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tell the story convincingly. BY the
expenditure of S1,350,00 hundreds of
lives were saved and many times that
amount OF property rescued from de-
struction. Better investments by the
government for the public welfare
have been made, but it will take a
most diligent search Of the records to
unearth them.
A DREARY LIFE.
The life Of the coast guard is not
exciting. 1t is dreary and monoton-
Gus. He almost welcomes shipwreck
because it gives him something to do
and breaks into the lonely routine of
his cherries labor. For seven months
in the year he is almost as lonely as a
hermit or castaway on a desert
island. He is paid $50 a month by the
government, and the hardshipS of his
work incapacitate him at a compare
lively early age. natism, and
it's kindred ailments, due to exposure,
make a wreck of his hardy constitu-
ton, and when he is worn out the gov
eminent casts him aside as farmer
throws away a too+t' C rake. No PEN
sion awaits him either No provision
is made for the life saver in his old
age, although he Is certainly the equal
of the soldier and risks his life and
health in the publis cause oftener.
Many times efforts have been made
in Washington to provide a pension
for the life savers and to give them
work twelve months in the year. but
without result. Economy has always
been the cry, but when a popular sena-
tor dies four or five thousand dollars
are freely voted for a fine congress
stopal funeral
In summer time the life saver sup
ports himself and family by fishing.
| by sailing pleasure craft or by work
ing at a bathing resort as life saver.
When in the employ of the govern
ment he is absolutely cut off from his
family. He must be on duty twenty
| the week. Six or seven men compose
the average station. One of the num-
Der is the captain. He is held respon-
/ sible for the work Of the men.
The hardest work they have to do is
70 patrol the beach at, night time.
| Any one who has walked on a fiat
sandy beach in winter time, with the
/ wind blowing gale and hurting salt
spray with the force of gun shot hun
! dreds of feet, knows what the work
of the coast guard is. He has no
! shelter, as the beach is as fiat as a
billiard table and when a heavy
snowstorm is on the work is infinitely
worse
A LONG PATROL.
Each man must cover a patrol of six
miles during the night He walks
three miles in either direction, from
! the station and then back. Unlike the
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ONE HONEST MAY.

Dear Editor: Please inform your read
Will mail in a sealed letter the plan
pursued by which 1 was permanently
restored to health and manly vigor, after.
years Of suffering from Nervous Weak
ness, night losses and weak, shruuken
parts.
have no scheme to extort money from
anyone WhomSoever. I was ropbed and
swindled by the quacks until I nearly
lost faith in mankind, but thank heaven
L am now well. vigorous and strong, and
anxious to make this certain means OF
cure known to all.
Having nothing to sell or send c. o. D,
/ want no money. Address, James A.
Harris, Box 572, Detray. Mich. B
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LIVE A LIFE
OF GREAT PERIL
Arduous Work of Uncle Sans
Coast Guards.
COST OF THE SERVICE.
soMEl THRILLING EXAMPLES LATE
IY GIVEN.
COST OF THE SERVICE

Telling Figures-PrOperty Worth
Many Times the Yearly Outlay
s,xed. 90 Say Nothing of Hum
dreJs of Lives-ShOoting the Lie
Line.
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A high liver with torpid liver will
not be long liver. Correct the liver
with DeWitt's Little Early Risers,
little pills that cure dyspepsia and
constipation. For sale by all drug
gists. Nelden-Judson, wholesale deal
ers,
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Having had all the high grade
baking powder tested, Hewlett Bros
can safely say that their Three
Crown Baking Powder is the strong
est and pureat made.
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LAWYERS.
RAY VAN coTT,
Room 500 Mccormick Block.
PENCE & ALLEN.
22S and go Atlas Block
BOOTH. LEE & GRAY,
S2-65 Commercial Block. Tel 507.
ANDERSON & ANDERSON,
Eagle Building. Rooms 2-S
2Sl-9s9 Atlas Block
POWERS. sTRAUr & LIPPMAN,
soNNEDEcKER N. w.
SHEPARD RICHARD B..
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
AMERICAN MFG. CO.,
27S South West Temple
PIANOS, ORGANS AND MUSIC.
cALDER's MUSIC PALACE,
DAYNEs & CoALTER,
CoALTER & sNELGRovE Co, ''-'
IL South Main street.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
LARSON & ANDERSON,
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LEADING BUSINESS FIRMS OF SALT LAKE CITY.
BREWERS

ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING co.
Tel. Nos. 80 and 3S2
FISCHER a. BREWING CO,
160 South Tenth West
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Soothing, healing, cleansing, De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve is the enemy
to sores, wounds and piles, which it
never fails to cure. Stops itching and
burning. Cures chapped lips and cold
sores in two or three hours. For sale
by all druggists. Nelden-Judson,
wholesale dealers.
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they bring the men safely ashore, but
they also rescued a little Spanish pony
from the steamer by the aid of the
breeches buoy.
FAD it not been for the vigilance Of
tbe coast guard, who burned q danger
signal, the Cunarder Campania would
have gone ashore in the fog at the
same time the St Paul struck her un-
lucky nose against New Jersey. The
r1,nard company was saved something
i,e+weer. 100000 and 100000 by the red
light thrown out by the life savers.
This IS the kind of work the coast
guards are doing all the ti7ne. but IN
less there is actually disaster no
record OF 1t appears in statistics
gathered in washington.
SOME TELLING FIGURES.
But even taking those statistics, the
record oS the service is fine one. The
department year does not end until
5tnv 80, and taking the completed re-
cords for the year ending June 80. 1895,
some idea Of the work accomplished
By these men can be obtained. There
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BY THE LATE JAMES i. CRANE.
CThe author of these "reminiscences, died
in 1879 while serving as pastor OF the
Methodist Episcopal church at SheIbyVilIe,
Ill He seems to have written them out
about the time of the closing of the war.
They furnish one of the most graphic pic
lures Of Grant ever given TO the publlc.)
Shortly after I came into the regi-
ment our mess was one day taking
their usual seats around the dinner
table, when Colonel Grant remarked:
chaplain, when [ was at home, and
ministers were stopping at my house,
I always invited them to ask a bless
ing at the table. I suppose that a
blessing is as much needed here as at
home, and if it is agreeable with your
views, L should be glad to have you
ask blessing every time we sit down
to eat"
The inexcusable and foolish practice
of using profane language, a practice
too common in the army. and even
| among intelligent officers, is a habit to
which Grant never degraded himself.
| I never heard him use anything like an
oath under Inc most PROVOKING eAc4tS-
| ment.
GRANTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS
SLAVERY AT THE BEGIN
MING OF THE WAR.
He was at heart and in expression
an anti-siavery man; yet he had but
little sympathy with the previous
movements and opinions Of the so
| called Mira Aholitionists He believed
| slavery to be an anomaly in a free
government like ours that its tenden-
cy was subversive of the best interests
of the master and the enslaved ,and
our common prosperity as nation
that it hindered the development Of
the highest interests of humanity; thai
it promoted aristocracy and a priv
legged class; that it encouraged idlenes:
and an inclination to rely upon other!
to do what we ought to do ourselves
that it resulted in one man lording il
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Money refunded In all cuses IL the
High Grade Three Crown Baking
Powder is not Equal to the very
best baking powder made.
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A LONG PATROL.

Each man must cover a patrol of six
miles during the night He walks
three miles in either direction, from
the station and then back. Unlike the
policeman he never loiters. He has
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Copyright. 1896. S. S. Mcclure & Co.. Limo
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BAKERIES.

LAWRENCE BAKERY, 81 e. First
South,
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> INIHIt V II " " II
SLAVE AND SLAVE HOLDER.

While we were at Mexico, Mo-,
slave came to our headquarters one
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Rapid Heading.

