rsomersct Herald
of Publication.
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The Somerset lieraia,
Somerset, Fa.
irn W.PEIECKER,
Somerset. Pa.
L ,vtalrs InOoolt A.Boertu' Ktack,
V KIM MEL,
ATTOKNET-AT-LAW,
Somerset, Pa.
j'KOOSER.
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Somervet, Pa.
Someraet P.
I i:DSLEY.
" ATTWRKET-AT-LAW,
V. TUENT,
Somerset, Pen'.
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Somerset, Pa.
j rlUTTS,
J AmiKKETATLAW
SoCDCTKt, Pa.
,j,4Ulr to Mammott Bloc.
IS R. SCOTT,
-AT-LAW,
Som.net,
Pa.
.htOoart Hu-. AU!bulne entrusts
aUeoVi iu with proinjHJU-i.and
rrKOTH
W. H. BI PPEU
-TROTH RTJPPEL,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
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LIHIKS.
U C. COLB0RX
ka..M.nini . .,.,,,,,,. mad in Sum-
. ia rmr flare will be DTOmpt-
''iJi'sdHnlna- Counties. Surrey.
Me.ii.rd. r- u "1,1, tonus.
luvejawu '
IVO.KIMMEU
U ATT0k.NEY-AT-LAW,
Somerset, Pa.
V .,,,, ,,, ,n hoflneiw entruited te bl ear
ttM"1 tt V T..n eountie with prompt-
IBJell-.y. t'Kly
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LENTIE HAY,
Ural T In R-1 rtte. Somerset, P will
, ,ii tmflnett entruited to hi tare wltn
en 1 nlety .
in ii.niL.
ATTOKNEY-ATLAW
Somerset, P,
mptltettendtoall builnew ntruited
1 u ..innml ob collection, aic Ol-
jlUiUM-ta BuUdlox.
G. OGLE.
ATTUEKET-ATLAW,
Suiueiasl Pa
KncfriMi .nnled tO 111V 0.1. at-
t j u' vitb prvmptneM and fidelity.
riLUAM II. KOONTZ.
ATTOKJ EI-iTLAW,
Somenet, Pa.,
Tfimflipt at1entkB to bnflnexi entrurt
Jk Sneet and adjoining eountlea.
i PTteUnf Hfle. Ko.
MES L PITCH,
ATTOKNET-ATaW,
e JUmmoth Blofk. p (Uira. Entranoe,
iirert. tVilleetlone nad enat
. till rumlmd. and all lepal baalneai
d ic with jiromptneei and fidelity.
L BAER.
, ATTOKNET-AT-tAW,
Somerwet, Pa
vnttitt to Somenet and ad joining eountlea.
.Mweniniftedto Urn 1U be promptly
ac iirr.rs.
ATTOKNET-A-I-LAW,
Somerset, Pens a.
y "
CXXIS MEYERS.
ATTORKET-AT-LAW,
Sonenwu Penn a.
nil Brtwix entrofted tn h If care will be
i to with iirruiptnew and fidelity,
t tt M.nimoth laioea next door to Boyd'i
HOWARD WYNNE, M. D.
JO JM-K Vy. 11 A
iwo(tb Ft. Ear. Kofe and Tbrnat.
i and r irli Fractire. Hoot. a. to
Lu ker a Green l:lock, 2 Main St.
10. WILLIAM COLLINS,
HtSTlST, 6U51EKSET, PA.
Tlnilammotli Blnck. almwe KoTd' Pro.
wdtrt h can at all time be found prepar
io ail k'.M, ot work. och u bllinr. reiru-
U- nttaniwx.as. Artificial teetb of ail atnua.
tht ken material tantrted. Oierationi
f inttd. .
WE M. HICKS.
JI STICEOF THE PEACE,
Somenet, Penn'a,
MES O. KIERNAN. M. D. ten-
hit ptnlrwlcoei fervtrei to the ettlaenf f
t n.l TirinltT. Be can re found at the
! t-t father Main Kireet or attb.
i IT Henry Bruheker.
?tt. lwc
klMMEU. H.8. K1KMELU
1 E. M. KIMMELL & SON
D'ter their pmteart.inal aerricea to tb. eftl-
v mrrvt and rtclnlty. (me ot the meew
t tht Crm can at alftiniea. unlee tirolewtou-
ni. he frnd at their jotbet, ob Main
I-J. K. MILLER ha perma-
t!!T located in Merlin Inr the prnrtlc ot
w."T'uice wjpueiie v;nanea jvnrinu
inn Ta-tf.
I H. P.RURAKER tenders his
erffwimal rnce te the el t item of Horn
wmnr. Office tn raaldeoee oa Hall
-ttotthe Mamoud.
W M. R A U C H tenders hie
! lewdly.
-W4fmjrtmi at Vara. a. RerkbU.l
A. W. M I .I.K it
FHYS1CUN ASrSQEON.
I" k. S.4ith Bead. Indiana, wber. be
i-j mwvr or puiorwLr.
UOHN RILLS,
''aiUrrr Kmrr UrC'i r,r. Mai. rrwaa
r-Sajnart.Pa.
J-ASSOXD HOTEL,
TOYSTOWN. 1KNN'A.
PTwlarand well known bmt. baa laUly
whlj and newlj refitted with aU new
Irti!ture.wt,kh baa anede it a wery
. ,1'l r place fur UMtraMllmr nwMtc.
with a taTir. awblte hall attached
mjjun ruTumrvm, .11 urn-
""rJire can be bad at the Wwwat hav
... i j ine weea. oay or neavi.
AMUrXCrSTER. Proa,
a. E. tor. Diaavoad
Stoyatow ,Pa
VL?"TED To ratrra. for tb Mle of
w 1 .ii perleue. required. Good aal-
i-roe paM. Addre.,
J. M. Bowden A Co.;
B ocnevhT, N. T.
