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I! a.uiJ Hie dewy clover
IJia bonny lltUo rover
Wt ! fiHiid KiiMe bis iviupw aGtr.
Wl:hout jiii:iss, without star.
N-vinrore:iorosii the azure
tSur.ll sail it ei"h of triw-ire;
N rv.-nnore, whoadiy Is gone,
H'.:ne sluili hie his Uenu,
From (lie jon juil'ii ;oiJi.'ti clialice.
Anil tlie Illy", ivory iwilaco.
And Ibe viol'-ts' divine
C'up of u liiu; and purjile witie.
Smile. Biuile on, lbou f.iiihk-ss auiuuier,
To forget thine early-eoin-r.
S iv, if thou hm'.ht tirst di-partd.
Had hotrtil be-u merry -hmrtnl J
On the heUKlia I" rupture Kwinslnjj,
Gioefully 1 be birls are sinking.
I, who uour.4hee, little be.
Will pronounce thine elegy ;
He it meetiiesfcorunineetnejut.
Thou diJ-t turner up life's sweetuetut,
Wier tluiii Hie huge wist;
Karth hitsoae less optimist.
May Century.
A HUNJRED-DQLUR Bill,
"Jlflp me tlitbk ! I have got to do
something. I feel so w res-jwtisible,"
IVgry s:ii.l to Mabel, who answered,
Ktickiug out her chiu: "I do hope,
Peggy Crayshaw, Ddbody el.- won't
uevtr die and leave you a hundred
dollar bill. You airi't good for any
thing in the world, siuee your father
brought it home."
"If he bad jut taken it with him!"
I'fggy sighed; "mother wauted him to,
but he said it was cafer here. As if
anyliody would think of picking pock
ets at a wedding ! And they won't be
biick until almost ciht ! It's teu
miles at least to Cousin Fanny Gor
haiu'a." "I never saw a huudred dollar bill.
I-rf-t me look at yours if you know
w here it i," MaUd said, almost pen
sively. IVggy gave her red kirU au
airy flirt, saying:
"Ofi-ourse I know where it is! Do
you reckon they would not tell me, so I
couldu't get it the first thing if the
house should catch fire?"
"I thought maybe they hid it until
they could buy you thone two cows with
it," Maljel answered meekly. I'eggy
siiiiled, but said austerely:
"Mother said I must not ba vain and
purse-proud, and I dou't mean to be
but it will be nice to have a thousand
dollars ail my own, when I'm 21. And
f.Uher say a he will give me the kep of
theows for the calves, so the milk and
butter ia tight years will make me a
nice little fortune "
"Oho ! You're like the milkmaid
over in the back of the spelling book !'
Mabel broke iu. Peggy grew very
sombre. "It's thiukiug about her
makc-9 me so uneasy," she said. "Sup
pose something should go with the
money ! You know in the story books
something always dies happeu to the
money, w hen it is left at home, with
nolody but girls to take care of it."
"You surely aiu't 'fraid of robbers?"
Mabel laughed. "There never was one
in the country, father bays. Xo tramps
neither "
"You never can tell what's going to
happen," Peggy said. "Anyway, I'm
goiu'toget out the money, and we'll
study up where we'll put it, so it shall
be perfectly safe."
'Why ! It's just like any other bill !
I thought it would beeverso big," Ma
bel said, as Peggy unlocked her father's
desk, touched the spring of the secret
drawer, and drew out a bit of crifp
green paper. Together they spread it
flat on the desk, and traced the figures
with eager, happy fingers. "You see
it's hundred all right!" Peggy said,
wish a note of triumph which she tried
vainly to subdue. Mabel squinted at
it critically. "If I was you, I'd pin it
tight to my uuderbody," she said,"
theu it couldn't get lost, and nobody
could find it."
"That won't do at all. Of course
robbers would look in our clothes first
thing, after they didn't find it in the
det-k," Peggy answered. "Besides,
we're goiu' ia th? orchard for a baske t
of sweetiug, and it might work loose."
"0, I know where it'll be safe ! Let's
put it under Seraphirie's new face le
fore we se it on. Nobody in the world
would ever find it there," Mabel cried.
Seraphine was her biggest doll, a stout,
bunchy rag dauwel, who had anew
staring, clear, whitecouotenance every
year of her hfe. If the bi'.l, neatly
fo'.ded, made her face somewhat bloat
el, ail Mabel said, nobody that ever
llv;d would guess the reaa for it.
Pergy added, "V5 inusn't put her
away in the closet or a drawer. That
might make the robbers think w'll
just throw her there ou the window
seat, where we can keep an eye on her,
and we will look like , we had been
playing with her and had dropped
her."
"Yes," Mabel nodded, "and if any
bdy conies, we'll pick her up acd slip
out to the orchard. They usver can
find us if we get up high w here the
leaves are so thick in the topstif th
trees."
"Let's go there right now I'm au
p'e hungry," Peggy said, reaching for
the basket- Mabel picked up rira
phine, but Peggy said with emphasis:
"Mabel Bert, is that all the sense you
have got? 8uppose we met the robbers
right at the door as' we came back?
