Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1889, Page 12

THE ENPEROR'S RED PENCIL It Marks the Copy For the Daily Peking Gazette. THEWORLD'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ndreth Year—An Horri- Beg- Now in Its Eight ¥ Abundance of hment - Chinese Civil Sensations s—1he Celegtial Journalism Prxing, China, spondence of Ti things in this old paper. The Peking lished almost oldest newspaper in by the Chinesc was discoverd oft hundreds of y printing to Furope 600 years before the Frankford Gazette first daily paper of our civilization, began its publieation in 1615, Age has, however, pro dueed no more change upon it than upon t Chinese people, and its contents are much the same to-day as they s when it was founded in the darkness of the middle ages It method of printi ame and 1t is still set up from movable type of wood and struck off in dark, low by the long finger-nailed hands of these almond eyed celestials. Still it 18 the most aristo eratic paper m the world, and the Chincse emperors of the past its editors, 1t is the official organ of the Chinese govern ment and it is simply a record of official acts and reports. 1t is a crime 1o add to or sub teact from it in its republication. The Chinese gavernment allows no comment upon its acts, and this is theonly organ by which these willions of people, making up more than one-fourth of the whole world, can know what their ruler is doing. EDITED BY THE ENPEROR. The Peking Gazette is edited within the holy of holics of China—in the forbidden ity where the emperor lives. The reports from all parts of China and its provinces come in daily to the impevial editorial desk, and with a red pencil his majesty marks the charactors which indicate whether they are to-go into the waste basket or are to be pasted on the bill boards of the palace, from which the scribes take them down for the use of the newspaper. ‘The first copies are written, and these beautifully engrossed eommand, Coloncl Denby tells me, & price of $100 a vy Private printing firms buy these copics and republisgthem. They are set up in Pek ing and Wl over China, and are sold in many cascs, almost as cheaply as are our American newspapers. Some editions go for thirty cents a month, and there are Chinese clubs, who subscribe together and take their turns at reading the various is. sues of the Gazette, John Chinaman does not move tricity, and the Pelmng Gazette a month_ago scems to suit him quite s well as that of yesterday. A copy of this great journal lies before me. It is bound iu imperial yeilow, but it Jooks more like a cheap patent medicine advertisement in the shape of a long, flabby acconnt book than a great metropolitan newspaper. You could make 500 Peking Gazettes of one of the Sunday editions of Tur Bee. 1t is not us large s an ofici envelope, though its shape is much the same, Three inches wide and six inches long. it contains about sixtcen pages of Chinese eharacters, There are about seven words on each page, and these run up andg down the paper from top to botton of from lo 55 the pagc as with us. The paper is of a tinted white, and b tween the lines are stripes of red, whole is bound with two paper strings within & paper cover of chcap Jow, and the beginnmg of its read- jng matter is at the back of the book instead of at the front. It contains no adver- tisements, no editorials and no social goss The latest Manchu archery match and sport- g news is not reported in_it, and you will not find the prices of camel’s or dog’s meat, nor other market reports within its column: 1t :8 not cried upon the streets, and there are no newsboys in Peking. What its circula- 110m is it is impossible to say on account of its being reprinted by so many firms, It is w known, however, that all China reads it curriers carry copies of it to the various provinces, and it is discussed and re educated people of the cities, TRANSLATED INTO ENG The Peking Guzette is translated into Eng- lish, and the Chinese Times, of Ticntsin, and the North China Herald, of Hhum:lml, devote _part of their space to it daily. From these translations one gets the insidc and most thentic ideas of China, and by reading be- tween the lines one sees that the Chinese le ure the same now as they have been Pethe centurics of tho past. The. dofass the emperor are all reported, and his god- likke eharactor appears on every page. i th P-ixnf Gazette of the 19th of Decem- . I see it stated that the emperor will go at 6:30 a. m. of the morrow to imspect the prayer which is to be recited at the sacrifice to heaven, and that afterthe burning of tho sacrifice he will proeeed to the huli of fasting. From u copy ut luw year I see it_announced that he wiil in person, on the 20 of January, to a tem gl: and pray for snow, the want of which ing_seriously feit, and that similar pray ers will be offéred at the sume time at other rro Feb. 8.