Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 December 1894 — Page 7

NNUME RABLE are the ways in which nnex pected marriages do come about,” said old Aunty Smith, addressing the

T HW XU C Ul uvl O the sewing oircle assembled in the clergyman's residence one Friday afternoon— “how they do come about, to be^ire! Seems to be a special Providence in ’em—some times for a blessin’ and sometimes for a cuss.” “Mostly for a cuss,” said Miss Jones, still a spinster at sixty-five. “And two people, or any one of two people, can make a marriage a curse or a blessing, as they choose, after the ring is on,” said Mrs. Brown. “Until that horrid word ‘obey’ is struck out of the service,” began Miss Jones. “I feel sure—” “I don’t see why that should bother you,” cried Aunty Smith. “Aunty Smith is right about one thing,” interrupted the minister's wife in her turn, perhaps to avert the impending squabble. “The most unexpected matches are always being made. Just the people we think ought to come together neyer do; and just the people whose names we never couple, do it for themselves. Now, twenty years ago no one would have fancied that 1 would be Mrs. Calvin Richards. I’m sure I wouldn’t have believed a prophecy to that effect myself.” “Why, I’ve allers said you were sent down from Heaven ticketed for each other—-you’n the dominie,” said Aunt Smith. “If we were,” said Miss Richards, “1 had certainly lost my ticket. 1 was a very lively girl. Aunt Smith. I loved to dance and sing, and enjoy myself generally. I doted on a good play” — here Miss Jones was heard to groan quietly over her back stitching-—“and I had beaux enough with tastes like my own. A clergyman's wife I had often vowed I never would be. And I felt more certain about it than ever whenever my father entertained clergymen. They were, it seemed to me, never young and never handsome. Their very smiles were ^solemn, and they generally had weak lungs.” “Yes, poor dears, that’s very true,’ said Aunty Smith. “About the lungs, I mean.” “1 had a notion,” said Mrs. Richards, “that to be very handsome a man must be a little wicked. The handsomest man I ever saw was a gambler. When I was a little girl, nine or ten years old at most, an old. uncle of mine had said to me once as I stood at the window of his parlor in New York: ‘Emma, did you ever see a gambler? That’s one. His name is Thompson.’ It was as though he had said: ‘Did you ever 6ee Satan?’, I stared with all my might and I have never forgotten the face I saw then. ‘That a gambler?’ said I. *Oh, uncle, it can’t be.’ ‘She knows a handsome man^ when she sees one, already,’ said my uncle. And I always did,” laughed Mrs. Richards. “When I was a girl I looked first at a man’s face and then at his figure, and, it they did not suit me, 1 never asked about his virtues. As for his talents, I don’t believe that either man or woman ever fell in love with talent yet. And yon know,” continued Mrs Richards, “Mr. Richards is not a handsome man.” Aunty Smith remarked, with great truth, that “beauty was only skin deep,” and Mrs Richards went on: “He’s portly now, though, and wears whiskers. He is very much improved indeed, outwardly. Has a will of his own, and shows it. He hasn’t weak lungs at forty-five. But when I first 6aw him he was pale and thin and nervous and had a bad cough. And, though, as pastor of our church, I saw him every Sunday, I forgot him every Monday. Anyone I knew seemed more likely to please me than he did. And when he first began to call on me, I’ve many a time been wicked enough to sena down word that I was out and hida;in the closet; while ma, who had not heara me give the message to the servant, looked for me in all the rooms of the house. ^*The young man I used to run about with most drank himself to death ten years ago; but he had cheeks like peaches then and eyes as blue as a baby’s. And how he could sing! And 1 wenc down on my knees and thanked God, when I heard the news, that it was not I who wept over his grave the

day tney Duriea mm. “But I’m running away from my point Mr. Richards preached to me Sundays and called on me Thursdays and took tea with us over and over again, and my heart never went pitapat once on his account* I began to respect him greatly and to think he „ spoke well in the pulpit and to feel sorry for him somehow, though l couldn’t say why, but nothing more. And Jack Falconer took me out to ride, and Will Hunter rowed me across the river, and young Jefferson sent me bouquets; and all that was enough to put a pale young fellow with a low voioe and no, idea of gallantry and not a bit of impudence in hhn out of any woman's head entirely. “And to crown all, there came upon my birthday—my nineteenth birthday —a present of a watch and chain from my uncle in New York and an invitation to spend the winter with his wife and himself. A gay winter it would be, “1 haamy new watch in the parlor, ‘ showing it to Fanny Peel that Thursday, when he rang the bell—and, as I had my hair in papers, 1 ran away. Fannie took them out for me, and I went down. She would not go in with me. And I found Mr. Richards, paler and more fidgety than usual, waiting for me. I could not help knowing that Jm thought a great deal of me bv this

