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iw ilsmrooth Plork, op alr. Entrmnre.
r:i .!. if.:? xaiu!it. ami all leel buelncM
nim.if,! w with imin!wcu anil tulellty.
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Someraet, Pa
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iv.c iirnrs.
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DKSX1S MEYERS.
ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW,
Somersrt, Ptn a.
AT. i-ka! bn.lnriw mtrnftwl tn fcl rare will b
!.,. -i tn r"0'irw P'1 BiScllty.
ti!ti In Mauinwitti oxt tl to Boya
dpuk '.ure.
II.
HOWARD WYNNE, M. D.
J : i ? : mi .v
pw.fnr.rtm Kt. Er K and Tbmat.
'i-l:il ml I xr!oiv pnrt Irr Hnurf. A. X to
f. . La kft AUreea l.lock. 6 Main St.
D!L WH.l.IAM COEIJNS.
MXTWT. SOMERSET. PA.
iti 5!inttith Rl.-fk. ahnv Boyd't Irn
t hf ran at all tlnrn 1 fun prc)ar
' t.-.iv all kltir'f ilw.Tk. nrb a tillinK reita
'i'1'in-wiini kr Artificial ti?.tbot all klmlf.
r, i it tm Dm:rlal lnrtl t iratl)f
ai;v
EM. HICKS.
JVi-'TlCEOFTHE PEACE,
Simerl, Penn'a.
f AMES o. KIERNAN. M. D. ten-
rlrf Llf p'..friiiial frrrlrn to tli. ellltPn ff
nww an.! lrir.t!y. Remn he I'tuivl at the
fi.'"" ' llf atl.r in Min Mitret or at the
t r.oiir I'r-tiry Urnliaker.
Sr i . lt.
ri; N. KIM.VI.LL
U.S. KIMMELL.
KIMMELL SON
E. M.
1 tfn.l
vlr ; heir iT.(if .rtH ; aervlcea to the eltl-
i m x.nitTvt ami TiritittT. H)of the ma
! l ii trtn ran at nltln.rf. ui.low ppoleaalon-
furaenl. ..r.nr! t their ;fu, on Mala
t:r; e.t: U t(.. Inrnhml.
nlLJ. K. MILLER has Txrma
aillr fcwatrM in licrlln fT tl prartloe ni
I f wiuB. .fiice r.jm. Charlrt Kriwin
f i'Jf. a it. !, 'Tu-lt
D;I. H. RRURAKER venders hi
!(ini.il arrrlrrf jo vh. eltlteaa f r?nn
tiBuitKu.i.t. .roc in reeU'tic o Main
.tt:.att ot the Diutu.tiJ.
nn. w
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M. RA UC II lenders Inc
Mtrw iona! frTTirx to th. cltlxcnf ot Sii-
"IMtMti.t.
"tr-.Kjrii.trtan of Warn A Herkebile".
D1
A.O. MILLER.
PHYSICIAN ASVKOEO,
Hu Trarww) 10 scorn Bred. Indiana, where he
ca'clted tj letter or ataerwiM.
DH. JOHN BILIi.
DENTIST,
far abot lievry HefT.ey -t itore, 7 aln Traw
)UM0XD HOTEL,
KTOVSTOWN.l'KNN'A.
. h.j p.,.iir tMt ,t kin fcuane haa lately
turuui;Llj aiiri rie.lv TDtt?d .1th alt new
- ! ut mtLltorr. talih b La made it a ery
fir.l, t..tni place l tue traailtnu paMle.
' 'tl.'.t tn,'. rot.1. f n.nmt be rarparml. all lie
Hf am eUf, witli a lanre pni-ltr hall attaehM
''. fatoe Aim larae al.4 ro,,Biy atabllnc
'' i.rdtf.a: emo be hal at the lowen p.K
,'l lnr, t. tor week, rtay or mnL
8 AMVX TTSTER. Proo.
S.E. Cor. DiaiDond
Sioyatrnt ,Pa
II10I TO YOUR HEALTH !
J, t" It that y.-a not allrw yr yteta to
-st-urtij run duwn and aimi r.it befureres
j( Ftbrcy's EealA Hcstcrer.
7a f. w.e.r ar UanM -ailk lav
late, or Hnulatko,
Cbt,i arjeoBaBlel wttb riibt
W'H.TI-JhTKsoj-tg-r.,,,, PAIW
.. CK SMALL OP BACK,
LbTTill7 ,bT HU "rer. wbhtb reaaa
H "w'- aan aa4 luvturatea tk. Lrir-ar,
EECTS THE KIDNEYS.
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VOL. XXXI. NO. 37.
rrk w. nj.
lTABLlrHED 34TEARS.
H IT BROS.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Tin, Coper ani SleeMron Ire Uiufy,
Xo. 2 SO Washington Street, Johnstown, Pa.
ASS PEEPAEZD TO OFFER
RANGESp STOVES and HOUSE-FURHJSHJKG GOODS IK GENERAL
At Prices Less than any at her House in Western Pennsylvania.
