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SLNUL?TH?Wrl?. 1 Hornady bad f *Tobim lt riends smoked ??n^Vngiortkepo?' eemedasifthe rW^S< o strike them . ??^S^ .uesub ect an absorb?- ?^< .^0ff< The quai ty o? the stor y Xv " j hib ? dx>ve th? av? ige.it had more of common lease than M. uor V ^iWa narrative and Less of foolish sentir leat than C?rdgrove's Btoryof ove india ,ian fighti jT cied that lt ?OUld roase his friends toa high pitch of inter _st. that {t wouM sfcrike their sense of apr reciation of the novel the unique. But there was Q0 evidence of fascinated interest on the c .Uni faces of his friends, no craning forwar d near the end, no excited questions as to fuller details. The six men sat listening with expressionless faces throughout, t ne only change being Hard ing's smile o?*, polite attention to a stolid, unreadable stare. Slake Hornady tilted back his chair and waited. Major Nesbitt bit off the end of his cigar. Cardgrove ? stroked his brown mustache, while Sammy gazed at Harding. The newspaper man sent a whirl of smoke toward the ceiling and said: "Hornady, lt strikes me that your story is too full of common sense to suit this crowd. All the people calculato too much on the probable result of a thing; they act just like a business man with your ideas would act." "It was well tdd," said Cardgrove, "but it is too barren of sentiment. Hornady, I knew you were a business man, but I did not know that you were totally devoid of all sentiment." "Xor I." said Roger Cleary. "I've been accused of that myself, but the imputation belongs to Hornady. I'm a very sentimental man compared to him." "All stories should have a little senti ment in them," said Major Nesbitt, with a vague idea of defending his story, which had a great deal. "Yes," said Carter Handy, the calculat ing politician, somewhat reluctantly. "There's lots of it in real life." He sighed as if he were sorry that his statement was trne. "Yes," said Sammy Smythe, coming from behind his immense bouquet. "Yes, and a story isn't good if it isn't like real life." He had heard Harding say something to that effect. Hornady lit a cigi r and fished a new looking letter from Lil- inner pocket, a sud den thought striking him. "It's highly discouraging to a man to have his story disapproved of in this fash ion," he said. "It's worse than I thought Your minds, I discover, are upon love stories, and I have one here that's fresh and-true." He drew the two rheets of writing paper from the envelope, vvhich was marked with a picture of a ll> storied Chicago holt!, and opened them out. "Chicago is not exactly the place I would select for the scene of a romance if 1 had the matter wholly in my power," he said, "but the little romance to which this letter is the sequel happened in Chicago under my very eyes, neither of which facts was in my power to prevent. "fatigued, hungry and dust covered 1 went to the Alpharetta hotel on the first evening of my arrival in the fair city, not knowing that it was the abode of romance and love making. I was influenced to go there, not that 1 expected to be entertained by a lot of pretty girls being made love to by a lot of ordinary everyday men, but be cause of its claims as a superior public hostelry. My uppermost thought when I reached the hotel was to get somethingsub stantial to eat to make up for the two days' futile dependence for subsistence upon the coon who operates the buffet in one of Mr. Pullman's sleepers. "The moment I freed myself from the ex terior polish of granulated soil which I had acquired on the journey i went full tilt to the cafe. "I there discovered that I had no monop oly on the desire to eat. I found that it v as predominant in the minds of about SOO World's fair visitors, who were hugging 1 he tables, eating and chatting. How anotner mortal could get a seat in the hungry, feed ing throng I could not see, and started out to search tor a quiet cafe down the street. "Bi- S the diamond bedecked and prosper ons look. :g young man who guides tho footsteps of those who wander into his cafo to be fed beckoned me to him and said in c. tone that instantly made me feel at home, 'There's a seat over there at a table where two young gents and a young lady from out in "Washington state are sitting.' "I took the seat with such alacrity as to startle into silence one of the young men a spectacled, clerical