Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 June 1898 — Page 7

3 HOURS. Ws ten only to stand on the summit of on hour to command an uninterrupted faori-aoa-*L D. Thot-eau. Rising, descending, oh we go Day after day. now fast, bow alow, dThe hours lift and bear us on; Careless we front them, yet each one Is Like a softly rounded hill. On which up-climbing, if we will. We may the shining heavens descry And far bounds of eternity. Too oft we go with down-dropped eyes. Nor mark the soft recurrent rise Of these small summits by the way. Ffom which, so many times a day. Souls* that are wearied and shut In With cares and griefs and doubts may win A breath of freedom as they press Tb meet the next hour’s strain and stress. Dear outlooks! raised by God's own hand For pilgrims through this border-land; The upward way is bard to gain. Breath may be scant and strength be vain. Yet every hour. If brave to bear. Mounting to sunshine and fresh air. Our eyes may see afar unrolled The vision of the Gates of Gold. -Busan Coolldge, in Congregationalist. ! OUR a CLAIMS | By EDITH TUTTLE. .....

"This. Is the forest primeval." /OVERHEAD mighty evergreens, II spruces, fire and hemlocks, lift t^eir branches heavy laden with fringed cushions of mot s. Under foot is a jungle of ferns, huckleberry and sakd brush, vine maple and elder, with occasionally some monarch of the forest lying prostrate, its gigat roots spreading out and throwing up a wall-like barrier of intermingled earth and roots. Four miles through the virgin forest of western Washington, with no trail and with only the surveyor’s blase, an occasional quarter post and & pocket compass to guide you, you would find mot exactly a pleasure jaunt. Bather a rough walk for a woman, you would say. My sister and I were two young women of limited education and no special talents. Our father had left us a little money, and on that we managed to eke out a scanty existence. It was a con- , atantiy recurring question with Us, however, how to make a better livelihood. The papers, at this time, were so full of glowing descriptions of the rich lands, thrown open by the government to settlers, that we began to ask ourselves, "why shouldn’t we take up a oiaim?” Surely in all those acres of timber land and fertile river valley wfre was room for us. We thought about it ami talked it •ver, and as the result of our thinking and talking one day in the middle' of (October we left our home in Seattle and set bravely forth to conquer a portion of the unknown wilderness in the Jpumpitulipo smiley, western Washington. On reaching the riiilroad station •Surest this new country we rode 18 miles over a puncheon road and took a trough pony trail 16 miles, farther to the tittle settlement of lloquiatn. Here our claim locator advised us to go four miles farther, on into the unbroken forest, w here we would find good claims not yet taken up. The people of IIoquiam told us we could not possibly get through It was all a man could do to got through the woods without a trail, ami a woman certainly could not do it. We were determined, however, and nothing daunted, we sallied forth. With bandanna handkerchiefs tied around 'our heads and short skirts of stout blue denim—for we could not bring ourselves to wear overalls as we were advised—we were dressed, not exactly in the latest Paris fashion, but in a style much better suited to our purpose. Intii the depths of the somber forest, hitherto uninvaded by the tread of woman, we plunged, following our locator, who carried a pack containing three small blankets, a frying pan, a knife and fork, a tin plate and cup, some bacon, flour and coffee. The bushes caught us in their unwelcome embrace. Our feet sunk into the moss and ferns and decayed wood. Where the bushes weTe so thick we could not possibly force our way through, our guide cut them away with his ax sufficiently to allow e passage. We climbed windfalls and walked on their tree trunks, looking down sometimes 20 or 30.feet at the jungle below. Occasionally the huge trunk of some prostrate tree barred our way and we bad to cut notches in it to clamber across the incline. We were in a hilly country and scaled almost perpendicular bluffs by climbing to bushes and pulling ourselves up by them. The descent was easier for me-^siid and fell dost).

6 l ne nrst n'gnt «c made camp wc women were of raid of wild animals, so we built two big' fires and got between them while our locator hunted tor water. After our rude supper of coffee, bacon ami camp bread, during which one cup and plate serred for all, we sought the softest spots on the ground, rolled up in our blankets and stretched oursekes out to slumber. The flickering light from the comp fires made the darkness In the shadow of the surrounding trees •till more intense. Straight up overhead a bit of star-studded sky showed ltseif bordered by ttfe tops of the tall, black trees. All around, the dropping of the hemlock needles sounded like the gentle pattering of rain. In the distance could be heard the untiring roar of the ocean. A moss covered log served for a pillow and soon nature asserted herself. Weariness proved stronger than fear nnd we slept as soundly as though we were at home on feather beds. Daring the night it began to rain and we propped up piece* of hemlock bark against a big log and crawled under them. Our roof had many cracks, and occasionally a stream of water poured' down upon us. The “soft spots'* on the ground had disappeared utterly, and by too rearranging of aching bones could tpa discover them. I dug up the ground Mthanfkk to make my bed softer and tgtLOecttged yt making it hnmpier.

