Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1890, Page 14

14 ee THE EVENING STAR: THE OLD CHAPEL. A Picture of Virginia Life of Half a Century Ago. PASTOR AND CONGREGATION. A Sketch of Out Times—Kiding Many Miles to Churech—The Scene on Sunday—The Ree- torand His Wife—The Cobbler and the Sex- ton. hana HE INTEREST which attaches to the old and particularly to the old ‘Old Dominion,” promis the writer of the following sketch to give his reme- cences of a time and place which sixty years act with men and things have have toned down d them into an abiding and pleas- ant memory. “The Vid Chapel! By no other name was it ever known or would now be identified. Were it called simply “The Chapel,” none of its living denizens, if such there be, would recog- nize its identity with the rustic, mosa-grown old stone structure surmounting a wooded knoll about the center of the present county of Clarke; but, at the time of which I speak, in the county of Frederick, in the valley of Vir valley far famed for its fertile soil, its pictur- | RTO esque scenery and the intelligence, cuiture and refinementof its people. ‘The claim of this church of “ye olden time” to antiquity is fully e: din the fact t its ancient and venerable worshipers knew it r tithe than thatof th : Chapel,” or whether, indeed, it bad ever hud « wore modern appedation. BOILT BY EARLY SETTLERS. ‘Tradition speaks of this old church as having been built by some of the earlier settlers of the valley of Virginia ata time when churches, and notably Episcopal churches, were few and far between. ‘Ihese early settlers were generally gentlemen, large landed proprietors, removing irow their estates in the lower and more mala- rivus counties of the state and bringing with them their slaves, seekimg at tirst a more salu- brions climate for themseives, their families sud retainers for the smmer months, but form- ¢ in course of times permanent settlement in the upper counties of the state. It was at | date, then, and almost before ed the forests and built for thet- temporary dwellings, that these new settlers of the “valley” began to feel the need of s cbureh in whieh to worship according to the tenets of the “Church of England,” in d their fathers before them had ship. It was then that ‘Lapel was built, probably by subserip- having been donated by a certain ut princely estate the Old Chape re was located. Another tra: g been built by Lord “Greenway Court, gan Eng : the Church of d would give some coloring of truth to ater legend, but be this as it may neither the one nor the other muilitutes agains its antiquity. At this time, the country being thinly settled and the estates of the gentry large (embracing in many instances thousands of acres), the con- gregation was necestarily seattered over an ares of man: in extent, yet it was an ex- ceptionally cold day anter or kot day summer that did not witness the assembling at th “hapel of a congregation, if not as re~ 7 numbers, yet in other respects comparable with any body of men and women who ever congregated at a country church. ‘THE CONGREGATION. It was essentially a congregation of ladies and gentlemen of courtly manners and high not in the sense which bas rendered the term offensive, not of weelth, though most of them were wealthy, but of that quality that marks the gentleman and gentlewoman the world over, an be x -d, too subtle ed; not puton as a Suuday dress, but a habit of every-day life and conduct and con- Yermation; with few exceptions such was the character of the Old Chapel congregation. Before sketching the personnel of this ancient and respectable ecugregation of wor- vhipers it may be as well u glance at the build- ig itself, wlich, in its p-imitive simplicity tion, the Col.” Nathan whose the its God condescending to their brothers and sisters in the bumbler walks of life—they were too little removed from their revolutionary ancestors to fear to compromise their dignity by friendly intercourse with their worthy neighbors whose opportunities for culture and refinement had been more limited than theirs, and whose social scale had been adjusted on more conventional lines than at the present day. ‘These old ladies of the bygone, in their stiff brocades, ‘Queen Ecss” ruftles and high-heeled shoes, in their decorous and reverent demeanor, formed with their liege lordsa pleasant Sunday morning ricture of propriety and decorumand one well worthy the imitation and admiration of their numerous progen: To these “Mothers in l-rael” was chiefly com- mitted the moral and religious training of their sons and daughters, and most dutifully and beautifully did’ they’ supplement the Sunday teachings of the worthy pastor with week-day holy words and pious example. TEE PARSON. Our pastor! then known as “Parson M —."" Of thie worthy manI shall have but little to say, as his history is too intimately connected with the history of the Episcopal church in the United States, and more especially in Virginia, togive more than a hasty sketch of what he at the time of which I write, not as he afterward became—one of the highest dignita- ries in the church. At this time he was the plain, grave, dignified country parson, with nothing to distinguish him from the geutle- men of his congregation except, perhaps, that his dress of generally well-worn black bad a somewhat more clerical appearance. _, Simple, almost ascetic in his tastes and hab- its, he lived upon his farm (Mountain View) the life of a quict country gentleman, fre- quently relieving the tedinm of study by 'man- ual labor. He was cn principle a remarkably early riser, religiously believing in the homely verb, “Early to bed and i ¥ morning his son and I arose ime before the dawn of day and left the | house to go toa village more than a mile away. On the way bis son remarked rather jocularly, I think we are ahead of the bishop this morning. ng at the village when it wasjust light enough to distinguish objects,to our surprise we found the bishop standing in his sister # front yatd wniler his umbrella superintending some domestic work of improvement to the prem- ises. SADDLE AND PILLION. On Sunday it was his custom to ride seven miles on horseback to church, frequently with Dirs. M. behind bim seated on a “pillion,” a kind of leather enshion with an iron back or railing atiached to the eaddle. In this simple and primitive way these worthies were wont to go to their devotions, while most of the cor: re drawn in luxurious equipages, many instances attended by footmen in livery. It was no un’ i lection at the old chapel of thirty to fifty handsome carriages, d_not infrequently they were driven four in hand,” and this, not for ostentatious display, but that the made additional hy of the ola two lowly but worthy at some mention of whom this indeed be an imperfect sketch, as they were as mach a part and. p f the “tout ensembic” of the old ebapel of that day as though they had been a necessary material of the building iteelf—old Mr. Dix aad “Uucle Robin,” the black sexton. ‘TRE COBBLER. Mr. Dix was the cobbler general to the eom- munity. In his youth he had been dissipated, wild, reckless—in other words, he had sown a vast amount of “ "and by all methods of human reasoning wht the harvest would be easy to predict; but He whoxe ways are not a our ways had determined otherwise, aud the dissolute, profane drunkard had been trans- formed by God's grace into the humble meek and lowly Christian. A constant attendant at