Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 December 1891 — Page 4

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The youth an! the used seer. “ My son,” said the oid man's trembling voice, “Step out of my path, I pray, The gate swings quickly, and I must pass Ere it be too late. My task, alas, Was begun but yesterday. “ I was yonng when 1 entered the gate, And hope in my breast ran high. There was much to do; but time seemed long, My heart beat glad with its New Tear's song, And the swift days hurried by. I was young, nor heeded how quickly tima On its golden pinions Oew, Fob earth was sweet with its flowers In bloom— I wept with May and I laughed with June, Nor thought of the 'much to do.’ ** I languished under the summer skies; In autumn my task begun. Too late to finish! Too late! Too late! ^i’oT see I have raaohed the year's white gate, f And the work of my hands undone. “I have lived my youth. My knowledge gained as the summer days went by Is of priceless worth to the sons of earth; I have many a plan for the good of man.” “And so,” said the youth, “have 1" “ But one may enter the year’s white gate. My son there Is muet to do I Knowledge is powerful to combat sin." The bells rang out, the white gate swung in. And the agi:e youth passed through. —Kose Hartwiok Thorpe, in Detroit Free Press.

\ [THE guests had P all said goodby. The last carriage had \V'' rolled from the door, and quiet was settling down over Mayfair. Aunt Agg, Maggie Mackintosh and 1 were left in the great drawing-room together, where my aunt’s old butler was putting out the ma iy was candles in the big glass chandeliers—for Mrs. Upcher was a saving old lady in spite of her wealth. “Stay a few minutes and h ave a chat with me, Harry,” commanded my atant —she could not help her least request sounding imperative; “and Maggie, my dear, you can go to your baA. Good night.” Maggie submissivelj4fc>eyed, though I fancied she gave me her hand in parting with a wistful look, as if sue would gladly have s.taycd, too. I had hardly found s'"minute, somehow, to speak to hee-during the evening, beirfg called upon to do the honors to my aunt'%v«p»«gs, as her recognized heir; f'sfiU, Maggie and 1 had . been good | friends from childhood. She was an orphan whom my aunt had taken into her house years ago out of^harity, said friends; as a soUSTre-douleurs, said en emics. Poor Maggie! What a kindly creature she was. X have never seen her plain, honest face and reddish hair since that evening, years ago, though I hope to shake hands once morn with her some day, just to show there is no ill-will between us. “Now, how did the party go off, do you think?” went on Aunt Agg. sinking into a capacious armchair, and motioning me to be seated also. “It was given in your honor, Harry, because 1 am so pleased that you have passed your staff examinations in such a distinguished manner. I am proud of you, mjgdear boy.” (And my aunt nodded her head, with its wonderful cap of lace and feathers, as much as to say that for Mrs. Upcher to be satisfied with anyone was such an honor as the recipient might exult over in his heart with never-ending “You are very kind to say so, Aunt Agg,” 1 cheerily replied. “I think the party went off famously, and nobody looked half so splendid as yourself, in that gorgeous gown and those magnificent diamonds. Come! you really must wear them more often, if only to please me. I love seeing such beautiful stones, and I was noticing the fire and changing lights of yours all the evening.” My aunt bridled, and touched the reviere of lustrous stones she wore round her neck as she somewhat solemnly said; “They shall be yours, Harry, to be worn by your future wife There! I have said so, and I never take back my word. And, as we are upon the subject of marriage, I want to speak to. you about it seriously.” “In for it now,” was my rueful reflection, struggling to pluck up courage, while conscious that nay heart was sinking to my shoes And yet, if you please, I was a captain in the Queen’s Own Hussars, and I had earned more than one medal, besides a certain small iron cross in African battlefields. “It is time for yon to think of getting married,” intimated my aunt, settling joy.)

