The Corvallis gazette., February 12, 1897, Image 4

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niscellany.
fHE ANT.
I tore to watch the little ant,
To see him strive away
Upon his mound of sand, and note
Its growth from day to day.
He never loiters in the shads "
Nor sits npon the fence;
He never halts before a task.
Mo matter how immense.
Bnt that which I admire most
About the restless ant
Is that he wins without a bit
Of bluster or of cant.
v. A CLAY IDOL.
It was universally conceded that Bill
Klngerty was the toughest character
In Lone Rock. The stage driver told
me as much before we had gone three
miles from the station on our fifty-mile
drive to the camp.
"Tough?" he said. "I should say yes.
Always plays In great luck, drinks lots
of whisky, spends a bushel of money,
and Is mighty handy with bis gun.
Whatever you do, tenderfoot, don't run
up against Bill Kingerty."
I told bim I didn't Intend to run up
against anyone, least of all a man who
was bandy with his gun.
We arrived at Lone Rock the next
morning, and I .must confess the towu
did not make a very favorable impres
sion on my English sensibilities.
The largest building in town was tht
Inter Ocean saloon, a long, low build
ing of rough boards, thrown together In
true frontier style. The camp had
grown up in a day, as It were, when the
placer fields were discovered, a mile or
o up the canon. The floating popula
tion of the whole territory had flocked
hither, and what a month before was
as lonely a gulch as could be found in
the Rockies, was now a flourishing
"city" of several hundred.
As I wandered Into the Inter Ocean
that evening, the stage driver, who was
standing near the door, recognized me,
and drawing closer, whispered:
"There's Bill Klngerty over yonder at
the farther table. Remember, strange?,
and don't run up against him."
I looked in the direction indicated
and saw a large-boned, roughly-dressed
man of perhaps 50 seated at a parlor
table, playing cards. His wide slouch
hat was pulled down over his eyes, eo
that only the lower part of his face
was visible. His chin was covered with
a grizzly growth of reddish-gray hair.
There was a goodly stock of gold at his
elbow, to which be added now and then
as the game went on. It was evident
that the stage driver was right about
Bill Kingerty's luck.
The scene berore me was new ana
strange. From a secluded place in a
dark corner of the room I watched the
motley crowd singing, drinking and
gambling."' Now and then some es
pecially luCKy piayer wouiu casu id.
and, advancing to the rough board
counter answering for a bar, call up the
crowd and set up the liquor. I had not
been noticed in my dark corner until
later In the evening a tail, sinewy cow
boy scooped a great pile of gold into his
pockets, and, advancing to the bar,
threw down a handful and called up
everybody.
Glancing about the room with a glass
of the reddest of red liquor in his hand,
he spied me.
ne spieu me.
"Hey, thera
"what are f
for? Co in 7 p
thing. V
"Hey, ther . jnderfoot," he shouted.
sulking in that corner
Fp here and have some-
I advanced meekly into the light, and
hardly knowing what' I said or did, re
plied: "If you will excuse me, I will
take a cigar instead."
' "Cigar," he roared, and pouring out a
brimming glass of whisky handed it to
me with the words, "Take that, and
drink it, quick."
"Really," I said In my fright, "I don't
care for this. Pray excuse me and I'll
smoke a cigar Instead."
"Cigar be hanged," he answered
"drink that liquor," and, pulling a six
shooter from his belt, he pointed it at
my head.
I looked at the gleaming muzzle In
terror. The mouth of the barrel looked
to my frightened senses as large as a
drainpipe. The drawn, hardened face
of the man behind it looked fiendish.
"Really " I stammered. "Drink,"
he shouted. I raised the glass to my
lips and gulped down a mouthfuL The
fiery stuff choked me, and, throwing it
up. I went into a paroxy.-m of coughing.
The crowd surged about me, laugn
lng and shrieking, when the cow ma a
' waved his weapon over his head, fired
"MINI WtoWW, TENDERFOOT, OB I'M,
FINISH TOU."
a couple of shots through the roof, and.
pointing it at me again, shouted:
"Drink it down, tenderfoot, drink it
down, or I'll finish you."
As I raised the glass again, Bill Kln
gerty stepped forward and walked up
enough of that, stranger. Put up that
gun, and let the boy alone."
