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THEIR NAVA STRENGTH,
HOW JORN BULL AND UNCLE SAM
COMPARE ON Tena SEA.
Creat Britain's Naval SnperlorltY—Mere
Thais Three Telles the sueaber of nen
ea the British Navy Than 'there Are in
the American Army American 470*4
Cities Would be Blown to Pieces--89mie
Interesting Plunrea,
What if warwere declared tomor-
row /. Where would the first gun be
fired / They are pertinent questions
now. Everyone is asking them, and
many are trying to answer. The ex-
perts agree that it would be a sea fight,
and they agree that the first gun
would probably be fired in the Carib-
bean Sea,
If it be a sea fight, bow are
the United'States prepared for it/ How
is England prepared/ These figures will
tell you:
The United States has in commission
sixty-four vessels; thus:
Battle ships
Coast defence vessels
Ar
wor d
e cruiser
Unarmorod cruisers
Protected oruisera 8
Gun vessels 8
Torpedo vessel
Torpedo boats 2
The United States has under construc-
tion twenty-five vessel4 as follows:
Battle ships
.Armored coast defence vessels
Armored oruiaer
Gunboats
Torpedo boats
Great Britain has in commission 172
vessels, thus:
Battle ships
Vint -class oruisera
8.eond•olaes aruisers
Third-class oruisera
Screw sloops
Gunboats
Torpedo boats
Coastguard battle ships 5
Coast guard cruisers 4
Port guard battle ships
Dispatch boats and troop ships
Great Britain has under construction
184 vessels, thus:
Battle ships 22
First•olase cruisers
Second•olass cruisers 10
Third. class oruiscrd
Screw sloops 13
17
3
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13
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4
1
9
7
18
,..,12
11
11
7
18
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3
Gunboats
Torpedo boat deetropera
Coast defence vessels 3
Special service ships ..........................
Dookyard reserve 55
ENGLAND'S NAVAL STRENGTH
In England's navy there are 88,850
enlisted men available—more than three
times the strength of the United States
army. England has at present on fleet
duty 14 flag officers, 3,073 commissioned
officers, 568 subordinate officers, 1,101
warrant officers, 51,995 petty officers
and seamen, 5,194 boys, making in all
on ships with the fleet 61,945. For coast
guard she. has available 89 commission-
ed officers, 231 chief officers of station
3,880 petty officers and seamen, mak-
ing a total of 4,200. In the royal mar-
ines she has for service, but at present
on shore, 358 commissioned officers, 28
warrant officers, 1,173 sergeants, 602
buglers and musicians, 13,202 rank and
file making in all 15,363. In other ser-
vice such as naval cadets, engineer stud-
ents,pensioners,bays under training and
various other services, there are 7,342
giving a grand total of 88,850 men.
The total strength of the United
States navy in officers, men and boys is
13,460, of which 1,010 are marines.
These comparisons do not look healthy
for the United States. Great Britain
however, would not put all of these ships
in action in American waters. She
could notane her remote borders un-
protected. Possibly not more than half
of her ships could be sent to the war,
while all the United States vessels could
be pressed into service.
COAST CITIES IN DANGER.
The experts who have been taught the
theories of war without much of the
practice, say the United States, after the
first flurry an the Caribbean, would as -
Britain would probably attack the de -
sumo the defensive. The fighting would
radiate from the Caribbean Sea. While
the contest there was going on Great
fenceless coast cities of New York, Bos-
ton, Charleston, and San Francisco. New
York and Boston wouldbe shining marks
for British guns.
It is generally conceded that the coast
of the United States would be poorly de-
fended. No one believes that the 4,000
miles of American coast line can be pro
-
tettea b a navy. Tor oda
plants
ore use-
less without batteries torotect them.
Of all the coast cities containing many
billions of dollars of accumulated. wealth,
San Francisco and New York are alone
protected, and their protection is lnsuf-
ficent and somewvhat unsettled. Some
years ago a definite plan of defense was
adopted for San Francisco, but it is not
completed. A few modern high-power
guns and some rifled mortars are in
position—a bare beginning of the work
required for adequate defense. For this
reason the Golden Gate, the greatest
harbor in the Pacific coast, would be an
early object to attack.
Puget Sound would be an easy prey,
too. It is an inland sea, practically.
Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle are of
great commercial importance, and all
are defenseless, and Fort Ludlow, Fort
Madison and Fort Townsend are within
reach of long-range guns. The North-
ern. Pacific Railroad terminates there.
So do the .Oregon and California Coast
Line, tbe Oregon Short Line, the Great
Northern and a branch of the Northern
Pacific. A hostile fleet once in posses-
sion of Puget Sound, the control of these
railroads would be an easy step.
OBSOLETE GUNS ON THE PACIFIC.
The Columbia River,furnishing means
of approach to Astoria and Portland, is
guarded by guns that are obselete and
practically harmless to an armored war-
ship. San Diego is unprotected. There
is more than -$500,000,000 worth of de-
structible property along the Pacific
coast within reach of the batteries of
ships of war.
Galveston is unprotected ; New Orleans
is unprotected; Mob ile is unprotected;.
Key West is unprotected ; • Savannah is
unproteoted; Charleston is unprotected.;
Wilmington is unprotected; Washing-
ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia are un-
protected, excepting by obselete and old-
faabioned guns that could not be expect-
ed to successfully resist a single modern
battle ship, to say nothing of a fleet.
Recently a modern battery has been
placed on Sandy Hook. There are two
forts—one with twelve-iB h disappear-
ing guns of the most modern patella,
the other with mortars There are ai -
teen of the twelve -inch glens. At each
charge they send a shell weighing 800
pounds a distanceof three and one-half
miles. They aro so accurately rifled
that the shell can be directed with pre -
THE EXETER, TIMES
vision. The sandy Hook defenses are su.-
bere. Fort Wadsworth and Fort I-latnil-
ton, farther up the bay, have recently
been equipped with some modern guns.
The arrangements for protecting New
York City, however, are not considered
adequate, and the plans of the govern-
ment are by no means matured. A mod-
ern war vessel, like H.M.S. Terrible for
instance, could do no harm to New York
until she had passed Sandy Hook and
the two forts. If a fleet ever aeeom-
complished this there would be no way
in the world of saving lower New York
from destruction unless it was by means
of torpedoes.
BRITAIN'S SUPPLY DEPOTS.
In case of a declaration ofwar the
first move would be made toward La
Guayra. In two weeks the British could
assemble its Atlantic fleet in the harbor.
there and, while there axe no battleships
in the fleet, the cruisers axe numerous,
and good' ones at that.
England has within a few day's sail
of La Guayra several supply depots that
are practically inexhaustible. At St,
Lucia, in the West Indies, England has
ane of, the most powerful military sta-
tions this side of Europe. It has a lance
lockeed harbor of aufficent depth for tbe
anchorage of the fleet of the largest
battleships. It bas adequate quarters
and protection for large bodies of men,
and in case of war would no doubt de-
velop into a western Gibraltar. In. two
two.years the British has converted St.
Luca
into a great naval station. It is
Great Britain's strategic point in the
IN'ast Indies. It has a station for the
repair of ships. Three great forts guard
the narrow entrauoe to its hariwr,about
two miles from the ocean. Submarine
mines, torpedo outfits and all the para-
phernalia of defense are in place and
ready for immediate action, Of late the
island bas been used as a station where
insubordinate troops and those whose
services at home have not been satis-
factory have been exiled for three or
four years,
St. Thomas, until St. Lucia became
Great Britain's station of great import-
ance in the West Indies, was her main
military point, and carries a garrison
.still of several thousand well organiz-
ed and equipped men.
The United States has no such station
near Venezuela. It has not a single
possession for the refuge of ships or sup -
piles or for the mobilization of troops.
It has no place in these waters for the
dockingof war ships. It is not in the
West ndies alone, however, that Eng-
land is strong and the United States
weak. Look at Halifax, Bermuda, St.
Thomas Kingston and Vancouver. At
Vancouver England has one of the fin -
sat naval stations in the world. She has
the same at Halifax. Besides all these
strategic points England has on the
western hemisphere to -day an army es
large as the standing army of the Unit-
ed States.
None of tbe United States vessels now
building could be made ready for service
until two or three months, while quite
a number could not be finished within a
year under the same favorable. condi-
tions.
On the other band nearly all the Brit -
is o far
Brit-
ish ships under construction are s
along that they could be sent to sea in
aix weeks or less. There is an engin-
eer on every one of them, and on the
larger ones, at least, a line officer and
acarpenter and enough men to keep the
machinery in order.
