the Somerset Herald
r; WTWum"' "
irerms of i'tibliQation.
Published every Wednesday morning t v "
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HIM Invariably be cnor.cd.
t No tnbscripUon srfU be ilwoaUnuod ontil all
prcaragesarepabl cp. Ptatmuiem neglecting
notify w when ot-r.en d not Uke out
Ve'.r paper will be hU responsible for the tab-
s uLscrihert removing from one ostoffioe to - j
hershoold given! tbe "an 'ormr "
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The Somerset Herald,
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ATTOll-ATLAW.
sepj.
I71tEI). W. KI CHECKER,
i .JTUKNEY-AT-LAW
A- r Souier-eL Pa.
I OlfiT, op-su!rf in Coo - Beenti' Hiock.
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ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW,
. Somerset, Pa,
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KOOSKU.
ATTOKNEY-AT LAV,
Somerset, I.
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ATT'iKNEY.AT I.A1
Somerset, Penn a.
71) 13.
scull.
ATTOEN EY-AT LAW,
Somerset, Pa.
I. BAER,
ATTUENEYAT LAW,
Somerset, Pa,
. l- l...l.lnAnnnHM
will i.ract cc n somerset m a-ij-imo.
' V;.r;, ;,!, him will be promptly
All bo
attended to.
t
n.orn;orii.
w. u. r.riTEL,
I j ATTORN EYS AT LAW.
t All business entrusted to their care
- . , 1 1 .. ft til.
will i
iMammoth Klock.
'iT'rv L C. COI.BUKX.
tiv t. cat nnnv.
i All business lntrnte.l to our rare
Jvfc. tulthlv attcu.led to.Colle-tl
Vrset. He.ruri. and si!i..ininK
will lieprompt
uiale in s.m-
unties. Survey-
cwevailcing done on reasonable terms.
rilJJAMir.KOONlZ.
Somerset, Pa.,
1 WP1 L-'ve i.r. n.M nttertlon to bflneM entrnn
?e.lTo hiicsr in and ad.wlninR counties.
i ( -Mice in Printing liuuso Row.
D
EN MS ME YE US.
A TTOR N E i - A X
Somerset . Penn a
All letal business entrus'ed to biscare wm ne
ftende-l t" wuh promptness and ble'Ly.
tjce on Main rof8 Street, nest .lour to Sny
cr n Co.'r store.
-ir5
JAMK,
I, TTC.H.
ATTORN EY-AT LAW
Somerset, l a.
(irtice. Vammoth Rlock, op stairs. n'nc;
I Vain Cr-s rt. CoHectmr.s made.. e ntcs
I m.V.m1 titles examine,!, and all k,ral bustnees
attended to with promptness and ndellty.
Y.
KIMMEL.
ATTORN EYAT-LAW,
Somerset.
A
mat3
Pa.
MJ PRITTS,
. ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
Somerset, Pa.
OfSoe. nivsttlrs In Mammoth Block.
TOHS 0. KIMMEL.
J ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Somerset, Pa.
Will attend to all business entrust a bis care
InS omersct and advlnlng conniies with J""'!"
ne and uaouiy. oiuw -
II
EXRY F. SCIIELL.
ATTtiRN L A 1 ,
Bounty and Pcnion Agent, Somerset, ra.
Otttce in'Mammotn Ulark.
:r T r-TTE HAY.
ATTORN EY-AT LAW
And Dealer in Real Estate. Snmer t. P
attend to all lu?ines entrusted to his care
will
tith
promptness and hdety.
toiin riiT,.
f) ATTORN EY-AT-LAW
' Somerset, l a,
Wiirpromptlv attend to all bnslnete n'msted
to him. .Moncv advaneed on eoliectiona. tx. ui
hre lu Mammoth Bsiiding.
T ;
00 I.E.
ATTOKNEY-AT LAW,
Somerset Pa.,
Protesalonal business entrusted to my care at
tended to with promptness and f. delity.
M. I)ITHEU.
( Formerly of Stoyettown.)
FUYSICIAS AD SIRGKOS,
Has pK-aled tet manentty In Sdmcrset T-r the
.mriccct his iindcsslon. Otfice Sdw.rs n est ol
I entrul Hotel, In re:ir ol Drug Store. may.il.
D
R. E. W. MjOUGII,
IIQMIOPATUIC rHV.K'iV ASP SVKGCOS
Tenders his seixleos to the people of Someraet
ai.d vicinity. Calls in town or country pp.mptly
ationdedto". Can Iw Ixnnd at ofhen day or night,
unless proleshinally eniraired. -Oihce on
Sontli:it corn.r ol I'iauioud, over Knefter'f
Shoe Store.
apra'.tf.
TR. II. S. KIMMEL
I f tMi.iers his profe sal oral service to the cltl
yi tis of Some wt and Vicinity. Cnles protcsin-
1 .nirairel he inn be tound at his etlicc. Main
St., east of the Diamond.
DR. II. KRUKAKER tenders hit?
nmfesslonal services to the clt liens of Snm
ernet and vicinity. Office In residence on Main
street west ot the Diamond.
"TR. WM. RAUCII tenders his
I professional services to the eltijensof Som
eret and Ticinltv.
( tftirs- One dilor fast of Wayne k Herkeblle's
tnrnitnre store.
1 cc. 6. 'Ki.
DR. JOHN DN.T..
DENTIST.
omce p stair' InCc- k tx Kcerits lilock, Somer
set, Pa.
DR. AVII.T.T AM COT.I.IXS.