Tney'd kno right ofT we had a reatoa
for lugging Seraphine around !"
"They'd just think we were fond of
her. I am !" Mab-1 said stoutly, cud
dling Seraphine and smoothing her
red skirts affectionately. BJt Peggy
snatched the dull and tluug her against
the window scat with a resounding
thump, then banged the door behind
her and ran with Mabel for the appk-a.
They were gone only a minute at
least it seemed so to themselves, but
when they got back a tall mau hallooed
lustily at the gate.
'8ay ! Cooie here, you young
misses ! Are the people at this place
all dead or asleep? My name is Join
Dutch I've come twenty miles to
fetch 'rio.uire Crayshaw that tllly he
said he'd buy last week.'"
"You'll have to come in and wait,
Mr. Dutch. He won't be home for
ever so long." Peggy said hospitably,
setting open the door. Mr. Djtch
shook bis head. "Can't wait," he said,
but got down from his horse and Jed
through the yard gate a haltered fllly,
the very prettiest thing on four hoofs
Peggy had ever seen. "The filly pulled
jl.
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
Lack, thtn nipped at Dutch as though
angry. But w hen Mabel ran up to her
she put down her dainty head to be
stroked.
"Hhe h mad with you because you
made her come too fast. See how her
flanks heave !" Peggy said. Dutch
smiled oddly as he answered: "I had
to come fast. I am bound to go back
to-night, aud the days are short now.
Say, miss, didn't your father leave the
money for nie? I can't well go with
out it the filly, you see, is justly part
ly mine, aud 'tother fellow's a cross
graiued chap that don't trust any
body." "lie didn't leave any money at all,
hut my hundred dollars," Peggy said,
trying to speak carelessly. Dutch
laughed again. "Funny !" he said,
"but that's just the price of this beau
ty. She's worth double, but I well, I
dou't like to be partner with a skin
flint Suppose you buy the beast,
Boein' the 'squire ain't here and theu
tell him if he wauts her, why, he must
give you f 200."
-(, Peggy. Don't !" Mabel eaid,
eagerly, but Peggy frowned at her.
"Don't you mind her, Mr. Dutch,"
she said. "Of CJurse I'll give you the
money. Father must have forgotten
you were coming, but I won't make
him pay me quite $J00. "That wouldn't
be fair would it?"
"Any thing's fair in a horse trad '
Dutch said. "But let's tiuisu our bar
gain. I must be movin' fast- Get the
money, piease, while I writeareceipL"
"In just a minute," Peggy said, lead
ing the way to her father's desk. As
Dutch sat down he looked appreheu
sively over Lis shoulder through the
open door, and said almost in a whisp
er: "Make hxUe I"
liaud iu hand Peggy aud Mabel ran
to find Seraphine. Seraphine had van
ished. Yet the room w as uudialurbed,
the windows fast, the door seeurely
latched, Tipsy, the white kitten, sleep
ing peacefully beside the fire. The
children looked at each other awe
struck, and began to cry. Djtch dart
ed in to them. "If you've been fool
ing me you'll le sorry for it," he said,
savagely. "You had that hundred
dollars I know it I know about your
aunt's will. Give it tome. Quick!
Quick ! Djyou hear? I'm bound to
get away."
"Hardly when you leave a stolen
filly plain to view V a man said, step
ping behind Dutch aud seizing both
wrists. Dutch struggled hard, but was
promptly knocked down by the sheriff
and his deputies, who had been hot on
his trail. "I rea'ly thought better of
you, Hankins," the sheriff said, as he
snapped the haudeulla on his prisouer.
"It isn't like you to botch things this
way. I suppose, though, you have
grown careless as you have stolen sev
eral horses, and got away with them,
you thought you'd make the riflle with
the eighth, no matter what you did."
"How did he get my hundred dollar
bill? Make him tell ! Make him give
it back ! He stole it while we were In
the orchard !" Peggy cried, shrilly.
The sheriff looked significantly at
Hankins. Hankins shook his head.
"I came after it," he said, defiantly,
"but sure as I'm in these bracelets, if
it's gone, somebody else got it. If I
had got it, you'd a never caught me.
The stock's dead beatI'd a-left U and
struck for the railroad. I knew you
were not two miles behind."
Search proved that he told the truth.
When the sheriff had taken him aw ay,
IVggy and Mabel rausacked the prem
ises. They looked under the beds, in
every drawer and cuddy, the kitchen
closet, the wood shed, even the pigeon
house, the chicken coop and the pump
shed. "I don't believe it could have
got to the barn," Peggy said, despair
ingly. "And the cellar door is locked
fast and tight," Mabel added, through
sympathetic tears. Still they searched
spasmodically, with uo appetite for
anything but sweetcake, until 'Squire
Crayshaw and his wife came home
from the wedding. They brought a
great buudie of goodies, the sight of
which consoled Mabel to such an ex
tent that Peggy said between sobs: 'I
wouldn't sit there and gorge iced pound
cake, Mabel Bert, if you had had lost
your whole fortune."
