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To goHEsarr Hksald,
Sombwbt, Pa.
A.
C.U0LPF.RT.
Anok.sEY-AT-lJkW,
IkmOMtfa
om-a with John H. f hi.
rnaw- iuksfckkk,
h ATTOilNEY-AT-LAW.
- homerset. Fa.
olre in Printing Houat Bow, oj.poaite Court
' MCOKGE R. SCULL,
T ATTtiK-Vty-ATLA-.
hamerart. Pa.
J R. S.X.TT.
1. ;. UuLE.
ToTT & OOLE,
rjf.'AK.s-iir.jn'.
SoMUtSET, Tk.
M J. KOOSEK,
bumernet. Pa.
7EMI KY,
ATT.UKSEY-AT-l.AW
Somerset, ra.
cj r. TRENT.
Somerset, Pa.
Vf J. I'KITTS.
ATTcKSEY-ATLAW.
souM-reet, Pa.
E,t In s.imenet County Rank.
II.
L. BA ER.
ATTORSEY-AT-l.A.
Mnt-wl, Pa.,
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hoim-raft, Pa.
AM busing fT.tmt1 to their care will
.i.i punctually atu-u.li U- ou
i! i u lVu slr.-ea. opP" Mammoth Bla.
A ATToKNEY-AT-LAW
' ' feinnerset. Pa.,
w-11 tvt rmrnntdttpiitir.il tehui lie entrusted
:',,s- iu l-nutiug Hi-m ko. "W1 t" tourt
Dr'NSIS MEYERS.
ATTOK.NEV-AT-1.AW
somerset. Pa.
" lorsl t.n!ne entrusted to tin rare will 1
J,; u,o Mrrcl. u.tMie the Court House.
J A1TOKNEV-AT-LAW.
!im'raet, Pa.,
W IK ittcnil Ui !! biiina entniel to bii rare
n. aii.t no.r.ij.
a:ire Klhrr IVwk fUire.
ATTOKNEYATLAW.
S.raerwt, I"a-
OTIu Mammoth Bl.vk. np flair.. Knmr.o
i, lu'.- ,-j.mi!i.-.l and all ki! -uiau av
rri.'W' to with I.,vmi.tuw and bai-mj.
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., ,,,.. L. & COLBOM.
ATTUKNEVS-AT LAW.
sun-rwt. Pa.
n v.ii'n citnilt-a to our rare will ba
hi: ft
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UKXKY. F. SCHKI.L,
ATTOKNEY AT LAW,
(..tnoTnet, Pa.
.Knty and Prtnion AgtuL Offlo: lu Mammoth
ATAl.tMINK HAY,
V Al-IOiL-NEV-ATLAW,
c-Toeract, Pa.
A -ilieaU-rin Rl Etate. Will attmd to all
bt,.-- .ini-trd u. hi. care lib fromUie
and n.ltliij.
THUS 11. VHL,
J ATTUK.NEY--AT LAW.
" Somerset. Pa.
-11 pr.mt.tlv ttr.d to all burina entraiawl
oli:ra. ..!!. v .M.v'eduuoollccUoIia,c. lf
liiv lii UKiUUoU- Block.
D
R. J. E. L1ESECKER,
rilYSRTAK AND BVKGEOS,
Si.MriwKT. Pa.,
Trenrr hi prororal er-irea to the citiaen ol
S.tii. W. and vi. umj. USica in Biwecket
Miyilt-r Iirug St,rt.
-JR. II. S. KIMMELL,
Trtidfn hit i.n.fffonal aervtwa Ut the rirtiein
of K.mrrwt and vwmiiy. I ul .r..fi"Ully
euin lif can M touud at hi i tti ou Main t.
Lwl o! ltamuud.
jyi. II. EUl BAKER,
idor hi" nrcfewloual at-rrice" to the eltiiei
or Konirrwt and ir-imty. ouiwiB roMUeuceon
U.u m-rt ot of Kiaiuond.
DIL J. M. UtVTIIER,
ifimmrlj .MoyMAjirn.)
PHYSICIAN ANP fl'Rl-EtJX,
IlM luraud Jrr:al.etitly 111 Simeret JoT the
p-a. tic oi iiw jniU-Muou. Oflice on Ham atreel,
r-ar ol lru .7ure.
DR. J. S. M MII.EEN,
no uriecial aiition to the rwervatkm of
tr.a iiatural u'lh. Artiliral i'ta iin-TWd. All
mrai.'.!. iamiiued wtila-Uiry. ntlire In the
r,iamrr M. M.Trniaell Ai Uk'a "lore, corner
liiu i'n md i'atnol utreelK.
DR.J0HX BILTA
1ENTTST.
tiSt-e UHair in Cook 4 BeeriU Blotk.
DR. VM. CX.iLI.INS.
l.ENTl.'T.
OS-e In Knei'i'f Work uo-talr. where he
can m- round at i! time ,rt'par-d to do ail kind
ut aurk. u-q im riiiutf. r-;tiLattu. extracting.
Ac Art:!:rtal ucth ol all kind aud ol the beat
aia:ena: Utnertcd. AU work (uaranUfed.
R. J. K.MILLXR
t-v i ji rt faou. nJ11io upt-uule CiMfia
kr. v-.ujEfr i tUjT.
Somerset County J3ank.
ESTABLISHED 17.)
C..J. HARRISON, M. J. PRITTS,
hnHa.tT. Cash i ml
Cvllertioiif mmtle in Mil pru of the Tnited itMXem.
CHARGES MODERATE.
Psn:- wishin u or. mtnej ran be mo
C'li nviatol l.y druft tn St York in any dudi.
j.i-ri,minn.iV no j.nmitiie. t. te,
t-'iitftil an.l W i ! laiiii vaiu-vl.li- Mnurv4
f mi A Vtut- 4vA-j time lot k.
-All IkhJ Lolidari Otwen-ed.
CURTIS K. GROVE.
SOMERSET, PA.
Bl.-fiC.IES, SLEIGH CARRIAGES,
M'ElNti AtKlNS, Bl K WA0ON8.
AND EASTERN AND WESTERN WORK
Fumlfhed on Short Notice.
Fainting Done on Short Time.
Ky .t lnirlc,4:t of TlKmnrUi .Smmnf H'aod,
aud ttw hut r.m owl ,st Sutwtautially
loimtnMnrd. Neatly Flnllied. and
Warrauwd lofnve aatlaiactiua.
Snplqr Cnly First Class crimen.
R.'Iirln j of All Kicdn ia Mr Line In on
.Kn Nutiec. Pncet KEAWJN AB1.E, and
All Work Warranted.
(all and Examine my Stock, and Learn PrVe
Ida Wafun-work. and furanh gcWea to Wind
'11a. Remember the place, and call in.
