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ESTABLISHED 1850. Persnaawbodestrs to sell, boy or exrhaapre proven;, or rent will Dad ittoweiraoia-iw to rr later the dtarrtpUon thereof, as as eharce Is made aniens sold or rcaMd. Seal estate basueas (enerallr will be promptly attended to. see is CHARLES HOFFMAN, UERCHAIIT TAILOR, (Abort Urnry Hffl3r ) UTEiT UTILES Ci LC7ET FSICES. or SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SOMERSET PA. UERCHA1IT TAILOR SV3IMER IS GOXH BUT SflMXO WILlj CD51K AGAIX. The leaves arc Tailing and fal'.ins, Tlie winds are rough ami wild, The bird have ceased ttieir calling, Bat let tne tell yon, my child, Though day by day, as it closes, Doth darker and colder grow. The rools of the bright red ruse Will keej) ulivc ia the snow. Aud wbea the winter is over, The bou;U will get new leaves, . The quail come back to the clover, And the swallow back to the eavr. The rj1in will wear on liii bosom A vent that is bright and new, And the lowliest wayside blowwm 'Will shine with the sun and dew. The leaves to-day are whirling. The brooks are all dry and dumb, But let me tell you, my darling. The spring will be fure to come. There must lie rough, cold weather. And windy and rains so wild ; Xot all good things together tome to u litre, my thilu ' So, v !ic:i some dear joy hscs Its benuteotjs snniiner glow, Think how the roots of the ros(-s Are kcr.t alive in the snow. ' STOriY OF A rREACIIi:ifS TIUP. nY JAXE GRAY SWISoIIELM. Once upon a time, about the year ofcraceone thousand eiht hun dred and fifty, there lived in Frank lin county, l'a., a young man nam ed Jack Merrilt and his sister, Eme line, who had lott their father and found a step-father quite early in life. They inclined lo resent the acquisi tion, and this resentment aided Jack in the boy business of governing his Bister, according to the rules of mas culine superiority, and greatly for warded Miss Lmeline s fctuuics in the arts of feminine subjection. When Jack locked her up in a large house alone, to keep her out of harm's wa, because she was only a girl, while he summoned his dos and disposed of Deacon Mirth's tres passing pigs, or blew to pieces with powder the logs he had been requir ed to prepare for use on the kitchen fire. Miss Em. might cry (for what else could you expect of a girl ? ) but she did not question Jack's right I to take care of her in his cwn way. j Jack having no brother to educate and his class of bov pupils being I limited to those of his school dis trict, he gave proper attention to the training of the young lady he gov erned for her own good taught her to ride and drive ; to harness a horse and mount one, with or without help ; to row and run and climb and throw Btones like a bov. His success in this last branch of polite education was such as to cast doubt on the assertion that a woman's 6houlder or elbow joint is so con structed as to prevent success in throwing at a mark ; for Miss Mer ritt's proficiency became such that no boy would have risked giving her serious offense, if there was a stone in reach, and once, when a temper ance meeting was being held in the school house, in the light of four tal low candles in tin sconces, and a large, mellow apple came lrom among a group of school girls back in a corner and broke into many pieces on the bald head of the speak er, the boys united in declaring that Em. Merritt must have thrown that apple, since "no other girl and mighty few boys could have made such a center shou"- One would not now like to charge that pitce of total depravity on Jack Merritt's sister, the dignified woman, who might be a grandmother and who fills bo large a space in society ; but, to look into the merry twinkle of her gray eyes occasionally, one might even suspect As for the domestic virtues, no one in that day thought of teaching them to a girlinjhe rural districts of northern or western Pennsylvania, any more than they thought of teaching babies to creep. A girl learned to cook and bake and sweep and sew and wash and iron and pickle aDd preserve, as a matter of course. If she was of respectable family, she learned the contents of the Bible, the .Shorter Chatechism in the same way, and went to Pres byterian church. The 3cung Merrits, belonging to a family "of wealth and influence, were I Presbyterian, as a matter of course ; for in those days all respectable fieople in northern and western j 'ennsylvania were Presbyterian j Methodism had taken firm foothold among the poor and uneducated of both town and country, and in cities the butterflies of fashion said their prayers in Episcopal churches, but the pillars of society rested on the Westminister tounuauon. in me fiftieth year of this century there were many saintly girls in Franklin county ; but, from that blindness of mind and hardness of heart which can onlv be accounted for on the ground of original sin and