THE DEAD SPARROW. , Mortals, and immortals, too, I have shocking news for you, i Tidings that will harrow Every sympathetic breast; Gone to its eternal rest Is the bird my girl caressed — Dead is Lesbia's sparrow! It knew Lesbia quite as well i As did Lesbia herself Know her good old mother; Grateful to the doting maid, From whose reach it seldom strayed. It was wont to serenade licsbia, and none other. Victim to Plutonian wrath, f Now it hops along the path \ Downward, dark and narrow; ' Maledictions on thy head, Orcus! See how tearful red Are the beauteous eyes that shed Oceans for that sparrow 1 —Eugene Field in Chicago News. IN LOVE AND WAR. The story of a country village is the story of its store. That wonderful place where the mail and the molasses flow from a common source, so to speak—where your inner and onter man, your mental and phys ical self, must get all their stimulus—is the epitome of all the diffusely written history of the lives that cluster around It. What the store man cannot tell you of every passer by and every customer you are not likely to learn yourself, except by nnusnal fortune; and all be does tell yon has the delightful piquancy of hav ing passed through the medium of a rarely shrewd mind, gaining more than one beauty spot in the transit. That Was what I was thinking as I sat in 'Bijah's store, with the mingled odors of calico print and dried apples, coffee and the straw that crockery is packed in fighting for supremacy in my notice. 'Bijah's broad back was turned to me and he was sorting the day's mail with comments that made me as wise as him self regarding its contents. "Mis' Mi-randy Beal," said 'Bijah; "that'll be abaout her pension, I guess. Rutlier efficial lookin, thet is. Mr. Asy Fowler; his son John—gone down to Pochemoutb—he writes ter hira nigh onter every week—en a nice, clean hand he writes, does John. Here's a letter fer the schulema'am. Now thar's han'writtin fer ye! Pntty ez she is, an jest as simple like." The latch clicked and the door opened. 'Bijah looked ovor his shoulder and grinned. I was shut ont from sight of more than the visitor's legs by a slack line of dangling towels, aprons and socks; but they were steady, reliable looking legs, straight and strong, clothed in heavy boots ami blue overalls. 'Bijah neither turned nor laid down his letters. He stood there grinning, and whether the person in the doorway was grinning also, or plotting my assas sination in pantomime, I was none the wiser. The heavy boots shuffled and turned about, stepped outside and the door shut. 'Bijah chuckled to himself and looked back to bis letters again. "Them papers is for young Thomp son. He's th' editor of our paper. He's alive—alive an kickin. He's been out west fur a spell, ail he thinks we're all dead an buried. An he has made a great change in The Bngler, I tell yon. Folks say he'll be made ter smart fur the way he musses raound inter people's affairs; but it's lively, it's lively." The papers went into a separate box, and 'Bijah resumed the letters. "Mehaly Hopkins; she's got a heap of money. 'Mazin haow fond yer folks is of ye when yer got a pile and ain't no heirs of yer buddy. She's good fer em though; she's a cute 'un.* "I suppose it is nnnsnal for any one to make much more than their living away up here, isn't it, 'Bijah?" "Humph! yes, fer any one. Not fer some on 'em though. Some oil 'em is smarter 'n greased lightuin." He put his head on one Bide and squinted at the letter he was holding. "Him, now, Jeremiah Wilson, he's a keen nn. Nobody ever got the best o' th' ole inan bnt Jim. You saw Jim— came in here jest naow; ain't no 'tater bags on Jim; when he gits up he's up fer all day." 'Bijah grinned and wagged his head. "Jere-miah—Wil-son!" he remarked, and slapped the letter into its pigeon hole. The latch clicked again, the door opened and the same pair of legs ap peared in the very same spot where I had seen them before. 'Bijah grinned. Presumably the unseen grinned also, for there was too much of 'Bijah's grin not to be offensive, if it were otherwise. "Whut chu want?" "Nothin." "We don't keep that; or, if we do, were jest aont of it." The big boots turned about slowly. "Sure ye do' want no lampe, are yet" "Gals go with 'em?" "Not in this Bhop." "Thet settles it, as fur as I'm con cerned," and he went away and closed the door again. 