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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-08
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ALrxAypR1A Va June 5. 1897.


ALEXANDRIA, Va June 8, 1897.
4 FTER MUCH EXPERIMENTING
IA with the aid of expert advice we hsve
at considerable expense produced ana put
upon the market health biscuit. combining
peptopiz beef with other pure Ingredients,
making most nourisbing and palatable bis
cult for general use and especially suitable for
person Of sedentary habits or such rs are snf-
feridg with impaired digestion. We have
named this biscuit
PEPTONE BEEF AND BREAD BISCUIT
which is stamped upon every cracker. Our
biscuit is patented and, in addition. we have
applied for label registration, of which we
now give notice.
These crackers are very carefully put up IN
attractive one pound FCartons, odorless parch-
mont paper being used on the inside. aud
wrapper (under seaD covering the outside OF
the carton, thus protecting the goods from
all contamination, keeping them pure and
clean until they shall reach the hands of the
consumer.
Each cracker contains 10 per cent. in &C.
tual weight of the beef meal Of "The Vir-
ginia Beef Extract and Beef Meal Company"
of Alexandria, Va, which is the equivalent
of about 13 ounces of fresh lean beef to every
pound of flour. The beef thus highly con-
centrated being in the form OF peptone is
readily assimilated and is very nourishing.
II you are sufficiently interested to put
your name and address on postal card ard
drop it into mail box, we will be glad to
furnish you, free of expense, sample OF the
biscuit, 80 that you may judge it for yourself,
or you may find them on sale at the stores.
II your grocer or dealer does no carry these
goods in stock, and you will advise US we
will see that you are supplied.
Yours very truly
The GEORGE E HUI. co,
Nos 216, 218 & 900 N. Les Street.
The Beef Extract Company who we're un-
fortunate enough to loose their plant in the
late disastrous fire, have already arranged to
keep us supplied with the peptonized beef I'M
I'll they shall rebuild.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-08
Crash and PIQue Suits and Skirts.

We arc showing very choice assortment of
Women Fashionable Crash and Fique Suits
and Separate Skirts. among which are the
following unu ually good values:
Taior.madc Crash Separate Skirt, plain
and striped Effects 81 25, $16S, and 81 3S
each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-08
Alexandria Market. June $.

But little grain was offered to-day and quo
tatons remain unchanged. Country Produce
is in light receipt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-08

English Pquo Separate Skirts, finished
with deep hem; superior quality, $2.3S to
So each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-08

CHICAGO June 8-Wh at-Juno G93s !;
July 694, Sept 64aiaG47s; Dec, new 81 /
old 66as. Corn-Juno 241sa24Ai; July
24ha243s Sept 25a, Oats-Juno 17al ;
July ISL, Sept 1875. Pork-June 81 65
.uly 81 67iS Sept 81 10. Lard-June
SD so; July So 55; Sept So 65. Ribs
June and July 81 271b Sept 81 32l5.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-08

WE MAKE TO ORDER
Mems Business and Neeiigec sbirts-Women's
-hirt Waists-Furniturc slip Cove Window
Shadcs-Window and Door Screens Sash
Curtans-Draporics If all sorts ParquctIy
(hard wood Floors.
Ja0- Estimates furnished upon request.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
NOTICE.

