PRESS THE BUTTON A picture we would like to make But how, we do not know, Until a little box we take And press the button—sol We wish to light the room or lmll, And Jane is down below; We need not eit her stir or call. But press the button—so! We wish to mount a dozen llfghts, Or down that number go; To be transported depths or heigat-, We press the button—so! To planning brain and cunning hand Whut willing slaves we owe! And when we would their help demand, We press the button —so! Now soon will earth be heaveh, indeed, When thought and action go; The only knowledge we will ueod: To press the button—so! —Hunter MacCulloeh, in Puck. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Miss Askins— 4 'Did bo marry her for pure love?" De Witte —"No; it was adulterated with money."—Puck. It is more blessed to give than to receive, but the majority of us kuow it merely from hearsay.—Chicago News. 4, 1 am working for posterity," said the artist. 44 What grudge have you against it?" asked his friend. —Chi- cago Evening Post. No matter how leisurely a doctor may plod through his earthly career, you never catch him boasting that he takes life easy.— Philadelphia Record. "How shall you keep your lover's love?" Great gooduess! I'm no sage above. It can't be done with gear or pelf— Just love hiin as he loves himself. —Detroit Free Press. She—"l'm sure I've cast my bread on the water many a time, and I don't see any results." He— 44 N0; I guess your bread would siuk, dear."—Yonk ers Statesman. "You are wasting your time, old man," said Fred to George. "You're courting the wroug girl." "No, she's the right girl. I'm afraid the trouble is that I'm the wrong man." "When a woman who is proposed to says no," says the Mauayunk philos opher, "she generally means yes; and when she says yes she means yes. Take your choice."—Philadelphia Recoi d. Bobby—"Dad, what is a mutual friend?" Mr. Fog—"He is generally one who makes it his business to see that you don't miss hearing the nasty things your friends say about you."— Tit-Bits. Hicks —"What is your opinion of the new woman?" Wicks—"About the same as my wife's opiuiou of the new girl. She is all right for a littlo while, but she very soon develops into a nuisance."—Boston Transcript. "So your little brother is ill, is he?" said Mrs. Hojak to Freddy Toradik. "What is the matter with him?" "I don't know, ma'am. The doctor won't let me see him, because he has a con tiguous disease."—Harper's Bazar. "Did you ever make a serious mis take in a prescription?" "Never but once," answered the drug clerk, as a gloomy look passed over his face. 4 'l charged a man thirty cents for a pre scription instead of thirty-five."— Washington Star. Gilback —"I am surprised, colonel, at your time of life, that you should have any trouble in managing your wife. All you have to do is to let her think she is having her own way." Colonel Quailer "Yes, the only trouble is that everybody else thinks bo, too."—Brooklyn Life. May Have an Kgrtt Farm. The egret crest, so much prized, may not be so valuable, if the scheme of an enterising Arizona man proves feasible. According to the Yuma Sentinel a citizen of that borough proposes to establish an egret farm. He thinks he can domesticate the egrets by clipping their wings, and intends to install a colony of them on a big stretch of marshy land along the river bottom near Yuma. Egrets, which are tropical birds of the heron family, have been found in great abundance near the month of the Colorado River, but there is some danger of their extinction, as great numbers are killed each year for their feathers. The feathers of the egret's crest sell for $32 an ouuce. The Ynraa man figures that teu birds will yield an ouucc a year. The Orlglnttl Loving Cup. "We think the "loviug cup" must have originated in Italy, where it hap pened not infrequently that hosts stabbed their guests or poisoned theui at friendly banquets; but there i 3 no definite history of the cap. The orig inal loving cup had three handles. The host drank from it first, this act showing that the liquor in the cup was not poisoned; then, holding it by two of the handles, he passed it to his friend on his left. His two hands be ing occupied, he could not stab his friend; and as his friend took one handle in his right hand, he would have been put to inconvenience to stab his host with his left hand. The cup did not prevent friendly assassin ation at dinuer completely; but it made it much more inconvenient.