Mount Carmel Item from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania • Page 2

OBSERVATIONS. mm SHORT PARAGRAPHS. A bed of rocks the cradle. Old playmates two aged actors. The Easter egg will show its colors.

For Fine Tailoring Ike Gold-schmidt. The people of Ashland have peti SULTAN'S EUNUCH DEAD. Be Was Not Pretty, at Bleb nil Had Great Influeace. Abdul Hamld has Just sustained a severe loss through the sudden death of Yaver-Aga, the kizlar agassy or chief of the eunuchs of the imperial seraglio, who throughout the present reign had been one of the most influential figures in Turkish politics, a personage to whose advice many of the most shrewd and clever devices of That heritage of rich manjr a life. For Throat and Lung affections it is invaluable.

It never fails to cure Cough, Cold, Croup and Whooping-Cough. DR. BULL'S COUGH SYRUP is the best. Price 35 cents. Chew LANCE'S PLUGS.

The Great Tobacco Antidote.lOc Dealers or mail.A.C.Meyer We have several Special Gat ments in Under-wear that are. the best value for the price ever offered. Among our assortment we invite vour special attention to our LADIES' VESTS at 25 cents. CHILDREN'S UNION VESTS at 25 cents. -LADIES' UNION SUITS 50 cents.

GENTLEMEN'S UNION SUITS at $1.00. These are" exceptional bargains and we invite your inspection T. M. RIGHTER CO, I Furniture and nnnr. has avtrf Undertaking PROGRESS a re-arranged store and show to look at.

Up-to-date Undertaking a Specialty. i The Columbia New Departure Automatic Rrnke 1l SUBSTANTIAL I DURING THE YEAR 1897 will allow us. to do business in 1898 on a substantial An Oak street dude got married sometime ago; now he is subdued. Beginning a proper name with a small letter is a capital offence. "When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.

Tn p-mntr out like a lamb March oftentimes takes on the unpleasant character of cold mutton. A man must be faithless to some thing either to a woman, or his God, or his firmest belief. Men who marry school teachers should be pretty 6ure that they themselves are well grounded in grammar. If we all get the wives Heaven in tended for us, it goes far toward proving that we are being punished' here for our sins. A corpse resting under an inscrib ed monument can be said to occupy a position at the foot of a column following reading matter.

Borne of the big candy eggs have pretty landscapes built inside, but the average woman can't see the beauty in them she can in an Easter bonnet. Around thfs season eggs are in such demand enthusiastic farmers wouldn't mind seeing the hen made the national bird and egg-plant the national flower. A Western man bequeathed his money to a circus. Many can't help thinking this disposal of wealth would hardly give one the best kind of a show hereafter. A Spruce street man went to bed the other nierht with his boots on, and in answer to his wife's query, said he did it to protect himself from her cold feet.

Cool, wasn't he? Courting is a natural blessing. It teaches young people to speak mild ly, especially if the old folks are in the next room with the door open. "What a change," exclaimed the novelist Roe, "one little woman can make in a man's life!" Exactly; and what a heap of "change" she re quires while doing it. "Eleven advertising solicitors and three customers" was the woeful re port of a merchant recently. Had he but done business with a few of the papers represented he would have had eleven customers to every soli citor.

A young couple out West went through a mock marriage and the courts have decided that the cere mony was genuine. They are in the same class with those who "didn't know it was loaded" or pull chairs from beneath persons who are about to sit down. Aimoet daily the woods surronding us, are swaimed with people vainly searching for the beautiful may flower. Each year, though, appears to lessen the quantity of the fra grant, waxen flower, which fact seems to put additional ambition into those seekers to possess a bouquet. They sometimes spend many hours in trailing our-beauties.

(Get More and You Less Why is it every sarsaparflla which tries to sell itself, ranges itself against Ayer's as the standard Why is it that all have to offer extra inducements bigger bottles, fancy wrappers, cheaper price anything, everything, but the one inducement of quality Sarsaparllia I has never been ecraaled bv anv cheap imitation of it, and quality tells, just as blood tells. it Is the Standard. I have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla for more than twenty-five years, and have never heard anything but words of praise from my customers not a single complaint has ever reached me. A preparation must poRpess great merit to maintain such a reputation. I believe your sarsaparilla to be the best blood purifier that lias ever been introduced to the general public.

I often hoar other manufacturers say that this is "as good as Ayer's," but no one ever yet heard it said that Ayer's was "as good" as any other kind. They always set Ayer's up as the standard of S. F. Botce, Duluth, Minn. tioned the Lehigh Valley Company for additional trains on that branch.

