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REFRAIN.
MORE OF RANDALL's LIFE.

Another of Mr. Randall songs is 1.-The
Old Case of Shells This song was sug-
pested to him by case of rare and beau
tiful sea shells. gathered by his father
on one of his voyages and brought home
to his wife and children. The shells,
packed with the greatest care IN the OLD
chest, are still in the possession OF MT.
Randall. He would not part with them for
any consideration. The words of the song
are as follows:
THE OLD CASE OF SHELLS.
Only some shells by the ocean tossed on
many seabeat Shore,
What memories they awaken as turn
them DER and Ger.
Memories of loving father who brought
them home to me,
But who, alas, has slept for years beneath
the dark blue sea.
CHORUS.
Dear old case Of shells, gathered so long
ago, 49,
Polished by the ocean waves with their
ceaseless ebb and flow,
These treasures of the deep Pill always
near Ile keep, 3@eI
IT'LL from this life of toll and strife l
hear my call to go. Il sss are<
How plainly I can see it now through all
the lapse of years,
The loved face of my mother with eyes
so full of tears, e.tg =,
| How tried to cheer her When he could
no longer stay. -,
| AS from our little home we watched dear
father sail away Chorus
| But these vivid scenes of childhood days
Meier shall know them more.
| The watching for my fathers sail I've
long since given Ger,
| So those bright shells OF ocean smoothed
by the cooling sea,
| Culled BY a fathers hand, are priceless
now to me. Chorus.
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Or reali: 9 her long devotion,
Till the grave hides her face from our
eyes,
Then, while your mother is with you,
With kind words cheer night and morn
Don't wait till her fond heart stops beat
ing,
Don t wait till mother is gone. ~ Chorus.
INTRODUCING SONGS.
1t is rather difficult to introduce song
to the public. Nine chances to one it will
not make hit. however deserving it may
be. Some music publishers say that a
famous singer must be hired to Sgive the
song its first rendering ID public in order
to insure its success. If it is ego" the
cheaper singers will take it up, and it
will be sung on the street and be played
by street bands and hand organs.
But if it is first sung by second-class
singer, no first-class man will sing it,
and it seldom has any success. The re-
suit is that few popular song writers ever
become very wealthy. They probably
take the same pessimistic view of life
as that expressed by the old philosopher
who once said:
'tIt's very good world too live in,
To lend or to spend or to give in;
But to beg of to borrow or get man s
own,
It'so the very worst world that ever was
known"
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THAT FLYING MACHINE.
Lilianthal Has Patent in this COun-
try.

A description Oh the DeV1Ce-lne HOSt
Successful Attempt Yet to Solve the
Problem of Man Flight.
Wednesday morning Of this week. the
PRESS published an account of an ex-
pertinent with flying machine that took
place on Great Diamond island, a week
ago. The experimenter was Mr.. Charles
Fl. Lamson of this city who had had the
machine built after the design of that
used by Lilianthal, the famous German
aeronautist. This was the first time shat
such flying machine had been tried in
America.
The experiment. was successful in dem
onstrating that that sort of flying or
soaring machine would certainly support
man in the air for limited flight
against the wind from the top of an emf
nence to some point below, aftor the
proper skill in using it has been acquired
Mr.. Lamson's experimenting was cut
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Maine State College,

President Harris lectured before the
Northern Aroostook Teachers Associa-
tion at Fort Fairfield Thursday evening.
A gun club of about twenty members
has been formed among the students and
a three days side shoot will be held dur
ing the Thanksgiving Day recess.
G. e. Oak, forest commissioner of the
state, and a Maine State graduate of the
class of rs will lecture before the senior
class on next Tuesday on the subject of
Forestry.
Tie Electric Road Company is erect
ing waiting room on the campus nearly
opposite the Beta Theta Pi house.
M. G. Ward of Tufts college addressed
a meeting of the students Thursday in
regard to forming Prohibition associa-
ton. Fifteen sgnifed their intentions
of becoming members and the following
officers were elected:
Observation-Disclosures, '96.
1st Vice observation-disclosures, '9f.
I'd Vice Observation-Disclosures, 81.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, '97.
Treasurer-Ryther, 81.
Lieut. Mark L. Hersey, late military
instructor, is now stationed at Fort
Niobrara, Nebraska. about 100 miles
southwest of Omaha. Lieut.. Hersey IS
in command of his company and proba-
bly, will be for sometime, as his captain
will be in the East for two or three years.
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Daniel Lizer, of Linoolnville, Ind, ha

