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THE END OF THE QUARREL.
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He kept hie row of absence well—
For two whole days togetherl
But whuu the second twilight fell
Love broke the tightened tether.
The chilly evening flung It* rain.
With peevish gust and sprinkle.
To threaten, through the glimmering
pane.
The firebrand's fitful twinkle.
But when a sudden rush of air
Blew out the lighted candle.
She, looking not, watt etlll aware
What ttngerH turned the handle.
Bow could he guest) the level lid
Some socret tear* dissembled?
Or that her silence proudly chid
The tone* that would have trembled?
So, doubtful, angry, half ashamed.
Half pleased to have defied her.
Be took the chair the cat had claimed.
And, speechless, sat beside hert
The rusty clock hand slowly creaked
From minute ou to minute;
A mouse from out the shadow squeaked.
Nor stirred the quiet In It.
The flickering firelight seemed to rise
And grow to wall and rafter.
While Up* that trembled once with sigh*
Were trembling now with laughter;
Till, spent at last, the sleepy brand
Looked ut each silent lover.
Blinked thrice, and left them hand In
hand
Beneath the darkness' cover!
—Kate Putnam Osgood in Good Housekeeping.
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Couldn't Help Himself.
The Rev. Mr. A him thin to tell
of the Rev. Mr. B : Brother B
is tall and gaunt of figure and pale
and serious of countenance. Once,
in bringing a meeting of special no
lemnity to a close, he caused ninny a
smile by saying impressively. "Now
let us pronouuee tho Dnxolngy, and
I will sing the benediction." Thru,
as if realizing that something had
gone wrong, he drew himself up.
and looking, if possible, more solemn
still, added. “No; I mean 1 will siug
tho benediction, anil we will pro
nounce the Doxology.”
The quick wit of a hearer, who at
once stnrted "Praise God from whom
all blessings flow” in stentorian
tones, rescued the others from dis
gracing themselves by an outburst
of laughter. After the meeting had
dispersed, said Brother B to
Brother A , "Now, you know, I
saw that thing coming wrong end,
first, but for the life of me 1 could
hot turn it around.Harper's Young
People.
A Cherry Stone Worth 835,000.
Dr. Peter Oliver, who lived iu Eng
land during the early part of the
Eighteenth century, tells of seeing a
carved cherry Btone which would lie
a wonder even in this age of fine
tools and fine workmanship.
The stone was one from a common
cherry, and upon it were carved the
heads of 124 popes, kings, queens,
emperors, saints, etc. Small ns they
must necessarily have been, it Ih an
nounced on the authority of Professor
Oliver that with a good glass the
heads of the popes and kings could
readily be distinguished from those of
the queens and saints by their miters
and crowns. The gentleman who
brought this little wonder to England
purchased it iu Prussia, allowing the
original owner £5,000 for his treas
ure. Thinkofit—$25,000 for a cherry
seed 1—Chicago Herald.
Washington Street, Alban?, 6a.
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The Barnes Sale and Livery
, Stables,
Win. Godwin & Son
PROPRIETORS.
H is new buggies and the best ol
ho:ses, and will furnish you a turn
out at very reasonable prices. Ac-
v^commodations for drovers unex
celled. These stables .are close to
; Hotel Mayo, on Pine' street, being
they use, have
iron than they obtained from Sweden,
‘centrally located, and- the. best andiAver
place in town to put up your team,
Call on us for your Sunday tiim-
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But Thins* Have Changed.
Before I had been a weak in this
country I noted three national pecul
iarities which had never been men
tioned to me by visitors to thestutes.
No American hums or whistles a
tune either at home or in the street.
Not one American in 500 has a dog.
Not one American in 1,000 carries a
walking stick. 1, who hum perpetu
ally, who love dogs, who cannot live
without a walking stick’, am greatly
distressed nt finding my dear Ameri
cans deficient in the three social
virtues just enumerated.—Wilkie
Collins’ Old Letter.
Defining a "Crab."
The old story of the Frenchmen
who were making a dictionary and
defined crab as “a small, red fish that
walks backward” illustrates the need
of exact knowledge. Cuvier said the
definition was excellent, only that
the crab was not a fish, was not red
and did not walk backward.—House
keeper. .