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er, and then to think we are getting no
nearer to God, but floating away from
him-Oh, sir, 1 do wish l was ready to
die"
I should not wonder if they a a
good deal better time than we in the
future. to make up for the fact that
they had such a bad time here. 1t
would be just like Jesus tt say: Come
up and take the highest seats. You
suffered with me or earth, now be
glorified with me in heaven" Oh, thou
weeping one of Bethany! Oh, thou dy-
ing one of the cross! Have mercy on
the starving, freezing, homeless poor
OF these great cities.
1 van you to know who are the up-
roofing classes of society. 1 want you
TO be more discriminating in your char
tiles. l want your hearts open with
generosity and your hands open with
charity. l want you to be made the
sworn friends Of all city evangelization
and all newsboys' lodging houses, and
all christian aid societies.. Aye. 1 want
you to send the Dorcas society all the
cast off clothing, that, under the skill
full manipulation of the wives and
mothers and sisters and daughters,
these garments may be. fitted on the
cold, bare feet and on the shivering
III VI lax oCSlllutC. l. SiOulU uOl
wonder if that hat that you give
should come back a jeweled coronet
or that garment that you this week
hand out from your wardrobe should
mysteriOusly be whitened and some
how wrought in the Saviour's own
robe, so in the last day he would run
his hand over it n say. Il was naked
and we clothed me-" That would be
putting your garments to glorious uses.
Besides all this I wan you to appre-
ciate in the contrast how very kindly
J God has dealt with you in your comfor-
table homes, at your we'll filled tables
and at the warm registers, and to have
you look at the round faces of your
children, and then, at the review Of
Gods goodness to you, go to your room
n lock the door and kneel down and
say: 20 Lord, I have been an migrate.
Make me thy child. 0 Lord, there are
SO many hungry and unclad and UNI
sheltered today I thank thee that all
my life thou hast taken such good care
Of me. o Lord, there are so many sick
n crippled children today / thank
thee mine are well, some Of them on
earth, some of them in heaven. Thy
goodness, o Lord. breaks me down
Take me mt and brewer. Sprinkled
as I was many years ago at the altar,
while my mother held me, now 1 con-
secrate my soul to thee in a holier bap-
tism of repenting tears.
For sinners, Lord, thou cam'st to
bleed.
And I'm a sinner vile indeed.
Lord. 1 believe thy grace Is free.
Oh. magnify that grace in me-"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12

San Francisco. CAL. November TO-
George Green. Of San Francisco, knock
ed out Owen Zeigler. of Philadelphia.
in the first round tonight. It was the
famous solar p~lexus' blow with which
Fitzsimmons knocked out Jim Corbett
which did the work. After several ex-
changes in which honors were even.
Green forced Zeigler to a corner and
swung viciously with his left for the
stomach. This blow landed clean and
strong. For a Zeigler swayed
forward and then staggered to the cor
ner and went down gradually TO mis-
knees and then on his face. He was
deathly pale and grUaned as II in ag-
ony. Referee Joe Choynski began
counting and had reached Ave when
Zeigler made a desperate effort to come
to his feet. The effort was too much
for him, however, and ne grasped the
ropes and pulling himself to his knees.
he collapsed and fell on his face and
was counted out. He was carried to
his corner where his seconds worked
on him for five mute before he was.
able to stand up
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
NOVEMBER CROP REPORTS
Averages Of Production and Condit,on.The
Cotton Report Delayed-Favorsble Re-
ports From India, Argentino and Austria
Ia

