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THE National Gorman Americas Bant Capital, 9 200,000. Surplus, 945,000. United States Depositary, epository of the State of Wisconsin Officxbs:—B. Heinemann, Preet; W. Alex ander, Vice-Prest.; H. G. F''eth, Cashier. Dibkotobs:—B. Heinemann, C. 8. Gilbert, Walt. Alexander, H. G. Flieth, F. W. Kick bnech, C. J. Winton, J. D. Boot. H. M. Thomp son and D. J. Man-ay. SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE. Pays interest on time dc posits at the rate ot 3 per cent, per annnm. Invitee attention to its savings department in which interest is payable semi-annually on the first of January and on sums then on deposit three months or more. Sams of 35.00 and upward will be received. Has a safety deposit vault. Boxes for rent at 92 per year. f&tattsan gilet. TUESDAY, DEC. 27, 1904. Published weekly and entered at the Post Office at Wausau as secon-l class matter. The Situation. The situation, with reference as to who will control in the coming legisla ture of Wisconsin, is looked into by a Chicago Record-Herald reporter, who writes from Milwaukee as follows: •‘With the session of the legislature but a few weeks away everyone is as much at sea as to who is to be United States senator and how the senate is to be or ganized as they were six weeks ago. The organization will in a measure in fluence the other question. The caucus of administration senators at Madison a week ago failed entirely of its effect for the reason that but sixteen senators at tended and it takes seventeen for a ma jority. Furthermore, it is by no means certain that all those who attended will support any cut and dried program when it comes to the make up of com mittees, which are usually selected by a caucus of the senators of the majority party. This year, however, the republi cans are divided between LaFollette men and stalwarts, the former having thirteen certain and the latter eleven, with four claimed by both sides. The administration forces expected to or ganize the senate, as seventeen of the senators were elected as being of that wing of the party. The trouble comes from its being found that all “will not stay put” when it comes to implicit obedience to the administration plans regarding the distribution of the com mittees and the senate ottices. The four men over whom there is controversy are Froemming, of Milwaukee; Wilcox, of Appleton; Stevens, of Oshkosh and San born, of Ashland. It is safe to say that these four senators will support the rate bill, and measures which enter into the platform, but in organization of the senate and the election of a United States senator they may or may not be with the administration. Two of these senators will undoubtedly balk at the plan of discipioiug stalwart senators, who in most cases happen to be old members, and under the traditions, en titled to place on such committees as they choose,Senator Hatton and Senator Stout will also hesitate to assist >n ap plying the knife to their old associates. “The organization question may again cause trouble when it comes to the elec tion of a United States senator, through friction engendered in caucus, and the disputes over committee selections.” The plan to create an interstate com merce, court says a Washington corres pondent, to act as a court of appeals from the interstate commerce com mission seems to meet with favorable comment. The principal feature of the present day discussion is not in regard to discriminations, but the broad proposition that the railways are charg ing too much for transportation. The latest plans for courts to determine questions regarding reasonable rates are receiving serious consideration in quarters where it will count for much in the final hearings on the subject here. Representative Cooper of Wisconsin was quoted here as being opposed to the suggestion of additional courts for interstate commerce questions. He contends that the suggestion means delay only. “Up to the present time,” said Mr. Cooper, “I am in favor of authorizing the interstate commerce commission to fix rates. This right of fixing rates is purely a legislative function, and can not be delegated by congress to a judge. Xhe railroads must understand that they will be forced to choose between government regulation and government ownership, and if they are wise they will hurry to accept the former instead of waiting to be forced into the latter.” “The