DENTIST. SOMERSET, PA.
omce In Mammoth Plock. above H-iyd Iirng
Store, where l. can at all times le found prepar
ed todo all kinds oi work, such as rilling. Tvun
latlnir, extracting. c. Arttricial toethot all kinds,
and of the beat material inserted. Ojrathnj
arrantei.
H.
HOWARD WYNNE, MD.
Diseases t f the Eye. Ir. Nose and TtroaU
Siecial and Kv-iBiv. p-sctice. Hnttrs. C A. to
f r. h. Lutker k lirccu Hl.n k. Swi Main SL
T r
THOMPSON, M. P.
SVRtiEeX DENTIST.
Johnstown, Pa.
Hss had a i-r fepsi'mnl eTteHcncedraore than
dirty years En l ino Teicth a SratTaiw.
ittn-e tCnis N't. Main street tup stairs) over
John IMrt's Hapiwarc Store. It will be neces
sary lor rsocs wto wunt worg done to make ea
gairemcijts beloretanv2. tctl6's3.
DR. J. K. MILLER
nently located in Berlin foi
lias it-rrua-
for the prartioe of
his prolession. Omce oiiposlte Charles krisstiur-
er l store. aj. XJ, ,0-u.
D
TAMOND HOTEL,
STOYSTOWX. l'MXN'A
This popular ant wedi known bouse bna lately
been th.Touahly and newly retltted with all new
tdJ t-st ot lumllure. t:i. h hat made it a very
detn.lde stopping place tor the traueling public.
U if tatde and rfits cannot le snrAiwed, all be
ne tint class, with a larire palUe hail attached
to the same. Also larue and roomy tabling.
Kim class lumrtiioa can lie had at the lowest pos
sible prices, by the week, day or meal.
SAM V IX CT'STER. Pp.
S. E. Cor. DlatEond
Stoystow ,P
SDMINISTKATOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of ut Sarah llater. lata or Somerset Twp
Somerset IVwity, Pa., de eased.
letters Of aitmtn!trarlim n. t mi.r-m
havirg heea granted te tbe un.ersii.-ned bv the
l-r-1r autnorlty notice is hereby Kir en to ail
-toos indebted to said estate to mae immedi
ate payment, and tlxr having claims against the
same to prcs-m tbcm dniy authenticated tor set
tlement Saturdav. t ne :oUi day of Auc,
at the oBice ol J. H.'t'bL Eeo,., in Someiset Dor
ongu. DAVID CASEBtEK,
J"155 Administrator.
ADD 17 IT Send 6 cents lorpost-
a s.-e and receive free a
eoeilj boa ot Kifc .iu.n win he)p xm to ,,-.,
monev ru-ht away tbaa anything else in this
tk v . ol .itkn Kx- eceed lnn erst hour.
ne bread road to fortsne opens the work-
CuAEuita,'Matne.
. - mi, at once addreaa. Ttt i k
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AT WHOLESALE and KKTAIL.
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JOHNSTOWN, PA. i
Wholesale Agent for Self Melting
and Self-Sealing
"Wax Strings
For scaling Froit Cans and .lars. The
Simplest, Cheapest, and most r. liable method
lor Mating Kroit .lara ever utd. From .'k) to
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To Make lloom for Our
IJVTOMIEJNXSE STOCK
OF
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If You Want Some of the
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That was Ever Offered in the
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No. 212 Main St., Johnstown, Pa.
SOMERSET
(KSTAliLlSHF-D 1ST7.)
CHiELES. I EAEEiN.
President.
K.J.FK1T71
C:ishier
Collections made in all parts ot the I'nlted
States.
jroj '
CILAIIGES MOUiUi"-
ParUes wishing to send Bene? West ran be se
eommodated by draft on Kew'Terk in any sum.
ddlections made with promptnera. V. S. Hoods
bought and s44. Money and valuables secured
by one of 1 Heboid's eelebrated sales, with a Sar
gent k Yale 3v 00 time luca.
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
f Allien bolidayi otjerrel.-
BARGAINS
BARliAIIS
STARlrABBTEB s
with meul linlng.so objectionable because ol labor
S2.00
Will purchase a
Kitchen Outfit,
Consisting ol the fol
lowing 38 pteees:
1 Dish Pan,
1 Colfea Pot,
1 Water Ducket,
1 Covered Kucket,
1 Large (irater,
1 Tin Cups,
4 Pin Plates,
1 Cake Cutter,
1 S:iuco Pan.
I Wash ltnin,
6 Taldekniv.a,
STahie porks,
Table Spoons,
6 Tea Sjoons.
Enamelei an3 Galvanize! Iroa
ffater Coolers,
LEMON SHI EEZEKS. ICEPICKS, ICE
Tt N IS. W IK ECOOLKKS. TI ' M KEEK
DRAINERS. ICECREAM MOLDS
L1ULOR MIXERS, ETC.
ALntsx A. HoEKB.
J. Soott Wabd.
HOBIE & WARD
SroCKSBoBS TO
EATON & BROS,
AO. 27 FIFTH AVEXUE,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
NEW GOODS
EVZSY DAY SPECIALTIES
i.m broideries, laces, Millinery, White Goods, Hani
kerchiefs, Drest Triramltigt, Hosiery, Gloves,
Corse's, Kuslla and Merlae Underwear, In
fants' and Children's Clothing.Fanty
Goods, Yarns, Zephyrs, Mate
rials of AH Kind for
FANCY WORK,
Gent's MMi Mi, k, k
ror rxTKoiiAGg is ESrcrrrLi.T soLiciTin.
jZfit Onlt P! by Mail attended to with Ironipt
netss and Hbpatcli. , . ,
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
E. M. Lambert &Bro.,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
White Pine ani HeM Sftfe
We have secured a
I And manutaeture Shingles on the Michigan
I Principle. We cut, and constantly keep on hand
I two gradesof the various kinds of Shinnrlea. We
' guarantee cur Sblnifles to be superior to any
j in the County. Shall 1 pleased to have parties
I come and inspect our shingles before Laying
elsewhere. Address
E. M. LAMBERT & BRO.,
LAM BF.RTSV1LLE, SOMERS ET CO., Pa.
unell-eui.
