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EBENSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY, JULY 14, ISS2.
NUMBER 24,
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nEATISU SHADOWS.
Why sit with arms folded,
Brood in e ovpr care,
Mournful fancips weavine;,
Cloudinf? all that's fair ?
Darker ttrowa the rrospect
To the mental traze.
While the eye rests on it,
Deeper grows the haze.
Weaker prows the spirit,
Losine eourap; all.
Gloom its mantle flinging
O'er us like a pall
Fed hy fanced troubles.
Nursed within the heart,
There it makes its dwelling,
Makes us feel its smart.
Let not erief o'ermaster !
Bravely up and do,
Soon the bitter torrent
MiaM be lost to view.
Soon the shades shall vanish,
And affritrht no more,
Ilope's awakened smile shall
(ireet you as before.
AH the dailv duties.
Life presents to vou,
Have a secret power.
Ever fresh and new.
They restore the brightness
Sorrow fain would steal,
And the wounds it ?auses
They will quickly heal.
Blest the path of duty !
None so safe to tread,
Virtue's holy lustre
Gently on it shed.
Precious acts of kindness,
Fillintr up our day.
Leave no time for sadness,
Gild life's dreary way.
Brighter seems the future,
Floweis that sef-med to fade
Have regained thpir freshness,
Are anew strayed.
Sit not weaving shadows
While the genial light
Long to penetrate them
Did vou hut invite.
"Moimeme," in Cork Eramincr.
A LAWYER'S SECRET.
Curious cases in my profession ? Yes,
plenty. I often smile to myself when 1 find
the novelists taking up old family incidents
and working them up Into storips ; and then
I think of what plots I could have furnished
if they had not heen family secrets of a pri
vatp and thoroughly confidential character.
Wills, row, for instance. What a favorite
stock subject they form wi'h writers, both
for books and plavs, and I don't wonder at it
for if there is anything that excites people's
curiosity, it is the question of how some rich
man'4 money it- to b distributed.
I remember one caso that, changing th5
names, it will be no particular breach of con
fidpnoe to mention, and I tell it the more
frankly because It is a little acn'nst myself,
for I must own that I did not a-t quite npon
what is called the square. In fact, I played
a part a negative kind of part for I did
nothing else but hold my tongue. If I had
spoken it would have been ..V.000 or so out
of a truly honest man's pocket and into ft
rogue's ; so. somehow, I let my feelings get
the better of my professional conscience, and
I said not a word.
I was old John TTendricks solicitor, and
looked affpr his property, for I had known
him when he was a struggling man and I was
a young lawyer with none too much practice.
Then T lost sight of him for twentv years, at
the end of which time I was still plodding
along respectably just holding my own, and
nothing more, when, going into one of the
city taverns for my regular daily chop, whi-h
I ate at the same table for so rr.anv years
that I had become one of the institutions of
the place, I found myself opposite to a yellow-looking,
thin, gray-haired man, who kept
on looking up from his plate to 6tare at me
very rudely, T thought.
I did not resent his star? at first, but at last
it became so unpleasant that I determined to
look him down, and I gazed firmly into his
eyes.
"Why it is !" he exclaimed, "Diet, old
boy, don't yon know me ?"
"That's Jack Hendricks' voice," I exclaim,
ed, nearly upsptting my plate ; and the next
moment we were si'ting there, hand clasped
in hand, with tears in our eyes, looking very
foolish and weak, I dare sav, to the other oe
enpants of the room ; but that did not trouble
us, for we had too much to say to each other.
John Hendricks told me that he had been
in the north of India, close to Nepaul, for
over twenty years. He had gone out as a
factor to an indigo grower, and he had be
come a grower himself.
"And now," he said, "I've come to look
after mv dead sister's sons and to die."
"Well, old fellow," I said, "the first part's
right enough, but as to the dying, T think it's
as well to leave that alone. It will be all set
tled for you. The only thing with reference
to that, speaking as a professional man. Is to
make your will, if yon have anything to leave,
and then make the most of your span." John
Hendricks was fifteen years my senior, but
we became once more the closest of friends,
for he seemed to resume his old protective
way over me, yet trusting me most fully in
every respect.
It was all done in a most unostentious way,
but from the day of John nendrieks' return
the world began to smile nn me. I had a
great deal of professional business to do for
him, as he had very extensive connection with
old indigo planters. I found them coming to
me right and left, by his recommer.dation ;
so that very soon. Instead of finding it hard
work to keep one clerk. I had very hard work
for four, and a big balance at my bank.
