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VOL. XLV. KO.
Baby's Smooth, Fair Skin
Is Due to Hood's Sarsaparllla-lt
Cured Him of Dreadful Scrofulous
Sores - Now In Cood Health.
"At the are cf two nmntk. i
- .mo, uiy iauy
bogan to have Bores break r ut on his right
che k. We used til t he local external ap
plications that we could think or hear of
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uuoan. j. uv.- cores epreaa an over on
Jeof his fac?. We consults .
JiUJBl
cian and tru-d his medicine. ani in 1-
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the sore was gone. But to my surprise in
two weesis more another scrofulous look
ing sore made its apr carsnoe on his arm.
ii grvw worse ana worse, and when he
was three months old, I began giving him
Hood's Sarsanarilla. I aim tt iti.
Sarsaparilla, and before the first bottle
was nniitieci, ir.c sores were well and
have cover returned. He is now four year
old. but he has never had in,
J . b "
those scrof ulous sores since he was cured
by llood s barsaparilla, for w hich I feel
very grateful. My boy owes his' good
health and smooth, fair skin to thU great
medicine." ME3. S. S. Woetex, Farin
inpton, Delan-are.
Hood's Scrsaparilla is sold by all drug
gists, f 1, six for ?5. Be sure to get Hood's.
-THE
Firsi National Bank
Somerset, Ponn'a.
Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, S26.O0O.
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DEPOSITS RCCCIVC IN LARGE ANDSMALl
AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS. FARMERS,
STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED
-DISCOUNTS DAILY.-
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CHAS. O. SC-ULL. GEO. R. SCULL,
JAMES Lu WOli, W. II. MILI.EU,
JOUX Ii. SCVTT. RORT. H. SCL'LL,
KliEl) W. BIIijECKES
EDWARD SCI'LL, : : PRESIDENT.
VALENTINE 1IAV, : VICE I'UESIDENT.
1IAKVEY M. BERKLEY, - CASHIER.
The funds and Rfenritles of this bank are se
curely protects In a colcbratiI CORLlrM Ill'B-
glac l'Koor Safb. Tbe only safe made abM-
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Its Mm Coply National
OF SOMERSET PA.
Eftablittwd 1877. Oritalzti M a Kitlontl, 18S0
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Capital. - $ 50,000 00
Surplus & Undivided Profits, 23,000 00
Assets, - - 3)3,03 000
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CLas. J. Harrison, - President.
Win. II. Koontz, - Vice President.
Milton J. Pritts, - - Cashier.
Geo. S. Ilarrbon, - Ass't CabLier.
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Directors ,
Win. End.iley, Chas. W. Snyder
J.wiab SjKH-ht, H. C. IioeriLs
John It. Snyder, John StulTt,
J.iseph IV. IavU, Harrison Snyder,
Jerome StufTt, Noah S. Miller,
Sain. B. Harrison.
Customer of thin bank will receive the most
liberal IrealnientoMisiHlenl wIlnaajeoaiiaiiiK.
1'arties wiKhiiiK t -ua nnMwy enr
an be accommodated by UraU for any
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Ionev and valuables seenrea Dy oi.-r- " "j
bold celebrated safes, with most improved
U"o:IwU"his made In all part, of the Cnltd
Suite. Cbar;-s moderate.
Accounts and deposit soaciiea.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
nd everything pertaining to fane rail furn
ished. SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob I). Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door Wert of Lutherm Church,
Somerset, - Pa-
I Am Now
pi ed to BUiily the public
w ith Clocks, Watches, and Jew
elry of all de-seriptloiis, aa Cheap
as the Cheapest.
KEPAlIUXa A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
stock before making your
purchase.
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49
ROBERT THE DEVIL
Ofcour the gem rat's will was at
the U.ttoiu ,f the afTuir, but the Eve
li-hiud these fig leaves w as his second
wif.
They uM not call heraftepmother,
for the general's children were all oMer
than she was. The gem-rat was well
along in years when she married him,
I'M that was her a!l"air.
There hangs his portrait i tainted by
Copley. Ik at it.
You do not believe he was 00 when it
was painted?
Hut they say he was.
He was more handsome and fascinat
ing at 4i than his sons were at 3j. Tiic
second w ifo was rich very rich, .she
ln.tighithe greatest quantity of gold
and frilvtr plate into tiie raiuily, all
marked with an Arabic cipher, to
which fche added the Chevalier crest
a terrapin and the motto, 'Xot to
tiie gwifu"
No one knew certainly who her peo
ple were. She s:ti. they were Spanish,
and her own api-aranee supported her
assertion.
Tliere is her isirtrait, painte-d at the
time of her marriage. Look at it. Tiie
general went to Paris, a long journey
in those days, to buy those diamonds
she wears, and the ccrbeille.
Sometimes, even when there was no
one to dine at home but the family,
Mistress Chevalier would sail into the
draw ing room, that peafowl's tail of
green embroidered velvet spread be
hind her, her beautiful black hair turn
ed back like that in a tour, her arms
as naked as Venus,' her xiut lace fall
ing from her milk white shoulders, and
flashing from hair and ears and fingers
aud iiamiug in a fire circle about her
delicate neck, the diamonds magnifi
cent stones, worth scores of negroes.