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VOL. XXXI. NO. 41.
Frank W. liar.
ESTABLISHED SHEARS.
131 .A. B R O S.,
WHOLESALE
Tin, Copper and Sheet
No. 280 Washington Street, Johnstown, Pa.
"WE AEE PEEPASED TO OFFES
RANGES, STOVES and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS III GEKERAL
At Prices Less than any other House in Western Pennsylvania.
Special attention paid ta Jobblnr In Tin. Qalranlred Iron and Sheet-Iron, Sugar Paaa, Steam
Pipe, H't-Alr Pipe, BoofinK, Spuutioa;. Starka of EnKlnea. and all work pertaining to Cellar Fur
nace. Enimates irlven and work done by firetelau Meebanlea only. Sde A rent fur Noble Cook.
JohnownC'k.r-pean' Antl-Imat Cook. Eicellor Penn. In Houra-FurnlahloK Oooda w. .ffer
Coal Vaeee. Toilet beta. Bread Cioaeu. Cak. Boaea, Chamber Palla, Knirea and Forkl (common
and plated) Ovrtnan Silver bpnona, Britannia tona. Tea Trara, Lined, Iron and Enameled
Warea Bra and Copper KeUlea, Mut Brollera, Uyater Brolien, Era; BeaUn, tlx different kinda.
Bread ToaMera, Plated Britannia and Wire Oaatora, Iron Stand a, Fir. iron a, and erervthlna; of
Ware nee .led in the Cooking Dertment. An experienoe of thirty-three yean In busiMaa here ena
ble, ui to meet tbe wantaot thi eommnnltw in our line, wlthagixxl article at a low price. All goodi
ao!d WAKKANTLI AS KEl'KKSLNTEU or tb. money refunded. Call and aee the Ware ; get
priori before purchasing : no tnble to ahow gixida. P.nnn eommenelng Uouna-Kneplng will aar.
24 percent, br buvlng their outfit from a. Merchant aelllng good In our line ahorld aend for
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work ii Warranted to be ot tb. but quality at loweat ptiee. To aara money call on or aend to
HAY BROS.. Xo.20 WaHlilntfon Street Johnstown, Penn'a.
HERE IS THE PLACE!
J. M. HOLDERB AUM 1 SONS
NO. 4 BAER'S BLOCK.
A Complete Assortment of GEN GRAL MERCHANDISE consisting of
STAPLE and FANCY DEY GOODS!
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HATS .BOOTS AND SHOES !
CARPETS & OIL CLOTHS I
Queensware, Hardware, Glassware,
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. . i. w . )
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Bowls, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, Toledo
Pumps, Farm Bells, Corn Plant
ers and Plows, Cultivators,
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With Detachable Fertilizer.
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SOMERSET, PENN'A.
Vick's Floral Guide
For 1883 1 nn elegant book of 150 tiagea. three
colored Plate of Fiowen and Vegetable, and
more tban 1,0(10 llluctrationa of tb choice Flow,
era. Plant and Vraretables, and direction for
growing. It Is handaom. enough lor tb. center
table or a holiday preeent. Send on tout name
and Boatofhc addre, with lo eenta. and I will
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ter of itrooet. It 1 printed In both English and
Oerman. If you afterward order aeed deduct
the 10 cents.
Tick's Seeds are the Best Intne World!
Th Floral Guide will tell bow to got and grow
them.
Vlck's Flower and VegetaldeOarden. ITS page,
lx colored plate. 6U0 .engravings. For bO cent
la paper cover; 1 00 in elegant cloth. In Ger
man or Engllrli.
Vlck's Illustrated Monthly Magaxlne 52 pages,
a colored plate In ererv number, and many hne
engraTlng. Price 1 2& a yean five copies for
to 00. Sfiwlmen numten sent for 10 cents; three
trial copies tor 21 cent.
JAAMES VICK,
KUCHESTER, N. T.
COOLEY CREAHERS.
' Made in FOtTB STTLT.S. all
siv f.ir lirT or Factory une.
'J heir rBoeruruy deoaoa
srniUvt TiM-ir Macccaa wtthout a
paralk-L
1 twv are Prxr Sinnmt.
Five ;ld IHed.la and
Vvu silver .ledaU.for
TOpenorttT. l'm Las lea.
Makjc BETTra Bcxttb.
BAViS SWIM CHURNS, IWiU
MTTEII WITK PnKTERS,
ml fun one of butter factory
impiiltea. fWid iTtl fur circuUre .nd teeUtootilaks.
T. f ARl HOiK. CO.. BeUowa Fall, Venaonu
Planing Mill for Sale.
lDeilDUrBncu urriiw w 1 ' ,
six lot of ground In Kockwood. Pa., tb. junction
of lh. b. AO. and B. A O. Kallroad. on which
are a two story
Plank Dwelling House,
mm I a A ,A Mtt at T.vvat. ami.
table, tb. usual outbuildings and a
PLANING MILL
h.iuin. Alan, raie-thlrd Interest In the machin
ery contained In tb. building. For further par
ticular! eau rawv"'. .-,n.rT
Aft I nu.l J u no n .o,
janSl Hockwood, Pa.
FASHIONABLE
CUTTER & TAILOR,
Hawing bad many
yean experlent-.
in all brancbe of
be Tailoring bu
Inea. 1 guarantee
SatUfaction to aU
who may call up
on an and favor
me with their pat
ronage. . Yean, ka,
WM. JfCnOCHSTETlVEB,
Konaenet, Pau
mart
SOMERSET COUHTY BANK !
(KSTABLISHED 1877.)
CHAELES. J. HIE11SCH. MJ.PEITTS.
