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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01
waynesburg's First Illumination.

Four years ago the Waynesburg
Natural Gas Company commenced
to lay their pipes in Waynesburg for
fuel, the gas being from the Worley
well at Blacksville, w. Va The mains
in the town required about seven
miles OF pipe, and Wednesday night
the gas was turned on for the first
time. Two standpipes were erected
in front Of the public square and the
town was brilliantly illuminated.
The people welcome the gas, notwith
standing coal can be bought cheap.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01

ASK for the STANDARD" shirt ii
you want satisfaction and comforts at
Hirschman's
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01
G. D. ALIEBAUGH

House painter, grainer, glazier
mi paper hanger. Estimates furn-
isaed on old and new work
| guarantee the best workman
ship in everything.
Residenee Walnut street.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01
ld furniture painted with
PIk-RON

this is the name Of the paint, looks like
stained and vanished neU furniture. One
coat will do it A child can apply it. Yeu
can change pine 20 walnut, or cherry
to mahogany; there is no limit to your
fancies. All retailers sell it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01

Oil cloth, table linen, tow
els, laces, embroideries, hand
kerchiefs, and a lot of saxony
yarn, just received at the Bee
Hive Store, Mt. Morris, Pa.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01

DR.. Fenner's Salt Rheum Ointment
is known by those familiar with it as
the ''grandest medicine ever made by
man." For all skin eruptions. War
ranted TO satisfy or money refunded.
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over the lawn where the last rays of the
glowing red sun were resting, she realized
fully how deep were the cruel wounds which
the weary years of waiting had made in
Miss Grace's gentle heart, and to what
they had at last brought her. Poor little
old maids
All through the summer they humored
her, Miss Farnham and good-hearted Jane,
and sometimes the doctor.
He would come again in the autumn, they
said, and Miss Grace watched the leaves in
the garden grown red, and gold, and brown,
and even when they futtered to the ground
and were blown hither and thither by the
wild winds, and when she knew that winter
was close at hand-he never came.
They told her that he would coEle in the
spring-time, and they used to move her
great armchair close to the window where
she could see down to the lime-walk, and
the rustic bench, and the old garden gate;
and she saw how the snow all melted away
at the caressing touch of the bright sun
shine which seemed to CLINT and sparkle
everywhere, even in her dark gloomy bed
room and even when She saw the welcom-
ed buds and leaflets on the lime-trees in the
old walk, she asked-and no. even then he
had not come
The rosebushes were all in bloom once
more, and Jane gathered handsful of them
and carried them in to Miss Grace; and
Miss Farnham laid them on her bosom and
in her thin folded hands.
She had trusted all through the long
spring time, and then at last when the scent
of the flowers was waited up from the
pretty garden to her window, and she knew
,"ot another summer was come, she smiled
iie' oiU So"''-' = -;ant smile, and closed her
tired eyes, and rested-lD- on. ~.
never came.
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The Daisy.


The daisy is everywhere. I have lrav-
eIed somewhat extensively in the Old
World, but have not been lucky enough to
see it anywhere as proli6cally happy as it
is with us. 1t is not the daisy of the poets
the daisy of Burns, which is not taking
to wildhood in our eastern States, though
finding itself at home in British Columbia,
but species of chrysanthemum and is dis
tinctively known in the Old World as the
oxeye daisy Like the buttercup, it is of
fensive to cattle, and indeed to almost all
things. In dry and pulverized condition
it is fly powder, so destructive to all in
sects.
In those portions of our country where
Indian corn is a staple crop, neither the
buttercup nor the oxeye daisy are dreaded
BY the farmer. The hoe narrowing de-
stroys it utterly, but in the New England
States, where pasture is of more conse-
quence than grain, they rob the farmer of
half his profits while giving pleasure to the
eye of the traveller.
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when he Topped his wings in his vain at
tempt to sail out through the glass, he
gave his mysterious shadow the look of
waving the arms wildly.
"Then when he flew back out of the
direct shine of the light the figure disap-
peared, of course
eve never knew just how he got in
there, but no doubt it happened when Jim
went to fix the light at the pumping sta
ton.
"Anyhow he saved our lives by soaring
us with that woman in black.
$50 you see why keep the moth in the
frame. It's to remind me of the way we
were saved that night. Yes, you might
call it accidental, but call it providential. +"
"All aboard, called the conductor of the
limited, coming out of the telegraph office
with paper in his hand.
Jim the cabman ran and jumped into
the cab as | stepped down to go back to
my car
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Aoetrp.
Autumn and the After-Glow.

