THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA
A Football
Hero
By GEORGE BROOKS.
"lIKLL." Raid Allendale, nf(cr
Yy TruITord hnd completed his
lugubrious ynrn, "if slip (lotos on golf
champions nud fool bull licropx, and
things like that, it seems to mc t lie
solution of the puzzle is for you to
go in fur uthleties and be u knight
of the gridiron or a champion pole
vaulter."
"What, 1110," groaned Tra fiord. "I
tell you, Ally, 1 would go through fire
and water for thut girl, but there is
oine things that are impossible. 1
can never be a football hero. 1 tried
just once when I was in school. They
put me on the serub eleven for the
vanity to praetiee on anil in the first
five minutes two big brutes picked
me up, threw me clown on my head
and walked all over me, and after 1
came around, tome time next day, I
found 1 had two ribs and my collar
bone broken.
"Hum," said Allendale. "That's a
ad case. Tra fiy. Hut doesn't your
lady love have any appreeiat ion for
your legal abilities os exhibited in
the case of Meyer vs. Millbunk, which
you have just fought out no beau
tifully?" "She doesn't," said Tra fiord, sadly.
"Every time I go over to see her the
front room is full of long-haired
youths as wide as they are long and
with their faces all clawed up like
they had beeu fighting bears, and I
am presented to various half backs,
and center rushes, and full guards
until you can't rest. After I am duly
presented then I am forgotten and
allowed to sit back in the library nnd
hear her paler tell how he held back
Longs-treet's whole rebel column for
all day or a week or two at Antietam,
or Gettysburg, or Shiloh, I forget
where. And through the open door I
an hear Lucy talking with thono
pigskin chasers about punts and
downs and saying, 'O, what a hero
you are, Mr. Jones, to struggle across
the line with a rib broken and three
men clinging to your back.' 0, it's
just blighting my life. She used to
like me Immensely before this uth
letic fad of hers began, and if I
could only do something to keep her
interested in me until she gets over
the attack 1 would be all right. As
it is"
"As it is," said Allendale, "you are
drifting apart."
"That's it," said Trafford, "we are."
The two walked on in silence. Then
Allendale gave a whistle. He drew
Trafford inta a dark alley nnd there
were mysterious whisperings for five
minutes, after which Trafford en
tered a drug store.
It was almost nine o'clock that
evening when Trafford called on Miss
Jukes. He limped painfully into the
room, leaning on a cane, and was
preceded by a strong odor like that
of the operating room of a hospital.
"Why. Mr. Trafford," said Miss
Jukes in nstonishment, "is it you?
And you've made me lose a box of
caramels. I bet Capt. Kling you
know Capt. Kling, he's half back of
the State university that it was
Willie Howling, the new center rush
of the Foster academy eleven, that
was coming because I henrd the cane
and smclled the arnica. Hut you
Tttven't been in an accident, have
you?" the asked, anxiously, as she
looked at Tra fiord's cane and took
another sniff of the nrnicn.
"No," said Trafford, as he sat
down with great difficulty on the pile
of cushions Miss Jukes hastily ar
ranged for him on the sofa. "You
know I am the quarter back for the
All Alumni Tigers, and we had our
first game this nfternoon."
"What?" said Miss Jukes, in aston
ishment. "Why, I thought you de
tested footbnll. Hut you are actual
ly on a team, Why, isn't that love
ly." Cnpt. Kling, the famous half back,
glared defiantly at Trafford and took
up a book and looked idly through
.he pages. Miss Jukes had eyes and
earB only for Trafford.
