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THE LOSS OF A W0KD. Have You BKR0M1LYDEM0GMT PUTTMB IT PliiniY. English Newspaper Men Feel ing of the American Pulse. woman must crowd the fulfillment of all her social duties of entertaining and being entertained into less than two months. If she did not make a business of it, she would never fulfill her chosen mission.

In the season which is about to open every hour which the society woman can spare from sleep will be needed for social duties, and she will be fortunate if she does not owe nature a big debt when Lent comes. As for being a mother to any one, that is something for which she will have no time, and if she is a true representative of her type no inclination. There are few busier women in the social ranks than the wives of the United States senators. They are not necessarily leaders because of their husbands' high official positions. On the contrary, they occupy a middle ground socially even under the most favorable conditions.

In fact, unless they come to Washington with other claims to social prominence their husbands' official positions count for very little. The wife of the senator from a large eastern city, It is Known By Its Cures It Is not what we say. but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells the story of its merit. The thousands of people whom It has raised from disease and despair to happiness and health, are the strongest and best advertisements Hood's Sarsaparilla has. No other preparation in existence has such a record of wonderful cures.

This is why Hood's Sarsaparilla has tha largest sale, and requires for its production the largest laboratory fa the world. Now if you need a good medicine, why not try that which has done others so much good. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Only True Blood Purifier zilmn TEE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAS BALSAM i ctftca Cousns, Gams. Grouo GrlDP3 LIKE RADICALLY CURES It clear the head of foul mucous i heals th sores and ulcers of the head and throat, sweetens the breath, and uerfectlv restores the senses of the taste, emell and hearine. 1.

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au. ialm 011 wrMV I Ba-n tKAfcassasa 's- esa. i In 2 minutes. hLHUH I i 1 In invaiuaois in lemaie trouuies. for outward se lials ('tits.

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Parke Postles. "In croup, cold and the worst form of gripp we have found Brazilian Balm invaluable." Jno. W.S.Boothe,D. D. Pastor Del.

Ave. Bap. Ck. "Mrs. Lore has used th Brazilian Balm and thinks it did her much good." on.

Cias. B. Lore, Chitt 'Jut. of Del. "One bottle of Brazilian Balm cured a friend of mine of hay fever." Thos.

M. Gilbert. "I was very deaf for 10 years from catarth. Brazilian Balm applied warm in my ears every day soon restored my hearing." Mrs. John Scotten.Chtster.

Pa. "It is the best thing for dyspepsia I ever saw Edward Woollen. "I was worn almost to the grave wilh a racking cough that all the remedieB and the doctors failed to relieve. It was cured with one bottle of Brazilian Balm. It shall be my doctor through life." rx.

J. Galloway, Poltslown, Pa. "I was fearfully crippled up with rheumatism, could not get my hand to my head. I took ten 50-cent bottles of Brazilian Balm in six months. Am now entirely cured and as nimble as I was at forty." Anson Bunnell, aged 84.

A lady in Cincinnati was ao afflicted with asthma that during the winter for seventeen years she was unable to sleep lying down, was entirely and permanently cured with Brazilian Balm. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. B. r. JACKSON Cleveland.

0. a. STBINBAOHESa 3b OO. are ezoiuslve wholeealo acrnta for Akron and Summit county tor Brazilian Salm, aad will supply all retail dealers who desire the remedy. If lyour retail drusgiets cannot supply you, INSIST ON THSIR PItQCJCJRING IT FOR TOTJ.

Tried It? "When sufferinp- from billiousness, bad headaches, tired feelings, bear-inor down sensations and all the1 other symptoms of a disordered liver, kidneys and urinary organs, have you ever tried the best of all remedies, Warner's Safe Cure? Do You Know That this remedy has done more for weak, worn out men and women than ail the other remedies ever known to medical science Do you not know that it has received the strongest endorsements from eminent medical men by whom it has been tested in the severest cases of liver and kidney complaint? That Is Why Warner's Safe Cure is the best and most reliable remedy for putting the system in sound condition at this time of the year. MrD(r Strainer Founders. Jan. S. A large steamer went ashote off Drum Head and with out aouot all those on board were drowned.

Tho after portion of the ship is submerged, but she "has two funnels and it is possible she was a passengei vessel. The Secret Is Out. New York, Jan. 8. Mrs.

W. Vanderbilt says her marriage to O. P. Belmont will take place on Jan. 28, On the following day 6ho and her hus band will sail for Europe on the steam ship leutonic.

