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The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
A FAMOUS EPITAPH.
1t Marks In Poughkeepsie the Grave of
 Self Exiled Englishman.

| There are some interesting epitaphs in the old graveyards in Poughkeepsie, but probably none of them has been so wide ! ly known and admired as that on the stone which marks the burial place of John Taylor in front of Christ church, on Academy street. This epitaph has been widely published on both sides of the ocean, it is said, and is believed to have been written by the English poet William Roscoe and sent over for his friend Taylor's gravestone. Yet the stone lies neglected, and the last three lines of the epitaph have been broken off, probably during the work preceding the building of the new church. The epitaph was published in Benson T. Lossing's book on "Vassar College and Its Founder" and was greatly admired and frequently quoted by Matthew Vas sar, Jr, as many of his friends remem- Der. The inscription and epitaph on the stone are as follows:
 In this spot
 was inferred
 John Taylor
 Attorney at Law
 the eldest son
 of Doctor John Taylor
 of Bolton le Moors. England,
 who died of the yellow fever
 Sept. 11th, 1895.
 Aged S6 years. Far from his kindred friends and native skies Here mouldering in the dust poor Taylor lies. Firm was his mind, and fraught with various
 lore
 Al 1,;e v,,S11 6aoy olI fNafO He lov'd his country. lov'd that spot of earth Which gave a Hampden, Milton, Bradshaw
 birth,
 But when that country, dead to all but gain, Bowed her base neck and hugged the oppreSs
 or's chain
 Loathing the abject scene he dropped and sigh
 ed,
 Crossed the wild waves and here untimely
 died.
 Stranger what'er thy country creed or hue Go and like him the moral path pursue; Go, and for Freedom every peril brave And nobly scorn to be or hold a slave. The last line is one that has been par ticularly admired and frequently quoted, and it is gone from the stone. which is broken off just after the fourth line from the end That this stone should have been so mutilated seems little short of vandalism. John Taylor is said to have come to this country about the same time that the Vassar family came, shortly after the close of the American Revolution, and at time when the English government was repressing all outspoken friends of reform in fear of a repetition in England of the French revo- lutiOu Ha UaS the uncIe of Mir HudsOn Taylor, and the greatuncle of MT. Rob ert E. Taylor. His father, Dr. John Tay- Tor, was very prominent man in Eng land, with many influential friends, one of whom was the poet Roscoe, who wrote the epitaph, which reminds one very much of some of Goldsmith's best lines. .-Poughkeepsie Eagle.
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upon Congress. The board has given its approval of the proposed light, and the plans are complete. There is also available about $3OO,OOO with which to begin the work, and it is expected that the remainder, to carry out the project, will be asked this winter. If it is se- cured, or if authority is given to begin the work, the Government proposes to undertake It alone, and not to ask for bids from contractors, as it did pre- viouSly, to establish the light.
 The light will be visible at least 20 nautical miles, and in thick weather the most powerful steam fog siren will be blown at short intervals. Three keep CTS will be required to manage the light and keep it in order. There will be room for eight people. On account of the dangers attending lighthouse tend CTS that come alongside, all supplies will have to be hOisted in by an inn mense derrick projecting far out from the side of the light. There will be supplies to last six months.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
THE MOON BOTHERED JULIET.
4 Small Japanese Boy Held It and Would
 Not Go Away.

