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CHK.STAAS BELLS ARE RINGING CzBAND ' I lolidav Goods AND TOYS AT , WHCOKER&CO Wwent into the market at the close of the season when importers and manufacturers were anx ious to sell, therefore, every article we offer is a bargain. Being heavy, spot cash buyers, we have the goods, even though cotton is only 5 cents, they are cheap, and you can afford to purchase. In fact,for half the money, from us you can get what others are forced to ask big prices for. that we hive with us MR. J. J Hol LOW AY, the veteran and practical toy man of R ome who is in cha ge of this department. C >me and see him, h i will be glaato see L you. You can get, dolls of us, at from 1 cent to $ I .00 each, including the cheapest to tne finest KID BODY, BISK HEAD ' DOLLS. Our line is full. D oil Furniture—Beds. Chairs, Dressers, Chamber Sets, Tea bets, Trunks, Pianos, magic Lanterns all Sty les of Tin Toys, Iren Toys of all kinds, Horns, Trumpets, music Boxes, Mechanical Toys Ccmic Figures. Musical Dolis, Dcnkies, Horses, Sheep. Trains, Fire Wagons, II .ose Reels, Rubber Goods, China musis, Cups & Saucers, and. 13- C ZPlates. and Every hing To Make The CHILDREN HAPPY. W H COKER & CG 19 & ji BROAD STREET ELECTRIC WHEEL SIGN FOR WOMAN FOLKS BREAMS LOME TRUE. A land of lava aad laughtar Os joy bo keen; No shade of sad "hereafter” ♦r “might hare been. ” All cloudless is the weather, ‘Neath skies of blue, Lever and lass tegeiher, Where dreams eemes true. There is re dreary waking, when dreams are done; There is no sad heart aching when love is gone; There is the joy eternal, Naught can undo, In that bright land supernal, where dreams comes true . Be let us weave unending Our reverie, And thank the gods for sending Fancies so free; Some life may yet be bright, dear. For you and me. 11 that far realm of light, dear, whore dream come true. WHOLESALE ELOPEMENT. At Delmsze, near Flume, on the Adriatic, 26 girls were carried off •a horseback in one night, recent ly by layers to whom their parents had refused to gve them. It is net aucemmou for Croatian girls te force consent to their marriage by an elopement, hut an organized raid like this is unprecedented, and has made a ssnsation, even in Croatia HE BOUGHT A KISS, TBBT BECAME ENGAGED AND NOW "THERE 18 A BUBACH OE PROMISE SUIT Winchester, Ohio, December 81. —A chance meeting at an ice cream festival in a country church ia this county about three years ago has almost ripen d into a suit for breach of promist. The fair plaintiff is Miss Flora McConnell, 80 years <>i age, and residing in Emory Township. Ells worth Rankin is the man. He i* 2 • years of age, and is a farmer. At' the festival Miss McCuuLoil is said te have been one es the several wo men who sold kisses for 50 cents each,the proceeds going toward the' church funds. Rinkin and hie companions, so the story goes, each invested 50 cents. Miss McConnell was se •cted by Rankin, and the ac quaintance began there was con tinued. According to Miss Mc- Connell, they became engaged, and Nov mber, 1892. was fix*d a 3 the data for tb“ir wedding. Bur the wedding did not take place on the date named, and Miss Mc- Connell asserts that it wa* post p ued at the ioqu«et of Rankin. During the month of September Rankin’s mother died, leaving her son some money, As Rankin still delayed the nuptials Miss Me Connell finally became convinced that her lover intended to discard her altogether, and she has an nounced the intention of asking the Courts to rignt her wrongs to the amount of $10,1)00. DISGUISED WOMEN SHOT THEY MURDERED ANOTHER W 'MAN AND WERE KILLED BY A WITNESS New Orleans, D«c 31, — A report, which it is imp esible to confirm, comes from Robeline, La., of a tribe murder in Veruou Parish. It is said that two neighbors per suaded a|third neighbor, who they supposed bad money about bis house, to g> With them ’p<>s urn hunting on Christm is. In th< mean time they h id arranged with their wives to put on men’s cloth ing, b.acK th-ir faces and g> and ki 1 (bn wife of the in m wb > w » supposed to h ive m >uey v. hilehe was out hunt n g. A Ur he wa» gon? a peddlet wa? ! TH' HUSTLER OF ROME. MV"-AY DFCE'"TER3I 1«94 | granted permission by the wife to stay ail night. Later the peddler heard cries of murder iu the ad joining r mm He rushed in after breaking down the door, with pis tol iu hand He killed both the women disguised as negroes, but they bad already killed the other woman. The peddler left and brought in 'he first persons he could find. They were aatonishwd to find the supposed negroes to be two white women STRICKEN BLIND. POPULAR YOUNG LADY OF BABYLON I I LOSES HER SIGHT WITHOUT WARNING. Miss Mabel J. Roseman, belle of B ibylon, L. 1., was stricken blind while seated at her piano a week ago. Local physicians have given up the case, and yesterday the young lady was brought to Dr. J. H. Clanborne, of No. 10 East twenty-eighth street, this city. Bhe cannot distinguish light from darkness. Miss Roseman had been employ ed iu ths Babyloa P -st-Office, | where she used her eves incessant ly, and at home she was always 1 either reading or practising on the piano. The blindness came with out warning. AS CALL BOY. i I GERTIE REIMS ‘ F BOSTON MADE A RE- C RD IN THE FAR WEST. Leadville, Colo., December 31.