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TBS Soil EES IT JJ ERA LB,
BoMEKxrr, Pa.
a n ijai P.FPT
.iYe ATTORXEY-AT LAW,
borne net, Pa.
Office with John H. TJhL
I7REU. V. BIESECKER,
1 ATTORNEY -A TUW,
somenet. Pa.
OflJoe In Printing House Row, oj. ooaile Court
Hutiae.
EORGE R. SCTLL,
X ATTORNEY -AT LAW.
bomerwt, Pa.
JOHN K. SCOTT,
ATTOKSEV-ATLAW,
someraet. Pa.
X ' ATTOK5EY AT LAW.
US. 1MLKV.
.uHNEY-AI I AW.
V. TRENT.
, AnuKStV Al LAW.
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nENKY. F. SCI1KI.T..
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
.s,,menH't, I a.
IVmnly and rerown Arcnt. OE. r iu Wainro-rtli
tTHVVTIVE IT AY.
V ' AITORSEY-AT-LAW. j
Somerset, l a. j
..... t...-, r.fa will Mtind to all i
and fkk-lily. .
J1,X " rEY ATLAW.
" Hommi'l. Pa.
Will pr.mi.tly attend to all ,'V,",,1,"11.c,,a!
n. n MamniKtii Hltx k.
D- U. F A. R1HX1!5.
PHVMC1A.N AND
Ofliof In WHM. next to Lutlwraubmvh
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Ii. J. E. lUESECKEli,
I'llvsinAN- AND sriWEOX,
HoERk"r. Pa..
Tendon hir profrwUaial rvl.- to the cMtw of
S.rnrrpt and vi.-iu.ty. t'ni B.ew.Aer
Snydrr'a I'm Store.
D
R. II. S. KIMMELL,
. .i i.-.-i ,rf.iM tA the rltlwni
baM ul liiainoud. -
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R. II. RRL liAKEl;,
. . , r : 1 .n-laa: trt tha fitilOIIJt
of'r.ir.rvniV," 7,n,.U ri.l.ou
Uu utreot of Diamond.
DR. J. M. I.nl TKER.
PHYSICIAN AND SHK.EON.
Hiik loiat.i! rt-mia'"-'" 'io"" -t (" 'h
pra.-tiw of bi .r..l.ioi. Olbi on Main rtretl,
in rvar of Dm Nore
rTT. sTm M I I.l.KX,
Gr-uiuulr IK lmkttry.)
iivi n.-lal atu-ntl.m to Ibe prwen alion of
thr lialuml uvlh. Amli.al -l -"'-'
oiiuiiirmmn..v,l!lt..r " m 'ie
Mam lT' and palma
DR. JOHN B1I.I5.
DENTIST.
OfBce up-mair in Cook 4 Bwritii Bkx lt.
DR. AVM. COI.MN.
I.LMTkT.
dfliw In Knet.p.-r- Klork p-lHir. when; he
can f.ml at all Hint prrt-nHi to do ail mnl
of aork i-h ai- fiilmit. nviiime nlrai tiiiK.
AC Artih.-ial tmb of all kind and ul the bwt
material liaarted. All ork cuarmil-d.
JR.J. K.MILLER
Hu pt'imancntlT l.wato.1 In Bi-rlln for tli- pni
tlr of liif on.fwH. Off: o.;jue Larm
KrMligt-rA atore.
Soineiwt County Bank.
C. J. HARRISON, M. J. PRinS,
Pkikidsnt. Camiif.b.
Collection male in all pan of the United SUtea.
CHARGES MODERATE.
rartle 1-hin to wnd money Wt ran he a"
ronim.lat.l bv draft on New York in any nn.
Collection made wn h proinptiiew. t. Bond.
l.uclil.lid ld. Mom v and vahial.le. weim-d
bvoiie.l DleN.ld'n celebrated aaie, itb a Bar
eut ii Yale tW time lock.
ACCCTOTS SCLICIT2D.
-All Leal IlolMaTi Obaerved.
CURTIS K. GROVE.
SOMERSET, PA.
BUlKilES. PLEUillS, OAKRIA'iES.
WRING WAUON8. BICK WACMIN9.
AND EASTLKN AND WESTERN WORK
Furnished ou tihort Notice.
Painting Done on Snort Time.
y work I made out of TVm.rW Snwnwra" M ood,
and the nnt Strr!, S.ilwtMiitially
Coiitnuneil. Neatly ElliiKhetl. and
Warranted k.ue. isatiMacllou.
Eaplcy Oalj' First Class Tcrksen.
Renalrinr of All Klnd In Mr Line Iione o
fcliort Notut. ITntx KEAStiN B1.E. and
All Work .Warranted.
Call ami Examine my Stock, and Iarti PrVe
do Wapm-work, and furiiih Slv for Wind
Mills. Rctnemtier the pmcv, and call iu.
CURTIS K. GROVE,
(Kan of Court Uonae)
BViMERrr PA
QHARLK HOFFMAN,
MERCHANT TAILOR.
(Alxn-e Ileffley ' Store.)
Lte-t St yl, and Lo'wt Priced.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Somerset, Pa.
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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 9.
Who to Consult in Diea of the Eyt
and Ear
There are marc neonle blind and daf thmurfe
hiiritr treatment limu any oilier nui.. Thoae
who have bad nritlierihesiodvor ci-.nonr are
aarenaii. to jrive a -nine a riffht Irv-atiuont. If
udirt--t harm i don, lay makea thecuraMe
hitsuuUre. 'I hi la tutiariou munl aud eitrert.
er ha d crated It t eeer ot-ulit huu
rtr"l of tune. Su lane ran know rTeryihnr,
Imii th- mrotni'QfttufeirtMifi of to la? ure vow are
dome thr t-t Hfiiiit', tcraity aid, th cum
Tfci" mi only tt fti wt.flr dtenintf upon tho
)i-n.',iA h lit. iui3y Hi)-! vxirifiit-r tnaka
ni- moral iv i" rtain Moh an ime u lr hd-(-r,
i4 iVun avfi'ii, a ho lor f'rtint-n y'ar In
I he iMnic otlnv. l a i n ioyd tlv Ibtmi h'ih! mnat
MifTwNtul pi-t.ie ewc attaiiird he any -liy4--iau
ii I ;i:-lTjrjri Ii. itui- mrr . h thai tlir
iair a wt -ii a (tit rw It tta avail ttfi-.'V( utf
i With the Advent of
WARM WEATHER
Kedicai 2nd Ltgh! Wsighi
UXDHRWHAR.
OUR STOCK CONTAINS EVERY REQ
UISITE TO Mill THE WANTS of
ALL IN
LOW PRICED MEDIUM
- AM -
MI;ST (JUALITIES.
libix, rr.il Children. Srjs,
Zi-:'.:-:z zzi laiUs in Sprirg
V r -:v-J
Lie TL-eai iii
Very rest Values Glarantltd.
