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Show SAYS 1909 TO 1910 If You Have Forgotten Or overlooked anything for Christ mas, lot us know your needs al once. We can fill orders on day ot receipt. Stock large; prices small. LAS "H.ir MAIN Cllt. I 1 ::::';tM;.ji!j;i;:iii::i:ii:ii;::!;;; MM liiiliiili iiiii JilSMT 5 SALT AT FIRST SIGHT. hiiii!!!i JrM bed-roc- dust; Wattling the axis turning slow, The Old Year stood at his dynamo In the power plant which time maintains, And numbered losses and figured gains. "I've done quite well," said the aged seer "My record's good as an engineer, I've kept things humming, above below, ) oiks can't complain that I've been slow. And now I'm off when midnight calls " Then he started doffing his overalls. . He washed his face and brushed his hair-T- hen ir leaned far back in his In pensive mood till a sturdy chap Clambered up to the old man's lap. And sid: "Old Year they tell me you Are sorter thinking of getting through." "Right you are," cried the aged man. "Your task awaits you, little Jan. Get into your duds and start right in, ' I will wait right here until you begin, For I wish to see if I rightly guess, Which of the levers you first will press." Then Jan marched up to the dynamo. He passed the levers of "Want" and "Woe" Nor touched the. levers of "War" or "Fame" Stopping the while to read each name: Then a handle graaped as he turned to Old Year's face seemed all aglow. , So when the dawn of that day began Man thought of his stricken brother man. With ready help and an honest tear.-Fo- r them that knew no glad New Year. Twas the lever of Love in the midst of ' mmm ST. UTAH ' Waicts That Button Behind. She stood at the glass and she tried with her might to button her waist behind. The' movements she went through were sure a sight to button her waist behind; the would reac. and he would tug, and sigh and she'd let out a moan; she twisted and squirmed till she strained every bone, to button her waist behind. She strained al the risk of ripping her cloCus, to button her" waist behind; she would take a long breath and then stand on her toes, .to. lutf ton her waist behind; sb had a contortionist beaten a mile; she would bend like a jacknife, then straighten a while, and wonder why nightmares like that were In the styU the waists that button behind. Foi an hour she labored in wildest despair, to button her waist behind, hei face became red and all loosened hei hair, to button her waist behind; she wept and the tears splashed down in her lap, while for life and its pleas urea she cared not a rap; when she went to the office a hideous gap wm there in her waist behind. Milwau kee Sentinel. atie :ii;:fi:: :;i:::::i;ii'':)!:i:i.;:::: ' "v-- ":" :;!:. )':.:!;. :: :: J.:.: ;tte ill! ! in! n :!;;!;; itl w " I I fSM5Ci fjjf LJ2 gloom v:.i The Old Year and the New - That Jan had gripped the fourth day of. the New Year, the decorations of lobster which signify reproduction, cabbages which mean riches, and oranges which mean good luck, are taken down and replaced with boughs of fruit trees and flowers. This Is to signify the near approach of spring, when the "winter garment of repentance" shall be thrown aside. S 1 - - ! y Tress. AU hh - rj. Wry father Me'pe Sior fon re rr;t "I love row, I m'tT' He ' I I lor hate vr-- love yo-i- . VT,l fatter tiff' jrvejsl ft.net Just t same" sea fjini i ovf th- - lan'l. With their wishbone i in hand. The rhiUren are Wihmg for Joyt old snd new. Arid k't ea'y to see J:i4 how gy tie WJlbi Mint Out. Ohe ."Vr.li rnuef n Prospect. t- ri-s- Told In the Doctor's. Arthur T. Holbrook la credited the following: ' A man by the name of Evans died and went to heaven. When he arrived at the peajiy gates he said to ' St. Peter: "Well. I'm here." St.. Peter asked" Tils name. "John Evans," was the reply. St. Peter" looked through the book and shook his head. "You don't belong here," he said. "Hut I am sure I belong here," said Dr. wlrh . ' the man. "Walt a minute," said Peter. He looked again, and In a back part of the book found