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t9lisJcnt.l u lU-ir care w ill be
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sis profoti.imii serv ice to the cili-
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Ji.iua fiUiol iiictt.
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H.fOFFEOTH,
Funeral Director.
W iUlu Cross St. Iietideuoe,
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B. FLUCK,
Land Surveyor
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VOL. XLYI. yp.
can be overcome in atmno a!I
Wastingr
in Children
by the use of Scotf s Emulsion of
Cod-Liver Oil and the Hypophos-
phites of Lime and Soda. While
j it is, a scientific fact that cod-liver
j oil is the most digestible oil ia ex-
SCOTT'S
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it Is not only palatable, but it is
already digested and made ready
for immediate absorption by the
system. It is also combined -with
the hypophosphites, which
supply a food not only for
the tissues of the body, but
for the bones and nerves,
and will build up the child
whea its ordinary food
does not supply proper
nourishment.
be tare rott get SCOTT'S Emulsion. Sec that tfat
nun and bsh are on the wrapper.
T All druggists ; soc and i.oa.
SCOTT & BOWSE, Chemists, New York.
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That a life insurance fj
company will pay :
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The only safe guar- j
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ability to continue to
i Tay dividends is its j
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$50,000,000 Surplus f!
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5 EDWARD A. WOODS, Manager. S:
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L FGSCICK, General Agent,
if Somerset
THE-
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Somerset. F'otiti'r
Capital, S50.000.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
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JAMtSUPV-GH, W.H.MILLER,
JOUJ B. S TT, ROKT. S. ISCULLs
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EDWARD SCULL, : : PRESIDKNT
VALENTINE HAY, s- VICE FKEflDKNT
HAKVKY M. B ERIC LEY, tSlUEB
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curelv protect In a -letrxted Cuklims Bcb
our Fuoof S ak. Tlie only safe wade abso
lutel? burtlar-pixKjf.
A. H. KUSTOM,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and everything pertaining to funeral, tarn
Ubed. SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset. - Pa.
I Am Now
preparexl to supply the public
with Clocks, Watches, and Jew
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as the Cheapest.
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42.
D03TT LEAVE THE FARM.
t'omo, 1kv, I have something to trll you ;
Colin- iu-jir, I would U'lil-per It lo.
You are llilnklui; of luivintlie homcstrjid,
Ii'in't ttc iu a hurry togo.
Tho city has many utlraoii.ms
Rut think of the vires and tlua;
When oui-cln Ihe vortex of Gtxhion,
How oon the course downward bt-glna.
You Ulc of Uie mincii of Anatralbi,
Thoy are wralthy In gold, no doubt.
Hut ah ! there Is gold on the farm, boys,
If only you will ahovel It out.
The mercantile life la a haxard ;
Th goods are first high and then low;
B -tU r rinS the old farm a little longer,
Ivjn't be In a hurry to go.
The great, busy West has Inducements,
And so has the busiest mart;
Rut wealth is not made in a day, boys.
Don't be in a hurry to start.
The bankers and brokers arc wealthy,
They rake In their thousands or ao ;
Oh ! think of the frauds and deceptions
lHm't be In a hurry to go.
The farm is the Kafeitt and surest.
The orchards are loaded to-day ;
You're as free as the air of the mountains.
And moaareh of all yon survey
Bet ttr stay on the firm a while longer.
Though profits coine iu nttherelow;
IlenieniU r you have noth'tig to rlk, boys,
Dou't bt iu a hurry to go.
-Mrs. Nortis ii. Klaek lu rhoenixriUe Mes
senger. AX 0PEX MOMENT.
Something in the behavior, possibly
also iu the appearance, of a womatt
coming up the street, arrested Johu
Selward's aitetitiou. He was approach,
ing his own door and was not in a
particularly receptive mood, for a sense
of the nearer recurrence of those slight
fits of bhiveritig which had been
troubling him all day warned him un
comfortably that ho was not ia his
normal health.
The woman had turned the corner
out of the adjoining thoroughfare, had
halted with what can only be describ
ed as a jerk, and hurried across the
road in a spasmodic way that some
how, as he thought the matter over
afterwards, conveyed to Belward tho
imprew-ion that a recognition of her
whereabouts had occasioned her a sud
den shock. S might start one who,
wandering heedlessly in an unknown :
city, sees that an unnoted turn or two
have brought him to dark byways where
lurks the assassin's kuife. Explorers
in an Eastern town may have come to
as dead a pause, followed by as palsied
a run, when their zeal for research has
taken them unwittingly into tbe heart
of a leper miarter. Akin to such mani
festation of nerve-panic is the muscu
lar twitch of a sleep walker awakened
iu unfamiliar places.
Hut it was acquaintance with the
street and not strangeness of her
surrouudiiiirs that bad startled the wo
man, or Seiward was mistaken. He
scrutinized her as tlie little distance
lessened between her and himself.
