The Syracuse Register, Volume 7, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 9 January 1896 — Page 3

CHAPTER XII—COXTtxrrD. “ *Then my comrade and I will swear that you shall have a quarter of the treasure, which shall be equally divided four of us' “ ‘There are but’three.’ said I. “ ‘No; Dost Akbar must have his share. We can tell the tale to you while we await them. Do you stand at the gate, Mahomet Singh, and giye mjtice of their coming. The thing stah-ls thus. Sahib, nnd I tell it to you because I know that an oath is binding upon a Feringbce, and that we may trust you. Had you been a lying IllaJdoo, though you had sworn, by all the gods, in their false temples, your blood 'would have been upon the knife, and your .body in the water. But the Sikh knows the Englishman, and the Englishman knows the Sikh. Hearken, then, to what 1 hard to say. “ ‘There is a rajah in the northern provinces w ho has much wealth, though 4»ls lands hrc small. Much has come to him from; his father, and more still he has set by himself, for he is of a low nature and hoards his gold rather than spend it. When the troubles broke oat he would be friends both with the lipti r and the tiger with the Sepoy- and with the company’s raj. Soon, however, it scetnesi to. him that the white myn's day was come, for through all the land he could hcqr of nothing but their death and their overthrow.' Yet.-being a careful man, he made such plans that, e«>mc what "might, half- at least of his treasur- • would, be left to him. That which was in -gold and silver he kept by him in'the vaults of his palace, but the most precious stoneS and the ehoice- t js arls that he had he put in imi iron -[box and sent it by a trusty servant who,-under the guise of a mcr- - chant, should take it to the fort at Agra, there to lie until the land is at j-< ace Titus if the rebels w-on he would' have his money, but if the company conquer h>s jewels would lie saved to him.- Having thus divided his board he! dlirew himself into the cause of the Sepoys, since they were strong - .upon hi- bordera. - thia, mark you.; sahib, his property becomes the due of those'who have been true to their salt.• sh - “ 'This pretended merchant, who under the name of Aclimet, Is now’in city of Agra, and desires to pain his. way into the fort. He has with him as traveling' companion my .1 foster-brother Dvst-Akbar, who knows his ari-rct. I)ost-Ak;bar has pro; is night tn b ad ■ him to a aide-p>.stern of the fort, and has chosen this‘ofie-"f.. : r his- purpose. Ih.'re hewill - come preM-ntly and here ’he will fine} Mah-’ln-.-t S:"gh aid mjs-lf awaiting him. The place is lonely, pnd none shall know us his coming, [The world shall know’ • f the h<< rcl.ant A, limit no more. bitt tlic great treasure of tie rajah -hall lx- divided among us- IVhat ray you to it. sahib?*; ■ “Jn Worcester-hire the life of a. man seetns a gr- .it and a -acred thing; but . it is very different w hen there is Are and bh.xsl all round you and you hare t-s-n used to-meeting death at every turn. Whether Achmet the merchant lived or died wds a thing as light a* air to me, bqt at the talk nlsmt the treasure my heart turned toit.and 1, thought . f v hilt i • ■ o i-i the old country; with ijt, arid how my folks would stare when they saw their ne'er-do-well coming back with his pockets full of gold! jnokloA'S. 1 had, therefore, already; . jnade up my mind Abdullah Khan,, however, thinking that 1 hc-itated, , pressed the matter riiorC closely. ' ‘Consider, sahib.” said he, ‘that if this man is taken by the commandant: he will be hung, or shot, and his jewels taken by the government, so that no man will be-a rupee the better for them. Now. since we do the taking of him, why should we not do the rest as as well? The jewels will be us well with us as in the company’s coffers. There w;il be en -ugh tn muko every one of us rich men and great chiefs. No one cun know about the -matter. for here vyc are cut off from all men. - What icould- ho better for the purpose? Say again, (hen. sahib, whether you are with us. or if we must look upon you as an enemy.’ ■> ' “‘1 atu with you heart and soul," said I. ‘•‘lt is well.’ he.answered, handing tnc back my tircbxik. ‘You see that we trust v nt, for your word, like ours, is Dot to be broken. We have now only t<» wait for my brother and the tuer-. chant.’ ‘ - “ ‘Does vour brother kriow, then, of what you will do?’ 1 asked. “‘The plan is his. He has devised It AVe w ill go to the gate and share the watch wst h«M a hornet Singh.’ . “The rain was still falling steadily, for it was Just the leginning' of the Wet season. Brown, heavy elouds were drifting across the sky. and it was hard to ace mens than a stone-cast. A deep moat lay in front of our doer, but the w ater was in places nearly dried up, and it could carily be. crossed. It was atrunge to me to be standing there frith those two wild I'uujaubees waiting for the man who was coming to hh» death ‘‘Suddenly niy eye caught the glint of a shaded lantern d* the other side of the moat. It vanished among the mound-heaps, and,then appeared again coming slowly iq our direction. * ” ‘Here they ares I iexclaime«L “‘You will challenge him, sahib, as usual.' whispered Abdullah. ‘Give him no cause' for fear. Send us in with him, and we shall do the rest while you stay here on gourd. Have the lantern ready to uncover, that we may be sure that it is indeed the,man.