Scial attention paid t. JoMdna; ia Tin. Oalvatuiaed Iron and Sbeet-Imn, Kngar Pana, Steam
Plire, Hot. Air Pipe. Kwini, SpoouiiK. Snwkeof Eoiiine, aul all wurk liertainlug to Cellar Eur.
ttarr. E-timatef arlven and wurk dua. by tirstclaaa Meebaniea only. Sl AK.nl for Noble C.k
J.tn"towalvk Sear' Antl-Doat Cook. ExoelMur Penn. In HoaM-EurnishlDa; tlooda w. otter
Ual Vane Toilet toalf. Hread CloKU. Cak. Uuiea, Cbaml-erPaiia, Knivea ao4 Fork! (ommoa
and plaierl). Urrinan Silver Stioona, HrilannU ruoona. Tea Trayf. Lined, liw and fcriattieled
W.rct Hruat and l.pir Kettlea, Meat Hndlera, Oyaler bn.llrrn. I (fif beaten, tlx dlflerenl kinda,
Itreaul Tuaruera, PlattHl Hrliaoiila and Wire (lannra. Iron Standi. Tir. lrona, ittd everrtblncol
Ware nee Jed In the ('x.kit.a Departinent. Aa ezperlenee of tblrty-three yean In baaloeaa Here ena-bl-
of to meet the wauuol tiiia euuimunit In oar line, with a arood article at a lw prkia. All odt
artid WAKKANTED Mi KEl'RESENTEDor the money refuaded. Call and eee Ui. Wans ; get
pricea bt.trtre purrba.lnK ; no trouble to show (rooda. Peraona ei,nimenclnc Uouae-Keeplng will aar.
2i ier eent. by buyii.K Uieir out ht Iron aa. Merrbanta felllna; goixla in our tin. ahorld aend fur
U hi.leai.le Price. Lift, or call and net quntam-nc of our Wart-a. Aa we hare no apprentice all our
anrk la Warranted to ! ot tbe bea. quality at li.wettt pi ice. Ti aar. money call on or aend to
II AY
imoK..X.2SO Wabintstoai Klret Jhntwn, Penn'a.
HERE IS THE PLACE!
J. M. HOLDERBAUM 1 SONS
NO. 4 BAER'S BLOCK.
A C..:. t.- AMoitin. t.t of GENGRAL MERCHANDISE conrbting of
STAPL3 and FANCY DRY GOODS!
A Iar Aevortnient of
' DRESS GOODS AND NOTION!
Mi:X.S;iJOYS & CHILDREN'S CLOTHING!
HATS ,BOOTS AND SHOES!
CARPETS & OIL CLOTHS I
Queensware, Hardware, Glassware,
GROCERIES.
All Kinds of Window Blinds and Fixtures, Wall Papers,
Umbrellas, Satchels and Trunks, Churns, Butter
Bowrls, Tubs. Buckets, Baskets, Toledo
Pumps, Farm Bells, Corn Plant
ers and Plows, Cultivators,
and WAGONS!
THE nOLAXn CHILLED PLOW,
The CJL4JIPIOX MOWER & REAPER,
Ihe CHAMPJOX GRAIN SEED DRILL,
With Detachable Fertilizer.
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING AT
J. M. HOLDERBAUM- & ONS',
SOMERSET, PENN'A.
Vick's Floral Guide
For IMS If an elerzant bok of ISO TavML three
colored Platea ol Flowers and Vearetatdef and
more than l.tt0 illnatrationf oi tbe cbrricea Flow-
era. Plantf an.l eu-elalef. and dlrectiona for
r.wlnK. It ia hamtaoaie enouarh lur tb. center
alle or a h'.Iiday preaent. tend on your name
and poatofhee addresa. with 10 eenta. and 1 will
tend von a copy. tare p.1.1. Thif If not a quar
ter ot Itr et. It lt i.rinte.1 in iH,tu luiK ll.'ti aDd
Oerman. If yon afterward order aeads dwiact
the lu crnta. -
VirL'sSoeds are the Best lathe World!
The nor I Guide will tell how to net and arrow
thctn
irk a Flower and crctal.letfarden. 176 pare.
fix eolorol plate". WO enftravioxra. For f eenta
man or Entrtifli.
pier cover: tl w in eicarant chhu. inuer-
Yirk's Illuntr.ited Monthly Maniine 32p.a:ea,
a o.li.red plate In every numlier, and many tin.
entrravinrf . Price I is a year: five cplef lor
no spedmen nuilen aent lor 10 eenta: three
trial enpiei air iieenlf.
JAAMESVICK,
KttCHESTEK, N. T.
COOLEY CRF.A1VrF.TlS.
rnSSSS Mb in IfiFR 8TYI-FJi. all
- -ri h-S fir.". (. Itr r Ftory uae.
r'irvjyf Trc-ir faiH rwrity unuiou-
H rV1? "lowr r.ccai without a
'I ! arc n.r 9imimo.
Five timtd .Mll and
rievra Mlvrr .tlrd.l. t.r
uut-rvrll5. t'as Ijm, Ick.
MKii Bettkb Rurrra.
ms sum mm. eureu
BUTTFg mm k rUNTEkL
and fun In ol lmttcr turt.ir
eniilicfl. K'-rifl roatn) tor cirrtilara aud tmtiDuotna
VT. final HUCHIKE CB., Hclioaa Fulto, VmumL
Planing Mill for Sale.
The nndrrslaned desires to sell at private sal.
l lute ol irround In Knrkwood, Pa., tb. junctlrni
ut ;)ie ft. AO- and B. A O. iUilruadf, n wblcb
are a two atory
I
Plank Dwelling House,
table, tbe aanal oa:laiIdtiirf and a
PLANING MILL
buildtnar. Alao. one-third intereat In tbe machtn-
er, contained In the building. For further Jrar-
icuiara call onor ailrlrca
ANTHOXY O ROW ALL,
jan31 hock wood. Pa.
FASHIONABLE
CUTTER & TAILOR,
ft
Karlna; had many
expenem-e
branch, of
Tailoring bua-
rnarante.
A I r. tuiiafx
. tMiiisfattion to all
i fl ii.
who ni7 up
on me and faror
me with ibelrpat.
ft. Vour, ke,
ronaire.
mart
SOMERSET COUNTY BANK !
(ESTABLISHED 1S77.)
CB1ELES. I. EiElSCH. . M.I.PEim
President Cashier.