Then, for the first time (in retrospect,
forsooth) and with a feeling of keenest
surprise, so improbable did tbe thing
seem, lie became aware that her face
was very pretty.
As this astonishing truth revealed
itself to him he came to a standstill
in the passage (his landlady, in vague
recollection of a flowery style in tbe
wording of her lease, called it the
"heutrance 'all") and followed with
his eye the veining of the hi leous var
nished paper that represented marble
with such pathetic artlessness. He
saw not it, however, but the strange
woman who was hurrying down the
street. The fact that she was pretty
made the deformity or injury a jest of
th gods that might call for mirth, and
was sorry enough for tears.
He was shivering again. Cold wattr
was running down his back. He hop
ed he was not going to be ill. In an
hour he knew that he was, and w hen
he had tried uuavailingly to eat some
dinner, he gave in and went to bed.
Thither at about 9 o'clock his land
lady, a motherly persou, who, as she
often toll him proudly, was experienc
ed in the sick room (having burkd
four besides the two she had "rared")
brought him, at her own prescription,
a glasss of whisky and water, hot and
stroug.
"You've got a chill, Mr. Selward, and
well I know them. You've not looked
yourself this week, as, indeed, it was
only this afternoon I passed the re
mark. Drink this down like a gentle
man, and perhaps we shall have you
well an' 'earty be ruorniu'."
Selward, whose teeth were chatter
ing, did as he was bidden. Mrs. Holliek
withdrew, after many last wordsand a
promise that she would look iu "first
thing," which she might do, she said,
with perfect propriety, "being a mar
ried lady let alone a mother," and
then began tlie wretched night. He
tossed and turned in fever. The strang
er was forgotten. That his temples
throbbed, acd that he could not rest
were matters of more insistent gravity
than that a woman had acted strange
ly, and she has a misshaped body and
a pretty face. At daw u he feU asleep.
When lie awoke Mrs. Holliek was
entering the room on creaking tiptoe.
Belward was weary and unrefreshed.
"1 I'm, we've got to take care of you,
sir, that's clear. 'Ead achis I dare
say, If I might t el t!u pulse. Fts
!uick, Mr. SeUard, very jui k. You'll
keep your ted, sir, as I needn't tell
you, and if the oriije wauU a telegram
the girl shall take iL"
The massage was dictated and dis
patched. "You don't feel like eatin' much,
sir, I dare say," said Mrs. Holliek after
& temporary absence from the room.
"I've te.-ti a deal of sickness, and I
know, lint we're not going to 've
you let your strength ruu down. It is
but dry toast au' a sjHt of tea. You'll
lie better when yoj've broken fast,
And so John Sel-ard felt. Bat
towards evening his restlessness re.
turned. Mrs. Holliek broached the sub
ject of a doctor. Selward declared that
his Indisposition was uotniag, ana mat
a day or two would stje him well. Mrs.
Iljllick visitod his room in the night,
and was not reassured by his condi
tion. In the morning he sent for a
doclir ("unbeknown," as she explain
ed to him ouUiJe the door of the sick
room ou his arrival), with the result
thit a lium was installed in her
"kouJ flr bi.-k" i.i th? courseof
the sa me day.
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SOMERSET, PA.,
It was towards afternoon of that day
thatSelward began to see pictures in
the red calico blind. It hd baen pull
ed down to keep the light from his
eyes as he lay facing the window. The
calico was very coarse, and was here
and there closer in nieih than elsewhere.
It amused him, and was even easing
for a time to look for faces iu the grain.
He found many faces with beards,
faces with whiskers, facM with mous
taches, faces clean shaven, wotneu's
faces, faces that were of recognizable
types; then faces he knew, a celebrity
or two, reminiscences of photographs;
Mrs. Holliek that was strange! H9
lost her and could not find hr again,
though he stared at the spot where
lights and shadows had given him a
likeness. Then the faces bezan to
bother him, and he saw laadscaps,
tree-, groups of people notably some
ladies of the sixties playiugcroijuat
animals, monsters. The thing became
a weariness and a vexation. Night
came on. The blind faded with the
growing of the darkness outside, but
the "seeing" stayed. He saw beautiful
phantasies. A girl fl'Mited iu the sky,
and had a star upon her forehead. A
peri sprinkled golden rose petals in the
air, and a breeze wafted them softly
hither and thither. Some fell with a
gentle sound upon the corerlet.
The nurse was bending over him to
see if he slept.
"No," he murmured, "they won't let
me."
"Who won't let you?"
"The people."
"What people?"
He opened his eyes more w idely.
"I'm talking nonsense, I believe."
He paused and smiled. "There's no
one there really I know, but I see peo
ple." "Never mind them, Mr. Selward.
Take this. Y'ou ought to have had it a
quarter of an hour ago, but you were
quiet, and I thought it would Is? a pity
to disturb you."
