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4l fi _ ' It Is better to collect your thoughts than to borrow other people’s. Bother flmyi Sweet rtwitofi for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurso lu the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, more and regulate the Bowelsaud Destroy Worms. Over30.000 tea- ■ tlmonials At all Druggists 36c. Sample FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy.N. Y. , Some men are so easy going that j after awhile they cease to go at all. Miss Alice Bailey, of Atlanta, Ga., escaped the sur geon’s knife, by using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “ Deab Mrs. Pixkiiam: — I wish to express my gratitude for the restored health and happiness Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound has brought into my life. “ I had suffered for three years with terrible pains at the time of menstrua tion. and did not know what the trouble was until the doctor pronounced it in flammation of the ovaries, and proposed an operation. “ I felt so weak an 1 sick that I felt sure that I ooukl not survive the ordeal, and so I told him that I would not un dergo it. The following week I read an advertisement in the paper of your Vegetable Compound in such an emer gency, and so I decided to try it. Great was my joy to Arid that I actually im proved after taking two bottles, so I kept taking it f or ten weeks, and at the end of that time I was cured. I had gained eighteen pounds and waa in excellent health, and am now. “ You surely deserve great success, and you have my very be t wishes.” — Miss' Alice Bailey. 50 North Boule vard, Atlanta, Ga. —£5000 forfeit If original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be pro duced. All sick women would bo wise if they would take Lydia E. Pink linm’s Vegetable Compound ami bo well. i : '•/ I Millions of U.M.C. Shot Shells I are sold each year. They are ■ made in the largest cartridge I factory in the world. 0 TkeUNIQN METALLIC CARTRIDGE GO. I BRIDQtPORT, COMM. 1 Your demitr I j tells llu m. Catalog tent I AxiSm —"—‘I Klpan* Tabula* are the best djn popala medicine ever made. A | hundred mtlll.ma or them have | been sold In tbe United Htatea In s single gear. Constipation, heart burn, sick headache, amines*, bad breath, sore throat, and every til* nesa arising (rout a disordered stomach are relieved or cured by Rtpam Tubule*. One will jeusrally give relief within twenty min utes. The llve-ceut package la enougb for ordinary •session*. All druggist* sell them. When Anaworlng Advertisement* Kindly Mention This P*Dtr. The Rev. Ekai Kawaguchi. The Rev. Kkai Kakaguch'-, whose narrative of personal adventure In Tibet. "The Latest News from Lhasa," wdi be one of the more important ar ticles in the January Century, is a priest of the Zen Beet of Buddhists, now thirty- eight years of age. He was born in Sakai, near Osaka, stud ied at the Temple of the Five Hun dred Kakan in Tokio, and prosecuted his Sankrit studies under the Rev. Bunyu Nanjio of the Imperial Univer sity. He entered the priesthood at the age of twenty-five and was attach ed to the Obkau Temple at Uji. After seven years in holy orders he started on his journey to Tibet, his sole ob ject, as he explains in his narrative, to complete his studies of Buddhism. He declares also his intention of re visiting Nepal during 1904, to secure more collections of BuSdhist scrip tures in Sanskrit a.‘d also the Tibetan edition of the Tripitaka. The man who would retain his friends should not fail to remember that there are a great many things ho should forget. $36.00 per M. Lewis' "Single Bindor,” straight 5e cigar, costs more than other breads, but this price gives the dealers fair profit — and the smoker a better cigar. Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. It takes a lot of cold cash to melt a marble heart. When you attempt to strike a match in the dark the head is always on the other end. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. Thi3 is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. A Remarkable Family Likeness. A curious example of family like ness has been noticed at Amsterdam, where an interpreter persisted in rec ognizing an English guest who arriv ed at a certain hotel. It seemeu, how ever, impossible that the Englishman could bo known to the native. The latter shortly afterward accompanied the visitor to the state museum, where Pineman's picture of the battle of Waterloo ia shown and there he perceived the cause of his mistake. General Lord Uxbridge, who is repre sented in the painting, was exactly like the English gentleman who final ly proved to be his lordship's grand con. State Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Co., of S. Omaha, Nebr., is one of the most successful farm insurance com panies in the West. Organized 1895, has