The cow-puncher didn't know Kln
gerty, and, besides, he was half drunk
Without a reply he turned suddenly,
- t 1 . tri
ana, puiuuug uta revuiver ai rwiugerij B
breast, fired.
I don't know to this day how It was.
I was never brave or heroic. In fact, I
am a beastly coward, but, nevertheless,
as the cowboy fired, I leaped forward.
and. striking the gun threw up the
barrel. His bullet sped harmlessly over
Kingerty's bead. ,
I didn't realize that there was mors
than one shot: but when the smoke
cleared away the cowboy lay dead up
on the floor, and the smoke was still
floating from Bill Kingerty's gun. The
cowboy's partner came forward and
took charge of the body, but did not
speak to Klngerty.
- As I started to leave the place Kln
gerty laid his hand on my arm, and
drew me to the door and down the
street to the shanty where be lived.
He opened the rickety door, and, en
tering, lighted a candle, placed it on a
box. and pushing me to a stool, bade
me to be seated. "
"Stranger," he began after clearing
bis throat, "what are you doing out
here? you've no business (a this coun
try. Why, sonny, you're the biggest
tenderfoot I've ever seen."
1 threw .off all restraint-rf or there
was a kindly light in his rugged face
and told him my story. How I had just
left college, and, lacking the necessary
money to pursue the study of mediciue
as I wished, had come West to make
my fortune, hoping to go back in a few
years and take up my chosen profes
sion. -
Klngerty was silent after I had told
my story, and, by the flashing light of
the candle, I could see he was in deep
meditation.
"So you have come from England,"
he at length began, "and to make your
fortune." He turned uneasily in his
seat, and, looking me full In the' face,
continued: -"My boy, go borne; you're,
not fitted for this life out here. If you
stay here you'll either get tough or get
shot, or both. If you're dead the cash
won't do you much good. I knew a boy
who came West, the same as you, only
a few yeara-ago. He came from Lon
don, too. This chap had finished school
and, carried away. with the stories of
the wealth to be gained In the West,
packed up bis things and came out
here, .
"He was ambitious to be rich and
honored, and so left bis own country
with Its limited chances and long, up
hill pull, to make his fortune in the
Western gold fields. Neither his aged
parents nor his sweetheart were able to
dissuade him from this foolhardy step.
He told his little flaxen-haired sweet
heart that last night at home that he
would soon return with wealth and
power, and pictured how happy they
would be in the home he would be
able to furnish for her. And he went
away."
As he finished these words his voice
was low and husky, and I could see in
the dim light that he was looking far
beyond me, through the open door and
out , towards the mountains, towering
dim and majestic in the eastern sky.
his voice was wonderfully softened
and I could hardly realize in the man
that now stood before me the murderer
of an hour before.
"I knew the boy well," he continued,
"perhaps better than his own parents.
Well, he came West, and for a few
months kept up and saved money. The
'my boy, go home; you're sot fitted
FOB THIS LIFE OUT HEBE."
little souvenir his sweetheart had given
him seemed to keep him from the
temptation which surrounded him.
Then came the long winter when we
were snowed in and for months receiv
ed no mail. The absence of word from
home and loved ones seemed to press
heavily upon him. He became sulleu
and morose then came cards and whis
ky, and perdition. When the snow melt
ed and the delayed stage arrived, he.
fallen to a common roustabout at the
saloons, read that bis sweetheart had
died during the long winter died in his
mother's arms, and in the wild delirium
of brain fever had begged him not to go
oh, not to go away.
"Thus was broken what seemed the
only chain that bound him to de
cency. "Then h" drifted with the wild, tur
bulent current of Western life through
this camp, and that, a drunkard, a mur
derer and a gambler.
We sat in silence. Kingerty's sad
dreary eyes were fixed on space, and it
seemed 1 could see a teardrop glisten
ing on his rugged cheek. He turned tc
me, and laying a band on my shoulder
as a father continued: "Boy, go home.
Work at anything If ueeds be to gain
your end. and don't sever yourself from
good influences, from an early training
and from a Ci-V.stian home."
I rose and gra. oed his hand, too much
overcome by my emotions for words.
As I started for the door he said:
"No, my boy, don't go up to the hotel.
