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PRINTING.
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Fewer Mail Robberies.
There has been a decrease in the
number of post offices robbed and mail
trains and stages held up during the
past year as compared with the pre
vious year. In 1899 the number of
post offices robbed was 1.481; the num
ber of mail trains and stages robbed,
34. During the previous year 1.547 post
offices were robbed and 4- mail trains
and stages held up. The number of
post offices burned during the last year,
however, has been greater than dur
ing the previous year. The record for
1899 was 503, and for 1898 544. Four
hundred and eighty-eight pouches were
stolen last year, against 407 the year
previous. There has not been a robbery
of a single mail messenger during the
year. That there has been a decrease
in the number of robberies of post offi
ces, mail trains and stages and mail
messengers, notwithstanding the grad
ual development of the service, is cred
itable to the efficiency of the secret
service force and indicates that the
system of standing rewards now of
fered is a potent factor in deterring
the more desperate class of criminals
from depredations upon the property
orf 4 ,he post office department.
A few months ago a young farmer of
giant build lost a considerable sum of
money playing slot machines here,
says a Parkersburg (W. Ya.) corre
spondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune. He was lost sight of until re
cently, when every time he came to
town with a load of produce he would
work otf a number of slugs-upon every
machine he touched. The slugs were
peculiar to themselves, having a don
key stamped upon each, lie is a mus
cular fellow, roughly dressed, with his
trousers tucked into his boots, and a
heavy blacksnake whip under his arm.
Previous to working 1 the slug racket the
nan went broke every time he visited
the city. Xow lie carries mone\ back
with him. Those who operate the ma
chines protest against his play, but
tfcat appears to have no effect. "Boun
cers" thus far have not had the courage
tp try their methods. "The Fiend," as
lie is called, owned up to playing 140
fclugs on last week's trip.
The closing exercises of the Literary
club were highly successful, says the
Whitsett (Cia.) Courier. Perfect order
was preserved without the attendance
of the town marshal, whose children
were laid up with measles, from which
we sincerely hope they will recover
soon. There was high tumbling by a
stranded circus performer, a wrestling
match in which nobody was hurt, after
which a delightful hot supper was
served. It was said that the sheriff over
ate himself and had fits, but the report
is false, for we were personally present
until daylight, and we positively assert
that all went as merry as a marriage
bell.
The Buffalo says that
when (ien. Benjamin F. Tracy was in
I'aris last summer he engaged in a dis
cussion with another American on
Markham's much talked of poem, "The
Man with the lloe." An Knglishman
who was listening to the argument
asked who the man with the hoe was.
"The Alan with the Hoe?' repeated the
general; "why, that is the newspaper
man." Somebody had to hammer a
treatise on printing presses into the
Englishman's head before he saw the
point.
Six years ago a friend of Charles
Brandt, of St. Louis, to show his friend
ship, gave hint a great slap on the
back. Brandt was well educated, clever
and prosperous then. Xow, says the
Post-Dispatch, he has locomotor ataxia,
is subject to attacks of paralysis, and,
in the expectation that he has not long
to live, he has been removed to the
Belleville poorhouse. The back shipper
and the umbrella fiend, who carries
the deadly device under his arm, should
be putin a balloon without a valve and
turned loose in a cyclone.
A man was arrested in Xew York
city the other day, and his shoes were
found to be full of pearls. We have
often heard of Americans getting th<-Ir
boots full of snakes, but this is the
first time we remember to have made
the long-distance acquaintance of a
statesman with his shoes full of pearls.
Usually they are ieft at a pawnshop
for safekeeping.
THINGS THAT ARE SETTLED.
The I/Otr Election* Ilrriilril Some
Political l'olnln for
1000.
The recent elections were the elec
tions of 1900 in miniature. That was
why they were watched with such keen
and almost feverish interest by states
men of every degree. The issues of next'
year met on what was more than a
skirmish line, for it was really a test
battle and one fought, with determina
tion on both sides.
The principal issue was not that of
the recent war, for all parties were
committed to that war and all parties
have claimed without dispute their
share in the glory of its wonderful
success. The issue was whether or not
the results of the war should lie ac
cepted, whether it should be operative
or inoperative, whether the disclosure
and the reward of America's strength
should be an episode waning as quickly
as it waxed or a necessary chapter in
a continued story and vitally connected
with what preceded and what shall
follow.
