Important Advi‘ce.
It is surprising how many peo-
ple wake up in the morningnear-
ly as tired as when they went to
bed, a disagreeable taste in their
mouth, the lips sticky, and the,
breath ofl'ensioe, with a coated
tongue. These are nature’s first
warnings of Dyspepsia and Liver- Dis-
orders, but if the U. 5. Army&' Navy
Tablets are resorted to at this
stage they will restore the system
to a healthy condition. A few
doses will do more for a weak or
sour stomach and Constipation than
a prolonged course of any other .
medicine.
If you can not get them at
your drug store, send 10c. for
a package of 12 to the U. S.
ARMY & NAVY TABLET Co., 17
EAST 14TH $13., New YORK.
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DECEMBER 4, 1898.
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FOR NEW YORK — Accommodation
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5.35, (local), 7.20, (loca1)10. 10 p. m. E)
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Accommodation trains at 6.28, 7.42,
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WEEKLY - N
l Saved by the Sexton
By A. A. Smith. -
...W rin‘ten for this paper.
Author’s Note: “Saved by the Sexton"
is a story based upon facts, which were
widely exploited by the newspapers at the
time. For obvious reasons fictitious names
of the parties to the grews-ome adventure
are used. and the name of the city near
which it occurred is purposely omitted.
Newspaper readers with retentive mem-
oxvles, however. will be able to recall both
the parties to what may aptly be termed
a. providentla‘l crime, and the locality in
which it occunred. The lady who owed so
for eight years afterward and became the
mother of two healthy children, but the
guilty sexton did not long survive the
shock resulting from his ghoulish night’s
work.
T WAS by no means a tenement house
picture upon which the sexton gazed
as he stepped across his own threshold.
The room was small and poorly fun
nishcd. but it did not present the gaunt
aspect of poverty in thelowest degree.
There were four rooms in the little ,
house and they contained all thees- .
sentials for comfortable living, even
though the carpets were made of rags
and the scant furniture was worn and
faded. The most dismal feature of the
place was the discontented face of the
woman who was facing'him in the low
rocker.
“What makes you so late, Thomas?”
she asked, fretfully. '
“I had to finish digging the Whitnell
grave,” the man replied. “The fu-
neral’s to-morrow, 31131 there’s a lot to
do. Three' dollars is not such a bad
day's work for us, is it, Mary?"
“Bad,” she repeated, turning weeril‘y '
away. “It’s all been bad ever since I
could remember. What, an aspiring
man you are, Thomas, to talk about a
beggarly day's work as if you had foamd
a fortune."
Sexton Williams only sighed as he
went in to his supper. Long experi—
ence had taught him the futility of try-
ing to dispel the fretful melancholy of
» his wife.
“The same old bill of fare agahi.”
sighed the querulous woman opposite
him. “‘Who wouldn’t get tired of the
same old things over and over again?
I do wish we could live like somebody
for awhile, just. for the novelty ofit."
“Why don’t you talk?" she demand-
ed, as Thomas ate his supper in silent
constraint. “One would think it was
gloomy enough without. bringing your
graveyard manners into the house. I
suppose the Whitnells will make a.
swell affair of their funeral to—mor-
row?”
“Indeed they will,” responded her
husband, brightening with thet-hough-t
of having something of interest to im-
part to his wife. “She is to 'be buried
in her wedding clothes. There‘s an ele-
gant necklace and some pearls, and—-
diamonds.”
“Diamonds!” exclaimed the wife.
“The idea of putting them into the
ground. It’s a. shame.”
“Worse than the barbarians,” replied
the sexton, “but she requested it, and
the mourners seem more anxious than
anything that the corpse shall present
a striking appearance. The under-
taker said it would be done, 8.111 I saw
her laid out in them myself.” ,
“Oh, dearl” fairly groaned‘ the wom-
on. “And all (that shameful waste
while I can’t have as much as apair of
new curtains to replace these wretched
rags. If I were a man I’d—I’d rob that
grave before those jewelsdshonld‘be put
to such a shameful use.” .
II.
It was a night well suited to the
work of ghouls. The wind came in
great “fives, shrieking at the height
'billowy clouds were swept across the
sky, while a driving mist would break
as a. great storm cloud was swept
along. In the grewsomc churchyard.
through the rain and darkness, the
' light of a lantern played fantastically I
about a. new-made grave. Bending m
heaps of rain—soaked earth his eyes
shot fearful glances into the weird and
ominous night. To his guilty senses
the voices of offended spirits of the
dead, and from out the rain and dark-
ness he could see in fancy the accusing ‘
menace of ghostly hands. Great drops
- of perspiration fell from his face and
mingled with the rain trickling in riv-u-
lets down his rubber coat. He trem-
bled like an aspen; his knees were
weak from superstitious dread, and yet-
with‘flogged resolution he applied him-
self to his ghoulish task.
“Curse the rain,” he muttered,
straightening up and resting for a
moment. “But it’s a. lucky touch. bio
danger of interference on such a night
as this. Mary’ll get her curtainsall
right enough.” ,
For an hour he tossed aside the sticky
'clay, and then his task grew easier.
