THE It was Christmas Eve, Not one of the Eves of poets aud romance writers, wherein the moon is always at the full, the snow always s-sparkle like pulverized diamonds, and the air al Lut RED LIGHT. ideal Christmas WAYS still and cold and clear, M stormy twilight, with the snow driv- ing steadily from the east, the wind the sky us what raw aud biting aud ink, all the same and cheeks | were as red as the bitier-sweet berries i you could see of it black But it was Christmas Eve, Bertha Hooper's woods as she sat all wrapped that in the up, northward, in the train Wis SleRming on her way to spend Chri Aunt Higoius 10 Lie lw BB i all mas with her Almira C tha, brick wal the \ ar.stmas untry who had live in LS city, very words vey som what Of i Aud her eyes cl ness, Berth hands safely gquirrel muff, | y rR I eyes grea wide~thro tooned bla she had hall Chris tions mas at n the ruthless hie ale w came aloog for her ticke “How far are we from i pasteboard. Miss,” with his ) slic station ?’ up the bi inqu re ns t of i * “Next but one, said the man as he hurried on, lanters un der his arm. Half ano hour yet.” She had never been fr New York The driving rain. i 80 lar om be fore, had | v} in all her life a which she left her home had changed a the progressed northward into the stea ol fluttered waving around | ! fall of snow, which them like ad. | But Bertha Hooper cared little fi this. Had not Auat Al ised to send Zebed to the station with meet her a8 white shrot ir | mira prom ee, Der he yn the arrival of th A 1 5 son, ty train from New Y not Zebedee t ed have a lanter or i PO giass doi th haogiug in broad low “M nb~Cou the dered fur cap, brakeman, puting in 2 Snow pow and withdrawing it bay na in-th again as quickly asif he had the Jack box, which children much in holiday time. And Bertha Hoop- er knew that magnified edition of rejoice at 3 5 i she had reched her des- tination. Stiff and cramped from the length or aia dost. of time in which she had been sitting | impatiently, with a traveling bag in in one position, she little steel clasped one hand and arose np, a dainty silk umbrella in the other, and made her way to door. All she could see when she stepped out upon the wet and slippery plat form was a blur of driving snow, through which the lights of the soli tary litcle country depot gleamed fit- fully; bat the next instant something | flashed athwart ber vision like a | friendly red eye—and beneath the | reflector over the station saw a tall fine Jooking door young man, in a fur trimed overcoat, a seal-skin cap of set javatily on one side of a crop chestnut curls, and a red-lighted lan=- | tern swinging from his left haod, he stood straining his eyes in stormy darkness, as if to catch sight of some familiar the crowd. “Cousin Zebedee!” eried Bertha aloud, and she made one spring into ns face in the arms of this blonde-whiskered | she and | young giant, For bad not Zebedee played dominoes and fox and geese, together in the days when she wore blue ribbon sashes, and his hair was a closely-mat of earroty-red? “Oh Cousin Zebedee, I'm so glad to «ee you; and I hadn't any idea you had grown half so handsome!" And shegave him a hug, at the same dime holding up ber rosebud lips for a kiss, fat 1a, | ato | at | walk. | almost | with—with the other laotern ! Zebedee, the she the | little | But, to her infinite amazement, (be hero of the sealskin cap seemed a lit- (le backward in respouding to her eousinly advances, . “I—1 beg your pardon,” slightly “but there is some mistake. My name is not Z-bedee and the lady for whom I said he, receding, I'm afraid am looking is some years older than you.” Bertha Hooper started back color and as she did so, a | old the platiorm ino ing and confused, omfortable looking lady | | came trundling along a boa of Russia in greenbacks, ") u s Lhe cus India shaw! with sable “i worth its weight artic!” she erie thought I should find jy ringe awkward i o ana ge y that the scarlet ) $1 i “ X fl ished on like a #pit of lame—scarce y ly more scarldt las, than Berthas “Here roads win face you be! I'm for the a uldu't start (Come on. you very cold?” “Zot B.riha, to her young gentleman