FASHIONABLE
CUTTER & TAILOR,
bad many
experience
branches of
Tailoring bus-
iruarantee
Satisfaction to all
may call p-
and favor
4, me with their pat
ronage.
Yours, kc,
ivn. m. iiocnsTK m:K,
Somerset, la.
mart
QUEMAHONING
WOOLEN MILLS.
WM. S. MOJIGAX, Troprietor,
rl'HE Aucnts of these well-known Mills nrenow
visiting their customers with a splendid as
sortment of
WOOLEN GOODS,
which thev wish to trade for Wool These Goods
are made In our own County, from fure Stock,
on the Latest Improved lachiery. and by first
ciasa workmen. We want FIfTi' THWSASD
Pt Mis Of ir OOL this year, and will make it
pav you to deal with ns.
ai-v are also prepared to do Custom Spin-
i' ning and Wool carding. Address.
WM. 8. MORGAN.
apr-3ni. Unemihjcing, Pa,
$66s
weeg at home. S outfit tree,
pay absolutely sure. No risk. Cap
ital not required. Reader, if you
ant business at which ierson of
e, iher er, lonng or old. can make great pay ad
tin time tuev work, wttn at.soiute crtainty
writt for parUcolars te IL Ualuctt, PortIani,Me.
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Li e,
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famished aboard the ears at ear kilns near Pins
Or-ve at 8 rents rr bnsheL mslacked. lnlers
promitly tailed. For further particulars call on
tue un'tersigneu.
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Jtockwood, Vx. or
ra-ajlt ISAAC O. JONES, Somerset, Pa
CHARLES HOFFMAN.
erorei.l
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(Atxv Heaary Heffl'i
SOMERSET, YJl.
Somerset
TOGKTHEli.
A fairy skill in a stream was lying ,, ?
: AskiiT with a sliken sail; . .
In a forest of fire the day was dying, ..
. And daintily slimjd t lie gale; ...
. AVhen a maiden fair and ajrallaut gay i ,
Sjirang into it lyitly and sailed away
Away through the purple gloaming. ' .
- No moon loolied down from tho vaulted.
heavan ;
; They tailed by the Iifilit of elart. '
15y the smile serene of the raters seven
And the ruddier glow of Mars.
Hut the storm ting rose in liia grandeur
grim ' '
And the stars swam into the distance dim,
As they tossed uu the troubled water.
The tempest reased, and the broad, deep
river .
Flowed on with annulled lireaft ; : -.
Again in high heaven tho sisters quiver.
And the wild winds sink to rest. . ,
There is caliu he Low, therein peace alxve,
And the eyes of the maiden am full of
love
As she clings to her happy lover.
They hear the boom of the mighty ocean;
Their blithe bttrk breasts its swell
And westward jjiilc ,witli a gentle iiw
, ; tion ... i ' I : : , i .
But whither, I cannot tell.'
We know love's stream, ia not smooth
for aye ; .
Hut the sweet stars shine as they sail
away . ; ....
O'er the ocean of life together. ... .
' A WIFKM CHAIOI.
A pout upon the red lips of Ger
ald Sinclair's youns wife unmis
takably a pout for though a wife al
most two years, hfr fond, indulgent
husband had for the first time said
nay to an openly expressed wish.
- The fancy ball of the season, a
grand and fashionable assemblage,
was to take place during his ab
sence and he said that he should
prefer she would not attend.
fche was onlv twenty. Jjet this
much be said in extenuation of the
two great tears that rose to the
brown eyes and slowly tricl'led
down the pretty face, splashing on
the dainty " morning "dress, which
clinging to the dainty form, revealed
so perfectly its graceful outlines.
Certainly Niobe had no reason to
feel ashamed of this one of her chil
dren. Rut Gerald Sinclair had only
stooped and kissed away the glisten
ing drops in a half-hurried manner,
perhaps to hide his awakening re
morse. "Never mind, little wife. IH
make it up to you another time."
Then he was gone; but she sat
still, turning and returning her wed
ding ring, with eyes bent upon it.
It was a curious ring a solid band,
set with five large diamonds.'
It had been her charm, her talis
man, not to be taken from her fin
ger until soul and body had parted ;
but this morning it had Jost its
charm: If it failed ' to' scatter the
clouds, it. failed to bring "back the
sunshine.
Even when the hour came round
for Gerald's home-coming, he miss
ed his usual warm welcome ; but he
thought that he might trust his
wife's heart and said nothing. The
next day he started on his journey.
"You 'r not going, mv dear?" ex
claimed Mrs. Martin, bursting in up
on her friend on the morning of the
ball. "And why not?"
"Gerald is away," replied Mrs.
Sinclair, with some little show of
wifolv dignity, as thouga the fact
were in itself sufficient explanation.
"And why need that make any
difference?" pursued Mrs. Martin,
a bewitching Jittle widow some Jew
years her mends senior.
"I will
share mv escort with you Count
Belzoni!"
Sophie Sinclair looked up amazed.
