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OVER THE WAY.
By dAMEs BERRY BENsEI

BY JAMES BERRY BENsEL.
There is Grape on the bell-knob over the
way,
And my little children they will not play,
But stand looking out through the win
dow-pane,
Through the growing dusk, and the misty
rain;
And their eyes are wet with the tear
drops spray,
For there's Grape on the bell-knob over
the way.
They do not know yet if it means that
pain
Is passed from the man who walked with
a cane;
Or the bright little girl has gone to sleep
With whom so often they have played
"Bo-peep;"
Or mother or father has gone to stay
That Grape on the bell-knob over the way.
They only know this, there is something
In the house that was full of blithesome-
ness,
They know there is sorrow, and tears are
shed
By some that are living DER some that are
dead,
And they hayen't cheerful word to say,
While there's Grape on the bell-knob over
the way.
l am worried now that they feel it so,
And bend my mouth to their pink ears
low;
"Dears, it only means there is rest SO
sweet
For tired heart and two tired feet"
Then / stop. They'll say over there some
day
''There's Grape on the bell-knob over the
MaY.',
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sANscuLOTTEs.

Some words, in their practical APP.
plication, differ materially from their
original meaning. The French word
"Sansculotte,' for instance, which
means without brooches, ragged fell
lows, has been so applied as to mean
something quite different. This
word was coined at the time of the
French revolution, and applied by
the royalists, in contempt, to those
who rose against oppression in vim
dicatiou oftheir rights, as the Amer
leans had done before, and whose ex-
ample they followed. The men whom
this term was intended TO stigma
tie, Immediately adopted the title,
and every friend Of freedom was de.
nominated Sansculotte. Lafayette,
Condorcet, Bfissal, &C., were SAM
sculottes. Nothing was more COM
mon in the addresses of the revolu-
tionary party, than the following:
1T is expected that every good
Sansculotte will perform his duty to
his country and the sacred cause OF
liberty
These calls we're made to all
friends or the revolution indiserimi-
nately and surely they we're not all
ragged fellows" So popular was
the name, that when the government
changed the calendar, dividing tho
year into twelve equal months, the
intercalary days were called Sans
Culotides.
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Snecimen Gases

!. II. Clifford, New Cassel. Wis.
was troubled with Neuralgia and
Rheumatism, his stomach was dis
ordered, his Liver was affected TO
an alarming degree, appetite fell
away, and be was terribly reduced
in flesh and strength. Three bottles
of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg,
Ill, hid q running sore on bis leg Of
eight years. standing. Used three
bottles of Electric Bitters and seven
boxes OF Bueklen's Arnica Salve. and
his leg is sound and well. John
Spea xeT, Catawba, o., had five large
Fever sores on his leg, doctors said
be was incETabls. One bottle EIee-
trio Bitters and one box Bucklen s
Arnica Salye cured him entirely
Sold BY L. G.. Matthaei, Druggist.
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our rates.

WEEKLY CRoP BuLLErIN.-U n
usually low temperatures prevailed
during the week, the past week be-
ing the third consecutive week of
cool weather. On the Srd, the tenn
perature rose above the normal, but
Immediately after the storm had
passed the weather again cooled and
continued so until the close of the
week. Considerable more than the
usual amount of sunshine was re-
ceived. But two OF the seven days
were wholly cloudy. The weeks
weather was highly favorable for the
ripening of corn and buckwheat.
These are now the only large crops
not harvested. Corn cutting is gem
eral and large part of the crop is
in the shock. 1t is generally an ex-
eellent crop and one OF the largest
ever raised in the State. The bulk
of the crop is now safe from frost
and the whole of il will be housed
within the next two weeks. Buck.
wheat harvesting viii begin this
week. This is said to be an I'M
usually large and tine crop and
promises heavy yield. Late gar.
dens have done we'll. Tomatoes aud
potatoes have given splendid returns
and vegetables OF all kinds are abun-
dant. Ploughing for fall wheat con-
tinues. The favorable weather has
afforded excellent opportunity for
this work and the ground is in good
condition. Fruits and grapes have
yielded finely, and, excepting apples,
are Of fine quality. The apple crop,
except in localities, appears to be
lighter than usual and OF rather In.
ferior quality. Fall pastures con-
tinue in excellent condition. 1t is
said that the grass crop has, during
the whole season, been better than
for many years past.
Note The Weekly Climate and
Crop Bulletins will be discontinued
with next weeks issue, the crop sea-
son being very nearly at its close.
The Section Director wishes to take
this opportunity of acknowledging
the Indebtedness of the Bureau to the
corps OF correspondents who have so
faithfully reported from week to
week the climate and crop condi-
tons used in preparing the bulle-
tins, and to thank them in the name
OF the Bureau for service, which be-
ing purely voluntary, has enabled it
to publish q bulletin the object of
which is solely to place before the
public, at stated intervals, accurate
and reliable date of climatic and
crop conditions.
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Japan and Mexico.