Washington, November D-The No
vember report OF the statis;ician of tho
department OF agriculture issued today.
gives 23.7 bushels as the average yield
per acre OF corn. according to the pre-
liminary returns of the departments corr
respondents. The corresponding pre-
liminary estimate last year was sG.3 BUSH
els. and that OF 1896. 2S.2 bushels. The
average yield in the principal corn states
is as follows: New York 3e.5. Pennsyi-
vania $50. Ohio 32.5. Indiana $50. Illinois
SIS. Iowa. 80, Missouri $50. Kansas 1910.
Nebraska go. The average per cent. Of
quality is 8.s. as compared with ss.4 In
1886, and 1913 in 1896.
The preliminary estimate OF the aver
age yield OF Is 9.7 bushels per
acre, as compared with 49, bushels last
year and 20.1 bushels In 1876. The average
per cent. OF quality is 9i3. as compared
with 9a.7 in November Of last year.
The average yield per acre OF tobacco
is Gao pounds. against 679 pounds per acre
last year. and 743 pounds in 1895.
The estimated average yield per aero
81 Irish potatoes Is CAS- bushels. as COM
pared with sos bushels last year. and
1907 bushels in November. 1895. The
average per cent. OF quality IL M.3-
against s9.2 in November last and a.S In
The average yield OF hay Is f.42 tons
per acre, against an average OF LII tons
per acre for the last fifteen years. In
point of quality the average Is 92.S per
cent. as compared with 92.9 per cent. in
November. 1896. and 9l.3 per cent in 1895.
The cotton report will be published at
noon on Friday, 1t having been delayed
by delayed reports from several impor-.
tant districts.
Favorable conditions for sowing tho
fall crop are reported from most parts
of Europe and the condition OF the crop.
as far as sown is likewise favorable. The
opinion is freely expressed that an in
creased area has been sown in wheat, but
this appears to be more as n matter OF
inference from the natural tendency OF
high prices to produce such an effect
than as ar observed fact. The crop re-
ports from India continue favorable and.
on the whole, this is true as to those
from Argentine and Australia, but in all
these countries the harvest Is too remote
to permit any very confident prediction
as TO the final outcome. In the case OF
Argentine, II may prove that more dam.
age has been done by the locusts and the
spring frosts than is yet apparent. There
is nothing to indicate that the wheat
shortage in Europe Is any less than has
been supposed. while the crop OF Mani
toba is now represented to be much be-
low the official estimate issued In Al.
gust, and that OF the Canadian northwest
territories has also proved disappointing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
God. Just look at me. No good
THE CHRISTIAN DUTY.

THE CHRISTIAN DUTY.
; In these. American cities. whose cry
of want I interpret there are hundreds
and thousands OF honest poor who are
dependant upon individual. city and
could come up at once. II would be a
groan that would shake the founda-
tons of the city and bring all earth
and heaven to the rescue. but for the
most part IT suffers unexpressed. It
sits in silence. crashing its teeth and
sucking the blood of its own arteries.
waiting for the judgment day. Oh, l
should not wonder il on that day il
would be found out hat some OF US
had some things that belonged to them
some extra garment which might have
made them comfortable on cold days
some bread thrust into the ash barrel
that might have appeased their hunger
for a little while, some wasted candle
or gas jet that might have kindled up
their darkness. some fresco on the cell
ing that would have given them a roof.
some jewel which, brought to that or
phan girl in time, might have kept her
from being crowded off the precipices
of an unclean life. some New Tesla
ment that would have told them of him
who came to seek and to save that
which was lost" Oh, this wave Of
vagrancy and hunger and nakedness
that dashes against our front doorstep
L wonder if you hear it and see it as
much as l hear it and see it. / have
been almost frenzied with the perpet-
ual cry for help from the classes and
from all nations, knocking. knocking.
ringing, ringing. If the roofs Of all
the houses of restitution could be lift
ed so We could look down into them
just as God looks, whose nerves would
be strong enough to stand it? And yet
there they are.
The sewing women, some of them in
hunger and cold, working night after
night, until sometimes the blood spurts
from nostril and lip. How we'll their
grief was voiced by that despairing
woman who stood by her invalid hus-
band and invalid child and said to the
city missionary: Il I'M down hearted.
E~verything's against u.s. and then there
are other things" What other
things?" said h city mission
airy. Oh" she replied. my
sim" What do you mean by that"
Well" she said. Il never hear or see
anything good. It's work from Mon
day morning to Saturday night. and
then when Sunday comes 1 can't go
out, n / walk the floor, and it makes
me tremble to think la 1 have got to
meet God. Oh, sir, it's SO hard for us.
We have to work so, and then we have
so much trouble, and then we are get
ting along so poorly, and see this wee
little thing growing weaker and weak
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Pittsburg. November 10.-William J.
Heating, Il years Of age. residing with
his parents in North Homestead. died
last night from the results Of an injury
received In a foot ball game at Swissvale,
ten days ago.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12

Mark Hanna's face still hangs in the
bslance-the bank balance, as it were.
Detroit News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
GOLD STANDARD ADVOCATES
MEETING OF THE SOUND MONEY
LEAGUE Committee