right to regulate rates,” said Senator Quarles, “Is an administrative function, aud as such should be per formed by a federal commission rather than by a court. The railroad mana gers have changed their opinions rapidly s ad are now assisting the presi dent in his efforts to provide means for giving relief to the shippers of the country.” Rev. W. E. Dugan, pastor Stewart Memorial U. P. church, San Francisco, Cal., says: •‘The Sign of the Cross” is a God send to the stage and the world. lam enthusiastic over the introduction of such plays upon the stage. If Christian people would patronize such pieces in ferior plays would be driven off the stage. The subject of my sermon Sun day evening will be ‘Voices from the (.Toss.’ Asa sub-division I shall speak of your play as one of the ‘voices’ and recommend it to the public.” The demand for seats for the appear ance here of “The Sign of the Cross” is far above anything seen here duriug the present season and the Grand opera house will be tilled with a magnified t audience next Saturday evening. Dec. 31, goes without saying. If you are geng to build or make any change in your resideuce, have your heating plant put in right and your gas work and plumbing done up in a mod ern way. We do all kinds of repairing in these lines. A. 3. Wheeler & Son. 816 Third Street. tf. SONS OF VETERANS. It is expected that a camp of Sons of Veterans will be organized in Wausau next Thursday evening. The following letter has been mailed to all who have signed the roll, which is in itself self explanatory: Wausau, WTs., Dec. 22, 1904. Deak Sir:— ln replying to a letter directed by me to F. H. B. McDowell, Commander, Sons of Veterans, Division of Wisconsin, the division commander writes, interalia: “I would request that the fee for membership be fixed at $2.00 which will carry with it a membership to the Sons of Veterans Dead Benefit associa tion. As soon as a sufficient number have signed the role, call a meeting of the signers collect the membership fees, let them decide upon their officers, and return the application with the charter fee of $25.00 to me. I will then detail a mustering officer to muster the camp.” As there is a sufficient number of signers, I would call a meeting of Sons of Veterans at my office, No. 312 Wash ington St., Wausau, for Thursday even ing, December 29th., at 7:30 o’clock, at which time you are to choose and elect the following officers: Commander, Senior Vice-commander, Junior Vice commander, 3 delegates to camp council and necessary delegates to the division encampment. Also the commander elect has to appoint a secretary and treasurer at that time, and you will have to decide upon a name for the camp. If you know of any other sons of veterans, please have them come to this meeting, and they can sign the role here, and in this way become a charter member of your organization. Trusting that there will be a good attendance, and that all will be pre pared with their membership fees, I remain, Carl H. Mueller, On behalf of the committee of Cutler Post No. 55, G. A. R., Wis. SAUERHERING—LAURISCH. The following is taken from the Free Press of Mankato Minn., of the date of December 21st and tells of the marriage of two well known people of our city: “The marriage of Miss Magdalina Laurisch and Dr. Douglas Sauerhering took place at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. John Laurisch, iu Dan ville, at five o’clock yesterday after noon. Judge W. F. Hughes of this city performed the ceremony in the presence of a small gathering of the re latives. Frank Laurisch, and Miss Teresa Laurisch, brother and sister of the bride, attended the couple. “After the ceremony a fine wedding supper was served. The bride and groom took the evening train for Wau sau, W’is., where they will make their home. “The groom is a prominent physician of Wausau and is highly respected. The bride was reared in Danville, and is a charming lady. She has been a nurse aud has practiced that pro fession in Pittsburg, New York and Wausau. The best wishes of all will accompany the couple through life.” It tells the whole story in a nut shell. The Dr. has held a high place in medi cal circles in this city and state for over twenty years. Mrs. Sauerhering is well known to many in Wausau, having held the position of bead nurse in the Riverside hospital, and is very highly esteemed by all of her acquaint ances. The best wishes of all go with