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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-05

A single trial Of DR. Henry Baxter'5 Man
drake Bitters viii convince any one troubled
with costiveness, torpid liver or amy kindred
diseases of their curative properties. They
only cost 25 cents per bottle. I'm
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Hail and snow last night.
Thanksgiving day, Thursday, cath inst.
The voting booths are being put up.
Old Boreas was ON high horse last night.
One cannot be too careful about fires in
this kind Of weather
The County Press Association will meet in
Pottsyille ON the 10Th inst
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Shenandoah people visiting the county
seat (sunamed Pottsyille) an call in the
Academy Restaurant. Either j. IF. Cooney
the proprietor, greets you with smile, or
his genial brother, NJ. A. Cooney, welcomes
you. 1t is the resent for all gentlemen from
north Of the mountain. s-2l-tc
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~ w.
.lIySgis ,sts b water works contract
:: :: !: :" :: ." =: :" !: : ::
---lsIFrT7SSHA by some people and the
But from inquiries made by the HERALD
yesterday the stand taken by the Thomas
Coal Company seems to be the largest and
most painful thorn that has yet been placed
in the side of the movement.
A prominent gentleman said yesterday,
" You may say what you like, but possession
is nine points Of the law and that is just the
position that the Thomas Coal Company
holds"
At present there is no suit pending in this
particular matter. Messrs. Quinn and
Kerns, the contractors for the water works
have stopped work on the following notice,
which was served on two of their foremen,
Martin Phalen and Edward Bowling:
"GENrLEMEN You are working on the land
of the Girard Estate and interfering with the
lease Of the Thoma. Coal Company, and l. as
superintendent of The said Thomas Coal Com
pany, command on to stop work at once,
unexpectedly,
"THOMAs BAIRD, Superintendent
When the contractors showed this notice to
their attorney they were advised to obey the
notice and stop work. This has been done
and, as reported in yesterdays HERALD, the
borough has made arrangements to file a
bond of $4,000 to secure the Thomas Coal
Company against damages so that Quinn &
Kerns may go on with the work. Just how
far bond of $4,000 will go in satisfying
the Thomas Coal Company is an open ques-
ton. There are some who believe that If
any security viii suffice it will have to be Of
much larger amount than the borough
offers.
The position of the Thomas Coal Company
seems to be something like this; The
present method of constructing dams is
practically a failure and Superintendent
Thomas Baird, the other officials and en-
ployes Of the Kelley Run colIory are not
disposed to take their lives in their hand.
in operating the mines with the proposed
new dams stationed above the large Nam.
moth Buck Mountain and Seven Foot cror
falls Of the colliery Besides this the
Thomas Coal Company has leased the land
and as lossees it is obliged to keep Off all
trespassers. To the company the borough
and the contractors appear as trespasscrs and
the company has warned them off the land
A gentleman who seems to have a pretty
good insight of the matter said to HERALI
reporter yesterday; "The Thomas Coal Com
pany holds position entirely different tl
either the old water company, ex-senator
Torbert, or the Girard estate The company
is in possession Of the land and the lease IN
der which it holds possession requires it t,
]
the company has a ground which was set ou
in a letter sent some time ago to Heber $
Thompson, Esq, Chief Engineer OF tn,
Grard Estate, by Superintendent Baird
The letter was as pointed and as positive al
the notice that caused Messrs Quinn 4
Kerns to stop work and l have here cop,
of it, It reads;
oI as superintendent of the Kebrc,.s Rul
collierN being entrusted with the safety OF nay
rcsponsibie Tor a1y acc,dent ,,.fri Nib,
occur through the erection Of any more reseI
o,tI oH ", l''ou'i''u nol o' 1e 0,,p l1l' o
against the erection Of any new reservoirs"
"You can see for yourself the positiop tn
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-05

Many things which are advertised possess no
W. lue; but who would say that Dr. Bun s
Cough Syrup possesses no meritf II is the
standard remedy of our age,
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-05

To vote the full Republican ticket
place q cross mark in tho square tu
the right OF the word Republican,
thus.
