Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 December 1891 — Page 4

F N a Christmas evo an emigrant train _ Sped on through the blackness of night. And cleft th(t pitchy dark in twin With the gleam oi Us tierce headlight In a crowded car, a noisome place. Sat a mother and her child; The women's face bore wants wan trace, Bnt tfcetHt tle one only smiled. And tugged and polled at her mother's dress. And her trtnoe had a merry ring. As she lisped: *Now, mamma, come ami guess What Santa Claus 'll bring.” But sadly the mother shook her head. As she thought of a happier past; "Be never can eateh us here,” she said, ‘Hie train is going too last.” “O, mamma, yes, he'll como, I say. So swilt are his tittle deer They runs all over the world to-day— I’ll hang my stocking up here." She pinned her stocking to the seat, And closed hor tired eyes. And soon she saw each longed-for sweet In dieamland'3 paradise. On a seat behind the little maid A rough man sat apart, . But a soft light o’er his features played. And stole into his heat. As the cars drew up at a busy town The rough man left the train. But scares had from the steps jumped down Ere he was back again. And a great big bundle of Christmas joys Bulged out from his pocket wide; He Oiled the stocking with sweets, and toys He laid by the dreamer's side. At dawn the little one woke with a shout, sweet to hear be. glee: ^”1 fcnowei that Sima would Snd me out, ge caught the train you see.” Thiugh some from smiling may scarce retrain. The child was surely right. The good Saint Nicholas caught the train, And came aboard that night. For the saint la fond of masquerade And may fool the old and wise And so he camejo the little maid In an emigrant's disguise. And he dresses in many ways because He wishes no one, to know him. For he never says “I am Santa Claus.” But his good deeds always show him. I —Homy C. Walsh, in Youth’s Companion.

Sonny a “wee there a day in which “Sonny’s maw,” as Pete Peeuliar

cajueu ucr, i»jr -•till,with crossed hand and closed eyes. That day Pete’s tools lay untouched on the leather-bottomed bench in the shocmaking shop, while the dead woman lay in the narrow • “living” room back of the 'Shop waiting to be cared for. Pete put Sonny's maw away In humblest fashion. Then he quietly led the child back into the shop, and shut the door on the neighbors inquiring eyes. - When Sonny piped out with a little quaver in his voice: “Sonny ahnts nuzzer dink. Sonny dooz.” and then looked around bewildered in the silence for his mother. Pete roused himself and said gently: “Yer maws wen away, Sonny. Daddy ’nil git it fer ye.” So “daddy” did all that was done for Sonny. In the hot summer days Pete smiled and pegged busily away at the boots and shoes. . Sonny as busily sat swinging his spall bare feet in the open doorway of the little shop, or ‘playing with scraps of red leather linings. Pete fashioned Sonny with some clumsy little aprons, and laced them up the back, like his shoes, with bits of leather strings. Among the neighbors there was a voluble widow. She it was who had been most voluble and officious in offers of assistance to Pete when “Sonney’s maw died.” • But Pete Peculiar had told her gently “that he'd ruther do for Sonny's maw himself.” v The widow did not understand, so she had remarked spitefully to a neighbor that “she’d thought Pete Pecoolyur ud’ up he’d more fixins an style to her bury in’ ennyhow.” She said furthermore that “she’d jest like ter see el he’d go on smilin’ when he hed ter ‘do’ ter Sonny.” So the widow hektiup her hands when she saw Sonny’s afwrons. To all of which Pete, pegging away into the nights to pay for “Sonny’s maw’s” coffin that was without “style” or “fixing” to it, said not a word but worked on, Well. Sonny grew and grew till he outgrew, among other things, sucking his thumb and the small, leatherlatched aprons. One night Pete sat up later than usual working at his bench. As. he stitched away, the something in his

