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Of pain. of cruelty, of watching and of
sacrificc-live through it all. dear, pa
tent martyrs, to share the peace, the
reposc. the cOntentrncnt, the comDcnsa-
tons of the future that surely wait for
such as YOU
We wish a happy new year to him
whose life is inspired by honorable pur-
pose and whose strength is expended in
honorable endeavor. Whatsoever his
condition, whatsoever his environment.
long life to him. we say, and may this
new year. if it do not find him already
advanced IN the way to success and hap
piness, point and conduct him ~thereunto.
A happy new year, too, to you. grand
mothers and grandfathcrs everywhere!
Look ont upon all around You and see
how passing fair the evening is: and all
that IS to be heard invites contentnent
and repose. You hear voices. too. that
we do not hear-they have never been
quite forgotten, and they speak to you
in the sweetly solemn twilight of the
morning that followeth the evening,
and of the waking that comcth after
the folding of the hands to sleep.
Yes, to all-the young, the old, the
high. the Iowa happy new year, q
happiness arising from and tempered
with wisdom. faith. hope and charity
Eugene Field, in Chicago News.
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strained, your sleep refreshing, your
dreams pleasant.
A happy new year to you, bright
youth of our city and country-all hap
pincss in the ambition, the JOY, the
friendships, the competitions and the
rewards of school life. Success to you
in the endeavor whereby the firm, en-
during basis of true manhood and of no.
bic womanhooda are laid; with what sue
cess ONE two-fold happiness-happi-
ness to others and happiness to your
selves. Go forth gayly and confidently
into the new year. @, you who are
beautiful in the fresh vigor of your
youth.
\ happy new year to you, young
man. We know your secret! Your fall
tering speech, your diverted glances,
your smart attire-tlcse and other tell
tale signs have betrayed you, and there
is uncommon sympathy in our hearts
as we bid you a happy new year. But
to be happy you must be brave. Go,
like a man. and speak your mind to
her; pour out into her willing ear the
full measure of your soul; she has 4
gentle heart and She will rcquite you.
1t is not well Tor you twain to live
apart: but yourhappiness is within your
comprehension. Fate is propitious, the
time is ripe and the girl is willing.
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That carried q blessing with them and lifted
their souls to Heaven:
For out Of this rich abundance the hungry were
sweetly fed,
The naked were clothed. and the sick and sor-
rowful cheercd and comforted;
And so great was the Joy of giving. that pastor
and people felt
AS If viii the wise men of the east at the
Saviour's feet they knelt.
Oh, never q brighter Christmas had dawned on
the dull old town,
Never had richer blessings been scattered so
freely down;
And taught by the Holy Spirit their selfish
greed to subdue.
All hearts rejoiced-and on Christmas day was
the Christ child born anew.
Josephine Pollard, in DemoreSt's Monthly.
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the crown of the head to the tip end of
the great toe, and yet make no demon
stration, is a trial with which we are
deeply sympathetic. To sit on a long
bench at school with eight or ten
other boys, all able to keep quiet only
by utmost force Of resolution, and some
thing happen that makes all the rest
smoker. while you abstain, requires
an amount Of heroic endurance
we V reached. | remember well
how a rattan feels when it arrives in
the open palm at the rate of sixty miles
an hour. In my first ten years l sup
pressed enough giggles, smiles, chuckles
and yclls to have ruined me for all
time. | SO often retired from the sit
ting-room when we had company to
the wood-shed, where my mirth would
be no disturbance to anything but the
ash-barrels, that | have all allowance
to make for that age Of life which is apt
to be struck through the litter. / still
feel the boy in my nature when lndi-
things happen, as when a city ex-
quisite came into the prayer-meeting,
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ALL A MISTAKE.

