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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

cigar might be enjoyed in peace. a.
long train from the west monopolized
one OF the tracks. 1t appeared TO he
well filed with passengers, and
strolled the length of 1t, surveying
with some amusement the faces fiat
tened against the windows of the cars,
faces old, middle-aged and young. but
oil alike in their expression of vague
curiosity, as their owners watched the
stream of travellers passing from the
waiting-rooms. ] had nearly reached
the end Of the last car, and had bent
down to strike match in the lee of 1t,
when heard my name called.
"Oh, DIR. Morris, DR.. Morris, dear doc
tor, that's you, isn't it? Do come here,
quick, quickl The train will be start
ing in n second, and 1 must see you.
Oh. doctor, doctor, quick, quick!"
recognized the voice. 1t was that
of Mrs. Loring, with all the old hurry
ing rush of words remembered so well.
Looking up, | saw the itinerant sufferer
leaning Gar out of the car window, with
one arm waving wildly, as if to assist
in attracting my attention. Pulling off
my hat, l sprang toward her.
"Oh, this is fortunate, fortunate, doc
tor-you can't know how fortunate!'
she cried. "I've been anxious, so anx-
ious, to see you. How is my health
| Oh, doctor, it's terrible, terrible, worse
than ever, doctor; worse, much worse,
very much worse"
"And Miss Gray, is she still with
you?" / asked, my eyes roaming over
the windows and seeking her niece's
face at one of them.
"Yes, yes, dear girl, dear girl, she
never leaves me. How could she, and
have heart? Mine, doctor, has been
up to 100 n minute"
Indeed" said l, throwing due pro.
fessional gravity into the word. II
trust Miss Gray is well%
"Yes, yes, as well as ever. And tenn
perature of 102, repeatedly, doctor, re
peatedly."
what, Miss Gray's tenn" cried I
with no fictitious concern.
"No, no, mine. Dear me, doctor
didn't tell you it was mine? Those
springs in Kentucky-we've just com,
| from tncUn-lueN uiu uic Ho Soou, "a
sure. And 1 was so hopeful, doctor, Sc
hopeful; the water had so many strang'
things in it, was sure some of then
must help me-"
"Your case is q marvellous one, Mrs
Loring," said l. "Will you kindly pre-
sent my regards to your niece, and"
She stopped me with n quick gesture
please put your address here" salt
she, thrusting note book toward me
Hurry, please hurry-the train is be
ginning to move. ] have an idea that
Oh, thanks; yes, yes, l see, Rodney
town So good of you, yes, so good
Goodby, doctor, good-by."
The train was fairly under headwa
now, and / stood bowing low, but no
to the vanishing invalid. At the mex
window to hers l had had glimps
of another face, one that dreams ha
kept fresh in my memory and that ha
figured in the little romance that ha
crept into my existence.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29
Paid In His Own Coin.

A German and Frenchman sat oppo-
site each other at table Ghote in a GER
tain hotel in Switzerland.
"You are Frenchnan, suppose?''
inquired the German, at the commence
ment of the meal.
"Yes," was the reply; "but how did
you manage 10 find that out?"
Because you eat so much bread" said
the German.
There was a long pause. When the
dinner was over the Frenchman in his
turn questioned his vis-a-vis. "You are
a German, presume?"
"To be sure; but tell me, pray, how
you made that discovery"
because you ate SO much OF every
thing" was the dry retort.--Tit-Bits.
The fox barks not when he would
steal the lamb.-Shakespeare.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29
PERFECT HEALTH.
How It May Be Obtained by
All
An fnts-estins Nit of history ~ Told
by n travelling Man.

