SHE SMILED AT ME. She smiled at rae, as I passed her by, With a smile half-impudent, half-shy, And I turned and saw her twinkling 'eye—. She smiled at me. She smiled at rae and her eyes wore briKhtj They danced and twinkled with pure de light, And I carried the smile from noon till night- She smiled at me. 'Twasnone of your bold, impertinent smiles Thafspeak of a willful woman's wiles, But the sunny smile that a heart beguiles— She smiled at me. Aud ail through the day, in memory Her smile and its dimple I still could see. It brightened my dally drudgery— She smiled at me. That night, when my coat on a chair I laid, Pinned to the tail was a card, which prayed: "Please Kick Me Hard." That's why the muid Had smiled at me. —Baltimore American. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The first umbrella appeared in 1777. The last one disappeared about forty minutes after wo bought it. —Elliott's Magazine. The Physician—"You have a coat | on your tongue.'* The Colonel—"I sincerely hope it is a mackintosh."— Indianapolis Journal. 'Tis folly to bo wise, because— Such boomerangs are nature's laws— I The sage may win encomium, But people dodge who see him come. —Chioago Record. , Cleverton—"When you told her f father you loved her did he show much feeling?" Daaliaway—"Oh, yes. I don't know when I have been so moved!"— Life. "This goes against the grain," mur mured the college youth who had re turned home to the old lav in, and j whose stern parent had put him to j work, in the cornfield. An Irish poacher up before a mag istrate made this defence: "Indade, your worship, the only bird I shot ' was a rabbit; and I knocked that down with a stick."—Tit-Bits. There was a young man in the choir, Whose voice rose up hoir and holr, Till so high did it soar, You could bear it no moar, And 'twas found next day* on the spoir. —Chicago News. Mrs. Murphy—"Oi say, Pat, what would yez do if the ould house would tumble on yez and crush yez to ' death?" Her Husband—"Faith, an' Oi'd fly for me loife."—Ohio State Journal. "There is always something frigid to rae about the atmosphere of a bank," said De Yere. "Well, that is prob ably because they always deal in cold cash there," observed Handy.—Phila delphia North American. "Gentlemen, 1 his is one of the most dangerous experiments known to science. The slightest mishap and the experimenter will be blown to I will now step into the closet while my assistant performs the ex periment."—Princeton Tiger. "Yes, I want a salesman," said the manager of the store, "but you are too old. If you were twenty-five years younger I would give you the place iu a minute." "Shall I come again," asked tho gray-haired applicant, "when I am in my second childhood?" —Chicago Tribune. "So you were bound and gagged by bandits while in Italy, were you?" asked the garrulous person. "Kegu lar comic opera bandits, eh?" "No, sir," said the traveler; "there was nothing of the comic opera stylo about them. The gags they used were all new."—Cincinnati Enquirer. "I must send them all circulars," exclaimed the man who was addressed by his acquaintances as professor. "Those men who have testified in tho investigation ought to know about me." "Whatj business are. you in?" "I have a new system of memory training."—Washington Post. Proud Father—"My old father, I called to see if you couldn't make a place for my son iu your establish ment. He has just graduated with high honors." Old Friend—"My dear old boy, nothing would please me better. Tell him to call around in two years."—New York Weekly. I'iillroadH in Afiicu. On the day the Boers declared war there were in operation in Africa nearly 12,000 miles of railroad. At the end of 1890 the mileage for the entire continent was only 5813 miles. In the past eight years it lias more than doubled, 5972 miles of new roads having been put into operation. Soma of these roads are now being extended, work has begun on a few new enter prises, and these extensions and new lines, for whose completion financial arrangements have been made, will add about 2500 miles to the total. Then there are other projects, such as the German road to Tanganyika, the French road from Algeria to the Sou dan, and the Belgian road from the Congo to t.'ie Nile, all Government schemes and not yet under way. It is probably a conservative estimate to say that the eDd of the next decade will see 25,000 miles of railroad in operation. Conmimptlon in France. In a report to