CURTIS K. GROVE,
(EaM of Conn Houap)
ROMWR8ET. PA
QI1ARLES HOFFMAN,
MERCHANT TAILOR.
(Above BeAey'i Btora.)
Latent Style, and Loa eit Ir-io-a.
ATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Somerset, Pa.
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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 45.
JJIJACOBS 01
For StifTnes Stiff Neck.
Dress the Hair
With Ayor'n ITair Vicor. Ita cl'nli
rti iw, U'ntli. iul virc-u m the sch!j, uu.l
latlin )H.:rfutiio couiiiioml it l.ir urn.
cnial toilot uso It kn'.s the lmir K'.'t
nmlsilkon, ires-n-os ita color, jm-vi-m.s it
from fu'.hnj, anil, if the lia r 1;ls U-ihiho
weak or thin, iror.iolci a now j;rovtIi.
' To natore the original color of toy
liir, illicit lil t ti rtic-.l frrtiiaturily
Cray, I uaeil Arcr'a ilair Vior with hi.
tire auoceas. 1 cheuifuiiy U-sliy to the
Efficacy
of tliia preparation." Mrs. P. II. Davi.l
ao:, Alcxamlria, La.
" I wan adlict.'.l anme throe rears trilli
acnlp thm-aMe. My hair warn falling out
tiii.l what rciiiainotl tiirm-ti crruv. 1 wan .
in. In. r.l to try Aver Hair Vicor, mi l
in a fow cka tin li8fa.-i in ihv a'-ali
iliapjwari'tl an. I mv hit.r r'siiiue.l
original color." (ltov.) S. S. Siiii,
IV-ior L. IS. Church, tU Ecrnitv, lu.l.
"A fi-w yeara a;o I anfTere,! tlieentirri
loaa of my hmr from the eflVrMu! totter.
I hoticil that after a time iiaiurn tvoul.t
r'iia:r tho !, lmt I wait.-,! in vaiu.
Muiiv rcui'-iiiea -aore aue!iiil. Tione.
l..iii-cr. with audi nro.d of merit a
Acr'a Hair V ic m. anil I U-an to imo it.
The n-s ilt -f M all I could have desinil.
A growth of hair aoou came out all over
my lictiil, an.l irreur to lie na aoft ati.l
heavy aa I ever hail, ami of a naiuial
color, oa.f firmly tel." 3. II. i'rail,
SlM.rTonl, Tcsau.
Ayer's Hair Vigor,
rcEr.u;i:: BT
Dr. J. C. Aycr L Co., Lov.-c!!, Masj.
bold by Iiru-L'IU and I'.rf jmcra.
OH I MY HEAD!
Suffering of a New Jersey Sanator. Dyspepsia. Sick
H(djcHe.-Terrible Thing.
"There are ft ft-w thinp" ilmX I brlievc In with
U my bin.M The fjn-akiT cx-Stiiator Al
brrt M'-rritt. bad of lite large fruit Ann, Kl Fark
Pla, Jff. Y., and the scene bii offire. I waa
irk and feared 1 hud tocume fatrd to eudure the
Tortures or Dyspepsia
and affrrtfoQ of the kidney. A relative said to
me. "Try Ir. Kennedy'! Fawritc RemedT, made
at kondaau V. T.' 1 did so. I grew better, could
eat ftUvp. and work with a rknT head, aud the
yrllow color of my skin favr plaee to the healthy
t"olor announcing pure blood. Ir. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy b entitled to the credit of sar
ing toy life. I can give yoo Uie Daniel aud ad
drfMeof fifty pernon who aflirrn, as I do, that
41 Favorite It medy " ha het-n to them a lk txg
In time of need." Mr. A. Ikchevcre, Tarrytown.
N. Y.t saj-s For a lor.i? time I was troubled
with acverv attrn kt of diuini1 and
Blind Sick Headache
due to in itu re Umv1. I was advised to try I.
Kennedy' Kavt trite Itr-meily. I iid mi and I
lme etiin deUriy cured. It the U-t thlfiK
1 ev-r heard m frr an iliirdor of that nature,
and I hive TViinnnietido! .t to mny iih like
Miicef ' Mr. Iuiijel Kttt. 1 tuir:bn. Mm.,
ay. "I Tveomnieiid Ir. Kiniieiy's Fa v-f trite
keniwly I d-rH't a and tm k heitda be. It
cured tor." 1 y--.ia. i'-i'nttiMiti;n. Nerttun-nt-s.
I-fbility. UheumatiTtt, and ihu il peculiar
to A(aien, in.&nab-y yield to
IIi. KEXXEDr.S FA YOUITE REMEDY.
PKETABED BY
Dr. David Kennedy. Hondant, N. Y.
fl -er bottlt!. Sixfort.V By all drugfixts.
It is to Your Interest
TO BUT YOl-R
Drugs and Medicines
op
Biesecker k Snyder.
STCT19W01B TO C K. Bi lY D.
None but the purest and best kept in stock,
and when Drug become inert by stand
ing, as certain of then) do. we le
atruy theia. rather limn im
pose on our customers.
Yon can depend on having your
PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS
filled with care. Oar price are as low as
any other Crst-clasa bouse and on
many articles much lower.
The people of tliia county seem to know
this, and have given u a laiarc share of their
patronage, and we uliall still continue tegive
them the very best goods for their money.
Do not forget that we make a specialty of
FITT1XG TRUSSES.
We guarantee satisfaction, and, if you hare
had trouble in this direction,
give us a call.
SPECTACLES AND EYE-CLASSES
in great variety ; A full set of Test Lenses.
Come in and have your eyes examined. No
charge for examination, and we are confident
we can suit you. Come and see us.
Respectfully,
BIESECKER k SNYDER.
4 bMIMSTRATOUS NOTICE.
itat of limit c Klriek. dee. late of Shade Twp.,
sm;ennt Co. Pa.
Letwrs of administration on The abort enate
havmr cn irranid to the uitderviencd by the
jrf-ijr authority, nastier i hrrvby pvcu to all per
in indetiied to said to mke immediate
payment and Uiumc bavinic claim ain the
aarrie to preein them duly autiicutieated hir
t-tt'pnient on tNttuniav, Way isyy, at the late
re-i'lent-c 4 tleeaxl, in Jihaxie Tnwnhi.
F. . hifiw-K. tHAi KI.KK'K.
Atumiey. Adminutraijr.
A
DMIXLSTRATOR'S NOTICE.
fciwue o KwiantM'l IJchty. dee'd.. late of Summit
Torhtp. KrVricret ., a.