"I wasn't quiet inside my head," the
patient said vaguely. What a long
time it was since he had been really
quiet siuoe he had had any rest! How
nice it would be to rest! Ah, the .Teary
tossing was beginning once more. Hw
pillow would the nurse turn it for him?
He was so sorry to be troublesome.
Poor nurse, she must be so tired. How
tired he was! If he could sleep! The
people would not let him. It was the
faces of women that he saw now. They
were all lieautiful some radiantly beau
tiful. They leaned over balconies as ac
some pageant. They had most of then t
long eyes and delicate skins, with ex
quisite tints, aud their lips were all rosw
red. They caught the eye, and they
always showed a crescent of white and
eveu teeth. How beautiful they were!
He saw each one singly. She replaced
the last, as slides oust each other in a
magic lantern. But every one flaxen
princess, raven gypsy or red-haired,
peasant had time to smile before her
place was taken. The beautiful smile
was fatiguing. The beauty itself of the
faces exhausted him. He shut his eyes
aud tried to think of nothing. Oh, he
was so tired and so thirsty. I la must
ask for something to drink. The nurst
rose at once aud held the glass to his
hot lips.
"You haven't slept?"
"Not yet. You must be worn out. I
am so sorry."
She silenced him with a gentle smile
and a word or two. Her smile wan
tranquil aud quite different.
She stood for a few moments with
her cool hand upon his forehead.
"Go to sleep," she whispered softly.
Presently she returned silently to her
chair. He was dozing. He woke with
a cry and some Incoherent words.
"Her legs were only two inches long,"
he said. "I tell jou I saw her. Her
feet grew out of her body like a turtle'
flaps. L?t me go, please, I can't stop
here. Why do you hold me? I djn't
know you."
"Lie down, Mr. Selward ! You'll
catch cold if you pull the clothes ofl
your chest Do as I tell you lie down!"
With some considerable strength she
forced him back on to the pillows.
"But I saw ber, and she had a square
chest and big arms."
"Never mind. She won't come near
vox"
"It isn't that," he said, scornfully.
"As if I should mind that- It's on her
account. It must be so dreadful, must
it not?"
"Yes, very. But don't think of her
now."
"I must, because you see, there wa
no one else in the street. It was before
you came. Ob, I must sit up for a
minute."
"Why?"
"The room is all wrong. Here's the
wall, here. It ought to be there, ought'n
it, where the fireplace is? It used to
be. And the door's wrong, too. It Isn't
generally there. I can't make out
where I am. Which way are we trav
eling? Atu I facing or are we going
backwards? I must know. I'll be quiet
if you'll tell me."
"We re not traveling, Mr. Selward.
The room's not wrong. It Is just a-
U-iiiaL I'll turn up the gas for a min
ute and you'll see. There! It's all right.
Isn't It ?"
"Then I'm In bed ?"
"Yes."
"I've been ill, haven't I ? Is all thia
for me ?"
He touched the bedclothes.
"Yes, all for you."
"I'm the only one 111 note verjbod.y
elsf ?"
"Only you, aud you'll soon be bet'
ter."
Selward was silent for & few mo
ments. "I've been dreaming," be atKI, with
a little laugh, "I thought it doesn't
matter what I thought, does it? It
was only dreams."
"Yes, only dreams," ! tue nurse.
She laughed too.
"Now you are yourself again, aren't
you? I may turn the light down, and
you will try to get some more sleep?"
"That sort of sleep doesn't rest one)
much. I feel as if I had been running:
miles. I think I was running some
where when I woke. Oh, ye?, I re
member I was trying to help ttoa
straago woman to get away. TUy
set
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH i0. 1898.
were after her, and Bhe could not keep
up, because her legs were so short, aud
I had to pull her along by the hand.
How funny! Yen, put the gas down. I
dou't think I'll try to go to sleep just
yet"
"Very well," said the nurse, "Call
me for anythingyou want Don't hes
itate however often yoi want your pil
lows turned. Y'ou kuow I'm here to
look after you."
"You are good to me," said Selward.
He dozed for a time, and then opened
his eyes. Mrs. Holliek, in a pink flan
nel jacket, was sitting beside him.
"What time is it?"
"Oh, you're awake, sir. It's nearly
S o'clock Just a sup of milk you was
to take. That's right And are you
better, Mr. Selward?"
Sunlight bathed the houses opposite'
He could see tho window at which tbe
woman had gazed. He looked at it
with curiosity. As he looked he be
came conscious of drowsiness stealing
over him. He had long arrears of
slumber to make up, and he yielded to
the sensation gratefully. But his eyes,
he is ready to swear, were open and
fixed jipon the window opposite. It
was higher than bis own, and clearly
visible from the bed. He had read
somewhere that you could hypnotize
yourself by gazing steadily at a given
spot Perhaps he was hypnotizing
himself now. Someone was moving
in the room behind the window. Pres
ently the sash was thrown up, and a
man, a dark man a foreigner, Selward
thought from his look proceeded to
seat himself on the outer sill, and, hav
ing pulled down on to his tnighs the
sash be had raised, to clean the glass
with a spouge and washleather. He
worked without interruption for some
minutes. Then he tried to pull down
the upper half of the window, but it
resisted his efforts. Selward felt very
nervous as he saw that the man was
drawing his legs out and raising him
self to his feet on the narrow ledge.
