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Smyrna times., 1899-03-15
WOmen'S
naCkintOShes

l IIdCKlHCOSneS ,,o;o boe =.
season-early spring which we
prepare for with ample stocks of
Mackintoshes. Of course we guar
antee every garment we sell to be
absolutely waterproof; all are neatly
made in the best protective manner.
These price hints
AT $4-Women's double-text-
ure Mackintoshes, with navy
blue or black cashmere face,
with detachable military or
double cape; neatly lined.
Samestylein misses sizes, $3.50.
At $5-Navy blue or black cash.
mere, with Scotch plaid lin
ings; detachable double
breasted capes.
Misses sizes, 81,
At $6.75-Same style Mackin-
tosheS, with plaid facings on
cape, and detachable hood.
And CRAVENETTE GARMENTS
Made of Cravenette serge that is
waterproof without the use of rub
Der. Light in weight and odorless.
At $10-In navy blue or black,
with full military or golf cape.
AT $14-Of fine English Serge,
with silk-lined golf cape.
Some stylish Cravenette garments
are made in ulster style-these at
$16.
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Sunday
Smyrna times., 1899-03-15

At the Fourth Quarterly Confer
ence of Warwick Circuit, NJ. P.
Church, Mr.. VIM. H. Spry was
elected as the delegate the Second
Annual Conference which meets
in Crisheld, Md, on April 5th.
Rev. w. w. White received a
unanimous invitation to return TO
the charge for another year.
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WOmen'S The first corners are
Spring ready because you
Tao,oe demand them. Win
' try fxings are so COM
monplace after all these months.
1t is sensible, certainly, to get the
spring wrap soon enough to give it an
ample wearing season. How much?
SIS, So, $3.50, $10-more, some of
them,
The SIS ones are of wide vale
cheviot; fy-front; new gathered
sleeve. Fronts are faced with satin
rhadame.
The $40 ones are of dark gray
covert cloth; fly front; strapped
seams; small plated sleeves. Full
lined with black taffeta silk.
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Rev. J. E. Nicholson will preach
next Sunday at Ewell's NJ. P.
Church, on the following topics:
1880 a. M, THE Sunday School
Lesson; 7.3o p. m, Songs of the
Bible; Sunday School p. m.
Prayermeeting, Wednesday, 7.3o
p. nj.
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Muslins, ,CaIiCOes
GinphamS SC

Here are some specials as good as
gold dollars. They go down with
the remainder of our stock. Pre-
pare for your spring sewing and
save money.
Smyrna times., 1899-03-15

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.cMV1'nU, DeI.,

Wednesday, Afternoon, March Is, 1899
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seventy cents a yard
instead of $3.50, which is its
regular value.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08
IN THE NICK o. TIME.

The Widow Carney came out of her
two-room shanty beyond the dump.
She stood erect in the spring sunshine,
looking over a network of railroad
tracks, across to the switchhouse
where Kathleen had taken Fergus
O'Hare's dinner. Nelly Carney was
still little more than a girl. Her face
was arch and sweet, her ayes bright,
her hair black and curly. The wind
blew her calico dress away from her
fine figure.
And you say that she's a widow"
John Conover remarked to Fergus.
Not long, l venture"
Three year." said Fergus, painting
a little. mot for any fault Of the
bye. She's a little uppish. is Nelly
Carney. Phil were a fireman an like
to be an engineer wan day, but the
greasers down Coyote Pass finished
him wan night whin they attacked the
train. Company gives her the rint av
the hoose thar, an she keeps borders
for meals"
That is how John Conover met Nelly
Carney. He was getting ready to go
to the mines. EIe had just come from
the eastern states and had a claim up
about Toby's creek that his brother
had left him when he died the year be-
fore.
He did not say much about himself
to anyone. He took his meals with the
Widow Carney for a week or so and
bunked in with Fergus O'Hare. He
said he was getting his outfit. Nelly
Carney did some sewing for him and
they sat together evenings, while little
Kathleen slept beside them.
One OF these evenings John Conover
seemed to be very thoughtful. At last
lie took a sudden resolution.
Nelly" he began gently, I'm going
up to a rough place, but I've got a 40
ton to take you along"
1T takes two to make a bargain, Mr..
Eonover."
Not this bargain. know you'll co
dear. I'm only wondering if it will
pay you. Jim always stuck to it, that
creek claims were bound to pan out.
If 1t does. you and Kathleen will be
dxed for life. If it don't, you might
have a tough time. Shall we go
down to the squire tomorrow. Nell?"
Nelly took a nights sleep on it and
In the morning consented to go up
country with John Conover. They
were married one day, and set out the
next, taking the little child with them.
1t seemed a shame to John Conover
that he brought such a pretty creature
to live in such a wild and lonesome
spot. She was happy enough. appar-
entity the same Nelly he had seen on
the dump that spring day. The more
he loved her, the more he brooded
over her sacrifice Of a home and
friends among civilized people. He
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08
BANDITS.
Occupation of a Former Inferno of the
Good Samaritan Hospital.

