u r Sir ery Jle'r to Jis. th0 my II u :or- ely. bt'. u-d : hi- JIT" i r-r re- ! ntl tr a il, te t I Somerset Herald iiTluMU m -Mr. of Publication- , (.rrrj WaJBeaday niornln t 00 II paid Id advance ; otberwlsa an 60 . .i tuition llc nam au P- INaitjnaaiex ncftlecUna; t"W ' when -ulwer'heri do not taka out " i;ite bli tetpanilMa f"t the tub. oetolBee to til th former u - ..ire cube name o -reeat eflif. Ad Jreaa The Somerset Herald, Somerset, Fa. 1 TTOllNKi AT LAW. 5jnirret, V. :i. . 1HESECKFK. ATT ihNtY-AT L W, S..iiieri, Pa. In Coek k Heents' Murk. k. mtu.. ATT'-'l'f tV AT LAW, NomeT'et Pa. c ;: scott. ATT1 IKN LYAT-LA W, Souicri6i, Pa. :; )si;i;. ATTOKN tYATUAW, Soaicrset, Pa. KSDSLKY. ATT KX EV AT LAW, Somerset, V "KENT. ATTCKNEY AT LA W Noiuer-et, Penna. scull. ATTOKNEY-AT LAW, Smiieraet, Pa. r.i:p. atti;ney-at law, Somer-et, Pa., 1'"- in S-iinfrppt -n.l a.l".in1nireiiUTit1e. -1 !,".ru.3,.e.! to turn will tprnuiptly I' ;TII A-IMTPKL. I ATToiiNtYS AT LAW. I rr'nu-'ed tn their cam will l j i.-.iM.Muallv nKen.leil to. i ii Main Om-- f.ree.. nipos-ltc tbe I : Hi k. l:N. I..C. OiI.H'iRS ATTchNEYS AT LAW ip-ru'nl tn nnrniw Willi'' iir'Tni't- -, t i n11 ir .llri-U'in mnilp in S in-.:-.r.i mm! atlHniPir '"OtiMr. Sunt-v. ...,iT' -i:iK litmr on rcao!lal'lc tcmis. MI! M TT. KOONTZ. A TTt K N tY-A T L A W, i'-.'itt:iK Uu.-e K"W. j WIS MKYKKS. ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW. j KoniiT-r, Pi-nn. .:'li' itiotf cntrufed to liirerewill t , ni't; i-n rri'TcFf nri'i til'!i'y. ":i:i nim Strtft. n"t lnr 'o Sny- rf m .-TlirrHfT i,. v (.u, ATTOKNEY-ATHV. S'lTR-Tlt. Pa. ( - . ".luiimoih Kl'wk. tin Hn)r. Entmnfr. j mninlnil. anil all li ifiil I'HslncM I , !r with iT'-nii'irtpsc au'i nuuiy. n V. KIMVKT i , ATTOliNKY AT LAW, Pa. IT.ITTS. ATTOKNEY AT LAW. ..iriowt, ra. . -fXrirf in iUnDiuio.b lilt. it. O. K1MMKL. ATT 'KN EY-AT-LA W. S: infr?t. Pa. r..1 in nil tmnineM enJnirteii i hi ear i.-et n-l .h"lmnir e .-ni'Mef with prompt -. ! Ii telity. tittle- on Main Cnw .treet. KNUY F. S( 1IFIJ.. ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW, II i:r ktiil Illi AeLt, Somerset, Pa. r. Mi:i..!ri'in Hlrk V U.F.NTINK HAY ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW ' 1-Ki! fin Real Klt. Sumer t. P will . untusitie-f entrufteil to bil can with UN H. UHL. ATTOKNEY'-AT LAW Someiret. Pa.. ; - r i.itr uTtenrt tn all Iwi'lneM entrp!e1 '.y.r i1rTiel on collections, ke. Ol ::: n . tli KulldiDC ;. oci.k. ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW, Soicti Pa., rrnl I nilnecp ertrn"1 to inj care a it 1: i-romptnef and tidelitv. c nur;us. ATTORNEY'-A 7 -I. AW. Simer?et, Penn'a. . S KIMMFX t- d IipmhI (oUTid t wttior. "ii Main - I ' .v I'laiuntiil. : 11. I'.nUF.AKKn tender? his I,, nl orvWp tn the elMtont ot Sotn ii : vi.-ir.fT. nitirf In re-,lilrnr cn Jluin i : oi Hie 1'lniD 'Uj. n; n !I W'M. PAUf IT ten.ler bis i - '.'-. iil MTVicri to tlie citiint-ol Som- ii!'! 1- lliii v ., ,. ttnt of Wurne k Perk ile li-p i. TV. . a. !: JtiHN F.1I.1.S. Ml NT1ST. t hi tain ir.tv k k I!eerlta B!oe. Sii.r- D 1 I'a. V1I.FT.M COFFINS. , ' 1EM 1ST. SOMMiSET. PA. ' " r 'i Mnmmoth Bl'x-k. utiove Bor1 f I'ruir in. li nn at nil ttni- t 1,-nnii prepar i,ll kimla work, nurb ar r.llira fo- -it I'xtriirtintr kr Arlticil teth all k!Tl. ' ( lent material inerte.l. Oirtln -'.Ml !. II. HOYVAFD WYNNE. MI). '.wroir.v, j k.ya. oiMhrtn. r.HT ano i i.tih 1 th Eve. Er Ne and m l jt-lnir prurtl-e lli'Ur. a. if. to l.irl-T k Om-n I'.l's k, aWi Malti M. . THOMPSON. M 1). fHOEMN IENTI!T. .lutiinnonn. Pa. i 1 a M-"t'M" ! ext-i'rieni-e ot m,Te than mr r'lll'X' Tkkih a m-mi am v. ii. v., i.'J vialn iinti (up i" irfi over -r H it iware Siorr ll will tie l:f-e. p... wi:o mm:t work d, nt to Diafci en i -1. i .rt-lianil. rtl3. AMFS O. K IFF NAN. M. D. ten- ' piotmult ral ejrieef to ti e eHlTen of C"T..i iwi.Iiv tie can le l. nrul al the -e oi M 'ail er on Wain Sireet or at the i lir l!-i,rv .rulker. i e iss. K. M1FFFP has jntia- lfte in Herlln for the tirarttr ot floa. offtee o 1'irl'e f'lsarler Krlfiair apr., '7u-tl. JIAMOND HOTEL, MOVSTOWN. I l.NN'A. 1 '-' 1-1 ulsr and well known Koui ,tr lately i -r. i flit and re 1 r tilted wit I. all new te-t .1 :urt Itar. wMeli h made It a ery "M'' ( ,lre tor the trauelir.g Q.!le. r"' 'h' ii hi. ro" ear:not tie orj uMsl. ail l U trt ildi. irh larne ulilir hall attached 1 'if inn e. Ami larve aid roi-rny vialdintr. ' ' 'I.,, iiriiii.r ran lie tad al tle loel io ' 1 1 nrei. I j tin n-L, daj ut meal, SAMl tLfTSTER Pmn. S.E. Cur iMamotid St4iyttow ,Pa CHARLES HOFFMAN. lAiove Heury H t ,j I . . UTUT niLLS u& UWET FE1CES. 'SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. S(MKRSK'I 3JA. AGENTS? wanted fort he lu-- . i f tlie rendlinia o lar- 416 UlL Hau-" Jkkib co. Port MERCHANT TAILOR I lie VOL. XXXII. NO 43. YOU Respectfully Invited to Call and Examine, Before Purchas ing Elsewhere the Largest Assortment of Stoves, Tin, Copper, Or Sheet-Iron Ware, Knives, Forks, Plated Ware, Lamps, Enameled Ware, Clothes Wringers, Etc. To hi- found in the Wi-tern l'art oftliis Slate. Our O.imlsare Warranted to be as rcji rcsenteil, and jriii are Nett Cu-li, within the rearli of all iiei-sons needing them. TIN K00FIXG, SPOUTING AXD JOBBING! of .u.i. kisns is 77., sHt:t:r ino or opfkk Promptly Atieiulod to at Ijowfsl ISntcs. Brushes a Specialty, at Wholesale Only. Orh:ro Sli 'tfrl from Umlauts Sellhxj (7(xh1s in 3fy Line. FRANKW. HAY, o. 2s U'HliiHK(on Street. Jolinwtowu, IVim'a. TOSHOEBUYEBS"OP ! SOMERSET TOWN AND COUNTY. We Wish to Call Your Attention to the Larire Stock of BOOTS, SHOES AND SLIPPERS. Wlncli have arrived for the Spring Trade of 1SS4. Y 'lien you iit Johntoun we shall he pleased to see you in our Larire Store, and will take pleasure in showing you the fine line of Shoes for ladies and Gentlemen Yhieh we t arry in Stock, a Medium and Coarse lioots von viit our Store ask us ACMK KIV lLOW FOB MUX A XI) BOYS. It is the liest Shoe made, at a very Low is conducted on a OISTE PHICE All our ("loods are marked in Plain Ficurf?, at the very Loiret Possible Prirr, so if vu can't come vourself send a po-t:d card, describing as mar as you can tbe Style, 'iuality and Price you want to pay, and we will send them to vou bv return mail. Xj. STABG oxe-j'L'Icj: opf.ua nousE shoe store. 