1 I i J i ' I J? A3 i HOW I L.II A GHOST. KY 3. r.. I.FE. nc luuniing I recrivci a iiHaagv from a friend asking me to meet him in the evening, his family having been recently disturbed by certain nfctf-rinii) nnie. resrectinz which he' wished to ak rr.v advice. I wait-1 eil upon him at the time appointed, when he told me he had only been in the house about a week, having but recently purchased it from lU former occupant. Nothing strange had been noticed for the fir-t night or two, but about the third morning his wife was arou.se 1 early from her sleep by a noise as if some one was in pain. Thinking it was, perhaps, one of the children ill, he went to their room, but they were sound asleep ; neither did ityrooeod rom the ficr" vant' apartments. On returning, ho lound his wife greatly terrified at the presence of some one in t.ie room. She had not seen anything. iUl had heard the rustling of a lady's drees. After waiting for a few mo ments in silence, he heard the same noise, which sounded to him as it a female had passed from the dresing room, through their own, and along ti.p c.rridr-rto the stairs. There was r.,. tl.in visible hut the Fwceiiini; of the dress and the pitiable moaning wen- distinctly audiUe. In vain did he search the house :. Iv r,,r rnnlil find no t-xtdanation of this mvstcrious phenomenon, until, at last verv much against his will, he was coin 11 led to acknowledge that, if the hou-e was not exactly haunted, there was something he could not make out. This conviction had been strength ened the next day by one of the servants calling his attention to a large Uin on one of the floors at the top of the house, having the ap-jK-aranec of blood, of which a great quanUty must have been spilled, as it formed a large patch near the cen tre, and ran in several directions toward the si'le of the room. I'nlike most cases of ghosts he Lad heard of, the noise continued in the day-time as well as night ; and so frightened where the domestics at the disturbances that it was with difficulty they could l- induced to remain in the place after he had t.nt his wife and children away. We went over to the house togeth er, and carefully inspected the vari ous rooms particularly the one in which the slain appeared, and the bed room where most of the noises were heard. After we had completed the survevhe asked me if I could offer an opinion as to the cause of the an noyance. "Not unless I hear it." I answer ed. 'T have succeeded in putting a stoii to such things in several eas-s. and. if you are willing, I will spend a night here, after which I may. per haps, be in a position to say some thing more about it." "If vou think vou can in anv wav give us !eaee and quiet," lie aid. "the house with all its contents is at your service, because if it shall get abroad that it in haunted, its value to me will be nothing, for I cannot live hero myself, and how could I expect others ?' "Do you know whether the former occupant was in anv wav disturb ed r uIIe says not" ' How long did he live here ?"' "Some five or six years, I be lieve." "Do you know whether there have been any complaints from anyone before he came "No." ' Have you said anything to him about the blood?'' ' I juked 4iira if he had seen it ; but he knew nothing whatever about it" "Did yoH bhow it to him ?" "No ; he said he would call in some time and hare a look at it." "Can you make arrangements for me to lie alone in the house to-mor row night?" "At what time ?" I lie whole night, Iron let me s.-e ! I will be here about eight o'clock." "And do vou mean to stav in the house all night bv yourself "Yes ! Why not ? If there were more than one, the ghost might be afraid to show itself." "I would rather it be vou than me, then. Hut. if you wish it, you shall have it so." Accordingly, at the time appoint ed on the following evening, 1 found Mr. II. himself in the house. The servants, after providing everything for my comfort during my watch, had taken their departure a short time before. "Have you heard anything furth er since I waa here ?" "Yes, several times during the day ; but the noise is not nearly so loud as it was at first. 1 have been wondering whether anyone can be confined in that room secretly. I have heard of people having been built in recesses alive, and the moan ing seems to be like some one grad ually growing weaker, and that would account for hearing the nois es in the dav time as well as at night." "Wc can soon ascertain whether such a thing lias been done," I re plied, "by making a careful exami nation of the room, to see whether there is space for the carrying out of such a purpose." We went up to the room, which was situated at the front of the house. At one end of it was the dressing-room, already mentioned, at the other was a second bed-room, and along the side of it ran the cor ridor communicating with the other apartments on the same floor, at the -nd of which were the stairs leading to the upper story. At a glance we eould sec that the idea suggested was impracticable, and it was abandoned without furth er search. We visited all the rooms, in each of which I left a small lamp burn ing, saw that the windows were se curely fastened, and went back to make an inspection of the ground floor. All being satisfactory, and Mr. II. assured that I was