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No. 3
CLAYTON, DEL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6, 1897.
VOL.' IX
A SIMPLE TIRE REPAIR.
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REV. GEORGE W. RAÉE. Rector op St. Peter's P. E. Church, Smyrna, Del.
Text : —-'lie sent fortha dove from hin."
Gen. 8. 8.
We are met together here to-fiav to
send out the graduating class of the
Smyrna High School into the great, wide
world. And if I have chosen the abeve
text ns the nucleus-thought around
which to gather what I have to say this
morning it is because I think I see in
the sending forth of the dove from tho
nrk a striking parallel to the intention
underlying the ceremonies of this occa
sion'. For yon, my dear young friends,
your graduation is verily a going out of
the dove over the world's flood; for that
hied star, ds in the Bible for gentleness
and inexperience of character aud, with
its silver wings, for a fresh and pure ex
terior. There's nothing so cbnrmiDg to
tho eye in all the world—not Solomon i<.
his glory—not the lily with its white
ness of untrodden snow—nor the silver
wings of the dovo—ns the plumage with
which nature clolhes the yonng, un
worldly, life in the Springtime of its ex
istence. And as" to the" internal traits
symbolized by tho dove, I trust yon
have the dove's gentleness and inexper
ience. I do not like to see old heads on
young shoulders. I do not care for the
boy or tbe girl who has his or her mind
stored with the suspicions aud distrust
and evil snrmisiugs of the aged. You
will, some day, have an experience of
yonr own and the world may beat you
into n harsh-tempered, suspicions,
travelled-stainedaniortunate; but nntil
that day dawns cling to the kind voices
and the pure thoughts and the guiielcss
neis of heart of youth. For believe me
tho hour will often come hereafter when
you will long to push time back iu its
flight and think and feel as yon do to
day, looking wistfully over tbe years at
the shadow-faces of the companions who
Bit now beside you; reaching out yonr
hands to clasp their vanished hands, and
listening for tile sound of voices that
will Ire still. Therefore do not borrow
aoy of tbe evil from yonr nnliyed years;
"sufficient unto the day is the evil there
of."
It is as young, really young, people
that I venture to address you this morn,
ing and to point out to you the signifi
cance of this present gathering and those
■which will take place in the next few
days. I am here partly to congratulate
yon that yon are ready to go ont from
ihe ark of school life. I take for granted
yon have used yonr time and advantages
to the utmost, I take for granted you
have appreciated the efforts of the officers
of yonr school to give you the very best
éducation possible under the curriculum.
I believe they have done their part by
you to fit you for this honr; I ask you
now, have yon done your part by your
selves iu receiving their mstrnction and
in learning bow to tbink? Let me take
this for granted also. Then you are for
tunate indeed iu going out with the
training that will greatly help towards
yonr future success iu your struggle in
tlie arena of life.
These gatherings also mean the saying
gooil-byo to yonr dear school-days' life in
Smyrna and the severing of ties which
liaye grown very strong indeed as you
have matured—ties which now you will
regret to have broken, lam sure. I only
mention the fact; I could not venture to
voice the feelings that fill your minds,
the minds of your teachers and parents
on such an occasion as this. Poets have
endeavored to throw your complex
thoughts into verse and have failed.
Painters have attempted to cast on can
vns the eloqneut pathos incident to tbe
breaking of home ties and ns we have
looked at their pictures we have invari
nbly felt that not half has been told. The
whole eonld not be told in human lan
In order to bave before us all
gunge.
its pathetic charm we must see with our
own eyes one of those scenes in the his
tory of a family when the son or daugh
ter breaks the sacred circle about the
family hoarlli by the former going out
to make his fortune, the latter, to the
sound ot the marriage bells, removing
to another household for life. How lov
ingly they all hang about him or her—
What scores of unpaid tilings are to be
Saul iu the burry of parting—What
seenes of childhood days are being
hastily recalled—What words of anxious
warning and loving counsel are droppiug
from the father's and the mother's lips!
Uow fussily does the old mother busy
herself over those last nothings of pre
paration iu order to hide the tears that
have silently stolen into her eyes and
voice! What a pathetic pretense to in
difference the dear old father affects at
speeding the partrag guest, as thor gh
he would say in callous tones: • riee
how easy it is to say good-bye, to break
tlie sweet home life and a nd the
loved one out upon the flood of time to
God knows where to come hack some
where in the future years God knows
np
how. If I am not mistaken your parents
aud teachers aye aud you yourselves are
passing through some such experience
as this in this transition period of your
career when you are on the eve of your
departure from school to college, from
boyhood and girlhood to manhood aud
womanhood, from the careless and rol
licksome iden that life is all a geat play'
gronud to that other thought that life is
the arena for struggle, for culture, for
winning or loosing a crowu, from the mere
desire to quaff the cap of pleasure, to
that more noble yearning where you
loug for some moments in a weary life
when you may know and feel that yon
have been, yourselves, the fathers aud
the dealers out of some small blessing.
