2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er yaar J2 00 112 paid in advance 1 aO ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square furone insertion and lifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, are low anil uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less, t-'; each subsequent inser- V'on i0 cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser afrtion; 5 cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. 4ft per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising. No local inserted for less than 75 cents per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRESS is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. The Boss Turkey. Jack House, belonging to Mrs. 11. W. House, of South Bend, lnd., is undoubt edly the largest turkey in the United States, for he weighs 51 pounds, is seven feet from tip to tip of his wings and will combat a strong man like an ath lete by flying up and striking with hie powerful wings. lie is a splendid bird, says the Chicago Evening News, with an opalescent wattle that changes from a vivid vermilion to a bluish white according to his moods. Every feather on his body is a brilliant bronze and his tail is exquisitely tipped with a silver fringe. Mrs. House planted sending him to President MeKinley for a Thanksgiving feast, but Jack lias won too many honors for his extraordinary size and beauty to be sacrificed for a festive occasion. In Jack's early tur keyliood he was sold on the butcher's block at live-weight rates. Mrs. House saw his possibilities and bought him for se\en cents a pound. She clipped his toenails and he became as harmless as a dove. Bronze turkeys are invariably the heaviest, ranging from 20 to 3G pounds, and their flesh is tender and juicy. Narragan setts weigh from IS to 30 pounds; black 18 to £7; white Holland, 10 to 2G; slate, 12 to 27, and the buff, from 10 to 20 pounds. Tons of dressed turkeys are shipped into large cities at holiday time and the buyer may rest assured that every bird has been a source of anxiety to some overworked farmer's wife, for the fowls generally belong to the women. Mrs. House raises hundreds of turkeys every year, but Jack is the banner bird of fne nation, as has been proved at many a show east and west of the Mississippi. Elias Hartz, aged 84. the goose-bone weather prophet, of Heading, Pa., pre dicts the mildest winter on record. "Sure of it,"he says, "never surer of anything in my long life. The coming winter will be no winter at all. This year, to make things sure, I used the breastbones of three geese. The bones were all from geese of last spring. To my great surprise, all were alike in color. I was not so much surprised by that as 1 was to see them nearly all white. Only the slightest bit of purple could be seen on the tail ends of the bones. This purple indicates cold weather, away off in March probably. All the rest of the bone was white, which shows beyond question that there will be no winter at all. The fact that the three bones indicate exactly the same thing might help to convince people who take no stock in the goose bone as a weather sign; but one bone is enough for me. In the last 50 years in which I have made an annual lest, the bone has never failed once. The weath er always came to pass as indicated by the goose bone. So you need not ex pect much snow or ice or cold weather until next March. The winter will be the mildest on record." Persons owning house dogs hear with dismay the startling things that bac teriologists say about their germ-car rying facilities. It is, however, fairly safe to keep a house dog if it is fre quently and properly washed, says an authority on such matters. Dog fan ciers will say: "Don't use soap, because the dog will lick it off to his injury in his efforts to dry himself." Notwithstand ing this advice, soap should be used, but the dog should be thoroughly sprayed afterwards. What is known to druggists as green soap, which is not a brand of soap, but the name of a chemical compound, is the best cleanser to use for dogs. Holiday and holy day are essentially one and the same word, yet they have come to mean almost exactly opposite things. Those who celebrate a holiday shun the solemnity of a holy day, while those who worship on a holy day, to wit, the Sabbath, strenuously object to hav ing it turned into a holiday. So great is the contrast between words and the things to which they are applied. A professor who has made a study of children says he has discovered why the majority of people are right-handed. Infants use both hands until they be gin to speak. The motor speech func tion controls the right side of ihe body, and the first right-handed motions are expressive motions, tending to help out speech. As speech grows, so grows right-handedness. GOT TO FIND A BONE. We've got to hustle every minute. We've Rot to hustle every minute, We've got to hustle every minute. Or else next year we won't be in it. If you belong to Bryan's band Nose around and scratch the sand. If you belong to Bryan's band We're hunting for a bone. 