u h t J , -1 . 1 ft. c.llS UL -1- .s.-'sav. ...... ,, Somerset Ileralil,! t u ..kn.-'3T morolna: at 4 0-1 -..i,-ai''.' I " ' mil ' aieance i o'-hcrwise - K i V , i , an i.,tloB will Hscot'uiiod n,i' ' 1 lal,l uii. Itmsier nci;lccUii) 1 . ...K.o-r do Dot take ul i l hel.! rrfnsHile for the suh. 1 111 I ,k.i removing Irom one l'ostoflloe to an-! " ive ui lh n"5 lu Conner as J .wi"01""'- " TIi'4 Somerset Herald, fcxunerset, l'a. . i.i.iriv I Somerset, ra stair In MUimuiH j.io. . (iftl.1' "I "- J l-11lATT?tksEY-AT-l. S.-mu: LAW. morsel, Pcmi'a. '' . eel I T.. 1. ' ' it"i;m:v ati.w Somcrsct, l'a. INDSI.KV. ATTOKNE II. KY-ATL.AW, Somerset, I. .-ViniK 15. SCULL. ((- AriX-IiXtV-AT-LAW, U Somerset, l'a. I ATTOKStY-ATLAW, I Somerset, Pa. () y iwTTKIlSOX, aTTOHXKY-AT-I.AW, 1 Somerset, Pa. ..nncs. minted to Mi c re will 1 aU r i: k. will' promptness and fidelity. Tl:t'1 a. W. II. Kl 1 l'KI- c v . 4 tn their care will 1 11 ,It'I11 'punctually attended t. ' Iuiu c-ru "" I'8U0 t'rt oniuth Block. it FN'KY F. SCI I ELL, . "T-i a-VVY.T.UV. ,,tT inl Penrtoo Agent, SoinerstL, Fa. 'L1INTIN1-: HAY, , ' ATTtKNEY-AT L.AW . rlnPe;il Estatu, Pmnersot, 1'., will ..inerfan-mrty . ,1 O. KIMMKU ATTUKNEY-AT I-AW, Suuicrct, Fa. t ii --enat'.sni.alnessentnJtei1 toln earc , an.l aJvliilnsTcmntlMi with i.n.mi.t- n. ti leli-v. time on iMin Crow street. it Tu ly v. co.r.vv.s. c ir.or.N A-coi.nonx. ATTtlKSEYS-AT-UAW. Mflne entrnfted to their care will I A". r ul lmm-tuallv attennca 10. siii !iacr U'loek. l'l stairs. ,.HX II. I'lIL. ATTOKNEY-AT LAVT, r..-.iih tti4 to ll ltne enirufJ m.' :I iui "a.lvanenl un collections, k.c. : jiinioij'th liuiM'.nij. I J. AITOHXEY-ATLAW, Somerset Fa., l-fl.sM.mil liu.iD0SF entrnsteil to my care at trt'.ci u- with .rouiptness anJ hJe'.ity. V I. rOTTEK, ATTOKNEY AT LAW, liners i.is p" - - - Silrs ami t3 ncKotlated. and all other lwal aqnf uB.le! ui wuu I'njuii. . " tt. J I'M."- li.i.. - p.u:i: a r.AKii. j) AlMUXtYS-AT LAW, Souierset, Pa., v, ,11 prn!i.',lnS.'iiiiTsetanladniniii?countie. All Mwnes en:ru.tcd t thein will l ic.anpily s!:'ii-l..i Uk V run AX II. KOOXTZ. ATT KN KYATLAft, Souierfit, Pa., Will tive urompt attention lo lm!neis entrest : ,. hiii .mre in Somemet and adjoiciuir counties, t t in 'nuunn UoUfie Kow. J iUI R. S(X7TT. ATTOKN'EY-AT LAW. Somerset, Pa. ;i..6iare attcuded In with i.r"UiiUiJ and ritiiiy. J AMKS L. l'l (ill, ATTt)KNEY-ATLAW. Somerset. Pa. . Wimmnih llli-k. no stairs. Entrance. Km 'm steeet. 5.lier!tions ma-le, estates -.uj .1,1.. .r.,nii,,i .n.1 all leiral I'Usiness t:;roW to with proniiUnese and ndellty. L AI1UEM. HICKS. J l ST1CE UF THE f EAl L, Somerset, Penn'a. S.KIMiCi.U U.S. K1HKEU-. D U. E. M. KIMMEIX i SOX , i i. nMiiinmi MnlMi ta the citl .in ol Somerset and rlctnltv, ncot the mem uoi ti . i nt tntes. Hnlnssrrotesslon- irtirred. 1 loond at their .nlhm, on Jlain arei, ens: ot the I Mamono. D !:. J. K. MILLED m nna- wotlr liratel In Herltn for the practice 01 f itwitestuin. Utnce uiuosita Charles Krissins-pr.aA-:u-iC c t sure. D!L II. r.RnJAKER tnJ rs lti jir.lewional serrices H the cltirens of S"tn T!-tiiil vicinity, ijihce in residence on Mam ' 'et,est ot the Diamond. D'l A. G. MILLER. PHYSICIAN fcSt'KOEoX, Hi- r-iEoeei. to Sonth I?end. In.lluna, where he aihte jofulted t.y letter or otherwise DU..T01IX DILI. HENTIST. OSrteiilwve Henry Hcltiey's sUre, ilaln Cross r-TO, Snieroet, Pa. WILLIAM COLLI XS. DENTIST, SOMERSET, PA. nftoetnMsmtnoth Blfx-k. shove Boyd's I'mg j'r where lie can at all times I fonnd prepar to.ioall kinds of w.irk. sneh as hllim. reiftt ettractlnir, fce. Anlfli ial teet h r all kinds. ul the Pesl material Inserted, tolerations trai!'.fd. )F.XI(A' AGENCY. a. S P. SweitrerofSand Patch. Somerset county, "a Joiiuie of tiie Pea, suneyor and claim mm-will promptly collect all Bnty and Pen- ictlainn ettrurted to him. Persons wisliinc ai-t ial.rniat,o will address Mm at the alxive sinnl plmce. eo-loelng discharge and instate statsji k.r reply. AUCTIONEER. IIARTIHS needing my serrlce ooKealorPer i lute. oranvthliiato 1 disposed of at Mim. will nnd 1 will irlfe eotlre'satislaetloa. ail letters by mail promptly attended to. W. A. KOONTZ, "ML tJocfloence, Pa. JJUMOXlTllOTEL, K ! Y SI O V N. 1 'KS N'A. pnpnlir and well known house has lately i'iitl,i.n,tirhlT and newlv remted with all new he-rt ol mnittare. whh'h has made It a ery apirsl.le sto.pin place for tn traueting pul.lic. "M tahle and rooios cannot le snrpassrd, all 'mnrncUM.wlthalartte putilie hall attached J1 same. Aisa larite and roomy staMlnic. 'mteltM l.r.liQr run he bad at the lowest s- in, hj tLe week, day or meal. ; , S AU C EL CCSTFR, Prop. S. E. Cot. IMaanoad Suiysiow ,Pa PURE FERMENTED WINE, FOR SALE "J A J.Csselieerat A. J. Case beer It Co.'i "w; Fa,wrattia 8J3AR GROVE FARM eaiie north of Somerset, tli pi lL illwolB Is a list of ;ace of mana the kinds is CRtfE. BLACKBERRY, C KERRY r . CURRANT. nutREERRr,' VILD-CHERRY w AND CI0ER W.NE, tL-"i,"" u uW ta qoaittlty to an it perelianer. wins la awico osed lur nedieal and sacra. purine, . mlMt M , UvcraK ''y ho M a par wine. VOL. XXX. NO. 14. In the l!u l.lii.n known as the. 3TA.TTQT-.E HOUSE, j BY ALBERT RECKE, Klll.tS!.l & BKTA1I. zzi C01TFSCTI02IEE7, jiAXfFATvitn or j KIN r. and COMMON CANDIES, I'K ACKEKS, CAKES AND 13UEAD, PEALKB 1 X CxKOUEKlES, FINE C1GAES, SMOKING ANDCHEV. 