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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15
Bold Blanket Talk.

But the goods arc here to back up the ar
gument. Something like 500 pairs of warm
Eooly webs OF winter comfort, and not a
pair among them but what will make Won
Ieel kindly towards this store II you buy
Buy all you need from this lot. Blankets
wont be "a cheap again in a hurry
ne DlaI ketS we're talking abDut are not
cotton flannel sheets, but Blankets with
real wool in them.
Beat these il you can:
An all wool IL 4 Wits BLANKET a. So
per pair. Never heard Of before and
doubtful, whom the 100 pairs we have
are sold, IL any more can bs had at tina
price.
Another bargain is an all wool 10. a
red blanket a. So so per pair. Would be
cheap at SO so, but we bough. them low
and intend 10 give our customers the
advantage
We have also good values in 81, SIS
and Sc all wool ia B snkets, the equal
OF which cannot bs beat in the city.
We will add few words about Com
. forts, and that is ur prices on came
are all light. soc, Csc. Use, 81, 81. 25 up
to SIS.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15
PaIaiis RoyaI,
lOl Salem Avenue.

we look into the valne of every item
before we proclaim that it is cheap
and when we announce bargain YOU
can rest assured that the value is there
that your money will bring elegant
return and do you good service ut the
Palais Royal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

was making q woeful failure OF trying
not to cry and his sweet old wife was
crying outright and yearning to thank
some one, the door softly closed and
they were left alone with their happi-
ness and abundance. Want had walked
very close beside them for many years,
and lives of cheerful, %prayerful labor
and sacrifice had their reward in part
in neglect, but that Christmas day all
bitterness and sadness were forgotten,
and when the new preacher asked the
old one to lead in prayer that morning
it wa said there had never been such a
supplication as his offered before in the
new church. 1t sanctified and rededi-
Gated it.
Three wagons almost surrounded the
poor little house of Widow Green.
She was the poorest of all the needy in
the village, and, according to human
nature judges, the least deserving. Her
life had o been altogether good, but
with a loveless old age, abandoned by
her children and forsaken by hei
friends, she seemed an object too pitt.
full for blame or reproach. Two heap
ing loads of wood were piled up about
her door and an abundant store of pro.
visions carried into the house and &C.
copied in silence.
Everywhere in the village and coun.
try good cheer was carried that day.
Not Il poor table was left ungarnished
Of Coma choice Christmas treat The
teams threaded their way here and
there, and each new start they trotted
the easier. There was never such a day
in Plunkettville or Pulver township be.
fore-so much happiness and good feel
ing, mingled with a pleasant mystery.
The new preacher heard about it and
rang the bell that night himself for an
extra service at half-past seven and
preached without notes from the text;
Give and it shall be given unto you
He had new preached like this before,
every word seeming to come rightfr
his heart. He spoke of the good Samar'
itan, and of the giving with the right
hand without the knowledge of the left
And this last appeared as an especially
applicable text, as it was not then and
is not now fully and satisfyingly known
to a certainty how this peculiarly beau.
tiful Christmas episode was brought
abeut-who thought of it, or suggested
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

the changes are still going on. The be-
ginning was two years ago. There ere
things that would be profitable to spSak
of because of their suggestiveness II
the way of help TO other Plunkettvilies,
but only one incident or experience will
be mentioned, and hat dates back to
last Christmas, which with the school
master as prime leader, aDly assisted by
Jake and the Eaton boys, and n half
dozen others, was rendered a bit dra-
matte, and it will be many years before
this particular Christmas is forgotten.
Uncle Sluman Able was right in his
conjecture that the boys on Sogger Kun
bridge were "up to sumthin'." The Peo-
ple were awakened at an unusually
early hour that day by the rumbling OF
wagons over the hard, frozen ground,
and scattered through the village and
out into the country were 4 dozen teams
hauling loads of something. One
STONED in front of the little millinery
sboD over which little Miss Susie Prin-
die had presided for almost half a cen
tury. She, like her bonnet, was out OF
Joint with the times; and even remote
and happy-go-lucky Plunkettvllle a
outgrown her fashions and the man
ner of her wares, and with old age cruel
" asserting itself she was stranded IN
her little shop-poor, so very poor, n
with q heart far oftener sad h cheer
full. With her dainty nightcap still tied
under her chin, she pulled the window
shade aside-just a little cautious mite
to see a tub filled to its topmost hoop
being handed down from a cord of hick-
DRY wood cut surely for her stove, for
no other stove in the village was as
small as hers, and this, when piled up
neatly on her porch, was again crowned
with the wash day hamper. What little
Miss Prindle found under the white
linen tablecloth need not be told, but,
kneeling by her old ch~intz-covered
rocking chair, the room warm n
cheerful with its cracking, laughing
fire. and her table with both its leaves
spread to hold its bounties, she thanked
God, with her grateful tears falling on
the cushion, for the good friends WIG
had 50 kindly remembered her and
made her so thankful this Christmas.
Two wagons drove up in front of the
old minister's house. One carried a
load Of wood which was ranked almost
before he knew it in the leaky lean
to next to his leaky kitchen, and the
contents Of the other wagon were car
ried into the house through the front
door. There was everything to eat
Christmas and Sunday dinners enough
for Q whole year almost-end while he
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
OLD PEOPLE TO SANTA CLAUS.

