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A TTORNEYS-A T-LA V.
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p a. u In Manimeth Block.
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honimii Penna,.
puSTLETHWAITE, ATTOKNET,
" rLuai 4 pactum, eud
4 w
I AW NUTIOE- Alexander H. Ooffroth ha.
Ruined the practice n law In Somerset and
dju-n Ue.1 Utfto. in Mammoth Building,
let). U, '?.
itaLENTINE HAY. ATTORNEY AT XAW
aod dealer in real iie, J " t'wli
a 'tend to all beam euirMWd "fT"11
promptness and ndeUty. K- W-V-
Ur J. H. L. BAER, ATTORNEYS AT
LA W, Somera.t, Fa, will pru
,re end edV.4nl.ig eeentiee. AU bu.M en
UuTiodu, tbBfUM promptly aueudjed U.
t (JHN H tHUATTORSEY AT LAW, SOM
.1 .Vm V - 01 promptly attend to all busino..
eV& h". "advanced on oollecUo.
ax.' umce la Mammoth HuUdtng.
1 1
MLL1AM H. Al iw . -
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iii fi""r-
ud tbe a ljolnlUK coanllea.
Uuum Kow.
Utboe In frutii
IHNU K1MMEU ATTLKSEY AT LA w ,
JlrU attend M."'"''";
. ruid u. Iiik oare In Somentetana xij.... -
r...,.t,,.a and BdeliW. Office w Jiu-
mutli bluck.
leb. i:iy
J.
O. UtiLE
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Somerset, Pa. Profe.t.ial bttlne
to u.) care attended to w lib prvinpuw- and ndelltj.
A. B. wrrltOTH.
w. a. ei prau.
ATTORNEYS AT
Law. A 11 has w cm .iiirufted to tbelr ire
be wdily and punctually attended h
Ormt K-on Mm .roM urjet' l',u:"' ,M
Mainmulb Bluck,
I01IN U. SCOTT,
" ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Son,CTtPa. Oftco up l 5 to -nh
AlltUKlucM enirutl u . care
pruiiipiaieM ai Oliiy . ,
I AMES L. l'UGII,
" ATTORNEY AT LAW,
.Lntn'r n!tt
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s
UKVEVINU,
Writioir Deeds,
Ac.
i.n -1..M.::- il rinni'HJ ter.UK .
Enquire at l'letjr A Co.' Suire.
O. F. WALKER.
AuglC
PHYSICIANS
f R. J.
u Mfl.T.KHbaii permanently located
If I
1 u Henin bir tbe practice ol Ida profession.
Mpr. 21. 'TO-tf.
Dr H. BRt'BAKER tenders hlprofel;ijal
crMCu.tbeciutena ot Sou.erc t an.r rb-in-lty.
tthreinresldenoe,onedour wei-tol tbe Bar
net Uuun.
R. E. 51.
KIMMEL will continue to jwrtkw
1 ide
i n..i i.r .rt Ilia inlf.fci"ai
eoa to tbe eltiaaua oi doiuc.
Ouuntrv. om at tbe old place, a few doom eaJt
ol tbe Ulado Howa.
D
11. A 0. MILLlH, alteriweive
.. nnnm In Shanktvilie. baa
1 . at S.neret lor the prac
tice ol ma iclne. and tender, b,. P"""'11,
ricw to t. a cltlen. ol b-ewt and
omca la bla lrur Store, opilte tlie Barart
H .use, wf.ere he can be consulted at all lime,
unlet' polwlonally eniraned.
Aer-Nlnt call, promptly anawered.
dee. u, ri-iy-
Dr. W. F. FUXDESBEKG
I.ie llr dent Surgeoii,
Ket Yort Eye ana Ear Infirmary,
Has located pcmareLtly in tie
City cf CU3EE2LAIP. Harybiia
for the IZCLUSIVE treatment of all
diseases f the Eye and Ear, includ
ing those of the JTcse and Throat.
fHre, S: aiaiiU Celre Wrefl.
Jlineai.
1ENTISTS.
DR. WM. COLLINS. UENT1ST, Somerset,
Pa. Olttca In i;Mbeer'. Bl-K-k, np .talr.,
wliereheeanataUUme.be found prepared to do
allkln i.ol work, lu. h a. illln(t, reitulatinif. ex
tractlnir. Ac. ArtlBclal teeth oi all kiu.la, and of
the best matorlal.luaerted. Operation, warranted.
JOHN BILLS,
DEITTIST.
Office In tViBroth A Nefl'i new butldlnir.
Mala Cro; Street.
Somenet, Pa.
noTll
WIvT. COIaT-,XIS3"S,
WKXTIST,
iffice lK.ve t'.aelieer A Freaae". Wore, Somerset,
pa. In tbe Inrt btteen Tear. I have irreatly re
dccotl tbe prioe. ol artibclal le-th In ihle place.
The iitant lucTeaFitm demand birteetb ba. in
dued me to ao eulaive my lacilitle. that I can
toake trood eeta ol teeth at hwcr p.i than you
.-in yet tlicui in any other place in tbi omntry
I am now making a oil rt of teeth lor ". aud II
there fhou Id lie any jiereon amm: my thousand,
ot cu.UMucr Inthip or tbe adjoining; euuntie. that
1 have made teeth bir that i. not trlvm irood aat-bla-(ioii.
they can call oo me al any ume and get
new net I roe ol charge,
maris
UT1FICTAL TEET11 1!
J. V. YIJTZV.
DEI. T I S T
DALE CITY, Joraeriet Co., fa.,
Artificial Teeth, war anted to be of the eery belt
quality, iiie-ljkeand iandftoma, Inaerted In the
bu.t tlyle. Particulai ittcntbin paid to the prr.-
arvation ui in natural imm. i ihw wMiimv vo
ouauil m by letter, oaa du ao by eneioalUK .lamp
AddroM a. abera. elx-Ti
HOTELS
J JILL norsE.
IIAliCin, SCKELSET,
FA.,
JOHN HILL, Paorairroa.
The proprietor Is prepare to accommodate gwem
lb tbe niuat titortald and .Mii.tBm.ir .
