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property Of the government, alt the i'm
provements having been made by appro-
priations allowed from time to time by
Congress for the construction Of lCcks
and othe rworks with resulting slack water.
The rate of tolls is fixed by the offit ials
OF the government and the money derived
iherefrom is covered into the Treasury.
TOTAL MILEAGE.
The total operated mileage Of canals
ana canaized rivers is 3,3S3 miles. COM
prising 1.OS7 locks and having cost to con-
struct SlsS,1S5. The number OF boats
towed during the last year OF record was
6,376, Win a tonnage capacity or g64 .5O9,
and valued at $5.:O0,914. The trans
portation movement on canals is now cen
fined chiefly TO grain. coal and ore aud in
the last year of report aggregated AS
66S.325 tons; being divided as follows:
state and corporation canals. 13 .269,t 90;
United States government canals. 25, o.
06s; canalized rivers, 6,S91.656.
But large proportion OF this traffic
comes to the canals from the rivers. and
the actual tonnage carried on cana boats
and not elsewhere reported amounted for
the year to but 1O,5O4. 500. The gross
earnings, expenses. and net earnings can
only be given for State and corporation
canals, neither the United States govern
ment canals nor the CznalIZed rivers re-
porting any income and expense account.
While It is a fact that both the latter
waterways require an expenditure for
their maintenance, the amount so laid out
is from Congressional appropriations, and
the receipts from tolls form an income ac-
count which cannot be considered that
OF transportation. The gross income of
State and corporation canals amounted
to $4,0S9 .132, the sources being either
tolls or lockage. The expenditures amount
ed TO So, 122 .3T6, and were made up OF
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LIFE OF A TRAIN BOY
Nature Of His Business Tends
to Sharpen Wit.
SUCCESS IN AFTER YEARS
Not a Few of These Boys Have
Eventually Become Well-tO-d0
Business Men.
SUCCESS IN AFTER YEARS

Every man, woman and child who has
ever Travelled on railroad train knows
the train boy, for though he may be gray
haired and wear spectacles and lie wrinkled
he is always train boy To the travelling
public. Experience las taught nm pa
tlence, and he can almost Always tell what
Class OF his wares To uI1er. He knows,
almost to Certainty, tu whom he may
offer chez wing gum, The lie of the James
boys and like literature, tu whom lie may
offer campaign BUTTONS and badges; to
whom lie may sell fruit; who will purchase
the leading magazines and newspapers;
who VIII buy the novels OF a Certa III slaIuI.
and who Will want SOME or The better
line, although few bowels OF the latter
class are ever sold OH trains, SAYS The
Chicago Chronicle.
The business OF the ira i'll boy leads in
the direction of success. There is DO
education like that which CONES from COZ
stant contact with the travelling public
The trains carry all sorts and conditions
of men. Some of the most prosperous
business men in this country were train
boys. To be train boy requires honesty,
Quickness, industry and rohteness. A boy
who is an applicant for this position on
the train, must he SO fur above suspicion
that he must not live III Il Questionable
neighborhood where his associates have
been evil. His apteccdents must be
without blemish, his references emphatic.
At the first step, if he be acceptable, he
must deposit $40 with the company and
buy himself a uniform. He Must be us
prompt as the train, and under all circum-
stances must lie tie tidy in appearance.
SPECULATING IN SIDE LINES.
Travellers sometimes wonder what can
be the amount of train boys supply.
He makes his trips through the coaches
at Intervals of thirty minutes. and each
time lie seems to have something different
to offer. Nothing in his Inventory is sold
for less than a cent nor for more than So.
Occasionally a wide-awake train hog
will offer something on his own hook. but
it must he something that will not inter
fere with the sale of any article put up
for him by the company lie represents.
AS he gets only i commission. 20 per cent
of what he Sells the company allows him
the privilege of specializing on his own
responsibility with the proviso noted. and
always with the understanding that his
own traffic must consist OF articles which.
when purchased, will give no offensc or
be deceptive.
Tie other day the passengers on train
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KNOWN N POLICE COURTS
Picturesque Vags WE0 Appear
With ClOcklike Regularity.
ALL ARE VICTIMS OF RUM
There Are Women Among Them
Who 0ScilIate From Dock to
Workh0use and Back Again.
ALL ARE VICTIMS OF RUM