Ixrd! how the daughters would stare
at their plates aud how the sons would
sneer at each other as the general would
meet her midway the nxim, lead her to
her seat at the table aud kiss the dim
ple on her shouldeT before l:e left her.
They say she loved hiiu passionate
ly that often, when she thought they
we re alone and he would pass her chair,
she would turn htr head upon her lazy
cushions and hold out a beautiful hand.
And he?
Would kneel beside her and kiss her
K:negranate lips aud lovely throat
until you would have sworn him 2-i,
and maybe not married at all.
They say, too, it was a pretty sight
to see her with her little son. A maid
going to help her dress one morning
heard so much laughter and such baby
shrieks that she first peeped in at the
door.
Aud, behold, the mistress on her
hands and knees, aud baby, just from
bis bath, on her ue-ck!
She was crawling over the velvet
carjiet in her linen shift, looking over
her shoulder at the little shouting ras
cal, w ho tugged at her hair with one
hand while he beat her with tbe branch
of jasamine in the other. The black
"da" sat and shook like a fuscons mold
of berry jam, w hile the young mistress
crawled about, crushing the yellow
flowers under her soft hands aud knees.
The door of the inner rooni sprang
open, and in walked the general, his
dressing gown with the IVrsiaii border
wrap(ed around him.
Tliere was shrieking then I warrant
you.
Those years were the general s holi
day time. He had earned it, for his
first w ife was a tluelph, aud everybody
in Carolina knows what that means.
She never got down ou her knees ex
cept to pray in her life, and she never
prayed for anything except money.
She put ou morning the second year
of her marriage and never took itotf
again. They say she slept in her crape
veil.
Her children were all born black in
the face aud crying, and they cried the
greater part of their childhood.
The boys got ashamed of it after
awhile, for their Knglish blood was
strong, but the girls never did, aud
ought to have lived in a land of
droughts. Their tears would have fer
tilized a desert.
As it was, there was rain a-plenty
and to f-pare, and the general kept out
of their way, gave them umbrellas and
handkerchiefs for biathday gifts, and!
rejoiced greatly when they cried over
him at their weddings for the last time,
as he thought. But some of them
drowned their husbands in tears and
came home again damper than ever,
aud no one but the second wife could
have stood them.
She laughed, ordered more fires,
brighter lights, opened the windows,
and filled the house with flowers and
gay company.
She called the eldest Niobe to her
face aud spoke of them collectively as
tl.e weeping willows, for they were tall
and liked to be thought willowy.
They cried so much over their little
half brother that the boy fairly detest
ed them and ran away from the sight
of them.
He grew up strong like his father
and lieautiful like his mother, a verita
ble enfant de I'amour, but when he was
10 and the general was 70 the fine,
handsome old gentleman died sudden
ly. The mistress was but 30, just the age
of the youngest stepdaughter, and she
sat in thsj drawiug room when the will
wis read with such a look on her face
tiiat nol ly but a Guelph would have
dared to cry. The boy sat by her, the
very print and copy of hU father, with
hi little aquiline nose, his bright blue
eyes, and his father's own trick of
holding up his chin and stiffening his
spins when he desired to see clearly.
Now, the general had been good to
his children. He had given generous
ly t-i his sons and had helped them in
business, lie always give uimugB
portions to his daughters.
They all came to hearlhe reading of
his will the women shrouded in crape,
with red eye and noses. The mistress
sat in the gown the general had loved
her the m st In, and everybody stai-cd
at it and at her beautiful grief stricken
face.
The ill stated that she should hold
fie old Chevalier place for her mm. It
shesurvived him, it should be hers ab
solutely, to leave as she pleased.
I Tliere should be no ui vUloa of prop
omer
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
erty until the last son was of age. Then
came bequests to relatives and servants
and that was all.
The stepchildren were furiously an
gry. Oue would have thought them
on the verge of starvation. "Wait 11
years!" they cried. "Wait until that
precious brat is of age? And his moth
er, with everything in her hands aud
responsible to no one? It is not to be
endured."
And soon, worse and worse.
The mistress looked from one to
another.
"I will not tell you to leave my
house," she said in a voice botn sweet
and frozen, "or remind you of the home
you have always had here. You tier
have homes of your own and must live
in them, as I shall live in mine. As
long as you are in my house you must
conduct yourself as your father's chil
dren should. Ytmr quarrels and cruel
speeches insult his memory."
They took flight like so many black
birds, but the mistress was so good
natured they flew back at intervals,
and every now and then the boy was
permitted to visit them. He went ith
pockets full of gold and returned a
total bankrupt. He gave, and they
took, with lioth hands.
About a year after the general's death
the boy came home from a visit to his
eldest brother, Robert, who lived in the
city. He had been at home for a day,
jierhaps, when he was taken ill.
nis illuess puzzled the country phy
sician, aud a city colleague was sent
for.
Hut the boy died.
His mother, looking at his dead
body, sjK.ke out her thought: "He has
been itoisoued. His brother has poi
soned him."