What an inestimable boon il would
be if we had the faculty If grasping
sentences. paragraphs and perhaps pages
at little more than glance!
That there have been men gifted III
that way is an undoubted fact. Macau.
lay possessed that faculty i'll remarka-
BILE degree, and most editors have it tc
a lesser extent.
He would take up volume for an
evenings intellectual enjoyment, and
before he retired he had the contents
fully impressed upon his marvellous
mind.
Dickens was another of the rcmarka.
bly, rapid readers. George Eliot's Adam
Bede" came to him one day. Before his
ordinary bedtime he had read il and
pronounced this remarkable dictum,
"That book was written by woman. y
Others required days IF leisure 10 read
1t. and the question Of authorship was
the question of the time in literary cir.
cles.
OF well known lawyer it was once
said that he was able to read n newspa
per article or page Of book at wha,
seemed TO the observer to be but glance.
Endowed at the same time with Il pow
erful memory. he was enabled To digest
at leisure what he had absorbed in haste.
Very much the same was said of Dan.
iel Webster. who read Don Quixote'
in single night. STRAND Magazine
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What curious condolences will some.
times occur, remarked Police Judge
Low the other evening. Twas walking
along Post street, near Union square,
one night recently. when suddenly the
bewhiskered face of Judge Campbell
came before my minds eye. don't
know what could have called him tC
mind. but was still thinking Of him
when ! saw IA parcel on the sidewalk.
picked it up and found it was sheet Of
music that some one had dropped. un.
rolled it and was confronted with the
title. And Still His Whiskers Grew.
1t struck me as being so ridiculous that
sat on bench i'll the square and laugh.
cd for half an hour. San Francisco
Post
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Many an English and Australian friend
has said 10 me: Il should think you
would he afraid To travel in America; you
always seem 10 he having such dreadful
railway accidents We scarcely take up a
paper without seeing an account Of some
new horror Alas. that IL cannot bc said
TINT the frequency of railroad horrors Is n
popular dclusion, but the fears Of nv
friend were largely exaggerated. because
the papers he saw gave him very little else
than these accounts Of dircful railway ac-
cidents and other disasters When in
formed him that had Travelled many tens
Of thousands 81 miles without meeting n
serious mishap or ever being held up by
highwaymcn, it almost passed his compre-
hcnsion and he made up his mind that
either the papers which h. habitunlly read
or myself had been drawing a long bow
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The Guinea.

1t Is a mistake to call IL guinea an Elm
aginary coin, as there are many actual
guineas In existence. 1t Is not now, as il
once was. current coin, but should be
styled money of account. In the same
way sovereign is u current coin, but n
pound, which no living person has ever
seen, is merely n money of account.
So the Portuguese rel is now a. money OF
account, having been SO deprecated that a
vintcm GEO reis) is only OF the value Of a
halfpenny Prices are calculated in mil
refs, a silver coin equivalent To 1000 rcis
is. 5iad.-or in 100 rcis-5l4 pence.
The real, which In Spain is IL silver coin,
value 2ia pence. is in Portugal money OF
account equivalent to 40 rcis or two vim
teins--\otcs and Queries
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Hannah's Intelligence.

Again, Hannah stands before you today
rs an intelligent mother From the way in
which she talked in this chapter and
from the way she managed this boy you
know she was intelligent There are ne
persons In community who need to be 50
wise and well informed as mothers Oh.
this work Of culturing children for this
world and the next, This child is timid
and IL must be reused up and pushed out
into activities. This child is forward and
he must he held hack and tanned down
into modcsty and politcncss. Rewards for
one, punishmcnts for another That which
will make George will ruin John The
rod Is necessary in one ease, while frown
Of dlspleasure Is more than enough in an
other. Whipping and a dark closet do not
exhaust all the rounds 81 domestic disci-
pline There have been children who have
grown up and gone Ia glory without ever
having had their ears boxed Oh how
much care and intelligence are necessary in
the rearing 81 children But in this day,
when there are So many books on this sub
ject, no parent Is excusablc I'm being igno,
rant Of the best mode Of bringing up
child IL parents knew more Of dictctics.
there would not be 50 many dyspeptic
stomachs and weak nerves and inactive
livcrs among children. II parents knew
more Of physiology, there would not he SO
many curved spines and crampcd chests
and inflamed threats and diseased lungs rs
there are among children. II parents knew
more Of art, and were In sympathy with
all that Is beautiful, there would not be 81
many children coming out in the world
with boorish procliyitics. II parents knew
more Of Christ and practiced more Of his
religion, there would not be 50 many little
feet already starting ON the wrong road,
and all around us voices Of riot and bias.
Dhenly would not come no with such &c
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The rags used in the manufacture Of
paper are first placed in Il cylindrical
machine. called thrasher, which shakes
them violently in order to separate rs
far as possible all foreign substances.
They are then sorted. according TO tex
ture. fiber and color. after which they
are placed in machines, which cut or
tear them into very fine, short filaments
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iolence.

