Ayers
20th
Century
Almanac
( Not the ordinary kind)
A handsome yeir-book filed
with beautiful illustrations, and a
complete calendar. It is sold on
all news-stands for 5 cents, and
it's worth five times that amount.
It is a reliable chronology of
the progress of the 19th century
and a prophecy of what may be
expected in the 20th.
Here are a few of the great men who have
written for it:
Secretary Wilson, on Agriculture
Sen. Chauncey M. Depew, on Politics
Russell Sage, on Finance
Thomas Edison, " Electricity
Gen. Merritt, " Land Warfare
Adntl. Hichbom, " Naval Warfare
"Al" Smith, " Sports
You will enjoy reading it now,
and it will be a book of reference
for you through the years to
come. Sixty-four pages, printed
on ivory finish paper.
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Tb First Steps.
Before encouraging children to use
their feet we should look to their
actual strength, not deciding how far
they should be urged to walk by the
actual number of months they have
lived, if a young child once acquires
the art of crawling, it will soon do
more, and try to use Its legs. It will
soon raise itself by the support of a
chair or stool, will then totter up from
one side of it to the other, holding It
self up, and by repeated exercises of
this kind, the limbs will gain the re
quisite power, and the infant will gain
courage to trust to that power; then
to walk alone. However, in beginning
to walk a child must have some assist
ance. This should be given by hold
ing it flrmlv under, not by the arms.
Peculiarity r Snake*.
A snake tamer who had trained a
serpent to follow him around the house
and even out of doors happened one
day to take it with him to a strange
place. The snake, unused to the local
ity, suddenly seemed to forget all his
training, and, escaping into the bushes,
resisted capture with bites and every
Indication of wildness. When caught
It at once resumed its tame habits. The
tendency to become wild immediately
upon obtaining their freedom and to
again become tame when caught is said
to l*e a necullarity of snakes.
Smallnftt PoHtofflce.
California claims to have the small
est poßtoflice in the United States. It
Is located at Virginia, on a beautiful
stretch of road between Kscondido and
San Diego, and consists of an old piano
packing case, in size about seven feet
high, six feet long and five feet wide.
In its front are the locked doors to
five private boxes, in addition to the
general delivery window. No money
order business is transacted there, but
the office has the monopoly of Vir
ginia's stamp trade.
The groat army of Smiths in the
United States is well represented in the
Peerage of England. No less than six
Earls' daughtrs have acquired the sur
name of Smith by marriage.
Dr. Bull's
■ Tho best remedy for
VsOUgn Consumption. Cures
Coughs.Colds,Grippe,
w Vril D Bronchitis, Hoarse-
J r 11 ess. Asthma, Whooping
cough, Croup. Small dosrs ; quick, sure results.
l)r. BullsJ'tllscure ConUipalion, J'rtal, 20 fur^c.
omen- Bo.ilc of testimonial* and 10 days' treatment
Vree. Dr. H. H. GREEN'S BONB. Bos B. Atlanta. Oa.
What do the
Children
Drink ?
Don't give thom tea or coffee.
Have you tried the new food drink
called GRAIN-O ? It is delicious
and nourishing and tak©9 the place
of coffee.
The more Grain-O you give the
children the more health you distrib
ute through their systems.
Grain-O is made of pure grains,
and when properly propared tastes
like the choice grades of coffee but
costs about as much. All grocers
sell it. 15c. and 25c.
Try Grain-O!
Inaiit that your grocer gives 70a ORAIN-O
Accept no imitation.
FIRING LINE ETIQUETTE
WHY SO MANY BRITISH OFFICERS ARE
KILLED IN BATTLE.
Tho Regulations and Traditions Demand
That American and English Command
ers Shall lleiunln Erect and Kxpoeed
-In Continental Annie* Officers Hide.
Continental army officers recently
bave been busy criticising tho British
battle system which ordains that on
the liriug line when the men have
Bought what little shelter the confor
mation of the ground affords the offi
cers shall remain erect and exposed.
The European military critics speak
of this daring habit of the queon's
officers as though tho custom were
confined wholly to the British army.
