ML
7.
Somerset Herald.
Full of Fun.
irrnfLtsxtD hit.
Both a punch in the t-t-'ir ach and a
punch in the head will iiske arm
groggy, although thrnvh different natur
al cause;. .V'.o" .'.o. 7Vi'-.'.e.
Nora "An" has ji;r u. !.-!- p'd
taste?" Bridget (hxhI taste, is it?
Faith, hr dri-xs- , lj 1-ttt r on me Ihaii
e!o me ow n." Y-.i- ' .v-f.' .ri.i.
Cook (r.e'xt day after her arrival " I
am ofUa a little hasty, madam, and then
1 am apt to be saury; but you Eeedn't
mind you can make me a little present,
and I gft pleased agiin." TTjr..
The frosty filings left the air.
The bird sings to his ma'e.
And lovers leavtf the rocking chair
To sw ing upon the gate.
Mr. A." May I confide ia yon? I
have to tell you a secret." Mr. B.
".What is it?" A. Linking around tos
if anybody is listening- "I need JVno."
Mr. B. " Din't fear. I will be an silent as
the grave." A-.
" Dunn has good ears for music, hasn't
he?" asked one member of a choir to
another. " Weil," was the reply, " he has
good ears, but I didn't kuo they were
of lublication.
,,.,-.1 iitv Wed-irviay raorn.iig at 2 Vu
.. . , if paid ia adai.e : otherwise 12 JO
1 ri
liw;j.uuu will I 1 -rtinued until all
O
,t, are paid P- PuKtmairt neleclint
t .. u. rien imhacribera do not take emt tlieir
t a i h FpJit)! for th aubacr.p-
ESTAJ3LISB0ED 1827.
i. -vr iwaovtiif from oca ponottce lo a-
t ,kk.;A fir o tie name of the former
fc. !, off.o. Addrwat
; Th BoMwurr Hebald,
if Suvuurr, Pa.
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 2.
SOMERSET. PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY JJ, 1889.
TOOLE XO. 1981.
i C. IIOLEERT,
ATTUkNKY-AT-LAW,
' anamenat. Pa.
r t w.th John E. UhL
1 1 I). W. F.IESECKEK,
7 ArroKNtT-AT-LAW,
; somen. Pa.
m IHnting Home Row, ouptaute Court
J iK'.K K. St I'LL,
AlTuKNKY-ATLA'.
,'. tsanerael. Pa.
,,T J. M. la.LE.
, TT t x;l.r.
J SoMKK-FT, I'a.
i J K KFE.
i ' ATTuKNEY AT LAW,
J mmmrt, Ta.
1 v j KY.
I. ' ATIOkSF-T AT LAW.
NanerteL Pa.
' I '. TKKST.
1 ATToRNEY-AT-LAW
Sunemct, Pat
I.
j. ruiTTs.
ATTokNEY AT LAW,
Somerset, Pa.
4 . m rvrt ( oiiuty Kant.
L baer.
ATTH:NKY-ATI.AW,
Ntmt-m-t, ra..
fl i.-Hit1' in Somerset and adjointus; iron
? , i..,-;t,i- tutrui-i-d 10 '.liui alii receive
1 , ,,rrr.oTH.
W. II. KlPFkL.
; IRoTH A RUPPEL,
ATIUKNE'VAT-I.A.
i somerset, l a.
i . ,.-.,.. rMni-iii I" th-ir care ail! tie
A i and vu.-lul.v attended t. itl.ee OU
t . V.po. ;:it1. i; :-ilc Mammoth Block.
f M I. Ki NTZ.
tV ATT- .KNKY AT-I.AW,
' J somerset. Pa.,
v IT t vt i mmi ! attention to husinew entrusted
.'..in '.uerel awl adjoinm CKinllcn.
n muling H.mae Hum, oii.ue the C-ourt
f .
3 NM MEYERS.
f ATTuKSEY-AT-LAW.
Nnit'm't, Pa.
j- ,., t,t. entriMM to h! ill I
. V,- a'lth .n:p!u- and tid-iity. Office
;;N O. KIMMKU
V ATTORNEY AT LAW,
j homerwt. Pa.,
T i ! d In 1' I'lsir.i-" mtniote1 to bi rar
i , i and ailjoming count!, with .rui'l-
..'t a, 1 ; i v . (Hint ot Vaiu Crura btrwt,
it i i ' ,s ".
iks l. mm.
ATTkKNEY -at law.
rv .jnrt't, Pa.
i, Vmnmuth B!." k up 'tairv Kutram
i ( --tr M-tft t t-'.t tl-M limn, folate
'J.;;,., Hi.Mii.-d. awl ai! W-cal luiuaV
a T;
, ,, Rs. L. C. CoLa!.
.n..lAl..lT.llff
mnn'Prt, Pa.
.'n cntni-rtl to our car will
mi,.' In tl.fuli- attrndi-d I". t'll-liu
-. in. rH-i. K.-t(.mt and a.lj.inmg vun
m:.s aud cnuveyauciuu doue on rea-
M:Y. F. SOHF.I.U
ATK'kNEY -ATLAW.
toiuenl. Pa.
:y aud Pcuion Asvnt. Office in Maomolli
'LFNTINF. HAY,
j ATluKNtYATLAW.
I Kiraerxet. Pa.
lr In-a:-r in P.-l at. Will atu-nd to all
MniwJ U liia tare with prumpui
tk ----Viy. .
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a -r-r, .l.' TV. it! iW
, MIit U'lVHlHvd Oil ooiiwtwuSf Jtc Of
, it Muut:u'th bWnlt.
1
!.. J. K. liUHC'KKll,
PHYrUCIAS AND (ilK'iFOS,
j SoMtRM-T. Pi..
, ..Toti.-nal -n '! t "it:7iif
i i,.t vi. aiiiv. oBice ui Kwi
irr iT'iti M.r.
,fe. II. S. KIMMELI,
V i lii j.n.fi-uinal wnireii to tlie riti-n
a . .t--i a-.id kiiiiiv. Vnif pnrfrwumally
f 4 t,r . an lulllivl at hl oflii- OU Main St.
1-lamollil.
- r
-F.. II. IinUBAKKR,
1 -in pr.f-eioiial wrTiii- to th oitixem
-i:k1 vi.lliUV. t'KiitlU reMduU)U
1)
J. M. LC'UTlIKn,
('..-nrfly Iff Va'" )
r!nK'IAN ANI SI K'.EOX.
A I,. v.-niiatn!itly in Nn-rl lor
i' ii proti-MloU. OBlt OU aiau lurrk,
a- ('f 1tv: ue.
J. S. MM I I.I. KN,
I'mbia'U IM imfirjf.)
tjH ! atttrtition ti the j.rtenrattrtn of
u' u-rUi. An;tiil u iii-rtl. All
n i" amni-i-l ou-in' t'iry. nfl.'-e in tlie
M M.TTv.i-ll 4 ..' re. conier
.r and Paint lrrt-lK
& 2 us inu.
ft liESTIST.
