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THE HAPPY NW YEAR. HE chill air is cr'.sr.. for the frost king discloses Bis tluy Ice spears. which he hangs on the trees. No fragrance of sum mer, no petal of roses. To brush as we pass; we see only dead leaves. Now, dear merry Christmas has swiftly departed. A New Year stands scanning the ghosts of the past. We gaze o'er his shoulders and feel heavy-hearted fading I -'-5 A 'juiMiiPr To think months and seasons are so fust. See, whirled in midair are white snowflakes descending! Each flake seems a spirit dropped down from above. As though for the New Tear to earth they come, lending A promise of purity, blessing and love. The tall trumpet creeper, whose scarlet tinged flowers Last snnimrr made gny its beautiful dress. Stood yesterday drooping and leafless for hours. Now. snowclad. It gleams In renewed love liness. How they pile, how they gather, the snows In their whiteness. Led onward by silence, who moves with out sound: Their fret shod in crystal and spifrkling in brightness. They drape frosted venture o'er tree, bush and ground. "3 thought with the summer all beauty was dying: We thought with the old year all Joy flown a way. But spirits of snow to our shorn world came flying. And the New Tear has blessings perhaps for encbj day. Hark! Wild boils are ringing! Yes, Joy bells are flinging Out welcomes of glee to another New Year. May each moment be crowded with laughter and singing. And during its stay may no sorrow draw near. Ring on. New Tear bells! Let thy ringing mean gladness! Ring all ills away, but ring love's warmth within! t Though the old year Just died, and we saw it with sadness. Yet happy may prove the New Year, we begin! Christian Tntelllgencer. X A CHRISTMAS : REUNION. ! .'? T was Nell who thought of it first. But about all of the clever ideas in our family had their ori gin in Nell's fertile imagination. Brother Tom often to!d her that she ought to put a card in the window and in the papers of fering "Ideas for Sale." Nell was grandfather's favor ite and she was very fond of him. One day she evolved this idea and laid it on the family altar at a discussion we were having regarding the approaching Christ mas festivities: "I've just thought out the loveliest scheme for grandpa's enjoyment. You know that he hasn't seen one of his brothers for a long time, and it's twenty years since he saw our Uncle Henry. Now, can't we get up a great family re union as a surprise for grandpa? Uncle Henry could come here in a day." "He's nearly SO," I said. "I know, but he is stronger than moat men of 70. Uncle Harvey, who is only y . iff iiif THEY RE ALL COMING, TOU TS, could come in a day and a night, and Uncle Joel could come in ten hours. I think that it would be just lovely to see those four dear old souls, all over 70. to gether, and to hear them tell tales of their childhood and boyhood." After imposing solemn vows of secrecy on all of us, Nell ran off to her writing desk to write letters to grandpa's three old brothers and to Lis sister Ann. A week later she met me at the door when I went home to dinner and said gleefully: "They're all coming, Tom! I've had let terr to-day from every one of them! And grandpa said at luncheon that he'd give a good deal to see 'the boys as he called them. He wanted to know if I'd go witu him if he went to visit them all in the spring. I could just hug myself for think ing up the whole scheme." Each of my great uncles arrived on tne day before Christmas, and grandpa's sur prise was complete. He showed no signs of needing Nell's smelling salts, although he was visibly affected when his aged brother Henry arrived and they clasped hands after a separation of twenty years. "You've grown old. Hiram," quavered out Uncle Henry. "Seems to me ye look 'bout as old as I do." "Oh, I guess not, Henry; I guess not," said grandpa, a trifle stiffly, for he was sensitive regarding his age. "Don't he, boys?" said Uncle Henry, appealing to his two white-haired broth ' ers. "I bet I could fetch ye to the ground first in a rassle, that is if ye rassled fair, which ye didn't used to do when we was all boys together. Why, I'm hanged if Hiram don't part his hair, or what he's got left of it, in the middle yit. I reckon ed you'd git over that when ye came to havrh' one foot in the grave and t'other one no bizness out." Grandpa flushed and said coldly: "The combing of one's hair is simply a matter of individual