—[Special C Bk |—One of the Gazette for S00 years. the world has been pub: daily Ivis the centuries bofore Its first copies wero struck ars before Gutenber, e wes s is the rooms have been * stato temples by nobles, princes, and other members of the imperial nobility, An ex- tractof a fow days later show that theso prayers were not in vain, for the Gazette states “that the emperor has sent out'a do cree expressing his profound gratitude for the grateful snow which has fallen to the depth of five inches after his pr " The same paper stutes that he proposes to go that day to offer sacrifices to the god of lit- erature, and that he will, a few days later, offer sacrifices to the god of war. From the issue of the S1st of last January 1 see that ke then conducted the spring sacri fices, and on the 15th of last April ® decroe s published stating that the emperor will go out at 4:45 a. m. to visiv the temple of agriculture, und to go through the ceremony of plowing. Such extracts are published daily in the Peking Guzette, They show how the emperor of China is the £0d, saint and king of his people, Other extracts give some idea of his pal ace life, and some show that though infalli- ble, he is not immortal, Here is one stating that twenty roots of ginseng, which is tho cureall of China, were sent to the emperor from the governor of Kirin, It gives their ‘weight at nine and one-half ounces, and their value at about §2,600. This is considerable over $200 an ounce. Ginseng is worth in America, [ am told, about (0 cents a pound, but in China it brings more than its w:-n.m. in gold. The full story of the emperor's coming marriage may be read in this Ga: zette, sud the condition of his wardrobe may betold by velvets and other things which sre forwarded to the palace, It gives the full record of all' the receipts of the goverument, and I see that offices are sometimes sold, and that five literary rees lately went for about 84,000, ke charities of the empire are also re- m\d. and the celestial heart grows as ten; sometimes as docs that of the christian, Ou the 2d of May, 1857, I sce that Li Hung Chang has given 13,000,000 pounds of rice more than §100,000 to the sufferer s of a in his provinee, and that on the l4th June 815,000 were collected for the poor in the Canton province, and that a literary E rfluwnmre has lately donated 2,200 teals found a charitable school POLICE COURT SENSATIONS, ‘Fhe crimo notes of this oficial paper are us, and the horrors of purgatory may yoad in the lines fixing the punishmont. sentences where the criminals are to be to doath ure many. = Straugling s . eemumion and decapitation is an easy method ~ of saking off. Ihe bastinado and flogging found in nearly every issue, and I sco eorrupt ofticials are often degraded from ranks. Ina country whero ancestral prevails, the most terrible isthe killing of parcnts, and parri- . are, in Ching, invarably sliced. punishment of slicing to death means m“fi off of one member at a tiwe, neer, car by car, toe by toe. and by inches unti under the torture. the criminal at last Here is a decree of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ity dodie does not prev that the insane murderer gots the s as the sane one, The de i on the 16th of last July. and the cr occured 1n the province where 1 write etter. 1 copy the decree verbatim. articic is headed A Parricde by a Man ac. Tt reads: L Hung Chang reports having passed sentence upon & man who killed his father during a_fit temporary derange ment. Whang Tsaltou had always been sub jeet to fits of h rendercd him they lasted was not dange father had not reported his case to the at thoritics, as he didnot waut him placed in tinement, One ng Jast Mareh he went into baker's shop and dance about wildly in one of his fits of insaunity. His father came inand ordercd him home, whereupon he pick ana struck the old man upon the AL the away In some kind The says that the <on wh insane, i fathe 1 sanie de ree was pub. this The sanity, began 1o 1 up a cleaver head and ne e hing talk and yherisl 8l su death vy the s and this is the sentenoc that this instance. The t rted the man's i bors wi rey to the ol and who ha 1 preventing the have been fined and ren