Cive our Underwear Depart
ments a Call.
IIOHNE fc AVVRD,
ii un n aye.. piriFi U'ih.pa.
It is to Your Interest
TO 111 Y YOl K
Drugs and Medicines
or
Biesegker & Snyder.
srex ixj;is To c. s. hoy P.
XoiM' but tbe purest v il Ut Veit in utixk,
ariilhen l)ruffsr)c..Bit'iiK'rt by stunil-ini-'.
(vrtain of them ill, we de
stroy tliem, nil.'ier than im
ose im our cuitmaers.
You tun ilejM'ntl on having yotir
PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY AECEIPTS
fillwl iritii care. Our irii-c are as low as
any other fiit--!AiN houe anil on
many article much lower.
The people of this county seem to know
this, and have given Uf a lurj,-e share of their
putron&irc, and we siiall tiil continue to give
them the very best ijihkIs for their money.
Jo nut foruvt that we muke a sptvialty of
FITTIXa TliU.SSES.
We guarantee aatSCu'tiun, and, if you have
had troul.le in this direction,
ive a cull.
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES
in rcat ariety; A full set of Test lenses.
Cotne in and have your eyes cxautim'd. No
iliarjre for exaniitiiitioii. and we areoonfilcnt
we can suit you. Come and see us.
rti.'t;'ul!y,
B1ESECKER & SNYDER.
JOROUGH ORDINANCES.
The follow in nldHitmal onlinnnev foT the
(cnvrnM. iit f l':iiia H.nuph, re ei:af-U(l at
a iiHTiln f .tin? HinHii.h aiithoriittN he)l Au
yiift 1", 1 :
OKDISAXCE SO. :sd
No row orotluT horn-l rattle hntl be i'rniit
tiM to nin at iMtye with'. the liniii of l rvm
H-,roujl) tfet'fii the ltui ut t iu, ainl a.
m dtinair tiif iin.n!h f .My. Juue, Juiy. Anuut
A ptfitifKr ami Ht(aT. Aujr oaut-rot Mich am-mai-.
r l:m iur ihem in charKf, . ifTfH'!iDK.
fliail jmv a Hiif if not e ltnje one dollar ajul
Any (xtniii may. and it Miall tt thfiuty
ol the H'K'h t'onstahh of the Bcna.hvto iinnuU
Mti'h snitiml round mania at 1aii:'. and notify
tht Hura-friaol ' Iht aaiiH'. and if. aiu-r day w-li-e
no Knmii hall appear and claim the khiAo
and pav ihttine. ctund chat-s aid anniml
mi nil bo disputed of a isprwidid fr in 'ni-naiM-e
No. m.
Kna-u-d Hi 10th day of AiiRUt, lvi.
Atu-M :
A. H. I.evv - J. H. JENMNiJri.
OKMSASt'F. SO. :C.
An iMrrwn or rarw(ii ri Mux or drivinir fafter
than at ihe ruff of wvt-Ti nntc an hour on any
rtrwt or allt-y uilhtnthe ikinmathot tr!inn fliall
aay a tine of not It tuati trj) two dtillarK or
inori tlinn t U t-n diMlun. to.-th.-r with
Kne. ld th imh day of AnriiM, 1.
Attest .
A. S. Levy. J. 4. JriNNIVi.
M-iciarr Butm-aa.
Gurry University,
PH TSBURGH, VA
Over i.400 Student Last Year.
f
(lafrical , S- U'iititi , dit Seminary : Xonual ;
kVnmansiiip ; Mtivic and hlot-utioit iM partmenla.
Orry littsine College wt
Curry School of Shorthand
are M-.araTG wlob, emto baviin; iia own enm
plt'te rurnttv. providimr the tivwi thoroujrti
j-rartieal drilf in ii iMieohtainahle.
eud (nrl'afahwneof the iH.'irtmcnt yon d
firv U tiUT.
7-ivjtm. jAS. CLARK WILLIAMS. K KPres.
Executor's Sale
I or I
ValaaMe RealEstate.
BY VIKTt'K of the powrr and authority ron
tuiiuM in th? lat will and UriaJnnt of Samuel
Mjld laieol ?viii.'rt Hnmj.h. SnnrfM-t i 'oun
ty, la., lf'd., tlw underKowi Kxwutor alllx
to Milehy puMlc iMitcry on the premi?ea, in
mv lkruu.'h ol S-iuiTR-t, i'a.. on
SATURDAY. SEPT. S, 1SSS.
at 1 o'cick . m-. the follottinc described real
(tiite laic the prt.f-Tty of suTpiifl ttahl dee d,
and fnniihir on Main tr-H H itei. and exiend
m hw-k u au alW'y Hv f-t. adjoidinx A'aier Me
Kn. I y i tiie taM, ana uh ul soiuen-ei uutuukd
on the V eU
TERMS
One-third in had on delivery deed, one-third
in one yr and one-thiwi in two yean in tin day
of Nile. iH fvrnnl payment-to 1 aet!i-it on the
an'nu- by jtnlTwUi bond. T? (-r rt-nt. o the
purrha nimtt-y to tar iaid as oou a the proper
toi knnt ked down.
AkKX AM'I R It K" FORD,
uk!L Ki ut-iruf Ntin l ttahl. deO'd.
l-'DlTOirs NOTICE.
AT, Elate cf fiol.irrvm Baker. lt of Jcfferaoa
T,,ai,-.htn, Snneret C,,., Pa. lee'd.
The nnler-;cntl having l.ccn duly apladnted
hy iie iirphai' Coon m" Hou.en. cuuty. 1.,
AiiO.lnr ui pa upon ivptiona. acmunt of erei
il,mi. aLd make a .i:Htn.ulion ot the funtin the
haiwi. of The A.iininitrat. to and aiiH.nje lh.e
k-Kallv enulled Ui.-reio. hereHe aive. mmi-e that
,e ai'.l l ai hirodieri.n mednenlay. AuanMt
f. the puri.we of d:M'narjniii the duties of
widaiiintineut. at I 'ekiea p. ra.. wbea and
w here all uersoua interwled may attend.
ofc(. K. liCt LI,
atl. Auditor.
e
FOR TIPPECANOE AND MOR
TON TOOI
Oh. what haa cawed thU great commotion,
Motion, aartioQ, mothHt, Uw country thruuKh T
It ta the bail
A rolling on
For Tlpierauoe and Mfirtoo, too.
For Tippecaiw and Uorna., kat.
And with thrm we'll beat Mr Clew,
Vre. CV'Tf, tnu Uke hla tewv.
And with tLetn we'll bcai Mr. (Vv.
The uvllea, ton, 0jd blew their auuU,
fVaila, tools mnuli. the eon n try througrh,
Wtlitna man
l all thy ran
Fr Tipx-aatw nd MoHoa ton.
F cT.piwTaiMteaud llaruai, too.
