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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-06-27

thing. Not a thing. Turtles can't
turn a summerset, nor run race, nor
dance a jig. But don't you go and
think for a minute that they amt
stuffed full of brains. take my hat
off to turtles. Every time. And L
ought to. Why? Because if it hadn't
been for turtles l wouldn't be here to-
day Not as the son of Reuben Petit
bone, anyhow. Reuben Pettibone
wouldn't have been my father if it
hadn't been for turtles. Take my hat
off to turtles? You bet your life! And
keep it off, too, as long as they're
around. Sinnemahoning turtles,
mean. Certainly. Slnnemahoning tur-
ties, every time.
Besides having a head flleo with
the best quality of brains, the sense of
gratitude predominates in the breast
of the Sinpemahoning turtle, be it
swapping turtle, mud turtle or land
turtle. There is nothing in the Petit
bone family records that places us I'M
der any personal obligation to the
mud turtle, but to the snapper and the
land turtle we owe much.
hNCh as q ouhB man. DSIOIc he Uc-
came my father, Reuben Pettibone was
a remarkable man. He had tender
heart, and could split more shingles in
day than any other man on the Sin
nemahone. He had some faults. He
PLAYED the fiddle. If he was away
from home and it was five miles by one
road and ten miles by another, with
tavern on the ten-mile road and none
on the five-mile, distance was no OBJ
ject to him. He'd take the ten-mile
road. He was true child of nature,
good judge of a mule, and loved his
neighbor as himself. In fact, he loved
one of his neighbors good deal better
than himself-Nancy Puterbaugh. She
was the daughter of Squire Salem
Puterbaugh, and violate no confidence
now by saying that she loved Reuben
Pettibone in return, which her father
didn't exactly approve of. But in say
ing this l anticipate. l will go slow.
II am sorry to say that the preva-
lent idea on the Sinnemahone about
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POOR BUT HONEST.
Tho Bishop Was Not So Very Fond OF
silver.

Ahc hts"oP sNao wv 81 very Achu ~
Silver.
The same things do not always APP
peal eql ally to the masculine and fem
mime heart, fact demonstrated re-
Gently to the mutual entertainment of
a certain bishop and his diocesans. A
small western town was thrown into a
hutter by the visit of its bishop, and
feminine wits were put together to
make sure that the honored guest
should be suitably entertained.
He was to stay at the house of the
clergyman, and the clergyman's wife
lavished the best her home contained
in preparing for his reception. To
crown the work, all the silver-mounted
toilet articles of the family and it's
friends We're conspicuously furnished
forth upon the toilet table of the guest
room.
The visit took place in due time. The
guest came and departed; only, to the
dismay of his hostess, the entire silver
toilet outfit was found to have de-
parted with him. Not one of the arti-
cles remained.
AS some of them had to be accounted
for to their owners, the embarrassment
of the family can be imagined. The
good bishop was VIGOROUSLY absent
minded, and the supposition was that
he had unwittingly packed the articles
with his own.
At last it was decided to write and
state the situation to him as delicately
as possible. The answer came back
by return mail, and in the following
words:
Poor, but honest Look in the left
hand corner, upper bureau drawer"
Search was Immediately made, and
in the spot indicated the missing arti-
clcs were found carefully slowed,
where the bishop, man-like, had ban
ished them with alacrity upon taking
possession of the bureau. - Youths
Communion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-06-27

swapping turtle is that the swapping
turtles destiny is the same as that of
the mock turtle-soup. l don't know
where the mock turtles native heath
is, so to speak; but / never saw that
turtle mentioned anywhere except in
connection with soup Knowing what
i know about swapping turtles, this
narrow estimate of them pains me-
But such it is, even on the Sinnema-
hone. According to it, the swapping
turtle lives but to be apprehended and
cast into swill barrel, there to remain
and take on involuntary obesity against
the time when it is fit in flesh to be-
come the basis for soup. Which is all
wrong.
Once, in the bachelor days of my
father, some one bagged a swapping
turtle of tremendous bulk. 1t was at
once immersed in barrel of swill at
the tavern, and all of Sinnemahone
smaclked its lips in anticipation of
much soup. All except Reuben Petit
bone. lie had different ideas, and one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-06-27
True 1t Was.
Surely.