And So the Poor Fellow Lost His Christ
mas Present.
On Christmas morning three or four
years ago | started out for a hunt with
a Mississippi planter, and when we had
gone about half a mile from the house
we came full upon a colored mar who
had killed a pig weighing about one
hundred pounds and was dressing it.
lie had no warning of our approach
but exercised wonderful nerve. As
oon as we came up he removed his
hat. bowed very low and said:
"kurnel. | war jist comm up to de
house to restore You my thanks. Low
me, sab, to say dat nebber dun depreci-
ated anything like dis present. 0 yours"
What present. boy"
''Dis yere pig, sab. l was dun outer
meat an | can't tell you how much
obleeged ar"
Look yere, boy!"
Eyes, sah.'
II don't know you. You are a stranger
in this neighborhood. You ran that
hog down"
"Why, kurnel, how You talk! Doan.
you member dat day las July when YOU
was down to Biloxi"
mo. sir, | wasn't downthere in July!"
"Ar atp%ossible! An youdidn't feline
to come heah an get a shoat Chris'mas?"
"No, sir..''
"Nebbcr dun tole me nuffin'?"
"No, sir..'
IAN dis ar your pig?"
Eyes, sir"
"Wall. Wall. It's mighty quare dat
! made sich a mistake. Mebbe it's on
count of dat tree which fell on my head
las winter. Did you want de pig cared
up to de house, kurnel?"
Il do. Take it direct to the house
and then make tracks,"
''Suah, kurncl. suah! I'll take it
right up an den hurry right away
Sakes alive. but when dat tree cracked
my head all de sense mus her run right
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And why do you blush, coy maiden,
as we address to you the compliments
of this happy season? Can it be that
a qualm Expresses Your tender con
science? Have you been playing the
coquette-O. monster of ruthlcssness:
have you been 1cveling in the anguish
which your bright eyes and pretty face
have entailed?! We cannot bid YOU be
happy when we know that you, unde-
serving, should not and cannot be
blessed with happiness until you have
made rcparation. Hasten to pluck the
brand from the burning; save the cal
low but honest William ere he alto
gether perish in the delightful torments
which your charms inspire.
To you, whose lives are hallowed
with the grace of maternity, not n
but many, many years of happiness!
Live long, wives andmothers of this land,
to see the little lives you have cherished
SO tenderly expand into beauty and use
f~ulness; live long to know and feel the
sweet rewards of gratitude, of venera-
ton and of love. Survive those hours
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SUPPRESSED HlLARITY.
A Few Words in I;elialf of the Children
in the Holiday Season.

A Few Words in I;elialf of the Children
in the Holiday Season.
Be patient with children's racket
these holidays. We feel sorry for
boys, because they are not exempt from
troubles. and one of the worst is sup
pressed hilarity. To want to laugh and
still maintain gravity: to see the min
ister's wig getting twisted and yet look
devotional; to discover a mouse II
prayer-time and yet rot litter; to see
the young bride and room in church
try to look like old married people: to
have the deacon drop the contribution
plate and spill the pennies, and yet look
sorry for the misfortune; in a word, to
be a boy with fun from the top hair on
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whisk-canc in hand. and fanciful eye
glass on. looked sublimcly around on
the audience as much as to say: Il sup
pose you all see that | Am here" and
then sat down where a chair had just
before stood, but from which place the
usher had inadvertently removed it. Had
it not been for an extemporized cough
and sneeze and active use of the pocket
handkerchief on my part | should have
been hopelessly ruined.-Talmage, IN
n. Y. Observer.
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New time for toll and new space for winning
The guerdon of happiness free to all.
New hope for the souls long clouded over
With possible sorrows and actual pain;
New joys for comrade. and friend, and lover.
The year is bringing them all again.
New days and hours for the patient building
OF noble character, pure and true,
For faith and love, with their radiant gliding.
To make the temple Of life anew,
A Happy New Year, and q truce to sadness,
Its every moment by God is planned;
Whatever may come, whether grief or glad
ness,
Must come Alright from q Fathers hand.
He blessed the old III its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
His love was true to US al the way.
And cow in the hitherto shines the henceforth.
And out of the yesterdays smiles to-day.
We would have power in this year to brighten
Each lot less blessed and fair than ours;
The woe to heal and the load to lighter,
The waste Soul-garden to plant with flowers
May every day be o royal possession
To high.bQrn purpose and Steadfast aim.
And every hour in It's swift t&6N
Make life more worthy than when it came.
Mary Bowles. in Golden Days
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pastor was in
his S tudy, h j S
brow 4 S fur
W e d w i t b
thought, -=E
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AN

Hark, the bells are ringing sweet,
Answering up and down the street,
PasserSby each other greet.
Paying cou:tly compliment,
Young and old on pleasure bent.
Now these wishes. Old and new,
Every one 1 wish for you,
With q loving heart and true.
Yours be every blessing bright,
Every blossom of delight,
All good angels guide you, dear.
Round the sunny, circling year,
Youths COMPANION
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Two Ladies Shopping.-"Wha

