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Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and nc.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial In its
effects. prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure 1t promptly for any one who
wishes to try it do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SKRUP ca.
SAN FRANCISCO. cal.
LOUISVILLE, E. Anew EORK HG
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From the Hawxflle Clarion.

From Puck.
At the regular meeting of the Literary
Society, last "Wednesday night. the sub
iect of debate, Resolved, That the Average
Greek Citizen OF the Time of Pericles Was
Fitted by Education and Culture 20 Enter
the Best Society Of Our Booming Little
CITY,, was decided In the affirmative.
During the evening certain anonymous
persons persisted In hanging their heads
In at the open windows and INDUCING in
uncalled-for criticisms. and this con tin ued
TIL forbearance ceased TO be q virtue and
the Rev. Mr. Harps, who was one Of the
judges of debate, suddenly whipped out the
revolver which was presented to him last
Christmas by his Sabbath school class Of
young ladies. ana fired with such excellent
aim that the bullet nipped OF the lobe Of
one of the rowdies' ears. after which no
further remarks were heard from that
source. With the exception of this incident
evening.
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man named Bub Drake was seated on
his front porch playing on a violin near
Huntington. w. Va, the other might when
an unknown man on horseback shot him
dead with Winchester. The man then
put spurs to his horse and escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-12
Not a Tenant.

From Good News.
Neighbor-"Does your father rent that
house you live imp
Boy-"No, indeed. It's his own house,
every bit Of 1t. It's been bought and paid
for and insured and mortgaged and every
thing"
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Not JOurnalistfc.
From Vogue

Great Editor-"That new society reporter
will not do. He has not mastered the first
principles of modern journalism
Manager-"Eh, what is the MATER"
Great Editor He says handsomely
dressed instead Of 'smartlY gowned.'"
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Transformation.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
II hear that the literary club made quite
a lion of Tirnmins on account OF his latest
poem"
Yes. they kept 1t up till they made al
ass OF him.
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Fransferrel.
From the Clothier and Furnisher.

From the Cothier and Furnisher.
Parke Lane-"Whst do you think Of this
ready made suit, old man? Since got
married. you know. 1 have 10 be economi-
cal"
Baxter-"Of course. But you don't mean
to say you have given up your tailor?"
Parke Lane-"Oh. no. Ny wife has him
now"
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Obvious.

Prom the Detroit Tribune
Miss Singletree-"After he rushed upon
me and kissed me he was much confused
and declared that ii was all a mistake
Miss Greeneigh-"Of course. You could do
nothing but believe him
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They'd Never Get TAroasA.

From Puck.
Mrs. strongmind-"why should NOT vo-
men do all the piano tuning In the c0un-
try? Tell me that"
Mrs. DeWsgg-"They might manage with
uprtghts, but they would never get thr 3ugh
with the other kinds. When the lid Of q
square or grand 10 raised It becomes Q
mirror"
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His Finishfng Touch.


He may not be altogether original. but he
fmparts to everything something Of his
own"
Yes: he win take up q fellows bon-mot
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A Common Edffton

From vashingtOn-
My darling" protested De Graf. my
life IS an open book"
Yes sighed his wife. but much Of the
print is very bad"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-12

BUTTS BR0Ao LIrHIA cures sick headache, men,
"a gia and insomnia where all other brOmos fail.
Three doses, 10 cents
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WHEN pam and anguish wiring the brow
ministering angel tEou"-Bromo-Seltzer
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From the Chicago Record.
The FAN of silver.

Teacher-'lf potatoes were 50 cents a
bushel, how many bushels could I buy
with this nice shiny dollar I have in my
hand?"
Tommy twho has heard his father discuss
finance)-'One"
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EXPELLED

EXPELLED
every poison
and inpurity of
your blood, by DR..
Pierce's Golden
Medical Discov-
cry. Then there's
q clear skin and O
clean system. Tet-
ter, Salt rheum,
Eo1nn,a Er,-.-,.o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-12

