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The Iron Market. Birmingham, Feb. 2.-The following are the latest quotations on iron:
Grain Letter

Chicago, Feb. At is hardly possible
 that receipts will not drop off sharply very soon that there will be any perceptible decrease in the foreign demand The pres ent visible supply is only three-quarters
 as large as that of a year ago, and 40 per cent of 1t Is covered by one man who stiffly refuses to sell at less than 10e per bushel over the May price and is understood to
 have bids within small distance of that
 for large quantities Stocks of wheat in
 Argentine ports on January 1 were 064 900
 bushels against 320.OO0 bushels the same time in 1897. The quantity of wheat afioat for Europe at present is 6,S0OOOO bushels
 larger than at this time last year. The
 market opened firm Wednesday. The only tempter of speculation previous to the
 regular opening was weak on account of an
 unexpected decline at Liverpool. but later advices showed thls loss recovered and though prices considering the advance here
 yesterday were hardly up to expectations sufficient strength was displayed in the foreign situation to cause a firm start here. A slight advance ensued which was held for some time. Advices from New York
 reported comparatively little wheat For sale there except by scalpers and all of
 ferings were being taken by houses with foreign connections. Northwest receipts were light. aggregating 264 cars against 257 cars last week and 257 year ago. Chicago
 receipts were fl cars, two of which were of contract quality. The weakness in the af- ternoon attributed to realizing operations.
 Corn and oats were dull, but firm, with wheat scalpers sold sparingly in both mar kets. Provisions were helped by smaller increase in stocks than expected. Ribs were in good demand.
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Local Staple Groceries
Cotton Letter.

Special to The Age-Herald4
 New York, Feb. 2.-Featureless trading, with net loss of 2 points. is the record of the cotton market today. Early Liver pool cables were unchanged, but later advices reported decline of one and one half-sixty- -fourths. Port receipts were very heavy, four times those of last year and double those of the same day in 1897. In- terior receipts were also big. Southern markets continue firm and active May opened st 5.81, the highest figure of the day declined to 5.7S, and closed at 5.79 to 5.S0, with the tone of the market quiet and steady. There is no indication of any relief from the prevailing dullness.
 RIORDAN & co.
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Dry Goods.

New York, Feb. 2.-Uncertain conditions as to weather and the consequent move ment of buyers have hafnpered trading in the dry goods market this week. The move ment of spring goods has been generally light in all divisions, but wherever fall or winter goods are obtainable they have done well. In the woolen goods the demand has ruled light. In these the buying has been stimulated by the stormy weather of the last few days. Reports of heavy sales by manufacturing clothiers and jobbers have tended to make those buyers who were in the market more anxious to secure goods In cotton goods the demand has shown great laxity. Brown cottons are dull locally and the demand is an unknown quantity in other markets owing to the lack of facilities for communication.
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BOND
Financial

New York; Feb. 2.-The Evening Posts London financial cablegramme:
 The stock markets here were quiet and irregular today, politics being the prime factor.
 Americans were irregular. Ontario ana Western was naturally the feature. Gen. tral Pacific were bid for here at the close Interest in Americans is spreading, ana, barring politics. the feeling has strong future.
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Chicago Change