1 ne traveling public and permanent buarilera lat-
ui'imi .hb i oe nnw jet accummoilaihms
Tbe tahles will continue to he furni.hrd with tbe
best tlie market aflorua. Large and eunimudiou.
rtAuiiua; auacueu. lanU
D
IAMOND HOTEL.
s roYSTowsr ia.
SAMUEL Ct;STKK, l'roprictor.
TbU pobllar and well known kouae I. at aH
. o -'fble nca.ping place fur tbe traveling
publle Tile and Hili hntrln
tiling. H ?k tear dally lor JehBMjwa and 1
aidorl. j
S2500
A I t.AH. Area wanted. Dual-
nes hirtrtn,t. Partlcnlars -r..
.Tl.T . M known world. AatMeu Wahkf rtt u i
ltJ-lOmt. Addreea,A.tLTgCCIucego. 1
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VOL. XXVI. NO. 43.
BANKS, ETC.
J. O.KIMHEL&S0SS,
Sacccuon to
Schell & Kimmel,
SOMERSET, PA.
Accounts of Merchants and oth
er Business People Solicited. Drafts
negotiable in all parts of the Coun
try for sale. Money 'oaned and
Collections made.
janU
:o:-
Somerset County Bank
CHARLES J. HARRISON.
Cathier ami Manager.
Colbt'lha made iu all parts of tl.el'nlted Sutea.
t'barnef moderate. Mutter and otber cbecki oil
lerted and cali-d. Eatern and Wecrnexchanre
alwaya on ban I. Renilttiinee made with prompt
new. Aecint ..liiitcd.
Partit" deflrlnn to puri-ha U. S. 4 PER
CENT. Fl'NUEIl LOAN, can be accommo
dated at thi Haiik. The mpon are prepaid In
dcnomlnitlon of ftj
Totecco aid Ciprs,
WUDLKRALX AKD RETAIL,
. II. Zimmerman,
lixn Cross St-,
Somerset, Penna.
Ti e hert if c!irr of dIRerent brand, manufac
tured Ir hluiwli. oi the elioiwMol totweeoa.
Tline rlunm rannit tcxielled bv any in the mar.
ket. Ot;e r tbe be t ki of obewlnif biba-w
erer brouxht to Somemet. Price to relt tbe
tlnaee. jan
BOOTS A 1ST 13 SHOES.
PAItliMK Til K AT,
Late of Allejhenj Cily, 'a., ha
removed to
SOMI'.HSET, l'ENXA.,
and opened out a fhop, f.ir the manufacture of
Boots, Shoes and Gaiters,
in tbe U'llJlng, corner .Main aud Pleaf'int St...
E.ift of lllmid.
Hel able to turn out firbvlaii work at the.
lnwrsl ricf. and will "'ranteo perfect sati
lacii. to all who iriie him their "atronaire. Or
der. pr.iiiirtly at ended to. Repairing ne.lly
doue. inov. 'Ji-aui.
S.R.P1LE
DEALER IN
FLO U It AXJ FEED
Groceries, Confections,
QuccnBware, Willow ware.
Salt, Fish,
Tobacco
etc..
and Cigar,
atC. atC,
New Stock.C8
OXE VU1VK.
All Goods Positively
SOLID -A-T
EOTTOIVI PRICES.
FAIR AND SQUARE
IS
Our INlotto.
Do ot I'all to Uie
NO. 2, BAER'S BLOCK A CALL,
Whi-n doing your
SHOPPING.
Karui. b aell and exebana-e. We
have hnndrrd or cu.itiuier.
w.int!itn td lo; larin in?t n-w. Nerer knew a
b.-tiertfioetoiicll AcrCaat (air price., a. people
are liftinir motiev from bankr and peeking Acre,
lot aaletv. Add'ren S.M.JAMES,
Pbr.hurgh Kara Ag-ner, 1S4 Smithbcld SL
Plttlmntb. Pa.
Thorn in pcarcli of fHrn.i wnd for printed Farm
RciiWer.
Nov.
O W. KADDI.KR, St. D.
Ociilistt hikI AiiriKt,
OFFIt'E AMI INFIRMARY,
X. o Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa.
All disease, of F.YK, KAK and
1 1I ROAT. and CKlMrrb euoce.wiul-
Iv troate.1. Operations lor t'alitrsirt.
''False Prplls'-Crooked Eyos.-'-WHd
Hulrs," Cancer and Tumors of tbe
lids.' Ear, Nose or Throat, Ptrtlflain,
"Weeping Eye.," Ptosis. Conical Oor-
(ft.
aea.torrlgn Rollea, Extlriatliin. Ac, .kllllnlly
Jieriorniede Arttheial Eye. inserted. Send for
los criptiv aod illustrated pamphlet of eaaea.
Julli
WALL PAPER!
Spring Slot k Immense: Per from c np! All
tbe new style of Dados, borders and Jrlftes.
Paiers ol every grade, style and quality, at lower
prb-es than can le found In rhe city. Sample
Screen newly papered with latest parlor paper..
A bur display ol New Hoods for every room a
houe contains.
Nsw York Paper Store.
Bet. th and ;tb Ave'.
lrjSrjiltbfleld Street.
March 20
PlTTaM'SMiH.
DIPHTHERIA!
Jobns-m's Am.lvne Lliitmeul will ins! lively jar
vent Ibis trnlhlertjmiar.and will positively cure
nine cares in ten. lnlortuatHio that will save many
lives sen! tree l.y mall. Don't delay a moment
Prevention Is lwtter than cure. I. . JuH.
MO! A- '., Kaa.r, Malato.
March
FITS,
urc iti kin j t
EPILEPSY
FALLING SICKNESS.
POSITIVELY CURED, the worrt case. of the longest
tan-tirg by usiug OR, HEBBARO'S CURE. "NO
I MUHBUB," IT HAS CURIO THOUSANDS. Wdl
j gW $1,000 for I case it will sot benaM. A Sample
!.'.." an aoore-siug aj. ... .SSHHI.E.E,
' (.). -si.
Ilri aindtr.Kree ailbev.ry order.l'liit
VWui free. J. b. Waj lord Co, UutaJ, UL
8
.MISCELLANEOUS,
LA BUI M. Hltia
Agents for Fire an! Lile Iiisuraiice,
JOHN HICKS & SON,
SOMERSET. PA..