Occupation of n Former Inferno of the
Good Samaritan Hospital.
DR.. Dudley WEIGH, formerly an in
terne at the Good Samaritan Hospital,
and well known in this city, is at pres
ent attached, in the capacity of sur
geon, to the Fifth Regular Cavalry,
stationed at San Luis, Cuba, and has
written soome interesting letters to
this city Of his adventures while scout
ing with the cavalry in search of ban
dts that infest the mountainous coun-
try about San Luis. Many of the reg
ular soldiers of the Cuban army, DR..
WEIGH states, have since the war or
ganized into guerrilla bands, which de-
scend upon the towns at the foot of the
mountains and plumber the iphab-
itants. The cavalry are kept contin-
ually on the go, pursuing this gentry
all over Santiago province. San Luis
is in Santiago province, twenty miles
from the city of Santiago, the capital,
and is connected with the latter place
by a railroad. The cavalry camp is sit
uated about two miles south of San
Luis, and DR.. Welch states that a week
nev passes but what they are ordered
out to pursue the guerrillas. Twenty
nine of them have been captured, in
GLIDING two Of the leaders, Matanoras
and Dieguez. Matanoras' band is said
to consist of 300 men, and this outfit
has threatened to descend on San Luis
and liberate its leader from Jail. DR..
Welch also states that the command is
at sea as to where it will be sent next.
They may at almost any hour receive
orders to proceed to either M~anzanillo,
Holguin, Guantanamo or Mayori. The
rainy season was overdue at the time
the last letter was written. on April IA,
I'M the mercury has been rising stead
lily until the heat is almost ~unbearable.
DR.. WEIGH expects to be sent back to
the United States by October, but can
not be positive when he can leave. At
fairs in Cuba, he states, are in a highly
unsettled condition at present. The
morning the letter was written bandit
prisoners were brought in, two OF
whom he treated for shot wounds, one
Of them dying a short while after. He
says that he has had a chance to fire
a whole bunch of bullets from a Krag-
~Jorgensen rife, and more from a Colts
revolver while in pursuit of the guer-
rillas, and now knows how bullets
sound when they whiz by ones head.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08

the spoon at a lace counter. Who that
uses pen and mucilage has not dipped
the brush in the ink and sprawled
over the paper with pen inadvertently
dipped in the wrong bottle? One of
the most embarrassing plumbers, how
ever, happened to a dainty little lady
who has to wear not only false teeth
but two pairs of glasses. Sewing at
some Dorcas society not long ago, she
wished TO change her glasses, but her
h&nd, like a hasty or careless child,
but half attended to her brain, and
she discovered herself with her teeth
III her hand instead Of her eyes, as
she l~aughingly said. Car conductors
could tell many a ~laushable story of
postaSe stamps offered for fares, and
passengers both vexed and vexatious
M pass their own stations or attempt
to stop short Of than. Perfectly sober
and perfectly sane men have walked
in at the neighbours doors and even
entered the dining-room before dis
covering that they were perhaps several
doors from their own. These errors
OF hand, eye and ear would afford q
valuable study to the psychologist.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08
Society of Game Thieves

