I The Somerset Herald inuiiiHU ear. Terms of publication. Publlihed evet Wednesday morning at 2 00 per annum, If V ln advance 5 otherwise 2 Will lETrtblj t ttkMIfA. Ko subtcrtpUon will be eitoontJaued nnUl all arrearage are pel P- FortmMten neglecting to notify wh robhen do not teke eoi tb.tr paper wi" B8ld "Pibl "b- sertptloa. Subeerfberiremc from one ortoEocto aa other thoold give ui the bum ol the former M well as the pretest erace. Addret The Somerset Herald, Somerset. Fa- m lll I t-c.mertet. Pa. an. 1 7i:i:n.rJFix;KER A attokmivat lj LAW. r..tneret. P. Ornca, npatn 1 ok l"t"' b'"' Kor.(VE ItStTM T ATTl'fcNtY AT LAW, riomertet Pa. 01 IN R. SCOTT. ATToKNtT AT LAW. fcoiEerse, Pe. 7 J. KXK1L itti UN EY-AT LAW. Somerset, Pe. II. K KMI.KY. ATTt'KN LY-AT LAW, Somerset, P - SU. TRENT." . ATTOKNIAAT -LAW, Si.airrrct, Penn a jr" : I it Sfi'I.T.. ATTOKNEY-ATLAW, II L. 15AKR. ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW, ' Somerset, F, will tiriT .re II 'in. i t . .,...'.- - A Mb.ii'VneM entrusted to him will be promptly ,.l ..I wJnlniNXiritlC. attended to. . aTu.COKKBOTH. W.H.KIITEL. nOFFUOTII RUPPEL. yj ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW. Allbu.lr.era entrusted to their care will be 'rSCoi the Mammoth Block. Homers. l.c colbobk. COLBORN &, COLBORN. ATTOKNEYS-AT-LAW. All butlnett introtted to our care will r prompt ly a althlv attended to. Collection made In S .tn irU Hedlurd. and adjoining un le. Survey. lv Ovcyanctng done on reasonable tenus. w ILLIAM IT. KOON'TZ, Will trice prompt attention to butlnest entrutt ed U ' JliVari tn Somerset and adjoining Counties. Office In Printing Houte Kow. DENNIS MEYERS. ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW . Somer-ei, Penn a All leiral bnrinewi entrusted to Mi care will be attested t.. with promptness and ".lellty. Office on Main Trow Mreet, next tloor to Sny dif to.'lium. apri THijTirpr'H' Mitre. Mammoth l!lvk. p ta!r En'""'; wttll. title, et.nilned. anl a'.l Wl blne at'en.led tv with irniue and B.leuty. I ATTOUNEY AT LAW, aj;J S..meret, Pa. i J rUITTS. Jim ATTORNEY AT LAW. Uln, np-Malr In Mammrth p.lora JOHN" 0. KIM MET J ATTttKN EY-AT-LA W, RoTM,Pa. Will attend t all be.rne- trwl I. hl raS oeen-1 and a-V-tnita " "'"ZlZ..fZZ' mom mm Mur. to rumtk. II ENRY F. SC11ELT lTTtilllll""i tvmty and Pee Agent, Somerw, r-a. OBine taMammota Mlafk. V-NT1NE HAY ATTORN EY-AT LAW And DealT In Real F.te. Semer CP wt" attend t all MMlnew entnul.d to bU care wun promplneet and n.iety . roiixirtHU ATTORN ET-AT I.A" Somereet, ri. Will'promptly attend to all r.0'!!? to him. Money advanced on eolleeUona, Ol hce in Mammoth Bulhllng. T G.OGLE. J . ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, rotetwial buoinewentrutted to my ear at tended to with promptneM and hdellty. DR. J. M. IX)UTHER, (Formerly of Stoyestown.) PHFSCM.V AM) St fiCEO.V, Hat located permanently In Somerset f;r the praclce ol hit prolrei-lnn. Olfice 2 doort e.t ol ectral Hotel, in rear ol Drag Store. may.l. )R. K W. EIX)UGII, UOMEOtATHlC HirSlCAS ASD SVRGEOS Tender, hit service to the people of Soniertet and vicinity, tll. in town or country prompt ly att.-ndedto. f an l found at otbee dyw night, unlest professionally enicaired. aOrBce on Sout beaut corner ol Diamond, over Knepiiert Shoe Store. aprtSt-Uf. DPw H. P. KIMMEL tender, hit pmfedfd.maleervice to the eltl tent of Somemet and Vicinity. Vnlcw prrfewlon al engaged he can be found at hit .(lice, on Main St , eatt ot the Diamond. DR. II. BRUBAKER tender? his pmfeetlonal aervlcel to the cltiient of Som ertet and vicinity. Otfice In reiidence on Main ttreet west of the Diamond. D T VM Tf ATTTT fpndprs his ' nnifettlonal eervlcet to the cltiaent of Som- eret and vicinity. (ffire ned.rt!t of Wayne fc Berkebile lumlture More. Dee. e. '8Z DR. JOHN BIETi5. DENTIST. Office up italri InCoi.k A BeeriU Hlock, Som er ect. Pa. DR. WILLIAM COLLINS, DENTIST. SOMERSET, PA. time tn Mammoth Block, above Boyd t Ttrug Store, where be can at all timet be found prepar ed todo all krndt ot work, tweh at Oiling. rir laUng. extracting. Ac Artificial t eel hoi all kinds, and of the betl material lnterted. Operationt warranted. H HOWARD WYNNE, MD. JOHSfTOWX, PEXXA. Dlteatetortne Eve, Ear. Note and Throat. Sctal and Exrlutive practice. Houra, a. . to V r. . Luther A Green block, 2H Main Su J P. THOMPSON, M. D. SURGEON DENTIST. Johnttown, Pa. Hat had a profeie2il experience of more than Ibtrty year.. Fnt.i! Tkbtii a SranaLTV. Othre mmt No. xrz Main ttreet (upnair.) over John Diln't Haniware Store. It will l neoee tarv ..r pernt who want work done to make en ganmentt beforehand. clt eA. DR. J. K. MILLER hag jerTna nentry located tn Berlin for the practice of !,! prolewlun. lBce opposite Charlea Krtitn. er'i More. apr. XU, Tu-U. D IAMOND HOTEL, STOYSTOWX. I'EXX'A. Thit popular and well known houte hat lately ten tfcorenrbW and newlv rentted with all new wad ben ot Inraltnre. which ha made It a very dntrable ttoppritr. place for the traaeling public HitUbleandruoaeannotbeeuriwe4l, ail ba ng Ant elan, with a larre public hall attached t. the tame. Alto larire and roomy fabling. Pirn claw hoarding eaa be had at the lowert poe ttble pncea, by the week, day or meal. SAJttlELCTSTER. Prop. S.E.C0T. Diamond Stoyatow ,Pa JXECUTOR-S NOTICE. Eate of C. 8. Walter, late rf Mever1ale Bor ough Soniertet Co, Pa dee d. Lettere tertamentary on above ettate having heea granted to the anOerttgned by the profwr aa th.jntv,Bouoe U hereby given to all penont in debted te eald cerate to make Immediate pav ment, and tboae bartng elalmt againtt It to pre. aent them duly aalheatlcatvt for eelUement am (riday. September 