Besides, there is the enormous merch-
ant marine of England, She possesses
something like 122,000 ships, sail and
steam, and many of these would be fit-
ted out under her flag. The grass ton-
nage of these vessels is over 13,000,000.
The United States possesses less than
one-fifth the number tbat England has,
and their tonnage is proportionally less.
BEEF AND BALDNESS.
A French ilalydresser contends That They
Go Together,
An article has been going the rounds
of the French papers on the effect of
instrumental music an the hair. It
seems to me that the author confounds
coincidence with cause, says a writer.
He gives the names of a great number
of instrumentalists and composers who
retained old age with voluminous fleeces.
Is not this rather due to race than to
music/ So many of the great pianists
and other instrumentalists are of
Southern or Jewish . ancestry. Wher-
ever arace bas carniverous habits, there
one finds arthritism and bad hair, or
baldness. When the Jews were can -
fined to ghettos they, in preparing meat
for the table, followed the Talmudic pre-
scription by washing it so thoroughly
that no trace of red remained in the
water. It was thus made sodden and
unfit for roasting. The appetite for—it
was not keen, and the Jew was free
from gouty taint which made warriors
and sttemen prematurely old. All the
old paintings of Jews represent them
with the voluminous heads of hair and
beards which are so rarely found with
gouty tendencies. The sodden meat was
not a good muscle restorer, but Jews did
not take to employments that strained
the muscles.
Rustics who bare a. good milk -and -
bread diet have nearly always thick
bait, and to an advanced age. Middle
class persons, who lunch and. dine on
meat, rarely have, after five and twen-
ty. I never saw such a collection of
biliard balls as in the Italian Parlia-
ment, and yet I did not see anywhere
among the Italian peasantry scantily
covered scalps. Brittany peasant men
almost all have as long hair as their
sisters and wives, and they do not lose
it as they grow old. A very clever
doctor whom I know, and who makes
capillary disease a special study, as-
sures me that arthritiem and baldness
go together. He has often checked the
fall of hair by prescribinga diet of
milk, rice, eggs (sparingly)'and fruit,
with, of course, local treatment. The
rich or well-to-do go on eating meat
as they used, when they had either to
go about on foot or on horseback, and
really needed meat as hodmen and
railway porters still require it.
The finest heads of hair that I re-
member seeing, in regard to length and
thickness, were those of Kilmuck wo-
men deaf to music. They had tresses
which grew out of the scalp, and
touched the ground when they stood.
up. But the quality was coarse. These
women live on mares' milk, tea and
rye bread, varied. occasionly by broth
made with the flesh of old horses. One
may ,in society almost tell girls whose
parents rose from the humblest class
to wealth by the superior quality of
their hair.
Comparative Merits.
They were talking about their respec-
tive wives, and Jorkins said:
My wife has a perfect talent for being
orderly; she keeps everything in its
place.
ThatSs nothing to what mywife does.
The way she keeps everything is just
out of sight.
Children Cry fur PItcher's Castaria!
AGRICULTURAL
Treatmentof Dairy Cows.
From all nay observation 1 aux prepar-
ed to say that there is no animal on the
farm from which we expect so muck
and furnish such inadequate accommoda-
tions; writes J.S. Woodward. As a rule:
to which there axe exceptions, and 1: all
glad to say these are becoming yearly
more ralimerous, the stables are low,
dark, damp, illy ventilated, and many
are so coldthat a piek or crowbar has to
be used on winter mornings to clean out
the manure, and into.these the cows are
crowded so closely that they have no
more air space comparatively than a
man would have if confined in bis coffin.
For fear the reader may think this a
fancy sketch, let me give a few instances
taken from actual measurement: Last
spring I was in a stable thirty feet
wide, 105 feet long, and seven and one-
half
no-half feet between floor and ceiling, and
in this stable seventy cows were confin-
ed, Yes, confined is the word, for they
were kept in rigid stanchions. Not
very long ago I was in the stable of a
noted. Holstein-Friesianbreeder
where
the cows would average more than 1,-
200 pounds in weight, and that stable
was twenty-six feet wide, fifty feet
long and 'onlay seven feet in the clear,
and in that stable he kept in swing
stanchicus twenty -even cows and the
bull. In the first of these the cows
would average between 700 and '800
pounds, and had only 337 1-2 cubic feet
of air space and 1vitboet a single ventil-
ator, except the two doors through
which fodder was thrown from the loft.