Friedland boasts the most singular
mutual protective society in the civil
lied world. In Assem- recently a union
was organized by seventeen game
poachers, a comprehensive set Of rules
being adopted. None but a recognized
game thief is eligible to membership.
The convention decided that in the flu
ture the members of the union shall
sell only to regular game dealers, and
then only at current market prices.
The dealers will be required to con-
tribute a certain amount Of money
each year to the unions treasury. The
principal object Of the union is to sup
port the families of such poachers as
may be arrested and sent to prison. A
cast-iron resolution forbids all mem
beers from killing game in the closed
seasons, the argument being that the
game laws must be enforced. The
Netherlands code provides for a fine
of 100 forms and a term of imprison-
ment for killing game out of season.
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and at once presented us with his pic
ture-and a very handsome picture 1t
Is. He had effected many cures, he
said, and was happy to be able to rem
der such service to the suffering world.
l asked him how he performed his mir
acles, which NJ way ruflled his good
humor. Il will give you an illustra-
tion," he replied with dignity, and
forthwith ordered his ~patient--a young
and pretty woman-to stand up and be
cured. He then placed himself in
front of her and the curing" COM
menced. First the doctor laid his hand
on her head, then on his own. He NUT
tered a few prayers, and, still praying,
began violently gesticulating in Sven
gall fashion. l doubt If poor Trilby
ever submitted to more hideous GEES
lures than those Of the miracle work
er. Sometimes he would thrust two
long, bony fingers right into the face
of his patient. This performance con-
tinued some little time and was fol-
lowed by a light rubbing, during all OF
which the young woman seemed as IL
under a magnetic influence of some
sort. When at last the curing ter
minated the doctor asked her now she
felt, and she replied Much better"
and laid a gold piece on the Doctors
donation plate. The doctor seemed
contented and called the next patient.
One after another was treated in the
same fashion. AS l took my depar-
ture l was struck by the pathos of the
scene~the old man surrounded by
hopeful crowds of sufferers. l could
10 help signing oyer the credulity OF
mankind. GRACE CORNEAU.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08

DR.. Edwards, the American magnetic
healer, has been busy performing So
called miracles in Paris. The noise Of
his reputed cures has caused a sensa-
ton, and people flock 10 his apartment
in the Rue Cadet, neal the Boulevard.
The doctor is an amiable old man. full
of admiration for himself and his
works. He is we'll versed in adapta-
bility, and although when in Spain
found a monks beads and cowl use
full, has adopted a "redingote" for
Paris. 1t is better suited to his eli
ents. 1t was to DR.. Edwards that Loie
Fuller, the famous American dancer,
went for relief when the bright cleo
trio lights, in the glare OF which she
gyrates, had caused her almost total
blindness. La Loie says she has been
benefited. His consulting rooms l
found aowded with men, women and
children. Women predomlnated. Many
OF them were young and pretty. Some
were well dressed, but, on the whole,
they resembled a group Of fanatics
such as one notices at a PadereWski
matinee, or, to be strictly up to date, a
Persl recital. No Il looked particu-
larry i'll, but each patient evidently had
a reason for coming. l was met by an
attendant, who took my card and dis
appeared into an inner room, where
the doctor was engaged with a pa
tient.
"Show them in" l heard a deep voice
say, and my companion and | were
ushered into the sanctum of sanctums,
where the miracles are performed. The
doctor seemed pleased with our visit,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08
HE LOST ALL.
Including That Winsome Creature, the
Lovely Hirdy Jones.

Lovely Hirdy Jones.
1t was the first perfect day of the
glad s%pringtime. The warm sun
frightened the country landscape and
the odor of opening apple blossoms
zane upon the laden atmosphere. The
lazy clouds floated dreamily in the sky
overhead, chiefly because they could
not go afoot or on the trolley cars.
The rural roads were smooth under
the hammer of innumerable wheels,
and Clarence Wheeler had stolen
Birdy Jones from her naughty Soho
home for a ramble on his 81 tandem
among the highways of the townships.
Stopping from their run, they rested
beneath a great oak tree which over
hung a wayside spring. Cowbells tin
killed. in the woodlot below the meadow,
and little lambs with wabbly legs three
sizes too big for them gamboled on the
short green grass. On a broad, Hat
stone that looked down upon the crys-
tai water Birdy spread the lunch they
had carried in the tandem box, ana
Clarence brought water in a romantic
tin can that he had found hard by.
The soft winds toyed with the girls
bleached ~tresses, which streamed over
her face. like a ph~otogravure picture OF
the west wind to illustrate Longfel-
lows poems. Her cheeks flushed with
the visor Of exercise and robust health
and when the young man approached
her from the spring his whole thought
was centered upon the winsome beauty
of the divine creature. He sat down
by her side. His soul drank in the
charm of the picture. She looked up
from the car of embalmed beef that
she was opening, with a smile of con-
fdent approval on her young face.
Suddenly her eye kindled and the
rosy flush of young womanhood gave
way to a CHASTITY pallor. Her lip
curled in scorn. Her classic head was
lifted in anger. 'Merciful heaven!"
shrieked the young man. Tell me,
dearest girl, what is the matter?" But
she stepped back, and, striking the
attitude that she had learned at the
Soho Amateur Dramatic Club, she
pointed her finger at him and said IN
tones that would wither a load of hay:
"All is lost, Clarence Wheeler. You
are sitting in the 'pie!"-Pittsburg
Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08

