THE I'XKSOWX UOl'MD.
T watched a Mil tint II It drorrd from light.
Orar tbe ronndlnc era. A n'.fimol whit.
A iMt far-flaVarl far.wtll, anil, likes thought
S!ipt out sf mlcd. It vanished and u not.
Yet, toth helmsman standing t th wbl,
' road ksi still stretched before tbe gliding
keel.
-vuterT Chang. T-he felt to slightest algni
r dreamed he of that dim horizon Hut.
o mar It be, perchance, when down the tide
inrdear raulnh. I'eactfally the? gild
On l.r.l eeae. nor mark th. unknown bound.
We call It dcath-to them 'tis Ufa berondl
-Cat hollo World.
EOBLNSON'S BOOING.
Mr. Robineon, of Brooklyn, had for a
long time been in lav with Miss Elita
beth, but l. was such a timid young mia
that ht had hesitated about confessing
Iiia Ioto for her. One lis had proposed
to lior, and on that occasion aba had to
use hia own word "made a fool of
liim," to that lis Imitated about repeat
ing th eiperimrnt. But finally ha
niuetered up hit courage, ami then the
question a to how Iir should propose be
came leading aud pertiucnt,
At first lie thought it would be advis
able to tale l.er out for a drive. Re had
heard frvm iutimate friends that girl
iu tiie course of an afternoon drive can
not help but tell the man that she loves
him thst is, if she dots love him so ho
came to the conclusion that the drive
wm the best way out of the difficulty.
But an examination of his pocketbook re
reeled the fact that after all there might
be better ways. He then suggested to
himself that perhaps it would be well to
take her to some on of the dances to
which they both had invitations. Ho
explained this scheme to his friend, Rap
leigh, aud Rapleigh immediately discour
aged it
Rplwic.!i recalled to his mind the fact
that dances are geuerally well attended,
nod that proposing in a crowd calls for a
great deal more tact and circumspection
than the amount in the possession of
Robinaon, Then Robinson came to tho
conclusion that proponing by telephone
was the correct tiling in these days of im
provements au 1 nor cities.
"It would be so dramatic, exclaimed
Robinson.
But Rapleigh also discouraged this
idea.
"I once heard of a man," he said,
" who proposed to a girl over the tele
phone. She was a telephone girl. IIo
said 'Hello' to her before proposing to
her. After they were married he turned
the word around whenever he thought of
her. So that I wouldu't advise you to
propose to Miss Elizabeth over the tele
phone. Not that 1 think that she would
lead you to that kind of a life, but I am
superstitious."
Robinson said something about the con
demnation of Rapleigh'a superstition.
"Why don't you go to her and propose
to her like a man, " said Rapleixh.
Robinson called attention to the fact
that he was very bashful and nervous,
"But it will be all over in a moment."
"But suppose it turns out the wrong
way?"
"Oh, nonsense. It's the adventurous
':awk that catches the and besides, she
can't say anytbiug worse than 'no.'"
"Rapleigh," exclaimed Robinson, "you
don't know Miss Elizabeth; in fact, you
don't know women at all if you think
'no' is the only thing tbe worst thing
that they can ssy. I would rather, for
the time being, hare an ordinary judge
fcfly, 'And may heaven have mercy on
your soul.' than to have an ordinary girl
of the nineteenth century say that sho
appreciate the compliment, but"
'I have a scheme," interrupted Rap
loigh; "take a pen and writ a I dic
tate. "
"But"
"Do as I say."
So Robiusoa got a pn and sat down,
Rspleigh began: "My dear"
"No," exclaiuiod Robinson, "that will
not do. It is not affectionate enough.
It sounds as if I were about to ask her to
pass the butter.
"How would simple 'dearest' do?"
"Not at all. I'll begin with the letter
and leave off the address. Would you
tnak a paragraph mark?"
"No, leave it off. She will then know
that you mean the address, but can cot
find words sufficiently loving to express
your meaning."