The next morning our wet clothe* and stiff, aching bodies made ns feel that our camping out experience was not ideal. The rain continued steady pouring, penetrating and dreary and tiresome we found it as we tore oar stumbling, falling way through the undergrowth, catching our dreses on berry bushes, inadvertently Seising devil's clubs in our hands, overhanging branches slapping our faces. Often we found it easier to roll under logs than to climb over them, and a ludicrous sight enough we presented plastered as we were from head to ■ foot with mud. At last, just at night fall of the second day, we reached a place which suited our location. My sister and I chose adjoining quarter-sections, my claim being mostly marsh land and her’s river bottom. The settlers had told us that river bottom raised the larger crops at first, but was more trouble to clear, and the marsh land, while the crops were not good at first, yielded better returns each year it was cultivated.

we cut aown several trees, ™ncu oar names, on four logs and laid them on each claim in the shape of a square. These were the first of the improvements required by law. I became so enthusiastic that with my own hands, X cut down ten trees as large around as myself. I know how large they were for, having nothing else to measure with, I took off my belt and it exactly fitted those trees. As we looked over that wild forest and thought of it as soon to be our own, homely castles in the air floated before us; forest and jungle and marsh disappeared, and gardens, filled with monstrous cabbages and potatoes and rutabagas, appeared; chickens, a cow, a horse and a little cottage-embowered in roses came before the mind's eye. But these things were all in the future and the stern reality of that rough journey home now lay before us. Two days after that, the people in the little settlement of Hoquiam beheld emerging from the woods a tattered man and two forlorn looking women, bruised and scratched, red rags tied around their heads, their blue skirts hanging in fringes from their wrists —as sorry-looking specimens as you could find in a long day’s journey. We had no trouble in finding the way home j for bits oif red and blue rags decorated the bushes all the way. In six months we returned to hold down our claims. During that time a rough trail bad been made; our claims had been biased out, a little space cleared and a one-room sh^-k built on each of them. We took no pianos nor plate glass mirrors with us. It was all | a pony could do to travel that trail and we were thankful to get the bare neces- j sities of life. Our shanties were only a short distance apart, though hidden from each i other by the trees. There was soon a well-worn trail between them. I had a ditch run through a portion of my land to drain it, and my sister hired a man to clear a small part of the river bottom. We put in crops wherever there was a cleared spot and waited with great j hopes for our gardens to produce. And they did produce, for we had more veg- j etables than we could use. With our own hands we cleared a good deal of land that summer. Once I went around my claim, and a rough trip it was, too. Then I fully un- | derstood what “blazing out” a claim meant. When the survey of the town- , ship is made the surveyor marks the j boundaries with three strokes of the ax : and by canring the name of the township at each corner. The locator of my claim marked the boundaries with one blaze instead of three and carved my ! name on each corner. Take it altogether, it was a Tery pleasant summer. We had plenty of company. Pretty little squirrels and chipmunks came boldly up for scraps, sometimes venturing into the house in search of dainty morsels. Hosts of blue | bottle flies rendered life miserable in j the spring and early summer. Flocks of gaudy, harsh-voiced bluejays mice raids ou our gardens, utterly regard- | less of the formidable scarecrows we erected. Several times when we were salmon berrying a big black bear, rudely disturbed in his feast, lumbered clumsily away into the bushes. Occasionally we heard the whistle of an elk, j the scream of a cougar or the howl of a j timber wolf. None of these animals