"0, but I did do myself proud. I've
'een enough games of football to
be able to put up a pretty good yarn,
md you ought to have heard me de
scribe that game. I told how in the
second half, with only ten more min
utes to piny and the score tied, the
'.all was handed to me for a run. I
went down that field with the whole
onek ut my heels. 1 dodged two or
three men, but finally the center
rush caught me just as I was six
feet from the goal line. That center
rush weighed 2:10 pounds. I was go
ing to make him 2(0, but I compro
mised on 230. I said he piled right
-in top of me, but that I just got up
on all fours and trotted across that
line, carrying the.center rush on my
back for all the world like a New
foundland carrying a frzing wan
derer In the Alps into a monastery,
Jennie laughed und clapped her hands
and said it must have been fine, but
that chuckle faced Kling said, 'Must
have been a pretty fast runner, that
center weight to go ahead of all his
team nnd overhaul you right near the
goal. Usually the center is the slow
est man in the eleven.' i told him
that this center weight waa unusual
ly quick on his feet, and Kling
snort fil and said he must be. Jiut
that let him out, and Jennie never
looked nt. him the rest of the evening,
but kept me talking about the game
until 1 fairly got ashamed of myself,
I've got to go down in Ohio next
week, and while there I'm going to
have the All Athletes come over and
I'lay."
"She'll be looking in the papers,"
said Allendale. "Then whcreTI you
be?"
"Got flint all fixed. Told her the
All Athletes had a row with the pa
pers a year or two ago nnd wouldn't
rend them the scores any more; nnd,
in fact, had forbidden the papers to
print n word about them."
"Well, keep it up. Tra fiy," said Al
lendale, gravely, "but remember, my
son, you are on dangerous ground,
and if 1 were you 1 wouldn't mnka
more thun four or five touchdowns in
each game."
The next time Trafford went
around to call n Miss Jukes he wm
what Allendale cnlled n work of nrt.
Ho had five benutiful scratches, made
with a camel's hair brush and red
paint, on one cheek; he hnd a black
strip of court plaster across the
bridge of his note, and carried one
arm in n sling.
There were four or five husky look
iug young men with their faces pic
turesquely marred silting in the
Jukoa front parlor nnd they nil
looked disheartened when Trafford
appeared.
Miss Jukes drew out the softest
and easiest chair for Trafford, and
when he sat down with nil the grace
and r.gility of a broken backed camel
she drew up a little stool and sat
down in front of him, anil begged
for the story of the Ohio game. The
opportunity was a splendid one and
Trafford, who was a fluent talker if
he was not n great footbnll hero,
caught the inspiration and related
the story of a game that had it
really occurred must have gone down
in football history as the greatest
gridiron struggle ever recorded.
An Trafford looked at her and
thought of the deceit he was practic
ing the whole weight of his wicked
ness suddenly bore in upon him and
his face twitched and he gave a
groan before he was awnre of it.
"0," said Miss Jukes in dismay, nnd
the husky youths looked at him in
astonishment.
"I T," said Trafford. feebly, "I'm
afraid I'm an awful baby. Rut I
dropped my arm suddenly, nnd 1
wrenched my collar bona the other
day, and it hurt."
Miss Jukes' eyes almost dimmed
with tears. "Vou football men are
so plucky." she said. She got some
more sofa pillows and fixed Trafford's
arm so that he would not let it drop
and cause his poor collar bono to
pain him so terribly again. Trafford
sat the other football heroes out that
evening, and after they were all gone
he stnid for quite an hour and had
Miss Jukes nil to herself for the first
time in n long month. But a bomb
shell exploded when he was saying
good night.
"I nm going to give you a little sur
prise," said Miss Jukes. "You may
have felt slighted because 1 have
gone to see the other boys play, but
have never been out to one of your
games. Well, papa, mamma, and I
are going out next Saturday after
noon. Yon say that your eleven is
going to piny away out somewhere
on the West side, and I want you to
tell us how to get there. And, do
you know, some of the other football !
men are just crazy to go. I nm sorry,
Mr. Trafford," she said, with a little
sigh, "but they seem awfully jealous
. of you and would say all manner of
horrid things if I would let them, but
I Won't. l!nt they are crazy to fee
you play, and some of them have
begged off from their own games
just to go with us, and I want you to
show them what a real football hero
is. And you will, won't you?"