It might not be safe. Bunk in here
with me." '
I lay awake far Into the night. Sud
denly riches seemed to me of little val
ue now, when associated with constant
temptation. I had just money enough
to get back. I Would go to-morrow.
I must have been asleep several houra
when I was awakened by a shot. 1
leaped from my bunk. The sun was
just peeping over the mountains. A
cowboy stood a few rods from the door,
a smoking Winchester in bis hands.
Bill Kingerty lay across the doorstep,
dead.
I laid him out myself for a decent
burial. Suspended from bis neck by a
slight goHen chain was a'locket. The
bullet that had pierced his breast had
broken it open. Inside, clotted with
Bill Kingf.rty's llfeblood, was a lock of
flaxen hair Utica Globe.
Indian Depredations.
A young man who left this city some
time ago to make his fortune in the
gold mines of Alaska has just returned
with an awful story of suffering and
hardship. It Is as follows:
The United States statutes forbid the
landing of liquors in Alaska except for
medicinal purposes, so the young man
secured a permit from Collector Wise
to carry a five-gallon ke g of whisky
with him. The collectors at Port Town
send and Juneau allowed the liquor to
Dass. and the DrosDector carried it in
land several hundred miles, tn order to
keep it safely while out prospecting he
buried it deep in the snow, and on his
return found it safe and sound. Ha
moved camp a hundred miles or more,
and buried it again. Not finding any
claim worth working he struck further
inland, and again buried his keg a hun
dred miles from civilization. When he
returned a couple of weeks later he dug
down in the snow, but could find no
whisky. He kept digging, thinking it
might have sunk of its own weight, but
still found no trace of his treasure..Fif
teen feet below the point where it had
been buried he struck a board, upon
which was written in a fine Spencerian
hand:
"Stolen by Indians." San Francisco
Post - -
All Alone.
"There Is poetry in everything,"
mused the editor. "Now, there is yon
der waste basket." And he laughed, as
he sometimes did when he was all
alone. Detroit Tribune. " ' ,
; The new Mayor and Council of As
bury Park, N. J., have put in force a
new ordinance which prohibits bathing
at that resort except In "respectable
bathing suits." " -
SAW LINCOLN SHOT.
ONE
WHO WITNESSED
GREAT TRAGEDY.
THE
Story of the Man Who Was the First
to Reach the Side of the Wounded
President His Clothins - Stained by
the Blood of the Martyr.
. Our Nation's Darkent Day.
. There now lives in Philadelphia a gen
tleman who saw the whole scene of Lin
coln's assassination, and was the first to
reach the wounded man in the prevailing
panic William Flood is the gentleman's
name, and he gave the following graphic,
account, which is taken down in his ex
act words: '
"At the time the President was shot,"
said he in answer to a query, "1 was in the
United States navy and was acting- en
sign and executive officer on board the
steamship Teazer. -Captain Silas Owen
was the commander, and the ship was lo
cated at the navy yard on April 14. That
evening Captain Owen, who had been
over in the city during the day, came
to the ship and suggested that we go to
the theater that evening, as Laura Keene
was to play 'Our American Cousin, and
the President was to be there. We went
to the theater and secured seats in the
parquet or orchestra chairs. The Presi
dent occupied the second box up from the
orchestra and second from the stage. Just
as the curtain fell on the first act I heard
a shot and saw a man jump from the
President's box to the stage. As he jump
ed his foot caught in the folds of th. flag
that draped the box, and he fell sideways
on the stage. It was quite a good jump,
and he came very near falling back into
the orchestra. He got up and limped
away across the stage, brandishing a
great long knife in his right hand, and
shouted, Sic semper tyrannis.1
"In less time than it takes to tell it I
was on the stage. How I got there over
the heads of the orchestra I really don't
remember. Just as I reached the stage
Mrs. Lincoln looked out of the box. She
was crying and wringing her hands and
said: 'They have shot papa; will no one
come?' I answered that I would come,
and immediately climbed up the side of
the boxes to the one. the President occu
pied. -
"The President was sitting as if he
had fallen asleep. He was breathing,
however, and we at once laid him on the
floor of the box. I looked for the wound,
but at first did not discover it. Miss
Keene brought a pitcher of water and 1
bathed his forehead with that so as to re
vive him. I then discovered the wound
in the back of his bead, where the ball had
entered, and the blood ran out on my arm
and down the side of my coat. Some army
officers brought in a stretcher and he was
placed on that and carried out. I then
went to the front of the box and motion
ed for the audience to remain quiet. Every
one was talking, and there was a general
uproar. As soon as it ceased for a minute
I told them that the President was still
alive, but had been shot, and was no doubt
mortally wounded. Captain Owens and I
then went out to the front of the building
and fouud a platoon of police in the
street. The sidewalks were so crowded
with people that we had to get out in the
middle of the road to get down the street.