In the latter they badonly 318 1-2 cubic
feet and only one small ventilator fif-
teen inches square. I have in mind
several stables fully as faulty as these
in other States, but I will not fill space
by mentioning their data. As a rule,
the dairymen with such stables are
great sticklers for "a breath of fresh
air, a bit of sunshine, and a little daily
exercise," and no wonder. If my cows
had to occupy such quarters I would
simply leave them out all the time. Bet-
ter by far bave pure air, all the sunshine
there is, and a chance to run around to
keepwarm than be shut up in the
"black hole of Caimans" But no one
must expect their rows to do their best,
or to make dairying pay, with cows
treated in that way. Milk is a "by-
product." It comes from consumption
as food beyond the necessities of the
animal, and in order to get the largest
production from minimum of food, the
cow must be made just as comfortable
as possible, be kept warm and quiet,
and le re all the pure water she wants
to ditsik. and have it just when she
needs it.
Men with snob stables as I have des-
cribed would make more money to tear
out above, or raise up the building so
as to give greater height, and then
double or move the windows, put in good
ventilators, and keep only half the null -
tier on sante floor space. No cow `
should have less than one cubic foot of
air space, counting her own body, to
each pound of Iive weight, and even
then there should be ample ventilation.
And then the stable should be warm
and light and well ventilated. It is
ei.mply absurd—it is worse; it is idiotic
to crowd cows into these unhygienic
quarters and then think that by turning
them out a few hours they will be all
right. I and a firm believer in close
housing of cows. My cows never go
out of doors from the first cold. of au-
tumn until the cold, raw days of spring
are passed, and the grays is large enough
to afford some nutriment. But, mind.
you, my cows have ample quarters, have
plenty to eat, a good bed to lie an, plenty
of fresh air to breathe, and fresh water
to drink. and they, aro never confined
with their necks in stanchions. .It. is
many years since I have had ane of these
"relies of barbarism" in my stable. I
would quarrel with any man who would
attempt to put even a swing stanchion
in my stable. I like to see my cows lie
naturally with their bead around upon
their side, and no stanchion, even the
best of swinging ones will be allowed.
This, the ideal, is a nice little box stall
for each cow, but they do fairly well
tied with a chain or rope around the
neck. T am perfectly willing to risk
my cows to be kept ea the way that has
resulted.n developing the Jersey, Guern-
sey, Holstein, only I would improve an
these methods by giving a. little more
space, light, and freedom.
Clay Soil and Sandy Soii.
"After all, our heavy, clayey soils are
to be depended upon more than the
light, sandy ones. With proper handl-
there - noreason
Ls whyheavysails
handl-
ing,
should not continue to produce large
crops forever. A sandy soil is apt to
lose its fertility, parting with it so
rapidly that continual fertilizing must
be kept up. A heavy clay soil is rich
in vegetable material as a rule, and if
this is well 'drained, cultivated and
every three years clover seeds sown and
allowed to grow until nearly two years
old before plowing under, there is no
reason why excellent crops should not
be cropped annually," says the Wis-
consin Agriculturist, "A clay soil that
is once run down is much, easier to bring
up to fertility again than a sandy one.
The latter contains not only less fertiliz-
ing material, but it parts with that ap-
plied to it every year far quicker than
the clay soil. The porosity of the sandy
soil is against it, and not a recommen-
dation. A rich, sandy soil was once con-
sidered the highest type of farming soil.
Water never collected on it In the
spring, and it was ready for working
just as soon as the warm weather ap-
peared. It was always easily turned
over and pulverized. Heavy clay soils,
on the contrary, held water, turned
over its clods, and pulverized only after
repeated plowings and harrowings.
"But to -day, with our knowledge of
underdrainin , there is no zeason why
the heavy sols should not be.ut in fine
condition in. the spring. Underdrain-
ing and thorough cultivation and plenty
of vegetable material in the heavy soils
will make them - far superior to 111e
sandy. When vegetable matter is ex-
hausted, from the clay soil, it becomes
harder to work. Water stands for a
long time in the spring, no matter how
well drained, and the texture becomes
so close and thick that heavy clads roll
over 'before the plow. When a clay
soil acts like this, the best thing to do
with it to seed it to clover immediate-
ly, fertilizing it beforehand with barn-
yard manure. It is naature's sign that
its fertility, has been robbed by a succes-
sion of heavy crops.
