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Reckless Daring.

We have been unable, of late wears.
ut least. to give the Republican party
credit formuch honesty of purpose. but il
= Is willing to stand upon the merits of
the record that it has made in Congress
the present session, we shall have to
place to its account such need of admit
ration rs may justly belong to reckless
daring. And yet rs conservative an ex-
ponent OF Republican policy and Repub-
llcan opinion rs our esteemed Court
street contemporary, has the presump-
ton to say that ga comparison of what
has been done by this Congress. with
what has has been done by the preced-
ing Democratic Congresses, will make
no Republican afraid" Referrino TO
MT Hewitt, the AdrcrtiSer says: ''Mr.
Hewitt Is one of the men who were de-
termined that this Congress should do
nothing. lie was emphatic in the ear
Ier part OF the session in his declara-
tons that Congress would pass the An
preparation bills and perhaps a Tariff
commission bill and then 90 home.
Wen. Jhe Republicans have been able
10 accomplish a few things besides these.
despite the obstruction policy of the
oAO SOln6 VI The InlnUS
they have accomplished--for example.
the exposure of the fraudulent prac-
tees OF the Southern Democrats
will make issues in the next cleo
ton as well as the matters which fill
MIR: Hewitts partisan eye" Mr.. Hew-
lit hardly needs any defense from us in
this connection. Instead of wanting to
60 home after passing Tariff Commits
sion bill, he, one of the heaviest manu-
iacturers in the country, suggested a
scheme of tariff revision that would have
made a Commission unnecessary had it
been adopted. But what have the Re-
publicans done that should entitle them
to further confidence? At the organi-
zation OF the House. they elected n
Speaker. at the dictation of as unscrup-
nlous . man as takes part IN public af-
fairs, the most Incompetent ifaah. ana
the most plastic tool of evil and DESIGN
ing men that ever occupied the Chair.
This was the initial step. Then these
same Republicans permitted. if they did
cot actively aid, Robson to organize
bis Committees as suited him, especially
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FACTS AND FIGURES.
"A New Yorker has been fined $500

"A New Yorker has been fined $500
for giving tobacco to giraffe.
We caught, cured and consumed
$50, 900, 900 worth of fish in 1881.
1t is estimated that 600, 600 acres of
Northern soil are given up to tobacco,
and that the crop viii reach $4,000
600 or $4,000, 000.-M Y. Graphic.
1t is estimated that there are. in
round numbers, 1.600, 900 employees of
the United States railroads, about one
thirty-second of the population of fifty
millions.
"A Great Northern Railroad train,
with an eight-feet single driver outside
cylinder engine, lately ran from Leeds
to London, 1861 miles, in exactly three
hours-sixty-two miles an hour.
Upward of $4,000, 900 letters and
postal-cards are posted daily in the
world; 3,418, 600, 600 letters are annual
ly distributed in Europe. l .246. OOO. 600
in America, $4,000, 600 in Asia, sc. OOO,-
600 in Austria and 1900. 900 in Africa.
The value of the hay crop in New
England, according to the statistician of
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington. is as follows: Maine, SIG, 1885,
74O; Massachusetts, S15.831, 456; Yer
mont. S12.293,11 Connecticut. S12.-
16O, 800; New Hampshire, 81, 925, 255;
Rhode Island, $1,728,24O. Total, $780,
383, 1904.
Ohio ranks as the third State in the
Union in the production of maple sugar.
Syrup is now the most profitable branch
OF the business, and last year there was
a most decided increase in its produc-
ton. Most of it is shipped to Eastern
cities. Ohio produced last year be-
tween 400, 700 and 100000 gallons of
syrup, and over 100000 pounds of
sugar. The product of the season of
1882 will be about the same.
The worlds production of lead is
about 100000 tons. The estimate for
Europe is as follows: Spain, 120, 600;
Germany, 10000; England, $1,000;
France, 10000; Italy, 10000; Greece,
5000; Belgium, S,000 Austria, 5000;
Russia, $4,000; making total of $780,
500 meter tons. The product of the
United States is estimated at 10000
tons. This places the United States the
second ore producing country in the
world. Spain leads us only in the
amount of 10000 tons, and has been
rapidly declining for the past few years.
We are now consumers of about one
fourth of the worlds lead product, and
bid fair by another year to take rank as
the first, and capable of furnishing a
surplus to the foreign markets.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