total de pravity, tne young preacners oi inai " ! A 1 At- region diet oiien verioon. . tueir charms and cast longing eyes on the forbidden fruit of the reigning belle of thatreigon. Her pomps and vanities, her sparkle and dash brought motion into their humdrum lives, and they came, like moths to a candle, to be scorched by her keen wit or flattered by her smiles. But her clerical admirers were of her own church and social circle, until a young circuit ridrr of the Pittsburgh Conference met her in the house of a brother host, at a quilting, and threaded needles for her and bore her sly jokes at his expense with the inward resolve to capture the gay bird and cage her. ... When Nature began him, she laid a eupero iounuauuu wi imrtMi man gave him a six-foot frame of strong, well-jointed bones ; rigged them with sinews like cast 6teel, cov ered them with an abundance of tine, sensitive skin, but left out the flih naiijillv furnished on 6uch oc- I casions ; fiave him a well-formed head, crowned it v.ith plenty of Bhining auburn hair, with a Blight inclination to coxL i A six-foot country boy for tins j preacher was not old enougb to vote, SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1881. is a good subject for ridicule ; but when he lacks flesh and has red hair he is peculiarly vulnerable, and the young lady did not snare him. As he was the especial charge of all the mothers in Israel and all the daugh ters, he did not lack champions ; but, alas ! it was soon discovered that he was bewitched and many a prayer was offered on his behalf. ilia presumption was at first an object of ridicule to the young la dy's friends and admirers ; but that something which packed every church and school-house when he preached io them and got up reviv als by magic soon began to tell in this case, and the ridicule ro-ie to se rious opposition. . hen the crises came, and Jack gave hi3 opinion, he simply said : "Em. if you must marry a preacher, take Thomas. He's a man." This verdict grew out of the fact that the despised lover, being a Vir ginian; had learned, in his native state, to shoot, to ride, to row, to walk. When his host was pressed to get in his hay, and the preacher took off his coat, few men cared to come in competition with those long, thin arras. He rode any horse ; and shot squirrels for sick folks when common marksmen failed, and so won the respect of men and bovs, a3 well as the admiration ot women and girls. In due time Miss Merritt packed her trunks, sent them out of her step-father's house ; went, with her gaunt lover, tj a squire's office ; had the nuptial knot tied ; started, with her new husband, to one oi Ins ap pointments . stopped at a wayside inn, and had her wedding dinner of boilrd mackerel, potatoes, bread and coffee. The groom s father, in order to get away from slavery, had sold his V irgiuia farm, emigrated to Iowa, bought a large tract of land, and was anxious to settle his children around him. So to the wild., of Iawsi went ilio fn'irit vnntiT nrrvirh- cr, with his gay youiig bride. Her dress, which bad been a se rious trouble to the Methodists of Northern Pennsylvania, was a great cause of scandal to those of Iowa, in a neighborhood where a woman s best head-dres3 was a calico sun-bon net. The sisters came and labored with her. The brethren groaned when she came into church. They all prayed for her in class-meeting, and at all times assumed her uncon verlcd state as proven bv her white plush bonnet Uut the great trouble ol the new home was lack f houje-room. The family, like eac'i one of those in the neighborhood, lived in a log cabin, and even the old Virginia welcome which met t!c bride could not whol ly comper.iiate for the cranijied lodg ing?. So the groom stopped preach ing, and took up the trade his Mas ter had followed before the days of his ministry ; but, while all hands were busy rushing up the new house, fever laid iia hand heavily upon the old, and every lied had an occupant, thought to be hick unto death. The young husband was thought nearest the grave, and then the youns wife found use for all her overflowing vi tality and that Pennsylvania train ing which made her a wonder to her Virginia friends. On her strong shoulders the weight of the emer gency fell heavily, and was bravely borne. From bed to lcd of the suf ferers she passed, and from cook stove to table, preparing and serving food for the visitors, who flocked in such communities to the house of sickness, like vultures or magpies around a wounded ox, to stare and wonder and to be fed. Of all her atients the doctor gave her little iope ; but for her husband there was none whatever. Speakins in after days of that time, she has said: "As for Thomas, there was nothing left of him but a handful of bones and a tuft of red hair." He sank into unconsciousness, and people ceased to inquire "How is he?" and j said : "Is he