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IERE was a fire this
morning, and a most
ugly one it threatened
to be, but, thanks to
the prompt and active
service of our volunteer
fire department, an al
most assured conha-
grafton was nipped in
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Girls for general housework. Call at Max
Reeses intelligence office. ll-1-tf
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SOLID and plated Silver
ware, Gold and Silver
Watches, Diamonds, Precious
Stones, Clocks, Bronzes, Opt
cal Goods, Banquet, Parlor and
Piano Lamps, unique in design
with IS and 250 candle power
burners. All goods superior
in finish and quality with rock
bottom prices that Withstand
all opposition VIGOROUSLY.
Repair work executed neatly
and promptly at
IL
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One Car No. l Timothy Hay
One Car No. l Timothy Hay
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-05

Coughing Loads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam win stop the cough at
)nce.
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.tE stop put upon the
progress Of the new
water works contract
is not fully understood
by some people and the
promoters seem to treat
it with Indifference.
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One Car Choice Mixed Middlings
One Car Choice Mixed Middlings
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Blankets
A Ten-day Sale will close out
this lot:

100 pairs 1914 Gray Blankets, at 75c n pair.
1 90 pairs l0-4 Gray Blankets. at S7Hc pair.
100 pairs l04 ArtiC Gray Blankets 81 % pair.
100 pairs 1914 Riverton Alb Gray Blankets, at
8lN% pair.
100 pairs l04 Riverton 5lb. Gray Blankets, at
Sl,62L9 a pair.
100 pairs l0-4 Riyerton GLIB. Gray Blankets, at
s. 90 pair
100 pairs III Gray Blankets at So 2j pair.
100 pairs Ia Extra Gray Blankets, s275 pair.
90 pairs Ia very " S3 - pair.
100 pairs Ia S3.35H a pair.
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Everything a Decided Barg0m.

GENTS Natural Wool Suits, worth
U 81 so, sold now for ~. Comfortables
and Blankets cheap. Come at once anc
secure good values at old reliable stand
2S South Main street, next door 10 Grand
Union Tea store.
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One Car Yellow Corn
One Car Yellow Corn
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which he has since described as the "Coun-
Gil of the Wild Men of the Forest"
In huge open clearing, the ground car
peted with dark green moss, the leaves
forming an arched roof of foliage over
head. were assembled from 100 10 800
male gorillas. There was q certain order
both in their grouping and their actions.
Now one, now another, would 60 through
a series of irregular gestures, accompanied
by low cultural utterances, while the rest
followed his every movement with the
keenest interest. As each unCOuth orator
finished his harangue, perfect Babel of
hoarse cries, meant evidently 10 express
assent or disspproval, would break forth
for a few moments. 1t was marvellous to
watch the agitation, the excitement. the
constant play of expression, on these
groiesque physiognomies, which were
quite rs intelligent and human in appear
ance as those of many African Sayages.
Mayne did not for moment doubt that
he was witnessing a formal council OF
these strange beings. What could they be
discussing so excitedly? Undoubtedly
something Of unusual Importance. Alasl
he could guess nothing. There was no in
0Icatlon save that of direction. An oft
repeated gesture Of the huge arms. a con-
slant turning of their heads toward one
point. little southwark. How he longed
TO understand their language! For thai it
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of foliage. As he drew nearer the sound
grew more distinct, less human. 1t was
now more like the baying and growing of
bloodhounds. Sometimes it ceased for an
instant, only to resume again louder and
more threatening than before. The dam
ger was the more terrible because its quail
ity was unknown.
The ardor of the scientist blinded him to
all risks. deadened the voice of reason.
Patiently, stealthily, he crept forward.