'Twixt you and me I really think, "Twixt you and me I really think, 'Twixt you and me I really think, Bixteen to one's a blamed thin drink! If you belong to Bryan's band. Dig your toenails in the sand! If yon belong to Bryan's band, We've got to find a bone! Don't let the grass grow round your feet, Don't let the grass grow round your feet, Don't let the grass grow round your feet. We're absolutely out of meat! If you belong to Bryan's band Hunt the alleys, scratch the sand. If you belong to Bryan's band! We're lost without a bone! —Chicago Tribune. SOUND AND SENSIBLE. President MeKinley In Opposed to Olllrr-llolilers lieing Delciratea to the National Convention. President MeKinley is slated in a New York dispatch to have intimated to cer tain republican leaders that he would much prefer tliat no federal officeholder be chosen a delegate to the next repub lican national convention. In exjiress ing such a wish the president certainly represents the best sentiment of his party, and it is to be hoped that his re quest will be respeetd in all the states. Every state has within its borders plen ty of republicans well qualified to rep resent it in the national convention. None is so barren of suitable material as to be obliged to call upon those whose tenure of federal office may at least give cause for suspecting their impar tiality as between possible candidates. Certain gentlemen who enjoy the emoluments of office under the na tional government will undoubtedly rise up and personally or through the mouths of friends declare that the pres ident is trying to deprive them of one of the rights of citizenship. The argu ment- may sound plausible to the un thinking. but it ignores one of the de cencies of politics. A national conven tion is intended to represent the un trammeled will of the party. Suppose the conduct of a president should be such as to greatly displease the major ity of his party. The presence in the convention of men under personal ob ligation to him may nevertheless pro cure the renomination of such a presi dent and defeat tlie will of the majori ty. There have been such cases, andi the fact that such suppression of a party's best judgment has always been followed by defeat at the polls em phasizes the necessity of following the president's advice now. The national convention is the grand inquest of the party, charged with the duty of formulating the issues on which it will appeal to the people, and with the responsibility of selecting the men who must put into effect policies which the people shall approve at the polls. The national convention must first consider measures, and next men. To permit the presence of delegates un der a strong obligation to a particular man is to allow the jury to be packed. Only unreasonable professional civil service reformers ask that in taking public office men shall cease to exercise the ordinary duties of citizenship. Com mon sense finds no difficulty in draw ing the line, and public sentiment now demands that officeholders shall not be allowed direct voice in the choice of their official superior. President MeKinley is ahcady as sured of renomination by the repub lican national convention. He is thus removed from any possible temptation of securing his own success by packing the party gVand jury with men under personal obligation to him. He is try ing to set a new and better precedent in party management and to end a prac tice that has always given the opposi tion ground for criticism, that has often been productive of scandal and dissension and that has sometimes con tributed to defeat. The president's re quest is sound political sense, and the republicans of the several states will do well to observe it. A national con vention without federal officeholders as delegates would represent more ac curately than has ever before been pos sible tho best judgment of the active members of the party not in office, tip on whose energy depends success at the polls.—Chicago Inter Ocean. COMMENT AND OPINION. ICManv democrats who thought Bryan a brilliant opportunity in 1890 look upon him as a crushing necessity for 1900.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. iCKvery day brings good news for the republicans. Carl Seliurz now threatens to take the stump for tho democrats in 19U0.—St. Paul Dispatch. C?"Ah! money comes hard, nowa days," cried the freo silver orator, savagely. He had just presented a check for S.IOO and got paid in silver. Crushed 'ncath the shame of his coun try's infamy he staggered to the next lecture platform!— Puck. CMarcus A. Ilanna. more than any other man, managed the election of 1596 tu%) success. The conviction of free silver papers "that his continued prominence would be a source of weakness to President MeKinley. were the latter renominated," would be pa thetic. if it were not transparent.— Brooklyn Ragle (Itid. Detn.). ITT 1 A superstitious democrat points out the fact that Jefferson was de feated in 1796 and elected in 1800. From this l»v rcas-ons that Bryan will see history repeat itself and become president-elect next year. If the dem ocrats can find consolation in a paral lel of that kind there is no reason for withholding it from them. But they are easily satisfied just new and anxious for straws of any kind.