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THE OHIOAOO EAQIjE. r r. " "HELLO, YOU! X Been trying all day to find yovi by 'phone, Hope you will get your name into THE UNITED STATES TELEPHONE DIRECTORY" It's So Handy and Complete and Costs Only $2 Per Year. Thousands of residents of Chicago and its .suburbs who have never had the direct benefits of the telephone will appreciate the incomparable service we are now olVering, as one of these directories will be at every telephone. This is the most complete telephone and business directory ever published. Indorsed by all classes, business, professional and social. You Cannot Afford to Be Left Out.. The United States Telephone Directory shows your name, your business, the name of the firm or corporation you are with or a member of, the telephone numbers you use at your business, your home address and the telephone you use for it. I It keeps you in constant touch with your home com munity and, through its long-distance connections, with the entire country.' Send us promptly your name, address and the telephone you , use or can' be reached by. For further particulars call or write The United States Telephone Directory Co. TENNESSEE WHISKY u EVERYBODY GET HAPPY! Loosen Up Some Call for OLD CASCADE" THE BEST MADE Cures a Cold in a Minute Removes Pain Sells While We Sleep THOMPSON BROTHERS OWNERS OF 8IDNEY LUCAS SOLE DISTRIBUTORS CHICAGO TRIBUNE BUILPINO 'Phone 2369 Central NEW YORK 1J?N " BUFFALO TENNESSEE WHISKY THE XV. h HALL, President. OliO. tl. JENNEY. Vice President. I-RI5D M. IJLOUNT, Irca-urer. I:RKD J. TUCKER, Secretary. CHIGAap URANCHi 819-820 Association Building, 153 La Salle Street, Chicago. CHI0AQ9 'PHONE, 4239 CENTRAL. AUTOMATIC 3317. 1 J CANNON BURIED I2G YEARS. KcMiliitlniiiir.x He lie I'll LT t'i III CliC'H tcr Comity. l'crin-fviiolii. A camion of the revolutionary war ha lit'cn dNouvcred hurled on the farm of Kpbralm Knurfiuiui. near XVar wick, L'hcstci' County, says a Mending (l'a.) ioiri'poinlont of the Ualtliiuirv Hun. The cannon weigh Vi."i) pound and N of cait lion. The letters "V. XV. !'." cut on It are taken to menu that Jt wan made at the Pennsylvania War wick furnace, which operated during the i evolution. The furnace made can non for Washington's army. DurlliK the occupancy of Philadel phia by the Itrltlsb under Lord Howo It wn reported that Howo was about to wend an expedition out to destroy the furnace, capture the cannon and then come on to this city and seize the provisions and xtippllos which were kept here for the American army. The people In charge of the furnace were mt certain that the expedition would he made that they hurled a number of caunon to keep them from falling Into llie hands of tho enemy. The place of burial was not marked, and In eon-Mtiicnt-c the cannon remained con cealed until a Mrenm tunning near tho old furnace changed Its course slight ly. The change exposed one of the ronuer banks of the stream. Jlecently two men wero Hailing In tho stream, when they uotlced the top of what they suppose to be n plpo pro trudlng from the former bank of tho creek. L'pou examination they found It to b tho top of an old cannon. It was then dug out. and four mules were renuhed to draw tho heavy gun up the bank. Tho c.iunon U greatly rusted and Is of tho type used during tho tlmo of the revolution. Marks on tho gun Nttuu to show that it weighed 4,(100 pounds when It waH new. Ah It now weighs but 4.Vi0 pounds It Is thought that It lost llfty pounds by vust In Its VJ3 yeatV burial. The caunon was kupp'oMil to have been burled in tho IkmI of the stream. The waters were turned out of their usual course until the weapous were secreted from ex peeted invaders, after which they were nlliiwisl to resume their usual tlow. Tlie cannon which was discovered te cciitly Wh live feet below the surface. Mr. Katiffinan, who owns the farm on which tho cannon was discovered, removed the cannon to ills home In Oley Township, near Prlodeusbuig, tills' county. The trip was twenty-four miles by way jf Pottstown and Doug lassvllle. and took a day. Mr. KaulT- man now has the gun on hi- lawn. "I icweiryi nt reasonable prices, tho man is tin largest ri'viuiiieiiiiiij h'iic in wui county. The gun Is seven and one-half At Intervals ever since then the tar antula had been seen at viulotis places through tho dwelling, but In ever In stance It managed to elude Its pursuers, who began to have cieepy feelings every, time they saw anything movo In a shadowy place. It got to be a reign of terror In tho house, but no one seem ed able to Hud the thing Unit menaced them. rust as lie and Ills wire were about to retire one night Ink ouco more caught sight of the tarantula as It clung to a picture frame In his bed room. "Ha:" cried Kink, "I luivo you nt last, you pesky varmint!" and he made a heroic effort to do the thing to death. The huge Insect scorned to wink at him as It dodged behind the picture frame and mysteriously disappeared like a ghost or some other horrid crea tion of the fancy. Nur that he waa on the trail of the visci't Ink got up early the next morning determined to lid the house of the cioature. He searched In every possible crevice and cinnny, and nt hist, after two hours of unceasing scrutiny, ho caino upon the spider crouched In u little crevice In the wall where It may have hidden all these months. Ink killed It and proud ly exhibits tho hairy body nt his home. It measures over live Inches across Its legs. ITEMS Of INTEREST The finest