Already he could distinguish a moving
mass of black forms. His keen eyes
sighted the hollow trunk of huge tree
which might serve as a hiding place.
Could he reach it? He must pass within
a dozen yards of the gorillas. Would not
the keen scent of the animals detect his
presence, even though he succeeded in
passing them unseen2
Yet he had faint hope. In that i'm
mense crowd surely the strong odor of the
animals themselves would conceal the odor
OF human flesh, diminished as it was by the
garments he wore.
Creeping slowly forward ffom tree to
tree, from bush to bush, crouching close to
the earth, he accomplished over half the
distance. Some leaves rustled beneath his
touch. Instantly several hundred pairs of
cleaning eyes were turned menacingly to-
wards him. Was he discovered? Even in
this moment of intense suspense he was
thrilled with admiration for these superb
creatures. Their forms were colossal. Al
though their height did not exceed that of
the average man, their weight must have
been nearly three times as great. Their
legs were short, but strong as iron; their
chests and shoulders herculean. Their
long arms looked capable of strangling a
lion or rhinoceros in their grasp.
The gorillas resumed their clamor. They
had held the forest too long to be easily
startled or disturbed. A few moments
more and Mayne reached the tree in
safety. He drew long breath of relief as
he stood upright within the shelter of
its hollow trunk. He found, as he had
OWNED. plenty of assures in the wood,
through which he could make his observa-
tons. 1t was with a feeling of triumph
and breathless interest that he looked out
from the cover of his citadel on a scene
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formed from that moment bond OF trust
and sympathy. Henceforth Mayne would
have friend, perhaps pupil. in his COM
panion.
Their arrival at the island was hailed
with delight and astoufshment by crowd
of feverishly excited beings.
Let him explain" thought the natu-
ralist; 'he will do the rest" And in eff
feet the gorilla began series of animated
gesticuiations which the others followed
with the utmost attention. 1t seemed as
though the agony and suffering they had
endured had quickened their intelligence.
Soon about a dozen mustered sufficient
courage to venture on the return voyage.
Mayne placed them carefully on the center
of the raft and pushed off cautiously. The
water was calm. The raft moved smoothly.
In less than quarter of an hour his timid
passengers were landed in safety. Then
there arose wild and mighty tumult,
awakening all the echoes of the forest. A
chorus of mad and savage Joy. Mayne
was surrounded, caressed by huge, hairy
hands, almost smothered under demon
STATIONS of affection. All distrust, all hos
tility had vanished. As strong in their
gratitude as in their dislike, they would
offer henceforth only blind devotion to the
mysterious white stranger, this pale-faced
son OF an unknown race. who had rescued
their fellow-creatures from the very jaws
of death.
Once more, as at the opening of my tale,
it is early nightfall in Africa. The moon
is slowly rising like disc of fire on the
border OF the horizon. Mayne lies dream
ing by the bank of the river. His desire
is to be fulfilled at last He has become
the friend, the hero, of the gorillas They
respect and admire him. Unconsciously
they offered him a sort of savage worship.
He can study them without haste and
without fear. And the result! Through
him may be handed down the early
history of the human race, not the story
furnished by the Imagination and con-
lecture. but the true epic of nature-the
evolution of man. He will learn
the secret of the dark ages, of the
infancy of the species, ere one was
chosen from among them to be lord of all
the living creatures of the earth. The
thought to him is full OF strange, sweet
triumph. He loves these children of the
ancestral race with their fierce instincts,
their savage passions, their determined
war against the extinction of their kind.
He would aid them in protecting their
domain against human invasion, against
the conquering march of civilization.
The moon rises higher and higher. A
faint breeze stirs among the foliage. The
perfume of the tropical flowers is borne to
him on the evening. air. Tired from the
labors of the day, Mayne's weary eyelids
close. His head sinks back upon cush-
ion of moss. And the rustling of the
leaves, the silvery murmur of the river,
the weird cries of the animals in the dis
lance sing to him slumber song.