Chicago, Feb. 2.-The few really good to choice droves of cattle that were offered today were readily taken by eastern ship pers and exporters at firm prices, but there was slow movement in common to -medi- um grades of dressed beef steers at barely steady prices. The range of prices be- tween common and prime steers was very wide, the poorest lots selling at sS.SoQ4Oo while fancy lots brought $535Q5.5O.
 There was good local and eastern ship ping demand for hogs and prices were steady at yesterdays decline. The bulk of the offerings going for $3.75@S.S5.
 Prices for sheep and lambs ruled higher with an active demand. Sheep sold at $30O Q3.5O for the poorest grades up to $4.5OQ 4.65 for choice to prime flocks.
 Receipts Cattle 5000; hogs 3o,OOo; sheep 15,OOO.
 The leading futures ranged as follows
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Cash quotations were as follows: Flour barely steady; No. yellow corn 274c; No. spring wheat s2Q9S1sc; Mo- spring wheat 91@96c; No. 9 red 9sc; No. corn 27Ac; No. 9 oats 24c; No. 9 white (f. O. b) 251sc; No. white (f. o. b. 25@sec; No. 9 rye 47c; No. barley (f. O. b.) 2sA94oc; No. 4 none; No. flax seed $1251s@1.30; prime timothy seed $2S21s; mess pork, per bbl.. $9.s5@10.00; lard per 100 lbs $4.S211a; short ribs sides doose). 4S5@5.10; dry salted shoulders, (boxed. 4A@5c; short clear sides, (boxe0, $5.10Q5.20; wliskey. distillers'~f finished goods, per gall lon $1.19; sugars, cut loaf unchanged; granulated none; standard "A' none.
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Daily Statement


 New Orleans-Co Cottom easier; sales $500; ordinary. 44c; good ordinary, 4ssc; low middling. 15-16c; middling, SAC; good middIing. 9-16c; mfddling fair. Go; re- ceipts, 1S,051; stock, 556,576.
 Galveston Steady; middling, 5lac; re- ceipts, 10,4S9; stock. a24, E4.
 Mobile-Quiert; middling. SAC; sales, 1000; receipts. S17; stock, 6s,aS1.
 Standardization, steady; middiing. 3-16; sales. All; receipts. 4,724; stock, 111.S9S.
 Charleston-Quiet and steady; midd,ing. 5Ac receipts, 930; stock, A,sSS.
 Wilmington-Firm: middMng, 5ssc; re- ceipts, 572; stock, 1868.
 Norfolk Steady; mlddang, 5Nc; sales, 1O6; receipts, 1.OsS; stock. 66ss7. Louisville-Middling, 51zc.
 Baltmore-Nominal; mddldlng, 5ssc; stock, 31, ,9O5
 Boston-Quiet; middllng. 15-16c.
 delphda-Quiet; midddng, 3-16c; re- ceipts. 36O; stock. 1O,29O
 Memphis Steady; mddling, 5 5-16c; sales, S,000; receipts. 1.7a4; stock. 12S,9T.
 Augusta-Steady; middling. 51zc@5 9-16c; sates 405; receipts. e9O; stock, 63,Si6.
 Consolidated statement: Receipts, net, 166,543; exports to Great Britain. 54S3S France 7,272; continent, 4S,S07 stock, 1,29S, ,692. fe -e s, e St. Doris-Quiet and unchanged; sales, none; midd.ing, 5ssc; receipts, 3,260; ship cents, 3,76S; stock, 71,s33 Houston-Sbeady; middtang, 5 7-16c; sales. S14; receipts 4.1o5; stock, 6S,27s.
 Total today: Net receipts. 45,326; exports Great Britain, S,562; continent, 3,5O0 stock, 1,29S, ,692.
 Consolidated net receipts, 166,543; exports Great Britain, 54S33; France, 7,272; conti- nent, S4 ,S07.
 Total since September 1: Net receipts, 6,6S3,909; exports Great Britain, 2,237 eos; France, 6O6, LIT; continent, 1922 ,3S4. H
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New Orleans Cotton Market

New Orleans, Feb. 2.-Cotton futures quiet and steady; sales, $500 bales. Feb- ruary, 5.2o bid; March. 5.29Q530; April, 5.32 @5S4; May. 539Q5.4o; June, 544Q5.45; July, 4sQ5.5O August. 5.53a555; September, 5.57 Q559; October, 5.59@5.60.
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Bacon, boxed lots, short clears s5.55a5.s2; ribs s5.62ib65.75; shorts $575015.s7I6.
 Dry salt meats. boxed shoulders s4s7lS@ 800: extra short clear s5.OOQ5. 12ls; ribs s5.25 G5.50; shorts $5.25d6371s.
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Stock Letter

