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*T AMES Spoony, vulgarly called
\ " Spoony Jim," perhaps by the
envious, was the son of a farmer
living in the county of C-—, in the
western part of an adjoining State.
At the time I introduced him he was
in his thirty-first year. He had never
been many miles from home, or seen
much of life; in fact, was very young
in his knowledge of the world. He
was a harmless, industrious young man,
whose fortune never could be made
through his beauty, as he possessed
none. In order that my readers may
thoroughly understand this, I will
give them a brief description of his
personal appearance. He was tall,
stout and uncouth, with small, glaring,
light gray eyes, bright red hair, florid
complexion and large, coarse features.
However, there is no account for
taste, for Jemima Jenkins, the daugh-ter
of an adjoining farmer, declared
he was the prettiest man she ever
sea'd."
Now James had an intense admira-tion
for the fair damsel, who in perso-nal
appearance was as little favored as
himself. She was tall and thin, cross-eyed
and tow headed, with a speckled
skin which looked as if the flies had
been sporting with it. The ill-natured,
who know of their courtship, earnestly
hoped that they might come together,
arguing that it would be a pity to spoil
a nice-looking couple with them.
One bright sunny Sabbath after-noon
in mid-summer Jim was lying
upon the grass in front of the back
kitchen door of his father's house. He
was planning for the future, when the
first thing that occurred to him was to
get married. " Dad wants it!" he
mentally exclaimed, " and so does
mam. I could jist rent old Jack Span-gler's
farm, and the money I have got
in the bank will stock it, and Mimie's
daddy will furnish the house as be did
for Mat. Bunn, who married her sister
Sallie Ann. I think I'll jist go over
and ask her. Nothin' like striken'
while the iron's hot."
Suiting the action to the word, he
sprung up and started to the house to
array himself suitably for the occasion
before starting. He looked decidedly
gay with his long linen duster, bright
red calico waistcoat, straw hat trim-med
with blue ribbons, short, wide-line
linen pantaloons and large, heavy
boots. He made quick time as he
crossed his father's farm, jumping
fences and ditches until he found him-self
on 'Squire Jenkin's land. As he
neared the house he beheld the object
of his hopes sitting upon the grass be-neath
a large willow tree, soma dis-tance
from the house. " Oh I glorious
opportunity !" thought Jim. " I can
jist settle the business now, making
short work of it." As he approached
he felt a slight trembling of the limbs,
a nervous sensation, but he was not
going to be scared. " A gal could
only say no, to do her worst, and
wasn't there plenty of gals beside her,
if she did ?" he muttered to himself.
Summoning up courage, he shouted;
" That you, Mimie ? How do ye do ?"
" First rate, Jim ! I'm glad you
come. Jist bin thinkin' of yees."
"The perty critter—she is just a
buslin' with love for me," thought
Jim.
" Is your dog tied up, Mimie ?" said
Jim, looking around nervously, "'cause
am afeared. of the cus. T'other
night, when Bill Jones and me was
goin' home from here, he makes after
us. Bill run pretty smart, now, I tell
yees, but jist as he went to jump over
the horse trough he tripped and in he
goes, heels over head, and hollered out
for me to help him, unreasonable fel-ler
! Laws 11 jist kept clear of him,
but that cussed dog—he leaves Bill
and hangs on to my coat-tail with sich
a grip that when I managed to shake
him off he had the whole tail of my
spankin, new coat in his big jaws!
And Bill—he jist laughed fit to split
his sides, for he was mad-like at me
'cause I wouldn't help him when he
got the duckin,"
" Sakes alive !" exclaimed Jemima.
" I'll coax dad to shoot him."
" Mimie," said Jim, whilst his face
became as red as a beet, " I want to ask
yoo somethin'. You can either say yes
or no; but, of course, I'd rather have it
yes. Dad wants me to git married, so
does mam, and I'd like it first-rate my-self.
I 'spect you'd jist do as well as
anybody, and I thought I'd jist ask
yees."
Mimie simpered and looked down.
At last she said :
" There's Lydia Ann Rhyan, you
could git her."