PET* WAS STOOPING OVER BONNY. hands was shaped into a ball covered with pieces of bright red leather. Fete used to lift his patient bine ejes from his workwhenever he heard a trinmphant shout of: “Cookee, dad: lookee!” from Sonny and his baseball nine on the green in front of the shop. Sonny’s “nine” consisted of small Sonny and an imaginary eight. For Pete smiled at the rough children of his rougher neighbors, bnt Sonny played alone. When Sonny was six Pete laid down his tools one morning and called him from his play. 1 Then he shut the door of the shop behind them, and led wondering Sonny ' up the street Pate told the tea--her when they got < * tb* school house that; "g«Hur*t maw -

getnht The teacher looked down at Sonny and smiled. Sonny listened and wondered as 1 the teacher. At the end of some weeks at the school house Pete, who sat mending a child’s shoe one day, paused with uplifted hand as the small owner of the shoe told him that “Sonny kud larn thet air readin’ like chain lightnim’." Sonny did not play with the hits of red leather now. Night after night while “dad w$s peggin’,” Sonny sat near with the “readin’ hooks” that Pete regarded with such awe. So the days went on, pegging days for Pete as he worked and thought of Sonny’s chance in a groping way. Capering days for Sonny filled with happiness, a rod ball and the new “readin’ books.” When Sonny was eight years old he pranced into the shop one day in early spring where Pete sat at work. Pete looked up and smiled at Sonny and Sonny smiled hack at Pete. Then Sonny put his wonderful readin’ hoolc, away and picked up the red leather hall. A few minutes later he had marshaled his baseball nine on' the green “where dad kin see us,” he said. As Pete pegged away he heard the shouts and commands to the imaginary eight The game progressed to a fever heat of excitement Sonny, with upturned, eager blue eyes and flying feet, was speeding across the green to. catch the ball. Suddenly his foot struck a stone that was frozen Into the ground. He fell with a heavy thud. The sudden silence outside caused Pete to look up from his work. Then he hastily laid down the unfinished shoe. Soon he was stooping over Sonny, who lay with closed eyes and the red ball held fast in one small hand. At last Sonny slowly opened his eyes and looked into the face so near his own. Ho tried to smile a little as he said: “Suthin’ cracked in here, daddy. I heard' it crack jest here,” pointing to his hip. For answer Pete smoothed back Sonny’s hair gently and said: “Daddy’ll fix it for ye, Sonny. Daddy’ll fix it—if he kin.” Sonny smiled faintly again and closed his eyes. f » Pete carried the child into the house. Very carefully he laid him down on the bed in the “living” room. Then he hurried up the street to see about Sonny's chance.

M. viv 1» uinvu vu nil mm\j vutuw mm sign that was taking a swing in the spring breeze while it told the public that this was the office of one S. P. Gilbert, M. D. There was no one in the office, so ' Pete sat down patiently to wait. On the table lay an open telegram. It was dated Chicago, and read: To Dr. S. P. Gilbert: Como at once Maurice is dying. Elizabeth G. Poster. Dr. Gilbert, coming in from one of his patients, had picked up the telegram. When he had read it he said: “Poor sister! 1 must go to her.” So he had gone thaWaj^o Chicago. When Dr. Gilbert sjster’s home he found that there was no hope for the boy's life. The child died. The next day the doctajureturned to his patients. He found scrawled on his order slate: “Hum ter suny at Pete Peculiars.” The doctor inquired the way and went, Soon he was following Pete through the shop to the bed in the corner. Sonny smiled ud at them as he lay with white face and patient eyes. Sonny's smile was so like Pete’s. The doctor looked grave when he heard Pete’s story. After long weeks of patient uncomplaining little Sonny and pegging Pete, the doctor said the child could try to use his leg. Then Pete smiled more hopefully, lie began to sit up nights working away at something made of wood and leather. They were clumsy little crutches that Pete made for Sonny. But Pete had said gently as he smoothed Sonny’s hair: “Daddy’ll fix ’em fer ye,” and Sonny had smiled and waited. So to Sonny they were all that apair of crutches could be. It was on a Christmas eve that Pete put the last touches to them. So the next day there was a’merry time at Pete’s, for Sonny and Pete were fond of. “kelebratin” as they always called it at Christmas time. , The widow said: “That’s jest like them Pecoolyurs. Who ever heerd tell of “kilebratin” at Krissmus an’ havin’ fire-crackers too. Pecoolyur by name an’ natur I say. ” For two years the sound of Sonnv’s voice and Sonny’s erutchcs could be heard sometimes in the school, but more often at Pete’s. Pete had been busy lately making a pair of boots for Dr. Gilbert Pete had confided to Sonny “thet he wuz goin’ ter mak’ ’em mighty good an’ lastin’.” For the doctor would take ho “pay.” So when Pete had finished the boots and tied them together. Sonny slung them across his shoulders and went off slowly on his crutches to carry them as a surprise to the doctor. The doctor looked thoughfully into Sonney’s face and slily felt his pulse ns he shook his hand and told him to thank Pete, but tell him to spend no more time on boots for him as these looked as if the would last forever. To which Sonny smiled in a pleased way and replied: “Daddy said he’d mak’ ’em mighty lastin’.” The next day the doctor came into Pete’s and said the boots fitted him very well /indeed, and that he guessed he would take another look at Sonny’s leg. When Dr. Gilbert reached his office that night he sat down to think over his day’s work among his patients. Then he picked up a pen and directed sn envelope to Mrs. Elizabeth G. Porter, in care of the Maurice Porter Memorial hospital, Chicago, 111. The letter ran as follows: Dear Sister Elizabeth: It is with interest I read your letter telling me of your satisfactory work in the hospital. Yon could have erected no more lasting and useful monument to Maurice’s memory than this hospital for crippled childhood. « I have at present among my patients a little child who, like your Maurice, is An only son. dint his father is a poor shoemaker, and bonny, as the boy is called, is very near to his heart The little fellow met with an acciient about two years ago. There has resulted a complication of hip-joint disease with other troubles. . There will have to be an operation. His father cannot give him the skillful rare he ought to have. Can you take him into the hospital? so, writs me at once, four affectionate brother. a P. Gilbert, 1 favorable answer So Sonny went to the if the kind doctor. Pete stood on the platform the receding train.