New York, Feb. 2.-The opening of the stock market Wednesday was attended by considerable talk about reaction and with some of the large operators appar- ently willing to bring about a setback. The party representing reactionalism was highly encouraged, and large lines of long stock were immediately placed on the market. Commission house interest exc cuted some long buying orders, which had accumulated over night, and first offerings were readily absorbed. Union Pacific came out with simultaneous sales of 3,5OO shares at as1s to 36A. The new unlisted securities were also a feature. The pre- ferred advanced over points, and a block of s1oOO0 of the per cent bonds sold at SPA. The general market soon developed downward tendency, but brokerage houses advised their clients that it would only be of moderate proportions, The Lon don market for Americans was easier and AQas lower. Foreign representatives were eager purchasers of Chesapeake and Ohio, while arbitrage houses seemed to have buying orders on every M down. Baltimore and Ohio and New York Central were ex- captions to the early bear pressure. It is reported that West Shore will absorb Ontario and Western, giving s4,50o,O00 West Shore debenture for the Ontario and Vest ern stock. This Is about 1 per cent for the stock. There is evidence of a pool in Louisville and Nashville stock, which has started operations on the long side of the market on the ground that the refunding ought to be good for several points ad- vance before the official announcement comes. The refunding scheme is well ad- vanced, so far as preliminary work goes, and applications for participation therein are being forwarded by many banking houses. The companys December state ment was favorable, as in view of the estimated statement for the six months a smaller net increase had been looked for. The American Tobacco company dividends were payable today, 9 per, cent on the common and on the preferred. It is un- derstood that the directors of the United States Leather company have under con- sideration the question of increasing the dividend by the payment of an extra per cent on the preferred stock Union Pa cific preferred will undoubtedly be a divi- dend payer and will in short time be as good as Northern Pacific preferred.
 Cotton Letter
 By Private Wire to T. G. Hewlett Agent.
 New York, Feb. 2-Dulness ruled at the opening of the cotton market with prices unchanged to 1 point advance. Estimates of 45.0OO to 4SO0o for today's port movement induced the local contingent to liquidate and the market became nervous and net loss of to per cent was sustained. Ear ly trading was entirely of a scalping na- ture, but later turned quite active and general with southern and Liverpool rep resentatives prominently Identified on the selling side Favorable accounts from the southern spot markets and New England print cloth markets checked extensive sell ing. -e
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Markers by . Telegraph.

eral Electric. s4ss; Sugar. 12.s5o; Western nion. 4.600.
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No. 7.carrfes Pullman Sleeping Cars Blr- minghan to Cincinnati and from BiTming- ham to New York without change.
 No 4 carries Pullman Union Sleeping Car Birmingham to Cincinnati and Pullman J. M. Culp, Traffic Manager, Washington, D. c. Washington, D. c.
 c. W. Wickcrsham. Superintendent. Bir- mingham.
 C. A. Benscoter. A. G. P. A.. Chatta- c. M Billheimer. T. r. A.. Birmingham.
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New York Cotton Market.