looking young fellow, with college airs about him, who was talk ing about tho relative merits of water and land transportation to the fair in a very en thusiastic way, and incidentally engaging himself in suppressing any remarks that the hale and hearty youug fellow with the blond mustache might attempt to make. "The three gazed at me reproachfully, ES if they thought I was intruding upon them The young Indy was a unique bit of west ern beauty, with a bewitching eye and brown hair, -?vhich had cn overweening de sire to go astray on the sides and dangle in the Chicago breezes. She mentally sized me up and apparently approved of me, anil, softening the gaze, she turned in my direo felon. "The hale and hearty young fellow with the blond mustache and diamond pin scowled at me, and the young fellow with the clerical look and gold rimmed eyeglasses vainly attempted to wither me with his gaze. Tho young lady perceived these well meaning attentions of her escorts and be came very gracious in her bearing toward me. "Even a married man is tempted to dis pense with his wife and children when he gets 750 miles from home and meets a prelr ty woman who beams delightfully, charm ingly upon him. I saw that I had created the impression of a single man, and I ad justed my facial expression so as to look as juvenile as possible. My unceremonious coming in had cast a damper upon the lit tle dinner party, but their conversational powers soon revived under the coaching of -Miss Westerner. " 'I don't agree with you at all about the Woman's building, Mr. Spinks,' she said in musical tones. 'I think it is the most com plete department of the fair. It thorough ly represents the status of woman in art, industry, domestic life-everything. Now, don't you think so?' The little fellow in the gold rimmed glasses shifted in his chair and smiled all over himself at the prospect of an argument and the more delightful prospect of convincing his pretty sweet heart-for that's what she was-by the pow er of his eloquence. " 'Artistically it is very good,' he said, 'but it ?3 somewhere lacking-there's a missing link. It's hardly the thing, you know, for a woman to put up buildings tmd fill them up with trinkets of her own make. It's out of her line. Woman'-and ho beamed upou the young lady-'woman, Miss Silvey, is in her sphere in the realm of home. There she is a queen, but when she leaves home and goes to drawing plans for houses and setting np exhibits and rui ning things she spoils itali and drops a peg or two from her diviner sphere.' "'I agree with Miss Siivey altogether,' said the hale and hearty young man dog gedly, waving his hand in dismissal of the subject. 'Oh, thank you, Mr. Blipp,' she said. 'That's so nice. You have such broad views. Do you like the plaisance, Mr. Blipp?' 'Delighted with it,' he said, 'perfectly delighted.' 'It's a grand congress ol fakes,' said the clerical Mr. Spinks. "It ought to be banished from the grounds. It has no place in the same inclosure with such a grand tiling as the Art building;' Miss Silvey's eyes lighted up at the mea tion of the Art building. 'Oh, isn't it grand!' she cried. " 'I could spend a whole year looking at the divine paintings there. I have only spent one day in it yet. I nm going there the first thing tomorrow morning and st ay all day.' Both young men tried to spe ik at once, but Mr. Spinks spoke first. 'And may I go along and enjoy the pictures with you?' he asked. 'I will be delighted to have you,' she said. Percival Blipp looked very blue and buried his countenance in a jglass of milk. "The conversation ran on." Spinks was ecstatically happy; lilipp sank into deepest misery. The two rivals-for it was too evi dent that they were such-glared at each other and consistently disagreed on every point. Spinks said he thought the ethno logical exhibit highly interesting. "Blipp said it was a musty old collection of mummies that offended the sight and ought to be ruled out of the fair. Spinks ida. Mk* "negro: ??iv* .