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AFTER FOSTY.
After forty lorku grow thinner,
We grow touU-r "tliorc'g the rub'
Li 1 1 (?i-r lunger orourd I nner,
Mjtrlc the mutuliUMl tab.
AtVr f-.rty we irrw liazy.
To the lad the girl rwigo
Ttuy nuiy flirt with lKt ml Daiy
While we lolu-r o'er our wine.
Aflor forty saury nnssc
Treat u I ke their own p.ipu ;
No f.nraow of stolen kU,
llillH-doox, Irate minnmiv
Kut, their white arm calmly n-stlng
On our KhouMiTS. If you p'.et".
They will k (I am not jeUtig)
After onr rheumatic knet!
After forty fruyWi Ja rUlm n
Quite '-a n of them" Kh me I
Hin of sixty thus di'i'ume u ;
We aire only forty-three!
OiJ "Jim Crow," too, wrawli with pleasure
Afler f irty on our phiz.
Time, who jiicHH our lorks at lei.ure,
WtnkKMt wag the horrid quiz !
What's the moral of the matter ?
Tl::, and lny It well to heart :
After forty light chatter.
An no more the strip'.iug part !
I..-t us take with renl.-jatlon
In old fogi.' r.mkfca pluci' ;
Ti mm art worth ctiluvUou
That of "growing old" with jro,
Fearsou'ii Weekly.
THE STOLES LOVE SONG.
I had not been in a good humor for a
day or two when Mr. Maswiu came iuto
luDchtMsn, looking radiant.
"I Lave been," he said, glancing my
way, "riinee nine o'clock interviewing
Mi.- Gweu."
"I didu't know it took people so long
to give their opiuious,' remarked Mrs.
Tister.
"You never ean tell how long it takes
a woman to give ber opinioua on cer
tain matters when she puts her mind
to if," Mr. Mason replied, his eyes on
me.
"No," I said, "I do not know. I do
everything by shorthand." Whereat
Mrs. Fister aeemed puzzled.
"Mims Gen is charming, as I have
already told you," went on Mr. Mason.
"iSheisa Girtou g'.rl. Her voice was
trained in Paris by. Marciit-si. I sin
sure by her speaking voice that sho
sings like an angel. And she's In a
sort of trouble, to. The love song in
King Arthur's Knights is so poor she
refuses to sing it, and she doesn't
know where to get another."
"A g'Kd love song would be the
making of the KuiguU," he added,
"for the score is rather dulL I've sug
gested half a doz.m local o nnpjsers,
but th lady is skvp'.ioil and says good
songs are born, and not made."
"Did you ever htar of such a thing,"
smiled Mrs. Fi-ter.
"To the right man," concluded Mr.
Mi.3 n, "it would be a hundred dol
lars." "A hundred dollars !" It was Mr.
Tredick who said this, his fork falling
in his plate. Then be laughed at what
he called his awkwardness, aud raised
his enfiee to his lip.
"Nora" thus Mr. Mason addressed
me "you know everything; There can
I get a love song by Monday ?"
"Mercy!" I said, slightly Irritated;
you don't think I owu an incubator of
ditlits, do you?"
"No," he smiled; "but I know you
are shorthand in thought as well as in
dei." I bowed.
'You seem to take considerable in
terest in Miss Gweu," said Mrs. Fister,
for we have beard a great deal about
the lady for two or three days."
"I do," be returned. "She is simp
ly diarizing. Her eyes are a perfect
blue, a rather unusual color in eyes,
blue eyes being ordinarily gray."
My own eyes are brown.
"Her nose is perfect Grecian," be
continutd.
My own nose is sort of Gothic, I fear.
"And then ber raoutb," he said, a
Cupid's bow !"
I never heard my mouth called that
"I think she has fascinated you,"
Mrs. Fister said.
"And then," I supplemented, "it is
beauty in distress. Very likely Mr.
Mason could write the song himstlf."
"Ftrhaps I might struggle through
the words," he absented, "but it is the
muhic that I want !"
"The music would not matter," cried
I. "The words of a love song are every
thing." "Who ever hear the words of a
song?" he asked, gem rally. "No, no,
Nora, you're wrong," and he rose to
rush to the offloe with his "story" for
the uest day's paper.
I had half an hour to spare before re
turning to the oflice, and as usual I
went up stairs to freshen up my appear
ance. Somehow I felt aunoyed that I
had accused Mr. Mason of the ability
to write the words of a love song
what was I to Hecuba, or Uecub to
me. But then, Charlie Mason's eu
thusiaMU over the singer was silly.
