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A Fm.NCII naturalist warned GallfQhas made the discovery at >l'raes thatif a sparrow is putin the same cagewith finches it will soon learn to imi-tate their sonir like a mocking bird;also, the chirping of a cricket.

A KT SSIA.N nobleman. Count Rambnn-sky, has written to Mayor Warwick,of Philadelphia, saying that he has agood-looking son. 34 years of age. whowants to make a Philadelphia woman

his wife and a countess. All he requiresis beauty and a dot of SM.(too. 000.

AN agent of an American firm hasjust been in England, and with butlittle difficulty obtained orders forti,ooo golf sticks. The American sticksare better made and finishid than theEnglish owing to improved machineryand advanced methods of manufacture.

THE richest gold mine in the worldis located under the thriving town ofBallarat. Victoria, Australia. It yieldsbut half an ounce of standard gold tothe ton, and yet the Band, Barton andAlbion mine has yielded more than$150,000,000 of frold since it was opcucdSO years ago.

THE prince of Naples is compilingan illustrated work on the coins ofItaly, modern and mediaeval, and isanxious to have all persons who pos-sess rare Italian coins communicatewith him. lie has a collection of 18,-300, but there are 30,000 yet to be ac-

counted for.

OFFICIAL reports have been receivedfrom Capt. Kay, who was sent to theKlondike country by the war depart-ment. Capt. Kay's report is one thatwill serve to keep people out of thecountry, as he says of all who havegone there in two years but 7 per cent,

have earned a living, the others beingdestitute.

Miss MAKYPROCTOR, the astronomer,?*ave a lecture a few evenings ago inthe lecture course provided by theboard of education of New York city.Her interesting subject was:"TheGreat Planets, Comets and Meteors. '*

Miss Proctor has just been the recip-ient of a beautiful three-iuch tvle-scope, presented by Mrs. Floyd, ofBoston.

VANCOUVER is enjoying a boom thatpresages a bright future and a verifi-cation that that city is the future trreatmetropolis of British Columbia. Everyvacant house has been rented, and tomeet the demand others are in thecourse of construction. The 40 hotelsin the place are filled with argonauts,and all the boarding-houses have asmany guests as can be accommodated.

THAT New York and Philadelphiawill eventually be *;ounect'jd by a trol-ley line seems to be assured. Thereare electric power lines now in severalof the intervening cities and towns,and connections between them couldbe made in a comparatively short time.There is a line in operation betweenJersey City and Newark, and thiscould be extended to connect with theRailway and New Brunswick lines,which, in turn, could be carried ontoTrenton, and then to Philadelphia.

PRESIDENT MCKI.NLKY has it in hispower to have a curious an 1 unequaledrecord made a part of the United States

navy history. Tlios. 12. Selfridge, a14-year-old aspirant for naval honors,has made application for a cadetship atAnnapolis. Should ha bj appointedthree generations will be borne on tin;

navy register and 80 years interveningbetween the first and the last entry.Thos. O. Selfridge. grandfather <>f theyouthful applicant, is the sole survivorof all the officers who were in the na\ vin ISIS.

WHEN the big department stores ofDenver lately undertook to dictate ad-vertising rates to the newspapers thereand stopped advertising in order to en-force their demands the small storestook advantage of the boycott and ba-ffan to advertise. They got immediateresults, one house having to call torpolice to keep back the crowds, whilethe large places were practicallyempty. A little dry goods firm thathad never been heard of before turnedaway a thousand people for want ofroom to receive them inside. Tlifcmoral is obvious.

A NET of spiders' webs is being man-ufactured at the professional school atAntananarivo, and will bj used as a aexperimental covering for a navigableballoon by M. Itenard, tlie head of theFrench military balloon school at Cha-lais. The thread of several spiders iswound on winders, the quantity pro-duced by each spider ranging from 15to 40 yards. The covering of the wobis removed by repeated washings, tlieweb made into a thread of eiglitstrands, which, when spun, is easilywoven into a gauze very tine but ex-ceedingly stronir.

SOMETHING HE OVERLOOKED.]Ilr>ftit*» 111 ff nnd Denrrlptlon <i(

Mcxlf'iin FIIImice*.