chareb, he was always in his place in the far corner of his pew under the stairway,which came tobe known as Mr. Dix’s corner. Always devout and attentive, he was noticed and re- spected by all. One pegaliarity he had which evidently grew out of the impression that it was his bounden duty to si was aang. and it imattere: what hymn, his was same, and’ “at tandem” gregation, either a line behind or a line ahead of the rest. Sometimes he would fail to catch the number of the hymn, then he would reach over to get one of “us boys” to point it out tohim, which would invari- ably and, I am sorry to say, intentionsily, be the wrong one; but it made’ no difference with whenever a hymn not what tune or always the with the con- Yas no inapt exponent of the simple, unost taticus forms and ceremonies of the church which prevailed at that early day in Virginia. Situated, as has been before suid, in the midst of a widely scattered country community. this Old Chapel, standing solitary and alone,with no surroundings save the primeval oaks which crown tie rising grot bell” to call its worshi did those good old country folk most reverently stem. ‘THE CHURCH ITSELF. An oblong ordinary structure, built of blue limestone, but, even then, grown gray with | dotted the poor old man, he sung it all the same, and with a most unmusical nasal twang—doubtless that voice which had so li:tle music in it here. bas long since been put in full accord, attuned to heavenly harmony. THE SEXTON. Old “Robin,” the sexton, in bis clean home- ‘on which it stands, | spun Sunday suit and knit yarn eap,with a con- necded no spire, no belfry, no “eburch-going | spicuoustaasc! at the crown, was the very per- rs to prayer. The Sab- | sonification of the “Ole Virginny” darkey gen- dath chimes were in ibeir hearts, and to them | tleman, polite and courteous to all. His duties were few and simple. His cabin stood hard by and his ouly care was to keep the church clean and in summer to bring cool water in bright ciean gourds from a rocky spring which bub- bied up not many yards away, and when he cap, which was the signal that age, with no effort at ornamentation, either |he had received a gratuity from some one within or without, to name its order of archi- | whose lips had been tectuze would be to invent a new one, which might be aptly demonstrated the “severely sixuple.” ‘Though there were three entrances to this unique old «ditice, only two were ever used, the third being there, perhaps, for uniformity's sake. In the gable was the front or main entrance, which was reacued by five steps, Tickety, dilapidated and prebably coeval wita the building itself. on the left, about midway the building, was anosher trance of safer and easicr access, being but one step abova the ground. An aisle from the front, extesding down the long diameter of the building to the chancel tail, and another be:weea the two side doors constituted the only mcans of reaching the tail, Straight-backed, uncomfortable pews which flanked either side of these aisles, which, where ‘they crossed in the center of the building, formed an open area, in which stood all the Year round and for many a year an old, dilapi- dated ten-plate stove, which, far more than the burning and impassioned exhortations of “Parson M., brought tears to eyes of his’ bearers with its i- tude of smoke and its paucitude of fire. One can but recognize the holy zeal that must have warmed and animated those worthy men and women, who, Sabbath after Sabbath, assembled in old, comfortless country ebureb, not only in the baliny days of spring- time and summer, but in widwiater, frost aud snow and wretched roads combined ‘to keep them to their homes and tiresides. phen | From the patched bya long ride in the hot sun, but which had been cooled by the re- freshing Deverage, the thankful and respectful old darkey, with a profound salam and a hearty “sarvint master,” would display in all its shin- ing outlines a head as bald as an ebony billiard They have all, minister and people, thn lofty and the lowly, been long ago gathered into one silent corgregation, where no prayer is ever spoken, no anthem ever sung. Awaiting the resurrection of the just, they sleep in the very £2 | shadow of the old ‘chureh they attended so constantly ard faithfully and loved so well. ‘Their names have been carved for many a year on the “mossy marbles” that cover them, but the i ileut but im- pressive monument over all. More than sixty years have come and gone since as a boy the writer of this homely sketch was accustomed (ofttines rorely against his will) to trudge seven miles to church through rain or shine, cold or heat, on the veriest Rosi- nante of a steed, which ncither whip nor spur could compel nor the prospect of a warm stuble and an extra allowance could persuade to change his pace. But notwithstanding all this itcomes buck tome as the odor of a sweet memory, this old church, with its long-de- parted band of faithful worshipers, and I can say, though with a feeling almost akin to tears, “ane juvat memininwe.” W. ¥. ————— <2. -——___ Co-operative Housekeeping. Spnnztield Union. ‘This movement, so long talked of, has taken ‘Genuine religious fervor aud the conscious- | *hape at Evanston, Ill, in the organization of ness of right performance of a sucred and 1m-| a co-operative housckeeping association, in perative duty to their God, their child motive for the remarkable disregard of sonal comforf and convenience which cl Ee only was this cousciencioux devotion to duty manifest in their own lives, but as far as in | There is alvo them lay was instilled into their children both | it, and also by precept an example. = GOING To CHURCH. ‘The journey to and from the Old Chapel on a cold winter's day to most of the congregation generally occupied nearly the whole day, and | are called. macys time and oft has the writer, as «| These Norwegian ‘galt boy, returned half famished and frozen from | nized tin, with compartments for two kinds of 3 ‘against which there could | Yegetables, one each for tea and coffee, one for the case of sickness or | meats, another for fruits, all surrounded by As & conse-| hotwater. These are labeled with the namesand ys and girls of | addresses of the families. ion was what would be considered | 00 shelves in three layers in the wagons. ‘There his Sunday service, be no appeal save in some such physical disability. quence the attendance of the con; nomenal even in this age of carpeted Tarchen, cuahicusd pous aad lnsurious’ ear- roundi Tueed but mention the names of some of | bY # fifteen-horse-powe ‘this once well-known congre- | Which those composing ation to attest the material of which it was Nel Pages, Colsto: composed —Burwells, Carters, Randol = with many others of hike character and stan ling, the names of whose Gia ae, familar to every reader of the i of the ancient common ith of To see these ancient gentlefolk seated in ‘heir respective pews on a Sunday morning Wasa sight to enthuse @ limner. men, ren and | which fifty famibes unite. Temporary Themselves could alone Lave furnished the | ters have been secured in @ two-story and he | order ‘Vir-| fare. ase ment building and the experiment has already begun. It is under the manzgement of Harry acterized those ancient worthies in the observ- | L. Grau, who formerly had charge of a similar ance of their religious obligations, and not | enterp: in Paris. ‘The gronnd floor is occupied asa kitchen. jong range made