ho pegged on alone waiting' to hear about Sonny ’s chance. There came a brave little scrawl from 8onny. Pete rubbed his glasses, drew the light nearer, and began to slowly spell out Sonny’s words. They were these: “i ’ud like ter see yer, daddy, ever so. my leg akes so nites an* in the morn ins’ an’ sum afternoons, but it don’t ake so eery, daddy, not so eery, the docktur he sez ez uh woulden leg don t no how ter ake, i wish i hed wun. Efyer ain’t peggin’kud ycr kum an* smooth my har an’ gimme uh drink, jest wun drink? I gess they don’t never kelebrate hear coz they all ake so, only my legdon’thurt so eery daddy. Pete could not see the last words He took off his glasses slowly. Then he sat very still for a long time thinking. At last tlie slow smile began to creep over Pete’s careworn face and he brought his hand down on his knee as he said aloud: “Yes, thet’U be the way. Then Sonny ’nil hev uh chance, sure.” While Pete was slowly spelling out Sonny’s words, Dr. Gilbert sat in his office reading the following letter: Chicago, 111.—Dear Brother! Your welcome letter came to me last week. I thunk you for your continued interest in my hospital work, and I am pleased that you have been able tp make it the meaqs of interesting your children in trying to brighten a little some lives less happy than their own. frum Sonny.' n

