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writer. I read an article ia a household
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VOL. XLII. NO.
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CAPITAL, $50,000.
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Wm. 1 1. Koontz, Vice Pres't.
Milton J. Pritis, Cashier.
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Directors:
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carefully Attended to.
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JAMES J. POXSELL, Vice President.
FRAXKUX BROWN, Sex-rt-Ury.
JAS. C. CHAPLIN, Tr.av.irer.
Dress Woolens,
FuR
AUTUMN ANDYINTER.
Y."ere fhowin;: i:ur;if r;!-e lines an I
clioioe, dtiraUe tuii:, eil lon?ht and
weli-Relei ted fr-vu tte I et of the pea
. n.s I'm.) actions, ol l"-b fortign i.rij
doniestic lixjius. -,-
Prices to suit you all, from to ji. .0
a yard.
A very desirable and extensive rarge
of new
Fall Dress Woolens.
Cheviot?, "Jop,!at'K8' Illuminated
rTro-toned Fabries, Mixtures,
Plaids, Checkc, etc., in all the
new cr'lor combinations and
2S inch .) cent stutls,
At 45 Cents
a yard.
5 cents a yard i9 not a big savin?, but 5
cents on every yard all the year is qute
an item, and worth l.xkicg after tiiese
times.
W V ii n mn Vm( ti) the Western Penn's
ExpositioD, the rapid transit facilities
cable and electric cars, will bring you to
the Allegheny side in 3 minutes, and its
worth your while to come to this side if
voo have any trading to do.
If yon 're not coming to the Exposition
write us for
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ao: purge, nil r jfrt-:po. frj.d jy ail arai.;. Jc
Tbe Kumaji Electrical Forces!
How They Control the Organs
cf the Body.
Tfc cVctrlrnl fnn-c ef Uio hur .n hCy. :.s
t'.it ii-rve UuiJ may be U-r3h.il, I i r. t ;--c:a
Uy Attractive departntert ! s i ic', : it
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FANCY
WORK.
Sonic li t eat Bargains in
IRISHPOINT LUNCH
AND TFAY CLOTHS
Bought below coet of transportation
we are 6;iin at great barains white
and colored Kedie-ld Cord Table Cov
er", stamped ready fur working, "ing
eti Canton Flannel Table an-l Cush
ion Covers, r-int:ed Plnfh Cu.--hioa
Covers, Bararran Art Cloth Table
and Cu.Hii.-n Covers, ad siaiaped
ith Newest IVsius ; lkni-s'.itctiei
Hot Eiixuit and lioll N-kins. A
new rnd larre line of Lem-Flitrhed
Tray and Carving Cl-jths fram O-Xta
up.'
Slai-tped Ilem-siitched Scarfs from 35cs
r?p. Table Covers from 60 t-tc. up. A
fail tne of Figured
INDIA SILKS,
All tw Patterns and Colorings. Also,
Figured Plush,
il and inches wide, in beautiful Colors
at.il l)trrs. Art Satin Squares for tbe
Ccutra! lovers and Cushion Covers.
Waban Net-ting,
f.incLts wide, .V cens Tr yard, in P.nk,
B'.-je, t;:ire and Veliow, T'l'iJ NKW
TK1N" for Drajiti? Mantles and
DiK.rs, and far l.'rapiup Over
lrapories. A new line of
HeaJ-re!i. fr.tn 1"- uj.
Vi-it onr Tatile Linen. X jwe!, Npk:ns,
Ma-dm, Slieeiing and Linen Utj-artoiect, by
all means.
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il FIFTH A VENT, rittibureh, Pa.
FAT PEOPLE.
To reduce yoar weisht suntLV WUIrd"i
Otit-fi-.y Ptii aud ltre 10 poami a raoiith. Nu in
jury to ilie beMltla. So lnu-rferenrc v. ilh but
uw c pleafare. HO STARWINO. Tney build
up and improve the Kcaeil li'-aiiii. bear.ufy tbe
eiiiilexion and leave no WRINKLES.
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kv Ii'- Jm di f&a'T'l tciiU V molt, and
.io iU J ivoi i i.i, wtK. Our patron inrlude Fby-Mi-ians,
Hantirs, iiryermnd Irmlrnot sorietr.
ur el! are not ml J In dm mores ; all iirdm
re i;H''-t d:ityt frem onr Price per
)ac ke si.tn.or three irkaces f-w $5 t by mail
preiL pniettir iKiaied,. 4 eu. Ail cuci
potidei.ee cotdideaiiaL
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HOBNE
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SOIMERSET, PA.,
AN UND1SCOURACED
FARMER.
1 met a Jt.'iy faraier ia a lovely We:em vale.
A man of ferule iatx-y that n never kaoan to
fall,
Wbo, when I tilt ot hiiStjncs ereo oance fall
in weight.
Said he had ntn twetve-ounee one bats la
e:j!iteco-sity tiLt.
And when I poke ef fiih I'd caagbt, in certAln
foreign rilL-,
IliAt measured tweu'.y even feet fro-w narratiTe
tosiil,
lie f!d, a lth brow unraffied aud a niAsaer
frank aud free,
Tital he had caaght them twice as Ions 'n eigh
teen ;xty Utree.
And then I spote of having met a feltow in Ber
lin hofe Lioulh wai laie enough to get three large
poUtoo In !
