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s uit from ali- : | re pd
Swing thee low in thy cradle soft;
Deep in the dusky wood;
Swing thee low and swing aloft,—
Sleep, as 4 papoose should
For, safe in your little bir fo nest,
Q will come, and peace and rest,
f the little papoose is good.
The coyote howls on the prairie cold,
And the owlet hoots in the tree;
And the big moon shines on the
child
As it slumbers peacefully
So swing thee high in thy little nest,
nd swing thee low and tiake the rest
That the night-wind brings to thee.
The father lies on the fragrant ground, |
.. Dreaming of the hunt and fight:
‘And the pine-leaves rustie with mournful
sonnd
All through the solemn night.
But the little papoose in his bi
Is swinging low as he takes h
Till the sun brings the morning light.
little
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David Morgan settled upon the Mo- |
nongahela river, more than a hundred
years ago, and erected his cabin in the
wilderness, three or four miles from
the nearest settlement.
He had been a splendid type of the
pioneer—stalwart, powerful, active,
and an unerring shot with the rifle, |
but he was now 70 years of age. He
knew the risk he ran from Indians,
but he was brave, and the spot where
he located was so admirable in every
respect that he believed other settlers
would speedily follow, thus steadily
lessen the danger, until it should cease
altogether. :
Morgan was warranted in his theory,
for common report placed the red men
so far to the west that it looked un-
reasonable to ccunt upon their ventur- |
fug into this neighborhocd; but the
Whorigines had a disagreeable habit of
making their appearance where they
were not desired.
One morning. Morgan, having sent !
two of his children to do some work in
a neighboring field, became uneasy
over their long absence. and started in
quest of them. Of course, he carried
his rifle, for such was the custom eof |
every pioneer in venturing the briefest
distance from home.
Reaching the field, the old gentleman
was inexpressibly relieved to observe
his youngsters at work, and he sat up-
on the fence a few minutes to watch
and give them necessary directions, It
was while thus employed that he made
the alarming discovery that two 1n- |
dians were standing a short distance
off, talking and gesticulating in such a
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fashion that there could be no doubt |,
they were planning the capture or
death of the little ones.
The father instantly called to his
children to run home as fast as they
could, while he would cover their re-
treat with his rifle. The house was |
almost a mile distant, but the children,
terrified almost out of their wits, im-
mediately started on a run for home. |
They were soon beyond danger, and
the Indians turned their whole atten-
tion to the pioneer himself. . |
A score of years before, Morgan |
eould not have been overtaken by any |
ted-skin, but he was now too old to
run fast. However, as the only re-
source, he struck a bee-line for home,
and ran a considerable distance, with
a fleetness which astonished himself;
but he couldn't keep it up and hoe
speedily realized that he was only post-
poning a deadly hand-to-hand en-
counter.
Another frightful disadvantage un-
der which the old man was laboring
vas the woods through which he was
running consisted of thin scattered |
trees nearly all of which weregtco
small in size to afford shelter. Thus
he was shut off from crouching behind
one of the trunks, placing his hat on
the end of his ramrod, and drawing |
the shots of his enemies, in accordance |
with the fashion of men, when placed
in similar peril.
But in dashing through the woods,
the panting fugitive passed a large
walnut tree, which he innnediately saw
was the very thing he needed. To
reach it, it was nece y to wheel
about and run back a rod or two. HH.
did so.
The Indians failed to understand th» |
meaning of the movement. It looked
as if the venerable gentleman had sud-
tenly changed his mind, and concluded
to sume the aggressive. The result |
was that the red-skins were so tervifiod
that they turned also, and dodged in
among a lot of saplings where they
made desperate efforts to shelter them-
gelves. It is not impossible that if
Morgan had continued his retrograde |
movement his enemies would have
kept up their flight, but he prudently
concluded to stick to the shelter of the
walnut tree. !
At this day, it is hard to say whether
his next proceeding was a ruse or not;
but when he saw the frantic efforts of
the Indians to hide behind the “sleck,
lim saplings,” he raised his rifle and
blazed away. From that pont for-
ward one of the noble red-men failed
to display any interest in the proceed-
ings.
The survivor, inst
enough courage to wait until Morgan
could reload his piece, immediately
eprang from shelter and advanced up-
on the pioncer, with the evident pu -
pose of disposing of him before he
could reload.
ad of showing
This compelled the old man to take
to his heels again, for he did n t
possess even a kuife with which to de-
fend himself. The short respite he
had gained gave him his w ng, and he
made good time for a sl
but his pursuer was a y«
tho gained rapidly. until with
yards, then fired a that
ghe fugitive.
This left the combatants upon fome-
what more equal terms, though the old
gentleman was quite exhausted from
fis severe running; but. nothing daunt-
ed, he clenched his rifle, and awaited
the onslaught of the Indian, who drew
a tomahawk and began dancing about
and brandishing the weapon.
The painted warrior looked dreadful
In prancing around, whooping and
flourishing the glittering tomahawlk,
while at the same. time, he continued
edging closer and closer to his victim.
But Morgan manfully stood his ground,
gvith his rifle clubbed, until the dreaded
tomahawk was about to descend.