CollettioM made in all paru of tbo t nlted
StCHASGES MODEBAT?.
Parties wishing to nn.1 nioner VCeat can I ae
contnrtxiated by draft on Kew York la any eom.
(ivilectkma made with imauptuefa. V. S. Bond,
tamalit and a.UI. Money an.1 valaablea aecsrwl
by on. of lleld'toelet.rated tale, with Sar
gent av Yale Ot) time lock.
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
r AH le al holiday I ot-acrTed.-fA
doeT
CHARLES HOFFMAN,
(A.bov Hrnry lleffler. Btaarw.)
LATEST STYLES 01 LOWEST PRICES.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
SOMERSET, PA.
Book abd Map
Hi
Ja
IIERCHAIIT TAILOR
Att y, EaatoB
let;
John B. Hav
ata.hok.
J. SoOTT WAB.
HOME & WARD,
SCCCESIKISS TO
EATON & BROS.
XO. 27 FIFTII AYEXUE,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
SPRING, 1882.
NEW GOODS
EVEEY LAY SPECIALTIES
Emtroi.erl, Uc, MiHinery, White 6od,, Hin
kerthieft, Oren Ttiirmirgl, Hosiery, Glovts,
Cortett, Mutll aad Merlaa I'aderwear, la
JiBtt' aad Chiior-M'a Clottiing.Faacy
6codi, Yirat, Zeariyn, Mita
rialt of All Kiadt for
FANCY WORK,
Gents' Miiii Gcofs, k, k
rorrTiO is nrwracTrcLLT iouc"'t
! tt-QRDEKSBV MAIL ATTESVFO TO iWlTH
CARE ASD DISPATCH. mart
EDWARD ALCOTT,
aarracTVBBB am buuw lit
LUMBER!
OAK FLOORING A SPECIALTY
OFFICE AVD FACTORY :
SOMERSET CO., PA.
JyiMT
RMTABUHHCat lfVM.
Xos. 501 and 203 Mi Street,
JOHNSTOWjr,PA.
WHOLESALE AKD RETAIL
DRUGGIST,
' AND DEALER IN
PERFl MEnV, PAINTS, OIL8
OUs aad Patty, Hair and Tooth Brnsbaa, Fancy
ArUelea. Toilet aaJ narinw vompa.
r.mtlv MadiciiM and Pbyatciaaa Pie ill)
tiotu aeeurat.lT c'raled. aprl
PATENTS
oUalne.l.an.1 all ltm.iiHUth. r. . Patent
( Hhr. or la Lb. Uourtt attaadad m tor ODtRATE
ftlS.
W. ara mnlM tbe TJ. 8. Patt Ofnea,
Bwa.4 ia WTWT BUUNHS CXCLUSIVtlT
eaa ornai. p.ir " - -Iroaa
WikSUINfiTOM.
VImb mod.1 or drawlnf laaeatw. adriaa u to
natentabtllte rre. of enarr. : mm w mmmm mj
Rli&t UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT.
ft. refer, ken, to tb. roriUMT. amp. m
Hone. der IHfVtoa, sad t. -aflMaatwf taw
. v. aa.M . ma!.. Dirnfloa.
v. g. patat V.f?!LtS;
jjjh.
C. A. snow a u-u..
57a 1
omer
SOMEBSET,
MY MOTHER.
O for the olden days !
Those were the gulden days
Days that have fled.
O for the mother lore!
Earth has no other love
Worn its stead.
Still, ss it seems to me,
Comea she in dreams to me,
Ad I her soft bauds
Comb my fair hair lor vie,
With tender care fur me,
Fashion its strands.
. Is loves pain to me?
Friendship in vain to me?
Barren lile's way ?
Sorrow she shares with me,
hixpers at prayers with me,
"God ble. my child !"
Sings like birds to me,
8peaks loving words to me.
Covers my bed;
Oh, I have need for her !
My heart doth plead for her
Mother is dead !
What are life's thorns to her ?
Life's aunlrfei morns to her?
Moons that must wane?
Spring has no brenth for her,
A ut 11 inn no death for her,
I.ihU are in vain.
What are my prayers to her?
Cumbersome t-arrs to her?
Wie is at rt-4.
Roees bloom over Ler,
Snow blossoms cover her,
F-arth on her breaot.
Down Ihrouph tlie dreary years.
Sorrowful, weary years,
rirars a he my cry ?
Are her bunds holding me?
And ber anus folding me?
Is she stiil nigfh?
See. rhe my yearninjr tears.
Pitiful, burning tears?
From Heaven's height
Comes she to talk with me,
Stealthily walk with me,
Morning and niht?
Ah ! as it seems to me.
These are not draams to me;
Still thou art here.
Walking beside roe,
Whatever betide me.
Mother, most dear.
When life's "good night" to me
lU-ratds new light to me,
In the unknown.
Unending Mi-s for me
Shall be thy kiss for me,
Mother, my own.
BARBARA ROT'S VALEXTLXK.
Allan Norton at five and twenty
found bimbtlf a rising physician,
with something more than a local
reputation. He was decidedly hand-
come, and for abilities, they were so
far beyond mediocrity as to promiae
hira a distinguished future in his
chosen profession.
Bat for nearly a year the young
doctor had been growing more -and
more unhappy, until at last, one dull
thirteenth of February, he flung
himself back in his office easv chair,
and clamping his hands over his
head, thought, with a dreary yawn,
that hie was a very unsatislactory
bu&iness, and that his companion on
the opposite side of the table was
one ot the most insulierable bores in
existence, although he chanced to be
none other than good natured. ob
tuse, gossipping Bob Trelawney.
Bob had been describing a society
entertainment, and utterly uncon
scious of hi victim's invisible writh-
ings, had gone on descanting on the
churnis of a capricious belle, beauty
and heiress known as Miss Barbara
Roy.