Reports Of Progress From Various Sections
Of the Counsry-BryAs and His Follow
ess - Fanatics, Btgoas and
Observation-Disclosures Of the Gold
BY the Prssid. mt Advocaesd-Btmstallism
Declared Address to the Peo
MIA
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

Dec. 16 The House passed bill appro.
IFHating Sl75 900 for the relief of the peo-
pie who are in the Yukon river country
ana also the bill passed by the Senate to
prohiblt pelagic sealing by American citl'
| ZenS
able 10 say when abe blmetaIic commits
sion OF which he was chairman, would
make arcport The Senate passed bill
appropr1 ating 1880 900 for the relief of
Klondlke miners under the direction Of the
secretary of war.
Dec. 16,-The House spent the day in
the conslde IA ion of the legislative. execu-
tive and judicial appropriations bill
Eightv-nine OF the 100 pages of the bill
were covered and only onr amendment OF
Importance was adopted. It reduced the
clerical force at the pension ONO e
ninety-hve. involving reductions in
salaries of $4,000. The civil service
question was the chief topic of discussion,
and the proposition of Assistant Secretary
Va nderlip to retire clerks Tor age was made
the text of denunciation by Mr.. Moody OF
Massachusetts, and MIR. johnson of Indiana.
both of whom are de tenders Of the civil
service law Mr. DOckery favored the dis
mi Ssal of 500 clerks for the good OF the
service. Mr.. De rr mond of Missouri made
an impassioned plea for the passage OF the
Senate Cuban belligerency resolution
The proceedings of the Senate were en-
livene by an interesting debate on the bill
presented by the foreign relations commit
tee. providing for the prohibition pelagic'
sealing Big American The bill was passed
by a,vote of 81 to IA. The session closed
with spirited civil service de bate upon the
bill presented by the census committee pro-
vidng for the appointment Of director of
the census and thirty-tw0 employees, who
should form the skeleton OF an office force
for the twelfth census.
Dec lathe House. after session of
about two hours adjourned out of sym
pathy for the President whose mother was
buried at Canton. The time of the session
was devoted to the consideration of the
executive and judicial appro-
priation bill. Several speeches for and
against the civil service item were made.
The Senate was in session just fifteen
adjournment being taken out of
respect to President Mckinney who was
attending his mother s. funeral
Dec 13.-Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts,
m ade an effort in the Senate to secure an
immediate vote uqon his immigration bill,
which is substantially the same measure
that was passed by the Fltty-forth Con-
gress and vetoed by President Cleveland
Mr. Allen of Nebraska objected and 1t was
agreed to vote on the bill January IT, Mr..
Butler of North Carolina spoke at length
upon amendments he had offered to the
bill which he had previously introduced
providing for postal savings bank system.
Excepting the reporting of the legislative
and executive and judicial appropriation
bill, the House did no public business.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-24
It went out, it was considered sign of

It went out, 1t was considered sign Of
ill-luck.
The Christmas dinner was the cen
trail feature OF all the gay festivities.
The table was literally loaded with
good cheer. The boars head held the
place of honor and was lordly affair,
brought in by the butler, attended by
a servant on either side with a large
wax light. The head was carried on a
silver dish, the tusks piercing bright
red apples, while between them an
orange was laid, the whole graced with
an abundance of sauce. When this,
"the rarest dish in all the land" was
placed at the head of the table, one of
the company sang carol suited to the
great occasion.
The Christmas peacocks were also
gorgeous, the bird being flayed, roast
ed and then sewed up again in all the
splendor of its brilliant feathers, a
piece of cotton saturated with spirits
being placed within the gilded beak
to burn while the carver was at work.
Still more curious was the ancient
peacock pie, the bird being covered by
the crust. save that on one side appear
ed his plumed crest, while from the
other side protruded the gorgeous.
spreading tail.
Mince pies were called Christmas OF
December pies, as the old rhyme
went
"Treasons in a December pie
And death within the pot"
They date back to 1896
The classical plum pudding must be
added to the list of good things,
though, sad to relate, it was really
plum porridge, and not pudding, az
We have always believed.
An old poem says
"And those that hardly all the year
Had bread to eat or clothes to wear
Will have both clothes and dainty fare,
And all the day be merry"
The leader of all the merry making
was called the Lord of Misrule or Alb
bolt of Unreason. The wardrobes at
halls and manor houses were often laid
under contribution to furnish fantas-
tic DISCUSSES.
Snap Dragon was one of the favorite
sports. Raisins were placed in a large
shallow dish and brandy poured over
the fruit and ignited. The lights in
the room were extinguished, and in
the weird glare the players attempted
to pick the raisins out of the flaming
dish:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-24
OLD TIME CUSTOMS.
BY Winona Butler.

