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GREAT SPEAR HEAP CONTEST.
SAVE THE TAGS.
0i3 Hundred and Sevsnty-Tfirae Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
$173,250.00
Ir valuable Presents to be Given Away in Return for
SPEAR HEAD TAGS,
1,155 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.S34,G.'0 00
5,775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY,
BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 2S.S75 00
23,100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED
POCKET KNIVES. 2:3,100 00
115,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
PICKS. 57.750 CO
1 1 5,500 LARGE PICTURES <11x23 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS,for framing,
no advertising on them. 2S.«75 CO
261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 CO
The above articles will be distributed, by counties, among parties who chew SPEAR
HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the 'FIN TAGS taken therefrom.
We will distribute 236 of these prizes in this county as follows:
To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD
TAGS from this county we will give.1 GOLD WATCH.
To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of
SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES.
To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number
of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET
KNIFE.20 POCKET KNIVES.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1
ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1
LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES.
Total Number of Prizes for this County, 226.
CAUTION.—No Tags will bo received before January 1st, 1891, nor after February 1st,
1894. Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town,
County, State, and Number of Tags in each package. All charges on packages must he
prepaid.
READ.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other
plug tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is
absolutely, positively and distinctively different In flavor from any other plug tobacco.
A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It is the largest seller of any similar
shape and style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and pleases the
people. Try it, and participate in the contest for prizes. Bee that a TIN TAG is on every
10 cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small the
quantity. Very sincerely,
4 THE P. J. 80RG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio.
A list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published In this
paper immediately after February 1st, 1894.
DOA’T SEW AST TASS 3EF93E JANUARY I. 1334.
THE SAND OF AN OLD TIMER.
Fatal Bravery That Won a Rare Tribute
From a Band of Apaches.
A company of ranchmen sat about the
railroad station in Pomona the other aft
ernoon waiting for the belated overland
train for Los Angeles. Every man in
the party knew the others, and there be
ing an hour or two to wait story telling
ef the early days on the border and in
Arizona and California came natural.
Stories of old times, when Indians were
bad and the white pioneers knew what
bravery meant, were related. John Wil
son of El Monte told the most absorbing
story of the hour:
“Talk about sand in a man, gentle
men! I am telling you that it takes sand
of the genuine article in any man to try
and stand off single handed 40 or 50
Apaches when he knows just how the
scrap will end, and that the end will be
his own death. But thut was just the
kind of sand that was in Felix Knox
when he was killed by the Apaches.
You see Knox was an all round gambler,
such as the tenderfoot from the east
scorns so much and knows so little
about, but he had a heart in him bigger
than any tenderfoot’s head. Well, it
was in the spring of 1879 Knox, with his
wife and baby and a Mexican driver,
was coming from Silver City to Clifton,
down in Arizona. They got to York’s
ranch, which is on the Gila river, about
80 miles from Clifton, all right, but
were told there that signs of Apaches
had been seen, and that they had better
go in camp there for a few days, but
Knox—who had fought the Apaches
dozens of times and didn’t know what
fear was—said he wanted to make Clif
ton that day, Indians or no Indians.
“Well, the Knoxes drove on. When
they were about two miles from York’s
ranch, sure enough a big buck Indian
came from behind a low, round top
mesa. Knox knew there were plenty
more of the red devils hid there and
that it meant a tight to death for him.
He was as cool as a cucumber. He
jumped out of the wagon, filled his pock
ets with two boxes of cartridges, and
then kissed his wife and baby for the
last time, but saying that he would have
the redskins quieted in a few minutes.
He ordered the Mexican driver to lash
the team for all he was worth and to
drive back to York's ranch as fast as the
horses could jump. Then Knox waved
his hand to his wife and said he was go
ing to stand off a few Apaches, although
he was sure there was a big band of
them. As the team and wagon flew back
to the ranch Knox, rifle in hand, started
toward the hill for his last fight. He
turned once and waved his sombrero to
his wife and child and then strode on to
his certain death.
