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THE MANCHESTER JOURNAL
J. M. SIMMONS. Pabllahar
Manoheater, O. T
Tint I'ii' iritn war minister says
that dueling hliull not I*' prohibited.
Probably ho fear* that onou deprived
ol thl* method of nettling dilforencu*
excited gentlemen might resort to
violence.
Kknti < m elected eight women ns
county school superintendents at tho
recent election. One of them is a
widow, about 15 years old, and tho
mother of fourteen children, seven
of whom aro under 12 years of age
lr Is probable that we havo as
many old-fushlono I winters as they
ever had In old fashioned times
Our old Inhabitants doubtless think
that the winters were more sevo c
in their youth than they aro to-day,
because they remember tho severe
winters of their boyhood aud forgot
the mild ones
Froeessor Hamm, of tho weather
bureau, expressos tho opinion that
all the coucusslon experiments to
prod ce rain have been failures, and
that those conducted in Connecticut
last summer seemed to prolong tho
drought In thut section, while there
his plenty of rain in the region
roundabout.
Even the persuasive and eloquent
l)r. Depcw failed to talk with 1 .eg
Humbert while In Koine. Kocenl
events havo not tended to make this
monarch very communicative to citi-
zens of a republic which cun show up
nothing in tho lino of political cor-
ruption to match thut which s ut-
tered his cabinet.
Two men stole what they thought
was a a bottle of whisky. By the
time the glow- of its contents hud
permeated their interiors they
learned with rome chagrin that it
was bedbug poison, aud died The
ouly way to get even will lie to set
some whisky where tho bedbugs will
lie fooled by it
The mother entered nnd quickly I pole, .ering the other fellow hid a
barred the door. "Ilusbdnd, husband. | f„|| |mnd, promptly threw up his.
while Hunk deftly relieved him of hi*
Hymn of the Now Year.
New life sn l light! nsw rspturs and new
Joys!
Nsw bops*, though all these fail, to light
niv days
Oh. taki my heart's delight In these thy
gifts;
My thsnks and praise, O I«rd' ray
thanks and prabe
Pasty th* way has l-een, and long and
lark
Even now I scarce can hope, for hope b«
trays.
0 faithipss heart, to him who came for
thee.
Give now thy thanks and praise thy
thinks and praise'
Rarely (he sun will shine throughout the
land;
Burely her miracles will work the spring
t.lfe stands revealed where ell seemed
drear and dead
O heart! my heart' thou mayst give
tnanks and sing
Ring nnd rejoice Ever give thanks and
sing!
l.ife rules I'eath Is not. though it
seem to tie'
Love sleeps not God is an eternal king
His thought shall reach even to u*y
beart and me'
think what has happened! On the
edge of tin- holy forest I met n little
man with snowy beard who told me
whore to gal Iter the best cones I went
to find them, tint tlie farther 1 went
tlie faster the cones fell from the lira.
They came about my head as thick an
snow flakes in midwinter; yet the trees
shook not. I was nfr:n<rtind did not
I stop to pick up one; tiut some fell in my
basket, and here they arc."
"Ili*t. wife! I.ook. look thou! They
are pure silver. It's the Gubich thou
hast met "
I town the basket dripp'l. Around
it grouped thi' mother and children.
True, there lay tlie cones, silver every
one, gleaming in the tire-light as had
the beard of ttie little in in in tlie gold-
I cn glow of tlie sun
The morrow s nun had tipped the
I graceful lit-s with gold, when again
] tlie mother stood at the edge of the
j forest, in a moment tlie Gubich was
before her "Good-morrow, pood soul!
I'oundn't thou not beautiful cones
, yester-eve?” And a laugh rang through
I the forest The mother struggled to
' speak. "Keep thy thank- I wiqh them
not," continued the Gubich. "He thou
only faithful to thy husband's words,
, and each cold December give t<t me
j and my dear tirr. a loving thought to
J keep our hearts warm. Now hie thee
i home."
- - I Not more quickly speeds the wind
WtllJ Santa Claus’ Beard IS ,hanthe mother horaeugain. not more
A minister in Haverhill. Mass., has
gotten hiras-lf into troublo over his
efforts to exterminate a skunk He
caught the animal, and in attempt-
ing to suffocate it burned it The S.
P. C. A. prosecuted him. and after
he hai pleaded guilty he was fined
$15. Now the people are dividing
their condemnation between tho so-
ciety and tlie judge
Along the Mississippi thh pros
pect of having to drink
t’hicagc sewer water is arousing
much interest and alarm. The Mis-
sissippi river now is about ten times
purer above tho mouth of the Illinois
than below it When Chicago’s big
se.wpr gets in full operation thi
amount of chlorine boating will kill
every catfish in the river.