“LUTES *0 ME, HENRI' UPOaKBP’ $ down with an absolutely unnecessary thump in her chair and shutting' her teeth together with a snap “Don’t yon agree?-*. I hummed, pulled my mustache thoughtfully, and then observed with auspicious Willingness: “Yes, I agree.” “Yon hats thought about it?” demanded one family tyrant _ “I have thought about it,” was my brief, decided reply, given gravely. My 'it to have warned her that not generally confess to

penny I possess to yon! Yon knew this vaguely before, I fancy. Now you have the matter hi a nutshell. ” Perhaps so. But oh! how to crack that nut satisfactorily? Whereupon I said desperately: “There is some one else who has captured not only my fancy, bnt my whole heart—all the best of me. If only you once saw her, my dear aunt, I know you oonld not help loving her, too It would be impossible, 1 verily believe, not to admire her and grow fond of her. If you will just let me bring her—if you will just see her—” “Never!” Mrs. Upcher banged the table between us hard with her flat hand; her withered face flushed a little, her bead-like old eyes glittered. “How dare you talk to me of gratitude? A fine way you have of showing your affection, indeed! Have I not paid for your schooling at Eton, and given you an allowance in your crack cavalry regiment and made you the promise of being my heir? What right have you to cross my wishes?” “The right of every individual man or woman," came from m e in as stifled a tone, for we were not of the same stock for nothing, and my temper had risen to no less a height than that of my opponent. “You did not buy me body and soul, even with all these benefits. Did I not win prizes at school, and pass third with some honor at my examination for the army? Have I not distinguished myself sin ce in active service, and even done so again lately, as you said yourself 'not ten minutes ago?” “Well, sir?” “Well, Aunt Agg, I may be poor, but I can claim to be no beggar. The money you spent on me I have used well. Please recognize that I have won a fair place for myself In life; even in the army I could, and would, support myself on my pay and by the abilities it has pleased Heaven to give me, were it a necessity. ” “Yes! You have made use of my money,” the old lady screamed, interH *»y own ears. "Marry Maggie?” Yes. Why not, pi*y?” And Aunt Upeher's face took a slight flush o| rising anger. “I pm fond of Maggie, though you may not know it, and I wish 1o provide for her as a e At the same tiqm yon are the one of my two nephews who is not a fool. You are an ornament to my family, wad, as I never hold with leaving money away from one’s relations or splitting fortunes, it is my intention to leave every spersing her words with sudden pauses and snorts of wrath. “You own it! It has got you Ob; has placed you where you are. And now you dare turn against me, and bite me in the heel like a serpent. You would crow over me—would

“1 am neither crowing nor biting. Only—” “I say yon are! Now, listen to me. Henry Upcher” (and my aont smartly smacked Usr old.and bony lore-finger on the table). “I tell yon I like Margaret Mackintosh'^^ffle has been a sort of daughter to me, and 1 am growing old aiy1 lonely. I’m not goingto leave her ont in the- ogld (smack), so either yon give np th^Q^lisbness of yours, or I give yon up. There!” A final smack, which made me long to shout: “Cut me off with a shilling, if you like, but stop doing that.” Silently rising. I said, gravely: “There is no choice possible for me; 1 cannot in honor give up my promised wife to please you, and I would a thousand times refuse if I even could. Mar-, garet is a good girl, and I will bear her no grudge 11 yon jaake her your heiress.” * “You are a fool—a fool, Harry,” shrieked my aunt “I won’t! I’ll leave it all to Dicky Colson, your cousin. He’ll jump at Maggie, though she, poor goose, would have given her eyes for you.” “Good-by, Aunt Agg,” I interrupted, firmly and gravely, “God bless you,” and I marched straight out of the room retreating with all the honors of war. Even as I closed the door a scornful grunt or two arifcoyed my ears, with the bitter taunt: “Ho! So we are on our high horse; but just Wait six months, my fine young man, and see if yon don’t come to your senses.” Six mouths later I was married and on my way out to India, having got an appointment on the staff of a friendly general whose galloper I had been in our last campaign. And here ends fyette the first, as the old poets used to say. King up the curtain now, on an Indian New Year's dinner six years later. I and my family-r think of that—are gathered round the table. It is a small, round table, chosen to-night, for coziness, so that my wife and I are near each other, and our five-year-old heir sits between us, with his golden head not very high above the tablecloth. Opposite him sits Thorold, a true and tried friend to its both and comrade of mine. Maude is more lovely than ever in my eyes. Just as winning and laughing, but a glorious woman instead of a mere charming girl. She looks especially beautiful to-night in a new ball gown, a triumph of exquisitely fitting satin about the bodice, and of bewildering flufliness as to the skirt, while her bare, snowy neck and bosom rise out of some soft veiling accessories that an angel might not disdain to take pattern by as trimming to a spirit robe, “Ah! > It is a pity you have not got Aunt Agg’s diamond necklace to wear to-night. You would make all the other women faint with envy then,” I remarked, affecting a critical air, but inwardly full of pride a« I surveyed, my wife’s appearance. We were going to a dance at Government house afterward; it was to be the thing of the “If I had, 1 should be the happiest woman in India,” laughed Maude back. “As it is, perhaps, I am second happiest But it is too bad they shonid have disappeared so mysteriously; or rather that no living being seems to know what your aunt did with them—and she is dead” “What is the story? Tell us all about it” putin Thorold “Was that the old lady who cut you off with, I suppose, the frobverbial shilling for marrying mine ostess here, like a wise and lucky man?” My dear fellow, She, cut me off a plum pudding,” I ruefully exlained. “The very pudding you are about to be-5 regaled with. The f is briefly, as you know, that I disinherited for not consenting to Miss Margaret Mackintosh, my annt wished to go with the property, so to apeak. And a year Uter, that ip, si* months after .we were ray cousin, Dicky Colson, was to the aforesaid Miss Mackinin for all my relative’s e four years ago. May they be happy ever after. Hut my ve bad a /u -, fitwM witty w* nanS

