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T PUMPKIN PIE. I love to see ripe pumpkins lying or the ground, 'Twixt shocks of corn and melon vines meandering around; There's something so d:lactably sugges tive in the sight ? It takes me back to boyhood days; mj heart swells with delight. hen memory goes rushing back to happy childhood hours, And gets mixed up with gingerbread and pie and cake and flowers; There's nothing starts the moisture ir the mouth, or in the eye, Like visions of the luscious ? the deli cious ? pumpkin pie. ?^There's dumplings, doughnuts pudding popcorn and buckwheat cakes ? With 'lasses on, and peach preserves and cookies grandma makes; There's raisin cako, with frosting on in tints to catch the eye; But 'mongst them all there's nothing quite comes up to pumpkin pie. "MISS J I'DSOX." Just before the big steamer, bound from London to Bombay, was ready tc begin her voyage, three detectives and an inspector came aboard and createc no little excitement among the passen gers in their search for a slick criminal named George Lacy. Lacy was a forger, counterfeiter, and all-around swindler and was wanted on a dozen different charges. The steamer was held for an hour while they examined .a large number of passengers. There ^as a good deal of talk, of course, and 13 out of 20 of the passengers, first and second class, were secretly glad that the criminal had not been overhauled. So long as he had swindled none of us ^ we could forgive him for swindling oth ers; As sOCfh as we set eyes on Miss Jud gon. who was seasick and kept to hei stateroom for the first three or foui days, we instinctively felt that she would be the belle of the ship. Sho was fairly good looking, of excellent figure, knew how to dress and was witty and magnetic. Before breakfast was over all the single men and half the married one3 were determined to get an intro duction a* soon as possible. None oi the women liked her. They began tc snub her almost at once, and that evi dently pleased her, as it gave her an excuse for avoiding their society. When Miss Judson got fairly started on her course she lost no time. She picked and culled until what was known as tin "Judson crowd" numbered about lc men. Twelve of these were young men c.: widowers, while ths remainder were married men whose better halves were in England or India. While the crowd was not composed of the highest men tal talent on the ship, it was the mone> crowd, though no one figured on this until later. Miss Judson was the onlj ? child of a widower out in India who be longed to the civil service, and she was ^p.'ng out to visit him. y-* Wlfen the ship had been out about i week Miss Judson inaugurated cards re whi It away the spare hours. She gave out at the start that she never playei - unless there were cash stakes to make the game interesting. As there wen: people aboard who might be shocked ai * the sight of money on the board, slip: of paper were used as a substitute anc few outside of the players knew what was up. It was a matter of surprise tc every one who knew Miss Judson that she was so adept with the pasteboards ?' and was attended by such good for tune. There was considerable jealous} among her coterie and she took advan tage of every occasion to fan the flame. This prevented anything like confidence between the men and no one mourned his losses to another. She handled the cards like the slickest gam bier and her run of luck was phenome nal. On two or three occasions she manipulated the cards in such a man ^ner that had she been a man I shoulc have called her down, but as it was 1 had to give her the benefit of the doub and keep silence. When Miss Judson had won $350 fron me I cashed the slips and went out o: the game. She had no further use fo: me. When I tried to bask in her smiles as usual, the smiles were not at home She had confided to me that she found me congenial, but there seemet to be some mistake about that after ! bad decided not to lose any more money. Thj next victim was the son of ar English manufacturer, who was goinj out to India to invent new ways oi spending his father's surplus cash. 1! was said that he had <C 5.000 in thf (purser's safe. That was when he begai 'playing cards with Miss Judson. Hon much he had left after he got through no one could say. but that she had go' at least half of it was common talk, ant. he himself went so far as to declare that he had been sharped. In ih course of three weeks the Mudsor crowd" was dissolved. One after an other was cleaned out of his sp ire casl and withdrew, and Miss Judson was certainly several thousand dollars t( the good. Nobody was willing to ad mit his exact loss. Indeed, nearly e\ ery man lied about and denied any losi at all, but at the same time each losei knew that the other loser lied. There was no card playing for fun, and soc.r after it had ceased we were treated tc several sensations in succession. The first was the disappearance of ever a diamond rings and a bracelet which had Leen left on the piano by a player. They had disappeared in broad eiay light, with people sitting