She knew that the man mentioned
had but lately gained entree into so
ciety, and knew also that her hus
band disliked and distrusted him.
Once or twice she had seen his eye
fixed admiringly upon herself, and
had felt somewhat as the bird might
feel beneath tbe basilisk glare of the
serpent
"Well, why don't you answer?"
continued Mrs. Martin. "Will you
go."
"No, no," she replied, trying to
ppeak with firm decision. "Besides,
I do not think that Gerald admires
the count."
"Prejudice, my dear, all prejudice.
The count is one of the most charm
ing and agreeable men I know. In
deed I think I should he canonized
for my willingness to share his at
tentions, especially as I have heard
him say all manner of pretty things
about you."
"Nonsense. Ellen," retorted Mrs.
Sinclair.
But she felt tbe ground slipping
beneath her feet as she spoke.
After all, Gerald had not said pos
itively no. Had he thought it nec
essary after he hadotrenly expressed
his disapprobation of her going?
He had not known that she would
be so sorely tempted. Besides, she
would wear a mask. No one would
know her ; and when she told Ger
ald he would forgive her. A sudden
thought came to her. "" "'
I will go," she said at last, after
continued urging, and looking at the
picture in all its brightest lights, "on
one condition, and that is that no
one is to know me not even the
count Say that you have persuaded
a friend to accompany vou who
wishes to remain unknown. I will
come to your house, where he will
find me, and thus gain no clue."
So it was decided ; but, in spite of
her exquisite costume of a fairy as
she concealed it and herself beneath
a large domino, as the clock on her,
mantel chimed ten, it seemed to So-i
phie that every stroke said, 4Etav !
Slav!" " : ' , ; ' ' . " i
She was almost tempted to obey
it, but she had promised Ellen ; and
after all, she had heard that it was
well for young wives to assert them- j
selves.
An hour later and, on Count Bel
zoni's arm, she ' entered upon the
brilliant scene. So far hj had not
even seemed curious to ascertain her j
identity. She experienced at this a
singular sense of relief.
The ball was at its height as the
clock rang out the hour of midnight
but for the first time in her life ligh '
and gayety were distastefuL A hun
dred times she wished herself at
home. . .
"I will tell Gerald. I have al-
ESTABLISHED 1827.
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27, 1884.
ready been punished," she whispered
to herself, as she stood for a moment
alone in a quiet corner. -
; "You look more like a nun than a
fairy rather like one who had fore
sworn the vanitietof the world, than
a siren to tempt men to their de
struction," sliid a voice close to her,
"though to" the latter I know no one
more fitted." .... .
. "Sir!"she exclaimed indignantly,
recognizing as she. spoke, the count
standing at her elbow.
"Ah ! you thought I did not know
you. I should penetrate any dis
guise you wore. Besides you have
forgotten to remove a badge of recog
nition," She followed with her eyes his
downward glance, and saw that it
rested ou her baud, ungloved, as in
better accord with the exigencies of
her costume.
Involuntarily she drew it away,
with the, ring which bad betrayed
her.
Denial was useless.
"Since you know me, then," she
said, "we will not further play a
part. To the others we are masks ;
to ourselvss we are ourselves."
"Ah,., ruadame," he whispered,
"let us rather say to the world we
are ourselves, to each other we are a
mask. , Can men, think you, look
coldly on such beauty as you
pos-
sees? Cau-
, Indignant'and alarmed, she check
ed his i'urtherjspeech by starting for
ward to escape him. His hand
closed on hen? as in a vice. She
wrenched it 'from him, sprang
among a crowd of maskers, and 60
made .her way to the door.
"Call a carriage for me," she di
rected. Ten minutes later she was within
her own home. Her first impulse
was to tear off the hated costume
which had caused her such trouble ;
her next to throw herself on the bed
and sob out her excitement and con
trition. The morning sun streaming
into her room, awoke her.
With a shudder, she remembered
the events of the past night She
looked down at her hand the hand
which had been polluted by anoth
er's touch as though in some way
she expected to find the contamina
tion branded on its soft, white sur
face. It was all unrnarred, but she
looked again she rubbed her eyes
and looked the color meanwhile
fluttering out of her cheeks and her
pale lips quivering, as if her heart
seemed to stand still in a sudden ag
ony of fear, for from the third finger
was missing the talismanic ring.
When and where she had lost it,
and how could she now find the
couraze to confess all to Gerald r
She rose and dressed, revolving the
problem in her mind.
At any hour tier nusoana mignt
return. J?or the nrst time she dread
ed to meet him dreaded to look in
to his kindly, handsome eye3, and
read there all his incredulous re
proach, mingled, perhaps, with scorn
and anger.
The day wore on. lier menu
Mrs. Martin ran in to scold her for
her desertion, but her pale face and
trembling tones made good her plea
of sudden illness.
At nightfall G.erald arrived. She
threw herself into his arms in a
burst of nervous weeping, but when
he wonderingly asked the cause her
courage failed her.
Why was it she never imagined
that he might look stern until to
day ?
A week past, when one evening,
sitting in the twilight, a step sound-
ed close beside her. She looked up
to discover the count
"Pardon!" he began, in answer to
her indignant questioning look.
"Why must you be so cruel ? May
I not now see you ?"
"Sir. I command you to leave me.
I am now under the protection of
my own roof."
He was about to answer, when a
latch key was heard inserted in the
outside door.
In an instant he had sprang into
some place of concealment but the
fact that he was near lent the young
wife a sudden courage, born of the
moment's desperation. Her husband
entering, approached her, but she
motioned him back.