trust, some future day.’ That is all. And though Margaret—Mrs. Colson, ] mean—has hunted for that necklace everywhere, though she has consulted detectives, and taken every trouble, besides writing us the kindest of letters, the necklace was nowhere to he found after my aunt's death. It is clean gone, vanished. No one seems to blame. The diamonds were usually kept at the hank, and my aunt herself took them away a few days before her death. ” “Stolen,” remarked Thorold, dryly. “And no doubt, broken up before your venerable relative was even buried. But how does it come that yon have waited four years to feast on this legacy?” “It has gone through such vicissitudes”—Mauds was eagerly beginning, though, in a faltering tone. With stern truthfulness I interrupted her wifely and womanly attempt to glaze the ugly truth. “Because 1 an* ashamed to say that, till to-night, I never could bring myself to fully and freely forgive my Aunt Agg. The first New Year I was still sore, after having been ent out of my promised fortune. The second one this little woman here was ill, because I had not been able to afford a change up to the hiUs for both of us, and she gallantly - refused to leave me. The third one—whs,t did happen that third New Year, Maude?” “The plum pudding could not be found,” cried Maude, laughing. “It turned up at" lust inside a bonnet box, where it was making itself useful as a stand for my best bat. Oh, the strange adventures of that pudding. It has traveled all over India with ns in its tin case, and once it was really almost lost for five months when we left Agra, add it was packed away no one knew where, because little Jim was ill, and my hands were full with him. Then, when our hnngalow at Simla took fire, it must have got some cooking. And once, crossing a river, some of our baggage was upset, and the poor padding was all but washed down stream. Luckily one of onr servants knew I had a sentimental fondness for that tin case (it had al ways seemed to me such a curious idea of the old lady's that her pudding should be a sign of mutual good-will), so he dived and brought it back with some trouble.” “You gave him more rupees than even his greed expected. No matter, 1 was glad, too, not to lose my legacy,” said I, cheerily. “Ah! here it comes. Look at the flames, Jim, look!” “Boo hazes,” ejaculated my son and heir, clapping his soft hands and chuckling with delight. It was a fine pudding, and as it was placed before me, rich and dark amid its leaping blue flames, I somewhat

