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9Lh *A 8tateUbrary 4july99 HAREISBURG. FA. rHARRISB VOLUME XXIII WAYNESBORO, PA„ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1899. NUMBER 47 &sms^mmm&s&^^}>rM^ -a. Fall Styles in Jewelry. I have returned irom the Eastern Cities wbere I purchased a full line of the very latest fads known to the trade. Friendship Hearts **t & sorts of Bracelet BangleS Engraved at low rates Fine Watoh Repairing a Specialty and at prices to suit the times. All work fully .guaranteed. H. F. EYLER, Jeweler, 9.4 6m WEST MAIN STREET. ^^^^^^^Ir^f'^t^^^^^^i i NATURES i GREAT * NERYE * TONIC. Compnd Celery Nervine A highly efficaceous remedy ior Mai-Assimilation of Food, Nervous Troubles oi every kind, Weakness of Brain and Body, Purifies the Blood, Promotes Digestion, Improyes the Liver, Cures Headache, Qizziness, [Sleeplessness. Palpitation of the Heart or any Ailment Arising from Weak and Debilitated Nerves. FORTHMAN * MILLER Hole Proprietor**. Centre G. H. GREENAWALT & GO., PROPRIETORS. Square Grocery Headquarters for Pine Groceries. Ike Greenwald, The Fashionable Merchant Tailor, KEEPS NO ACCOUNT OF TRUSTS. When times get a little shy, and people begin to squeeze a dollar until the Goddess of Liberty screams, Ike goes to work and increases the inducements to part with that dollar a thousand fold. How Does He Do This? By putting the Bread Knife into prices and slashing them right and left. A week ago fashionable Spring Suits were 25 per cent higher, but now they are 25 per cent lower. That is the way Ike calls that dollar out of hiding. It must come. No v is the time to leave your order for a dandy SPRING SUIT, made in the very tip ol the fashion, from finest Imported and Domestic Cloths, fresh irom the loom. Suits made either by Long Distance or Short Distance Telephone order. Ring up Ike if you want the correct thing. I IKE GREENWALD. Fish9 Oysters and Produce., All kinds of Fresh Fish received daily and delivered each morning at your back door. No trouble going out to the wagon to fish 'em oot. Served on tray, on the ice and weighed at your back door. No such service ever thought ot in Waynesboro. Fish and Oysters received fresh every morning. Ice storage of the best character. Nothing but the best goods and the best condition Orders by telephone delivered any hour of the day and any part of town. Make a note of this. No such conveniences ever thought of in Way- nerboro. F. C BONNER. 'Phone No. 182 Z. 8-31-tf. WAYNESBORO STEAM LAUNDRY. (Juaranteee all work to be satisfactory. Free collection and delivery of Laundry to all parts of town. B H Foreman ft Co town agents. § J.E. HERSHEY Pro*. DY8PEP8IA is the cause of untold suffering. By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla the digestive organs are toaed and dyspepsia IS CORED. Honest G3 YCLES And Honest Prices. All strictly high-grade and the bes* makes on the market. New and second hand. Oot our prices. Ton will always find us with a foil and complete line of BICYCLE SUNDRIES, TIRES, GUNS, AMU- NITION, ETC. We have taken the agency for the tl " Inc. Gas Lai. This is a good lamp and at a small cost. ELECTRIC DOOR BELL OUTFITS complete for $1.60 to $3.00. Electric supplies of all kinds We give estimates on inoa - descent lighting'. Try us. AM kinds of light repairing done quickly. Stewart & Spangler. dr.david favori te tfWRemedy Tbe one sure cure fbr / B>e fydniyMjyer and Blood 69 Gents for Nothing, Just issued, a wonderful catalogue of everything to eat, wear and use. It costs us 52 cents to print and 17 cents to mail each copy. g^g| It's free to all who write for it. This book contains COS pages (-iro U'.xiov- in.). has 10,000 illusivations, a.id quotes lutt.OOU articles at wholesale prices to consume?. Here is the book': This valuable logue tells all j Agricultural li ments, Uaby Coaches, Bed ding. Bicyt-les; Boots, Buggies, Candies, Carpets, Cigars, Clocks, Clothing, Corsets, C r o ckeiy. Cur tains. Cutlery, Farm Wagons, Furniture, M e n's Furnishings, jiasswave, Groceries, Ha; ness, Hats, Hosiery, Jewelry, Ladies' Clothing, Ladies' Fun.i .1- ings. Lamps, MacHa- .toshes, Mirrors, M> s- ical Instrument", Organs, Paints, Pianos, Pictures, Pbrtie c*. Refrigerators, S a d- dies, Sewing- Machir.es, Shirts, Shoes ware, Tobacco, Towel?. 1 stery Goods, Watches, articles. With this book in yonr po*=se=sion, you can buy cheaper than the average dealer. You can save large sums of money on everything you need, at any season of- the year. Lithographed Caret an*. Rug Catalogve. and our Clothin. 1 Cutaldgu Kith samples attached, are. a'ltnfree fix rentage paid on^clothing, freight paid on carpet. Which book shall we send you ** Address this way ; JULIUS HNES & SON JAI/miOItE, MO. Department 9O0. REPORT OF THE CONDITION ——or— Silverware, Stoves, Tin- titoks, Underwear. Uphol- and thousands of other t a.t Waynesboro, in the state of pennsylvania, at the close OF BUSINESS, SEPT. 7th, 1899. RESOURCES. Loans anddiscounts $300,552 78 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 5 93 U. 8. Bonds to secure circulation.. 50,000 00 Premiums on U.S. Bonds...... 3,0*0 00 Stocks, Securities, etc 13.000 00 Banking house furniture and fixtures 17,500 00 Due from National Banks (not Reserve Agents) 697 19 Due from State Banks and bankers. 11,092 16 Due from approved reserve agents. 33,002 40 Checks and other cash items. 1,060 74 Internal Revenue Stamps Notes of other National Banks Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 262 38 Lawful Monet Rksek ve in Bank, viz: Specie 80,585 60 Redemption fond witb U.S.Treasurer (5 per cent, of circulation).. 1,992 50 Due from U* S. Treasurer other than 5 per cent redemption fund . Total $462,75167 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ... $100,000 00 ■Surplusfund 50,00> 00 Undivided profits , ... . .... 12,975 08 National Bank notes outstanding. .. 45,000 1)0 Due toother National Banks 5,154 98 Doe to State Banks and bankers.... 1,209 51 Individual deposits sub- jecttocheck ?242 9:23 06 Demand certificates of deposit 5,226 63 Certified Checks 3 85 Cashier's Checks outstanding 258 60 -.—-— 248,418 11 Total. $462,75! 97 State of Pennsylvania, I _ County of Franklin j bS I, J. H. Stoner, cashier of the above-named bank do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. H. Stoner, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of Sept., 1899. Ale. N. Russell, Notary Publie. Correct— Attest: JOS. H. CREBS. HENRY BINEHART, W.T.OMWAKB. SAMUEL HOEFLICH, DANIEL HOOVER, Director**. /OK BOROUGH TAX COLLECTOR. H. 0. ELY. I will be a candidate for renomination foi Borough Tax Colleotor, subject to the decision or the next primary meeting ofthe Republican party. 8-25 F OR BOROUGH TAX COLLBCTOB J. D. DELAPLAINE. I will be a candidate for the office of Borough Tax Collector at the Republican primary meet ing to he held in the Academy of Music, January next. Tour support and Influence respect- rally solicited. 9-18-3 w pa BOROUGH TAX COLLECTOR JOHN 0UMMINS. I respectfully offer myself as a candidate for the office of Borough Tax Collector, subject to the decision of the next Republican primary meeting. 