And Real Estate Brokers.
ESTABLISHED 1&50.
Pereona who dettre to aell. buy or exchanite prop
ertv, or lor rent will find It to tbelr advantage to
remitter the deacrlpUon thereof, al no ebaiye U
made unleM told or rented. Real etate builneM
generally will be promptly attended to.
aunli.
URL1NG, FOLLANSBEE & CO,
Merchant Tailors,
And Mamufhot-arera ol
Gent's. Youth's and Boys,
Mmk (Mini an3
FDraisMai Gocfc
XO. 42 I T1I ATETE.
PITTSBURGH.
CLATERO 0 F S.
Thow who are now building bouses should know
that I. It chcaiirr In the long run to put on Slate
Roof, ttan tin or .hlngle.. Slate will last forever,
and norejialr. are required. Slate give, the pur
est water f.ircl.tema. Slate i. bre proof. Every
g.jod bouse should have a Slate roof. Tbe under
signed is located In Cumberland, where be baa a
good supply ol
Peachbottom & Buckingham
8 L A. X E
lor rootling the very txut article. He will under
take to put Slate R.ads on Hou.-J. public aud pri
vate, spirca. ..: either in town or country at the
l.m est prices, and to warrant Hit at. t'all and see
bim or add res him at his utfloe. No. 110 Knltimore
Street, CumoerUnd, Md. Orders may be left with
IfUlH CASEBEER,
Agent, Somerset, Pa.
Wa. H. Sninrv.
Apr) h. 187.
E. H.
WITH
ROUSE, HEMPSTONE & CO.
285 15alt. St., Baltimore, M. 1).,
Wt'Uld rofctliiHy nek the mrrrhjint of Somer
set evil tit y, to f nJ bim thffr "Tiler? Itr
FANCY GOODS
asurtng them aatlnfaction both a. regard, price
and quality of gfaaia. The merchants visiting
Italtiuiore are urgently requested to call and see
me before making purcbaata.
HIGHEST AIABJE!
Centennial
Exhibition.
J. REYNOLD S & SON,
NORTH W EST CORN ER
THIRTEENTH AND FILBERT STS.
PHILADELPHIA,
MANUFACTURES OF PATENTED
Wrought-Iron Air Tight Heaters
WITH SHAKING AND CLINK tRfiRlND
1NO ORATES FOR BURNING ANTHRA
CITE OH BITUMINOUS COAL.
CENTENNIAL
WROUGHT-IRON HEATERS,
FOR BITUMINOUS COAL.
KEYSTONE
WROUGHT-IRON HEATERS,
Cooking Ranges, Low-Down
Crates, Etc.
Inscriptive Circular, sent free to any address.
EXAMINE BEFORE SELECTING
Aprils.
Cook & Beerits'
FAMILY GROCER!
Flour and Feed
We would most respectfully announce to our
mends anil tbe publ Ic generally,
In tbe town and
vicinity of Somerset, that we have opened
New store on
our
MAIN CfiOSS SWEPl
And in addition to o full Una of the beat
ConTertlonerleM, Xotions,
Tobacooo, Cigar. 4c
We will endeavor, at aU time.,
turners with tlie
to supply our cut-
BEST QUALiTY OF
FAMILY FLOUR,
CORN-MEAL,
OA TS, SHELLED CORN,
OA TS CORN CHOP,
BRAN, MIDDLINGS
And everything partalnlng to the Feed Depart
ment al in.
LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES.
Fon
CASH ONLY.
Alan, a well selected stoc. of
Ulaafwara; Stoneware, Woodeawar, Bnubei
al kuKia. and
STATIONERY
Which we wlU aeU as eht ip as tbe cheapest.
Please call, examine car goods of all kind.,
be satisfied from your owa Judgment
Don't forget where w nay
MAIN CROSS Strati, Somerset, Pa.
fARDWELL
omer
SOMERSET,
DOES AXYOXECABEFOR FATHER?
Doe any one ear aught for latbei ?
Does any one think of tbe one
I'pon whose tired, bent shoulders,
Tbe cares of the family come '
Tbe father who Writes for your comfort.
And toll, on from day unto day.
Although bis step, ever grow slower,
And bis dark locks are turning to gray.
Doe. any one think of tbe dutbllU
He Is called upon dally to pay ?
Milliner bills, college bills, doctor bills.
There are some kind of bill, every day.
Like a patient hone In a treadmill,
. He works on from morwtng till night ;
Docs any one think be Is tired,
Does any on make his borne bright ?
Is it right, jut because be look, troubled.
To say be', as cross a. a bear t
Kind words, little action, of kindnew.
Might banish his burden ofre.
'TIs lor you he U ever fo anilons
He will toll for you while he may live :
In return be only ask. kbvlness.
And such pay 1. easy to give.
THE HXOW-BXOSNOM.
There is a flower that grows only
amongst the buows of tbe Alpine
mountains as far as I know only
in the Alps. It is white all over
stems, leaves and blossoms white
as the snow itself; aod to have gath
ered one is to have proved one's self a
rare climber. There are verv few of
these blossoms to be found ; and ss
they grow in tbe most dangerous
places, as though tbey desired to
bide themselves from all; lady tour
ists, who find themselves amongst
tbe Alps, grow enthusiastic in regard
to this flower, and are wont to say
that they would dare anything to get
one; but wnen devout nusuacas ana
well paid guides have done their
best (or them, tbey still return to
town without the blossom. No wo
man yet has ever picked one.
"Not many men either," says the
landlady of the "Golden Dove,"
standing before her English gnests,
and chatting f the sun-flower; "few
men. Now and then, one very much
in love finds one for bis Bweet heart.
It is as Uough he said, 'I have
rit-ked my life for you.' A girl can
never refuse so brave afello-. Ah,
you would not believe it now, but
my good man thought me worth
winning with a snow-blossom. I
wore it in my hair on our betrothal
day."
"Ob, Charles," whispered Lady
Ida to her husband, as she clings
closer to his arm, "how can a woman
bear that the man who loves her
shall rick bis life to punper her
pride V
"These Alpine hunters are real
lovers," says Lady Bertha, looking
at tbe tall and eleeant man beside
her. "A girl could not say 'No,' 89
tbe landlady says, to one who has
proved himself so much in earnest.