" Wouldn't have her 'cause she's
lame."
" Well, Sally Grut; how do you
like her?"
" Her, neither; she talks through
her nose."
" And Sally Maria McGrathim ?"
"Laws! Dr. Noodle wants her,
She is blind in one eye, and paints,
and the like. Wouldn't have her J'
" Yer jest too* partickalar, Jim,"
said Jemima, delighted to think he
preferred her to all others. " I won't
speak to any one else to yees."
" I hain't, Mimie! Now, what's the
use of yer foolin' ? Did the gal mean
to say no ? for women were so queer,"
he soloquized, and darted back in his
confusion, knocking against a fence
and upsetting a hornets' nest, which so
enraged the inmates that they made a
grand assault on him. " Oh, Jemima,
Jem im-a! take 'em off; oh ! oh!
blazes, oh!" before she could realize
the situation of her lover he rushed
by her, beating his limbs with his
straw hat, looking as if he was a flying
machine borne through the air, his red
hair fairly blazing in the sunlight.
No time now tor love and romance
for poor James. The position was
practical.
" Bless my stars," cried Jemima,
" Jim Spooney has clean gone mad!
Jim, Jim, stop, stop, 'cause I'll have
you!"
Not knowing what course to pursue,
she stood looking after her desperate
lovtr in terror. As he attempted to
spring over the creek he fell in, and
some of hia enemies found a watery
grave; others returned. Oa sped the
yictim. As he mounted a fence, and
was about clearing it, a savage bull,
doubtless attacked by his scarlet waist-coat,
gave him a lift, sending him far
into the meadow on the opposite side.
This last shot through the air, rock-etlike,
was the last Jemima saw of her
departed lover. There poor Jim lay
for a long time, smarting with pain,
anger, and disappointment. When he
arrived at home his head was swelled
double its size, one eye was entirely
closed, whilst his lips were a sight to
behold.
" I'll not let Jemima go ! I'll hang
on, although if I git her and she'd die,
vs, I wouldn't try any more for an-other
gal; it is too much trouble !
But, I'll be spunky, this time, see if I
don't!"
"Your right, Jimmie I" said the
fond mother, looking ruefully at her
distressed-looking son. " Never give
up!" I tell you your daddie stuck
to it when he came a courtin' me.
The next time don't go shamed-like
through the back way, but go along
the public road, in through the front
gate, ask for Jemima, when ber dad or
mam comes to the door; that's the way
big folks do!"
So the next time he took his mother's
advice, and he and Jemima arranged
the matter so satisfactorily that I am
told this autumn they are to be mar-ried
by 'Squire Bellows. And some
time ago he took her to a neighboring
town to see a circus and he wore the
same linen duster and red vest, and
she was attired in a white dress, with a
hat trimmed with yellow and red roses
and blue ribbons, and they both looked
very happy as they passed along the
main street, hand in hand; and I have
been informed that he treated her to
ginger-bread and peanuts, and after
such extravagance on the part of
James Spooney, I firmly believe the
report of their coming marriage must
be correct. I heartily wish they may
live long and happily together, in
which kind wishes I am confident my
kind reader will heartily agree.
A Bachelor's Beliefs.
Lota of men are lambs in wolf's
clothing.
Women are probably called angels
because they wear things that rustle
like wings.
Married people get along the first
year on the novelty of the thing; after
that it becomes habit.
It ia all right for there to be lots of
room at the top, because by the time a
man gets there he is lots fatter.
The man who boasts oftenest that
he has never told a lie probably makes
his wife believe that he has the great-est
regard for her mother.
An optimist is a man who looks at
his bad_ luck through the big end of
the telescope; a pessimist is a man
who looks at his good luck that way.
—" I have never had a day's sick-ness
in my life," said a middle aged
man the other day.
" What a comfort it would be," sighs
some poor inyalid, " to be in his place
for a year or two." Yet half of the
invalids we see might be just as
healthy as he, if they would only take
proper care of themselves, eat proper
food—and digest it.