Perhaps it is all for the best,; for who
knows but that the pain you will feel at
the breaking up of schooldays aud the
severing of the present close'bonds of
companionship will drive eonie of you,
perhaps all, to lift up your Siearts iu
humble and wistful adoratic
golden life wberei they n/ye-'
bye.
to tlie
h^noil.
Our services, at this time, mean yet
more. I 6tand here to day to put 1 into
words the anxiety we, who area es
pecially interested, feel about those
whom we are in the act of sending dyt
upon tbe world. We remember tl*t
you, my dear young friends, arejneii^
a divided path ; one fork runs away to
tbe left, wide and gilded and sorrowful ;
the other bears off to the right, narrow,
difficult, peaceful ; the one leads down
into tlie shadows of unnameable terrors;
tbe other winds up on the hillside where
the sun is pouring its light on a smiling
Innd. As you sit here to day we try to
lift the curtain of futurity and see which
of these paths you will take. Is that
your form moving down there pale, bun"
gry, wretched, writhing in the coils Of
regret at a mispeut life? We cannot see
the face ; for the darkness hides it. Is
that you over on the hillside ministering
to the poor, esteemed in the community
for helping on every scheme for the up
lifting and happiness of tbe unfortunate?
We know not; no apocalyptic vision lias
been given ns in which we may behold
what will befall yon hereafter. We can
only wonder and pray.
Another thought troubles us At this
period in yonr life you realize that your
responsibilities are being shifted from
other shoulders to your own. This
should effect a material change in yonr
attitude toward men and things and mil
if yon are wise in your generation,
said that Frederick the Great was seated
at a drinking boot with Ins gay com
panions when word was brought to him
that his father was dead. He rose up in
their midst and exclaimed quite serionsiy
"stop yonr fooling, I am Emperor of
Germany. " If I mistake not, tbe scenes
through which yon are passing now will
bring about some such change as this in
yonr feelings. Heretofore your parentB
and teachers have, in your most import
ant interests, been thinking for you,
watching over yon, picking the stones
out of your path before you reached
them so you would not stumble. Hence
forth yon will be compelled to think,and
watch aud gath r up the stones for your
selves. Heretofore you have been living
under sealed orders as ships sometimes
sail with sealed directions placed in tbe
hands of the captain to be opened far
out on tho voyage. Others have held in
their keeping the reasons for your cor
duct. You have simply obeyed without,
in many cast B, troubling yourselves to
ask wiit. The time has come when yon
must break that seal of heaven's recorded
will to men nnd reason out the mysteries
thrown, in half truths and shadowy
visions, by Nature and God. on tbe path
way along which yon travel to the grave.
"Why do I live?" "What is my place
in tlie great family of humanity?" 'Tor
what were these hands made, this mind
stored with useful knowledge?" "How
shall I work to-day that when tbe night
cometh I may go to the universal slum
ber, not like the galley stave, at night
scourged to his dungeon, but as one that
wraps the drapery of his couch about
him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Yon must, perforce, think it all ont for
yourselves.
It is
ber how easy it is to make mistakes. Do
growing as it rolls nntil it reaches the
We are very anxious for yon at this
poiut for we, drawing on a much larger
fund of experience than yours, remem
you know that the primary meaning of
the Greek word for sin is "mistake," the
missing of a mark. You may not imitate
the example of Frederick the Great at
the proper time aud say to the idle aud
childish sports and companions * "stop
your fooling, I am a man now; I have
grave duties to occupy me henceforth."
You may not face the questions you
ought to ask just now and the error of
judgment will not go on rolling aud
dignity of crimes against yourBelf and
others. If it is easy to make mistakes it it
proportionately difficnlt to recover from
them. Of course recovery ia possible,
thanks to the everlasting arms, yet yon
must pay the penalty inevitably attached
to error, but even then how hard it is to
undo these moral errors and to triumph in
spite of them.
We are not all so fortunate as was
Columbus who fonud his Eldorado in
Bpite of false calculations. There was
but cne thing that saved him and can
save us and that is to have the main un
derlying purpose of our lives light and
true. Then indeed it will frequently
come to pass that in spite of a wrong
judgment and the spirit of procrastina
tiou a stont heart may help us to triumph
over our first mistakes and go on to yio
tory. But this is the exception to thr
rule. The rule is one long regret, one
great struggle to recover and then to
sigh with a certain old man who looking
back over his own career said wearily to
a friend: "It is a sad thing to makes
mistake in life." Therefore we say to
you to-day, begin aright, settle the ques.
tions of life which you ought to settle
now and go oa us the Iieolews did when
they left Egypt, as Columbus did when
he left Spain, with your faces steadfastly
s«t towards an honorable uame at the
setting sun.
(1) SIEZE YODn OPPO RTUNITIE8 AS THEY
pass you.
