And shall stay with our mutual friends, H. A. ZARPS & CO., Emporium, at the FAIR STORE. SANTA CLAUS. 1 - ' Never in all my visits to Cameron county have I been loaded with nicer things for the good people of this county than I have left with my friend ZARPS. I want all the fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters to just step in and see what A WONDERLAND ZABPS' PRESENTS ARE. No establishment in this section of the state can produce a larger, more varied stock and a more beautiful line of Holiday Goods. j Never has this or any other store in this section 01 tlie state exhib ited such an immense line of everything beautiful, useful and orna mental. in China, (ilass, Leather, Celluloid and Wood. Toys and Fancy Goods until you can't rest. H. A. ZARPS & CO. ===== ' |j I prepared | 1 F° r 1 I the Se&sofrl i[i 11:1 I.J we have opened and are displaying a m Tli Ijj choice line of . . jif! j DRY GOODS I ill 1 p specially selected for the . . llj| I .. WMer I I '®' Season, i p) llf 'J We have gathered such articles as combine elegance with ij| utility and at jj|! I Very Reasonable I | Prices || 11 I Balcom I Lloyd. I _ ____ _ l _ ] f _. , ~ , ( LA V -\ \ I'KI-SS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1901. Calling Hie Iloiirn. There 1« one place? in London, and i only one, where the ancient custom of j keeping a watchman to call out the hours Is still maintained. This is at New inn, which in spite of Its name Is one of the oldest Inns of court. The servants there are quite proud of the age of the place, and it was one of them who said one day: "Why, sir, this inn was here In the time of Charles. I." After a IOIIK pause, to allow this stun ning fact to percolate through the brain nf the hearer, he extended his arm and added with emphasis: "And It was here in the time of Charles II.!" Some vague notion of the disturb ances which intervened between the two reigns had probably been floating through the man's mind, but how an existing institution could possibly have dated from the reign of Charles I. Avith out coming down through the reign of Charles 11. he failed to explain. Beginning at the stroke of 10 o'clock every night, the watchman In the yard of New Inn "calls the hour" In a sten torian but musical voice: "Ten o'clock, and all's well!" The words are heard In the adjoin ing chambers and offices. Tenants In Clement's Inn, whose rooms look into the pretty yard and garden of New Inn, may hear these words every hour through the night if awake. New York Times. The Indian Duck Trick. A little tin or earthen pan or some times half a cocoanut shell supported on three stones is tilled with water on which is sprinkled a red powder, ren dering It practically opaque. A little duck of wood or porcelain is placed upon the surface, where it at first floats, but at the command of the per former suddenly dives, remaining sub merged until again ordered to rise. This very ingenious trick depends upon (lie fact that in the bottom of the vessel there fs a minute hole through which passes a hair. One end of this is attached to the duck; the other re mains at the disposal of the performer and is attached, by means of a pellet of wax, to his tomtom or to one of the hands with which he beats It. When he wishes the duck to dive, he pulls the hair. When he desires it to rise, he relaxes the pull. There is naturally some amount of leakage through the pinhole, and to cover this the performer takes care, when filling the pan. to accidentally (?) spill a little water. The ground being thus already wetted, the fact that it gets a little more is not noticed.-- Chambers' Journal. Tlie Tliinn to Hln Awn" AVi' Slllitr. Wealth is a relative term. One man may be passing rich on £4O a year, and another may be miserably poor on £4OO. This was beautifully illustrated to ine the other day, when, driving past a popular Ayrshire "place of drinks," I was hailed from the roadside by a man who claimed friendship on the strength of "living next door when we were boys." lie was getting married, he said, and on that, I suppose, was feel ing unusually happy. "Man, come on in and let me staun you something," lie said. "Don't think I've nae money. There's a pound note. Would you believe it, no' a week sin' I had hale £3; but, what wi' buying furniture and tilings, I've spent the itlier twa. Aye, and afore the wad den's ower I believe that pound'll lie melted tae. By gore, gettin' married's the thing to rin awa' wi' sillar. But come on In and hae a drink."—Glasgow Times. HIM Three Good Deed*. A certain business man noted for his grasping methods came into his office one day and told liis partner that lie was very happy because lie had done three good deeds that morning. "In the first place," lie said, "I met a poor woman who was weeping bitterly lie cause she had lost the $4 with which she had Intended to pay for the bap tism of her baby. I gave her a ten dollar bill, telling her to have the child baptized and give me the change as I came from my club. Charity was one good deed. Saving the child's soul was the second." "And what was the thirdV" asked the partner. "Oh, the third was that I got six good dollars for my green goods ten." A City of PndlockM. Irkutsk, Siberia, is a city of padlocks. There are more padlocks on the shut ters and doors of an Irkutsk shop than can be found in an English city of 200,000. There are as many as three padlocks on some shop doors, and ev ery lower story shutter bears from one to five. The padlocks weigh from one to fifteen pounds. The popular size is five pounds and two and one-half inch es thick. lmprcNNlvc Condemnation. Speaking with a farmer about one of his neighbors, I said, "So-and-so is a good man." lie looked at me steadily without making any reply. "So-and-so is a good man," I repeated in a louder tone, fancying lie must be deaf. Then the farmer answered, "I heard what you said."—New York Herald. Terrible Effeel of 1 ilo<|iietiee. An unfortunate man has obtained ac cess to rich Baron Itapineau. He de picts his misfortunes, his misery, in so moving ii manner that the baron, with tears in his eyes and his voice choked ■ with sobs, calls to his servant: "Jean, put this poor fellow out in the street! He is breaking my heart!"— Exchange. Yoamelf. Depend ou yourself. A knowledge of how to swim is better than to expect somebody will be at hand to throw you a life preserver in case of accident. National Magazine. iirciiliiiiK It Gently. "Well, John, how are things going at | home?" "Why, sir, the magpie's dead." "Poor .lack! What took him off?" "We think, sir. it was eating too much horse meat." "How's that? Where did he get the horse meat V "I am sorry to tell you, sir, that both the carriage horses died." "The horses dead! What ailed them?" "It must have been overwork draw ing water to the fire." "Fire! What tire?" "Why, sir, the hall was burned to the ground." "Great heavens! How did that hap pen ?" "It caught fire from the funeral torch es, sir." "Whose funeral?" "Your mother's, sir." "My poor mother dead! How long was she ill? What was the matter?" "Well, sir, she never held up her head after your father's death." "My father too! Tell me the cause. Speak, man!" "lie took to his bed as soon as he heard the bad news, sir." "Bad news! What do you mean?" "That the vessel that held his whole fortune had been lost at sea." The Common Chord. James Buckham, one of our minor poets, put into beautiful verse an inci dent which occurred during the civil war. lie calls it"The Common Chord." The inei