9-4 F OR BOROUGH TAX COLLECTOR T. S. CUNNINGHAM. At the next Republican primary meeting my name wUl be offered as a candidate for Borough Tax Colleotor. Your support Is respectfully solicited. 9 5 tp Notice To [Ja? Goq$umei$. The new management of Waynesboro Gas Light Co. desire to announce, to consumers of gas that for the purpose of rendering efficient ser ▼ice it has employed Mr. C R. Miller, a practical gas mat as superintendent. Mr. Mil ler will take pleasure in cor recting, without charge, any defective burners. He will also give information regarding the economical consumption of gas, either for heating or lighting purposes. Any complaint left with the superintendent at the works or with T. B. Smith, secretary, will receive prompt and careful attention. The Waynesboro Gas Light Co * A/TTT^T Kidney trouble preys upon *•***•-.„ tne mind, discourages and A "N'T) - lessens ambition; beauty, -*■»"» ~ ■*-' vigor and cheerfulness soon T_X701\^TRftT disappear when the kidneys Mv V/«lJail are out of order or diseased. For pleasing results use Dr. Kilmers's Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy At druggists. Sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet. Address, Br. Kilmer A Co., Biai£hamten,N. Y. AN ARIZONA WONDEB. A PETRIFIED FOREST THAT IS A MARVEL OF BEAUTY. It Covers a Hundred Square Miles and Is a Mass af Glittering: A grate la a Bewildering? Array of Cor- geons Coloring. The territory of Arizona is a vast museum of natural curiosities, including many of the most wonderful in all the world. The atmosphere, the climate, the mountains, the soil, the rivers, the forests are filled with phenomena, many of which exist nowhere else. In the desert, 360 miles square, with Flagstaff as a center, are spread out a variety of wonders of which the people of this country have little or no conception, but if they were in Europe or Asia thousands of our citizens would cross the ocean to see them. Being within only two or three days' journey of Chicago and easy of access by frequent trains of sleeping and dining cars and other modern luxuries of travel, they are overlooked by the multitude and are practically unknown. To my mind, next to the Grand canyon of the Colorado, the most interest- big and Impressive of the natural wonders of this great Arizona museum is the petrified forest, which covers nearly 100 square miles, within easy distance, either on foot or horseback, from Billings station, on the Santa Fe railroad, but lt can be more easily reached by carriage from Holbrook, where better accommodations can be found. The government explorers have christened lt Chalcedony park. The surface of the ground for miles and miles around is covered with gigantic logs three or fear feet in diameter, petrified to the core. Many of them are translucent. Some are almost transparent. All present the most beautiful shades of blue, yellow, pink, purple, red and gray. Some are like gigantic amethysts, some resemble the smoky topaz and some are as pure and white as alabaster. At places the chips of agate from the trunks that have crumbled lie a foot deep upon the ground, and it is easy to obtain cross sections of trees showing every vein and even the bark. Comparatively little of this agate has been used ln manufacturing, although it is easy to obtain. Manufacturing Jewelers of New York pave made table tops and boxes and other articles from strips that have been sent them, and If the material' were not so abundant its beauty would coniuiand enormous prices. Where yon can get a carload of jewelry for nothing you are not likely to pay high prices for lt. A bird's eye view of the petrified forests on a sunny day suggests a gigantic kaleidoscope. -The surface of the earth resembles an infinite variety of rainbows. The geologists say this great plain, now 5,000 feet above the sea, was once covered by a forest, which was submerged for ages ln water strongly charged with minerals, until the fibers of the trees were thoroughly soaked and transformed into eternal stone. Many of the trunks are still packed ln a deposit of fine clay, which was left by the receding waters, but the erosion of the wind has pulverized much of the clay and carried lt off in the air, exposing the secrets that nature burled under its surface. One great tree spans a deep gulch 40 feet wide. It lies where it fell centuries, perhaps ages, ago, and is a most beautiful specimen of petrified wood. The rings and the bark can be easily traced through the translucent agate, and lt Is firm enough and strong enough to last as many centuries as it has already spent in its peculiar position. It is undoubtedly the only bridge of agate in the world and alone is worth a long journey to see. The Indians of the southwest used to visit the petrified forests frequently to obtain agate for their arrow and spear heads, and the material was scattered over the entire continent by exchange between the different tribes, from the Isthmus of Panama to Bering strait. The great deposit here explains where all the arrowheads qf moss agate came from and other weapons and Implements of similar material that are found In the Indian mounds and graves of the central and western states. In the stone age the agate of the petrified forest was the very best material that could bo obtained for both the Implements of war and peace of the aborigines. A scalping knife could be made very easily from one of the chips of agate and could be ground to a very fine edge. Many crystals were used for jewelry and ornaments also.—Chicago Record. Changed Accompaniment. One can hardly be expected to have "music In his soul" when there is discord In his stomach. Husband—What was that you were playing, my dear? Wife—Did yon Ilka it? "It was lovely—the melody divine, the harmony exquisite!" "It Is the very thing I played last evening, and you said it was horrid." "Well, tbe steak was bufneu last evening."—Stray Stories. Killed by a Misprint. It is related of Alassandro Guldo, a famous Italian poet and composer of the seventeeth century, that he died at Fraseatl of apoplexy, brought on by his discovery of a typographical error In a finely printed copy of poems which he was on his way to present to Pope Clement XI. It Is a favorite occupation to denounce the sons of wealthy men for being worthless. Yet their worthless- ness soon scatters fortunes that might otherwise increase to the detriment of the general public. Ill Is the wind that blows no one good.—St. Joseph Herald. A GLEAM OF PLEASURE. 