—Cin cinnati Commercial Tribune. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900. DISSOLUTION OF DEMOCRATS A Party Without ft Mission Beyond CrcmlnK Public Dla t ruat. There is a growing conviction in the consciousness of certain of the party leaders in various states that the dem ocratic party is suffering from some mysterious disorder. They detect a failing off in the vote not calculated tb sustain confidence in the outcome of future campaigns. Inquiry is being instituted with a hope of getting at the source of evil. The knowledge that there is something radically wrong with the present party management is general, but a multiplicity of diagnoses creates confusion us to the cause and cure. And yet it is not a matter of difficult solution when intelligently considered. The party that originates nothing in progressive practice and. holds light ly all allegiance to established princi ples, offering naught itself and oppos ing with unreasoning prejudice all of benefit to humanity and national ad vancement set forth by others, is with out element of cohesion, and.in the very nature of the case fosters division and incites dissolution. Why should the people continue in support of a party policy that not only ignores the doc trines that gave it being, retires the leadership that made it of power, but deliberately and determinedly labors to convulse the industrial, commercial and trade interests of the country, de grade its Currency and impoverish its labor? A party whose mission is fhe con fusing of all these conditions through which comes peaceful employment in profitable pursuits is inimical to the. interests of every class of citizenship. It drives capital into hiding and robs labor of employment, silences the hum of industry's wheels, quenches the fac tory fires and stagnates every avenue of production. The army of industry— the purchaser and the seller, the pro ducer and the consumer, the man who furnishes the means s<"d the man who furnishes the musch s, perforce of pure self-defense, responsive to the first law of nature, self-preservation, ar rayed against any such party and any > such policy. That is true both as a specific and a general proposition. It applies in the present as it has applied in the past, as it will apply in the future. That has always been against the democratic or ganization. It is more so now than ever. This, because the policy is urged more pronouncedly now than ever and because the people are becoming more and more awakened to a comprehension of this, its condition. But, in addition, just now there is a further specific rea son for democratic disintegration upon a present issue of vital public moment. The loyal people of the greatest re public on earth will support no party that, does not sustain the government and the flag when involved in war. Nor will they accept, with feelings of ap proval, a presidential candidate in de clared sympathy with the leader and the movement, in suppression of whose attack upon the flag the sons of Amer ica are fighting to the death in the pursuance of a duty that in bravery they may not otherwise discourage and in manhood they tuav not shirk. Are not these sufficient reasons for desertion by the voters of the demo cratic party—a party, as now - consti tuted—that stands for all that is vicious in public policy, bereft of principles and devoid of leadership? Under Jefferson, its founder, th* dem ocratic party became a power and held unbroken mastery for over half a cen tury. So long as it was loyal to honest government sound money, national pro gression and the flag, it was su preme. Then its leaders forgot their allegiance, precipitated civil strife, suf fered conquest, at arms, following over whelming defeat at the polls, and for years ceased to be a factor in national government. Led by Cleveland, who was out of sympathy with its most vicious vagaries, although for expedi enoy's sake swallowing some, and aided by misrepresentation and miscon ception, it came forward once more for a brief spell of popular favor. And then came revolution in its own ranks, caused by its incomptency in the con duct of public affairs, by which carne business revulsions and industrial pros tration. After that, what? Bryan, with repudiation, anarchy and an aggravated assert ment of isms, out of which was born popocracy as sub stitute for democracy. Is it any wonder such a party is suf fering defection of voters? In common reason, could there be any other re sult? —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Hot Shot from it Demncrnt. Stick a pin here. The men who are maWng the most noise denouncing the United States for leaving its continental shores to preserve peace and protect life and property in the islands of the Pa cifii. which the fortunes and respon sibilities of war have placed in our hands, ore the same men who with equal noise demand that the United States shall leave its continental shores to meddle in a war in far South Africa and gratuitously insult a friendly power by taking sides with its opponents. They denounce the United States for attending to its own business in tlw Philippines, and they demand that tha United States shall stick its nose and its mouth into what is none of its busi ness in South Africa. They denounce the United States for preventing the Philippines from falling into the hands of irresponsible assassins and savages, objecting that the Philippine* are on the other side of the world, and they de mand that we shall goto the other side of the world l to obtrude ourselves into a quarrel between foreign belligerents and insolently affront our best friend in the family of nations. Truly, these men have a fit spokesman in the shal low. vulgar and ignorant Mason.— Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.). THE BOER WAR. Sickness A|>|>rarN Anions !lie llorfce* <>t Itotli Armlet-Huller l)i'*lroj« a ■fridge—Several Skirmishes Are He ported. London, Dec. 20. —Nothing has ar rived from South Africa that would indicate any change in the military situation there. The war office is issuing lists of further deaths and wounds, as well as accounts of sick ness. The most serious report of the last class is that horse sickness has broken out in both British and Boer camps in Natal. Four hundred British cavalry horses, it is said, have already been shot, owing to the occurrence of glanders. The disease is likely to spread with much greater rapidity among the lirit ish horses than among the hardy lioer ponies and this may mean a considera ble prolongation of the campaign. A dispatch from Chieveley, dated De cember 19, says:"The liritish naval guns have destroyed the Colenso foot bridge, thus preventing the Boers holding any position south of Tugela river. The enemy are taking up fresh positions o i the eastern side, nearer the British camp. The liritish posi tion at Freere is being strengthened. The Tugela river is rising and there is a prospect of a heavy rain. A two hour bombardment of Ladysmith has been heard from here. According to reliable native reports the Boers had COO killed in the fight at Colenso." London. Dec. 27.—Dispatches from South Africa are still greatly delayed, but they are arriving more freely, which shows that the censorship has been relaxed. The Cape Town correspondent of the News, telegraphing December 20, says: "Gen. Methuen intends to remain at Modder river about three weeks longer. From Boer sources I learn that there are 8,000 European officers' and men skilled in modern military tactics, par ticularly artillery, now in Pretoria as a reserve." A dispatch to the News from Lady smith, dated December 25, by helio graph, says: "Another sortie last night. Gen. Hunter, with 500 men, de stroyed one six-inch gun. one howitzer and one Maxim. One Briton killed. The Boer gunners fled." London, Dec. 28.—Winston Churchill'a new arrival at Chieveley camp is per haps responsible for some over-coloring of the gravity of the situation, but all to-day's news conveys the impression that Buller may be intending another attack upon the lioer position. Cer tainly the Boers are not inactive. At both Modder river and Tugela they are said to be strengthening their forces and extending defense works, which in both cases are seemingly »1 most impregnable. As showing the difficulty of obtaining accurate infor mation a correspondent of the News at. Capetown, under date of December 21, announces that "Gen. Buller is coming to Capetown to meet Gen. Warren and then both will goto iMod der river." The Boers continue fortifying the hills. (ien. White, however, helio graphs that all was well in Ladysmith on December 26. Competent military critics in London regard the campaign as at a complete deadlock for the pres ent, owing to the dispersalpf the Brit ish forces and the lack of adequate transport. They believe it will be many weeks before Gen. Roberts is able to reorganize and make an effec tive movement. Ladysmith had a busy morning Monday shelling the Boer position on Umbulwana mountain. The bursting shells were plainly visible at Chievely. Our scouts having reported Boers in force on this side of the Tugela river, three regiments of regulars, supported by artillery and all the available mounted volunteers, under the com mand of Lord Dundonald, advanced. The Boers retired across the river. The British captured 500 cattle. London, Dec. 39.—During a lull in the military operations in South Africa the papers are tilled with letters and articles criticizing the government and the campaign and suggesting reme dies, improvements, alterations in the plans and the like. The Transvaal government, accord ing to information supplied by Boer sympathizers, threatens to "reduce the rations of British prisoners if England stops the entry of food into Delagoa bay. The British government now evinces a marked change from its attitude in the early stages of the war and shows a disposition to accept assistance from any quarter. The yeomanry committee has issued a statement to the effect that the government considers the formation and dispatch of yeomanry as one of the most pressing needs of the situation and has intimated that it is now prepared to accept from 8,000 to 10,000 yeomanry, instead of the 3,000 originally asked for. It is expected that the first contingent of 1,000 will sail about the middle of January. Chieveley Camp, Natal, Dec. 20.