wdee,” said hysterically cousin's arm, “who's that gry “That a said Z-badee. old “Eh!” y the lady in patchw “Yes" “It's Charley Hare wn,” said Zebedee, farrin parts! “Zobed mire, the = 14 “Just cor id Bertha, wi Zeb cousin “How caa I hel) it Bertha “Twarn 8 VOI poor » $ 14 OQ no fault o'yourn” said consolingly. it 2 id “How was | * Of sourse warn't sa tha , ’ I hed that every lantero in Mont our a glass door in it?” And poor little Bertha erie to sleep that night. The next morning—Christmas Day | all snowed up into glorious drifts ev erywhere—Mr. Harcourt drove over (to the Higgins farm-bhouse. The | young lady had dropped a fur glove on the platform y and Mr. | And moreover—here Mr. Charley | Harcourt hesitated a little for being #0 stupid as to allow her to | Miss Hooper would excuse him fancy him her cousin. “I ought to have explained sooner,’ said he. “No, you ought not,” said | “The fault was all mine.” | “I doa't recognize a | where,” doned-— | “Of course you are!” said Bertha rosier and prettier than ever, | by my mother to ask your aunt's per. mission to take you over to help us finish dressing the church in time for morning service. My horse is wait ing.” “May I go, Auut Almira?” said Bertha, with sparkling eyes. “Of course you may go,” said Aunt mira, What was the end of it all? There tL | feller [and askcd the keeper it i good, cool water | kept that gate i { but | clinging | | I reckon you'd | [| rk | is but one seq el to stories like this when youth and bright eyes and hu- | man hearts a concerned. The next | Christmas eve Berths Hooper and | Charley Harcourt were married, But declanog of the love the bridegroom persists in that Bertha did the first making. And Bertha Randolph only laugh — Amy | - UNTIMELY ( 'ROSITY toll-zate | had any A traveler stopped at a he “ohn,” said the Keeper, turning to his son, “fetch me the Lh shot,” “Hold on, meant no harw gun e one load witl TH per bh Cane ‘Yes [| can te nan who kept } this le Hi and alth razy, but it better, ed, has only Killed i veral m drummers and A ripple “Did the *N down | people ahnoy yu it much. I only had one man and stab anoth only kept ‘Why “Now, | have asked mq er one the a week." the fellow dig a well ? lon't wok hers that qu batt : a thousend men n.Stranger, is Travel Eansau Th | disc wered near | the first w | was the life:sized figure | Tudian warrior, attired | headdress of | beads, with his hands resting on knife koow | d herse I Jertha, | fault any- | anid he. “And if 1am pare | | knife is very broad, and was doubtless “In that ease I am commissioned | day | fed othe f ut 4 feet perhaps 1wo ' rch thrust throog! v (die el aed] ¢ astonishel and 1 p . Assay Ti men. Stretched upona b ORF R in girdle and eagle's feathers and The general appearance of battle axe, coloring and the a vd chieftain 3 b y lead to the but vision so extremely natural as | spectators to think him axle p | For a moment this lingered, { then wavered and disapered, leaving no traces of the gorgeous picture of { the dead chieftain save a quantity dust few There number flint arrow hea hw mes of , together with a and a were a Harcourt | guife and the iy of a hatchet com: | place, a few times, called | felt it his duty to restore it to ber, | | p wad of an alloy strongly resembling | den ce several evenings since. | bronze. In addition to these trophies | he hoped | (he cave contained a number of curi- ously shaped flagons or cups of the | ! same peculiar metal and several frag: mens of earthernware. Just beneath the spot where the body was | was found a stone bearing a num: | ber of hieroglyphics. ! and handle are of the same piece and are about nine inches in length. The | shape ned on both edges. The hatchet | head consists of a broad blade several | Inches in width, with an aperture for the insertion of a handle, The wea pons are well finished, and appear to have been hammered out of some mal leable metal, acoording %o the opinion of a Washington chemist, 0 whom the weapons were shown. He made only a brief examination of the alloy, but thought it must be imp: Pile coppee ore, secured probably by the a gines in trade from the tribes who onoe