Letter ff dtiuni;raiiou on afve estate hae
tna- b'en prranied to the underijned by b pnp
er autwmty. oticw t hervty riven to ali per
fHta indebted to swld flrtaM o n nke immed:ate
... rm-Pt. and thoM bavinr cla.ms avainrt the
wn; w .U peeent iheiu 4: if iUieTiliew1 fcr
r-itiemeut o cturrt-T, the Z h day -rf May,
ls at beoAe-of w.m. B. "or, J K. ia Mej
endal Borough, om-fet County. Pa.
HARVEY U. BEkKLKT,
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ONLY A DAY.
BT FBIDtBICK W. rCABAO!.
The life of man Is but a day
'Turill pass away,
Tb but a day.
With joy, with sorrow or with friend.
He only hat a abort time to spend ;
For soon all hones and fears wilt blend
In guided sunset at the end.
Aud then the hoveriug angel ay :
Twas bat a day,
'Tha paaed awar."
At early dawn be U a buy
In perfect joy
lie W a boy,
He lanichs and sin in purest glee ;
He cares for aauyht ne canuot see ;
He lives and jrrovrs content to be,
t'itb mind and heart and eonw iei.ee free.
But when he breaks his fragile toy
No more of joy,
No more a boy.
At noon he s.ank upon a throne
Among hiown,
I pon a throne.
His brow i knit w hile standinx there ,
( tliose about Dim none seem fair ;
For what he has he does uot care,
But ever looks for aomethinx rarv
When, lo! he rwmed alone
Where are Li own
Wbure is hi. throne?
At the dewy eve his rentfth gives way
He old and gray.
His strength gives way.
Awhile be g ieves for battles lost ;
He murmur that his hopes were crowed .
The tires grow dim, he's touched by front.
An idle ship on lifs wave toed.
" II life,'1 1 hear the angel say,
" Va but a day,
T'has pa.'wed amy."
The life of man is but a day
'Twill tawaaay,
'Ti hut a Jay
Eaeh moment we should deaqiy price.
In which we may aom? plan device
For aiding triend or foe to riae
- With ns Into Uod's Iradise.
Well done," the augeU then w id say,
"A glonousday
Ha pawed away,
HIS SISTER.
BY MARY A. UENISON.
" Robert, I found the barn unfasleneil
Again to-ninht, and the raiU in the corner
posture down. I declare, you deserve to
be flojnred for your carelewness."
" You won't flog me, gir V said the boy
in a low voice. His face flushed hotly.
He had been reading, his hands oneither
side of his chin; now he pushed bin
book away, and aut down doggedly be
fore him.
"Meicy on mc!" murmured Grand
mother Maoy, who sat ner the table
knitting. "I do (Uh Jabez wouldn't
speak that way !"
Aunt Mary, a visitor fnm the West,
pushed her chair with an impatient
movement further from the fire, frowning
a little; but Bertha, Farmer Mary's only
daughter, a girl of sixteen, looked front
her father to Robert, her cheeks scarlet,
her eyes full of tears.
" I didn't say I would flog you '." said
the farmer harshly. " I said yoo deserv
ed to be flogged for your carelessness and
so you do. Ever since that money was
left to jroo, you've teemed to want to go
your own way."
"I uill go my own way, too!" muttered
the boy between his teeth.
Bertha's quick ear caught the words,
and she ventured to speak.
' Father, Ilobert didn't lock the barn,
because John told him not to, till he got
home."
"Oh, John told you not to, did lie?
How long since John took it upon him
self to issue his orders T I think I am the
one to be obeyed on these premises," was
the quick rejoinder, and then the girl
was silenced.
- " I suppose John told him not to put
up the rails?" the farmer added, as if un
willing to end the controversy. j
John said nothing, to me about that ; I
simply forgot it," said liobert, very sul
lenly. " Of course you forgot it ! 1 ou're al
ways forgetting! If rubber could be tied
on to your memory to stretch it a little,
it would be better for you ; 1 don't for
get ; if 1 did, I wonder where you would
be?"
Aunt Mary looked at her brother over
her siiecUti les. Her usually mild face
quivered w ith excitement.
"Brother!" site auid, in a tone of dis
may.
Of course you'd take sides against me !
The boy has always been excused. His
mother made a fool of him, and his sister
ditto. By and by I shan't be allow ed to
sjieak in my own house."
Robert threw down the book which he
bad taken up again withan angry gesture
and stalked out of the room, lie was a
tall, good-looking boy of eighteen, large
of his age and clumsy in his movements.
The farmer made as if he would call
hiui back, but settleU himself in his chair
again and frowned.
" The fact is, since his ancle left him
that Ave thousand dollars," said Farmer
Maey, "the boy hasn't been worth his
salt to nie!"
" O, father, you "
"Silence!" utid the old man, testily.
" I tell yon he is doing nothing but long
ing for the time when he is twenty -one,
and can put his hands on that money,
fastle-building and reading, that s what
be gives bi time to, and me slaving like
dog!"
"It's a great pity," aaid Aunt Marv,
and she spoke in her slow, sweet way,so
that one could hardly imag'ne there w ag
the least touch of sarcasm in w hat she
aaid, "that George didn't leave the mion
ey to you V
" Eb, you think sodo you?" said the
fanner, his heavy features lighting up.
" Look w hat 1 could ha' done with five
Uiousand dollars and the place needing
improvement so much! Yea, even one
thousand would set me up. And toihink
of all'that money lying idle, for Robert to
come into, and spend as be pleases S He
will go off as soon as he get it.' '
"That depends upon k iw yoo treat
him, my son," aaid Grandma Macy, look
ing np and resting her needies.
"Treat hhn!" and the turner leaned
foi ward, glaring at them all. " Don't I
give him a roof, and clothes, and food?
Would yoo have me knuckle to the boy,
to my own son, because he is coming
into possession of a little paltry money ?
A pretty father I should be!"
Grandma Macy 'a needles clicked on,
and Aunt Mary looked thoughtfully at
the fire. The old-fash ionel clock that
had ticked in its ancient comer for over
seventy years struck nine.
Bertha bad slipped out of the room,
gone through the kitthen, and op the
back stain. The wind was rising, and
the rain, which had just begun to fall,
drove heavily against the window-panes
omer
SOMERSET.
on the upper landing. The girl moved
swiftly down the narrow passage in the
dark, toward the further end, through the
keyhole of which came a faint light
Here she stopped, and tried the latch of
the door. It did not let her in.
" Robert !" she called. " Kotwrt r
" What is it. Bertha? I cannot come
down again, and I'd much rather be
alone."
" But I want to speak to you. O, Rob
ert, won't you let me in ?"
" It's no use ; I won't come down."
"Xo, yoa needn't; nobody has sent
me for you, I I just wanted to see
you."
