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They answered me: “We are alone;
V‘ Foreacb ofJusisvery far
From all heroism-s seen by thee;
Our beams no messengers can be
Of what we feel or what we are.
“And cold, unfeeling space devours
The final warmth of every' ray.“ .
I said: "I know what ye would say,
For ye are like these souls of ours. ‘ ' "
“For they, like you, with friendly light
Their sisters seems to warm and bless,
Y ct in eternal loneliness
They burn in silence und in night.“
—-From the French of Prudbomme.
A WITCH BEWITCHED.’
V A water lily fell at Mona’ s bare feet. She
know quite well what it meant. She knew
whose boat was coming around the bend
in the river, but she did not stir nor look
up. She was leaning against the old oak
tree at the water’s edge, and idly picking
topieces a spray of' goldenrod. The sun- ,
beams sifted through the tree and flickered
over the dusky head, slipped down past the
lowered lashes, and kissed the dimples on
The oars in the water
Lindores were home for a short while lifter
a year of absence, and Aileen was
once more in the home of her childhood.
With tears of delight her mother 'and
Menu greeted the trawler, her father sur-
vsyed her with complacent pride and up
moral; to them she was more beautiful
than ever.
house” would soon be empty again and
cottages had been erected, new barns and
buildings; the wide estate had been re
fenced and improved. And now all would
be quiet till winter, when it was expected
merry crewd- of guests, and the logs would
blaze on the heartbs, making Christmas
cheer.
My lord and lady, alike beloved by their:
people, had been planning some amuse
ment for them as an appropriate and wel-
come wind up of the work. The wide new
barn seemed particularly adapted for the
purpose, and Lord Lindores announced
that here he would give a dance and boun-
tiful supper.
Mona slipped down to the 11v er in glee
at the good news Aileen had just brought
to her. She swung herself up to a limb
ceased their regular plush and the boat
that reached half way over the water, and
The month drew to a close. The "big .
silent. The days had been busy ones; new .'
that the mansion would be filled with a ‘
and could get no further. f‘She will not
help me now. I am too bad, too bad at
an H
She thought how unkindly she had ul-
ways treated Gerald. She had laughed
then to herself.
"Och, wirra. wirra, ” she ejaculated. And
now Aileen had taken him. It was Aileen's
fault, not Gerald's. How could she do it.
how could she?
And wear his kercblef—the prettiest girl
in Kiigarnock—those were his words, and
now she knew what he had meant. Oh,
~ why had not Aileen staid away! And
now Gerald was gone from her entirely.
Slowly she made up her mind that she
‘ would be brave. No one, not Aileen nor
Gerald, should ever know the truth. Ger-
ald should never know she was sorry now,
and so he would be happy. She murmured
.him a farewell in soft Irish words, “Ger
ald, aroon ma Gerald.”
l The slow tears trickled down ber cheeks
and gleamed upon the grass like diamonds.
The moonlight lay over the prestrate fig-
ure in broken patches. Gently the breeze
lifted and let fall again each dark ring of
silky hair curling over her head and down
to the white neck that shone all the whiter.
The moon reached the middle of her jew-
eled course. The nightingale sang, all on
asleep.
9 eflect of age on them; about the quali-
ties of papers, and the appearance of sur-
faces. He tells how erasures are made by
decomposing inks, or by scraping. He
points out where the paper is thin. He
illustrates, by demonstration, bow altera-
tions might be made. He describes styles
and peculiarities of handwriting, strokes
and curves of the pen, the slants, and
heights, and spreads, and spaces of writ-
ing. He has enlarged photographic copies
of the questioned Writing, and makes eom‘
parisons or contrasts. He has a vbesbu-
lary of technical terms about writing, and
be delivers the most emphatic opinions for
the side that employs him. Two hand-
Writing experts are frequently opposed to
each other.