THE DIAMOM) aKVKLAVE. solemnly uttered, before giving .the first cut: “Now, here is to my Aunt Agatha’s memory, in all peace and good will.” “Amen,” promptly murmured Maude in echo, smiling. “fiallo!” came in an exclamation of perplexity, as, digging deep into the toothsome dainty, som ething hard and metallic resisted my efforts. “What —on—earth is in the middle of this pudding?” With vigorous attacks of spoon and fork, urged on by the wondering cu5 riosit; of us all, out I brought presently'a small tin case from the heart of the plum pudding. It was tied round with narrow red ribbon, which was fastened in a dozen places by great blobs of sealing wax, impressed with the full Upcher coat of arms. “O, Harry, what can it be?” “By jove! here is a surprise!" clio rused Thorold and Maude in astonishment, rising and looking eagerly. “Here! hi! Get me something to open this, quick!” I hurriedly ordered! .in the native vernacular of my butler. “Anything! from a hammer to a hatchet.” (For a wild idea had darted across my brain.) It was done. In thirty seconds the tin case was open, and with fingers fairly tingling with anx-f iety and delight I drew forth a roll of cotton wool and tissue paper, and unwrapped—the diamond necklra! Yes, I was right There it lay, first in my hands, then gleaming round Maude’s dear throat in all its old brilliancy. , “I am, as I said, the happiest woman' in India to-night,” she cried, half laugh- ■ ing, half crying, as I clasped it on, and stood back to look at her in admiring pride, while Thorold kept repeating: “Capital! first-rate! It’s as good as a play, and better.” We were recalled from onr raptures by a small voice, scornful of such vanities, that piped: “I’d like some plum puddin.”—May Crommellon, in Queen. ECHOES. Hark! from each slender, snow-mantled steeple. Whose fleecy veil gleams cold and white, The old year’sdeath knell is solemnly peeliny, L Borne on the breath of the night. Toll for the old year, toll sadly apd alow, Solemnly mournful, majestically low; Toll for its promises hastily broken; Toll for its fool deeds when fair words were Toll for its falsehoods, its faith and its strife; Toll for the thousands It brought into life; Toll for it sadly in rhythmical sway, The life of the old year is ebbing away! In a moment, a second, its sands shall have run— The old year is dead, and the new year begun. Ring loudly, ring cheerily a welcoming note; bet the sounds echo clearly from each braxeh throat; J Now join all together in the Jubtlari shout; ‘The new year Is in, and the old year % out!” Ring In the new year, ring It ill with a will. With its dim, unknown future or geed and of ill; — Ring It in hastily, peal alter peal; Its Joy, death, despair, its woe and its weal. Welcome Its untold, mysterious freight Of hope and of fear, of love and of hate; Ring It to cheerily, merrily Hag, No mortal oao tell what the new year may bring: omett gaj’iy, with heps and with mirth. Its death ! * n as you Joyed at He birth, hmm mimm*! to

efs wboim; of Pennsylvania whose names are not put down upon the day books of the manufacturers, but who are designated in the pay rolls by hmmbers alone. That the beneficiaries of high protectionism will see to it that this policy of promoting free trade in labor shall not be changed is shown by the following statement made by Andrew Carnegie just before embarking at Liverpool for the United States. Mr. Carnegie, in reply to the question, “What do yon think, Mr. Carnegie, of the unchecked flood of undesirable immigration into America?” said: “I say don’t touch immigration; let it flow on. We are getting the cream of Europe. 1 want to see America great, really great We need all the population we can get We have only seventeen persons to the sqaare mile, and there are hundreds of millions of acres of land where the sod has never been turned. I say, hands off immigration.” When the McKinley tariff was being discussed its promoters demanded its enactment on twr grounds: First—To provide work for the unemployed in new industries; and Second—To provide a home market for onr surplus farm products. Nothing was more prominent than the protectionist assertion that the labor market was congested, and that onr farmers were suffering from overproduction. Bat now that the tariff lull which they advocated has become a law they are nsing every effort to keep the labor market congested, and at the same time to continue the overproduction of farm products. This means low wages for working men and low prices for farm products. At the same time the real beneficiaries of the tariff, by the formation of trusts to regulate production and raise prices, will see to it that they get all the bonus the tariff allows. Free tiwde in labor, the the only thing the workman has to sell, and high dnties upon everything the workman has to buy, in the keynote of high protectionism. How long will it be before the farmers and working men will see through this hypocrisy ? M'KINLEY CALLED TO ACCOUNT The Wool Reporter and McKinley Differ a* to the Tariff For Revenae From 1846 to 1881. The great meeting of the Home Marie t club of Boston, on., Thursday evening, November 19, brought together a notable gathering of statesmen and manufacturers. •About six hundred members of the club participated in the reception to Maj. McKinley, Hon. Thomas B. Reed, Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, and Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, and others, at the hotel Vendome, and also in a banquet at that place from four to seven o’clock. They then all adjourned to Tremnattemple, where a ijvast andignpofox upwards of four tho>aaiarflP^e6i>le listened to speech*# by Maj. McKinley, Speaker F«-ed, Senator Aldrich and ‘Senator Hoar. Maj. McKinley was, of coarse, the hero of the hour, and made an eloquent and interesting address, bat while he was deploring the eondition of the country in the fourteen years of tariff for revenue only from 1S4C to 1861, the democratic treasurer of the great Amoskeag mills, who sat upon the platform and approved*-the proceedings, could have told the Ohio statesman that the period from 1846 to 1861 was not characterized by such unalloyed -poverty and distress as some ggpnld have ns believe. In 1846 the Amoskeag declared dividends of 25 per cent, in stock and 10 per cent, in cash, in 1847 it declared 25 per cent in stock and 5- per cent, in casli, and in 1849 it it declared 20 per cent in stock and 3 per cent in cash, and there were bat few half years from that time to 1860 in which it did not pay semi-annual dividends. A panic occnred in 1857 and the Bay State mills at Lawrence failed, hut so did a panic occur in 1813, and in 1889 some very important mills failed. The following great textile corporations were started between 1846 and 1861: Atlantic mflla in 1849; Lyman mills, at Holyoke, 1854; Nanmkeag steam cotton mills, at Salem, 1647; Pepperell mills, at Biddeford, in 1852; Bates mills, at Lewiston, in 1853; Hill Manufacturing Co., at Lewiston, in 1855; Franklin Co., at Lewiston, in 1851 Furthermore the cotton manufacturing industry of the United States has not chanced to be as prosperous since the passage of the McKinley bill, as it was for a year or two tiefore that measure became law. The great Merrimack Manufacturing Ca, at Lowell, has recently reduced its semi-annual dividend to two per cent It pail three per cent semi-annual in 1890 and four per cent In 1889, and in 1891 the shares of the company sold for jnst half what they brought in 1881, viz,: fa,000 in 1881 and 81,000 in 1891.—American Wool Reporter.