. i:i. -.air in ('0.1k A hw.-rttt'Blork.
4
fc. WM. COLLINS,
l.E.NTlT.
In Kii-pp'r Blin k up-lii. hre he
rtir.i ai an Tini prt par"! u kintia
..i-h a nUiMB. n-KiilatiiiK. exiraiinc.
(-::' lal m-th ui all kind and f Uj heat
..imtU'J: All aork cuarauud.
. J. K. MILLER
rnTiTitlv KvateJ in Berlin fir the prmr
$ ."T v faUtre.
tiieir-et Countv Bank.
j ( fl. TA It L V 1!-".)
HARRISON, M. J. PRITTS,
I I'ain.k.vT. CaiK.
. j made in aU parB of the United Statea.
Charges moderate.
fc 'iiini to aj'iid monev Wwl ran be ar-a-:ui
l v draft t:i N- Yiirk In any aula,
a; ni.iv a nb priupllii?. I'. Is. BrnnU
:! m,:I. Mi.ui T and valuahk awurtd
.' Iii.-...,i'. tf IftWated aalea, a lib a bar-
-K time hx'k.
&vkwlaa uvaiiviiLa'
4'. Leval Holiday Onaerred.
t AULKss HOFFMAN,
ERCHANT TAILOR.
(Above Hi'ffley i Store,)
6ait tylen, and LoweatPripea.
i
t:SFACTION GUARANTEED.
Somerset. Pa.
iESMEN WANTEFi
rmanpnt Situations y'wrBn- Ms
trifiiitT Anrivitn ra -1 lib
v r-.f a! .:nf. ir vitijt mr. Hik KFK
kll-nt.iUiii 1?vLa,i KA-Hxrr N.
1 Nai
3 IIMSTHATOirS NOTICE,
f !Vr-T WaxlkrT. d lat of Milmrd
ui Alui;iitTiUu ou te hnv -Ute
U- Ti er,r.jtci t tii mni-rijrTt,i t-y the
ntii ?b- bininjf cianii uritin4
rpciit tht-ift rtulr a(.ttiTtUi.--d
ui mi or twl.tre Niuininy, thr 7th
at liie Ule reJ.-inT of dti d iu
ion Ut.lp.
swrn. J biwskr,
J'tNATHAK J. WALK Kit.
TED !
f-MES to intn.lm and wll oar fiDr i-k
i .i-tr i. ii H--aM:i. rite fur our .p-ial
a i-njrt duritttf '-hi- tir--nt mrti. Ea-
t if-;n,r- irrant d. fvatanr ond expeuflta
I ineu. A'idrei at once.
SELOVER & ATWOOD.
a N unerymen, Geneva, N. Y.
X
MacoBsOil
VETERAN'S FRIEND.
Cures
1 Bruises,
Strains,
WAyP Aches and
Pains Rheumatic,
..v Neuralgic Sciatic,
PROMPTLY
And PERMANENTLY.
AT DCI GfiMS AND DEAIXRS.
IHE CHARLES . VOGELEU CO .Bi.Umara,
High -Pressure
IJvii g charartrrizea these modern liara.
The result la a f.-arf al increase of I train
and Heart Diseases General De
bility, Insomnia, I'aralyais, and In
sanity. Chloral and Morphia augment
the iivil. The inextieiue bent ailapted
to do permanent pood is Ayer's Sar
saparilla. It puririex, euriuhes, and
A-italizt the blood, and thus atreupthena
every function and faculty of the body.
' I have used Aytr'a SarsajMirilla, in
mr f.iunly, fur years. I Lave found it
invaluable as
A Cure :-r-
for yervona Hebility caused by an In
active liver and a low atate. of the blood."
Henry Bacon, Xenia, Ohio.
"For some time I Lave Wn troubled
with heart disease. I never found any
thing to help mo until I began usinjj
Ayer'i SarsupariUa. I have only used
thia uiedicine hix month, but it has re
lieved me from my trouble, and enabled
lue to resume work." J. 1 Carzanett
I'erry. 111.
" I have lieen a practicing physician
f.ir over half a century, and during that
time I have never found so powerful
and lelial.le an alterative and Mood
purifier as Ayer's Sarsaiarilla." Dr.
M. Maistart,.Loui4vilie, Ky.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
I1 raiFASKa bt
Dr. J. C. Ayer It CoM Lowell, Mass.
Prica 1 1 ; six bottle, $i. Vorth t i a bottia.
Real Estate. For Sale!
JOHNSTOWN'S NEW SUBURB,
jlVEo xli ;l iVE
Vi l li tn.ll ituatfst
th h-urt of ilit. U)vn, ti
MUiic ty t lit.
lifttrly tw milfst fmrn
ctmnet ivl una
Rapd Transit Railroad,
ii whii train nm vwrr thirty tnimitc. ami
afu-r Jl l.Y ;i!riiii rvtrr- fii1-n miuuu-A.
1 tit fare i tlu Kttim-aoii U.t irvt a.n. live
tuI : time, firhi tttittuti" Tht makf Mx
ham itjuii t it a UHik tf uiy inr Hjnarvi truin
tUe i,r"l-4 tli(x-: in allitit.u U hu h. Hit new
VALLEY PIKE
nins thri. irh the hrnrt ofthe r.rnjM'rty an. fonin
thv nwiii tri(rim?tifnrt. mukiiiir a fh.rt lt-vt-I
tlrtvf iiifti .fohtihioH u over a iJ road way and
ht'y 1 hntiirei.
Tli lr-re uumiM-r of Ikhi alrvaiv epwll at
t'Xi'.a:ii have jMt)e ve-r inrwlt-ru iuiprue
iisetiL, aia(4ic bu n niay be iM'minfie.
A GOOD SEWER SYSTEM.
The Wartmr Sw-r Pyft m han teen aiht-te1.
ith Fiih tttrifca. Over hmlf a mile ofir is
aln-Mtij IukI.
A Good Domestic Water System
lias alMt )'n prnvitU-il. The mtr an' i' jTeen
les than J.-hiWwwti mte.
-XATtJllAL CIAS-
liti- an' the mine a In Juitn't.mn. Tiiis. to
Ketlier a ith the .
WCLSBACH INCAHDESCENT CAS LIGHT
For home u- jriirw Muttm fvert mmlera facili
ty. The ell kuown
Von Luiien irove,
The (omimerevfniue rtort of Johntnwn. Is it
uateil in the very heart nfilie 'Mierly.
m oiie rmn nt the l-nijrtv art hy fi the l'iir-Ikm-.
iberv a Ltrye stin;l I'ianl, a foundry mid
Mvrral it irr fai-1r-. 'incloyii!p toife ther from
Tm l oi ineii. ami -everal UHire llieij lo ou be
bctoi there.
v-r i!v ia"tv h.ni'!- bIti adv built, and this
miuiber a ill ! douUi-d thia yeiir.
