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SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1894.
THREE AND THREE.
ET TBI 1 ATI JCDttX tiAVLOBD i CXABAK.
Three on the tide of the hurryins years.
FeeUcs; the touch of the hand of Time,
Gladdened by hopes and saddened by tar.
And hearing, while eyelids gro heavy with
tears.
The bells of memory chime.
Three of us eouning the lesions of life.
Learning the wi?d jra their ma vims teach.
Viewing earth s pleasure and stnifK'e and
trilc.
An earnest man and a loving wife.
And a child with questioning speech.
Three in the shade of the blossoming trees,
Watchinc the gladsome 'pring as she sets
The lobe of May with anemones.
And dcliiate harebells, swayed by the breeae
That kies the violets.
Threa where the souls of the weary find calm.
Lulled by the sound of some Heavenly hymn,
Where nary notes wind thro' the groves of
palm
And ange voices bltnd in the psalm
Fn m the choir Seraphim.
Three in that land where the shadows of night
Chill ax the Sowers, nor darken the trees.
And where, far below to their widening siitht.
The tars are spread out 11 ke islands of light
That slumber on tranquil seas.
Three wbere the roses and hyacinth bells
bend over streams that immonal 3ow ;
Where the lii J its love in fragrance tells.
And the amaranth bows with the asphodels
Vi hen celestial breezes blow.
Three where no grief the blest spirit annoys.
Three on wboae cheeks Are traces of tears ;
Who mourn midst their mirth, and lament
midst their joys.
For the silken trosed giri and the beaiuLul
boys
Who left them in tender years.
Thrae In earth's varying gladness and gloom.
Three in the bliss of the peaceful skies.
Three planting dowers on on a desolate toiab.
And three in the bowers of unfading bloom
In the valleys of Paradise.
Three midst the scenes of man's passion and
strife.
Three ith the s xmrce of all light and love.
Three fondly hoping throat; h Him who died
The Lowly, the liuilelw. the Crucuiedr
XLlf f.'wrr mil if br u above.
A VITALCLEW.
"My life bangs on that scrap of paper!
If it cannot be found, Kiitb.it is impos
sible to prove my innocence. The facts
are dead against me."
"Gilbert,! am so confident that y on are
innocent and that all yon have said in
true that I will not rest until the paper
is found."
lie took her in his arms and impressed
a passionate kiss on her brow.
Gilbert Stanton was ander arrest on
suspicion of having cau.se-1 the death of
Raymond Wild. The facts of the case
were, as be said, "dead against him."
Stanton lived in chambers in White's
inn and was reading for the bar. Wild,
who justified his name, was an old col
lege acquaintance, who bad attempted
several things in life and failed in all.
Gilbert bad not seen Uim fur several
years, when Wild suddenly turned op
at his chambers and announced that he
was "stone broke."
The man had no claim whatever on
Gilbert Stanton, who told him so, and
aldo gave him the benefit of some can
did opinions as to bis past career. Ray
mond Wild was hot blooded, and high
words resulted.
The quarrel was at its height when
Mrs. Morton, Gilberts old laundress,
who had been completing her morning
duties in another room, closed the door
of the chambers and passed out
Shortly afterward the tempers of the
tvo men coold. Wild apologiz-d for
some offensive remarks be bad made,
and they shook hands.
Gilbert now promised to do his best to
help his old aci'iaintance and invited
Wild to remain for an hour, while be
went out to keep an appointment.
When Gilbert Stanton returned, he
mounted the stairs to tbe door of bis
chambers, but be did not immediatly en
ter, lie stood for a few moments on the
landing, considering what course he
should adopt with regard to the man in
side. Should be give him money? Or
might not that be doing such a person a
positive injury.
As be leaned against the door smoking
a cigarette be was startled by a loud ex
plosion inside.
What could it be ?
He tastily unlocked the door and went
in. Tbe place was full of gunpowder
smoke, and he rushed into tbe sitting
room.
It was empty.
There was a door communicating with
the bedroom, and be opened it.
A horrible sight was before him.
Stretched open the floor was Raymond
Wild-dead.
Stanton immediately found that a bul
let bad passed through the man's brain,
and that bis own revolver, which be al
ways kept loaded in tbe room, was lying
on the floor besides the body.
