Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 December 1892 — Page 4

4 giving the jiuU r up the constitution i ure in doing its work. The i here a > much faith in its mintwen, that they offer One Hundred _j for any ease that it fails to cure. Bend for Uat of testimonials. Address. F. J. Oeeney & Co., Toledo, (X WSofiTby Druggists, 75a ■When a boy Is smart there is n question whether he gets it from her folks or his people—Atchison Oloba Look to Yourself If your liter is out of order, your akin aaffroneo Sored, tongue furred, eyeballs tinged With yellow. Has tetter's Stomach Hitters la* tan ter is the oorroot thing. Don’t wait, It you don't want Jaundice and perhaps abscess of the liver. Likewise. If you nave a malarial chill, touch of rheumatism, indigestion, kidney or nervous trouble, use the Bitters without delay. Give it a lair trial. qs it preserves. Dimuno—“Why did you leave tho lecture platform, Larkiut" Larkin—“Weil 1 was ‘ Ion to that stop.’’—Life. Disease is unnatural, and Is but the proof that we are abusing Nature. It la claimed that Garttela Tea, u simple herb remedy, helps Nature to overcome this abuse. “Toon chairs look so eolloquial,” said a visitor to her hostess the other day; “they really seem to beg pour guests to sit down ooeiiy and chat tu comfort together.”- Boston Transcript. 1 OqoOEs and Hoarseness —The irritation which induces coughing immediately relieved by uaeof “BrowH't Bronchial Trochu." Bold only In boxes. A great many who try to sot the prodigal sou find too late that they have acted the calf instead.—Atchison Globe. “I veins,” said the Calendar to February, at the close of tho leap year, “that you had *“~r take a day oft” Wiry If you are constipated, bilious or troubled with siok headache, Beocham’s Pills afford Immediate relief. Of druggists. 35 ceuts. It isn't the man who blows most whe finds it the easiest to raise the wind.—Cape Cod Item. People who cling to the nnohor of hope often have to go down into the mud with it. , —Puok. ^ Don’t W hoe to and oough when Hale’s raey of Horehound and Tar will euro, ke’s Toothache Drops Curcin one minute. iett Chit-Chat.—Sho—“So you are no rshroud?” He—“Er-No. Are you!”— LPeeb Admission Tickets to tho World’s are being offered by ihe Chicago Scale Send them your address. MCant a wise man has picked up a good ggeetlon where some fool dropped it.— Kvoston News. tor necessarily after a bird—the man iO goes out for a lark.—Brooklyn Kagle.

Kittle Fox of Fair haven, I *. ■When my daughter Kitty was about three ■ old, Ecicma or Salt Rheum appeared or r face. It itched so badly she would Scratch till It Bled i had seven or eight doctors, without the st shadow ot benefit. When Kitty had k halt a bottle ot >od’s Sarsaparilla i better, and when she had taken l'j pttles she was perfectly cured and has shown No 8lgn of Salt Rheum r almost tour years. Her shin is now as tair l dear as any child's in town.” Wn FOX, l Slate Mantel Works, Fair Haven, Yt. |OOD-a PILLS are the best after-dinner Pills, at digestion, cure headache and biliousness.

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OOD-BYE, old Year! Weh'ire loved thee wiB. Though thy skies were cold sad gray. Though oft we have sighed o'er nrav’rs denied,!