It's so strange that such simple
things are overlooked by those who
want health.
Food makes health.
It makes strength—and strength
wards off sickness. The man who had
never been sick was strong because he
always digested his food, and you could
become the same by helping your sto
mach to work as well as his. Shaker
Digestive Cordial will help your sto
mach and will make you strong and
healthy by making the food you eat
make you fat.
Druggist sell it. Trial bottle 10 cents;
BY THE WAY.
Interesting Notes and Comments on
Persons. Places and Things.
SINCE the adjournment of the Leg-islature
attempts have been made to
show that the session just closed was
not as bad as has been reported; that
in the face of the cry of corruption
and boodle, much good legislation has
been passed, and that the present Leg-islature
is no worse than others that
preceded it. This is only true to a cer-tain
extent, and the reason that some
good has been accomplished is due to
the vigilance of some of the better ele-ment
of senators and representatives,
but this small band of patriots fought
against too great odds to accomplish
much good, and the Legislature of '97
will go down in history as about the
most useless and corrupt that ever sat
at Harrisburg. The reform bills that
were to accomplish so much good and
purify the political atmosphere were
legistured into the greatest shams and
travesties on reform. The political
bosses knew that if they were passed in
their original shape, their greatest wea-pons
would be destroyed, and in order
to satisfy the cry for reform they were
amended in such form as to make them
practically useless.
* * +
IT IS A very lame excuse for State
Chairman Elkin to say that the people
do not want civil service reform, and
that Quay did all in his power to pass
this bill. Quay knew that the politi-cians
did not want civil service reform,
for it is with the politicians he has to
deal in order to hold his power, and it
is very humiliating to put the blame
on the people for not passing the bill.
It'was impossible to so amend the bill
as to make it practically useless, and
so it was defeated. The political non-assessment
bill passed, but of what
earthly use is it. It was amended so
as to read that "voluntary contribu-tions"
can be made to campaign funds.
Is it necessary to explain to anybody
that this insertion practically kills the
original intention of the bill ? Will
it be necessary to go to those in the i
employ of the State, county or city,
even down to the smallest office, with
a brass band and torchlights for " vol-untary"
confcributations ? Don't you
suppose every employee knows, what
voluntary contributions mean? It
was simply a humane way of killing a
dog.
* * *
To snow how practically useless:
some of the bills are that have been
passed let us take a glance at the
amended fiih laws which, at this writ-ing,
are in the hands of the Governor
with strong requests for his veto of
them. The fish commissioners ask the
veto of the bill on the ground that its
provisions are "worse than those of the
old law3. The fight for amended fish
laws began early during the session of
the Legislature. The commissioners
met at Harrisburg and drafted a bill
incorporating what they thought neces-sary.
During the last six years the
State has spent much money on its
four hatcheries and the distribution of
fish to stock streams. In spite of the
laws, the work of the ¡fish commission
and the expenditure o:f large sums of
money by the State, the game fish of
Pennsylvania in many streams are to-day
practically exterminated. The
restocking from the hatcheries has
been able to afford oaly one short and
generally poor season of fishing in four
years. The fishing laws were too
loose, the seasons too long, the restric-tions
two small and convictions for
violations almost impossible.
* * *
THE commission's bill increased the
size l>elow which salmon should not be
taken from one to three pounds ; trout
from five to six inches ; black bass and
Susquehanna salmon, from seven to
nino inches ; no outlines were to be al-lowed
at any time; no fish dams, set
nets or baskets in the rivers and small
waters of Western Pennsylvania. The
laws were to be make mandatory so
that in case ot conviction for violations
a magistrate was compelled to impose
the penalty. The fine for dynamiting
a stream was raised to $150, and in
default of payment the violator had no
other choice but jail. The increase in
size at which fish may be taken was
one of the most important provisions
in the new bill, yeit the new law makes
the size of salmon one pound, black
bas3 and Susquehanna salmon seven
inches, and trout five inches. These
reductions were just enough to defeat
the purpose of the commission. The
commissioners made a particular study
of propagation and the time of spawn-ing,
but the Legislature-knew better
and reduced the size. This section of
the bill is enough to defeat the ends
of fish protection.