The evidence at the invest was aim
ply this : The police, when called in,
bad found tbe dead body of a man, iden
tified as Raymond Wild, with a bullet
wound in bis bead. A revolver was also
discovered, which Gilbert Stanton hid
admitted was his, an 1 the contents of
one cLamber bad been discharged. Mr.
Stanton bad said : "Tbe man commit
ted suicide. I was not inside the cham
bers at the time."
William Carey, a solicitor's clerk, de
posed that he was looking out of the of
fice window on the ground floor, when
be saw Mr. Gilbert Stanton enter tbe
building and heard him run up the
stairs. About five minutes afterward
certainly when enough time had elapsed
for Mr. Stanton to enter bis chambers
be heard the explosion.
Tbe rtsu!t was that Gilbert was arrest
ed, brought np before tbe magistra'e and
committed for trial.
His defence was that Wild had found
tbe revolver during bis absence ; that he
was standing outside the door of his
chambers, as we have described, when
the shot was fired; that although they
bad quarreled, they were on pacific terms
when he went out, and that the deceased
had left a written confession of bis own
guilt and Gilbert's innocence.
But where was this written confession?
Gilbert Stanton declared that be found
it on tbe bedroom mantelpiece, but dur
ing the excitement of the hour bad mys
teriously lost or mislaid it. He bad
searched everywhere for it, but without
avail.
He distinctly remembered that, after
examining the body and finding it was
lifeless, be went into tbe sitting room
with tbe confession in bis hand to con
sider what be should do.
He placed the paper on a small table '
EST A BlYTffTTPm 1827.
in front of him, and glancing out of the
window saw a policeman in the quad
rangle. He at once decided to call the
constable and ran down stairs to do so,
leaving his door ajar.
On his return the paper had disappear
ed, and he bad never seen it afterward.
The most diligent search had failed to
discover iL
"Now, Mrs. Morton," said Edith, as
they stood alone in the chambers, "this
is a matter of life and death. That piece
of paper must be found."
"Yes, miss," was the commonplace re
reply: "First of all, yon must please answer
very carefully some questions I shall put
to you. Did you on that day destroy
any paper?"
"No miss."
"Have yoa destroyed or removed any
since?"
"Not a scrap miss. You see there ain't
no fires this time o' the year, and the
little cooking I does is all done on the
gas stove."
"What do yoa do with your waste pa
per and rubbish ?"
"What little there is i takes down in a
pail once a week, or mote often if I finds
it necessary."
"And has the pail been down since
that day V
"No, miss."
"Then the paper moat be here some
where, unless it was deliberately stolen,
which I cannot believe. We will begin
our search, and take the sitting room
first."
Everything was being turned npside
down and inside out, when Edith sud
denly stopped.
"Do you remember whether the win
dows were open on that day?" asked
Edith.
"Yea, miss ; Mr. Stanton always used
to 'ave 'is winders open."
"Well, just open them as they would be
if he were here."
The woman did as she was bid.
Edith then placed a piece of paper on
the table where Gilbert said he had laid
the confession, the door leading into tbe
bed room and the entrance door having
first been opened. There was a consid
erable draft, and tbe paper trembled on
the table.
"Perhaps 'there was more air on that
day," said Edith. "I will substitute a
lighter piece of paper."
This she did, and almost immediately
it was ca tight by a current, and floated
across the room.
As it fell on the floor they were both
startled to see a little kitten spring from
the open doorway and pounce upon the
paper, rolling over and over with it in
her teeth.
"That explains it all ! exclaimed EJith
catching np the little animal in her arms.
"Oh, Kitty! Oh, Kity! How little you
know the terrible mUchief yoa have
done
Her eyes were fall of tears, and she was
pale and trembling with apprehension.
Tbe kitten must have carried off the con
fession in this way to play with, and its
recovery was hopeless.
"Lor miss," suddenly broke in Mrs.
Morton, "now I remembe ! When the
gent shot 'isself, I was working in the
ouse opposite, and came back to see what
was the matter. That little kitten be
longs to the party in the next set, and
when I came up to the landing she was
a playing just like that with a bit 'o
paper, which she runs away and leaves
on the stairs."
"Yea." said Ehth, ia breathlesj eager
ness. "Well, paper about the stairs ljoks so
untidy, rnuM, so I picked it up and''
"What did you do with it?"
"I threw it in the pail with the other
rubbish."
