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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
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Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
contains no whiskey nor other intoxi-
can't but acts as tonic and Alternative.
1t acts mildly on the stomach and
bowels, adding strength and giving
tone to the organs, thereby aiding
nature In the performance of the func.
tions. Electric Bitters is an excellent
appetizer and aids digestion. Old PEG.
pie find 1t just exactly what they need
Price fifty cents per bottle at A. II.
Roberts drug store.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
the COMING MACHINE,

REYNOLDS, N. d., Sept 10, 1895.
Mccormick Harvesting Machine Co.,
Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemen: AS l have Just finished
my harvest, ! thought would write
you regarding the six Right. Hand Cut
Open Elevator Haryesters and Binders
l bought of your local agents, Il. j.
Smith II Co. | have cut and bound
3,24O acres of grain with these six
machines, making an average of $40
acres of grain for each machine, max
ing an average Of $40 acres OF grain
for each machine. have harvested
this season 1000 acres of fax, 500 acres
OF wheat, 400 acres of oats, 1000 acres
of barley, and 40 acres Of timothy.
These machines have given me the
best Of satisfaction, and have had no
expert near them since started cut
ting. 1t Is simply wonderful how easy
these machines run, as ! have used
only three horses on each machine, and
the grain this year has been yery
heavy and lodged In many places. /
cut and bound my entire crop of flax
with the very best Of satisfaction land
can assure you that there are very
few machines that will handle flax and
do any kind Of work.
There Is no use talking, they are the
the coming machine, and / can not
express In writing the praise they
deserve.
TO farmers wanting u machine they
can depend OIL, would say say once
for all, buy n MCCORMICK.
Yours truly,
FRED BEARD.
p. $. My repair bill was only 20
cents on these machines.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
Absolutely Pure.

The stringency of the money market
and the necessity of practiclng economy
induced many to remain at home.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
GRAY.

Mr.. Craney shipped two cars of corn
Thursday.
Mrs. &. II. Wilson left Tuesday for
Arcadia to visit her parents.
The ladies aid society met Wedues
day afternoon with Mrs. Audas.
Greenwadt Il GrOteIuschen shipped
in 5000 pounds of Irvine Saturday.
Quite number of our people went
to Audubon Saturday to see the races.
Mrs. Corner went TO Manning Satur-
day to spend the fourth with her pa
rents.
The physical culture class is making
rapid progress under the instruction
Miss BrOOkfield.
Greenwaldt 81 Groteluschen received
a shipment Of binders Monday and are
busy Putting them up.
The boys of Gray are practicing on
flies and drums with the expectation
of organizing il corps this fall to fur
nish campaign music.
Mrs. Cameron and NeIs Christensen
drove to Manning ii week ago Wednes
day and were quietly married by Rev.
Woods. SO well did they keep their
secret that it was not known until
Monday morning. In The evening a
large crowd gather, aud procerded to
their home anal ,rrLlr tnrm - an old
time serauat!e. foe cruAd was invit-
ed into the house ANA all had II good
time until II "'II"rk, when they de
parted wishing Mr.. and Mrs. ChristelI.
sell IL long a,ud happy life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09

CHICAGO, June II, 1896.
Mccormick Harvesting Machine Co.
Gentlemen-In looking over our
records showing switching of railroad
cars delivered at your works, and ship
ments therefrom, find that during
the past twenty days we have given
you, on al average, sixty-three cars
per day, and that number has been
loaded and shipped by you, making
two full train loads of cars loaded
with harvesting machinery leaving
your works every day-a record that
certainly has never been equalled by
any concern in the world. Will also
say that prior to the last twenty days
we daily delivered to you fifty five cars
which were loaded and taken from
your yards each day.
Yours truly,
J. M. POWELL,
Local Freight Agent G. b. e. Q. II. r..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
EXTRA.