-aid they were * -pid old women and i oilvey's eyes sparkled wit] . at the exchange of pleasantries -ween her two lovers. She glanced a roguishly and encouraged the two y( fellows to go on. "This translated love affair was an ai ing comedy, and I lingered at the tab long as the young lovers kept it going, stinccively my sympathy went out to rival Blipp, and I watched the progrei the conversation, his defeats and his ral with that interest one feels in foliov the fortunes of a hero in a play or boot "I conceived a streng liking for bis < honest face. I gathered from the conve tion that he was a mine owner, and I ll him all the better for that Spinks w; young lawyer, and as Blipp rose in rn; timation he fell correspondingly. "I took my first look at the fair the i morning. I remembered Miss Silvey'a nouncement that she was going to sp the day in the Art building, and lat? in afternoon I went there hoping to ct sight of them. I stumbled upon Blipp minutes after I got inside. He seemei be wandering about in a desultory fash gazing at the pictures in a perfunctory, interested way. He recognized me smiled. 'I remember yonr face at the ble last night,' said he. 'My name is J rival Blipps, Spokane Falls. Wash. Lc ing at the pictures?' "He rambled on without any appai method or object. He kept sending inqi ing glances ahead, and presently I rec nized,.a few feet away from.us, Miss Sil and Spinks. If. they were not enjoying show, why, appearances don't count for a thing They were holding a guidebook tween them and alternately search: through its leaves for the numbers t looking at the pictures, giving every syi tom of pleasure. "Blipp saw that I recognized them, e he blushed. There they are,' he said, h guiltily; 'they've been taking lt in all di I laughed out loud. 'And "you,' said 'and you-you've been following th about.' I laughed louder than ever. Thi about the size of it,' he said. 'Do you thi she likes him best?' I asked. 'Oh, I do know,' he said, dismally but earnestly; 1 been going on like this for a year anc half. At home both of us have been t ry i desperately to win her, but the cont seems to be so evenly matched that It loc as if we were still neck and neck. " 'When she came to the fair, of cou we followed. She's certainly bean leach* us a race. One day it's Blipp and the ne it's Spinks. It's Spinks today.' He was genuinely miserable that I felt sorry I him. As he finished he made a sudd dart and disappeared through a door to t right. I stopped in amazement and fou the explanation of his startling conduct Misa Silvey and Spinks, who had turn and were coming back toward us. She w saying that she would prefer to go back a steamer. After they had passed. Bli sneaked back. 'Have they gone?' he ask apprehensively. They were disappear!] in the crowd, and we followed. " This is tough luck,' he said, as scrambled along to keep in sight. 'Y< can't appreciate it, old man, unless you' been through it. What would you do? A ber and risk it, or keep on like this uni she indicated which she liked best?' " T don't know,' I said. 'This is hard the place to ask a girl to marry you, b it's an excellent place to prepare her for : If I can help you, let me know.' " Thank you, thank you,' he said grat fully. "We were just in time to get on tl steamboat, and after we rushed on wit the crowd the young lady did not see u Blipp hurried around on the opposite sic from them and leaned against the rail r garding them furtively. The steamboi was slashing along a mlle from tho fa when the young miner tossed his cigar inl the lake and started toward them. 'Con along,' said ha 'I'll intcoduce you.' "It was with a fine affectation of su prise that Blipp greeted them. 'You here he exclaimed gayly, 'how lucky! Miss Si vey, my friend Mr. Hornady from tb south.' She smiled sweetly and gave me glance of recognition. I took a seat besid her, Blipp establishing himself on the ot ht sida Spinks regarded me for a moment a a nuisance that had to be tolerated, bu luckily my fret conversation venture wit him struck a weak point. He asked m hew I liked the fair, and I said 'super! and told him I liked the Mining buildin best. "His clayey face lighted up, and h launched forth upon an enthusiastic dissei tation on silver. While he was in th midst of itv unperceived by him Blipp am Miss Silvey walked to the front end of th boat and were lost to view. It was som such thing I bad in mind when I engage? the western lawyer in conversation. Sud denly he broke off and stared vacantly a the two empty seats. " 'H'mf he remarked stammeringly au< with a very foolish look. 