“The Apaches a second later rushed
out from behind the hill where they
were secreted. Knox faced his foes, and
standing stock still pumped lead at
them until he fell down dead. The
next day a party of us was made up,
and we went out where the fight took
place. Knox s body lay there amid the
cactus in the sun. The Apaches, con
trary to their usual custom, had not mu
tilated the fellow’s body in the least.
They had taken a clean pocket handker
chief out of Knox’s pocket and carefully
spread it over his face and had fastened
it there by putting a 6mall stone on each
comer of it to hold it in its place and
keep the hot sun from the dead man’s
face. That was their tribute to the
sand in Knox. Seventy empty shells
were found that had been emptied from
Knox’s winchester, and one of the raid
ing Indians afterward said that their
party numbered 42 and that Knox had
killed seven of them.”—Pomona Prog
ress.
The Servant Was Horrified.
Dr. S. had a newly arrived Hiber
nian for a servant. He had also recent
ly purchased a pair of porpoise leather
boots. His wife, attracted by the nov
elty of the new footwear, asked the doc
tor in the presence of the servant what
they were made of, to which he respond
ed, “Porpoise hide.”
Shortly after the lady from the Emer
ald Isle interviewed Mrs. S. and an
nounced her intention of “laving whin
me week is up.” Mrs. S., somewhat
surprised, asked the disturbed domestic
the reason for her announced departure,
to which Bridget responded with a hor
rified air:
“Your husband is a docther, mum, an
I’ve heard them docthers do be cuttin
up people, an didn't I hear urn wid me
own ears say that the boots of him were
made of pauper’s hide. It's me own
ould father that died in the poorhouse,
an I wouldn’t be servin a haythen that
uses the skin of the poor to cover his
dirthy feet wid.”—Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Better Left Unsaid.
A certain young poet is equally fa
mous in the world of letters as an au
thor and among his friends for his blunt
candor that is forever betraying him
into one of the things one would have
preferred to say differently, as Du Mau
rier puts it. On his last birthday he was
given a charming dinner by his doting
parents, at which he was bitterly disap
pointed by the regret of several nota
bles. Thus, when a society girl said to
him at the close of the evening, “What
a delightful time we have had!” he ex
claimed from the fullness of his heart:
“I’m glad it hasn’t seemed dull to you.
We invited some awfully clever people,
but not one of them came!”—Philadel
phia Press.
Pensions For Workingmen In Austria.
Under the provisions of the Austrian
poor law, at 60 years of age a man may
claim from his native town or commune
a pension equal to one-third of the daily
wages which he had received during his
working years. The amount varies from
2 to 6 florins a month. In Vienna alone
there are 16,000 persons who receive these
pensions from the city.
She Had Been There.
Perdita—You haven’t the faintest idea
how much I love him.
Penelope—-Oh, yes I have—I used' to
love him that way myself.—Brooklyn
Life.
I
THE LYRIC POET’S APOLOGY.
I strive to probe to other hearts and find
I do but fret the phantom of mine own;
I strain to paint great nature, aud my mind
But images itself in every zone.
The leason learned, I sing life’s woven lay
In syllables of self and can no other way.
—Richard Burton in Harper's Weekly.
A Puzzled Mother.
"It takes a 14-year-ol(l boy to see
through his mother,” laughed such a
mother the other day. “Last week I
planned to take a friend to the theater,
and her only free night was Thursday.
Now, I often take my boy to see a play,
but I make it a rule it shall not be on a
night preceding a school day. So on
this occasion I explained to my son that
he could not go, and as an offset to his
disappointment arranged an outing for
the Saturday following. He acquiesced
most dutifully and beautifully, and the
matter rested. Thursday came, and as
the afternoon waned, 1 found that my
son was to be all alone part of the even
ing, and I began to wish that he was
going with us. At last I made up my
mind, and calling him said:
“I think, after all, you may go tonight.
You are going to be alone, and I know
you always count upon these trips to the
theater. So if you’ll study hard till din
ner you shall be of the party."
