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The herald., 1897-03-03
THE Annexation OF CRETE.
Will Not Be Permitted by the
Powers
AUTONOMY WILL BE GIVEN
Turkeys Arbitrary Power Will Be Some.
what Modified
The Powers Are Not In compI.ts Ac;ori as to
to the Best riethods to Be
Pursued
AUTONOMY WILL BE GIVEN
Associa.ed Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
ATHENS, March 2.-Representatives
of the powers presented identical notes
this afternoon TO the Greek government.
1t is declared that Crete will be con-
verted completely into an autonomous
state. under the suzsrainty of the sultan.
and demands that the Greek vessels and
troops be withdrawn within six days
NO NOTE SENT. .t
NEW YORK, March "A CONSTANT
nople dispatch to the Herald concerning
the transmission of collective note by
the ambassadors, accompanied by an
ultlmatum from them TO Greece is pre-
mature. The ambassadors here have
not even received the terms in which
this note is to be couched. Conse quently
The Press., 1897-02-04
Rnrnl nanmnkInR.

PhrasemAkinR two or three generations ago played an important part in French politics. Louis XIV had a literary prompter who used to prime him with phrases and plan for him scenes such as would excite the peoples admiration.
 Your majesty will soon be going Go the races" said this prompter one day. "You will find a notary entering the bets of two princes of the blood. When you see him, sire, make the remark: !: What is the use of this man? Ought there to be written contracts between gentlemenf Their word should be enough
 The scene came off-the prompter saw to that-and the courtiers exclaimed: What happy thought How kinglyl That is his style"
 Another scene, more likely to impress the populace, was planned by this prompter. 4 sledging pleasure party was arranged for the king. Just as it was about to start several carts passed by, carrying wood to the poor of Paris
 "These are my sledges," " said Louis, pointing to the loaded carts. and he de- clined to join the party.
 Talleyrand coined for Louis XVIII the remark which he was reported to have used on the day he entered Paris:
 "There is nothing changed; only a nchman the more in Paris"
 As a matter of fact, the king did not trouble himself to utter the phrase. but Talleyrand inserted it fin the journals of the day that the people might fiatter themselves that their king had forgotten the past, and consequently there would be no change.
 Perhaps the most striking phrase ut- tered by & modern king was spoken by King Humbert few years ago, when the cholera was raging in Naples. He had been invited by the municipality of Genoa to 0 banquet, which he declined in those words:
 "Men are feasting at Genoa; men are dying at Naples. I go to NapleG "- Youths Companion.
The Press., 1897-02-04
.sHorses With wheels,"

."sIt was in the early days of railroad ing in the south, :" remarked the gentle man with the stock of "reminiscences the other day. "I was located in Florida about the time when the government had made vassals of the Seminole Indi ans of that state, and in order to impress the redoubtable Billy Bowlegs, the Te- cumseh of the Seminoles, it had invited that 'heap big chieftain' to make trip to the seat of the national government. Billy was bit dubious about accepting the invitation, fearing possibly that the great father at Washington might have designs upon his life or happiness, but he was prevailed upon to make the trip, and he embarked on board of the train with a great show of courage. The trains of that period were not the fiers of today-in fact, on many of the short lines the engineers were compelled to get out of their cabs and walk to tighten the train and permit it to proceed at an even rate of speed. When Billy Bow legs returned from his visit, he had overcome his trepidation and looked with scorn upon the locomotives. vis- ited Billy day or two after his return and asked him how he liked travelling on the iron horse.
 Huh, be said, with an upward twist of his prominent proboscis. horse wid wheels no goodl Big heap no good Me on horse better than two. Run way all time. White man heap smart. In- jun heap better. Huhl "-New Orleans mes-Democrat.
The Press., 1897-02-04
POETRY.
what IL In and What It Appears to Be st Varying Ages.