A legend on one of the walls of the
temple at Delphos read thus: "Know
tliv opportunity. " And the Bard ol
Avon has put the warning in equally
forcible terms :
"There's a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune;
Omitted, all tke voyage cf tboir life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
They ave golden words ; therefore if
you see the chance to make a friend,
take it without fail for friends make
more great men than genius. If you
can lift the life burden from any should
ers of the weary, lift it uff and bear it a
little way on the journey, for you may
help some one of the elect unawares. If
you can place a kind action anywhere
in yonr leach drop it there and pass on,
yon may find it again some day when
you are poor and in need. If a sweet
thought or a gentle feeling comes knock
ing at your door let it in and give it
shelter, to-morrow it may be the one
small star of consolation to shine out
over your own life's night of discourage
ment. If some great truth appears be
fore your mind like a Bethlehem star
and strangely stirs your nature to -its
depths, follow it at once, it may lead
you to the cradle of a new and God-sent
hone of better things,
"If on tliy soul, as thou dost read, a ray of
purer light
Breaks in—oh check it not; give it full scope.
Admitted, it will break the clouds which long
have dimmer! thy sightand lead thee till at
las:
Coi:valions, like tlie sun's meridian beams,
Illuminate thy mind."
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(2). It is equally important to float
into and stay in the swim of the river of
truth and see that no snag twists you
o/jUiJu w u pull of the shore» r.hcvc y eu
will stick to the end of your days while
others are moving on down the stream
of an borable and useful life to the
shoreless sen. What multitudes throng
tbe banks of life on either side watching
the great and good go by. In the lonely
quarry near Baalbec I once saw a gigau
tio block of stone squared and dressed
nearly to completion and seemed to have
been destined for some vast temple, bnt
it lies there to.day, neglected and for
gotten, while the building went up with
out it. It reminded me of the great
temple of truth that is rising out our
midst out of living stones. In this
structure, if there is a uich for you
and there is, for God hath said it—will
you let it pass you by? Shall another
take your place? Will you suffer that
temple to rise to completion without
you and your support? Do not ; for even
now there are too many such blocks of
humanity half chiselled lying all about
us lonely and neglected, abandoned he
cause they would bear no more of the
fashioning essential for the builder's
use. Keceive a warning from these splen
did might-Juive-becns aud take your place
in the world, in society, in literature, in
business, in the Qhurch and, instead of
standing still, catch step and march
along in the throng that is coming from
the east and from the west and from the
north and from the south to sit down
with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in
the kingdom of God.
But do not be discouraged if you baye
found it more difficult than same of
your classmates to reach your gradua
tion, if yon have been forced to born
the midnight oil while they, with en
vious ease, mastered the lessons of tho
hour.
You have a thought to comfort you,
which is, that there is a certain talent
in the reach of every young person quite
as effective iu the practical affairs of
life as smartness: Application. Gun
powder has placed the big man and tbe
small one on the same footing in a dual;
so does application give the dull boy
equal chances for success with the bright
one. I have read that one of the great
est of English divines-Isaac Barrow—
was so stupid in his youth that even his
own father observed aud admitted it- he
must have been dull indeed—often ex
pressing his contempt for bis son. Yet,
when years afterwards, the University
of Cambridge sought for a successor to
the great and brilliant Newton, tlieqoun
dain stupid Isaac Barrow was seleoted
to fill bis place. The one passed before
the world like some splendid comet,
rash- light
while the other began as
and slowly grew into a sun.
In these two illustrious liyes we haye
a striking illustration of the race
genius and application and
both won the crown,
fess that the former has greater tempta
tions than eyer attack tho latter. In the
race of life the smart boy is very much
inclined to run a little ways ahead like
the hare and then sit down to wait for
tho dull boy to catch up. Standing still
is always demoralizing besides the nu
expected so often happens iu life that it
is silly to couut victory until one has tlie
crown on his head. I imagine it is for
this reason and others that so many tal
en ted men fail utterly iu the world. The
fact is patent, whatever the reasons be,
that many of them do fail and are out
stripped in the race by those having no
genius to draw upon,mnst work on every
day and all dayr, plodding slowly but
moving, if they hope to arrive at tht'
goal at i ist.
Again 1 would have you remember Huit
knowledge is power. Whatever occupa
tion you may take up in the future, this
education, this mental training, this
fund ol information, which you have
acquired duriug your school year?, will
help you and make you a stronger man
see how
But we must con
and woman by reason of üb possession.
Che State bas a theory that the best cit
izen is the -educated citizen, the mau
who can grasp the great issues of politi
cal economy aud judge intelligently as
which will best conserve the highest in- !
of the people. And if she has i
committed this power to you it is with j
the in plied understauding that you will
use it in a careful study of the country's
needs and cast your influence at all
times on the side of better laws, of effl
oient office holders and of wiser hand
ling ot publie questions by those in au
thority over you. You may so use this
power thus committed to you in a way
that will be disastrous to yourselves and
to the State or you may moke of it a
great blessing. It may deepen your al
ready preconceived prejudices about
things and people and so mako you in
capable of listening to reason, or it
may give you a larger and better judg
ment of truth than you would otherwise
have. You may use it as a weapon to
dethrone God from yonr heart or through
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it you may staud forth as an able cham
pion of all that is good aud true.
