UL of publication, j fc.incrsct craldj Y If ptid toK"0 i otberSrtsa W ! M eOAns- 1 vUI be dlseoatlaaed CBtil all rustsaaster neglecting r hrwn do Mt take u 1 k(ll ntpwUbl for U tab- 1Mb mm Postoffloa to US- . tha name w w. in The Somerset Herald, Somerwt. T. -OOSEB. ATTOKXET-AT-tlVT, Somerset, Pa. eriet lie "T 0 ESTABLISHED, 1827. VOL. XXX. NO 41. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22. 18S2. WHOLE NO. 1602. , Albert A- Hue ke. -'F li. SCl'LL. : 4TTVKXKY-AT-LAW, Somerset, Pa. ATroKNEY-AT-LAW, Somerset, Pa. HOME J. Scott Wakd. & I7ABD, ' "irrOKXEY-AT-I. AW, fcomersot, Penn'a. ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW. Somerset, Pa. T'RITTS. attokney-at-law, Somerset, Pa. lo JUmmoth Biota. f R. SCOTT. ATrOSNtY-AT-I-AW, Somerset, Pa. v. rv,art House. A H'bnJlneM entrust aEv. ... to wiLb iiruimtnost and aiicH V. H. KlITKU " ATTX'KX eys- at-l. a w. mToed to tbetr care will l '1 nnnaally attended . j? Mala lntt- O.iposite tb 2. L. C. COLBOII.S. fe C0LB011N. ATTOKN EYS-AT-UAW. -.intrusted to our rare will be prompt TTiien.led to Collectl. made In S..m Jtf.swiedjotaloir Counties. rver-tlw-'u,- done on reasonable terms. ; 0. KIMMEL. ATTOKXEY-AT-tAW, Somerset, Pa. t m all business entrusted to ! is eare ,r,.l a.lj"lnlnic Bounties with vrompt jj'utf. umee on Main Cross Sl.-eet. PATTERSON', ATTOUNEY-AT-LAW, Somerset, Pa. -k entrusted to bis rare will he at. i ili prompinena and ttdolity, Llw. T.YF.PCIIELL, Al'TOKNEY-AT LAW, iwl Penfln Agent, Somerset, imn uin lilack. Pa. INTIXE HAY. AmiKXEY-AT-LAW ,iln R ! KsUte. Somerset, P , hoim-m entnuwd to Ma care will EATON & BROS., NO. 27 FIFTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. SPRING, 1882. NEW GOODS SVZSY IAY S52KALTISS Embroideriet, Ucei, Hillia-erj, White Goods, Hand- kerchieft, Oreu Trlmn'mgt, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Muslin and erlno Underwear, In faets' and Chiidrea ' Clothing- Fancy Goads, Yarns, Zephyrs, Mate rials of All Kinds for FANCY WORK, Gents' FnrflisMiiE Goois, to, k va n FATaoKAuK it suarar rrcixr boucit d. f ORDERS BY HAIL ATTEXDED TO WITS CAKE ASD DISPATCH. mart 5 SOMERSET COUNTY BAKK ! (r.STABLISIIED 1377.) CHARLES J. HARRISON, CASHIER AND MANAGER. tkllenloD made in all parU of tbe Vc Ited Statea. CIIAHGES MODERATE. Partlee wishing to aend money Went eaa be ae enromodated by dra.n on New York la any (am. tlleftkn nuule wita promptneni. T. S. Bond a honiclit and eoM. Money and valuable aertired byuoenl I ttetxild's celebrated eatea, with a Sar gent k. Yale i-0 M time lock.. s LYD1A E. PINKHAr.rO VEGETABLE COMPOUND. HvlU rujv 9Btirr!y tit wortst t orm of FjmlCaBi fUittaU, alt oraitLiui troublr, toelMpairfkMi and tlevr Spiaal Wftfca, ud Is aarUciiJ&r!j adapted to taa Ctanc of life. li v.U diuolva andevTltamonfiaithetenkla aa cmr ueof driVtrin?fei. Tb lradca7to etixHMi kBtiiortitlKTe U cbrlt?d y3C7 BperdUj by tU 1 II reoMTcii raintaeaii, flatulency, dntroyaalt crarlac foratlmalafiTa, and rrlierct wmkatwa of UMttoma It eoTM Moat l.f-, nradacbtia, Vcttoqm ProrTlrmtlOTj, Goaerat DetJ!ty, BipiMBsm, De;reaalaa asd Inli- CwtJoa. That tmUng of bwlnj down, ratuirijr Tb wettrht and oackacUp, It alwaya pennaneaUy cnrd ty it use. It will at all times and nndcr all drctimrtaiicr. act ia hamKmy with the laws that noTern the female trn. For tha earvof Kidney Cornea lr-.t of aitaier acx ttelm Cocnftonnd 1 onrorraasw d. rOUXDU prepared at CtJ and ET-i Wejter Atcdc, Vaa,Bfaoa. Price ft. &U bottle for (. Kt by xaxi l jg tha form of plll, aJM 1 a the form of ltznp". on mmxtpt of prtea, $1 per box for either. J'.rm. Pin ban jffIy anirwera ail Irttera of inquiry. Brnd for puupb trl. addxvat aa abora, ifraroa ffcfa Iijr. ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. f-AU legal holiday obeerred.'Xt Ie7 II.UI1L. ATTORNEY-AT LAW ,!t attend to all business entrueted i K mev a.! rnred on collections, c vm i utnoili huilulr.E. I 0GI.K. ATTOhXEY'-AT LA W, Somerset !'-, ;lhB.lneentnirted to my eare at wiUi jirooilsUieM and fidelity. LLUMII. KOONTZ. ATTURXET-AT-LAW, Semerael, ri. . fl )ve rmr .ttestVrti to barinewi er.trurt le.ri in t..enet and adjoining eounUea. J rMntlaf House Bow. E5 L ITCH, ATTORN EY-AT LAW. ' Somenet. r'a. '.imoih Blnrk. P t trert. Oolleeiwne stairs. Entrunre, 1e. eftaie examined, and all lerl bnslness lewlth prumpineee and fidelity. . BAKU, ' A TTOUN EY-AT-LAW, Somerset, !'-, r.Kt In Somereet and ad jolnlnpr eonnt lea. aitruied to bint wUl beprwnpOy $72 A WERE. 1J a day at heme aally made. Oontly otiUltrree. Ad4ie Tkiie Aarnma, Mane. Mar.ls-lyr i;.fmiir ,hOTia i.thoutLriJitt. n:::Ay.i XJTEtt WUS. T:7 cure constipation, b'-IIo'iraers saa nrtitr c tlie I.er. !E cer.r-. Tvr box. Xjf sui Irna;S". t - FOB BALK BT C. N.BOYD, . DKUGGIST. Somerset. Pat. $66sui? your own town. ?4 ontBt rlfk. EverTthlna new, notreqnlrrd. We will tar- .T.rvthin.. M.nr .r. Ladle make as mnch aa men m aklna: fortunes. great pay all the time yon work, write tor partle- Blars to n. jiAtXKTT a so.. i-oruanu, jaaue, lee.l8-ly. and boys and srirls are maklna great pay. Header If yon want a bnslneM at wnicn you can maae. 1882. SPRING and SUMMER A.jSrN"OTJTNrCE MENT To the Jcople of Somerset and Vicinity: .VII.LIAM COLLINS, HEXTIST, SOMERSET, PA, Wmoth nioek. above Boyd's Pra; rr he eaa at all limes be funnd frepar- kinds ol work, eoen as J" ': "" rtetina: ke. Artlhotal toetbol ail kinds. best matertttl Inserted, tijierattuns E M. HICKS. J V8TICE OF THE PEACE, Somerset, Penn'a. tUMEXL. U.S. KISJME1X. ir M TTIMMELL & SON f r-Jielr professional serrtees to the eitl i ..t .ni virinttT. Ime of the mem I arm can at alrniinea. nnloas pnlelon. l(ind at their office, on Main -:X the UlamonO. . K. DULLER has penna- r located In Berlin for the practice ol Office opposite Charles KrlMlnir ajT.ii, To-U P.nT'TiAKER tonilors his uLw.i MriMiAthi rftisens of Son -wcitT. orllce In residence on Main "sol the IHamocd. L G. MILLER. PHYSICIAN A SVKOEOX, iid toS4th Bend, Indiana, where he iid by loiter or otherwieo. 