Or dear ones taken away. Thou hast brought ns strength for the task. Thou hast shown us gleams of light, Ihou hast brought us near soma friends most And given us “songs In the night.’ The hours of thy life are numbered now, And we look with fond regard On all the pleasure thy days have brought, And forget what we found so hard. (t la ever so, when we reach the ond, And the pressure of work Is o'er, That we gather our sheaves and count our gains. And remember our toll no more. We know thou art bringing us gifts. New Year, Of wealth, of pleasure, of rest, And our hearts beat high as thou drawest nlgli. For we hope and desire thy best But ah. of sorrow, of watting, of loss. Thou hast also a hidden store! Ood strengthen us nil to endure our cross, Nor taint ere the strife Is o'er! And let us to-morrow with hope begin. And tlx our standard high, Striving to oonquer the weakness and sin Thut nearest our souls do lie: And wttb helpful work or with kindly thought Let us lighten eaeh others' care. For Love can soften the hardest lot, L And lighten the gloom of Despair. —Once a Week. THE NEW YEAR. Could we hut glance the new year o’er, Its htdden depths unveil, Look ou the blessings safe In store, Whose mercies never fail: Could we but see the happiness The New Year seeks to give. Our dally lives to cheer and bless. How gladly would we live! Could we behold the rrtef and care, The weary, painful strife Allotted ns our rightful shure In each new year of Ufe: Could we anticipate the thorns That In our pathway lie. Before the smiling New Year dawns How gladly would we die! Yet, Ignorant of all, we grope With blind persistence, on: Upheld by patient faith and hops Eaeh dally task Is won: A new year's burden uaoonocaled. Our Inmost hearts benumb, But sorrows one by one revealed Are conquered as they come. —Lurana W. Sheldon, in N. Y. World. A NEW YEAR’S REMINDER. The season’s fey you wish us— For that we thank you, dear: Yet wtshes are not quite enough To bring n glad New Year. Watch day by day, my darling; For helpful work to do, And through the new year you yourself Will make your wish come true. —Mary F. Butts, In Christian Union.

[Original.] ECEMBER thh1 ■"'.ity-flrst, 18—, will be remembered In some portions of the west, as one of the coldest, stormiest days of an exceptionally cold winter. I hare good reasons to remember it, for on that day 1 came very near losing my life ns the result of my own foolhardiness. The day before I arrived at the little frontier town of S-, where I hod business, proposing to drive thence next -day to H-, forty miles distant, where I intended to spend New Year’s day With friends whom I had not seen for several years. I had confidently expected to reach H— without difficulty and surprise my friends—who had always made it a custom to usher in the New Year with much jolly ceremony—by appearing in their midst late on f?ew Year’s eve. I was, therefore, much vexed, when I arose in the morning to find that a heavy snow had fallen during the flight, and that the weather had turned much colder, with a heavy wind blowing from the north. Nevertheless, 1 was fully resolved to go, providing I could find anyone who was willing to undertake the drive. But there was no regular stage line, and no one seemed willing to crust himself and his team to the possible chances of a hard “nor’wester,” and, after trying several places without success, I returned to the hotel in a very disagreeable mood. As I was expressing my disgust to the landlord, with whom I was well acquainted, a man whom 1 had noticed on the train the evening before, and who was now sitting by the stove reading, looked up and remarked: “I fancy we are in the same fix; 1 am very anxious to get to H- myself, but there seems to be no chance of getting away from here.” "Perhaps,” I suggested, intending to be humorous, “perhaps we might buy % team and go anyway.” This brought the stranger to his teet. "I don’t know whether you would be willing or not, or whether we could get a team; but why not try to get one vO go with, on the understanding, that we pay for any damage done to the norses Or conveyance—or pay a fair price for the animals in case they ihould hot pull through alive?” “The very thing!” 1 agreed. “We sen try, anyway.” The landlord and others tried to die>uade us from our purpose, but we were firm, and the result was that in a ihort time we secured a team of horses »nd a cutter, leaving with the landlord, i deposit sufficient to cover their value n case we did not return them in good, sondltion; and. in a half hour or so, we sere on our way to H-, well tundled in robes and furs, and feeling [uite cheerful over the prospect of caching H-after all f The first twelve or thirteen miles of >ur route was over a good road, and, an ve glided along at a merry pace, I had ipportunity to take note of my commnion’s appearance. * He wee a tall, large men, well-built tad quite handsome, though not exraordioarily so. What impressed b#« soet was his manner. He had a firm, ecided, rather slow way of speaking, Bd his eyea met mine honostly and whenever I looked at him