There is no brighter fact in history
its influence can be traced through
nearly nineteen centuries. On the first
Christmas morning the angels sang
Peace on earth, good will to men.
The glad refrain has been repeated
each Christmas season in every Chris
tan land, though the character of the
music varies greatly.
Our ancestors were in the habit of
forming companies which went from
house to house, singing Christmas
carols in the streets. These beautiful
carols would break the stiffness of the
winter night or early Christmas morn
ing, making most delightful begin
ming to the merry day.
But these holy jubilees had as rivals
the mingling instruments of those
wandering spirits of harmony-the
waits One author writes: Many
and many a time have we been
awakened by the melody of the Waits,
and have lain and listened to their
wild music its solemn swells and dy-
ing falls, kept musical by the distance
and made holy by the time, till we
could have fancied that the morning
stars were again singing as of old they
sang together for joy and that the
sounds of their far anthem came float
ing to the earth"
The German children probably be-
lieve more firmly in Kriss Krngle, or
Santa Claus. than do the children of
any other nation Germany is the birth
place of Kriss Kringle, and the Won
derland of fable and poetry. German
children are taught to love the
Christ-child In many parts of the
country ii is the custom, on the morn
ing before Christmas, to let a figure
representing the Christ-child wave
past the window of the room where the
little ones sleep. Half awake only, in
the gray of the morning they see this
little childigure fit dimly past, and
they go to sleep again in the blissful
consciousness that the Christ child has
not forgotten them, and that they will
have an abundance of presents around
the tree in the evening.
A beautiful custom in Norway and
Sweden is the Christmas feeding of
birds Bunches of oats are placed on
the roofs Of houses, on fences and
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-24

trees. Carloads of sheaves are
brought into town for this purpose, and
both rich and poor buy and place them
everywhere. The sentiment is that a
man must be very poor indeed II he
cannot spare a ,arthing to feed the lit
tie birds on Christmas day. In many OK
the valleys and mountain dales Of the
countries watch is kept during the
whole of the night and all are merry;
candles are kept burning at the win
dows, and the people flock to church at
four o'clock in the morning, each car
rying a torch.
In some districts, Immediately after
the service, everyone hurri5s from
church. either on foot or in sleighs, for
there is an old saying that he who gets
home first will have his crop first har-
vested. At this holiday season the
peasants dance on straw, and the peas
ant girls throw straws at the timbered
roof of the hall, and for every one that
sticks in a crack lover will come
counting during the year.
In old English times, at the close of
the church services it was customary
for the clerk in loud and emphatic
tones to wish all the congregation a
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year. In those good old times an Eng
lish gentleman would throw open his
hall at daybreak to all his tenants and
neighbors. Beer, blackjacks, toast and
cheese were plentiful. The great sau-
sage must be boiled by sunrise. or else
two young men must take the cook by
the arms and run her around the mar
ket place till she is ashamed of her
laZiness.
The "Yule log" is a great log oil
wood. sometimes the root of a tree
brought into the house with great
ceremony on Christmas Eve. laid in
the fireplace and lighted with the brand
of last years log. While it lasted
there was great drinking, singing and
telling of tales. Sometimes it was &C.
companied by Christmas candles, bui
in the cottages the only light was from
the rudy blaze Of the great wood fire
The Yule log was to burn all night; 4