01 IX EIMA 1ENT1ST. -s Henry HcGlej's store, pUaln Crwi trset. Pa, ;ond HOTEL, OYKTOWN. l'ENN'A. jr and well known boose haa lately wlilv and newly refitted with all new terctture, wlikh baa made It a very "1 !''! place lor the traoellnir puMle. Su ro. cannot le snrpsssed, all b. am, with a lane public hall attached . Alw larice and roomy eta bl inc. t- :-rdlr(r can lie had at the lowest pus- f i j the aeea. oay or meat. 3 S AS f rX rx'STER. Prop. I h. E. Cor. Iiamcd S my stow ,Pa I TStrara, n1l.. I FERMENTED ,WINE, !)R SALE i f ''awbeerat A. J.- Oaaebecr A Co.s arset. I'a- or at M GROVS TAM -r h of Punerset, the ptsee of mann- (ullownla- is a list wf the kinds In tw BLACKBERRY, CURRANT, RBERRY, WtLO-CHERSY J AND CIOER WINE, aMhnantityto foil percbaaer. jj hack need lor medical and aaera ' a:alioaa a bererafre by thuae i"ls wise. ..TSM. WOOLF, ' Tlic Popular One Price Clotliier and Men's Furnisher of - JOHNSTOWN, PENNA., Vould resjectfully announce to the People of Somerset and vicinity, that through the convenience afforded them by the S. & C. 11. It., to visit Johnstown, they can now avail themselves of the opportunity to purchase their CLOTHING of the finest MATERIAL, LEST MAKE, LATEST STYLES, and NEATEST FIT, at the same or even lower prices than they have been paying for or dinary shop-made poods. -t I M. WOOLF'S style of doing business has gained for him THE LARGEST TRADE IN JOHNSTOWN. Discounting his bills before maturity, and buying all goods in large quantities enables him to SELL CHEAPER than anv other Clothing House in Johnstown. OA 'E PRICE TO .-ILL. X0 DEJ"I?1TI0X. X0 GOODS 3IISRE PRESEXTED. ALL GOODS ttAKKED IX PLAIN FIGURES STRICT Z Y 0XE PRICE TO .-ILL. Money Refunded When Goods Do Not Prove Satisfectory. L. M. WOOL F, Tk Popular One Price Clothier and Gents Furnisher, i "5IAIX STKIHET, JOHNSTOWN, PA. GRANTED WISHES. Two little girls let loote from school Queried what each should be. One said, "I'd be a queen and rule," And one, "The world I'd see." The years went on. Again they met And.qneried what had been. "A poor man's wife am I, and vet," Said om; "1 am a queen." "My realm a happy honsehould is, liy King a husband true; I rule by loving services. How has it been with you? ' One answered, "Still the great world lies Beyond me as it laid ; O'er love's and duty's boundaries My feet have never strayed. ''Faint murmurs of the wild world coiue Unheeded to my ear; My widowed mother's sick bed-room SufBceth for my sphere." They cla.ed each other's hands with tears Of solemn joy they cried, "God gave the wish of our young years And we are satisfied." Jvlin G. W'hiltier, in rotrfA'f Cbuionion, MRS. SY3ITXGTO-V9 BARGAIN. BY LUCY RANDALL COMFORT. - All women, who are their weakness, and Mrs. bymington was a china maniac, as in of LOOK HERE! Wlieayuaeotoete JOUSRTOW ,do not bU la call at the PEOPLE'S STOEE !! NO. 3 MORRIS ST. TO fJ.KE YOURP URCKASES! THE WORLD-FAMED BORDETT ORGAN We keep constantly oo band a fail line of aroeJs araally ke in a First -claw n u. ENERAL STORE!! whieh we wlU sell at a VERT LOW margla for profits. GIVJJ US A CALL! iacUt-3sa ALBERT TRENT, Manager. tli"- '"T te Bftyre (SS-U) yy a4 Poplar (inter la Ll. f aeres eaeelteat soeajow. v S!tJl' arala ana ltare land. !. 1J xl. all weH watered, llsoa u""4 ,rro aossse. wacoa (hod, i k brn. Mui.t frva lyrrk "t- 1mxAm r.R.K.1 Biles. J,'' and eae-kair sella, where saay i Itrato ana bay saarkru TERM EASY WALTER AHOERSOH. MCHpT tailor, I JaS-Q-LEKMOX. 1 Z7IA Wwtlaa4 Av, V- PnllaMapbla,Pa. t t -.umuM,uuws, steal CUE. WOCD T. AH) SUTH ATENUE, 0. 226 LIBERTY STREET febiS " C?? weck 'a yoar rwa HfvJ eami free. 1-ortrMMl, Main. towa. Tervs ad AsV'rassH.JiAiurrrftt 5c atar.ra-l IS FOR SALE ONLY BY I. J. HEFFIaEY, HtUSIC DEALER. SOMERSET. PEHU'A. BEFORE BSTKS TRY THE BU2DLTT ! "I T IS THE BEST !" It Ma feiitHtla U VariJtr, BsaLr The saperlor tty of the Bnrdett Onraas is reeo--nlsed aidackiillired by the bUbest Bosieal aatboritlea, aa the demand for them Is steadily lorrearlnc as t. vair merits are beeomlnsr more - tenslvely knowi V What ereryooay wants u we Tberefora wrarylioily wants tba BUKIJETT. Evsxr Osna w OCAEaararo Frva fBAaa. Sold m Lj Montfrly Piys-esti ana tssr for CASH. VrOLIXS. GUT-TARS, ACOORDBOXSt BANJOS. CTsARIOXETTS. PIC COLOS. FIXTTES, FIFES, And in fact ererrtblna; fa the nnstaal Una. Tbe UtMt and snost destrabl. InstnKtloa Boaka tor aU InstniBentsoasate. Blank Music Books and Pa per of ell staes and kJnda. SHEET EUS1C 4 TIaTLH STEIKSS 1 SjlilltT. Orarans Taned and Bepalrad. Masleal Inatroe Uea Ki per quarter. Send for catalogues. tllrltlnryorordstra tor "Everythlna; la tbe Xasieal Line,-' I aai, Yoor BeapecUnlly, I. J. HCFFLEY, fehatC SoBMrset, Peaa'a CHARLES HOFFMAN, IIERCHAUT TAILOR, LATCT STYLES Cl LOWEST PUCES. ETSAT1SFACT1CX GUARANTEED. SOMERSET PJl. ty will let me hare the tct for that (she don't know the value of old china, poor thing I), and the journey won't be more than thirtv dollars both ways, if I go by sea, including a state-room." ; "It