The aiti-u-v 4-0x120 feit. "Pie vtr.vt laid out
fur a width of lo leet. iuelilditiK ldfaaia.
TERMS LIBERAL. For frt. e-and ii.for
niaiioa 1'iT lo
JiHNX AI.I.EX. Airent.
l--dfrd Street Staiioii. Juhti.'ioun, I'a.
mayl."i-tf.
CURTIS K. GROVE.
SOMERSET, PA.
BlVioIES. PLEiOHS, CARRIAC.ES,
Sl'KIXG WAoONH. Bt"CK WAlXISi
AXD EA-TEKX AXD WEs-TKKX WORK
Famhvbed on Short Notice.
Painting Done on Short Time.
My work it made out of TUnrm&nly Sratmud Woed,
aud li e Hnt imK amt S:i. Sutwtantiaily
Couitnicted. Neatly Finished, aud
Warranted to five attafacton.
Retirii t of All Kind, ia My Line Poue on
knurl SoUce. 1'riew KtAwJ.N ABLt, and
All Work Warranted.
Call and Examine my Rock, and Learn PrVes
Ido Waii. pti-work, and furnl.ia Mv for Wind
sf ilia. KemeintKr the plaav, aud rail In.
CURTIS K. GROVE,
(East of Court House)
SOMERSET. PA
ED.O. IIO.STETr.EK
MERCHANT TAILOR.
(Xo. 2 Mamhotm E:)rK,)
fOYKKSKT, PA.
All the I ate"t Slyh of Fall and Winter fnitinri
and ovtMi-iiaiiuga. balislactiuu duaranleed, aud
Loaeat l'h'-vs
A
DMIN1STRA TOR'S NOTICE.
talaia of William Yinkey, de'd. Wie of Somer
set Toantr-. denii.
Letter f a I nun i-i rain ou the ahoreenate
having u irraiiieii u the utiderva-ui'd by the
lKjiera'illioriiv. ntt'e i herei-y ;vn loaii ?er
aini llldiHttrd to aaid extate lu li'ake Immediate
amieiit aid th havuiir ela.pia waiB-4 the
aame Ui prvaerit Ihein duly auiheiitiealrd for
art! lenient on Saturiar. July 4. I, at lite, laia
ftaaldeiMx: f Aduir. in SmfM 1on.hir.
JIA.XASrft:! SHuKMAKKR.
Adaunbirator.
A
.4 ZJ
CONEMAUGH.
IV LLUaELia STTaBT PBILXS.
Fly to the mountain I Fly V
Terribiy ran the rry.
The eleKiie aoul of the a Ire
liuiTen-d like la-ntieut lire.
Tlie (oulofthe aooian who stood
Faee to fai-e with the Hojd
Ati.wt-red to the ba'k
Like the eternal nw-k.
For she aUyed
With her liaud on the aire
Unafraid,
FlahiiiB the wild word down
Into the lower town.
It tliere a lower yet and snolher
Into the valley he and none other
Can hurl the warninjr cry :
Fly to tbe mountain .' Fiy !
The water from t 'onemaui-u
IU oiwued ii awful jaa .
The dam U wide
m the mountain side "'
Fly f.r y.ii.- life oh, fly V
Tuey taid.
She lii'ie.1 her noble head :
I cau auy at my port, aud die."
Face to face ith duty and death,
Lear i tlie draw lug of human breath.
" Steady, my haad ." hold fast
To the trust upon thee cast.
Steady, my aire ! Ou, nave '.
Oraud i Ihe joaer you have '."
Iiraiider the ami that ran island
behind tlie trembling hand,
limu ler the aoman w no dares
i, lory her hitch name u ear.
' T! i newly if ' I'd ."'
Shot over ihe a ;rc. aud paired
To ihi 1 e i ig ear of the land.
Tbe mountain and the tlraud
Heverhtale the cry :
" F'Tfhfr ynerliiYi, iJi. f .'
I Iti'.y it n jxtf ami iltt."
The torrent took her. Uod ktioas all.
Fiervely tbe ravage eurrenu fall
To rutiltt ring calin. slen couut their dead.
The Juue skv smileth overhead.
tiod t w ill we neither read, nor gue.
Poorer by one more hero less
W e how the hi-ad, and clasp the hand .
" Teaeh ua, altheiugh we die, to ataud."
BRIMSTONE.
Tlie pcene in the oiil wagon trail be
tween Kansas (!ity and Ienver, near the
dividing line between Kansas and Col
orado; tlie time, the summer of ISilfl,
when the l'lains Indians east of the
Iieky Mountains were in general out
break against the whites. A large mason
train under charge of that veteran and
noted freighter, l'ete Ouray, was on its
way westward ta Salt Lake City. .
At that time the plains strelc hinir be
tween Eastern Kansas and the llocky
Mountains were a liar re n waste, unbrok
en by the abodes .of civilized men save
an occasional military or trading (ostand
the stations of the Btu Iloilklay overland
Uj:e line. Civilized men might cross
and even hunt on its dreary exianse but
it van regarded as a fit Lome only for
the Indians, buffaloes, anteIo and
cayote.
The train Lad proceeded bo far on its
journey without misadventure. The grass
was good, and there had been no Indian
attack. Signs of the hoBtiles, however,
were not want ing, and some wereofuinous
enough. Kut two or three days before
the freighters bad come up with a wagon
train which had left Kansas City a little
ahead of them.
It was a dismal sight. The mules were
Jrone, and the wueons a plundered wreck.
The teamsters lay about dead, all scaljied
and mutilated with every freak of savage
barbarity.
It happened that on this June day, af
ter the noonday halt, three men whose
duties did not call them to the wrgon
Beats lingered after the train moved on to
let their horses graze on the luxuriant
new grass.
I have said horses. To be exact, there
were two horses and a uiule. The mule,
an important ligure in my story, was the
s;i ial saddle animal of Frank Sanger, a
daring young lider, who was making his
third tripacross the plains. "Brimstone,"
the animal's name, indicated both the
quality of its temjierand its jieculiar yel
low color.
Brimstone had joined the expedition
in this w ise : A lank, discouraged looking
Missourian brought him to the wagon
train as it was about leaving Kansas City.
The man wanted badly to sell, and otter
ed the beast far below his seeming value.
He showed proper vouchers for his own
ership, and l'ete Ouray bought the ani
mal tor a mere song.
W'heu l'ete tried to use the mule he
thought that he had paid far too much.
He nrst haruersed him in a team, but
no sooner did tlie traces begin to draw
than the beast fell to kicking and plung
ing, and finally turned short round aud
laced the wagon, lie' so mixed up the
entire eight-mule team that parts of the
harness Had to be cut to get them clear,
lie was excused from further services as
a draught animal, and remanded for the
time being to a halter.
