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. few Southern women.
Demorvaic atc,
Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 19, 1900.
Dl. ls re ad
AS THE DAYS GO BY.
No use to sigh
As the days go by—
No use to sigh, my honey!
Meat an bread
An’ a roof o'er head,
An’ what do you want with money ?
No use to weep
When the storm winds sweep
Over the landscape sunny ;
Your arm can hold
The autumn’e gold,
And what do you want with money ?
Better the song
As we drift along—
Better the song, my honey!
Heaven above you,
And hearts to love you,
And what do you want with money ?
—Atlanta Constitution.
HIS WATERLOO.
“I am very much afraid of you,’’ she
said, plaintively.
He unfolded his napkin as he looked at
her with an uncommon smile.
“Are you ?”’ he said, in a would-be-in-
terested tone. ‘‘May I ask why ?”’
She noted the tone and it angered her,
but she said, in an earnest way : ‘‘Oh, you
are such an important personage. When
our hostess told me a few moments ago
that you were to take me out to dinner I
fairly trembled.” :
He wondered if she always began this
way ; she was undoubtedly very pretty.
‘‘You see,’ she said, a little hesitating-
ly, “I’m from the country, and I knew I
would not be able to interest you. And
then that beautifnl girl from New York
was to be there on the other side of you—
oh, she is not there ; she isill, and I con-
gider it positively providential.’’
He laughed delightfully ; she was really
as ingenious as she seemed. How could he
have doubted it ?
‘I should never have seen her had she
been here.”” His tone was quite different
now.
‘Thank you,”’ she answered, ‘‘thank
you very much ; but indeed, I was not ex-
pecting a compliment.’’
“I know you were not. You are a
southener ?’’
“Why? Do Idropmy g's? I try so
hard not to, but I forget, and while I don’t
mind leaving out my r’s I do object to a
lack of g’s.”’
““I like it,”’ he said, ‘‘I love to hear a
southern woman speak. And your voice
is—1?
‘‘Oh, yes, of course, it is worse than
most. At college they said that outside of
a country minister I had the worst drawl
ever heard. Some people called it a
whine. Then when [ grew up it was
plaintive, and a man the other night called
it ‘a coo.” What would you call it?’
‘“The sweetest voice I ever heard,
with a fascinating minor note through
i,
She opened her eyes very wide. ‘How
lovely of you! You northern men can
make pretty speeches.’’
“You must remember what an incen-
tive I have.”
She smiled demurely. ‘‘I am trying to
remember all you say, ‘‘she raid, slowly.
“You see when I go home and tell the
girls who took me out to dinner I shall
want to brag a little.”
Shc looked down at her plate.
"I did not suppose you ever heard of
iie,*’ he said, in a pleased tone.
“I'd like to know why not !”’ she said,
indignantly. ‘‘Just because I live on a
plantation, do you think I never heard of
anything or anybody? Why, I know all
about youn. I’ve read your speeches in the
Congressional Record, I've seen your pic-
tures in the papers, and I even know her
name.’’
“Do you? Well, that’s more than I do.
You must not believe all you read. I1saw
the other day that I was a woman hater.
Tell me something about. your plantation.
I have always felt interested in the South,
though I only know of it from books and a
You are the first
person I ever met who actually lived on a
plantation.”
“Oh, there’s nothing to tell. You would
have to see if. And usually nothing is to
be seen but the mortgage.’’
‘**I beg your pardon ?”’
‘“The mortgage, I said. Why, I do be-
lieve you are horrified. Each year we put
on some more, and once in a while we take
off some. That rarely happens, however.
This fall the crop was unprecedented. We
actually cleared the place of debt and had
money left. But I am certain we shall
lose next year, for father is wild over his
success and is negotiating for the next
plantation, and that place ruins everybody
who buys it.”
‘‘But you—"7 he stopped.
*‘But I, what?"
*‘I was just going to say that you shat-
tered my ideals. I thought all you sugar
planters are wealthy.”
“Sonie of them are, but we, individual-
1y, are delightfully poor. It is bad form
to talk money with us. Hard times is the
proper topic. But let us talk of more in-
teresting things. Why are you not going
back to Washington ? They say yon are
sure of re-election, and have declined to
ran. Surely, that is not true?’
“It is quite true. I shall never go into
politics again.”
‘*You do not mean’ that.
ou 2?’
“Well, I’H tell yon. It does not pay.
I am 30 now. and have been in the House
four years. I am sure of two years more,
and { fina the life more fascinating all the
time. In two years it would be impossible
to settle down in a small town. I ‘would
run again, and in all probability be de-
feated. I would not be willing to leave
‘Washington and would end up with a gov-
ernment job. I shall leave while I can.’’