"The Gaunts brought out Lulu
Lushington a grand, lymphatic,
half caste nabob's daughter you
know," Bob continued. "Of course
thev meant to set up their great
deeping or dozing beauty against
Bab "
Here Allan interrupted in a savage
temper and icy tone : "Do 1 un
derstand you to allude te Miss
Roy ?"
"Certainly," responded Bob,
suavely ; "Bab Roy, and a beauty
titie is, too. Some of the fellows she
has snubbed most unmercifully.
Just a few, you know, did go over to
Miss Lushington s camp, but thev
came back quick enough, I can as
sure you. Why, one glance out of
Bab Kay s eolt, velvet brown eyes
is worth a King's ransom, if she only
meant it but that's the worst of it,
6he never does and it just sets us
poor fellows wild.
Another yawn on the part of the
tormented physician, who vouch
safed no other reply.
Bob was imperturbable, and draw
ing a sheet of paper toward him be
gan sketching a feminine bead, with
great delicacy and skill.
"I say, Norton," he remarked, as
he elaborated the design, "aren't you
becoming something 'of a woman
hater ? It really seems so to me, and
I've heard more than one or two of
Dur fellows say so."
"If to discover an absence of real,
earnest character, benevolence, good
sense, and all else but flattering vm
itv and a passion for novelty in the
sex, make me a hater, I am one."
Allan almost snarled this ill
tempered speech at his friend. The
facts may excuse him somewhat
Barbara Roy was his very distant
cousin and his soul's cherished idol.
Looking backward he could not re
member ever seeing her equal in
beauty, grace or intelligence. It was
her empty, aimless life that frenzied
him her assuming the throne of a
reigning society belle, and permit-
tine her davs to fly in a ronnd of
senseless pleasure every new folly
finding in ber its readiest votary,
and each sensation flung aside like
a child's toy at the appearance of its
successor.
This was the secret of Allan Nor
ton's wretchedness.
"Such a grand and noble woman
as she might be," he thought, when
the beautiful Barbara went whirling
br him in the nark, drawn in a
phitton as fanciful as Queen Mab's,
and by lour pretty, ponies. Behind
her, like liveried mutes, with folded
arms, hung a pair of flunkies ; and
on she sped, reius in hand, a marvel
of French millinery and American
beauty combined.
Coldl-r and -eravelv be raised bis
hat and bowed in answer to ber mer-
rr laugh, or pouting toss, just as her
and then turned
away to hide hia altered color or ine
lrrepreesiDie pang inai smote nis
set
ESTABLISHED, 1827.
PA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1883.
heart and left its reflection on his
mobile face.
"Dont, pray!" exclaimed Trelawn
ey, affecting alarm at Norton's out
burst against the sex ; "don't take
everything in earnest, there's a good
fellow, and don't blame Miss Roy
for being a butterfly, for it's rather
a charming characteristic to me."
"Very probably," obeerved Nor
ton, f
"On which account I am on the
point of asking bet to become Mrs.
Trelawney," pursuttl his companion,
bending his head skdewise, the better
to touch up a pair Of Psyche wing
witli which he was ombellishing his
subject. '
It was well for Allan Norton's
closely guarded secret that he had a
patient's call that moment in the
front ottice, into which he slipped,
leaving the artist still elaborating
his work.
Boh was a dilettanti trifler with
the artist, and finding Norton likely
to be detained somf time, be turned
his attention to rhy-ming on the fair
subject of his pencil, taking her name
as a key note.
It seemed the easl-sst thing pos
sible, and he meant to make it
rather a bright one, too ; but things
do not always turn-out as expected,
and the result was the following
doggerel, written beneath a lovely
female figure with Psyche wings,
surrounded by bubbles, and floating
through ether in a -far drawn by but
terflies: '
.Sunlit eyes that dance with joy,
Melt in languor, then grow coy;
Shine like gold without alloy.
Such thy orbs, sweet Barbara Roy !
Hair that glitters to decoy
With its silken locks to toy.
Bright as those of Venus' boy,
Such thy tresses, Barbara Roy.
Li! what words can I employ
To ex press the ravished joy
Rapture that can never cloy
Dare I express them, Barbara Roy ?
"Ah," cried Trelawney, charmed
with the picture his fancy evoked,
and tired of the effort of thumping
his brain for rhyming, "ah, that
would indeed le an unutterable
bliss; but the deuce of it is, she
holds everybody at arm's length,
though Iv'e sometimes fancied she
thought of some unknown one with
a hidden sigh."
Here he sighed vacantly himself,
and presently discovering a bored
sensation, he rose and after lounging
about the room for a few moments,
called through to the office :
"Good night, Norton. I'll drop in
again, soon." V
Then he took his departure in his
usual careless, good humored way,
running over in bis mind the most
attractive place to which he could
turn his attention next. "
It was midnight and long after
when AllaTeturne3rJ to the rest and
quiet of his inner sanctum. His
head was weary and his heart ached
heavily; the last two hours had
been spent beside the bed of a dying
girl, a poor ..consumptive wreck of
what had once been a society beau
ty, and her nervous dread of the in
evitable change before her filled his
heart with intense pity for her, and
her struggle against the Great Van
quisher. At 'her request he had,
with disguised reluctance, undertak
en to convey a message to her form
er school lellow and late acquaint
ance in short, to none other thaa
the beautiful Barbara.
"Ask her to come and see me to
morrow, sue had Begged most
pleadingly. "I have something to
say to her; promise me, 0, I im
plore you, promise you will !"
And so Allan promised, though
he thought the morrow's sun would
never rise again for her ; and dwell
ing on it now, his heart grew still
heavier.