This issue has been given popularly
the name of expansion. Whether or not
that name is expressive depends upon
the understanding of it. There is the
expansion of obesity, and 1 there is the.
expansion of growth. The expansion
for which the republican party and the
national administration are contending
earnestly and faithfully is an expan
sion that means permission to America
to round out its framework and to wear
garments that fit. It is a protest
against arrested development.
Every extension of the territory of
the I'nited States lias been resisted by
those of the same class as the anti-ex
pansionists of to-day. But the resist
ance has been futile and has never been
boasted by the descendants of those
who used their brooms to sweep back
the tide of progress.
The fiber of the American poeple is
not so flaccid as the timorous souls
would have us believe. Those whose
ancestors crossed the sea and converted
a land from savagery to liberty are not
afraid themselves to cross the sea.
The elections say that Americans do
rot regard it as a crime or a blunder to
grow to the stature which their birth
right indicates. The question of expan
sion is settled for 1900. The hands of
that clock do not move backward.
Bryan, who does the thinking and
talking for the democratic party, de
cided to present as an issue this fall his
old Chicago platform money plank as
well as that of expansion. The people
made an election bonfire of both planks.
The question of honest money, decided
in 1800. was not affected by the elec
tions. The people have not changed
their minds about it. The same story
will be told in 1900. Honesty in finan
cial policy has vindicated itself, as hon
esty always does, by substantial pros
perity. The very enlargement of vi
sion which war has given us tends to a
dignity which is not consistent with the
cheap money of cheap peoples. The
gold: standard stood, and it will stand
in 1900.
Another thing settled is the unity as
well as liberty of the American nation.
A most offensive characteristic of the
opposition to national expansion is that
it is not content with opposing by such
arguments as may be presented the ef
forts of the president to perform his
duty in accordance with the action of
congress in beginning the war and rat
ifying the treaty which determined the
results of war. Many of those who op
posed the national course carry their
opposition to the extent of giving aid
and comfort 1o the enemy. This is dis
loyalty; it is treason. Such treason the
people declared shall continue to be
odious.
The party which has always opposed
American enterprise, in public audi in
private affairs, opposes the develop
ment of industry to-day. Bryan calls
it opposition to trusts; that is, to all
trusts but the silver trust and the Bry
an political trust. The republican par
ty, while preventing injurious monopo
ly. is not engaged in a raid on the fruits
of industry. The Bryan objection to
the rights of energy to enjoy the prod
uct of ils own labors was overruled by
the people. If an appeal be taken to
1900 the ruling will be sustained. The
cutting off of tall men's heads that
short men may wear them might do
for a Paris commune, but not for an
American democracy. The right to
peaceably assemble goods, when the
product of one's own toil and not an
infringement upon a neighbor's oppor
tunity, is a right vindicated by 1809
and which cannot be overturned in 1900.
Another thing settled by the elec
tions is Bryan. It is settled that he
shall continue as an itinerant, with
more or less success as a book agent,
and that William McKinley shall have
another term in the white house. This
decision will be recorded next year.
But it was settled by the fall elections.
The American people have not 'ost
their backbone.—Troy Times.
II r.vmi"s Predion men t.
What will William Jennings Bryan
do now? The executive committee of
the democratic national committee,
which met in the city of Chicago a few
days ago, virtually shelved his orig
inal and pet issue of free coinage of
silver at a ratio of sixteen to one, and
divided that opposition to trusts, anti
imperialism and anti-militarism shall
be the predominant issues of the next,
democratic campaign. Tt seems to have
been the unanimous opinion of the com
mitteemen that in the face of the com
plete restoration of prosperity through
out the country, the revival of the cal
amity how ls of 1890 and the proffer of
free coinage as a remedy for the pic
tured evils would be suicidal, and that
the only hope of the democracy is in the
remote possibility that it might be able
to frighten a majority of the people of
the I'nited States with the political bug
aboos mentioned above. —Albany Jour
nal.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1899.