But oh! my dear young friends, do
not forget that you ha<« this power only
in a very small measure. Do not imag
ine yon can lay aside your studies at
this point. You have only begun. There
are fields of thought into which you
have not as yet looked. There are deeps
of literature, of science, of history, of
the intellectual side of Christianity, of
poetry, of art, which lie before you un
sounded. If you hope to keep up with
the times you must go on studying as
long as you live;for there is a new revel"
ation of the phenomena of nature every
decade, which will necessrtate a contin
uous shifting of yonr views to harmou
ize with the uewly discovered facts.
With these few words of advice dis
posed" of, my mind now turns to a differ
ent matter. I have discribed you. young
ladies and gentlemen of the Graduating
Class, !
world ns Noah sent his doves out upon
the flood. The idea uow presses upcu
me to wonder and try to fortell how you
will return to us after you haveobtniued
your freedom and go forth to tbiuk aud
act for and become a law within your
selves. That you will come back in after
years to the scenes of this day, if not in
person at least iu thought, in heart, I
no doubt. Often from the world,
about to be sent out into tile
have
when care and disappointment and
humiliation have been beating like some
fierce tempest upon your heart, you will
look back to this day aud recall these
seenes nnd they will come to yon ove r
the years like some bright, sweet vision
from heaven. I wish to place you, now,
yonder iu the 20th century as old men
aud women with yonr race nearly run
and then I would bring that battered
form and face of yours back here to day
aud place it beside that face of yours
that is looking up at me in all the fresh
no: said purity of youth. What kind
of form and face will they be?
There are three possibilities for you.
(1) 1 MAT HEAD ON THAT WRINKLED COUN
TENANCE, UNR-ST FAILURE, DISAP
POINTMENT, UNREINED PASSION.
The first dove that Noah forced out of
the ark found no rest for-the sole of her
foot. A great Fainter once discovered a
boy on the streut of a certain city with a
face so beautiful, so like a cherub, that
he took the lad m and painted him and
placed the portrait on his wall as the
very embodiment of all that was inno
ceut aud pure. Years went by and the
artist conceived the idea of making a
companion picture to that one, bnt the
latter must be a perfect contrast to the
former. He stood in the streets aud
studied the througs of faces that passed
him but he could never find one that was
debased enough to suit his purpose
Then he visited the streets where crim
inals and outlaws iived but he could uot
get a face as depraved as he desired.
Still bent ou his purpose he one day
called at the cells where the condemned
were kept. And there ho saw nu old
.young man, sensual, haggard, sin-stained
depraved, with not a trace of any virtue
left in his face. He painted this demon
and placed the picture upon the wall
beside the other. A short time after
wards he discovered that they were the
portraits of one and the same man. The
man had come back to himself there
upon the wall of that artist's room to
look wifli his blear, blood-shot,eyes aud
his broken heart upon his own boyhood
aud long in vain that lie might become
a child again. Shall this be tbe fate of
any one of you? God forbid. We pray
God that yon may quit yourselves like
men, living in the world yet avoiding its
evil.
(2) . Ac other possibility is that you may
return os Noah's dove, sent out the sec
ond came back with an olive brauch in
her mouth; the symbol of peace and
earthly prosperity. Yon may make a uame
for yonrseif in some department of life's
activity. You. young men, may strug
gle up to an honorable place in the bus
iness world or in one of the professions.
You, young ladies, may bare the shap
ing of the lives of some good, strong,
talented men or find a vocation for your
selves iu which you may excel. Iu the
past some Smyrna youth have succeeded,
why not-yon in the future?
(3) . Your third possibility is still more
exalted than the others—you may imi
täte the dove which Noah sent forth for
the third time which did not come back
iu person but gave the patriarch the as
surance that tbe dread deluge was gone
and the prisoner might now go out of
the ark with safety. It is a good thing
to go out into tlie world and make your
fortune, my young friends, aud those,
who in after years will rejoice most over
any success you miiy have, will be these
friends of jour youth now clustering
about you to day. But there's one
tbiDg better than the making of your
personal fortune, it is helping on the
fortunes of others; it is so to act out
there iu the world as to iufnse into the
hearts of your nnxions, suspicious, un
certain fellow travellers the conviction
of there being a larger life for them iliau
that they are now living; the assurance
that failli aud hope and charity are r<al
virtues, that houesty is the best policy,
that true happiness consists iu this "to
do justly, and to love mercy and to walk
humbly with thy God " When iu the
great hereafter you shall meet again at
the feet of God, bearing down the gifts
which the world has bestowed udoo you,
that one of you will be accounted tlie
greatest and will receive the sweetest
benediction from the throne, wLo bears
in his hand, not the gold of Arabia nor
the jewels of Golconda, bnt the evidence
that he hag been generous after his
power, forgiving to those who injured
him, gentle in his judgment of human
infirmities, that he has retained hisfaith
in God in the midst of an unbelieving
and wiped some tears off of some
faces of those who mourn.