I5ut T am getting on too fast.
Hefore long I met the two nephews at their
uncle's qu'pt litt'e house at Chelsea, I could
not help thinking how kindly fortune was
behaving to the young men to place them in
the way of such expectations, and before I
left it was plain enough to me which was the
uncle's favorite.
This was Philip, a frank-faced young fel
low of two or three and twenty, very gentle
manly in his ways, and decidedly good look
ing, while he was full of anecdote, and, with
out seeming to be toadying, full of attention
to the old man, to whose dogmatic speeches
he listened with the greatest deference.
For old John had gTown terribly dogmatic.
He had the management of hundreds of poor
ryot for so "many years that he felt quite a
king in his way, and would bully and snub
every one when his liver was a little worse
than usual every one, that is, excepting me,
for whenever he was out of temper he never
would speak to me, but nod and shake his
head, and smoke his chillum till he felt more
at ease.
Samuel was the very opposite of his broth
er, being a short, thick set. plain fellow, with
only one pood feature or ought that to be
two in his face, and that his eyes, which
were, for a man, beautiful, and bestof all, In
their steady, honest look, wtiich never seem
ed to blanch or have anything to fear.
Time went on, and at Jack Hendricks
wish I took Philip as articled clerk.
"And how about Sam?" I said, in my
ruff and repellant way.
"L,et him stop where he is and sell tea and
tea-dust, and make his money out of the
chests," hesald, in a hard, harsh manner that
I did not like.
"But you'll leave him as much as you'll
leave his brother ?" I said.
"That I won't, Dick. He's my sister's
b03T, but I don't like him. He's his father
over again the father who behaved badly to
poor Jennie and broke her heart. He was a
gambler and thought only of himself. Poor
girl, she made a sad mistake, but let that
rest."
"Well, 1 don't know" I said. "I think you
are misjudging Sam. I believe him to be a
frank, honest fellow."
"Bosh I don't tell me sir. 1 can read char
acter. I haven't lived to sixty-eight fornoth
ing, sir. The fellow never shows me a bit of
deference. He's rough and independent,
and bullies his brother just as that scoundrel
his father, did my poor sister, Jennie ; I
don't like him. Dick. I don't like him."
Now, I too, had studied character a little.
and I knew enough of John nendrieks to see
that I should be doing no good by fight ing ou
Samuel's behalf, but I made it my business
a few days later to ask him to call upon me.
and during the interview the opinion I had
already formed was strengthened.
"No, Mr. Brown," he said, warmly, "1
can'trdo it. I don't say but that if my uncle
left me some money I should be glad of Jt,
for for I am thinking of getting married,
sir, but my uncle does not like me. He has
taken prejudice against me because lie says
I am exactlv like my dead father, and 1 can't
help that, of course."
"But you might try to humor him a little
and let him see that you don't deserve his I
am sure wrong opinion."
"Thank yon for that, Mr. Brown," he ex
claimed, and his eyes looked soft and sub
dued, but I could not do it, pir. I never
would toady to any one for the sake of mon
ey that misht come, and if I were to go there
trying to please mv nncle he would only de
spise me for it. My poor mother taught me,
Mr. Brown, and I have never forgotten her
teachings."
I found before long that John nendrieks
was thoroughly in earnest, for he sent for me
one day to take instruction to make his will:
but I could not help laying down my pen
when I found that'he intended to leave the
whole of his property, savp some trifling leg
acies to servants and others, to his younger
nephew, Philip nemsley.
"Now," I said, "is this fair?"
'Sir," he said, "you are now my profes
sional man."
"Adviser," I said correcting him ; "and I
advise you to do your duty by your nephews
by leaving them equal shares."
"I'll do nothing of the kind," he said, "I'll
leave it all to Philip."
I argued and fought, and the resnlt was
that he let me put down twothonsand pounds
for Sam ; but the great property of a hun
dred and odd thousand pounds well Invested
was left to Phil.
"Now. Dick," said the old fellow, chuck
ling, "those boys wi11Tbe sure to ask you if
yon have any will of mine, asid I want to
humbug them ; so we'll deposit it at the
banker's, and then if they ask you if you
have my will you can say no."
As I have said, Phil became a shrewdish
fellow in law, and passed an examination
pretty well, so that he knew what he was
about in legal matters ; and one day he
proved the truth of his uncle's prophecy by
saying to me suddenly.
"My uncle is far from well, Mr. Brown.