The most remarkable house in Kan
sas City is in the rear Of Hotel Sa-
voy, on Ninth street. 1t is a little one
story cottage, not much larger than a
corn crib, and it has seen better days.
Enter it and you will wonder whether
you have struck a Chinese joss house,
or are having a Kaleidoscope dream.
Your face is reflected in all directions
by dozens of scores of mirrors set in
the walls and ceilings, which seem to
be papered with crazy quilts, studded
with electric lights of all hues. Above
dangle Japanese lanterns, bright RID
bons and artificial flowers, feathers
and festoons in bewildering confu-
sion.
The delusion is dispelled somewhat
upon closer inspection. when you n
that the wonderful mural decorations
ore but bits of bright Autographs, an
infnitesimal number of pictures from
illustrated papers, and various odds
and ends of ornamental kinds as deftly
arranged as if woven together. And
there are other surprises too many to
mention.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08

wood had been removed, presumably
to hide 1t. She climbed down the wa
ter pipes and dropped on the kitchen
roof, then slid down another pipe and
was on the ground.
From the hospital the girl went to
Russell's stables on Market street and
had a rig hitched up. She had no
money and was not allowed to take it
out. Where she stayed all night none
of the asylum people know. She reap
peared at the stables again in the
morning about s o'clock with $3.50 ana
hired a rig. No one at the stable
thought her insane.
Shortly afterward -datron Kile's lit
tie girl saw her driving past the asy-
lum and called her mother. Superin-
tendent Tom Bolt and Mrs. Kile got
into a cart and started in pursuit. AS
0 0 as Miss Lockjoy perceived them
she whipped up her horse and left
them in the lurch. Constable Hersom
soon after took up the chase, and DR..
Fred P. Clark got into line with his
pneumatic tires. Out on the turnpike
they sailed, leaving a cloud Of dust in
their wake, but the fugitive proved an
excellent horsewoman. She knew how
to a V her animal, and rested him at
frequent intervals until her pursuers
had caught up. Then she sped away
from them, as her horse was a thor
oughbred. The escape led the chase to
French camp, FIVE miles out. There
the turn was made and the race for
the town began. 1t was the same or
der in-the girl, Superintendent Bolt
DR.. Clark and Constable Hersom. The
FIVE miles was soon covered again, and
town was entered on Center street
Down Center street to Sonora, up tC
California, and on to Market the wild
race continued. The turn vas made al
Market, and past Russell's stables
went Miss Lockjoy, standing in the
buggy and laying the whip on the an
imal with all her might. The horse
shot out like a fash toward East
street. Bolts horse slipped and fell
in making the turn and he lost a lap.
The others followed in procession,
Liveryman Russell started Ed Nevins
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08

out on horseback after the woman. She
few up Market, turned at East ike a
circus chariot driver, switched again at
Main and headed out the Copperopolis
road. How the buggy ever Kept its
wheels the witnesses to the exciting
chase do not know. The feminine
whirlwind did not spare the lash, but
the saddle horse was too much for the
buggy animal after its terrible drive of
fifteen miles, and at the ellis place,
four miles east, Nevins finally headed
the woman of and captured the horse.
Miss Locksoy made no resistance and
was brought back and lodged in the
asylum again.
At the stables where she got the rig
she gave the name of Jessie T. Gray
of Lathrop and said she was going to
visit her sister in Fair Cakes. 1t was
afterward learned that she got her
money for the rig by tapping the till
at the Fulton market on Center street,
near the asylum. She walked in while
the butcher was out and helped her.
self to about SIS.
"She acted like a perfect lady," said
Liveryman Russell. 81 never took her
to be off, and l can say she knows
how to handle a horse flying around
corners"
There is nothing bad about the
girl" said DR.. Fred Clark. She just
has a mania for running away from
home, and no one ever knows where
she goes"
Miss Lockjoy is quite pretty and de-
ports herself as a lady, but she knows
how to make much excitement in .
small space Of time.
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ABSENT-MINDED FOLKS.
incidents That Furnish n Valuable study
to PsychoIogIsts