President.
Cashier.
Collections atad. k aU partt of tb. t'olUd
CHAEOES MODEBATE.
i.v.1.. n mkA tww-nV Vltt M.B bt A4S
eor7n!ort.ted by "draft o. New York I. any--,
f Jullertlon saad. with twoniptne.. V. S. Bonds
bought Md anld. Money and valuable, secured
by on. of I Heboid's celebrated sat, with a Bar-
gent a i ate ki v m
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
-All v al bolidajl ob-red.-w
dooT
CHARLES HOFFMAN,
HERGHAIIT TAILOR,
CA.toww Hary HeflleyVO. a.)
LATEST STYLES cfl LOWEST PRICES.
CT SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
SOMERSET, IA-
mm
John B. Hay
AND RETAIL
- Iron to Uannfy,
and Fixtures, Wall Papers,
m 1 rf".T T..aVVA..
AlbkbtA. Hokxx.
J. SOOTT WllD
HOME k WARD,
acoosaoaa to
EATON & BROS,
NO. 27 FIFTH AVENUE,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
SPRIISTQ, 1882.
NEW GOODS
F7ESY LAY SPECIALTIES
Eaibrolserias, Ucat. MiMtory, Whit 6od Hini
ksrchi.fi, Dr.si Trimming,, Hoiisryj &lovt
CarteU, Maalta ad Meria Usdarwear, Is
fsntt' and ChliorM'i ClothlRg. Ftacy
Goodt, Vara, JTaahyrs, Matt
rlals of All Kinda far
FANCY WORK,
Gents' Fimisli GooSs, k, k
nciriTin. ia aaapacTrcLLT aoLic 'a
Bjr-OtDEUSBT MAIL ATTESDFO T0WITH
CAKE AKD DISPATCH. art.
EDWARD ALCOTT,
incrimin mb oaauta i
LUMBEE!
OAK FLOOBIKG A SPECIALTY
OFFICE XSD FACTORY :
TJRSINA,
SOMERSET. CO., PA.
KMTABLiancr lsaa.
C. T. FBAZEB,
Hot, 0l aid sua Jaaui Btrreji,
JOHUSTOWIT, PA.
WHOLES AXI AKD KETAIX.
DRUGGIST,
AND DEALER IK
PERFUMERY, PAIHTB, OIM
Glass and Putty, Hair and Toot Bnuke. Fancy
Article, toiw .mi ,""T.'""T" -FamUy
Medletaes and PbysMiaaa' Pwertp.
lions aeemrai.iT . r
PATENTS
Malnod. and aU b-staoss tkw C. PUsH
, or ta tha Court attended to fer OPERATE
rata.
W. are th. TJ. -rj"?...
ard la PAif NT BUSINESS EXClUSlYtLY,
htS oMie itt" in kmm UM Ukv im
In PATtal
irom WASHINGTON.
v rninivri
WW-, al fkt dnaTtlrt to Mftt Vt O-tlM t
t.u. - - ..hm . saaaa! mm amavkss MO
CNAR6E UNLESS WE 0BTA1B WTHIT.
W. refor. aera, u ta. ronavww, i.
.iTlZZu IHrKtoa. aad to osMatsoYtbe
U. B. raMn uwaw. a " '
weoaaty, addiw
C. A. SNOW at CO
Somerset
THE FALLOW FIELD.
Tha son come up and tbe sua goo down ;
Tha n ight miat ahroadetb tbe ileepiog town ;
But if it be dark or ifit b day,
If the tempests beat or tbe broexea play,
SU11 here on this upland slope I lie
Looking up to tbe changeful sky.
Naught am I bat a fallow field ;
Never a crop niy acres yield.
Over the wail at my right band
Stately and green tbe corn blades stand.
And I hear a( niy left tbe flying feet
Of the winds that rustle the bending wheat,
Often while yet the mora is red
I list ibr oar master's eager tread,
lie smile at tbe young corn's towering
height,
He knows the wheat is a goodly sight,
Bat be glances not at tbe fallow field
Whose idle acres no wealth may yield.
Sometimes the shout of the harvesters
Tbe sleeping pulse of my being stirs,
And as one in a dream I seem to feel
The sweep and the rush of the swinging
steel.
Or I catch the sound of the gay refraia
As they heap their wains with the golden
grain.
Yet, Omy neighbors, be not too pro ad,
Though on every tongue your praise- is loud.
Our mother Nature is kind to me,
And I am beloved by bird and bee,
And never a child that passes by
But turns upon me a grateful eye.
Over my head the skies are blue ;
I have my share of the rain and dew ;
I bask like you in the summer sun
When the long bright days pass, one by one,
And calm as yours is my sweet repcee
Wrapped in the warmth of the winter snows.
For little our loving mother cares '
Which the com or the daisy bears.
Which is rich with the ripening wl teat,
Which with the violet's breath is svreet,
Which is red with the clover bloor i.
Or which for the wild sweet fei n makes
rooru.
Useless under the summer sky
Year after year men say I lie.
Little they know what strength o r mine
I give to the trailing blackberry "vine;
Little they know how the wild grape grows
Or bow my life-blood flushes the rose.
Little they think of the cups I fill
For the mosses creeping under tb e hill;
Little they think of the feest I spread
For the wild wee creatures that ninst be fed:
Squirrel and butterfly, bird and bee.
And the creeping things that no ejs may
see.
Lord of the harvest, Thou dost know
How tbe summers and winters go.
Never a ship sails east or west -
Laden with treasnres at my behest,
Yet my being thrills to the voice of God
When I give my gold to the golden-rod.
Jvi.ia C. B. Dobe, in Harper's Magazine or
February.
AUTUMN BLOSSOMS.
