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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06
THE PRESIDENT WROTE 1T,
hut II Was Two Years Ago Mt Buzz
yards hay.

1t is learned at the White House today
that somebody has been badly imposed
upon in the matter of the letter from the
President to Mr.. Robert l.. Thacher of AL
bany, N. Y, in which the President said:
Il am enough of a democrat and have
enough faith in the democracy of those who
profess allegiance to our party TO believe
that in the face of a common enemy we
shall present a reunited and unbroken
front" This letter is published this morn
ing (by papers served by the United Press)
as though it were of recent origin, and as
II 1t applied 10 the present campaign in
New York state.
AS a matter of fact. the letter In question
was written by President Cleveland August
3, 1882, ovel two years ago, while he was at
Buzzards' Bay, and applied to the national
campaign of that time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06
SIXTY-ONE MEN At WORK,
The City Post Office Building May II,
Finished in 1897.

The skies are smiling once more, though
a bit obviously, on the work of construct
ing city post office for Washington, and
today there are sixty-one men at work,
making things look like business just lit
tie bit again. These men have within them
the capacity of finishing the structure, If
unhindered, on the I'd of February 1897,
old STYLE
Another comparison comes to notice.
There is a school house being erected in the
northeast section of the city, The build
ing Is not large. nor is its early completion
of great Importance. Yet Contractor Dunn
true to his Instincts as a hustler has now
eighty men working on the building daily.
Further remarks are unnecessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06
Naval Orders.

Commodore d. W. Mullin has been order-
ed to command the Mohican, relieving Com
mander c. e. Clark, ordered home on one
months leave. Ensign r. II. Leigh, from
the Raleigh to the Bennington. Ensign A.
L. Willard, from the Philadelphia to the
Alert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06

t& proof Of Be puooins Is
in f8e eating. yesterdays
Star contained 46 columns
Of aeoerfisements. maoe up
Of 752 separate announce;
menfs. t8ese advertisers
8ous6f pu8fieifp-nof merefp
space.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06
THE CZAR'S MEMORY.
Religious Services on Friday at the
Russian Legation.

The Russian minister today invited the
President and cabinet with the ladies of
their families, to attend religious services
in memory of Alexander Ill at the legation
building Friday morning next at 10 O'clock
Similar invitations have been sent to all
the members of the diplomatic corps.
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He Got the Position.

Alertness of thought and the ability to
adapt knowledge to any case which may
arise stood an applicant for lucrative
position in good stead q short time ago
When the application was made, the ap-
plicant was told that the position had just
been filled, and that the prospective en-
ployer was very sorry, but that there was
really no more room. The applicant i'm
mediately turned to water cooler, which
was at hand, and filled the glass to over
flowing.
''Is there any more room In that glass;"
he asked.
mo, sir. Another drop would make 1t
run over"
He turned again to the cooler and put
In just one drop and said, "There was
room for one more.
The employer saw the point and placed
the man on the pay roll at once.-Phila-
delphia Call.
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THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
Offices the Voters of the United
States viii Fill.


