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Somerset. Pa.
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TOL. XXXrni.
TRADE MARK
For Strains and Sprains.
Evidence, Fresh, New. Strong.
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On rmtrhe. Cwkrltf. otw. t. ts.
Two mti on crvuM froa str&liM4 ftiuj.- w4
tlT bat.
wu m. Jk. rt-ara f &:s
At rrouTs as3 Dkaleb.
THE CHRIX$ . 3GELE8 CO- e!timor. Kl
Dress the Hair
V.'itli Ayer'a ITair Ytcor. lis clonnli
nes. lrt:cf!:ial elTm-U on the Sfalp, an.l
lanting pftfuaie c:uru':iiI it for uni
versal Ujiit t U30 It korpa t.io hair S-iit
mul silken, pri'sen'i s iUi oinr. rr-vi'n: :t
from falling, anJ, if the Iiair has (ftmo
weak or thin, iTot.iot.-3 a new prowtii.
"To rft.-rf! V.iv rrir-'ital r(.l.,r rf n:r
Iiair, mhiri hal T" rtt I preinaTun-i v
pray, I u.-i Ayer's ilmr V:ir v:tli
Efficacy
cf thU rrrnrf.tion." Mrs. P. H. Dr!
.jn, Ai-xaii.ira. La.
4 1 v.-i. al'iict '-I s.-vnft thr' roir iri:!i
ft-.vp ii n-. My .i.r u-k f ilhnr ni.t
nisfl w hat rf-!ii;Kii-l turnvMl tr-iv. I w.n
!i!.lli.( t Irv Aver H.i.r ior. an. I
in a f x" w.s.k. Jim d..-4 ii..i i. my .';i:;
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WA f.-v roar-'i aro I Tijr'-r.'il tl'rntira
I.wh of :.-,v u i-.r fti -,a th ..iTc:-is .f r.-trr.
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MatT r.-:is.- li. s wre wi.m!!, none.
(:.. .vi.r. witli i!i(..!i pr. .-f wr i n
Avr'i Hair Vi-i.r. ,m.t I U- jan t nM iu
T!ic rc-.ilt v-;n ail I ruuKl h;iv- ilpirraC.
A rr'-vvTli of iia:r .h;:i curti-i out all (tv,.,
my h.-al. ari l peur t. iu m.lt a.i l
ii- a-.y a I ev. r i.a.1. anil I u.trtir.U
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;K..rTor.S. Ttias.
Ayer'o Hair Visor,
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Cr. J. C. r.yzf L C-., Lrwc"!, Mass.
WEDOKOT PLEDGE
(urselve to twp a'irt-ast, hnt to keep
the lead oeral! otiieirin selling you
Tuit, AlKolutely Purr, and well Malar
Kipr Hht!kir and 1 iitrs
At prii-es that make ai' .ther dealers bus
tle. Ju?t think of it :
Oterhell ii Co Pcrc Ejf, five years old.
Fuil Quart f I, or per dozen.
Nil! U tler :
Ficrli's (."oldfB Wfddiitff, ten years old.
Full qiutrlw l.or fill ja-rdoien.
IV-tter still :
K'alnrky C.nrliin, tin years Id. Fall
i; iwrls !.-", or J-L' er dozeu.
t Anl one of the ttiost aleat !e AVLi.-keya
. ; tin i. ur i,.t. is
KIMMELI I Tup Pvnn Ek.ht-Ykar-Olp Exrstirr
tju k tMiiciviiiiu Fa!! it. ?1. fiOadoz.
.v.,,-i ,.rt-'.. to tle fiflz.'tta i
rn:T l'r"" T:"'"1'T ! There is no W'hkev that ha ever le.-n
i r, Id that ha iMvin in favnr with tiie
i pnhlic ) r;ij id!y as) mir i'l Expert,
I and the fiinj'ie r-!i.n in that tt in
j utteriy inijSRi'j,ejto dupiieate it.
,.t-.'. ..rv1-e ! thertizen, , Xi;ere will fever lie any let np in the
puiity and t'.ne flavor in any pai-tn tilar
i if the I'ure California Winen we are
oo wiling at 5" i-nts p r In ttle,
Full (ii.rt, r f " per dozen.
In making up yonr ori:er plense enclose
IV bloliu Money Order x Iraft, or
Kt-lioter your order.
JOS. FLEMING & SOX,
WHOLE?! LI iSTI
rIT-GGISTS,
riTTcriiGii. pa.
41 1 JTarket St.. Cor. of Diamond.
CURTIS K. GROVE.
SOMERSET, PA.
BO a; IKS, SI.EK1H3, CARRIAGES,
SPEIN'G WAOOM5, Bl'C K WAiiONi
AX3 USTEKX AND W&TEKN W0P.K
Funiishvtt on Short Notice.
Pain ting Done on Short Time.
Ify work iit matte nnt of Twrmnlt!ti siwwrf Wood,
and tl.e ii'' Im tirt't .'i. .t:'Laiit.aiiy
Con-ttnicteti. Nai.y Kin.-hi. ana
W arranuM t arte M-.jsla.uon.
f:-- t County Bank, i Z;'T 7 rsrt Ca Vrf
Ri-pairir.e of AJ! Kinds i. My t.ine IVme on
bowrt Nouce. Pnitm liiLA.TUN AH1., and
All Work Warranted.
Call ami Fjamine my ftort and Uro PrVt.
t do Waion-work. ant! fnruish Situ fur Wind
Hilia. &i mmileT tne p!a-, and call in.
CURTIS K. GIIOVE,
(Font of Conn Hw)
iH'irEE.rr. pa
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fjolinstowii
ORROR,
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VALLEY OF DEATH.
Tac best anl nvst rtnnpli'ir history of the
firM Ht. Jliftin-e in KinrHfh and trcrtano
oiiiaui. over 5 GO paite-v 6J illuxraturtw and
mHaiis ltr f i..Vi. acauTirut. run gilt (motMic.
Atrriita ta.irauii k.r any uu.tr wtw ikn.fc &uun id
"nd a.criTS in srai row win wrm and
pt im. ..;.rri.r it ui tile oitt: j.mi anf nritn f,
Moft lit erai t"ii:. ajluwut.
Forshee St McMakin, Cinrinnatl, Ohio.
-IIE Pennsylvania
The Celebrated Force Feed
Palliate JttackmeBt tirain Prill.
Sa Enf n, and Stindari lip!tiiifti
a tcii.ry. seno row ca-rai.owuc.