still living?" One day she felt the world sliding awav, the sun growing dark, and knew she too was coming down with the lever. When the doctor came, he made assurance doubly sure, and told her frankly he feared for the result, she was so yorn out; but he gave her medicine and departed, when she sat and looked the situation fairly in the face. Her husband could live but a few days. She would soon be delirious. There was no vacant bed in that house, where she might lie down. She could not become a charge on her over-burdened mother-in-law. thought she would surely die, and must find a place to die in. Of all the women wno nau come to look, there had been one whose scant calico drees and 6un-bonnet were always clean and who did not bring a pipe ; one who had offered lo assist and would not stay to cat. Acainst this woman she had been warned as one who was queer, and, of course, not respectable ; but to her she resolved to go. This wo man's husband was a teamster and seldom at home, and she had but two boys in her family. So the bride got down her bridal-bonnet from t he rafter where it hung, wrapped up in paper,- like a 6moked nam, made a small package of under clothes, kissed her insensible hus band for a final farewell, and started across the prairie to the cabin, two miles away, but visible from her starting-plrce. Taking a bee line, she came into a swamp, and sank in it so far and so often that it became a question whether she should find a grave just there, without the aid of a grave-digger ; but she climbed on tussocks, picked her way from one to another, and got across, wet and weary. As she approached her destination, she saw the woman 6he sought standing on a log, near the door of ber cabin, and with an ax chopping wood from the end of a log. She kept on chopping, not seeming to notice the approaching visitor, until she stopped ' near enough to fpeak, when she ceased her blows and leaned on the handle of her ax, to giveraudience. Her visitor soon txplained,trre cause of her visit. She was coming down with fever ; and had no place to Btay ; no one who could take care of her ; ebe would be very ill, may be, for a long time ; would probably e.rft ESTABLISHED, 1827.'- die ; had no money ; Dut back in Pennsylvania she had friends, who i . -a a . . . would pay any expense of her sick ncsa or burial. 5 - Her auditor listened calmly, and spoke no word until she had ceased. Then, straightening herself, Bhe re plied : i ' Silver and gold Have I none: but such as I have give I unto thee," then descended from the log, took her visitor's bundle, ,and led the way into the house. In one corner was a bed of straw, made uton poles fastened to the walL From these nbles she remov ed the bed, and laid it in the oppo site corner : took a clean bed tick from a chest, went to a little barn. filled it with fresh straw, and with clean sheets made p an inviting bed : undressed and washed the wet foot; put away the -bonnet, which had been such a cause for offense to the good brothers and sisters ; and soon had her guest in bed and her self installed as nurse. The bed in the other corner wasi made up for herself and her her two boys, one of whom was an idiot, made so by a brutal beating inflicted by his fath er. This beating had changed the current of the mother's life, so that, from living a wife, after the plan of Paul, with her husband standing ia God's stead, she became in her own right a moral agent, ; accountable to God for all the deeda done in the body. There in that lone cabin she had unraveled the contradictions and the sophistries of the great apos tle and gained a standing ground on which she defended her own right to life and that of her children. The mind once clear in a case of this kind, all else is easy ; for a wo man who has never worn corsets or an extra skirt for appearance sake, and who can, in consequence, wield an ax as well as any man of her siz?, has no difficulty in making her riuht3 respected. She had thought out and written out the whole prob lem of the slavery ot her sex : had last respect for the churches, which had established and rnantained that and not at all resjectable, for, if the Church can no longer burn as witch es the w omen who think, she can make it. very uncomfortable lor them. This one bore the disapprov al of the orthodox with stoical in difference, and proved a tower of strength to her sick friend in her time of need. Her best drinking cup was a gourd ; but she kept it filled with pure water from a distant spring, and a golden goblet could have made it no sweeter to the fe vered lips. From where the sick woman lay, she could see the house from which she had come and where her hus band still lay in that jdeath stupor. Every day a messenger came to bring tidings, which were always the same : Mill living. As the two beds occupied one end of 'the cabin, a large fireplace and dresser