them. WON MANY SOCKS AT POKER GAME. Ole Oleson, a “lumberjack” walked in to Ashland the other day carrying 1,750 pairs of gloves and mittens, 1,175 pairs of socks and eighty-three pounds of to bacco. He offered the goods for sale at about one-fourth of their value and was ar rested on suspicion. He protested to the police that he came into possession of the goods honestly. When pressed he declared that he won the articles at poker in the lumber woods. Oleson said he had been in the woods many months. The lumberjacks re ceived no money while in the woods, but were expected to wait until they re turned to town for their pay. At the company “store” in the woods, the men can get such articles as they desire, however, having them charged against their time. Accordingly, the men used merchandise instead of checks in their games. Oleson said he p'ayed in good luck and in one game where socks were the stakes, he won 1,175 pairs of the hos iery on three aces. The other man held a trio of kings. In a game for mittens, O’eson said the limit was high and in three hours of play he had mittens enough to supply a regiment of soldiers. His story sounded reasonable and he was released to go and “cash in his checks.” LAND OFFICES DISCONTINUED A dispatch from Washington, I). C., says that fourteen land offices in the North-Western states, including Wis consin, will be abandoned soon because the public domain has become, limited. Also that the land office at Eau Claire has been listed for discontinuation. Its business will go to the Wausau office. NEW YEAR'S DAY. Next Sunday will b the first day of the New Year, 1905, and the old year will be of the past, with all of its pleas ures and its sorrows. While Wausau and its people have e. joyed their full share of prosperity, still, there is mu - that points to a great year for Wausau during 1905. Many hundreds of thou sands of dollars will go into new build ings and the inaugurating of new insti tutions. This means continued pros perity in a business way to our people. May health, prosperity and happiness attend you all is the wish of the Pilot. FOREST LODGE, NO. 130, F. * A. M. Forest Lodge, No. 130,FFt&. t & A. M, elected officers last Wednesday evening as follows: W M—F. P Stone. S. W.—Dr. Paul Riebe. J. W.—Wm Waterhouse. Treas —A H. Grout, Sec.—R. N. Larner. Trustee for 3 years—F. P. Stone. The sale of “Blue Ribbon” flour ex ceeds that of any other brands at th* stores of Max E. Boehm. A a Emperor’s Coarage. Here is a story told bf the courage of Emperor Francis 11. of Austria. One arm of the Danube separates the city of Vienna from a large suburb culled Leopold-stadt A thaw inun dated this suburb, and the ice car ried away the bridge of the communi cation with the capital. The popula tion of Leopold-atadt was in great dis tress for want of provisions. A num ber of boats were collected and loaded with bread, but no one felt hardy enough to risk the passage, which was rendered extremely dangerous by large bodies of Ice. Emperor Francis stood at the water’s edge. He begged, ex horted, threatened and promised the highest recompenses, but all In vain, while on the other shore his subjects, famishing with hunger, supplicated re lief. The monarch’s sensibility at length got the better of his prudence. He leaped singly Into a boat loaded with bread and applied himself to the oars, exclaiming, “Never shall It be said that I made no effort to save those who would risk their all for me!” The example of the sovereign Inflamed the spectators, who threw themselves into the boats. They encountered the sea successfully and gained the sub urb.—Vienna Journal. How a Porcupine Flghta a Snake. A man who witnessed a fight be tween a porcupine and a blacksnake thus describes the battle: “I came upon the scene just as the hedgehog began the attack upon the snake, which was lying stretched out on the road asleep. The hog advanced cautiously upon the reptile and seized Its tall in its mouth, giving it a sharp bite. Then he quick ly withdrew a few feet and, rolling himself into a compact, spiny ball, awaited developments. The snake upon being thus rudely awakened turned In fury upon his antagonist, striking the hog again and again with its fangs. The wily hedgehog, secure ly intrenched within its spiny armor, remained perfectly motionless all the while, allowing the snake to keep up the attack. At every stroke the jaws of the snake would become filled