time, and of course, you^know, a girl must like a man a little for that; but I thought 1 did not like him enough to let him say what I was afra^ he had come to say. Then, too, the congregation was expecting him to marry, and I thought it was rather that he liked me best, than that he loved desperately, as I wanted to be loved. Cool affection may do for some women; it never would for me—never. "So I misunderstood and changed the subject, and all that. And off he went at last, so pale that I felt sorrier than ever for him. And I went to my room and had a cry, 1 didn’t know why. And it was only that night that I remembered my watch. I had left it ou the table in the parlor, bnt it was there no longer; in fact, it was not in the house. We did not suspect Hepsiba, who had lived with us twenty years. There was no one in the house to suspect. But the watch and chain were valuable. The police force of our town consisted of two very old men, and father sent for a New York deteotive to ferret out the theft. He came down at once and felt sure of success. I cried about, my watch a good deal, and cried a little more about poor Mr. Richards, who had received news that his mother was dangerously ill, and had gone, probably, to her deathbed. But tears hurt no one at nineteen, and I was enjoying my tea very thoroughly, when a tap at the door and a ‘May I come in?* announced Mr. Sharp, the detective. ** ‘Success,’ he said, rubbing his hands. ‘Your wateh is found, miss. The thief was ofy for?——, with it loose in his pocket. Nnmb«kza^694; Geneva, full jeweled; enameled iionue; plate marked “Emma, from her uncle.” All correct?’ “I was so glad. ‘Oh, thank you,’ I said. ‘Who is the man, sir?’ “ ‘A regular one,’ said the detective. ‘Slim and genteel, disguised as a clergyman. Says he's going to his mother’s deathbed. Calls himself Rev. Calvin Richards. Says he took it in a fit of abstraction. I say, ma’am, what’s the matter?’ for mother had screamed; and I turned faint and clung to papa. “* ‘It’s our pastor,’ said mamma. ‘It is a mistake. He’s picked it up. He does such things often. Went off with a napkin once from our table. He has a way of picking up things. Where is he?’ “ ‘It’s a bad way,’ said the detective; ‘and he's in jail, ma’am, locked up for the night, and the queen of England couldn’t get him out until morning. If your parson is a kleptomaniac, I can’t waste my time for nothing.’ ‘“I’ll pay you, only get him out,’ cried papa. “ ‘He ain’t a what’s-his-name maniac. He’s abstracted,’ cried mamma. “ ‘He’s abstracted that thefe watch, anyhow,’ said Mr. Sharp ‘And, perhaps it’s an impostor under the name. Wait until morning.’ “We did wait. I did not sleep however. •‘At seven next morning we were off for the jail. They were just bringing a burglar, a beggar, and Rev. Mr. Richards into court “Of course we all knew it was caused by his abstraction. Such fits of it as he used to have, ladies! And the judge made quite a joke of it But I

“I WASTED TOUR ESTEEM 80 MUCH.** he had been in jail all night and his mother might be dead and he not with her. And in a little musty room, where we were left alone a few minutes, he turned to me such a sad, pale face. “ ‘My mortification is extreme. Miss Emma,’ he said. ‘I know you do not believe me a thief, but I must have lost your esteem entirely, * and—I wanted it so much. I—intended to strive for it’ “ ‘You have my esteem, sir,’ I said. ‘You have done nothing to forfeit it* “We looked into each other’s eyes then, and we had never looked just so at each other before. “ *1 have your esteem,’ he repeated, ‘but—I—•’ “ ‘Well?’ I said. “ ‘I wanted more,’ he answered. There was a step coming along the corridor. ‘I wanted your love,* he whispered. “And 1 whispered back: ‘You have it’ “And so he had. I had given it to him somehow in the night, while he lay in prison, and I awake in my own room. “Then the rest were there, and we parted without even a kiss; and he went to his mother’s bedside, but not to see her die, for she came to our wedding six months after—just such a dear old lady as his mother ought to be.”—N. Y. News.