And with then ve il t-4 Mr. i k-t.
tVve. t Wv. wa-4 uke hi teae.
And wHh dura t II btat Mr ve
The h'niHt to ien ta our utilia.
ili!U, miittt. mil U the naintry thneugh.
ill jiko tlvir har-b
n i r1) b-tud
Y'm 1 i(fw:Mie and MnrTMn to,
ror T iataa.- aud Murtam, Um,
Aad art:, ih?m we 11 UI Mr IV.
t , lew km lake Wi kwre.
And with tbem we U Mr. i "ica.
Tbe an a iw fanw and rwitc the Arks
r Ua-k. Sttt ka. a -fea natntry .hut.h,
ili hate tlietr m4
To take i pnU
F .iprrwa.v a4 Manai.
ft-- rip)raiNa aud Maun. tnw.
And wit thew we 11 te-t Mr. (.
t lei a, i" t aiH take hu W-a ,
Aixt wt'k thect we U -rc Mr. 4 Vve.
Tht- tfMLajjl buy. who un the blwe,
b!i blue, atnl to our Hag were true,
Will all tuni out
W 'th rhrvr and -luwit
Fr Ti?aa?rmoe and Mors!, too,
I'ur TiptweajH aid Mata, tarn,
Atm! with ti-wi w II wallapold I'kwee,
k-v. Ve niiut takeiiira kaw.
Aitd a lib Uutn we 11 waliupld t'leve.
The Biairbtaia, ivtwl and Murwumpa,
H unit, rump. tutn and all their t'tvw,
V Ul run aud hide Unto
To cwajw the tide
ForTif4rmnoand Urton. too,
Fa Tlppe4auoe and Morton, Uk,
And with th'm we'll tteat Mr. Ueve,
CVevr, t'l"v mwt take hi leave.
And with tin-in we II tat Mr. l leve.
Liming Wisruni.
A SOLITARY PASSENGER.
The KViO train from White Peak was
late that snowy Feliraary ntht. It nev
er was hut one would call painfully
prompt train, but to-night it was full fifty
minutes In-hind its usual time, and the
telegraph operator had nearly fallen
asleep b.-liind the pane of ground glass
over which the word "tickets" was in
scriled in half cirle, and toward which a
most inartiscally fore-shortened hand was
depicted as extending a gilt finger for
the enlightenment of the general pub
lic Not that the Itig l'ine telegraph office
was ordinarily open at so late an hoar as
this. Seven o'clock was the usual period
of closing. Xor had Ktinice Barlow any
ollicial right to the tall wooden Btool be
hind tbe semicircular gilt legend referr
ing to "Tickets." In a manner she had
bad greatness thrust upon ber. Old Mr.
Pettyclove, who represented the majesty
of the railway company in this particu
lar spot, had gone iionie in the early
dusk with a raging facial neuralgia, and
in com nun humanity Eunice could not
have refused temporarily to assume his
position with its duties.
"It will only be another hour of work,"
she told berself, cheerfully, as she put an
additional log of frost-fringed wood into
the little air-tight stove. "When the
0:o0 has passed I ran shut tip the place
and go home. There are only two night
freights, and the conductors on both of
them have keys to the freight bouse."
But in the course of these sanguine
meditations Knnii bad neglected to take
into account the driving snow-storm and
tbe consequent "block" along the rails ;
and she was beginning to glance rather
anxiously at the unmeaning dial of the
wooden clock on the pine shelf above
ber bead, for she would have to walk
ii'-arly half a mile through the lonely
wooded road ere she could reach ber
home, after the station was closed for
the night, and she had a plump, timid
little mother sitting beside tbe tire, who
was sure to imagine all sorts of possible
and impossible horrors If Eunice chanc
ed to be a few mitintes behind the regu
lation time of arriving at the doorstep.
' "I wish," Miss Barlow mused, "that I
bad thought to ask Mr. Pettyclove to
send bis boy Zen us over to tell mother
that I was likely to be detained a little.
But there! tbe train can't be long now."
( Ontside the wind howled like an infu
riated iltinon in the worst possible of
tempers. The tops of the pine trees kepi
tip a constant moaning, like the waves of
some black -green sea. Within, the clock
ticked lustily on, the logs of wood crack
led and sputtered in the stow, and Eu
nice Harlow yawned over her paier cov
ered Ivanhoe, with a growing indiffer
ence to the fate alike of the fair-haired
K jwena and Rebecca the beautiful.
Suddenly the silence was broken by
the tiniest sound, like the throbbing of
some small silver heart. Eunice jumped
up, instinctively oliedient to the call of
her autocrat, the telegraph.
"A message!" she thought. "And at
this time of night. Well, wonders will
never cease."
A message it was ; to Peter Pettyclove,
station agent at Big Pine station.
"Defalcation in Home Bank. Detain
passenger on train 21. Small, dark, and
wearing fur-trimmed coat. Keep in cus
tody until further notice-
H. V. Carter,
Chief of Police at White Peak."
A I mast before she had deciphered
these words, Eunice Barlow telegraphed
back, "All right;" and once more the
small silver heart left off its tumultuous
throbbing. And not until then did the
telegraph operator real ire what a very
eculiar position she was in. All alone
at Big Pine station, and officially author
ized, in right of her substitution, to arrest
a bank defalcator on the spot!
Even while she pondered on this unex
pected state of things there was a curious
thrill and trend. ie of the floor under her
feet; ft shrill steam whistle rising above
the sustained roar of tbe tempedt. The
1O50, officially known as No. 21, was
swinging around the curve.
In an instant Eunice Barlow was out
in the deep snow on the rude board plat
form with the lighted lantern in her
band. The conductor on tha train was
not at all surprised to see her there. He
knew that Peter Pettyckiv was old and
feeble, and a spirited young female tele
graph operator is rated at her full value
in the Big Pine section. She tried to sig
nal to him that she wanted to speak to
him, but the blinding snow drove its
i,h rood like sheets between them. He
smiled and nodded to her in an aggra
Somerset
SOMERSET, PA.,
vating way that men have when they
are rticularly obtuse, thouted to rue in
comprehensible comment on tbe weath
er, helped to loosen the brakea, anil was
an eighth of a mile op the track before
Eunice's lantern light fell on single
black figure, its bat pullexl over its eyes,
its form rhwely buttoned op in a fur
trim med overcoat!
"Is thin the station ?" said a low, well
modulated voice, which gave Mise liar
low tbe Idea that the unhappy victim of
justice a a gentleman born and bred.
"Where are the ortcra ? I'pon my
or.I tl'siktng around after a bewilder
ed faahion,) "I'm afraid they've forgotten
to put off niy luggage. Isn't there a fire
somewhere hertttlMMita?"
Eunice Harlow looked solemnly at bira
aa ahe opened the door into tbe bright,
cheerfully lighted little station. Yee, the
telegraph.! dearription had lieen cor-
rnt. He- was small and dark, and, poor
fellow, be looked aa if be were half fro
Ben to death. But now aroee the perplex
ing iitH-stion, how aa she to "detain
him ?"