Daniel Lizer, of Linoolnville, Ind, has
found in an old trunk in the garrett OF
his residence the first pair of handouts
ever placed on the wrists of John Brown.
Lizer lived at Harpers Ferry at the time
Of the uprising and received the hand,
cuffs from Asa Maysteller, who had
charge of the prison where Brown was
confined. They were afterward mislaid
never found until discovered by accident
a faw DAYS ago
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Mrs. Martha Wilson Atlanta Lumpkln
Campton, now paying visit to Atlanta
is the lady in whose honor the city OF At
lanta received it's first name, Marthas-
Vile. She is the daughter of the late
Wilson Lumpkin, who was governor OF
Georgia and United States senator. She
is living in quaint old house near
Athens, Ga
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SONG WRITING FIREMAN.
r. Randall, and His verses

He Was Born in Portland and One Oh MS
Verses is About the Observatory.
Everyone connected in any way WIN
the Ferry Department knows Charles T.
Randall, or Charlie" Randall, as ne ~
Familiarity called by his more ln1lmaU'
acquaintance, says a writer in the DOS
ton journal. Mr.. Randall is rated as
fireman of the Gen. Hancock, ana lor
four or five years he has been detailed TO
look after the electric lights on that poa'
To thousands of people who cross anu
recross the harbor to and from East bos-
ton every day on the ferries, Mr. Randall
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THE NEW ASTOR MANSION.
Wonderful Beauties of a Private
Home.
The House-Warming Will Soon Take
Place, and swelIdom VIII be AstoundeH
at the Glories.

Place, and SwelIdoin Will be Astoundeda
at the Glories.
Within couple Of weeks one of the
grandest house-warmings that New York
city has ever seen will take place, when
the new Aston palace, on upper Fifth
avenue, is formally taken possession Of
by the falnily-or families, for it is prac-
tically two houses, one of which will be
occupied by Mrs. William Astor, and the
other by Mr.. and Mrs John Jacob Astor,
her son and daughter-in-la says a
writer in the Florida Times Union.
1t is not as imposing as the vast struc-
ure which Cornelius Vanderbilt calls his
town house, but, aside from this, there
is no other home in the city which COM
pares with the Aston palace. Society
folks are very anxious to see the interior,
as the work of building and decorating
the palace, has been carried on with strict
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ESTABLISHED JUNE %, 1s62--voL. as.
MISCELLANEOUS.

"I qcn5st to be the
Jcweler Who Comes
Into Your Mind First"
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with the sudden appearance of Capt. Ran
oall flag Oh the tower
30 one day, many years altef lea'ins
nome aGd coming to Boston, MI A.f'n''iA
recalled this old tower. AS in the case
of his first song. words shaped themselves
into verses, and almost before ne hhe" IL
Mr.. Randall had written out the lollow-
Ing stanzas. He named the song Inc
Old Tower on the HILL" Here are the
words:
THE OLD TOWER ON THE HILL.
There stands upon the hill top, in city
by the sea-
A weather beaten old red tower that once
brought joy to me. d s+or,,
For years it's stood mid VIM ssiiu e0oiih'
its mission to fulfill. -,
There's nothing to my heart more dear
than this old tower on the hill.
REFRAIN.
Shall ever 90 back again to my home by
the murmuring sea?
Shall / ever meet again old friends so
dear to me?
Will this heart e'er feel again q happy
joyous thrill
AT sight of the lofty OLD reu to"or oHeo
stands upon the MIL?
Here, years ago, this city fair, close by
the murmuring sea-,
Contained my happy childhood home and
parents dear to me,
But long ago they passed from earth, the
old home strangers I'LL,
There's nothing now remains 1ne same
but the old tower on the hill.
REFRAIN.
Not long ago climbed its stairs, and
stood beneath it's dome;
And looked once more DER sea ana Isle
that surround my dear old home,. !,
And as gazed, sweet visions came, rolleo
back was memOry's scroll;
And the pictures that saw thereon, tney
stirred my inmost soul.
REFRAIN.
I saw upon the towers staff my fathers
signal fly,
And just beyond the outer llghos MS
barque was drawing nigh.
I saw her sailors furl the. sails; they
furled them with a will;
Her voyage was Per, the flag came down
from the old tower on the hill.
REFRAIN.
And as it fell these vivid scenes all faded
from my view;
And was left again alone LIES Journey
to pursue.
But not while memory sits enthroned,
let me 90 where er will,
Shall I Ter forget my childhood home. OF
the old tower on the hllls
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HEHAs WRITTEN MANY MORE.

