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MM* m fes, Aiitwftfation. > Ilk firm has a house in Yio- I-ondon. Their English fctive, who was paying a visit Wteote a letter to the London rad addressed, it "Messrs. So- Vic street, London." The next i very important and serious- gentlemen visited the London the New York firm, and, show- the clerks the letter, asked knew by whom it was writ- replied the clerk; "by our What's the matter with it?* •nager has grossly insulted •sty the Queen, and must apolo- the Postmaster General for done BOt" "Why, how has hie the Queen?" exclaimed the ed clerk. "He has addressed r to 'Vio' street instead of street, and Victoria is her 's name." "But it is a common fgr us Americans to shorten of streets in addressing envel- For instance, we often write for Broadway." "We don't tfhai you do in the United States, can't do it here, and we must in- upon a written apology and assure- that her Majesty's name shall not mangled again by your manager." | apology and assurance were given, . so the incident ended happily I fcout bloodshed. > To Cleanse the ctually. yet gently, when costive or ms, or when the blood is impure or gish, to permanently cure habitual tipation, to awaken the kidneys liver to a healthy activity without _ gating or weakening them, to dispel 1 01Jdache8, colds or levers use 8yrup of I fie;#"). ; •' ^".t^OBTEZ-. obtained in Mexico five | Afraid, of jwonderful size and beauty |/.V>ne was cuftike a rose; another in the shape of a horn; a third in that of a p fish, with diamond eyes; a fourth like |! a bell, with a pearl for a clapper; the ti fifth was a cup, with a foot of gold and "jjyith four little chains, eaoh ended .with "^large pearl. He had also two cmer- vaseg, worth 300,000 crowns each. v M. 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The Rising Sun Stove Polish is Bril­ liant, Odorless, and Durable. Each packag* six ounces; when moistened will •wImi several boxes of Paste Polish. US AN ANNUA! SALE OF 3,000 TORS* ^ TjJIE WITCW1NQ • ', 7; "/ :xistc:t scctnac. Vr<$£ Sftmr for hours bad blow n and drlfted.?'?""-" -"M Aad the rack went scudding by; BpeetraUy the branches lifted ^ Naked utai against the sky, rw&rtr} What cared we thongb time was flitting; What cared wo though winds made In the witching tw ilight sitting All alone ? ^ She within a rocker cozf. I upon « baseock loir. -a _f .-.1J Watching o'er her face the wrty Cupid dimples come and go; For the lover firelight heightened Every blush with ardor bold, And her locks of brown were brfglitpaph Into gold. Like the fabulous 'Jack Hornet* Of the merry nursery page, ©leeful from a duskv corner • Grinned an id >1 gray with age; And methonght his dark lips iai What ,1 longed to there, avow: ••Tell her." ymrti rtw» wnrrf« W« tv" "Tell her now!" Then there fell a silence sweeter Than when air ie stirred with song, Than when strains in mellow meter Swing with rhythmic sweep along. ID her uyoa a, }c«ok beguiling ... Bad* me not to break the spent; Something told me in ner smiling' A1I was well. • SPowIv grew the firelight dimtnij^#-.. Till the angels of the room. " v • *'. lighted by no rwWy glimmer, Molted in the shrouding And not e'en the ancient i Saw love's apotheosis Or the passage of a bridal In a kiss. --Hnnsey's Magazine. WITH A CONSCIENCE. "I do not suppose," said Ivistod, BDeaking very slowly and distinctly, and looking straight into the other man's eyes, "that you knew exactly what you were doing; but 1 say again, that is n6 excuse for you. We have been friends long enough to warrant your taking sides with me in almost anything, and even to--even to lying for me if it were necessary." The other man shifted his position a little and wet his lips with his tongu£. "You did not remember, did ycfu," Ivison went on, gripping and un- gripping the back of the chair behind which he was standing, that it was I who put you on your feet, not only this last time, but once or twice be­ fore? I am going to believe you for­ got this--forgot that to me you owe even what little you have: fori don't want to think of you as an ungrate­ ful man. No, you are not ungrateful, you are simply a fool. You say that when he asked vou, you were sqtaken by surprise that you could only ac­ knowledge I had been willful, and wild, and mixed up in one or two af­ fairs not greatly to my credit as a gentleman. And yet you ought to have known and remembered that# your words were my death-warrant with her father You did know it. but why didn't you remember it? What have you to say for yourself?" The other man swallowed once or twice, but he did not speak. Ivison, growing paler every moment, turned the chair aside and moved toward the door. "1 am going," he said, because 1 do not care to trust myself with you longer. If I did. I might 'forget,' and if 1 forgot, I would try to kill you. When you get your senses again, you will see and understand just what you have done for me. You have ruined my lite and hers, for she loves me through it all--and I am the man who made you. I am going South to-night, and it will probably be for a long time. My only wish is that, in the years to come--until you are dead--yuu will think atleast once a day that it was you who wrecked the happiness of two neople--who broke her heart and brought the old heli back into mine; and it is you who will pay for it in the end." At last the other man tongue. ' 'My God, Ivison!" he cried, hoarsely, •<don't leave me now--let me think, lei me think! 