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Economical Use ofInaueural Souvenirs.

"In Paris nothing is wasted, says an
obscrvant visitor to the French Capital,
struck by the frugality and economy OF
the prudent housewife, who makes the
remains of yesterdays roast up into a
nice and highly delectable dish for to-
day, tomorrow and next day, as has
nothing but bleached bones to cast away
at last, and they so to the maker ofphos-
pilates.
But the American is wasteful crea-
ture, and World reporter, commenting
in a party of ladies on the pretty and
unique red dresses which are so prevail
ent among the school children this win
ter, was a bit astonished at the reply
which it invited.
The ladies cast curious, quizzical
glances at each other and then one of
them, who has the right to thus address
the scribe, calculated:
"Why, you goosel don't you know?
Those gowns are souvenirs of the Wash
ington Centennial. Everybody decked
his store or house-front with bunting, land
those cute little gowns are made of the
bunting of the first Of your country's col
ors. The blue will come later; the
white has served little already during
the summer"
The reporter rejoined with heartiness
that the New York mother was getting
wise, and was evincing laudable desire
to econ omize.-Ne1o York. World.
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The word Yule, commonly applied to
Christmas, is traced to Hjol, wheel, and
Yule is thought to have been originally
named Wheel Day because the suns
course round the earth was pictured as q
ring, and this was the most important
day sf the circle. 1t was ''bad form" to
kill your enemy in that fortnight, for
Jolaifith or Yule-peace was supposed to
reign while the festival lasted. On the
other side Of the circle or wheel was St.
Johns Day, June "a, on the evening of
which fires are still kindled on hilltops
in Great Britain and Ireland, and in
some places wheels bound with straw are
lighted and rolled down slopes to the
nearest water. The custom of rolling
wheels in midsummer is an argument in
favor Of the meaning 'iwhcel" as applied
to Yule. There is another argument
which so far appears to have been over
looked. In Hungarian Christmas is
called Karacson, 4 word which may be
derived from Karsj, circle, target, small
wheel. Yule, karacson, or Christmas,
all is the same, if we initiate our ances-
tors to-day in one thing: if by laughter,
good cheer and present we drive off the
modern devils called blue and snakes our
selves happy through happiness we in
duce in.others.
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An Apple loving Bear Comes to Grief.