"Gerald," 6he said, "I have a bitter
confession to make. It is fitting that
you should hear it now."
He listened, with arms folded
across hia breast, while she told him
all the story of the fated night
"And is this all ?" he questioned
bitterly, when she had paused.
"No, not all,,' she continued, rais
ing her voice. "My confession has
another witness, who has forced his
hated presence again upon me. The
Count Belzoni is here again, Ger
ald." . ,
As she spoke she drew aside the
curtain, but the. form she expected
to disclose was gone, the open win
dow attesting to its flight.
Silently the husband drew a pi
per from his pocket, and showed her
a paragraph offering a reward for the
arrest of a thief and swindler known
as Count Belzoni.
"My darling," he said, "my little
wife has learned a lesson she will
never forget I have known this
story all the while, but I have wait
ed until you came to tell it to me. I
returned the night of the ball to take
you with me, when I found you had
gone. Imagine what I suffered and
my added suffering when, arriving
at the scene of enjoyment, where I
had followed you, I discovered who
was your companion. I stood near
you and heard the words he ad-1
dressed to you heard with joyful
heart your answer, saw you wrench
your hand from his hold, and also
saw what you did not, the sparkle of
the ring he drew from your finger.
Poor little girL I watched you hast
en through the crowd, and knew
that you had already met your bit
terest punishment It has been
through my efforts that the count
has been traced and exposed. Only
this morning I recovered your ring
from the man with whom he had
fledged it as security. Once more
place it on your finger. But, re
member, darling, it is only the out
ward charm. A wife's true talisman
is her husband's honor."
There are 112,412 miles of raiiroad
track in this country, of which 107,
158 are in operation. , ,
Tbe Last Leather Breeches.
Old Harmanus Schooenhover was,
some fitly and odd years ago, the
'oldest inhabitant' of the village
for it was a village then of Brook
lyn, a genuine old Knickerbocker,
faithful to the traditions of the times,
and looking down with sovereign
contempt on all modern innoyations
and improvements. He lived in an
old wooden house, the gable end of
which profected far into Fulton
street, and the door yard of which
was always ornamented in the sum
mer time with those choicest of ac
climated exotics, parti-colored tulips
from Harlem, and sunflowers from
heaven knows where. Harmanus
was generailv known as the Last of
the Leather Breeches, from the style
of garment that incased his nether
limbs. He also wore a broad-skirt
ed, cinnamon-colored coat of homes
pun manufacture and make, decorat
eu wiin nuzn oiue Duttons. a very
long waistcoat of black cloth, a white
nect cloth, and a hugh three-corner
ed hat trimmed with tarnish gold
lace, in me loop of which, when
abroad, he invariably wore a little
clay pipe, with the stem tipped with
red sealing wax. We must not for
get his square-toed shoes, large
enough tor the wear ot a gouty alder
man, with their huge plated buck
les. The rising generation did not
regard his attire with that, venera
tion which it inspired in a few relics.
of the old school, who had not, how
ever, courage enough to imitate his
example and resist the modern
abominations of dress. They would
often laugh in the very face of the
studv old Knickerbocker .
His old three-cornered hat,
And his breeches and all that
Were so queer.
But the old gentleman was queer
in other ways than matters of dress.
His notions on banks or in Wall
street speculations. He would some
times shave paper with undoubted
indcrsers, and he owned some real
estate : but the bulk of his property
consisted in sundry fat little kess
solidly filled with gold and silver,
which he kept in his sitting-room
up-3tairs, fronting the street Then
he was queer in other things he had
queer ways of helping poor people
anonymously, and absurd notions
that charity should begin at home,
and only expand outwardly in pro
portion as every necessity within its
immediate sphere had been relieved.
ho that, putting all these things to
gether, the good man passed for
being a little cracked, and heads
with nothing at all in them were
gravely shaken, like empty poor-
boxes, when his name was men
tioned.
The old lellow viewed with an
noyauce and. disgust the changes
that took place in his native "village
He only smiled when the stages
from Patchogue and Babylon and
Islip disgorged at Carmanh their
loads of antiquated figures that look
ed as if they might have stepped
down from the canvasses, of a rlem
ish gallery of the seventh century.
He didn t recognize as fellow-creat
ure3 any man or woman in the
modern Parisian mode.
At length the wise men of Brook
lyn pronounced Schooenhover's
house a nuisance. It was shabby,
it was tumble-down, it destroyed
the alignment of the street. It
must come down. The corporation
offered him a handsome price for it
He rejected it with disdain. He was
told that he must abandon his man
sion the homestead of his father
i will ye nill ye. He dared them to
violate the sanctity ot nis castle.
He was notified to vacate he
scorned the summons. The whole
town became interested.
Tbe old man was a non resistant,
like old Father Lem3on. He shut
himself up with his money-bags
and doggedly awaited the result
Workmen were sent to pull down
the house. The whole vicinity was
thronged with curious spetiators as
at a ship-launch, Merrily rang the
axes and the hammers and saw, and
the 'yo heave-ho ! of sturdy fellows
pulling and hauling at cables. At
last the end of the house was torn
away shaming the legal fiction that
a man's house in his castle and
there sat old Hermanus in hi3 elbow
ehair, with his cocked hat on hi9
head and his immortal breeches on
his sturdy legs, sublime in his mar
tyrdom, and smoking tranquilly his
old clay pipe. His family had been
removed to another of his houses.
He was invited to join them. But
he declined, wich a majestic wave
of the band and a graceful emission
of tobacco smoke. Then he was
lifted carefully, arm-chair and all,
carried down the staircase, and de
posited on the opposite sidewalk.
