FAITH IN SANTA CLAUS.
I □•ed to watch for Santa Clans
With childish faith sublime.
And lliten In the mowy night
To hear hie sleigh belle chime.
BealJe the door on Christmas era
1 put a true« of hay
To re«d the prancing steeds
That aped him on nla way.
The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa*
signa
ture of Chas. II.
11. Fletcher»
Fletcher, and has been made under
uuder his
>ver 30 years. Allow no one
personal supervision for over
this. Counterfeits,
Counterfeits, Imitations und
and
to deceive you in this.
•<
•* Just-as-good ♦♦
” are but Experiments, and endanger th©
the
health of Children—Experience against Experiment.
Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is
Parc-
is. a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Props mui Soothini' Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is Us guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhcea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomai li and Bowels, giving healthy anil natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
I pictured him a jolly man
With beard of froaty white,
And cheeks ao fai that when ha laughed
They hid hla eyes from eight;
A heart that overflowed with lore
For Ifttle girls and boys,
▲nd oa hla back a bulging pack«
Brimful of gorgeous toys.
If children of a larger growth
Could have a Chrlatmaa trea
From Father Time, one gift alone
Would be enough for me—
Let ethers take the geins and gold«
And trlflea light and vela.
But give rne back my old belief
In Santa Claus agalnl
-Ufa.
BY JULES ADAMS POWELL.
The Kind You Haye Always Bought
T waa the day before Christmas.
Dame Yarrow stood in the store-room
doorway, gowned in a warm frock of
gray wool homespun, over which waa
tied an ample white apron. Her
white-capped head nodded as she counted
the pies on the shelves.
“Fifteen pumpkin—fifteen mince—fif
ty custard cups and two plum puddings
TH« CKNTAUR OOIORAHV. TV MURRAY
NIW YORK CITY.
—eighty-two in all, not counting Nan
nie’s three little turnovers. I think that
will do for the holidays this year, though
Brother John is coming with those ten
boys and one little girl. How cold it la.
P ar ! Reauori fation.
Lincoln the Farmer.
first settlers In ths There is surely a storm brewing, and I
In
the
days
of
the
Matters soon reached a crisis which
hope the folks will get here before it
drove the junior partner out into the Chickasaw country, when Davy Crock- breaks.”
the
Big
Hatchle,
.
ett
still
frequented
The good woman turned the key In
fields again, where he undertook all | "Old Man Giddlna"
was a prosperous the lock, and a door blowing open just
sorts of rough farm labor, from split
I
citizen
of
the
Forked
Deer
settlement.
at
that moment, at the other end of the
ting rails to plowing. As a man-of-all-
work, however, Lincoln did not prove I One day he started on a trip to Ar pasageway, she hurried off to close it
altogether satisfactory to his employers. kansas, and thenceforth for several and forgot about the key.
3 o’clock madame was robed In
He was too fond of mounting stumps years Forked Deer knew him no more. her By pretty
gray poplin with white ker
As travel In Arkansas was danger
in the field and "practicing polemics”
chief crossed on her breast, and a dainty
ous,
and
as
nothing
was
heard
of
Gid
on the other farm hands, and there was
white lace cap on her brown curia,
something uncomfortable about a plow dins, he was officially declared dead which would stray out from beneath the
man who read as he followed the team, by the court, and his estate divided cap band, and which Papa Yarrow slyly
no matter how straight his furrows ran. among his heirs. A yeur or so later, pulled as he passed through the hall
Such practices were irritating, if not however, he turned up. and tried to where aat his wife and little daughter in
presumptuous, and there is a well get possession of his property again. front of the blazing wood fire.
“All ready for company, Nancy
known story about a farmer who found He was promptly seized and taken Into
mine?” He caught the little ona up In
"the hired man” lying in a field be court.
his arms and kissed her on either cheek,
side the road, dressed in his not too
“What do you mean by coming
immaculate farm clothes, with a book round here, trying to take tills proper continuing: “And mother, too? Why
she looks as young an the day I saw
instead of a pitchfork in his hand.
ty?" roared the court at him.
her for the first time.”
"What are you reading?” inquire«!
"It's my property," asserted Gid-
Farmer Yarrow put the little girl
the old gentleman.
dlns. "Everybody knows It’s mine." down, glanced at his wife, who, with
“I'm n>t reading; I'm studying,”
"Not at all!” replied the Judge. "I'll drooping face, did not respond to his
answered Lincoln his wonderful eyes admit your case seems a hard one, but merry speech.