Weather Indications. For West irgiuia Rain, probably turning to snow; colder in northwest portion north erly Fur Ohio and Indiana Fair; couler; north tvur wil.us. How a Nettle Stings. Every one has probably made ac quaintance with the irritating, if not highly poisonous, character of the net tie stings, though they may never have troubled to examine the beautiful little apparatus by which the poison is intro duced to their blood. a It is probable that if they were tn make microscopical examination of a nettle hair just after they have been stung, they would be scarcely in the right frame -of mind to discover any beauty in its mechanism but it exists for all that.

The leaf and stem of a nettle, it will be found, are literally clothed with erect hollow hairs. If one of these hairs be viewed under a microscope, it will be seen that it3 free end, after tapering to a very fine degree of shmness, finish es at a little knob, while in the other direction, after gradually becoming more robust, it suddenly expands into large bulb corresponding to the poison gland of the adder. The point of the hair is very brittle. and contact with the skin causes the end to snap off, leaving a hollow needle point, which readily pierces the cuticle, and, pressing upon the bulb at the oth er end, the poison is forced through the central channel and inflames the blood. The tender handed who stroke the net tle are stung for their pains, because their gentleness has only served to break tho brittle points and render them fit for piercing; but the rough handed break the hairs at the -thickest parts, where they are too stout to prick.

Pear son's Weekly. Bad Fun With Mamma. There is a decided coolness in the bos om of tho family of one of my best friends hero in town. My friend is a widow, and her age is never mind what a widow is always just the right age. She has three daughters who are just the age when girls are most mis chievous of course you know just what age that is.

They tease their mother unmercifully, and the one especial thing they torment her most about is her al leged admiration for a handsome, mid dle aged physician. My friend had a lame shoulder not long ago, and one of the girls suggested painting it with io dine. All three of them helped to do it, and with giggling and tittering and snickering hey did their mother np brown. Next day the shoulder was no better, and the doctor was sent for. The shoulder was bared for his inspection.

and, much to his patient's horrified as tonishment, he burst into a laugh. She dismissed him rather unceremoniously, and when the girls came in, she told them of his rudeness. Then an idea struck her. She took her handglass to the min or and looked at that shoulder. There, in bold brown iodine, was a portrait labeled and surrounded by bleeding hearts pud other St.

Valentine's day emblems of the doctor. The girls are wearing their last winter's hats again this season. Wahingt-ou Post. Mansfield Booked kX 81,000 a Night. Several writers havo found fault with Richard Mansfield for his determination not to play nnxt season unless guaranteed (1,000 a performance.

W. A. McConnell, general has alrettdy booked Mr. Mansfield in no less than 70 nights for 1896-7, and the star is guaranteed $1,000 a performance and is to receive his usual percentages. This includes Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago and other linportunt cities.

COCOA and CHOCOLATES anTV CHOCOLATE tmi ASK FOK iMMDyvrticer-4 BSE 0 OTHER. r1 1 wilcox compound eyANSYopLLS no substitute. Korsaletiy alidrueglsts. fl.00. Bend sc.

for Woman' Hafefimmt. WILCOX MPKCIFIO IU, UIS SOUTH KlUlim fUiLADA.fA. Sale of Claims and Accounts. The underslnned. asslcnee In trust for the benefit of the creditors ot John II.

Canton. will sell at nubile auction, at the east door of the courthouse, on the 18th dav of January, A.O. 18U(i, all the claims belonging to said estate, consisting of accounts a vat nut, John Mciiulre et one aaamst Henrv Cole, and one note against 1). and H.A.Stuart. NOBODY KNOWS HOW Off WHERE IT ESCAPED.

Bnt It May Cost the Government Alany Millions of Dollars The Supreme Court to Reopen the Famous Hat Trimming Cases More Than 820,000,000 Involved. Special Correspondence. Philadelphia, Jan. 6. Word comes from Washington that the supreme court is to rehear the famous 'hat trimmings" cases which were argued some weeks ago.

The rehearing i3 to be given because there was not a full court when they were heard before and because the amount of money involved makes it im portant that every-fjare be exercised to protect the interests of the government The individual claimants have large amonnts at stake, bnt to the government the decision means between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000. The hat trimmings cases originated fn Philadelphia, and one of the benefioiaries by the decision of the court, if it is in favor of the claimants, will be John Wanamaker. The test case was brought by Meyer Dickinson of this city, and it was de cided by the jury in 1891 in favor of the plaintiffs. An error in the tariff law of 1883 caused the bringing of these claims against the government. Where so complicated a piece of legislation is concern ed there are always errors, some of them due to carelessness of the senators or members of the house concerned in ram ing the bill, some to the treasury depart ment, which makes suggestions for para graphs and which examines the bill for errors before it is sent to the president.

