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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-03-19

anyway. There is the signal now" he
said as chime of bells rang in the dis
tant hall. followed by the sound of
! laughter All you are caught fairy
shcphcricss. Now disappear IL you
can" He dragged of his mask and
waited cXpcctant. looking at the girl.
Ciccly felt the blood rush 10 her face.
II must go" she said hurricdly and
rose Il didn't know il was so late"
Go. Why. you know you promised
me supper. and
Il didn't think. forgot for a mo-
ment. No. | must
Without unmasking?"
Il can't Don't ask me why There
are reasons. oh. | can't explain. Please
let me- get away she cried. for the
man had stepped before the door. Cice-
ly cast hurried glance about She
spied a door leading into the garden.
and before the cavalier could guess her
intention she had fled through 1t blind
! ~ into the night. he after her.
She did not know where she ran nor
care. Her only thought was to escape
/ biNtoNti W Sti away btlOIt tA-
posture came. On she sped. across the
lawn. into the shadow of the shrubbery.
tripping over roots held back by cling.
ing vines. her mask brushed from her
face. her breath giving out and discov-
! cry and shame at her heels Then she
tried TO find some hiding place and.
failing. sank down on a bench. with a
bitter. deSpairing cry. and buried her
face in her hands.
why did you run? You might have
known you couldn't escape me-" said
her pursuer rs he came up. Then as
he heard the girls sobs. Are you
hurt
Yes. yes she sobbed. but not as
you think. oh. why did ever come?
How am | TO tell you? What will
you think of me: | ought not to be
here tonight. am not a guest. I
had no right TO come
Ii was Il confession punctuated by
sobs and little gasps of pain that the
cavalier listened 10.
II saw the lights" Cicely added.
and then the waltz music came to
me. AMI | couldn't resist II. | thought
there'd he no harm-just for an hour.
and then could go back and no one
would know. and | could have one
pleasant memory among dreary, drudg-
ing days. I'm I'm not so very old
and haven't had any pleasure or hap
pincss in so long. and this was
| chance. and took it,
She rose and dried her eyes. You
see. | told you the truth. I'm only n
shepherdess and had no place in court.
and now | must go back to the sheep
and the wolves again. It's been-I
can't tell you what this evening has
been-eXcept this last
'Do You care so much then that l
know who you arc:' The cavalier
WAS standing beside the shepherdess
looking down at the bent head show
ing 50 softly in the dusky shadows.
Il would have sought you out in any
case-if had 10 search the world over.
| DO you care now that know
NO returned Ciccly softly.
And | may come tomorrow and see
the lambs and the shcpherdessT"
don tHink II would he best Tor
the lambs. butt usually come home
from the sheepfold by way of the red
| bridge and
If you saw wolf waiting by the
bridge. would You mind;"
Not if il was n nice WOLF
And IL the wolf were TO carry you
off and the lambs have to have an
other shcphcrdl"ss. would you he very
much scared" asked the cavalier.
II don't think So whispered the
little Dresden shcphcrdess. II think
I'd rather like it,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-03-19
RYDALE'S TONIC
A REAL CURE FOR
MAT,AR,TA

1t has recently been discovered that
the germs that produce Malaria. breed
and multiply in the intestines and from
there spread throughout the system
by means of the blood. This fact en-
plains why Malaria is hard to cure by
the old method of treatment. Ouinine.
Iron, etc, stimulate the nerves and
build up the blood, but do not destroy
the germs that cause the disease
Rydale's Tonic has a specific effect
upon the iutestines and bowels. freeing
them from all disease breeding mi
crobes. 1t also kills the germs that
infest the veins and arteries. II drives
from the blood all poisonous matter
and makes it rich and healthy.
RYDALE'S TONIC is blood
builder. a nerve rcstorer. and Malaria
destroyer. Try it. it wili not disap-
point you.
p. d. COTTINGHAM e Co.
Snow Hill, Md
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-03-19