* % *
SECTION 38 of the laws as passed pro-vides
that nothing in them shall pro-hibit
the fishing with set nets in any
of the streams of this Commonwealth
which do not contain brook trout from
April 15 to June 15, and from Sep-tember
15 to November 15. The
streams of the State which contain
trout are few. In all the others this
exterminating set-net fishing is to be
allowed during one-third of the year,
and at the time while the fish are
moving up or down stream. The nets
are to be not more than five feet in
span and the meshe3 an inch square.
In many of the smaller streams a five-foot
net will close the channel com-pletely.
If the water is clear one man
can drive eyery fish for a distance
into the net and clean it out. The
people who own the lands bordering
a stream object to any restriction of
what they think their rights. Their
representatives dare not enforce pro-tection.
Persons who live near a
stream will have one or more nets in
the water all the time, visiting them
morning and evening and lifting out
every fish that attempted to pass the
net during thé day. And they rarely
throw back the little ones or the trout
if there happen to be any. While there
are several good provisions in the bill,
those mentioned are very bad, worse
than the old, and if enacted will make
fish protection and propagation in
Pennsylvania practically impossible.
* * *
IT WOULD cerfiainly be a gross in-justice
to include the entire Legisla-ture
in this arraignment of bad legis-lation.
As before stated, there are
some good, honest and conscientious
members of the Pennsylvania Legisla-ture,
however bad the rest may be.
This was brought out in the discussions
of the expense accounts presented by
the various committees. It is difficult
to discuss this matter without using
terms such as one would expect to find
on the blotter of a police station, but
which should be out of all bounds of
possibility as regards the proceedings
of lawmakers. But when member
after member got up to say that bills
of personal expenses put in as having
been incurred by him were fictitious,
one cannot help thinking that it was
not accounting that was going on, but
plain and simple robbery. A bill was
repudiated by Mr. J. C. Campbell, of
Westmoreland, being for personal ex-penses
amounting to $600, charged up
in his name as a member of the anthra-cite
investigating committee; He said
that he did not have any expenses,
and would not take money that he was
not entitled to. ~ Does this net show
that the bills presented were fraudu-lent
end covered an attempt to rob the
treasury ?
* * *
IT WAS the repudiation of these
glaring accounts by a few honest mem-bers
that led to the exposure, and the
people should certainly take adyan-tage
of their chance to repudiate some
of the dishonest members by their de-feat
at the next election. The plunder
was generously distributed in the ex-pectation
that members would stand to-gether
in the raid. The exposures
that were made caused a great and sud-den
reduction in the demands made,
but this was a lucky chance and not
the result of any systematic safeguard.
The most impressive circumstance in
all this disgraceful business was the
action of the senate in voting down the
proposition to have such bills regular,
ly audited, moved by Senator Kauff-man.
There was nothing in this but
the most ordinary business require-ment.
By this action the Senate en-dorsed
the present lack of system
which enabled unscrupulous members
to put in fictitious charges.
•i< • *
How long, oh how long, will it be
until the people wake up and give us
an honest Legislature ? PHIL,
It Was the Cow's Fault.
An Irish laborer, who was some-what
new in his work, was plowing one
day, and the furrows being uneven,
the farmer told him to look at some
thing al the other end of the field as a
guide.
" That cow at the gate," said he,
is right opposite us. Now, work
straight for her."
" Eight you are, sur," says Pat.
Coming back, later on, the farmer
was quite horrified to find the plow had
been traveling zigzag all over the field.
" How is this ?" said he. " What
have you been doing ?"
" Shure, sur," was Pat's reply, " I
did what you told me. I worked
straight for the cow, but the craychur
didn't kape still."
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BASE BALL AT
FEYER HEAT.
WE WIN THREE OUT OP FOUR.
The "Fans" are Wild Over the Ac-complishments
of the Ijocal Aggre-gation
in the Last Two Games
Played.