His goods and chattels were sent to
his wife ; but even when hia money
kegs departed he refused to accom
pany them, but sat all through that
day a silent spectator of the utter
demolition of his venerable house.
At night he rejoined hU family.
The removal of this old landmark
marked the merging of one era into
another, and had the significance of
an historical event The corpora
tion paid tbe old man a large sum,
but he did not long survive the de-1
struction of his house. His son
lives in a palace and drives blooded
horses, but few beyond the family
remember, in the heady current of
life, the, 'Last of the Leather Breech-
es' of New York.
A "Walking Skeleton.
Mr E. Springer of Mechanicsburg
Pa., writes "I was afflicted with
lung fever and abscess on lungs, and
reduced to a walking skeleton. Got
a free trial bottle of Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption, which
did me so much good that I bought
a dollar bottle. After using three
bottles, found myself once more a
man, completely restored to health,
with a hearty appetite, and a gain
in flesh 43 lbs."
Call at C. N. Boyd's Drua Store and
get a free trial bottle of this certain
cure for au Lung Diseases. Large
bottles $1,00.
The first society for the executive
purpose of circulating the Bible
was organized in 180-3, under the
name of the British and Foreign
Bible Society. .
eraM
J Jl.
Social Character of Athletic Sports.
Bodily exercises imply society
and a social disposition ; for if a sol
itary person, like Robinson Crusoe
or Enoch Arden, were to be found
daily practicing with the bars and
rings, we should suspect him, not
of social, but of ominously selfish
and morbid tendencies. Tho pleas
ure of being strong lies in iht fact
that others are strong around us
thereby furnishes us with compan
ionship and competition which are
the fuel of life. Health is. or should
be, incidental to this pleasure : that
is to say, I question the propriety
ot making health the deliberate ob-
ject ot exercise,
Let it come if it
will: but it will come none the
slower if you forbear to be on the
watch for it. To make yourself
strong for the sake of your private
health ia the analogue of obeying the
decalogue for the sake of your pri
vate crown ; there is something un
pleasantly unsympathetic about it
But be strong simply because man
kind at large will be better if all men
become physically more eflicient
and the other blessings shall be ad
ded to you. Moreover, apart from
the stimulus of example and fellow
ship, it is doubtful whether one man
in twenty will take the trouble reg
ularly to exert hersell. Lnlessthere
be some motive' outside himself, he
will soon cease to think it worth
while. Dr. Winship used to say
that he never would have made him
self the man he was but for the
purpose he had formed to thrash
certain offensive upper-class man in
college; and Mr. William Blaikie
began his athletic career an appar
ently hopeless consumptive. Dr.
Winship lifted three thousand
pounds, and Mr. Blaikie pulled
stroke of the Harvard crew in their
great race with Yale ; but it would
be useless to tejl me that the desire
to turasn a mv or to heal a disead
lung had more than the minutest
share in bringing these results about.
If it had" not been for the gymnasi
um, with its jolly society of zealous
and emulous young gymnasts, Win
ship would never have lifted his
own weight, and Blaikie would have
been, at best, a valetudinarian.
The fame of the Olympic and Isth
mian games still echoes in our ears
but it was not the games that made
Greece go to see them ; it was
Greece going to see them that made
the games. In the same way I have
noticed that the university crews of
Oxford and Cambridge, for example
profess to be superbly indifferent as
to whether the British public on
the day of the race lines the river
bank from Putney to Mortlake;
indeed, they have lately undertaken
to intimate that they would prefer
to have the public keep away. But
no one know3 better than they
themselves that, were the public
some day to take them at their
word not only would the crews nev
er find the energy to get themselves
into condition, but were that difficul
ty overcome, tbey would never find
it in their hearts to pull further that
Hammersmith Bridge, near which
there is a very good ale-house. I
do not wish, however, to run this
theory into the ground ; I only wish
to indicate that athletics are essential
ly a popular pursuit, conducive to
good citizenship, and the cultivation
of which, therefore, good citizenship
should imply. Julian Hawthorne,
in Harper MagAzine for August.
How to l'low Orchard.
Whether to plow the orchard to
the trees each year or to turn the
sod in opposite directions in alter
nate years must depend on the sou
and location. It is only in excep
tional cases that the former course
should be pursued. In poorly
drained orchhards, on low, black
land, this practice of heaping the
3od about the tree has the advantage
even in this particular, however, it
is doubtful if the benefits will over
balance the inconvenience resulting
from such a practice. Belter tile
the orchard and keep the surface
even. Drainage is not always se
cured by the deep dead furrows.
The ground must have a good nat
ural slope or deep pools will be
formed in the dead furrow just
where the young roots demand
warmth and drainage. The cons
tant lowering of the dead furrows
cut3 off tbe smaller roots and drives
them deep into the subsil where
there is little nutriment The val
uable surfacesoil is piled up around
about the trees, where it does no
good. Roots feed largely upon the
valuable elements which reach
down from the surface soil. The
most active roots of large trees are
far from the trunk. An uneven
surface in an orchard is a constant
source of aggravation, especially in
picking time, when, one must en
ter it with a wagon. Windfalls roll
into the dead farrows, and become
bruised, wet and decayed. The sod
does not usually strike close against
the body of the" tree. As a conse
quence, a little depression ia formed
there, into which drifts litter, form
ing an attractive home to insects
and mice. There i3 no danger of
injuring trees by plowing away from
them and close to them if one has
trained his trees properly, and if he
exercises care. If the practice of
close plowing be inaugurated in
young orchards the roots will start
deep enough to avoid the plow. It
is not necessary to plow deep. Trees
should be trimmed high. Low
headed trees are au abomination,
and they present hardly an advan
tage over high tops. Even the oft
repeated assertion that they are eas
ier to pick from I have usually found
very wide of the mark. To hae
comfortable picking one mu9t have
room under the tree in preferrence
to a top so low tha't he can step in
to it With' moderately high top
ed trees, short whiffle-trees, low
hames, a gentle team and a careful
man one need not fear about injur
ing trees. Plow one yev east and
west the next north and south;
one year to the trees, one year away
from them.