GETTING READY FOR 190 a
Tlx- Drmopmllt' I'ronrnnime for the
Great I'erforma nee Xcxt
V I'D r.
The reaffirmation of the Chicago plat
form of 1890 by the democratic national
committee in its session at Chicago was,
of course, inevitable. That platform
made a new departure for the demo
cratic party, and by linking with il the
populists brought to it at the election
of 1890 about 1,000,000 more votes than
were cast for (Jrover Cleveland in 1892.
Accordingly, unless the Chicago plat
form is reaffirmed iu 1900, a split in
that combination and a dangerous cool
ing- of democratic enthusiasm through
out- the union are inevitable. The gold
sentiment of the party, moreover, has
been frightened inlo silence or has per
manently estranged itself from latter
day democracy.
With the Chicago plat form, of course,
logically will fro the renomination of
Mr. Bryan, probably without a single
opposing delegation in the national
convention. Air. Sulzer guarantees a
Bryan delegation from New York, and
he takes no risk in doing it. New Knor
land also will lie solidly for the renomi
nation of the candidate of 189G.
It is evident, however, that an at
tempt will be made to give paramount
importance in the campaign to other
issues than sixteen to one merely,
though, of course, Bryan's nomination
will force that, issue to the front in
every intelligent mind. Trusts and
"imperialism" are to be these new is
sues if the plan of the party engineers
\wrks. But there can be 110 trust is
sue between the two parties; they ivill
not differ on the question; and "impe
rialism" is a fiction whose working
power will be destroyed long before the
election. Mere opposition to the ex
pansion of the national power, com
merce and domain would harm democ
racy at any time, and more especially
in the year 1900, when all thoughts and
aspirations will be turned to the won
derful American development which is
to mark the next century. It will be a
bad time at which to attempt to set
back the clock of American progress.
The democratic party, with Bryan
and the Chicago platform 011 its back,
will be forced to appear again ar» the
representative of silver and dishonor
and of the rest of the radicalism it put
out in 1890. Patriotism and prosperity,
national pridle and common sense will
be against it.
The democratic committee is report
ed as favoring the holding of its na
tional convention much earlier than
that of the republicans, and even 0 date
as early as some time in March is sug
gested. This would be reversing the
usual order, to what valuable end is not
conceivable, unless it is expected that
the alarm caused to business might
tend to arrest the progress of the pros
perity which now discourage? all dem
ocratic hopes. It would act the other
way, however, by increasing the deter
mination of the prosperous people to
prevent the blight of possible democrat
ic triumph at the election. The sooner
the convention meets the sooner it will
be made manifest to everybody that the
democratic party is lightingagiinst tliß
continuance of a period of national
prosperity unexampled in American
history.—X. V. Sun.
COMMENT AftD OPINION.
E"?Col. Bryan owes it to himself to
take a brief nap before startvngliis 1900
campaign.—Washington Star.
P-Mr. Bryan says he doesn't want of
fice for the money there is in it. This
shows, perhaps, his disinterestedness in
trying to lower the value of it.—Judge.
ICNational issues were fairly tested
in lowa, where there'were no factional
state issues. The increased republican
majority is the true index of the senti
ment of the country. —St. Louis Globe-
Democrats
Bryan intends to devote some
time to organizing democratic clubs in
New England. Possibly it would be a
good idea not to leave Nebraska too
much away from the influence of his
hypnotic eye.—Washington Star.
IE? The agricultural department has
issued a pamphlet entitled "The Wind
mill in Nebraska." Coming so soon
after the recent campaign it almost
seems as though it must have a. per
sonal bearing.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
6. J*Some of the democrats are urging
the name of O. 11. P.Belmont for second
place on the Bryan ticket. People who
may be anxious to know why are re
spectfully informed that Mr. Belmont
has an income of $750,000 a year.—Chi
cago Times-llerald.
tc*"The Milwaukee Sentinel remarks
that those prophets who predicted the
world would conic to an end the other
day were 110 wilder in their calcula
tions than the democrats who predicted
t hat lowa and Ohio would go democratic
this year.—lowa State Kc gistcr.