what shall Santa Claus bring your
We say to the merry child.
"Oh, a lovely doll, with curly hair,
One that a shut its eyes,
And a new red sled, and candy, too,
And a watch that can really CO."
Ah, ne. 1t takes but little
To gladden. these small hearts so.
what do you want for Christmas?'
In turn the children cry.
But their elders only shake their heads,
With smiles that are half a sigh.
Nor dolls, nor sleds, nor sweetmeats may
Bring pleasure when the hair is gray.
Can you bring US health, good Santa,
Instead of toys, forsooth,
The buoyant steps, the sparkling eye
And the radiant dreams of youth?
The fame we've sought by patient toll
Through weary years to gain,
The fortune that has Knocked US,
All we've striven for in vain?
Can you bring the love we long for
And the faces we yearn to see?
Some are sundered by bitter thoughts
And some sleep peacefully.
Tell us quickly, Santa Claus,
Whisper it low to me,
If gifts like these we long for
Within thy store may be.
Lillian G. Cobleigh. in Chicago Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

saw on the bridge over Messenger run
talking with the Eaton boys and Jake,
but space forbids but one line of
thought now. He was a sort of ell
around prophet to the neighborhood
who led the rather commonplace peo-
pie into a land of better and wider liv-
ing. Especially to the boys and the
young men Of his school had he been
OF help in their presentneed, and it had
been great. He possessed the genius of
doing things instantly in season. He told
them many helpful things, but not al
ways pleasant ones. One fact he men
toned, without seeming to preach or
being superior to the charge himself,
was, that they were wasting 4 good
many good opportunities for doing
good. That, perhaps-and more than
likely they had the idea, if they had even
ever thought about it-that to do good
thing it must be a great thing-or great
as the world counts it. He made them
see that this was Il mistake and urged
them to think about it. That it was
time that they were doing something
worth while living for. They were big,
hearty, healthy fellows, and ought to
be ashamed to live just for the sake of
living, with no aim or object in life
higher than a husking bee or a spelling
school frolic. That God might forget
them just as they forgetting their
duty to Him and their neighbors. There
were fair possibilities for every one of
them, probably no very great ones; but
no one could tell that. Every n of
them had it in his power, in his reach,
to do some good, and the quicker they
looked around and set about it the bet
ter and the more manly they would be.
he advised a bit of selfishness-that
their work of w~ell-doing, their charity,
begin at home, emphatically at home
right inside their own foolish, unthink-
ing, careless hearts, and from this start
ing. point work out and widen and
lengthen their field OF usefulness and
Christian labor. They would find that
it would pay, and maybe in more ways
than II He would suggest that they
get down to business without waiting.
And much more the schoolmaster said
one time and another, but mostly along
this line. There were many changes in
the social and moral life of Plunkett-
vile, and all were for the better. And
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
Simply Delighted.

He (the day before Christmas)-Isaw
your father this morning.
She-Indeed. How did he look?
He-Tired. Said he had been tramp
ing all over town.
She-Blue?
He-Intensely so.
She-Cynical?
He-Very.
She-Tired of life?
He-Never saw him so much 80.
She-Oh, 1 am so glad!
He-Gladi What, glad that he In
unhappy?
She-Yes. Certainly; because now
I know that he has spent all his money
on my Christmas presents.-N. Y. Truth
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
~STREET-CAR ROBBERS
Attompt to Hold Up an Electric Car in
Chicago.

CHICAGO, Dec. "a bold attempt
was made by two men 10 hold up" a
south-bound Wentworth-avenue cleo
trio car at eight o'clock this morning.
Shortly after the men entered the car,
the conductor detected one of them
with his hand in a passengers pocket.
The conductor grasped the pickpocket
by the shoulder, when the latter's
companion came forward and placing
@ revolver against the conductors
head threatened to kill him if he did
not let the mar go. The conductor
Immediately released his grip on the
mans shoulder. The two men then
prepared to Ego through" the passen-
gers without any more delay, when
one of them thought he saw an officer
outside. and gave the alarm. The
bandits rushed from the a and
escaped
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
British Columns, Sent Against the zuIus.