•till on the pages of hie book.
Her husband, noticing this, bent over
It can’t be helped now. This court
“Studying what?”
has decided that you are extinct us de her tenderly, with the words, “Yes, my
"Law sir."
functus, which Is Latin for dead. This wife, our life has ben one of great hap
The old man stared at the speaker
piness, marred only by one sorrow. If
court cannot err. Dead you are. If he
—our eldest child—our Henry—were
fur a moment in utter amazement.
you want any property round here you alive to-day, he would be a brave lad
"Great—God—Alinightyl” he mut
tered as he passed on shaking his head. must take another name and set to of 17.“
“John,” for the first time hie wife
—From Frederick Trevor Hill’s "Lin work to earn It. Mr. Sheriff, adjourn
coin the Lawyer” in the January Cen thia court, and we will al! go and see raised her head and looked Into his face,
her brown eyes filled with tears, “John,
that wrestling match you spoks of.”
tury.
sometimes, methinks our boy may yet
be alive. In the fight with the Indians,
Greatest ot All Idiots.
Harsh Mmsnres.
See the Practical Joker, He Is not we were told that he was carried away
Oldpop—1 want that man Stoplate to
by them, and even though the country
guit hauging around here. You sand him much of a eight, but still bo Is worth about was searched by scouts and others,
looking at as a Curiosity, as a Study it might be that they saved his life, for
• way.
Daughter—But, papa, I can’t get rid In Uncommon Cussednoss. The Prac- he was but a baby—5 years old, and if
ef him. I've giren him all aorta of hints, tlcal Joker Is the offspring of aslulidty there was a woman in that tribe surely
• nd eren treated him rudely, but it's no run to seed. He la what was Left Over she would have mother-heart enough to
•se.
after the rest of the world was ere preserve the life of an inocent babe who
Oldpop—Well, make It strong. The ated. There was a Slight Surplus, a had never done harm to any.“
•ext time he comes, sing to him.—Clare
“Wife, wife, this is very wrong for
mere fraction, not enough to make a
land Leader,
Complete Man, so the Hcraps were you to hope fur the return of one who
•craped up, preMed together and mold has been so many years from us. I am
Old Btnry In Mew Gtilte.
Rure that our son cannot be alive, or we
"There goes Blower in a swell new ed into a Practical Joker. The Job would have heard of him In some way.
was not patented. Nobody thinks Ah! I hear sleigh bells.”
•vercoat."
"Yea, the price came from gam enough of the invention to patent it.
Catching Nannie up again, he turned
You couldn’t sell Practical Jokers for toward the window, and coming up the
bling."
3
cents
a
bunch
If
you
should
stand
driveway
were seen thyee Immense
“You don't say. It is a wonder his
wife didn't tuke the , mousy away out on the corner of Fifth and Morri sledges drawn by strong horees and filled
son streets and spiel till your vocal with merry faces, the owner« of which
from him.”
“She gave It to him. She won It cord! got tied into double bow knot*. were soon clambering out The front
The public Is aware of the Shell Game door was thrown open. and Madame
playing 'bridge'”
when It sees the layout The Practi Yarrow’s tears vanished In the hearty
Secret Ont.
cal Joker la an Escaped Idiot from the handshakings and embraces of slaters,
cousins and aunts.
Mr. Stubb—Marie, this paper says Idlotvlll. Asylum, but he Is by no
Great-grandmother Hartwell
that In the wilds of Africa there Is a means a harmless Idiot.’ When r«eog- had Even
come, for this year it was Mary
mouse that Jumps ten feet at each nixed be should be roped forthwith and Yarrow’s Christmas feast, and all had
hauled back to hla native and natural come to make the old house ring with
leap.
Mrs. Stubb—Gracious! Now, I know environment, the Padded Cell.—Port Joy and laughter until after New Year.
why so few of the explorers' wives land Oregonian.
That night a merry crowd cat down at
the supper table. There was Brother
•eoompany them.
An Karlr Rrforturr.
John Hartwell, his wife and eleven chil
“I am looking," •aid Diog.ncs,
dren. There was Greatgrandmother
Yea, Venir.
an houest man.”
Dartwell
and
her daughter-in-law,
To ait upon • Jury
"And when yon find him, what are Grandmother Hartwell. Mr. Yarrow’s
Moat srsry man has fit nest,
you going to do?"
father and mother were present, as were
But it takea a skillful lawyer
“8-sh! I'm not foing to find hlin also his two brothers and one sister with
To sit upon a witness.