Where. .n he uthtj Jiu Hankinwa his couiin
waf ative ;
He'd seea hi in hold six apples in hU mouth in
tixiy-iive.
It seemed to mike no odd, to Liin how I'd exag
gerate .
He'd always go oue betler ; to I thuu.ht tLat I'd
ntrrate
Haw with an as' janboue did the mighty Sim
Hia iday
Ten thousand of bat fojiaon last to see what he
would ftar.
He lUiencd most intently, ith an ever broaden
ing smUe,
As thor.gU be u as a person that bad never heard
cf guile ;
Atid wheu I'd done, he told me that he knew my
tale was tn;t.
For .mx. n't self had told it him In eighseen
sixty two.
JIarpr'i Bazar.
A HOMELY HERO.
"Poor Abe Dodge
That's what they called him, though
he wasn't any poorer than other folks
not so poor as some. How could he be
poor, work as he did And steady as he
was? Worth a whole grist of such bait
as his brother, Ephe Dodge, and yet they
never called Ephe poor whatever worse
name they might call him. When Ephe
w aa oil at a .-how in the village, Abe was
following the plow, driving a straigbtfur
row, though you wouldn't have thought
it to Eee the way his noe pointed. In
wiiiter, when Ephe was taking the girls
to i-inging school or spelling bee or some
other fooiisLness out till after 9 o'clock
at night, like as not Abe was hanging
over the tire holding a book so the light
would shine first on one page and then
the other, and he turning his head as he
turned the book and reading first with
one eye and then the other.
There the mu-der's ouL Abe couldn't
read w ith both eyes at once. If Abe
looked Kraight ahead, he couldn't see the
furrow nor anything else' for that matter.
H-.s befit friend couldn't say but w hat
Abe Dodge was the crosseyedt st that ever
was. Why, if you wanted to see Abe
you'd ttanJ right in froat of him, but if
he w Anted to sa you you'd got to stand
behind him or pretty near iu Homely!
Well, if you meant downright "humbly,"
that's what he was. When one eye was
in une the other was oat out of sight, all
except the white of it. Hambly ain't no
name for iL The girls used to eay he
had to wake np in the night to rest his
fate, it was so humbly. In tchool you'd
ought to have seen him look down at
his copybook. He bad to cati't his head
clear over and cock np his chin till it
ptinttd out of the winder and down the
road. You'd really ought to have seen
Lim; you'd have died. Head of tbe
class, too, right along; just as near to the
Lead as Ephe was to the foot, and that's
sayings good deal. But to see him At
his deck ' He .looked for al! the world
like a wei-k old chicken pet-pin' at a tum
ble bug! And him a grown man too,
for Le6tayed to sdiool a inters so long cs
thtre was Anything mors the teacher
could teach him. You soe there wasn't
anything to draw him away ; no girl
wouldn't look at him. Lucky, too, sec in'
the way he looked.
Well, one term there was a new teach
er come regular high upgirhdown from
Chicago. As Dad luck would have it Abe
wasn't at school the first week hadn't
got through his fall work. So she got to
know all the scholars, and they was aw
ful tickled with her everybody always
was that knowed her. The first day she
come in and saw Abe at his desk she
thought he was squintin' for fun, and she
upped and laughed right ouL Some of
the scholars laughed , too, but most of
'ein, to do 'em justice, was a lettle took
back, young as they was, and cruel by
nature. (Young folks is most usually
always cruel don't seem to know no
belter.)
Well, right in the middle of the hush
Ahegtthercd np his books and upped
and walked out doors, lookia' right
ahead of him and consequently seeing
the handsome young teacher unbeknown
to her.
She was the worst cut np you ever did
see, but what could she do or say ? Go
and tell him she thought he was niakin
tip a face for fun? The girls do say that
come noon spell, when she found out
about it, she cried just fairly cried. Then
she tried to be awful nice to Abe's ornery
brother Ephe, And Ephe he was tickled
most to death, but that didn't do Abe any
good Ephe was jest ornery enough to
take care that Abe shouldn't get any
comfort out of it, They do siy she sent
messages to Abe, And Ephe never deliv
ered them or else twisted 'em so as to
make things worse And wore. Mebbe so,
mebbe not Ephe was onery enough for
it.
'Coarse the school inarm she was board
ing round, and pretty soon it come time
for ole man Dodge's, And she went ; but
no Abe could she ever see. He kept
Away, And as to meals he never set by,
but took a bite otfby himself when he
could get a chance. ('Course his mother
favored him, being he was so cussed un
lucky.) Then when the folks was All to
bed he'd come in And poke np the fire
And peek into his book, but first one side
And then the other, same as ever. '
Now, what does schoolma'am do bat
come down one night when she thought
ba was abed and Asleep And catch him
unawares. Abe knowed it was her quick
as be heard the rustle of her dress, bat
there wasn't no help for it, so he just
covered his crosseyes with his hands And
she pitched in. What she eaid I don't
know, but Abe ho never said a word,
only told her he didn't blame her, not a
mite; he knew she couldn't help it no
more than he could. Then she Asked
him to come back to school, And be An
swered to please excuse him. After a bit
she asked him if be wouldn't come to ob
lige her, And he said be calculated he
was obligin' her mors by stay In' Away.
EST A BLTSEEED 1827.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1. 181K,.