occupied the region of the Great Lakes. | cient building io | tion of it was the C | the whiskey iasurrection broke out | Westra Washington, w tary of the tary of War | ford, | to organiz | the of | Iain | The knife blade | LU LY HEADY Alii NEN BEDFORD Beveorp, Pa, Dee, ~10, is known as the King's House, wards as the R “Wi ~W hat | nfter- sing Sun, an lla‘er as the Maun building, was the most A alr - Bedford, smnman lapt's por: head: quarters in old Por when Belford, in 1794 Pennsylvania In H tiniiion Knox, notables, far th Treas ~ and other ' companied the army The distin gui ew day ni He hed party f ira fore returning was lately being 10 gisalk Haron the sR100 at h Siate n Dakota, the h has creats among the Territ ory n el publie | couse comment, es mem! of Congress. Of course taken the pe by members of and other WL as abilit NEress Ls Lo argument 10 suppo cers amouy pothiog excej an rt of their a good State Government, lad week Mr. Senate Harrison gave notice in last tbat an early vid. T, paral el, wab Dakota standard of the day he would introda tog for the division rei Liry 01 Lhe and the southern lation i to mt ) here | ab colliery urred 12 Lilt, which is locat end of the slope, g 4,000 feet th, and therefore its difficult the noe in what N ed at the extreme as of the bein the mou venti'a tion was a problem. breast miner named Coffey was at gas ignited in work. Au exploring party of some twen y | { miners entered the slope as soon 1s the the It was soon discovered that many had news had reached surface. | been barned, and they at once began | removing them. — — i Dee. 16, =A young man having met a young viva cious woman, both of at her resi. She re- desired Pressing his request, Ustox Crry, Pa, residents this and | fused him | | him to depart. sdmittance, a shot was fired at him'from a window, {and he hastily retreated, carrying | the bullet with him. A% some dis | tauce from the house he laid down to { rest, and a friend assisted him © who extracted the ball, n surgeon, and | thus the affair became public. ctl. M— The plan of life insurance: being of ie employes will make provisions for their care in sickoess and an appropri: ation for their families after death, It will be optional with preseat em: ployes whether they join, but after it becomes operative all persons accept: ing service on any of the lines of the company must become members: Fs — ~Fall an winter woolens just receiv ed. Leave sour order now and save money. road Company for the benefit ——— a ——— Moxreoueny & Co, IL remow Lng | | THE : | | | Tie | where a | prepared by the Pennsylvania Rail: | HUMOROUS All the rage—A mad dig. As a general thing, what a man | rews he rips. The thermometer gains notoriety by | | degrees, so to speak. I'he mau is opposed to vaccination ' |is probably to be pitted, Even the most inveterate toper ob- | th a bull. “How bair 7?’ jects to taking a horn wi A young lady asks, I Comb the can 1 ¢ LA EL thiuny | butter, The den in her fue "id who aT GRY. Rn Wii Is 8 gal fl yWEry lat gusg I'he Leds plio AIWaAVYSE 1aR Des) for the same cl & Co, A PLAIN ROAD TO HEALTH. Read the Sworn Testimony and Satis. fy Yourself, SHIELD : 1 open'g . from | Gentlemen a0 that ron! 4} Nervous Pros some 1 mach broken and d much 41fMe Het + uid tre db Shield sturbed that she tv performs BE rm her Gs | She was induced 0 try the Howard | t over twa months oan » the day, one | re. She has 1 noned he 3 tien has wore Pal might, a miort that was ul henit vals w sleep we ves ring work with arden be h wener er oe mplexd 5 r apy aa 11 ¢ u and ® 3 pcos ir te for nere ’ 3 general JOHN © NO MEDICINE NEEDED Be Pa, May 30,15 utlemen I have boon greatly tenofitied by 1) f the Howard Shield, No 2, for constipation have worn it sinodMay and = ould pot like tod wi. 1 sow feel thankful for your appl ance and advised oth re to give them & trial feeling sure here they would be benefitted as I have been CB PEACY WHAT A LEADING DOCTOR BAYS Milroy, Pa. Jane § I have suffered many Years Cramps ir lower extremitios, mostly at night, of ten having to tise and walk the room for relief. | procured a Howard Shield and have been wearing it for Lumbag tr Rbsumatism in my back and have had the seost wonderiul relief since wearing It over the small of my back and have gained strangth of masele to a moet wonderful degree, 1 can therefore recommend the vee of these appliances of all Rben. matic and nervous complaints particularly nervous de bility { have recommended them to my patients and in every case with benefit A HARSHBERER M.D WHAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE Isr NATIONAL BANK BAYS Ashland, Pa * what your 1 1 therefore recommended your jer wome time Lago for Boiatics ' \ " #} . 