'Bijali looked after him and chuckled. "What's the joke, 'Bijah?" "Dono' ez I'd orter say an'thin, aout side, but yo- know how it is, Mr. Carson, you never seem no stranger." "Hand over your story, you old gos sip," I answered. "Why, it would burn your tongue off if you tried to keep it in." 'Bijah langbed heartily at this polite sally. "Well, I take fer my tex', as Elder Slocuin says, that beautiful axnm, 'All is fair in love an war.'" He came around the end of the counter and sat on an unopened sugar barrel, with his legs crossed and his rongh hands clasped around his knee. "Th' ole man, Jeremiah Wilson, that I mentioned back a spell, he's a Tartar. He do' know nothin but bis own way; an Mis' Wilson, she never know*d nothin but ter gin it to him. He's got a trick er turnin redfaced an lookin like he was agoin ter bust, an Mis' Wilson, she wuz so neat, Blie couldn't bear ter hev her bouse mussed, so she jest gin in to him. , "Tber was one gal—Maine her name wuz—an they both thought a sight of her. She waVt no more like neither uv them then nothin at all, and they both tried projeeks with her. "Her father wanted her to bo a boy, an lie alluz felt as ef she done him when she wa'n't. He wanted ter make a law yer out uv her; he's dead in love with lawin, ole man Wilson is; bnt yer might better try ter make a hossrake out of whalebones an gristle ez to make a law yer outer Maine. What th' ole man said wnz Gospel, though; she felt sorter like she better not make him no more hard feelin, after not bein that boy he wanted. "Her mother meant her ter be a good housekeeper an put up p'serves an make pickles; an Maine wonld stan at the winder an sing an fergit all abaout her mess till 'twas clean spilt. "After Mis' Wilson died, though, Mame done better round the haouse. Mebbe ef th' ole man wuz ter die she'd take ter lawin. Ye can't tell; she kin do most an'thin. "Jest abaout then, Jim Lane began ter sleeve raonnd with Maine Wilson. Smart ez a Bteel trap, he is; he runs the sawmill up the Creek; but th' ole man hates him like pizen, an he talked ter Mame till she 'lowed she wouldn't take up with Jim, 'less he wuz willin." "Jim Lane is the darnedest good na tured feller you ever see. He's alluz got a good word an a pleasant smile fer folks, an he'll go further out o' his track fer a friend 'n most anybuddy I know. "He took it offul hard abaout Mame, an he reg'ly got mopy an down in the mouth abaout it. An then he got his second wind, an he tried every witch way to play it on th' ole man. But Mame she got putty stuffy, too, an she declared she'd never 'pose her father, an thar 'twas." Bijah got off the barrel to sell a couple of candy balls to a rosy faced little lass who was so short as to be visi ble under the slack line, and resumed, as she closed the door of the shop— "The hull village knew all abaout it and they talked it up, early an late, i The gals they wasn't slow ter say what ; they'd do ef they wuz in her place, and The Bugler took a hand, so ter speak, an nearly drove the ole man wild. But Miss Peterson, the minister's sister, she i 'lowed that Mame wuz right ter mind j her father. " 'Look a-here,' says Jim, 'ain't I got no rights at all?' an Miss Peterson she laughed an said she s'posed so, but he certainly did n't orter ask Mame ter take the responsibility of breakin her word." Bijah chuckled and changed his legs and clasped the other knee. " 'Twasn't very long after that ole Wilson went home one night. 'Twuz gettin early dusk an he tole Mame she'd better get the lamp afore Bhe set down ter tea. Maine wuz agoin through the entryway with a whoppin great shade lamp in her hand, when somebody knocked ter the front door, and she jest stopped an opened it without thinkin. "Jim Lane was a-standin there. 'Don't say nothin, Maine,' says he, an he takes her bodily, lamp an all, and tucks her inter a carridge that he hed at the gate. He didn't fool raound with no railroad train, but jest turned them horses'heads fer Canada, an when they got ter the line Mame wuz a settin there ez still ez a mouse, without ary hat er coat, an that big shade lamp a burnin jest as peart as ef it wuz on the ole man Wilson's table 1 ter home." Bijah spat at the stove and laughed to himself. "Fearful thing—the iugratitoode of children, ain't it? But you'd orter seen The Bugler nex 1 lnornin. Every dad blamed colnme in it hed a big head line, 'Jim Lane has got his gal. Jim Lane has got his gal.' Gosh! that jest proved ole Wilson wouldn't never hev busted when he didn't bust that mornin. "He went whoopin off ter his lawyer ter see what he cud do to Jim, but I Mame she wuz of age an she writ him that she went of her own free will; so all he could make nny fuss abaout wuz the lamp, an they've been a lawin an foolin an a arbitratin ever sence."