A.lZ.FarqHhnr Co. Limieed.
augT - Yobk, I'.
WANTED,
Tr M.tl mir fru.t and nrtn-HHl frinrlt.
More
MEN
NO. 8.
REST.
I. !W real ourseivt a bit.
W.irry ! ara- your hati-1 uj It
k i Mir tiiiirt-T Uf : a..i imild
a larew'il a Ku5c wli;!.
H'. rii w-.'rT Trty
W.. live ftfc fnuii w.-.ijeiar,
X.tt t: fn-t as a.rt, io;.'.t,
W th tt'trr ay a t...a.U
I -t it. piuwc an.t rafc-b mir brvata
On the hiitwrr i te i 0.-th.
WTiiltf we wr tins trink-r hxa
Wthf p-aw-- nut tie nx.
Whil wf th Uwik down nut up
To fc out til baiLerrup. -An.l
tiK "iaiT. -iM!-t Ujey wav.
t'Vr the irrwn Ivmi.; of the Ifrave.
I.t us lautif h nK!iily on
I-i-t!'-. tiiiuMfof Hip lawn.
A '11 dr. ft out a-w the n.vn
'f otir "hil-He; dreuiM a-Jn.
YoTn)rt off1, hr.ath til ti-.
Or the ficM's t'lRt.ar.ii.-.!
Whone the i.;1..- are our a;lji
Aii-1 'j.ir eii ijl.s, alk'litiiignlcii.
W here no i;lerl nn t.aU beat
Tlian the irlni tbat ilic wheat
A:i.i no ttfmf bur.l abfire
The .hJ lauglu vre utcl to love.
L."nc all truSse irain rcioivie
Ijiatru.r ar.i ex(e.lina- poa,
-nsisiiM idly o Vr il vat.
Calm niiiliceaa of The jwl
I-t on wt on-elre a lij,
Worry wave your hau l t it
Kij your Snp?r tip aaj sm.lc
It ra."f-:i a little h:Ui.
JauuM w hiuwiub Riley in O. Pioarnne.
UNCLE ABEL.
It was mitl- inter January ; but in
Soulh Kiuriiia tlie Frost King had fart
; mmv enemk's to admit of his reiirninir.
no
j The road from Ta:npa to the ir.'.and town
j cf Bartow stretched oat in tlie warm win
j er i:n-i''ne, hot, sinuona and sandy.
A i-nt'errian riding lei.orely aiona the
road srtiiied to kimxeif a he canie upon
a sadden turn where a tree had fallen
I urn's th? rJ. an.l, it liieing no one's
j btt.-in-ij to removed I he trunk, a sharp
1 detour had been made. At this point
j the monotonous pines gave place to a
J streti-h cf beautiful "high harnnifH-k
j rountry, and he pied a narriw win.iini
path leading from the road int.) a very
thi k p.art of the ha umtxik. Into thia
leafy path he turnetl, idly wondering
where it led. Many sharp turns it made,
and, finally, as it swept aroutnl a laie
bunoh of paltnetti, he found himself at
the very gate of some one's honm-stead,
and fate to face with a strange figure.
A heavy beard proclaimed the figure
to be that of a man, but the iron-gray
hair was "reached"' from the forehead in
j a bygone school girt fashion, and confin
ed by a genuine roand comb, from which
it feii to the idiou'ider in loose ringlets.
Smill-Told hoops were in hie ears, and a
huge bandana was pinned about his
throat with aa immense old fashioned
hrjorh. The man wore loose, short
trnniers. that reminded one forcibly of
the "divided shirt" so ardently urged
upon femininity by dress reformers, and
shining bra.- spam were attached- t bis
boots.
The native leisurely surveyed the horse
man, anil a twinkle revealed itself ia his
shrewd, brown eye as he noted the stran
ger's evident confosion. lie bail been
fanning himself with his palmetto hat,
but now he put it on aslant as be said,
cordially: '
" Howdy. Yank? I"m g!ad to see ye.
Won't ye 'lijjht and ct me in for a spell T'
" I would like a drink," the stranger re- j
plied ; " and yonder old live oak looks i
urnling. My name is Ilawson," he add- j
ed, as he led his hor.e to the sate. I
"Anil I'm Altel Hammond ; or, if ye
will, Lncle Abel. Hyer, Srd" to a lad
who approat-hed " you 'ten.l to the gen
tleman "s cntter." Then turning to lead
the way to the large live oak which had
attracted the stringer's atten'ion, he con
tinued in the drawling tone peculiar to
all the "crackers," as the native whites
of the Florida backwoods arecalled, say
ing :
" Ye found it purty middling hot, I
reckon ; these yer piney woxls ain't
much for shade, and this white Fluridy
sand's nih aUmt as hot's the sun, onct
it pits bet up real good."
Two tail, straight backed, hide bottom
chairs stood under the tree, while hang
ing close to the trunk on a low limb was
a curious eart hern vowel with a gourd
swinjiin beside it.
Have a chair and a drink from the
monkey," said I'r.eV Abel, ptociedirjto
our out a ijurdful of lieautiful, clear
water from a small spout ctar the top of
the ves.el.
His gupwt evidently appreciated the
jrottd qualities of the monkey, for he fill
ed the h;n:utf tfourd aain, imjuiring as
he did so if Uncie Abel was a Flori
dian. " A F'.uree!ian ? Yeb, I'm a genuwine
cracker, born and raised in Fluridy.
.Sime of these yer conirned e jits, they
kicks agin being called cracker, but if
you'll show me why 'Flureediari' is such
a mighty sight genteeler'n cracker. 111
show yoo a night bioomin' jasmine that
forgits to g'J to sleep in the day time.
This poetic wager from such a decided
ly ppxaic source brought a slightly sur
prised smile to the stranger's lips, which
Uncle Abel immediately noted.
u Yer smiling, I see. Ye think it's ccrus
that such an oie coon as me 'ud know any
thing 'bout flowers. But, law bless ye ! I
can tell jest where ye'U liud the biggest,
bluest vi'lets an' the sweetest weeny
white una; where tne jasmine and haw
blooms grow thickest, jet when the
i sweetguni and maple tiommences to red,
and where the wild grapes git ripe the
quickest.
" Iluw'd I come to know all this? Well
I'll tell ye. Have you got a little girl to
yore place, ith hair jest like sunshine,
and eyes like the sky ? Ye have ! shake
! stranger! I'm glad to see ye. Hut then
yore little girl ain't blind t There
beg yore pardon but the sun's so
bright it kind o' makes my eyes weaken.