The grave sheltered him somewhat
from the wind, and the earth became
less rain-soaked and heavy. Another
hour and his spade dcraped upon the
cover of the box inclosing the casket.
He carefully scraped away the remain-
ing clods and threw them out, and then
as he prepared to remove the cover
the, unspeakable terrors of his task
swept over him again. With choking
breath he stood up and peered over the
edge of the grave he had desecratcd,
his tortured fancy halting between the
terrors of the churchyard and the aw-
ful proximity of the thing beneath his
feet.
“The first time; the first time,” he
muttered, striving to regain his com-
posure. “And Twouldn’t do it now,
. only it kinder seems as if I owed it to
Mary. And she”—he glanced shudder-
ingly down at the box beneath his feet.
“She doesn’t need them any more, and
it was wicked to bury them with her.”
_ . ing at his door.
at intervals into a sudden dash of rain .
Contmlling'himself with a. great ef-
fort, he completed his grewsome work.
V ' Standing close against one side of the
grave, he lifted the cover of the box j
from beneath his feet and threw it out
upon the pile of earth. Then, kneeling 7
upon the lower part of the casket, he
quickly removed the screws from the
upper lid and threw it, too, outside of t
the grave. The sexton had reached the §
climax of his task. Before him in the
dim light of his lantern lay the uncov-
ered face of the dead woman, white and
? mild in the rQose of death. In the mo—
ment of e greatest tension the sexton
grew a tie calmer. He lifted the
dainty hand and sought to pull the pre-
h t th (1 1 Ivsi ,1 cious jewel, frdm the finger. It would
mm o e eSecrat on Of W grave l ' not yield to his effort, and he lifted the
woman’s head and removed a. costly
locket and a string of pearls. Then he
returned to the sparkling ring upon her
finger.
It would not yield. He tried again
and again, and as he worked all the
wild fancies of the night rushed over
him again until he was on the point of
fleeing bout the grave without the
jewel. Then with sudden resolution he
took a knife from his pocket, intend-
ing to amputate the fingen. He pressed
the keen blade upon her finger, and
t‘hen— .
Throughout the city of the dead there
echoed one awful, frenzied scream,
then another and another. Froin the
.desecra-ted grave cut leaped the sexton,
like a fiend escaped from torment, and,
dashing down his lantern, be rushed
away from that fearful..plaee as though
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all the wild fancies of his guilty brain
had taken form and were rushing-in
pursuit.
III.
Twelve o’clock found Mr. Wh-itne'll
pacingrestlessly up and down the par-
lor of his lonely mansion. He could not
sleep, and his own room contained so
many reminders of his departed wife
that he could betterendure the parlor,
w re he had last seen her radiant with
health and happiness.
The stroke of one echoed drearily
through the house, and still the grief-
stricken man paced up and down. For
another hour he wrestled with the mem—
cries of his wedded life, and then ex-
hausted nature warned him that he
must seek repose. He turned sorrow-
fully to leave the room, when, quick,
clear and distinct, above the goo-ring of
the storm, he heard the-summbnsof the
doorbell.
Mr. 'Whitnell was not a man to beep-
pressed by superstitious fears. He de-
spised such weakness in others, yet now
a nameless dread swept over him. He
went to the window and peered into
, the night. Dcspi'te his self-command,
of its fury like a. soul in torment, then ' '
dying away in a sighing breeze. Great Q
he almost-cried outeloud, for in thefan-
tactic glare of the eleetric light he be-
held a ghQStly,white-robed figure stand-
For a moment the
firmly-grounded beliefs of a. lifetime
. "were swept away, and Mr. Whitncll was
.. , thrilled with the superstitions fancies
where marble shafts gleamed weirdly .
be despised. Then a shriek echoing
through the house recalled him to his
senses. A,servant~'had opened the door
I and seen the ghostlike' figure and then
the soggy clay was the figure of a. man. .
With desperate energy he plied the ’
spade, and as he threw aside the little -
fled, crying that the spirit of his mis-
tress was standing at the door. Mr.
VVhitnelPS quick brain grasping at a
' suggestion of the truth, he ran down.
, and caught in his arms the cold, wet,
. _ . trembling, yet living, form of his res-
the howling of the Wind seemed like :
urr-ected wife.
* IV.
In the evening papers of that day the
marvelous story was told, needing no
coloring of imagination to make it more
sensational. They told how Mrs. Whit-
nell had been awakened from a. cata-
lcptic trance by the pressure of a knife
upon her finger; how she had sat up
with every sense awakened to feel the
cold, damp walls of the grave about
her; how, with those awful screams
ringing in her ears, she awoke to a
realization of the truth, filling her with
a terror scarcely less great than the sex-
ton’s; and how, with returning reason,
she had climbed out of her grave and
made her way through the storm to
her own home. Graphically they de-
,scribed the appearance of the graves
which hundreds visited—the heap of
earth, with the spade and lantern ly-
ing upon it, and the casket lid and cover
of the box. They pictured the joy of
the reunited family, but in it all there
was no definite mention of the shat-
tered, half-crazed sexton, whose mind
would never recover from the terrors
of that night’s work. Powerful influ-
ences from a grateful, reunitedfamily
had been at work, and the papers con-
- mined only the statement that. while
the would-be grave robber was known.
the happy ending of his ghoulish at-
tempt had not only saved him from
prosecution. but had broughthim sub-
stantial reWard.
