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The Press., 1898-08-11
THE GAR WAS SWITCHING.

But xt Caused the Despair Of . Sleepy
 Lecturer In Search of Rest.
 "I have long made it a practice to sleep whenever get an opportunity" said a man who lectures, "but recent experience in Baltimore has made me shy of opportunities. You see. spend a great deal of time on railroad trains, and frequently, in order to keep engage. ments, am forced to travel at night. Now. have great difficulty in getting asleep on 8 sleeping car, and sometimes toss around all night.
 "Last week lectured in Baltimore, and after the lecture found sleeping car in the railroad yard which was to be added to the train bound for New York. That was my opportunity. I bought a section, hunted up the porter and asked him if I might retire with the expectation of not being aroused be- fore morning.
 "'That's what the car is here for, colonel he answered. We don't pull out till 80 in the morning. and you can just go right to sleep
 "That sounded inviting, and retir- ed. fell asleep promptly. The move | ment of the car aroused me. and, think | ing that we had been coupled on to the New York train, closed my eyes again. At that moment the car ran into some | thing on the track with @ crash and stopped SO suddenly that my head was bumped against the end of the berth. Undoubtedly a smash up, I thought, and proceeded to get out of my berth. The porter was sitting in the seat opposite. | pu ykah kha trouble?' I asked.
 "Nothin, he replied; just switch | in
 "Back crawled, feeling very cheap. | Again felt drowsy, and once more the car was bumped violently, then showed along the tracks at 8 rapid rate and shunted into the end of another train, starting a series of crashes that sounded | one after another clear away up the | track. The quiet that followed lasted SC | long that I began to doze. Another bump harder than the previous ones | aroused me, and for the next five min utes it seemed as if two engines must be engaged in shunting my car back and | forth for the fun of it. l would feel the car slide along only to come to an abrupt | stop with lot of noise. Then it would slide back to another track and stand still. For the next hour was tossed and bruised in my berth, and 1 could stand it no longer. crawled out and dressed as best could under the cir cumstances, made a flying jump from the car on one of its shunting trips past the station and went to a hotel and spent the night. The memory of that H,,e, ,ln .,l@ entering sleeping cars that are loatine around the yard waiting to be coupled to a train, even if it does seem to offer an opportunity to make up sleep The amount of shaking up that one man re- ceives in a car that is inst switchin' is surprising. ''-New York Sun.
The Press., 1898-08-11
Murderers May Re .sNice. ''

At daybreak at Sakhalin-you could hardly see daybreak on account of the shutters-one of the lgliest looking women ever saw crept in with 8 cup of tea that is always given in Asia very early in the morning, and she was murderess. l went to the little tent Out' side to have breakfast, and man came up behind me and reached over my shoulder, and he was murderer When we rode out after breakfast, a man with magnificent broad shoulders and splen- did face drove, and he was 8 murderer. The fact is, strange as it may seem, they (the governor and Russian officers at Sakhalin) have no choice All the domestics must come from the material they have. and if you take thief he is almost always sure to stay a thief, while murderer may be very nice kind of @ person. They did that kind of thing among themselves, and don't want any better men than some of those that were sent there for rmurder.-Bulletin Amer ican Geographical Society.
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TOMORROW.

A fond. doting mother, with eyes full of love, Said, "Charley, oh, do pray tonight And the angels will come their shining
 wings To cause you sweet dreams of delight" "Oh, mother" he cried, II am weary and sad, But tomorrow, dear mother, will" Alas, alas. that night was his lasti
 Tomorrow he was pulseless and still An old man lay on his narrow couch, And fever was racking his brain. "Pray God to forgive you," his pastor would
 say,
 "For the penitent's prayers are not vain." "I am better, much better. he breathed in
 reply.
 "Tomorrow"-and here he loud sighed Tomorrow I'll ask"- No more could he say. With the sentence unfinished he died.
 Finley Johnson in New York Ledger.
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neryous trouble. The nerves are cry ing out for assistance. The cry should be needed in time. Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound was pre- pared to meet the needs of woman's system at this trying period of her life.
 MRS. DELLA WATSON, 524 West 5th St., Cincinnati, Ohio, says:
 "I have been using Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound for some time during the change of life and it has been 8 saviour of life unto me. I can cheerfully recommend it to all wo- men, and I know it will give permanent relief I would be glad to relate my ex- perience to any sufferer.
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The Supreme Court.