1N1 TOBACCX, FOUEK1N AND DOMESTIC PEI ITS, &.C AC. Parties ard Picnics mfpllcil with Candles, Cake No.s and tirajn-s ou short uotli-e. All Ovw'.s Presh, and sold at A LOW FXUl'Ri:. OH ar.d sec lor yourwlves. I will op.n ont with a loll line ol the alwvc ;oolf. Mar Will. -CENTRAL HOTED- I.VIT STREET, SOMERSET, PENN'A., ;h'ik'.1 fir guests m January 10th, 1SS1. This hnusc is furni-he.l in first-class, 1 1 rl eri Mvle. with the modern conveniences of 1 1 eat i rs. JIt and Cold Water i,:s;i... lare Heading Kooms. Parlors and Chamber, ami has Mid Stables attached. The Table aihl liar will be as t,)( As T11K I'.KST. i Krotu ex.erienee in the Hotel business, I llaller myself 1 ean n-ndiT satisfaelioii to a.l who may ea'.!. F. S. KLEINDIENST. C. XjAJSTIDXS. Has constantly on hand at hi. distillery PURE RYE WHISKY Km- s;i!i hy the harr-l or pallon, .suited for MEDICAL AP MECHANICAL PURPOSES. Or.l. rs u.Mrvssod to r.crlin. Pa., will mrive roni't attrntin. Mart-k2, 1SM Ja. A. M'Millak. J. II. Waters IVI'iVllLLAN & CO., ntACTK'AL PLUMBERS, STEAM AND GAS FITTERS, No 112 Franklin Street, Johnstown, Pa. Special attention given to House Drainage and Sewer enti latum. ESTIMATES SAEE AOT WJ DONE In the most llinrouich manner and iroaranteod. NEW BA-ISTK. :o:- Somcrsct County Bank, CHARLES J. HARRISON. Cashier u:J Manager. Collections made in all parta of the t'slted States. Charges moilerat. Iiotter and other checks col lected and cubed. Eastern and Weitcmexchange always on hand. Bemittaneet made with prompt ness. AeeoonU toilet ted. Parties desiring to purchase C. S. 4 PEB CENT. FUNDED LOAN, can be accommo dated at this Back. The enapons are prepaid li denoniinaUons of 60, 11, 600 and 1,000. WALTER ANDERSON, CCE. WOOD ST. AM SIXTH AVENUE, NO. 226 LIBERTY STREET PITTSBURGH, PA. (eblS no. B-'cas. LA KC M. BICES. Apts lor Fire anJ Life Insurance, JOHN HICKS & SON, SOMKHSET. l'A.. And Ecal Estato Brokers. KSTAMLI8H ED .1850. Persons who desire la sell, bay or exchange property, or rent will lind ittolhctr advantage lo rlsler the description thereof, as nocharire Is made unless sold or renteil. Keal estate Inislness generally will l-e promptly attended to. aui la CHARLES HOFFMAN, (Abov. 1 leury 1 IrtM-y ftor.) LATEST STYLES El LOWEST PRICES. 'SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.J& SOMERSET P. S5TOS20 " A Cii., Portland, per day at home. Samples worth to tree. A-ldressSTi-Maioe. iaar.lMyr. MERCHANT TAILOR MERCHANT TAILOR kJlill Y1I T IS THK GAIN " Wliat is the gain '.' If o:i slioulJ nm a nililc rate, .nJ at Kit, with weary iwc Witt to tiic goal, anil find his ycurs A harvest lielil of wal? and l-ar. Of lurinnil .'tn.l of tmriexl trust, Ui. h v illi iii uil Ihijkw ntul Ijiili r iln-l, A inl r 'lpf.' nil- smi r ami r.':i. li' pain. AYhat is the pain ".' Wliat is l!ie Kn '' Win n havinir nwhttl a stialit height, Tliroui;li barren svqw d" i-'lottni"ul nV'lit, Huping to mco hcyoiid (lie t rt;t l'air lamls of beauty ami of ivst, Thore lies far before, .streU-lu'.l far away Unto the confuifs of the t'.uy A tifsohtte and s.lia'lc'ess plain. What is the rain ? I What is the gain ? ' j To .-ail for mouths of rolJ ami toil j Across wide sexs, where winds recoil, I Hilly to gatlier strong: h and roar j A louder challenge than IhTojv, ' And find, when through fo;? thick and dun Th c'rocky toaj-t at la.st is won, No haven for the itorin-vo.-.ed main. Wlutt ia the gain .' . What is the pain ? The nice is won, we see the l;;rh(. V,"e c.!i.ner where the storm winds fijlit : We silo. v the way to those who wait With fainr hearts by the wails of late ; Our banners Mutter iu the van Of battles f. night for thought and man, And ignorance and dainties wane; That is the pain. pit rrz's poim x It was when the Monncns wore leaving Xauvou, at' the warning of the incensed (.ientile, that iYitz Wetzel laid the foundation of his fortune. He was a peasant f! entile, living near the Mormon Jerusalem, owning besides his farm only a cow. Word came to Lis irario hut that the Saints were trading their houses and lots in Nauvoo for anything whatever that they could take away, and that had any "value to man or beast 'For a two-horse team,'' said the informant, "I have pot as good a brick house as there is in the city, and Jimmy Koc he has bought a snug little thr e-rooin house for a pair of blankets.'' 'The cow! the cow!" said Mrs. Fritz, when the news-bearer had cone Lis wav. ''Drive her to the i city and get us a house." '"'So ! so !' said Fritz. When he came back that night Mrs. FriU met him in the yard. "You bring not back the cow." "We have no more any cow. l'.ut we have a whole acre of ground and one nice brick house of five rooms."' "Five rooms ! a brick house ! a whole acre! five roams ! what would they in Germany say ? Ah ! now we have it good; no'w wo have it grand! Hut to-night we have no potatoes for supper ; we have no milk ; we have no cow."' When. Cabet's Iearian Colony of Communists took possession of the vacated Mormon "houses, Wetzel's place increased in value. Defore the colony went to pieces, he traded his city place for a neat farm, giving liia note for three hundred dollars. It is commonly said that thedrcams of youth ere out of all proportion to the reality of mature years. Hut surely the peasant boy of the HarU Mountains, gathering faggots, pick ing among rocks and scanty herbage for the keep of the family goat, could hardly have pictured himself lord of one hundred and eighty acres, level .as lloor and blade as charcoal. It was a fine farm, but to meet the debt, Fritz and the frau had to work hard, live poor, wake through sleeping hours for many a long year. Sometimes the crop failed by reason of over-rain ; sometimes by undcr-rain ; and then there would be hard work to pay even the interest on the deferred pay ment. One year Mrs. FriU was sick, and there was a doctor bill to pay and the wages of a hired wo man, so the principal was reduced by only one dollar. Fritz and Mad am went through the following win ter on potatoes and black coll'ee. The ncxtppring, in the midst of planting. Fritz fell sick, Then, in deed, there was dismay. It seemed as if the w orld had stopped moving. "Not so much as the interest monev we, dis year, don't pay," said Mrs. Fritz to the American doctor. "It is interest, interest, interest efiry year. I dhink it will get paid nefer. It is worse as to fill the rat hole fnw le floor into