* “The light had flickered onwards, now stopping and now advancing, untill could see two dark figures upon the other side of the moat. I let them rcramble down the sloping bank, sphssh through the mire, and climb half-way up to the gate, before I challenged them, “ ‘Who gocW there?* said 1 in a ante dued voice. “ ‘Friends,’ came the answer. I uncovered my lantern and threw a flood of light upon them. The first was an enormous Sikh, with a black beard whteh swept nearly down to his cummerbund. Outside of a show I have never seen so tall a man. The other wan a little fat, round fellow, with a great yellow turban, and a bundle in hta hand, done up In a shawl. He reeined to lie all in a quiver with fear, for his bands twitched as if he ague, and his head kept turning to last and right with two bright little

tfrinlllng eyes, like a mouse when ha ventures out from his hole. It gave me the chills to think of killing him, but I thought of the treasure, and my heart set as hard as a flint within me. When he saw my white face he gave a little chirrup of Joy and came running up towards me. “ ‘Your protection, sahib,’ he panted —•your protection for the unhappy merchant Achmet. I have traveled across Rajppotana that I might seek I the shelter of the fort at Agra. I have been robbed and beaten and abused because I have been the friend of the : company. It is a blessed night this ' when lam once more in safety—l and 1 my poor possessions. ’ “’What have you In the bundle?* I [ asked. . “‘An Iron box,’ he answered, *which t [ contains one or two little family matters which are of no value to others, but which I should be sorry to lose. Yet I am.net a boggart and 1 shall jre- [ ward yon, young sahib, and your governor also, if he will give me the shelter I ask.’ “Take him to the main guard,’aaid , l. The two Sikhs closed in upon him on each side, nnd the giant walked behind, while they marched in through the dark gateway. Never was a man so compassed round with death. I rc- ' mained at the gateway with the lantern. “I could hear the measured tramp of their footsteps sounding through the lonely corridors. Suddenly it ceated, ■ and I heard voices, and a scuffle, with ; ■the sound of blows. A moment later there came, to my horror, a rush of footsteps coming in my direction, with the loud' breathing of a runing man. I turned my lantern down the lotig, straight passage, and there was the fat man. running like the wind. --With a smear of tylood across his face;/ ! and close at his heels, bounding like a ; tiger, the great black-bearded Sikln ; with a knife flashing in his hand. I have never seen a man run so fast as that little rxierchant. He was gaining on the >ikh. andd could see that if be .once passed me ab<f Jmt |o the open air he would save himself yet. My heart softened to him, but again the thought of his treasure turned me bard anil bitter. I cast my firelock between his legs as he raced past, and he polled ' twice ov, r like a shot ralidnt?' —Ere he - stagger to his feet was ’ upon him, and buried jChife twice in his side. The mari never uttered | {.moan nor moved muscle, but lay where ' Ihe liad fallen. I think myself that he may have broken his neck with the fall. ' [You see, gentlemen, that 1 am keeping m. promise. I am telling you every word of the business just exactly as it happened, whether it is in my favor or not.’’- .* He stopped and held out his manacted hands for the whisky and water which Hefttpes had brewed for him. For myself. I confess that I had now conceived the utmost horror of the man. not only for this cold-blooded { business in which he had been conicerne.l, but ercn.nwrt for the some- ' it’tfti _ -e “wnn aivr r<»v ix not i J hv'hat flippant and careless way in, ' which he narrated it. Whatever pun - . ishmeht was in store for him. I felt thatjie might expect no sympathy from me, Sherlock Holmes and Jones sat with tbeir hands upon thete knees,J i deeply interested in the story, but with 1 the same disgust written Upon their -foccS. He may have '.'observed, it. f r | there was a touch < f defiance in his [ voice and manner aS he proceeded. “It was all vv’ry bad. no doubt." said ! he, “1 should like to know h>w many * fellows in my shoes would have refused a share of thi ; loot when they , knew that they would have their throate exit for tbeir pains, licsides. it ' was my life or hi- when once he was in the fort. If he had got out,the whole business' would have come to light, an I I should have Ken court*martialed ’ and shot as likely as not; for people L were not very lenient at a time like ; that." “Go on with y<»ur story," said Holmes, i ahortlv. 