Reckon 111 change my seat."
After the rigorous use of a large ban
danna, Uncle Abel tilted his broad
brimmed hat slightly over hi eyes and
went on :
" Yeb 1 my little Sudie's bright eyes,
that look jist like they could see thro'
the outside and look right at yer soul
they cant never see nothing, 'cepting
what her ole dad talks to her about, and
then she says she sees it in her head."
Here he rcae and helped himself to a
liberal gourdful of the cool water, and the
gaetjt took the opportunity to inquire if
his little daughter had always been
I blind.
" No. she warn't alius blind ; twar
done when she were only two year old ;
SOIERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
he'll be seven, cotnc nest Ang'.ist. Ye j
step, nijfh about ererr body ha.l a ban. ii
' of ailt'rt nnng in the w.xxla then, and
I every winter they .1 s-t the wixxls aare
I an.l bnra the dry grass, go's, cfitne fprinjr,
J tiie new grass 'uJ l gotxl grazing. Thai's
I where all the .lower ia gone to. Foiks
j ixmie tlawn in.'tn up country, ana everv
i . . ......
U-rt oue on ens savs : N tins is
land of Flowers." Hub, I Joo't fee
matir.' As if flowers could bloom ami
h. .i.,- , .... ... liuilit.t itruutitt. . v w..ua w aa 4111
ave to cirht fire everr rear! vbT, it si,. , " ," " , . ...
.... ' . . i little fellows then, and I never had been
as much as this yer oil tougn wire grass; , . ' , , ,, ,
. . . . , 1 nowbars in try life, cept Talladega town
can cio to stand the fires : . , . i .1
. T . . ,, , one tame. Maw she pacaeu as all in the
"l!at I were go:t!2 to tell ve alxut nir . , , , . , . . ,
,. ... , ... ' ,, , " ! ox-waggin, and pap he dnv, and it tuck
littie etrl s eves, which twa.i a.l a.tjnsr of j , , , ,
' - t .1 1. 1 is cowards of three (lays to get thar.
these ver same Errs. Me and the bovs ... . . , , ,
wjs sow. to Tampa with a load cf tuan-
I dirin and Tangerine oranges 'nice prime
tin they was, tool, leaving brother Sam
to look after the Pullet and the Chicks.
The Pullet's my oid 'ooman. I called her
so when I fust commence. honeysticklin'
round her and she'd think I were sick
or ma I if I was to say 'Missoury Ann.'
Well, we hadn't been gone no time
'fore neighbor Kilgore, three mile away,
sent his boj after Sam to come and doc
tor him np a little, being's he were taken
purty bad. There warn't no doctor
closter'n forty mite, ant! as Sam had done
a good deal in that line, he couldn't very
well help from going, though he did hate
to leave the folks alone.
" But the Pullet's as plucky a littie
'ooman as ever eat ecuppernongs. She
he Aminee ( she was fourteen i, and Sed
(he was party nigh ten ), and then little
Sudie, the baby. Well, Sam, he didn't
come home that night, being as Jim Kil
gore wer so bad off. In fact, ole
Jim, he petered out in the night.
"I can't jest tell ye hotv.it all happen
ed, but in the night the hammock dost
tj the house waa set afire, an' w hen the
folks waked 'twas to 2nd the tlamts so
clost to the cabin they saw 'twere bound
to burn. But that warn't the worst. The
fire hal ketched in a solid ring round
the cabin, and tinre didn't seem to
be no way fir the folia to git out 'ceptiii j
to walk right thro' the flames.
"There warn't no time t'j lose, nnther,
for the open place were a getting smaller
'n smaller. So the Pullet, she snatched
quilts and soaked 'em ami wrapd the
children in 'em, fixing all three head of
children so 's they could run. Then she
climbed up on the ladder to see where
the l'arnes was thinnest. Hard a choic
ing, it were, she said, but there warn't no
time for fooling. So she told the two
oltlest to hole the guilts over their heads,
and when they come to the fire to make
a break till they didn't feel the heat no
more. Then she took the biby a!! wrap
ped in aquiit. She might a got out ad
right, for these yer piney wooU ain't
thick, and the grass don't git high enough
to make a high blare, but she weresma!.',
and the baby were heavy, and something
or other must have tripped her up, for
she fell jest as she reached the edge, and
the quilt cgu otf from the little un's
head.
" She thought they was safe, but afore
she could get np, a blazing branch fell
from a tree over their heads, right down
across the baby's eyes. Of course, it
did't take the Pullet a second to snatch
it ctf but and well, stranger.ye know
the rest I tell ye, friend, when I come
home and found every thing in the
world I could call mine gone t) ashes, it
were purty hard. But when I had to be
lieve that my little Sudie had lost for al
ways the light of her two bright eyes, I'd
have been glad to see a million of dollars
burn clean up afore my eyes, ami never
lifted a finger to save it, if 'd have brought
back her sight. But there ain't no good
of hoping for any such happening, for
the best doctor in New Y'ork reckoned
she'd never see no more.
When we got a roof over our heads
onct more, we lived on mighty slim ra
tions, and in two vears we'd saved enough
to take me and the little girl to the big
city. Bat I came back with my heart a
heap heavier than it was when we set
out I must h.tve hopjil party strong,
but I never sen-ted it till that doctor had
looked at her eyes and then locked at
me.
"Hti didn't say one word, but jest
reached out bis band ; and I took it in
both cf mine, and I never said nothing,
too. I never w inhed I were a 'ooman but
onct, and that were the time, for it 'pear
ed to me like my poor o'e heart 'd break
if I didn't find a It tout somehow; and
what the girls call a good cry 'ud done
tne a powerful sight o' good. But bein's
I were a man, I jest sot and held hard
onto that there kind hand till Sudie put
her little fingers up on my face, and I
bad to choke down the hurt and speak
to her. Pore little girl ! she warn't old
enough to sense how much that look
were meaning to her. even if she could
have seen it. Well, I've been eyes to her
ever since, and I've seen more in the last
five year 'n I ever saw in my whole life
time afore.
"Look down in that there bay-head
over yon. It's the head of a big ham
mock, and if ye don't say it's enough
sight the portiest place ye ever sot eyes
on, then I'm plumb out o' ray reckonin.
There's where Sudie and me but hyer
they come in the ox-cart now, and ye'il
see for verself how she loves her onerv
ole dad." C. S. Cowenhowen, in
1'. Lf.hyr.
.V.
Plenty Left Over.