a name. aid the guardian of the "Sure," gate; "you . belong here, but you weren't expected for 20 years. Who's your' doctor?" American Druggist. When all of tho MhWj ff wkltet Come true. ill Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, - sa roerrury "tu aurrly dratroy tha aenaa ot tmafl hol sad couMiN'fly drrance u aytm wbea the tnucoua aurtaora. It titroutch Sura b uh1 axrrpt oa praarrlp. artfciM ,'imil I Uuoa tnmi reputable phyilrlatia, aa U danuutfi Uy luul to the suod you ran piaaibly da-riwill do m u-Hall'e Catarrh Curr. manutarturatl from t . A Co.. luinto, O.. runtaitie no mnf-rur-y. CtHn!-F. J. by and la lakrn Internally, artmic directly upon tbe blood and roueotis eurtarea ul the eystem. la buytnc Hna Catarrh Cure ta aura you rt Uia lenutne. It Ml taken Internally and made In Toaaaa, Co. TaitliuoiitoU tree. Ohio, by r. J. Cheney rill by Iirurriata. prtre, T6c per bottle. lake UaU'a aouly rilK lor ooniiaatsa engine-roo- We deep, but the I A Literal Interpretation. traveler riding in a rather wild part of Scotland came to the edge of loom of A life never stops, and the pattern a morass. Hailing a peasant lad who was not far away, be asked if the bog was bard at tbe bottom. ' "Ay, quite hard," responded the youth. - So tbe traveler rode on, and presently his horse began to sink with alarming rapidity Into the mire. " "You rascal!" he yelled to the grinning urchin. "You told rue tbe bog was hard at the bottom." "So It Is," Joyfully shouted the peasant, "but you're not there yet!" which was weaving when the tun went down it weaving when it comet up in the mo- II'. Betihtr, We are not in this world rning.. from-thel- our duly to do. Gounod. It it the every dayi that count They must be made to tell, or the year have failed. IV. C. Gannett. Soberly and with clear eyes believe in your own time and There it not, there, place. never hat been, a better time or a better place to live in. Only with this belief can you believe in hope, Smift. The darkest shadows OLD YEAR. By CHARLOTTE BKAfalONT J Alt VIS. t"!l lh tH. jH!r.re: I,el th esnh "l forth a knell. e-- Y't r' a titum t kna-w- take his flisht. whither, to the night wvil Mieerere! hts lies off the trt S'rl'he4 4ivir. An1 All iim the mar bear 1 Tear; rni'lnisM c hta wall Ml nl t ' ' ar r'i"l prm1 In 1 fwif , Mr, fM t kir-- ,,.re true. (!. fs were Mle-re- r: There were h'-ot- linra It Krevely. -- thr itrarf while r'rn in; Mima a few girnrs wnlerei W Satan itev nf and that a'lfr-'e- wrong, tnt wre ;rrn; Ma'-i Sin niihin, r,at thair -l ra' nf fr!itf'l alire, nrier I. ni runi'if.f o'er; irs tfM f amine in the s"ei at meht. I'm for tw.rs a M-- !- light -! Hiaorers ,i.. rtinrrli ey f snoh In Fr m trh ,1 o- -. IS m-- w e nrv i mh'tt the OH r t.. Mw'r's'-- y: te wd. t,) lhfirf14; h e-- r a'r-Tn- - t's yr M J et'-'- -t t"i r r ( ra! V ItiwreT' ft. h M !; aereral feet rr that coroii The more talk it takes to run things the slower tbey move. ta-- . reierra'a ear pleaaant fet-tI the raee f tninr the cauee a ad yea rare the diaeaae. enaaUpaUoaj. CnfW 4laei. Kay lolaaa. OtaMOnatHia When some people tslk it is a waste of time to yawn. 1 Dyer. Life is fruitful in the ratio in which it tt laid out in noble action or patirM perseverance. LidJon. THE NEW CHOICE YEAR'S It Is Well to Choose Wisely for the Time That is to Come. Once. Ions ago, the Lord appeared a vision of the night to a youos; man with the offer. "As what t shall Rive thee." And a decisive moment was that Hi which the younc king welshed asslnst all others the thing which he most desired. Centuries lie between US and the young king. Solomon, but stilland especially on each remirrtng New iod sfjwars to each of us Year's m offer, "Ask with firsrtleally tb what I shall give thee." And. as with Polomon, so with every heart, there the thole of the fift. Were ths qursMon an audible one, what would o4ir answer be? Kanh refurring New Year's. In ef fert. sats: "Ask wbst I shall give t And the rboW ftf tb coming ail t?ie year may be onr choice of life. It Is by choice that i.ie.i