1 , “Well, we carried him in, Abdullah, Akbar and 1- A fine weight he was, too, for all that he w t»o short. Mahomet Singh was left to" guard the 1 . door. Wc took him to a place which { 1 the Sikhs had already prepared; It was some distance off. where a winding pas1 sage leads to a great empty hall, the brick walls of which were all crumbling - to pieces. The earth floor had sunk in 1 at one, place, making a natural grave, ! so we left Achmet the merchant there. | having first c«vcrc<i lum ’dver with ’ loose bricks.’’ This done, we all went 1 i back to the treasure. . . . “It lay where he had dropped it when he was first attacked. The box wm the same which now lies open upon J your table. A key was hung by a i [ silken cord to that carved handle upon the top. We opened it, and the light i of the lantern gleamed upon a colle«-| 11ton of gems such as 1 have read of and I thought about when I was a little lad [st I’crriiore. It was blinding to look { upon them. When we had feasted our I eyes wc took them all out and made a i list of them. There were one hundred i ’ and fortv-thn-e diamonds of the first i water, including one which has been {called, T believe, the Great Mogul,’ and Is said to be the second largest stone in existence. Then there were 1 nlnety-eeven very fine emeralds, and one hundred and seventy rubies, some • of which, however, were small. There I were forty carbuncles, two hundred i and ton sapphires, sixty-one agates and i a greatquantity of beryls, onyxes, cats’- • eyes, turquoises and other stones, the • i very names of which I did not know at ■ the time, though 1 hare become more ; familiar with them since. Besides i this, there were nearly three hundred i very fine pearls, twelve of which were ( set ip a gold coronet. By the wAy, i, these last had been taken out of the i chest and were not there when I»w i covered it-

"After we had eountei our treasures we put them back into the chest' and carried them to the gateway to show them to Mahomet Singh. Then wa solemnly renewed our oath to stand by each other and be true to our secret. We agreed’ to conceal our loot in a safe place until the country should lie at peace again, and then to divide it equally among ourselves. There was no use dividing it at present, for if gems of such value were found upon us it would cause suspicion, and there was no privacy in the fort nor any place where we could keep them. We carried the box, therefore, into the same hall where we had buried the body, and there. Under certain bricks tn the best-preserved wall, we made a hollow and put our treasure. We made 4 careful note of the place, and next day Dflyew four plans, one for each of us. nridput the sign of the four of us at the bottom, for #e had sworn that we should each always act for all, so that none might take advantage. That is an oath that 1 can put my hand to my heart and ’ swear that I have never , broken. “Well, there’s no use my telling you. gentlemen, what came of the Indian mutiny.’ After Wilson took Delhi and '■ Sir Colvin relieved Lucknow the back of the business was broken. Fresh troops came pouring in, and Nana Sahtb made himself scarce over the frontier. A flying column under Col. ; Greathead came round to Agra and cleared the Pandies away from it. Peace seemed to be settling upon the country, arid we four were beginning I to hope that file time was at hand, when jjse might safely go off with our shares of the plunder. ‘ In a moment, however, puT.hopes were shattered by bur being arrested as the murderers of Achmet, ■ - ' "It came about in this way: When the-rajah put his jewels into the hands { of Achmet he did it because he knew ; that he was a trusty man. They are ; suspicious folk in the east, however; so i ! what does this rajah do but take a second even more trusty servant apd-set him to play the spy upon the first? This second man was ordered'never to let Achmet out of his sight, and he followed him lik< his shadow. He went, after him that night, and saw him pass through the doorway. Os course he | thought he had taken refuge in the ( fort, and applied for admission there himself next day, but could find Ino trace of Achmet, This seemed 1 to him so strange that he spoke about it to a sergeant of guides, who brought it to the ears of the commandant. A thorough search ■ was quickly made, and the body was' i discovered. Thus at the very moment > that we thought that all Was safe we were all’ foul seized and brought tej trial.on a charge of murder—three of us because we had held the gate that night, and the fourth because he was known to have been in company of the murdered man. Not a word about the jewels came out at the -trial, for the ; rajah had been deposed and driven out of India; sohio one had any particular ; interest in them. The murder, however. was clearly made out, and it was certain that we must all have been concerned in it. The three Sikhs got penal servitude for life."and I was condemned to death, though my sentence was afterward commuted into the same as the others. "It was rather a queer ; position that wc found ourselves in then. There we weres all four, tied by the leg .and with precious little chance of ever gets ting out again, while we each held a secret which might have put each of us in