, What was he to do? At first he do- j
cided to organize n team and hire
some other football aggregation to
play them, but the thought of the
sorry figure he would cut on Ihe
gridiron strained him. Then he re
called the gibes and taunts of Miss
Jukes' real footbnll friends when
they found out the truth, nnd how
she would hate him for being such
n faker. He wns so deep in his
thoughts that he did not hear the
' whirring of nn automobile that was
tearing down upon him at about
three times the rate of speed per
mitted by the city council. The
next he knew he was lying in the
white ward of a hospital. At first
; he gave himself up to the agony of
despair. Then he realized that per
( haps there was ntfway out.
1 It wns two days later that Allen
dale had a note from Trafford tell
' ing of the accident and the name of
the hospital where Trafford was ly
ing. He hurried over at once.
'Toor old Trnffy," he said, bend
ing over the cot, "I got you into all
1 that mess. I suppose now it's got
to come out, and of course Miss
Jukes will never look at you again.
I'm awful sorry, old man, but maybe
if we make a clean breast of it
and"
"New, don't spoil things," said
Trafford under hia bandages. "See
these flowers, Ally? She sent 'em.
She was here a moment ngo. That
automobile never stopped, and I was
brought here by a enbman, nnd no
one knows anything about the affair
except the interne that's taking care
' of vne, nnd he's a friend of mine.
; You see, that 'mobile let me out of
playing thnt game on Saturday. I
had to tell Miss Jukes that I got
' hurt in o practice game yesterday
j morning "
I "Say, Traffy," said the ndmlring Al
i lendale, "you're a wonder1 and you've
got the nerve of 14 football heroes."
"And, Ally," said Trafford, feebly,
"I've killed that football fad for Miss
Jukes. She's made me promise never
to play footbnll again. She wouldn't
promise to murry me until I did. It
was bn awful sacrifice, but I made it,
Chicago Tribune.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Ratable Rrent nt the Week Ertefly
find Ttfiflf Told,
A lone train robber held tip a LoiiIr
vlllp nnd Nashville, express near South
Louisville.
The court nt Colorado Springs, Colo.,
linn admitted the will of W. S. Strat
ton to probate.
Kiglit hundred thousand dollars n
year has been added to the pay of tlio
fi.O(M) members of the Chicago Truck
Teamsters' union.
The government of Ilrnzll has ac
cepted the Invitation to take part in
the St. Louis fair am? has made an ap
propriation Of .$20(1,0(10.
TncMilii)-, Dor. iW.
The new battleship Maine has been
put In commission at the League Island
navy yard.
A Norfolk nnd Western train was
wrecked near (Ireenville, Yn. The en
gineer was killed.
The Flat Top (W. Yn.) operators will
advance the millers' wages from 10 to
iM per cent Jan. 1.
A Christinas present made in a Chi
cago hoarding house contained poison.
One has since died, and others are ill.
Tho 1'otHihmt branch of the National
Hank of (iermany has been robbed of
$j:i.7."io In securities. Its subinanager
Is missing.
Moinlny, Dep. Sin.
I low academy .it I'mnconla, N. 1L,
was destroyed by fire.
A severe earllupuike shock was expe
rienced at Syracuse. Sicily.
Severe weather, with destructive
gales, wns reported In England nnd on
the cont Incut.
Nino men have been burled by n '
snowsllde at the Mollle (Hbson mine in
Hritish Columbia.
A hundred Hussion miner were en
tombed by tire In a coal mine. Only
twenty were rescued.
Archbishop Clinppcllc, apostolic dele
gate in Cuba and 1'orto Klco, arrived nt
San Juan and was warmly welcomed. ,
SlltnrdH-, Dec. 27. J
A minister nt Armstrong, Mo., mar
ried five couples tit once. ;
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain was
warmly welcomed at Durban, Natal.
A man was frozen to death within
five feet of bis home nt Dtiluth. Minn.
rremicr Halfour Is confined to his
bed in Scotland by an attack of Influ
enza:. ,
The Silvertown has-buoyed the I'u- i
cilic cable off Hawaiian island of
Oahtl.
Extremely cold weather was report
ed in the west nud throughout tho cot- ;
ton belt. !
Two were killed nnd two fatally '
hurt In a head on collision on theOrnnd
Trunk railroad near Hontcm, Mich.
Friday, Dec. Sill.
A train wreck at Trinidad, Colo.,
caused n loss of ten lives.
