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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-08
BUREAU or THE SENTINEL.

WASHINGTON. ID. g.. Aug. 3.
The conferees on the tariff bin are.
making progress. The senate conferees
are becoming more dociIe and with tha
exception OF the sugar schedule they ara
reported as coming down from the tan
parches upon which German placed them
at the start They are stiu holding out
freely for the sugar trust. however stilI
insisting that differential duty must ba
placed on refined sugar for the sole bene-
fit OF the sugar trust. With the sonata
conferees the sugar trust seems 10 OUT
weigh public sentiment The longer they
hold out the more dangerous the .lfe OF
the trust becomes, and 1t is generally
believed that with the two more weeks
of defiance To the senate the sugar trust
viii beg for terms instead OF debating
terms to congress through the Gorman
combine Every day of delay is day
gained by the house against the mOnop-
oIistic senate, and Grover Cleveland x
still with the house.
No agreement has been reached on thu
sugar schedule. but the conferees ars
considering two propositions, both sub
mitted by the senate conferees, as fol.
lows.
The first proposition IS for duty ot
40 per cent on raw sugar below Is Dutch
standard and 52.71 on refined. giving thu
refiners a profit CT 800 per 100 pounds.
pounds.
The second proposition is 30 per cent
sd valorem on raw and 40 per cent. al
valorem on the amount Of refined sugat
contained in raw and oae-ffth cent dif>
ferenuaI on refined. This last schedule
is very complicated AS &c takes 105
pounds raw To make 10o pounds OF re-
fined sugar the importers Of refined su-
gar would be at the mercy Of the custom
house experts. Treasury officials would
nave to determine or every cargo the
amount of raw sugar 10 produce 100
pounds of refined, and that 80 per cent
tax is to be levied ana one-ffth cent adj
di-ional per pound. This is simply a Jug
g,e of words 10 deceive ana bring tbs
same result in favor OF the sugar trust.
lit is put out as q feeler ana viii not bs
accepted by the house.
The understanding among the tariff
c0nferees when taey adjourned late this
Afternoon, was that the session tomorrow
should bring about either an agreement
on the sugar schedule or a decision 10 re-
port a disagreement Today was de-
voted by the conference 10 q discussion
of The sugar question.
Some of the house cOnferees are fav0r<
ably inclined toward the proposed cOmprOs
mise schedule because they believe that
ii defines exactly The extra duty 10 be
paid On refined sugars, and is free from
the objection urged against the senate
schedule, that owing 10 the wording oe
the schedule it was impossible To tell be-
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skaggs Was wild.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The outcome
of the Alabama election today has eX-
cited great interest here as it is regarded
as the preliminary skirnish TO the con-
gressional elections this fall Most of the
Alabama men in congress have gone
home to take part in the campaign
Chairman Taubeneck of the populist
national committee about midday, while
the voting was going on but results
could not be known with much certainty,
received the following dispatch from the
chairman of the populist state cor nit
tee of Alabama:
I'VE viii carry every county in the
northern part of the state except one.
We will carry jefferson county. includ-
ing Birmingham. If they do not repeat
the frauds of 1892 i'm the sixteen Black
belt counties we will carry the state
by at least 10000 majority. l think we
will have d majority of five or ten in
the lower house.
"W. II. SKAGGs, Chairman"
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omclaI Statement by Japan.

YOKOHAMA, July s1.-The following
official statement of the difficulties be-
tween China and Japan. which led to
the outbreak of hostilities between those
two countries, has been issued by the
Japanese government:
Japan and China were approaching
settlement Of their difficulties, when
China suddenly requested Japan to
withdraw her fleet from Korea, and to
give a formal compliance with the
Chinese demand by the goth, or other
wise the whole Chinese forces We're to
land and sea advance upon the part
Of China was TO be made. The Japanese
regarded this an ultimatum, but. act
ing under the advice of the friendly
powers. they agreed TO the proposals in
principle. in amended form, at the same
time declaring that IL the threatened
Chinese advance We're made on the 20th,
1t would be regarded as an overt act.
II is conjsctured that the Japanese
naval commanders were instructed to
be on the watch for the Chinese war
ships. and, seeing ihe latter advancing
on July 27, they opened fire. The Japanese
do not believe that the Kow Shung, the
Chinese transport sunk by japanese
cruiser, was flying the British flag, but
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-08
STABBED BY HIS SONS.
Henry Whitman Chastised the Boys
for Staying All Night at II Dance.

CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-Henry Whitman,
the aged victim of his sons assault, is
lying at the county hospital in a dying
condition. This morning the two boys,
one aged sixteen and the other twenty
two. We're taken TO the hospital and
identified by the dying father as his as
sailants Early this morning the boys,
Walter and Harry. returned home after
spending the night at a dance. Mr..
Whitman upbraided them for staying
out so late and the boys retaIated with
angry words. From words they res0rted
10 blows. and the father was chasusing
the boys IN a wholesome manner, when
one of them plunged a knife into the ola
mans stomach, producing friehtful
wound When the police were called
they We're denied admittance to the
house. but gained entrance by force
The father was sent to the hospital in an
unconscious condition and the boys were
locked up at the West Chicago police sta
ti0n The Old man was revived long
enough this morning to identify his sons
a his aSSailauIs.
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DRAGGED TO DEATH.
Fatal Accident to Senator DanieIs's
Eight-Year-OId SON.

LYNCHBURG. Va. Aug. civilian
Patton Daniels, the eight-year-old son Of
United States Senator John Daniels, met
with a fatal accident yesterday afternoon.
The little boy was playing in the yard of
the senator's residence and had a horse
saddled for a ride about the premises.
The horse turned suddenly and in a
second the little fellow was hanging with
his head on the ground. The animal
made dash and for about sixty feet
dragged the little fellow over the yard.
The senator ran into the yard and bore
the frightfully bruised lad into the house.
Although all that medical skill could sug-
gest was done he died at II 10 last night.
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Texas ~LiIy-whites."

DALLAS. Tex, Aug. 6.-The state con-
vention of the lily-white wing of the
republican party met here today. The
platform adopted tracks that of the ma
tiOnal party, sympathizes with the labor
ing classes in all lawful efforts to OBJ
tain more equitable distribution of the
wealth produced by labor. demands such
laws as will secure for the farmers fair
returns for their products and condemns
the leasing of convicts. Col. a. j. Hous-
ton introduced a resolution advocating
the purchase Of northern MeXico for the
establishment there of a negro republic.
the government of the United States TO
reimburse itself from the minerals of the
proposed republic. This pan, which
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Murdered by His brother.

CiALENA, H.. Aug. George Rich
ardson, a prominent farmer of New Dig
gins, Wis, was waylaid and murdered
last night while riding home from Ga
lena by his brother Mark. There had
been il-feeIng between the brothers for
years and they were engaged IN litlga-
tiOn about their fathers estate. Thurs
dav night Mark Richardson's grain yard
was burned by an incendiary fire and
he attributed the deed 10 his brother.
He left his home last night TO meet his
brother on the road and shot him dead
when he approached. The murderer then
went TO Benton and surrendered himself
and was taken TO the Darlington jail
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WAR RUMORS.
Unconirmed Report OF the Capture
Of Three War ships.

SHANGHAI. Aug. 5.-The rumor cur
rent 10 the effect that the Japanese flee
had capture three men Of war has not
been confirmed. It is believed here that
the report is possibly a rehash Of the re-
ports Of the prior engagements of the
fleets.
AS vet there has been no disorder in
Shanghai. growing out of the war, be-
yond a trihIng encounter between Jap
anese and Chinese rowdies
The municipal council has appointed a
rendezvous for the volunteers in the event
of an emergency arising that will require
their services. but no anxiety is felt as 10
the safety Of the Europeans.
The Japanese associat ation, which includes
among its members the leading Japanese
OF Shanghai and vicinity has issued a
warning to the Japanese residents that
they must behave themselves and avoid
any act that would tend 10 precpitate a
conflict with the Chinese. They are par
ticuarly warned TO keen away from the
Chinese quarter of the city after dusk and
10 remain as far as possible witn4n tns
confines of their own settlement.
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SERIOUS BLOW TO CHINA.
Her Lost ships Were Protected
Cruisers Built in England.