The assessors estimate that Boston's pop
ulation is about 560 900. The census returns
OF 1880 gave the city a population of only
446,510.
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In the main, / believe that the PRINCIPLES
of organized labor are correct, and that
they make for the elevation of our race.
Certainly a reduction of the hours of la Dor
Is in that direction, and will be more surely
brought about if there Is concert Of action
by great masses than II individuals sickle
for personal liberty in such matters. If
the Senator acknowledges the right of
trades unions to exist at al1-and ne does
as is prudent. in view of what the future
may bring forth-he ought not to lay too
much stress on the rights of individuals in
the matter of fixing scales of wages and
hours of work. 1 would suggest that dis
QUESTION on personal liberty and individual
rights in machine politics, from the pen of
the Senator. would he much more interest
ing to the public than anything he may say
about American courts or organized labor.
am sure that your correspondent will be
utterly unable to convince any thinking
man by any quotation he may make from
Senator Hills speech.
Your correspondent quotes some rather
mild utterances from the Alarm of July,
1887. which he says were written by Par
sons His object is evidently to Offset the
many seditious and mUrderous utterances
of Parsons which appeared in my article.
The value of his quotations will be appre-
ciated when IL is known that in July, 1851
Parsons was confined in the Cook county
jail. and was under sentence of death.
The Supreme Court was at that time con-
slderlng the case of "SDies ct al VS.. the
People" and in the following September af-
firmed the judgment of the lower court 1t
is not TO be presumed that under the cir
cumstances the ''minions of the law would
permit him to write anything for that fire
brand sheet. and II they did, II would not
be of such an incendiary character as the
articles that were put in evidence at the
trial. Equally valueless is your correspond
ents assertion that the revolutionary ar
ticles were written by a space writer on a
Chicago daily paper. The record of the Su-
prerne Court of Illinois, which 1 have at
hand, shows that the Alarm and AR
better Zeitung," with all the articles I
quoted. and many columns more in the
same strain, were put in evidence at the
trial. When we consider that each paDer
circulated several thousand copies in Chi
cago. II would surely not be a difficult mat
ter TO procure copies to put in evidence.
The Petitions of Pardon.
As an evidence that the anarchists were
innocent and that Altseld was justified in
pardoning them. your correspondent pa
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condition for the most rigid inspection.
By order of Mai. Burton r. Ross,
WILLIAM NJ. ARNOLD,
First Lieutenant and Adjutant.
The Roster.
The men to make the trip will be:
Col VIM. G. Moore, colonel commanding.
Commissioned staff - Major Burton r.
Ross. Capt. Allison Nailor, jr.. commissary
Capt. f.. G. Schaeffer, paymaster; Capt. z.
G. Wheeler, ordnance officer; Capt. A. w
engineer; Lieut. Charles Ebert, inspector
rifle practice: Lieut. Chas. r. Luce, assist
ant surgeon; Lieut.. VIM. NJ. Arnold, adJu-
tant.
Non-commissioned staff-Serst. Maj. Jesse
F. Grant. Color sergt. E. P. Humphrey,
Quartermaster Sergt. o. V. Shomo. Hos
pital Steward Harry Kenner.
Company, A Captain. Chas. c; NJ; Loer-
Ter; second lieutenant. Harry J. Keoush
sergeants, Arthur NJ. Muzzy. John II. ST.,
ton IT, Joseph F. r Janezec2 Ahert
Harry T. Leach, Everett l.. Phillips. 10y
Hill: privates, George H. Brown, Alfred
s sef5s frank aIa : Grown o1 George s Gft
ConnOr. George H. F. Davis Thomas H.
De Forest James c. Graves, Charles u.
ioas Nnnes Charles }9sfs iuf RoSsp
Nicely, Herman J. Niedfeldt, William H.
Oliver, John NJ smoot. A. l.. stoddard,
Edward J. Taylor, Roderick d. Watson,
Charles T. Wright, Charles G. Whelan, ".
W. Garrett, F. T. Glover and r. T.. Gw,nnc.
Company B-Ftrst Lieut. Chas. NJ. Shreve
Sergts. w. f. Thompson H. o. Plugee
Frank l.. Ourand, p s. Schneider Corpo-
rails j. F. Burdine. }. C. Speer. II. c. James
L. u. Walker, Privates H. BIRMINGHAM r.
s. Brandt. w. A. Boyd, Edward Demaine
w. ID. Davidge, jr.; Leslie Duvar. c. j.
Hammond, c. l.. Hosch c. c. Hassler
Francis Javins, Edward J. Jarboe Chas
w. King Jr.; X. Leahy, NJ. T. O'Brien, j.
c. O'Laughlin. j. E. Payne. Harry Queen,
Arthur Suit. Marshal L. Smith, w F. Stew
art, h. I. Scott, c. Z. Slentz, G. w. Smith
Frank \. Wells. Walter Worthing ton, and
company Capt. c. H. ourand, FRS,
Lieut.. j. n. CARL. Second Lieut. C. H
kettler, Sergts. B. Frank Kirschner
Claude Z: Haines, p. NJ. Kennerly, Corpo-
rails +. Al. Thompson, ]. H. Krouse b. g
Davis, T. j. Haltigan, Privates A. H. Ana
dale. NJ. l.. Curtin E. c. Coleman, c. O.
Doten. Coy Hinebaugh, c. E. Heard, Nc
Gleliand Jones F: Kelly, Otto Landgraf
J; j. MeDonough, w. G. Mcintyre, James
Smyth. N. w. Smith. Henry Raabe, and ]
Watts.
Company D-Capt. John S. Miller, FRS,
Lieut.. Duffy, Second Lieut. Bell, Sergts
Wise. j: B. K. Lee. Zea, HeydIer, Corp
House, Privates Ashburn, Samuel Brown
William Brown, Brentney, Chapman, Con.
nell, H. Chamberlin. G. Chamberlin. Crow
ley, Dix, Ennis, Finley, Grabill, Gum, Hi.
ton, Keane. Kidwell, Lavender, w, S. Lee
Harry Lee. Macintosh Mattern, Miller
Reinmuth. Stearns. Thorowgood. Tucker
Waters. Wisner. Milleke, Yates and
Frales.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1893-11-04