Some of the errors are made by the clerks of the house or senate in transcribing the bill. So commonly recognized is this weakness in the making of tariffs that there are lawyers in New York and Philadelphia who make a good living studying tariff laws and telling people who pay duty under them where they are faulty. These lawyers are too clever to publish their discoveries. They wait until importers have paid large sums to the government for duties on foreign goods. Then they go to these importers and say they know a flaw in the tariff law which may make it possi ble to recover from the government some part of the duties paid.

The importers, who have much to gain and nothing to lose, authorize the lawyer to go ahead on a percentage basis. Sometimes the error in the tariff bill is the omission of a comma or the sub stitution of a comma for a semicolon Sometimes a word is omitted or words are transposed so as to make the mean ing of the paragraph obscure. There is a customs commission now which interprets tariff laws, and it undertook in one case to go back to the "intention" of congress ki making a certain provision. But this the courts will not do. Though it may be plain enough that Congress meant one thing in a tariff paragraph, if the language of the law bears another interpretation the courts will- give that interpretation the force of law.

In the bat trimmings cases the error was the omission from a paragraph of the law of 1883 of the word "vegetable. No one knows just where this word dropped out of the law, but the law as passed provided that a duty of 20 per cent should be collected on "hats, materials, braids, plaits, laces, trimmings, willow sheets and squares used for making or ornamenting hats, bonnets and goods composed of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow hair, Whalebone or any other substance or material not specially enumerated or provided for." It was intended to have the word "vegetable" precede the word "sub stance, so that the material not specially provided for, to be admitted at 20 per cent, should be limited to vegetable substances. Silk ribbons used in part for the trimming of hats were classed by tne treasury as unennmerated manufac tures of silk and paid duty at the rate of 50 per cent under another paragraph of the law. In 1886 an importer named Langfelt brought suit against the collector of the port here, claiming that some cotton back ribbon, of which he had imported a very large quantity, was dutiable at 20 per cent only, and that excessive duties had been collected from him. He won his suit in the lower court before a jury which was instructed by Jndge McKennan that if tbe chief use of the ribbons was the trimming of bats they came under the paragraph quoted above.

This decision was affirmed in the su preme court eventually, and $6,000,000 were refunded on it. A man named Edelhoff, who imported hatbands, afterward brought "suit in New York, and he also received a verdict and a handsome refund. Then Meyer Dickinson of Philadel phia brought suit on another class of goods used as hat trimmings and got a verdict for $632.40 from a Philadelphia jury on the 19th of June, 1891. That verdict for $632.40, if sustained, meant a loss of probably $25,000,000 to the government. The attorney general of the United States gave instructions'to have the cases appealed to the supreme court.

There the judgment of the lower nourt was affirmed. The Langfelt case was reheard by the supreme and the judgment in favor of tbe plaintiff was affirmed finally on the very day when the Meyer Dickinson case was decided by the jury in this city. It is probable the rehearing to be given by the supreme court in a short time will be the last of this famous litigation. Secretary Charles Foster tried to com promise the hat trimmings cases for $3,000,000. His estimate of the loss to the government, if they were decided adversely, was $25,000,000.

Grant IN THE SOCIAL SWIM. Society Woman's Description of It at the National Capital. Special Correspondence. Washington, Jan. 6.

On the 1st of January the busy social season at Washington begins, and social observance is moie a business at the national capital than in any other Amerioan city. It is, in fact, more a business than a pleasure, and few people who are not familiar with the details of social life at Washington know what a stupendous task a woman undertakes when she joins the fashionable set. This season the society T. Dubson, Editor and Manager Ed B. Da La Court, Advertising Dep't rCBIJ3HKT tT tHK AXKOX DESOCKiT COM PANT orrica ent Block, Xoa.

133 137 Mtia St. Loxa distasc3 rsom ISO orncsas aitd sibzctobs F. Walsh B. Wilhelm tecretaf 1 T. Bawtik W.