“ ‘That’s all right, mother,’ replied the
young scamp with a laugh. ‘I knew
you’d weaken at the last, so I’ve managed
my lessons, and I’m all rwly. And now
I’m alternately deploring my want of
strength and wondering how to preserve
a semblance of authority with so shrewd
a son.”—New York Times.
The Strain on the Eye.
There is no reason why a muscle or
muscles of the eye should not fag out
just as the muscles elsewhere do. Let
one bear a weight all day long, does he
not attribute his consequent headache
to the heavy burden he has borne? It
seems without elaborate thinking we
could conceive of the results following
upon prolonged use of the eye. Nature
has done all she could to protect and
prolong the usefulness of the eye.
No earthly architect ever yet planned
a structure that would not yield, crum
ble and fall, and the house human, so
exquisitely uplifted in curious and mys
terious ways, falls and returns to dust
more rapidly and surely than need be,
for the reason that we do not realize how
much one part is sustained or over
thrown by another. One tiny muscle is
potent enough to disturb the whole econ
omy, especially if intercurrent diseases
exist in addition to “eye strain.”—Phil
adelphia Record.
Th© Vibration of Steamers.
The discomfort of the excessive vibra
tion on board the fast sailing ocean steam
ers has increased so much with the in
crease in the speed of travel that investi
gations have been made into the subject
with a view of modifying the inconven
ience caused to passengers. The usual
idea is that this vibration is due to the
action of the powerful engines. This is
apparently erroneous, for it is now found
that the cause consists solely in the uni
son between the number of revolutions
of the engines and the number of vibra
tions of the ship. The smaller the length
of the ship the greater is the number
per unit of its vibrations, and the longer
the steamer the greater is the correspond
ing time of its vibrations.—New York
Telegram.
Ambiguous.
“1 congratulate you, Mrs. Familias,
on your husband’s safe return.”
“Thank you, Mr. Cardiac. It’s no joke
to have the man of one’s family on a
steamer a week overdue in December.”
“I had made up my mind that if he
went down I would write you a letter
of condolence.”
“That was kind of you. What were
you going to tell me, Mr. Cardiac?”
“Well, I wanted to express my appre
ciation of him, and lots of sympathy and
encouragement for you, and I had about
made up my mind just to say, ‘There’s
as good fish in the sea as ever were
caught,’ and let you take it either way.”
—Life.
An English Tribute to Emerson.
When the celebrated Arthur Stanley,
dean of Westminstet, had finished his
visit here in the year 1878, he was asked
about the American pulpit. He said in
reply that he had of course availed him
self of every opportunity to hear the
American preachers. He had heard
preachers of eminence, he said, in al
most every communion. “But it mat
tered not what was the name of the
communion, the preacher,” he said,
“was always Waldo Emerson.”—Ed
ward E. Hale’s Address.
Doubly Insulted.
Biblelot—Tiens, canaille! What do
you mean by writing to my wife and
calling her your “belle Marie?”
Pipelot—Mille pardons, m’sieur. I—I
thought the lady was your daughter.
Bibelot—Sacre bleu! Worse still.—
Vogue.
When you make a mistake, don’t look
back at it long. Take the reason of the
thing into your mind and then look for
ward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom.
The past cannot be changed. The futile
is yet in your power.—Hugh White.
The first military order issued by Gen
eral Grant, dated July 2, 1SG1, and ap
pointing Colonel E. T. Dawson quarter
master of the Twenty-first Illinois, is in
possession of Colonel Dawson, who is
said to have refused $3,000 for it.
The last words of John Locke were,
“I have lived long enough, and I am
thankful I have enjoyed a happy life;
but after all look on this life as noth
ing better than vanity.”
The largest private collection of min
erals in America is supposed to be that
off Clarence L. Bement of Philadelphia.
Its estimated value is $123,000.
Duval, tiie Paris anarchist, said he
should like to shake somebody’s hand
before he died, and that was all, but his
sentence was commuted.
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