—Some one has been looking up the sailing schedules of the principal steamship companies making the bids for the mail subsidies recently opened by the postmaster-general, and finds that they hare offered to do for the government subsidy of one dollar a mile substantially what they are doing now without a bounty. Thus the “Bed D” line offers in return for the subsidy to make three trips with the United States mails each month from New York to La Qnnyra. The company is now, Without a subsidy, making three trips a month between these porta So of the bids of the New York <fc Cuba steamship company, and so substantially of the bids of the: Pacific Hail company. In these eases the boom which the subsidy is to give American shipping and trade which “follows the flag” is not so apparent— Springflele Republican. —What is perhaps the greatest dairy section in the United States is within a radius of fifty miles oil Utica. la this territory the manufact ure of cheese is conducted on an enormous scales and the transactions run well into the millions of dollars eyery year. The McKinley bill addbd two cents a pound tc the dnty on cheese, raising it to six cents The ruling price paid for cheese on the Utica b<-ard of trade, Monday, was 8«e. Two years ago it wan 9J*s. Was there ever a greater swindle than that addition of two cents to the duty on cheese? We think the dairymen in 4b'a section are disposed to answer the question in the negative. The tariff wr» Increased for their "benefit’' Hi

Items rather near each Z'£ the country to-1 l of onr health," __twedty-three widows idaughter* of revolutionary soldiers who still draw pensions, though the last male survivor died long ago. If a mao shamefully abuses his Wife in Butte, Mont., half a yard of crape is tacked qu bis door as a reminder that any trouble in the future will be followed by a call by an undertaker. It is, perhaps, not generally known that we-get our customs of wearing orange blossoms from the laracens, and that the Red Cross Knights always saw their brides thus adorned on the marriage day. Thk shortest lore letters on record are said to be the following: “Dear Clara: . **r “Tom’ “Dear Tom: “I will. “Clara." THE SPICE OF LIFE. j. First Visitor (at realistic waxwork show)—“Are you wax?” Second Visitor—“No. Are you?’’—Pliny'b Letters. Willing to Trt.—Neighbob—“Do you fanny you could support Ethel on 810 a week?” Clarklets—“I am willing to try it; that is if that is the best you can do.”—N. Y. Herald. Photographer—“Is there any particular way in which you would like to be taken?” Mr.. Sim Johnsing -r- “Yes, sah. If dere’s no dejection I’d like to be taken a light cream color.”—Smith, Gray Sc Co.’s Monthly. Swift Detection.—Mrs. De Pretty— “Horrors] That woman who just passed is a young man in disguise." Husband—“Weill well! How do you kno#?” Mrs. De- Pretty—“She looked at my face instead of my dress.”—S. Y. Weekly. “Suppose yon come and dine with us to-morrow?” “Wouldn't the day after do just as well?” Inquired the poor relation. “Certainly: but where are you going to dine to-morrow?” “Oh, here. Yon see, your wife was'kind enough to ask me for that occasion.”—Tid-Bita.