the State Depart, ment the United States Consul at Lyons says of the ravages of con sumption in France each year: "For every six persons in this country at least one dies of consumption. Of the 850,000 deaths that ocour every year in France over 140,000 are caused by pulmonary tuberculosis or phthisis, and this number, instead of decreasing, goes on augmenting every year. Hardly a family but pays to it a sad tribute. No disease, no soourge, can be compared to tuberculosis, so far as the number of the victims is concerned. All epidemios and con tagious diseases combined—typhoid, varioloid, scarlatina, measles, diph theria, cholera, etc. —do not caus* balf as many deaths." wßk. I ( fJcr A wfw- V W4 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. Fre- from grease or alkalies; Ivory Soap their want supplies. OOPYRIQHT 1098 BY THE PROCTER . GAMBLE 00. OINCINNAH ODD ENGINEERING. Water, Taken from the Pacific, Sent to ' Atlantic Ocean. 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 Rooky mountains, and now. after being used for irriga-! 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 waters of the Poudro. Some 400 cubic feet per second has thus been diverted from the Pacific to the Atlantic slope, where the water is used 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 amount 6 to the same tl^ng. lllrthplnce of 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 oable between Europe and America. 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 "My mother was troubled | with consumption for many a years. At last she was given f up to die. A neighbor told her l not to give up but try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. She did so and was speedily cured, and is now in the enjoyment of good health." D. P. Jolly, Feb. 2, 1899. Avoca, N. Y. 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 jou are coughing today, don t wait until tomorrow, but get a bottle of Cherry Pec toral at once and be relieved. It strengthens weak lungs. Three site*: 16c.. enough for on ordinary, cold; 60c., Just right for asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness, whooping-cough, hard colds; f 1.00. most economics! for chronlo cases and to k<r an hand. Kxploratlons In Patagonia. I In tha current number of the Geo | graphical Journal Dr. Moreno gives an i account of Patagonia, which is a por tion of that vast area in South Amer -1 ica still unknown to geography, and | interesting because of the rich prod j ucts, which it probably contains, and j its charming landscapes. It seems thai ! Patagonia does not merit the bad repu | tation as regards scenery which it haw j had since Darwin and Fitzroy received j a disagreeable impression from the 1 portion they explored. The plateaus | of Arizona find their analogy in the j table lands of Patagonia, and "the pic j turesque fjords and white mountains of : Alaska seem to be a copy of the fjords I and mountains of Patagonia." The I analogy might be pushed even further, j for it seems there is a strange similar j ity between the ancient customs and i industries of the Alaskan and Pata | gonian Indians. Save flic IViekola. From saving, comes having. Ask your grocer how you can save 15c by investing sc. Ho can tell you just how you can get one large 10c packago of "Red Cross" starch, one largo 10c package of "Eubin ger's Best" starch, with the premiums, two beautiful Shakespeare panels, prlnl iil in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all for sc. Ask yout grocer for this starch and obtain those beautiful Christmas presents free. " Test-Drinking In Russia. j The Russians drink enormous quan | titles of tea, sufficient to frighten any ! Englishman or American. The poor , people—and the Russian people are i 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 e?se, is consumed by | the Russian workintfman at the aver j age rate of about twenty stakans (or | tumblers) a day, the Russian stakan ; being quite equal to flyt of the little j thimbles of cups used in America at I afternoon teas. Taking Llto considera- I tion that black, sour or fitter, brick . like bread, raw onions, gurlic, dried leather-fish and strongly s.