This is the Smallest WICKLEJ^FU^OILSTOVE POVERTY. If four blank walls be mine, and every wind That goes careening through the vasu of aky Makes free with my shrunk ca>mnt, and my hearth Shows but a feeble flame, and the rough floor lias but the dust for carpet, am 1 poor? Nay, 1 am very Croesus, that, and more! For no swart Mode can rob me of the dreams Wherewith 1 hang a rapt Madonna there, A face lltirillo painted, drupe rich folda Of gold shot damask round yon oriel And heap about me ruga of velvet pile Deft wrought upon the looms of Kcrmansliah! Poor! Is he poor who has Cod's gift of dreamaf , —Clinton Scollard in New Lippincott. The Prosecution Of Mrs. Dullet I was ou a visit to my friend Dave at his mountain home and was stand ing one day in the courtyard at Lex by, the couuty town, discussing the possl- j billties of his re-election to the posi- , tion of commonwealth's attorney when down the street came at a long gallop an old fellow mounted on a thin, ewe necked sorrel colt whose long rusty tail whipped between his legs at every Jump. Up to the courtyard gate he clattered and, dismounting, flung the j rein over the post in utter disregard of the large printed notice posted on It that no horses were to be hitched there. Through the turnstile and up the walk he came swinging. "I believe that's old Dullet from Jaeksborough," said Dave. "He's a man of influence up there and dead against me—always is. I wonder what he wants?" lie had not long to wait, for the old fellow strode up to a group and said, "Whnr's the commonwealth's attor ney?" "I ain the man," said Dave. "What j can I do for you, Mr. Dullet?" "I wants you to put my wife in the . pen'tentinry," he said. "What!" exclaimed Dave; then re- J covered himself. "What do you want that for?" "She's forged my name, and she's got to go to the pen'tentlary," said lie. "Well, tell me about It," said Dave, seeing the gravity of the situation, and, | turning, he led the way into his office and offered chairs. "Well, it's this way: My oldest, gal Sairy is been a-wantln to marry a fel ler named Torm Ilackle for gwlne on two years, and I wouldn't let her." "Why?" sairl Dave in a professional < tone, drawing a pen and jwiper toward him. " 'Cause Torm'a on t'other side," said Dullet. "Oh!" said Dave, wTltiugulown some thing. "Go on." "Well, I wouldn't let Torm come over on our side. I sont him word of he did to look out. And SaJry she got | kind of sick and peaked, and my old woman she wanted me to do it then, j and 1 wouldn't, 'cause I had to sign the dockiment. Then she got kinder ; worser, and my wife slue wanted me to go for the doctor. So day before yls tiddy I went down for the doctor, and he said he'd crne today, and I staid at Jim Mlggins' store all night and yistlddy a-waitln for him, and when 1 got home last night my wife ,<he said. j 'Whnr's the doctor?' And I said lie's | a-comin. How's Sairy?' And *he said: 'She's done got well. She's got all the Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It lsthe latest discovereddigest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach It in efficiency. It In stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Siclt Headache, Gastralgia,Cramps and all other results of imperfect,digestion. PrlwSOc. ami fl. Lareslincontalne2H times small sire, Book all about dyspepsia m&iledfree Prepared by E. C. DeWITT A CO, Chicago. Qrover's City Drug Store. doctor she wanted. She's done married Torni Hackle.' Tlow did she done it.' sys I, 'and 1 ain't signed the license?' suys I. 'I signed your name for it,' says she. And 1 said, 4 You has done commit a pen'tentlary offense, and I kin put you in the pen'tentlary for It,' says 1. And she bet me a dollar she hadn't and I couldn't. And I suys, 'I bet you .