not needing any thing else, he handed me the key, and, wishing rue success in my un dertaking, bade me "Good-night," and left inc alone to meet the ghost. After Lis departure, mv first busi ness was to make the poficeman on duty in the neighborhood acquainted with the circumstances of the case, and get him to call two or three timfs during the night, as it might lc I should require some assistance. Having done this and regalej my self with the refreshments provided, I selected a volume from the W.k case and repaired to the haunted chamber. It was the first week inScptemWr, and the day had been very warm. ) I threw one of the windows ojk-ii, drew an casr-chair to the table, both of which had been brought in for, md commenced the perusal of my book. I delud ed on the gas for sullicient warmth in the cool hours of the morning, as the heat of the fire might induce ! m c to sleep while I was v:iUng lor i.iv visitor. I had been r u-ling about half an hour when my attention was attract ed bv a low, plaintive moan, sever- al times repeated, it sounacu is n it proceeded from a wardrobe stand ing in a r--cess w-twecn me nn:mn j and the window. I went very silently to the spot and l.laeed mv ear against the door. Yes ' it certainly came from there. I tnrne,! the kr-v and nt.cned it. but j;..,... vrr,-il n. .thill?. I lilOVed the wardrobe a little forward at one end to see if there was anything at the back. No ! Perhaps it came from the next room, so I made my way there, but with like re.-ult. In fact. I could not even hear the sound. I came back, but in my absence, the moaning had ceased : so, with nothing to guide me, I had to wait for ita recurrence before I could at tempt anv discover. I had determined to pass the mid night hour in the room where the blood had been found, and ju.-t before twelve I laid my book aside and re paired to that apartment, which was immediately overhead. ft.-r uriftin-' half an hour. I tu"k a turn through the houi-e and f;n:d- came back to my ,1 quart, rs. having met with no success. 1 .r bi.nr n:ised and still no result. I began to think the haunt ir." was over for the night, and my watching Lad ended in failure, but i.,.. I- i. r just as tin' mormiigHa?' itie same rv rciieiie'i in -.u. ... - colli fitly I allied I v a sound wliich mignt ri! !.. .? t ,. ru.-tiir.g ot a dres. Sriil it i.roceed'-d :iv:u the sam piaee, aim again i ia"'"""" u. min. I.e. Then 1 opened the door i I ft,.. l; at the top of the gr.itt commiiiiicat-! ing with the chimney, to s -e if any thing w:u there. . to be seen. Now it sounded as if i.ing wa in the room! i ai.ove. nut a joui i..-. i .. i-.. i ,n , . ii " When' Z gV ho,ev, r. the no) e e nied nearerand louder than ,,,,.':. ...... ,.. ,i. i,.t ...o n 1 b:,d recently 1. ft.! ind then 1 remembered Mr. H. had told me it was in the early morning wife bad been first alarmed. V. rv imiitlv I reached the loot I thetuir and passed along to the door, keeping oil the opposite M.lc of the corridor, so a-: to shield my self as much as possible by avoid ing the glare of the gas. Mill there 1 i - : f , ;. ;o..m. ,rA could ,. . "... i ... 4... di-tllict y near lie moaning, "m un di.l u.a noocar. 1 turned i,e.M-.e,-i it. lv I raw J., Khing come from the hot - . ... i .i ,,.,....1 ihe d.. or lom in uiv not .. .. Slowly it moved and made no noise j but the low, pitiful wail, as though j in great trouble. I 1 spoke, and immediately it stood j still and looked round as though ini-: ploring my help, but spokn not. I approached, but it stood its ground, and allowed me even to touch it. We were neither of us afraid of the other. In less than half an hour I had learned as much as 1 could of its sad story, having, in the meantime aduikii.-Ured to its comfort as far us I then could, after which it vanish ed from my eight m-ver more to haunt that house. Early in the morning Mr. H. an nounced himself by a good pull at the bell, being anxious to know the result of my labor. I told him I had s ui the ghost, and having learned its sh.ry, had succeeded in laying it : but could not give them a full explanation, in asmuch as there were still one or two points upon which I needed to be satisfied. 1 promised, however, that in the course of a week I would i tell them all 1 knew. liefore the time had expired, Mrs. H. and the children returned home, and had almost overcome, the alarm the ghost had caused them, but were still very impatient for me to tell them what 1 had discovered. At last the day arrived, and I met Mr. and Mrs. H. and their two oldest children. They firt assured me. on their part, that they had not heard the least disturbance s-iuee I left the house, neither by day nor night "Then," I said, "I will give you my story, wtneii is very snon, in deed. Had it not been for the noises in your room, I have not the least hesitation in saying that ycu would not have attached my importance to the stain on the t!or in the upper room, which I find is now due to the upsetting of a bottle of French polish, and not to any murder you had an idea had been committed. This was the point upon which I was wanting information, and which I have satisfactorily proved. As to the cause of the noises, as the morn ing was breaking, after one unsuc cessful endeavor to discover it, I oiciied the door of the grate