T-Tnur it that T cnm tn bft art
old bachelor? Not because ef bating
wnmpn I am mi, for I liked then
very much, and never could have
spoken to one of them rudely or dis
courteously in my life. As nearly
as 1 know it was in tins wise :
My father died, leaving a family
of children, a wife and an old father
and mother, of whom only myself
was able to earn a ehillintr. He had
never saved anvthing.
. a. " . a j
So, after tne nrst gnei, wnen we
had calmed down and were able to
look matters calmly in the face,
there was a wretched sort of prospect
for us. I was only an accountant,
and had a young fellow's way of
wasting my 'small salary in a thou
sand different ways. I had been
paying attention to Elsie Hall, who,
v nun tr and childish as she was. had
a way of leading her admirers into
extravagauce. UI all the trials oi
tVint TK'vpr-trwTift-frirrnttpn time. I
- o . '
think the greatest was appearing to
, , 1 , .1 I. 1
oe niggaiaiy in mose uauy-uiuc
eyes. I did not mind wearing plain
suite, discarding kid gloves and de
nouncing the opera ; but not to lay
a a . 1 . - -
tnoee coquets ana dooks, ana music,
and dainty bits of jewelry, and mul
titudinous trifles at Elsie's feet was
a very terrible ordeaL I passed
thrnue-h and if ever a man had
reason to be thankful. I had. for the
acquisitive little beauty jilted me in
.i ra-t m 1 1
a monui lor lorn iamaen, wno was
rich and lavish of frifts. and who ran
away from her after a marriage of
ten montns.
I worked night and day, and man
aged to keep the wolf from the door.
Sometimes I sed to think how
well it was for Elsie that she bad
not really loved me, for she could
have had nothine but a dismal pros
pect of wearing out her youth in a
dreary, hopeless engagement to one
too poor to marry. That was until
Tom ran .cff. Then I thought it
would have been even better for her
to have shared our humble home
and poor fare, and the love I could
have given her, than to be deserted
so. And I pittied her,, as if she had
not proven herself heartless. But I
never went near her, of course, and
never even spoke of her to my
mother.
I grew no younger all this while,
and every year seemed to add five
years to my looks. I had never been
very handsome or very merry, and
soon I became conscious of a pecul
iar middle-aged look, which settles
down upon some people very early.
Strangers, too, began to take me
for the head of the family ; and
once, in a new neighborhood, the
butcher alluded to, "my wife." I
found that he meant my mother.and
only wondered that it was net dear
old granny.
She was eighty, grandfather niae
ty, and they died one bright autumn
day, before prosperity came to us
died within an hour of each other,
for grannie just said :
"I think 111 lie down a bit, now
that .Lemuel don't need need me.
I'm very tired."
Then she kissed me and said:
44 You've been a good boy to your
grandma, Edward. YouH have that
to think oL"
And when we next looked upon
her she waa dead, with her hands
upon her cheek, like a eleepisg
child.
So, two were gone, and we were
sadder than before. And then Jeaa,
my eldest sister, married at sixteen,
a physician, who carried her off to
Hindooetan in her honeymoon.
And we could, none of us, feel the
wedding a bappy thing;
But prosperity did come at last
I had worked hard for it, and any
thing a zaan makes his sole object
ESTJBTiTHTTKD, 1837.
SOMERSET, Pi ... WEDNESDAY.
in this liie, he is very sire to accom
plish. .
We wtsre com fortablo easy. " Ab
what a word that is After years of
struggle. At last we were rich. But
at that time I was five-and-forty a
large, dark, middle-agea man, witu
a face that looked to myself in the
glass, as though it were, perpetually
intent on figures. The guls were all
married. Dick bad. taken to the sea,
and we saw him o ace or so in a year;
and Ashton was at home withjnoth
er and mvself, the only, really hand
some member of 'our family, and
just two-and-twenty. And it waa oa
his birthday, I remember that the
letter came to me from poor Hunter
that letter which, began :
"When these lines reach you
shall have my six feet of earth all
I ever owned, or would, Jf I had liv
ed to be a hundred."
We had been young together,
though he was really older than I,
and we had been close friends once:
but a roving fit had seized him, and
we had not met tor yearr. l knew
be had married a youag Kentish
girl, and knew no more ; but now he
told me that she was dead, and that
his death weuld leave a daughter an
orohan.
"She is not quite penniless," he
wrote, "for her mother lad a little
income, which, poor as I was, I was
never brute enough to meddle with,
and it has descended to her. But 1
have been a rolling stone, Catherine
no moss, all my life, and we never
w
suyea long enougn in one piace to
make friends. ; Will you be her
(guardian? It is a dying man's last
request" ,
And tbe result of that, letter, and
another from the lawyer who had
Annie Hunter's little fortune in
charge, was that one soft spring dav
found me on board a great steamer,
which lay at rest after her voyage in
the protecting arms of j Liverpool,
with two little hands in mine, and a
pair of great, brown eye lifted to
my face, and a sweet voice choked
with sobs saying something of poor
papa, and of how much he had spo
ken ot me, the loneiy veyage, and
the green graves left behind, and I
who had gone to meet a .child and
found a woman, looking at her and
feeling toward her as l Jaed never
looked upon nor felt toward any
other. i .
Not to Elsie Hall. It was not the
boyish love dream come again.
Analyzing my emotion,.! felt only
a great longing to protect and com
fort her to guard her ftom every
pain and ill, and I said to, myself:
"This is as a father should feel to
a daughter., I can be a parent to Geo.
Hunier's child is very trujth."