— New York Sun. Scotland's Cypsv King. At Yetholm, in Scotland, a man named Faa was crowned king of the gypsies in succession to his late mother, who was known as Queon Esther. The crown of tin and tinsel was placed on his head by the village blacksmith, whose family is said to possess the hereditary right of crown ing the gypsy sovereigns. The "king" rode in a carriage drawn by six asses. Marriageable Age. We believe a young man anil a young woman should net marry until she knows how to trim her own hats, and he is prepared to admit that the baby get its snub nose from its father's folks, —Detroit Journal. /oiNwi ( H mj Ja f M// tw Sweetest thing that can be seen Is a baby, fresh and clean. Dainty clothes and tender skin Need pure soap to wash them in. Nurse and mother must be sure Baby's bath is sweet and pure. from grease or alkalies; * Ivory Soap their want supplies. ODD ENGINEERING. f Water, Taken from the Pacific, Sent to j Atlantic Oceun. It is a remarkable fact that water which flows naturally Into the Gulf of California and thence into the Pacific i ocean has been virtually lifted across the backbone of the Rocky mountains, j and now, after being used for irriga- j tion, finds its way into the Gulf of Mexico. A number of small streams on the other side of Long's peak, which flow into Grand lake and thence into the Colorado river, have been di verted by a ditch that finds its way through 10,000 feet high into the head- j waters of the Poudre. Some 400 cubic feet per second has thus been diverted | from the Pacific to the Atlantic elope, j where the water is u3ed for irrigating additional farms in Larimer county. | It is not strictly correct to say that this water has been lifted across the range. But a feat of sinuous engineer ing has diverted it, which amounts to the same thing. lllrthplace or the Cable. The old house formerly occupied by Cyrus W. Field, in East Twenty-third street, New York, is now being torn down to make room for a more pre tentious structure. It was in this house that Mr. Field lived when he first broached the idea of building a cable between Europe and America, j He still made the old house his home when, after twelve years of disap pointment and struggle, the great dream of his life became an accom plished fact. For some years the building has been used as a boarding house. Now It is being razed to the ground. My Mother Had Consumption MHB—WHMW ■ i imam mt "My mother was troubled with consumption for many | years. At last she was given i up to die. A neighbor told her I not to give up but try Aycr's I Cherry Pectoral. She did so g and was speedily cured, and is | now in the enjoyment of good health." D. P. Jolly, ' Feb. 2, 1899. Avoca, NY. Cures Hard Coughs No matter how hard your cough is or how long you have had it, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you could possibly take. But it's too risky to wait until you have consumption, for sometimes it's | impossible to cure this disease. If you arc coughing today, don't wait until tomorrow, but get a bottle of Cherry Pec toral at once and be relieved. It strengthens weak lungs. Threo BIBOS: 25C., enough for an ordinary cold; fiOc., Jut rlßht for aathina, bronchitis, hoarseuesA, whooping-cough, hard colds; gI.OO. most economical for chronic cascj uud to keep ou hand. Explorations In ratagonla. In the current number of the Geo | graphical Journal Dr. Moreno gNes an account of Patagonia, which Is a por tion of that vast area in South Amer ica still unknown to geography, and I interesting because of the rich prod ucts, which it probably contains, and its charming landscapes. It seems that ! Patagonia does not merit the bad repu tation as regards scenery which It has had since Darwin and Fitzroy received a disagreeable impression from the portion they explored. The plateaus of Arizona find their analogy