nait of ‘a ven 100 blows murder, cact O th murderer w was sente wotnan in the for living It is almost impossible to conceive that such eruclties exist in this latter part of nineteenth century, but they do exist here in full force, and the board of punishments )t Peking, passes upon such sentences diily Even the' most nary punishments of China are horrible to us, and the torture of cangue can hardly bo appreciated. Dur ine this cold December day Issw sitting on one of the uarrow streets” near the tar wall, o Chinaman with a_board four feet square so fastened wbout his neck that he had just room to turn_ his head through the hole' i the center, His hanas wore tied and his bare feet were bound by a ¢ iis quene was unkempt and black bristlos two wches long had grown up all over his un head. Beside him stood anotier n with a similar board about his neck,and ther, Upon these boards were pasted bilis containing Chinese characters showing _that they had bee fuilty of some petty offense and were doomed wr theso boards for weeks. The boards o fixed that they could not feed them and they shivered ana howled as the ids from the Mongolian mountains sugh their ragged clothes, I snup- 'ri upon them and took their pho but I cannot photogzraph the heart sight in pen and ink clings are severely by the poverty and cruclties e seen begiears wio si for ulms, covered by nothing more than o strip of loosely woven cofice Sacking, and every time I go on the wide street which runs toward the patace I am pursued by a ked boy without He holds up stumps of shoulders at me and keeps with my donkey until I throw him some wh. Whother he was born as he is I do not know, but [ am tola it is no uncounmon thin for parents and others to mutilate children in order that they may bz used as boggars Beggars stimes cut themselves, and there is a priest here who goes around beg: ging with an iron ske stuck through his check, He moves this about 8o as to keep the cheel continnally sore and goes along with a brass basin wineh e pushes in your T ne asks for alms. He has a keen eye to_business too, and he would not. allow him seif to be piotogrupiied for less than six Mexicun dol Fie forms a horrible sight, and one gladly gives to get rid of him THE GOVERNMENTAL DEPARTMENTS, i of the board of punishments, this control of all the punishments of cmpire, and it_might e called the judi tinent of the emperor’s cabinet. ror 15, you know, an absolute mo His word is the word of God to the Chunese, and he does as he pleases, however, his cabinet and_ this gre has its government organi the other nations of the civil service, founded largely upon liters culture, and the literature” grady ranks higher thau the mil emperor has his grand secretariat, consist- ing of chancellors and_assistants, who nssist Dhim with his_edicts and degrees, and who lay matters before him. e has a groat councii of state, with which he consults every morning bitween 5 ard 6 o’clock, and this is made up of a number of imperial princes, of sceretaries, chancellors and other influential men connected with the six ercat boards of the empire. These morning meet- ings might be called cabinet councils, and it s ut these that the chief official appoint- re made, “The six great boards administer the s of the government much as do our rtments XIL\ Ahhlm,'lnu th of last September T see that o o rival through jealousy t be strangled and the 1se was flogged with 100 blows cold wi came th worked upon of China. | od and howled Ones narch, busi The bes offices are cquall divided between the chus und the Chinese, for it must be remem- bered that the Manchius, or tartars, are prac tically the go 38 of Chin, and that @ tartar emperor has sat on the throne for These six boards are the treasury depart- ment, the board of the civil ofiice, ‘the board of rites and ceremonies, the board of war, the board of punishments and the board of works, which might be calied the interior de- purtment. It is the treasury department which taices charge of the government funds, which makes out the list of girls eligible for the imperiul havem, and which has charge of the revenues, I visited this great depart- ment of these four hundred millions of peo- ple yesterday. It looked more like a barn yard than a government office, and Colonel Denby, our American minister to Peking, and myself had to sten carefully to keep our feet clean as we walked within the enclosure. Just outside there was a pool of muddy water covering the entire street, and we walked close to the side of the building to keep