I
DEWEY'S SERVICE SWORD.
Bit of Steel Two lct I.onar for "A hlcfr,
ft, .100 Was Of
f cretl.
A bit of steel R little more than two
feet In length lias been the nt tract ion
for fonie time for the patrons of a fash
ionable tailoring establishment, wliii-h
does a large business with uflieers of
the nrmy and liuv.v, writes a Wnsdiirfr
ton I'orrespomli'iit of the l'it If-lm '.i
Dispatch. Though very plain nnil in
aigiiifiennt In itself, it is faseinatiiij;
and important ns tiavinj? for iorp; ueen
the companion of the most notable and
popular hero of the late wnr with Spain. as0 tiree chji(ren answering the ties
Admiral Dewey, having been for many . criplion of ,hc SUp.)oseii vjclim8.
years a patron or tins tsiamiMimeiu,
left his sword there to have its li untile
glided, and the tailors were allowed to
Mease their patrons by exhibit ing it to
iem. Many are the offers that have
cen made for its purchase. In the
iresencc of the writer a day or two
ipo one gentlenmn offered $."j00 for it.
.The makers of uniforms, etc., laughed
and remarked that the person would
have to raise the ante several time
-to be up to the figures of other would
be buyers of the famous weapon. A
.gentleman who overheard the offer of
$500 declared himself for $1,000, and
still nnothrr who was present counted
'out $1,500 in the long green. Of course
'the proprietor laughed at these absurd
'offers, as if to say there was not money
enough in the world to purchase from
Admiral Dewey this simple weapon
ihat had been his side partner through
out all the days of anxiety and of vie
'tory during that passage of his life
'which gave him within a few nhort
hours whatever gratification there was
jin the consciousness that he had won
undying fame.
IT WAS DEWEY'S TREAT.
Once Each Seaaon the A din I ml Senilis
One Ifandrpd Orphan to
the Theater.
: "In lSSfi," said Col. Frank Small, ad
vance agent for a theatrical company,
according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
"I was in Washington with Rose
Coghlnn, playing at what was then Al
bangh's opera house. One afternoon I
was hi the box office when three ladies
icame in, followed by 100 children, boys
and girls. One of these ladies stepped
up to the window und said: 'We have
Just an even hundred children here, and
here is a check for $25 to pay for the
tickets for them. She handed In a
check signed George Dewey, nnd the
pickets were passed out to the lady.
The happy youngsters were soon en
joying the piny. I didn't know George
Dewey from Adam's off ox, and I asked
the ticket man who he was. He told
me that Mr. Dewey w as a naval officer,
land that it was not the first time that
he hatl handled his checks in that way;
that once each season, anyway, the chil
dren from some of the several orphan
asylums were given such treats by the
gentleman, but that he seldom attend
ed a performance himself. Now, 1 have
"been in the theatrical business for many
years, but that was the first time I
ever knew any one person to be thought
ful enough to put up $25 for the pur
pose of affording enjoyment to the chil
dren of an orphan asylum."
ANCIENT ADVERTISING.
Plctaremioe Emblems with Which
Trailfumen Once lncle Their
i Wnrra and Occupations Known.
A noticeable survivul of the pictur
esque old fashion of hanging emblems
loutside shops which dealt with tho
.goods to be sold within, is the sign
oi uie uoot, which one may often bee
hanging outside u shoemaker's shoj
says the London News.
Sign boots ure made in two or three
standard sizes and of other sles to
order. They arc most commonly seen
gilded, but sign boots ure occasionally
finished in some bright color, us, for
Instance, a brilliant red.
1 lie boot signs may be bought in
the establishment of the dealer In
emblem signs, where there ure also
to be found tho gilded fishes for the
dealer in fishing tackle, the great
gilded padlocks for the hardware
dculer, and a variety of other signs
of. nn emblematic character.
.ucxiue wiese iamiiiur gutted or
:painted smuller boots there is occa
sionally seen in front of shoe stores
a giant boot, with the foot part per
Imps three or four feet In length and
the leg In proportion, four or five or
,six feet tall.
these great boots, of which the
;number used Is limited, are made of
sheet iron or tin und painted. They
ure not, Kepi in stock ror sule, Lon
don News.
Antarctic Exploration.
In the Strand Magazine, Sir George
iewncs tens Uie story of the Southern
Cross Antarctic expedition up to Feb
ruary 27 of the present vear. " What
has bnppened since then none but the
brave band of ten detennlned men can
know until January next. Our winter
1b, of course, their summer, and then
the ice will break up and melt and the
Southern Cross, which has returned to
wanner latitudes during the interval
will steam to Cape Adair once more." 1
to the belief of scientists that the most
important work of exploration yet to
be done lies in the antarctic continent
nnd the subject has a prominent plac
et all the geographical societies of th
world.
Iloraea la Rnaala.
Russia is a country extremely rich 1
horses, the number of which has been
estimated at 20,000,000, of which at least
1,000,000 are saddle horses fit for th
purpose of war.