A boy Santa Claus nt n Salvntlon
A Cl.1.t..tni.i I.. I I ... 11.... !
.i ui.i imuitii- J1J lltlLUlllull, v.,
wus burned to death.
The death of Haddu Mullah, who
caused the Hrltlsh Indian authorities
much trouble, has been confirmed.
Five hundred sheep were burned In
the stockyard barns ut South Omaha.
Fire losses reported for the day were;
Bloomington, 111., J200,(XK); l'eabody.
Muss., $100,000, and Schenectady, N.
Y., $100,000.
Tlinrailny, Dec. 2..
It Is now nearly 00 degrees below zero
at Dawson City.
A great snowstorm swept Turkey, ac
companied by severe cold.
The freight handlers' strike at New
Orleans has been declared off.
Fire destroyed the First National
bank building of Corunna, Mich.
Cornell university has been presented
with a life size bust of Ezra Cornell, its
founder.
A wreck on the V. H. It. near Fort
Hill, Pa., resulted lu the serious injury
of two men.
lJulsy Carleton hns been acquitted of
the murder of Mrs. Joseph Leslie at
Bloomington, 111.
Dally Wlrcleaa Ocean MmmicFi.
GLACE BAY, N. S., Dee. 2!).-The
Murcotil station nt Glace Bay continues
to maintain dally communication with
Cornwall with constantly Increasing
efficiency and facility. Mni;coui Is still
here, but will leave shortly for the
Cape Cod station. In the meantime he
Is (.ending two or three messages by
wireless to Europe daily. Some of
these dispatches are lengthy. Among
the more recent recipients of such have
been ex-Empress Eugenie, Sir John
Long, M. 1'., and Henniker lleuton,
M. I.
Starved to Death la Bolivia.
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. '-Ml. News
has Just reached here that John II.
House starved to death lu the wilds of
central Bolivia in June, 11)00, while on
an exploring trip. But one man out of
a party of thirty escaped. House was
one of the pioneer mining men of
Washington, coining first to this section
la 1878. On his last trip he was one of
a party representing the Bollvlun gov
I ernmont. lHa friends will usk the do
partment of state to Investigate his
deuth.
' Another Moralnsr Paper In New York
! NEW YOltK, Dec. 31. Tho Dully
News announces an important change,
as follows; "The New York Dully
News will celebrate the Incoming of
the new year by doing something quite
. out of the ordinary. On Thursday, the
first day of 1003, the New York Dully
, News will become n morning newspu
per. Beginning Thursday mornhig it
will be increased to a twelve lMigfl pa-
i per."
! Admiral t'vrvera Promoted.
j MADHID, Dec. 20. Tho appolnt
' ment of Vice Admiral Cervern, who
' surrendered to the Ainerleun fleet off
Santiago, Cuba, to the post of chief of
j staff of the navy has been published
I lu tho oiltelal guzelte.
VENEZUELA TO CONCEDE ALU
' Only Axk Tliat the lltocksile lie
I Lifted at Onro
fWTLVCAS, Venezuela. Dee. 2f.
Fulled States Minister Howen and Lo
pez Harnlt, Venezuelan minister of for
eign affairs, have held n long confer
ence. Mr. Howen. obeying instruction
( from Washington, conveyed to Senor
Baralt President Roosevelt's refusal to
act nn arbitrator In the Venezuelan dif
ficulty, lie recommended that the tnnt-
tor be taken lo the International pence
court at The Hague, which hail been
expressly organized to consldi r ques
tions in which the honor of n country
or the disposition of territory whs not
concerned. Ho suggested the organiza
tion of n commission to sit In Wash
ington, the allied powers to bo repre
sented on this commission by their am
bassadors to the Fnlted States nnd
Venezuela by a delegate.
The commission Is to. sign a docu
ment setting forth the matters to be
decided at The Hague court. Mr. How
en said also that (Iermany would not
press for an Immediate payment nnd
that she had agreed to accept a guar
antee based on a percentage of the cus
toms receipts.
It if understood that Venezuela will
make any concession, even abandoning
her demand that her navy be returned.