"If silver is such an abominable
curse, why are Japan and Mexico
booming with prosperity ?'-J. X,
Amber, Mich.
No one says that silver is an
"abominable curse" The project of
going to the silver standard is one
which would bring on an era Of pan
ic and financial disaster but to say
this project is bad is not to say sill
yer is a Course" Try to apply rea-
son to the subject, not prejudice and
emotion. Tue question is plain
one of business and only commo1
sense is needed to settle it rightly.
You say Japan and Mexico are
blooming With prosperity How
do you know this Prosperity is
an extremely relative term. In both
countries the wages of the working
class are so low that an American
workingman would deem them star
walton wages. He could not live.
Mexico is far more prosperous than
she has been for many years, but it
is because, under President Diaz,
there has been peace. The country
has not been the scene Of chronic
revolution, as it was up to a few
years ago. Wages are very low, and
manufacturing is profitable. Japan
is just adopting the use OF mAchin-
cry in manufactures, and Is yet far
behind US in everything. Toledo
Blade.
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10 Sound Money Democrats.

Here is brief and simple cate
chism for sound money Democrats !:
DO you want to beat Bryan -
"Ifyou want to beat Bryan, do
you know of any other way Of doing
it than by electing Mckinley ~
"Ifyou want to beat Bryan, and
don't know Of any other way Of do
ing it than by electing Mckinley
Why don't you take your ceat off
ard wade 10 and elect Mckinley 7"
Answers TO these interrogatoii. .
are respectfully solicited from sound
money Democrats who declare Tie
currency the paramount Issue and
yet refuse TO act as II they believed
what they sail.-Boston Journal.
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MONT ALTO RAILROAD
DENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
TIME TABLE,

On and after May 20, 1895, trains will
leave Harrisburg =
FoR PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
Express, Ito, 2.l5, 345, 6 40, 9.35,
40 a. M, lao (limited), $50, and $50
p. M, weekdays 10, 215, 3,45. 9.35
a. M, ] 40 limited, 2 so, and $50 pm.
Sundays. Accommodation. II Is a. M,
4,50 aud 7.90 p. m, weekdays, and 7.30
p. N. Sundays.
For PITTsBURG AND THE WEST.
1,20 a. m daily Southwestern Express
for Cincinnati and st. Louis.
$40 a. NJ, daily, Pacific Express for
Chicago via Pan Handle Route and
| Cleveland.
S.l8a M, daily, Way Passenger for
Pittsburg.
ll,2O a. M, daily, Mail train for Pitts
burg.
800 p. M, daily. Pennsylvania Limit
ed, for Chicago. Cincinnati and ST..
Louis.
$50 p. M, daily, Fast Line for CleVe-
land and st. Louis.
5.OOp. m. daily, Altoona Accommo-
dalton.
7.3O p. M. daily Chicago and st. Louis
Express connects for Cincinnati.
1920 p. H., weekdays, Express for
Pittsburg.
II, 55 p m. Western Express for Chi
cago and Cleveland.
For THE NORTH.
1901 a. NJ, Western Express for Will
Transport, Rochester and Buffalo.
$50 a. M, daily, Northern Express
for Williamsport, Erie, Rochester and
Buffalo.
8.15 a. M. daily, News Express for
Lock Haven.
u 10 p. M, weekdays, Niagara Ex-
press for New York, Rochester and
Buffalo.
3.55, p. M, week days, Fast Line for
Williamsport, Remove and Elmira.
$50 P. NJ, weekdays. Lykens Valley
| Accommodation.
755 p. M, daily, Williamsport Elk
press.
S. M. Provost, J. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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ROBERT HALL AND MSS STEELE.