CAPE Town. Dec. IA dispatch
from B~lantyre, British South Africa,
dated October 25, says that three Brit
ish columns have been sent against
the Angoni Zulus, who have invaded
the southwest of Nyazzaland, burned
a British mission station and killed
the inhabitants of a number of viii
lagos. When the advlces left Blantyre
it was feared that town would be at
tackled by the Zulus, who overwhelm-
ipgly outnumbered the British. The
Portuguese at TetZa, Portuguese
East Africa, have insited the co-opera-
| ton Of the British
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

tented wife, and IF'N
reaches its glorious noontide In the happy
mother. Happy motherhood is a true wo-
mans 1oftiest ambition. Her highest pride
is in her fitness to fulfill this grand and
sacred destiny. Nothing so clouds and
darkens her existence as to be incapaci-
tated for this noblest of worlanly functions
by weakness or disease.
Awoman who suffers from any ailment of
the delicate special organism of her sex,
feels something more than pain and physi-
cal wretchedness. She is mortified with a
sense of womanly inconpleteness.
But no woman need remain under this
cloud of misery and dissatisfaction DR..
Pierce's FavoTite Prescription positively
cures all diseased conditions and weak
nesses, and restores complete health and
strength to the feminine organs.
It is the only medicine of its kind devised
for this one purpose by an educated and ex-
perienced physician, and eminent specialist
in this particular field of practice.
1t is the only medicine which can be relied
upon to make the ordeal of motherhood
absolutely safe and almost painless.
~ cannot say too much for DR.. Pierces Favor.
tie Prescription" writes Miss Clara Baird, Of
Bridgeport, Montgomery Co., Penn'a. 81 feel Il
ing from any disease of the womb that it Is the
best medicine on earth for them to use. cannot
praise it too highly for the good it did me. II
any one doubts this give them my name and
address"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate the
stomach liver and bowels. Of all medicine
dealers.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
The New Governor of the Philippines.

MADRID, Dec. 1n-A dispatch from
Manila says that Gen. Polavieja has
assumed the duties Of governor Of the
Philippine islands. Gen. Blanco,
formerly governor of the islands, has
been appointed to the head of the
kings military household.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
Republican National Headquarters.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The national
republican committee has selected the
Clover building on F. street, near the
treasury department, as permanent
headquarters, and they will be estab-
liished after New Years
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
First Meeting of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The first
meeting of the senate committee on
foreign relations yesterday was en-
tirely informal. Several matters were
discussed without any particular
measure being formally land before
the committee. Almost the entire
time was devoted to a consideration
of Cuban affairs and the message of
the president and report of the secre-
tary of state on that subject. Not a
member of the committee failed to ex-
press his sympathy for the patriots,
but no tangible suggestions were
made, nor was action of any kind
takan-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

it, or prompted it, and just who carried
it out. 1t is referred to as the Plum
kettville plot, and to the uninitiated is
suggestive of something dark and trag-
ic; but to everyone outside of those con-
cerncd in it it is more of a mystery than
to Uncle Sluman Able.-Mrs. Ephraim
Burdick, in Rams Horn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

Landlady-Well, Mr.. Hardup, whatdo
you expect to get in your stocking this
Christmas?
Hardup-Same as last Christmas
holes.-Detroit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
Went ON strike Yesterdar.

MORRIS, Ill, Dec. 10.-Complying
with an order of a Braidwood mass
meeting of northern Illinois miners,
the Carbon Hill miners went on strike
yesterday. The strikers protest
against too free screenage.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
Why She Gave It.

He-Precious. did you give me this
beautiful umbrella because you love met
She-No. darling, I gave it to you be-
cause I am tired Of lending ron mipA-
EXCHANGE
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

''ToMMY," said the teacher, "what Ii
meant BY nutritious food9" Something
to eat that amt got no taste to il, replied
Tommy.-Household Words.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

THE SAFEST WAY.-Borax (relectively)-
81 wish | knew how to tell a woman's age"
SamjOnes-''The best way is to tell it Is In
q soft and gentle whisper ."-Truth.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

SUDDEN weather changes bring rheuma-
tism. st. Jacobs Oil makes prompt cure
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

Do WHAT you can do well, and You win
soon be able to do much better.-Ram's
Horn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free s. trial bottle g
treatise. Dr. KLINE, 933 Arch ST., Phila-, Pa
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

SEE the picture and advertisement on this
page of Hapgood Plow Co., Alton, Ill.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

NoTANswERED YET.-Tommy-'O, paw!"
Mr.. Figg-'Wellf' How can a solid fact
leak outf'-Indianapolis Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
Tbe Common People.