Why won’t
ears.’’
*‘I have thought of that.
not to tempt me.’’
‘“Won’t it be hard after being thrown
with the minds of the country to come
down tothe mind of the country?’’
“That is good. = Are you in the habit of
saying things like that 2’ i
‘No, I don’t believe I am. I shall get
it off again some time. Of course it is none
of my business, but I am fearfully disap-
Jointed in you.” Her: voice trembled a
ttle. IE
“I am very sorry.”
‘No, you are not. I wonder that I dare
talk this way to a stranger ; but I am
leaving to-morrow, so if you think me im-
You ought
pertinent at least yon will forget it very
soon.”
“I shall think nothing you say imperti-
nent ; believe me, I am only too grateful
for your interest.”
“*You have sueh a brilliant future before
you, it does seem a shame to bury yourself.
RT
SH ERE
“|'capital of the State from 1
**You would be in the Senate in four:
I have watched your career with such in-
terest. When you first ran you said
something about your mother—just a little
remark—but since that time I have felt as
though I should like to have you for a
friend. I never dreamed of meeting youn.
And I felt sure you would be in the White
House. You need not smile! I am not
the only one who thinks so. And now you
will give it all up. How can you? Think
of your influence! We need men
like you, and you are willing to go back
and stagnate. ~ It is wicked! If you were
60 there would be a slight excuse. for you ;
but now, with your talents! Great heav-
ens, it is madness to throw away a chance
like yours! See what you have done in
four years—think what you might do in
two more. If I were only a clever woman
—but I am not, and I know nothing I
could say would sway you, once you knew
what was right. They say no man can
| bribe you and no woman can flatter
you.” :
“One woman, at least, hasshown me my
duty as I never realized it.”
‘One woman feels sure you will always
do what is right."
She spoke very gently. Her voice had
never risen too high.
“I wish I could feel that you were justi-
fied in such a belief. T shall expect the
votes of your State when I am a candidate
for Presidential honors.”’
“Then your are going back ?”’
‘‘Yes’’—he sighed.
‘And you let me believe you were not,
just to see what I would say ?”’
“I was undecided about it.
me make up my mind.”’ -
“The idea !”’ she langhed, as she arose,
‘‘as if anything I said would influence you.
But how I shall enjoy the Records next
winter.”’
You helped
Her hostess led her to a corner of the
drawing room. ‘‘Well ?”’ she said, inter-
rogatively.
“I won the bet,"’ said the girl. *‘He will
run again.”
*“The older woman looked at her in open
admiration.
‘My dear,’’ she said, solemnly, ‘when
you told ne, with a shocking lack of mod-
esty, that in two hours you could make
any mortal man give up his most cherished
belief, his fondest hope, I first disbelieved,
and then chose the one man I was sure of,
for your vanity needed a death blow. Do
you know, some of the foremost men of the
country have failed to persuade this man
to run, and youn have succeeded ?’’
‘Of course I know it. It made the task
doubly interesting. But I feel a little
mean, too. He so believed in me.”’
Her hostess looked thoughtful. “A
man’s whole life changed by a wager be-
tween two women,’’ she said. ‘‘But how
did you do it?”
‘‘I am going before he gets in here,”
said the girl. “How did I do it? By
flattery and ingeniousness.’’—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Common Errors of Speech.
When a name designates a great many
persons or things taken as one mass and
spoken of as a whole, it is commonly called
a collective name, as flock, audience, as-
sembly, crowd, army, fleet, mob, jury, so-
ciety, public, committee, peasantry, sen-
ate, congress.
When the idea of unity is prominent,
collective nouns take singular verbs, as:
The board of health has passed a by-law.
The fleet was entirely destroyed.
There was a large crowd present.
The society offers this suggestion.
The faculty favors its adoption.
The committee begs leave to report.
The Senate has passed the bill.
The mob was immovable.
The audience was not large.
Congress is now in session.
The jury finds the prisoner guilty.
Our society is getting up a sociable.
Two dollars and fifty-three cents is his
price.
The army was disorganized.
When the idea of plurality is promin-
ent, collective nouns take plural verbs,
ag:
The public are invited to be present.
The nobility were alarmed.
The peasantry go barefooted.
One-fourth of them are convicts.
The people are often deceived.
Two bundred men were sent.
The jury were kept without food.
Two silver dollars were thrown to him.
Twice two are four.
In the last sentence the idea of plurality
is quite noticeable. We think of two sep-
arate twos, and know that when put to-
gether they will make four. We say** the
public are invited,’’ because it is really
the individuals who make up the public
that are invited. The public is not a cor-
porate body, and cannot be invited as such.
