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."
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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.
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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
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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,
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