"I ran lock him in the ticket office,'
alio thought to herself, "lie will be safe
enough untii Mr. IVttfclove comes in
the morning. But poor fellow! I do
feel snrrr for him."
The solitary passenger fell headlong
into the trap laid for him by tbe tele
graph operator. He walked directly into
the ticket office and sat down, with a
eary sigh, on the till wooden stool
which had lately served Miss Barlow as
a throne of office.
"Only about as old as our Victor
would have been hud he lived," thought
Funic. "Oh, I wonder w hat sinister in
fluence led him into this mistake! I
wonder You are mistaken, sir," she said
aloud, in answer to his reiterated ques
tions. "There are no porters here. There
is no hotel nearer than the Pine Barrens,
four miles away. The agent is detained
at home by sickness, and I am the tele
graph operr tor, on duty in his absence."
The stranger uttered a long, low whis
tle. "I think," said he, "that I must have
managed to alight at the jumping off
place of all the world. What's to be done,
I wonder?"
He looked so cold, so youthful, so utter
ly desolate, that Eunice Barlow's heart
bled for him in bis solitude and peril.
"Fven if he has gone wrong," she pon
dered, with all a young girl's optimism,
"he may do better if he can only get a
chance. After all, I am not .the station
agent How can they expect me, a wo
man, to usurp the place of the officers of
the law? I could detain him perfectly
well, but "
"Can yon tell me," pleaded the solitary
passenger, "where I can get a night's
lodging and something to eat? It is six
hours since we left the supper station,
and I am just recovering from a siege of
malarial fever. Surely there must be some
one around here who would act as niy
guide."
"Tliere is no one here but me," said
Miwi Barlow, locking the cash drawer
and preparing to extinguish the one re
flector lamp that glowed above the new
snivel's head. "But if you choose to go
home with me x daresay my mother will
give yon some supper and a bed. Our
house is the nearest to this place. And
to-morrow." with a somewhat signifi
cant pause "you can begin a new ca
reer." "I'm awfully obliged to you," suid the
gentleman, jumping up with alacrity.
"But how many careers per week do
these westerners count upon? I've no ob
jection, for my jiart, to the old one con
tinued." Miss Barlow's face remained inexora
bly grave. She considered it no part of
her duty to countenance flippancy like
this. She locked the station, and -hung
the key on its hooked nail close within
the latticed casement outside, where the
winds could not burl it away nor the
storms disturb it, before she said, qui
etly: "This way, please. The lantern will
light you sufficiently if you are a little
careful ; otherwise you will find the way
rather steep anil narrow down the hill.
You are perhaps unaware that a telegram
describing your iersonal appearance has
just couie in from the White Peak of
fice V
"A telegram? By Jove, the whole
thing is out, then!"
He spoke quickly ; there w as genuine
disgust and dissatisfaction expressed in
every feature of his face.
"Yes," responded the telegraph opera
tor, "the whole thing is out. Your con
jecture is quite correct."
"lAjes I beg your pardon, but really
this is a matter of some importance to
me does any one know it besides your
self?" "No."
"I may depend on you?" be asked,
with imploring emphasis.
"Yes, you may depend on me."
"Thanks, awfully !" declared the stran
ger, with fervor. "You see, it makes it
very unpleasant to have these things
talked about."
"I should think it might," she said
frigidly.
"And I had counted on remaining
strictly incognito."
"So I should imagine."
A brief silence ensued. Eunice was
wondering how her strange companion
could speak so coolly of "these things."
"Was he utterly dead to all shame T she
thought. Tbe strange companion, in the
meantime, was secretly marveling at the
ease and lightness with which this ex
traordinary girl Btepped out through the
snow drifts.
"A perfect Amazon," he said to him
self ; "and a pretty one, too. Why don't
she keep on talking? I like the timbre
of her voice, it's a regular contralto."
At length he broke the silence. "Can't
I carry that bng for yon V
"Do yon know what is in this bag?"
she counter questioned.
"I haven't the least Idea," he respond
ed. "The money taken in over the ticket
desk to-day, and the keys of the cash
drawers. I am responsible for all of if
"Indeed? But couldn't I carry it just
tbe same ? You have enough to do to
manage the lantern."
"Yes," assented Eunice, "you may car
ry it, if you please; it will certainly give
rue a better chance with the lantern.
You see that I trust you."
"Much obliged, I'm sure. Have we
much farther to go V
fcXo ; you could see the light down in
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1888.
the valley now if the (now didn't drive
ofaat"
"It aeenia to me," observed tbe young
man, after another Interval of silence,
during which the crunching of their fee
in the snow and the persistent boa ling
of the wind was all that broke the spell,
that they put a great deal of responsi
bility on young women in this part of
the world."
"A (pxsl deal of it is forced upon them,
and a good deal they MUiue themselves,"
isid Eunice Bar low. coaipojedly. "I am
tiling to admit that I have taken
heavy reiouibi!ity oa ruvaelf to-nighL"
"Eh?"
"And I think," she adibsl, turning her
calm gray eyes upon hint with a light aa
steady aa that of the lantern? "that yoti
know what it la."
The stranger locked surprised. "I
wonder," he said to bbnsolf, "if I am all
alone upon this midaiitlit rc. with a
mad woman, it la-gins to look unplt as- j
antly like it.
'L'ndenttand," added Miss Barlow,
"that if I take you home to nigiit and
shelter you. I mast have your promises
"The deuce you must .'"cried the young
man, waxing more and more uneasy,
"t'h, I say, now, this isn't fair !"
"Never to repeat the offence !"
"I won.t, if I know myself."
"To turn over a new leaf from this
time forward," she pursued, vigorously.
'The new CAt-eer question again ! I'm
blessed if I know what all this means,"
gasped tbe solitary passenger, breathing
hard, as he breathed all ut once the Hy
ing shrouds of snow, t!te keen tooth of
the west wind, and tiietperplexing prob
lem put forth by the fair guide. For fair
she was, he could see as much as that for
himself. ;
'Equivocation U entih-dy useless," said
Eunice, severely. "You know perfectly
well what I mean. I Lave given you a
chance for freedom ; for what is still bet
ter, fame and character. See to it that
Litis chance does not pass unimproved."
"Mad !" muttered the stranger to him
self, "very mad ."' Entirely a hopeless
case, I should say. I winder if there re
ally was a telegram, or if that is a pirt
of her brain disorder? I wonder if I'd
better keep on with ber, nobody knows
whither, or cut and tun for it, snow
storm and all?"
"There is no mitigating your oliense,"
gravely procee led Miss Barlow. "Mind,
I assert that at the very beginning. But,
as I said before, I am willing to give you
one more chance."
"Very kind of you, I'm sure," hope
lessly murmured the young man. "But
would it be considered intrusive if I were
to ask what the offence is?"