appears to me," said Mr. Sym ington, discouraginglv) "that this is a good deal of a wild-goose chase, co- ing up to the northern boundaries of Maine at this time of year for an old set of trumpery china, which proba bly didn't cost ten dollars to start with." . "Oh, StanhoDO. it dul !" cried the lady, indignantly. "It was real In dia ware, imported without pavinz a dollar of duty, by an old sea cap tain in India trade : expressly for my grandmother Grumton. And. besides, you are so dreadfully grov eling and prosaic in your ideas. As if the original cost of a tiring of this nature signified ! It' the esthetic value we look at, don't you see ?" Ah ! said Mr. ymington. "Well, if you must go, you must go, 1 suppose : and ot course I shall have to give you a check for what money you are likely to want" And Mr. Symington sighed decp- iy, ana went up stairs to get a piece ol court plaster lor nis cut nnger. Mrs. fivminctnn wont ik W'ihl T?iv, told, have er, in the northern boundaries of stanhope Maine, where the pine forests were thatched with snow, and the icicles untied in tne wooous oi a moon- ight night like so many1 castanets gone mad. She made the greater part of the voyage by sea, and was consequently very sea sick, for the water was rough and the gales tempestuous. "I will come back by land," she said to herself, as she sat In the little hotel at Portland, and viewed her green and yellow complexion with a shudder. "Money would't induce me to risk my life again in that hor- is bufletted and seesawed about on waves that are as high as a house. The palacc-car tare will be something . of an extra expense, and I shall lose say return ticket by steamer, but I'm sure Mr. Syminrton won't grudge it to me when he hears how I've been pitch ed and tumbled about on the ocean in peril of my life." - - And she put on her brocaded silk, her new plumed hat, and the seal dolman, and took a northward bound train, re ived to present an imposing appearance to AuntGrizzy Grumpton when she should reach Wild River. It was very cold a dull, bitter, leaden cold with the ground frozen like a rock, the streams bound in ice, the sky gray and bitter, with an ineffable gloom. Aunt Grizzel Grumpton lived in a little one-storied house on the top of an uncom pro mising hill, where a solitary ce dar tree was twisted around like a corkscrew with the force of the east wind, and the few lean sheep hud dled behind the rocks in shivering groups, picturesque, but lar Irom comfortable. And even after they had come in sight of the old build ing whose one coat of red paint had long ago been worn away by the suns and rains of well-nigh a centu ry, Mrs. Symington had serious doubts whether the one-horse sleigh in which she was jerked and jolted up the incline would not be blown sheer away by the rush of the tempest belore they could reach their desti nation. However it wasn t. And once in Aunt unzzy s cottage, things were very eomtortaole. mere was no wide-throated chimney, filled with moss-fringed logs, such as the fancy ot city dwellers is apt to depict in the solitary farm-house. People in Maine knew better than that. But there was an immense cook-stove. which heated the room to an atmos phere of eighty odd degrees ; the cracks in the window sashes were pasted over with brown paper, and sand bags were laid on top ledges, while a double rag carpet covered the floor, and a wood-box, heaped to the verv top, stood in the angle of the chimney-piece. Aunt Grizzy's dress was ol blue homespun flannel. and she wore a worsted hood pull ed over her ears, and a little plaid shawl folded across her fcrcast, and she was addicted to the use of snuff, and said "Hey ?" whenever anv iRTIARt ri frt. V, ioa,Md. IH. Ibx aad Ma m m I. A A. ByO. tSHANAHAJf.AU-T.Eas, are most people to some degree this aesthetic nineteenth century the world. But Mrs. Symington excelled in the matter. She would prowl in 6econrl-hand stores, pene trate into the cavernous recesses of tenement homes, drive long distan ces into the country of old home steads where she had heard vague rumors concerning "flaring blue," "old green glaze," "butterllyyellow," and "genuine old India wares." She would remorselessly turn the choicest pieces of modern bric-a-brac i rid steamer, where one from her tables to make way lor spoutless tea-pots, cracked bowls, and noseless jugs. She crowded her dra wine-room with bracelets, shelves and cabinets for the accommodation of ancient plates, which she called "plaques," and pitchers, which she rechristened "vases. Mr. Symington, a meek little man with limp yellow-white hair, a flat nose and colorless eyes like dim glass marbles, began to find it no slight task to make his way through his own house without breakage or misfortune. I wish there was no such thing as old china in the world," he la mented, upon one particular occa sion, alter he had knocked a hand- ess cup from a tripod draped in ol ive velvet "Stanhope," reproved his wife, not without seventy, "would you retard the progress of civilization ? This cup, fragile as it jnay seeav repre sents an era in decorative history." "Well, it won't represent it much longer," observed Mr. oymmgton, as be gathered up the fragments, with something very like vindictive- ness in his faded eyes. Uut, stanhope, cried his wife, what are you going to do with those pieces ?" "Throw 'em into the ash-barrel, of course, said Mr. stanhope, spirit edly. Hut Mrs. bymingtcn rescued them from his grasp, with a shriek of apprehension. "Are