In the article praising Mexico, lier

alleged marvelous prosperity and hersilver monetary standard, Air. WilliamJennings Bryan neglected, as he usual-ly does, to bring out the vital and mate-

rial points of the questions which hediscussed.

Mr. Bryan spent two or three weeksin Mexico, bought a sombrero trimmedwith silver, and then came back fully-equipped to tell us all about the affairsof our neighboring republic anil ready-to prove, to his own satisfaction atleast, that this country ought to adoptthe financial system from which Mex-ico has been for some time trying to

escape.Mr. Bryan is a political comet which

has passed its perihelion, and is disap-pearing in the depths of obscurity,whence it emerged some 18 monthsago. It occasionally still emits a gase-ous explosion, however, which calls forcomment 011 the part of the astrono-mers who have watched it with interestas it careened madly across the politi-cal firmament. The letter on Mexicois the latest of these Bryan ite ex-plosions, and, following the usual cus-

tom, a few observations on the phenom-enon are presumably in order.

Ever since Mr. Bryan picked up the

silver question as a supposedly con-

venient method of landing himself inthe. white house he has argued thatthe free and unlimited coinage of silverwould give to this country a greatervolume of money; that is, a larger percapita circulation. Now, if the free

coinage of silver is conducive to agreater per capita circulation than theI'nited States possesses, we would nat-urally suppose that Mexico, which con-

forms to Mr. Bryan's loftiest ideals ofa proper financial policy, would have a

larger per capita circulation than thiscountry. Let us see. Consulting thefacts and figures in relation to theamount of money in each country, we

discover the per capita of each nationto be as follows:

PerIn polii? capita.

I'nited States J!' 3f>Mexico 39

111 stiver?I'nited States $S 78Mexico 7 "0

In paper?Vnited States tS 90Mexico 32

Total money?

I'nited States 524 03Mexico & 41

Evidently there is a cog loose in Mr.Bryan's logic again. Instead of having,

thanks to the free coinage of silver, a

greater amount of money per capitathan the United States, Mexico hasonly about one-third as much moneyper capita as this country possesses.Besides, every dollar of United States

money, under the gold standard, isworth twice as much as a Mexican dol-lar. So that, if we take purchasingpower into consideration, we find thatour $21.03 per capita is worth $48.06 inMexican money, as against an $8.41

per capita in Mexico.If it is a good thing to have a large

circulation, then free silver, as shownby the experience of Mexico, does not

supply that benefit, nor does the freeantl unlimited coinage of silver in Mex-ico add one pe'.nv of value to the sil-ver when it is coined. After that metalis minted it is worth no more or less,

under free and unlimited coinage inMexico, than it was worth as bullion.Tlie free and unlimited coinage of sil-ver never did make 50 cents' worth ofsilver worth 100 cents, and never will,

Mr. Bryan to the contrary notwith-standing.

While Mr. Bryan is sounding the

praises of Mexico's financial systemthat country is striving to abandon it,

and in a few years we will see our

southern neighbor take its rightfulplace among the progressive goldstandard nations of the world.?Cin-:innati Commercial Tribune.

DRIFT OF OPINION.

l7Mr, Br3-an is undoubtedly one ofthe men who are ahead of their times.Ihe only date to which he pays atten-

tion is 1900.-?Washington Star.the "investigation" could only-

have been held before the electionBanna's majority would have beenmuch larger.?Cleveland Leader.

"Bryan and Altgeld democ-racy" presumably has warned all per-sons of the name of Buck Ilinrichsento keep eff the grass. ?Chicago Kecordt Ind.).

tightening grip of Dingleybil".

results on the windpipe of the calam-ity howler has reduced that organ to

the vocalization of a piping treble. ?

Philadelphia Press.C-"*"Bryan's satirical telegram to the

Maine cotton mill strikers is in keep-ing with his calamity record. Whenhe sees a sign of prosperity he keepsquiet.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

e-y-The Curse of Gold" is describedas a f.ee silver melodrama. It will beremembered that "The Cross of Gold,"which had a short run in '9O, was aroaring farce. ?Chicago Times-llerald.

Ey'l'he promptness and vigor withwhich the republican house killed theTeller silver bond resolution shows thescrupulous faith with which the re-

publican party keeps its pledges.?St.Leu is (ilobe-Democrat.