212 faiii Street, FASHIONABLE CUTTER & TAILOR, URvtnir hl many yt-ur rxjrpnii ' In hll NrHnchos of i he Ta.lortniE tu- i NKtlctHction to all ; mm- who LQiiy cmU op j mm on lut una lavor "ic with their j'at- nave. I Vuum, fc.c, , HJI. M. IIOt'IIHYI.rM:it, ronieret, mart ALiir.BT A. HuBKa. .1. SroTT Wakh. HOBHE & ermutsoRa to EATON & BROS, xo. 27 FIFTH AVEXUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. SPlUXCi, 488t. NEW GOODS . ir broideries, Lct, V.l!;n'j, Write Goods, Hand kerchiefs, D'si Trie-pings, Hosiery, Gloves, CcrseU, fuslia and ferine lindorarear, l 1Ms' and Children! Cloth'ag. Fancy Geods, Yarns, Zephyrs, Mate rials of All Kinds for FANCY WORK, Hat's FarMini Gaols, k, Icj vtrarATnonAoa t Kr-Trt'Lt.v iuf- j -OKf'tRSBV MAIL ATTKSItFO TO WITH , I JUL' AfD PI PATCH. art SOKERSEi rnilUTV D I U V ! Head the papers and be post IIIUHI I DAIll. ! ed as to the best and cheapest (KSTAIJIJSHKIJ ls77.) I CHAELES. I. HAEEISCH. M. I PEITTS. Cashier. President. Collection! made In all parti of tbe Slates. United CHABGES MODERATE. Partle wlrhtna to Dd money Wert eaa I ac commodated tiy dratt on New York in any eotn. liolieetluM Dia4la wiih iir)BitneM. I'. (S. " tx.ua ht and aold Money and faluatilea erurl tyoneof lilenold't eclelirated tales, with a Sar srent k Yale 00 time luck. ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. I -All leittJ boHJajt ofjtorred.-fc wci ARE well ns a very lare Stock and Shoes. Farmers, when to show vou the Hand-made of Price. Our lmsiness SYSTEM. - AKiDTEB, Johnstown, Ia. prM.'.yr FILLS TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, and MALAniA. Fmm tiiiu Mium-D hi hw; llirre -fourths o th) li!-ii.sa (ii iho human .. Hicx? symploHM in-li'-at ibeir xitrnc : I,o of Appetite. ftfvrl coalite, (ick tled mi lir. flullncat alter en tint;. Rvrrnion lo eertan of body or mind, lrnctatfon nf f4Mt. IrritKMlity tit temper, Iw iritt. A (Vrlinic f having neglected tine ditt.T, JNz.lies, f-'lnttc rtni( at Che laUart, ot kewre tlie eye, hlgblr col ored I riue, 0.TIIATIO., and tic iiiiiml tuc u-e ot a rtinMly Umt acta ltnrt!y .n th l.iv r. A a Liver inmiicin? TXTT'S I'l liaV4 n e.)u:il. Thir action on the hi iiM-yn aiil kn iuNO yirompt; rvmovinit all itnptiritK's thrnuli ft, n' three kv ngera of tlie atatem, prolucixiK' tippfl tit'.foa?il hvsti4in, n-Kulnr MooIh, a nenr U in mhI a vigorous hinh . TTTT'H VllA.H mim' tibu-a r jrripintf nor iuterlvre u ith cl-iilr work un'l fin? a pirfect ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. ii i: i i ri s i.iki: a .m v max. I hiive lifi'l TyKiwiaia, with Conalipa tion.twii venis,aiol Imvo trieij ten ilitleront Itiii.ls i.l 'pills, ami TI T I 'S are the Ural llint have ilime me nnv ijikmI. They have i-li-:iin-il mo emt nir,-fy. Mv ap,tito la l'i'-iIi'l. l' il iii'i t reailily, ami I iir.w liiivi' niiturul ) n-ri-H. I I lik" anew in. in." W . 1). KHWAR1S, ralmyra,0. : ,-vi.rvwli-r''.."e. tiftt',41 Murr-ivS...V. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. .l:T II MR oil t lllKMH rliannr-l in--t .nt - t'i n .liSV KLaiK l.v II Kilist'e lip :.i. : . t i til' Una Ki t.. .SM hy IHU,'(ists, i.i l.- i xpn-vH i.ii ri-eeipt i.f t I. ftfliei'. 41 M.irmv Sln--t, New Yurk. L'TT'S MAHUAl OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FREE spot in the city to buy your lleady-madc clothing. Qui spring stock, now ready, is ' fine, well assorted and low ; priced. ! A. C. YATES & C0,! t i n "is' rn. t s ft rut nt i UterBflUfcCIlGSlIlDt & Dill SlS. i rilll.I'DELI'HlA. week at home. a& outfit frea, ' Jat- i.t al.n.luiely rare. Mo risk. I suit required. Header. If jxi waot tilMaa at which ieraiina eiVheraea, otir oroliLean snake trrcat pay aH of tha lima inee wora. wua anauiuia eeriainiT writeiur rUcVuar. la H. u.arr, I'trtland.Mt". . tria lima thee work, wltk atwuiuta eenalot WW oiner DOX T YOU TKLIi. If you have a cherished secret, Don't you tell. Xot your friend for his tympanum s a Ml. With its echoes, wide rebounding. Multiplied and far resounding, Ion't you tell. If yourself you cannot keep it. Then, who can ? Could you more expect of any Oother man ? Yet you put him, if he tells it II he gives away or sell9 it I'nder ban. Sell your gems to any buyer In the mart ; Of your wealth to feed the hungry Spare a part. Messing on the ojk'U Kcket, Itut your secret keep it, lock it In your henrt. VXCLK JOjHl'A S ADVICE. Reuben I'.rown was in love with MiU'k-eyeil Kittie Perkins there is no Kiul.it about it. Kittie was the prettiest and at the Faint1 time the most coquettish girl in Swanto, and, woman like, was playing "fatt and loose" with por Jleulien. Ileuhen had never openly avowed his afl'ectin, tliounh it was rajilly bt eoruing 