Here is suggestion which may do
you good:-If every man will mend one
we shall all be mended.
If you heed the insults of an enemy
you are but his equal, and yet the way
to stop his insults is to pound him until
he whoops for mercy.-DetrOit Free
Press.
You do not deal death blow to the
Darwinian theory by saying: ''Man
descended from the monkey, but what
did the monkey descend from?' The
monkey descended from the tree.
The thing now for city girls rusti-
eating in the country is to white minia-
ture hay-racks out of white wood and
send them to their admirers in town.
This probably signifies: Come and
make hay while the sun shines. ''-Chi-
cago Times.
-Neighbor's pretty daughter: .How
much is this yardP" Draper's SON
desperate spoons on her:-"Only one
kiss" If it's so cheap l. will take
three yards, and grandma will pay you. :"
He now sings
Thou art so pear, and yet so far
But it's wonderful how cute you are.
=" Somebody has left on our desk a
poem addressed to Lillian. We shall
not publish it. Not that it isn't pretty
good poetry. But we don't know
Lillian. This poet makes her out as
delicious. If she isn't, we don't want
to spread broadcast wrong impression
OF her; and if she is, We'll do the poetry
writing about her ourself. "-Bosto,a
Post.
-"Do we love old music" Bertap
Oh, indeed we do. That is the kind we
love. There is piano next door that
is now in the ninety-seventh year of it's
age, and it has the asthma so bad YOU
can't hear it ten feet away from the
keyboard. And compared with the
loud-sounding three-year- old across the
way, the antique is an angels whisper,
Huntington HdUkeye.
"A new fashion in earrings copies
the styles worn by Cleopatra, who bit
herself with an asp, and died before the
war. When Cleo. dressed to "mash''
Antony she wore a pair of earrings
which cost over half million dollars.
Ii this is the style now introduced, more
than one editors wife will have to
worry along another year without pair
of Cleopatra ear-rings.-Norristcwn
Herald.
The prevailing styles of dog for
this season will not be changed in any
marked degree. The window-brush
dog continues to continue in favor
among young women who have been
crossed in love and have the dyspepsia.
A favorite style of dog has a princess
nose, and is trimmed with an ostrich
plume tail tightly curled over the polo
naise. The Prince-Albert cutaway
sausage dog is not used in warm
weather. City dogs that undertake to
depopulate the country fields of the or
nate and festive bull will be gored.
Shaggy dogs viii be worn with the hair
boutfant around the neck, plain about
the waist and polonaise, and a pompa-
dour tail Brooklyn Eagle.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