And I took ber home tp the old
house and to my old Dothec I
thought only of them. , Spmehow I
never thought of Aahtov-. -
Shall I ever forget how she bright
ened the sombre rooms? How, as
her sadness were away, she sang to
tis in the twilight? How strangely
a something which made the return
home, and the long hours of tbe
e rening, seem so much brighter than
they had ever been before, stole into
my life ? I never went to sleep in
church now. I kept awake to look
at Olive Hunter to listen to her
pure contralto as she joined in the
singing.
Sometimes 1 caught her eye her
great, unfathonable, brown eye for
she had a habit of looking at me.
Was she wondering how a face could
be so ftern and grim ? I used to ask
myself.
"Ashton used to look at her also.
He had been away when she came
to us, and when he returned she was
a grand surprise to him.
4'0h, how lovely she ia !" he had
said to me.
"She is very handsome, Ashton,"
I replied.
Ashton laughed.
"May I never be an old bachelor
if it brings me to calling such a girl
very pretty," he said.
And I felt conscious that my cheek
flushed and felt angry that he should
have spoken of me thus, though I
had never cared before.
They liked each other very much,
those two young things. They were
together a great deal. A pretty pict
ure they made in the Venetian win
dow in the sun set He a fair haired,
blue eyed, Saxon looking youth ; she
so exquisitely dark and glowing.
Every one liked her. Even my
old clerk, Stephen Hadley, used to
say ber presence lit the omce more
than a dozen lamps, tbe nearest ap
proach to a poetical speech of which
old Stephen was ever known to be
guilty.
And I never knew how much she
was to me until one evening, when,
coming home earlier than usual, I
saw in that Venetian window where
Ashton and Olive had made so many
pleasant pictures for me, one that I
shall never forget as long as I live.
She stood with her back to me,
Ashton was kneelingat her feet Tbe
sound of the opening door dissolved
the picture, but I had seen it, and I
had stolen away to hide the stab
that it had given me,
I sat down in my own room and
hid my face in my bands, and would
have been glad to hide it beneath
my coffin lid. I knew now that I
loved Olive Hunter ; that I loved
her not as an old man might love a
child, but as a young man might
love the woman who ought to behia
wife better than I had loved Elsie
Hall ; for it was sot boyish passion,
but earnest, heartfelt love.
I in love I I arose and looked in
the mirror, and my broad shoulder
ed reflection flashed, before my
gaze. !
The spring time of my life had
flown and my summer had come
and gone, and in the autumn I had
dreamed of love's bud and blossom.
I knelt beside my bed and prayed
that I might not bate my brother
that I might not even envy him.
His touch upon my doer startled
me. He came in with something in
his manner not usual to hiss, and
sat down opposite me. For a few
minutes we were silent Then he
said, speaking rapidly, and blushed
like a girl:
"Ned, old fellow, you yo saw
me making a fool of myself just now,
I suppose?"
"I saw you on your knees," I
said.
"And thought me a sSly fc3owy
MARCH 21. 1883.
eh? But you don't know, Ned. You
can't understand you've been so
calm and cool all your life through,
you know. She's driving me mad,
Ned. I do believe she likes me, but
she wont say yes. I'd give my right
hand lor her love. 1 must have it
and I think you can help me, Ned.
From something she said, I believe
she thinks you would disapprove;
perhaps you are one of those old fel
lows who want every one to marry
for money. Tell her you're not, Ned,
dear, old fellow tell her you have
no objection, and I'll never forget it,
indeed, 1 won't"
"Tell her I have no objection?" I
repeated, mechanically.
"You know you are master here,
and ,as much my father as if you
were really one, instead of a broth
er," said Ashton. "If I did not know
how kindly you had always felt to
us both, I should not confide in you
for it is a serious thing to be in love,
Ned, and you may thank heaven
you know nothing of it"
"Know nothing of it?" Ah, if he
could have read my heart just at
that time I
"111 do what I can, Ashton," I
said at last MH try my best"
And be flung his arms about me
in his own boyish fashion and left
me alone alone with my own
thoughts.
He had said truly, I had been a
father to him. I was old enough to
be hers, and no one should know my
silly dream. I would hide it while
I lived. As I said once :
"I've only the old folks and the
children now," I said then, "I will
only think of mother and Ashton.
Let my own life be as nothing, I
have lived for them if needs be, 1
will die for them."
But I would not see or speak to
Olive that night, nor till the next
day was quite done. Then, in the
twilight, 1 sat down beside her and
took her hand.
Olive," I said, "I think you know
that Ashton loves you. I am sure
he has told you so. And you can
you not love him ?"
she drew her hand from mine and
said not one word.
"I should rejoice in my brother's
happiness. I should think him hap
pier in having your love than any
thing else could make him," I said,
I told him I would tell you so."
And then she spoke.
"You wish me to marry Ash
ton?"
Reproach was in the tone re
proach and sorrow.
"If you can love him, Ulive," i
said.
She arose. She seemed to shrink
from me, though in the dark I could
not see her face.
"I do not love him," she said.
And we were still as death. Then
STtddenly Olive v Hunter- began to
sob.
"Ynn have been very kind to me.
I love you all," she said, "but I can
not stay here now. Please to let me
go somewhere else. I must I can
not live here."
"Go from us, Olive?" I said, "Nay,
we are not tyrants : and once assur
ed you do not love him, Ashton will
"Hush I" she panted; "please let
me go away I nease lei me go
away."
The moon was rising. Her new
born light fell upon Olive's face.
Perhaas its whiteness made her look
pale.
She leaned against the wan with
her hand upon her heart, her un
fathomable eves full of pain. How
had I hurt her so? A new thought
struck me.
"Perhaps you love some one else.
Olive?"
And at that she turned her face
from me and hid it in her hands.
"Too much too much. You
mieht have snared me that," she
S li . v
saia. Lrei me go away, a wibu you
had never brought me here."
And 1 rose and went to her. I
bent over the woman I loved. I
touched her -with mv hand. Her
.oft hair brushed my cheek.