On one occasion when in company
with Miss Steele, Mr.. Hall for some
reason or other, was in a solemn
mood and indiSposed to pay any at
tention to her remarks that strict
courtesy to the sex demanded or
rather he was somewhat absent
minded. Miss Steele, sort OF re-
ligious ultra, who RETAINED her van
ity after she had lost all her charms
endeavored in vain to command his
attention, or engage him in any sort
of conversation. At length, quite
impatient, she endeavored to display
little of her wit by saying in a
fippant tone, II suppose, sir, if |
had been polished steel might have
expected some of your attention"
Madam, replied he, satirically,
"you may make yourself quite easy,
if you are not polished Steele, you
are polished brass"
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ROBERT HALL AGAIN.

Zone Sabbath morning / found him
in the kitchen reclining upon a
dresser, an open bible before him
and pipe in his mouth. Perceiv-
ing my surprise, he exclaimed
"What are you frightened, sir ~
Rather so,' l said.
"Why, sir" he SAID, 81 derive
great relief from lying on the boards
of the dresser in this posture it
eases my back amazingly, sir. You
cannot imagine how comfortable l
find it,
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a Mute Recoyers speech.

Alphonce Hemphling, Of Summit
township, Butler County, Penn,
made an affidavit that his twelve
year-old son, who had had st. Vitus'
Dance for twelve years, lost his
speech, was completely cured after
using three bottle Of DIR. Miles Re-
storative Nervine, and also recovered
his speech. Thousands testify to its
wonderful cure of nervous diseases,
dyspepsia, nervous debility, dizziness,
confusion OF mind, headache, etc
-Four doses Of this Nervine cured
Mrs. w. L. Burns, South Bend, Ind.
who had been suffering with con-
slant headache for three months.
Trial bottle and elegant book free at
4 III. Gilbert's.
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ROBERT HALL AND DIR. GILL.


Hall did not like DR.. Gill as an
author. When Mr.. Christian Evans
was in Bristol, he was talking to
Mr.. Hall about the Welsh language,
which he said was very copious and
expressive.
How | wish, Mr.. Hall, that DR..
ellis works had been written in
Welsh"
81 wish they had, sir; | wish
they had with all my heart, for then
/ should never have read them.
They are continent of mud, SIR
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HE ! BETTY MARTIN.

Many of our most popular vulgar
isms have their origin in some whim-
steal pervelsion of language or of
fact. st. Martin is one of the wor-
thies OF the Roman calendar, and a
form of prayer commences with the
words, 20, mihi, beate MARITIME
which was corrupted to "My eye and
Betty Martin, and then still further
to "Hie Betty Martin"
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ANEcDoTAL LITERATURE.
Gathered and Compiled by W. G

HOW TO KNOW A wIFE's BEAUTY.
When Milton was blind he mar.
ried shrew. The duke of Bucking-
ham called her rose, II am no
judge of colors,' replied Milton,
sand it may be SO, tor ] feel the
thorns daily
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No. 46. Express, daily, leaves Wheel
ng l1.20 a. M, Grafton 3.20p. M, arrives
at Martinsburg S.54 p. M, Wash. 11.25
BALTIC. 1916 a. m.
Z. o. sCULL, G. w. SANTMAN,
Gen. Pass'r Agent. Ticket Agent,
VIM. E. GREENE, General Manager.
Baltimore Md.
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Mary Jane sat alone with her beau,
For six hours With tie gas turned
down leau,
When he said he must geau
1t affected her seau
That she wept and exclaimed, ''eau,
mean, eau, neau r
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The long day drew on. The cattle
moved forward in a cloud of dust,
fretful, uneasy, hard to keep togeth-
err. AS the sun climbed higher in
the sky and sent his rays down more
directly the vanqueros rode less gay
", and the ready oatbs came less
freely from their throats, choked
ard parched by the dust Of the plain.
At night they made pause where
Macheeo had found hollow with
few pools Of stagnant water, into
which the cattle plunged eagerly.
They lay down after that, but were
not quiet, aud Torrez Joined the
herders in riding about them and
sitting them with his voice. Ma
checo was ever alert, officious, doing
double duty, and keeping himself
beneath the eye of the patron. Saa-
cha, silent and morose, noted this,
and drew more into himself. Those
who did not know him would have
said he shirked his share of the CON-
mon duty. But the men here knew
him too well to venture such words.
Another day passed and another
night, and yet other days and nights
after these. They were but the rep
etition Of one another. Sometimes
a little more water or q bite Of parch-
ed buffalo grass to revive the half
starved and tortured beasts, but Oft
ener less than none. On the eighth
morning Torrez said
I'VE shall be there tonight"
perhaps the cattle heard him.
Perhaps, over that deadly plain,
came q scent of flowing waters and
Of living grass. Perhaps the poor
worn brutes went mad with the joy
OF it; that now they should hunger
and thirst no more. What it was I
know not. But . sudden cry of
alarm went up from Macheco, rid
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OHIO RIVER RAILROAD
" TIME TABLE,