At last, as he sat musing very,
very sadly, he drew the nearest sheet
of patter toward him, and, thinking
more than looking, began to write :
Mixs Barbara Boy :
My Dear Coisis I was called
this evening in consultation on the
case of Miss Clara BelL Sne is dy
ing, and desires to see you. She
usged me most earnestly to deliver
this message that I was unable to
refuse. You will please bear in
mind that I had no choice.
Yours, very truly
Allan Norton.
No one who did not understand
the intensity of Dr. Norton's regard
for his distant cousin, could explain
the nervous haste with which he
threw this formal note into its envel
ope. He took it out again to date it,
and saw by the mantle clock that it
was past one.
"February 14," he wrote, and with
a queer sensation, remembered that
it was St. Valentine's day.
"A dismal valentine," he thought,
but he never dreamed of the verses
and drawing on the under side of
the sheet.
Penciling a direction on a sheet of
paper for his servant to carry the
note to its address the first thing in
the morning, the tired doctor retired
for the night, and, as the gray light
of a wintry morn shown through
his window ere sleep came to his
pillow, it may be supposed that he
thought much of the radient and
careless creature who was wasting
her existence in the worthless search
of pleasure, and the shadowy out
line of what had once been a votary
of fashion, but who now found her
self, like one of the foolish Virgins,
with no oil in her lamp, while the
cry had already gone forth :
"The Bridegroom Cometh !"
Something strange happened that
Valentine's day.
Poor Laura Bell died quite peace
fully and hopefully the following
day ; but it was not that which
amazed the fashionable world, who
had quite forgotten the. poor thing
long ago it was the sudden and
complete disappearance of the chos
en sovereign, Barbara Roy.
Without a sign, an action, s sin
gle syllable to mark her flight, the
queen of grace and beauty disap
peared from her realm, and ber be
wildered subjects mourned for her ia
vain.
Her name was not on an European
passenger list, nor wai any one cer
tain of her having committed the
madness of leaviug town in the very
height of the gay season.
Dr. Nertoa, her cousin, was con
sulted as to her health, and could
make no report He heard of her
last at poor Laura's bedside, but that
did not appear well on dit, so he nev
er told it
Her elegant up-town mansion was
still inhabited, and her plainer
equippages were often seen on the
drive, but always in use by invalids
and old persons never occupied
by their charming owner. The po
nies and Mab's chariot were dispos
ed of at private sale, and the Gaunt
family had now the unutterable de
light of seeing their East Indian
niece, Miss Lushington, now undis
puted ruler of the fickle realm, re
cline in sleepy splendor where so
lately the brilliant Barbara sat en
throned. Meantime Dr. Norton gave his
disappointed heart all the more ar
dently to his profession, and no one
Ajoyed a more enviable reputation
either for skill or benevolence. Like
most of his brethren who love their
art, surgery had grown to be a pas
sion with him, and his intense sym
pathy with sufleridg humanity led
him to invent many soothing meth
ods of dealing with disease that ren
dered hira a favorite and extolled
benefactor of his patients.
Within a week oi the close of the
year since his introduction to the
writer he was elected professor to fill
a vacant chair in one of the colleges,
and consequently transferred his at
tention to a hospital in connection
with it Attached thereto was a cas
ualty ward, and on the lirit day of
bid service it was his painful duty
to perform an operation on a poor
young factory girl by amputating
her Jell hand, which a week before
had been dreadfully crashed in ma
chinery. She was much alarmed at the idea
of what she was about to undergo,
and according to his custom Allan
did his best to assure her of the re
lief of anaesthetics, but to all such
soothing she was deaf..
"I want the lady to hold the other
hand, aud then 1 can bear it," she
protested to the persuasive nurse.
"O, please let me have the lady. I
will do anything for the lady," was
her continuous cry.
Fearful of the effect of the excite
ment, Allan tried to pacify her, and
inquired who this favorite lady was.
The nurse, conceiving herself best
fitted to reply, immediately made
answer:
"Oh, she's one of our visitors, sir.
Mrs. Rore, is her name, I believe.
She's a well meanin' lady, but sor
ter spiles the patients, you see, sir."
Then, turning to the poor, tremb
ling girl, she continued, in a Gamp
iah tone: . .
"Ye can't expect folks to keep up
for evet Kitty and Mrs. Rore was
here till daylight, a wai tin' on you,
ami, now she's home gitlin' her
sleep."
"She promised she would be back
and ah, there she is !"
The girl's tone changed to a gush
of gladuess. her poor tearful eyes
overflowed, her pale lips quivered,
and she stretched out the hand that
was whole with a gesture of tender
ness and greeting to a lady who at
that moment appeared in the door
way. Allan Norton started as if he bad
beheld an apparition. Barbara Roy's
disappearance from gay life was now
accounted for. She had become a
volunteer hospital nurse !
Never before in all the exquisite
garniture of a rare taste and costly
fashion had she appeared so lovely
in bis eyes as now, when he saw her
dressed in simple gray and white, as
became her chosen vocation. As for
her beauty it seemed enhanced by
the contrast, and her face had gain
ed tbe only charm it had ever lacked
before the pure, deep tenderness of
a soul awakened to the consciousness
of duty and human sympathy. Kit
ty's expression of delight at her ap
pearance affected her very much.
She did not seem to notice Dr. Nor
ton, but concentrated ber attention
entirely on bis patient.
"O, dear, lady," exclaimed the suf
ferer, "this good doctor is going to
perform the operation. He speaks
very good and kind, and says he
will give me something to smell that
will take away the pain, or make me
kind of dead like, bo I won't feel it
I know he's kind, and he talks so
soothing ; but I jes' only want you
near me to hold my hand, and let
me feel you'll stay by me when I
don't know nothing."