1 Along the noisy city ways, And in this rattling city car, On this the dreariest of days, Perplexed witb business fret and jar, When suddenly a young, sweet face Looked on-my pjtulance and pain And lent it something of its grace And charmed it into peace again. The day was just as bleak without, My neighbors just as cold within, And truth was just as full of doubt. The world was just as full of sin. But in the light of that young smile The world grew pure, the heart grew warm, And sunshine gleamed a little while Across the darkness of the storm. I did not care to seek ber name. I only said: "God bless thy life. Thy sweet, young grace be still the same, Or happy maid or happy wife." —Phillips Brooks. MUSIC IN EVERYTHING. Pretty Surprises Met With In a Geneva Mnsie Box Factory. The chief industry of Geneva is the manufacture of musical boxes. Thousands of men, women and children are employed hi the factories, one of which was visited by a traveler who gives some interesting particulars about his visit. An attendant Invited him to take a seat. He did so, and strains of delightful music came from the chair. He hung his hat on a rack and put his stick In the stand. Music came from both rack and stand. He wrote his name in the visitors' register, and on dipping his pen into the ink nmsic burst forth from the inkstand. The manager of the factory explained the process of making musical boxes, a business which requires patience and nicety. The different parts are made by men who are experts in those parts and who do nothing else year in and year out The music Is marked on the cylinder by a man who has served several years of apprenticeship. Another man Inserts in the marked places pegs which have been filed to a uniform length. The comb, or set of teeth, which strikes the pegs and makes the sound Is arranged by a man who does nothing else. The cylinder Is then revolved to see that every peg produces a proper tone. The most delicate work of all is the revising of each peg. It Is done by a workman who has a good ear for music. He sees that every peg is In its proper place and is bent at the correct angle. When the instrument Is in its case, an expert examines it to see that the time is perfecL—St. Louis Republic. How He Wanted to Pay. Some years ago an affray among miners in the west resulted in murder, and Senator Thurston, believing the accused to have been innocent in intention, took up his case and greatly mitigated the lad's punishment. Six months afterward a man, armed to the teeth, appeared hi Thurston's office. "Be yon Squire Thurston?" •*Yes." "Be you the man that defended Jack Bailey at court?" The senator, thinking his last hour was come, again answered, "Yes." "Well,, I'm Jack Bailey's pardner, and I've come to pay you. I haven't got any money, but I'm a man of honor. Anybody in town you don't like?" As the senator smilingly disclaimed any thirst for booty or blood, the caller insisted incredulously: "Put on your hat, squire, and just walk down the street See anybody you don't like, throw up your thumb and I'll pop him."—Youth's Companion. Chinese Bound Feet. The Chinese saying is, "For each pair of bound feet there has been a whole kang, or big bath, full of tears," and they say that one girl out of ten dies of foot binding or of its after effects. -When I quoted this to the Italian mother superior at Hankow, who has for years been head of the great girl school and foundling establishment there, she said, with tears hi her eyes: "Oh, no, no! That may be true of the coast towns." I thought she was going to say It would be a gross exaggeration in .central China, but to my horror she went on. "Bnt more here- more—more."—"Intimate China," by Mrs. A. Little. Bookkeeping: Comes High. "It makes me tired," said the young man—"these advertisements guaranteeing to teach a person bookkeeping for $10." "But can't It be done?" was asked. "Not on your life! Why, I spent six months and over $100 to learn the art, and what do you suppose happened at the close of the first year?" "Got your figures mixed?" "Well, I shonid smile! There was a discrepancy of $700 between the cash- book and my ledger, and my father had to make it good, while I hunted for another job!"—Brooklyn Citizen. A Financial Shock. A man went to a local bank with a check which there was no cash on deposit to meet When the paying teller declined to respond, the applicant loudly demanded to see the cashier. "We have no 'cash here' for you," quietly responded the teller. The man with the check saw the point. He moved in circles till he found his way out tobogganed down the front steps and was led a block by a policeman before sufficiently recovered to make explanation.—Detroit Free Press. When a girl gets married, the women inquire how her mother took it, as though it were a funeral.— Atchison Globe. Many a man's tongue works hardest while his brain is taking a rest.—Philadelphia Times. OVA!,1*™* ABSOLU ILLY IftURE Powder Makes the food mort delicious and wholesome mOMM. BAKING POWDER CO., SEW YORK. A HARD WON BET. Carrylngr Fonr Bricks Half a Mile Is Not an Easy Task. "The hardest won bet I ever made," remarked the traveling man as be shook the ashes off his cigar, "was to carry four bricks half a mile. That sounds like a- simple thing to do, doesn't it? Well, you try it and you will find out whether it is or not Of course the manner of carrying tbe bricks is important A man bet me that I eouldn't carry two bricks in each hand from where we were back to the hotel and put them up on the bar. The bricks were to be put side by side and grasped, two in each hand, between the thumb and fingers, the fingers pointing down. I was not allowed to stop and rest nor to put the bricks down, "Well, thought I. that's $2 easUy earned, so I took the bet and started. For a quarter of the distance it was easy and I already felt those two silver dollars in my pocket But then my fingers began to grow tired. The muscles between my forefingers and thumbs were soon aching terribly. My arms began tb pain me and to throb like mad. I found myself setting my teeth together and the cords in my neck were in a high state of tension. When I came within a hundred yards of the hotel there was scarcely an Inch in my whole body that was not aching as if I had been stuck full of phis. "I don't know how I managed to go that last little distance. I conld no longer stand erect and I was trembling like a leaf, and yet the other fellow was alongside, laughing as if to split his sides. And when'I got into the barroom, it was all I could do to raise first one hand and then the other and pnt the bricks on the counter. I know that I couldn't have gone 50 feet farther. I got the $2, but the next day I conld scarcely move, and I didn't get over the soreness for a week. It looks easy, but just you try It"—Detroit Free Press. THE DOORBELL. It Tells What Manner mt Man Ton Are by Yonr Ring. Doorbells are pretty fan* indicators of character. Probably you have not been conscious of it, but every time you pull a doorbell you register what manner of man you are. Yonr ring will not tell everything about you, from the color of your eyes to your taste in flowers, but to those who know the* signs the doorbell is as good as a title page. Any one who has had occasion to answer bell pulls knows how much difference7 there is in them. One person's method varies little from time to time, though the difference between that method and somebody else's, while slight, will be sufficiently well marked. It is seldom that two rings are exactly alike. The housewife recognizes each, the impatient man, who pulls' the bell twice in quick succession and does not wait long before trying it again; the one of more phlegmatic temperament whose rirs.