from slipping in. Tmagine & court covering Al acres sur- rounded by a low, shac wupainted, wooden structures, with heavy' tiled roofs, The doors to the inclosure are double, and ragged dirty Chinamen with long cues' and pompous uirs guard them. Upon cach door is pasted a highly colored picture of a demon, and the doors themsclves swing on heavy s, In the interior court you find horses, dogs and donkeys, and here and there \t Chinese eart awaiting its owner, who is working inone of the stable-like buildings which look out upon it. There arc no win dows but those of paper. und the whole looks more like the outbuildings of some ancestral farmer than anything clse. Every thing seems going to seed. There is no ut tompt ot improvement anywhere, and this is the condition of all the great governient departments of the Chinese empire I found slimy pools in the court of the board’ of public works, and tho bourd of rites and ceremonics, which 15 now working on all of the arrange ments for the emperor's wedding, looks as though it might have been krocked up out of odd pieces from Noan's ark, and shows no signs of the ten millions and odd dollurs which it proposes to spend in the warriage celebration of its ruler. This board super- intends the worshiping of the gods, and it supplies the food tor banquets and sacrifices, Here, howaver, cleanliness is not next to god- liness, for every surrounding is that of dirt and filth, I could not get into the board of punishments, though Mr. Chesire, the Chi nese secretary of our logation, who talks Chinese like ‘a nutive and who knows the people thoroughly, went with me and tr persuade the keepers. In none of th partments was I able to get at the clerks, nor to see wmuch of their mode of work There is no doubt, however, that the gov ment is thoroughly organized, and “that it keeps good track of the doiugs of this great nation. As to how honestly it does so is a question which I shall discuss in the future. “I'here is one branch, however, which does not exist in any of our governments, und that is the censorate. Tnere are censors every- where in China. These keep their eyes upon the various officials and they report whether they do their work well or badly, They have the right to reprove everyone from the empH to the coolie, und though the em- peror can degrade thet they often criticise his actions. They pass their comments upon the eunuchs of the palace, and only a few weeks ago a favorite cunuc’ of the empress dowager hi. ~ is head cut off for putting ou 100 many #irs and for inproper acts while on @ triv away from the capital. If ono Chi- naman wrongs another ke can appeal 1o the ccnsor and the censor will take his case and see thut he is righted. Thoy act thus as spies upon the ofivials, and e spy system of Chiua extends to its' custom house officials and to avery part of its governmeat. ‘e foreign oftice is not one of the great bourds of the government, wud there are & 1 in_ China, and | wimber of addition The civil material ), and its make the lift bordindte boards in above mentioned. ild furnish the its descripty to the ones service of China tec for u larpe book in civil service examinations would white hair of Commissioner Fdgerton his straigit silk tile high from his old head on young shoulders, and would make Bishop Oberly, our other civil service ex- aminer, turn pale with ho It is esti- mated that about two million persons are examived every year in China, and that per_cent of these pass, The candi r oflces are of but of only dates wes oniy hanco men In The car ears from sixted hty v the same degrees, and the man who an_ examination has the right to ent v the next examination and try Examination halls exist in oever Ht the Chinese empire and the hal ver sixteon acres, and has mor and ¢ in‘each his exam is in China range in stances tlon f fails hon At Cant necessar me can got i it Th hich the st troe the ¢ pass thre first dinary offences, and & the chance, think, at minor offices. This might be eallc the de bachelor of arts. The examini tion of the soc ee is held at the pr vinc \ n four to cight thon sand and upwi ar at each of these aminations. At one such examination held not long since, the average age of the stu dents was thirty, Sixteen per cont were over forty. One student was sixty-two and an other eighty-three, Supposing the stud passes his examina tion hedias then the right to enter the great examinations at Peking, where, il success. ful, he will got an avpointment for office, There is still a higher examination which makes him of