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-A T"UWN COULD STORY How Sylvanus Crabb Escaped Being Tarred and Feathered. NCIDENT OF THE LATE PANIC 'Man Who Always Had Run Down tho Town Met His Waterloo When His Neighbors Determined to Save the Ftactory and Also Enjoy a Joke. . ylvaims Crabb was the town scold 'of Coryville. IIe wa1s 11 native of tle place, but to stranger to whom he talked ever would have suspected the fict. Sylvanus never mistsed a chance to abuse Coryville and everybody and --everything In Coryvllle. "Yes, sir," Mr. Crabb would reiark. -transferring hIs quid of plug tobacco from the right to the left side of his mouth, "this here old town ain't fit for the junk heap. Why, I've lived here, man and boy, for forty-nine .years, and the town's been goin' down -ever sice I can recolleet. Yes, sIr. Coryville's a mighty pore town to live In, but some of us Cn't get out." The stranger to whom Sylvnus con fided these lifelong impressions would sit patiently in his chair Oil the hotel veranda or stand patiently lit the depot awaiting his train. Sometimes he would reply with a question: "Are you in business here, Mr. Crabb?" "Business! I should say not. I don't suix with the people of this here town, I don't. My folks left me the old homestead and some rentin' houses, and I live off the income. But I don't spend my money around here-no, sir! I buy my supplies in bulk right straight from Chicago and get my clothes there, too; send my measure i by niall. When I need any new furniture 1 look It up in a catalogue and send rIght off for it myself. These here Coryville people don't make nothin' off of Syl vanus Crabb-no. sir!" One (lay at stranger of distluguished appearantce enme to Coryville. It wai In the miidst of the late uIpleasantnes: -the financial depression. "Yes, sir," Mr. Crabbi took occasioli to say to the stranger, "thIs towiVs n( good at all. No place for business sir." "I was beg1inning to think so ily self,'" replied the trainger, "from what I have heard from liny represenatitv here." "And whiio 1ill.ht you l'7" luill'e "My wn:v is liwlSsaid thi stranger, *:ind i'in the owner of fx Coryville r!!o funetory. I camle o(10wI hero halt hi ined to clo..41 up the fic tory for goo.1 111rd o.olhhite it witlh -m1y ma1in1 works InI Chienlgo, and what( you have told me about the slowness of Coryvilie has determined me to do so. I than! you." MIr. Cra1hilh stopped In Ils tracks and stared. II v was worr'!ed for two rea sons. One was that t wo or trce young mteni wiho on otheir o~caslins had told Mr. Crnhh tha lit lie wans a1 useles ornam1tlenit to C'oryille hadi~ overhiear'd hIm runnl~ing downl tihe townvi and had heard Mr . Ilinwklns' statement as~ to closIng tihe shoe factor'y, t he one instl tution whieh kept the town from dla integrailti during the panic. TVhe oth er' reasonl for Mr . Cra's") worr~y was that lis four'houses, whleh rented fe:i $15 a mon11th each and supp)lelld his enI tire enshi income, were occunpied by men who would be compelle'd to lea ve towni and1 look ellrwhmere for emplloy . menit when the faictory ilosedl. they be .ing sklill emploityee(s therein and hav' lng no other01 tra~de. -'it's '23' for you,"' remxarked one of' xthe young menbl menQltione4d es lie passed :by Sylvanus. Those youn~g men work ed In the shoe factory. T Ihalt night Sylvaius sat in his home .feeling truly deje'cted. Ills .inal knock at Coryvllle had1( had results disastrous to himself. Blut lie did not broad long In somber ailence. Suddenlly somebody knocked at hIs door. Mr. Cr'abb opened the door and found hmself con fronted * by nearly a hlundred abilebodied men:.. 'They wiore nio masks or any other dis *guises. They were young men from the shoe factory, merchants of the town, lawyers an~d others wvhom Syl 'vanus had been running down for thir* ~ty years. They carried with them a Darge bag of feathers and a pot of. tar, .with a brush stuck in it. The spokcesman was the young mar -who had hissed "23'' atthe town scold. 