We went to the National Hotel, and by
the time we got there the mob was so
dense we could get no further, so a couple
of police took us through the hotel to C
street, at the rear, and we got a cab and
were driven to the navy yard. I was so
bloody from the wound, my right hand
and arm being covered, that it is a wonder
that 1 was not hanged by that mob. They
were intensely excited at the time, and it
would have taken very little to have
driven them into a frenzy.
"The next day our ship went down the
river to head Booth off, and did not return
until after he was killed. I was then
sent for to go down and identify him. I
recognized him very readily as he jumped
from the box as J. Wilkes Booth."
"They're talking nowadays right
smart about the great Napoleon," said
Uncle Dan. "but when t'other day the
boys asked me who I thought the greatest
man, I says '1 don't know. There's Wash
ington, an' Alexander, an' Napoleon, an
lots of others, but, my way of tbiukin',
Old Abe Lincoln is ahead of 'em all.' .-
"Greatness isn't jest a bein' stern and
solemn-like. Now, Uncle Abraham could
hoe his, row with any of 'em nrgyin', an'
yet some way he had the swing of them
old prophets. That struck me when the
war broke out. an afore I knew it I
caught the fever, carried coal oil lamps
around with the rest of the crowd, got
howliu' about John Brown's body molder
ing in the ground, and 'By Jinks,' says I;
1 11 jiue!'
"Of course, Billy must stay at home to
plow and sow and make the corn and hay.
He'd just turned fifteen, but as I marched
away, blest if there wasn't ma cryin' in
his arms, an' Billy yellin like mad, I
want a chance to strike for liberty!" Bless
me again! in less than a year if I didn't
hear one day that. Billy had enlisted, too.
"How I watched that boy! Sometimes
praying when he kept by my side in bat
tle, sometimes swearing, too, maybe,
when he exposed' himself too carelessly.
At Yicksburg he fell back, crushed and
maimed by the parapet fire, and I took
hirn in my arms and bore him back, an',
half crazy with fears, dashed at the fort
again. Weil, he rallied from the wound,
but somehow he never seemed so sound as
before. There was a wandering .strange
ness in his manner, like he didn't 'zactly
know his mind, and one night, when skir
mishes were daily, an Sherman an' Hood
was trying to get the chance for a win
ning fight, Billy was placed on picket duty
where danger hovered thick. I told him
to keep bis eyes wide open, but after I'd
got into my blanket in camp I couldn't
lj IT
"I TOOK HIM IN MY ARMS AND BORE HIM
- BACK."
sleep. I took my gun and hurried silent
ly to the outposts, reached a spot close
underneath the hill, and my heart stopped,
for there was a scuffle, a cry, and I saw
the forms of half a hundred men. It
wan't no time to think." 1 raised my gun.
The good old musket rang out the alarm,
the rebels turned nd ran. The boy?
I'fWPI
ABRAHAM
Born Feb.. 12, 1809 President of
April 15, 1865,
There he lay, his form stretched out upon
the ground, asleep at his post!
"lie turned to me an put his arm
around me lovingly. . 'I couldn't help it.
dad.' he said, smiling his old boyish smile,
and marched. away between the guards.
I begged, I plead, I swore that Billy
wasn't like himself. No use. ' The sen
tence came. I appealed to the generals.
I got only one answer: 'The death sen
tence of the court has been approved.
Then I went to Washington to see the
President. -
"It was my last hope. They wouldn't
let me in. They even pushed me back as
'OXLT A SOLDIER?
a carriage drove up. I saw who got out;
1 tried to attract his attention. 'Who is
this man?' says he. 'Only a soldier after
an interview, says the officer. 'Only a
soldier?' says he. musingly. 'Periling his
life! Only, a soldier, fighting the battles
of this awful war! Thank God! to speak
to me you need no other name. Only a
soldier? Come in. my man.' And he led
me up the stairs, while ministers and gep
erals waited outside.