livery stables In Chicago are those of the Erie Livery, 100 to S01 Erie street, and 108 to 170 Ontario street. Tbe proprietor, Mr. William A. Hlnklus, Is oae of tho best known and best liked horsemen In tbe country. He has recently purchased and has subject to call the finest Imperials, French leather beads, Victorias and landau carriages In Chicago, Ills broughams, coupes and hansom cabs are tbe best. tits borsett are first-class, with rub ber shoes; they never slip. His drivers are well dressed, sober, courteous and reliable. Telephone 1070 North. One of tho best-liked and most pop alar business men In Chicago Is Tom N. Donnelly, the jeweler, nt 118 Dearborn street. Mr. Donnelly enjoys the con fidence and patronage of tho very best ueonle In Chicago, and If you want tho i best goods, In watches, ! nonds and The I Mike of I.elnster Is one of the youngest peers In King IMwurd's realm, lie Is III years old mid Is the premier peer of the kingdom of Ire laud and head of the great Irish house of I-'itxgeialil, which for hundreds of years has played so conspicuous it role In the history of the emerald Isle. He is u great grauduep:iew of the pat tiot. Lord Kdwiird, tho hero mid mar tyr of the 'US rebellion. During Ills school days tho young peer was one of the leading boys at Kton In all sorts of athletics, but ho developed signs of consumption, the malady that carried off both his father and mother, and left him the youngest duke in the Kng llsh peerage when barely 11 years old, and now every precaution Is being tak en to preserve him for tho great things that may bo expected from one of his brilliant ancestry. NOW READY. THE MANY ADVENTURES OF Foxy Grandpa! Including all the merry pictures contained In tbe two volumes, entitled "Adventures of Foxy Urandpa" and "Further Adven tures of Foxy Qradpa." to patroulze is honest Tom Donnelly, at 118 Dearborn street. There Is no better beer browed In the world than the far-famed "Kxtra" Beer brewed by the Hrand Ilrowiug Com pany, at 1U."1 Klston avenue. fer-t lung and six feet In circumfeirnco nt the fu"' end Tho mouth Is four ti'i'ii luchi-s in iiiauieter and the open lug live and one-half Inches. ulVING WITH A TARANTULA. Itlu !ililcr Terrorized nmi Liuilcil The beer buttled by the Independent I'limiiv M Month-,. i Itruwlng Association, the Krnst Uroth- An ugly, ciiumoiii tarantula from ers' famous plant, Is tho finest in tho the tioplci. wa dispatched at the homo country. Order It for your residence. of William lug. at Hudson and WH- Phone, North 0IB. low Miccttf, liloticGsler clt. lecently, aftci It had teiioilzcd tho family for a pet Iml of sl months. Ink was a former fruit dmler, and one day a lmlf-.w-ir ago while in- was, handling a bunch of Imiiiiii.iii tho huge spider lioppi-I out and iscapc-d. ink and uu-niltcrs of his family set i in -d for the infeect for uomo time, but without aiall. and then concluded that it had gone out Into tho wido world Not long after that, however, the tarantula was discovered in the bouse and again chnso was given It, but ouco mote It escaped by hiding. U. J. XX'eller & Co. Is one of tho Inrg est and most reliable firms nt present cugfigrd In the commission business In this city. All who have business with them are perfectly safe In their hands, and sure of ctllclent services and hon orable tieatment. For wines and liquors, Keating Ct Mnhony, tho well-known Importer and wholesale dealers In this JJne at goods, are among the foremost in tbe country for valuo as well as the excellence of their goods. Mr. schultze said to me one day at lunch: "What do you think of a aeries of comic drawings dealing with a grandfather and bis two grandsons?" "Let the grandfather be the clever one of tbe trio. In most of tbe other cases tbe young folk have been smart er than the old people upon whom they played their Jokes. Let'a refers It." Tbe nest morning he came to any of fice with aketchea for half a dosen series, and with tbe name "Foxy Grandpa" In his bead The success of tbe series In tbe New York Herald waa Instantaneous, for who has not heard of "Foxy Grandpa" and "Bunny"? The Jolly old gentleman, dear to grown people as well as children, might almost be called the Mr. Pick wick of comic pictures. EDWARD MARSHALL. To Grandfathers Who Are And To Those XVho Are To Be. I Merrily Dedicate This Book. "BUNNY." Rent postage paid on receipt of ONE DOLLAR In currency or postal order; no checks received. L. R. Hamersly Co., 9 Wall Street, NEW YORK. A brass, band In Jackson, Miss., frightened a liuilo to death. From the meager reports wo arc nt a loss to do termiuo whether this rcllccts on tho inulo or tho band. NEW YORK CLIPPER 19 1Mb. I fyrsatss? ThesfriGal Papir I In America. fll person, Inlornstrrl In tho happonlnaa AMUSEMENT WORLD Cannot nirorri 1o bo without It. .(PUBLISHED WEEKLY, 4.00 t'CH YEAR. i RiNOLr copv. in nsurr. For Colo by all Nnwadeatoro In ell porta v, iiiu vvuriu. AMPLE COPY FREE. Address NEW YORK CLIPPER, New York City. Phone North 1116. Geo. E. Heidbrink BUFFET 172 North Clark St., corner Erie St.t F.verythlre; Choice. CHICAGO. &&&&&&& Telephone West 1361 GEO. EDMANSON & SON OYSTER DEALERS and SEA FOOD BROKERS 454 S. Irviai Ave., CHICAQO vuvmvvvivi 3fr $ A. H. BARBER & CO. TELEPHONE 578 CENTRAL Capt John C. Dalton's BUFFET Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Liquors &. Cigars 18 RUSH STREET Corner Michigan St. CHICAQO. Wholesale Dealers In HENRY E. BRANDT. 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