1--1--how could I know what he wanted? He only asked me if you had been wild, years ago, and I said"--passing his hand quickly over his eyes--"what did I| say? It could not have been much, i for he was here but a minute. But I can fix it, ivison--I can Qx it, some­ way! How could 1 know it was her father?" "You cou'dn't know," answered Ivison, in the same clear, eten tones, though the other man knew that back of this forced calmness the devil himself raged in the other's soul, "be­ cause, as 1 told you, you were a fool. Until then you had been passably sane, and it would seem that you ought to have known enough to keep your mouth shut, but you didn't. On : the contrary, you to'.d him more than ' he asked for. You said that I was , a friend of yours, but you thought-- no, you knew--I had sawn my wild j oats--and then you told him what I they were, and what sort of a crop ! • '̂ 9 . fArt - i Q him that you had wronged me; and 1 can not deny what you said. All I can say to him is the past is dead and buried; and he shrugs his shoulders and says it is a very life-like corpse. You did not lie; no you did what is sometimes much worse and a good deal harder to do--you told the truth. When----but there is no use in saying anything else. Good-night," and Ivison closed the door softly behind him. • The other man stood still until he heard him pass out into the street. Then, with a groan, he sank into his chair and buried Ifis head on his arm. From his earliest boyhood he had been a sensitive, painstakingcreature; careful and conscientious to such a degree that he became a by-word in his own family: of high-strung and intensely nervous organization: and with a temperament as changeable as the weather and often alfected Ly it. He was not a handsome man; he was tall and thin, aud stooping; his eyes, deep and hollow, were always fever­ ishly bright; his chin was pointed and his lips thin--giving one the idea of a cruel streak in the man which he is nowise possessed. All his.life he had had to fight his way slowly fipm one position to an­ other--so slowly that even he became impatient at times; and when Ivison, taking pity on him one day as he bent over the books at his father's office, recommended him for an easier place and a larger salary, the poor fellow was so overcome that, he quite lost his head and nearly fainted where he sat with astonishment As nerv­ ous and as given to details as a sick woman, he magnified every small thing which came to him, and jumped at conclusions with a rapidity which would have put to shame any mem­ ber o? the opposite sex. But in a moment of forgetfuiness he had spoken; and in two minutes he had ruined the life of almost his on.y friend. For a while as he lay there after Ivison had goiie, he could hardly un­ derstand it all, but gradually through the distorted lenses of his scrupulous nature he saw what he had done, and he wondered dimly how God would punish him. Not for a moment did he think of blaming Ivison or asking himself why the man had not made his life purer, so that he would have had nothing to disclose to Her father; with characteristic unselfishness, he told himself the fault was entirely his, and that the sm he had com­ mitted was unpardonable--unpardon­ able; and hardly knowing what he was doing, he pulled the little bible which lay before him under the light and turned to the Commandments to see if it was there. But before he found the place, he came to a pass­ age which seemed to burn itseir into his brain: '*An eye foi an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life" A life for a life! He started to his feet as if some one had spoken his name, and turned to his desk. There he drew a sheet of paper to him and wrote: •'What I told yon of Ivison yesterday Is a lie from beginning to end. I had a purpose then in bearing IkIso witness against him, for I love your daughter, and, in a moment of wild hope that I might win her, I said what I did. It is a lie. 1 repeat: the man is as pure as yourself and his record as free from strfin. That you take him back again at once is the prayer--the command--of the man who tried to ruin his life. Show this to tiim. and remember that these are tho lafit words of one who, before you read them, shall be expiating his crime in the othar world." « To this strange note he signed, his name and put it in an envelope. "It will convince him; Jt must, he said, turning to a small drawer found his ! and "Pentoff It- "Ivison shall be re- j stored, but I " He took from the drawer a tiny, pearl-handled revolver, and, going to the tire-place again, stood looking thoughtfully into the blaze. "I have lied," he whispered to himself--"lied about Her. 