Many a hard-fought field on the
western frontier and the battles in
Cuba attest that the Amoricau officer
is guided on the field by the same
feeling and the same rule of conduct
that prompts the Englishman to make
of himseli a conspicuous target for
the Boer bullet. To one unacquaint
ed with the field tactios of European
armies the wonder is how an officer
lying prone behind a rock ou the
missile-swept tiring line is able "con
stantly to direct and encourage his
men," as reads the "tactical injunc
tion" to the officers of armies of all
English-speaking people. The major
ity of the officers of the United States
army of middle age and younger,
West Pointers and civilian appointees
alike, received their early soldierly
sustenanco from Emory Upton's Blue
Book. There was no paragraph in
the whole volume, from "the points
of a soldier" to the "evolutions of a
brigade," that was so thoroughly
crammed into the brains of the cudets
in the section-rooms at West Point as
was that which in terse language said
that for the eucouragement and heart
ening of his men it was the duty of
an officer to expose himself at all
times of danger. Tho same rule is
laid down in tho United States army
drill regulations which have recently
succeeded the old tactics of Upton.
.....
The position of a captain on the fir
ing line is ten paces to the rear of the
center of his men, who seek what
shelter they can while the captain
stands erect. An officerof the United
States Army was onoe court-mar
tialed for cowardice because it was said
he sought tho shelter of a tree while
his command was skirmishing with
the enemy. If the American captains
and lieutenants had sought sheltcr
during the preliminary skirmishes be
fore Santiago the British military at
tache on the field never would have liad
the chance to write so sympathetically
in his report of the death of the second
lieutenant of dismounted cavalry who,
whilo his little command was under
the shelter of the rocks, stood erect
watching the enemy through a field
glass. His men begged Uim to lie
down, but he stood there uttering
words of encouragement until a Man
ser bullet gave bim bis death wound.
Had continental firing-liue methods
been followed at ElCaney the same Brit
ish officer attache never could have told
the story of that hot corner of the
field where amid tho flying bullets
Colonel A. B. Chaffee, standing erect
and calmly smoking a cigar, suggested
to the non-combatant Englishman that
be lie down. "A bit of advice I no
ticed," afterward wrote the military
attaohe,J"thatJ tho imperturbable col
onel did not deign to follow himself."
Down in tho mountainous and desert
Apache conntry in the year 1885 Pow
hatan H. Clarke, a Louisiana lad just
out of West Point, rode at the head of
twelve blaok troopers of the Teulh
Cavalry into a narrow, rocky defile.
There had been no sign of an Indian.
When well into the gorge from the
rocks in front, behind aud above came
a shower of bullets. The enemy was
invisible. With enrbines unslung,
the little baud of troopers made its
way back to the open. The first ser
geant, shot through both thighs, drop
ping from his mount just as the en
trance to the defile was reached.
Clarke led hiH men at a dead run for a
distance of 150 yards. Then they
were dismounted and thrown into a
skirmish line. The trained horses lay
down upon the desert sand and tho
men used them as shelter, Clarke,
however, standing erect in the centre
of the line. The instant that the
lieutenant had dismounted and given
the order for deploying the men, with
straining eyes, saw him ou ;foot dart
forward along tho path over which
they had just come. He was running
like a deer straight for the gateway of
the gorge. His troopers as one man
started to follow him, but he wnOd
them back to their shelter and kept
on. Clarke's pathway toward the de
file was marked out all the way with
spiteful little sand puffs as the bullets
from the rifles of-tlio hidden savages
pattered about him. He reached the
objective point uninjured. Once there
he lifted the wounded black sergeant
to his shoulder and staggered back
across the 150 yards of open to his
command. Tho way back was made
through a perfect fusillade. The escape
from injury was a marvel. For this
deed Powhattan H. Clarke afterward
wore the coveted medal of honor, and
he wore it pinned on his blouse when
six years afterward he met his death
in the Northwest in the sight of the
samo troopers whom he had led in
Arizona,
General Nelson A. Miies would not
be wearing his medal of honor to-day
if he had followed out the plan which
the officer critios of the continental
armies declare to be the proper one
for the English officers in South Af
rica. In the early part of May, 1863,
the general, then colonel of the Sixty
first New York Volunteers, was in
command of skirmishers. A line of
abattis had been built, and the New
Yorkers, with their Massachusetts
i
commander, were behind it holding
off a horde of the enemy. Things
were getting warm for the federal |
force. In order to encourage his men
Miles kept jumping on to the abattis,
thus making of himself the only hn
man mark which the enemy could see.
Miles ran along the abattis inspiring
his men by bis voice. Ho simply was
following out the instructions which
every American army officer receives.