-? is slower and more Substantial; i'.ie hesitating woman, who draws the knob out In a succession of nervous jerks; the seedy individual with matches to sell, who stretches the wire carefully to its fnll length and then allows it to relax with a faint apologetic tinkle, and the jolly friend, who knows he is welcome, and therefore grasps the knob with a hearty swing that Is fairly eloquent with good nature, and sets the bell to shaking its sides with such peals of echoing laughter that.lt positively cannot stop at once, but subsides gradually with a merry, irrepressible little titter. A doorbell has as many voices as visitors.—Berlin (Md.) Herald. A Tough Bantam. A letter In a Glasgow paper records a phenomenon much too remarkable to be reserved for Scottish consumption. The writer says: "An acquaintance of mine, who lives np north, has among others of the feathered tribe ft little bantam cock. A few weeks ago he noticed that it was looking the worse for a slight difference of opinion with a canine friend, but did not examine it closely till his mother's and sisters' vociferations brought him hi a hurry. There was the bantam pick- big away at corn, but the corn was dropping from a rent In the bird's chest Jnst as fast as it was lifted. Not wanting to kill the bird, my friend got a needle and some horsehair and stitched up- the tear, with the result that the bird now Is as good as new." True to the Soil. McSwatter—He has everything at his fingers' ends, that professor. McSwitters—Even real estate.—Syracuse Herald. Kidney Troubles Heights Disease, Jaundice, Pains la Pide or Back Blurred Sight, /.ciriug Bones, Swelled Feet, Ui i- nary Disorders and Sallow Complexion, are caused by Weak, Unhealthy Kidneys. THE CURE IS FOUND IN dOHNSON'S w«cSS8sK,*3->iEY Positively Guarap!tee*_N* IP" I La Lb l__Er The p-Tptrt-tr-friced te_m*-dy. None so Good ana None so Cheap > fiy mail for five 2-ce* t stamps. Made a: ID JOHBSON Lir ORATORIES, Inc. PHILADELPHIA. FORTH MA tt A d* II.1_.ER. DrnffirUta THE GREEDY CATFISH. Hia Eating Capacity aa Wonderful aa Hia Hold on Life. The catfish belongs to an ancient type not yet fully made Into a fish, and hence those whose paired fins are all properly fastened to the head, as his are not, hold him in well merited scorn. He has no scales and no bright colors. His fins are small and his head and month are large. Around his month are eight long "smellers," fleshy feelers, that he pnshes out as he crawls along the bottom in search of anything that he may eat. As he may eat anything, he always finds it. His appetite is as impartial as that of a goat. Anything, fro*n a dead lamprey or a bunch of sunflsh eggs to a piece of tomato can, is grateful to him. bi each of the fins, which represent his arms, Is a long, sharp bone, with a slimy surface and a serrated edge. These are fastened by a ball and socket joint, and whenever the fish is alarmed the bone Is whirled over and set hi place; then it sticks ont stiffly on each side. There Is another snch bone in the fin on the back, and when all of these are set there is no fisn that can swallow him. When he takes the hook, which he surely will do If there is any hook to be taken, he will swallow lt greedily. As he Is drawn ont of the water he sets his three spines and laughs to himself as the boy pricks his fingers trying to get the hook from his stomach. This the boy is sure to do, and because the boy of the Mississippi valley Is always fishing for catfish is the reason why his fingers are always sore. The catfish is careless of the present and sure of the future. After he is strung on a birch branch and dried in the sun and sprinkled with dust and has had his stomach dug out to recover the hook, if he falls into the brook he will swim away. He holds , no malice and is ready to bite again at the first thing in' sight.—Popular Science Monthly. CHINESE COURT HISTORIANS They May Write the Truth, For Their Warlc la Secret. There are court historians In China, as there are in other countries, but there is one striking difference, and lt lies in the fact that the work of the Chinese conrt historians does not see the light until the reigning dynasty comes to an end. In this way these Celestial historians have an oppo. vanity to describe most truthfully the virtues and vices of the valorous m'.*.i*s and the real significance of tl.e events which take place during their regime. They can write what they please without fear of censure, for they know that their work will not be published as long as the reigning dynasty lasts. This has been the rule for more than 2,000 years, the flrst court historian having been appointed by the imperial house of Han. which reigned from 206 B. C. until 25 A. D. The duty of these historians is to write plain accounts of all the events that occur during their tenure ef office. At regular Intervals their completed work is taken, from them and Is locked up in an Iron safe or vault There it remains until the first member of a new dynasty ascends the throne. It is then given with all the other histories hi the vault to the court historian, who is then living, and from the mass of documents he is expected to prepare a truthful history of tbe dynasty which has just expired. The present dynasty has been reigning since 1640 and consequently no court history has been published since that date.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Route aa Pronounced. There are numerous excuses for the pronunciation of the word route, sap a man may hardly go amiss to choose his own style. Down south they say always rowt. In the north, among the educated classes, we hear root. Here also we hear, lower down, especially among the hyphenated Americans, rut. The Irish, even big folk, say rut The original Webster gives the pronunciation as rowt, with an admission of root. We have adopted root because of a French leaning. The word rut, meaning a deep track in a roadway, cut by the rim of a wheel, Is simply A contraction of route and rout. The Century dictionary says root or rowt, preference for root. We also say root ine for routine; why not, therefore, root for route? Ilowtine would sound funny .-"-New York Press. A He Didn't I_.lke Pledges, Judge Martin Orover of Troy, N. T, was at one time ai>;-".-ached by a yonng citizen who wished to be nominated to the state assembly. The shrewd old judge had certain donbts about him, which he expresiv.l somewhat freely, and yet he was willing to afford him a trial. He then-fore addressed the aspirant in this way: "Young man, if you will give me your word that you won't steal when yon get to Albany, I'll see what kin be done abont sendin you there." "Judge Grover," replied the young man, drawing himself up with great dignity, "I go to Albany unpledged or I don't go at all." . The custom of keeping birthdays Is many thousands of years old. Pharaoh's birthday festivities are mentioned In tbe Pentateuch. i
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Title | Keystone Gazette |
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Date | 1899-09-21 |
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Title | Keystone Gazette |