'A life for a life!' A life for a lie!' " Then he pulled the hammer of the revolver slowly back and cocked it they were yielding. Y<?u told of the other woman, and--and all the rest. Could any man alive have giten his daughter to me hearing that? And ^yet, all the time yo.i were talking, you knew I had changed; that 1 had buried the past in a straight, upright present and had kept it in its grave for years. But you weren't content1 to let it stay there; you dragged it! As Ivison started home from the theater that night, he hesitated at ! the corner of the street, and then j turned' back and walked slowly to- ; ward the other man's rooms. A i curious feeling had con.e over him j while he sat watching the play--a | feeling as if be had done something ! terrible wrong and something for 1 which he couid never make repara- | tion. As the performance went on, ; the feeling became stronger, until he : found himself iestle*s,and distracted, and wishing he were out of the place, j in the cool night air. Why he should j feel so, he could not think, and he I stopped trying to, after a lew min­ utes of mental inquiry. When he had got through the crowd and into the street, the strange sensation lerthim somewhat; but when he reached the corner, instead of goin? home or to the club, as he had intended doing, he found himseli hurrying toward the other man's little bachelor apart­ ments, with no plausible reason. Per­ haps it was curiosity to see him once more t-efore he left the city; perhaps out and showed it. to him--enjoying j the desire to look upon him and doing it doubtless. And I made you. " The other man looked straight be­ fore him, but he did not speak again. Ivison took up bis hat,drew hisgloves ; from his pocket, and began slowly | putting them on. "I did not come here to preach to j you," he said, presently, "for I am ; not good at that sort of thing. I j came for your own good, as well as to tell you just what 1 thought of you. j I have done that, and now I say to i you, I never want to set eyes on you» again. I have kept my han'ds ofT j your miserable body to-niglit because j I am not a rough; but I warn you j now that if I ever see you again, it may be different; for it is in my heart to kill you--to kill you, do you hear?" "Why don't you do it then?" said the other man. suddenly, turning his sunken eyes upon his scourger, his voice still hoarse with emotion; "I wouldn't stop you. ; I know all you say, and more, is true--that you made me, and that I hav* ruined you. You couldn't possibly tllink any less of me than I do of myselL If putting an end to my unhappy life will make j , reparation for what. I have done, ijiaa*rj_ Bay do it! Don't stand there and re-1 view the whole curbed thin? though, for what is passed [can't be helped. In God's name. Ivison." he cried, fiercely, throwing His arms above his head in his wild) dramatic way, "what can 1 do no*** think what a pleasure it would be to choke the miserable wretch's life from his body: perhaps--and this was the true reason, as he felt later on-- his own trouble had made him com­ passionate for the man, and he would speak kindly to him and try to forgive him. He soon t ame to the iittlest:eet on which the other man lived, and djwn this street he turned. Several men, half-dressed and stupidly excited, it seemed t > h in, were talking among • themselves in the hall as he came in; but as it was a large house, and those'who roomei there were constantly going and com­ ing, he did not stop. With a nod and a murmur of recognition to those he knew by sight he pushed by them and up the stairs to the other man's r K>m. He turned the knob, but the door was closed, and a queer leeling, an inten ifled return of that he had experienced in the theater, came over him. He threw bis weight against the door quickly, and the lock gave way. Upon the bed, with bis eyes open and staring at the ceiling,as theybad done for the last five minutes, lay th^ Man With a Conscience--dead. Argonaut ms Qutcii WTW iGiuiC Wok Tod, on Whom - No ISta Ever 9ms- ceedcttl In Getting the Drop. Dick Tod was one of the characters in a Western town, says the Detroit Free Press. He was active in poli­ tics and horse races and was a man who, while not quick to provoke a row, was quick tu end it his wiy when once it started. Everydody in town was afraid of him and his prowess was held to be invincible. On one occasion a new editor, dis­ pleased with Mr. Tod's ruethods, an­ nounced in his paper that the gentle­ man was a liar. Two hours after the paper appeared a man rushed into the editor's office perspiring