and other organs of digestion and nutri-
ton. II enables the perfect assimilation
of food and the proper nutrition of the
body on which physical strength depends.
Mine or ten years ago my health became
very poor. aud in 1922 so far gone that good
doctors pronounced my case the worst they had
treated writes Mr.. Harvey Philips of
Florence Ala. ~ had acute stomach trouble,
liver complaint. caiarrh and was nervous To such
an extent could not sleep. ] finally got three
bottles of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and some Pellets Took them according 10
directions OH the bottles. and III a few davs
noticed a decided improvement. ! commenced
to get more rest at night and could eat with
pleasure. where formerly food was like chips to
me When ! had used three bottles OF the
Discovery was new man could eat mince
pie for supper. go to he'd at = VI and
sleep until seven A. NJ. ! working at
my trade Carpentry. every day in all kinds Of
weather and think If I had not taken vour
medicines would now be under the sod
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse
the clogged system from accumulated
impurities.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-03-19
A Drecden
Shepherdess
BY r. B. Wright
Cop, right. laa. by 7. {. Mcclure.
,.O.O.O.O.O.Oo.O.O.O.O:O:C

II had been u hard day for the little
schoolmiSIrcSS. The children had been
stupid and mutinuuIS and III the worst
time had come Il supervisor 10 criti-
els, the lack of discipline. Miss Win
throp WAS too Young. lie had said.
Perhaps the board should get Il more
experienced teacher.
What that meant ticely did not dare
TO think. and nov. cr0uchcd in the
darkness 10y the garrct window. she
was trying tn forget her worries. for
there WAS Ia Ice Il garden party and
near 10y. From Tie window she could
overlook the grounds. all Il twinkle
with innuncrahlc Japanese lanterns:
see the house itself. lis lighted porches.
its windows lively with many colored
passing figures. AMI watch the ladies
arriying AT the entrance and floating
in like white moths ont of the summer
night.
At first il was enough just to sit
there. head on sill. watching il all and
hearing the swing and rhythm of the
faint dance music. Hut little 10y little
came over her a longing 10 have some
part in the gayety her whole young
spirit craved. She was young too.
She was pretty-as her mirror told her.
She had loved dancing in the old days.
All. those days. They seemed so far
or. and yet only two years separated
them from the present Now life was
so different no more girlhood. no more
pleasure. no more pretty clothes or
jolly parties That last one. the one
just before her father dicd-that had
been a bal masque too. The costume
was in her trunk now-as l. she would
ever get the chance TO wear II again.
And yet. why not! \ sudden thought
set her heart humping. Why not go
to this one? Only for moment 1t
was a masquerade. No one would
know her She could slip in through
the shrubbery unohscrved. mingle with
the crowd and then The plan was
very dazzling TO the little girl in the
garnet window.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-03-19

Many a man would bet
ter go without lunch at all
than eat the hurried lunch
which forms the noon-,lav
meal of many a business
man. Hastv eating. foods
hard TO digest, and no time
allowed for digestion are
the cause of nianv a case
OF stomach trouble"
Disease of the stomach
seriously threatens the
health of the whole body
and should be promptly
cured. DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery cures
.1.-~,-..- -.g III -sz.....s.f.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
LURED BY LIGHT.
Some New Nocturnal Experiences of
South American Insects,

rrom the new York Sun.
interesting results have followed the in
PRODUCTION of the electric light in the streets
OF Port of Spain, Trinidad The largely
populated insect world of that region had
never before seen such brilliant ilIumina-
uon as the arc lights offered, and they have
SHOWN great curiosity. Every morning the
ground under the lamps is found TO he
strewn with thousands of dead insects of
many varieties. 1t Is impossible to walk
without treading on them. If the supply of
irsects We're not inexhaustible some of the
varieties would certainly be doomed to ex-
tinction. In fact, one kind is evidently
less numerous now than before the electric
lights were installed
This Is a kind of giant waterhup of
which such incredible numbers vera de-
sfroyed that the bug has come TO be gem
orally known as the electric beetle THE
lamps are no longer visited by the crowds
or these bugs that at first came to INQUIRE
into the meaning of the strange briIliance.
Either the species has been greatly de-
pleted through the destruction 6f MANY
thousands of its members, or else some
kind of instinct mas told them that arc
lamps are dangerous things to NEEDLE with.
The Owls IN their wisdom have learned to
pI oft by the fascination which the arc Ianp
has for insects. AS the illumination is
turre ed on at nightfall the owls may be
seen vending their way to the neighbor-
Hc0u Oh the lamps, Tor they nave discovered
that their prey is more abundant there than
anywhere else.
The feast is spread before them and all
they have to do is to dash out from the
trees and capture moth or a beetle that
Is winding its ways to the dazzling goal.
Then the owls return to their perches and
wait for the next conner.
The bats also have learned to make use
OF the lights in this unsportsmanliSe man.
ner, for catching moths and other insects.
Not few explorers in tropical regions
have CON planned that 1t is impossible to
have light in camp during the night with
out mourning unpleasant visitations from
myriads of insects. One of them recently
wrote that he was often forced to dine IN
the dark, attempt to use a light at
tracted swarms of flies which got into his
eyes and dropped into his food.
The naturalist Eugene Andre, in his re-
cent description of journeys in the Orinoco
basin, found that he could carry on his
work of collecting insects at night by the
use of lights. One evening an assistant
took number of fiashlight photographs by
using the magnesium light. An invasion OF
the camp by moths and other insects at
once occurred, and Andre secured more
than 100 specimens. On the following
morning he found the singed and mutilated
remains of many others that had perished
miserably, lured by the strange spell which
q bright light casts upon them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