Contributors | Backstage Library Works |
Date | 1899-09-21 |
Original Format | Newspapers |
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Full Text | 9Lh *A 8tateUbrary 4july99 HAREISBURG. FA. rHARRISB VOLUME XXIII WAYNESBORO, PA„ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1899. NUMBER 47 &sms^mmm&s&^^}>rM^ -a. Fall Styles in Jewelry. I have returned irom the Eastern Cities wbere I purchased a full line of the very latest fads known to the trade. Friendship Hearts **t & sorts of Bracelet BangleS Engraved at low rates Fine Watoh Repairing a Specialty and at prices to suit the times. All work fully .guaranteed. H. F. EYLER, Jeweler, 9.4 6m WEST MAIN STREET. ^^^^^^^Ir^f'^t^^^^^^i i NATURES i GREAT * NERYE * TONIC. Compnd Celery Nervine A highly efficaceous remedy ior Mai-Assimilation of Food, Nervous Troubles oi every kind, Weakness of Brain and Body, Purifies the Blood, Promotes Digestion, Improyes the Liver, Cures Headache, Qizziness, [Sleeplessness. Palpitation of the Heart or any Ailment Arising from Weak and Debilitated Nerves. FORTHMAN * MILLER Hole Proprietor**. Centre G. H. GREENAWALT & GO., PROPRIETORS. Square Grocery Headquarters for Pine Groceries. Ike Greenwald, The Fashionable Merchant Tailor, KEEPS NO ACCOUNT OF TRUSTS. When times get a little shy, and people begin to squeeze a dollar until the Goddess of Liberty screams, Ike goes to work and increases the inducements to part with that dollar a thousand fold. How Does He Do This? By putting the Bread Knife into prices and slashing them right and left. A week ago fashionable Spring Suits were 25 per cent higher, but now they are 25 per cent lower. That is the way Ike calls that dollar out of hiding. It must come. No v is the time to leave your order for a dandy SPRING SUIT, made in the very tip ol the fashion, from finest Imported and Domestic Cloths, fresh irom the loom. Suits made either by Long Distance or Short Distance Telephone order. Ring up Ike if you want the correct thing. I IKE GREENWALD. Fish9 Oysters and Produce., All kinds of Fresh Fish received daily and delivered each morning at your back door. No trouble going out to the wagon to fish 'em oot. Served on tray, on the ice and weighed at your back door. No such service ever thought ot in Waynesboro. Fish and Oysters received fresh every morning. Ice storage of the best character. Nothing but the best goods and the best condition Orders by telephone delivered any hour of the day and any part of town. Make a note of this. No such conveniences ever thought of in Way- nerboro. F. C BONNER. 'Phone No. 182 Z. 8-31-tf. WAYNESBORO STEAM LAUNDRY. (Juaranteee all work to be satisfactory. Free collection and delivery of Laundry to all parts of town. B H Foreman ft Co town agents. § J.E. HERSHEY Pro*. DY8PEP8IA is the cause of untold suffering. By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla the digestive organs are toaed and dyspepsia IS CORED. Honest G3 YCLES And Honest Prices. All strictly high-grade and the bes* makes on the market. New and second hand. Oot our prices. Ton will always find us with a foil and complete line of BICYCLE SUNDRIES, TIRES, GUNS, AMU- NITION, ETC. We have taken the agency for the tl " Inc. Gas Lai. This is a good lamp and at a small cost. ELECTRIC DOOR BELL OUTFITS complete for $1.60 to $3.00. Electric supplies of all kinds We give estimates on inoa - descent lighting'. Try us. AM kinds of light repairing done quickly. Stewart & Spangler. dr.david favori te tfWRemedy Tbe one sure cure fbr / B>e fydniyMjyer and Blood 69 Gents for Nothing, Just issued, a wonderful catalogue of everything to eat, wear and use. It costs us 52 cents to print and 17 cents to mail each copy. g^g| It's free to all who write for it. This book contains COS pages (-iro U'.xiov- in.). has 10,000 illusivations, a.id quotes lutt.OOU articles at wholesale prices to consume?. Here is the book': This valuable logue tells all j Agricultural li ments, Uaby Coaches, Bed ding. Bicyt-les; Boots, Buggies, Candies, Carpets, Cigars, Clocks, Clothing, Corsets, C r o ckeiy. Cur tains. Cutlery, Farm Wagons, Furniture, M e n's Furnishings, jiasswave, Groceries, Ha; ness, Hats, Hosiery, Jewelry, Ladies' Clothing, Ladies' Fun.i .1- ings. Lamps, MacHa- .toshes, Mirrors, M> s- ical Instrument", Organs, Paints, Pianos, Pictures, Pbrtie c*. Refrigerators, S a d- dies, Sewing- Machir.es, Shirts, Shoes ware, Tobacco, Towel?. 1 stery Goods, Watches, articles. With this book in yonr po*=se=sion, you can buy cheaper than the average dealer. You can save large sums of money on everything you need, at any season of- the year. Lithographed Caret an*. Rug Catalogve. and our Clothin. 1 Cutaldgu Kith samples attached, are. a'ltnfree fix rentage paid on^clothing, freight paid on carpet. Which book shall we send you ** Address this way ; JULIUS HNES & SON JAI/miOItE, MO. Department 9O0. REPORT OF THE CONDITION ——or— Silverware, Stoves, Tin- titoks, Underwear. Uphol- and thousands of other t a.t Waynesboro, in the state of pennsylvania, at the close OF BUSINESS, SEPT. 7th, 1899. RESOURCES. Loans anddiscounts $300,552 78 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 5 93 U. 8. Bonds to secure circulation.. 50,000 00 Premiums on U.S. Bonds...... 3,0*0 00 Stocks, Securities, etc 13.000 00 Banking house furniture and fixtures 17,500 00 Due from National Banks (not Reserve Agents) 697 19 Due from State Banks and bankers. 11,092 16 Due from approved reserve agents. 33,002 40 Checks and other cash items. 1,060 74 Internal Revenue Stamps Notes of other National Banks Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 262 38 Lawful Monet Rksek ve in Bank, viz: Specie 80,585 60 Redemption fond witb U.S.Treasurer (5 per cent, of circulation).. 1,992 50 Due from U* S. Treasurer other than 5 per cent redemption fund . Total $462,75167 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ... $100,000 00 ■Surplusfund 50,00> 00 Undivided profits , ... . .... 12,975 08 National Bank notes outstanding. .. 45,000 1)0 Due toother National Banks 5,154 98 Doe to State Banks and bankers.... 1,209 51 Individual deposits sub- jecttocheck ?242 9:23 06 Demand certificates of deposit 5,226 63 Certified Checks 3 85 Cashier's Checks outstanding 258 60 -.—-— 248,418 11 Total. $462,75! 97 State of Pennsylvania, I _ County of Franklin j bS I, J. H. Stoner, cashier of the above-named bank do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. H. Stoner, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of Sept., 1899. Ale. N. Russell, Notary Publie. Correct— Attest: JOS. H. CREBS. HENRY BINEHART, W.T.OMWAKB. SAMUEL HOEFLICH, DANIEL HOOVER, Director**. /OK BOROUGH TAX COLLECTOR. H. 0. ELY. I will be a candidate for renomination foi Borough Tax Colleotor, subject to the decision or the next primary meeting ofthe Republican party. 8-25 F OR BOROUGH TAX COLLBCTOB J. D. DELAPLAINE. I will be a candidate for the office of Borough Tax Collector at the Republican primary meet ing to he held in the Academy of Music, January next. Tour support and Influence respect- rally solicited. 