'Where hav they gone? Can't be overboard?' "All the silver eloquence oozed out of thi young lawyer with the discovery that Mis Silvey and Blipp were no longer with us He had no heart for further conversation and his remarks to me during the rest o the trip were in monosyllables. His dis tress was painful to see when the steamboat bu t tel against her pier at Van Buren street He rushed forward, then back again, thei to the center, where he stood, hopeless anc helpless, stariDg at the retreating crowd 'Where are they?' he entreated. I had caught a glimpse of Miss Silvey's browi ?urls on the gangplank a minute before. They'll be along presently,' I said consol ingly. 'Wait.' He did wait. We were the last people to leave the steamer. He stood on the pier gazing up the dight of steps with i lost expression. M 'Damn itl' he said. "It was my intention to go to the theater that night, and as I started out I look "d around for the lovers' party. SplnkB waa standing near the register, a picture of de jection and gloom. I touched him on the shoulder. " 'Hello, Spinks, are you going out to night?" "He looked at me darkly. " 'Yes, I'm going to the theater.' " 'What theater?' " "He turned to the ticket scalper in the corner. " 'Didn't you sell some tickets to a fat young man with brown mustache and a western accent tonight?" he asked. " T did.' M 'What theater?' tt .Schiller'a'" , "Spinks turned to ma " T am going to Schiller's,' he said. "The theater was crowded; but, being on time; we got good seats. The play was 'The Girl I Left Behind Me,' a drama full of Btirring situations. But Spinks was not stirred. He didn't even see the play. His eyes were turned to the right Following the direction of his gaze, I recognized Miss Silvey. Seated beside her was Percival Blipp. his face flushed with delight Just behind them sat Mrs. Silvey. Miss Silvey recognized us anJ smiled so sweetly that Spinks' gloom was lifted like a mist before the sun. "He writhed in his chair and waited im patiently for the end of the act so nhs* hi could go to them. I b?w tbp.t heroi; pveaa ures were necessary. Before the curbdii hf*4 swung half way down I was on my way M? the box. I took the one vacant seat. MtabKP where I sat I could see Spinks, sie-tod' straight in his seat aud looking straight fa front, an unforgiving expression ou hi?iijwrk "The next morning I was not sur**^* to ^ee Spinks Bitting in the hotel lobo? gloomily poring over a paper. It wwi ra ?ate as 10 o'clock, and I wondered if hi? WM waiting for Miss Silvey. He was evld?ntii In a bad humor still. I apologized for Lk'r lng left bim so abruptly the night before ill the theater, and to cement our re-euUO lished friendship asked him to drink wili mo. He said he had already trotted on? three pony cocktails that morning. "I decided that Blipp and the young lady had gone or were going to the fair, and to preclude al) chance of meeting them I pro posed that we take a jaunt to Lincoln park. He astonished me with the alacrity with which he accepted the suggestion. I could only explain bis ready acceptance by men tally deciding that hp bad given up all hope of being with Miss Silvey th?t.day. "After we_had taken a turn or two about the park I discovered the reason for his' coming. The reason was Miss Silvey. We came upon her quite suddenly, strolling along with her mother. He evidently was not surprised and Btepped forward smiling. Unconsciously I had done Blipp a bod turn, but I made the best of it By onart? those gracefnj fanfc mo^aflBtfl qjy0^ _o <n iu\ sen idamea miss oirveyar ?me, and by the use of a little diplomacy lcd aer away. Spinks bad nothing to do but to j drop behind with the mother. I fancy she waa not favorably impressed that morn: ig by the conversation of the young man who wanted to be her son-in-law. Tho young lady and I got along swimmingly until an unexpected interruption. "Just at a bend in the walk a young gen tleman stepped in front of us. He came so suddenly into view from behind a little summer house that I was impressed with the belief that he had been lurking there. He lifted his hat and made a fine show of pleased surprise. 'Why, Miss Silvey-Mr. Hornady, this is unexpected, I'm sure, but delightful'- 'How you frightened n -t said Miss Silvey. 