active, there being two eruptions of note
In 1860; two others in 1903. But that of the
present autumn has been more violent than
any since 1872. Red hot stones hurled l. coo
feet above the cone have dropped down the
tanks of the mountain with deafening
sound. One stone thrown out weighed two
tons. while 1,sH violent explosions have
been recorded in a single day by the instru-
ments of the seismic observatory.
Observatory Near Cone
This institution has been a scene of activ-
ity during the present eruption. 1t is sit
uated about mile and a half from the
cone, near the foot of the rope railway as
cending that troubled apex. 1t is a hand
some edfice of white stone, and can be
seen at great distance against the black
background of lava. 1t stands on the
side toward Naples, on the top of con-
spicuous ridge 1850 feet above the level of
the sea- on each side of this ridge flows a
river of lava during eruptions. but the
building has withsIood all, unscathed. as
yet. An observer is on duty night and day,
even during the most violent outbursts.
During that of 1872, when sheet of red
hot lava glowed on either side of the ridge.
and when fiery projecttles fell all about, the
post was not deserted. INSIDE. mounted
upon piers penetrating the ground are deli
cate instruments, whose indicating hands
resting against record sheets of paper,
trace every movement made by the shud-
dering mountain. One sign by WHICH tnese
cast Is the falling of water in the wells or
the neighboring villages.
The rope tramway, or 'fuenicular rail-
way" which ascends the great cone from
station of white stone near the observa-
tory is now disabled for the first time Slnce
1t was erected in 1880. Lava from the
crater has melted its metal rails, destroyed
the upper station and burned the wooden
huts in which the guides at the upper cone
have lived. During the three months to
be required for the repair of the railroad
all tourists venturing UP the cone must re-
sort to the old-fashioned vehicle-the sedan
chair carried by porters. A year after the
railroad was built an outwork erected to
protect its upper station was destroyed
The road was threatened by rent IN the
cone in 1880.
So the railway up the smokestack or the
fiery furnace is to be rebuilt, Goa winning.
But who can say when 1t may be suddenly
blown into the clouds or when IL may Iah
into the bottomless pit? And-!et II be re-
neated-how soon will the thin ledge be-
Meath the fair City of the Siren give way
offering tragic theme for future story
'.'The Last Days of Neapolisg
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

elected DER opportunities and never mar
ried even single form title.
II believe in reciprocity. and how can we
'ciprocate de kindness of form counts who
wed our fair daughters better dan by taking
dose COILS, when dey has solved DER SEN
fences, and place EN- at de head of de foiSt
soicies of our foist society? Wit de glamour
OF divorce and nobility hanging over Eve
line, and Doodle and indictments hanging
over Willie, what social team dey would
make! Your playwright lost a good moral
point when ne did not marry Eveline and
Willie"
But. SIR says, "dey tried 1t dat way
one performance. and de gallery tore out
de benches and laid de leading man up in
hospital for a week.
(which shows" says Mr.. Paul, dat de
gallery closes its eyes to de progress of
civilization; dat dey don't see dat de flag
follows de marriage festivities. i would
explain furder to you, Chames, but must
resume woik On me great book which Is
to show how we can pay our national debt
by making nobility of our own"
How is dat, sfr?" l says, not quite cop
ping his dude langwudge
Easy" says Mr.. Paul, Congress Gre
ates as many counts and dukes as dere is
new fortunes made. and auctions off de new
acquired will not only. as my book will
show, pay de national debt, but reduce de
tariff so much dat free American can buy
his trousers abroad without being fined Or
sent to Jail by de customs officers
81 objecti" says Whiskers, who heard Mr.
Paul say dat Protection Is sacred"
"Sure!' says Mr.. Paul. MY plan protects
de buyer instead of de sellers
"Fudge!" says Whiskers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