Dupe for Oklahoma's Indiana,
Oklahoma Indians have developed
craze for the mescal bean, a little
known narcotic of wonderful proper
ties, producing marvelous color visions.
BAD FOK HUMMEL-
Tho Sniilli
Whom Ha Accused
Found,
Hat Been
Hummel, who is in jail awaiting
trial at Williainspott on the charge of
murdering his wife and three children,
has been contending that a man nam
ed Smith, residing at Hazleton, was
either the murderer or had taken the
wife and children away. It now trans
pires that there is a Smith in that city
and when the police of that city went
to the house thev found Smith and
Smith, however, denies knowing Iluin-
el and said he had never heard of the
leged murderer before. I he children,
said were his own offspring. The
lscovery of Smith makes the case
against Hummel stronger than ever,
as his statement thai he knew nothing
oi Hummel and was never at his house
nocks out Hummel's well construct-
I story.
The arrest of Hummel has recalled
nd revived interest in the murder of
Amos Ritter, at Sedan, Delaware
township, Northumberland county, a
ttle over two years ago. Many of
our readers will no doubt recall the
mysterious circumstances which sur
rounded the finding of his body, in
le backvard at his home. Hummel
raveled in that part of the country at
the time of the murder and a zreat
many people are of the opinion that
e knows something about it.
Orangeville Won
Orangeville and Benton played a
hotly contested game of foot ball at
Orangeville Saturday afternoon, Dec.
o, Orangeville winning by a score of
-o. 1 he feature ot the game was
Derr's skirting the ends with the ball.
Orangeville used "guards back'' for
repeated gains and kept ball in Ben
ton's territory and would have scored
ofiener, but tor McHenry's punting
out of dancer. For Oranceville Derr,
Allabach and Zehnder Low ex
celled and Arthur Mellenry and
Laubach did best work for Benton.
THE LINE UP.
Orangeville. Benton.
Herring left end Eves
O. Aliabach left tackle Hunsinger
DeLong left guard Davis
Monroe centre Edwards
Frey light guard Lewis
Hirleman right tackle Koontz
L. Allabach right end Laubach
O. Z. Low quarter back L. McHenry
Appleman 1. half back(C) Hirleman
Derr r. halfback A. McHenry
Z. Low (C.) fu'l back Raber
Referee Buckalew, Bloomsburg
Timekeeper Kisner. Time of halves
20 and 2? minutes.
Another Scheme.
The Kingston correspondent to the
Wilkesbarre limes says: lwo weeks
ago two strangers arrived here and
secured the right to place a register in
the Exchange Hotel. They solicited
number ot advertisements from local
business men, securing six advertise
ments in all at $2 a piece. They were
to be printed on blotter paper and
then inserted in the register, they to
furnish the book complete and place it
in the hotel. After the advertising
slips were printed they went to each
one of their natrons and showed the
slips and received their pay. As soon
as the money was collected they threw
the slips away and left town without
placing the register in the hotel. By
so cleverly duping the advertisers the
swindlers made $12 lor the day's
work. They have evidently been
operating in various towns down the
river.
These chaps worked their game in
Shickshinny and as usual caught those
merchants who hardly ever advertise
in their home paper, but let some
fakir come along and they are the
first to bite. Need the moral be men
tioned. Shickshinny Echo.
Women are Eligible-
It may not be generally known that
women are eligible as census enumer
ators and as clerks in the compilation
of the iooo census, yet such is
tact. The rules and regulations for
the taking of the census of 1880 were
so drawn that there was no discnm
ination on account of sex. As i
consequence many women were em
ployed throughout the country as
enumerators, and in every case did
good work. In 1890 women again
tound occupation as clerks ana as
census takers, though then as now
the fact that women were eligible to
these positions was not as widely
known as it should have been.
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publisher of this paper to show you
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full particulars at once.
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Christmas rresents-
In the December Ladies' Home"
Journal hdward Bok writes in vigor
ous deprecation of the complicating
of Christmas. " Much as we need
, simplicity in all the phases of our liv
I ing," he contends, " its greatest need
I is sometimes felt at Christmas. And
it seems a pity that we cannot make
a beginning there. We could if we
J would simplify this question of pres
ents: if we would leave out of our
i consideration all but the natural
promptings of our hearts. If ever
material considerations should be dis
missed from our minds and lives it
should be in connection with Christ
mas. If ever our friends should see
our hearts our real inner selves it
should be on Chtistmas Day. Not
that we should be other than our real
selves on other days. But as it is, we
are not our actual selves on the day
of all days when we should be. See
how we strive that our present of this
year shall suspass the one that we
gave last year I See how instinctively
we think of the material value of
what we give, and actually of what
we receive I See how we wrong our
selves by leaving needful things un
done and inviting illness because we
feel we must give something of our
own making to a friend, when really a
sigh goes into each stitch, instead of
"
being frank with ourselves, and pleas-
ng our friends infinitely more by be
ng frank with them, and purchasing
something at far less cost to our
health. Every woman knows what I
mean by this : the great evil of mak
ing things for Christmas presents,
when really neither the time nor the
strength can be spared. In much the
same way we complicate Christmas
at the table."
