Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1895, Page 15

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It cures bald 3, scanty partings, hair falling out, urf, weak ard thin eyclashes ebrows.” It will restore gray and to its original color. It will abso- preduce ‘a Inxurlant growth of Mustaches on the smooth- ut injury to the most dell- Its effects are truly marvelous. ‘entwins no dye, grease or any harmful ine gredients, Prepared by Lorrimer & Co., and on Ag NER'S PHARMAC Call and get a nol-1mo* leeeeceee bottle, | ACKER & KEN- i429 Penna. ave, | escriptive circular. I { . a Bargains In Long Hair Swi 59. Formerly $5.00. 50. Formerly $6.50. 50. 0.50. G7 First-class uttendance in Halr Dressing, Formerly Bhampooing, ete. ‘Try our “Curlette,”” for keeping the hair ip curl. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N.W. ches, HAWAII'S FUTURE ~ Japanese Jingoes Threaten to Ac- quire the Islands, ANNEXATION THE ONLY HOPE White Immigration From America Desired. PRESENT DANGER Special Correspgndence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, November 6, 1895. Our new minister to Washington, Mr. Francis M. Hatch, leaves for his post today. He carries with bim the com- mendations of all parties, as being the fittest available man for the position. Whatever can be done by. a Ha- wailan diplomat for Hawaiian interests at Washington we feel safe in trusting Mr. Hatch to accomplish for us. In closing up his work as minister of foreign affairs, he has been extremely busy upon the various cases of claims presented by foreign powers for damages in behalf of their subjects or citizens who recelved more or less sev2re handling for alleged complicity in the in- surrection of January last. The final con- clusions in none of these cases have yet been reached. It is believed that in few, or none,will any just claim for damages be sub- Stantiated, Of course, it would not be im- Fossible that in the stress and urgency of suppressing a formidable insurrection some persons should have beea dealt with more severely for complicity than subsequent sifting of evidence would justify. But the limited accommodations for prisoners made it an object with the authorities to make no unnecessary arrests under martial law. It was also an object to release, by exile, some persons unsafe to go at large in the country. Such was the case with the thrce men, Cranstoun, Mueller and Johnston, who were deported to Vancouver, B. C., on the steam- er Warrimoo last February. The two for- mer immediately instituted suits againse the steamer for $50,000 damages. Of course, the Hawaiian government stand behind the ship. A Vancouver barrister, E. P. Davis, has been here in behalf of the steamer, taking evidence for the defense during the past three weeks. He left this week for home. The testimony was taken In private. It is understood, however, to be entirely un- favorable to any claim of Cranstoun and Mueller for damages. Japanese in Hawaii. Our Japanese population in Honolulu have been making things lively on the occasion of their emperor's birthday. This came on Sunday, the 3d. That being by law a day for rest and quiet, the Japs contented them- selves with filling up on saki or rice wine. On Monday they let themselves out. Saki is a venomous tipple, full of methylic alco- hol. It had worked in their insides and made them patriotic and pugnacious. They had lambasted China, and now were ready to trounce Hawaii on any pretext. It was not long before the little brown men were fighting the Kanakas, whose curiosity to see what was going on had brought too many of them around Jap-town. The po- lcemen found the row too big for them, and had to call for reinforcements. A large haul of prisoners were run into the station house. Some nasty knife wounds had to be cared for. There are, by a late census, over 2,000 Japanese in Honolulu, to over 7,500 Chi- nese. In the whole country the Japanese are far in excess of other foreign nationall- ties nd exceed also the native Hawaiians in the number of their males. The great majority of the Japs are laborers on the plantations. At Makaeveli plantation alone there aro 1,100 of them. In this city the Japs are rather more in evidence than the Chinese, although not one-third of their numbers. They are a restless race, gad- ding about a good deal, while the China- men attend strictly to business and make little trouble. Especially conspicuous on the streets are the Japanese women, short of stature, with clattering clogs and soft, simpering faccs. Chinese women are sel- dom seen abroad. ‘Their men keep them at home, hard at work and tending thoir many children. There is a much larg¢r proportion of Japanese than of Chinese women. In every crowd of contract laborers from Japan are a considerable percentage of women lahor- ers. This is not the case among Chinese im- migrants. Nearly all their women have come in at the charge of husbands or rela- tives. Very many of them are ladies with crippled feet and artistically plaited and gummed hair, with rouged che: Some are old crones, hard-working, with kind faces, occasionally met with heavy loxds on their shoulders. A common sight in a Chi- nese home is a mother with a swarm of