u u 11 orrns of Publication. (TMt-MNXO " eryWevlneaJAy momta M H .. . , . MhmiiM ri 00 Lf-ar. V "P- PoWWaagl.ttag wh. - - pap" wU1 beM r-P"01" ,ur Left r.ortag from the . -.. address The Somerset Herald, Somerset, Pa. -r nviSFCKER. 1 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, tymereet. Pa. upjtlr to fioot k.Beertu' Block. v KIMMEL. " ATTUKNET-AT-LAW, Som.net, Pa. j KOOSER. ATTOKKET-AT-tAW, 1 Somerset, Pa. P'llV '.-r,,i-rT.lTJJW. A A A vaw - - Soraertwt P. ENTI-KY- " ATTORN EY-AT LAW, Somerset, P - """ J.. bumret, Pcna t. SamcrMt, Pi. J J iTTXkjET-AT-l.AW, . nMTTJ KmATant- Pa k-.ec. ww" - i. Mammoth Block. ,u II SCOTT. U ATTUKXEY-AT-LAW, A1 Somerset, Pa. . h. Court HM. Airbo'lne .ntrurt 7,i .uJM to wlU promptness .and I ATTOKNEYS-AT-LAW. ,,,, tni"ted f th'tr eje W,U 'T ..7 .t COLE- KV i IIS dJ.eoroab..tcrma. TTttrT. Sooaertet, Pa. !iir.idU'init ettie with l"""!- ,J 8 ''J- v " TrVRYF.SCHELL. ATT(.'KXEY-AT-UAt Hptr .ta Agt, Somen!, Pa. m I.ENTINE HAY. ATTUKNEY-AT-LAW ,,lMl,t m Keal Eute. Snmerdet. P will ';!: ., Ill l .mentjttelU.hU ear. with ATTOKNET-AT-LAW Sumenet, Pa, :r,,.t'.r attend to all buninew entnwtl m Mm-T -! vanced oa eoUectlona, A Ot u XaoaieUl hutldinit. G.OGLE. , ATTOK.NEY.AT-LAW, Someraet Pa twi.ma barinew MtrarteJ to bj can at u- ltli prunrnneM and ndellty. V ILLIAM H. KOONTZ. Someraet, Pa, hrffi clfrT attention to tmflneai entrnW- tfTHrL i aiwK a acyaa mmmv . fc b mntln Hi Kow. AMES L.FTGH. ATTORN EY-AT-A.AW. Someraet, Pa. ft Kammnth Bl"ek. P EntTBDea, i tr. atreet. t'olleetloot made, Mate 1 title iamlaet. aod all leiral bnalneM d.iJ w with jT-mipUieaa anJ ndellty. T L BAER. ,1, ATTOKNEY-ATLAW, Somerset, Pa, ,i:iTraetlcelrSfeTetanda4tolnlneontle. vtum ectruned U him wlU UprompUj tuillll t4J. vAC HTTtl'S. ATTviRXEY-AT-LAW Someraet, Pena a. pr5-.W P vvvTc wrvrns ATTtKK EY-A T-LW, KomeraeU Penn'a. u: rn tnf!ne entrnated to hlaemrawlllbe to with pt"Kiptneaa and ndelity. ft- tn V.aninioth lilock next doer to Boyd ( I HOWARD WYNNE, M. D. J' J.v70V.V. 11' A. 'iMunfiinVn Ymr vm and Throat. nai afid I irliTa prartire. Hoora. t a. M. to i. i.a:aer a ureen timet, m juatu D?w WILLIAM COLLINS, IETiTlST. SUMERSET, PA. it Marmwtn Block. abo Bord'a Vrng X n mtirrr h can at all time be f nd prepar- ftodo ali aiD.li H work, rara M Clllns. rrir r,. tr-.iM kf Arttnnalteethotailklnda. k of the !: hfrm! tnjrted. nerfttioiif ARUEM. HICKS. i JVSTlfEHF THE PEACE, Someraet, resn'a. nf AMES O. KIERNAN, M. D. ten- ! ter hit prn(fl..nl arrvke la tba oltltena of merart ami TwtnttT. He ran be fcDd at tne M hitfaihrron Main Mtraet or attbe k-rn.(Ir Henrr Bratker. e . ins;. M EIXMELL. B.8.KIMMELU k?u E. M. KIMMELL & SON r-i n tfct Brm can at alliniea. nnlew proteeMotl 1 T .rrl he Imfwl &t thir'nffiM na Male f tt. tu o! the Diamond. J k MTTTTT? Voo ,rmfl. 1 f eeat). lucatM ni Berlla for the .retea M fotMaica. Ottce n pualt Cbarle Krtartn nt. pr.S2,T-U n II. BRUBAKER tenders hi? :enMt.i arrrWf to the ertlaeca of Som '.utiTictr.itr. lift-, in reatdeno oa Mala l.arr. ol the IiUmond. W M. R A U C II tenders hi? feal.nal atTTiop to the rtllieof of SMt- " oi i-mltT -wituufin of VivM k Bcrkebilef - air D PHVSH lAX kSmOEOR, 1" rraxKml u S-!b Bend. Indeana, where he tunnatedtij letter or otberwm to 1 JOHN RILLS. IlKKTIST. l abort Henry HeBeyf Mora, Mala Croea 3, Someraet, Pa. QlAMOND HOTEL, TOYSTOWN. PKNN'A. ""Milar and well known booae naf lately 7 .nrvtjrn, aI,i renft vlte ail new y niraitnr. arhWb haa made tt n eery Mt atcimic. piore (or the trawettnc pablle. lis rr.Jri rmsnut t niranpu. all bo- ; mtuaa.wtih a ktnre peblit hall attached . ae. Ala larva and rnoasT etaUtnc. ; aa buanlinir eaa be had at the kweet poa- r-t j in week, cay or aneai. BAXrELCTSTER. Prop. S.E.ODT. litamond Stoyauiw ,Pa M ' WANTED Teratrrnaetor themleef . 'ran airi imaaiental Tree. fthrsbe. Vlnea. eie No experietM repaired. Oood ral- eivnee paM. Adilrwat, J.H.Bowden A Co. Barhra fcr, N. Y. CHarifq unrtMAN HERCHA1IT TAILOR, . Hry HrtVy OanaoJ X' ' ITTliSmiJWESIPEIClZ $WSFACT10K GUARAtTEED. HPT 1 he VOL. XXXI. NO. 43. Frank W. IUj. ESTABLISHED 34TEARS. HAY BK,OS., WHOLESALE Tin, Copper and Ste Xo. 2 SO Washington Street, Johnstown, Pa. E ALE PREPARED TO CFFES RANGES, STOVES anil At Prices Less than any ether Special attention paid to Jobbing In Tin. Galvanized Iron and Sheet-Iron. Snirar Pant, Steam Pipe, Hnt-Alr Plie, ItatfMK, SoutlnK, Starki ol EDgine. and aU work pertaining to Cellar For. aeea. tlltiuuei Kivea anu viitk utna 117 nmiaw otanatown t'ink Sieara Antl-Dort Oouk. KxeetFior Una! Vaaea. Toilet Seta. Bread Cloaeuu fake 14.il and plated). German Mirer frpoon. tititannla Spuona, Tea Irara. uneu. iron anil Enameled Wares Kraft and Copper Krttlea, Meat Hroilera, Ovater Broiler, Ljtif Beatera, six different kind!, Itread Toaatera. Plated Briunnla and Wire Carufra. Iron Standa,Flre Iron a, and eTerythinK of Ware neeJivl in 1 We (V-ikln lteuarunent. An exnerlenre of thlrtT-tliree Tear In buaineaa her ena- bleena tn meet the wantaot thia nimtnunltT In our line, with a rood artlele at a low prioe. All Eoda fold WAKKANTEU A3 KEPKEStNTfcU or the money refunded. Call and aee the Ware ; fret price before purrhaainir ; no trouble to abow rood. Peraons ooumenclcx Honae-Keepinr will aav. J6 ier cent, hr bnTlim their ontnt from n. Merchant aellln rood In our lice (borld end lor Wboleiu.le Pflc Lut, or call and get quotation! or our Ware. A we bar. no apprentice all oar work 1 Warranted to b. ot the best quality at lowest plica. To tare money call on or (end t. HAY ItROS,Xo.20 Washington Street Johnstown, PeniTa. HERE IS THE PLACE! J. M. HOLDERB AUM 1 SONS NO. 4 BAER'S BLOCK, A Complete Assortment of GENGRAL MERCHANDISE consisting of STAPLE and FANCY DRY GOODS! A Large Assortment of DRESS GOODS AND NOTION! MEXS BOY'S Si CHILDREN'S CLOTHING! HATS ,BOOTS AND SHOES ! CARPET & OIL CLOTHS I Queensware, Hardware, Glassware, GROCERIES. All Kinds of Window Blinds . mm J-a . J umDreiias, oatcneis ana irunits, wuurus, uuiiyei. Bovds, Tubs. Buckets, Baskets, Toledo Pumps, Farm Bells, Corn Plant ers and Plows, Cultivators, and WAGONS! THE IZOLAXD CHILLED PLOW, Tlic CJIA3TPIOX MOWER REAPER, The C1LUIPIOX GRAIN SEED DRILL, With Detachable Fertilizer. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING AT J. M. HOLDERBAUM & SONS', SOMERSET, PENN'A. C00LEY CREAMERS. Ma!e in TOVR STTT.F.S. all tut t.r Ihiirjr or I aruiry ums. 'I hvir run ri.ru; dctnou atrwtL l'li.-ir raceea witiout a IrKlirL 1 hcjr are Sttr Rmnrom. Kite ;.ld Medal ana Sevra tllrr .tlrdaia 1-r ur'n.irity. I sm 1-tw Ic, WiXE Urmta KirrrrB. , etvis sw us mm. EusntA nd full hue twttKT tiwTnrV aiilpllea. e-in' roafa! lor otrcuiara an1 tert3njniaia. II. ttM BACHaE CO.. IteUoaa lalla, VenuonU FASHIONABLE CUTTER & TAILOR, Having Lad many year experieni. in all.brancbe of he TalloriCK bn Ine 1 guarantee V Xz: t A ' i " rSatiafacti.-n to all t-J J ' "rr'&S who may call p Sffi ' I L f Pn n" vA fl JI. 51. nOCTISTETIXU, Somerset, In. rear SOMERSET COUNTY UK! (ESTABLISHED 1877.) CHAELES. 1. HAEEISGK. MJ.PEm Tresident. Caehier. Collertioni ma.1. In all part of the VnlteJ SLatea. . CILAEGES MOtlJtJtlATi!;. ,t. i.vi. A wnnnmw Wmtt eaa be ae. eotnniodated by draft na New York in any rum. IVlleetkm made with promptnea. I . S. Bond boncht and aold. JloneV and valnablea aeenred be one of IMebold- celeLrated (are, with a Sar- pent A Vale W) time (oca. ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. wAU al hoUdajrt oloerved.-. dec? AlbibtA. Hoana. J. Soott Witn. HORNE & WARD, arcevs oaa to eaton & bros, XO. 27 FIFTH AVEXUE.IrJJrrr.r 'imn or lee, of which ther. i el. at PITTSBURGH, PA. SPRIjSrG, 1882. NEW GOODS EVE2T IAY SPSCLLTIXS Ibr..riw,Uc,;HiBy, WWw God Hiafl k.rtkicfii Ore Triataiiajt, Hosiery, 6le, Carwt, !. as. Herla. Uadarwatr, la tt' 14 CalioW Cletkiaf .Faaey Gredt, Yam. Znthyra, wire- rials r All Kinds far FANCY WORIC, Gents' MliELGcofs, to, to Tiraraxaoaaoa i. aeracTrcu.T MJCt Aw-OSPi EXBr MAIL A TTES0FD TO j WITH CAME ASD BISfATCB. ara. not. lit. ta rwer4na- hy. r are dckt. yon ui, Hawmia-htrand ab- biara behind to evav anertime. aaweek ta tobt own town, f oat- 2. . " - K. .ft.", f1t.t ni irew. i-" " r w LimiBHi - -, ' - reqalred. V will farnlah yna eeerytklnc Many are aaakln- fartanea Laeies make a mark a aaea. and boy and airt. maka aieat pay. Header. If you wast baaiaaa at which TO. eaa naak. rraat pay all the rime. writ, mr particoiar to H. BaXUBTT A Oo Paniaad, MiM. daca-ar John B. Haj AND RETAIL - Iron fare Hainfy, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS IK GENERAL House in Western Pennsylvania. jnwnanm "hit. nws aioii mr nwnwi. Von. In House-Furnishing Oooda w. tier en, Chamtier-Faila, Knlvee and Korka (common and Fixtures, Wall Papers, m 1 - - T. dV4V .mm EDWARD ALCOTT, marram xu aid nun LUMBER! OAK FLOORING A SPECIALTY OFFICE A.VD FACTORY URSINA, SOMERSET CO., PA. Jyl2-ly PATENTS obtained, and all bniine In the 1. R. Patent twee, or In the Oooru atunded to fur MODERATE FEES. W. are opposite the V. S. Patent nmca, en rMred la PATE ST BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY, and nan obtain patent in leaa urn. lhaa tlioee remote trom WASHINGTON. When model or drawinir 1 ent w. advtte a to patentaMlitT free ot eharee: and w. make NO CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT. We refer, here, to the Ponmnner. the Snpt of the MoeT Urler UiTltin, and to otnetaiaoi in. V. S. Patent Ctfice. For clrenlar. adrlca. term a, and relerenee to actual client in your own Stat, or county, addreee C. A. SNOW CO., Opposite Patent t'fBee, WuhmirtoB. D. CL Administrator's Sale OF Valuable Real Estate ! Br Tirtu ol an order of ml. Iiwned oat of th. Ortihan' CVurt of bomeraet county, to me direct ed, I will eipoee at public (ale, on th. premiava, in Addiaoa township, on THUBSBAT, MAECH 29, 1 I at I o'clock, the followlna- real etate. to wit A tract ol land innate in aoi. ' inwn.uip. nr leaa. ol wnicn tnere la ai av wacrea mt aenra tn aneadow. adtolnlna land of Aaa Jacob. laniel Aasnestine. Milton Tarney'i neira and 'hilip Tnrnev.havln a Iwo ury frame I houa. tue; bun and other oat balldtnf tbereoa erected. TERMS: One-half can, ooe -third niter payment of dehtt to remain a Ilea upon th. pnny, tbe interaet to he paid annoally to MatiMa Hilaman. and at her death lb. principal a am to be paid to the he in (4 Joerpn U lie man. deceased, tbe balance t . I a ..mI MrnMiti. with Intereat. Wa'ksHaLL U1LEKAN. AdBtmiatraturot Joeeph HlleoMn. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE!! By rlrtoe of aa order of sal. larawl out of tbe Orphane' n of Sonaeraet eonnty, to m. dlreet ad. 1 wUl espu. to public aala, oa U. praaiaea, at 1. 'clock p. aa , Friday, -Harch 30, 1883, the followlna- real eatate. to wit: A tract nf land (ltnate in lower Tarkeyaiot townhtp, Sumiiaat malr, Pa eaatalnlnc eoe hundred aad rixty Bra acre, nor. or lea, of which there ta a boat aiit acre cleared, tea acre la meadow, adjeta Ina'land of J W. Burkbofcier. Mrs. Knoda Jen kin a. D. J McBaach A Ua.. and other, bar. In a story and a half lor boa., lof hara and other oat halMintr ibersoa erected, alas, a flaw cranberry a lade e the premiae. from whVh eaa be gathered from at to 1 aoaaeU of eTaaberri. -TU1H8 One halfcaah. balaae. la aUt sth with hlW ear: toa per cent of th. band stoney to be paid aa ansa as the property la knocked dewa. THOMAS REAM. Adrntalstrator af Jaaob W. Yoaakla, dae'd, saatl Somerset COSSXN'O HOME AX LAST. The banistonent was orar long, But it will soon be past : The man who wrote Home's sweetest song Is coming home at last ! For years his poor abode was seen In foreign lands alone. And wares hare thundered load between This singer and his own. But he will soon be journeying To friends across tbe sea ; And grander than ot any king His welcome here shall be. He wandered o'er the dreary earth, Forgotten and alone ; . He who conld teach Home' matchless worth Ne'er had one of his own. 