It is pnite common to use the plural form
in suzh sentences as ‘‘The Star Coal Com-
pany have failed.” ' It would be more cor-
rect to say ‘‘has failed,’’ because it is the
corporation and not the individeal stock-
holders to which we refer. We say, ‘“The
peasantry go barefooted,” using the plural
verb, because we refer to the individuals.
A little thought in the use of collective
names will prevent errors.
Illinols’s Vanished Capital.
en
The Historic Town of Kaskaskia Entirely Swept
Away By the Mississippi.
One hundred years before Illinois became
a Territory and 111 years before it became
a State there was a town at Kaskaskia.
Fifty years before there was a white settle-
ment at St. Louis or any military post at
Pittsburg, ‘and ninety:six years before the
foundations were laid for Fort Dearborn at
Chicago, Kaskaskia was a thriving village.
As early as 1710 there were in the town
siree Tile for ‘grinding corn. ' As early as
765 the town contained sixty five, fi filies J
of whites. In 1771, five years ian the
Revolutionary War, it contained eighty
houses and bad a. population of 500 whites
and 500 negroes. In 1809 it was made the
capital of Illinois Joripry, 16 was the
18 until 1821
and was the seat of Randolph county until
The first brick house built west of Pitts-
burg was constructed in Kaskaskia. For
over half a century Kaskaskia was the
‘metropolis of the Upper Mississippi Valley
and was the focus of commerce in the
Northwest territory. :
On Thursday the last vestige of this his-
toric settlement was swept away by the
Mississippi River. The work of destruc-
tion that began with the great food of 1844
was completed, and the e of the early
Illinois Governors—the first State capital
ceased to exist. Its destruction was com-
plete. Not a stone was left to mark the
‘place. i
"Chicago, that was built in a swamp, is
‘the second city in America. ‘New Orleans,
located in what was believed an unsafe and
unhealthy district, is the commercial
metropolis.of the Southwest. But Kaskas-
kia, which was set on a spot chosen from
the boundless variety of the virgin West, is
merely a memory.
Ep a Si
Aborigines of the Nilgiris in South India.
The Nilgiris are a group of mountains
6,000 to 8,000 feet high connected with the
western ghauts just south of Mysore and
are inhabited by five interesting native
sribes. of whom four are aboriginal. The
fifch tribe is of the Badagas, so called from
Vada, which means north. Three hundred
years ago these people came from the north,
viz, the Canarese country, after the break-
ing up of the great kingdom of Viajayana-
gar and they have maintained the Canarese
language and the worship of Siva, which
they brought from their nortliern home.
They now number 20,000 and are very con-
spicuoas near the large towns of Coonoor
aud und, where they are the bulk
of the day laborers. They have a yellow-
ish clayey complexion like the soil in which
they toil. :
The lowest of the four aboriginal tribes
are the Irulas, who live on the lowest
slopes of the hills. They are of the Mon-
golian type of countenance and sell the
produce of the forests to buy grain. They
have no marriage ceremony, but each boy
chooses a bride for himself when he is old
enough.
They worship Vishnu under the name of
Rangasami at a prominent peak known as
Rangasami’s Pillar. Their language is
like the Tamil of the south country.
A more conspicuous tribe are the Ku-
rumbas, who live on the higher slopes in
hamlets of four or five huts each. The huts
are constructed of wattle and mud. They
live on roots and game and sell jungle pro-
duce. They also make baskets and milk-
vessels out of bamboo stems, and play rude
instruments at the funerals of the Todas.
+ Like the Irulas they have no marriage
ceremony, butallow the youths to make
their own choice, and their widows can re-
marry. .
They are very light. the men averaging
only one hundred pounds in weight.
“Stupid gs a Kurumba’’ is a native prov-
erb, but itis said they always tell the
truth. Their number on the Nilgiis is
bardly a thousand, but there are branches
of this tribe on the Palani and other ranges
further south.
The meaning of the name Muduvas is
‘‘hack carriers,’’ and they explain it by say-
ing that once one of their women put her
child down while she was at work in the
jungle and a tiger carried it off. So ever
since they have carried their children on
their backseven while at work. The wom-
en adorn themselves with rings, bracelets
and necklaces.
Somewhat more numerous thau the Ku-
rnmbas of the Nilgiris and much more in
evidence are the Kotas, the industrial tribe
of the mountains. They live in seven vil-
lages, each containing from thirty to sixty
huts. The only door of a hut is 46 inches
high by 26 inches wide. They keep cattle
but do not milk them. They practice the
industrial arts ‘and till the land; their
lands being the most fertile spots on the
mountains. The women make clay pots on
a wheel. 2
A Kota may have but one wife, unless
that one is barren. Widows may remarry.