And she called the eldest son Cain
and Robert the Devil to his dying day.
The pjteech went abroad like a blot
of ink in a tumbler of water. Robert
never forgave her. There was no proof
that the child had been loully dealt
with, but the suspicion imbittered his
life aud followed hiiu to the grave, aud
so they hated each other fiercely.
The Chevalier place was very valua
ble. Add to that the mistress' money
aud plate and jewels, and oue can see
why every bachelor and many a man
who could not marry looked longingly
into her beautiful face.
liut one could tell by the manner of
her walking, the inflections of her voice
and the immobility of her attitude when
she sat that for her there was neith
er light uor sweetness, nor hope, nor
desire, left in life.
Aud yet she went about as usual,
even after her sou's death steadily, re
fusing the shroud of crape and having
always in the house light, flowers, ptr
fume aud pleasant company.
The stepchildren looked curiously at
each other as year after year slid away
aud said to each other that she would
n.'ver die.
Many of them died of dropsy and
o .her watery disorders, and their chil
dren grew up, but at IK) Mistress Che
valier was still alive and at 'XI, al
though, truth to tell, she had shriveled
into a brown mummy aud sat all day
and ofttimes all night in a great wad
ded chair with a hood over it, stuffed
about with cushions and propped with
pillows and hot-water bottles. Her
bjdy had mummified, bat her mind
was as clear and as crystal as ice.
Sh ; woul J look with her deep black
eyes at the faithful mulatto slave wo
man who waited upon her and laugh
to hereslf a strangely clear laugh to
issue from such sunken lips.
Sometimes her step-grandchildren
w.mld go to see her. When they were
children, they were afraid, but as the
years passed they got quite used to the
sight of the great colli n in one end of
the room.
"It is a very comfortable bed," Mis
tress Chevalier would often say. And
several times, when she thought the
hour had surely come, she made the
slave woman and her daughter put it
on its trestles and lift her in, and she
would lie, waiting for death, gazing
with a corpselike smile at the general's
portrait
At these times the family, in all its
branches, rejoiced. There were only a
few of the direct line left Nearly all
had married. Same were rich, and
some were pjor, and all were avari
cious. At last, one m iming the faithful mu
lattos found the mistres dead in her
collin.
Ouce again the children of the house
assembled iu the drawing room to hear
the reading of a will the women, as
usual, a hypocrital row of veiled pleu
reuses. All were present except the
son of Robert.
lie had inherited his father's hatred,
and Mistress Chevalier's death revived
the story of her son's. Sj the step
grandson staid away from her burial.
His portion of the estate should lie
the place itself. But the will ran, "To
my faithful and devoted attendant Cil
ia, or Lucilla, Chevalier I leave the
place and certain sums of money at in
terest, herein more fully described and
specified."
This Lucilla Chevalier was none
other than tbe malatto slave womau
whose papers of freedom, together
with those of her daughters and sons,
had been declared before the will was
opened.
Therefore she was a le'gal heir. A
gasp of horror ran rouud the room.
The Chevalier place!
But that w-as not all. If the surviv
ing relatives of the testator should at
tempt to set aside the conditions of the
will in way, on any grounds, the entire
property, real and personal, should go
to the dead woman's physician. Be
tween this man and the Chevaliers
there had always been feud and ill
favor.
Niobe's son received a life interest of
many thousand dollars, aud there were
a few legacies here aud there among
the poorest Ouelph-Chevalier tribe.
The mistress' gold aud silver plate,
diamonds and other jewels were locked
up iu a bank in the city, to lie dispos
ed of, in accordance with sealed in
structions locked up with them, a year
after the reading of the will.
When Robert's sou was told these
things, he turned white and then green
livid, unpleasant 6bade.
The Chevalier place, his patrimony,
left to slaves! And CJ .xl knew to whom
set
ESTABLISHED 1827.
the gold, the silver and the diamonds
were left. The sealed instructions with
them would undoubted reveal further
determination on the part of the dead
woman to insult and rob the family.
Mistress Chevalier's coffin had been
placed in the family vault lietweeu
those of her husband and their little
son. By her desire the coffins were on
one shelf, touching each other, and
covered with a velvet pall, on which
she herself had laboriously embroider
ed the Chevalier coat of arms, with its
t-igniflcant crest and motto.
The vault was in (the churchyard of
old King William, Seaforlh, facing the
salt marsh and flanked by the rice
fields. Thilher went, in his rage, the son of
Robert the Devil.
By his direction the mistress' coffin
was dragged out, wrapped in the pall
aud sunk iu theedge of the marsh, with
not a stone to do it reverence.
By night camo 2Ciole's son who,
mindful of his life interest, felt asham
ed of his cousin's poor revenge dug up
the collin and replaced it, dripping, iu
the vault. i
A slave of his let tlip the thing to a
fellow belonging to RoU-rt.
Again the vault was opened, the
casket was dragged out by slaves, and
in the flare of pine knots was delivered
to the marsh this time in a tiot
where the salt tides rose daily and
flooded the place. 1
Then the avenger disappointment
and family dishonor biet his cousin in
the city street and triumphed over him.