He kicked, struck and bit at whom or
whatever was about him. There seemed
to be no bounds to the reach of his bind
legs and his accuracy in locating his hoois.
It was commonly believed that be could
kick round a corner. That he was worse
than useless, Joe Dubbs was free to assert,
as he came limping from the coral, hold
ing his knee with both hands and bunt
ing for a revolver ; he was vowing, in
the first transports of pain and rage, to
kill the malevolent brute, which had as
sumed a look of extreme innocence to
lure him near enough for a telling kick ;
but brimstone lived and kicked on se
renely. He had a destiny to fulfill that
no blosterings of infuriated teamsters
could avert,
Bagppur Bill, who claimed to be a bron
cho breaker, otTered to ride him. " I'll
make a saddle mule of him, or git broke
up a try in'," he said, with an air of deter
mination, as he posed heroically in Mex
ican pantaloons, set oir by spur like ris
ing suns.
All hands turned to and helped, and
Brimstone, with much ado, was saddled
and bridled. Four men held him. Bill
got in the saddle.
" Now, turn him loose, boys," he
said.
The men at the mule's head let go.
Brimstone's bead went down to his fore
legs, his back rounded and he went into
the air. When he came back to earth,
Bill, who had cone some feet higher, re
mained astride tbe high corral fence on j
w hich he had fallen and which he seemed
to prefer to his seat in the saddle. Brim
stone kicked for him hopefully, whereat
Bill slipped down on the other aide, and,
with clanking spurs, made rapid strides
for safety.
For a time after this no one undertook
to handle the yellow mule, which lived
at ease, toiling not in the long march of
tbe day, except to follow leisurely the
rvte Oi-
ray became disgusted.
"I don't know what to do with that
brute, he said. "I hate to give up for
useless a young mule with as fine p'ints
as he has."
He made this remark to Frank Sanger.
The tw i men were looking at Brimstone
w ho stood tied to a wagon, and with his
head erect and a w hite gleam in the cor
ner of his eye, was wailing for whoever
might come near. A beaten path, v hich
circled behind him at least ten feet be
yond his heels, was religiously followed
by every one who passed.
" Sell him to the Mormons when we get
to Salt Lake City," said Frank. "It'll
serve 'em both right."
" S'pose I give him to yon to ride-.'"
"Thank you for remeinliering me,"
said Frank, " but I don't need him. The
horse I have suits me."
"1 know it, Frank, but jes' look al the
matter tijuar' now. You know we can't
be carryin' along idle stock iu this way.
We've got to put him to some use, and
there's nobody with the train kin back
that brute unless it's you' lie's got the
makin' of a mighty fine saddle animal if
you kin master him."
" Well, Pete,, to help you out, I'll try
him..'
So the next morning Fr.tnk, with much
care and patience, got a saddle and bri
dle on Brimstone, and "at a propitious
moment vaulted into tile saddle, where
he stayed. The mule backed viciously,
and made a long, violent struggle, which
he renewed at intervals during that aud
several succeeding days. Finding that
he could not unseat his plucky rider, he
at length gave up trying, and settled into
a natural gait, a long, ta-y lope. ILs
ace was wonderfully swift and strong,
and Pete's prediction of what Brimstone
could do under a saddle was more than
verified.
Thereafter Frank rode the yellow mule
regularly, and, in time, they got on term
of mutual toleration. To be sure, Frank
had still to keep a lookout w henever
within reach of his sieed's teeth and
heels, and Brimstone made it a matter of
principle always to buck awhile when
first mounted for the day.
But he recognized an equally constant
tendency of his master to sare at these
times neither whip nor spur, w ith the
variation of a hickory club. Putting all
facts together, and not being in the lea-t
a'- fool mule," he began to regulate his
conduct so as to secure the fewest of
these attentions. Under wise handling
and tirm control the animal ou the w hole
improved in docility.
It was through this chainof events that
Brimstone came to be freding by this lit
tle party of three who loitered at mid
day under the blue sky. The saddles
and bridles lay where they had been
thrown down. The young men were
stretched on the curly grass enjoying rest
after long riding. The auimals grazed
contentedly at tli end of their lariats. ,
There was no sign of danger on the
broad plain. Nevertheless, it were well
for the p.trty to have borne in mind that
the sw ells of the rolling prairie and deep
ravines might conceal the inconvenient
ly n a- approach of an enemy. The train,
now a full mile distant, was all the time
draw ing away from them.
One of the reclining men looked around
jumped and yelled: "Injuns!" The oth
ers came on to their feet at once. They
caught up the saddles und bridles, made
for their animals, und began saddling
them in haste.
There were sound reasons for doing
this ; for less than a mile away a band
of Arapahoe Indians was coming for the
party at full speed, every man urging his
pony and holding his bow in readiness
for use, evidently with the worst inten
tions. The saddles and bridles were quickly
adjusted, and the men astride their steeds.
The horses, filled with instinctive terror
at the sight and scent of the Indians,
leajied at the touch of their riders, and
were soon galloping ufter the train at a
pace rivalling that of the Arapahoes.
Not so the mule, lie felt well after
rest and feeding, and was in a mood for
a tu.tle witu his nder. Perhaps lie
thought be had been good over long, and
wanted a change. At ail events, as his
rider headed him toward the receding
train, he only brai-ed back w ith his foie
legs, lowered his head at a similar angle,
dnd stood stock still, with an immovabil
ity that gave little hoe of an early
start.
Frank shouted and spurred ; the mule
only set back the harder. He pricked him
with his hunting-knife, and he began "io
buck. When brimstone set out to buck,
time was no object to him. So his rider
did not urge the ixu'ut. The situation
was interesting and very critical.
There were ttie Indians coming on like
the wind, and already beginning to wi
den the line fan-shaped, to cut oti'the hap
less rider. His two companions were a
third of the way to the train and safety,
and, barring untoward accident, sure to
make it. And he, held to the spot by a
balking mule, whose inaptitude to
change his mind he knew by hard expe
rience. He had no time to apply his usu
al arguments.
Tbe Indians were so near that he could
see the paint on their faces and hear
theiryells. The wtnd brought down to
him their characteristic odor. Brimstofte
sine! led and did not at all like them ; be
even showed a symptom or two of mov
ing. Then, as if in scorn of his momen
tary vasciliation, he set his feet more
firmly than before and stood like a rock.
Frark thought that all was up with
him, and made a desperate resolve. He
had six Miots in his revolver. He would
indulge, before the end, in the brief but
intense pleasure of putting a bullet
through Brimstone's head. He would
bestow four on the Indians and then
shoot himself to escape failing alive into
their hands.
Arrows began to fly. One sang past
his head so close that he felt its wind.
Another passed directly in front of Brim
stone's eyes, but that consistent creature
only blinked and held his ground. As
Frank was about to slip off and carry
his design into effect a third arrow whis
tled and struck something just behind
his saddle w ith an nnmistakable "srut,'
Evidence of grevious pain and aston
ishment appeared forthwith in the mule.