Why Horseshoe Nalls Split.
Upon investigating the causes that
led to brittleness in the manufacture
of horseshoe nails, it was found that
the pan in which they were annealed
was not well luted over, and that
enough air leaked through to affect
the nails; too great an amount of oxy
gen waa the trouble.—Exchange.
The bridge of the Holy Trinity,
Florence, was built in 1569. It is 822
feet long, of white, marble, ttd -is
even now reckoned as being without
a rival as a specimen of the bridge
building art,' f Qffrf If ftff
Enter,,rite Anions En.ll.h Pnpera.
The boat race between the representa
tive crews of Oxford and Cambridge is
rowed annually on the river Thames.
This year’s race was noteworthy, uot
only on account of the breaking of the
record In point of speed of the contest-
ants, bnt as enabling the London press
to carry out sucessfnlly a remarkable
piece of enterprise.
The London papers containing the re
sult and full details of the race were on
sale within four minutes after the Ox
ford crew hud passed tho winning post.
The press boat as it steamed up the
Thames paid ont a cable consisting of a
seven strand conductor, insulated with
vulcanized rubber, with warps and braids
of flax, which had been specially manu
factured tor the purpose. Over this ca
ble the progress of tho boats at Intervals
of a few minntes along the entire conrse
wus transmitted to the papers and pub
lished all over London almost as the
crews wore passing the points indicated.
Immediately following the result there
was dispatched a complete description
of the race from start to finish, which
was in tho hands of tho newspapers ami
others provided with Instruments long
before a single pressman was able to
land his “copy” from the press boat at
Mortlake, and bIbo long before the
pigeons disputched from the scene were
able to settle down tnu homeward direc
tion. The instruments used were Morse
sor. mlers. The short description of the
race which was finally sent contained
over 150 words.—London News.
Super Mttkunt to Stop for Awtlllo.
Representatives of nearly all the Hol
yoke paper mills that make fine writing
papers mid one of the mills in Mit-
tinengue anil one in Westfield met hi
this city Tuesday morning to consider
the matter of the ununul shutdown.
These uiaunfactnrers belong to the fine
writing paper section of the American
Paper Makers' association, and a shut
down means a reduction of from sev
enty-five to 1H0 tons a day in the output.
It was understood that the mills would
shut down from July 1 to midnight of
July 11, ulthongli no formal vote was
taken oti the subject. The Holyoke
mills will he forced to shutdown from
July 1 until midnight of July 4, as tin
water is to be druwu from the canals
during these days. The shutdown is to
enable the manufacturers to work oil
the surplus stock, anil is a little longer
thun the usual summer vacation.—
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
A Long little on u Snnwbnnk.
Friday morning as ten miners were
going from the Eureka Mille boarding
house to what is called Rough anil
Ready, with dinner pails iu hand, to
begin -their day’s work, the eoft new
snow above the truil on the mountain
side began to slide. In a moment the
men were being carried down the elope
with great speed. The snowBliile sep
arated, one part carrying five of the
men down a slope about 700 feet, the
other part continuing down about 1700
foet, leaping over a precipiee probably
thirty feet high anil carrying the five
men with it. At different times nil the
men but one wure under the snow ntul
etrange to sny, bnt one man wns in
jurod. It was first thought his leg was
broken, but we learu it was only
sprained and braised. Another mail
was almost smothered.—Pttlmus County
Bulletin.
A Groom’s Error.
A bashful and youthful bridal conple
from the rural districts had a painful
experience at Danbury circus day. The
young husband wrote his own name and
his wife'B on separate lines of the hotel
register and the purblind clerk assigned
tbem to separate rooms. Each waited
for the other to set the matter straight,
bat it was only after a terribly lonesome
hour that the bride plucked, np her cour
age and her marrlage.certificate and de
scended to interview the clerk. She
held out the document finitely and. the
eltuatlon at last dawned upon him. The
banished benedict was summoned front
his Beolasion and the curtain fell' amid
profuse apologies!—New Haven Regis
ter. y j
Files So Thick They Put Out the Lights.