—Margaret Ingersoll in Boston Transcript. Danger in Meat Diet. The evilß of a meat diet are being ap preciated by many high livers in cities, and these are being counteracted partly ! by the wealthy in adding more fruits and vegetables to their tables during the winter. The cheapness of meat and , a peculiar craving which the system seems to have for meat have gradually j made it common for city people to live ! almost entirely off meat in the winter months. Meat is eaten three times a day in quantities, and the excessive use of such a diet is Hr.t rheumatic and gout temperaments are acquired. These temperaments are on the increase, and they are largely due to the excessive use of meat. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Som Postoffice Figures. The number of postoffices in the United States thirty years ago was a fraction over 30,000. Now there are 18,799 post offices in the states and territories west of the Mississippi, and of that number 9,298 are west of the Missouri. Nebraska, thirty years ago, had 45 postoffices, while today she has 1,137. The total revenue of the postoffices west of the Mississi| for the year 1891 was |11,780,192, which $7,208,068 represents tlio post , receipts of the region west of the Mis souri. In 1860 the total postoffice receipts for the United States were only a fraction over fl 1,000,000. —Edward Rosewater's Omaha Address. What Platforms Are For. A weather beaten American citizen stood on the platform of u railroad coach while the train was speeding along at the rate of fifty miles per hour. ! "Can't stand on the platform," shout ; ed the conductor. "What are platforms for, anyhow?" asked the man. "Platforms are not mode to stand on; they are made to get in on," replied the conductor, This is the story with which Reprer sentative Allen, of Missouri, illustrates the frailty of political platforms.—Wash ington Cor. Omaha World-Herald. Attacked the Wrong Dog. There was a tremendous rumpus and excitement in a prominent drug store on Chestnut street, near Twelfth, the other day. A fair maid, strolling down the street with a large mastiff, stopped in the store for soda. The place was crowded, and among the crowd were twc other ladies with two other dogs. The other dogs were considerably smaller than the mastiff, but by a light ning calculation they decided that by combining forces they a fall out of him. Instantly acting, the rum pus began. | In one-fifth the space of time it takes I to write it the air was filled with snarls, yelps, barks, growls, dog hair, female shrieks, children's howls and screams, soda water, muffs, small packages and male profanity. Women and children clambered upon the counters or fled into the street; the clerks and soda water boys grabbed the fighting dogs, and the big mastiff was dragged out upon the pavement, where a crowd had already gathered. Seeing his mistress on the outskirts of the crowd the mastiff gave a bound toward her and hurled an old gentleman and a small girl flat on their backs. The crowd scattered as if it had been an egg thrown against a barn door, the big dog barked loudly and the old gentleman grew red in the face in his efforts to do verbal justice to his feelings. The ex citement lasted until a reserve police man came up and asked what the mat- I ter was and was told nine different j stories, all of which were wrong. Inside the damage was computed at six broken tumblers, five or six dresses ruined by soda water stains and a huge bcwl of fresh eggs rendered valueless by being sat in by a fat baby, which was placed there by its mother during the first outbreak of the excitement. One of the small dogs had about a half pound of meat bitten out of him by the big one.