CA.STOH.IA.,
The fae
zimfio
eigaatore
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Id conclusion, it only remains for me
to say bow ardently I wish you prosper
ous and righteous lives; a safe journey
^through the wilderness from Egypt to
Canaan; the realization of all the high
aims, the good intentions, the soaring
ambitions,
which fill and thrill jour youthful hearts,
In order to accomplish this you must
observe as yön go. See how evil ap
proaches you Under many fotms. Bee
how stealthily God draws near to watch
and bless yon. Choose well the core
panions with whom you will associate,
"Walk circumspectly, not as fools.'
Take the Bible with you in your hands
and God with you in yonr thoughts and
Uj
heaven sent dreams
your brethren v*th you in your hearts.
Remember that you will pass this way
but once and so be Christlikc as you go.
And success will surely meet you in a
larger and belter way than you ever
dreamed possible. Luke Joseph you will
look down from a tlironenpon aconquered
world at last, wondering, subdued, rich
iu heart, with his wise, true words on
your lips: "Yo thought evil against me
but God meant it unto good. "
PARSONS' TWO FEATS.
A HARD STROKE AND A REMARKABLE
RIDE DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
Cat a Man'» Head Off With a Saber—Rode
Two Hundred Miles In eighteen Hours.
Other Instances of Decapitation In Bat
tie.
It is claimed by authorities on the art
sf war that the greatest blow of the
campaign between Greeco and Turkey
was struck by Colonel Mahmoud Bey,
who with one swift stroke of his sword
completely severed a Greek officer's
head from his body. These same author
ities generously admit that this trick
may have been quite common in ancient
times, when stalwart men swung heavy
battleaxes, but they agree that it is
practically unknown in modern war
fare.
History is silent on the subject. There
is not a plethora of literature bearing
on its accomplishment. The original of
all such stories is, of course, ' 'The Ad
ventures of Jack the Giant Killer,"
which, for obvious reasons, does not
help the subject. Scott describes a sim
ilar episode iu "The Talisman," but
the best decapitation story, from an
artistic point of view, is fonnd iu the
memoirs of Captain John Smith. The
doughty captain vouches for the veracity
of the details, though that is no good
reason why we should not use the cus
tomary pinch of salt. According to his
trnthfnl chronicle, he overcame in tour
nament the three champions of the
Turkish army, decapitating each one
with a single blow of his heavy sword.
A writer who is evidently informed
on the subject claims that Mahmoud
Bey could not have accomplished the
feat of decapitation with an ordinary
saber and asserts that the Turk's yata
ghan was "leaded" with quicksilver.
The yataghan, be explains, is a short
sword, shaped something like a butcher's
cleaver, with an
running along
point. This tuba! carries a charge of
quicksilver. When, the sw ord is laid up
right, this quicksilver rests at the hilt.
As a blow is strua'c tho liquid metal is
hurled down tbufprooved channel, lend
ing deadly rjjjticnal weight to the
blow.
The assc rtidisp. ade that
sole instance «""■ 'n® kind in the history
of 100 years Is not borne ont by facts.
The same feat was performed during
tho civil war, pot with a "loaded" yata
ghan, bnt with an ordinary United
States army si{ber. The man who wield
ed the sword in this episode, Colonel E.
Bloss Parsons, died recently in Roches
ter. Colonel Parsons was one of the
wealthiest and best known men in New
York state, and though be had never
related the story tho details were found
among his private papers after his death.
The incident was illustrated and de
scribed in Harper's Weekly at the time.
It was in 1864. Colonel Parsons, who
was noted as a horseman, was attached
to General Sheridan 'b staff. While rcc
onnoiteriug one day with a squad of
troopers under General Davis they were
surprised by a detachment of Confeder
ate cavalry. A pitched battle ensued,
and Parsons, who was in tho rear, saw
a rebel officer level a revolver at Gen
eral Davis' head. Jabbing tho spurs in
to his horse, he swung his saber above
his head, ami, dashing by just as the
officer fired, lie made a terrific full
arm sweep. The Confederate's head
leaped from tho shoulders as swiftly as
if it had been severed by a guillotine.
Tho feat is more remarkable when it is
considered that Parsons was a slim,
beardless fellow of 21. In comparison
Mahmoud Ivy's single slash with his
yataghan loses much of its importance.
Colonel Parsons was brevetted gener
al for distinguished services during the
war, bnt characteristic modesty forbade
the nse of that title when he returned
to civilian life. Not only did he per
form the only autheutio feat of decapi
tation during the civil war, but he was
the hero cf a remarkable ride. A few
days before the battle cf Gettysburg
was fought General Meade had an im
portant message to send to General
Harding, 10O miles distant. As the
route was through a country swarming
with rebels, the message was written
on tissue paper, that it might he swal
lowed in case the carrier was captured.
The commander was in doubt regarding
a suitable messenger. He summoned
General Davis to headquarters.
"General, who is the hardest rider,
as well as tha most trustworthy man, iu
the service?" asked Meado.
"Colonel Parsons, sir," was the
prompt reply.