The Lititz base ball club, providing
they keep up the gait they have struck
in the last two games played, will
with ease carry off the championship
banner for the best amateur base ball
club in Lancaster county. In the
course of a little more than a week
they engaged in four contests—two
with Ephrata, one with Columbia and
one with the Alerts of Lancaster—
and thrice came out successful. At
Columbia on Thursday they fairly cap-tivated
the spectators by the snappy
game they put up and there was no
end to congratulations and praises for
the locals. On Saturday their work
was a repetition of that done at Co-lumbia
and a continuance of the good
play will win for them an admirable
and enviable reputation and serve as
a good drawing card wherever they
participate in the national game.
THE COLUMBIA GAME.
The Columbia base ball club as we
are all aware has had things more or
less their own way thus far this sea-son
»nd as a natural consequence were
beginning to entertain the thought
that they are " the only pebbles on
the beach," so far as the playing of the
national game is »oncerned. Bat to
their surprise, and to the astonishment
of the Columbia rooters, the Lititz
"pretzel fanciers" (as the Marietta
Register calls the locals), defeated
them in a game that abounded in
sharp plays by both the locals and the
boys, the former however do-ing
the more brilliant work.
The game was virtually a pitcher's
battle, with the honors slightly in
favor of Black who struck out eight
of our boys to four by Carpenter. But
right here we wish to state that in our
judgment the Columbia umpire did
Carpenter an injustice on balls and
strikes. Quite frequently he would
succeed in getting two strikes on the
batter but the umpire very seldom
called a final one, no matter how legal.
The contest opened with Columbia
at bat and resulted in one run being
scorod, with two men left on bases.
The locals were blanked in the first
two innings, as was also Columbia for
the succeeding five innings. We
scored our first run in the third epoch
on errors by Black and Kline, the
latter's chance being comparatively
easy. In the fourth we were blanked,
but in the fifth, by timely hitting—
among which was a three-bagger by
Graybill—and good base running, we
scored three runs and won the game.
In the remaining innings we were un-able
to tally, owing to our inability to
do effectual stick work. In the seventh
the Columbians scored their second
run on a timely two-bagger by Wit-mer,
and in the ninth on a wild throw
to first base by Murr, Kline made the
circuit of bases and scored their final
run. The score:
LITITZ. R H O A E
Traub, 2b 0 0 1 0 0
Graybill, c 2 2 8 0 0
Loercher, 1 f. 0 0 1 0 0
Carpenter, p 0 0 0 2 0
Kauffman, lb .0 0 10 2 0
Ochs, s s 0 0 0 2 1
Murr, 3b 0 1 4 4 1
Dlehm, r f 1 1 0 0 0
Evans, c i 1 2 3 0 0
Totals 4 6 27 10 2
COLUMBIA. R H O A E
Malone, s s 2 2
Kline, o f.
Wltmer, lb
Cranford, 2b
Sourbeer, 3b.
Heck, c
"Waltman, 1 f
Hull, r £
Black, p
Totals.... 3 6 24 11 6
Columbia 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1—3
Lititz 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 x—4
Two-base hits, Heck, "Witmer. Three-base
hit, Graybill. Struck out, by Black 8, by Car-penter
4. Stolen bases, Columbia 3, Lititz 1.
Left on bases, Columbia 8, Lititz 5. Time,
1.50. Umpire, S. Cranford.
NOTES OF THE GAME.
Columbia's second defeat.
Murr accepted eight out of nine
chances at third.
Black pitched for a strong Camden,
N. J., team last season.
In oae inning Carpenter hit the two
first batters that faced him, but the
side was retired without a run.
Loercher and Evans carried off the
outfield honors by accepting very hard
chances. Dlehm was not given an
opportunity to distinguish himself.
To those who are superstitious we
would say that as one of the Lititz
players was about to step on the trolly
car before departing he picked up a
four-leaf clover, which signifies good
luck.
ALERTS VS. LITITZ.
For a second time this season the
locals demonstrated their superiority
over the Lancaster Alerts by giving
Oyer the State.
Swatara Station, on the Lebanon
Valley Railroad, was plundered by
thieves.