By Edith NJ Thomas. II, ScriJners Magazine
When the far woods misty veil assume
CThe sun being gone), and stand in solemn hush,
To the pale heavens comes a heightened bloom;
Slowly II gathers-an ethereal flush
Blending the summer rose the orioles breast
Wine-fruit-and LEAKAGE touched to various flame
The candle-light of home far seen and blest
And fower-like, gem-like, splendors without name
This is the reminiscent After-glow
Days riches told upon tho bourn of Night:
So l. life's pilgrim, ere from hence go.
Resigning the sweet heritage oflsht,
Would view in the souls west the pageant train
OF what hath been. but shall not he again.
As dies the Day so dies the blessed Year
Through dreamful languishment and mystic trance
With murmur-voiced adien and wistful glance
Still deepening as the shadow draws more near.
What is II wanders with the thistle's sphere.
Or darts before the gossamers shimmering lance,
Or mngles with the lost leaves elfn dance,
Or, birdlike. flutes along the upland scar?
The host Oft those departingi Yet, while
They linger and with sweet remembering
Catch back the tender prattle of the Spring,
The full heart-throb OfSummer and her smile
Good-by, fond Day, good-by, regretful Year
ie go-the Night and Winter tarry here!
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-15
UHoLEsALE GROCERY, &c.

We are now prepared to furnish the trade
with
MOLASSES, SYRUPS, SUGARS, OILS,
SALT, CRACKERS, CANDIES, FRUITS,
ORANGES, LEMONS, NUTS. CHEESE,
RASINS. WRAPPING PAPER, PICKLES,
COFFEE, TEAS, SPICES, SOAPS,
PATENT MEDICINES SALT MRATS-
GLASS AND QUEENSWARE, BASKETS,
BRoOMS, &C., &c.A call is solicited.
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origin of weIl-Known Phrase.
Fiom Harper's Bazar.


Phrases and slang terms are frequently
born of interesting episodes, as witness the
following: Peter the Great while off driv-
ing in the neighborhood of Moscow on one
occasion was seized with the pangs of hun
ger "What have we in the hamper 2 he
asked of his aid "There is but one can
die left, your majesty, replied the aid,
s'but think can exchange it for fowl
at the next farmhouse if you wish. do
so, replied the czsr, sfor | am famished
and do not care for light luncheon. :,
The aid laughed, and, as he surmised,
managed the exchange; bat the bird was
found to be unusually tough. 81 do not
think, Vosky, said the emperor lateS-"I
do not think the game was worth the eau
die
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into the darkness. | turned and looked,
and then | began to shake myself.
"There on the track was the same hid
eous figure of woman, outlined on the
background of light from the engine, now
motionless, now whirling in witch dance,
but all the time motioning us back.
"'Frapk, gasped Jim, but scarcely above
whisper, don't go over that trestle |!
Don't go, for heavens sake Don't go till
you're sure it's safe !
81 suppose was pretty badly scared.
At any rate, put on the air brake for all
was worth. | couldn't have resisted the
impulse to stop the train.
Gas we came to a stop | could hear the
roar of the water in Rock creek right
ahead. stepped out of the cab and met
the conductor coming up.
p'What's the matter? What's the mat
ter? he asked impatiently,
'I felt decidedly foolish. There was no
gigantic woman to be seen now. Nothing
could be made out more than a few feet
away in the binding storm,
"'Well, said |, we've seen something.
| don't know what it is-seemed like il
was great black ghost that was waving
its arms and warning us not to go forward.
"The conductor looked at me curlouSly
Are you crazy, Frank ? he said. i SHOULD
think you were. But we're so near the
trestle we'll take look at it.
"We took our lanterns and went ahead
leaving Jim with the engine; he looket
scared all over. But tell you We hadn'
gone five rods before we stopped in horror
"There at our feet lay a black chasm
filled with the roar of the river, as swolle
with the spring rains it dashed down to
ward the lake. The bridge was washe,
away
"Only few splinters of wood and twiste
iron clung to the abutment, while now, ia
out over the blackness, that awful hlac
figure of woman danced again on the thi
air, relieved against the shaft of light tha
the headlight threw.
at was tiinging its arms about as if
wild glee.
"The conductor stared at the chasm an
, then at me.
"'Was that the thing you saw when 20
stopped the train ? he asked.
Yes
"'Well, it's something more than luc
| that saved us tonight, Frank
ave went back slowly to the train, fee
ing very queer and thankful, too, l ca
assure you. Several of the passengers ha
come running forward by this time. Amor
: them was young fellow from Chicag
: about eighteen years old, who was smart
than the whole of US, as it turned out.
t "When this boy saw the woman
! black he turned and looked at the locom
: tive headlight Then he ran up toward
l looked at it as he did so. saw pee
s liar spot on the glass.
f "'There's your woman in black 7 sa
the Chicago boy.
aAnd there it was, sure enough-th
t same moth miller that you see there in ii
1t frame He was Clinging to the inside
n the glass. As | tapped on the glass :
l. creature few back and lighted on the
;. fector.
a ''Thats the whole story, sir. The moi
n by fiuttering on the glass just in front
E the electric illuminator, had produced
It great black shadow, like that of a cloak
n woman, on the darkness in front Of us, q
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-15
PUT UP SUITS