Ia a certain church in Ireiand a young
pnett was detailed to preach. The occas
ion was his first appearance, and he took
for his text "The Feeding of the Multi
tude." He said: "Ami they fed ten
people with ten thousand loaves of bread
and ten. thousand fishes," And an Irish
man said ; " Thai's no miracle ; Legorra,
I could do that myself," which the priest
overheard.
The next Suntlay the priest announced
the same text, but he had it right this
time. He said : " And they fed ten thous
and reif le on ten loaves of bread and ten
fishes." He waited a second or two, and
leaned well over the pulpit and said ;
"Ami coald yoo do that, 51 r. Murphy ? "
Mr. Murphy ; " And sore, your rever
end, I could."
"And how could yon do it, Mur
phy ? " said the priest.
" And sore, your reverence, I could do
it with hat was left over from last Sun
day." Get rid of that tired feeling as quick as
possible. Take Hood's Sursaparilla, which
gives stregth, a good appetite, and
health. .
Tho Big Mestin at Swingin
Limb.
J rromiiieii to tell yoo about that trip
t we'tina ail tuck to gran'tna', so I'll
i piu-h rifht into it "without proceedm',"
j aa oi.l Eruther Cole aaya.
j tiran'ma lives np Owl Hollow, in the
' Cixiasi Uiver YalleT, ami we'nns a.11 went
; to ner me ani maw ana pap ana
' UuJJt and Coiwia Saleny anJ sister
r. ; T ... tr- t.;ii,.n. . n
e campeij oat two nignts on tne roaa.
We moGt have got thar quicker if
we'd had skh mules as Bandy bait got
now ; moles, you know, ia so good to keep
the roaiL. even if they ran away ; but we
driv old Buck and Brind'.e (them's our
steers.! And if yna don't know steers
they are sorter like a fice-dog, gwiue
any whars; they winds about all over tbe
road, and makes two tui'es out'n one. Old
Brindle in portickler is so headstrong
yoo can't gee-haw him ; he pats nie in
mind cf pap when he's tight never
wants to keep the road, gits his legs tan
gled, and goes "catawampos" here and
thar across the read, fust one side and
then t'other.
iran'maw's house is a double log cabin
with a chimbley at each end and piaz
zer betwixt, a loft overhead, and two
shed rooms back. It is sot right at the
foot o' Big Tater Moontain, that 19 so
high it is moat dinner time 'fore the sun
lias riz, and you wouldn't know when day
come if yoB didn't hear gran'pap a call
in' of his hogs and a yellin' at the gosta.
They've got some good river-biUom land
that makes 'em a plenty; they raise ev
erything they eat and wear, card and
spin and weave their own cloth, ami
don't git no bought truck 'cept a leetle
grain of sugar and coffee to keep for sick
ness." But it's a powerful benighted set! le
nient, gran'maw 'lowed. They were the
ruoft idlesotne and doless set over in thar
back of her ever she sot eyes on, and
was raisin' of their chillun like a passel
of mountain goats, withont any sort of
larnin' 'cpt devilment. It was summer
time, and Uncle (they call their preach
ers nncle Fasterwood had gin it ont last
uieetin' dav that they would have per
traeted tueetin' at Swingiu' Limb meetin'
house, to begin on Saturday 'fore the
third Sunday in August; craps would I e
laid by then, and they matt ail come and
fetch dinner, so as to have two garments.
The house ain't big enough to hold all
the folks big meetin' titers, so they made
a bush arbor outside, driv down ptohs
and laid planks across for benches and
kivered the grouud with straw, and lit it
np at night with pine lighVood fires on
stands. Uncle Eaaterwood 'lowed a new
preacher named Brother Jeremiah Cole
was comin', and he beeped everybody to
come, and fetch theTr friends and all the'r
chillun ; he never said nothin about
(f'jfft, but they 'peared to take part of the
invite to the'rselves. I never seed the
like for dogs at meetin afore in my life,
all sorts and sizes, from flop-yeared
hounds down to the bench-legged fiee,
and they yelped around all day. Some
body would kick 'em out, and they'd
tuck their tails and sneak right back
through the cracks, and git kicked agin.
It's jist in three miles of gran'pap's, and
we'uns all rid in the waggin. Gran'maw
'low ed she had footed it many and many
a time, and toted her Sunday shoes till
rhe g-;t 'most thar, and sot down on a
K g and put 'em on, and hid her old oues
under the log. The road all along was
alive with folks gwiae to meetin', some
in w:iLrinn and some beast-back, and
them that didn't have the critters to ride
was walkin' gals and boys birefooted,
and sweethearts swingin' hands, and
oioct alt of the gals had big stick tooth
brushes full of stuff in the'r mouths, and
kep' it up in meetin'. We beam the sing
in' a mile 'fore we got thar, ami as we
driv in fight we hearn good old Uncle
Easterwood a-linin' out the bime.
- ("hil-lriu; oi tin: h.-airea li King.
As ye jour-ni awecldi dng."
He ain't got no book-larnin' much but
gran'p 'lowed he worked wbar the
Ligh-larnt ones wouldn't go, ami had
done a power of good in the poverty low
grounds anil by-ways and hedges of that
settlement ; but thar was a heap of stub
ble and new ground to be broken up
yet.
The house was crammed full, men
folks all settin' on oue side, oa.il women
folks on t'other. The arbor was fall, too,
and part of the gang was walkin' about
under the trees, taikin' and eatin ginger
cakes and apples, and drinkin water
meetin' folks alters wants water. You
could see a string of fulks from the arbor
to the spring all day, women totin' babies
in the'r arms, and jerkin' the1 two-year-old
along by the hand, and it a-squallin'
load enough to skeer tbe screech-owls.
A passe! of bad boys was thar from town
togit the'r dinner, and make fun of the
crowd. They sot on the bench afore us,
with them tore-down 01 Holler boys,
and they whi.ipered, and snickered, and
chawed anil spit terbacker, and whittled
on the benches, and writ in the hime
books, and never hearn a word that the
preacher said. Brother Cole riz to the
stand, a tail, high cheek-boned, lean,
lank, hungry-look in' man, and his clothes
tits him about like a sheet fits a buJi
when its Hung over it to dry. He don't
take no text nor say no Scriptur" ; be jist
relates toochia little cirenmstances that
sets the women-folks to shoutm' and the
babies all to yellin'; and that's what
makes pap call it a diMradtd meetin'."