"So easy matter, either," he conclud
ed, "for the old mummy case was dam
nably heavy. Find it again, if you
can."
He passed sneeringly.
Niobe's sou let the marsh keep its
secret and bided his time.
When the year had expired, the va
rious heads of the tribe met, as if by
appointment, in the private office of
the president of the bank.
But each one, as he entered, looked
haughtily aud inquiringly at the oth
ers. At midday the large and ionder
ous strong box was brought into the
office and the key inserted iu its intri
cate lock.
The men and women crowded about
the table, squeezing and jostling each
other, the women shoving aside their
crape veils to see better.
For 50 years ami more no one had
laid eyes ou the once famous Chevalier
diamonds.
The box lid was thrown back all
the necks were craned.
The men's fingers itched for the gold
and sil-er, the women's for the precious
stones.
The box was empty.
Empty save for a folded square of
paper, sealed and stamped with an
Arabic cipher.
"Shall I open it?" inquired the presi
dent of the bank, looking from oue be
wondered face to another.
"If you please," answered Niobe's
son.
Is there no address?"
"None whater."
Broken open, the letter ran:
My Dkak Robkkt Sixty years ago
I wronged your father. To-day I re
pair the wrong as far as I am able. 1
intended leaving my plate and jewels
in this box for you, but I prefer to give
them to you with my own hands.
Come aud take them from inc. Your
all'ee-tionate grandmother.
J l' AN A 1K RlLKAS-CllEVALIKK.
A card with mourning border drop
ped from the letter to the table.
Robert picked it up mechanically
and read: "Mistress Geoffrey Robert
Chevalhr. At home. The Chevalier
vault, King William, Seaforth."
"God!" he ejaculated, staring at the
bit of glazod pasteboard and then at
N iobe's son.
Theu he seized his hat, pushed his
wife aside and rushed from the bank.
From the city to Seaforth Station,
SU l'eter's parish, from the station to
the churchyard, from the churchyard
to the marsh.
The tide was up.
For hours he sat looking at the slow
ly receding water.
N iobe's sou touched him on the
shoulder.
"Fool," he asked politely, "where
did you bury her?"
"There," said Robert doggedly, point
ing ahead of him.
The marsh was drying, with sucking
sounds, under the sun. A slave near
by murmured to himself.
They caught one word, then waded
to the spot and dug, sank a spade, a log
of wood and several other heavier
tilings aud watched the quicksand suck
them out of sight
Then they scrambled to the marsh
and went each his separate way.
Claud M. Girardeau in Lippincott's
Magazine.
Blaine's Generosity.
A good story of James G. Blaine is
told by a writer in the St Louis Globe
Deniocrat The incident related was a
maguanimous and clever act of ti e
M line statesman, when, as Speaker of
tie House, he got through a resolution
appropriating $12,0.).) to the needy
widowed daughter of President Zich
ary Taylor. This lady got as far as
Washington on her way to Paris to see
a sick daughter, and, being destitute of
money, appealed ta her ouly friend at
the capital, Gmeral S'.iermin. His
purse was at waysopau to the distressed,
but he had no funds at all adequate to
relieve her necessities. In this e n ur
gency he thought of Blame. The mm
from Maine entered into the spirit of
the occasion as soon as he heard General
Sherman's statement. He called
another to the chair, made a five" min
utes speech that fairly electrified the
House, which passed the resolution
that Blaine had penued only a moment
before. He took the resolution in person
to the Senate where it was also im
mediately passed, had the President to
sign it the next day, and on the follow
ing day the beneficiary got the money.
General Sherman always Insisted that
Blaine would have made the grandest
actor that ever lived, and in adapting
his career to politics he robed the stae
of a liorn star.
Little Oscar Papa.
Mr. Fatherly Well, Oscar?
Little Oscar When tlod made the
zebra, why didn't He cut some stars
on him, so he'd ba a regular walking
American flag? Brooklyn Eagle.
MAY 11). 1807.
CELESTIAL TELEGRAPHY.
There was a little old-fashioned safe
in the depot at Dumphy's Glen, but
everybody kuew that it never contain
ed anything of special value. It serv
ed well enough to hold the books aud
papers of the office and a little loose
change; there was practically no busi
ness done at Dumphy's. If it had
been otherwise the station would nev
er have Nen left in charge of a mere
girl like Lena Stearns.
Fifteen years ago it was quite anoth
er story. At that time Dumphy's
Glen was in the midst of its boom as a
prospective summer resort, aud when
Iena's father bought tho' barren little
plot of gravel and bare granite upon
which he had erected his store he had
paid for it at the rate of $1) a front
foot, and had trouble in getting it at
that But ho had died long since,
broken iu fortune and iu spirit The
big, dismantled "Sanatorium" on the
hill was utterly abandoned. Half the
glass in its dark, dirty windows was
broken; squirrels scurried over the sag
ing verandas; the warping shingles
blew .down from the roof in every
storni; the eaves were a hive for wasps
and hornets. The streets that had
been so hopefully laid out led nowhere.