In December of 1890 a sentinel at the
French post of New Metz, in Central
Africa, was startled by strange appari-
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THE CHRISTIAN.

There was a tavny woman of the sands,
lithe-liInbed and rounded, and who moved at
ease
With siuuous grace az some wild leopardess
On desert wilds: and black her piercing eyes
AS the great vulture's of the snowy peaks,
Who all day long hung pendent in the clouds
And watched the lazy caravans pace by.
And whites there came q traveller in those ways
And sat him down beside the desert well,
Ate the dry dates and cooled his parching lips
And told strange tales of a mysterious God,
Who ruled the world, and taught the willing
stars
To whirl submissive in their orbits round;
And sang His praises with inspiring voice.
Til In the breast OF this lone creature leaped
pulsing fame of hope, that fickered up
AS dawn's faint tapers light unwilling skies.
Over her troubled fancy then there came
A vague ontreaching Of awakened life;
And filed with helpful longing for he. kind
She left the green oasis OF her youth
And traversed many mile OF burning SANDS,
Until the gates of pagan cities doomed
Before her pathway menacing and bare.
And entering in, with rapt TRANSPORTED face,
She spent her days and Sacrificed her nights,
Until at length, the pagan language learned,
With eager lips she told the Christian creed,
The love of God, the spotless life of Christ,
Faith, hope and charity, and tender love
And when the pagans made holiday
They gave her 10 the lions for her palms.
Ernest McGdfey.
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P. S. DONOVAN,
PLEA FOR LoNG-pIsrANcE RACING.

racing will be begun with the race for
the Brooklyn handicap, an event as i'm
portant a fixture in the racing world as
many others of far greater age. but no
greater prestige. Many of the best horses
in training in the East are entered, and
when the great event is over the season of
summer racing will have been fairly in
augurated.
Other and far more valuable races than
the great handicap will follow each other
in rapid succession. One of the most in
teresting to many race-goers will be the
first great 2-year-old race of the year
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the great American stake, worth $4,000.
The ordinary reader can hardly realize,
perhaps, that a thoroughbred colt or tilly
hardly two years old when the race Is run,
may not only win that. but also series OF
even richer prizes. such as the Great Eclipse
stake. at Morris park. worth at least
SIS. 600; the Junior Champion, worth
about the same amount; the Futurity, at
Sheepshead Bay, worth about SO. 900; the
Great Eastern handicap, at the same place;
the Double Event and scores of other valu-
able prizes, all conceived by the various
jockey clubs for greater enhancement OF
2-year-old racing.
And yet it is an open question if this
prodigality is a good thing for the future
of the turf. For some years now the fact
has been noted and commented upon that
the fields of horses that run in what are
known as overnight sweepstakes were far
lighter than seemed good for the jockey
clubs on the one part and the public on
the other. The vast increase in racing
ated a demand upon stables of horses
which had the inevitable effect of exhaust
ing their stamina.
This has been particularly the case in
2-year-old races, so much so, in fact, that
it is no uncommon thing now during the
height of the racing season to see on
daily programme two races for 2-year-olds.
age of course discounts their availability
for campaigning at 8 more mature age,
hence each year notes an increase in the
ranks of what are called selling platers,"
and decrease in the number of good, SER
viceable. everyday handicap horses.
That the public are sufferers from this
state of affairs is patent enough, for when
ever a long distance race Is carded at one
of the metropolitan tracks the attendance
is large, and there is easily noted more
hearty enthusiasm during the contest and
at its outcome. In lieu of long distance
races, however, the paying public are very
frequently surfelted with 4 programme of
short dashes, with the result depending so
much upon the fall of the flag that little
real enjoyment is experienced when such
races are being run.