He was holding with one hand to the
woodwork of the sash now aud plying
the wet sponge. How long he had
been so employed Sidward did not
know, when he (the watcher) became
aware that some one else had entered
the room a woman the woman. Sel
ward saw her clearly in the sunlight
the ill-shaped form, the pretty face; but
the face was distorted by an evil pur
pose. Something was going to happen.
In a moment the thing was done. Her
big stroug bauds had seized the window-cleaner
by the feet
At Selward's cry Mrs. Holliek sprang
from her chair.
"What is it, sir, for 'eaven's sake?"
"He must be killed," Selward said(
white as a sheet and tremb'iug in every
limb. Mrs. II UioV". ran to the window
to which he was pointing.
"There's no one killed, sir. There's
nothing happened."
"He must Ihs smashed," cried Sel
ward. "His body must be in the area.
What do you tee?" he asked, when
Mrs. Holliek protested that there was
nothing the matter.
"Everything as usual. They're tak
ing iu the milk opposite. What did
you fancy, sir?"
"A man was cleaning that window.
He'd have been smashed "
"Lor", sir, how did you know about
it? It was long before you come to
lodge with me, and I don't remember
as I've ever told you of it, but perhaps
I have and forgot it"
"What?"
Selward was recovering himself, little
by little.
"Why, about the mrvn as fell from
that very window. It a six years ago
now, it must tie. He was cleanin' it
when he missed his foot in' and met his
death."
"What kind of man?"
"You do speak in a strange voice,
Mr. Selward; your dreamiu's regular
upset you. Big, black, foreign man he
was, as 'ad come with the old gentle
man as owned the house from foreign
parts. Ho had strange servants, had
that old man; tbe 'ouseniaid was a
foreigner, too, and as for the cook, you
never saw such a lookiu' woman iu all
your life all body au' no legs. She'd
a decent face, though, that I will tay,
and it was gossip about here as the for
eign man was carryin' on with both
women. Y'ou look very bad, Mr. Sel
ward. I think you ought to 'ave a little
brandy just a spot to pull you togeth
er. I'll ask nurse."
John Selward was uot so well when
the doctor saw him that morning. It
was many weeks before he began to
mend, but in time he regained his
health.
"What was the verdict at the in
quest?" lie asked Mrs. Holliek abrupt
ly, early In his convalescence.
"Lor', sir, I couldn't think for a mo
ment what you was alludiu' to. Death
from accident it was. of course. It
made me very careful 'of I 'ave my
windows cleaned."
John Selward looked at the dusty
panes of his sitting room and smiled.
Richard Pryce iu Illustrated London
News.
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to the pub-
li.. tn b nnw it nn eniicern In the land
m ....f frahl til crpIlfrntM to
w u 1 v. " v ...m.v o
the needv and BullVnng. The proprie
tors of Dr. King's New Discovery for
L Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have
J given away over ten millions trial bot
tles or this great meatcine; ana nave
the satisfaction of knowing it baa ab
solutely cured thousands of hopeless
f-Hs.-s Asthma. Bronchitis, Hoarse
ness and all diseases of the Throat,
Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it
Call ou J. N. Snyder, Druggist, Som
erset Pa., and ii. W. Brallier, Druggist,
Berlin. Pa., and get a trial bottle free.
ReL'ular size 50o and $1.00. Guaran
teed or price refunded.
His Action-
Mrs. O'Hoggarty "Phat Isyure hus
band doiu' fer his rheumatism, Mrs.
MeLubberty?"
Mrs. MeLubberty "Dommlng ivery
t'ing llsc" Brooklyn Life.
Man and medicines are Judged by
f what they do. The great cures by
H -od's Sarsaparillagiveit a good uame
' everywhere.
1827.
Tho Sonj of Caged Birds.
I have never yet seen a caged bird
that I wanted at least, not on account
of its song or a wild flower that I de
sired to transfer to my garden. A caged
skylark will sing its song sitting on a
bit of turf in the bottom of tbe cage ;
but you want to stop your ears, It is so
harsh, and sibilant, and penetrating.
But up there against the morning sky,
and above the wide expanse of fields,
what delight we have i it! It is not
the concord of sweet sounds; it is the
soaring spirit of gladness and ecstasy
raining down upon us from "heaven's
gate." Then to the time and the place,
if one could only add the association,
or hear the bird through the vista of
the years, the song touched with the
magic of youthful memories!