"I told him, with sobs half choking me,
the story of my grief. His face was sad
and furrowed, and he bowed his head
as he listened. He looked over the pa
pers carefully. Then he turned, -and
smiling gently, said, 'We'll let the other
fellows do the killing. I think the conn
try will get along with this young fellow
running 'round alive. And then he wrote:
'This sentence disapproved. Restored to
his company. A, Lincoln.' Just there I
lost my grip. I only cried like a baby.
'You tell your boy,' says he, 'I count on
him to fight.' - .
"In six months Billy stood upon the roll
as second corporal. Then he became color
bearer of the regiment. - We marched
through Georgia until we faced the guns
of Fort McAlister. A charge was order
ed, but at first the rebels fired at such a
rate thnt the ranks wavered. Billy, with
face aflame, carried the flag far up in the
HIS FORM STRETCHED OUT UPON THE
O BOUND.
advance. 'Bring back the colors to the
regiment!" cried -ihe colonel. Amid the
crack and crash of the guns, the boy re
plied, 'You bring the regiment to the
colors! Then, with shouts and cheers,
the brigade rushed madly on, and before
they fairly sensed it, the day was. won.
"Billy had gone down. They had, to
pry his fingers loose from the flag. There
was a smile on his face a thousand years
can't make me forget. 'Redeemed at last,
the .general came and said, and placed
his name among the heroes. They wrap
ped the Stars and Stripes around my sou.
When they put him in his new uniform
that night, they found his treasures, and
among the rest was a picture of Old Abe,
and written on its back were the words,
a prophecy, 'I've fought, great friend,
and died for liberty!' " . ..
" LINCOLN'S SWEETHEART.
She Was a Beautiful Kentucky Girl
. and Had Many Suitors.
Lincoln first met Ann Mayes Rntledge
in 1832, when she was 19. She was n
beautiful girl and as bright as she was
pretty. - So fair a maid was not, of course,
without suitors. The most determined
of those who sought her hand was "one
John McNeill, a young man who had ar
rived in New Salem from New York soon
after the founding of the town. Ann be
came engaged to McNeill, but it -was de
cided to put off marriage on account of
Ann's youth. After a while McNeill left
for his home in the East, saying that he
-would return in time with his parents.
Then it came out that McNeill's real name
1 - -7 -V A
was McNamar. The New Salem people! disrobed grove vui tneir uuiaamg ver
pronounced him an impostor. A few let-" ' dure,
I "
LINCOLN.
the United State March 4, 1861,to
Hied April 15, 1865. ,-
terS' were received from him by Ann, but
finally the lover ceased to write.to her.
In the spring of 1S35 Ann agreed to be
come Lincoln's wife. New Salem took a
cordial interest in the two lovers, and
presaged a happy life for them, and all
would undoubtedly have gone well if the
young girl could have dismissed the haunt
ing memory of her old lover. The possi
bility that she had wronged him, that he
might reappear, that he loved her still,
haunted her so persistently that she took
to her bed. Her death speedily followed.
Lincoln's grief was intense. He was seen
walking alone by the river and through
COME IN, MY MAN,"
the woods, muttering strange things to
himself. - He seemed to his friends to be
in the shadow of madness. They kept
a close watch over hics- nd at last Bowl
ing Green, one of tttjst devoted friends
Lincoln then had. ook him home to his
little log cabin, half a mile north of New
Salem, under the brow of a big bluff.
Here, under the loving care of Green and
his good wife, Nancy, Lincoln remained
until he was once more master of himself.
But though he had regained self-control,
his grief was deep and bitter. Ann
Rutledge was buried in Concord Ceme?
tery, a country burying ground, seven
miles northwest of New Salem. To this
lonely spot Lincoln frequently journeyed
to weep over her grave. "My heart is
buried there,", he said to one of his
friends. Strange to say, McNamar prov
ed to be an honest man and a faithful
though careless lover.
T"HE IMMORTAL LINCOLN.
An Apotheosis in His Memorable
First Inancnral, ,
In an epoch of convulsion and cataclysm
and chaos Abraham Lincoln was intro
duced into presidential power. He held
to the syllogistic and spurned figurative
speech. No fustian found favor in his
prejudices. .