a palace if we could only liave made use of it. It was enough to make a man eat his heart out to have to stand the kick and the cuff of every pettv jack m office, to have rice To eat and water to drink, when that gorgeous fortune was ready for him outside, just waiting to be piaked up. It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so 1 just held on and bided my time. ’ “At last it seemed to me to have ■ come. I . was changed from Agra to Madras, and from there to Blair island in the Andamans: There are very few’white convicts at this settlement, and, j as I had behaved well from the first, I aobn found myself a sort of privileged person. I wasgiven-a hut in Hope town, which Is a small place on the slopes of M,>unt Harriet, and I was left, prettiy much to myself. It is a dreary, feverstrieken place, and all beyond our little cli arings was infested with wild cannibal natives, who were ready enough to •blow a poisoned dart at us if they saw a chance. There was digging, and ; ditching, arid yam-planting, and a ' dozen other things to be- done, so We were busy enough all day; though in the evening wc had a little time to ouir- < selves. Among other things, 1 learned j to dispense drugs for the surgeon, and picked up a smattering of his knowl edge. AB the time I was on the look { out for a chance of escape; but it is hundreds of miles from any other { and there is little or no wind in thorn seas; so it was a terribly difficult job te ! get away. ■{'. ; < j“The surgeon, Dr Somerton, was a fast, sporting young chap, and the i ojfiejr young officers would meet in his ; rooms of aa evening and play car-is. The Surgery, where I used to make up my drugs, was next to his sitting-room, with a small window between us. Often, if I felt lonesome. I- used to turn out the lamp in the surgery, and then. ■I standing there, I could hear their talk and watch their play. 1 am fond of a hand at cards myself, and it was al- { most as good as having one to watch the others. There was Maj. Sholto. Capt Morstan and Lfeut. Bromley Brow n. vvho were in command of the | ■ native troops, and there was the surgeon himself, and two or three prisonofficials. crafty old hands who played a i nice aly sale game. A very snug little ; party they used to'make. “Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, and that was that soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to win. Mind, 1 don't say that there was anything unfair, but so it was. These prison chaps *had done little else than play cards ever since { they had been at the Andamans, and they knew each other’s game to a ’ point, while the others just played to pass the time and threw their cards down anyhow. Night after night the soldiers got up poorer men, and the poorer they got the more keen they were to play. Maj. Sbolto was the hardest hit. He used to pay in notes and gold at first, but soon it came to notes of hand and for big sums. He sometimes would win for a few deals, just to give him heart, and then the luck would set in against him worse than ever. AU day he would wander a boot as black as thunder, and he took te drinking a deal more than was gooi far him. ~ ■ Ito as coaxanntol

MAY BUY BONDS. Chanoe Offered the Public by Secretary Carlisle. The lease to Be for 5100,000,000 tn Denotnlnat lona of *3o—Pnrehaaen Must Pay In Gold - Securities to Bear 4 Per Cent. Interest. Washington, J{an. 6.—At midnight ■ Secretary Carlisle prepared the follow* 1 ing notice, which will be issued to-day: "Treasury Department. Washington. Jan. S, 1834.—Office of the secretary: Notice la ; hereby riven that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the secretary of ; Che treasury at Washington, D. C.. until I 11 o'clock noon on Wednesday, the fifth day of February. ISOS, for the purchase of one hundred million dollaft (tlOOfteo.OOO) of : United States four per cent, coupon or reg- ‘ Istered bonds tn denominations of fifty dol- { lars (ISO) and multiples of that sum, aa may be deaired by bidders. The .right to reject any or all blds is reserved. "The bonds will be dated on the first day of Februanr. 1595. and be payable in coin J 30 years after that date, and will bear Interest at four per cent, per annum, payable puarterly in coin, but all coupons maturing .on and before the first day of February, ' IRSd, will be detatched, and purchasers Will be required to pay tn United States gold coin or gold certificates for the bonds awarded to them, and all interest accrued thereon after the Ist day oflFebruary, 185*5. up to the time of application for delivery. “Payments for the bonds must be made at the treasury of ths United States at Washington, D. C., or at the United B<ates subtreiuiurtes at New York. Busion, Fblla- | delphla, Baltimore. Utncinnatl. Chicago, St. Louis or New Orleans, or they may be made at San Francisco, with exchange on New York, and all blds trust alate‘what denominations of bonds are desired, and whether coupon or registered, and at what place they will be paid for. ■ J "Payments may be made.by installments, as follows: Twenty per cent. (20 per cent.) upon receipt of notice of acceptance of I , 1-lda, and JO per cent. (2t) per'cent.) at the > end of each ten days thereafter: but all accepted bidders may pay the whole amount at the date of the'ftrst installment, i - and those who have paid all installments i previously maturing may pay the whole amount of their bids at any time, not later > than the maturity of the last installment. "The bonds will be ready for delivery on <1 before the 15th day of February. 