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or s feet. The root as well as the wood
of the plant secretes an acrid, milky
uice so toxic that it kills in very few
minutes. This quality is eliminated by
beat, and that which in a raw state is
so deadly is thereby converted into
nourishing and agreeable aliment. The
root is grated into pulp and subjected
to great pressure, which extracts all
the poisonous juice. 1t is then heated
on metal plates, which transforms it
iIto the tapioca of commerce. 1t is to
be hoped that this information may not
disturb the equanimity of consumers
of tapioca. The process employed in
its conversion from a poisonous plant
into substance entirely innocuous is
absolutely infallible. York Sun.
*=*
In order to rid a pantry of red ants,
you should scald and clean and dry the
pantry thoroughly, and then scatter
cayenne pepper. on the lodges of the
shelves and about the window sill,
where the ants probably come in. The
ants come from outside and their nests
outside should be destroyed with boiling
water. 1t will do no harm to use a
little al-soda in the water used to scaId
out the pantry.
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Rents Boxes

In its New Burglar and Fire-proo
Vaults, Makes ample provision in it.
Store Room and Vaults forthe safe keep.
ing of Securities and Valuable package
placed in its cussody.
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Our WOnan's
.....COIurnn
TAPIOCA.

Ne of the most
deadly poisons
and a common
article of food
are combined in
a single plant.
This is tapioca, a
South American
shrub that grows
TO a heipth of 6
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Attends to the

Management of Real Estate and. to the
Collection and Remittance of Rents In
terest on Securities ara Dividends
Stocks.
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A look or word can help or can
harm our fellows. 1t is for US to give
cheer or gloom as we pass on our way in
life; and we are responsible for the re-
suits of our influence accordingly.
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J. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
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SuEEERING MuMMIEs.

This is humane age, after all. The
latest objects of tender solicitude are
Egyptian mummies, which are being
cruelty treated, according to Mrs. Elise
Braun, Theosophist, and pastor OF the
Progressive Spiritual Church, of ST.
Paul. Referring to some mummies in
Minneapolis, she says: IF these poor
things We're on sale, and I only had
money enough, would purchase them
and end their sufferlngs by incineration.
The lowest astral form Of life Still exists
in these poor old physicals,' and as a
result they have been suffering for
thousands of years. The lowest astral
does not leave the body Of flesh and
blood until it has entirely returned to
its original condition-dust. When a
physical is embalmed disintegraton is
prevented, and the astral cannot take
it's flight For this reason alone / be-
lieve the practice of embalming is q
relic of barbarism." Describing the
transition of the divine spark-the L
am'-from the physical to the beyond,
Mrs. Braun says that astral forms often
leave the physical with the greatest
reluctance. Consequently the body fire.
quently takes on the semblance of death
while life yet remains. For this reason
she advises all people not to allow the
burial of loved one until the fourth
day after the supposed death-or until
decomposition sets in. AS an instance
she cites the case of man buried when
death was thought to have interviewed
who had endured untold agonies in his
grave for thirty years. The astral had
not deserted the physical. The only
proper way to set the psychic free from
the body as soon as death has actually
been ascertained Is by cremation.
This is interesting If true, and those
who haven't enough to worry about al
ready can perhaps find some satisfac-
ton in worrying over the sufferings of
Egyptian mummies. There are certain
ly good reasons besides the astral
reason for burning them, and they most
certainly should be burned If burning
will relieve their pain.
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HAPPY NEK YEAR,

1t is a pleasant and an optimistic
custom of nortals to wish each other
Happy New Year. 1t is also pleasant
and an optimistic custom to begin the
New Year with feasting and fun. Hope
springs eternal in the human breast
and it just leaps at the beginning of o
New Year in which all manner of good
and rich things can happen. OF course
they do not all or always happen, but
never mind that. Last year and the
good and rich things that didn't hap
pen in 1t are deader than a smelt. Let
them rest. The New Year is here, full
Of promise and possibilities. Let us en-
ter it with enough hope to keep us going
even If it proves to be much like the
old year.
We wish all our readers Happy New
Year. May all the good and the rich
things that didn't happen to them last
year come this year. But If the sad
vicissitude Of things forbids this may
they still retain hope. the balm and
lifeblood of the SOUL
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nov TO DO GOOD.