Miles fell finally, so badly wounded
that for a long time it was thought he
could not recover. 1
• • • • •
In the late '7os, during the ca.tr-'
paign against the Nez Pcrces, it be-'
came necessary in order to dislodge
the Indians to send some troops up
the shelving side of a mountain that
was utterly without cover and was
slippery with ice. It looked like cer
tain death for all the command en
gaged. Before the start was made
Lieutenant Frauk D. Baldwin, a staff
officer, volunteered, in order to put
heart into the men, to go up the icy
incline alone to show tho command
that it could be done. He started, 1
and the savages opened on bim from
every crag aud peak. The men did
not let him get far before they were
following in his footsteps, but the
whole savage fire centered on Bald
win. That impalpable protecting arm
which seems sometiws to be thrown
around heroes saved ; -n. He would
bave boen given a raedm of honor had
not ono already been pinned on his I
blonse just outside a pocket which
contained a certificate of merit for
personal gallantry ou the battlefield.
The examples given nre few. The
rule is general and is always followed.
It may be that the military critics of
the continent must find some recipe
for changing the Anglo-Saxon charac- (
ter before they cauliopo to change the
methods of American and British offi
oors on the battlefield.—Edward B.
Clark, in Chicago Times-Herald.
CURIOUS FACTS.
The Denmark dykes have stood the
storms of more than seven centuries.
No poet except Shakespeare ever 1
alluded to the lamb as an article oi
food.
It is no unusual thing for a vessel |
plying botweon Japan and London tc ;
carry 1,C00,000 fans as a single item
of its cargo.
There is a mound on the banks ol
Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio,
which represents a serpent in the act
of swallowing an egg.
A peasant called Makaroff, wbc
alleges that be is the Messiah, has!
made his appearance in the Bussian
province of Samara, ou the Volga. I
A scientist has calculated that the
eyelids of the average man open and
shut no fewer than 1,000,000 times in 1
the course of a single year of his ex- :
istence.
The biggest redwood stump in the
world is located twelve miles from
San Francisco. It is 144 feet around
the base and forty-five feet in
diameter.
A New Brunswick (N. J.) burglar, I
being unable to secure any money in u '
house he broke into, accepted a small
check in lieu thereof from the owner
of the premises.
The reading of romance is for
bidden by the Koran, hence popular
tales are never put in writing among
Mohammedans, but are passed from
one story teller to another.
The athletes of Greece in ancient
times, when training for physical con
tests, were fod on new cheese, figs
and boiled grain. Their drink was
warm water, aud they wero not allowed
to eat meat.
A Georgia convict, working with
others in a contractor's brickyard,
escaped by piling bricks in a hollow
square, aud thus shutting himself in
until the couvicts had been locked up
for the night.
A philosophical statistician calcu
lates that in the year 2000 there will,
be 1,700,000,000 peoplo who speak
English, and that the other European
languages will be spoken by only
500,000,000 people,
Among many of the tribes of the '
interior of Luzon it is considered
saorilegious to disturb the earth, for
which reason they bave not them
selves dug for gold and have pre
vented others from so doing.
One of the masterpieces of musical
docks has just been completed for the
Emperor of China, in whose palace,
besides pointing out the correct
time, it will play Belsctions with a
fully equipped automatic orchestra.
Professor Schiaparelli declared in n
reoent lecture that the Turin museum
contained fully 10,000 papyrus frag
ments that have not yet been pub
lished. Tils, jf include a literary
anthology, aud belong to the nine
teenth and twentieth dynasties.
Workmen while razing an old house
on a farm owned by Mrs. Jane Wright,
in the village of Greene, Me., found a
pewter cup upon which are the figures
"1382." The year in which the house
was built is not known, but the barn
on the same farm was constructed in
the "forties."
Nftw Words For Old Tiling;*.
The young woman whose vootbulary
is mostly adverbs and adjectives—we
have all met her, or her sister—was
with an excursion party on the Poto
mac Biver. The Washington Post
treasures a fragment of her conversa
tion:
"This is Alexandria we're coming
to now," said Margaret. "Ton must
go over there before you go away."
"What is there to see?" asked tha
young man.
"Oh," said Margaret, "there's an 1
old graveyard there—the funniest old
place yon ever saw, with just a lot of
the cutest old gravestones in it. It's
just perfectly grand!"
'EDUCATION FOR MODERN BUSINESS.
Address by President lladley. of l'als
University.