At dinner Mr. Mason was even more
happy than he iiad been at luncheon.
"I think I've found the man to make
that song," he said. "A little 'cello
player with a head like lic-ethoven's.
I am going to the hotel to tell Miss
Owen about him."
And then he was gone.
Mr. Mxsa always affected people,
and even Mr. Fister aeetned influenced
by bis desire to be of service to the
singer, aud itogau to speak euthusiisli
ca'.ly of music
"Mr. Tredick," she said, the piano is
not iu good tune, but I wish you would
play something for us."
Mr. Tredick followed us Into the
parlor and seated himself at the instru
ment and ran Lis fingers over his keys.
I had never hoard him play before, and
I was astouished at his wonderful
technique.
He played a rhapsody of Liszt. In
the midst of it a servant came to the
uoor and beckoned Mrs. Fister, who
went out.
The rhapsody came to an abrupt con
clusion, and the player turned aud
looked at me. Then he pressed the
keys again. Such a change. His
fingers seemed to have become velvet,
and the md ly he played coaxed the
very heart out of me. I was glad he
turned away from me and that he did
oot look my way again, but, ending
the tuue, rambled ofT into things that
jnegled with the notes till they wove
into intricate fugues. At last he roe
ai.d closed the piano.
Somerset
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY.
"You have been very good," I said.
"Good !" be repeated smilingly, in a
sad sort of way. "Maybe the goodness
is on you part- You are a musician.
I seldom meet one."
"A musician !" I repeated. "I can
not play of any account whatever."
"But you understand music," he
said.
"I have studied the theory of it," I
told him, "as I studied anything I
could get at for commercial purposes."
'That is scarcely what I mean," he
said, and we left the parlor.
Up in my room I picked up a book.
But I could not read. Instead, I took
a sheet of music piper aud tried to j t
down the pretty, coaxing tune Mr.
Tredick had played down in the parlor.
I copied the tuue. I kuew a good
deal about the intervals aud values
aud the like and I have what is called
a musical memory. I could even read
it aud hum it after I had taken it
down.
"I can see him now," I said in the
middle of this humming, "looking
iuto her 'perfect blue eyes' and telling
her about the little 'cello player with a
head like Beethoveu's. It was apropos
of nothing, but I felt warm.
I had breakfast alone in the morn
ing. I usually had it at seven so as to
get down town by eight and do the
transcribing from my notes of the day
before.
At luncheon Mr. Mason looked due
north east, with a promise of rain. On
the contrary, I felt quite cheerful.
"I)you know," he said, "the 'cello
player was worth nothing. I took
him to see Miss Given last night aud
she ridiculed his efforts."
On the way back to the oflice I met
Mr. Mason. He was walking with the
most beautiful woman I have ever
seen. There was no need to tell me
it was Miss Gweu; there she was, just
as he had described her, aud more. I
caught her glance, and that glance told
me what a fascinating creature she
mast be to meu au educated woman,
gifted with beaut y aud a fine voice.
Mr. Mason saw me and raised his
hat. I felt that I shrank; the compar
ison between me and the other woman
was inevitable.
At dinner Mr. Mason failed to ma
terialize. "He had an engagement to dine with
Miss Gweu," Mrs. Fister informed us.
"It appears that she is determined to
have that song, and he has found a
new mau. Isu't it strange how incon
stant some men are? I used to think
it was you, Miss Nora, while now''
My laugh stopped her.
"I'ray spare me," I said. The der
woman floundered dreadfully, and was
saying that Mr. Mason had been with
me every chance I would give him,
aud all that sort of thing, till I do not
know what I should have done if Mr.
Tredick had uot asked me if I should
like to htvd a little tuuiia
"What ehall I play?" he aaked me
when we were in the parlor.
"Something presto," I told him;
"something full of fire and motion."
His hands crashed on the keys, aud
for five minutes the air seemed to scin
tillate with flashing recklessness. I did
uot know when he stopped the rush of
it, but all at once I found myself think- j
lug of mother and Bessie and wishing
I were with them. Something that I j
think was a tear fell on my folded
hands, and I found that he was play
ing the melody he had played the
night before, the tender, wistful thing
that seemed to coax the heart out of
me.
He was looking over to me, but I did
not care. Then he left the piano and
came to me aud laid his hand lightly
on my shoulder.
"My child," he said, "theonly thing
is t hide our feeling from the world."
Without another word he lfft the
parlor.
How angered I was ! How dared he!
this poor, inconsequential man, with
duns after him; his board bill unpaid !
