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Whether Common or Hot.
The New Year.
Start tho Now Year feeling right!
Brace up and be cheerful.
Let your heart be gay and light;
Crowd with joy tho year full.
Smiles should chase the frowns away;
Love should brighten ev'ry day;
Banish fears!
Dry your tears!
Hold your norvo, let come what may.
Start tho New Year square and true!
No'er a duty shirking;
Don't bo downcast, sad and blue;
Lots of joy in working.
Scatter sunshine as you go;
Deeds of loving kindness sow;
Strike your gait!
Keep on straight!
Ginger up and hoe your row.
'Start tho New Year full of pluck!
Win by hard endeavor.
Don't depend on fickle "luck,"
Or you're ruined forever.
Brace your nerves and make a start;
To a planet hitch your cart;
Don't got blue!
Stick it through!
Strong of arm and light of heart.
Start the New Year like a man!
Leave all fear behind you.
Do the very best you can
And Success will find you.
Brace up! Do your level best!
Tackle life with zeal and zest!
Do your part!
Stout of heart!
And the Lord will do the rest.
"When a man marries to get a
housekeeper and scores a failure we
cannot muster up any sympathy for
him.
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Some New Yenr Thoughts.
The New Year will be what
make it.
New Year's day resolutions are no
better than any other day's resolu
tions, and usually not so good.
Good resolutions will not keep
themselves.
The man who relies on his own
strength to overcome bad habits has
a tough job ahead of him.
One good thing about 1903 will bs
Its opportunities to correct the mis
takes made in 1902.
The man who makes other men
happy has no trouble in finding hap
piness for himself.
A new year well begun is all
right, but an. old year well ended is
belter.
" Narrow Escape
"I came near starting off on tho
Now Year with a million dollars."
"How was that?"
"I proposed to Miss Gptrox, but she
refused me."
JVtonrocd.
"I tried to get a word in private
with Miss Millions last night at the
ball, but I couldn't get near her on ac
count of a lot of dudes who surround
ed her."
"She had you peacefully blockaded,
eh?"
' Convinced.
The delegation Irom Fodunk filed
into Senator Graball's committee room
and was met with great cordiality.
"Gentlemen, I am pleased to meet
you," said the senator. "What can
I do for you?"
"What we want to know," said the
chairman of the delegation, "is why
you do not keep your campaign prom
ise to get after the 'trusts."
"Gentlemen, I am after them, but
I must proceed with caution. One
false step would ruin all."
"''Then you are really after them?"
"With all my might, gentlemen."
"Then we wish you good luck and.
good day. Sorry we troubled yduV'
As the delegation disappeared Sena
tor Graball wiped the perspiration
from his brow and exclaimed:
"That was a narrow escape. They
might have asked me if I'd got what
I went after."
lar is good in Yurrup, For these
blessings of prosperity, employment,
con"
"You, John Swackem!" exclaimed a
thin and weary woman who had edged
up to the crowd unnoticed by tho ora
tor. "You, John Swackem! You
come home now and git that washin
I done f'r Judge Greene an' deliver it.
And don't you dare spend a penny of
111' money, either. Now you git. I've
got a big ironin' t' do for Squire
Meeks an' I got t' have some wood
split."
Whereupon the orator did as com
manded, realizing that every dollar
earned by his wife was good in
Yurrup.
Fractured.
On Now Year's day he took a pledge
That he'd swear off on swearing,
And that he'd keep it firm and true '
He was' oft heard declaring.
Next day he struck a bit of walk
Just where some ice was crusted, "
And though lie fractured not a bone
More than the ice "was busted.
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A Recruit.
"Did Sletterly make any good res
olutions on New Year's day?"
"Yes; Slatterly swore that he would
not again be played for a sucker."
"Good! We must hold him to it.
The best way is to get him to leave
the g. b. p. and apply for membership
In our Jeffersonian Club."
Some 'Lens Tilings We Nfced
. Boodleless camialgnsi1.-' . .!
Chewlnggumless girls:
Schemeless politicians'. '
Trustless coal. -. 'J
Gangless rule of cities.
Aunt Jerusha,
"I hev noticed," said Aunt Jerusha,
laying aside her knitting and peering
over the top of her spectacles, "that
th' men who end up th oV year with a
sp?ee f'r th' pu'pose of swearin' off
oil New Year's day air th' men whq J! 2J2f S?f JS J a-Sti
alius manage f fin' excuse f'r not YSiV ?e dJ?BOr
feiK5pi.il' any kind o' promises they
make."
Prosperous,
"Yes, gentlemen," shrieked, the man
who occupied the easiest 'box, "these
are prosperous times. Everybody
has money. Labor is employed, our
flag floats proud and free over tho
islands of the sea. We are a happy
and contented people. Our factory
chimneys belch forth volumes of
smoke, our children are well fed, our
fires are warm, 4 and - confidence and
No longer
of a
depreciated currency or a 50-cent sil
ver dollar. Every 'dollar of our mqn
ey is as gdbd as gold, and every 'dOl-
Brain L,eaks.
The eye of faith sees through every
cloud of doubt.
Men should-not fear death; they
should fear life.
God pays cash, but Satan gives notes
that always go to protest.
We cannot have clean politics as
long as clean men hold aloof.
The seeds of hate grow best when
moistened by the tears of envy.
Tho man freest with advice is us
ually slowest with anything else. .
We learn what true happiness is by
experiencing the deepest sorrows.
The profane swearer swallows a
hook that is not baited with pleasure.
If everybody minded' their own
business there would still be too many
idle.
It was not a good time you had yesr
terday if it is the cause of today's
headache.