I President Arthur T. Hadley, of
Yale University, recently responded
to the toast, "Education (or Modern
Business Itespousibilities." He said
in part: "The two previous speakers
have told you better than I can do
your greatness and the greatness ot
your responsibilities. It is for me to
suggest how in the future men may
.be tried who shall fill worthily tho
| places that you now occupy. It is
' oue of the interesting things to any
' one who looks at the catalogues of the
colleges of the country to see how
they are becoming each year, more
aud more, the educators of business
men. A generation agu the great ma
jority of college graduates went iuto
professions. To-day a large part of
them go into commercial life. There
are two reasons for this. In the first
place, a great many of the men who
go to college to-day without having
any other idea thau of making the
most of their life find that the busi
ness opportunity and business re
sponsibilities of the present genera
tion are so large that there is no ob
ject of their ambition so worthy as
business success. And, on the other
hand, a great many men, who intend
from tho first to go into business, find
the responsibilities of business
so difficult, the vastness of
its problems so great that they
I prefer to take many years
instead of few in preparing themselves
for these responsibilities. The com
bination of these two things has
j brought our colleges iuto closer con
nection with thewoild of commerce at
'present thau they ever were iu the
past. Aud now the question comes up
how shall they fulfill, how shall the
| colleges fulfill the new duties which
' are laid upon them by the necessity
|of preparation for this wide worth?
Now, to begin with, it is very easy to
say what they shall notdo. They can
not do their work by undertaking to
instruct the boys in the details of what
they will find it necessary to do in the
\ office. If they learu these details
from books they would have to learu
them over again, to unlearn all they
' had learned and loam them better
from the experience of practical life.
| "That education is best and high
; est which most fully brings home to
J the boy by illustrations of history, by
j inspirations of literature, by the teach
ings of the every-day life of the pres
ent time, that none of us liveth for
himself; that possession means power,
j and that power means duty. (Ap-
I plause.)
I "Whatever form the education of the
next generation may take—aud there
I are many unsettled questions before
I the woik of our colleges—of this oue
thing we may bo sure: They will and
they must educate men to take your
places who will have from the begin
| uiug the conception to which you have
uttaiued in your business life of busi
ness success as a trust, of power and
influence in the country us a duty to
the country and to God." (Ap
plause.)
I WORDS OF WISDOM.
I A little snake is as apt to bite as a big
oue.
The busy man never finds the day
too long.
Character is determined by what
we say no to.
Love is bliud, but vain regret has
good eyesight.
The man can never do what the boy
.might have done.
Many of the world's best gold mines
j have not yet been found.
All philosophy is a failure when tho
philosopher has the toothache.
Too much cars has kept more thau
oue house-plant from becoming a tree.
The goose that lays the golden egg
generally belougs to a fool who kills
it.
If every horse with a fault were
| knocked in the head, nobody would
, ride.
The more poetry a man has iu lira,
the more it tries him to put up stove
] Ppe.
When the schoolhouses are brought
, nearer together,the jails will bo farther
apart.
Every man of character makes un
written laws that others have to live
up to.
No man fails from lack of talent.
Tho thing that floors him is lack of
purpose.
Every man ought to give the man
who follows him a safe path iu which
to travel.
Women jump at conclusions, but
the philosopher gets there on his hands
aud knees.
Wherevor gold has value, brass will
be found shining up and trying to
look like it.
When a man is starving it is a waste
of breath to talk to him about the
chemistry of bread.
Whenever great men have come to
the front, they have come from the
smoke of battle somewhero.
Going to tho bad begins in short
steps.—Ram's Horn Brown, in Indian
apolis News.
Boston Boy's Bottled Wrath.
"You tallow-faced slob!" snarled
the bad boy of the neighborhood.
"For two cents I'd break yer face!"
"I shall go and consult the loxioons
in reference to that word 'slob,' " re
sponded the other, a little boy from
Boston, wrathful, but self-possessed,
"aud if it has an opprobrious significa
tion I will return and chastise you."—
Chicago Tribune.
Ail Icelandic Club.
A woman's club in Iceland, known
as the Thorvaldsen Society, look?
after the poor, keeps up a sewing
school, visits the hospital and carries
on various philanthropic enterprises.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Blake Excellent Cleaning Material.
Every one knows that soft bread
crumbs make an excellent cleaning
material for soiled wall papers, bat it
is not so generally known that pic
tares may be cleansed in the sama
way. Professor Church, of Loudon,
to whom has been intrusted the clean
ing of the pictures in the Houses of
Parliament, has invented an instru
ment to blow upou the soiled pictures
a perfect cloud of bread crumbs. This
is said to be the most effective way of
removing the soot and dirt.
Flower Vale, for the Table.