—A heavy Boer gun on Bulwhana hill fired steadily on Ladysmith all Wednesday morning. Ladysmith did not respond. The enemy having been again de tected attempting to improve its trenches facing (ien. Duller, the British heavy guns opened upon them and the Hoers scampered back into the hills. The British patrol sighted the enemy in force on the extreme left. Nine Boers were killed in a skirmish that followed, and six Boar wagons were captured. A HiKiiiiiii of Mercy. Philadelphia, Dec. —Philadelphia will send a hospital ship and a large corps of American physicians and sur geons to Transvaal. Subscription lists will be circulated and a pro-Boer pub lie meeting will beheld at the academy of music with that end in view. Many pubiic men and leading citizens have become interested in the movement, and to-day a committee will be ap pointed to take charge of the details, secure the necessary funds and charter a steamer which will be started on its mission of mercy from this port just as soon as it can be properly fitted up for the trip. Caahlf to Pronounce It. The neighbors of a certain well-known Memphis Irish family say that the good housewife and her lord never know what domestic discord is except when the old man goea home sligtitly in his cups. Then there is trouble, and plenty of it, for the old lady is fire and tow and she says she has con sistently tried for a score of years to get "Moike to quit it." The storms, according to the story, have grown less violent of late years, and for that matter the tipsy periods of "Moike" are not of such frequent recur rence aa formerly. Not long ago, so tho story goes, the old man went home pretty well tanked, and his wife met him. "Yis," she said, "ye're a-comin' home agin, an' t-that dhrunk. My, my, O, my, Moike, an' why is it yez won't call fursarsa parilla whin ye git enuf?" "Hekase," replied Mike, "whin Oi gits enuf Oi can't say 'sar-sas-as-april-la,' a»' now yez hav it." —Memphis Scimitar. Ilia Card. A commercial traveler on his trip called upon a well-known chemist. He was nerv ous as he put his hand in his pocket and banded out a card. "I represent that concern, said the young man. . "You are fortunate," replied the chemist. The commercial traveler was encouraged and said; , "I think so, sir, and the chemist who trades with us is even more so. My firm lias the finest line of cosmetics in the country." "I shouldn't have thought it," slowly re sponded the man of medicine. "Her com plexion looks natural." And he handed back the photograph which the young man had given him by mistake. He took it and left without waiting to make any farewell remarks.—London Tit-Bits. Diplomatic. "You flatter me," she said, "After all, beauty is but skin deep, you know." "True," be replied, "but just think of the vast number of girls who haven't got. it half that deep."—Chi cago Daily News. Through tho South to California. To those contemplating a trip to Califor nia particular attention is called to the Sun get Limited service from New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco via the Southern Pacific Company's Sunset Route. This service is semi-weekly, the Limited leaving New Orleans every Monday and Thursday, and direct connection is made from all points North. The Sunset Limited provides every comfort and luxury, anci oompriscs Composite Car with Hath Room, Barber Shop, Library and Smoking Room; Compartment car with commodious ladies' parlor, and superb 10 section double drawing room sleeping cars, and Southern Pacific Company Dining Car in which all meals are served a la carte. The Dining Car is a part of, and accompanies the train from New Orleans to San Francisco. No extra fare is exacted for the many luxuries that the Sun pet Limited affords. The same rates to Cali fornia and Arizona apply via New Orleans and the Sunset Route as via other direct routes. Full particulars relative to route, rates, etc., will be cheerfully furnished by any representative of the Southern Pacific Company, or address W. G. Neimver, G. W. A., 238 Clark Street, Chicago, \V. H. Connor, Com'l Agent, Chamber of Commerce Build ing, Cincinnati. Ohio, or W. J. Berg, Trav. Pass. Agent, 220 ELLicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y. After all, the question which disturbs men most, is how to earn more and work Jess. —Atchison Globe. THE MARKETS. New York, Dec. 29. FLOUR t 255 Jit 4 (15 WHEAT—No. 2 red T'-"t Minnesota bakers.. 3 10 on 3 15 WHEAT—No. 2 red 70 CORN—No. 3 yellow ... 33V<0 34 OATS No. 2 white 2"VuJ 27V4 BUTTER—Cream* ijr firsts . 2>ft<<& 2fi C HEESE—York stale, cream.. 