About 9 o’clock Tuesday night Battle
mountain was infested with a cloud of
tiny flies that drifted into the saloons on
Front street in myriads, in many in
stances darkening the rooms and putting
ont the lights. When the pests had
passed away it was found that the tops
of the lamps were covered an inch and
a half deep and the lamp chimneys
choked. It would appear that these
minute flies were attracted by the lights
in the saloons, and in countless millions
perished.—Central Nevadan.
Enough to Replenish the Burning X.uke.
The steamer that has been expected
for several days with a cargo of sulphur
has arrived. There are 4,500,000 pounds
of brimstone in all, half of it being des
tined for Wayne, where it.is to be made
into sulphurio acid, and hglf for-point*
on the Grand Trunk.
The Sheffield
success depends so largely on the
“8MITHY” AND THE VAS9AR (URL,
An Roar's Conversation with Her Took
• the tioqcelt Ont of Him.
When the boys at our table noticed
a strange young lady enter the room
the other evening at dinner there
was a general inquiry as to the new
comer's identity.
She wtus tall and graceful, with
cleurcut features, expressive eyes
anil a mouth and chin whose firm
lines demited force of character. Her
hair wus u light golden brown, and
altogether the young lady excited no
small degree ofdmriodty.
"Tell you what, boys," observed
Smithy, "she's a regular hummer.
You want to watch yourselves, too,
for that’s just about my style, Met
and I'm going to make a play for an
introduce."
1 may mention here that the scene
referred to occurred in the dining
room of a fashionable private hotel
up $own. Mr. Smith, popularly
known as “Smithy,” is a general
favorite among the other boarders
there, particularly with the lady
guest*. His distinguishing charac
teristics are good clothes, an exalted
opinion of himself and an elaborate
knowledge of slang.
Miss Ray, the new guest, was in
troduced to Smithy that evening.
After an hour’s conversation with
her Smithy retired to the smoking
mom, and. after lighting a cigar,
casually remarked that “This here’s
a queer world anyhow."
"What’s the matter, Smithy!" I
asked; "you're not in love already t”
"In love! Well, I guess not Say,
that girl in the parlor is a regular
walkiug dictionary. JuBt tackle her
once and she’ll paralyze you—that's
all.”
"Tell me all nbout it," said I.
"Well, it was just this way. She
asked me if I believed in sublinenl
consciousness. I told her that I
couldn't call that hand and suggested
making it a jack pot. But she didn't
appear to catch on, and that made
me tired.
"Then she just wndoil in. Wowl
but it fairly showered jawbreakers
for the next half hour. She’s a grad
uate of Vossur college, she told pie,
and, so help me Bob, that was tho
only part of her conversation I could
understand.
Paoplo'd Ultuiuplmi Kept In Quad.
May I rail attention to the cose of n
worthy uuui who is iu prison for resist
ing the attempts of luiiilmvnerN to seizs
anil Inclose the lanil of the people! The
case 1 refer to Is that of the Rev. F.
Haydn Williams, who Is incarcerated in
Holloway jail, and lias now been Impris
oned for a whole month because he
knocked down a wall which hud been
bnilt to inclose what had been from
time immemorial ati open space, called
the Abbey plain, where the people used
to play football anil other games.
The injustice of Mr. Williams' impris
onment is, that instead of being properly
tried and If it is found that he has done
wrong mode to pay for the damage he
has done to the wall of the lord of the
manor, lie has been sent to prison with
out trial on a charge of contempt of
court, and tlmro he may remain month
after mouth, according to the euprlco of
the court of queuti'B bench. This power
of committal to prisou for an indefinite
period on such a fanciful charge as con
tempt pf court scoins to me to be a thing
savoring of the proceedings of the court
of the Btar chamber, which was abolished
for its arbitrary ucts by the breath of
popular indignation. Iu my ignorance
1 thought there was passed by the repre
sentatives of the people, for their protec
tion from arbitrary imprisonment, uti not
called the habeas corpus act, which pre
vented a man from being capriciously
imprisoned for an indefinite time with
out fair trial if he has been guilty of uny
crime. But hero Is a man—a gentlemnn
andn minister—being treated ns If he
had been guilty of robbery.—Cor. Lon
don Chronicle.