General elections will be held Novem-
Der 9th in all the states and territories of
the Union with the exception of Maine
and Vermont, where the state elections,
including those for members of Congress,
were held in September. In nearly all
of these States State officers will be chos-
en-, and in many, notably California and
New York, important constitutional
amendments will be voted on. Three
hundred and fifty-six members of the
House of Representatives to sit in the
next Congress, beginning December 1st,
gate from each of the territories.
Not the least important feature of the
election is the fact that in many of the
States the Legislatures elected this fall
will choose United States Senators to
succeed those whose terms have expired
and to fill vacancies. The list of retir-
ing Senators is as follows:
Alabama, John 7. Morgan, Dem. Ar
kansas, James H. Berry, Dem; Califor-
MIA, George G. Perkins, Rep, appointed
by the Governor to serve in place of Le-
land Stanford; Colorado, Edward o..
Wolcott, Rep; Delaware, Anthony Hig-
gins, Rep; Georgia, Patrick Walsh,
Dem, appointed by the Governor to
serve in place of Alfred H. Colquitt,
whose term expired March 4th, 1895; Ida
no, George l.. Shoup, Rep; Illinois,
Shelby NJ. Cullom, Rep; Iowa, Geo. F.
Wilson, Rep; Kansas, John Martin,
Pop, elected to fill out unexpired term
of Senator Plumb; Kentucky, William
Lindsay, DEM; Maine, William P. Frye,
Rep; Massachusetts, George F. Hoar,
Rep; Michigan, James Mcmillan, Rep. ;
and John Patton, jr., Rep, ap-
pointed to fill vacancy caused by
the death of Francis B. Stock
bridge; Minnesota, William D. Wash
burn, Rep; Montana, Thomas G. Power,
Rep, and successor to William f. San
ders, the Legislature having failed to
elect; Nebraska, Charles F. Henderson,
Rep; New Hampshire, VIM. E. Chandler,
Rep: New Jersey, John r. MCPHERSON,
DEM; North Carolina, Matt W. Ransom,
Dem; Oregon, Joseph N. Dolph, Rep. ;
Rhode Island, Nathan F. Dixon, Rep. ;
South Carolina, Mathew G. Butler, Dem.
South Dakota, Richard F. Pettigrew,
Rep; Tennessee, Isham G. Harris, Dem.
Texas, Richard Coke, DEM; Virginia,
Eppa Hunton, DEM; Washington, vacan-
cy caused by inability of Legislature to
select successor to John B. Allen;
West Virginia, Johnson N. Camden,
DEM; Wyoming, Joseph NJ. Carey, Rep,
and successor to Francis E. Warren,
the Legislature having failed to elect.
Iowa has elected as Wilson's successor
ex-Gov. Gear. Eppa Hunton's successor
from Virginia will be Mr.. Martin, who
has been already chosen. In Alabama
and Oregon the Legislatures have already
been elected and Senators Morgan and
Dolph are practically assured of being
chosen their own successors. Montana,
Washington and wyoming nave had only
one Senator each during the present Con
gress, and the vacancies caused thereby
are to be filed by the Legislatures elect
ed in those states this fall.
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Cnrinsitiea Ahout Wood.

The strongest wood which grows within
Che limits Of the United States is that
known as nutmeg" hickory, which -four
lshes on the lower Arkansas river. The
most elastic is tamarack, the black or
shellbark, standing not far below. The
wood with the least elasticity and lowest
specific gravity is the Fiscus aurea. The
hood of the highest specific gravity Is the
blue wood Of Texas and Mexico. The
heaviest of the foreign woods are the
pomegranate and the ngnum vitae, and the
lightest Is cork. -Four hundred and thir-
teen different species of trees grow in the
various states and territories, and of this
humber 10, when perfectly seasoned, will
sink In water. These woods of high speci-
Ilc gravity grow mostly in the arid regions
Of New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada
st, Louis Republic.
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Did You Ever

Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
your troubles? If not get bottle now
and get relief. This medicine has been
found to be peculiarly adapted to the re-
lief and cure of all Female Complaints,
exerting wonderful direct influence in
giving strength and tone to the organs.
If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipa-
ton, Headache, Painting Spells, or are
Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melan-
choly, Excitable or troubled with Dizzy
Spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine
you need. Health and Strength are
guaranteed by its use. Large bottles
only fifty cents at G, D. Gibsons Drug
Store.
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hoods Pins are purely vegetable, per-
Esctly harmless, always reliable and beneficial
SEVERAL THINGS WORTH WHILE
Women Investing in Life Insurance.