in your room, and while I was up stairs, the ghost descended the chimney, where it had been confined from the com mencement of your alarm, and when I returned to your room I found, not the shadowy ghost of human form, as vou had believed, but, in verita ble flesh and blood, I beheld a pig eon! I gave it a saucer of water and some bread, which was greedily devoured, and after a short tiino it grew stronger, and manifesting a de sire to lc free, I opened the window and it escaped. ihev looked at me in astonish ment as 1 tiiindicd my story, and could scarcely believe that such a triile h: alarm. id caused them !1UC!) "And is that reallv all?" asked Mrs. II. "All, madam, ssure vou that ' I is replied, "I can 'how I laid the ghost' " The riuek.ro Blacksmith" ltm. An old campaigner, known ex tensively over the country John W. Uaer was found de:ul yesterday morning in a chair at his home. No. 112S South Twenty-fifth street. Mr. Uaer, who had attained a good old age, was familiarly known by the sobriquet of the "Uuckcye Ulack smith." He made Ids first appear ance or the stump when tieneral Harrison ran lor the Presidency, and since then has cracked his jokes and sung his campaign song constantly. The cause of his sudden taking off will lo investigated by the Coroner. If the mother is feeble, it is im possible that her children should be strong. I.ydia E. Pinkham's Vf:k tahi.e Com is: No Ls a jtcrfirt sjtecilic in all chronic disease of the sexual system of women. Sn to Mrs. Lydiik E. Pinkham, '2M Wettcrn Avenue, Lynn, Mass.. for pamphlet. HIV CullVflUrlMV, Tli? Hours or Julio Drow n. The following is an extract from the Hon. Thomas Hu sell's address at the Massachusetts club's com memoration. My first i.cquaiotincc was made with him in November, lS"li, in the lu publican head-quarters, and, in a few days, he was in trouble. He learned that a warrant was is sued against him, as he presumed, for high treason. He did not know exactly where to go, and I suggest ed that he should go to my house. He never went out except at night, and then Dr. Dav'd Thayer and other fighting alM.Htionists accom panied linn, lie iook oui every night before going to bed his revolv er and repeat, r, and unloaded and reloaded them, saying that there were eighteen lives. I remcmler his once saying to my wifu: "If you hear a no;--, put the baby under a pillow. 1 snouly hate to Epoil the emmets: but vou know I can't be - -1 1 taken alive. Heus.-d to walk the floor with his hands folded behind him, and occasionally brought out an idea. One I remember very distinctly. -It would be better that a whole generation should perish from the 'earth, than that one truth in the i Sermon on the Mount or the Dec-ihn-.itioii of Independence should be forgotten among men." He gave an account one day of the death of his son w ho was shot i by the border ruffians by a Metho dic iniiii.-t; r : for you know there are black sheep in'every fold and 'mvwii'e broke out and said : "If 1 were in your place. Mr. Hrown, 1 would tight these fellows as long as I lived." "That."' said he, is not a .hri.'eiti 'i.ii-it. If I had one bit of i that spirit, 1 would never lift my j hand. I do not make war on slave ! holders, but on slavery." 1 le carried out this idea in Missou- I ri where be passed over the border I ii I .il?4l.rt t'lir 1 1,111 vi iiv . the ouiet gentlemen, so uiai uooouv Jr., ii!, I think that it was revenge he was lii'Mimr lor. lie was oaiumg .. t r If I ... 1 2 '"or a 'priric!l,al and "S1"" a s.vs" t.., o- ,,.. , r.,imo ! Yearns came ' into my house to see hm wi! Mrs frtearnfi on the way to hear Theodore l'arker, and gave him to organize and equip a company for Kansas and 1 re member that Mrs. Kearns asked to sell her carriage and horses, that she mi'dit add two thousand more to the gift. That morning 1 received a characteristic letter from Theodore l'arker, which ran as follows: "Sunday Morning, Mv Dear Judge: If John Urown falN into the hands of the marshal from Kansas, he is sure either of the f.illows or something vet worse. c - . .- , -. " r T , "It I were m his position I should 'shoot down any man who attemptei jto arrest me for those alledged crimes; then I should be tried by a Massachusetts jury, and be acquit ted 1 ours J rulv. T. I P. S. I do not advise John Urown to do this : but it is what I should do. John I'.row n was very agreeable, Housed to hold up mv little girl andsav: "Now, when I am hung for treason, you can say that you used to stami on old Captain Krown's hand ?'' and when lie came to Bos ton on his wav to Harper's Ferry he brought to her and one or two of Mrs. Steam's children two or three little takes of maple sugar. Let me mention the fact that his ancestor. I'eter Urown, who came orcr in the Mayflower, left a son who was made commissioner of the four colonies, and when something was planned against the Indians of that day some infernal scheme, rjo doubt, nut not halt as Pad as Koine that have been concocted in our dav he. learned that if he went to the meeting cf the com missioners he would mako a quo rum, and he staved awav instead of going and voting for them. And so the scheme failed. When John Urown had been taken prisoner, he wrote to me from iail a.