Justice Brewer has noted some curi- ous coincidences in regard to the mem
 bers of the supreme court. The judges are seated on the bench on either side of the chief justice in the order of the date of their appointments, the senior at the right, the second at the left, and SO on. Before the retirement of Justice
 Field on the right of the chief justice
 were seated the three colors, Justices Gray, Brown and White. None of the associates who sat on the right of the chief justice had children. Every asSo. ciate who sat on the left had large family, and all but Judge Peckham had grandchildren.-Ne York Tribune.
 COMRADES, ATTENTIoN.-I served from '61 to '64, and was wounded May 10, 1864, in the battle of the Wilderness. l would like to have my old comrades know what Celery King has done for me. In 1890 my old complaint, chronic diarrhoea, came back. The doctors could not stop it, but Celery King has cured me, and am once more enjoying life.-Frank Beeh- Ter, Owosso, Mich. (Co. F, 18th N. Y. V. I) Celery King for the Nerves, Liver and Kidneys is sold in 6Oc and a5c pack ages by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and w. F. Fuller, Somers.
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across his eyes, and there was silence for the space of a minute.
 During this speech his wife had stood motionless, her eyes downcast. She was very pale, but otherwise showed no emotion. Presently he spoke again, but his voice sounded husky and far away.
 Beauty" he cried, "for my sake pause in your mad career, or if not for mine for Chappie's."
 Surely that appeal would have touch ed any mothers heart, but Beauty Dal- maine heard it unmoved. She slowly crossed to the door, and turning she looked defiantly at her husband, and her voice rang out with metallic clear ness as she said:
 "I have listened to you patiently. Now am going to the play with Sir Arthur Maynard. And then she van ished, and like one stunned her husband remained vacantly gazing at the door through which she had disappeared.
 But Beauty Dalmaine did not go to the play that night. When she left the library, she slowly ascended the stairs with the intention of fetching fan from her room. The servants were all at supper, and the house was very still, when suddenly a small voice broke the stiffness, "Chappie wants movah!" fol- lowed by a sound of sobbing.
 Beauty paused. The sobs continued, and again the little voice called: "Chap- pie wants movahi God send Chappie' s movahp p'
 Swiftly she flew down the passage and entered the nursery. The little lad s hoa in Gal hoI heard it and used it as an instrument to unlock the mothers heart. In few short seconds Chappie was in his moth CTS arms. The costly satin dress was forgotten, and freely her tears were mingling with his own. For the first time in his baby life he tasted the joys of mothers love. Hitherto she had only been 8 beautiful, unapproachable dream. Now she was 8 living, loving reality.
 An hour later, with weary footsteps and an aching heart, Travers Dalmaine climbed the nursery stairs, and on the threshold beautiful picture gladdened his sorrow laden eyes. By the cot of their sleeping child knelt Beauty Dal- maine, her lovely face illumined with the light of the newborn mother love and her hands clasped in prayer. Softly her husband crossed the room and laid his hand tenderly upon her head, while she raised her dark eyes to his and still kneeling said:
 "Travers, my husband, forgive me. meant to go, but Chappie wanted me, and when heard him say so there sud denly flashed on me the dark, loveless future was making for my little son- our little sOn.' She corrected herself softly, and then she was raised to hel feet, and a pair of strong arms enfolded her and her husbands deep tones assur- ed her she was forgiven.
 "For his sake we'll start again, my darling" he added.
 "And for Chappie's fathers sake. '' she whispered, as her white arms stole round his neck. And the little sleeper moved, and they looked down to see 6 | radiant smile dawn on his face and both stopped and kissed him. Then hand in hand they stole from the room.-Lady.
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A Gallant Thief. > A woman in London recently had her