12, Ikh. at the late rettdeuce ol the deeeaaed. la MeyerKiale. CLARA WALTER. a1- ETrutrlx A.PRIZE. Send ?enu tor pott- , V M g .IT lou im III. oMtlyboxot gum., winch will help ynnlomore ""y rlirht awav Uaa anything cite In thit world. All. of either tea. anooeed from brU hour. 1 be broad roa4 to fortune opent llore the work, era. abeoiutely Mtra. At once addren, Tarn A CoAegutta, Maine. tana 1 VOL. XXXIII. NO. 12. Riigeway Patent RBfrigeratorTlie Best; It enlre. the dimeult problem of rerteet Refrigeration. It drlee and purine Itaelf while In ae by an Aaumatlet;irralaUo ol Air. It dtupenaet with meul Hi Init.wi objectionable beaue or latwr neeraary 10 keen it eiaa,aad permluof a wood llmnc rclrintr really n. cleaning at all a long as Ice .nt.t.lT It mainialnwl. M Ilk. Mutter. Mean, rith. Fruit, etc., can be kept In thU Kelrigerator t aame Urn without Imparting the flavor of either to the other. It It much more economical in uuipt ion of Ire than any other Kefrigerat.. Intra lated with dead air tpacei made in beet wanner, with paper walla. Ko rink la purctuulng. Sallafaction guaranteed, or money refunded. M-Send lorllluttraied Catalogue. Fndt Jars, Jelly Classes, Fruit Cans, Cszeat Ladles, Jar Tillers, Cherry Seeders, Grasite Ware, Lanti", Cloth'es Wringers, Fiy Traps, Enives and Porks, Casters, Etc. ! F. W. HAY, i ' Manufacturer and Dealer In : PLAIN, STAMPED A JAPANNED TINWAKE. ! RANGES, STOVES, AND House Furnishing Goods, I Copper & Sheet Iron Ware. 15msh.es fcc. AT WHOLESALE and EETAIL. : Not. 278, 2S0 and 282 Washington St., ! JOHNSTOWN, PA. Wholesale Agent for Self Melting and Self-Sealing "Wax Strings Tor tealing Frnlt Cam and Jan. The Simple l, t't.oa)et, and uiot reliable method tor Sealing Emit Jan ever need. From &0 to oucta. per .Inen laved by uring them Ieal ert rnpplied at mvnufucturcr' iricei. Send for circulars. Our Entire Stock Must be Reduced This Month, To Make Room for Our IMMENSE STOCK OF- FALL BOOTS Hi SHOES, If You Want Some of the BIGGEST BARGAINS That was Ever Offered in the Soot, Shoe and Slipper line, Come lo Si-e V (hits Month. ONE-PRICE SHOE STORE No. 212 Main St., Johnstown, Pa. A NEW ENTERPRISE. E. M. Lambert & Bro., 3Xaaafacturen ef aad Dealer! In WMte Piie ani Heisloct Sftiles- We have Mcnred a iq :ew ttt.Xj, And manntaetare Shlnglef on the Michigan Principle. We cut, and eonttantlv keep on band two grade of the vartoat kindt vf Shinglea, We narantee ear Shin alee te be eeperfor te any In the Ccainty. Shall be pleated to have partie mot. and Inrneet our thinglee before buying cltewhere. Addrent E. M. LAMBERT & BRO., LAX B ERTSVILLE, SOMERSET COM Pa, uneliem. BARCrAINS BARGAINS L. STAR&ARDTER S S2.00 Will purchate a Kitchen Outfit, Coneitting 'of the fol lowing' 38 pieces: 1 Dlah Pan, 1 Coff ee Pot, 1 Water Bucket, 1 Covered Bucket, I Large Grater, 8 Tin Cupe, 4 Pie Plate. I Cake Cutter, 1 Sauce Pan, 1 Wanh Batln, ( Table Knivi-a, 6 Table Eorka, t Table Spoons, fl Tea Spoon. Enamel ani Galvaiiizei Inn Water Coolers, LEMON SO.VEEZERS. ICE PICKS, ICE T( INGS. WINEtJOOLEKS.Tl'.M ULER DKAINEKS, ICECKKAM MOLDS L1UIH MIXERS, ETC Albert a. Hoke. J. Soott Wabd. HORNE & WARD BDccxsaona to EATON & BROS, m 27 Firrn ayesue, PITTSBURGH, PA. SPRf5?G7l882. NEW GOODS E7Z2Y IAY SPEALTHS laibrelder'iet, Ucw, Hirlbery, Wait 6oedi, Hatd k ere Wf , Drett Trlwaiitgt, H .fiery, Glevet, Certett, utile Merlae Uaoerwear, le h.U' aea Children'! Cletttinc-Ftacy Qtoit, Yarat, Zeekyrt, Mlte rialt ef AR Kieae far rct WORK, Gent's FfliBMn Goctls, k, k rem ramoa.ua u urncTrur oucrrcn. Or Ji r by Mail attcntlcd to with Prompt nrsa nnil Iijtch. SOMERSET COUNTY BANK ! 'fESTAULISHED 1877.) CHiELES. I. HASBISOH. M. J. PRITTS. President. Cashier Colleetlona made tn all parU of the United Sutet. CHARGES MODERATE. Part let wlthlng to tend money Wett can be ac commodated by draft on New York In any turn. Collectioni made with promptneta. I'. S. Bondt bonirht and tol.L Monev and valuablei eeenred by one of Dlebold's celebrated nfei, with a Sar gent a i aie ow wi ume toca. ACCOUNTS SOUCITED. AarAUlegn holiday! obaerred.'CK FASHIONABLE CUTTER & TAILOR, Having had many year, experience in all branehet of be Tailoring btu- tneta. 1 guarantee 1 Satlafaction to all who may call up on me ana lavor me with their pat ronage. Yoort, Ac, w n. m. iiochste tier,- Komenet, Pa. mart $66e weeg at borne. outfit tree, .tolutelr ture. No risk. Cap- nut reauired. Reader, if you Imtineta at which Hereon of e, thr yonng or old, can make great pay au Ibe ume mey wora. wita aoeoiuv. i writefor parUculart t. IL Uaixarr, Portland.Me. wanted for the liven of all the Prefldenta of the U. S. The Ur- dml hn.laoiuut . beat book ever told Kir leaf tner. twice our price. Thetaateat telling bonk. Agent ea. Immenaa profit! to agents. All Inlliaiul- eiol. want it. Anr one can become a auccetort aaer.t Terma free. Haixbtt Rook Co., Port and Maine. uime, Lime, Lime ! From the Celebrated Peck Limettone Ledge furnUhed aboard the cart at eur kilnt near Pine Urvve at I cents per buthel, rnflacked. Urdert promptly filled. For further particular! call on the undersign ea. 3. M. WOLFERSBERQER A BRO., Jiockwood. Pa, or m-ayll ISAAC O. JONES, Somertet, Pa CHARLES HOFFMAN, T tA. doww Hny Heffley'. Stare.) ' LITEST STYLES Ul LOWEST PRICES. VSTSATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SOMERSET, IA. FARM FOB SALE! SITUATE in Paint Tewnahlp. Somerset County Pa., two and one-hair mllet from Scalp Level, aad one mile from Somertet and Cambria Bail road. Thit farm contalmt ahoat ISO ACTM ef Land, forty arret of which are cleared aad in a rood (tale of cultivation, and the balance la good Umber. There la a good two-etory plank Dwelling House, Bank Barn, and other necessary outbuilding on the premiaea. Also, a goed Fruit Orchard, Sn gar Camp, and a good coal bank, four-loot vela, open. For farther information eall on SAMUEL J. CUSTER, On the Premise, or ndddieea at Scalp Level Cambria County, Pa. AagOtf. 