'Xeath Winter's cloud and Summer' sun, Along the hilly road, He bore his great heart, and had none To help him with the load. And wheresoerer in his round He went with weary tread, His sweet, pathetic song be found Had floated on ahead ! He heard the melodies it made Come pealing o'er and o'er, From royal music bands that played Before the palace door; He heard its gentle tones of love From many a cottage creep, When tender crooning mothers strore To sing their babes to sleep And wkereso'er true love had birth This thrilling song had flown ; But he who taught Home's matchless worth Had no home of his own I M"J1 Gvrleton in Harper' t HVify. A SISTER'S SACRIFICE. She was a little thing, and pretty as a picture great laughing gray eyes, soft browrhair, pink-and-white skin, pearly teeth, and the hands and feet 01 a fairy. She sat at the feet of a white hair ed old lady, daintily holding in her daity hands two caskets one of an tique appearance, containing a set of pearls more than two hundred years old ; the other of modern times, scintillating with a superb set of dia monds. "They are both his gift ; but which shall I wear, Aunty. Ruthven ?" she suddenly asked, lifting her eyes from the jewels to the old lady's lovely face. "Do try to think which he would wish me to select I do want to please him," she concluded with a pretty blush and laugh ; "and, since vou have been like a mother to him all these years, you ought to know something of his tastes." Tbe old lady laugbed, stroking tne silken hair lovingly. "And have I not been a mother to you all ?" she asked j "and have you not had good opportunities to dis cover his tastes?" "You have, you dear saint !" cried the firi, drawing down lb soft white hand and kissing it fervently. "And I suppose I ought to say yes to the last question, but but somehow it seems to me I never fathomed Os wald's tastes. Somehow I feel so shy with him he seems so far, so very far above me." She spoke with a mingling of ten der pride and gentle regret, and the old lady replied hastily : "Nonsense, my pet ; ha is not the least above you. Don't ppoil him by putting that notion into his head. But let jne settle the vexed question. Go down to the library and ask him. You are sure to find him there at this hour." The girl's lovely face flushed brightly. "Would you ?" she asked shyly, "would vou really ?" "Really, my dear," smiled the old lady. Very prettily, very softly, very shyly, did Leah Gi fiord open the li brary door and look into the room. As she had intimated to Mrs. Ruth ven, she was a good deal in awe of her grave, handsome lover, and it was something of an ordeal to face him with tbe two caskets and ask the momentous question. But as she blushingly glanced in to the room, she forgot the gewgaws in her hand. First a wild surprise dilated the great gray eyes then an awful terror darkened in them ; then such woe ! such an awful, speechless woe a woe that set her charming features in the paleness and rigidity of death. Like a carved image she stood staring at the scene before her; in capable of speech or motion. It was a strange scene for a man's promised bride to gaze upon. Near the window, plainly visible in the early dusk, stood two figures the figure of her promised hus band, Oswald Liscomb, and the fig ure of her own twin sister, Rachel Gifford. The man's cheek rested tenderly against the brown head pressed to his breast, and a torrent of passion ate words rushed from his lips words instinct with tender anguish and pathetic dispair, words that de clared onlv too plainly that one sis ter possessed his promise, the other j his love. Suddenly a breath fluttered shud deringly across the white lips of Le ah. It seemed to arouse her. She took one faltering step into the room and then as quickly drew back and closed the door as noiselessly as she had opened it In the hall she paused, staring with a dazed horror straight before her. But the opening door and the entrance of a servant to light the hall startled her into fright Still gratrping the caskets, she flew up the wide stairway and into her own chamber. Locking the door behind her she sank into a stony despair upon a little couch drawn close to the blazing grate. "And to-morrow night 1 asm to be his bride !" she gasped in hollow tones. "His bride Vs The caskets slipping from her ner vousless clasp to the rug drew her eyes from the ruddy coals. With clenched bands she sat gaz ing at them, the image of stony de spair. Time slipped by minute by min ute, till an heur bad passed. The chiming timepiece and tbe light tap of her maid aroused her. She arese and opened the door. "Ob, Miss Leah, I knew you must be all in the dark," exclaimed the girl, "but I did not like to disturb you. Mrs. Ruthven said she fan cied yon would wish to ibe entirely ESTABLISHED, 1827. tSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. alone." "Mrs. Ruthven was right, Beta," answered Leah. "But now I am ready to be dressed, and you must do your best to-night" And Beta promised," wondering at the strange Bound of the sweet voice and the strange whiteness of the face on which