His backward-laid ears came suddenly
forward as for a moment his head faced
around with an expression of deep and
reproachful surprise. His body bumped
together until it seemed as if the saddle
at the apex must go over the head or
wagon to which he was tied.
crupper. Then he beaded toward the
wagon train, straightened oot and went.
And how he went! Ilia first jump was
so sudden as nearly to leave the rider
In-hind on the prairie. His next was
hunger and his pace kej.it improving all
the way. A line of dast explosions
marked the spot where his hind feet
struck. As his bo Iv lengthened in long
bounds the cinch fairly swept the grass,
and all Frank could do was to hold on,
save his breath and try to keep bis toes
from striking the prairie dog mounds.
His two couipainions when half way
to the train suddenly liecame aware that
Frank was not with them. Without
stopping they looked back. They after
wards told him that they 'saw something
coming, on the dead jump, behind them.
It went so fast that they couldn't well
make out whether it was a mule or a
panther that was making such surpris
ing sjveed, but could only see that it was
gaining head Aay at every leap, it over
hauled them in no time, passed them as
a yellow streak, and direuly'they saw, a
thousand yards ahead, a commotion
among the wagons.
In their narration something is to be
allowed for the exaggerated form of ex
pression in vogue on the plains in that
day, and w hich is even ret not wholly
extinct. It is certain that the mule went
very fast, and in the ravce to the train
badly beat the two good" horses, wind
had a long start. ,
The pursuing Indians never came
nearer the mule than w hen he started,
and were quickly left far behind. They
were n jt numerous enoug to attack the
train, and stopjied well out of rifle range.
Those who w. itched from the wagons
said the redskins had followed Frank
but a short distance, when they stopped
and snt motionless in amazement, watch
ing his mule's performance. They gath
ered in a circle and remained a long
time pow-wowing over the prodigy
which had manifestly impressed them as
' big uiedicine."
Frank tried to rein in bis mule near
the wagons, but could not. F'earing, he
afterward said, that the mule intended
to keep straight ou to Salt Lake City, and j
meant to get there that night, he, as a
last resort, pulled him into one of the
teams " head on" and Brimstone came
to a full stun in a tangle Cf mules.
Frank kebt on a dozen or fifteen yards
farther, sailing, like a frog to water, over
the wagons, mule", and describing a
parabola which met the, prairie with a
thump, a ricochet and a roil. He got up,
shook himself, reached behind to make
sure his revolver had not been thrown
out, and walked back to his mnle as
colly as if that were his ordinary way of
dismounting.
When Brimstone was finally extrica
ted, the inspiring cause of his zealous
run was fully revealed. Sticking from
his hind quarters was the long shaft and
feathers of an arrow, the head of w hich
was imbedded gome three riches in the
flesh. I have to say the mule got no
sympathy ; on the contrary, his plight
was looked on by all hands with uncon
cealed satisfaction. His past conduct
had not endeared him to the "outfit."
The question of getting out the arrow
head was not easily met. For while
there were plenty of advisers in the mat
ter, there was no one so little in love w ith
life as to offer to operate surgically in the
vicinily of those lightsome heels. The
operation was a heroic one, as the blood
had softened and .loosened the deer
sinew that fastened the shaft to the bar
bed arrow head so that they came apart
at the first pull, leaving the latter in the
wound.
However, as it needed to be done,
Pete Ouray and Frank set to work with
extreme care, their instruments consist
ing of sharp knife and pair of pincers.
To the astonishment of all, Brimstone
remained as quiet as a lamb. A cut was
made, wide enough to allow the arro
head to be caught with the pincers and
pulled out- The mule winced under the
sleel but did not kick.
The wound soon healed there was, in
fact, no loss of Brimstone's valuable ser
vices. He was rather sensitive to ap
proach for a time, but a remarkable
effect of the wound appeared in his dis
position. Strange to say, this effect was
a favorable one. From that date on he
was a different and a better mule. It
is not to be wondered at three inches of
arrow iu his haunch should have rough t
painfully on his feeling, and for a time
reversed his usual habit of thought ; but
the gratifying fact remained that the
change was marked and permanent.
Punching His Ticket.
They were telling experiences the oth
er night, and Col. Granniss told one of
his. He made the trip through the
southeren country here just after the road
had been opened. The festive cowboy
had just begun to enjoy the sport of run
ning the train in the rough region, and
at one of the stations a formidable speci
men of that tough human boarded the
cars. The conductor came along punch
ing the tickets, and this cowboy did not
pay any attention to him. At last tbe
conductor laid his hand on the cowboy's
shoulder and said, "Ticket please.' The
cowboy turned in true style.' pulltd
out his revolver and pointed it at the
conductor.
"Here's my ticket"
The conductor walked on and punch
ed everybody else's coupon. Then he
disappeared. The little incident had
been forgotten by almost everybody on
the car. The cowboy was in a quiescent
state and the car was quite still w hen the
conductor came in. He walked leisurely
up the aisle and suddenly stopped be
fore the cowboy, placed a great big knife
dangerously contiguous to his vital part
and said, quietly :
' Lemme see that ticket again."
The cowboy paid hia fare. .Sin Fran
cirny) Chronicle.
No matter what may be the ills yon
bear from indigestion, a dose of Ayer's
Cathartic Pills will ease you without
question. Jnst try them once, and be as
sured ; they have tnnch worse dysyeptics
cured. Youllfind them nice.and amply
n orth the price.
Ossian, the bard, flourished in the
highlands of Scotland in the year 200,
and he never had a poem rejected by a
newspaper editor. This was something
worth bragging about, although the lact
that there were no newspapers printed in
Ossian's day may have had something to
do with it. Xurr'uliArn IlmihL
GEN. CAMERON DEAD.
The Sage of Donegal Passes
Away at the Age of 90 Years.
HIS CAHEEU AND CHARACTER.
tieneral Simon Cameron died at his
residence in I'onegal, Iincasler county,
Pa at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening,
June 2(i, 1S8:.
The condition of General Ca ueron
during the day was encouraging and
death came suddenly. l"p to the last at
tack of weakness he was conscious and
took food without difficulty. Around tlie
deathbed were ex-Attorney ieneral Mao
Veagh and w ife, Mrs. Haldeman, James
Ctmeion, Simon B. Cameron and wife
and Mrs. David Watts, a grind daught
er. A Harrisburg telegram says :
Although (ieneral Camepjn's death
has been expected for several days, the I
announcement that he had succumbed
to the attack of paralysis which prostrat-
ed him last week, created poignant sor-
row in this community. The General
died at S o'clock this evening, surround-
ed by his near relatives, who were per -
mitted to be present at his deathlied.
Senator Cameron is on the way to this
country from Scotland, and soon after
his arrival his father will be buried in
the Harrisburg cemetery.
