MR. SMOKER-TEST THESE Havana Cigars AT MY RISK. If I could go into your office or home and personally hand you a dozen 15-cent cigars, just asking you to try themsmoke the dozen-and leave the balance of the box with you with the privilege of purchase at 5 cents apiece if you found them perfectly satisfactory, wouldn't you accept my offer and wouldn't you be glad to purchase your cigars of me on the same terms15-cent goods for 5 cents? This is exactly what I am doing, except the expressman acts as my agent and delivers the goods to you for trial. For over 15 years I have been supplying judges, lawyers, bankers, leading business houses and prominent men in every business and profession with strictly pure Havana cigars direct from the factory at just about the usual cost of cheap domestic goods. able comment throughout the State. He brought | about the compromise in the case of Woodward, besides personally appearing in the civil suits against Tweed and Sweeny. "None who lived in this city at the time and took an interest in public affairs can have forgotten the memorable evening of October 23, 1893, when Cooper Union was filled with an audience the equal of which sociation had called the meeting to protest against has seldom been seen within its doors. The Bar As Maynard, and Mr. Peckham was the principal speaker. Always an orator of remarkable power, he rose on that occasion to the highest point of eloquence. "The enthusiasm of the audience was boundless when he cried out: "If Maynard is elected, it will mean that elections are not hereafter to be decided by popular vote, ascertained in the manner provided by law, but by the thereafter by the man who commands the greatest physical force.' skill of the knave and the fraud of the cheat, and next "In his last years he spoke to his intimate friends as if he regarded the situation in this community as almost hopeless. This view had perhaps something to do with his change of residence, which disqualified him as a voter in this city and State. However, he took an interest in the fusion campaigns of 1901 and 1903. What he thought of the situation this year could not be learned last night, as he has kept much to himself during the last few months. "While never placed before the public in any conspicuous part, his practise being exclusively civil, Mr. Peckham had the reputation of being one of the most learned members of the bar. For years he was associated in a bond of closest friendship with such men as John E. Parsons, Everett P. Wheeler and George McCulloch Miller. His clients were mostly found among the large railroad corporations." To-day the capacity of my The Story that Ended the War.-The im portant part played by President Roosevelt in the High-Grade Investment BONDS Paying 4% to 5.35%* Write for Circular No. 176. different grades, all shapes Post does not tell on what authority the story is pub Spencer Trask & Co. every degree of EL RIVERO and of strength. A particularly satisfactory cigar is my ACTUAL SIZE lished, but we give it here for what it is worth: "Baron Komura having outlined the terms which Japan was prepared to demand, the President strongly advised him to omit the article calling on Russia to Londres = EL RIVERO Perfectos defray the cost of the war. The pros and cons were Size, full 45% inches long. This cigar is of the quality usually sold for 15 cents straight. The filler is pure Havana, Vuelta wrapper. I use no flavored, drugged or doctored tobacco-just a perfect blend of pure long leaf. You don't have to take my word for it. a box of a hundred Try Them at My Risk. I will upon request send you Londres or Perfectos, upon approval, light, medium or dark. You may smoke 12 of them and return the remain ing 88 at my expense if you are not pleased with them. If they suit you and you wish to keep them, you agree to remit the price, $5.35, within ten days. I know that if you try these cigars you will smoke no other brand. Anyway, you run no risk. Better write now while you think of it, and I will also enclose my free book, "ABOUT CIGARS." R. P. CUMMINS, Dept. 10, Washington, N. J. discussed for some time and finally Baron Komura said that Russia must reimburse Japan in some manner, and if she did not Japan could and would annihilate Linevitch's army. the President. But what will it cost Japan to do so? "I regard that as possible, even probable,' replied The situation reminds me of an incident which oc curred during my early experience in the West. 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