taste, Henry." Nell hurried Uncle Henry off to show him his room, and grandpa said to Uncle Joel: "Ton bear yonr years well, Joel. One would hardly guess you to be six years older than I." "Xo. Hiram, they wouldn't. One thins. I'm a good deal fleshier 'n you. I'm kind o' s'prised to see you so kind o' all skin and bone." "Come, now, I r.in't quite that, Joe!. I weigh 139." "Is that all; why, Hi, I weigh ITS and " "Come. Uncle Joel, I want to show yon some of the family portraits in the par- sarily blunt in their speecn," said grand- pa. ."Yes. but they gen'ally hit the nail on the head," said Uncle Harvey. "You do look as if the wind would blow you away. Hiram, and I notice you've a kind of limp in your gait" "I've nothing of the sort, Harvey idy- ler, and I am t more than two-thirds as balOas you are and not half so gray. "Oh, you ain't; I'll count gray hairs with you any time, and I'll bet you a jews- narp mat " 'Come, Uncle Harvey," I said, "let us go to the stable. I want you to give me your opinion of a horse I've just bought. 1 he combined efforts of Madge and Nell and I su ticed t0 maintain peace at the dinner table. We kept up such a rattling fir of conversation that the four broth ers had hardly a chance to speak to each other. We saw grandpa -wince when Un cle Henry ate his mashed potatoes with his knife, and we knew the full extent of our grandsire's agony when Uncle Joel poured his coffee into his saucer and blew it before drinking it. Uncle Harvey spoke but once, but that was once too often, for he said, explosively: "Oh, I say, boys, do you remember that Sary Jane Skimmerhorn Hi used to be so sweet on when we aU went to the Hop vine school? You 'member how he used to kiss 'er there at the end of the lane? Well, she's livin' yit, an' I'd give a deal to see Hi kiss 'er now. She weighs 329 pounds and has a beard, that Tom here might be proud of. an' she's had fifteen children an' they're all livin'. I was jest thinkin' what if Hi had married 'er as he used to swear he would! Eh, Hi?" Uncle Henry and Joel roared with laughter and Joel choked on a mouthful of coffee. Grandpa turned pale and it re quired all of Nell's cleverness to prevent a scene. AH of the cousins and uncles and aunts in the city had been invited to come in that evening to enjoy n Christmas eve reunion of the family and to be entertain ed with family reminiscences by the four old and reunited brothers. At 8 o'clock we gathered around a great open fire to hear our aged relatives "reminis," as Madge mischievously put it. "Tell us all about when you were boys together," said Cousin Ned Drayton. "I guess there wasn't much time nor money wasted celebrating Christmas when you were novs. "Well, I guess there wa'n't," said Uncle Joel. "I guess O, say, boys, do you re member that Christmas we four boys went bear hunting back there in the Maine woods when we wa'n't none of us fully grown?" "I remember it as well as if it was yes terday," said Uncle Henry. "I remem ber jist how that b'ar squealed when I shot Mm." "You still stick to it that you shot Mi Henry," said Uncle Joel, "an' I am sure as I'm livin' that it was my shot that fetched mi. "In a horn it was!" said Uncle Henry, testily.- "Your bullet went clar over the b'ar and lodged in that big pine we found with a bullet hole m it." "There's no use in Henry en Joel spat- tin so about which killed that b ar, put in Uncle Harvey, "for I've an idee the beast would have got up an' walked off with both your bullets. It was my knife thrust that finished the beast. "Yes, it was!" sneered Joel. "Oh, yes; to be sure it was, snorted Uncle Henrv "I guess that the blows I rained down on the beast's head with the club I car ried, had something to do with finishing him, said grandpa, calmly. "Well, ye ain't got over drawin' on your imagination for facts, hev ye, Hi?" said Uncle Henry. "The rest of us kin re member how ye hid in the bresh trembiin' an' bellerin' until we was almost ready to skin the bear an then you come out with your little club and give the beast a whack or two. "Henry Myler, that is not true!" "If it ain't I'll eat my hat!" I clubbed the life out of him," said grandpa. "I tell ye I killed that bear myself!" "Ye didn't!" "I know I did!" "My club counted for more than " "Your club! Tooh!" "Now, Henry, I won't stand it to " "I'd like to see ye help yourself." "Shet up, all of ye, for I " "Don't ye tell me to shet up!" The dispute waxed hot and hotter un til