You have basely absconded with your
employer's money," said Eunice, with
the freezing sternness ;of idealized jus
tice ; "in other words you are a bank de
faulter."
'No, I'm not," stoutly asserted the
stranger. "I beg pardon for contradict
ing yon, but that is all a mistake from
beginning to end. I will stand a great
deal, but I won't s'and such r.umes as
that."
'This is scarcely a fuir return for my
treatment of you," said Eunice, uith
some contempt. "Deceit ad-Jed to crime
"Oh, come, now, won't you gi ve a fel
low a chance?" uttered her companion.
!As tbe school books say, 'Strike, but
hear.' I've nobody's money but my own,
and not too much of that. I don't know
anything about your banks nor their de
faulters. I've only been in your country
two weeks, and I think it's the snowiest
climate going. My name is Ernest Tin-
sallon, and I was to have been met at the
station by Colonel Copley, of the Four
Ilundret'.i Cavalry."
Eunice I? irtow gave a little shriek of
amazement. Sir Ernest Tinsallon ! she
cried. "The Englishman who was com
ing out here to hunt buffalo, and
follow up the line of the Piue UK'er ! But
you have alighted at the wrong station ;
you should have stopjied at l'ine Bar
racks, seven miles beyond here."
"I heard the conductor bawl out some
thing about pine of one sort or another,"
said the young Briton. "I was dead
asleep, and didn't stop to discriminate,
and 1 scrambled off. So I have made a
mistake, have I ? But all the same, it's
awfully good of you to offer to conduct
me to a place of Christian shelter."
"And I have uiudea mistake, too," said
Eunice, with a gasp. "Just before your
train came in t'lt-re was a message wired
to Big Pine station a message to detain
a bank robber who was said to be on the
train. I was all alone, but I could have
locked him in the ticket office jierfectly
well. We western girls are prepared for
any emergency, she sunt, with some
pride. "But 1 was so sorry for you, you
looked so young and innocent ; and I
determined to give you one more chance
"For a new career," interrupted the
stranger, with a gust of laughter. "The
key to the puzzle! I see it all now. Ion't
you know, I was beginning to think you
must be a lunatic. And how disagreea
bly near I came to being locked up, after
all. And the bank fellow, whoever he is,
serins to have got off scot free. Beally,
now, if ever a man had a genuine guar
ding angel, you are one," he added, as
Eunice led the way into a pretty little
sitting room, hung with the lost of the
Christmas evergreens, and all aglow with
the red earpet and curtains, where a fire
of logs burned on the open hearth, and
a cozy meal was spread on the table.
Sir Ernest Tinsallon slept in the spare
chamber that night, was called by star
light, and breakfasted at 6 o'clock the
next morning with the telegraph opera
tor and her mother, and afterward ac
companied her to the Big Pine station,
plunging through white masses of snow
drifts, and sliding, school-boy fashion,
across the mirror-like surface of the fro
zen brooks, Mr. Pettyclove was there
with his face tied up in a spotted silk
handkerchief. There were also several
telegrams awaiting the hand of the op
erator. One was from the chief of police
at White Peak, stating rather late, per
hapsthat the bank defaulter had at the
eleventh hour, and on the very step, so
to epeak, of tbe train, surrendered him
self to the local authorities. There was
another from Colonel Copley, of the
Four Hundreth Cavalry, inquiring if
anything had been heard at Big Pine
station of the missing English baronet
who was overdue at the barracks.
"Only think," said Miss Barlow, with 1
a little shiver, "if I had locked you up in
the ticket office all night, what moaUl
Colonel Copley have said T' .
"That, unJur the ctrcuinatannee, yon
had done no ibor than jror eoaatry ex
petted of yon," retortMai Hr F.itet
"But, I say, all thm uim wi
pliaky of you. Mm Bartoe,
af i-7
know of an Knzladi frl the would Lave
had the pours to r hrvli wi:h it."
Funii smiled a little. "Here is your
train. Sir Ernest," she said.
"But I haven't thanked you half
enough." He atotxl holding both ot bf
han.it, his frch English face a'.l
nes.
It is quite onneresaary to say more."
i obaurved Misa Barlow, quietly. " There
j U ti.e telcgraid.. I au wanted at u.y post
ofdutyiw.ticd-bv.eirr.raet. 1 wk-li
! yonavery pleasant journey.- '
Sir Kroeat Tinsallon went on his way
i into tbe blue, glittering cold of that peer-
le winter morning, with the fine trees
I !ookin like Druids clad in ermine rot-
t .
an.t tne piams an sneeua in tcveii I".
and Eunice Barlow never saw him more.
-No, he did not come back to woo and wed ( 2 uv fiir ,h Hlti,
her, as the hero of an orlhixlox love tale , r- Bm(. ,,, Mfr Momhon!. a. -should
have done. He. could n t. Wing . p,,,,, Mr ,;ujm. in tm, f,lr.,lonH!
already engaged to another young wo- , Mrri.,.. which brought him totl.e station,
man .n England. But he sent a superb j There w8 demonstration en route,
hamper of game to Mrs. Barlow, in care ( whtB ,he CilrriaiJf, ...f,, .
of the telegraph operator at Bid Pine star j lm,re WW , towa ,,n.ntf RI,a it
tion ; and at many an English dinner- j was wUh iffl(.,ty tnat a Vlls a
table afterward he told the story uf his clenre1 bv the Mr. r!lline ou
midnight adventure in the iH west,
The prettiest girl rort ever saw, by
Jove!" he reiterated. In that earnest wsy
of his, "and the pluckiest r. Joan of Arc
was nothing to her. I dreamed of her
for a week alterwards, with her swinging
lantern and those great gray eyes of hers
and the pretty little apeechusaboutf rn
ing over a new leaf' that she mad to me.
Yes, I did ; and I'm not ashamed to own
it, even before Lady Tansalloa here. Eh,
Kate T ' , -n--
And the English bride Isnghed gocl
humored!)', and observed that "to hear
Sir Ernest talk, the American girls, must
be full-fledged heroines." w " ' - ;
" She was ; I can Vouch for that," said
Sir Ernest. ' .
A Question for New Voters.
Any yonng man, before he enroll hi;u
self under the IemocTatic banner, shonM
consider serioosly this question; "If I
join the Democratic party; how long can
I stay with it?" We will assume that.
like many young men fresh from their
studies, he is inclined to free trade Mhos, i
We will suppose that he votes the Dem
ocratic ticket in November, and considers
himself a member of that party. ., A few
weeks later tbe Legislature of bis State--for
tli is may be true in any State meets,
and a High License bill -or esie other
strict temperance measnre te! introduced.
He sees his new found party rally solidly,
to oppose it nnder the ttlrtatrr rri the
liipior dealers. He is vexed and asham
ed. He is intelligent, well educated and
sincere. His conscience compels him to
oppose the party he has just joined, and
to denounce its action. 1 i .