'Where did you come from, Mr. Blipp?' "Quite naturally he turned and walked back with us, casting a furtive glance be hind at Spinks. It suddenly occurred to me that I had seen enough of the park, and regretfully I told them I had an engage ment at noon. We waited until Spinks and the mother came up. Spinks looked doggedly at his watch and spitefully at Blipp and said he was sorry, but he had an engagement too. "He walked along beside me, sullenly re fusing to speak. After we were on the car he suddenly looked up and asked, 'Horna dy, are you married?' "I put on a sorrowful expression. 'I was married once,' I said. He flushed up, bit his thin mustache and seemed sorry for his question. " 'I see,' he said at length; "a widower.' "A week later I was sitting in an obscure end of the cafe with Spinks, who insisted on my takir..^ supper with him. A waiter held a delicately perfumed envelope over my shoulder and asked if I was Blake Hor nady. I took the letter and held it up to the light. Spinks glanced at the superscrip tion and gave a nervous start He had rec ognized Miss Silvey's handwriting. "I read the note, refolded it carefully, as carefulfy replaced it in the envelope and very tenderly put lt in my pocket. 'Look here,' blurted out Spinks, 'are you in love with that young lady-is she in love with you?' I looked at him very severely and his gaze faltered. Then he continued: 'You have come between Miss Silvey and myself ever since the first time we saw you. It's always you or Blipp.' He ut tered the last name like an explosive. 1 regarded bim curiously, and before I could make up my mind what to say he left the table hurriedly. "I walked to the clerk's desk to leave the key with him. Blipp was leaning on the counter and greeted me pleasantly. As I pulled out my room key Miss Silvey's note fell to the floor. Blipp stooped, picked it up and very politely handed it to me. In voluntarily his eye caught the address and he gave a start. He recognized the hand writing. 'By the way,' he remarked pleas antly, 'I want to see you.' We went into the parlor and he opened fire at once. "'Hprnady,' he began dramatically, lt was bad enough with only two of us, with only Spinks to work against. But now you have come, and you've gota note from ber. You talk .with her, go walking with her, sit in the box at the theater with her' 'Blipp,' said L 'I am your guardian angel,' and I left him standing stupefied. "The troublesome note was nothing more nor less than an invitation from Mrs. aud Miss Silvey to join them in a box party. Neither Spinks nor Blipp had been invited. Matters had reached such a crisis that I, being a married man, could not accept this invitation without complicating the trouble. "I went straight to Miss Silvey and told her that as I left the next morning it would be impossible for me to accept the very kind invitation. I took occasion to suggest ta her that she might invite Mr. Percival Blipp. She looked at me furtively, and asked If I didn't think it would be asking too much of him. I told her that I was positive that it wouldn't be. 'You know,' she said, 'Mr. Blipp and I come from the same place, and he rather feels that we ex pect him to make it pleasant for mother and I since we happened to come at the same time and are stopping at the same hotel You see I don't want to infringe on his good nature-for jo is good natured,' she added. Something seemed to flash across her mind. 'And Mr. Spinks?' she asked. 'Oh,' I re plied, 'he is going out with me.' " 'I am so sorry you are going away just as we are getting acquainted.' The last thing she said to me was in reference to Spinks. 'You seem to have formed a great liking for him,' she said. 'You and he are almost constantly together. I am glad yon like him,' she added confidingly. "He is very popular in Spokane and has a great future, I think.' 'And Blipp?' I said. She did not hear me. "That night I went to the theater, and from a quiet corner, safe from observation, I looked down upon Percival Blipp seated beside Miss Silvey, glowing with happiness. I stumbled upon Spinks as I went out He glqwered upon me and strode on. "I caught an early train for Atlanta next morning. My interest in this three cor nered love affair had become so great that. I was half tempted to stay and see the outr come. I heartily regretted to lose sight of the three young people altogether. 1 thought of the hotel clerk. He was a nice young man and seemed to know his busi ness. I started to tell him about the af fair, but he gave me a knowing wink. '1 know,' he Bald. 