The Clarksburg telegram. [volume], April 07, 1893, Image 2

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A BOSTON MAIDEN.
Bh? was a Ho* ton maiden and she'd scarcely
^ passed eighteen.
And a* lovely as a lsourl. hot of grave and sober
mlun;
A iwcct encyclopedia of every kind of lore,
Though lev.? looked coyly from behind tho
glaasos that she wore.
r ? ?
She n;?t beside her lover, with her elbow on bis
knee.
And dreamily *ho gaated upon the slnmb'rlng
lummcrwj,
Until he i.rok'- tho silence, saying: "Pray,
Minerva, dear.
Inform me of the meaning of the Thingness of
the Here.
"1 know you're Ju*t from Concord, where tho
lights of wisdom bo,
Your head crammed full of bunting, lore, with
D^MCphObsopby?
Those hnary-beaded sages sad muds of hosiery
blue?
Then ?olve me tho conundrum, lore, that I hare
pat to your*
She smiled a dreamy smile and said: 'The
^^^Tragnwof the Bere
Is that which tt uot past and hasn't yet arrived,
my dear,
Indeed," th?? maid oontinned, with a calm, un
ruffled brow,
"Tho Thingness of the Here Is just the Thlsnea* j
of the Now."
A stalls Illumined the lover's face, then without j
ragpmiMte'
He slid a manly arm around tho maiden's slon
'M4p/0er walat.
And ou hf r cherry lips Impressed a warm and
loving kiss,
And said: "Love, this Is what I call the Now
ncss of tho This."
?Soraervillo Journal
VE done my
best, mother/*
Farmer Hobbs
said, coming in
hot and tired
from the hay
field. ''That
there dratted
machine won't
work, andef 1 am to save my hay I'll
have to take that Interest money and
buy a new machine."
"I thinlc you'd better not, father,"
Mrs. Hobbs answered in mild alarm.
"I don't know where you're goin'
to get any more, and Johnson is
powerful dost about gettin' the money
on time. I'd be afearcd to let it run
over a minute."
"Well, but Lucindy, the hay is wuth
roore'n the intrust, and you know
they's no.takin' the stock through the
winter without it The cattle might
kinder rub along, but the horses ia jist
plum ableegcd to have their timothy,
and my timothy is as flue a piece as
you over sot eyes on."
"Suppose you try again," Mrs.
Hobbs suggested, helping her husband
to a luscious quarter of raspberry pie.
"I'll go out with you and help unchoke
her, and we'll use plenty of ile and
mebbe you can rub through jest this
onct"
"Well, 1*11 try, Lucindy; I hain't no
hopes, but 1 would like to save that in
trust money."
Mr. llobbs staid in the field till live
o'clock and the hay was cut with few
delays. The gicls brought out the sup
which was eaten with mucV relish
the hay field. The horses being wa
-cd and fed, the work went on by the
big harvest moon, and at 10 o'clock the j
hay from the "big meddcr" was in the I
stacks.
A few days after Jim Johnson came
out to see if the interest money was
ready. He tied his horse under a tree
and started through the meadow to see
Mr. llobbs, who was fcncing his ricks
at the other side.
"Moses and the bullrushes! What's
that?" ho asked, gazing at glinty blue
reflections floating on pools of water
standing everywhere, for it had rained
heavily the night before.
**Oil, and no mistake!" he went on,
after dipping his finger into a puddle
and testing it carefully with his nose.
It was only the day before that the
papers had contained an account of
some new oil fields found not above
twenty miles away; an old partner of
Jim had been the first to invest, and
was consequently fabulously rich.
Johnson carefully rubbed his finger
on his pocket handkerchief, stowed
the latter in a deep pocket and hastened
across the field, his face pale and his
eye glittering very unpleasantly.
He tried to greet the farmer with his
accustomed familiarity, but his words
came by jerks and in gusts, and his
throat became so dry that he could
Bcarcely articulate.
