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A Fit With Every Drink.

eyes, that's fair whisky" said Colo
mel Bill Avershine as he threw his black
SLOUGH on the bar, "but it amt nuthin
like what we're used to out in the west
ern country
''They serve nose paint out in my
camp in Arizona that is strong enough,
to walk alone. Let me tell you how 7
was introduced to it and it's virtues.
II wasn't tenderfoot exactly, but i
was new to the camp" he said. at
walked up to the bar, ordered whisky
and planked down my dust The bar
keeper set out big black bottle and
thick bottomed glass. Beside the bottle
on the bar he carefully laid new.
whisk broom. That stuck me. I didn't
know whether it was new coupon
scheme or a suggestion to me that my
clothes needed busting. At any rate,
was not going to play the tenderfoot SO
l simply waited to see how the next
customer would fare.
He happened to be big and tough
looking cowboy. He put down gold
piece and ordered whisky in a tone Of
voice at once expressive and terrifying.
The barkeeper obeyed his command, and
I was glad to see that whisk broom
was handed over the bar with his drink.
1.-The cowboy showed no surprise. He
filled his glass with the poison, raised
it to his lips and drained it at single
gulp. Then he picked up the whisk
broom, walked over to the corner of the
room, brushed the sand off the floor,
laid down in the clean space and had
fit.
IT merely mention this fact, gentle
men," concluded the colonel, "to show
you that it is a pretty strong article Of
whisky we use out in my country
And nobody denied it.-Chicago
Mail.
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giraffe, exclaiming:
Women Bicyclists,

The death of the lady cyclist from
syncope after bicycle ride is of course
the text for many fraternal warnings
and advice to lady bicyclists to give up
the enjoyment of an exercise in which
it is feared they may indulge to excess.
They are, of course, told by some that BIZ
cycling is unladylike, if not unwoman-
", and that women do not know how
to practice the careful restraint i'll such
matters to which men are accustomed.
They may very we'll afford, however, to
treat all this sage advice as at least su.
perhuous. So far from being unsuited
for women, bicycling is an exercise IN
which they may indulge with perfect
security and generally with much adj
vantage. We are persuaded that they
are as little prone to excess in athletics
as are the generality of men, and within
reasonable bounds we should like to SEQ
cycling as generally practiced by wom-
en- as by men, and it would be greatly
to the advantage of many cycling clubs
and cycling resorts that the ladylike
element should be more largely intro
duced. British Medical Journal.
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hearts are heavy because those we'll
known footsteps sound no more at the
doorway, yonder is your restl There is
David triumphant but once he bemoaned
Absalom. There is Abraham enthroned,
but once he wept for Sarah. There is
Paul exultant, but he once sat with his
feet in the stocks There is Payson "a
diant with immortal health, but on
earth he was always sick No toll, no
tears, no partings, no strife, no agoniz-
ing cough tonight. No storm to ruffle
the crystal sea. No alarm to strike
from the cathedral towers. No dirge
throbbing from seraphic harps. No
tremor in the everlasting song, but rest
perfect rest-unending rest.
Into that rest how many of our loved
ones have gone! The little children
have been gathered up into the bosom of
Christ. One of them went out of the
arms Of widowed mother, following
it's father, who died few weeks before.
In its last moment it seemed to see the
departed father, for it said, looking up
ward with frightened countenance,
Papa, take me up!"
Others put down the work of midlife,
feeling they could hardly be spared
from the office or store or shop for
day, but are to be spared from it for
ever Your mother went. Having lived
q life of Christian consistency here, ever
busy with kindness for her children, her
heart full of that meek and quiet spirit
that is in the sight of God of great
price, suddenly her countenance was
TRANSPORTED, and the gate was opened,
and she took her place amid that great
cloud of witnesses that hover about the
throne.
Glorious consolation! They are not
dead. You cannot make me believe they
are dead. They have only moved on.
With more love than that with which
they greet us on earth, they watch US
from their high place, and their voices
cheer US in our struggle for the sky. Hail,
spirits blessed, now that We have passed
the food and won the crownl With
weary feet we press up the shining way,
until i'll everlasting reunion we shall
meet again. Oh, won'tit be grand when,
our conflicts done and our paintings over,
we shall clasp hands and cry out, "This
is heayenr'
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care Her Life For a child's.