But I weut up to my room and thought
of sheep following one anotherover a
fence, aud in a few minute I was
sleeping the sleep of the jul.
"Now, as I was taking down Mr.
Wolfs notes next morning an idea
struck me. Whether or not Mr. Tre
dick was a comprehending man, why
should he not put a hundred dollars in
his pocket? This melody that he had
played to me why should he not
make it iuto a love song? And why
shouldn't Charlie Mason know that it
had been done at my suggestion, and
thus be maie to understand that I
didn't care a little bit for his admira
tion for all the Misses Gweu in the
world.
I am impulsive; I suppose shorthand
makes one so; it looks so little, and it
is so much.
At luncheon neither Mr. Mason nor
Mr. Tredick appeared. I waited as
long as I honestly could then I asked
what bad become of the hitter gentle
man. Mrs. Fister said that be had
gone to rehearse a new mass at the
church. This was the first I had beard
of his being au organist, for ever si nee
be had beeu lu the house Mr. Mason's
admiration fr Miss G en bad usurp
ed attention.
The church, it appeared, was Saint
Theresa's.
"He expects to be there all day,"
Mrs. Fister said. "Aud I don't like to
nientiou it, Miss Nora, but seeing that
we're aloue, I might as well tell you
that he offered me his gold watch this
morning as security for- his board till
be gets his money."
Surely, then, the man would be glad
of a hundred dollars.
At four o'clock I left the oRlce. At
Saint Theresa's I appeared to be the
sole occupant of the church. I took
back pew and felt that it was a rest to
be there, away from the jir and jostle
of the ouUide world, away from the
the thought that that little world was
alL
I was sorry that Mr. Tredick bad
goue, and I should not get the chance
to speak to him in private to score the
melody be had played for me, if it
were his own, that Miss Owen might
?e iU Mr. Mason might write tbe
words for it, for he had said he coul 1
do it, and
ESTABLISHED 1 827.
At any rate it was peaceful here, and
I could get rid of the miserable feeling
that had taken poHession of me for a
week. For I am not usually one of the
unhappy ones, as mother and Bessie
always say. AU the same, as I sat there
trying to compare the vast meauing of
the Church with my ojfu paltry cares,
there suddenly sounded far above me a
thin strain of music.
I am not easily startled; I have been
a business woman too long for that, but
that faint sighing tone made me almost
leap to my feet.
So Mr. Tredick was not gone, after all.
There was no sound of voices; then he
must be aloue, and I was for finding
the stairs and going up to him with my
request when there came a chord that
stopped me. It was tbe strangest
chord, wild and searching, and it
broke off abruptly, aud a soft note
took its place, a tone that glided iuto
others and wove about me for a minute
and forth came a rnehHiy.
That melody! The passion of it! the
hope in il! It was a part of the perpet
ual light before the altar, a part of the
Divine Compassion the lamp lighted
up, a part of all the pain of life, of all
that was sad aud human. It was love!
Over and over it was played, over and
over, as though the persistent reitera
tion of it were its glory and its strength
love, love, love!
I had one of mother's letters in my
lckct; I took it out aud with my pen
cil drew the musical bar. I must do
what I had thought to do this man
Had sympathised with me when there
was no one else, and he should be help
ed against his foolish Tuples.
Over aud over the melody was pluy
ed. I jotted it down note by note until
I had it all. I could not do much of
the accompaniment; only a chord here
aud there.
Words came uncontrollably words
I should neyer have written at any
other time; but the meaning of the
melody was with me. At eight o'clock
it was fiinshed. I added a line to MUs
Gweu and addressed it all to the thea
tre where fhe should lie-in ber engage
ment the following Monday. I bad
signed no name to the note nor to the
music Mr. Tredick could claim the
song if it were aecept-d, and then I
should tell him all.
When I reached Mrs. Fister's I was
trembling in every limb, and I went
un perceived to my room. I wonder if
I slept that night?
In the moruing what I had done ap
pealed to nie. I bad wronged Mr. Tre
dick; 1 had wronged myself. The day
was miserable one of reaction. I did
not go borne to luncheon. In the even
ing I went to the house in a sort of ter
ror. They were all at VLe tabl, ond such
a buzzing as Mr. Mason made Miss
Owen bud received anonymously a
song which delighted her and which
was being orchestrated.
Mr. Tredick was dull aud preoccu
pied and paid no attention. When I
left the room Mr. Mason followed me,
'Do you know," hesaid, "Miss G wen
kuows all about Tredick. He wrote au
opera over in Paris which' had great
things predicted for it, but a love affair
with a titled lady an affair, you know,
where the lady was miles above him
broke him up; he withdrew his opera
and drifted away from every onn. MUs
Gwen is delighted that through me she
has agaid heard of him, aud will write
to friends abroad, especially to Mar-
choi, who used to know him very well.