Simon Cameron was I orn in Lancaster
countv. Pa.. March 8. 17i JIa lu m.
a printer and in 1S20 the editor of a
newspaper at Doyles'own. In 1S22 he
removed to Harrisburg, where he edited
a I Vinocrjtic journal, liecame State Prin
ter, president of a bank, and subsequent
ly of two railroad companies. In 1845
he was elected Cnited States Senator to
fill the vacancy caused bv the resigna
tion of Mr. Buchanan, his term closing
in 1S4!. Headed with the Democratic:
party, voting in favor of declaring that
war existed with Mexico and in favor of
he proposition to extend the Missouri
compromise line to the Pacific. After
the reieal of the Missouri Compromise
in 1S54 he allied himself with the Re
publican party, and in Is." he was again
elected United States Senator. In the
Republican convention held at Chicago
in May, lSiiO, he was proposed as a can
didate for the Presidency, and on the
first ballot received about 50 votes. His
name was then withdrawn, his friends
voting for Mr. Lincoln. On Lincoln's in
auguration, March 4, ISiU, General Cam
eron became Secretary of War. He re
mained in the Cabinet till January 14,
1S'.;2, when he resigned, and was appoint
ed Minister to Russia, but returned in
Novemlier. In IW, he was again elected
to the United States Senate, anil in 1S72
was chosen Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Relations, in place of Senator
Sumner. He was re-elected to the Sen
ate in 1ST:?, but resigned in 177, and was
succeeded by hisson.J. Ihonald Cameron.
He was extensively engaged in railroad
and canal building in early life, and
served a term as Adjutant (ieneral, from
w hich office he took his tit'e.
The man whom Ra coe Conkling once
called "the wisest polit:cian that ever
lived" has had a wonderf d experience.
Take him only as a national character,
and his career sjia ns the w ide stretch of
years from Clay to Conkling, from the
elder Harrison to the younger. He took
his seat as a Senator from Pennsylvania
when James Buchahan resigned it to
take a Cabinet position under Polk ;
when the death of President Harrison
was still fresh as a national sorrow ; when
Clay and Webster, Benton and Calhoun
w ere quoted as the rival leaders of polit
ical thought. He resigned his seat in
the Senate when Blaine and Conkling,
Sherman and Edmunds had succeeded
them ; when the grandson of the former
Harrison was already well along in the
career which has now brought him into
the Presidency. He went to Washington
when it was a village of 5.000 eople and
got a place as a journeyman printer on
the X'itiinil InttUiijfwrr. Monroe was
President then, and General Cameron
knew every President since, and advised
most of them, except President Harrison,
whom he never met.
In the great events of the meantime
he was arf iniluential factor. As a politi
cian he held the lines over conventions
w hich made Presidents, and over combi
nations which wrecked the proudest am
bitions. As Lincoln's Secretary of War,
he laid the mighty foundations of the
national military power which crushed
the rebellion. As Minister to St. Peters
burg, his diplomacy secured the active
friendship of Russia, and prevented Na
poleon's scheme for the joint recognition
of the Confederacy by tbe great Furo-
pean powers.
lie saw the end of all the great polit
ical careers of the Jackson jieriod, and
the oldest leader now in public life,
when he first took his seat in Congress
had Simon Cameron jiointed out to him
as one of the leaders of the Senate. Lin
coln, Douglas. Stevens, Sumner and
Grant; the war, the abolition of slavery,
the protective tariff, in its modem sense,
the Republican party all were unheard
of for years after he was a Senator of the
United States.
He was Secretary of War and had been
twice a Senator, w hen a New York law
yer came before him one day as agent
for a patent yeast powder, which he was
trying to have introduced into the Com
missary Department.
" He made a good argument," said
(.ieneral Cameron, telling the story one
sunny afternoon in his library, whose
windows look out on the old stump of
tree under which he slept when, a prin
ter boy, he had floated down the Susque
hanna, in search of his fortune. "He
made a good argument, and impressed
me with the belief that his yeast powder
was a very good yeast powder indeed. I
recommended it, but the Commissary of
Subsistence didn't think I knew much
about yeast powders, and he rejected
Cameron lived to sit in the
Senate that counted the votes by which
this same yeast powder agent was defeat
ed for the Presidency by one vote.
The yeast powder agent was Samuel J.
Tilden.
His exact knowledge of men, his deli
cacy of touch in moving them to hia pur
pose, filled his hands with a variety of
weapons, which bis adversaries in politi
cal warfaie wete unable to withstand.
Add to this that he never forgot or neg-
lected a friend, nor failed to onderstand
the interest of hi own State, nor to
give them loyal service, and the secret
of his great political success is about all
revealed. Besides, be had the invalu
able training of poverty in early life,
and the mighty gift of silence; from his
earliest venture into politics until now.
In a career so lor.g and so successful, he
necessarily became the target of mt'ch
and violent abuse. He never denied
anything. He kept his temper and his
liver in good order and nndertook to
live down detraction and outiive his de
tractors. He has had remarkable success
in both.
HIS OKWTRY HOME.
During the later years of ( ieneral Cam
eron's life time, and especially since his
retirement from active political leader
ship, w ith his abdication of the Senatori
al seat for his son, J. Donald, his favor
ite place of residence has been his Done
gal farm, in Lancaster county. It is sit
uated near to Maytown, a little village
north of Marietta, a station of the Penn-
: sylvania Railroad, on the Susquehanna
j river. His rural home was in the very
i midst of a region of surpassing agricultu-
i ral beauty and fertility and comprised
! several farms of the average lean
i caster countv size of lot) acres. This now
famous estate was not, as has been often
said, his ancestrial houiesfead. Simon
Cameron made no secret of the fact that
his family were jioor folk, who owned
none of the beautiful domain on v. Inch
he was born and llk'h he Iive'1 to P0-
i ssess and to take such pride in. or the
most part the rich valley of Donegal, like
all the beaut if, ll county of Lancaster, is
occupied by the thrifty German: but to
this particular section more than a cen
tury and a half ago came a band of the
Scotch-Irish race, w ho, a early a 172"J,
established here the iHinegul Preshyte
aian Church. As soldiers, Indian traders
preachers, jxiliticiaus and public-spirited
citizens, the comjKisit" elements of Penn
sylvania life had no better stock than
they.
The Nxtch Cameron blood was ir.ter
mingled in marriage w ith the Pennsyl
raniaDutch, and on his mother' side
(ieneral Cameron traced his lineage to
people of the Reformed and Lutheran
faith. It is certain that in his boyhood
his lines were cast in the walks of pover
ty, and among his earliest recolections,
cherished to his later days with n sort of
melancholy pleasure, was that of the
stern rigorof the law, which, when he
was a mere lad, caused an execution to
issue against his father for the debt of
another, which hehad undertaken to pay.
There was then noexemption law and jail
stared thef luckless debtor in the face.