That would spoil ths Joke.”—Washing their wives, husband and children. In
Philadelphia Presa.
ton Star.
all there were thirty-three.
One might well wonder where all this
goodly company were to sleep, but If you
had gone Into the great garret you would
have ceased wondering, when you saw
the trundle beds for the little ones. Of
course, the very smallest babies slept In
their mothers' rooms.
Christmas Eve the children were al
ways allowed an extra half hour around
the fireside to listen to the etories of
No other bodily suffering is equal to that produced by the pain of Rheu their elders, while the corn popped and
matism. When the poisons and acids, which cause this disease, become in chestnuts burned black, or else hopped
trenched in the blood there is hardly any part of the body that is not af across the floor.
fected. The muscles become sore and drawn, the nerves twitch and sting,
On this evening Nannie aat In her
the joints inflame and swell, the bones ache, every movement is one oi favorite place on Cousin Roderick’s knee.
agony, and the entire body is racked with pain. Rheumatism is brought on Uncle Tom had Just been saying that a
by indigestion, stomach troubles, torpid I.iver, weak Kidneys and a general few days previous h. had heard that
inactive state of the system. The refuse matter instead of passing off the Indiana had been causing trouble
through nature's avenues is left to aour and form uric acid, and other acrid for the farmers. They were stealing
poisons which are absorbed into the blood. Rheumatism does not affect the hoarded corn and wheat, and In one
I Instance, after taking
_ the _ grain, they
all alike. In some cases it takes a
About
I had a severe had set fire to the granary.
wandering form ; it may be in the attack
of Rheumatism and could not
Rod saw the look of terror In
arms or legs one day and in the work with any satisfaction. My leva the Cousin
eyes of some of the little ones, and
were badly awolhn and drawn ao I
bhoulders, feet, hands, back or other could
aoaruoly walk. I tried many ram. interrupted with the words, “Well, now.
parts of the body the next. Others edlee but could yet no relict. I waa fin. Aunt Mary, wouldn’t it be a great Joke
ally recommended to try 8. 8. 8. and it
suffer more seriously, and are never loon
cured ma Bound and well. I am If these hungry Reds should get into
free from pain. The uric acid and now 74 yeara old and have never had your storeroom and carry off all those
any
return
of the trouble.
pies and puddings I know you have
bther irritating substances find lodge
JOSEPH KRONE HAWLKT, ' there for to-morrow ?’’
ment in the muscles and joints and
Boa 104.
Aurora, Ill.
“Are they really ao hungry. Cousin
hs these deposits increase the mus
Sometime ago I had Rheumatiam and Rod?“ asked a little voice from hia lap.
cles become stiff and the joints had
to quit work. The name in my back
‘‘Yea, dear, an Indian Is always ready
locked and immovable. It matters and between my shoulders waa ao in
tense I could not reet or sleep. I tried to eat one out of house • nd home."
hot in what form the disease may be •▼•rythiny
o
e
•
•
but nothing did me any wood
the cause is always the same—a aour, till I heard of and took 8 8. 8 Thia
Late that night no one heard ths
medicine
cured
me
Bound
and
well.
It
acid condition of the blood. This purified my blood and made mo feel like “pit pat of tiny bare feet slong the
vital stream has lost its purity and a naw uian.
I dark.'cold hall, as a little whits figure
CONRAD LOHR.
freshness and instead of nourish
emerged from the attic. «nd flew down
Anderson, Ind.
108 R. 10th 8U »tslrs In the moonlight, which flooded
ing •nd feeding the different parts
With health giving properties, it fills them with the acids and salts of this ths house with Its k'ndly rays.
She went directly to ths storeroom.
painful and far reaching disease. The cold
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aad dampness
Winter
al wav s
Intensify the pains of Rheumatism, and the sufferer to get relief from the At the ssnis Instant a tall, dark form,
tnat had but a moment before climbed
agony, nibs the affected parts with liniments, oils, lotions, etc., or uses nto an unfastened window, stood trans
plasters and other home remedies. These are desirable because they give fixed with fesr st the figure before him.
temporary ease and comfort but have no effect
effort on the
th. real trouble wh
which is in but for the moment only, when, with a
the blood and beyond the reach of
auch ---------------
treatment. S S
---------
S. S. is the b<
best rem •ort of grunt, the man novel toward
edy for Rheumatism, It goes into the the pantry doer.