you mad, my dear ?" she ejaculated. "I can mend them with little cement, and a great deal ot me : and even then I wouldn't take twenty dollars for this exqui site cup. And I have been thinking, Stanhope " ell. my dear, said the luck- ess iconoclast, looking dolefully at his finger, which had been cut with one of the pieces of broken crockery, "what have you been thinking ' "That I should like to go up into Maine next week," said the lady, insinuatingly. "Into Maine? In midwinter?" echoed her amazed spouse, opening the dim eyes wide indeed. "To see Aunt Grizzeli," explained Mrs. Symington "my aunt Grizzle Grumpton, you know, at W ild Kiy er." . "Humph !" remarked Mr. Sym ington, bandaging his finger with his pocket-handkerchief. "I didn't know that you cared so very par ticularly about your Aunt Grizzel." "My dear," said Mrs. Symington, merging her speech into a mysteri ous weisper, "I've just remembered all of a sudden, as it were that a .a she has a set oi very old uarmi; blue china. She must have it It belonged to her mother before her ; and how I've forgotten it all these years I'm sure I can't imagine. Even now I shouldn't have recalled it to mv memory, I suppose, if I hadn't chanced to see, at Mrs. Hep burn's afternoon tea yesterday, the darlingest little egg-shell cups, with bridges and pagodas and willow-trees all over 'em, exactly such a3 Aunt Grizzy's mother used to have. And then it came to me like a flash of lightning Aunt Grizzel's china !" "Probably it sail broken by this time, gloomily suggested her bus-band. "Nonsense 1" said Mrs. Symington, briskly. "Aunt Grizzy never broke anything in her life. She is care fulness itself; and up there in Maine, you know, they don't have clumsy waitresses to fling things about No, no ; you may depend that she has it all safe and sound in one of these odd little three-cornered cupboards of hers. A treas ure, Stanhope, a perfect treasure. Money wouldn't buy such a set 'as that ; a hundred years old, if it's a day. So, if you don't mind, my dear, 111 just run up to Maine and see about it" ' ' Do as you please, Arabella, said Mr. 'Symington, resignedly. He knew that Mrs. SyminBton general ly did as she pleased, and he saw no especial anvantage in debating the question. "Thanks, dear : so kind of you !" uttered Mrs Svmineton. "And of course I cant go to the polar regions entirely unprotected, so I'd order one fo thosA comfortable seal dol mans that everybody is wearing now, and a new plush hat with a cluster ot ostrich tips. One must go. dressed like other people ; and if you cant give me twenty-nve or thirty dollars, I dare say Aunt Griz- five dollars would be a reasonable compensation for it ?'v "Well, yes," said Aunt Grizzy. "It never cost me that, because " "No, of ccurse not," hurriedly in terposed Mrs. Symington, and she produced the twenty-five dollars all gold half-eaglei, with the exultant leehng of one who has picked a! precious diamond out of the dust "Cut I should wish yon to feel that I had dealt fairly with vouin amat ter like this." "Well, I hain't no reason to com plain," said Aunt Grizzy. "Sotue folks fancies cheeny. I don't A plate's a plate to me. and a cud' a cup, and you're kindly welcome to j my bei u you ve took a notion to it" Mrs. Symington went home the next day, through a whirlwind of snow, having been fed upon pork and sausages, sausages and pork, at every meal since her arrival, and re taining a vivid recollection of the Maine winds and tempests. "I don't think I'd go back there again even for a set of old china," said Mrs. Symington, as she seated herself on the velvet cushion of the Told by Horo Trader. A Struggle tlr 1 J te- "I was tradin' with a fellow one day," the wiry man with the keen eyes remarked, "and a yonng fellow lipped in and spoiled the trade. He wanted the hose I was tradin' him self. So I traded with him. 'Now,' says I, after we made the trade, if this hyar hot's of yourn don't suit me I want to come back in the mornin' and pay you ten dollars and get my boss back.' 'All right,' he says, 'and I want the same privi lege.' 'It's yours ' I tells him, an he rode away. Well, sir, next morn in,' just as I was puttin' on the sad dle to go an' pay ten dollara an' git mv hoss, he rode into the barn and paid me ten dollars to get his'n. That was a good hoss to trade. I only paid ten dollars for him in the first place, an' I made twenty-eight : on him by them forfeit trades ia less'n six weeks. "I had a powerful big cream hoss ! that was a stavin'good hoss to trade. A letter from an army omcer in Montana contains the following ac count of a terrible and almost fatal adventure in an alLvli desert, expe rienced by the writer of the letter last summer. "I was lost in an aifcaJi desert I was without food or water, and made a determined effort to reach the river. My mules became exhausted from thirst and hunger, and then I walk ed. I led the mules while my driv er went behind and pushed the wa gon. In this way, alter a desperate struggle, we reached the rivers' bank, only to encounter new diffi culties which were wholly unsur rcuntable. The bank was sand stone, about 700 feet high and per pendicular. I followed it up and down for miles, occasionally finding a broken place, but no phict' where a descent could be made. 1 was al most dying of thirst, and looking i down upon the shinnins waters be- On e day a couple of fellows met ma;! low, whose musical ripples only in town, grocers they were, and thev ! tainted my sufferings. 