was number two on her list before she got
de count. but Charley, her number one,
married since she did, but hasn't got his
.divoice yet Harry foist married Grace,
who is now Charleys wife, and Grace give
Harry divoice dat she could land Char
ley before de countess got her divoice. De
countess tried to hurry up and check Grace,
but her pa was shy wit de settlement-his
Tin Horn trust had just failed-so de coun-
tess has to take Harry until Grace releases
Charley. She won't have to wait long, for
Grace is soon to marry Jack, who was di-
voiced last week or she may take Dick
whose divoice is announced as a spring
openng-just after Lent. Dere is compli-
cation, dough; Grace has alimony from
Harry. which is cut off If she marries
oftener dan once in two years, and witout
her alimony she can't retain her favOrite
divOice lawyer. She is quite provoked about
it
IF society was run proper" says Mr..
Paul. government would furnish divoice
lawyers free. A couple may go to de city
hall and get married by Mayor Mcclellan,
twho never asks but smile but when di-
voice time comes many a desoiving woman
has to walt until she can save up for law
iyers' fees by wearing hats and gloves over
Thine. Free divoice. says /, No eght-hour
ing couples who can't get around to de
court house until de evenings, because of
DER odder social engagements"
Paul, you are absurd says Miss Fam
ME
; ''Woise" says Mr.. Paul. Here am 1,
free. white and twenty-one and never a
diYoice to me name 1t has become a nui-
sance at de club to have to explain to de
chappies: don't know when our divoice
will take place. Me missus hasn't set de
day yet -"
Listen to me: If divoice is so easy as all
dat 1t wouldn't make such corker Of a
play as me and duchess went to on de
Bowery. Say. it was whizzer! Even de
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
Dogfsh.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.


Some of the creatures of the deep can
eat like an unregenerate Digger Indian !:
they can consume their own weight or
twice their own weight in twenty four
hours; they pursue and kill as ruthlessly as
a German grand duke whose huntsmen and
gamekeepers drive the tame deer past their
blinds to be killed. just as the large-eyed
oxen are smitten in the Chicago stock
yards; they kill from habit. In this class is
the dogfish, or dogshafk of which much
complaint has been heard this summer
along the coast. The angler hates him
and would applaud any effort to crush the
infamous thing" In the language of Vol
taire. There is strike and vigorous
pull, and the fisherman says, 'Ah-ha. here
Is sport! But his joy lis momentary; the
game pulls strongly and stubbornly. per-
haps doggedly, but 1t IS a sticky pull, ap-
parently the holding back of an animated
old bootleg and the pest comes to view.
requiring some sharp work with the knife
and the mussing of the boat, profanity and
loss of hope for the days sport, for where
the dogfish abounds the real fish are likely
to be lying low.
The dogfish breaks nets, sours the an
gler's temper, discourages the commercial
fisherman. and from Maine to Florida his
name is anathema.. The Canadian govern
ment has just adopted an ingenious plan
the best yet discovered short of bafling out
the ocean-of depicting his numbers. The
bounty system has been discarded as likely
to be costly. difficult of administration.
futile. The minister of marine and fisheries
has decided to build three large reduction
plants, and at these plants agents of the
government VIII pay a good price to fisher
men for all the dogfish and fish offal which
may be brought in. The dogfish will be
converted into glue and fertilizer, and thus
an industry will be founded while some
thing Is being done to save the fisheries
which for several seasons have been men
aced by the omnpresent dogfish.
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brass band set is too slow for de stage, be-
cause in dis play. Swift and Sweet or de
Trust Busters Revenge" dere wasn't a
minute something fierce wasn't doing. No
body could tell. like Mr.. Paul was saying,
dat So-and-so would marry Such-and-such
when who ten got divoiced. Not much!
Oats no material for red-hot melon
drama. You mustn't know too much on de
BOwery what's going TO happen, or de gal
!1ery will cali for song-and-dance.
z Let me tell you about it. DE leading
lady Eveline, was a billionaire's daugh-
teri used TO know her off de stage when
Isle tossed buns behind a quick lunch coun-
loves her dads cloik double-entry blond
just den Count Cadazus floats over on a
lfen-dollar Storage ticket, looking for a
I m lion or two. and he hears dat Eveline
hasn't yet been discovered by de nobility.
J He goes to dad and he says. How much?"
= Dad says dat counts is cheap, and he
won't separate from more dan two mil
Hons one spot cash. and one when de d-
voice is granted. De count goes over de
situation wit his creditors, and dey admits
dat dey was up against fact. not u fancy.
Dad. says dey. was no farmer; counts was
cheap. all right. for fair. Dey says for
l,him to nail de offer and depend en- de anx-
i5ety of Eveline to get her diyo,ce to make
dad put up two more million inst Aad Of one.
de creditors says dey would allow de count
cigarette money out of de foist million,
ard 10 per cent of all pocket money he
touched Eveline for.
: Dat was de foist act. In de second Eve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
CFIIMMIE FADDEN.
Account of Thrilling Bowery Melodrama,
''The Trust Busters Revenge"
With Moral.
WRITTEN FOR STAR EDWARD TOWNSEND
Copyright 1904, E. W Townsend)