found him well-informed. * gentleman, and an agreeable traveling companion, and that was sufficient All went well until early in the afternoon. when we came to several miles of had road, over which we were compelled to drive with the utmost care, despite our impatience. To add to the discomfort of the situation, it was becoming colder, and the wind, into the teeth of which we were driving, was blowing at a fearful rate. Both of ns began to feel the cold keenly, and the prospect of darkness coming on soon, and finding us on a strange road, and, so far as we knew, twenty miles from anywhere, did not tend to enliven our spirits. Mile after mile wo urged the tired horses along, until it seemed as if they must drop from fatigue; colder and more fiercely blow the wind down the narrow, high'-wallel oanyon, until 1 became so chilled that Mr. Brown had to take the reins. Soon dusk began to gather. By this time I found I l ad frosted my faoe and hands severely, and was becoming numb all over. It required much urging from my companion to keep me from falling into that sleep which in

t was that there m<dst of which kissed his mother and sisters and left the house. lie has never entered it sinee, and stayed in the city only long enough to say good-by to his sweetheart—a dear, lovely girl, who was nearly broken-hearted. She has never married, but is still waiting for Sidney to return and elear himself- ' “Soon after that my mother died of a? broken heart. Sidney was her young* est» and .dearest I think m y father is a sad, old man-mlder than his years, by far, and broken with sorrow. “Since that night I have known no peace. I left home soon after and have been wauderlng ever sinee; but the thought of my double crime has pursued me mercilessly, until, sometimes, I have been almost insane. For nine of these years I have been seeking almost incessantly for some trace of Sidney, bp.t to no purpose. On New Year’s nights his face haunts me; 1 see it as it 1 joked when he went out of the door, leaving home and friends and ail that makes life worth living behind.. "He is not dead—something tells me so. I shall find him yet, I know. 1 only pray it may be soon. I have made a fortuno out of the money I—stole; it is all for Sidney, when I find him. Do you—do you think that when I find him

tense cold superinduces, and which is nearly' always fatal. Finally Mr. Brown drew rein. “These horses can’t go another mile. SVe shall have to do something,” he »id. “Wo cannot keep on going.” He had hardly spoken when he idded: “Oh! thank God! there’s a ight!” I must have been pretty badly :rozen, for, though Mr. Brown said aftsrwards he talked to me as we passed >n to the house where he saw the ight, I knew no more until several lours later I found myself on a bunk n a rude, one-room cabin, with Mr. Brown and another man, apparently he cabin’s owner, standing over me. “Good!” said the stranger. “I bought he wasn’t too far gone to pull h rough all right." For which 1 was luly thankful, and so expressed my»lf.

and onr host sat by the Are, smoking1 silently, 1 lay idly watching them, and was suddenly struck with a certain similarity in their appearance. They were about the same size and build, had the same color of hair and eyes, and, though our host wore a thick beard, which Mr. Brown did not, I fancied I detected a certain facial resemblance. Both men, too, had a decided, positive way of speaking, and wasted no words. Suddenly Mr. Brown drew out his watch and lookod at it “A quarter of twelve,” ho remarned, gravely—almost sadly, I thought 1 noticed our host cast a quick, keen glance at the other’s face. Then Mr. Brown continued, looking dreamily into the roaring flames in the big open fireplace: "I don’t know why I should beoome confidential or communicative; it is not my way. But to-night, the eve of the New Year, is the saddest night of the year, for me; and there has never an old year died, in the last eleven, that has not found me longing for human companionship and sympathy. If I had neither I should go mad, I think.” He paused for a few moments, and seemed lost in painful thought. Then he continued: “Twelve years ago to-night, I became a criminal and an undeclared perjurer. No, you need not look incredulous; it is true. Shall 1 go on?” “Yes.” said the other man, and I thought he seemed oddly eager for the rest ot the story, and deeply interested in it. . “Twelve years ago, there was, in a certain city in Ohio, one of the happiest families that ever lived. To-day they are scattered far and near, and 1 am the cause of it. “My father and mother were both living then, and on Christmas and New Year’s there was always a merry gathering of children and grandchildren at the old home. There were five children of us—three girls, all married, my younger brother, Sidney, and myself. "That year we were all gathered as usual under the home roof for the last time, as it happened. “1 need not make a long Btory of it. On New Year’s eve it was discovered that a certain sum of money that had been in the safe at my father’s office was missing—money that had been left there for safe-keeping by a friend, who ealled for it late in the afternoon; father leaving the house and going iown to the office with him to get it. “That the money had been taken there was no doubt, and when my father learned that Sidney had locked the safe and left the office last, that forenoon, he was terribly shocked. Sidney, like many impulsive, kind-heart-sd, affectionate lads, was a bit wild, uid, somehow, it seemed natural that luspicion should pass by me, the sober, iteady one, and attach to him, the leadstrong and thoughtless. My father lid not know that I, on whose honesty tnd integrity of all persons he mostdelended, was the real thief—that 1 had rambled and speculated until exposure tnd ruin stared mo in the face; and in a noment of weakness I had stooped to sommon theft to hide my traokn “Sidney did not oome home to dinner hat evening, and ws saw nothing of ilm until nearly twelve o’clock, when is came In somewhat flushed with Bhnpagn^ My father drew him into he lifca^had in the tactless way