e»cr uisiuroeu us, nowerer. ai mgoi skunks, minks and wild cats visited us with alarming regularity, and woe be* tide any uinlucky fowl not safely housed away in the hennery. Two families lived in the settlement four miles away, but the road was too rough for frequent visits. We were not very lonesome, however, for we were busy all the time out in the fresh, pure air. and sometimes a hunter or claim-holder came that way. More than once a settler who had not seen civilization for months came by—just to see a woman again. Yes. it was a very pleasant summer; but summer does not last, and'all too soon winter was upon us with its short, dark days, its long, dreary nights and its steady down-pouring rain. The gloomy, impenetrable forest closed around us like the mighty walls of a great prison wall. As an old rancher said, “the only way to see out was to He down on your back and look up.” When storms came up the crashing of great trees falling all around us made us feel thankful that our clearing was large enough to prevent their reaching Us. Right gladly did we welcome spttng after that long winter—the longest we had ever spent—for that spring brought us neighbors, and at the end of the tire years, when the patents from the government enabled ua to say wo bad homes of oar own. civilzation had so far crept around as that we actually had oae for curling irons and fashion pacers!—Midi*vd Monthly.

imlWIt ' ^ "What’s the matter there?”, mid the fudge to the defendant in the suit, who had fast b-en released from the witness stand, and was rummaging amongst the jury. , 'Tve lost my hat,” replied the defendant, to an injured tone. “Perhaps Mr. H-haa it,” said the defendant’s counsel, indicating the counsel for the other side. “Not I," replied that gentleman, “but I hope to nave his whole suit before we get through.”—Chicago Tribune. r An Indiana Paris*. One of the New Proprietors—Shall we put out a sign: ’This place has changed hands?* The Other New Proprietor — No. It hasn’t changed hands. We hare all the old help, haven t we? Hang out a sign that it has changed heads.—Indianapolis Journal. A REMARKABLE CASE. The following caae was printed originally &The Monitor, a newspaper published at eaford, Ontario. Doubts were raised as to its truthfulness, consequently a close watch was kept on the case for two yean and the original statement has now been completely verified. Mr. Fetch had been a hopeless paralytic for five rears. His case has had wide attention. He was confined to his bed, was bloated almost beyond recognition, ana could not take solid food. Doctors called the disease spinal sclerosis, and all said he could not live. The Canadian Mutual Life Association, after a thorough examination, paid him his total disability claim of fl,600, regarding him as forever incurable. For three yean he lingered in this condi

I 1 \ IV 1 Paid Hit Claim.

tioD. After taking some of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People .there was a slight change, a t e n de ncy to sweat freely. Next came a little feeling in his limbs. This extended, followed

dv a pricking sensation, until at last tne blood began to course freely and vigorously through his body. Soon he was restored to his old time health. A reporter for The Monitor recently called on Mr. Fetch again and was told: “You may say there is no doubt as to mr cure being permanent. I am in better health than when I gave you the first interview and certainly attribute my cure to Dr. Williams’ Pink l*ills for Pale People. “To these pills I owe my release from the living death, and I shall always bleaa the day I was induced to take them." Such is the history of one of the most remarkable eases in modern times. In the face of such testimony, can anyone say that Dr. Williams* Pink Pills are not entitled to the careful consideration of every sufferer^— man. woman or child? Is not the case, in truth, a miracle of modern medicine? These pills are sold by all druggists and are considered by them to be one ofthe most valuable remedial agents known to science. Sot Hereditary. Gottrocks—They tell me your son is becoming quite a poet. I didn’t know the ten-' der passion ran in your family. Biiluns—It don’t run in the family. I think John was left that way by the scarlet fever. The doctor says everybody that has it is always affected some way.—Chicago Evening Kews. From Baby la tbe High Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-0 is good for the whole family. It is the long-desired substitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grain it is a food in itself. Has the taste and appearance of the best coffee at l the price. It is a genuine and scientific article and is come to stay. It makes for health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. The skins of animals were the earliest form of money, so we are told. No doubt a skunk-skin was considered a scent-piece. —L. A. W. Bulletin. Do Yon Know tbe Virtues Of the waters and climate of Eureka Springs, Ark.? Do you want to know? We have a booklet on the subject which is yours for the asking: it is free. Address 8. L. Winchell, General Passenger Agent, Frisco Line, St. Louis. Men of Month. Some men seek dory in the cannon’s mouth, but those wno seek it in their own mouths are in an overwhelming majority.— Boston Transcript. Soothing Synips and other like remedies only lull to quiet and sleep, but Dr. Mof~ y*tt’sTEETHiSA (Teething FowtieH) Aids Digestion, Regulates the Bowels, cures the child and makes teething easy, and for the child’s sake do give them at once. . A woman usually eats a good meal at home mst before going out to dine, in order that tier appetite may not make her impolite.— Atchison Globe. Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle 4 treatise. Dr. Kline. 933 Arch st.. l’hila.. Pa. A good way to avoid trouble is to make op your mind not to be troubled, but that is too much trouble.—Washington (la.) Democrat, *