1 C: AGENTS UEBCHAII TAILOR omer THE BABY'S PRAYER. She knelt with her sweet hands folded. Her fair little head bowed low, "While dead vines tapped at tke window, And the air was thick with snow. Without, earth dumb with Winter; "Within, hearts dumb with care ; And op through the leaden silence Hose softly the baby's prayer. "Bless all whom I love, dear Father, And help me good," she said ; Then stirred by a sudden fancy, She lifted her shining head. Did she catch on the frozen maple Some hint of April green, Or the breath of the woodland blossoms. The drifts of snow between ? 'The beautiful trees," she whispered, "Where the orioles used to siDg. They are tired and cold, white Winter, Oh, help them to grow in the Spring ; And the flowers that I love to gather, Lord, bring them again in May ; The dear little violets, sleeping Down deep in the ground to-day." Ah, earth may be chill with snowflnkcv And hearts may be cold with care, But wastes of a frozen silence ' Are crossed by the baby's prayer, " And lips that were dumb with sorrow In jubilant hope may sing, For when earth is wrapped in Winter, In the heart of the Lord 'tis Spring. A WIDOW BY PROXY. Should you wish to know to what height artistic gardening can be brought let me advise you to pay a visit to Haarlem (in Holland,) where near the beautiful park filled with deer, which makes such a beautiful walk, you will find the famous hor ticulturist, Claerefeoets. After he has shown you his astonishing collec tion of tulips, hyacinths, carnations, anemones, crowsfeet, cainelias, prim roses, cowslips, cactus and peiargo- mms, you will be deiguteU. iry and persuade him to allow you to see his six remaining daughters and you will be dazzled. It is the story of the seventh, or rather the first, which I am about to tell you, J ust is this worthy man, who has remained poor, although his conservatories are full of treas ures, told it to me last year. At the end of the year lSJ he had seven daughters on his hands. How ever, the Misses Claereboets were as virtuous as they were lovely, as sen sible as they were poor, alas ! and their appetites wero only equaled by their virtue. One winter evening, at the end of one of those meals which absorbed all the profits of the business, Claere boets lighted his pipe, and with a mysterious air drew from his pocket a letter with a foreign postmark. "Guess who has written to me?" he said. Seven pairs of well developed shoulders shrugged simultaneously, expressive of ignorance. "Why, Micheels Maassen, the son of our former neighbor, the con tractor. He is the cashier of Planter Van Meeruyt, in Java. He wishes to eettle down, and seeks one of your hands in marriage." "Which one, papa?" exclaimed five somewhat tremulous voices. "It's the same to him. He was eleven years old when he left. He is now twenty-eight, so you may un derstand that he has no choice. It is for you to decide, and I am going to take your opinion, beginning at the eldest. Well, Myia, will you marry Micheels ?" "Yes, papa," replied the eldest, without hesitation. She was a mag nificent blonde, twenty-four years old. Around the silent room six dis creetly subdued sighs were heard. "Right, my child," said the father, as quietly a3 if it had been the mat ter of delivering a hundred hya cinthes. "Micheels is a good fellow, with excellent references. He sends his deed, all in order, to the lawyer for the marriage. We will avail ourselves of its being fall lo consu mate the affair, so that you shall not arrive there in the hot weather." Three weeks later Mina had be come Mrs. Maassen. When I say had, it requires some explanation. The Dutch, the best colonists in the world and the most practical people I know of, have devised an easy means by which their single friends settled in the Antipodes can easily be married in the metropolis. To make the bridegroom pass two months at sea, thereby to attend the registry for ,ten minutes and the church for perhaps double that time was a barbarity. To Bend out the intended was dangerous. She might find the suitor eaten up by a tiger. To get over this the Dutchman in stituted marriage by proxy. For in stance, you may be at Sumatra and you wish a fine looking helpmate. You have nothing to do but to send to a Iriend at Rotterdam or Utrecht a power of attorney to act on your behalf. He marries her without charging any commission whatsoev er ; she carries her title deeds away with her. He registers her in the first steamer and fouror five months after the order is given the commis sion is executed and delivered. Thus the beautiful Mina, who had seen many of her friends married in the same way, did not consider the process anything unusual. She cried a little, however, as she embarked on a nuperb steamer be longing to the "Koninkylke Neder landeche stoomboot Maatschappy" and saw her native land disappear ing. Presently the Batavia got out to sea and then she was too much oth erwise engaged to be able to find time to cry, and 6he never came out of her stateroom till tbey reached Suez. Then awful storms arose, the shaft broke and they reached Co lombo by sailing, arriving just in time to catch the boat for Singapoor. Mina was so ill as to be unconscious. She was carried from one ship to another, again they were at sea, ; the only difference she realized being that the basin close to her was of China instead of copper. She arrived at Singapoor in a pros trate condition imagining her last hour had come. Again she was transferred like a bit of baggage to another steamer and two days later tber arrived at Batavia. At last a fourth boat landed her at Samarang. Here she found herself in the abode of the Dutch Consul, lying on a set ESTABLISHED 1827. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1S84. couch which Eeemed to be tossing up and down, although on dry land, till she thought she would be thrown out on the floor. She waa just lamenting the inat tention af every one to her, when a young man with fair mustache and straightforward-looking blue eyes, entered the office of the consul, who was busily writing to catch the mail. "I am expecting a young woman from Europe, whom I have married by proxy," said the visitor, "and I have come to make inquiries." "She has just been brought here," said the official, without stopping his writing, she is in a very bad 6tate, and you would do me a favor by taking her oa my couch as soon as possible. Leave your address and the baggage will be forwarded." The meeting of the pair may be imagined. He timid, she a weaken ed, prostrate ghost of her former self. The young colonist was, however, pleased with his acquisition, and hailing two coolies, had his wife tak en to the Samarang depot. The train took them half way to Djok jokarta, where two almost nude men lifted the well-nigh insensible Mina out. An hour later she was seated next to her legal husband on the rough cushions of a two wheeled cart, drawn by two logging OTen, which shook her terribly. However, Mina felt better. She looked up at her husband, and was pleased with his appearance. Gun in hand he seem ed to watch furtively every nook and cranny as they payssed, but paid her no attention. This seemed strange to her. "You are very lond of sport, it seems ?"she said, in a semi-reproach ful tone. These were the first words she had uttered to her companion. I never was so frightened at meeting game as l am at this mo ment Thiq is a lovely climate, and I hope you will like the country: hut it has one (disadvantage. After six o'clock in the evening it is infest ed with tigers, who prowl about in search of what they may devour, so that it is bft to rem." in at home af ter that hour. However, we have passed the most dange ous part, and we are getting near hoD e." Poor Mina ! She no longer wished to talk. She trembled from head to foot At last they arrived at a fine bungalow, raised off the yround, to avoid the snakes and adders, with verandahs all around. On the steps stood a pale, thin old lady, who came forward, attracted by the noise of the wheels. She was Mina's mother-in-law. "What, my child, you here al ready ?" cried the old lady, much surprised. "We did not expect you until next week." "We had an accident on the way, madame." "That would delay rather than accelerate your arrival. However, here you are ; that is the main thing. Be welcome, my child. You must be hungry." "Oh, madame, I only want sleep ! If you only knew what a journey I have had !" "Don't make any excuses, my child. I will get your room ready at once, and take you there myself." An hour later Mina 6lept beneath the waving Punkah, wrapt in sweet sleep and pleasant dreams. "Do you know you will have a pretty wife?" said the mother on re joining her son under the verandah. "It is astonishing now little sne resembles the photograph vour un cle once sent of her." "Yes," said the young man, "she is very lovely. I would like to go early to the church, mother, because, after all, we have not been regularly married." On the morrow Mina came down all pink and white. "Did j'ou sleep well, dear Anna ?" said her husband for the first time, kissing his wife's forehead. I "But," said the young woman, smiling, "my name is not Anna, my name is Mina Mina Claereboets. Had you already forgotten it?" "What !" cried the colonist, pale as death, "are you not Anna Anna Tanssens ?" "Great God ! and you" "I am called Hans Van Hasselt Don't you come from Edam ? Isn't your father a cheese merchant?" "He is a gardener near Haarlem. I have married Micheels Maassen, cashier of the house of Van Meeruyt Here is my certificate of marriage." Hans seized the papers, with trembling hand, and glanced over them hurriedly. "Mother," said he, to old Mrs. Van Hasselt, who at that moment entered, arrayed in her finest robes, "a misfortune has occurred. I made a mistake at Samarang. The young lady belongs to another." The matron was a sensible wo man. In a moment she understood all. It was certainly hard on her son, already three parts in love with a woman who was not for him, and whose husband would have to be found in an island fifteen hundred miles away, and he would have to be found before the real Mrs. Hans appeared on the scene, else Bhe would have two daughters-in-law on her hands. Without losing a day, they start ed off with Mina, who thought rest would never come to her." The only plan was to go to the consuls of the various islands till they heard news of the happy Maassen, to whom he would have to give up Mina, to be replaced by the homely original of his photograph. To less resigned natures the posi tion would have been insufferable, but these two contented themselves in the happiness of seeing each oth er daily. Hans was more in love every day with Mina, and she, alas ! often shed a tear when she looked up at the false Micheels. Ten days had already elapsed in visiting the ports most inhabited by Europeans Batavia, Cheribon, Ta got, Pekalongon. The trio often be came a duo, for Mina still