especially for cooking stove, which can “turn out fifty loaves o! bread an hour”—at least that iy what a reporter says. ‘There are tin. tables heated by steara for the purpose of keeping the meals warm while they are being put in their HEBREWS IN AMERICA. Results Announced of a Special Inquiry by the Census Bureau. The division of vital statistics of the census office has prepared a bulletin, which is now in press, containing a summary of the results of » special inquiry concerning the Jews in this coun try. A special schedule was prepared calling for details of age, sex, conjugal condition, place of birth, occupation, &c., of each person in the family reported who was living on the Sist of December, 1689, and of certain details concern- ing births, marriages and deaths occurring in the family for the five years ended on that date. ‘These schedules were distributed to heads of Jewish families in all parts of the United States, the necessary names and addresses be- ing obtained from rabbis of congregations and ofiicers of different societies. No effort was made to obtain complete re- turns from all the Jews in the country, nor to develop any facte concerning religious or com- mercial questions, but merely to obtain data from a sufficient number of families who had been in the United States five or more years to afford some reliable deductions concerning the effect of residence under the conditions of life 4 this country as contrasted with those else- where. ‘The inquiry resulted in the return of 10,618 completed family schedules, embracing 60,630 living persons on the 3ist day of December, 188, and in these families there had been 2,148, marriages, 6,038 births and 2,068 dea ing the five years ending that date. e social condition of the families is indi- cated, to some extent, by the number of serv- ants kept by them, and, as about two-thirds are reported as keeping one or more servants, the families reported may be said to be in easy cireumatances. ies eee e average number of persons family on December 31, 1889, was 5.71 and the average annual number for the five years cov- ered wy these statistics was 5.47. The average annual number of marriages per 1,000 of total population was much lower than the general rate, being but 7.4, as against 18 to 22 per 1,000 in the eastern states, and the average age at marriage is greater than among the general population. ‘The low marriage rate and the in- ial receptacles—Norwegian kitchens they —for conveyance to the patrons. ian kitchens are made of galva- They are set are three delivery wagons, ench of which can hold sixteen Norwegian kitchens, and each is heated with a stove. The basement is occupied r boiler and engine, furuishes heat and power for the institu tion. The washing machine ond wringers are on the first floor, also a large drying room, and Lewises, Wash. | there is a complete laundry ouifit. ‘The second floor is occupied as 2 store room for provisions. Bills of fare are furnished the patrons one meal in advance and each person is allowed to ‘one portion from each titie of the bill of Here is one luncheon menu: Soup, cold meat, potatoes, entree, sulad, fruits. For din- creased average aze at marriage are the prin- cipal reasons for the low birth rate. he deaths reported for the five years givean average annual death rate of 7.11 per 1,000 of population, being about half of the average Tate for the general Poy ulation. ‘The expectation of life at the age of ten years, based upon the death ratefor the year 1889, is 61.11 and 56.02 years for males and females, re- i 49.99 and 48 95 as oalen fe insurance companies for the gen- Population of this country. Contrasting the birth and death rates for those of native-born and foreign-born parents indicates that the birth ~ate 18 deereasing and the death rate increasing with more prolonged residence in this country, but. the general re- sults indicate that the Jews here retain many of the peculiarities which bave been noted among them in Europe. 2 Haunibal Hamlin’s Pleasures. Bancor letter in the Boston Globe ‘Mr. Hamlin’s present life is very quiet and simple. Just outside the city he hasa few acres of land which he calls his “farm,” and the smamer morning find him constantly there. Nothing delights him more than the exercise and recreation which he obtains digging in the loamy soil of that property. He owned a cow for many years, aud during his last term in the Senate sensitive Bangoreans were given severe shocks by the sight of one of the country’s most noted statesmen walking along the dusty roadway driving cattle, own and his neighbors’, from the pasture to the barn. Mr. Hamlin retains his dignity and commands fect respect in positions which other men of is prominence would not occupy without sac- rificing both. Not long ago I went to his house to try and in- terview him on an important public question, Isay “try” because few men ever succecded in that undertaking. ‘The door was opened by a maid, who said t Mr. Hamiin was not at home. “Iie went down town for ¢ little while,” she explained. accordingly retraced my steps and half- way down town! saw a very unique turnout ap- proaching—an old farm wagon I with roduce and drawn by a horse aged enough to [= gray haired, but fat, lazy ond evidently well kept. On the wagon seat was an old gentle- man from the country, the proprietor of the team, smiling and happy, engaged in earnest conversation with a ——— by his side,who was none other than the ex-President of the United States. The two were old acquaintances and the countryman, apparently on his way to deliver a load of produce, had overtaken’ Mr. Hamlin and asked him to ride. I bailed the odd-looking teem, and the driver stopped. Ina few brief, bat’ comprehensive words, Mr. Hamlin answered my questions; then resuming his conversation with his coun- try friend, the old horve slowly drew him toward hie residence. Mr. Hamlin is a great club man. He has been president of the swell ‘Tanatine Club since its organization, and he seldom misses an after- noon there, where he is always found smoking and playing cards with such men as the Hi WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, SecemBer 27, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. & PLUCKY WOMAN. She Takes Charge of Her Husband's Vessel in ‘@ Terrible Situation. From the Xew York News. ‘Three weeks ago it was reported at the mari- time exchange that the British schooner Jo- hanna, from Mauritius to Melbourne with sugar, had been towed into Freemantle, Western Aus- tralia, abandoned and in fair condition. The mystery of the abandonment of the vessel was cleared by the mails received from Meibourne yesterday. The Johanna isa large three-masted schooner which left Mauritins on the $d of April,manned by Capt. Meinder, who was accompanied by his, wife and a two-year-old daughter and a crew of ten men, with a cook. She sailed for Mel- bourne with a fair wind, but efter being three davs at sea onc of her crew became delirious with yellow jack, and the man died two da after he was stricken and was buried in the In- dian ocean, : ‘Two more of the crew were attacked with the terrible disease on the day their comrade was buried, and they died, and ina short time after the whole of the working force of the vessel, with the exception of the captain and second mate, fell victims to the disease. The last two who died were the first mate and the cook. ‘The death of the cook occurred twenty days