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stair In MUimuiH j.io. .
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Somcrsct, l'a.
INDSI.KV.
ATTOKNE
II.
KY-ATL.AW,
Somerset, I.
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U Somerset, l'a.
I ATTOKStY-ATLAW,
I Somerset, Pa.
() y iwTTKIlSOX,
aTTOHXKY-AT-I.AW,
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Somerset, Pa.
..nncs. minted to Mi c re will 1 aU
r i: k. will' promptness and fidelity.
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W. II. Kl 1 l'KI-
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v . 4 tn their care will 1
11 ,It'I11 'punctually attended t.
' Iuiu c-ru "" I'8U0 t'rt
oniuth Block.
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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 .
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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
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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.
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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.
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