— Among to-days departures for the j East was Mrs. J. R. Reims, and ! daughter of Boston. Local detec ives yest- rday located Gertie, the 16-year-old daughter of Mrs.Reims who ran away from her home in J Boston, eight months ago. Gjrtle Ai.i a.vay to be a ballet girl, and worked in Kansas City and Denver, finally coming to Leadville. Not being satisflieti with concert hall ballet, «he doaned the c’oths of a boy and got a job as call boy at one of rhe mines, where the detectives located her. Gertie said she w tire 1 of rolining over the country, and is gla 1 to go home. WEIRD WtDDING. THEIR TAR-1 ARMS TIED TOGETHER WITH RIBB NS. Lansing, Mich., Decesnber 31. : Blanche Noturin it>, who for the last three years has k»een an nctr”s« iu the Private S'cre’ary Cumpa in and Dr. John Ru’herford, of D - troit, were mural in (ha St.a Taiuple of th” Ai'ci j nt and Ori n tai Order of the M .gt hers Chris - mas mghi, nooue but meinbe-a »( the ord r being present. Th ceremony was nn q m and irupr*,- sive. Tne Hign P ie.V,Grand M igi iiicbm >nd, aid all the officers were aT»ved in full costume. Thewallsof the temble hnug | with symbolic charts, and the al tar in the center of the temple draped in black velvet, embroid ered Avi th the signs of the zodiac. The temple was lighted by’ two little lamps in the houses of Aries and Taurus to represent the birth months of the party. After the lecture to the postil. ■ lants they rose and the cewnionti ? ' was performed, No ring was used. Instead the bride and groom bared their arms to the elbow, and. plac ing their elbows and forearms to gether, interlaced their lingers, a white silken cold was wound 12 time aroun I t ie wrists thus join jd and a blue silk cord around the i est wrist. I \\ hen the service., were comp’et • e T , the white cord was sriven to "the bride and the blue to the groom. By the rules of the order they’ are required to go through this cere mony on each anniversary of their marriage in the presence of wit nesses and renew their vows. THE PASSING AWAY OF 1891. It is getting very near the time for poor old Ninety-Four to go out for good. The bell-ringers *re wai - ing for the clock to strike that they may ring in Ninety-Five. He comes so cheerfully, a bright-eyed open-hearted, cu ly-headed boy, and hands you a pure white slate, up >n which you will write your life-s ory for the year. He tells you that whatever is writ m fan s It can’t be blue penciled, it can t be x’d, and no rubber will erase it. Frightened? Well, pe haps each of us is. Welcome the boy Ninety-Five with a ringing of bells and the singing of sweet songs,if they will, but you and land our neighbor, who have met so many years when j they were young, let us greet him : with a prayer, a short one, perhaps i only one word. Yet there is a better prayer, ami one that,if we say it, will, through all the year, give us a helper. Say it in your heart, you who are my j neighbor, and remember that I am saying it with you :“Lord,l be lieve, help thou my unbelief.” Then no matter wha ! may come no matter ho v great the sorrow, you will have faith, and with it you can do anything. xhiehu • NOBLE WISHES FOR 1895. And you wish for your heart' desire. Don’t be afraid. As| ,for anything. Tha is what idayef means. What d > you wan t - ■ ..I .M1... I er patience. r WT.it lo you want? Better beau J What does my neighbor want? little more love. What do you wait? The love oi your child. " What do you want? A stronger belief Whai does my neighbor want? The stilling of unkind words. What do you want? Control of your temper. What do I want? The ability t( see best in everything. What does my neighbor want’ The giving of encouragement tc those who are likely to fall by the wavside. But there, the bells are ringing Ninety Five has white s late is in your hand. Try ant write upon it the history of beau, tiful deeds of loving kindness. Ninety Five i. very youug- Because you greet him, that you have tearnea, perhaps sorrowfully, m - • K ever you may be, t Qo( message to you, H u] bless you all and J‘' ht J en Nine heart’s desire in Lignite Five. 1 MAGNETIC NERVINE &sV/i/ *■ 'i> B J °{“ •*> V, ™ ouium, alcoho b “S c °ln other din' ~7y 'lj V^i fion« bringi"* o " O' /•* bbitr, m e o‘ •Z.EFORE - AMER " insanit presaion, SpfteninjJOj , lnd st ren # h H?Jhftuil<h up the to t Bufferer. A “.Tj2<» S«A*> '*•?»'’«« Cuarantten ,ar i *'- h ' ’■ ; -icl W ,: llr '* h « I * c 0 ■ t " rk