4 Small Japanese Boy Held It and Would
 Not Go Away.
 "While in Japan we went to Tokyo to play Romeo and Juliet, '' said Mrs. Potter recently. "We played from T o'clock in the morning until o'clock in the evening, as the manager demand ed plays that would last all day, and when told him that we had none of sufficient elasticity he replied that when it was all ended, we would start all over again. We'll, we did. The manager was impressed with the necessity of having moon, and that Juliet, as near as pos sible, should always be kept in the moonlight.
 "Well, the balcony scene arrived. and there was no moon, but in the midst of Romeo's most passionate wooing, which, so far as the light on the stage was con- cerned, might have taken place at mid day, the moon suddenly appeared. It was in the form of lantern fixed on a bamboo pole and was swayed before my face by litae Jap who stood beneath tue balcony in full view of the audience. The audience didn't seem to mind it in the least, but it made me very nervous, and every time Romeo would pour forth his soul would ejaculate, Take away that moon.' But the boy was mindful of his instructions, that Juliet was al- ways to be in the moonlight, and dur ing the rest of the performance every time came on the stage was pursued by that awful moon. Nothing could in- duce the boy to desist, and so the moon held full sway. "-Rochester Union and Advertiser.
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ment. There are thous lnds of men and women today who have been enabled to keep vigorously at work, who must have given up but for Paine's celery compound.
 Nervous affections are warming to busy people.
 Atthe earliest sign of reduced nerve force, inability to sleep, languor, or a gloomy habit of mind, everyone should look immediately to the nutrition of thelr nervous system and to the purity of their blood. Paine's celery compound will attend to both of these ur- gent needs more thoroughly and more speedily than anything else Tn the world. Paine's celery compound is not to be con- founded with the common preparations, the sarsaparilas and nervines. being the dis covery of a man of science. Prof. Edward E. Phelps, NJ. D.. LL. D., of Dartmouth College, it has the support of the best physicians; they prescribe il universally; and tbe many sick persons made we'll by its use proves that that support IS merted.
 To the great majority of business men a vacation, 10 say nothing three months of complete inactivity. IS Outnf the question at this season, even when their brains dem and a complete rest and their nerves ache and threaten them with pr ,stratiOn. Now, the @ are hundreds of business men and hard orsed professional men in this ciry in just this condition. What are they tO do? Those who are tired out, run down" and debili- tated at this trying season will do well 10 read some of the straightforward and con- Vincing statements from the men and women who have been cured by Paine's celery compound.
 Nervous weakness yanishes before Paine's celery compound as mist before the strong, health-giving rays of the sun. Convince yourself of the fact at once, If your health is at all imDaired.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
LEIGHTON'S FAIR MODEL.
Dorothy Dene, Who Posed For Many of
 His Best Pictures.


 A tall woman, beautifully formed with skin firm and smooth and of that golden tinted white that Henner de. lights in, a head Grecian enough tc have furnished inspiration for one oi Praxiteles' Aphrodites, with golden hair, violet eyes-such woman is Dor. othy Dene, whom the late Frederick Leighton made famous in many of his best known paintings.
 She was his favorite model. With all her charms of person, Dorothy Dene is as simple as child, modest and retir- ing. Her naturalness, as much as any thing, endeared her to the great artist, who was devoted to her for many years.
 RumOr has woven a romance in his life, in which his model figures.
 It says he loved her, but that circum- stances over which he had no control prevented him from marrying her.
 She is one of five sisters. They all live in London, where they have cozy little apartment in South Kensington, the art center of the British capital. It is one of the most artistic flats in Lon- don, and one in which more beaux esprits, painters, musicians and littera- teurs gather, when she is at home, two Sundays in each month, than in any other in the big city.
 Miss Dene visited this country in the winter of 1893 and was seen on the stage here. Her theatrical venture was not a brilliant success, but her beauty caused quite a sensation.
 She spoke of Sir Frederick Leighton he had not then been made a peer-with great tenderness. In an interview with her at that time, published in The Jour nal, she said, Although Sir Frederick is over 60 years old, he is the youngest man l know, and, I might add, the kindest, most generous.
 She told of where the great artist painted his wonderful Grecian pictures. He believed in the beautiful, lived in the beautiful, and many of his best can- vases adorned the walls of the room in which they were brought into existence. No fartistie dust" was visible there everything was neat, she said, showing an even mind given to beautiful thoughts and the portraying of them.
 He was the soul of good nature and occupied ill English society position somewhat like Chauncey M. Depew does here as regards his after dinner speak ing. Whenever there was big banquet, Frederick Leighton was always there, and when he spoke he always had some thing to say and something to which everybody listened. New York Jour- nal
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The Woman Landlord.

Women make very good landlords, but beware of the woman who owns on' ly one house. She regards it as the ap- pie of her eye. She lives near to keep it under surveillance. Whether she goes out on an errand or takes her constitu- tional, her steps lead by her house. At glance she can tell the condition of the shutters, the front door and the area. Her accustomed eye knows every scratch, and she is prepared to resist to the ut most any proposition to renew the shut ters or to paint the front door.
 She regards her tenant as her natural enemy, and cannot understand why she may not enter her own property when ever she has mind.
 But she is cheerfully prompt OH rent day; too prompt, for she does not take delay with grace. When a woman has a second house, say the agents, her char acter is ameliorated. And as her knowl- edge of affairs broadens she does not diff fer materially from other landlords. = New York Journal
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Epitaph of an Indian Chief

Just below the St. Augustine city gates, and in the first yard west of the corner of Granada street, in Orange street, is large stone surmounting a mound, commemorating the burial place of Ptolomato, an Indian chief who lived in ages gone by. It is with in couple of feet of the front fence, yet undoubtedly is passed unnoticed by thousands of tourists. The inscrip- tion carved fn the stone tells it's own story, though interest would be added if the very peculiar style of lettering could be reproduced:
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
A Plea For the Future Woman.