It is said that Mr. Howells makes
$3o.0J i a year by his writings. Lit-
erature. it seem-, no longer lives in
a garret, the consort of poverty and
shame. A man who writes to-day
and writes what the people want cau
get what he earni, and he can earn
enough usually to keep himself and
family in comfort The old days of
Bohemian poverty are over.
Professor Garner’s best chimpan-
zee has died. The animal reached
the confines of civilization, listened
aadly to the conversation, rolled its
eyes resignedly an 1 went hence.
This strengthens Professor Garner's
position. He contends that chimpan-
zees understani language an 1 that
he has derived much pleasuro from
interchange of- views with them.
White.
A Bird.
I'RING TU E
babyhood of Santa
Claus — long, long
ago -j- while still
„many 'good and
wortby f"lk bc-
,l qieved wood-sprites
># Hived in the holes of
trees, witches in
caves, and dwarfs
I deep down under
happy are the birds than were the
hearts in the miner s home that day.
By night nowhere a hungry soul on
tlie "beautiful llirehbichenslein "
Pear San- I Claus ever since, thy
beard's been white as snon
I>earChris*m.tsjoy evet since.madly
the llarz maidens dance round the
g careful firs
The New Year Book
Now l« th* tim* to he gled and bright.
And kin.I a* we c»D from m rrn till night;
lie quirk t - s:ni!* end to frown he slow,
An t try to lesrii what is good to know;
For. oh, let u* thiuk how the days will
look
earth, there lived in | While we write them down in our New
*Three young conspirators are on
♦ rial at Montreal for having at-
tempted to blow up or down, or over
sidewise, the Nelson monument A
postponement lias been secured in
order to allow witnesses to leave the
country. This is found to be as
effective as the "technicality’’ in de-
feating justice, and does not make
judge and lawyers appear a lot of
jays.
The recent use of the guillotine in
Paris has started anew the discussion
as to relative merits of methods of
rendering the murder innocuous. It
must be admitted that a man once
beheaded is fully as incapable of
acting on criminal impulse as though
he had b 'en banged, and that an
electrocuted p -rson is at an equal
disadvantage. Therefore all the
methoJs have points of excellence.
After a long struggle the com-
pany organized to catch porpoises
for their skins has gone into the
hands of a receiver. There has
never been a time when the company
could supply the demand for por-
poise leather to be turned into shoe
laces, but in spite of tho excellence
of the leather for shoe uppers, its
price has always prevented its get-
ting a hold upon the market. The
oil of the porpoise, of great value for
several purposes is only slowly be
coming known to tho public.
Germany, on one of
lesser mountains of
the Harz, a miner with
his wife and seven children.
Deep down in tlie bosom
of the mountains was tlie
mine. Here the father had worked
each day from morn to night to feed,
even scuntilv. his wife and children.
At last came a season of great dearth
The miner fell sick. Sadly his wife
hung out of sight his leather w-wk
suit.
The cold winter with its cruel grasp
stole down from tlie mountain top-;
still the miner lay sick; still the dearth
of food throughout the little town; no-
where a mouthful to spare. I lie birds
in the trees lived and were merry.
Must the little children starve " M ilo
had done it? 'I tell you. its the
Gubich. king of dwarfs, who spoiled
the crops last year I know his pranks,
curse him." said the oldest of the min
ers. "Who in summer steals all
the raspberries and straw-1 terries
He never eat- aught else, and
has lived like a prince, in his rocky
cavern up there among the holy tirs.
ever since the old giant threw- these
mountains out of his shoe because the
bit of sand hurt him I tell you the
Gubich can make us sick with a
glance, touch or breath Save me
from going near his home! 5 et they
sav the cones off his trees are good to
eat. and can be made into wondrous
prettv things which sell well in the
town below- us. Starve or touch them''
Starve, I say!”
' Dear husband," said the penitent
wife, "thou knowest the holy tirs; 1 g<-
to gather their cones. I will sell them
and buy thee food which will make
thee well. Children, care for thy
fattier while 1 am gone."
Quickly throwing a shawl over her
head and taking a basket on her arm.
out into the gathering coldness of the
coming night stepped the mother. Tin-
wind shook the alders at the cottage
door until they nodded and peeped at
the windows. It roughly rattled tin-
dried foliage of the stately oaks, whose
saeredness to the gods the element
A"ear book
If all would t-e good and kind and true,
And do the work that Is theirs to do;
If from hato and pride our hearts were
free.
What a glad fT*w Year the world would
sea'
And then 1 know we -bould love to look
On each bright page of tbe New Y'ear
book.
Jumping a Claim.
