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men who may ship bis cattle hops or sbecp to market and who will write us
answering the following questions
1 How many head of stock have you
2 What kind of stock have you not including horses
3 When do you expect to market your stock
4 To what market will you likely ship
5 In what paper did you see this advertisemet
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Goods or Grocerica
Magic has become u mall order busi
ness Chicago is the center of the trade
In the United States There is manu
factured in Chicago magic enough to
supply the Merlins of the world and
every week large orders for sleight of
hand tricks are filled and sent off to
the Philippines Australia Germany
England and France
The times of Cagliostro are dead
Black magic and the delusions which
belief in it made possible are things
of the past Conjuring has been lifted
from the plane of witchcraft to that of
pure legerdemain It lias become a
white art yet the world is not less
eager to be deceived than it was in the
old days Yogauidra the goddess of il
lusion still reigns This fact consti
tutes fully one half of the unusual
business of the magic shop
There Is not a feat known to the pro
fession which cannot be bought and so
ciety is full of people young and old
who are eager to become magicians
Apparentlj there is no other kind of
dust in the eyes which is so popular
socially as this double mystery of sight
and touch Success is equally a mat
ter of simplicity of apparatus and the
performers skill Anybody can become
a conjurer who has manual dexterity
personal presence tact and fluency of
speech To become a phenomenon in
this calling however requires of
course phenomenal capacity
The magic shop is an interesting
place full of curious apparatus and
familiar objects which are all bewitch
ed subject to the spell of the ma
gicians hand Conspicuous among the
collection is the famous orange tree
of Robert Houdin that piece of mech
anism by which the father of modern
conjuring gave Paris a genuine thrill
a generation ago As it stands upon
the shelf the contrivance is nothing but
an artificial orange tree yet once be
fore the startled eyes of Paris it burst
miraculously into bloom at the wave of
Houdins wand its blossoms became
fruit ripe oranges which were dis
tributed among the audience and from
the orange at the top two butterflies
flew out bearing a handherchief be
longing to one of the spectators
American conjuring declares the
man to whom the shop belongs is the
most original and inventive in the
world Its range is much wider than
that of the marvelous Chinese jug
glery and beside the delicacy of its
method the famous Indian jugglery is
clumsiness personified
Magic has certainly become at last
an art as lawful as eating now that
the world is linked by it and the
magicians in the various countries
form a great brotherhood The skill of
Mage Merlin of vast wit and a hun
dred winters has given way to a
magic no less subtle because more
easily accessible and more readily un
derstood Chicago Tribune
Disappearing Hotel Towels
We lose money enough in stolen
towels every week to board half a
dozen porters said a hotel clerk
We never know exactly where they
go but they certainly disappear and
that right fast If some of the people
who take our towels had exerted
their energies in a more laudable voca
tion they would have been rich many
moons ago There is scarcely a room
in the hotel that does not lose a towel
at least three times a week Of course
we place several kinds face towels
bath towels and just plain towels in
each one and some one finds them so
attractive that they are dropped into
a grip and hustled out with the re
mainder of the luggage When you
figure that a good bath towel costs
from 10 to 20 cents and other towels
anywhere from 3 to 5 cents you prob
ably can estimate the dead loss to a
hotel It is very convenient to drop
them into satchels suit cases or
trunks and they are right handy to
wrap shoes or other dirty articles of
clothing in Philadelphia Bulletin
Keep Close to the Riglxt Kind
Whatever you do in life make any
sacrifice necessary to keep in an am
bition arousing atmosphere an envi
ronment that will stimulate you to self
development Keep close to people
who understand you who believe in
you who will help jtou to discover
yourself and encourage you to make
the most of yourself This may make
all the difference to you between a
grand success and a mediocre exist
ence Stick to those who are trying
to do something and to be somebody
in the world people of high aims
lofty ambition Keep close to those
who are dead in earnest Ambition is
contagious You will catch the spirit
that dominates your environment The
success of those about you who are
trying to climb upward will encourage
and stimulate you to struggle harder
i you have not done quite so well
yourself Success Magazine
To Waterproof Boots
Put a pound of tallow and half n
pound of resin in a pot on the fire
When melted and mixed warm the
boots and apply the hot stuff with a
painters brush until neither the sole
nor the upper leather will suck in any
more If it Is desired that the boots
snould immediately take a polish melt
an ounce of wax with a teaspoonful of
lampblack A day after the boots have
been treated with tallow and resin rub
over them this wax in turpentine but
not before the fire The exterior will
then have a coat of wax alone and will
shine like a mirror Tallow or any oth
er grease becomes rancid and rots the
stitching as well as leather but the
resin gives it an antiseptic quality
which preserves the whole Boots and
shoes should be so large as to admit of
wearing cork soles They will then be
much warmer
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Mitchell
Leader of
The Miners
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O be an important factor in de
ciding such a question as to
strike or not to strike means
much responsibility and much
nerve racking anxiety when great in
dustries like that of coal mining are
involved To some the position of John
Mitchell president of the United Mine
Workers of America may seem an
easy one To some it may seem that
all he has to do is to travel around and
make speeches to gatherings of work
Ingmen and to hobnob with coal barons
and railway magnates when there is
strike talk In the air as at present but
that is a very erroneous view of the
case To bear upon ones shoulders re
sponsibility for the welfare of 500000
workmen and the wives and children
dependent on their labor is no small
thing