Two Ladies Shopping-"Whats shall
we buy George for Christmas?" Il
don't know; something useful, how
That's just what think"
And then. after three or four hours hard
work for the salesman they purchased
q pcnwiper done in MORE antique with
lace trimmings and q mother-of-pcarl
bootiack.-Boston Transcript.
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guide HIM rightly for many o day he'd
sought,
And there was not a single volume on the
shelves above or below
That could throw any light on the problem
that puzzled and veXed him SO.
For the harvest season was over, and Christ
mas was close at hand,
And the glow of the rising splendor already il
Tuned the land;
And there on the desk before him, in orderly
n~eatness, lay
The sermon he meant to deliver to his people
on Christmas day.
So twas not this that disturbed him, nor was
he a moment vexed
BY any doubt or delusion in regard to his
chosen text;
For he preached but a simple gospel, in Ian
guage as tcrse and plain
AS the smooth. round pebbles that David took
when the mighty giant was slain.
The pastor thought of his little flock, the chill
dren great and small.
And great was the loying-!sindness with which
he regarded all:
And yet q wave of trouble ran over his heart,
Thcy tnoasnt n,ucfi fcss or Jesus Christ tn1g
they did OF Santa Claus.
For one and another whispered-their words
had an eager ring
"WEat shah I get on Christmas? What will
Santa Claus bring?"
And as everywhere and ever the thirst for
gain increased.
The charm of a kingly presence was missed
from the royal feast.
The pastor sat in his study, when his good
wife opened the door,
And together they held communion ana talked
the trouble DER;
And she, being quick of fancy, in a moment or
two had planned
A better way for keeping the day that was now
so close at hand.
The pastor gave the notice from the pulpit,
next Sabbath morn,
And to brain and heart, like a wifi winged
dart, was the startling message borne,
For he spoke in words of fire the truth they
must all believe:
~t.The Master has said: 1t is far more blessed
to give than to reeeive;'
And if at the Christmas season you'd be richly
and truly blest,
Bring hithcr your votive offering.-and let it
be of your best
And give to the poor around you with generous
heart and hand,
That peace and goodwill to men may fill tae
length and breadth of the land"
Twas early in bleak December the barrels
came rolling in,
The farmers sending their choicest from well
stored barn and bin:
There were apples and pears in plenty, and
pumpkins, yellow as gold,
And nuts and potatoes, together enough for n
vessels hold,
And bags on bags of -four and of coffee. and
chests of tea,
And strings of onions and peppers, oh 'twasa
goodly sight to see.
And the work of nimble fingers to such an
amount was there,
1t seemed as if the collection outrivaled the
County Fair.
There were dolls of assorted sizes. and some
that had been much used,
For the little folks had nought else to give and
not a gift was refused;
For the pastor would teach the lesson TO chill
d"cn of tender years.
That the gift that secures q blessing must be
consecrated with tears.
eOh, crisp and clear Christmas dawned that
year: the church was with holly drest,
And the bells rang out q merry chime taat
echoed from east to west;
And around the altar and down the aisle5 were
baskets and barrels slowed,
While up Oh the pulpit and into the pcws the
gifts had o~Terflowed.
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LOUIE'S WANTS.
A Little School Boys Christmas Spec,

tie School Boys Christmas Speech
I want a horn for Christmas
That makes a lot of noise;
want q drum,
And q top to hum,
And wagon loads OF toys.
want . sled with runners,
want u chair that rocks;
l want a ball
The most of all.
And lots of building blocks.
/ want q little table.
want a pig that hollers.
A gun that shoots,
And rubber boots,
And a bank chuck full of dollars.
/ want q bag of marbles,
l want Il chest OF tools;
A woolly goat,
And q painted boat,
And a wagon hitched to mules.
I want a game Of checkers,
want o bell to ring;
A dog that barks,
And Noahfs arkS,
And, oh!-'most eUeryfhing.t
Eva Best, in Detroit Free Press.
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lie Looked Up the Address.-"Can
| see Santa Clause as!lcdthe small boy,
entering Fogs's toy store. ''IIe's not
here. sonny" returned the Old nan.
kindly. Why do you look for him in
nv placer We'll, / saw your name on
the wagon he sent me, and thought |
might get him to trade it for q pair Of
skates."-pucI,
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HAPPY NEW YEAR.

To One and All. the Young. the Old, the
High, the Low.
A happy new year to you, child of
to-day! May you know MOI of sun
shine than of cloud, and more of glee
than of sorrow; may your tumbles and
bumps be few your laughter be fire.
quent and long, your play be unre-
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WALL, WALL! IT'S MIGHTY QUAEE."
out! Good-by, kurnel. Ill Leah Gle pig
righta at dc house an walk right off. No
harm, kurncl. All a mistake on my
part. Nice pig, kurnel, an wish you
many returns ob de samer'-Detroit
Free Press.
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Warren Wrinkles.

Quack, quack Gobble, gobble! Christ
mas is almost upon us. Oh, for the faith
of childhood. Father looks gloomy, and
talks poor; mother speaks of things need
ed for the house; all to no purpose; the
children see a Christmas tree, and are not
to be diverted from their object. Ten
years of indulgence has established a
precedent not to be vetoed by the cry of
hard times.
Plenty of mud, plenty of rain. Mumps
is epidemic. We have one case with four
to follow.
People are dying like falling leaves (;
diphtheria, scarlet fever, pneumonia.
Many left feeble by la grippe are succumb-
ing TO the unreasonable weather, but rain
or shine, wet or dry, our minister, the
Rev. Humason, has full house. He is a
hummer, and doing lots of good.
Oil men look blue. Times are close, oil
is low and the late high wind played havoc
with the derricks. Quite a number be-
coming dissatisfied with the Independents.
are going back to the Standard. "United,
we stand; divided, we fall" y.
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we have to report vet a few cases