after the vesvel had left Mauritius. She was then about half way on her journey to Melbourne, and the only navigators on board were the captain, his first mate and the captain's wife. e woman was nearly worn out by inces- sant attendance on the sick crew, but she pluckily assisted the two men in handling the schooner. Two days after the cook’s death Capt. Meinder was seized with the fever and became delirions. There was leftonly the mate and Mra. Meinder to work the vessel. The mate had only the work of a scilor to discharge, but the woman had not only to be » sailor bata nurce beside, with a sick husband to care for and a baby child. But fortunately the weather was fair and the vessel sped on in the trade winds, under the rays of the burning Indian sun, and got close to the western Australian shore. Here a hurricane assailed the crippled schooner, but the woman and mate cut away the canvas that was spread and the etont vessel outrode it with- out considerable damage. It was not in the power of the two mariners to reset any canvas mt a sinall storm sail, which merely helped to give the vessel steerage way. She was drifting with currents and_ was finally brought close to the harbor of Free- mantle, where she struck a rock and had a hole stove into her at the water line that caused her to leak badly. The woman and the sailor set to work at once to throw the cargo over- board, and succeeded in pitching into the sca 50 bags of sugar, which lightened the vessel sufliciently to bring the hole in her side above water. Then they managed to place a canvas covering that prevented water from going through it. ‘The day after the schooner struck the rock the captain was sufficiently recovered from the fever to come on deck. He took an observar ion and assisted to set additional sail, and then directed the veesel for Freemantle harbor. When he got within ten miles of ita pilot boat sighted the Johanna and bore down on her. ‘The pilots were told the condition of things on hoard the vessel and none of them would board her, but they sent their yawl to hee, and Capt. and Mrs. Meinder, their little child and the mate entered it and abandoned the plague- stricken schooner and left her to her fate. ‘The pilot boat made for the port at once. When they arrived at Freemantle and communicated the abandonment of the vessel and where she might likely be found, two tugs started on the search to tind her. She was discovered and brought to port, where she was carefully fumigated. The re ports that cume from Melbourne yesterday say that Capt. Meinder, with his wife and child and 8 new crew, sailed three weeks ago from Free- mantle for the Mauritius for another cargo of sugar. —+2e ‘Nothing New Under the Sun. Wiltiain Alva. ‘We pride oureelves on living in an age of dis- covery and invention and pity our ancestors for being born too soon. Yet much of this is misplaced. The real truth seems to be that the ancients knew about everything that we know, only the knowledge was not generally diffused "The learned man two or three thousand years ago was so far superior to the majority that he was regarded asa wizard and prudently kept his learning to himself. In our schools at the present day we use “Euclid’s Elements of Geometry,” written by Euclid 2,200 years ago. Euclid also wrote on music and optics, antedating much which we think we discovered. ‘Vhe science of optics must have been pretty far advanced in his day, because we know that Alexander the Great had a copy of the “Il inclosed ine nutshell and it is quite certain that it could not have been written without the aid of a microscope. Layard found in the ruins of Nineveh what ‘ir David Brewster pronounced to be a “mnz- nifying glass,” and nearly 4,000 years ago tue vptians and Assyrians observed the stars through a “sliding tub to believe wasi a telescope. We make some very fine razors at the pres- entday, but we cannot make any finer steel than that contained in the Damascus swords and knives which the ancients ured several which we have reason Wil PB. Wis te, whom he made collector | thousand years ago. aa thin pert, i 0 tec ant ioe Bowler, At the same time the people of Tyre were the rich bankers; ¢: anson, L. J” | such experts in dyeing that the Tyrian purple Morse, a leading manufacturer; ex-Mayor J. P. | remains unexcelled to this day. The Egyptians Bass, who is as uncompromising n democrat as Mr. Hamlin is a republican, and others. ‘The ex-Vice President abbors whist. Formerly he was a devotee of euchre, but within the last few years has devoted his ‘energies to pedro. No man is fonder of winning, and he battles for the “low” with almost desperate eagerness. Any bad plays or indifference on the part of his partners never fails to draw from him re- marks which are carnest, to put it mildly. His evenings are always passed at home, un- leas there happens to be a ball or vome social event given by his church society. His home life is as delightful as can be tured. His youngest son en law in Chicago for a number of since his departure Mr. and Mrs. Hainlin have been alone. Mrs. Hamlin, who was known as the greatest favorite in “Washington society when Mr. Hamlin was Vice President, is per- feetly devoted to her distinguished husband, and is one of the loveliest women in Banger. in has always been fond of dancing, ring that aman is never too old for such pleasures, late years have found him, more than ever before, a constant attendant of the rties. Only s few months agol saw bir Rnneing long after midnight at a great ball, ar- ranged by some of the leading society men of the city, and which he and Mrs.Hamlin opened. In his religions beliefs he is not only very liberal, but is the leading meniber and a great worker in the local Unitarian church and pres den: of the Maine Unitarian Association. His dislike for music is intense and he is never seen at a concert or the opera, and he enters church after the opening musical velections and would like to see church music banished altogether, so his friends say. +00 A WANDERING GIRL’S RETURN. After a Year's Mysterious Absence She Comes Back Pretty and Prosperous. Irene Allen, the pretty fifteen-year-old daugh- ter of Andrew Allen, a porter, mysteriously disappeared from her home at 1129 Broadway, Brooklyn, on the night of September 30, 1889. ‘The fact that the girl was stage struck and had some merit as an actress caused detectives to conclude that she had gone off with some the- atrical company. Her parents, however, con- tinued to suspect that she had been kidnapped, until after the lapse of several months, when they learned, through one of her companions, that she had gone off on her own account; that she was getting along well and that it would be useless for her family or friends to make any inquiries about her. ir. Allen, on receiving this information, had the search renewed, but without success, and — es mage omg Rees jery until yesterda: wi Sitar kertoa! Sie whe alae ‘appeared over a year e own, prettier and Tooked in no way the worse tor her P absence from home. She explained ‘that she had been traveling with the Howard Seat cate ctr ene en ou] reel a of purchase of Christmas Presents. Daring her year's theatrical expert- ence she ey had journey country and learned more, she thought, than if she had remained in Brooklyn for twenty years. oo ———. An Unusual Sort of a Will. y ure luncheon at 1: cost of meals per week at prevent is fixed at adults, $4 each; children of ives