Labor is the law; he who spurns it as
tiresone will have it us a punishment
You are unwilling TO be Il workin gina n;
you will be a slave. Labor releases you
on the one hand only 70 take you on the
other; you are unwilling to be her friend,
you will be Ter negro. All. you have
refused the honest WEAKNESS OF men; you
shall have the sweat of the damned
These words, put in the mouth OF that
marvellous creation in fiction; that sub
lime martyr, Jean Valjeau, by the great
French master Hugo, could be well in
scribed on the walls Of every police court
in the land where idleness breeds the sin
that brings men and women within the
clutches of the law as Migrants. There is
a tiDcture of especial degradation in the
charge of vlgraDcy. 1t means often utter
hopelessDess On the part OF the offender
The thief, the murderer, may reform and
gain, no mutter how slight, some sort Of
a fOothold in the world, but rarely dues the
vagraDt advance.
In the police court OF this CITY there
are men and women who have been COM
ing before that tribunal for Yeas, and
who are known as "vags" They are sent
to the workhouse, released, and in q short
time again appear f6r sentence Seeming
~ pStbn III iut Is Circle, marked
only by police stations, courts, the work
house and rum mill. for the latter are
largely responsible for the creation OF
this class Of offenders
THEY ALL KNOW JOHANNA.
Probably the most notorious vagrant in
Washington is johanna Quill, IL woman OF
forty, VINO has spent nearly fifteen OF those
years in travelling the circle. She is not
vicious except when she gets drunk; then
she may give q policeman u tussie before
he locks her up. Beyond that she is a
ponr, harmless creature, with an inordi.
nate taste for lifuof. AMI an intense desire
to execute skirt idances when it gets the
better OF her. g. ID
She was borI9fn County Kerry. Ireland,
and came to this cdfntry with her mother
when a little g1ri.' Her mother managed
to acquire some property on Massachusetts
avenue, in the aP6odle," which johanna
wasted in dissifati1h. Twenty years ago
this woman was ehdhdsome. a TYPICAL Irish
beauty, with Biuebrack hair, rayishing
eyes. a surerb Complexion and the buxom
form and curves found among the Irish
Today there are 2treaks Of gray in her
scaut bair, once So thick and curling. The
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9TH and D Sts. N. w.

bullet headed, bearing OH his face as many
scars of rough and tumble fights as the pits
of the plague. The end Of his nose is missing
and so is the lobe OF his left ear: cEewed
off in a melee. Yet Jacky has chivalTy.
He told the judge when he and Johanna
Quill were arrested for disorderly conduct,
that the fault was his.
..Soi. yer amer" said Jacky, blinking
the sound eye. ''dis yer TART" pointing
to the incorrigibie Miss Quill, wasn't
In de push. I'm de guy wat caused de mix
up. Soak me. but let tie old girl CO."
"Jacky," smiled Judge Kimball. posi-
lively l am pleased with you. You are to
he commended for your gallantry. but
Johanna must godown. Fifteen days each"
= Jacky's ugly face blushed with delight
and the incident is now i tradition at the
workhouse. .F
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| thing in it. it is also true that there Is
| not one puzzle in five hundred that is a
good seller
SCHEMERS ALWAYS ON HAND.
Presidential campa ga is productive or
mult.tudinous inventions, novelties. traps
and pamphlets. The news OF the nominal
ton of Mckinley was not forty hours old
when IA sctemer presented TO Mr.. Walsh.
in the hope that he would purchase,
sample of bust OF Mckinley. which he
was certain would he bought by every
traveller. The bust was about four feet
hgh, and two and a talf across, and. if
there had been any prospect OF it teiDg q
seller to the extent the schemer stated.
the Union News Company would have
had to charter an extra car for every
train tnat carried out enough busts TO sup
ply the demand.
The pubhc has an idea that literary men
and writers-for there is quite a differ
ence-are weighted down with modes,y.
In this commercial age the damned lit
erary feiler' has good deal of hustle in
his makeup, and the moment he writes
book. and often before lie undertake that
uncertain task. heSlays his claims before
the Union News Company. either in New
York. to w. II. Williams. the founder and
manager of the company, or to Mr.. Walsh.
in this city. and asserts with all the as
suraDce of the man who invents and
presents the puzzle that the book will
spread like prairie fire. And vet there
is not one book in 500 that would sell with
profit on n railrbad train. This may cot
be because the book has M value but he
cause. except in certain line OF literature.
the people who buy books to read and to
save usually supply them selves before
they leave for travel. But it is rather
significant that the average author has no
higher idea of his profession than to be-
inve 4 ~ Mt in fc l,fft
being pushed on a railroad train along
with chewing gum, whirligigs, bananas
puzzles and figs.
FORERUNNER OF DINING CARS.
The company which has contributed in
this way much to the comfort Of the travel
ing public Is re ally pioneer as comforter
long before there were dining-cars. The
train boy furnished in many cases all that
the traveller required in the wa of food un-
less the Journey was long cne. where the
old-time twenty minute s. for meals house
contributed the sustenance. Atthe present
time wherever there are eating stations they
are under the control of the Union News
Company. 1t was also this company which
originated the ca fe system of meals now in
vogue on many roads. W H. Williams was
the founder OF the company, and is still its
manager. with headquarters in New York,
Although Mr.. Williams has IA ralatial home
in Orange, N. j., and is in condition to re-
tire, he finds the business which he origin
ated SO fascinating that he continues to give
it much of its personal attention.
''Tbe sale OF the magazines and Ierodi-
calls" said Mr.. Walsh, ION trains is not
what it used to be. The cut in the prices
OF such literature by the department stores
has not left the company much profit. tits
fact that some Of the magazines which we
handle are sold at a loss. One mag azjpe
thatcosts uss 1-2 ce ntsapiece we sell for o.
and the train boy gets two cents of that. So
you can see where the profit goes.''
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THE MAYFLOwERS TILLER.
An Object of Interest to Tourists ut
Old plymouth.