Then he threw himself slightly for
distance;
Lilote,
n 20
shot missed
svard and brought down the butt of |
fis gun, the two blows being simul- |
taneous, and took effect. |
The stock of the rifle was shattered
apon the bronzed skull, and the cdge
¢f the tomahawk was broken against |
the barrel of the piece, after cutting
two fingers from Morgan's left hand.
Without any delay, the r.i man
Lached down to draw his knife, when
Alorgan. with a view of preventing it,
grappled and threw him to the ground.
| changed to roars of pain,
| this
| contest,
| his teeth upon the
| ve
i was effectually
| so exhausted that when he staggered
| ax possible.
| even
| ritle-reports
| ered at
| led
| the miserable
| and it
i the
| OSS,
! look as if he had worn it a wee
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which none but nature's weapons were
used. Morgan in his day was a skill-
ful pugilist and wrestler, and for 4
brief while he was master of the sit
uation: but his waning strength soon
gave away the advantage, and the
Indian rolled him underneath.
The red man had been guilty of
some thievery before reaching this
spot, for he wore a woman's apron tied |
around his waist. He had tied it on
with great care, so that it was not torn
once or twice during the struggle.
The Indian planted one knee on the |
breast of and tlien let out a
series of yells,
house, nearly a mile distant.
given vent to his feelings in that fash-
ion, he reached for the knife at his
girdle.
And in doing so,
Morgan.
ing against the sin of thievery. The |
knife was so much confined by the
apron-string that he was perplexed. |
While the Indian was tugging awk-
f wasaly at it, Morgan got one of his
lusky fingers between his teeth and bit
| | like a vise.
The yells of exultation were now
and the Ind-
ian tried desperately to jerk the finger
from its torturing imprisonment, while
at the same time he continued vaguely
sping for his knife. Convinced that
weapon must finally decide the
Morgan made equally desper-
e efforts to obtain it, and it thus
happened that both clutched it at the
same time, the white man by the
¢ handle and the red one by the blade.
Morgan, feeling the knifeslowly slip-
ping from his grasp under the pull of
his adversary, shut down harder with
finger. The Indian
gave a spasmodic gasp; the knife was
dexterously twitched from his hand,
which was severely cut, and both ad-
ies sprang to their feet.
organ, however, had secured the
knife. That now being the only weap-
on between them, he made the best
use of it. The first blow struck a bone
and accomplished nothing, but the
| second was a disastrous one, and the
heavily downward.
fell with him, and fol-
blow, until the Indian
finished. Morgan was
Indian sagged
The pioneer
lowed up the
to his feet he could scarcely stand. As
soon as he regained enough strength
he started for home, hurgying as fast
Ilis family were im-
measurably relieved to see him alive,
though wounded; for the pant-
ing children had brought the terrible
tale with them. and the sound of the
apprised them of the
fight under way.
Although Morgan
miles from the settlement,
: neighbors dwelling
When his fingers were dr he and
some members of the family started
out in different directions, until all
the neighbors were roused and gath-
his house. It was
then found that nearly a dozen were
on hand, and they set out at once for
the scene of the struggle.
lived several
yet he had
nearer by.
ssed,
Reaching the saplings where the
Indians made their first stand, they
| discovered the first lying dead, killed
fired from Dbe-
but the other,
had
by the shot of Morgan,
hind the walnut tree;
much to their astonishment,
vanished.
Making their way to the spot where
the final struggle took place the set-
© evidences of its frightful
cter. The ground was stamped
and torn, and blood was scattered all
around.
“Here is the trail,”
ing a little to one side;
look as if there'll be
following it.”
There could be no difficulty indeed,
for the sward was marked too
plainly with crimson, and the men
walked along over the trail until it
them to a fallen tree-top, where
Indian had dragged
himself. He was endeavoring to
dress the would with the stolen apron
about his waist.
As the men came up, he extended his
and said in broken English:
do, broder—how do, broder!”
But the settlers were in no senti-
mental mood, and, conceiving the In-
dian to be mortally wounded, they did
said one, point-
ind it doesn’t
any trouble in
green
hand,
“Tow
that which they would have done had
he been uninjured —put him beyond
all possibility of further suffering or
y Saturday Night.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Life is more than a living.
Righteousness usually cures rags.
Comforters do not make reformers.
The
plant.
What we can is the measure of what
falling leaves enrich the living
I we ought.
The plea of consistency often means
| cowardice.
A competent pilot may be a sad
wreck in himself.
The love of truth is the only way
to the light of truth.
There is ro harm in the tongue when
werk keeps pace with word.
with gratitude
the latter.
The man who g life is the
who knows when to stand fast.
Mix all your grief
will taste of
ets on in
one
himself more
others.
It is always easier to weep over the
wanderer than to Keep him at home.
deceives
than he deceives
Every man
successfully
man has greatness in him
The great
before the occasion brings it out
Ram's Horn,
After the Battle,
Miles away from succor, near the
road, lay a British Tommy, with glis-
tening eves and burning fever, his
head proped up on a deserted sand
hot sun of noonday pour-
into his upturned face. “They
me, sir. the wagons 'ud pick me
‘t.seen no wagons, sir”?