Nannie, beneath her breath, whispered.
blood and attacks thedisease at its head,
and by neutralizing and driving out the "It's a Indian. an' he's coms for my
I
acids an«l building up the thin, aour turnovers. Cousin R< h 1 said he might."
Stie was frightened sn«I stood very still
blood it cures the disease permanently. ' while
the other fumbled with the lock,
While cleansing the blood S. S. S. tones which soon yielded, and when Nannie
PilRFI V VFRFTARI F UP the stomach, digestion and every I saw the man was really Inside the pan
runcui V LUC I ADLC. other
rt ()| the gy!>trm ^qhes the
i try. she turaed and almost flew back to
excited nerves. reduces the inflammation, dissolves the deposits in the joints, her father's nwm, where, standing on
relieves all pain and completely cures this distressing disease. S. S. S is a tiptoe, she whispere«! in h.e ear, "Fath
certain cure for Rheumatism ia any form ; Muscular. Inflammatory, Articu er' Father! A Indian is down in the
lar or Sciatic. Special book on the disease and any medical advice, without storeroom, etealiu my turnovers! Louis
gutek. fa(barI
^axye, toaU who write. MT SWIFT SPCC/FK7 CO„ AnAMTA.
I
In Use For Over 30 Years.
RHEUMATISM
BODY RACKED WITH PAIN
S.S.SH
He did “go quick," ao-i arrived Juat In
time to close the door of the atoreroom,
•nd turn the key io ita lock.
There waa a pauea, than a pounding
on the door. Haatily pushing a heavy
tabla against it, Mr. Yarrow returned
to hia room; dressed, and calling two
other male members of the houaebold,
they all marched to the atoreroom well
armed, and without much trouble, aoon
overpowered the thief, who proved to
be an Indian, and who mumbled some
thing that Bounded like broken Engliah.
They carried him out to the smoke
house, which was built of stone, and
bad a heavy Iron door. The three men
Watched nearby the rest of the night.
At breakfast on this Christmas morn
ing, Father Yarrow told th? story of the
previous night, and Nannie had her full
share of caresses and praise from aunt
ies, uncles and cousins alike.
Then there was a clamor from the
youngsters to “see the prisoner;’’ so after
breakfast they all went forth to the tem
porary jail, Dame Yarrow among the
others.
The great doors were pushed back,
and lying on the floor was the Indian,
asleep. But was It an Indian? Instead
of the straight black hair, his was brown
•nd curly.
Dame Yarrow gave one look, then
turned to her husband, with extended
hands, and the cry, ‘Oh, John, It is he!”
fell fainting into his arms.
The Jad was awakened and taken to
the house. He spoke English brokenly,
but could give no account of his former
life, before he became one of a tribe of
half-friendly Indians.
He explained his being in the store
room by telling his hearers that his
tribe of Indians that was encamped sev
eral miles above, on the river bank, had
been living on what they could steal from
the whites.
He had ben sent out on this night,
and seeing a window open in the back
of the Yarrow homestead he determined
to craw) in and view the premises.
Mrs. Yarrow knelt before him and
gazing searchingly into his eyes, which
were blue, asked over and over. “Don’t
you know me, Harry, darling? I am
your mother.” But he could not be
made to understand. H? begged leave
to return to the tribe, saying he would
come back again with information.
This the men were inclined to believe
a trick to get away, but when Mrs. Yar
row pleaded for him they let him go.
All idea of church-going was aban
doned, for the first time on Christmas
Day in tha life of any member in that
household, and dinner awaited at the
bidding of madame until the return of
thfe youth. He was seen coming up the
walk at 3 o’clock In the afternoon, and
with him was an old Indian.
The following tale they all listened
to with great Interest:
“In the great Indian fight of twelve
years before, the little captured boy was
taken to the Indian encampment, and
given to the care of a young squaw, the
favorite wife of the chief of the tribe.
“One day she overheard the chiefs j
talking about the white man’s child.
They said he had brought misfortune
to the Indians, as they had lost several
battles since he had been with them, so
they had decided that the innocent child
should die.
“The squaw had learned to love the
little one. That night she arose, and
taking him In her strong Arms she car-1
ried him away to another tribe of In
dians« who were bitter enemies of her
own, and, in order to save the boy’s
life, she told the chief of a deep-laid
scheme that her tribe had planned for
attacking them.