years and under, $2. At @ one-half hour's notice extra meais ure furnished pa- trons for guests at a cost of 25 cents. Hewaw M1Lx 1s rar Brst Foo for infants, no on account of any Fpecific: it werealso wonderful dyers, and. could produc colors 8o durable that‘they may be cuiled im- perishable. The ancients were wonderfal glasa workers and discovered a method of making it mallca- ble, which we have not been able to de. They could spin glass into garments, dye it in every shade of the rainbow and eich it with mar- velous skill. Twenty centuries before the birth of Watt, Hero of Alexandria described machines whose motive power was steam. He also invented a double force pump, used ax a fire engine, and anticipated (he modern turbine waeel by & wa- chine he named *Neolpile.” Electrie.ty derives me from the Greek word fer amber, because Thales, about 600 B. C., discovered ‘that amber, when rubbed, attracts light and dry bodies, and in the tweifth century the scientific priests of Etruria drew lightning from the clouds with iron rods. All the mechanical powers, the screw, lever, pulley, incline plane, wedge, wheel and were known to the ancients und used in ev day life. ‘They were expert builders, as exist- ing relics testify. ‘The ancient Gauls used a reaping machine. Hobbs gave his name toa lock found in the tombs of Egypt. Natural gus conveyed in bamboo tubes was utilized in China centuries ago, and one of the Mongolian authors writes of boxes which re- ated the sound of voices of men long since dead—an approximation to the phonograph of Edison. In medical skill the oriental physicians of India practiced vaccination a thousand years Anesthetics were known in the days of d tho Chinese 2.000 years ago had a Preparition of liemp, known ‘as “una yo," to jeaden pain—something similar to the inodern, cocaine. : Coins were stamped with engraved dies 80 far back that we have lost the record and movable types are said to have been known to the Ro- mans, In all that pertnins to Scripture and painting the ancients knew so much that their superior- ity bas never been questioned and their work remains ag unsurpassed models. ‘We may say with truth that much of our boasted light and mechanical wisdom ia but the match put once again to the old candle of our ancestors, The old times were days of war and oppression, and the inventor hid his invention tor feur of being vobbed. ‘The vast majority had no money to buy a laboring device, even if they had brains to use it, Tt was not a amg age, and knowledge, as weil as wealth, was confined to the fe Nowadays an invention of velue spreads ov this world like a lash of gunpowder, and in the lightof modern common sense, the invention of the common friction match has doubtless mankind than all done more for the of the discoveries of antieity. The Paragon Was Insane, ‘From the Birmincham Mercury. “A lady went into a registry office, and, secing a plessunt-faced girl there, sxid to “Have you any objection to the country?” “Girl Gattis: ‘None at all, madam.” Lady—“I have quite a large ” Girl—“The more the merrier. Lady—“Seven children; two of them quite {aiy—"Tt wl be necooety for you to clean = _ gota matatl pera nal T Seas ‘the and certain other work m: .” i] will also make the pastry and do the ig Pr thers peerage '—T cannot give you ‘more santos cove sense mn ee French walnut casket, lined with white velvet | *fiemocns out of each month.” Perhaps more and trimmed tassels and fringe. The than I shall want, an my plan is to give strict shall be msde of white bound with | attention to my household duties thus get Fiockings and white kid shoce” The Satin sail | bore lest of oopeetsaly "Yo tes borwess “J be ornamented with a silver name plate, as also | times.’ with handles (bar haudles) and tassels and with | Lady—I am delighted.” «wreath of natural Sowers. Twelve carriages | Stringer (suddenly entering)—“Borry to shall be a eecnen interrupt you, madam, but you are friends.” will also provided for the erec- Pace GE Errata ped of italian marble, ‘raapeaerestining fi WHAT CAME OF ROMANCING. Hung in a Girl's Boudoir. ‘From the New York Times. Young woman in this city there hangs on the wall a 250 bill, framed first by a wide gray mat and edged with anarrow rim of scarlet plush Picked out in gold. Thereby hangs a tale. One of the Easter weddings last spring was that of the young woman's sister. She married a civil engineer, who straightway, after the manner of civil engineers, rushed off to Arizona to survey acopper mine about to be or already opened in that distant territory. His bride accom- panied him, and the sister was induced to go also for purposes, as she put it, of “travel, ex- ploration and » "venture.” Things were uot altogether bad out among the Indians; the mine was on the line of a rail- road; they had carried with them a good many home belongings; a house was secured, such a8 it was, and a more or lees proper establishment set up. The summer and the sister's stay were nearly at an end, when one afternoon Mr. Tom, the hsband and brother-in-law, sent word from the works that the English member of the firm which was developing the mine had ar- rived suddenly for aiew hours’ stay and he would bring him np to dinner. _ This announcement created some consterna- tion. The cook was a hali-breed. who was ex- cellent within his limits, but he knew nothing even of the rudiments of butlering. As a| matter of fact the family were accustomed to dine en butfet. This, frecly translated, meant frequent tripson the part of one diner or another to the chestat the side of the room, which, by courtesy, was called a sidebourd. | Englishman, you know, Neill,” said | “But an Mrs. Tom, plaintively, “expects at dinner to be served, if he takes that meal in an Indian jungle. With our canued sou and the superb joint which Nelson can get up, We can offer a iost presentable menu, but what shall we do for some one to change plates?” ‘MISS NELL AS WAITRESS. Miss Nell immediately begged to take the role for asingle appearance. “It will be no end of fan,” she urged, “and I warrant neither you, nor Tom, nor the Englishman has ever been served as I shall serve you tonight. I've always contended it took a high degree of intelligence to create a perfect butler or but- leress," she added with a laugh, “and I'd immensely like to show what culture can do with a dinner tray.” 8 In the end, though with many misgivings on Mrs. Tom’s part, the plan was arranged. A atched to Mr. Tom warning bim not to mention his sister-in-law in any way— that all wonld be explained later. It wasa few moments after their guest had been welcomed that a capped and aproned fig the doorway announci “Dinner is served.” Whatever M thought or felt he could not express—could do nothing, indeed, but follow his wife as the Englishman handed her out. Everything went beautifully in the dining room. from soup to cheese the serving was irreproachabie. ial, companionable man of general elegance of the waitress, and Mrs. Toi caught several searching glances thrown upon her maid. Nothing was raid, however, till the close of dinner, when, the coffee having been placed upon the table, the deft and demure handm hdrew, —'f trained and upon ‘om, knowing retire no further than the screen in the corner of the room, which concealed an emergency butlers pantrs, evolved for her benefit a de- lightfal little history. “Yes,” she began, slowly, sipping her coffee, Young ‘person. As intelligent oy refined