-Senator Davis’ remarks were devoted exclusively to national issues. He said that we were drifting rapidly toward imperialism and yet more toward centralization. He pointed out the immense increase in the expenditures of the government under republican rule, from $2.10 per capita under Buchanan to $7.10 under Roosevelt. He said that he was not a low tariff man, pointed out that under democratic rule, the expenses of the government were borne almost exclusively by custom duties. He believed that the government ought now to be supported largely from those duties. Speaking of prosperity, he said that the material growth of the country in every respect was greater during the decade between 1850 and 1860, under democratic rule, than at any subsequent decade under republican rule. He pointed out the manner in which the high protective tariff affected the home consumer. He declared that he had recently had occasion to purchase steel rails and that the best price at which they could be obtained was twenty-eight dollars per ton. At the same time, J. J. Hill told him, he had purchased rails for his Canadian roads from the same mills at nineteen dollars a ton. Sewing machines, too, furnished an example, the machines being shipped abroad and sold at a much lower price than they can be bought in the American market.

-One of the unusual coincidents connected with the all star political combination, Messrs. Davis, Hill, Whyte, Daniel, McGraw and Dailey, who visited this city last Saturday night is the fact that the six prominent democratic orators are paired off with regard as to their age. Vice Presidential Candidate Henry G. Davis, as all know, is eighty-one years old. Ex-Governor Pinkney Whyte, who is a member of the party, is one year his junior, being eighty years old. David B. Hill is sixty-seven years old, while Senator J. W. Daniel is sixty-six years old. Wood Daily of Elkins is forty-seven years old, and John T. McGraw is one year his junior. The fact that the speakers paired off in such manner was commented on by the various members of the party when they were assembled yesterday afternoon in the Florentine hotel and they all revealed their ages.

-Th have pretty, white, pearly teeth and keep them from decaying, you should clean them throughly each day. It can be done with little trouble. All that is needed is a good toothbrush and an antiseptic powder or paste. At our store you can get them both. We sell the best 25 cent toothbrush that can be bought, and if it does not give satisfaction we gladly give you another. Euthymol or Pasteurine Tooth Paste will do all that any preparation can do as an antiseptic to whiten, clean and preserve the teeth. Price 25 cents. Florentine Drug Store.