\lted herr ings are usually the chief articles of food of the people at large, vMie must not wonder at the enormous v~ty of hot tea needed to quench ,\ Rus sian's thirst and help on his dig estion. No Rocking Lullaby. Strange at it may seem, the ti.nc- I honored custom of rocking babies \o sleep is a bad one. It is injurious \ | the children themselves, and is a causv 1 eventually of much unnecessary trouble to their guardians. Mothers should therefore see to it that from the j 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 ia likely to i suffer from Insomnia. Rocking may j save immediate trouble to a lazy nurße I or mother by inducing 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 j aids to induce slumber. There 1B more Catarrh In this section of tha country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be inourable. For a great many years doctore nrononnoed it a local disease and prescribed looal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Science has proven catarrh to bo a constitutional disease and therefore require! constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney 6c Co., Toledo, Ohio, is tiie only constitutional cure on th market. It is taken luterually in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonfu). It acta direotW on tha Mood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It falls to oure. Send for circulars and teeti i monlalo. Address F.J. CsnMßTdt Co-.Tolett®, O. METAMORPHOSIS OF ITALIANS Contrast of Newly Arrived Immigrants and Their Americanized Relations. There waa a meeting outside the barge office. A batch of Immigrants had come in, and Giulla and her man were In waiting to receive some new ly arrived relatives. Giulia was brave in her finest and most gorgeous rai ment, combining a reckless love of bright colors with an ardent desire to 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 tle wife cheerfully made up for all ho lacked. Shrill cries of "Ecco! Ecco!" turned the dull eyes of three persons in their direction, and, extricating themselves from the excited crowd, they withdrew to contemplate each other 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 Giulia's startling headgear. They wore huge, roughly cobbled boats, 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. I.ik<- Binding Ifloiley. The use of the Endless Chain Staroh Hook in the purchase of "Red Cross" mid ''Hubluger's Bast" starch, makes it just like finding money. Why, for only 5c you aro enabled to got one large 10c package of "Red Cross" starch, one largo 10c pack- j age of "Hubingor's Best" s.'yrch. with the ' premiums, two Shakespeare panels, print- : ed in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twen- , Ueth Century Girl Calendar, embossed In , gold. Ask your grocer lor this starch and j obtain the beautiful Christmas presents tree President Krugor's Father. The hitter 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 1526. 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 by Kruger and his associates as an un dying insult. TCua^fviuF Cui as Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick, sure results. Refuse substitutes. Dr. Bull's Pills cure Biliousness. T> ial, 20 joy Try Crain-oT I Try Craiei-Q! j Afik your Grocer to-day to show jl you a package of GRAIN-O, the now & food drink that takes the place of K coffee. The children may drink it without ■ injury as well as tlio adult. All who B j try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that ■ ' rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, B ( but it is mado from pure grains, and B I the most delicate stomach receives it w without distress. the price of coffee. 1 15 cents and 25 cents per package. j Sold by all grocers. Tastes like CofTeo Looks like CofTeo Insist that your grocer gives yon GRAIN-O Accept no imitation. ICHRISTMAS PRESENTS! ♦ GIVEN ' AWAY. • | The flrat flvo persons procuring the EndleM Chain Ntarch Book from their grocer will eaoh obtain one large 100 package of "Rod Crown" starch, one large 10c package of "Hubinger'a Best" Starch, two Shakespeare panels, printed In twelve beautiful colors, as natural as life, or one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, the finest of Its kind ever printed, all absolutely free. All others procuring the Endless Chain Starch Book, will obtain fron; their grooer 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 nil others. It has won for itself praise from all 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 oorn, and chemically prepared upon scientific principles by J. c. Hiibingcr, | Kesknk, lowa, an expert in the laundry profession, who hns bad twenty-five years' practical experience in fancy laundering, and who was the first