$2 I kin, and I will,' says I. And now I are gwlne to do It. I kin do It, can't I?" Dave reflected, while the old moun taineer sut still, perfectly passive. "Well," he said slowly, "there are not a great many precedents." The old fel low's face hardened. "Rut. of course," he added, "forgery is a very serious thing, and. ah!" The old fellow's eye was upon him. "How long have you been married?" lie asked. "Twenty year come next month." Dave wrote it down. "Wife always been good wife to you?" "Ain't got uo fault to find wid her till now, when she forged my name an"— "Ever have any trouble with her?" "Never at all, 'ecpt, of course, lights like nil married folks has." Dave wrote it down. A liidustrlous?" "Got no fuult to flud wid her about dat." "Help you save what you got?" "Ain't a hard worklner, saviner 'ooman on the mountain." "How many children she got?" "Nine—eight livin. I don't count that one." "How many dead?" "Four." Duve wrote laboriously. "Wife good to 'em?" "Jes' as good as could be. Nursed 'em faithful." "Sit up with 'em when they were *ick?" "Never went to bed at all; nevertfook her clothes off." "Go hard with her?" "Went mighty hard, specially when Johnny died. He was named after ne." Dave wrote silently. "Go hard with you?" "Right sort of hard." "Sort of lonesome after that?" "Mighty lonesome." "How old your youngest one now?" "Gwlne on 3; that's Billy." "Fond of his mother?" "Can't bear her out of his sight." "Fond of you?" "Sort of—right smart." "Say Sairy was your oldest?" "Yes." "Thought right smart of her when you didn't have any others, just at first. I reckon?" "Umh. Might 'a' done; don't remem ber." "Wife cliil. anyhow?" "Y'os; always fool 'bout her. Oldest see?" "She was young and fresh then?" "Yes; likeliest woman on the moun tain." "Bet she was! Used to have good time sitting up to her, going to see her slimmer evenings, walking through the woods?" "Yes, sir; did that." "She thought more of first baby than you. She had more trouble with her than you—when she was a baby, 1 mean?" "Oh, yes; guess she did." "Carried her round in her arms, nursed her when she was sick ami mode her little frocks for her?" "Yes." "As she did .Tohunv's?" "Yes." \ "And does little Billy's?"' "Yes. She's made Billy a little pair of breeches." "With pockets in them?" "Yes; two." Dave laid down his pen, opened the code and read a little to himself. "Well, 1 can put her in the penitentiary for you," he said. 44 'Not less than one nor more than ten years.' " horead. Dullet sut forward a little. "How old is your wife?" 44 'Botlt 50 year." "I'll draw the indictment. Let me see. the grand Jury will meet when? Then the Jury?" He was talking to himself, with his eyes fumed tip to the ceiling. "There might lie aouie of those Ilackles ou the jury. UuCi, that would be bad " Dullet twisted around in his chair. "They'd send her on for the full time, though -teu years,. That won in be good." Dullet loaned forward. "Are them Hackles obleeged to be on that jury?" he asked. "No," said Dave; "not at all. Only they may be on there, that's all." lie lifted his eyes again to the ceiling. "That might be all the better. They'd of course be pretty rough on her. Ten years. She'd be about GO when she came out. Umh! They'd have work ed her pretty hard. Let me see. I suppose they'd put her with the thieves, dress her in stripes and maybe whip her." Dullet started to give an exclamation, but stopped to listen. "I suppose little liilly would be sorry at night at first, but he'd get used to It. or he might go down to see her once a year or so for a few minutes in his breeches if she lived. He'd miss Iter some. If she died, she'd go to Johnny. Well, the Hackles wouldn't be sorry. Yes, 1 can do it, I think," lie said, bringing his eyes down on Dullet's face and speaking positively. Dullet rose with a jump. "Look a-here, Mr.—Mr.