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Needles.

Needles are all made by machinery The piece of mechanism by which the needle is manufactured takes the rough steel wire, cuts it into proper lengths, files the point, fattens the head, pierces the eye, then sharpens the tiny instru- ment and gives it that polish familiar to the purchaser. There is also a ma. chine by which needles are counted and placed in the papers ill which they are sold, these being afterward folded by the same contriyance.
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The contemporary chimney sweeps, who still arc of importance to London, are lusty youths and mature men, who work with machine and bear rela- tion to the ancient order commiserated by Lamb and purposely championed by Dickens only in their soot grimed hands and blackened countena4ces. One of these. testifying at the inquest over William Price, summed up the grand difference between original worth and present degeneracy. ''Lor bless you, we ain't chimbley sweeps nowadays; not a bit of it. We work with lot of sticks. Anybody can do that. But he- ah, he wor sweep, he wort Ee could do our work, but we couldn't do his. There ain't no chimbleys, and there ain't no sweeps now. ''--London Letter.
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No my stery about it. When the Shakers offered some time ago to give away a bottle of their Digestive Cordial to any one who might call at their New York office, there was great rush and great many people thought they were crazy.
 Subsequent events proved it to have been a very clever advertising transaction for although they gave away thousand oi bottles, 1t was in the end profitable near ly every one that took free bottle came back for more and paid for it witt Lleasure, saying they had derived better results from it's use than from any other medicine they had ever used.
 There is nothing SO uniformly success full in the treatment of stomach troubles as the Shakers Digestive Cordial, and what is better than all, 1t relieves at once
 LAxoL, the new form of Castor Oil is SC palatable that children lick the spoor clean
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An Encomium CbeaD1v Won.

"Boss, ' said the man, "give me 3 cents.''
 The man addressed reached in his pocket. and 8 smile appeared on the beggar's face.
 ''I'm afraid" said the man, feeling around among the coins in his pocket "that can give you [the smile on the beggar's face disappeared and a sober look took its placel cents think I'll have to give you [the sober look was now turned into broad smile] 5.
 ''Boss," " said the beggar, "you're a brick ''-New York Sun.
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THERE IS NOTHING so G oD.-There is nothing just as good as r. Kings New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, so demand it and do not permit the dealer to sell you som substitute. He will not claim there is all! thing bet ter, but in order to make moI,yprofit he may claim something. else to be just as good. You want Dr. Kings New Dis covery because you know it t., be safe and reliable, and guaranteed to GO good or money refunded. For Coughs, Colds, Consumption, and for all affect n5 of Throat, Chest and Lungs, there is hing so good as is Dr. Kings New Disc ov ry
 Trial bottles free at B. K. Taft's l>rug Store. Regular size 50 cents and $1. 8
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l8a7 CARRIAGES laa7

I shall show after March 1st the largest stock of Single Carri- ages, Surreys, COncOrds, and Light Vehicles of every descrip- tiOn, have ever carried, and at lower. prices. Carriages from $45 to $15O-Surreys form $7O to 75-COncOrds from $40 to 800. The work is built to my Or- der, sold under my guarantee, and will be just as represented. Having sold from 60 to 200 jobs per year for the last 20 years, I will meet any ones prices. I am also prepared to do repairing in all it's branches and at lowest rates.
 JOHN G. WIGHTMAN.
 Stafford Hollow, Feb. 25, 1897.
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From Sire tO Son.

As family medicine, Bacon's Celery King for the Nerves passes from sire to son as legacy. If you Kidney, Liver or Blood disorder, Constipation, Headache, Rheumatism, this specific will cure you. E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs; W. P. Full Ter, Somers; Odell & Jones, Staffordville, are sole agents, and are distributing sam- ples free. Large packages soc and 25c.
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There is a Class of People

new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over < as much. Children may drink 1t with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per pack age. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
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EnsIand,s I.areest oroharh.

The largest orchard in Great Britain is at Tottington, in the county ot Gloucester. It is 500 acres in extent ano in some seasons yields it's owner, Lor Sudley, profit of $50,000 The trees are chiefly apples and plums.
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ITEMS FROM THE STAFFORD
 NEWS LETTER.