"What's the matter? Hain't you
well?" Mr. llobbs asked, suspending
his work to gaze curiously at his vis
itor. "You look taller-colored as the
dead, an' your eyes is like burnt holes
in a blanket"
"No, thank you, not at all," Johnson
replied at random. "I'm quite well ex
cept husky sore throat?arc you well?
And'the family?"
"Pretty fair?-we've got a good deal
of health mixed up amongst us?you
know they's twelve all told."
"Yes, a large, interesting family
want to. sell the farm?"
He tried tj make the question less
eager, but he could not quiet the tremor
in his voice, and he was in mortal dread
lest Mr. Hobbs should have some reason
to cross the field and see the oil, when
his "c4ke would be dough." as he men
tally expressed it
"No," Mr. llobbs replied shortly,
and went on with his work.
"I'll give you a good price for it?I
want it for a combination shoo factory.
Set a figger."
"Well, twelve thousand?a thousand
apiece." said Mr. Hobbs, jokingly; the
farm was not worth more than a third
of that sum.
"I'll take it (with a gasp). Here's
fifty dollars to bind the bargain and I'll
fill out a check for the balance right
here."
He did so, and handed the paper to
Mr. Hobbs, who kept his countenance
and received it with perfect gravity.
Privately he was convinced that John
son was crazy.
"Come to the house and Bign the eon
tract for the deed."
"AU right"
Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs accompanied
Johnson to town and were thunder
struck when they learned that the sale
was real and that they had twelve
thousand dollar* in the bank.
"Sense that Johnson hain't crazy/'
Hobbs began as soon as he* was'clear
of the tAwn, "why, they's something
in the wind. It may be a shoe factory,
but 1 don't believe it I wonder if
they've found gold?"
"It don't make no sort o' difference
to us, father," Mrs. Hobbs answered,
phe woa atraiil thatliir fraband ml-M
;
take alarm and went to "rue back." as
she expressed IL "No, It don't make a
(Train of Olflereae# to us. an' we've got
enough for the placo ef they find
dimlntv Let'* hay back our six acres
on the edffo of Clorerdale. We can git
it for three thooaand. and then you'll
hare nine thousand to pnt out at in
terest"
"Yes. mother."
As soon as the transfer was made and
the deed* recorded, Johnson sent the
following to his whilom partner:
"Coma on?bring all jour loose cash
?oil in abundance."
The cash was sent with Instructions
to buy adjoining farms on option of
thirty days; the oil man would come
j later ami bring an expert.
The farms were bargained for at
ridiculously low figures and then John
son Inrlted, his friends out to see his
"find."
"I tell you, boys," h* said, as he rode
up and tied bis horsu to the meadow
fence, "the whole earth is just a-soakin'
with it, and It's Just a bnrstln' out of
the ground. You sec this country has
never had nnv oil taken out of It," he
went on, glibly, "and as it Is constantly
generating it lias become so chock full
that the ground can't hold it and it's
compelled to come out. You'd be as
tonished to sea Iiotv It Is actually boil
ing up."
By this time others, having heard the
news, had arrived at the farm, and
quite a crowd had gathered, when the
partner with the expert drove up, fol
lowed by Mr. Ilobbs.
"Just wait till you examine these
blue patches." Johnson snid to ths two
men. after they had alighted from
their buggy. "Now tell me if you ever
saw a stronger indication of oil?"
The expert gave a glancc over the
field, took a quick survey of the for
mation of the country and opened his
lips to speak; but before he could artic
ulate a word Mr. Hobbs broke into the
"A THOUSAND APIECE," SAID MR. Q0BB3.
conversation with a remark that sent
the cold chills down Johnson's spine:
"And is it them blue patches that in
dicate ilo?" he asked, with a glance
half pitying,half contemptuous. "That's
a fact, for I used mor'n two gallon on
my ole mowin* machine a tryin' to get
through tho season without buying a
new one."