"Park avenue" started well, but soon
lost itself among brambles and bushes;
its pretentious name hung askew from
its rotting post, held by one rusty nail.
The store-, however, was still kept
up, for there was a little country trade.
Airs. Stearns lived with her daughter
in the upper story and managed to sell
or barter, across the dingy counter,
cotton thread, nails, molasses and pat
ent mediciue enough to pay the inter
est on the mortgage anil live. Lena,
who was IS, had to do aim filing, of
course, aud as she was unmistakably a
bright girl and had mastered Imok-ket-plng
aud tele-graphy, she easily ol
tained the unimportant position of sta
tion agent at Dumphy's, where she
sold half a dozen tickets a week, flag
ged a train when there was a passen
ger, ami boarded at home.
Lena was not only bright and effi
cient, but decidedly pretty. This fact
had been dise'overed by John Sturgiu,
the station agent at Pine Ridge, ten
miles above; it was a source of regret
to him that he was not the only dis
coverer. As it was, he perversely
turned his back ou the well-stocked
stores at the Ridge, and did a suspi
cious amount of trading at the Glen.
He also did more telegraphing at times
than busiiuss seemed to require. The
wires must have felt a queer thrill as
some of those messages pulsed through
them, though the words were as triv
ial, aud as remote from the sentiments
they voiced, as iu any other rustic
courtship.
Although scarcely any' money ever
found lodgment at Dumphy's Glen, a
good deal passed through it About
twelve miles below were the great saw
mills at Sabine Falls, and tvery week
a heavy cash box was expressed thith
er from the city to pay the men. The
train which conveyed it, however,
seareely ever stopped at the little fl.ig
station, but there was one notable ex
ception. It was about the middle of March
and heavy rains had stripped the hills
of their white winter cloaks. " They're
just like folks who lay off their wraps
too soon," thought Lena, drawing her
fleecy "fascinator" more closely about
lier neck and shoulders f r the sky
had cleared and the air was growing J
frosty. "They look as if they were
catching their death of cold."
She was standing on the platform
watching the belated express as it
rounded the curve. To her surprise, it
slowed and eaine to a stop, though she
had uot flagged it. The door of the
baggage car slid open and the agent
jumped out, dragging the cash bx
after him.
"Shall have to leave this here to
night," he explained. "Bad washout
at Tamarack creek, three miles down,
and we can't get through to Sabine
possibly; orders to run back at once.
Have wired to the mills to send men
around by the road and they'll be here
soon. It'll be all right; uobody else
will know the stud's here. Come,
we'll put it in the safe for you."
So Lena opened the safe while the
agent with the help of a brakeman
brought in the box. It was a snug fit,
though she pulled out all the books to
make room for it Then the men
burled the train which slowly backed
up the line until it was out of sight
The girl re-entered the depot, locked
the door , threw a fresh supply of coal
on the fire aud waited alone for the
messengers from the mills. An hour
passed, and another and another; at
last the hand of the clock stood at 11,
and they still had not come.
John Sturgin was also sitting alone
in the ticket office at Pine Ridge.
Thoughts of Lena were uppermost in
his mind a thing uot unprecedented
but to-night his head was full of
fancies. He knew about the cash box,
for he had spoken with the express
aent as the train backed through.
"I'm afraid the little girl was wor
ried about that money," he mused.
"She isn't used to that sort of thing.
But it can't have been in her hands
more than half an hour."
The telegraph at his elbow was
clicking in an uneasy, irregular fash
ion, but he had scarcely noted it All
at once the signal sounded loudly.
This was followed by au unintelligible
rattle; even h's practiced ear could
make nothing of it, Theu, after a mo
ment's silence came words broken
and fluttering but to his quick appre
hension they sounded like an inarticu
late cry.
"Oh oh oh Help!" Then a con
fusion of clicks aud again the instru
ment seemed to cry out: "On Oh
Save L "
He sprang the key and tried to tele
graph a question; but he could not get
any rcsnse. The wires seemed bad
ly out of order. He was much alarm
ed. Something was wrong horribly
wrong at Dumphy's Glen. It would
uot do to waste time.
He ran out of the depot "Look aft
er things, Mac," he called to the bag
gageman. His bicycle was leaning against the
luildini. He bad brought it out that
era
day for the first time since winter set
in. With a quick push and a leap he
was in the saddle bounding along the
dim, frozen road.
Dim yet for mere star light the
night seemed wonderfully luminous.
But the light was fitful; tliere were
moments when all seemed buried in
darkness. Then the laudscae bright
ened and glimmered as if the moon
had emerged from behind a cloud.
But there was no moon; he knew that
the moon would not rise until morning
was near.
The railway circled the foot of the
hill, but the road ran straight over the
summit. By strenuous efforts he had
already reached the crest aud the hard
driven wlu-el leajx'd forward with a
fresh burst of speed, as it felt the down
ward slope.
Suddenly the air seemed full of rosy
light, as if tinged by the glow of dawn.
Though he was now running at a
break-neck pjee he glanced upward.
The J-ky was aflame witli the flicker
ing i t il Hants of the aurora borealis.