children. An older girl of six years will be commonly seen with the baby strapped all day upon her back. She grows and plays about, accustomed to the daily growing bur- den. Itis rather pitiful. Our good lady mis- sioraries sometimes find in a Chinese home a girl child groaning under the torture of bound feet, which are to make a lady-crip- ple of her. This practice in Hawall has re- cently been prohibited by law, on the ground of inhumanity. The foot is completely crushed, and the bones of the instep aud toes dislocated by the bandages. Jap Immigration Restricted. The restless disposition of the Japanese, their tendencies to political activity and their predominating number have caused our government some time since to check the importation of contract laborers of that race, and to return of late to the importa- tion of Chinese instead. The latter are com- paratively quiet in disposition. They never concern themselves about politics. They almost never combire for a strike, as the Japs are prone todo. At the same time they are estimated as worth 50 per cent more than the little Japs for hard field labor. In the lighter work of the mills, where skill counts for more, the Jap ts more rearly equal. The Japanese are the volatile, versa- tile Frenchmen of the Mongoloid races, while the Chinese are the strong, solid, heavy Germans. The Japanese haVe won in the outset of the race by a splendid speed, but the solid strength of the Chinamen will win in the end, if they can ever shake loose from the fetters of conservatism. The Japanese in Honolulu find the action of the government in checking their con- tract immigration a grievance, and are making some open outcry against it. It is evidently their desire and plan to get the country well filled up with their people in the hope of making Hawail a Japanese country. It is all very well for Minister Kurino at Washington to represent Japan as entirely indifferent to the possession of Hawail, but such is certainly not the feel- ing of the leading Japanese in Honolulu. They clearly entertain the hope of yet owning this country and making it an appanage of their empire. The same feel- ing is openly avowed by the active politi- cians of Japan, who are full of the “Jingo” spirit, especially since the Chinese war. We have full and positive evidence of their habitual talk in this direction. Of course Japan is unlikely to pursue openly an offi- clal policy looking to a seizure of Hawail. This her rulers know too well would in- stantly provoke collision with England, as well as with the United States. England urgently needs and desires the possession of this central station in the Pacific as completing her chain of connection be- tween Vancouver and Sydney, via Fiji and Auckland. England has only refrained from occupying Honolulu in deference to the superior claim of the United States. Japan- ese statesmen well understand this, and will make no direct movement this way. But they are not averse to having these islands fiJl up with their subjects in the hope that something may come of it. Japanese Supremacy Threatened. It needs to be understood that Hawail’s danger from Japan is a real one, and not an imaginary one trumped up to help on annexation to the United States. There is a serious danger of our restless and ex- citable Japanese populatiun becoming trou- blesome and creating political peril. Our republic is abundantly able to maintain itself against Hawaiian adherents of mon- archy, but it is quite conceivable that the Japanese element, for political ends, might so ally itself with the Hawallan us to cre- ate a serious danger, menacing the inter- ests of our dominating white population. The Japanese have an immense confidence in their superiority to Europeans. They believe themselves to be of a celestial de- acent. Talk with an average educated Japanese and you van find that he scouts the idea that he descénded from the same original human stock as the rest of mankind. The European scientist may ac- cept his own evolution from an a..threpoid ape, but the Japanese has a sublime as- surance that he has;come down direct from the gods. In this faith he expects to over- come-and displace other men. His creed is “Hawaii for the Japanese,” and not for the white man, | The people of the; United Statcs need to understand that an,arduous struggle is in Progress as to thisximportant central out- Post in the Pacific remaining an American colony or becoming a coloay of Asiatics. Shall it be the posse§sion of the white man or of the Mongollagi? The Polynesian has retired from the contest, outnumbered. He has wasted away abd is not in the ght, The American element holds the fort for the time being. It’rules in social and pub- lic affairs, and in trade and language. The white man can easily continue to domii- nate, as soon as he secures complete po- Ittical union with aither one of his own imperial kin, America or England. With- out such union the white man in Hawail will soon be driven to the wall by the over- powering pressure of Asiatic numbers, com- Lined with Asiatic business ability. Trades and Commerce Absorbed. To an alarming extent, the retail traffic in these islands has fallen into the hands of Chinese and