Tt is our intention to print under this head from week to week, items Of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
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The Chicago GrOcey'S
 WEEKLY PRICES,

EB'It will pay you to read them if you have't got money to burn.
 2,400 Parlor Matches, 12c 10 lbs. Quaker Oats, 25c qts. hand-picked White Beans, 25c 7 lbs. Laundry Starch, 25c 5 gals. 150o Ol Doc 4 lbs. Mixed Candy, 25o lb. Good Coffee, 20c 1 bbl. Best Haxall Flour, 5.25 l doz. 3-lb. cans Fine Table Peaches, 1.20 2-lb. cans Corned Beef, 50c 1 can Finest Marrow Peas, 10o cans Clans, Little Necks, 25c Greens, Dandelion and Spinach, 20c 30 bars Star Soap, LOO 24 bars Welcome Soap, 100 30 bars Lenox Soap, LOO 28 bars Oak Leaf Soap, 100 dog. Shore Mackerel, fine, 1Sc Salmon Trout, fine, per lb., Sc Best Cucumber Pickles, per gal, 23c cans Condensed Milk, 25c packages Best Mince Meat, 25c II lbs. Tody Tobacco, 25c bottle Prime Worcestershire Sauce, 10c 100 lbs. Oyster Shells, 05c Pure Fruit Jams, per lb., Sc 1 gal. Fine Light Molasses, 35c 1 package Soapine Washing Powder, 0c CHICAGO GROCERY,
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''Young man," said the professor, as he caught friskie Freshman by the should CT, II believe Satan has got hold of you. :" q believe he has," was the reply.
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As badness makes one look premature ly old, so full head of hair gives to ma- ture life the appearance of youth. To secure this and prevent the former, Ayers Hair Vigor is confidently recommended. Both ladies and gentlemen prefer it to any other dressing.
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A Head Cold Can be cured in one dag by the timely use of !PIy[I0!-:Ee|blL!in Tablets

Superior to quinine preparations and perfectly safe. Will cure sick or ner- vous headache, women's periodical headaches and neuralgia. No opiates. Endorsed by Prof. Stoddard of Smith College and all physicians. Price 25c.
 Cut this ont and send with 2 cent stamp to Pyro- Febrin O., Northampton. Mass, and they will send you trial package with testimonials free.
 5ola by w. w. .LAEHRoR.
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Who can fail to take advantage of this offer. Send 10 cents to us for generous trial size or ask your druggist. Ask for Ely's Cream Balm, the most positive catarrh cure. Full size 50 cents. .
 ELY BROS, 56, Warren St., N. Y. City.
 I suffered from cataIrh of the worst kind ever since boy, and never hoped for cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems. to do even that. Many acquaintances have used 1t with excellent results. Oscar Os- trum, 45 Warren Ave, Chicago, H.
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People of both sexes, who tremble at the consequences which they claim must ensue from the invasion of mans domain by the ''new woman," would do well to consider the reverse side of the question the invasion of "womans sphere' by man, and "do something" to avert the danger thereof. In the city of Chicago, for instance, there are men who wash and iron for 8 living men who take contracts for spring house-cleaning men who go from house to house sweeping and dust ing men who clean bric-a-brac. There are men who make paper flowers, men who are embroiderers and lace-makers and corset-makers; men who are profess stonal menders and nurses for children, to say nothing of men milliners, men dress makers, and men cooks, whose name is legion. There are plenty of men who do general hOusewOrk, several male seam- stresses who go out by the day, and men who teach patching and darning Men are gradually creeping into the ranks of hospital nurses, and the mothers congress revealed the fact that California, at least, has man kindergarten. In view of such unblushing defiance of nature's laws, is 1t not time that men and women, afflicted with a morbid dread of the "mannsh wonan," give some attention to the two manish man?' For surely it is not pos sible for man to engage in these wo- manly pursuits and not become unsexed. Union SiQnaE.
The Press., 1897-04-08