In cooper shop at Blakeley, Penn,
the other evening, Ezra Hubbard re-
lated his experience with bear last fall.
The night was so warm that they had to
leave the windows up, and the moon was
shining brightly. Mr.. Hubbard said he
was aroused some time in the night by a
noise in his orchard, and when lie looked
out he saw bear shaking apples from his
best pound sweet tree. The tree stood
on a steep hillside, and the big apples
rolled down against the fence as fast as
the bear shook them off. As soon as the
bear had shaken off all the fruit he wanted, :,
he slid down the tree, waddled to the
fence and began to devour the apples
greedily. Then Mr.. Hubbard pulled on
his trousers and boots, loaded his rifle,
climbed out of the window and stole
along to spot where he could geta good
shot at the thief. He said that he let the
bear take pretty big jag of apples be-
fore he fired, and then he blazed away
and sent bullet into the bears head,
Just below his left ear. The animal
founced and tumbled against the fence
for minute, but he soon kicked his last.
He weighed 3S3 pounds. The next morn
ing, Mr.. Hubbard said, he 'asccrtained
that the bear had climbed the fence at
the upper side of the orchard and passed
seven tons Of winter apples to get at the
pound sweet trce.-Neao York Tribune.
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1t was the afternoon before Christmas
Day. The clerks at Jay g. Jays were al
ways dismissed early on this day, and
Uncle Bob came up with the rest to re-
ceive his monthly stipcnd-meck, bald
heaGed and respectable, with his specta-
Gle glasses shining in the level gas Jets.
"OE, blythe Mr.. Bloom!" said
Mr.. Simeon Jay, the younger of the part
ners, detaining with gesture the old
clerk, as he would have passed on to the
cashier.
':Now it's coming" thought Uncle
Bob, with faint stir in his dull old heart
--''the increase ofsaiary that I've looked
for 50 long! They've waited until
Christmas to give the thing mere signiti-
cancc. It's coming now"
He paused at the door of the private
Office, where there was such a flash of
plate glass, such n polished CLEAN OF old
oak and medieval brass ornamentation.
Old Mr.. Jay sat in front of blazing
cannel-coal fire, with an elegantly dressed
lady-client signing some papers at a
table.
Uncle Bob was near-sighted, specta-
cles to the contrary Notwithstanding,
but he got general impression that the
lady-client was somebody very grand and
splendid.
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Mr.. Jay simpered uneasily. He had a
vague idea that the heiress was making
game of him, and he muttered something
about ''the ladies being always young" "
''Please favor me with this gentleman's
address," interrupted the lady, rather
imperiously. II may want some law
copying done"
Anything in our line, madame" be-
gan Mr.. Jay, eagerly.
'If l had wanted you to do it, 1 should
have put it in Your hands," said the
heiress, and Mr.. Jay was silenced.
Z: r u 4 " r.
"Girls, it's Christmas Eve!" said Mr..
Bloom, as they sat around the fire.
.'Here's my months money; it's the last.
Jay & Jay have discharged me. I would
have liked to buy you all Christmas
presents, but 1 can't" And his head
dropped on his breast.
1--WE don't want any Christmas pres
ent, Uncle Bob" cried Lofty, clinging
! around his neck.
This bunch of holly is Christmas
present enough for US, Uncle Bob" !"
whispered Bertha.
And look, Uncle Bob" said Lillian;
''this is the copy Of Paradise Lost that
YOU wanted. l found it at second
hand stall and it's quite perfect. Here
it is, Uncle Bob, with Merry Christ
mas"
Uncle Bob's eyes lighted up once
more.
'But You shouldn't have bought it,
Lillian" said he. We've got to econo-
mize now, my girl-we've got to econo-
mize"'
'I've hcmmcd a new silk handker-
chief for you, Uncle Bob!" said Bertha.
Il meant to keep it till tomorrow, but
Lillian has set the example Of giving our
gifts now"
"Ard, Uncle Bob!' shrieked Lofty,
producing from her pocket an infnites-
imal parcel done up in tissue paper.
'I've knitted yon a pair Of silk mittcns!
Real silk! To wear on Sundays and
high holidays. Put them on at once,
Uncle Bob, and see if they will fit"
.Girls-gills." stammered Uncle Bob,
; ssthis isn't economy! No, it isn't! But
YOU are three little darlings. Come here
and kiss me! II don't care whether
Jay Il Jay have discharged he or not, SO
long as I have got you"
The slow tears trickled down his
cheek as he spoke, and Bertha softly
! hugSed him.
! .'Uncle Bob" sand she, 81 haven't told
YOU about it for fear of worrying you,
but Allan and I have had a serious dis
agreement. And all because I wasn't
ready 20 Dc married this Christmas. But
it's all right now. AlIan will wait. He
came this afternoon and brought me this
little brooch. See, Uncle Bob!'
'It's very pretty, my dear, " said Uncle
Bob. but don't keep him waiting too
long. I've known of serious troubles
from long engagements, Bertha. Marry
him, my child-marry him. Lofty
might perhaps live with you. Lillian can
support herself; and as for me, why there
is the Old Gentlemen's Home, if can get
interest with the directors!''
Bertha's eyes filled with tears.
"Uncle Bob," said she, ''don't talk
nonsense! There's NO Old Gentlemen's