pocket picked, one of the articles being a sealed and unaddressed envelope, con- taining 8 e5 note. The next day she re- ceived back the stolen articles, with the following explanatory note:
 DEAR MADAM-The exigencies of my profes- sion led me just now into possession of your purse, where find 60 shillings, which appro- priate to my own needs, and these papers, which return to you. do this because feel especially desirous to restore this little white envelope, which l have not been indiscreet enough to open. know very well that when a young woman goes out with little white envelope carefully carried in her pocketbook that this envelope contains a love letter which she is seeking chance to address secretly to her beloved. will not wrong your lover by taking the sweet words and kisses which you meant for him, and am very sorry that I have even for a short time delayed his receiv- ing his letter. May you be happy. dear girl, with him whom you have chosen, and believe always in the good wishes of your obedient servant.
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The Successful Remedy for NASAL CATARRH

must be non-irrftating, easy of applica tion, and one that will by its own action reach the infiamed and diseased surfaces.
 ELY'S CREAM BALM combines the important requisites of quick action and specific curative powers with perfect safe ty to the patient. This agreeable remedy has mastered catarrh as nothing else has. and both physicians and patients freely concede this fact. All druggists cheer fully acknowledge that in it the acme of Pharmaceutical skill has been reached. The most distressing symptoms quickly yield to 1t. In acute cases the Balm inn parts almost instant relief.
 By Absorption.
 Catarrhal sufferers should remember that Elys Cream Balm is the only catarrh remedy which is quickEy and tiorouohlu absorbed by the diseased member. It does not d1,y WD tue secretsO1as, but changes them to a limpid and odorless condition. and finally to natural and healthy character. The balm can be found at any drug store, or by sending 30 cents to Ely Broth CTS, 56 Warren St., New York, if will he mailed.
 Full directions with each package. Cream Balm opens and cleanses the nasal passages. allays inflammation, thereby stopping pain in she head, heals | and protects the membrane and restores the senses of taste and smell The Balm IS applied directly into the nostrils.
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First Run on A Rank.

The first "run" on banking Nnstitu- tions in London was in 1667- Many Lombard street go1dsIniths and bankers them, and being called upon for pay. ment were unable to meet the demand A crowd of creditors and others assem- bled and a riot followed, in which four bankers were hanged at their own doors before order could be restored and the angry creditors persuaded that they were not being swindled.
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Let 1t Leak,

Mrs. Rousem (early ill the morning) John, Johnl Don't you smell escap- ing gas?
 John (sleepily)-I don't care if do It s the hotels gas. don have to pay for lL--Philadelphia North American
 Dr. J. I. Terry, of Trimble, Tenn, in speaking of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhes Remedy, says: 'It has almost become 8 necessity in this vicini- ty." This is the best remedy in the world for collie, cholera morbus, dysentery and diarrhea, and is recognized as necessity wherever it's great worth and merit be- come known. No other remedy is so prompt or effectual, or so pleasant to take. Sold by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and c. L. Phillips, South Coventry.
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1nma the Magician.

Mother-What is the matter, Clara? You look distressed
 Clara Ca abride)-George has-has had to go off on a-a trip, and he won't be back for-for two days-boohool
 Same Mother tsome years later)- How long will your husband be away?
 Same Clara-I forgot to ask York Weekly.
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wilIful Misunderstanding.

Mrs. Ferry-The paper has the pie lures of some of the loveliest house gowns on sale at Sellup's- Mir. Ferry-This house does not need gown. A coat of paint will have to do, and that will take all the money 1 can spare. Enquirer.
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Facts In the Case,

My son has accepted position fin Judge Hobbs office.''
 "Yes. met him when he was run ming his legs of getting inducements on his application for the job. "-Cleve- land Leader
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Attaining Refinement,

Charles Dudley Warner was once talking informally to the students ot the Art league in New York on Refine ment.
 "And how may one best attain to this ideal of refnement?" asked one young man.
 MT. Warner stroked his whiskers very earnestly for a space. but this was the utmost he could find of encourage ment, A very good way is to inherit
The Press., 1898-08-11