with the spines until at last, exhausted and bleeding from dozens of wounds caus ed by the needlelike spines of the hog, the snake gave up the battle. This was evidently what the hedgehog was waiting for, as he immediately proceed ed to roll over the snake again and again unt.fi he had completely disem boweled his victim.” A Shipshape Plano. A West Indian sea captain was asked by his wife to look at some pianos while be was in New York, with a view to buying her one. He wrote home as follows: “I saw one that I thought would suit you—black walnut hull, strong bulkheads, strengthened fore and aft with iron frame, lined with white wood and maple. Rigging steel wire, double on the ratlines and whipped wire on the lower stays and heavier cordage. .Belaying pins of steel and well driven home. Length of taffrail over all, six feet one inch; breadth of beam, thirty-eight inches; depth of hold, fourteen inches. Hatches can be battened down against ten-year-old boys or can be clewed up and sheeted home for a first class instrumental cyclone.” An Inheritance of Gestures. A young mau in crossing Chestnut street stumbled and immediately put bis hand, palm outward, over his eyes. “Why did you cover your eyes like that?” asked his companion. “The gesture is an inheritance from my father,” tlie young man replied. “My father in his boyhood was caught In a fire,.and as the flames shot: up Into his face he put his left hand, palm outward, over his eyes, thus saving Ills sight. Afterward he would put hls hand In that way over his eyes when ever he got any sudden shock or fright. I have done the same thing Involuntarily all iny life. “Cuses like mine are not uncommon,” continued the young man. “There is a woman In Washington who never puts her right hand up to her head. Her mother broke her right arm early in life and couldn’t raise it thereafter above her shoulder. The daughter <*an raise her own right arm, but she never does. “A biologist had a goat that be kept chained to a pole. The chain galled the goat’s left fore leg, and she limped on this leg slightly, so as to ease the chain’s rubbing. In time she became a mother, and her offspring limped on Its left fore leg all its life.”— Baltimore Herald. The “Illustrious Hybrid.” Geoige Sand, or Mine. Dudevant, the famous French woman writer, scandal ized her literary friends by wearing men’s clothes. “A long gray overcoat,” ■he herself says she wore, “a woolen tie and —and —a pair of boots.” These boots were her Joy. “I longed to sleep with them. On their little Iron shod heels I was firm on my feet and trotted from one end of Paris to the other.” She also smoked in public, cigarettes— even cigars—so that her teeth were much discolored, it was this outward mannishness that won for her the title of "Illustrious Hybrid.” How ever, her hands were beautifully fem inine. “It was,” says one who knew her, “ delicate hand, all grace, tact, firmness and flexibility. One could not uream of a more perfect combination of the French working class woman’s and the aristocratic or royal lady's ha-id.” It will be recalled that George Sand boasted, “The blood of kings is mixed in my veins with the blood of ♦he poor and lowly.” She was, as she termed It, “astride” of the two classes, the peasantry and the aristocracy. A Cryptic Advertisement. The most successful of the great ad vertising merchants of the I nited States was the vender of a commodity known as “Plantation Bitters.” He de vised an enigmatic line, “S.T. 1860. Twhich appeared simultaneously In every American newspaper and pe riodical of any size ind also on the walls of innumerable barns, fences and trees. One day all the rocks of the Ni agara falls were covered with the same mystic sign. Forest trees along the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad were hewn down to afford the passen gers a glimpse of the same announce ment emblazoned in letters 400 feet high on the mountain side. What did the cabalistic announcement convey? Not until the proprietor had made his fortune did he condescend to explain. “S.T. 1860. X.” meant "Started Trade In 1860 with Ten Dollars.” ?aipping an Elephant. An elephant is without doubt the most difficult passenger to load of any In the vrorid. It is rarely that the best of them can be Induced to walk aboard a ship as did the traditional pair of vlephants who boarded the ark. To overcome their objection tboiy are usually first coaxed or forced