at such prices as cannot help but be an in
ducement for you to buy. | can show you
more styles of goods, give you IA first class fit
and prices that defy competition. Give me
call and you will be convinced that / am
right.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-15
VOL. XXVII.-NO. 30.

in order to make schedule time he must
run at such speed that often he cannot
see signal before he is upon it.
But laughed at myself for my fears
as backed down and coupled onto the
train. | set the brakes and found every
thing in good order.
'By and by the little gong above my
head changed sharply, and with puff and
hiss Of escaping steam We were off into
night and storm, rafting over switches,
past signal lights and between long lines of
cars, till, with a roar and rumble we rush
ed over the long iron bridge and away
through the hills, waking their slumbering
echoes with our shrill whistle.
"Then pulled the throttle wide open
and the clank and roar soon settled into
hum, for old 449 was doing her best and
we were making fifty miles an hour.
"The darkness was intense save where
the headlight, an electric device, cast its
funnel of light into the gloom. Jim had
a hot fire and kept steam up to high
pressure, so that We fairly flew past sleep
ing hamlets and shli farmhouses.
'At our first watering station l made
sure that all was working smoothly, while
Jim inspected the headlight. The opera
tor handed out the orders, which showed
that the road was clear as far as our next
stopping place On We went.
"The darkness grew more intense. if pos
sible, while the wind shrieked by. The
rain became more binding, till nothing
could be distinguished in the gray murk
which enveloped us.
Suddenly through the mist and rain
saw looming right before us the gigantic
figure of woman wrapped in long black
mantle, which seemed to fiutter in the
wind. She waved great spectral arms
about in swift, twisting movements. As
sat, looking in horror, the figure vanished
a If final wave of her arms.
g., ,ouch astonished and stupe-
ward the throttle. At {fflao o. my hand to-
had been bending over the fire 'e"e Jun
he
"'Hello, Frank, what's up? You look
as if you had seen a ghost =
II did not answer My mind was too
full of that strange figure | had seen.
"We were now nearing Rock creek,
where there is trestle over deep stream.
| felt more nervous than ever.
"We dashed around the curve and
whizzed by Rock Greek station, which is
only mile from the trestle As we passed
l glanced at the steam gauge for an in
stant.
"a cry from Jim caused me to turn
quickly toward him. He sat rigid, his
eyes large and staring, his jaw dropped,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-15
Men With Pretty Nails.