'Voulfully intense," when, after a particularly exasperating in terview with the fair Kittie, he re lveil to lay hare fiis heart to hit old Uncle Joshua, and tetk the lat ter's advice. Uncle Joshua was, in fact, his nearest relative, and lived only a short distance from where Ueuhen j was employed. Keuben had done many little ki lionesses tor tne old man who, in return, felt almost a father's interest in his wellfare and happiness; so Ueuhen felt, when be went to consult him concerning his ttndresse, that his advice would, though com ire from one who might ai:no-t be supposed to have forgot ten all about tin gentle uassion, be situ t-rc am! thoughtful. With this condusior., Tveuben, with a very ''hiart buiiiiry" feelinp the immediate result, of the above mentioned interview with Kittie weii'k-d his way slowly up to the little red house wht-re the old man lived. The last faint traces of the sun's glory were rapidly fading away in the horizon, the bright stars were just commencing to twinkle merrily, and all the air held a "solemn still ness," as if waiting for night to draw more closely her sable mantle. At such times, if ever, the human heart turns to thoughts f love, and lleuben'a, already turned in that di rection, was actually filled to over flowing with the gentle emotion. Could he have done so, he would, without doubt, have woven the most ''woefui ballads" to the fair Kitties eyebrows but he was no poet, so he simply yearned. As Keuben came up t tbe house he found Uncle Josh, as he used to call him, seated on the stoop. Hii elr-ur was tilted back, his venerable head, fringed v ith gray scanty locks, was bartd to the evening breeze, and like ti e ill-fated skipper of the Hes perus, ''his pipe was in his mouth." "Wal, Ueuben," he said, as peer ing through the deepening twilight, he discovered the love-sick youth approaching, "haovv de do? come right up and set down. Anythin' new ?"' "Nothing much," replied Reuben, mechanicilly pulling up a rude chair, bottomed with 6trips of raw hide, and seating himself near by. "You ain't beard nothin' about the old brindle what strayed, hev you ?' asked the old man, anxious ly. "No," replied Keuben slowly, "I came on quite a different errand. The fact is, uncle. I I (I might as well tell it) I'm in love and I came to ask your advice about it." "Wal, naow, you don't say?" said the old granger, and pursing up his lips, he uttered a long, low whistle. For a few moments he remained silent, a far-off look in his aged eyes, as if the revelation recalled old, al most forgotten memories, and then he said, turning toward Keuben, and drawing his chair a little nearer to him, "Wal, tell the old man all about it there ain't nothin' to com mence w ith, that does so much good as to let it aout. ; So, leaning back in his chair again, he listened while Keuben told the "old, old story" how the feeling had gradually come upon him that he loved Kittie with an all-absorbing passion, or words to that effect ; how he basked in the sunshine of her smiles one day, and was by her coldness plunged into the vtry "ap pathy of despair"' the next; how he was beset with fears that she liked Kill Simpson better than she did him ; how lie was afraid, if he asked her, that she would say no that he was sure if she did, it w ould kill him, etc., etc. The old man listened attentively who, of whatever age, never Jailed to take some intertst in the oft-told I tale and when the young man had j finished he took h is pipe from his ! mouth, coughed once or twice, and I delivered himself of these inemora i ble words : I "Keuby, my bov, you've got it badthere ain't no doubt on it and I'll tell you a secret what no body ain't heard for nigh onter fifty ! years. ' Here the old man's voice grew a i little husky, and he blew his nose j fiercely with a large red handker i chief which he took from his fore ' head for the purpose. I "Women is queer creturs. I loved one onct, and ontt only, and I m just as feure ez I be that I'm settin' here thnt I lost her by lovin' of her too much, and lettin her know it too soon. That was my experience, an' I hev seen stacks of lik cases since. "Wal, ez I was say in' just so soon ez a woman leels she hez a man, heart and soul, just so soon she ain't no use fur him; she begins to sigh, ez the old primer savs, fur new worlds to conquer. What she ken ve she don't want, an' what she can't have, she wants the worst flnJ "It's what schooed people calls the unertainable that everybody's ...: II.. folks. You never Want to Eet too much Store b "- -I" - - " I i m e , notlW ; for if JOU do, JOU'Jl be ft set ESTABLISHED, 1827. SOME11SET, PA., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 9, 1884. most sure to lose it. Struggle to hide yer feelings all yer ken, wheth er yer huntin' for a sweetheart, a wifo or a caow! In the case in point, do vour level best to make I the gal think you don't set much I store by her. Don't let on how much you like to be with her, and don t on no account eay nothin' about love, leastwise, not at present, for the minute yer do, ez the lawyers say, yer weaken yer case. You don't want to show yer hand till yer dead sure you've won the :;atne. You don't want to complicate yourself, so to speak, till yer sar in' the girl loves ye. Kf she don't iuve ye, ye'd better be in yer grave than marry her, and if she doef, she'll let yer know afore very long sure tz I'm settin' here." So saying, the old man wiped his forehead with the big red handker