If I had a wooer here, I should bid
bim bring me a snow-blossom if be
would win me."
Tbe man beside her. Sir Herbert
Vane, was Terr ranch in love. Un
der such circumstances, both men
and women lose their common sense.
"Will yon send me to bring you
the snow-blossom V he whispered.
She looked at bim and smiled.
"They say it is at the rirk of life,"
she answered.
"Life is valueless unless one has
that which makes it happy," said ho.
She answered, "Bring me the
snow-blossom."
Late that afternoon, old Pierre,
young Pierre, and Jean, the guide,
stood with Sir Herbert on the wild
est and most precipitous of the moun
tain heights. Tbey bad reached a
yawning chasm, and had come to a
halt.
"Sir," said old Pierre, "you are a
good mountaineer, but you were not
bora to it. Up yonder, little Jean
declares there is a snow-blossom.
He alone of us four can take that
leap in safety. Once, at his age, I
could, but not now. His brother,
never ; you impossible, although you
have needed so little of our help.
Jean will bring you tbe flower."
"I must pluck it with my own
bands," said Sir Herbert.
"Then you will pay for it with
your own life !" said tbe old man.
Tbe Englishman laughed. He
drew an opera-glass from his pocket,
and looked through it.
"I see tbe flower," said he.
Tbe next instant, amidst the
cries of tbe mountaineers, he bad
taken the leap. Contrary to their
expectations, he did it in safety.
They saw him stoop and pluck the
flower, hold it alcft, take it between
bis teetb, and turn toward tbem.
Then their practiced eyes saw that
bis foot slipped. He endeavored to
regain his balance, but in vain. In
an instant he hung over the edge of
precipice, tbe stunted tufts of grass
bis only hold on life. There was no
possibility of helping bim. He was
past aid. Cool and brave to the
last, he cautiously endeavored to
brace himself against the rock. Per
haps if he could not climb upward,
he could clamber down. His foot
rested at last on a projection. It
was just in time. His fingers were
giving way.
"Hold on ! hold on, sir !" cried the
guide. "In s few minutes we can
give yon a rope. For the love cf
the saints don't look down !"
"He holds the snow-blossom be
tween cis leetn yet." said young
Jean, a lover bimself, and well aware
why this flower was so eagerly
sought "Father, we must save
that man."
Prepared to take a leap which
would place him in a position whence
a rope might be flung about the
brave Englishman, be stood 'poised
npon tbe rock; but at this instant
the foothold to which Sir Herbert
trusted gave way. His weight had
forced the rock frim its position it
fell, and be fell with it. The guides
ottered a yell, and stood staring
down into tbe abyss. Far below
tbey saw a dark figure lying across
tbe jagged rocks. And as it lay, a
stray sunbeam flashed out on some
thing white. It was the snow-
flower.
We must take the dead bodr
back and the horrible story," said
the old man. "Ab, who wonld be a
gnide to men who will not be guid
ed !"
Then no more was said. Scram
bling, sliding. lowering themselves
by means ot tbe rope, father and
sons at last gained tbe spot to which
Sir Herbert bad fallen in an instant
nelpless he lay across the rocks,
set
EST-A'PLIHED, 182
PA.; WEDNESDAY,
While with agODy, but not senseless,
Ilia ejes were wide open, and bis
lips drawn bark in pain, showed,
still held between the broad, white
teeth, by its loog stem, the snow
blasEom which bo had plucked at
euch fearful cost. The eyes turned
toward Jean. lie knew what the
helpless hands would hare done if
they could, aud took the flower.
"I have only a little while to
speak," gasped" the writhing man.
"Jean, take this to Lady Bertha.
leu her 1 picked
it with my own
band, and and that I have gone on.
Pierre, you two mutt take me else -
where not back to the hotel. Tell j
none of tbem of my file swear ;
tell none of them I am wounded. I !
havo a friend in Borgen ; he will Pee!
that too are Well paid; take me
there.'' i
"But, monsieur, what shall I say
how explaia f sobbed Jean.
"No explanation," cried the
wounded man. "Keep it from her.
Give her the fljwer and and my
love." And be fainted.
It was not until tho next morning
that Jean, tbe guide, stood before
Lady Bertha, with the snow-blossom
in his hand. He found his task very
hard.
"M .idciuoiselle," he said, "the gen
tleman, Sir Herbert, has sent you
this flower with bia love. He bade
me declare to you that be picked it
himself. He did, I saw bim made
moiselle." r
"Why did her not bring it to me
himself?" thought Lady Bertha,
taking tbe rare, blossom io bcr
hand. i
Aloud sho sail : "Many thanks to
Sir Herbert. But he has also re
turned ?" '
"No, mademoiselle.,'
"He is coming !'
"I think not. madenioidulle
He
bado we say be bad gone on."
"Gone on ! You mistook."
Jean's task grew harder yet.
"No, mademoiselle. He said he
has gone on with my father and
brother Pierre. I think he is not
coming back."
Then be fairly turned and ran
away.
Tbo Lady Bertha became red as a
rose, then pale 83 the snow-flower
that she held.
"Ab, she understood now," she
said to herself. This was a punish
ment for her. She had permitted
him to risk hia life to win her love,
and now he told her plainly that her
lave was not worth the r'sk, though
he was too brave to shrink danger.
It was repetition of the old storv of
the lady who threw her glove into
the lion's deu, and bid her lover to
bring it to her; he brought it, but
only to fling at her. So Sir Herbert
had, as she believed, pnnished her
In bitter wrath Lady Bertha flung
tbe snow-blossom to tbe earth and
trampled upon it.
Meanwhile father end son, old
Jean and young Pierre, bore the
sad and nearly lifeless burden toward
Borgen.
A year had passed. Lord Charles
and bis bride had been traveling all
this while ; his sister with them.
No news bad reached them of Sir
Herbert ; no letter, no message. He
was not in England or they should
have heard. Ada had whispered to
her husband that she fancied Bertha
somehow at tbe bottom of bis sud
den departure, so that the other
young man found the matter easily
explainable.