Home for you, except just here. As if ]
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"I'm exceedingly sorry, Mr.. Bloom, :"
said Mr.. Simeon Jay, smoothly, "but
we're going to condense our business
somewhat and consequently shall not re-
Quire your services after to-day. Here's
your months salary. wish you good
afternoon--and" speaking as if with an
afterthought) Ia very merry Christmas. "
The next clerk was close on Uncle
Bob's heels, and the old man was pass
ing on, with his money in his hand, be-
fore he fairly realized the blow that ha6
fallen upon him.
Slowly he took his we'll brushed hat
and seedy overcoat from the peg, and
fitted them on; slowly he drew on the
gloves which Lofty had 50 carefully
mendcd for him at odd times, and went
ont into the fresh, crisp air, moving with
machine-likc steps.
A merry Christmas. Was it likely,
under these circumstances, that his
Christmas would be particularly mirth-
full? 1t had been hard struggle to
live, even with the aid of his salary; what
would it be without?
Uncle Bob passed the high brick walls
of the "Home for Old Gentlemen" in his
daily way to the office.
He looked wistfully up at the gates
tonight.
"It's a forlorn place." he said to him
self, "but many better men than I am
have been brought to it. 1 shall miss
the girls, though-the little girls, who
are so fond of their old uncle. And it
would be cruel thing to break up their
home, but don't see what else"
:'Holly, sir! Fresh holly for Christ
mas time?"
It was a blue-looking child, with her
frowsy head wrapped in a shawl, who
accosted him.
Uncle Bob stopped and bought few
Sprays red-berried and moist, with
melted snowhakes.
II oughtn't to have have done it, I
suppose" murmured he-''not under the
circumstances-but the girl looked SO
cold, and it's beginning to snow; and
Christmas is Christmas, look at it how
you will"
And Uncle Bob trudged on, carrying
mis- branch of holly, and thinking how
he should break the bad news to s'the
girls at home.
Meanwhile, the lady client at Jay &
Jays had looked up from the papers she
was signing.
''Bloom" she repeated. "Did you
call that man Bloomn
''That is the name," blandly spoke
Mr.. Jay. (The clerks in the Office could
generally tell the number of figures in a
clients bank account by the oiliness of
Mr.. Jays accents in addressing him or
her0 Eyes, madam-Bloom.
$50 you're discharging him!" said the
lady.
''Well, you see, want to make room
for my nephew from Cincinnati" ex-
planned Mr.. Jay. ';And Bloom is the
oldest clerk and the oncI can best dis
pense with. A fine penman, but he's
rather outlived his usefulness. When a
man gets beyond the tifties-"
Exactly" curtly uttered the lady.
''And how is it about woman? I'm
,lr-aDd-fOrtV mySclf"
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would ever leave you, dear Uncle Bob"
Long after the girls had gone out to do
their Christmas marketing-on a very
small scale it was this year, poor things!
Uncle Bob sat staring at the fire.
"My little girls!" he repeated to him
self-':my three dear little women!
They've got lots of love but no logic in
'em. If 60 into the Old Gentlemen's
Home, it's got to be on thesly."
Just then there came a soft tapping at
the door.
"Come in" said Uncle Bob, with
start.
The door opened; there was the rush
of soft silk, the scent of delicate perfume,
recalling the violet banks of long ago, ,and
woman's figure came in.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Three hundred new members were lately
added to the w. c. 4. U. in eleven days in
Nevada.
Won Moltke says that beer is far more
dangerous enemy to Germany than all the
armies Of France.
The w. C. T. u. department of railroad
work proposes to establish railroad tenn
lerance association.
Temperance teaching in the State schools
1t Victoria, Australia, has been made COM
ulsory. A significant sign of progress.
More than 1000 pages of literature re
Terring especially to the relations of temper
ance and labor were distributed by the w.
:. 1. U. last year.
The Sheffield England Cafe Company has
now twenty-three houses, and during the past
year 1t has sold about two million cups of
:ea, coffee, cocoa and milk.
In LIE Solicit Paris H. Jean Niyelle utters
IN impressive warming against the use of ab-
sinthe as q beverage. He says in France it
has caused more Eavages than cholera, small
Dcx. and typhuS collectively.
Mr. Michael Davitt says half the Irish
drink bill of S55 0O0,000 a year would be
enough to set every woolen mill in Ireland
running, and thus find employment for the
young people in their own country.
The city of Boston appropriates 1854
yearly for salaries of police matrons Since
more than five thousand women are ARRESTED
in Boston every year, nine-tenths of them for
drunkenness, these matrons have plenty
TO do.
The saloon keepers of a certain Ohio town
recently made convert to the cause of pro-
hibition by threatening one Of the members
Of the city council that if he did not work for
their interests he would get hurt. The gentle
man was aroused and for the first time pub
licly declared that hereafter he should work
aud vote against the saloon and support the
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GOD BLESS US ALL.