An interesting eve mt has just ta ken place
at Plymouth, where you may see the exact
spot whence the Mayflowcr set forth upon
ner voyage To the New World
The descendants of those who left this
country ON hoard her have naturally no
slight affection for all that is connected
with her. and whole shipload OF them
have come over with the special object Of
visiting the historic spot.
Plymouth has risen to the occasion. and,
her mayor taking the lead, has entertained
them royalty.
An object Of interest is the tiller OF the
Mayfiower. which has escaped destruction
and is in the Possession of Mr. Mortimer,
The Peaks, Creditor. Devon.
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$4.OO To Richmond. Va, and 81. 90
Return via Pennsylvania r. r.

During Christian Endcavof Convention
tickets will be sold daily until July 31st.
Short line. Fast through service. jy0-24t
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$1.25 to Baltimore and Return via
Il. & o.
For all trains, including Royal Blue Limo
and 45-mfuute flyers. Tickets sold July
7th to 18th; good to return until July Ia.
Jy7-7t
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Atlantic City-Capc May by b. s. o.
II. r..
Frda ys and Saturdays. IL a. IN. and I 2
IN. Round trip So. Cool returning until
Tuesday. S,t,th. .s-jy&au
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The C. e. Folks

Can find much of interest in our store. Our Bu-
reau of Information Is at your disposal Ask
ouestions-get schedules Of trains. Little cards
Of information relative to the Departments can
be had for the asking II you need any mer-
chandise, give you special opportunity
being in the midst of our Semi-annual Clearing
Sale
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-15

Profits in the Restaurant business
"I have learned new wrinkle in
the restaurant business" remarked q
young business man. "For year or
more l have been lunching at place
where everything is 12l cents. For
some months L usually took n couple
of dishes and a bottle of claret for my
lunch, but finding that l felt better if
/ took something more substantial
than claret, dropped it and ordered
third dish. After time l observed
that was not treated as cordially by
The proprietor Or waited On as prompt
ly as before and / wondered at it..
Finally l was studiously neglected by
the walters and it was with difficulty
that l could get chance to give an
order and then | had to wait half an
hour for everything.
81 finally complained to the head
waiter, with whom had struck up an
acquaintance, and asked him the reason
for it.
"'It is ORDERS he whispered, the
boss is on to you
"'What Go you meant l asked. Il
pay for everything l get, and | have
been good patron of the place.
"'You used t. be good patron, but
you are no longer. You don't drink
wine. There is where the profits of
the house come in. You order three
dishes upon which there is no profit.
The wine we sell for 12aa cents costs US
about cent bottle, so you see there
is clear profit of IL cents on every
bottle. If we sell 1000 bottles day
we make a profit of S110. Now you
will understand why you are not a
good patron
II take my lunch elsewhere now"
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"A Moorish Legend.