Go to Jordan Co. for spectacles and eye glasses. No charge for fitting. A party of capitalists from Wilkes- Barre are prospecting for copper on the mountain above Jamison City. Sewing machines and organs re paired and fixed up like new.

All work guaranteed for five years. Leave your order at the Item office. By an explosion of gas at the Bast colliery, Ashland, Michael Fullen, Chales O'Neil and Michael Schilling, miners, were badly burned. If your teeth are bad, they should be attended to. Dr.

A. B. Longshore. Third street, near Oak, is the best place. Nitrou-oxide gas administered.

House cleaning time has arriyed, and a great many men no doubt have other business away from the house in order to get out of whipping the carpet. Jordan Co. carry a complete line of spectacles and eye glasses. Lawyers in Central Pennsylvania are taking steps to memorialize Congress to establish a central district United States Federal Court. Bring your printing to the Item office satisfaction as to price and workmanship assured.

Weak Lungs If you have coughed and coughed until the lining mem-' brane of your throat and lungs is inflamed, Scott's Emulsion I of Cod-liver Oil will soothe, strengthen and probably cure. The cod-liver oil feeds and strengthens the weakened tis-. sues. The glycerine soothes and heals them. The hypo- phosphites of lime and soda impart tone and vigor Don't neglect these coughs One bottle of the Emulsion may do more for you now than ten can do later on.

Be sure you get SCOTT'S Emulsion. All druggists; 50c. and fi.oo. fl SCOTT BOwNE, Chemists, New York. A Reliable Stand few X7i We claim to be entirely up with the times, having all the latest improved machinery and employ none but competent hands.

We make CLEANLINESS a study and invite the public to inspect our plant to satisfy themselves. We kill all of our stock which we ship direct from Buffalo stock yards every week. Try us. We will use you well. John Christ Sons, BUTCHERS.

153 ft 11 I'm 3XS 14 BO YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trademarks Designs Copyrights Ac. Anyone lending sketch and description may nnlnklv uiwrtmln nur nnlnlnn timm bother an Inrention la probably patentable. Communica imon nw won en table. Handboo For aeeurli tions stnotir oonnaentuu. uanaoooa on aent free.

Oldest aencr for securlnc Datei tlons strictly oonfldentlal. Handbook on Patents rency Tor securing patents. fatenta tasen tnrougn Mann as tso. receive ash Mann a ipeeUU notie. without charge, tn the Scientific American 5 the Sultan In dealing with the foreign powers were Justly attributed.

By virtue of his strange office he was entitled to be addressed as your High ness, and rankei immediately next to the Grand Vizier, and before either the Cabinet Ministers or the great military dignitaries, even Khedive Abbas of Egypt and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the latter in his capacity of Turkish Governor-General of Eastern Roumelia, being compelled at Constantinople to yield the pas to the hideously ugly monster, for Yaver-Aga was frightful tc behold, being almost 6 feet 6 inches high, coal black, with a small head, narrow shoulders, an enormous stomach and the squeaky and shrill voice peculiar to his class. His official titl was that of "keeper of the keys of paradise," the Oriental idea of paradise being a place peopled with houris as lovely as those of the Sultan's harem. Yaver-Aga hail been for the past two and twenty years in absolute control of the latter, the despotic master of the whole feminine portion of the household of the Sultan and responsible to the latter for the safekeeping and fidelity and the discipline of every one of the women, r.o matter whether Sultanas or mere odalisques. He was probably the only man in the whole of the Ottoman Empire whom the Padishah implicitly trusted, and whose advice was usually directed against the European powers. Yaver-Aga was a Mohammedan of the most fanatic and' bigoted type, and there is much at Constantinople to indicate that he waa one of the principle instigators of the Armenian massacres.

As chief eunuch of the Uarew, it was his duty to attend to the punishment of those women who had offended the Sultan, and many hundreds of fair ones have, by his directions, been sewed into sacks and pitched, under the cover of night, into the wift-flowing waters of the Bosporus. There are several hundred eunuchs employed in the imperial seraglio, two-thirds of them coal black and the remainder whit's. But they constitute a form of luxury which Is slowly but surely disappearing from modern Mo hammedan life, as Is also polygamy. most of the leaning Turkish dignitaries, pashas and beys at Constantinople nowadays contenting themselves with one wife, by Which matrimonial rule they not only comply with the re quirements of their marriages but try to avoid all those harem Intrigues, Jealousies, and disputes that constitute the curse domestic life in Mohammedan countries. The chief eunuch of the married daugh' ter, Princess Zekle, has been nominat ed to succeed Yaver-Aga as the sec ond dignitary of the realm.