or moving about, and as the value was considera ble, the sensation was equal. The cai - tain hushed matters up by suggesting that one of the servants was the thiei and that the plunder would soon be discovered. Three days later d mar ried woman had a sensational com plaint to make. During her temporary absence from her stateroom someone had entered it and stolen ?100 in cash a gold watch and a costly breastpin Her stateroom was only two doors be low mine, and in leaving my room ai 3 o'clock in the afternoon I caught s glimpse of some one entering hers. ] just got sight of a skirt, but I was sure in my own mind that it was one I hae: seen Miss Judson wear. It was natural to at first suspect the servants, and the captain had them be fore him in succession and tried hi beat to fix the guilt. While this wa* going on the mate and stewardess wers searching quarters and baggage, but no admission was made by any of ihe questioned, nor could any trace of the i plunder be found. I t'elt sure I could I give a good guess as to who it was, but guessing and declaring are two differ ent things. Miss Judson was loud in her indignation and feverish in her anxiety to have the mystery solved and the average detective would have reasoned that she rather overdid it. Four days later another stateroom was entered and more jewelry taken, and right in the midst of the sensation a lady missed a pair of diamond ear rings which she had put out to clean. There was an indignation meeting in the cabin and several persons male speeches and introduced resolutions, atid the captain found his position a most embarrassing one. It was finally decided to hold all tne passengers and servants together on deck while a search was made of every stateroom. This search was most thorough and ex haustive, but not one of the mis3ing valuables was discovered. It was however, the last theft committed, per haps because every lady turned over Ler last ring to the purser for safe keeping. The remainder of the voyage was anything but comfortable, as every one felt that he might be under sus picion, and there were very few fare wells exchanged at the parting. I went up the country into Allahabad and had been there six months when an Englishman was arrested for crying to defraud a bank of a large amount of money. It was my province, as a newspaper man, to write up the affair, ajul later on to come in contact with the accused. The instant I saw him I asked if his name was Judson and ii hi3 sister hadn't come out to India 0:1 the Malabar. He laughed heartily .it the question, but did not answer it un til he found that there was evidence enough to send him to prison for a long term. Then he explained thai he was Miss Judson herself. Not only that but he was Lacy. He had often es caped the police in the disguise of a female, being small of stature and beardless, and had started for mdia under their noses. As to the robberies aboard, I laid them at his door and he smiled in reply. He was the thief, without doubt. No wonder he had plucked us of our cash at cards, for he? was a notorious sharp. That he did rot rope in others and also steal more was mere the fault of circumstances than his own. lie went to prison foj 15 years and died theie after half hit sentence had expired. A year before his death he escaped, donned female att:?e again ar?u when captured wa.; found serving in an aristocratic family as lady's maid. itooilierapy Aren't you glad you are not a [,c4. initial erf any sort thesa axoerimen.a! times? For if you were, perhaps, a little dog your rheumaticy master might make you sleep close by his side and some day you would die of the poi son absorbed from the sick man's body or your fragile little frame would ache and shiver because a good, kind lady had transferred her headaches by pressing you against her head; or if you were a companionable cat, a fever patient might keep you in his bed, j and in a few days rise free of his mal ady. while you would be turned out of doors to spread the germs, or more probably be killed through them! But this is the new system of curing ills; it is known as zootherapy, and is said to have been discovered by a Floren tine. Poor cats and dogs, don't you wish you'd never been born? ? Boston Herald. Evening Drink of a Ilygionint. Referring to the late Sir Isaac IIol den's scientific living, a London cor respondent writes; "A drink of which he was very fond has escaped observa tion in the published accounts of his habits. He was accustomed in the evening to empty a breakfast cup of hot coffee, without either milk or su gar into a large glass, which he then filled with soda water and sipped with evident enjoyment while smoking a :igar." Danger* to I.ife in India. India is the only country that makes ?jaths by the attacks of serpents and .'ild beasts a feature of its annual sta istics. That it has Rood reason for oing so is shown by the impressive igures of last year's mortality ? 