Jto. McNahaka Entered at the PostoraVe at Akron, Ohio, as SecaDl-Cla3 Mail Matter DeUrered Every Evening bj Carrier Boy TEN CENTS A WEEK Vy nail 15 as year SASO for six months WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 8. 1896 WA3 LOOKING FOft $50,000,000. A Hbsi'slppl Woaaaa With at Small or-tu la Her Clth rmid Waua-drrlsK In lioadom 8 Loxdos, Jan.

8. Mrs. Cornelia Sei-beles of BrookhaTen. who was found wandering aimlessly about the streets here, is now apparently sane and talks connectedly on all subjects except that of the alleged, fortune. she was in search of.

This unbalances her and even in ordinary conversation she frequently interrupts her self to remark that there are "millions at stake." and that when she gets her share she will give it to publics charities. She says she is a cousin of the lata Justice Lamar of the United States supreme court and she has in her nossession letters of introduction from Governor Stone and ex -Governor Lowry of Mississippi. In 1867, she says, a firm of St. Louis lawyers informed her she was heir to the Temple estate in England and the Seibeles estate at Eberfeld, Germany. On her mother's side she is a direct descendant of the famous Temple family.

Since 867 she has been trying to prove her claim by correspondence, bnt growing impatient and desiring to settle the matter in her life time, she de termined to come over and place the matter in tne Hands or attorneys in England and Germany, and it is presumed the disappointment unbalanced her mind. In addition to the $1,000 found on Mrs. Seibeles when she was fiist found, an additional $14,800 was found securely sewed in her clothing. The United States embassy has been notified and will take charge of and send the unfortunate woman home. Tank Steamer Missing-.

Philadelphia, Jan. 8. The well known British tank steamer Wild Flower, Captain Stonewall, which sailed from Philadelphia Dec. 11 for jRouen, France, with 1,173,626 gallons of crude oil in bulk valued at $59,553. and manned by a crew of 30 men all told, is believed to have blown up or foundered at sea and all hands perished, no tidings having been received from the ship since she left the Duware breakwater that day.

Her Shaft Broken. New York, Jan. 8. The Hogan line steamer Manhanset, Captain Welker, arrived at quarantine after a very eventful passage. The Manhanset left Rotterdam for New York on Nov.

23. She experienced a succession of heavy gales and tremendous high seas. Her tail end shaft was broken. lie. Definite News Received.

Wichita. Jan. 8. The prairie fires which lit up th9 sky west of here have been located in Pratt county, and fears are entertained that the village of luka is within the district. It is still impossible to get definite news from the scene, however.

Encountered Stormy Weather. St. John's. N. Jan.

8. The wrecking crew which floated the cable steamer Poyer Qaertier alter she went ashore at St. Pierre Miquelon a fortnight ago, can not convey her here for repairs owing to the stormy weather. Three Tale Men. New Haves, Jan.

8. The Venezuelan episode has brought oat an event of peculiar significance. The commission appointed fcy President. Cleveland contains three Yaie men, an actual majority. Only Thirty-One Killed.

Jan. 8. Contrary to the made, the incident provoked by the Armenians at Birdjik had no very serious importance. Order has been thanks to the energetic measures tcken by the local authorities Thirty-one Mnssulmen and Armenians were killei and 50 wounded. No disorders have taken plaoe anywhere else.

Aa Indian On aba, Jan. 8. Judge Shiras of Iowa, in federal court at Omaha, ren- dered a decision declaring that in cases where Indians have become citizens, with all ths accompanying privileges, the government is still bound by all treaty stipulations existing whde tribal relations were sustained. Desperate Crook Escapes. OaCAHA, Jan.

8. Pat Ford, who was to have been taken to the penitentiary to serve a 20 year sentence, made a dash for liberty while bidding his mother good by. He is only 20 years old, bnt has the reputation of being a desperate crook. He was sent up as a highwayman. The Oldest And the Best "In the Fall of '93, ray sc-r, R.B.

florae, had L-. ap. on his neck. Th tivto: lanced it, but gave hiia 113 per-. m-uient bcneut.

was resorted to, si i'nn re-. stilt was iiil wet-ould liave wished for. Tlt heal ijiiir lily, and lii-t hep.Uh now perler 11. S. iSouzic, Cjiamplain, Va.

The Only SarsapanJ.a At World's Fair. THIS COUNTRY IS UNITED If Lord Salisbury Coatiauas to Refuse to Arbitrate), Ha Mast low Know What that Can-tqutncit Will Ba. Lokdos, Jan. 8. Mr.