"Surely"-
A bullet whistled in dangerous prox-
unity to his head and his own revolver
cracked ominously in reply.
-''this is a case of fair exchange
and
The red lights on the rear end of the
limited express were rapidly receding
and through the darkness came sounds
strangely like hooking laughter
mo robbery"
Bcwailing mis- i'll luck, the thwarted
highwayman sought solace in the
depths Of the forest-N. Y. World
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Hoods SarsapariIla

To purify and enrich your blood. A few
bottles of this great medicine will give
you strength aud vitality because it will
make pure blood. Get Hoods.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-06-27
SINNEMAHONE TURTLES.
BY ED MOTT.

OW, take tur-
ties" said the
man from over
Sinnemahoning
w a Y. " Y o u
wouldn't think,
t l o o k a t
turtles, t h a t
they knew a
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

WEBSTER FINALLY DRAWS
BLOOD.

What strange bedfellows the gold
standard has made in the persons of
the president of the plaid trust, the edi-
tor of the Charlotte Observer and Victor
Dockery and Dock Sorrell, whom the
NEWS AND OBSERVER recently denomi-
mated as ''second class Radicals" all
tucked up snugly in the same trundle
bed. Webster's Weekly.
We are not clear about who are in
Guided in the above enumeration of
second class Radicals; but let that
pass. Yes, a man sees great many
strange things when he hasn't got a
gun. There could be nothing more gro
tesque, for instance, than is the sight of
the editor of Webster's Weekly fellow
Shipping with Marion Butler, DR.. Mott,
Judge Russell and Little Bill'' Bryan =
Charlotte Observer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03
HEALTH CONFERENCE.

The State Board of Health proposes
to hold Health Conference with the
people at Washington, N. c., on Wed
nesday next, 9th inst. A similar one
held at Salisbury in September of last
year has, we are informed, been pro
ductive of much good to that commun-
ity. We think the Board is on the right
track in its attempt to bring directly
home to the people themselves the inn
portance of the well established rules OF
health, and it is hoped that not only the
citizens of the towns Of the entire con-
tiguous section of the State will attend.
Papers are promised on the following
subjects:
"The health officers Of towns and cities in
North Carolina. How can their efficiency be
increased"-by DIR. George q. Thomas, OF
Wilmington, President Of the Board
'The cause and prevention OF certain
diseases"-by DR.. John Whitehead, of Sails
bury, member of the Board.
Impurities in drinking water"-by Prof.
+ +. Venable, Of the University, member.
How we catch cold and the best way 70
prevent thy DR.. s. Westray Battle, U
S. N, of Asheville, member.
Sanitary drainage and disposal OF house
hold wastes"-by Mr.. John q. Chase, VII
mington, Engineer of the Board.
"Malarial diseases in Eastern CaFolinap-
by DR. Julian NJ Baker, TarborO.
preventive medicine"-by DR.. John c.
Rodman, Of Washington.
"a few remarks on that part of hygiene
which concerns the physician DR.. ID. ].
Taylor. Of Washington.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03
EXCLUDING THE NEGRO.

The Charleston News and Courier is
not pleased with the new suffrage plank
Of the Constitutional Convention. 1t
says 'Those who vote for it and the
people whom they represent win have
abundant cause to regret their action, in
our Judgment.
The plan is, with slight notifications,
the Mississippi plan, aud requires all
other voters to be able "to read a clause
in this constitution or understand and
explain it when read to them by the reg
istrati0n officer.
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the trade formerly flourished.