C7 -Never was a robber or assassincaught in the commission of his crimecondemned to swifter execution bypublic indignation, or more promptlygibbeted and buried out of sight andsmell than the Teller resolution, withall its infamies on its head, was sent to

its just doom by the house of repre-sentatives. ?St. Paul Pioneer Press.

(C"Hryan says:"The democrats of

the United States have put their hnndsto the sixteen to one plow, nnd will not

look back." Well, perhaps they won't.There is nothing very pleasant "to lookback" at. Bryan firing oil' speecheswith hair on end at the rear of a Pull-man car,.ar.d defeated when the vote

was counted, doesn't make n historicpicture for any democrat to enthuseover.?Chicago Inter Ocean.

WAGES AND MONEY.

Facia \\ 111ell Knock Oat the l'r»-

teiiNCN of Free Sftlverltew.A bond sale recently took place in

this state which shows the extent to

which the price of money has fallenIn the past few years. The bonds were

Missouri state securities, amountingto $350,000, bearing interest at four percent., and they sold at a premium.These bonds are to take up bonds draw-ing six per cent, interest. Twentyyears ago the latter were hard to sellat par, and they replaced bonds thatdrew ten per cent, interest, which soldfor 75 cents on the dollar in 1860, at a

time when the repular currency of thecountry, greenbacks, which the repub-licans brought up to the gold line in1870, was worth only 75 centson the dol-lar in gold. Of course the interest ratefor private loans in Missouri has alsofallen to nearly the same extent in thistime.

This is a little different sort of a

story from that which the silver orators

tell. They pretend that interest andfixed charges for farmers and othersremain the same as during the war pe-riod, while the prices of farm prod-ucts and the wages of labor have gonedown. The figures here given, how-ever, show that interest in Missouri ismuch less than half as high as it was

25 or 30 years ago. Allowingfor thepremium now on public bonds and thediscount then, the present rate of in-terest is only about a third what itwas at that time. Ex-Gov. Stone, likehis friend Bryan, has often shed meta-phorical tears over the crime of 1873,

by which "half of the country's moneywas struck down and the value of theother half enormously enhanced." Gov.Slone and every other person in thisstate, and in almost every other state,no matter how poor or obscure, who hasacceptable sucurity to offer, can borrowmoney for half what lie would have hadto pay for it in 1872.

The facts k nock out the rest of the sil-verites' pretense also. Prices of manyfarm products have dropped in the past

20 years, though wheat at its presentprice in 100-cent dollars is about as highas it was 25 or 30 years ago, if the cur-rency of those days is reckoned on thegeld basis. Beef and pork have alsochanged in price but slightly. On theother hand, the farmers' machinery and

tools, the interest on the money he bor-rows, the price of the clothes he wearsand his general living expenses are inthe aggregate only about half whatthey were at that time. That is to say,the farmer has been a great gainer bythe change. The same is true, of course,

of the average wageworker. An ex-

haustive examination made bv the I'nit-ed States commissioner of labor a fewyears ago showed that a dollar wouldbuy 27'/JJ per cent, more of the neces-

saries of life in 1891 than it would havebought in 1872. a year before the great"crime of the century" was perpe-trated. and the average laborer got tenper cent, more wages in 1891 than he didin the earlier year. The thing the wage-worker had to sell, his laoor, went up inprice, and everything which he had to

buy went down. His condition has vast-ly improved in the past quarter of a cen-tury, and so has that of the farmer.

The deposits in the savings banks of thecountry nnd the reduction in theamount of the farm mortgages are con-

clusive on both these points. ?St. LouisGlobe-Democrat.

On tlie Defensive.

The Tippecanoe club, one of thelargest permanent republican clubs inthe country. has been sued to preventits board of directors from ex-pelling four members who took part inthe effort to prevent the election of M.A. llanna to the United States senate

by the Ohio legislature. These fourmembers, who figure as plaintiffs in (he

ca=e, are Mayor McKisson, the sena-

torial candidate, put up in oppositionto Senatorllanna; Speaker Mason andRepresentative Bradley, of the Ohiohouse of representatives, and SenatorBurke, of the Ohio senate. The rulesof the club stipulate that every mem-

ber shall stand by the nominees of therepublican party. The four plaintiffsclaim first that Senator llanna was not

the nominee of the party in the sense

intended by the rules, and that as theclub is a stock company and the plain-tiffs are owners of stock, they cannot

be deprived of their shares. Uponproper application, Judge Ong, of thecommon pleas court, granted an ordertemporarily restraining the club fromproceeding with the trial of Mayor Mc-Kisson and his colleagues, now in prog-ress. The case will be heard on itsmerits later. ?Chicago Inter Ocean.

