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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 <o 72\
COKN—No. 2 4M'» 40',
OATS—No. 2 white 29 <?&
RYE—No. 2 western 00vifc 01
UEEF-Mess 10 0(1 @ 10 50
PORK—Family 11 00 in 12 00
LARD Western steamed ii fi (2. SWO
BUTTER—Western creamery 22 -f-u 27'/,
l HEESE—Late made small.. 12 @ 12'j
EGGS—Western 21 <cfl 23
WOOL—Domestic fleece 21 Sjj 20
Texas 14 @ 17
CATTLE—Steers 5 (lu ® fl 50
SHEEP 250 Cfi 4 00
HOG S 4 60 to 4 75
CLEVELAND
FLOUR—Winter wheat pat's. 400 ® 4 15
Minnesota patents. 3 W 4 0">
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> <i% 1 4>
Clover 4 70 @ 5 00
HAY—Timothy 9 50 tffc 13 00
Hulk on market 14 OJ <si 14 00
CATTLE—Steers, choice 4 51 it 5 00
SHEEP Fair to good 2 75 it 3 25
HOGS 4 25 ® 4 Si
CINCINNATI.
FLOUR-Family 235 (ft 2 70
Wll EAT—No 2 red 00K<& 70
CORN—No. 2 mixed 30 "jj 30
OATS—No. 2 mixed 25V425\
RYE—No. 2 59 7 „@ 00
HOGS 3 75 » 4 45
TOLEDO.
WHEAT—No. 2 cash 09\-3 09',',
C ORN—No. 2 mixed 31 'V CS 81 Vt
OATS—No. 2 mixed 21"utfc 24 ,
BU FFALO.
BEEVES—Good steers . . .. 535 £fl 540
Veals 5 00 (Ta 7 75
SHEEP—Mixed 370 ® 4 00
Best lambs 5 55 '<t 500
HOGS—Yorkers 4 10 ©i 4 15
Pigs. 4 05 it 4 10
PITTSBURG.
BEEVES—Prime 5 50 (ft 580
Fnir 3 70 © 4 01
SHEEP—Good wethers 4 35 <sj 4 45
Good lambs 5 40 it 5 50
HOGS —Prime heavy 4 20 & 4 2>
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<m> 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.