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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

HE appalling ravages of lung
troubles and consumption in
this country, continuing from
year to year, presents showing
before which all lovers of humanity
must stand aghast.
Lung troubles lead to consumption.
Last year, as proven by tine official
records at Washington, over 100000
died from consumption in the United
States-represonting an average OF
bCO0 every week and 700 every day; a
waste of life that seems incredible.
More than four-fifths OF this number
might to-day be living, had they but
known wherein restoration lay, and
made timely use of the only infallible
remedies that have thus far been dis
covered.
Thousands of witnesses could be
brought forwar-whose testimony is
incontrovertible, to prove not only
that the Slocum Scientific Treatment
is wonderfully eflicacious in the cure
OF throat, chest and lung affections and
all pulmonary disorders, but that it
DOES CURE in cases of well defined
and unmistable consumption.
For the purpose of bringing these
remedies to the attention OF the pub
lie, and making their great merits
known, L. A. Slocum is now making a
most generous offer that should GER
tainly be taken advantage of imme-
diately.
He will send two bottles free to any
sufferer making application. Simply
lend express and postof1ice address.
This proposition speaks eloquently
indeed of the "good faith" OF the great
chemist,
Nothing could be fairer or more
philanthropic.
There will be no mistake in sending
the mistake will be in overlooking
the generous invitation.
Sufferers may address r. A. Slocum,
NJ. G., 1873 Pearl Street, Now York.
When writing the Doctor, please men,
lion rsS6liG this in this paper, and
~ y THE EDIron
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

SO the shadow was lifted forever
from The house OF Frontenac, and the
story which had so sad an ending and
was accountable for the ghost is no
longer related as the cause of such a
dreary effect, and it is now the pleas
ure of the ladies of the chateau, as it
once was the adherence, to ask visitors
to listen to the so strange echo" and
out of the materials of tragedy they
have really evolved comedy.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

A white electric light of one candle
power can be seen at sea at distance
of one-quarter of mile on dark,
clear night, and one mile on a rainy
night. In an exceptionally clear
atmosphere white light of 3.2 candle
power was plainly visible at distance
Of three miles, while one of 17.2 candle
power was seen at five miles.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION
Ex-Prcsident Harrison Explains How 1t
Was Made.

EX-President HarrIson's paper in the
Ladies' Home Journal of This Coun-
try of Ours" SERIES treats comprehen-
sively of the Constitution, and it's APP
plication and operation, defining the
instrument, its scope and limitations,
clearly. The word Constitution. he
writes, "as used among us implies a
written instrument; but in England it
is used to describe governmental sys-
TEN or organization made up of char
ters-as the Magma Charitable general
Acts of Parliament and body of long
established legal usages or customs.
These are not compiled in any single
instrument as with u5, but are to be
sought in many places.
THE common American usage, in
making a state constitution, is to elect,
by popular vote, delegates to con-
vention, whose duty it is to prepare a
plan of government. When the dele
gates have agreed and have properly
certified the instrument it is sub
and each voter casts a ballot For the
Constitution or Against the Constitu-
ton If majority vote for the Con-
stitution it then becomes a paramount
law of the state. The legislature does
not make the Constitution; the Consti-
tuition makes the Legislature. The
American idea is that Constitutions
proceed from the people in the exercise
of their natural right of self-govern-
ment, and can only be amended OF
superseded by the people Whatever
one Legislature or congress enacts the
next one may repeal, but neither can
repeal Or infringe Constitutional pro-
vision. sf
1.-The delegates to the convention that
framed the Constitution of the United
States were not, however, chosen by
popular vote in the states, but by the
legislatures. Nor was the question of
the adoption of the Constitution sub
mitted in the states to a direct popular
vote. There have been fifteen
amendments to the Constitution adopt
ed Ten Of these were proposed to the
Legislatures 80 u Eirst,
Congress, and ratified. The other five
amendments have in like manner, been
submitted by Congress to the state leg
islatures for ratification
in the states not having been used in
any case. 1t will be noticed, Slso, that
the vote upon the adoption of the Con-
stitution, and upon amendments there
to, is by states-each state, without re-
gard to its population, having one vote.
But while these provisions make the
popular control less direct than is usual
in the states, and necessarily recognize
the states in the process of making and
amending the Constitution, the idea
that Constitutions proceed from the
people is not lost"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20
baneful influences