Well, come to that she didn't know
what to say or do ; womanlike she upped
and cried, And then she said he hurt her
feelings. And the nphot of it washe
said he'd come, And they shook hands on
it Abegivin' bis other hand ofourse.
Well, Abe kept bis word and took np
schoolia' as if nothing had haptned,
And school in' as there was that winter!
I don't believe any regular academy had
more learnin' and teaching that winter
than waat that district school had. Seem
ed as if all the scholars had turned over
a new Iwif. Even wild, ornery, no ac
count Ephe Dodge, couldn't help but get
ahead some but then be was crazy to
get the schoolma'atn, and she never paid
no attention to him, just wcat with Abe.
Abe was teaching her mathematics, see
ing that was the one thing where he
knawed more than she did outside of
fariniu'. Folks used to say that if Ephe
had Abe's bead or Aba had Ephe's face,
the schoolma'am would hare half of the
Dodge farm whenever old man Dodge
got through with it, but neither of them
did have what the other had, and so
there it was you see.
Well, you've heard of Squire Catou of
course. Judge Caton they call him since
he got to be judge of the supreme court
and chief justice at that. Well, he had a
farm down there uot far from Fox river,
And when he was there he was just a
plain farmer li ka the rest of cs though
up in Chicaga he w- a high up lawyer,
leader of the bar. No ir it so happened
that a young doctor named Braiuard,
Daniel Braiuard, had just come to Chica
go and startin' in, And Squire Caton was
helpin' him ; gave him desk room in his
otlice and made him known to folks
Kenzies aud Bulteriields And Ogdecs and
Hamiltons And Arnolds aud all those
folks about all there was in Chicago in
those days. Brainard had een to Paris
Paris, France, not Paris, El., you un
derstand aud knew all the doctorin'
there was to know then.
Well, come spring, Squire Caton had
I'o: Brainard down to visit him, aud
they shot duck and geese aud prairie
chickens, and 8o:ue wild turkeys aud
deer. Game was just, swaraiin' at that
time. All the while Caton was doiu'
what law basiness taere was to do, aud
Brainard thought he ought to 1m doiu'
some doctorin' to keep his hand in, so he
Adked Caton ifjthere wasn't any cases
he could take up surgery cass especial
ly he hankered after, setin' he had moie
carving tools than you could shake a
stick at. He &ed him particularly if
mere Jtosa't anybody he could treat for
"strabismus." The squire ha-.ta't heard
of any body dying cf that compiaiut, hut
when the doctor explained that strabis
mus was Fteuch for crosseyes he natural
ly thought of poorAoj DjJge, aad tae
youcg lawyer was right up on his car.
He sineiied the ha tile afar otf, And 'musi.
before you could say J.:fc Kubinson the
squire sad the docor were on horseback
aud down to the Dodgti farm, too, cheat
and all.
Well, it so happened that nobody was
at home but Abe and Ephe, and it didn't
take but few words before Abe was ready
to to set right dawn, then and there, and
let Anybody do anything he was a mind
to with his mUfortunate eyes. No, he
wouldn't wait till the old folks com.?
home. Ha didn't want to ask no advice.
Ha wasn't afraid of pain nor of what any
body could do to his eyes could not be
made any worse than they were, what
ever you did tD 'em. Take 'em out and
boil 'em and put 'em back if you had a
mind to, only go to work. lie kn.-w ha
was of age and he cuessei he was master
of his own eyes such as they were.
There ;wasn't nothing elee to do
but go ahead. Thedo;tor opened up his
killing tools and tried to keep Abe from
seeing them, but Abe, just come right
over and peeked at "em, haad'.ei 'em and
called 'em "BpicaiLd," and so they were,
barrin' having them used on your
on flesh and blood and bones.
Then they got some cloths and a basin
and one thing Another And set Abe risht
down in a chair. (No such thing as
chloroform in those days, you'll remem
ber.) And 'Squire Caton was to hold an
instrument that spread the eyelid wide
opc-n, while Ephe was to hold Abe's
head steady. First touch cf the lancet
and first spurt of blood, And what do
you think? That ornery Ephe wilted
And fell fiat on the fl oar behind the
chair!
"'Squire," said B.-ainard, "ttep around
and hold his hea l."
"I can hold my own head," says Abe
as steady as you please. But 'Siuire
Caton he straddled over Ephe and held
his head between his Arms And the two
bandies of the eye-spreader with h'.s
hands.
It was al! over in half a ruinu'e, and
then Abe leaned forward and shook the
blood off his eyelashes and looked
straight out of that eye fjr the first time
since he was bora. And the first words
he said, were :
"Thank the Lord ! She's mine !"
About that time Ephe be era a led out
doors; sick aa a dog, and Abe spoke up.
Says he :
"Now for the other eye, doctor."
' Oh," says the doctor, "wo'd better
take Another day for that.
"All right," says Abe. "If your hands
are tired of cuttia' you can make soother
job of iL My face ain't tired of bein' cat
I can tell you."
"Well, if your game, I Am."
So, if you'll believe me, they just set to
work And operated on the other eye,
Abe holding his own head as he said he
would And tbe 'Squire holding the spread
er. And when it was all done tbe doctor
was for putting a bandage on to keep
things quiet till the wound all healed up,
but Abe just begged for one sight at him
self, and be stood up And walked over to
the clock And looked in the glass and
says he:
"So thAt's the way I look, is it?