I've mortal pains,
Poor fel-
no food;
and the
told
up. but 1 1
“Yes, 1 feel bad:
sir, in my back and head.”
low. he had no water and
not that the latter mattered much,
for he as too far gone to eat. We
left him water, and cheered him up
a little with the hope that wagons
would All night long, alone
on the empty veldt, saturated with
heavy dews and chilled to the
with biting winds of dark-
and now under the scorching
sun of day. He did not know if they
would find him all alone, so far away,
vet he answered, uncomplain-
“Yes, sir! I'm glad of that, sir!”
-— Vitliam Dinwiddie, in Harper's
Weekly.
pass hy.
marrow
and
The Extent of
“Your Charlie seems to be an active
little fellow, Mrs. Dobbs.”
“Active? I put a clean shirt waist on
him, and in five minutes he makeg it
His Activity.
gh it got slewed around
which were heard at the !
Having |
lie received a warn- |
The Cate’ Tea Party.
Five prevty little pussy-cats,
Cried: YA ihor let us go—oh, do! for
good we'll surely be.
| We'll wear our bibs and hold our
as you have shown us how—
Spoons in our r i
and make a pretty
always say, ‘Yes, if
and ‘Only Tie of that.
things
|
We'll
plea<e,’
“Then go, my darling children,”
happy mother eat.
The pretty little pussy-cats went out
that night to te
{ Their heads were Both and glossy
| black: their tails were swinging
ree;
| They held their things as they had
earned, and tried to be polite
With snowy bibs beneath their chins
| they were a pretty sight.
| But ah! alas for manners good, and coats
| as soft as silk!
The moment that
asked to take
dropped their
ow, and-—oh, w h
They put their noses in the cups, and all
began to drink!
the little Kits
some milk
Spoons,
were
They
Yes, every naughty little kit set up a
mew for more:
Then knocked the teacups over quick,
and se Mspered through the door.
Our Dumb Animals
Saved by a Collie Dog.
Mr. Robert Macdougall, one of the
meteorologists at Ben Nevis Ob:erv-
atory, had a most exciting experience:
when climbing that mountain the other
day. His only companion in the ascent
was a collie dog, to whom, he
owes his life. When maneuvering on
a snow-slide about 1000 feet above the
half-way station, Mr. Macdougall lost
snow was glazed and hard, he was
soon being whirled down a gully at
an alarming pace, sometimes head fore-
most, at others the reverse.
this juncture that the dog's sag
came in. As soon as Mr.
began to slide, it caught his coat with
its teeth, and greatly imped:d the
downward progress. The dog ultimate-
ly guided him to a place of safety, after
the twain had slid down on the snow
for nearly 1000 feet. Strange to say,
neither observer nor dog was muh
hurt; and the former, breaking open
racity
Here he was found by a search pa:ty,
half asleep, with the dog watch ny
over him.-—Christian Register.
Liberal Compensation.
The author of “Inside Our Gate” tells
of an exciting encounter between the
family dog and an unexpected caller,
and of the various and unexpected re-
sults which followed it.
Don was a very mild dog. but one
morning, as he lay at the kitchen door
a ‘vegetable man,” suddenly turning
the corner startled him from his nap.
He flew at the man, caught him by the
trousers, and ripped one leg nearly up
to the waist. The man shrieked,
that sent Hilda flying into the parlor.
My mother taking for granted that
the man was bitten, and that he was
very angry, ventured to the door to
ask about it.
There stood the vegetable man, hold-
ing the cloth about his leg, and when
he saw her he asked in a very mild
tone if she would please lend him a
thread and needle.
“I really must apologize,” he said,
“for coming so suddenly upon the dog.
He is quite excusable; but 1 regret this
rent, because I have on my b st pants.
My wife insisted on my wearing them,
as 1 was coming to the village:
can’t be helped now.”
Hilda gave him a stout thread and
needle, and he sat on the back step
and “sewed himself up.”
Meanwhile my mother,
aback by his mild manner,
a pair of my oldest brother's trousers,
brought them to the man, and gave
him two dollars.
“I am under great obligations to you,
quite taken
ma'am,” said he. “These pants 1 have
on only cost 0 and the pair you
have given me are worth fully that.
I am afraid my wife will think 1 have
over-reached you. You must let me
give you a basket of pears.”
My mother insisted on buying the
pears, and the man went off in high
spirits, saying, “Don’t blame the dog;
he was entirely excusable, entirely.”
Some weeks after this my brother
couldn’t find a certain pair of trousers
that he wanted to wear. They were
almost new, he said, and he was sure
he left them in his closet when he
went to the city. My mother opened
her eyes at me.
“Were they expensive trousers?”
she asked.
“No,” said he, “I only paid $12 for
them; but they were new and I liked
them.”
The tale of those trousers became a
family mystery.
Making the Best of It.
When grandma came into the nurs-
ery, she saw Ted staring out of the
window with a scowl on his forehead.
cat's tail.
“Oh, this rain is such a bother!”
said Ted. “I was going over to John's
to make a birdhouse, and I took my
tools over last night to have them
there; and now I can't go because I've
got a cold and it rains.”
“I saw a carpenter making a mud
house the other morning without toois.”
began grandma; and the three children
came over, and clustered around her
chair.
“And that wasn’t all,”
“He had no arms, and he
his head.”