'This man, after' Syivanus had obeyed the order to come out Into the street :said sternly: '.'ylvanus Crabb, town scold and 'general nuIsance, unless you march .straight to the hotel, call Mr. Hawkine -out, get down on your knees beforo :him andi befoire all of us tell him thatk *Coryv'Ille is the best town on earth :anti plead for hrn to keep his factory 'here we'll tar and feather you and sat every (log In town on you." Sylvanuts had met his Waterloo. 11e walked to the hotel surrounded by the stern faced men, hIs neIghbors with whom he never had neighbored, and, after kneelIng to Mr. Hawkins and makIng his declaratIon and plea In whhning tones, ho was permitted to go home._ Next day the locai paier conitauu an account of the affair and also stated that Mr. IHawkins had deternined not only to leave his facto;y in Coryville, butt t enlarge it. Mr. Crabb also learned from the newspaper story that the committee of public safety had visited Mr. Haw kiis just before waiting upon himself and had induced the factory owner to chatige his mind after telling him t.h life history of the town scold, over whlch lie laughed heartily and long. BURR JOYCE. MURDER OF THE SEAL. The Way the Animals Are Slaughtered by the Hunters. The ice echoes no foot falls, so the murder of the seal is a stealthy act. Yes. it seems like murder. On the p-an lies a wIhitecoat alone. Up to it hur riCes one of the hunters. Lifting his but above his head, hie measures the distance; then. swinging downward the iron shod point, he strikes the skull of the seal such a blow that it Is crushed in as if of inisteboard. Tossing aside the but and whipping out the scalping knife, while the creature Is still quiver ing. with a swift undereut and two or three side stiokes the keen blade has severed tile hide and the layers of fat beneath so they can be rolled luto a pelt, the hide holding the fat in its folds. The next whitecoat is with its parents. Their hide js coarser, but worth having, so the gunner takes a quick alm, lodging a charge of shot in the head of the growling mate just at tile base of the brain.' Here the skull is thinnest. One of the batters stands guard over the blowhole to prevent the mother from escapilg, while an other bats tile cub. Thena the female. who wohuld desert her offspring to save her own life, Is clubbed on the head A fewstrokes of the knives and three more bloody enrentsses erim son the Ice The pelt Of the first seal is piled with the otler three' in a pan; Tlie flagn Stiele a flag by its side, and the hunt ers hurry forward, leaving the pelts to be towed back to the siip when the inunit Is ended. Thus the slaughter continues hour after ho1r untIl nightfall only ends the stroke of the bat and thrust of tic knife. If it began a't daybreak tihe field 1I.ny h~e strewn wvithtll :nse dutd Seils, for if the pan o1' io I.' thronged with them, as is soneilme.. the s-ase. a hundred inen will kill to: 1t1nies thimer numb11er In a d:ay, sne:ir of the sezals are harps. wihl s 2o try to protect thjeirt young. nl a sIin n Ithout attemtlitng to de'femt tlemiisehns.-Day Allen Willey in .let Bunions and Hank. "It IS extraordinarv." writes Sir 1I1.1t ry DJrtmon and Wolff in -''a. ni . ollections." "to obser've it:tghtnd t!n weakn less Ih::t most people h:v'e fo bjoastilig of their l'r'n ds in ii g: p'y 1nd( th, 00e.'erencve thast theyv show tt: the'n. The daugltor f it lady of very IIh! ralrk 11:1-d some patinl In her l'o:a wll'!l the inbth'er asked the gverness to l~e goi.l enoul'. to iod at. Th It ter afier examininig It --aid. 'If it wore not for he" ladyshiljts exalted rank I should say it was ta buntiotn.'"' Saim--What's do matter wit'.l yOut an Chilo' ? Sisan-Ninittet 'nough. Shie insulted mty friend, Mr. .Jaicon, what C'::lied on mue las' night. Sam-I nsult. ed Mir. 