Through tin! Venezuelan delegate to
the commission the Venezuelan govern
ment will ask that the blockade be
lifted nt once.
THE DURBAR IN DC '
((irnnnllnn Festivities Mnrlx'il
i.y
I niiMinl Splendor.
DELHI. India, Dee. HO.-Lord Cur
zon, the viceroy of India, accompanied
by Lady Curon, the vicereine, former
ly Miss Mary Loiter of Chicago, have
arrived nt Delhi to take part in tho
durbar. They were accorded royal hon
ors and marched In procession through
the town to the viceroy's encampment,
seven miles beyond the Delhi wall.
It was a splendid pageant, unparal
leled In magnificence. At the head of
the elephant procession rode Lord and
Lady Curzon on the state "grand tusk
er." twelve feet high, the largest ele
phant In India.
Their howdah was decked with gold
nnd hidden beneath n gold worked sad
dlecloth. Surrounding them were foot
men In scarlet and geld liveries und
bearing massive silver staves.
Today the viceroy opened the great
Indian arts exhibition, which happily
had been urranged In couiblnution with
the durbar.
The crowning event will be the coro
nation lu the great amphitheater on
New Year's day.
lliMKcr Salary For Mitchell.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Dec. 27.
President Mitchell is likely to receive
an Increase In his salary ns head of the
United Mine Workers. His present sal
ary is $1,800 n year, and it is proposed
by the miners to raise It to $3,000 a
year. Secretary Wilson, it is thought,
will also be remembered in a similar
manner at the national convention of
the miners, beginning here Jan. 19.
This action is planned In recognition of
the fact Hint through the activity of
these two officials the men are almost
sure of n general advance in their own
wages during the coining year.
I'renentcd With I.ovIiik C'np.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Doc. 31.
John F. Deems, who has resigned as
general superintendent of the local
plant of the American Locomotive
works to become superintendent of
motive power on nil the Vunderbilt
railroad linos, was in the presence of
1,500 employees last uight presented
with a silver loving cup, costing $1,
100. Practically all the 4.0(H) employees
of the company contributed toward its
purchase.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
t'loKlnir Stock Quotation.
Money on call strong ut i:iil4 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 6 per cent. Rter
llnt; exchanire sternly, with notunl busi
ness In bunkers' bills at $4.s6T5jj4.M7j fur
demand und ut Jl.KHS.-.ifM.SMTu for till day
bills. Posted rates, I4.X4 and $4.87i. Com
mercial bills, $4.t2M,u4:(-4. llur silver,
48c. Mexican dollurs, 33c. Government
bonds steady, liuilroad bonds Irregulur.
Closing- prices:
Atchison 8374 N. Y. Central. ,.152'
CC..C. &-St. L,. &tii Ontario & West. 317
Ches. & Ohio... 4SU People's Gas ...lu
JJt.l. & Hudson. 170',i Roadinir 60H
Erie 3Sr; Rock Island .... 4H4
Gen. Electric... 179 St. Paul 178
Lackuvnna....S;0 Bugar Refinery. IliS"
Lead 27'i Texus Pucltlo ,. 3'Mt
Louis. & Nash.. 127 Union l'uciliu ..lUuy
Manhattan Con 148 Walmah iiruf. .. 4.1
Missouri Puc... 1iM4 Vi'iiht. Union ... H'rj
New York Markets.
FLOUR Steady and unchHng-fd; Min
nesota patents, J4T74.20; winter strulghts,
lnyu.l.UU; winter rxuua, I2.bjft3.1j; win
ter patents, $:i.tio(i3.Ku.
WHKAT tjulet anil easy owing to fur
ther liquidation: May, buVuM 1D-Iiic; July,
7S V 7c.
HVE-yulet; state, B&Wc, c. 1. f., New
York; No. 'i western, 5c, f. o. b., ulloiit.
CORN Also a shade oft, following
Wheat; Juiiuury, Mi; March, Sl'ju.
OAT3 Neglected and barely steady;
track, white, state, 31XU43C ; truck, while,
westetru, 3!i'ii4;ic.