chief, re-lighted his pipe, pushed down the burning tobacco with his horn' thumb and relapsed into si lence. From what humble sources words of wisdom sometimes spring. Much comforted, Kuben sauntered slowly homeward, his pathway lighted by the bright summer moon which had just come over the hill, tilling the little valley with its mellow light. His heart was much lighter than when he trod that path before, for he had unburdened it, and he felt that Uncle Josh wad right. So the very next evening he took pretty Polly l!aker, buggy riding, and tiie following Sunday evening went to meeting with her. He did not even pass Kitties house for four : whole days. He came very near weakening the second evening, but finally, with great difficulty, mas tered himself. What was the result? Why, when he did go by, nearly a week later. Kittie, who had, of course, neard all about what Had taken place, walked down to the gate and, with one of her sweetest smiles, asked where he had been for such a long tune. He answered: "Nowhere to speak of;"' and then she smiled so sweetly, and looked at him with such gentle reproach that he was almost tempted to seize her in bis arms and declare Ins love then and there, but he recalled ln cle Jesh's advice in time and tem porized. Kittie ciuld not staid it long, how ever, and before another moon had come ind gone Keuben was her ac cepted lover. Tlie days had begun to lengthen a little when they were made one, and Uncle Josh hitched up the old mare and drove down to the little house, which Keuben had bought, to wit ness the interesting ceremony. He was attired in a brr.n new suit of humespun, his hair "slicked down" in a most remarkable manner, and his neck encircled by a broad, white stock. He looked uncomfortable, but happy nevertheless (it sucn an anemalou condition of affairs may be supposed to exist), and kissed the bride with much warmth at the first opportunity. '"Keuben,'' he said, as soon as he had his nephew alone for a moment, "she does look uncommon nies, but, murk my word, don't ge to shewin' f her too much affection if you do you'Jl be sorry for it. Don't be afraid to jaw her a little somttimes ; it makes an agreeable change, an' '11 do her good. You can't do nothin' scarcely with women, nor children, or dogs, nor nothin', with too much affection, don't never forget it I" Keuben s only answer was, "I'll try.'' Put he did not look as if he thought he would succeed very well how could he be expected to on his wedding day ? Cunning Mice. Up in the garret in our house there used to be lots of mice. But they never were any trouble until one day papa put some corn there to dry so that he could use it to plant in the spring. When he went to look at it, not long after, he found that much of it had been carried off by the mice. So he told me that he would give me a penny fur every mouse I would catch. I was delighted, and imme- liately got our olu trap, put some cheese in it and placed it on the garret. The trap had but two holes, and so could catch but two mice at a time. But I thought that a greai many, when for three mornings I had found the trap full, and had been p;id six cents for the mice. I thought how rich I should be if I found two mice in the trap on every morning for a year. But it did not happen so, unfortunately for me. One morning when I went to look at my trap I found it sprung and the cheese all gone, but there was no mouse. I set the trap again, and the next morning it was the same way tray spruntr, but no mice "and no cheese. I told papa about it, and he was so much surprised that he said he would watch for the mice the next night and find out how they did it. Well, he went up to the garret long after I had gone to sleep. First he heard a little squeak, then in the bright moonlight he saw a little gray mouse, with large ears and bright eyes, looking out from behind a barrel. Then the little fellow came out, looked around to see that there was no danger, and then gave anoth er little squeak, when three or four more came out, and all went to the trap, peeked into it, and saw that there was more supper for them. But they did not any of them put their heads in to eat it. The largest mouse put his tail into the holes, and, hitting the cheese, sprung the trap; then he pulled out his tail got the cheese and shared it with the others. An Indianapolis man, who claims to know, says that an iron girder will lose its stiffnws under a heat which would not ignite an oak beam. Character that needs the law to mend it is hardly worth the tinker ing. A man should not indulge in bit ter speech. An Example 1'or Us. The evil from which France suf fered in the seventeenth century our country is enduring to-day, and it will require prompt measures to correct it. Our apparently limitless territory, studded over with forests, has made us profligate even to waste fulness, and we have been in danger of entirely destroying the greatest uf our heritages. In Prussia and Germany the laws relating to forestry exhibitthe wisest forethought on the part of the gov ernment, and the people su-stain it in every effort to preserve what oth er ceneralions naci weii-nign de prived them of. These nations set us an example which it would be wise to consider. Their laws have given rise to a large system of tree- planting, thinning and preserving, and alao to an enormous literature regarding arbori-cultureand cognate subiects. Millions of trees are annu ally set out, examined and trans