KIBBO NS CF STEEL. The United States and Canada have 11,039 miles of street railway. China, with all her 400,000,00ft people, has only 49 miles of railroad. The modern perfected locomotive is composed of nearly 6,000 separate pieces. ‘ Edward Everett Hale favors the nationalization of the railroads of this country. £* It is estimated that the elevated railroads, bridges, and ferries of New Yorh and Brooklyn carry 510,000,000 oassengers per year. The Only One Ever Printed—Can Ton Find the Word? There is a 3 inch display advertisement in this paper, this week, which has no two words alike except one word. The same is tame of each new one appearing each week from the Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send diem the name of the word and they will return you hook, beautiful lithographs or samples free. The prodigal son was a young man who went wrong; but he came back again.— Picayune. • A pugnacious ram is fond of a practical joke. He tries to make a butt of every one ae meets.—Lowell Courier. THE MARKETS. Haw Yoax, December 28.1891. CATTLE-Native Steers..* 3 TO ® 54» COTTON—Middling. Us® 8 FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 3 65 a 5 TO WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 1 0Ue® 18# CORN-No. 2OATS—Western Mixed. PORK—New Mess. ST. LOUIS. COTTON—& BEEVES—Fancy i 56*4 41*i 10 85 5780 HOGS—Good SHEEP—Fair to Choice FLOUR—Patents.. Fahey to Extra Do... WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter... CORN-No. * Mixed. OATS—No. &.. RYE—No. 2... TOBACCO—Lags. .A.... Leaf Burley. a 4 50 ® 3 80 ® 3 65 ffl 4 40 ® 390 ® "SPsi 30*a» 84 1 10 4 60 TOs SCO 8 78 380 475 460 4 20 82 37*4 31 510 7 ( HAY—Clear Timothy.. 10 00 a 13 00 BUTTER—Choice Dairy. • EGGS—Fresh. PORK-Standard Mess. BACON-Clear Rib. LARD—Prime Steam.. WOOL—Choice Tub . CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 20. a 31 24 22 8 TO 8 n 31*i 360 800 HOGS-Good to Choice. 3 40 M 3 90 3 75 460 455 5 80 480 483 9078 41*s 32*4 3 40 3 70 78 31 35*4 SHEEP-Fair to Choice. FLOURr-Winter Patents... Spring Patents. ■. WHEAT-No. 2 Spring....... .' KWt® CORN-No. 2. a OATS—No. 2. ® PORK-Standard Mess. 7 62*9® T 75 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers. ... 4 80 a HOGS-AU Grades.. 3 80 ® WHEAT-No. 2 Red. 77*3® OATS—No.2... 30 ® CORN-No. 2. 84*4® NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 425 ® CORN-No. 2 . .. OATS—Western. HAY—Choice.. 16 00 PORK—New Mess.. BACON-Clear Bib......... COTTON— Middling. CINCINNATI. WHEAT—No.2Bed... -- CORN—No. 2 Mixed.. OATS—No.2 Mixed. ... FORK—Mess. ..... 8 50 BACON-Clear Rib .. COTTON—Middling- - ® 485 a 54 a 41 a 18 so ® 835 a 6*a 8 7*4 93 12 34*a 8 TO 6% 7=8