J20.000.000 insurance in force. Is sues a perpetual policy that doc3 not expire just before a fire. Annual meet ing Jan. 12, 1904. We want live Agts. B. R. STOUFFEK, Sec'y. T. B. HOLMAN, Pres. Mary Johnston's Pirates in England Among all the novelists who have written of pirate ships and their bloodthirsty commanders, it remains for a young American novelist. Miss Mary Johnston, to be singled out by the London Sphere, in its latest Issue, tor mention in connection with a double-page pirate picture. “Among recent novelists,” says the Sphere, "Miss Mary Johnston has drawn some very vivid pictures of life on a pirate ve3sel," and forthwith reproduces an extra from “To Have and to Hold," which, by the way, was published in England by the title “By Order of the Company.” To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. It's the worker who succeeds in life —not the fellow who is worked. Yes. Alonzo, by all means marry a girl who can swim; she will realize the importance of keeping her mouth shut. Perfectly simple and simply perfect Is dyeing with PUTNAM FADLESS DYES. The people who are always looking for bargains seldom get rich as quick ly as those who offer them. Take care of your enemies, and your friends will take care of them selves. DO YOCU CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW* If so, use Red Cross Bail Blue, it will n-uko them white as snow. 2 os. package 5 cents The claims to wisdom of owl3 and a multitude of men rest upon their looks and nothing more. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old. we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch he made at once. Not alone because i* 13 guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package con tains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It Is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch, will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. A Sign of O'd London. One of the signs pictured in .Tulian King Colford's “The Signs of Old Lon don" In the January St. Nicholas has peculiar interest for all Americans. What is called “The Crown and Three Sugar Loaves” was the sign of the his toric house which exported to America the celebrated chests of tea that went into Boston Harbor in December, 177?., the first over act of rebellion in the Revolution. White the contest gave America her independence and set aside the rule of George III., it did not overthrow the business of the oldest tea house iu Great Britain. The busi ness is carried on today in the same old place as in Revolutionary times. Its sign—the sign of "The Crown and Three Sugar Loaves”—has survived the tress of age and storm and fire. The Great Fire of London swept within half a block of the shop, but the old sign Itself reigns today. I- j As does the child come into life— So cometh the bright New Year, 'Tis born a simple untold birth With joy, good will, and cheer. The Old Year sighs—ne'er bids adieu As he turns his last worn page, His work Is done—His life is o'er— Alas, one year of age. How many hearts are sad. forlorn— How many prayers are said— “May the New Year take from us our grief To give us joy instead." We know not what the young babe holds For us—we cannot see. We only greet with open arms— The Youngster—19'3. —Jewett Clarke. SHUCKEY CHRISTMAS was never celebrated to any great ex tent in the south back in the good old days ‘befor de wah.” New Year’s day took its place among the masters, and the prolonged, rollicking “co'n shuckin’ ” sup plied the slaves of Kentucky and Missouri espe cially with all me joimy desired. It was an Institution peculiar to the South, peculiar not in being con fined to those sections, but peculiar in the manner in which it was con ducted. For husking bees have been known in New England since the mind of man remembers and Indian corn has been gathered. When a "co'n shuckin’ ” was decided upon notices were sent out to the slaves of ail adjoining plantations stat ing that on a certain night Judge S. or Squire It. would give a corn shuck ing of so many thousand bushels, and that all colored people, male and fe- 1 male, were invited to attend. Great j preparations were made by “ole j massa” and “ole missus” for this j event, for, while he expected a good night's work in the shape of wagon loads of yellow corn, pleasure was to be the main part of the program. Supper was always provided on a large scale, and generally consisted of two or three roasted pigs, turkeys, chickens, with side dishes of vegeta bles in equal proportion. Bushels of sweet potatoes were baked, boiled and fried, and hundreds of rich golden pumpkin pies were turned out of the ovens, done to a mouth-watering brown. A band of musicians was engaged, for no "co'n shucsin’ ” would be com plete without it. On those nights negroes worked not happily save to the twangling of the banjo and