Shouldn't have known my own face
never saw it before. How long must I
keep the bandage on doctor ?
"Ob, if the eyes ain't very sore when
you wake np in the morning yon can
take it off if yoa'll be careful."
"WAke op! Dj you sappose I can
sleep when such a blessing has fallen on
me? I'll Uy still, but if I forget it or
yon for one minute this night I'll be so
ashamed of myself that it'll wake ins
right np !"
Then the doctor bound np his eyes,
And the poor boy said "Thank God'' two
or three times, and they could see the
tears running down his cheeks from
under the cloth. Lord ! It was just as
pittifd! as a broken wi ia hir 1 '.
How about the cjri ? Woil, it was all
right for Abe an 1 all wrong fir Epher
All wrong fir E-.be. B-jt that's all pvt
and tone px-it and g'.ne. Folks come
formi!es and miles to s"e cro?s eye J Abe
with his eyes as straight as a lo jn's le.
Dr. Brainard was a great mia f jrever af
ter in those parts. Everywhere else, to,
by what I heard.
When ths doctor and the 'Squire come
to go, Abe spoke cp, blindfolded as he
was, and says he :
"Doc, how much do you charge a feller
for ssvin' his life making a man out of
a poor wreck doin what he tho ught
never cod'.d be done but by dyin and
go'.n' to kingdom come ?'
''Oh," says Doc Brainard, says he,
"ihat ain't what we look at as pay prac
tice. Yoa di ln't call me ia I cainecf
rayslf, as though it was wHitwjcaila
clinic If all goes well and yoa happen
to hare a barrel cf apples to epare, you
j ust send them up to 'Sq:iire Catou 's h juse
iu Chicago, and I'll call over and help
eat 'em."
What did Abe say to that ? Why, sir,
he never said a word, but they do say the
tears started out again, cut from under
the bandage and d wn his cheeks. But
then Abe he had a 3-year-old pet mare
he'd raised from a colt pretty e-' a pict
ure, kind as a kitten and fast as split
lightning and next time Dc came down
Abeheju-.t siipjed out to the barn and
brought the mare round aud hitche-1 her
to the gate post, aud when Doc came to
be going, says Abe :
"Don forget your nag, Djcior ; she's
hitched at the gate."
Well, sir, even then Abe had the hard
est kiad of a time to get Dae Brainard to
take that mare, aad w hen hodil ri le oif
leadin' her it wasn't haif en hour before
back she came lickety split. Die said
she broke away from him an.! pat out for
home, bat I always inspected bedliii't
have no ne for a ho-is h couldn't t".-!l
nor hire out, an I cou'dn't afford to keep
in the village that waa what Chi-.-no
was then. But come along toward fall
Abe he took hr right up to town, and
then the doctor's practice had growed sj
cju.jh that he was pret'y glad to g-t her,
and Abe was glad to have him have her,
seeing ail that had come to him throt:i;h
bavin' eyes like ether folks that's the
schoolnia'ara I mean.
How did the schoolma'am take it?"
Well, it was this way. After the cu'.l'.n'
Abe didn't show up fur a few days, til!
the inflammation got down and he'd had
some practice hacdlin' his eyes, so to
speka. He just kept himself to himself,
enjoy-in' hiuisvif. Ile'i go around doin'
the chort-e, singing so you could heir him
a mile. He trasalw?ys great on sinia'
Abe was, though iish-tmed to go to sing
ing school with the rest. Then when the
por buy beg mi to feel like otner fiiks he
went right over to where the school -rua'am
Happened to ba boardin' 'round
and walked right up to her and took her
by both Lands and lroke.1 her straight
in the face and said :
"Do yoa know me?"
"Well, she kind of smiled and bltfe-hed,
and then the corners of her mouth pull
ed down and she p-il'.ed oris hind aa ay,
and, if you belier , me, that was the thirl
time that girl cried that season to n.y cer
tain knowledge, and all for nothiu' ei:h
ertime. What did she say ? Why, she jst said
she'd have to bein all over srain to g; t
acquainted with Abe. But Ephe's noes
was oat t f joint, and Ephe knowed it as
sa ell as any body, Ephe iid. It Wij Abe's
eyes to Ephe's nc-?.
Married ? ( h, yts, of coarse, un 1 liv
ed on the farm as lonj ai tho o!d f is
lived, and af.trwar l, to, Ephe stayirg
right along like the fool heal.vays had
be-n. That feller never did have ai
much sense as a last year's bird's nesf.
Alive yet! Abe? well, n. M ghthave
been if it hadn't been for Shiloh. When
the war broke out, Abe thought he'd
ought to go, old as he was, so he went in
to the Sixth. May be you've seen a book
written about the captuia of Company K,
of tbe Sixth. It was Company K, he
went into him and Ephe. And he was
killed at Shiloh just as it seems t J hap
pen. He got killed, and his worthies
brother cime home. Folks thought- Ephe
would have liked to niirry the widow,
but Lord ! she never had no such an idea.
Such bait c3 he was compared to his
brother ! She nevtr chirked up to sptak
of, and now she's dead, too, and Ephe l.e
just toodles round taking care cfthe
children kind of a he dry nurs?. That's
about al! he was good for anyhow.