Just as she said it there came a queer
lumbering pit-pat on the kitchen stairs,
which ran up in one corner, and led to
a low, dark closet. Peggy and Mabel
had looked it through as best they
might by light of the stable lantern,
turning Inside out everything but
Bose's box bed beside the warm chim
ney, in which Bose hioself, most wag
gish of shepherd puppies, lay curled
into a fuzzy ball. Bose was coming
down the stairs now, moviug sidewise,
with something scarlet and heavy Ish
in his mouth. At sight of his master
he tumbled down the last three steps,
dashed across the floor, aud laid the
something at his feet, wagging his tail
aud looking up, as if for a word of
praise.
"Why, its Seraphine! He carried
i bar off to his bed !" Maljel screamed.
Peggy had her arms around the pup
py's neck. "Oh, you darling! You
saved my hundred dollar fc'll !" the
said.
Maktjia MtCtLLocii Williams.
Discovered by a Woman.
Another great discovery has been
made, and that too, by a lady in this
country. "Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood itS-verrst teU, but her vital
orgaus w-.ty uudennlned aud death
seemed imminenL For three months
she coughed incessantly, aud could not
sleep. Sue finally discovered a way to
recovery, by purchasing of us a bottle
of Dr. King's New Discovery forCon
Bumptl n, and was so much relieved on
taking first dose, that she tdept all
night; and w ith two bottles, ku been
absolutely cured. Her name is Mrs.
Luther Luiz." Thu writes W. C.
Hamuick & Co., of Shtlby, N. C.
Trial bottles free at J. N. Snyder's Drug
Store, Somerset, Pa., and (i. VV. Bral
lier's Drug Store, Berliu, Pa. I tegular
size 50c. and f 1 00. Every bottle
guaranteed.
McSwatter What did you give up to
go abroad?
McS witters Five hundred dollars
and 15 meals. Syracuse II?rald.
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A Little Advice-
Rheumatism is a name applied to sev
eral conditions, which vary widely in
I almost every detail. The present pajer
naa ror its otject the consideration of a
single phase of the disease; soreness and
I lameness, and certain dull, intermittent
pains !n the joints, unattended by fever.
They are popularly known as "rheu
matic twinges," and in children as
"grow ing pains."
Such pal us precede, as well as a fol
low, attacks of true rheumatism, and
are also common iu those that have mo
manifest rheumatic tendency. They
are ofteu transient, recurring only after
indiscretions in diet, such as overindul
gence in rich food. Sometimes they oc
cur only at seasons when out-of-door ex
ercise has been neglected. They may
follow loss of sleep, worry tr prolonged
strain. Confinement in poorly ventil
ated apartments has also been observed
to exrt an influence iu bringing ou
pains of th is character.
Interference with the functional act
ivity of the skin, caused by the pretence
of moisture in the air, uch as always
precedes a storm, also makes it-lf
known to the "rheumatic" by pains in
the joints.
Digestive disturbances ofteu play an
important part In causing such pains,
while defective elimination of the waste
productsof the body cn the part of the
ekin, kidneys, lung9 and other excreto
ry orgaus ha a strong iufluence in the
same direction.
Obscure pains in the Joints are not to
be regarded as without significance, nor
their occurrence dismissed as unworthy
of sopcit ade. It is well known that oili
er changes in the organs, possibly pain
less, but frequently vital, progress step
by step with the symptom manifested
iu the joints.
The remedy for the discomforts, and
even dangers, that errors iu hygiene in
vite, lies iu seeking aud correcting the
errors. Proper care of the skin is one of
the most impcrtaut measures for com
bating rheumatic pains. Bathing
should be practiced during the winter
months almost as frequently as in the
summer, although the water should be
f a comfortable warmth. In c -rtaiu
cases hot baths are beneficial. Errors
of diet are to be corrected, and general
measures for the promotion of health
should be habitually observed.
Obscure pain in the joiuu is to le re
gnrded as oneof nature's hints in favor
of a more heathful manner of living.
Such hints are cot to be disregarded
without peril. Youth's Companion.
Fun on thcFiring Line-
Among the best letters written by he
Kansas soldirjit M. b".'! are those con
tributed to the Minneapolis Messenger
by Sergeant King. He writes:
"During the first engagement while
the company was firing at will in the
woods ahead, a forlorn water buffalo,
the nalioual beast of burden, mean
dered into the rice field directly in front
of the line. The writer immediately
directed his fire toward the buffalo
with no apparent result. Afterward,
during the lull in the firing, we shame
fully confessed to having wasted our
strength in this ignoble manner, and
were surprised to learn that every man
had done likewise. At all events the
beast made good its escape, for it pa
tiently plodded ahead until the timber
swallowed it up.