filled the other, and this fireplace opened iuto an outside chimney, built of mud and sticks. One forenoon, while the mistress was occupied with her guest, the lovs, raising an out cry of "Fire ! Fire !" rushed and screamed : "Mamma, the house is afire !" Sure enough. So it- was. The roof had caught from the chimney. She got her ax, climbed up, and be gan chopping away the burning clap boards, calling to the bovs to hand up the bucket of water and gourd dipper ; but almost her first blow released a store of hazlcnnts, which she had secreted and which now be gan to pour down on the floor of the burning building. For the nuts the boys began to scramble, utterly heedless to her calls for assistance. No help was in reach, and in the extremity the poor atient crept out of bed, and on hands and knees reached the chest where her hostess kept her unre corded deed and other valuable pa pers, secured them, crawled on out and lay down on the prairie while the woman w.th the .x left it on the roof, came down, flogged the boys, and made them go for water, while she took up what was already in the house, distributed it carefully from her gourd dipper, then chop- ed and threw away the burning roof, until the third of it was gone and the danger passed, '-when she came and helped her guest back to bed and "set things t right" But they were destined to alarms. The country was wild, and there were many account of roblierics and outrages, and just then there was an alarm about one or more escaped prisoners. So, when both women heard the footsteps of two men pnss around the house, between midnight and morning, herrd them speak in low, cautious tones, wait, then walk toward fhe door, it was no wonder that the brave defender of the house rose cautiously, secured her gun, took her position, and stood ready to shoot whoever opened the door. But those on the outside stopped, stood, consulted, then turned and went away. They afterwards learned that it was two good neighbors, who had a package and a message to deliver from the absent husband, and who, "for fear of frightening the women," had acted in this strange, suspicious way, but came in the morning to ex plain. After the fire the fever grew worse, delirium set in, and the patient could seldom know when the message came that her husband still lived. Her stout-hearted nurse and the doctor Wgan to think she might go before him ; but when a messenger came galloping, one forenoon, she was sane, and too sick to be sorry that Hiram was released from "the weariness which lay so heavily opon her. The news, however, was not what she expected ; for the man, hurrying in, exclaimed : "Oh ! we are havin' such a time over at Pop Thomas's, When they thought Hiram was gone, he came to, all of a sudden, shoutm' Glory I Seems like he' been in a trance or an angel come to him. " He says he isn't goin' to die. He's goin to preach, ne has to serve the Lord on earth, an' bring thousands of sin ners to repentance. He says Emmy I isn't goin' to die. They must all !live an' glorify God. Oh ! you nev er see such a time. The doctor come just after he come to ; an, got down on ins snees, an; went to praym', wee a preacher. .No one ever heard him pray before. Pop Thomas - is prayin'. They are all a-prayin' an shoutm' glory. Hiram says tell Emmy she'll get well an all uv "em 'ill get well i he good news proved true and Hiram Thomas seemed to hia neigh bors as one raised from the dead. The family all recovered, and from then until now he has preached, E reached, preached, like one who ad past the portals of death and re turned with God s message of m; ;cy to a perishing world. lo-day he stands hefore a com mittee of a Methodist Episcopal conference in Chicago, to answer the the charge of heresy ; but no result of that t rial can silencehim. Preach he muHt, on a higher commission than any which can be given or tak en away by a conference or bishop, and in his faithful wife will ever find a largo portion of his strength and fortitude. - - - . ... . For weeks after that turn in the tide of affairs she lay on her bed of Coles and straw, watching the sun eams on the floor which fell through the roof, or rather through the open ing where the roof once was, and communing with the stare. That typical American woman her host ess, in the intervals of weilding her ax, broom, cooking utensils necdic. and knitting-pins, read to her guest lrom her one book, the Uible, and from herwn manuscript commen tary on it. This impressed her hear er as little less than miraculous, un der the circumstances, and quite equal to anything Bhe has heard from the public advocates of worn an's rights. She had learned them in the bitter school of her wrong?, yet asserted them not with the passionate protest ot weakness, but with the calmness of one who knows her rights, and knowing, dare befend them to the death if necessa ry. 1 lie hu-band