^ T U A s N w
ifc i Y p a r* s* c v r* in
the camp, and th**
Mnhl .Nugpct saloon
^wus doing a heavy
business all along*
the line. Drinks
were Wintf rapidly
dispensed over the
counter, and in the
rear faro, roulette nnd
draw - poker were
flourishing*.
* I'ete” was in his hiph humor. Tie
had buck' d the tiger * successfully to-
night, and had quite enough ahead to
>vork his Haim in Corkscrew Gulch.
True, he had not clone his assessment , charmer
work this year, and bylaw anybody
could ‘jump* the ‘ Lone Star” that
very day nt midnight. But Pete* was
not th** man to be fooled with, as he
already had two graves to his credit in
Doc. Turner** ranch it he name applied
to the cemetery in honor of a local doc-
tor*. which ' outained the bodies of two
tenderfeet who had ‘differed” with
him and were accidentally shot. So
the inhabitants of GaleiA.svillc con-
cluded that lie was a safe man to let
alone, and he laughed at the idea that
anybody would be so foolish as to ‘ com-
mit suicide " as lie termed it, by at-
tempting {o jump his claim.
The old y* ar bad hut a few minutes
to live when Hank tied up his horse
among the tall, snow laden pine trees
near the I.one Star,” and, loosening*
the thongs which fastened a pick to
his horse s saddle, and transferring a
couple of sticks of dynamite and
some candles from his saddle-bag to
thrmirht toilet, and then "died j hifc P«**et*. shouldered the pick ami
the pines in a soft, sa.l sl"'vb’ monnU-A the tortuous trail
He hail long awaitc-il this moment
firearm a.
"'Taint worth lighting about, any-
how," ki,i<l I’ete, carelessly. "There
ain't a pound of ore in the hull claim "
"Oh, come off!" said Hank. "How
about all that ore you shipped last
summer?"
"That was out of s poeket I struck
which petered out mighty quiek; but if
you don't believe me 1 11 go in the hole
and show you," and, taking a candle,
i’ete -tinted in the tunnel. Hunk fol-
lowing. but keeping his hand within
easy reach of his gun.
The breast of the tunnel was soon
reached and I’ete, holding his candle
up before it. said "There now. what
did I tell yer? it's nothin’ but dead
rock." •
Hank took his candle nnd carefully
examined the breast, roof and aides,
but not a trace of mineral could be
seen.
"You’re welcome to her," said I’ete;
"I've blown in h11 the money I want
to; you can have a tdast at her now. If
you want to."
Hank did not reply, but appeared to
tie lost in thought. Finally he said:
"Hold my candle a minute. I’ete and.
taking up his pick in both hands, he
struck the breast a heavy blow, and
the rock and inud with which I’ete had
plastered it to fool curious and unwel-
come visitors fell away, exposing a
vein of glittering white metal.
Almost at the same instant there
was a deafening report, and Hank fell
to the ground with a bullet through
his heart.
I’ete, with a smoking revolver in his
hand, which he had snatched from
Hunk's belt as he struck the blow,
stood over him with a grim smile as
li«' muttered 1 Another accident!”
But retribution was close at hand
The reverberations of the shot had
hardly died away among the neighbor-
ing peaks when a rock, which had long
been loose, -tarted by the sudden
shock, fell from the roof, bringing
Ions of earth with it. and Pete and his
third victim were crushed into a shape-
less mass.
A Leap Year Chrletmae.
Frederick rhnrles limiting had been
Amanda Dusenberry’sshadow for three
years, to the exclusion of other young
men who would have been attracted by
the maiden's charms had Frederick
Charles' unremitting attentions left
them any opportunity. Hr was at the
Dusrnberry home two or three even-
ing* a week and all of Sunday after
noon. This being the case. it was no
wonder that he had the field to him-
self and that other young m-n thought
it useless to look in that direction.
But the two were not engaged.
There was nothing in the way of it ex-
cept Frederick Charles' inability to ask
Amanda to marry him. He was not a
coward in other respects, but he
dreaded to put the question, and
Amanda showed no indication of help-
ing him Her idea was that if a girl
was not worth proposing to she was
not worth having.
When the present year of grace ar-
rived, being leap year, tho diffident
young man cherished the hope that his
would exercise a woman's
There is a grim humor in that
letter accompanying that infernal
machine which was forivardod to
Caprivl, but the sender ought to be
put where ha will have no further
opportunities for combining humor
and missives of death.
Some Eastern swindlers whose un-
lawful profits have been $503.0 K)
have been fined suras aggregating
$1.40). While it is true that the
way of the transgressor is hard, there
can be no denial that in spots tj
might be harder.
Axv man can make his name a
household word, can I*? tho object of
the fiercest denunciation ano the
sweetest eulogy, get his name in all
the papers and his cartoons in all the
funny prints, by simply becoming
tbe author of a tariff bilL It is the
abort cut to immortality.