"Send him to me at once. "
It was 6 o'clock on a Monday night
when General Meade gave the yonng
officer his Instructions. He was to ride
with all baste to General Harding's
headquarters and retnm at onco with
^patently hollow tube
e back from hilt to
this is the
an answer.
The messenger retired. Two hundred
miles wero to be covered. The roads
were heavy, and they led through the
enemy 's country.
Exactly at noon on the following day
Colonel 1'arsous entered General
Meade's tent. The latter's face grew
purple witli rage, and he ripped out a
string of oaths. '
"Is this the way you obey orders?"
he thundered. _ " What are yon hanging
around camp for? You ought to be with
General Harding by this time."
"I have jnst returned from General
Harding, sir."
"Yon lie!" exclaimed the exasperated
general.
Parson's face paled, and he dug tho
nails in his hands to restrain himself.
"Geueral Meade, " he said in a voice
that ill - concealed his auger, "if you
were uot my oommuudiug officer, I
would knock you down for that insult. "
Without the formality of a salute he
turned ou his heel and left the tent.
Meade afterward made an ample apol
ogy.
Colonel Parsons killed two horses aud
went himself without a particle of food.
For 18 hours he was not ont of the sad
dle.—Chicago Times-Herald.
Quotation, sir, is a good thing. There
is a community of mind in it. Classical
quotation is the parole of literary men
all over the world.—Johnson.
CASTOHIA.
Tie fae
Is
every
vr&ppez.
A SIMPLE TIRE REPAIR.
Punctures in the well known Mor
gan & Wright tire are mended about
as easily as a man would close a hole
in his finger with a bit of court plas
ter. Inside of the inner tube of the
tire lies a long strip of patching rub
ber, like this :
me
to
By injecting M. & W. quick-repair
cement through the puncture into this
inner tube, aud then pressing down
on the tire with tHe thumb, like this,
a
on
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the repair -.trip inside is picked up by
the cement, thus closing the puncture,
like this:
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Very simple, but—now every rider
.should remember these two "buts," or
he will fail :
Be
injecting* cement, pump up
If you don't, the inner tube
the t
will Pc flabby, like this,
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and the cement will not get inside of
it, where the repair strip lies.
When you have a puncture, get right
off. Riding a tire flat, when it has
tack or nail in it, may damage it con
siderably.
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PRAYERS THE LITTLE CHILDREN SAY
The prayers the little children say- -
They are not fine of speech,
But they hold deeper mystery
Than any tome could teach,
And they reach farther up to heaven
Than wiser praye
The angels laugh to hear each day
The prayers the little children say.
The pray
No toiling angel brings.
They pass right through the shining ray
Tliat searches selfish tilings.
(They are so little that they slip
Between the guarding wings. )
Aud God says, ''Hush and give them way!'
Tho prayers the little children say.
The prayers the little children say—
Ah, if we knew the samel
For ours, so vise and gaunt and gray,
Walk wearily and lame,
And by tke time they come to God
They have forgot his name.
Would
The prayers the littlo children say !
—Post Wheeler in Now York Prcs3.
rt-ru-h.
the little chldrcn say
may some-time learn to pray
TROUBLE FOR HIS HONESTY.
to
The Negative Reward of Virtue In tin
Windy City by the Luke.
"A qneer thing happened to me,''
said Bailey, lighting a fresh cigar. "It
was only one of those incidents of streel
travel that might happen to any one,
but vuroy ing from t'je
put upon it. "
"Let's hear it, " said the other fel
lows, making themselves comfortable.
"I was riding on tho electric," sait
Bailey, "aud iu tho seat opposite was
pretty girl. "
"Ob, you consider yonrseif a judge?"
remarked one of the crowd.
"I certainly do, and I let her set
that I appreciated her good looks. Bnt
my admiration made no impression.
The young woman busied herself in get
ting her fare ready, and I watched her
as sho deftly extracted a dime from her
pocketbook and held it on tho palm of
pretty hand, ready for the conductor."
"Yon were hit hard, Bailey."
"Then I thought mo of my own fare,
and as I was bolding a newspaper in
my hand I roso nnd dived down into my
pocket for a nickel. The conductor came
along and I handed it to him jnst as
lay vis-a-vis said:
" 'What has become of my 10 cents?'
"There she sat staring at her hand,
which was no longer occupied by the
piece of silver. We all looked for it.
but it had disappeared, and she found a
nickel with which sho paid her fare. At
that moment I slipped my band into
my overcoat pocket and found there the
10 cent piece.
"How could you identify it?" asked
one of tho boys.
"I never carry money in an outside
pocket. Besides it had not been there a
moment before. No, I knew how it hap
pened. My paper had whisked it from
her hand, and it had dropped from it
to my pocket, as I explained to her. "
"Was she surprised? What did she
say?"
"Boys, I can't tell you all sho said.