80 y
Twenty seven missionaries for
China and Japan left San Francisco re-
Gently in one steamer.
The gifts of the late Edwin B. Nor
gan to Wells College, at Aurora, N. Y,
foot up about S36{,OO0.
-The London Saturday Recie,o
classes Michigan University as q
woman's college, because Ann Arbor is
q feminine name!
The School Directors of Mononga-
hela City, Pa. require every lady
teacher employed to sign contract not
to marry during the school year.
The Irish Presbyterian Synod has
adopted resolutions strongly condemn
ing the growing practice of sitting in
instead OF standing during prayers.
"A Union Church has been started
at Newheld, Conn, comprised of thirty
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Methodists. Bap-
lists and Congregationalists. Christian
Union.
Colonel Shorter. the Rome, Ga,
millionaire, left in his will beouest of
$50, 900 and one hundred shares of rail-
road Sock to the college that bears his
name, as permanent endowment. the
income therefrom to be usedfor the en-
ployment of teachers and the assist
ance of needy teachers. Chicago Times.
AT the commencement of Mount
Union College, Ohio, few days since,
it was stated that during the year the
attendance had been 515, with great
er average attendance than formerly,
and that the total number of students
from the origin of the college had been
1925, about one-fourth of them ladies,
and over one-half teachers.
An English newspaper writer says:
"Sermons. when for a charity, might
be reduced in length were everybody to
follow the example of friend of mine.
When sitting under one of these SER
mons, he places twenty shillings in his
pocket. After the sermon has lasted
twenty minutes, he deducts shilling
for each extra five minutes, and only
puts in the plate what remains. N
Y. Post.
1t is gradually becoming impressed
upon the public that to learn a few sim
pie things intelligently and with the
freshness of interest and liking is better
for a child than to commit to memory in
a perfunctory fashion a host of things
NulCH HIS pIIc III Will uOlHlDD UuC WGdrl-
ness and desire to get through quickly
and be done with it. Exact teaching
sullused with honest enthusiasm is the
boon which the future will bring. The
growth of public opinion in this direc-
ton has within the last two or three
years been astonishing. Chicago Jour
nal.
Bishop Louehlin. of Brooklyn, has
suspended the Rev. j. Dougherty, of
the Church of the Guardian Angel, at
Brighton Beach, because he had accepted
money that came from an Improper
source" Father Dougherty accepted
the offer made by Mr. Engeman of one
days proceeds of the race course. The
day was set and the amount realized
$4,000, which has been returned to Mr..
Engeman. The action of the Bishop
has been approved by most of the cler-
gy, but some of them think the rule
should be extended so as to prohibit lot
teries at church fairs. Christian Union.
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Superstition in Massachusetts,.

There is a great deal of superstition
yet remaining in the most civilized
States of the world. One of the most
recent illustrations of this comes from
Massachusetts,. At Fall River, about a
year ago house belonging to an aged
blind woman was sold under foreclos-
ure of mortage, and the old woman
cursed the parties concerned in the sale
and prayed that whoever took the house
might become blind. The purchaser,
another old lady, was deeply grieved by
her threats, and was never happy in the
house. Her health rapidly declined and
he took to her bed. For several weeks
before her death she was blind, and
ONE of her friends have thought that
he agitation caused by the old woman S
curses worked upon her imagination and
finally caused her death--Ez.
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the Naval Committee and the STEERING
Committee. In the seating of Southern
contestants, upon which the advertiser
bases its claim for endorsement, the
plots of Robson and his crowd were
again successful, and the ruling of Robe
sons Speaker was in such total disre.
gard of parliamentary law and privi-
lege, that to pronounce it arbitrary
would be a very mild characteri-
cation. From all over the coun-
try there was demand for reyi-
sion of the tariff. Instead of CONSIDERING
the question squarely and honestly. az
Mr.. Hewitt was ready and anxious to
do, the Republicans devised, or at least
Endorsed. that impudent proposition.
the Tariff Commission, which was
shown well enough at the time and
with greater clearness since, to be a
pitiable make-shift. The Democrats
when in a majority, abolished the lob
by; the Republicans restored it. The
Democrats cut down the cost of run
ming the Government many millions;
the Republicans have brought forward
old Jobs and invented new ones to dis
pose of a surplus that has been wrung
from the people in unnecessary taxa
ton, with results that we now see in
the strikes of hundred thousand men
in various parts of the country. Are
not the Republicans afraid of this?
Then, indeed, have they weak con-
ception of their own iniquities. or else
a striking contempt for the acuteness
and moral sense of the people, con-
tempt which will be well deserved, if
the latter do not put the stamp of their
condemnation upon the most shame
less Congress that this country has ever
known. Post.
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are pleased TO state that such prejudice does not
exist against g ARGLING OIL. We do not claiIr
wonders or miracles for our liniment but we
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-08-18

One of the Dundreary visitors to
the recent London dog show paid $780,
600 for bulldog which was milk white
with red, blood-shot eyes, his chops
falling each side of his jaw, with set of
teeth thatwhen he smiles sends the spec
tators back yard or two as matter of
precaution. Free Press.
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"A St Louis detective thinks that
blackmailers in that city get $50, 600 q
year.
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Resolutions never arise spontaneous
~. They always have to be drawn up.
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cleS lot our IMMINENT, DIT we
do claim tbs without an equal.
lit is put up in bottles of three
sizes, and ali we ask Is thai
you give ii q fair trial. remem
|bering that the Oil put up with
white wrapper tsmalD is fol
human aud fowl flesh. and
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As these cuts Indicate, the Oil Is used sue
cessfully for all diseases Of the hannah, fou
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-09-09
What Can Wealth DO ?

