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THE MEAT MARKET SHOULD COSTRTBrTE ITS PORTION TOWARD MAKING THE CHRISTMAS H&TH MIES ENJOYABLE,
AND WE ARB PREPARED TO SUPPLY TOU WITH CHOICE GOODS IX OUR LIVE.
FOR THE HOLJDAT FEASTS WE HATE CHOICEST MEATS OF AIL KINDS REEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL.
Poultry
TtRKETS, CHICKENS, DUCKS AND GEBSK, LITE AND DRESSED. ALL LARGE, FAT AND
GOOD FOR THAT MAGNIFICENT SPREAD.
FLUXF, AND ESPECIALLY
Oysters
' . ' " AND EXTRA GOOD. BOTH EASTERN AND OLYMPIA. , r ..
Salt Water Foods
IN FISH WE HATE HALIBUT, SALMON, ROCK COD AND SMELTS. ALSO FINE rr.aws, CRAWFISH, SHRIMPS, ETC
AT OUR MARKET TOC WILL FIND AT ALL TIMES CHOICE MEATS, BOLOGNAS, SAUSAGES AND WTRSTS. WE WANT TO BE
TOUR BUTCHERS AND SUPPLY IOC WITH MEATS. WE AIM TO AND DO SATISFY OCR CUSTOMERS. IF TOO HATE NEVER
GITEN rs A TRIAL ORDER WE WANT TOC TO DO SO. . ; i; Mwm , .;. - . - , v , , ,
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INVESTING MONEY.
Sare mt Taar SrkiM Befare Tm
tlak Xmur iiav-las.
Don't tie yourself or your money np.
Don't risk ali jour savings in any
scheme, do matter bow mnch tt may
promise. Ion't Invest your" Lard earn
ed money In anything without first
making a thorough and searching In
vestigation. lH Dot be misled by those
who tell you that It la "now or never"
and that if you wait you are liable to
low the ben thing that ever came to
yon. Make up your mind that If you
lose your money you will not lose your
bead and that yon will not Invest in
anything until you thoroughly under
stand ail about it There are plenty
rf good things waiting. If yon mis
oe there are hundred of others. Peo
ple will tell you that the opportunity
will go by and you will ke a great
chance to make money If you de not
net promptly. But take your time and
investigate. Make tt a cast Iron rule
ever to invest In any enterjtae until
you have gone to the very bottom or 1L
and If it la not so sound that level
Beaded men will pot money In It do not
touch It The habit of Investigating
kef ore you embark hi any business will
be a happlDess protector and an ambi
tion protector a well. Orison Swett
Maiden in Success.
BITING THE THUMB.
Bt Car to Br Cwdiinl a Fleas at
la "Borneo and JnBet" the servants
at Capulet and Montague begla a uar
rei by on biting his thumb at the oth
ers. Commentators hare regarded this
act as an insult, quoting the f oUowlag
passage from Decker's "Dead Term:'
"What swearing is there, what shoul-
tering. what Jostling, what leering,
vast biting of thumbs to beget quar-
lsr
Sir Walter Scott bowever, is a Bote
to the "Lay of tbe Last MlnstreL" says.
-To bite tbe thumb or the glove seems
act to have been considered upon the
border as a gesture of contempt
thongs so need by Shakespeare, but as
a pledge of mortal revenge." It was
thus accounted to be a solemn assur
ance that at the proper time the sword
. should settle the dispute or purge tbe
offense.
' Something of tbe sort may hare pre
- Tailed among tbe Romans, for It is
thought that tbe Latin poUicerL to
promise, is derived from poller, tbe
thumb.
PRISONS OF SILENCE.
done. The corridors, piled tier on tier
five stories high, extend from a com
mon center like the spokes of a huge
wheel. The cells are narrow, tomb
like, and within each stands s coffin.
The prison garb Is a shroud. The at
tendant! creep about in felt slippers.
Xo one is allowed to utter a word.
The doors are unlocked, and the half
a tDousapn wrmeuea marrn out. ciow-;
ed In shrouds and with faces covered
by masks, for it is a part of this
hideous punishment that none may
look upon the countenances of his fel
low prisoners. Few of them endure
this torture for more than ten years.