Ellen McGaugh Of Newark, N. j.,
recently saved the life Of her little cou-
sin, Mamie McGinnis, at the cost Of
her own. Miss McGaugh was talking to
some friends on the street, while the
child played near. The little one re-
peatedly ran into the street, but no one
minded her until suddenly Miss Nc.
Gaugh rushed from the group toward
the middle Of the street. A trolley car
was speeding along, and directly in front t
of it was the little girl. The child
seemed lost, but the pluclly young wo-
man sprang in front Of the car and al
pushed the child from the track. she
then tried to run back, but it was too
late. The car, at reduced speed, struck
her and threw her forward along the
track. When she was lifted from the
street, she had been fatally injured
and she died before the hospital was
reached. Standard.
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For Sale at Half
It's V alue!

Owing to change in business, ne
cessitating my removal to another
section of the county, l offer at hall
it's real real value, one OF the best
and most complete steam mills on the
Shore; embracing AZ inch French
burr grist mill with elevator, No. l
planer with Shriner flooring heads
also with beading, reeding and pat
ent siding attachments, one Grles'
patent Single mill with capacity OF
5000 per day, lath mill with growing
attachments, cut off saw, and steam
grind stone and emery wheels. The
saw mill has "a inch Atkins patent
tooth saw, Porgis' improved head
blocks, patent dogs, Reamy's latest
variable feed, and has lumber car
and rolls. A 60 horse tubular boiler
and 40 horse engine supplies ample
power to drive all parts simultaneous
" if desired. One of the best sec
tons of the county for custom work,
and surrounded by an abundance OF
rood timber within short distance
Will sell with mill, timber carts, wa
gon. team, and about 100000 feet o.
first growth timber. If not sold
would rent at fair price to a reliable
and practical man. Terms easy
For particulars, addsess
n. w. MOCK.
,r;ll0 Aaao,nnc Co Va
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a Rare Compliment.

English educators passed rare COM
.pliment Oh women by sending com.
mission of five women to the United
States for the purpose of examining the
American system of public education In
order to ascertain if there be any OF Its
features than can be advantageously
adopted in England or can be incorpo-
rated in a new school bill which Is IN
course of preparation for introduction TO
ent.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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A Boston Worker.

A Boston lady has embarked in a
multifarious occupation. In the four
corners of her cards are inscribed, in
the upper left hand, solicitor Of in
surance;" in the upper right hand,
"Kirmess manager" in the lower left,
Rubber coats and cloaks to measure,
and in the lower right, bicycles to
order; any style.
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A VIGOROUS Empress.

The empress of Austria, it is said, is
still able to tire out the guides at Ma
donna di Campiglio and other places in
the southern Tyrol, where her pedes-
trian feats excite great establishment
and interest. She thinks nothing Of a
walk of 30 miles. and the rapidity of
her pace renders it difficult for her at
.endants to keep up with her.
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Another End.

He-And is it absolutely necessary
that I should speak to your father
She-Of course. He is the head Oh the
family, you know.
He (gioomily)-It isn't the head OF
the family that I'm afraid Of. It's the
foot.-Truth
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MAY Heaven Attend Her.