Coming to the end of his first Inaugural,
Lincoln reached these words: "In your
hauds, my, fellow countrymen, and not in
mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
The Government will not assail you. Yoq
can have no conflict without being your
selves the aggressors. X have no oath
registered in heaven to troy the Gov
ernment, while I shall h-e the most sol
emn one to preserve. peet and defend
it." " .. - -- . ........
"I am ioi to close. We are not ene
mies, but r-,?nds. We must not be ene
mies. Though passion may have strained,
it must no veak our bonds of affection.
The mysf chords of memory, stretching
from every battlefield and patriot grave
to every living heart and hearthstone all
over thi Kroad land, will yet swell the
chorus o' Union when again touched,
as surely tey will be, by the better an
gels of our nature."
: Lincoln's Trust in God. -"What
I did I did after a very full de
iiberatii -cd under a very heavy and
solem -qnse of responsibility," said Lin
coln reference to the emancipation
proclamation. "I can only trust in God
I have made no mistake. I shall make no
attempt on this occasion to sustain what
I have done or said by any comment. It
is now for the country and the 'world to
pass judgment, and may be take action
upon it "
A Natural. Phenomenon. '
A party of woodchoppers recently cut
down a fine white oak tree near South
Charl' m, O., which "was at least
three and a half feet in diameter and
seesifa-'y. solid. They found, how
ever, before cutting very far, that it
wp" loliow. They then cut around It
a few inches deep. . It fell, when it
was discovered thai there was a black,
charred snag Inside about fifteen feet
high, showing that ages ago it was
burned, but enough vitality remained
at the roots to grow a new tree. The
ti-Is remembered by the oldest in
habitants and it was "very large even
fifty years ago.- The . supposition la
that It was burned by the Indians.
- - - The Tree. ' '
- The Christmas, tree was almost un
known in England untlLJntroduced by
Prince Albert from Its home, In Ger
many. The vegetable creation has re
tained many features of loveliness apart
from these decorations. The "naked
majesty" of the oak, the gracefulness
of "the cold-place loving birch," and
the willow, whose pendent branches
"trembling . touch the water's brink,!.
I-elicit the admiration of the observer:
while, with the exception of the larch,
the numerous species of fir and pine
retain. their leaves, -and variegate tho
From Caba to Kingsbnrg.
RAISIN CULTURE IN FRESNO
What Brought.. Snoeess Ont of Failure
to Hon. Z. T. Maxwell.
From the Republican, Fresno, Cal.
-The Hon. Z. T. Maxwell, in -1887,
having just finished a term in the Mis
souri legislature, was compelled by ill
health to seek change of climate, and
ifter traveling for some months on the
Pacific slope, settled in Kingsburg,
Fresno county, California, and engaged
in raisin culture.
.The .change from Cuba, Mo., Mr.
Maxwell's old home, to the balmy air
rf Kingsburg, . for . a time seemed to
benefit the invalid, and,. for a while, in
addition to his labors on the raisin
farm, he began to take a prominent
part in the county politics, and held
several offices of trust in his new state.
But ill health was the drawback which
prevented him from arriving at the
highest political honors, and his active
mind chafed under the- restraint of an
impaired constitution, so that instead
of improving he became worse. These
facts concerning Mr. Maxwell's health
were so well known among the people
of Fresno county, that when he lately
reappeared on the busy scenes in ap
parent health, he was warmly congratu
lated by his numerous acquaintances,
and among others the writer of this ar
ticle. .
In response to a request to give the
reporter particulars as to the course of
his illness, symptoms, cure, and indeed
all there was in it, he eaid:
"You have asked me for more than I
could describe. Sometimes I have
looked over an alphabetical index of
diseases, and fancied I had them all,
but general debility, weakness, insom
nia, indigestion, constipation, partial
atrophy of muscles, headaches, pain in
the back and limbs, and general
wretchedness was my lot. -
"My horizon was contracting, and . I
supposed that the circle of my vision
would never again ave anything but
my bed for a center, for on top of my
previous ill health, in 1895, I caught
la grippe, which brought me so low
that I was very nigh the grim portal.