like a porpoise, "I hope yoifll excuse me," he said to the astonished e^'tor, taking a tape line from his pocket, "but, 1 didn't see the paper until a few min­ utes ago" "What do you want?" Exclaimed the editor. "Want to take your measure, ol course," he said, as if the editor ought to know what he was there for. "But I don't want any clothed," urged the editor. v 'iClothes nothing; I'm no tailor.1' "Well, what in thunder are yott?" "I'm the undertaker. Didn't you call Dick Tod a liar?" That night the editor got out of town and Dick was pacified before he came back. ^ At another time a political oppo­ nent got into a difficult* with Mr Tod and published a card of a Very personal character. "Hello," said a friend meeting him shortly after the card appealed, "have you seen Dick Tod?" "No," was the short answer. "Of course you haven't," apolo­ gized the friend. "I'm a blamed fool to be asking a live man a question like that" Once again Mr. Tod had some trouble over a race. "How's this?" said a friend to him the next morning. "I heard Blinker say in a crowd last n^ght that you had sold the race." "Oh, that's all right," laughed Tod. "Blinker's funeral won't take place until Sunday afternoon, as we couldn't postpone the races." But Mr. Tod went the way of others of his kind, in a saloon one night when he was not expecting it a woman whipped out a revolver and shot him through the body. He lived about ten minutes and his last words were: "Well, boys good-bye, and remem­ ber that no man ever got the drop on Dick Tod. " - - Flighty. There is something perennially funny in the estimate of young poets by their personal friends. Some af­ fectionate partizans, to be sure, find a nightingale in every bush, and ap­ plaud genius in any versified produc­ tion, but the majority of sensible fathers and mothers wait for larger and maturer results before expressing their delight A brilliant young e? sayist furnishes a case in point from his own experience. He was appar­ ently becoming famous at a rapid rate, and some one congratulated his father on the fact "I wish Tom would stick to his law study!" said the old gentleman, testily. "Sometimes I think he's a born fool!" A writer in the Critic says of tho father of James Kussell Lowell: "I was in Rome and Florence at one time with Do-tor and Mrs. LowelL He was under deep depres­ sion, and sensitive to small vexations. I received ore day quite a number of letters from Boston and the doctor, grieving that he had none, insisted upon my reading him some of mine. "Among them was one from my brother, giving an account of Com­ mencement and containing some ex­ tracts from Lowell's manusoript class poem, which he had lent to my brother. My thought naturally was as I read it: " 'This will delight the doctor.* ' •Quite otherwise. The doctor said sadly: " 'I am very sorry and disappointed. James promised me when 1 left home that he would give up poetry and stick to his books. I hoped he had become less flighty.'" mmm 3^® ' t f mmm'i THE Bi thtre is man all in love. WA8 ti be coaxed jl,. '• t promise it, but e Lord forgives a tells when he is g{rl who codldn't for money? An Ancient Phrase. The phrase, "To pour oil on the troubled waters," is so obscure as to baffle all attempts to trace out its origin. The Venerable Bede in his "Ecclesiastical History" (731 A. D.) tells of a priest called Vitta who was sent into Kent to fetch Eanilede, King Edwine's daughter, who was to be married to King Oswirra. He was to go by land but return by water. Be­ fore his departure Vitta visited Bishop Aidan, who had the reputa­ tion of performing miracles, and tie- sought his prayers for a prosperous journey. The bishop blessed him, and, predicting for his return a great tempest and a contrary wind that should rise suddenly, gave him a pot of oil, saying: "RememLer that you cast int*> sea thisoyle that I give you, and anon, the winds being laied,com­ fortable faver weather shall en*ue on the sea, which shall send you againe with as pleasant a passage as you have wi-hed." The application of the oil in the storm was effective.--Brooklyn Eagle. Blast Furnaces Thousands of Years Ago. At a recent meeting of the Pales­ tine Exploration Fund in London Mr. Bl iss declared that the discovery of the mound of Tel Hesy, in South­ ern Palestine, would enable the ex­ plorers to • •dig up the sources of the Book of Genesia" Amid all the evi­ dence discovered by Mr. Bliss of the civilization of that remote age--wine presses, treacle presses, alkali burn­ ings and innumerable others--by far th6 most curious is the disclosure of an iron blast furnace, so arranged as to give strong evidence of being in­ tended to heat, in its descent a blast of outside air forced through passages, before entering the chamber at the level where tuyeres are usually found. "If this theory be correct" says Mr. Bliss, "we find 1,400 years before Christ the use of the hot-air blast