Have you got his will ?"
"No," I said, so shortly that he turned on
his heel and went away.
About, a month later I was with my old
friend, and felt shocked at the change, for It
was evident that he was not much longer for
this world.
He sent for me and I was In hopes that he
meant to alter his will, and I was right.
"What a while you have been coming," he
said querulously. "I wanted you so badly,
Dick."
"I came on directly, old fellow," I said
kindly. "Here let me put you a little more
easy."
"Thank ye, Dick," he said, "but it Is all
over. That boy has killed me. Did he ask
you if you had my will ?"
"Yes, aoout a month since, and I said No.
"I knew it, Dick ; I knew it," he said pit
ifully ; "and ever since he has been worrying
me to let him make my will. Dick, old
friend, I've made a big mistake. There
there, don't jump upon me. I I confess it
all. I thought he was his mother's boy, he
was so like her ; but but he h as his father's
spirit and his ways to the very bone."
"I am glad you have awakened to the
truth," I said.
"You should have advised me better," he
retorted, querulously.
"Should I, Jack ?"
"No, no ; yon did, Dick. I've only found
out what an old fool I am, my dear boy. We
have quarrelled terribly, that boy and I, for
I have found him out In sm'te of his smooth
tongue. He's a scamp, a villain a gambler,
and in debt terribly. He has half killed me
Dick, and and " '
I tore at the bell, as the poor old fellow
seemed about to have a fit, for the terrible
emotions he had suffered at what must have
heen the rooting up of his mostcherished be
lief in his sister's child, had proved, in his
weak state, to be more than he could bear.
The doctor was sent for, and at the end of
an honr John Hendricks was so far recover
ed that he whispered my name, and I, sitting
down beside him, heard him, in a whisper
say :
"Draw up my will quickly. A just one."
"I don't think he will ever recover suffi
ciently to sign," said the doctor. "He has
driven it too late, Mr. Brown."
The doctor was right, for my poor old friend
never recovered his senses but quietly breath
ed his last a few hours later.
I suppose it was fiom a feeling of import
ance, perhaps more from unwillingness to
wound poor Sam nemsley and bis young
wife by letting them hear the unjust will,
that I did not hurry myself to produce it,
though I don't think they anticipated much.
But all at once, to my utter astonishment.
Philip rose, coughed to clear his husky voice,
and said quietly :
"I presume you all know how much I have
of late been in my uncle's confidence, no you
will not be surprised that, as I was by his
wish a solicitor, he should have Intrusted to
me the making of his will."
I am a man of the world, but for a moment
1 was knocked off my balance. Then I was
about to exclaim, as I saw him briDK forth
the document, "Why you scoundrel, you have
forged a will !"
Fortunately for Sam I recovered myself,
and at with my old friend's genuine will
buttoned up beneath my coat, while, with
the calmest audacity, the rascal read out the
document that, as a lawyer, he had cleverly
forged.
I saw it all now. He had asked me if I had
his uncle's will, and I had said no. He must
have searched the old mac's papers and
found none, and feeling safe, Philip had
forged a will in his own favor, and cleverly,
too, making one about which there could be
no dispute ; for he provided legacies to
friends, and the residue, which proved to be
over a huudred thousand pounds in equal
moities to the nephews, Samuel and Philip
Hemsley.
I sat and laughed to myself as I heard him
read this piece of forgery, which was all lu
due form, clever in the man's cunning in
contenting himself with half, knowing that
if the will were otherwise it might have been
disputed, when now it would be taken as
perfection, and there, all the time, I sat with
the genuine will in my breast, from which he
was cutting himself ;by this act, while I re
joiced to think how the villain was being
forced, as it weie by fate, to do justice to bis
brother Sam.
What would you have done given the
scoundrel into custody as a forger, made a
terrible upset, and caused no end of trouble
about the property ? Perhaps you would ; I
did not, for I went home, after satisfying
myself that the false one was in due form
and destroyed the real one.
Yes, I know what you will say that it was
a felonious act and that I ought to be struck
off the rolls. Perhaps I ought to have been
but I pondered on the fact that, instead of
the whole hundred thousand pounds going to
a villain who would stoop to forge, half of it
went to a truly deserving man, so I left the
punishment to higher powers than those of
man and kept my secret still, for I have only
given fictitious names.
The Nbwkr Arithmetic. If a man buys
a box of strawberries with the bottom shoved
tip half-way to the top for twenty-five cents,
how many can he buy for 52 ?