—-What's your name?" he said. "I'll just be durned ef any of them Hackles-kin put my wife in the penitentiary, and ef anybody thinks they kin let 'em try it!" Dave looked at him calmly. "I agree with you," he said, "and I'll help you." There was a pause, in which Dullet was reflecting. Then lie asked, "What would you advise me to do?" "I don't advise you to do anything," said Dave, "but I know what I'd do if 1 was in your place." "What?" "I'd go home and send for Sairy to come over to dinner next Sunday and tell her to bring that fellow with her he's more Dullet now than he Is Hac kle, and every time my wife got uppish I'd tell her I could have put her in the | penitentiary for ten years, but I was j too good to her to do it." Dullet reflected and then said: "I'll j do it. What does I owe to you?" "A good deal," said Dave, "but 1 ' want you to present it to Mrs. Dullet i for me." "Well"— He walked to the door, j paused and then said slowly, "Til' uex' j time you runs for anything. Jacksbor ough Is u-gwinv to vote for you." He ; went out. Dave was re-elected.—St. Louis Tost- • Dispatch. Uußqnp Funeral Cnatomn. Among tin* Basques funeral festivi ties were kept up not jiuly after the , funeral, but also for eight (lays more, and on New Year's day, when they were repeated. In their case this was a purely religious ceremonial observ- | aiM'e, even if It originated in pagan days. For religion has entered into anil still pervades the funeral rites of the Basques to a degree now hardly conceivable. The deceased who was the head of the family, probably belonging to the third religions order, was usual ly burled in the appropriate dress of ; the order. The funeral was presided i over by the serore, who was a sort of j nun. This probably, as O'Sliea says, i came down from the time when wom en held high ecclesiastical positions among the Basques. The very /easts were relics of days when an offering of meat, bread and wine was wont to be taken into the church or churchyard not only at the funeral, but every day for two years afterward, for the supposed benefit of the deceased, but really for that of the *lorp*r. Up to 1706 in Guipuzcon on the oc casion of a funeral nu ox was taken to the church door and then killed and subsequently eaten, a survival, of course, of pagan saerilioes in primitive times. In whatever way the habit of taking tlie deceased to the church on an open bier arose, there can lie no ques tion that the tire lighted at the nearest crossroads and tlie obligatory pater a l'intentiou da defunt are of deeply re ligious origin and botli in deed and in truth appeal to eaeli neighbor to pray j for the soul of a departed brother,— Gentleman's Magazine. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars the Signature of Za^/X/'<!UcMW. Try-Keiper'- 5-cent cigar—best made. QUEER ETON CUSTOM FAGS AND FAGGING IN ENGLAND'S LEADING BOYS' SCHOOL. Menial Work Performed by Sou* of Dukea For Their Schoolmate*. l)ution of a I-'or: —Term cf Service. Nearly All of the Nobility llnve Fagged. Most people contemplating a debate j in the house of lords from the gal lery would be surprised to hear that a j goodly proportion of those grave and j reverend seigniors engaged in settling j affairs of state on the very steps of the throne were adepts at frizzling the j toothsome sausage and cooking the j homely bloater. Yet so it is, for close on half of the peers of England are old Etonians, and one of the oldest in stitutions still cherished under the shadow of the distant spires and an tique towers sacred to the memory of Henry's holy shade is that of fagging. The first or second day of every term, when the whole school has re turned, a sort of slave market is held in each house, at which the upper boys have the privilege of choosing from among the lower boys their own , particular fag for the next three i months or so. In some houses, where \ the lower boys—that Is, boys who have i not reached the fifth form—are nuiner ! ous, an upper boy may have two such j servitors for his own exclusive use. The right of selection is exercised according to seniority, the boys known to be the quickest and best "servants" being snapped up first, except in the case of new boys, when looks have to be taken as credentials as often as not, to the ultimate disgust of the fag master, for the smartest looking boys are very* frequently the greatest duffers at their work. The duties of Eton fags are man; and various. Not a few of them would | be declined by their fathers' servant, j at home as far too menial to suit tin dignity of the