Near the horizon lay a bank of dusky
haze, through which the stars gleamed
faintly. Almve it wavered a pale
phosphorescent curtain, that shivered
as if shaken by gusts of wind; from be
hind which rud.ly streamers shot up to
the very zenith, and flickered and
waned and brightened. It was a mag
nificent display; but the descent was
becoming steeper every minute, he was
obliged to keep his eyes fixed on the
road.
He was now rushing down the rough
track with a violence that almost t'e
fied control. The overstrained tubing
gave under his weight to the very lim
it of its strength; tiie machine Ilea veil
aud palpitated like a frightened horse,
aud shied wildly amid the ruts and
stones that he could not avoid. At a
sharp turn of the road he swung out so
far that he felt the hiud tire slipping
on tbe icy edge, and larely escaiied
plunging down the embankment; tin n
the depot windows flashed into view.
After that the bicycle must have
chosen its own course, fr Sturgin was
not conscious of guiding it Foe the
sash was raised, and against the yel
low lamplight he saw the dark outline
of a mau crawling in through the open
ing; another followed.
The last figure had scarcely disap
peared when his wheel came to a stop
in the deep sand of the station yard.
He dropped from the saddle, pulled a
4l-calibre revolver from his iocket and
sprang to the window.
The depot consisted of a single room;
the safe and telegraphic apparatus
were o.i the farther side. In the mid
dle of the floor sto.l Lena, defiant,
with clinched bands and glowing
cheeks, looking straight down the
black muzzle of a pistol that a huge
desperado was holding close to her
face.
' You unlock that safe right quick,
and no sensense," he w;is saying.
"I won't I can't," cried Lena.
The other intruder, a seedy little fel
low with thin lips an 1 a hitch H fai-e,
was by the safe examining the lock.
II; turned toward the girl.
"Ye might as well save trouble," he
said. "We know what's here, and
we're going to have it This is biz,
understand. We shan't hurt ye if ye
liehave."
The girl glanced at him with angry
contempt. Her blood was loUing.
"There ain't goin' to be nobody to
help ye," the fellow continued. "The
road bridge is down-swep' away by the
freshet and the fellers from the Mills
won't git here yet awhile. Yer ma's
too fur off, an' she ain't no good any
way. We've got to have that key, for
we ain't got any tools haudy. Be live
ly now. We kin be rough if we have
ter."
With a sudden motion Lena pulled
the key from her apron pocket The
big ru Ilia n beside her snatched at it,
lowering his pistol as he did so; but
with the quickness of a cat she flung
the little piece of steel through the
oinen door of the stove, where it slip
down among the glowing coals. The
fellow grabbed the poker an J plunged
it into the red-hot mass, but the key
had disappeared. With a cry of rage
he sprang toward the girt, but while
bis back was turned she had darted
across the room ami jerked open a
drawer.
"Throw up your hands, you scoun
drel!"
The command came in a hoarse roar
from the open window. The despera
do turned, saw a fierce, livid face glar
ing in from the outer gloom, saw also
a leveled weapon and suspected more
from behind. He dropped his pistol
and obeyed.
Laying his left hand on the sill
John Sturgiu leaped through the win
dow with one bound. There is no
record-breaker like love and anger iu
things athletic. Meanwhile the lesser
villian was struggling with the fasten
ings of the nearest window, but when
he glanced over his shoulder ami
caught a gliut of another revolver in
the hands of Lena as she stood by the
open drawer he desisted.
"Give it up," he said coolly. Ye got
me, sure, little girl, though how them
fellers got acrost so quick lieats me.
Now, don't git narvous with that pop
per of youru; I'll rest easy, an' I ain't
got no gun anyway."
"(Jive me your pistol, Lena," said
Sturgin, his voice still quaking with
excitement "Now, you two brutes
stand here, face against the wall,
hands up. Lena, please send a mes
sage through to Grandport for a train
and a posse,"
She seut the message as she was bid
den, but the steadiness was gone from
her hand and the color from her cheek.
She felt faint; she threw open the door
and gazed up the track. The night
had grown very dark, though a filmy
veil of auroral light still . flitted now
and then across a starry background,
tten at length the rumble of an en
gine was heard a welcome sound to
Sturgin, whose arms were so palsied
with weariness and nervous tension
that he could hardly hold the pistols.
It was just as well that his prisoners
were so placed that they couldn't see
him. Soon, hovever, they were in the
hands of the deputy sheriff, and the
strain was over.
Sturgin sat holding both Lena's
hands iu his. "I can't understand it,"
he said. "How did it happeu, dear,
Id.
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that you telegraphed me for help so
long before those villians reached the
depot?"
"I telegraphed!" she cried. "Why,
I didn't; I couldn't. I hadn't the
s'nalle-st chance until after you came,
just in the nick of time and saved me,
John."
"Aeh!" exclaimed burly Mac, who
was standing by. ''It'll be them
northern lights done it, likely. Ye
know what a fiddle-faddle they'll
make 'longo' the wires, an' set all the
soun'ers clackin". An' I'm thinkin',
Sturgin, somebody's whim-wham's
done the rest"
"It was a message straight from
heaven," murmured Lena.