CT-If those democrats in Washington
and in the east who are represented as
expressing disgust in private because
of the possibility of the renomination
of Mr. Mryan next year had theeourage
to speak out and act they could do some
thing. Nobody respects a grumbling
skulker.—lndianapolis Journal.
C?The United States now lias> a bil
lion dollars in gold money. The exact
ligures in the treasury department for
November 1 show $875,450,989 in gold
coin in the treasury or in circulation,
and $139,017,000 iti gold bullion in the
treasury, the grand total being $1,014,-
408,049. All this is strictly in the form
of money supply, and does not include
ore or bullion iu private hands. The
rapid increase since IS9O in our gold
supply is in queer contrast to the pre
dictions made in IS9G. Mr. Altgeld, in
that, year, declared that there was not
exceeding $200,000,000 in the country,
and this would soon disappear. Now
gold is more plentiful than all our other
hinds of money, though not in such gen
eral use. —Louisville Courier-Journal
(Dem.).
HUNDREDS OF LIVES IN PERIL.
A Il*«*cry mil at Heading, Pa.. LBunt*
—l'U!y«»c* en t.lrlx Injured and One
Killed.
Beading, Pa., Dec. 8. — One of the
most appalling fires that has ever vis
ited this city occurred Thursday when
the extensive hosiery mill of the Nolde
<£• llorst Co. took fire, destroying the
plant, causing the death of one person
and injuring about 00 other employes
of the company. Of the 57 persons
who were injured, .'lO are seriously
hurt. Miss Louisa ( lay, aged 48 years,
was killed.
The hosiery building was a large
four-story structure and nearly 000
persons were employed, most of them
toeing women and girls. The fire was
discovered about 11 o'clock and in a
few minutes the girls were panic
stricken. They made a dash for the
fire escape and the, stairs, but found
the latter means of escape could not
carry all of them down at ihe same
time. Several hundred of the girls
then made a rush for the windows and
appealed to those iu the street to save
them. Ladders were brought into
use, and many girls were taken from
the burning building safely. Most of
them, however, jumped and were seri
ously injured. for a few minutes
from every window on the second and
third floors girls leaped one after an
other. Some lodged in the arms of
those below, but many struck the
ground. They were picked up and rap
idly removed to hospitals or their
homes.
Many of the girls who escaped by
the stirwavs and fire escapes were
badly burned, but none of tliem were,
it is believed, seriously injured. The
fire traveled with great rapidity, ow
ing to the inflammable stock in the
building. My those who saw the
progress of the fire it is considered
miraculous that there was such a
small hiss of life. There is much criti
cism among the employes because of
the fact that the screens in the win
dows, except those at the fire scapes
were securely nailed to the window
sills. The girls had to break the
screens before they could get out to
leap to the ground. Some of the em
ployes say the doors were locked, as a
rule, after the employes were in the
building.
The fire was caused by the explosion
of gasoline in the singing room. The
loss is estimated at about $275,000, on
which there is an insurance of $150,-
000.
GIVES AWAY A FORTUNE.
Itellt;l»iih Societies and College* to lie
Illll< Il< <I l>> an Indiana La<l}.
Chicago, Dec. 8.- —All instrument was
recorded yesterday with the Cook
county recorder by which Caroline E.
Haskell, of Michigan City, Ind., con
veys to the Chicago Title and Trust
Co. as trustee the property at Xos. 230
and 238 Monroe street in consideration
of $1 and the fulfillment of several
conditions. The company is to sec to
the care of the property and pay to
Mrs. Haskell the net income there
from during her natural life.
I pon her death the proceeds are to
be distributed as follows: The Con
gregational Church Building Society,
of Chicago, SH'jOJO; the Congrega
tional church of Michigan C ity, #lO,-
000; the Humane society $10,000; the
Seven I )ay Adventist Medical, Mission
ary and Benevolent association, of
Battle Creek, Mich, SIO,OOO, for the
purpose of endowing the Haskell Or
phanage home, of that city; Mrs. Car
oline Heed, of Chicago, $10,000; the
University of Chicago SIO,OOO to pro
mote and extend the study of Orien
al literature in relation to the Mible
and Christian teaching; the residue
to the trustees of Oberlin college for
he use of the college. The property
is valued at SIOO,OOO for the land and
$47,100 for improvements.