"During the charge at Caloocan, a
frenzied pig of diminutive size dashed
from beneath a bsmboo hut and, ap
parently, judging that all the commo
tion was for his benefit, thought best
to retire. As the pig dashed past the
writer, we gently assisted with a shove
from the butt of our gun aud thought
no more of it, for some time. After
ward, upon glancing to the rear, we
saw four or five soldiers iu hot pursuit
of the same poor little swine. It is
laughable, even in time of peace, to
watch another man chase a hog, but
when men forsake their places, forget
the roar of conflict, the hum of bullets,
the shouts of victors and the wails of
the wounded, to grapple with an eight
pound shoat, the sceue becomes ludi
crous iu the extreme. We took the
trouble to learn that the pig got away.
Glorious News
Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargile, of
WashitA, I. T. He writes: Four bot
tles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer of scrofula, which had caused
her great suffering foryears. Terrible
sores would break out on her head and
face, and the best doctors could give no
help; but her cure is complete aud her
health is excellent" This shows what
thousands have proved, that Electric
Bitters is the best blood purifier known.
It's the supreme remedy for eczema,
tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and
running sores. It stimulates liver,
kidneys and bowels, expels poisons,
helps digestion, builds up the strength.
Only oO cents. Sold at J. N. Snyder's
Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and W. W.
Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
Guaranteed.
Well Qualified.
Senator Splurge As an ofiicial in the
colonial service you will encounter
many dirlicuit problems. What quali
fications have you for the post ?
Applicaul Oh, I have manned many
a primary ! Philadel phia North
American.
The Funny Waiter.
"You are too little," siid the pro
prietor of the tough beanery. "It takes
bigger guys dan you to manage de
mugs dat feed here."
"Ah!" said the applicant for a j b,
"I see. Noue but the brave do serve
the fare here." Indianapolis JournaL
He Fooled the Surgeons.
All doctors told Benlek Hamilton, of
West Jefferson, O , after suffering IS
monthi from Ilectal Fistula, he would
die unless a costly operation was per
formed; but he cured himself with five
boxes Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the
surest Pile cure on Earth, and the best
Salve in the world. Only 2-c. per
box. Sold at J. N". Snyder's Drug
Store, Somerset, Pa., and at G. W.
Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, T.
MAY 17. 1899.
Our Soldiers' Bibles.
General Toral has commented in a
Spanish journal on the fact that his
men during the battle of Santiago,
when they had opportunity to exam
ine the American dead, usually found a
Bible fr a Testament on the bodies,
lie W unable to reconcile this discovery
with his belief that the Americans are
a nation of hypocrites, dishonest, vain
glorious and bloodthirsty.
Perhaps if General Toral could have
entered thousands of American city
and farm homes last April he would
have noticed a gray-haired woman or a
young girl on whose boMm gleamed
the badge of social purity writing Tvith
trembHug hands ou the fly-leaf of the
sacred book:
"To John, From his Affectionate
Mother (or Sister)."
And if General Tor?l had looked
closely he would have seen that on the
fly-leaf, just below the writing, or per
haps immediately upon the name,
there were stains as if tears had fallen
from eyes that Were to know no rest I
until the fcoldier boy came home. If
this be hypocrisy, if it be no sigu of a
deeper and truer undercurrent of life
welling iu the great national heart,
then General Toral is entitled to make
all that his w its can of it.
The American dots not carry his re
ligion on the sleeves of his coat. It
has been said that the American, of all
nationalities, most held his religion in
reserve for a crisis, for an hour when
the soul Is tried upon the rack of temp
tation. If this be true, what a tqiecta
cle of a ruan when, on uncovering the
Itosoms of h.) per cent, of th American
dead, fallen between Siboney and San
tiago, those who came to bury found
blood-plained or bullet-pierced the word
of the Scriptures. It matters little how
the truth comes to a man, so that the
truth le found with hhu wheu ids bat
tle song is at an end.
General Bates, General Roosevelt,
even our own Colonel Turner, com
mented at the eud of the late war on
the companionship there appeared to
bo between the men iu the ranks and
these little volumes given to them by
dear hands. There w as comment also
that the volume was rarely conspicu
ously displayed, that only on the tran s
ports or iu the late hours of the night,
or wheu on the long and deadly waits
in the juugles, did the books come out.
Theu ttiey were handled shyly, ter
haps because they seemed as sacred as
the name of the womau who gav
them. If one were lo li-ten to some
arguments, perhaps those of General
Toral, it might have been thought that
men going into baltle would have been
given a pocket volume of "Voltaire"
or of later-day poems, or a bit of the
satire of Iiigersoll. But singularly
enough such edifying works were not
selected, aud the wounded man who
was brought to the hospital tent did
not ask for them. He was content if
the letter from home could be read to
him, or as the shadows came upon his
eyes that the old song of Israel should
be repeated to him while his sul slip
ped away to the sweet fields of Eden.
Is there not something more than
the mere Influence of orthodox, or of a
s-it theology, in this death struggle of
Johnson, private of the Fourth Infant
ry, at Sibony, who, turning and toss
ing, called to his nurse to read to him.