—Philadelphia Record. Banter Lille*. The attention the florist pays nowa days to the Easter lilies is a marked one; for not so many years ago the demand for the beautifully simple white flower was exceedingly small. They found the readiest sale with churches then, and it was rare indeed to find a private house decorated with these flowers. Even the churches did not require so many as to make the pro duction of the Easter lily more than a mere incident in the work of a florist's gardener. Now it is a feature of his la bors in the fall to pot thousands of bulbs. Besides the usual amount of care ex ercised by a good gardener in raising flowers of any kind, these lilies require especial attention. Before or after the Easter season there is very little demand for the flower, and he must see to it that the buds appear just as Lent is ushered in. To have the plants flower several weeks before or not until the season is closing means a big financial loss. Plac ing the plants in a dark room delays the budding until the time arrives for them to be salable, and then the forcing be gins.—Boston Transcript. A Cruel Joke on Boomers. Many thousands of settlers cauiped on the southern line of the soon-to-be-opened Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands received word that the president had issued a proclamation opening the lands. In stanter they by hundreds and thousands invaded and took clainiß. The military at once proceeded, however, to eject them. Then they learned that some one had played a practical joke on them, and they were 100 miles from a telegraph office. This has greatly complicated matters, as under a strict interpretation of the law they became "sooners," and cannot hereafter acquire titles to public lands.— Cor. St. Louis Republic. Big Steel TrtiMKen. The steel trusses which are to support the roof of the Manufactures building in the World's fair grounds will be the largest in the world. There will be twenty-two trusses, and they will bo ! erected in pairs. Each truss will cover | a span of Bbo feet, and from the center ! of the roof inside to the ground there j will be a distance of 206 feet. Each truss weighs 200 tons, and 6,000 tons of steel will be used in the roof of the building. Above the trusses supporting the roof will be erected other trusses to support the lantern roof. These trusses will be thirty-six feet in height and each will span a distance of 150 feet.—Ex change. Without Food for Eight Day*. A dispatch says that Joel Laytham, a prominent farmer of Maysville, Ky., missed one of his horses ten days ago, and after much searching finally discov ered the animal buried beneath a rick of hay. It had been there for eight days, lying on its side, a storm having blown the hay over on it while sleeping. When taken out it walked off and commenced eating grass as though nothing unusual bad happened. The Easier Way. Burglars in the town of Sulphur Rock, Ark., found it very difficult to open a safe in an office they had entered, so they suspended operations until they vißited a livery stable, from which they Btole a horse and wagon. They then re turned to the safe, placed it on the wagon and drove off.—Yankee Blade. Low Fare. Rrtiiff Uu.lne... The reduction in the scale of French railway tariffs has produced an imme diate revival in the constructive engi neering industries. All the railway com panies have in the past few weeks been entering into heavy contracts for the supply of locomotives and rolling stock. —Exchange. Smelt* in Abundance. Smelts are so abundant in the waters at Castle Rock, Or., that a fisherman standing on the shore with a scoop net is sble to dip out in a few minutes moro fchsn he can carry away. Thousands of pounds of the ftsh have beeu taken in ' this way recently. WORKINGMEN SPEAK. THE KENSINGTON REFORM CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA PETIfIONS. They Give the Facts In Their Own Lines of Labor and Point Out the Remedy.• They Want Free Raw Materials to Begin With. j Tho following is a part of the petition sent to congress by the Kensington Re form club of Philadelphia, an organiza tion composed entirely of workmen in the highly protected textile industries: While labor is the most directly in terested in the arrangement of tariff schedules it has been customary for those who have favored high protective duties to turn a deaf ear to its appeals de spite their protestations of solicitude for the welfare of the toilers. The clamors of those who find a special interest in high duties, having the time and means to besiege the doors of congress, have not been unheeded. The fat they fried out of the workingman enabled them to render special service to the partisan machine, and thus they could make their weight felt far better than the fleeced workingman. Now, however, that