On and after Monday, December 10, 1885
passenger trains Will run as follows:
NorICE-Please take notice that trains
Of the ohio RIVER Il. r. run by Eastern
Standard Time.
*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.
eastern TINED
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WEST ROUND.

baltimore AND OHIO RAILROAD
ID TIME TABLE
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1896.
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Daily. Others daily except Sunday.
tStops only to land passengers from Bal
tim0re.
Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg at
$40 and 10. 40 a. NJ, and 3.3l and $3.50 p. M.
Leave Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge at 40
and 10 90 a, m. q, and $50 and $50 p. m.
Leave Bruceville for Frederick at 9.40
a. IN. and $40 p. m.
Leave Brucevilie for Taneytown, Littles-
town and Columbia at 9.44 a. m. and 40
p. m,
d. & o. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run tor Cumberland and intermediate
points, No. 10, daily, at 8.57 a. m. For
Piedmont and intermediate, No. II, daily,
except Sunday, at 1.26 p. m and Chicago
Express No. Z, daily, at 10.4S p. m.
Passengers for Chicago Limited, No. s.,
or Cincinnati Limited, No. 1, take No. II
to Hancock and there transfer to No. or
No. /.
Passengers for B. & O.PittsburgExpress
No. 8, take No. 7 to Hancock and there
transfer.
NJ. HOOD, Pres. ard Gen'l Manager.
b. H, GRISWOLD Gen'l. Pass Agent.
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Daily,
Daily except Sunday.
Through coach from Hagerstown to Fhiladel his on
tIain Nod"
Through coach from Philadelphia 80 Hsgerstown on
trains Nos. and g."
No. SO west and 2 and 10 runs daily between Har-
FiBburg and Hagerstown.
Additional trains VIII leave Carlisle for harrisburg
daily except Sunday, at 40 I'M 10 a. mi 1880 p M
845 m sos D. IN and from Aiechaniosburg at 6tu fz5
and 65l a. m. 2-b5 4I0, ole and $50 m, stopping at
Second street. Harrisburg, 70 let Oh passengers
Additional local trains will leave Harrisburg daily, ex-
cepi sunday Carlisle aud intermediate stations at 36
A. m 225 20 % and 10 IS p. m, also for Mechanics
burg and intermediate stations ~ S9a an T. 40 I'M
All the above trains will stop al Second street, Har-
rspurg, 10 take on pas5en gers.
Z. A. RIDDLE, J. F. BOYD,
Genl Pass. Agent. superintendent.
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W ] ROBINSON, G. 2. A.,
Parkersburg, W. Va.
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DR. G. B. HEDGES,
- Physician and Surgeon.
Office and Residence on the corner of
Burke and College streets.
July 1886, year.
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Professional Cards.
DR. S. N. MYERS,
Office and Residence on the corner of
Martin and College streets.
April 4, 1874, year.
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Soar, 25c.; REsoLvENT, 81 PORTER Dare
AND CHEM. Corp, Sole Props, Boston, IAN
about the SkiD,'' 81 pages. illust.. free.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
FRESNO CONTEMPT CASE.
Lawyer Grady Fined for AssaEnq Judoe
carter-Must Pay or Go to

FRESNO, CAL, April 15.-W. D. Grady.
former District Attorney of this county
and erstwhile Democratic politician of
considerable note, has been having several
tits OF late with Judge Carter of the Supe-
rior Court here. Two days ago the Jud ge
took exception to some sarcastic filings of
the doughty lawyer and fined him $40 for
contempt. Grady responded with more
insulting remarks, when Judge Carter
raised the fine to $50. This was no new
experience for Grady, who neither paid
the fine nor attention to the court. The
Judge informed Grady that he would give
him until to-day to pay the fine or 90 to
jail for thirty days.
When the contempt proceedings came
up IN court this morning Grady asked the
court to dismiss the case. The Judge was
inexorable, however. and informed Grady
that neither the fine nor any part of il
would be remitted, but that it must he
paid in full, with the alternative of his
being the guest of the Sheriff. Ten days'
extension was given in order to allow
Grady to choose between the two aIterna-
tives.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
SANTA BARBARA SENSATION
Seamen of the Cruiser Philadelphia Ar
rested for DrUgging Two
R;,Io