was home but once during the visitor's stay ; and then, with a dehcacy one often finds, on occasion in men usually half brutal, took up his lodgings in the barn, and made his guest feel that it was a pleasure l.r him to do so saying he haicd Ieepin in a house, lie was one of the millions who could not bear irresponsible rower . who are tyrants when they may and de cent men when they must After the cabin revival and glory meeting, Dr. Thomas's recovery was steady, so that he came io his wife before she could go to him. THe new house was built, and he went to his life-work of calling sinners to repentance. He and his wife have had much sorrow, from poverty and sickness and death. Of their tix children but one remains. All the others died of piety, like the good children in Sunday school booka, whoso history is only t;o true to Nature. An inherited brain devel opment overtopping the physical force is like a pyramid on its apex, and is easily thrown off its balance ; and when a child has been so train ed that at three years of ago he shrieks in agony because be ha3 broken Sunday his hold on life is very frail. It is under teachings like tiiese that Dr. Thomas has learned to be very gentle to sinners. He has as he says, learned his theology by the sides of deach beds and open coffins, and it is full of a great human sym pathy. lie and his wile have points oi difference even vet: but that cere- uoony performed in a squires otuce was a marriage recorded and aj proved in heaven, an ideal union of two lives. And to-day they 100k back upon that wedding dinner of salt mackerel and potatoes as the best they have ever eaten. A lawyer's Clever Article. In an allcced "horse thief" case there was quite a little sensation yesterday afternoon. The accused was John Campbell, a young strip ling of perhaps eighteen, and not a bad looking boy at all. The princi pal witness for the prosecution was a young girl, who claimed to have seen Campbell in the stable. Just before she took the stand counsel for the defendent managed to get another boy, very much resembling, him into the seat next to Campbell. After a few questions the wily law- er, looking all the time at the other ov, asked the witness if she could possibly identify the prisoner. She roust be very careful, make no mis takes, etc. Looking oyer at the seat she said : "There he is, there." "You are quite sure, now, are you ?" asked the lawyer. "O, yes, sir, quite sure," was the confident response; "Why I know Johnny Campbell well." "lhis is my case, , exclaimed the lawyer, and court, jury, audience and all saw that it was. In her con fusion the young lady had identi fied the wrong boy. Counsel for the State immediately threw up the case, and the court room was convulsed with laughter, during which young Campbell with drew in the company of his rela tives and friends. EanilT Proren. It is easily proven that malarial fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness ana neuralgia ailments yield readily to this great disease conqueror, lion Bitters. It repairs the ravages of disease bv converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new life and vigor to the aged and infirm always. Christmas cards grow larger, more artistic, and more expensive. In a few years a yonng man that has onlv a couple hundred dollars to spend during the holidays will be undecided whether to buy bis girl a Christmas card or a gold watch and chain. -Korrialmcn Herald.; Having been cured by St Jacobs Oil, I reccommend the same to all suffers with Rheumatism, says Mr. L. Shiffraan, 2804 Calumet Ave. Chicago, 111. la . Crosse liqpvblican Leader. A Mau's Strange Fight. It was in the Island of Borneo. ' A queer place it is, I tell yon, and the queerest lot of people 1 ever saw in my life. Juut at the same time, it a man gets used to their ways, an old sail or might have a happy time living among the Dyacks. I landed from my ship one day, and with Ned McKitrick, a boy from the greene isle, I started for a cruiso on the shore. We reckoned on a hunt, and brought guns, though we didn't know what kind of game we were likely to scare up And, if I must tell the truth, we Uidn t neither of us know much about a gun, "Seth, acushla," said Ned, "phat kind ay a counthry is this at all at all? Look at the threes. By the grrat gun of Athlone but did ye ivtr see seen b;g wans in all yer lone V Where wo landed there was a lit tle river making its way down to the sea, and whilo we were walking up to the woods, a bis water snake. as thick as my arm, went buzzing up the stream Ned cave a war-whooo and iumn- ea lour leet from the ground ; for it there is anything on the face of the earth, that anlnshman hates it is a snake. "Look at that fellow,''he cried, "Shoot him, Seth. Kill him. Whoop 1 I never saw sech a baste in all my loife." - I got him quiet after a while, and went on into the woods. Ned was wild at the fruits and flowers he saw, and if I had let him, he d have poisoned himself a dozeo timca before we got a mile on the road. We kept the river for a guide, be cause neither of us knew the coun try and if we onco got lo3t in the trackless woods, there was little chance of our ever getting out alive. Many a queer sight and sound disturbed us, and at last we sat down under a tree and took our lunch. I had just mixed a little stiff horn of grog, when Ned started up. 