" Well, here I am," and the door open
ed suddenly, so that the girl who was
leaning against it almost fell into the
room. 8he recovered herself, however,
ami stood there looking at her brother
with pitiful eyes.
"I wish I knew what to do," she said,
and ended with a long-drawn sigh.
"I know what to do," was the boy'sre
joinder, and be set his mouth sternly, so
that there was in his face a curious re
seinblunce to the old man down stairs.
" Y'ou won't do anything wrong, Rob
ert, I know you won't!" she said, clasp
ing her hands. " I'm sure father means
to do everything forthe best. Try not to
mind!"
" I do try, I have tried," but its no use.
Think I can't Ree? Father is mad be
cause that money is coming to me, in
stead of him. I wish I'ncle George had
never left it to me ; I could .have got
aljng without it; it only makes me
w retched all the time, the way father
treats me, and I'm tired of it."
" But, dear Robert, levery one sees I
mean," she added, checking herself
" you have grandma and we, who love
you dearly, lton't that make up to you
for these little crosses ? Father, though
he is so rough, loves you very dearly ;
he is proud of you, but something has
made hiiu irritable of late, and "
" Yes, ever since Vntle George died
and left me that money," said Robert.
" nd you know he has been making
mjiroveineiits on the farm., l'ethaps he
has got into debt."
" Well, that's not my fault," said Rob
ert. "I believe in my soul you wish
that money had gone to him or you."
" O, Robert V
" Forgive me. Bertha ! I know how
girls feel about such tilings, and it's only
natural that you should want to help fa
ther ; but I tell you candidly, if I had
the money to-morrow, I wouldn't lay
out a cent on this miserable old place. I
hate it, and I'm tired of being treated
like a child of five years old. Alt my
faults and errors talked over, no matter 1
who is by. I'm not going to stand it any
longer. If he can't be reasonable, he
must get some one else besides me to vent
his spite on."
" Oh, Robert, what are you saying
"Just what I mean. I won't stand it!
It's bad enough to be cooped up in thU
bid country place, and then to be tyran-
ized over from morning till night ! What
good does it do ? I can't touch the money
till I'm of age, even if I felt like giving
it all to him."
"If you only won't mind it, dear, I'll
do everything I can to make you happy.'
" You're awfully kind, Bertha, and you
do even-thing you can now, but don't
you supjiose I see how uncomfortable he
makes you feel all on my account ? Come,
you're (thivering with cold. Take my
candle and go to bed : I've got another
and we'll Ulk it all over some other
time."
lU'luctar.tly iierUia obeyed, waiting
on I j to kiss her brother good-night.
When she reached her room she blew
out the candle, folded a wrapper about
her, and. sat do'wn in the little splint
rocker, to think.
She felt as keenly as Robert did her
father's injustice, but what could shedo?
She had no mother to go to, and her
grandmother was too loyal to her son to
blume him in words. She could not talk
to her father ; he would have turned upon
her as he had before, with the bitter
taunt that she encouraged her brother in
his idleness, and excused all his short
comings.
The clock (struck eleven and found her
still sitting np, trying to solve this prob
lem, how to keep her brother from any
rash act that he would regret in after life.
Straining her ears to listen, she thought
she detec ted the creaking of a door.
It rained hard now. She could see the
tops of the trees moving in the wind,
dark as it was.
A sudden terror seized her. That cer
tainly was not the rain nor the w ind but
the familiar, clank of the he heavy chain
against the front door. She ran to her
brother's room, her heart betting heavi
ly, called him, but no answer came.
Groping her way to the bed, she felt over
it. Robert was not there the bed had
not been touched.
She could have screamed for terror,
but she had learned, long before this, to
master her impulses, and she crept down
stairs to find the front door unfastened.
I'nheeding rain and wind, she ran out in
the darkness to the gate, which was also
unfastened. Watch, the dog, was gone
he must have followed his young pias
ter. As loudly as she dared she called ber
brother's name, and then, sure that he
was by this time out of hearing she ran
back to the house, found a shawl in the
hail clueet, and left the house, shutting
the door behind her, softly.
The next train was due at half-past 11
o'clock.
Robert must be waiting at the little
station in the wbotls, half a mile away.
The rain beat heavily, the wind blew so
fiercely that she caught her breath with
difliculty. The path was hard to keep.
Occasionally she staggered in among the
thick bushes on either side the narrow
foot-way, and once something bounded
across the road, but before she could give
way to fright, she feld the cold noee of
Watch against her hand.
Oh, Watch, where is Robert ? Carry
me to him !" she cried, somew hat reas
sured now that she Lad a protector, and
presently she stumbled against the plat
form of the little station, that rose like a
huge, black shadow before her.
"Robert! Robert! It is I, Bertha ;
are you here 7 Oh. Robert, ion t leave
roe!"
"Are you crazy, Bertha? And such
night as this! Y'ou will get your death
how dared pou come through these
woods !"
" 1 came after you, Robert ; yoa must
sec
ESTABLISHED 1827.
PA., WEDNESDAY, 3IAY 1. 1889.
go back you must ! It's awfully selfish
in you to run off, and tit her will be broken-hearted
if you do. Can't you bear
as much as I can, and I only a girl? See,
I am wet through, and cold and fright
ened, but I won't mind it if you'll only
come home. If you go, I'll stay out in
the storm all eight. How can I go back
and tell them you stole out of the house
like a thief, at midnight? If you must go
Robert, go in the face of the day and ev
erybody. It would kill me to hear peo
ple say you had run away. Oh, Robert,
think ! it will be a disgrace for all of us
nothing but shame, misery and dis
grace." " I tell you I can't bear it !" he said,
and stamped on the loose boards of the
platform. " I might as well go now as
any time."
" No, not now, for my sake wait at
least till-till I talk' to father. What
would mother y, Robert? If she sees
us now " ehe broke down utterly, sob
bing as if her heart -would break.
" Come on I'll go back," said Robert
sullenly.
" Here, Watch !" the dog came bound
ing to his side. 'Stop crying. Bertha
poor little thing, how you shiver ! There,
there!" he said, softening, as he put his
arm about her, " wu'U go on the run, to
keep you from getting cold but mind, 1
don't promise I'll stay only I won't go
now."
It was a week after Rolert,s attempt
to leave home, and Bertha was very sick.
The lright and exposure of that most
terrible night bad brought ou a raging
fever.
" I can't think how thechild took such
acoid," said Aunt Mary, as she came into
the living-room one morning. " From
the day she had that mieerable chill she
has been growing steadily worse. I am
worried about her, aud so is the doctor.
The poor child iu her delirium imagines
Robert is going away."
Grandma Macy left her knitting fall to
ber lap, folded her hands and looked sor
rowfully into the tire.