BADDY AND BONNY “KELEBRATE.” Your former patient, little Sonny, now sits up a part of the day, and gets about the ward in a wheel chair. He suffers constant pain, but is very patient and uncomplaining. We can all learn a lesson in patience and unselfishness from Sonny. The doctors expect to amputate his leg next week. If he rallies, as we hope he will, a sight of “tladdy,” as he calls him, would do our brave little patient much good. I leave you to tell his father of Sonny’sacondition. Yours, with love, Elizabeth G. Porter. A few days before Christmas two doctors stood talking in low tones beside Sonny’s bed at the hospital. The amputation had taken place some weeks before. The child was asleep now. When Sonny opened hisewistful blue eyes there stood his kind friend, Dr. Gilbert Very glad Sonny was to see him. The doctor said cheerfully: - “Well, Sonny, how are you to-day, and what are you going to do to have a good time on Christmas?” Sonny said longingly: “I ’ud like ter hev daddy an’ kelebrate, I ’ud like ter ever so” Long before light on Christmas morning a man with his arms full of bundles stood a* die. door of the hospital. Sonny had turned his hot pillow over and over again on Christmas eve and laid his tired little head downwith a homesick longing “ter see daddy an’ kelebrate.” When Sonpy opened his eyes as the light of Christmas day walked in through the window, there in a chair by the bedside was, well, what do you suppose? It was a brand new little wooden leg that “kud never lam how ter ake,” as Sonny joyfully said. That was not all. Between the toes of the wooden foot someone hadput some firecrackers. Sonny laughe<trubbed his eyes, and said: “Oh! Oh! If only daddy kud see! Just then there was a noise at the foot of the bed. Up popped another Christmas present It was daddy. You may be sure daddy and Sonny “kelebrated” to their hearts’ content The nurse wrapped Sonny in blankets and put him in a wheel chair. Sonny, with shining eyes, his wooden leg clasped tightly in his thin little arms, and a lap full of firecrackers was wheeled to a sunny window by daddy’s own hands. Daddy fastened the firecrackers to the end of a long stick so that Sonny could shoot them off himself. After awhile Dr. Gilbert came with his sister on his arm, to watch the “kelabratin.” As Pete smiled and gently smoothed back Sonny’s hair, he whispered to the doctor that “mebbe Sonny kud git his chance now.” And Pete pointed to the wooden leg that Sonny still held fast in his arms. Jenny Faibman Smith. WHAT IS THE MATTER t When I was a little one, full of delight, I voted ol’ Sent; Claus jest About right. An’ ust to lay thlnkin' how good he must be To fill up the stockln’a for youngsters like me. And likewise tor them In the by-ways of earth Whose days hev a scarceness of comfort an* mirth: He’d hunt up their chimneys an' down he would go— I read in the story-books how it was so. But sene© I am older—how old I won’t say— Ol’ Senty, I find that you've got a new way Of lovishln’ most of your goods on the great, I’ergittln’ the children of lowly estate; A way w’ich is quite unbecomin’ a saint (You needn’t git mad an* declare that yd ain’t!) It grieves me to know it, an’ yet it is true— Oh, Senty Claus! What is the matter of you! If any one ought 'o be careless of rank. Of housen an’ land an’ of stoek In the bank: If anyone shouldn’t be careless an* cold To them that is fast In hard poverty’s hold; If any one ought ’o be perfectly sure Whoever’s forgot that it shan’t be the poor; It’s you. that’s appointed to bring us goodAt Chris’muK, w’teh cones only onset in the year! Ytt, somehow, your duty you don’t seem to do— Oh, Senty Claus! What is the matter of you? —Mrs. George Archibald, in Judge. —Santa Clans (to new deputy)—“Say, see here! What sort of a break was that you made in Chicago? I hear that only one girl in the whole oity found anything in her stocking.” New Deputy—“The deuce! Why, the first house I came to I concluded all the girls had clubbed together, so I dumped the whole Chicago consignment into that stocking.”-Chss. F. Lnmmis. ■ ..* - r-1 —Reasonable Doubt—Blenkinsop“Don’t fiet, my boy, Santa Claus won’t forget you.” Tommy Blenkinsop— “That’s all right dad; I ain’t afraid he’ll forget the tin whistle I asked for, but I can’t help being a trifle nervons about his recollecting the bicycle and watch and chain.Christmas Puck. in —The earliest mention of holly connection with Christmas embellishment is a carol in its praise -written prea«ro* mP>

in Buffalo to < and the their interests. The outcome o( this meeting was the formation of the National: Starch company, popularly known as the “starch trust.” The or* ganization of this “trust” was completed at the end of March at Coring* ton, Ky., and the capital was filed at 910,000.0001 Hiram Buryea,of the Glen Core Starch Co., was elected president and Frank Schuler, of the A. Erkenbucker Starch Co. of Cincinnati, secretary. Eighteen of the largest concerns in the country came under the absolute of control of the “trust.” Some of , these were sold outright, for cash, hut the greater part were sold to the trust for 25 per cent, in cash and 75 per cent in debenture bonds. The only large factory not in the “trust” is that of the Kingsford Starch Co, whose product is a splendid class of goods, not* competing with that of the trust Two defunct concerns, the American Starch Co, of Columbus, Ind, and the Ottawa Starch Co., of Ottawa, UL, threatened to resume production in competition with the trust but were appeased, the former by being taken into the trust on a long lease, and the latter by being guaranteed a sufficient inenmo to keep out of the business. The trust thus organised proceeded at once to business by advancing prices. Before its formation starch was selling at (50 per ton. The trust raised the price at once to $55 and afterwards to $60, to $70,»nd on August 2 to $80 per ton, or an increase of 00 per cent above the price prevailing earlier in the year. In order to make its hold on the market absolutely secure. President Dnryea had a protracted consultation with Mr. Thurbcr and other members of the Wholesale Grocers’ National organization, the outcome of which was an agreement on the part of the trust to sell at wholesale only, and on the part of the wholesale grocers and Jobbers to buy only of the “trust” and to maintain the trust prices. The trust also agreed to grant the jobbers a rebate of 12 per cent, and-freight to be paid and distributed through the grocers’ association. Having thus secured absolute control over the production and sale of starch in the United States, the trust preceded to formulate its “tariff job.” The duties on starch under the tariff of 1SS3 were practically prohibitive. Dextrine and sago flour, which are used for the same purpose as stareb,the former manufactured by roasting starch, and the latter an East India product made from the pith of several varieties of palms, were still imported in considerable quantities, as the following figures of imports for 1890 show:

D- xtrSno.!M'0,‘*6 fat) <,nx) Sago flower.6,-v 8,m 127,7^8 Both sago floor and dextrine are largely used as sizing in wall paper and textile manufacture. It was the aim of the trust to have the duties on starch retained as they were, and those on dextrine and sago flour so increased as to shut out their importation. In this way its monopoly of the home market would be complete. To carry out its purpose the trust did uot appear at the public hearings of the ways and means committee, but secured a private Rearing and the adoption by McKinley of its schedule of duties.1 In the tariff of 1833 starch and its kindred products were xnade dutiable as follows: , » T “Sago, sago crush and sago flour, free; potato or corn starch, 2 cents per pound; rice starch, 8K cents per ponnd; other starch, %)4 cents per pound; dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute, or British gum, 1 cent per pound. ” The schedules as recommended by the starch trust and carried through by McKinley were as follows: “Sago, crude, and sago flour, free.” “Starch, including all prepartions from whatever substance produced, fit for use as starch, 3 cents per pound.” “Dextrine, burned starch, gum substitute, or British gum, IK cents per pounds” Apparently the only change made was that increasing the duty on dextrine 53 per cent. The white and wall paper manufacturers opposed this increase, and at the same time they thought that as long as sago flour was on the free list the starch trust could not force them to pay exhorbitant prices for its dextrine. They were mistaken, however, for when the price of de itrine went up and they imported sago flour to take its place the treasury department decided that sago flour was subject to a duty of 3 cents per pound as “preparation fit for use as starch.” The job concocted by the starch trust and carried through by McKinley was thus exposed, but too late. The effect of this job on the prices of dextrine and sago flour used by the wall paper and cotton manufacturers is shown below by the following comparison of prices. Aug. 1800. Hot. 1801. cents per tlx cents per lb. Dextrine 4%*4« 6.61* Saxo Flour 3.* IMS 4i4t4 This increase in the price of dextrine and sago flour bears heavily upon the cotton cloth manufacturers since it increase the cost of the goods which they are exporting to China and other Asiatic countries in competition with Prance and England. No wonder that McKinley wants people to leave his tariff alone. Why should he fear careful analysis and discussion if all his work has been open and above board? ANOTHER TRUST. A New Window Glut Tract Projected— Waxes to Bo Reduced. The manufacturers of window glass are agai i perfecting plans for a trust It will be recalled that they were completing a combination a year ago last spring, while Mr. McKinley was making his tariff bill, and thst the managers of that combination were in session at Chicago when Mr. McKinley, at their suggestion, caused to be inserted in the bill the curious proviso designed to prevent the importation of window glass jn boxes containing more than fifty square feet. That combination was dissolved owing to the hostile attitude of two or three manufacturers upon whose adhesion the makers of the organization had relied. Some of our high tariff contemporaries asserted that it was scared out of existence by the anti-trust law. Concerning the new movement the Iron Age says: “The idea is to operate all the plants in the combination through one management; to control prices, wages and product, and to secure economy in the purchase of materials and the sale of goods.” The manufacturers tried to reduce wages three months ago, but the workmen were too powerful for them. The Print, (Ml and Drug Review reports that three secret meetings of the manufacturers have recently heeh held id predicts that plants for the oomnation will be completed within a w days. The third meeting was held Cincinnati on the 10th test, and we -esume that Senator Sherman would adly have improved the opportunity - rebuke these trust makers if he had >t been so busily engaged in mending • senator!*! feno*a,-ff Y. T*«e«

