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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10
For Sale.

The dancing platform used at the
picnic grounds on Pole creek on Labor
Day. Size 3ox50 #, in sections con-
venient for handling. Can be seen at
Arvidson's old blacksmith shop. For
price, terms, etc., call on VIM. Honey,
Secretary.
DELAMAR Miners UNI N.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

John w. Rowett is the proud posses
cor of Graphophone, and now wher
John wants ia amuse any of his mum
erous callers he simply presses a but
ton and the dulcet strains of "ThereI
be Hot Time" or some other equally
popular air floats out on the breeze
John has picnic every day.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

Ladies', Misses and Children's Capes,
Cloaks and Suits made to measure.
Call ct Bakers Tailor Shop and ex
anime samples and latest styles.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

When you want an oyster stew which
you can enjoy, drop in on Ed. Moss.
He knows his biz. when it comes to
putting one up in the best style.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10
SHORT STOPS.

r. S. Hawes' Bazaar is full Of rare
and elegant Holiday Goods. Drop in
and see fine layout.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

Rev. W. L. Wheatley desires the
NUGGET, for himself and the entire
NJ. E. Church in DeLamar, to return
thanks to Mr.. ]. W. Rowett for dona-
ton of beautiful silver goblet, for
use in communion services.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

A fine baby girl arrived at the home
of MIR. and Mrs. j. L. Napier, up at the
Garfield mine, Friday morning, Dec. 3,
1897. Mrs. A. Il. Murphy was there to
welcome the little stranger.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

Wood Plumer has been displaying
excellent taste in decorating the Drug
Store windows, for the Holidays. In
one is shown the extent and variety
of the stock of perfumeries carried by
the store and in the other is display
of toilet articles which is simply ele-
CANT. No trouble selecting a superb
Christmas present there.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

The Golden Rule is making fine
display of goods this week, with an eye
to supplying Christmas wants.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

Several young men in town are max
ing arrangements for ball to be given
Christmas night and have decided to
name it an overalls, jumper and calico
ball, the ladies all expected to wear
calico und the floor managers at least
to wear overalls and jumpers, gum
boots barred). The price of admission
will be one dollar. The music will
stop at o'clock. A complete program
will be given in next weeks NUGGET.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

Messrs. Dick Jeffrey, Fred Ulmer
and Al. Sandkuhl are making arrange
ments for opening a dancing school
here for the winter, and for beginning
will give q social dance at Odd Fellows
Hall tomorrow night to which all are
invited who might wish to take lessons.
Messrs. Ulmer and Jeffrey will be the
instructors in the school and Prof.
Sandkuhl will supply the music. Les
sons will be given two nights each week
AMI social dance one night each week
for the benefit of the pupils and friends
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10

Harry Weinberg is here again The
ladies all know Harry. He sells just
such goods as the ladies want to Pur
chase. He now has on display in the
Brownhill building, an elegant display
of Ladies' Ready Made Street Suits,
Silks, Satins, Fancy Articles and, oh,
ever SO many real nice things, which
we have not space to mention. He will
remain over until Tuesday. Don't
miss calling.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-12-10
Estrny Notice.

DELAMAR Miners UNI N.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
Hines. from Clohtna-

"If people knew how much disease is caused by wearing clothes improperly they would be more careful about the matter than they are," said we'll known physician. "The great majority of men who wear lace-up boots always wear them too tight and suffer from varicose vines in consequence. Then there's great deal of throat trouble brought on by people wearing collars that are too tight for them; and I have seen men suffer from lung disease which has been aceentuated by habituaI stooping-a habit due generally to too tight braces. But it is even more curi. ous that people always have their hats made too small too small. that is, from a medical point. And that this injures and contracts their brains there can be DO doubt whatever."- Cincinnati Com- merical Tribune.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
FORREST CITY, DECEMBER 3 1s97
disremember that document you just

disremember that document you just put your name to, mother"
 Sure enough" returned his mother, a little crestfallen. "So 1 did"
 We'll wash Saturdays. and I'll do all the scrubbing," said Maud. I'll ven- ture it won't be any harder work than riding bicycle"
 I'll turn the wringer and hang out the clothes, if that'll be any accommo- dation," said Rob, magnanimously.
 "Of course it will be help" cried Maud, warmly, "and you're an angel to offer"
 So Norah was called. and greatly to her satisfaction, was paid in full. Then the vacation plan was broached.
 Sure, thin, an I'd be glad to go," exclaimed Norah. her eyes sparkling. Iris a long time I've been wanting to visit me sister in Boston, but feared you'd turn me off if mintioned it, and l didn't want to lose me place. An I can go tomorrow, did you say?"
 "Yes, you can go to-morrow-if you will be sure to come back at the end of the month."
 Norah protested by all the saints that she would return at the appointed time,
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31