Handwriting experts testified for many
hours in the celebrated case of the colomd
cadet Whittaker at West Point to prove
V that Whittaker did and did not 'write‘cer-
tain letters. Several" years ago, in atrial
in this city, the genuineness of a signature
of the assistant treasurer of the United
States, Mr. Cisco, was questioned. An'ex-
pert on the witness stand professed to be
able to pick out Mr. Cisoo’s signature. To
test him papers were handed to him beau
ing the writing of Mr. Cisco’s name. The
witness picked out one that he was positive .
«Should love, It In The House.
Dropped
sent on receipt of three cents in stamps to
pay postage by A. ll. Dixon d: 8011, 337
and 339 West King street, Toronto, Can-
ada. i—(y’hmtfcn Advocate '
Bufl'erers from, Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the above.
I HAvs ALWAYS PAID Run-r for a ”house
to live' In
11 cottage with money which, before I used
Sulphur Bitters‘ 111 my family, was paid to
the doctor and the druggist. They cured
my wife of femu‘ e weakness. -—W. F.
Sampson. Salem; Mass.
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glided up to where she stood. l scrambled recklessly out upon it; till the conscious of the silent grief beneath him. Was the signature of Mr. Cisco, but the EM”, cum-ran atom,
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side 1 “Gerald!” she called eagerly down the a dark shadow; in very weariness and did not write that one, and that it was " gum-3}“... “m“ °' “'3‘“ row Wine" ”“81 BE 30'.” “'1'"-
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me? Why did ye come?"
Mona drops the last scrap of flowers and
looks at him.
“Is it that you think I have come here to .
you?”sbe laughs. “Gerald, sure ye don’t
“And why not?” he says, in an injured
way. “I told ye Sunday-I was goin’ to the
Shallows; didn’t I ask ye thin to come 1
down?”
“Perhaps,” she says; “I have forgot. I
came down to pick the cross; ’tis busy lam. " i'
So she flashes one glance at him and l
picks 11p her basket, as yet empty
“Cress! Why, Mona,” he says, “come,
get ye into the host. This cress is not half
so lush as some a bit further. Come on,” i
he urges.
Mona hesitates and swings the basket up
and down. Back across the green slope of
land she looks, across the stile and just
beyond the hill, where a faint film of smoke
creeps up curling from the little chimney 1
barely visible. ,
Gerald follows her gaze. “Come, Mona.”
he says. “They won’t miss ye. ”
“W'ell,” she says slowly, "well.” in
reality she is longing to go, but of course l
it would not do 1.: let him see it. “Ye
needn’t help me. I c...1 get in.” ,
Lightly he dips his oars, and they glide l
1
down the river. Mona laughs.
“They will be after me soon,” she says. ;
“Aunt Mollie will be a—callin’ me, but she
i trousers.
won’t know; will she, Gerald?"
“No, colleen,” answers Gerald in delight
at the smiling face she turns to him. He
rests his cars in the oarlocks and lets the
“Mona, ” he says, bending toward her; ‘
“Mona, listen”—
“'An’ won’t I catch it. too?” she says with ‘
a peal of laughter, as though catching it 5
would be a festive occasion.
“Here’s the place; yes,'Gerald?”
“Yes,” he answered moodily.
I’ll get the stuff; ye neednlt move. ”
She catches hold of the bending branch
of willow and draws the boat close in
shore. One small bare foot swings back
and forth in the water as she balances her} j
self on the prow and bums softly to her
self. She knows heisangry, she guesses
what he had started to say to beramo—
ment ago; but what does she care for that?
The lips are demure and serious as she
thanks him,.but the violet eyes are laugh- '
111g.
“Gerald,” she says when the oars com-
menced to move, “Aileen’s here.”
“Aileen?” '
“Yes. She has the chance to see us now
while Lady Lindorcs is at home. She is
still my lady’s maid, ye know, Aileen is,
and it’s myself would like to bein her
place.”
“Mona! Ye would like to go away from
—Kilgarnock?”