My nam?? Ob, my name's Ephraim
EpLe they call rce for shorL Ephe
DJg?. Ab was my brother. J.wyh
Kirliiii l in Uimtv'-U-- Oiurltr Xmru.il.
Honor Dear Old Mother.
Tim? has scattered the snowy flakes
on her brow, ploughed deep furrows on
her cheek but is she nit s-x-eet and
beautiful now? The lips which have
kissed many a hot tear f r;a the child
ish cheek are the ssreetfst lips ia all
the world, ssys the "15 ig'e GV.!."
The eye is dim, yet i; glows with the
rapt radiance of a holy love which can
never fade.
Oh, yts, she is a dear old mother.
llersindsof time are nearly na oct,
but feebie as she is they will go further
and reach down lower for yoa than any
other on earth.
Yoa cannot walk into midnight where
she cannot see you; you cannot enhvr
a prison whose bars 6hall keep her eat ;
yoa can never mount a scaffold too high
for her to reach that she may kiss and
bless yoa.
In evidence of her deathless love
when the world shall despise and for
sake you when it leaves yoa by th
wayside to die unnoticed, the dear old
mother will gather yoa ap ia her feeble
arms, carry yoa heme And tell you all
your virtues until yoa Almost forget that
your soul is disfigured by vices.
Love her tenderly, And cheer her de
clining years with holy devotion.
Different Ways of Working IL
rteUeo Hear about that burglar that
was driven off the other night by turning
the hose on him ?
Domm Yea. I got rid of a burglar
pretty much in the same way once. But
he took the hose with him.
How was that?
I had my money hid in an old yarn
sock. He found iL
Stcvo Elklns' Playmatos.
"Do yoa know that the most darlrg
train rtbbvrsithis country ever knew were
p!a iua.es of Sieve F.ikins, the late Sec
retary of War?" asked John B. Casaidy,
a wealthy merchant of southwestern
Missouri, who was chatting with a party
of story-tellers At the Treiuont House
yesterday. Everybody knew that Steve
Elkins was a pretty bad Republican and
was an expert in the art cf "holding up"
people ia a political game, but nobody
ta?pected that he ever associated with
train robbers.
" Wei!, as Chicago people are begin
ning to think that lii'e is dreadfully mo
notonous if they cannot read a scnsa'.ioa
a! account of A bo!d train jobbery every
other morning bef -re breakfast, 1 will tell
you cf Steve Elkins' acquaintance with
train lobbers," rtsaaied Mr. Cassidy.
"Steve r.nd his b.'other were boys to
gether ith Bob Cole and J;m Younger
ia a S'uall ton iu Missouri, not a great
way from K iiisas C.ty. A short tune
prior to the opening of the war t-teve left
the college at Colciibus, Mo., and taught
school at Harrisoavil'e, Cass C3iinty, Mo.
An:e:i2 the students whs Cole Younj-r.
and Steve told me the !at time I taiked
with him that Cole was aa exceedingly
bright boy aad an obedient student. Bat
it is a little singular how those boys came
to join a gang cf freebooters and finally
a?socia:e themselves with the notorious
James gang. Il happened ia this way :
Old man Harry Younger, the father of
the Youtger boys, wasa staunch I'aiou
ist. Oae night about the lieginuin of
the war, he visited a small town near
Kansas City oa a matter of business? and
he went to start homeafler nightfall i:h
5'i' ia hispockeL His friends pleaded
with Lira to remain until tiext day ar. i
warned l.im of the risk he was taking,
as the surronn ling country was alive
w ith Federal Soldier. B it I'nc'e Harry
ntoun'-'d his horse to start oa his journey
and remarked to hi3 f'isnds : N , I hard
ly think anybody will harm m. I aia
not a'raid of Yankees and there are no
n;lels ?.ay where near my route.' Hi
ha 1 full coR'.'s It-nee that the L'uioa sol
diers would do him no har:n, because he
was a Unionist himself. So he started
for lio::se.
"TLat night l"nc!e Harry's horse trot
ted up to the barnyard bars at hoiiie and
wl.ia:si.;d to b j k-tia, bat the animal bore
no rihr. Thrt next day the body cf
Cncle Harry Younger was found lyiug
cold ia death by the road side. Tao ri- i
ll-j balls h id entered his back and torn
their way through bis boJy and his j
p.-K-SEtts had been rifled. The Yankees !
had loaidered an 1 ro )bc 1 him of i.
' Ef to this time the Younger hoys
ha 1 t.ika no de.-i.!e J stand either for cr
aitain-" the Union ca-rje, but whoa they
lea rat-i that their poor old father, who
w. a strong Unionist in the mil-t cf a
relsjl euuatry, La l.btea mur lere.i by the
Yankets they sore lasting vengeance
ag-ainst the Federal?, and the boys mad
their oath g-o-l by immediately j icin
VJuantre!!9 brvid of guerrillas, which was
then iu thai part of the Stale. Tiii-se
Your.gr boys were all brave, determined j
aT J courage.')!'.-?, even in the fa;e cf da.i-g--r
si i dca'h. After the war was over j
X icy j .ine l the James c,' an 1 were the
fir t to st.irtle tb. e--.nitry b a train r h
heiy at ; , Vi ii;-!, m .,',it K ;:l i;,- .a
'7 p I'Mothut tl.i.2 the" h-;!.lib uar.f
trai.-i h 1 r.;v-r l;j h iar 1 -f. hi: the
bas'.nt-a s-'V.i bc.-a iie quite fi.-,hi maMe
ia .Mi.-r; t:ri and t:; I-i iiaa T.-rvtory.