An Important Ueeliton. "How did you come out in the breach-of-promise suit?” "Got a verdict in mp favor.” *‘I thought the young woman had a clear case against you.” “Well, so did I; but the jury held that a man is not responsible for what he says at the seashore.”—Judge. —Many razors have been found in the ruins of Pompeii. They are of different shapes, some resembling knives, others being not unlike the razors of the present day. The barber shops of antiquity were also provided with bottles of perfume and boxes of pomatum

A WOMAN’S HEART. One Disease That Baffles the Physician. Che Story of a Woman Who Suffered for Mine Tears. How She Was Cared. (From the Newark. N. J-, Evening News.) "Valrular disease of the heart has always been considered incurable. The following interview, therefore, will interest the medical profession, since it describes the successful use of a new treatment for this disease. The patient is Mrs. George Archer, of Clifton, N. J., and this publication by the News is the first mention made of the case by any newspaper. All physicians consulted pronounced the patient suffering with valvular disease of the heart, and treated her without the slightest relief. Mrs. Archer said: “I could not walk across the floor; neither could I go upstairs without stopping to let the pain in my chest and left arm cease. I felt an awful constriction about my arm and chest as though I were tied with ropes. Then there was a terrible noise at my right ear, like the labored breathing of some groat animal. I have often turned expecting to see some creature at my side. “Last July,” continued Mrs. Archer, “1 was at Springfield, Mass., visiting, and my mother showed me an account in the Springfield Examiner, telling of the wonderful cures effected by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Mj mother urged me to try the pills and or N ovember 35th last 1 bought a box and hegac taking them, and I have taken them evei since, except for a sh ort interval. The first box did not seem to benefit me, but I persevered, encouraged by the requests of mj relatives. After beginning on the second box, to my wonder, the noise at my right ear ceased entirely. I kept right on and th« distress that I used to feel in my chest and arm gradually disappeared. The blood has returned to my face, lips and oars, which were entirly devoid of color, and I feel well and strong again. “My son, too, had been troubled with gastritis and I induced him to try the Pink Pills, with great benefit. I feel that everybody oiight to know of my wonderful curs and I bless God that I have found something that has given me this great relief.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are now given to the public as an unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all forms of weakness arising from a watery condition ol the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful causes of most every ill that flesh is heir to. These pills are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, all forms of weakness, chronic constipation, bearing down pains, etc., and in the case of men will give speedy relief and effeot a permanent cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. The pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on reooipt of price, (50 cents a box or C boxes for *2.50—they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

A Meat Baby. Fannie is a little girl who has a big' eras doll as a companion. A few day a ago a new sister came to her house andj aft** a few days she went over to a; neighbor’s. “Well, Fannie,” said the lady, “there’s your wax doll?” “Oh,” she answered, turning up her nose, “I don’t have nothing to do with wax babies any more. We’ve got a meat baby at our house now and that takes up all my time.” — Merchant Traveler. A Wonderful Memory. **I always like to see little children. They remind me of the days when 1 was a boy myself,” said Judge Peterby to Miss Elderly, an aged maiden lady. “Can you remember as far back as that?” asked Miss Elderly, very sarcastically. “Yes, indeed. I have a wonderful memory, Miss Elderly. Why, I even; remember seeing you when you were? only eighteen years old,” replied the judge. — Alex Sweet, in Texas Siftings- _ Mot a Secret. He placed his hand upon his heart. “You cannot imagine,” he protested, “what a terrible load I carry and yet give no sign to the world.” She turned away her head. “Believe me,” she faltered, "the worid knows.” A subtle something in the way she raised her handkerchief to her face impelled him to surreptitiously take another clove or two.—Detroit Tribune. Had Tried Them. Little Dot—Mamma read in a paper that a deaf man out west was stung by a swarm of bees, and now he can hear as well as ever. Little Dick—I don’t see how beestings could make a deaf man bear, but I should think they’d make a dumb man speak.—Good News.

aui mn akuubuv* Bessie—Don’t yon tyglieve in anything? Frank—Oh, yes, in pretty girls, for instance. Bessie—Then I suppose you often change your place of worship and keep the same creed.—Detroit Free Press. An Expert Opinion. Mrs. Benedict—Now, what would you do, Mr. De Batch, if you had a baby that cried for the moon? De Batch (grimly)—I’d do the nest best thing for him, madam; I’d make him see stars.—Kate Field’s Washington. Floaty of Company. Bingo—Now that you are living in the country, I should think you would find it lonesome riding back and forth on the train. Witherby—Not at all, old man. I always have a servant girl with me.— Life. _ Duration of life. Young Dr. Freshly—Did you know, Miss 4e Muir, that the duration of a nerve’s life is only sixty days? Miss de Muir—Not yours, doctor, I am sure.—Detroit Free Press. Th« Royal Wardrobe. Returned Missionary—The cannibdl queen was clothed in a little brief authority, and— Mrs. Underdun (eagerly)—How was it trimmed?—Puck. Could Afford It. First Physician—Is this a case that demands a consultation? Second Physician—I think it is. The patient is extremely rich. — N. Y. World