A Pnt TUnt U Frequently Mistake* tor the Amy Worn. l)p. C. V. Riley, in his last year’s report of the division of entomology. U. 8. department of agriculture, calls attention to the bronzy cutworm, which he says is frequently mistaken for the army worm. He fonnd it in April, 1871. feeding in numbers upon clover in Missouri, and later in the same season upon bluegruss in other parts of that state. The same year it was found at Ithaca, N. 7., and since that time has been noted in different ^Tlm moths make their appearance during the months of August and September. the females laying eggs so that the resultant larvae will have time to feed and pass through two or more molts before winter. The eggs have not yet been specifically observed, and we know nothing yet of the exact mode and place of oviposition. The ■partly grown worms hibernate under sticks, stones and other irubbish, and upon the opening of spring: come forth and feed upon grass and other low growing plants until they reach full maturity. The time when they enter the ground to pupate varies from the first of June to the end of the same month, and they remain in the ground some time before transforming and issue as moths, as just stated, from the first of August on. Though they feed in the hot sun at midday, this is chiefly the case with diseased worms, as normally they are essentially nocturnal. In the more southern states the species may hibernate as a moth, as it is frequently captured in the winter. The very young larvre are bright green, with bare indications of the stripes which characterise the large ones. The fullgrown larva is one of the largest ot its family, and is distinguished from alf* others by the pale amber-colored head and the bronzy hue of the body, the

bronzy cutworm. —a, b. caterpillar; c, moth. pale dorsal and subdorsal stripes always showing distinctly on the dark highly-polished neck and tail plates. The bronzy cutworm is. quite subject to attacks of natural (such as birds) and parasitic enemies Much more effective than these, however, is a bacterial disease. This is a micrococcus which Prof. Forbes has for some time been studying, but which is not yet named. We have been familiar with it for many years, but we believe that public attention war first called to it by Prof. Osborn, in June, 1881. He then stated that the diseased worms would be found clinging to the stems as h>gh up as they could reach, their bodies swollen to an unnatural size, and in the later stages exceedingly soft and ready to fall to pieces. This disease has been noticed by us almost every year since, but was particularly prevalent in the summer of 1887, when, on a trip through Indiana and Ohio and to the east, it was every where noticed. It was an extremely di fficult, not to say impossible thing in fact, to find a healthy worm. The hidiing-by-day instinct seems entirely absent with the sick worms, which crawl laboriously tfp the stalks of grass and there station themselves, as described by Prof. Osborn, to die and eventually to shrivel up into unrecognizable objects. The bronzy cutworm is also attacked by a fungus disease which destroys large numbers.—Orange Judd Farmer. HOMEMADE BROODER. It la Simple, Cheap and Has Been Caeo with Success. The brooder herewith described and illustrated has been used by R. Rieck, New Jersey, with decided success. It is simple and . cheap The tank A in Fig. 1 consists of a three-inch iron pipe eight feet or more long screwed up with a cap on each end. Through one end is bored a hole, through which a one-inch pipe B runs up nearly to the other end of a tank. On this pipe B outside is screwed a T, standing Upright. On top of this T is a small cock £ and below the T is a one-fourth-inch pipe with valve and union. A hole bored on the underside of the tank very near the cap has a one-fourth or three-eighths-inch pipe screwed in for the

ne. 1.—section or bboodkb boileh. backflow F; this also has a valve an^ union. Another hole bored on top oi the tank lor a piece of one-inch pipe C for pouring in the water; when filling the tank the cock E ough t to he openec so as to let out the air. A small piee« of one-fourth-inch pipe D connected by a rubber hose reaches a pan oaths floor for the overflow. The oil stove 01 lamp G is for heating. This heatei works very steadily, is cheap and wili last a long while. Having built the boiler, the box is made around it Each partition of the brooder is two feet long and seven or eight inches wide. li| the beck is a glass door sixteen inches rw