A certain Sultan one morning coEl-
manded his Prime Minister to take
census of all the stupid people in his
Empire, and let him have the correct
list. The Vizler set to work and at the
head OF the list, which was a very
long one, he placed the name OF his
sovereign. The latter happened to be
in good humor and merely inquired
how he came to merit the distinction.
''Sire," the Minister replied, II
have entered you on the list because
only two days ago you entrusted large
sums of money, for the alleged purpose
Of buying horses abroad, to {. couple of
men who are entire strangers, and
who will never come back again.
'Is that your opinion? But suppose
they do?"
Then 1 will erase your name and
place theirs at the head of the list. y
La Monde Picturesque.
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OId Place for a Piano Fuctory,

There was piano factory at Wart-
burg, Tenn, before the war. The
singular thing about it is that Wart-
burg was about one hundred miles
from the nearest railroad and in the
heart of the Cumberland mountains.
The wood of which the instruments
were made had to be brought from
New York and then hauled 100 miles
over the mountains to Wartburg,
which was q German colony. The
pianos were made by a practical
musician, and when an instrument
was ordered he would finish up the
different parts at Wartburg and then
haul them to the home of his customer,
generally many miles away, and put
up the piano there. One of them is
now at Wartburg, and the building
where they were made still stands, al
though no longer used as piano
manufactory. The town, which con-
sists of about two hundred people, is
away from the railroad and has not
grown since the war. The homemade
instrument, of over thirty years ago,
is still in good order and in constant
use.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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The Care OF Teeth.

The care of children's teeth should
begin as soon as there are any to care
for. Buy for them soft brush, a hard
one would not only be disagreeable to
them, but injure the enamel and cause
the gums to recede. Teach them it's
use morning and evening at least, with
once or twice week perhaps a good
powder,-plain precipitated chalk is
always safe. Teach them to brush the
teeth up and down, not across. A
thin quill toothpick or piece of floss
silk should be passed between them
after each meal, but this is an opera
tion to be carried on in private. Have
reliable dentist to examine them
once or twice a year. If he is your
family dentist he will not charge for
this unless he finds something that
needs to be done, and it may save fu-
ture pain and Disagreement. 1t is a
great unkindliness to child to allow
its teeth to be neglected.
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Think n Little.

What do we elect Presidents, Sen
ators and Congressman for? To legis-
late to make business better. That is
the whole purpose of their election. If
they fail to do so, they are either false
to their oath of office or too stupid to
send back. 1t is not question of par
ty, but of business.
Now the ma ton has been electing men
for Il number of years through party
fealty, in blind ignorance of their own
affairs. Is it not time to think Il little.
and vote to improve business, regard
less of party? If business is good with
you, we have not another word to say
but if it is bad, we consider that you
are thinking this question over, or
ought to be, and, in such case, don't
ton is what you need to make your
business better?
You are under n gold standard
America has been under it for twenty
three years-and times have grown
steadily worse. Then why not vote for
gold. silver and Government paper. as
proposed by Bryan, in preference to
gold alone. as proposed by Mckinley?
Surely three kinds of money are su-
perior to one Indeed. that is the only
way you can get any, for the gold is
all owned in Europe, and the United
States can only get it by paying an
enormous premium. If you doubt this,
try and buy some gold. Now we have
given you the financial situation in
brief. and every sensible man can I'M
derstand it. And all we ask is that you
will vote as you think.
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predictions are infallible. In support
of this claim, they point out that the
ancient mathematician last spring
made wonderfully close calculations
upon the vote Mckinley would receive
in the st. Louis convention.
But it must be remembered that at
that time, the purchase of delegates
was going on. Being in the inner circle.
Grcsvenor knew what Mark Hanna
was doing, and the price he was paying.
He knew the material he was dealing
with, and he was aware when the bar
gain was consummated. But there is
a marked difference between nominal
ton and an election. 1t is not the
money ranting voter who decides presi-
dental contests. It's the quiet, unob-
trusive man who says nothing, but
who when he goes to the polls, casts
his ballot for what he believes to be
the best interests of America. This is
the class which will support the free
coinage of silver, and this is the vote
which will decide the conteSt.-Phila-
delphia Item.
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The Three Platforms.