AN ENTERPRIsING DRUGGIST. - There are few men more wide awake and enter prising than E. K. Taft, who spares no pains to secure the best of everything in his line for his many customers. They now have the valuable agency for Dr.
 Kings New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. This is the wonder full remedy that is producing such a furor all over the country by it's many startling cures. It absolutely cures Asthma, Bron- chitis, Hoarseness, and all affections of the Throat, Chest and Lungs. Call at above drug store and get trial bottle free of a regular size fol 50 cents and $1. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded. 5
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How TO LOOK GooD.-Good looks are really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver Is inactive, you have bilious look; if your stomach is disordered, you have dyspeptic look if your kidneys are affected, you have a pinched look. Secure good health and you will surely have good looks. "Elec- tric Bitters" is good Alterative and Tonic. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys, purifies the blood cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at E. K. Taft's Drug Store. 50 cents per bottle.
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THE TURN OF LIFE.

Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand ap- brooches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and sometimes painful symp- toms.
 Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until it
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Persons bitten by the tiger snake of Australia die almost instantly, there being no known antidote for the bite of this reptila
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Discouraging.

Would Be Suitor-Good morning, Miss Brown. Quite all opportune meet ing, indeed. I have been waiting for a chance to ask when it would be agree able for me to call on you.
 Miss Brown-Oh, you are at liberty to make your own selection.
 Would Be SuitOr-Thanks. By the way, see that you have been getting a new horse and carriage.
 Miss Brownies. Come around soon and pail take great pleasure in driving you out.-Richmond Dispatch.
 Some time ago little bottle of Cham berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarhea Remedy fell into my hands, just at a time when my two-year- boy was terribly afflicted, His bowels were beyond con- trol. We had tried many remedies, to no purpose, but the little bottle of Collie Cholera and Dfarrhpa Remedy speedily cured him--WILL1AM F. JONES, Oglesby Ga. For sale by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and G. L. Phillips, South Coven try.
The Press., 1898-08-11
THE STEAMERS CHIMNEY.
Some Details of Interest Regarding It
 Ennafrucfinn and IIse.

Some Details of Interest Regarding Ita
 Construction and Use.
 The stroller along the wharfs who should see rising from the smokestack of big steamer a small and at the start perfectly defined column of smoke which seemed to come from 8 small smoke pipe within the big one might wonder if the great smokestack was filled with smaller stacks, one for each boiler. AS a matter of fact it is not so filled, but there is within it 8 smaller smoke pipe called the donkey stack. which is the chimney for the boiler of the donkey en- zine, which is used when the vessel is in port in hoisting cargo in and out. It is from this pipe that the small column of smoke is seen to issue.
 The donkey stack is placed sometimes against the forward inner side of the big stack, sometimes against the after inner side. It may be complete pipe, or it may be formed of iron in the shape of half a pipe, with fanges riveted to the main pipe.
 If a single one of the large boilers were used, as it might be when the ship is in port, it might be connected with the donkey stack. but in their regular and common arrangement and use the uptakes of all these boilers run into the great chimney, whose whole interior is open, except for the braces running across it to strengthen and support it. The chimneys of all large steamships, however, and of many other steam ves- sells as we'll are built double, with an inner and all outer shell, with space between varying according to the size of the vessel. It may be from five to ten inches. The primary purpose of this | chamber around the smokestack is to afford ventilation for the engine room and the stokehole. In at least one mod ern passenger ship ventilating pipes from the passenger quarters have been carried to these chambers. Incidentally the space between the shells helps to keep the stack slightly. for thus con- structed the chimney is cooler on the outside than it would otherwise be, and so it holds paint the better. r.-New York Sun.
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Ho1sao For WOnen N4rses-

4 home for women nurses has been completed and furnished by the man. agera of the Friends asylum at Frank. ford. . suburb of Philadelphia, which is to bear the name Elmhurst.
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Too Much For Him.

"I will give $loo to any one who can equal my tricks!'' shouted the professor of legerdemain, who had the stage.
 II accept your offer," answ cred a man as he pushed through the crowd.
 'Do you belong to the perfesh?''
 "Naw; manufacture gas meters"
 "Then withdraw the proposition. " Detroit Free Press.
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life. "-Advocate of India (Bombay).