and then hastened away to make prep aration for her journey.
 I'm afraid it is the last we shall see of her." sighed Mrs. Newbury. Shell get situation in Boston, and 1 don't know when l shall be able to get an- other girl like so we'll"
 II think she will come back" said Maud, hopefully.
 Anyway, let's not cross any bridges till we come to them," said MT. New bury.
 Tt is foolish" she answered, "and I won't worry"
 'I declare!" she said moment later, after q search in her work basket, II believe l am entirely out of white thread, and do so want to finish this shirt to- night. Rob, dear, won't you just slip down to the corner and buy me a spool?"
 No, mother, won't. Dreadfully sor- ", all the same," answered Rob, his eyes twinkling.
 Mrs. Newbury looked at her usually obliging son in surprise; MT. Newbury raised his eyes from his newspaper. and Maud drowned disapprovingly. Then the reason for his refusal flashed upon them and they all broke into laugh, Mrs. Newbury's somewhat rueful.
 Evidently we didn't realize what we were enlisting for" said Mir. Newbury, but now that we have enlisted, we might as well take things as they come and get what fun we can out of them"
 Now, mother, you can't sew on any thing white till the first of February" said Maud.
 "No," returned her mother, pensively, but l have plenty of dark thread. might buy the sateen for your waist and be making that"
 Then she stopped suddenly, and there was another laugh.
 Mrs. Newbury went to rest early that evening, and the others soon followed her example.
 The morning was all that New Years morning should be, cold, crisp, still and sunshiny. Rob had the ex- treme felicity of paying Mrs. Dale all that was due her for milk, telling her at
 
 wanted for a month.
 Folks going away?" queried Mrs. Dale.
 Well, no-not exactly" stammered Rob, and then hastily made his escape. Mir. Newbury paid the rent and the little account at the corner store; Mrs. Newbury, the butcher, the baker, the coal man and the grocery man, while Maud's heart was rejoiced by paying Mrs. Peters for making her dress.
 It thus happened for the first time in years that the Newburys were wholly free from debt, and they confessed to each other at night that this condition of affairs had made them feel at least an inch taller in stature, and sensibly increased the capacity of their lungs.
 MT. Newbury's work was at some dis tance from his home, and he had been accustomed to take his dinners at an eating house.
 "I think you may pat me up lunch today" he observed to Mrs. Newbury, while they were at breakfast the second morning.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
I hate this way of living"

"So do l." said Mir. Newbury. "but what can we do about it?"
 l think it's time we did something" 1" said his wife. "I despise and abomi- nate debt more and more every day I ilve. 'Tis like being in the clutches of one of those horrible marine mon- sters we read about-the octopus. is it !? You get free of two or three of its horrld arms or tentacles, and while you do that the others tighten about you. Then you get out of the grasp of these stronger ones, only to find that the first have got another hold, and that three or four that have been waving about in the water are beginning to wind around you."
 Just so" arsented Mir. Newbury.
 don't see why we can't be even. just as we'll as be a month behind all the time," continued Mrs. Newburv.
 But being a month behind, how are we to get even?" queried Mir. Newbury.
 We might pay everything we owe, and then not buy thing till your next pay day"
 Father a heroic measure, wouldn't that be?" said MT. Newbury, doubt fully.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
hree smiling and triumphant il,divid-