modern James de la ! Pluche. The fag is responsible for got ! ting his master out of bed in time fix | early morning school—a dangerous and thankless task to perform on a big boy who is a hard sleeper and free with his lists and quick at throwing boots when once awakened. School over, the fag has to prepare his master's breakfast. He lays the cloth, makes the tea and toast—woe betide him if the latter be burned or cut too thick—boils the eggs and fries any extra luxuries in the way of rashers or sausages his master may send him to purchase in the town. The meal prepared, the fag is by no means free to go and get his own breakfast, as he has to wait at table be ready to fetch hot water from tlx kitchen and if ordered fly off "u; town" to one of the "sock shops" for a pot of jam or marmalade. lie is a lucky boy if he can snatch a clear ten minutes for his breakfast before tlx chapel bell begins to ring. The same round of duty has to lx gone through again at tea time, the onl; difference being that there is mor time to do it in, and fag masters an generally in a better temper when school for the day is over. But fagging at meals is by no mean the only service which the lower bo;, i has to render. He has to scrape tlx ! mud off his master's football boots, t | put his change clothes away a ft : j cricketing or running with the beagh I and take notes to other boys in otlu I houses. ! It is strange to think that if Lon j Salisbury had only gone to Eton a fe\ years earlier than lie did lie might hav | had to clean Mr. Gladstone's boots an ! run errands for his future rival. Mi Gladstone himself was soniewh j lueky in his fagging when at Eton, a he fagged for his elder brother Thoni as, and naturally got let down easie | than if he had been apportioned to som strange boy. The Marquis of Bland ford and Lord Randolph Churchill ba the reputation of being incorrigibl; i idle fags, but when they chose to exer | themselves they were excellent cook ' and as such were much in request. 1 is equally difficult to imagine the dig nitled Lord Chief Justice Coleridg making toast and boiling eggs for lib master, but tradition lias it that lx was a most, exemplary fag. In addition to their regular dall\ work for their own master, the lowei hoys have to fag in a desultory way j for any upper boy who may wain them during the day. At the cry <>t "Lower hoy!" shouted by any fellow above the lower division of the lifti I form every boy below the fifth has l< I scamper out In answer to thesumiHpus. I and the hlnderuiost In the race Is gen orally ordered off for whatever duty has to be performed. This is rather a hardship when a bo; is busy preparing his lessons for school bnt he would rather run the risk of getting into trouble in school than of incurring the wrath of a boy very lit tic older than himself by "skulking." The head master's birch does not in flict such wounds as the vigorously ap plied toasting fork of an Incensed fa: master. en the whole Eton boys don't seem to mind fagging much, and the system at any rate has the advantage of beiix the same for all. Every boy know that, though lie has to fag at present, he is certain to be able to fag other.- in a short time.—London Tit-Bits. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Ileginning with Monday, April 15, A. Ohvvhlil will close Ills store at 8 o'clock every evening except Nut unlays and tlic general pay nights. If people only know what we know about Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, It would be used iu nearly every household, as then are few people who do not suffer from ;i feeling of fullness after eating, belching, j llatuience, sour stomach, or water brash, caused by indigestion or dyspop-da. A j preparation such as Kodol Dyspepsia | ( ure. which, with no aid from the stu j luach, will digest your food, ccilaiuh | can't help but do you good. Drover - City Drug Store. The Hawess3 Hat —l^ has ii" .<• uin-rior. Ii is guar iiateed h\ its maker.* t.> he for the money. It is equal toanv *"> hat inanut'a.ctureil. Hundreds in i'V,-eland are wearing it and all agree that they get full value for their money. 