" It's two years this month since her
mother died," she said, sottly. "Where's
Robert ?"
" Upstairs with her you can hardly
get him out of the room. The boy is
very fond of her. It is for her sake, I
fancy, that he didn't leave home months
ago."
Aunt Mary little knew how nearly she
had hit the truth.
Day after day dragged on and the fe
Ter did its work. Robert hardly gave
himself time to eat, so anxkU9 was he to
be by his sister's bedside. He grew hag
gard, watching night an I day, reproach
ing himself constantly.
" Y'ou'll stay now, won't you, Robert ?"
she said, feebly, one day. " i ou won't
leave the old home you won't leave fa
ther alone ? He'll bediflerenl when I'm
gone."
" When jrou are gone Oh, Bertha !"
said the boy, brokenly. ."Do as I did,
when you begged me down there in the
old depot, stay for tuy sake."
" If 1 could, dear, but it isn't as I say
and I want you to promise me never
to leave pool father and w hen the mon
ey comes help him all you can will
you ?"
" I'll do everything you ask uie," Sob
bed the boy. I'll give him ail of the
money, for I don't want it without
you."
-Don't you think," said Grandma Macy
very softly, to Aunt Mary, one day, "that
there's a great change come over Jabez ?
He hasn'l.spoke a cross word to ltobert
since our little girl came down stairs.
And the boy fceeius like another person,
as w illing and chipper about his work
as can be."
And Robert was saying to Bertha, who
sat, white as a lily, in her little pplint
rocKer, by the window :
"I don't care luw hard I work now,
and I've told father lie shall have enough
of my money to make all the improve
ments he wants to ; 1 shall never make a
farmer he sees that now, but I'll nnd
something more to my liking. 1 have
been idle and careless, and probably the
money did have something to do with it,
but I've chauged all that.
"I made up my mini to it when I
thought we were going to lose you. h,
Bertha, if you hod died I should never
have forgiven myself!"
A Practical Joker.
Of all practictl jokers the actor Sot It
em was the most daring, incorrigibleand
cruel. Sometimes his cleverly conceived
plots caused his personal frinls to make
themselves ridiculous, and again it wasa
stranger who suffered, but occasionally
his jokes were not heartle. One day he
went into a hardware store, and asked
for a copy of Macauley's " History of
England."
" We do not sell books, sir," said the
assistant. " This is a hardware store."'
" Well, I'm not particular," replied
Sothern, pretending to be deaf. " 1
don't care whether its bound ic calf or
Russia."
"But this is not a bookseller's," shout
ed the man.
All light, wrap it np neatly. It's for
a present I wish to make to a relative."
We don't keep it !" shrieked the as
sistant, getting red in the face.
" Do it up as you would for your moth
er," said Sotnern. I don t wish, any
thing better than that. I would like to
write my name on the fly-leaf."
'Sir," Bcreamed thj assistant, at the
top of his voice, " can't yoa see we d j not
keepbks?"
' Very well," said Sothern, q uite un
disturbed, " I will wait for it."
The clerk left him, and appealed to his
master, saying he thought the cujIjoi er
must be insane.
' What is it, sir? What do you desire?"
asked the owner of the shop, co ming for
ward.
" I want to buy Cle," re pi ied Soth
ern, quietly. "A plain file, four or five
inches long."
" Certainly," said the master, and he
cast upon his assistant a look which
should have withered that misunderstood
young man.
The value of s remedy should be esti
mated by its curative properties. Ac
cording to this standard, Ayer's Sarsapa
rilla is the best and most economical
medicine in the market, because the most
pure and concentrated. Price $1. Worth
$5 a bottle.
A Brooklyn man dreamed he was in a
scrimmage, and drew his pistol from un
der his pillow and allot himself.
OKLAHOMA'S HOMESTEADS.
Boomers Rush Madly Across
the Frontier Line.
St. Ian-is, April 12, l$Sf.
A Republic special from Arkansas City,
Kansas, says : Oklahoma is open. The
trials, struggles and sacrifices of years are
partially rewarded, but the events of to
day and those of the d.tys, weeks and
months to follow, will prove how farsup
ply is below demami and necessitate
further concessions to avert disorder,
bloodshed and other conditions but lit
tle short of anarchy. The history of this
one day will forever be memorable in
frontier annals, and will leave behind a
heritage of litigation which will be fruit
ful to land sharks and claim attorneys,
but bo destructive to the claims of poor
and honest settlers.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad began running its sectional
trains out af Kansas City last night and
picking up cars at almost every station
along the route. Hundreds of people
were waiting at eveiVdepot, and if the
cars, all of which were filled before the
border line was reached, could have lieen
coupled they woulfl have made a train
miles in length.
A MOTI.Y CROWD.
The crowds were composed of specula
tors, adventurers, sightseers, thieves,
gamblers and a sprinkling of the uemi
tnode. The farming element was not
largely represented, as all of the home
steaders have gone on before. There
ere men in the cars from every great
city and important point in the country,
and there was not a State or Territory in
the country w hich did not have its repre
sentative. Those filled all of the seats,
occupied all of the standing room in t!ie
aisles and filled np the spaces between
coaches, hanging on the iron banisters
and girders with a grip born of despair
and detirmination.
The newspaper coach waa the first out
of Arkansas City. It contained repre
sentative of all the leading newspapers
in thecountry, who were compelled to
yield room and comfort for the good of
the cause. The conductors were vigilant
in the collection of fares, but it is certain
that a great many dead-heads went
through to the " Promised Land " in the
rush and hurry and roar of the boomer
campaign.
NO TIME FOR SENTIMENT.
There was but little sight-seeing in
dulged in, as the crowd did not care to
look at anything until it got to Oklaho
ma, like the emigrant at Castle Garden
who refused to pick np a silver dollar be
cause he expect ed to find gold in the streets
in Uie next block. At Arkansas City
there were over seventy-five coaches
tracked in the yards awaiting the rtuh.
All of these were lowered into the yards
some distance below the depot.
The crowd began gathering on the
platform two hours before daylight, and
long before the first faint streak of the
dawn of the fateful day, the city was
awake and stirring. The streets present
ed a live picturesque appearance. After
the sun rose crowds were rushing toward
the centre of action from ail parts of the
city. Hotels emptied their hundreds
into the street ; the cot houses contribu
ted hundreds more out of the hospitable
homes of Uie city, nearly all of which
have entertained guests during the pant
week.
SCENES IS AUEANSAS CITY.
The scene at the depot in Arkansas
City batiliM description. Hundreds of
boomers and hustlers in their impatience
to get aboard rushed down en inasr
to the yards attempted to force an en
trance into the cars, all of which were
securely locked. The excitement may
be judged from the fact that a lar-e num
ber of coach windows were broken o it
by eople who were anxious to secure
seats. A strong guard of railroad men
was detailed to protect the company's
property, and they had a contract of un-u-u.il
diuiension'i on their hands.