And doubtless both she and Mac
were right Chicago News.
Thinjj We Ought tD Know-
That napkins should always 1 folded
with the selvage toward the ironer.
That table linen should lie quite
damp, and iroue 1 uutil perfectly dry,
with a very hot, very heavy iron.
Tiiata very hot iron should never lie
u--d for flannel.
Tiiat embroideries should be ironed
ou thick flannel and ou the wrong
si te.
Tiiat calicoes, ginghams and chintzes
sh iuld be ironed ou the wrong si Je.
Tiiat collars, cuffs and shirts require
careful manipulation and must never
be undertaken iu a hurry.
Tiiat an iron e rch can lie removed
by hanging the garmeut where the hot
sun will shine upon the scoreh mark.
That a piece of wax aud a piece of
string paper thickly sprinkled with
salt slioald be at hm 1 upon which the
iron miy be ruobed if the starch ad
heres to it.
That white silk handkerchiefs should
uot be dampened, but ironed with a
mi lerately warm iron when perfectly
dry.
That collars and cuffs if dropped into
a box or pail the right size, will take
the proper shape, and wear better than
if left straight.
That irojs should be removed from
th tire as soon as the ironing is finish
ed. G-iod irous are rained by standing
on the back of the range.
That ir ins shoal 1 be kept from du-t
and in a dry closet.
Tiiat good work cannot be done with
out good tools. G so I irons, holders,
boards and cloths.
Puci'a ?hiloJopb.iej-
Wepriz;t!ie!i!.-rty to follow the die
tat of our conscience, but we do not al
ways exercise that cherished privilege.
In the bright lexicon of the Delaware
peach-crop there is no such word as suc
cess. The man who spen Is his time hop
lug for the best hardly ever gets it
Two things may be said in praise of
the whole-souled egotist; his character
is married neither by insincerity nor
hyHK-ri.y.
For the great majority of us, the eas
iest way to get a living is to earn it
A distinguished naturalist states that
th? hen cackles with unus'ial enthu
siasm when she thinks she has laid au
eg where it can't be found.
This world would be nearly right if
every iu in who sees the error of his
ways ha 1 the c utajs to change his
route.
Most of us are inclined to measure
our own achievements by what other
people haven't done.
A man cannot compliment a woman
more highly than by asking her to Le
his wife; unless he's au artist aud asks
her to be his model.
The diflicu'tyalmut seizing an oppor
tunity is the trouble experience 1 in
penetrating its disguise.
Not all philsophers are poor men;
but all poor men, siouer or later, come
to be philosophers.
Busiiess in the Blae Grass B3?i3n.
The blue-grass colonel relates an incL
dent which we'd illustrates the shrewd
nes of fie K ;:it jjiy grm ts in b lsi
uess a.l lirs. It appears that a farmer
lost a ca'f, a:i lan tign'o ir p i -Cured it
until the b:ll am a;ited to abwt the
value of fie a-iim d. Toe owuer found
out oue d ty where his missing calf was
and went after it
"H w alio it the bill for this?" he in
quired. "Well, I've been thinking abiut
that," was the reply, "and I've con
cluded that if yoj'l. let me have the
calf I'll call the m itter square."
Toe o'.d m in th i J'it over the situa
tion for a while. Then he said: "Bill,
the calf is really worth more than your
claim, but I'll tell you what I'll do; if
yoa will pasture the calf for f.iur weeks
in ire for n thin you in ly have it"
Chicago Times-Herald.
Poultry as a Spacialty.
l"se the farm for poultry by giving
the ll.K'ks plenty of room, aud work
with a view to m iking the hens pay,
the sann as is done for the cows, and
the results will hi sitisfactory. Fifty
heus in one acre c uM give at least a
clear proat of 1 a hen, or $') to the
acre, and the cist for shelter will be
less than for large stock. The fact that
so few know how to keep large rl icks
for profit is pro if th it farmers have all
along neglected piullry, giving the
hens on the farm but little notice, yet
on the porest farms poiltry can lie
m de a spec'a'iy. There are good mark
ets for eggs close to nearly all the farms,
as winter prie;s will show. From
Farm and Fireside.
Kansas Editor Hold on a minute,
Mr. Llmberjaw! No date is specified in
the announcement of the pipulist pic
nic, winch you have just handed in.
Prominent PopuILst That'9 so! Let
me see we don t know what the
weather wilt lie. Just say that if it
rains on Wednesday the picnic will
take place on Thursday, and if it
should rain ou Thursday wo will have
it on odnesiay.
Farmers waste a large share of the
fertilizer used ou the farm by purchas
ing kinds that are uot necessary to be
brought on the farm. Phisphate8 are
cheaper than nitrates and the farmer
will, as a rule, select that which ho
Considers the cheaper, although his
farm may not leqnire phosphates and
would lie benefited by nitrates. Potash
is also greatly overlooked by farmers,
and is a substance that is lacking more
frequently than is known. Wood
ashes or potash salts, such as sulphate
of pota-h, muriate of potash and kainit
(which contains also common salt),
wiil give goot results on all classes cf
soils.