"Bertha has retuscu nim, silly
girl," he said. "She should be
proud of such a lover; that is tbe
sort of girl who throws herself away
at last upon a rascal. I have no
hope for her."
And Bertha? Ab, poor Lady
Bertha was unutterably wretch
ed. She had loved Sir Herbert, and
?he bad lost him by ber own silly
act. She was humbled by her own
vanity. And now she knew how
dear this man had been to her, and
how empty her life would be without
bim.
They were in England again, and
friends flocked about them.
"Welcome home," cried one gen
tleman, shaking hands vigorously,
"Welcome home. I am glad to see
you with whole bones after so much
mountain climbing. There have
been accidents without number. One
or two have been killed, and, of
course, you know about poor Sir
Herbert. He was with vonr party,
wasn't he?"
"About Sir Herbert "
Each looked at tbe otber.
"We know nothing, except that he
lelt us without any adieux." said L a-
dy Ida.
"Ab, it was after that, then!
Well, they brought Lim home last
week a mere wreck. Spine injur
ed, tbey say. Fell down one of
those horrible precipices; and you
did not know r"
Lad r liertba waited to bear no
more. She crept out of the room,
and found her way to her own, where
she migbt indulge .her emotion with
out restraint. Those few words told
her tbe whole story. She knew why
he bad not returned to the inn. She
knew nojv the cost of the snow-blos
som on which she had trampled
"Oh, Herbert, Herbert !" moaned
the proudest lady in all England
"Herbert, darling, will my whole
life atone in any measure for what I
have dene? If it may, you shall
have it."
Then, with trembling bands, she
attired herself for a drive, and or
dered her carriage. She knew that
Sir Herbert Vane would be found at
his mother's residence, and she drove
thither at once.
It is Herbert that I wish to see,
not Lady Vane," she said to the ser
vant, who stared at ber in astonish
ment. "Give bim my card. I know
be is an invalid, but he will see me."
In ten minutes more the door of
the darkened room was opened, and
she crept in.
A figure lay motionless on a couch,
and two eager eyes looked toward
her.
"Come closer," said a faint voice;
"I am unable to ofTer you a chair or
even my hand. Perhaps you have
beard that I have met with a severe
accident?"
"You brave, great-hearted man,"
she said, "you refrain from taunting
me, from telling me that I bade vou
bring the enow-blossom ! Ob, I
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AITJL 3, 187S.
j know ail. It was in plucking that
j that you fell. Tell me, do jou hate
! me Lt it?"
He smiled tenderly.
'Hate you!" he said. "Bertha,
let me keep one thought through the
dull life that I must lead. If I bad
brought you the flower would you
have given me the right to ear I
loved yon?"
1 be proud bead bent itself Ine
cheek laid against bia own.
'You plucked the snow-blossom
fjr me," she said. "I have brought
i you the mean and miserable reward
, myself. Such as I am, take me.
Let me be your faithful wife and do
all that a wife may do to alleviate
your Bufferings. 1 offer myself to
you, and if you refuse me I shall de:
serve it."
"You know that I lie here like a
helpless log. You would sacrifice
yourself to be nurse to one like me.
I love you, but I dare not "
But she sealed his lips with ber
first kiss.
So the most romantic marriage cf
the year took plaeo before long, be
side Sir Herbert's couch, and the
fe w guests gave tearful kisses to the
wedded pair, and cried over their
f.ue in earnest afterward. But from
the hour Bertha's lip3 touched his,
Sir Herbert seemed to grow stronger;
and by slow degrees he recovered,
not all his strength and beauty per
haps, but still so much that life is a
blessing, and to bis wife, at least,
he seems tbe very handsomest of
men.
1 he Telephone
A correspondent requests us to
give a description and explanation of
the telephone. It is somewhat dif
ficult to describe without diagrams,
but we wiil endeavor to comply with
our friend's request as far as we can.
If a wire from a galvanic battery
be wound around a piece of steel and
a current of electricity passed through
tbe wire, the piece of steel will be
come a magnet that will attract and
bold bits ot iron; and if the wire is
extended and wound around anctber
piece of steel in the same manner,
that also will become a magnet sim
ilar to the first. If now the two
ends of the wire be joined together,
every time a pucb cf sofc iron is
brought in contact with ither of the
magnets, a current of electricity will
pass through the wire, although there
ia no longer a galvanic battery at
tached. And this will be tbe case
though the magnets be one mile or a
hundred miles apart. And,- what is
more remarkable, these currents of
electricity may be sent through the
wire without the actual contact of
the piece of iron with the steel bar.
If tbe iron is brought near to one cf
the magnets without touching it, and
tben withdrawn, and electric thrill is
felt in tbe distant magnet, just as if
the contact had been made and bro
ken. And so, if a piece of iron be
moved backward and forward before
tbe magnet, no matter bow rapidly
or slightly, each motion is felt as an
electric pulse in the magnet at the
other end. We have here the funda
mental principle of the telephone.
No galvanic battery is employed to
furnish an electrical current, as in the
case of the telegraph, but the cur
rents in the wires are produced by
tbe emotion of a piece of soft iron
near tbe magnet
Of course these motions are not
made by hand, but with a delicately
constructed instrument, the import
ant part of which is a thin iron plate
suspended near tho magnet, and both
of these encased in a brass tube to
which a close fitting mouth piece is
attached.
It is well known that sounds are
conveyed by waves that travel swift
ly from their sources, and we hear
them because these waves strike in
rapid succession upon the drum cf
tbe ear. It is also understood that
these waves differ greatly and are
very complex, depending upon tbe
rapidity of vibration in the sounding
body, and it is this which causes
such marked peculiarities of tone In
different musical instruments, and the
voices of different, individuals. Now,
these waves, started by a person
talking into the mouthy piece abeve
described, cause tbe thin and del
icately bung iron plate to vibrate,
and these vibrations, though they
may be ever so delicate, will each
affect the magnet and cause move
ment of electricity through the wires,
which will affect the magnet at tbe
other end and cause the iron plate
there to vibrate in precisely the same
manner. This gives out a new set
of air waves which, falling upon tbe
drum of the ear of thejistener, repro
duce the original sound of voice.