WASHINGTON. July 31.-The news of
the battle was received here by private
teIe2rams from Tien Tsir If the report
is true. Of which there is little doubt,
it means that an end has been put u
Chinas fighting upon the seas. The
Chen-Yuen must have started out from
Taku. after leaving the Chinese trans
ports there. The two Chinese cruisers
supposed to have been captured or de-
stroyed during the engagement which
ended So fatally for the Chen-Yuen are
the Chin-Yan and the Foo Ching.
The Chin Yam was a protected cruiser
built at E,swick, England. She had a
displacement of 2,300 tons and attained
an average speed in her trial trips with
all weights, batteries and crew aboard Of
eighteen and one-half knots. Her arm
ament consisted of three eight and one
fourth-inch Krupps and two six-inch
Armstrong;. protected by splinter proof
shields. She also carried eight eight
pound rapid Hotchkiss guns, and four
torpedo tubes.
The Foo Ching was also an English
built protected cruiser. very much similar
to the Chin Yuan. She had a dsplace-
ment of $500 tons. was built of steel in
1890 and carried ten guns Of the same
caliber as those carried by the Chin
Yuan
The Chen Yuen was a battleship Of
7,400 tons displacement carrying fourteen
and One-half inches compound armor at
the water line. Her battery included four
twelve-inch guns, protected by an
armored breastwOrk, and two smaller
Krupps She was also furnished with
eleven HotchSiss cannon and tubes for
Whitehead torpedOes. In addition the
Chen Yuen had two eight and one-fourth-
inch and two siX-inch Krupps in her main
battery and secondary battery of
HOtchIiss revolving cannon. The Chen
Yuen was built for China at the Stettin
works. She was sister ship of the Ting
Yuen and was the most powerful war
ship in the Chinese navy, with the ex-
ception Of the Ting Yuen.
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The President 1ndorsed.

CHARLESTON. 5. c.. Aug. Elm the
convention today of the Charleston city
and county democracy the following
resolutions We're adopted by an over
whelming ma jority:
Resolved. That we denounce the un-
called-f0r TRADE OF abuse and misrep-
resentation leVelIed at Grover Cleveland
by the men now in control of the sta -e
democratic organization. and thar the
democracy Of Charleston pledge their un-
divided support 10 the democratic party
and its matchless leader, President Cleve-
f1vT
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-08
RIOrING IN THE EAST.
Chinese and Japanese Clash in "a
Number of cities.

LONDON, Aug. "a dispatch received
in this city from Shanghai reports that
serious riots have occurred at Kobe,
Japan. anu Taku. China. In the latter
place the chin, openly insulted tha
members Of. the Japanese embassy, who
were returning 10 Japan from Pekin.
The American agent at Taku il is add
ed. has forbidden the steamer Smith to
land munitions Of war intended for trans
shipment to FOrmos3. The Smith is a
Chinese vessel flying the American flag.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-08

ROLFE. Ia, Aug 6-Herman Barnes
and Joseph Wiley, two farmers, had a
quarrel and agreed to fight it out TO d
finish. The battle was a bloody affair
and Barnes was 50 badly hurt that he
died today. Wiley was arrested on a
charge of murder.
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Mr. Voorhees, Improving.
RUREAT OF THE SENTINEL

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Aug g.
Senator Voorhees's conditions continues
to improve. There is no longer any alarm
felt by members of his family and friends.
and Dr. Acker says that it is only a
question Of few days until he viii be
able 10 resume his duties in the senate
He was well enough today to enjoy a
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-08
Fruit MnrI<et cIutted.

SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 6.-The Sacra-
mento river steamers arriving this morn
ing brought I'm over 900 packages OF fruit.
There were also heavy shipments by rail
and the local market became so badly
glutted that peaches and plurnbs sold at <
cents per basket. AS each basket weighs
from thirty to forty pounds, the price
realized does not pay freight and commits
sions.
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And Report Some Kind Of
a Tariff Bill.
THE JUGGLE OVER SUGAR
IS Sun the Absorbing Topic in
and Out OF Conference.
President Is Said TO Favor the
New Sugar Schedule,

Senators Is an Obstacle Not Easily
Put Asfdc-The Differences between
the Proposed Schedule and the sen
ate Proper Are ElRborately Set
Forth by HIesSrS. sherrctt aud
SchoenhoG, New York AppraiSers-
Details of Their Comparisons.
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FIVE ARE CREMATEO.
Entire Family Except the Mother
Burned III Farm House.

WILLNAR. Mimi, Aug. 6-The farm
house Of 5. o. Oztenson of the town Of
Dover, about eight miles north of here.
was burned to the ground at o'clock this
morning. Mr.. Ostenson and four children
lost their lives in the flames. Mrs. Os-
tenson narrowly escaped cremation, hut
is crazed over the awful event.
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OATES IS CHOSEN.
Entire DemOc Ticket
Elected in Alabama,
With a Safe Majority in the
Legislature.
R0UT OF THE K0LBITES
In Spite or Their Desperate At
tempt to Win.
ROUT OF THE KOLBITES
Senator Morgan to Be His
own Successor.