the lights sne earned felt But no one noticed tiny change in her when later she descended to the drawing room, dressed for the late dinner. A touch of rouge simulated the usual lovely damask ot ner cheeks, and her eyes were like stars iu their brilliancy. If her gaiety had a trifle of restlessness in it, no? one wonder ed. J Was not it her last rrght of maid en freedom T j So the evening pas&d and the morrow came. By snnlet the great house was overflowing Jwith guests. The bridal hour drew p apace: The hair dresser ha) just gone, leaving Leah, and her tone chosen bridesmaid, Rachel, alotewith their respective maids, when tLeah, to the horror of the latter, and the undis guised amazement of hetsi6ter, sum marily dismissed both. "We will dress each other, my dear," she smiled brightly in answer to the enquiring eyes Rachel had fix ed upon her. But no sooner had the key been turned on the maids, and other pos sible intruders, than hei pretty im periousnes changed to , a startling gravity, racing nacneine piacea an icy hand on her shoulder. "I know all, Rachel' she said, calmly. "I witnessed ytir parting with Oswald yesterday etening, and uOh, Leah! Oh, greatHeavens !" gasped Rachel, staggering back, her face pallid as the snow swiftly fall ing without f She made a movement to fling herself on ner knees before a couch at her side, when Leah caught her arm. I "Nav !" she cried, almost sternly. and a little sarcastically, ! "we have no time for heroios, Rachel !" Then, slipping her harfd into her bosom, she drew out a tiny flask of chased gold. I ' "You see this?" she fcsked, her tone changing to one of awful mean ing, as she pointed to the one word plainly engraved on the side of the flai-k. Rachel shudderingly glanced from the flask to her sister's rigid face. "What do vou mean?" she gasped with stiff lips. - - - "To dram this to the dregs unless you obey me in every particular to die st your feet!" . . .. . ; t ".No I no Oh, no! ' : "Yes ! Listen. Rachel. I utter not a word of cooiplftinteuot word 4t upbraiding. Oswald only made a sad mistake in giving his boyish heart to me, and with it his troth plight You. and you only, have the man's heart, and I see that your grave ways suits him far better than mv gay ones, hnough for that ow listen further." With these words she placed her lips to Rachels ear, and whispered a few sentences with feverish rapid ity. Whiter and whiter grew Ka- chel's face. At the last word she wrung her cold hands passionately together. "I cannot ! I cannot !" she gasped. "You cannot?' echoed Leah chil lingly. "Verv welL I can do this, then"!" As she uttered the determined words she turned the screwed top of the golden flask. Rachel sprang for ward and caught her hand with a stifled cry. - "Ob, Leah, you cannot mean it," she breathed, her eyes wide in stony horror. "Will you consent?" Again Rachel wrung her hands. "Oh, Ieah, ask me anything alse," she moaned. With a chilling smile Leah drop ped her eves to the golden flask and ewiftly turned the top. But once more Rachel's grasp stayed her reck less hand. White liped she gasped. "You cannot mean to do so wicked a thing?" "As Heaven is my witness, I do," answered Leah, her voice firm and passionless ; "for the last time, I ask you. Answer me quickly." A low moaning cry broke from Rachel. The next oiomeut two whispered words fell from her white lips : "I consent." A hushed murmur of surprise ran through the crowded drawing room, as the bride and her brideemaid en tered. Both wore veils, and over the firce of each the veil was closely drawn. In a few minutes the brief ceremo ny was ended. "Salute your bride," smiled the clergyman. The bridesmaid drew back the thick folds of point lace from the bride's pallid face. For one instant Oswald Liscomb stood as if petrified. The next he bent and, kissed the quivering lips of Rachel ! a raptur ous joy at his heart and in his grave eye. The world accepted the surprise as a fanciful caprice of the sisters, and only Aunt Ruthven knew how one proud heart suffered the heart of the unloved Leah. . But Time, the great soother, won her back to joyousness, and one sun ny morning, two years, later, she be came the happiest of happy brides, and took the pretty title of Lady Stafford. New Blooxfiexd, Miss., Jan. 2, 1SS0. I wish to say to you that I have been suffering for the last five years with a severe itching all over. I have heard of Bop Bitters and have tried it I have used up four bottles, and it has done ine more good than all the doctors and medi cines that they could use on or with me. I am old and poor but feel to bless you for such a relief by your medicine and from torment of the doctors. I have bad fifteen doctors at me. One gave me seven ounces of solution of arsenic; another took four quarts of blood from me. All they could tell was that it was skin sickness, Kow, after these four bot tles of your medicine, my skin is well, clean and smooth as ever. ' HENRY KNOCHEL APKIL 4. 