What xe In and What It Appears to Be
 st Varying Ages.
 Ash the first half dozen people you meet What is poetry?" and the result will be something like this: Five out of the six will look hurt at your springing such 6 question upon them and say lamely, "Oh, it's when the lines rhyme, you know" and the sixth will be an- noyed because, for the life of him, be can't say what it is and is afraid you'll think he doesn't know. AS to the rhym- ing definition, beware how you accept it, innocent and simple as it looks. Ap- piled, it will inevitably lead you to the conclusion that Hamlet" and "Evan- geline" aren't poetry. but that Little Jack Homer" is.
 |. The meaning of the word "poetry" varies, too. with our own age. Five year-old thinks "Sing Song O Six pence" and "Simple Simon" the great est masterpieces of poetic thought: 15 won't look at either, but pores over the "Ingoldsby Legends" the Ancient Mariner" and, for change, the cheer ful Burial of Sir John Moore:'' 90 dreams away Sunday afternoons over "Maud," 7" and privately determines to be Tennyson, too, some day, while 26 "hasn't time to read poetry"
 There are two we'll known poems that always seem to me deserving of our greatest pity "The Village Black smith" and "Casabianca. We give them all the little disagreeable jobs to do-all the kicks fall to their share, and none of the halfpence.
 If comic paper man is hard up for Q joke, he falls back upon one or other of them, while the way they are both hacked and mangled and tortured in the schoolroom alone Is positively cruel. and, outside it's four walls, all the re- ward they get is general disfavor. to say nothing of social oblivion and derision. But long after school has been left be- hind the boy of the burning deck and the smith with the brawny arms turn round upon us and take their revenge for all the obloquy and hard work heaped upon them.
 They haunt us and bring in theil train thoughts we would rather not think. We don't so much mind the memories of dingy schoolrooms and ink and tears and smudged copies that they force upon us, or even of half holidays spent in durance vile, but it is not of | these alone that they remind us. No. They hint at the sad and foolish ignoble days and the long dead loves and hopes and aspirations that have filled our lives l since, and we find ourselves contrasting what we are with what we were-toe often. alas, a bitter thought
 After all. the greatest and best poetry : is unwritten and will ever remain so ! Our sweetest love songs come ripplini over the meadows with the breeze that rocks the grasses in the long, soft sum mer evenings; our saddest dirges moan through the woods in the dark Novem Der days. when 8 damp mist hangs gray and pall-like over the hills and the deat leaves rustic as though swept by tn, feet of ghostly funeral train, while fo thrilling dramas and great, grand epic we need but to look round us into tn, faces and lives of living men and wom en.-Exchange.
The Press., 1897-02-04
Stomach
Puritana makes the Heart Right,
 Lungs Right, Blood Right,
 Kidneys Right, Nerves Right, Health Right.
Worth More Dead.

Sir Wemyss Reid tells a story redo lent of 6 grim ehrewdness characteristic of canny Novoc;- strians. "There was worthy, long since forgotten, in my time who was prototype of Rogue Ri derhood in Our Mutual Friend He was known as Cuckoo Jack, and he lived upon the Tyne in a well patched old boat. picking up any trihe that came his way from derelict to a corpse. One day an elderly and most estimable Quaker of Newcastle, ill stepping from a river steamboat to the quay, slipped and fell into the stream. Cuckoo Jack was at hand with his boat and quickly rescued the luckless Friend and landed him dripping on the quay. The good man drew half crown from his pocket and solemnly handed it to his preserver. Jack eyed the coin for a moment with a lack luster gaze, spat upon it solemnly for luck and, having placed it safely in his pocket, said in matter of. fact tone to the soaked Quaker. "Man, ah d hev gotten shillin for takin ye to the deadhoose. '"-London Telegraph
The Press., 1897-02-04
H,tLIN SOAP uTH MARTHX.

Lord, how miss them good ole days Wen life was full O hope An me an Marthy Ellen Hays
 Was sparkin b'ilin soap. The potash kittle we use' to have 1t hilt three bar'ls clear, An so Mis- Hays an ma 'ud save
 Their soap grease fer n year An plan to bile it tson the sheer, Bein nex' door neighbors so, An asst if me an Marthy.d keer
 To kind O. boss the show. The kittle was sot in the orchard lot Were poi,otly'd come an spy, An I'd snake the k. gs O soap scraps out On our stunbo4t, an Marthy'd try To ketch a ride an coul n't hol on 'Thout grabbin me roun the wais'. thought that heaven was shinin upon My heart in that sweet embrace. I'd the fire to light an the lye to bring An Marthy to watch as she d set an sing As putty as peach. An my yearnins senses was took by storm By each little cunnin trick O. grace an beauty an sway in form As shs. stirred the soap 'ita a stick. An her sunbunnit fsIl fun her golden
 curls-
 Oh, shucksi couldn't hope To tell how fair was that fairest O girls A she stirred the b'ilin soap. It's kind O lonesome a-sett:n here
 An thinkin them ole times over. wutf Marthyf Hain't seen Ter fer seven-
 teen year. Sence she married that down cast drover. -J. L. Heaton in "The Quitting Bee."
The Press., 1897-02-04
SUFFER FROM FLAT FEET."