there is once more an opportunity for labor to be heard upon an equal footing with the capitalists, we, the Kensington Reform club, as an organization composed of working men in every branch of the textile industries, send greeting to the friends of fairplay and honest and equal government, with a prayer for the im mediate passage of a free wool bill now under consideration in the house, which, while it may not fully meet our desires, is yet a measure offering great relief to the whole people. The labor in the woolen industries has j never been in so depressed a condition as in the past year. The carpet indus try was never so demoralized. Wages have been reduced both in a direct way and by the various suterfuges called ad justments, readjustments and fines, and yet the cost of living has been percepti bly increased until the condition of labor is well nigh unbearable. Employ ment has grown more unsteady, many mills working but partial time, while in others the waiting for warp and fill ing amounts to a loss of from one-quar ter to one-half time. This is no idle talk, but tho result of investigation, as it is one of tlio missions of our organiza tion to intelligently watch the effects of legislation upon labor, and we may here add that thero has never been an increase in tariff rates that was not almost im mediately followed by reduction of wages. This is surely contrary to what wiis promised us tho result of the tariff law passed by the last congress, and is it surprising to find workingmen realiz ing that they have been fooled once too often? If, as has been asserted in congress recently, the manufacturers do not need or want a high tariff, and it is sole ly for the benefit of labor, then there is not the slightest impediment to an agreement about its abolition. But since the gentlemen who make this as sertion still oppose a reduction, the workmen who don't want it either are certainly justified in praying that those kind souls may stop their benevolent en deavors to raise wages by law, which they can't do, and set about raising them in the mills, which they can do, and if they will only give to the workmen that which they otherwise give to the party machine the workers will ho able to buy more clothes and thus make more work for the mills. We here reiterate tlio fact that the greater cause for the inability of the American manufacturers to compete with their foreign rivals is because of the unjustifiable tax on the raw materi als, and not the differences in wages, and that this tax amounts to from three to five times more than the entire wages account in the product. It is needless for gentlemen to imagine that they can forever fool the workingman by their expressions of solicitude for wages while yet willing and anxious to bear the enormous burden of this unnecessary tariff tax on the raw materials. To the workingman of ordinary intelligence this looks like trying to find excuses for the further reduction of wages, for so long as they can be made to believe that their wages are princely as compared with the wages of workmen on the other side of the water, they may be induced to submit to reductions without know ing that they are rapidly nearing the level of the "pauper labor of Europe." Workingmen are praying deeply just now that their protectionist friends may stop awhilo their hard labors to raise the wind by tariff laws, so as to take time to give their professions a practical turn by raising wages in fact. But if we may judgo men by their actions, wo are justi fied in assorting that if these profession al friends of labor thought that a tariff would raise wages, they would drop it quickly. In a recent number of The Manufac turer, the organ of the protectionist manufacturers, its editor, in a labored article, tried to show that the English manufacturers were selling their goods here as cheaply as they did before the McKinley law went into effect, and de ducing from that, that the foreign man ufacturers were paying the tax for the privilege of selling in our market. In another article of the same number the fact is stated that Botany tops have doclined in price in England sixteen cents per pound, and this is given as a partial reason for their ability to sell as cheaply as before the increase of the tariff. When we consider that this de cline of prices of wool is equivalent to a saving of upward of thirty-two cents in every pound of manufactured