“He acted very odd, too,”
ma. lifting Dick up on her lap.
he rubbed his fioor in,
funny little song as he did it.
went off for more mud.
back,
she went on.
made it w.th
*Iirst
and he sang a
Then he
When he got
he walked in every direction but
the right one, and I thought he had lost
his way: but really 1 think he wanted
to make me stop watching him, for
he finally got there, and he went on
building, always singing his queer little
|ong.
enough, he pressed his head :
one end until he had bored a
round room in it. I thought it must
be hard work; but he always sang, and
seemed determined to make the bes:
of it.”
sWhere is his home?’ asked Dick.
“Qut in the roof of the back porch,”
said grandma. So they all scampered
off to find it.
“Oh, yes!” said Ted, pointing up in
one corner. “There it is. It is a mud.
dauber's nest.”
“It's a wasp's, 1
“Well, a mud-dauber is a wasp,’
said; Ted, laughing. “That's built
better than I could do with tools,”
think,” said Dic
invited out |
| and worked so steadily that,
said the |
A sound, young horse to be had al-
most for a song—but a worm lurked |
in the peach—the worm of balki- |
| ness. “Not cannot always make im |
go. sometime not having pulling |
empty wagon. and dot sometime
| the horse
8, he |
| out of the yard. but this time she had
reckoned without her horse.
When about half a mile from home,
Jet, without any provocation, threw |
up his head deiiantly and refused to
take another step. In vain Elsie
coaxed and urged. Jet remained ob-
durate. Elsie tecok him by the bridle |
to lead him, but he planted his feet
his footing; and, as the surface of the |
| more firmly,
|
1t was at |
best of It, too.”
So. when grandina saw them again,
Ted was mending Mary Estha’s doll's
EYSTONE STRTE HENS GONDERSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
head. which had waited a long time
for the glue medicine, Mary Esther |
was sewing on her doll's quilt, and
Dick was rubbing up the nickel parts
of tlieir bicycle; and they
when the
dinner-bell surprised
to find the
sun shining.—
rang, they were
Uplook.
How a Balky Horse Was Conquered.
coming down hill before coming up.”
patiently explained the honest old |
Finn, who owned him.
Elsie looked at the horse thought-
fully. In some points he resembled
her mental picture of Black Beauty.
Yes, she would buy him and trust to
kindness and patience to overcome his |
balkiness.
All went well the firs Elsie
drove to the village several times and
his new
had been
se well
think he
behaved
wistress began to
maligned.
“I'll be
said Elsie one
mamma,” |
drove
back in two hours,
afternoon as she
tossed his head and Hitey
back his lips in a fiendish grin. Age
an hour of soothing and fondling .
started off sulkily, prancing and jump-
ing sidewise. The mode, of treatment
vas new to him. His former master
Macdougall |
| would be rele:
| returned to the
the door of the half-way hut, lit a fire, |
before it breke upon her. Twitching
and dropping ef the ears, the light,
high lifting of the feet were unfavor- |
able omens. When these symptoms
were noticed in tim a few Kinds
words and a litf'e fondling often ex
orcised the evil spirit poss ssing the
hors
Elsie’'s brother urged stronger and
| more heroic measures, but 21s e wished
! to triumph
had always whipped him soundly dur-
ing these little exhibitions. and in the
end Jet had triumphed, for, having
exhausted his mastor's ptience, he
ed from the wagon and
stable,
exhib’ tons of Jet's
learned by
signs of a storm
Elsie had many
contrariness, and she
servation to read the
ob-
through Kindness, if
I such a course were possible.
and |
| Frank's
but it |
sought out |
+1 should like to go to the village
this afterncon, but my
broken,” id Frank one sultry day.
“Take Jet: he has been in the best
of humor lately,” said Elsie.
“Keep on the right side of him,’
cautioned, laughingly, as Frank drove
off.
An hour
road afoot.
“Where, oh, where is
Elsie in alarm, for well she KkKuew
hasty, intolerant temper.
“Down in the field. I wanted to un-
hitch him, but the vicious thing will
not let me t near him. You see it
was this way. 1 wanted to cross the
later ‘rank came up the
Jet?
stream and he began to cut up without |
before |
provecation, and I—well,
I knew it I struck him.”
I'rank’s face reddened as he saw
the reproach in Illsie’'s eyes. “He is
always afraid cross water. With
a little patience it would have gone all
right. 1 know, though, just how you
felt. I have often felt that way, but
I think it best to try to control my-
any
| ell before assuming control of an
animal. Well, never mind, I'll go
down with you, and I'm going to take
him to town if I possibly can. It w.ll|
never do to give in to him now,” was
Elsie's decision.
Jet, standing near a big stump,
Mary Estha was lying stretched out |
on the floor, drumming her heels up |
and down; and Dick was pulling the
| one's self
|
{| alone
“What's the matter, Teddy?’ she
asked, sitting down in her chair and |
beginning her knitting. !
I answers
After his pile of mud was large |
little |
as he caught sight of
whole mien changed
when he spied Else.
and when
snorted angrily
IF'rank, but his
as if by magic
He whinned entreatingly,
she reached his side he rubbed his
head affectionately against her. With-
uot appearing to notice that anythirg
was the matter, Elsie went up to the
horse, took his quivering head in her
hands and talked to him, gently rub-
bing his head, or patting hisnose,until
he forgot about his bad temper and
allowed Frank to do with him what
he liked. She has now used him over
a year, and his balkiness has grown to
be a thing of the past.