one's cellar. You pou pou pou you dhink you fill if nofer npfer. netcr. In Ileaien 1 shall be when de note Fritz he haf paid. But I dhink he pav it nefer. nefer." But he did it. however, in spile of all the back-sets. Yet Fritz and Mrs. Fritz were far from beinsr heavenly happy. That hole into which they had been pouring was indeed filled, vet they seemed no better oir. "On we must go another s ear, liv ing poor," Mrs. Fritz said to her husband, in Gorman, "till another crop be made. And then.if the crop should fail !" "And if our tenant couldn't pay." Fritz put in. "Ah ! we have it yet bad," she said, "bad as before." "We have a great land." Fritz re rnindedj "But cat the land we cannot ; wear it we cannot; cover with it this winter we cannot." "So. so," said Fritz. This was the beginning of the plaint which they interchanged through several years. "We have all our money tied up,' said he. "When wc want some little tiol Lirs more, we can have it not," said she. "So, so, we are land jwor," said he. " ..... "We want not so much lam!, ! saul sue. . .. "Not aide am I to work so much. said he, and no children we have to leave it to." "To sell some would be better, said she. "Sell eighty acres and we still Lave a hundred more than i.ll our peo ple in the old country. They be a ioor set over there." The plan of selling they talked over, until, by and bye, a little 3 Uuml on a i-olo nniiounccil that i FriU Wttsel would sell an eighty j acre slice off his farm. People came j and went, looking at the slice and ! sighing for it. At length an offer i was made for the whole farm at !f!!,Sfia j "Try him at $7,(100," "aid Mrs. , Fritz, "if he agrees, take it ; for sev-j.-n thousand is much money, it will i keep us for life." J "So, so," Fritz said, j lie tried seven thousand and the j offer was taken. As the terms were j cash, Fritz one day came home, his :,pockctbook crammed with green- backs. j "Come here, Thckla," he said to his wife, "shut the windows, lock the door, put on your specks, you are not so young as when I married , you barefoot. Come, 1 shall show you so much money as yon never saw. Mrs. rntz hastencu to mate things secure against spies and eaves droppers. She hung a shawl across the window ar.d stuffed cotten in the kev-hole. Then she feasted her i eyes on tne Minorca tioiiar mus ana the twenties ana tne tens. All ! now wc have it easy ; we have it good, at last," the cried, thecriiv. ' So. so," said Fritz. "The mon ev-hox we have cot open, where our monev was locked." "Xow we have trot it irood. But where will yod put so much money, to-night, Fritz ? Everybody knows that the farm you have sold for mon ey in hand, and everybody knows we are out on the prairie with no body at all." "I will take the money to bed with me ; I sleep with it in my bosom.'' "You can take it to bed," said Mrs. Fritz, "but vou sleep not much I think." Neither man nor wife slept much. One-L'df the night they were listen ing fer burglars, and the other half were searching for the house break ers. Toward morning they had a nap apiece. When dayiitrht came they were glad to see it. They were t "give possession in ten days, fo the 'morning was full of anxious .p uostionmg. nere were nicy io 'SO ? where set up the new home ? 1 here are not many Germans in iv- . . ..II .Nauvoo, v.e are ui acquainted to gether. It wc can get a home in Xauvoo " "I will go to Xauvoo, and I will see," "And the money V" t:.id Mrs. Fritz, "And should I carry so much money to lose ? to have my pocke ts picked ? It is known to everybody that I have cash for the farm. I take it not. L leave it with you." "Xo. no, not with me. All alone I shall be. Should some bad man come, I could defend it never. Not fair is it to Lave it with a lone wo man. Take it you must." "And is it killed you want me to eet, me as married you barefoot, and has worked through bad and worse to get the much money ?'' "And have I worked not ?" "l'.ut have I not harder worked ? What is cooking and washing for two people to plowing and digging and reaping and packing ?" "And have 1 not dug potatoes and hoed cabbages and corn, and picked grass for the cow and the goat ? Ah! Fritz, you are hard on your woman." Do not cry, poor wife. Good wo man you have been to me ; and good man I have been to you. I beat vou never." ' "True! true !" said Thekla,bright ening. "Good you have been. I will tell you, Fritz ; we should go away from this place, where every body knows that we have much money. To Chicago wc should go, whore people know us not." "So, so," said Fritz. "That is good; there be many Germans in Chicago for company ; we get soon acquainted together, and we tell not of our much money. I think we wilt go to Chicago. To Chicago in a few days they went, and settled in one room in the German quarter, where no word of English might ba heard for weeks at a time. Their money they were carrying about in their shoes, in their bosoms, and in their waist bands. "lut stopped this must be ; the money will be worn out ; it will go to pieces. Besides, we might tail down on the street with fits or some thing, and the money be lost." "So, so" said Fritz. I have heen thinking. hat wc can do I know not. Mrs. Fritz suggested the bank, about which institution she had no clearly defined ideas. Fritz shook his head, and shook it, and shook it. "Xo ! no ! no I no ! But it in the cashman, he put it and thousands of poor people's money in his pock et, and ship to the old country, and when I go my money to draw, the bank it lias s'topied. The bank no Rood." Mrs. Fritz said, "Bonds," not knowing the moaning of the word Again Fritz shook his head. I know not bonds ; I understand not bonds. If I cannot take care of my money how can some otlrer peoples? They "care not for it so much as I. Xo, money I shall keep in my fin gers." "Where, then, shall we put it in this one room, with only the stove and bed and two chairs ? We have no place to hide." "And if a place wc had, wc would not it leave. One room might be entered, or the house miiht get on fire. Ah ! if it were like silver, like old country monev, we could bury it' "Wc could not ; for wc have not any yard. Ah ! it is much trouble. I think, think, all d;; long; all night when I can sleep not. Xow, n-o liftvp vr-rv much trouble, mv wo- n We had not so much trouble when in the old country, we picked the crass barefoot, and loved to gether." "The monev was better in land land no one could steal." said his wife. "In land, it would be better," Fritz agreed, "if when we a sack of flour buy, we could pay a slice of land, and when a soupbone, one verr little slice. But do that we iLVyJL O ESTABLISHED, 1827. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, could not, and we have much trou- ble evt ry way.' "Ah! me!" sighed Thckla. "When I was poor, and no money had for shoos or frock, 1 thought the rich people had not any trouble; but much money, much trouble, 1 believe." "So ! so !" said the man, "that is so." 1 laving no work to engage him, Fritz might have interested himself in the sights of the street. But he was never easy out of I113 own room. Especially was he anxious when in a crowd. Was he jostled? he thought he was being roubed. Every man who touched him was suspected of intent to pick hi3 waistband, Re turning to his room it was a half ex pectation of seeing Thckla chloro formed and the money she carried gone. More and more he kept to the room to guard her and the mon ey. Ho distrusted everv person who gave him a sharp look, the Prussian next door, the violinist overhead, the cigar maker across the hall. A dozen times in twenty- four hours he detected the oder of chloroform and claimed that he was being put to sleep through some crack. Drowsiness at unusual hours he attributed not to his inactive, listless life, but to the ana-sthctic in the hands of a robber. He became morbidly interested in burglar-proof inventions and skeleton kov3. lie weighed the matter of buyinga proof sale for the money s sake. "But," he said, considering the cons of the idea, "people coming in here would know what for I had the safe, they would find out 'I had much money ; they would give us chloroform throgh the cracks, and when we be dead with it, we would be locked in a crazy-house. Then they blow open the safe with pow der and there the money all find." Ah ! yes ; it is much trouble is much monev," the assented. "I wish most we had yet the interest hole to pour our money in. To fill it, we worked hard ; but hard work is not so worse as much worry think ing, thinking, thinking all the time ; face so mournful, heart so heavy. Ah, Fritz, we were so bad never. You laugh not any more ; I laugh not ; we have much sorrow Fritz, very much sorrow." "It is so, said r ritz, with melan choly emphasis. Then he dropped Ins head on his breast, and both were silent till bed time thinking, thinking what had best bo done with the monev. A few da vs after this when Fritz came in with beef and bologna sau sage, Thckla noticed that her man's face was agitated. "We must change our meatman," he said anxiously. "He has found out that 1 have much monev, I think." "How ? did you not tell him ?'' "1 would tell him never," said Frit;:, -almost fiercely. "It was this ivov : I had not in all money for the " . T 1 1 a meat ana sausage. 1 naa twenty dollar. Then the butcher, he say, Ah ! vou are rich ; you have much " rm . 1 1 It monev. men 1 tmnK he wouiu ot, a man to spv me home, so I 1 11 1 ti came arounu ana anoui manv diocks out of the way; and I stop many times. e must go not more to him. He may bo put chloroform in mv meat." "All, me ! Ah, me! wo do have it bad. in this one room I stay like I was in prison. I go nowhere ; I see nothing; am with no person ac quainted together, in this big city. 11 tne time I be alraid lor the monev; airaia my man get kiiiea; afraid I be dead with chloroform." "So ! so !" said Fritz. "It be worse; as to pick faggots and eat brown bread. Much money, much trou ble." A few days after this Fritz had another fright. His landlord called for the rent. This was paid with alacrity, bet!; the man and Thekla feeling almost glad at being relieved of so much of the money which was so sorely troubling them. "What are you working at. How do you earn your money ?' the land lord asked, not because he cared a penny to know, but because he wish- d to say a inenuly word to his prompt tenant. But tiie mood ol the Germans made the simplest words sinister. Fritz reddened, cast down his eyes,' stammered and said he made sau sages. "And it is "good ones he makes," the wife added, tryiDg to help her Fritz. "Perhaps." said the landlord, "I will take some sausages of vou some day." Then Fritz was scared, lest he might be asked the number of his shop. Thckla's heart was in her mouth. But the landlord went away without putting the question. And has it come to so bad, my Fritz, my poor Fritz?" Thekh ex claimed when thev were alone. Her apron was thrown over her head, and she was crying in that heart broken way peculiar to a stricken conscience on a first transgression. "Is it so bad as we must make lies? Poor Fritz ! Poor Thekla !" "And haven't I made sausage on the farm ?" said Fritz, trying to ex cuse himself. "And tell him some thing I must. If he know I nothing do for my living, he will know I have much money, and then we should sure get chloroform." "But the lie Fritz ! Alack I alack ! chloroform were better. If children we were Fritz, our parents would beat us ; yes, beat us dead it might be, but have us liars, never, never. We were good children, Fritz, bap tized into the church we were. Now, much monev make much trouble, much sin, much tears. To the poor we should give some money, and go work." "So ! so ! it would