The Campaign One Of the Interest
Voting by Secret BnIIOt-Ontes. for
Governor. VIII Have from 10000 10
10000 Majoriiy-SenRtOr Irby De-
nOunces the TariT LaNv-PFesidenc
IndOFsed.
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HOUSE To CAUCUS
M9mbers to Take Action
Concerning the Tariff.
Bynum CiPculates the Pc
titiOn for the Call
And 1t Is Readily Signed
by Many Members.
MUCH FEELING is SHOWN,
Some or the representatives.
DenOuncing the Move.
Mr.. Bynun Talks at Length
on the Situation
And Says 1t Is Time Either to
Agree or Disagree

senator Voorhees, Speaks of the
work of the COnferees-He Thinks
the senate should Recede in Favor
Of Free Iron and Free COaI-What
lie Says of the sugar Schedule
Gives the COnspfrators sharp Rap
-''Sugar'' Senators Confer with the
POpgiists.
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THE PETIFION ron a CAUCUS.
some Representative DispIeased at
the Move.

the Move.
Within fifteen minutes from the time
the house caucus petition was circulated
today fifty members had signed il and
the caucus became certainty Members
who had not wanted TO sign last week
were now anxious to do So The petition
requests Chairman Holman to call the
caucus for O'Clock tomorrow TO con-
slider what action, If any, should be
taken. in order to secure the early pas
sage Of tariff bill.
The petition Is not the one formerly
circulated by Representative Springer,
although the latter is interested in the
new move. The call was In response to
petition signed by hfty-three members
of the house. Among the signers were
Representatives Springer, Bynum. Black
OF Illinois, Hooker, Geary, DeF0rest. En-
loe. Brickner. Washington. English. Bal
ley, Patterson, Sperry, Allen, McNagny,
Martin, Mcguire and Capehart. The pc
tition had been circulated by Mr. Bynum
OF ths WAYS and means committee and
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fDH Deh""AceS inc i''iA Inv
LAURENS. 5. c., Aug. 6.-In a speech
before a reform convention today Sena-
tor Irby denounced the proposed tariff
law as a humbug and "a fraud and de-
clared that but for the Mckinley law he
would not support it. He did not caucus
with senators because of the sugar trust
combination. President Cleveland, he
said. was a hypocrite and fraud, and
no democrat but an aristOcrat, an his
associates being with the money power.
The South and West. he stated must
combine with Boies. Tillman or Steven
IN,
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were that the case. they regard II
being a ruse. The Japanese Indignantly
deny the charges Of brutality brought
against the officers Of the crew of the
cruiser which sunk the Kow Shung. No
official report has been received at Yoko-
hama OF this engagement.
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Two BoHs Rurncd TO Death.

LODI. S. D., Aug. 6.-The house OF
George johnson burned today. Two sons.
aged fourteen and twenty, lost their lives
in the flames.
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SUNK BY THE JAPS,
Another Desperate Naval
Battle Is Fought
In Which Three Chinese
Warships Are Sunk.
MANY CHINESE ARE KILLED
And Others Drowned in the
Sinking Ships.
The japanese More Skillful in
Modern Warfare,

Haudling Their Arms aud Vessels to
Hetter AdvnntaEe-The Loss of the
ships Serious Blow TO China's
Naval Equipment-The Struggle
VIII Doubtless he One OF the Most
Bitter i'm HistOry-China Determined
To Fight 10 the End-NO Official
Dispatches.
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To ASK Indemnity.

LONDON. Aug. IA dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai, dated Aug. s, says
that Viceroy Ii Hung Chang expects
the British government will claim COM
pensation for the relatives of the vic
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seemed To aim at wiping out the other
wing Of the republican party. was killed
by the committee.
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Continued ON Second Page.
The morning call., 1894-03-28