Madge got Uncle Henry off to his room, and Nell had done the same service for Uncle Harvey, while I dragged Uncle Joel away for a smoke with me in my own room, where he berated his brothers fear- iut;y. jranupa stalked ott to bis own room. We managed to keep the four old hot heads from getting into a row on Christ mas, but Uncle Henry and grandpa did not speak to each other all day, and to tell the unvarnished truth there was great inward rejoicing when our three dear old uncles departed. Uncle Henry thrust his bead out of the carriage door and screech ed out at the last second: "I did kill that bear!" "Y'ou never!' called out grandpa, sharp ly irum me susop, auu mey never saw each other again. "1 admit that my dear little scheme failed," said Nell, when we were alone together. "The next time I bring four old gentlemen together for a Christmas reunion I II select deaf and dumb men, or mer who haven't quite so mnch dynamite arc; chain lightning and undimmed pugi listic vigor in their make-up. I positive- THE event which Christmas commemorates possesses for humanity the deepest meaning. Compnred with its profound importance all other events, or indeed the sum of all other events, sink into insignificance, and the great institution of which that event is the foundation-stone has from a very enrly date observed it with ceremonies of fitting stateliness and reverence. But the note of even the sacred celebration of the birthday of the Saviour has for centuries been one of joyfulness and glad praise. It is the one day of all the year when the whole Christian world puts into practice the cardinal law of Christ. The sternest, hard est and" most worldly man pauses in his planning and grinding, and for a day at least allows his thoughts to dwell on projects for making other people glad. The Christmas-tide festival is the' special season for renewing the manifestation of those family affections that are not dead but merely dulled by routine and fa miliarity. The head of the household, who spends hundreds of dollars in providing the necessaries of life for his flock without an emotion other than an occasional thought of what a tax upon his income it is, has his whole being stirred up as the result of the expenditure of a few dollars in rattles and trinkets. A sense of his blessings thrusts itself on his attention. A realization of the patient, heroic performance from day to day, year in and year out, of the nnheroic. uneventful, tedious and multiplied duties of the helpmeet and mother rushes on his mind, to gether with an uneasy knowledge of his frequent forgetfulness of it. She is made of this crisp, brown cake, or gin gerbread, can be bought in different sizes and at all prices. These sweet creatures are often called "sweethearts" ("vrijers" we say in Dutch), and the girls receive a "man," the boys a "woman." . remem ber quite well what fun it used to be to hear tu'' servant come in with: "If yon please, ma'am, here is Miss Annie's sweetheart" and ' hand a gingerbread man to my mother. Christmas Gifts for Men. ". It is a great relief to note that some philanthropic writers throughout the country are engaged in telling what sort of Christmas gifts men would like. The writers are not all successful, and they reveal frequently the inspiration of wom an's ideas, man's innate modesty and self effacement precluding him from speaking for himself. But somebody should speak for him be fore another Christmas has elapsed. It is recorded in the seventh chapter of "The Autobiography of Pharaoh I." that the monarch's wife gave him for a Christmas present a necktie which he could not wear without inviting insurrections ia all Egypt. That's where the Christmas neck tie joke began, the Christmas cigar joke following it, when Kir Walter Ualeigh first amazed England by puffing tobacco fumes. The jokes have endured, but the joke has not not if the man knows it. He may have an incorrigible passion for neck ties, but to have his own wife go out and pay out his own money for a tie which he will wear only on dark nights and when his coat collar is turned up is what he ob jects to. The trouble being, probably, that a woman buying something for a man sees it merely as it looks on the counters, while the man sees it in its relation to himself and to the uses to which it must be put. What is needed is a Wives' Information bureau, where husbands can leave a list of the presents they would find accepta ble, with details