better be," said Fritz. The next day Fritz and Mrs. Fritz were of that great crowd of terror stricken fugitives, fleeing before the most appalling conflagration the world ever saw. They were of the seventy-five thousand wh bivouack ed on the prairie that night. "It is like the Judgment," Thckla said, with awed voice, looking from the flaming sky to the faces about her, red and weird in the glare. "Everybody is now in trouble, the :f3 1 SEPTEMBER 14, 1881. children cry, the men and women eroan." "The house and shops and goods of them be all burnt," said Fritz. "Our money i3 saved." Early the next morning there came to the strange encampment bakers' wagons, provision carts, milk carts, water carts. Fritz buying his breakfast and Thckla h saw a nursing mother and two little children turn ed from the carts. They had no money to buy. He told this to Thekla, then the square German face, weary, begrim ed, lined by her hard life, suddenly shone. In the same moment it kindled with enthusiasm and soften ed with compassion. "Now, my Fritz, now is your time. Go buy bread and drink for poor women and little children. Buy, buy, buy, so long as there be any hungry, so long as your money hold out." Fritz cast down his eyes lrrcso- lute. "Ah! my poor Fritz." she said sadly, yet with faith in her voice. "You are not so hard ; when you was little. boy and I was little girl, you gave me of your faggots often, and of your grass. Think vou if the Ixrd Christ was here this day with much money. He would feed vou not ? Ho would give you not drink ? Ah ! my .rritz, we know now where we can put our much money ; there be many holes to pour it in," she said, with a little tearful laugh, "the hungry mouths of many poor peo ple, come let us buy for them, my Fritz." "So! so!" he said, looking up with a tear in his blue eye. "We will buy some cart loads for hungry people, the last dollar may go before anybody must starve ; "no differ ence 11 we tie not acquainted to gether." It was not necessary for Fritz to spend his last dollar, for a million hearts were even then planninz to help and millions of hand.? were working : the relief was swiftly corn ing. Fritz and Thekla are now re-cstah-ished in Xauvoo 011 a fifty-acre farm. Thev have an adopted eirl whom thev brought from Chicago. In her rearing and education thev find a chain for any surplus money. A distressing accumulation is not likely again to occur. Sarah Wintrr hdlorjfj, ui tytiai'ji Advance. i:nM t r rood i pon ?iiik. Evcrv dairyman has learned bv experience that when food falls off in quantity or quality, the quantity and quality of the milk keeps pace with it. But they do not sulhcient ly consider, perhaps, the fact thai the character of the grass has much i to do with the quality of the milk and the cheese or butter made from it. The following remarks, taken from the Country Vcn'.lcnuin. bear in teresting relation to this subject : the observation ol Dumas. Pay- en, and ijoussingamt have shown that a cow gives healthy milk in proportion to the surplus of food beyond what is necessary for her own maintenance. If the animal is kept on food barely sufficient for proper nourishment, the milk pro duced must be at a loss of animal tissue, with general deterioration of the milk ar.d also of the cow. Milk formed at the expense of the nutri ents and tissues of the body has less caseine,butter, sugar and salts, while the albumen will be increased. It follows that the value of the milk must depend upon the excess of food beyond wliat is required by nature to keep up the normal vizor of the body. Decaisne demonstrat ed by experiments during the siege of Paris, in 1371, in forty-three cases of nursing women, that insufficient cr non-nutritious food produces a diminution in the normal quality of the milk ; also a variation of" its chemical constituent, such as an increase of albumen and diminution of caseine, butter and sugar. TI proportion of albumen in such cases i is generally in inverse ratio to that of casine. Such milk rapidly de composes, and this will explain why ' in hot weather, it mingled with good milk, it would induce ferments and j cause serious trouble to the cheese! akcr. "That the quality of crasses is greatly influenced by soil and situa tion, has been generally observed by farmers who have been in the prac tice of fattening stock for the sham bles. Upon certain pastures cattle fatten rapidly and without trouble, ! while on other lands they do not readily take on llesh, though the growth of grass seems abundant and of varieties accounted nutritious. It is not si rprising that cheese ma kers often have trouble in handling milk when going from one locality to another, for in addition to the more common causes of bad milk, such as unclcanliness in milking, bad water, abuse of cows by boating and overdriving, there is still an eithcr affecting milk that of soil or the food which it produces. Gener ally on high and dry pastures of gravelly loam the milk will be more readily converted into cheese than when the milk is produced on low, wet grounds. The treatment of milk and curds, therefore, must be varied to meet the different charac ters of soils, for that manipulation which would make gooel cheese in" one locality might make bad cheese in another. Tlic Tobacx-o Crop at Failure. Laxcastkr, Pa., August 31. The unprecedented drouth in this coun ty has resulted in thc failure of t wo thirds of the tobacco crop, entailing a los3 in the county of over a million dollars. In neighboring counties, where the same atmospheric condi tion existed, the loss will bo as much more. Some of the early planted tobacco escaped the dry spell and matured well, but this has already been purchased by New York buyers, most of it while still growing in the fields. larger prices have ruled this vear than have ever before been paid. It is believed that the