La belle Americana has now invaded
our streets in full force, drinking ice
cream sodas and consoling the discoh-
Isolate modistes by her handsome orders.
London World
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Carriages and Harness 81 sb6 5njs

Won will find everything that belongs rstclas carriage
and sadder establishments such Bugges Phaeons Sures
Dayons Track ues Road Carts and Hangs d IN al ogt es
celebrated eaher Cart Saddles Collars Blankets Whips &c
All repairing neatly and promptly done short notice All new
faction both in price quality Will be pleased to show my
stock at all times Those wishing to purchase anything IN my
Enc viii do Well to examine my stock before purchasing else
where Thanking my many friends for their patronage during
the past and asking for continuance of same, am
WV f Yours very respectfully,
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s la. STING LIFE.
sTALMAGE ON THE REST
r ETERNITY BRINGS.

Famcy1 apor, Popularity Is Ephemcral,
Rioiss Take Wings, but the Everlasting
LifestS and safc-4An Eloquent and
ContspFEing Address.
BRSsEN, Aug 26.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage5sl1psis now in Australia on his
globesslgng tour, has selected as the
subjeeS his sormonAfor today, through
the l tho words, Everlasting
Life, ieteyt being from Micah ii, 10,
"Aris SO and depart, for this is not
your 1sst
ThiaNas the drum beat of prophet
who Waited to arouse his people from
their depressed and sinful condition,
but itSnayjust as properly be uttered
now asx9ten. Bells by long exposure
and nraslsinging lose their clearness
Of tongj 51t.this rousing bell of the gos
pei stTissss in as clear a tone as when it
first rassse on the air.
AS fsie ash can sec your great want
and nT11,esis rest. From the time we
enter a great many vexations and
annoyai ees take after us. We may have
our holidays and our seasons of recrea-
ton aIss quiet, but where is the man
come midlife who has found entire
rest? T9e fact is that God did not make
this wssid to rest in. a ship might as
we'll gesdown off Cape Hatteras to find
smoothfwater as man in this world to
find gust From the way that God has
snewn She thorns and hung the clouds
and shmnened the tusks, from the colds
that disNoss. us, and the heats that smito
us, andAho plourisies that stab us, and
the fevers that consume US, know that
he did 3not make this world as place
to loiter in. God does everything sue
cessfnllg, and this world would DO a
very different world if it were intended
for us to lounge i'll. 1t does right well
for Il fey hours Indeed it is magnif-
cent! Nothing but infinite wisdom and
goodness could have mixed this bever-
age Of. water, or hung up these brackets
of stars, or trained these voices of rill
and bird and ocean, so that God has
but TO lift his hand, and the whole
world breaks forth into orchestra But,
after all, it is only the splendors of a
kings Highway, over which we arc to
march on to eternal conqHests
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She Was Warm.

The incident occurred while party
of strangers were being taken through
the Chollar workings. In the party was
a girl-an innocent little thing, whose
knowledge of mines was limited to
few vague impressions acquired through
reading and hearsay. She had only one
vivid recollection, and that was that
mines are hot.
The party was mixed, and the gentle
men, as usual, carried lanterns. As it
was also large, when preparations were
made to 60 down the incline the guile
less creature aforesaid and another lady
and gentleman were all assigned to the
lower seat of the giraffe. After the
giraffe started, to further the general
comfort, the girl slipped down at the
feet of her companions and found seat
On something the nature of which she
did not stop to investigate.
A short way down the incline she re-
marked that it was getting warm. Far
ther ON she repeated the observation,
and her companions responded that they
had not noticed it, while the miner who
had the party in charge assured her
that the incline was supposed to be
cool. She continued to call attention to
- Giraffe, exclaiming:
"Whew, but it was hot in there"
The miner was mystified; but, casual
" looking at where she had sat, the
light dawned upon him, and he electri-
fed the innocent little thing and the
rest of the party by dryly remarklng:
cts no wonder you were warm.
You were sitting on that gentleman's
lantern. Virginia (Nev.l Chronicle.
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Mappsville, Accomac Co. Va.
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c8Patronage respectfully solicited.
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08