Henry Norman, special commissioner of The Chroniole at Washington, cables his paper as fol lows on the Venezuelan dispute: There is a heroic war of settling the whole difficulty fraught with honor to both gov- rninents and with results of priceless worth to both peoples. The present delay consists in the fact that the United States government consider itself in honor bound to insist upon a certain coarse whioh the British government considers itself in honor bound to refuse to adopt. Kvery day spent here has convinced me more strongly that it is impossible to ex aggerate the seriousness of such an interna tional situation. If the British public is misled bv the opti miotic sentiments of New York, it may find itself suddenly face to face with an appalling danger. If the American government act only In tne Deuel that because Ureat Britain is threatened with an Kuropean crisis, therefore she will knuckle down to any American de rnand, it may suddenly discover that ths European crisis has blown over and that war with England is on its hands- In all the gov ernmental departments here the situation is regarded as very serious, despite every effort made on behalf of peace.

Now, the kernel of the dispute being the principle of arbitration, the solution may be found therein also. If Lord Salisbury will say that, although he must maintain his re fusal to arbitrate on Venezuela by itself, he is prepared to conclude a treaty with the United States under which all questions failing of diplomatic settlement shall be submitted to arbitration, and that this, of course, would in clude Venezuela, as the greater includes the less, the American government I know, will receive his communication with warm synv pathy. Herein is a dignified and indeed the most simple and friendly asoape from the aeaajocK. If Lord Salisbury is able to move diplomatically in the direction indicated, it is certain that the meeting of the Venezuelan commission would be instantly adjourned until the time was ripe for common discussion of the question when the treaty should become a law. 1 will only add, if it were my last word, that it would be a lamentable mistake for England to believe that there is any division of opinion worth considering in this country.

Washington, far mo: than New York, is the pulse of the United States, and 1 have been feeling that pulse for over a week, and I assert, despite criticism or oontradiution, that America will speak with praotically one voice in support of the cabinet in the Venezuelan matter. If Lord Salisbury decides that it is impossible to take any step, let him and England at least recognize what is the alternative. An editorial in The Chronicle justifies America's aspiration to dominate the formation of international law on the American continent as England, in her time, dominated Europe. It must be recc agnized that America never acquired an inch of civilized territory without the consent of its owner. American Sentiment Growing-.

London, Jan. 8. Sir Edward Clarke, speaking at Plymouth, in referring to Venezuela, said: "We must not be too impatient or angry with the Monroe doctrine. If we refuse to arbitrate except outside the Schomburgk line, we should have war with the United States, and a war in whioh we should not be right. Each side mast-yield to some extent.

We mast ignore the American commission, bnt to say that a line fixed in 1840 was unalterable was to adopt as unreasonable an attitude as the United States adopted in President Cleveland's message. The Fleet Strong- Enough. Washington, Jan. 8. The continued representations of the assembling of a large United States fleet in Turkish waters is discredited by those in a position to know at the navy department.

It is pointed out that fleet already there is ample to give any moral effect to such urgent demands on Turkey as this government might determine upon. Treasury Gold Reserve. Washington, Jan. 8. The treasury Tuesday lost $2,163,000 in gold bars and $1,096,000.

in gold coin, and received from the Mercantile National bank of New York $500,000 in exchange for currency, making the net loss for the day $2,759,000. This leaves the true amount of the reserve at the close of business $58,3:6,710. Wilt Take No Immediate Action. Washington, Jan. 8.

The war department will take no aotion for the present in reference to the decision of the court of appeals sustaining General Schofield in the arrest of Major Armes, a retired officer. The action of the civil authorities will he awaited. After Joseph Pulitzer. Washington, Jan. 8.

Mr. Lodge in the senate urged that Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World should be prosecuted for communicating with foreign officials with reference to the bond issue with a view of influencing the government. Heated debate followed. Attacked the British Kmbassy. Washington, Jan.

8. Two men, giving their names as Henry Phelps of Chicago and George Williams of Brooklyn, attempted to enter the residence of the British ambassador through a back area door. They were arrested. Undervaluation of Imports. Washington, Jan.

8. The house ways and means committee began work today on a proposed scheme of legislation to prevent undervaluation of imports by the customs officials. President and Cabinet Dined. Washington, Jan. 8.

Secretary of State and Mrs. Oliiey gave a dinner to the president and cabinet last night at their home. FIFTY-FOURTH "CONGRESS. In the Senate. Washington, Jan.