A number of years ag" a frbud in
England 6ent me a score of skylarks in
a cage. I gave them their liberty in a
field near my p'.ace. They drifted
away, and I never heard them or saw
themtgain. But one Sun -lay a Scotch
man from a neighboring city called
upon me, and declared with visible ex
citement that on his way along the
road he had heard a skylark. He was
not dreaming; he knew it was a sky
lark, though he had uot heard one since
he left the bauks of the Doou, a quarter
of a century or more before. What
pleasure it gave him! How much more
the song meant to him than it would
have meant to me! For the moment he
was on bU native heath again. Then
I told him about tbe larks I had liber
ated, and he seemed to enjoy it all over
again with renewed appreciation.
Many years ago some skylarks were
liberated on Long Island, and the? be
came established there, and may now
occasionally be heard in certain locali
ties. Oue summer day a friend of
mine was out there observing them; a
lark was soaring and singing in the
sky above him. An old Irishman
came along, and suddenly stopped as if
transfixed to the spot; a look of ming
led delight aud incredulity came into
his face. Was he indeed hearing the
bird of his youth? He took otr his hat,
turned his face skyward, and with
moving lips aud streaming eyes stood
a long time regarding the bird.
"Ah," my friend thought, "if I
could only hear that song w ith his
ears: '
How it brought back his youth, and
all those long-gone days on bis native
hills! The power of bird songs over us
is so much a matter of association.
Hence it Is that every traveler to other
countries finds the feathered songsters
of less merit than those he left behind.
The traveler does not hear the birds in
the same receptive, uncritical frame of
lf.ind as be does the native ; they are not
iu the same way the voices of the place
and the season. John Burroughs in the
March Century.
Knew the Witness.
"Take the stand, Mr. PotU," said tbe
young lawyer from town with an air of
triumph.
Judge Bloom, of the Blue Gizzard
district, scowled at the witness as he
took his place, aud the attorney said:
"Mr. Potts, you wen present at the
shooting scrape, were you not?"
"Yas."
"You saw the defendant take a pistol
from his pocket?"
"Yas."
"You saw him fire at this man?"
"Yas."
"You saw him return the weapon to
his pocket?"
"I shore did."
"Come down, Mr. Potts," said tbe
lawyer. "For me to say anything after
such direct testimony of this man's
guilt would be an Insult to your Hon
or's intelligence. I hope your Honor
will make bis bond very heavy for his
ofleuse is exceedingly grave."
"I finds the prisoner not guilty,"
said Judge Bloom, with considerable
vehemence.
"May It please your Honor," ex
claimed the young attorney in amaze
ment, "how cau you render such a ver
dict in direct cou II ict with the positive
testimony of an eye-w itness?"
"Jos' bekase I have knowed aiiil
Potts fer fifteen years years au' never
knowed him to tell the truth yit" -
Atlanta Journal.
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A Chapter on Man-
Man that is married to woman is of
many days and full of trouble. In the
morning he draweth his salary, and lu
the eveuing, behold! it Is gone. It U a
tale that is told. It vanisheth, and no
one knows whither it geth.
He riseth, clothed In the chilly gar
ments of the night, and seeketh th
somnambulent paregoric wherewith to
soothe bis infant posterity.
He cometh forth as the horse or ox,
and draweth tbe chariot of his off
spring. I Id speudeth his shekels in
the purchase of floe linen to cover tlie
bosom of his family, yet himself Is set a
at the gate of the city without sus
pender. Yea, he Is altogether wretched. R il
ert J. Bjrdette.
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Meat may be kept sweet several days
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A Qieer "Word.
Suppose a boy is reading a story, and
he comes to the word "chatelaine."
It may seem to him an interesting bit
of language. He thinks he would like
to kuow what it means. Cousenjuently,
he shuts his book, keeping his fiuger
iu the place, aud runs down stairs
to where bis father is busy in the
study.
"Father," he says, "what is a chate
laine?" We will suppose that his father is a
man who lias sufficient information
to give a general answer to the ques
tion. "A chatelaine," he may say, "is the
lady who is the presiding mistress of a
castle."
The boy opens his book and reads
again the sentence iu which he found
the word. Then he giggles.
"That can't lie right," be says, "for
here it speaks of a lady who 'hung a
chatelaine to her belt' IVid;.-s, it says
that the chatelaine was made of ham
mered silver; so it can't be a lady who
is mistress of a cintle."
' Oh," bis father replies, "that U dif
ferent. There the word means a Utile
contrivance ladies wear at their belts
to hold chains from which they sus
peud keys and tablets, pinboxes, aud
such things."
"Then how did you come to mike
such a mistake?" the boy asks.
"It was not a mistake," his father
replies. "Tlie word means what I said,
too."
"It is queer that it should mean two
such different things. How d.jes it
happen?" the boy aks.
Then the father if he happens to be
the right kiud of a father puts aside
his work aud says, "Bring me the dic
tionary." The dictionary is brought, and open
ed to tho word, and father anil son de
vote a few moments to the inquiry how
a single word can have two meanings
apparently so different
They Sud that "chatelaine" comes
from the French, and was at firt sjel
led cha!el&iiie, but that the 9 has dis
appeared, leaving only a little footprint
in the shape of an accent over the a.