While the average weight of the men is
only one hundred and five pounds, they
are twice as strong as the Badagas. Yet
they are despised because they live on car-
rion, and may not approach a Badaga tem-
e.
Each Kota village has two temples and
two priests, who are hereditary. They
recognize one god and his wife.
Their possession of the best lands indi-
cates their having come early enough to
get first choice, and that, therefore, they
must have preceded the Badagas, who are
the only other cultivating tribe. It is said
that they were originally brought from the
plains to work for the Todas.
The Todas, the fifth tribe referred to, are
the most singular of all the people on the
mountains, and as such have become ob-
jects of great curiosity to all visitors to the
Nilgirls. One man of them was even tak-
en to the Chicago Exposition. They were
formerly hunters and are now buffalo heid-
ers,
They have a copper hue and features of
the Caucasian type. The women have a
more aquiline nose than the men. The
average weight of the men is 111 pounds.
They bave long hair curled at the ends
and the women are careful to keep it in
curls, thus differing from most women of
India. who think curly hair a misfortune.
They are a lazy set. The men refuse to
do anything but berd buffaloes and collect
tribute from the Badagas and Kotas; and
at the present time they beg from the Euro-
peans, who are pauperizing them with con-
stant gifts. The women work a sort of em-
broidery on clothes with Nilgiri nettles for
stitching and English needles. Formerly
the Katos made needles for them.
They live in hamlets of fire huts each
called ‘‘munds.’” Three of these huts are
dwellings, one a dairy temple and one a
calf stable for buffalo ealves.:
They bave a hundred munds scattered
‘over the mountains. Each dwelling hut
bas no other opening than the little front
door, 32inches high by 18 inches wide, and
one has to erawl in on all fours. These
oval ‘shaped hats are of bamboo fast-
ened with rattan and covered with thatch.
They practice polyandry and, to a limit-
ed extent, polygamy.
A woman, when married to a man, is the
wife of his brother as well, though the
marriage ceremony is performed only with
the eldest brother. Infanticide was for-
‘merly praeticed with reference’ to female
infants, but the British government put a
stop to it.
“ When a woman salutes a man she raises
his feet, one after the other, to her fore-
hoad. An old woman, however, may re-
ceive this honor from a man. :
‘Todas have games that they play some-
thing like ‘‘puss in the corner’’ and ‘‘tip-
cat.’ :
"The ddiry temple is the abode of the
‘priest ‘who only can enter it, and ‘women
may not come near it. The priest keeps
and milks the sacred buffalo herd.
The Todas fear their priest, thinking
that God dwells in him and makes known
his will through him...
The initiation to the priesthood is very
severe. For eight days and nights a candi-
date must stay alone in the jungle, with no
covering on his body and no other protect-
ion than that afforded by the juice of a cer-
tain tree rubbed on his body. He may re-
tain office gs long as he likes, and the usual
term is three or four years. Hid
Once a year a buffalo calf is sacrificed.
‘only occasion when they are known to have
risen higher than their buffaloes in song is
‘the time when they composed a song in
‘praise of a missionary lady working among
hem; on her departure for England on
ar ough. } 3 f i
‘When a Toda dies, several buffaloes are
‘slain to accompany him to the other world
and his arm is placed around the horns of
one of the slain buffaloes. fst Hit
‘They have green funerals and dry ones.
| The green funeral consists of the burning
‘of the body with its attendant sacrifice of
‘buffaloes and other ceremonies. * The ashes
are left to the winds.
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Their worship is mostly buffaloes. « The | p
The dry faneral is one that takes place
at the beginning of each year in memory of
all who have died the previous year. They
gather together in great numbers and
slaughter a nnmber of buffaloes and per-
form many ceremonies. The flesh of the
slain buffaloes is given to the Kotas, who
furnish the music. The names of the dead
are never mentioned again. They think
that a string bridge leads to heaven and
that hell is a swamp full of leeches. They
have no idols, except as they may have
borrowed one or two from the Hindoos.
Their worship is that. of the elements and
ancestors and has a pastoral coloring that
ingisaten a Vedic origin. They bave no
written language, but this Jady missionary
bas introduced the Tamil ates to pro-
vide books for them. rm
They number 750. No one has ever been
baptized asa Christian. . One became a
candidate and had prepared himself to ar-
range his matrimonial affairs in accordance
with Christian requirements, but when it
came to the loss of hisshare of the buffaloes
of his family, he could not endure that and
went back to his heathen life.
The Todas receive tributes of grain from
the Kotas and Badagas. Ifa Badaga re-
fuses tribute, all they do is to prepare to
occupy a ‘‘mund’’ near the Badagas’ fields.