suffered at sea. Every place had been tried even to Sonrabaya, and, alas ! it was chance which first gave them a clew. In the hotel where they alighted, and were telling the tale for the ninety-ninth time, they were stopped at the fiiBt word. "Micheels Maassen I He was here four days ago. A strange adventure happened to him. He was expect ing a young woman by the steamer whom he had married by proxy, on the other side, and the agent had given him another one. Maassen was not peased for the exchange was not for the better." "I believe you," said Hans, with a confidential air. "But what did he do with my wife?" "Oh ! she's yours ? Well, he took her away, feeling sure that the real husband would follow to claim her and bring him his own. He even left his address. He live3 on the other ride of the island, between Pourworedjo and Patyan." "Well," said Hans, "Here's a cool kind of a customer 1 One would im agine with him that it was rather a matter of a change of umbrellas in a cafe than of a human being. Here we are again for an eight day's jour ney." After some days at sea a furious tornado arose, sweeping everything away ; lightning Hashed, thunder rolled, and the monster waves rose like huge mountains on every side. By a miracle the ship was saved. In the morning all were surprised to find themselves alive, the captain more than any. Everything was gone; the compasses were unset; but he knew these seas so well that it made no difference. "I ought to have an island in front of me just here," he remarked, with a deep oath, "but I see noth ing." After seeking for the island half a day it was found to have disappear ed entirely with all its inhabitants. So they made for a neighboring town, but in this ever famous night the neighboring town and the au thorities to whom the captain had intended making his report, had al so disappeared. It ws no longer a question of the plantation of Van Meeruyt, of the cashier of the bank or the poor Anna. Hans and Mina were widow and widower, that is to say, free. I don't think they wept much over their respective and un known spouses. iney will not le able to marry for some week?. The Dutch law en acts that widows may not marry within a certain period of the death of their husband, so that Hans must submit to wait Her Husband. I called on a bride of a few months, early one morning, and found her pouring the breakfast cof fee for her husband. She was fairly submerged in the many billows of a sea-green robe, and on her head was a cap of more intricate conetruction than I could clearly describe in half a column. After she had kissed her spouse good-bye lor the day and we were alone in her boudoir, she threw off the head dress, and changed the elaborate gown for a plain one. "Goodness me !" I said, "is it pos sible that you achieve such a careful toilet simply for your husband ?" "Safe to bet on it, Clara," was the reply. "You mean to marry some time? Well, take my advice. When you have once taken a husband keep him. Don't let the charm of fascina tion be broken through your own carelessness. The greatest danger, don't you see, is that of the same ness of one wife, right along, will tire him of you. Now, you can't ef fect any actual chpnges in yourself. Whatever novelty of person you present must be extraneous. Isn't "I guess it is." "Well, I came to the conclusion that the time to show mvself in new aspects to my hubby was in the morning. ight gowns cant be varied much, and one can't fix her hair to any extent for the bed ; so I have made it a point to get a great number of odd toilets to appear in before him at breakfast That cap tures him anew every morning, makes him think of me all day long, and brings him back to me at night an ardent lover." I quote this advice for what it is worth. Anyhow, it seems reasona ble, doesn't it? Deceived By m, Mocking Bird. In a second-story window of a dwelling in Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, aroundjthe cornerjfrom the Flatbu3h avenue depot, of the LoDg Island railroad, and overlooking the water ing places for the horses on ex-Deacon Richardson's Seventh and Fifth avenue car lines, hass a talented mocking bird in a cage. It pipe3 all day and keeps it up late at night Regular passengers on the horse cars have learned to look for the bird's notes. It whistles like a master for his dog, chirps like a robin predict ing rain, clucks like a hen with her brood, and squeaks like a hurt chicken. Of late it has learned to imitate the whistles which the con ductors on the open horse cars use. To the grief of the hostler with the water pails, the bird succeeds to perfection in deceiving the horses. The water supply is kept in three pails on a low bench placed between the tracks. To save time both the horses are watered simultaneously by two men who hold the full pails of water to the horse's mouths. When the horses' thirst is satisfied the conductor sounds the whistle twice, and the driver loosens the brake. Then the horses start Now, while yet the horses' noses are in the waterpails the bird sounds two whis tles. The horses, taken by surprise, and expecting the whip if they delay, tip the pails of water over the hostlers with their noses and plunge forward. Of course they cannot go ahead, for the brake is on, and they are held back to finish their drink, but the air assumes a blue tinge, oweing to the picturesque profanity of the driver and hostlers. Seventy-three tons of raspberries were shipped from North Troy, Tex as, this season. Seven and one-half tons were shipped in one day. In Chicago there is one doctor to every 543 of the inhabitants, in St Louis one to every 