"Uiive, I saia, " ii coming nere
has brought pain upon you, I wish
I had not I weuld have died to
make you happy."
And my voice tremoiea ana my
hand shook, and she turned her face
toward me again and looked into my
eyes. What she saw in mine I do
not know the truth, I think. In
hers I read this :
I was not too old to her not too
old to be loved.
I Btole my arm about her ; she did
not untwine it I uttered her name,
"Olive," huskily. Afterward I told
her of my struggles with myself, not
then. I said;
"Olive, I love you ; but it cannot
be that you care for me. I am old
enough to be your father."
And again I saw in her eyes the
happy truth, and took her to my
heart
But we kept our secret for a while.
for we both knew that his wound
was not too deep to find a balm;
a.nd within a Tear, when tbe bov
brought heme a bride, a pretty creat
ure whom he lovea, ana wno lovea
him, I claimed Olive.
1 j -i lr.t-.
Ana sne ia mine uwn : buuujc
autumn blossoms of my heart will
only fade on each to uoom again
through all eternity in Paradise.
Aa Aggravatinc Little WretcJu
Some of our city stores are con
stantly annoyed by children coming
to the door and asking for card,
empty boxes and that sort of thing.
The clerks are, of course, down on
the youngsters, and the warfare nev
er ends.. The other day a littel girl
opened a store door, and sticking her
head in, called out: ...
"Say. mister, have you got aay
empty boxes?"
"No r said the cleric, not very po
litely. ,
"Got any cards?",
"Nor
"Got any almanacs ?"
"Nor ' '
"Got any empty bottles ?"
"No!" .
"Got any sense?"
"No yes no yes you misera
ble little wretch ! and the clerk flew
out of the door ; but the y oungster
was in the next alley making bees
at him and he came back madder
than he had been since his salary
J T
mnaseea.
era
Trimming; Apple Tree.
Experience is the mother of wis
aom. 1 here are different opinions
among farmers about the proper time
for trimming apple trees.
The main object ought to be to
trim in that season of tbe year when
the wound will entirely heal over, or
the tree is ruined, sooner or later. If
that object is not accomplished the
water enters and a hole is rotted into
the trunk.
It becomes hollow and is destroy
ed. Some trim- early in the spring.
1 he sap forces itself out ot the
wound in abundance, runs down on
the body or larger limbs, the bark
turns black and dies, and the tree is
permaneatlv injured.
Another follows the opposite ex
treme and prunes in August, or even
in early winter, when the sap has
turned into wood. The wound does
not turn black, as in the other case,
but heals slowly, if at all, and a tree
with boles in it is the final result.
If the bark is entirely peeled otf a
tree from the roots to the limbs in
the longest day of midsummer,
which is somewhere from the 15th
to the 20th of June, a new bark is
formed and the tree is not injured,
and an old tree is said to be benefit
ted by the operation. If apple trees
are pruned at this time, if any bark
is accidentally taken off, new bark
will form to cover the wound where
the limb has been removed.
It will entirely heal over if the
limb removed is not too large and
the growth is sufficient for that pur
pose. The sap of tbe tree is not too
thin to run out and blacken the
tree, as in early spring, nor too thick
and already formed into the wood,
and the wound comparatively dry.
Both wood and bark, as in later pru
ning, are not stopped in growth over
the wound. Many farmers, as a gen
eral thing, prune an'orcbard without
discretion, sawing off too large limbs
that can never heal over, oftentimes
cutting them off some inches from
the trunk of the tree or the larger
limb from which they are re
moved, the stub of the limb
will die to the body and the further
decay of the tree is sure.
In pruning oil too much the nat
ural equilibrium between the roots
and the top is destroyed and the
body of the tree will come out in
suckers and sprouts.
buch ignorant pruners had better
cut their trees down and trim them
afterward, which is easier done and
with more profit to themselves, as
the ground could be employed for
some better purpose.
If a limb is dead there is no op-
tio ) ; it must be cut off close to tbe
tree. The only living limbs that
bould be cut off are the small ones
that will heal over, coming from the
larger branches in the inside of ftof,fc"hPai wmaA
top. and those that cross and gall
each other, thereby letting in more
sun to the apples to give them a bet
ter color and give the pickers a bet
ter chance in the tree. Everything
beyond tbis is superfluous, and pru
ning had better be dispensed with
altogether. Many orchards receive
their death warrants from such ill
pruning every year.
How Slate Pencils are Mad.
Broken slate from the quarries is
put into a mortar run by steam and
pounded into email particles. Thence
it goes into the hopper of a mill,
which runs it into a bolting maehine,
such as is used in flouring mills,
where it is bolted, the fine, almost
impalpable flour that results being
taken into a mixing tub, where a
small quantity of steatite fleur man
ufactured in a similar manner is
added, and the whole made into a
stiff dough. The douth is thor
oughly kneeded by passing it sev
eral times between iron rollers.
Thence it is carried to a table, where
it is made into charges that is,
short cylinders, four or five inches
thick, and containing from eight to
ten pounds each. Four of these are
placed in a strong iron chamber or
retort, with a changeable nozzle, so
as to regulate the size of the pencils,
and subjected to tremendous hy
draulic pressure, under which the
composition is pushed through the
nozzle in a long cord like a slender
snake sliding out of a hole, and
passes over a sloping table slit at
right angles with the cords to give
passage, with a knife which cuts
them into lengths. They are then
laid on boards to dry, and after a
few hours are removed to sheets of
corrugated zinc, the corrugations
serving to prevent the pencils from
warping during the process of bak
ing, to which they are next subject
ed in a kiln, into which euperhea ted
steam is introduced into pipes ; the
temperature being regulated accord
ing to the requirements of the arti
cles exposed to its influence. From
the kiln the articles go into the fin
ishing and packing room, where the
ends are thrust for a second under
rapidly revolving emery wheels,
and withdrawn neatly and smoothly
pointed ready for use. They are
then packed in pasteboard boxes,
each containing 100 pencils; and
these boxes, in turn, are packed for
shipment in wooden boxes contain
ing 100 each, or 10,000 pencils in a
shipping box. Nearly all the work
is done by boys, and the cost there
fore is light
Ashbcrnham, Mass Jan. 14, '80.