cloth we may find it to be the whole reason. Here is a pretty mixture of facts and fancies, but then if every tariff advocate would stick to facts their cause would suffer badly. On a par with this is their averment that the materials of manufacture are not deteriorating. They dare not put their workingmen on the stand to tes tify to this under oath, for they would 1 fully corroborate the statements made to your honorable committee of ways and means by the wool consumers' com mittee (themselves manufacturers) that the McKinley law has promoted largely the adulteration of woolen manufac tures. It is only necessary to state one fact to show the falsity of their claim. If all the wool in the country, domestic and imported, outside of that used for carpets, were made up into pure wool ens, there would be only about 80,000- 000 pounds of cloths, dress goods, blank ets, hats and numerous other articles for our 81,000,000 people, or a little over pounds for each individual. What sane man believes that 80,000,000 pounds will cover all the goods that are sold to the public as all wool American manufac tures in a year? But we must not for get that they have learned to manufac ture wool by putting cast off clothing through a chemical process which eats up all but the wool, and this residue is recardod and used to mix with other wool, but as the chemicals have eaten tho life out of it, thero is no practical difference between it and cotton. With reference to the difference be tween American and foreign wages we are prepared to prove that in many branches our rates are even below Eng lish rates, and the same is true even of actual earnings. The rate paid now for woolen weaving in the Huddersßeld (England) district varies from 1 cent for 8 picks for plain work to 1 cent for 8 picks for fine work, witli extra pay for extra heddles, extra colors, extra beams, while the highest rate paid in this country is 1 cent for 5 picks, but no extras, which levels it down to the high est English rate; but there are very many mills in this country, in fact most of them, that pay only 1 cent for 8 picks ami less. Thus for 60 pick work the English rate is from 6)£ cents per yard to 10 cents per yard, extras to be added, while the American rate is 6 to 12 cents with no extras. If the Ameri can weaver earns more money than the English in a week it is simply because he works faster and turns out more product. The stubborn perversity and dishon esty of the protectionist is nowhere bet ter seen than in their steady refusal to correct the most glaring inconsistencies and mischievous discriminations of their tariff laws, even after their attention has been repeatedly drawn to them, and they dared not deny tliem. One is the discrimination against American manu facturers involved in the adjustment of the duties between the raw materials and the finished products, and the other is the placing of a heavier tax upon the poor man's necessities than upon the rich man's luxuries. We called their attention to these points as far back as the spring of 1886, and the protection ist National Woolen Manufacturers' as sociation pointed out substantially the same errors in their letter to the secre tary of the treasury in the full of 1885, and yet in the makeup of the McKinley law this infernal piece of injustice was not only retained, but made worse than ever. This shows that they had no idea of perfecting an act of justice in a vi ciously determined purpose to serve a few masters. In fact, it appears to them to be a pleasure to shift the burdens of taxation off the shoulders of the rich to those of the poor—to make labor the pack mule of the rich. The cry of protectionist manufactur ers now is that the McKinley law be let alono because it is doing the manufac turers a great deal of good, yet in tho fact of this there has yet to be recorded one important instance of advancing wages, but the instances of wages being pared down are numerous. This is another evidence of their false pretenses, and such indisputable facts ought to surely be sufficient to cause labor to open its eyes to tho real purpose of its protectionist friends—a purpose to serve the rich at the expense of the toilers of the country and to impel the toilers to rise in their manhood to throw off the shakles that bind them to their insidi ous enemies. We now declare, without fear of con tradiction, that there is not a woolen