uu . ..-V- t- K- if- aV.'- 3 - he Somerset Herald ITUiUXK HI . Terms of Publication, j lMlshed every WImUj mornln; at 3 00 per annual, ir paid 1" advane ; otherwise ? wUl Invariably b charged. No rebserlpUoo will b. elseooUcsed nUI HI srreenMre ar paid P- Port"trt neglecting to notify wbea bwiori do not tak wrt t belr paper wlU be held responsible for tb SCrlptfOtt. c.hrihen nmovlnc from on ostoffioe to aa-' other should five ui th bum ol tb former well M the present efflca. Addra The Somerset Herald, Somerset. Pa. bomerset, Pa. cpe- I? RED W. RIESECKER, "4 KtU- ATTOKN EY-ATX AW, Somerset. Pa. Office, npalrs la Cook h BeertUj' Uluca. GEORGE R. FCULU w ATTORNEY-ATLAW, Somerset Pa. TOIINR.POOTT I ATTORNET-AT-I.AW, v Somerset, Pa. F. S J. KOOSER. ATTOKN EY-AT-UAW, Somerset, Pa. "g. ENDSLEY. , ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Soiucrnot I SU. TRENT. . ATTOKKEY-AT-LAWr, Somerset, Penn'i . I7D B. SCULU V ATTOINEY-AT-LAW, Somerset, Pa. H, L. BAER, ATTORNEY -AT LAW, Somerset, P-, Will practice In Somersetand edlolnlns:euntle. AU "uC entrusted to him wlU promptly attended to. n.cx)rFnTn W. H. KITPEL. c IOFFROTII & KUPPEL, ATTOKK E i S-A l -i .... n their eare will be All purine --- -- - Slee.iflv and punctually attended to. l7!r,,-.B-4 in Main Cross street, opposite the Mammoth Block. AJ.COLW.lt?;. UC.CXH.BOAA. nOLBORN t COLBORN j ATTORKEY5-AT-LAW. All badness Intrusted to onreare will be prompt It A talthlv attended to CVUectl. made In Sm eWu Bedford, and adjolnln Ox.nn.ie. Survey in A Coveyanclng dune on reasonable terms. ILLIAM II. KOONTZ. ATTOKN tY-AT-UA w , Somerset, Pa., will irfve immpt attention to business entrust ed Tt.' nlfrar. In rJ-meraet and adjoining counties. CJ.-flo in Printing House Row. DENNIS MEYERS, ATTORN EY-AT-I.AW Somerset, Penn s All leiral business entrusted to talscare will be attended to with promptness and fidelity. IMiit on Main frots Street, su-M dour to Sny dcr A I o.'s store, aprt . TAMES I PUGII, ' Somerset. Pa. Ufnce. Mammoth Block, tip stairs. fc0'"'?: Bialn Crow street. Collections made, estates settled, titles eiamlned. and all leiral business attended to with promptness and fidelity. PY. KIM MEL. . ATTORNEY-ATI Vf, Baj S Somerset, Pa. jTritts. . ATTORNEYATXAW Somerset, Pa. Offloe, up-stalrs in Mammoth Block. JOHN 0. KIMMEL. J ATTORN EY-AT-L.AW, Somerset. Pa. Will attend to all business entrusted to his ear InS omerset and adiolnins: counties with prompt ness and ndcllty. ' Hnce on Main Cross street. H fx-r criIFIT, ' ..1111 1' - '-' d ian,aimi AirenL Somerset, Pa. Oftlce In 'Mammotn Black. TfALENTINE HAY. ATTORN EY-AT-IJIW And Healer In Real Estate. Somer t, P will attend to all business entrusted to nil care wun promptness and Odety . JOHN II. UHL. ATTOKN EY-ATXAW Somerset, Pa, Will-promptly attend to all business entrusted to him. Monev advanced on collections, AC. Ol hce In Mammoth Building. T G.OGLE. J . ATTORNEY-AT LAW, Somerset Pa Professions! business entrusted to mj ear at Umled to with promptness and ndellty. DR. J. M. IX)UTHER, (Formerly of Stoyestown.) PHYS1CUS ASD SVRGKOS, Has loeaUd oermanentty In Somerset f-r the practice ol his protessti. OtCce S doors W est ot entral Hotel, In rear of Pros; Store. may.0. QR. E. W. BLOUGH, U0MF0PATH1C rHYSlCAX ASD SVRGEOS Tenders his services to the people of Somerset and vlcinitv. Calls In twn or country promptly att-nded to'. Can I tound at offlec ilijw night, unless professionally enmiied. -Otflce on Snuthesst enrnT ol IHamond. over Kneprs Shoe Store. aprs-Mtl. DR. II. S. KIMMEL tenders his prolesslonal service to the eltl fns of S.nenwtand Vicinity. I Tnlese profession a I enured lie can be tound at falsatnoe, ua Main St., east ot the Diamond. DR. II. BRUBAKER tenders hi? professional services to the eltliens of Som ervet and vicinity. OiBce In residence on Main street west of the Diamond. DR. VM. RAUCII tenders his professional services