Bought, a horse fourteen years old for Zf5
and sold him to an editor for S120 as a six-year-old
stepper. How much did I make?
If it takes eighteen men to do the bossing
and four men to do the lifting wtien a street
car horse falls down, how many bosses and
lifters will it take to put five horses on their
feet?
Julia has five beaux and Emily has three,
while tho old maid next door has none. How
many beaux in all, and how many would be
k-rt if they should give the old maid half the
crowd ?
How many are flS less the ?3 you lent a
Congressman's son to help him pay his fare
to Iowa ?
A certain city has a population of 420,000.
The census man can't find but 231,.r80. What
is the difference, and where did the remain
der hide during the census taking?
A. has an overcoat for which he paid 1 18,
and his wife trades it off for two red-clay
busts of Andrew Jackson worth thirty cents
each. How much money will she get from
Iter husband to buy a fall bonnet?
If six men who talk politics and dispute on
biblical questions can build a wall in five
days, how long will it take two men who
whistle and flirt with the widow on the next
corner to do the same work ?
A man pays thirty cents for three pounds
of evaporated apples and gets a $14 newspa
per puff for sending them to an orphan asy
lum. Does he gain or lose, and how much?
How many peck peach-baskets, each hold
ing six quarts, will be required to hold seven
bushel3 of peaches, each bushel of which is
short four quarts ? Detroit Free Press.
Hooping a Barrel. Putting a hoop on
the family flour barrel is an operation that
will hardly bear an encore. The woman
generally attempts it before the man comes
home to dinner. She sets the hoop up on the
end of the staves, takes a deliberate aim
with the rolling-pin, and then, shutting both
eyes, brings the pin down with all the force
of one arm, while the other one instinctively
shields her face. Then she makes a dive for
the camphor and unbleached muslin, and
when the man comes home she is sitting
back of the stove, thinking of St. Stephen
and the other martyrs, while a burnt dinner
and the camphor are struggling for the mas
tery. He says that if she had but kept her
temper she wouldn't have got hurt. And
he visits the barrel himself and puts the
hoop on very carefully, and then adjusts it
so nicely to the top of every stave that only
a few smart raps apparently are needed to
bring it down all right. And then he laughs
to himself to think what a fuss his wife
kicked up for a simple matter that only
needed a little patience to adjust itself ; then
he gets the hammer and gives the top a
smart rap on one side, and the other flies up
and catches him ou the nose, filling his soul
with wrath and his eyes with tears, and the
next minute the barrel is flying across the
room, accompanied by the hammer, and an
other candidate for camphor is enrolied in
the great army that is unceasingly marching
toward the grave. Danbury News.
Blank Verse and I.ove on the Tow
tath. Beneath the night's bespangled arch
they were strolling along unconscious of
aught save the intermitting fancies of their
twain hearts. Suddenly they paused, and,
gazing at a ruddy star thiit flashed like a
great ruby in the firmament, she said :
''Diouiedes ! what rufescent orb Is that
which winks with bloody e'en from yonder
dome?"
"That, Andromeda," spake her courtier
knight, "is Mars, the wad of gore beg par
don, I mean the god of war."
"Ah, yes ! and Iooks he not like some
gaunt Achilles, armored for conquest, bid
ding defiance to the hosts of nades?"
"He doth, Andromeda, he doth 1 Or like
some grim avenger furling a hoe dash it I I
mean hurling a foe to the death !" Rome
Sentinel.
Shtminq Table of Presidents. The
following table of Peesidents of the United
States is given in verse, in which form it can
be easily memorized :
The American Presidential line
Began in seventeen eighty-nine.
By Washington was the list begun.
Who ruled two terms, then Adams one ;
Jefferson. Madison, Monroe
Sat for two terms each ; and so
Quincy Adams came for one,
Whilo Jackson thro two terms did run ;
Harrison died and left four years
For Tyler ; one term next for Pierce
And for Buchanan ; Lincoln then
Was shot as his second term began,
And JohnsoD sat until came Grant
For two terms ; Hayes for one ; and scant
Four months for Garfield, who was killed,
And Arthur the vacant office filled.
A REAL LIFE ROMANCE.
TWO LOVING HEARTS CNITED AFTER MANT
TEARS.
A Ripley (Ohio) correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial tells this story : Coming
down the river one evening this week, on
one of the palatial steamers that ply its wa
ters, a Commercial representative had related
to him a romamce In real life, veryfying the
constancy of true love, and the old adage
that truth Is oft-times stranger than fiction.