But ih-ere ': pr.gr. i-. e.-rytliir ia
ti '.titer .! iy f r.;a.-..-.ith evut
ury, and train r-.hUlr.- is no ex. on to
the r ile. T.:? V'jin.T h ya kne li'.th
it about the u-e f dyra.aite ia th-.se,
ti .ies, in blow i:;g opt-a an expre-M car.
These train lubbers ar..:md Chi - ao have
the spirit i f Chicago pa-.h an ! pn ttress,
and I hey caa u-e a stick of dynvuite as
euily&sthe Yo ing-r b-ys co.il 1 their
revolvers aa I sxa have an express car
lying in sp'inters over a tea-acre loh
B it the Yjti2ger boys were bora for an
hon jrai.le career, as they were g-jod fel
lows at heart b-:"jre c:rcu:n?!aaeea per
suadej them to become freebooters."
C.ii 'iyo H r il l.
Thoy WersSkiilad Men.
"O'.i, yrs," stil the sad-vlsageJ man
for tiie twentieth time; '"Oh, yes, I was
one of the pMseugi-rs oa that Like Shore
train the 'guig held np at Ksn.lalv.lle
the other night."
"Were yon in the sleep jr?" Aske-1 the
reporter.
"Yes, I had lef: wh?a I rache 1 the
station ia Chicago.''
"Ah, yoa had been at tae World"
Fair, then ?"
' Ye?, tt hat else wou! 1 take a man to
Chicago?"
"Were til the sleepers full?"
"Ye."
"Ail returning from the Fair, I f.ip-
pce?"
"Of ccurse."
"D.d any of vol hear the dijtarbanca
going oa ontsi ie ?''
"I gaess we all did ; it was like A bat
tle." "Were the passengers frightened ?"
"Nat a bit ; at least, I wasn't."
"DiJu't yoa exoct tae rohhir to go
through the train ?''
The sad-visagvj man's fa:3 shore! a
cloud of c a upassioa for the reporter.
"Young man," he said, "do yoa sup
pose them robbers stopped that train
for fun?'
"Of course not."
"laen why do you Aik that kiad of a
quiation? Dan't you know they knowed
the passengers were coining home from
the Fair, aud that they might as well
have gone through the p 3r house look
ing for gold bricks." IhtroU Fete iV .
Evidence of Good Faith.
"Ol course your are willing to work,"
observed the la Jy.
"How can you doabl it?" protested the
tramp, when After A shoit rest he attack
ed with renewed vigor the chicken leg
she had given him.
An Observing Boy.
Mother (severely j Why did you grab
your hat before the minister was half
through the benediction ?
Little Dick Ithort I'd start early to
avoid the rash.
To care nervousness your nerves must
be fed by pare blood. Hood's Sarsspa
rilU makes pare blood. Taxi it now.
o
WHOLE NO. '2201
A Child's Ki33.
He was a bounty jum:ier and had been
.-.hot down while trying to es.-ate from
the guard house. He was a burly, big
man, fierce of look and ro'.iith of speech,
and vhen they brought hiai into the
tvspit.il l.e tuned an 1 raved in a way to
make you chid. Hi had recvived a mor
tal wound, but death had no terrors for
him. When the surgeon told him that
he most die within fo -ty-eight hours he
replied :
"Bah! What of it? The only favor
I have to ask is that you keep snivelers
away. I w ant no pray in and singin'
about me !"
He had been a wicked man. Ha boast
ed of it. He ridiculed the idea cf A here
after aad cursed the Bible and religion.
Men and women came to speak with him.
so that he might not die as a dog, bat be
mocked and cursed them. We who were
watching for the end saw the shadow of
death when it fell. He realized that life
wasebbing, but still he cursed and revil
ed. Aa hour before he died the wife of
a wounded sergeant came in to visit her
husband. She brwnght with her a little
fair-haired girl 4 or 5 yeir9 old, and as
she talked the chiid slipped away And
wandered up and down the aisles to in
spect the cet and their occupants. A
score of us tried to coax her nearer, but
ghe ai coy and bashfal. When she
reached the cot 'n re lay the bo-ic'v-,
juaij.er, the pa'i.'r cf ih-ath on his fa.-- j
but righting the specter away, she jus- ;
ed aa i stared at bi n. When he saw her j
a s'hi'e llit'.-d over his face and the fierce j
light died oat of his eyes fr the first j
tun?. He Uckoned her t3 approack.j
at; 1 to our gret surprise she heaiUt icgly
ad.-anefd until she stool luaide Lis cot.
Tii' ni ' her ro9 up in a'ar.n, bat the
curse whis'-rc 1 to her not to call the :
child. '
' Is ycu sick?'' que tied the little one, I
as the ii. an re-. hed out his hand and
touched her g jlden cur's.
" Aye, h;l I, I aai dyii.g," he whisper
ed. "An-! ain't you g-.t rc;ljly to speak
to yoa? '
"!. idn't want them."
" lint you wanted me, didn't you?"
" Yes God bless you 1"
" i-i you shot, just like papa?"
" Y-.'s dear.''