'Look yer here, Seth," he said. "See tho "hairy man. Get out av that, ye black thafe av the world." Not far away, standing in a stoop ing posture, with hi3 long arms swinging by his side, was a uge orang-outang, looking at us in the queer inquisitive way which seems so natural to monkeys and those of her tribe. lie was a big felllow, nearly as tall as a man ;and no wonder Ned, who had never seen anything like it, thought it was a man. 1 dnia t say anything, and Ned stood looking at the o rang in the ug ly w,"y iKxmliar to an Irishman who thinks himself imposed upon. "liOok here, ye rascal," he said, angrily, "d'ye want anything out av me : , The trang did not move or make any sound, and Ned began to get mad. He shook his head and walked towarp the orang in a fighting post ure, and I followceL because 1 didn't know what he was going to do. Now, look," said Ned, extending his hand. "I've got five fingers or four fingers and a thumb, which manes the same thing as well as you, an, be the powers, av ye don't spake till me, 1 11 show ye how they do the trick in ould Ireland." I wouldn't stand his nonsense. if I was yoa, Ned," I said, setting him on. He didn't need any backing and went closer. "Now, smell av that fist," he said, 'an' mark mo w hile I spake. Av ye don't beg my pardon for not an swering a civil question, may I niv er see ould Ireland again av I don't knock ye into smithereens." 1 he orang uttered a harsh grating crackle which Ned took for a laugh, and he at once slapped the orang across the jaws and danced around him with an Irish veil, his hands up in true fighing style. So one but an Irishman would have ever thought of such a thing, and I was bursting with laughter. "Step up, you, villain," roared Ned. "How d'ye loike that now?" The orang gave a yell like a pan ther and sprang at Ned's throat his claws going like a windmill. In less time than it tikes to tell it, Netl was the worst-looking Irish man in or about the Island of Bor neo. I dou't know what would have happened to him if I hadn't got out a knife and gave the orang a dig. for I didn't dare to fire at him while he was hanging on to Ned and claw ing into him. The minute the orang felt the knife he lit out, leaving Ned mad with rage, dancing wildly about and blood running down his face from a dozen scratches. "D'ye call that fair fighting, ve black thafe?" he roared. "Howld on : I'll come till ye." To my surprise he set out on a run after the orang-outang, which was running away among the trees, looking over his shoulder with an angry snarl, and licking up the blood whioh flowed from bis wound ed arm. Ned wouldn't stop, and the only thing I could do was to run after him. for I didn't known what kind of trouble he'd get into if I wasn't by to help him. lie was a good runner, and was overhauling the man-monkey hanei over fist, when four or five more dropped from the trees and joined their companion. "Hold hard there. Ned," I yelled. "Ddn't you see he's got help ?" "Sorra a bit I care!" roared Ned. "lean' whin the party, av they 11 only fight fair." The ourangs set up a chattering and yelling such as you never heard in your lite, three of them, the one I had hurt among the rest began to come toward us with such mischief in their eyes that I knew they where in for a fight "Look out, Ned, 1 cried fire at them or vou are gone." I pulled on the big fellow I had hurt, and he keeled over beauti- fully. Tl LL. O WHOLE NO. 1584. Ned, who began to have a faint idea of the truth, had the good luck to break the leg of another. The pitiful yell ho uttered brought the others at us. and I drew my knife, a regular olu bowie, and waited. Ned clubbed his rifle and dashed in. But the ourang at which he struck leaped back to avoid the blow and stood chattering. My antagonist made a jump at me, and I felt the sharp claws in my throat, and struck out wildly and at random, and heard a half hu man groan, and my enemy lay dead at my feet As I jumped to help .Ned, I saw him astride of the ourang which had pitched into him, pummeling him to hi3 heart's confer "Ah, wud ye, then t" he yelled. "Taste that, an' that, an' that How d'ye loike that?" "Come away, Ned," I said. "You'll have a whole colony of the hairy things on vonr back if vou don t look out." "Whoop! I'll tache them to pitch intil a thruo hearted Irish bve that niver harmed them in his loife. Taste av that, me jewel." 