9-18-3 w pa BOROUGH TAX COLLECTOR JOHN 0UMMINS. I respectfully offer myself as a candidate for the office of Borough Tax Collector, subject to the decision of the next Republican primary meeting. 9-4 F OR BOROUGH TAX COLLECTOR T. S. CUNNINGHAM. At the next Republican primary meeting my name wUl be offered as a candidate for Borough Tax Colleotor. Your support Is respectfully solicited. 9 5 tp Notice To [Ja? Goq$umei$. The new management of Waynesboro Gas Light Co. desire to announce, to consumers of gas that for the purpose of rendering efficient ser ▼ice it has employed Mr. C R. Miller, a practical gas mat as superintendent. Mr. Mil ler will take pleasure in cor recting, without charge, any defective burners. He will also give information regarding the economical consumption of gas, either for heating or lighting purposes. Any complaint left with the superintendent at the works or with T. B. Smith, secretary, will receive prompt and careful attention. The Waynesboro Gas Light Co * A/TTT^T Kidney trouble preys upon *•***•-.„ tne mind, discourages and A "N'T) - lessens ambition; beauty, -*■»"» ~ ■*-' vigor and cheerfulness soon T_X701\^TRftT disappear when the kidneys Mv V/«lJail are out of order or diseased. For pleasing results use Dr. Kilmers's Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy At druggists. Sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet. Address, Br. Kilmer A Co., Biai£hamten,N. Y. AN ARIZONA WONDEB. A PETRIFIED FOREST THAT IS A MARVEL OF BEAUTY. It Covers a Hundred Square Miles and Is a Mass af Glittering: A grate la a Bewildering? Array of Cor- geons Coloring. The territory of Arizona is a vast museum of natural curiosities, including many of the most wonderful in all the world. The atmosphere, the climate, the mountains, the soil, the rivers, the forests are filled with phenomena, many of which exist nowhere else. In the desert, 360 miles square, with Flagstaff as a center, are spread out a variety of wonders of which the people of this country have little or no conception, but if they were in Europe or Asia thousands of our citizens would cross the ocean to see them. Being within only two or three days' journey of Chicago and easy of access by frequent trains of sleeping and dining cars and other modern luxuries of travel, they are overlooked by the multitude and are practically unknown. To my mind, next to the Grand canyon of the Colorado, the most interest- big and Impressive of the natural wonders of this great Arizona museum is the petrified forest, which covers nearly 100 square miles, within easy distance, either on foot or horseback, from Billings station, on the Santa Fe railroad, but lt can be more easily reached by carriage from Holbrook, where better accommodations can be found. The government explorers have christened lt Chalcedony park. The surface of the ground for miles and miles around is covered with gigantic logs three or fear feet in diameter, petrified to the core. Many of them are translucent. Some are almost transparent. All present the most beautiful shades of blue, yellow, pink, purple, red and gray. Some are like gigantic amethysts, some resemble the smoky topaz and some are as pure and white as alabaster. At places the chips of agate from the trunks that have crumbled lie a foot deep upon the ground, and it is easy to obtain cross sections of trees showing every vein and even the bark. Comparatively little of this agate has been used ln manufacturing, although it is easy to obtain. Manufacturing Jewelers of New York pave made table tops and boxes and other articles from strips that have been sent them, and If the material' were not so abundant its beauty would coniuiand enormous prices. Where yon can get a carload of jewelry for nothing you are not likely to pay high prices for lt. A bird's eye view of the petrified forests on a sunny day suggests a gigantic kaleidoscope. -The surface of the earth resembles an infinite variety of rainbows. The geologists say this great plain, now 5,000 feet above the sea, was once covered by a forest, which was submerged for ages ln water strongly charged with minerals, until the fibers of the trees were thoroughly soaked and transformed into eternal stone. Many of the trunks are still packed ln a deposit of fine clay, which was left by the receding waters, but the erosion of the wind has pulverized much of the clay and carried lt off in the air, exposing the secrets that nature burled under its surface. One great tree spans a deep gulch 40 feet wide. It lies where it fell centuries, perhaps ages, ago, and is a most beautiful specimen of petrified wood. The rings and the bark can be easily traced through the translucent agate, and lt Is firm enough and strong enough to last as many centuries as it has already spent in its peculiar position. It is undoubtedly the only bridge of agate in the world and alone is worth a long journey to see. The Indians of the southwest used to visit the petrified forests frequently to obtain agate for their arrow and spear heads, and the material was scattered over the entire continent by exchange between the different tribes, from the Isthmus of Panama to Bering strait. The great deposit here explains where all the arrowheads qf moss agate came from and other weapons and Implements of similar material that are found In the Indian mounds and graves of the central and western states. In the stone age the agate of the petrified forest was the very best material that could bo obtained for both the Implements of war and peace of the aborigines. A scalping knife could be made very easily from one of the chips of agate and could be ground to a very fine edge. Many crystals were used for jewelry and ornaments also.—Chicago Record. Changed Accompaniment. One can hardly be expected to have "music In his soul" when there is discord In his stomach. Husband—What was that you were playing, my dear? Wife—Did yon Ilka it? "It was lovely—the melody divine, the harmony exquisite!" "It Is the very thing I played last evening, and you said it was horrid." "Well, tbe steak was bufneu last evening."—Stray Stories. Killed by a Misprint. It is related of Alassandro Guldo, a famous Italian poet and composer of the seventeeth century, that he died at Fraseatl of apoplexy, brought on by his discovery of a typographical error In a finely printed copy of poems which he was on his way to present to Pope Clement XI. It Is a favorite occupation to denounce the sons of wealthy men for being worthless. Yet their worthless- ness soon scatters fortunes that might otherwise increase to the detriment of the general public. Ill Is the wind that blows no one good.—St. Joseph Herald. A GLEAM OF PLEASURE. 