In the tent there was not even a scrap
of paper. That mattered nothing to
him. He indicated w ith his head that
she should go to his blouse. She did
so, and found in the inuer pocket an
Old Testament, given him by art Iowa
mother. She turned page after page,
wondering w hat he would care for, un
til her eyes chanced upon the lines:
"As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so pauteth my soul for thee, O
God."
It was sufficient. There came to this
American soldier's face one gleam of
radiance, one last interblending of the
sunlight of life and the hereafter, and
he was without days. Chicago Times
Herald. A Study in Hearts.
She was a woman, therefore, to be
wooed. She was but twenty, and that
kind are not easy. He was a young
man of fashion, full of promise and the
smeil of cigarette smoke, and be loved
her with the entire purpose of his life.
Perhai-s that wasn't a great deal, be
cause he had too much money to have
a great deal of purp:j-e, but what there
was of it was all for her. And she
didn't care a contuieutal for him. He
was neither of brilliaut intelligence
nor of masterful mind, and his insane
vapidities bored hersothatat last, in
self-defense, she firmly but respect
fully declined to marry him.
"I shall put an end to toy miserable
existence," he said, in terrible earnest
ness. She did not apply for a stay of exe
cution, aud he went forth into the cold,
gray afternoon. Half an hour later her
dearest friend came in.
"Oh, Alice," she exclaimed, hurried
ly, "what have you ever doue to Har
ry? He looked the very picture of
desolation wheu I met him, and he
told me he was going to drown him
self." "I think not," replied the authoress
of all Lis woes.
"But Le will, I am sure," insisted
the visitor. "I could eee it in his eyes.
I'm positive he will go right down and
jump into the river."
"Perhaps," admitted other, quite
freely.
"TLen you think as I do lhat he
will drown Limst-lf? Oh, you"
"I beg your pardon," interrupted the
other. "I am sure that he won't.
He can't; he is too light tosiuk.'
Thus docs a womau play rag-lime on
the strings by which she holds man's
heart iu thrall.
The Appetite cf a Goat
Is envied by all pr dyspeptics whose
Stomach and Liver are out of order.
All such should kuoJV that Dr.
King's New Life Tiils, the wonderful
Stomach and Liver Remedy, gives a
splendid appetite, sound digestion, and
a regular bodily habit that insures per
fect health and grat energy. Ouly tiic
at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Som
erset Pa., and G. W. Brallier's Drug
Store, Berlin, Pa.
Ji.
Young Quay's Knife Trade and Mrs.
Quay's Fragile Cup.
Some interesting incidents in the
lives of Senator Quay and his wife are
narrated in the Chicago Tribune. It is
related that, when he was a schoolboy
iu Indiana, Pa., Quay had a kuife
which Harry White, afterwards judge
of Indiaua iunty, greatly coveted.
Quay refused to listen to offers for a
trade. One day, much to White's sur
prise, yout'g Mat himself proposed a
swap.
"I haven't my knife with me," he
said. "If we trade you'll have to agree
to go and get it."
White was glad of the chance. He
turued over his own kuife, a dozen mar
bles, a tin squirtgtin aud a Lorse-hair
fishline in payment, and then asked
where the knife was.
"I'p at the tannery," was the an
swer. "I dropped my knife in the vat
this morning, and fished two hoirs tVr
it, but l ill u' t find it But il is iu lhat
vat (Jo up and find it."
In afier years Mrs. Quay ofU-n show
ed herself as adroit a politician as her
husband. He had a wide acquaintance
among the politicians of Pennsylvania
and often entertained them at bis house.
0::e day he brought home to dinner an
awkward old cross-rouds statesman
from one of the mountain districts.
The table was set with beautiful and
costly china Senator Quay is a great
collector of ceramics. The visitor up
set and broke a dainty cup. To cover
his confusion Mrs. Quay at om-e pick
ed up a similar cup in her hand.
"That ware is extremely fragile," she
said. "I can crush it in my tiugers."
Another of the beautiful pieits was
shuitt red into fragments, and at the
same time the alieiaix-e of the awk
ward guest to M. S. Quay w as cement
ed for all time.
Public Profanity.
A large number of women ia the city
of Chester have demanded of councils
that the ordinances against profanity
shall be enforced. They a-k it iu the
name of common decency. They say
any amount of vile and disgusting lan
guage is continually Leant ou the
streets, the presence of wonuu and
children being no bar to the steady
stream of barbarity. The ear is con
tinually offended by the most obscene
and ribald expressions, and, iu the
came of common decency, they de
mand a cessation of this immoral and
contaminating flood.
The women of Chester have done
exactly the right thing. A beginning
must e made somewhere. We have
no reason to conclude things are one
whit worse, there than anywhere else.