in the table lands of Patagonia, and "the pic ■ turesque fjords and white mountains of i Alaska seem to be a copy of the fjords ! and mountains of Patagonia." The I analogy might be pushed even further, | for it seems there is a strange similar- I ity between the ancient customs and industries of the Alaskan and Pata gonlan Indians. Saw 1 lie Nickels* From saving, comes having. Ask your 1 grocer how you can save 15c by investing 50. He can tell you just how you can get one large 100 package of "Red Cross" starch, one large 10c package of "Hubln ger's Best" starch, with the premiums, two beautiful Shakespeare panels, printed in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all for sc. Ask your grocer for this starch and obtain these beautiful Christmns presents free. Ten-Drlnklng In Russia. The Russians drink enormous quail titles of tea, sufficient to frighten any Englishman or American. The poor people—and the Russian people are the poorest in existence —use the so* called "brick" tea. This is the cheap est sort, being mixed with stems, and compressed by some adhesive gum into dry cakes of various sizes, resembling in its appearance "plug" tobacco. This tea, which would probably prove pois onous to any one else, is consumed by the Russian workingman at the aver age rate of about twenty stakans (or 1 tumblers) a day, the Russian stakan I being quite equal to five of the little ! thimbles of cups used in America at j afternoon teas. Taking into considera ) tion that black, sour or bitter, brick like bread, raw onions, garlic, dried leather-fish and strongly salted herr ings are usually the chief articles of food of the people at large, one must not wonder at the enormous quantity of hot tea needed to quench a Rus | elan's thirst and help 011 his digostion. No Rocking Lullaby. Strange at it may seem, the time honored custom of rocking babies to sleep is a bad one. It is injurious to the children themselves, and is a cause eventually of much unnecessary trouble to their guardians. Mothers should therefore see to it that from the very first the little ones are brought up in the way they should go, and that the monthly nurse does not get them into bad habits by rocking them to sleep either in her arms or in their cots. There is no doubt that rocking is the most expeditious way of induc ing a baby to go to sleep, but if one once starts, a baby will not sleep with out it, and at a later age is likely to suffer from insomnia. Rocking may save immediate trouble to a lazy nursa 'oi* fnbther by inducing ! sleep; when a child does*not require it, or when it ought to be taken up from its cot and have clean clothes put on, but it will never cause that sweet, gentle and per fect sleep which should be character istic of a baby who has no artificial aids to induce slumber. There !s more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to he Incurable. For a groat many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to euro with local treatment, pronouncod it in* curable. Science has proven catarrh to ho a constitutional disease and therefore require# constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It Is taken internally in doses from 1 10 drops to a tcaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to (jure. Send for circulars and testi monials. Address F.J. CHKNEY& Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist*, 75c. Hail's Family Pills are the beet. METAMORPHOSIS OF ITALIANB ; Contrast Newly Arrived Immigrants j and Their Americanized Halations. I There was a meeting outside the barge office. A batch of immigrants | had come in, and Giulia and her man I were in waiting to receive some new- j ly arrived relatives. Giulia was brave in her finest and most gorgeous ral- j ment, combining a reckless love of ! bright colors with an ardent desire to 1 look American. Her hat was a mar- | vel of Third avenue millinery. Her bright dress was after the most ap proved autumn model, always, of course, from the Third avenue stand point, and the pendant earrings, great yellow brooch, and jingling bracelets were dazzling to behold. To crown all, and as an irresistible finish, she had squeezed