Doubtless most people begin the New
Year with the intention Of doing more
good in it than they did in the old year.
Some Of the people who have this in
tention will receive a lot Of January
bills to-day, and they will be perfectly
able to pay them. They will pay them
when it is entirely convenient But is
they would with one accord pay them
promptly even at the cost of some in
convenience to themselves they would
do the right thing and would do more
good than they could do in the first
few days Of January in any other way.
They would gladden. the hearts of the
butchers, the bakers and other mer-
chandeliers, and enable them to prompt
ly square up with their creditors.
There would thus be as much mutual
pleasure and prompt debt-paying as
there is In the show when dollar goes
around the half circle and pays all the
debts. Prompt payment of January
bills is truly Christian act, and those
who want to be good this year can
make fine start by going the rounds
of their creditors before the echo Of
Happy New Year" has died out.
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NEW.

Patient-"Doctor, this is an awful bill
of yours" Doctor-"I saved your life,
Sir" Patient-"But now 1 don't want
to live. Free Press.
Visitor-"Pat says he's descended
from some of the greatest houses in
Ireland" Mike Musha! So he did,
many toime-on ladder!"-Tit-
Bits.
Her Lucls,-Jenklns-" wonder how
it happens that Miss Kidd il always
out when I CALI" Jones--"Oh, just her
luck, / guess. drowning, King & Co.'s
Monthly.
Poignant Reminders. I'VE have
corn-bread all the time now." "Why?"
MY husband lost so much on wheat
that it makes him weep to see a bis
cult. Chicago Record
Don't any of you know how
to find mountains on the map? Now.
look at this map Of Alaska. What is
that row OF chain of dark round spots?"
Glass in chorus Nuggets, Puck
Ragson Tatters-"Say. mister, gimme
a dime" Jiggins-"I suppose you want
to get drunk with it." Ragson Tatters
What, with whole dime! No; /
want ter buy a corner in wheat and
ship it up ter Klondike. Philadelphia
Record.
Bill Yale-'That man Williams never
lost his head in football game yet, did
he?" Jim Cornell-"No think not.
He's lost an ear, part Of his nose, eight
teeth, but l do not remember ever hear
ing of him losing his head. ~ onkers
Statesman.
1T is sad" murmured the Musing
Theorizer, ITO think that every man
has his price.
Yes" admitted the Intensely Prac-
teal Worker, land 1t Is a sad fact that
half the time he can't get it."--Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
".rhey say he goes to great extremes
in his desire to utilize the forces of ma
day Extremes? Well, rather. AT
the last meeting of the council he advo-
Gated turning the garbage-b burning con-
tract over to Satan" Chicago Post.
A young colored philosopher was en-
ployed in one Of our stores at a salary
Of $3.50 week. He told his employer
one morning that he was going to leave,
having got a better place.
"a better placer echoed his employ
er; what wages are you to get?''
Three dollars a week"
But that is not as much as you get
here
No. said the boy; but then it's
better to do less and not get so much
than to do more and not get enough. -"
Boston Transcript.
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A NEW COMMISSION.

A brand-new Police commission has
at last been substituted for the i'm
broglio and it is now hoped that all will
SO smooth and even. If the police are
as efficient under the new commission
as they have been under the imbrogl-
10 there will not be room for much
fair fault-finding. They have done a
great deal of good work lately. 1t will
take the new commission some time to
get the hang Of things, and a new COM
motion is not likely to break out i'm
mediately. The Police department has
not had very happy old year. A part
of it has been high old year. But
there is a new year and new deal and
perhaps the new year and all concerned
will be happier.
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WARTIME CHRISTMAS IN GEoR-
GIA

