# best that Money and 25° Experience can produce. At all stores, or by mail for the price. HALL & RUCKEL, New YORK SPEED! A high-grade tire, to be worthy of its name, should posse virtues — speed, easy riding qualities, ability to wear, ease of repair. G & J Tires have all these virtues. When punctured, ke off the outer cover, re- ir the inner tube and go on your way in a jiffy So simple a child can do it. Catalogue freey G&lJ TIRE COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. R.OO oie er the BUYS hest made Lb. Platform Scales ger Sold. Well made. LAST A LIFE TIME. FULL Platform. Catalogue free. ES (HE PAVS THF HT). BINGHAMTON, °PISO'S. CURE FOR 4 CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS, 8 Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use peg + time. Sold by druggists. i NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures wors$ | BR days’ treatmens | H f testimonials and 10 I. X. GREEN'S BONS, Box B, Atlanta, Ga, Re ever description ee pe H isfaction Guarantee X o for prices JESSE MARDEN 5 129 §. Charles St., BALTIMORE, MD. ednl nt Buiinlo Expositiog. ENNY’S TABA sz Jn THis |T PAYS ISN U 5L ith SO Thompson's Eye Water Saw such ou know the ie a piece of meat za's frock and that’s ogs after her when she he blocks of ice. Well, 1 think this dog demanded?” magine.” rhouse beefsteak, sir, erloin left in! Yes, sir. And you couldn't fool uldn't chase Eliza a foot unless leat was a choice cut. No, sir. , by gum, sir, our company had to ive on liver and bacon so that blamed dog could have his steak. Yes, sir.” “The demand was too much for you, was it?” “No, it wasn't. That is it wasn't un- til he began to insist upon mushrooms with his steak. Then we just threw up ur hands and quit.” and with How's him. br 7 2 Dramatic Criticism. Two young men sat through the first act at a local theater, then adjourned to a neighboring tavern for refreshments, The acting was bad and would have ex- cused the use of stimulants by any but the players. When about to re-enter the building only one could produce his re- turn ‘check. “It’s all right,” said he of the check airily. “You remember him. He's with me.” “Yes” answered the gatckeeper, more doubtful than polite, “but he may have given his check to some other person. “But he didn't,” was the convincing reply. “He's a stranger here and hasn't an enemy in the city.” The gate opened wide. Against All Precedent. Percy Vere—I still think there is hope for me; although she said “no,” she was very sympathetic. Jack Newitt—My dear boy, that’s the end of you. No woman ever marries the man whom she rejects sympathetically. A Beautiful Trait. Dusty Daniel—Dey say dat Homeless Harry 1s a very modest man. Cinder Charley—Modest? Why, he's so modest dat he won't sleep in a yard where dere’s undressed lumber. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous- ness after first, day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise fres Dr. BR. H. KuiNg, Litd., 931 Arch St., Phila. Pa. Greek fire was probably made of bitu- men, sulphur, naphtha and nitre. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the guns, reduces inflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25¢ a bottle, Now they are using a grass-cutting au- tomobile in the West. Pigo’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used forall affections of throat and lungs.— War. Gold pens were first made in 1840. Their sale to-day is 1,500,000 a year. Its quality influences the selling price. @ & Profitable fruit jg growing insured only f§ when enough actual Potash is in the fertilizer. Neither guantity nor good qualily possible without Potash, .. Write for our free books giving details, GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York City. 2 | | { i | ice ! and { ed a broken leg. YLVANIA BRIEFLY TOLD. The Latest Condensed Dispatches From Many Points. STATE WILL NOT ACCEPT $102,000. Claim for Spanish War Expenses Cut Down at Washington, and Harrisburg Officials Are Dissatisfied —Opposition to the Proposed Secretary of Commerce by the State Grange —$50,000 for a School. Pensions granted Pennsylvanians :— Alfred Masonhimer, Allegheny, $6; Nelson R. McNeal, Claysville, $8: John H. Fish, Philipsburg, $6; John Daniel, Monongahela, $10; Sidney W. Clark, Leroy, $17; John P. Jenkins, Six Mile Run, $10; James M. Floyd, Wilkins- burg, $8; Samuel Jordon, Moshannon, $17; Amanda Reeder, Turtle Creek, $8. William Bosch, a farm hand, 42 years of age, residing near Newside, commit- ted suicide by shooting himself in the head. : While operating a swinging table at the Nazareth Portland