Charles Smith is dangerously i'll.
The park looks as If u cyclone had
struck it.
Mrs. Frank Odell is slowly regaining
her health
John Peters now runs meat wagon
to Brayton.
John Crane is having an addition
built to his house.
Mrs. Charles Cure was an Atlantic
visitor Wednesday.
Otto Thomas is no longer working
for Eugene Wilson.
Harvest is progressing very nicely
i'm this end Of the county.
Henry Bush is beaulifying A. IL.
BaDer's house with paint.
james Hicks is now conducting a
shooting gallery at this place.
Robert Dufford, of Danbury, Iowa,
celebrated with Extra friends.
Mike Thielen Is here from Iowa City
to pass his vacation with relatives.
Miss Clara Powell is here from At
lantic visiting friends for few days.
Miss Trola Born, of Red Oak, visited
with her parents the 4th and Sunday.
Mrs. Langdon, of Atlantic, visited
with Mrs. Joseph Basham over Sunday.
n. p. Christensen was appointed
administrator of the Silas Parrot es.
tate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Odell, of Wiota, visited
with their son, Frank, Monday and
Tuesday.
Misses Lena and Edith Hardenbrook
are now housekeeping i'll rooms in John
Bush's house.
Mrs. Al Tharnish's brother of Iowa
City was here and visited with her a
day last week.
Miss Hunter, of Atlantic, is here
visiting her sister, Mrs. ID. Z. Stranger,
for few days.
Miss Lizzie Miller, of Des Moines,
visited few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
| Born last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Leamon and Mrs.
AL VOORHEES, visited with Anita friends
IL day last week.
Bert Leamou's father and mother of
Wappello, were here and helped him
celebrate the Fourth.
Mrs. Thomas Bryant and children, of
Newton, are here visiting with Grand
pa and Grandma llonston for a few
days.
Miss Clara Conklin was quite severe
ly injured Friday, being struck OH the
ankle by IA brick brown by young
hOodIum.
Miss May Hunt, Of Des Moines,
visited with her father, Isaac Hunt,
few days the latter part of last and the
first part of this week.
Frank Gault's little daughter, who
is making her home with her grand.
parents at Danbury, Iowa, is here
making him few weeks visit.
Walter Green and Miss Anna Neff
were made man and wife Tuesday,
June 30th, at high noon, Rev. HiccOck,
of Harlan officiating. We extend our
congratulations.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
Mr.. &. A. Gartner, Jr., Gen. Agent,

Mr.. &. A. Gartner, Jr., Gen. Agent,
Nashville, Tenn.
Dear Sir: The Mccormick Open
Elevator Right Hand Cut binder
bought from your agents, James An.
drnws & Co., at Columbia, Tenn, was
started in my field Of barley today, and
does its work beautifully. had been
prejudiced against the Right Hand
Cut, but find it us easy to keep up to
the grain and can cut a swath rs well
as with the Left-IIand Cut. In a few
words, am delighted and would never
buy anything but a Right-IIand Cut
binder under any circumstances.
Yours truly,
B.F. FLY.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
Wanted Idea I $ns ss9 . ss1S:

Write JOHN WEDDERBURN Il CO., Patent Attor.
neys washington, d. q. for their 81 500 prize ofrer
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
THE NEW MACHINE.

j. NJ. IUWELL,
Local Freight Agent G. b. 81 @. II.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09

1.-The object Of this League shall be to protect
American labor by a tariff on imports, which shall
adequately secure American industrial products
against the competition Of foreign labor"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09

Open Elevator Harvester and Bind
ers now Mt work In southern fields,
shows how little truth is contained In
the reports and statements Of de-
moralized opposition. Sold by q. w.
Hoover.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
MCCORMICK TRAINS
ARE EVERYWHERE.
Competition Derailed and
i'm The Ditch.
60 CAR LOADS
EVERY DAY. 60

Who Is Supplying the World With
Harvesting Machines2 Where do
They Come Fromr Read This Let
ter and Then You VIII Understand
Why Competitors of the McCor-
mick are Dlscharglng Their Men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09

The North Western line will, on
Fridays and Saturdays of each week,
sell excursion tickets to Lake View
and return at reduced rates, tickets
limited to return to Monday following
date of sale. Sale of these tickets will
be discontinued after Sept. %, 1896
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
Bucklen's Arnica Salve

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup.
tions, and positively cures Piles or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by A..
II. Roberts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
MT. DE CHANrAL
Programme for the Forty-Eighth Annual
commencement.

