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Stock of Iron, Lead and Sewer Pipe, Brass Goods,
Pumps, and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday,
Eclipse and Waupun Wind Mills.
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CHEAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST.
SAVE THE TAGS.
Orta Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
$173,250.00
In valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for
SPEAR HEAD TAGS,
1,155 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.SM.G50 00
5,775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY,
BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 23,375 00
23.100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED
POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00
115,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
* PICKS. 57,750 09
t 15,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x23 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing,
no advertising on them. 28.S75 09
261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 00
The above articles will be distributed, by comities, among parties who chew SPEAR
HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom.
We will distribute 226 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.
I'o 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 be received before January 1st, 1894, 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 be
prepai^^^ —SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other
.„„„ tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is
absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from auy other plug tobacco.
A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It is the largest seller of any similar
inane 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. See that a TIN TAG Is on every
io cent piece of SPEAK HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small the
ouantitvT Very sincerely,
manmy. THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, Middlztown, Ohio.
A list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published In this
paper immediately after February 1st, 1894.
DON’T SEND ANY TA6S BEFORE JANUARY I. IBM.
IN THE METROPOLIS,
CITIZENS OF NEW YORK MAKING !
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.
_
Improvements on a Gigantic Scale Project- |
ed—Hundreds of Millions of Hollars to
Be Spent In Beautifying the Chief City !
of the Continent.
Much has been said from time to time
of the absence of public spirit, of local '
pride and of neighborhood feeling in
New York. Even the men who have
made great fortunes here do not seem to
have any regard for the city that has
given them their opportunities for
achieving wealth. “Men do not under
stand the causes of their success,” said a i
speaker of the board of trade recently in
commenting upon the difficulty in arous
ing public interest herein the movement
for the improvement of the Erie canal,
on which so much of the prosperity of
thq city depends. The lack of public
spirit was signally illustrated in the half
hearted way in which the business men
entered into the movement to secure the
World’s fair for New York. Chicago
was a blaze of enthusiasm on the sub
ject, but New York entered into the
competition in a listless, don’t care sort
of way, which naturally resulted in Chi
cago carrying off the prize.
The fact is that New York is a city of
markets, of ships, of shops, of hotels and
of tenement houses, but not of homes.
The rich men may have mansions here,
but their homes are in their country
houses. The people who live in flats and
tenement houses are engaged in a strug
gle for a bare existence, and have not the
time or disposition to give much thought
or care lor me cny. rue diversity or
races and languages represented in the
population serves only to separate the
people more and make them regard the
city with utter indifference.
But there is reason for believing that
this state of things is gradually growing
better. There are evidences of increased
public spirit, of a greater pride in the
city and of a larger interest in her de
velopment and improvement. Great
schemes of public improvement have
been projected or begun. Millions have
recently been expended in the acquisi
tion of new parks, and twice lately when
it was proposed to do something that
would injure Central park there was an
exhibition of aroused public opinion that
prevented the outrages and would have
done credit to a much smaller but more
enthusiastic city.
Eich men are now contributing a lib
eral portion of their wealth to enter
prises that will increase the glory of the
metropolis. Columbia college is being
rapidly developed into a great universi
ty. A magnificent cathedral has been
started. A spacious botanical garden is
to be established. A fine aquarium is to
take the place of Castle Garden on the
Battery. A splendid speedway for horses
is to be built. The city is to erect an
immense municipal building, which it is
proposed shall be a notable architectural
addition to the metropolis. The present
city hall is to be given to the trustees of
the Tilden trust and made the home of a
$3,000,000 library.
The art and natural history museums
are being rapidly developed and will
soon take rank among the best in the
world. Monuments and statues are being
multiplied, and eight years after his
death the $500,000 tomb of General Grant
is approaching completion.
But in other and perhaps more inter
esting ways is the revival of public spirit
in New York being manifested. Busi
ness men are showing an increased inter
est in the good government of the city
and in its improvement in little things
as well as great. Other cities might in
deed copy with advantage some of the
methods of the organizations that have
been formed here for the public weal.
The City Improvement society has
been formed and has started out to in
vestigate the various complaints of citi
zens and to secure, if possible, better
pavements, better street cleaning and
similar improvements in parks, bridges
and streets of the city. Lately a munic
ipal art society has been organized by
leading artists, architects and others,
with a view of making the city more
beautiful. They seek to improve the ar
chitecture of the public buildings, to se
cure artistic decoration within them and
to prevent the erection of inferior stat
ues and other inartistic structures. An
other society is engaged in marking with
bronze tablets the places of historical
interest. Others of a more philanthrop
ical nature are endeavoring to better the
lives and condition of the tenement house
population.
The women have organized a health
protective association, and are endeavor
ing to institute reforms that shall de
crease the death rate and make New
York a better city to live in. The latest
reform which they have taken up is that
of securing a health regulation requiring
the removal of the refuse of the 60,000
horses in the city of New York. The
physicians comprising the Academy of
Medicine have lately been acting with
vigor and courage to secure improved
quarantine protection and a purified wa
ter supply. The chamber of commerce
and the board of trade—the mouthpieces
of the merchants and bankers—have late
ly exhibited increased activity and exer
cised a wider influence. All these things
certainly indicate that New Yorkers are
beginning to wake up and to show a
livelier interest in the welfare of the city.
Perhaps the fact that other cities are
getting closer to her in the competition
for business has something to do with
this. It is beginning to dawn upon her
citizens that unless she can unite with
Brooklyn, bridge and tunnel the North
river, throw more bridges over the East
river, get rapid transit from city hall to
Westchester county and institute other
measures of public improvement, she is
liable to lose her commercial supremacy.
—New York Cor. Baltimore Sun.
Many of the South Sea islanders be
lieve that paradise can be inherited only
by persons of perfect physical forms.
Where this belief prevails a man will die
rather than submit to amputation.
THE SAND OF AN OLD TIMER.
Fatal Bravery That Won a Bare 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 lion* or two to wait story telling
pf the early day3 on the border and in
Arizona and California came natural.
Stories of old times, when Indians were
bad and tho 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 singlo handed 40 or 00
Apaches when he knows just how the
scrap will end, and that tho end will bo
his own death. But that was just the
kind of sand that was in Felix Knox
when he was killed by the Apaches.
You seoKnox 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
30 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 oij. 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 tliero were plenty
more or me rea uevns mu mere anu
that it meant a fight 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. Ho
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 small stone on each
corner 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 um 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 haytlien 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.
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