PORK Bleudy; meal, 18ti 18.60; fumlly,
118.
LAR1 Easy; prime western steam,
10.7fic.
BUTTER Irregular: state dairy, 20Sj!
26c; extra crenmery, 2S(fiSSV4c.
CHEKSK- Firm; stute, full cream,
small, colored, funcy, full made. 14c; late
made, 13't.c.: small, white, fall made, 14c;
late made, 13l4r,4 13.in. ; large, colored, fall
mude, 14c; late made, lli'kc; large, while,
full made, 14c; lute made. 13V lllc.
EGGH Firm: Hlate and Ponnny Ivanla.
average best, 28c; western, funcy graded.
2c.
BUG AR Raw nominal; fair refining,
8 7-ltlo. ; centrlfugul, 96 teat, 3 ,c; refined
uulet; crushed, 6.45c; powdured 4.93o.
MOLASSES Quiet; New Ork-una, 32
40c
KICK Firm; domeatlc, 4,4JW?4o.i Japan,
nominal.
TALLOW Steady; city, 6o.; country,
6UVc.
HAY Stendy; shipping, 65370c; good to
choice, B&c.ul.
Lira block Market,
CATTLE Market atendy; rholco, $6.75
6.90; prime, 5.4OU&.60; good, 'a5.30; veal
culves. $Mi8.7f.
HOGH Market lower: prlmo heavies,
$B.6"ii ti.75; mediums, $(i.6oo 0. 65; heavy
Yorkers, 18.Hu; light Yorkers und pigs,
6. dfu 6.70; roughs, $rj(fi.4. :
SHKEl AND LAM US Market steady;
beat wethers, 14(4.20; cuIIh and common,
1.60ii2; oholce luinba, l&.SOK.kO.
THE FIRST STEP
Of the child it an tvent in the mother's
life. How proud she fells when th
attempt t walk it begun to early a to
evidence childish courage aud sturdy
strength. Such pride should be enjoyed
by every mother. Bat It often happen
mat tne cluid n timid,
weak and deficient in
Titality, and clirgt to the
mother's anna with no
desire to walk or play.
Mothers should leara
that to have strong chil
dren they must them
selves be strong, for the
ehlld s strength is
the gift of the
mother.
The use of Dr.
Tierce's Favorite
Prescription by
expectant mothers
gives them health
and strength to
ive their chil
ren. It nour
ishes the nerves,
strengthens the body and gives great
muscular strength and elasticity, so thst
tho baby's advent is practically painless.
"Ituvebeen inlng Ir. Pierre' Favorite Pre
scription, and ran ny it in lint what you advrr
t1p it to be, and can cheerfully recommend it,"
writ Mr. Victor j. Hadiu, m( I,eitiHrdvllte,
Riley Co.. Xanana. "I hegtin taking It junt lot
montln before baby came and waa gi fatly bene
fited by ita u. The doctor who attended ma
said I did about aa well aa any one he had area
(an I waa aick nalv about three hottra), and alao
that your Faurlte Prraerintlon ' waa the una
patent medicine' which he did have faith in.
" W now have a darling baby bov. at rung and
hralthv. who weighed, nine ponuda when born
(tuly j'lh). During thia mouth he has gained
tlirre and one half pounda."
"l'avorite Prescription" makes weak
women strong, sick women well. Accept
no substitute for the medicine which
works wonders for weak women.
The Teople's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, a book containing 1008 pages, is
given sway. Send 21 one-cent stamps
for expense of mailing only, for the book
in paper covers, or 31 stamps for th
volume bound in cloth. Address Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Do Your Best; Then be Content
It is a poor occupation to be con
tinually seeking slights. They are thin
skineil weakmuscled things who need
careful hand'ing and delicate tasks.
They haven't enough gumption to
finish a job without an admiring aud
ience shouting words of encourage
ment; or if by chance they do carry a
task to completion and the plaudits of
the multitude do not follow they must
needs feel hurt. The only person a
man needs to please is himself. And
this does not mean that he must be
selfish. No man is ever satisfied with
his work if he is a man and not
simply ego but he can be satisfied
that he has done Ins best. No man
can do better; and what does it mat
ter what people think.