wail ing of the fiddle. A corn shucking always lasted three nights continuously on one plantation, and then the negroes moved on to the next, where three more were devoted to the corn of the owner, and so on until all the maize of the neighbor hood had been husked. About twilight the darkles began to arrive from all over the country. The j "boys” clad in their suits of jeans, ! with that pride of the darky’s tieart, j his “long-tailed, claw-hammer blue.” | Every negro who made pretensions to ' being “anybody" possessed one—in more or less conditions of wear. The female portion of the gathering was coquettishly dressed in linsey 1 woolsey frocks, with their heads tied up In flaming red bandanna handker chiefs—the tedder the better—and with a white handkerchief crossed upon their breasts. They came in groups, and each par ty of huskers from a neighboring plan tation was announced long before it arrived by the well-known tunes pre valent in those days floating down the road and over the fields as the happy boys and women hastened to the gath ering. A favorite tune was this: Yes, wa'i gwlne to de shuckin'. Yes. ws's *wlne to de slackin', Wes gwlne to de shuckin’ of de eo'n. An' we'll be dar In de mo'nln', An' we'll be dar In de mo'nln'. We ll be dar In de mo'nln', shuah as yo's bo'n. As soon as the darkles were all as sembled the oldest slave present went to "ole massa” and begged a piece of silver money. This was always ex ye^'d, and a plantation owner would / soon have thought of having a •'..luckin'” without corn as to be un prepared to produce the bit of silver on the first evening. Taking thia piece of silver, the an cient darky scturned to the field and there performed a ceremony, the exact meaning of which has not come down to us. Whetting his jack knite upon the silver, he solemnly pronounced an invocation for a bountiful crop of corn the following year. And it is doubtful if the "ole massa” would have been any more willing to allow the husking to proceed without this kindly prayer than would his white-haired servitor, who by its means thus once a year stood in the attitude of high priest to the family he served. After the preliminary prayer the ”12 wise men” were chosen, and their first duty was to select two of the brawniest negroes in the company, who, when called out, with much pride at their distinction, indulged In a good humored contest of strength, which was known as “rasslln’ fo’ de Capt'in.” The victor became the master of cere monies and upon him devolved the duty of seeing that no one shirked in work or entertainment. The matter of the Captaincy being decided, the 12 wise men chose four big fellows, who formed a "pack sad dle” by crossing their hands, the Cap tain was elevated upon n and carried half a dozen times around the heaps of corn while the darkles sang this melody or something akin to it: When our day's nm done Don't we darkles hab a time; When our day's am done Don't we darkles cut a shine? f Dark to our cabin we will go, Hack in tlic early mo'n: Put we'll be here m de eb'nin’ To do de shuckin’ of de co'n. Thun the corn shucking proper be gan. Stacks of fuel had been placed at intervals of a few yards near the corn, and after they had oeen lighted, under the supervision of the “12 wise men,” the fun began. As the corn was husked it was thrown into piles and would be hauled away In the morning. Twelve workers were selected for each heap of unhusked corn, and, as back in New England, the “red ear” was eagerly sought for, but with a dif ferent purpose. When a man got it he shied it at a big nigger's head, and if he hit the mark tuo unfortunate dar ky would not “marry for 10 years.” If by shrewd dodging he missed it his happiness would be crowned within the year. If a dusky belle secured a red ear she had the option of choosing a sweetheart from any of the darkies around the corn pile. When 12 o’clock struck all hands dropped their work and uurried to the grove which always surrounded the old plantation home. On such occa sions it was always decorated with lights, perhaps not equal to a carni val. but still rendering It very pic turesque. Reverlry and abandon fol lowed to the enlivening darky melo dies upon the fiddle, the banjo, the hones, the “massa and missus.