What news the Curwin brought from
Honolulu is only known to the Presi-
dent and the State Department., who re-
fuse to divulge it. 1t is conjectured from
the fact that precautions were taken to
prevent communication with the crew
that she brought some important advices.
Extraordinary interest attaches to her
arrival because just before it despatch
from Auckland. New Zealand, statedsthat
Mr.. Willis had called upon the provisional
government and requested it to abdicate
in favor of the Queen, and the Corwin's
officers must know whether this report
is true or false. The general opinion in
Washington is that it is false. Very few
are ready to believe that after submit
ting the Hawaiian matter to Congress.
President Cleveland would have con
tinued to intrigue through Minister
Willis for the overthrow of the provision
al government And yet this Hawaiian
business has been SO full of strange and
unaccountable performances on the part
of the President and Secretary Gresham.
that there is lurking fear in the
minds of its supporters that it may have
been guilty of the gross improprietv
which the Auckland despatch attri butes
to it,
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08

The Democratic papers of New York
are filed with insinuations that the
Republicans mem ers Of the New York
legislature are contemplating the un-
seating of enough Democrats to give
them Il two-thirds majority in both
branches. Whether there be any truth
in these reports, we know not From
this distance it looks as if it would be
the height of folly for the Republicans
TO use their power to increase their mem
bership in either branch of the legisla-
ture beyond what justice entities them
TO. 1t was the taking of seats which
did not belong to Them that had more
influence in overthrowing the Democrats
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08
union MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
PORTLAND, MAINE.

At this festive season of the wear. a
season at which each man vies with
his neigh Dor in the making of some gift
to the members of his immediate family
and friends, it is peculiarly fitting that
the UNIQUE advantages of Life Insur-
ance should be kept in view The ten
denoy of the age is to be PRACTICAL,
and it is therefore worthy of note by
those who contemplate making holiday
presents, that nothing can exceed for
which will in the event of the death of
the breadwinner protect the Home and
afford nurture and sustenace to the
bereaved, be they old or young. 1t does
not require any very vivid flight of
imagination to comprehend the possibili-
ties of fifty-fold return consequent up
on an outlay for the acquisition of Life
Insurance; whereas, a similar outlay up
on something more pleasing to the eve
and possibly of a perishable or breakable
nature could not afford the solid and
lasting benefit to be obtained by and
through policy in the Union Mutual,
possession which no family should lack
but one which should be treasured in
every home dec23eodtf
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08

There seems to be no doubt that there
were enough Democrats present in the
House on both Friday and Saturday to
constitute qourum, and yet every vote
on the motion to take up Prof. Wilson's
tariff bill fell short of that number.
This means, of course, that some of the
Democrats sat silent, thereby joining
with Republicans against the considera-
ton of the tariff bill. The significance
of this fact is obvious. It means that
Prof. Wilson'S measure is exceedingly
obnoxious to some of his own party s
representatives, 90 obnoxious that the
resolutions of the Democratic caucus
commencing the bill and demanding
that all Democrats give it their support
had no effect upon them. Undoubtedly
the advocates of the bill will muster
sufficient force during the coming week
to get it up for consideration, but the
fact that four days have passed without
enough Of them being present to consti-
tute quorum in a House with hun
dred Democratic majority indicates a
lukewarmness seven on the part Of those
who are supposed to be friendly to the
bill that makes it's fate even in the
House decidedly doubtful. The truth
probably is. that the Christmas week
visits which Northern congressman paid
to their constituents have greatly cooled
the arder of many of them for tariff re-
form of the Wilson variety, and the
work of bracing them up has got to
begin all over again. Meanwhile
Northern workingmen who understand
the effect which the Wilson measure
will have upon the industries in which
they are employed should continue to
pour in upon the representatives of their
districts protests against it. Working
mems protests will be more potent for
the defeat of the bill than anything else.
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08