1 returned was drivin' a risht smart four-year-t the wacon. night came on. and I palace car, and shrank shivering in-; old colt for a delivery hoss. lhey j side ot her seal dolmaa and fleecy-' stopped me and says : - - a. ll . 1 xiow ii you swap mat uig creara boss of yourn for this colt ?" i thing to give up and die liko tbjjt, "Oh, says I, I never trad; hoss-H but resolved to die manfullv, light es." J ing far life. So I took my rifle and "Well," they said, "give us a trade U one addressed a casual remark to her. "Mv cheeny ?" s:iid Aunt Grizzy. "Well, I'm free to own that I think a great deal of that cheeny. But I don't know, Niece Arabella, how you came to hear of it." "It is an heirloom in cur famity, Aunt Grizzy," said Mrs. Symington, exerting herself to speak loudly. "Hey ?" said Aunt Grizzy, with her hand placed sounding-board fashion behind the ear. "Every one must have heard of it" said Mrs Symington, at the risk of breaking a blood-vessel in her throat Aunt Grizzy's wrinkled face faiHy beamed. "Well, I calculate it ain't abso lutely ugly," she said. "But sti'd, if you've really set your heart on it, Niece Arabella But it ain't un packed. I always put it away this time o' year when there ain't no tea parties given'" "Oh, never mind that !'' said Mrs. Symington, her heart leaping with in her at this easv conquest of the fort "It will.be allthe more conven ient for me to carry it People al ways keep euch treasures put away in secret places." "Hey ?" said Aunt Grizzy, and Mrs. Symington repeated her words. "Oh, there ain't no secret about it J" said Aunt Grizzy, as she turned the hissing sausage in the pan. "Onlv I hain't had time to overhaul lb DUilG j UU UH1C LTCCU "Naturally?" interrupted Symington. "But I suppose all in good condition ?" "Sartinly, Bartinly," said Grizzv. "You can look at it self if you like. Niece Arabella' "Oh. that is not at all necessary," said Mrs. Symington. "But now as to the price, Aunt Grizzy ?" "I ain't one to haggle with my re lations," said Aunt Grizzy, giving the frying-pan a shake over the blazing stick. , "Set your own f rice, Arabella, and if I don't like it 11 make bold to say so." "Do you think, AuntGrizzy," hes itated the city lady, "that twenty- Mrs, it is Aunt your- lmed fur gloves. "Aunt Grizzel will never die a natural death ; she'll be blown away, like Mother Hubbard." But all these pretty tribulations were forgotten as a thing out of mind on the brilliant January morning on which, in front of the sea-coal fire in her own cozy drawing rooom, 6he unpacked the coarse wooden box wherein were concealed the priceless treasures ot Aunt Unzzy Grumpton 's china. Don't touch them. Stanhope." said she, with a small shriek of dis may. "Men are so dreadfully care less. Oh, here they are on top all wrapped in separate pieces of pa per." La ': said Mr. Symington, stand ing by, with a hammer and screw driver dra numbed in either hand. Are these antiques ?" "Good gracious me ?" grasped Mrs. Symington. "What can this mean?" Forthec'iina which she unwrap ped from its vc rings of coarse brown paper was ;i cheap and common style, such ;i3 is associated in the mind with te.i ehromos, gaudy lith- o graphs, and salesmen of the He braic persuasion white, with a band of imitation gold around each piece, and a ccurse flower sprawling below, and if it had been laid on with a miniature whitewash-brush. "This is never my grandmother Grumpton's old china," said Mrs. Symington, bursting into tears, and j pushing the hidous atrocities away with a force which cracked tw plates. "I'll write to Aunt Grizzy at once, and thi3 misunderstanding shall be cleared up." In the course of time an answer came from Wild River, stilHy writ ten in pale ink, and conveying in its tout ensaalle the general impres sion that Aunt Grizzy had wrestled with it a3 if had been a fit of the Asi atic cholera. "Dear Niece" (it said) "With Love and duty I take up my Pen to inform You that the China is all right, Bo't from Snetley it Pipkin, in Piston, last November, at Eight (f 8 Dollars the Set, to be transport ed at mv own Dammage. As for my Mother's old Set, witch Captain Babcock bro't from Calcutta in the Year 17'JG, I gave it to his Niece Helen Hosmer two Years ago for a Pare of Gold Spectacles and a Fur Muff, being so Cracked and Old fashioned that it wasn't worth no more. Bus I am told that she puts it on Ebbonny Shelves in her Best Parlor. But Helen never was more than Ilalf-Witted, and your Set you took home with you is worth a Deal the most Monney. So you have the Best Bargain. With love, I remain, Your Aunt to Command. "Grizzel Grumptos." "Ah I" said Mrs. Symington, who had been listening intently to the contents of this much blotted and besmeared piece of manuscript, seal ed with Aunt Grizzy's thimble top, and still retaining a subtle odor of fried sausages and griddle-cakes. "A seal dolman at three hundred dollar, a thirtecn-dollar hat, a pair of fifteen-dollar fur gloves, a fifty dollar journey, and a twenty-five-dollar investment, all for a set of chi na which you can buy anywhere on the Bowery or Grand street for ten dollars. How does that look, my dear, as viewed in the light of politi cal economy ?" And Mrs. Symington aiit-wered onlv by tear?. "There, there, Bella, don't lVet," said her husband kindly. "Let the thing go for what it is worth. For get it" But I can't help f f-freUing," sob bed Mrs. Symington. "One thing cuite certain, however' 1 never almost concluded to giye up the struggle and die