1834. "Notice i» further hereby given that If the issue and sale of additional ot dlge-ent form ot bond for the maintenance ot the gold reserves "shall be authorized by- law befors the sth day of February. 1836. sealed proposals f3r the purchase of such bonds will also be received at the- same lime and place, and up to the same date, and upon the same term* and conditions herein set forth, and such&ids will be con- f ■ side red as well as the blds for the four per cent, bonds herein mentioned. - "J. G. Carlisle.. "Secretary of the Treasury.’' A It was almost midnight when Secretary Carlisle’s circular was made pub--1 lie, too late nn hour to obtain the opini ions of public men on the'action of the government or the prospect of tho absorption of the bonds by the people. The fact that the bonds w ill be issued ! in sums of SSO and multiples thereof and l>e payable in installments is a \ feature which it is believed will make i them be regarded with popular favor. The main reason for dating the bonds n year back is said to be in order to give the public a better opportunity to { judge their market value by eompariqg them with the gold' fours issued at j that time, so that their bids can be 1 made tp-conform to the market vafae j of those bonds on February 1. This is the first issue by the present administration 6f such a large amount of j I bonds at one time, all the previous ■ issues having beep for $50,000,000 each. JAMESON’S DEFEAT. Ills Command Captured After a Loss Ot S4O Killed and Wounded. London. Jan. 6.—ln response to an , inquiry from the colonial office Sir ; Walter Hely-H itchfo-sap, governor of [ Natal, has sent a dispatch confirming i the main facts of Dr. Jameson’s de- { feat. He adds that the Boers who op- J posed Dr. "Jameson’s force numbered about 1,500. They occupied a strong position. The governor also sends ex- { tracts from newspaper teiegrama, which are, confused and contradictory. ThctnainpointsiJeductiblefrpni thess i disjiatches are that Dr. Jameson ar- I rived near Krugersdofji oh December 31 and attacked the Boers on the day j J following, lie was repulsed and then ' tried to move by Ilaridfontein to RoodeI port, but was stopped at Dborkop. Heavy ; { fighting took place on the afternoon of j January 2. at which time the Transvaal ; . state artillery arrived. Dr. Jameson's ' force was hopelessly outnumbered and . J wils almost exhausted, having been [ without food for three days. The horisex, too, were helpigsiily jaded. Dr. Jameson yielded after, sustaining a loss I which, if the original force was 800 { men, amounted to 240 killed and ! woundetl. In reply to a cable disfwitch to PriinF dent Kruger relative to the report tlm Jameson and his fellow-prisoners are to be shot, Joseph Chamberlain has aeceived from the president an assur- . aace that he has not ordered “the free-l-ooters who are prisoners’’ to ‘>e shot, but that-they wiU I* tried "strictly in { accordance with the traditions of the republic anil in sharp contrast to the unheard-of acts of these‘freebooters.’’ Extensive Swindler Captured. New York, Jan, Detectives of the district attorney’s office telegraphed to the chief of police at Chicago early Sat- ! urday morning and securetl the arrest there of Jacques Ochs, 50 years bld. and who is wanted here for an extensive m heme of swindling by means of starting Masonic chapters. The man had carried on the same scheme all over the country, and is said to have got $50,000 to $60,000 in eastern cities alone. He swindled a great many Hebrews in this c:t y- ' .. J The Kurds Mill Slaju<hterinK Armenian* London, Jan. 6.—A correspondent of the press at Constantinople telegraphs under the date of January 3 that a Ur-; rible massacre lias taken place at Biridjik, near Aintab, in Asia Minor. The official report of the occurrence states that 900 persons were.killed. It is believed here that the masaa- j ere at Biridjik was committed by the Kurds of the Hamadieh .cavalry. The I recent massacre at Orfah waa a terrible affair. The porte admits that 900 . persons were killed there, but other accounts say that 2,000 were slaughtered. Fuel and Clothes Needed. Sioux City, Jan. 6. —Rev. W. B. Hubbard, of D., has issued j an appeal for aid for destitute farmers i in Charles Mix and Douglas counties. | The last harvest was a good one and | food is plenty, but owing to the low prices of crops there is much suffering from lack of fuel and clothing. The towns in the southeast part of the state are responding liberally to the appeal. Accidentally Killed. Virginia, DI., Jan. Fred Shoopman, aged 25, was shot and instantly killed by the premature discharge of a ahoteun."