We land creatures ARE very proud OF our
YES. We think we are 80 superior Ia
|ry way TO the creatures that dwell in
seas. aud when we discover that we
n make steamship, which under ftvora-
he conditions can travel from New York
o Queenstown In a trihe under six dogs,
We call that vessel an ocean greyhound.
Why we should givea greyhound the credit
for all the speed In creation -among living
things-is not quite clear to those who
know something about whales. The whale
Is not only a creature OF groat strength. but
he IS one et the most rapid Of moving
things Ho can go faster than a locomo-
tive when he gets his muscular steam up,
~ you will sec Tor yourselves when o
realize the fngt hat the whale moves
~hgougW the wftcr with a velocity which,
N contiuued 40 tbc same rate. would enable
him TO c~ncircle the whole earth Ia less thar
u days. Considering this. one might prop
erly ask. Why ocean c~rcyhoupdsi Why
not steam whalosi'-phiiadclphia Press
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The Vicomte Toussaint WAS ormerly a
colonel in the French army and mayor Of
Toulouse. He was a brave man and a
dashing officer. During one Of the hottest
engagements Of the Terrible Year. noticing
that his troops were bending forward un-
der a calling fire TO escape the bullets Of
the enemy while he alone maintained an
erect position, he exclaimed. ''Since when.
| should like TO know, has so much polite
ness been shown to the Prussiansf'' The
sarcasm took instantaneous effect, for the
soldiers rushed forward and carried ever,
thing before them. London Telegraph.
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The teas imported into the United States
embrace some OF the choicest varieties
grown. We get all Of the Formosa teas,
the best black tcas grown In China, as well
n all OF the Fuchan seas. which are the
next best oolong teas 10 tho Formosan.
The importation Of Annoy teas, the lowest
Crude OF oolongs, Is steadily decreasing.
We get all OF the Chimes. fancy green teas.
which are grown especially, year after
year. for the United States, and In addi.
ton almost all the entire crop OF tea ex.
ported from Japan. Indian teas Of the
finest quality can be procured here. but
there l. little demand for them. They
constitute the teas ~ much admired by
the English, and, as they come largely
from English plantations. whose owners
aud all interested nave praised them at
the expense OF the Chinese product. il Is
not difficult to discover a reaso for their
popularity IN England and English col.
onies. Chinese teas are much preferred
here.-Philadelphia Ledger.
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He sat in his chamber alone.
The lights burned dim and the fire flick
cred itfully.
No raven came to lutter it's black wings
and cast its somber shadow over the room.
but il would scarcely have been out of
place.
For n long time he sat there gazing into
the fire, the very personiication Of despair.
At last he stirred u~neasily and half rose
from his chair.
He looked at the clock. 1t was on the
stroke of midnight.
''Only an hour ago" he muttered. ''Only
an hour and it has seemed "A year-a nun
dred years"
He sank pack listlessly. broken in spirit
and crushed in hope.
'One word and II fortune is lost" be
sighed despairingly. lone little word of
two letters and a million Of dollars has
gone glimmering among the things that
were"
He groaned in his agony, and the lights
sank lower and lower and faded away
leaving him in II gloom impenetrable.
And gentle reader. whyt
Whyy
Because the wealthy widow without in
cumbrances had said NO" when he had
asked her TO be his'n Detroit Free Press.
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Not long x two young girls were trav-
cling "out west" As the train stopped ut
a station two ladies entered and took seats
directly in front Of them. Just M they
were seated a stout lady came forward,
greeted them cfrusively. and the trio kept
up n lively conversation until the train
started. Then one OF them said, sit down
here neal us. and, In a little lower tone,
Tell those girls to sit somewhere else. ="
So the stous lady turned and said in the
most freezing OF tones; 81 wish to converse
with my friends and would like that seat.
! am Mrs. President R.. OF this road"
The girls stared at her an instant, and
then one Of them drawled. pleased to
meet you, I'm sure. suppose you know |
am Mrs President Harrison, OF Washing.
tom and the other girl. settling herself
comfortably In her seat. said. And | am
Mrs Queen Victoria" There was an au-
dible smile from the other passengers. and
the stout lady wont TO her own seat In the
rcar.-Cor. New York World.
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The number Of "~exhausts" emitted by
an ordinary locomotive is four for every
revolution OF the driving wheel. and these
can be easily counted when the engine il
leaving n station with a good heavy load.
as il moves slowly. and the ''puffs'' are
distinct, and take place rs the crankpin
passes the right. upper, left and lower cen
ters. As an example, | will take II Midland
express engine and work out the number
of ''puifs" it emits in going a given dis
lance. We will take the run from London
(St. Pancras) to Leicester, 100 miles.
The diameter Of the driving wheel is
about Z feet; this multiplied by 3. l4l5 will
give us the circumference, which comes to
nearly % feet. which VIC will consider as
correct. Now. IL we divide 100 miles uhe
distance traversed) by % feet (the circum-
ference Of driving wheel. we shall get the
number OF revolutions of the main wheel
in running this distance. There are 52S.-
900 feet in 100 miles. this divided by %,
gives 24.O00 as the number Of revolutions.
Now. rs there ARE four ''puffs'' to each
revolution. 2i,OOO by 1 will give the num-
Der Of ''puffs' in running 100 miles. which
amounts to $4,000.
The express trains are allowed a little
over two hours to do this journey. W.
find that the number of ''puffs'' per hour
is 5000 or an average of 500 per minute.
~Edingburgh is 400 miles from Kings Cross,
so that an engine with the same size driving
wheel rs just mentioned would give a
grand total Of 36f, 900 ''puffs" in accom-
plishing that distance. London Engineer.
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The question Of purity Of drinking water
has invaded the business Office. Rich men
who are vexed by slight physical ailments
or who are the victims Of nervous troubles
find it the easiest thing imaginable to be
lieve that there IS danger in the water
cooler. Many Of them nave their Croton
boiled and chilled by refrigeration before
they will drink it. Others nave 10 their
private Offices jars Of mild mineral waters.
from which they quench their thirst. Mr..
Chauncey NJ. Depew is one Of the latter
kind. He does not believe in drinking ice
water, and is very particular about having
the water that he drinks perfectly free
from deleterious matter. Mr.. G. p. Hunt
ington and Mr.. Jay Gould are both anti
ice water men, and Mr.. Gould seldom
drinks water that has not been specially
prepared for his use. New York Times
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An AmerIcnn Girl SINGER.