there. Then I thought it would not be a brave on this colt, anyhow, can't yc ?" "Well, no," I Eaid, "I never trade bosses, but the cream is up at tbe barn ; you can go iook at him, if you want and it you think you caa make a trade go rhead : I reckon I'll be satisfied." "Well, they drove up to tbe house and 1 went on down town. 1 never went nigh the house ; jest let 'em go up and make their own trade, all alone, fur both sides. About noon I see 'era drivin' about town with the cream : splendid lookin' brute he was. "Well," I says, "how d'ye swop?" "Oh," sajs thev, "we left the colt an' fetched awav the cream hoss." "Well I am satisfied, next day I met one of is will be such a fool again. I will not spend another cent for ceramics un til I have economized enough to pay for this outrageous swindle. "Gently, my dear, gently," said her husband. " "Now you are going too far. Aunt Grizzel was honest enough. You said you wanted her china, and she sold you her china at your own terms. "But I didntmean this china'" said Mrs. Symington. 'How was 8he to know what you meant?" said Mr. Symington. "China is china, and to me on e piece is as good as another." And Mrs. svmineton was too broken down and spiritless even to argue with him. One Experience From Many. I had been sick and miserable so long and had caused my husband much trouble and expense, no one seems to know what ailed me, that I was completely disheartened and discouraged.' In this frame of mind I got a bottle of Hop Bitters and used them unknown to my family. I soon began to improve and gained so fast that my husband and family thought it strange and unnatural, and when I told them what had helped him, they said, "Hurrah for Hop Bitters! long may they pros per, for they have made mother well and U3 happy." The JOfA-r. He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. " but the the bovs. "How do you like the colt ?"' he savs. "Fustrate," I told hhn, "he's a good colt But how do you like the cram hoss?" "We-ell," he said, "we're willin'n to trade back if you are," "It kind o' graveled the boys, 'caus you see I'd let 'em aIo their own tradin'; hadn't gone around to urge the cream hess onto 'em at all." "I had a mighty fineridin' mare," the hor tuan with twinkling eyes went on. "and old Stth Stinger had a splenoid lookin' dapple gray mare. 'How'' you trade for your dapple pray ?' I asked him. He wanted fifteen dollars, and I gave it I took that mare home an' I combed her mane until it curled and crinked like moss. It was handsome. Then I trimmed her feet an' put on light shoes. An' I fixed her up one way 'an another till she looked like an other hoss, and when I put a sad dle on her no livin' man woulclhave guessed she was the same mare with a weak back. When I rode by the barn Seth hollered out : 'Where aro you going witla that mare ?' "I told him I was going to take her down to St Louis to 811 her to Bob Staples. "Hold on," says Seth, "I believe I can give you as much for that mare a3 Bob Staples can." "Well," says I, "what'll you give me betwixt her and that bay ridin' mare I traded you the other day ?" "Oh, well," he said, "I'll give you twenty dollars," and I said, "make it forty dollars, and you kin have the mare." Well, he gave it, and I took the saddle off the gray an' put it on mv own old bay mare, an' Seth hitched the new mare up to a buggy. As he was drivm out of the gate, the sill was pretty high, caught the wheel an' tho mare s'irunk back a little. Seth fetched her pretty smart witli the whip, she jumped, an' away her "hind legs went under an uown she went. Well, sir, he just give one look at the mare, then he saw it was his own old mare, then he looked at me. 'All rifflit ' he savs. "that's all rirht: jest help me git her on her feet agin.' she was jest a sptc-ndid lookin marc, but if she mado the least quick stirt, her hind legs whouldn't come. They say if a hoss has good fore parts, his hind part is sure to come, but hern wouldn't. spent the night firing signals of dis tress, and as the sounds would roll across the dreary waste they would only be answered by the howlin wolves, who were on hand in force anticipating my situation and think ing of a good square meal. To tell the truth, they made me mad, and I resolved to fool them, and even look ed over the brink and thought of throwing myself down. It was about a' lonesome anight as I ever spent The driver, a big, strong fel low, did the sleeping, the mules did the groanung, while I stood my ground an a lought off the wolves. As the morning began to dawn I took a surv ey of my situation, and resolved up- in another struggle. I he driver was a little rested, but we had been forty-ei ght hours without food or drink. T be mules were used up and not able to pull the wagon, so I abandoned everything taking only my amunition. and rifle, and started across the des rt on foot in search of the camp. N othing but the pen of an inspired w:riter could describe the sufferings of t hat day's march. It was a dreadful hot day. There was not a tree, a si irub, or even a blade of grass to protect me from th hot rays of the eun like bl ista 1 om a fiery furnace. Not a i ing hing was there, evea to a fly t. grasshop per. 1 here w;re only the ravenous wolves that wore following us up, ready to pick our bones before life became extinct. Several times I aid down to die, but after a little rest I would change my mind cn the subject, rally and go on. I gt i beyond the point of hunger, or 1 would have killed tho poor