How the Breaking Down of the Arch Ii
 Remedied by a Steel Strip.
 Despite the fact that tho beauty of a well arched foot is much appreciated by people of an artistic turn of mind, has been sung frequently by poets and verse makers, there has been until lately lit tie interest, from scientific point of view, taken in its direct opposite-the fiat foot. In a great mum Der of instances fiat feet are the occasion of considerable keen suffering, generally resulting from the breaking down of the arch-that is, the displacement of some of the many little bones of the foot either from overstrain or some disease of the muscu- lar structure. As the weight of the body constantly rests upon the foot, there is no opportunity for the bones to get back to their proper places.
 The result is tbat these little bones keep rubbing against each other, and the pain gets more and more severe. Commonly the person afflicted in this way thinks that he or she has rheuma- tism and lets it go at that. Until re- gently the only remedy was steel soled shoe that was clumsy and heavy. The new device is interesting. It is an Sin sole," curved to fit the foot. made of a bent strip of steel and acting as spring. It is covered either with leather or with vuIcanized rubber to prevent rusting, and, needing no fastening, but simply to be placed in position, it can be changed from one shoe to another at will.
 In position it acts simply as a sup port, literally holding up the bones and giving them an opportunity to slip back into their proper places. While any Gin sole'' of the approximate shape will give relief, the best results are reached only when one is especially made from cast or impression of the foot. A great proportion of the people troubled with | flat feet come from the north of Europe, many of them from the low lands of Ger 1 many. The inhabitants of the south or Europe. strangely enough, are seldom | troubled with anything of the sort. Their insteps, especially in the case ot | women, are nearly always highly arohed and finely formed.-New York Tribune.
The Press., 1897-02-04
The Lion Sermon.

The annual "lion sermon,'' preached in the Church of St. Katharine Cree, Leadenhall street, London, has been preached annually in the same church for 251 years. Its origin is due to one Sir John Gayer, former lord mayor of London, who, travelling in wild part of Asia far in advance of his at tendants, suddenly found himself alone and face to face with lion. Being a pious man, Sir John fell on his knees and prayed God to protect him in his hour of need. The prayer was answered, for on rising Sir John saw the animal walking away. Considering his escape miraculous, on his return to London Sir John set aside fund from the interest of which gifts were to be purchased for distribution to the poor on each succeed ing anniversary and sermon be preach ed to tell future generations how God heard his prayer and delivered him from the mouth of the lion.
The Press., 1897-02-04
ANDREW H, oLNEY. ESQ.

"I wish could shout loud enough so all the world could hear, and tell them the good this wonderful medicine has done for me. It has made me from Q weak, trembling, nerv- ous irritable man, to one who feels he is on the highway to long years of health and hap piness through Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy"
 If constipated, use Dr. Greene's Cathartic Pills with the Nervura.
 Dr. Greene, 35 West 14th St., New York City, the most successful physician in cur- ing nervous and chronic diseases, can be consulted free, personally or by letter.
The Press., 1897-02-04

Mo, was troubled with ehronio diarrhda for over thirty years. He had become fully satisfied that 1t was only question of short time until he would have to give up. He had been treated by some of the best physicians in Europe and America but got no permanent relief. One day he picked up & newspaper and chanced to read an advertisement of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar- rhBa Remedy. He got a bottle of it, the first dose helped him, and Its continued use cured him. For sale by W. W. La throp, Stafford Springs; O. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04
New York Public Libraries.

The facts which The Book Buyer pre- sents relating to the circulation of books in New York city through free circulat- ing libraries cannot be questioned. Scant as is the aggregate number of books talk en, when compared with the popula- tion, it is nevertheless satisfactory to learn that there are some few free libra ries which can show that, as to readers, they have more. The following is from The Book Buyers article:
 How woefully New York is behind other cities of the country in bringing books within reach of the masses is seen from @ comparison of the free circulat- ing library systems. Last year, for ex- ample, there was a circulation in New York of something over l, 1000, 900 vol tunes by libraries that received total appropriation from the city of $65, ,000. In the same year the Boston Public library circulated $50, 900 volumes and received $175, 900 from the oity, the Chicago Public library circulated 1. 15O, 900 volumes (the passion for reading being more general even than in Bos- ton) and received $124. 900, the Cleve- land Public library circulated 595, 0O0 volumes and received &60, 900, and the St. Louis Public library received the same amount for circulation of SS1,- GOO. A
The Press., 1897-02-04
Eiris., S.AIIS.