'And will you write me how it comes out?' I asked. He nodded. "J have pictured a hundred different end? to tbs affair- Once * even pictured to my self the possibility of my becoming a wid ower and marrying Miss Silvey. Then 1 saw her marry another fellow. But the termination that suited me best was the one in which Percival Blipp married her. "My sp?culation* were ended this morn lng by the receipt of this letter: HOTEL ALPRARETTA, Chicago. B. Horn ad r: PEAR Sra-In accordance with your request, I have this to write: Mrs. Silvey and daughter paid their hill yesterday and had their trunks phocVod tq Spokane Fall?, Wash. Hardly au hoar afterward P. Blipp paid his bill and had his trunk checked for tho Bcmo place. W. Spinks leaves today, trunk ohecktd for New York. Your obedient servant, E. JENKINS. -Atlanta Constitution. Shines Through Metal. In a paper read before the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences lt is Bhown by Hertz that the rays which proceed from the cathode of a geissler are capable of exciting phosphorescence and will permeate thin metal-it being thus possible, on finding a sheet of metal foil thick enough to be air tight, yet thin enough to be permeable by such discharge, to allow these rays a pass age into the open air by closine an opening in a discbarge tube with a piece of such foil This, lt seems, has been realized by means of an Ingeniously arranged apparatus and a hammered aluminium plate 0.003 milli meter thick, and this plate forms in the apparatus a shut to or window, which. Trails quite impermeable to air and light, allows the rays from a cathode at a dis tance of 12 centimeters to penetrate it free ly, the rays rendering the air faintly lum! nous. A halo of bluish lightsurrounds the window and is moderately bright only on Its surface, a strong odor of ozont being at the same time recognizable. Substances capable of phospho.escence, If held near the window, shine with theil peculiar light on the side nearest to it, but all the phenomena of phosphorescence cease if a magnet is so applied to the dis charge tube as to repel the cathode ruyt from the inner side of the window. Th? atmosphere {sadull medium for the ca thode rays to penetrate. Coa) gus is more permeable, and so is hydrogen.-New York Sun. The Molo. The mole works Uko a horse and eat? llKe an elephant Throughout his wak lng hours he is engaged in pushing aside earth and hurry iug after worms in ali his galleries and tunnels. The laborer, of course, ls worthy of his hire. Such cease less activity can only he kept up by equally ceaseless feeding, and so the mole's exist ence is one long savage alternation of la bor and banqueting, lils heart and lung* and mushes are working at such a rat? that if he goes without food for half a da} he starves and dies of actual inanition. Ile is a high pressure engine. His drmk'ug is like his eating-isunod erato in all thing*, he must have his liquor much and often. So he digs many pits in his tunneled ground and catches water in them to supply his'heeds at frequent inter vals. He doesn't believe, however, in the early closirg movement Day and night alike he drinks every few hours, for day ?anil night ure all alike to bim. He works and rest? bv turn, after the fashion nf t.hp parn?s employed in ?i??in? tunnels; or measures bis time by watches, us is the way of sailors.-Cornhill Magazine. I5nc.lielo.-s of a itygono Day. Bachelors of the present day haven much better time than those who lived in the old days of Rome and-Sparta. In Home, fot instance, the law forbade that a bachelor 6hould be allowed to inherit any legacy whatever, while in Sparta, under the nile of Lycurgus, the bachelors were still more hardly used, for they were nor permitted to have any part in the government, noriniyht they occupy any civil or military post. They were also shut out from participating in public festivals, except on certain fixed occasions, when they probably would rather have staid away, for then the women hnd (and exercised the right) to lead them to the altars and there flog them with rods, singing meanwhile scornful songs specially written for the ceremony.-New York World. _._ Ula Missing Locks. Representative Wilson of Washington has a trick in the heat of debate of passing his hand over his forehead, as if to toss back his waving and disordered locks, lt is an unconscious gesture. That was once the purpose of the movement, but the locks are gone where the wind listeth, but no man knowetb.