“She asked them Io take the child and
keep him, till perhaps, some day he
would be restored to his “white tribe.’ ”
The old Indian was well rewarded
with a load of wheat and corn to carry
home on a hand sled.
Then the long-lost Harry Yarrow was
made to understand that this was his
home, and that he was to remain there.
The Christmas dinner did not suffer
that night for want of attention, but
before they partook of it, Farmer Y’ar-
row, with his arm about his son, thank
ed God for this greatest of all His bless
ings.—Home Monthly.
HIS CHRISTMAS SERMON.
An
Aged Wayfarer Who Taught a
Curate Contentment.
An Engliah clergyman declares that
the best Christmas sermon he ever heard
W’as preached by a woman—and in three
words I
“In my little parish, under the sweep
of the Sussex downs,” he says, “I was
walking swiftly home one night buffet
ed about by the gray clouds of driving
rain that the fierce sou’wester swept
landward from the sea when a poor,
helpless, aged woman asked me for a
trifle for a night’s lodging.
“Curates are supposed always to be
poor. It was Christmas time, and I had
just parted with my last sixpence at a
lonely hamlet where work was scarce.
Still I could not leave my stranger in
the street, so I asked her to come with
me to my lodgings.
“She shambled along through the mud
with her streaming clothes and clouted
boots, and we entered my little room.
My thoughtful landlady had made my
table ready. A plate of hot toast was
standing in the fender; the kettle sang
vociferously, as if Impatient to be used;
in front of the fire stood my slippers and
an easy chair.
“To my surprise, my poor, worn, hag
gard companion raised her dripping
hands and burst Into tears with the
words. ‘Oh. what luxury!’
“That was the best Christmas ser
mon I ever heard, ami the only one I
hare never forgotten.”—Youth's Com
panion.
he L axative OF
K nown Q uality
There are two classes of remedies: those of known qual
ity and which are permanently beneficial in effect, acting
gently, in harmony with nature, when natureneeds assist
ance ; and another class, composed of preparations of
unknown, uncertain and inferior character, acting tempo
rarily, but injuriously, as a result of forcing the natural
functions unnecessarily. One of the most exceptional of
1 the remediesof known quality and excellence is the ever
pleasant Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California
F
Fig Syrup Co., which represents the active principles of
plants, known to act most beneficially, in a pleasant syrup,
;
in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to con-
* tribute their rich, yet delicate, fruity flavor, it is the remedy-
of all remedies to sweeten and refresh and cleanse the system |
< gently and naturally, and to assist one in overcoming consti- I
pation and the many ills resultingtherefrom. Its active princi- 1
pies and quality are known to physicians generally, and the
remedy has therefore met with their approval, as well as with
the favor of many millions of well informed persons who know
of their own personal knowledge and from actual experience
S that it is a most excellent laxative remedy. We donotclaimthat
f it will cure all manner of ills,but recommend it for what it really
represents, a laxative remedy of known quality and excellence,
containing nothing of an objectionable or injurious character.
There are two classes of purchasers: those who are informed
as to the quality of what they buy and the reasonsfor the excellence
*■' of articles of exceptional merit, and who do not lack courage to go
i elsewhere when a dealer offers an imitation of any well known
V article; but, unfortunately, there are some people who do not know,
and who allow themselves to be imposed upon. They cannot expect
T its beneficial effects if they do not get the genuine remedy.
To the credit of the druggists of the United States be it said
that nearly all of them value their reputation for professional
, integrity and the good will of their customers too highly to offer
\ imitations of the
Genuine—Syrup of Figs
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., and in order
to buy the genuine article and to get its beneficial effects,
one has only to note, when purchasing, the full name of
the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printedon the
front of every package. Price, 50c per bottle. One size only.
-r—
General Inutility Boy.
Exception.
Mr. Hobbs looked thoughtfully at Ills
city guest and then looked out ot the
window. "When you ask me If It’s
true that Jim Manton is the most
pop’lar boy I've ever had to 'ten store
and go round with the order wagon,”
he said, slowly, "why, I’m bound to
tell you it’s so. But when you go on
to ask me how I think he’d suit down
In Boston, I'm kind of dubious—that's
what I- am, kind ot dubious.
“You see, It's like this with my busi
ness. Order day Is order day, and de
livery day Is delivery day, and wheth
er It's summer, with thutty-two cus
tomers on the route, or winter, with—
well, with some less, all Jim's got to
do those days Is to get over the route
by sbuttlng-up time.