to enter great wooden boxes, when they are securely fastened and the entire oat fit is hoisted with a derrick to the tovel cf the deck and swung aboard. PERSONAL MENTION. O— —Liston Dodge spent Christmas in Milwaukee. —Miss Sadie Washburn returned to Oshkosh this uoou. —Wm. Waterhouse spent his Christ mas in Milwaukee. —W. H. Mylrea returned home from Chicago on Saturday. —W. G. John transacted business iu Mosinee on Thursday. —Joe. Morgan, of Merrill, was city yesterday, on business. —Atty. Carl H. Mueller departed to day for Athens on business. —Frank Bissell came down from Arbor Vitae to spend Christmas. —Gabe Heinemann came over from LaDglade county for the holidays. Dr. A. L. Rrowu is spending the holidays with relatives in Indiana. —P. J. Foose, of Poynette, is visiting at the Boiler home on Grand avenue. —Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gelhar, of Merrill, spent Chris!mas with relatives in this city. —Kenneth Ellis came home from Poynette college Saturday for the holi days. —Geo. Merklein was down from Brokaw over Christmas, visiting friendj. —Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Maher, of Chicago, are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lee. —John Patzer arrived home Satur day evening from Edgar to spend the holidays. —Mr. and Mrs. David N. Winton and son departed for Lockport, 111., on Thursday. —Miss Amy Rosenberry arrived home fjoua Downer college, Milwaukee, on Thursday. —Ed. Kavanaugh and the Misses Kavanaugb, went to Appleton to spend Christmas. Miss Esther Wales, of River Falls, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. C. W. Chubbuck. —H. G. Grandshaw. a well known resident of March Rapids, spent yester day in the city. —Miss Ruby Wilson, of Olivet col lege, Michigan, arrived home Saturday tor the holidays. —Mr. 'and Mrs. Walter D. Alexander will return to their home in Lexington, 111., this evening. —Mi3S Emma Marchetti is home from school at Madison to spend the vacation with her parents. —Geo. Werbeim, Jr., came over from Marshfield to spend Christmas with his family in this city. —Mrs. Rebecca Young, of Edgar, is visiting at the home of her son, Robert Young, of this city. —Mrs. J. A. Case and daughter, Alice departed for Elkhart, Ind., last Satur day for a brief visit. —Emil Lambrecht, of Madison, is spending the holidays with his mother, Mrs. M. Lambrecht. —Henry McKay departed la Satur day morning for Hudson, Wis , to spend Christmas with a friend. —Gus Ringle, of Edgar, spent Christ mas at his home in Wausau. He re turned to Edgar this morning. —Alfred and Don Wilson and Ross Beebe arrived at their homes from Beloit college on Wednesday evening. —Oscar Kreutzer came up from Mad ison and spent Christmas with his broth er, Senator A. L. Kreutzer, and family. —Walter Swope who had been visiting at the home of his parents in this city, returned to Eau Claire on Monday even ing. —Don and Mac Montgomery, Edwin Schuetz and Walter Benson arrived home from Carroll college, Waukesha, on Saturday. —Wm. Genett, foreman on the Cran don Repulican, arrived in the city Satur day to spend his Christmas vacation. He returned today. —Jas. O’Brien, station agent for the Northwestern R’y Cos. at Manitowoc, came home Saturday to spend Christ mas witn his parents. —Julius Golz ,of Wausau, arrived in the city and will spend the holidays at home of his daughter, Mrs. Herman Sense. —Bayfield Press. —Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Gamble, of Edgar, spent Christmas in the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bissell and Mrs. Wui. Gamble. —Colwert Pier came home from the Weston Saturday for the holidays and to visit with his mother. He will return to California in a few days. —Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Pardoe have re turned home from West Baden. The former has been confined to bis home since his return by sickness. —Miss Harriet Rounds, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. A. H. Grout and family, departed for her home in Menasha, on Friday. —Miss -Mary B. Maxson came home from Minneapolis Saturday morning to spend the holidays with her parents in this city—Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Maxson. —Mr. and Mrs Walter D. Alexander, of Lexington, 111., arrived in the city on Saturday to spend the holidays with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Alexander. —Louis Larson, of Elgin, 