Then it is discovered that chatelaine is
really a form of the word castellan, a
short form of the Latin word castellan-
us, meaning a man who is the keeper
or owner of a castellum, or castle. And
then the dictionary says "v. castle,"
so they turn back to castle. They find
that castle conies from ca-tel or chastel,
which is the same word in a dill Tent
form, that now appears as "chateau,"
and that it comes -from the Latin cas
trum, meaning a camp, while castruru
comes from casa, the Latin for hut, a
word stiil la the same form ia Italian.
(A curious instance of this word is seen
in the name of the boy who stood tijion
the burning deck, Casabianea, which
is simply "Whitehouse".) Casa is the
same word as "ease," or cover, that
is, a covering from tlie weather, aud
that comes from the Sanskrit root
eh had, which means a cover. Also
from the same root come "cassock,"
"chasuble," and "casino," which, it
may surprise you to learn, are rela
tives of the chatelaine with which we
started.
Now, when we come to the meaning
of chatelaine, we see that it meant, at
first, the mistress of a castle that is,
a keeper of the keys to its supplies and
stores the housekeeper or housewife ;
and ber name was applied to the little
bunch of keys carried at her belt, just
as in English we speak of a "house
wife," meaning a little case or box that
contains neilles, thread, scissors, thim
ble, and so on. So now we can see ex
actly how the same word can mean "a
lady who is mistress of a castle," and
"a little contrivance fir carrying at tbe
belt keys and other useful things."
After the bjy has learned all these
things, he turns to bis father a little
scornfully, and says, ' Humph! if I
bad known you were going to look in
the dictionary, I could have done that
myself." Then, if his father doesn't
say, "Why didn't you?" we ourselves
may add that little moral tithe fable.
Tudof Jeuks in St. Nicholas,
Collars For Drunkards.
A colonial gentleman, who now sits
ou the Wandsworth and Clapham
Board of Guardians, says Ti l Bits,
amused his colleagues at their weekly
meeting by stating, during a discussion
upon the treatment of local inebri
ates, that they bad an excellent way of
checking excessive drinking in Mani
toba. When a man had been twice or
hriee convicted of drunkenness in tbe
Police Courts he was sentenced to wear
a brass collar, which marked him out
among bis fellows as a person to whom
no publican could with impunity serve
liquor. The drastic measure often
proved a cure. On the authorities be
ing satisfied that the branded individ
ual had served a sufficiently long term
of probation be was uncollared and
endowed with the liberty of drinks.
Fashionable Honrs in the Fast
The fashionable folk of Edward IV's
court roe with the lark, dispatched
their dinner at 11 o'clock, and shortly
after S were wrapped iu slrmber, hays
Tit -Bits. In the . Northumberland
House Book for 1-112 It is set lorth that
the family arose at ii in the morning,
breakfasted at 7, dined at 10 and supped
at 4 iu the afiernou. The gates were
all shut at 9, and no further ingress or
egress permitted. In lo"0, at the Uni
versity of Oxford, it was usual to dine
at 11 o'clock, and sup at 5 iu the after
noon. The dinner hour, which was
once as early as 10 o'clock, has gradu
ally got later and later, until now it
would be thought very eccentric in the
fashionable world to sit down to table
earlier than half-past 7 o'clock, while
others extend it to 0.
Ha Loved and Won.
Tom "That friend you introduced
at the club last night seems to be aniel
aucholy sort of a fellow. What's the
matter with him?"
Jack "Disappointed In love, I l
lieve." Tom "Too bad; got the mitten, I
suppose
Jack "O'a, no; he got the girl. Cai-
cago News.
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WHOLE NO. 2435.
Shot With a History.
A twentv-four pound round shot.
with a short chain attaebed, now
lying on the table of General Superin
tendent Kimball, of the Life-Saving
Service, ralU up a noted occurrence
long since forgotten, except by a few
old people, which was iu its time acele.
brated case. The ball is no less than
the first shot tired in the United States
for tlie purpose of saving life, and after
performing its noble service it lay for
over twenty years in the bottom of the
sea.
On the 2Rh of December. 1S49, the
British ship Ayrshire sailed from New
ry, Ireland, bound for New York, with
irj persons on board, most immigrants
seeking homes and fortunes in the
States. In those days transatlantic
steamers were not numerous, the first
regular line, the Cunarders, having
b-en established only nine years before,
and thousands of immigrants were
transported in the sailing packets of
the time. Six weeks later the Ayrshire
was off the port of destination iu the
midst of a northeast tempest, which
rolled and pitched ber about with great
fury.