Japanese, whose competition has driven the small white trader out of besiness, and so has retarded the growth of white population. The same is true of me- chanics. Chinese and Japanese carpenters, joiners, plumbers, shoemakers, tailors are underworking the whites. They have ample skill, and can live on half what the white man can. The numbers of these skilled Asiatics are constantly being reinforced from the twenty thousand contract laborers on the plantation whose three years’ bond- age terms are constantly expiring, and a majority of whom seek other forms of em- ployment. This damaging competition of Asiatic skill will continue to press against the white man as long as the powerful planting interest is free to import contract laborers from Asia. Annexation would at once settle the ques- tion, because United States laws forbid all contract immigrants, and entirely prohibit Chinese immigration. Until this takes place it will be practically impossible to put any check upon the present system of importing Asiatles. With abundant Asiatic labor, the sugar planters can make large profits, With- out it, their profits would be small, and many might fail. Nine-tenths of the busi- ness of the country depends on sugar. Sugar is king, and will inevitably keep running in Asiatics, until we get annexation. We have 100,000 people in Hawaii. We can easily maintain 500,000, perhaps a million. Shall these be Asiatics or Americans? An- nexation will check the influx of the former, and, with indubitable certainty, will create a strong current of white immigration to fill up the country. We are tending toward a point where we shall be compelled to ar- rest the Asiatic influx, or surrender the con- test. We do not wish to get the needed help from England. We belong by right to America. But we cannot afford very long to wait for that help. Something must be done soon to save Hawail from becoming an Asiatic colony. White Immigration Desired. Josiah Quincy, the leading democratic politician of Massachusetts, has announced that “the democratic administration is squarely opposed to the annexation of these Islands, with their mixed population and their coolie- system.” But the very reason why we want annexation is to put an end to the pernicious coolie system, which fs filling us up with Asiatics, and to direct hither the stream of white immigra- tion, which will soon crowd these islands with whites, putting practical end to the present mixed pépplation. When Califor- nia and New Mexico were annexed they had mixed populations. Now the people are predominantly white. Alaska now has a mixed population. It will soon be white. Annex Hawaii, afid tn twenty years whites will cxceed all others. Will you make it an Asiatic country or a white man’s is the on- ly question. : Mr. Quincy says: “There ts no question involved as to whether American influences shall remain paramount in those islands, for that in any case it must continue to be; or as to whether any other government shall be allowed to acquire them, for we have declared that this cannot be permit- ted; nor is there any question as to the form of the Hawailan government.” He proposes a dog-in-the-manger policy. He will not take Hawaii in out of the cold, nor let any other power do so. We are to be left to strvggle on in the disadvantages and dangers of nominal independence, yet in our weakness utterly dependent upon the “uncovenanted mercies” of surrounding powers, and liable, apart from constant and expensive armed Vigilance, to revolu- tionary overthrow of our gcvernment. This, we submit, 1s rather hard upon us. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, which represents executive sentiments here more than any other paper, although not an or- gan, very appropriately says: ‘American politicians ought to have enough sound sense to realize that Hawali will not con- tinue to wait upon them and forever re- fure advances from other countries, as has practically been done in the past. Annexa- tion Is a plain, straightforward proposition, and if the United States will not accept our advances, the only thing that remains Is to look elsewhere. This country cannot afford to jeopardize its interests to suit the fancy of any other nation. It is only a matter of a few years when the United States will be obliged to come to something more defi- nite than its present attitude, and will be obliged to decide whether they will take it or leave t Of course we shall be watching with in- terest what the coming session of Congress has to say about Hawaii. KAMEHAMEHA. ——._—_ A WONDERFUL DUCK. Well Eaipped by Nature for All Sea- sons, According to the Story. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. There is a remarkable duck in the Phil- acelphia Zoo lake, which will probably prove the only one of its class that ever kes been discovered. It is a large, snow- white bird, whose plumage 1s so luxuriant that it would fill a good-sized pillow. Its wings, when spread out, cover an area of four feet seven inches by three feet. The wirgs are very peculiar, being jointed very clese to the body. This enables it to bend them in rtch a way as to form a tent. In terrible winter storms in its native land it finds this very useful. Thoxe whe watched this wonderful duck noticed that a peculiar growth was form- ing on its feet. As the weather grew co er the growth grew more and more pro- reunced. It appeared to be a thick carti- lagenous substence, which gradually ex- terded. It locked fike another toe, and it was thought al first that the bird was going to be malformed. But instead of stopping when the growth reached the size of the other toes it kept right on. It grew to be about six inches long, and the end of it took a curious turn. Instead of turning down like a claw it curled up and round in a picturesque loop, Then it gradually har- dered. The duck had skates on. The pr culiar formation was just like the “skees' of the Ncrsemen. More than probably the “‘skees" were ac- tually patterned after this growth. These skates were inyalcable to the duck in his native land, where ice and snow, with heavy crust, cover the faco of the earth and the Ccep. Travel by swimming was largely tied up by this ice. Waddling afoot was slow ard tedious, so kind nature pro- vided a better and quicker way—skating. All the duck had to.do was to spread out his immense wings, stard firmly on his sFates, and, whiz. he would go spinning over the surface of snow and ice at a high rate of speed. ©! With the approach of warmer weather these “skates” fall off and the feet are similar to those ef any other duck. —~-+e+ A Royal Abbe: From the London Daily News, The Archduchess Marie Annunziata of Austria, on assuming the office of abbess, receives a trousseau like that of a bride. The gala toilets are in the tenderest col- ors. She drives to church in a carriage with six pairs of horses; her mother fol- lows in a carriage and four. The toilet of the archduchess for the ceremony is a black silk dress with a long train, and a black mantle trimmed with ermine. Across her bosom she wears a gold-edged white moire ribbon, to which is attached a gold medal bearing on one side the Image of the Immaculate Virgin, and on the other the initials of the founder of the order. The ring, ducal crown, and crozler will be hand- ed to the new abbess. The crozier is gild- ed and richly set with diamonds. In the Clothes. year 1309 it was given by the Hungarian Queen Jutta to Wenzel, King of Bohemia, for his sister, Kunigunde. BUTLITTLE INTEREST Feeling of Congressmen Here as to the Coming Message. THE PRESIDENTS RECOMMENDATIONS What It is Understood Mr. Cleve- land Will Say. SENATE REORGANIZATION Surprisingly little interest appears to be taken by the assembling Congressmen in the recommendations which Mr. Cleveland will make in his message. Usually there,is considerable guessing on the subject of the President's. message, but now the men to whom it will be addressed are not antici- pating it as if a thing on which legislation would to any degree depend. It has long been understood that Mr. Cleveland would recommend the retirement of the green- backs, and that he will do so is taken for granted. That he will have considerable to say about the Venezuelan question has been expected, and this and the possibility of his saying something striking as to Cuba have given chief interest to the anticipation of the message. It has been thought that he might transmit with his first message the correspondence between Secretary Olney and Ambassador Eayard. It is intimatad, however, that this is liable to be delayed until some later time. It is said that Secretary Olney, as has been hinted at lately, is warranted in an- ticipating a satisfactory settlement of the question. This settlemert can hardly be ex- pected to be accoinplished in time to be an- nounced in the first message. It is probable, therefore, that the matter will merely be referred to in a general way, with the an- nouncement that the subject will be fully treated in another message. Concerning the attitude of Mr. Cleveland in the Cuban matter, there are conflicting reports, but opinion ix settling down to the idea that he will be led to take an attitude friendly to the Cubans. The belief prevails that legislation will be very little influenced by what Mr. Cleve- lard may recommend, but if he does what it has been made to appear that he wants to do if possible, belittle the serious char- acter cf the demand for mo revenue, Congress will not volunteer more aid that is petitioned for. - Senate Reorgahization. ‘The outlook is for a very lively discus- sion among the republicans before they decide Senate. they whether they will reorganize the They want to first find out how stand among themselves, and how embarrassment may ult from suming the responsibility. There is considerable division among the republican Senators as to the general policy of legis- lation. If this cannot be kept under re- having the organization would con- bring it into evidence in an annoy- ing and embarrassing manner. That Is the first thing to be considered. If it is man- aged satisfactorily it must be determined what the prevailing opinion of reorganiza- tion is on general principles. A number of individual conferences are expected to be held next week, as soon as enough Sena- ters arrive to give something to work on. ‘These will be followed by a general caucus immediately after the meeting of