111., former ly employed in the jewelry store of E. V. Speer until the latter weDt out of business, is in the city visitiDg former acqua’ntances. —Mr. and Mrs. George E. Foster, of Mellen, Wis , arrived in the city Satur day for the holiday*. They are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Russell Lyon and Mr. aud Mrs. Henry E. Smith. —John Wendt, who is chief operator in the Western Union Telegraph Co’s office in Kaukauna, came up Thursday to visit his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Wendt. He returned home today. —Mrs. Yawkey, Mr. and Mrs. \\ hite, of Marquette. Mich., arrived in the city on Thursday for a short visit. Mrs. Yawkey and Mrs. White are mother and sister of C. C. Yawkey, of this city. —Atty. Frank Regner returned home Friday morning after nearly two mor.ths spent at Hot springs. Ark , and at his old home in West Bend. His sojourn at the springs has greatly benefitted him ia health. —Mr and Mrs. H H Foster will de partfor Ashland tomorrow for a brief stay, from there Mr. Foster will return to his home in the South, while Mrs. Foster and children will return to Wau sau for a brief stay. Arthur McEachron catue up from Milwaukee to spend the holidays with his parents. —Miss Mary Boiler, of Poynette, is home on a visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs. Fred Boiler. —James Silverthoru arrived home from St Louis for the holidays on Sun day. He will return on Saturday. Miss Helen Becker, who is attend ing the state normal school at Oshkosh, is home on a visit until after the holi days. Robert Buss came down from Parish, Wis., to spend Christmas at his home in this city. He will return to his work this evening. Sheriff Chellis departed this morn ing for Waupun, accompanying E. O. Voyer to the state prison, where the latter will begin serving sentence today. Mrs. H. E. McEachron and daugh ter, Miss DeEtte, will depart for Cali fornia in a jout two weeks anl will spend the balance of the winter on the coast. —Miss Stella Braeger and Miss Amy Brazette are home for the holidays from March Rapids, where they are engaged in teaching schorl this winter. On their return they will occupy the new school house that is being built there. —John Lamont departed this morn ing for Milwaukee for the purpose of attending the annual state meeting of the Wisconsin Teachers’ association, where tomorrow he will read a paper entitled, “Compensation of Rural Teachers.” —Wm. Homrig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Homrig, of Edgar, arrived in the city Saturday from Buffalo, N. Y. He visited here over Sunday with friends and on Monday went to Edgar to visit his parents. He is a steam boat engi neer, employed on the great lakes. —Among those who arrived home Saturday from the State university to spend the holidays were: Walter aud Ed. Gorman, Emil Breitkreutz, Roscoe Young, Phi. Murum, Herman Kell, Fred Heinemaun and Stanley Latshaw, and the Misses Marion Ryan and Althea Young. —Miss Alice Johnson who for several months past has been conlum.l in the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, arrived home Saturday morning much im proved in health. She was accom panied home by Dr. Smith and wife, who are guests of the latter’s mother, Mrs. T. Smith. —Wm. Schmidt, who formerly had charge of W. W. Albers’ west side store, returned to the city Saturday from Milwaukee, where he has spent the past four months. He will remain here un til the first of the year, when he'goes to Stevens Point to assume charge of Mr. Albers’ store there. —Robt. Ziebell, wife and child, and his brothers, Otto and Frank, arrived home from Milwaukee Satur day for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A E. Ziebell. The three are employed with the Dewey wholesale grocery of Mil waukee, Otto and Robert as salesmen and Frank as a stenographer in the office. —I. L. Hauser, of Calcutta, India, is in the city. Mr Hauser has visited Wausau only once before in thirty years and finds many changes. Thirty years ago he was on the lecture plat form and delivered a lecture here on India. He is now selling tea and each year visits the markets of Bombay and Calcutta and buys his stock. - - ■■ The bread that mother used to bake was not one bit better than the bread you can bake if you use Blue Ribbon Flour. It makes light, white bread and fluffy pies and cakes. All good grocery stores sell it. Order a sack and give it a fair trial. Made