"Men are no longer ashamed to have
their nails attended to, said a fashionable
manicure specialist to a Washington Star
reporter. Eyes, indeed, they used to be
very much so. Fourteen years ago, when
| first came to Washington, my occasional
male customers were wont to dodge into
my shop in asneaking way, as if they feared
detection in the act Let your fingers rest
in this little basin of warm water, if you
please. But, as | was about to say, that
has all changed. Very many gentlemen,
about half as many as ladies, come to me
to have their hands treated. Nor, if they
happen to be seen here by any of their
friends, do they feel abashed.
"You see people have come to consider
it as much matter of course to have their
nails attended to as to have their teeth kept
in order. Once upon time it was re-
garded as nothing out of the way to have
decayed teeth, and toothaches we're COM
mon complaint. Let me take your hand
and dry it in this towel, So I have quite
parinr f6Es3epal OF weapons, you observe, for
ations. Take notieat other necessary Oper-
little curved scissors can be 'eG22tely these
trim away little bits of superAuous skio
around the nails As | was remarking, it
is the thing now to have the hands mani
cured. The most fashionable people have
their nails put in order regularly once
week
"The art of manicuring originated in
France and was brought to this country
about fifteen years ago A little while be-
fore that it had become the fashion ON this
side of the water, for ladies particularly, to
nossess sets of tools for improyinp their
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-15
Is YOUR CHANCE
BUY CHEAP FARMS.

Ifany one in Carroll county wants n cheap
farm, good land, easily cultivated, conyen-
iently located, and great bargain, let him
call at the ADVOCATE Office. number OF
fine farms are in the market, at from 80 to $40
an acre. Go and look at them. 1t will cost you
but little to see them, and you will be enter
good farm at a very low price. Call and get
all the information you will need as to loca-
tion, quality, price, ard terms, which will be
very accommodating. Young farmers can
locate there on good farms, for very little
cash. Examine them for yourselves, and see
if all we represent them TO De is not trne.
Now is your opportunity sept IL
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people today with those of generation or
two ago you would be astonished to find
what an improvement there has been. Now
that have made the tips of your nails
nicely rounded and smooth-edged by rub
bling with this bit of emery cardboard it is
time for you to put your hand back into
the water for moment. Then this young
lady will finish it while | begin on the
other hand. When two of us work to-
gether in this way we can finish with
person in twenty minutes, whereas it would
take me an hour TO do it alone.
"French people are always more careful
about little matters of personal neatness
than the English or Americans-that is,
the gently folks are at all events. My best
customers today are foreigners of the lega-
tions. 1t is they who have done most to
make manicuring fashionable in Washing
ton. A good many people, especially la
dies, come to me every fortnight or so to
have their toenails attended to. No, it is
not usually because they have anything the
matter with them, but merely for the lux
ury of the thing and the identifying effect
on the feet. After person has had the
nails of his hands put in order once, an in
clination is naturally felt to keep them so .
1t is surprising how easy that it is to ac-
complish with a few moments of attention
each day, pushing the skin back around
each nail whenever the hands are washed
and trimming them carefully. The finest
manicuring implements are imported from
Europe Now l will give the nails of your
other hand fnal polishing and you will
be finished Do they not look nicely p
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-10-15
r T. ANDERs.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
"a West Main Street,
Westminster, Md.
My line of
SPRING sUITINGs,

! can say without fear of contradiction, sur
passes any ever offered to the people of this
county, and | am prepared to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-16
CHILDREN OF THE CITY.