We feel they are no worse than in the
city of Lancaster. Go into what part
of the city you will, or at any hour of
the day or evening, and you w ill find
everything which the women of Ches
ter protest against duplicated here at
home. Old men and young boys, un
consciously, we believe, are to be heard
pouring forth a steady stream of pro
fanity aud vulgarity. Men who have
given the question the most thought
have long since reached the conclusion
that there is no remedy under the sun
to check this flood of immorality but
the enforcement of the statutes. So
addicted have men become to it that
they are no longer aware of their of
fense. Only the penalties of the law
w ill reach them. Fines, publicity and
the finger of public scorn will make
them pause. Whether the evil will
ever be wholly eradicated is extremely
doubtful, but that it can be diminished
is very certain. Lancaster New Era.
Human Imperfections.
Not long ago, says a writtr in the
Outlook, we took an apartment, and
wished to get things settled as prompt
ly as possible. It had fallen to me to
secure the needed co-operation of dray
men, plumbers, shopkeepers and men
of like vocation. Every man whom I
engaged promLsed to do work at once,
and only one man kept his promise.
When an expressman agreed to bring
freight it took three trips to his ortii-e
to get him started, and when we sent
him for a trunk he brought a box. The
man who was to repair the bookcase
"immediately" did so only after three
journeys to his shop. Tbe gas range,
which was to be ready for use on Fri
day, gave us our first dinner on the fol
lowing Tuesday.
A kitchen table of marvelous appur-
lenauces tue uelsgntor me maul was
delivered with a big gouge in the top,
and it required six letters and two vis
its to me store to tiiect a change; a
washstaad came broken; a mattress ar
rived dirty; bureau, due on Saturday,
came ou tbe following Saturday, in
spite. of the thirteen letters written in
ibe mean time; one bed came a day
late, one three days late, and one a
wttk late, ar.d two mattresses were two
iuches too wide and live intdes too
loog; one set of kitchen utensils reach
ed us three days late, after two trips to
the 3tore, and another set was driven
home by the use of two letters and a
postal. Tbe brooms, pails aud scrub
bing brushes for cleaning tbe Bpart
mcnt were kept from wear, because
they came after the apartment was
cleaned. I refrain from mentioning
the constant blunders in the delivery
of groceries.
Here the voice of counsel for the de
fen ; thrilled with emotion.
"Gentlemen of the jury," he cried,
"you cannot believe the prisoner to be
the cool, calculating villain the pro-e-cutioo
would make him out to be !
Were he cool aud calculating would he
have murdered his wife, a he is ac
cused of doing? Would he not rather
have spared her, in order that she
m;ght ba here at his trial to weep fr
him, aud influence your verdict with
her tears?"
Ouly the thoughtless think lawyers
do not assist the ends of justice. De
trot t Journal.
M. V. Burtch, Grand lipids, Mich.,
writes, "After taking Wheeler's Nerve
Vitalizer a few times I feci ac If I could
do two days work in one. It is great
medicine for nervous troubles." For
ale at Garmm's Drug Store, Berlin,
Pajand Mountain 4 Son's, Drug Store,
Confluence, Pa.
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LAa
WHOLE NO. 2191.
Phrases and Their Origin.
Many of the phrases one uses or
hears every day have been Landed
down to us from generation to genera
tion for hundred of years, ana in
many, casts they can be traced to a
(piaint and curious origin.
One of the oldest of tluse familiar
expressions is "to cut a dido," which is
said of a jH-rson who plays a single
trick, and carries us back to xn) years
B. C, when Dido, queen of Tyre, after
the murder of her husband by her
brother, thd to the northern coast of
Africa and f.iiiu hd a fit v. Sh bar
gained f-r H- much laud as c;MiId be
surrounded bv a bull's hide, and iu or
der to claim as large a tract as w;sib!e
she had the Lido cut into narnw strips,
and on the land thus surrounded she
built a citadel. The natives, seeing
that they had been quietly outwit
ted by a woman, submitted gracefully
to tins "cutting f a dido."
"There's many a slip 'tw it the cup
and the lip" is nearly as old, u:ul is at
tributed to A'iiaeus, king of the island
of Samoa, iu the Grecian archipelago.
This king, so rur.s tbe story, had plant
ed a vineyard, but he had treated his
slaves so bidly that cue cf them pre
dicted that his master w ould never live
to even taste of its wine. Wheu the
vintage came, however, the king called
for a cup of wine and then asked tbe
slave what he thought of bis prophecy.
"I think there's many a slip between
the cup and the lip," he solemnly an
swered. Just at that Instant a messen
ger in hot haste rushed into the palace,
informing the king that a wild boar
La 1 broken Into the vineyard and was
destroying it Ancaeus put dowu his
wine-cop uiitasted ai.d hurried out to
attack the ravager, but ill the rhasc
was killed.
"lie's a br'u k," meaning a brave ai.d
noble fellow, doubtless originated with
Agesilaus, king of Sparta, about -'i'jO B.
B. A visitor at tbe Lacedaemonian
capital was surprised to find it without
walls or other visible means cf defense
ami asked Lis royal ho.-t what they
would do in a case of invasion by a
foreign power.