The above quoted songs are notthe only
ones Mr.. Randall has written. He has
half dozen others, and several more are
in preparation. 1t is more than likely
that some Of these will be heard in public
before long. 1t is to be noticed that in
all Mr.. Randall's verses his love of par
ents is predominant. Especially is this
true in the case of his mother. In Mr..
Randalls room an excellent likeness of
her hangs upon the wall. The face in the
picture is that Of a kindly old lady. with
a motherly, warmhearted expression in
her eyes.
One of Mr.. Randall's songs is entitled.
"Don't Wait Till Mother Is Cone" and
it is considered one of his best. The
verses of this song were written by Mr..
Randall at a moment when the thought
that his beloved mother had gone beyond
recall came with particular force into his
mind. These are the words:
DON'T WAIT TILL MOTHER is
GONE.
"Does God still spare you q mother?
Does her loved form still fill the old
chair
In the dear old home of your childhood,
Where she watched you with tenderest
care?
If to-day all alone she is dwelling
In the home where her dear ones were
born,
OIL send her loving letter;
Don't wait till mother is gone.
CHORUS.
AS with each passing year she grows
more feeble and gray
Let your love be changeless and warm.
Don't wait till Deaths summons has
called her away,
Don't wait till mother is gone
1t may be that you are still with her,
| If so make her last years her best.
With a smile and q kiss always greet her
Oh! study her comfort and st.
Then, when from the old home in sorrow
Her loyde form is tenderly borne,
These memories will linger to bless you
Long after your mother is gone ( Chorus.
Oh The love of true, noble motherl
IT'S strange that We never half prize.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-19

at last report; /, 145 were committed dur
ing the year, 1853 were discharged and
SO were confined at the time the report
was made out. There were 1904 white
males, II females, 80 colored males, and
oolored females; 1895 were over TWEEN
ty-one years of age, and 40 were minors.
One prisoner was strictly temperate,
40 were moderate drinkers and five hah-
itual drinkers. According to their stor-
les 2S6 were married and 628 had been
imprisoned before. OF the lot III were
arrested for drunkenness, 146 for breach
of the peace, 60 for larceny So for va
granoy, for murder for manslaugh-
ter, Is for burglary and the remainder
were divided up among all the crimes
on the calendar.
The Jail receipts during the year en-
braced in the report are: Board of prts-
oners from state, $40, 555 40; earnings CT
prisoners, $3.50; 5 per cent of licenses,
SO, 256.SO; transfers, 81; forfeited bonds,
$500; for county home from the town,
SOL; FOR same purpose from the state,
3d. 46.93. Total receipts, $27,754,2S.
Received for lice4ses: Norwich-91
liquor licenses, $91, ia; beer, $500; 10
druggists, $467; 1902 licenses, $31, 1881. 9th
+ towns-65 Licenses, $11, 416; grand total,
$61,1S6. Paid to treasurer, $S,26O.SO; to
town treasurer, 1851 5000,
GENERAL NEWS.
William Williams, colored, was
knocked down and robbed of nine dol
lars and a watch at Hartford Saturday
night.
Alexander G. Campbell Of Hartford,
who has been ten years employed in
the department of agriculture and civil
service commission at Washington, died
there Sunday, aged fifty-five. A sister
is the wife of Civil Service Commission
er Charles Lyman. The burial will be
in Hartford.
Mrs. Albert ]. Pruden of Hartford
died in New York Friday from the effect
of an operation for the removal of an
abdominal tumor. Mrs. Pruden, before
her marriage in 1888, was for seventeen
years employed as a clerk in the office
of the insurance commissioner, She
leaves, besides her husband, a little
babe.
Dr. Horace S. Fuller of Hartford has
lost the sight OF an eye as the result
of an unsuccessful operation by New
York ocullst. The other eye, the vision
Of which is poor, was not touched, and
it is thought the sight will not be fur
Their impaired.
The Berlin Iron Bridge company 10
now running on eight hour time, the
officers say, because of the delay in the
contract for the East Hartford bridge.
Thomas Shea died at Middletown
Sunday of blood poisoning after having
had his fingers, hand and arm ampu-
tated.
Officials of the Westport and South
port Tramway company refuse to con-
firm or deny the report that the Con-
solidated will take possession Of that |
company If the charter for electrical APP
pliance is granted.
The epidemic Of scarlet fever in Mid
dlebury continues and the school is
closed.
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BTyd4l'S East Rock IGaStOTG.