8. Senator Vest in a speeoh severely arraigned the supreme court for holding the income tax law unconstitutional. Senator Lindsay Ky.) appeared on the floor and took the prescribed oath. Numerous petitions bearing on the Armenian outrages, Cuban belligerency and the Venezuelan boundary dispute were presented. The finance committee's free silver substitute for the bond bill was reported.

Mr. Morrill chairman of the committee, gave notice that all the Republican members of the committee had opposed the substitute. It was placed on the calendar. A resolution was passed authorizing General Cassey to make contract for the completion of the new library of congress. Among the bills and resolutions introduced were the following: By Mr.

Davis, a joint resolution to revive the grade of lieutenant general in the army in the interest of General Mites. By Mr, HaflsbrougU. a joint resolu- who has the advantages of good birth culture and wealth, has little difficulty in becoming not only prominent, but a leader in society, while her sister from the interior, who has led a quiet, do mestic life at home and perhaps by her Struggles and economies in early life has helped her husband to his high posi tion, is seldom heard of or seen outside a small official circle. The fact that the senator's wife occupies this middle ground makes her, if she has social aspi rations, all the keener to secure her place, and to do this she must follow to a most absurd extreme the unwritten social law of Washington. No feature of that law is more impressive than that ELIZABETH HABMON.

JULIA STEVENSON. LET1TIA STEVENSON, which regulates precedence in calling. The. senator's wife must call on the pres ident's wife and the families of the cabinet officers. The latter calls must be made on cabinet day, which has always been Wednesday." She must call at the homes of the justices of the supreme court, on the wives of all the more re centiy elected senators (whom she is prone to patronize), and she must leave cards on those members of the corps diplomatique who are married or rep resent themselves to be.

She then draws the long satisfied sigh of the good and faithful servant, and having given of her time and strength and of her gra ciousness she fixes her day and prepares for the less blessed mission of receiving. in this she must yield her own pref erence to tne comiort and convenience of that tyrant, tsociety. If she wants to be popular in the ex elusive resident set, she must join i reading club or a Shakespeare class or manage to become one of the patronesses of the Children's hospital ball. When she sees her name even at the end of a list which is headed by Mrs. Cleveland and Lady Pauncefote, she feels that life holds little more that she could desire.

And now, with her mornings devoted to the readings and the hospital society, she starts on her career. She gets home from her morning's occupation in time to dress for a fashionable luncheon at 3 a luncheon at which she picks up the small gossip ot her set, and where scan dal goes up one side of the festive board as the salad is passed down the other. From this she rushes home, laden with flowers and her luncheon souvenir, in time to mako additions to her toilet and start on a round of calls, stopping in at a "tea," where she has a clasp of the hand and a word from her hostess as she walks through the almost deserted parlor into the dining room beyond, where the crowd is always to be found struggling for a fried oyster or a glass of punch. She makes her way around, a word here, a smile thero, a glass of punch in a corner, and then she is off. Another word with the deserted hostess, who must keep heir position at the door, and away she goes to a similar "func tion" on the same block.

She makes from 15 to 20 calls in an afternoon. shows" at several teas and gets home iu time to dress for a dinner at the house of another senator or a member of the cabinet. From this she eoes to a White House reception, where she stays a short time, stopping on her wav home for a moment at another less pretentious but more exclusive entertainment given by some one who is not in the official circle. This is a typical day in the life of a society woman in Washington. Is it any wonder that one was heard to say at the end of last season that her acquaintances would crowd a church, but her friends would not fill the pulpit? Narcisse Doyxe.

The Commission Safe. Tien Tsi.v, Jan. 8. The American commission, under the viceregal guard on its way to Chung-King, has passed through Suchow, heralded by trumpet ers, ihe eliect upon the people is most salutary. Will Take a Million.

Minneapolis, Jan. 8. Iuquiry among Minneapolis banks develops a disposition to buy $1,000,000 worth of the bonds if the premium is not pushed too high. One bank is ready to take half of this. Industrial Associations.

Indianapolis, Jan. 8. The Indiana congress of industrial associations, composed of the organizations engaged in the pi'omotion of agricultural pursuits, met yesterday. Have Given Up Their Arms. Pretoria, Transvaal, Jan.

8. The committee ha3 resolved to relinquish their arms and comply with the de mands of the Transvaal government. Another Strike Threatened. Philadelphia, Jan. 8.