and he learns what is in store for him —and that back in Ohio the girl he swore never to see again until he had a clear name to offer her is still waiting for him—he will feel like forgiving and trying to forget?” I could not understand the man to thus unbosom himself to strangers: and there was an appealing weakness in his tone, as he finished, that con* trasted markedly with his strong per* souality. I looked at him wondering* ly, as he sat with his face bowed in his hands. The other man rose, and staggered over to whore his guest sat. “I know ho will—I know it!” he said, chokingly. “And I knew you’d come, semetime—Harry!" Brown started to his feet with a wild cry: “Sid! Sid!” And there, in the little miner’s cabin, out in the wilderness, with the storm howling outside, the Hew Year and I witnessed as glad a reunion as either of us ever saw. B. L. Ketchum. Stealing a Goat. 'T was once arrested for stealing a goat,” said an ex-railroad official. ‘‘In 1879 I was running an accommodation train between Willis and Galveston, Tex. Near the track at Willis lived an old woman who possessed a villainous tongue and a billy goat that would eat anything he could swallow. What he could not get through his neck he would chew and suck tho juice. If the coach was open for a minute he would be inside, chiseling desolation into everything in sight. One day we palled out while ho was aboard lunohing on a linen duster and carried him to Houston. Tho old woman followed us on the passenger and had the whole crew arrested for stealing her goat The judge discharged us and I ran an attachment on the animal for his fare. She paid it and I thought I had the best of the mill. But it was not fought to a finish. The next day when I reached Houston, en route to Willis, the old woman boarded my car leading the goat Sh6 put him in a aeat and held him there. I told her it was against tho rules for animals to ride in a passenger car, but she presented two tickets and told me if I could legally collect passenger fare for the goat once 1 could be compelled to accept it again. I was not much of a lawyer and concluded that I had best take up Billy's ticket, and I did.”—St Louis GlobeDemocrat _ It Was Unexpected. Col. Fred Grant once told us this story in Vienna os one of his father’a favorites. The eircumstances occmrred when Gen. Grant was living in Missouri on his farm, it has never appeared in priift One day a country lad, a neighbor, who was not only clever but made up for his slowness by his respectable qualities, came to pay a not infrequent visit “How's your father, Johnny?” said the general. "Pretty well,” replied Johnny, with his drawl—“for him.” “And your mother?” “Pretty well—for her." “And your brothers and sisters?" “Pretty well—for them.” “Well, Johnny, and how’a your grandmother?” Silence for the space of a moment then—"She’s dead.” "O," said the general, “very sorry, very sorry—rather unexpected, wasn't it?” “Well,” admitted Johnny—"well, rather—for hen”—Hartford Courant The Child's Vocabulary. The talent which small children have for picking up the most characteristic phrases of uncultured chance companions is well known to parents. The other day, at dinner, little Marjorie, aged four, astonished her parenta by exclaiming, apropos of the pudding: "Holy smoke! ain’t that good!” \ Her father and mother looked at her in astonishment "My child, whero did you get that expression?” asked the mother. “I’m after playing with Brldgie D90leyl” answered Marjorie, complacently^ -Boston Transcript. arwi Happy, Happy Bay