073 State Street, near Edwards.
WYE sell large quantities of thu highest
w and best grades of Tea and Coffee with
great satisfaction to all purchasers, Nor
only SO, but our Tea at $50 and our Coffee at
25c are the very best to be found in the city.
mh15 A. Dryden.
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The annual report of the New London
county commissioners shows that the
average number of prisoners in both
jails was 175, and the total amount Of
their combined earnings was $3.50.
Ninety -six prisoners remained in jail
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miscellaneous.
GRATEFUL-CoMFoRTIN6
EPPS'S COCOA.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Wy thorough knowledge of the natural
laws which govern the operations OF digestion
and nutrition, and by a careful application Of
Epps has provided for our breakfast and sup
per deicately favored beverage which may
save us many heavy doctors bills. 1t is by
the jndicious use OF such articles Of diet that
constitution may be gradually built up
until strong enough to resist every tendency
to disease. Hundr eds Of subtle m0ladies are
floating around us ready to attack wherever
there is weak point. We may escape manya
fatal shaft by Keeping ourselves wen fortified
with pure blood and a properly nourlshed
frame. Civil Service Gazette.
Made simply with boiling water or milk.
Sold only iii half-pound tins by grocers, la
belled thus: JAMES EPPS q CO., Ltd.
Homeopathic Chemists,
g6m tu&we London, England.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-18

transacted, was the adoption Of the
Grand Lodge Constitution, and the laws
for the government of subordinate
lodges, under their jurisdiction in TINS
State. After Their approval by the Su-
preme Lodge they will be printed for
distribution among the different Lodges
in the State. and an effort made 10 or
ganize the Order in every hamlet and
town in the Mountain State. and intro
duce the emblem of "Friendship. Love
and Charity" into every household
where friend can be found willing TO
make provision for the welfare and pro
lection of his wife and family, or his
father or mother, relative or friend, in
case Of his death. The Shield Of Honor
pays 100000 at death of a member,
$500 benefit per week during sickness
and in case Of the death of q brother
wife. each member Of his lodge pays one
dollar toward the expenses of said death
To the man of moderate means, or one
who lives upon the income that is the
result OF his daily labor or occupation,
the thought that those dependent upon
him must suffer the pangs of poverty
when his providing hand can no longer
supply their wants, must be a continued
cause of anxiety 10 his mind. If he is
wise provident of his means, he will
have connected himself with the
Shield Of Honor for ample rea-
sons which can readily be OBJ
tailed from any officer or member Of
the Order, or by calling on the Grand
Secretary, at 80 Maryland street city.
A spirited contest was had over the
selection Of place for the holding Of
our next annual session of the Grand
Lodge. Wheeling and Grafton contend
ing for the honor. Wheeling was cho-
sen and Grafton took It's defeat good
naturally, hoping for better results
next year, but they will have the pleas
ure to be with us in Wheeling on the
second Tuesday N May, 1896. We bid
them welcome.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-18
JUST IN TINE.

Nurse Ethel had been with old Mrs.
Pardoe for over six months, and the ex-
acting old lady was a bad patient.
When DR.. Richard Westwood went to
University Hospital he had requested
that, if possible, Nurse Ethel should be
sent, she being a distant relative Of the
patient.
When first she arrived her duties had
been light, and she had enjoyed revisit
ing friends she had not seen since she
went to London to learn her profession.
In this way she had met Philip Som
ers, who, about a month after her at
tendance on the old lady, had begun to
pay her most marked attention.
But Ethel was not attracted by his
dark face. and was glad that her in
creasing duties rendered their meetings
few and far between.
The daily visit Of Or. Westwood, to
which she found she looked forward
with a strange delight, was over The
doctor was just turning 10 leave. when
a different look of solicitude came over
his face.
You are worn and pale nurse. Have
you been taking care of your own health
lately?"
ooh, yes"
Have you taken your daily exercise
regularly? You know the end is not
far off now, and probably you have u
hard and anxious week before you. |
insist on your going into the fresh air,
Ethel"
The calm professional air was now
slipping from him.
The door was opened. DR.. Westwood
dropped her hand and the lovers sprang
apart.
Mrs. Pardoe says will you come to
her at once, nurse2'
An hour passed before nurse could
leave her patient. She sank into one of
the seats in the public park and was en-
joying the soft spring air, when Philip
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-18
THE LAST WORD.