1883. HIS PA XISHIATED. Tbe Bad Boy Gve His Father Royal , Hamper iegre. "Say, are you a Mason, or a Nod fellow, or anything?" asked the bad boy of the grocery-man as he went to the cinnamon bag on the shelf and took out a long stick of cinna mon bark to chew. "Why, yes, of course I am ; but what set you to think of that?" asked the grocery-man, as be went to the desk and charged the boy's father with half a pound of cinna mon. "Well, do the goats bunt when you nishiate a fresh candidate ?" "No, of course not The goats are cheap ones that have no life, and we muzzle them, and put pillows over their heads, so they cant hurt anybody,-' says the grocery-man, as be winked at a brother Odd Fellow who was sitting on a sugar barrel, looking mysterious, "but why do you ask?" "O, nuthin, only I wish me and my chum had muzzled our goat with a pillow. Pa would have enjoyed his becoming a member of our lodge better. You see, pa had been tel ling us how much good the Masons and Odd Fellers, did, and said we ought to try ar d grow up good, so we could jin the lodges when we got big, and . aeked pa if it would do any bur', for us to have a play lodge in my room and purtend to nishiate, and pa said it would not do any hart He said it would im prove our minds and teach us to be come men. So my chum and me borried a goat that lives in a livery stable and carried him up to my room when pa and ma wa out riding, but the goat blatted so we had to tie a handkerchief around his nose, and his feet made such a noise on the floor that we put some baby's Bocks on his feet Well, sir, my chum and me practiced with that goat until he could bunt the picture of a goat every time. We borried a buck beer sign from a saloon man and hung it en the back of a chair, and the goat hit it every time. That night pa wanted to know what we were doing up in my room, and I told him we were playing lodge, and improving our minds, and pa said that was right, and that there was nothing that did boys of our age half se much good as to imitate men, and store by youthlul knowl edge. Then my chum asked pa if he didn't want to come up and take the grnndj bumper degree, and pa laughed and said he didn't care it he did, just to encourage the boys in in nocent pastime that was so improv ing to our intellect We had sut the goat up in the closet in my room, and he had got over his blatting, so we tobk'off the handkerchief, and he was eating some of my paper col lars and skate straps. We went up stairs and teld pa to come up pretty soon and give three distinct raps, and when we asked him who comes there he must say 'a pilgrim who wants to join your ancient order and ride the goat" Ma wanted to come up, too, but we told her if she come in it would break up the lodge, "cause a woman couldn't keep a secret," and we didn't have any side saddle for the goat: Say, if you never tried it, the next time you nishiate a man in your Mason's lodge you s prinkle a little kyan pepper on the goats beard just before you turn him loose. You can get three times as much fun to the Fquare inch of goat Well, we got all fixed and pa rapped, and we let him in and told him he must be blindfolded, and he got on his knees laughing, and I tied a towl around his eyes and tnen I turned him around and made him get on his hands also, and then his back was right toward the closet door, and I put the buck beer sign right against pa's clothes. He was a laffing all the time, and said we boys were full of fun as they made 'em. and we told him it was a solemn occasion, that we wouldn't permti no levity, and if he wouldn't stop laffing we couldn't give him the grand bumper degree. Then everything was ready, and my chum had his hand on the closet door and some kyan pepper in the other hand, I asked pa in low bass tones if he felt as tho' he want ed to turn back, or if he had nerve to go ahead and take the degree. I warned him that it was full of dan gers, as the goat was loaded for ber, and told him he yt had time to re trace his steps if he wanted to. He said he wanted the whole business, and we could go on with the man agerie. Then I said to pa that if he decided to go ahead and not blame us for the consequences, to repeat after me the following ; "Bring forth the Royal Bumper and let him bump!" Pa repeated the words, and my chum sprinkled the kyan pepper on the goat's moustache and be sneezed once and looked sassy, and then he saw the larre beer goat rearing up, and he started for it just like a cow-catcher and blatted. Pa is real fat, but he knew he had got hit &d he grunted and said : "Hell's fire! what are you boys doin?" and then the goat gave him another degree, and he pulled off the towel and got up and started for the stairs, and so did tbe goat, and ma was at the bottom of the stairs listening, and when I looked over the banisters pa and ma and the goat were all in a heap, and pa was yelling murder, and ma was scream ing fire, and the goat was blatting, and sneezing, and bunting, and the hired girl came into tbe hall and the goat took after her, and she crossed herself just as the goat hit her, and said ; "Hewly mother pro tect me !" and went down stairs the way we boys slide dewn hill, with both hands on herself, and the goat rared up and blatted, and pa and ma went into their room and shut the door, and. then my chum and me opened the front door and drove tbe goat out The minister, who comes to see ma three times a week, was just ringing the bell, and the goat thought he wanted to be inish iated, too, and gave him one for luck, and then 'went down the sidewalk blatting and sneering, and the min ister came in the parlor and said he was stabbed, and then pa came out of hit room with has suspenders banging down, and as he didn't know the minister waa there, he said cuss erald words, and ma cried and told pa he would go to hell sure, and pa said be didn't care, he would kill the cussed goat after he went, and I told pa the minister was in the parlor, and he and ma went down and said the weather was propitious for a revival, and it seemed as though an outpour ing of the spirit was about to be vouchsafed his people, and none of them sat down out ma, 'cause the goat didn't hit her, and while they was talking religion with their mouths, and cussin' the goat inward ly, my chum and me adjourned the lodge, and I went and stayed with him all the night, and I hain't