The three political platforms under
consideration and discussion before the
American people present three different
lines of policy to be pursued upon the
silver question.
/. The Democratic platform declares
for resuming the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the relative rate
of value fixed at the foundation of our
government, with awaiting the concur
renee and consent of any other nation
on the face of the earth. Consequent
ly, it proposes an addition to the
amount of money which is now in cir
culation in this country and the aggre-
gate of which has been diminishing
thus making gold dearer and more
valuable) ever since the repeal of the
Sherman coinage law.
.. The Republican platform declares
for a resumption of silver coinage,
whenever the British and other foreign
capitalists shall be willing that we
should do so, and not otherwise. 1t
therefore proposes no relief for the i'll
sufficiency Of money in this country,
unless foreign powers consent to take
pity on us.
3. The platform of the Boilers and
Bankers party, organized at Indian
apolis, opposes the coinage of silver,
whether approved by foreign govern
ments, or not, and thereupon differs
from both the others. which contem-
plate it either with or without such
it consequently upholds gold
as the only primary money. This
would maintain the present stringent
conditions of monetary affairs, with
out change, or any hope of change.
AS Candidate Bryan says, it only re-
quires ordinary intelligence to under
stand the questions at issue, and to de-
eide which would be best for the coun-
try and for its citizens. 1t is only a
question of good times or hard times,
of money plenty or money scarce. ev-
cry man pinched or every man flush
and comfortable. Nothing can be
palmer.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-15
Importan. Contract Secured.

We are glad to inform our readers
that we have closed contract for adj
vertisins No-To-Bac and Cascarets, the
famous preparations manufactured by
the Sterling Remedy Co of Chicago and
New York. The Sterling Remedy Co.
appreciate the value of this paper as an
advertising medium, and the compliment
is the more marked, as the company is
conservative concern which sells its prod
ucts under an absolute guarantee to cure
or money refunded. Every one of our re-
tail druggists is authorized to sell No-To-
Bac, guaranteed tobacco habit cure. ard
Cascarets, guaranteed constipation cure,
under this absolute guarantee, and our
readers need not hesitate to buy these
preparations, as it involves no risk what
ever, either physical or financial.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-15
In PERSON.,

The late Isaac F. Redfeld, who was
Chief Justice of Vermont, was tall
and dignified man, whom his juniors
in irreverent fashion, used, "unbe-
knownst," to call by his first name.
One of these younger men, VIM. Her
rick, was in the judges Office, and
another youth, friend of his, one day
told him he wished to consult a certain
book, which proved to be difficult of
access.
ats in Isaac's library said Her.
rick. He isn't at home, so you can
go in and find it for yourself"
The young man did as he was bid
den. He came at once on the book,
sat down and began toread it. Present
ly tall and serious looking gentleman
opened the door and came in. The
reader glanced up from his page and
greeted him affably.
"Want to see Isaac, sir?" he asked.
"Young man." said the stranger,
solemnly and portentiously, 81 am
IsaacI
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-15
A Household Recess ity.

Cascarets, rdy Cathartic. the most
wonderful medical discovery of the age
pleasant and refreshing to the taste. acts
gently and positively on Kidneys, liver
and bowels, cleansing the entire system
dispels colds, cures headache. fever. ha
bitual constipation and bliousncss. Please
buy and try box of c. G. c. to-day; 10.
%, 30 cents. Sold and guaranteed to
cure by all druggists
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-15
Campaign Marching Climbs.

Members of Mckinley Clubs and Bryan
lubs. be sure to get from your drug
gist or shoe dealer before you march,
a package of Aliens oot-Ease, pow
der for the feet, and shake it into your
shoes. 1t instantly takes the sting
out of Corns and Bunions and prevents
blisters and swoller, tired, aching
feet. Aliens Foot-Ease makes march
ing delight. We have over 10000
testimonials. All druggists and shoe
stores sell it: 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy,
N V
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No TIME SbouJd Re Lost

By those troubled with constipation in seek
ing relief from Hostetters Stomach Bitters.
The disease is easily relieved in its carrier
stage. and as ii is utterly subversive of the
general health postpOnement of the remedy
is unwise. The same holds good of delay in
cases of fever and ague. kidney complaints,
nervousness. debility and rheumatism, All
adapteu.