The arrangement being the same at
each end, the machine, of course,
works both ways.
Tbe telephone is much more inex
pensive than the telegraph, and easi
er to operate. The longest distance
at wtiicn conversation nas been car
ried on through it is about two hun
dred and fifty miles.
Where Rellgloa Failed.
At night old Gumbo was accustom
ed to retire to his lonely cabin to
light bis tallow candle and pore over
a dog-eared, dilapidated Bible, and
as be read ha would at brief inter
vals pause and devoutly exclaim
with tearful, upraised eyes:
"Oh I cum do good angel ob de
Lor' an' take poo' Gumbo home to
rest"
It happend of a dark night, when
by the light of bis tallow dip he was
intently studying his Bible, there
came three solemn, measured raps on
tbe cabin door. Gumbo heard and
grew pale with fear, and immediate
ly with a spasmodic jerk, blew out
the light and demanded to know,
"Who am dat are knockiu at dis are
door ?"
"The good angel of the Lord has
come to take poor Gumbo up to
rest."
When tremblingly, with supersti
tions fear, believing that the good
angel of the Lord was really standing
at tbe door, he answered:
"I kno's dat niggah Gumbo, but
dat ar niggah don't lib heah ! Why,
dat ar Gumbo am jes dun gone ded
dese fo' yeas ! Yes he am ! be jes
dun gone ded dese fo' yeas." AVic
Bedford Mass.) Mercury.
I yi p(
J. Jloi oiltl
Irax-si Abata.
The
says :
Last
Virginia (Nev.)
Chronicle!
i
week the Aunin brothers
went out to shoot at a loog range
with the Nationals, and after tbe fun
was over the members cf the compa
ny began to teil yarns about good
shooting. One knew a fellow who
had, in early times, shot another
through the fesd with a Colt's re
volver at eighty yards. Another had
vivid recollections of the time when
he was able to hit snow birds on tbe
wing with a rifle. A third, not to
be outdone, solemnly asserted that
he had ofteu killed two sea-guls with
one ball by firing vt hen they crofsed
each other.
Tbe Nationalists had an idea that,
with the example before them, the
An.stin brothers would spin some big
yarns, but much to everybody's dis
appointment they only heaved a joint
sigh and started for the door.
' Say," sang out one of tbe Virgin
ia men; "can't vou tell U3 Romethinsr
about your crack shooting?"
One of the brothers turned back
and sat down. There was a dead
silence for a while, and presently he
began:
' Some years ago I was cut in
New York Sta!e hunting grouse.
There was an old man along who
was somewhat near-sighted. AVe
were just at the edge of the farm,
when suddenly one of my favorite
gamecocks jumped up on the fence
and he drew a bead on it, mistaking
it for a grouse. I didn't have a sec
ond to lose, and so I just threw up
my rifle and quickly knocked off the
left nipple of his shot gun at fifty
yards, so that when the hammer fell
the nipple and cap wouldn't be there
see ?"
"You saved the bird, then?'' chip
ped in an attentive listener.
"No," said Austin, sadly: ''I pick
ed oat the wroug nipple, the fellow
fired the right hand barrel and blew
my fifty dollar gamecock all to ptic
es!" Tbe crowd quietly dispersed.
The Kknak Tamer
l'
A few d?.ys ago a young feline cf
the pole-cat species tock possession
cf a small cellar adjoining Joseph
Griggs' cabin, near the Troy mine,
North Virginia district. Grigg spec
ulated for some time ia what way be
could get rid of tbe varmint without
having his winter's supply cf ham,
bacon, and potatoes permeated with
the pungent aroma peculiar to the
aaiuial. Accordingly he determined
to make friends with the intruder,
and, by way of conciliation, he pass
ed up t the skunk, who perched on
one of -be upper shelves, a savory
morsel ot raw meat, wnicn was ea
gerly devoured. After feeding the
animal in this manner for two or
three days, he became so tarre that
he would eat out of bis hand without
fear. Yesterday Griggs carried a
board into the cellar,-with which be
made a bridge form tbe shelf to bis
shoulder. Mr. Skunk, tempted by a
choice morsel of boiled beef, walked
on to the board, eating all the while
out cf his entertainer's band. Griggs
backed slowly out of the cellar, car
rying aloog with him the board with
its precious burden, and drew a long
breath of relief as be landed tbe skunk
on tbe ground outside tbe cabin. His
young dog, coming along just at that
moment, proceeded to iuterview the
little animal, and, when last seen,
was making for tbe foot-hills, and
plowing up the snow with hith his
nose Virginia (Nev.) Enteririe.
A Bite.
In Chili there is an elderly farmer
who is passionately fond of sport
especially fi?bing and hunting and
he has a son who is a chip of tbe old
block in that as well as ia otber re
spects. One day last summer the old gen
tleman left home, but before going
set bis boy at a job he was anxious
to have done, lleturuing sooner
than he was expected, be found that
the boy was missing.
"Where's Tom?'' he growled, a3 he
entered the kitchen.
"Gone fishing," said tbe girl.
"Fishing ! the rascal; I'll fish him
when I catch him."
And away the angry old fellow
went tor the brook. Ccniiag within
bailing distanco of his hopeful son,
who was bending eagerly over the
stream, the father yelled:
"Tom ! you scoundrel, Tom I"
There was a deprecating move
ment cf one han l on the part of the
boy, wbo did not, however, turn bis
bead. Still more angry the aveng
ing parent came nearer and bawled
out
"I'll learn you to stuy home and
work when"
"Sb! sh! sh! father," said young
Isaac Walton. "I've got a bite."
J be old lellow's passion percepti
bly cooled at tbat announcemeut,
and, lucky for the boy, the latter just
tben bauled up a handsome perch.
This was too much for tbe dad, who
sprang forward and bslped unbook
the Gsb, and then
"Tom, have you got another hook?"
Victory perched ou tbe boy's fish
line.
PaZnliug Jag.
"The hand that rocks the cradle,"
paints jugs. When we began this
we were going to say something real
mean and sarcastic about tbe concen
tration of all tbe womanly intellect
and ambition in the United States,
npon the labor of painting vague at
trocities on jugs and things, wlen
we happened to remember how many
women's brothers and husbands we
had seen wasting their brain tissues
and devoting long, patient months to
the coloring ct a meerschaum pipe
no bigger than a cork, and we hastily
dropped into, the lame and harmless
conclusion noted above Rurlinjlon
Hairleye.