concerning size, color and weight. The wife woiild simply have to join the bureau's subscribers, find her GRANDMOTHER UNDER THE Cooking by Solar Hear. The various experiments made with .'olar engines by the French in Algeria, where the sun is never overclouded ami shines with great power, have been at tended in some instances with marked success. The best apparatus is stated to b?. a simple arrangement of boiler and concave mirror, the steam generated being condensed in a coiled tube sur rounded by water, this being intended merely for distilling water. But in India an inventor has contrived some machines witli which more varied re sults are accomplished. One of these, says the Philadelphia Record, is what, is termed a cooking-box, made of wood and lined with reflecting mirrors, at the bottom of the box being a small copper boiler covered with glass to re tain the heat of the rays concentrated by the mirrors upon the boiler. In this contrivance any sort of food may be quickly cooked, the result being a stew or boil if the steam is retained, or if allowed to escape it is a bake. The heat with this device may be aug mented indefinitely by increasing the diameter of the hox. The Last Chance! $2000.00 contest Jacobin Songs at Balmoral. Qneen Victoria recently invited a Glasgow singing society to sine to her at Balmoral. Among the songs were "Wae's Me for Prince Charlie," "Mac-Gregor-'s Gathering," "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and "Charlie Is My Darl ing." KNOCKED OUT. missinnf-word V J closes December 31st. Result will be announced about January 15th, Schilling's Best baking poivder and tea are .because they are money-back'. MISTLETOE. It knocks out all calculations of attend ing to business in the right way for a day when we wake up in the morning sore and stiff'. The disappointment lies in going to bed all right and waking up all wrong. There is a short and sure wav out of it. Go to bed after a good rub with St. Jacobs Oil and you wake up all right; soreness and stillness all gone. So sure is this, that men much exposed in changeful weather keep a bottle of it on the mantel fur use at night to make sure of going to work in good in, What is the missins word? not SAFE, although Schilihig's Best baking puvuer anu tea are sale. Get Schilling's Best baking powder or tea at your grocers'; take out tne ticket (brown ticket in every package of bilking powder; yellow ticket in the tea); send a ticket with each word to address below before December 31st. Until October 15th two words allowed for every ticket; after that only one word for every ticket. If only one person finds the word, thai person gets f 2000.00; if several find it, f 2000.00 will be equally divided among them. Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard creeping babies at the end of the contest. Those sending three or more in one envelope will receive an 1S9S pocket calendar no advertising on it. These creeping babies and pocket calendars will be diilerent from the ones offered in the last contest. Better cut these rules out. Address: MONEY-BACK, SAN FRANCISCO. sou Long Distance Signaling. The Greenwich observatory has been put into telegraph communication with that of the McGill college, Montreal, and the signals can be flashed between the two places, a distance of 3,300 miles, in three-quarters of a second. THE LAST MAN OX EARTH To recklessly 'experiment upon himself with hope 01' relief is Die dvspepiic. Vet the nos trums for til is malady are ns the sands of the sea, and, presumably, about as effiacious. In digestion, 1 hat obstinate mnladv, even if of long perpetuity, is eventually overcome with Hosteller's Stomach Bitters, an appetizing tonic and alterative, which enr.-s constipation, fever and ague, liilions remittent, rheumatism, kidney complaint ami feebieis. An even cubic foot of average soil was weighed and analyzed at Cornell University. It was found that the soil n one acre one. foot oeeD weighed 3,0823 tons. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are'assertinsj.in the courts our right to the exclusive use ot the word CASTOKIA," and " PITCHER'S CASTOKIA," as our Trade Mark. I, Ir. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of " PITCHER'S CAS rORIA," the same that has borne and does now bear the fac simile signature of CHAS. II. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA " which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is ike kind you have always bought, and has the signature of CHAS. II. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March S, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, M4. Lightning rods may be valuable if large enough and insulated sufficiently to carry aay a bolt of lightning. The common lightning rod is not of much use. ' ; HOME PRODUCTS AND FUltJC FOOD. DOWER ff fh ...FOR.. PROFIT t 37 VM. i a Hercules Special 26 actual horsepower) Price, only $185. Power that will save you money and make you money. Hercules Engines are the cheapest power known. Burn Gasoline or Distillate Oil; no smoke, fire, or dirt For pumping, running dairy or farm machinery, they have no equal. Automatic in action, perfectly safe and reliable. Send for illustrated catalog. Hercules Gas Engine Works Bay St., San Francisco, Cal. H 1 it American Type r EVERYTHING FOR THE PRINTER.... Founders Company We lead and originate fashions in.... TYPE Cor. Second and Stark Sts. PORTLAND, OREGON fraffl m m $ ? W ' I'M 1 . the angel of his threshold, and he turns to the heaven that seems so far away in his business hours, but now seems so near and powerful, as he asks for its bless ing on the little brood that clusters about her knee. For Christmas is essentially the children's day. Its speciallv religious signifi cance can of course never be lost, but it is doubtful if its spiritual influence wou.d be so widespread but for the myth of Kris Kringle. With its dawning faculties the child learns of the wonderful little man with the aueer. tuftv coat and rubi cund face, whose advent on one particular night in the year is the most extraor dinary event in existence, and when the revolution of many yuletides has turned reality into myth the disillusioned one enjoys at least half his earlier dolichts in witnessing another generation of Kris Kringle's little subjects enjoying that mon arch's season of blissful lordship. In millions of homes the same picture is seen. Day breaking through the frosted pane, and on the dim stairs tiny white-robed figures stealing down the creaking steps. Eyes are dancing with anticipation and apprehension, for there is something uncanny about this dear old kins of theirs, and mother has to take up the rear in similar white-robed dishabille to inspire confidence in those little throbbing hearts. And when the chimnev-nook is safely gained, what clamor, what ponnding of drums and blowing of horns; what joy that the funny, fat, good-natured old gentleman is still alive and looting after his own. May every home in Christendom see this nicture. 'I had 'em; I had 'em a whole day. I ain't got 'em any more, but I had 'em, any how.' " He was the proud possessor of three pleasures; that of receiving, of giving, ana the ever blessed pleasure of a happy mem ory. Youth s Companion. "you've grows old, IIIHAM." lor." said Madge, noting grandpa's rising color. This left Uncle Harvey and grand pa together. "(Toel and Henry were always unneces- DISCUSSIXG THE BEAK QUESTION. ly believe that Uncle Henry would have trounced grandpa if he'd stayed another day." Utiea Uiobe. Thrice Happy. He was a little ragged waif living in a village of southern Kentucky. ' A stran ger to actual comfort, it is not to be sup posed that he, was very familiar with the pleasures of life. Oue Christmas eve he was standing before a shop window with his lean little face pressed against the pane, devouring with hungry eyes the beautiful display within. There was a lady in the shop, deeply engaged in purchasing gifts for her small nieces and nephews. She saw the waif at the window ragged, half-clad, and with out doubt half-starved as well. "Prudence," said she, in speaking of the matter afterward, "might have suggested food and clothes. But another idea had taken possession of me. I .determined then and there that that boy should know the blessedness of happy childhood for one Christmas at all events." On the impulse she called him in. Toys, a wagon, an iron horse with a Hying driv er madly sounding a fire alarm, a drum with gilded sticks, a tin horn, a pack of firecrackers, things which his poverty blinded eyes had never before looked upon In the light of real possession, were put Into his hands. "There was a kind of awe in his solemn, earnest eyes,'' said the lady, "as though the joy of possession had stricken him dumb. , "It was the day after Christmas that I came upon him again, hanging about the streets with that same old look of a beg- ! gar about him. Ihat is, in all but his eyes; they, I think, were never quite the same again. Ttey fairly shone when he lifted them to my face in recognition. 