475, in Denver one to every 260, in Idaho one to every 51, and in Wyoming one to every 30. era The Moi-al Issae. There is no doubt that supposed availability was the sole reason that controlled the Democrats in passing by such men as Messrs. Bayard, Thurman, Randall and others of like stamp, and nominating Governor Cleveland as their candidate for President Their theory was that he would run best, and be surest to carry the great State of New Y'ork, and, especially, that he would bring to the party a large accession of Re publican vctts. This theory at the time looked plausible. We are not surprised that the Democrats adopt ed it, and put forward Mr. Cleveland as a political reformer, hoping, by the cry of reform, to get possession of the Government. It turns out, however, even before the active work of the canyass has fairly begun, that, as to a most vital question of personal morals, the private character of this so-called reform candidate has been one of such rottenness as justly to destroy all claim in his behalf to the confi dence and respect of the American people. Whether the members of the Democratic Convention were acquainted with the facts, in his private life, when they nominated hint, we do not know ; but for their sake we will assume that, if they had known them, Mr. Cleveland would not have been the candidate of the Democratic Party. To nominate such a man with this knowledge, would imply a most as tounding lack of common ?ense, and an equal lack of moral and political integrity. Certain it is that the Independent lkepublicans, who ignorantly indors ed Mr. Cleveland, and publicly de clared their purpose to support him, did not know the man as the record of hU private life has revealed him to be, and which record, by Gods lightning voice, has been sent with a tiasn to every village and hamlet of the nr'tion, and thence to the very ends of the earth. These Republi cans cannot, in view of what they now know, give him their Bupport, without the gross st self-stultification, and, indeed, without iu.tlv ex posing themselves to the charge of gross and senseless hypocrisy. The simple and plain truth is that the admitted oflense of Mr. Cleveland touches upon a domain of family and public morals so vitally and so dangerous to the public good as utterly to disqualify him for the office of President, or any othr office in the gift of the people. This is the position The Independent, after a due consideration of the facts and our duty to God and man, took last j week, and means sternly to main- tarn. Any effort to evade this con clusion only makes the duty the more obvious. If it be said that what is true of Mr. Cleveland is no more than has often been true of other public men, then we reply that it is high time that all public men should be taught that personal and private virtue is not an immaterial question with the people of this country. This lesson should be so emphasized and pro claimed to the world that there will be no mistake now or here after, as to what is meant by it The immoralities of a man's pri vate life are matters which do con cern the public, when that public, with the knowledge of these immor alities, is asked to make him the Chief Magistrate of a great nation. A debauchee, known to be, or to have been, such, is not the man to be elevated to the office of President of these United States. This one fact should be fatal to him. The people should not, and, as we bilieve, will not, eo disgrace themselves in the sight of God and man, and defy the imperative mandate of sound mor als as to bestow this honor on any such base profligate. What is our common Christianity worth, and what is our boasted civilization worth, if such a black stain in the character of a candidate for ths Presidency is, in the popular esti mate, to be deemed a matter of no special consequence? What a strange spectacle such a law breaker, if elected, would present in the par lors of the White House ! What an opportunity it would give to Mor mon polygamists to sneer and laugh there at the efforts of the General Government to suppress th mon strous abominations in the Territory of Utah ! What a demoralizing Iessou it would be to the young men of the country! What a barrier to the successful teaching of morality from the pulpit or political platform, or in the halls of Congress ! All decent people, not to pay Christian pf ople, would have to bide their heads with a profound sense of shame and dis gust No ! No I ! the majority of the voters of this country will not and cannot approve of any such beast ly and heathenish standard of mor ality. At any rate, The Independent will do all in its power to prevent the election of Governor Cleveland, not from passion or any personal ani mosity to the man, not because it is a Republican paper and believes in the general principles of the Repub lican Party, and does not and never did believe in those of the Democrat ic Party, but solely in the interest of souad morals, escpecially those of the family. W hoeyer may be elect ed or defeated, let Governor Cleve land, with the knowledge the public now have of his private character, have the mark of Cain pnt upon him as the fitting end of his public career. We call upon the religious press of the nation, and also the Christian pulpit, to speak out in bold and emphatic language against his election. The issue now is a moral one, and that, too, of the gravest character; and this is no time for any timid, half-hearted, or half-way utterances. When the re ligious press and the pulpit shall cease to teach and preach good mor als, then both will become alike un worthy of respect or support -V. 1 . Independent. One and one-half bottles of Ely Cream Balm entirely cured me of Hay Fever of ten years standing. Have had no trace of it for two years. Albert A. Perry, Smithboro, New York. .k.6 I WHOLE NO. 1729. Shapely Women. A staymaker, asked by a reporter if he ever thought of studying wo man's figures with respect to their nationalities, delivered himself of the following : "Yes, the study is an interesting one. English women, when they are young, have the noblest figure, so far as I have observed," said the manufacturer, after a pause, "but they get corpulent and dowager af ter marriage, much sooner than American women, after which they may be said to have no figure at all. English women, as a rule, are less ashamed of their figures, when stout, than most other fashionables, and seldom resort to tight lacing. Mrs. Langtry is a superbly shaped wo man, say what they will, and is a fine specimen of English women in general, though I believe she is only half English, after all. Among fashionables the French ladies are apt topare the scrawnines.sbut they have a natural talent for making up and concealing their defecU that it is hard to judge of them. There are some pretty figures among the Cu ban and oiher West Indian women, but they are short, age rapidly, and j soon grow dumpy ; yet such as have j been French m ikU manaiie to make up well, l.eiinfi iferman and Irish ladies have fin figure on an average. So do the Italian lauir. The kw Holland and lk-liutu la dies I have seen, are rotund an4 es sentially built The btct ehaptd woman, in every re-pert, who comes i in this store, U a llunari.in, wite uf a musician in ou of our theater or- j chentra. Her waiat bu.it andj shoulders are like acuiptur?. Iie t j tall, willowy, atd rUtui-sque, and: her walk U the melody ot motion. 1 She doesn't walk at all, in the ordi- nary sne, but float oTer th I ground. Ht-r natural wal.t uieai-1 ure is twenty-eight and ibe do not , lace down an inch below it Jlowev er, r.ngaia figure average? or!. j "You have not sail anyth'n! about the American ladu s, "tuid tLe reporter. "I reserved them fi..r tlii- last, tr, ad a nationality, there, is most to b said agnin.t them. Aaiencuu f.i-i.- icnable women, though inclined to fragility, a a rule, have naturally excellent figures, but there are noiearue to him f..r lea of absence. other womeu. who bo persistently d? form and destroy what n:.ture ha given them, through tight lacing and general slavish obedience to the ab surdest freaks ot fashion. American women are the most nncon?cionab!e lacers in the? world. But, everything said and seen, the British feminine figures are the best modtlt. Foo Ckoo. Foo Choo, the point in china where the first attack of the French forces was made Saturday, is the capital of the Province of Foh-Kien and one of the few ports in China open to foreign trade. The Chinese name of the city is Hok-Chin, which signifies "happy region." Foo-Choo is situated iD latitude 2(5 5 north and longitude 119 20 east, about 420 miles northeast of Canton, and 375 miles southwest of Shanghai. It stands on a plain, about 2 miles from the north bank of the River Min, and 25 miles from its mouth. An amphitheatre of hills surrounds the city about 4 miles distant, and it is protected by one of the pecu liar walls of China, which is 7 miles in circumferrence, from 20 to 25 feet high, and from 12 to 20 feet in thick ness at different points. Seven gates afford entrance to the city proper through this hieh wall, and over each of the gates is a high tower which is jealously guarded district between the city by watchmen. The whole and River Min, the island of Nantai and the southern bank of the river are occupied by extensive suburbs, and the river itself is occupied by a large floating population, which lives in the boats which crowd its waters. Communication from bank j to bank of the river is afforded by a stone bridge, which is about a quar- j ter of a mile long, and is supported by 40 piers, placed at unequal dis tances. Across these piers are laid immense stones, 3 feet square and about 45 feet long, and over these a granite platform extends. The bridge is known to the natives as the bridge of 10,000 ages and is said to be over 800 years old, It is lined along the sides whith shops, and is constantly filled with the people of Foo-Choo. The city proper of Foo-Choo is reg ular built, but the streets though paved with granite and m many in stances planted with trees are filthy. narrow, and iniested witn beggars. The population of the city has been variously estimated by travelers in China at from tlOO.OOO to 4,000,000 boo Li. The most remarkable estab lishment of the city is the Arsenal, situated about three miles down the River Min. at Pagoda Island, where the seagoing vessels usually anchor. It was found in 1SC7, and has been ; conducted, under the direction of French engineers, according to Eu ropean methods. In 1670 it em ployed about 1,000 workmen, be sides 50 European Superintendents. Foo-Choo is known in China as a city of the first class, and is the seat of a Viceroy or Governor-General, whose jurisdiction extends over Fokien and Chekiang, the province adjoining Fokien to the north. The city is also a great literary centre, and numerous gentry who have re tired from office in other parta of j the empire and men of high literary j It is declared that there is no well attainments reside thee. It has j authenticated cae on record of death several cotton, paper, and hardware from the bite of either a tarantula or manufacturies, several hundred fac- j centipede, tones for making porcelaine, and j factories of blue cloth, screens, and combs. Near by are productive i i . : . 