Is 1823 it was asked in England.
•■Who ever read an American book?"
Now England erects memorials to
American poets in the chapter bouse
of Westminster abbey. The whirligig
of time has made a revolution.
away among'
music, that brought tears to the
mother's eves. It was like the moan
the bairns made for bread. Tlie
tears broke into a sob; half-blinded,
with a bent head, she reached the edge
of the holv forest.
Pityingly, out from his bed of clouds
Jhe setting sun glanced warm anil ten-
der. He shot his parting rays among
the firs, and filled their deep shadows
with a cheerful glow. Suddenly, into
the marked pathway of its light,
stepped a little man with snowy beard,
who gravely doffed his leathern cap and
waited for the sad mother to reach him.
"Good woman, what ail'st thou?
Why so sad?” broke upon her startled
car.
"Oh. sir. I mean no harm. Mv chil-
dren starve; my husband never again
will be well. I cannot se„ them ask
each (lav for bread and give them none.
I go to gather cones. Do let me pass
and fill my basket.”
"1 would harm thee not, my friend,
said the little man. "And knowest
thou where the best cones can be
found? Follow this path a hundred
feet, and there they can be gathered
with"—but the mother was on her way.
A knowing look, a caress of his white
beard, a sniff of the perfumed forest
air, and the little man bad vanished.
With glad feet the mother hurried on.
Not a sound hut the dropping of cones
broke the stillness of the forest. Faster
and thicker they seemed to fall at each
onward step A perfect storm of cones.
They dropped upon her head; they fell
at her feet; they pelted her shoulder.-:
they filled her basket. Frightened, tin-
poor ivoman turned and fled, glancing
neither to the right or left. Heavier
and heavier the basket grew. Breath-
less a id exhausted she reached hereot-
tige door.
Four years ago lie had owned the
"Lone Star" himself.but -ickness came
and he could not work his assessment,
and whey he had returned to the pros-
pect and found I’ete. armed to
the teeth, in possession, he had
accepted his hard luck with a
good grace, but bad "laid" for Pete
ver since. Hut now at last bis oppor-
tunity had come, and lie determined to
regain his property and defend it at the
risk of his life if necessary.
The tunnel was soon rem lied, and the
moonlight, streaming against it- black
mouth, easily disclosed to his eyes
Pete's location stake.
He looked at his watch It marked
exactly midnight.
Beaching down, lie fiercely wrenched
the stake from the ground and Hung it
far from him down the mountain.
lie then lit a candle and. finding a
board, quickly sharpened one end of it.
and. smoothing off the broad end,wrote
bis lo, ation notice on ii -re.-hristening
the claim tin- "Bright Hopes"- and
planted the stake firmly in tin- ground
Thinking lie would go into the tun-
nel and see how she looked, lie look-
up bis candle and pick and started in.
.lust as be rlid so he thought be
heard a whistle. He stopped and li
tened: some one was coming up the
trail whistling softly. Quickly dousing
the light, he crouched behind a big
boulder just at the mouth of the tun-
nel and drew his revolver.
A few minutes later Pete stepped in
view, with a week's supplies in a sack
slung over his shoulder.
IU fore lie could put his burden down
Hank suddenly rose up before him with
the muzzle of his pistol almost touch-
ing the other's face.
"Hands up!” lie cried, “I've got the
drop on yer now."
prerogative, which comts every quad-
renium. and propose to him. Hut up
to the date of the incident about to be
narrated, the hopes of Frederick
diaries had been disappointed.
The two were sitting before tbe fire
in tim Dusenberry pHrlor one Thurs-
day night in the middle of December,
when tbe girl remarked; How rapidly
time is flying! It will soon be Christ-
inas."
"Yes," he replied, "and it will bo
leap year Christmas, too. By the way,
leap year will soon be gone."
"No it will,” replied the girl, de-
murely.
"What would you like me to give
you this leap year Christmas?" asked
the young man.
"Why, Fred, I’d like you to give
me —
"Speak out Amanda! Don't bo
afraid," replied Bunting, who began
to get courageous with the idea that
at last he had about brought her to
| the point of asking that he give him-
self as a Christmas gift.
I I—I hardly like to."
And the girl hung her head.
"Don’t be afraid! I'll give you any-
thing you ask for." lie declared in s
great burst of generosity.
• Well, then, Fred, I wish you would
give me—"
"Out with it. Don't lie backward,"
he said, impatiently. "Give you what,
my dear?"
'Give-mo a chance to see something
of some other young men besides your-
self."
William Henry Siviter.
A Christmas Card.
I have no purse of gold, my desr.
With whlrhto buy youdainty thing,;
The purse i, empty, and the gold
Has flown away as If on wings;
So, sweetest wife In all the world,
Tho you poisesi the greater part.