in­ stead of cold air, wh?ch is called a modern improvement in iron manu- As the result of my tests, I find ROYAL BAKING POWDER superior to all the others in every respect It is entirely free from all adulteration and uhw&oie*t»;v some impurity, and in baking it gives oft a greater volume of leavening gas than any other powdar. It is therefom not onfy the purest, but ' also the strongest pgaDoter (̂ w i t h w h k h I a m a c q u a i n t e d . u ' , ; ; WALTER S. HAINES, M. &V- Prof. bf Chimtsiry, Rush Medtcql ̂ ^Consulting Chemist, Chicago BoaftSof HeaHlr L v.a.. Ail other baking powders are showrt by analysis to contain ahin|»:;; .,.; vV' iimeorammonia. ^ ROVftt POWDER CO., 'iSG WALL 'SI., N&W-VUKK. Just a bad coldf and a hacking Cough. We all suffer that way some­ times. How to get rid of them is the study. Listen--'41 am a Ranch­ man and Stock Raiser. My life is rough and exposed. I meet all weathers in the Colorado mountains. I sometimes take colds. Often they are severe. I have used German Syrup five years for these. A few doses will cure them at any stage. The last one I had wa3 stopped in 24 hours. It is infallible." James A. Lee, Jefferson, CoL ® V ; ,i:'- \ Ingersoll on the Chinese.. These Chinese laborers are peace­ able, inoffensive and law-abiding. They are honest, keeping their con­ tracts, doing as they agree. They are exceedingly industrious, always ready to work, and always giving satisfac­ tion to their employers. They do not interfere with other people. They can­ not become citizens. They, Hhave no voice in the making or in .the .execu­ tion of the laws. They attend to their own business. They have their own ideas, customs, religion, and ceremonies, about as foolish as our own; but they do not try to make converts nor to force their dogmas on others. They are patient, uncomplaining, stoical, and philosoph­ ical. They earn what they can, giv­ ing reasonable value for the money they receive, and as a rule when they have amassed a few thousand dollars they go back to their own cojimrVl They do not interfere with 0u"r Ideas, our ways or customs. They are silent workers, toiling without any Object, except to do the work and get their pay. They do not establish saloons and run for Congress. Neither do they combine for the purpose of governing others. Of all the people on our soil they are the least meddlesome. Soriie of them smoke opium, but the opiuth- smoker does not beat his wife. Some; of them play games of chance, but they are not members of tho Stock Ex­ change. Thev eat the bread that they earn; they neither beg nor steal, but they are of no use to parties or poli­ ticians, except as tlTey Decomo fuel to supply the name of prejudice. They are not citizens, and they cannot vote. Their employers are about the qnly friends they have. --North '• Atherlian Review. . Flamingos' Tongnei The beastly Vitellius, as Gifehjou call# him, "spent at least six million^ of mon­ ey on his table in about'1 as many months. He invented, <&t" hfe cook in­ vented for him, a dish whioh ho desig­ nated "The Shield of-Minerva." One of its principal ingredients was flamingos* tongues,of which, I may add, Pliny and Martial speak in encomiastic terms. Dumpier says that the flamingos.Jiava "large tongues, and near thfc root is a piece of fat which is accounted a great dainty." When Captain Owen was sur­ veying the east coast of Africa his sail­ ors shot down hundreds of the beauti­ ful birds, in order, with an extravar gance worthy of Vitellius, to uwk« a aish of the tongues alone. A Tremendons Shaklng-Up. This ie what every system afflicted with chtllj and (ever, billons remittent, or anr other forra of malarial disease undergoes periodically. Not only is malaria terrible In itself--it Is tb* breeder of an Infinity of bodily ailments. Sjw cifloa used for its prevention .and, removal prove. In the vast majority of cases, useleia for every other purpose than to mitigate the disease and stave off its attacks. They are sure, with the average treatment, to -return af­ ter awhile. The sufferer may chansre his loca­ tion to a healthier one, bnt the complaint, whioh Is in his blood, is not thus liphtly got rid off, and returns after the wonted interval. Orgepio affections of the nerves, heart trouble, general debility of the system are the offspring of mg- talaris. Cure the originating cause and avert futmre physical injury with Hostetter*s Stom­ ach Bitters, efficacious also in liver complaltit, inactivity of the kidneys, rheumatism, and iu- digeatiou. facture due to in 1823." ifee ain't .vbicli of the patentee! blOMOtpf rnrmr. Gas and Walls. The decorations of walls appear to have a very important influence upon the size of gas bills. From recent fig­ ures by Dr. Sumpner, of London, it has been calculated that, with differ­ ent decorations, a room would be equally lighted by the following can­ dle-powers: Black cloth, 100; darjf- brgwn paper, 87: blue