Pie. a. SECTION OP THE BROODER, long for convenience in cleaning out and looking in. The front portion 1, as shown in Fig.,8, consists of three pieces of glass arrangeci to slide or to he taken out at will. The front box, or first run, t, is covered with glass. It contains a pane to lift up for putting in the feed. After the chickens grow bigger partitions 1 and 8 are removed and the little ones allowed to run down on board 8. A fence two feet high’of oneinch wire mesh separates each flock. It is not advised to put more than thirty chicks together, else they will crowd and kill each other.—American Agriculturist _ Beware of trash. It is easier to accumulate a great mass of worthless stuff than It is to keep the tool house and other outbuilding tidy. Very often the opportunity arises for the purchase atpublie sales of such material, and the farmer buys because the article sells for little and may be of use sometime. Money paid for $ucb articles is generally money lost

transactions and financially aWo^to^cairy WestTSt Trots, Wholesale Druggists,Toledo, O.. W aiding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Core la taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces oft* system. Price 15o.. per hotUe. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. As soon as this new odorless whisky comes Into general use the breath of suspicion will have to go oat of business.—St Joseph News. Fob tux relief and oure of the inflammation and congestion called “a cold intho head" there is more potency in Ely’s Cream Balm than in anything else it is possible to prescribe. This preparation widen is sold by your druggist has for years past been making a brilliant success as a remedy for ooid in the bead, catarrh and hay fever. Used in the initial stages of these complaints Cream Balm prevents any serious development of the symptoms, white almost numberless cases are on record <HL radical cures of chronic catarrh and hay fever after all other modes of treatment have proved of no avail. Jagson says it pussies him to think that a standing advertisement must run ail the time.—Elmira Gazette. The Only One Ever Printed—Con Ton Find the Wofd f There is a 3 inch display advertisement In this paper, this week, which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of each new one appearing each week from the Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” on everything they moke and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word and they will return yon book, beautiful lithographs or samples free. ‘You’bb a dead loss to yourself’ is the latest sarcastic way of telling a man he is no good.—Philadelphia Record.