to Psychological.
When a college professor gravely
apologies to the cow he has stumbled
against, or a literary woman repeated
ly runs against Il OF her own shade
trees while discussing metaphysics, the
trifing plumbers are often attributed to
some peculiar constitution OF mind
supposed to belong to genius, but these
tricks OF mind and muscle are com
mon to many in the common footpath
way. The lack OF coordination be-
tween brain and muscle leads to many
a laughable mistake, a few instances
of which are here given: A woman
recently went to purchase some Ham
burg trimming. ard wishing to put on
her glasses she opened her umbrella
instead, and, having a merry heart. she
hurried away from the counter con-
vulscd with laughter-the saleswoman
no doubt thinking her would-be Gus
toner was something Of q %lunatic. A
teacher in a well-known academy has
a habit Of carrying his umbrella over
his shoulder like a gun, and one
cloudy morning, picking up a broor
instead of the umbrella, he hurrit
walked off with it and would no doubt
have gone directly to prayers so &C
coutred had lot his wife called him
back. A young lady took an ice cream
soda and carried the long spoon away
with her, discovering her mistake
when she undertook to fan herself with
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-07-08

Get Tim, Denny and Jerry and one Of
the other boys we can depend on.
There's plenty of money. We will go
faster than any one Oh, Fergus,
help me, for old-times sake"
We've no time thin to loose quoth
Fergus. For that gang is away three
hours too. Be ready whin 1 come Wild
the b'ys.'
An hour or two later Nelly was
ready. She had been to the convent
to kiss Kathleen, she had dressed her.
self in her coarse mountain clothing
again. The next train north bore the
lrishmen and Nelly to the little sta
ton where she had decided to get off.
1t was by a short cut, rough and
dangerous, that Nelly made up her
mind to lead her followers. 1t was
one by which John Conover used to
secretly transport his gold. Several
times she had tramped with him up
and down the pass. She calculated
that she could arrive an hour or two
after the attacking party if they push
ed forward all night. A terrible en-
ergy posed Nelly. Her eyes shone
with terror and anxiety. Could they
reach John in time? AS she plunged
onward in the dark she registered a
VOW never to leave John Conover
again If his life was spared.
Toward dawn the party were in
sight Of Toby's creek. Nelly pointed
with shaking at the hut near the
mountain side. There was a light in
the cabin. The party crept Up stealth
lily. Nelly crawled on her hands and
knees to the back window. The sight
within froze her blood. John Conover
was tied and bound before the fire
until he was perfectly helpless. Three
men were torturing him, Indian fash
ion, by applying burning sticks to his
feet. He would not sign away his
claim.
Nelly drew back one second and Fer
gus took her place. A settled gray
look came into the face of the big
switchman. He motioned the next
man and all drew their pistols. Fer
gus crept to the door, motioning Mel
ly to shelter herself. There was a sud
den crash-in of the door, three shots
and a dash at the window. Nelly fir
ed the pistol that she held straight
into the face of the man who came
first.
John Conover was always a bad
ly crippled man. He lad expected no
succor, but he knew Nelly we'll enough
to think she would never re|liuquish
the claim only over his own signature,
hardly then. He had resigned himself
to die that she might have a fortune.
1t was a snatch from the grave for
him.
Everyone knows the Conovers on
the two continents. The claim was
one of the three best in California.
Kathleen was such o fabulous heiress
she could have married a dozen titles,
but she choose a plain American. She
had a young, half brother, who,
strange as 1t may seem, was called
Fergus from the start. He was a ia
nous athlete in an eastern college in
the '70s and married and English girl
of family. Nelly Conover, a lovely,
w~hite-haired Old lady, may often be
seen in the picture galleries and pleas
ure gardens of continental cities, walk
ing beside the wheel chair of a genial
old gentleman. She kept her VOW. No
time since that awful hour OF the
mountain side has she been absent
from John Conover's side.