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Of one of our $25.00 Oak bed-room
suits. You’ll get more satisfaction
out of it in a minute than you get
out of any other suit you know of
or we know of in a month. About
such a purchase as this there can’t
be any questionable or doubtful
feature. You are in a strange
frame of mind if you don’t want
your money’s worth; you are of a
still stranger turn of mind if you
don’t immediately confess that
your bed-room is as complete with
it as it was formerly incomplete
without it. ^ If you want to be
suited in a suit, this is the suit to
do it.
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Most people,' she said, ‘hold ig
norance hidden in the interstices of
their net of learning.' Then, among
other things, she asked me if 1 bo-
lie ved that 'fiimplicity is the concom
itant of genius’ and what I thought
about ‘elective affinities.' Of course
all I could do was to pass out every
hand. I told her, though, that I'd
look these matters up and let her
know, But say. I've got a headache.
I have."
"What did you say when you left
her!” I askoil.
“Oh, 1 just remarked that as this
was a cash gome and os I hod run
out of chips I'd see her later when 1
was fixed. * Say, what's the meaning
of pachydermatous! And—gee, but
my head aches.”
Then Smithy relapsed into thought
fulness.—New York Herald.
One for the Laird.
Sir Charles Gordon, of G , had
u very hot temper, and very often
he found himself at loggerheads with
his tenants. One of them, Gibhie
Anderson, was a keen, pawky old
Scotchman, and generally he had the
best of the laird in their many en-
ounters. Once Gibbie wanted a
jew fence round one of his fields,
and when he asked for it Sir Charles
very politelv sent him to a place re
markable for its heat and where
brimstone is the prevaling odor.
Gobble replied, “Na, na, laird, I’ll no
gang there, for you and me widna
gree at a’."
“Whatl” blustered Sir Chariest
“do you mean to say I’ll go there!"
“Oh, weel, as I'm no Roman Catholic
and dinna believe in purgatory I
dae, and I can prove frae Scripture
that you’ll no gang to heaven, for
St John in his Revelation says,
‘There shall be no (k)night there.’ ”
—Scottish American.
University Statistics.
less tMa Yale, while
versity of Michigan has 2,688,
«■“*»**" ■~jtiTi|s»y 'teSsarHSsaitL
never found better _j,t, ,, — - -
Is it not worl
to. free yoursell
these distressing comp!
yourself of every symptom of
listressing complaints? If you
: so, call at our store and get a
. . Rvery be*
bottle of Shiloh’s
tie has a prlntei
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you no.gOOd
with 258; the University of Pennsyl
vania seoond, with 287; Columbia third,
~.i fourth, with 158, and
. with 145. - . ATI!
Poor Man.
Old Lady,(on beholding a Highlander
in hie native costume for the first time)—
Well well! That man most he in his
.eiond childhood, andha. gpne back
Somewhat Keecntrle.
A strange case of insunity hue recent
ly come to light at Ballston. Tho un
fortunate person is Charles H. Morris,
thirty-two years of age und an expert
accountant. He has for a long time
been known as a man of many occen-
trlcities, and bos frequently boon made
the objeot of practical jokes by sporting
men. It is thought that constant joking
and teasing have been a potent factor In
impairing hlB mental faculties.
He has several times lately left town
for a few days, sometimes on business,
sometimes on pleasure, and before leav
ing caused to bo published )n tho local
papers paragraphs to the effect that lie
“had gone to New York to attend a con
vention of the rugplokere at the Fifth
Avenue hotel.” About two months ago
invitations were sent out uuuuuuuiiig
that ho wus about to marry u well kuowu
young woman from another town. The
invitations wero bona fide, but oil the
day of tho wedding Morris roinuined in
town, denying that he had any thought
of marrying. Ho Is considered a first
class accountant, and appears to be as
sane ns any one except for these actions
—Albany Journal.
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Why Dry Land I* Increasing.