'X lov y 5 wee LL Gentlemens wit) nmy Marek 9, 1888 Gentlemen: «1 ki rom personal nse 4 nield to Mrs. Han! nd Infdasnd Yoo tod whe bas used 8 for about four weeks and she is now to bearocand and feels sutirely cured " re fully, G80. 0 HELFRICH, Provident of the Int Naticua! Bank Another AfMdavit From a Prominent Oitisen of Ohio NERVOUS DEBILITY IN ITE WORST FORM Cotambus, 0. cor. Priond & Saad hyele, ¥ Geotlemant—1 take pleasure in saying, th al {tring slmott every known remedy, as well as socalled KI ot+io appliances without any benefit, 1 was wesk nervous, depirited, desponpent, almost without hope simont entirely enorvaied, lacked power and will force, in & word was aMicted with the worst symp toms of Nervous Debility theeffocts of which 218 so well known to every sulferer. 1 oan truthfully say that the Howard Spinkd Ape Hanee and the Mownrd Shield entirely cared pe commenced their use in 1851 andwas restored 10 perfect health. 1 am now married and have cover had. recurrence of my for mer trouble, You can refer anyone to me as 1 shall ever fool grateful to youn. Your treatment is as repre wetted on have proven yourselves worthy of the confidence of every sufferer, AVG VF. ELLERMAYN. Personally appearad before me, Ang. ¥. Klerman, to me known deposes and swears "that the above eter certifying as to the carative powers of the Howar Riactrie Bhield and Spinal Ap Mahees ia Lee. Sworn and subweribod before me this 6th of May, A. D, 18K5, THRO. 1 aBCK, Deputy Clerk of Courts of Rr iin On. 0. Por father information, we send owe THustrabed ps mph a ge number of vetimoninis for AMERICAN BALVANLE co 1108 Chiestaut Str one "| 2 In the room lately occupied by W. | complished by skilled HOWARD GALVANIC | : | an | Walter ‘W. Bayard. HAS OPENED A DRUG STORE. H. Wilkinsun on Allegheny street, an 1 will keey constantly on band i | full live of . DRUGS, MEDICINES, roiLkr ARTICLES &e. TUBE PAINTS for Work, ODORS OF PERFUMERY SACH r Fowp ERS, sl lI have Kensingto ALL and orders shal 1 SAYARD ' Ll f sit Warrer W Prescription Hours, nie Prepaved at all Night or Day » RA4S, 2 Li x L LK Af RNB SUPTURE * RE “ : TA KTIT A COD i» Para | yY baw bid ~~ : we " thot Tim nas OY Tess sie Chi aie Wr YG vaV AL ~~ lw bbe View Wve ny cdl Ho ( Cy slo - . » and Farm Ameri ome )e diz V. H. THOMPSON d ¢ O., gh er 404 Ar lelphis 4 Old in Experience. We have had thirty years’ experience in manufacturin Raw Bone Super-Phosphatds, and farmers may depend upon our goods. There is no improvement or economy of manufacture suggested by nce or ac- ce that we have not bodied in producing relia- ap fertilizer n SCIt rience, em ble 1 i and che NOW BAUGH & SONS, Philadelphia tures “11 $1) M . mtsittitle ini ion gus sine. ess Coleg er Penn A W il FITTSEURGH, FPA. A Herr Jd PAx: d of Trustees Sec’'y of Board ¢ gine Tuesday, Seq wi most thorough mmercinl Callege Sok x REWS, Ist IW practices} and En Pennsylvania. 81 Elegant buildin argest ’ . successful Cx sh Trair | ng ir ins ~q { studer is YOAT | first class Sr ents, 27 i# and r { ecitatlion 10 xX} sn finest ailed free, 4 n appliestion { | large ha ATER lO | ship aver pies of the ject the sists wok « hi um Jag. Croan Wirntiams, J Hanuox D. WirLLiawms, | 41 Business Manager. = I TUTT | ILLS | 285 YEARS IN US | The Greatest of the SYMPTOMS TORPID LIVER the A hg eh in back Pain uader the abou) m | 3 Q ® Appliances are | n 8 feeling ot having neglected some dut Wearinces, Dizziness, Finttering at ab dp ye Row ath at avery -e Scuful dreams, FL Lily colored colored pane wv. CONSTIPATION. oe . 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