He tuck his red cotton handkercherout
ofbishatand wiped the sweat off n his
face, unfastened bis shirt collar, and flung
off bis coat like he was gwine to maul
and split rails, cleared his throat, and
lowed :
" Bretheringand sistering, yon ken see
by the way old Blaze out thar is a pan Lin'
that I've rid a long ways to discourse to
yon to-dar ar, and as I am belated, I
will pitch right in without proceedin'. I
thank my stairs my bead ain't apsot with
no sort of book-larnin' ar. I don't hev
to go to the dictionary to git my text -ar.
I ain't none tsfyoar hiuh-larnt, stuck-up
sort ar. I ain't never been to the eity
of Maine, nor the State of New Or-leens
ar, and I don't waste my time ranain
after none ot yoor big rich folks r.
Why, my beloved bretliering, ef Jay
Gold hiaseif was in a mile of here I
wouldn't git on my critter to go and see
him ar. Ef he wanted to see me, he'd
have to come to me ar. Bretherinjf yoo
AUGUST 21, 1889.
may not believe it, but I wouldn't turn
on my heel to see the President hiswlf
ar. I thank my stairs I ain't none of
your Ligh-larnt heretics ar. P.rether
ing, there ain't but one kind of ticks I
know anything about ar, and that is
-? (.'cJjt ar, and ef you don't look orrt,
brvthericg, you'll gt more of 'em right
here in these woods ar. than yci can
scratch of in a week ar. I thank my
stairs I den't belong to no denomination
ar. Ijiued the Primitive Baptists, but
they tamed me oat bekase I refused to
wash Brother uaddlebanoi's feet ar,
and I'll leave it to ar.y man in the con-
gregatiou that knows Brother Quaddie-
baa ft) ef I ain't justifiable ar, and the
man that thinks I ain't, I'm plum willin'
to turn the job over to him ar." He
spit on the floor anil rubbed his f.t over
it, and p reach ed cn louder than ever.
Old Miss Cass started in to shoutin', and
that started t'other, and the kinder ho
preached the loudec. they shouted, and
the louder the babies yelled ana the dogs
barked. It skeered the ridin critters an'
some ot em got loose, an' when meetin'
broke for dinner I was cry in' tumble,
and didn't know it ttl Saleny
lOW'
Betsv Havtltox.
The Meaning of the Word
" Limited."
It has become somewhatcommon now-a-days
to see the word " limited," in pa
renthesis, after the title of corporations,
and it is safe to say that people generally
do not understand the significance of the
term, though, of course, business men do.
An explanation os it, as stated in one of
oar exchanges, may. therefore, be of gen
era! interest. The old principle of cor
porations created by letri.-lative act was
that the entire property of every stock
holder was liable for the whole of the
company, as the whole proiierty of every
member of a general partnership ia stiil
liable for the debts of the firm. This
system made every shareholder responsi
ble for bad management, of which he
might not be guilty, and debarred weal
thy men from becoming interested in the
shares of corporations. To remove this
objection the principle of limited respon
sibility was introduced, and in order to
notify the public that only the separate
property of the corporation was liable for
the debts of the corporation, the English
law requires that the word "limited"
shall be used in every case by the com
pany in connection with its title. Most
American corporations t re constituted on
the principle of limited liability, and but
few if any, of the States enjoin the com
panies formed under their laws to ap
pend the the word " limited " to their
corporate titles. The matter is so rennr
ally ncderstood in this country by busi
ness men, however, that it is not deemed
necessary, though many com parties do
it of their own accord.
The most noteworthy exception to the
reoerai rule is the case of the national 1
bank, but even in this instance liability
is limited to an amount equal to the par
value of the sliare held. That is, if the
national bank fails, each stockholder
m.iy not only lose what he has invested,
but $100 more for each share of the stock
he holds, if so much is necessary to pay
the debts of the bank. Until within a
few years all the Scot sh banks were or
ganized with unlimited liability, and
when, some eight or ten years ago, a
Glasgow bank failed disastioualy there
were cases ot men who only owned a
share or two, valued before the failure at
not much more than $100, who were as
sessed thousands of lounds sterling to
meet the debts of the bank. Since that
time the Scotish bunks have lieen allow
ed to reorganize on a limited liability ba
sis. Webster and the Cround-Hcg.
But of all the associations connected
with that much slandered American cit
izen, the ground-hog, and his day, there
is none which shonld be nore familiar to
all his fellow-countrymen than an anec
dote of the great Daniel Webeter, which
though known to every school boy of
fifty years ago, may be new to the present
generation of readers ; A gronnd-hog or
woodchuck, was caught on the Webster
farm, and Daniel, tlun a lad, besought
his father to spare its life, while his
brother Zeke insisted it should die. Their
father said he would act as judge, whi!
his boys, as counsel for the prosecution
and defense, should make arguments for
and against the prisoner, sfter w hich he
would decide his fate. Z-?ke then mad
a powerful plea, and the ground-h-.g's
doom was apparently sealed, when Dan
iel arose, and in one of those masterly,
addressee, woich aftei-vard made him fa
mous so worked upon his father's pity
and compassions that when be had fin
ished the old man cried out, tears stream
ing down his cheeks: "Z-kelZkel you.
let that woodchuck go ! "
" The golden hours for preparation f jr
business are in the early years ' of prac
tice. The wkoje field of human knowl
edge furnishes material for use in after
life. History and biography, literature
and science, philosophy and politics will
add their share to the fullest equipped
mind, while the law becomes more thor
oughly embedded in memory ami assimi
lated in thinking. Busy men are often
carried safely through the latter half of
their lives by drawing upon these invalu
able atxnmalalions of the leisure period
for the wise man and the lazy one for the
fool. I sometimes think that there is no
limit to what a man can do if the idle
honrs usually given to waiting for some
body to do something, to worthies' gus
sip, to the social glass at the club in the
afternoon, which untits man for work in
the evening, and to the fascinating luxury
of empty-headedness, were reg-irded as
special gifts of Providence to be treasured
and used for study." Ouiuncry
Suppose it does rain, and that it is a
gloomy day ? -is thia a reason why you I
should be sad and depressed? Have you
cot the means within your bosom to
make you happy? Have you no thoughts
cf thankfulness to your Maker for his
past goodness ? from the sun that shone
yesterday ? for the friends that surround
ed, you and made your house a retreat of
pleasure? Now, just because a fewclouils
fill the sky you are depressed. Shame on
yoo. A true man will always be cheer
ful and strive to make others so, no mat
ter how dark it may be above or dreary
below. Never again, we pray you, mur
mur at the weather, or cease to look up
with joy, not withstanding your surround
ings. ReluriiuM JTraUL
Cur Southern Letter.