So remarkable was it in ail its details that he
resolved to present it to the multitude of
Commercial readers, unerobelished by any
fanciful adornments or visionary flights of
imagination.
The scene is laid at BuenaYista, a lovely
little village on the Upper Ohio, about one
huudred miles from this city, charmingly
situated amid the picturesque ecenery of
that romantic region. Buena Vista, much
like the average country village, situated
away from the hurry and bnstleof the world,
the inhabitants enjojing life in that content
ed manner so characteristic of rural simplic
ity. The village has attained a national
reputation from its celebrated and extensive
freestone quarries that penetrate the rngged
hills around about it, the production of
which being largely used In erecting the
magnificent structures of architectural beau
ty that embellish the avenues of our great
cities. To this rural retreat there wandered
in the spring of 1873 a gentlemanly-appearing
stranger, his attire and speech plainly
stamping him a native of England.
He was called Farney. He was of a quiet,
retiring disposition, seemingly not desirous
of forming acquaintances. He had been in
the place but a short time when he became
acquainted with another Englishman by the
name of Tyndall, also a recent arrival, and
the two entered Into partnership and estab
lished a nursety for the cultivation of fruit
trees and small fruits. They succeeded fine
ly in their undertaking, especially in peach
growing, which develops to perfection In
those rugged hills. The villagers were not
long in finding out that Farney was a gentle
man possessed of rare educational abilities,
and in the fall of 1874, being in need of a
principal for their high school, he was ten
dered the position, which was accepted.
Entering upon the duties, he soon proved
i himself a master of his profession, and the
inhabitants quietly congratulated themselves
upon their apt selection. Among the pupils
attending the high school was a bright, love
ly and accomplished young lady of eighteen
Miss Wooltan. She was a blooming bru
nette, petite in stature, possessed of all the
graces and virtues imaginable, and was a
woman that would be called saintly among
women. Under these circumstances it was
not strange that the principal became Infat
uated with his lovely pupil, and the infatua
tion was equally as deep on her part. As
they became more deeply Involved in love's
meshes, Farney proposed and was accepted.
It is ancient saying that there are always
obstacles in the way of true love and it was
exemplified In this instance. The parents
of the yonng lady, who were of aristocratio
deseent, bitterly opposed the attention of
Farney toward their daughter, and she being
of weak and vacillating disposition, they fin
ally prevailed upon her to break the engage
ment. She declared that she loved only Far
ney, and would never marry another. Far
ney lost all interest in his work from that mo
men, tendered his resignation, and stated
his resolution to leave. He asked the priv
ilege of a last interview with his beloved,
which was granted. What was said is too
sacred to relate here, but as a last favor he
requested her to sing that tender song of
Burns. As her fingers rippled over the keys
of the piano, the words came out as a heart
cry in low, passionate accents :
"Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met or never parted.
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Fare the weel, thou first and fairest I
Fare the weel, thou best and dearest I
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace, enjoyment, love and pleasure !
Ae fond kiss and then we sever,
Ae fareweel, alas ! forever."
As the melody died away he clasped her
in his arms, pressed a long, passionate kiss
upon her lips, and left the house and a bro
ken heart behind. Farney left the village
on the first boat that came along, and a few
days later the daily papers contained a brief
notice of a drowned body having beeu picked
up' a few miles below Cincinnati, which,
from the description, was identified by the
residents of Beuna Vista as their former high
school principal. The young lady, upon
hearing of the suicide of her lover, was in
consolable, and, to all outward appearances,
was dead to the pleasures of the world.
Numerous suitors sought her hand, but her
steadfast devotion to her dead lovei prevail
ed, and they retired from the field, baffled.
In 1876, while on a visit to relatives in the
famous Blue Grass region of Kentucky, Miss
Wooltan attracted the attention of a wealthy
fine stock raiser, who was also connected
with the United States Revenue Service.
After a brief acquaintance, he proposed and
was rejected. He took his rejection so much
to heart, that he disposed of his farm and
went South; but in the summer of 1881 he
wandered back to the old home, and, as it
opportunely happened, Miss Wooltan was
again tbere on a visit. Their acquaintance
was renewed, and, by persistent attentions
he finally won the consent of the lady to
marry him, although she frankly told him
that it was impossible for her to love him, as
her heaat was buried with her lover; but she
would endeavor to be a true and faithful
vtife, and would ue all means to make his
life a happy one.