"lioP' replied the heroic king; "w hy,
Sparta ha. 00,'M) soldiers and each man
h a trick."
"Done to a turn," suggests the story
of st Jjiwrecce, who suffered martyr
dom by being roasted on a gridiron.
During his torture he calmly requsted
the attendants lo turn him over, as he
was thoroughly roasted on one side
Hence the phras, "Done to a turn.''
Ia one of the battles between the
Russians and the Tartars, 4.K) years
ago, a private soldier of the former cri
ed out: "Captain, I've caught a Tar
tar!" "Bring him aloi.g, then," an
swered the ot-icer. "I can't, for he
won't let me," was the n-sponse. Up
on investigation it was apparent that
the captured Lad the captor by the arm
and would not release him. So "catch
ing a Tartar" is applicable to one who
Las found an antagonist too strong for
bill).
The familiar expression, "nibbing
Peter to pay Paul," is connected with
the history of Westminster ALU-y. In
the early iuidlle ages it was the custom
to call the abbey St. Peter's Cathedral.
At one time the finds of St. Paul's Ca
thedral beiug low, those in authority
took sufficient from St. Peter's to settle
the accounts, much to the dissatisfac
tion of the people, who asked, "Why
rob St Peter to pay St Paul ?" Some
LljO years later the saying wa auain
u-ied in regard to the same collegiate
churches, at the time ofthe death of
the Earl of Chatham, the city of Lon
don declaring that the famous states
man ought to lie in St. Paul's. Parlia
ment, however, insi.-ted that Westmin
ster Abbey was the proper place, and
not to bury him there would be, for the
second time, "robbing St. Peter to ay
St. Paul." The abbey properly carried
the day.
"Dying in the last ditch" was, ac
cording to Hume, first u-ed by William
of Orauge. When Holland was so
Udly pressed by Ler euemies that
complete disaster seemed imminent,
the Duke of Buckingham implored the
priuce to change his tactics or the coun
try would t ruined. "There is one
w ay to prevent my seeing the ruin of
my country," answered the prince. "I
wilt die in tbe last ditch."
"He has au ax to grind." Early iu
the century the story was told of a lad
who wa induced by a promised reward
to turn the grindstone for one who
w ished to sharpen his ax. The prom
ised payment was not mude. Since
then one who disguises his selfish aims
by fair promise s is said to "have an ax
to grind."
"O. K." has many alleg-d origins.
The ni'wt probable is the following: In
1W, wiien Alvah Adams organize I the
Adams Express Company, a young
country lad applied for work. He was
employed io do all sorLs of od I jolw
aid make himself generally u:-e'ul in
the cilice. The boy Lad an olsiervaut
eye and saw tbat tiie shipping clerk
placed upon the manage'' desk each
night a Lst of packages marked "All
correct" The clerk being alwnt cue
day, the boy was asked to write the list,
or, rather, to check it Wheu he placed
it on the desk it bore on the ouLodethe
"letters "O. li." Askd what they meant
the youth replied: " 'O. K.' n.eaus 'all
correct.' " Mr. Adams ei.)oyed a hearty
laugh and adopted the striking abbre
viation thereafter.
Immediate Improvement.
"I doctored for a Lng time for indi
gestion and that tired feeling, but be
lieve the medicine I took made me
wwrv. Seeing II xrl's Sarsaparilla ad
vertised I began taking it and felt
better in a short time. I took six bot
tles and my health has heen excellent
ever since." Kate DeWitt, Matamoras,
Pennsylvania.
Hood's Pills are non-irritating and
the only cathartic to take with
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
"Do you believe men show character
in the way they carry their umbrel
la,?"
"No; but they show lack of character
in the way they carry other people's
i umbre'.Ui." Chiea;- Rtord.
When doctors fail try Burdock Blood
Bitters. Cures dyspepsia, constipation;
invigorates the whole system.
Send a Message Around the World-
A niesssge has at last Iwn transmit
ted without wires. A few days ai;o
Marconi, the young Italian inventor,
sent 9 ni'!agp aenxs the El'ghrti
Channel between Francs and Ealaad
and excited world-wide ir.terest. After
wards, however, he admitted th limit
of his system had been reached.
NicoU Tenia, however, now comes
forward and claims that he has perfect
ed a discovery whith overcome all the
difet-Uof Marconi's system. He claim
he can tt.trt eli.tieal waves that wilt
travel across the oceau aud completely
around the world and bear ueracs
With the sw iftiiestt of lij'ht.
To do thi he will u.-ws instruments s
similar to the ordinary telegraphic
senders and receivers that the average
person could not tell the difference be
tween them.
His system consists of a great, round
instrument, Into which au ordinary
current of electricity is turned from
any dynamo. The oscillator instantly
transforms it by a series of coils into an
c!t ctn-motive force, v it rating at the
rate of two to four million times a sec
ond. This starts electric waves through
the air aud earth, w hich vibrate almost
as fast as the waves that produce light,
and travel with the same speed.