been heme since; but I don't believe pa will lick me, 'cause he said he would not hold us responsible for the con sequences. He ordered the goat himself, and we filled the order, don't you see ? Well, I guess I will go and sneak in the back way and find out from the hired girl how the land lays. She won t go back on me, 'cause the goat was not loaded for hired girls. She just happened to get in at the wrong time. Good by, sir. Remember and give your goat kyan pepper in your lodge." As the boy went away, and skip ped over the back fence, the grocery man said to bis brother Odd Fel low, "If that boy don't oeat the dev il, then I never saw on that did. The old man ought to have him sent to the reform school." Peck's Sun. How to IteTelop a Boy's Brains. An incident in the school life of a teacher, as fclated by herself, iilas trates our pot She had charge of a school in a country town early in her career, and among her scholars waa a boy about 14 years old, who cared very little about study, and showed no interest, apparently, in anything connected with the school. Day after dv he tailed in his les- sons, and detentions arcer scnooi hours and notes to his widowed mother had no effect One day the teacher had sent hiui to his seat, af ter a vain effort to get from him a correct answer to questions in gram mar, and, feeling somewhat nettled, she watched his conduct. Having taken his seat he pushed' the book impatiently aside and espving a lly, caught it with a dexterous sweep of the hand, and then betook himself toa close inspection of the insect. For fifteen minutes or more the boy was thus occupied, heedless of sur roundings, and the expression of his face told the teacher that it was more than idle curiosity that pos sessed his mind. A thought struck her, which she put into practice at the first opportunity that day. Bovb, said she, "what can you tell me about-flies?" and calling sev eral of the brightest by name, she asked them if they could tell her something of a fly's constitution and habits. They had very little to say about the insect They often caught one, but only for sport, and did not think it worth while to study to common an insect Finally, she asked the dunce, who had silently, but with kindling eyes, listened to what his schoolmates hesitatingly said. He burst out with a descrip tion of the head, eyes, wings and feet ot the little creature so full and enthusiastic that the teacher was as tonished and the whole school struck with wonder. He told how it walk ed and how it ate, and many things which were entirely new to his teach er, oo that when he had finished she said : "Thank you ! You have given us a real lecture in- natural history and ou have learned it all yourself, my. After the school closed that after noon she had a long talk with the boy, and found that he was fond of going into the woods and meadows and collecting insects and watching birds, but that his mother thought he was wasting his time. The teach er, however, wisely encouraged him in this pursuit, and asked him to bring beetles and butterflies and cat erpillars to school, and tell what he knew about them. The boy was de lighted at this unexpected turn of anairs and in a few davs the listless dunce was the marked boy of that school. Books on natural history were procured for him, and a world of wonders opened to his apprecia tive eye. He read and studied and examined ; he Boon understood the necessity of knowing something of mathematics, geograpy and gram mar for the successful carrying on of his favente study, and he made rap id progress in his classes. In short, twenty years later, he was eminent as a naturalist and owed his success, as he never hesitated to acknowledge, to that discerning teacher. A Strange Tradition Among tbe Seminole Indians there is a singular tradition regarding the white man's origin and superiority. They say when the great Spirit made the earth he also made three men, all of whom were fair complexioned, and after making them he led them to the margin of a small lake, and bade them leap in and wash. One obeyed, and came out purer and fairer than before : the second hesi tated a moment, during which time the water agitated by the first had become muddled, and when he bathed he came out copper colored ; the third did not leap until the wa ter became black with mud, and he came out his own color. Then the great Spirit laid before them three packages, and out of pity for his misfortune in color he gave the black man tbe first choke. He took hold of each of the packages, and, having felt the weight, chose the heaviest; the copper colored man chose the next heaviest, leaving tbe white man the lightest When the packages were opened, the first was found to contain spades, hoes and all the im plements el labor; the second un rapped hunting, fishing and warlike apparatus; the third gave the white , man pens, ink and paper, the engine , i Al T 1 11 - f A 1 1 of tbe mind the means of mutual mental improvement, the social link of humanity, the foundation of the white man's superiority. The question is asked us if there is anything that will bring; youth to women ? 1 es, tnere is. An income of say $2,000 will bring and number! Help yourself and Heaven will of them. 