God bless US all With Tiny Tim
IT'S thus we finish with prayer and hymn,
While cheerily from lip to lip
The Christmas wishes gayly trip;
God bless us all. the circle round,
Wherever are our dead ones found;
AT home, abroad, please God, we say,
God bless His own on Christmas Day!
God bless the golden heads arrow
Where ruddy hearth flames leap and glow,
God bless the baby hands that clasp
Heart fibres in their ciinging grasp;
God bless the youth with eager gaze;
God bless the sage Of heightened days:
At home, abroad, please God, we cry,
God guard His own, meath any sky.
God ease the weary ones who bear
A cumbering weight of grief and care;
God give the wage no ill can spoil,
The honest loaf for honest toll;
We round the heartfelt prayer AMI hymn,
And breathe Amen with Tiny Tim,
AS reverently, please God. We say,
God bless us all on Christmas Day.
-INaTYdret Z. Songster.
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"Nell!" he cried aloud, starting to his

"Nell!' he cried aloud, starting to his
feet.
"Yes, it's Nell-Nell Sandiford!" cried
the woman. $50 you knew me again;
Oh, Bob, is it wrong and unfeminine of me
to come back to you, this Christmas Eve,
and ask your pardon for all that happened
twenty years ago, and ask you to take me
back to you heart again? Pm rich now,
Bob; I've got more money than I know
what to do with. But there's no one to
love me as you did, Bob-dear Bob
I've kept single all these years for your
sake. I've sought for you high and low,
and I don't think I should ever have
found youif hadn't been in my lawyers
office, this afternoon, and seen you there.
1t was my fault, dear, that we've lost all
these years of happiness. But now we'll
set the clock of Time back and begin to
live-really to live?'
"My little girls" family began Uncle
Bob-'my nieces!"
"They shall be my little girls, too, ii
said Miss Sandiford. II shall love them
as my own. Dear Bob, nothing on earth
must come between us now!"
Tears gathered into Uncle Bob's eyes.
"Nelly," said he -"Nelly, I have
never ceased to love you, but I did not
suppose you could remember me all this
time. Are you quite sure, Nelly, that
you're not mistaken"
Nell put both her hands on his shoul-
ders. and looked into his face.
"Quite, quite sure, Bob," said she.
eff only you will say to me: Nell, I
forgive you'll"
"NIy DEAR" said the old Chevalier
Bayard, ''there's no necessity for that.
There never has been anything to for
give. We were both young and foolish
then"
And" added Nell, with a somewhat
tremulous laugh, "we are both older and
wiser now."
When the three girls came back from
their expedition into the region of shops
and stores, they found Uncle Bob sitting
beside an elegantly dressed lady, ''and
looking" as Lillian afterward said, Gas
much like an old Prince as ever"
"Girls," said Uncle Bob, "this is your
Christmas present-a new aunt"
Lofty looked amazed-Lilian drew
back with low exclamation. Of all
the three, Bertha alone OWNED the Sc.
cret.
"You have cared for him all these
years." she cried, clasping Miss Sandi-
ford's hand; "and fate has parted you
until now. But oh, love him: dearest
love him, for he is worthy of it,"
The heiress laughed and cried, all in
one second.
s'My dear ones! my dear ones" she
murmured. eff could only make this
Christmas half so happy to you as it is
to men
But that was impossible. The flow
ers that blossom late in life's day have
the deepest scents, the richest colors, and
this Christmas Eve was very sweet to
Nell Sandiford and Uncle Bob.
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TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

At conference of friends of the total absti-
nence cause in the parlor of the Young Mems
Christian Association at Philadelphia. it was
resolved that ''the interests of our country
and humanity demand the inauguration OF
"a total abstinence pledge-signing and edu-
cational campaign in all parts Of the country
on non-partisan and non-sectarian lines" A
committee was appointed ito take such ac-
ton as in its judgment will most greatly di-
minish the number of those who give finan-
cial and social support to the liquor power,
and to advance in any possible way the cause
Of total abstinence and of the ultimate sup
preston of the Saloon."
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Her Holiday SurpriSe

Young Wife-''My love, I have a de-
lightful surprise in store for you! You
cannot guess whit it is"
Young Husband full of pleasant -
ticipations)-"What is it, darling?"
Young Wife-'I've invited mother to
spend the holidays with ,us."
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TEMPERANCE.
11vERpooL.s SOBER DISTRICT.