manufacturer in Philadelphia who does not privately long for free wool, and those who openly advocate taxed wool are actuated by partisan rancor, and we are still more emphatic in the declaration that there is not in Philadelphia one woolen worker out of a hundred who would not openly ask for free wool were they all free from the sinister influences of the bosses. As we prefer our own prosperity and bread and butter to party success we ask for free wool first -with out reference to its effects upon parties. Poorer Goods and Higher Pricen. Mr. Whiting, a congressman from Michigan and one of the members of the committee of ways and means of the house of representatives, has an interest in a large mercantile firm in St. Clair, Mich. Being in the business he ought to know what effect the McKinley tariff has had upon prices. When he was asked, on his return to Washington from New York, where ho had been buying goods, what effect the high duties have had upon prices, he said: The importers of New York are pro testing with one voice against a policy of tho custom house, which is now to exact the highest possible rates of duty and to treat all importers as dishonest and guilty of undervaluation. I have no doubt that the moving cause is tho fact that money is needed to till an empty treasury, but the people must pay the bills. The high tariff now being collected encourages American manufacturers to support tho Republican ticket with largo contribu tions, and I have no doubt the adminis tration knows what it is about. Tho claim that goods have not been made higher by tho McKinley law 1 am able to deny with emphasis after a practical experience of several days in purchasing all classes of importations, us well as home goods. In many cases tho quality* f goods is degraded in or der not to show increased cost. In other cases expensive goods are dropped from the counters of the wholesale houses, and cheaper articles are substituted and introduced as a "change of style." It is but a poor subterfuge to make the poor consumer think he is paying no more for the same articles ho purchased a year ago. I do not think any buyer is de ceived. Mil Ikij Pay. Flour $2.45 Chop SI.OO Bran 50c Ham lie per lb Cal. ham 8c " " Shoulder....'. 7jc " " English wall nuts 10c " " Mixed nuts 10c " " Hazle nuts 121 c " " Chestnuts ' 10c " qt Hickory nuts 8c " " Pea nuts 5c " " Buckwheat flour, 25 lbs for 60c 1 quart peas 5c 1 quart beans 8c 1 pound barley 5c 1 can sardines 5c 2 dozen boxes matches 25c 1 piece sand soap 5c 4 pounds currants. 25c 300 clothes pins 25c 3 pounds good raisins 25c 4 pounds raisins 25c 1 pound coffee 20 and 23c 1 pound good tea 25c 5 pounds soda biscuits 25c 5 sticks stove polish 25c 3 pounds mixed cakes 25c 3 pounds coffee cakes 25c 5 pounds best sugar 25c 6 pound.' rown sugar 2oc 5 pounds lima beans.. 25c 3 - ouuds bologna 24c 3 cans lime j. 25c 3 boxes axle grease 25c i 3 dozen pickles 25c 2 quarts baking molasses 25c 2 quarts best syrup 25c 3 quarts cheap syrup. 25c 3 pounds corn starch 25c 3 pounds bird seed 25c 6 pounds oat meal 25c 6 pounds oat flakes 25c 1 pound hops 25c 2 packages ivorine (with spoon in).. .25c Muffs for 40c up to any price you want; all have been reduc ed to cost. 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There are thousands of ladies who have regular features and would bo ac corded tho palm of beauty were it not for a poor complexion. To all such we recommend dDR. HEBRA'S VIOLA CREAM as possessing these qualities that quickly change the most sallow and florid complexion to one of natural health and unblemished beauty. It cures Oily Bkln, l Freckles, Black Heads, Blotches, Sunburn, Tan, Pimples, and all imperfections of the skin. It is not a cosmetic but a cure, yet is bet ter for tho toilet tablo than powder. Sold by Druggists, or sent postpaid upon receipt of 60c. G. C. BIT INER & CO., Toledo, O. HORSEMEN ALL KNOW TIIAT Wise's Harness Store Is still here and doing busi ness on the same old principle of good goods and low prices. I ~ 1 1 | |r j" Two or three dollars for a s/ K Horse Blanket will save double its cost. Your j orse will eat less to keep warm and be 'orth fifty dollars more. HORSE : GOODS. Blankets, Buffalo Robes, Har ness, and in fact every thing needed by Horsemen. Good workmanship and low I prices is my motto. i GEO. USE, . Jeddo, and No. 35 Centre St.
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