-The Btreetcar men olaim the company is putting new men to work coustautly, and another strike is threatened. Prominettly In the public eye.fl;sfa:fort5 act harmoniously with IlOOd HlliS Hood's Sarsaparilla. 25c, tion directing the secretary" of agriculture to resume the purchase and distribution of seeds in accordance with the appropriation made for that purpose at the last session of congress. By Mr. Gallinger, a' joint resolution appropriating $250,000 for rebuilding the old ship Constitution.

by -Mr. Allen, a bill directing the foreclosure of the government hen on the Pacific railroads. The bill provides for the operation -of the road by the government in case it is not redeemed by the present owners. By Mr. Voorhees a res olution for the purchase of a portrait of the late Hon.

Allen G. Thnrman, now hanging in the judiciary committee room. By Mr. Elkius W. a resolution requiring United States bonds to be advertised 20 days and sold to the Ingest bidder.

By Mr. Chandler, a bill providing for a popular loan by the issue of postal sav iugs notes. In the House. Washington, Jan. 8.

A joint reso lution was adopted authorizing Lieuten ant Sidney S. Jordan, Fifth United States artillery, and Captain E. C. Car ter, assistant surgeon, United States army, to accept medals from the British government. Member-elect Allen of Utah was sworn in and took his seat.

A resolution was adopted calling upon the attorney general for information with reference to trusts. A resolution was adopted calling upon the secretary of the treasury for tulormanon as to the amounts received from seal leases, etc. The following were among the bills and resolutions By C. W. Stone creatinsr a spe cial commission on highways to con tinue during the present congress.

The sum of $10,000 is appropriated for car rying out this act. By Mr. Vadsworth(N. Y. to author ize the issue of 2a per cent bonds to maintain the gold reserve and for the redemption and retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes.

By Mr. Broderick (Kan. to promote the efficiency of the militia. By Mr. bulzer (N.

to raise additional revenue. It provides that all per sons or corporations who employ sweat- soop laoor snail pay a tax or 400 per year. By Mr. Cummings (N. to impose a discriminating duty on tea imported from this side of the Cape of Good Hope.

The Miners In SessioL. Terke Haute, Jan. 8. The bituminous miners of Indiana met in delegate convention to consider the wage scale of 1896," which goes into effect April 1, and to inquire into the trouble in the Washington district, where the miners have been on a strike for the past two months over objection- a Die screen systems: To Colonize Armenians. Santa Fe, N.

Jan. 8. Amado Chaves, territorial superintendent of public instruction, has addressed a let ter to Crajrin, chairman of the Chicago executive committee to aid the Armenians, thanking him for his suggestion of colonizing these people in New Mexico and offering to supply the necessary land free of cost. Ho ils Are In Demand. Cleveland, Jau.

8. The National Bank of Commerce of this city has made application for $500,000 of the new government bonds and the Central National bank will take $100,000 Other local baaks, it is said, will apply for large blocks of the bonds. Ezeta Bobs Up Again. San Jose de Guatemala, Jan. 8.

Ex-President Antonio Ezeta of Salvador is off the coast of that country with a filibustering expedition. He is attempt ing to make a landing either at La Lib- tad or Acajuta. ihe Salvadorians are prepared to resist his landing. The Building- Collapsed. Winterset, Jan.

8. A large 2- story stone bailding, occupied by C. D. Berington Company, hardware dealers, collapsed, carrying down with it an adjoining building ocoupied by the Smith Drug company. Nobody killed.

Business Not Completed. New York. Jan. 8. Th board of managers of the joint traffic association has not coinnleted its busnies.

and un til it does nothing will be given out. A Vice Consul Dead. Viknna, Jan. 8. Dean B.

Mason, vice consul general of the United States here, is dead. CRUMBS OF COMFORT. Hara You Hava Them Ready For Imme diate Consumption! Major James Post of Washington is dead. The States steamship Baltimore is overdue at Sail Frauoisco. An Austrian has discovered a process where by he photographs objects through wood, flesh, etc.

LouiHville and Nashville train plunged into the river near Bay St. Louis, and 14 lives were lost. At a meetiug At Dublin tha Irish Nationalists cheere I for tile jei when tha Transvaal outrage was eforrca to. At RockfoVd, Frank Deuison caught his wife and Patrick Hickey together. Ho killed his wife, but Hickey escaped.