"(\u25a0old I.>CBI>OiMm/'Something must be said about the

phrase "tyranny of gold," implyingthat gold is a cruel despot and an in-jury to mankind. It is strange that we

never heard of this tyra.nt until silverfell below par. II the despotism of goldis so cruei to the human race it isstrange that all other nations one by-one are rushing to its embraces. Sincethe controversy became hot in theUnited States, Italy, Austria. Koumania,Chili, .Japan, Russia, and even San Do-

mingo have welcomed the tyrant, andnow India is taking steps to the same

end. The tyranny of go'.d is of thesame nature as the tyranny of railroadsin. comparison with lumber wagons, oftelegraphs and telephones in compari-son with postboys, of gas and electriclights in comparison with tallow dips,of the United States in comparisonwith Mexico and China, of coinedmoney as against wampum, of civiliza-tion in general as against savagery.?N. Y. Post (Gold-l)em.)

IP'From 1834 until the present mo-

! mcnt gold has been the standard of allvalues, and if it is a "tyranny" it is not

| the work of the men of the present dayj The statesmen who established it havej (ong since passed to their account, nnd

! their names are honored wherever| American history is read. Itwas an act

: of beneficence and not of tyranny when; they reformed our coinage laws andj established the standard of gold. ?Chi! cago Times-llerald.

CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1898.

IMilExplosion in Havana Harbor

Wrecks an AmericanWarship.

Scores of the Crew Killed and

Wounded?Exact Cause of the

Disaster Not Yet FullyDetermined.

Spanish Na> aland Military Author!-ties Assist In Caring fcr the In-

jured- -One of the WorstCatastrophes in the An-

nals of Our Navy.

Havana, Feb. 16. ?At 9:45 last even-ing a terrible explosion took place onboard the United States warshipMaine in Havana. Many were killedor wounded. As yet the cause of theexplosion is not apparent. The wound-ed sailors of the Maine are unable toexplain it.

The explosion shook the whole city.The windows were broken in all thehouses. Several of the wounded sail-ors say that the explosion took placewhile they were asleep, so that theycan give no particulars as to the cause.

The wildest consternation prevailsin Havana. The wharves are crowdedwith thousands of people. Jt is be-lieved tlie explosion occurred in a

small powder magazine. At 10:45 p.m. what remained of the Maine was

still burning. Capt. Sigsbce and tlieother officers were saved. It is esti-mated that over 100 of the crew werekilled, but it is impossible as yet togive exact details. Admiral Manterolahas ordered that boats of ail kindsshall goto the assistance of tlie Maineand her wounded.

Gen. Solano and the other generalshave been ordered by (ien. Blanco totake steps to help the Maine's crew inevery way possible. The correspondentof the Associated Press has been near

the Maine in one of the boats of thecruiser Alfonso XII. and seen others ofthe wounded who corroborate the state-ment of those first interviewed thatthey were asleep when the explosionoccurred.

Capt. Sigsbee says the explosion oc-

curred in the bow of the vessel. Hereceived a wound in the head. Orderswere given to the other officers to save

themselves as best they could. Thelatter who were thrown from theirbunks in their niglitclothing, pave thenecessary orders with great self-pos-session and bravery. At 11:30 the Mainecontinues burning.

Many officers of the Maine wereashore at the time of the explosion.Admiral Manterola believes the disas-ter was caused by the throwing of agrenade from the navy yard, nearwhich the Maine was anchored, ontothe deck of the American warship.

Washington, Feb. 10.?The secretaryof the navy received the following tele-gram from Capt. Sigsbee: ' "Maineblown up in Havana harbor at 9:40 anddestroyed. Many wounded and doubt-less more killed and drowned. Wound-ed ami others are cu board Spanishman-of-war and Ward line steamer.Send lighthouse tenders from KeyWest for crew and few pieces of equip-ment still above water. No one hasother clothes than those upon him.Public opinion should be suspendeduntil further report. All officers be-lieved to be saved. Jenkins and Mer-ritt not yet accounted for. Many Span-ish officers, including representativesof Gen. Blanco, now with me and ex-press sympathy."