The New York Sun calls attention to
the increase of life insurance among
women. and says that there are probably
25 women who carry life insurance now
to every one who carried it 10 or Is years
ago. They are taking out insurance for
investment Just as men do. 1t is said
that Mrs. Hearst of California carries
the largest insurance on her life of any
woman in the country-$300, 900. Some
of her insurance is what is called straight
life insurance, but the greater part of it
is placed on the endowment plan. Mrs.
Hearst was the first woman in her State
to insure her life. Now there are several
who carry from $4,000 to 500, 900 insur.:
ance.
New York women, says the Sun, have
been rather slow to take up the matter
of lifo insurance from the investment
point of view, though there are more
than 1000, according to the insurance
men, who carry as much as $4,000 or
sS3O, 1000 and there are more than 10000
who carry from $1,000 to $4,000. Of
thoee who have larger amounts are the
Misses Lorillard. Following the exam
pie of their father, who has been for
years a great patron of life insurance
companies, these young ladies have
themselves insured for 100000 each.
The female members of the family of
Theodore A. Havemeyer, the sugar man,
are also insured for upward of 100000.
Mrs. Sloat Fassett, the wife of Ex-Sena-
tor Fassett, has her life insured for more
than 800, 900, and her friend, Mrs. E. B.
Crocker of Elmira carries $4,000 in
surance. Mrs. Fassett and Mrs. Croker
both patronize the endowment plan, so
that they will get their money back
themselves in case they live the 20 years
necessary. There are many other women
who carry from SO, 900 to 100000 insur-
ance on their lives, among them the wife
of W. j. Arkell, editor of Judge.
Women physicians are employed by
all the large insurance companies to ex-
anime women applicants. There are
several women physicians in New York
who add a good deal to their income in
this way. DR.. Mary Putnam jacob is
an examiner for one of the largest com
panies. The insurance men say that the
women examiners are very expert.
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Artificial Pearl Making.

Artificial pearlmaking constitutes quite
an important industry. 1t is confined to
two villages In the northern part Of the
province of Chihkiang, which is silk pro-
ducing region. During May and June
large quantities of mussels are brought In
baskets from a lake 80 miles distant and
the biggest Of the mollusks are selected for
use. Into the shell of each mussel Is in
PRODUCED number of little pills made Of
mud taken from the bottom Of water
courses, dried and powdered with the juice
of camphor trees seeds, and the bivalve is
left to coat these pellets with the pearly
substance 1t secretes.-St Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
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NOT LIKE HIS MOTHERS.
The Following May Prove a Warming to
Some Young Husbands.

The Following May Prove q Warming to
Some Young Husbands.
Beautiful scenery here, is 1t mott" asked
the young man Of solitary traveller whom
he found pacing along tho seashore.
"Well, no." replied the stranger, II
can't agree with you. think the ocean
is too small. 1t is no such ocean as my
mother used to have"
"Your mothers ocean was superior,
them"
''Oh, yes, vastly superior What tum-
bling breakers! What a magnificent
sweep of viewl What amplitude of dis
lance! What fishing there was in my
mothers ocean!"
'But the sky is magnificent here, is 1t
not, sir9"
"Too low and too narrow across the
top" replied the stranger.
IT hadn't noticed it," said the young
man.
YES" said the stranger, ut Is too low,
and there isn't air enough in 1t either.
Besides it doesn't sit plumb over the
earth. 1t is wider from north to south
than it is from west to east. call it a
pretty poor sky. 1t is no such sky as my
mother used to have"
Pardon me, but did your mother have
a special sky and ocean Of her own"
Right here an old resident came up and
drew the young man aside
Don't talk with him." said the old
resident. ''He is hopeless lunatic. He
Is man who always used to tell his wife
about the biscuits my mother used to
make my mothers pies, my mothers
buildings and my mothers doughnuts.
The habit grew on him SO much that he
became a confirmed lunatic. st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
"Rock Me to Sleep, Mother"
The poem, Crock me to sleep mother
was written by Elizabeth Akers Allen,
known otherwise as FLORENCE Percy"
1t is a general favorite for it is a sweet
little touch of home life. But there is
another side to the picture. Many a
mother rocks her child to sleep who can
neither rest nor sleep herself. She is al
ways tired, has an everlasting back ache,
is low spirited, weary, nervous and all
that. Thanks be she can be cured. DR..
Pierce's FavoriUe Prescription will do the
work. There is nothing on earth like it,
for the complaints" to which the sex
are liable. Once used, it is always in ia
vOr.
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A Household Treasure.

D. W. Fuller of Canajoharie, N. Y,
says that he always keeps DR.. King
New Discovery in the house, and his
family has always found the very best
results follow its use; that he would not
be without it, if procurable. G. A.
Dykeman, druggist, Catskill, N. Y, says
that DR.. Kings New Discovery is un-
doubleday the best Cough remedy; that
he has used it in his family for eight
years and it has never failed to do all that
is claimed foa it. Why not try remedy
so long tried and tested. Trial bottle
free at G. D. Gibson's drug store. Reg
ular size SOC. and $1.00.
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HIS AMPUTATED ARM.
Why the Old Soldier Felt the Buried Mem
bSg Giving Him Pain.