I have been very sick over two
years. They all gave me up as past
cure: I tried the most skillful phy
sicians, but they did not reach the
worst part The lungs and heart
would fill up every night and dis
tress me, and my throat was very
bad. I told my children I sever
should die in peace until I had tried
Hop Bitters, i have taken two bot
tles. They hTO helped me very
much indeed. I am now well. There
was a lot of sick folks here who have
seen how they helped me, and they
use them and are cured, and feel as
thankful as I do that there is so val
uable a medicine made.
MRS. JULIA G. CCSHING.
Remember to underdrain orchards
that are on low, damp land. Such
orchards cannot be productive with
out it . .
ImitateTtbe industry of the ant
and the fruity of the bee.
WHOLE NO. 1654.
Den1 Betray Confidence.
Treachery is a detestable fault,
therefore let nothing tempt you to
betray a secret confided to your
honor. What if the friend who
once trusted you, and told you all
the secrets of his heart, has become
ryour enemy? You are still bound
to keep your word mviolatend pre
serve locked in your heart the secrets
confidently made known to you. A
man of principle will never betray
an enemy. He holds it a christian
duty never to reveal what in good
faith was placed in his keeping.
While the Albanians were at war
with Philip, the King of Macedon,
they intercepted a letter that the
king had written to his wife Olym
pia. It was returned unopened, that
it might not be read m public
their laws forbidding them to reveal
a secret Among the Egyptians it
was a criminal offence to divulge a
secret A priest who had been guil
ty of the offence, was ordered to
leave the country.
Have you another's secret in your
keeping ? Then reveal it not for the
world. A confiding friend may tell
you a hundred things, which if it
was whispered abroad would bring
him into contempt and ridicule, and
injure his character through life. No
one is so upright that he may not
have committed some ungentieman-
ly act, or some impure offence,which
may have been done years ago, be
fore the individual's character was
formed, and before he had wife and
children. Would it not be a pro
fanation of the most sacred duties
in a fit of anzer, or out of malice or
revenge, te divulge a secret like this?
A man s enemies would not care
whether it was the fault of his
thoughtless youth er his maturer
years so long as they could make a
handle of it to his injury, and thus
effect their purpose. Be careful,
then, never under any considera
tion, whatever, to repeat what has
been whispered to you in the confi
dence of friendship. A betrayer of
secrets is ht for the society of the
low and vile.
The Stinging Tree.
The stinging tree of Queenland is
a luxurious shrub, pleasant to the
eye but dangerous to the touch. It
grows from two or three inches to
ten or fifteen feet in height, and
emits a disagreeable odor. Says a
traveler:
"Sometimes while shooting tur
keys in the shrubs, I have entirely
forgotten the.stinging tree till 1 was
warned of its close proximity by ita
smell, and have often fojnd myself
in a little forest of them. I was only
once stung by them, and then very
lightly. Its effects are curious ; it
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the part when touched is tender in
rainy weather, or when it gets wet
by washing, etc. I have seen a man
who treats ordinary pain lightly,
roll on the ground in agony after
being stung, and I have known a
horse so completely mad after get
ting into a grove of the trees that he
rushed open mouthed at every one
who approached him, and had to be
shot Dogs, when stung, will rush
about whining piteously, biting piec
es from the affected part"
It Waked op the Prayer Meeting.
A lady of Staunton Va., called at
a watchmaker s shop last Thursday
afternoon to get her alarm clock,
which had been undergoing repairs,
and when, the alarm had been care
fully set for 5:30 o'clock, started for
home. On the way, finding that she
was just in time for the prayer meet
ing of the First Presbyterian church,
she entered and sat down among the
devout Now, when she ordered the
alarm set at 5:30, she had morning
in her mind, but the repairer had
afternoon m his his, while tbe clock
was intent only on doing its duty,
and ran on silently toward a relent
less fate. The prayer meeting had
reached a moment of unusual so
lemnity, when suddenly the alarm
went off with a fury born of recent
repairs, and with a noise like a
drunken trombone. If that clock
ever has anotherchance to take part
in a prayer meeting, it will not be
during its present ownership.
Core for tbe Blues.
"What's the matter now?" asked a
fashionable Austin lady of her hus
band, who seemed to be depressed.
"I'm feeling very -badly. I'm
afraid I'm not long for this world,"
was the reply.
"Fiddle sticks."
"No ! I'm in earnest. It will not
be long before you will be walking
te the graveyard behind my coffin."
"That's just were you're fooling
vourself. Ill ride in a carriage, or
else 111 not be in the processioa at
all."
Sueh heartlessness made him so
mad that be went to work and chop
ped up a cord ot wood, and now he
feels strong enough to run for almost
any office in the gift of the people.
Texas Sitings.
He is a Btaid church member; a
Presbyterian. He had a dog. There
was a wicked man who boarded at
the same bouse. The dog was well
known as the property of the good
man. The wicked man fed and
fondled the dog, and the dog grew
much attached to him. When the
wicked man walked out in the even
ing the dog would go along. The
wicked man would go to very dis
reputable places and the dog would
sit on the steps and wait until he
came out The dog was acquainted
with all his masters acquaintances,
and when any ot them passed he
would come down from the steps
and go to them to be caressed and
then return to the steps that he
might not lose the wicked man who
was inside. The good man has been
disciplined by his church. He has
sold his dog.