“ by their presence, keeping the gaiety within bounds. But* this did not hin •der the music from being wafted on the air across the fields a.ul through the woods to neighboring plantations. After supper a chaplain was se lected, who solemnly pronounced a parting benediction upon “ole massa and missus." And while wending their homeward way some such strains as these came floating back to the now silent home: Down in dat co'n fiel*. Heah dat mo'nful soon*: Dem darkiiv, ain a-weepln’, Fo' massa's in de col' col1 groun’. The Day for Resolutions. The first day of the new year. What an hour for resolutions; what a mo ment for prayer! If you have sins in your bosom, cast them behind you now. In the last year God has blessed us; blessed us all. On some his angels waited, robed in white, and brought new joys; here a wife to bind men closer yet to Providence; and here a child, a new Messiah, sent to tell of innocence and heaven. To some his angels came clad In dark livery, veil ing a joyful countenance with unpro pitious wings, and bore away child, father, sister, wife or friend. Still they were angels of good Providence, all God’s own; and he who looks aright finds they also brought a bless ing, but concealed and left it, though they spoke no word of joy. One day our weeping brother shall find that gift and wear it as a diamond on his breast.—Exchange. LTLL knee-deep lies the winter snow. And the winter winds are weari ly sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow. And tread softly and speak low. For the old year lies WI'lWrTO’H a-dylng. Old year, you must not die; You came to us so readily. Old year, you shall not die. He lieth still; he doth not move; Ho will not see the dawn of day. He hath no other life above. He gave me a friend and a true true love, , And the Now-year will take ’em away. Old year, you must not go; So long as you have been with us. Such joy as you have seen with us, Old year, you shall not go. He frothed his bumpers to the brim; A Jollier year we shall not see. But, though his eyes are waxing dim, And though his foes speak ill of him, He was a friend to me. Old year, you shall not die; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you. Old year. If you must die. He was full of joke and jest. Hut ill Ills merry quips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste Ills son and heir doth ride post-haste. Hut he'll he dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend. And the New-year, blithe and bold, my friend. Comes up to take his own. How hard he breathes! over the snow I heard just now the crowing cock. The shadows flicker to and fro; The cricket chirps; the light burns low; 'Tis nearly twelve o'clock. Shake hands, before you die. Old year,*we'H dearly rue for you; What is it we can do for you? Speak out before you die. IIis face is growing sharp and thin. Alack! our friend is gone. Close up his eyes; tie up his chin; Step from the corpse, and let him in That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new face at the door, my friend. A new face at the door. Some New Year's Lore. New Year's Day has been celebrat ed ceremoniously ever since the days of the classic Romans. January is named for the old Roman god, who was supposed to have two faces— one that looked forward and the other that looked back. The face that looked back looked at the receding years, while the other looked at the new one just begun. Many old proverbs exist regarding this season of the year. Among them are: "If the grass grows in January It grows the worse for all the year.” "A January spring is worth nothing.” “Under water dearth, under snow bread.” “March in January, January in March.” "If January calends be summerly gay 'Twill be January weather till calends of May." Sitting up till midnight to see the new year in is the custom of many countries. Good resolutions were reg istered most solemnly at this hour among the people of olden times, who observed this custom most strictly. After the serious moment had passed tnere was a great shaking of hands and drinking healths of the favorite old beverage called wassail. Wassail was a strong drink of many spices, several kinds of wines, fruits and eggs. First Exchange of Gifts. One of the most prominent customs of New Year's anil one concerning which history has much to say is that oi giving many and costly presents. As a gift giving festival it seems to have outrivaled Christmas in the old times. For a long time in England it was customary to give gloves or glove money on new Year’s day. The uniformity of this scheme seems strange. But in those days gloves were rather expensive and had to be made entirely by hand. They were also quite a necessary part of one's apparel. Hence the general custom. _'• ' There Is more Catarrh In thla section of the country than all other diseases put together, and uut'i i\.i last few years was supposed to he Incurable. For $ great many year* dwton pronounced It a local dis ease and prescribed local remedies, and by constant • falling to cure with local treatment, pronounce.I .t Incurable. Science has nro\ en catarrh to be a c in stitutional d sense aud therefore requires cocstUu j’1lo“»l treatment. Hull's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by r J. Cheney A Co.. Toledo, Ohio, Is theouly con stitutional cure on the market. It Is ta'^en Internally in doses from id drop* to a teaspoooful. It acta di rect.y