1,133 loaths from snake bites and 201 peo ple killed by tigers and other wild ani nals. Although India is one of the iiost densely populated countries on he globe, the increase of human in labitants does not have the effect of ecr easing the number of wild beasts, s it does elsewhere, because the re igion of the natives? or a great pro lortion of them ? forbids them to take he life, even of dangerous beasts and erpents; hence they let these destroy ;rs thrive and multiply in the midst >f their communities. One of the >est works of the British in India is heir reduction of the number of wild icasts, and especially tigers, as a re ult of their passion for hunting big ?.me. ? Philadelphia Ledger. LIST OF LETTERS RriuniniiiK ill the Powtoftiee at Sister** ville, W. Va., Jail. ?. 1*9*. Watson Argue, Bert Boach, John Bowers, Michael Brown. Mrs Amanda Clark, Hervert Cochran, Caroline Conley, Daisy Cooper, John Cornish, H M Cauley, G M Custer, Mrs Maggie Dwyer, J E Duffy. Henry Donalson, P V Dodge, Robert Eliranan, George Hays, James Hickman, Joseph Henderson. James E Kellar, Mrs Catherine Kennedy, O Linley, H H Liken, E F McPherson, 2, Elfie Miles, W F Moser, R J Mosler. Fred Nenno 2.JM J Phelan, Samue Reed, Rachel Simons, Steve J Shultz, Jonah Sams, Lizzie Smith, Addie Smith, R J Swartzlander, vvm Suter, Mrs Gertie Stewart, Pheme Thompson, G E Wright, Blanche Waldson, L D Wingard. Geo. E. Work, P. M. Baby's Smooth, Fair Skin Is Due to Hood's Sarsaparflla ? li Cured Him of Dreadful Scrofulous Sores? Now In Good Health. "At the age of two months, my baby began to have sores break out on his right cheek. We used all the local external ap* plications that we could think or hear of, to no avail. The sores spread all over one side of his face. We consulted a physi cian and tried his medicine, and in a week the sore was gone. But to my surprise in two weeks more another scrofulous look ing sore made its appearance on his arm. It grew worse and worse, and when he was three months old, I began giving him Hood's Sarsaparilla. I also took Hood's Sarsaparilla, and before the first bottle was finished, the sores were well and have never returned. He i3 now four years old, but he has never had any sign of those scrofulous sores since he. -Was cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, for which I feel very grateful. My boy owes his good health and smooth, fair skin to this great medicine." Mrs. S. S. Wobten, Farm ington, Delawaro. Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all drug gists. $1, six for $5. Be sure to get Hood's. OIL NOTES. The runs of Pennsylvania oil for the month of December averaged 88,6.^7 barrels a day. Shipments for the same time averaged 82,246 barrels a day. Runs, therefore, ex ceeded shipments by 6,291 barrels per day for the 31 days and the stocks of oil were increased about 195,000 barrels during the month. The runs of Lima oil made by the Buckeye and the Indiana Pipe Line companies averaged 50,976 barrels per day in December. Ship ments averaged 61,326 barrels a day, exceeding the runs by 10,350 barrels a day and the stocks of Lima oil were reduced 320,850 bar rels during the month of Decem ber. To the west of the southwest ex tension of the Elk Fork pool the Lun Oil company is drilling at theft test well on the Cunningham farm, half a mile in advance of de velopments, Boyd Bros, are start ing a well 011 the Eakin farm lo cated one and a half miles south of the pool. The South Penn Oil company's Xo. 1 Reppud farm, Soofeet south from their No. 1, Meredith, is drill ing in the sand and due to strike the pay streak at any time. The Fisher Oil company's wrell on Wilson run, Washington county, Ohio, has settled to 200 barrels per day. STANDARD RE-ELECTS OLD BOARD. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Standard Oil com pany, at 26 Broadway, New York, yesterday resulted in the re-election of the old board of directors, as fol lows: John D. Rockefeller, Wil liam Rockefeller, H. M. Flagler, J. D. Archbold, H. H. Rogers, W, H. Tilford, A. M. McGregor, Paul Babcock and C. M. Pratt. BIG GASSER AT WASH INGTON. The People's Light and Heat compan5r of Washington, Pa., have brought in a good gasser on the W. C. Ramsey farm, five miles south of town. The gas comes from the Big Injun sand, and is es timated to have a minute pressure of 100 pounds in an 8-inch casing. INDIANA OIL FIELD. The report of the Indiana oil field for the month of December shows: Comi-leted wells, 93; pro duction, 1,69s barrels; dry holes, 23 wells drilling, 44, and rigs up, 48, a total of 92 in new work. During the year just ended there have been completed in Indiana 1,019 producing wells, with a production of 21,868 barrels, and i93dry holes, a great decrease from that of the preceding year. Bncklcn h Arnica Naive. The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Piles, or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money re funded. Price 25 cents per box1 For sale bv D. A. Hendershot. ti A IlHtKlNome Present. The manager of the dining rooms at the depot, W. A. Kelley, pre sented the pleasant wife of Manager Geo. A. Burt, a handsome pair of antlers which are said to be most beautiful. They were secured from a stag which Mr. Kelley shot some three years ago. Mrs. Burt prizes them very highly. r Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Yoar Lift Away. If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic full of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bao, the wonder-worker that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Over 400,000 cured. Buy No-To-Bac .from your own I druggist, who will guarantee* cure. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad. Sterling licmedy Co., Chicago or New York. | TEXAS OIL FIELD. Summary of the Present Development# In the Vicinity of Corsicnnn. The Corsicana Daily News fur nishes the following report of the number of wells producing and the amount of new work started in the new oil fields in Texas for Decern ber 31, 1897. Land Owner Operator Prod Neblett, Southern Oil company No. 5 Loper, Southern Oil company, 2 dry H. & T. C. R. R-, Southern Oil company. 3. ^ Curtis, Southern Oil company, 4 20 Bunert, Southern Oil company 5 18 Whiteselle, Southern Oil com pany, 6 3? West, Southern Oil company 7 10 Bunert, Southern Oil company 8 * 20 Bunert, Southern Oil company gas; Kerr estate, Southern Oil com pany 10 *5 W. & S. 1. Southern Oil com pany 11 27 Curtis, Southern Oil company 12 *5 W. & S. 2, Southern Oil com pany 13 35 Presley, Southern Oil company diy Bunert, Southern Oil company 15 W. & S. Southern Oil company 16 16 Ferguson, Southern Oil com pany 16 J7 Clark," Southern Oil company 1 8 25 Clark, Southern Oil company 1 9 20 Presley, Sauthern Oil com pauy 3? C O Co, Corsicana Petloleum company 25 Nicol, Corsicana Petroleum company 2 20 Golden, Corsicana Petroleum company 4 *5 Turner, Corsicana Petroleum company 5 20 City, Corsicana Petroleum company 8 * dry Shelton, Corsicana Petroleum company 11... ... 4? Whiteselle, Corsicana Petro leum company 12 15 O C Co. Oil City Oil Co 1 . . .. 20 McClellan Oil City Oil Co 2 25 Smith, Oil City Oil compa ny 3 20 Crane, Qil Citv Oil company 4 dry Hays, Dallas Petroleum com pany 4? Hays, Dallas Petroleum com pany 2 5? Hays. Dallas Petroleum com pany 3 3? Nicholson, Dallas [Petroleum company 4 5? R Q Mills, Garritty-Mills com pany 15 R Q Milis,Garritty-Mills com pany 2 3? R Q Mills, Garritty-Mills com pany 3 25 Levene, Consumers' Petrole um company 1 3? Scole, Consumers' Petroleum company 2 4? Walling, Eritz & Whorton 1 25 West, West & Hardy dvy Farron, W A Lang 25 Verka, H B Bass 20 Bud, L C Garrett 4? Walton, K H Gormely 15 Total wells completed..., 46 Daily production 990 Dry holes 6 *This well is credited with a half a barrel of oil a day, . NEW OPERATIONS. Land Owner. Operator. Depth. Nicol. Corsicana Pet. Co. .shut down Turner, Corsicana Pet. Co 6. . . . shut down Boltz, Corsicana Pet. Co. 7. . .drg City lot, Corsicana Pet. Co. 9 . . . . location Shelton, Corsicana Pet Co. 10.. location Crane, Oil City Oil Co. 5 . location R. Q. Mills, Garrittv & Mills 4. .drg Colquitt, W. F. Colquitt 1 drg Freeman, W. F. Colquitt 2. . drg Scales, Consumers' Pet. Co. 3.. location Walling, Eritz & Wortou 2. .location Crematory, Garrity & Mills i...drg Chestnut, W. A. Lang 2 drg Chestnut, W. A. Lang 3 drg Verka, M. S. Read 1 drg New locations. 6 Shut down 2 Wells drilling 8 Total 16 To Cnre Catarrh Do not depend upon snuffs, in halants or other local applications. Catarrh is a constitutional disease, and cm be succesfully treated only by means of a constitutional rem-e dy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which thoroughly purifies the blood and removes the scrofulous taints which cause catarrh. The great number of testimonials from those who have been cured of catarrh by Hood's Sarsaparilla prove the unequalled power of this medicine to conquer this diseise. If troubled with Ca tarrh give Hood's Sarsaparilla a fair trial at once. m i I Sew Extension to be Operated. Special to the Review. Wheeling, Jan. 7. ? The city ex tension of the Wheeling & Elm j Grove railway line is expected to be put to operation tomorrow. Today the company has a large force of men at work chopping the ice off the track. Electricity is the mo tive power of the new road which is now being built as far as Elm Grove, four miles distant. Campaign to Opeu Monday. dpeclal to the Review. Ben wood, W. VaM Jan. 7. ? The democrats of this town will open the city campaign next Monday evening. The election occurs in April, and the faithful expect to overthrow the entire republican regime, now in office. August Hebe a staunch democrat, will very likely be nominated for mayor. A Household Necessity. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won* x derfol medical discovery of the ago, picas ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipa tion and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 95, i)0 cents, goid and guaranteed to cure by all druggists Anyone sending a sketch and description may Quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communica tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for ?o<Tirtn? patents. Patent* taken through Munn A Co. rcculvo special notice, without chars?. 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