planted, and great rainfalls and droughts are obviated, while malaria from both causes is greatly dimin ished. The ill results of the old, de nuding process are rapidly disap pearing, showing that Nature's cap illary clothing must be respected, for utilitarian as well as sentimental reasons. In the United States the general fashion of extravagance prevailing in respect to forests is largely due to ignorance. Only lately has the sci entific man impressed upon him f average intelligence the necessity of tree preservation, and the desirabili ty of usingother materials than lum ber far many purposes in which wood was formerly considered indis pensable. The wakening anxiety in regard to forestry culminated, a lit tle more than a year ago, in the for mation of what was denominated a forestry coneress, of which Professor Foring, of the agricultural depart ment, was elected chairman. Fol lowing their interesting session were the dissemination of inueh in formation in regard to arboriculture in the United States, and the incep tion of village and country soeieties fir the purpose of tree planting, Manhattan. . Natural and Acquired Fertility. A soil which is naturally fertile is much more valuable to tlie farmer than one which is fertile only by the help of manure. The natural fertil ity of the soil, comparatively speak ing, is a permanent qualjty, and can only be injured by the continuance of an exhaustive system of cropping for a long time. Acquired fertility is quite a different matter ; it is due to the accumulation of mammal in gredients in the soil, which may be reduced or entirely withdrawn by cropping in a short lime. Continued cropping without ma nuring results in a reduction of the stock of available fertility in every soil. A soil, however, which is soon exhausted for one sort of crop may still contain an abundant food sup ply for a crop of another kind. Hence the wisdom of a rotation of crops which long defers the period of exhaustion. The more available substances are, of course, the first to become ex hausted : a poor sou will wear out sooner than a rich ne ; a shallow one becomes exhausted sooner than a deep one. and a light soil sooner than a stiff one. All soils have more or less store of plant food in a dormant condition capable of gradual development. As cropping removes available plant food from the soil it is replaced more or less rapidly by the agencies of the weather, the actin of earth worms, &c. The processes of natural soil renovation is greatly accelerated by artificial means, such as tillage, drainage and the application of ma nures. With a judicious system of rotation of crops and fertilizing, the active fertility in the soil may be made to reproduce itself year after year, instead of becoming exhausted as is two often the case, after a long period of mismanagement. Mr. Lawes, of Kothamsted, Eng land, gives to the public the results of an experiment extending through twelve years. The two crops grown each year were wheat. The soils . were similar and in the same held, the management the same in so far as culture was concerned, and the seed used the same. The only dif ference was that in one ease nature had been unassisted by manure, and in the other the soil each year re ceived the fertilizers whi"h were found to be most suitable to the crop. The result f the latter treatment was a return of three times the weight of grain and four times the weight of straw, for an expenditure of manure which left a profit of 1"0 per cent, on its cost. W omen at a Hot-He Show. "The women, bless their little hearts." said Mr. Drew, of the Van Ness' House, "the women can be just as sharp in a trade as the men. One winter I went up to Kichford to buy a horse. I found it all right, but at the time I was making a trade with the man who owned it his wife kept raiir.g an awful fuss about selling it at the figure I offered. If the horse was sold, she said, how would the poor children get to school, she would like to know; they would'it have the horse to carry them, and it was too far to walk. Finally, how ever, we made a trade, and I hitch the horse into the sleigh, but the horse wouldn't start I touched him with the whip, but he merely turned around and fixed a sad, inquiring gaze upon me. I touched him again with the same result. Then I hit him a little harder, and what do you think he did? lie ju'mped several feet into the air. I thought I was going up in a balloon. And when he struck the ground he started off at a regular Maud S. gait. The fact was, you see, the horse had never been hitched single before in his life. And there was that woman taking on so about selling him be cause the children would have to walk to school ! O, she was a sharp one. A St Louis physician says the American race is in danger of total extinction from cigarette smoking. A Wedding Ring. The other day, whenayoung man had pulled off two big mittens frm his hands and stuck one into each pocket and baeked up to the coal stove in a woodyard avenue jewelry store, he had still suffcient strength to ask if they kept finger rings there. The jeweler might just as well have replied that, be did not, but that fin ger rings could bo found at any boot and shoe store; yet he wanted to make a sale, and he answered: "We do. What sort of a ring do you want?'' "It is for a wedding." "Ah ! Will you have a single dia mond or a cluster?'" "I s'pose you'd want two or three dollars for a real diamond ring ?" re marked the laver, as