“Yes,” she cries, “surely.”
The boat’s keel ran up to the landing
place. She jumped out and then turned
away with the basket in her hand. One
“Wait,
“An’ would ye care, Gerald?”
“Faith, ’tis not the likes of me she would ,
be afther plasin’,” he said‘to himself as he
watched the little figure flip up the green- -
sword and over the stile.
He forgot about the fishing expedition be
had planned. He leaned back in the boat
and fell to thinking. All the Witches in
the world are not y of suppressed; there are
still some few left to tangle up the senses 1
of a man and leave him m bewilderment. l
The Vwitch' 1n Kilgarnock must have taken .
up hex abode' 1n Mona Carey’s small head. i
To torment the lads of the village, to be-l
, gu 11c and capture each unsuspecting heart, f
Were accom'plishments' 1n which long prac- i
tice had made her perfect. .There seemed]
such a sunshiny atmosphere always around
her that it made her as dangerous as she'
was lovable and winning. Vl
Unlucky Gerald! All her life he had
known her, even back to the time when'
she had begun to talk in broken baby |
. phrases.
Although he was years older than she, l
Mona treated him in the same careless,
laughing way in which she did all the
other suitors. And though not one of
them could beast of any especial mark of
favor, yet each one believed himself to be
ahead' in the race-each one except Gerald
Shearn. Daily hequestioned himself, tried
tounderstand her; “but no,” he thought
bitterly, “it’s an omadhaun I am. She
laughs at me. ”
With all the love of his passionate Irish '
nature he loved the maid, worshiped pretty
Mona, who would look at him so roguishly'
from under long lashes and would not lis-
ten. And now he heard her voice calling:
“Lightfoot, Lightfoot, come up, come,
up; come to me. accushlal” and- the tinkle
of the cowbell echoed back. again. He-
pictured her sitting on the little stool and l
. milking the cow; he knew how she would
dock-who. had often: watched.- .her.:
sleeves of her frock would be pushed up
_ over. her round arm; the dark rings of her .,
hair would lie loosely over her head and
M again: the'- dull dun- of the cow’s’;7
iiibdel-z He imagined me cenld hear. her talk-“l
sand cooing,‘ to .old Lightfoot, who
V V seemed to him so unappreciative. . .
'He remembered Aileen. She" and Mont
TheV'
He was not in sight, but she thought he
would probably be just around the bend
fishing. In one moment the familiar faded
red boat came swinging around.
“Come here, Gerald, jist as quick as ye
can!” she calls, quivering with excitement
and splashing the water below with impa-
tient heels.
“Comin’,” he answers: “Shure, Mona,
what' is it? Is the cow after dying? Or the
pigs stole? Tell it, colleen. ”
“The cow!" she says, her eyes dancing:
“oh, Gerald, it’s me feet I can’t kape sthill
l long enough to spake wid me tongue. The
dance we’ re goin’ to have in the new barn
to-morrow night, ye didn’t know that
now? I have come jist to tell ye uv it. ”
“And is that all?” says Gerald as he rests
his cars and looks at her surprised. “An'
I thought, Mona, ye bad a thing to tell,
and afeard the news. A big bite I lost,
too, for wbin ye called so fast I didn’t bide
to finish.”
“Well, ain ’t ye glad now, Gerald, for me
V to tell you?”
“Faith 1111’ I knew that same already. It
was no news to me, Mona. ”
Mona’ 5 red lips pouted.
“Go back thin, Gerald, to your fishin’;
' ’tis not for me to bother ye.”
Gerald surveyed her with an odd expres-
; siou on his face.
“Look, Mona,” he said, drawings little
bundle from the pocket of his corduroy
“See what I am goin’ to ask the
purtiest gurrl in Kilgarnock to wear to-
morrow night. ” And be carefully unrolled
a wide pink silk handkerchief and held it
up for Mona.’ s inspection. The little maid
clasped her hands' in admiration. She had
nothing like it, and never doubted that it
was intended for her.