The wedding trousseau was purchased re
gardless of expense, and the wedding was
celebrated with great ceremony, being one
of the most brilliant and noteworthy affairs
that ever occurred in that region, famous for
its wealth and culture.
The wedded life so auspiciously began was
destined to be of short duration, scarcely six
months passing by until the husband was
killed by a railroad accident In the southern
part of the State. The bereaved widow with
drew from society, and lived the life of a re
cluse. Three months after the death of the hus
band, Farney, the supposed drowned man,
unexpectedly tnrns up, to the astonishment
of his Buena Vista friends, who had long
mourned his decease. He hears of the mar
riage of his old love, ot the husband's recent
death, and immediately makes a trip to Ken
tucky. He seeks out the lady and after ft
long and touching interview finds that tneir
former attachment has strengthened with the
passing years, and goes away the accepted
husband of his early love Our readers will
jein us In wishing them a happy and pros
perous married life.
THE STATEV AMES.
At a recent meeting of the American An
tiquarian Society, Hamilton B. Staple, read
a paper concerning the origin of the names
of the States of the Union. From among
other facts are taken the following : The
name of California first originated in the im
agination of the author of a Spanish romance,
"Las Sergus de Esplandian." Here the
"Island of California, where great abun
dance of gold and precious stones Is found,"
was described. The name was probably
given to the territory now embraced in this
State by some of the Spaniards with Cortez,
who, no doubt, had read this sensational ro
mance. Oregon was a name formerly given to an
imaginary river of the West. Carver, an
American traveler,, mentions it in 1763. In
describing the river, he evidently confound
ed it with tlis) Missouri, but the name was
finally applied to the present State of that
name.
New Hampshire was named from Hamp
shire county, of England, by John Mason, of
the Plymouth Company, to whom the terri
tory was originally granted by the English
Government.
The State of Massachusetts was named
from the bay of that name. The origin of
the word Massachusetts is from the Indian
"masses," great, "wadchuash," mountains
or hills, and the suffix "et," meaning at or
near.
There are many conflicting opinions con
cerning the origin of the name Rhode Island.
Some believe it to be named from the an
cient Isle of Rhodes ; others from the Dutch,
Rhode Eylandt, signifying red island. It
might also have been called Road Island or
Roadstead Island, being near the harbor.
Connecticut, spelled in an Indian dialect,
is Quinneh-tuqut, signifying "land on a long
tidal-river."
New York Is named from the Duke of
York, the original erautee. In the charter
be was given all the land "from the west
side of the Connecticut river to the east side
of the Delaware Bay."
The territory of New Jersey was given by
royal charter to Sir George Carteret and
Lord Berkeley. Carteret, in England's great
civil war, had bravely defended the Isle of
Jersey, in ihe British Channel, and his new
possessions in America were named in com
memoration of this fact.
Pennsylvania was founded by William
Penn. and it Is the only State named from
its founder. The suffix "sylvania. signify
ing "forest larul," is descriptive of the gen
eral character of the country.
Three couuties lying southeast of Penn
sylvania were formerly territories of that
State. In 1701 they were granted a separate
charter, and named Delaware after Lord De
Lewar, who first explored the bay into a bich
the river empties.
Maryland was named from Queen Henri
etta Maria. In the charter the name in Latin
was Terra Marhe, meaning land of Mary, or
Mary's land.
Virginia was called In honor of Queen
Elizabeth, who was known as the Virgin
Quoen.
The territory of the Carollnas was granted
to the French settlers in lnV3. and was
named after Charles I. of France.
King George II. of England was the spon
sor for the Southern State of Georgia.
The name Maine was given to that State
descriptively, since in the original charter it
was considered "the Mayne land of New
England."
Vermont was also a descriptive name, be
ing formed from two French words "verd"
and "mont," meaning green mountains.
Kentucky is from Kentuckee, an Indian
Shawnoese word, signifying "the head of a
river" or "long river."
Mississippi isfrom the Indian Meesyseepee,
meaning not the "father of waters," but
"the great water."
Colorado is named from the Rio Colorado
river. The name i9 of Spanish origin and
means "ruddy" or "red," referring to the
color of the water of that river.
Tennessee is supposed to have been named
from Tanassee, one of the chief villages of
the Cherokee Indians, which was located on
the banks of the Tennessee river.
The name Minnesota Is from the Indian
Minisotah, meaning "colored water."
The State of Nevada is named from the
Sierra Nevada Mountains, which in turn are
said to have been named from the Sierra Ne
vada of Granada, Spain.