successful and original Inventor of all fine grades of starch in the United States. Ask your grocers for this Btaroh aad obtain those beautiful Christmas presents free. Kidneys, and BowelsMMt^b GleaNsE 5 v OVERCOM ES QjflSTI •BUY-THE GENUINE- MAN'FD-BY v0 0 FRANC/<SCc> YoJ K V. * C -A L.4 - f-vj ► I The Crying Need. i Wireless telegraphy, horseless car ! riages and chainless bicycles are all | very well in their way, but what the world really yearns for is a noiseless baby. Attention is called to the very useful articles contained in tho premium list of the 1 Continental Tobacco Co.s 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 tho best ! list ever issued by the Star Tobacco. I VITALITY low, debilitated or<'xhaustel euro;! ; by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Fit in; $1 trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. K1 ne, | Ld„ SKII Arch St., Philadelphia. Founded 1871. j Ptoo's Cnre for Consumption has saved mn many a doctor's bill. S. F. Jl.ntoy, Hopkins , Place, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2, 181)1, $JjA Hfautifui colored cat. PARLOR or BANQUET Wt MARK THE I.AHTS, P > t,SbU r2 GUSS CO., TOU BUY DIRECT. ' I'lttsburg, Pa. P. K. U. 5) 'yj nf? I Iks ffit-efS) Hsi Wb S\ !■;. DRGPSYS=I^ Sl9 } ooo by heir- of the late A'.thmiv Polluli.Esq.. for best & ■ wW Of 5 I M Ket *louo for fi< >• Mire; luurin HP life-raving appliance we nm lurniMi MHI *ftfe nsabaek. Wll. REED, 13. B.6th Sr..l'nila., i'a. iMforinmion. H ASOS, I JISWK K & L.UV- ARRSLB'S 00U GH hKS3£KIU.U $ a# ikifriK •&•ikikjk-k'£■< kk k 1 tor k3 I AH"ms * ★ "Star" tiu trigs (showing small stars printed on nuder side A^ of tag), '• Horso Shoe," "J. T.," " Good Luck," 11 Gross Bow," "Jwf ★ and "Drummond " Natural Leaf Tin Tags are of equal value in JL securing presents mentioned below, and may be assorted. ★ Every man, woman and child can tind something on the list A that they would, like to have, and can have JEF 3 3E$/ JSE£ 3ES • *1 Match Bo* 36 '23 Clock, 8-day, Calendar, Thertnom- * 2 Kn fe, one blade. Rood steel 25 eter. Barometer 600 8 HrPsors, 4ki inches 25 j 24 Gun case, leather, no hotter made. 600 *4 Child'- Set, Knife. Fork and Spoon 26 126 Revolver, automatic, double action, . 6 Salt and Pepper Set. one each, quad- 82 or 88 caliber. 800 A ruple plate on wbii. metal 60 I 26 Tool Set, not playthings, but real *6 French Briar Wood Pipe .86 tool* 860 7 Raz<>r, hollow ground, fine English ! 27 Toilet Sot decorated porcelain, A a'***' 6o | very handsome noo "^y 8 Butter Knife, triple plate, beat 28 Remington Rifle No. 4. 22 or 38 cal. 800 * quality 80 j2V Watch, sterling silver,full jewelet 1 000 A f Sngsr Shell, triple plate, beet qual.. 00 I 30 Dreen Suit Case, leather, handsome wAr 10 Stamp Box. sterling silver 70 and durable 1000 ★ H Knife, "Keen Kutter," two blades.. 76 i3l Sewing Machine, first class, with 12 Butcher Knife. "Kee* Kutter." 8-in | all attachments 1500 Jw '••••• 75 *3 Revolver, Colt's, blued W ★l3 Khears, "Keen Kutter." 8-incn 76, steel. 1600 . 14 Kut Met. (hacker and 6 Picas, silver '33 Rifle, Colt's, 16-ahot .SU -callber. .1600 „ pl*ted... so 34 Qtiltar (Washburn;, rosewood, in -16 Base Mall, "Association," best qual. 100 laid 2000 ■' * Te .Z -•• auw -Ar i luted goods 150 36 Winchester Repeating Hhot Gun, *lB Wa'ofi. nickel, stem wind and set.. 200 B* U R 8000 19 Ca-vcrs, good steel, buckliorn 37 Remington, double-barrel, ham- '^■ r J! n 200 uier Shot Gun. 10or 13 gauge MOO r\ * r ":. T - bl *. B .r n .v j, ~ + 21 Si* each. Knives and Forks, buA g 8600 ★ horn handles.. . . 860 39 Shot Ghm. Remington, double bar -22 Blx each. Genuine Rogers' Knives rel, hamraerle** 3000 _^k and Forks, best plated goods 600 I 40 Regina Music Bo*, 1610 inch Diso. .6000 JL THE ABOVE OFFER EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30TH. 1900. 1 ★ SOBCIfII Nntipfl ' " Tin Tags (that is. Star tin tars with no sm >ll opuoidl nUULB . Btan , nrJnted on under side of la*). are not I,WI e™, A ——; but will le paid for in CASH on the basis of twenty cents per hundred, if received by ns on -r before Ma ch lit. Rum. w.my cams per JL fDiiAit I.N MIND that a dime's wertli of 2 STAR PLUG TOBACCO ? •yf will lo.t long.r and afford more plra.nr. than a .ilair'. worth of an, wA . otßrr biaad. MAKETHETEBTI . ygj Send tags to COVTIMEHITAL TOBACCO CO.. 81. Louts. Mo. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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