three smiling ana triumphhut nsdivid- uals.
 Well. we've done it," he exclaimed gleefully, opening his pocketbook and displaying a roll of bills. Here's a whole months salary, and we don't owe cent of it."
 "It is worth all it has cost" said Mrs. Newbury, in a tone of conviction, though the past week has been simply dreadful, and I hope and pray I may never have to live another like it."
 Tt was like siege" said Maud, land I'm proud to think we held out"
 "'Twas jolly lark" said Rob, with a chuckle, but all the same I'm rather glad it's over, and that we're going to have something to eat. I'm trifie tired of butterless biscuit, milkless cocoa and sugarless sauce."
 And suspicion that mother is tired of Norah-less kitchen" laughed Maud.
 She had hardly spoken when there was the sound of the outside door be- ing opened and Norah's voice was heard directing some one about her trunk.
 Mrs. Newbury drew long breath.
 Tt needed but this to make my happi- ness complete" she murmured.
 'Now." she said, when Norah had been greeted and had gone upstairs, ''now why not extend our New Years Tt solution or one clause of it, rather"
 For how long?"
 "Oh-forever. Let us make it rule of our lives never to get in debt, but 10 pay cash for every single thing we buy at the time we buy it."
 "Yes," said Maud, 'now we're safely out of the clutches of the octopus, do, for pity's sake, let us keep out"
 "I really think that is the hones way" said MT. Newbury. "If we can't pay for thing, what right have we to buy it? None at all."
 So the Newburys turned over a new leaf and paid as they went, and after only brief trial of this plan they liked it so we'll that nothing save dire neces- sity would have induced them to go back to the old, slipshod way. True, they sometimes miscalculated and fell short, and had to practice self-denial for longer or shorter periods, but the discipline was useful and led to better calculation and a wiser economy.- Elizabeth Robbins, in Ladies' World.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
HE WAS AN HONORABLE.
Whnt He Had Done to s:ssa the Die
 tincfion

tinction.
 X farmer whom met on .Se highway three or tour miles from Paola inquired If I kne~ whether Hon. Jim Henshaw was in town. I replied that didn'x and asked him in turn if Mir. Henshaw was the member of congress from that district.
 "So, sah. Jim hain't no member of congress" he replied.
 Member of the legislature, perhaps?" "No. sah; Jim never went to the leg islature."
 ''Is he a judge or an alderman?" persisted.
 "No, sah, he hain't," was the steady reply. Hes jest Hon. Jim Henshaw and nobody else.''
 But the term is generally applied to men of prominent political position. How do you make Mir. Henshaw an hon. orable?"
 Wall. sah, it wasn't two vars ago that he shot mad dog which had bitten four hosses. Yes, sah. shot that dog as dead as nail"
 But that would hardly give him the title"
 Hold on. sah.' he continued with a wave of his hand. Jim Henshaw was the first man to disliver coal in this county"
 "Well?"
 And he caught three men setting fire to the schoolhouse at Growers Cor ners and shot one of them in the back"
 "I see"
 And he contributed s100 to git the racetrack at Paola. and he's got the astest trottn' horse in this state"
 "Go on." said
 And. sah. Jim Henshaw bet $500 on the presidential lection and won it as straight as a string"
 "Is that all?"
 ''Is that all" he echoed. as he began to get red in the face. No, sah, that hain't all. Jim Henshaw kin cure poll- coil on hoss, set broken leg on a dog, take of warts from human bein' in seven days. and if thar's anybody we're who says he hain't an honorable that pusson better git down off his hoss and git some sense thumped into his head!"
 After little reflection agreed with the farmer that MT. Henshaw was fully entitled to the appellation, and he grew good and offered me almost half a plug of tobacco at parting.-Chi- cago News.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
HATS PREFERRED TO BONNETs.
Fashions Decrees Sometimes Disre.
 garded for Sake of Comfort.


 The neat, ladylike and always ap- propriate French toque, bordered and trimmed with fur, has appeared en suite with very many of the handsome church and street costumes worn this winter. This model-which is scarcely a hat and still less bonnet--has been the choice for seasons past of many fashionable women, but it has not been the favorite with the million. Bonnets and other close shapes are, however, now declining the subordinate position which recent fashions have assigned to them, and are once more worn on all dressy occasions. At least this is the role fashion allots to them, but in these days of independence even her autocrat- ic decrees are put aside, and as hats are so convenient, comfortable, and in very many cases far more becoming than bonnets, it will not be surprising if. notwithstanding the present trend to- ward "dress" toques, capotes and bon nets, the coming season should find the picture hat and all the other end. less models still holding their own.
 Many of the winter round hats arc appalling in their general effect, but the majority of the bonnets are grace. ful, comfortable and, as rule, becom- ing. There are also some pronounced French models that would not suit the general taste. A bonnet, for example. of golden brown velvet, heavy of pile. like silken fur, affects the outlines of an old-fashioned caleche just in front. It comes we'll over the waves of hair. which are to be worn la Merode with this particular bonnet. At the sides the shape is round and very short above the ears, and extremely short at the back, with velvet strings starting from the shortest part, made of a changeable flame and golden-brown color. This bonnet is trimmed with billowy mass of red, brown, olive and golden-co.ored feathers. effectively grouped-Chica- go Times-Herald.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31

