HERE AND THERE. ACCIDENTS. A vision seen by Plato, the divine: Two shuddering souls come forward, waiting doom From Rhadamanthus in the nether gloom. One is a slave-bunger has made him pine; One is a king-his arms and jewels shine, Making strange splendor in the dismal room. Incorporated under the Insurance Law of New York. POBAL BENEFIT SOCIETY 8 Union Square, New York. "Hence!" cries the judge, "and strip them! Let Policies issued payable at death, or at end Why is it, with our improved sanitary appliances, our care to obtain fresh air, pure food, and plenty of exercise, the observance, in fact, of every hygienic law, that in spite of every care each succeeding generation seems to become weaker and shorter lived? Is it that we are now suffering for indiscretions of our ancestors, or is that terrible, unknown end of man at hand? Whatever the cause, the existing condition of things is too apparent. Especially is this noticeable with the babies. Instead of the mother's life-giving milk, they are compelled to begin a struggle for existence with the bottle. The result in many cases is disastrous. The little one, failing to obtain necessary nourishment, grows weaker daily, until death ends the struggle. The end in these cases is Simply Starvation. With this termination so often the case, the best physicians of the day have resorted to the use of Bovinine, that great and original raw food product, as a means to save the babies. In this connection Dr. A. B. Robinson, 61 Dudley St., Boston, after commending Bovinine most highly for various complications where the waste of disease must be checked, and new blood, flesh, and strength created to effect a cure, says concerning this life-creating preparation, "With feeble, bottle-fed babies, a small amount added to the milk has in my practice saved many children." Bovinine is not a medicine, but a life-maintaining, flesh, bone, and blood. making preparation that contains the greatest amount of nourishment in the least possible bulk, Give it to the little ones while there is still hope. Your physician, if you ask him, will recommend it, and you will bless the results obtained forever. of 10, 15 or 20 years. Fifty per cent payable in case of permanent total disability. Twenty five p. c. partial WEEKLY LOANS in case of temporary disability of from $7 to $14 per $1,000 certificate. Cost from $2 to $5 monthly per $1,000. Discounts on advance payments. THE REASON. Something has changed him; yesterday A careless stranger in the crowd. But now? What grasp of cordial hand! What cheery laugh, what genial tone! 'Mid eddying throngs we pause and stand As if Broadway were ours alone. Dear fellow! One word tells the tale; 'Tis not the world of yesterday! His heart gives every comrade hail; His wife is coming home to-day! -Margaret E. 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At a church meeting in one of the suburbs of Chicago, the inquiry was made whether a certain lawyer of the congregation, whose financial affairs were somewhat involved, had "got religion," to which another lawyer present responded, "No, I think not, unless it's in his wife's name."-Argonaut. To disguise the bad taste of cod liver oil and make it easy of assimilation, is to overcome the great objections to the oil as a popular nourishment. In Scott's Emulsion all objections are removed. The oil is rendered palatable and made soothing to all digestive organs. As a nourishing food it is without an equal. Physicians, the world over, indorse it. Druggists sell it. See Removal notice, page 189. Harvard bests Yale in debate as regularly as Yale bests Harvard in boating and football, but Yale used to be, and probably still is, considered as a much more fruitful mother of successful politicians than Harvard is. 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Write W. P. Harrison & Co., Clerk 10, Columbus, 0, Quaker OATS It is surprising how cheap those two-pound packages of Quaker Oats are sold! Cost little, if any, more than oatmeal-infinitely better. Sold only in 2 lb. Packages. BRIGGS PIANOS. T Celebrated for Beautiful Tone, Action, Design, and Great Durability. BRIGGS PIANO CO., 621 Albany Street, BOSTON, MASS. Volume XVIII, Number 10 A WEEKLY JOURNAL, Thursday, 7 March, 1895 AMERICAN AFFAIRS [From Tuesday, February 26, to Monday, March 4, inclusive.] Editorial The political interest of the country has been chiefly centered during the past week upon the Summary dying throes of the Fifty-third Congress. Both Houses have been in session nights and Sunday, in a desperate and finally successful effort to clear their calendars of the regular appropriation bills, in order to avoid the necessity of an extra session of the Fifty-fourth Congress. If there shall be an extra session, which is now thought improbable, it will be for some other cause than the failure of the late Congress to pass the regular appropriation bills. The unanimity with which the Fifty-third Congress is condemned and belabored by the press of all parties and of no party would cause astonishment, had the country not long ago become accustomed to it. This practically universal denunciation is doubtless chiefly to be credited to the fact that the majority party, in Congress and out, has been and is so split up that each faction finds it easy to disclaim responsibility for the party failures and to lay the shortcomings of the party