The weight of such a burden has
pressed sorely upon Mr Mitchell since
the negotiations between the coal op
erators and miners began and his fea
tures have given evidence of the strain
he has been under From his home In
Indiana his wife journeyed to New
York in order to be near him and give
him such support as only a wife can
when a husband is under severe men
tal stress Not long ago Mr Mitchell
was offered a nomination for congress
but he would not take it He said he
had resolved to devote himself to ad
vancing the cause of labor and did not
propose to turn aside from that task
There have been rumors from time to
time that this or that federal office was
to be tendered Mr Mitchell as a repre
sentative of the wage earner but all
such rumors have proved unfounded
and the labor leader has gone along In
his chosen path working for the bet
terment of conditions in the world of
labor and especially in that part under
his jurisdiction as head of a great
workingmens organization
President Mitchell has a smooth shav
en face and has such a look of serious
JOHN MITCHELIi
ness if not of solemnity that it is
often said he ought to have been a
priest For a time he wore a mus
tache which changed materially the
aspect of his features but he has re
turned to the shaven upper lip
Though he is a man very much in ear
nest he can see the humorous side of
things He was once discussing a cer
tain English financier whose views he
said reminded him of Marshall Saun
ders of Braidwood
Braidwood is an Illinois town and
I passed my boyhood there said Mr
Mitchell Marshall Saunders had a
fine apiary He raised good bees and
good honey It was a pleasure to visit
his neat well painted city of hives
Marshall had an inquiring mind and
he would sometimes ask himself
strange questions One of the ques
tions he continually asked himself was
this
Have I any right to rob these bees
of their honey
And for a long time he could not
answer that question to his own satis
faction Finally though he found an
answer I heard him tell it to his
friends with pride
I used to feel mean he said
about robbing the beehives but after
thinking the matter over I see now Im
in the right If It wasnt for me tak
ing the honey all them bees would be
out of work the whole of next sum
mer
Mr Mitchell added that it did not re
quire a great stretch of the imagina
tion to apply tho story to the philan
thropy of some capitalists and political
economists
President Mitchell has several chil
dren himself and he is much interest
ed in giving the boys who work In the
mines a better chance to get a start
In life He toiled in the mines as a
boy of thirteen and knows what It
means for a lad who ought to be at
school to be so employed Once he ad
dressed a meeting where many of the
breaker boys were present and he said
afterward
I was shocked and almost lost my
grip at times as I saw those eager eyes
peering at me from pale little faces
and I well there are some things a
man cannot forget That fight had a
new meaning to me I felt that I was
fighting for the boys fighting a battle
for Innocent childhood battling to get
for those brav little fellows a chance
In life I felt diat if I might be weak
In some things I should bo true to
those little lads
The labor leader can bo very elo
quent from fitting occasions He has
a strong sway over the men who look
to him for guidance
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Three little rules we all should keep
To make life happy and bright
Smile in the morning smile at noon
Take Rocky Mountain Tea at night
L W McConnell
Is Disease a Crime
Not very long ago a popular magazine
published an editorial article in which
the writer assorted in substance that all
disease should be regarded as criminal
Certain it is that much of the sickness
and suffering of mankind is due to the
violation of certain of Natures laws
But to say that all sickness should bo
regarded as criminal must appeal to
every reasonable individual as radically
wrong
It would be harsh unsympathetic
cruel yes criminal to condemn the poor
weak over worked housewife who sinks
under the heavy load of household cares
and burdens and suffers from weak
nesses various displacements of pelvic
organs and other derangements peculiar
to her sex
Frequent bearing of children -with its ex
acting demands upon the system coupled
with the care worry and labor of rearing a
large family is often the cause of weak
nesses derangements and debility which aro
aggravated bv the mrinv hnncphnici mwic
and the hard and never ending work which
the mother is called upon to perform Dr
Pierce the maker of that world famed rem
Pdy lr womans peculiar weaknesses and
ills Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription says
that one of the greatest obstacles to tho cure
of this class of maladies is the fact that tho
poor over worked housewife can not get the
needed rest from her many household cares
and labor to enable her to secure from the
use of his Prescription its full benefits It
is a matter of frequent experience he says
in his extensive practice in these cases to
meet with those in which his treatment fails
by reason of the patients iHability to abstain
from hard work long enough to be cured
With those suffering from prolapsus ante
version and retroversion of the uterus or
other displacement of the womanly organs
it is very necessary that in addition to tak
ing his Favorite Prescription they abstain
from being very much or for long periods on
their feet All heavy lifting or straining of
any kind should also be avoided As much
out door air as possible with modorate light
exercise Is also very important Let the
patient observe these rules and the Favor
ite Prescription will do the rest
Dr Pierces Medical Adviser is sent free
on receipt of stamps to pay expense of
mailing only Send to Dr K V Pierce
Buffalo N Y 21 one cent stamps for paper-covered
or 31 stamps for cloth bound
If sick consult the Doctor free of charge
by letter All such communications are
held sacredly confidential
Dr Picrcos Pleasant Pellets invigorate
and reaulate stomach liver and bowels
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Their tender sensitive bodies require
gentle healing remedies Hollisters
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L V McConnell
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Clearing sale extended until
April 1st Owing to tho bad
weather some lady customers
did not have occasion to visit
tho sale You must see to re
alize the powerful buying
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