1 Along the noisy city ways, And in this rattling city car, On this the dreariest of days, Perplexed witb business fret and jar, When suddenly a young, sweet face Looked on-my pjtulance and pain And lent it something of its grace And charmed it into peace again. The day was just as bleak without, My neighbors just as cold within, And truth was just as full of doubt. The world was just as full of sin. But in the light of that young smile The world grew pure, the heart grew warm, And sunshine gleamed a little while Across the darkness of the storm. I did not care to seek ber name. I only said: "God bless thy life. Thy sweet, young grace be still the same, Or happy maid or happy wife." —Phillips Brooks. MUSIC IN EVERYTHING. Pretty Surprises Met With In a Geneva Mnsie Box Factory. The chief industry of Geneva is the manufacture of musical boxes. Thousands of men, women and children are employed hi the factories, one of which was visited by a traveler who gives some interesting particulars about his visit. An attendant Invited him to take a seat. He did so, and strains of delightful music came from the chair. He hung his hat on a rack and put his stick In the stand. Music came from both rack and stand. He wrote his name in the visitors' register, and on dipping his pen into the ink nmsic burst forth from the inkstand. The manager of the factory explained the process of making musical boxes, a business which requires patience and nicety. The different parts are made by men who are experts in those parts and who do nothing else year in and year out The music Is marked on the cylinder by a man who has served several years of apprenticeship. Another man Inserts in the marked places pegs which have been filed to a uniform length. The comb, or set of teeth, which strikes the pegs and makes the sound Is arranged by a man who does nothing else. The cylinder Is then revolved to see that every peg produces a proper tone. The most delicate work of all is the revising of each peg. It Is done by a workman who has a good ear for music. He sees that every peg is In its proper place and is bent at the correct angle. When the instrument Is in its case, an expert examines it to see that the time is perfecL—St. Louis Republic. How He Wanted to Pay. Some years ago an affray among miners in the west resulted in murder, and Senator Thurston, believing the accused to have been innocent in intention, took up his case and greatly mitigated the lad's punishment. Six months afterward a man, armed to the teeth, appeared hi Thurston's office. "Be yon Squire Thurston?" •*Yes." "Be you the man that defended Jack Bailey at court?" The senator, thinking his last hour was come, again answered, "Yes." "Well,, I'm Jack Bailey's pardner, and I've come to pay you. I haven't got any money, but I'm a man of honor. Anybody in town you don't like?" As the senator smilingly disclaimed any thirst for booty or blood, the caller insisted incredulously: "Put on your hat, squire, and just walk down the street See anybody you don't like, throw up your thumb and I'll pop him."—Youth's Companion. Chinese Bound Feet. The Chinese saying is, "For each pair of bound feet there has been a whole kang, or big bath, full of tears," and they say that one girl out of ten dies of foot binding or of its after effects. -When I quoted this to the Italian mother superior at Hankow, who has for years been head of the great girl school and foundling establishment there, she said, with tears hi her eyes: "Oh, no, no! That may be true of the coast towns." I thought she was going to say It would be a gross exaggeration in .central China, but to my horror she went on. "Bnt more here- more—more."—"Intimate China," by Mrs. A. Little. Bookkeeping: Comes High. "It makes me tired," said the young man—"these advertisements guaranteeing to teach a person bookkeeping for $10." "But can't It be done?" was asked. "Not on your life! Why, I spent six months and over $100 to learn the art, and what do you suppose happened at the close of the first year?" "Got your figures mixed?" "Well, I shonid smile! There was a discrepancy of $700 between the cash- book and my ledger, and my father had to make it good, while I hunted for another job!"—Brooklyn Citizen. A Financial Shock. A man went to a local bank with a check which there was no cash on deposit to meet When the paying teller declined to respond, the applicant loudly demanded to see the cashier. "We have no 'cash here' for you," quietly responded the teller. The man with the check saw the point. He moved in circles till he found his way out tobogganed down the front steps and was led a block by a policeman before sufficiently recovered to make explanation.—Detroit Free Press. When a girl gets married, the women inquire how her mother took it, as though it were a funeral.— Atchison Globe. Many a man's tongue works hardest while his brain is taking a rest.—Philadelphia Times. OVA!,1*™* ABSOLU ILLY IftURE Powder Makes the food mort delicious and wholesome mOMM. BAKING POWDER CO., SEW YORK. A HARD WON BET. Carrylngr Fonr Bricks Half a Mile Is Not an Easy Task. "The hardest won bet I ever made," remarked the traveling man as be shook the ashes off his cigar, "was to carry four bricks half a mile. That sounds like a- simple thing to do, doesn't it? Well, you try it and you will find out whether it is or not Of course the manner of carrying tbe bricks is important A man bet me that I eouldn't carry two bricks in each hand from where we were back to the hotel and put them up on the bar. The bricks were to be put side by side and grasped, two in each hand, between the thumb and fingers, the fingers pointing down. I was not allowed to stop and rest nor to put the bricks down, "Well, thought I. that's $2 easUy earned, so I took the bet and started. For a quarter of the distance it was easy and I already felt those two silver dollars in my pocket But then my fingers began to grow tired. The muscles between my forefingers and thumbs were soon aching terribly. My arms began tb pain me and to throb like mad. I found myself setting my teeth together and the cords in my neck were in a high state of tension. When I came within a hundred yards of the hotel there was scarcely an Inch in my whole body that was not aching as if I had been stuck full of phis. "I don't know how I managed to go that last little distance. I conld no longer stand erect and I was trembling like a leaf, and yet the other fellow was alongside, laughing as if to split his sides. And when'I got into the barroom, it was all I could do to raise first one hand and then the other and pnt the bricks on the counter. I know that I couldn't have gone 50 feet farther. I got the $2, but the next day I conld scarcely move, and I didn't get over the soreness for a week. It looks easy, but just you try It"—Detroit Free Press. THE DOORBELL. It Tells What Manner mt Man Ton Are by Yonr Ring. Doorbells are pretty fan* indicators of character. Probably you have not been conscious of it, but every time you pull a doorbell you register what manner of man you are. Yonr ring will not tell everything about you, from the color of your eyes to your taste in flowers, but to those who know the* signs the doorbell is as good as a title page. Any one who has had occasion to answer bell pulls knows how much difference7 there is in them. One person's method varies little from time to time, though the difference between that method and somebody else's, while slight, will be sufficiently well marked. It is seldom that two rings are exactly alike. The housewife recognizes each, the impatient man, who pulls' the bell twice in quick succession and does not wait long before trying it again; the one of more phlegmatic temperament whose rirs.