'help yon. WHOLE NO. 165G. A Miner's Thrilling Experieace. Thomas Smith, one of the miners at work in the Diamond Mines at Braidwood, Illinois, where upwards of seventy men lost their lives by the mine's sudden inundation, gave his experience as follows : "I went into the mine about 6 o'clock, and made my way at once to to the "wost din," about one mile from the shaft When I arrived at my lay out I went to work, after making some observation on the strength of the roof, as it is my cus tom to do. With me there was working a man whose name 1 do not know. About 11 o'clock we ate our dinner and had just begun to make a new insertion into the seam when the voice of the driver, Joe Keeley, was heard not far away calling out that the water was coming into the mine. I had been in the mine when it was flooded in 1SS0, and so I knew of the danger that we must run if we stopped to block up our coal, as some of the men did, and so we made for the shaft, a mile distant, at the top of our speed. As yet 1 had seen no water, and I was just be ginning to think I woultl get out safe when I heard a rushing sound of moving water, and in a few sec onds a wave of water about one antl a half feet high came rushing around us, compelling us to retire before it to a place not far from where we started, and where another side gal lery led to the air shaft Spurred on by the belief that escape was al most impossible, we ran as hard as we could down the crooked passage, bobbing up and down in the undu lating, surface of the roadway. When we were about 2U0 feet from the main shaft the water again struck us and quickly rose to the depth of three feet, so 'hL'h. indeed, that it was utterly impossible for us to make any speed. Near the air shaft there are several places where the passage dipptd and then rose again, forming a pit between each rise of the roadway. When we reached this place the water was se giah that we had to swim across the holes, and in doing so we jammed our heads against the roof. Almost fainting from exhaustion, we at last came out at the air-shaft and were helped up the stairs by willing haml. I forgot to say that when 1 was nearly up to the shaft 1 came across two boys, who were swimming in tne same direction I was going. They cried out to me to help them, for they were tired out; but I knew mv only hope waa m a rapid move, and so I was compelled to leave them behind to perish." Smith was the last man who ever came out J of the mine alive, and he was as hap py a man-as cou!dJ?e. found any where. The Tramp and the lXig. A big, lonesome looking dog sat at the gate of a house on Cass avenue yesterday, eyes full of tears and his whole body shakine with cold. A tramp, who had neither overcoat nor mittens, and whose bare toes peep ed through his boots, was making his way up the street in search of tbe right kind of a side entrance. when he espied tbe dog and crossed over and said : j "Well, now, this is an unexpected pleasure! Upon mv soul, but I have found one living thing in this town as poorly off as myself. Say. old fellow, where do you hang out?" The dog looked at him through his tears, but had nothing to say. "Tough, isn't it?" continued the man. "I look old and seedy, and you are the homeliest dog I ever saw. That strikes a fraternal chord and we meet on a level. I haven't had a square meal for a week, and you haven't seen a bone for the past ten days. Even again, eh ?' The dog shivered and whined and got up and eat down, and the tramp grew closer and said : "No home, eh ? Neither have I. No one to whistle for you? Same here. That's even again. I can warm up my shakes with whisky, while you have to grin and bear it. That's where I've got the dead wood on you. I can talk through my nose and tell fifty pitiful stories to excite sympathy anu bring out cold vict uals, while you have nothing to say for yourself and must take bones or go hungry. That's another for me. On the whole I'm ahead of you, and although you're only a dog I'm glad cf it It's something to feel that you are one peg higher than an old yal ler, homeless, hungry cur. So long, old fellow." As the tramp started to go the dog reached out and snapped at his leg and then took a run for it. "Say, there, hold on !" called out the tramp as he wheeled around. "I j said I was ahead, but 111 take it all i back ! You can lunch on my logs 1 while 111 see thia country tetotally ! busted to New Jersev if 1 don't die j of starvation before I come down to eating dog! Even, old fellow justj about even on the average, and no j use of any hard feelings over it !'' j ree rrm. Most Specify. "Look out," exclaimed a man over whose fuce a barber was moving his razor, "you are cutting off my mous tache." "You didn't tf 11 me not to cut it," the barber replied. "With me a maa must always specify.7 "All right," said the customer. When the barber had finished, the mau arose from the chair, approach ed tbe artist and gave him a violent kick. j "Look out Jon are kicking me, howled the barber. "You didn't tell me not to kick you. With me a man mast always specify." "What nonsense this is," exclaim- ej a Gotham belle, looking up from a far joarrjaI. "This papr savs "death has been busy in hiih . . f places this year, and some of the most prominent men of the country have passed away." Why, I waa present at the very lart party before Lent and there was Lot a leader of the German who was not alive and welL" i A Mr,ht Kan of Cattle). Last fall a large herd of big steers for market were being driven across the country frem Musselshell to Bil lings, on the northern pacific Rail road, where they were to be shipped on the cars for Chicago. There were bbout liAJU head, 1 should judge the property of a Mr. DeHass. a very jfoung man. One evening a mili tary camp bad been made ju3t ahead of the cattle, and on the same side of the creek with them, up which the herd was being driven. A storm was coming up, and the cattle ex hibited some signs of uneasiness. Mr. De Ilass sent word to the mili tary officer that he had better get his men, wagons and animals on the opposite side of the creek and