I will get your tickets for Monday
night; I want you to hear the first per
formance. And phew! what a 'story'
I am making!" -
A "story!" He thought nothing of
what I was going through.
Sunday I usually weut for a walk in
the country with company. This Sun
day I weut alone. It is depressing to
go alone through paths you have en
joyed in the society of another. I kept
gettiug lower and lower. How could I
explain it to Mr. Tredick about the
Bong? If he were the genius Mr. Ma
son said that he was he would be fu
rious at any act, and But why the
orize, even in shorthand ? When I bad
sat an hour on the trunk of a big tree
where Mr. Mason and I had often rent
ed, I was as uncheerful as a girl could
well be. It was nearly dark when I
reached home. I did not sleep well
that night. I heard Mr. Mason come
iu. Wbeu he neared my door he paus
ed for a moment, aud I heard a faint
scraping on the sill. Then he wentoa.
I looked. There were two bits of
pasteboard tucked under the door.
They were two tickets for Miss Owen's
opening uighi. Two! The insult of it!
I tore up one of them, aud was on tbe
point of destroying the other when I
stopped. If I did not go to the opera
be would say that Never mind that,
though.
I had my breakfast early and met no
one. I did not go to lunch. About
five o'clock I went home and weut
down to dinner dressed for the evening,
and I was not ashamed when Mr. Ma
son took me in from top to toe. He sat
down beside me. "I'm glad you are
going to bear The Knights. Wait till
you hear that love song!"
Just then the door opened. Mr. Tre
dick came in in a good suit of black
with a wide showing of shirt-front.
"I am going to hear the rara avis,"
be said. "Mr. Mason has piqued my
curiosity."
I felt like fainting. Theonly thing
I could do would be to appeal to his
generosity and let him know the
truth. I must have looked wretched,
for when Mr. Mason left the room to
hurry to the theatre Mr. Tredick came
around to me.
"I thought you would go," he said.
"You must not go alone. Come!"
When we got to the theatre I said:
"Get only an admission ticket; tbe
seat uext to mine will not be occupied."
lie looked at me.
'I tell you it is so!" I said peevishly.
So he went along with me to the
front places.
"I waut to tell you something," I
said.
"Not now," he returned; "you would
teU me too much; you are iu no condi
tion to tell any one anything. Here U
the overture!" ,
He listened for a few bars, then talk
ed quietly, soothingly to me. When
INI AY 3 1. 1899.
the curtain rose he turned to the stage.
Wheu Miws Gweu made her appear
auefc be was attentive. When she had
euog her first aria he smiled.
"She is a lady," be said, "but she is
not singer. The fire is not there. If
you bad a voice you would be a singer."
I was too nervous to analyze this.
In tbe second act the tiling happen
ed. In this act the heroine, separated
from the lord she thinks no longer
loves her, gives herself up to her grief
in the song I had stoleu.
The singer was divinely beautiful as
she stood there. The orchestra played
a few bars of symphony, and then the
sung.
That song! The music, the secret of
the man beside nie; the words, my own
poor sucret! I clasped my bands till I
burst one of my gloves, forgetting my
surroundings everything. That beau
tiful voice, the depth of meaning of the
song!
But a hand grasped my arm. My
companion was ghastly. "My song,'J
he gasped. "I wrote it for one I My
poverty could not tempt me to sell it!"
I kuew then that I must tell him.
In tbe din of applause that followed
the song I got him to his feet and out
into the empty corridor. There came
Charlie Mason.
But I turned away from him. "Mr.
Tredick," I said, "forgive me. I was
in the church the day you played that
song. I copied it, I wrote the words.
You will get a hundred dollars for it
It was selfishly wicked of me "
"You!" interrupted Charlie Mason.
"You!" cried the musician. "You to
drag from me a thing uiaJe saciv.I by
association; for I must have been think
ing of you and your sorrow when I
played it. You"
Inside the prima donna was singing
the song over aguin.
"Tredick," Charlie Mason naid, "do
you mean to say that you wrote that
song?"
But the man broke away from us and
rushed down the corridor. Theu we
saw him fall back. For around the
curve of the pa-sage came a woman,
her silken train sweeping after btr,
her Lair blazing with jewels. At sight
of him she gave a little cry. Then she
went across to him.
"Arthur," she said, "it is the song
you made for me, and when I beard it
I knew that I had found you at Lut."