The Badaga would pay much rather than
bave a herd of buffaloes overrunning his
crops, so the tribute is soon forthcoming.
The buffaloes are in a semi-wild state,
and have been known to chase cyclists on
the roads.
They do not seem to be decreasing, but
rather are on the increase. But their con-
stant cry for ‘‘elam’’ (alms) indicates a de-
generation of character resulting from the
curiosity they excite among all foreigners.
—J. 8. Chandler in Scientific American.
Sir Thomas’s New Yacht.
John Thornycroft May Design the Cup Challenger.
The Pall Mall Guzelte says that the ques-
tion of issuing a challenge for the America’s
Cup came before the Royal Ulster Club
first at a meeting held on Oct. 2nd, at which
Col. Sherman Crawford presided. The
Hon. Charles Russell was present and in-
formed the committee that Sir Thomas
Lipton was willing to challenge for the Cup
and requested the club to take the neces:
sary steps in the matter.
This announcement was received with
the greatest satisfaction. The committee
decided to send a challenge. Accordingly
one was drafted and mailed that same after-
noon.
The Central News says that George Wat-
son has been commissioned to build the
new challenger for the America’s Cup and
that his provisional plans therefore are al-
ready completed. It iz understood that
these provide for a cutter embodying many
novelties.
The assertions of the Central News are
discounted by statements made by both
Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. Russell to a
correspondent of The Sun. They say that
the commission for the building of the new
challenger has not been alloted as yet. It
is not probable that Mr. Watson will de-
sign her, they say, but it is very likely
that the task will be assigned to John
Thornyeroft.
The members of the New York Yacht
Club were anxiously waiting for news of
the arrival of the Germanic, in order to
read the challenge of Sir Thomas Lipton
for another Cup race, which is in the mails
on that steamship. It will probably be de-
livered at the club house and then the offi-
cers of the organization will decide what
action shall be taken. The challenge, it
is thought, will be similar in terms to the
last one, but the details of the races will
not be arranged until a committee of the
Royal Ulster Yacht Club meets the New
York club’s committee. Yachtsmen are
pleased at the prospect of there being an-
other contest for the noted Cup and every
one speaks in high terms of Sir Thomas
Lipton’s action. A challenge received now
would call for a race in August under the
terms of the deed of gift, but August is the
month for the New York Yacht Club cruise
and it was suggested that the dates of the
Cup races might he set for September.
This would give the two yachts much more
time to get in shape.
The announcement of the sportsmanlike
act of Sir Thomas Lipton in again chal-
lenging for the America’s Cup was received
with much favor in Bristol. It is the
opinion that a new yacht will be construct-
ed, and if ‘an order is to be placed there is
no other place looked to except Bristol to
produce a hoat faster than the Columbia.
There are various reasons why anew hoat
will be ordered. It is established heyond
little doubt that Sir Thomas Lipton since
his Shamrock was defeated by Columbia in
1899 has devoted much time and study to
the feat of ‘‘lifting’’ the America’s Cup.
Opportunities have heen many for study-
ing the lines of the Columbia, and thus de-
termining where the gear and hull of the
Shares were inferior to the Yankee
t.
As to who will own and manage the next
Cup defender, there is much discussion in
Bristol. C. Oliver Iselin, the man of var-
ious victories over the British in the sail-
ing for the America’s Cup, is first thought
of ‘because of bis successful work, which
goes far to establish him as a safe man.
Then there is Herman B. Duryea, the man
whom Capt. Bob Wringe found to be so
hard to beat in the 70-foot races the past
summer. Mr, Daryea’s ability as an all-
round racing man, as proved in both the
30’s and 70’s, must he a matter of strong
consideration for the New York Yacht Club. |
‘Throat Cut to Remove False Teeth,
A diffienlt: surgical operation which has
attrac
Lived on Ten Centsa Day.
Old James Howie, a Gardener, Saved a Hundred
Thousand Dollars in Fifty Years and Starved to
Death.
James Howie,an old gardener,employed
for fifty years at the old Bolton priory in
Pelham, N. Y., died Friday afternoon in a
hospital from old age and exhaustion.
Although worth nearly a hundred. thou-
sand dollars, he practically starved himself
to death.
Howie left the priory seven years ago,
when the Bolton family sold it to the
Countess De Talleyrand, and has since
lived at the ‘“Tavern.”’
His clothing was shabby, and he. lived
on ten cents a day. For breakfast he ate
one egg and drank a cup of coffee, and for
luncheon he had a bow! of soup, with some
potatoes. His evening meal, taken in his
room, consisted of an apple and a glass of
water. He was taken snddenly ill last
week and was removed to a hospital, where
he died .