Nothing, Mr. TcsLi says, can now ol
struct or divert messages sent by this
marvelous device. Words in incrwhble
rapidity will be flashed in-ross the
bnadest oceans and the widest conti
nents. I u fact, there is, according to
the statements of the celebrated eltc
trician, nothing to prevent tbe trans
n isru u of n;tssagcs directly through
the earth.
"Electrical vibrations," Mr. Tcsla
says, "have shown th it ordinary cur
rents can U transformed, with high
economy, into tlectrieal vibratious of
any pitch, which are needed in mauy
novel arts. They have show u that elec
trical energy iu great amounts cau Le
eff.cieutly aud safely transmitted with
out the use of wires to any part of the
globe, however distant. They bav5
I'urui.-hed proof tluit the movements
of and operations of bodies and ma
chinery carried by the same can be con
trolled at a grcnt distance without any
tangible connection w hatever, and w ith
absolute precision, aud they have prov
ed the practicability of a system of sig
naling without wires, not with the im
pertVct appliances as before attempted,
which can not be tuned, and are ren
dered useless by the play of a sirall in
duction cod, but by means of appara
tus pr.xbieing i-owtrfcl oscillations and
circuits in exact synchronism, with
which it is impossible to iuterf-re.
He claims he can flush 2.' or ..
words per minute b aiy part of ths
earth by the highly sensitized termin
als he ha perfected. Distance no lon
ger intimidatts tbe electrician. He has
demonstrated, he said, that messages
may be sent with equal facility through
the earth by induction through the air.
The delicate and sensitive receiving de
vice registers accurately every vibration
of the transmitter. Neither distance
nor density of intervening objects will
affect the s-ed or accuracy of the
tratisinis.sioa of messages.
"Accuracy and the avoidance of de
lay an secured by adjusting the receiv
ing and transmitting es.ntrivau.-e to a
common electric multiple. Theu only
I 4
the receiver, prearranges ami uie.o-
j usted, will record the message intend
ed fur it.
General Miles' Curios.
General M ilea's Indian collection is
probably the most complete and repn
tentative private one lu the eouutry,
and he Las some things not to be found
even in any museum or institute. Hj
has a yet made no attempt to cata
logue or classify the collection, the va
rious articles being distributed merely
in uch maimer as to produce tbe most
artistic and pleasing effect, the date,
history ami sigt"l"icance of each being
carried in Lis mind.
There are dozens of bright-Lued
blankets on the floor and the walls,
scores of blankets and ail sorts of orna
mented work, but in no two pieces is
the same design to be found. Each
pair of the moccasins even, that form
a frieze half-way aenss the room, dif
fers from all the others. Iu all his ex
perience, General Miles sijs he has
never seen a pattern copied or repeated
by the Indians.
The collection cm tains a flue assort
ment of the jackets and leggiusof fa
mous braves. Some of them are made
of soft, pliable skin, dressed iu its nat
ural color aud adorned w ith embroider
ies and fringes. Others are slashed and
painted and stained after a wonderful
fashion.
Geueral Miles called the writer's at-
teuti,.a to a suit that wa paiuted in
close imitation of the hues of grass
when it is at the rankest period of
growth; even tbe drum on which the
tomtom is beaten matching in color.
"Tbat," he explained, "is a midsum
mer costume, and it would le hard to
distinguish the figure of the wearer ia
the landscape. Iu the fall I have seen
the Indians paiut their bodiessnd daub
their horses with clay, until it was al
most impossible to distinguish tbe out
lines of their figure, so exactly did
they match the earth ami sage-brush
against which they moved. Again, ia
winter, when the snow is on the
ground, they ride white ponies, and
wrap themselves in white robes to e
cape dctee-tiou."
General Mile own sorae excellent
s,H(.i..ensof .rcupine work, tLequiiU
of the porcupine having lieen colored
and u-d for decoration lfore the
wLite man ha-! made th? Indian ac
quainted with beads. At a iittle dw- '
tance it is difllcult to tell w hich is bead
and which is porcupine work, although
the quill sec-tn to bu I a little better
tiian the beal-t
The collection huludes some interest
ing pieces of copj-er, tempered by a
profs j-eculiar to the Indians, and en
graved with characteristic figures by
means of the simple-,' and crudest of
tools. They admire metals, particu
larly the jingling and clashing to be
obtained from them, and a trimming
of metallic fringe is a highly-prized aet
ditiou to a brave's costume. A fringe
of tone is jpular for a similar rea
son. New York Press.
In the Spring a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love," he
said.
She sighed and shook her head.
"That's the trouble," she replied,
"they turn lightly iustead of seriously."
For he wa a girl who had been
through several spring engagement.
Chicago- Post
"I told Smithern I thought he had a
model wife."
"I suppwa that plea! him.'
"Well, I don't know. He said h
had found to bis expense that she was
fmd of being a msld for her dress
maker." Philadelphia Bulletin
Takes the burn out; heals the wound;
cures the pain. Dr. Thomas' Eclectric
Oil, the household remedy.