For the second time the contents of tbe
pail were emptied by the laundress and
carefully examined. It was absolutely
certain that the paper was not there.
"Are you posithe that yoa pat the
paper in the pail V asked Edith.
"I'd tike my 'davy on it, miss. And
it was just such a scrap of writing as you
say."
Edith sent the laundress home, shut
herself in the solitary chambers and be
gan the hunt afresh.
It was late in the evening when she
ceased her fruitless search.
Next morning she retuned to her hope
leas task.
She had relieved Mrs. Morton from
farther attendance, and was walking np
and down the chambers deep in thought
when there came a knock at the door.
It was the laundress herself.
"I know where that bit o' paper is,
miss! I remembers that, when the po
lice was here that morning, I steps into
the bedroom to hear what they has to
say. One of 'em says to me, impudently,
'Well, what do you want, old lady ?" and
I said I wanted the bedroom cia lie
stick." "Yes," interrupted Elith, but where
is the paper T'
"I'm just coming to that, miss. I stays
a bit in the kitchen just to see if I
might be of any aw yoa understand
and while I was waiting, I put a new
candle in the candlestick. Them 'nines'
is rather small for the candlestick, so I
takes a bit o' paper out o' the pail to make
it fit. Come into the bedroom, miss
why, its gone!"
"Good heavens !" cried Edith. "Dj
you mean to say that the paper round
that candle was the missing document ?
"That's my belief, miss. Where is it
gone?"
"I was here late las4, night, and I burn
ed the candle very low and the paper
took firel"
"And yoa burned it miss !"
"Only slightly, I remember. I blew it
out, threw the paper sway, and pat ins
new candle that I removed from tbe
piano. What did I do with the paper ?
Oh, I remember, I threw it under the
grate. Yoa will find it there. Thank
h avea, w have found it at last! Gil
bert is saved !"
"There is nothing here, miss," said the
woman on her knees. "The grate is
quite empty !
It was true, and the shock was a terri
ble one to EJith. She fainted in the old
laundress's arms. Mrs. Morton, how
ever, soon restored her to consciousness.
"Yoa can take my word for it," she
said, "that paper is bewitched."
"I don't care whether it is bewitched
or not," said Eiith. "I mean to find it.
Bring the magnifying glass from the
table,"
Edith removed the tender sad careful
ly examined the dust that Mrs. Morton's
not overscrupulous cleanliness had al
lowed to accumulate.
"I thought as much," she said. "Mice !
They have been attracted by the candle
grease and have dragged the paper ta
their hole. Every moment now ia val
uable, or it will be all destroyed."
They searched round about every
where, but no mousehole could be found.
Eiith then directed tbe woman to mix a
quantity of whiting which she placed in
a Urge flat dish on the floor in the mid
dle of the room. In the dish was laid a
small saucer, and in that a piece of toast
ed cheese.
They then left the chamber for several
hours.
When they returned, there was a track
of little white footprints across tbe room
that led to a little hole above the narrow
skirting board, hidden by a loose piece
of the wall paper.
A man was calied in, and after break
ing down some of the plaster and taking
up a corner of the fl wring the coveted
scrap of paper was at last secured.
The confession was of course in part
destroyed and required very delicate
handling, but when the precious relic
had been carefully mounted on another
piece of paper it was found to read as fol
lows, the words in brackets being sup
plied by supposition :
I am sick of my .life and resolved
to put an end to it. In caae suspicion
falls on Gilbept Stanton, he ia inno
cent, I die by my own hand.
Raymond Wild.
Gilbert snd Edith are now married
and Stanton insists that be owes his life
to the persistent and intelligent manner
in which bis wife followed up that vital
and mysterious clew. Lnnliu Tu Cu.
Thrifty Carelessness.
A very amusing story is told by a
famous story teller about a harness
maker who lived many years ago in
London. He had a handsome saddle in
his shop occupying a conspicuous place
therein. On his return from luncheon
one day he observed that saddle was
gone. Calling to his foreman, he said :
"John, who baa bought the saddle?"
"I'm are I don't know, sir," said the
foreman, scratching his head as if he
were trying to think. "I cannot tell,
and the worst part of it is it hasn't been
paid for. While I was at work in the
back part of the sho pagectleman came
in, priced it, decided to take it, told me
to charge it, and throwing it int) h:s
wagon.drove otr before I could think to
ask his came."