EARLIEST OXIONS FAT. I] There’s a market gardener IU Minnesota. He is prosperous, tnakes J his money on earliest vegeta’aleS, t gets his seeds from Salz-.'t, fol- s lows Salzer's instructions how to grow 1 1000 bu. per acre and sells Salzer’s | King of the Earliest onion already in i July and pets $1.50 a bud Catalogue t tells all about it and of lots of other ( seed for garden and farm! 35 packages i earliest vegetables SI.OO. *. If you Will cut this out and send 1 it with 12c. stamps to John A. Salzer, | La Crosse, Wis., you will get free his catalogue and a package of yellow watermelon sensation, (K.) “Yessir,” said Farmer Corntossel, , ‘‘we’re gain’ to have a genuine novelty in , our township next year.” "What wnl it bet” “We’re goin’ ter her a county fair wethoutvßny Midway Plizzance into it.”— Washington Star. Ghosts Are Tale and Shadowy, Say those who profess to have interviewed them. Whether spooks are tallow-faced or not, mortals are whose bipod is thin and watery in consequence of nhperfeet assimilation.' When invalids resort to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, ami use that unequalled tonic persistently, they soon “pick up" iu strength, flesh and color. It should bo used also to prevent malarial, rheumatic and kidney complaints, and to remedy constipation, sick headache and nervousness. Could anvthing be neater than the old darky’s reply to a beautiful young lady whom he offered to lift over the gutter, and who insisted that she was too heavy! "Lor’, missus," said he. ‘Tse used to lifting barrta of sugar.’’—Exchange.' All About Western Farm Lands. The “Corn Belt” is a monthly paj>er published by the Passenger Dei>artiuent <’!" the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. It is designed to give reliable iufonniitien concerning western farm lands, what can be.raised on them successfully, and the experiences of farmers who live in the west. Copies of the paper will be sent to any ad-, dress for one year on receipt of 25 cents. Postage stamps accepted. .Address "The Coru ilelt,’’2W Adams St., Chicago. “You and your sister are nbe-nt the same siie, and you look exactly alike. Twins, aren't you "’ asked the visit or. "'Course not!" exclaimed Tommy, highly indignant "She's a girl!”—Chicago Tribune. To California In Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars. > The Burlington Route (C., B &Q. R. R.) runs personally conducted excursions to California, leaving Chicago every Wednesday. Through cars to California destination, fitted with ‘carpets, upholstered seats, bedding? toilet ‘rooms, etc.; every convenience. Special agent in charge. Route via Denver and Salt Lake. Sunshine all the way. Write for descriptive pamphlet to T. A. Grady, Exeubsiou Manager, 211 Clark SL, Chicago. Oh. "busy bee." exalted so. We’d Work like you. we vow, . If we could loaf six mouths or so As you are loafing now. —Washington Star. To California. Studv all time cards and you will find no railroad carrying tourist cars make as quick time as the Phillips Rock Island Excursions: One hour ami thirty minutes quicker time than any other ro.ute Chicago to Los Angeles. — A. Phillips & Co. have carried over 125.000 patrons to and from California. Why? Because every, well posted California traveler understands Phillips has the best regulated tourist system. Jno. Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago, 111. The same man does the kicking, As the seasons eome°iuid go; He grew profane at summer. And does the same towards snow. —Washington.Star. Low Rates to the South. On the first Tuesday of each month, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. will sell ! one way tickets to all points in the South at greatly’ reduced rates. The fast train over I this route now leaves Chicago daily at s : F. M. and runs through solid to Nashville. 1 making connection there Sjrith all trains for L the Smith and Southeast. City Ticket Office 230 GlaJk St., Chicago. “Evekt time! see you. lam reminded of Herr Rummel. ’ “How so!" He owes me giJ. ’— Fliegeude Blaetter. Schiller Theater, Chicago. Extensive changes are being made in the i Schiller stage to give "Sinbad" its full scenic value. Begins Jan. stlr. Toper—“l shay, mister, can you tell me (hie where the sidewalk is! I am a shrun- , ger.here. "-rFhegeude Blaetter. McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. Mr.. Frank Mayo wi' follow “Rorv of the Hill” in his dramatization of Mark Twain's I novel, “Pudd'nhead Wilson ” -——, ♦ — ■ . The mind itself must, like other things, sometimes be unbent; or else it will be i either weakened or broken.—Sir P. Sidney. Business Chance—A (KK>d Income. We pay vou to sell fruit trees. Stark Nurseries, Louisiana. Mo.; Roc. port, 111. —— ♦ — " A roiß-TBxR-OLO child aptlg described ,| imagination as looking at things you cannot I see.—Texas Siftings. "Bhows's Broxcuial Troches” are unrivalled for relieving Coughs, Hoarseness and ail Throat Troubles. Sold only in boxes "And did l;e say he remembered me when I was a girl!" "N:i; he said he remembered I you when he was a buy.”- Life. After physicians had given me tip, I was saved by Piso's Cure.—Ralph Ekilo, Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 22. UNKL A sermon over IM)minutes long is a clerical error—Texas Siftings. Beecham's pills for constipation We and 25c. Get the book (free) at youT druggist's | and go by iu Annual sales 6,000,(X® boxes. THE MARKETS. I New York; Jan. 6. LIVE STOCK—Steers ....... *3 » *i 4 Sheep.. 2 50 tl 3 75 Hogs.. . 3to tr 450 FLOUR—City MiH Patents. 3to fr 415 Winter Patents 3 50 <• 3 65 WHEAT—No. 2 Red.. «S%® May... so so l * CORN—No. 2..... 3441) 34% May...1.'... 344 V 34% OATS - Western . 234 V 27 PORK — Me 55.............:... 9 23 « » 50 LARD—Western Steam..,.. 5-70 <r 575 : HITTER-Western Cr m’y. 18 24 Western Dairy 11 ‘i 18 l EGGS... ..... -22 V 25 CHICAGO. : CATTLE - 8eeve5........... 83 50 6'4 U Stockers and Feeders..., 250 <i 3?) Cows 1 M ‘J 3 70 Texas Steers 2to ft 3 G 5 HOGS - Light 3 SO <1 3 774 Rough Hacking 3 50 V 3 60 SHEEP 2. f '«) fi 3 SO BUTTER - Creamery 19 V 24 Dairy 12 w 20 i . Packing Stock ... 8 w 10 EGGS — Fresh . -20 U 21 BROOM CORN (per t0n).... WOO ?i45 00 POTATOES (per bu.) la V 22 J’ORK - Mess 8 «74U 9 00 i LARD - Steam 5 374$ 5 40 I FLOUR—Spring Patents ... 3 15 350 I Spring Straights.. 2 65 $ 2 90 Winter Patents 300 $ 3 50 Winter Straights......... 300 W 3 29 GRAlN—Wheat. May. 594$ W 4 Com. No. 2. 254$ 25% Oats. No. 2.. 17$ 17*4 Rye, N<x 2 224$ 32% Barley, Good to Choice.. 30 0 38 MILWAUKEE CRAlN—Wheat. No. 2 Sp’g. 584$ 58% Corn. No. 3., 26 $ 26% Oats, Na. 2 White ’• 1844# 18% Rye, No. 1 35%$ 36 Barley. No. 2 32%fr 32% PORK — Mess 8 to $ 8 95 LARD 5 40 $5 45 ST. LOUIS. CATTI.M — Steers J 3 50 ©4 75 Texas... 3 50 $3 75 HOGS.. K.:... 3 25 $3 70 SHEEP 3 50 Q 3 55 OMAHA. CATTLE - Steers 33 20 © ♦2O Feeders ........ v ... .2 » gag Cows .7 150fi 325 HOGS—Light and Mixed.... 3 47%g 3 50 sheep.... •••••• a® & *oo 9 . .

Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, a» merctirv will surely destroy the sense of Smell and completely derange the wholesysfem When entering it through tbemueous surfaces. Such- articles • should never be used exedpt on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they Wfll do la teu fold b? thO good yen can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, n>anufactured by F. J. CheneyS Co.. Toledo, 0., contains’ no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the svstetn. Jti butring Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you pet the Kpnuiuet It is taken internally, and made m Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. ■ Bold bv Druggists, price JSc. per bottle. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Impartial. — Brown—“ Big failure of Smith's, i wasn't it I Any ‘ preferences?” Jones—“ None whatever. Borrowed wherever he could.’’—Brooklyn Life.

«* KNOWLEDGE ' Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who ter than others and enjoy life more, less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles, embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs, Its excellence is due to its presenting in the f<xin most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative; effectually cleansing the system, colds, headaches and fevers "ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without wcak- ' ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Svrup of Figs is for sale by all druggists in 50c and fl bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed,jrou wiil>uot accept any substitute if offered.

/ u L j ri ’ a. Be sure to PLUG and no other, for it is the largest piece of Coofl tobacco ever sold for. IO CENTS _ ii ' 1* --1 > I~j~ i —1 ■■ ■■ ■■ *—■——< - to—> ■■ l *«— r—i r • - ! - ( , 1 , [- -1 ■ , ) t ; T J - -- ■ 4 to --s to. to—M r r r L, ly K il b - -V- IW *> ■-- I FIELD AND HOC FENCE WIRE. 20 33 42, 80, or 88 inches high. Quality and workmanshipJhe beat. Nothing oh the market to compare wph it. VVnte for full information. UNION FENCE COMPANY, DE KALB, ILL,

toast bread and keep it dry. There’ll be no danger of its molding. ‘ But moisten the bread with water, and see the result, in a short time it is covered with mold. It is just so with consumption. Its germs will not grow in the lungs unless everything is suitable to them. Weakness, poor blood, loss of appetite, coughs and colds often prepare the ground for the development of the germs of consumption. To destroy germ-life the system must be kept in a well-nourished condition. Do u se Take Scott’s Emulsion, with hypophosphites, as ——— —— a preventive. It furnishes the reinforcements necessary for the body to conquer in the easiest possible form. The oil is in a state quickly taken up and rapidly transformed into the organs and tissues. When you ask for Scott** Emulsion and your druggist gives you a salmon-colored package with the picture of a man and fish on it—you can trust that man with your prescriptions I ••asauaodSuoo SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York

! ! irothhi? to suddenly aafi completely ( ( disables the muscles aa LUMBAGO, : i LAME BACK," STIFF NECK, - ud nothlnff to promptly < i ST. JACOBS OIL" { mOMESTIC COFFEEBERRY ■> /o' BETTES THAN A GOLD MINE. Raise your own eofflee at les* than one cent S pound. high txrt!T store coffee go. The poor man » .friend and rich man’s deitgnt Matureg north or south In four months. Plant any time up tothe ’JOth of June; farmers supplied and every one praise* IU Hat produced over 60 busheit per acre. Some prefer It to store coffee. Produce# iwoeropia year in the south. lJ»r<* packet postpaid €O cts.; or enough to plant «M> hills. *»• cts. or stasins. Will malte »OQ pot# of most dellctoag C' fTee, g'Hxi enough for a king. Is superseding store ’coffee as fast a< Its merits become «nown. Large catalogue of 50 new varieties of seeds and testimonials from patrons all over the Vwfon sent free with each order by C. E COI-K. Meedenan. Huckoer, Missouri. • ! -Ttr Special mw>l«#nle Prices to F>.irm9ra and Mev* ‘ eMnU.'irhocUer ©rev 800 pep ccnt. seUinf this wees | &rful SEED during winter. Free s imple and laye catalog for 5 ct#. in stamps. i OPIUM bTw/wOOLLAT, AXUWtA, SA. w-lr AMA THIS rsm ww n. nto MSmIIKJI Morphine II;«blt <lire,i ln-1<» RImIIIM <<* «O<ln.v». Xo pay till cured. UI IU In I>K. J. STEPHLSS. L»b»non,()hio. ! A. N. K.-A ' 15SG