The officers referred to in the abovedispatch are Lieut. Friend W. Jenkinsand Assistant Engineer Darwin R.Merritt. From the wording of the dis-patch the navy department thinks itpossible that they were on shore at thetime of the accident. The secretaryof the navy received another dispatchfrom Key West at the same time, butits contents were not made public. Theorders for the lighthouse tenders wereat once sent to Key West.

Secretary Long received Capt. Sigs-bee's dispatch but a few seconds beforethe press dispctches from Havana were

handed to him. Ilis first act was tocomply with Sigsbee's request that as-sistance be sent from Key West. Heimmediately wired Capt. Forsythe atKey West to proceed with the navaltender Fern to Havana.

The Maine was a battleship of thesecond class and was regarded as oneof the best ships in the new navy. Shewas built at the Brooklyn navy yardand is 111S feet long, 57 feet broad and0,652 tons displacement. She carriedfour 10-inch and six 6-inch breech-load-ing guns in her main battery and sevenG-pounder and eight 1-pounder rapid-fire guns and four Gatliugs in her sec-ondary battery, and four Whiteheadtorpedoes.

The Maine was built in 1800 at a costof 53,588,000. She had a steel hull anda complement of 874 men.

Arbitration Hill Favorably Reported.Washington, Feb. 16.?The senate

committee on education and labor hasdecided to report favorably the billprepared by the trainmen of the coun-try and recently introduced in the senate by Senator Kyle, providing for thearbitration of railroad strikes.

Caught by a Cave-In.Pittsburg, Feb. 16.?Terror was

spread yesterday by a report that asection of tlie ruins left by the Pikestreet fire disaster of last Wednesdaynight had fallen and buried ten per-sons. mostly boys. Soon afterwards50 volunteers went to work to discoverwhat the falling mass had buried. Adriver of a coal wagon, a 15-year-oldboy and two horses were extricated,being more or less injured. After themen had worked about two hours andthose in charge bad been convincedno others had been caught by tliethe fallingbrick, the work WHS aban-doned.

THE DEAD NUMBER 2oU.

Pen Picture of the Tragedy In Ha-vana Harbor.

Kxplonfoii on tlm Maine W'ai Followed bya WilliKnsli of Sailors to Iteach thy

Deck-Few Knceeecled Deserip*tlon of the Appcttrtniceof

ilie Warship Afterthe Dlnastrr.

Key West, Fla., Feb. 17.?Capt. Sips-b®e's message to Commandant For-sythe, of the naval station here, re-

ceived yesterday, reads:"Advise sending American vessel at

once. The .Maine is submerged exceptthe debris. .Mostly work for divers.Jenkins and Merritt are still missingand there is but little hope for theirsafety. Those known to have beensaved are the officers and 24 uninjuredof the crew. Eighteen wounded menare now on board the Ward line steam-er; in the city hospital and at the ho-tels 59 so far as known. All the otherswent down onboard or near the Maine.The total lost or missing is 258. Withseveral exceptions no officer or man

has more than a part of a suit of cloth-ing and that is wet. The officers savedare uninjured. The damage was inthe compartments of the crew."

New York, Feb. 17. ?A cable to theWorld from Havana says: "l havejust seen 29 sailors of the Maine silent-ly enduring the torture caused by pow-der-skinned faces and bodies, brokenbones and mangled flesh. They werebeing well cared for in the San Am-brosio military hospital here. The lessseverely injured men are on the steam-ship City of Washington. The severelywounded men will have the best of at-tention from the men and women ofthe American colony. All the injuredmen show great grit.

"Out in the bay lies the wreck of theMaine. Her steel upper deck forwardhas been completely lifted and turnedover on her starboard side. None ofthe big guns in the turrets are visible.The Maine is slightlylisted to port andall forward of the massive cranes forunloading ship's boats has disappeared.The big funnels lie flat upon thetwisted iron braces and pieces of steeldeck. From the funnels aft the shipseems to be intact. She has settleduntil the water has covered the top ofher superstructure and the sternsearchlight and the rapid-fire gun lookover the water just below them.