'Jackson. did site? Busan Dat's what~khe done. Site asked me whio dat 'ore nocturnul v'isitor was! Ytonkers' Statesmhnt. -A Bold Step. To overcomo the well-grounded and reasonable objections of the more .intel lgent to the use of secret, medicinal coni pounds, Dr. It. V. Pierce, of iiffalo, N. Y., some time ago, decided t'g r15e a bold departure from the usual course pursued by the makers of putt-np medlnoa for do' mestic use, an~ so has published broad cast and o y to the whole world, afulf and .comp e list of all the iigredIents entering ini9he cm pos'ljon ofhis widely celebrated &jdl es. Thus ho has taken his numer a trons end patients jnto his full n nce. Thus too ho -bas ro mnov I edicines from among secret nostr of doubtful merits, and made theni emedes of Knowin Composition. JL~b~bh DL ~fC .ktishoi - ot ony doethe wV apjer of ever;/ bo'tle of rw. P'ierco's Golden Mediceal Ditscovory, the famous mledlclno for weak stomach, pid liver or billousnesn all cat arrh al disoases jladn English, a full and ('c1oe lit of all the ingredIents composing it, but a small book has boon compiled frort n'.merous Standard medieal wor ks. of :.11 the difretront schools of practice. contalining very nlumer eus extracts frem the writings of Ieadiing practitioners of medicine, endorsIng in the atrongest aosible term.. each and every ingro dientt contained in Dr. PIerce's medIcines. One of thoso little books will be malled free to any onto sending address on post al card or by letter, to Dr. 1I. V. Pierce Bluffalo. N. Y., and requesting the sante. f'rom this littlo book it will botleartned that Dr. ierce's nmed icines conttaln no alcohol, narcotics. mIneral agents or other poisonmous or injuirious agen ts and that they are mtade from niativo, medleti nal roots of great value' also that some of the most valuable ingaredients contaitned in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Presc'rlption for weak, nervous, over-worked, "run-down." nervousi and debilitated womtep, were employed, long years ago, by the Indians for similIar ailments Ialredtinig their sqtuaws. In fact, one of the most valunablo medle~nal plants enterlng inte thq comnpositiont of h~r. PIerce's Favorite P'ro scrition was kntown to the Indians as "&J aw-Weed." Otur knowledge of the uses of not a few of ournmost valuable native, mat IdIcinal plants was gaine'd from the IndriansR. As made up by imparovedl and exact pr cesses. the "I- avorito P'rese'rlt tionm is a nm. t efilelent remteudy for reatulatintg all the wo?: anlyv fun-ctions, correc'ting displacemnats. ms prol apsus, anteve.rslon antd retorve'rsit, orcomintr painfual t'eriods, toning up a ns nerves and brInging about a perfect sta'.e of health. Bold by all doalers in edicnes, f WASHING BAY AFLOAT When the Saio- ts .:3 In th iv Turn L ua:!ry;an. A HARD JOB IN LAD WATHEF. Each Man, With His Ftct e.:n Lce Bare, Scrub:: Hi3 Cwn ci:s:3 Ind Gets Then%, Re:dy For in::pcclin. "Jiramy Legs" cnd the "Lucky Ba:." Hlave yon eve. no'Ced how cieva .1:1 'well dressed it rtiior Iad oo: v. e on shore leave, bow whlite 115 eloihe look when yon board the" F':!i on vis iting days? fIut i.1l yo:i ever realize that he was his own wsh1rt1a1? With a shrill. blast of his si!- whis tie the chler hontswnin's tun'i wl:! pipe. "Scrub an1 w::sh clotIh.