'licctrlclty. In Glass Making-
Electricity has been applied to the
manufacture of glass. A pot of “batch"
loan the thus melted in 15 minutes the?
formerly required 30 hours.
t) H w
7 crack.
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We: fiend §Qfihk§ 3,1 V14.- -‘
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TRIMMING THE ,COMBS.
It [I Not a Painful Operation for the
Birds, Considering the 'Com-
fort It Assures.
The drawbacks of large combs and
,wattles are freezing in our northern
states and the diseomforts and strain
resulting from carrying so much
weight on the head. It' appears as
though the circulation of blood in the
head is somewhat affected by these
excessive appendages, for it has been
observed Shat a. Leghorn having fre-
quent spells of giddiness and stagger-
ing can sometimes be quickly and per-
- manently cured by trimming the comb,
and We would always recommend the
trimming of both comb and wattles
for both sexes when two-thirds grown,
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LEGHORNS WITH CO'MBSCUT.
especially in view of freezing when
zero weather occurs. Use shears or
scissors ipsteod of a knife-so as to pinch
the blood vessels and mitigate .the
flow of blood. 1
The operation is not so painful. as
might appear, we will state for the
benefit. of the. Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals. Nature evi~
d‘ently provided that the comb and wat-
tles should be comparatively destitute
of feeling. As during the thousands
and thousands of years the males
fought for the possession. of the females
and the combs and wattles were the
parts seized upon in the struggle a. lack
of sensitiveness in these appendages
would be perpetuated and augmented
on the principal of natural selection:
So indifierent is a‘fowl that after be-
ing dubbed it will unconcernedl'y fall
to eating its own comb and wat-tles if
allowed the privilege. This dullness
or fewness of nerves of feeling in the
comb, when understood, may alleviate
the pangs felt by many persons atthe
mention of what has been wrongly
called a cruel practice. It is easier
for a fowl to stand dubbing than to
endure a frozen comb—H. H. Stod-
dard, in Farm and Home.
PRESERVING EGGS.
Directions (or the Use of Water Glass
Furnished by Prof. Lndd, of
North Dakota College. . ;
Prof. Ladd, of N art-h Dakota College
of Agriculture, in bulletin No. 35, gives
the following directions for the use of
water glass in keeping eggs. Water
glass is silicate of soda. or silicate of
potash, the former being cheaper. It
is not expensive. ‘
If wooden kegs or barrels are to be
used in which to pac'k the eggs, they
should first be thoroughly scolded with
boiling water to sweeten and purify
them. .
To each ten quarts of water, which
should first be boiled and then cooled,
add one quart of water glass. Pack
the eggs in the vessel and pour solution
over them, covering well. ‘
Keep the eggs in a cool, dark place.
A dry, cool cellar is a good place.
If the eggs .are‘ kept in too warm a:
place the silicate is deposited and the.-
cggs are not properly protected. Do
not wash the eggs before packing, for.
by so doing you injure their keeping
quality. _
For packing use only perfectly fresh
eggs, for stale eggs will not be saved
and may prove harmful to others.
All packed eggs coutain a little gas,
and in boiling such eggs they will
This may be prevented by:
making a pin hole-in the. blunt end of
the egg. To do this hold the egg in the
' hand, place the point of. a pin against
the shell of the egg at the blunt end, and
give the pin a quick, sharp blow, just,
enough to drive the pin through the
shell without further injury to the egg.
How to Get Top Prices.
To get the advantage of full market
prices for eggs nothing is more im-
portant than the style of the cases and
:acking. Of course size and cicanness»
are very important considerations, but
the first thing that strikes the eye of a.
purchaser is the exterior quality. I
notice many lots of eggs, especially
from the south, which come into the
stores in all sorts of cases—scarcely
two alike, and none of them neat and1
trim. These goods are generally con-
demned before they are looked at and
can only be sold at a concession, no
matter how good the eggs may be.
Shippers may accept it as a fact that
while all eggs in first-class packages
may not sell at top prices, no eggs in
second. or third class packages will do
so.—~N. Y. Produce Review»
Keep the chhonse Dry.
Build the poultry house so it will be
dry at all times. It is easy enough to
have a poultry house that is dry in the
middle of summer, but that is just the
time when the fowls are in it least
and are least affected by its condition.
But in the winter, when they must re-
main indoors for days at atime, is when
‘the fowls need to have a place that is
not favorable to the increase of disease
germs. Wet and dirty houses are often
the beginning of epidemics of roup and
othervequally fatal diseases.——-Farmer’s
Review. .
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