Then Rapleigh dictated :
"I want you to b my wife. I will call
Friday night for my answer. If you will
not marry me say that you are out. If
you will marry me, then com down
into the parlor when I call."
Rapleigh wanted it some other night
than Friday. He said that Friday was
au unlucky day.
"It's my lucky day," said Robinson,
and so they made it Friday.
Robinsou sealed the letter and stamped
it
"Here," he said, "you address it. I
tun too nervous. "
So Rapleigh addressed it and put it
into his pocket to mail
Friday afternoon Ri;leigh told Robin
r Hi that he had forgotten all about the
h tti-r. They put a stamp upon it, and
l ie i-tm.n said it would get uptown
U rrtj dinner-time.
After dinner Robinson dressed himself
very carefully in his state-occasion
i lollies and neot uptown for his answer,
riinsoa determined on the way uptown
i.:. U if she said uo it would ruin him and
; u: him into a young aud drunkard's
viw.
Iloliinson ring the bell and tli servant
ir'. took his card. He sat in the draw
i !.' room to wait for an answer. His
V.ctrt and UU ribs began a fistio eucouu-
r. Mis tlnger clutched each other
ji .rvoiisly. Finally the maid reappeared,
: V liiul hia cHr.l in hcr hand. She was
b.ui!iii.
"S!ia h.n r;f ned me," exclaimed Rob-i-m
m tn liimsi'lf, and ho felt something
i -.. j in his IkmiI.
". lira Kliz.ihi't!) will be down in a mo
m siii 1 tiiu nmul. "She has just
. ii.f in :y. it at dinner."
Ir wmk it KreiU, a trying moment
j'.:r.o:i t iir'i"rl deathly pain, then sank
' ;. '.: into the chair. Uwud the happiest
i i :;ifiit in his life. In a minute he heard
t i' i a;; of it fckiit her skirt
Uio puitieies were parted, pushed
aside. Miss Elizabeth, radiant, with a
beautiful blush on her face, stood beforo
him, coyly peepiug up at him.
Robinson sprang to his feet He rushed
like a young cyclone down upon her. He
clasped her in his arms. He kissed her
furiously, passionately, once, twice, half
a hundred times. A shriek rang through
the house.
Mirn Elizabeth, struggling, panting,
shrieked time and time again.
"How dare you, sirl how dare yout"
she cried, finally freeing herself and
stauding before him whit with rag.
Robinson, stupefied, looked at her In
dumb amazement, saw the whit face,
th flashing eyes ) heard approaching
footsteps, mad a dash for th hall,
caught up his coat and hat, slammed the
door shut after him, and never stopped
running until he reached the club bar
room. That night Miss Elizabeth, after recov
ering her composure, went up to her
room and found on the bureau a Utter
addressed to her in a Strang handwrit
ing. She opened it Th letter insid
was written in a different hand well
known hand.
Miss Elizabeth read th letter. Then
th tears cam into her eyes.
She rang for the servant girl. The ser
vant girl lost her place was discharged
without a recommendation.
Robinson bsgaa to drink, then sud
denly stopped drinking, and now they
say is about to be married to Miss Elisa
beth. Cincinnati Post
I A4.e Mass....
The adobe house of Arizona and New
Mexico are not built from ignoranc,
but from a regard for comfort They
are, for that climate, th v. armest in win
ter, and in summer the coolest that can
be constructed. Th adobe is only mud
road of th loamy clay ; the bricks ara
about sixteen inches long by nine or
ten in width, and eight in thickness.
They are sun-dried, and after th houso
is begun, and th walls are reared to a
height of two or three feet, they are
left for a week in order to dry, th pro
cess of building aud waiting continuing
until the house is constructed. Then
the walls are plastered within, th roof
put on, and th house left for two or
three weeks before th occupants mov
in. Th small cost and little trouble
with which an adobe house can b built,
together with its superior comfort, ren
der it th favorite structure in tropical
North America, and a long time will
elapse before it is superseded either by
wood, brick or stone.