Cement Works, Valentine Hartley, aged 44 years, was crushed to death. The body of Isaiah Krier, aged 24 a brakeman, was found lying on Railroad tracks near Bethle- He had been run down years, the Bath hem Junction. by an engine. John Yadelick, of Chester, missing a belt containing $700 in greenbacks which he wore around his waist, believed he was robbed until a neighbor returned the belt and money intact, having found the former on the street. Charters were issued by the State De- partment to the following corporations: Clearfield Trust Company, Clearfield, capital $150,000: the United Sewerage Company, Philadelphia, capital $10,000; the City Realty Trust, Pittsburg, capital $25.000; the Reynoldsville Light and Power Company, Reynoldsville, capital $20,000; the Buckwhla Water Storage and Supply Company, Little Gap, Carbon county, capital $r2,co0. \ fter several years of unsuccessful ne- gotiations Lebanon has secured a stock- ing mill, D. G. Enos and J. Calvin Hess, both of Philadelphia, being the heads of company which will operate a large plant by May 1 next. The company has a capital stock of $130,000. the home of Jacob Hanes, in the Blue Mountains, near Green Point. Hanes and his wife, who are over So years old, suffered greatly Irom exXposuic. Mrs. Charles 1. Johnson was found dead in home at Oil City by her husband returned home from work. caused by fumes from imperfectly burned gas. \ taxidermist of Stouchsburg has re- ceived a rare and beautiful freak of na- ture in the shape of a white partridge, which is to be mounted for its owner, Fire destroyed hei when he Her death wa: | who shot the bird in Cumberland coun- ty, not far irom Harrisburg. An order issued from National Guard headquarters designating the time between February i and May 13 for the annual spring inspections. was While shooting rats at his father’s barn, at East Hanover, John the 18-year- old son Peter Fisher, accidentally shot himself in the thigh 01 Forty men were quarantined in a boarding house in ILebanon, one of the boarders being stricken with smallpox. Roderick Dunn, a loader at the Belle- vie mine, Scranton, was killed by being squeezed hetween two cars. James Stephens was struck by a loco motive at Johnstown and killed. Thomas Williams was arrested at Carbondale, charged with shooting a boy and a girl, the children of Thomas Peters. The children were watching Williams through the window of their home when he drew a revolver, it is al- leged, and fired two shots. One took effect in the boy's face and the other crashed through the girl's skull. Wil- diams, it is said. was intoxicated when he fired -the shots, and the children were watching his antics at the time. Elizabeth Shannon was found frozen to death in a field near White's Church, two miles from Waynesboro. She left Waynesburg Saturday night in company with a huckster, driving in the direction of Blacksville. It is supposed she start- ed for home after being several miles out of town and lost her way. Miss Mattie Pringle, employed in Mc- Keesport, committed suicide by swal- lowing poison. Cholera in the vicinity of Orangeville within the past ten days has killed no less than 150 hogs. Charles Hufford, aged 19 years, son of M. H. Hufford, of Clark’s Summit, | was drowned while fishing through the at Gravel Pond with a number of friends. A freight wreck on the Philadelphia Reading Railway occurred near New Columbia, due to a broken journal. Brakeman Davis, of Tamaqua, susigda. Eight cars I railed. 1 twenty-ng [J The ! 9l4c; sugar-cured ! 26¢; choice rolls, 18a1gc. COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions. R. G. Dunn & Co's Weekly Review of Trade says: It is most fortunate that the vageries of speculation are not always deleterious to legitimate business. Rail- way stocks fell sharply, yet full returns for November show that earnings were 1.15 per cent greater than in the same month last year and 1.81 per cent. over those of 1890. Industrial and traction shares were even more violently dis- turbed, yet the manufacturing plants of the nation were never more fully occu- nied. Numerous labor controversies have been settled, and the rate of wages is at the highest point ever attained. | Retail distribution is of massive propor- tions. Raw material in the textile in- dustry has developed distinct firmness. Cotton not only retained the spasmodic gain that fellowed the Government re- port, but made a further advance, and indications of continued. strength at- tracted liberal purchases by spinners. Western grain producers and dealers have expressed great faith in the future of prices, many announcing their inten- tion to hold supplies until spring, when the scarcity would be marked and quo- tations reach a more profitable point. Failures for the week numbered 273 in the United States, against 240 last vear, and 17 in Canada, against 26 last | year. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour.—Best Patent, $4.00; High Grade Extra, $4.40; Minnesota Bakers, $3.00a3.50. Wheat.—New York Baltimore No. 2, 8olsic. Corn—New York No. 2, 69Vc; Phil- adelphia No. 2, 65%a66c; Baltimore Ne 2, -b7C. Oats.—New York, No. 2, 34¢; delphia No. 2, Baltimore No.. 3, 8s5Vc; Phila- 54C; No. 2, 34c. Hay.—No. 1 timothy, large bales, $15.- 50a16.00; do, small bales, —a16.00; No. 2 timothy, $14.50a15..00; No. 3 timothy $12.00a13.50. GREEN FRUITS AND VEGETA- BLES.— Apples.— Western Marylané& and Pennsylvania, packed, per brl. $3.00 a3.75; do, New York, assorted, per brl, $3.50a4.50; do, No. 2s, per brl, $2.50a 3.00; do, Eastern, per brl, fancy, $4.00a 4.50; do, Fancy Kings, per brl, $4.23a 4.50; do, New York Fancy Gills, per brl. $450a5.00; do, No 1, Baldwins, per. brl,, $4.00a4.25; do. Western Ben Davis, per brl, $3.75a4.25. Cabbage—New York State, per ton $9.00a10.00; do, Danish, per ton $r12.00a13.00. Carrots—Native, per bushel box, 4oasoc; do, per bunch, 1a1%. Caulifiower—Long Island, per crate or barrel, $2.00a3.00. Celery—New York State, per dozen stalks, 2 native, per bunch, 3l%age. Cra Cape Cod, per brl, $6.5027.50; do, Jer- | seys, per brl, $6.00a7.50; do, Cape Cod | and Jerseys, per box, $1.7522.235. Cu- | cumbers—Florida, per crate, $2.00a2.50. Grapes—New York, per 8-1b. basket, Concords, 12a13c; do, per 5-1b. basket, | Niagaras, 14a16; do, Catawba, 12a12V. Kale—Native, per bushel box, 20a2sc. Lettuce—Native, per bushel box, 35a40c; do, North Carolina, per half-barrel bas- | ket, $1.00a1.25; do, New Orleans, per | brl., $4.00a4.50; do, Florida, per half- | barrel basket, $1.25a1.50. Onions— | Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow, per bu., $1.15a1.25; do, Western, yellow, per | bu. $1.15a1.25; do, Western, white, per | bu., $1.40a1.50; do, red, per bu. $1.15a | 1.20. Oranges—Florida, per box, as to | $2.25a2.75. Oysterplants—Native, | per bunch, 3agc. Spinach—Native, per | bushel box, Goab6sc. Turnips—Native, per bushel box, 26a2sc. | Potatoes. — White — Maryland and | Pennsylvania, per bu, No. 1 83a9oc; do, | seconds, 6oa75c; New York, per bu, best stock, 8sagoc; do, common, 60a73c; | Western, per bu, prime, 85agoc. Sweets —Eastern Shore, Virginia, per truck | brl, $1.25a1.75; do, per flour brl, $1.75a | 1.85; do, per brl, frost 75c.a$1.00; na- | tive, per brl, No. 1, $2.00a2.25; North Carolina, per brl, No. 1, $2.00a2.25. | Yams—Virginia, per brl, smooth, —a$I. Provisions and Hog Products.—Bulk | clear rib sides, gc; bulk clear sides, 9V4c; | bulk shoulders, 9%%c; bulk clear plates, oc; bulk fat backs, 14 lbs and under, | shoulders, narrow, | olc.; sugar-cured shoulders, extra | broad, 10%c; hams, canvased or un- | canvased, 12 lbs and over, 12%c; refined | lard, tierces, brls and 50-1b cans, gross, | o¥4¢. - Eggs.—Western Maryland and Penn- sylvania, per dozen —az7c.; Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia), per dozen —27c.; Virginia, per dozen, 20a 27c.; West Virginia, per dozen, 235a26c:; | Western, per dozen, 26a2jc.; Southern, | 23a25¢C.; | Butter, Creamery.—Separator, gathered cream, 22a23; imitation, 1ga20; Md., Va. and Pa. Dairy prints, 21a22; small creamery blocks, (2-1b.), 25a 25 size, 26az27; Ibs., to Cheese.-—New cheese, large Go 103; to 11c.; do, flats, 37 Ibs, 11 11}4c; picnics, 23 lbs, 11l4a11%%c. Live Poultry.—Turkeys—Old, 8%agc; | young, fat, ganVc; do, small and poor, | —a8c. Chickens.—Hens, -—a7Vc; do | old psters, each 235a3oc; do, young | go choice, 8a8%:c; do, rough and | azc. Ducks.— Fancy, large, 9 | small, —a8c; do, muscovy and 8agc. Geese, Western, each | peck. bod to prime, $6.00 dium, $4.00a5.00; $2.00a4.00; cows, | 1,505.30; camnners, 2.00a4.50; calves, | steers, $4.50a5.50. le—Choice, $5.90a bh; good, $5.00a3.50. ! prime heavies, dinms, $6.10a6.20; avy Yorkers, $5.85 ! pigs, as to | 30a5.40; roughs, jive; best wethers, common, $1.00a h3.75; veal ‘calv INDUSTRY A Boston Boy Edified. It was at one of the summer schools that flourished up New England way every year, and the white-haired lady had just finished her address. Among the crowd surrounding her, swayed by a congratulatory spirit, was a little boy— a Boston boy. Presently, when he had his opportunity, he shook hands and said : “L was very much pleased with your remarks. I have been waiting for years to hear you speak on this topic. It was one of the best addresses on the subject I ever heard.” The boy was nine years old, the sub- ject of the address “Motherhood.” Fire Salvage. It was in the Equity Court room, in the Federal building, before Judge Ald- rich, and it was an insurance case, with a witness on the stand from way up in the Berkshire hills, He was tall and ca- daverous, and one would never suspect him of being humorous. After a long description of the fighting of the fire by his fellow-countrymen, he was finally asked by one of the lawyers: “Well, as a matter of fact, the build- ing was completely destroyed, wasn't it?’ “Well, we managed to save the cel- ar! 2 Judge Aldrich joined in the laughter, that was general and prolonged. Easy Subtraction. Ascum—I suppose you haven't had time to figure out yet how much your cashier took. Bank President—Oh! yes, we knew in a very short time. Askum—Why, 1 great deal. Jank President—Exactly. We mere- ly had to count wht he had left. thought he took a Unable to Stand For Months Because of Sprained Ankles. ——— 30g CURED BY ST. JACOBS OIL, (From the Cardiff Times.) Among the thousands of voluntary endorse- ments of the great value of St. Jacobs Oil for sprains, stiffness, and soreness, is that of Mrs. G. Thomas, 4 Alexandra Road, Gelli, Ysbrod, near Pontypridd, South Wales, who says: — “It is with great pleasure that Iadd my will- ing testimony to the invaluable excellence of your celebrated St. Jacobs Oil, as experienced in my own case. I sprained both my ankles in walking down some steps so severely that I was unable to stand for several months. The pain I suffered was most severe, and nothing that I used helped me until I applied St. Jacobs Oil, when they immediately became better daily, and in a short time I was able to go about, and soon after I was quite cured. I am now determined to advise all persons suf- fering from pains to use this wonderful rem- edy, which did so much for me.” Mrs. Thomas does not enlighten us as to what treatment she pursued during the months sho was unable to stand, and during which timo she was suffering so much, but we venture to suggest that had she called in any well known medical man he would have at once have prescribed St. Jacobs Oil, for it has conquered pain upwards of fifty years, and doctors know there is nothing so good. The proprietors of St. Jacobs Oil have been award- ed twelvs gold medals by different interna- tional exhibitions as the premier pain-killing remedy of the world, The committees who ne the awards wero in each instance com- p. ad largely of the most eminent medical men obtainable. Mrs. Thomas evidently did not know the high opinion in which St. Jacobs Oil is held by almost every progressive med- ical man. China is greater than Russia, Great Bri: tain, Germany, France, Japan and the United States combined. Maturaliy people want to be Well for Christ- mas, for nothing so promotes happiness and good cheer. Therefore, take Garfield Tea row; it eures all derangements of stomach, fiver, kidneys or bowels ; it cleanses the sys- tam and purifies the blood, thus removing the cause of rheumatism, gout and many” chronic diseases. It is good for young and old and has been held in the highest repute for many years. Physicians recommend it. If you write thirty words a minute your pen is traveling at the rate of 300 yards an hour. Pur~am FApernEess Dyes do not stain ths hands o1 spot the kettle. Sold by all drug- gists, The largest element in American popula- tion is Celtic. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to fearn that there is at least one dreaded dis- cage that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh, Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con- stitutional disease, - requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cureis taken inter- nally, aeting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy- ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the eon- stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have go much faithin its curative powers that they offer One Hun- dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cuexey & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75¢. 