The English railroads have more
substantial roadbeds than those in
America, but the rolling stock is
very inferior.
WHOLE NO. 1728.
The Hot-Feoted Centipede.
Centipedes are composed of a body
of from twenty to fifty segments
each provided with two feet of claws.
The front pair are more largely de
veloped than the others. They form
a sort of "foot-jaw," and are provi
ded with poison glands. These are
the apparatus by which the insect
seizes its prey, and when these "jaws'
are brought together the pressure
forces the venom along the sharp
points of the claws into the wound.
The insect lives under damp stones
and in old walls. If a centipede
i f
crawls over a sleeping person (for it
is a night traveler) there is sai to
be enough poison exuded from its
claws to desjroy the scarf skin, but
not enough to do any serious dam
age. If, howeves the sleeper should
make some sudden movement that
alarin3 or hurts the centipede, it
prepares for war by extending its
claws into the skin of his involun
tary entertainer. Of course, the poi
son from the "foot-jaw" follows their
insertion, and pain, followed by ef
forts to remove the insect, so thrust
after thrust of the poison-bearing
claws is made, and hence the idea
that each of its feet is provided with
the same kind of weapons arises.
Itching, followed by intense pain, is
experienced : red spots appear at
each puncture, which are red and
become perfectly black at the cen
tre. The inflamation travels alon
the lymphatic vessels of the part .to
the nearest glands, which enlarge
and sometimes occasion abscesses.
There is great mental anxiety
pains in the head, back and limbs
weakness, fever and vomiting. In
very rare instances convulsions,
unconsciousness and death follow.
sometimes within tiro or six hours,
In those who recover troublesome
sloughing of the skin and underlv
ing tissues occasionally occurs. In
some persons it is said that eruptions
appear every year over the parts of
the skin affected by this kind of
injury. 1 he treatment of casea ot
poisoning by the centipede is the
same as for spider bites. It has also
been advised to give chloral and car
bolic acid internally, and to apply
astringent washes externally in cen
tipede bites,
Looking Into Empry Muzzle.
On the way down from Natchez to
New Orleans the boat rounded to at
a landing on the Louisiana shere to
take on a lot of cotton seed. She
had just made fast, and the mate
had stepped ashore "hustle them
niggers," when a middle-aged man
closely resembling the typical South
erner, suddenly stepped out from be
hind the sacks, presented a revolver
within a foot of the mate s lace, and
cried out: "Throw up your hands
or you are a dead man !" There
were faity of U3 with our eve3 on the
two men, and we held our breath as
tne mate siowiy raised his arms
above his head. He didn't change
color in the slightest, and those who
took in the details noticed that he
chewed away at his plug tobacco
with the same regular motion nei
ther faster nor slower. "Now, then,
down on your knees and beg my
pardon, or 1 11 send a bullet into
your eve !" The mate's legs wab
bled, bent and down he sank and
iemarked that he was sorry if he
had offended the other. "All right
growled the man with a pistol
as ho shoved it into his hip pocket
"after this you will be a little
more careful whom you fling your
impudence at" As he turned away
the mate made a dive with his right
hand, and up came a Derringer, out
shot the arm, and in a voice of thun
der the mate crii-d : "Halt I Throw
up your arms ! Down on your knees
or I'll blow your brains all over the
plantation I 1 he tables were turn
ed. Up went the arms, and, after a
few seconds, the man went down on
his knees, and said he had the high
est respect for the mate's moral
worth. Whe he rose up the Captain
and there had reached the pair, and
in ten seconds more they were dis
armed. "Close call that," said one
of the passengers as the Captain han
ded the weapons to the clerk to
keep until the boar, was ready to
leave. "Humph ! neither one of
'em loaded !" replied the old man.
Such was the actual fact Two
emty and harmless weapons had
humbled two men who meant shoot.
A Woman's Curious) Reqnest.
Tn the will of Racbael T. Stevens,
of Souierville, -recently filed in the
Probate Court of East Cambridge,
appeani the following bequest: "I
give and devise all my estate, both
real and personal, to the city of Bos
ton, in tru.-it, nevertheless, tut the
following use and purposes, viz.: To
pay the net income thereof in rsemi
annul payment to Hannah J. Adams,
of Somerville ; upon the death of
said Hannah tr pay the net income
of said trust estate for the support
and maintenance of poor, worthy
Protestant single women of Bwston
who have arrived at tbe age of o9
years (not including widows,) pay
ing each the sum ol $100 annually
in semi-annual payments ; upan the
marriage of any beneficiary under
this will no future payment is to be
made to her, nor is any further pay
ment to be made to any beneficiary
who becomes unworthy of help un
der this trust The foregoing is a
perpetual trust" Her Somerville
property is directed to be held in
trust until it can be sold at SI per
sqtfare foot, at which time the city
is authorized to sell without apply
ing to any Court for leave, the pro
ceeds of the sale to be held upon the
terms of the previous trust
Some Foolish People
Allow a cough to run until it get3
beyond the reach of medicine. They
often say. Oh it will wear away, but
in most cases it wears them away.