the members of Hunlin college, and this rauk is the highest literary rank in the empi Li Hung Chang is a Hamlin, and &5 are many other big ofil 1 visited this college “the othor day. 1t is as dirty and barn-like as are the other government departments, and is hardly worth a description, I'he great examination hatl at Peking ¢ , Ljudgze, at least twenty acres, and 17,000 students wore examined in it a fow woe ago. The number passed was, [ think, about twe hundred, it there were forty deaths during the three days test. The students were all examined g to their clothes ana persons, to see whether thoy had any notes concealed upon them,ana suchas were found guilty were prohibited from future examing. tions, and were punished by the cangue in the same way us for stealing. Their fathers and tutors wore aso punished. 1 visited the halls to-day. They are not what would be called halls in America, and they look more like o stock yard than anything else, Take a level twenty acre field and build within it long rows of narrow, pen-lize cells. Your material is of brick and the walls between the cells are thick. The roofs arc of h tile and the cells have no windows and are open at the frout. They arc not s high as your head and they are not more than five feet deep nor more than four feet wide. Tn the watls at distances of two and three feet from the floor are ledges, in the tops of which boards are put to form seat and tabic, and the whole is so arranged that when the seholav is in he cannot get out. He is furmshed here with pen, ink und and here he sits for three days and ud writes his essay and an tain questions. The examination is on the Confucin vhilosophy, on the repeti- tion of passages from the Chinese classics and on a ure, war, poetry and finance. Only lately wathematies and some of our sciences have been added to this, and it is a curious fact that at the vecent examination the highest grade in mathematics was taken by a youth from the fur west provinces of Ctina. The boy had studied his way through wathematical scienes by books alone, and wen of the colleges. It is impossible to ate the severity of these examinations. cing of i character, a blot upon the manuscript, er the slightest mistake will impair a whole and render the examination void. A nt at the last test who had done very 1p until the then became ver tired and fell asleen. candle was over turned and his disappointed by himact beforo. the exuminations wero ov and, as is the custom of caring for dead stu dents at such times, his body was dragged out through u hole n the wxlls and handed over to his frieuds for burial Praxk G Angostura Bitters ave the best remedy for removing indigestion. Ask your druggist for the genuine, preparcd by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Son; —-— TIRED OF THE OLD FACES. A Demand for New Designs American Cofns, Mint Divector Kimball thinks that the designs of American coinsare indrtistic and he is desirous to have a change, *hiladelphia Record. Senator Morrill is also interested ina change,us he believes that the coinsof every nation of the world surpass those of the United ¢ in_an artistic sense. A Il is now pending in congress, carn- estly supported by Senator Morrill and the miut director, which stipulates that there shall be a change in the style of coinage every twenty-five years. “With the'exception of "the new i cent picce and dollar there has heen no change in design for about forty year said Charles E. Barber, engraver at the Philadelphin mint. 1t is perhaps natural that people should clamor for a new style, but they will be very hard to salisfy if every new coin shall be subjected to as mich ad- verso eriticism as was neaped upon the new dollar and nickel picee. It is a difficult task to make a proper desigu for, n coin. The most skillful avtists and sculptors have submitted designs that ave entively impraeticable, owing to their imperfect understanding of the low relief which was an absolute neces- sity in coin designing. The designer of a medal, which admits of high reliof and statuesque figures, is protty sure not to suceead in designing u stimped coin.” “Por this reason there real competition in th comn When the divectorof the mint advertised for new designs some time ago those that were submitted to him were most grotesque and ridiculous, They were largely of the spread-caglo orde a godd of liberty borne aloft on a soaving board., surrounded by sky- rockets, shooting stars and fireworks galo It is o marvel that the dir tor’s desire was not altered through