The following story is told of Ja-
cob Ridgeway, wealthy citizen OF
Philadelphia, who died many years
ago, leaving a fortune of FIVE or six
million dollars,
'Mr. Ridgeway," said young
man with whom the millionaire was
conversing, "you are more to be en-
wed than any gentleman | know
"Why so ?" responded Mr., Ridge
way. II am not aware Of any cause
for which | should be particularly
envied."
"What, sir - exclaimed the young
man in establishment. "Why you
are millionaire Think of the
thousands your income brings you
every month ~
"Well, what of that ?" replied
Mr.. Ridgeway. "All l get out of it
is my victuals and clothes, and |
can't eat more than one mans al
lowanee, nor wear more than suit
at time. Pray, can't you do as
much 20
"Ah, but" said the youth, "think
of the hundreds Of fine houses you
own, and the rentals they bring
you."
"What better am off for that ~
replied the rich man. II can only
live in one house at a time, as for
the money | receive for rents, why
can't eat it or wear it; | can only
use 1T to buy for others to live in;
they are the beneficiaries, not l."
"But you can buy splendid furni-
ture, and costly pictures, and fine
horses and carriages-in fact, any.
thing you desire"
"Aud after ] have bought them, 2
replied Mr.. Ridgeway, "what then ?
| can only look at the furniture and
pictures, and the poorest man, who
is not blind, can do the same. | can
ride no easier in fine carriage than
you can in an omnibus for five cents,
without the trouble of attending to
drivers, footmen and hostlers; and
as to anything | desire, | can tell
you young man, that the less we de-
sire in this world, the happier we
shall be. All my wealth can't buy a
single day more of life-power to
keep afar off the horn of death, and
then, what will avail, when, in a
few short years at most, | lie down
in the grave and leave it all forever
Young man, you have no reason to
envy me.
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says. There, don't say any more
aoout that. am not the first that
mas peen roughly awakened. And
you iook so contented, Phil, | almost
blind.n - -
1T seems strange" said my son,
thoughtfully. Here you, with all
you have to offer, are refused: while
/, with nothing on earth to recon-
mend me, have won what | never
dared to hope for. l am going to be
married.
fellow ~
ITO Miss Carroll" Philip added.
ut seems an awful sacrifice on her
part, but | am human.n
Nelson Vores started as though he
had been struck, and his very lips
went white. His eyes met mine, and
he saw that | understood.
A minutes pause and then he said
quietly:
Il congratulate you with all my
heart"
When he went away he beckoned
to me, and | followed him into the
hall.
"Never tell him." he said in a
whisper. 1t would only sadden him.
Promise me?"
And | promised.
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Bad Cow BOY.
Virginia City Enterprise

Virginia City Enterprise
The bad cowboy from Bitter Greek
was on the Comstock last night. He
went into the Gem saloon and thus
described himself I'm race horse
in advance and tortoise in retreat !
When you hear my voice from the
racket you can begin to measure off
land for a graveyard J" About this
time the trace horse found himself
doubled up ia a corner. aud as he
sadly wiped the dripping blood from
his nose and bullying upper lip he ex-
claimed 81 didn't mean to cast no
slurs onto this place, for here | know
the lands measured off and the
graveyard established.
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without Money, Home or
Friends.
Baltimore American