on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any ca*o It rails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. u . K- *• CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. O. Hold by Druggists 75c. Hall's Family IMIla arc the best. Where Bananas Come From. Of the $1,036,172 worth of bananas which came into New York city within the last year. 2.802.000 bunches were from the British West Indies, ^ 1.152.000 bunches from Costa Rica. 877.000 from Colombia and 355 from Cuba. They pay no duty. Mrs. Winslow'* »oor?n»ig ISyrnp. For children leethlug. »oflcu» Hid gum*. reduce* *». Camumilcu, all*y» p&m. cure* wiixt colic. in. » boiti*. A big heart, usually goes with a big body, but a big head rarely does. Real Glass House Now Built. Glass houses of a very substantial kind can now be built. Silesian glass makers are turning out glass bricks for all sorts of building purposes. A Rare Good Thing. “Am using ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, ami can truly say 1 would not have been without it so long, had I known the relief it would give my aching feet. I think it a rare good thing for anyone having sore or tired feet Mrs. Matilda Holtwert, Providence. It I.’’ Sold by oil Druggists, 25e. Ask to-day. Greenland Is Thawing Out. The Ice in Greenland 13 mel'i-.g more rapidly than it is formed. Con parisons of the descriptions of the Jaccbshaven glaelor shows that its edge has reached eight miles since 1850, and it has lost twenty Ij thirty feet in depth. No (hromos Oi cheap premium®, hut a belter quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for tlio same price cf othi r starches. y The world suspects that a man is in love before he knows it himself. Otto cf the curious things about a man who wants to borrow money from you today la his eager deter mination to repay it tomorrow. A Texas preacher says that sm > newspaper men’s only chance cf ga ting into heaven is on a press tic t . i Clear white ctota<-s arc a si^n that tl i housekeeper :-es lied Cross Bali BIuu Large ~ oz. package, 5 cents. Oldest Librarian in England. Dolucana Lothrop Bingham, who has had charge ot the public library at Manchester-By-tIn-Sea for more than twenty years, has just colctrat ed his 83ih birthday. lie is said to 1)0 the oldest librarian in New Eng land. Ido notbellovn lUro’s ("ere tor consumption has an equal tor coughs and colds.—John J»' Dotes, Trinity Spring’s, lad., Feb. .0. UKjO. It is easy to induce a friend to laugh at your jokes, but he doesn't always do It in a satisfactory man ner. Good Things to Sell. James Stillman, president of the Na tional City bank of New York, is a man of few words, but he makes those few count. A famous tip that he is said to have given a friend two months ago has leaked out in Wall street. The friend in question wrote to him. askinjj him for advice concern ing the market. He had §500,00 and wanted to make it a million. Hera is the reply of Mr. Stillman, written in lead pencil on a sheet of paper I: “Palo ponies, steam yachts and New port villas are the best short sales l:i the world.” After having traveled hundreds cf miles to wed Charles F. Bateman, a railroad yardmaster of Butte, Mont.. Edna Armstrong, 24 years old. organ ist of the O’Bryanville Methodist church, in a Cincinnati suburb, has re turned to her parents’ home. She dis covered the true state of her feeling! soon after she boarded a train with har admirer, and she burst into tear: before the city limits of Cincinnati were passed. But. she kept on travel ing, though she cried all the way to Chicago, where she and Bateman were to wed. Then Detroit was de cided upon as the scene of their wed ding. "But. when we got there.” says Miss Armstrong, “Charlie was so d: . couraged at the way I had acted that lie bought me a ticket and sent n:a back home.’ Mr. Grover's Case. Frcderika, la., Dec. 28.—Mr. A. f!. Grover Is now 74 years of age. For tb ? Inst 30 years lio has suffered a great deal of sickness and, although he is i lemperate man and never used spir its of any kind, his kidneys had trou bled him very much. He said: "I was told 1 had Diabetes and my symptoms corresponded exactly to those of a young man who died of Dir netes in this neighborhood. My fort and limbs were bloated quite a little. “I heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills an ! at last determined to try them. I took in all ten boxes before 1 was well ar.d now I can truthfully say that I am all right. The bloating is gone from my feet and legs. 1 have gained eight pounds in weight and can sleep well at night and every symptom of my trou ble Is gone. "it is some tim" now since I was cured ami I have not the slightest return of any symptom of the old trouble." Perlraps the time will come when the intelligence of the people wtil make politics unpcoatable. In order to be popular forget to say a good deal.