Each life is intended of God to have
its part and influence n the great life
aggregate of the ages. Some by BIRTH.
peculiar gifts or conditions become
more conspicuous; yet those of lowlier
place who live their purpose share In
Gods thought a part not to be de-
spised, and the substantial element OF
every age is that of the common peo-
pie, the life of whom is n long quiet
service for the ennobling of the race.
Rev. 1. NJ. Chambers, Presbyterian,
Merchantville, n. j.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life

If you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever. be made well, strong, magnetic,
full of new life and vigor, take NO-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 400. 600 cured. Buy No-To-Bac from
your own druggist, who will guarantee q
cure. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
THE CONGRESSIONAL VOTE OF

% tn Different. Congresiona Districts In This State Voted at the Recent Flee
tion-A Districts Democratic With he Exception of he Tenth, Eleventh n d
Twelfth
Following is the official count of the vote asst in the congressional districts
for representatives n congress at the recent election:
urpcr Drcrprcr Ercur DrSrp1CT
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19

Love is the sun of
woman's life. Its
d a w ming is the
fnaiden's e
sentiment; it bright
n into the steady
affection of the con-
$3.50 II -
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The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-12
Eel Evo,utious.

Born, to the wife of Sam Hen
sley, boy.
&c. Couch, our cattle merchant,
is in some of the eastern counties
after scrubbs. ".
Married, at tho residence of the
brides father, William Haulsey to
Miss America Haulsey. =.o>.
+ Married, at the residence Of the
brides' father George Ferguson 10
Miss Julia Loveless, some days
ago. .s ........ r.. j. j. :..>.. 4.
j. W. Childers, Il. 4. cthilders,
Chas. sample, Rudolph Ghilders,
Henry Neff and Thomas Sexton,
.of Maytown, were 81 town III the
9th inst.
Literary society every Saturday
night at tho Toms branch school
house, All the young men in
reach should attend ard hear the
noted "Hornpipe" read.
Sam w. Robertson, one of our
neighbors, moved from the Dennis
branch to Rowan county on the
9Th inst. Sam will be missed very
much in that neighborhood.
Renters are hustling around In
this part hunting for summer
quarters. They are 80 numerous
| will not Try to give tho names
aud places vacated AID Allied Ia
the last cen days
The Morm1lsa have l5ssH FFssv;sss Z
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-12
CORRESPONDENCE.
MORGAN COUNTY.
Ganey Cullirus.

Success to THE HERALD and its
many readers.
VIM. Wells, who was reported
on the sick list last week, is some
better at this writing.
R. E, Coudill went to Torrent
Monday on business, and reports
the roads as being in bad condi-
ton.
DIG. Lacy, deputy United States
marshal, returned from Louisville
court last week and said Jackson
Peyton, charged with diatilIing,
was acquitted, and Harry Tcrrill
@onyittod for the samo ononcr.
Ned.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-12

ing here d few days. They. left
on the 9Th inst. Some like #tbe
way they talk While others did
not. l never had Che pleasure Or
the displeasure of. hearing them.
John BARLEY contracted the
farm belonging 10 S. "A. BARLEY
and heirs, lying on the upper Long
branch, to Kelsey H. Murphy for
the sum Of 800, money 70 be paid
when q decree is obtained from
the court to sell the estate of the
infant heirs and deed is made to
the land.
j. M. Murphy, justic peace of
Morgan county, held his court at
Eel on Tao 9th inst. Quite a
crowd was in attendance. County
AJtornry I. ". Rose and w. B.
Lykins, Of West Liberty, Rollin
Kash, of Hazel Greer, and ye
scribe constituted the bar. Sew
erol cases Of interest were tried.
Jerry is a good magistrate and
knows his business. >
Du TrCar
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NUMBER So

II any Of our subscribers have
included The Enquirer in their
subscription and failed to get ii
they will please notify us so that
we can investigate.
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Is Your Name Written Thore9

We have commenced the prun~
ing process on oUr subscription
list, and will continuQ 'dtop off
all names not paid zip until we
clear it of all delinquents. Pay
up at once if you want the paper
to come to you, There is $500 or
$500 due this Office on subscrip-
tons, and we must have the money
to continue business. Examine
the date following your name, and
if not paid up, Please do so at
once. We need money badly.
fhave arranged to keep as much
of the travelling public as desire to
stop with me. Sampl, rooms for
commercial men. One door west
Of postoliice. Respectfully,
Mrs. ELLEN KAsH.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-12
To the Farmers and Public Generality.

/ have had the -four department
.of the Hazel Green Mill oyerhnul-
Jed and put in frst-class condition
by the boss miller of the noun
tains, Ed Meeks, and am now
better -four than was ever
turned out from this mill. We
.aro now ready to grind for all that
may SEQ lit To patronize us, aud re-
specially solicit your patronage.
Our grind days are Tuesdays and
Fridays, but we will grind at any
time on 10 bushels o. more
Bring on your wheat. Me are
in#condition to Dc you good work.
jams ii. SWASao, Receiver.