"Most, if not all the bodies will berecovered. Two bodies were recoveredyesterday forenoon. They were thoseof Lieut. Jenkins and Assistant Engi-neer Merritt. A vigilant lookout isbeing kept for bodies. Out of 59 in-jured not over four are likely to die.All but five officers will goto KeyWest. All the slightly wounded andall the able-bodied men will go also,with the exception of a few who willbe kept here to identify bodies whenthey are secured by divers."

Out of 354, the total number of thecrew of the Maine. 90 were saved.

A special copyright cable to theEvening World from Havana says theofficers of the Maine state the explo-sion was in the central magazine andthat the Maine was raised out of thewater and then went partially to pieces.

The dispatch continues: "All but thesurgeon were in the ward room at themoment of the explosion. Then eaine

the stupendous shock. All the officersbelow rushed on deck, but could getno further forward than the middlesuperstructure on deck. Only a veryfew of the :>SO jackies ever got frombelow. The water rushed over themand many were stunned and drowned,but not mangled.

"The officers on deck narrowly es-caped. In the junior officers' mess allhad to clamber out through water andwreckage waist deep. One ladder fromthe after torpedo compartment was

jammed with men struggling up forlife. All agree that a double explosionoccurred from the natural result of anunderwater explosion of the maga-zines."

On board the Spanish cruiser AlfonsoXIII.26 of the wounded were treated,

and SB were succored on board the Cityof Washington. The crew of thesteamer Colon saved two wounded men.

The Maine, at the time of the explo-sion, was anchored about 500 yards fromthe arsenal and 200 yards from thefloating dock. The explosion put outthe street lights near the wharf andblew down telephone and telegraphwires in that vicinity. Admiral Man-terola and Gen. Solano put off to theMaine soon after the explosion and

offered their services to ('apt. Sigsbee.Lieut. Commander Wainwright be-

lieves the explosion was due to theshort circuit dynamo.

The passengers on the City of Wash-ington gave up their state rooms to theinjured men. An iron truss from theMaine fell on the pantry of the City ofWashington, breaking the table wareof the steamer. Lieutenant Comman-der Wainwright, of the Maine, wassmoking in his cabin next to Capt.Sigsbee, when the explosion occurredand put out the electric lights. Wain-wright then lit a match and went toSigsbee's cabin. The captain had beenthrown from his bed, but was unin-jured. They went on deck and gaveorders to flood 2,500 pounds of gun cot-

ton which was on board. The order.vas carried out. but the men who ful-filled it never returned. Havana, how-ever. was saved from a still more terri-ble explosion. Four boats were low-ered. all manned by officers, and oneof them was lost.

Strainer mid 8? Lives Lost.

Teneriffe, Canary Islands, Feb- I".

The French line steamer Flachat.bound from Marseilles for Colon, wastotally wrecked on Anaga l'oint, thisisland, at 1 o'clock Wednesday morn-ing. Her captain, second officer, elevenof her crew and one passenger weresaved. Thirty-eight of the crow ano

49 passengers were lost.

Kilt I)e Lome.

New York, Feb. 17.?Dupuy De Lomeformer Spanish minister to Washing-ton, sailed yesterday on the steamshipBritannic for Liverpool. Compliment!»ry resolutions were presented to bin;on board by a delegation of Spaniards.

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fered a great deal of pain, and at timesI was confined to mv bed. I obtainedonly temporary relief from medicines, anda friend advised me to try Hood's Sarsa-parilla, which I did, and it cured me."MRS. P. P. HAT, Centralia, 111.

Hood's SarsaparillaIs America's Greatest Medicine. (1; six for 16.

Hood's Pills cure sick headache. i!6c.

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by local applications, as they cannot reachthe diseased portion of the ear. There isonly one way to cure deafness, and that isby constitutional remedies. Deafness lacaused by an inflamed condition of the mu-cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. Whenthis tube gets inflamed you have a rumblingsound or imperfect hearing, and when it isentirely closed deafness is the result, andunless the inflammation can be taken outand this tube restored to its normal con-dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,which is nothing but an inflamed conditionof the mucous surfaces.

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We wonder why a hammer driving a nailon Sfinday always sounds jo much louderthan on week days.?Washington Demo-crat.

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