Why the Old Soldier Felt the Buried Mem
b0g Giving Him Pain.
An old Confederate soldier living at
Macon, N. O., and who was 80 unfortu-
nate as to lose his right arm during the
war between the states, always complained
of the fingers Of the dead and buried hand
giving him excessive pain. Finally some
one suggested that the arm be disinterred
S4II 90. >4AealI.4.I.UAO-- $1,000. ~
cordingly done, when 1t was found stone
weighing several pounds was lying across
oiu .ius~ia. 80 s,..sJ .,ss. ,o.-I.,,J, si4o
arm carefully wrapped in straw and again
buried. From that time forward the SOL
der made no further complaint Of painful
sensations in the lost arm.
Some curious persons who heard the
above story related substantially as it ia
here, sent 1t to Professor Edward G. Spitz-
ka, who was at that timeprofessor Of anat-
omy and physiology Of the nervous system
In the New York Post Graduate Medical
school, asking If such sensations in dead
and buried limb were possible, and II SO,
why? The reply is reproduced word for
word below:
st is a we'll established fact that after
limbs have been amputated the person
feels certain sensations at times which
seem to originate In the parts which have
been removed. The explanation advanced
by the leading psychologists Is that tho
nerves are pressed at the end of the stump
and that the pain is referred by the mind,
through habit, to the former termination
of the sensory lines, the position, cramped
or otherwise, of the buried parts having
nothing whatever to do with the sensations
conveyed to the brain. Fancy rath-
or than fact has all to do with these cases
of imaginary sensations being sent to the
brain from the removed parts. If results
such as you mention In the case Of the old
soldier could follow because of q stone ly-
ing across the dead fingers, striking tho
amputated arm with hammer or a stone
would naturally have caused a much great.
er sensation of pain. st. Louis Republic
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THE PRODIGAL PRINCE.
A Strange'Reason for a IRlse In the
Price of Peaches.


A Russian Prince who boosted of his extrava-
gance, so the story goes, squandered fortune in
Paris in one season. In a restaurant one day the
waiter charged him three francs apiece for
peaches.
Are peaches scare9" asked the nobleman.
"No, but princes are" was the reply,
man wasted his cash, end in physical bankrupt.
cy. The signs OF it, which cannot be hidden are
consequent upon the weakness of the stomach
In such case drugs are utterly useless. They
are not food, and the patient needs fat.
Paskola makes fat, surely and swiftly. 1t is
pre-digested, and the system makes it up at
once. Mrs. Charles Book of 2S4 Twenty-fourth
St., Detroit, Mich, had indigestion and took Pas
kola. She writes
"By the time the first bottle was consumed,
had gained five pounds. The circles disappeared
from around my eyes, and my complexion showed
marked improvement have now taken three
bottles and have gained 1411 pounds.
Through advice of friends" says William T.
Ross of Bridgton, N. j., al decided to try Paskoa
for my daughter who has been in poor health for
several months past from loss of appetite and
general debility. She had wasted away in flesh
and at the time she began taking Paskola only
weighed 100 pounds. After two weeks treat
ment she gained eight pounds. She is gaining in
health and strength daily, with increasing appe-
title for the most hearty food that was repugnant
to her before taking Paskola. As flesh-forming
food, think it far superior to cod liver oil or
other similar preparations, and am more than
satisfied with the results"
Thin folks who want TO DO fat cah get Paskola
Of any druggist. An interesting pamphlet Will be
mailed free on application to.
The Pre- Diges ted Food Co, 20 Read st., N. Y
Sold by ]. T. Shurtieff Bennington, Vt.
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Long Life In Maine,

The late Millionaire Bryant of Bidde-
ford found one reason for sticking to old
Maine on the tombstones. 1--we been out
west" he said to a boomer who was try
ing to interest him in a western enter
prise, land didn't SEQ q stone with an
older age than 40 ON it. Go through our
graveyards, and you'll find that most ev-
erybody here lives till they are go or 70. 3"
Life was the one thing the millionaire
loved moro than money.-Lewiston Jour
nal
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s,,e and Color of Human Hair.