The constable, who made his levy upon
bed and board, and was in tbe execution
of his duty bound to sell the pot from
the stove and the plate from the table,
kindly intimated to Xhr mother that if,
after the levy and bef ore the sale, food
for her little ones was saved f.orn the cru
el w rit of the bailiff, there won! 1 not be
keen circumspection of the shortage.
Young Simon Cameron and his broth
er Bill actually reclaimed and hid in the
straw pile a few loaves of bread and a
ham, and the mother saved the family
Bible, w hich was preserved to the last
and lay in the room at Donegal where
the venerable statesman underwent his
last illness.
It was the recolec'ion of these things
that some years ago induced Gen. Cam
eron to buy the Ionegal firm, lying ad
jacent as it does to the beautilul grounds
of the old church, whose story is inter
woven with that of his rai-e in this coun
try ; and his most ardent hope for many
years has been that when the end came
it might find him resting peacefully amid
the broad acres w hich, if not the herit
age of his fathers, had been the scene of
their toil, and which will for generations
abide with his family and name.
He knew intimately the history of the
tw o great strains of blood so conspicuous
in Pennsylvania the "Pennsylvania
Dutch " and the S-otch-Insh. The lore
of the old IVinegal Church, and of its pre
Revolutionary pastors was fain. liar tohim
and when became to resid:; for a large
portion of each year almost in the shade
of its great oaks and by the big spring, he
cherished the idea in common with his
brother William of endowing the pastor
ate lilierally and of establishing a fund
out of which should be supported a teacher-preacher,
who wonld lie an active ed
ucational influence in the community. A
churlish and ungenerous disjiosition
manifested by some of the members of
the church, suspicion-! an ! unappre
ciativeofhis neighborly advances, frus
trated this purpose and turned him aw ty
from the execution of his beneficent de
signs. The representative religious de
nomination of his mother's race, however,
engaged his interest, and some years ago
the Lutheran congregation of Maytown
received from L:tn the donation of a com
fortable parsonage, and within the past
vear the Ref rmed church there has had
a like gift from the venerable politician.
The spacious public-square, which win a
prominent feature of the little village
with its historic town pump, .had some
years ago fallen into decay an 1 he con
tributed freely to its restoration and
adornment.
niS l.t.VKKOlS IHABITY.
His private charities have been abund
ant and unostentatious, lie often selec
ted for the objects of them persons who
had been the friends of his youth, bene
factors of his early fortunes, or whwe
ancestors had done friendly service to j
him or his. One of his closest friAids,
and most intimate persona! and political
associates, appealed to for some chacter- j
istic reminiscences of General Simon J
Cameron, said that nothing in ail his
knowledge or observation of the man
had so deeply touched the relator as an
incident w hich occurred some years ago,
illustrating at once his forethought and
his kindness of heart.
"One morning," said this informant,
"he sent forme to meet him at the rail
road station and showed me some judg
ments ho held against two parties, in
tending, as I supposed from the conver
sation, to arrange for tbe release of them
upon payment. He accompanied me to
my office, had releases of the judgments
executed and new judgments diaw n for
the same amount by the defendants, in
the one case to the debtor's wife, aud in J
.1 i u: :r. .l..-.,.i,.,- '
me oilier uj ma wuc am uduDnvci.
As he received no payment and the
transaction amounted virtually to a fre
gift in each ease of a large sum to person
in whom he coo Id have had but slight
interest, I ventured upon some inquiry a
to the consideration moving him. In the
one case it turned out that the grandfa
ther of the object of his gf nertwity, i'A
years before, had been a member of the
Legislature, an 1 had rendered timely and
effective service to Cameron, then a can
didate for State Printer. The graiidsin,
last of his family, was of j.onr estate, and
Cameon took this method to visit ujn
him tlie gratitude he felt to his ancestor.
In the other instance tiie grandfather of
the man whose family he thus favored
bad been, two generations leforp, the
cabinet maker of the village and a man
of some position. Hehad had a kind
word ami not nnfre,juently a well-spread
piece of bread for the barefoot boy w ho
was in the years to wine to lie a power
ful statesman and millionaire.
"In the days of his aiiluence the
frien'ls of his youth were no! forgotten."
his i;;i:nn)AV ihweiis.
(ieneral Cameron loved b-niks and the
society of friends. When the weather
and the state of his health perm. tied, he
liked to siend his birthday, even so early
in March, at his country home and there
to gather a circle of friends, young am!
old, about his festive .board. I' ll if the
rigors of the early spring werj too severe,
he waited for the bloom of the M.iy flow
ers or the rich verdare of June to su u
mon his frien is to the yearly gathering
at Donegal. There repaired statesmen
and jvoliticians from Federal and State
capitals, and toreunst representatives of
the professional and business life of the
great Eastern cities. Editors Dana, Childs
and Singerly ; S-nators Bayard, Beck,
Edmunds, Blackburn, Morrill : the otii
cials of the Pennsylvania Railroad; his
distinguished son, the present United
States Senator, and his brilliant and no
less distinguished son-in-Ia', Wayne
MacVeagh, were nearly always leading
spirits at these meetings, while from the
immediate neighliorhood were assembled
many of his local friends.
Indications of Eyes.
T.iere are persons who profess to in
terpret character by Ihe lines of the
palms of the hands, the color of the eyes
the hand writing and some other person
al peculiarities. To what extent such
interpretations are correct, of c urse, we
cannot say. As to the color of the eyi s
lieing a test, the explanation as we rind
it is as follows:
Clear, light blue, with calm, steady
glance, denote cheerfulness, gum; temper,
constancy.
Blue, wit:i greenish tints, are so strong
ly indicative of these traits, but a sl:ght
projiensity to greenish tints in eyes of
any color is a sign of wisdom and cour
age. Pale biue or steel colored, with shifting
motion of eyelids and purple, denote de
ceitfuhiess and selfishness.
Djr'i blue or violet denote great affec
tion and purity, but not much intellectu
ality. dray or greeni-h gray, with orange
an 1 blue shad.-s and ever varying tints,
are the unst inteilectu.il, and are in
dicotive of the impulse impressionable
temperament the mixture of the san
guine and l.illious which produces jioetic
and artistic natures.
Black idark brown area sign of pas
sionate ardor in love.
Light brown or yellow denote; incon
stancy ; green, deceit and coquetry. Eyes
of no particular color only some feeble
shades of blue or gray, dull, expression
less, dead looking! belong to the lym
phatic teniratnent and denote a list
less, feeble disposition an 1 a cold, selfish
nature.
About Experience.
There is no educator like experience.
It is the stepping-stone in life's stream,
and the man who does not heed it less
ons slqis into the creek and gels drown
ed. Yes, experience is an excellent
teacher, although it olten charges high
wages.
Its lestsins are always valuable and
firniiy fixed in the memory stamped
there by the force of circumstances. The
little child that gleefully strives to mas:i
a wasp on the window pane under the
delusion that he is going to have some
fun with a fly, never makes that mistake
a second time.
All through life we lesrn a great deal
by merely finding out things we don't
know.