The Clam That the Strongest Blood Cannot
Hold Out More Than Three Generations
in the Centers of Population-What the
Little Ones Must Have.
DR.. Henry Ling Taylor has this to say in
a letter to The DISPATCH about the way
to make American children healthier:
1t has been claimed that the strongest
blood cannot endure continuous city life
Tor more than three generations, but must
be kept alive by the infusion of country
blood or by the return in some degree to
country life. Thus our large cities are a
kind of biological furnace, which in the end
consumes the lives supplied to it in order
to obtain the product in trade, science and
art which we so much admire. If, in the
course of this fiery ordeal, the individual
reveals keener temper or finer polish,
he may not become stronger physically, or
better balanced mentally, and thousands,
unable to endure the strain, are cast off or
are not able to transmit to their children
the physical endowment which they them
selves originally possessed.
City children get as a rule. too little
light and air, do not take enough of the
right kind of exercise, are often oycrfed or
underfed, are either pushed or pampercd
too much in their studies, and especially in
their emotions, and frequently shorten
their childhood to become little men and
women before emerging from pinafores and
knickerbockers. There is too much of the
shot house" element in their lives. Their
clothing is piled on until the children look
like a bale of millinery; their movements
are impeded, and they are kept artifcially
overheated at time when they ought to be
deriving a natural and wholesome warmth
from exercise. Houses are kept too hot
during the cold season, and the little ones
grow up in an atmosphere of steady, relax
ing warmth, and the continual endeavor is
to protect them from anything approaching
cold.
There is also lack of well-balanced oc-
cupation for the body and the mind There
is no such good fun or good training as
making ones self useful, and it is cruelty
to deprive the child of this pleasure and
stimulus The brain and body should be
trained through hand, foot and eye Dump
a load Of sand in the back yard and let the
children roll in it. Give the boys carpen-
ter's bench, and encourage the girls to do
houseworS. Where possible, let both boy
and girl have little garden patch, if only
a few feet square, and the care of few
plants. Cheeriuiness, sincerity, industry,
perseverance and unselfshness, too, can be
acquired by practice and constant repeti-
tion, as muci as the art of correct speaking
or of playing the piano, and are fur more
necessary to health.
If these be cultivated, and the child be
given more air, light, exercise and occupa-
tion, the coming generation will suffer less
than did the last from the injurious effects
of modern city life.
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p, 0. s. of A.

Camp holds number OF good meetings.
and by the hard and earnest work of their
Recording Secretary. Elmer D. Fry. it is in
creasing in membership at O rapid rate.
It is not necessary to say that the camps
all over our county are doing great amount
of good, and the flies" are all creeping
away, as they are very much afraid of this
enormous spider.
Next Monday evening Camp will have
another rousing meeting ut Wagner's Hall,
corner Beaver and Washington avenues, Al
legheny. All members of the order in Ale
gheny county are cordially invited to be
present
Camp4 is hussling the prospective new
with the assistance of some of Allegheny's
most prominent coiored citizens promises
new camp that will not only be q credit to
Camp 4, but the order in the United States.
The camp at Glenshaw must not be over.
looked in the matter of CONGRATULATIONS, as
the District President L. d. Stone, is Il
member of that camp, and he is hustler
and favorite with every member of the OF.
der. He visits the camps in his territory at
every possible opportunity.
Camp 575. of Pittsburg, initiated six new
members Tuesday evening last and received
several propositions. Since the word white
has been stricken from the constitution this
camp has been making such rapid progress
that Brother Abram T. Hall, its secretary
and champion hustler, has been receiving
showers OF blessings from every direction.
"Broadax" Smith is among the prominent
members Of this camp and so is Ajax Jones.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-16

Triumph Circle No. 1OI has commenced its
winter work and has limitations at eacn
meeting.
Braddock circle is in line with deputy in
tie field, and success is to follow the efforts
by tile indications.
Supreme Organizer Bailey has instituted
three new Circles in this city since July Is,
which makes l6 in all.
The Burgess of Millvale borough, Mr. John
c. Reed. and the editor of the Star were
among the % charter applicants at that
place and were initiated Thursday evening
October
Supreme Organizer W. S. Bailey, assisted
by Is members of Triumph Circle, Instituted
a circle at Millvale borough Thursday even
ing, October 6, to be known us Bennet Circle
No. l20. The following officers were elected
for this term: 7. Grant Bateman, Presidents;
William Z. Hartrey, Vice President; John C.
Reed, Past President: Mrs. James Dixon,
Guardian; John Dixon, Secretary; John
Crime, Accountant; w. II. Dixon, Treasurer;
Mrs. w. Z. Hartrey, Chaplain; Elmer
Zahniser, Porter; Anthony Mamaux, Dr.
Watchman; L. II. erich, Guide; Ella Crime,
Companions; Thomas d. Burns, Local
Deputy; Alexander Allen, NJ. D., Medical
Examiner; T. NJ. Fife, NJ. D., Medical Ex.
aminer.