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ADDRESS. $(3 a Year by Mail The Record, or Carriers Wilkis-Barre. pa. RAILROAD TIMETABLES J Elilti ll VALLEY RAILROAD. March 17, 1901. ARKANGKMKNT OK TASSKM.KU TRAINS. LEAVE EBB ELAND. l;j:i m !cr W. uthcrly, M H ucli Chunk, 1 I !.: • v. I;, Ihleliclii, Euston, I'hiln • lfTpliia, Now Vurk arul Delano and Pottsvilie. ( 40 imii l< i Mainly Run. Whit# Haven, \ no. Tittstnn mill Seranton. 1 ii" L i lla/.loton, Weatherly, -Munch < milk. Alii tit."wn, Bethlehem. Kaslon, j'!i ' 'i.-lphia, Now York, De'mio and 9 30 a i>i ; r iJii/.'cton, .Mnhunoy City, Sbcn anduuh, '.' aruiol, Shauiokin. / 1 2" P • '< !• W cut horly. Munch ( hunk, A U 1;t1111 wn, Moihloh.m, Huston, i'hiladel- I'luu utal New York. 834 l 1 tn lor Saiid\ Run, Whito Haven, ilkes-1 Jarre, '"•cranton and all points 7 39 p in for Hazletoii, Delano and Potts vilie. Ait UIV BAT I KEELAND. 7 40 ;• tn from W oat horly, I'ottsville and Ha/.lolon. 9 17 n tn Iron- .' hiladolphiu, has ton, Hethlo lo m, Mu ntowu, Muuoh ( hunk. Wonth orl\. llu/.leiou, vluhiiiioy City, sheiiaa d ; 11. . it. i a unci And Shuiunkin. ' 30 n in it'im Scran toil, Wilkes-BUITO and White {liivcn. 1 13 p m iron. Now York, Philadelphia, i istoii, Do: iii lioiu, Alicntown, Mauch Chunk and Woalht rly. '< 34 Pin fro: Now Yolk, Philadelphia, I ...-.ion. In thlehoni. AHontown, Tolta villc, hiui.okin, Mi. funnel, Shenan doah, Miihiinoy City and ila/loton. 7 29 p in from Serunton, Wilkcb-Barre and i , whito li„von. Cor further information inquire of Ticket \ PTIUK. ROLLIN 11. W1 LUCK, General Superintendent, '-'(it ortlundtst.ro t. Now York City. C'HAS. S. CLE. General l'HHrcnyvr A went, Cm t 'andr Street Now York City, (i. .1. (J I LDItOY, Division Superintendent, Hazleton, Pa. IHK DKI.AWAKK, SUHQUKHANNA AND Sen l VLKILL RAILROAD. Time table in effect Murch 10, I*ol. I rains leino Drifts n lorJeddo, Eckley, Hnzle rook, Stockton, Ik-aver Moudow itoad, Koan and II -x,lot-in Junction at : (A) a tn, duily • ■vcopt Sunday: and 707 a ni, - p in, Sunday. Tr: In loave Driltori for Hnrwood.t ranborry, f nihil km and Dei-inter at atO a tn, daily ex tept Sunday; and 717 nm.'l3B pm, Sun 'l rains leave Drtfton for Oneida Junction, .. ■! rod hoad, Humboldt Itoad, Oneida and h'-j pton at f. no a in, daily except Sun ny; and . u7 n tu, ~ 33 p HI, Sunday. I rail ? havc iluzleton Juiu titm fur Harwood, ran berry. I'ou.hicken and Derinjfer at 6 35 a • "i'lO except Sunday: and r53 a in, t22 p ta, Train, leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida 'niitiio,;, Miiiwood Komi. Humboldt Itoad, •1.0.0; and Shepptoil at 6 38, 11 10 a in, 4 41 p m, mi.\ • \ .pt Sunday; and 37 a on, 311p m, Mmday. livin- leuve Di rirnrer for Tomhioken, ('ran ''d'l .. HHI wood, Hazleton Junction and Koau 5 tit) p iu. daily c-xcept Sunday; and *'37 a tn, 507 P ia. Suuduy. Trains have Shi , , ron for Oneida, Humboldt hoi-. , Harwood Load, Oneida .1 miction. Huzle- Junction u::d Itoan at 7 11 a in, 13 40, 5 rft p iu, daily except Sunday; aud 8 il a iu, 3 44 i> rn, Sunday. Trains leave Sheppton for Ilcaver Meadow Koad, st( ckfo i. llu/.le Brook, Eckley, Jcddo and Drifton at 5' p m, duily, except Sunday; and Rll im, 341 p in. Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Eeaver Meadow Koad, Stockton. lla/ln Brook, Eckley, Jed,,.. • ami Drifton at o4'<> p in, daily, except Sundu., and 10 10 ni, 540 p tn, Sunday. All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with u'ectrle cars lor Hazleton, JcuncsviHe, Awdcu rhd and other point* on the Traction Com pr.ny's lino. Train leaving Drifton at 600 a ni makes IN nn.'etion at Derinpei with I'. It. It. trains for Wilkoebarre, Sunbury, Ilarrisburg and points l.r 'rjF.Ur ftMITIT. RuwHntuwdwt- Con&y 0. Boyle, denier In LIQUOR, WINE, BEER, PORTER, ETC. T!; llne.st brands of Domestic and Imported \\ hisKi". on sale. I reah Uoebcster and Sheu iindoali 80. r and Young Una's Porter ou tmp. Centre street.
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