IiiM.Ie the lovely voice took a high
note of exceeding purity as Charlie
Mason said:
"My 'story' is no good. It was the
story of Tredick. I have been getting
it from Miss Gwen for a week, aud now
I can not use It! But there's another
story, and it, too, is a love story, which
I've been wanting to tell to tell to you
alone "
Hut, really, this is a shorthand story.
Bobert C. V. Meyers, iu Saturday
Fveuing Post.
Married To Order.
The newspaper reporters of the time
of Alexander the Great, bad there been
any, would have had the heaviest day's
work of their lives iu covering the in
teresting events that marked the day
Alexander was married. Ou that day,
says the New York Journal, authenti
cated accounts tell us, no less than :?),-
202 meu and women were made bus-
bauds aud wives. Alexander had cm-
quered Darius of Persia, and he felt
that this great achievement was impor
tant euough to be signalized iu a con
spicuous manner. Imagine the pride of
a c mqueror who decides that it can be
measured properly only by a wholesale
giving aud taking iu marriago the like
of which the world has never known.
Alexander himtif married Statira,
the daughter of the conquered king,
and decreed that one hundred of bis
chief officers should be united to one
hundred ladies from the noblest Per
sian and Medean families. In addition
to this be stipulated that lo,tHj of his
Greek soldiers should marry 10,0i
Asiatic women.
When everything was settled a vast
pavilion was erected, the pillars of
which were six feet high. One hun
dred gorgeous chambers adjoined this
for the hundred noble bridegrooms,
while for the 10,0u0 an outer court was
enclosed, outride of which tables were
spread for the multitude. Each pair
had seats, aud ranged themselves in
semicircles around the royal throne.
Of course, the priesU could uot marry
this vast number of couples in the ordi
nary way, so Alexander the Great de
vised a very simple ceremony. He
gave his hand to S.a'.ira an i kissed ber
an example that all the bridegrooms
followed-
This ended the ceremony. Then fol
lowed the festival, which lasted five
days, the graudeur of which has never
been equaled since.
Efmaxkable Rescue.
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plaiufield, III ,
makes the statement, tbat she caught
cold, which settled ou her lungs; she
was treated for a mouth by ber family
physician, but grew worse. He told
her she was a hopeless victim of con
sumption and that no medicine could
cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump
tion; she bought a bottle and to her de
light fouud herself benefitted from first
dose. She continued its use aud after
taking six bottles, found herself sound
aud well; now does her owu house
work, and Is as well as she ever was.
Free trial bottles of this Great Discov.
ery at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store,
Somerset, IV, and G. W. Brallier's
Drug Store, Berlin, P., large bottles
oOc and flOO..
Coulda't Fool Johnny.
Widjw Jones How would my little
Johnny like a new papa ?
Johnny (aged 5)-Oj, you needn't
shove the responsibility ou to ma, nu.
It isn't a new papa for me, but a new
husband for yourself, that you are
thinking of. Boston Transcript.
We cannot djakiudir act than to
speak of Wheeler's Nsrve Vitalize aud
iu wonderful cures. IJiiney din,
Ilijckville, Ini was cured by it after
be became disciuraged with other
treatment. For sale at Garman's Drug
Store, Berlin, Pa. and Mountain A
Sou's Drug Store, Confluence, Pa.
era
Year's Grace for Schools.
Deputy Superintendent of Publle In
struction Stewart, in a conversation
relative to the cut In the public school
fund, said: "There seems to be a mis
understanding in the minds many
people as to the State appropriation
made for the support of the public
schools for the current school year,
which ends on the first Monday iu June,
ISiXi. In view of this fact it would be
proper for S-.'hool Direo'.ors and others
who are interested iu th? public schools
to be rightly informed ou the subject.
"The Legislature at the session of W'7
appropriated .j1.VX1,00O for the support
of the public schools for the two school
years ending on the first Monday in
June, ls, and the first Monday iu
June, 1SW, respectively. The appro
priation of 10,000 made by tbe Leg.
islature of 1W for the school year end
ing on the first Monday in June, IS! is,
has b-en paid in full. The appropria
tion of fi,')i),CKi0 for the n-bool year
ending on the first Monday in June, J
K)l, will le paid after June of this year
at such times as the State Treasurer
will be able to meet the obligation.
WON'T HAVE KKFEtT KOK A YEA R.
"The 5,.VK),!0 which the school dis
tricts will receive for the uext ensuing
school year, beginning June 1W, will
not be due and payable until after the
first Monday in June, 1!h). There can
be no excuse, therefore, for any reduc
tion iu the wages of teachers for the
next school year, beginning June, isif).