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, April 15.-
An arrest of a highly sensational charac-
ter was made here yesterday, when ]. M.
Ramsay and James Collins, seamen at.
tached to the flagship Philadelphia, were
taken into custody, charged with an at
tempt to poison two girls, Alice True and
Sarah Calderon, Mattresses in a State.
street restaurant. When the merry tars
marched down the street yesterday on pa
rade in their icecream uniforms the girls
stepped into the street and identified them
as the men who had attempted to drug
them. The sailors were permitted to pro-
ceed down the wharf and to return to the
ship, where they were afterward arrested
at the instance of the local authorities.
They were not permitted to give bail, and
spent an uncomfortable night in the
county Jail.
Upon their examination in the Police
Court to-day Ramsay was discharged, the
evidence being regarded as insufficient to
hold him, but Collins was retained in Gus
tody.
Although local office were permitted to
go aboard the ship and make this arrest
some nice questions of jurisdiction bid fair
to arise out of the affair, for it has gener-
ally been conceded that a battle-ship was
subject to naval rule only, and never to
civic authority.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
SAN IA ROSA'S
FLORAL COURT,
Mrs. Burris Announces the
Attendants of the
Queen.
SAN FRANCISCO HONORED
Miss Suza Crooks Chosen as Maid
of Honor to Her
Majesty.
LADIEs.IN-wAITING SELECTED
The FaireSt Buds of a Half.Dozen
Cities Will Surround the Win.
some Ruler.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, April 15.-Mrs L.
W. Burris, Queen of the Rose Carnival
made public this evening some of her ar
rangements for the parade. The plans
mapped out by the Queen contemplate a
spectacle of unusual elegance, and will
more than fulfill the expectations of her
friends, who declared all along that
should Mrs. Burris be selected Queen she
and her retinue would surpass all previous
efforts in this line.
The attendants of the Queen will include
one maid of honor, nine ladies in waiting
and eight pages in Fauntleroy suits.
During the parade the Queen and her
attendants will ride upon magnificent
float, which will be constructed after de-
signs furnished by her Majesty. 1t will
be drawn by six coal-b block horses.
The Queens maid of honor will be Miss
Suza Crooks of San Francisco, the beauti.
full niece of William T. Baggett.
The ladies IN waiting selected by Mrs.
Burris are from San Francisco, Oakland
and Sonoma County towns, including
Sonoma, Sebastopol, Petaluma, Healds-
burg and CIoverdale. From Cloverdale
will come Miss Lena Brush, daughter of
LhC P1CoAOSAI VI IlS SlON6Iudlb Ddnk. one
Is decided brunette, and one of the most
beautiful young ladies in the citrus belt.
From Sonoma the carnival is to have Miss
Bertha Ca mpbell beautiful and stately
blonde, and one of the bellies of that historic
town. Petaluma will send two of her ia ir-
est daughters to add to the beauty of the
carnival, in the persons of Nj ISIS Dacy Fair
banks and Miss Henrietta Cantell. These
young ladies are daughters of two OF Peta-
luma's most prominent citizens, and are
both OF the blonde type. Miss Anna Nc
Lain of Healdsburg a petite blonde of
winsome manners, will represent Santa
ROsa's northern neighbors, whose proud
est boast is of her lovely maids and
matrons. Miss Sadie McMullen, the chosen
of Sebastopol, is charming brunette. and
a popular favorite in the society of social
Sebastopol.
From Oakland will come Miss Caroline
Frear, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Frear and
sister of Mrs. E. F. Woodward of this
city. Miss Frear is graceful demi-blonde,
whose beauty is enhanced by charming
manners. She is well known in Santa
Rosa society.
From her own town, her Royal High
ness has made most happy selection of
three young ladies. They are Miss Edith
Brooks, daughter of Elmont Brooks;
Miss Kate Lewis, daughter of Postmas-
ter George Lewis, and Miss Lille Hill.
Miss Brooks is dark-eyed brunette of
medium height. Miss Lewis is a tall,
slender and graceful blonde and Miss Hill
is petite demi-b -blonde-and any further
attempt to describe these three flowers
from Santa Rosa's beauty garden would
be waste of words.