetings or conventions, they Will
rot be respected any the less for advancing
that claim with sarnestness upon all proper
occasions. They have succeeded so well in
establishing this point already that large
proportion OF the national meetings Of pro-
iessiOnal associations. trades associations,
religious associations, &c, are nov rcsu-
larry held here; and IL was quite proper that
they should now set forth the ike a1van-
tages that Washington presents as the site
for political national conventions. Ana
though, as above stated, the effort has faiIeI
in the case of the republican convention, on
account Of some special poll Teal cOnSiiera-
tiOns, our citizens who took part In that
effort will not probably feel Al all dsheart-
ened by the failure, but will keep the BAH in
motion until the just claims OF Washington
as central, convenient, and particularly
fitting meeting place for national orsaniza-
tions of ali kinds, shall be fully estabiishet.
Next to be settled is the meeting place for
the National Democratic Convention; and
as the same political considerations that
affected the republican Commuters choice
will hardly prevail In the case of the demo-
cratic convention, 1t will perhaps be pOssi-
BILE TO secure the sele ,tion of Washington
city as the place OF asssmblage for that
body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

While there is plenty Of room for reform in
the matter of salaries paid government
clerks, Mr.. Dibrell's bill, which was printed
In The STAR day or two ago, hardly meets
the case. Examples can be found in almost
every department where a male clerk re-
ceives 81 500 for doing a certain class Of
work, and where female clerk doing pre-
cisely the same kind of work, and doing it
equally well, gets but 5000 per annum for her
services Instances are also common where
clerks receiving 81 200, do the same work as
higher grade clerks who receive several hun
dred dollars more for their services than the
amount named. These inequalities ought 10
be remedied, and can be by carefully pre-
pared measure which would recognize the
principle that employees doing the same
WORK, and doing il equally well, should re-
ceive the same compensation, no referen &C
being made to sex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

THE wEIKLY STAk, now ready, contains
the interesting proceedings In Congress the
past week, social and personal gossip,
political notes, court proceedings, choice
stories. all the news of the week, general AMI
local; poems and sketches; agricultural and
household matters, etc, etc.
TeT-DLs- - per annum, In advance: postage
prepaid; single copies i've cents, " TraPpers
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Tie southern papers are quite sure they
don't like Mr.. Blaine's speech. Tue Rich
InOud Enquirer says: "One hardly knows
which 10 cespise the most, the m2lignity or
the senselessneSs OF these professional ayi-
tators;" the DtPd.ch colcluIes that he is
only .scurvy politician" aud the Whining
ton SGr feOls impellcd 10 apoStrophiZe hi III
thus: Blaine, Jim Blaine. miserable trick
ster, small potato statesman, do you think
you are writing your name among the Presi-
dents by any such act as that STAB at JsTer-
son Hay.S9-'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

The New York ECe7liHg Post arraigns Rep
resentative Cox for the use OF the word lam
I estical." 1t says that ''if he persists in this
AndeI sonville outrage upon the language he
will be sentenced TO capital punishment,
more capital than any OF his own jokes in
the House of Representatives, without ben
1T OF clergy-not even of a Congressional
chaplain" The "ridiculOsity' (as Mr.. sum
Eer would say of such a term as "amuesti-
cal" is not TO be denied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

The Cincinnati delegation IN Washington
are reported a. confident OF tleir ability TO
capture the National Republican COnveu-
ton and bring IL 10 this city.-Ci1cuUIIsi Ga
zefe.
Well, they did succeed, and now they have
the assurance 10 say that they will take in
the Democratic Convention, too. Insatiate
PorkopOIis, could not one suffice?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

Gen. Banks resumed his old time position
rs one OF the finest orators IN the House in
his speech on amnesty yesterday. Tue beau
" OF his language and the grace OF his de-
livery secured sor him the closest attention
on both sides OF the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

II now appears that Lands, OF Nineland,
who shot the editor Carruth, began 10 get
insane ~ 1852. and that he kept getting grad
uaIly worse until he hrei the fatal shot,
when he vas downright mad. AS Marx
Twain woG.G put it, we know this to be true
because his counsel say so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

Louisiana is nothing if not farcical. The
recent pretended election of a United States
Senator cannot be said to complicate tire
senatorial question. II IL has any special
effect IL will probably be 20 increase M
Pirehback's chances for seat in the Senate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

Smart Mr.. Cox, of the House, was not very
fortunate in the selection Of the epitAet he
applied 10 Mr.. Blaine yesterday. The latter
very sensibly declined TO notice it, and went
on with / is speech. The loss of temper gen
orally involves the loss Of wit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

The two parties in the House can now take
an account OF stock, and estimate profit and
loss on the late operations for party capital.
On the whole, and charging mp Blaine's mis-
taxes at their fullest figure, ii will generally
be held by cool observers that the republic
cans have made the most, or rather, perhaps,
have lost the least by the House debate this
week. That the democratic leaders have felt
this 10 be the case is to be seen from the
fact that they have brought the debate to
close as speedily as possible, and that
the speeches Of MeSSTs. Hill and Cox, mach
as they were applauded on their delivery
have been prudently held back for GRE
vision or, in other words, to be dOctored,
to the end that they shall afford as little ma
terial as possible for republican campaign
purposes. But with all revision and ex-
cision, 10 Will be practically impossible to
make them anything but distastefuI to the
great Union sentiment of the north and west ,
and If they are used at all for campaign p1r-
poses we may feel assured that IL will be the
republicans who will print and circulate
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

The Charleston Ne,cs says n amnesty: nc
centennial appropriation.
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The Baltimore sun appeals to Congress to
rass the Centennial appropriation bill, aud
very properly says it is a matter with
which no partisan or sectional consideration
should be permitted to interfere. at COM
memorates,' says the S6, "a declaration
which was the work of a Virginian. and
which another NiIginian led in making
good by his sword. To ignore tine Centen-
NAL is 10 ignore the wisdom and valOr of the
southern statesmen and soldiers of a century
ago, quite az much as of the northern"
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The rooms are spacious, yery light, deliberately
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The FIRM Of N ASH SHO2B IL, this 18th day Of
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