With a ready sweetness Barbara
assented; her manner had that
earnest, cordial kindness in it that
went straight to the sufferer's young
heart
"O, thank you," said Kitty, with
a Bigh of relief ; I know'd you was
the kindest lady as ever was."
A flush of pleasure warmed the
oung lady's pale face ; she looked
up and for the first time saw who
the doctor was. Their eyes met, the
flush dyed into deeper red on Bir
baras face; then suddenly disap
peared and left it very pale.
Allan was even more overcome;
all he could do was to murmur her
name and bow profoundly; and
were it not for the poor girl over
whom they met after a year's es
trangement, their embarrassment
would have proved painful.
"I fear this will prove too great an
ordeal for you," said he in a low
tone, referring to the operation, and
glancing in the direction of his as
sistant physician, now arriving on
the scene.
"Do not waste a thought on me,"
she responded quickly, "I am quite
accustomed to such things."
"What a wonderful change a year
must have wrought in the butterfly,"
was his unspoken comment
She seemed to read his thoughts,
for she added quietly :
"A great deal can be learned in a
twelve month where one is an earn
est scholar."
. She had certainly proven the cor
rectness of her words. To Dr. Nor
ton's amazement, her skill in prepar
ing the sufferer for the operation as
far surpassed that of the hired nurse
as her native intelligence did. He
had often been annoyed by the silly
and ineffective interference of those
regular society ladies' bountiful help,
who Dersist in treating sick people
and those in extreme poverty as if
they were a species ' of incapable
children to he cajoled and smothered
era
by meaningless words, and not hu
man beings like themselves, open to
reason and capable of distinguishing
real help from affected sTnall talk.
How different were Barbara's min
istrations ! It was evident she had
grown to love the work she had be
gun as a mental discipline, and to
have forgotten its painful features in
the joy of serving and aiding those
who suffered.
It was well that Dr. Norton's
skill in surgery was so great that
even his deep emotion could not
bailie its success. Tbe operation was
completed satisfactorily and when
everything that could remind the
poor girl of what she had passed
through was removed, and she was
aroused again to consciousness and
saw Barbara's gentle face bending
hopefully over her, she exclaimed :
"O, dear, lady, I know'd it would
be just right if you was by be, and
now I feel as if I only need to thank
the Lord and get well again."
"You are an admirable surgeon's
assistant," Dr. Norton said in a low
tone. "You insure the success of
this work."
Again the warm red blush dyed
her pale cheeks, she dropped her
beautiful eyes, but her voice failed
her, she could not answer, or she felt
too much.
An hour later Dr. Norton, having
made the rounds of his new sphere
of action in company with his as
sistants parted from them to see
how Kitty, the factory girl, was
progressing.
MLss Hoy was still beside her, and
retwrted that her patient wa3 doing
admirably.
"Have you a list ot directions for
the night, doctor?" Barbara asked,
as they moved a little aside trom the
couch.
"What has she been taking as an
anodyne ?" Norton asked in re
turn. Barbara felt in her apron pocket,
and, after rummaging a moment, she
handed him an envelope.
"It is inside that, on a card, I
think," she said, "you will find it all
explained."
lie opened the packet and saw his
own photograph, cut from some
medical journal. A very handsome
one it wasj as one could see at a
glance. The instant the picture
passed out of her hand into that of
the original, Miss Barbara Roy saw
her mistake. She saw that the se
cret of her life was told, and but for
the strongest effort of will she had
ever made, she would have sunk
powerless at the surgeon's feet As
it was she uttered a low, pitiful cry,
and clasped her hands hopelessly.
"Barbara Miss Roy my dear
cousin," cried Allan, quite beside
himself at tbe possibility before him,
as he drew her iato the nearest al
cove and caught her hand in hie,
"pray tell me if lam frantic to think
to hope that you care for my
picture or me ; that my life devoted
to you could awaken one thought
for me in return. Oh, Barbara, if
you could know or 1 could tell how
long, how tenderly, hopelessly, I
have loved you ''
"And yet only one year ago to-day
you sent me that picture oi myself,
at the same time directing me to go
to a dy ing girl and learn what a use
less creature I was "
"I !" ched Allan, "It must have
been a dream," for he had quite for
gotten poor Laura Bell and the note
of St Valentine's day.
"No dream, Allan," said Barbara,
and she gave him a look of gratitude
through her tears that made her
heartthrob with joy. "No, it was
for me a most blessed reality, though
I shall never forget the shock I felt
to see poor Laura, to hear from her
faded life how wretchedly wasted
my life was, and how Heaven would
require an account of my miserable
squandered abilities. From that
moment I tried to change, and when
I faltered in in the way (at first seme
of the duties I tried seemed revolt
ing) I looked at your bubble valen
tine, and thought of the selfish idle
picture there "
Allan took it from her, and gazed
for the first time on Bob Trelawney's
handiwork. Then he looked at his
own note written by mistake on the
other side. The expression of his
bewildered face explained the error,
and they laughed together. Then
Allan glanced at his own picture and
laughed again.
"IJarbara," said he, "we have ex
changed valentines, for to-day is the
14th of February. Shall it be for
life?"
If ever words were full of pleading
love those five overflowed with it
Her answer was quite aa tender,
though given with her old arch
Smile.
"You said I would make a good
surgeon's assistant, and I am willing
to try."
It is a mistake to ask a precocious
child to show off before company. A
gentleman who was dining with his
family at a friend's table, where a
number of invited guests were pres
ent, had a bright little daughter, who
as soon as the host had asked grace
said : "That's a pretty grace, but
that isn't the way my papa says it"
"And how does your papa say it?"
asked the host, expecting to hear
one of the bright replies for which
the child was famous, while the rest
of the guests echoed, "Y'es, tell us
how your papa says grace ?" The
unhappy father could not reach her,
and Bhe said, sweetly : "Why, when
he comes to dinner he looks at mam
ma, and then says "Well this is a
h 1 of a meal to set before a white
man 1" -
Mothers Dont Know.