"That was very stupid of you," said
the harness maker, disposed to be an
gry at the man's carelessness. "Very
likely we have been robbed."
"I don't thick that, sir," said the fore
man, "for I'm very sure that the gen
tleman has traded here before."
"Well, I can't afford to lose the mon
ey," sail the harness maker. "We'll
hare to find out who took it and send
him the bit. Ah V he added with a
smile, after a moment's reflection. "I
have it! We'll charge it up to the ac
count of every one of our enstomers who
keep accounts here. Those who didn't
get it will refuse to pay, so we shall be
all right."
The bookkeeper wxt instructed to do
this, and the bills in due course of time
went out. Some weeks later the harness
maker asked the bookkeeper if he had
succeeded in discovering who the custom
er was.
"No, si-," he replied, "and we never
shall, I fear, sir, for about fourty persons
have paid for it without saying a word."
TWwifo
H story Repeats Itself.
In speaking of a recent public incident
the Chicago Iiii-r-Ortrin recalls an episode
in American history whereby t joint a
modern moral. We tike the liberty of
appropriating it, as folloas :
The Governor of Alabama has warned
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, that he
must not interfere with the "order-loving"
society of that State. History repeats
itself. Senator Hoar's father had a sim
ilar warning from South Carolina fifty
years ago. The Legislature of South
Carolina had enacted a law in I'vW pro
viding for the imprisonment of anv free
colsred persons arriving at any port of
that State. If they remained they were
to be sold into slavery. Taera were ma
ny free colored people in Maachusetts,
and the legislature of that State directed
the Governor to bring a test casein tbe
United States courts to determine the
law's coustitutionality. Simuel Hoar,
the father of the Senator, was appointed
to visit South Carolina and bring the
test case in the United States courts
there.
Mr. Hoar arrived in Charleston No
vember 2Stb, 1S4, and the same day the
Legislature passed a resolution asserting
its right to exclude from the State ee-li-tiouj
persons and requesting the Govern
or to deport Mr. Hoar, "the emiasary
from Massachusetts," who had come to
interfere with the " order-loving" society
there existing. The L?gislatnre also
passed an act authorizing such removals,
and fixing a fine of $l,(X0 and imprison
ment for seven years as the penalty for
such "seditious persons" if they persisted
in their purpose. This did not frighten
the lawyer represejting the State of Mas-aachu-wttA,
who was in Charleston simp
ly to try a case in the United States court,
and he remained.
The sheritT waited on him with s
warning that he would be lynched. Tbe
prominent lawyers and business men of
the city next warned him that his life
was in danger from the " order-loving
people" of Suta Carolina. He refused
to be frightened from his purpose, and
finally, on December o'.h, when the boat
was about t leave Chtrieitoa for tb.9
north, the "best citixsns" of South Caro
lina called at the hotel in s body, placed
Samuel Hoar snd his daughter in a car
riage, escortei them to the boat and
placed them on board. He was forcibly
ejected but he was not frightened.
Senator Hoar is a chip off the old
block. The frothiags of the Governor of
Alabama and the Southern editors do not
disturb him in the least. A man in Mas
sachusetts has a right to demand fair
Congressional elections in every part of
the Union, an 1 do what he can to make
them ao. Bat as like as the Senator is
to his father, so is also the Governor of
Alabama to-day to the Governor of Sou'h
Carolina fifty years ago. The sun moves,
bat some of the men in the South stand
just w hers their grandfathers stood be
fore ths war.
A Woman's Woman.
What are the chief characteristics of
the woman's woman? a woman who is
beloved by her own sex, who finds her
greatest enjoyment in their company,
who is what the Italians call simpatico
reaching nut her gentle hand alike to
the grandmother in her easy chair, to the
girl just balancing on the threshold of
life, to the young mother with her little
ones about ber, and to the ook in the
kitchen among her pots and cans?
Certainly the woman's woman is not
purely domestic, for the merely domestic
woman is inevitably narrow. Her bread
may be excellent, her house free from
dust, her table to the mark ; but her
range is limited, and many doors of her
heart are shut to all except her own fami-
ir-
The woman's woman cannot narrow
herself thus. She must cara for a great
many people and a great many things
and touch life at a hundred points.