We have TO report yet few cases
of scarlet fever in town. Elva, eldest
child of Mr.. Lanson, has had severe
attack, and Mrs. Lanson has been suf.
feripg from the disease also, but is
getting better, and the little girl seems
in fair way to recovery now. Mr..
Smearbaugh's two youngest children
have it, the youngest, Josephine, being
violently attacked, but this morning
her symptoms are somewhat improved,
and her physicians are more hopeful
of her recovery. The dreaded disease
has thus far been of such a mild type,
except in the two instances mentioned,
that people have come to look upon it
as a not very serious matter, and it
has not been thought worth while to
close the schools, although the direct.
ors would, we believe, very readily
accede 10 the wishes of the people
should they express a desire for such a
course. There is one thing which
should be rigidly looked after, how.
ever, and that is the closing of the
schools 10 those families in which the
disease has been, for sufficient length
of time to insure others from infection.
This would be no hardship on anyone,
and would go as far toward preventing
its spread as the total closing of the
schools. Let this be done in the fu.
ture, and let parents cooperate with
the directors and keep their children
away, not only from school, but from
all public gatherings until safety from
infection is assured.
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NEWSY NOTES.

1t is noted by the Atchison Globe that
this world is so crowded you can't pat one
man on the back without stepping on an
other mans toes when you do 1t.
Franklin has some very mean burglars.
They have stolen the contribution box
which was placed at the front of the Ev-
angelical church for the purpose of re-
ceiving offerings for the poor.
If there are any amateur detectives in
this section who desire something to work
on, the case of VIM. Clark, of Walnut
Bend, should furnish the opportunity de-
sired. AS noted several times heretofore,
Mr.. Clark after coming to Oil City one
day last spring, nysteriously disappeared
and nothing has been heard of him since.
Blizzard.
DR.. NJ. Pickett of Cory, died on Thurs
day last at Dwight, ILL.,, where he was
taking the Keeley cure. He had been a
great sufferer from wounds received in
the army, and in trying to alleviate pain
had become a victim to the opiate habit.
He died from exhaustion. He was a
prominent physician for many years at
Cory and Columbus Warren Mail.
At the meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Worlds Fair Board, held in
Harrisburg last week, Lewis Emery, Jr.,
made an earnest appeal for a proper con-
sideration OF the oil and gas industry of
this State. Under the rules of the Ma
tional Commission, he said, no adequate
exhibit could be made. Highly inflam-
mable material was prohibited in the
buildings, and an exhibition of well ma
chinery in operation would not be per-
nIitted in Machinery Hall, and no derricks
are to be allowed on the grounds. Mr..
Emery said the oil and gas production was
the third in value, the third on the list of
exports, and represented hundreds of
millions of dollars. Messrs. Emery, Big
Ter and Hasson we're appointed to attend
TO the matter.
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Stewards Run.

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Herring visited
F. E. Metcalf aud family since our
last letter.
Quarterly meeting was held by the
Free Methodists, beginning Friday
evening and lasting over Sabbath.
Mrs. Hugh Marshall is home from
Bradford and reports her daughter as
being better.
A pew slate black board has been
put in the school house here.
Mrs. Hutcheson has bought himself
a horse.
People here are very anxious for
seme sleighing, there beiug quite a
good deal of lumber aud ties to be put
to market.
Mike Zahniser, of North's Mills,
Mercer county, visited his cousin, H.
M. Zahniser, recently.
Jas, Thomson has been home for q
few days.
Rev. E. S. Zahniser, of Bowman
vile, is visiting friends here.
Jas. Hogg has bought himself 2.
year.old colt. 1t is the making Of q
good driver.
j. j. Zahniser and wife of Tionesta,
are at Stewards Run at present.
The children are looking forward
with great anxiety to Christmas. Also
good many older people.
Everybody is crying hard times.
Rev. Sid Sager was down from
Tidioute over Sabbath, assisting in the
quarterly meeting,
H. M. ZabDiser was up at May.
burg last week and stayed all night
with Nathan Zahniser and family
He reported them as we'll and pros.
pering.
Two new coal stoves were bough,
and put in the church last week, which
heat the church nicely in a short time
Dec. Is. CITIZEN.
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We desire to say to our citizens, that for
years we have been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate TO guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely on
their merits. Proper q Doutt, Druggists.
English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blem-
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs,
splints, sweeney, ring-bone, STILES,
sprains, all swollen throats, coughs, etc.
Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted
tho most wonderful Flemish cure ever
known. Sold by Proper & Doutt, Drug
gists Tionesta, Pa. nov. l8-6m.