remainder of the crop will only be available for fillers. When a man regards himself all sufficient, the world is apt to think of him as insufficient J Creeu Food for Milch Cows. In all dairying sections it is often a question how and where to obtain sufficient suitable food for producing and prolonging the greatest possible quantity and ejuality of milk. Pas tures usually run short in August or later, and then something must le fed to keep the cows from shrinking their milk. The comparative ease with which fodder corn is grown makes that the more general crop for the purpose. Most crop3 have some objections against them, but I think fewer practical men can be found objecting to green corn fodder than any other crop equally econ omical. So far a3 experience and testimony go, green corn fodder, properly grown and fed, yields the greatest amount of milk and flesh, for the same expenditure, of any crop that has yet been grown for the purpose. Com is peculiarly suited to our climate, thriving generally in all parts of our country, and al though accurate experiments have not substantiated its claim as the best, public opinion and practice I would seem to decide that way. i Since this crop can bo preserved so cheaply (as claimed ) in silos, in all it? succulence, we may look for its more general and abundant pro duction. Could we only credit the half that its most enthusiastic advo cates claim, all farmers should keep double the present amount of stoek on tins pian, at very much less cost But I am alraid that the matoritv will be doomed to disappointment or failure, as too many factors enter into the succcsslul issue ol the ex periment. The crop, however, id a good and economical one to feed green during the last of the summer and early fall, and dried for winter it is scarce ly less valuable than the best of hay. The culture of fodder corn requires judgment and skill as well as any other crop, lo develop the greatest amount ol nutriment, tfie corn must not be grown so thick that the whole stock and plant cannot be exposed to light and air, as these are essen tial to the proper elaboration of the juices of the plant. The fodder grown from sweet corn seems to be preferred by all animals to that from other varieties of field corn. I have noticed that the cows eat the whole stalks and butts of sweet corn, while much of smaller t growth of other varieties was reject j ed. Before being gathered for teed j ing, corn should be tasseled out and I the ears formed, for until ttds stage its full nutriment is undeveloped. Cor. Cmmtry Gentleman. Forms of Lihtnin. A flash of lightning is a very large spark of electricity just the same thing that one sees given by an elec tric machine in a lecture on Natural Philosophy, the only dilference be ing that the best machine will not give a spark more than a yard long, while some flashes of lightning have been estimated to be several miles in length. According to their ap pearance, various names have been given to these sparks in the sky. though in reality all the several kinds are one and the same thing. ( n a warm summer evening one often sees clouds on the horizon lit up with brilliant glows of lightning, unaccompanied by any sound of thunder. To this appearance the name of "heat lightning" has been given, and the warm weather is of ten assigned as its cause. In point of fact, the heat lightning is only that of a thunder-shower so far off that, while the observer can see the flash, no sounel of thunder reaches him, and the intervening clouds veil and reflect the flash until it becomes a glow, instead of the sharp streak usually seen. Where the flash, starting from one point, branches out and divides into several parts, it has received the ! name of "forked lightning." This is usually seen when the discharge js ne.ar thc .obscrvcr- flashes bearing a zig-zag or crinkled aspect are denominated chain-lightning, probably from their resemblance to a chain thrown loosely on the ground. Again, when several dis charges occur from about the same place at the same time, and are screened by rain or clouds so as to light up the heavens with a broad bright glow, the title of "sheet light ning is applied. These four comprise all the com mon forms. There is, however, one rare manifestation, called "ball lightning." In this phenomenon a small globe or ball of apparent fire rolls slowly along the ground, and after a time suddenly explodes, scat tering destruction around. There are few instances of this on record, no very satisfactory explanation has ever accounted for this curious ap pearance. Invalids Poinded. A mournful illustration of the cruel wrong which is done by spread ing broadcast the delusion that per-, sons in the last stages of consump tion can be cured by a change of climate, is furnished by this year's experience in the Adirondacks. The number of victims this season to an exaggerated belief in the curative roperties of the Adirondack region i.is been unprecedented. Sixteen fiersons during the present month lave died in the woods or en route, and their bodies have been carried back through Plattsburg. All these died in want of the comforts and consolations which would have sur rounded them at home, and in many instances, no doubt, death was has tened by fatigue, deprivation and homesickness. And still the mourn ful procession to the woods goes on ; and still people are found, well meaning or otherwise, who are will ing to take the responsibility of stimulating a false hope. A. 1. rn bnne. . A Wretch Going to Pri.ion. Louisville, Ky., August 31. Dr. Au3t, who during last lall cool ly and without provocation shot and killed his brother-in-law near Jas per, Indiana, was yesterday taken to JefTersonville prison for ninety nine years. On the way ho mani fested" the greatest cruelty of pur pose and gloried in his crime. "TS LL. O WHOLE NO. 1575 How sal "DiMgrai-ed t!ic family. A traveler in the State of Illinois some years ago came to a log hut on the prairie near Cairo, and there halted. He went into the house It was a wretched affair an empty packing I.