EonoB of IIiiuld : Ia reply to your
request please find enclose.!, tbe iaipres-
sions and incidents of my ivmthern trip,
which I trust will prote as interesting to
your reader ai it did to me.
A New York ad NVw England land
scape to the eye cfthe practical farmer,
in comparison with any other portion cf
the United SUtes, presents &l.arp con- i
trasts.
The broad level stretch of the Western
prairiejmpressrt us with a strange new-
Bess and age ; the barn-iike two room
structure of the homesteader seems out of
! place in the center of a kamlred-ccre corn
ne,.j, tree trom stum; ami on.,an p-
propriat condition of age; the aweace
of forest trees in groves or on road sides,
is unatural when riding through orchards
T .t . IX'.i.. t, ...l
aun cuiizvateti ileitis, it aetr.im is i.iuuri
the worid of oar ehildhtxid, with
g!el wild wood,
The britltte and the rtX'k where the catar-
act fell
snrronnded bv tht hori,: .n of L-'h forest
j crownetl hills, had su.'.denly sunk and
l j -
left us floating on a boun.i.ess ocean of.
broad cndulanng ridgtsot green verdure
The transparent atmosphere shortens dis
tance and magnifies objects, anil what
appears to expectant tr.ivelersa commodi
ous hotel, dwindles at the approach into
the unpretending cabin of the squatter;
large forest trees, making the line of a
prairie stream, when reached after weary
miles of travel, changes mysteriously into
insignificant shrubbery.
But how diiferent are our emotions
when we go South. S -ath inio the land
of battieiields, over w hich have surged
armies in the agonizin death simple ;
and we look out with keenest interest at
the mention of Alexaa.iria, Manassas,
Bull Run, Warrenton. Culpepper, Rapi
dan and Gordonsvilie, as though we ex
pected stiil to see the king, gleaning bat
tle line and hear the roll of drams, and
the boom of cannon, and the crash of
cavalry charge. We almost imagine the
dead and dying scatters! over the far
off fieids, sail 8etjuer.ee of bloody strife.
This is a land of mjsttry and of fiction,
the land of Cudjoe's Cave and Unc'e
Tom's Cabin, and we peer into every ne
gro's face as if we expected to discover
the veritable Uncie Tom, Aunt Ckloe or
George or Eliza. To our boyhood's im
agination it is represented as a land of
ease, wealth and laxary, in stror.g con
trasts with toil, penury and stripes ; a
land from which came oft-repeated tales
that stirred our youthful blood at once
with indignation and with srsirathy.
It is hard to realize hew we are he'd
wiliirg captives by the chains of educa
tion and prejudice, and how quickly the
links part and set us free befjre the en
lightenment of mutual intercourse and
knowledge, and how the dream vagaries
conjured up ia the iinagjiauoa, are dls-
sipsted by the logic of experience. - " '
As soon as the tonrit leaves Ptnnsvl-
vania and enters into Maryland and Nor-
them Virginia, a characteristic change
takes place in the farm landscape. There
are larger fields and fewer outbuildings,
less acreage of grass, and a correspond-
ing absence of stick ; more dilapidated
cabina and fewer farmUusvs, ui.re waste
and carelessness. aiK - ncaiuess and
thrift than are fcmnd m the rural dis-
tricts of the North.
Tlie villages are for the most part small
collections of dingj dilapidated dwell-
ings, acorn mill, a couple of stores, which
generally do duty as a dispensary of dry
goods, groceries, fertilizers, farm utensils,
drugs and w hisker, a so-called hotel, a
mixture of a second-class saloon ami a edible. I at once concluded that the cor-third-elass
loiiging-hoivse. On Saturtlays i respon.lin-g gian.is in the sheep were far
are congregated in this exchange centre a i preferable fir such esperimeots a I de
raotly gathering of quaint, sallow, sham- ; j-ned to perform. I therefore pr n-urvl
biing, tobacco-chewing whites, and fat, I the r nx-reative glan.ls of a sheer, cut
careless, gi-rling negroes of all ages and
sexes, some half naked and others dress-
en in cheap holiday finery. Here and
there can be recognized a planter, by his
simple, unpretending, gentlemanly bear-
ing towards all, and his pleasant " how -
dy " to Uncle Jim, Aunt Nancy, Susan I "I injected thirty minima of this into
and Joe, who in response are each eager , the arm of a man a little over ixty years
to serve " Massa Henry," his horse U ta- ) of age, having previously injected a piun
ken as sooa as his foot touches ground ; i tity of it under mv own skin simply to
his buggy is brought to the door on the
slightest signal, not with the sinister
movement of a Northern servant who ex-
pectsa"tip,
like-to-do it
but with a whole-souled "I i
grin. !
The traffic of tiie Southern towns is, for 1
the most part, not in the hands cf the
natives ; for " to do business " is the role i
of an overseer or a foreigner ; but the :
ownership of a two-thousand-acre plan-
tation entitles one to the heraldic es- j
cutcheoru of an F. F. V. These plunta- j
tions were once extensive tobacco fields, j
a princely estate, tilled by slave labor, j
the owners, noblemen bv right of do- I
main, but now thev are simnlv a larre
extent of worn-out, poverty-rtriJken land
which is almost worthless, through '23 :
years of excessive exhaustion caused by j
alternating crops of- wheat and corn ; j
com for feed of man and beast and wheat
as the " money crop." Without manure,
or the fertilizing effects of cattle and
grass growing, the soil, although rich in
possibilities, possesses but little of its
original fertility. The hot sun of sum
mer burns thef-e heavy unshaded clays
saturated by spring rains, into a brick
like mux, fatal al.k to grain or grass
plants.
The impoverished, discouiaje-i and
helpless farmerseeks lelief in anathema
tizing 14 political torrnpiioD," " the silver
dollar," "high tariff," and " monopoliz
ing trasts," while u unjust taxation,"
railroad oppression " anrt " negro dom
ination " come in for a share of execra
tion. There can be no help .'or this con
dition of things ia this part of the South
except by a complete reorganization of
the farm industries. The. owners ofthese
large plantations without capital, are
ipl- They must consent to I the
land, not as a w hole, but in such con-
veuient farm parcels of H() or 100 acres,
and on such conditions as to induce pur
chasers who have capital to undertake to
reclaim the land. They most also make
it possible for them to erjoy some of the
educational aod social advantages which
have been their life-habit in their Nor
thern, Eastern or Western homes.