Ou the contrary, school officers and
others who are interested iu the educa
tional welfare of Pennsylvania ought
to do all they can to maintain adequate
school facilities in all of the school (lis
triets of the Commonwealth, aud to
nitke such lilersl provision for compen
sating teachers for their services as w iil
justify the employment of the best
teaching talent that can be procured.
One other iiiU which seems to be
misunderstood is in connection with
the fact that some districts have not
levied any school taxes whatever du
riug the current school year. There
are probably less than one Lalf dozen
districts iu Pennsylvania which did
uot levy any taxes for school purposes
lat year.
Hr'KKtT OF FKVEN MONTHS TERM.
"Some districts do not, of course, levy
a building tax every year, as such a spe
cial tax is not necessary, but with tbe
exception of three or four districts, all
levy a school tax anuually. It is true
there are townships which have con
tinued year after year to levy a very
low tax rate. Many of these districts
have provided only for the minimum
term of six months, but the Legisla
ture, at the last session, enacted a law
to extend the minimum school term to
seven months. This act goes Into ef
fect at the beginning o the school year
of is:', so that a majority of the town
ships will doubtless increase the tax
rate, iu order to meet the demands of
the recent act of Aasserubly which re
quires the schools to be kept open seven
months a yew.
"The statement bas been widely pub
lished that many districts receive more
from the State than is raised iu the dis
trict by local taxation. This is true in
many iustances, but with tbe extension
of the school term these distiiets will
doubtless raise an increased local fund
for the support of the schools if neces
sary to do so."
He Wanti an Easy Place.
Oh, that's it ; you want an easy place,
do you? Oh, yes, I understand you,
my boy. I have been right along there,
myself. I traveled over that road
many years ago, when I was, probably,
about your age; so, perhaps, you will
permit me to offer a word of advice.
Don't you think of being an editor
nor a lawyer, nora merchant; don't lie
a m 'chanic, avoid all shops and store";
the army don't want you, the navy
has no use for you; don't undertake
the practice of medicine; keep out of
politics; all kinds of public speaking
and oratory let severely alone; d-.m't
undertake to write for pajers; dou't,
don't, my! don't you ever think of be
ing a farmer; never do you soil your t
little bauds with work, my boy; avoid
all study, don't read, don't think; these
are all are all hard.
This is a busy world you have got
Uito, young man, aud it has nothing
but hard places for you; in fact, the
only right easy place the world has for
a man is the place of a dead man.
Oh, vou have money and noble par
entage have you ? That makes not tho
slightest difference. You must build
up a character of your own, young man.
Geo. K. Edwards, in Barn's Horn.
Story of a Slave.
To be bound hand and f.xt for years
by the chains of disease is the worst
form of slavery. George D. Williams,
of Manchester. Mich., tells how such
a slave was made free. He says: "My
wife has been so helpless for five years
that she could not turn over iu bed
alone. After using two bottles of Elec
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medicine is a godsend to
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Working far the Outer World.
Few of us realize what the Shakers
have done for the benefit of the out
side world. They were the first to dry
sweet corn for food, and to prepare gar
den seed, medicinal herbs, and vegeta
ble extracts for market. They were
also the first to raise broom brush and
make it into brooms, and they produced
those far-reaching Inventions for pla
ning matched boards, the buzz-saw,
and the hydraulic pre-so. And, finally,
It was they whodid away with wrought
nails and quill pens, two stumbling
blocks to our ancestors, l?ing the first
t manufacture cut nails and to use
metal for pens, brass aad silver being
used for the purpose.
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WHOLE NO. 2190.
Will Bear Printing Every Year.
Abraham Lincoln's famous address
at the dedication of ihe National Cem
etery at Gettysburg, on the bth of No
vember, lSifcj, will bear reproducing
once year, as long as the llepublic
shall survive. It would hardly be pos
sible to embody within so small a com
paAs more of sublime patriotism and
lofty thought than it contains:
"Fourscore nd seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent
a uew nation, WDcetved in liberty, and
dedicated to the principle that all men
are t rented equal. We are now engag
ed iu a great civil war, testing w hether
tbat nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long eudure. We
are met on a great battlefield of that
war. We Lave craie to dedicate a por
tion of that field as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. It is altogether
lilting and proper that we should do
this." But iu a larger sense we can not
dedicate, we can cot consecrate, wecau
not hallow this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled
here have consecrated it far above our
power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remembtr,
what we say here, but it can not forget
w hat they did here. It is for us, tbe
living, rather to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly ad
vanced. It is rather for us to le here
dedicated to the great task remaiuing
before us, that from those honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full meas
ure of devotion; that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain; that this Nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of free
dom, aud that government of the peo
ple, by the people, aud for the people,
kliail not jierish from the earth."