' "New Year's day I was despondent
and unhappy, not knowing there was
such good fortune in store for me, for I
had hardly ambition to read the news
paper that was brought me, and threw
it on the bed in disgust. As I did so
my eye caught the announcement of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo
ple, and half in anger andhalf in con
tempt I read what it said and again
threw the paper down. But I could
not get this ' announcement of Pink
Fills out pf my head, and at last I de
termined to try them, and I did so. I
began to use tle pills, following direc
tions parefully, pnd by the time I had
taken the first box my appetite had re
turned, and I was so invigorated that
it almost seemed as if I were renewing
my youth. I kept on taking the Pink
Pills until I "was thoroughly recovered,
and now can do more work than for
twenty years before.
"I will say that not only have they
saved 'me much expense in doctors'
hills, but my life, and I am only too
glad to publish this testimonial to the
virtues of Pink Pills. ;
(Signed)- Z. T, MAXWELL,"
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People contain, in - a condensed form,
all the elements necessary to give new
life and richness to the blood tind re
store shattered neryes. They $re an
unfailing specific for such diseases as
locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St.
Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheu
matism, nervous headache, the after
effect of la grippe, palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow complexion, all
forms of weakness either in male or
female. ' Pink Pills are sold by all
dealers, or will be sent postpaid on re.
ceipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six
boxes for $2.fi0 (they are never sold in
bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr,
WiHiams' Medicine Company, Schenec
tady, K. Y, - ;
Written History," - .
The guftstion whether there Is nay
written history which antedates the
Hebrew Scriptures is one that has
given scholars no little trouble. The
first books of the Bible were, accord
ing to the statements or tne most capa-
ble critics, written some time between
B. C. 1491, the date of the Jewish exo
dus from Egypt, and B, O, 1457. the
date of the settlenient in, Palestine,
Egypt, at the date of the exodus, was
a powerful civilised state, and jo judge
from the allusions made byancient
authors, undoubtedly then possessed
a great body of literature. It has,
however, with the exception of a frag
ment here and there, ail perished. The
monumental history of Egypt, that Is,
the annals recorded on monuments and
memorial stones, began during the
third Memphite dynasty, which, ac
cording to Marlette, commenced to rale
B. C. 4449, according to Brugsch B. C.
3966. Though many Interesting facta
have been culled from the monuments
of those very ancient times, their rec
ords can not- properly be called a con
nected history, and the Hebrew his
torical writings are thus the oldest au
thentic and- connected documents
known to the scholar. - - (v
Composite Roada 8bonld Be Popular.
People In the vicinity of Pittsburg
have started a movement in favor of
composite roads, consisting of a ma
cadamized track a dozen feet wide,
with a dirt road alongside of It. It
is well known that dirt roads In sum
mer afford ple'asanter driving than any
other kind, but in winter or continues
wet weather they are at the other ex
treme. It is stated that this combina
tion road can be built for $10,000 a
mile, or about half as much as one
macadamized full width. The . Idea
seems to be one worthy of general at
tention and careful experiment,
' " Extras, " '
'Do you know,'v began the summer
boarder, "that the pounding of the
steak by your cook awakened me this'
,mornIng at sunrise?' ; . .-
"SoT said the placid landlord. "It
was a real poster sunrise, but bein' as
you didn't order It it won't cost you
more'n $1- f er extra." Indianapolis
Journal. - '
Length of Europe' Armies. -If
the armies of Europe should march,
at an eight-mile gait, five abreast, 15
inches apart, it would require nine and
one-half days for them to pass a given
point.
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next ten years is worth
having. ' We want it
Try all five flavors of
Schilling's Best tea, and get
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Good Boad la tit
If the League of American Wheel
men as a whole will work tot good
roada this .coming year as will the New
York division of that rapidly growing
organization, then cyclists generally
will rise up and praise the L. A. W., and
give it their dollars and their material
aid. Highway Improvement Is ac
knowledged to be the greatest work
the League has before it. And good, or
even fair, roads are In such small pro
portion to the bad ones In this coun
try that a small beginning in this di
rection will give the League a pres
tige that It Just now lacks. Chief Con
sul Potter of the New York division
has framed a road improvement bill
with the approval and co-operation of
the State Grange officials, and with
the combined Influence of the wheel
men and the farmers It Is confidently
believed favorable legislation will be
secured. The work will be pushed vig
orously and no doubt will he aided
much by the good roads congress to
be held at Albany In February in con
junction with the National Assembly
of the L. A. W. This will be an event
of widespread Importance, since gentle
men prominently identified with high
way improvement In all sections of the
United States will be In attendance.