"And he's what you might call a
handy boy, Jim Is. Groceries and hard
ware aren't all he's got In bis mind,
and he’s ready to take bold and help
with what's going on wherever he
goes. 80—I feel—kind of dubious
W'ben I think of Boston. I don't know
as you catch my meaning?”
"M-m,” said tha city man. “I be
lieve I do.”
The
wandering
minstrel
man
stepped off the accommodation and ac
costed the oldest Inhabitant, who was
sitting on a nail keg chewing a piece
of sassafras bark.
"Guess every one Is acquainted In
this town." ventured the minstrel man.
"Reckon they be,” drawled the old
than, "seeing that there ain’t so many
of us.”
"And gossips! I dare say they are
plentiful?”
"Everybody In town Is a gossip but
j
old Dan.”
1
"Ah, I admire Dan. I bet he is con
scientious. Now, Isn’t that why be
doesn’t gossip?”
“No, stranger; Dan don't gossip be
cause he Is dead. Been dead a month.”
A Knotty Qnewtlon.
A
Fairly
Good
Man,.
“Brother Spotcaah," said his pastor,
“what would you do if an injunction
came to you, ‘sell all tbou hast and give
to the poor?’ ’’
“I should obey it, of course,” answer
ed the great merchant, “as I have al
ways done. Everything I have in stock
la for sale, and I give more to the poor
than any two men in thia block.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
To Break In New Shoes.
Always shake in Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder.
It cures hot, sweating, aching, swollen feet.
Cures corns, Ingrowing nails and bunions. At
all druggists and shoe stores, 25c Don’t accept
any substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address
Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
The Carthage (Mo.) Press says that a
Joplin boy asked his Sunday school
teacher last Sunday if the James boya
i wrote the Book of James.
riTQ P*rmsn.ntiy Cured. No atsor nervousness
I I I U after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervs
Restorer. Send for Free S3 trial bottle and treatlae.
Dr. H. H. Kline, Ltd., »31 Arch st., Philadelphia, Fa.
A
Little More Credible.
A man who bad been shooting on
Cape Cod returned by train, and a
stranger who was obliged to share his i
seat entered Into conversation with
him, and asked If ba bad bad good |
sport.
“Very good, Indeed.” replied the
sportsman. "We got one hundred head
to two guns.”
"You don't say so!” ejaculated the
stranger, apparently lost In astonish
ment at the size of the bag. "Double-
barreled guns, I suppose?”
Piso’a Cure is a good cough medicine
It has cured coughs and colds for forty
yeara. At druggists, 25 cents.
Much More to the Point.
“Ef yer real interested,” said Deacon
Skinner, “I’ll tell ye what I want fur
thet horse.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t be Interested in know-
in’ thet,” replied Farmer Shrude, “but
I wouldn’t mind knowin’ what ye’d
take.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Pokely—I saw a kid watching a ball
game through a knotbole today
and-----
Jokeley—Pardon me; that reminds
me. When may a knotbole be said to
be not whole?
Pokely—What on earth are you
talking about?
Park and Washington, Portland, Oregon
Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soot hint
Jokley—The answer Is: "When only
Syrup the best remedy touse for their children
"The School of Quality”
part of the knot Is not."—Philadel during the teething period.
phia Press.
A. P. Armstrong, LL. B., Principal
Too Oblliclnff.
Rodrlck—What has become of that
tall butler who was so polite?
Van Albert—He Is not here any
more.
Rodrlck—You don't say? Why, he
seemed to be an excellent chap. Used
to tnke your coat and bat as soon as
you entered the door.
Van Albert—That's the trouble. He
took about a dozen coats and hats one
day and then left.
Pretty Thin.
"There goes my auto flying along."
“I don't see any auto.”
"No. that chauffeur of mine drives it
so fast you can't see it.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Never yet were the feelings and In
stincts of our nature vinlateil with im
punity. never yet was the voice Of con
science silenced without retribution.—
Anna Jameson.
The way to insure a good appetite In
very hot weather is. aceor.lit.g to a Ger
man hygienic authority, to wear as light
clothiug as possible.
Her View et It.
The Friend—How Is your busband?
Is he getting on all right at the sea
side?
The Wife—He writes to say that he
Is getting quite well again and wants
for nothing.
"Doesn't that strike you as suspic
ious?”
“Why?"
“It seems to me he might want you
at least.”—Tales.