-ox lor a faMo, wliilo two or three chairs and disagn-t al.I ... 1 , . . . sioois graeeu trie- reception room i i i , , uio uaric wans 01 winch were orna mented by a display of tin-ware and a broken shelf article or two. The woman was crying in one cor ner, and the man, with tears in his eyes and a pipe in his mouth, on a stool, with his sorrowful lookins head supported bv the palms of his hands. Not a word greeted the in- tcrloricr. "Well," said he, "you seem to be in awful trouble here. What's up ?" Illl. ...A. , ' . "li, we are aiinosi crazea .neign- uor, &uiu me woman ; ana we hain't got the patience to see folks 11 jn . "That's all right," said the stran ger, not much taken back by polite rcDuu ; out can l te of any ser vice to you m all this trouble ? ' H til, we've lost our cal : our r?ai a gone oli and ielt us. ' said the old man in tones of deep despair. Ah, do you know what induced her to leave you ?" remarked the new arrival U ell. we can't say, neighbor, as now sou s so lar lost 33 to he in duced, but then shea gone and dis graced us." remarked the afl!i-ted lather. 'les, stranger, and not sis I should say it as is her mother but there warn't a pootier gal in all the west than our Sal. She 3 gone and brought ruin on her own head now," ionoweu the stricken mother. "Who has gone off with her ?' in quired the visitor. "Well, there's tiie trouble. The gal could have done well, and might -o Jiiaijuu .-uiruu jvfnoe, a cap ital shoemakor, who although he Las but one eye, he plays the flute in a lively manner, and earns a good living. Then. look, what life she has deserted : ?he was here sur rounded by all the luxurv in the in country." said the father. i cs wlio knows what toor Sal will have to eat, drink and wear now," groaned the old woman. And who is the fellow who has taken her into such misery ?'' "Why, she's cone off; iid got mar- etlitor, as ried to a critter called n lives in a village, and ora oni y knows how he's to aim a living.'' The Magnitude ofthc Tr. le. Few persons have a;, aduiuate conception of the magnitude and importance of the rag trade in this country. Bags seem to be cheap and insignificant a commodity that it is surprising to learn that, with the exception of the staple products of the West, they are more largely transported by railroads than any other article "of merchandise. At Chicago the Michigan Central Bail road has erected a special building for this kind of freight, and it is es timated that not less than one hun dred car loads of rags leave and en ter Chicago daily. A good idea of the extent of the trade was recently given a Chicago Tribunt reporter by a wholesale rag dealer. Said the latter : "There are fifty millions of pimple iu the United States, and it is safe to presume that every one of them discards on an average, five pounds of clothing every vear. That gives us L'oO.OUt 1.000 poun'ls of rag3to start with. Then there are the tailoring establishments, big and little, whose cuttings are not mcch less in quantity in the aggregate than the cast-olf clothes of the na tion at large, while their quality, as rags, is greatly superior. Then there are the carpets, and bedding, and curtains, and other domestic articles of cloth of some kind, which make up a good'y bulk in the course of a year. The different articles combined make up another 2.30,(X, (XX) pounds of cloth material which has been discarded from use and which eventually finds its way into the ragman's bale." She Took Him at Hi Worth Wriggles had some teeth pulled in his iaw. lately, and took cold which swelled UDtil it looked like a prize watermelon. He poulticed it and bandaged it, all to no purpose ; and walked the floor several nights with it quoting choice extracts from Bob Ingersoll's lectures, but all to no purpose ; it kept on swelling. The other morning he remarked to his wife that he would give S"0 dollars to any one that would hit him a tremendous thump on it sud denly without his expecting it, to see if it wouldn't burst the swelling. The dear woman smiling to her self, went and gathered a bootjack. and stepping up quietly behind the old man as he was trying to strain some coffee through his teeth, lov ingly inquired : "Where doe3 it pain vou most, Vi hig ? O, Iord ! right here, right here," as he turned his jaw uo and pointed to the apex of protuberance, iakmga step back the dear woman raised the bootjack on high and hit him a regular bung- starter right iu the center of his ca lamity, and smilingly stepped back to await results, the old mans knees flew to his chin as he shut up like a patent rat trap, and with a hollow groan he rolled off the chair on to the floor, but he was up in a moment, and as he danced the can can, with original variations, his wife smilingly asked : "Did it relieve you, dear ?" Anel as he tried to howl out an answer old Mrs. Pry, who had just dropped in, beat a hasty retreat. And now the whole neighborhood has it that Wriggles has got 'cm again. And as Mrs. Yxy remarked, "That 'ere comit will be thc death o' some b' these old baldheads yet, settin' up to watch it. ' Aee Orleans limes. Do not think of knocking out another man's brains because he dif fers in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differed from yourself ten years ago. : The brightest hour in the day is that one in which all our desires are gratified. 'I ho t liri-iii t'il ir-n." T he. amphitheatre at Chautauqua wj.z filled with an eager throng sev eral davj ago which had gathered to liden toai address by Judge Tourpee on "The Christian Citizen." For an hour he talkM in an enter taining way of the resjMinsibilitiefl and privileges of the Christian Citi zen. The. term citizen. b eail, dig nities a co-oriliaUi elcnieiit in a stlf ,.j ..