By the diseases that afflict them, if renal disease isnot speedily cheeked. The finest diuretic it Hostettec’s Stomach Bitters, -which, without exciting, gives a healthful impulse to the aotion of those organs, and prevents their degeneration. The stomach and the liver are greatly benefited by the Bitters, which, moreover, prevents and remedies malarial complaints of all kinds. Talking of the thieves of the present day, the greatest pirate of old was a mere Kidd to them.—Philadelphia Times. Low Holiday Rates Via the Louisville and St, Louis Air Line, one and one-third fare for the round trip, between all points. Tickets on sale December 24th, 25th and 81st, 1891, and January 1st, 1892; good returning until January 4th. Only road running solid vestibuled trains between St. Louis and Louisville. Cannons are popularly supposed to bark, but that is no basis for believing that horse pistols neigh.—St Joseph News. • Gratifying to All. The high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Pigs, as the most excellent laxative known, illustrate the value of the qualities on whioh its success is based and are abundantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company. “The light that failed” is the title of the only match a man had that went out before he could light the gas.—Lowell Courier. It seems strange that anyone will continue to suffer from the many ills arising from a state of blood impurity when Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilla will restore perfect health and strength. It is a wonderful reviver. It makes the old feel young, and the young fedl buoyant An upstart Is a man who has been more successful than the man who tells you about him.—Elmira Gazette Hollow eyed little children, worms are making them miserable Mothers gVt them a box of Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyore Children like them. A maiden’s dressmaker is the only one jvbo finds a miss fit suits her customer;— Baltimore American. Puns Beer is the healthiest drink known. “The A- B. C. Bohemian Bottled Beer” of St Louis is the best That promising young man is still in great demand among his creditors.—Baltimore American. Thboat Diseases oommence with a Cough, Cold, or Sore Threat “Brown's Bronchial Troche*" give immediate relief. Sold only inboxes. Price25cte._ The author of “Beautiful Snow” was a livery stable keeper.—Buffalo Express. Iv you are constipated, billons or troubled with sick headache, Beecham’3 Pills afford immediate relief. Of druggists 23 cents. Bread is the staff of life, and pie is the stumbling block.—Yonkers Statesman. Explosions of Coughing are stopped by Hale’s Honey of Horen ound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cats in one minute. THE MARKETS. New Yore, December £1, CATTLE—Native Steers.t 3 80 • COTTON—Middling.. TV* FLOOR—Winter Wheat.. 3 65 a WHEAT—No.3 Red. . 1 CM*® CORN—No. 2.». OATS—Western Mixed. PORK—New Mess. ST. LOUIS. COTTONBEE VES-B Ett 39*9® 6^80 450 330 3 85 446 390 HOGS—Good_ SHEEP—Fair to Choice FLOUR-Patonts.. Fancy to Extra Do.. WHEAT-No. 2 Red Winter.. CORN—No. 2 Mixed.... OATS—No. A... * RYE—No. 2.. 84 a TOBACCO-Lugs.. 1 » a Leaf Burley. .— 4 ISO a HAY-CfearTimothy. ... . 1000 a BUTTER-Choice Dairy.. SO a EGGS-Fresh. » PORK—Standard Mess... a BACON—Clear Rib. IP» » LARD—PriineSteam.. ® WOOL—Choice Tnb. 31 ® CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping... 8 60 a HOGS-Good to Choice... 3 60 a SHEER—Pair to Choice.'.. 3 35 a FLOUR-Winter Patents.. 4 80 a ; Spring Patents.. 4 60 a WHEAT-No. 2 Spring..a CORN—No. 2. « ® OATS—No. 2. _SP4« PORK—Standard Mess.-.. 196 a KANSAS CITY. 1 CATTLE—Shipping Steers. ... 300 a HOGS—All Grade?.. 3 20 a WHEAT-No. 2 Red. OATS—No. 2.. CORN-No 2. NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade . 4 25 • CORN-NoTI . . S3 a OATS-Western.. ® HAY—Choice .,. IT 00 • PORK-NewMess. ® BACON—Clear Rib..... » COTTON—Middling.. * CINCINNATI WHEAT—No. 8 Bed... 94 • CORN—No. Z Mixed.- • OATS—No. 8 Mixed..... » • PORK—Mesa. 909 ® 1801. 640 8 516 1 0838 61»a 48 10 60 T38 630 6 75 4 06 4 75 456 436 aott 311s 86 610 TOO 13 00 at 23 900 6% S’* Mis 600 4 la's 6 00 486 490 911* 48is 38V) 8.00 A 00 400 78*3 Si's 38% 490 64 41 IT 80 0 18% T% T 36% m

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Common Soap Rots Clothes and Chaps Hands, IVORY SOAP DOES NOT. “German Syrup *5» '* We are six in famA Farmer at ily. We live in a ^ place where we are Edom, Texas, to violent Says: > Colds and Luug ‘Troubles. I have used German Syrup for six years successfully for Sore Throat, Cough, Cold, Hoarseness, Pains in the Chest and luungs, and spitting-up of Blood. I have tried many different kinds of cough Syrups in my time, but let me say to anyone wanting such a medicine—German Syrup is the best. That has been my experience. If you use it once, you will go back to it whenever yoa need it. It gives total relief and is a quick cure. My advice to everyone suffering with Lung Troublesis —Try it. You will soon be convinced. In all the families where your German Syrup is used we have no trouble with the Lungs at all. It is the medicine for this country. # G. G. GREEN, Sok Man’ fr.W oodbt>ry,M J« John Franklin Jones. INDIAN DEPREDATION PENSION PATENTS LAND HOMESTEAD POSTAL C LAIM S The “ EXAMINER” Bureau of Claim* CIVU THE BISECTION O* Sen Francisco Examiner. If you hare aelnim of tr.f OttcriptMa <rb»t>o«T»» _~tlM United State* QOT.rnmact. and with it speedily sdjudlc&ted, »<!«,; ss JOHN WEDBERBTFRN, Manager, OS y Street. H. W. WmMh»Os.».«. Many a life has been lost because of the taste of codliver oil. • If Scott’s Emulsion did nothing more than take that taste away* it would save the lives of some at least of those that put off too long the means of recovery . It does more. It fs halfdigested already slips through the stomach as if by stealth. It goes to make strength when cod-liver oil would be a burden. Scott* a*w**t Ckwwsa, jA Atmhk, tom draft«* Sw*A Eo»!a» ot cnddmr oil-all draff•*» *'«?w**« de #>- ^

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