We hope all Democrats will. turn out
tonight and attend the Jacksonian show
gotten up by Mr.. A. D. Sweetsir. The
present is full of gloom for the Demo-
cracy, and the future is not bright with
promise, and so there is very little
pleasure for them in contemplating the
things that are, or the things that are
likely to be. But by setting the clock
back some seventy years, as Mr.. Sweetsir
and his assistants propose to do tonight,
Democrats may be happy for awhile.
Therefore we advise all of them to be at
the show tonight, listen to the glorifica-
tion of St. Jackson, gaze on the lock of
the Saints hair, and forget that they are
living in the year 1894, with Grover
Cleveland and not Andrew jackson in
the Presidential Office
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08

The Repu blican members of the House
OF Representatives are evidently deter
mined to delay the the passage Of the
Wilson bill as long as possible. Eastern
Argus.
And a great many Democrats appear to
be assisting them to enforce their deter
mination.
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08

The Democrats are undecided whether
to attach their income tax bill to the
tariff bill or to introduce it as separate
measure Either plan is dangerous. To
latter in great jeopardy. But to pass
the Wilson bill without it, trusting to it's
subsequent enactment, is also dangerous,
for il it should fail as there is much
reason to believe it will, deficiency of
$50. 900, 600 or $40. 900, 900 which the Wilson
bill will create will be left urprovided
Cow
The Portland daily press., 1894-01-08
Good old Democratic Times.

To the Editor of the Press:
The fall OF 1913 I was seventeen years
old. | worked for Horatio Southgate
Esq, of Scarboro for SIS a month. My
work was to drive four OK team, haul
ing hay to Portland. I made three trips
per week. I had to get up at
O'Clock in the morning to feed and get
my team ready, then" drive into the city
and sell the hay and pitch it off, and then
load up with manure and start for home.
l would get home about $50 in the
evening, take care of the team and go
IN and get my supper, and often while
eating it the clock would strike nine
nineteen hours for days work, and
I got 20 2-3 cents. The price of hay was
then governed by Canada and Nova
Scotia. The harbor was full of their O Id
scows and schooners loaded with hay
and whatever they sold it for We had to
take for our hay. l used TO get S. and
IS and sometimes 81 per ton. One time
had to sell for S. per ton. I remember
this in particular. The Squire gave me
an order to go down to Abner Shaw's
and get a barrel of Genosee flour. When
he gave me the order / said to him
would like to have pair of cowhide
boots, SO he put the boots on the ORDER
When | got home I gave the bill of hay
and bill of -four and boots. He took
them and looked them over and drew
his eyebrows down. "Thab load of
hay" he said, has brought me in debt
thirteen cents.
Flour S.. so.
Boots 50, 13-S7. e8
One and one-haif tons of hay $3.50
.13
He said to me "The next time you go
if you cannot get more than SIS per ton
haul it down and dump it into the dock.
He was thorough believer in protec-
ii on. 1t was the same with potatoes and
other farm vegetables, oats barley,
peas, and beans. Canada and Nova
Scotia fixed the price. My cowhide
boots cost me S2.13. Now at 1862 cents
per day had to work little over eight
October the same kind of boots could
be bought for the same money, and all
the clothing that laboring man want
ed could be had as cheap or cheaper than
in 1S4s. This under the. Mckinley tariff
bill. Any common laboring man could
work one and one-half days and pay for
his cownide boots under the. latter tariff
AfNC hOOio wv RqallO soy tudO OuC
Democratic party never would be salts
fed until laboring man had to work
for sleeps harslet per day, and it looks
as though the party had brought him to
it and beyond, for there are thousands
upon thousands that cannot even earn
that
I have never voted the Democratic
ticket in national or State elections in
my life, and furthermore, never shall.
My first vote was for John G. Fremont,
my next was for the greatest man that
America ever Produced, the man that
put down the Democratic rebellion, and
their pet institution of slavery, A braham
Lincoln. My advice to laboring men
is to vote the Republican ticket and
become part of that grand old party
which has fed and clothed them better
for the past thirty three years then any
other party in the known world. Mans
life is not long enough to see any good
result from the Democratic party.
REX.
West Scarporo, January, 4, 1894.