mn, really very well edu- oo. And she is the heroine of a very pretty little romance.” At this juncture a slight rattling of glass ware behind the screen warned Mrs. ‘fom that her story was taking effect, and, with a gleam of mischief, at which her husband could have groaned aloud, she proceed: ‘She is en- gaged to be married to a very est man in New York (the sister, by the way, is a fiancee), the wedding day was act over a year ago, when, six weeks before the date arrived, the coming groom was stricken blind in an hour. He has been under treat- ment ever since, slowly regaining his sight, and she, poor girl, is siving every penny of her wages against the time when he must leave the hospital. I think ehe means to marry him as soon as possible and support him until he can get work age It is quite pathetic and inter- esting—her devotion.” THE APPECIATIVE VISITOR. But Mr. Tom could stand the strain no longer and proposed to returnto the parlor. The Englishman, however, did not drop the subject at once, asking a number of questions about nand her “company.” He left, as was ex- pected, soon after dinner, and Miss Nell was to pour the vials of her wrath upon her ked sister's head. an occupation in which raa_ably seconded by Mr. Tom when he returned from putting ‘their recent guest aboard his train. The end, however, was not yet. Withina fortnight Mrs. ‘Tom ‘received a note from the Englishman, dated at New York, in which he said he had been much impressed with the loyalty aud devotion of her maid, Elen, who was undonbiedly a most worthy young person, and he went on to beg Mrs, Tora to find some to bestow the inclosed—a #50 bill—upon her to aid in her courageous and praiseworthy effort. ‘Thus retribution came to Mrs. Tom. She was overcome at what she had done, and there wa no comfortable way out of it. It was im- le toexplain to the Englichman how he been deceived. Nor could the bill be plausibly returned on the part of Ellen. ‘There seemed nothing to do but to keep it and thank the donor, which Mrs. ‘Lom accomplished, it nunst be confessed, with much less than ber usual grace. The bill hangs on the wall of ens” room ioday—a double warning against theatrical: in private lifeand the utterance of pretty romances which have no foundation in fact. Se A New England Poet. From the Chicayo Times, ‘The werio-comic poems of 8. W. Foss are known wherever the English language is spoken, and yet who knows anything about 8. W. Foss himself? He is the son of a farmer, and was born in Candi June 19, 1858, He worked on the farm until fifteen, and then he went to the Portsmouth high schoul. He worked his way through Brown University at Providence, HL, standing very near one end of his class— which end he positively refuses to state. At any rate, he was class poct. From 1883 to 1896 he was editor of The Lynn Saturday Cnion, and it was while on that paner that he originated the so-called long-tuiled style of poetry, which consiats of enormously long lines and long words. Fora year after feaving Tie Union he worked as @ free lance and wrote humorous verse for every comic paper in theland He wrote three or four poctns a day, never lesa than two, and his work displayed a wonderfal amount of originality and_poctie genius. In August, 1887, he became editor of the Yankee Blade of Boston. Mr. Foss is of a retiring dis ition and cnjoya home life and his rollicking fis poems are ull written in his editor- feet to the usual interruptions. He rite serio-comic rather than purely eree and in his line he has no eq) ‘The announcement that he will issue a volume of poems this fall is of interest to all lovera of good dialect verse. 04 Somewhere. How can I cease to pray for thee?_ Somewhere Tn God's great universe thou art today. Can He not reach thee with His tender care? ‘Can He not hear me when for thee I pray? What matters it to Him who holds within ‘che noliow of His hand ail worlda, all space, ‘That thou art doue with a and sin? Songwhere within His ken thou hast a place. Somewhere thou livest and hast need of Him; Somewhere thy soul sees higher heights to climb; And somewhere still there may be valleys im ‘That thon must pace to reach the hills sublime. ‘Then all the more, becanse thou canst not hear Poor human words of blessing, will I pray, O, true, brave heart, God bless thee, whereso’er In His great universe thou art today! This is what happens on a Thursday-Christ- mas according to a Harleian MS. in the British Museum: shall maltipiy; lands for to fill; ces shall dic by day born shall It shall happen right well for thee; Of deeds he shall be good and stable, reason: In the pretty morning room of a certain ! = and lobster, | peared in | iy affected by the skill and | jwo-year-old boy better than club life or 80- | PERSECURED - TO<DEATH. ‘The Siory Relating to = $50 Bill That is| Tragic End of = Beautiful Young School Tencher’s Life. Bertha Park was the teacher in the village school at Memphis, Ind. On the second Mon- day in the month when she entered the school she found on the blackboard in bold letters an inscription charging her father, Marion Park, with the murder of Cyrus Park, his father, mother, two brothers and sister, about twenty years ago. Although she bad been informed of the tragic event in connection with the death of her relatives, she had never learned the full details. This terrible charge staring at her on the blackboard gave her a terrible shock. She hastily brushed the ec- cusing words from the board before the schol- ars entered, but she could not erase them from her mind. Some of the scholars noticed her evident worriment and tried to learn the cause, but she simply told them that she was not very well. Her depressed manner continued throughout the entire week. On Friday night her mother questioned her kindly and finally drew the truth from the unwilling girl Mrs. Park's efforts to comfort her daughter met with no snecess and she became #0 much worse that the school was closed, it being simply announced that she had typhoid fever. INSANITY AND DEAT! On the next Sunday Miss Park's mind gave way. The family were seated at the dinner teble when she suddenly became insane and be- gan clawing at everything within reach. There was a frightened look in her blue eyes and she imagined that some one was pursuing her. Her Parents managed to confine her to a room and she paced the floor unceasingly until last Friday. Dra. Reynolds and Mckinney and Justice Hunter were called on Friday afternoon and an inquest of lunacy was held and arrangements made to take her to the Central Asylum at In- dianapolic. Just at this stage of the proceed- ings she became quiet and ceased her ravings. Mer countenance became more placid and she vanced to ‘Squire Hunter, a neighbor, re- marking, “Lay me down.” ing her ten- derly in his arms, he carried her to the bed and almost instantly she died. The funeral was conducted Saturday after- noon, Rev Dr, Combs oiiciating, and her re- mains were followed to their final resting place at Oakland cemetery, near Henryville. The autopsy revealed the fact that death ensued from beart failure. ‘TRE PARK FAMILY's TRAGEDY. ‘The story of the tcrrible crime committed twenty years ago, which led up to the poor Girl's death, is familiar to everybody in Clark county. Cyrus Park, the girl's grandfather, then lived on a little ‘farm between Henryville and Charleston. — His family _cousiste |of a wife and four children—two girls jand two bovs. One dark October