Con- gress. The expectation is that this caucus will result in the nomination of a president pro tem. of the Senate and of the other offic but that it will be expressly de- clared that no alliance with populists shall be made, and that they shall proceed upon the idea that they should make the effort, ying on republican votes only. If they succeed, all right enough; if not, they will not be subject to the accusation of having shrunk from the responsibility. No Populist Assistance. It is not anticipated that they will have the assistence of populist votes, and it is probable that care will be taken to guard against having the responsibility of the organization put upon them by those votes, which they could not control afterward. It is probable that populists will be encour aged as far as possible in the idea that if they intend to figure as leaders of an in- dependent party they will have to nomi- nate their own candidates independently of the other two parties and vote for them. If any disinclination is shown on their part to do this the republicans will begin “throwing stones at them,” if necessary, to keep them out of the republican camp. ‘The proposition will be made to postpone all attempt at reorganization until after the Utah Senators are elected and the Du- pont case settled, but the general belief is that an attempt will be made before then and again renewed. If Three Parties Vote. If the three parties vote with their own organization, the populists having candi- dates, as it is supposed they will, the re- publicans will not be able to organize, for it requires not a plurality, but an actual majority of the Senators elected, to make an organization. In the probable event of a failure of the attempt of reorganization the outcome most likely will be a confer- ence between the democratic and republi- canesteering committees, resulting in an adjustment on the lines of mutual accom- modaiion. MEASURING THE ASTEROIDS. Close Work With the Lick Telescope, and Closer With the Yerkes. From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Prof. E. E. Barnard kas recently pub- lished in Popular Astroncmy the result of his experiments with the Lick telescope in reasuring the four asteroids, Ceres, Pal- las, Juno and Vesta. These asteroids were the first discovered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and for many years after 1807 were supposed to be the only bedies of the kind. In 1845 new discoveries were made by Hencke, and from that time the number mounted to 287 in 1889. Attempts have been made tu estimate the diameters of the fcur principal asteroids by the meas- ure of light reflected. As it was necessary to take one of the plarets for comparison, no accurate conclusions could be reached b ause of probable differences in the re- flecting power. It is well known that some porticns of the moon reflect less light than others, and that a measure of the light from a given surface on the gray seas would give an inadequate icea of the total reflection of light from our satellite. Having access to the only telescope in the wold that can give to the larger as- teroids an appreciable disk, Prof. Barnard began the difficult aork. After careful -easurement he found the diameters to be 85 miles 304 miles . 118 miles 3 miles These measuies d'sproved the estimates that had been made by measurement of light,,as Vesta, being the bright had been “ecnsidered the largest. Ceres, the first discovered, is the largest of the four. The Italinn astronomer, Piazzi of Palermo, found Ceres January 1, 1801, Perhaps measurements of sume of the smaller asteroids can be made with the Yerkes tal ope when it is ready for work. This instrrment will have a clear diz meter of forty inches, and in light-col- lecting power will surpass the Lick tele- scope as 1,600 Is to 1 that is, as the sqvares of the diameters are to each other. ——— The Dolphin at Lewes. The dispatch boat Dolphin has arrived at Lewes, Del., on her wreck-destroying cruise along the Atlantic coast from New York to Key West, Fla. Her next stop will prob- ably be Fort Monroe. Unless present plans are changed the Dolphin, on completing her present mission of removing dangerous derelicts from the ccastwise route to Florida,will continue on to Central America for the purpose of making a survey of the east coast of Guatemala. Lieut. Bucking- ham, commanding the Dolphin, is consider- ed the most likely successor of Lieut. Reamey as naval aid to Secretary Herbert, and will create no surprise should he be detached from the Dolphin before she leaves | the waters of the United States. SNUFF DIPPING. The New Vice of Factory and Shop j Girls Causes a Great Demand. From the New York World. The popular belief has been that “snuff dipping” is confined almost entirely to the negroes and the “poor whites” down south, but this old-fashioned practice is indulged in to a remarkable extent in this section of the country. Within the past two or three years -it has been taken up by shop and factory girls, and there is hardly a man- ufacturing town in New York state or in the east where the dealers do not sell hun- dreds of pounds of dipping snuff weekly. The girls are using it now in pref2rence te gum, and those that