'Good morning, Joe,' said I. 'What have you done with your toys?" "Imagine my surprise when he said, 1 give 'em to Jack Parker, the colored boy,' over yonder to Scruff Town.' " 'What?' said I, 'you have given them all away? All your beautiful toys?' He was silent a moment, and then his ragged little face glowed as he replied: Christmas Charity. Christmas snows are on the moor. Sing, sweet Robin! And the Christmas star burns gold. Sweet Robin, slug! Hungry birds are at the door, Sing, sweet Robin! All their feathers puffed with cold. Sweet Robin, sing! There's a babe sleeps In the stall. Sing, sweet Robin! With the grass for blanket warm. Sweet Robin, sing! Him the beasts have given their all, Sing, sweet Robin! Sheltering him from winter storm, Sweet Robin, sing! Ope the door and call them In, ting, sweet Robin! Newborn babe and starving birds. Sweet Robin, sing! And all children cold and thin, Sing, sweet Robin! To the best our house affords. Sweet Robin, sing! -London Sketch. THE MISTLETOE. Lore of the Little Plant So Popular at Inngtmastide. MOST quaint and charming lit tle plant to study is the mistletoe. It is an ever green. We sel dom see it, or hear much about it, save at Christ mas time. The reason of this is that where it lives and thrives and grows, it blossoms in Feb- urary and March, and the berries are ripe and the foliage is in all its glory, its best dress, in the following December, when it is imported and used to decorate our homes and add to the holiday cheer. This strange little plant is a native of most of the tropical parts of Europe. Half a dozen varieties grow in this coun try, but as they are not marked by the same peculiarities as their foreign rela tives, they are called by a different name, though they all belong to the same family. Some varieties have very showy flowers. The modest, though widely known, lit tle shrub, we call the mistletoe grows mostly in Normandy, a border portion of France, upon the trees of the extensive apple orchards. In the cider districts it is looked upon as a great pest, for, once established, it draws the sustenance as long as there is any life in its host. It is succulent when young, but becomes woody as it grows older. It often at taches itself, too, to the oak, and then is supposed by the peasnnts to possess mag ical power and to bestow . wonderful strength. The mistletoe does not grow in Ireland or Scotland or the north of England, and often there young apple trees with the queer little plant grafted and growing upon them are sold as a curiosity, a freak of nature, to "turn an honest (or dishon est) penny." In olden times the mistletoe was called All-heal. The tree upon which it grew was believed to be chosen of God, was looked upon with veneration and awe, and the curious little plant was consider ed an antidote to all diseases. Even at the present diy iu Sweden all ailments are believed to be warded off by wearing a ring made of its wood. The berries of the mistletoe are of a creamy white, about the size of small cur rants, and grow ill clusters in the divis ions of the little branches. The leaves are long, ovate, waxy and of a delicate green, often almost yellow. Birds are very fond of the berries, and by theni the seeds are carried from place to place, and thus the p)ant is propagat ed. The berries contain a thick, viscous fluid; they burst open when. ripe, and so they readily adhere to tile trees and shrubs where they chance to fall. There they germinate and take root and draw their nourishment, not from the earth as other plants do, but from some other i growth. So it is a parasite, not self-sup-! porting, but living on something else, and when the tree to which it is fastened dies, then the dependent little thing dies also. There is an old tradition that asserts that long, long ago the mistletoe was a big tree, nourished from mother earth as other trees are, and that the cross of our Saviour was made from the wood; but I after the crucifixion it was fated to be, not a tree, not even a shrub, but a depen dent not even to draw its life direct from the ground itself, but to live upon some other plant doomed to be always a parasite. husband's list, borrow the money from him and give him a happy surprise on Christmas. This scheme is worth consid ering. 