night |in 1870 the father and the entire family were horribly butchered and chopped almost to picces with an ax. All were found dead except Eva, who, thongh terribly muti- lated, sarvived and carries the scars to this day. Park's money, which he had just rece’ day before by' the sale of a farm, was spicion fell on three n ol Ed Davis and 'Squire Taylor. They were ar- rested and placed in jail, but the grand jury failed to indict them, the ‘evidence being en- tirely circumstantial. ‘The excitement was in- tense and an alleged forced confession was ob- tained from another negro, who it was sti posed had knowledge of the affair, that they were the guilty parties, Judge Cyrus L. Dun- ham, then holding circuit court at Charles- town, where the negroes were in jail, thought best not to release them Jest they fill victims to ne fury of n mob. He the jail keys and went to Jeffersonville. — THE NEGROES LYNCHED. This so enraged the mob that they battered down the jail door, took the three negroes and hanged them to a tree just outside of town. George W. Baxtcr was then sheriff. After this, talk was heard directing suspicion to Merion Park, father of the dead girl, but nothing defi- nite was ever found ont to incriminate him, and it died out in the course of time. The real’ pez~ petzators of this horrible butchery have never een known and probably never will be. No one ever believed in the stories circulated about Marion Park being guilty of the crime. ‘The most intense excitement prevails in the neighborhood over the matter, and should the guilty wretch who wrote the’ fatal inscription On the school-honse blackboard ever be dis- covered he will doubtless share the same fate as the three negroes who were lynched by a mob. in ———— Social Caste Undesirable. From the North American Review. But where the family income is already Harrow, it is not easy to conjecture a surer method of establishing a system of social caste than by the acceptance of this neces- sity of saving from the income the sum suficient for a dowry. It would exact a rigid economy, of a sort to which no one in this country has been accustomed; soupe maigre would take the place of the generous roast and steak, end a low and spare diet would create in time an undersized and developed race. ‘The children of the fami would be forced to forego the luxuries and pleasures enjoyed by the children of families where the economy was not obligatory; their clothing would hai they would be mortified if associated with the children dressed in purple and fine linen; their experiences, their habits, would be dis- similar, and would naturally separate them; they wouldhave to resort to schools where cheaper teachers were employed; — they would have to go without the costly’ accom- plishments; many delicate usages would be un- mown to them; they would e a middle class as entirely upart from thore of ampler means and less economies as if living in a laud | where there wasan aristocracy of birth. There would be, then, an impregnable barrier of hdbits, manners and views formed | between cl barrier which in the wide interchangeability of today does not exist. Surely this would be a poor outcome of our commonwealth. en Churches on Gar Wheels. From the New York Tribune. The tourist on whcels is a well-known theme of the dramh; but the church on wheels isa modern idea. Two chapels, built after the manner of Pullman sleeping cars, in which re- ligious services will be held, are soon to be in- troduced on the railroads of the west. One is called “The Cathedral Car,” and was recently completed at the Pullnian works at the yrder of the Protestant Episcopal bisho} North Dakota. ‘Two windows, projecting from the center of the eecond roof on each side,with four panes and quatrefoil at the apex of the arch, give the car the appearance of a cathe- dral. A private apartment, nine by six, with folding bed and appropriate’ fnrnishings, is set apart, leaving space for a chapel sixty feet by nine.’ ‘There is a small platform, with chain, for the bishop, and altar for the communicants, with a lecture and an andience room provided with stationary chairs that will accommodate fifty people. Camp chairs may be placed in the aisle to seat twenty more. ‘The other car is the inde it of Dr. Wayland Hoyt of Minnesp. pense will be met by Colgate Hoyt and C. L. Colby of this city. | Its dimensions will be sixty feet by ton. Eighteen feet will be reserved for aliving apartment and the rest asa chapel for public worship. ‘Two Baptist mis- sionaries will be permanently employed as preachers for the car. These ca cars will be attached to freight trains and will visit every hamlet of the west. settles aN EE, The Thanemore Surely Lost. Patterson, Ramsay & Co., agents of the John- ston line at Baltimore, have now positively given up for lost the steamship Thanemore, Capt. Butcher, which left Baltimore November 26 for London. ‘The Thanemore had a general cargo valned at $175,527 and 480 head of cattle. Firms shipping the cattle were insured total loss.” ‘Thirty-four men comp the ofiicers and crew, and there were also twelve cattlemen on board. The Thanemore was out one month today. 02 Suspension of Two Western Banks. The Sanborn County Bank at Woonsock,8.D., closed its doors yesterday. The county treas- urer had €8,000 of the county's money in the bank ands number of merchants are caught. Stevens was city treasurer and closed down on Sa ctuieeamtrasmenee reasons given for ‘and slow collections ey | Fein to be so different that | nig! THE BEX’S DAUGHTER. A Weird Tale of Modern Witchcraft in Pena- sylvania. From the New York Sun. | Do “Iwas on « business trip throngh central | 5'! Pennsylvania recently,” saida New York travel- | 7% ing man, “and stopped one night in a quiet}. lithe old Pennsylvania Dutch town. An old woman had died in the place that day. and | wherever [went about the village her deoth seemed to be the leading topic. I finally asked the landlord of the hotel where I stopped who or what the woman had been. “Oh! she was.a hex,’ the landlord replied. “Not having the least suspicion of what in the world a hex might be I pushed inquiry and learned that great many people in that vicin- ity and, in fact, throughout that entire part of the state were still firm believers in witchcraft and inthe power of certain per- sons, by ridiculous incantations, ceremon and ‘prescriptions, known under the generic name of ‘pow-wowing,” to drive the witches away from persons, animals, wells, crops or whatever had fallen under the ban. These Witch doctors were usually women und wi known in Pennsylvania Dutch ax hexes. Th were held in great respect, and the « one was regarded asa calamity by the belie in witches. The woman who had just died had becn a particulzriy successful hex and her death was an event of no little importance in the vil- ‘TRE LANDLORD'S stony. “Now, I don't believe in witches myself, or in the power of a hex,’ said the landlord, ‘but I would be obliged to some one whu could ex- plain to me an occurrence with which this ‘Woman who has just died wae concerned and which came under my personal observation. It was certainly the strangest thing Lever read or heard of, even in this locality, where #nper- and credulity find never-ending weird and wonderful things to tell. “I don't know how old the hex was who died toda: pone knows. But twenty years ago she was an old woman. She was the widow | of a well-known Pennsylvania Dutch farm Jacob