1 . .. ... I . j;.i;;r,;rtTn,vinoar.f thtdir ! VI AO IV 410 ww IhUllJ V UJllt.iJ vr iuvviv The rommerce of Foo-Choo i3 nriii-day. ci pally wilh Japan and the martini e provinces ot China, i he chiet ex ports are black teas, timber, bamboo fruits, orange peel, tobacco, potisIiTtUittle free to all who are suffering spices, grain, copper, and lead, The imports are opium, which sometimes amounts to $5,000,000 in value for a year; salt, sugar, and European manufacturies. England has an army of 45,000 men in Ireland. GoTcrtior TxMa How;. Judge R. P. Paulding told a story about Governor Todd at the reunion of the pioneers of Cleveland, Ohio, last week : in, the adjoining room, had a beauti ful voice. u Yes," said he, "r-r children all sing," and he called for his son Da vid, who entered the room. A greener looking lad I never saw ; a great, awkward lout, dressed m jeans and homespun, with a rough, stolid countenance. "What is your will, lather ?" he just I "David," said the Judge, aI want you to sing one of your nice songs for this gentleman." Without expression, without mov ing a muscle of his face, he started : " 0!J Grimes is dead, That good o!J man," and carried the air through. I was impressed, and much amused. " Ah," said my friend, " there is more in my boy than appears on the surface, if it could only be de veloped. My farm is mortgaged, and I can't afford to give him an education. " Send him to me," I replied ; M I will put him to school.' So he did ; young David became a lawyer ; in ten years he had paid off the mortgage on the old farm, and later, as Governor of Ohio, he saved the Nation from dishonor." Why t:ie Knisht Waa Like an Ol.l Muxkrt. The clock on the mantle tolled 1 A. M., and a little past and still the KnL'ht lin-ered, tryinir to think of something t say. althotich it painfully evident that the? I...roin daughter wa jut too sleepy lor any thing. I a:n afraid, Le suidat la.-t, " that I am l:keat) aucer.'' "Wherefore, Mr Knight?" sh x-ked, yawning wilh U:.tt hi-h-bred cur.y appertaining totheupir "Iau-e I l v.ro you!" he said. i r; j-ruud.y at his good rnjht -Ah. no." she aid ; vou re- tniiid me ol an old llint lo.k mu kef "Sj''en lik? a mddirr'a daugh ter." quoth he. '"And a. to how ?" " T.tke votj o ion to o otf'khe aid, k:r..l!'v. At 1:1' a. M. the portculli fell n:.i a t:arig. the drawbridge wa and Ui c:istle B!ept R. J. i ra:- d. ; Not That Kind. j : -M,r"I'" of General Thomas. w : m-ail au n-cdo!i that wm told of j him during the war. WhiFe hi , ",,:d H r rs at Na-hviile a j rur'h Wr-t Virginian a Captain j lie baid h. desired to go home and 'visit hi wife, whom he hadn't seen lor a wnoie year. A year echoed General Thomas; "why, my wife and 1 haven t seen each otuer in three years." "That may be all right for you," said the Captain; " but me'n and my wife ain t that kind of folks !" A shout of laugh ter went up from the General's staff, in which Thoma3 joined heartily, and the man got his leave. Cincin nati Saturdny Sight. Challenge to Jury. A young man of about eighteen years of age had occasion to bhoot a friend with whom he had a person al difficulty. He was arrested and brought to Austin for trial. As he had no money to hire a lawyer, the court appointed a member of the Austin bar to defend him. As the jury was being selected, the lawyer asked his client if he knew of any cause why any of them should be challenged. "Not yet," was the whispered reply ; " but if they find me guilty, I've got a brother who will challenge the last one of them. You can challenge the jude if you want to, but I want to attend to the sheriff myself." Tescu liftings. A CoDnec'ticnt Man Kpltaph. A history of East Thompson, one of the oldest villages in Connecticut, is being compiled. A canvasser who has been exploring the old gravevard3 in search of historic rec ords, has come across the following upon the tombstone of John Rich ardson, which the old folks say was cut in the stone with his own hands. It reads : JNO. RICHARDSON. Died April ye 27, A. D. 17, Aet. 7!. Here lies one Who never Sacrificed His reason to Superstition's God, nor ever Believed Jonah swallowed the whale. A. Y. S'trl. Killed by Black Hornet Steceenville, Ohio, August, 22 About one mile from Parmerville on the Western Pennsylvania Road resides Austin Brady, wh has lost a number of members of his family in a singular manner. The last one was a boy, five years old, named Henry, who in company with his sis-ter was rdaying last Saturday ! some distance lrom the houe. They got into a nest of Mack hornets and kioih children were frightfully stung by the insect). Blood poisoning followed, causing the death of the boy. The body of the little girl wan terribly swollen, but a rupter of the skin saved her life A Fortunate Diwcevery. A new light l thrown on the sub ject of Consumption by Dr. Wagner Kemp, discuvererof Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. A rem edy that has proved itself to be a remarkable compound. It does ita work thoroughly, stopping a hack ing cough instantly. Sold bv C. N. Boyd. Price 50cts. and $1.00 Trial bottle free. Get one. Casus) or Failure. Want of confidence accounts for half of the business failures ot the . C.N.Boyd, the Druggmt, is not liable to fail for the want f con fidence in Dr. Bosanko's Cough and I.nnrf SvruD. for he gives away a with vrrmwhi.- .colds, asthma, con sumption, and air -affections of the throat and lungs. """- In Japan the smallest piece of money is called "cash," and it takes about 1,000 of them to make $1.
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