“That whipping did some good.”
Frank often asserts, “It did not make
him go, but it showed him the differ-
ence between my treatment and yours.
Ever since he has known enough to
appreciate you, and not attempt his
tricks in your presence.”
“He taught you a lesson, also,” Elsie
retorts. “I have often noticed you
striving to curb that unruly temper of
yours.”
“You are: rig
of yours about
hit me
worth the
Those words
control
lesson
Elsie.
arning to
badly. That
price of your
was
horse.”
“It was worth more
for I refused that for
Elsie.—A. M.
Animals.
than $75. then,
him last week,
Dollinger, in
Pets and
Cxlled the Det Of,
Mrs, Brown morning went
from the breakfast table to the tele-
phone in the hall to order some things
butcher.
Mrs.
one
from the
“Hello,”
said Brown, “is this
“Well, this is Mr Brown's resi-
dence. Will you please send me a
la thick steak by 4 o'clock?”
butcher's
the tele-
responded:
sweet life
The boy employed in tl
shop happened to
phone, and promptly
“Well, you just bet your
I will”
“Do you
are speaking?”
Mrs. Brown.
answer
whom you
inquired
know, sir, to
indignantly
«Sure, 1 do,” id the boy. “You're
Jenny. Mrs. Brown's cook.”
“You are mistaken, young man.
You are speaking with Mrs. Brown
herself.”
“Is that so?
in that case,
bet off.”
replied the boy. “Then
madam, we'll call the
A Horrid Alternative.
She—I will give my answer in a
| month.
the
| navy will cost $65,000,000.
| for a month.-
He—But I won't be able
away from you for a month.
She—Then go and ask papa now and
vou won't be able to get around here
~Judge.
to stay
It is estimated that the armor for
new battleships for the German
sang so hard |
rain all stopped and the |
wheel is!
she |
cried |
| Burg'ars Fob a Deaf afd Blind Man--Electric
| Road from Charleroi to Washington.
| Protibitionists Oppose Fusion.
sions granted last weck: Henry I.
i McDonald, $6; David E. Con-
Houtzdale, $10; Henry Crimpen-
Glad e Run, $6; renewal, Layton
, Lectsdale, $6; increase, William
Sharpsburg, $12; James D
McDonald, Joseph Cot
Alexander, $10; Robert 1. Maro
Yl, $6; gorge T. Hartrey,
| Springdale, $ . Anna Brought, Lew-
istown, $8; Frederick Si Meadville
| $6; George Shaffer, West End, $10;
| bias Fisher, Berlin, $12; Marshall
baugh, Hopewell, $8; Thomas A.
dean, Smith Mill, $15; William
Young, McKeesnort, $8; Elizabeth Mar-
shall, Uniontown, $8.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the co nvention of the Western Pe nn
$10:
| Leech,
sylvania Firemen’s Association, to be
i held at New Kensington, August 14 tO
| 17. The citizens have diberally contrib
| uted, and at the present time nearly $3.-
| 500 is in the hands of the treasurer, with
{ considerable more to come in. The re-
{ ception committee has already filed en
ZEre-
| trances from companies that will
gate 3.000 firemen, and the others to be
heard irom will bring the number to
about 4.000. Preparations are being
| made for the entertainment of fully
000 visitors during the convention.
| A corps of engineers is at work sur-
| Yeying a route for a railroad from Castle
Shannon to a point on the Monongahei:
| & Washington railroad a short distance
{ below Bentleysville, Was flagion coun-
tv. The course from Castle Shannon is
southeasterly and the region penetrated
15 a remarkably fertile one, much of it
being coal-producing territory. The line
}is to be about 20 miles in length and it
will really be the only short line to Pitts-
Fliers from the Ellsworth coal works in
ot the Somerset field.
One of the largest coal deals ever
| made by a single individual was recently
| made by John Kerr, of Greensburg, to
| J. M. Steck. representing the river coal
{| combine. The block sold contains 50,-
000 acres, the land optioned being in
{ Amwell, South Franklin, North Frank-
I lin, Morris, East and West Finley and
| ilo townships in Washington coun-
1 ty and Washington and Morris town-
ships in Greene county.
| Buff
Some one entered the house of Archi-
bald Black, an old man, who is nec
deaf and blind, living east of Chicc
and stole $000 in cash, a check for $3,
000 on a Butler bank and some valuable
papers from their place of concealment
behind a loose brick in the chimney
wall. The check was afterwards found
in an orchard. A barrel of whisky in th
cellar was left untouched.
The Lawrence county
have decided not to pay the 00 ask
od for by the Perkins Ph agency,
i Pittsburg, for work in the John Blev-
ned murder case. The commissioner
|
say that they did not hire the Derhins
| people, and never in any way authorized
them to go to work. The refusal to
| pay meets with the general approve f
| the citizens.
| Application has been made to the gov-
| ernor by John A. Guiler and E. Hig-
TE Lo-
commissioners
bee, of Connellsville, and
jrentz, E. D, Leonard and Hugo Lo-
| rentz, of Mey e, for a charter for
| the Meyersda Irewing Company. Ar-
| tificial ice-making machinery will also
be installed, and it is said the plant will
cost over $30,000.