baneful influences she must become
habituated when member of the fam
lily.
When they first saw Clotilde she
was so young and timid they made up
their minds to wait until Gaspard him
self came but one night as they sat
around the great hall fire there was
great Jingle of sleigh bells and the
sound of swift runners on the crisp
snow outside and then that musical
clash at the door which announced the
stopping of the turnout and the arrival
of the guests.
Surely there was nothing uncommon
in this the coming of party of merry
people to q country house and on a
magnificent moonlight night when the
whole landscape was as light as day.
Yet instead of looking pleased or sur
prised the ladies of the house sank
back in their chairs, and covering their
faces with their hands murmured
prayer.
Clotilde, the little one, clapped her
hands and asked earnestly;
might it be, my friends, that 1t is
Gaspard, who has come with sur
prise?"
mo, no, Clotilde, it will not be our
Gaspard. Mon Dieu, how then shall
we tell her? Child, so you not to the
doorl These sleighbells you hear are
not of the flesh and blood mean the
driver is not
But little Clotilde had run joyously
to the great hall door, and though no
servant stood there to open it she
swung it wide on its massive hinges.
A bitter draft of cold air rushed in,
with dreary, wailing sound, and no
sleigh stood outside but even as the
startled girl watched a clash of musical
bells and the swift sound of the steel
shod runners filled the area of snow.
She turned winter than lily in the
somber moonlight and flung the door
to affrighted.
Come to the fire, little one; you
have seen, then. our skeleton in the
closet?"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20
WHERE Did You arr 1nIs corFEr,

Had the Ladies' Aid Society of our
Church out for tea, forty of them. and
all pronounced the German Coffeeberry
equal to Rio! Salzer's catalogue tells
you all about i'll So packages Earliest
vegetable seeds $1.0O post paid.
II you will cut this out and send
with 15c. stamps to John A. Salzer Seed
Co.. La Crosse, Wis, you will get free a
package of above great coffee seed and
our las page catalogue! Catalogue alone
sc. WIN.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20
THE PHANTOM BELLS.

HE ladies' of tao
Chateau Frontenac
had invited their
brothers fance
to make them Il
visit in order to ex-
plain to her the
strange shadow
which hung over
their house for
nearly a hundred
years, and to whose
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

The names Of ladies who have never
been presented at the queens drawing
room must be sent to the lord chamber
lain's office certain number Of days
previous to the ceremony, with that oil
The person undertaking to introduce
them to the ro5al presence.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

Commends itself to the well-informed.
was formerly done in the crudest man
ner and disagreeable as we'll TO cleanse
the system and break up colds, head
aches, and fevers without unpleasant
after effects, use the delightful liquid
laxative remedy. Syrup of Figs. Manu-
featured by California Fig Syrup Com
pany.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

purifes the blood, leaving no III effects.
This medicine has for its body the famous,
Llandrindod water, the great germ de-
stroyer and blood purifier, and when used,
with
the worst and most desperate cases of
rheumatism, paralysis, sciatica, neural
gia, and all aches and pains. No home
are sold at so cents each. Ask your drug
gist to get Veno's Curative Syrup and
Venos Electric Fluid for you, or write to.
the Veno Drug Co., Pittsburg Pa.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

We can only do our best when W,
arc sure we are right.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

Spectacles were invented by al
Italian in the thirteenth century.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20
'CURELUNG TROUBLES
AND CONSUMPTION.
The Generous Offer That is Being
Made by T. A. slocum of New
York City, America Most
Eminent Chemist,
PROGRESS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE

Confident of the Value of His Discoveries,
He WIN Send FREQ. Two Bottles, Upon
Application, to any Person suffer-
ing From Throat, Chest, Lung
ana Pulmonary Affections.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

The first American newspaper was
published at Boston in 1890.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20
Eczema
ALI Her Life.

