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The Job department of the PIIERS is complete, aud affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAKTICULAH ATTENTION TAID TO Law Printing. No paper willbe discontinued until arrearages paid, except at the option oftlie publisher. Papers sent out ofthccounty must be paid for luadvance. *9* No advertisements will be accepted at less than the price for fifteen words. *#-Beligious notices free. "" • —— there must b«' a cause for tlie higher wages ami better living in America than elsewhere, and that cause is the Protective Tariff, vliieh enables tlie manufacturer to produce his goods at a fair margin of profit and to share this profit with his employees. —Springfield "Union." The Farmer's Interest. Year after year since tlie inaugu ration of William McKinley and the accession of his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, and during the continued operation of our present Protective Tariff the farm products of the country, without regard to the quantity harvested, have netted the farmer more than a billion dollars in excesss of tlie value received during the opera tion of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff law under the administration of Grover Cleveland. This by no means, however, measures the in creased value to our farmers,as an other billion dollars must be added as the increased value of farm animals. It is not likely that the farmers either West or East, North or South, care to change existent conditions and go back to the low value and to the cheap markets of 1893, 1895 and 1890.—Rockland (Me.) ' 'Courier-Gazette.'' A Frightened Horse. Running like mad down the street dumping the occupants, or a hundred other accidents, are every day occur rences. It behooves everybody to have a reliable Salve handy and there's uone as good as Bucklen's Arnica Salve Hums, Cuts. Sores, Eczema and Piles disappear quickly under its soothing ef. feet. 25c, at L. Taggart's Drug Store THE CHRISTIAN churches at Con stantinople. Turkey, and Yokahoma, Japan, have long used the Longman & Martinez Faints for painting their churches. Liberal contributions of L. k M. Paint will be given for such purpose wherever a church bo located. P. M. Scofield, Harris Springs. S. C., writes: F punted our old homestead with L..M. twenty-six years ago. Not painted >i:ice, looks better than houses painted trs the last four years.'" W. B. b ;rr, Charleston, W. Va., writes, '•Painted r'rankenburg Block with L. & M. shows b 'tter than nny buildings here have over done; stands out as though varnished, and actual cost of paint was less than 81.20 per gallon. Wears and covers like gold." These Celebrated Paints are sold hv 11. S. Lloyd. 3 Some men die ot heart failure, but sonic continue to stack up dollars in spite of it. Heals Everything. It beats anything in the healing line '.vu ever used. My little girl hail been troubled with dark purple sores on her J legs for two months. Everything failed 1 to help her until we tried San-Cura i Ointment, which made a complete cure : in a few applications. J. M. Fenton, j Shelmadine Springs, Pa. San-Cura j Ointment, 25c and 50c, at druggists. I For sale by R. C. Dodson. A man must have a nice banking (inure 1 before he can pose as a model statesman, j She Struck I.ucl£. About six years ago I sent to the I store for some medicine and they sent me ' some Thompson's Barosma or Kidney i and Liver Cure. The first bottle did me ! so much good that I bought the second 1 and it cured me of female weakness, with which I had been troubled over two i years. I gained in strength and flesh ; and have been well ever since. Mrs. M. (Jrovc, Plutn, Pa. For sale by R. C. Dodson. Photographs for Chaistmas presents at Hair's studio. Don't wait until it i_ s | too late. What the Robin Told The Holly Sprig By MARY BAIN BILTON ON a mountain side grew a sprig of holly. Beneath, In the val ley, nestled a village, and the holly could see the people moving about, the cattle going to and from the brook for water; Indeed, there was constant motion, while the holly sprig was always still except when the wind set It In motion. One morning a robin lit on the holly sprig, clutching it with Its tiny claws. "How I wish I were you!" said the sprig to the bird. "You can fly any where and soo what is going on, while I am doomed to hang here, passing my life in one spot." "Yes." said the robin, "I can go about and see the world, and I have opportu nities of learning. The other day it was Sunday—l perched on a limb near a church and beard the clergyman say that one of the greatest blessings was contentment." Then the robin flew away. One winter morning when the snow had fallen the holly sprig heard merry voices, sounding very loud in the moist air, coming up the mountain side, and presently a number of children ap proached. They were gathering holly, and one of them took hold of the little holly twig and twisted it off its parent bush. Then it was thrown into a bag with other sprigs and taken down to the village. For a time ii lay perfectly still, but suddenly the mouth of the bag was opened, a hand thrust in and the holly taken out. Then for the first time the holly sprig saw a new sight. It was in a lighted room where boys and girls were at work. The girls were tying evergreens together and making ropes of them, while the boys were standing 011 tables and steplaclders arranging the ropes on the walls in festoons. Some of the girls were making ever green wreaths and hanging them in the windows. One little girl took the holly sprig and hung it to a chandelier. The holly sprig was supremely hap py. How much more delightful was this than the bleak mountain side, with no change from day today! It was somewhat disappointed when the boys and girls put out the lights and went out, leaving the room in darkness. It could see nothing, whereas in its moun tain home on clear nights It could see the stars, and often the moon lighted up the trees about it and the valley below. However, in the morning the children came back to view their work, and people were coming and going all day, so that the holly sprig was not lonely. Indeed, it was charmed with its altered condition, which, it sup posed, would last forever. That day a young evergreen tree was brought into the room and stood be fore the chimney piece. The children brought in boxes, from which they took little wax candles and fixed them all over the tree. From other boxes they took iridescent and gilt globes, span gles and tinsel chains, which they scat tered in profusion among the branches. Hut tlie climax of delight to the holly was In the evening, when the children THE HOLLY SPRIG SAW A SEW SIGHT. all came in together. The candles were lighted, and all stood about admiring the beautiful tree. "What a happy change for me!" ex claimed the holly sprig. "Had not the children come and brought me down here I should now be a part of my parent bush, out In the cold wind, with nothing above me but a murky sky, nothing beneath but the cold snow." Then some of the elder people who were present went to the evergreen ,tree and took off boxes and packages thej- had hung there in the night when the children were In bed and distribut ed them among the little ones. Each package was marked with the name of the child for whom it was Intended and was opened eagerly. The holly sprig, hanging high in the center of the room, could see everything and as each child opened its package watched eagerly to see what was being unwrap ped. There was frequent clapping of hands, shouts of laughter, everything expressive of happiness. "This is delightful." said the holly spring to itself. "I wonder if they are going to ws in the basement of Plank Road Hollow School House that they are given until January 7th, 1905 to call upon the Board and settle damages. Otherwise warrants will be placed ill the hands of the proper officers. FRED K. ZIMMER, President, ATTEST:— DF.I.BKIIT TOWNER, Sec'y. 42-3t. liI.KCTIOJJ SIOTICK THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Emporium, Pa., /Jec.'sih, lio4. r pHE annual meeting of the stock-holders for I the election of a Board of Directors and the transaction of such other business as may be laid before them, will be held at the Bank on Tues day, January 10th, 1905, between thelioursof one and three in the afternoon. T. B. LLOYD, Cashier. Holiday Annex H. A. ZARPS & C I j T"N order to meet *■- the increased demands of our numerous custom ers we have rent- IB ed and stocked the store room, next door to J OP I NSuN & McNARNEY'S office, with a beau tiful line of goods, especially selected for the Holiday Trade. During the rush incident to Xtnas trade this new departure will afford the ladies an excellent oppor tunity to make their purchases. One of the features of the Annex will be several bargain counters. Wejcan't fail to meet your wants at either store. Call early. IH. A. ZARPS I& CO. j NEXT DOOH TO | JOHNSON & McNARNEY'S 1 OFFICE