Before his death he sent for Miss Anne
Bolton, a daughter of his former employer,
and. to whom he disclosed his wealth.
He asked Miss Bolton to look after his es-
tate, and told her that she would find a
will in his trank.
Miss Bolton, accompanied by Judge
John A. Van Zelm, her attorney, broke
open the trunk, and found eight bags of
gold, containing $200 in each, seven sav-
ings hank books, showing deposits of $17,-
000. with no interest drawn for thirty
years ; a memorandum of sixty shares of
New Haven railroad stock, a half dozen
mortgages on valuable property in New
Rochelle, and nearby places, a bag of for-
eign gold coins, and a gold watch.
In a will, dated in 1893, the old man
bequeathes his property to Mrs. Mary
Scott, a widowed sister, who lives in Kel-
so, Scotland. At her death it will go to
her neices and nephews, who live in
Chicago.
Judge Van Zelm sent a cablegram to
Mis. Mary Scott, notifying her of the for-
tane that awaits her. He estimates that
the property will aggregate $90,000 or
$100,000.
‘Miss Bolton took charge of the body
and saw that it had proper burial.
Why He Would Not Do.
The carefully reared young man had left
his native village and gone to the
city to find a situation and a career.
His acquaintance was small, and because
of that he simply went about from place to
place seeking whatever Fate might throw
in his way. He wanted to get into a
wholesale house, and of course he only
visited houses in that line, He was almost
rudely turned away from the first three or
four places, but he finally fonnd one where’
the proprietor himself received him with
courtesy. He stated his case briefly and
clearly, as he had read in a guide book to
young men starting out in life, and the
merchant looked him over.
*‘Um,’? he said thoughtfully, ‘‘yon have
bad no experience in this business ?"’
‘‘No sir ’’ responded the applicant, ‘‘but
I want to learn it.”’
‘“Yes I see. Do you chew tobacco ?’’
‘‘No, sir.”
“Do yon smoke ?”’
“No, sir.”
‘“‘Do you play poker ?’’
‘No, sir.”’
‘Do you bet on the races ?*’
‘No, sir.”
“Do you run around at night ?”’
‘No, sir.”
‘“Um—er,’”’ hesitated the merchant,’
and you have had no experience in this
business.”’
‘No, sir, but as I said, I want very much
to learn it.”’
‘I'm sorry,’’ said the merchant, shaking
his head, ‘‘but I'm afraid you won’t do.
You see your early education has been
neglected, and you are handicapped now
with so much to learn that the Lord only
‘knows when the business would have a
chance. Stay in town a year and then
come in and see me. Good merning.’’
Saved by Sister’s Love.
Woman Crossed the Continent to Buy 0ild Home-
Stead.—Quietly Appeared at Auction and Bid in
Her Brother's Mortyaged Property.
Having crossed the continent for the sake
of her love, a woman appeared at the
sheriff’s sale of a 200-acre farm of Editor
McKendree Downham, of the Middletown
Transcript, in Frederica, Del., and out-bid-
ding the holder of the mortgage bought
the place. :
“I am Mr. Downham’s sister.”’ said she
to the sheriff, ‘‘and have traveled all the
way frem California to save our old home
and take my brother back to the Pacific
slope to regain bis health.’’
IN THE NICK OF TIME.
The appearance of the woman at the sale
was totally unexpected. Everyone had
expected that the farm would be sold to
Paris T. Carlisle, holder of the mortgage,
‘and something of a sensation was caused
‘and gave $4,525 for the place. ,
Editor Downham has occupied various
positions of public trust. He recently be-
gan losing his health, and with his inabil-
ty to attend to business affairs his property
became gradually involved.
His farm, the old homestead of the
Downbam family, banded down by the
.
father, a local Methodist minister, was the
‘last seized by the law.
How Katie Answered.
‘Katie is just over and she is employed
‘| as a domestic in a big house swrronnded
by shade 5, on the Cass farm, near
a ore a a ey
considerable attention among the | Chica; :
ih LE of the Brunswick hos- | mosquito, ‘but there are things she has not
pital. New ‘York, 'was ‘performed upon:
Mrs. Kate Hoffman, who, while at break-
fast, broke the dental plate in the upper
part of her mouth and swallowed a large
piece of the plate with her food. It caused
no trouble, but later her throat swelled
and breathing became difficult. The oper-
ation known as aesophagotomy was per-
formed. An incision was made in the left
side of the throat. It was an exceedingly
Je} idite operation, for the deviation of a
hair- th meant the severing of the car-
otid artery and jugular. The obstruetion
was removed, the orifice was treated anti-
septically, then the neck was incased in
laster of paris. The plaster will remain
in place for ten days. It was said at the
hospital that Mrs. Hoffman was doing ex-
cellently.