Nebraska takes its name from the Nebras
ka river. The name is of Indian origin,
meaning "shallow river."
Kansas is also named from its principal
river. A tribe of Indians, formerly in that
locality, were known as the Kansas or Kows,
and the State is probably named from them.
The origin of the name of the peninsular
State of Florida is told by historians as fol
lows : In 1512 the Spaniard Ponce de Leon 1
sailed to the west in search of the "fountain
of youth." He first saw laud on "Easter-
dav," and on account of the richness and I
quantity of the flowers found ou the new
possessions, he called it Florida
Alabama is named from an ancient Indian
tribe of the Mississippi Valley. Tne name
itself signifies "here we rest."
Ohio takes its name from the river on the
southern boundary. The word is from the
Wyandotte iDdian dialect, oshe-zuh, and
means "something great."
Iowa is named from a liver of that name ;
the river from the Ioway Indians.
Missouri was also named from a river.
The word is from the Indian Min-ne-sho-shay,
signifying "muddy water."
The name Wisconsin is of French-Indian
origin. It was formerly spelled Guis-consin,
meaning "westward flowing."
Illinois is derived from the Delaware In
dian word, "Illin" or "Leni," meaning "real
men," aud the soft French termination "ois."
The name Michigan comes from the Indian
words of Algonquin and Chippewa origin,
"Miicha," gnat and "gan," lake.
Louisiana was called in honor of Louis
XIV. of France and was formerly applied to
all the French possessions in the Mississippi
Valley.
Thi word Arkansas is of Indian stock. A
tribe of Indians who had rebelled and separ
ated from the Kansas nationvere celebra
ted for the fiDe quality of their bows. From
this they were called Arcor Bow Indians,
and afterwards Arkansas.
Few States have been named fiom their
original discoverers. The name of La Salle,
Cabot De Sota, Marquette, Coronado and
Fremont are waiting to be Incorporated Into
history, by the naming of some new State In
their honor.
A TOOTHACHE is
inet.
always a pain invest-
HOW A SErTSPAPLK PAJS.
Mr. J. V. Crary, of Floiida, presentssouie
of the advantages of a newspaper lu com
munication to the Fensacola J.Jimce Oaxut,
as follows : How a newspaper pays cue be
at once sen if you will give the matttr .- .i
tie thought. Surpose you take a i-ajer ti-t
is only issued once a week, you get fifty-1
copies a year, each containing the general
current news of the times.
The educational advantages to the fauilly,
derived from only a weekly paper, ere
cheaper and more Impressive, useful ai.tl
thorough, after children have learned V
read, than the teaching iu the crdh iy
schools. It is a notable fact, and iun xa
inent examples might be rer-jrred to, ttist
families who are never without newsj;s.prs
become more Intelligent and mere influen
tial than those who go through the crdis
scholastic course of studies wit'iout the 1
of reading newspapers. Afte: reatiln-,
writing and arithmetic are taught to a ct. I,
if a choice is to be made between set. v 1
book, and newspapers. It would be ruuih
more beneficial to the child to give it two ( r
three well-selected newspapers to read thsa
to confine it to the text books of the or.l.
Newspaper education is polyttschLic end
universal, and Is inaiiH3nsIb!e to a proy-sf
qualification for true American cltizeifsh'p.
A good newspaper saves moDey la un bui
iness matters. If you want fc. sell i uy
anything, jo" will likely see the cur:r,".
price in a newspaper, and you will alst --
what you might want advertised ; you ooi.'t
have to take hert-say, and thu3 suJer l.um
mistakes and delays ; you J nut t'mto jcur
paper and know all yon wii.i to r.i. You
will ofsen save (he f,ihcription vt c' juur
paper ty one sir tj'e ort!- f r tti cr tv".
dollars' worth of goods. Yoa w:.. o'v a iu
chances for good bargains a-l"ertise ::.
cannat be f uim1 in pry otner way J. few
months since, a meieha..i ki rn-tij.'.. .vl
vertlsed to sell a certain stj.ile E-.-ikir-1: p..
visions very cheap ; there vs u'. a .
lot of it, and the cont-iguer Ki.Kr-d !t scid ..t
ouce. I sent an order, and whn lest" of
my neighbors, in the country, saw ?i. . '. I
bad gotten, and I toid tnem th. r-: e. t , y
said: "If you had told us, w v t
have sent orders." I aid ; "If ;jl wilt
take the papers yoa wiil alwajj kno !
time, without waiting for ttrond-harA ui.t."