At the recent woman suffrage con- vention at Washington Mrs. Charlotte Stetson, a California woman, read the following poem, which she had herself written: Can you imagine nothing better, brother, Than that which you have always had betoref Have you been so content with wife and moth
 CT
 You dare hope nothing moreP Go ask the literature of all the agesl Books that were written before women
 read Pagan and Christian, satirist and sages-- Read what the world has saidl Eve and PandoraI Always you begin it. The ancients call her sin and shame and
 deathl There is no evil without woman in it, The modern proverb saithi She has been yours in uttermost possession Your slave, your mother, your well chosen
 bride And you have owned in millionfold confession, You were not satisfied. Peace, thenl Fear not the coming woman,
 brother,
 Owning herself, she giyeth all the more! She will be better woman, wife and mother Than man hath known before.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

Rev. Zephaniah Meek, D. D., is house. hold name all over the Sonth. Since 1867 he has owned and edited the "Central Methodist" the leading paper of the Meth odist Episcopal Church in the South. He represented his State at the General Con- ference.
 He was one of the Kentucky Commis- sioners at the Chicago Columbian Exposi- tion. During his ministry in the South he has built and de e1icated five ehapels. He writes from Catlettsburg, Ky, where his home is, as follows:
 "I have used several bottles of Paine's celery compound for nervous trouble, re- snltlng from overwork, and with immediate effect, as well s permanent benefit. It is the best nerve tonic that 1 have ever tried. It has also heen used in my family with great benefit"
 Tired-Out, halEsick men and women need something more than 2 mere rest. They need positive, unmstakable nerve food :: they must have a reserve of nerve-force to draw from, before their heads will cease to ache and their nerves cease to tremble with neuralgia.
 It is estimated that there are over ten mi lion nerve flores in the body.
 So long as these minute tissues are kept fully nOurished, one liv.s in blissfuI ig- nOrance of any suoh thing as neuralgia. headaches, or even nervous system, but let one become ''run-down" and the nutri- ii n of the body get low. and every one of these myriad flores becomes live wire" within the flesh. Headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, and other forms of nervous ness and debility result directly from famished nervous system. Paiue's celery compound is able to correct this faulty con- ditiOn. It builds up the nervous system and sustains it. The brain at once feels the strengthening effects of the superb nutri-
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
WHAT NEGLECT MAY DO.

There are some inirmities that only sur
 geon's knife will relieve, and mostly strictly because of neglect. A neglected nerve pa
 may become so chronic as to cripple an5 this is often the case with Sciatica iftahe. in time if is easily subAued. like other nerve pains, and viger and hea lth are re- stored. Thousands of cases have beeu treated by the use of St. Jacobs OIl, with ihe Iesult of prompt and permanent cure and restoration to health of the affected nerve. People cannot be too careful wi | their nerves. There is too much to suffer 10 admit of foolish neglect, and the simple thing of getting bottle of St. Jacobs On and applying promptly may save years oi misery and perhaps years of crippled con dition. Let this warning serve to show what can be and what ought to be done without delay in an attack of this disease.
 Mamma. said little Willie. when grow up
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
Something New In College Tricks.

At Mount Union college, during the usual term orations of the junior class, W. M. Fatherly, junior, whose home is at Lisbon, was delivering his address He was waxing eloquent in his orator ical flights, when suddenly big white curtain descended in front of him, com. pletely shutting off the speaker from the audience. On the curtain was painted in glowing letters, "God help these lit tie juniors. ' Fatherly ceased speaking, and his oratorical effort has not yet been finished. Cincinnati Commercial GaZatta
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Seeking For Fame.

The Mississippi river was never so low as it is at the present time. Near Potosi several men are engaged in sound ing the depth of the water in the river bed in an especially shallow spot. Their purpose is, if possible, to find place where it will be possible to drive team from the Wisconsin shore to Iowa. By accomplishing this feat, they hope to gain wide notoriety. .-Milwaukee Wis cOnSin.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
Decision Reserved.

Don't you think the mince pie is good, Willie?" asked the housewife who brides herself on her culinary accom- plishments.
 "Yes' 'm-I think it is, probably"
 "But you have eaten three pieces.
 ''I know it. But can't tell for sure till tomorrow morning. I had some mince pie last year that thought was pretty good, but it didn't make me dream a bit. ''-Washington Star.
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Natural Resentment.