her plump hands into a pair of yellow kid gloves, momentarily threatening to burst. Pietro's scarlet necktie, generous expanse of shirt ! front, low-cut mottled waistcoat, and ! highly gilded watch chain limited his powers of self-adornment, but his lit- , tie wifo cheerfully made up for all he 1 lacked. Shrill cries of "Ecco! Ecco!" | turned the dull eyes of three persons j In their direction, and, extricating themselves from the excited crowd, they withdrew to contemplate each othfcr at their leisure. The contrast was painful on one side, pathetically ludicrous on the other. Francisco and his sisters gazed blankly at their changed and resplendent relations. The man had on tight breeches of homespun, a gray flannel shirt with a red cotton handkerchief knotted at the throat, and was a picturesque speci men of Tuscan manhood. The women were bare-headed; covert glances had been exchanged over Ottilia's startling ' headgear. They wore huge, roughly ) cobbled boots, and short petticoats displaying striped blue and yellow | stockings, and knit worsted shawls of | variegated colors were tightly drawn about the shoulders and fastened at the opened throat with monstrous cor al brooches, the crowning glory of their attire. But Giulia! Truly she was a queen in comparison! Never' mind! Americanisms are quickly ac quired, and if the brother is lucky six months may see their metamorphosis. —New York Sun. Like Finding Honey. The use of the Endless Chain Starch Book in the purchase of "Red Cross" and ''Hublnger's Best" staroh, makes it just like finding mouey. Why, for only 5c you are enabled to got one large 10c package of "Red Cross" stnrch, one large 10c paok age of "Hubluger's Best" starch, with the premiums, two Shakespeare panels, print ed in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twen tieth Century Girl Calendar, embossed in gold. Ask your grocer for this 9tarch and obtain the beautiful Christmas presents tree President Kruger's Father. The bitter feeling which Paul Kru ger cherishes toward the British is cer tainly not lessened by the memory that his own father was the man who fired the first shot at the English troops at Boomplatz in 1848, and by the fur ther thought that he was one of those who were driven by the English to take part in the great "trek" of 1836. Again, in 1854, when the Boers peti tioned the queen to be allowed to re main under the protection of the Brit ish flag, the elder Kruger was one of Its signers. The answer of the duke of Newcastle, who returned the petition with the remark that it could not be entertained and that England had al ready extended Its rule too far in Af rica, has always been remembered b} Kruger and his associates as an un dying insult. Dr. Bull's COUCH SYRUP Cures Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick, 6tire results. Refuse substitutes. Dr. Bull's Pills cu re Biliousness. Trial , so jor $e. TryCrain-O! ! Try Grain-O! \ Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. i.; The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-0 has that i rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, i but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. the price of coffee. i 15 ceuls and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. jj Tastes like Coffee i Looks like Coffeo § Insist that your grocer gives yon GRAIN-O Accept no imitation. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS • GIVEN - AWAY. • The first five persona procuring the F.ndlc*i Chain March Rook from the!* grocer will each obtain one large 10c package of "Red CrowK" starch, one large 10c package of "Hubingcr'ft llctt" starch, two Shakespeare panels, printed in twelve beautiful colors, as natural as life, or one Twentieth Century Qlrl Calendar, the finest of its kind overprinted, all absolutely free. All others procuring the Endless Chain March Hook, will obtain fron; their grocer the above goods for sc. "Red Cross" Laundry starch Is something entirely new, and is without doubt the great est invention of the Twentieth Century. It has no equal, and surpasses all others. It has won for itself praise from nil parts of the United States. It has superseded every thing heretofore used or known to science in the laundry art. It is made from wheat, rice and corn, and chemically prepared upon scientific principles by J. c. II uhi tiger, Keokuk, lowa, an expert in the laundry profession, who has had twenty-five years' practical experience In fancy laundering, and who was the first successful and original inventor of aM fine grades of starch in the United States. Ask your grocers fur this Starch and ootaln these beautiful Christmas presents free. Kidneys, GleA^ S EFF|Cuja^^^^H T RCO UL C 0N STI jIABITUAL PERMANENT®! 