Many grass fields have been render
ed unprofitable by inexperienced per
sons, who have attempted to sow the
seed by hand. An even distribution of
seed is on e of the most imjiortant mat
ters connected with a grass crop, and
only those who have had long practice
should attempt to sow a field to grass
without the use of an implement for
that purpose, as there are several
makes of broadcast seed sowers.
Every spring otlers of seed com are
made for which extraordinary claims
are mentioned as much as J) bushels
per acre being given as the results of
tests with, such varieties. It is best
not to use new varieties of such corn
except with a packet of a few seeds, as
corn that produces well iu some sec
tions will fail el.iewhere. The best
seed corn to use is the variety known
to be well adapted to your land until
by exiierinient something lietter is
found. Corn that will thrive on heavy
soils m ly not give good results on
saudy land, hence the importance of
being very careful in variety selected.
New strawlierry Usls should lie plant
ed without delay, as it may soon lie t o
late. Early, medium and late varie
ties should be used, so as to extend the
fruit-picking season over as long a
period as jxrs.s:lle. Of the late kinds
the Gaudy is quite a favorite, as it is a
stnmg grower, is hardy, and also proli
fic. Strawberries are ariong the least
difficult crops to obtain iu a garden or
on a t-ma'.l plot
There are small matters, or mim.r
details, connected with dairying which
attract no attention. The manner in
which a cow is milked may influence
her yield. At the Wisconsin Experi
ment Station milkkig one teat at a
time aud weighing the milk drawn
from each teat was tested, and the order
in which the teats were milked wis
changed at each milking until each
teat had its turn of being milked first
and Ia-tt It was fouud that the teat
that was milked last gave less milk than
the others. The claim is that the gland
had lieen excited to action and the
milking delayed, which gave the result
as meutioneiL
There is no method of determining
how much an animal requires, or how
a ration can lie balanced, but there is a
rule in use which bases the allowance
according to the weight of the animal;
hence it is claimed that a cow in full
flow of milk, she weighing lot") pounds.
should receive from '2 to 1 pounds
digestible protein 1-', pounds digestible
cirUihydrates, and two-thirds of a
p und of fat, which system requires a
study of the food constituents, but or
dinarily ) pounds of oare fodder and
It) jwiunds of grain are used jier l'JO
(Kiunds weight.
Every farmer who Ls compelled to
niret low prices should firt prnlue-e
everything possible ou the farm for the
support of his family for a year which
includes bread, meat, butter, milk and
vegetables instead of growing only
one or two special crops that may aff ird
little or no profit An industrious far
mer may make uo profit and yet have
a full supply of food for his family.
Those who raise large numbers of
cL icks liud that the early ones thrive
better than those hatched late. The
cause is due to the fact that the late-
hatched chicks are attacked by lice
during the warm days and do not
grow.
The time to sell j-oung lambs is when
they weigh about -V) pounds each, live
weight They will Iise from 12 to hi
pounds when killed and dressed. Those
who have had no experiene-e in mark
eting choice young lambs should em
ploy au expert at first, as the manner
of preparing for market largely effects
the price. If the lambs are not fat
keep them a while longer and feed
them au abundance, using corn meal
aud ground oats largely. Early lambs
may bring from $ to $3 according U
quality.
Parsnips are highly relished by all
kinds of stock aud can remain in the
ground during the winter. They pro
duce fnim ii) to Its" bushels per ae-re,
according to soil and cultivation. If
only a small plot is devoted to them
they will be found a welcome addition
to the stock rations in winter by afford
ing a greater variety.
The average yield of milk pere-ow
for all the cows iu the country in Is-'iO
was 700 quarts a year. In lsUO the av
erage was IX) quarts per cow for a
year. This increase has been accom
plished by the greatest use of improv
ed breeds, and is equivalent to nearly
doubling the number of cows by esti
mating from the amount of milk de
rived in 1S).
Com fodder coutaius more starch
than clover, while clover is richer in
protein. A ration of both clover aud
fodder is excellent where no grain is
allowed, as is sometimes the rule in
warm weather. A mixed ration is
better at all times than to rely entirely
upon oue kind of food, aud for all
classes of stock.
If you have any land that cannot be
cultivated to corn or potatoes do not
allow it to remain for the weeds to ex
haust it, but mow down the weeds
when they are young and in August
sow the land to crimson clover, to be
plowed under uext spring. It is a good
plan to sow crimsou clover on every va
cant spot and thus improve the soil by
taking advantage of its capacity for
gathering nitrogen.
"Xot Exactly Eight"
Thousands of people are in this ou
dition. They aie not sick yet they are
by no means well. A single bottle of
Hood's Sarsaparilla would do them a
world of giwid. It would tone the
stomach, create an appetite, puri.'y
and enrich the blood aud give wonder
ful vigor and vitality. Now is the
time to take it
Hood's Pills cure nausea, sKyk head
ache, indigestion, biliousness. All
druggists, tr;.
Objlient Bo.
"You know I told Johnnie I wanted
him to make his essay a hummer"
"Yes."
"What does the little rascal do but
write half a page about the bun saw'"'
Detroit Free Presa
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