-: i::d every inn hurries to his butlkiet. j.gets his soiled clothes. snt wa'aer ronp. draws a bucket of briny or fresh wa ter. its the case ma1y be. ai begins his washing. Ie Is generally barefooted lit this time, so that he 11ill not wet his shoes and stocklugs. Ile wepurA his trousers very bell shaped it the )o1tom in order' that he mny roll them nIp over the knee. A fter scrubbing ntud rubbing his clothes until eleIn he turns them Il. side out and with "stols" roceeds to get them ready for hanging tp. These stops are short pieces of twine. twisted and with whipld ei qns. that lihe Ises in liel of clothespils. They are fats toned in eyelets pineed it the site senms and bottom of his shirts and the waistband of his trou0ers. ie turns all hil1 walshedl clothes in1id.e out to prevent the right side getting soiled. They are then hung on aj ine which, says the Youth's Com paln in. is run front the bow to tile topmast or upper top of a lighting innst. The well in formed main now tisuilly puts lis clothes to siak the ight before in a bucket half rnli of water Into which he hats either sprinkled a handful of sonp powder or a small piece of sailt water soap. Inl the uornlg at little rubbing :ndl Iis ltihesU?4 are c!ean aml hun llu , wIEt "ti'e "hilt'Ut er ha Jutst b.eg::ni. Whenthey hvt been thloroughltl dried. ihe chher bio- v:ai atga in pipes "Serub a::d '.: lo:hes' and ever3 ciumi 1 v.. if hii ! 4) secur the~na re~~ena. tinr, thl '.. .. .4: "v .m . g. : .'i: at I~l''. .1 . ima y o ht ht th i 4:n l ' - c'arhi:esa id t t(h t mat . So - b!. m ai !s ti ,41 o::rt : 'omt' es 56)a -l : :o~a .':i:! :at pei t mytion 1... --a .! ." orn t:: .n:1-. ott ier, t et tat ::: rea tne. l. As a rl'C . .!in ny . . who h : chltge. o r th: ll inet li the decks a~tli ways itns extt lmanin pbadion: and oti f10!Ct in mint!. tn i the ma whos r iot!:1 h got I: h:- In l: recivea ao n iny ho1 ' 41 ::1:'n i:ty. h. thienway nei-le:'s ct: e.bt le ::'it ithe ant:e ket icaii naml goea oSn l day mor.g theot c. ii wIheitere i i netion hon to e pil'erortned h havngOid ato oe rnifotm' Tis 11s i(t itil a ofe lot sfithei ' ohtmli toutiit" h r4':his 1in het t111ihoant iltt.1 'the stoiis tilrtien pat ofni ii hesloe iole inl sne na iane tht 1) the n1 nIrnn.Teerlls iitti4'timtbltIktare then ti't iato tah iltithc 'thd stowe ad li : toettd~ ora t': te oie for. t thiwy (lil i ~Olie rs boith hhte nut wh~tie. nye keti en and whtnd aun nihty 4 moritkcmsi the re is g.- thi hadlugnseton onc thu es ai deckt haing onu.~ W illed waminghorm. i ii' iTh airde::5t t;so a)1 ti's outtil4 tous arehi brlanket)g(ttndi hnmmwitk The hnom areofrm part11 of)4 hts ofptii however l.~ re orneigd tonket dheloen tieshimattee and1) tineit wll 1n1' uino te hannck an si e i n l)4i112 lih foretn.: or' umrats shovide fo;'r rihne eied toh stow lathip awa ad vn.s nIt io breaki' ithem ttt~i. wcithti thhi theadlingi mua th t gets thbe m'fear~ toully lira(ty.l'peilytwile tit sip l on lti. Whentt tahere his hammryik nott aior blis lt flnt l thema lek tug bow u tey lore.''lh l~)lii tisunre otw:: ets rond? who tedamo titi for it. Tbhey ley sow their rferit Convalescents need a ment in easily digested I Scott's E mCeIs4 ment-highly concentral It makes bone, blood putting any tax on the ALL DRUGGiSTS: 8 there are Ilstalled washing and drying mnehines which greatly facilitate the laundry work, making It inexcusatble for a sailor to have soiled elothe3. This iaclilne, which dries clothes by centrifugal motion, does the work rap idly aud well. These mnchines, which nre being ndIded to all the new ships. will in tine (io away with all band work. The old farnillhr vight of a long line of Clothes struing front )ow to tunsthend will tio longer be seen, and the boat swaln'n iate will forget bow to pipe, "Serub and wash clothes!" America on Top. Sonie years ago. while on a tout through Ihurope. Sir Ilenry Roscoe paid a visit to Vesuviuts. which was at the time in eruption. lie there met an Aierienn. who spoke lin depreciator.y ternis of the magnificent spectacle. "Well." remarked Sir Henry. "whetz all is said and done, you have nothing like this in Amerlea." "No," replied the other. "but we have a river that would put the whole darned thing out in five minutes." WORKED HIS WAY. The Job an Energetic Student Took to Cross the Atlantic. Jack had Iaid his way always. Out of the poverty of his childhood he had fought his way through the university. Aftur graduation he felt he nmist see Europe, and with the little aceutnula tion he had he "crossed the pond," trusting to good luck to get home again. But, his trip of sightseing over, he found himself in Liverpool without money and with no meirars of getting any. IIe thought he would just go down to the steamship, go oi board and ree how it would seem if only lie were go Ing home. As he wandered over the big liner his attenttion wias alt rte'd by a Cry Ing baby. The niot her was travelin;. alont. 