sheer dishenrtenment at these alleged artists’ lack of esthetic culture. *Of course, America is not without artists who understand the art of coin making and are gified with true es- thetic taste. But the American de- gigner 1s at o certain disadvantage be- cuuse of the limitations imposed upon his work. Wae have no heraldry in this country, and the nature of the design requived is so distinetly defined by law as 1o allow but little variation from one idea, The Buropean nations grant a much wider scope, yet T cannot suy that Iassent to Senator Morrill’s emphatic declaration of the immense superiority of their coins to our The mint officials are loathe to'ex- press any opinion about coin designs that may appear antagonistic to the views of the director, Suparintendent x, however, said yesterday that he thought no change should be contem- |nluzu<l until suitable designs have been submitted for approval. He thought it would be & good idea to have designs submittsd periodically, say every twenty-five yeurs, but he believed there should be o law that will compel a change unless such change be a mani- fest improvement, e Nature usually makes a gallant fight against disease,and when helped by Dr, J. H, McLea nsl.mu]'lhmuug Coraial and Blood Puritier will eradicate itfrom the system, CARPENTER, for s very little designing of SUNDAY NOT BORY TO BLUSH.UNSEEN, Some Poetic Roses Resoued From the Bee's Waste Baskeot. WEIRD MEDLEY FROM KAN3AS Soulfnl Linesofthe Whitman-Tuppor Rives Order— A No- vitiate—What a Doltar Won Dim W Passionate Fledglings of the Musoe, elt aboun This what startling The statement corn s in poots. ay seem som: but it is nevertheiess they the first blush have made cultivating 1 her sturd y true. The fact that such an exeellent re W has not pr specimen from a_vast number of poetic which have found their ¥ Brioffice. A patriotic | san sends o contribution,under the mod- est title, “Original Lines,” in which he declares that Though Yet fr Eyer blooming In sunshine or On nill, in vale, Like liborty and In storm or gulc The right of wan or w Though the world prevail Where rules the English speaking clans, This production, whole, is a sovt of poetic pot pourei both as to the va- riety of subjects treated and the style of meter employed. The diction secms to be a hasty combi ion of Walt Whit- man, Martin Tapper and Amelie Rives although the amorous realism which distinguishes the passionate Virginia poe is wholly expended such platonic objects us the Goddess of Lib- crty and the “Glorious West.” Here is & young lady who at one time betrayed symptoms of beeoming a dis- ciple of Ella. . Whe Wileox, but she got rid of ler pas- sionately poctical impulses and was saved. ~ What a vast volume of hys- te stanzas the public would be spaved if othcr young ladies similarly situnted would go and do likewise. Sho was standing by a river, watching it as it rushed down to the sea, With its crushing, roaving, slushing, with its sobbing passio i When a strange thing happened. For the waters laughed, 0, Foolish,™ they hurried to the sea. With your crying, sobbing vour grieving constantly, Have your sorrow: but to-morrvw let your heart be glad and free S0, the young lady concludes, *'T dropped my load of passion to be buried in the sea. Another contributor submits a ballad, entitled “*What a Dollar Won.” It oc- cupies thirteen stanzas and tells how the authoress invested the sum named in alottery, and thereby replenished the eash-iox of a large and increasing family. In submitting it for publica- tion the writer naively remarks that she had been offcved $15 for the poem, but had considered this beneath its market value, “it being written upon a novel subject.” It begins in this way Kind reader, listen now While a story I relate, And sec if vou will say It was tickle fortuue or fate, She then goes on to tell how the fam- ily were in straitened cireamstances and this with some other features of the situation made the outlook anything but cheerful. No work husband coulda get That ne was able to do, And, alas, we expected soon Anincrease in the family,too. Here indeed was a state of But fortune smiled at last. was invested in a lottery. In due time the drawing c: And I holding No. 17,80 & Soon found myself the pos A check that looked like a gold mine, ‘There is little more to add. The check was cashed withour delay, the houschold treasury for once contained a surplus, and now, in the language of the poem, A happier family cannot Be found anywhere und; local aspirant for literary fame sends a