The day of heavy floral decoration
of massed green and ribbon bows has
passed, and simplicity is now the de
sirable effect. The flowers which
decorate the table are now arranged
in tall, slender Bohemian glass vases,
extremely effeotive in shaded green
aud pink. Two of these vases are
placed at either end of the table, and
are charmingly filled with long
stemmed pink rosebuds or pink
tulips. To complete this arrange
ment, in the centre of the table is a
low jardiuiero of pink Bohemian glass,
made with an adjustable zinc lining,
filled with moss, and overgrown with
the delicately colored and sweet
scented sweet peas, or a waving mass
of pink poppies shading to deep red.
For special occasions, when elabo
rate decorations are desired, there
may be used garlands of the princess
evergreen festooned about the table,
giving a charming effect against the
white cloth, and if one lives near
where it grows the dining-room may
be trimmed with it also.
Arrangement of tlio Ulniiic-Itoom.
AVomeu who nre the delighted pos
sessors of large, low-ceiliuged dining
rooms, old oak furniture and precious
china are the envy of their less for
tunate sisters. A parlor never appeals
to a woman as a dining-room does.
She is always concocting some scheme
by which her dining-room can be
made more homelike. As the dining
room is frequently the liviug room
also, it should receive all possible
care. If it is fairly large, has a hard
wood floor and a deep window or two,
it may be made a thing of beauty.
The floors should be polished or
waxed, preferably dark, aud strewn
with a bright rug or two. The furni
ture should match the floor, although
a lounge and chairs upholstered in
blue and white cretonne are desirable
for comfort and cheer. The lounge
must be broad and low, with several
durable pillows.
Wallpaper in Delft blue is most ef
fective, although the color scheme
may call for a different style. In the
windows have a few growing plants.
Let them be vivid greens and reds.
They add much to the cheeriness of a
room. One or two carefully chosen
pictures may hang on the walls. Their
choice is apt to be a nerve-racking
operation unless the housewife has
confidence in her good taste. Copies
of fruit pictures, game and fish are
permitted and an old family portrait
in oils. If one is in doubt about pic
tures the walls may be covered with
Delft and Spode ware or even less pre
tentious china, strung on wires and
arranged iu rows on hanging shelves.
The sideboard is spread with fringed
damask doilies, and set with tlietreas
ured silverware and cut glass. In
the china closet—one with swinging
doors and dark velvet linings—is dis
played the choice china. The contents
must be arranged with care. Do not
place together the heavier and daint
ier wares, but grade them gently, so
as to give the best effects. Between
meals the table should be spread with
a blue and white denim cover, set with
the fern-dish. This adds a home-like
touch to the room and destroys the
formality which a set table gives.
Keel pes.
KNUCKLE OF VEAL WITH RICE. —Boil
a knuckle of veal, two turnips, one
onion, six peppercorns, a head of
celery and a cupful of rice together
very gontly for about three hours,
skimming occasionally and adding a
little salt. Serve with a border of
rice. Save the stock in which the
veal was boiled for soup.
MOULDED BREAD PUDDING.—But
ter a border mould. Sprinkle over
with currants. Nearly fill the mould
with stale bread crumbs. Beat four
eggs a little; pour over them one pint
of milk, and add three-quarters of a
cupful of sugar and one teaspoonful
of vanila extract. Pour this over the
bread crumbs and bake in a moderate
oven thirty minutes. Let cool. Turn
out on a platter. Serve with a fruit
sauce or cream.
RICE GRIDDLECAKES. —Take two
cupfuls of flour, one cupful of cooked
rice, two and one-half cupfuls of milk,
one teaspoonful of bakiug powder,
three eggs and salt. Beat the white
and tho yolks of the eggs separately.
To the yolks add the rice aud the
milk, and after these have been stirred
together add tho flour and the bakiug
powder. Finally, beat iu the whites
of tho eggs aud the salt.
SPAGHETTI BALLS. —One piut of
boiled spaghetti (that which is left
over will do nicely). Chop into bits
a half-inch long aud mix with a half
cupful of thick cream sauce, seasoned
with a haiC teaspoonful of salt aud a
saltspoonfnl of paprika. Add a table
spoonful of grated cream cheese and a
pinch of pulverized summer savoy.
Make iuto balls, roll in grated cheese
and fry in deep fat. Place the
chickeu on a heated platter, surround
with tho spaghetti balls, garuish with
parsley and serve hot.
An Unfortunate Recollection.
"Whom did you marry, Billy?"