It is said that Barnum is negotia
ting for the purchase of a white ele
phant, and has sent an agent to Siam
with $100,000 wherewith to buy
one.
- History is neither more nor less
than biography on a large scale.
A Cap ot Cold Water.
It was night at the Michigan Cen
tral Station in Detroit late, dark,
silent night; fand only a few dim
lights broke the gloom into dense
shadows that were more fearful than
utter darkness, and no traveler was
so unfortunate as to be compelled to
linger in the dreary place.
At least that was the impression
the vast silence gave, but there were
two travelers who, when no trains
were coming or going, waited in the
depot through . the chill morning
hour.
One was a man who had come by
the latest train, and whom the con
ductor had helped into the depot,
and who, through weariness, had
fallen asleep on the cushion. He
was ticketed through, and his desti
nation was the grave ; no one need
ed to glance at him twice to see that
he had almost reached the end of his
last journey.
The other passenger was on the
road to ruin ; he too, had nearly ar
rived at the terminus at least his
pallid, sunmarked face, and ill-assorted,
ragged clothes seemed to in
dicate that he had nearly touched
the foot of the ladder; the world
had taken his measure and named
him "tramp," but he had wrought
his own ruin ; low and evil as he
was he never blamed any one but
himself.
This man nad been watching the
sleeper for a longtime, had noted
his weakness, his respectable appear
ance, and that he had a watch chain
at his vest pocket, and a respectable
satchel under his head, and he crept
near, nearer, with the one horrible
thought uppermost he weuld rob
the dying man ! He had no fear of
the act lie hugged the baseness of
it in bis souL But he did fear that
some one would come in and inter
rupt his project If the man moyed ?
Whya turn of the wrist at his throat
would settle him.
lie did not move. The tramp took
the satchel and the watch simulta
neously and waa ready to fly, but
the sick man merely groaned feintly
as his head dropped on the cushion.
In the face of actual death he slept
as quietly as a child on its mother's
breast
As the tramp looked with greedy
eyes at the watch to denote its com
mercial value, he started and shiv
ered as if an official hand had beea
laid on his shoulder, stared wildly at
the face of the sick man and back to
the watch, which with open case lay
in his hand ; then he muttered some
thing that had the name of God in
it, and instantly it was back in the
pocket of the sick man and the satch
el was under his head again.
What had he seen ?
The picture of a captain in the
southern army, wearing the Confed
erate uniform. A face that resembled
that of a man who, lay dying of
thirst, and was about to be trans
fixed by a rebel bayonet gave him
a draught of spring water, and set
ting him on his own horse, turned
him to the north and said :
When you meet a vanquished
man spare him as I have spared
you."
And he raised his blue cap in the
air and swore to remember.
Now they had met again.
An hour later a carriage drove in
haste to the depot, and first of all a
child came running in. She looked
at the tramp a moment and hesita
ted, then Hung herself on the pros
trate man.
Grandpa! dear grandpa! wake
up, we have come to take you
home."
A gentleman and Iadp hurried in.
"Father," said the lady, kneeling
by him, "we missed the time, but
here we are now. Do wake up.
The tramp waa fanning him with
his cap ; a certain dignity was in his
face as he did so. lhe sick man
opened his eyes, smiled feebly, and
said:
Give me a drink of wa
ter."
The tramp brought the water.
and knelt as he lilted the helpless
head and placed the cup of water to
the cold lips. When he laid him
back there was a smile sealed upon
him, and the lady and the little girl
sobbed aloud.
The tramp rose to his feet, but
his cringing manner was gone.
The battle is most over, he said,
gently, "He told me to remember,
and I did. I would have died for
him."
He had done better ; he had lived
for him, and men touch their hats to
him now, who, three months ago
would have spurned him from their
doors.
Romance, do you say? No, my
dear sir, it is reality.
Amusement for tbe Yonng.
The following may serve to while
away some long winter evenings :
Can you place a newspaper on the
floor in such a way that two persons
can easily stand upon it and net be
able to touch one another with their
hands? Yes: by putting the paper
in the doorway, one-half inside and
the other half outside of the room,
a nd closing the door over it, two
persons can easily stand upon it and
still be beyond each other reach.
Can you put one of your hands
where the other cannot touch it?
Easily ; by putting one hand on the
elbow of the other arm.
Can you place a pencil on the floor
in such a way that no one can jump
oyer it ? Yes, if I place it close
enough to the wall of the room.
Can you push a chair through a
finrrn. rlnrr V K. TntfinT . rtrUT
on the finger, and pushing the chair
with the finger.
You can put yourself through a
keyhole by taking a piece of paper
with the word "yourself written
upon it and pushing it through the
hole.
You can ask a question that no
one can answer with a no sy say
ing, "What does y-e-s spell ?"
i on can go out oi the room witn
two legs and return with, six, by
bringing a chair with you.
Not long since, a little girl of five
years, after saying her evening pray
ers, began to indulge in an original
petition ef her own.varying it accord
ing to her moods. She was aware
that she had not been particularly
good en a certain day, and her even
ing prayers were thus supplemented:
"I pray the Lord to make Lily a
good girl, and if at first you dont
succeed, try, try again."
uRe wnn riaw exit twiner at TOUT
house?5' said Mr. Besumbee to little
Tommy Samuelson, "Yes, ma am
two of them." "What are you going
to call them ?" "Thunder and
Lightning." "Why these are strange
names to call children." "Well
that's what pa called them as soon
as he heard they were in the house."
Texas Siftinga.
The feUowwho sleptunder "the
cover of night" complains thathv
oame yerry near freezing.
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