New York, Feb. 2.-The volume of specu- lation in cotton today was small, the total transactions reporting but 50,400 bales. After opening dull but steady at un- changed prices there was decline of to points, under the pressure of very heavy receipts at the ports. The later cable ac- counts from Liverpool also exerted bear ish influence and they failed to sustain the promise of the earlier advices from the English markets. But sellers were scarce and the market had a steady undertone throughout the session, closing quiet and steady at 1 to points net decline.
 New York Feb. 2.-Cotton futures opened dil but steady sales 2,006 bales. February 5.75; March. 575; April 5.77; May, 5.S1; June, 5.S4; July, 5.S7; August, 5.91; Septem- Der. 592; October, 5.91 November, 5.sS; De- cember, 5.95
 Cotton futures closed quiet and steady; sales 104OO bales. February, 5.59; March, 5.72; April, 5.75; May, 5.79; June, 5.S2; July 5.s5; August 5.S9; September, 5.S9; October 5.9O; November, 5.92
 Spot cotton closed quiet; middling up lands, 15-16; middling gulf, 3-16; sales S,700.
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year. 4475ss year before last and. 47.es5 same time in 1895.
 These make the total amount of the cot ton crop brought into sight during the five months ending Jan. s1. S.6S7,427 bales. against 7,126467 last year, 5,571.0i0 year before last and s,0144OO for the same time in 1S95 fa
 Northern spinners took during January 300 ,0S1 bales against 17S,O7S last year and 16s .2s4 year before last. increasing their seasons takings to 1,577,Oss, against 1,ls5,- 066 last year and 1,1s9.11S the year before.
 Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty nine leading southern interior markets on Jan. 31 were 1900, ,O1S. against 152i.705 the same date last year and 1.4ss.S50 the year before.
 Including ports and interior towns left over from the previous season. the num- Der of bales of current crop brought into sight during the five months has been B. 7a3.9sl, against 7.4e5.01o last year and 5,Ssi,- O30 the year before.
 - Up to Jan. 31 last year. S1 37-100 per cent of the cotton crop held had been mar keted, and for the same five months in 1896 the percentage of the crop brought into sight was T s4-1oO per cent, and for the same time in 1897 the percentage mar keted was 80 94-10o per cent.
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PAINE, MURPHY & co.
 BROKERS. STOCKS, COTTON, GRAIN, ETC.
 20i7 FIRST AVENUE PHONE SIP BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Execute orders for future delivery for cash or on margins. Private wires to New York. Chicago and New Orleans. References, First National bank or mercantile agencies.
 1-15-tf
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LOCAL MARKETS.
Fruits and Produce
Local Cotton Market cotton-Middiing, Es.

Fruits and Produce Butter-Elgin, 25c; Dairy, No. l, Zoc; Dairy No. 2 1sc; country, 15c; cooking, 10cG12c.
 Eggs, 121sc. Potatoes-Irish. 9Oc to s1 CT bushel; sweet per barrel, s25O. Apples, $3.50D400. Lemons. s3@3.6n per box. Oranges, $3O0I400 per box. Socanuts, S4.00 per 100. Corn-Yellow, 41c; white, 42c. Meal, Soc per sack. 2, s13 '' Poultry-.Hens, 22hc; fries, Hhc@2oc; ducks, 15Q3oc; geese, BOG.
 Local Staple Groceries Flour-Best patent, s55o@575. Straight-s5.00; extra family, $A.5 .50. .,. sugar ggar-Granulated. s5.S2h; '. C, C,rhsacRie saJSi Lowering and Lyons packages. $1o.so. Lard, 51sc basis. Clear ribs, sides, $5.621ac. 20435c.
 Rice. 61s@s1kc.
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
 : RAILWAY GO. SCHEDULES. T---- -

No. 3.-From Jacksonville, Albany, No. 1-From Savannah. Macon, Co.,
 Iumbus, etc ..... 5:6Q pm
 Through Pullman Buffet SIeepers running handled on trains 8 and between Bir- mingham and Albany.
 Connection at Savannah with superb freight and passenger steamers of the Ocean Steamship company, from New York Boston and the East.
 For further information apply to
 S. Jacobs Com'l Agent, Jack w. John- son, Union Ticket Agent, J. c. Halle, Gen era1 Passenger Agent. E. H. Hinton, Traffic Manager.
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Chicago Live Stock

Chicago, Feb. 2.-Scalping operations con- stituted most of the trade in all the grain markets today. Wheat was strong early on rally at Liverpool, but turned weak later under the leadership of the New York market and closed 5sc lower Corn shows 1-16c decline. Oats closed unchanged. 5o
 Provisions were very strong and advanced 10Q2712c with good trade.
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NORTHERN ALABAMA RAILROAD
 COMPANY.

TIME TABLE NO 3-IN EFFECT
 Monday, January 4. 1897, at 6:Q0 a m. Passenger, Passenger, Daily except Daily except Sundays. sundays.
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St Lotus.