Like a Mam.
“Wake up ! wake up ! There's a map in
the house !’’ cried Mrs. Portly to her hus-
band the other night.
‘The husband rolled out of bed and open-
ed the door to sally for the robber. Then,
turning to his wife, he said :
“ ‘Come, Sarah, and lead the way! It's
a cowardly man that will hurt a wom-
an.”
RR ss RE gy
iyet-learned. ff LO) ald Egat
_. Katie is Baving a hard time mastering
‘the telephone. She has had many lessons
and long, but there is a mystery about the
whole ching that inflames her superstition.
‘‘Any one call or ask for me by tele-
phone while I was out Katie?'’ asked the
m
“Indade they did mum. The box
jingled and a lady wid a voice like a coffee
mill says ‘Hello,’ and I says, *Hello your-
self,” and she says, ‘Who is this?’ and I
says, ‘None of yer business.’ And she
says. ‘Is Aunt Mary there?” And I told
her she’d better ask a policeman, and she
foired sumthin’ in my ear, and I dared her
to show the ugle mug of her back of our
barn and she said nuthib’. I'll talk in
that machine no more, mum.”’
The Cable Broke.
Red Run coal company, at Ralston, broke
ing to the bottom. Frank ‘Egan, aged 21,
was killed. and Weigel Reed and Clarence
Strugal were injured. The cars plunged
into the boiler house of the Ralston Brick
| works, and caused the explosion of one of
when the fair stranger quietly outbid him |
was not made known.
daily toil.
The cable on the incline plane of the |
Friday morning, letting three cars go fly- |
the boilers.
November Jurors.
Drawn to Serve at Next Session, November 26th.
GRAND JURORS—FIRST WEEK.
C. H. Smull, stage driver......................Miles
James Krebs, farmer..........covcorvasevssonns Boggs
Wm. T. Leathers, teacher................... Howard
JH. Hoy, farmer..................00 Ferguson
E. L. Irvin, merchant...................... Ferguson
Christ Alexander, Vet. Surgeon............. Penn
N. T. Krebs, merchant..................... Ferguson
Henry Sowers, shoemaker...
D. C. Marks, farmer.........
N. J. McCalmont, farmer,.
W. Scott Holter, teacher ..
State College
Elias Fiak, farmer...............00000 0. Penn
H. H. Osman, blacksmith ...... ..Worth
J. Victor Royer, law student.. Gregg
Joseph Tressler, farmer........... Walker
Samuel Darst, farmer.......
Isaac Harpster, farmer.
Levi Cowher, laborer...
John Cowher, lahorer,..
F. P. Musser, justice...
John R. Lee, farmer............
Jacob Swyers, coal operator.
John Dunlap, carpenter....... .... Bellefonte
F.1shler,aborer.................. =~ Walker
TRAVERSE JURORS —FIRST WEEK.
W. O. Rearick, foundrymau......... Centre Hall
Henry Swartz, cabinet maker....... Philipsburg
L. Ray Morgan, clerk... ....State College
Benj. Stover, lahorer..........................L Haines
Reuben Etters, lahorer.... Burnside
John Raymond, laborer.............cc......... Spring
Isaac Gates, farmer.......... Ferguson
Charles Decker, farmer........................ College
« Adam Zeigler, clerk.....
E. M. Boon, farmer..
J. C. Snook, farmer..
H. D. Lee, farmer.....
P. A. Sellers, farmer.....
W. H. Zeigler, laborer. ........
...Haines
«oe Walker
...Patton
...Patton
Henry A. Detwiler, teacher.................... Miles
J. 8, Showers, clerk......... .... Bellefonte
A. C. Thompson, teacher.. .. Snow Shoe
‘Wm. H. Brown, plumber.. .... Bellefonte
Daniel Cowher, laborer.... .Bellefonte
John Moore, farmer.....
D. R. Foreman, teacher..
John I. Taylor, thrasher..
Elmer Swartz, farmer.......
George Noll, farmer.....
Daniel Flanigan, farmer..
Chester Lingle, laborer...
Frank W. Hess, merchant...
John Rote, laborer..........
David W. Keller, laborer.
Charles E. Yearick, farmer..