Whether she is mirrie 1 or single makes
little difference. She is alive to whatever
interests her sex, bat she is not slightly
insane on the subject of her sex, nor dots
she spell "woman" invariably with a cap
ital "V." She feels herself a human be
ing, not a blending of spirit and angel.
A woman's woman can penetrate under
the surface. With a certain witch-haxel
wand she can discover people with heart
aches, who are carrying burdens too great
for them, who cannot sleep at night for
cares and troables, and soaiehovr her
touch of the hami, her smile and her
gentle word bring them ease and relief.
The woman's woman makes allow
ances. She sees that life is hard for some
people, or that they have not bad a
chance she is willing to help them. She
enjoys herself quite as well. r?rhp,
better, with a crowd of giis who are chat
tering gayly, or in a company of mature
women who are talking over their affairs,
as she does in mixed society.
She does not always appear at her best
in the drawing room, nor can she talk, as
a usual thing, very well to a throng. At
a dinner table she may be rather silent,
except to ber neighbor; but if you get
her in a corner here she has a congenial
companion, yoa will hear the ripple of
of low voices and sornwtitnes a bright
little breaking laah, and yoa will know
that the woman's woman is enj-.yiog her
self and giving pleasure.
She is always the most delightful of
guests, for she has a faculty of amusing
herself, and she does not revuire the
presence of men, either singly or ia num
bers, to show her at her best. In the coun
try, at a summer hotel, she is invaluable.
She can entertain the children, talk pleas
ant'y to the old lady who is rather deaf,
snd therefore left out of much that is go
ing on, listen patiently to the complaints
of the rheumatic, or the recitals of those
whose tales are often told, never showing
by a look or the quiver of a mosc that
she had heard the bright story many
times before. All her life the woman's
woman is apt to live for others. II-r
greatest charm is perhaps her anse'.tish
nee. She is altruistic not on principle,
but simply because she cannot help her
selfshe is horn so.
The woman's wo. nia is old-fashioned
in many cf Ler notions, and opens wile
eyes of horror at flirtations curried oa by
those who should have left each frivoli
ties behind them when the streak of sil
ver came into their dark hair. As fair
and sweet, as true aad restfil, aa dear
and lovable as cur mothers an 1 their
m jtbers before them, the woman's woman
holds our hearts ia her hand, and men,
albeit this is aa apparent contradiction,
like her well, and accord her deference
and respectful homage. Hirer's E-;zir.
Sou id Political Reaction.
The Republican victories which are
sweeping over the country make a scund
reaition from one of the most dangerous
political movements this country has
ever known.
The three great political dangers to
which this country is exposed are the
city riegs backed by a foreign vote, the
lawless ignorance of the South aal the
inflationists of the West. Tni three
are always strong enough united to put
the country in great peril. Add any
share of the sound, conservative, en
lightened vote of the New England,
Middle and Central States, and the con
try is put in grave peril.
Such a combination existed in Novem
ber, The city rings from New
York to San Francisco were Demo
cratic. The South acted with them, ai
it has al ways done. William C. Whit
ney and the rest of the Cleveland cam
paign managers bartered and barrtined
with Western FopulisU and inflation
ists, and sheared their votes by running
ciaiition electoral tickets in the far
Western State. Lxstly, the free trade
propaganda won many vote-1 from sound
sober and conservative men cf all classes
in the great property-holding States of
the Union.
This combination brought tbe tidal
wave of I..i Its results have been
disastrous. In a single year it brought
prostrating panic, a discredited cur
rency, wide-spread distrust, paralysed
industries, idle men. idle capital and
communities in which no one was busy
but the Sheriff. The lesson has done
its work. For two months p tst local
elections from Maine to lllino s have
told the same story. Ia the great in
dust rial communities which lie between
these two St ttes which hold one half
the population, or in 100, 31,000,000 out
of i2,0iV), anl considerably over
two thirds of the wealth of the country,
election after election has shorn that
the voters in this region have awakened
to their danger and are breaking away
from the combination in which they
were trapped.
Every one of the States west of the
Mississippi and north of the Ohio and
Potomac would be Republican if an
election were held today. In all these
States, local elections this spring have
emphasized the result reached last fall.
The city rings, the Soath and the infla
tion West are not united strong enough
alone to ruin this country. They came
dangerously near it in 12 ; but it is
now plain that next fall will find this
combination of the worst dangers which
threaten the Republicans in a minority
in the House and two years more will
show them in s minority in the Senate
and ths Electoral College. PhJa-ltlphia
Prat.