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Firelighters are made in Germany by twisting wood into a rope, cutting it into short lengths, and dipping the ends of the pieces into melted resin. my head And glanced to where thy faded leaf foreshows The s t r a g g ling nuuilerH of a year now dead ! So short a time I seems since you were new! Your Dictures have not all been dimmed by age; A little dust a splash a mark or two Accomplished in thy twelve-month's pil - grimage! v I believe my prompt use of Piso's Cure prevented auick consunintiou. Mrs T.ui-v This is the seventh j, Wallace, Marquette, Kans , Dec. 12, 1SI5. time 1 ve turned 1 Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder. Scientific Discoverr Fund. The Frencli academy has accepted a j w'th rust. legacy trom M. Pierre liassera, amount ing to over 1100,000. The income from one-third of this is to be awarded by the academy of science for a scien tific discovery. Boston's Old Elm. The state of nelgect into which the site of the old elm on the common, in lioston, has fallen is beginning to worry old Bostonians who pass the spot daily on their way to business. After a galo in February, 1876, brought down what was left of the old elm, a young elm was started on the site of the old one, and this tree is now one of the largest in that part of the common. Inside the enclosure is a rusty iron standard bearing two tablets, the lower one about three times the size of the ! upper. The lower tablet is the origin ;al one, put up in 1854, and hears the inscription: This tree has been stand ing here for an unknown period. It is believed to have existed before the settlement of Boston, being fully grown in 1772, exhibited marks of old age in 1792, and was nearly destroyed by a storm in 1832. Protected by an iron enclosure in 1854. " The upper tablet reads: ine oiu elm, destroyed by a gale February 15, 1876. This elm planted A. D. 1876." 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A ttower-strewn pathway, sode Old year. Yon found yon no such floral grace, No roses to your progress incommode! Here, In yonr sullied page, there lies a blot! Could one but blot out days as well as dates The pain of life were one-half well forgot And man the conqueror of the wayward Fates! And here a scarlet cross the-day We met! Why, after all. the gods are still divine! That man is mad who wishes to forget Those dear, dead days that lie In mem , ory's shrine! So, now yonr time" has come to abdicate Lie there in peace a consecrated thing. You are more precious In your fallen state Than this new year, for all that It may bring. Eve Brodlique. Wbathu B nrhtHm. "No," said Mrs. Cuuiso to Mrs. Caw ker; "I know well enough not to buy cigars for my husband's Christmas pres ent." "What did you get him?" "I bought him a razor found it on the bar gain counter and got it for ninety-eight cents. Judge. Last of John Brown's Jury. The recent anniversary pf the raid of John Brown has brought to light the interesting fact that George W. Boyer of Harper's Ferry is the sole surviving member of the jury which tried this famous leader. ' Awful Warning:. A Spanish woman kissed her pug dog and died of hydrophobia last week. The retributions of Providence for lack of sense are often mysterious and severe. Pomona Progress. Si B Four-Mill ion-Dollar Craft. The French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc is estimated to have cost about $4,000,000, of which $2,000,000 was for aux-1 iliary fittings, such as armor, gun mountings and mechanism, torpedo gear and special fitting. Bonn's town authorities have estab lished a tax on "the use of the col umns of air above the city streets." A projecting window or balcony pays 50 marks a year and every additional bal cony or projection over it 25 marks. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED WW ARE WEAK BH3KEN OOWM DBC0URACED Men who Eu!Ter from t'ae effects of disease, over work, worry, froLi bc follies of youth or the ex cesses of manhood, from unnatiffal drains, weak ness or lack of davclopmcnt of any organ, failnreof vital forces, unntness for rcarrlspe, all inch men should "come to ths fountain head " for a scientific method of roarvellons powrrto vitalize, develop, re store, and sustain. Wo will mail without charge fn a plain sealed envelope a pamphlet that Tells It AH. Nothing sent unasked. Ko expo sure, no deception. Address 1 ERIE MEDICAL CO. 65 NIAGARA STREET, BUFFALO, l. TL MRS. PINKHAM'S