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[ mien-St will be found Salelesriy ■Pitbftt the Sllkrt Juristic tale Schoolmanble Chris tgood story of fora la—that tender netsorM fey Senator : •tanfurd. Mrs. White ‘The Hot wh-.-, featlti hough the pseA «wis aertWrint h was still Nnrit jtxf the dead boy's itle is no i veil has a« >{ sahool-h ers,”aud! nas at St. JPIIPH i*® soariliag acijool life., The serial stork's >f “Jack Braretoa’s Three lI«Hiths, jerykje,” and “The Lance of Kansu*, *' a striking Arabian story by Abd el Ards van,” already grow absorbing even in their second installment The American pale-faes woman who was adopt:d by tEfe Seneca Indians, Harriet Max-well-Converse, has another interesting sketch of Seneca life in “The Strawberry Fe-asfcat the, Long House:” Zititila Cocke tells a caariaing story of the calibrated Mexican general SaDta Anna tnd his jealous pet bird; and OtisT. Mason has something to say of Professor Marsh's giant lisarda, sixty feet tong. The poems in the aamber are by Celia Thaxter and Claraboty Bates. Other verses and sketches flli out a most interesting number of Wide Awake, which is. as usual, well illustrated and so carefully made up as tc prepare a tempting feast indeed for the myriad young people who eagerly await and as eagerly welcome it. Wide Awake is published at 30 cents per number, 53.40 per year. All booksellers keep it. D, IjOTH«op Co.. Pubs.. Boston. There fa a screw loose somewhere when i eteaiushio has last its propelling power.Picayune, •100 Reward #lOO. The readers of this paper will be pleated to learn that there is at least one dreaded iisease that science has bec-n able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Care is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a count'.t,m tonal disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Dure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, tberooy destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith la its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any o&so that it fails to -cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F.-J. CBF.NEY&Ca. Toledo, 0. HTSold by Druggists, 75c. The chicken thief's recollection of his jeamp life are mostly associated with picket iuty.—Yonkers Oaiette. ■>- - ____:

Among the Pranks or the Foolish rhereis none more absurd than promts, uious dosing. For Instance, inconceivable lamage is done to the ixnvels and liver by mineral cathartics and violent vegetable purgatives. What these cannot do, namely, thoroughly -egulate the organs named, Hostetler's Stomach Sitters can and do. Besides this, it will prevent and eradicate flaiaria, rheumatism, kidney com plaint ami a grippe. TTse it with steadiness. Tee bomb-thrower who tried to kill Rusioll Sage is said to have, been cool when be entered the ofHoe He certainly was colected alter lie left it—Yonkers Statesman. Don’t use mercury and iodide ofpotash for blood diseases. If your blood is bad Dr. lohn Bull’s Sarsaparilla will quickly restore it to a healthful condition. It is the jest vegetable blood puriffer in the world, rnd it never leaves any evil after effects, it is pleasant to take >ind exhilarating, yet. i discontinuance of its use will not cause a waving for more. Frit ate Executions. — Gr^at Editor— ‘Send a man to that execution to morrow, ind tell him to keep it down to two collmns." A person with a cork leg, corkscrew eyes, Jlue-bottle nose and jug-handled ears must be full of spirits.—Towc Talk. Ax. Extenuic Popularity, Brown's BROxbwtAL Troches have for mahy years been the imtet ;>opuIar article in use for relievingtestigha Had Thyoat troubles. -- The mam who “grasped ata straw” wasn’t Irowhiug. lie was trying to “drown his sorrows.’’—Boston Post. Bkkcham’s PIlls cost only 25 cents a box. They are proverbially known throughout the world to be “worth a guinea a box.” Tug principal difference between a lobster and a lobbyist is that you can make a lobster blush.—Boston Post TuKXitip of Pneumonia may be warded off with Hale s Honey of Horehound and Ter. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. So far as coincidence is concerned one white horse wilt do for a dozen red-headed girls.—St. O. Picayune. Wastiso away, growing thinner every day. Poor child, won’t mamma get you a box of Dr. Bull’s Vf orm Destroyers! Man wants the earth, but it is the housekeeper who gate the dust—Rochester Post

THE BEST FOB EVERY PURPOSE. FARMERS. ,>i -:— .1 Farmers often take cold and it set ties on their lungs, and finally develops into rheumatism without their knowing why. The fact is that the lungs and kidneys are intimately connected. No one can take cold and have it set- * tie on the lungs without having it affect the kidneys. If a person thus attacked, takes an opiate to dry up fib cough, his kidneys fail 16 perfonir their work which is to take the uric acid out of the blood. This acid finally attacks the joints and produces rheumatism. Or it attacks the muscles and will produce rheumatism in almost any part of the body. People that are exposed to open air pursuits are extremely liable to it. If a person 1 thus attacked will take REID’S GERMAN COljGH AND KIDNEY CURE f he will find that while his cough is j cured, his kidneys will be stimulated - and he will not have rheumatism. This* great remedy is based on scientific principles. Get it of any dealer. SYLVAN REMEDY CO., Peoria, M.

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