On Sunday morning woman ar
rived at Calvert Station, on the Chi
eago express who, it was discovered,
was unable to walk. Officer Deaner.
who was near by, hearing that the
woman was not only helpless, but
had no place to go, had her removed
to the City Hospital DR.. Thomas,
upon examination, found the woman
speeches. and paralyzed in her lower
limbs, besides suffering from other
troubles. The woman is progresses
ing in appearance and attractive in
manner. A wealth of black hair
was combed straight back from a
very high forehead; dark brown eyes,
shaded by very long lashes, a decid-
edly Roman nose and a firm, reso-
lutte mounth completed face on
which intellectually was stamped
in every feature. She can hear dis
tinctly every word uttered, but has
to resort to a pencil to reply, which
she uses very rapidly. She is only 2S
years. When asked about herself
she wrote the following pathetic
story: MY maiden name was Es-
tella Russell. | was adopted when
two weeks old 10y a family of that
name, then residing at No. 234 South
Eutaw street but oil of them, as |
learn, died some years ago. | lived
with this family until | attained my
fifteenth year, when | became ae-
qainted with Walter Lawrence, Il
young lawyer of st. Paul, Mimi,
and after short courtship we were
married, and went to reside at st.
Paul, where my husband practiced
his profession until a year ago, when
he died, leaving me helpless and with
but little means. Three months be-
fore the death of my husband | was
paralyZed, as you see now, becoming
a burden to everybody. | was the
mother Of five children, all Of whom
are buried. After the death OF my
husband / spent nearly all the money
| had trying to get cured, but to nc
purpose. Finding that my means
had given out, | applied to the city
authorities for aid, which they re
fused me, and advised me togo home
to my native city (Baltimore), anc
the authorities here would allow me
to enter the hospital" She is al
present at the hospital, where every
thing possible is being done for hel
comfort. She will remain there UNI
Til some permanent abode shall be
provided for her. The case appeals
very strongly to the charitable. Il
will be remembered that The Amer5
can, short time since, noticed the
receipt Of a letter by Mayor White
from a physician in st. Paul, asking
if any information could be had Of 0
woman named Russell or Lawrence
In that letter were stated facts
which corroborate the woman'S
statement at the hospital that she
had been refused the charity of 9
community where she had resided
thirteen years, and where her hus-
band had been a worthy citizen.
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The copper mines now worked in
Michigan on the shores of Lake SUI
perior, are situated on the workings
of that interesting race, the copper
miners Of Lake Superior. Their ex-
cavations can be readily traced to a
depth of from ten to twenty feet in
the solid rock, Their pits, on the
Isle Royale alone cover an area OF
more than u mile and half in
length. Their hammers are found
frequently in large heaps Although
they carried away an enormous guam
tity Of copper, and must have work
ed through many years, yet they
seem never to have known that cop
per could be snelted, for they left all
fragments too heavy TO use, and the
masses too heavy to lift, and no
traces of the action Of fire have ever
been discovered. Some Cornish
miners working recently in the old
mines, cut down dead cedar. AS
they were hewing it out small but
perfectly formed hammer dropped
from the tree. The tree was found
to be nearly $50 years old, and has
been dead for hundreds Of years
How curious it is that the Cornish
miners have come from the East to
continue the work Of a departed
.tsiatic race who came from the
| West at a period far back in the dis
| tant and shadowY past !-EC.
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Consumption.

II is said tina $4,000 people die
annually ia che United States,
alone, from this disease. 10 some
sections Of the country, one death
in every three IS from consump-
ton. This can be, and should be
avoided; our people are too care
less ahou. AN ordinary cough or
cold, aud other symptoms Of lung
and throat affection that leads to
this disease. You should arrest il
while in the germ. Two or three
doses OF DR.. Boslnk0s Cough and
Lung Syrup viii relieve an ordi-
nary cough or cold. II does not
dry up cough like many prepar-
atoms en- toe market and leave
the disease behind IL, bu- acts di-
rectly on the throat and bronchial
tubes, removing all tho phlegm
and morbid matter that aecumu-
lates in the throat and lungs II
allays all irritation, and renders
tho voice clear aud distinct. Sold
by G. w. Bowman, Druggist.
aug 5 ~.
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