"The sandy soil requires more ferti-
lizers than the clay for any given cropps,.
and if the manure is applied and the
land not used, the strength is apt to be
carried away into the subsoil. There.
je.eeneequeutly a, constant loss an sandy
soils, and it. does vet pay to store up
fertility in such earth too far ahead.
On eley soils all manure and vegetable
material will be retained there until
used by crops. The fertility can be stor-
ed up for half a dozen years in advance;
and the amount of loss will be very lit-
tle. The richer the soil gets, the better
it can be worked for crags, and more
satisfactory in all ways will the results
be. While sandy soil may be of great
advantage for strawberry and small
fruit culture, the heavy clay soil, well
cultivated underdrained and manured
freely with clover, will in most oases of
farming prove the most satisfactory
and lasting."
601000.11.001.1
Cementing a Cellar.
Now is when many people are cement-
ing their cellars, either because they
have .new ones or because the floor of
the old one has never been cemented or
become broken or unsatisfactory. To
lay a cement floor is a very simple
thing to do when you know how. Waldo
F. Brown says: If the cellar is deep
enough so tbat it can be filled six inches,
and Le at all inclined to be wet, I 'would
put four inchesaf gravel on the bottom.
This should be leveled and tramped solid,
and then two inches of cement placed
on it. This concrete is made with
eight parts of gravel to one of cement,
if Portland cement is used, and four
of gravel to one of cement if the cheaper
grades are used. Mix this thoroughly'
dry, by shoveling or with a garden rake
and time as it is shoveled over, sprinkle
from a. fine rose waterpot, so as to
thoroughly dampen, but not enough
to saturate it.
In puttingdown thisis cement use a
level and make a slight fail toward
the side where the cellar drain is 10-
eated, and along the wall leading to the
drain make a depression or gutter six
inches wide and two inches deep. This
concrete should be laid in sections
three feet wide, and the topping applied
at once before the next section is
laid. Lay down a 2x4 scantling three
feet from the wall for an edge to
work to, and fill with concrete and
tramp solid with a broad faced ram -
mer. We eut a piese of 2-ineb oak
plank two inches square, and put an
upright handle to it, and it makes just
the kind of a rammer you need.
Now mix one part of Portland cement
with two of sharp, clean sand. or if
the common cement is used. equal
parts. Make the mortar quite thin
and polls it down and level it wii,h a
straight -edge. One-half inch will be
sufficient of Portland, or one inch of
common cement, so if the former is
*sect you will tack a, half-inch board
onto the scantling', or an ineh strip for
the latter, and fill to the level of it.
harden
Sa soon as it 'begins to tr awel
to a surface, a c then
take up vour
edge strip carefully and move it three
feet and lar the, next strip, and iso on
until you finish.
The cast will depend somewhat upon
the convenience of sand and gravel. A
barrel of Portland cement will lay
about 150 square feet with two inches
of concrete and a half inch of topping,
and it will take about double the
quantity at the cheap grades. If the
cellar is spouts, or will ever freeze, I
would use nothing hut Portland cem-
ent, and, as it takes a. better finish and
makes a harder floor. it will give the
best satisfaction,
ODD AND INTERESTING.
An Arizona prison has an extensive
apiary, which is under the charge of the
inmates. A single hive is said to bave
produced !.'00 pounds of honey last year,
and it is expected that the industry
will prove exceedingly profitable.
The huge Bruce telescope started Sat-
urday from the Harvard observatory
an its long and hazardous journeyto
the observation station in Arequipa,
Peru. This is the fatuous photographic
telescope, the largest and most ef-
ficient instrument of the kind ever con-
structed.
Jean Francois Biondin, the famous
rope -walker, who crossed tbe Niagara
Falls on a rope, carrying a man on his
back, has quite recently married again.
The last week of November the wed-
ding occurred at London, the aged rope -
walker marrying a pretty brunette.
Biondin is well off, and lives in apretty
country house, which he calls the
Niagara house.