Csrtala Ueaet. la Wlslii,
It may be stated more specifically here
that among the hibernating animals
every graduation of slumber has been
noted. Some creatures display only im
perfect hibernation or repose, waking,
moving and feeding now and again dur
ing the winter; others may show signs
of life a few times in three or four
mouths, while the remainder, as I have
said, appear as if they are dead. If you
disturb th most venomous riper in
winter, and he stings, no harm will
come of it
But many of th hibernating animals
perish when th weather is excessively
cold, unless warmly housed. The ani
mal temperature falls to that of the at
mosphere, and whan th cold become
intense th animal is wakened by it,
moves about for a short time, thn re
lapses into a torpor which speedily nds
in death. A curious fact is that tbs ac
tion of the heart has been known to con
tinue frequently for a considerable time
after the hibernating animal has been de
capitated. Animal Friends.
Why They Are Peer.
Country editors always remain poor,
but that is because they are not mean
enough to get rich. Iu order to get rich
it is only necessary to trust nobody, to
befriend none, to get everything and
save all you get; to stint ourselves and
everybody belonging to us; to be friend
to no man and have no man for our
friend; to heap interest upon interest,
cent upon cent; to be mean, miserly and
despised for some thirty years, and riches
will come as sure as disease and disap
pointment And when pretty near
enough wealth is collected by a disre
gard of the human heart at the expense
of every enjoyment save that of wallow
ing in filthy meanness, death comes to
finish the work. Country editors prefer
to remain poor, live happy and die
happy. Jefferson County (Mon.) Senti
nel. Cripples at III Capital.
Strangers in th Captal express much
surprise at the number of cripples to be
eeen here, and offer various explanations
of the sight The majority of maimed
citizens are officeholders, who were
crippled during the late war. Tho form
in which they are mostly injured is the
toss of an arm,-oftansr left one, as obser
vation shows. Many have parted with a
leg, and the suppliers of substitutes in
willow, cork or rubber in Washington
aver that this is one of the beet markets
In the country for their profession. Be
lides these injuries received through vio
lence, there are scores of people in the
Government service who are afflicted
with natural deformities. They are to
be found particularly in the Treasury
Department. Kate Field's Washington,
A (ameer Peach Tree.
"Did you ever see anything like this?"
said Mr. E. E. Eirby, ticket agent of the
Emt Teuueuee road, as he held up a
peach seed as large as a man's fist.
"Well, I know you haven't There's a
peach inside of the seed, and the tree on
which the peach grew is the only peach
tree that I ever heard of that, instead of
trowing the seed on the inside of the
jwnch, grows the peach on the inside of
the seed. Some years ago, while I was
vinitiug in southern Georgia, I grafted a
pencil tree on an Australian cherry tree.
The twig bore fruit, but the fruit ap
parently was nothing but seeds. It was
not disturbed, however, until they had
growu very large, when one of the seeds
was pulled aud broken open. On the in
side was a perfectly formed green peach.
After that uoue of the seeds were dis
turbed until they had changed color
from light brown to black. Tbeu one of
them was broken open and a ripe peach
of a light yellow color was found iaaida. "
A HON
He Nearly Got the Better of a
Snake Hunter.
AN APTENTtRE IX SOUTH AMERICA
terrible Peril of a Man Who Bail Com
mission from a I.omloo II nine to Col
lect Ulg Iteptlles II Barely Lecaped
with Life.
"Two yonrs ago last Christmas," said a
former employee of .lamrach, the noted
dealer in wild animals, to a Detroit Free
Press reporter, "I shipped to London a
large cargo of South American reptiles.
Among them were two 25-foot anacon
das fair sized specimens aa such snakes
go. They were neatly packed In sep
arate barrels but one was hardly in
shape for traveling, as he was just shed
ding his skin. Being such a well matched
pair, 1 hoped they would pull through all
right, but on arrival our friend was dead.