To the many readers OF tht Sunday
Register (Which has given its readers
much information of the pilgrimage OF
Wheeling COmmandery TO Boston, we
now say we will soon start on that Won
derful trip prepared by the Wheeling
and Lake Erie railway for wheeling
Commandery No. /, Knights Templars,
for Boston. NJ efforts have been
spared to make the trip as comfortable
and inexpensive as possible, ana II is
remarkable what has been attained IN
this direction Hotels that usually
charge $3.50 and 81 per day have made
a rate Of fifty cents per meal with put
two or three exceptions, where Jhey
charge for dinner seventy-fve cents.
At Niagara Falls. where hackmen
usually charge from 81 TO $50 per hour
ner Derson to see some of the points OF
interest. an arrangement has been made
for special electric motor cars 10 take
the entire party to every point OF in
terest covering sixteen mile ride, Tor
the nominal sum of fifty cents per per
SON At Toronto. Canada. special
train of electric omen observation cars
will conduct the party TO all points Of
interest covering over twenty miles. at
the very nominal price Of twenty-five
cents per person. At Montreal, where
IL usu9IIv costs the average traveller
several dollars 10 go to all tne poluls o,'
Interest. an arrangement was completed
Yesterday for an exclusive speclal Jralh
Of observation electric cars TO take ihe
marty for a leisura.y ride over the en'lr9
citv at only twenty-five cents per per
son Al Quebec a most desirable size
trim will be made by special cars to the
shrine Of 81. Anne De Bempre, covering
n ride of thirty miles along one OIL Can4
ada's rivers far famed for its pictur-
csoue be9utv. The shrine is the oldest
ON This continent. This trip is only
sixty cents. one-half the usual rates.
These are but samples Of the very
comDle+e way the details of this trip
have beon worked out by Mr.. o, X.
Wood the genial travelling passenger
AGENT of the Wheeling and Lake Erie
railway. and it Will be seen at a glance
how verv expensive 1t is for
the extent Of country covered
and any one not yet de-
cided on going should do so at once anCs
seq Sir John A. Zorn, at 1920 Main
street or o. R. Wood, travelling passen-
ger agent of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railway, for sleeping car berths.
some good upper and lower berths can
sin be had if applied for by Monday
evening. After that time or very early
TUESDAY morning they will be hard TO
get You had better join the party for
his elegant trip. No grander trip was was
ever offered out of'Wheeling and 1t Will
be wears before such another opportu-
nitv will again beOfered to see so much
+ba+ is grandly beautiful. so new and
novel as on this trip, and yet so very
inexpensive.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-18

When the American liner Berlin
sailed for Southampton last Wednesday
she carried a delegation sent by Ameri-
can workmen to attend a foreign labor
convention. Samuel Gompers, former
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, and Peter J. Mcclure, Of
Philadelphia. its present vice president.
went TO represent their organization at
the meeting OF the trade union con
gress OF Great Britain and Ireland, a
body very similar in form and purpose
TO the American Federation of Labor
They were accompanied by Edward F..
insolvency. chief contract labor in
spector at Ellis Island, who goes, not in
his official capacity, but merely as a
friend and spectator.
The visit of Messrs. Gompers and Nc
CURE is in pursuance of the plan orig
mated by the visit of John Burns, NJ
F.. and David Holmes to this country
last year. 1t is intended to continue
these fraternal visits by delegaes OF the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-18

suit was that the unions Of Durham and
Northumberland and the Irish unions
drew ont and announced that they
would not return until the S0cialistic
platform was abandoned. The battle
royal threfore. ON the question OF So
cialism. is expected this year. Both
the American delegates are noted for
their opposition TO similar plans Of the
American Socialists.
Nlessrs. Gompers and Mcclure will
return to America in time for the an
nual convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. which viii be held in
New York i'm the early part of Decem-
Der. and it is confidently expected by
his friends that Gompcrs will be given
another term as president of the Fed
Grafton.