An fntsrestins Nit of History as Told
by q travelling Man.
From, the World, Cleveland, Ohio.
After an extended trip lasting several
months and embracing many points OF in-
terest throughout the West and South, MIR
George Lockhart, of Hudson, Ohio, returned
home few days ago. He is bright and
genial as ever aud looks as ii mis- long holi-
day had thoroughly agreed with him
Mr.. Lockhart's business during his travels
took him frequently to Hot springs and
other health resorts. He does not appear TO
have been very favorably impressed with
the peculiarities OF life at such places, nor
with the benefits received by the patients.
"Men 20 there TO get cured Of disease, !" says
he "I'hey take one hot bath IN the morn
ing and spend the rest of the day generally
IN drinking, gambling and general disslra-
uon. How they can expect 70 recover an-
sion. But they are, as rule, what the
world calls good fellows, free with their
moncy and bent on enjoying themselves,
"with one man, however, whom met at
permanent friendship. l am Indebted to
him for benefits which have left on my
mind q feeling Of tho strongest gratitude.
j was, IA you know, not at all wei n
slight lameness in my right leg, contracted
about year ago, had gradually become
worse until l was compelled to goaround on
crutches all the time. Then my general
health failed, until in tue latter part OF the
summer j had about concluded TO come
home TO die. such a state OF affairs as you
will easily understand, was anything but
comfortable. I was, In fact, neither more
nor less than q helpless invalid, nuisance
TO myself and everybody around me. 1t was
at this juncture that one day on the train
fell into conversation with the man men
tion. He recommended me to try DIR. Will
liams, Pink Pills. I did so. You sec the
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any c4Se Of Catarrh that can not be
y. j. CHINly q Co., Props, Toledo, o..
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In ali business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their Arm.
WEST & TRuAx, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, o. -
NALpiNa, KiNNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure 10 taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

You can read happy mind In happy
countenance without much penetration.
This Is the sort OF countenance that the
quondam bilious sufferer or dyspeptic re-
lieyed by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
wears. You will meet any such The great
stomachic and Alternative also provides hap
the k dneys and bladder.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

KNIcKERBocK.R "were YOU knocked
speechless when you collided with that
stonef' Blo2mer-"No; but my, wheel
was knocked spokeless." = Norristown
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

miss YAM isn't at all musical" "How
do you knowf' 81 offered TO sing oh,
promise me-, last night. and abe said she'd
promise me anything II wouldn't. Pitts
burgh Chronicle.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

KIrsoS-"A foolish New York artist has
1ust married an Indian who posed for sew
eral of her pictures" Thatcher well, ]
suppose sho was looking for model hus-
band Philadelphia North American.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

A WAY OF ESCAPE. There IL one good
thing about foreign nobility, after all"
."What Is thati" ''Why, when they come
over here they can't compel us to associate
with them. Chicago Record.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29
Don't Tobacco spit and smoke Your Life

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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

AHcE-'I heard something about YOU,
to-day" Maud.-"Ycs; this new lining
they are using in dresses makes friRhtful
noise, doesn't itr--Yonkers Statesman.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

Jusr try l0c box OF Cascarets, the finest
liver and bowel regulator ever made.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

Pooh YouNo MAS-"Why do you treat
me 80 unkindy," Fashionable Girl-"Treat
yon unkindly. Why, what do you mean
Just told yon that wouldn't marry YOUR
Someryille Journal
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-10-29

The fox barks not when he would
steal the lamb.-Shakespeare.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14