It is folly to pay forty cents for a
sheet of music when yoa can go to
church and get it by the choir for
nothing.
George A. Balser, of Cleveland,
has purchased the trotting mare
Adelaide, with a record 2:21 J. The
price paid is understood to be -20,-000.
WHOLE NO. 1395.
ItegaliMlone la Wldea Tines
Tne following were the remarkable
regulations to be observed by certain
' members cf Henry VIII's household
"His highness' baker shall nut put
alum in the bread, nor mix rye, oaten
or bean tijur with the same, and if
j detected be shall be put into the
stocks. His highness' attendants are
not to steal any locks or keys, tables,
forms, cupboards or other furniture
of noblemen's or gentleoien's houses,
where he goes to visit. Master
j cocks shall not employ such scullions
as lie all night on tbe ground before
kitchen fires. No dogs to be kept io
the court, but only a few spaniels fjr
tbe ladies. Dinners to be at ten and
suppers at four. The officers cf his
chamber shall be loving together
no grudging, or grumbling, or talk
g of the king's pastime. The king's
barber is enjoined to be cleanly.
There shall be no romping with tbe
maids on the staircase, by which
dishes and other things are often bro
ken. Tbe grooms shall not steal bis
straw for beds, sufficient being allow
ed to tbem. Coal only to be allowed
to the kiDjr's. oueen's and Lady Mi
ry s chambers. 1 he brewers
put any brimstone in the ale.
not to
Twen -
ty-four loaves a day for his highness'
grayhound3. Ordered that all gen
tlemen and noblemen at the end of
the session cf Parliament depart to
their several counties on pain of the
royal displeasure.
Ilerolam wf the ,M order el Itnok Cavil
ler. Memoranda left by J. W. Barron,
the murdered cashier of the Pester
Savings Bank, show that tho robbers
secured about four hundred and six
ty dollars of the bank's funds, and
li'iOO belonging to the to vn.
heroism cf the murdered man
Appears greater than was at
supposed. The fact that tbo
Tbe
now
first
cash
tray bad not been returned to tbe
safe makes it probable that the bur
glar chest was cot locked at the lime
of the attack. Thc?o knowing the
ways cf the business at the baok say
that it was Mr. Barron's custom uot
to lock the barglar chest during ifce!
day, only to turn the knob bLti'wient
ly to hold the door ic ,n e. This
chest wa3 fouud fully ' iVcked afier
the murder. It seems liktlv, from
the way Mr. Barron was seated,
mat toe tuieves -navic-' taaen bim
from the rear room, f.u ,;cseil this
chest was licked, and t-ootui.ib'ied
him to open it; that he appt-eatly
acceded to their reques;; but, hav
ing got his band oa the k i'jb, rul!y
locked it in their very facts, it is
probable that they, exasperated at
his Conduct, did all in their power to
compel him to open the chest, and
failing in this, lefi him for dead in
bis own treasure house. The Calais
National Link. Tuesday, passed re-
olutions of sympathy for his family,
and voted to send Mrs. Barron .,0U
in recognition ot toe sacni.ee.
SpringfeM ( Mat ) Union.
lave IC MmI.
Senator Edmunds sajs there are
so many Presidential candidates on
the Committee on Judiciary that bus
iness is very much behind. lie says
tbat on the day when the Committee
meets C -nkling will come in first and
find a sliui attendance. He will sit a
little while, impatiently, and say :
"Well. I don't suppose there wiil
be aquorum this morning, and I hare
other matters to attend to. If Davis
and Thurman would drop their Pres
idential aspirations and attend to
committee business we could do some
thing." And he will go out. Then Thur
man will ccme in and as-k -.
"Where is Conkling V
' When told that he had been in and
left to lock after other affairs, he will
say :
"Where's Davis?"
"Davis hain't come."
"Well," Tburmau will say, "Cock
ling and Davis have got the Presiden
cy on the brain, and ot course we
can't expect anything of them. Call
me when yoa get a quorum."
And he will go out. Then Davis
will come in and say :
"Well, Conkling and Thurman are
absent again. Those two men are so
busy working np their Presidential
campaigns that they neglect their
Senatorial dutiei'."
And so it goes every week, Ed
munds says.
How fthe tanghl film.
Mrs. Johnson is like all the rest
ct tbem. She loves Johnson as a
wife should and she knows that he
doesn't pass ao hour out of twenty
four where he would be ashamed to
take her. Still, when the carrier
came along the other day and slip
ped a letter under the door, she seiz
ed it, fell into a chair and exclaimed:
"What! a letter for Walter?"
Yea, it was a letter for her hus
band a plain brown envelop aud
tbe superscription was ia a solid bus
iness band.
"A plot!" she whispered; "dis
guised hand plain came to tbe
bouse by mistake '."
She held the letter up to tbe light,
turned it over and over, add tbec be
gan to plan what she would do in
case it turned out to be from a wo
man. "May be from a widow," she mus
ed, "or from a Eentimental youag
lady tbat wants to separate us if it
is if any living woman dares to at
tempt to take him away from me, I
will never rest till I poison her '. Ob,
Walter f did I ever suspect you of
this ! Have I married a villain, and
can I ever live through tbia ordeal?"
She leaned back and wept as if
death bad invaded the bouse. Fi
nally, imbued with something of the
energy of desperation, she tore open
the letter, pressed per left hand to
her throbing heart and read:
"Walter Johnson, to Gray .1 Day,
butchers, debtor for three hm,
$G 20."
A traveller ia western Iowa while
riding along came to a large sign,
which implored him to look out for
tbe locomotive. He accordingly
rode down the track for a better
view, and wcile be was obligingly
locking out for it, it came along. He
saw it, but he had to sit in the ditch
aod wait until a freight train of thirty-seven
cars passed by, before be
could get back to tbe other piece of
his horse.
I Hrrloa J n i .