do not already know the trick are being taught it by their companions. The old-fashioned snuff that pleasurably titillated the nostrils of our an- cestors is going more and more out of use each year, and today seven-tenths of the snuff manufactured in America is snuff for dipping. Approximately about 60,000,000 pounds come out of the mills each year. It is sold in little tin cans holding one ounce, or frequently a girl prefers to buy it in small paper packages, which she can carry around more easily. An ounce costs five cents. With some girls this quantity will hardly last more than a couple of days. The “dipping” process is a simple one. The old-fashioned method was to rub the gums with the powdered tobacco by means- of a stick of soft wood, whose end had been chewed into a sort of brush, but the fac- tory girl pours about half a teaspoonful on a card or a hit of paper, and, tipping this, shakes out the snuff into her mouth against her closed teeth. The amount of the consumption can be judged best from the fact that one whole- sale dealer in this city sends a barrel of dipping snuff weekly to a dealer in Troy. The collar and cuff girls of that city, it is said, have a lerge number of snuff dippers among them. Fall River, Mass., and Lynn are also strongholds of snuff dipping, and, in fact, this article finds customers in every city and town along the Atlantic seaboard. The negro and poor white trade of the south is a comparatively small factor now- adays. There are ten dipping snuff manu- facturers in the country, the majority of them in New Jersey, though Baltirnore has two or three and Philadelphia at least one. —— - see A New Musical Machine. From the Springfleld Republican, An automatic tubviar chime has been in- verted by Allan E. Olney. As the name in- dicates, the tubular chimes are made with the new tubular bells, and the people who heve heard the bells in clocks will appre- clate the beauty of the tones that can be secured in the new machine. The machine {s a combination of the bells and a striking arrangement consisting of a set of hammers and a cylinder fitted with pins that set the hammer at work. The pin cylinder can be run by a weight, a coil spring or by an electric motor. It can be controlled from any part of the building in which it is set up by means of a set of push-buttons. The machine is de- signed to be set in the top af large hall- ways, and this enables the full power of the tells to be secured. The number of bells will vary according to the number and scope of tunes that are to be played, and the machine will be built with from eight to seventeen bells and with either tventy or forty tunes, as Gesired. By an ingenious controlling device that Mr. Olney has attached to the machine, it will be possible to have the entire number o? tunes played in rotation, or one can be repeated, as desired, or selections can be made from the list. The tells are an inch and a half in diameter, and range from six feet to three and one-half feet in: length. They are to be suspended by catgut strings frcm a board, and the mechanism that works the hammer is to be neatly boxed in. The hammers are to be covered with soft leather, and there will be one, two or three hammers with each bell. A loud, soft or very soft tone can be se- cured by an adjustment of the machine. Mr. Olney will adjust the machine to giv the correct phrasing by an arrangement of the pins on the cylinder. The machine will be made with interchangeable parts. M: Olrey will go to Europe to get a machii to put the pins in the cylinders, and the new instrument ‘will be put on the mar- ket in a few months. ———- + e+ —___ Mr. Reed's Little Joke. From the Chicago Times-Herald. At the National Soldiers’ Home, near Mil- vaukee, there is an ardent admirer of Thomas B. Reed. He praises him unstint- edly. I asked him why he took such an interest In the Maine man. “We served in the navy, on the same boat—the Sybil—of the Mississippi squadron. I was secretary to Commander Mitchell, and Mr. Reed was paymaster. He drank not, nor did he chew, smoke nor swear, was good nature itself, and never allowed his work to get behind. He was a practical joker. While the cap- tain and most of the officers were away, a week after we had been paid, Reed directed the men to come to his quarters and receive a month’s pay. We were astonished; the government had not acquired the habit of paying in advance. But there was Reed’s written direction to come and get another mcnth’s pay. We gathered around the smooth-faced, happy-hearted young pay- mester, when he handed out to each of us as many dcllars as we were entitled to for thirty or thirty-one days of service, but they were corfederate dollars.” Sg ee What a Word Can Do. “One word,” remarked Congress:nan Mer- cer to a Star reporter this morning, “often makes one say what he did not say. In my interview Monday evening I was made to say that ‘I did not believe there should be any financial legislation,’ when I really said there would not be any financial legislation, in all probability.” ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syr'p of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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