1 dragged him oil and got him away. I didn t tell him that they wercn t men we were fighting with until we got to the ship, and he was brag ging how many Dyacks he licked. Ihcn 1 told the story, and a mad der man you never saw in your life. ut course it came to a light and I had to win. Variety ia Your Food. There is no one standard of food applicable to all persons, whether as to Kind of food or quantity. Our tastes are more or less a matter of education. A taste educated in one direction revolts at a taste educated in another. Tomatoes, now almost universally useel in this country, were rejected with loathing a gener ation ago. Ihe rrench. who led off in eatinrr frog flesh, are now eating horse flesh their tast efor the latter having been developed during the exigen cies of the seige of Paris. Tho Eng lish have heretofore, turned with dis gust from corn (maize;, which is the very staff of life in this country, and in some of its forms f cooking, a delicious favorite. It might be well for oen general ly to have their t.t; i broadened. Some persons are altogetl.er too nice and narrow in their pre) rences for food. It should be vme ibtred that unused functions i tid t wards complete cessation, p'. . iu.-lance, one of the best preseratives against consumption is in the ability of the stomach to digest fat, but the power to digest it, may be loat by long dis use, the glands ceasing to secrete the necessary fluid. bo, too, the quantity of food ea',-n by aiilerent persons varies. Une man, in good health, too, and in the same surroundings, would be killed by what is essential to the health of another. A hard worker in the open air would starve if restricted to what amply suffices for the man whose employment is in doors and sedentary? Life could not be sustained in the Artie zone without immense quanti ties of heat producing food. ' An Es quimaux will eat daily twelve to fifteen pounds of meat one-third of it fat He generates so much inter nal heat that he always throws off his coat in his hut, where the tem perature ranges from freezing down to zero, with an outside temperature from thirty to seventy degrees be- ow the latter point loKfAstom- panwm. Trapped. There is a story told of a lady and gentleman travelling together on an English railroad. Theywere Btran gers to each other. Suddenly the gentleman said : "Madam, I will trouble you to look out of the window a few min utes; I am going to make some change in in ray wearing apparel. "Certainly, sir, she replied with great politeness, rising and turning her back upon him. In a very short time be said: "Now, madam, my change is com plete, and you may resume your own seat" When the lady turned she beheld her male companion transformed in to a dashing lady with a veil over her face. "Now, sir, or madam, whichever you like," said the lady, "I must trouble you to look out of the win dow, for I also have some changes to make in my apparel.', "Certainly, madam," and the gen tleman in Lady's attire immediately complied. "Now, sir, you may resume your own seat" To his great surprise, on resuming his seat the gentleman in female at tire found his female companion transformed into a man. He laugh ed loud and said : "It appears that we are both anx ious to avoid recognition. What have vou done ? I have robbed a bank?' "And I" said his whilom lady he dextrously fettered his compa ion' wrist with a pair of handcu "am Defective J., of Scotland Y and in female apparel have sha cd you for two days ; now," dra a revolver,"keep still." Mr. James Hurley, the inventor of the modern bicycle, is dead at be age of fifty. He was the son e a poor farmer in Alboume, England, and. showing great skill as a ma chinist became foreman of the Cov- entry Machine Company, in which capacity his inventive mind conceiv ed and carried out the bicycle. But the first machine was very rude, and has since been much improved on. " "The doctor said my wife bad con sumption. Tried 'Lindsey'a Blood Searcher,' and she has better health than ever." G. II. Hubbard, Hamp den, Ohio. The only house ork that some girls do ia when they begin to dust around after a beau. '. A Ireent from General Kberman. now THE CnSERAL PAID A W0MA1 I oa HER CHICKEN'S. Governor Murray tell a lau ,blc story of his experiences of the i Georgia march to the sea which is worth repeating: "Speaking of tho famous march through Georgia," said the Governor, I never shall forget the amount of money it cost us to keep an old wo- i man lrom crying herself to death. Uf course we were ooiig'Hl to subsist off the country as we were going along, and we naturally took about the best in sight One day we took Eosession of a chicken ranche kept y an old lady, who stood at the front gate with a broom and threat ened to fkk all Shermans' forces if they did not move on. Now, chick ens were considered officers' meat, and as we were infernally hungry, we went for these