I'll give to you on Christmas day
Another fraction of iny heart.
Delicate Consideration.
Motherijust before Christmas)—IT’hy
did you jump and run when your fa-
ther came in?
Daughter—I had a lap full of Christ-
mas presents.
Mother But they are not for him
Daughter No, but I wanted him lo
have the pleasure of thinking they
were.
Who has dln“<l upon rucuml*™,
Followed liy a dish of cream -
Tell him uot of peaceful slumber*,
Life is hut a hnrrij dream.
"1 hope it snows Christinas ere.”
said Harry, "because if it don't Santa
i'Ikus may have to come in u balloon,
and if it busted, ull tlie toys would get
broken."
GENERAL NEWS.
1 uinleitaeil fur llie 1 nf Hur-
tled Healer.,
Depositors of the defunct Kansas
City Safe Deposit bunk nit-l in Tur-
ner'* hall Saturday evening
Dr I'urkhiirst ha- received a threat
enlng letter warning him that he has
only until Christmas to live.
Nrnutor l'ulmcr says that Cleveland
has no Intention of restoring LllluoU-
nlnni to her throne by force.
Nnii- Harrisburg, \rk., Situr.luy
Miss I i/./ie Keller was murdered by a
fiend ivho tried to assault her.
The annual convention of the Mis-
souri ) M. C. A. at Sedalia has ended
after u very successful meeting.
A dog show opened Tuesday at Chi-
cago. Five hundred cracks havo been
entered by out-of-town owners.
The safe of the Flano National Bank
s' I'lano, Tex., wu blown t.i pieces
Friday night and robbed of a large
sum
The third annual session of the
Northwe-t Missouri editors closed lit
{•i. Joseph Saturday with the election
of officers.
The employes of the Lehigh Valley
road were Tuesday notified that the
wages of yard engineers mid firemen
would be cut.
The civil service commission lias
submitted u report showing what has
been iieomplishi'd and wli.it is hoped
to be done in the future.
By resorting to strategy Monday
Jailer Noon of Kansas City, sucrerded
in ascertaining the dwelling place of
a woman arrested for shoplifting.
The house of lords lias virtually
killed the employers' liability bill,
anil their action has added fuel to the
tire of resentment against the peers.
The police of Sonth Bend. Ind ,
think they have a clue that Frank
Smith, a notorious gold brick man had
a hand in the recent bunk robbery
there.
In the supreme court of Kansas an
important decision was handed dow n
Saturday, to the effect that the new
mortgage law does not affect actions
begun before it went into effect.
The supporters of Lee in Virginia
are unw illing to abide by the action
of the caucus and will try to organize
a bolt and elect him senator iu spite
of the indorsements of Martin.
The war of tho crusaders on the
Wichita saloons Is becoming serious,
and there arc prospects nf grave
tr mble. Saturday one of tlie league's
spotters was set upon and severely
beaten.
The shaft of the Kuhinoor colliery
of Shenandoah, Fa., one of the Bead-
ing company's largest mines is burn-
ing The miners all escaped. Eight
hundred men and boys will be out of
employment.
There wiis almost a riot in London
Sunday when the anarchists defied
law and the police and gathered in
Trafalgar square in spile of the or-
ders for them not to do so, which had
been issued.
Chief Harris of the Cherokee nation
has withdrawn all opposition to the
sale of the Cherokee bonds, ami will
further their sale. The authorized
agents will sta.t east immediately to
sell the bonds.
The Downing men in the Cherokee
council claim that one of their mem-
bers who voted to pass the bill for
the appointment of financial commis-
sioners over the head of the chief was
paid for his vote.
Albert Brunien. receiving cashier of
the Rochester. X. Y , Savings bank,
committed suicide Tuesday morning
by shooting himself al his house. He
had been ill for three weeks, suffering
from an attack of la grippe, and it is
supposed that despondency prompted
the act.
Circuit court nt Dexter. Mo., on
Tuesday sustained the Niagara 'lisur-
ance company in its refusal to pay a
tire loss, on the ground that the loser
ha 1 not complied with a clause of the
policy requiring 'he assured to take
an annual invoice and keep a cash ac-
count, depositing both in an iron safe.
The directors of the influential Ger-
mania Club, of C liieago, have declined
to accept a picture of Governor A11-
geld to lie hung in the club, and the
governor refused to attend the ban-
quet given by theelub the other night.
There is a great deal nf feeling over
the affair and it means a split iu the
club.
OF INTEREST TO CONSUMPTIVES.
Ilr. Amick Give, Ailvlre a, to s Change
of Climate.