M'l-eso s,rry. I guess I'll kiss you."
A!.tr lips touched his chevk the
death ratt'i iu his throat frightened her
aud she ran away to her mother. The
kiss was still warai when h'.s eyes closed
his hfa 1 f-!l back and he shivered and
died.
" S.e the won lerfal change in his j
fae !"' whispered a nute. !
Aye, it was wonderfal I The hard lines i
had meite-l out a.:d there waj a saiile
hovering a!otit the mouth. That savage i
expression which hai inlcniiijd as the j
hours rasd And the end carue !
i
nearer had been kisse-J awav bv the iit-
tie child- Bat for her he would have
died cursing his ( rod. Mayhap in the
seconds between the kiss aad dissolution
be ha I allied f.r taer.-y. Z ''' I' -'.-.
His Crime
I; w.s only an ordinary lynching party
ia that para liee of boomers, Oklahoma,
an 1 con-e qicntly ought not to have
attracted any attention or oavnent from
partners '.y. Bit the onscieace-stricken
au 1 palpably g liify look oa the face cf
the pri-wat r an I the stera ouutenaaces
of tr.e iyr.c'-.ers in licated thecoiniuis.-ion
of isi.ate gru.e criaie.
Ser.'rai citizens, however, tlieir :nrtti
ity be:ng ur ijs. 1, ventJrei to aldress
the leader o the prty.
"W! at ba this feiio v dj::-; ; nnr lere 1
soin oa-: ? '
'"Nj. Worse," returned ihe lea ler.
"I be a tn-tler?"
"Worse si ill."
"A horse thief ?"
"Far wor" was still the rei.-orse.
"Then what is it?"
"Stranger' said the leader, "we fellers
was !i-tenin to the only c;era troop as
ever attack this 'ere town, and the primer
donay had just sung what they called
a 's!o,' when this chap yelled out, 'That
solo woul la't be bad if it wasn't so low,"
and that's why we're lynshin' him."
The faces of the inqiirers blanched
with horr. r at such un exK-ra'ole pun
aa 1 ad.iiitted that the prisoner deserved
his fate. 1'iii.lvt- ii'.'u-.V.
A Slight Difference.
A gentleman ri-liog through one of the
pine wastes so common in noddle Geor
gia, some years sgo, overtook a young
man whose sat k cf corn under him on
tbe farm horse he nde irave evidence
that he was bound for the grist mill.
Some conversation between the two
developed the fact that he was the son
cf the author of a popular almanac.
The gfiitleman aske-l the young man
j jccwly :
"Aa l do ycu eve.- make escalations
upon the weather, bke thoae f T which
your lathrr is so celebrated ?"
' Oh, yes," he replied realiiy.
"And how do your calea'ations agree
with your father's?" inquired the gentle
man. "Very well, indeed," replied the young
man. "We are never more than one day
apart in car reckoning."
"Why, that is wonderful, certainly I"
exclaimed the gent!e;uan. "Only one
day ?"
"Y-?," he said, wi.h a twiLVe in Lis
eye. "he tan always tell the day before
when it is going to rain, and I can always
tell the day afterward !' Y-jtith's Com
p.in.n. It is hard on A yonrg roan to spend
three months deciding which of two
girl be will choose f r bis wife, And
then to find oat when he proposes that
neither of them will Lave bim.
Irate Father "I'm going to pat a check
to your extrAvagance, sir 1"
Impudent Sja All right! Give me
the check.
More Than he Asked for, What did
he strike for?
Eigh hoars.
What did be get?
Three month.
" -- J -.' t k. If a s.".
ha, fr ,' ,-, t i .-.! t;:. :!
v -j t ( .- ,i:il : u !! I b..
In:
ti :'.,: 1 -ii Li;-! to h.ht
h a t; .'. a h.; a pronr' - hrotig
tt? an t-e aiadsj t-a enjoy the night
as a t::re r. livsk i r the Wautiftil m.H-n
And stars and to love his ledtiine hour.
Amnt my small friends there is a
Stlikirg evidence of whit ran be tloiif ia
that line. A baoy of 3, who, when Al
lowed on some special occasion to Bit np
ley.nd his Ix-dt.me hour of ti o'cl.H'k,
soon asks to be put to be 1. No matter
what the fasi inations of the hour, so
strongjs the habit and so perfect is his
const. tutiou from sensible treatment that
hecheerf'jlly bids everyone good nighr,
and, when he is comfortably tuckered in
his crib, says : "Please do out now and
sat the door."
Soir.e allowance must, of course, be
made for temperaments, but judicious
training and treatment can bring up any
sanely constituted child without fear of
darkness. The trouble with grow n peo
ple is that they do not give children cred
it for half the sense which they possess,
and so tell them any silly story to make
the passing moment easier for them
selves. T3 tlNI.NT. KMlItS TO OlttY.