by F. W. Kickbusch & Son. tf. First publication Dec. 27, last Jan. 31. Summons. tn Circuit Court, Marathon County. Catharine Bischopp, Plaintiff,*) vs. Joel H. Goodale, Fred A. Foller. ! Maggie E. Foller. Adam Dillmann f and George W. Abbott, I Defendants I The State of Wisconsin to the said defendants, and each of them : You are hereby summoned to appear within twenty days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and defend the above entitled action in the court aforesaid; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against yon according to the demand of the complaint, of which a copy is herewith served opon yon. Bbow.n, Phadt & Gknbich, Plaintiff’s Attorneys. P O. Address, VVansan, Marathon Cos., Wis. C. H. WEGNER. Prop. All kinds of light and heavy Graying, Household goods moved, freight de livered, etc. Rates the lowest and service prompt. ALMOST FREE THE TWICE-A-WEEK REPUBLIC —AND THE MODERN FARMER FOR 20 CENTS. To give every reader in this territory all the campaign and election news and an excellent farm journal, we will send upon receipt of twenty cents The Twice-a-Week Republic, Including Thp Farm Visitor, from now until December 1, 1904 and THE MODERN FARMER, A Farmer’s Family Newspaper, from December 1, IWH, to December 1, 19u5. This is an unprecedented offer yon cannot afford to miss. Mend 3> ceDts st once and get regularly the News of the Day, the Campaign, The Farm and Home. Be sore to address all mail to THE REPUBLIC, ST. lOUIS, MO. SAMPLE COPIES FREE. Where both papers are not desired subscrip tions for either separately for the term stated above will be accepted opon receipt of TEN CENTS. 60 YEARS’^ Trade Marks Designs * F Copyrights Ac. Anyone seeding a sketch and ascription may (firk!yas<*Tiln oar onn* frse whsabsr an ikmastrvotlycOTflSecT:SblukC HODf mPemts mnrtat nrttrf. wnboat charge, tn the Scientific American. A ksEdsamstv Utustrated wesktT- Lenmet rir ealation of any aosnUSetaaraal. forma. rear : fear months. . Sold *f aH aswsdsalara WM. SCHOENEBERG MASONIC BLOCKS Seasonable Goods OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, stick w.'i. •■■ Felt and Rubber Shoes. Chocolate You find every conceivable kind Choice Creams Mjggh* at this store at prices that will not JlSpik pinch your pocket book. Hand Bon Bo ns Men's Fine Neckties Picked Strawberries Underwear Winter mmffl ' Dress Shirts Apples Cherries y Y7 . . n Winter Laps by the Christmas | Fur Coats Bushel, Beads H G? of General Merchandise. All kinds of JSjSk or Nuts Your Trade Solicited Barrel. Early Christum Carainga. Cursing, it may lie observed, contin ued in full vigor in Christian times, of ten harmonizing ill with our modern notions of Christianity. Some are al most horrible in their ferocity, as w’hen the violator of the toinb is told that “he will he accursed of God forever" or that “he will give account to God, who will judge the quick and the dead.” There is one which perhaps will rather provoke a smile. The of fender is threatened with the curse of all the fathers of the Nicene coun cil. “He that throws rubbish in this inclosure,” the inscription runs, “has the anathema from the 318 fathers as an enemy of God.” Sidney Smith once alluded to a forty parson power—of preaching, if we re member aright—but the anathematiz ing ability of 318 Nicene Anthers is a much more appalling idea, aud there Is a ludicrous contrast between this terrible but vague penalty and the very prosaic and familiar offense.—Macmil lan’s Magazine. Thraihlng Trollope. During Anthony Trollope’s early days in the postofflee it was the cus tom for the junior clerks to take turns in the waiting room to answer ques tions. One day, when Trollope was on duty, a young woman came to make some complaint, and she went away much displeased and upset by what she considered to be the gross rude ness with which she had been treated by him. Next day, Trollope being again on waiting room duty, two stalwart young men appeared, and, having ascertain ed that they were in the company of the clerk who had been in attendance there on the previous day, they shut the door and proceeded to give A. T. a most severe thrashing. The pair to gether completely overpowered the fu ture novelist, whom they informed, when they had sufficiently chastised him, that this was punishment for his insolence to the young woman who had called at the office on the previous day and who was their sister.