over one hundred and fifty pounds. 1t
Is impossible, unless possessed of con-
siderable means, to live with comfort
In a private house In johannesburg;
rents are in proportion to all other
prices asked-enormous 1t is difficult
for white workingmen engaged on the
mines to obtain q single room In tin
shanty under rental of four pounds q
month, at the very least, while a small
villa OF five rooms, built of corrugated
iron, will easily let at twelve to four
teen pounds a month, and fifty, sixty
or one hundred punds month is
cheerfully paid for a furnished house,
such as one would obtain in England
for three guineas week at the seaside.
Servants wages are also very high.
A raw Kaffir girl will receive four
pounds a month, knowing absolutely
nothing, and speaking only Kaffir. A
Cape-that is, half colored-girl, who
can cook a little, will easily command
six or seven pounds month, while a
white girl, respectable and honest, can
ask almost any price If she will come
as nurse or lady's maid, and will glad
ly be taught all her duties.
johannesburg at the present time is
an Eel Dorado" for domestic servants;
the wonder is that more are not enter
prising enough to emigrate, and, by
contrast with the wages paid at home,
step at once into comparative affiuence.
Although the Dutch element is all
powerful where government offices are
concerned, employing none but Dutch
men for the police, postoffice clerks,
etc, and issuing all public notices in
Dutch, yet of johannesburg popula-
ton the Dutch average only about fif-
teen per cent. The slowness and stu
pidity of the officials in every depart
ment is constantly inveighed against
the local papers, but naturally, while
"Oom Paul. reigns omnipotent, to lit
tie purpose
In a word, Johannesburg. when the
glamour that envelopes it to those who
view it from affair is dispelled, is place
that few who are not obliged would
choose to live in permanently. The
population is restless, unsettled and
constantly changing, and that percent
age of the Inhabitants who can not
leave exist in the hope of one day MAX
ing their fortunes and going home.
The exceedingly primitive and insan-
itary domestic arrangements that pre-
vail, the ever-present and intensely ir-
ritating dust, the bad accommodation
and high prices of the hotels and the
feverish gambling existence led by rich
and poor alike combine to render the
memory of johannesburg to those
lucky enough to haye made their little
pile and taken flight for more congen-
ial shores. an impression such as is
left upon the brain of a troubled, fe-
verish dream, from which the sleeper
wakes, thankfully contrasting the
peaceful realities Of the present with
the unrestful phantoms of the past
night.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14
GROVE STREET CEMETERY.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
l heartily agree with 1. E. P, who
wrote regarding the Grove street GEM
etery this morning.
The roads in the same should be i'm
proved at once Every owner of lots
would be glad to have them put in Or
der, even if money was borrowed for
the purpose.
1 am not able to hire carriage when
my family wish to visit our lot, and as
it is too dusty in the summer and too
muddy in the winter we are rarely able
to go.
Why won't the trustees water the
roads and also pave them? Why not
have a wagonette to carry visitors to
any portion of the cemetery at a small
charge?
Wake up the old-fashioned men in
charge and tell them we are living in
1896, not 1910.
Yours truly,
AN OLD LOT OWNER,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14

gets the hook out before he Is tired out
and gated by his captor.
THE black bass, again, doesn't rise
to the fly at all, If the angler for bass
Is using flies, he smust let them sink
nearly to the bottom, and then draw
them up diagonally through the water
to the surface / have heard fishermen
tell about taking their bass by flies
trailed on the surface, but have new
err been able to get a single bass to rise
thus to my flies, nor have ever been
fishing with any one and seen bass
take his flies on the surface. But then,
maybe I'm hoodoo,
THE camper-out, who seeks his for
est haunt with the idea that it isn't
good form to fish for anything but
brook trout or small-moutned black
bass, had better stay at home. He will
miss lot of fun, and often go to bed
hungry. Remember that there are
pickerel and perch and catfish, and
none of them is to be despised. Then
there are frogs. The party is fortunate
that it has it's camp in fair proximity
to a colony of frogs. Frogging is not
only novel and an amusing pastime,
but what greater delicacy can you i'm
agine than fried frogs legs, crisp and
juicy, for a breakfast in the woods.
"a frog will never fail to snap at a
hook baited with bit of red flannel, if
you are smart enough to get it under
his nose; and when he snaps he takes
in hook and all. Hunting frogs at
night by the light of jack is great
sport. The frog never moves after the
glare of the jack is on him, but sits on
his bog and stares in bullying
wonder. All the frog hunter has to do
is to pick him up.
Then you are lucky, too, if there are
pickerel where you fish. There is sport
in catching the pickerel, and it's flesh Is
sweet and grateful to a hungry man.
Live bait is always killing for pickerel,
and they are the most certain Of all fish
that take the troll A narrow strip of
fat pork deftly fastened to gang Of
three hooks is a better troll for pickerel
than all the high-priced ones that We're
ever made. The capricious black bass
seldom turns UP it's fastidious nose at
the pork-strip troll, either. Catfishing
at night is another delight to the
camper who is out for enjoyment, and
ready to take all the pleasure the
woods and waters offer him. The an
gle worm is the catfish's favorite, but
he will come readily to fat pork.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14
A PROFESsIONAL MENDTCANT.
His Income From Begging Reached Two
Hundred Dollars Day.