Now it seems to me that an organized
effort to reduce the number of 2-year-old
races and to coax and cajole, cudgel or
club owners to run their horses in long
races will ultimately rebound to the profit of
jockey clubs. In many cases horse owners
who are now forced to run their horses in
short races, with the almost lnvariable re-
suit that a very few horses win most ofthose
races, would be glad of the chance to train
and run them in longer races, with the re-
suit that the contests would afford more
real enjoyment TO the paying public and
arrest an evil which. if permitted to go on
as it has. must, before many years have
passed, bring the name OF the American
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absorbed and controlled him completely.
On the morrow he would enter the kyamo.
The forest of the ages, grander, more
wild, more darkly mysterious than the
forests of the Amazon or the Australian
bush. Mayne, who, on the repeated as
surances of the natives that it was impos-
sible for more than one person at time
to venture into its domain, resolved, if
possible, to penetrate its Utmost depths.
Astonished at finding the wild luxuriance
and disorder of tie vegetation intersected
by distinct, although narrow and rough
pathways, he had pushed steadily forward
for nearly four hours. The heaviness of
the air, the semi-darkness, above all, the
intense, almost menacing sense of soli-
tude weighed upon his spirits. Nowhere
had he found that which he SO eagerly
sought-the great gorilla, the king of the
wilderness.
Sometimes, it is true, he thought he per-
ceived behind screen of leaves gleam-
ing pair of dark eyes or the movements of
huge black body, but nearer inspection
proved this TO be chimerical. Here and
there he saw upon the ground the i'm
prints of a gorilla's feet, and in places the
grasses and moss were trodden down,
showing the passage of herd of heavy
animals-sights which quickened his
pulses and made him feel furtiyely for the
revolvers in his belt. Yet the loneliness,
the hnOHlcuSc Vi the uduSeTS ne might
have to face at any moment, had rather
added to than diminished his zeal
He was on the threshold of great dis
covery. Why not, he said to himself, in
stead of observing them from g distance,
live among these strange creatures for
time; why not share their life while Ham,
melin and Ranstein pursued their ex-
plorations?
A sudden ciamor, noise that seemed
almost human, startled him. 1t was like
the surging and growing of an Infatuated
mob in time of revolution. Fully alive to
the danger, Mayne was vet impelled ire
sistibly onward, moving warily, crouch
ing as much as possible behind the screen
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of being misunderstood and attacked. He
moved 1t gently to and fro, using young
sapling for pole. pointing continually
from one bank to the other.
At last the chief. he to whom Mayne had
at first addressed himself. decided to go
with him. 1t was resolve full OF hero
natural terror of water was hard to over
come. Slowly, trembling and shiyering
like frightened child, he crept on to the
raft. There was hoarse murmur from
the others as it moved gently from the
shore. Mayne's companion gradually be-
came calmer. His quick, intelligent eyes.
soon comprehended their relation to the
motion of the craft And between the
man OF the civilized world and the primi-
tive man, the lord of the forest, there was
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had preserved from darker ages the traces
of former superior estate, the rudiments
OF organization, n system Of defense well
regulated and powerful and immense vital
energy. There was the analogy of what
man had been in the beginning-a race of
beings that had failed through some I'M
known cause 20 reach that intellectual de-
velopment which man, the weaker vessel
physically, has attained. 1t was the gen
esis of mankind-the most terrible and
the most grand of epic poems that the hu-
man brain can conceive.
The huge fire had grown higher and
higher. Now the glow from the leaping
flames made even the moon and stars seem
dim and pale. The natives clapped their
hands and shouted in childish excite
ment SIS they danced around II.
From afsr the beasts of the plains.
silenced a moment by the sudden light,
took up once more the chorus OF the
wilderness-the clamor of the hunt, Of fear,
Of love.
The scent Of the tropical blossoms was
oyerpowered by the smell OF the burning
meats. Huge bulls and antelopeS had
been thrown whole into the flames. 1t
was q weird and interesting scene 10 HAM
melin and Ransteln. Mayne was deaf and
blind 10 It all. One iayincible thought