-“ ’Tis beautiful, shure, Gerald. ” .
He Icraned his neck around to one sideV
to behold the kerchief from her point of
view.
“Yes, ” he said calmly, and then folded
it' up very carefully in its tissue wrap
pings, and put the bundle back into his
pocket.
“Good-by, Mona,” he called, bending
‘ over his cars again.
She did not answer, but stated rather
blankly at the little boat till it disap
pearcd.
“lndade, thin, I don‘t care if it’s not for
me. I wouldn’t. have it,” shaking her
head and speaking emphatically. “I
wouldn’t have it at all, at all.”
She climbed off her perch alittle more
: slowly than she had mounted it, and be.
A bird in ;
the tree caught the notes and burst intcj
gap to sing a gay little carol.
responsive song. Mona ceased suddenly.
“Oh, hush, ye bird!” she cried, impa
i tience in her voice, and then as she turned
to go deliberately pushed a helpless little
5 frog into the water.
When the next evening came the barn
was full of life and laughter.
with 11m uncle and aunt entered the little
yard gate the plank- -plinkety—plank of the
g 1 iolins came floating out to them, mingled !
5 with the shuffling of many feet.
"Ob, make haste!” she whispered to her
self, and could not keep her feet in the
sober step that suited her aunt’s calm step. .
The lanterns hung down from the door
way and windows, wide flags floated from '
the roof, and streamers and folds of bunt-
ing swept across the walls and ceiling in-
side.
. Mona had spent an hour about the adorn
ment of her small person, but she need not
have lingered. There were many feet bars
besides her own, many other dresses old
besides hers. Around her neck was a string
of yellow beads, and a yellow sash ol
Aileen’ 3 around her waist.
They pushed their way to a seat. and’
Aunt Mollie fanned herself vigorously.
Mena gazed around with interest. There
was Mollie Stewart, and there was Maggie
Tully and Annie Kavanagh. All these
girls, as well as the lads, were on hand
but where was Aileen? She had said 8th
was coming. Mona looked in one direc‘
tion and then another, and at last there sat
Aileen close to a window, and nearby stood
Gerald, gazing at her. Mona turned a lit
tle pale. She did not see Patsy and Barney
and Farron edging up to her; she never
even thought of any of them. In her eag
erness to make no mistake she stood up on
tiptoe to see the better. Yes, it was Aileen.
and now Gerald was leading her out to
dance. The pink silk kerohief was round
her neck. Something seemed to shoot across
Mona’s' eyes with a blinding pain. When
Barney begged. her to dance she answered
a little sharply, and he went away again.
“Itistoo warm here, aunt, just now, "V
she said to Mrs. Kelly.
“Go stand in the cool a while, child, ”.
said her aunt. “There’s Aileen coming
over here; hide a bit. ”
But Mona was 'gone. Not under the
treesdid she stop, not by the little gate.
Swiftly she ”precedent: the side way, over
the dusky road and into her 9“.
Here she pausedumoment and
1161' breath with something showed
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The bird at last hushed his sweet treble
and flew away. He had heard a hasty step
over the grass. But Mona heard not, saw
not. Somebody came down to the river
bank almost on a run, and stopped short
at sight of the little figure lying there so
motionless. He knelt down beside her.
Withaquick eye Gerald noted the tear
stained cheek, the parted lips, whence came
a long drawn sobbing breath.
Without aword be gathered her up in
his arms, asleep as she was, but Mona
stirred and then started from him wide
awake.
“I—you—oh. Gerald!”
I “They are all abunt for ye,” be an
swered. “Ye have scared the heart av me.
An’ why did ye come down here?”
“Don’t,” she whispered, trying to re-
member ber resolution. “I will go back
now.” She- stood‘ up and then swayed a
little, dizzily.
“Mona, mavourneeni” said Gerald, hold-
ing her close.