King George of Greece married in 1867 the Grand Duchess Olga, eldest daughter of the grand uncle to the present Emper- or of Russia.
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In Stafford, March 2lst, 1867, by Rev. G. V. Maxham, Nellie R. Dwight to Frank l. Weston, both of Stafford.
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An English friend writes as follows "We are humiliated and angry about the Crete affair. All the radical blood rises in my brain when 1 think of the present government daring to allow our men to fire on Christians in Crete. The fact is, we should long, long ago, have fired on the Turks, and there will be a reck oning some day or other about this dreadful business. We seem to live with a shadow over us, not knowing what is really going to happen from day to day, and the un- certainty is well-nigh uncomfortable. Eve rything that we, as English people, have stood for in the past seems to be crumb- ling under our feet-honor, freedom, and religion seem to be out of it, and cring- ing, self-preservation policy, or at best, a policy of drifting, appears to be advocated by our legislators. They will yet have to reckon with God, and the people,"
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w. C. T. U.
IN. B.-Second Friday of the month, local meeting of the w. c. T. U.7

lN' b. O'-O0COuu rEIudy or the month, local meeting of the w. c. T. U.7
 We have ascertained on good authority that no intoxicating liquors were furnish ed at the inauguration ball, and that a dinner was given at the white house to the relatives of the president and Mrs. Mckinley at which no wine was served. President and Ms. Mckinley will be re- spected for the stand they have taken in this matter, not only by the temperance people of their own and other nations but by men and women everywhere who admire and honor man of principles man who, with the eyes of the world upon him, dares to defy custom and conven- tionality, and to be true to "his own self. ; We believe that were the question one wholly within the province of the presi- dent to regulate, intoxicants would be barred from diplomatic dinners as well as those given to his own countrymen.
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Francis E. Willard writes: We be- lieve the whole country will unite in ap- proving the selection of Lyman J. Gage as secretary of the treasury. His record is as open and fair as the day. Born and reared in a good, old-fashioned Method ist home, he has kept free from enervating ind1lgencies, and conserved the forces of remarkably strong physique and men, tality for worthy purposes. We were neighbors in Evanston for many years, and members of the same church. No criticism upon the uprightness and manli- ness of MT. Gage has come to our ears. He was one of the closest friends of that only brother who left us in 1878, and has ever been endeared by reason of his good will towards one who was well beloved. It is, therefore, personal as we'll as a patriotic congratulation that we extend to Lyman Gage in this paragraph"
 The little son of Mrs. Katharine Will lard Baldwin and w. w. Baldwin was christened at their home in Washington on March 2d, Mrs. Grover Cleveland act ing as godmother. The boy was named for his ,noble-hearted grandfather, Sum- merfield Baldwin, whose wife was for years president of the Maryland w. c. T.. U. Among the guests was Lyman J. Gage, the new secretary of the treasury, who was friend of Oliver Willard, the father of Mrs. W. w. Baldwin. Frances B. Willard sent her great-nephew silver cup.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Rev. DR.. George Adams Smith has
declined the ~pastorate of Marylebone
Presbyterian church, London.
Rev. DR.. John H. Barrows states
that the Ben Oliel mission among the
Jews in Jerusalem is unworthy of con-
fidence and should be stigmatized as
a fraud.
Rev. DR.. Edward G. Thurber, of the
American church in Paris, has arranged
an exchange OF pulpits with Rev. DR..
S. B. Rossiter, of Chicago. for the
months of June, July and August.
The Waterman very truthfully
says hat the friends of a minister
may do him great harm by sending
to the papers overweight descriptions
of his learning, piety, eloquence and
| general effectiveness" Many a min
lister has suffered in this way. Better
let him speak for himself.
Rev. DIR. j. n. Hallock, editor of the
Christian at Work of New York. has
declined the presidency of the Westmin-
ster university, of Colorado, which was
recently offered him at a salary of S10,-
coo a year, because he feels it his duty
TO remain with the Christian at Work,
which he has done so much to make
a force in religious journalism.
The centenary of the conservation
of Bishop Bass. of Massachusetts, which
was celebrated recently, recalls some
anecdotes of the bishop. He refused to
live in Dorchester, because the brooks
there were not large enough for Bass
to swim in" His first marriage dis
pleased his parishioners, ~whereupon
he preached to them a sermon from the
text: They will slay me for my wife's
sake"
Two officials of the two Baptist mis-
sionary societies, which are so badly in
debt, report good progress in the eff
forts making to raise enough money
to secure Mr.. Rockefeller's offer. Seven
subscriptions in Boston aggregate S19,-
coo. The Clarendon Street church has
$1,000 pledged towards the $4,000
which it expects to raise. The Greater
New York committee expects to Sc
cure $4,000.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
cRAzEo WITH y