A peculiar incident occurred in New
York on a recent Sunday. While a
policeman of that city was trying to
see what wa.s going on in a "suspect-
ed" saloon he soiled his hands; he no-
ticed a sink in the ante -room of the
saloon,and when he turned onthe
ucthe was surprised to finthat
he wa.s washing his hands in beer. The
keeper of the saloon, was, of course,
arrested.
Seventy-six years is a good age for
a schooner, The Julia Ann, of Win-
ter Harbor, Me., has been in active ser-
vice for that period, and is said by her
captain to be even as good as she ever
was. The insurance companies back up
the captain's statement, ton. In her
long life the schooner 1 SA sailed over
a good part of the world's salt water,
and is wall known in every harbor on
the Maine coast.
London is to have another Oriental
visitor, the Nizam of Hyderabad. He
rules fifteen million subjects and
one hundred thousand miles of ter-
ritory. His highness, Asaf Jah, is a
man of small stature, very reserved, but
most hospitable to all Europeans who
visit Hyderabad. He entertained the
late Duke of Clarence with great mag-
nificence six years ago. He is a strict
Mohammedan:, and about one-tenth of
the people of his territory belong to
that faith.
How much brighter and more gay the
English who have eaten bifteoks" in
Paris will be for the knowledge that
since 1866, they have contributed to-
wards the consumption of 389,975 horses,
10,543 donkeys, and 946 mules. The con-
sumption of these luxuries bas grown
steadily but surely, and it seems that
they now figure in the production of
sausages (which will surprise no one),
and alsoin salad oils (which will sur-
prise D3&iy.)
A Worse Calamity.
Old Gent -Young man, I have got
rumors that you intend to elope with
any daughter to -night.
Young Man (confused)—Sir, I—er—
you—er--
01d Gent --Hold on; now, don't get
rattled, or I'll lose confidence in your
spunk and put a stop to it.
About 40,000,000 pounds of prunes were
fproduced in the Santa Clara valley, Cali.
ornix, this year.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Cadtoi1
aoY SHOT DEAD.
weave
erelve-Year-Old Lad In (Swtotfr—The
Charge Is MauAlaugieter.
A despatch frown St. Catharines, says:
—A eoroner's inquest was held Wed
nesday • afternoon, before Dr. Good-
man, to enquire into the death of the
boy Wm. Patters:m, who was shot on
Tuesday by a companion named Has -
luta. It came out in evidence that a
number of boys were playing togeth-
er and shooting at a mark with a 22-
calibre rifle. Young Patterson threw
something at Kellum, when the latter
remarked, "If you do that again I will
shoat you." A abort time. afterwards
Yasium pointed the rifle toward Pat-
terson, when it was discharged, the
bullet entering the head aver the
left eye and piercing the brain. The
boy died about an. hour afterwards.
The jury retired, and after deliberat-
ing, some time returned a verdict of
xnanslaugllter. Young Haslum was
locked up at police headquarters. He
is only about twelve years of age, while
the victim of the sad affair was about
nine years old.
Noon Always Pull.
A well-known scientist was walking
along aLondon street when be came
across an itinerant astronomer, who
was inviting the passerby to gaze
through his telescope at the moon at
a half penny a time. The scientist in
London was speculative enough to
venture a half penny, and on applying
lais eye to the instrument was astonish-
ed. to see a beautiful picture of a full
moon, although at the time the moon
was only in her second quarter. Puzzled
by the circuinstanee, be examined the
instrument, and found that it was not
a telescope at all, but simply a. tube
with a hole where the eye piece should
be. and a transparent photograph of a
full moon, with a light behind it. at the
other end. On the scientist asking the
exhibitor, how he could so cheat the
public, the man simply remarked: "It's
all right, sir. People like a lot for their
I used to have a
e nowadays.
m ley
proper 'scope once, but I turned it up
for this after an Irishman pitched into
me fax showing him only 'arf a moon.
This way pays better and gives more
Satisfaction _
:`Then Baby weedclt. we A 5sehnr *eerie.
When shewas a Child, sbecried for Castor/ a.
When she became Wes, site clung to Castoria.
When she bad. c'bildren,sher&Ter lemCeatorit
Harvey Doolittle died in a Brooklyn
church tundav while engaged in prayer.
Senator Du'k:ois has introduced elan
to make the Indian subject to the
genes laws of the several states.
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very fresh leaves go into bloasoon packages.
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Two lady factory inspectors
Philadelphia have been appointed
the Governor of tie Stale last; week.;