Cincinnati, Dee. 1*. -At a meeting
of physicians presenting the Amick
cure for consumption called to discuss
with the discoverer, al his home here. |
his published assertion that change of
climate is unnecessary. Dr. Amick said
to-day: " A warm, drv climate is bene-
ficial if the patient stays in it perma-
nently, tint harm always results from |
a stay of a few weeks or months, when
the patient returns to a colder tem-
perature or lower altitude. Euless |
patients desiring my treatment."-he
said, "can go away to remain until
May. I advise them to take the medi-
cine in the comfort of their own homes,
tint liefore they definitely abandon any
proposed trip, depending absolutely on
my discovery to cure them. 1 urge each
to first try the treatment free of ex-
pense and then decide for themselves.
I therefore furnish free test medicines
for all having any lung trouble to en-
able both physician ami patient lo
judge by result."
The grain warehouse of Fortcr .V
I.jg n at Houslonin. Mo., was de-
stroyed by an incendiary tire on Mon-
day night.
A large buyer of grain ill the terri-
tory of the Burlington A Missonr
Biver road says that Omaha is not a
competitor in the grain trade with
Kansas City.
The Industrial Council at Kansas
City on Monday condemned the plnn
of having the proposed water works
v:pnly plant constructed by local cap-
italists. and again declared in favor
of paying for municipal improvements
in scrip.
A I LIII W ill neaik.
Thousands of | eoplo have gone t »
their deutlix with Bright s Disease i f
the kidneys and Diahctea without
suspecting the nature ol their trouble
until within i month or two of th*
grave. II is now declared by one ft
tlie most reputable Drug Association,
ill the country that these kidney
troubles are tlie result of I racirit.l
poisoning and 1 lint a certain cun- lit, I
been discovered. ’1 he majority o,
people who find health and strength
gradually failing either have noses
nielon of the natnie of the trouble V
luiving always been told that Bright'u
Disease could never be cured lint,*
shrunk from tlu- knowledge that tl'*.'
were victims of it Now that a cii”
has been discovered Imwover there
need be no hesitation in learning what
indicates the disease and each CHS,* can
be tested al home by tin- one interested
| witlioiil either expense or incon-
venience. I’rogressive physicians lire
I mov agreed that for the several months
before ehjld-blrtn all women are
|, specially subject t * kidnev troubles
I and lbat tests should lie made during
this time to determine whether sugar
or albumen indicate kidney disease.
'I'll,* many cases of I reaiuic convulsions
occasioning death nt. or preceding,
child-birth arc due lo this cause which
Is too often overlooked and uiisuspcct
! oil. From all this it would seem a
1 plain duty lo take advantage <>f Go-
offer of The \mcriean Drug Associa*
1 tion whose address isCochnowrr Bldg.,
Cincinnati. Ohio. The offer is that to
each person sending their address n
] test outfit including full directions nnd
apparatus for the most accurate lest
for Bright’s Disease and Diabetes will
be sent securely packed in II ivocsl easi-
free of cost. The Association is well
known to us and can Ik-depended upon
to do Just what they say.
Mrs. Lewis has been uires’ed for
se ling liquor to the Osage Indians
Now it is silver that lias been dis-
covered in tlie Wichita mountains.
Holders of lots in Enid must tile
upon them before next Saturday.
Niclitlieroy, the royal suburb of Bio
de Janeiro, lias been completely de-
stroyed by tlie shells of llm insurgent
fleet
The Hanseatic house, an American
grain warchou . Anthwerp. was do*
stroyed by fir* rijay night with a
heavy loss.
The coining winter has been select-
ed for a series of extensive Russian
army maneuvers in tlie deeply snow-
clad portions of Moscow,
A small coasting steamer foundered
off Kagoliara, near Nutsuye. Thirty'
five out of sixty four passengers and
all the crew were saved
As soon as it became probable that
Oklahoma was fo have two new jus-
tices there was u great rush of appli-
cation for tin- appointments.
Dr. Edward Morwilz. proprietor ol
tlie I’hiludelpiiia German Democrat,
oldest daily paper in th* country, died
Thursday, after an illness of only six’
days.
Fire caught in tlie rear part of tlie
Levine Bros.' clothing house, 110 and
III West Superior Street. Duluth,
Minn.. Thursday, nad greatly in-
jured tlie stock and building.
Matters were comparatively quiet
on Trafalgar square Sunday, anarch-
ists fearing lo make demonstrationJ,
on account of the excitement over the
I’aris out rage.
The village jail of Stoutshurg. Mo.,
was broken into Wednesday night, and
a large sum of money stolen from
John Williams, who had been ni resterl
for drunkenness.