She struggled to release herself and stood
l back from him pitifully defiant.
' “Ye shall not touch me!” she cried. “Go
back to Aileen. Go back to her and spake
your words. Tell her that same mavour
neen story. She will believe ye. Let me
pass. I can go home. I’ll not need”—
But the proud curve of the lips weakened,
and the eyes commenced to brim with
tears. She turned away her head and tried
to spring past him. Gerald stood motion-
less at first, looking at her in surprisc,'and
then he caught her by the arm.
“Mona, stop a bit, ” be said almost stern-
ly. “What is this come to ye? What av
Aileen to me? Are ye dbramin’, child?”
“Let me go,” she whispered; “let me
0.”
“No, I’ll not let you go. Spake to. me,
Mona. What is it? Nay, ye cannot go.
Tell it to me!” '
She fund him then, and her eyedflasbed
through the tears.
“An’ ye would talk to me, would ye}
An’ ye would wait for me to market; an’
ye would sing to me under the thatch at
night; an’ ye would tell me ye love me!
Och, it is not thrue at all, at all. .Y e know
I am spakin’ but the truth, an’ ye will
make me say it. Ah, but the heart of ye
is black. Aileen is there dancin’ to—night:
Aileen is there waiting for ye with your
kerchief iound her neck—the pink kerchiei
ye showed me and said ’twas for the
purtiest gunl in Kilgarnock; go to her,
go!"
The little figure was quivering with
wrath and emotion; then she remembered
all at once that she had broken her prom-
ise to herself, but. having broken it she
was not going to yield an inch.
“Shurc. ’tis not that I care for ye; ’tisV
the base desate I hate. Let me pass now
if ye place!”
“An’ I don’t plase, Mona,” he said. “Is
that all? Now ye shall listen to me. Ye
would nevci hear to me afore, Mona; ’ti.
not my fault. I do love ye an’ ye wrong
me when ye say no. Shure, mavourneen,
I love the very ground ye walk on, and the
; sound of your voiceV'is as music to meself.
l The ’kerchief—aroon, are ye angered with
' the poor pretty thing? See, I have it yet
' for the purtiest and smartest gurrl' 1n Kil
garnock. An’ won’t ye wear it now? I
knew not even did Aileen wear one, an‘
’twas not mine she had on her neck. Aye.
hide your head; ’tis here on my heart' is the
right place for it. No tears, Mona; Mona.
mavourneen, ’tis all right now. An’ won ’tV
ye wear the poor ’kerchief, colleen?”
He drew it around her neck, and held
the ends close up under her chin. Pres-
ently she looked up at him, shyly, from
under lowered happy lashes.
“Ab, Gerald, ’tis too beautiful for me!”—
. George \Vilson Prescdtt in Times-Demo-
crat.
The Omnipresent Plano.
And now the voice o'f'the piano is heard
through the land. Let us again call the
attention of music lovers that the violin
and the ’cello are beautiful though diffi-
cult instruments to study; that to sedu-
lously avoid the comet, except for arches
.tral purposes, is the duty of every well
meaning young man or girl, for that mat
for; that the harp' 18 a charming and grace
ful instrument. and the piano is too often
dallied with. Listen to good music, avoid
poor concerts, even if you do get free tick
ets. and—well. this' is enough sermonizing
for one time.
“Sufficient-for the day is the evil there
of."—Musical Courier.
Danger In crowded Cars.
By scientific test and measurement Dr.
Nichols, of. Boston,- found more carbonic
acid gas, one of, the deadliest poisons to
11191111.,- m a horse car 11111 of passengers
than there was in the better ventilated
Berkeley street sewer, That thb; is, tips
impersonal: keen sense hm anyin
ns‘“of doubt Though not but strong"
bseucompelled over-and an 1011111915111,
ntlu-plutform of the elevated Maw
. acquainted with Mr.
A FAMOUS SUIT.