Mr.. E. d. Jenkins, of Lithonia, Ca,
says that his daughter, Ida, inherited a
severe case of Eczema, which the usual
mercury and potash remedies failed to
relieve. Year by year she was treated
with various medicines, external appli-
cations and internal remedies, without
result. Her sufferings were intense.
and her condition grew steadily worse.
All the so-called blood remedies did not
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

Money is wasted every day. Think
of an $50 guitar.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-02-20

Copenhagen claims to have had the
first printing press in 1893.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-20
Beautiful Cotton from the Orient.

Some of the eastern cottons, with
their rich colorings intermixed with
the sheen of metal threads, keep their
color and their brightness so long that
they are an excellent investment for
the economical woman who likes ar
tistic things. A square of such a fabric,
costing not more than two dollars,
lately seen, had as a background thin
white cotton, under which was the
CLINT OF gold threads made silvery by
ihe white woven over them. The fabric
was figured with soft shades of blue,
rose, olive and yellow, and, although
t had been in use two years, is as
beautiful as at first, looking like some
priceless treasure from the orient.
such bits for table-spread or pillow
cover are often to be found in the up
aolstery department of large city stores
of the better class, or at stores making
= speciality of eastern goods st. Louis
Republic
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-20
IMPORTANT DECISION.
Walter Baker . Co.'s Cocoa to Be Sold 1,
Ohio.

On the 5th December last, Messrs.
| Walter Baker & Co., Limited, Dorches-
| ter, Mass, we'll and widely known for
more than a century as manufacturers
of Cocoa and Chocolate preparations,
| issued circular to the trade in which
they stated that they had decided to
withdraw all their grocers' goods from
sale in Ohio. I'VE take this course"
| they said, because it seems the only
one open to us in view of the numer-
| Gus prosecutions that have been insti-
tuted against parties selling our prod
ucts since the recent decision of the
Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga
County in the proceedings against Mr..
Rose, of Cleveland. for selling our
Breakfast Cocoa.
"In that case the chemist employed
by the State testified that the sample
was made from pure cocoa, with no
other adulteration than the removal of
the OIL He also testified that he never
had examined any powdered cocoa 'ex-
cept the oil had been removed or starch
or sugar added; and that, without such
removal or addition, it was impossible
to make powdered cocoa which would
keep in our climate.
1.-THE name Breakfast Cocoa Is applied
only to powdered cocoa; and we have
always stated conspicuously, on every
! can, exactly how ours is made-namely,
fsSy removing the excess of OIL without
the use of any chemicals and without
che addition of starch or sugar.
"Our object has been to produce an
extract of cocoa containing the stimu-
lating and exhilarating properties of
the bean in the most convenient, con-
centrated and digestible form; and our
success has been fully attested by the
leading physicians and teachers of
cooking. We fully believe we have
adopted the best method known for the
purpose, and there is no question that
the demand for the product is great and
greatly increasing"
On the 18th January, Messrs. Walter
Baker &c Co., issued another circular to
the trade in which they said:
1.-THE Circuit Court of Cuyahoga
County has reversed the decision of the
Court of Common Pleas to which we re-
ferred in our circular of December 5,
and decided that our Breakfast Cocoa,
being a pure article, made from the
cocoa bean by the removal of the en-
cess of oil, is not within the provisions
of the food law of Ohio, and that it may
be sold with its present label. This sus-
tains US in the position which we have
already maintained, that the law is in
tended to prevent adulteration and not
to interfere with trade in purified prod
1cts, when sold under their appropri-
ate names.
Eve therefore take pleasure in an
nouncing to you that we shall at once
place our Breakfast Cocoa on sale again
in Ohio; and for the convenience of the
trade we shall see that a full supply
reaches the State at an early day to
replace what has been withdrawn"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-20
A SAGACIOUS HORSE.
BE Led Those Who Trusted Him Out of
Danger.