S. A. F., Call man, Alabama.
In speaking recently of his career as
surgeon and poet. Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes said that he could not tell wheth
er be had taken more pleasure in remov
ing limbs than in constructing Ctxi.
WHOLE NO. 1987.
A Virginia Traveler.
j Vv bile t ravelin.; m irginis sora- t.me
? aao with a doctor we cain npon an old
Uv.iorotl man who was sUn-lio by
! nvve hitched to an oid two-wheeled
veiucie.
lis :nrc!e am lialked, 1 said the
old man, " and" I'll jist gib a dollar to de
man who can start 'im."
" I will do it Lr less than that, cncle,"
said the doctor. He took hta ease from
the carriage and selected a small syringe,
wh-lcfi hv r.l"-.! with morrthii. He went
i ;o wf BU;e aatl qilk.k!y in.
! .- , ,m T,-i
J theC(';njenU"ito'trje animal The mule
j . , . -
; yj b 9Urted (lown the rod
j . a w..,, Thp fl)rea
j ,(Wkwf M th(J
j , r h . , !ou,, . wh.si . - a
! '
j , K , , . ,
ti.e ;
conrte often minutes we t
::ie up !0 ti'.e ;
The ;
tnnV ws nowhem in .ht.
ar. boss." said the d.irkr, " Itow
mtT. K .!.- r.i-i i liir-M fi.r . it Tllff Villi ntlt
-
i tit Tiia, iiiu.t: .
j -oh.ten cents will do," lau;hin.gly re-
j, ;;,..! the doctor.
Weil boss, heath is twentv cent
Squirt soxe ub dat stuff in me. I iuut
ketch dat ar n.ule."
The New Elixir Of Ufa.
Ir. William A Hammond, the retired
surgeon general of the United Slates Ar- ;
tny, who is making investigate as ef his
own in the line of Ir. B-own-Seq lanl's ;
experiments with tb latest eiixir of life, j
had j'tst the sort of st:bj"ct which he de- ;
sired. lie had cori;j to Ifr. H inim- ntl in :
Washington ia ii i-st of a cure for his in- ,
j lirmltieri. lie as ' year, old, had I).;en
incessantly engage 1 in mercantile pur-
suits all his life an.l w is generally run
down mi'l decr?pit The dtxrt-r'4 first
subject wis iy years t-U, and had per
formed manual as well as mental labor.
The results in his ease ha.l surpris-i the
doubting physician ; he likes to prove 1
everything, as every scientiGc man does ;
his investigations with a man generally ;
broken down, therefore, would, if they '
were satisfactory, be more s'gnificaBt ;
than the ethers. The usnal ir.jf-ction of 1
elixir was made under the skin of the ;
rightarm not long after eighto'eloek this ;
evening. lector an! patient will hive ;
io wait until morn leg to sec what the ef
fect i. !
I asked Pr. Hammond to-night to ex- :
pietn to n:e in itcuilea anl accurate,
an l, yet a popular way, just how he had
treated the tirst subject. So many absurd
acocunts had been i ircuiatetl th.it noth
ing could really be known about his ex
act method. He dictated this, the first
ait'horieti statement yet made with ?re
gard to hisexreriments:
When the first atvonnts ot the 'elixir
j of life" were received in this country I i
was very much disposed to doubt the ef- 1
j ficacy of any such nueana, because s I i
I read the matter Dr. Brown-Seqitard used ;
j the h'" of various glau.L, such as the ;
j liver-t;" P''een, the pancreas, etc, but ;
wha 1 ;? the fa!i dvUil ia the French ,
J '''-'' Jwtnuit, I found that his expert-
menta were restricted to the use of the
j inspissated juice of the procreative glamls
of fPe pig and rabbits, and I think ;
ia one of J'- 1 at inferred .
1 thal th rxm why the guinea pig and ;
' t',e rabbit bsul been used was because
1 thev had been handy in the doctor'- la'o- .
or.lforv
-I tnougLt I siw an objection to osirg :
t the procreative gland of a guinea jig or
j a ,lo; that the one remarkable tiling
i about the guinea pig was that it is timid,
, and that the dog is carnivemns and not
j them in small bits, ground them in a
j mortar, mixed the mass with a small
quantity of water and then filtered the
mixture thrcBch pure Swedish filtering
. paper, the purest of all that is made. I
; thus obtained a clear opalescent fluid
i show that it was nothing injurious, it ia
j a rale of mine to perform all of my c; w n
i extieriments apon myself first." Dr.
Hammond turned up the sleeve of bis
black alpaca coat and the wristb.ni-i of
his buff colored flannel shirt b show
that there was no mark, even where the
injectio i h ui been made.
"Well," he continued, "I put this fluid
under the skin of this old man. Ha re
ceived the injection about 8 o'clock in
the evening. No ill consequences en
sued, lie said the next day that he had
become free frai a rheumatic piia licit
he had had iu his left arm fir over a
eilr'
He ha.l been unable to button his
shirt col!r or to Ui "ui freeiy iu any
way, even to scratch the buck of his heu I
or to stroke his back hair. During the
day he tecovered the free use of tiiat
arm."
"Did h sfa cured," I a-ked. "Yes."
the dixtor replied, "it stayed cure I. I
saw him not an hour ao. II- has had
three injections all together. He tells :ne
that his power for work has been much
increased, and his labor isof such a char
acter as to require tiie use of the mind as
well as the body. He add that he has
noticed a buoyancy of spires that he has
not enjoyed for fifteen year", and that he
has recovered certain functions that be
had supposed he lost fifteen yar !-fnre.
His vitality he wa3 sure had increased in
every respect
knowing so well," Dr. Hiniriond
went on, "that the principle of utf.
tion is such a powerful influence with al
most a'T persons, I hesitated to jriv.i an
nnqruKSed a'x-eptance to wh.tt app-ari
to be the outcome of the experimen:.. It
require!! a number of observations bf .re
I can accept the results as absolutely re
liable, and I a:a now about to extend the
experiment very considerably."
"How about yonr ov.' irdvtion T' I
asketL "IIjs it braced you cp percepli-
"I can't say so. I have thought that I
have felt livelier ail dayt but of coarw,
there U no telling whether I took enough- as for providing for your lUaiily, you
to have any effect or not." ; kno,T the o ravenA
Tlie Do -tor expressed great safisfi'tioa : "Now, my friends," responi.V'i the
that a new patient bad come, to lie treat- ; clergyman, quizzically, " I have ma.'
e-J especially fur old age. "These or- ! the Bible my study everstn-e I was
gana," Le went on to explain, "are j I have read it through carefully and
brought to me fresh. They belong to a j prayerfully over a hundred times. I re
lamb yes, it's no doubt pretty good runt- j memberphe raven, incident perfectly, but
ton. The animal is not dead an hoar tie- j nowhere can I find any reference to tho
fore the 'elixir' ia under the akin of the Lord's providing for Hawkes.