WHOLE NO. 2229
Too Much Nourishment.
"My moet remarkable professional
experience?" repeated the physician
thoughtfully, knocking the ashes off the
end of his cigar, and a.l-ireseicg a re
porter. "That is a hard question to
answer off band, but I can tell yoa cf sn
extremely odd occurrence in connection
with my practii-e recently.
"It was a can of pneumonia A young
lal was sick with the complaint out in
Tcnleytown. The father, a p-xr man
and a carpenter by trade, was an old
acquaintance of mine, having done odd
jobs for me occasionally. He insisted ou
employing my services, though I recom
mended a practitioner near at hand, be
cause I could not possibly get out there
to visit the patient more than once a
day.
"The disease had alreaJy reached a
critical stae when I was first summon
ed. After writing a coup le of prescrip
tions and giving directions as to other
matters, I called the father and request
ed bis attention to certain, instructions
rwpectic;? food. Said I to him :
"Tue this quart whisky bottle and
put into it one pound of finely chopped
leaa beef, cork it tightly, place it in a
pot cf water, aad let it boil four houra
That will make the strongest kind of
extract a highly concentrated form of
nourishment. Give to the boy one ta
b!erpoonfu! of it e-ery hour.'
"I went sway satisfied that every
thing was provided for. The next day
I returned to find my patient in a state
of collapse. In haste I called for brandy
aal rcilk, and managed to revive him.
For tbe life of me I could not account
for the situation of affairs. I summon
ed the father, who was nearly distract
ed with anxiety, and questioned hira.
"'Have you given him the beef ex
tract I ordered?' I asked.
" "Ob, yer , sir,' he replied.
" "Every hour '.
"Yes, sir.'
" 'Yoa put a pound of chopped raw
beef into the battle and boiled it T
'Yes, sir. Corked it np and boiled
it fotir hours ia a pot of water. He's
had a tablespoor.ful of the stuff every
hour since you were here last."
" 'It beat me, I said. 'Why, I could
Lave supposed li.at the boy was exani
mate from sheer inanition. Tring me
some v( the beef extract and let me ii e
it.'
"Presently half a tumblerful of the
preparation was brought and submitted
to rue for examination. I could harl.y
believe my sense. It looked like wa
ter ; it tasted like water it was water,
and nc thing else.'
" 'What does this mean? I demanded
angrily.
"'That's the stuff yoa ordered, sir.'
replied the father, confidently. 'I made
it myself, according to your own direc
tions boiled the bottle of beef just as
you said. But I must confess th it I
thought it was a pretty weak kind of
broth for a i'ck boy.'
"I stared at him for a minute or two
in wonder. Then a light bgan to dawn
on me. I gapped and said :
" Drin rce the bottle.'
" He did so. Its contents had evi
dently not been disturbed. I poured
from it a tablespoonful of thick aad
nourishing fluid and ad ninistered it to
the patienL
"The father looked on as if awe struck.
"'Why,' said he, 'you never told me
that ! You said to cork up the bottle,
but ycu tiid not tell me to uncork it; so
I thought that yoa meant I sho-ild give
Liru the water it was boiled in !
"So that was what my patient had
been fed on f r '21 hours--boi'ed water
and nothing more. No won-ier that I
found him in a state cf collapse. He
recovered, lut it was a narrow fjueez?,
I assure yrva. r-i..:'..;'v Slur.
Q ueer Superstitions.
Tbe whoopingcough epidemic that is ca
reering through tL:a region, sajs tbe Allen
town Lender, brings wiia it o:ber evil Be
sides its baleful whoops. It carries a cart
load of superstition ia i's train. And the
creiluhty of the sufferers, and their reaii
ces to tr-i-t in ail sorts of potions and
charm, is raiher m ore pathetic to tbe inte!-lig-nt
observer lhaa tbe frogs in thir
throats.
Round about Bath they essay to cure their
whooping children by carting a luck of hair
from the bead of an individual who baa
never seen his or her father, and hanging it
by a s'ring a out tue neck of the wboopers.
This ia thought to be a sure cure.