Hundred Dollars Day.
(From the Washington News)
81 have just walked from the Riggs
House to this hotel,' said Thomas
Crofton of New York, at the National
"and have only been approached by
one poor tramp. A poor, wretched
shivering devil whose poverty needed
no argument. J. had just finished a
hearty dinner, an excellent cigar, and
my humor was good enough to make
me feel for the whole world of suffer
ing, so 1 staked him to a bed and sup
per. AS I'm not philanthropist, /
don't care whether he used it for the
purpose of lodging and food or bought
some of the fleeing pleasure that few
drinks of whiskey brings.
Tonight you can not pass yard on
Broadway without being importuned
by a beggar. Do you know that the
greatest professional mendicant in the
metropolis was created through acct
dent? He formerly had a position as
bookkeeper in some mercantile estab-
lishment, paying seventy-five dollars
month. One night he found himself
way down town, far from his home in
Harlem, without cent of car fare. In
changing his clothes he had neglected
to bring his purse along. Without any
hesitation he approached a gentleman
and explained his situation. The book
keeper was entirely respectable, and
had none of the ear-marks Of prac-
ticed beggar, which, indeed, he was
not. He got the car fare without diff
Guilty. That one incident set him
thinking, and developed the latent
streak of Incidence he possessed Eve
ry Sunday, when he was not engaged
in balancing accounts the bookkeepar
tried the scheme to test it's ability as
money maker.
"The result was astonishingly sue
cessful. Here was a man well-dressed,
apparently respectable. placed in po-
sition that in many cases had been the
situation of the very men he asked for
the loan of nickel. A great majority
of them obliged him. The sequel is
short. He threw up his position and
became hypocrite and fraud He has
already gotten dimes from detectives
and policemen before they discovered
his game. A central Office man told me
that the fellow has collected some days
two hundred dollars. At any rate be
is making money enough to build seve-
raj houses, and has an income much
greater than that of his honest days.
He has been arrested several times.
Upon one occasion they found on him a
great quantity of small change and in
an inside pocket a great roll of bank
notes. He is one of the characters that
only a larger city can make possible"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-19
HE WAS oRAzED WITH JEALOUSY.
A German Laborer Shoots His Wife,
Son and Grand Child.

Brooklyn, n. ", Feb. 1s.-Crazed
with jealousy because his wife and
sons had left him, Franz Schwab, a
German laboref, So years old tonight
visited the home of his married son
Bernard, and after gaining admittance,
by trickery, fired four shots from a 44-
calibre pistol, two of the bullets lodg-
ing in the body of his wife, Latrina,
fifty-three years old, killing her almost
instantly.
The third ball struck his grand
child, 9 weeks old, over the heart and
the fourth struck the son Bernard in
the right eye. Schwab, after the shoot
ing, ran through the apartments in
search of his daughter-in-law and not
finding her, made his escape to the
street by way of the fire-escape from
the second story. He was overtaken bv
a patrolman and arrested. The police
believe that he is insane.
Bernard Schwab and the injured
child viii probably die
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-19
CONTEST CLOSE IN READING.
THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAs.
Carnival Opens With a Great Crowd
and Glorious Weather.

New Orleans, Feb. 1s.-A great
crowd enjoyed the carnival to-day.
The weather was glorious, and the
parades magnificent. Rex took for
his subject the Solar System, making
a lovely picture of each of the planets,
twenty floats, telling the story in geor-
geous coloring and costume. The
Phunny Phorty Phellows made their
temperance after ten years of in
activity, and devoted a score Of floats
to Phads and Phancies, hitting at
Trilby, the new woman, the currency
question, salvation army, the marrying
Of title, the brownies and similar sub
iects. Outside of these there were
thousands of miscellaneous maskers,
many Of them grouping into parades
of district characters. Among them
was an elaborate burlesque of the old
fire department days.
At night the Grand Rex ball tool.
place at Washington Artillery Hall
which was converted into a palace and
throne room for the occasion, with
miniature gardens and lakes and arch
setting for the carnival court. Charles
Janier was the King and Miss Artemise
Baldwin was Queen. Tonight the
famous Krewe of Comus gave their
magnificent parade, taking the year as
their subject and the departing time
the seasons, the birth of the year and
the months making one of the most
elaborate displays in years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-19
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF AMY NORTH CAROLINA DAILY