Actual measurements have shown that
the size of hair depends much upon its
color and that such fllaments on the human
head vary from the two hundred and if
tieth to the six hundredth part of an inch,
blond hair being finest and red the coars-
est Dr. Zung, German specialist, says
that the average number of hairs on
blond head is 14O, 900; ON the red not more
than 90, 0OO.-St. Louis Republic.
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The Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton talked at Senator Brice and made
all sorts of insinuations against him, but
it lacked the nerve to adopt resolutions
openly denouncing him. Brice seems to
have known what kind of party he was
dealing with when he bought it.
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For OVER FIFTY WEARS.

AN OLD AND WELL TRIED REMEDY.-Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over
fifty years by millions of mothers for their chill
dren while teething, with perfect success. 1t
soothes the child softens the gums, allays all
pain cures wind collie, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold by
Druggists in every part of the world. Twenty
five cents a bottle. Its value is incalculable. Be
sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
and take no other.
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Nothing Strange.

Intelligent people, who realize the
important part the blood holds in keep
ing the body in normal condition, find
nothing strange in the number of dis
eases Hoods Sarsaparilla is able to cure.
So many troubles result from impure
blood, the best way to treat them is
through the blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla
vitalizes the blood.
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Bucklen,s Arnica saIve.

The best Salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains.
corns and all eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25c per box,
For sale by G. d. Gibson.
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1t was a great personal triumph for
Frank Hurd to see the Ohio Democracy
squarely aligning itself on the radical
free trade platform which he used to
stand alone on. But the upshot of it all
is very likely to be that soon there will
be no Ohio Democracy.
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The New York Republican Conven-
ton made an unequivOcal declaration in
favor of an honest dollar, and against
any effort to lower the currency stand
ard, whether by wildcat currency or by
free silver. The plank is model one.
The South Carolina Democrats expe-
rienced no difficulty in indorsing both
the Chicago platform and the Ocala Pop
ulist platform. Why should theyP
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The Democratic anxiety IN a great
manufacturing State like Connecticut to
ignore National issues this year is per-
fectly Ineligible, but there is no partic-
ular reason why the Republicans should
care to follow suit Their position on
the tariff and against the stupid National
Administration is impregnable, and
their Democratic adversaries know it.
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Connecticut Republicans have a
straight forward platform and an admir-
able candidate for Governor. Every
thing indicates a victory, which will
make New England solidly Republican
from the Canadian border to the Sound.
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BENNINGTON,
SPRING, 1894
ESTABROOE'S
Granite and Marble
WORKS.
MAIN STREET, DOOR WEST Or EXPIRES
AND TOWN CLERKS OFFICES.

To THE CITIZENS OF BENNINGTON
AND VIcINITY-I am prepared TO furnish any
thing wanted in the line Of cemetery work at at
least 10 per cent less than you can buy the same
quality Of stock or work of any agent or outside
party, az that is the agents commission, or il
will cost party from away If they come them
selves to sell and set the work at least 40 per
cent more than it will me, as live here and sell
and set my own work. and receive my granite in
the rough state direct from the quarries in car
load lots at low rates. have force of compe-
tent workmen to cut. polish and letter the WORK
here in my shop; have had four car loads of
rough granite in the past two months; fur
nishinR 10 monuments and number Of markers
and tablets from Landgon's best dark Barre
granite which are to be set before Decoration
Day. Call and my stock and how 1 do my
work. aid if YOU have work to buy give me
chance to figure on it. 1 have nearly fifteen hun
bred dollars worth of marble monuments and
tablets on hand and will sell you any of these at
a very low figure, as 1 want the reofa for granite
work. The above are facts Which viii prove to
you if you will call and see me
fully yours,
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Not even the concerted singing of
the cuckoo and the mugwump bird can
drown the vigorous Republican war cry
of the American eagle in the Empire
State. The proud bird of freedom is
perched above the Republican colors,
and when he screams it is time for the
other poultry TO put their heads under
their wings and shudder.
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The civil engineers of Germany have de-
cided to erect a monument to the memory
Of DR.. Wernervon Siemens, the famous
electrician and inventor, in the German
capital. A well known sculptor will carry
out the work.