Tbe Bucks county remedy is lo have med
icine it matters little of what sort adminis
tered by a marriel woman who never chang
ed ber maiden name The patient is sure to
recti v,r if this custom is observeiL
Ii L)whill they say that a g-xwe's egg.
laid ou the first Kri!ay of tbe new moon
and eaten raw, will drive or? tbe dread
cough ia terror.
Il is absurd that people should cling to
such stuff, but l hey do it an J nost tenacious
ly, too. Tha btst physician in the State
couldn't dtssua.lj them from their faith.
Tbe weird bexa'a charm has more wetgbt
with them thin the wisest word fr ku a
modern .Kiculapiua.
This denseigi waice miy be la Jgb ;1 a?,
but it should be still mre pilieL Tairo is
ac ually a paibo in these stupid tuersti
tionsthat d Vis one foreign missionary en
thusiasm and mikes him eagr to enlifbteo
the eyes of bis fooiisa neig'ibjrs. Toe bar
banam of tbe Uttealoe and Kafir seems
insignificant beside the beatbenisS creed of
such believers as these. And yet they are
not the only heathen.
Superstition permeates every station of soci
ety. The j:i!y school girl who wou'tsit with a
dozen others at tha tea labia and tbe busi
ness man who won t start upon a j Mirney
on a Friday are but sample. By clinging
to their ridiculous notion they encourage
simpler folk to go mu -h farther. The untu
tored can scarcely be blamed Cor their
whooping cough theories so long as the wis
cherish pet foibles about sereotb sous, spilled
salt, broken mirrors
A Leidar.
Since its first introduction. Electric
Bitters has gained rapidly in popular fa
vor, until now it is clearly in the lead
among pure medicinal tonics and altera
tives, containing nothing which permits
its use as a beverage or intoxicant, it is
recognized as the best and purest medi
cine for ail ailments of Stomach, Liver or
Kidneys. It will cure Sick Headache,
Indigestion, Constipation, and drive Ma
laria from tbe system. Satisfaction
guaranteed with each bottle or the mon
ey w ill be refunded.
Price only 30c per bottle. Sold by J.
N. Snyder, Druggist.
Phycslan3 Say So.
The only way to enre rit rheum, rxe
Dt, pimples, boils, blo'ches and olceis is
by the use of Dr. Pavid Kennedy's Favor
ite Remedy. "I used numbers of so
called blood purifiers, writes Mrs. Belin
da H xlsdoo, of Haverhill, N. H.w ithout
benefit, until I b?ifan to take Favorite
Remedy. Although suffering from an
u'ctrated sere If-;, a few bottle entirely
cure 1 me.''
.v -
rhe number of raiir-iii employes killed
in PencsyivaniA alone amounts to nea-iy-t
wo each Jay. In !!:. in this Staie. '-
railroad i niiKoyes were killed, and 3,1
injured. It this appears that do lesa thaa
ara irjured each day. It is a fact to be
noted that I " persona not paseemrers or
employes were killed on the railroads of
tbe Sta e during tbe year, the number be
ing In excesa cf ths employes killed. Of
passengers, only TV) were killed and 775 in
jured. The rand totals are: killed
and UXZt ii j ireJ. Thesa totals may seem
startling, but are not so when we consoler
the many railways, th enormous freight
And passenirer trartie, and tha thousands of
train running day and night.
Bucklens Arnica Save.
The beat Salve m the world for Cuts,
Brnisei, Sires, Ulcers, Salt Kbeum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil
blains, Corns, and all Skia Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re
quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box. For sale by J. N. Sny
dea. Every body Worth SIOOO.
A'TorJ.nsj to a census bulletin just issued,
Ike weaith of the Vnited Statea ia suificieu t
to give each mm, woman and child over
$!'M. The true valuaiioo of ail property
in tha Uniied states exclusive of Alaska
in is classiSed as fellows : Rl estate
and improvements, $... 3JdUw stock
on farms and ranches, farm implements and
niAchinery, $-.7'., ,.,15.il ; mines and quar
ries, $lj!'t. -'7. jT'J ; gold and silver coin and
bullion. $1 ,l"A77tim, machinery of mills
and product on hand. ;!..-,!, rail
road and tquipmenta. including strer rail -nm.K
ti7 J-" : telegraphs, telephone.
I shipping and canals. $7l,7i".7lJ: misenl'a
j neous. $7.SC Tin s.'t. Total. l3,tr7.tt.l7.