Rita Elandi. who sang before Queen
Victoria recently with success. is an
American girl-Amelia Louisa Groll. Of
Cleveland. Miss Groll was presented to
the London public without the custom
airy booming. and scored a most remarka-
BILE triumph there as in other european
cities. Her career in Europe has been
one Of hard study, gradual success and
telling triumph.
The artist who has the honor to sing
before her majesty is taken to the castle
by royal conveyance. served with a mag
niicent dinner in the queens presence
and audience chambers by the officials
of the lord stewards department. photo
graphed in costume, presentSto@
ladies of the court. and rewaNled with
some valuable souvenir. which to Miss
Groll took the form Of a diamord brace
let. And yet they say" the queen pavs
nothing for her amusements. London
Letter.
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Grant Ind been pounding US pretty
lively for some time in sixty-four'" said
Major Hugh Colquitt, youngest brother of
the Georgia senator. who went into the
Confederate service ON his brothers staff
at the age OF fifteen, but mt Cold Harbor
we held "A practically im%pregnable position.
Some negro troops had succeeded at one
point In getting into the ditch beneath our
parapct, and while they remained there
were comparatively safe. They were SO
close TO us that we could hear them talk
ing together. Finally they decided to mt
tempt to scale our ramparts and force an
entrance into our works.
1--WE could hear them, though we
couldn't see them. Their plan was to
oun by one another's shoulders until the
topmost man should be able to scramble ON
top of the parapet, and then make "A dash
at Is They put IL into operation, and
soon we saw the head and shoulders Of a
gigantic negro appear above the top OF the
parapet. Some Of the boys wanted TO seize
him and pull him as a prisoner, but he
made too tempting a mark. A dozen rifles
cracked as one, and the daring negro tum
bled back a corpse. As he fell we heard a
voice in the ditch exclaim:
"'Dar. now. dey done kill Corp Dick
de gamest man in de comp'nyi
That remark passed into II byword IN
the army Of northern Virginia during the
rest Of the war. - Washington Post
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All are familiar with the beautiful lac
quer with which Japanese trays, boxes and
cabinets ARE treated, and which is 80 differ
ent in appearance aud touch to the varnish
common In Europe. The exact process by
which IL is prepared is said TO be kept
secret by the expert Japanese workers: hut
IL Is known that the raw material comes
from a tree known to botanists ~ the Rhus
vernix.
Professor Rein some years & planted a
number OF these trees in the Botanical gar
den at Frankfort. and there are now grow
ing there from this stock several healthy
trees. some Of which are thirty feet high.
Some sap has been taken from these trees
and sent TO Japan for trial by native artists.
and IL remains to be seen whether the for
eign growth will yield a serviceable lacquer
Chambers Journal
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he LIKED -
Tho Bank President and tho coiierc Grad
uato Plunge H.