How many children are punished
for being uncouth, willful and indif
ferent to instructions or rewards.
simply because they are out of
health. An intelligent lady said of
a child of this kind: "Mothers
should know that if they would
give the little ones moderate doses
of Hop Bitters for two or three
weeks, the children would be all a
parent could desire."
One of the prettiest girls in Bos
ton has discarded an American lover
and engaged herself to an English
man.' This fact has not been brought
to the attention of the tariff com
mission, we believe.
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WHOLE NO. 1650.
A Few Hints About Horses.
Give horses salt frequently.
Road horses should have their
front feet stuffed with flaxseed twice
a weak.
When light shoes are needed par
ticularly hind ones, have them made
of cast steeL
Don't hook your horse to the
sleigh the same at to your wagon, but
give him mor trace.
Keturning from an afternoon drive,
let your horses cool off before enter
ing the stable.
Hones wearing boots should have
them loosened while under the shed
at the road house.
If your horse should pull on one
line or throw bis head up and down
right and pull on the bit have hi
mouth and teeth examined.
The hand pieces of driving rein
frequently bscome smooth from use,
causing the hands to shift In such
cases rub the lines with powdered
rosin.
If you wish to drive your bor-e
with an open bridle, have him tied I
with one before putting him to ytur
top wagon, otherwise he might gt
away from you.
When horses ov.rreach lengthen
the hind shoes ; when they hit the
front of the hind ffet have the toe of
the front shoes made narrow and
concaved on the inside.
Some horses in trotting, in put
ting their bind feet to the ground
strike principally on the toe. Such
horses should have their heels low
ered, and should wear shoes without
heels.
Skunk cabbage is said to be good
for heaves, given in teaspoonful doses
night and morning. Moisten the
hay and grain. Be careful with the
diet Never work a heavy he-rse on
a full stomach.
Steel bits should be kept in a warm
place until they are placed in the
horse's mouth. Any person can
realize the sensation of placing a cold
bit in a horse's mouth by first touch
ing it with his own tongue.
An excellent remedy for mange is :
Oil of turpentine, one pint ; add
cautiously two ounces of vitriol, stir
ring the mixture constantly; then,
add eight ounces linseed oil, to be
rubbed in with a brush twice a day.
If your double team did not work
to suit you to-day, one crowding to
the pole while the other would pull
his head to one side, see that the
reins are right, and in hooking them
to your wagon to-morrow, put the off
horse on the near side.
Tar is one of the most useful arti
cle to be kept about a stable. Inter
nally use a teaspoonful night and
morning for chronic coughs ; externally-
h is particularly- useful in
thrush and all diseases or wounds of
the foot. Mixed with fish oil it is
one of the best remedies for hard or
brittle feet.
When heels and toes are required
on a horse's shoes, instead of having
the shoe turned down for heels, have
the heels and toes of cast steel and
welded on. The heels should ie put
on half an inch from end of shoe and
placed endwise.
For a horse that "pulls" use the
over-check, with strap attached over
the nose and under the lower jaw.
For an extra haid-mouthed horse
use a four-ringed bit Have a slide
loop on the front of the over-check,
so that it can be moved up and down,
as may be required. Then have the
check-piece and over-check attached
to loose rings and the driving lines
alone to the large rings.
Be ResulT trJarly.
A season of activity is near at
hand. Spring is coming, with its
pressing work. Are farmers ready
for sowing and planting? Every im
plement should be provided before
hand, that no time may be wasted
in making purchases or repairs after
the work should begin. We have
known a half-day of plowing to be
lost because the whiffltrees were not
at hantl. Some farmers start out
with their spring plowing without a
single plow point in stock, and when
one is needed, the team is taken from
the field and driven to the store.
Such a loss of time is a serious mat
ter, and should be thoughtfully
guarded against by ample provision
of all such articles of the farm. It
is a poor time to mend a harrow
when it should be at work in the
field.
We do not favor that economy
if it may be bo called that relies
upon the neighbors for manv of the
tools of the farm. There are certain
farm implements that may be owned
in partnership, as a roller or reaper,
but the constant borrowing of rakes,
forks, etc, is not a wise and economi
cal practice. Be provided with all
these essential farm tools, and have
them in good order, and at hand
when the time arrives for using
them.
Now is the time to look to these
matters, and make all needed prepa
rations for tbe busy days that will
soon be here. In the peace of winter
prepare for the war of spring. Amer
ican Agriculturist.
j
An Honesx Boy.
In a country school a large class
were standing to spell. In the lesson
there was a very hard word. I put
the word to the "scholar at the head.
and he missed it ; I passed it to the
next, and the next, and so on thro'
the whole class, till it came to the
last Bcbolar, the smallest of the
class, and he spelled it right, at least
I understood him so, and so he went
to the head, above seventeen boys
and girls, all older than himself. I
then turned round and wrote the
word on the blackboard, so that they
all might see how it was spelled, and
learn it better. But no sooner had
I written it than the little boy at the
head cried out : "O ! I didn't spell it
so, Miss Wilson ; I said e, instead of
L" And he went back to the foot on
his own accord, quicker than he bad
gone to the bead. Was not he an
honest boy? I Bhould always have
thought he spelled it right if he had
not told me, but he was too honest
to take any credit that did not be
long to him.