he advanced to the tray. i He was carefully and tenderly in-j formed that diamonds had gone up considerably since they were used I in his baby rattle-box, and then hej commenced to explain : "I'm kinder down on all such nonsense as wedding rings. When a fellow has to get a whole suit of clothes, pay the preacher, come t ) town, and ride on the street ears and nil that, it's expense 'null'. I s'pose, though, I'll have to get one." "About what price?" "Oh. fifty cents or six shillings or around there. If its kinder gilded up to last for two weeks, that'll do. It hadn't orter turn rusty under three or four d;tys, anyhow, as she'll want to show it off on the street cars, and all the girls will b handling it. Fll look at the fiftv-cent ones first." The jeweler went into a" decline. He declined to admit that he ever had such a thing in his store. He further said that he could hardly be lieve that there was a young man on earth who would buv a fifty cent ring to put on the linger of his bride. Not for Hennery i fivld for speculation, b'.it so cuiii- yon like to have' pletely are stocks controll-d by a ed the groe-ryman few strong operators, t! :t when "1 have got "a big 'Gould and Vanderbilt ttrequiet small in the cellar, and. speculators are performed idle, and "IIow would some fun?"' asl of th bad boy ; pile of potatoes thev are beginning tosnrout. Pets ynu and 1 go down ceUar and pulljuiaung markets. iapp-alfur ant gave rise to a warm off our coat sand just have a glorious ' The love of speculation is confined ' 4;t:b;ile on the subject, and Secretary old time nicking those potatoes over: to no one class of persons ; thecoun-, Lincoln moved that $li,0tN) of the ar.d pulling off the sprouts. Hur-1 try vies with the city: the farmer unexpended Ohio Hood fund be rah ! Come on," and the grocery man j and the bank cashier hav their U.H j,,r that purpose, which was laughed and run his thumb into margins lumped in the same depos- hnally voted for by both Houses, the" boy's ribs and started for the it. and the doors of the bucket shops A number of new measurt-s have cellar. j are wide open to tho.-e w ho mustiheen presented to Congress this "No, not anv fun for Hennery.'"; have their little deals on the way to j wtek. Among them was one pro- said the boy, as lie looked out to sf e if his pa was in sight. "I think too much fun is not good for boys. If you want your potatoes looked over you will have to hire somebody t" do it. Sprouting potatoes is work, and 3-oti can't make it pass for fun, unless you strike some fool boy that don't know vou are plaving it on him. You old hypocrite think boys; are fools. Ever since I turned I grindstone for a man once all the afternoon for tun. and go, so tir ed I couldn't walk, I have decid ed to pick my own fun. When a man unfolds a scheme to tne to have fun, and I see it is a put up job to get me to work for nothing and call it fun, I pass," and the boy went out to see if bis pa had got off the car. Peck's Sun. Creating a Run on the Hunk. A private banker in a town in Wisconsin received a ell a few d.ivs ago from a stranger, who deposited ten dollars, and then turned around and asked the banker for a lone of fifty dollars. "Why, sir, I can't lend you any money," replied the banker. "I think you can. Please take time for reflection." "I don't want to reflect upon the subject, sir." "Would a run on this bank dam age you liity dollars' worth?' "There will be no run here." "Suppose there was? ' It is too aosurfi to. supppuse Good day, sir. The stranger walked out-doors, and the bank closed for the day. He entered a grocery and 'fated that hi w:m n ilennsitor und asked if tlie hnTil ...... a(,llri nH .ferei! ., was dry-goods store and inquired if the ban! times might not pinch the bank. He entered a drug-store and offered his certificate of deposit for ten dollars. He met a lawyer and inquired if a receiver had been ap pointed to look out for the interest of depositor. Next morning he was at the door of the bank, gesticu lating and lamenting, and behind him were seventy-five or eighty citi zens, lielore noon the oanK was cleaned aut and its doors closed, and an ex-private banker was skipping out to avoid being lynched. Wall St ree AVu s. A Modern Fable. A dog, on a warm summer day. lay down in the shade, and soon fell asleep. He was awakened by the noise of a huge bull approaching his shadv resting-place. "Get up," said the bull, "and let me lie down there! No," replied the dog. "you have j no right to the place; l was here first." " Well," said the bull, looking in nocently at the dog, but with a fe rocious twinkle in his left eye, which made the doc's spinal column run cold and his lower jaw give way, " let us toss un for it." "Thank you," said the dog po-j litely, " I never gamble, and he walked away. Moral Virtue has its own re ward. For fifteen years I was annoyed with severe pain in my head and discharges into my throat from Ca tarrh. My sense of smell was much impaired. Bv the use of Ely's Cream Balnt I have overcome these troubles. J. B. Case, St. Dennis Ho tel, New York. There are 228 submarine tele graph cables, all told, some of them merely connecting islands with the main shore. A striking likeness portrait of a prize fighter. WHOLE NO. 170S. National Gambling. Gambling has become a large part of American commercial life. The bread and meat we eat, the corn we feed our stock, the clothes with which we cover ourselves as well as the investments we make are affec ted by the wholesale gambling that permeates every part of this nation. One great reason why England has developed the wheat production in India, Australia and New Zerland to the extent she has is to be found in the American manipulation of the price of p rain and the corners which take advantage of every unto ward circumstance to speculate upon the necessities of the peoople. The grain corners of 2, which sent wheat up to Sl.