GOES BACK TO CAVITE.
Aguinaldo ItetraccN III* Step* and
SceltH Safety In a llclicl Stronghold.
Manila, Dec. 8. The expectation of
catching Aguinaldo in the north has
been practically abandoned and the
probability now is that he will turn
southward if he is not already there
with his destination Cavite province,
his home, where the insurrection be
gan and where it still has its greatest
strength. The Filipino soldiers in
that province have recently been
showing- increased enthusiasm and
boldness and captured insurgents say
that Aguinaldo is coming to join
them with a large army. The same
belief prevails among the natives at
Manila and elsewhere that Aguinaldo
intends to make his headquarters in
Cavite province.
There are 3,000 insurgents before
Inius and Ma poor, keeping the .Amer
icans sleeping 011 their arms and
nightly awaiting attack.
BLOWN TO PIECES.
Powder 'Sill i: x|> lode*, Killing Three
lien ami Injuring Several.
l'ottstown, I'a.. Dec, 8.-—The powder
works of James S. Miller, near Sum
lieytown, were completely wrecked by
an explosion Thursday and three men
were killed and several others injured.
The dead are William Baer. superin
tendent of the works; Allen Schneck
and John Sell wager. Frank Scliae
fer was probably fatally injured, and
ltiiymond Faust was seriously burned
and bruised. There were two explo
sions, the first occurring in the glaz
ing house. The other explosion fol
lowed within 30 seconds and the entire
five buildings which comprised the
works were demolished.
liner and Schwager were in the glaz
ing house when the explosion occurred
and Schneck was at work in the mix
ing house. Their bodies were hor
ribly mangled.
I'lreivurlix tinker* \w>l!!u>
New York, Dec. 8. —Pain's Fire
works Co., whose headquarters arc in
this city, has made an assignment.
The following statement has been
given out: "The assignment is prin
cipally due to complications arising
from an accident at Columbus. <>., dur
ing a sham battle, resulting in a large
number of suits for damages for in
juries. as well as from the disastrous
fire which occurred at the company's
factory last summer. The fireworks
trade has also been depressed for t>ev
•ral months. The amount of the lia
hilities is about. $70,000."
BUMED ALIVE.
A Kentucky Mob Cremates a Ne
gro Murderer.
I'll* < It} of .lluy«vllle Ik the Scene ol a
lla rluirou* Act W lilcli Initial*. in
I'icndlnli Cruelty Any Tor
ture lleviNed by Itliiud.
tliiroty Savage*.
Maysville, Ky., Dec. 7.—Hichanl
Coleman (colored), the murderer of
Mrs. James Lashbrook, wife of his
employer, expiated his crime yester
day at the. hands of a mob consisting
of thousands of citizens, by burning at
the stake after suffering torture be
yond description. The dreadful spec
tacle occurred on the cricket grounds
011 the outskirts of this city.
Just two months ago liiehard Cole
man, the trusted employe of Farmer
James Lashbrook, ill a manner peculi
arly atrocious murdered the woman
who had been his benefactor. After
being arrested the officers took him
to Covington for safe keeping. He
was indicted for the murder. Shortly
after his incarceration at Covington
he made a complete confession of his
crime to the jailor.
The trial was set for yesterday.
Sheriff' Perrine determined to leave
Covington by the train on the Chesa
peake & Ohio which started at 7:30
Wednesday morning. Coleman had
been told Tuesday night to prepare
to return to the scene of his crime, lb
was stricken with fear and beggeil to
be permitted to remain in Covington
until alter his trial.
'ilie prisoner with his escort arrived
here at 10:20 o'clock. As the train
puffed into the station the mob
formed on both sides in two long
crowds.
The sheriff and his assistants were
armed and there was some resistance
us the leaders of the mob jostled
against them and demands were ut
tered from the outer fringes of the
crowd for the prisoner. Sheriff Per
rine started to walk from the car. A
step behind followed the officers with
Coleman in their midst, seeking to
conceal himself behind his protectors.
Hundreds of stones were thrown and
revolvers and ritles were freely dis
played. The prisoner was frequently
struck and he presented a frightful
appearance, the blood streaming from
wounds on his face and head.