-kii.g jn.e to come and visit him. 1 was unahk; to go at once not finding anv associate to take my place in court. Uut John A. An drew. Dr. Howe and others obtain fd counsel; voung Hovt hurried on got ajmitted to the Virginia bar, stood up in a lawyer's office and studied volumes of practice in the Virginia courts until he fainted away on the floor and then went in and obtained such delay as was necessary until Carlisle could go. I was just in time to hear the sentence ot death passed upon John l5rown and to hear that magnificent speech made by him when asked why sen tence of death should not be passed upon him. instead ol assuming that they were t linstians at once, and arguing on that basis, he said "I have observed that during this trial witnesses have been ret mired to kiss the New Testament, from which I infer that Christianity is not unknown here." I then went with Mrs. Russell to see him in iail, and he was in the best of spirits, I remember his sav ins : "I have no kind of fault to find about the manner of my death. The disgrace of hanging does not trouble me in the least. In fact, I know that the very errors by which my scheme was marred were de creed before the world was made." He was a thoroughly Orthodox man, "I had no more to do," he said, "with the course pursued than a shot leaving a cannon has to do with the spot w here it shall fall. Whether that be good theology or not, it is good theology for a martyr. lie gave us a lull account of the af fair, and said that it was through his mercy to his prisoners that he had not tiken thousands of men out of bondage ; but he stayed to protect them until he was overpowered. Captain Davis, his jailor, who was always his friend, left the cell at once, so that we might have him to ourselves, but one of his under strappers remained until Mrs. Kus sell sewed up the holes in the old man's coat, where the sword had cut through and then she asked him to brush it, and he went away in disgust, for he could not refuse be cause a lady asked him. The old man expressed himself gratified, at what he had done, nndthe only thovght that troubled him was his wife, and what would become of her after he was gone. A tremendous leatinff of corn's has been kej.it up night and day for weeks in the house of Fenz Chans Sung, a Chinese merchant of San fr rancisco. This has been done to ch isc out a devil who has been pes tering Sung's pretty wife. She says that the monster Las green eves, red Lair, blue skin and a yellow tail. He comes to her at niglit, and is an 'audacious fellow. The din has not yet dislodged Lira. The only real limit to '"love's young dream" is a "ring" fence. Some Strangely Fulfilled Dwam. Dickens once had a dream which was fulfilled, aj, least to his own satisfaction. "Here," he wrote on May 30, 1863, "is a curious case at first hand. On Thursday night of last week, being at the office here," in Ixindon, "I dreamed that I saw a lady in a red shawl, whom I suj- Fosed to be E. On turning around found that I didn't know her; and she said I am Miss Napier.' All the time I was dressing next morn ing I thought, "What a preposter ous thing to have so distinct a dream about nothing! And why Miss Napier? for I never heard of Mis3 Napier. That same Friday night I read. After the reading came into 1113- retiring room Mary Uoyle and Iter brother, and the lady in the red shawl, whom they pre sented as -Miss Napier. These are all the circumstances exactly told." This was probably a case of uncon scious cerebration. Dickens had no loubt reallv seen the ladv, and been told that she was Miss Napier, when his attention was occupied with other maters. There would be nothing unusual in his dreaming adout a person whom he had thus seen without noticing. Of course it was an odd coincident that the lady he had thus dreamed of should be introduced to him soon after possi bly the same day. Uut such coinci- Jents are not infrequent lo sup pose that Dickens had liecn special ly warned in a dream about so un important a matter as his introduc tion to Miss Napier would be ab- urd ; for fulfilled, the dream was, as Diekens inmseii described u, a very distinct dream about nothing. Far different in this respect was the dream which President Lincoln had the night before he was shot. If the story was truly told by Mr. Stanton to Mr. Dickens, the case is one of the most curious on record. Dickens thus told it in a letter to John Foster : i;0n the afternoon of the day on which the president was shot, there was a cabinet council, at which he presided. Mr. Stanton, being at that time commander-in-chief of the Northern troops that were concen trated around here, arrived rather late. Indeed, they were waiting for him, and on entering the room the president broke off in something he was saying, and remarked, "Let us proceed to business, gentlemen." Mr. Stanton then noticed with sur prise that the president sat with an air of dignity in his chair, instead of lolling about in the most ungainly attitudes, as his invariable custom was ; and that instead of telling ir relevant and ouestionable stories, he was grave and calm, and quite different man. Mr. Stanton, on leaving the council with the attor ney general said to him : "That is the met satisfactory cabinet meeting I have attended for many a long day. u hat an extra ordinary change on Mr. Lincoln !' "The attorney general