A Mississippi Negro Arms Himself with .
He Shoots Down Three Black Women
Woods Followed by q Posse.
MERIDIAN, Miss, June 1S-News
reached here tonight of the murder Of
five negroes in the extreme northwest
ern portion of Kemper county. A ne
gro man named Sibley, while crazy
drunk on blind tiger whisky, secured
a gun and started out to kill every per-
son he met; the first he came across
happened to be five negroes, three
women and two children, and the fiend
shot them down and left them dead
where they fell. He also shot at six
other negroes, who narrowly escaped
As oon as the bloody work of Sibley
was discovered the most intense ex-
element prevailed and a mob was Dr.
ganized to lynch the murderer. Sibley
took to the woods, carrying his shot
gun with him and at last accounts the
mob had surrounded him and a bloody
fight was imminent Word comes from
Dekalb that the sheriff of Kemper
county has gone to the scene With .
large posse.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
THE BEGGARS OF ITALY.
Physical Deformity Is A~rtihcIaIIy
Produced.

Produced.
bicycling Through the Dolomites" is
an account of Col. George Z. Warnings
European trip of last summer. Con-
corning mendicancy in Italy, Col. War
ing writes: Perhaps there is no better
index to the good or bad condition of
the working-people of a country than is
afforded by the number of beggars one
meets on the roads. The poles set up
at the border of Austria, with their
spiral stripes of yellow and black, do
not mark the line between it and Italy
much more clearly than does the advent
of the beggar the moment the line is
crossed. In Austrian Tyrol there are
virtually no beggars. On the italian
side, even well-dressed people in the
fields will leave their work to beg cop
pers from the passing travellers. One
day, in the upper Innthal, a couple of
bright-looking, r~osy-faced children ran
after us, asking for kreutzers. "Mawk-
nix" upbraided them for such a shame
full act, and they skunk away. He spoke
of this with much Indignation to a
neighbor, who said their whole family
were away in the fields at work, or they
would n o have dared to beg, and that
he would see that they were well
spanked when their mother came home
at night. Nuns and a few favored Grip
pies sometimes ask aims at the doors
of the churches in the larger towns,
and the poor box" is always found in
side; but the p~easantry and the
churches take care of their own poor.
so that the vice of beggary is unknown
among them. In Italy, or the other
hand, it is obvious that special condi.
tons of deformity are artificially pro-
duced. Both legs broken and badly
reset in childhood constitute a good
source of income for life; and anything
that appeals to sympathy is made the
occasion for c%ultivating a very mis-.
taken and mischievous charity.-Cen'
tury.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
Rivers OutIiye Lakes.

Prof. W. B. Scott, of Princeton, in q
recent lecture, explained why lakes are
rare in countries whose surface has I'M
dergone no sudden change for an i'm
mense period of time. 1t is because
the gradual effects of atmospheric
agencies and the power of water to
carry solid matter from elevated places
and deposit it in depressed places, tend
to reduce the land to q essSleral level,
and to fill up the basins of lakes. Thus
in the southern United States lakes are
rare, while in the northern states they
abound, the reason being that the
northern part of u country was COW
cred by a great ice sheet during the
glacial period, and the lakes produced
BY the s~cooping-out and damming-up
effects of the glaciers have not yet dis
appeared, whereas in the southern
states, which were not reached by the
ice, the face of the land has lain for
ages, except by the slow levelllng forces
already referred to. Rivers are much
longer-lived than lakes.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
HUMOROUS.

II hear the horse you bet on was
the worst that ever happened" Worse
than that. He didn't even take place."
Truth.
AT a public house the landlord has
painted up outside his door: Good
beer sold here, but don't take my word
for it."-Tit-Bits.
-ASimple acknowledgement leaves
everything in the hands of the powers"
'"She'd better be sure and get a check
for the stuff."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Theory.-She--'I wonder why
in the world Mr.. Jones left church be-
fore the end of the ~services?" He
Don't know. Perhaps Jones is a SOM
uambulist."-Puck.
Spiritual Helps.-'You have taken
all the cushions out of your church"
'Yes, we thought if we could make the
pews seem like baseball bleachers, the
attendance might increase."-Indian-
apolis Journal.
Telescope Ifoprietor-"Step up,
ladies and gents, and view the planet
Mars. One penny, num-" Old Lady
"Oh, law! Hain't it round and smooth"
Telescope Proprietor-"WiIl the bald
headed gent please step away from the
front of the Observation-Disclosures.
"A poor Irishman on his death-bed
was consoled by a friend by the COM
monplace reflection that 1--WE must all
die once" why, dear now" cried the
sick man, land isn't it hat what vexes
me? If I could die half-a-dozen times,
I would not mind it for this wunst."-
Household Words.
Nothing to Steal.-New Father-in-
Law-"Well. sir, the ceremony is over,
and now that you are the husband of my
daughter, I want to give you a little adj
vice. What would you do if you should
wake up some night and find burglars
in the house?" Groom-"I should tell
them that my father-in-law forgot to
give my wife a wedding dowry, and
they'd go AWAY. Y. Weekly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19