At the courthouse a mob of over
2,000 men, headed by James Lash
brook, the husband, had been hastily
formed. There was a brief struggle
in which weapons were drawn by the
officers and then the sheriff and his
assistants were overcome and the pris
oner was pulled from their midst h t v
the leaders of the mob. L'p through
the central portion of the town the
man was taken, the prisoner being
dragged along with the aid of ropes
loosely attached to his body. lie was
the target again of hundreds of mis
siles and several times he sunk half
unconscious to the ground while the
crowd pressed forward, striking at
him with clubs, sticks and whips until
his head and body were scarcely rec
ognizable.
The place of execution had been
selected weeks ago. The prisoner was
dragged to a sapling and strapped
against the tree, facing the husband
of the victim. Large quantities of
dry brush and larger bits of wood
were piled around him while he was
praying for speedy death. James
Lashbrook, the husband of the victim,
applied the first match to the brush
wood. A brothel- of the victim
struck the second match.
As the flames arose Coleman made
Vain efforts to withdraw his hands
from the lire and liis eyes rolled in a
frenzy of suffering. The ropes secur
ing him to the tree were bound and
iiis body finally fell forward on the
burning pile. Even then, although
it was not certain whether he was
living or dead, the vengeful purpose
of the crowd led them to use rails to
push his body back into the flames.
While his voice could be heard, he
beggeo for a drink of water, his
tongue protruding aim his eyeballs
fairly starting from his head. At the
end of three hours the body was prac
tically cremated. During all that
time members of the family of .Mrs.
Lashbrook had remained to keep the
body in position where it would con
tinue to burn.
11l ail the thousands who constitut
ed the mob there was not u single ef
fort. to conceal identity. No man
wore a mask. All the leaders of the
mob are well known and there are
hundreds of witnesses who can testify
to their participation in the tragedy.
Strangled to Heath in lee.
Philadelphia, Dec. 7. William Har
person, aged 07 years, formerly a
well-to-do contractor of this city," met
ileatn in a peculiar manner yesterday,
while walking to his home he became
benumbed with cold and fell down a
railroad embankment into a small
stream which was frozen over. liar
person's head went through the ice,
which formed a collar about his neck
and strangled him to death.
Court* 'IuM Now Decide,
Chicago, Dec. 7.—A1l hope of an
figreement between thj' sanitary
trustees and the commissioners of
the Illinois and Michigan canal for it
supply of water to the latter channel
after the drainage ditch is opened
was abandoned yesterday at a meeting
of the two bodies, and the courts will
have to sctfle the question.
.Foiteft Declare* lor BCx|»aunion.
l.ittle I lock. Ark., Dec, 7. A stir
been made in Arkansas political cir
cles by the announcement that (iov.
Dan W. Jones, who is a candidate lor
the United States senate to succeed
Senator Merry, has conic out strong
in favor of expansion. lie has here
tofore been conside cd an opponent of
that policy along with Senator Merry,
who is a candidate for re-election, (io'v.
Jones stated in ail interview vcsler
day thai the only salvation for the
southern states is in the opening of
new markets in for southern
products.
A NOTABLE SILVER ANNIVER
SARY.
With the close oP the present year
Mr. David C. Cook, of Chicago, will
celebrate his tirst quarter-centennial
as editor and publisher of Sunday
school literature. Starting twenty-five
years ago, without reputation or assur
ance of support, he has become one of
the most widely and favorably known
publishers in this line. Beginning in
1875 with two small publications, his
periodicals have grown in number and
favor until there are few schools in
this country that do not find it to their
interest to use some of his pure and
helpful publications, while many in
distant lands pay tribute to their mer
its. The past quarter of a century
has witnessed many changes among
Sunday-school publishers, and much
less time than this has sufficed forsome
to outlive their usefulness. On thecon
trary, Mr. Cook is preparing to cele
brate the beginning of anot her quarter
century with additional improvements
and new publications. Among these
may be mentioned the New Century
Sunday School Teacher's Monthly, a
large and thoroughly up-to-date mag
azine for superintendents and teachers,
the first issue of which will appear in
December. Among the most remark
able of his publications is the Young
People's Weekly, which has attained
a circulation of nearly a quarter of a
million, being a successful attempt to
furnish a high grade of religious story
reading for boys and girls. To avoid
the "goody-goody" story of the Sun
day-school, such as we remember in
our childhood days, and furnish some
thing natural, interesting and en
nobling, has been its aim, and we are
not at all surprised at its popularity.