Danger.
Some 40 or so years ago a party of
surveyors had just finished their DAVIS
work in the northwestern part of Iii.
nois when violent snow storm came
on. They started for their camp,
which was in forest of about 80 acres
IN large prairie, nearly 20 miles from
any other trees. The wind was blow
Ing very hard and the snow was drift
ing so as to almost blind them. When
they thought that they had nearly
reached their camp they all at once
same upon footsteps in the snow. These
they looked at with care and found,
to their dismay, that they were their
own tracks. 1t was now plain that
they were lost on the great prairie,
and II they had to pass the night there
in the cold and snow the chances were
that not one Of them would be alive in
the morning.
While they were shivering with fear
and cold the chief man caught sight
of one of their horses, a gray pony,
known as Old Jack. Then the chief
said: 'If anyone can show us the
way to camp out of this binding snow
Old Jack can do it. l will take off his
bride and let him go, and we can fol-
low him" The horse, as soon as he
felt himself free, threw his head and
tail in the air, as if proud of the trust
that had been confded in him. Then
he snuffed the breeze and gave a loud
snort, which seemed to say: Come on,
boys follow me. I'll lead you out of
this scrape." He then turned in new
direction and trotted along, but not SO
fast that the men could not follow him.
They had not gone more than a mile
when they saw the cheerful blaze Of
their campfres, and they gave a loud
huzza at the sight and for Old Jack
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-20

elor or spinster, but not for them as
is married. For them as is married
an tlatter myself as l knows, being
myself married woman, this ere bijou
residence amt 'alf, nor yet quarter,
large enough. a man may be es fond
o his wife es ever it is possible for i'm
to be; woman may be es fond of 'er
husband as 'er ever ken be, but they
don't want tie be knocking up agin
each other all the live-long day."
Here the figure in the rowan berries
summarily disappeared into the tiny
drawingroom. The tall patrician man,
preternaturally embarrassed, strobe
into the tiny dining-room, and the gar
rulous caretaler was left to finish her
speech to empty benches. She imag-
ined herself to be IL woman of singular
penetration, however. 1t was her boast
that she could grasp situation at a
glance, and take it all in. Therefore
she was by no means disconnected till
a flutter of skirts smote her ear, and
the woman with the rowan berries
reappeared, the man having gone up
nation traceable in every word:
THAT gentleman is "A perfect stranger
to me. have never seen him before
to-day in my life. We CHANGED to ar
rive at the station together. And to
walk up to the house together. And now
you can go. There is no occasion for
you to follow me over the house, pre-
fer to look at it alone. BY the by" she
added, Il should advise the owners of
1t 10 put it in other hands. You evil
IDENTITY don't want to let it,"
1t does not take long to look over a
six-roomed cottage. In ten minutes the
man was out on the slope of the garden
IN the rear looking idly ahead of him
across the reach. He had seen in a
fash through the staircase window the
Sowan berries going upstairs. He
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-20