Parliament Field, portion of Liverpool,
England, is said to contain 1853 streets, 10, 300
houses, 50,0OO population and not grog
shop Pauperism is almost unknown, the po-
lice are nearly idle and the people save $780,
600 year in poor rates besides avoiding the
maintenance of hundreds of dramshops.
The death rate in this sober district is only
ten to fourteen as against twenty-five in the
thousand in the drinking parish adjoining.
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A Chinaman crosses a muddy street
without soiling his shoes, an American is
sure to splash the mud over his feet.
The former walks. on his heels, the latter
on his toes. Just this difference gives
clean or muddy shoes.
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News About Town.

It Is the current report about town that
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is
making some remarkable cures with people
who are troubled with Coughs, Sore Throat
Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption. Any
druggist will give you a trial bottle free Of
cost. 1t is guaranteed to relieve and cure.
The Large Bottles are Soc. and 81.
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There is more Catarrh in this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease, and prescribed To-
cal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease, and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
featured by +. j. Cheney d Co., Toledo, Ohio
is the only constitutional Ire on the market
1T is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
a teaspoonful. 1t acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. They offer
hundred dollars for any case 1t fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address,
+. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
eW Sold by Druggists, 75c.
THE estimated white population Of Montana
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The People

Are not slow to understand that, In order. to
them to benefit or cure, medicines must pos
sess more than ordinary merit and curative
properties. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery is the only blood medicine sold.
that it will benefit OF sure or money paid forit
will be returned. In all blood, skin and scalp
diseases, and for all scrofulous affections, it is
snecifc
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UNCLE .B0B'S CHRISTMAS.

+ wants me to be mar
ried on Christmas
Eve" =" said Bertha,
with a culver in her
voice, and a suspicious
dimness in her eyes.
"Ard he's veSed,poor
fellow, because I won't
promise him. But how
can l leave Uncle
Bob2"
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Siberia is commonly regarded as re-
gion of ice and cold; but in summer
time it is about as hot country as there
is on the face of the globe.
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$500 Reward offered by the proprietors Of
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy for an incurable
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DURING the last eighteen months the Rus
sian Government has expelled $500 Hebrews
from the Empire.
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Pure soap is white. Brown soaps are adul-
terated with rosin. Perfume is only put in to
hide the presence of putrid Jat. Dobbins's
Electric Soap is pure, white and unscented.
Has been sold since 1856. Try it now.
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Oregon, the Paradise OF Farmers.
Mild, equable climate. certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun-
try in the wcTld. Full information free. Ad-
dress Oregon Imf2rat'n Board Portland. Ore.
The old smokers delight-"Tansill's Punch
Americas finest Sc. Cigar.
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The Emperor Of Germanv's new crown
weighs three pounds and has frame OF solid
cDld-
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If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
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BEAR batting was an ancient popular Eng
lish sport but 1t was prohibited by Parlia-
ment in 1885.
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lie Paradise OF Farmers.

THE estimated white population Of Montana
Is 10000, and the Indians number about l5,-
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AGENTS Bonanza. Hups Champion Steam Cooker. Nice
work. Large profits Hill. Whitney q Co. Boston. Mnss
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-06

f. descended from the most honored families
Of south Carolina, being greatniece OF Mr..
John G.. Calhoun.
Miss Mamie Leary went TO Washington
on Monday and received on New-Year's day.
She will remain with Nrs. Claiming Bolton
for month or more.
Miss Lily Morehesd. OF North Carolina,
will yisit Richmond this week and remain
some time rs the guest Of Mrs. Q. i. Stokes,
west Franklin street.
Mr.. Frank Patrick returned home from
Chicago on FRIDAY. CHLOE.