A large fire occurred at Morgan-
town, N. Thursday morning. An
entire square in tlie business part o<
town was destroyed, including a hotel
and several stores.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton is a
very small bore man, who. being not
big enough for the place he is trying
to fill, lias an idea that the pin-e is
not big enough for liiin
' The convention of tlie American
Federatnn of Labor opened at t'lilia-
go Mol flay, and tlie opposition to
Fresident Dumpers is strong enough
to insure a lively fight
From the debate of tlie past week in
the reichstag it Is becoming evident
that the government will fail in forc-
ing tlie passage of some of the pro-
posed financial legislation.
Tlie anarchist named Valiant., who
was one of the wounded taken to tlie
hospitals, lias confessed to being tlie
person who threw the h, mb in the
French chamber of deputies.
At California Mo., the large s-ile
staldc of II I Duwenick was roi-
siuni'il by tire Thursday night with
eight valuable horses, harness, feed,
etc. The loss is estimated nt 510,0(10.
In the house tills week the Demo-
crats will endeavor to force the pass-
age of the bill admitting I'tnli as a
state and in the senate tlie election
bill will probably come up for dis-
cussion.
The first, new. from Honolulu
since tlie contents of Gresham s letter
were made known there was received
Saturday. Great excitement prevails
there and the queen bus asked the
provisional government for protection,
fearing her life is in danger.
Saturday afternoon someone >n the
gallery of tlie French chamber of dep-
uties threw a bomb, which immediate-
ly exploded, wounding three deputies
ami scores of other persons. The
greatest excitement prevailed. Tlie
police have arrested a man named Le-
noir. who is strongly suspected of be-
ing the guilty parly.
At tlie vegi lur inerting of Guthrie
commandery No. 1. K. '1'.. held Mon-
day night, i M. Barnet) was re-elected
K. C.;W. F, Cannon, gMieralisslmo;
Edgar W. 'Jones, captain general;
Knight Spencer. junior warden;
Knight Perkins, prelate; Knight Fraz-
ier. senior warden; and Knight Fisher,
recorder.
The Atwater tank factory of tlie
Illinois glass works, Alton, III.,
which lias hern in course of erection
for a year, is completed and fires were
started Thursday night. ’^'iis is tlie
largest bottle factory iu the world
and will employ loo men on that pro-
duct alone.
At last tlie list of twenty-three
ignations of Freemont W od, I nited 1 tfn,n(1 j,1,nr* to mPct tnr '*><■ first time
i in I’ cour
Attorney Olney lias received the res- ,
- - ....... K •«I
II i in F county have been ^elected
The
States attorney. Idaho; John ... . . •
ron, I nited States attorney. Southern 'wt is a» follow*: John Brogan, llen-
Watson,
district, Ohio, and David K. Watson.J!'• '' 'tea;rd',»*’»«ly. A. M.
of Ohio, special assistant attorney cm- TTTl11; *' *chael, B. I- Kile, Ed-
p'oyed in com.....tion with suits against f ”'!lr, ,!*' , »• "wens, Henry
* - 'Flock./,. Fielder. .1. D Patterson, Wil-
iam Brow n, W, T. Cutler, J. II. Head-
les, Robert Covey. .1 ('. Parker, Diaries
E. Miner. J. V. Talkington. L, v, ||Us
kins, A. II. Kite. Edward Wirt, W. I .
Lewis.
certain of tlie Pacific railroads
Some time since John Weitgarsli.
supposed to lie a crank, issued a call
for 10,000 men to meet him on the
lake front in Chicago Tuesday, ami
move against the city witli a de-
mand for work and bread. Tlie army
dirt not materialize, and the OOo po-
licemen held in reserve to quell an
outbreak were allowed to b-eak ranks
The darion-Journal „f Saturday
contained a good write-up of l,a< ygne.
II shows the town to 1m in good con-
dition, the times considered.
n lavish
wera to
that r*lg
bit thaK
FOR A CMRlRtMAR THIS.
Th, li, tall,., «r two »o* aonug ,«•
Church la Callfurala.
About two year* ago the pastor of
tho MethodiHt church south, ol Vis-
alia, Col, found on tha doorsteps of
hi* church a Japannod tin box full of
watches, say* the San Francisco Kx
aiiilner The church was preparing
an olaborato festival for Christmas.