There are many bids Of which the male and female have the same call, such as the raven, the rock, the New Zealand parson bird and the gull, and to the highly cultivated musical ear a difference in pitch may be perceived which would escape the ordinary ob- server. With the true songsters there is little difference in the vocal organs of tEe two sexes, although the males of most species sing better and more con- tinuously than the females
The Press., 1897-02-04
ANGELS EYES.

Beside my window kneelins. watch the stars appear. A filver mist is afralin~ ; Over the meadows scar. Iris said that the stars which at sventid@ Sparkle and smile and peep Are the eyes of the dear little children Who are sleeping their endless sleep. If this be true. oh, tell mo. pray.
 Which of those stars SO bright Are the eyes of the little llddie brave Whom the angels call I one nightG Leaving n vacant little chAir.
 An empty little bed. And a mother who seeks 'mong the sear1
 each night
 The eyes of Bonny Teds Archibald V. McCarroll in Chicago Post.
The Press., 1897-02-04

A few months ago MT. Byron Every, of Woodstock, Mich, was badly afflicted with rheumatism. His right leg was swollen the full length, causing him great suffering. He was advised to try Cham berlain's Pain Balm. The first bottle of 1t helped him considerably and the second bottle effected a cure. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by W. W. Lathrop. Stafford Springs; G. l.. Philips, South Coventry
The Press., 1897-02-04
Soap of Pompeii.

Soap has been in use for 5000 years and is twice mentioned in the Bible. A few years ago soap boilers shop was discovered in Pompeii, having been bur- jed beneath the terrible rain of ashes that fell upon that city 79 A. D. The soap found in the shop had not lost all its efficacy, although it had been buried 1,SO0 years.-San Francisco News Let
The Press., 1897-02-04

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that akes he place of coffee. The children may drink it with out in ury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-n has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but 1t is made from pure grains and the most delic te stomach receives 1t with out distress. 4 the price of coffee. 15c. and 25 7fE> package. Sold by all grOaerS
The Press., 1897-02-04

Chicora, Pa., "Herald" Richard Vensel reports One Minute Cough Cure the great est success of medical science. He told us that it cured his whole family of terrible coughs aud colds, after all other so called cures had failed entirely. MT. VenseI said it assisted his children through 8 very bad seige of measles. One Minute Cough Cure makes expectoration very easy and rapid. W. D. Heald, Stafford Springs; O. L. Phillips, South Coventry
The Press., 1897-02-04
A Hut Used by Washington.

While hundreds of pilgrims daily crowd the shrine of Mount Vernon, one of the most interesting relics of Wash ington remains unknown and unnoticed and is rapidly falling into decay. This is small cabin which was rsod by Washington W hen a young man en- gagged in surveying the iaEts of upper Virginia. The house is loc.;tetl in Clarke county, the district eing form ed in 1886 from Frederick and named fer the illus. trious general, George Clarke, of early days.
 Near Berryville, in Clarke county, General Daniel Morgan Of Revolution ary fame built d handsome home, which he called Soldiers Rest About 2od yards from the site of this manor is To cated the cabin, which is regarded with almost religious veneration by the peo- pie Of the neiShborhood and which is being slowly eaten by the tooth of time.
 The house is 12 feet square. and there are but two rooms. one OH the ground floor and one for garret. Beneath the building fiC WIS, or rather did flow dur ing the last century, uall stream, which was used for cooling purposes. The upper chamber is latGed and plas- tered. Only one window lights it, while 8 rough door givt s access 0 the visitor, who must mount ny q ladder. Here it was that Washington was accustomed to keep his instrumtn nts when on a survey ing expedition. New Haven Journal.
 Spoiled the Party.
 "You weren't at the Joneses', said the girl with the brown cape.
 "No, wasn't, and I'm awfully sorry You see, would have been there, but you''-
 "well, you ought to be glad that you weren't"
 >"Why, what was the matter? I al- ways thought everybody had a good time when they went to the Joneses', for believe''-
 "It was the dullest thing ever saw. You know, it was to be sort of talk party"
 "Yes. Everybody was to get in groups and talk about things. Now, for my part, I like''-
 But it wasn't. We just sat and look ed at each other all the evening, and everybody went home feeling uncom- | fortable.
 "You don't sayl Why, what was the matter? Did anything happen:" 'tI am not sure whether to say yes or no. You see, it was this way: The pian- ist didn't come, and there wasn't any body there who could play the piano, so of course we couldn't talk. and we all sat there bored until it was time to go '-Chicago Times Herald. Frederic Leighton's peerage was thu shortest lived in the history of England
The Press., 1897-02-04