Something is wrong with the morals
of those who look a Christmas pres
ent on the price tag.
The charity which has a bill posting
establishment in .connection does not
have any other connection.
Some people who say they 'have
given their hearts to God never ad
mit the truth that they have given
nothing else.
- The trouble with most of us is that
we consume so much time in getting
.starred that we have no time left in
which to finish. ,
The' man who never has a dollar of
his own is the man who is used by the
men who insist upon having dollars -"good
the world over.".
There Js'.a slight difference in. 'the
spelling, bub no difference, in the re
suits of the bear hunt in Mississippi
'andthe Baer hunt 'in Pennsylvania;. .
; The? '"patriotism that depends upon
the money there is in it is not the
patriotism'' that shoulder sr the miisket"
beca'Use the' good of the - country de1-5
;mamlS it. 'I -' . t.
, In battle, jthe onlys shots that' dount
are the shots that hit. and in nuMf
life the only deeds that count 6v
good ara'the' deeds; that result :i'n the
greatest good to-the greatest number;
' ' c Will M. Malipin.
vised, that ho carried Cuyahoga coun
ty by 3,000. That makes tho fourth
time within the last 18 months that
Tom L. Johnson has been vindicated
and his public service ratified by tho
people who know him best, the peo
ple of his own county. I am not dis
couraged. Let us go on with our
work, remembering that 'Truth lost
a battle at Bunker Hill, but won a
war at Yorktown.' "
It was by about 2,500 instead of 3,
000 that Johnson carried Cuyahoga
county for Bigelow an increase over
last year of 2,400; and he carried
Cleveland-by 5,000, while in the few
counties that were systematically can
vassed he increased the democratic
vote by 10,000. It was the combina
tion -cf the two bosses of Cincinnati
McLean, the democrat, and Cox, tho
republican that increased the repub
lican plurality in the state. Had Ham
ilton county been entirely out of tho
count, Bigelow would have reduced
the former state plurality by 20,000.
Not the least of the advantages John
son has won is the control of the coun
ty government of ouyahoga. With
this advantage secured, he will be
al le now to carry on his taxation fight
as a county matter. The "rippering"
of the city government in the interest
of Hanna and the railroad companies
may therefore be somewhat barren
as a corporation victory. The repub
lican papers and their democratic co
adjutors anticipated too much when
in shrieking head-lines they pro
claimed that Tom L. Johnson was
now "a dead one." The Chicago Public.
The Right Thins.
A New Catarrh Cure, Which is Rapidly Com
ing to the Front.
For icveral years, Euc'alyptol Guaiacol and
Hydrastin hnve been recognized as standard rem
'euies for catarrhal troubles, but thev have al
ways been givqn separately and only very recent
Matrimonial.
The young wife may know that tho
toaeymoon is over when her husband
growls at finding one of her hairs in
the butter.
Some people are wedded to art for
tke simple reason that art has no
means for securing a divorce.
You cannot judge the future of a
npwly married couple by the number
Maria
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Heart Disease
may be fcured by strengthening the
heart nerve?, enriching. the blopd and
improving the circulation with Dr.
Miles' lileart Qure. ,'Safq and sure.
boiu on guarantoo , cson.u postal ipr ire
The Ohio Result. '
As the mist of the Associated press
election reports clear away and a bet
ter understanding of the Ohio' cam
paign is obtained, Tom L. Johnson
appears to have made gratifying prog
ress instead of having been snowed
under. Writing of tho situation, John
J.. Lepte says: u "
"No man. ever worked nimJtiof,0.,i,
odds in the state of Ohip as did Tom
L. Johnson. Almost lone-handed he
Sfint ihG busIness of clearing' the
forests and swamps of a trusUridden
democracy extended throughout tho
state, He Md traitors in hfs amy
every county. Those who had been
democrats for revenue nniv iS--S
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Bftbnnk as W vhe'only wonder ia tw i,
on dlwiaseq of tho (heart and 'nerves wUav.i waa ftblo to make as mimii n? i:
duvMILks MEDtCAr, Co., Elkhart, lad. J ing as ho did. At this timn T n T
ly an ingenious chemist succeeded in combining
them, together with other antiseptics into a
pleasant tffcqtive tablet,
pruggists sell the remedy under the name of
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets and it has met with re
markable Shccess in the cure of nasal catarrh,
bronchial and throat catarrh and in catarrh of
the stomach.
Mr. P. N. Benton, whose Address is care of
Clark House. Troy, N. Y. says: "When I run up
against anything that is good Hike to tell people
ot it. I have been troubled with catarrh more or
less for some time. I.ast winter more than ever.
Tried pcvcral so-called cures, but did not get any
benefit from them. .About six weeks ago I
bought a 50 cent bux of Stuart's Catarrh TaMeta
ana am glad to say that they have done wonders
for me and I do not hesitate to let all my friend
know that Stuart's Catafrli Tablets are the right
thing."
Mr. Geo. J. Casanova of hotel Griffon. "West oth
street, New York City, writes: "I have com
menced us ng Stuart's Catarrh Tablets and al
ready they have given hie better results than any
catarrh cure I have ever tried."
A leading physician of Pittsburg advises the
use of Stuart's Catnrrh Tablets in preference to
arty other treatment for catarrh of the head,
throat or stomach.
lie claims they are far superior to inhalers,
salves, lotions or powder, and are much more
convenient and pleasantto takeand are sol arm
less that little children take them with benefit as
they contain no opiate, cocaine or any poisonous
drugs. I '
Ail druggists sell Stuart,'s Catarrh Tablets at
50 cents for full size package and they are prob
ably the safest' and most reliable cure for any
form of catarrh.
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