The old-fashioned tirttie of obedience
is not inculcated to anything like the de
gree that it should be for the health and
happinese of the chil l. This is one of
the fir t lensons, too, although parents
rarely realize it. A ba'iy who Will not
mind you at months will not do so at It
years or at any sub:-q-ient period. ne
of the c.iiuifonetit exi-riencrs t f every
mother is to ha.e ':er chil l cry hen nl.e
haves it. I once kne a mother ia i;t h
thrall l;n that if she b-;l the r-K-tu to
into the next hir 2 year-oM Ky v-t ap a
hwt. This is a ti.itsira! ir-t uct, and a
lovir.g one. I think, but one that ria b
trained. Another mother, w h !aviT
prji-a'-ly loved Li r, qu.te as mtichia
tsU'a 1 of slipping out uno'jr-rved, rw.1 h
sit dow a before leaving the hotis and
ho!.! a long cenv-rat:..n w ith her year-and-a-halt"
old boy, explaining to Lita
w here she was g ong, hy it was necessa
ry ' j ko aud hat she was going for, ail
this ia taniu suited to his baby compre
hension. A few sesnious of this kiu.l
and the ciL-tom of mamma's going out
becaa.eeotahi.shed. and his baby mind
grasoe l that w heu she did so it was all
right.
Children reason at a much earlier age
than is p-neraliy tielieved. The obedi
ence of this same boy, who is now nearly
15 years old, is a matter of wonder among
all his friends. If he is disappointed ia
the matter of a row or ride or a feast of
i-e cream, a sensible reaon for the dis
appointment ia given him and he reigns
hiuisvif to the inevitable in a manner
worthy of a Spartan.
as n ANSWei,:N; .Jl KSTloNS.
Ia the matter of answering question
we rown-ones iTttudo chiidren serioti
wrong. 'i coarse, no phil.jsopher lives
wise enough to answer the eouutlews
" hys'' of these peripatetic interrogation
points. B-it 9imti!y saying honestly that
you do not know, or in soaie instances
assuring him that he is Lx young to un
derstand, and putting the eager little
ui'iid off .a ith a careless or A frivoltis
answer, are two very diirrent things.
I n subj.fts that yo a are, but ought
not to be, ignorant of, one of the plainest
duties of fathers and mothers is to eee to
it that they possess themselves of nrc-s-sary
information, bi:t when the small
philosopher route to ycu with big, grave
tarn-1'. an 1 a bigger, graver and
nrre earnest oui-stions that yoa are Dr n
means tii to grvpple with ! brave enoug't
to tell hiia that yott don kn, but
that some day you an-l be will rea 1 aa 1
ria 1 oat when he is ol i.-r. Then he!j
the !lule D.in-l to unbend by giving hiiu
some simple task to do, or by telling hiui
some fairy story, f it it is not well foryoaog
min is to reach out to j far. I once over
heard a boy of 7 ask his mother who sLe
thought had had the greater an-l better
int! in '.e oa hi g n ?ra.io3, Napjleoa or
Ce-ar? It is needless tosay that this boy
died young. L"t r. parental vanity lead
you to foster precocity in a t-Liid. Make
hint a healthy, obedient, loving little ani
mal rirst. traia his i ntellt i t later.
Three Dangerous Women.
Beware of tii ree woman the cae who
des not love children, the oue who dees
not love fljrers aa 1 she who openly
declares she does not liite other woman.
There is something wanting in such,
and in all probability its place is supplied
by sonic unlovely trait.
As Siiakspeare says of hiai who Las)
no sou! for music, such a woman is lit
for treason, strategy and spoils, and a
wti-jtaa iat"t)t on those is ten thousand
tiiness wor.se thaa auy man c ml 1 be, for
standing higher, she tan fail lower.
Many may saiile and jest a little oyer
the tenderness lavished on a baby, but
a.'u-r ali.the prattle any womaniy woman
itivolanUriiy breaks into at the sight of
the tiny being is very sweet to mafeulir.e
ears. It was the it. at language they ever
kcey, aud in spite ot the jest or smile
the sweetest on wife's or sweetheart's
lips.
They may la i-ih it the li'.tle garden
poois, whieh yeen; like playthings to
their strength : but a their hearts they
associate, and li.'hliy, purity of character
and life with the pursuit of gardening.
And it f .r tha woman w hod.-es not care
f r her own s-x and boldly avows i she
is a coquette pure a! simple, and one of
the worst and lowest type, too, as A
genera! thing.
'.V.iea F g; w n th.-in doa by the
electric cr into "he lap of A dignified
old la ly he said he uow knew what it
was to sit ia th e seal cf the scornful.
The Veil ed X w coils for the aSolitioti
of the house cellar as a "noisome nuisance .'
It erees with K lwArJ Atkinson, who con
sider tae cellar pro and con in the Ameri
can Architect, and reaches the conclasioti
that cellars are unnecessary and pernicious.
He an4'i'Sj that fram a sanitary standpoint
the cellar is a menace to many households.
It is generally a dark place in which refuse
of all sorts is deposited to get it out of sight,
and in which vegetable are stored (or Win
ter use. 1. void ot hgbt, damp, and with
mould. nj; refme and rutting vegetable Uls
ter, a cellar cannot be other than breeding
place for disease. Many a hou that b kept
in tbe best coa-litioa aa to its outward and
internal appearance rests upon brick orstooa
walls which make the (idea of a Pandora's
box of evils. Ia cities the cellars of hooaea
arc needed Cor furnaces and laundry par
pteit. but wbea these nerds are supplied
further room under tbe floors of bouses is
nn Decenary. The abolition of tbe cellar, oe
tbe limitatioa of the excavated and walitd
in s'ructure of buildings, would reduce the
eoat thereof. The grocers atore vegetable
for their patrons, and there is little Dead for
toot cellars in cities.
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