New York ranks Srst, with wtalta pi. sU
at &;.57;,7"t.i'!l : Vennsyisaiua, second, at
i;,L.',7' .:) ; Lliaois third, at ti.7 l,
7l , and then Ohio. J-l 1.J
Guaranteed Cure.
We authorize our advertised druggis
to sell Dr. King's New Discovery f r Con
sumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this
condition: If you are arflicted with a
cough, cold, or any lung, throat or chest
trouble, and will use thus remedy as di
rected, giving it a fair trial, and experi
ence no benefit, you may return the bot
tle and have your money refunded. We
could not make this offer did we not
know that lr. King's .e Discovery
could be relied on. It never disappoints.
Trial bottle free at J. N. Snyder's drug
store ; lar size and I.
Action of great imparl to the women cf
Iowa was tasen in the Legislature on Thurs
day. The Senate passed the House bill
conferring on women th right lo vote fcr
town, iiy and school effloers and an a'l
questions of issuing bomb. This ia the
rirst time women have been given this right
inljwa. The vot was i7 to J, with thrte
absentees.
He Wasn t Tried.
A curious illustration of what may bt
called illogicallogic is reported by s gen
tleman who bad to wait a long time at a
railroad ticket oilice for the clerk of the
window to get ready to wait on him.
"Come, come I" said the would-be pas
senger, growing impatient at last, "I've
been here at this window five minutes r
"That nothing," said the clerk, "I've
been here eiht years and I never f ind
fault about it veL" Y-itU' Cnnttiun.
Agnes I want ahuiband who is easi
ly pleased.
Maud Doa't worry, dear : that's the
kiad y-u'l! g-t."
How sad to ear hearts are some enes of our
CillldbOljd.
As our recollections presents theia to view ;
The u.-e of the w iu n that rat brought frota the
wi11oim1.
And various pnt-hment avxt of us knew.
But iiM 1.1" all is the ih-Hiast of the pill pox.
That mother hroufht oil aaen she thought w
were ill.
O ' the ?n?;n;, the achiii::, the twisiin and tor
meat Wrapei 'i? ia thjh.irriMe ol 1 f:ii d pilL
Cut that's all done away with. To;
re-gulate the stomach, liver and bowels.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets excel. You'il experi
ence no paia, no discomfort, no bad re
sults. Children take them as readily as
peppermint drops.
Its thousands of cures are the bMt ad
vertisements for Dr. Sign's Catarrh Rem
edy. -V) cents; by drug-sts.
Tbe physicians of the Cuited States now
number ll' lil ; N'ew York leads with 11.
171 : Pennsylvania has UU ), aad I linois
ranks third with so -.
"Wefoand Hood's Sarsiparriila very
good for keeping o Jthe grip and purify
ing the blood." Myrtle Peters, Mar kit
ton, Pa.
Mam Dry of a G;od Mother.
A distinguished man said to me only a
short time ago : ''In all your work, Mrs
Bjttome, let your efforts to make good
mothers be your chief bu-ti net's." He
said his mother died whea he was young
ami be reaiembered one thing she
taught bi n from the B.ble, but that hat
changed his life towart people. She
had brought before his miad the picture
of Christ writing on the sanl and say
ing, without looking at the poor wom
an who had sinned, ' L?t him that is
without sin among yoa cast the first
stone at her." It had saved him from
casting stone, had male him a man of
charity. Deal mther, if you should
be taken from your children, w hat
would they have t remember? Would
your little ones gro up with the mem
ory of a wartu loving kiss from their
mother before they closed their eyes in
sleep? Would they have a picture of
themselves kneeling betuie the one they
called mamma and saying. "Our Father
who art in Heaven?" I I e uld speak
to every mother in our land, or any
other land, I would say give your chil
dren the memory of a holy mother. I
heard a society woman say once, "I
haven't a single memory of my mother
that would be helpful to a Christian
life," and that was not a solitary in
stance by any means. The truth is not
always told, neither is it best it shoaid
be. But there are many worldly moth
er, and their children see it in every
word and act of their lives. To rob a
child of the memory of a motbor that
loved God, that cared more tor princi
ple than for pleasure, is to rob the child
of the greatest wealth. W need a re
vival of good old fashioned mothers.
Young Clever, wbo is now being
urged by his family to chooe his oeco
psiioB in life, says that he thinks h
"shoaid like to study la be railroad
receiver."
TS