unfor tunate mule, who was plodding sor rowfully along with us, a partner in our sufferings. The resolution, to struggle on grew stronger with me while it grew weaker with the driver, and I found it hard to rally him. I felt that I was losing my reason, f an cied I saw fountains and waterfalls in the distance, and greeted the dri ver as a ;arty sent to my reuet. une thing I kept uppermost in my mind was to struggle on and never g ive up. Then 1 thought of family and friends and all I had to live for, and the whimper would come almost aud ibly, "Pueh on ! push on !" As the sun was descending I reached camp, staggered to my tent, fell upon my bed and it was all over. The last glimmer of expiring reason went out and left vme in the gloom of in sanity, which, led me back again to the desert For days and rnghts I renewed the s ruggle across the burn ing sands, and sometimes would get almost home o-nly to be swept back again. My co astant cry was for wa ter, and I dran k at shady fountains that never quei lthed my thirst, but always lured m 9 on. My wife came and nursed rue back to health and reason, but it w is long and tedious. The horrors h aunted me in my dreams for week 5, and I never went to bed without t iy canteen of wa ter. Even now 1" am thirsty think ing of it." Freeing tkae Captain. A Yankee Boy's InveattoB. A Connecticut man is never hap ;py unless he is inventing som ming. Even th children have a fancy for the. business. Last sum- I a Pnnnontient famisr'a hftV 14- ited Barnum's circus and saw a cata pult It suggested to him a trap bouncer to be set under a man's prise his father,he kept the matter doorstep, and heat once went to work to build one. As he wanted to sur a Becret, and worked like a beaver up in the hayloft of the great barn building the machine. Finally ho got it dene. It was a magnificent machine, worked by a spring capa ble of throwing 150 pounds a dis tance of thirty feet This machine he buried in the hay till he should be ready to test it Something pos sessed his father's hind man to go up on that hay loft the next day, and he contrived to get right on the foot board of the maohine, and was slung whirling across the barn into a hall filled bay of hay on the opposite side. Alighting on the hav saved him from serious injury But not from surprise. He didn't expect any such experience, and was not at all plepsed at it Neither did he understand it; and as ?"(X wouldn't have induced him u s, on that hay loft again, he didn't find out what threw hiiM. And fear of ridicule prevented him from mentioning it That night two tramps tried to sleep in that hayloft, but gave it up as a bad job. "after a sad experience. They had crawled into the nay and were getting themselves fixed, when one got foul of the machine, and immt diatly his companion beard a whiz, a wild yell, and then calls for help from the other side of the barn. He arose to go to his companion,and got there quicker than he expected. V. 1 . i 1 1 tie icuna nis menu very curious 10 know what tossed him,and some what scared. The way those tramps fled from the barn was a cau tion. The next day, while all the folks were away on a visit the lad tot the machine down and set it under the front doorstep.- Terapo ra.rily he attached the wire that set it going to the doorbell. When the folks returned they all stood on the iloorstep ar.d the old man rang to be let in. With so much weight the micnine couldnt throw 'em lar, but it r wc up enough to dump 'em. The old raan was the first to get up. He spran g once more on the step and rang vioJedly. He wasn't a very big man, suid it did seem as though the Lord h.d pat the deep snowdrift, forty feet a way, just on purpose to catch him. They got him out and, filled with terror, went in the back way. There Ahey t&ld the story and the boy explained and the old man ran him out and stood him on the machine six times and he butted the snowdrift all to pieces. He will not patent the machine, believing that it is too cruel a thing for these en lightened days. But he's glad theoli man had an'ear nearly torn off when he got slung by it Anecdoteof Dnpre, the Sculptor1. A story concerni ng Georgo Francis Train, is worth relating. It was in the early days of A nstralLa. A gruff old sea captain on one of the steam- It was hard wor!; gett'ui' ahead o' j tliips had issued strict orders that no gentleman shoufil Iceouent him," went intonation of admiration in his the bright-eved iioas man reflectively, and with an on. voice. "He was jest the best man at tradin' ho33es I ever see. He had a hoss in his barn that he got off onto me. Good lookin' hoss. Well, when I started out from the barn, that hoss was fat, and before I had gone five miles, I hope to die if that hoss wasnt lean! ionwouldnt think there was a bone in him. He was a blowed-up Loss. That man beat any man I ever see fixin' up a hoss. You could put the leanest ho3 vou ever saw into fci3 stable. an' I hope to die if in forty-eight hour? that hoss wouldn't be fat. And then he'd trade him off to you, a -a an in six hours thai hoss 'd be so lean you couldn't girt a paddle light enough to stay on him." A Ladr in tbe Matter. That "woman's wit is oilen supe rior to man s wisdom,' was con vincingly proved in circumstances that occurred in this city recently. It appears that Mr. LudwigSchwarz- ler, a widely known grocer on Sta tion Koad, suffered with a very pain ful rheumatic headache to euch a degree that he was obliged to seek the aid of a physician. All medi cines he used were of no avail. Thi3 induced Mrs. Schwarzler to buy St Jacobs Oil. She procured a bottle for her husband. With the second application he found relief. The pain left him and he is as well as ever again. A remedy acting as prompt ly as this certainly deserves univer sal patronage. ChilliaAhe, (0u'o) fifrj'uler. He that does you a very will never forgive you. ill the parlor reserved for the ladies. As ins order was not obeyed, he made a raid on the parlor, and six gentle men were rudely eje ctcd. They vis ited the Captain's room ai id protested so violently at the indign ity that he put them in irons. Arri ved in Aus tralia they sought the vu ageance of the law. Society was in a crude state, and the case was I eard by the board of magistrates. 