Later on, a bill for the purification ami
better protection of the ballot is intro
duced. Here again ho sties his party
solidly contending against a measure
which proUiby every cont.'ieutious voter
in both parties wants to see passed.
Again he is vexed and ashamed. It seems
to him that the party leaders are actuat
ed by the lowest motives, pander to the
worst classes of society, and are besides
blind to the signs of the times. Aaiu
he opposes the party in which he has
enlitted.
Now, does a man show good common
sense when he joins a party which he ex
pects to sjiend most of his time opposing?
On most of the great question of the day
temperance being one of the chief of
them the Iemocratic party is as hope
lessly wrong as it was on the slavery
question, and it ran no more change its
position than it conld with regard . to
slavery. Even many who io not agree
with Kepublicans in believing that the
free-trade tendency of the party is its
most danseronschamc'teristic are com pell
ed to admit that upon nioml issues it is
ntterly wrong headed. Then why have
anything to do with it? To jump on a
train for the sake of jumping off again is
a very slow way of reaching one's desti
nation. Many persons of this class seem to
think that some mysterions virtue resides
in Mr. Cleveland, which secures the
country against the perils of complete
Democratic ascendancy. The re rd .f
his Administration shows that this con
fidence is one of those delusions which
are not uncjmmon in politics. Tny
voters who supported him four years
ago have found it out. But in any event
the new voter should remember that the
power behind the President is that of
the Democratic party with its old charac
ter still unchanged.. Mr. Cleveland can
not possibly remaiu iu power more than
four years longer; and when be is gone,
the party must fall back again upon the
old set of leaders whom the American
people distrust. i
The notion that this hoary headed ol 1
sinne r, the Democratic party, has at last
been converted, and will now do works
fit for repentance, is no new thing. When
the Democrats of the South agreed to
support Mr. Greeley, on a platform of
universal ameety and reconciliation, many
of us were glad to believe tuein sincere,
and joyfully bailed the dawn of a better
day. Yet the shocking atrocities by
which the negro rote in the South has
been suppressed were committed many
years afterward, while tbe most shame
less frauds known in the history of re
publican institutions continue to this day
and are relied upon to re-elect Mr. Cleve
land. When Mr. Tilden was nominated
there was a class, especially among the
young voters, who believed that tlie Dem
ocratic party was about to become a sfteat
instrument of adminiatrative reform. It
was only a few months before they were
overwhelmed with confusion and shame
by the disclosure of the cipher disjiatches
-tbe vilest politicial conspiracy in our his
tory. Thoeejwhoindolgeinaimiiaxdreama
about the Democratic party of to-day
have a like rude awakening before them.
It draws to itself, by a natural attraction,
the worst elements, and" can no more
change its character than the leopard can
change its spots. -V. T. Tribunt. ''
By its mild, soothing and healing
properties. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
cures the worst cases of nasal catarrh,
also "cold in the bead," coryza, and ca
tarrh headaches. 60 cents, by druggists.
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ELAINE IN MAINE AGAIN.
i nej journey irom coston n- . )Wt mf lr, . , u h ,rfth:n to
other Series of Ovation. Ulllk0 Amrnrmn lhMt tM4
Aiotat. Jit, U.-Mr. Waif!""'" vrrf0 rnul
au fin.il. ikII hun. lerr wrt
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i cnuutrriiirn. Th loct-irnta fc1ty
j mrn a r.a-l:iia tbia nf i ier-Uv.
llrnv.lt were at merr !Uti..ri, and al-
tlum.h Mr. I'.la.n esr.-e-Iirn.-'r
h'ejw. he tnn cnnipffV. t. wy mtur-
j tiling at almost e verv l 'mv.
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CIul j,,, , . txMl(Knln. At
entering his tar, was cheered by Uie
crowd. As the train wad about to move
away Mr. Blaine appeared on the plat
form in response to calls und thanked
the people for their kind recognition.
The train then moved out on its way to
Augusta.
Tllot ajisus a r LYX.V.
The Ulaiue train reached Lynn at 12:5S.
Thousanda had assembled at the depot to
see him and Central Square was
packed with people. Mr. Blaine was in
troduced by Congressmaa Henry Culs.t
Lodge, who said ;
"Mr; Blaine has been, as you know,
speakiiic continnonsly sim arriveI. His
mice is much worn and he is very tired,
bnt he will speak a few words to you.
There is no need of introducing Mr,
Blaine to an American audience."
Cheers followed the mentiou of Mr.
Blaine a name. He said :
"Mr. Lodge has kindly made apologies
for tne and I content myself by express
ing my sincere thanks for your coming
j ht're S'eet me. I am home once more
""""s
.There was such tremendous applause
after this that there was no opportunity
for further remarks and tbe train started
for Salem.
'" ', BIS VOICE AND HAND GIVE OIT..
, . There was a large crowd at the depot
at Salem to greet Mr. Blaine, who was
VroducdaAl apid a few words, repeat
Itig wTiat "he" "nail . aald at Lynn. The
lple were very demonstrative. As the
train proieded Mr. Blaine said to nicm
fc'.TS of his party that, not having spoken
in public for over two years, he fonnd
that bis voice was more easily overtaxed
than it otherwise would have leeii.
Ipswich was the next stop. The crowd
was not very la re, but was very enthu
siastic. Mr. Blaine bad time to respond
to their cordial welcome with a few words
of thanks. The party arrived at Newport
at 2 o'clock. The throng here was very
large. Mr. Blaine thanked them fortheir
hearty greeting, but excused himself from
a speech, explaining that his voice had
been greatly strained. He could only ex
press the joy he felt, after so long an ab
sence, to he at home among friends. Ap
plause. "Maine men," he said, "always
fee! at home in Massachusetts." Cheers.
A grent rush wits made to shake hands
with Mr. Blaine, and he good naturedly
said: "I got pulled to pieces yesterday,
and I must be a little careful. He grasp
ed the hand.- of as many as he could be
fore the train proceeded.
Dr. Bodcn and the Massachusetts dele
gation left the train here. and W. O. Sides.
Chairman of the New Hampshire- dele
gation, with a party, paid their respects
to Mr. Blaine and went on with him.
JUlVAI. WKUOME TO AlHil STA.
Augusta was reached at 8:-T i: m. It is
impossible to describe the enthusinsin
manifested here. It seemed is if everv
body in the c'ty was on hand to welcome
Mr. I!'a!ne. There was cheering, fire
work, mnsic and torchlights. Building
of all kinds were illuminated. Arches
of fire spanned the streets, "Welcome
Home" was seen everwhere. Mr. Blaine's
house and the grounds were ablaze
with illuminations. In the grounds a
platform gaily decorated awaited his
coming. A great pnx-ession moved (nun
the depot to the house, beaded by Mr.