1u while she wis .,1mipting to :we to all the tholsaind anttd ::' de tails iln ident to the bec'g:nniniiug of, all i 1e. -1 rip t e i:i by hail resett d tlt niv.gilectc lit' fI t lite had reevived .. a!:! wn Inr.,u The Inw her wX..s at h.-r i'' Ial .:! 1, h d i n t s -O'y ris k Id h O ,1p : yd im Ia< caaI: "1;e n v; 1n 11he . unby im tiluIn Perhpy 1-i 4 en Iwey bg it 'vo ti l aI lT'.usl o re:.st silt gijni.f-~ u'r iIiand', .izt'n:!. froma ma.'nti strger. Itair t!tli edhe.wth'u iii. ii Is dlo u-td tf,-.nk Jc'-orly i "i whrum a IoI'th you w'illd." he;laki .fu leks it a lrigwas Ic' s tely aIl. fa. torlpy y his Ia;h p, aid when, 'a i - half~ ho.th- e *.inot Ithir itai fitc y 12l rcls erii lti sheat formd')!l a i hayy - t'pt hif ked at Je sa rliep. I - ye InnW.hd ashe os tk tvI(h yoi Sidser bk atillSh ledi toea hn Lhle.iei.t -n guti nd homgin ftor timme.- Yait fo I Cni"ayulo m'n.ioAmei: Iwi aeI f your suffrin fromhewn im8preopodio whi nbcopod nd-n biety nevord. sess, rienthas yeron, you shouldo bei wath on iethAer's no S hsaaila txperlg Sarspai. yuhaeknw Di orlf.u octor Unfs youhre suff rting frte ome puspotare oodhthin blood, d bilit, nervousneess, nasadsexha.aiuhs prvmt ieSarsaparilla u ohav konowns s work. A yer's Pills are lHver pinls. Act gently, all vegetable. Madeby . O Aye Co, Iowell, 3158e. Als anniseuere of IlAiR VIGOR. 2 I 0AGUM CURS. lIIEltRY PECTORAL. We have nto mecrets 1. We pu)1is' large amount of nourish orm. m is powerful nourish. ed. and muscle without digestion. 30. AND $1.00. The Cause of Ivany Sudden Deaths. 1hers Is a disease prevailing in this country mo3t dan grous because Eo decep. tive. Many sudden dcaths are caused by It - h6art disease, pneumonia, hoart -- fallure or apoplexy are often the result of kidney diccase. If t( -i kidey trouble is a: -- -lowed to advahce the kidney-poisoned blood will attack tbs ... vital organs or the idneys thmsrnievcs break down and wasts away cll iby ccll. .DWadder troubles most always result frc n a dorangament of the kidneys and a cure Is obtainod quickest by a proper treatment of tho kidneys. If you are feeling badly you can make no mistake by taking Dr. KI ler's swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver ard bladder remedy. It corrects inability to hold urioanO Ing pain in passing It, and overdor,.. unplea::ant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many timos during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is nocn realized. It stands the highest foi its won derful circ of thi most dLstrcsing cascs. Swamp-Plot is pleasant to take and sold by all druggists in fifty-cent and c:ae-'Iollar sis-,d bottles, You may have a sample bottle of . this wonderful now dis covery and a book that ' - tolls all about At, both In,,mnofwan-prneot. sent free by mail. Addrc:s Dr. Kilrmcr & C,. Binghamton, N. Y. When viriting mentien reading this generous offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. and the address, Binghamton, N. Y.. on svery bottle. A BRILLIANT DISPLAY of reliable ji welry iR hero for v'aur ?,'eap uro and si lct i.i, You wi; Ihink it is holliAIy time when y on e rm to) ita) act it. W Pme renP.1 at l a n to t i'er. -ELE:u ION O' .JEWELRAY. Onr ' miei y of birth. 'ay and other ..tiftl 'a veoi y ha-ge j..s -uiow. 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