The crowd was panic-stricken. After
waiting so many eventful days and nights
for the hour of action to eome men were
seized with a sudden fear that they would
be left iu the lurch and that fear served
to make them like a drove of stampeded
cattle. There was a vain attempt at good
humor in the struggle, which conceale I
the grim purpose behind, and there was
no quarter show n in lie rush for place.
It was a Wild West crowd headed to
ward a new field of enterprise and de
velopment and no one who has never
seen such a thing can have the slightest
conception of it.
A GENIAL UOOMER.
An amusing and at the same time
pathetic incident of the early morning
was a cattle train laying on a side track
loaded with a boomer, his horse, waon
and a cow, wife and children and all his
household effects. He was a merry fel
low and guyed the crowd unmercifuily
for not going through, as he expressed it,
without change of cars to avoid the
rush.
" I travel in my own special coach,"
said he.
"Like Jay Gould or Vanderbilt."
" You'll get there too late," yelled some
body in tie crowd.
"Never mind," replied the boomer,
"I'll get there all the same."
It had leaked out during the wakeful
hours of the night that the press special
coach would be a part of the first train to
move out. The railroad management
ha.) succeeded well in keeping this fact
a secret. No one but representatives of
the press were informed of the fai t, or
knew the location of the coach and the
time of its departure. But it is impos
sible to keep such information from peo
ple who sit up all night to find out the I
shortest and easiest way of getting into j
the promised land. The result ws that j
when the newspaper coach was backed ;
up at a point below the depot the entire i
crowd charged opon it
BKPORTEKS PHiHT TOH SEATS. !
The newspaper men were ranged in a I
solid phalanx, but had to fight for ac.-ess i
to the rear platform of the car. Tl ere j
were rustlers there who hi'd been tigth
ing along the border for years and who
hadadeath gripon the iron railing ami ex
pressed a determination to on go that ear.
These were not easily disposed of, but
after them came a s arm of men with
bogus credentials, presuming to represent
every great newspaper in the United
States. Nearly every correspondent was
called upon to discredit two of these
assumed journalists andscoiesof others .
failed of idenUficaUon or recognition
T 6 Ti
and had to fall back with more of porcipl
tancy than good order.
Every cur brought np the line was
greeted with tremendous cheers, as the
coaches which were attached to the
newspaper special were brought out of
the siding, and there was a simultaneous
rush cf 3.0l0 men toward them. They
were filled to overflowing in less than
half a minute and a countless throng
wa struggling for a place on the fttejw. It
was in vain fur the olliciais to say that
the trains woui.l run in section fifteen
minutes ahead of everybody and not
fifteen minutes behind anybody.
THE FIRST CSUU'lH V TRAIN.
Thefirst section made np consisted of
nine coaches, ti e newspaper coach and
one caboose. It pulled out at 8 45, rail
road time, draw n by engine 2'iil, in charge
of Captain G. H. Cooper, w ho has been
on the Santa I'e Line for eleven years
and is one of the oldest and most
trusted eng-'ueers in the company's em
ploy. Trainmaster Fou'.kes was in charge
of the entire train. This was the first
train that ever ran out of Kansas loaded
for Oklahoma with settles, and even
those who were disappointed in setting
aboard of it joined in wild, enthusias
tic cheer, which rent the Kansas air as
the step toward the realization of hopes
and dreams of years and the reward fur
the sacrifices of the past whs taken.
It was !':') w hen the site which marks
the State line and the dividing line from
the Cherokee strip was reached. It was
greeted with a cheer, which rilled from
the news car in front to the rustlers' ca
boose behind.
IN THE I'RliMKtD LA Nil.
At the last station outside of the Okla
homa territory there was a great crowd of
boomers, w ho had forsaken their teams
and hoped to get in by rail. There be
ing no room inside, they cliine l to the
top of the coaches and the entire train,
from one end to the other was lined
with them. In this way the line was
reached about five minutts aiTter 1
o'clock. Before the late dead line wis
reached and passed, however, the gtxat
transformation scene had begun and was
piaiuiy visible to the watchers from the
train.
First came in view the white-topped
Wagons gathered together in groups on
the level prairie or in the littie valleys
which diversify the face of the country.
It was at once noticeable that the
teams were not to lie seen fii any of these
camps and it was plain they had been
taken out of the harness to be ridden
across the border by the hard riders, who
were to hx-ate claims.
AN EXCITINll SCENE.
The scene was one of the most stirring
and most picturesque ever witnessed. Tiie
smoke of a myriad of camp-fires lishted
to cook the first meal iu Oklahoma be
gan to ascend in ail directions and before
the first train of land fqeeu!ators rushed
to the future groat city of Guthrie, the
farmer hail already become the posKessor
of a gn at deal of the land and more than
one furrow of virgin soil out of the land
which had never before been tickled bv
a plow ,is turned over to the sun, which
has made the day glorious as well as
memorable.
It was twenty minutes after twelve
o'clock when the first section of the great
Atchison train reached tiie line and its
progress from that point on to Guthrie
was not rapid enough for the rapid men
w ho wanted to get there in a hurry lie
fore all the cream was skimmed off the
milk.
When the train reached the depot the
rush from tiie cars wasomelhing terrific.
It was a general scramble from one end
of the train to the other, in which tiie
Strongest shoved ahead an I the weakest
went to the wall. During the rest of the
day equally exciting scenes occurred in
every direction, and. to judge from the
intense excitement that prevails, one
would supose tbat ossf ssinn of a home
stead in the newly oen d territory
meant the actual life of the boomer.
Greed and selfishness were everywhere
apparent, anil though up to the present
no actual outbreak of hostility jias occur
red, there are grave appreheiisious that
the opening of Oklahoma will be cele
brated iu a baptism of b'.ood,
nLooUSIIED IN OKLAHOMA.
GmiKiE, Oklahoma, April C". The
settlement of Oklahoma has, even now,
been accompanied by bloodshed, and at
least one life hits been lost in the strug
gle for a Itomestead. Alxjnt five o'clix k
yesterday evening a pistol report across
Cotton .t oo l Creek, west of the depot,
o-eiside of the town site reserve. attracted
attention. In a moment a man on horse
back went west over the hill at break
neck speed. Two Deputy United States
Marshals went over, but were told that
nothing had occurred. The reporter got
a boat and crossed the stream, however,
to investigate the matter. In the bushe
were collected ha.f a dozen men. r'n the
ground and beside a half-made erave was
stretched all that was left of S. T. Comp
pis. A ball from a revolver had passed
entirely through his breast, coming out
at the back. He lived half an hour after
being shot.