jears wea-tsnd learning sn! b influ serk rrif e. And it Is not a question of this and that, but of this or that. To t hooe Is to dtx.le between, to leave as well as to take Therafore. wbat will b ftir choice fnf the year befri us? fo. IHt r asks the question, make the off-r- .Ida : t r- In !,." .1 may inlfcg!e 1. hs and It lhat hf And Ivy elvea fairies nurr!ankln4 In the srd the h'"f, fetjytes, that are rs End b'd-Inplaces. They are also fning 1o af to the WoryJIsnd sprites ford a rff-igwho, at this season, are haiffrorer-lbirg the fsys a the The Army of Constipation Is Crowing Smaller Cvary Day. CARTER'S UTTLE UVEJt PILLS era eafae!jl - thy a If giea r;-- j . 'jret. iaaai.'y Ihey i cay VeaMtn tia. MJ-- Irnaa awa Vat , Y S fl'vr? ia Uwtf. 1 A'.tg eaWV- taJSaBaaaSS M f eateaa, tick BeaJatka, SaOaw Skis, S All DOSE. SMAU fRICX SKttX GENUINE awl bear ignatarct Mas, fr at Ctrisfrias atn. A reeAedr. Christmas Fairies. t.-- i; RRr ak Ilea a I .an Halwai. the pni.nlar fawltr It rare hr ober rvsaWiea fall. All Sealer. S4e, atlr. II A buttle. with cJ past" An old Knglish tradilion " the tiy v. n.Ttrs wta -g 'i- 1 of life The hour that it gone I turn were: A woman dislikes being Jealous almost as much aa she likes making some other woman Jealous. . f' Siv waa ! y a to rare any raaa (HSrVKNTUfMcMloHl Hlaa ta t llrbin. Hnad. Illmlin or to 14 day a or axaey refunded. rnrtrading 44. PAZO S are those which a man' hinwlf makes when he standt in hit own light. Lerd Ax tbury. Our Lie it short, but to expand that span to vstt eternity it virtue! work. Shakftfeare. 1 cannot recaa, but wul do better than yesterday; thai! be bet- and all let than the yesterday. Let tit Vave behind our , woman Is traveling In the right direction. Haven't you noticed her present panatella sbspe?" rit.r t ritr.o ix e to 14 nATft. we may make the worst of it, and it depends very much upon ourselves whether we extract joy or misery from it. s Or THE smoke." "Well, We may mate the best of New Year. DEATH Doing Her Best. "Kipling says that a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar Is a life, or snow-ballin- The "Jour de I'An" Is a great period almost all over France, and many of the customs common with u st Christ msstlde are transferred to New Year. In many parts of that country masquerading by children continues for three days, the youngsters going from house to house, singing and begging for small presents. . fitfift Jirooks. tem-porsrt- ly seml-rellglou- -- to do what we wish, but to be willing to do that which it is arranged, the r Esquimaux go forth snow huts or Ice caves in pairs. one of each pair being dressed In women's clothes. They gain entrance to every Jgloo In the village, moving silently and mysteriously.' At last there Is not a light left In the whole place, and having extinguished every spark of Are they can find, they kindle a fresh one, going through mysterious ceremonies meanwhile. From this one source sll lamps and fires In the district are lighted anew. In the Indian empire, the day which corresponds to other New Year celebrations. Is called Hooly, and Is a feast In honor of Krishna. Caste loses caste and the prevailing hue la red. Every one who can afford It wears red garments. They throw red powder at one another, and mix It with water and squirt It from syrThis Is taken In inges on passers-by- . Is In as good part as northern climes. Complimentary visits between the merest acquaintances are exchanged In Germany, and New Year's gifts are made to the servants. The eve of the New Year Is called "der Sylvester Abend." and while It Is deemed not unbecoming for the young sod thoughtless to while awsy the evening by dancing, the day In more serious households takes on a aspect. During the evening there Is prayer st the family altar, and at midnight the watchman on the church tower blows hi born to announce the birth of the S PREVIOUSLY s A in the QWUWl'- - Vlr- - 'wV Thoughts for the New Year tick-tack- . LooM Down ort Others. that's Carts-rlshFtxl'jy "l es, over there He's won several