and exceptional sanitary arrangements;
sloping garden to river, boat, boathouse,
stabling, fruit garden, etc, ETC.
Yet, despite the alluring character OF
this announcement, the bijou residence
went through two seasons unlet-its
notice boards leaning lower and lower
as the seasons went on over the stone,
box-fringed garden walls, with pathetic
responsibility.
At length. simultaneously one morn
ing in late July, two people caught the
glow of that announcement from OPP
posite corners If England-thc one a
man, the other a woman, and they bent
their faces in its direction.
A geographical, as well as railway
time book, dispensation decreed also
that those two people should make
their debut simultaneously at the little
wayside station, situated some mile and
a-half from the bijou residence in ques-
ton. After that, how much fate or
destiny had to do with it? how much
man? how much woman? remain prob
lclnatical. defy two people of the OPP
posite sexes to walk for mile and a
half along boxed-in country lane and
not be oppressively conscious of each
other. l deny a man possessed of the
slightest moiety of taste not to pick
out the various beauties of that woman,
II she have them, and briefly tabulate
them on the retina of his appreciation
as he walks.
Finally, the two drew up at the gar
den gate, if not simultaneously, almost
so, the man pushing the gate wide for
her and waiting, and they arrived face
to face under the trellised porch.
The sound of advancing footsteps
footsteps presumably of the care-taker
reused him from his temporary aber-
ration. 1t occurred to him that speech
was the only thing possible to save the
situation. He raised his hat, displaying
Il grizzled, but patrician, head, and
smiled.
as the house let, them" he asked.
The woman showed a CLEAN of teeth
under the rich undulating curve of her
red lips.
THAT was just the question was 60
ing to put to YOU" she answered.
NO" he said; 81 have merely come
from Dorchester to look at it."
And | have come from Cromer."
In the pause of which announce
ment, IL woman, in sun-bonnet and clogs,
with that reticence which the caretaker
exhibits when she does not want to let
the house, slowly opened the door. She
moved back, making room for them to
enter, making at the same time de-
predatory movement with her bare
arms. Its all very nice an CON
venient like" she said, indicating the
tiny drawing-room on the right, the
tiny dining-room on the left, the Lii
putian kitchen i'll spective-the mar
row stairway intervening, fur bach
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-20

Of the sultan, while acknowledge
ing that his government is weak,
wretched, impote1t and powerless;"
to attribute the massacres to the
hatred of race and creed factions; to
assert that England has not the power
of military usurpation to prevent them,
that none of the European powers wish
to interfere, and that if England does
not act with the great powers she must
act against them and produce far more
awful and terrible calamities than the
Armenian atrocities"
1t is evident from this humiliating
confession, says the Chicago Tribune,
that the Armenians are to be left to their
fate, and that the great powers, civil
lied, Christian England among them,
are disposed to give the sultan all the
time he wishes in the prosecution of
his Infamous policy. Lord Salisbury
says: ut is our duty to give the sultan
time. 1t is not for me to pass judg-
ment on that view, but no other remedy
has been suggested"
That is exactly what the sultan wants.
Leave him alone ana give him time
enough, and what with killing, burn
ing, plundering and starving there will
soon be only remnant of the Armenian
race left, and that remnant too small
and weak and too terrorized by the
Moslems to dare ask for the rights
guaranteed with these Indifferent pow
crs. 1t is little wonder that the Lon
don Chronicle Indignantly declares this
utterance will do England grievous
harm and that his confession of failure
with regard to Armenia is most ig
nominious admission, and that the
London Daily News says: "The little
monster who gloats at Constantinople
over the butcheries will receive Lord
Salisbury's statement as glad tidings.
1t will be read with ineXpressible shame
by thousands of decent men and women
in England. We might at least alb.
stain from encouraging the sultan in
his hellish work" Even the great
Thunderer is compelled to-regard Lord
Salisbury's statement as apologetio
and inferentially to regret it. The
world will echo the sentiments of these
newspapers, and will learn with pro-
found sorrow and indignation from the
lips of the English premier that there
is no hope for the Armenians and that
the work of slaughter must proceed I'M
til they are reduced to condition so
weak and helpless as to be unable to
utter complaints or demand rights
promised them in solemn treaties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-20
The Natural Death Time.

Button, Flourens, Humboldt and a
great many other eminent naturalists,
scientists, ETC., were Of the opinion that
the natural limit of earthly existence
among the animal creation is five times
as long as the time expended by them
in reaching maturity. Button gives the
following table to substantiate that
peculiar belief: The camel grows for
eight years, lives 40; the horse grows
for five years, lives IS; the OK grows
for four years, lives IS to 20; the lion
grows for four years, lives 20; the dog
grows for two years, livsS 20 to 10; the
man grows for 20 years, lives 100.