Please don't ask me. She remarked
that no one could judge by appearances,
and sho hoped it was my first beginning
iu a life of crime; that if I had been
hardened I would not have returned it
to her, bnt that probably I saw that
she suspected me, and a lot more, while
the fellows in the other seats were guy
ing me. But you can bet yonr bottom
dollar I never find uny woman's money
and return it to her again. Not much,
Mary Ann."—Chicago Times-Herald.
A Press Built by Franklin.
"I onee worked a printing press that
was built and operated for u long while
by Ben Franklin, " said Colonel Charles
Gonter. "The machine was quite a
primitive affair, but it answered the
purpose. I was then a boy in Lancaster,
Pa., aud was learning the printer's
trade in tbe office of the Lancaster
Union. ' John W. Forney, who made
such a success of the Philadelphia Press,
was a 'prentice with me, and we took
turns working tho old Franklin press.
It was made entirely of wood except for
a marble slab that answered the pur
pose of a ted. On this slab the forms
of type were placed, aud they would
have to be inked with a long, clumsy
roller before each impression.
"One day Forney would wield the
roller, aud the next day it fell my turn
to smear on tbe ink. We could print
about Û0 or 7S sheets an hour. The work
was laborious, hut we performed it
cheerfully because of (ho knowledge
that Beu Frauklin had doue the very
same work on the press many a day be
fore we were born. James Buchanan
used to come in occasionally aud en
courage us at our task and predict a
brilliant career for -both of us if we
stuck to the trade we wero then learn
ing.
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"
"This was way back iu 1841, aud
I'm a young man yet. Events that are
crowded into the years since then con
tain the history of the building of one
of tho most powerful nations the world
has every known, and the processions of
men that have passed in review since
then call for the pen of another Plutarch
to portray, and that cramped, rickety
little Franklin press that John W. For
ney and I used to work played a big
part in the making of the 1 : a 1 1 oil and
the making of the processions of men.
Still X am not old."—St. Louis Repub
lic. , -
Ostentation has been described as tbe
way ither people "show off."—Town
and j&ountry Journal.
DêWitt's Colic & Cholera Cure.
quickly cures Dysentery and Dl«rrb(M< _a
STUART, THE PAINTER.
üurktos Hits Born of HI« Faculty For
Hearting Faces.
"I don't want people to look at my
pictures and say how beautiful 'the dra
pery is. The face is what I care about, "
laidStnart, the great American painter.
ÎP was once asked what he considered
the most characteristic feature of the
face. He replied by pressing the end of
his pencil against the tip of his nose,
listorting it oddly.
His faculty at reading physiognomy
sometimes made curious hits There
was a person in Newport celebrated for
tiis powers of calculation, bnt in other
respeots almost an idiot. One day
Ituart, being in the British museum,
■ame upon a bust whoso like uess was
ipparently unmistakable. Calling the
•nrator, ho said, 'I see yon have a head
if 'Calculating Jemmy. ' "
''Calculating Jemmy I"' repeated
the curator in amazement "That is
she head of Sir Isaac Newton. "
On another occasion, while dining
with the Duke of Northumberland, his
host privily called his attention to a
gentleman and asked the painter if he
knew him. Stnart had never seen him
before.
"Tell me what sort cf a man ha is."
"I may speak frankly?"
"By all means. "
"Well, if the Almighty ever wrote a
legible hand he is the greatest rascal
that ever disgraced society. "
It appeared that the man was an at
torney who had been detected in sundry
dishonorable acts. -
Stuart's daughter tells a pretty story
of her father's garret, where many of
his unfinished pictures were stored:
" The garret was my playground, and
a beautiful sketch of Mme. Bonaparte
was the idol that I worshiped. At last
I got possession of colors and an old
panel and fell to wort copying the pic
ture. Suddenly I heard a frightful roar
iug sound. The kitchen chimney was on
fire. Presently my father appeared, to
sec if the fire was likely to do any dam
age. He saw that I looked very foolish
at being canght at snch presumptuous
employment and pretended not to see
me. But presently he could not resist
looking over my shoulder. •
" 'Why, boy,' said he—so he used to
address me—'you must not mix your
colors with turpentine. Yon most have
some oil.' "
It is pleasant to add that the little
girl who thus found her inspiration
eventually became a portrait painter of
merit.—Youth's Companion.
FOR AN OCEAN VOYAGE.
Take Only Half the Clothes You Think
Will Need.
' 'Take only half the clothing that you
think yon will need for an ocean voy
age nnd do not attempt to have a small
trunk in yonr stateroom," writes Em
ma M. Hooper in The Ladies' Home
Journal. "Have in yonr largest shawl
strap a traveling rug, heavy wrap—a
golf cape is excellent—snu umbrella,
rubbers, small cushion to tie on the
back of yonr deck chair, a warm dress
of plain design, and a flannel wrapper
to nse as a nightgown. Wear a chamois
pocket well secured with a tape about
the waist for your letter of credit, jew
elry, money, etc.