replied We all saw it before vou came in While we were waiting for you, he said, with his chin down on his breast, 'Gentlemen, something very extraordinary is going to happen and that very soon.' To which the attorney general observed, some thing good. sir. I hope!' when the president answered very gravely, don't know. Uut it will happen and shortly too." As thev were all impressed by his manner, the attor ney general took him up again "Have vou received anv informa tion. sir. not vet disclosed to us?' "No,' answered the president, 'but have had a dream. And I have now had that same dream three times. Once on the night preced ing the battle of Uull Run. Once on the night preceding such another, (naming a battle not favorable to the North.) His chin sat on his breast again, and he sat reflecting. 'Might one ask the nature of this dreain. sir?" said the attorney general, 'W til, replied the presi dent, without lifting hu head gr changing his attitude, 'I am on great broad rolling river and I am in a boat and 1 dntt! and 1 drift! but this is not business,' sud denlv raising his face and lxkim around the table as Mr. Stanton entered -'let us proceed to business gentlemen." Mr. Htanton and the attorney general said, as they walk ed home together, it would be curi ous to notice whether anvthing en sued on this, and thev agreed to notice. He was shot that night. nere tne dream lUtn was not re f .it 1 f markable, it was such u one as might readily be dreamed by a man from the Western States who has been on broad rolling rivers. Nor was its recurrence remarkable. The note.-worthy point was the occurrence of the dream three times, and (as may Ite presumed from the cfh-ct w hich the dream produced on its third recurrence) those three times only, on the night preceding a great miijurtune lor the cause of the North. However, there is nothing in the story which cannot be ntfrib- uied to mere casual coincidence, though the coincidence was suffi ciently curious. As three years had elapsed from the time of Lin coln s death when Stanton told Dit ke;is the story, it is iossible that the account may haye been incor rect in some detail. f Richard Proc tor, in Uelgravia. District Attorney Killed, Lol isvili.e, Ky., January 11. A special to the Courier-Journal from Chattinooga says a report has reach ed that city to-day that James M. Kay had been killed a few days ago in Scott county. Rav was the first district attorney for the Third Term, essee circuit He was a half brother to Congressman L. C. House, of the Second Tennessee district The ex act cause of the killing has not yet come to light, one rumor being that 1.. 1. -.i 0 iw.1t uaii uii uucrcuuon wun a man who insulted his wife. Ray at tempted to firo. but before he eould draw a weapon his atisailment split 1.:., 1 1 it 03 ueuu open wuu an axe. Answer Thin. Did you ever know anv person in c ill, without inaction of tfn tnm. ach, liver or kidnevs. or did vnn ever know one who was well when either was ob.tmchal er inactive- and did you ever know any case of the kind that Hop Uittere would not cure, Ask your neighbor this same ques twin. Ttmes. Church Vaarrel. Cincinnati, January 11 Tele grams report a fight as havinjr oc- ureu in theUethany Uaptist Church, I ulaski county. Kv.. on Uet ,,- day, in which knives are reported tohavo been u:ed. One man wnn fatally cut Tho row was started by the deacons atkmr.fin i r w iu the same Dews with th- i.,,i: whom they had brought which is contrary to rule. ' Some Things Money Can't Buy. Some boys and girls have an idea that money can do almost any thing, but this is a mistake. Money, it i3 true can do a great deal, hot it cannot do everything. I could name a thousand things that it can not buy. It was meant for good ' a n rr.s.A 4Viir.fr i t" I ; a 'f tlllt all depends on how it used. If us ed wrongly, it is an injury rather than a benefit Ueyond all doubt, however, there are many things bet ter than it is, and which it can pur chase, no matter how much we may have of it If a man has not a good educa tion, all his money will never buy it for him. He can scarcely ever make up for his early waste and op- ftortunities. He may say, as I have icard of men saying, "I would give all I have if had only had a good education, and a well trained .mind ;" but he will say it in vain. His money alone can't obtain it Neither will wealth itself give a man or a woman good manners. Nothing, next to good morals and good health, is of more imjtortanee than easy, graceful, self-possessed manners. Uut they can't be had for mere money. A man who is what is called "shoddy," who has not taste and correct manners, will never buy them though he would no doubt like to. They are not to be had in the market They are nowhere for sale. You might as well try to buy skv, or cloud, or sunbeams. Money can't purchase a good con science. If a poor man, or girl any one has a clear conscience, that gives off a tone like a sound bell, when touched with a hammer, why bless vou he is richer than the mil lionaire who does not possess such a conscience, (iood principles are better than gold. All the gold of Golconda couldn't buy them for a man who hasn't them already. Money is very much sought after, and it can command a great deal of comfort Uut it is very wrong and very incorrect