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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
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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;
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!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.
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!: 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
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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.