A Muscatine school boy has gone
insane from sitting op nights trying
to find the streams mentioned in the
river and harbor bill
How to Swim
A writer in Kiioxlftlg? gives these
I directions:
! The swimmer is supposed to be
simply balancing himepl in the w-a-tr
when he jrepar3 to try th
! rirrmeot now to. b? d-ci jbd.
riaciDg the hands toscthtr t los-c to
the breast, with the wrists touching
the collar bones, or nearly so, the
palms downward, and in horizontal
plane with the closed lingers, the
swimmer launches his arms forward
to their full reach in front of him,
still keeping his hands together.
While he is doing this, he kicks his
legs out backward to their full ex
tent and so as to throw the feet as
far apart as possible. Of these
movements only the latter is propul
sive. The former merely brings the
f rms to the right position for their
backward propulsive stroke.
But though the legs and feet be
ing kicked out backward produce a
propulsive effect, especially if the
feet are well planted, as it were.
(against the water during their back
ward sweep, yet it is not in this mo
tion that the legs do the mot effec
tive part of their propelling work.
The arms are now to be carried back
ward with a powerful sweep, the
hand.-. Wing held in a slixhtly cup
shaped form, and the stroke being
taken with just so much downward
movement, and no more, as is nee
eaaary to counteract the tendency of
the head to sink when the support
of the hand U removed. Whil the
handi are thus brought toward the
lip, the lees are to b brought for
cihly togeihrr, like the leg of a pair
of shean when we clo it It is in
this movement that the lejc prudure
their greaU-at propulsive effect an
effect which many who think they
know how to swim entirely ie.
out backward, and Uieii tirawnt
them up under them for the next
etroke. Tills draw ing up ofjhe lejf.
under the abdomen niUMt only be
begun when the legs have been for
cibly brought together, both perfect
ly nzui tut iney are in con-tact.
I The closing movement of the ley
Li completed while the arms are do
ing their backward stroke. The legs
are then drawn up under the btoni
ach, the feet being bent back as
when we stand on tiptoe, while the
hands are brought to their tirt po
sition by passing from the hips to
the chest and palm and fingers as it
were gliding over the body. Then
the movements descriled are re
peated. The arms are thrust for
ward as before; the legs are kicked
out, then, while the legs are brought
forcibly together and afterward car
ried forward, the arms take their pro
pulsive stroke backward to the hips.
Then the movements are repeated,
and so on, till the Bwimmer is tired,
or thinks well to change his stroke.
An Idcsl Girl.
In a village "of Oneida county,
New York, according to a corre
spondent of the Utica Observer, there
is a young lady who has merits de
serving of public notice. She is a
blonde, of medium height, blue eyes,
clear cut Grecian features, and is ac
knowledged to be pretty, even by en
vious females, and has borne away
all the best prizes in school for years.
Her education is pronounced by our
late school commissioner as being as
good as that of any teacher in the
district She can bake, wash, iron,
make garden, sing divinely sew on a
button or patch, make and fit all her
own clothes, spin the yarn and make
her own stockings, mop the floor,
entertain a house full of ministers
or an assemblage of young people,
make tatting, crochet, bevel a lam
brequin, knit insertion on a slipper
case, or quilt a pumpkin pie. She
never was known to call your Atten
tion to the door scraper or mat, nev
er spoke a cross word or had a cold
dinner on washing day; never ate a
chocolate caramel or chewed gum.
She wears none but her pwn hair
anil teeth, and was never nearer a
corset than the outside' of a dry
goods counter. She never had a
beau in her life, yet our best young
men would-be at her feet with the
least encouragement She can row
a boat,' shoot a gun, climb a tree,
and throw a fly or land a trout in a
manner to win the admiration of
any sportsman. She never gossips
and never attempts to take a hantl
in another woman's knitting work,
and is never seen upon the streets in
the eveuing unless going to church
or to visit the sick. Her father has
been a widower for over a dozen
years, a pillar in the church, social
and sought after by all, yet mani
fests no desire to change house
keepers. She was never known to
torture a piano in her life, manifests
no fondness for cats, or poodle or
cur dogs, and doesn't know George
Elliot's best novel from a hen coop,
yet she is thoroughly conversant
with the important questions and
news of the day, and can quote his
tory till you can't wink. We are
not related except through our re
spected ancestor, Adam, and no
young man must consider this
thrown out as an inducement, for
the lady in question would not look
favorably upon his suit a moment
unless she was convinced that he
was the equal of her father, and it
would be strong proof she would re
quire. She is a thorough 'going pol
itician with Democratic proclivities.
Vanderbilt's Gold.
William II. Vanderbilt'a wealth,
to be measured in solid gold, would
it is said, weigh 93 tons. H is income,
according to the same estimate.
$2 per second, or $rS6,4U0 - pw
Mr. Jay Gould's wealth mu
as much, and there aid, Mtl.
fifty persons in this TOUtTrn ' '
sessions would amount jYFP
each. In France there . '
of wealth, but it is beU-plieg, Irvn
than in the United State .
of the Rothschild family
such fortunes in Frano
country. Our forefathtj
they had provided aga . aot u, m.
accumulations when the?1"
that landed property sh-Jj83,
vided equally between th rnuiaat atvl
of the original owners; buty
increase of personal property waid. aa
the operations of modern ci.lTi
has concentrated capital in ver;tk
hands. There will be a caul.
trouble some time, a our popula J
grows larger, and jealousy is crea '
on account of the disprport.
between the poverty of the- mat
and the vast fortunes of the few
The only way to prevent a collisioi
is tor the rich to recognize the fac
that they must make good useo
their wealth, regarding it as a trus
for the benefit of their fellow men.
For sore lips, take a piece of com
mon brown paper, fold three or four
doable, and burn on the bottom of a
cold flat iron, rising as the steam
gathers on the iron. Rub it on the
sore lip. Two. applications are
enough if Well done.
MO,