Cou'd they be induced to try the
successful medicine called Kemp's
Balsam, which we sell on a positive
guarantee to cure, theywoold imme
diately see the excellent effect after
taking tbe first dose. Price oOcts.
and $1.00.
Trial size free at C. N. Boyd's Drug
Store.
England has an
men in Ireland.
army of 45,(300
Small Farm Profitable.
The owner of fifty acres of good
ground who thoroughly understands
his business is better situated than
his neighbor who owns 200 acres and
farms according to the old theories.
The small farmer has less invest
ment, pay less taxes, and cultivates
more carefully than the large farmer.
In t rance and Germany the farms
are generally very small, often not a
fourth of the size of average Ameri
can farms, but they are worked bo
carefully that, while steadily increas
ing in fertility, they still produce a
great deal more per acre than our
own. The owner of many acres is
apt to neglect the poorer portions of
his ground, and thus manuring,
rotating and cultivating are reduced
to a system that produces the best
possible results.
An example of German gardening
will illustrate the point Within
three miles of Tort Jeryis lives a
German family consisting of six or
seven persons. For years they have
liyed on a strip of sandy land lees
than two acres in size, a part of
which is covered by the dwelling, a
barn and outhouses. The woman of
the family, an able-bodied and in
telligent person, who had learned
her work in Baden, cultivated this
piece of ground, and for a series of
years supplied her table with vege
tables and sold from $300 to $4U0
worth of vegetables annually.
Every inch of room was occupied.
From early spring, to late autumn
crop after crop of lettuce, beet,
spinach, cabbage, potatoes, corn,
beans, mangold, wurzels, asparagus,
onions, endive, eg plants, peppers,
salsify, cauli-flowers and other plants
appeared. Every bit of waste mate
rial fit for the purpose was thrown
on the compost heap or turned into
liquid mancur and the naturally
sterile piece of ground was made to
pay for itself over and over again.
The fences were built in trellis form
to support grapevines, and not a
square inch of ground escaped the
payment of tribute exacted by the
indefatigable woman who tilled it
Her methods are those in steady use
in Germany, where overcrowded
population has rendered necessary
the thoroughest working of the soil.
Her plants for setting are the first
in the market, and sho is the last in
the autumn to offer fresh vegetables
for the table. To such a farmer
fifty acres of good land would be a
fortune. It is such tillage as this
which makes it possible for French,
German, English and Italian holders
of twenty-acre or thirty-acre or lourty
acre farms to earn a living, while
American holders of farms, of equal
ly good land, ranging from 100 to
jt acres, work about a hard and
are forever under mortgage and on
the very verge of bankruptcy. The
future will certainly witness a great
revolution in American farming.
and one of the features calculate! I to
bring about a better state of affairs
will be the division of land into
smaller farms and the consequent
improvement in agricultural meth
ods.
Story Discredited.
Washi.(jto5, August 12. The ac
count published in New York this
morning stating that the records of
the Navy Department showed that
the rescued members of Lieutenant
Greely's party had partially sustain
ed life upon the fleah of their dead
comrades is wholly discredited at
the department to-day.
Canute and Effect .
t times symptoms of indigestion
are present, uneasiness of the stom
ach, Sec, a moisture-like perspira
tion, producing itching at night, or
when one is warm, cause the Piles.
The effect is immediate relief upon
the application of Dr. Bosanko's
Pile Remedy, which costs you but
oO cents, and is sold by C. N. Boyd,
the Druggist
There are 20,000 producing oil
wells in Pennsylvania, yielding, at
present, W.QOO barrels of oil per day
t takes o,0U0 miles of pipe line and
,C00 barrels each to transport and
store the oil and surplus stock.
Thousands Say So.
Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan.,
writes : I never hesitate to recom
mend your Electric Bitters to my
customers, they give entire satislae-
tion and are rapid sellers. Elec
tric Bitters are the purest, best medi
cine known and will positively cure
Kidnev and Liver com plaints. Pu
rify the blood and regulate the bow
els. No family can afford to e
without them. -They will save hun
dreds of dollars in doctor's bills every
year.
bold at hltv cents a bottle by U .
Bovd.
Malarial poison can be entirely
removed from the system by the
use of Ayer's Ague Cure, which con
tains a sure specific, in the form of
a vegetable product, used in no oth
er remedy. Warranted.
Maud S. has beat Jay-Eye-See's
record by one-fourth of a second. It
v anderbilt s turn to be elated,
and J. I. Case will doubtless feel
the loss of his short-livid position
s owner of the "fastest horse in
the world."
A Dreadful Dlsieaae.
Read, pondei and profit thereby.
Kemp's Balsam for the Threat and
Lungs is conceded by all who have
used it to excel any preparation in
the market as a complete Throat
and Lung Healer. All persons af
flicted with that dreadful disease
Consumption will find speedy re
lief and in a ma jority of cases a per
manent cure. The proprietor has
authorized C. N. Boyd, to refund
the money to any party who has
taken three-fourths of a bottle with
out relief.
Price 50 cents and $1.00. Trial
size free.
An exchange says that a Chicago
girl sleeps with her feet out ot the
window because she has read that
"cold contracts."
The first temperance society in
this county was organized in Sara
gota County, New York in March
1S08.
Texas comprises 288 organized
counties, and territory enough to
form 100 more.
There are now 19 producing gas
wells in Allegheny, W ashington and
Westmoreland counties.
More than one-half, and probably
two-thirds, of the lawyers of Berlin
are Hebrews.
The Delaware peach crop is said
to be very large.