On® That I* M»r Be Well Tmr Uw Rta4« The following questions and answers were found among the papers of the late George Otis, of Roselle, N. J.: Q. What is the meaning of the word tariff? A. It is so called because hundreds of years ago sea pirates at Tariffs, Spain, forced every passing vessel to pay for the privilege of going into andfroa the Mediterranean Sea. Q. What is the meaning now? A. A certain sum forced from the people by land pirates. Q. Why say taken by force? A. Because the republican congress says to the people: “Stand and deliver?” Q. Stand and deliver to whom? A. To certain favored manufacturing Interests. Q. Where in the constitution is congress empowered to pass a law to compel the few to support the many, the poor to contribute to the rich? A. In no part of it. Q. Then where did it find the power? A. In the Bible. Q. Give the book, chapter and verse. A. Matthew, ISth chapter, 13th verse: “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and ho shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.” Q. Ts such a law republican in the sense of being democratic—a government in which the people rule? A. No. It is aristocratic. Q. What do you mean by aristocratic! A. A government wherein a few rot the many; where the many work tc help support the privileged few. Q. Explain how the tariff law establishes an aristocracy in a democratic government? A. Congress says to the poor, because this or that man is rich and produces iron or cotton or woolen goods, you shall pay him so much money for so many pounds or yards, or go naked and work without tools. Q. What reason docs congress give for such a tyrannical law? A. Congress says the law is a differentiation of industrial function, which means that industry is the function of the poor and the difference goes to the rich. Q. Is that the only reason congress gives? A. No. It says the tariff is intended to foster infant industries at homo. Q. Are the iron, dbttoa and wool industries infants? A. No; they are a hundred years old. Q. What date has congress fixed fot these industries to become of age? A. When Gabriel blora his horn. One congressman did moveto fix a later date, but when reminded that asbestos was not protected he withdrew his motion. Q. What is the meaning of a protective tariff? A. Protection of the rich from getting poor and of the poor from getting rich. Q. What is the difference between the tenants in Ireland and the farmers in America? A. None. In both cases the taxgatherer lives in the east and the sheriff is after both. Q. Is there any other similarity be tween the Irish tenants and the American farmer? A. Yes, the tenants are too poor tc stay and the farmers are too poor to leave. Q. Is that the only benefit republican protection confers upon the poor? A. No. It improves their morals; keeps them from having useless desires. Q. How does protection produce such results? A. The poor have to work so hard to support the rich they have no time for mischief. Having no surplus money with which to travel they see nothing new and their desires are kept dormant. That brings content.

AN ILLUSTRATION. How a Protective TarllT liwtrap Reelp rural Relatione. Here are two people, separated by an insurmountable range of mountains. Upon one side the land is billy, rooky and, except for grazing, almost worthless. Coal is abundant, however, and there are many superb water-falls; hence it is a country admirably adapted to manufacturing, and naturally the thoughts and inclinations of the people are turned in that direction. Food is necessary, however, and much labor is employed in' its production, an exhibit showing that as much labor and capital are required to produce a bushel of wheat as to produce a suit of clothing. Upon the other side of the mountains the conditions are reversed, land being level and fertile, while ths requirements for producing the power used in manufactories are lacking to such an extent that as much labor and capital is employed in providing a suit of clothing as iu raising a hundred bushels of wheat It is evidently to the interests of both communities that a tunnel be dug under the-e mountains sc that an exchange of commodities may take place. The work is undertaken Mid after great expenditures of capital lad labor, it is accomplished; and in consequence the first named people secure fifty bushels of wheat in exchange for the labor and capital expended iu producing a suit of clothing, while the second received a suit of clothing for just half the price in labor and capital that it formerly cost them. It is obvious that a great gain has accrued to both communities by the iiggiug of the tunnel, and as all labor on both sides of the mountain is now employed productively, or to the best advantage, the general increase of wealth is far greater than formerly. In eonsequence, while both people are better clothed and fed than ever before, they have less labor to perform and (none time for education and recreation, it is not long, however, before a protectionist appears among the food producing people and begins to advosate his theory. He talks to them vbout the balance of trade; about liveraifying labor; he tells them that the tunnel is detrimental to their Interssts; he explains that thej ire “Inundated" with for sign manufactures; declares that when a people buy an artii le they assure it, but the other people get the noney—whereas, if they make it, tney ret both the article and what theywould have paid for it. But, to make a ong story short, his sophistry prevails, ind a protective tariff Is adopted, high enough to shut out foreign clothing; rad In retaliation the people on the ither side adopt a tariff high enough to but out provisions The consequence s that the customs officers absolutely -lose up the tunnel to trade; its usefulless is destroyed, and both peoples are rat back precisely where they were before it was dug.—T. M. Gilmore, in St jouis Courier. Glass Workers falls lied. Many crokers are already predicting hat dire disaster will follow Cl eveend’s election. He is not an untried nan, as he gave this country four yearn if the cleanest administration it ever isd. We look for equally aa good an dminlstration for the coming tour ears. During Cleveland’s last term rasWtesa was prosperous; so was the ountry^JBfci workers will all tell, had steady and round expect the