In a card Harvey Martin, of New
Castle, People's party candidate for Dis-
trict Attorney, says: “1 am a straight
Republican, have never voted for a
Democrat, never split my ticket, and do
not propose to begin now.” He was to
have been a fusion candidate for the of-
fice and it was expected that the Demo-
crats would endorse him Saturday.
The Prohibition party of Blair coun-
ty, which numbers an exceptionally
large voting part of the population, has
come out with an urgent address re-
questing all members of the party (o
support their own ticket and platform
at the coming general election, and to
extend no aid whatsoever to any inde-
pendent political movements.
A circular has been sent out from the
{ headquarters of the United Mine Work-
ers of America for a convention of or-
| ganized and unorganized miners to be
| held in Clearfield on August 0, to de-
vise ways and means for assisting the
miners of the Maryland district in pro-
longing their strike.
While making excavations for a sewer,
west of Union station, at Pittsburg, the
workmen came upon a large quantity of
heavy sawed timber, put in place there
years ago in building a canal lock. The
timber was in almost a perfect state of
preservation, though it must have been
underground for fully 75 ycars.
Dr. H. R. Brightbill, Saxton, Bedfori
county, was completely paralyzed by
|
|
lightning which struck a tree a few
yards ahead of him while driving. The
horse was transfixed to the spot, and
after much effort the animal was made
to move. Dr. Brightbill is in a serious
condition.
Over 1,200 iron workers employed at
the Lebanon works of the American
Iron and Steel Manuf wcturing Company
went on strike Tuesday afternoon in
Sonsequeney of posted notices stating
that from Angust 1 the wages of pud-
dlers would be reduced from $3 to $3
a ton,
A movement is on foot to build an
electric road from Charleroi to Wash-
ington. Charleroi will vote $75,000 to
the proposed road, and it is expected
that Washington will subscrib like
amount. Itis to run through Ellsworth
and over the old National pike to Wash-
ington.
The postoffice at Yoders, Washington
county, has been discontinued and mail
sent to Hackneys.
A new company. the lawton troop.
has been organized at ( “onnellsville. It
has 52 members, nearly all of whom are
o'd members of Company D and Com
pany M. Thev will offer their services,
in case of war with China.
Philip G. Hathaway, a Harrisburg
who was stabbed a dozen times
by Andrew Marsh Banks, a fellow-fire
man, died in a hospital. T
occurred during a quarr
of cards.
Pittsburg
acres of sa
and will erect a fac
stone for glass mak
factorv will be built.
The construction ot the big reservoir
of the Manufacturers’ Water Company,
on Quemahoning creek, which has caus
ed so much excitement in Johnstown.
will be a gre at tn dertaking. It will re-
quire a ye: time to finish the work,
400 mien nl employed.
At Sc ranton
in woman’ s clothes findin
Reese alone in her home,
chair and cnt her hair
read.
The new census report will show that
Meadville, including suburbs, has a pop-
ulation of over 16,000. In 1890 the pop-
ulation of the city proper was 9,520.
fireman,
I'he stabbing
a game
el over
men have
dstone near Mir
an unknown man aftired
little Sarah
tied her to a
off close to her
How Porto Rico Rico May be Developed.
Puerto Rico is an utter stranger to
emulation and not well acquainted
with comoetition. As soon he hi
ways are constructed it would be w
to divide the island into six or seven dis-
tricts, with San Juan, Arccibo, M
aguez, Ponce, Cayey, etc. as the cente
of the districts, and institut
trict or county fairs. These :
to carnivals naturally and no dot ihe it
would be a from the star
properly managed. With prizc
money (or a gaudy decoration) it
possible that some little enn «
be cultivated, to the benefit of the Gn
. ity of the products of the island.
success
ation ¢
June shipments of
fornia averaged 60 carloads a da
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollar: Reward for
anyca gg 0! C taney that cannot bs cured by
Hall’ Ogle :
Is ENEY & Co., Props. Toledo, O.
We. the undersigned, have know nF. TC ‘he-
ney tor the la t 15 years, and ve him per-
fectly honor: ble i un all business t an-actions
and financi able to carry out any obliga-
God m do} by 2d firm.
Ww Jer Ber & TRUAX, Whol-ca'e Druzgis's,
h ©.
WaLpixa, Kimxan & M ARVIN,
druggists, Toledo, OF
all's Catarrh Cine
Ing direc tly pon th
faces of th gy stent; e - bottle. Sold
by all D:u Riets 10n als free
all's Family Pills, are the bes*
Toledo,
Wholesale
s taken in ernally, act-
gd muc ons sur-
recruit
Ch ed
he sa
11
Jell=-0, the
Pleases all the family.
Lemon, Orange, Ras
At your grocers. 10 ¢
A leaf is
1 and the c
New Dessort,
Four flavors:—
Lerry and Strawberry,
norphos>1 |
seeds oniy |
only a
{ wine. It
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All
druggists refund the money if it fails 9 cure,
E. W GROGVE'S signature is on each b 25¢
Enough gutta percha is made into
golf 1 every year to insulate an At-|
lanti I
have their but don't store
your i man’s Pepsin
1s natu 5 functions.
More 1 On¢ of nufa
tured c le by
nen
Each package of Pursan Faperess Dye
Wool or Cotton perfectiy
colors either Silk.
at one boiling. Sold by all druggists.