1I’s Family Pills are the best. Conscience is a good deal like an alarm clock. We get so used to it that we don’t mind. Best For the Bowels. No matter whateails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your boweis are put right. Cascarers help nature, | curs you without a gripe or pain, produce i easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to stari getting your health back. Cas- cARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. } The best opportunities are those wé, make for ourselves. Wish All a Merry Christmas! And tell them of Garfield Tea, which cures indigestion and liver disorders and insures the return of many happy Christmas Dinners by removing the cause ot dyspepsia arX iil health. We may all be generous to a fault when | the fault is our own. Tetterine in Texas. ‘I enclose 50c. in stamps. Mail me one or | i two boxes of Tetterine, whatever the pice it's all right —does the work.”’—Wm. Sg this | J.T. Shuptrine, Savannah 50c. a box ba a Gainesville, Texas. gist don’t keep it. A first-class te “build, and $90,000, A Chris He asks three gf appiness | Good H gbe pu a! How Truly the Great Fame of Lydia E. Pink- Com- f§ pound Justifies Her Orig- ham’s Vegetable . ° RB inal Signature. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ova- rian troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacement of the Womb, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. It has cured more cases of Backache and Ieucorrhea than any other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels tumers from the Uterus in an early stage of development, and checks any tendency to cancerous humors. Irregular, Suppressed or Painful Menstruation, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostration, Head- ache, General Debility quickly yields to it. Womb troubles, causing pain, weight, and backache, instantly re- lieved and permanently pri by its use. Under all circumstances it acts in harmony with the laws that govern the female system, and is as harmless as water. ; It quickly removes that Bearing-down Feeling, extreme lassi- tude, “don’t care” and “want-to-be-left-alone” feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, Dizziness, Faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the “blues,” and backache. These are sure indications of Female Weakness, or some derangement of the Uterus, which this medicine always cures. Kidney Complaints and Backache of either sex tho Vegetable Compound always cures. No other female medicine in ths world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of femalo troubles. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are reo- warded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want eo all snbatitutes, For the round Lion heads cut from the fronts of T774 he wrappers we mail FREE the moz=t valuable presents eves offered. 7 Here are some of thodciON'S LATEST GIFTS: ~~" Colored Wax Crayons—acholays’ joys, Cornclian Agates for the boys; Nice Bisc Dolls for lirtle girls, String Tops which the urchin twirls; Box of Jackstraws—a lively game, Fine Pictures, all well-known to fnmeor= “*Childhcod Days’’ is sure to please, As will **Violets and Sweet Peas,’’ *‘A Qift from Heaven’ ’s a gem of art, ¢A Lively Tussle’’ shows puppies smarts “Little Sweethearts’ is very cute— All are pretty, beyond dispute! Best Steel Shears and Scissors too Among the presents hiere for yon; Buttonhole Scissors we send along, Ladies’ Penknives or Jackknives strongy Religious Pictures, rich and rare, Cloth-bound Novels read everywheros; Dictionaries for daily use, And Tapestry Covers we can produces Subscription to **American Queen,” Pocket Match Safes, the best yet sceng Men’s Nécktics, varied in design— Suspenders that are really fine! And good Steel Razors, hollow ground, With Leather Razor Straps ave founds A Wedding Ring, a Turquoise Ring, An Opal Ring will pleasure bring. A Garnet Ring for youth or man, A Brooch-Pin mado on necatest plang A Silver Bracelet for the wrist, And Belt Buckles ave in the list; Hair Combs made of Tortoise-shell Six Hairpins of the same, as well; And Rubber Dressing Combs so fine, With Hair Brushes—a varied line ! A Porcelain Clock surely charms, We've also those that give nlarmss And Watches, too, for either sex. Which man or woman can annex; There's Handkerchiefs for man and wife, Lace Handkerchiefs to last a life; And, for the Ladies’ special use, Suppertera, Garters, we produces A Shopping Bang, or Ladies’ Belt, Or Pocket-Beok to hold the *‘gelds,” And Silver Te: or Table Spoons Are listed in our Premium boons!? A Kitchen Knife so sharp and keen, Conspicuous in the List is seen, And Linen Tewels—lhiousewifeo’s pride, For Lj Heads we will provide. u ushes that aro strong and fine. tles whito and genuine; r Napkin Rings so neat ¥ you but scldom meet; both small and great, — perate; ec varied views EE use! =very Package. TOLEDO, ORIO.
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