f If you want the best food, yoi^Sill be interested in the following facts, which show why “Royal” is the best baking powder, why it makes the best and most wholesome food, and why its use has become almost universal—its sale greater in this country than the sale of all other cream of tartar^ baking powders combined. The Royal Baking Powder NEVER foils. It Is absolutely pure and wholesome. It is combined from the most approved and healthful ingredients. It makes the finest flavored, most tender, delicious and wholesome food. It has greater leavening strength than any other baking powder, and is therefore the cheapest. - i It never loses its strength, but will keep fresh and of frill leavening power until used. It acts slowly in the dough, so that none of its strength is lost before the baking is completed. It makes food that will keep sweet, moist and fresh longer, or that may be eaten hot and fresh with impunity. The reasons why the Royal Baking Powder is » -.1 superior to all others in these respects are easily stated. One is because it is made from chemically pure materials; another is because it is made with greater care and accuracy than any jther. It is always uniform in composition fold leavening power. It has been the standard baking powder since its introduction. The founder and conductor of its business ever since is still at the head of its management. Thus all the

knowledge and skill attained by over a quarter of a century’s experience is available in its present preparation. The consumer is not i upon by changes of formula that are constant)] being made in other powders in an effort to get a I mixture that will not “ cake” or lose its strength, or that follow changes of proprietorship or manufacturers. The Royal Baking Powder is always certain and equal in its work; a teaspoonful does the same perfect work to-day that it did yesterday, or last week or month, or last year. While the last teaspoonful in a can of Royal is as good as the first, other powders lose their strength after being made a short time, and par* ticularly alter the can is opened. The exactness with which the active principle of each ingredient prior to mixing is ascertained by expert chemists; the actual prohibition enforced against the receipt into the works of an impure ingredient; the care with which the materials are dried, coated and prepared before their combination, and the precision in packing the powder so that it shall be delivered to the consumer in the perfect condition in which it leaves the factory, are some of the details which go to make the perfect “ Royal." The same means are not employed by other manufacturers. There have been a great many imitations of the Royal, but no equals. Pure materials are not employed, care is not taken in their preparation and combination, while in the great majority of baking powders alum is added to give them strength, while cheapening their cost ■<. The great popularity and general use of the Royal Baking Powder attest its superiority.