Programme for the Forty-Eighth Annuai
commencement.
The Sisters of the Visitation IN
charge of Mount de Chantal Academy
have issued invitations for the lort!-
eighth annual commencement exercises
at that famous institution OF learning,
which will take place on THURSDAY, June
nth at 1:3O o'clock. The following
programme will be rendered:
Entrance March .......;.......M enu e.soa
Pianos-Misses Flora Umberger, Grace
Armstrong. Margaret Jepson, Anna
Hoffman,. ,,.
vioIins~Misses Frances Sullivan,
Grace Pollock, Sue Maxwell.
Chorus-Nymphs OF the WOOD. Leo Deiioes
The School.
Recitation-Faith and Reason. ..............
Miss Frances Tierney.
Quartette-Finale aus der Suite op 49,
Dvorak
Misses Ada vankirk. Frances Sullivan.
Alice McLane, Julia WEIGH.
Duet-Roma ........ Fabio Campana
Misses Mary Grub. Caroline Gutman;
Essay-Sunshine and Shadow; M. Mediii
Miss Martha Medill.
Dance OF the GnomeS. Eft. Liszt
Miss Ruth Wolf.
Recitation-La Fol. LEsperance, ct La
Misses Emma ReNman, Emily folloCh'
Emma Kirk.
-''''e No. Halfdan Kjerulf
Misses Gene Waterhouse, Elsie Gund-
ling, Eta Thayer. Flora Umberger,
s. Robinson, Caroline Gutman, Emma
Forbes.
Recitation-Mary Queen of Scots. =.
H. Glassford Bell
Miss Nora O'Brien.
Capriccio Brillante op. o.. .Mendelssohn
Second Piano Accompaniment.
Miss Emily Pollock.
Essay-The Ideal Woman,
NJ. Stella Loughney
Read by Miss Emma Forbes.
Sacred is the Weeping ........F. Won Suppe
Miss Mary Grub.
With Violin Obligato.
Recitation-Tears OF Tullia. Edgar Fawcett
Miss Eleanor McCracken.
Troisieme Ballade op. 47......Fr. Chopin
Semi-Chorus-Lift Thine Eyes elijah.
Mendelssohn
The Glass.
The graduates this year are eight in
number, Misses Frances Sullivan, Mary
D. Grub. Frances Tierney, Nora
O'Brien. Stella Loughney, Mary Dough-
erty, Martha Medill and Ada Vankirk.
AS usual, special train will leave for
the Mount over the Hempfeld division
OF the B. G. o.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
IN CLERK HOOKS OFFICE.

The record of one deed and Issuing of
two marriage licenses was all the bus
mess transacted in Clerk Hooks Office
yesterday.
Deed made by Sallie T. Surguy and
husband to Benedict Speidel for lot No.
Is. square II of Sprigg & Ritchie's ad-
dition to city of Wheeling. Consider
alton, $500.
A marriage license was issued to John
E. Peters. native of Morgantown.
aged 81 years, and Jessie NJ. Cobun, of
Morgantown, aged 20 years.
A marriage license was granted to
Arthur w. Manson. of Martins Ferry,
O., aged &C. and Ellen McGinness, OF
Jeanette, Pa, aged 81.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04

Friday and Saturday only:-25c
Ladies Vests II cents.
THE BON TON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
A BRANCH HOUSE
OF the Heinz Preserve Company to BE Is
tablished Here.

OF the Heinz Preserve Company to BE Es-
tablished Here.
The II. J. Heinz Preserve Company
of Pittsburg, will very probably erect
a branch house in this city, as Mr. VIM.
Galbreth, the assistant travelling man
ager of the Company, was in the city,
and went over the business of the
Company to ascertain whether or not
it would justify his Company to erect a
storage or branch house. Mr.. Galbreth
has completed his labor and has de-
cided to report favorably.
The building will be erected near one
of the railroads coming in from Pitts
burg. A handsome delivery wagon
will be put on for this city and vicinity,
enabling local dealers to gel their or
ders filled promptly. Mr.. Victor Weiss,
the local drummer of the Company, is
largely instrumental in the Company
taking this action.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
NEW ADV ERTlSEMENTS
HOTEL METROPOLE.

Ocean end of New York Ave-, Atlantic
City, n. j., now open. Strictly first class
in all its appointments. Terms moderate.
Write for rates.
ap12dub FRANK II. STAMM.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

A meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners was held yesterday af-
ternoon. An ordinance was passed
granting the right of way on the Ma
tional road to the Suburban Railway
Company from Triadelphia to the State
line. A limit was placed upon the ordi-
nance in which the Suburban Railway
Company are required to complete and
equip the road to Roney's Point in two
years and to the State line in five years.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
THE EPISCOPAL COUNCIL,
Of the Diocese Of West Virginia, Open
ed at M(undsville.