to speak of money as the Almighty Dollar that is, if we do so in a real serious way. The dol lar is not omnipotent. It is mighty, but not almighty. There are thous ands of things which it cannot ac complish. During the revolutionary war, a Uritish officer offered a large bribe to an American general. The gen eral looked him in the face and told him that his royal master in Eng. land had not money enough in all his kingdom to !pay him to do the mean tiling he was wanted to do. And there have been, and are, thousands of such men men whom no amount of money could buy. Money is not almighty. It may fill our houses with fine pictures, but it cannot alone give us a true appreciation of them, It may take us abroad to Sub foreign sights, but it cannot give us a true taste of them. It may buy us an entrance into better society than we we are used to, but can never, of it self, purchase of easy manner and fine jower of conversation, and all those better things that come from other and higher sources than a pocket book. ThousaiipLand thousands of glo rious thinSlIre bevond the reach of the hand Seold. And the beau tv of is, thatwriches should take to themselves wings, whv all these bet ter things, as they do not come from wealth, do not disappear with it There is, then, a market, and a wide one, in which money has no reeognzied value the market of in tellectual, spiritual, and other high afd holy things. A Croat Sprculator'a Gratitud. It happened twenty years ago, when jteople. had an idea that grati tude was ready to bubble up in the human heart at a moment's notice. A stock speculator was waiting at the corner of Uroadwav and Vy street for an omnibus. Whether he 411 into a reverie over the graves just over the fuiicu, ut U'a3 wonder ing if Lake Shore would advance another peg, matters not. A runa way horse took ttie sidewalk just be low him, and so deep was the sjiecu- lator s reverie that he would have been run down and perhaps killed had not a friendly hand clutched and dragged him aside. "Mv friend vou have .avcd my life I" gasjted the rescued man, as he realized his escape. "Perhaps so, but don't mention it. I'm glad to have been of sendee to you, V hat is vour iuw..u? "John Smith 1" "Well. Mr. Smith, I'm a man who can return a favor. Mv gratitude is more than words can express. What can I do for you?" "Oh ! nothing, I guess. Uut I shall. I speculate in stocks. I shall to-morrow buy ? 10,009 worth of Lime Ledge canal stock for you, hold it as your broker, and turn you over the jirofits for a year. Such icroie conduct as yours must not go unrewarded, uoud r.ight, my dear Smith." Tradition has it that one year from that date John Smith sat in his office. A boy appeared and handed him a letter. He opened it to find that it was from the man whosp life he had saved. He also found that tho SlO.UOO had been in vested as promised, but that Lime Ledge stock had kept falling a little all the time, until 8400 out of the 810,000 had been lost Inclosed was a statement and a bill for this de ficiency, which he was asked to re mit by bearer ! Since that date John Smith has iad hundreds of chances to save hu man Ufa in our crowded, streets, but tie lias refused to extend a hand in each and every case. It would make a poor man of him in less than six months. Wall Street Xem. Worth Remembering. Now that good times are again upon us, before indulging in extruv. agant show, it is worth remember ing that no one can enjoy the pleas antest surroundings if in bad health. There are hundreds of miserable people going altout to-dav with dis ordered stomach, liver or kidneys, or a dry hacking cough, and one fctot in the grave, when a 50 ct liottle of Parker's Ginger Tonic would do them more good than all the expen sive doctors and quack medicines thev have ever tried. It always makes the blood pure and rich, and will build you up and give vou good health at little cost Read" of it in another column. i. 12 A Detroit young man committed suicide to get rid of the toothache. In that region into which he has gone hell j.robably never catch cold in Us jaw. iis j The young ladies had better fast asleep than "fast" awake. be Felo. Dr. T. C. Urannon, writing in the Therapeutic Gazette for July, 1S&), makes the astonishing statement that during his life thus far he has been afflicted with nearly forty felons, and claims for that reason to le able to speak with authority as to their treatment If he had said that he had been the victim of .four or even fourteen felons, his experi ence could not fail to have com manded attention, but when one reads of forty felons having aillictcd one man in a short life-time one's faith receives a severe shock. If it had tieen forty boils instead of fortv felons that had been experienced, no one would have gain-said it, for the habit of boils to multijdy is w ell known but felons in such shoals are too much for credence. It is to be greatly feared that the Doctor, in his enthusiasm over a suj.posed sure cure which he has found, has made haste to call every bruise or pimple or boil a felon, and us he saw it dis appear under his curative applica tions without developing the full proportions of a felon, has added another to the tally of fellons cured. This is such a common fault that we cannot find it in our heart