Carelessness with Glasses. "The cost of spectacles and glasses,” said an old optician on Broadway, “is something enormous. A greater proportion of people every year wear glasses. When a man buys his first pair of glasses he imagines he is done with it. Ho will have some excuse and think it necessary to give it when he comes in before six weeks and gets another pair, lie will break one glass, perhaps, or both, or mislay them, or get them torn off in a crayyd, or the cord wears out and they drop off of their own accord. He thinks that it is a rare accident, but after he has used glasses a year or two he will find that if he goeAbout much six pairs a year will be stow average. I have customers wha come here for glasses twice that often every year, and some as frequently as two or three times a month. In nine cases out of ten the cause is simple carelessness.”— N. Y. Herald. In the January Wide Awake, Margaret Sidney’s paper on Whittier with the Children” naturally leada all others in timeliness and interest. It is sympathetic, personal and delightful, and shows the good Quaker poet as the child-lover and with that child-nature his poems have led us to ascribe to him. The article is profusely illustrated. Another leader is Frederick A. Ober’s “The Bridge that Spanned the World.” It deals with the localities made famous by Columbus in Spain. Kirk Munroe, the founder of the League of American Wheelmen, contributes a pithy article “About Bioycles” to the Wide Awake Athletics, and makea some sharp criticisms on the present method of “jackknifing” in the saddle. The short stories in this number are especially bright. • Annie Howells Freehette’s “Bill” is the study of a small boy that shows the Howells' realism in a new vein; Mnry Kyle Dallas’ “The Little Turk” is a tale of pluck and endeavor; Mary P. W. Smith in “Behind the Wardrobe” delights all those who love or hate arithmetic. The serial stories by W. O. Stoddard, Molly Elliot Seawell and Theodora R. Jenness are increasingly absorbing. Kata Putnam Osgood's “Ballad of the Bonny Page" is full of strength and fire; M. E. B’s dog poem, “A Morning Call,” Mrs. M. F. Butt’s “So the Snow Comes Down,” and Richard Burton's “Landlord and Tenant^’ are charming. The Men and ThinjfS department is full of bright paragraphs. The illustrations are beautiful. Meynelle’s exquisite frontispiece of Whittier with the children, has almost the softness and strength of an oil painting, and is well worth framing. Price 20 cents a number; ga. 40 ay ear. On sale at news stands or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by D. Lothrop ' Company, Publishers, Boston. —A lecturer on optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked: “Let any man gaze closely into his wife’s eye, and he will see himself looking so exceedingly small that -” Here the lecturer’s voice was drowned by the shouts of laughter and applause which greeted his scientific remark. —Tit-Bits - Natural. “Parker, the poet, has twins” “I am not surprised. He always was daft on couplets”—Puck. THE MARKETS. Nuw Yobz. Dec. 27, INS CATTLE—Native Steers. ...v.* 8 80 • * 50 OOTTON—Mtaaitng.. * 10% FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 2 00 a Sit WHEAT-No. 2 Rea. 77%4I ■ 78% CORN-No. 2..;... 48%* 49% OATS-Weatern Mixed. 38%« 38 PORK-New Mess.It 00 • IS 50 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. e 8% BEEVES—Choice Steers. t 00 • 8 W Medium.. 828 • 405 HOGS-Fair to Select.. t TO » 8 00 SHESP-Fair to Choice. 8 78 • 4 It FLOUR-Fatenta . 3 38 a 888 Fancy to Extra Do.. 2 80 • 818 WHEAT-No. 8 Red Winter... 88%» 08*8 CORN-No. 2 Mixed. 88%# 37 OATS-Na 2. » 81 RYE—No. 2. 82 • 58% TOBACCO—Loirs. 1 10 m 8 10 Leaf Barley. 4 80 • 7 10 HAT—Clear Timothy .. . 10 U0 • 12 60 (new! 23 21 S .... « t%« 10 « BUTTER—CUoloe Dairy. POKK-Staodard Meas ‘ BACON-Clear Rib. LARD—Prime Steam. WOOL—Choice Tab... CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 887 HOGS—Fair to Choice. 8 00 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. ....... 8 28 FLOUR—Winter Patents.. .T.. 8 50 Swing Patents. 8 78 WHEAT—So. 8 Spring. CORN-No. 2. .... OATS-No. 2... 30 PORK-Meas (New). 14 87>s« 14 50 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 8 80 • 4 90 BOGS—All Grades. 8 IK) • 8 48 WHEAT-No. 3 Rod. 87 • N DATS—No. A. . 28%® 28 CORN—No. 8. 88 81 81 NEW ORLEANS. fLOUR—High Grade. 3 30 • 3 80 JOHN—No. I.. 47 • 48 DATS—We^torn .. • 30 . .. 18 80 81 18 00 Meaa. • 18 37>s 28 21% IS 21 8% 10% 6 18 8 70 8 85 380 4 10 71% 40% »%