-'i-S in Chicago, drove the shipping away from New York and ied Knglish importers to seek cargoes elsewhere, and whoever will watch the markets closely will see that the operution of the bulls and bears of Chicago dailv affect the ex port of grain. Cotton speculation in the South is what wheat speculation is in the West. Fortunately, however foreign trade in cotton is simply deferred by corners, and is not permanently lost as in the case with what. Yet .- disastrous t our nrimii'acturing interests were the cotton corners of I jSJ that many mills had to close or work on part time, and although machinery was a.- perfect and wages as low in this country as in Man chester, exports of cotton cloth for that vear showed an .iclual falling off. Petroleum speculation is always like in Pennsylvania and its adja- cent States, the pipe line certificates acting as the efficient medium of ex change. The rapidity with which old districts cease to yield and new districts are discovered, make oil one of the choicest of speculative commodities, and the gules often amount to many times the actual production. I The stock market is a peculiar - preier to sseK other and more nue- uid lrom meals, the Italian ex- hausts his mama for gambling onjj,rT government lotteries. Ir. America ' .fj we try tostippress me lotteries which simply take money from the fuol and give it to the sharper, but we are powerless to reach the ambling which is destructive alike of private morals and national progress Snow ISui'klng. The description of a turn of snort working which tlie writer took an active part in a few winters ago, ap plies, says Angus St. Clair in the Amrriavi Machinist, with some mod ifications, to all operations of this i kind as usuallv purs ied on North western railroads. A division was badly snowed up, and two engines started out with a large plow to work toward others similarity en gaged. We took along car accom modations for a gang of shovelers and a supply of coal for three en gines. Tl" first seriou obstacle we reached w.r? a cutting about a quar ter of a mile long, rilled with snow to the top of tiie snow fences . , average depth being about ten or twelve feet. The shovelers were put j to work cutting a straight face on! the snow bunk for the plow to strike upon, and deep trenches were cut on the siirf.ice of the snow at right angles to the track. We then back ed with the two engines about a mile, to take a good run. In run ning :;t the bank the engines are worked to re.:c!i their highest pos sible speed. Jur-t before striking the snow tiie links are dropped to lull tear so mat ttu engines win ex- ert their iuu iracuve lorce .n aavan- ( . . , - i- ii . . e . i 1 cmg among me snow anion;; um . i u k ii," ; into a solid looking snow bank that reaches nearly to the top of the smokestack, tries thentrve of an en gineer. But it is like jumping into a cold bath ; hesitating on the brink is the uncomfortable part. So soon as the plow touches the snow bank a dense cloud envelopes th engine, which makes tiie cab as dark as the heart of a tunnel. In doing his work the engineer mut now depend entirely upon his hearing, unawed by the tumult of noise that accom pany the engines entrance among 0 I ... .v.- Lumps ot and huge cakw u snow thunder on . cjcarette bein j. much shorter than a ton and sides of 'the cab; steam hiss-1.. more of the Bmoke fiQj3 it3 es and crackles from the hot sur- j w nio the mouth and nasal or faces being hugged by the dense a wv much arKer rerctritaze packed snow; a whirl of slipping of8moke la inhaled br the smoke whet Is m.iKes every joint of the en- ffuU a ci rette than fr-om a ci?ar. gine groan and clatUr.but the eng.- (:.,, sniokin ;t U averred, hai neer must firit grasp the throttle uu disturbed by the dismal uprtar. He must not be appalled by vio lent slipping, or attempt to check it unless the engine is working water in a way t endanger the cylinders I Ibis his trained ear can detect :::nidst the other noises. By the exhaust he can tell the moment the engine has censed to move ahead, and he immediately reverses and tries to back out. Sometimes snow is packed so firmly oyer the motion that the engine can not be reversed til it is shoveled out. "What's become ofPettytog that uster live here?" asked a visitor of Glipin at the store Saturday night "O ! he's located in a Western town, practicing law. "How does he get .along? Is ho successful ?" "Not very. He has never won a suit yet." "What! Not a suit!" "No. That is, not a whole one. II won a hat on Ohio last fall and a pair of boots on New York. But that's as near a suit as be ever got Never be above your calling nor ashamed to dress according to your means. Green corn A young bunion. WASHINGTON LETTER. Front Ovr fejult? Cirrropnndmi. WAsmscTox, March 29, 1SS1. The battle has begun. The Dem ocratic fictions of tho house of Keo resenti'dves caucused on the tariff bill Tursday evening, and, according to prediction, "widened the rift in their lute" to more pronounced dis cordance. Efforts were made to cre