From everywhere come words of praise for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Al low me to congratulate you on the merits of your Remedy. It cured me of chronic bronchitis when the doctor could do uoth- ing for me-" CHAs. F. HEMEL, Toledo. Q. For sale by W. W. Lathrop. Stafford Springs; c. L. Phillips. South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04

The tickets to the village ball were not transferable. and this was the way they read: Admit this gentleman to ball in assembly rooms- No gentleman admitted unless he comes himself.
The Press., 1897-02-04

Lost-A dear little child who made home happy by it's smiles. And to think, it might have been saved had the parents only kept ill the house One Minute Cough Cure, the infallible remedy for croup. W. D. HeaId, Stafford Springs; G. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04
Practice MnkAa Perfect.

Mildred-Madge's complexion has inn proved wonderfully of late.
 Marjorie-Yea. She is beginning to understand how to put it on.-New Ymk Ledger.
The Press., 1897-02-04

Constipation in it's worst forms, dyspep- sia, sick headache, biliousness and de- engagement of the liver are readily cured by De Witt's Early Risers. These little pills never gripe. Small pill, safe pill, best pill. W. D. Heald, Stafford Springs; GIL. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04
The Dark Side of Christian America.

"We have now in America a popula- tion of 10000. 900 of people, and yet 750, ,000, we are told, belong to the criminal class" writes Dwight l.. Moody in his paper ill 'Mr. Moody's Bible Glass; in The Ladies Home Jour nal. "And this in Christian America. It is said that in six months 30 gradu- ates of two large European universities were found by one rescue mission in New York city. Nor are the American colleges without representatives in the great city slums. Our daily papers are but a living chronicle. of the fearful hold which sin has upon us as nation. A man must have lost all his senses who says that sin is not inherent, that it is only 8 physical weakness which culture may ultimately overcome. Ven- eering the outer man will make him no better within. !"
The Press., 1897-02-04
A Good Letter from the Clerk of the Cir
 cult Court.

The forgetmenot has two or three em blematic meanings One is suggested by it's name; the other was probably orig mated by its color. Blue among flowers is generally associated with the tender passion.
The Press., 1897-02-04

All the different forms of skin troubles, from chapped hands to eczema and indo- lent ulcers can be readily cured by De Witt's Witch Hazel Saive, the great pile cure. w. b. Heald, Stafford Springs; G. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04

torpid liver means bad complexion, bad breath, indigestion and frequent head aches. To avoid such companions take De Wits Little Early RiseIs, the famous little pills. w. D. Heald, Stafford Springs; G. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04
BROKEN DOWN IN HEALTH.
Shouts toWholeW orld His Cure
 By Dr. Greene's Nervura.

Andrew H. Olney, GlLso.i, NY, says:- ttI was broken down with nervous and phys ical prostration, before using Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and life was burden. Now life is a ie, and sleep is a luxury compared to it before taking Neryura
The Press., 1897-02-04

Soothing for burns, scalds, chapped hands and lips. Healing for cuts and sores. Instant relief for piles, stops pain at once. These are the virtues of De- Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. w. D. Heald Stafford ol rings; G. l.. Phillips. South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04

It was said of handsome but brain less young society" man that he made . very good chrysanthsmum holdsz.
The Press., 1897-02-04

Minutes seem like hours when life is at stake. Group gives no time to send for doctor, delay may mean death. One Minute Cough Cure gives instant relief and insures recovery. The only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. w. D. Heald, Stafford Springs; G. L. Phillips South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-02-04

Lemons have proved so profitable in California this year that $50, 900 new trees are to be planted next season.
The Press., 1897-02-04

The first whaleback on the Pacific coast is now, in its tenth year, being remodeled into a steamer of the regular pattern at Oakland, Cal