I saved the price of my newspaper sun . r
tion in Tensacola for oae year by uLit j'.ng .'
transaction. Indeed, it would be I.rif-siij .
to enumerate the ati'ouut of pectin!-, y i ne
fits received from rewspaper a4. rii'-e- .
alone, to say nothing of the gcne;ii r.t.,. . lo
tion of vital iniportai.ee conti:?'i in
Journalism, in all its departm i.tj, is a .
icesg that requires more se!f-: ;rifo: , u.
indefatigable labor, more jatii nie, e' : :
ance and nice discrimination tl.tn arv ot :
profession. There Is no class of m. t'. i :
furnish so cheaply the int':.peri-?.b.e iu ''
gence, wisdom and virtue, for the s..p;-. '
the government and the welfare of i;e
pie, as the well-trained and efhciH-.: 1-ir:i.--ist.
Every good citizen should t .l..- ...d p.
for a good newspaper; he ov. - Vt 1
countiy, his family, Lis cvti. atJi-.. -;:..
and Interest.
The Cold Jcneof 1816. - a 'iw -.
days!" now eag'-r'y all classes ; v-.
them in that memorable cold time,
years ago. It was called a dry season,
little rain fell. The wind blew svealiii
the north, cold and fierce. Mot'.ete kni
tra socks and mitters for thc-ir . "3re
the spring, and woodpiles, that us.;li .
appeared during the warm snel!, i-i fio. '.
the houses, were speedily Luilt up at .
Planting and shivering were deno toel
and the farmers, who worked oi.'. thtir t-.
on the country roads, wore ovtrco-ts
mittens. In a town In Yermot a uw '
shetp belonging to a f armer bad bet
as usual to their pasture. On the if
June a heavy snow fell, the ccld was in!. :
and the owner started e.way at noon to v
for his sheep. "Better start tti neio '
after me soon, wife," he said I x je-t r
leaving ; "being the middle of June i
get lost in the snow." Nii.nt camt ,
storm Increased, and the fa-nily sit .
help and started in search. On? afte: s u .
the neighbors turned out to look fT t':e .
ing man. The snow had covered ur
tracks and not until the third f y
found. He was ou the side of !. :
both feet frozen, unaMe to move. A f ..
who had a large field of corn ,u Tew V. '
near Lowe'l, built fires ground it a o k .'
ward off the frost ; mar. n t-
his men took turns watch!.ig t' en. ''.e
rewarded with the only crop i f coi; :c
neighborhood. Fears that the run t -ing
off abounded, and all picnic. -t.' a
ly prohibited. Bonfon TrarrripL
A Boitovie3 I jXL. A ccrr" ;
ot t.o H '. . ":i 2 Rejittrr v y t:
fnr, ft sfr! pud j 't srt u:.. lr
Vet town, Mitlin connt..', i. a r...
body of water wh'ch has all the t; ;
of a sm.'i'l pond. This pond :
something of ft cm ;o?i'y. It N X, i
anieter and ItiO lcet in c'rc-mft : :
sides slope gra tvnl'y tov.ar l t: ;
where they take r dr vnirurd cr. .
ing to penetrate Irto the ry
earth. It has b"n sotincV '. i i
800 feet and no bo',.. fou i-: 'i :
the water is a beautifu' : vo, sr. l.
pie disturbs its surtoci. Ihe - - .
ant to the taste and iu de
weather is cool and refresL.n;: lj
worthy of remark ahon- it it ' :
cattle are frequectlypastu.fi ; .
not oie has ever been k:i. T f -. :
This strange freak ..f na'i... !.- - r-.
the property on the pr p, ; y i f : -Forgy,
Jr., and car he ?. h . "
any persons wishi.i to vU.i i"
USEXFECTZt CRrTICIGX. O u ? i '
eloquent and p'.pu'ar cWgv ;,
Texas, being about t-. asc -id - :
ing to his chuick a lew Su"
asked by a partinlly bi iilo'i I J:
not recognize h'ni, to t-elp : -r !?
With his nsual urbara'v he
her request Just r.s they r-1 -steps
she asked hn: ln r-as t- ii
"Parson Smit'i," be re- ..t ', ;. .-.
own name.
"O Lord," exclaimed t' o ' i 'h
me down again. 1 d rather !:':
sawing wood. Tlease bo'- i t'
I don't care to g i In."
At first the clergyman in fuse,
but, on reflection, L i.--.
her down the steps again, r?;.-s i
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