Violence ever defeats its own ends.
Where You cannot drive you can always
persuade. 4 gentle word, kind look,
good ratured smile can work wonders
and accomplish miracles. There is a
secret pride in every human heart that
reyolts at tyranny. You may order and
drive an individual. but you cannot
make h7m respect you. -Hazlitt.
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Bella-I look best with my hair
drawn straight back. wish it were the
mode.
Cora-Wait till you get to heaven,
dear. There'll be no parting there. -
New York Press
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Daily except Saturday and SUNDAY.
Daily except SUNDAY.
SATURDAY TRAINS.
East bound: Leave Baltimore Il. 30 a. m.
Salisbury .i.3s. arrive Ocean City 1880
Evening train leaves Baltimore y. M,
Salisbury 90, arrives Ocean City 40.
Local train leaves Claiborne 5.25 +. IN.
Salisbury 7.32. arrives Ocean City $40.
West Bound: Ocean City 6.45 n. ~.
Salisbury ..46 arrives in Baltimore |. =. m.
Afternoon train leaves Ocean LEO, Sails
bury 50. arrives in Baltimore ?.l0.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
East Bound: Leaves Baltimore u. M.
Salisbury II AZ arrive Ocean City 1880.
Local train leaves Claiborne g. SIS. Salisbury
9.l2. arrives Ocean City 1915.
West Bound: Local Express leaves Ocean
City 40, Salisbury $50. arrives Baltimore
lO.45. ocean City Special. leaves Ocean
City Sis, Salisbury 6.0l, arrives Baltimore
1915.
WILLARD THOMPSON. Gcn1 Manager
4. J. BENJAMIN. Div. Freight aud Pass
Agt. Salisbury. Md.
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Proof.

as Mrs. Beverly so highly cultured.'
"Y,s, she can look at hole in a
newspaper without wondering what wal
ut out Chicago Record.
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AN ORDINARY WOMAN
HANNAH WAS SIMPLY AN OLD FASH.
IoNeD CHRISTIAN MOTHER.
Vet DIR. Talmage Says Her Industry, Hei
Intelligence and Her Christian Devotion
Refined Her For Heaven-A Plea For
Our Mothers.

Refined Her For Heaven-A Plea For
Our Mothers.
WASHINGTON, July ls.-This radical dis
course will no doubt have it, practical re-
suit in many homestcads throughout
christendom. The text will be | Samuel ii,
~, Moreover his mother made him n 1T
tie coat and brought it tn him from year
tn year when she came up with her hus
band To offer the yearly sacrifice. .
The stories Of Deborah and Abigail are
very apt To- discourage womans soul.
She says within herself 1T is impossible
that ever achieve any such grandeur of
character. and | don't mean Ia try" as
though - child should refuse To- play the
eight notes because he cannot execute a
William Tell This Hannah Of the text
differs from the persons just named. She
was an ordinary woman. with ordinary
intellectual capacity, placed in ordinary
circumstances, and yet by extraordinary
picty standing out before all the ages TO
come the model Christian mother. Han
nah was the wife Of Elkanah, who was
person very much like hersclf-unromantic
and plain, never having fought a battle or
been the subject Of n marvellous escape.
Neither OF them would have been called a
genius Just what you and / might be,
that was Elkanah and Hannah The
brightest time In all the history of that
family was the birth Of Samuel. Although
no star ran along the heavens pointing
down Ia his birthplace, think the angels
Of God stopped at the coming of so Won
derful n prophet. As Samuel had been
given In answer to prayer, Elkanah and
all his family, save Hannah, started up to
Shiloh to offer sacrifices of thanksgiving
The cradle where the child slept was altar
enough for Hannah's grateful heart, but
when the boy was old enough she took him
To Shiloh and took three bullocks and an
ephah of -four and bottle of wine and
made Offering Of sacrifice unto the Lord
and there, according TO n previous VOW
she left him. for there he was Ia stay all
the days Of his life and minister in the
sanctuary.
Years rolled on, and every year Hannah
made with her own hand garment for
Samuel and took II over to him The lad
would have got along well without that
garment, for suppose he was well clad by
the ministry Of the temple, but Hannah
could not be contcnted unless she was all
the time doing something for her darling
boy. Moreover his mother made him a
little coat and brought il To him from year
to year when she came up with her hus-
band 10 offer the yearly sacrifice.
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UNDE RTAkE s,
LU NJ B e r.