aviation , snd holds his " fead hirr.s-!! Mt "Consider ont of fhatrostrof racy, eh"' Plosion Tran-- f , go,-Th- e ki He Rosalie, I can't tell you how I worship your almond eyes, your vel vet cbeekti, like peaches, and your cherry Hps! . Rosalie I suppose you are the new gardener. arm-cha- Why He Hesitated. !lii:iiii!i!iiiRii!!!il;;i:;.iT!!i3i !li!!!li!i!ilH!ii!iiii!!!Si When the late O. O. Howard waa t sc brigadier general in the civil war, earnest was he In his religious effort The Old Person I wish you all about sixty-fivpounds, and carry that In a short time he had converted kinds one those around of term of your glass thingumduring prosperity on In all but the brigade, every man I want to warn you bobs they have In the kitchen to time hardened old teamster. Going to hit of office, bub, but year's job is a fast life. In just the egg boiling. commander one day this man said this And some will be sorry, others glad, 12 months or in about 8,760 hours, you earnestly: . will be wearing a long gray beard, that you are then ready to be succeed'"General Howard. I'm lonesome. ed by another fat little Infant labeled on your nose, a seven-dolla- r Every man in the camp has been con- spectacles black suit badly wrinkled, weigh "ISII." verted except me. I'd like mighty weli to be a Christian, Just to be In with and her lips moved as If she were the other boys. I suppose it's the right the names of her dead ones. I can I see how don't but too, thing, For many minutes her reverie was manage it." unbroken, and she heard not the tick-tack- ! The man shook his head mourn ! of the steady old fully. dock. ta said "Why, my good man," "Nine ten eleven!" suddenly general, "I see no difficulty in the way called the clock. "The son? Ah! how of it, if you will Just surrender your abBentminded I have become! Well own will and ask for gufdance." nine! Do you hear do I remember the day a woman with "Seven lght "That's Just It, general." responded that?" asked the old clock In the corthe would-bconvert. "If I'm con- ner. "Here it Is a full hour after your a pale face and frightened eyes opened door and handed you a letter, verted, who in blazes is goin' to drivt bedtime, and yet you sit there staring the which bore the Insignia of death. You mules?" New York them Tribune. Into the fire!" opened It with trembling fingers, and In front of the fire sat an old wo- next moment you were like one dead. Building Up the Church. A Brooklyn preacher went sway the mangray haired, wrinkled, feeble. The There were days and days when yoi other day for a vacation, and rather voice of the flock did not disturb her. hovered between life and death, and C than have the church close, his wife but as she watched the fitful flames, for my part gave up all hopes. Wed in a foreign land; buried among took his place in the pulpit. It is said one could have read her thoughts. "Cut It's excusable on this night," strangers over the sea. It was a blow the same result followed that haptones. slmed st s heart twice broken." pened in Texas when a preacher, after continued the clock. In soft of the The woman covered her face sad night preaching two Sabbaths to empty "Height but it's the lastmore we moaned In anguish, and the clock conbenches, gave notice on the third Sun- old year! Three hoursYou andsnd1 are tinued: day that on the succeeding Sunday are done with 199. "Don't grieve so. the dead are at services would be as usual at II going to watch the old year out toLet's see? How many years rest forevcrmore. Life's mistakes may o'clock; that at 12 o'clock he would gether.I seen come and go? Forty ex- need to be washed away with tears, run hi mare, Callope, GOO yardt have with this one. That's a long but the dead reaped their reward. You forty actly comers all f for rid 1.000, and gainst are old and poor and broken, but who time." time, long the mare himself. He won the race The woman rocked gently to and can tell what new friends the new and 7.000 Joined his church th fro. and by and by the clock suddenly year may raise up for you? I