"Little boy," asked the sympathizing lady, "why do you cry SOP"
 "Is there anything in the manner of my expressing my grief, madam. re- sponded the Boston boy, "that strikes you as being outre or inappropriate? Boo-hooi Boo hoo l''-Chicago Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION.

This is what happens when the kidneys are rescued from inactivity bv Hos etter's stom ach Bitters. If they continue inactive they are threatened with Bright'S disease, diab te' or some ether malady which works theil destruction. Nalarial, bilious and rho umatiC ailment and dyspepsia are also conquered by he Bitters, which is thorough and effective.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
She Knew It.

MT. Snaggs-From what I have seen of your friend Mrs. Northside l have concluded that she is temporizer.
 Mrs. Snaggs-Oh, l know that very we'll. have often seen her temper rise. -Pittsburg Chronicle.
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The Indianapolis Bicycle Company have just issued magnificent calendar for the current year, in the interest of their famou, " Waverly". wheel The calendar is use full novelty, it being the largest date indi- cator ever printed.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30
Every One Will Echo This.

What a victory it will be for Clara Barton if she shall succeed in bringing the grand Turk to termsl Her triumph would make her one of the "great pow CTS. May she win New York Record ar
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"What are you going to call your women: cycling cZub?" "The Nautilus" "Nauty l. ssi For the lands sake. wrat's the use of giving yourselves away like that?"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

The factories of Indiana furnish em- )loyment to 124, 349 persons, the output being S226, ,S25, 0S2.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

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The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-30

Tea Gsrden Drips is Best Suear Syrup for table use ever offered to the public. Makes delicious tafy candy. Flrst-class dealers sell it.
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A NOVEL CALENDAR.

Mamma, said little Willie. when I grow U can wear baggy pants like sister Sally?
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STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF ToLEDO,l
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FRANK J. CHENEY makes ca h that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co.,. doing business in the City of To edo, County and S'ate aforesaid. and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catanh hat cannot be cured by the use of l. ALL's CATARRH CURE.
 FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, }sE L. Notary Public.
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Try Germea for Breakfast.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-11-28

peared there also appeared an inter-
view attributed to Senator Frye. In
that he is credited with saying that he
does not expect the Dingley bill to pass;
this Senate, although from Il political
standpoint he can understand that it
would be a shrewd move on the part
of the opposition in the Senate to an
ticipate Republican tariff legislation by
passing the Dingley bill and he is not
convinced that the President would not
allow it to become a law. At the same
time he points out features of that
measure which prevent Republicans
from considering it as proper sub
stitute. especially the retention of the
advalorem system. We quote the fol-
lowing: ''As to an extra session. it is
well to remember that the composition
Of the next Senate is not established.
A Republican from Kentucky and one
from North Carolina are needed.
presume Kentucky will send one, but
am not clear about North Carolina.
In fact, there are uncertainties that
render the situation not satisfactory to
contemplate. We must have more
revenue, and hope the good sense and
patriotism of the people will demand
that it be provided
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-11-28

When the people learn that Mr.. Bry-
ans own ward went against him with
a majority of 299 votes, his precinct by
92, his city by 1919, they will wonder
why he should consider it his duty to
spend time. money and energy spout
ing" around the country when he might
to advantage sit down by his own fire.
side, surrounded by his beloved family
and conduct a series of Bryanite kim
dergartens for the edification of his
neighbors. He could make tuition
cheap enough to meet the financial
standing of all his benighted towns
men and then not be obliged to call on
the silver trust for travelling expenses
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-11-28
STATE NEWS.
Hancock
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Si ttfti.
Capt. W. $. Treworgy. who is build
ing a stable on his place on Main
street had a genuine olifashioned
raising Misunderstanding small store
on Main street. which belonged To
Roy Treworgy. has been purchased by
H. c. Milliken. He will move it on to
his own land in the near future.-kev.
H. +. Day. who has been confined In
his house on account of Illness is out
again.-The supper which was held at
Centre hall last Wednesday evening.
proved a grand success. The sewing
circle took quite a large sum, which
they paid toward their pastors salary.
Rev. +. w. Belcher will preach the
Thanksgiving sermon in the Baptist
church, Thursday evening. Singing
will be furnished by a chorus Of voices
from both churches.-Mrs. n. c. Means
is quite sick with a bad cold.-Ernest
Casper. who has been at work in Le-
want, is at home again.-Surry citizens
We're grieved to hear of the death OF
Harvey II. Hinckley of Bluehill, He
was the Republican representative
elect from this district. He died quite
suddenly of pneumonia
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-11-28

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