"Let this be a lesson to you, sir,"
Baid Johnson's partner.
"All the lesson 1 git out of it," again
put in Mr. ilobbs, "is that when you
are a-cuttin' hay use plenty of ilc."?
Boston Globe.
Hard to Kill.
"An alligator is a hard animal to
kill," says a resident of Jacksonville,
Fla. "I recently went on a trip down
on the St Johns river and saw over
four hundred shots fired from the boat
at them and only one was killed out
right and he was struck in the eye.
His brain was ponetratcd ana he never
moved. It generally requires an alli
gator's own weight in lead before he is
killed. A man ilres at him and he
plunges of! in the mud and then the
hunter imagines that he is dead. But
if he would wait a little while he would
see him rise again and look about as
good as to say: '1 haven't gone any
where; try it again.' Some of the old
rascals ratter like to be fired at They
are used to it and being one of Flori
da's attractions they try to do their
duty by affording amur?iment to the
traveler, while it doesu't hurt them.
There is one alligator a few. miles from
Silver Springs that has been shot at
with pistols, shotguns, rifles and every
other sort of shooting utensil except a
cannon, every day in the year since
the war closed, and he. has never
flinched."?St Louis Globe-Democrat
" ?
Hunmn Ilelng? Are Like Sheep.
Tb*? force of example was illustrated
the- ... lay at a North River ferry.
The door of the waiting-room was
thrown opeu and a young man and a
young woman came in and made straight
for the weighing machine. They were
cheerful and smiling. The young wom
an stenped upon the platform, the
young man dropped a penny in the
slot, and the pointer flew around to in
dicate the young woman's weight The
young man weighed himself, and then
they walked away. Before that the
weighing machine had been idle, but
now one of a group of four men who |
stood near the others followed, and
after him came others in quick sue- 1
cession, and the pointer of the weigh
ing machine was kept flying until the
boat flras heard going into the slip.?
N. Y. Sun.
? "Will you kindly shut that door be
hind you?" "Yes, certainly. I always
da" "Ah, that's just my luck. I al
ways ask those who always do, and
every one I don't ask leaves It wide
open. "-Pick-Mo- Up.
Lucky One Tim..
Mrs. Now Lee Wed?You are a fail
ure, John. You've never had any luck.
Mr. New Lee Wed?Yes, once; 1 waa
born single.?Jury.
A Hard Cm
Clarlbelle?Don't you think Gharlie
Monocle's mind la very weak?
Isabelle?Yes, dear. It can't even
wander.?Puck.
Popular Criminal*.
"I believe policemen are a set o)
thieves."
"So do I. One of them robbed us ot
our cook tho other day."?Life.
Best Grade Cabinet Photographs
well mounted. Artisto Paper, Fine,
Finish?Thompson Bnos., Cor. Pike and
Chestnut.
A. 3. Wells will have you measured
by a practical tailor, (Mr. Haymaker),
(ient s suits Slli to tOO anil 000 of Wana
maker's finest samples to select from.
Go to Lambrecht's when that
watch spring breaks. 14.
Dr. George M. Holt .Dentist,
will be in his Clarksburg office
May 1st, and remain 30
days 86-tf
*500 WILL BE GIVEN
I'or any cone of rheumatism which can
not tw cored l>.v Dr. Druiumoud'n
Lightning Remedy. The proprieton
do not hide Hiih oftVr, but orint it in
U>1<1 tyi><? ou all their circulars, wran
JH-ra, priiiti il matter, and through the
eoJamns of newspapers oyerywliere. It
will work wonders one bottle cnriuL
nearly every can-. If the druggists has
not got it. he will order it, or it will 1?.
sent to any address by prepaid express
on receipt of price, ?5. Drummond
Medicine Co., 48 50 Maiden Lane, New
York, Agent, wanted. 21.3
Gen. E. Kirby Smith, pro
fessor of mathematics in the
University of the South, since
1875, died on last Friday.