1,5 * •BVy-TtiEGEhM NE-MAN'F'D : BY ; (AW?RNIAJTGSYRVP(9 FRANCiScci KV. ' CAL. * injTV-; The Crying Need. Wireless telegraphy, horseless car- 1 rlages and chainless bicycles are all very well In their way, but what the world really yearns for is a noiseless baby. } Attention i 9 called to the very usoful articles contained in the premium list of the Continental Tobacco Co. a advertisement of their Star Plug Tobacco in another column of this paper. It will pay to save the "Star" tin tags and so take advantage of the beat list ever issued by the Star Tobacco. VITALITY low. debilitated or exhausted cured ; by I)r. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. FKEK $1 trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. I)r. Kline, I Id., 881 Arch St., Philadelphia. Founded 1871. PISO'B Cure for Consumption has saved mo many a doctor's bill. - S. F. HARDY, Hopkins Placo. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2, 18U4. All hand-painted. No I handsomer lamp mad*. • Beautiful colored cat. 1 PA^Wtor BA& Q(JBt i Pittsburg Glass Co., voi; BI'Y DIRECT. ' Pittsburg, Pa. P. N. D. 53 CARTERS INK Can't be beat. $19,000 OFFERED > by heirs of the late Anthony Pollok, Esq., for best > maritime life-saving appliance. We can furnish you Information. lIAHON, IDNWIIK .V LAW -1 RKM'li, Washington, I>. (j, ARNOLD'S COUGH Cures roughs mul Colds |f | ■ ■ ■■ ■% Prevent* Consumption. If I H I P R All Druggists, 25c. ■ ■ ■ ■ l> ! *[sme IST IP™ * * YOUR Box. sterling silver 70 and durable 1000 ★ll Knife, "Keen Kutter," two blades .. 75 iBl Sewing Machine, ftrst class, wifh 12 Butcher Knife, "Keen Kutter," 8-ln ail Attach man tl 1600 saw blade TR 82 ltovolvur, (Jolt's, 88-cailber. bhted ★lB Shears, "Keen Kutter," 8-inch 76 I "ft® 6 * I WO . 14 Nut Set. (backer and 6 Picks, ailver 183 Rifle, Colt's. 14-shnt, tt-caliber. .1500 plated . so I 34 Cutter (Washburn), rosewood, in *ls Base Ball, "Association," best quel.loo hid 2OOO 17 Hi l !! ( . l r ck o ,llcko V. r • 1W | S5 Mandolin, very handsome 2000 17 Six Genuine Rogers Teaspoons, best L. w , . ~ t'leted goods 15e I Winchester Repenting Shot Gun. *lB Watch, nickel, stem wind and set.. 200 12 2000 4 19 Carvers, good steel, tmckhorn 137 Heinlnqton, double-barrel, hatu- "NBT handles. 200 mer Snot Qun. 10 or 13 gauge 2000 rs ★ " ""'r 52?""' T,M ' Btoyol,. standard mako. ladiaa or i lest plated good* 250 cents 2500 21 Six each. Knives and Forks, but%- „ 1 I"". " K horn handlist 260 39 Shot Onu. Remington, double bar ffl Sli aach.Omiiii,Roem' Knlvas I rol. Uainraerl.-.. Sow) .4 and Forks, lest plat"d g ods 500 !40 ltegina Music Box, 15 1 * inch Disc..6ooo JL THE ABOVE OFFER EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30TH, 1900. A Notion I r l*ln "Star " Tin Tag*(that Is, Star tin tags with no sun U ★ opeciai NOllCe ! BtrH nr i nt frl on Under side of tag), are not pood for prtnentM. A , I II but will Ist paid for in CASH ..n the boats of twenty cents per W hundred, if received by us on or before March Ist, lW ★ HTBEAK IN MINI) ikal > north T i, STAR PLUG TOBACCO ? will iMt Isncer and nflerd more pituora than a dime's warth of any wr 4 oiK,rbrd. MAKE THE TEST I , Sgnd ligi It COVTIVKVT VI. TOBACCO CO., SI. Louis. Mo. y^ , ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★* r|ENSIONW?B3i 3yrs iucivil war. 15 adjudicating claims,atty ainca DROPSY J^^TSKiSs cues Bo >k of testimonials and 10 dura' tieatmeai Free. Dr. H. H. GREEK* SONS. Box B. Atlanta, Oa. $i AA f/a a, (t> | A Invest 910 *o 9100 and I UV (Or 91 U pet9loooforsiuosure; safe as a bank. WM. lIKED, 137 8. 6th St., i'hlla., Pa.