the trade formerly fiourished.
These facts are we'll known toall stu
dents of history. They are collated
here to clineh the arguments that Chris
tan leaders have made to answer the
shallow and specious sayings of
men who either speak from ignorance,
infdelity, without mature rejection,
or for some sinister purpose. TIE truths
of history cannot be set aside by the
empty bravado of notoriety seeking poll
ticians, and sensation-loying preachers.
Under a new end selfish Leadership,
conscious of its own dishonesty, there
has sprung up a widespread disbelief in
all things temporal that men were once
wont to hold sacred. The first effect Of
this disbelief in honest men
has carried its iDsineere apostles to
high places of trust Those
who have been thus elevated through
the destruction of faith in their fellows,
have shown themselves as false to their
pledges as they proclaimed their predeces-
sors to be. "Hoist by their own petard"
will tell the story of their political end. It
is only short space of time when their
followers will learn that their present
idols are as bad in conduct as their
faithlessness is dishonoring. The man
who says all men are thieves will bear
watching.
Above the wreck of faith in man,
brought about by the pessimistic preach
ing of P0pulism, lowered nothing but
faith in God, and trust in the church as
holding to the Truth as Truth was incar
nate Having lost faith in everything
else, the humble tiller of the soil, OPP
pressed by taxation and bad laws, and
struggling under lack of education to
make living for his wife and little ones,
had the consolation of the Christian re
ligion, and the fellowship Of the church.
1t was wicked enough to rob him of
his faith in his fellowman. That had
sent enough of bitterness into his soul.
But the scheming politicians saw that
the church could not be used
as a trial to the Fusion kite,
and that, to be sure of their
hold on the DOR fellows on whose backs
they climb into Office, they must destroy
their faith in the church. 1t was step
that no man but an infdel or an idiot
would take. But it was taken, and the
President of the Alliance was chosen to
close the last door of hope and cheer to
the misguided men who had become
blinded by long following of the blind.
The mind of the uneducated man is
singularly logical. When he was con-
WINGED by false statements that
the "old parties were corrupt" he forth
with left the party he had loved all his
life and went off to help establish new
and perfect party. If the Populist cru
SADIE against the church is accepted by
him, it will be only short while before
he will leave it and go off after strange
gods He viii then become an agnostic
in religion as he has been taught to be
disb.liever in his fellow men. When
that day comes, if so great misfortune
shall befall US, may the Lord have mercy
on his soul and upon the future of the
commonwealth
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

Describes the condition of thousands Of
people az this season. They have no ap-
petite, cannot sleep, and complain of the
tIating effect of warmer weather.
This condition may be remedied by
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which creates an
appetite and tones up all the organs II
gives good health by making the blood
pure.
Hoods Pills are the best after dinner
pills, assist digestion, cure headache.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

THE Durham Morning Herald is one
year old We wish it long life and
great prosperity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03
Best From Mecca.

Concord Standard.
The Raleigh NEWS AND OBSERVER has
received IFS type-setting machines. This
is enterprising with an earnestness. The
Standard congratulates the Raleigh
daily, the best ever coming out from the
States Mecca.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03
We Do Claim

To be able to sell books
station ry, s hool sup
plies, and everything In
our line, cheaper for cash
than any other house In
the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

B~ Send for catalogues
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03
Connecticut Life Insurance Co

This company has no speculative feature,
extension forfeitures, or intricate plans
contrived for the company's advantage, nor
the incontestable clause-admitting rascals
at the expense of it's honest members, but
If any happen TO get in, it gives them
their money back; all stated in the contract.
The per cent Reserve has become an
important factor in life insurance. All will
be gladly explained by S. d. WAIT, General
Agent, Office at Raleigh, whose 30 years
experience proves his knowledge of thelife
insurance business.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

During the first week of the fruit
season this summer the express on
peaches from Southern Pines to various
markets aggregated $4,000 35, This
shows that the pine belt is rivalling the
famous peach section in Georgia.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

With a cash order for
anything you want and
we will do our best to
please you,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Mayor Strong says he is in favor of a
law to open the saloons on Sunday from
2 to and from to 9p. m. And yet
he claims to belong to "the God and
morality" party.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03
We Do Not Claim

To be at present the big
gest thing In North Ca o
lima, al hough we hope tc
be, and expect to be, the
leading book sellers OF
the State: but
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