A splendid tree was among tha feat-
ures of thn proposed festival,and tho
good people of Visalia woro lavish
Glth tholr donations that
dung on tho branches of that
evergreen lit the church But
box of watches was much tho biggest
contribution nf gifts with which to
stock tho Christmas tree. Even the
unsuspicious ministnr was startled
by tho generosity of tho unknown
friend of the church. Before he
hung the watchos on the evergreen
hough* among the colored wax tapers
nod bon bon* and threaded popcorn
nod Sunday-school books he took the
precaution to glvo notice In the pa
per* that certain undescrlbed Jow-
alry had tieen found, and that
*,hn owner could recover tho same by
proving property and pnying for tho
advertisement Some of Wells, Far-
go dr Co. 's inen saw tho notice and
wont around to ilio minister's. He
had put tho ausket containing tha
watches Inside a cigar box. Tho ex-
press company's men told him that
If Die Jewelry *»» that for which
they were looking, thn box contained
a number of watches and they told
him tlie numbers of the timepieces
nnd described Ihera They added the
Information that the box was part of
tho plunder secured hy rohliers who
month* before had held up a South-
ern Farlfic train near Goshen They
fiaid for tho advertisement and the
preacher surrendered the timepieces
The cigar box wa* soaled and placed
in tho bank at Visalia. They were
keeping it against the time of the
apprehension of tho train robbers.
All tills wa* long liefore the robbery
at Collin attracted attention to Chris
Evans and the two Sontag.s. Evans
was only known a* a hard-working,
serious-minded fanner and his two
friend* were able bodied young mon
who hewed logs and drove teams.
When George Sontag inado his con-
fession he was asked if he know any-
thing about tho box of watchos that
tho parson found on the church door-
step.
"Bid Chris or John ever say any-
thing to you about them?” asked
Detective Humo.
"Yes." answered George. "1 think
that was in the Goshen robbery that
they took that box of watches. They
wrote on tho box 'train robbers’ and
put it en the steps of tho preacher’s
house in Visalia, and I think that's
where they found it, the preacher or
the janitor of the church "
"Who did it?" was tho next ques-
tion.
••I don't know who it was; it wa*
either Chris or John. They didn’t
want to hundle any jewelry."
The detective announced that he
proposed to test the truth of George
Rontag's confession, and the box of
watches suggested a way. He tolc
graphed the express agent there to
examine tlie box in the back vault
to see if it bore out George Sontag's
story. The watches were found all
right, and scratched on tho bottom
of the caso were tho words "train
robbers.” It was only scratched In
lightly nnd had escaped tho eye of
the parson. No one know of tho
word* on tlie box until George Son
lag told about it.
Wy.
"I tell yo’ w'at, dat. boy ob
Pompoy’s am a siv tittle picayune,"
remarked I’ncle ('irsar darkly.
"How's dat?" inquired tho person
addressed.
"It am jess dis a way," continued
Vncle Crpsar "I see dat boy down
in a s'cluded corner ob de Nouf
Meetin house hose seeds ois mawnin.
Ho was standin wid his back to me.
but I know his back jes* like I do
his face, an I Biispleionod by de way
he was stoopin down an makin his
jaws go dat he was 'gaged on a
watermill ion."
"Sho, now!" ejaculated the listener.
"I rrope up behin him an put my
han soi' on his shoulder, an 1 ax him.
•Gib me a taste o' dat watermlllion.
’Gustos?' an dat boy turn like he
was shot an—w'at do vo’ pro’nosti-
gato?"
•■I give it up,” said the listener.
”W’y. it wa’n’t ’(Justus, true's yoj
a born niggah! ’Twas a boy jess the
size an conlumatlons ob '(Justus, an
he had a big slioo ob waterrailllon,
sure 'nuff, but 'twa’n't '(Justus. An
dat's w'at I mean 'bout his beln a Be-
little picayune 'T’ink ob him makin
a fool ob me dat a way!”—Youth'*
('ompanion.
lift Made the HUhop fill Down.
Frompted by tho fooling that it
was his duty, the bishop remon-
strated with one of his clergy for at-
tending a local hunt..
••Well, your lordship." ropltod the
offender. "I really do not see that
thoro is any more harm in hunting
than in going to a ball."
"I presume," answerer, the bishop,
‘•that you refer to having seen my
name down among those who attend-
ed Lady Somorvillo’s ball. But I
assure you throughout tho whole
evoning I was not once in the same
room as the dancers"
••That, my lord, is exactly how I
stand. I was never' in tho same
Hold with tiie hound*.’’
Then tho bishop sot down.—Fear-
son's Weekly.
F.fnraclnua.
“What horrible smell is that?" b
askoil as ho unpacked hia wintf
elothos.
"That's tho stuff 1 used in kee
the moths out of them," his wife ai
swered proudly.
"Well, iL^iust have answered ti
impose. 1 know it'll koop me o’
of them."
l*oRtf>rn.
I’ostors took their name from ti
fact that in formei times tho too
ways of London stroots were sop
rated from tho drives by a lino -
posts, on which ad .ortisements wci
displayed.
H»r*l l.nrk.
Mrs. Lakeside- This financial pan
is awful.
Mrs. Wabash Yos: I am real
afraid I snail not be aiilo to afford
divorce this year.—Truth.
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