-. 1 .1.. onmiviltnitir '1 1 Iff lit- ftt- lined Christian as a term including every man who believes in the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, or m imbued with his teachings, or, if not, knows that he ought to be. Iu the course of his address he eaiJ in substance : "Christianity is not like the dreamy religions of the drowsy llt. It is a positive, ac tive, aggressive faith. It has no "passive voice." The Christian ia sent out into the world as a bomb is hurled from a mortar to hit somebody, and to hurt somebody ; and if he doesn t do it, it isn't the fault of the powder bohind him. Christianity is ihr motlier of the Ilepublican idea. A popular notion prevails that the nearer a man would keep to God, the further he must keep away from politics. This is a criminally Hillnotons notion. What is political government? It is the big human end of religion. The responsibility of a country's future rests upon its people. A na tion is not good by accielcnt But the chronic grumbler says that the political life of to-day is so corrupt I don't believe it. I believe in pub lic purity of to-day. I believe that our moral ethics, as a Nation, is at its highest mark to-day. I have no sympathy with that class of people who keep calumnating our politi cal life, and whose oniy mission seems to be the praise of God and hnd fault. e only see the bright side of the past. We forget the in fluence of the past A few years ago a crime could be forgotten be fore it reached the State line. To day a deed of bhame is read on three continents before the blood of the assassin's knife is dried. If these charges are true, whoes fault is it ? say emphatically, the fault of those Christians who won't do their political duty. Prayer and voting once a year aren't enougli. We are not to stand on the pinnacle of our own purity, and scold at evil ; we must meet our own personal duty, by putting our shoulder to the wheel of government Oh, these cowardly Christians who wrap themselves in the mantle of their own righteousness, and will not en ter the great battle. A christian, a cit izen ought ut to allow any political lucstion in which he is interested to be decided without active weak on his part Every man must do his duty before he crumbles at the pcrver3eness of politics ; and this means that he must give all the time he reasonably can to the solu tion of the State problems." Boys. Get hold of the boy's heart Yon der locomotive with its thundering train comes like a whirlwind down thc track and a regiment of armed men might seek to arrest it in vain. t would crush them anel pass un heeded on. But there is a lever in its mechanism that, at the pressure of a man's hand, will elaken its peed, and in a moment or two bring it panting and still, like a whipped spaniel, at your feet By the same little lever the steamship is guided upon the sea, in spite of adverse wind and current That sensitive and responsive spot by which a boy's life i3 controlled is his heart; With your grasp gentle and firm on that helm, you may pi- ot him where vou will. Never doubt that he has a heart Bad and willful boys very often have the tenderest heart hidden away some where beneath incrustations of sin. or behind barricades of pride. And it is your business to get at that heart, keep hold of it by sympathy, confiding in him, manifestly work ing only for his good, by little indi rect kindness to hid mother or sis ter, or even to his pet dog. See him at his home or invite him to your3. Provide him some little pleasure, set him to some little ser- lce of trust lor vou ; love mm ove him practically. HniMebacIc Riding. ILirwr'i Bazaar gives this advice to ladies in regard to horseback rid ing, which is now becoming very fashionable ; A vouns lady should sit square upon the saddle, and to ride with a ht hand upon tne rem ; sne should also learn to be independent of the stirrup never to be depend ent upon her foot Her light touch on the month of a thoroughbred control him better than force. The modern habit is made rery short, just to cover the foot As all young ladies now wear a neat boot ana pantaloons under the habit, there is no fear of any expose, and the terrible danger of the long habit is avoided. The catching of the hab it in a passing wheel has led to dreadful accidents. No young la dy without excellent nerve should try to ride, nevousncss, a scream, or a loss of self-possession is almost sure to frighten the horse, and to lead to accidents. The curb-bit, the pommels, the stirrup, are but ad juncts to safety ; the principal reli ance must be ou the rider's own self. Desperate Suicide. St kastox, August 31. S. G. Col lins, supposed to be a salesman from Wickersham & Co., of 309 Race street, Philadelphia, committed sui cide at an early hour yesterday morning by throwing himself in front of a fr'eisht train at a point one mile west of Bloomsburg, on the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg rail road. The body was fonnd at Espy this morning. Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is richer, cr happier, or wiser for it It com mends no one to society ; it is dis gusting to the refined and abomnia ble to the good. Men are naturally charitable, but they have a bad habit of feeling everywhere for the poor except in their pocket-books. Pain is frequently more terrible to the imagination than to the phys ical body. No man can lie a successful Athe ist until he is able to re-create him self. Honesty is the best policy ; but policy is not always honesty. Men dread what can be realized i it is the unknown that is feared. No peach tastes so sweet fore it is eaten. S3 be- i ! w i - i ? li:1 - f . . 1 1 4: ! " . f ! ) ' 1 " 1 A : v - "' V : . i v ; . ii ir
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