About midnight of January VZ, 1S0O,
she struck bottom with terrific force,
keeled over toward the beach, and the
sea began to sweep over her sides iu
great volumes that drenched aud terrifi
ed all on board. Many of the passengers
were women and children, who were
either crowded iuto one of the small
dock houses or lashed to the bulwarks
and rigging to prevent their being
swept overboard. The night was dark
aud bitter cold, aud for two hours de
spair reigned ou board, for there was
little hope that the ship would hold
together until morning, and no hope
of escape should she go to pieces be
fonithat time.
However, about two hours after she
struck, the half-frantie company lie
held a flash of light inshore, then de
tected a sound as of a inu'll d cannon,
and a minute later heard the wreck be
gin to settle d wn in the sand, and
was finally wholly covered up. There
it lay fur twenty-three years, when a
heavy gaie set up a strong current along
shore that dug away the sand and once
more exposed the skeleton of tbe old
wreck to view. A party of wreckers
were soon on board, and in searching
thecahiu came across the old mortar
ball.
There was no doubt of its identity,
and it was returned to the companion
ship of the mortar which sent it whiz
zing seaward ou its errand of humani
ty more than twenty years before.
Since the recovery of the ball, it and
the mortar have been ou exhibition at
all the great inter State and interna
tional expositions. At present they are
awaiting transportation to the exposi
tion at Oiuaha.
When the Ayrshire was wrecked the
life-saving service of the United States,
now so important, was little more than
a name, and many a ship's company
was thereafter lost on the black aud
ugly coasts of Long Island aud New
Jersey.
It is known that during the twenty
years from l.s"W to 1S70 as many lives
wera lost by shipwreck on the two
coasts named as were lost under the
present life-saving system iu the next
twenty years on all the ocean and lake
coasts of the entire country.
The old life car has been superseded
by a lighter, though larger one, and
fur ordinary rescues a device known as
the breeches buoy was adopted. By
this agency two persons may betaken
ashore at a lime, and when the num
ber ou board is small, as is usually the
case, it is much the handier and pre
ferable appliance.
A modern line-firing gun, to, has
taken the place of the old mortar. This
gun is the invention of Captain B. A.
Lyle, of the Uuited States army, and a
zealous member of the Life-Saving
Board ou devices for rescuing the ship
wrecked. To its design aud perfection
he devoted himself as to a labor of love,
and with the result that to-day the life
saving service of the United States has
the most far-reaching gun and the best
equipments pertinent to it of any
similar establishment in the world
the gun, the powder, shot aud line be
ing manufactured expressly for it.
The old round shot aud mortar had
their day aud are entitled to respect
ful attention and. the gratitude of many
a rescued cast-away, but the Lyle guu,
with its extended range aud unfailing
reliability, is as much ahead of the
old-time appliance as the modern can
non U in advance of the ancient car-
ronade. Washington Star.
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of testing the curative effects of Ely's
Cream Balm, the most positive Cure
for Catarrh kuown. Ask j'our drug
gist fora 10 cent trial size or send 10
cent1, we will mail it Full size 50
conts.
ELY BROS.,
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My sou was afflicted with catarrh. I
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and the disagreeable catarrhal smell
all left him. He appears as well as
any one. J. C. Olmstead, Areola, 111.
Speaking of Trees.
To speak of a "trv.-e" without men
tioning its name appears as strange to a
"fores; er" as if he spoke of horses and
dogs only under the general name of
quadruped, or as if we included chick
ens aud men under the term biped.
In truth, we ought to know more about
the trees than we do, and to take every
opportunity for learning so distinguish
them at sight It is not enough to dis
tinguish them by their leaves, for
many of them are swept bare in win
ter. A botanist says that the peculiar
ities of diliVreut trees are more readily
distinguishable in winter than in sum
mer. For some time, I have suffered with
rheumatism and tried every imagina
ble remedy, without effect Mr. F. G.
8. Wells advised me to try Chamber
Iain's Paiu Bilni, telling me that it
had cured many cases of long stand
ing like mine. I have used four bottles
and feel sure that one more bottle will
make my cure complete. A. P. Kontz,
Claremore, Ark. Sold by all druggiats
Crnelty and Treachery.
Dr. Frank Chado, who for two years
has served with the rank of colonel in
the Cuban army under Gen. Calixto
Garcia, and who was present when
young Gomex committed suicide on
seeing Gen. Maceo fall Is in New York ,
coining fr:ii Ilivana.
lie eluded the vigilance of the Span
ish authorities sod traveled under au
assumed name. He says :
"I have heara somethiug of the
stories published in this country of the
distress in Cuba and of the thousands
who have died and are dying of starva
tion. Nothing that has been publish
ed, nothing that could be published,
could tell the story as It U really. I
know of my own knowledge that in
many sections of Cuba they are dig
ging up tLe earth for the worms that
they may find. It Is not everyone who
is able to dig. Moat of the people are
so weak that they are unable to move.
They are dyiug by the thousand, not
the men who are doing or hope to do
the fighting that eveutually must end
iu triumph, but the poor women, the
children and the reconcentrados. Ruin
is everywhere visible. Spain has been
guilty of acts that must make civiliza
tion stand appalled, and the fact is that
they are intiuitely worse off today
than at any time since the war began.