—West minster Gazette. Thr Firnt Atlantic Cable. The original 1868 cable weighed nine ty-three pounds per mile and had a con ductor of seven copper wires of twen ty-two and a half gauge; price of deep sea wire per mile, $200; priee of spun yarn and iron wire per mile, $2*55; cost of outside coating of tar and gutta percha, $25 per mile; total cost per mile, $485. At $485 per mile the total cost of the 2,500 miles of deep sea wire was $1,212,500. To this add twenty five miles of “shore end” wire, costing $1 ,450 per mile, and we find that the first ocean cable, exclusive of instru ments, cost $1,250,000. The Ere of a Jellrflsh. The eye of a jellyfish is so primitive that we can hardly say whether It sees or feels—that is, when a floating Jelly fish begins to sink below the surface of the water as the shadow of an ad vancing ship falls upon it it la proba bly affected by the sensation of dark ness, hut perhaps the pressure of the onrushing wave has something to do with It. A Pew B<( Word*. The following are examples of eight syllable words in the English language: Anthropoinentamorphosis, antisujKr naturalism, antloonstitutlonalist, anhy drohepsiterion, latromathematiclan. In comprehensibility, Individualization, ayncategorematical, unconstitutlonuli cy, unintelligibility, valetudinarianism and viciasltnd'-silty-. A Mean Advantage. “Mr. Skinner,” said the family phy sician, "I must positively refuse to un dertake to cure you unless you promise solemnly to obey me.’’ "I solemnly promise.” replied the sick man. "Very well. Now. first of all, give me your check in full for my last bill"— Philadelphia Press. Looklac Forward. Unless one has something to look for ward to It is difficult to live. When the joy of looking forward is gone the Best of life ebbs and faiia. The days are eTll and we have no pleasure in j them unless on time's horizon some bright day burns like s star. Woolsatkeriaa “When a person’s woolgathering that means he's lazy, doesn't it, pa?” “Not necessarily, my sou. He may be gathering the wool off t 9 lambs in Wall street.”—Philadelphia Ledger. The Paris Detectives. The Paris dectective has a great reputation for tracking down the criml- j nal. He has achieved that distinction,' first, by his native wit and resource; 1 secondly, by the extended use he makes of the informer, who may be of the criminal class himself. Nu- j merous are his disguises. One day he has the clothes as well as the speech and manners of a voyou, the next he is on the race course, his accent chang-' ed as well as his outward appearance —a chic monsieur—engaged in watch- j ing the doings of a turf syndicate. As an instance of the modern methods of the Paris Surete, one may mention the half dozen motor cars which It possess-! es aud which are always at the dis position of the force to proceed at once j to the scene of a tragedy or robbery. \ The other day the automobile was used | with effect in a case of burglary of a chateau at Versailles. The police had news that the burglars themselves were mouutel in an uutomobile. They gave chase, proceeding by side roads, until they came up with the offenders, who were promptly arrested and their motor car ruu off to La Fourriere, the police pound of Paris, where is gath ered together the lost, stolen or strayed of the domestic animul world, as well as the oddest assortment of police trophies.—World’s Work. They Didn't Observe. “Gentlemen, ye dinna use your fak ultles of obsairvatlon,” said the old Scotch professor, addressing his class. Here he pushed forward a gallipot con taining a chemical compound of ex ceedingly offensive smell. “When I was a student,” he contin- i ued, “I used my sense of taste, sae.” ! And with that he dipped his finger into | the gallipot aud put his finger into his mouth. “Taste it, gentlemen; taste it,” said the professor, “and exercise your perceptive faculties.” The gallipot was pushed toward the reluctant class. One by one the stu dents resolutely dipped a finger Into the abominable concoction aud with many a wry face sucked the abomina tion from their fingers. “Gentlemen, gentlemen,” said the pro fessor, “I must repeat that ye dinna use your fakulties of obsairvatlon, for if ye had looked rnair closely at what I was daein’ the noo ye would hae j obsairved that the finger which I put | into ma mooth was nao the finger that I dipped into the gallipot!” The Gold Fever. 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