ate the impression that all went quietly and harmoniously within, but after a few hours wrangle the decision was that a majority of the Democratic members of the House will try to fo ce the passage of some kind of a tariff bill, and that there is a large minority able to defeat such legislation, who reserved the liberty of doing so if they chose. Debato was limited to five minutes for each speaker. .Mr. Morrison opened by offering a resolution endorsing his tariff reduction bill. Mr. Kandall said that it did not meet the wants of his constituents. Mr. Reagan next supported the bill and resolu tion. Here Speaker Carlisle arose as peacemaker, urging the members to avoid bitterness in the discussion and beware of a quarrel. Then Gen. Blackburn demanded that the action of the caucus should be binding upon ail members present. Mr. Hop kins immediately offered a resolu tion that no one should be bound. Tne debate was long upon these propositions, the arguments being directed to the effect the measure would have in the next Presidential rr. i I - . . 1 campaign, mere was no mne ex citement and Mr. Carlisle again took the floor and waved the olive branch vigorously in the face of the oppo sition. He also offered a resolution which was adopted by a vote of to "j7 to put the tax on fruit bran dies at ten cents per gallon and re peal the tax on manufactured tobac co. The Senate continues discussion on the Blair Educational bill as it comes up daily in regular order and the bonded whisky extension meas ure has been the absorbing topic in tho House; the members of buth branches showing that they are well posted on the respective subjects. On Thursday a vote was reached on the Litter bill and whisky was over whelmingly defeated. The Senate has also discussed the Territory of Dakota, which is likely to have a hard time of getting into the Union a a State, in as much as the ques tion promises to be regarded as a political one. An interesting debate on nepotism preceded the passage of a bill increasing the salaries of U. S. District Judges to ?5,X0 a year, with an amendment prohibiting the Judges from appointing any re'ativo wit! in the degree of first cou&in to positions in the court. Tiie House discussed the Louisi ana i',.;o:l- and voted against a joint resolution that S.-.OO.I.ioiJ be grai.t.-d to prevent the overflow of the Mis- s:ppe e at -ew wr.ean?. .noiner vidin" increased facilities fur decid- upon pension claims, and re ipg that a lawyer and a surg- on te appointed in each Congressional i district to examine pension cia:ni iants in person. Another proposes j that the Patent Office be organized j into an independent departrii'-nt 1 under the control of a commissioner j of patents, and to give him exclusive control of the building known as the I patent office, but now occupied by the Department ot the Interior of which the patent office is now a bu reau. Postal telegraphy is a vexed ques tion now, various bills and proposi tions being under consideration in committee. Kepresentative Sumner of California, made an argument in favor of his bill which he asserted would nut cist the Government a dollar as the money to establish a postal telegraph would be raised by the issue of bonds. He maintained that tbe telegraphing of the people could be done at ten cents a message, and more than clear expenses. In opposition Mr. Koberts of the postal . company, wnicn nai an oner ueiore the committee said .Mr. Sumner was a "practical politician"' rather than a "practical telegrapher." On Thursday Congress was me morialized by the convention of I American Inventors, now in cin i vention in Cincinnati, against the i passage of any aet injurious to pat entee :. No change in the law relat !ing to patents is probable-. Cigarette Sniwkiii;. There has been introduced into Uie NW York Assemb:y a t.jn w,ich , i , , , , f ni .rn rirf t ..! or t o. bacco to minors under 1U years of age. A law to that elieec aireauy exists in New Jersey, and its exam ple might advantageously be follow ed in other States. In regard to the results of cigar ette smoking, physicians say it af fects seriously the functions of the stomach, especially in the young. It has a tendency to increase the ac tion of the heart, causing palpita tion. It i a fruitful source of indi gestion. It has a decided tendency a . ,-V 1 T to produce catarrh in the head. This ,t H g ai(J arises lrom the uct that a also a decided tendency to produce asthma, and renders the system mire liable to the attacks of pneu monia and bronchitis. In lU effects upon the nervous system cigarette gU)oking is to be- in the lligne,t degree pernicious, both directly and indirectly. It destroys healthy ap petite for solid food, and by the constant expectoration it produces, leads to a morbid craving for drink. Inj iry or destruction of the nerves of the eyes, it is alleged, has been in hundreds of instances produced by cigarette smoking. Hall's Hair Renewer renews, cleanses, brightens and invigorates the hair, and restores faded or gray hair to its youthful crlor and lustre. People with gray hair prsfer to use the Kenewer, rather than proclaim to the world, through their bleached locks, that they are becoming aged, and passing on t decay. Gentleness and kindness are not weak but noble and manly traits. It is peculiarly the duty of the white man to be cleaaly he shows dirt so easilv. "I play a lone hand'' says the one armed man.
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