paper, 72; clean yellow paint, 60; clean wood, 60; dirty wood, 80; cartridge paper, 20; white­ wash, 15. Only about one-sixth as much illumination is necessary for the whitewashed room as for the same room papered in dark-brown. A Pleasant Sort of Heaven. The Caroline islanders, who are passionately fond of liquor^ but who are in mortal dread of breaking their nqeks by falling from one of the cliffs with which their islands abound, be­ lieve that paradise will be a land as level as a floor, where they can get drunk in perfect safety. The Aqua Claudia had thirty-six miles of its course through tunnels. ----• • i.Kj) •: ST. K. Brown's Essence Jamaica Gineeir Is a bausehold necessity. None better--try It. ar>ot& Pay the Little Bills. A most effective way to relieve finan­ cial, stringency is to keep money in cir­ culation by the payment of "little bills." To "pay as you go is always best, but some persons are occasionally compel­ led by circumstances to ask for credit. It is wise td pay bills" at s,hort intervals for tnan^ Reasons. 'The creditor may have a great number of'snifell bills out­ standing and may be sbrloUsly embar­ rassed by their non-payment. The longer & bill remains unpaid the harder it is to pftjv . To the man in recipt of an income which is 110 : more than hifiP necessary expenses require, it may be easy to jay a small bill, but if he al­ lows it to go unpaid other bills may be added to it and the aggregate will be a serious btir&en. : A fails to pay what he owes to B, and the latter is thereby unable to pay the debt he owes to C, and so on. By- prompt payments a small sum of money dan be made to cancel a large sum of indebtedness. A $10 bill, by passing from hand to hand, probably often pays debts amounting to $100 inside a weeK. The most frequent excuse heard for the non-payment of bills by persons who are asked to make payment is that they can collect no money. In most instances this excuse is probably an honest one. and a little reflection will, convince any mah of the wisdom of keeping money in circulation. The 1st of July, being the beginning of a new half year, is a good time to bal­ ance books and start fresh.--Baltimore Sun. Where Mermaids Are Really Seen. In the time of Alexander the Great and afterwards under the Seleueida\ the ancient Greeks became acquainted with the northwestern part of India. Among other things- they heard that the seas about Ceylon were peopled with mermaids, In this case, as in th,e case of so many Other wonderful tales, there was a cer­ tain amount of truth underlying the fiction, for these seas are peopled by- creatures as big or bigger than human beings, which have a habit of raising themselves up vertically oat- of the water, whep they pf£sent«, vefy startri ling appearance to an unscientifically critical eye. • "• Astonished travelers., behold beings with rounded, human-looking heads, showing their body down to the bust out of the water, displaying a pair of rounded prominent breasts, and not seldom holding a babv in their arms. But the creature tnus teen is as dif­ ferent in temper and habit from the fabled mermaid as it is in body. In­ stead of seeking to seduce the unwary •oyagers to visit its home beneath the waves, in order there to devour them, the dugong (for that is the name for this sort of mermaid) browses peace­ fully oh eeawfeed. and is as harmless as it is curious--Types of Animal Life/ Water, and Milliu Two cultured Detroit girls were at a i country house for a month, kept by an ! The attention of ABWEWI8KM, lUUHfc FA CTl KKKS and PRINTERS is called to OUT superior facilities tor turning out FIRST- CLASS KL.ECTKOTYPI Jt 6 or 8TERKO- TYPDJG. We guarantee satisfactory aad prompt service in these lines. AnUfPTIQrDQ desiring a large or smaB nUfLVt I ItlUlO number of Electrotype! of an advertisement should get our prices be­ fore placing their orders. 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Charlie Ryan, who handles the pas­ senger business of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad from Cincinnati, has- also to handle some passenger business that requires Napoleonic genius--to wit, the pass fiends. One of these, a sleek, insinuating fellow, walked into Ryan's office One day in June; ~ "Ah," he said, "is this Mr. Ryan?" Mr. Ryan didn't deny that it was. "Ah, well, I called to see if I couldn't get transportation for myself over your road to White Sulphur?" , Mr. Ryan smiled divinely. . "Certainly, air; certainly^*all 'you want."' .. ' "Ah, many thanks; do I get it from iyon?*!;"'J t-.v- 5 :• > • "Oh, no sir," bowed the polite Charles, "you get it at the ticket office downstairs. We don't sell tickets up here." And the man was so overcome that he went downstairs and actually bought a ticket. - £>-. - * Bkicham'8 Pills are a painless and : effectual remedy for all bilious disorders. 25 cents a box. 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