His companion said that he and his
partner had-entered Guthrie on ponies.
All tia lots were gone and they swam the
Cottonwood and had staked a cUiin. As
they were driving the last stakes a fellow
was discovered in the bushes on the
bank of the creek. This man said that
he had already staked the claim. Comp
pis and his partner offered to divide. To
this tiie fellow objected and warned them
that he would shoot before he would di
vide. Comppis did not believe this threat
and as he left he said he should sleep on
that claim. Half an hour afterwards j
Cotuppis was shot by the first claimant j
as he stood bv his ponv, bri lie in hand, i
!fii murderer irof itwav hef. .re.f. mro.i-tf i
companion could realize what had been
done. Believing secrecy the easiest way
out, Comppis's partner dragged the dying
man into the bushes an 1 said no one had
teen hurt. He would not give his name
and the peculiarity of the situation pre-I
vented a searching inquiry.
SCARCITY OF WATEli
After 4 o'clock yesterday and ail night
there was much suffering for water. The
railroad company refused to let the set- j
tiers take from the railrtiad tank for fear
of exhaustion. The water in the Cotton-
wood is red with nind and a water fam- i gar, but lightly pour boiiiug water on a
ine seems imminent Hawkers went j small portion of the leaves. It is then
a!ont the depot l:.t night with buckets j instantly poured off again, by which the
of water, charging, five aents a gloss. Hie Chilian. an obtains only the nore volatile
water was poor but found a ready sale, j ami stimulating portion of its priiici
The engineer were besieged by thirsty I pie.
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people for drink from theengine tanks
and many were accommodated.
There was great indignation over the
fact that the people had gone on the
ground befor-j 12 o'clock, and it waa the
general seuti netit that all such should be
singled out and debarred. This would
throw out Many prominent men, for
JuiL-e Chtyten, of Arkansas, and many
others belli a luthrie meeting before VI
o'clock. There is also great indignation
over the hundred or more IVputy Mar
shals who nsel their authority as a cloak
to get on trie ground, and resigned at
noon. They all have a lot. They are to
be singled out and complaint laid against
them. A resolution was adopted to the
effect that every invader should be com
plained of and efforts at once made to
drive theai out. The fceiiug is very
strong in this matter. After criera had
gone over the to n a great crowd gather
ed ou the highest elevation of the tow n
to attend the meeting. Fully two thou
sand iersoiis were present. Ex-Mayor
Constantine was elected to preside. Ad
dressee were made by half a dozen or
more prominent men from different parts
or the country, anil a strong feeling was
manifested apt-nst the premature settlers
which will vtry likely lead to the forfeit
ure ot their claims. Preliminary stes
were taken towards surveying the land
and laying out the streets of Outline
etc.
soMi: AMI SlNii SCENES.
The wildest estimates of the numlier
at Guthrie were telegraphed last night.
A liberal estimate is six thousand. There
were many amusing scenes while staking
lots. A number of men would get togeth
er and aeree that a street should run in a
certain direction. Lots would be staked
to f.ice it. M'H adjoining would declare
that those fellows had staked directly in
the street and that their own lots faced
the street Thus tiie greatest confusion
reigns and no man knows for a certainty
that he has a lot Nevertheless many
sitts were sold, one man paying as high
as one bundled diiliars for a supposed
business nite. Trouble is feared over this
point, which is the only thing that wiil
breed trouble. In the state of uncertain
ty everyone is gi.d-natured and hanging
on to his claim.
A great pra rie fire raged east of the
! ci,y ldst ni6!lt aa'1 ith t!ie """P firw
xprea 1 over the city, made a beautiful
siiit. A squad of General Merritt's sol
diers guarded the land oiliceall night In
view of the scarcity of water one man
last night procured hogshead which he
filled with water, whisky and syrup and
did a rushing business, selling it for cider
at ten cents a jlas.
ALL HI Il.T IN THE TKKK'ToRY.
sin.Nori.N-, April "St. The Secretary
W
of the Interior to-day rei-eived telegraph
ic retiorts from deartmeit inspectors
stationed at Guthrie, Oklahoma, and Ar
kansas City, Kansas. The former says :
"Everything i-f quiet here, a good class of
people in charge of affairs. Guthrie land
oiiice in full operation. King Fisher will
Ojien about Thursday. The people will
settle the ton site question quietly and
await legislation to perfect their titles.
There is absolutely no ground for admin
istrative uneasiness. A public meeting
here to-night as orderly and conservative
in character
York.''
as it would be in New
A Tidy Little Woman.
"You see the youn . woman beyond
there, in the shady corner of the piaza?"
"With the auburn hair?"
"Ye, the very auburn hair."
' W-ii?"
"Sho is the latest and m ist importantof
th? arrivals amoa tiu? New York set."
"Ah ! one of the fashionable four hun
dred ? '
' Hardly, yet. Bye-au 1 bye, of course.
Now she isunc of tiie g ilden million. She
is Mri Al'jt iiKt, oi New York. Her
father w ts Crocker, the tremendously
rich Caiifornian, who laid tiie foundation
of his enormous fortune in a threa t and
needle store, and built up a structure of
rail ma is and real estate. His daughter
is little bi 1 xik at. but she i-issse a for
tune of a cool :;')M,oir."
The elderly in ition who was compla
cently tell ng this bit of g-wsip, felt that
she had male a success with her story,
the young married woman who was her
listener gazvl ae-struck like at the
owner of so many mil. ions. Tj miny
I mindi there dotihtiess is something faci-
nating in the personality of one who com
mands gold enough to buy a duchy. But
tMere was nothing esjK.i-ially awe-inspiring
a'mut th" little worn in herself, who
sways these thirty millions. She is rath
er below the n tfdiii n height, with dark
blue eyes and hair that if she ware p ir
might be called red. .""he was dresse I as
plainly as a n irs in som d irk stuff an I
she hadn't a j"el about her. She is as
ami ab'e as a child an J hasn't permitted
her fortune L get her i-or.iia!iy disliked.
And how do- s she take care ol this big
pile of money ".
" she doesn'i take carp of it at all. She
has others to c!o that, and she enjoys the
usufruct. Sent-ihle little body.
Mr. Mc Mac-kin, of El Vcrsno.. Cal.,
raised a U-et th t wvighel 112 pounds.
Three cows fed on it for four days aud
then didn't eai it alt.
" A billiard cut! used by Goo. Washing
ton in this city in I7'.l0," was a sign lack
ed on an ordinary looking cue exhibited
in tii') win lo-v of a New Yore bMliard
ita Lie dealt r. He claims that it is genu
ine.