In thelanguige of the great apostle to
the Gentiles, Carl Pretzel : "Oxberience
vas a bully deacher. Ivr only tro.ible
mit him dot he gives his knowledge oud
ven it vas jMty late."
Very often exj-erien.-e is a physician
who never comes until ufier th disorder
is cured. The old and those wno have
mixed largely with the world compre
hend the fact that no education is availa
ble tiiat is hot practical. These are the
men w ho, when they go to New York,
are cold and unsympathetic when the
bunconian calls them by their right
names and asks fir information alxmt
the old folks and all the neighbors.
On the other hand, the i.ian whose
life has been (pent in slu-iy is easily ti
keu in, snil has to telegraph home for
money to pay his hotel bill. When he
r.-turns to his quiet study in ihe romantic
little country village, he is the mark for
ridicule and the unconscious butt of men
who do not ptissess one tithe of his learn
ing. There are men who utterly fail to prof
it by the lesson of experience. For in-
s'ance, there is a man in lilinoU w ho is
living with his ninth wife. The other
e'ght attempU look like experiments
that have failed, but from which he has
derived no wisdom. To such men ei
rience is like the stern-light of a ship
which illuminates only the track it has
passed. T- ri' Siftimj:
In the weird tow n of M oodus, on the
Ctnr.ecticut river, a resident 'was cured
of rheumatism in a marvelous w ay. He
wenttoled with aching joint, after
leaving a lotion on tii kitchen table
with which to bathe his limbs. Hearose
several times in the night and laved his
limbs freely with the contents of a kitchen-table
bottle, and in the, morning was
joyfully surprised to find that ail his
pains had lied. It was not until he in
spected himself and perceived that he
was black and blue that he luistristed
that he had used be familv blueing -liot-
tie inrtead of the oue with the lotion.
S-inday school teacher '' Whit must
we dj before we can have our w rongs
forgiven?" Bright scholar "We must
first commit the wrong." Om-tU t Jl'oriJ
for music; I thought they were to brush
the flies off the top of hU head with.
"Did I ever say all that?" he asked,
despondently, as she replaced the phono
graph on the corner of the mantiepieee.
" Yc-u did." " And you can grind it out
ctf that machine w henever you choose?"
"Certainly." "And your father is a
lawyer?" "Yes." "Mabl, when can I
place the ring on your finger and call
you my wife?" M rrlimJ TntrtUr.
Custom .'r "I see you are advertising
full sets of teeth for f ." Dentist cautious
ly ' " Y-e-s, sir. D you live at home?"
Customer" No, I board." IVntist ;w ith
dignity ! " You certainly can not expect
an set to lie of any ase in a boarding
house, sir. My charge to you w ill lie
"-'"."
Jimson " It w as a pretty little sujH-rsti-tion
that people had oni-e the idea that
every man had a guardian angel who
kept him out of mischief if he would
only obey the prompting of spirit."
Siinson " I am a little inclined to think
that the lielief might have had some
foundation. When 1 proponed to the
present JVs. Simson I reinemberafi'eliiig
which 1 then mistook for fear held me
back, so that I made three efforts In-fore
1 popped the question." T- rn- llmlr
Hrprrxt.
A Man And a Turkey.
C'difinatti mim-r-iul oajrtft.
There was a jolly little group alxmt a
table in a down-tow n cafe last night shak
ing dice for the lemonade. The man w ho
threw the lowest nuuilier had to pay for
the lemonade and tell a story. All at the
table had len "stuck" but one gentle
man, who is noted for his keenness of
repartee. Tti gentleman who had been
"stuck'' told nothing, but anacdotes and
antique tales. Ni t a new story had been
recited ; and they were a.! chestnuts.
When the gentleman noted fi r repartee
had been "stuck ' there was applause, a
call for drinks and a demand for a new
story. '1 can tell a story, " said the gen
tleman, as he ordered the pnqier thing,
"but I'll ask you a conundrum." .
ahead, " what is the difference between
a turkey and a man?"
This old conundrum floored the crowd.
The questioner was applied to for an an
swer. The difference between a turkey
and a man," he explained, ns he rose to
leave, " is that a turkey isn't stuffed with
chestnuts until it's dead." The crowd
comprehended.
Perhaps the most dangerous and; fool
hardy feat any man can attempt is to
tackle a burglar in the silence of the
night. Tliese men when they go on
their manrading expeditions are common
ly armed and as ready to take human
life as to defend theit own when assailed.
Wide-awake, well armed and reckless,
they are ready for any emergency that
may turn up. For a man just rou
ed from sleep, hardly half awake and un
armed, to attack such a desperado, show
more foolliardiness than discretion. He
has everything to loavj and little to gain.
A burglar, however desperate he may lie
is not anxious to run unnecessary chances
or sacrifice his life. If he knows his
pn-senec is discovered, he is generally
ready to take his departure without
mnch urging ; but-attack him and hewill
kill you rather than lie taken. If men
were to bear this in mind fewer lives
would be sacrificed in the effort to cai
ture burglars.
Information on the Quiet.
''Can you shoot a revolver?" she asked
in a whisper, of the girl next to heron
the? car.
'"Yes ; but don't you never, never tell
any body."
'Why?"
"You know Annie Blank ? Well, she
learned lo shoot a revolver and it got
out, and after that she didn't have one
flirtation a month. I'm not going to tell
any body until after I'm irarried." 1
truit Ffff I'rr.
An Additional Suggestion.
" Young man,-' said the IVacon, " I
hope you never go to horse rucet"
" No, sir."
"That's right There is nothing that
leads to ruin faster. You lose- your time,
your money and your sense of honor.
You are thrown in contact w ith the low
est, and you have nothing to look back
upon except a life full of regrets. Keep
aaay from the r.ice track."
"Yes, sir, and lie-sides what's the ne
of going clear out there w hen there are
so many pool-rooms right in town?"
MrrfluiiU TnirArr.
M ussuhnen ( i v m nasi a.
Dead issues Old uewspapers.
Every tramp carries a roaiuin' nose.
Always go right, and yon wont get left.
An Iowa woman has invented a gpan
kaphone. A man who is out of p-x-ket might as
well lie out of town.
The b: hive is the iairift thing in
the world to fall back on.
If thine enemy harm thee, buy each of
his children a drum.
A philoAipher has discovered that men
don't ol-ject to be overated, except by as
sessors. Cii-ero said, "The pursuit of alt thing
i should lie tranquil. How aliout captur-
j ing fleas ?
Millions of locusts swarm in the wood
ed district of Barrvil'e, Pa. Fruit and
forest tries will suffer great damage, ow
ing to the locusts stinging the young and
tender branches, causing tlie lirnl.-a lo
die.
Saved,
A fine family of children were ail af
flicted with scrofula. Two died early ;
the rest would soon have followed, hot
for the timely and persevering use of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which built them up
into a healthy and vigorous manhood.
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