A famous libel suit was tried in Plym--
outb, N. H The defendant was Mrs. J. A.
Dodge, widow of the late president of the
Boston, Concord and Montreal railroad.
The charge was that she had slandered
Henry Raymond, the former confidential
secretary of her husband. Raymond was
a member of the church in high standing,
a prominent Free Mason and Knight Tem-
plar. He had been the trusted secretary of
Mr. Dodge for many years, and he was re-
lated to the family by marriage. The sis-
: ter of Raymond’s wife got $10,000 by the
' will, and Raymond
. and other relatives
were beneficiaries. It appeared that almost
while Mr. Dodge was in the agonies of.
death Raymond got a check for $2,500, pur-
porting to be signed by Dodge, cashed at
the Plymouth National bank, and imme-
diately after the death of Mr. Dodge, Ray-
mond presented to the widow for payment
a. note purporting to have been given to
Raymond by Dodge for $5,000.
The main point was that the widow had .
charged that the check for $2,500 and the' 1
note for $5,000 were forgeries. Raymond '
i
not only sued for libel, but also for the face '
of the note, and chose to try the libel suit
first.
Counsel for the widow took the bold .
ground that what the widow said was true, ’
and they had a most thorough examination
of the handwriting of a number of docu-
ments in the case.
At- the close of the testimony of the ex-
pert even the counsel for Raymond were
satisfied that the note and check were fer-
geries, and they consented that a verdict
should be rendered acquitting the widow. '
and Raymond was subsequently beldto bail
for forgery. Curiously enough, the com- '
plainant had several experts ready, but the
demonstration of theforgeries was too per-
fect for contradiction. The fact that some
of the documents relied on to sustain the
forgeries were themselves forgeries was:
mainly proved by showing that some of
the words were absolutely identical with
the writing of the same words in other
documents of unquestionable authenticity.
This was considered a demonstration that
the writing was traced.
INGENUITY OF AN EXPERT.
A curious illustration of the ingenuity of
an expert was shown in the case of Redfleld
against Redfield, tried at Syracuse several
years ago. A son of L. H. Redfield, de-
ceased, alleged that his father had execut-
ed a paper the body of which was appar.
ently in the handwriting of his law part-
ner, Mr. Foot. The expert obtained a con.
siderable quantity of Mr. Foot’s handwrito
mg and succeeded in finding all the words-
that appeared' in the questioned document.
By pasting these words together he suc»
ceeded' 1n producing a document' in the un-
. doubted handwriting of Mr. Foot.
_ The difference was so apparent that the
questioned document was thrown out as u
forgery and the estate saved 810,000 and the
interest for twenty years. In this case the
jury believed the handwriting expert in
preference to the testimony of people well
Foot’s signature.
Magnified copies of the questioned writing
showed where it had been painted over or
retouched in eighty—nine places or painted
over so as to resemble Mr. Foot’s writing.
A curious case of forgery occurred some
time ago, when an ingenious swindler got
possession of a check of C. W. Whitehead
for $19.50 on the First National bank, pay-
able to bearer. When payment was de-
manded the check called for $5,000. The
swindler did not present the check'directly.
He went first. to Waters & Son, and bought
$2,500 worth of gold and silver for plating.
.He presented the $5,000 check and asked
Waters & Sonvto send to the bank and get
it certified, and the paying teller did cer-
tify it. Then the swindler got his change
in a check for $2,500, payable to bearer.
When he presented this for payment at the
bank where Waters & Son kept their de‘
posit, the teller threw it out because. the
swindler spelled his name differently in the
indorsement from the way Waters & Son‘
spelled it in the body of their check.
That saved \Vaters 85 Son the $2,500 on
their own check. They sued the First Na."
F.1‘ut ‘
tional bank for the face of the Whitehead
check because the bank had certified it.