A Frenchman named Dufour claims
) found of melting and
Carter's Ink
so cheap that no family can
ls 0 good and s
afford to be With wut it. Is y
yours Cart ter's ¢
engineer is trying to apply
way to machi nery as tr
ubricator.
ur mn
make it as a
The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever 1s a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS
Carty Tonic. It 1s simply iron and quinine in
a tasteless form. No ¢ ‘ure—no pay. Price 50c. |
Among the exhibits at the Paris expo
sition 2 a cups, the cheapest |
i wht a $000. |
Pizo's Cure of r Consur
ption is an infalli-
VW,
ble medicine for coughs pad colds. —N.
SAmuEL Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb, 17, 1900.
to the recent census, the
the Russian empire 13
Soc thing 8yrap » for childran
iflammas.
250 a bottle.
5 wind colic
ging in the parlor
can't be ¢ ed
ison Globe
Pictures of kin han
look dutiful, but they
as decorative —Atchi:
“My ow SELF AGAIN. .
Writes to Pinkham, |
Advice and is Made Well.
Mrs, Gates Mra.
Foliows Her
Mpa. PiINknAM :— For nearly
half years I have been in
Aftermy hirtle child came
it seemed I could not
“Dean
two and one
feeble health.
strength
3
2 again. 1 have
\
chills and the
rest pains in
get my
j Seve
my limbs and top
of head and am
i
5
9
5’ almost insensi-
we :
Vv ble at times. I
v
J
also h a pain
just to the right of
breast bone. It is
so severe at times
that I cannot lie on
myrightside. Please
write me what you
think of my case.”—
Mrs. CLARA GATES,
Johns P.O., Miss.,
April 25, 1898.
AR MRs. jo HAM:
~
Ihave vB. Pinkham
table Componi s advised and now
send you a lett for publication. For
wretched
burden. |
s in such
as almost a
several years |
health that life w
I could hardly walk across the floor,
wi feeble. Several of our best |
but failed to |
Ss SO
physicians attended me,
help.
advice.
1 concluded to write to you for |
In a few days I received such |
a kind, motherly letter. 1followed your |
instructions and am my ‘old self’
again. Was greatly benefited before I
had used onc bottle. May God bles
you for whe it vou are doing for suffer-
ing w CLARA GATES |
Johny 2 WB 1800
| Hostess
| ventive
| may remember.
anyway,
| immediate
Sometimes
Trigger Intellects.
If the hostess can catch no comet
she must be conte
wits, who make up for real brillianecy
what they
by saying
and spontaneously
in short, and
iects. Falling thes
ably humorous Gelett Burgess
last cla
per’s Bazar, the
bores positive are
diners out who load themselves with
stories for a dinner
into an engagement with a belt full of
deadly till the last round is gone,
they are at the m
wit. Yet
weights have their
for we must have
was one
pet fapcies to have
the shape of a
guests seated insid
cle till each
invite me,
not a comet, yet I
mad Shou to up
posely rather than
citing happen.
CALIFORNIA PRUNES.
Varlety Sail to Be
French
According to a statement made by |
United States Consul
stationed at Nantes, France,
Jalifornia prunes is su-
French,
being but 10 francs per
tain,
quality of the
perior to the
not excessive,
kilograms, or
pound.
lected and tasteful
less
ring,
one had
e upon a platform 4
which revolved slowly around the cir- ?
every guest seated on the outside of the | ]
You would better not
If the prunes are carefully se- i
treaty port
Depends on Halr- |
Do Your ¥ e=t Ache
Shake into your shoes A
% a powder for the fee
nted with meteoric | Shoes feel easy. Cures
Coraos,
above the
those well meaning |
Lis question arises
us answer it to-da
and healthful dessert.
voiling! no baking! S
as a soldier goes
Prepared
when
ercy of a more in-
and Bara ?
‘ns Foot-
Ease,
Ingrowiog
Itehing, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Sore
fav aniekRlv weating Feet All Drug and
3 do Say quichly res sell it, Sample ot FREE.
with the punsters = 8 1sTeAD, LeRoy, N. Y.
such hair-trigger - = :
e, says the pre It 1 w skins o
in Har- ] dog and made *
What Shall We Zfave For Dessert)
nthe family daily. Let
ry Jell-O, a delicious
in 2min. No
ply add a little hot
cartridges. They may not get a chance | water & set to cool. Flavors: Lemon,Orange,
for a shot very often, but, given ar | Raspberryand Strawberry. At grocers. 1Jo
| opening, their fire is accurate anc ae =
even these rl
place at the table,
bread, as well as
of Lewis Carroll's’
dinner table in|
and half the
2 a
Loox
Is it coated ?
Then you have
at your tongue.
passed opposite |
a bad
for, though 1 am
admit I would be |
set the claret pur-
have nothing ex- |
table. But this would break up mar .
of the little secret schemes for which | taste mn your mouth every
the modern dinner is planned, and | < morning. Your appetite
many a young man would suddenly | 4 1S poor, and food dis-
find himself flirting with the wrong | tresses you. You have
lady across the board. And this last | 4 frequent headaches and
hint carries me from the exoteric to | are often dizzy. Your
the esoteric charms of the dinner. Here 4 stomach is weak and
| however, you must guess your own | 4 your bowels are always
way. 1 dare not tell you precisely; constipated.
what it means when Celestine shifts | re)
| her glass from left to right of her plate < arres aa old and re-
nor what I answer when I raise my | 4 2 > *
serviette by one corner, for Celestine !
may dine with you some day, and you ! 4
1€
{9
4
Superio: the !