The result was that I had hardly got a
taste of home comforts when there came a
cable calling for another anaconda. I
hated like anything to go bock to tbe
swamp at that time of the year, but I had
no choice, Guiana is the nearest port for
big snakes, and there I went, determined
to hurry matters. Now, I could hare got
a dozen fair sized crawlers In a week, but
hearing of some monster snakes up coun
try I got the fever and set oil to interview
them. I hired a boat manned by halt a
dozen Indians and went seventy odd miles
up tbe Easequebo.
"We tracked several big serpents every
day, but none of tbem came up to my ex
pectations, and after two weeks of fruit-
81I00TIX0 TltK SNAKE.
less search I began to think 1 was wasting
time on what seemed a fool's errand. Still,
knowing the reputation of the country, I
hated to give up, and so 1 decided to stay
yet another week. Three days went by,
and utill nothing extraordinary turned
up. Then on the evening of the fourth 1
took my gun und went out after game, as
I was tired of eating the fish the Indians
supplied with unvarying monotony. Be
fore I had gone a mile I brought down a
small nntelope, nnd as there was plenty of
time to get hack to camp before supper I
hunted up a ahndy xpot by the side of a
little stream ami lay down for a quiet
smoke. The trump and the heat bad made
me sleepy, and I dozed away with half
cIoed eyes.
"About sundown something made me
start up, and I saw a sight that made my
heart jump to my throat. Coming slowly
out of the stream, waving Its head to and
fro, I spied an enormous anaconda. The
stream was more than tweuty-flve feet
across, but may I never speak again if his
bead and five feet or more of his neck
weren't clear out of the water on my side
and a yard or so of his tail on the other.
For a moment I sat perfectly still para
lyzed, partly with delight at having at last
got on the trail of such a monster and part
ly with fright at the sight. There was
nothing to do but watch, so I wit there aud
saw him come wholly out of the water.
"He was about fifty yards away, and I
noted his colors were different from the
usual run of anacondas. Black on top, he
had gray sides with brown spots, and only
bis belly was yellow, lie must have just
cast his skin, for it shone dazzlingly. For
awhile he lay motionless on the grass, then
he raised his head and wagged it up and
down. How he spotted me I can't even
guess, but when 1 noticed he was looking
straight at me I felt decldexlly queer. My
gnn, a double barrel, was loaded with
buckshot, but I had no notion of courting
an encounter. Yet it would not do to run,
for no man can outfoot a snake. So I sat
there, perfectly still, not daring to move,
and waited. In a few momenta the ana
conda dropped his head and lay seemingly
motionless, still looking toward me.
Watching him closely I discovered he was
moving, yet I couldn't detect the quiver
of a scale. Then I saw he was coming
closer coming for me actually stalking
met As the thought flashed through uiy
mind my hair stood on end.
"On he crept gliding so slowly, so in
sidiously, I couldu't tell how lie moved,
but he was getting closer all the time. 1
don't know if I prayed, but with ull my
might I strove to shake off the frightful
torpor that had seized me. The sweat
poured out all over me, hut I couldn't
move a finger. Thirty feet twenty feet
away. Nearer yet ten feet then he
raised his hend. That mevumeut saved
me before that awful, motionless, glid
ing approach of death I was powerless,
but the sudden break gave tnu baeU my
powers. To seize my gun, spring to my
feet, yell, let fly both barrels ami tuko to
my heels didn't take a second. As I lied I
heard the brute hissing like a barrel full
of mad cats, but I didn't stop to size up
tbe damage. Reaching camp more dead
than alive, I hustled the Indians into the
bout, and we spent the night five miles
down the stream.
"My tale scared the Indians and we sat
up all night guns in hand. With morning
our courage revived and we went back to
Investigate. The snake had gone so had
tbe nutelnpe, so I guess I didn't hurl him
badly. We tracked him to a dense swamp,
but neither money nor threats could in
duce those Indians to follow him In; to
tell the truth, I didn't press them very
hard. We left the neighborhood that same
day and I contented myself with shipping
Jamrach a couple of twenty footers I pick
ed up oa my way down the stream. They
arrived at London in good shape aud, as
he never knew what a specimeu be had
lost, he was perfectly satistted."