 St. Louis, Feb 2.-Flour unchanged. f Wheat lower with option closing Mc be- low yesterday for May. May opened steady; improved ssc and declined 1Ac clos- ing with buyers 1sc above the bottom. Spot steady; No. red cash elevator 9Sc; track 971sc; Feb. 971ac; May 27ssc bid; July S5%c; No. hard cash Ss1k@90c.
 Corn--Futures easier but unchanged Spot steady; No. 2 cash 261ac; Feb. 25Ac bid; May 267sc; July 271Ac bid. Oats dull; fraction higher for futures higher; spot firm; No. ? cash elevator 24c; track 2414Q2411c; Feb. 24c bid; May 24Ac July 2Sc; No. 2 white 25N@26c. Rye lower, 47c.
 Butter firm, creamery 15@19c; dairy 80 15c. f.ai5 ID rs-ft Eggs higher, 14c.
 Whiskey, $1.19.
 Cotton ties and bagging unchanged. Pork higher, standard mess jobbing s1O.121
 Lard, higher; rime steam s4e21s: choice
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BIRMINGHAM 6 ATLANTIC R. R. co Time table No. 21. taking effect a. m. Juiy
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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-10

The old obstacles that used to prevent
the marriage of loving couples are out of
date. The blood d-thunder william is a
myth nowadays. The cruel father is only
a tradition. Distance, absence and ship
wreck in these days of cheap, safe and
swift transportation do not cunt. The
new obstacle is a common sense one. 1t
is ill-health OH one side or the other, and
sometimes on both.
Men nowadays hesitate to marry a wom-
an, no matter how beautiful, no matter how
| attractive, or interesting, or witty, if she is
| a sufferer from ill-health. All men worth
| having desire happy. healthy children.
! Any woman who will, may fit herself for
| the duties of wifehood and the exalted func-
ton of motherhood. DR.. Pierce's Favorite
! Prescription banishes all hindrance i'll the
nature of local ill-health. It gives health,
power and capacity to the delicate and i'm.
portant organs concerned in wifehood and
maternity. 1t corrects all displacements
allays Inflammation, heals liberation, stops
exhausting drains and soothes pain. Il
prepares for natural, healthy motherhood,
It makes maternity easy and safe and al
most painless. 1t insrres a newcomer
constitutionally strong and able to with
stand the usual ills of b%abyhood. 1t is the
greatest of nerve tonics and restoratives
Medicine dealers sell it and an honest
dealer will not urge a substitute upon you
AFTER suffering untold %tortures, writes MIS- rs
7. Ferguson, of Box 20, Douglas Station, Selkiri
Co Manitoba, II thank God I found relief art
cure in DIR. pierce's Favorite Prescription"
The profit side of life is health. The bal
auce is written in the rich, red, pure blood OF
health. DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets curt
constipation and make the blood rich ant
pure. They never gripe. BY druggists.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-10
Two Pointed Questions Answered.

What is the use of making a better
article than your competitor If you can
not get a better price for it?
Ans.-As there is no difference in the
price the public will buy only the better,
so that while our profits may be smaller
on a single sale they will be much great
er in the aggregate.
How can you get the public to know
your make is the best?
If both articles are brought promi-
nently before the public both are certain
to be tried and the public will very
quickly pass judgment on them and use
only the better one.
This explains the large sale on Cham.
berlain's Cough Remedy. The people
have been using it for years and have
found that it can always be depended
Upon. They may occasionally take W
with some fashionable novelty put fortl
with exaggerated claims, but are certain
to return to the one remedy that the.
know to be reliable, and for coughs
colds and Group there is nothing equa
to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Fol
sale by A. G.. Ireland,
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r oliteness Brings a $4,000 Legacy,