out of the way, as he feared there was go ing to be a "night run." The herd ers were instructed to keep their horses saddled and be ready to mount at a moment's notice. The cattle were very uneasy, getting up, lying down again and shitting about At last, about midnight, there came a sharp flash of lightning, fol lowed by a heavy peal of thunder, and in an instant the whole herd were upon their feet "Mount and whip out!" cried Dellaas, and the herder who was at the head of the column drove off a few of the lead ing steers in the direction they were to go. All the others followed and the herd was soon in full flight The herders made no effort to check or control them further than to keep them going straight; they rode at the head of the column, one on each side of tliera swung to the right or left to keep the trail; blutla and precipices were avoided, and the open flat ground courted. Tiie run lasted about two hours, when a gorge wa3 being neared, in which the cattle would crowd and break their limbs. They were now quite tired, and .he herders deter mined to exert their authority and stop the run. The head of the colum was bent out on the prairie, and circled round and round until the cattle became tied up in a huge ball and could not move at all. In this way they were obliged to stind until morning, the herders riding round and round them, and keeping them completely tied up. At daylight they were al lowed to "open out" First the out er edge scattered, then layer after layer, until the huge pile of beef was a herd grazing as quietly as if noth ing hart happened. Cintinnati Com mercial. Killing Made Kany. In the time of Napoleon it was es timated that it took GOO bullets to be fired in battle before a man was killed ; in other words, every dead soldier represented his own weight in lead. But the recent improve ment in firearms has added to ita efficiency. The greater range of the rifle, as well as the rapidity with which it can be fired, has made it thirty-two times more effective than the old smooth bore. To be more accurate, a military authority say9 that the modern rifle is superior to the old smooth bore in the following particulars : It is eight limes more effective in accuracy, two-thirds greater in range and penetration, five times greater in rapidity of aimed fire, while the weight of the cartridges per man has diminished, yet the number which may be carried has been increased. The added efficiency of the heavy guns is no less surprising. The fa mous Krupp now makes a gun of nine inch calibre and eighteen tons weight which willl send a ball thro' twenty inches of solid iron ; and his field gun, within a range of more than a mile and a half, can be de pended upon to put every projectile into a space of less than 200 square feet Taking into consideration the breech loading rirle, better powder, improved projectiles, the lighter car riages of steel, the science of artillery, ha3 been revolutionized, and one battery to-day is more effective than twenty of those so skillfully han dled by the Great Napoleou. In the next great battles some dreadful en gines of destruction will be brought into play. The Ilotchkiss revolving gun can fire bursting shells at the rate of SO a minute. It can pour out a continuous and deadly fire of 75 pounds of metal, or 1,200 hits, every sixty seconds. It is fearful to think of the havoc which would be caused by the guns of the future. Pre-HUtoric Maa. In the skeletons found in caves and rocks belonging to the races of men who must have lived thousands of years before history began, are found evidences that the same dis eases flourished then that now af flict humanity. Wounds were found of course, as was to have been ex pected, but it is also clear that the primitive man who lived in the stone age before metals were useJ, and when perhaps even fire was not vet employed in cooking food, had dis eases such as rheumatism, cancers, distortions of limbs, and nndourted ly malarial troubles. This evidence is found in the remains. Poets have told us of the simple and happy life of the golden age in the past ; but scientific investigation has dispelled these illusions, and establish the fact that the lot of men, in the past as in the present wa3 not a happy one. It is the modern civilized man who enjoys the best health, for even in our day the savage races are more prone to disease than those who lead what seems to be an artificial life in the best circles of modern commu nities. Our savage anwtry must have let! dismal lives. Thev were exposed to all the fury of the ele ments, to the attack of wild beasts, and wore than all. their untutored imaginations filled the universe w'th evil spirits, which demanded sacri fices, and filled their waking hours with fearful phantasms. Within a few hundred years, people in this country believed in witchcraft then what must humanity have suffered in the ages long ago when the whole world was peopled with fetishes pos sessing the power to inflict physical harm. There is no harm, says Walter Scott but on the contrary, benefit, in presenting a child with ideas be yond his easy and immediate com prehension. The difficulties offered if not too great or too frequent stimulate curiosity and encourage exertion. The modest deportment of those who are truly wise, when contrasted with the assuming fir of the young and ignorant may be compared to the different appearance of wheat, which, while its ear is empty, hold up ita head proudly, but as soon as it is filled with grain, bends modest- 1J. A little girl says that when the Eible speaks of "children's children it must mean dolls.
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