•'A Miss Jones, of Philadelphia."
"You always did liko the uame
•.Tones;' you used to tag round after a
little snub-nosed Jones girl whou we
I Went to school together."
I "i'es; she's the girl I married.**
If we consult the Encyclopedia for information
about soap, we find in it this statement:
"The manufacturer of toilet soap generally takes care to present
his wares in convenient form and of agreeable appearance and
smell; the more weighty duty of having them free from uncombined
alkali is in many cases entirely overlooked."
The authority is good, the statement is undoubted
ly true, and careful people realize more and more that it
is best to buy only an old-established brand like the
"Ivory." A brand that they know is pure and harmless.
IVORY SOAP—99">Too PER CENT. PURE.
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*l6 Base Ball, "Association," best qual.lot; laid 2000
17 T • • 4 1&0 36 Mandolin, very handsome. 2000
17 81* Genuine Rogers'teaspoons, best w . ■■
plated goods 150 36 Winchester Repeating Shot Gun,
*lB Watch, nickel, stem wind and'smV. 300 1 12 2000 k
19 Carvers, good steel, buckhorn 37 Remington, double-barrel, ham
handle.* 300 iner Shot Gun, 10 or 13 gauge 2000
IlLftuViS' R "f m ' Tahto spoon., ! .• Btrjrcl., make, I,U™ or A
11 J l '"'", ' „ 30
★ horn handles "50 s " ot Romlngton, double bar
-33 Six each, Genuine Rogers' Knives | rel, hammer less 3000
and Forks, best plated goods. 600 ! 40 Kegina Music Box, l&S, inch Disc ..6000
THE ABOVE OFFER EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30TH, 1900. k
Rllßpial Nntipß ' " Ntar ' 'Tin Tags (that is. Star tin tags with no simll
A opouidl leUIILt) . atttrs printed on under side of tag), are not iiond for nrrxrntm k
"W" = but will be paid for in CASH on the basis of twenty cents per
hundred. If received by tie on or before March Ist. 19tHt.
★ IW-BKAK IN MI Nil that u dime's worth ol
STAR PLUG TOBACCO ?
W will lust longer and aflord more pleasure Chan a dime's worth oi any MF
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LIVJNG ON THE WATER.
ftomo Families Spend Their Tliue on
Their Anchored Yachts.
A wet sheet and a flowing sea has
nothing whatever to do with life (
aboard a yacht, as exemplified in the j
Bay Ridge Yacht Basin, in South 1
Brooklyn, says the New York Herald. !
There s. re five or six yachts there, one !
of them a roomy schooner craft, which
for various reasons are not in commis- |
sion this summer. Nevertheless the j
owners and their families or their j
friends live and sleep on board. On
one sloop arc five young men, who go j
to a skyscraper building in Nassau i
street every morning and take out j
two or three vivacious typewriter j
girls when work ia over to make j
the evenings merry. They rented !
the boat on condition that they ;
would not take her outside the j
basin, and hired a retired sea cap- ;
tain, who lives near the basin, to I
look after the boat during the day I
and to "mess" for them. They find it 1
cheaper than paying board in the city, |
and ever so much pleasanter. Three
families wintered on yachts in the Bay ;
Ridge basin last winter, and they en
joyed the experiment so much that I
they talk of trying it again. The bliz- j
..ard and the rough weather had no
terrors for them. One sloop, the Peri, j
was housed above decks very much like I
those in the tales we read about Arc
tic expeditions. The families who lived j
in this way were on terms of sociabil- j
ity and visited every night for games
and cards. They gave a boat party
in January, and their friends in
Brooklyn who are given to assisting
at social entertainments, joined them i
in a modest little vaudeville. When !
the basin was frozen solid one night j
they gave a skating party, with a pip- |
ing hot supper below decks as a wind \
up. There are still novelties about for j
persons who know where to look for
them.
Attention is called to the very useful ]
articles contained in the premium list of the J
Continental Tobacco Co.'h advertisement of j
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 best
list ever Issued by the Star Tobacco.
Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the j
most obhtinate coughe. Rev. I). BirciiMUKL
LKit. Lexington, Mo., February M, 1894.
flow's This ?
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my ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Wo, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che
ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per
; fectly honorable in all business transaction*
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tion made by their firm.
West & Tiiuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
I 'Ohio.
! Walding, K innAN A- Makvin, Wholesale
| Druggists. Toledo, Ohio.
' Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
: faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
1 Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by alt Druggists,
j Hall's Family Pills are tb.- best.
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