.... Worth
....Potter
....Potter
Spring
«ers College
....8now Shoe
..Philipabnrg
.. Philipsburg
Robt. Hackenberg, farmer... A
L. C. Corl, laborer........... .... College
James Johnson, farmer....................... Walker
Gotlieb Haag, gentleman. . Bellefonte
D. P. Heckman, laborer......................... Gregg
Adam Brungart, farmer........................ Miles
K. 8. Haines, laborer....... Liberty
John F. Garthoff, teacher........7...co.coeoeis Penn
John D. Keen, farmer.............ocooeevvvin. Penn
Chas. Johnstonbaugh, farmer. Marion
Edward Osmer, laborer...................... Spring
Lowell Smith, laborer... ..Ferguson
P. A. Hoover, farmer... arsasesdAVIOr
Elmer Bloom, saddler................. Philipsburg
Samuel Orris, painter.......... ...ooeeeeiin. Boggs
Chas. Bearly, farmer...............c....ilovia. Miles
J. C. Brown, farmer......... wena Potter
Henry Bowes, R. R. laborer............ Snow Shoe
TRAVERSE JURORS—SECOND WEEK.
James Reed, farmer..............ccccoe...ivin. Haines
Edward Way, farmer........
Harry O. Pletcher, farmer...
M. B. Herring, laborer.........
Thomas W. Fisher, farmer...
John Hook, plasterer...
James Lorrigan, R. R. boss.
M. M. Bower, farmer.......
John Speace, farmer...
vaixen Liberty
... Gregg
....Union
Harris
Wm. Sowers, farmer.........u....coiiiivainn.. Patton
George Nearhood, laborer... ...Centre Halli
Ralph Schenck, farmer.........c..cccouuan... Howard
J. H. Late, farmer... covceniinens Benner
Robert Strunk, laborer..............cccc.c....... Spring
T. G. Hutchinson, laborer...... i
Jonathan Harter, gentleman............. Millheim
H. K. Hoy, farmer............... even. BENNETT
Wm: Herlinger, clerk.. .. Philipsburg
WO. Fulton, elerk il. iii Milesburg
FV. Jodon, farmer......i..ivii aii Spring
Harvey Wort, laborer...
John Hoy Jr., farmer...
F. A. Foreman, teacher
Albert Lucas, laborer...
H. C. St.Clair, laborer..
John Woods, farmer....
J. Kerstetter, farmer...
..Centre Hall
....8now Shoe
«..Snow Shoe
sereeenss SPTing
Frank Carson, merchant. 4 wedusir Potter
Amos Mullen, policeman................. Bellefonte
Peter Shultz, farmer........o.cuveiieineneinns College
W. C. Myer, farmer...... ...College
Samuel Hazel, agent.............ccceennnnnnns College
J. W. Kunes, farmer...
C. E. Bressler, carpenter
Geo. W. Spangler, farmer. .........c.cc.ecom.e Potter
John Hudson, laborer...... Philipsburg
Joseph Lowry, laborer..... eesennnn Spring
Roland Williams, teacher.................... Huston
Simon Hazard, laborer...........cc.....u Snow Shoe
Contract Worth Millions.
Pennsylvania Steel Company Will Erect East River
Bridge Approaches tor $2,500,000.
The Penna. Steel Co., at Steelton, has
won a big contract against eight other hid-
ders, including the American bridge com-
pany. The Pennsylvania compauny will
erect the approaches in Brooklyn and New
York cities to the great East River Bridge.
The contract is for 18,000 tons, and the
figure is $2,500,000. It is principally a
viaduct work, and while it is an important
contract it does not. involve any serious
engineering problem, Mr. J. V. W.Reyn-
ders, superintendent of the bridge and con-
struction department of the company, left
for New York. { ety
It is not possible at present to. get de-
tails of the construction work of the East
River Bridge contract from the Pennsyl-
vania steel company officials. the ’
award of ‘the ' contract to the company
The great
plant at Steelton has heen 1unning
ull in all departments, and large exten-
sions are now heing ‘made which will
greatly increase the cajucisy of the plant.
—
Siberia a Land of Churches.
The three great luxuries in Siberia are
churches, theaters and museums. Even
the smaller villages can usually be sighted
from afar by means of the white walls and
the towering dome-shaped cupolas of their
churches. These are all amply supplied
with bells, whose rich tones roll in ma-
jestic harmony over distant hill and vale
and break the mouotomy of the peasants’
Inside, these churches are
highly ornamented with paintings,and they
are presided over by married . priests, who
take a deep and genuine interest in even
the poorest of the flock.
s—
Near Enough.
‘‘Got that job o’ cards done for Doc Pill-
em ?’’ asked the Jayville editor. .
‘Yes, it’s done,” replied the foreman.
*‘Joey made a little mistake a-settin’ it up.
Mebbe Doe’ll kick, but I reckon it ain’t so
fur wrong.’’ 6
“What is 6?” Ge
“Joey made it, ‘Prescriptions Carefully
Confounded.”’ :