ThouianJt of graduates in positions;
hundreds placed each year; more calls
for help than we can meet—it pays to at
tend our school; largest, most modern,
best equipped. Departments: Business,
Shorthand, Typewriting, Penmanship,
English. Open all the year. Catalogue,
penwork free. Call, telephone or write.
Beware ot Ointments tor Catarrh that
Contain Mercury
as mercury will auroly destroy the sense ot
smell and compleiely derange the whole sye-
tern when entering it through the mucous
surfaces Such articlessi.oulu never be used
• xceptuu prescriptions from reputable pbr-
sp Ians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold
to toe good you can possloly dertvefrom them.
Hall s Catarrh Cure, manufactured ty F. J.
< he ne y A < o., Toledo, O . con tains no mercury,
and is taken interna'ly, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces ot the system.
In buying Hall’s i starrh t ure bo sure you get
the g- nuine It is taken Internally, and made
in T<-ledo,Ohlo, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testi
monials free.
Bold by Druggists, price "5c. per bottle.
Ball’s Family Fills are the best.
A Little Mlseg.
After a meeting of tbs parish council
A Tsris automobile building firm is in a New England town the chairman
NOTHING FOR FREDDIE GREEN.
Just about completing a 110-horse power rose to sum up.
gasoline submarine boat for ths French
“You keep us here." he said, “till 10
navy.
o'clock at night, and then you cast the
town drains in our teeth. You keep us
here plowing the sands, and then when
•11 decent people are asleep you go
into the public drains, causing unneces
sary friction. It won't do—it's too bare
faced to bold water.”-—Harper's Week
ly.
Have You
a Friend?
Freddie Green be said 'at Santa Clans |
waa 1st a fake an' be laid awake In bed
to And nut for sure, au w'?n Santa Claus
coma In with a whole lots of things he
bo I lr red right out loud to “Get a hair cut” I
to Santa Claus, an' Santa Clans let picked
up everything ’at he was going to leave
an' turned out th? lectrtc light an Fred
die firern didn't get nothing!
Pa says
Freddie Green haln't got no manners-
an' si's the reason.
An Improve*! Diary.
Then tell him about Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral. Tell him
how it cured your hard cough.
Tell him why you always keep
it in the house. Tell him to
ask his doctor about it. Doc
tors use a great deal of it for
throat and lung troubles.
“This,” explained the book«?!ler. ”i*
our latest patent d.ary We think it is
“I he-1 • IvFrible aeM and ronrh «nd wwe
the cleverest thing in that line ever de-
threatened with pnrunv-nu* I tr’*«i Ayer'»
Cherry Pertoral sad It g*ra mr qnirk and per
vi«ed ”
relief. It >• eertain’y • moat wondetful
enneh medb- tie.”- K in a fc. W hitman . 8i*mx
Tha shopper turns the leaves idly.
Fall«. 5
‘‘But I cae’t see where it ia d.Teren?
from any other.” the observe*
A Med» by J. C. Aver Ce. Lowell.
A.»o «lA-ufboturrr» ef
“No? Well, if you will > k at all
X 1
9
the date* after Jan. 23 y<v will see th st
in each spare has ’wen printed. 'Got up
ate breakfasts lunch and dinaer aud went
to bed.' Thst in»u es a eumpkte 4 art
-e of Aver s Pills ot fcedtirr.o w:
I fur uh* year.”- J*U<e.
Hatten recovery. Conti y laxativo.
Liners
The Earth's Area.
One of the beet authorities estimate»
the area of the earth's surface at 198.-
791,984 square miles, of which about
S3.000,000 square miles is lard, the
reet water. Throughout most of this
50,000,000 square miles Pillsbury's
Vitos has made ita way because it’s so
good. It is the ideal breakfast food,
and may be had at any up-to-date gro
cery.
In 9e1f«Def?mae.
ia thunder did Eddi« Ott’a
friends wurk ao hard to get him elected
to Cemgreat?”
“They wanted to send him to some
place where he could talk polities all he
wished to. and they wouldn’t have to
•¡Stea to him.”—Cleveland Leader.
To be Gleen for Reliable Infermation
We have set aside
$1,000°°
to be spent for information and will
give five dollars for a P ostal C ard
giving t’ ? first reliable news of a
chance to »11 a horizontal «team engine of
our My!e«, within our range of aizea. We do
not want i.,quirie« at thia time for vertical,
traction or fti engine«.
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