An essential cause of. increase of
dry land is the decrease of the ocean
itself in consequence of infiltration
of water through the crust of the
earth, which is a kind of porous
mass, into which the liquid element
percolates by innumerable fissures,
tiding possession of the depths and
itself slowly toward the
center, as the internal fire diminishes
crack open in conse-
• activity- of
volcanoes and many
is lanjply. due to this
' qu of the water,
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Science Monthly.
Wz hiJreVgjj leedyand postiye' isiiri
for catarrh, drahtherla/'caflkefrmouth
and headachty^ffi 1 ShTlfih’s CatArrh a
Remedy. A nasal injector free with v
each bottle. Use it jfyou desire health
and sweet breath. Price 60c. Sold by
H. J. Lamar A Sons.* «♦*» (6)
ThoinmmU of Tom, of OU.
Oil is to be used as fuel instead of coal
in all the big furnaces at the World's
fair grounds. The exposition company
will pay the Standard OU company sev
enty cents a barrel until 1898, and then
have the privilege of getting the oil nt
the lowest market price, not to exceed
Tiy t cents a barrel. The contract will
be for perhaps the largest quuntity ever
sold to one consumer. The lowest es
timate that has ever been made of the
amount of coul'that would be burned nt
Jocksou park during the exposition was
75.000 tons. On this basis 225,000 bar
rels of oil would be used, but it Is prob
able that the amount will be largely in
excess of that estimate.—Oleveland Her
ald.
Divorced for Telling 1.1 el.
In tho circuit court at Beatrice, Neb.,
Saturday, William Truesdale was grant
ed an absolute divorce from his wifo.
Amelia. The petition reciting tho
chargee on which divorce was sued for
is tiie most curious one ever filed in
court. It recites the fact that the wife
is an incorrigible gossip, whose tale tell
ing propensities and penchant for gos
siping render life with her unbearable.
Traesdale avers that in the three years
he has lived with his wife she has told
10.000 lies. “She cannot teU the troth,”
he declares in his petition, “and while
it is in the nature of a disease, I believe
it incurable. Hence 1 ask relief in a
divorce.”—Cor. Philadelphia Press.
HI. Bdttl. Proved to B. Loaded.
A young boy named Gilson, in com
pany with one or two other hoys, was
on tiie sewer dock and discovered sev
eral bottles in an old iron tank, in one
of the bottles was a white snbstance.
Young Gilson's curiosity was aroused.
He produced a match and, lighting it,
dropped it into the bottle. He held the
bottle In his right hand, and no sooner
had the match strnck the bottom of the
buttle than an explosion foUowed, blow
ing the bottle to atoms, fiUing Gilson's
hand with the fragments of the glass
and also nearly blowing the thumb off
his hand.—New Haven Register.
Forests of G'rooco.
In ancient times Greece possessed
about 7,500,000 acres of dense forest, and'
she was comparatively rich in timber
nntil about fifty years ago. Much of it
has, however, now .disappeared.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Oh, TVbnt n Cougb.
Will ydu’-hfed the warning? The
signal perhaps of the sure approach of
tbst-more-terrl''
tion. Ask yoi'
There Is No Place Like Home.
This is more particularly the
case if among the attractions of
your home is one of our Reclining .
Chairs. Nothing is too good for
the place you live in; if you want
the best anywhere, you want it
there. There’s nothing homely
about these Reclining Chairs, but
homely is the home that hasn’t got
them. They would be cheap at a
good deal more than we are asking
for them; they couldn’t be any
cheaper without sending somebody
into involuntary bankruptcy, and
that somebody wouldn’t be the
buyer. Are you a buyer? If not,
you never had a better time for
becoming one.
It’s No Light Matter*
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To get what you exactly want in
furniture at exactly what you can
afford to pay. Give us a chance
to help you out. If we can’t do it,
it can’t be done anywhere. Now,
here is a plain, straightforward,
flatfooted proposition: We agree
to sell lower than the lowest, no
matter Low low it may be. If your
resources are slender, we will put
within reach of your pocketbook
what has hitherto been out of it..
If you don’t think We will maker-,
good what we say, let us quote, ft; ..
sample figure, Here it is; A Ear-,
lar Suit for $35.00, and everything,
else in proportion; , f *
If you haven’t all the raQuey fo’
pay cash down, we will sell ; you
on installments, - tggf
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