old hens pretty lively. When she saw that her favorite fowl3 were being caught and killed she keeled right over and be gan to cry. Presently she began to scream, and finally you could hear her screams clear to Atlanta. I sent tho sergeon in to quiet her, but he failed, and then all the officers took turns, but the more attention Faid to her the eiu: t'ue howled, then got pretty nervous over the infernal i.oise, because the whole army would hear it, and they might suppose somebody was torturing the woman. Finally Sherman rode up and asked what it was about, and when we told him he said : '"Give her a bushel of confederate bonds for her hen3, and see if that won't stop her." Acting on this hint. I proceeded to business, We hid captured a confederate train the day before with $4,lO,nfX) of confeder ate money, and I hunted up the train at once. The money was worth about two cents on the dollar. .Well, I stuffed about half a million into an old carpet sack and march ed into the house. "Madam," said I opening the sack, "111 give you SSOOMK) to stop that noise." It was as still as death ia a minute, and then her face expanded in a broad smile. I laid the pack ages on the tabic and I never saw such a pleased woman. The elfect pleased me, and I continued : "Gen eral Sherman present? his compli ments and SIUOhXa" I never in my life saw such a delighted old woman, and I wound up by dump iug the contents of the sack right down on the floor, and telling her that when it came to contributions to distressed females I could not be out done by any living man. "She invited the officers to sup per and she cooked every chicken on the ranche and let out her cider as free as water. We were having a pretty good time when a long, lank old coon came in, and she said it was her husband. Pretty soon his eye fell on the money. "Sarah !"' said he, "where in blazes did you get that darned truck ?" " 'A present from General Sher man," ' said she. " 'That ain't worth a continental cent ; they're kindlin' fires with it down in New Orleans,' "The old woman rose up, her face as white as your shirt front, and her eyes weren't pleasant to meet. "'So you are the bilk that gave me this are you ?' she called, out, reaching for the broom. "The entire mess rose and started from that house. We never heard any more of her, and there i-n't a man of the crowd who would ruot that old woman for all that con fed ate money, if it would bring one hundred cents on the dollar at the treasury department, Washington. Salt Lake Tribune. Mbwed ihe Train. It was a colored man. His back was all dirt, one tail of his coat was gone, and every button was ripped off his vest. He had two limps antl a hitch as he came out, and there wa3 a new French shade of sadness in hi3 voice as he toed the mark ami said: "I missed the train, sah." "Yes, it looks like it Is your nime Gen. Scott Green ?" "Yes, sah." " What train did you miss ?" "I doan just remember what train it was." "Where was you going?" "Down tho road." "What road?" "Dat's what I can't member, sah." "Well, do you remember of getting on a drunk?" "No, sah. . Maybe I called fur lemonade an' dey gin me whisky, but doan' 'zactly 'member it All I recollect is dat I missed de train." "I think you got the train all right You were training around pretty lively when the officer got hold of your collar." "I alius walks in my sleep, sah.".. "Well, that's bad for you.' 'You broke a window, kicked in a door, and raised a big row. Have you observed the state of your ward robe?" "I has deserved dat I'm all broke up, sah. Dis suit ob close cost me seben dollara cash, an' I doan' be lieve it would sell-fur six. Did dey roll me down stare ?" "No, you resisted arrest and the officer had to mop you around a little." "He did ? I wish I'd bin dar to see de fun. Kin I step out and see my pardner 'bout two minifs?" "No, sir, you can step up to the workhouse for sixty days." "Shoo ! Why, dat upsets me from gwine to Bufferlcr." "Can't help that Please fall back." "Can't I settle dis lawsuit fur fifty cents?" "No, sir. The omnibus will be along for you in about twenty min utes. Call the next case." Iktrnit Free Vw, Stray Thought. He comiuers who endures. An obedient wife commands her husband. ' Two may keep counsel, keeping one away. Much" learning shows how little mortals know. Every person Las something about him to spoil him. Self-deception the art wmen lias arrived the nearest perfection Strength ia born in the deep si lence of long suffering hearts. Pride sleeps in a gilded crown. Contentment in a cotton night-cap. Hawthorne describes a snowy I landscape with the moon shining on it, as a iueiess copy oi uv wvnu, marble." For Chronic Catarrh, take Peruna. I have tried it J. Hebbling, Alle gheny City, Pa. Iowa has four hundred creameries, wbose machinery is valued at $1,- oco.ooa '
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