Freiteher, who died a tury ago. Althongh she w: daughter went out to servic with the girls of | Pennayl Tentage, although they may be prospective wiresses to thousands. This girl, then about twenty years of age, worked at this very hotel Her name was Barbara, and ehe ix Wife of one of the richest farmetsin the cu ‘The landiord at that time was a leading man this county and usually a jovial sort His name was Joseph Boyer. For » he never could explain he took an intense di like to the old hex's daughter, who worked for him. Thave often heard him sa: 1. or the was in his prese y restrain himself irom dc jury, and was constantly, ishing that he or some one ¢ make Ler «uffer. It wasa most singular fecling, for the girl was honest and industrious, and, as the lanclord frequently said, the best girl he ever had in his house. SUE WAS PEWITCHED. “ Boyer's unaccountable hatred of the hex’s daughter was not the only strange fact con- nected with the two. The girl's fear of her employer amounted to terror. She trembled viebly when he was in sight, and that ehe suffered greatly could be seen by the ex- ion of her face. At times she fell in ing fits after Boyer had ft sight, out of which she was revived with dit culty. Another singular thing wus that tl girl anit the landlord's employ several but aiver an absence of afew days invari: ha Ay came back and re-entered his service. She told his wife that she had such pains while she Was away that she was forced to come back for t seemed that Barbara, who was a sensi- ble girl and not inclined to. the superstitions her mother was believed to bold the charms against, did not make known to her mother the peculiar sensations and sufferings she experi- enced and endured until nearly a year after they firs appeared. Then, finding” that they got no better. she confided in her mother, who told her at once that she was bewitched. “<“But who would want to bewitch me, mother?” she acked. «*“{ don’t know.” replied her mother; “but I will find out.” “The old hex took a piece of black paper, took down her witch book, something ‘every « take the paper, the hammer and the nail with her to an ash tree that stood at the cross roadsa mile beyond the village. e must place the paper against the trce. one blow of the hammer send the through the paper. ‘hat, the hex said, would not only destroy the witch, but would discover the person or thing that the witch had acted through. HER EMPLOYER DIED. “‘Tremember it was a night in early fall that Boyer, three others and myself sat down in the back room yonder to play a few gamss of encher. Inst before we sat down the landlord ‘indow there. 1a new moon, and I saw it over my left shoulder. I won't’ have any luck to- “ad ‘We played along until it got to be almost midnight, and we dealt for the Inst game. As the clock struck 12 Boyer picked up his cards. ‘The next second he sprang to his feet with a look of terror I shall never forget. He cried out, almost shricked, the name of the bex's daughter and fell back in his chair dead. “Of course, we were all paralyzed with hor- ror for a moment, but, recovering, we hustled about to do what we could. We summoned a doctor at once, but he was of no use. The landlord was dead--dead, undoubtedly, of heart disease, the doctor said. “+A few minutes after 12 that night the in- mates of a house hulf a mile up the road youder, toward the cross roads, were by some one knocking violently at the door. The per- von who was knocking proved to be Barbara, the hex's daughter. She was pale as a ghost, and, as soon as she could find her voice, sho startled the family by exclaiming: “T have killed Mr. Boyer!” “ ‘Thinking the girl was out of ber mind the family tried to soothe her, but she declared that she had seen him fall dead as she drove a nail into a paper at the ash tree to lay a witch, according st mother’s instructions, at just 12 o'clock that night. She told what Boyer was doing wiien she e2w him drop dead in his chair. He was playing cords, che said. “*+AssoonasI struck the nail Isawbim. He yet! ‘Then he fell dead. “‘All this came out at the inquest, which washeld the next day. The post mortem showed conclusively that Bover had died of disease of the heart, but Barbara and her mother declared then and ever after that the witch was in Boyer's heart, and that the nail Barbara drove had been buried there. There were few people in fhe place dit what xbared in that same belief, and the papa- lar verdict was that Boyer’s death was just. And Hex Freitcher became a greater hex than ever. That is why her death has made so pro- found an impression in. the village. “‘How do youexplain that strange occur- rence? “There ta na’ Gooks Martere sxe Joe Boyer as she said she did. Did Joe see ber when ebe struck the nail, and know his fatey’ “I, of course, could give my host no explana- tion’ of the uncanny alfair. Is there any one who could?” -——— ee —____ He Satistied Himself, ‘From the Boston Herald. nT € 3 an ner | SMoppmg at ali stauous on the called out my name so that it rings inmy cars | $4 LVANTA ROUTE, AND sot SCENPRY. ICENT RQUIPMENT. te SNSY! 1H, WENT mm ‘ ATNS LEAN GW TOS PROM STATION KNER OF OTH AND B STREETS AS FOLLOWS ¥ aml the west, COs (ted Eyre Vestibale Cars st 100° a.m. daily and Chicaco. Pee for Pittabare ang Che a5, per to Pittsrurg. amd Ves iets acest Suminy raleapnus 4.20pm FW Oke axp TRE, anh e? 2Oe Sey Parl ‘care, New Lora, #40 a.m, ITY: Lamited Papross with Diming Car, ily K CHTLADELPHIA ONLY. rm. wre tay ®, 7 and 9.00 am exoent Sunday .12:05an8 420 Sunaaye, 9-00 a.m. amd tia —, wre and ‘Cleveland, express, daily 9:30 "tu wtud points im the Shenandogh Valley, an the Metropolitan Branch, 1620, ‘}opa. For yrmeipal sates only, mt "50 pen ud“ oftumitate TES si tee Sloat Proderick, 16:90, $8:90, $9:90, 111.90 Fok, AIO Pt 10 0a.rm. and 5.20. hex has, copied eomething from :ton the paper ms duly. it . eae Spiga at Lae dale daughter a hammer and a ne and au told her that at 12 o'clock on the first | BO}AL BLUE ind FOR NEW YORK amp night of the first new moon she must ate, Te ated bast, Si Shook AOD pee Sima peeping Car ea wit) Patiman Batfet Seep. % thule ime Jugh to Loxton de, adits panmenygere iB thuington and Chester, X)'noon, "3 Lituived exp at Ws 00 a. 21, aw. snd 1000 em. “1200 moun 2 i ae iy. A ‘only. ecalied tor shd checked (ron, Lotels anare Union Transter Cy, 1d Pa. ove. on onions weft at tact at Deja, CHAS. 0. BCU ; LOAD CO. . MBEK %, ina. wunewmec Mati, daily tur Warren Charlottesviile Lynchoure ead jexayd saparia and Lepchburg. iowa: cs ly, except Sunday, fer teTived.. te statious, 11, raps to Green ei and 7 10 pt. 5 via Cbewar Shuarlottenville at 2-46 focal as imformetom ce 1k Pema Peuns vane, Ess. JAS. J. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass Agent eave ‘& tn. tor Net Norfolk" dst gud Nortoik a.m enough for me to link your lot with mince? Could you leave this home and be happy in an- | 5; ay I think I could,’ but “Yes, w + “[ didn’t know whether to ask you or tinued thonght'T'd Soe bow | formation cal Telepioone cont Augustus, “so I you felt about it.” And having satisfied himeelf as to ber feelings toward him ho took his hat to go, but be went | $2 without a good-night kiss. sti A Woman Scalped by Machinery. Mrs. Minnie Wilkes, the wife of the manager | wir! ofa laundry st 896 Ist avenue, New York, yes- jORPOLK AND TSitemer eacei a SoESHON VES RAMERS. Pare FORTRESS MONBOE. 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