Complicating (JhristmaB.
Edward Bok writes, in the Decem
ber Ladies'' Home Journal, that
" there must be some radical and
growing departure from the right and
best way of celebratma Christmas
when each recurring year we hear a
larger number of men saying, Well,
1 11 be truly thankful when this Christ-,
mas business is over.' And they are '
led to this remark generally by seeing i
then wives, mothers, sisters, or daugh
ters, reach Christmas Day utteily
tired out, with the prospect of a siege I
of illness as soon as Christmas is over.
And il must be confessed that this
state of aftairs exists in thousands of
homes. Women themselves fre
quently acknowledge their satisfaction
when the day is over. Now, there is
always something wrong when we
make a burden of our pleasures. And
:f one of our sources of pleasure in
the calendar's greatest gala day is de
rived from a feeling of thankfulness
that it is over, there is something
askew either in the way we prepare
for, or spend, the day."
Decision on Adopted Children-
A new point in the adoption of
children has been handed down by
Judge Archibald, of Wayne county, in
a case before Lackawanna court. He
decides that after a child has been
legally adopted the court has not the
power to revoke the decree of indent
ure. The original relation of parent
and child exists, however, notwith
standing the adopted parentage. The
changed name of the old child re
mains, but there is nothing to prevent
the child inheriting from its real
parents or they from the child.
Tax Rule Revoked-
Another important ruling has been
handed down by the commissioner ot
internal revenue in which he revokes ,
his decision ot October 24, when he
declared that judgment notes under
seal were taxable as bonds and as
powers of attorney. The whole sub
ject has been reconsidered by the
commissioner, end the ruling received
declares that Judgment notes, under
seal are only subject to the same tax
ation as ordinary judgment notes,
namely, two cents per $100, together
with the 25 cent stamp for the power
of attorney.
Corn and flogs- !
A writer put the matter very aptly
when he said : Corn loaned to hogs
is cash and a good investment. A
hog is a condenser; he will put ten
bushels of corn in less space than a
bushel measure. He has been styled
a manufacturer of hams, hair brushes,
head cheese, tooth brushes, buttons,
fertilizers, fats, bi-con, whistles, knife
handles,soap, sausage and satisfaction.
He converts corn into coin and can
buy what he will."
Lamp globes, for your parlor
lamp. We can fit almost any kind
of a lamp. Mercer's Drug and
Book Store. ,
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
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L..i-UOiVlbLiUliv.
The Coming Census.
Population
Schcdul
Juno
to be
1900.
Commenced
1.
The enumeration required by the
Census Act will brgin Juiu 1, 1900,
and must be completed within two
weeks in all cities for which 8,000
inhabitants or move were repot ted
in 1890. In all other districts, on
or before July 1, 1900.
Kaclt enumerator will receive a
commission from the supervisor of
liis district, and he will be required
to take and subscribe an oath or
affirmation that he will faithfully
discharge the duties required of
him.
Knumerators' compensation is fix
ed by Section 16, of the Act of
March 3, 1899, ami a minimum rate
of two cents for each living inhabit
ant; two cents for each death; fifteen
cents for each farm and twenty
cents for each establishment of pro
ductive industry. The compensa
tion will not be less than three nor
more than .six dollars per day often
hours actual field work.
Section 7 of the Act to provide for
taking the Census provides, that the
Twelfth Census will be restricted to
inquiries relating to the population,
. - ........ . r, j- r :
10 mortality, to ine pmuuets ol agri-
VllittllC Ctlltl Ul 111.111U141.LU1 lllj dim
mechanical establishments. The
schedule relating to the population
shall comprehend for each inhabit
ant the name, age, color, conjugal
condition, pbee of birth, and place
of birth of parents, whether alien or
naturalized, number of years in the
United States, occupation, month
unemployed, literary school attend
ance and ownership of farms and
homes.
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It is a scicntMo combination of rare roots,
herbs, barks and soeds from Nature's labora
tory. It cures constipation, uorvoua dis
orders, headache, indigestion and liver and
kidney diseases. It is a most wonderful medi
cine, and is recommended by physicians
generally. Remember It cures constipation.
Celery King is sold In 25o. and SOo. packages
by druggists. 1
ATARRH
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And HIHI.IKifi
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use. Contnlua no lu
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It Is iiulcltly Absorb
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It opens and cleanses
t lie Nasal Passages.
Allays Inflammation.
COLD Hi HEAD
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What is CASTOR I A
Castoria is a nuhstituto for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Props
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ngo is Its guarantee. It destroys Vornia
und allays Pevcri.shness. It cures Diarrhoea nnd "Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Itowcls, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
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