Ii
Life in Atlanta in sixty Three onfed-
crate Money Was Plentiful, and as it
Had Some Value the Retail Stores
Did Good Business.
The last Confederate Christmas in
Atlanta was In 1863. 1t is true that the
Confederates had regained possession of
the town In December, 1864 but the ru-
ms left by Sherman in November Were
still smoking, and this shattered and
blasted wreck of a city was then the
most desolate spot on the continent.
Few of the exiled. citizens had return
ed and there were no Christmas shop
pers, no Christmas shops and no Christ
mas.
But Christmas in 1868 was entirely
different AT that time Atlanta was a
big city. 1t was the citadel of the Con-
federacy. Thirty thousand people dwelt
here and the officers and soldiers at
the post and passing through made a
large floating population. General Joe
Johnston's army was then near the
Tennessee line, a strong safeguard, and
the average Albanian did not dream
that before the end of another year
| Shermans blue hosts would be in the
very heart of Georgia. The Confeder-
aey had met with many disasters, but
matters had not reached their worst,
| and the plucky people still hoped.
So Atlanta was a gay war metropolis
| in December. just thirty-four years ago.
| The merchants strained every nerve to
| purchase Christmas stocks, and they
succeeded remarkably well. They sent
| buyers to Charleston and other cities,
| and bought everything in sight long
before the holidays, for they knew that
| trade would be brisk. There were thou
| sands of shoppers. The Confederacy
maintained at this central point big
medical, commissary and quartermas-
ters' departments, large foundries and
| factories turning out shot and shell,
cannon, revolvers, swords, drums, but
| tons, canteens, tents, clothing and hum
dreds of other things useful in war and
| in peace. The operatives and clerks in
| these establishments numbered thou
sands and many of them had families.
| Then the country people came in from
| a hundred miles around. Officers and
| soldiers on furlough conferred here, and
| the houses and streets were crowded all
| the time.
| The dry goods stores could not make
much Of display, nor the clothing and
| jewelry houses, but the bookstores, con-
dictionaries, millineries and fancy gro
ceries had attractive things to SELL
| Twenty Confederate dollars would buy
one gold dollar or four or five dollars
| in greenbacks.. So it was worth some
thing, and there was plenty Of it. The
poorer classes wisely confined their pur-
| chases to articles of necessity. Per-
| haps they treated themselves to little
genuine coffee at 500 pound, or bought
| some flour and beef at about their
weight in silver. Many were determin-
| ed to have a dram, and they bought
| whiskey at s25 bottle Young men
who wanted new suits of citizens cloth
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he was removed from the office of gov
ernor Of the District OF Columbia after
having spent $4o.OOo,oOo and fastened a
debt of $27,OO0,OOo upon the capital city
in order that Washington might be re-
claimed from swamps and mud flats,
and that the broad boulevards and the
sewer system which had been drawn on
paper might have an actual, visible eX-
istence, he was warmly assailed In
later years, however, there have APP
peared evidences Of a change of senti-
ment. The improvements were costly,
but they have proved both salutary
and necessary and Washington has be-
come one of the handsomest cities in
the world. Furthermore, despite the
accusations of jobbery, Shepherd left
Washington comparatively poor man,
ruined in business as well as in reputa-
ton.
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matter, we all knew how to do it a
few years ago when we were all making
macrame lace, and sash finished with
fringe knotted on is pretty novelty
just now.
Novel neck fixings are so highly val
ued that many an essential odd one Is
are more singular than pretty. Others,
again, are as odd as they can be, yet
have in good degree certain quaint at
tractiveness. The feather ruff of this
picture was one of the latter class. 1t
was like the feather boas that were so
stylish a few seasons ago, only it had
no long ends, going merely around the
throat once and tying with narrow
ribbon. It's color was the gray of nat
ural p1umage. 1t was but one odd feat
ure Of the costume of which it was a
part for the dress had marked pecu-
liarities of cut. 1t was made of violet
ladies' cloth, the skirt having panel
of lavender silk on the left side. The
edges beside the panel were bordered
with white cloth and were held togeth-
err with white cloth straps and but
tons. The blouse waist had yoke
whose front was separate and held
closely with buttons and cord straps.
Above this the revers were faced with
white cloth, which also gave the belt
and the remaining straps.
Sashes of heavy satin edged with
quilting of narrow ribbon satin are very
pretty. Such sastes are double, and the
quilting is set between outside and in
side satin, so the job is SO delicate a
one that it isn't safe to be too sure you
can do it at home. Soft scarf sashes of
China silk are made with insertions of
fine lace, and are finished at the ends
with frilling of lace. Other sashes are
elaborated by frills of chiffon set on
at intervals along the ends Most sash
es are really only belts with sash ends,
but good maryland they are really
the more stunning ones-are actual
sashes intended to tie.
FLORETTE.
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AN INGENIOUS THEORY.