For two years his health has
been declining. Two weeks ajco
he was taken sick in New Orleans,
and was confined to his oed for
five or six days. In his dea
the last Confederate Genei
crosses the -chilly river,'
Beauregard having died seyer.
weeks ago.
, PPfSO"" who are subjected to ntt
ofbilious oolic can almost invurialj
tell by their feelings when to esp.-.t,
?MfS- I' Ohamberlain'K colic, bhol,
anddiarrhoea remedy is takeu as*!
^ "ymPlo"? ?PP?r, they can w,
' the disease, Such persons kIk
always keep the remedy ut liand, r
for immediate use when needed
or three done# of it at the right
1 , av.S l,iem '"Ueh "iillerinc.
sale by H. L. Weils, druggist.
"BRACK UP" 'i
Is a tantalizing admonition to 11
who at this season feel all tired'
weak, without appetite and discount
But the way in which Hood's S.ilni
nlla builds up the tired ftameand vi
a good appetite, in really
we ?ay, -Take Hoods ac
you up."
For 11 general familycutliartic wee
nuently recommend Hood's Pills, ,
To those persons who
never stopped to consider
great a country they are living
in these figures may be of inter
est. The mau who fears that he
could not elbow his way around
in the crowded West without
chafing the nap of his coat
sleeves may gather some si
from thestatement that the ei
living population of the g.
1,400,000,000 souls, divided;
families of five persons
could bo located in Texa
family with a house on
acre lot, and there woulc
remain 50,000,000 vacant
lots.
NOW TRY Tina I
It will cost you nothing and will sure
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Mendes, Edgar Fawcett, Fran
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Ambrose Bierce. Anatole France
?!fr" et?'n ,Mary J" Hanker!
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are a few from a long list of dis
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ters of a novel from one of these
great authors.
Talcs from Town Topics tha
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H?fJc nU!,?V0 the excellent
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onginal novel. To secure the
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No one who enjoys the highest
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auaMant with all that pertains
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Tom's Copybook.
Tom An jerry, a student at the Colom
bia collcjre, bluti his copybook when
1 ever hi' attempts to write in it.
| "Is this your copybook?" asked Prof.
Snore, gming utivurely at the blots.
"Yes. sir."
"Well, Thomas, these dark spots in '
your copybook throw a bright light on ,
your slovenly habits."?Texas Sifting*.
Jml thf* same.
Mumina?I Judge from your red face
that you must have had a very hard ?
time walking to the drug store against
the cold wind.
Whitney?Yes, it was very hard work
walking to the store against the wind,
but then it was twice as easy walking
home with it. so it was the same thing !
in the end.?Harper's Young People.
Mrr l.n vt, KxplsliieiJ.
He?If yon did not love me, why did i
you encourage me?
She?I? Encourage you?
He?For two seasons you have ac
cepted every one of my Invitations to
the thentor. etc.
K She?Thut was not because I loved
you; It was because I loved the theater.
-X. Y. Weekly.
" " ??1 ?
.Hletitlmi Ladles.
Miss Maggie Tricket makes a
specially of teaching tho National!
Garment System and dress mak- !
in." ol every description. The i
ladies are cordially invited to call j
at her rooms attheGhapin home,
opposite the Episcopal church
on Main Street. Clarksburg,
Vjjl '58.lv.
! _ I'"sitive Bargains in Men's
ladies', Misses and Children's
Shoes and Rubbers at John T.
Gnllin's. tf.
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Passengers called for in any
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Elegant carriages for weddings,
funerals, &c.
AccidentsUnhearn Of.
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nmn7ca"u''i!,cur" Rev. J.A.Hammond,
i West Union. W. Va.
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nsumption
That dreaded and dreadful disease!
/hat shall stay its ravages? Thousands
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Losses.
Pike Street, .... Clarksburg
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