Somebody has proposed to establish a
Masonic college, and demonstrated that
if each Mason would contribute $40, a
fund of eight million dollars would be in
hand This is about as feasible as the
proposition to erect monument to Adam
by assessing each of his descendants one
dollar.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03

DR.. PARKHURsT says that one Platt is
as bad as ten Crokers. Carl Schurtz re-
verses that, and says one Croker is as
bad as ten Platts. Both are bad eggs;
and if New York were not hopelessly
boss-ridden, both would be relegated to
private life Between Pecksnifianism
and Orokerism the good citizens OF New
York are in a quandary. They find
themselves in the position of a certain
gray animal, of which Heine sung:
between two bales of hay stood he,
Considering in his gray old head
Which Of the two the best might De.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-03


q. Nelson, Second Assistant Postmas-
ter-General, has made his annual report
to Postmaster General Wilson The
most important part of the report is that
referring to mail service on street rail-
ways. Upon this point he says: "Tne
experiments were tried first in st. Louis,
next in Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago and New York. We have, es-
tablished the fact that it is consistent,
economical, and almost necessary TO es-
tablish exactly the same three branches
of the service under the improved meth
dds of street car service that are already
successfully established on the steam
roads,
The report of Commissioner General of
immigration Stump shows that during
the last fiscal year, 25S, $50 immigrants
arrived in the United States, 30, 977 less
than the previous year, and the smallest
immigration since 1879. OF these 1885,
1T, were upon examination permitted
to land, and 2, 419 were debarred and de-
ported at the expense of the various
steamship lines transporting them. OF
those deported, 1914 came in violation Of
the alien contract labor law and 1 ,725
were deported, as coming within the
prohibition of the act of March 3, 1901.
There also returned III, who, having
been permitted to land, became public
charges within one year after arrival
The report says that as rule the class
of immigrants who came were of hardy
character, able 10 earn a living, and
many were possessed of sufficient means
TO purchase some land and build homes,
or engage in small business enterprises.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-05
which 9252 was to be retained as security.
Justice Monroe sanctioned the offer.
KILDARE.

On December 4th, in the Nisi Prius
Court, Dublin, before Justice johnson, a
gamekeeper on the Clongorey estate,
named Thoe Bonghton, aged rs, was put
forward for trial on the. charge that he,
at Barrettstown, on December 18th, 1893,
ibid feloniously, willfully, and OF malice
aforethought, kill and murder one Lau-
renee Fox" The case came before the
Dublin common jury sittings for the trial
Of record cases by order Of the Queens
Bench Division on the prisoners appli-
cation, transferring the trial from the
Kildare assizes inro their own court. The
case was listed for December 81, but was
adjourned, as only Al jurors attended
out of the IS On the panel, number
which the judge considered insufficient
to select jury by ballot from. At the
sitting Of the court, on the 4th, a jury
was secured, but disagreed as to their
verdict, and were discharged; and the
prisoner was put back, not to be tried at
that Commission.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-05
THE NEW YEAR.

A gray old man to]ed at the rope;
Loud rang the bell and clear;
The hour was midnight, at she time,
The passing of the year.
Aud as he tolled, the old man sang,
And laughed beneath his BREAST;
He laughed and sang with glee, and yet
he t,lled the knell of death.
"Old man." said I, this shameless n,irth
Seems sadly out of place;
A solemn chant, dirge Of prayer
Would mark better grace.
"The old year dies weighed down with sin
Weighed down with lives misspent,
Come kneel you down with me and mourn
Come join in my lament"
az mourn not for the past" said he;
"a new life begin.
do not ring the old year out
Iring the new year in.
Why do you wish to mourn and grieve?
This hour is not for tears;
The star of hope shines steadfast, pure,
Above the coming years!
laugh and sing for very joy.
And not with shameless mirth,
f3ood sir. toll not for the dead
celebrate a, birth.
Come, turn your back upon the past,
And bid your grief BECOME:
The night is dark, but, then, good sir,
Joy cometh with the dawn"
The Irish standard., 1895-01-05
CURIOUS FISHES.