inc EANL A~rftIueUt ana mo LnIlnf-n Grad
uato Plunge To.
4 stout gentleman well on to 60 years
was In the throng Of Saturday afternoon
visitors at the Produce Exchange baths
yesterday afternoon. He told everybody
that he'd had a hard week. he said he
was a bank president. All the attendants
seemed TO know him. lie knew all the at
tendants too. They were Tom and Jim
and Pete to him.
He wanted everybody 70 understand that
he'd had 4 hard week. Every newcomer
was corralled and impressed with the fact.
Then be said he wan led some Que to take
bis hand and wade through the pool with
him The pool IS 30 feet long and 10 feet
wide. with > feet Of salt water. He wanted
TO wade in. new summer suit and all. 1t
would rest him and make hin forget his
hard week, he said, II somebody would
take his hand and wade in with him.
It'll make me feel like a boy again."
said the alleged bank president.
I'VE used to wade in clothes and all
when l was a boy" he added when his ap-
peal was not needed.
While he was looking for some one to
take his hand and wade. in walked a young
man also in a new summer suit. The young
man wore silver bowed spectacles. He is a
graduate OF Yale. He peered over his spec
tacles al the old Fellow. who returned the
peer, and then made his appeal to the young
man.
well, old man." said he Of the silver
bowed spectacles. Il was out pretty late
myself last night. I'll go you"
SOlemnly tho old man and the younger
man clasped hands and walked to the edge
of the pool. They zigzagged a little, but
they stood upon the brink of the pool steady
enough, and banging their hats down upon
their heads they stepped off. The water
was nearly up to their shoulders, but hand
In hand they waded the length Of the pool
the bank president smiling and content
ed, and the younger man peering over his
silver bowed spectacles as If in a contem-
plative mood. Not a word did they say to
each other. The old mans face wore the
expansive smile Of childish delight. The
younger man was solemnly content. They
clambered out of the pool hand in hand,
soaked from shoulders to heels. The old
man shook the hand OF his younger com
rad and said:
II thank you, sir. You nave afforded
me much pleasure"
"All right, old man." said the Yale grad
uate. ANY time you want TO wade send
for me-"
He gave the old man his card. and as the
old man jabbed the limp pasteboard into
the puddle in his waistcoat pocket he re-
membered his watch. He pulled out q
massive gold timepiece. The salt water had
stopped it and probably ruined it. As he
came to this conclusion the old man said:
well, never mind, we had fun, didn't
WEI"
Then the two men were tackled off to the
steamroom and stripped, and fort two hours
they nodded sleepily at each other while
their clothes and shoes were drying.-New
York Sun.