The bank’s defense was that the certifica-
tion was only to' the genuineness of the
signature, and that it was only responsible
for $19. 50, the amount of the check before
it was raised. Waters & Son proved that
. the whole check was a forgery, and that-.111
the writing of Wbitehead’s me were at
, least. twentyeseven variations; and the re-
. suit was that the First National bank had
to pay about 85,000. -,_—New :York Sun. . .
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,Cilv of Norwalk and Eagle
£14
THE OLD .1311; RELIABLE
DAILY F GHT llNE.
Norwalkllewlurk.
0n and utter Monday, Sept. lath, (until further
notice) THE PROPELIEIIS
Will make daily trips, Sundays excepted, for
freight betwaen New York. Norw'alk and south
Norwalk. W111 leave Pier 23 foot of Beekman
streeu. New York. every evening except Satur—
days, at 5 o’clock.
Returning boat leaves Norwalk at 5 p. m. and
“South Norwalk at 6: so p.111
Freight recelved from 7 11.111. to 6 p m.
Freight taken from and received for all points
on the Danbnry and Sorwslk and Shops" Bull-
roads at greatly reduced prices.
Upon application to Agents the City of Norwaik
and Eagle will be sent for special lots of freight
anywhere in New York or its vicinity.
WAiipersofls are forbid trusting any of the
employees of the boats of this line on account of-
the owners thereof.
ALESME
11111111113.
Local or Traveling.
To sell our Nursery Stock. Saldary, Expenses and
Steady Employment guarante
CHASE BROTHERS COIIPANY,
O and D Rocnrsrss, N. Y.
‘0} great rinto/rest
OUT REGARD Ti! 0081'.
Raymond Bros.
Spring _(_}a1_11paign !
House and General
PAINTING,
Paper Hanginl,.Kalsn1niniu,h.
The subscriber has Opened 11 general Painting
and Paper Hanging Shep, at
NO. 7 WATPR STREET, (James’ Block)
NORWALK, where would be glad to receive any
orders from old customers and as many new ones
as may favor him with their work. The best ma-
terials and best workmanship guaranteed and
done at. the lowest egg-ices RGE n OSTERBANKS
WA 1V TED.
A good pushing Salesman here. First-
class ay guaranteed weekly. Commission
or on cry. Quick selling new Fruits and
Specialties.
FARMERS can gets good paying job
for the winter. Write for terms and particu-
Faun. E. YOUNG, Nurseryman
bochester ET.
to those who will be
bencfitted by the new Pension Law.
M. L. ' BYINGTON,
Pension and Slaim Attorney,
_ 708 E. CAPITOL STREET,
wasnING-ron, n. ‘6.
With sexier-cl years of experience in the claim business at
.the National Capital, and being thoroughly familiar with
methods of practice before the Pension Bureau, I am in a
position to render valuable aid
widows and minor children,
avail themselves Of my services.
to Soldiers and Sailors, their
and dependent parents, Who
The new law provides a
pension for dependent parents at $12 per month, regardless
of their pecuniary circumstances at time of the death of their
son, provided he left neither widow or minor children.
It also allows a pension of from $6 to $12 per month to
all who served ninety days'in the Military or Naval service
during the late Vivar, who are by reason of physical or mental
disability unable to earn their support by manual labor.
Under this section of the law many who are now receiving
only $2 or $4 per month could
Widows of those who served
easily obtain an increase.
as above for a period of nine-
vty days or more, who are dependent upon their own labor for
support, will receive, upon submittance of proper evidence,
$8 per month, and $2 per month for each minor child under
sixteen (16) years: of age, and this regardless of the fact
whether death Was the result of army service or not.
No fee is allowed me unless
I am successful, and then the
ereV' 1s paid by! the Pension Agent from the pension granted.
“First come first served” and applications should be early
mace.
Correspondence invited. All letters will be promptly an-
swered Please enclose stamps to cover return postage.
Remember that you can obtain better service at the hands
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distance...
glen than from one who lives at a
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