Some That Were Seen by an American
Traveller III Singaport.
In one of the ponds were some shoot
ing fish" which have the remark able
faculty of securing their prey by knock
ing it down with q drop of water
elected from the mouth.
The attendant fed them by placing
ants on tree growing in the middle of
the pond. fish at once rose to the
surface. sent drop Of water at one of
the insects with unerring aim, and
darting forward caught it in it's mouth
almost as soon as the ant touched the
water. The performance was repeated
many times, but never saw ish miss
its mark.
Another curiosity, of which the
Wangna had several specimens, was
the fighting fish, a species Of SO com
bative a disposition that, like fighting
cocks, it is only necessary to place two
of them near each other, and perhaps
irritate them little. to bring on a
lively conflict. ~
They at once charge at each other,
with bnS erect, at the same time chang
ing color, in their excitement, from the
dullest of gray-greens to the most bril-
liant of reds and tlues. Indeed. con-
fnement in close quarters is not need
ed to arouse their comba tive propensi-
ties.
Place two glass jars close together
with one of these fighting fish in each,
and they will at once swim round and
endeavor to charge each other through
the irterposed glass.
Even a single fish, seeing himself re-
fected in a mirror. will dart at his own
image: and, irritatea all the more by his
failure to reach his supposed enemy,
will assume the most brilliant hues,
and seeing his shadowy antagonist do
ing the same, will redouble his efforts
to reach him.
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THE BEAUTIFUL LIGHT.

I've travelled many aweary league,
Through many foreign land:
Across the waves of misty sea,
Der wastes of burning sand.
I've sought for beauty in the North,
And under the Southern skies
But there. nothing fairer on earth I trow
Than the light of my desr loves eyes
The beautiful light.
God bless the sight!
The light in my dear loves eyes.
The burdens of life press hard and fast,
The way grows dark and drear,
Ny purpose flags, my eyes grow dim,
MY heart is filled with feer-
But light breaks through, the sky is bright
All clear my pathway lies,
For love shines forth to strengthen me,
In the light of my dear loves eyes
The beautiful light.
God bless the sight!
The lieht in my dear loves eyes.
The light CLEANS ever before mine eye,
A beacon so strong and true,
TO warm, to cheer. to urge me on
In the work have to do
And SO when life at last is DER,
And my spirit upward flies,
May ray stream down to greet me then
From the light in my dear loves eyes
The beautiful light.
God bless the sight!
The light in my dear loves eyes.
The Irish standard., 1895-01-05
a GOOD REASON.

The Conductor Explained Why Thay. Ran
80 Slow.
When one leaves the main lines of
railroad, east or west, and travels, or
tries to travel, ON some road which
merely serves a local purpose. he is
likely to find prevailing free and easy
state Of things as regards speed and
schedule time. A Wyoming newspaper
gives this account of certain railroad
flyer" out that way:
People never take this train except
for journeys of considerable length;
walking is as easy and much safer for
short distances. On recent occasion,
when the movement of the train was
even more deliberate than usual, d pas
senger went to the conductor and said:
Amt we going pretty slow?''
WELL" said the conductor, 1--WE
amt flying, I'll admit
MAY l ask what is the trouble,
then?'
'Ain't any trouble
''Then why don't we go faster?'
well, I'll tell you, since you seem to
be 50 inquisitive. Back here piece
we found a fine two-year-old steer
stuck in the trestle. and we stopped
and helped him out. Now the rules of
the road are that in such cases the ami
NAL belongs to the company"
but now does that make you run so
slow?''
Run slow? Why, that ere steer
amt used to being led, and when we
hitched him on behind the rear car he
didn't walk up very we'll. I'm doing
all I can-got the brakeman punching
him from behind with an umbrella,
and an ear Of corn tied to the bell rope.
But if you think I'm going to yank the
horns off as good steer as there is in
the state, why, you're awfully mis-
taken. that's ALL"