Charles Ackerman, who cut his
throat at McSherrytown last Wednes-day,
died.
Five-year-old James Aikman play-ed
with matches at Pottsville and was
burned to death.
Ill-health caused James Ring, aged
60 years, to take paris green at Corry
with fatal results.
Huntingdon's Burgess ia against the
proposed $13,000 loan and has vetoed
an ordinance authorizing it.
Thomas Canfield, aged 17 years,
was struck by a freight train near Ma-hanoy
City and instantly killed.
Near Lancaster two highwaymen
held up Paul Buckoscki, took his
money and the shoes from his feet.
George Kaiser carelessly handled a
loaded revolver at Altoena. The wea-pon
was discharged, killing him in-stantly.
The explosion of a cannon cracker
frightened Mrs. May berry Goodman
so badly at Reading that her right
arm was parsljzed.
A turtle crept iato the feed pipe of
the planing mill plant of Henderson,
Hull & Co , at Montgomery, Lycom-ing
county, and caused a shut-down
for half a day.
Charged with stealing diamonds
and jewelry worth $1000 from a pawn-broker's
wife at Scranton, Milton
Breckstein, a Honesdale clothing cut-ter,
was arrested at Coney Island.
Another Voice from the Pulpit.
Bicyclers, the Sunday riders in par-ticular,
were the subject for a sermon
by Rev. Richard Harcourt, at Phila-delphia.
The preacher went after the
wheel world in vigorous style. " The
very thought of wheels makes our
heads turn," said he. "Before the
Church to-day there is no more
serious problem than that of wheels.
My object is not to condemn them but
to point out some of the abuses.
"The tendency of the wheel has
something about it not in my way of
thinking. Its way is not that of re-finement-
Young men do not dress
up in their best attire when they take
girls on bicycle rides to the country.
take it as a truth that as a man
dresses, so he is. There's a looseness
and carelessness about the bicycles
that's anything but elevating.
If this is true of men, what of wo-men
? Oh, what shall I say of that
awful lewdness and rudeness, such as I
have myself witnessed. Dare we say,
too, that as a woman dresses, so is she ?
There's no use denying that the wheel
tends to coarsen us. With men it is
coarseness of language and manner,
with women coarseness of dress and
want of refinement. I can but com-pare
a women so affected to a peach
with the down rubbed of."
Continuing Dr. Harcourt said:
" The bicycle is the depopulator of the
saloon, the theatre and the church.
That it should draw people away from
the two first I am not sorry. That
the church should suffer is to be de-plored.
The church has lost its
power. It sings, prays and sho.uts and
leaves God to do all the rest. What
are we going to do about it ? The re-medy
is to capture these men and wo-men
on wheels."
Dr. Harcourt suggested the distribu-tion
of tracts among the wheelmen.
Result of an Accident.
" The small size of the screw," says
a noted shipbuilder, " is not due to the
perception of any inventor of its great-er
effect as compared with a larger one,
but purely to accident. When I first
sged in the machinery business
screws for steamers were made as large
as possible, it being the theory that
the greater the diameter the higher
the^speed,
A vessel was sent to sea with a screw
so large that it was deemd best to cast
each blade in two parts, and then weld
them together. During a storm all
three blades of the propeller broke at
the welding, reducing the diameter by
more than two-thirda. To the surprise
of the captain the yessel shot forward
at a speed such as had never been at-tained
before. Engineers then exper-imented
with small propellers and dis-covered
that they were much more
effective than large ones. Had it not
been for that accident we might have
gone on using large-bladed screws to
the present day.
Cereal Coffee Drinkers Beware!
If you have been deceived and tried
one of the cheap bran substitutes now
on the market, claiming to be the
original and to have great food value,
and you got a pound of poorly roasted
bran for your 25c. and a poor, weak,
sickish drink (what can you expect
from bran), don't be discouraged but
try GRAIN O. It is made from solid
grain, nicely browned and 2 pounds
for 25o. Grain-O takes the place of
coffee at i the price. Get a package of
your grocer to-day.
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