Mrs. John Martin of Crawfordaville, dreamed her husband was badly injured anr; the dream came true. He fell from a railroad bridge. I At Little Rock O. Lewis disemboweled Samuel Deloiie.

mortally stabbed Colonel -nry T. Thompson and then attempted suicide. He will be lynched. PrvPrtces Cream Baking Powdei World's Pair Highest Medal aad Diploma. Insu i At Schumacnar Telephone CSI JOHN C.

BLOOMFIELQ Pimples, Biolclies and Sores zd Catarrh. Malaria snii Kidney Troubles Are entirely temovea by Prickly Ash. Peso Root and Potss- 5i elnm, Use sreatest blood purifier on artli. CJ AssiroEXK, July 21. 1831.

ff MBSsrd Lippman feavaniiah. Ga. Ocilt Sirs I tmuRht a bocils of It has done me more rood than thrre afk months treatment at tne Hot tarings. Mend three bottles C. O.

D. asspeotfully yars, AS. M. NEWTOH, Aberdeen, Buwn County, OV Cunt. Z.

Johnston. To tr.f irsom it rottcs-ft? 1 liere by teptlfy to the wonderful properties of V. P. P. for eruDtiuns of tlie skin.

I C33 i suffered tor several yeur with nn unsightly and disagreeable eruption on -1 i.u.i.l- frnntm. Of oy but in vain uutli P. f. P. was used.

CJ and am now entirely curod. g-n ieik-uea by J. D. JOHNSTON, fikvauusa. Ga.

Sbta Cancer Cured. "3 StoHmonyfrom tht Mayor cf Seqv.in, Tex. SBotmr, Jsnuary 1, Messrs. Lippman Savannah, a. Gentlemen I have trleJ your P.

P. P. for a disease of thepkin, usuaiir known as skm cancer.ot thirty years stanriiD, and found frrent relief: It parities the blood nnd removes all Irritation from the seat of the disease and prevents sy spresOing of the soros. 1 have taken flveor six and feel confident that snot her course will efteoc a cure. It has also relieved ms from indigestion and s.oinaaa troubles, lours tvo.lv, CAPT.

W. W. Attorney at JUitr, Boon on Eiooa Met eenca Fres. ALL DBUOlilPTS BEL. IT.

Li PPiVIAr. GROG. PBOFEIET0RS, tjprmsn'i BIoclLiSarannahtG poor Utile dog was drowned' if 9 -05J3 SfUtVCVmi boI Toroat, dimples, Copper-SnAE lilU Colored Soots. Aches. Old jChlcsiiro.

111., fur proofs of cures. JUtl, ttiSOO.OOO. Worst eases cured in clays. ioo.pnn uooK fee. re.

PRICKLY ASH, POKE ROOT AND POTASSIUM Makes Marvelous Cures in 'Blood Poison Rheumatism and Scrofula US P. P. P. parities the Mood, build's tte weak end debilitated, gives strength to weakened nerves, expels aiseases, giving tne pscienc ueattn ana happiness where siokness, rloomr feelings and lasslcnde first prevailed. ror prtaary.secoDdary and tertiary syphilis, for blood poisonlnr.

roerca- rial poison, nisHrln. dvsneDSla. and 5u all blood and skin diseases. Ilka blotches, pimples, old chronic nleers, tetter, scald head, bolls, erysipelas, eczema- we may sey, without tear of contradiction, that P. P.

P. letbebests blood purifier In tbe world, and makes an positive, speeoy sua twoueiib ouree In all cases. Ladies whose systems are poisoned and whose blood is in an Impure on til-irfc i tion, due to menstrual Irregularities, dorful tonic and blood cleansing prop ertlesof P. P. P.

Prickly Ash, Poke Boot and Potassium. fJpRnroFTExn, Aus. 14th, 1803. can speak in the nigliest terms of your uicdioina from my own personal cnowledite. I was affected with heart disease, nlenrisv and rheumatism for 35 years, was treated by the very best JM1V ,1 1 1-1 -1 r- VI 1 li iiuuilinir.

11- I ars, tried every known remedy with out flnrilng relief. I have only taken one vottla ot your P. P. and can cheerfully say It has done me more good anything I have ever taken. 45' auCworacI the above disenses.

JS MK9. M. M. VEARY. Springfield, Green County, iio.

"Yea, I was saved, but the "Oh, I am sorry. mi C9 ST, 3 Ja Ho: 6he: Hale to commence at ciock p.m. Terms, cash. Akron, Ohio, Jan. 1800.

Jan 3 7 11 W. X. SAWYER, Assignee..