Th« ratlfw of Frettin*. A food many women are more fa* tinned by the work they fail to accomplish than by that they do—that is, they fret and worry over the thousand and one things which demand attention and the hurrying to get through present tasks in order to turn to these others, added to a mental performance which, even though it may never materialise, are as physically exhausting to a nervously organised woman as manual labor. Fortunately there are some women who can see things in their rightful proportions, whose perception of perspectives is accurate and to whom small things do not assume the undue proportions which characterize Japanese art. Such women can separate essentials from non-essentials. They can stand off a little way from the situation and get its general effect or see it as it really is, which is the first and most important step toward an adjustment of themselves to it. But this practical sense of perspective is a thing which most women sadly need to develop, and cultivate. Its application to women's work is no less important than to artistic effort.—Philadelphia Press. —Luther C. Crowell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the author of a new invention in the shape of a wrapping machine for newspapers. Heretofore newspapers have been wrapped by hand. Girls usually do the work, the most expert of them doing up thirty newspapers a minute. This contrivance takes the newspaper and wrapper flat. They are fed together into the machine and come out all ready to be addressed. As they go through, the gummed “tail” of the wrapper is stuck and secured. A wrap per put on in this way will not come off in the mails.

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Hard Work and Indigestion go Hand in Hand. Concentrated thought, continued in, robs the stomach of necessary blood, and this is also true of hard physical labor. When a five horse-power engine is made to do teu horse-power work something is going to break. Very often the hardworked man coming fYom the field or the office will “bolt” his food in a few minutes which will take hours to digest. Then too, many foods are about as useful in the stomach as a keg of nails would be in a fire under a boiler. The ill-used stomach refuses to do its work without the proper stimulus which it gets from the blood and nerves. The nerves are weak and “ ready to break,” because they do not get the nourishment they require from the blood, finally the ill-used brain is morbidly wide awake when the overworked mau attempts to find rest in bed. The application of common sense iu the treatment of the stomach and the whole system brings to the busy man the full enjoyment of life and healthy digestion when he takes Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets to relieve a bilious stomach or after a too hearty meal, and Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to purify, enrich and vitalize the blood. The “ Pellets ” are tiny sugar-coated pills made of highly concentrated vegetable ingredients which relieve the stomach of all offending matters easily and thoroughly. They need only be taken for a short time to enre the biliousness, constipation and slothfulness, or torpor, of the liver; then the “Medical Discovery” should be takeu iu teaspoonful doses to increase the blood and enrich it. It has a peculiar effect upon the lining membranes of the stomach and bowels, toning up and strengthening them for all time. The whole system feels the effect of the pure blood dbursing through the body and the nerves are vitalized and strengthened, not deadened, or put to sleep, as tli£ so-called celery compounds and nerve mixtures do —but refreshed and fed on the food they need for health. If you snffer from indigestion, dyspepsia, nervousness, and any of the ills which come from impure blood and disordered stomach, yon can curt yourself with Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery which can be obtained at any drag store in the country.

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—T he Niagara Falls Power Co. has asked the board of aldermen of Bufalo, N. Y., for permission to erect poles in that city for the purpose of transmitting electric power from Niagara Falls. Overhead construction is proposed, but the company will agree to put its wires under ground whenever all the other light and'power companies in Buffalo shall be ordered to do so. Shoot Folly H it File#, Says the bard. The difficulty is that the folly of some folks don’t flj; it sticks. We cite, as a forcible illustration, the folly of people who keep on dosiug themselves with objectionable ^Iruss . for disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, easily and pleasantly curable with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which not only remedies these, but also restores vigor and strength, and banishes malaria, rheumatism and nervousness. First Si*ort—“And how did the football come out?” Second Sport—“The Rufhers lost the game on a foul.” “How’s that?” “One of their men kicked the ball instead of kicking one of the fellows on the other side.”—Boston Transcript. •5.00 to California Is price of double berth in Tourist Sleeping Car from Kansas City on the famous “Phillips-Rock Island Tourist Excursions.” Through cars on fast trains leave Kansas City Wednesdays via Ft. Worth and El Paso, and Fridays via Scenic Route. Write for particulars to G. D. Bacon, G. A. P. D., 106 N. 4th St., St. Louis, Mo. John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago. Fall stiles—the ones pigs are in.—Philadelphia Record.

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