14 s# 14'J Ohio state, cream. llV4'io 12 EGGS—Fresh laid 21 a 23 POTATOES—Per bush 45 <«> 55 SEEDS—Timothy prime 1 2> Clover 4 70 @ 5 00 HAY—Timothy 9 50 tffc 13 00 Hulk on market 14 OJ Pigs 4 15 4 20 DEWEY'S FLAG SUIP OLYMPIA-CAPTAIN GRIDLEY, COMMANDER. Mrs. Grid ley, mother of Captain Gridley, 'who was in command of Dewey's flag ship, at the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Manilla., sayi of our remedy, Peruna: "At the solicitation of a friend I used Peruna, and can fruitfully say it is a grand tonic and is a woman's friend, and should be used tn every household. After using it for a short period I feel like a n person." Ann E. Gridley. Nearly all our ills are due to catarrh. We are liable to have catarrh of the head, catarrh of the throat, catarrh of the lungs, stomach, fei«iaeys, bladder and pelvic organs. Peruna cures catarrh wherever locateA. i'jdress Dr Hartiuan, Columbus, Ohio, for free book. Hovr'e TIiUI We offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot fee cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac tions and financially able to cirry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and muooui surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot tle. Sold by all Druggists. Teutimoruali free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Amblgnoga. An Irish cyclist was bitten on the leg by a satage bull terrier. He wrote a long com plaint to the local paper, the communication closing with the sentence: "The dog, I un derstand, belongs to the town magistrate, who resides in the neighborhood, and is al lowed to wander on the road unmuzzled, and yet he sits on the bench in judgment on others."—Philadelphia Call. To L>oa Angoln and Southern Ca.ll fornla. Every Friday night, at 10:35 p. m., a through Tourist Car for Los Angeles and Southern California, leaves the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Union Pas senger Station, Chicago, via Omaha, Col orado Springs and Salt Lake City, for all points in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Cal ifornia. In addition to the regular Pullman por ter, each car is accompanied by an intelli gent, competent and courteous "courier," who will attend to the wants of passengers en route. This is an entirely new feature of tourist car service and will be appreci ated by families or by ladies traveling alone. Particular attention is paid to the care of children, who usually get weary on a long journey. These tourist cars are sleeping cars sup plied with all the accessories necessary to make the journey comfortable and pleasant, and the berth rate (each berth will accom modate two persona) is only $6.00 from Chi cago to California. Ask the nearest ticket agent for a tourist car folder, or address Geo. H. Heafford, General Pass, and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111. Kneir It \Vn* In I,C1IIK!I. A certain Pennsylvania Sunday school teacher was questioning her class. "Where was Christ born ?" she asked of Willie. Wil lie pondered awhile and finally announced: "Mauch Chunk." "Maucn Chunk!' screamed the teacher. "You ought to know better than that. Why, little Georgie knows where Christ was born. Where was Christ born, Georgie?" And the treble of the four-year-old answered: "Beth-le hem." "That's right," said the teacher. "Well," said Willie, pouting: "I knew 'twas some where on the Lehigh Valley railway."—Chi cago Chronicle. Winter In the South. The season approaches when one't thoughts turn toward a place where the in conveniences of a Northern winter may be escaped. No section of this country offers such ideal spots as the Gulf Coast on the lite of the Louisville & Nashville Kailroad between Mobile and New Orleans. It pos sesses a mild climate, pure air, even temper ature and facilities for hunting and fishing enjoyed by no other section. Accommoda tions for visitors are first-class, and can be secured at moderate prices. The L. & N. R. R. is the only line by which it can be reached in through cars from Northern cities. Through car schedules to all points in Florida by this line are also perfect. Write for folders, etc., to Jackson Smith, D. P. A., Cincinnati, O. Took Him at Ills Word. Customer—You sell cracked eggs at halt price, do you not? Clerk—Yes/in; we always make 50 per cent, reduction on cracked goods. Anything else to-day? "Yes, you may give me a dollar's worth of cracked wheat. Here's 50 cents."—Colum bus (O.) State Journal. Try Graln-O! Try Grnln-OI Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomachs receive it without distress. 1-4 the price of coffee. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. Her Modeat Hint. He—Were you ever caught beneath the mistletoe? She—Perhaps you had better come around on Christmas and see if I act like one who has had experience.—Chicago Times-Herald. Lute 1 ! Faintly Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this ic necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. The person who gives s. note is allowed three aays of grace—after that how many of disgrace we are not in a position to state. —Philadelphia Times. The Queen & Crescent Only 24 hours to New Orleans. The Queen & Crescent is the shortest line South. An old bachelor says that some women are born foolish, some achieve folly and the rest marry fools.—Chicago Daily News. liable* Will Not Laugh When noxious drugs are given them for Croup, Coughs, Colds and Bronchitis. Hox> sie's Croup Cure is the best. 50 cts.