to seriously condemn the Doctor, for his treatment is a good one al though he ha's forgotten what our readers are desired to never lose sight of, that they can never be sure that th particular trouble which they think to threaten a felon, and to which they apply the cure, would have ever become such if they had omitted the cure. As far as the suf ferers are concerned, they are equal ly as happy to have escaped whether the evil may have been real or im aginary : but when the merits of the curative agent are to be discussed, it is quite important to prove that the suptosed disease really existed. Here is the statement in which the Doctor describes his treatment: "I have used the following simple treatment for twenty-three years, since which I have always succeed ed in aborting this painful disease, or modifying the great pain, and not unfreqvently preventing the loss of one joint of the finger : Take of soft lye soap and flax seed meal a sufficient quantity, stirringjthe meal in alowlv with spatula or case knife, manipufating thoroughly, so as to form a salve or poultice. Cornmeal is a good substitute for the flaxseed. Envelop the finger in this, applying snugly, and occasionally pressing it to bring it more completely in oj jtosition. Renew the poultice every twelve to twenty-four hours. Don't try every jtrescription you may hear of. Depend on this, and this alone. It will, if applied in time, abort the disease, if adopted later, it will bring it to a small "head," (if too far ad vanced to ho scattered,) when it may hp picked almost painlessly." Hnc(f Tho Uet 1'ollcj. Slim Nick, of Arkansas, was ar raigned before a justice of the jteace on a charge of stealing a calf. "Are vou guilty ?" asked the judge. "Course I isn't I's as innocent as de driben snow." Several witnesses were examined, and the evidence wa3 so conclusive that the judge exclaimed : "That will do : the prisoner is as guilty as Judas. "Jedge, I doesn't like that 'spres ion, I dix-sn't min' bein' called guil ty, but doan' say dat I'se guilty as J udas feearrut, case 1 se alien been a church member. Dat word Judas grinds on mvstomick.boss, or jedge, if yer pleases. I alius stecra clear of dat word. Uut now if yer wants me to splain dis situation, X kin do hit. Mav 1 splain ? "(Jo ahead." "Some time ago, Mr. Jackson, de man what 'cuses me wrongfully, bor rowed a bridle from me. Tuthe day I axed him for't, an' when I cum 'long home dat ebenin' I seed a bridle hangin' on de fence. I tuck hold of de bridle reins, Hung dem ober my shoulder and started off. I thought dat somethin' pulled a lit tle hard at first, an' I thought dat le bridle had rotch on a nail, but bein' so strong I didn't take much notice oh it. When I got home an' went into de house, my wife axed. "Nick, what yerdoin' wid dat calf?" I hx'ked 'round, an' dar shuah null wur a caff hangin' onter de end oh de bridle. Dcr wuz a. piec of paw paw bark tied on to de head stall an' do calf had swallowed it. Calves is monstrous fon' oh pawpaw bark. "Why was the calf found cut up?" asked the judge. "Dat's what I'se gwine to tell yer. De ting suffered so, dat to get" hit outen hits misery, I killed hit, ten ded next mornin to carry de quar ters an' hide ter de owner. I didn't wanter be rested for cruelty ter an imals. Is all de facts plain, jedge ?" "1 ou can go. "Tank yer, jedge. Go home, did yer say ?" "No, to jail." The evidence against the b. y was conclusive, but Colonel Dudley, his counsel, had coached him well, and consequently expected a truthful story from Lis client. Colonel Dudley's first question put to the witness was : "Did you go into this store?" "Yes sir." "What?" demanded, the counsel. In surprise, "I said vet, sir." "What did you go there, for ?" "I went to get the till." "Well !" snapped out the lawver, exasperated at his client's candor. "I suppose you got it ?' "No, sir," indignantly responded the vouth, "I got nabbed." "f pass : you are too fresh, " re marked the distinguished counsel. Tho oourt found the ingenius till tapper guilty. Growth of the Nail. The growth of the nails are more rapid in children than in adults, and slow jn the aged - goes on faster in thd summer man In the winter, and so that the same noil which is renewed in 132 days in the winter requires only 115 in the summer. The increase of the nails of the right hand is more rapid than those of the left, moreover it differs for the different fingers and in order corns ponds with the length of the finger, consequently it is the fastest in the middle finger, nearly equal op the two on either side of this, slower on the little ringer, and slower on the thumb. The growth of all the nails on the left hand require eighty two days more than those on the right A dull eld lady, being told that a certain layer was lying at the point of death, exclaimed : "My gracious ! won't even death stop that man's Iving!" A railroad accident is frequently a signal failure. Mo 3. LYDiA F. FirCTA&. OF LYNN, MASS. 4 DisrorEBcn or LYD!A E. PSNKHAM'S For all Female Complaints. ThtsprrpnratirTi. W iti na-no r .-nrv. r-.ftiU of Yeyt'tAble iru;.-rtie.j lIi.U. iuv 1, i-n:: t.i Uu nwMrt ieXe Invalid. l'ix.c one trUt :v r::. nt i cf tl.ia Cora pouad wiiJ 1k r-yc-t'm !. us rr f i- i.t.tuMtU- ; and whe n Its u. ton:::::i.t tl. in n:;i ty n;..t xe: in hun. di,rrmani-:.tcjrviM:r-t's:..