The restraining influence of the
Christian home and the Sunday-school
on our growing community of young
people, some of us may not appreciate
as we should—perhaps because these
sometimes fail to restrain. This paper
should be a most welcome accessory
in this work, and one which all should
appreciate. Boys and girls will read,
and the story book and paper are then
first choice. There seems a plentiful
supply of religious papers for older
people, but this is the first successful
atttempt to furnish anon-sectarian re
ligious story paper for young people.
The paper is profusely illustrated,
beautifully printed, and contains as
much or more reading matter than the
most expensive of secular young peo
ple's story papers. The price, seventy
live cents per year, should bring it
within the reach of every home. Mr.
Cook is now making a special effort
to give the paper a wider circulation,
and all who send seventy-five cents for
a year's subscription before Jan. Ist
will receive a. beautiful premium pic
ture entitled "The Soul's Awakening."
It is exactly the same size (13x18
inches) and style as those on sale at
art stores for sl. Orders should be ad
dressed to David ('. Cook Publishing
Co.. 3G Washington St.. Chicago.
Probably no man living has done so
much to improve and cheapen Sunday
school literature as has Mr. David C.
Cook. Through his aid thousands of
schools have been encouraged, im
proved and made self-sustaining. Mr.
Cook is yet a comparatively young man,
and it does not appear at all improbable
that his field of usefulness may extend
over yet another quarter-century.
Scows That Pass in tlie Miclit.
.lacques leaned over the gunwale of the
flatboat as she floated lazily down the De
troit river. He smoked his pipe.
Pierre hung over the rail of the scow that
was upward bound, lie also was enveloped
in a hazy smoke.
In the moonlight the two boatmen rec
ognized each other.
"ll'llo, Pierre. How you geet along?"'
"Oh, I been geet along. How you geet
alone?"
"On, I been geet too."
"How your seek t'atair geet along,
Jacques?"
"My fatair? Oh, she geet along. Shebeen
died, last week."—Detroit Free Press.
Drnfnem Cannot lit* Cured
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 constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the mu
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases of of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condition
of tlie mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold bv Druggists, "15c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
liiuh«'r Criticism.
The savage held his temper admirably.
"Nature," he replied, with a comprehen
sive gesture, "is our Bible!"
"Then, of course you have no higher crit
icism!" exclaimed the enlightened man.
shuddering.
"Oh. but we have!" protested the savage,
vehemently. "Why, there are among us any
number ot advanced thinkers who wonder
for instance, if there isn't too much salaratus
in the bread fruit! Yes, sir!"
Here we see that the mind is alike impa
tient of fetters, no matter what man's Cor
poreal condition be.—Detroit Journal.
A Preacher's Discovery.
Rev. .1. W . Blosser, M. ]>., who has for
many years made a specialty of catarrhal
diseases, has discovered a remedy that cures
the worst eases of Catarrh, Bronchitis,
Asthma. Catarrhal Deafness, etc. It is a
penetrating, healing, smoke vapor that goer
directly to every affected spot, destroys the
germs of '.he disease and heals the mucous
membrane. Any sufferer who will address
Dr. .1. W. Blosser & Son, 11.1 Broad St., At
lanta. (la., will receive, postpaid, a three
days' trial treatment free.
Why do thev call her a servant girl when
she is boss of the job?— Chicago Chronicle.
\t lien llaby Has the Croup
use Iloxsie's Croup Cure. It does not con
tain opium in any form and will not nause
ate. 50 cents. A. I'. lloxsie. Buffalo, N. Y
All is fair in love—except the actions ol
thi other fellow—Chicago Daily News.
t'onuhl:ip I,ends to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. <"> to your druggist today and get a
cample bottle tree. 1.11 u M bottles 25 and 60
cents, lio at once; do.ays arc dangerous.