getting much the best of the other. I
thought I'd watch the game awhile and
1 sat down behind Jim Weeks, a big
stock dealer, who lived in Burlington
county. He's dead nov The cards
were dealt around a half dozen times
and nobody got a hand that was worth
betting much on.
Finally Weeks called for a new pack
of cards. They were brought and care
fully shuffied. The cards were dealt
and everybody bet a dollar. A fellow
named Haines was dealing, and when
he asked how many cards were wanted
every one of the players stood pat and
we all noticed hat he laid the pack
down without taking cards himself.
Weeks bet ten dollars, and the fellow
next to him raised him ten dollars.
Everybody stayed, and when the bet
got back to Weeks he raised it $50; but
Haines wasn't feazed by that, and he
promptly raised Weeks $50. After some
hesitation the other two players
dropped out, and the fight was be-
tween Weeks and Haines, who raised
back and forth until there was about
$1,000 in the pot. Finally Haines got
skittish and called Weeks.
Tive got a club ~fiush-deuce, tray,
four, five and six he said, spreading out
his cards.
give got a heart flush with the same
cards. said Haines.
"'Well, I'll be whaled,' said one of the
a.
have the same kind of a diamond
flush
eyes, and 1 laid down a spade flush
to match it, said the other fellow.
"Haines and Weeks divided the pot,
while the other two chaps went into the
barroom and ordered cocktails. Four
pat hands were dealt, and ono was as
good as the other. never knew of its
happening before or since."-N. Y fun
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
THE SULTAN'S SERAGLIOS.
They Contain Some 1000 Persons
The Household Order.


The Household Order.
In time of the sultan'S predecessor
the seraglios' buildings stretched along
the banks of the Bosphorus for a mile
and 4 half and contained some 1000
persons, the household order and ar
rangement being much as they are at
present. The sultan's mother, when
he has a mother, receives a servile
obedience from all its inmates; then
m the hasnadar ousta, or mistress
of h treasury, generally a shrewd old
woman. promoted from the ranks of the
servants for her talent for ~houSekeep-
ing and gossip. If the sultani valide
dies, the hasnadar succeeds her. In
der Abdul Medjid the seraglio was long
ruled by n washerwoman, whose chief
adviser was a baltadic, or newer of
wood, who could not read, but had the
power of dismissing ~viziers. The sui
tan's four kadines come next, who
rank as spouses till he divorces them
and marries them to some of the pashas.
Then there are five or six ikbals, or
favorites; then the g~uieuzedes (from
guieuz. eye-girls who have attracted
the masters glance. Every woman
who marries from the seraglio takes
with her, besides a large portion in
cash, her clothing, jewels, furniture,
carriages and servants. After them
come the kadines-effendis, the mothers
of the s~ultan's children: then the I'M
married princesses of the royal blood,
then the foster-mothers and foster
sisters of the sultana or princes or
princesses. Among the attendants are
chamberlains, secretaries, guards,
eunuchs, s%cullions, cooks, pages, mu-
s~icians, dancing girls, dwarfs, b%uffoons,
priests, astrologers, BARRIERS and sham
pooers, tasters of the sultan's food,
athletes, cock-fghters, r~am-fighters,
jugglers and grooms to look after Le
100 horses contained in the imperial sta
bles. Tales of victory from the Thessa-
liam mountain passes now thrill this
extensive household, making it buzz
and mum like a swarm of Paphlagonian
bees; its note of exultation is likely to
strike into another key whenever the
inconstant bird of victory changes its
perch from one standard to the other.
N. Y. Tribune.