Victory is certain for the Cubans in the
near future." -
Of the present f cling among Span
iards at Havana, Col. Chado said that
it was becoming more hostile to Amer
icans every day. "There Is a feeling
among them," he said, "that the Unit
ed States is afraid to fight, and that
they can do anything they please. I
am as firmly convinced as a man can
be that the Maine horror was not due
to any submarine mine This belief is
shared by all Cubans, that the Maine
was blown up by a torpedo. Further,
I believe that the torpedo came from
the Spanish warship Alphouso, XII.
As to our reasons for thinking so: First,
there is the fact that the night before
the Maine explosion the Alphonso,
which had been anchored near, was
moved to a safe distance away; second,
the fact that not once since the day of
the explosion has any seaman or ma
rine from the Alphonso been allowed
to go ashore. The only inference is
that the official are afrai l the sailors
might become Intoxicated and talk too
much."
Onr Moderation Let Spain Beware
From the Chieugo Fust.
While we strive to "keep cool and
wait," in accordant? with the excellent
advice of our superiors la diplomacy,
we confess that we are greatly stirred
by the reports in the morning papeis
of the "insolence of the Spanish Press."
We have learned that it Ls the custom
of the Madrid and other Spanish jour
nals to refer to Americans iu the most
sneering aud contemptuous manner;
that they have no hesitation In charac
terizing us as "Yaukees" of the most
abandoned type, and take delight iu
applying to us such opprobrious epi
thets as are never heard in the very
best circlts. When we recall with
what courtesy it is the habit of our
journals to speak of Spaniards, how
scrupulously polite we are in all refer
ences to our Castilian friends, how stu
diously we refrain from saying any
thing that may be construed as iudeco,
rous or ungentlemanly, our Indignation
at Spanish "insolence" is with dilfi
culty restrained. We warn the Span
ish press that it must not enunt too
much on our forbearance and that if it
persists in its course of abuse we may
lie tempted to throw consideration to
the wiuds and utter a few well-chosen
remarks concerning the uugraciou
dons. We congratulate our brethren
of the American press on their custom
ary politeness and it pleases us that in
this uuhappy controversy they have
mildly spoken of the children of Spain
as nothing worse than sharpers, trick
sters, cowards, murderers and pol
troons, but we freely admit that unless
the toue of the Madrid journals is
changed, they will be justified in pro
ceeding to harsh epithets. For human
nature is fallible and human patience
may be exhausted.
He Conldn't Flow.
According to Youth's Companion a
ci'rtaiu incident connected with the
great Napoleon, while he was in exile
at Elba, is commemorated in the island
to this hour by an Inscription affixed to
the wall of a peasant's house.
A man named Giaconi was plowing
when the f-tmous exile came along one
day, and expressed an interest in his
work. Napoleon even took the plow
share out of tbe man's hand, and at
tempted to guide it himself. But the
oxen refused to obey hiin, overturned
the plow and spoiled the furrow.
The Inscription iun9 thus:
"Napoleon the Great passing by this
place in MDCCCXIV., took in the
neighboring field a plowshare from the
hands of a peasant ami himself tried
to plow, but the oxen, rebellious to
those bauds which yet had guided Eu
rope, headlong fled from the furrow."
Some Amos ing Hibernicisms.
Sir Boyle Roche is best known to
fame as the man who smelt a rat, saw
him floating iu the air and nipped him
in the bud; but a writer in the curreut
Corn hill Las unearthed some less fami
liar bulls from the same eminent source.
For example, discoursing on the rela
tions between England and Ireland.
Sir Boyle declared that "he is an enemy
to both kingdoms who wishes to dimin
ish the brotherly affections of the two
sister couutries." This Is, however, no
better :;an the benevolent wish of the
governor of Georgia, in his speech at
tbe last Atlanta. Exposition, that the
occasion might bean Interesting wedge
wnicn wouiu oring about a more per-
lect unity between North and South.
The Original Bine Stocking.
According to the Golden Penny the
appellation "blue stockings' originated
iu the dress of a Benjamin Stillingfieet,
grandson of the Bishop, as he used to
appear at the parties of Mrs. Montague
in Fortman Square. He used to gen
erally wear blue worsted stockings, and
he was a very amiable and entertain
ing man. Whenever he waa absent
from Mrs. Montague's evening parties.
as his conversation was very Interest
ing, the company used to say: "We
can elo nothioir without th .hi
stockings." By degrees the assemblies
were called "blue stockings clubs," and
learned people "blue stockings."
The Last Resort
Washington Star.
"General," said the excited officer,
"the insurgents have cut off our retreat
on the south and east"
"Then we'll go west"
"But they have been for a long time
lying In wait for us ia the west and
north."
"Is there no loophole?"
"None! What shall we do?"
"Offer tuetn autonomy."
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