Article. 5 2 Sd
Don’t take a cathartic
dose and then stop. Bet-
ter take a laxative dose
each night, just enough to
cause one good free move-
ment the day following.
Brit-
the |
Joseph I.
and the duty is |
than one cent per!
ly packed in sub- |
stantial boxes, and are always as rep- | 7, fp 4 .
resented by the samples, there det 3g You Tee better the
soon be a much larger demand from | Very next day. Your
this part of France. 1 was recently | appetite returns, your
shown samples of California apricots | dyspepsia IS cured, your
packed in five-pound boxes. The first | headaches pass away,
layer was compose
fruit, while
not only small and i
very irregular in eolor
underneath
d of large tongue clears up,
liver acts well, and
bowels no longer
e you trouble
yellow
the fruit was |g
ferior, but it was |
The effect of |
such methods can be imagined. The |
French people are not easily deceived, | . All druggists.
and the California fruit dealers who
anticipate ordc after sending such Al Pils for 58
samples are making serious mistakes. |
One of the
received
antes
me he could buy tt
ifornia, but he wi
a consignment of
prunes from New Y
importe recently |
California |
ork City. He told | &
rem cheaper in Cal- | ¥ Nd > 9 7 =
shed to have them | kdb he aa)
whom
guaranteed by some one with
he was acquainted; hence the order (THE cai DAME,
was given throngh the New Y« Classics, Dettorn I jes ane History,
house. These prunes ‘ere ic Journalism, barmaey, Law
packed, but the dealer he jos Rainer
about 20 cases in consequence of tha Commercial
boxes having been made from very],
thin lumber. I measured one of the]
covers, and found t
than one-fourth of an
ness.”
Ponnsylvanin to Buy Valley
Historic Valley F
state park. It is t
steps
of this historic
Pennsylva A
(appointed to correspond
| triotic
i nia,
societies thre
1d all Ameri
good name of Washington at heart are
appealed to for the
along the crusade.
| rights of the Valley
| of the revolution which
care of when once
sylvania is
Forge.
he purpose to ta |
toward the pur !
ground by the stat j
the over
he lumber to be less |
inch in thick-
a
1904 sO aioe s ¥ re
x REV. A, MORRI!SS
Forge.
orge is to become a
ommittee ha
HL KLINE,
. C.S.C., Pres,
STOPPED FREE
Permanenlly Suledpy
BR. KLINE'S GRE
NERVE VE RESTORER
ALB Tri iER
EAT
Ner-
ance
with all pa-| x re
yughonut Pennsylva- | ee. ir Ea Founded 1811
cans who have the | PX. U 37 ‘00
{JOMN W. MORRIS,
ERSION
Successfully P
iE Fea
purpose of helping
The proprietary
Forge associ:
S. Pension Bu
cating claims, atty
tion
| are not to be infringed upon, for the
extensive territory contains many
landmarks that are now falling into
decay. It is these historic mementos NEW DISCOVERY; gi
will be taken
ate of Penn-
seer of Valley
cHEAS.
‘ree. Dr. H. H. GRE
MASON. ROCHESTER, N.
Washington, B,C,
rosecutes Claims,
reau.
ince,
giv
Sra k raiief and cures worsh
als nd 10 days’ treatmens
S50NS, Eox B, Atlanta, Ga.
y mall,
That Hite. 8 Beok For Ladi ies, 16 con
25¢. 50c,
2 = The same guod, ola-1
children for the past 60
been known to fail. Li
of i
ly from all parts
RMIFUGE.
Bal
geions medicine that h
ars. It is a medicine
or like the fo ia i]
2 00 untry. If your c
S VERMIYUGE os
Be not take a substitute.
b it, send 2b cents in stan
timore, Md., and a bottle tof th Ear you.
1
Fight on for wealth, old “Money Bags,”
your liver is drying up and bowels wear-
ing out, some day you will cry aloud for
health, offering all your wealth, but you
will not get it because you neglected Nature
in your mad rush to get gol No matter
what you do, or what ails you, to-day is
the day—every day is the day—to keep
watch of Nature’s wants—and help your
bowels act regularly —CASCARETS will
help Nature help you. Neglect means bile
in the blood, foul breath, and awful pains
in the back of the head with a loathing
and bad feeling for all that is good in life.
Don’t care how rich or poor you are, you
can’t be well if you have bowel trouble,
you will be regular if you take CASCA-
RETS—getthemto-day —CASCARETS—
in metal box; cost 1Q cents; take one, eat
it like candy and it will work gently while
you sleep. It cures; that means it strength-
ens the muscular walls of the bowels and
gives them new life; then they act regularly and naturally; that is what you want—
it is guaranteed to be found in—
THE IDEAL LAXATIVE
To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address
Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. 2
as saved the lives of litt
m ade toc has never
PISO'S En.
are comii g to us constant- URES WHERE A
nild is sick, got a bottle of
it uy it a a :
4g ruggist does no
fo E. &°8. FREY,
a a
Gre Hi 5 TION
Ts
DRUGGISTS |
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