Possible Cnre for Cancer.
A Russian physician. Doctor Den
Isenko, has been experimenting with
the sap of the "wartwort," a plant of
the spurge family, as a possible cure for
cancer. In a St Petersburg medical
journal be gives particulars of seven
cases in which he has applied the treat
ment with apparent success. The sap
of the wartwort is of a poisonous na
ture, and can be used only under care
ful medical supervision. ' '.
THE 8E VBCHBR,
The searcher after truth is generally re
warded, although it is said that "Truth lies
at the bottom of a well." We need some
thing when we are afflicted with neuralgia
to search out the seat of the pain, or the
pain spot, and as St, Jacobs Oil's mission
tor good is to penetrate and search out the
hidden misery, it goes through like an
'X" ray, and conquers and subdues the
pain. All pain trouble of a nervous na
ture needs careful treatment and patience.
The afflicted nerves must be soothed into
submission, and stimulated into healthful
action, so as to restore. This is the virtue
ot .the great remedy for pain, and it is,
therefore, well known as the best. It may
be called the searchlight after the truth of
our bodily ail menu,
A. scientist claims that there are only
8eveptytwa different kinds of venom
ous snakes in this country. '
IHI STRONGEST FORTIFICATION
AKainst disease, one which enaMe ns to un
dergo unscathed risks from hurtful climatic
influences, exposure, overwork and fatigue, is ;
the vigor that is imparted to a debilitated I
physique by the peerless medicinal safeguard,
Hosttitter'a Stomach Bitters. Yon may possess
this vigor in a higher degree than the trained
athlete, although your muecular development
may be far inferior to his. Vigor implies sound,
good digestion and sound repose, two blessings
conferred by the Bitters, which remedies ma
larial, rheumatic, nervous and kidney trouble.
Smokeless powder, made of ammonia
and two forms of potasium, has been
invented by a Californian. i
J believe Piso's Core is the only medi
cine that will cure consumption. Anna
M. Ross, Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 12, 1895.
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Stylish Gowns of Bndiont Colo t
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"I hope to help many who are trying
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dies Journal. "With a few, packages'
of diamond dyes wonders can be done
in making old dresses look like new.
In my own family we actually did not
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fall, yet we dressed comfortably and in
style, by dyeing over clothes that had
been cast aside. " . -
Diamond dyes come in convenient
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rections make it impossible for one to
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without any experience in dyeing.
A book of free directions for home
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. EveiyboJy Wanta Good Road.
The good roads movement away back
In- the beginning of the agitation wa
something akin to a real Joke. Just be
cause a few bicyclers wished smoother
highways whereon to indulge their
new-found hobby of wheeling. It seem
ed absurd that they should ask to have
the highways of the land improved.
For a time the movement didn't move
worth a cent. People looked npon bley
cling as a passing fad or craze, and
they considered the good roads move
ment a companion-piece to it.
But the bicycle "fad" doesn't psss
away. It seems to be here "for keeps,"
and so the demand for good roads on the
part of wheelmen Is a fixed and lasting
one; but beyond this is a stronger,
broader demand for Improved high
ways. A road that hi good for the bicy
cle is good for all people, and were the
bicycle to pass away, the lesson it has
taught would remain In the minds of
thinking people. Good roads are a logi
cal, happy necessity for all not a lux
ury for the few.
'Procyon'a Companion.
Many years ago the great German
mathematician, Beesel, announced that
both Slrius and Procyon popularly
known as the dog-stars possessed in
visible companions revolving around
them. Re was led to this conclusion by
studying the motions of those stars. In
1862 the companion of Sirlus was dis
covered with the telescope, and during
the present year It has reappeared,
after being Invisible for six years
through too close proximity to its bril
liant comrade. Quickly following the
reappearance of Slrius' companion has
also come the discovery of the compan
ion of Procyon, which had never been
seen until Professor Schaeberle caught
sight of it with the great telescope of
the Lick Observatory a few weeks ago.
It 1b a very minute star, of only the
thirteenth magnitude.
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