We have complete stock of
lumber, rough and planed, for all kinds
Of work. Prices the lowest. Carpen-
tiers are invited to examine and com.
pare quality with other mills work.
Delivered ON Chincoteague or at your
railroad station elsewhere. |. n.
IIearn Il Son. May he seen on
millyarl at Watermelon Point. If.
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One OF these same Iricnds, VINO enter
tanned these fears l regret Ia say, being
somewhat soothcd by my favorable nc
count Of railway travel In the United
States, yenturcd across the Atlantic and
even visited the Worlds fair in Chicago
Alas for his tcmerity! For in the very
heart Of this land Of the free his train was
stopped by 'road agents, Its express car
was rifieti of it's contents and the robbers
got off with their booty scot free. What
realistic accounts he must have carried
home and how he will corroborate every
account of robbery and disaster which he
sees in the London papers!-Rev. Br
Francis T.. Clark In North American Re
view.
Some Curios.
In the early years Of the last century we
find in The Taller Of Aug. &c, 1910, n
charmingly written paper by Addison on
the ccccntricitics of virtuoso who had
"laid out considerable estate in natural
rarities and curiosities" In his will
Nicholas Gimcrack, the aforesaid virtuoso,
bequeaths to his wife one box of butter
flies. one drawer OF shells, n female skele-
ton and dried cockatrice; Ia his little
daughter Fanny, three crocodile eggs and
upon the birth Of her first child, IL she
marrics with her mothers consent, the
nest Of humming bird; to his eldest
brother, rs ian Acknowledgements for the
lands he has vested in my son Charles, y
his last years collection of grasshoppers;
having provided for his nephew Isaac by
making cover to him some years since q
horned scarabaus, the skin Of rattle
snake and the mummy Of an Egyptian
king, no made no further provision fol
him in his will; my eldest soil John,
having spoken disrespcctfully of his ETH,
sister whom l keep by me in spirits Of
winc and in many other instances behaved
himself undutifully toward me- l do dis
inherit and wholly cut Off from any part
of this my personal estate by giving him
n single co;kleshell, and so on.-Tcmpl,
Bar
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RAILWAY DIVISION.

Timetable in effect June %, 1896.
Steamer connections between Pier Light
St. Wharf. Baltimore and the railway
division at Claiborne
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ALTIMORE, CHESAPEAKE ( AT
X LANTIC RAILWAY COMPANY.
y of Baltimore.
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man can't be as sick as a woman
As a mans organization is simpler and
stronger, il follows that his ailments are
less complicated. lie is ne; subject 10 the
chances and changes. physiologicaily. that
come TO the ,vcragc woman
II a woman is in good health there is no
more healthful employment than house.
work. Gene rally speaking there is no hap.
pier woman the world than the one who
is well and busy all day long making
home" for dear ones who depend upon
her. But how different when every breath
is pain every step torture This state Of
health, IN nine cases out of ten comes from
derangemen;, of the delicate, feminine or.
gans of generation. The family doctor in .
quircs first concerning these. He most
usually insists upon an examination. /"
From this The modest woman naturally
shrinks. She is right Excepting in very
unusual cases of female weakness" cx-
aminations are unnecessary DR. Picrce's
Favorite Pre- description is a simple. natural
remedy for these ills II cures gradually.
safely permanently Here is one tcsti.
monial out 4 thousands
u was Ill four years with female weakness
took two bottles Of Dr Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scrip,ion do my house work now withou,
pain OF faininess." Yours truly
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HELP WANTED-FEMALE

WE MUST HAVE HELP. We pay
men sud women $40 Ia SIS per week for
easy home work. No books or peddling
Steady employment guaranteed. Send
stamp for work and particulars at once
HERMANN & SEYMOUR. 2l3 South
Sixth Street. Philadelphia. Ia. dec. 7-6m.
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What a great guam
tity of work a goot
housekcepcr" find.
TO dol There are
so many little time
and strength taking
: chores that have nc
names. And il mus
all be done whether
the housekcepeI
feels like il or not.
/ This is true of mems
work too. but mems
III a uual labor is
never so complicated
as housekeeping. Ia
some way or other
the worlds work
M ust be done. -
iron clad rule is
harder on women
than il is on men. A
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Pure

Blood means sound health. With pure,
rich. healthy blood, the stomach and d.
gestive organs will be vigorous, and there
will be no dyspepsia. Rheumatism and
Neuralgia will be unknown. Scrofula and
Salt Rheum will disappear. With pure