Ia the years agone, when the ol
Marine Barracks were over on thi
hillside, outside of the Navy Yard
in Crooklya, N. Y., some of the sol
siers, one cold, stormy day, though
what a grand thiog it would be u
brew a punch, hot and strong, ia hon
or of a squad who bad been detached
anJ were upon the following day tc
go on board ship for the Brazilian
station.
There was money enough to pay
for the liquor to pay for a barrel ot
it but bow to get it into the bar
racks, that was the question. Never
a man came ia from liberty without
being overhauled by the sergeant of
the gjard from top to toe. Not a
vial as larg? as a fisgr r rould be hid
den from tbore sharp eyes and sharp
er Eager3.
At letg'.b cp spoke Tim Murphy.
Said he: "Mke bp thi money, boys,
and I'il go out and bring in the liq
uor. I'm down for liberty to-day."
Tim was not the man to boast
emptily and when he had seriously
declared that he was ia earnest, the
money was made up enough to pur
chase two quarts and a jug and in
dae time he went out. It was in the
eda cf the evening, or just at diuk,
that Tim came back, openly swing
ing a large jug in his hand. Arrived
ia the guard-bouse, both the ser
geant of tbe guard aod Sergeant
Moore took bim in band for examin
ation. "What have you got ia that j'i ?'
"Mola-ses, sir."
"Let's see."
Tbey took the jug, pulled out the
cork, and smelled. it certainly smelt
ed like molasses. Then they procur
ed a stick and poked it down into tbe
big-bellied cruet, and. upon puliiog it
out, something like molasses dripped
from its end. They both tasted it'1
were satisfied, and Tim was told to
! pa-" cu; B"U ue uiu pass ja, yig in
1 1 L .1 : t
1 haail. Arrived in tne barrack-room,
those in the secret gathered around.
He led them into the rear apartment
where the beddiog was stored, and
closed the door. Then he called for
a tin dipper. Taking tbe cork from
the nozzle, Tim tipped np the jug
over the tin dipper, and presently, in
the mid.-t of slowly-dripping treacle,
out dropped a Ieadea bullet with a
strong cord attached. By means ef
this line he drew up the neck of a
bladder, aod when the molasses hail
been emptied out, perhaps a pint of
it, he slipped the cord from th- neck
cf the bladder, and poured forth con
siderable more thaa two quarts of fine
-Mononirihela whisky.
One t sua bia Kin a lamlly.
A Washington letter cay.-: One of
the resident Washington families
who have taken a mo active part in
its fashionable society for many win
ters has laleiy been the subject of
much talk. The family lineage and
the genealogical tree have been
spread to the public gaze by the kind
o Slices of their old acquaintances.
xx' KnBi (iifimnoinrv nPAjrofi t w i- i n .m I
; thera t0 ,nub and ignore, the head
i r,;! r
of the family came to this country in
the capacity of a coachman to Lord
Lyons, the British Minister, dealt in
horses, bought real estate, and soon
became a naturalized citizen. The
younger Kedfern. his son, married
the daughter of the French Minister's
cook, embarked in the grocery trade,
and made much money. Tbe gro
cery line was shortly abandoned,
!ec(.
ana a residence built in the most se-
square of the city. Dropping
thtiroj;1 a,30ciate3 tbeT be ''a a
Ma9 for recognition and position
ia 80cietv. TheT bad up-biil work
of it for a time. Invitations would
be sent out for a grand party, ami
jthe Anglo-French-Aniericaa family
would sit in their empty parlors and
I smooth their gloves all the evening
by themselves, no one responding to
their summons. Perseverance finally
carried them np, aod tbey became
leaders, and each winier launched
out a series of Germans, kettle drums,
matinee dan.tante and parties that
called for all the talents of tbe socie
ty reporters to chronicle. When they
ignored their old acquaintances of
the lower rank they made their great
blunder, for now society people are
all aware of their pedigree, and are
quite indignant that tbey have been
so long led by the son of a coach
man and tbe daughter of a coca.
te he Hung;.
A dispatch from Bloomsburg, Pa.,
says: McUugh, Tully, and Hester,
Molly Maguires, sentenced to be
hanged, have been informed of the
adverse decision of tho Board of Par
dons. Mrs. Hester, a young woman
of prepossessing appearacce, when
the decision was given publicity fled
to the prison wringing her hands,
pulling her hair and shrieking in the
most frantic manner.
The Sheriff admitted her, and she
flung herself upon the neck of her
hu&li&nd, and fainted. Tully and
Mellugb, when informed of tbe na
ture of the decision, sunk back into
the darkness of their cells. After a
moment's pause, Tully remarked,
"What is, must be." Mellugb
aroused himself, aod said, "Well,
they have fixed it up at last, have'
tbey ? I wish to God they had fixed
it up a year ago." He paced bis cell
like a caged tiger in anger, and would
not listen t" the comforting word of
friends.
Mttiaai Bull'a latentlwa
Ottawa, Ost., March ID. Ad
vices from tbe Mounted Police Offi
cers in the Northwest report unusual
activity among the irreconcilable In
dians there. The mild winter has
been favorable to tbem, and it is be
lieved tbey intend to make trouble in
the spring. Sitting Bull and tbe
Nez Perces ia bis camp are in good
cond;tion, and roviug bands just
south of tbe boundary are in constant
communication with tbem. Sitting
Bull's band is encamped twenty
miles southwest of Cypress Hills, but
the braves roam tbe whole region
north ef the line, and often rroes the
parallel in pursuit of buffalo herds.
Reports that the Sioux and Nez Per
ces were starving and wished to sur
render are wholly untrue. Tbey
were never in better trim.
Asa funeral cortege was making
its way along the crowded street, tbe
other day, a bootblack called to a
companion:
"Hey, Jack, what big gtin is dead
now?"
"Tain't no rich folks," replied Jack,
as be looked down the street.
"'Tain't, hey ! Well just look at
them twenty-eight hacks !"
"That's what I was looking at
that's bow I know it's some common
man. Rich folks don't keer what
folks say, but poor folks hea big fa
neral processions to deceive tbe pub
lic." Kansas Teacher Where does all
our grain go to? Boy It goes into
tbe hopper. Teacher Hopper ?
What hopper? Boy (triumphantly)
Grasshopper.
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