A Long List Of Pastors in Attend
ance, Making 1t One Of the Larg-
est Gatherings Of the Kind Ever
Held = Yesterdays Proceedings
in Detail--The Programme for To-
Day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04

YOU should wear our celebrated Bal
briggan Underwear. SOC, 15c and el,oo
each, and 2 sc Half Hose. They are super
Tor : all others. Coiored Shirts extra
sizes, go body, 10 neck.
1921 and 1923 Market Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04

Call in at our office, 300 Peabody
Building, and investigate our new pol
icy. This policy is conceded by ex-
perts to be the best policy issued in this
country. Cash surrender value guar
anteed in ten years. You cannot az
ford to be without 1t.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
Water Rents

for the term ending September 80, 1896,
are now due. If paid on or before June
so, 1896, discount of 10 per cent. VIII
be allowed.
THE CITY WATER BOARD.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
Mbeelin9 Re9istfr
JUST RECEIVED.

Another lot of those elegant ATWOOD
5000 Trouserings. Having just Increased
our capacity weare prepared to mako up
at short notice.
Fashionable Tailors and Gents Furnish
ers, 1891 and 1928 Market Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04

Friday and Saturday Only:-25c
Ladies' Vests II cents.
THE BON TON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
FINE FURNITURE

makes a fine house, and fine house
makes life pleasant. There is nothing
new or desirable in furniture that our
stock does not present. We show every
thing needful to translate the ideas of
ease, comfort, enjoyment and satisfao-
ton into reality. House furnishing is an
art which offers limitless possibilities for
the display of taste. 1t was on this prin.
ciple that our stock was selected. 1t is a
collection of studies in furniture, pan
Drama of richness, novelty and variety.
FRIEND & SON,
ma14eodsdc 1908 Main Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04

Friday and Saturday only:-zoc
Ladies' Vests II cents.
~ THE BON TON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04

Friday and Saturday Only:-25c
Ladies Vests II cents.
THE BON TON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-04
REApY-ro-wEAR cLoTHINe-kRAus BROS.
kRHUS BROS
The Key to Success

Is MERIT and with that key reach the confidence Of the pub
lie.
If this sounds like boasng here are the goods tor your most
critical examination need buy what he doesn't want
Our especial to make you want the sort CLOTHING
we SELL hope do it simply by inducing you to visit
store and yourself how fully Suits for Men and Boys
justify the praises Of those who wear Them
An especially good thing for hot weather is one OF our BLACK
or BLUE SERGE unned COAT and VEST which we are selling for
$50.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-08-27

The most extraordinary lighthouse
on land or sea is found in the Hebrides,
Scotland, on Armish rock, Stornoway
bay, which is separated from the island
of Lewis by a channel more than 500
feet wide. On this rock a conical
beacon is erected. and q its summit a
lantern is fixed, from which. night
after night, shines a light which is
seen by the fishermen far and wide.
yee rnere is no burning lamp in the
lantern and no attendant ever goes to
it, for the simple reason that there is
no lamp 10 attend 10, no wick to
change, no oil well to replenish. The
way in which this peculiar lighthouse
is illuminated is this: On the island of,
Lewis, 500 feet or so away, is a light
house, and from a window in tne tower
a stream of light is projected OF a mir
ror in the lantern on the submit of
Armish rock. These rays are reflected
to an arrangement of prisms, and by
their action are converged to- a focus
outside the lantern, from where they
diverge in the necessary direction.
The consequence is that, to all intents
and purposes. lighthouse exists which
has neither lamp nor lighthousekeeper,
and yet which gives as serviceable
light-taking into account the require
ments of this locality-as if an elab-
crate and costly lighthouse, with
lamps, service room, oil room. water
tanks and all other accessories were
erected erected on the summitat the rock
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-08-27
PoPuLlsT VOTES ESSENTIAL.
Tom Watson Says Bryan Cannot BE Elected
10y Democratic support Alone.

Tom Watson Says Bryan Cannot BE Elected
10y Democratic support Alone.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Thomas Z.
Watson, in a long telegram to the
World, thus concludes:
II William }. Bryan is elected president. the
p o1les rsrty viii have done it. His hope Is
in the solid vote Of the south and west Let it
be remembered that these popUllsts OF the
west to whom he must look to carry even his
own state, where once republicans and but for
the peoples party they would now be guar
antoe of success to Mckinley. PopuliSm in
the south made possible the populism in the
west, and vice versa IL Bryan wins it viii be
due to the fact that our leaving the democratic
party in the south pulled the republicans out
OF their party IN he west Senator Jones may
contemptuouSly dismiss us ''to the negroes,
where we belong" but il his campaign sue
ceeis ne Will owe it to the southern ropuliSts,
who Lad eyes clear enough TO see the vast i'm
poriancc o: union between west and south,
aud who had courage enough to endure all the
sacrifices the triumph OF their faith demanded.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-08-27
DEVASTATION FOR CUBA.