HEADACHE FOR FORTY YEARs.-For forty years suffered from sick headache. About year ago I began using Celery King. The result was gratifying and surprising, my headaches leaving at once. The headaches used to return every sev- enth day, but thanks to Celery King, have had but one headache in the last eleven months. know that what cured me will help others.-Mrs. John ID. Van Keuren, Saugerties, N. Y. Celery King for the Nerves, Stomach, Liver and Kid neys is sold in soc and 25c packages by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and W. P. Fuller, Somers. 1
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auanfala 13arbarity.

The deadly work at Manila was gen. eral1y performed in the cool of the morning. That these events were fully appreciated was shown by the presence on the Lunetta of thousands of people. Hundreds of fashionably dressed ladies and gentlemen "graced" the occasion with their presence. For the most part these fashionables came in their equip ages. These ladies would stand in their vehicles, determined not to miss any part of the ghastly show. The signal from the commanding lieutenant that the victims were dead was the signal for these delighted lady spectators to wave their handkerchiefs or parasols as evidence of their satisfaction.
 As general thing these were fright fully grewsome affairs. There was a fir ing squad of five for each unfortunate. This squad of executioners would be stationed about ten paces immediately to the rear of their human target. In most instances the soldiers constituting the firing squad were natives They were secretly in favor of the rebellion, and no member of the squad cared to fire the fatal shot. Consequently each man would aim for the arm or leg. This of course only added to the horror of the affair.
 There was one occasion when IS lead ing members of the secret revolutionary society, the Catapunan, were executed. There was not single instance at this execution where the unfortunate wal killed by the first volley. In a majori ty of cases three or four vo1leys were required, and in one instance five vol leys were fired before the surgeon de clared the man dead. The announcement that all were dead was the signal fol music by the band-gay, triumphal music. of Reviews
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L.GS. 5iICtt.

"Think Cf it!'' txclaimCd t''o S,. what pedantic citizen, "-A ;,tri. . or so ago boys were sCl,rost d U La, good knowledge of Latin Ltiore ii were 16 years of tse.'
 "What of tLat?' inquired tho mll hammered friend
 Doe: It flat slew that our prytci-t ed advancement i'll refinement is q mis apprehension?'
 "Not at all. It proves that we arc more considerate and humane, anG therefore more refined. Think Of the amount of corporal punishment It must take to give boy good knowledge ot Latin before he is 16 years old r'- Washington Star.
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seems ready to | burst, and the | faint feeling | that follows, sometimes with chills, as | if the heart
 were going to
 stop for | good, are 7
 symptoms "a | of a dan- Dorn11R
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MT. A. c. Wolfe, of Dundee, Mo-, who travels for Mansur & Tibbetts, Implement Co.,, of St. Louis, gives travelling men and travellers in general, some good ad- vice. Being Knight of the Grip" he says, ''I have for the past three years made it a rule to keep myself supplied with Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, and have found nu- merous occasions to test its merits, not only on myself. but on others as well. can truly say that never, in a single i'm stance, have known 1t to fail. I consider it one of the best remedies travellers car carry, and could relate many instances where have used the remedy on skep tics, much to their surprise and relief. hope every travelling man in the U. S. will carry a bottle of this remedy in hit grip" For sale by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and G. l.. Phillips, South Gov entry,
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Purista and pedanta

Many purists condemn such phrase as "no sort or kind' on the ground of tautology. I should be sorry, however, to see it disappear, because it is land mark in English philology. It is relic of the fusion of Saxon and Norman French. At that period many phrases of bilingual character crept into use, and this is one of them. "Truth and honor" is another, truth being "troth, " or hon. or. as in "by my troth." "Voice" as a verb is much objected to, coming to us moderns as it does from American sources-e. g., to "voice" the public sentiment. I don't like it and never use it, but it occurs in Shakespeare
 Notoriously many so called Ameri- canisms are old English provincialisms. The purists threaten, indeed, to become insufferable pedants. It is now the cus- tom of the printers reader-our great authority-to treat "none" as invari- ably singular, a contraction for no Cne But it is useful as a plural and is so used in Shakespeare-e. g., "Speak daggers, but use none." Why may we not continue to say, "I spoke to no wo- men at the meeting because there were none present?''