New Dodce In Street Bogging
Ideas count for success, even in
street begging. One of the latest
dodges of the New Yotk solicitor of
alms is heroic. It is worked in this
way, says the New York Times: A
shabbily attired man hurries along the
street, apparently unconscious of his
surroundings, lie expectorates, as
though by chance, on to the well
polished shoe oi a passerby. Before
the man has time to protest the mend
icant drops on his knees and, with the
remnants of a well worn handkerchief,
rubs away at the soiled shoe,meanwhile
pouring forth profuse apologies.
Nine times out of ten he gets a dime
for his politeness.
Cattle Dying of Thirst and Starvation.
Thousands of cattle are reported to
be starving on the range in North
western Colorado, The humane soci
ety appeaUd to the owners to rescue
their stock and they have replied that
they are powerless to do so. The cat
tle are snowed in on the high range in
Routt and Rio Blanco counties with
out pasture and without water. It is
impossible to get feed to them and
equally impossible to drive them into
suitable Winter quarters.
Air castles are sometimes built
of
gold bricks.
Wheat and Bye.
The Acreage Large and the Condition It
Very Fine.
The agricultural department at
Washington has issued the following
bulletin: Acreage of wheat 105. 1 per
cent. Acreage of rye 99.3 per cent
Condition of winter wheat 90 7 as
compared with 86.7 last vear. Condi
tion of rye 98.1 as compared with
89.9 last year. The ten year average
for wheat is 91.4 and for rye 95.7.
A good appetite is rather a hand
icap to a man who is penniless.
Th One Package Dye
in red printed wrappers, colors cotton, wool
or silk in oame until. Sample 10c. any
color. New l'eerless, Elmira, N. Y.
l-l-4-t
The oarsman never had a hard row
to hoe.
FERMANKNT SITUATION.
Cash paid wrekly tor services either on salary
and exuoiibea puld or cuiuiuIhhKiii, to tuke orJ-
t'rwfor our Uurclru hccils; ulao FruliH and Flow
ers. We curry a full due for tlio Kami nnd
Market (luruuera, so tuat. a live muu cannot help
but Hiii'ci'fd, 11 h In lius the fui'tlli li-s to comi ele
for nil klnOH uf undo aud wait dltTureut classes
of customers Vt rile ut oueu (or tonus to
Eorr'.ck Seed Company, Rochester, 17. Y,
14-18 3iu
OABTOIIIA,
Bears ths 9 lhe Yu HavB lwal'8 Bought
Greek Story of the Tint Womftj-
The first woman created, accord
ing to heathen Greek mvthology, was
Pandora. She was made of clay by
Vulcan, at the request of Jupiter, who
wished to punish the impiety of Pro
metheus by giving him a wife. When
this woman of clay had received life.all
the gods vied in making her presents.
Venus gave her beauty, the Graces
gave her the power of captivating,
Apollo taught her music, Mercury in
structed her in eloquence and Min
erva gave her the most splendid orna
ments. From these presents received
(torn the gods the woman was called
Pandora, which "intimates that she
had received every necessary gift.
Prometheus was too artful to marry
this woman and could not be capti
vated by her charms, but his brother,
Kpimethcus, who was not so prudent,
married her instead, and upon open
ing a box which she presented to him
there issued from it a multitude of
evils, which dispersed themselves over
the world and still continue to afflict
the human race. Hope only remained
at the bottom to assuage the troubles
and sorrows of life.
"Who can tell me the meaning of
leisure?" asked the teacher. "It's a
place where married people repent,"
replied the boy at the foot of the
class.
Two Titlston constables have
been removed from office for failing
to report violations of the liquor law.
The average constable is as blind
as a bat where violations of the
liquor law are concerned.
If there's a Hint of Catarrh Taist
apply Dr. Agncw's Catarrhal Powder with
out delay. It will save you auflcrin, heal
you quickly whether you have been a slave
one month or fifty yean. It relieves cold in
the head nnd catarrhal headaches in ten
minutes. The Hon. David Mills, Minister
of Justice for the Dominion of Canada, en
dorses it. 50 cents. 65
Sold by C. A, Kleim.