A Cjuatrj Girl's City Experience
Being a farmer's daughter, the eldest
of a large family, and my father in
rather close circumstances, I concluded
to go to the city and engage in some
thing, w ith the hope of bettering home
finances. I procured a situation with
a private family and went to work.
But t.ie contract between my life there
and at home was so great that I remain
ed there but three weeks. At home I
was a leader among my friends and as
sociates; there I was not deemed worthy
to associate with the family whose roof
sheltered me. At home I gathered with
father and mother, sisters and brothers,
around the family altar, morning and
eveniug; there I was denied this, pre
cious privilege except on Sunday morn
ings whvu I 2u no attkd uhiiruii. At
home I sat with the family at the break
fast table aud discussed with them the
topics of the day; there I took my
meals iu the kitchen iu loneliness and
silence, aud they almost choked me. ,1
often glanced at the family gathered
around the tea-table or library lamp f
an eveniug, and it always filled me
with a longing desire for home. My
work was light and the people were
kip.d to me, but I could not endure that
loneliness and lack of companionship.
How I did wish they would invite me
into the library with them just one
evening, any way. That room, with
its well-filled bo 'kcases, leautifiil stat
uary and rare paintings, had an almost
irresistible charm for me, bul it was
too sacred for my country-bred feet to
tread exeept with a broom and dust
cloth in my hand, and I wondered why
it was 90. I do uot know whether my
experience would be called a failure, a
success, or a mistake, but I believe it
was all three. I made a failure as a
servant girl, but I gained knowledge
concerning the "hired girl problem"
tbat I could have gained in no other
way. My object iu writing this article
is to convince other girls thai home is
the lest place. M. IL, Perry county,
Mo., in Practical Farmer.
Volcanic Eruptions
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An Every-Day Sort of a Boy.
A boy once applied for a situation.
"We don't want lazy boys here," said
the manager. "Are you fond of work?"
"No, sir," responded the boy, look
ing the other straight in the face.
"Oh, you're not, aren't you? Well,
we want a boy that is."
"There aiu't any," said the boy, dog
gedly. "Ob, yes, there are. We have h:vd
over half a dozen of that kind here this
morning to take the place we have."
"How do you know they are?" asked
the boy.
"They told me so."
"So could I, but I'm not a liar." And
the lad said it with such an air of con
vincing euergy that he was engaged at
once.
Bismarck's Iron Serve
Was the result of .his splendid health.
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and the success they bring, use Dr.
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Lady Now that you have partaken
of a good dinner, are you equal to the
task of sawing some wood ?
Tired Tim Madam, equal is not the
proper word. I'm superior to it.
Scrofula, salt rheum aud all diseases
caused by impure blood are cured by
Hood's Sarsaparilla, which Is Ameri
ca's Greatest Medicine.
A Wel.& Cot.
In the njiddh acs cats were very
rare. Eveu with the ladies little dos
were the 'amiliar household pets, and
cats were regarded as almost a royal
Dossesejoa. In Wale as early as the
tenth century cats were protected by
the goverment and their value fixed by
law. Bfore a kitten could open Its
eyes it was worth a penny : afterwards
't was worth two, and when it had
caught a mouse its vsiue rod to fcur
piaaie.K. The.- may etu ma!l pri ?
afjr, but they meant a 'xnt deal then.
Both cat aud peuuie3 are within rtaih
of auy one, and the simplest little home
my hve as guard tbe cat that "usee
upon a time" kept watch in tbe kieg's
granarKs.
In Wales the prince bad his store
houses thus protected, and the following
story will show you how the theft of a
cat was regarded: One day a small
black kitten was missing. It was not
vry big, but it had caught a mouse,
and search was made at once. It wu
fouui in a peasant's hut, ami his
daughter coufessed that she had stolen
it from the granary. The child declar
ed that the kitten was frightened by
the prince's two great wolf-hounds, and
ha 1 taken refuge with her, and she
h id not had the heart to give it np.
The steward had father and child
brought, trembling with fear, before
ths prince, who cat on his throne,
yawning and stroking his tawny
h JUtlds.
"What is the law ?" he asked.
"The thief shall pay a full-grow n ewe
with all its fleece," said the steward.
Alas! the man was too poor to own
sheep.