-Washington Post Nautical Tenn?. An old "tar" has recently prepared a handbook of nautical terms for the use of persons who intend to follow thc sea. In order to correct popular belief, our author gravely asserts that the berths on board ship do not necessarily add to the census. The hatchways are not hens' nests. The way of the ship is not the extent of her avoirdupois. The boatswain does not pipe all bands with a meerschaum. The ship does not have a wake over a dead calm. The swell of a ship's .side is not caused by dropsy, nor is the taper of a bowsprit a tal low candle. The hold is not the vessel's grip. The trough of the sea is not dug out of the ship's log. The crest of a wave is not an indication of its rank. Thc buoy is not the captain's son. The men are uot beat to quarters with a club Ships are never bonrdtd at hotels. The bow of a ship is not evidence of politeness. A sailor's stockings are never manufactured from a yarn of bis Own spinning. The sails of ? ship are not made by an auctioneer, nor are the stays constructed by a dressmaker. - New York Ledger. California's First raper. Walter Colton and Robert Semple were the first editors of the first newspaper pub lished in California; they founded The Cal ifornian at MoiUW'?* in August, 1.846. Col ton had bought the press and type from tin American missionaries in Houolulu. lt was. an old Ramage press of wootlen fmme, wooden bed and plate of hurd, wood, worked by a screw and capable ol rVmkiiig WO ini pressions id un hour. It had been ?....nt from Boston to Honolulu. The type had bet ? long In u i and was of faulty font. ivkbo:.i the letter "w" or italic Two "v V substituted to represent "w" in cap?? ;.>... and small letteis alike -Los l?.-.-.i- M: .:. ERADICATES BLCCD POI SON AND BLOOD TAINT. CEVF.RAL bottles of Swift's Fpecific (S.S.?.) ? entirely cleansed my system of contagious blood poison of the very worst tvpe. WM. S. LOOMIS, Slirevsport, La. CURES SCROFULA EVEN IN ITS WORST FORMS. T HAD SCROFULA in 1881, nnd c'ein^ed my 1 system entirely from it by being seven bottles of S. S. S. I have not had any symp toms since. CW.WILCOX, - ? Spartanburg, S. C. HAS CURED HUNDREDSO' CASES OF SKIN CANCER. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases nuilee free. 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The Press Claims Company, ?ilS F Street, Northwest,: TVA SHIN GI ON", D. C. P. 0. Box 463. y GHNi Vv I L ILE I L?i N, lun'g Alfy Cut this out and .end it v\ i tli your inquiry. Il' YOU ;WAKT INFORMATION ABOUT ADDRESS A LETTES OR POSTAL CARD TO THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY, JOHN WEDDERBURN, Mnging Attorney, . F. O. Bos: 46, WA8IIINGTON, IX C Honorable. discharged soldiers and sailors who served nineiy ?fox?, or over, in the late war. are entitled, if now partially or wholly dibbled for.ordinary manual labor, whether disability was caused by seryiee or not, and regardless of their pecuniary circumstances. Widows of such soldiers and sailors are entitled (if not remarried) whether soldier's death was due to serviere or not, if now dependent upon their own labor for support. Widows not dependent upon their own labor are e ntitled if the soldier's death was due to service. Children are entitled (if under sixteen in almost all cases where there- was no widow, or she has since died or remarried. Parents are entitled if soldier left neither widow nor child.r?rovided soldier died in service, o'* from effect8of service, and they are now de pendent upon their own labor for suppoit. It makes no difference whether soldier served O? died in late war or in regular army or navy. Soldiers ol' the late war, pensioned uador one Jaw, may apply for higher rates under other laws, without losing any rights. Thousands of soldiers drawing from $2 to ?flO per month undera the old law, are entitled to higher rates under new law, not only om account of disabilities for which now ] endued, but also others., whether due lo service or not. Soldiers and sailors disabled in time of duty in regular army or navy since the war aro also entitled,-whether discharged for disability/ or not. Survivors, and their widows, of the Black Hawk Creek, Cherokee*,, and S< min?le or Florida Indian Wars of 1SS2 to 1S42 are entitled uu der a recent act. 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