A Five Oars Love Starr.
At the present time we are always
talking about tbe rush and hurry of
the twentieth century. Are we really
so rapid as we think we are? Cer
tainly few girls of fourteen bare any
thing like the amount of experience
and emotion in many weeks of life that
Juliet, Shakespeare's heroine, had
crammed into five days and a half.
Tbe time la thus apportioned: On
Sunday the ball took place, and on
Monday Borneo and Juliet were mar
ried. On Tuesday Juliet took the
draft, and on Wednesday she was
placed In the tomb. On Thursday Ro
meo returned, and on Friday tbe nap
leas pair committed suicide.
The Jisimm Babr
Tbe Japanese baby's bead is shaved
in a curious fashion, and never, under
any circumstances, does the mother or
baby wear a hat or bonnet Nor does
be wear abort, even in the coldest
weather, bat bis shaves bead and his
pink toss peep out from the mother"!
garments, and be rides pickapack,
strapped oa tightly, happy, chubby,
urtitng always and flrtssnl, when ne
Is allowed to get out of tbe binding
garments, in tbe most dainty of kimo
nos, all embroidered and painted and
decorated with tbe designs which an
supposed to typify tbe final trade or
occupation of tbe infant
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u Slerv Beafa Caaaaa.
Entombed in a grim castle on the
evutkioru of Lisbon are some of the
aaost miserable men on earth. These
sue tbe inmr.tes of Portugal's deadly
prisons of alienee. In this building ev
erything that human Ingenuity can
suggest ta render the Urea of Us prbv
obi borrlblSL mad denim torture Is
Mrs. Beauster Mr. Johnson, won't
you please amuse the baby for about
five minutes? Mr. Johnson (not of Bos
ton) I'm afraid I don't know bow.
Mrs. Beanster. Mrs.- Beanster- Just
talk a little. She always finds your
western grammatical peculiarities so
amusing. New Orleans Tlmes-Demo-
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BU IWakn.
I pity the man who can't learn any
thing from his own mistakes. Now.
that's one thing I can do." said Bragg.
"Ah! Tou're always learning some
thing then, areaf youT replied Knox.
Exchange.
One radical difference between a
boy and a girl is that tbe girl can get
enthusiastic about a treeful of cherry
blossoms without thinking of the cher
ries. Sotnervilie Journal.
iMBlrsieatB af WarfM. j
There is a story of a privateer's
crew of forty to fifty men capturing a
Turkish galley with 5U0 seamen and
soldiers on board by means of s swarm
of bees judiciously thrown among the
unspeakable ones. However this may
be. there are enough authentic in
stances of strange methods of stuck
to provide amply sufficient material
for tbe casuist in deciding what is fair
snd what unfair in war. Burning
naphtha, boiling lead, birds, carcase
of men and bones. Chinese stinkpots,
besides the Implements already men
tioned, have all been used for offensive
or defensive purposes In actual war
fare. Prask-STTSF Urttw,
In 1M4 s fishing smack off one of the
Sbetiand isles was struck by light
ning during s fierce storm. The bolt
first struek the mast which it splin
tered completely. It then passed to a
watcb in the pocket of a man sitting
close to tbe mast and completely melt
ed It Tbe man not only was unin
Jured. but be did not know what had
taken place till be took his wstcb from
his pocket and found it fused into a
mass. , .
"I never knew till now why this wss
such s windy country." said the bright
little girl traveling through Illinois.
"and have you discovered why!'
ssked her father.
"Of course. See all the windmills on
these farms we're passing." Philsdel.
puis Ledger.
BU Bets.
Mrs. Xewpop Why don't you stop
whipping tbe child? Ton make It boi
ler. Mr. Newpop I'm licking it to
nuke tt stop hollering. Chicago Jour
nal. -
CTs ass Far 1 arrow.
Brown Croker's down with brain fe
rrt. Tbe doctor says If be recovers his
mind win be a blank. Green I'm sor
ry to bear that He owes me $10.
That they are sinners few are willing
to deny; that they are shining few are
ready to admit.
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