production not without merit. There may be little genuine poetry in it, but there is no denying the fact that it contains both rhyme and rveason. It conclude 5 2 No longer repine, Adopt this design, Ana yow'll never have cause to regret, To the winds with dispair Begin the park to re; % But the hall goes on Farnam street yet. Another local author tells how— Oft in the early morning, Hefore the nl"hl was_done, Before the b vere gilded By the early rising sun, I have heard a voice so gentle, So still, so calm, so light, That it scemed to be the Shadow of the coming sunbeams bright, I have sat upon the doorstep, Inthe early autumn night, When the stars were few and scattered, And the moon not yet in sight, Listening to that voice's echioes Sighing through the leafy twi And, then, when the reader’s expec- tation has been wrought to the highest pitch as to the owner of this strange, melodious voice, we are informed: 1t was our neighbor down the alley Calling in his pig: I8 Marringe a Failur mont child of the muse., Then he pro- ceeds to answer this burning ques tion of the hour in a lyrie of ten stanzas, which tells how a gentleman ned Watkins was led to the parson by “‘a gorgeous got-up spinster” who the dominee thus addressed We've come quite a pi:se most all night; Pulled up at the tavern Kettin’ light. He wouldu't stop for breakfast, knot was tied, Which makes me Mrs. Watkins, and his sweet and blushing bride. S0 hurry up now, parson, and fix the thing up right, Before the folks at Hampton has discovered of our flight And here's the license, I've got it muddy ; Aud here's the ring, too, parson, 1 bought it of old Grubby. . it may be well to state here that the individual r ¢d to as “*Old Grubby plays no part in the story, but is merely introduced at this jund nre. to rhyme with the word “muddy.” Four more verses are devoted to the wedding cere- mony and then the poem cnds: This was many years ago, Jim now is broken hearted, As years of labor has been lost, and from his wife he's parted. She made him deed to her ghe farm, of his money made a §c00p, Just left him with the clothes he wore; Jim, he's in the soup. Marriage was a failure, others, Look well before you take the advise take mother’s, Else ;;m may get a vixen and prove yourself a dupe, And be Jlm Watkins' double, for you'll be in the soup. Al pas An Absolute Cure’ The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is only put up in large two ounce tin boxes, aud 18 an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin erup- tions, - Will positively cure all kinds of piles, Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT: MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug Co., at ents per box—by mail 3 0 ceuts, in youth Here are random into T winds be chill tom’s flower still shower life, ler as sighing, with affairs. A dollar the sun. A " asks a waom, a ridm here, just as 'twas until the parson; Oh, dear, poor to Jim as well as step, and of FEBRUARY 17 Wasted Chicago Tsibune suburban train (rising and ealling out after two voung women who are going down the aisle)—Here is it ladies (Young women walk heed to the invitation.) Palito man find ¥ seat back here, Young women still profferced courtesy.) Polite man course, lndies, olitencss, Polite man on onand pay 1o louder)—Ladies you will ignoring the red of tand up if you his voiee) you row can ng you b the W if you eoms ite man sees young women aceept a seat ut the farther end of the car and procecd to with each other in the deaf and dumbalphabot Won I into the off. goes forw - Make no Mis taken for Consumption. SANTA ABIL b t ladr » many a lousehold its prompt use for breaking un the too often develops into that fatal disease,t sands can be saved from an y ey You make no mistake by keeping a bottle of this pleasant remedy in your house, CALI FORNTA CAT-RCURE is equally effective in era Ll traces of nasal catareh, Both of these wonderful - California remedies avo sold and warranted by Goodman Drug Co £1 a package, 3 for $2.50 has 1y cold that - Entitied to an Extea Flounee, New York Mereury: Younger ter—"Mother, I think it is too had | sixteen: yet you make me wear short dresses that it mortifies me bly.™ Mother—=\y dear, longer dresses till your morvied,” Youu ter—Well.she is as good 1s engaved to Me. Doolittle, and [ think P'm entitled to an extea fioune Sis- m wh tor you cannot wear clder sister is ~TWELVI PAGES, LA FINES B W | atus. Prompt attention { always reasonable as first-cly | cal experience. 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