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tour 01 the business portions of our city and look in upon the handsomelv deeorated windawè. "A thing of -beauty is a joy forerer." These Windows are mostly joj'. It is ilaimed that a igang oí eouuterfeiters Jiiavc leen cheating(?) the Ivouisiana and other lotteriee. It U dog: eat dog, and while the dogs are ach other pprhaps the fools fools who biiy tit-kets will have more money tor themselves. 0n of the most d?l:ghtful partiss of th season was g-iven in tlie Masonio Temple last Thursdav oveninir by the Knights Templar. About 300 people were present. The armory was delightfully decorated for the daneere, and the large lod{ye room had a canvas sptread ora the carpet, and was tieed for iancín3i purpoaes also. Two orolweiraB furnished the music. TUe lunch -vrais delicióos, the toWes beau - tlful, the laxites divine, the gentlemen praciouB, and all was as merry as the melody of the ChriBtmas bells. The fïunday ÍSohool Christmas ereispe of .llhe M. E. ehurch will tajee place in the Sunday School room of the ehurch on Priday evenin at 7:30 o'clock rigfat on time. The exercises wiH partake of the nature of a social with literary entertainment- singing ret-itations, etc., etc. No one will be admitted who does not Ueposit with the door keeper an apple and a potato, or ,in lien thereof Uvo apples or ,two potatoei-'. These will be used to furnish some poor people who are without these common cíes of ,food, or the money wtth whieh to purchase .theui, with ChrLstmas dinners. Peop le are allowed to eend thfir toll ,-ivhcther they attend or not. TOie more .toll the more Christmas dinmers for those in nead. Governor Ira Chase of Indiana, spoke be ore the Ii 1 n 1 Lengoe Monday c vening on Mexico. He gave his address in a jonversational aod very interest ing raanner, paying tha.t a two months trip could be male for $300. He said (tbat hv would try to tell oí that country ún a manner different from Avhat one get8 out of a cyclopedia, but dn that there were "no reierenses to Ulusion." The elections there are fworse than anything we have ven in Mississippi, and their iree silver money is oaily worth about fifty cents on a dollar. Strawberries are sold .the year around, and on the plains he saw growing together, peach tie.e, ibananas, oiangos, apples,- thfruits of the two zone.. Dnn-n t Vera Cruz are all tfoe llowers, foliage and íruits of tlue tropics in wonderíul profasioo. abe Mexians never steal anything they cannot get or carry away. Forty thouBand oí them Iítp. in the streets of Mexico City without ever luaving a home. They are ehot for etealing small tJiings, but punisheú Slightly for jnurdering. ïhe country has untold wealth in its mines and is anxious to have them developed. It has beautlful soenery, but is very backward in everything. KIen and poor feit love and blessing Krom the gracious seasori fall ; oy and plenty in the cottage, Peace and fstiiig in the hall ; d! e voices oí the children Klnging clear above it all ! - Adelaide A. Proetor.