A N. Y. bootblack of an enterprising
turn of mill I semis out his business cards
with this inscription : " Shoe shine I by
week or month at your residence daily,
or otiiei j b work doue. Sen 1 fjr nie by
mail.
A house on Greene aven;u, B rooklyn,
is troubled wllb a lively ghost He not
only scares people, hut has a playful hab
it of throwing coal at them.
Constable Ike Smith, of Birmingham,
Ala., has a cat which has dveIop-sl mi
ternal affection for a litter of orphaned
puppies.
The Chinese never dream of stewing
their tea. They do not drown it with
milk or cream, or alter its taste wiUi su-
An Awful Fighter.
It having become noised about that w
were to make a horseback tri; through
a portion of the cattle country, various
individuals made applications for situa
tions. We reeded only a cook and .
mau to take charge of the baggage, but
the applicants kept coming, and tiie day
before we left a chap appeared who intro
duced himself as Awful Davis.
" Lxik-a-here, fellers," he began in a
bti'iness way. " I want to be counted in
on this. Indeed, it's a aiight on me that
you hadn't applied for my service.
Yon'd have been in a purty jiickie to
have gone without the undersigned."
When asked to exp! ain what peculiar
value his service might have to u he ut
tered a long whistle of surprise and re
plied :
" Well, you are innocents, and no mia
tike! Who's going to do your flhting
for you ? "
As the Indians were at peace we didn't
expect any trouble.
"Oh! you don't! Bless me, but what
dear, good little boys! Injuns! Nobody
said Injuns. It's the white men you've
got to look out for. You're going among
the tutfest lot in the whole world. They
are right on the fight ail day and ail
night. Any one of the gang can turn
himself loose and hammer Halifax out
of the whole five of you in t?n minutes."
lie wanted to go along to do our fight
ing. He would furnish his own mule
and make the trip for a dollar a day and
his keep. When asked if he had any
recommends he put on an injured air
and answered :
"And you never heard of Awful Da
vis! Never heard of the man ho has tit
fifty-six fights, and come out on top ev
e ry time! Puitend that you want a cer
tificate of character from a feiitr who
tights standing, kneeling, or lying on his
back ! This makes uie wesry '. ''
We talked it over and finally engaged
him, and when informed of the fuct he
replied :
" Nc-ry well, gentleman. From this
moment you are in my keeping. Just
pint out the k uss you want pulverized,
ami I'll do the business. I shan't put
any limit on you. I'm to light dav or
night and to lick six men a day. If you
could bring about three or four a day for
the next week I should feel obliged, as
my liver is a leetle torpid and 1 want ex
ercise." During the first day's ride we met hut
few people. One of those. as an old In
dian, lame in the left leg, and Awful
Iavis halted the narty and observed :
"Gents, did I hear any of you tell me
to lick this copper reptile?"
None of us bad told him so.
" I beg your pardon gents. I want you
to understand that I'm alias on hand.
I'd like to git down and hammer him for
the benefit of my liver; but of course
I'm under orders."
We had pitched camp and were wait
ing fir supper when a cowboy rsle up.
The greetings were friendly, and he got
down to have a bite with us. He w as
hardly on the ground before he saw our
Awful fighter and uttered a humph of
disgust.
" What yon got thar?" he asked.
"He's our fighter."
"Your fighter! Did you bring hint
along to fight anybody or anything? "
" He hired to us to do our fighting, but
he's had no show yet."
"Well, I'll give him a. show ! Come out
o' that, you cowardly kyote! "
The Awful was skulking behind the
baggage. He rose np at the command,
and the cowboy shouted at him :
" Bill Wheeson, I know ye and I owe
ye one! Come out here and earn ver
hire!"
" Is that you, Jim ThiU'tps?" queried
our Awful as he advanced a step.
" Of cours? it is, you yaller cur from
the bottom lands! "
" And you want to fight?"
" I want to show these 'ere gents that
yon are the biggest liar and coward in
Amer'ca. Come out here ! "
"llents, is it your wi"h that I projnrea
funeral here? " asked the Awful as he
turned to us ; " shall I hang his f-echurs
into one bloody mass kill header'u a
beef bone with one blow ? "
We answered that it was.
" Here tie one hand behind me tie
both hands behind mc tie my ftet to
gether, and I II lick him then ! " howled
the cowboy.
"Jim Phillips, yon haven't got two
minits to exist!" solemnly announced
the Awful. "I'm comin' fur ye like a
dozen ciclims biitd into one ! Look out
now!" "
He spit on his hands and stepped back
to get a running start, and the next thing
we heard was the thump! bump! of his
feet as he fled afar into the larknes.
Some time during the night he returned
for his mule. Next morning we found
the follow ing explanation scrawled ou
piece of papjr and stuck into a "plit
stick: "Setzed with sndent y illness
good bi."
A Husband's Love Letter.
The followinz letter was written by the
great Daniel O'Connell to his wife XI
years after marriage :
"My Own and Only Lo e: It was
Kate wrote the letter I had yesterday,
and I do most tenderlv, tenderly love
Kate. Yet, sweetest Mary, I could have
wished to see one line also in that hand
writing which gives me recollections of
the happiest hours of my life, ami still
blesses me with inexpressible, sweetness
and comfort when we, darling, are separ
ate. All the romance of my life envel
ops you, and I am as romantic in my
love this ilay as 1 was three and taenty
years ago, w hen you diop-d your not
unw illing hand into mine. Darling, wiil
you smile at the love letters of your old
husband? Oil, no my Mar;- my own
Mary wiil rememlier that she has had
the fond and faithful affections of my
youth, and that if years have rolled over
us they have given tw no cau tore t
or love each other less than we did in
early life. At least, d irling, so think I.
We dine on Saturday at Lord
Stourton s. On Sunday at Brougham's,
to meet the dukes of Sussex and Ivvon
shire, etc. We are asked for Sunday,
the lilh of March, by the duke of Nor
folk. There is a better chance of eman
cipation ceitainly by our having come
over."
Deformity From Bright's Dis
ease. D. YanBuskitk, of Demsinsf, N. J.
says Aug. '!), ls.S: Dr. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy, of Rondaut, X. Y., has
cured our daughter of Bright's Disease,
after all other means had failed. She
was so swollen tiiat she measured 43
inches around the waist, and H inches
below the kn?. To say that we fi-el
thankful forsuch a boon as Favorite liem
edy is but a poor expression of the feei
ng of grateful parents.
A boy living near Abilen. Tex., was
recently bitten by a snake and was soon
taken with convulsions. An old Mexi
can scraped out the bowl of a briar pipe,
applied the srrapping to the child's
wound, and the next day tiie boy was
well.
He who thinks his place below him,
wiil certain! be below his place.
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