—At the annual meeting of the New Jersey Society ot the Daughters of the Revolution, held m Newark on November 18, a constitution was adopted, and a new chapter formed under the title of “The Nova Csesarea Chapter of the Daughters 'of the American Revolution.” Mrs. W. \Y. Shippen is state regent; Mrs. D. A. Depue, chapter regent; Mrs. D. W. C. Mather, registrar; Mrs. R. F. Stephens, treasurer; Mrs. H. Richards, secretary. Mrs. Holdich recited an original poem upon “New Jersey;” Mrs. Terhune (Marion Harland) read a paper entitled “Mary Washington: a Study.” In the course of this she refuted authoritatively the calumny that the mother' of George Washington was a tory. LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, Consumption comes. A slight cold, with yqur system in the scroful--ous condition that’s caused by impure Mood, ) , ia enough to fasten it n. upon you. That is the ^-Umo when neglect and delay are full or danger. , . Consumption ia LungScrofula. You can prevent it, and you can cure it, if you haven't waited too long, with Dr. Piorce’s Golden Medical Discovery. That is the most potent blood-cleanser, strengthrestorer, and flesh-builder that’s known to medical science. For every disease that has to be reached through tho blood, like. Consumption, for Scrofula in all its forms, Weak Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthma, and ail severe, lingering Coughs, it is th© only fpictranteea remedy. If it doesn’t benefit or cure, you have your money bade. The proprietors of Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy know that their meduSne perfectly ind permanently cures Catarrh. To prove It to you, thoymake this offer: If they can’t rare your Catarrh, no matter what your rase is, they’ll pay you (500 in cash. “German Syrup” My niece, Emeline Hawley, was, taken with spitting blood, and she became very much alarmed, fearing that dreaded disease, Consumption. She tried nearly all kinds of medicine but nothing did her any good. Finally she took German Syrup and she told me it did her more good than anything she ever tried. It stopped the blood, gave her strength and ease, and a good appetite. I had it from her own lips. Mrs. Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn. Honor to German Syrup. © of cod-liver oil presents a perfect food—palatable, easy of assimilation, and an appetizer; these are everything to those who are losing flesh and strength. The combination of pure cod-liver oil, the greatest of all fat producing foods, with Hypophosphites, provides a remarkable agent for Quick Flesh Building in all ailments that are associated with loss of flesh. Prepared by Scott A Bowne, Chemist* New York. Sold by all druggist*. JM sv?eustth MISSOURI. The M19SOITKI LAUD AND UTI are offering for sale at low pri< - ---* able terms a large amount o Agricultural lands ia the Christian, Stone. Lawrence. landoa mosWavoig VUIUUUU, DIVUV, WWW1TIIW. * / » McDonald and Douglas which eorapr of Southwest Missouri. Mild health; soil. Finely watered. The most pr^ don in the world. Fir ties ef Polk, Greene, — Jasper. Newton, o the nest part eltmate. Good >P°u la tfonjhereas tag f as «er th-„ he west. Come and jte.^^Wylte teethe dlroad than ia any •action »MXI salt NPUivrj Mas yean

—In September the Tribune fresh-air fund-dosed the most successful year it lias had since its foundation in 1877. Its receipts, including a small balance left from the previous year, were *82,115. It sent 15,207 children to the oountry for two weeks, and carried 25,560 people on the day excursions. Children were sent as far north as Lake Ontario, east to Newburyport, Mass., south to Cape Henlopen City, Del., and as far west as Meadville, Pa. Money was received from eleven different staten All the lines of travel leading into New York gave special rates, and the Trunk Line association gave the Tribune fund a “maximum rate,” by which a child could be sent 500 miles from New York and return for *3.50. ' IT MIS BABY. God bless the children. Any* thing that alleviates their sufferings and that restores them to health when they are afflicted is deserving of great praise. When we consider that half the population of the world die before they reach the age of five years, we can see what a boon any remedy is that banishes the chief danger of childhood? for eighty per cent, of deaths in these infants come from croup. Mothers will read the following epistle with interest. * KANSAS CITY, MO., Nov. joth, >893. My baby, nineteen months old, Is verj much subject to croup. Recently we have been induced to use Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure and we no longer dread these attacks. Two doses give i nstant relief. I give it freely and do not fear an overdose. J. W. MARSH, 202 East Fifth Street, Manager Depot Transfer Co* Kansas City» Mo. Unlike the Dutch Process

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