At the beginning of 1895 it is not too
early to ask what will happen in the
way of nominations for the presidency
in 1900. Henry Watterson, Who has had
experience enough in politics and who
has shown himself possessed Of fore
sight, thinks there are reasons for be-
lieving that the quadrilateral contest
for mayor of Greater New York may
Lrove but a forecast of the political
chess board IN 1900, and that in the
centenary year We may have a quadri-
lateral contest for the presidency, with
candidates corresponding to Low and
Tracy, George and Van Wyck. Bryan,
of course, Mr.. Watterson thinks, would
stand where Henry George stood, and
some other Democrat would typify Van
Wycl1 The Bryan faction of the Demo-
cratic party is committed to the repe-
tition in 1850 of the campaign in 1896,
with free silver as its trademark
Eliminate that issue and Organism"
is eliminated. If the extremists should
be beaten in the national convention by
their more conservative associates, they
may be expected to bolt and to put a
free silver ticket in the field headed by
Mr.. Bryan. On the other hand, if the
extremists win in the national conven-
ton, says Mr.. .Watterson, and nomi-
nate MIR. Bryan on the Chicago plat
form of 1896, the conservatives cannot
be expected to submit and witness an
ether overwhelming defeat, both State
and national, in States which on tenable
issues are surely democratic. Can
Tammany afford it, asks Mr.. Waiter
son, or men like Hill and Whitney and
German? If they think they cannot,
they will not sulk in their tents, but
will seek to save themselves and to
rescue from the impending shfpwrecls
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F. NJ. BROWN & co

pleasant Christmas. The poor We're not
forgotten, and a little fortune was spent
on the sick in the hospitals and on pres
ents for the soldiers at the front.
Warmed and cheered by their holiday
fluids and good things, all were Of the
opinion, before the day was over. that
the outlook was growing brighter, and
that the next Christmas would be a
peaceful one under the flag Of the tri-
umphant Confederacy. Just how much
egg-nog had to do with this conviction
is hard to say, but it must have been a
potential factor. Wallace Putnam
Reed in Atlanta journal.
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AUSTRALIAN ELECTION STORIES.
The Australian papers contain two
capital stories concerning the recent
general election in Victoria. One
oratorical candidate for 4 Melbourne
constituency, In q fine burst OF elo-
quence asked the question: What Ii 1T
that has made England what she is
mighty, revered, feared. and respected 2"
"Oireland," was the prompt and I'M
expected reply, in a racy brogue. from
the rear Of the hall. Another M elbourneS
candidate, after enunciating an
advanced democratic programme, re-
marked: Eyes, gentlemen, ana will so
one step further" saying which he
stepped over the footlights In his absent
minded enthusiasm, and fell among the
reporters beneath. st, Janess Gazette.
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THE ORIGIN OF AMBER