such an OrganlzatlonShrdii
the existence Of such an organization,
responded Mr.. Gear
Mr.. Allen declared there was con-
spicuous evidence the country over OF
the Alliances existence.
''Why does not the Nebraska Sena-
tor inform his Alliance constituents OF
this hearing?" asked Mr.. Wolcott,
"probably securing them passes as
they would doubtless decline to come
at the governments expense as con-
trary to their principles"
The debate branched off into the
character of the witnesses appearing
before the committee. The name of
Mr.. Coombs was mentioned. Mr.. Allen
insisted that Mr.. Coombs was a broker.
Mr.. Frye asserted that Mr.. Coombs
was one Of the best lawyers of New
England.
- sharp and amusing controversy
arose as to Mr.. Coombs' residence,
whether it was in Boston, Brooklyn, or
Sioux City.
Two appropriation bills, the Military
Academy, and the Pension bill were
passed during the day. Efforts were
made to amend the Military Academy
bin by increasing the number OF
cadets by two from each State, 90 in ALL
but after a debate of three hours the
plan was defeated. The Pension appro.
priation bill, carrying $142, 100000, was
passed after ten minutes debate
Mr.. Call (Dem. Fla.) offered a reso-
luton, which went over, providing
that lapsed bids, under the recent bond
issue, be assigned to the lowest among
the other bidders.
At 5.25 the Senate went into execu.
tive session, and i'm few minutes af
terwards adjourned until tomorrow
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-19
MORGAN WILL GET THE BONDS
Though Carlisle Has Not Yet Made the
Announcement

Washington, Feb 49,. Secretary
Carlisle has not yet decided to whom
shall be awarded the bonds upon
which default of payment of the first
installment was made, nor will he do
50 until the exact amount of the de-
faults has been ascertained.
In his notices of acceptance the Sec
retary required the deposits to be
made ION or before the 18th day Of
February" and it is claimed on behalf
Of several San Francisco bidders that
their notices Of acceptance were not
received until after Office hours on the
18th and hence they were unable to
comply with the Secretarys direction.
The facts as to this matter and also
to reliability Of one or more Chicago
bidders are now being investigated
and until a conclusion has been reach
ed no official decision in regard to the
disposition Of the default bonds will
be announced. There seems to De no
reasonable doubt, however, that they
will be awarded to J. Z Morgan and his
associates under their blanket bids of
S110.9877.
The gold. Withdrawals to-day were
coin, ZOO; baFs, $780, 500, leaving the
true amount Of the gold reserve $780,
439,784 1t is estimated, however, that
estimates received Of gold deposits
at the several sub-treasuries during
the last few days would increase the
reserve to about $110,000,000
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-19
Is SUED FOR HIS OWN COFFIN.
A Prominent Man Making Extensive
Preparations for Death.

Huntington, W. Va, Feb. 1S.-Judge
w. =. Thompson, who was Treasurer
of this State for eight years and who
was the first judge of the criminal
court in this county, has been making
extensive preparations for his death,
although he is in apparently good
health. He has had a vault dug and
eNpensively finished and has purchased
a handsome casket for his remains.
Quite q sensation was caused some
days ago when eX-Mayor Mickey of this
city brought suit against the judge for
a casket. 1t seems Thompson had an
order with Mickey for the casket but
owing to slow delivery he bought one
from another undertaken At the trial
to-day, Thompson appeared and plead
his own case and it is probably the first
on record, i'm this State, where a man
has been sued for his own coffin and i'm
such suit defended his own case. The
judge is one of the most prominent
Democrats Of this State and during his =
life has accumulated a large fortune.