Blaine in a carriage drawn by four white
horses. In Mr. Blaine's carriage sat also i
Mavor MacomtK-r, Hon. W. P. White-
1 rw .:h,;.i,.,.f ti, i
riage contained kvemor Marble, Kx
GovtrnorConnorand the Keception Com
mittee. When the house was reached
the Mayor introduced Mr. Blaine to the
vast throng and the applause was deaf
ening. After an address of flattering
welcome by Judge Whitehouse, Mr.
Blaine resjionding to tumult nous cheers,
suid: "Mr. Mayor, may I return to you,
and through you to the eloquent orator
w ho has addressed me in such partial
terms, my sincere thanks for the manner
in which you have voiced the kindness
and cordiality ff this reception, not mere-j
ly from my neighbors, but from thou-
sands of friends from all parts of this
great State. When I tirst heard that a
reception was to be tendered I thought it
would be confined to frien.: and neigh- j When the question has to be met as to
born. It is so. I thought as I had lived j w),at is the be-4 cmrse to adopt to secure
here since my twenty-fourth year, and I Sure, safe and agreeable remedy for
as my public history began and centered j those organ! : diseases and weakness
here, that those who bad known me for j which alili -t the female sex, their is but
."j years might extend a cordial welcome, j 0UK v.;se di.i-ion, viz., a ourseof slf
but I had no conception that men from ; treatment w;;h Dr. Pierce's favorite Pre
all quarters of Uie State, from theextreme j s.ri'.tion. It is an unfailing specific for
corners of the Commonwealth I love so i p,-rioilicai ismis, inisplaceuient, internnl
well and whih I have tried so faithfully j inflammation, and a'l functional disor
toserre ln public stations, would have j ders that ren.ler the lives of so many
been here. Applause. women miserable and joyless. They who
"Yon can have no conception how it j use it, prai-w it. Of druggists.
impresses one who has been for a year
beyond the seas an exile from heme, to
meet a welcome like this, unbounded in
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.u., .....iiiiwu . . . . -1 V'. I'. ...'-. j
beyond human speech to respond j
to. Cheers. But you must take the I
will ir the deed, for my wonls cannot j
reach tbe borders of this vast asHeu.bly.
Applause.
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many countries beyond the ei-a, but I Pot-!uck is the good tune of the poker
have seen nothing in any kingdom of j player.
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tienllenien. t.ia much I etioul not
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he'p savin, outsitl-that which was I r-
:ie iHvnsii ti. Fr ail you have
done f..r me .in 1 t.r all the te-ti:i.nv the
: elo)rtrnt g-r;t!e'i;en h.tve borne to th
; ki'i i!r rela'io.is Vtmeen mye!f and my
I f. llow-rit!-.-n of Autista wi'h.m: dis-
tincti'.n ol ptrty, ! g've you my pr.v
1 f..un det thiitiks. Then is "'Lite like
Maine; no wilier like Ki-nnebec ; no
city like Aujusfa, and no home like that
home 'pointing to his house'. There I
have lived these many vetirs and there I
propose to live, and there I propose to
dwell. I hjv no desire to separate my
interest from yo'irn. I have been with
yon fro'n my youth npwar.I, and I hope
to be here a many years as tt.xl shall
give nie in this world, fheers") I thank
you a thousand times over for a'.l this
sympathy, kindly shown by all who in
habit the State of Maine." Ilreat ap
platise. At the conclusion of Mr. Blaine's al
dress tiiere was a display of fireworks
and music. The visiting delegution
were escorted to the deiot and departeil
amid great entliitsidsm.
Reindee.-
Hair for
servers.
Life Pro-
Life-saving upparutiw of reindeer hair
has been contrived and successfully ex
perimented with by a Norwegian engi
neer, it being j. roved that such hair in
capable of supjsjrting a weiglit ten times
its own. FxperimenLs were made in one
case with a life-saving object which could
be used on hoard ship as a chair, bed
stead or couch, but which, in case of need
may ! converted into a suiiillboat. This
apparatus was found capable of support
ing three fill grown men in the water,
although only intended to bear two.
Another trial was with a suit nude en
tirely of reindeer hair, covering the.en.tirv
body except the face, in which a man
floated on the water without having to
make the slimiest movement. It was
also found wholly impossible to dive in
the dress. A door mat made of this hair
was found to support a man easily,
aithough he was dressed in tmtikjor
clothing. On comparing life belb made
of reindeer '-air w ith similar ones made
of cork, il was found that the former are
much lighter than the latter a very im
portant advantage to an exhausted
drowning js-rson when it has to be put
ou in the wider.
The City of Siberia.
If I were u-ked to cliaracterize Omsk
in a few words, I fchouid devcrilie it as a
city of SO""" inhabitants, ill which the
largest building is a military academy
and the most picturesque building a po
lice station ; in which there i. neither a
newspaper nor a public library, and in
which one half the. population wears the
l Tsar's uniform and makes a husinesai of
governing the other half. The nature of
the relations between the latter half and
the former may be inferred from the luc.t
that an intelligent and reputable citizen
of tills chinoviiik denominated city, who
had been k i I au I Useful to us. said to
me when be bade us good-br, "Mr. Ken
nan, if you find it necessary to speak of
tne by name in your book, please don't
speuk of tne favorably."
" "or heaven's sake, why not?" I in
quired. i " I1." " replied, " I don't think
j your bout will lx altogether pleasing to
j the government ; aud if I am mentioned
I favorably in it I shall be luirrassed by
j the olhcinls here more than I am now.
My request may seem absurd, but it is
j the one favor I have to ak." 'Vi-wive
AViiciii iii tli- Cetitiint.
. - . ,
t Partridges of the Steppes.
(ierman snorting men and naturalist's j
are interested in the reports from several j
diffsrent parts of that oantry of the np-
larame this vear of the " partridge of
tl. t.-...a" 'av,rhuih r.-r,..loy,is1 a
bird hitherto found only in tbe Aauitkj
steppes. It is not so Ur as the Euro-
pi-an tiartriilge. its color isauirtv yeliow,
p.uniing
into light bay; on the head,
ndarmmd the eve orange pre.
throat and around the eve orange pn
d.imiiiutes ; the breaat is gray and thj
bidly black; the back is streaked with
black jo"auU, and the wings are
dark brown; the fcet have only three
t's; the fi-ii'hers on the feet are like fine
hair, and come down to the tots', whiie the
soles hate a s-Jv covering; the middle
tail feathers and the tip of the wings are
long and tiuely pointed. -o reason is
known for its quitting its old home and
appearing in Germany. f hutujo JlrraUI.
How Intelligent Women Decide.
i Dyin
lar to
; Benedict I bUeath every dol
my wife. Have you got that
down 7
Lawyer Yes.
Dving IVnedict On condition
that
si.e marr.ts within a vear.
I-awver But why insist upon that?