Yaver'a colossal fortune, part of which he owed to the prerogative of his office of charging 10 per cent, on everything entering and lefivlng the seraglio, and to the costly gifts he received from na tive and foreigi dignitaries, has been confiscated by the Sultan, the Aga hav ing left no heirn. Ilia Two Heart Don't Beat aa One A colored man giving his name as "Dr. William King" has been mysti fying Pennsylvania doctors. Ho en Joys the distinction of having two hearts which hs can control in their positions and teats at will. He has been examined bv several Bradford county doctors and they have been nonplussed Kine carries a rer tiflcate from a Philadelphia medical college stating he has been oper ated upon by physicians to determine the freak nature of his heart, and hi scars across his body are a further testimony to hTs truthfulness.

Apparently King has two sets of ribs, one outside and overlapping the other, and by ivtroklng his chest and by muscular cjntortiona one sot of ribs can be drawn down to cover his stomach. His two hearts, one on each side can be plainly felt to beat. Listening to the right heart, and with a hand on the left pulse, the observer is startled to have the pu'se stop and the heart beats continue, ret such is the case. JefTeraon'a Papcra Discovered. In the course of the removal of the books and paper of the Congressional Library to the new building in Wash Ington, an unexpected find has been made in the ettape of a large box of papers written by Thomas Jefferson These were foi nil Btored away in a little room neit the entrance to the library, which had been under lock and key for years.

They are entirely public papers, a ncte among them stating that all pri vate papers witH the lot had been re turned to the writers or contributors. It is believed that these particular papers came to the Congressional Library John Randolph. The papers have been transferred to the State Department, where they will be examined and filed away with other State papers by Librarian Allen. Saved. It was at an afternoon tea and the crush was simply horrid.

It seemed that nothing would save the few men present, when one quick-witted woman exclaimed: "Ladies, please remember there are gentlemen in the crowd!" It was all that preserved the pcsoi things from a horrible PUBLISHED EVKRY WEDXESUAY AND SATURDAY BY Cbe Item Pubiisbina Company Post Offick Building, MOUNT CAEMEL PA. THE ITEM la Mt. Carmel's most popular newspaper and circulates not only In nearly every home In this community, hut also largely jq Columbia and Schuylkill counties. Advertising rates will be made known upon application. THE ITEM reaches a Held occupied by no other newspaper in the Anthracite coal regions, which enhances Its value as an advertising medium.

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KEMBI.B. Editor Business Manager. subscription: One Year $1.00 Six months 50 Three months 25 Republican Uorough Committee. W. B.

Faust. President. F. A. Smith, Secretary.

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J. L. Brasslngton, George McFee. SATURDAY, April 2, 1898. A naval conflict is inevitable the inttr-collegiate rowing match.

Can you explain vrhy all spoiled children belong to your neighbor only? In a few more day it will be developed whether Batan is still on hand when a man puts up the stovepipe in a new house. Yellow journalism may be deplored, but even it, like the clouds, has a silver lining. The New York Journal has headed a list witli $1,000 for the purpose of erecting a monument to the Maine heroes. In cases of disaster newspapers extras are gotten out so rapidly nowadays that soon we may expect a fire-chief purchasing a paper to see where the fire is, so he may lose no time in arranging his apparatus. The great New York dailies did not have artists on the spot at the time of the Maine disaster in Cuba waters, but they had artists with elastic imaginations at the home offlee, which answered just as well.

The Turk and Grecian war; the Chinese question the Maine explosion. In the excitement doth the Turk realize that he is being ignored and happily does he amuse himself by torturing his enemies. When newspapers cease to agitate, govern ments become Indifferent. A newspaper must be issued promptly because the train which carries it to the subscribers leaves on time. Consequently advertisers should prepare their copy promptly.

News must be gathered quickly Opinions must be given hastily yet based on a good sense and sound judgement. In view of all this haste why should not a subscriber also act promptly and pay for his paper? A bill has been Introduced in the Ohio to prohibit the of advertisements on tele graph and telephone poles without consent of the corporation. From $5 to $26 is the amount of the flue to be imposed. Tnis amount invested in newspaper space will bring positive returns. Pole and fence advertive- ments only subject a man to nne and imprisonment.

Trout Season Approaching. The heart of every true disciple of Izaak Walton leaps with delight as April 15th, the date marking the be ginning of the trout season, approach es. There is no sport in which the fresh water angler takes greater de light thanjin luring speckled beau ties to strike and struggle. It is well worth a few hours journey to be early on the fishing grounds and have the first of the casting, before the knowing ones fight shy. Flies have long been the favorite lures for trout, and casting the accomplish ment of which the angler likes best t9 boast.

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