Insurgents Ordered to Lay the Island
Waste-Frcsh Trouble for Spain.
New YORK, Aug. 24. The provis onal
government of the Cuban republic has
ordered in a proclamation the total
destruction of property. by this a
two-fold object is to be gained-the
loss of an immea6e cash in
come is expected TO shorten
Spain's warfare and the conver-
sion of the island into a wilder
ness will compel her to withdraw
her armies All classes OF property,
WI ether foreign owned or not, are TO
be treated alike, as all pay tribute. TO
Spain. The necessity for the whole
sale destruction is laid entirely upon
the need of the further and complete
rain for Spain Of the money producing
DOVrar. of Cnla
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-08-27
PlNeREE FAvoRs SILVER.
Unusual Attitude OF the Republican Nomi-
nee for Govcrnor OF Michigan.

Unusual Attitude OF the Republican Noml-
nee for Governor of Michigan.
Boston. Aug. 2L-Mayor Pin- rec, of
I'etroit, repabl can candidate for gov
ernor of Michigan, announc es that he
is against single gold standard, and
he is in favor of an income tax. lie
takes the position of free coinage of
silver, and says he will make his race
for governor on this line. lie be-
lieves that the republican party can be
relied upon TO legislate for silver, but
it will be a fearful fight inside the
party lines and among some of the
leaders Some features of the Chicago
platform are so Objectionable that
they overcome the friendly expression
for silver, and in his judgment there
is no necessity for silver republican
to leave the party, but he insists that
it is the hest plan 10 fight it ont in
marty lines
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-08-27
CHILDREN CAUSED IL.
They Wrecked Train That Killed Two
Men and Iniured Many Others.

They Wrecked a Train That Killed Two
Men and Injured Many Others.
CANTON, o.. Aug. 2l.-A thorough in
vestigation was made into the cause of
the derailing of engine No. 40, which
was hauling a work train near Carroll
ton, the locomotive rolling down an
embankment and killing Engineer
Joseph Kirk and Fireman John Har-
desty of this city. The invesiga-
ton shows the accident to have
been caused by children having
placed three spikes on the out
side rail of the curve where the derail-
ment occurred. Twenty-six men in the
caboose escaped death by fa.iing sew
eral hundred feet down an embank-
ment because the caboose was caught
in the branches of a bir f--ae
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-08-27
kkiGHTHOOD.
The Contrast Between the Past and the
Present.

Present.
According to the present herald-at-
arms, ''the dignity of knighthood is
now received by the person who is
kneeling before the sovereign, who,
right shoulder, pronounces these
words: sSois chevalier, au nom de
Dieu' rise up. knight. in the name of
Cod, followed by 'Avance chevalier. "
At present the command to rise IS ex-
pressed in English, with the addition
of the Christian name and surname OF
the new knight.
In the Encyclopedia Heraldica,
s'the words which were early in use on
the occasion hear near resem blance
TO those used at baptism and at the
period now under discussion some OF
the ceremonies also of that sacrament
were introduced; a proclamation occa-
stoned by the supertitious zeal of these
who faneied that the emblems of sane
tification and regeneration could not be
uisapplied TO men who adopted new
mode of life for the defense OF religion
and virtue. Fasts and vigils pre-
ceded the day of the intended knights
admission: he passed throu h bath,
as a sign of purifcatiol, and then was
arrayed in white garment, as an en-
blem of new lie which he
proposed to follow. When the
solemn day was arrived he
was conducted in pomp to a cathedral
or church. where he was invested with
the sword and spurs. and his cheek or
shoulder was touched with slight
blow, in token of the last affront
which he was TO endure; he then
offered his sword on the altar. which
was blessed by the ministers ofre 'igion.
and again restored 10 him, and he took
an oath, the tenor of which was that
he would speak the truth. maintain
the right, protect the distressed, prac-
tice courtesy. pursue the infidels. de-
spise the allurements ofease and safety
and vindicate, in every perilous adven-
ture, the honor of his character.
'sSuch were the ceremonies which.
in the times of the holy wars, attended
the creation of a knight, and when
the duties which the title then required
were changed or lost and the title itself
became very general and compara-
lively insignificant, the solemnity
gradually decayed and all that re-
mains in the making of a knight
bachelor. or simp'e knight, is the
slight blow on the shoulder from the
sword of the monarch, who says: 'Sois
chevalier. au nom de Dieu.' Notes
and Queries.