I'm ready for heroic measures" re- turned Mrs. Newbury. defiantly.
 'Well-Ill agree to it, if you want to try that plan. It is worth some trouble 10 get out of the grip of the octopus"
 "Oh!" cried Maud. Would you really do it? I think it would be lovely not 10 be owing anybody"
 "'Twould ." be jolly fun," agreed Rob, with enthusiasm. Say! let's sign a paper-will you, mother?"
 Mrs. Newbury meditated.
 "I think" she said. after a pause. that we could get along for month. We arc quite we'll supplied with every thing"
 Maud had been scribbling on the piece of paper which her mother had used for figuring.
 Hear this" she said.
 we. the undersigned. solemnly vow and declare, that during the time to elapse be- tween this last day of December and the last day of January following. we will neither borrow. buy. nor run in deot Tor any thing or things whatsoever that We can by any possibility exist without.
 Put a date on it." suggested Rob.
 Maud followed the suggestion, then looked toward her father.
 twill you sign it?" she asked.
 "Ob, yes; I'll sign it," he answered, cheerfulIy; then he wrote his name with flourish and handed the paper to Mrs. Newbury.
 She hesitated.
 Let us sign it, Maud, while mother IS making up her mind," said Rob, and he and his sister affixed their names.
 Then, slowly and deliberately, Mrs. Newbury wrote her name below the others.
 "Hurrah!" exclaimed Rob, exultantly, snatching the paper and waving 1t above his head. "I haven't got to go after the milk for whole month."
 "Oh. dear!" cried Mrs. Newbury. "I forgot about milk. How can We live without that?"
 Use water, of course, said ROD. "There's plenty of it-and 'tis paid for
 Mr. Newbury laughed.
 We can do without milk that little time. easily enough" said Maud.
 Well" said Mrs. Newbury, resigned ly, If the rest of you can get along, l can"
 What will you do about Norah?" asked Mir. Newbury.
 "Oh-Norah!" gasped Mrs. Newbury. .T can't turn her off. Norah never en- tered my head when signed that fool ish paper :.
 "Perhaps she would take vacation, !" proposed Maud.
 "i will call her in and pay her" said MT. Newbury, "and see what she says. But what would you do if she should po?' he asked. looking toward his wife with sudden second thought. Tt won't nav for you to overwork."
 "Il, work every minute before and after school" said Maud, quickly.
 "I'll bring in all the wood and coal and kindliug. and take. care of my own room." volunteered Rob.
 .If you both help me half as much as YOU say you will, shall get along beau tifully," said their mother. Il can put out the washing, and"
 "oh. can you put out the washing| laughed Rob, derisively. "Guess you
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
SOMETHING NEW.
It Can He Made as Beautiful as We
 Choose.

choose.
 "A happy New Yearl" How easily and quickly it slips from the tongue or the pen, yet what a world of sugges- tion these few words contain. With many other phrases that have come to be part of our mental furniture is it not well sometimes to stop and analyze these words; if, perchance, we may dis cover under their familiar aspect some angelic message yelled from our dim visions. For oftener, and in more ways than we perhaps imagine, do we enter tain angels unaware.
 And here we have first, something new, something fresh and unspoiled, something that can be made as beauti- ful as we choose. A new year to do with as we will for good or i'll, a year whose outward beauty of sparkling frost and dreamy snow, of leaf and bud and tree, of sunset, star and dewy morn- iEg. may sink into our souls and help reveal the poetry in what seems mere- ly the dull round of duty.
 What is more fascinating to contem- plate as a possession than a thing en- tIrely new, really fresh--not something made over, or pieced out, but whole, and 10 be used at ones own discretion? It Is great blessing to have things seem new, to have the poets vision that sees into the heart of thing, not resting content with the mere surface. 'The poet has the child's heart in his breast And sees all new. what oftenest he has
 viewed
 He sees as at the first"
 ard possibly we could desire few great CT boons at the hand of the New Year than the growth of this faculty in our selves. That we may have the hearing ear and the understanding heart to near and to comprehend aright the messages tiat each new day in the year brings to us should be our earnest prayer, For upon them all His name Is written. In them all His secret lies enfolded. Through them all His love speaks in a
 cadence
 Soft mothers song beside the cradle-" and looking in all things for His truths, which like His mercies, are new every morning and fresh every evening"" the dullest days may take on radiances which shall blend into a rainbow of hope over the whole year.-Mary Lowe Dickinson, in Washington Home Mag azine.
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
Tbe &,sau3s' !555Nu,<R259 : New Ae&E:

" vest pocket a roll
 ofbills. his months salary, and laid it on the table.
 T think we had better pay up the rent before any of the other bills," he said Gray stopped me on the street to-day to speak about it. Says there are three months owing, and he needs the money badly"
 Dear me! that will take nearly half o' It, said Mrs. Newbury, with har- IaSsed expression. and I promised would pay the coal man and the gro eery man. They were both here to- uay, and they need the money, too" wish you could pay for making my uress' said Maud Newbury, in an az srie'ed and anxious tone. "I know Trs' feters needs the pay, for Nellie ieters comes to school in dress that perfectly dreadful, and feel so mean every time l look at her that want 10 go somewhere and hide"
 Mrs. Newbury's face flushed.
 had forgotten that bin," she said, iemorsefully. Mrs. Peters must cer- :ainly be paid"
 | sh'd think the milk bill better be pau, spoke up Bob Newbury. I'm uead tired of telling Mrs. Dale that Mother thinks she can pay you some uing on the bill next week She's so' so she smiles a queer smile every .,ine get off that old gag. Guess she '',.nks next week never comes." deeply.
 owe Norah three weeks wages, too -"r . sne's getting impatient" she said
 mere are two pairs of hose and a aeehtie that l got trusted for at the 'V1ner store," said MT. Newbury.
 Hnd I'm behind with the butcher. snu there's little owing the baker," 'a.u Mrs. Newbury.
 TUT heavens sake, how much do "e owe, and whom don't we owe? ?" ex- faa, alined MT. Newbury. wrinkling his 'orehead in disgust.
 |. LII get paper and pencil and reckon ap' said Mrs. Newbury.
 , er setting down a column of fig s'es' she added them, then, with a bsrpa sigh' passed the paper to her hus- tha amount was exactly the same as m 'oh of bills on the table.
 ..ney ioF ked at each other for a full A,e in silence. Then Mrs. New
 'urst forth impetuously;
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31
Hot MIX an Excellent stimuIaut.

When overcome by bodily fatigue or exhausted by brain labor no stimulant, sc-called, serves so we'll the purpose of refreshment and rest, both bodily and mentally, as milk. When heated as hot as one can readily take it it may be slipped slowly from tumbler, and as it is easily digested one feels very soon its beneficial effects. Few persons realize the stimulating qualities of this stimu- lating beverage.-Ladies' Home Jour nal
The Forrest City times., 1897-12-31

GSMT~ Year, from the
 0GG10 unfettered dawn;
 Brighten the in- land wales And scent with violets all the icy gales. And fill the wandering sails Come with thy golden notes Of music from million feathered tn. oats; Flash OCT the wind-blown deep: Send thy sun-couriers where the icesfelds
 sleep And bid the toilers reap Thy steps are on the hills Thy voice Is heard in the tumultuous ri!ls That leap into the light Thy brow-freed from the thralldom 3f the
 night
 Is laurel-wreathed and bright. Come in thy kingliest grace, With glorious gifts undreamed-of for the
 race;
 And where thy empires be There wave the flags of freedom OCT the Garlands of liberty! Scatter thy gifts as broad As rolls the world beneath the blue of God. Wide swing thy door Of plenty, till the wailings of the poor Ascend to heaven no more. The olive branch of peace Wave OCT earth's wars and bid the battle
 cease;
 And where the red swords gleam Undsfkened may the snowy daisies dream Unstained the rivers stream! Give light unto the blind: The Scattered sheaves of every harvest
 bind;
 Der every wayside clod Lift thou thy scepter-thy commanding
 rod,
 Till altars rise to God. Sing with thy hills and plains Thy winds that kiss the roses of thy rains, Thy rivers yiolet-shored Thy ancient woodlands of the nymphs
 adored.
 Thy fields with treasure stored Freedoms divinest song Swept by the thunders of the world along. Until the unbound sea Shall lave no shore where shines not for
 the free
 The sun of liberty Frank L. stanton. in Chicago Times Herald.