-t:..iit-w:il' Jl V--tif. On rnt of if; ; r:vf.i n : it . il N t-!aj r eoxnmrn&Hl i- 1 frfs.-nV t y x'-.u le t i ?:yi- uui to the eont.t.y. It Wiil cur rnlinlr tV. r. t f -rui of f.iin 9t the uterus, U-n"ri li 1 .1. irr. ,::Lir au-1 r-'ul tfenstrojiUun ailOraxiaaT.vtiM- , Ir.nciAtioB Ulceration, FUxHiintri, oil Lwnn azv-i tb en sciutnt sptiuU weaJcii -t. uud .4 -;c-uiIIj a.l.itrl j th CTuuitfe of luff. Jtmilld; sjmI cx. i tuiar.: front the uteruinaa early nia -t of d..-Tr.;-mf nt. T.o ia.nk-ney to rm?eriuliu; ri.V"i-e Is er la fart It 1 T ' t - 1 tit" t- mt Jwl lxt lT-nit ! t'i'.t I.j.i rv - K n v. r cd. 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OLD T.V ALL ML'.CIMs i.vn;v.vut::. '. . IMVI). uierrf. Profitable Reading for Everybody r.usin?s-i men and w in u. tc-ii. Sri. rr.' !iaf.- armers. rnimiers, m ut,y th.r C'lntaat t ii Ar.d w t inr.lc i-t'-ni'-ifir,-' y-r-. r.o .ire tir--' t your wora ism, Ntura.;, or kiij.-iev, Liver o. 1! yju .ire waun -,.' w.t,, t. .iiaiiiii-.,;,1Jii, u naie weakness or any ii.itncs. ; if y u have a pain 'iil r-i'ieq nr vl r-i.), V"-t !'' ri"M !-- rf-.-f in "ipauon, and vmir system ne-is i:i:z -.rritirz, or f V"u have pimp!e and l-.l-nt-hc-i. ar.:l v:.i.r bi!ot Mauciruui Giwyer, Bachj. Msmlraae, StiliinqtaJ nd many otiicr of t ' - nicii V r.- -r? -ft he Best Health nd Strength Kciorr fcverj Utrd, r...: u u'v..ri ,!.!,.,, ., K:-RC'.-si, j f .irrj-.-r ?r ;! :Kt i" it never inloxieates. 1 .4 nil i 'm!,i.c I ne b- -1 r n.i'.ic .::v.. a'I. It Has Na?J Htmdr ils ofMir It Jlay Sarv ur. Buy a bni!tf y, :;r -..r t. .in.! arri. "iin'.rrlciis be sure our v.;:i. :. - n the :y,il Parker's Hair Balsam. 1,7' The lUt Jt yiut li)a(m!-al Hair DreiInf (.'ur.t i'.nin- r,r.' vj,'-- iifis t '. it .ire ! tl'r.eh.i.r s..t!:., t,;- i'.L--.: m ilM-e f"'irU jf muc Mt;:.i' i .'v i!.i.. t '.t.' ir;Mi.t:i. it r to ilist-jre . rnj or i aJcJ II ai; to tV.c "-.;!r:.i'l v.i.itM:;! r : r ;:r. : is trnrH tD rn:i.--ve fiuiutf, jirc. f.I .: ' ):- :f i sti p t aiiii. r .v. vx C. S. IU)VI, Si teaihor I. aj ii. Wfu. ,-.uu . B e. uiii.vt.n vi !Vm", CuUi Man (t..i.. -:i ..i' u aiMl -l.cr ttitU-ra. ii-.' t t'loc1 r-urfier t tor, " i--- - -ma U Liver :TX.-, To z. I irh ty.rt , :.t-.i :a Irruvulari y t.r.T.. r-r who r --.it.;cut Intox A J! - At i. 9. - ii fJt 'Mr Hup iitt- t'-.-N. i .ti ; -a.; -r. t . " .a. J U LiiuUiWa. at rn'-Q. i yotir rrin,i " " Ji Mop B and uPt : ii'i : fmi' N. VI. imri.i.;-T. Soniri-srt, I'a. A DMINISTKATDK'S Nt )TICK. Kii.le of Wm. (ymi.y. lat of Oni-m.h.li) Xwp., Heniersci (.'.. P., ilrcM. Ietten uf KmlnlJtratl'.n un the hrv estat , hkTlDK hn ifrnnir.l to the un.Vniicnf.l by the 1 proper ulh..nij ; Butk-e 1 bcrehr iivto m nil . penuiu la.let.teil u. il.l enisle tunixke tuimr.liate I paTBeDt. aoitthtme havliicclaiin!ii:M.-.ttlieMkii.e 1 oitlpreiieot ttwiu duly ai1 beD.t-all l..r fc-llie. lueoi .i M.ixlay. the lih day of I'ebriurT, i 18; 1, at the lute renldmr of debase.!. It'll. W. JjfcMI'SEY. I I'ec, A.luiluiatrato I K- .--1 JOHN F. LY3IYKI, DcALCR IN Hardware, Iron, '. Tl: f.iliuwiiK u a jir;ia! V.r of O . Hatchet, llaiu.ncrj, t'l.i.-!. A.!j'-i. A i Ki!. lUmm.-w. Ac. !: Mlrv i!-.- ! - .ir U:U. aii't !..!. Ta've K i.-lrt i 1. - Ilie l.-ri-.-t -si--i-k in .-...rin-r-'-t .in.iy l':ii..r-. I'.iint.-. t .r ir.-ll.- 1 Var!ili.Tiiri-!it:ti... -"l:ix-... 1 .-'...a.-". A.'. Win.! .wr 1 1. i i;,r !t.it i-i i i. I.i::. . . - i:ir-e aivi i " ' ; ..-' ry . ', . kir. SljVr i cr.,.-.; ; ..-... J. ; S.. A l'.'.. - .!' !- , V V c Liiil-'i;:-! k.-ii II. :..-,- ,1 tin I-i. 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EYE GLASSES in Rubber Frames a FRAELESSEyc Glasses, Spectacles, Ne;-: -hjhte.l (ih.s.-s. C.-I -,.-.! (ii- v (ilasscs, (ionics. Anything i;.-t i:i tock v, i!i 1 wlieu dcsireil. (iomls w ill le c.(;:t!:ir. :l i i,i,t v- ' who need ,'lusse .-liouM r-;t1I ! i :.:i!:i. - r,iv -t !- C. Is. 1 )i-iiii-.iri.t, Soiii erset Herald 18 ONE OF THE LEADING EEPUE i CAN NEWSPAPERS GF WEST EEN PENNSYLVANIA. S'vilL'rile lor the IIr.R A!.i. Sul)vciihc 'or tin' jIk!;ai.i. Mii)!'i joi'tli!.1 ll!::r.LP. Sillier iiio ibr i :? i a r.i . nh --'l-joe for the I i kill Two I )oli:irs a Y Two i)oli;tis :i Year. Two Dolhirs n Vr::r, Two Do! In i s a Year. Two Dollars a Year. Two Dollars a Year. HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION! THE COUNTY. i i 1 The TV Tni'" ' Th3 Best Psilv Tho B A f "SI M m. 8-w - . It will contain all the (Jener.il News of t!i-? Diy, j?iviap: full accounts of tho u--x-.v lh of ('vvo ;r.-: ;.tute J.c-'uslature bv its able iun,u w.m l.oeai uetmuni :!-; I . I T IT i THE JOB DEPARTMENI Wc are ircjm-el to fir:iih a: -.!, .;t rvAU- Jahle terms all hinds of PLAIS Al FANCY JOB ST7C:E A.S cai:s, cnci'i11' HILL JILADS. SALE HU l ST. I TUMKXTS, L LIT Ell II L. I ! j) o i) a i:ns. pn o c il ulmes. checks, islaxks. hook pnisiiy . WE DM XV IXriTATIOXS, Ac,. Ac- SOMERSET HERALD. ; GIVE ITS Nails, Glass - U :-t .: ' .-. . IHa. k-u.lr.', - . T .' '1. .:. : ;. - I t . : K- .. . I'.-'M-.r i 1 . ; !'!. V-. .;.-- ! - z. G J' BOY i oi: 8 13 N7)arr. "I ' ;r.-Ts if 4 wr 1 '1 K . 11 W-..C. 4J4 V All 4f Th2 B:ii Family N:tt:::? rare - ;) eni-nt As fur tii-' , ... , thev -,-k "r t leni-e v.- i. H 1 il'! mm u SOMERSET, PEN"'" A. CAXjXj. .V r : 4. wi H i t I il