100 yean ago was alnolately iaip'iljV,
and tne doctriaes, the teachers of whLh
would have been burned at the ;alc ar
. now every day 'oceiL-reni--. ..po. a
man haJ jone aboat France then,
: that he eoa'd eonatnaalexte wUa a ;r-
son 2.000 mi.es away and could hr
whispered words of a person thirty c
. forty miles away, tie wi.ui 1 either v.e
been j t leil a iijaith? or to .he u
.is an ally of th." devih Then have
1 a great many smiy-hera after the diiir . ,'
life. Whether Pr. Browa St.-: urd U.u
J dLscovereti it or ioi. the promts scettu
I to be g-Hxl."
i Most Densely Populated Spot
on Earth.
Tli is valley of the Gang" has more
people than itcan support and is Ls pr-.-.'o-abiy
the most densely populated part of
the world. The people live ia viila-s,
and the average country town conist.s of
one-.-;ti.'ry uin 1 hus too poor an-1 illy
ventilated for American pig pens. Y m
would net think of havir.it such rut
he uses as the residences o the majority
of this vartt population would make, and
iu a large part of India, and especia.iy in
the best part of this Ganges country, the
holdings average from two to three acres
apiece. At four to the family this repre
sents a half acre per person or 1:X0 per
sons to tho square mile.
aen it u remembered thattuese peo-
' pie live by agriculture it will be seen
' that this condition is far worse than that
! of China or any part of Europe. Andstiil
i the people are bright They are brainy.
ti and yon will find few sharp-r tusi
L"sb men, better cut faces and more po
lite persons than these people of India.
Their faces in th tsj part of Ind:;i have
much the same eiiarni-terL-t i-s as tlnww.f
the Angio-Sjxon. Th'ise of the highest
rj.sic are more like those f the ir -eks,
an.l I see faces every day whi.-h, if the
skin were white, any American might be
proud to own. They lie'ong to the u:n
race germ that we do, and under lue
same training and Chnstian inibieno-s,
they would be very strong competitors
with us.
But what can a man do on six cents a
day, or how can a man ieara when he
has to struggle to exist ? The population
of India is stiil increasing. England eats
the lioa's share of the products of the
country , and though trie peopU; perh.-s
are better off under her Government than
they have b-ea in the past, it is the sa;ti
oid story of the wealth going to the r:l-
l ersand the people working the fl. sh o.l
! their bones to stiport the Governor-' cti-
era! of India, who, by the way. Is ti.e
1 rich Marquis of Lansitowne. gets tlOi) )
a year, tiuite a contrast, with the wa.-es
: of the masses at six cents a day ! Isn't ii ?
h rrt.jo Trtttun.
Origin of Women
Woman's first appearance has been a
fruitful subject for the legen-l m..-nger,
says the I'-til if til r,zrir. ThrPhe.iieian
myiit of creation is found in the story i f
"Pygmalion and Galatea." There the tirt
woman was carved by the first man cut
of ivory and then endowed with life by
Aphrodite. The Greek theory of th.j
creation of woman, according to the Hes
iod. was thi Zeno.as a cruel jest. ordered
Vcieaa to make woman out of clay, and
then induce the various go.L and god
desses to invest the clay doll with ail
their worst qualities, the result being a
lovely thing, with a witchery of men re
fined craft, eager position, love of dress,
treacherous manners, ami shameless
mind.
The Scandinavians say that as Odin,
Vill and Ye, the three sons of Bor, were
walking along the sea beach they found
two sticks cf wood, one of ash and one of
: elm. Sitting down, the gods shaped man
' anil woman out of these sticks, whittling
the woman from the elm and railing
ber Eraia. One of the strangest stories
touching the origin of woman is tol l by
the Muiiag-.iscarene. In so far as the
creation of man gus the legend is not
nulike that relate. 1 to Mm-, only fiat
the fail came before Et arriveiL After
the man bail eaten of the forbidden fruit
he became affected with a lioil on the leg,
cut of which, when it burst, came a beau
tiful girl. The man', first thought was to
throw her to the pigs, but he was com
manded by a messenger front hraven to
let her play anion the diggings until she
was of marriageable age. Kirn make her
bis wife. He did so, called her Babnura,
and she became the mother of all the
rai-e of men.
The American Indian's myths relative
to Adam and Eve are numerous ami en
tertaining. Smie traditions trai-e hack
our first parents to white and red Maize ;
another ia that man, searching for a wife,
was given the daughter of the kinttof the
nuiskrats. who, on being dipped into a
neighboring lake, became a woman.
No Provision for Some Eirds.
North Carolina probably never pro
i ducetl ar. abl-r preacher than Dr. Fran
i cis L Huwkes, who a quarter of a centu
ry azo was pastor of Grace Episcopal
i Church, New York. Short, thick-set,
swarthy, black-eyed and black-haired, be
i was a striking persoomre. He was not
j only a great pulpit orator, but cor.sider
; ed the btrsfreadrr in the New York Epis
i copacy. His rather luxurious family de
terred hitn from accepting a bishopric,
which would Lave leen cihetwite U n
dered" One day a delegation from a
! Buffalo church waited upon and invited
; lii.-n to accept a pastorale in that i-ity.
"Weil, gentlemen, other things heinsr
: satisfactory, the que f ie n of af.-tpiam e
1 narrows down to a busii.e?s matter," raid
: Doctor Hawkes. " What salary do you
offer?"
"Dr. Ilawkes," said the spokesman
" we rect Kiiize that vou itave a Lijfh rt
ntation and are willing to be Hi-!.
Our recent pastor has receiveJ $i"sM), but
. on account of your standirg, we havedc
: ci'!e.i to offer yea itiofO."
"My ocsl u-an," rt.ed the IVttor,
, gasping " do you know w bat aiaty 1 aiu
; re-i i inst here ?"
"No, sir."
' I get lo,tX) and this parsonage, and
; as I have an expensive family, 1 do not
; see my way cleat' to accept your generous
i offer'
"If we hail known that fact, sir, wo
would undoubtedly have kaikul else
where ; but yoa nhould teiiiember that
the work of the LonI must be done, an.l
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