While Joseph Holloway, aged fourteen
years, of l'otutown, Pa., was riding In a
Reudiug railroad passenger car, he grasped
the branch of a tree from the car window,
lie was drawn through the window nnd
fell violently ou the truck. His injuries
are serious.
. . " f 7.' I
PHILLIPS'.
The shade of a parasol
is a very acceptable firing
in the summer months,
but the reputation of
Philips9 cafe and Bakery
cannot ue thrown in tte
shade at any time the
year round' Bread and
cakes fresh even dau.
We are sole agents for
lenneys me candies:
Ice Cream always: Ca
tering for parties and
weddings a specialty.
Special terms to regular
boarders in the Cafe.
M.M. PHILLIPS & SOX.
EI.OO.MSCURG, PA.
Hay-Fever
Sufferers
Should read our new
112-page book on the
treatment and cure of
Hay-Fever and Asthma.
Sent free on application.
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Asthma from bi-tb a years. I have tried all
remedies that came to my notice without permaneat
relief. I am pleased to say that your mcdidaes
certainly cured me to stay cured.
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P. Harold Hayes, M. D.,
716 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.
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UTUTraTNTS
IIST
IMrllYEMIITS.
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albert, aae gt.at a aurrtal thai la latUollr fall br Iha wttrtr
ar e f.rl.ll Se.Oeo.aa, aad will eara all ar Iht abate dl.ta
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lamellae afler ail elbtr ramtdltt falltd, and a, gire Saay
diLartatiaaaiala la ihlaaad avtry eibar ttatt.
Our aawtrral latpretaei SLSITHir st PKm)RY Is
fr-.l.il bo a artr .H.r.d waak maa: rKkl "IT Hi LI. BkLIS.
Ilaallb aad Vleeraae Slraaalk fllkiNTkkU It IS it H
pits. Saad far large iUaaUaled (aatUtM, sealed. Iras
avail. Adiratt
emxxaasr biixothio 00 .
No. a 10 Broad wa. NEW VOrNC.
im 111 mm
Makes now the finest PoktraIis and
Cravons. Is having his Gallery
remedied and fitted tin in
fine style, and the only
first class north light
in the county.
1
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Also having a wagon on the road fitted
with the latest improvements for taking
in views, Portraits and Tintypes,
will call at your door without extra
charge. Reserve your photos as we
carry a full line copying samples till
we call at your place. ,
Irop U3 a j:stal card and w will set a day
t call oa you.
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BLOOMSBURO, PA.
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Cl?V.aM I. till ..t..Ulii file tXXtf.
Wuiiiult a a lux-jjiurit l-'Wt),
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H..ir to i'.i Youthful Co. or.
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mm
turnip
a.
Repair department for Watches
Clocks, Jewelry, is the best in the '
county. Work .guaranteed.
Dorflinger's cut glass. Silverware, Spoons, Knives and
Forks at very reasonable prices.
FINE CHINA VASES AND SOVENIR CUI'S
AND SAUCERS.
liargH.ii 8 I)nv' x-2 hour strike, solid
Malnut nnd oak CLOCKS $3.50
to $450 Guarnntecd.
SOLID GOLD 9kt Glasses S3 50, 10 kt 6.00. 14 kt 6 03
to 800. All glasses fitted Free cf (Sharge.
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WINES AND LIQUORS.
Bloomshurq, Pa.
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Jlft load to Opulerpee
IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF
CARPET, MATTING,
or OIL CiLOTII,
YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT
W. H. B10WEM'
ifiul I).xr abov Court House.
A large lot of Window Curtains in stock.
LOST MANHOOD I
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My Plymouth Rocks and Red
Caps are great favorites, as is
proven by my past success.
Eggs of either kind $1.50 per
1 3 or $2.50 per 26. Write for
information.
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Millville.Pa.
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anyone
vacant VI w w m Tiaseieva a. .
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