-? is slower and more Substantial; i'.ie hesitating woman, who draws the knob out In a succession of nervous jerks; the seedy individual with matches to sell, who stretches the wire carefully to its fnll length and then allows it to relax with a faint apologetic tinkle, and the jolly friend, who knows he is welcome, and therefore grasps the knob with a hearty swing that Is fairly eloquent with good nature, and sets the bell to shaking its sides with such peals of echoing laughter that.lt positively cannot stop at once, but subsides gradually with a merry, irrepressible little titter. A doorbell has as many voices as visitors.—Berlin (Md.) Herald. A Tough Bantam. A letter In a Glasgow paper records a phenomenon much too remarkable to be reserved for Scottish consumption. The writer says: "An acquaintance of mine, who lives np north, has among others of the feathered tribe ft little bantam cock. A few weeks ago he noticed that it was looking the worse for a slight difference of opinion with a canine friend, but did not examine it closely till his mother's and sisters' vociferations brought him hi a hurry. There was the bantam pick- big away at corn, but the corn was dropping from a rent In the bird's chest Jnst as fast as it was lifted. Not wanting to kill the bird, my friend got a needle and some horsehair and stitched up- the tear, with the result that the bird now Is as good as new." True to the Soil. McSwatter—He has everything at his fingers' ends, that professor. McSwitters—Even real estate.—Syracuse Herald. Kidney Troubles Heights Disease, Jaundice, Pains la Pide or Back Blurred Sight, /.ciriug Bones, Swelled Feet, Ui i- nary Disorders and Sallow Complexion, are caused by Weak, Unhealthy Kidneys. THE CURE IS FOUND IN dOHNSON'S w«cSS8sK,*3->iEY Positively Guarap!tee*_N* IP" I La Lb l__Er The p-Tptrt-tr-friced te_m*-dy. None so Good ana None so Cheap > fiy mail for five 2-ce* t stamps. Made a: ID JOHBSON Lir ORATORIES, Inc. PHILADELPHIA. FORTH MA tt A d* II.1_.ER. DrnffirUta THE GREEDY CATFISH. Hia Eating Capacity aa Wonderful aa Hia Hold on Life. The catfish belongs to an ancient type not yet fully made Into a fish, and hence those whose paired fins are all properly fastened to the head, as his are not, hold him in well merited scorn. He has no scales and no bright colors. His fins are small and his head and month are large. Around his month are eight long "smellers," fleshy feelers, that he pnshes out as he crawls along the bottom in search of anything that he may eat. As he may eat anything, he always finds it. His appetite is as impartial as that of a goat. Anything, fro*n a dead lamprey or a bunch of sunflsh eggs to a piece of tomato can, is grateful to him. bi each of the fins, which represent his arms, Is a long, sharp bone, with a slimy surface and a serrated edge. These are fastened by a ball and socket joint, and whenever the fish is alarmed the bone Is whirled over and set hi place; then it sticks ont stiffly on each side. There Is another snch bone in the fin on the back, and when all of these are set there is no fisn that can swallow him. When he takes the hook, which he surely will do If there is any hook to be taken, he will swallow lt greedily. As he Is drawn ont of the water he sets his three spines and laughs to himself as the boy pricks his fingers trying to get the hook from his stomach. This the boy is sure to do, and because the boy of the Mississippi valley Is always fishing for catfish is the reason why his fingers are always sore. The catfish is careless of the present and sure of the future. After he is strung on a birch branch and dried in the sun and sprinkled with dust and has had his stomach dug out to recover the hook, if he falls into the brook he will swim away. He holds , no malice and is ready to bite again at the first thing in' sight.—Popular Science Monthly. CHINESE COURT HISTORIANS They May Write the Truth, For Their Warlc la Secret. There are court historians In China, as there are in other countries, but there is one striking difference, and lt lies in the fact that the work of the Chinese conrt historians does not see the light until the reigning dynasty comes to an end. In this way these Celestial historians have an oppo. vanity to describe most truthfully the virtues and vices of the valorous m'.*.i*s and the real significance of tl.e events which take place during their regime. They can write what they please without fear of censure, for they know that their work will not be published as long as the reigning dynasty lasts. This has been the rule for more than 2,000 years, the flrst court historian having been appointed by the imperial house of Han. which reigned from 206 B. C. until 25 A. D. The duty of these historians is to write plain accounts of all the events that occur during their tenure ef office. At regular Intervals their completed work is taken, from them and Is locked up in an Iron safe or vault There it remains until the first member of a new dynasty ascends the throne. It is then given with all the other histories hi the vault to the court historian, who is then living, and from the mass of documents he is expected to prepare a truthful history of tbe dynasty which has just expired. The present dynasty has been reigning since 1640 and consequently no court history has been published since that date.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Route aa Pronounced. There are numerous excuses for the pronunciation of the word route, sap a man may hardly go amiss to choose his own style. Down south they say always rowt. In the north, among the educated classes, we hear root. Here also we hear, lower down, especially among the hyphenated Americans, rut. The Irish, even big folk, say rut The original Webster gives the pronunciation as rowt, with an admission of root. We have adopted root because of a French leaning. The word rut, meaning a deep track in a roadway, cut by the rim of a wheel, Is simply A contraction of route and rout. The Century dictionary says root or rowt, preference for root. We also say root ine for routine; why not, therefore, root for route? Ilowtine would sound funny .-"-New York Press. A He Didn't I_.lke Pledges, Judge Martin Orover of Troy, N. T, was at one time ai>;-".-ached by a yonng citizen who wished to be nominated to the state assembly. The shrewd old judge had certain donbts about him, which he expresiv.l somewhat freely, and yet he was willing to afford him a trial. He then-fore addressed the aspirant in this way: "Young man, if you will give me your word that you won't steal when yon get to Albany, I'll see what kin be done abont sendin you there." "Judge Grover," replied the young man, drawing himself up with great dignity, "I go to Albany unpledged or I don't go at all." . The custom of keeping birthdays Is many thousands of years old. Pharaoh's birthday festivities are mentioned In tbe Pentateuch. i |
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