as a whole to the joint, several and mutual incompetence and wrong-headedness of all the other factions. But while this explanation may be accepted as relevant and sufficient in the councils of the party, it is not so accepted by the country at large. As long as we have party government, parties and not factions of parties will be held to account at the polls and at the bar of public opinion. And this fact is fully recognized and admitted by the Democratic press. Closely following upon the news from Washington as a topic of public interest has been the drift of comment and action abroad upon the question of holding another international monetary conference. An account of the debate in the Commons and a symposium of representative press comment thereon will be found in our department of foreign affairs. Congress promptly responded to the resolutions passed by the Reichstag and the Commons, by appointing six delegates to represent the United States at such a conference if it shall be held. Of the six, five are classed as pronounced free-silver men. Receipts of gold from the recent sale of bonds have already brought the gold reserve up to about $92,000,000. The excess of Government expenditures over receipts for the first eight months of the present fiscal year is $36,597,000, besides $48,000,000 owed the sinking fund for the current fiscal year. The deficit for the month of February was about $2,800,000. The two weeks' session of the National Council of Women of the United States at Washington closed last Saturday. The discussions, which consisted mainly of carefully prepared ten-minute addresses, covered a very wide range of topics. The members of the Council express themselves well pleased with the work of the session. The case of Captain Howgate, whose acquittal was noted in our news summary last week, possesses features of uncommon in erest and significance, not merely as a sensational episode in crime but rather as an illustration of the ease with which gross official delinquency in high places escapes punishment. The story is one that deserves to be read and pondered by every citizen of the United States. THE END OF THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Baltimore Sun (Dem.), March 4: The Fifty-third Congress will cease to exist with few regrets on the part of the people. In its three sessions it passed a number of very important measures, but much more had been expected of it than it accomplished, and its incapacity to deal with banking, monetary and financial problems arising out of the blunders of preceding Congresses excited universal mortification. To its credit are the repeal of the panic-breeding Sherman act, the repeal of the Federal Elections laws and a partial repeal and reform of the odious McKinley tariff act. Other wholesome measures of minor note are to be added to this list. Not a few jobs of great magnitude—the Hawaiian scheme, for example-were wisely killed. In the domain of foreign affairs the conservative policy of the Administration was in the main accepted and sustained, as against self-seeking schemes of jingo politicians. Various reforms in the Departments owe their origin to the industry of the Fiftythird Congress, which did a great deal of hard work in the interest of administrative reform. Hampered by laws enacted during the Harrison Administration, it was unable to cut down expenditure to the extent desired, yet it has a fairly good record for economy. The deficit left by the extravagant pension acts and improvident tariff legislation of the Reed Congress largely increased its embarrassment, but this situation aided the enforcement of a policy of retrenchment. Retrenchment was not, however, in every case undertaken with wise discernment, nor motived by regard for the public interest. The incompetency and perversity of the majority of the Senate has been the great fact in the life of the Fifty-third Congress and to it is due that so many necessary measures failed to become laws. The increasing strength of the Populist party has been manifested in the closing days of the session, but the want of unity and fidelity on the part of Democratic Senators is responsible for the general feeling of disappointment with which this Congress is regarded. New York Tribune (Rep.), March 4: Lawmaking by the Democratic party ceases. We have had two years of it, and not one Democrat in ten, it is safe to say, wants any more lawmaking by his own party. Neither Democrats nor Republicans would ever have believed, until the experiment had been tried, that the failure of that party could have been so complete and so humiliating. Two enactments and one disastrous effort tell the whole story. All the routine bills may be ignored; it was to be expected that Congress would vote money enough to itself and its partisans in office. The first important act was the repeal of the silverpurchasing clause. Purely for partisan reasons, this was represented as. a measure of the highest importance, but it has not proved of any practical service whatever. There is yet the possibility that England and Germany may be pushed into some sensible action regarding silver, but the idea of the President that the repeal would restore prosperity and revive business has proved completely erroneous. It is the plain fact that there has been no other recovery than such as would inevitably have followed |