VICTORY Mr a. Sidney Hamlet. Cored by I-yilia'E. Plnkham'a Tegetabla . Compound. A Warning. Rhymes on the mistletoe Are all very well, y' know; But In mistletoe season The promptings of reason Are toward the adagio; The gallant had better go slow. For kisses at times riug woe; To the doubling young Thomas May couje breach of promise By way of the mistletoe! Christmas Eve on th Reservation. PappetH Made of Gingerbread. The city of Amsterdam claims St. Nich olas as its patron saint, and during the first week of December confectioners' shops throughout the city display one special delicacy called "St. Nicholas cake,"' of which large quantities are sold at tiis season. "Men" and "women" "Msj&r' j 7 4 x Santa Clans of the Tepee. Red House, Va. To Mrs. Pinkhara: '.'My heart goes out in sympathy to all who are suffering' with troubles pecul iar to the female sex. 'I would like to express my gratitude for what your Vegetable Compound haa done for me. 1 have been a sufEerer since girlhood; did not then know the cause of dreadful sick headaches and other troubles. I could not take lonjr walks, lift or carry anything heavy, and was very nervous. " Last Bummer I was almost an invalid ; could not walk across my room without pain. I sent for our physician. He pronounced my case a bad one of ' Prolapsus Uteri, conges tion and ulceration of the womb, and said I was to lie abed. I was so dis tressed to find myself so helpless and useless to my family; I saw your Com pound advertised and thought I would try it. I tool: several bottles, and used the Sanative Wash and Pills as directed, and now I am as strong as I ever was, and do all my own housework. I can walk more than a mile without any Inconvenience. Oh! I am truly grate ful. I cannot write the good you have done me. Words are inadequate to express it. May God bless you for the pood you are doing." Mbs. SidnkT Hamlet, Red House, Va. CUfiS WHfcflE ALL ELSE FAILS. CourU Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drunrlsta. By local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by "constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused bv an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear ing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and nnless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine caseB out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness, (caused by catarrh) that canno't be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir culars; free. . F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. Germany and China, The foreign office at Pekin says that when the bandits killed the two mis- I Eonaries it ordered the governor of Shangtung to arrest the culprits, and ' the capture of four of them was effect- HEEX EE EE! Sl3SSl fa grow paying crops because they're fresh and olways the beat. 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V""" xim:,qini a tlluroilKD JtnOW- muroer oi uie missionaries as a pretext ledge of the business. Send for our free refer- for obtaining and permanently occupy- 511';!. Yi- ,?'IN,W' Hopkins a Co., ? ti ... , ihicngo Board of Trade Brokers. Offices in ing a very desirable position upon the Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Wash Uhmese coast, and so clear is this de-, termination that China has appealed to Knt-sia to interfere in her behalf agair.st Germany. Germany reinforced her squadron in the Chinese waters on the heels of this seizure of Kiao Chau bay, and it is reported that as long ago as 1895 one of our warships on the Chinese coast was applied to by a German ves sel for charts of these waters, "and par ticularly requested detailed charts of the harbor of Kiao Chau." The Ger mans verified these charts, and made more extended surveys of the place, and when "the German naval officers at that time disouseed the probability of their occupying that port, the murder of German missionaries was net men tioned." , .northernJL lu I JL ILLUSTRATED CROWN m FREE o Buell i 03 Lamberson ' ISO FRONT ST Poptland,Qr. P Mas. Winsix)w' sooTHina Sveit tiioutd &waya be f used for oalidren teething. It aoothea the ehlld, AO ft- 4 Ljn the gums, allaye all pola. earn wind rollcand Is 4 tte beat remedy for dlarrhm. Twenty t cena a a Bottle. H lithe beet f all. for tracing and locating Gold or SUver Ore. lost or buried treasures.' M. 1. FOWLER. Box 8J7, Southing-ton, Coca. N. P. K. V. "o. , 7. TTTBEN writing- to alverUien, V mention this paper.