"Failing this, the cat shall le hung
u.by its tail "
"tUlhrr bard on th cat," sai l the?
prinoy ; and little M-rtha's tears ran
down lir t.if.
"And tiie thief shall pay a heap of
grain high euough to reach the very tip
of the tail," coutinued the steward.
"Then shall we starve," murmured
thi peasant. "After tolls and tithes
there is so little left."
Now the black kitten was brought
int court, and seeing the dogs, and its
little friend, it bristled up its hair with
fear and mewed piteously to Mertha for
succor.
"The cat hath choeu the child," s ii.l
the prince, carelessly. "I will remit
the tine and give her the animal for
her own."
This law is still found amc.ng the old
Welsh statutes, but it is no longer
enfonrd.
Antiquity of the Saw.
Saws were used by the ancient
Egyptians. Ouo that was discovered,
with several other carpenters' tool in
a private tomb at Thebes, is now pre
served io the British Museum. The
blade, which appears to be of brass, is
ten aud a hIf inches long, aud an inch
and a quarter broad iu the widest part.
Tiie teeth are irregular, and appear to
have betn formed by striking a bluat
edg"d instrument against the edge of
the plate, the bur, or rough shoulder,
thus produced not being reuiovetL
A painting copied in Kosellini's work
oa Egyptian antiquities represents a
man using a similar saw, the piece of
wood that he is cutting being held be
tween two upright p.sts. In other
representations the timber is bound
with ropes to a siugle pt, and iu one,
als. copied by RonelUu:, the workmau
is engaged in tightening the rope, bav
in? left the saw sticking in the cut.
In au eugraviujr given iu the third
volume of Wilkinson's Minners an I
Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, a
saw is represented of much larger di
mensions, its length being, by compar
ison with the man, uot less than three
or four feet. It does not appear that
that the Kgyptians used saws worked
by two men.
The iuveutiou of saws was variously
attributed by the Greeks to two or three
individuals, who are supposed to have
taken the idea from the jawbone of a
s iake or the backbme of a fl-h. There
is a very curious picture among the re
mains discovered iu the ruius or Her
culaneu.il, representing the interior of
a carpenter's workshop, with two genii
cutting a piece of wood with a frame
saw, and on an altar preserved in the
Capitoline Museum at B me there is a
perfect representation of a bow-saw,
exactly resembling, ia the form of a
frame aud the twistud cord for tight
ening it, those used by rnoderu carpen
ters. From these remains it is evident
that theses forms of the instruments
were known to the ancients. Loudon
Architect.
Stand TJp to Fit a Sioe.
"People, would find less diilb'tilty
with ready-made shoe," said the ex
perienced salesman, "if they would
stand up to fit them on instead of sitting
down. Nine persons out of teu, par
ticularly women, want a comfortable
chair while they are fitting a shoe, and
it Ls with the greatest difficulty 3'ou can
gt thetn to stand for a few minutes,
even after the irhoe is fitted. Then,
when they begin walking abot:t, they
wonder why the shoes are not so com
fortable as they were at firt triuL A
woman's foot is considerably smaller
when she sits iu a chair than wheu she
walks about. Exercise brings a larger
quantity of blood iuto the feet, and they
swell appreciably. Tbe muscles also
require certain space. In buying shoes
this fact should be borne in mind.''
New York Herald.
Monarch over pain, Burns, cuts,
sprains, stings, lnsts.nl relief. Lr.
Thomas' Eclectric Oil. At any drug
s'ore.
Coula'nt Nams His Baby Dewey.
(jlorge 'Wilder, of Madison, Wis.,
who is pursuing some special studies in
Zurich, is highly incensed over the
treatment he received at the bands of
the local Health Department recently,
says the Chicago liecord. A son having
been born to him, he notified the prop
er department, as is compulsory, and
demanded tbe certificate which, accent
ing to law, he must have. Being a
patriotic American, he desired his sou's
name to be George Dewey Wilder, but
here he reckoned without his host, for
Iheoilicial informed him that inasmuch
as Dewey was not a name in any of
the four languages spoken in Switzer
land German, French, Italian and
Ivimanish the name could not be ac
cepted. After an hour's parleying the
officials agreed, however, to name the
young American George Wilder.
Ins Sprinj Months
Are most likely to find your blood im
pure aud lacking iu the red corpuscle
which enable it to 'jarry nourishment
to the nerves aud other organs. There
fore you feel weak, tired aud listless,
aud are troubled with spring bumorsL
Belief is given by ILnhI's Sarsaparilla
which purifies, eor'c'ues and. vitalises
the blood.
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