"In a large traveling bag place a
change of underwear, hose, bedroom
slippers and needed toilet articles, with
which include a small hot water bag,
bottle of salts, vaseline, box of cathar
tic pills aud bottle of camphor. Do not
folget a coauertuble iclotL f-tc.w: 1 *-w.'.p
and a gauze veil if you are afraid of a
little sunburn. Wear a jacket salt of
mixed cheviot or serge and a silk waist
on board. After starting put cu the old
er gown and lounge in it until yon laud,
when it can be given to a stewardess.
Some travelers try to dress for dinner
aud carry a steamer trnuk filled with
silk waists end fancy neckwear, but for
an eight day journey this is poor taste
and a lot of trouble. Others buve the
small trunk in tho cabin, and before
lauding pack the things in it that are to
be used only on the return voyage, and
send it to the ship company's offico un
til their return. It mnst be remembered
that 33 pounds of baggage is the aver
age weight allowed free on the conti
nent Warm wraps and woolen under
wear are necessary at all seasons going
açross the Atlantic. "
Friendship In Kentucky.
When Judge Pendleton grows reminis
cent, he is always interesting, aud when
Mr. Henry Tompkins walked iu he said:
"Mr. Tompkins, your cousin, Lonis
Garth, was the only bully I ever saw
who was a brave man. He was the most
overbearing mau I ever saw. He was in
a poker game in camp with Lieutenant
Forrest, a brother of General N. B. For
rest, and he called Forrest a liar. For
rest pulled his pistol, a double barreled
Weapon, aud, placing it to Garth's
breast, ho palled tbe trigger. The car
tridge failed to fire, and Garth spat out
a chew of tobacco aud without moving
a muscle said*, "Lieutenant, yon had
better try the other barrel." Forrest
pnt his weapon up aud said, "Garth,
you are a brave mau, and I will uot
shoot a brave man. " They were insep
arable friends forever afterward.—
Owensboro Inquirer.
The Spear.
In old days, when the spear was used
as a weapon of war, meu had to bo very
careful bow they carried it. If in a
strange country they boro their spears
point forward, it was taken as a decla
ration of war, while if they carried
them ou their shoulders with the point
backward they were treated as friends.
It is my creed that a man has no
claim upon his iYllow creatures beyhud
bread and water and a grave, unless he
can win it by his own strength or skill.
—Hawthorne.
Let him who neglects to raise the
fallen fear lest when he falls no one
will stretch out his hand to lift him
np.—Saadi.
Wonderful Forethought.
The habit of companies which insure
against accidents to compel tbeiri pa
trons to resort to tho courts to recover
in case of injury was the occasion of
this singular thoughtfulness; told by the
president of a largo accident company:
"Some time ago," he said, "a large
policy holder in my company was roil
over by a Brooklyn trolley car and bis
right leg painfully crushed,
mained conscious after the shock for
three minutes, during which time ho
palled out his watch and called the at
tention of the crowd to tho fact that it
was just 15 minutes cf 12. His policy
expired at noon, aud his foresight was
rewarded by tho immediate payment of
bis weekly indemnity without coutro
versy or litigation. "—Youth's Compan
ion.
Ho re
A paper published in Greenland can
| boast of tbo longest uame in existence
j j t j s Arrangagliotio Nati
; ßysaramlnas Siuik.
Escaping the Organ Grinders.
Resido close to a dentist's if yon are
not fond of street music. Itinerant or
gan meu carefully avoid playing any
where near tbe houso of a practitioner
Who can effectually stop or remove all
troublesome grinders.—London Punch.
ginnarï'i
Senators and presidents have dits
! so high with pain enough, uot"l5eca
they found the places especially agreo
able, bnt to vindicate 4hëir manhood in
| onr eyes.—Emerson. \
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Is essential to
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its quality the condition of every organ de
pends. Good blood means strong nerves,
good digestion, robust health. Impure
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tism, catarrh or other diseases. The surest
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the elements of health and strength to
every nerve, organ and tissue. It creates
a good appetite, gives refreshing sleep
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Bl od
m
Hoods
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This remedy beinj; in
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change of «lief. Can
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Beware of counterfeits and imitations. The gen
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And Chains, Ladies
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And, Charms, Ladies
Gents.
Yes; in large numbers.
and
and
And Clocks. Our space too
small to sliow them.
In fact, larger stock of ev
erything in Jewelry and Sil
verware than ever before.
Pens, Pencils and Tooth
Picks.
Nose Glasses and Spectacles.
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Has reputation for repairing Clocks,
Watches ami Jewelry iu ail expert aud
satisfactoraliy manner at low prices.
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Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book
All who are interested in farthering the sale
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immediately with the
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1S ICCODJT Of ns
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THE RJSUITS 0? TH
CAMPAIGN OP 1896.
A B1RÏW OF TIB
POLITICAL SITUATION
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W A!*532
noanced his intention of devoting one-half of all
royalties to fart liering the cease of bimetal! isnu
There are already indioationa of an enormous sale.
Address W. B. CO*KEY COMPANY, Publisher«
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#5.00 up
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Solid Gold Glasses Reduced from <3 00
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IN CLtAYTON.
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Tobaccos, Confectionery, 4c.
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also a fine lot of
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