"Give me your candid opinion of my
painting." requested D'Aubcr. "It's
worthless," replied Cvnicus. "Yes; I
know it's worthless, but let me have it any
way." No Heart too Bad to he Cured.
Testimony could lie piled high in commen
dation of the wonderful cures wroue.ht by
Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart. No case
stands against this great remedy whete it
did not relieve the most acute heart suffer
ings inside of thirty minutes. It attacks
the disease in an instant after being taken.
66.
Sold by C. A. Kleim.
A conscientious woman will keep a secret
even if she has to call in one , or two friends
to help her.
rn.l.-FRiCK. The days of 25 cents a box
for pills are numbered Dr. Agnew's Liver
Tills nt 10 cents a vial tire surer, safer and
pliasautcr to take. Cure Constipation, Sick
and Nervous Headaches, Dizziness, Lassi
tude, Heartburn, Dyspepsia, I oss of Appe
titi, and nil troubles arising from liver dis
order. 67
Sold by C. A. Kleim.
The detective believes that a jail-bird in
the handcuff is wonh two in the "push."'
Doctored Nine Years for Tetter.
Mr. James Gaston, merchant, of Wilkes
barre, I'a. , writes: "For nine years I have
been disfigured with Tetter on my hands
nnd face. At last I found a cure in Dr.
Agnew's Ointment. It helped me from the
first application, and now I am permanently
cuted." 68
Sold by C. A. Kleim.
Wice "What has become of the old-
fashioned doctor who used to cup and
bleed ?" Wagg ' Well, I don't know much
about cupping, but I guess you haven't had
any doctors' lulls lately, or you would know
that they still bleed you."
Blue Island, 111., Jan. 14, loot.
Messrs. Kly Bros.: I have used your
Cream Halm in my family for nine years
and it has become my family doctor for
colds in the head. I use it freely on my
cniluren. It is a uousenu to children.
Yours respectfully, J. Kimball.
Messrs. Ely Bros.: I suffered greatly
with catarrh and tried different remedies
without effect. After using one bottle of
your Cream Balm I found relief and I can
not praise too highly such a remedy.
Miss Cora Willard, Albany, N. Y.
The chap who says he loves a girl
Far more than tongue can tell
His purse might show, for he Should know
That money talks as well.
The worries of a weak und sick mother
are only begun with the birth of her child,
by day her work is constantly interrupted
and at night her rest is broken by the wail
ing of the peevish, puny infant. Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription makes weak women
strong and sick women well. It lightens all
the burdens of maternity, giving to mjtliers
strength and vigor, which they impart to
their children. In over thirty years of prac
tice Dr. Pierce and his associate staff of
nearly a score of physicians have treated
and cured mire than half a million suffering
women. ,Sick women are invited to consult
Dr. Pierce by letter free of charge. All cor
respomleiice is strictly private. Address Dr.
K. V Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, Buffalo, N Y.
A STEADY INCOME.
Salary or commission paid weekly. Our 120f
acre nursery requires local and t raveling- ageula
everywuere to dispose of lis products. Alw
seed Hut). Will arrange for whole or part tluirt.
Omni free. We guarantee profitable and pinna
ant employment the L'ur 'rouud. Write today
for special terms.
Brown Brothers Company, Rochester, IT. 7.
12-18 3m.
WANTKl) -FAITHFUL PEHSON TOTHAVKL
for well established Imusa lu a fow couilMes,
culling- ou retail luerehauts and uirents. Local
teirliory. Halsry SHU4 a year aud expense,
payable $'t7 1 a week In casli und expeusrsad
vmieed. l'osli lou permanent. Business suuees
ful and nourishing-, blaudurd Uouae, HiH Dear
boru Htreet, Chicago. 1-18 161
PATENTS:
I'UOTKUT OUlt lUUAo
Consultation tree. Fee
dependent od success.
Established Jhi.l MILK0 U. brgVBNS Co., HM
141U Hired, Waaulugion. 14-18 tt,