A young lady in a department store
has just fallen heir to 5000. The money
was left her by an eccentric old lady,
who was treated with great p~oliteness
by the young woman when shopping
Her joy was as great as her surprise
when the money was given her. Sur
prise and joy will be the lot OF many
people if they take Hostetter's
Bitters when suffering from maiarlal
fever, ague, loss of strength and appe-
tite. The Bitters make the weak strong,
tone up the stomach and assist diges-
ton. In bad cases of dyspepsia, the
cures it effects are truly remarkable. 1t
is a palatable medicine. If you feel "out
of sorts try a few doses of these fam
ors Bitters.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-10
THE SMOOTHEST TRAIN IN THE

SIAIES.
On Sunday, November 20, the Bur
lington Route made a radical change in
the schedule of the Chicago Special, its
finest and fastest Denver Chicago train.
Heretofore, this train has left DenVer
in the morning-immediately after the
arrival of d. & r.. G. and Colorado Md
land trains from the west. 1t now
leaves at lao p. m, arriving at Omaha
in time for breakfast next morning, and
at Chicago at S:15 p. m. the same day.
In other words, it runs 1,04G miles in
| 291a hours-an average rate of speed OF
about So miles an hour. There are not
half a dozen long-distance trains in the
United States which are scheduled fast
Ell than Sc miles an hour. And there is
not one-not a single one-Which has as
good a record as the Chicago Special
for being ION time all the time"
The equipment of the Chicago Special
consists of one sleeping car, n din
ing car, one library and two
chair cars. The cars are of the
newest design, and have been
in service less than six months.
All of them have the new wide vesti-
bule, and are lighted with Pintsch gas.
The sleeper is upholstered in peacock
blue, and contains twelve sections and
a drawing-room. The toilet rooms are
unusually roomy-a circumstance to
which much of the trains popularity is
due.
In each of the two reclining chair
cars are seats for 56 persons, ladies' and
gentlemen's toilet-rooms with soap,
marble wash-basins, comb, brush,
towels, and an abundance Of water
both hot and cold), and a smoking-room
upholstered in leather.
OF the eleven dining-cars operated by
the Burlington Route, none is finer thar
that on the Chicago Special. 1t is as
bright as a new pin. The linen is spot
lessly clean, the service is prompt, ano
on every table is a gorgeous bouquet OF
American Beauty roses, one of which
the waiter affixes to your coat when vol
have finished your meal. Best of all
the a-la-carte plan prevails-you onl,
pay for what you order.
The library car is the mems faVorit
retreat. 1t is a veritable clubhouse OF
wheels, a place where comfort reign
supreme, and where the necessity TO
exerting ones self is reduced to a min
imum. If you want anything-today':
paper, the monthly magazines, a cigar
a bottle of apollinaris, or a pillow
press a button and the smiling attend
ant brings it to you.
The Denver Republican calls the Chi
cago Special the "smoothest train il
the United States.' The phrase de
scribes it to a nicely. 1t IS a smooth
train-inside and out. It's furnishing
are in admirable taste, and the tracl
over which it glides is perfection itself
Fortunate is the traveller who goes cas-
on it. Kings fare no better when the,
travel, than he.
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TO ONE IN PARADISE.

Thou vast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine
A green isle in the sea, love;
A fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers
And all the flowers were mine.
All, dream too bright to last!
All, starry hope, that didst arise
But to mo overcast
A voice from out the future cries,
On, on!" but DER the past
Dim gulf my spirit, lowering, lies
Mute, motionless, aghast.
For, alas, alas, with me
The light of life is DER!
No more, nc more, no more
tSuch language holds the solemn sea
To the sands Upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder blasted tree
Or the stricken eagle soar.
And all my days are frances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray eye glances
And where thy footstep CLEANS,
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
e, A.. Pos.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-10

Mr.. Hardin Norris, clerk of the drug
store of r. Shoemaker, Perry, ILL.,, says:
ga man came into our store the other
day and said, Il want a bottle of that
stuff that saves children's lives. | read
i'm the News about it. The children may
get sick when we can not get the doctor
quick enough. It's the medicine you
sell for Group" He alluded to Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy and bought a
bottle before he left the store. For sale
nv A G. ireland.