cannot next Sunday. tell you to forget the past, for a mothcalled out: The Pleasures of Poverty. heart ever goes out for her dead, er's "What, tears in your eyes! Come, It Is s cigrace to be rich. Andrew now. bit that's r.o wsy to end the but the new year may have more sunshine. Come, now I am about to Carnegie. year. We sre thinking ot the same It Is rood to be born poor. Sir thing. Yes, he was a good and loving strike In.theLetoldus year out and the new greet the new with a Thomas I.lpton. husband, and I'll say this for both of year smile of welcome as I count ten-el- even I an never It Is glorious to hsve to struggle. beard that unpleasant you, twelve a happy New Year!" John D. Rockefeller. wold between you. It Is 12 years The woman did not move. It must I grand to be able to do since he died. I could only look Into "Hefgho!" called the clock: "We his face as be lay on his dying bed. pise money. have left the old behind!" to Its sent nd ever heaven If light ' Travels De Luxe. Her hands had dropped fcvslde her, U ?d a soul across the dark valley It and was ivn to him. I remember your snd her head bad fallen "These re flying machine wireless telegram wonderful, ain't t srs and moans and sobs, and yoa "Dead!" clicked the clock, as the It, Mike?" t rayed that death i.ilfht' come to you last faint echoes of his bell died away "TIs th.. Ab, Tim. afore we're as well." old men shall tie able to travel The woii.au wiped her tears, and Being and Doing. round the world without teavin' there was a feeling of surTiM-atlnsa It Is said, "To be food is the wsy 'erne" Sketch, she let memory bring up the events. to he happy," but to b good and to "K'rtit nine ten!" calied the clock do good Is the wsy to he happy. What News. Wasn't Spreading the "How time does fly! I a harpy world this would be if all t'nder the headline of "Th Wisdom sfter a while. remember striking the last would do the best thing for them- distinctly jMic-ePof lileOce," the Magazine hour of Let me see! Some one selves. If all res nod that the only l!nj. prints the following story: The late then with yon at that bedside way to get out of life Is to put into Judge shifts ISryan, the father of Wil- Therewept was a son iJ a daughter. Ah! It, that the way to receive Is to give, liam 3. I'rjan, once had several hams I their faces their gentle and the only way to be helped is to stolen from his smoke hmis. II now recall word. Two year be helpful, and th way to gain life Is their loving ays missed thm at once, but said nothing latter there was another deathbed, o los It for others, snd the wsy to about if io any one. A few days later more wails and sobs, and I saw th go up Is to go down, for "Th. met k a neighbor came to him. 'fay, Ji1k' as they carried the daugb hall Inherit Ih earth" 'He that bearers pell he said, 'I hear d yew had sou! hams tef's body out of the house. It sec-mI. Meth himself shall b enaifed."' It stole- t'other n!pht"Yes.' replied trm as If the last blow must crush you. isjiij ;tty to live for self. It Is grand to JxiAt", very confidentially, 'but rfijn't and I well remember saying to myself live for friend but 'tis glorious t toil any fine Von and I are the only that It wouldn't be long before you live for mankind, and. as one bat nes to know it.' were called to go." said, "The only wjy to work for God to work for nian." Ntr-waThe woman rhoked back her sobs Sard. net. Nor ay cls fiWi.ot.noo tins of sartfirx-a year. On account of Iho tiih t.rbe of olive oil the 8edlfh fa tot .f hate trfen e jietimefitin? Pleasant wi'h Ancrifan cot tfir.aeerl till wb which to itumeise the sardines in the tns Ktr"r who hare trUd the two kind one In olive, the other In have he en nnable to cottonseed , t which was whih. so ,rrhbly we Van It wli! not - lone are a d,nr Hwefi,ih farkd in American oil N'w York nvf By DANIEL W. GALLAGHER NDER the old earth's outer crust 'Mid k fragments and lava mi. QUICKEST WITH SAFETY Pi i ut list n;iait tu (m,w8S For tet for mother and tf M. 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