7 'he Captain urged in his defense tha t six passen gers had thrown him oa a sola in his own cabin. The magistrates, however, fined him &, XX), and com mitted him until the Hi le was paid. There were no higher c aurts in those days, and of course th re was no ap peal. The Captain 'nad not the money, and the delay of the vessel would ruin him. Pra; ere for clem ency were of no avail- George Fran cis Train was a specta tor. He step ped forward, told the magistiate who he was, and aske d permission to advise the Captain in private. Af ter an abscence of half an hour 3;r. Train returne d. Ho was proceeding to address the court, when one of the magistrates asked where the Captain wa. "I don't know," said the great evolutionist lie is no client of mii.e. I left him outside." A search was made, but the Cap tain had escaped to his vessel, and a line of black smoke in the offing showed tlu t ho was off for England. Ono customer who has had ca tarrh over -40 years says Elys' Cream Balm heli d him more than any thing. We recommend it for Ca taarh, Cold in the Head, Hay Fever, etc, know ing the result will be turn j satisfactory. Christine & Bodine, J Druggists,' Trenton, N. J. Dupre once suffered the pangs of hunger at a palace. He received a note from Prince Demidoff, begging him to come early the next morning to his villa of Quarto, a good four miles from Florence. Dupre made a very slight breakieast. Arriving at the villa he was told that the Prince had not yet risen, and there was nothing for it but to walk around in the garden and wait his pleasure. After two hours of this the sculptor began to think seriously of the situation, and accosting a ser vant asked if he could not have something to eat The man replied that nobody was allowed to break fast till his Excellency had been served. "And does hi3 Excellency break fast late ?" "Oh, as it may happen ; some times . at noon, sometimes at 1 o'clock ; whenever he pleases." Dupre walked about for another hour, but the beauties of nature had ceased to attract him, and his head swam with the heavy odors of flow ers. It was too far to go back t o Florence. Having remarked the ta ble ready laid in the breakfast room, I walk ed in, rung the bell loudly, and a servant all in black instantly appeared. I turned toward him with my head high and a voice firm and stern, and pronounced the word, 'Breakfast' The man disappeared and almost immediately returned with a silver tureen and took his place behind me. Two other ser vants followed with hams, tongues, cutlets, etc., and asked whether I would have Madeira, Bordeaux, and deign also . to eat a dish of straw berries ; as a last sacrifice I accept ed a cup of coffee, lighted my cigar, and ofl to tho park, when tbe land scope appeared more beautiful than before. I threw myself on a bench and fell asleep, being wakened by a servant in search of me. I found the Prince and Princess at breakfast "You are rather late, are you not, my Dupre ?" eaid the Prince, up on which I told him the story of my morning. Both he and the Prin cess were immediately amused. Victor Hugo's Joyous Faith. I feel in myself the future life. I am like a forest which has been more than once cut down. The new shoots are stronger and livlier than ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its ge ier ous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown world?. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail ? Winter i3 on my head and eternal spring is on my heart Then I breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and the ros es a3 at twenty years. The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphon ies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple. It is a fai ry tale, and it is history. For half a century I haye been writing my thoughts in prose, verae, history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradi : Ion, satire, ode, song I lave tried all. But I feel that I have not said the thousanth part of what is in me. When I go down tft4be grave I can say, like so many others, "I have finished my day's work ; " but I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next "morning. The tomb is not a blind alley ; it is a thor oughfare. It closes in the twilight to open with tbe dawn. I improve every hour because I love this world as my fatherland, because the truth compels me as it compelled Vol taire, that human divinity. My work is only a beginning. My mon ument is hardly above ita founda tion. I would be glad to see it mounting and mounting forever. The thirst for the infinite proves infinity. Peruni is in cine. . itself a great medi- f f. : if f ' J ;; 3 . 4 i : I -F 1 , I ? i i 1, li ir
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