line tells Willie dat he is de white-h haired
lad she Is really strong for, but he must
excuse her for a year or two, Tor she had
a date to marry count, and would be abb
sent until dad and de lawyers fixed up de
terms of divoice.
But Willie sets up a scream: Tut, tut,
Eveline" says he. Its Willie now or
never Before you can get a divoice will
have buckets to corner all de counts COM
ing or going. / know your dads game. and
can bust his trusts and make million out
of each of 'em. Wit few millions to start
wit, any honest trust buster ought to make
a comfortable pile Be mine," says he,
land shake CadaZus.'
But Eveline was chesty do l look like
a goif- who would try to butt into society
witout my title clear? No, sir-rah! A
title and a divoice for mel"
So dey married Only five Or six
free American women was crushed to deaf
trying to get into de countess carriage to
steal her rings as de happy pair, accom-
panied by DER lawyers, drove from choich.
Its frost," sneered Willie, de coik,
seeing dat de street was blocked for only
half mile wit Jeffersonian simples. ITS
a frost! Now to do up de old man."
Dat was de end of de second act. In de
next Willie sells information to de Street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

by-de-Sand. You would not have me when
j was poor and honest; do you tlnk / will
let you in now dat am neider?
by heaven, William says she, ducking
into de limelight and running her fingers
trough her frizzes. by heaven, how pro-
voking. If cannot get divoice and marry
you, at least give me look-in on wealt and
press notices your typewriter"
For minute 1t looked like Willie was
going to give her d. job, and de gallery
got ready to trun benches and tings at him
But just den Willie's wife steps from be-
hind screen. where she had been making
goo-goo eyes at a wine agent in stage
box. and she says. Guess again. Countess.
Willie hires typewriter till j have looked
her over and give me consent. / do not
consent to a mechanical blonde wit an Eng
lish accent. a Italian title, a Japanese
poodle and a French frock. To de forest
for yoursr' She crowds bote Willie and Ev-
cline out of de center and de limelight and
''Dere's Only One Coil in All Dis World for
Me-" and de audience yelling like conven-
tion voting for a sure loser
Say, was dat play? What! l tells de
story to Mr.. Paul. and asks him what he
taught of Ii.
We'll. Chances" says he, "de stage is a
grand moral teacher, but Ii don't seem to
me dat de proper lesson was taught by de
drama you so we'll relate. We must be
true to nature, or blow up trying to be.
Willie, 1t seems to me. should have took
Eyeline when he became a Millionaire. Den
he could have went into dinner wit his wife
ahead of dose lazy ladies who have ne