Dying Benedict Because I want some-
body to be sorry that 1 died.. tltrjxr
A Thrilling Story of Love and a
Tight Fit-
This is the bitterpat aioment of niv
lifer'
The young man who spoke tfceae words
from tha Wpthsof an overcharged heart
stt al.me In the cuahictied rat of rail
way car, with hia kneM -rpaa-n cpauint
the back of the arat ia front of him. ii
was a youth of rororly appearance an i
ahapely architectural eotiatrjction, ex--eptjbra
pecuUar.fy, sew fir I he 6ra
lima obarrrvj by perrons who g'anced at
him as they passed along the a-r of the
car. Hi legs appeared to have irTcred
remarkable and nnacroantabie e'oCira
tioa from the knee Iowa, w.th a '.wr--err
expense of aoc.e twelve !a, h t
twern tha eoutherb eitrmit:a of h.a
trouaer aa 1 the eolae of hia .
Fall ot the Bopafal mthnaMAem of i-w'h
Ophaa W irs bad etd fr-u home
lata boar bt -re w in a 1 ' t heart :a
h a breawat an 1 a pair of new U-. n k i
fleet. He ve oa h.a war to b in I n
vil'.e. la laiapurme to a rii,.ih
dar prv;or.a, wh.i S aael
I ir Ci-priae l'iwni tm tha t'V'n. ..ia
traia ao.oanrrow. I atia'l S at ti. .,'...ri
toaaranyaat It. "i
Fefuatr unna. wan lite iin't U'i .1
era wealthy afiakrauwr mud.n in tha
oilOira of PUb-UtiIU- t t n--re t'.an
a year t eiwaa ' .m h ! word, ..!
leioar a.ih a tfepih of dr,4e n that at
tmiee arfea-t.! him w.tii rniJ..iin of
aK" and aenoasty Impoire-I hi d va
taoa. lie hl mr ht at a a-ir.-e de cir
cna in a neighboring vil!or. and bad
hwrn grante-l the privilrg" of correspond
ing with brr, but until bow h had never
fun to par her a visit at her own home,
and all along the joarner his h.urt had
bratea with a thuinpitr-thunip-thuinp
that ha-! kept time with the clackity-clack-clack
of the car wheels that Is ire
hi'a every aionient nearer to his destina
tion. He had been diverted temporarily
from his dream of blis. however, after
two or three hours riding by the imper
ious demanded of bis feet to release from
the imprisonment ot the new boots, and
with the self pussemion of a man of re-snunr-s1
Cephas had pulled the boots half
way off.
Fatal mistake '.
The train was within a short distance
of Blandirwville. It was now time to
poll ttnx? bunts on again, lie proceeded
t i t so.
He piille,!.
He bnu-ed himself and pullinl again.
He perspired.
He swore !
With the natarat reaction of proud,
sensitive feet unused to prolonged op
pression in hot weather the feet had
swelled wp in indignant protest ami now
refuse to move either way, up or down.
They were stuck fast in the boot legs!
Tause for a moment and contemplate
the horror of the situation and weep
silently.
"Blan'nsvl !" yelled the conductor.
Through the open window of the car
Cephaa aaw Felisty McOinnis standing
expectantly on the platform and saw that
she had caught sight of him also. It was
too late now to slip past the station. A
moment later and he had hobbled out of
the car, and with his bouts Hopping de
lirionslr about as he walkel he was
making his war toward her.
"Yon have come, have yon, C
Why what in the world is the matter?"
"Yes, Felisfy gaul dern these Isiots:
I've com-," he said faintly. "Please call
an ambulance. Is there a shoemaker's
shop or a surgeon's office anywhere about
here?"
The Dismal Swamp an Eden.
The region of the Virginia Dismal
Swamp, writes J. Boyle O'Reilly in the
Boston Hi rnlil, was intended by nature
to be a pleasure ground, a health resort
and a game preserve for the eastern side
of the continent. In spite of all that h;.s
been done and left und ne to destroy it,
the swamp itself is proliably, the health
iest sKit in America. Tbedelictousjunip
er water prevents malaria more effectu
ally and perfectly than the famed eni-aly p
tus of Austrilia. The flying game of the
continent centres in this region, and the
lake in winter is the best shooting ground
in the country. Now that wealthy clulm
and individuals are buying up the coast
shooting, this incomparable natural pre
serve ought to be secured fr the nation
or the state.
Its original undoing was prdml.lv some
accident or cataclysm of nature.changing
a water course, or opening a crater-like
spring or number of springs. But the
remedy from the first waaas eay and as
open to intellig-nre as the tapping of a
vein to prevent plethora. Tlas lake, it is
probable, was the center are! the cause
of the swamp, and is proved by the
streams Mowing out of, i.tstead of i.ito it.
It oversowing waters, when swelled by
ruins or spring-, finding no natural chan
nel of esciifie, rose f.sjt by font to the very
lip of the rnp, covering the beach and
threatening the densely wooded shore.
' In this way has been brought the sin
gular conditions of the lake, which, in
stead of being the lowi-st, is the highest
portion of the Dismal Swamp. It muM
be pierced and drained at anv point, and
I reduced to natural and beautiful pronr
' tions. Its overflow, instead of const ntly
j deluging the surrounding land, could be
i guided in 10,0)i sparkling channels to
I enrich and adorn its wonderfvl environ
ment. 1 lie Ijixe or trie I'ismal .-wamp
!
; he sea, and it is not fifteen
,m,m '""' tidewater, the intervening
i .. . , . . .
lBr"' l"'ini' tl"V ttn''' "'!'' r"r
1 , "''"-.. -w..,. sangi-r
sf ill. the chsn nels h.vp Ivwn diiir ft ir ni-r
i .' "
i""" """""' 7". nr"
P t the outer tn. with wolen gates.
1 i I i ... .i i , I
The Pocket in His Night Shirt.
The precocity of eight-year-old boys
bos often been the theme for newspaper
comment, but I think I know of one who
is entitles! to particular distinction for
hii brightness. The otlier day he im-
portuned bis mamma for a roght shirt
just like papas, with a pocket in it.
He motlter mwl btm one, and fie first
night he wore it he went to lied in high
glee. Id the morning, when his mother
took it off, she found in the one pocket a
couple of are 1 cakes, three matches, a
toothpick, a small silver watch, several
pieces of cough candy awl the boy's
pocket handkerchief. When the little
fellow was q iestione-4 as to tbe reason
for the varied assortment he replied :
" Well, I thought if I gi hungry in the
nighttime I would need the Sees! cakes,
am! of coarse I'd want the toothpick
afterward. If I wanted to see what time
it was by my watch, I would have to
have a match, and I was afraid of cough
ing, so I put the candy there." His ex
ruses were equal to his preparations at
any rate. Minnrttp.tii Trilimr.
The many remarkable cares Hood's
Sarsaparilla accomplish are sufficient
proof that it does posse peculiar cura
tive powers.
Don't gtow fruit or vegetable too
thick; thinning out improves size and
mw;jty
Never leave the cover off the tea can-ster.