The main source of the amber sup
ply is the seacost of the Baltic ocean.
1t Is fossil gum, originally the exudation
Of a species OF confer now extinct.
This grew in luxuriant profusion hun
dreds of thousands Of years ago on the
marshy coast Of northern Europe, when
the climate was much warmer than it
is to-day. The natural history Of ann
her is thus explained. The immense
forests Of amber pine underwent their
natural downfall and decay. The resin
of the wood accumulated in large GUAM
titles In bogs and ponds and In the soil
Of the forest. Where the coast was
slowly sinking the sea BY and by cover
ed the land, and the amber, which had
been gradually hardening, was at last
deposited at the ocean bottom. But IN
higher regions the pines continued TO-
flourish, and so amber would still con-
tinue to be washed down to the shore
and deposited In the 1ater-formed greer
sand and the still alter formed strat,m
Of Ignite or brown coal. The gum be
came fossilized by Its long buria lun-
derground Il
More than 200 speciments Of extinct
lifa animal and vegetable, have been
found Embedded in amber specimens,
including insects, reptiles. plants, leaves,
shells, fruit, etc, which had been caught
in the liquid gum and entombed there
for all time. Some Of these specimens
are SO curiously beautiful as to be al
most priceless, and one English collec-
tor has a cabinet Of them which is val
ued at 100000. One piece en1balms a
lizard about eight inches long. little
jewelled monster perfect in its form
and coloring, which has no like in any
thing existing now. Indeed, in many
instances science is able solely through
this medium to study details of animal
life which persisted from the earth many
hundred thousand years ago. There
are flies preserved with wings poised as
ii for flight, where the prismatic sheen
glowing through the yellow sepulcfre
is as brilliant as If they were floating
alive in the sunshine. Harpers Round
Table.
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FASHION NOTES.


Among the newest collars are some
made on the belt plan. the stiffened
round of the collar being heavily stud
ded with jewels, and the soft ends that
come back being fringed by rows OF
beads to match. This frihging with
beads is easily done and is very hand
some. Applied fringe is not accepted
as the right thing on ribbon. scarfs or
sashes, though where the Joining is
covered with applied embroidery or
beading 1t may be difficult to decide
whether the fringe is put on or made on.
Knotting silk fringe is not a difficult
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their local organization and personal
effects,
This is an ingenious layout and 1t
may come to pass. Anyhow there is
going to be very warm time in this
country in 1900.
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Prohibition in Vermont seems to be
some like prohibition in Maine. The
town of Brattleboro in Vermont is a
stronghold Of prohibition, but neverthe-
less the proprietors of the two leading
hotels there have just been found guilty
Of selling liquor to their guests. The
strange feature of the case is the rul-
Ing of the Judge. The defendants hav-
ing pleaded guilty. they might have
been sentenced to the workhouse. But
the judge decided that, since they did
not realize it was the policy of the State
attorney to press for a conviction on
the first offense, he would let them off
with fine.
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The telephone has not made much
progress In Russia. Last year there
were only 1881 subscribers to the state
lines, and 1O,1s4 subscribers to private
lines.
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IADyERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent q Word each IN
sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
(seyep >times). ~
,Easfisplay advertisements, per Inch, one m n
sertion, 81. 20; each subsequent insertion 40
cents; one week, $500; one month, $40;
Obituary Notices, In prose or verse;, 10
cents per line. Notices OF Births, mar
riages, Deaths and Funerals, 80 cents each
Local Notices 10 cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business (all matter TO De
unob1ectionable). and their contracts do not
include Wants, TO Let, For Sale, etc.
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The Russian authorities Of the press
censorship have been very severe lately
upon the journals Of st. Petersburg. Not
long ago six different papers were warn
ed and punished, and the other day two
others were condemned to suffer the
loss Of all advertisement for an indef-
mite period. These were the Exchange
Gazette and Russian Labour the first
for accusing Count Ridiger, land own
er Of Bielostok, of unlawful treatment
OF peasants, whereby their economic
rights had been infringed, and the 9TH
er, which is always hostile to M. Whites
reforms, for reporting that the esti-
mates for next years Budget would
show a deficit of about 10000, 900 rubles
One result Of this system Of depriving
newspapers Of their advertisements is
that advertisers are restricted practical
" to one or two more fortunate and
strangely favored papers, which reap
fine harvest out Of the misfortunes
of their contemporaries.