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mute Clocks. Few great ciUee of America are adequately provided with public docks of such a size and so prominent location as to indicate the time over wide metropolitan districts. But it is high time to check kidney and bladder complaint manifested to the sufferer by inactivity of the organs affected. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters remedies this as it does dyspepsia, rheumatism, constipation, biliousness and nervousness. Industrial Item. Watts—Did you ever think what untold blessings the railroads have conferred on this country? Potts—The only untold blessing I know of in connection with a railroad is a pass.-*-Indianapolis Journal. Dr. Hayes, of Buffalo, N. Y., who is rapidly becoming known all over the civilized world from his ability to cure Asthma so that the sufferer stays cured, says that his success where others fail is due largely to the fact that he declines to use symptom-drugs, which merely suppress the symptoms ana leave the cause of the disease untouched, but employs natural alteratives and tonics, which build up the digestive powers, improve the assimilation of the food, give the patient better blood and more of it, out of v%ich to build up a healthy body; and thus by changing the very type of nutrition and changing the constitution, he removes the cause of the disease and cures to stay cured. This is a very interesting line of thought for those who suffer from Asthma and any who desire to know more about it can get Dr. Hayes’ Thesis with Reports of Cases, entitled “Asthma and Hay-Fever Cured to Stay Cured,” by sending to Dr. Hayes for it. No charge is made for the book. A Half Memory. Teacher—Who discovered America?” Street Gamin (after deep thought)—I disremember his name, but ne was a Dago.— N. Y. Weekly. To Care % Cold la Oao Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails tocure. 25c. Whenever there is more than one wav of doing a thing, the other fellow invariably does the wrong way.—Chicago Daily News.

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Your Liver needs coaxing, not crowding. Dr. Aye r’s PiUs stand without a rival as a reliable medicine for lr *er complaint. They cure constipation, and they cure its consequences, piles, biliousness, indigestion, sick headache, musea, coated tongue, foul breath, bad taste, palpitation, nervousness, irritability, and many other maladies that have their root in constipation. They are a specific for all diseases of the stomach and bowels, and keep the body in a condition of sound health. “I have used Ayer's Pills fo4 the pert thirty yean sad consider them nn invaluable leSuly medicine. I know of no better remedy for liver trembles, and lave always found them a prompt core for dyspepsia.*—Jams Quinn, 90 Middle Street, Hartford, Conn. t T^e Ayer'a Pills

BEWARE OF MORPHINE Mrs. Pinkham’s Urgent Appeal to Suffering Women. "M She Asks Them to Seek Permanent Cures anil Not Mere Temporary Relief From Pain* -« . - Special forms of suffering lead many a woman to acquirp thenar^ phine habit. One of these forms of suffering is a clullt persistent pain in tfcnside, accompanied by heat and throbbing. There is disinclination*

to work, because work only in This is only one sympton troubles; she has others she confide to her physician, for fear an examination, the terror of all sitive, modest women. The physician, her condition, but cannot combat her shrinking terror. He yields to her supplication for something to relieve the pain. He gives her a few morphine tablets, with very grave caution as to their use. . Foolish woman! She thinks morphine will help her right along; she A wise and a generous physician had such a case; he told his patient he could do nothin g for her, as she was too nervous to undergo an examination. In despair, she went to visit a friend. She said to her, “ Don’t give

yourself up; just go to the nearest druggist s A and buy a bottle of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable CompoaadL It will build you up. You will begin to feel better with the first bottle.” She did so, and after the fifth bottle her health was reestablished. Here is her own letter about it:

“I was very miserable; was so weak that could hardly get around the house, could not any work without feeling tired out My montli periods had stopped and 1 was so tired ousall of the time. I was troubled very m falling of the womb and bearing-down p friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pi Vegetable Compound; I have ties, and think it is the best medicine I used. Now I can work, and feel like my I used to be troubled greatly

v but I have had no bid headaches or palpitation of the heart, womb trouble or bearing-down pains, since I com*menced to take Mrs. Pinkham's medicine. I gladly recommend the Vegetable Compound to every suffering v/oman. The use of one bottle will prove wha: it can do.”—Mas Lucy Peasley, Derby*. Center, Vt.

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