liams. Ventura. 2-5; Mat Hardie. San Luis obispo.
2; j. d. Gladstone. san Luis obispo. 2.
Yellow NewtoWn Plopin-J. J. Gregory,
San Luis obisp", l-5; Collins, Monterey 1.5; J. c.
Baker, San Luis ObIspO, 1-5: T. r. Foster Ven
tura. 1; j. V. n. Young, San Luis Obispo, Jose
Fow er, San a Cruz, %. W. S Riley, Ventura,
Santa Cruz, 3-5; Taft & Son, Monterey, 3-5.
Hoover -. Napa, !; j. V. y. Young, San
Luis obispo, 3: Antoine Gigland. Mon Ierey, is
Esopers September - Herbert ass. shasta,
special award; George II. FiOurnOy. hama, $50
A r Evans, Napa. 10: frank Houghton, Tehama,
/; G. Foot, Sacramento, l; john Edwards Te-
Tehama, 2: Chester Gum, san Diego, 4; Charles
Hovenden, Siskiyou, 3-5.
Flushing Spltzeuberg Carl Purdy, Mendocino,
Domine-James Hodge. Humboldt, 2-5; G. T.
Stewart d Son, Humboldt. l.
Cooks Seeding Napa, l.
Fall water-G. II. FIournoy, Tehama 2: J. V.
p Bass, ShIsta. 2
Peunsy yvauia red streak-B. c. Harter, Ventura,
!; -. San Benito, 2-S.
Kentucky red streak-A. M. Haadie, San Luis
Obispo, 2.
Eureka Especial award)-M D. Putnam. San
Diego.
whartOn-A. Goodale. Humboldt. 90
LangsfoFd Seeding. r. Bard, Ventura, !.
Mission pippn-J. Swinding, Monterey, l.
VaBdervere pipp n-Chesuer Gunn, San Diego, l.
Vandervere or grindsJone-Shepherd. Monterey,
winesap-Gcorge 81 FIournoy, Tehama Is:
jackson Eby, Tehama, l-5; J. H. Runke, Placer,
!: L. Greer, Sa ramento, 2-S; w. Prout, San
Diego, 2-S Judge b. T. Williams, Ventura rs :
Frank W. oliver, Humboldt, 3.
LawVer-Chester Gum, San Diego, !; II. Bass,
Shasta. 3-5
Limbertwig-N. H. Wood. Santa Barbara. /: W.
sheepnOse-Carl Purdy, Mendocino 2; A. p
Evans, Napa, 2-5.
WestfeId Seek no Further-A P. Evans, Nspa l.
Lady WaShington-J. Smith Briggs, Ventura, 3.
Poor Mans friend-E. Greer, Sacramento, 5; L.
N. Windsor. Monterey, !.
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piciOns. and suggested that he see Captain
Lees and have an interview with Clark,
the only man caught. Attorney Cook tells
the remainder of the st ry as follows:
II went to Captain Lees and had Clark
brought up from the City Prison. Clark
denied the accusation and claimed that he
was wrongfully charged with burglary. as
be had not entered the house but only
made an attempt The policeman did not
see him in the house. l went TO the court
to-day and had a talk with Clark.
Here, Clark / said, you need not be
afraid TO tell me anything, for I'll see that
you are protected, and telling all You
know will make IL easy for you.' So he
told me the story for the first time, and re-
peatrd it again in open court. But [ don't
take much stock in the yarn. 1t looks as
if Clark lhought it would he good one to
fall back on for his defense"
Henry Martin died o. February 27. 1893.
in this city, leaving an estate valued at
100000. His will was filed for probate in
the County Clerks ofiice by his widow.
Mrs. May Martin, TO whom 1t bequeathed
the whole estatp. Some time later the Will
disappeared from the files in most mys-
teriOus and unaecountable manner. 1t
had been stolen. Shortly aiterward an
other will bequeathing one-thrd of the es.
late to the widow, one-third to the minor
son of his second brother. John Martin.
and the remainder to other reIatiyes, was
found.
Some weeks passed and the first will
was found on chair in the public part of
the County Clerks Office, al a table where
attorneys and searchers sit The return
was as mysterious rs the theft. In the con-
test now In progress before Probate Judge
Coffey, Mrs. Henry Martins attorneys
elected the information from Mrs. john
Martin that the latter had several letters
from her brother-in-law. Henry, which
she claimed to have left some where in tn,
East. She declined TO say what these let
ters contained. and so a petition to compel
her to answer has been entered, In this
state the case stands at present, Mrs.
John Martin is suspicious that her legal
o ponents are endeavoring TO get the let
tiers by fair means or foul. But what the
connection Of Clark may be is unknown
beyond his own telling
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"Pecnliar.n y

We often hear 1t said OF men who have made an
unusual record by means Of their superior intel
lectual powers that they are peculiar" To be
peculiar is to be different from everybody else
ana II they had not been peculiar they would
never have been heard OF. This principle holds
good everywhere The best piece OF machinery
ever invented is peculiar. for the simple reason
that it is superior The best medicine ever put on
the market has gained the reputation of being Pc
culiar, from the fact that it has been found the
best. This is why Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar.
1t cures when all other preparations and even the
best doctors have failed. The reason why 1t
cures is that it has true merit and intrinsic vrue
1t does not consist OF q few cheap drugs put to-
sether just as 1t might happen, TO be offered for
sale, but 1t IS carefully compounded as 10 pro-
duce medicine that will make pure blood. and
thus not only remove disease. but, II used when
the system is run down and the blood impover-
ished will build it up and guard 1t against dis.
ease Hoods Sarsaparila, in short Is peculiar be-
cause 1t cures.