to the citiiens of Som erset and vit-inliv. omce Onedooraasvof Wayne A Berkebile s lurniture store. Dee . . DR. JOHN BILLS." DENTIST. Office p starri in Cook A lteeriU Block , Somer set. Pa. DR. WILLIAM COLLINS. DENTIST. SOMERSET, PA. Office In Mammoth Block, above Hoyd i Drus; Store, where lie caa at ail limes be found pre par-e-i to do all kinds ol work, such as cliin-. ren tal ins:, extractms;. A rtlccial teeth of all kinds, and of the best material Inserted. Operations warranted. H. HOWARD WYNNE, M D. JOIIXSTOWX, rEXXJ. IMsessesof the Eve. Ear. Nose and Throat. Special and t xclnsive practice. Hours. 0 a. M. to r. A. Luther A Oreea Block, S Main SU J P. THOMPSON, M. D. a SVROEON DENTIST. Johnstown, Pa. Has had a professional experience ot more than thirty years. Kn lig Tkitm a SrnnatTT. ( ittice nomt No. xr: Jiieln street (up stairs) over John Dibert's Hardware Store. It will be neces sary for rsons who wsnt work done to make en eaicemeiits beforehand. "etlAtS. DR. J. K. MILLER has perma nentlv loaeted in Berlin tor the practice f his prolession. Office opposite Charles Krlssine er's stor air. tt, T-tt D IAMOND HOTEL, STOVSTOWK. VKKS'A. This popular and well known bouse has lately been taruehly and newly refitted with all new end tet ot lunilture. which hat made It a very desirable stongdna- place for the trauellns; public. H is table and rwnrs cannot be surpassed, all be ns; first class, wit h a larice public hall attached to the same. Also lam and roomy stabltna. Elm class board in- eaa lie had at the lowest pos sible prices, by the week, day or sneaL SAMC EL OrSTER. Prop, la. E. Cor. Diamond Stoystuw ,Pa I Estata of C. a. W titer, late of MeyersdaU Bor- oaTa someraes oo,, ra-, aeco. Letters testameotarr on above estat having been granted to the undersigned by the proper aa thonty, notice Is hereby given to all persons in drMed to said estate to maka immediate pay nieat. and those having claims against It to pre. sol them duly authenticated lor settlement on t rider, Septrmher IX lw4. at the lata residence ol the deceased, la Meyersdale. CLARA WALTER. "MC27- Executrix. AQDI7C Sends eents tor post , rV I Aim Ca a and receive free a mUy b.ii of fuM, ahtcb. will help you to more money rikht awsv-than anrthlng else to this world. AU. of (uct seg. litoowl Iron first hur. i he bread rvad to fortune opens belore the work ers, absolutely aire, xt once address. Tarn A Ow.,AagstA, MalM. ' woa. V 1 tie VOL. XXXIII. NO. 15. G-REAT BARGAINS IN BRASS AND COPPER KETTLE LARGEST STOCK Al test Prices Ever Offerefl. at Wholesale anJ Retail. HAM'FACTl'RER Plain, Stamped, and Japanned Tinware. RANGES, STOVES AND HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, , , COPPE, SHEET-IRON WARE, AND BRUSHES. '. W-Order Solicited from Merchants S.'llng Gools In In My Llne.-S 280 Washington Street, TO THE Farming Trade ! We wish to call your attention to the IMMENSE STOCK -OF OUR- O'lrbrou-d Mole of Monogram BOOTS & SHOES. Which we have Just lteceived for the FALL AID WINTER TRADE, Every Pair are Warranted to Give ENTIRE SATISFACTION By the Manufacturer, and if they fail to do as we guar antee them to do, we refund the money or give you a New Pair FEEE Oj COST ! Please bear in mind that we are Sole Agent for the Monogram Boots & Shoes In Johnstown, and no other Shoe Dealer can sell you the Monogram Boots & Shoes But Us. Our Stock of other BOOTS AND SHOES Of Coarse, as well as Medium and Fine is Larger this Fall than ever, and at Prices that "Will surprise you. We can save you fully 25 per cent by buying your Fall 'and "Winter Stock from Us. L ONE-PPJCE SHOE STORE No. 212 Main St., Johnstown, Pa. A NEW ENTERPRISE. E. M. Lambert & Bro., Xanaraetnrers of and Dealers In Me Fe aiil HeoM SliiJcs- We have secured a IN 3rW MTT.L, And auDatactnra Shingle on the Mleblgaa Principle. We cut. and constantly keep on band two gradescf the various kinds ot Sblnglea. gaaisate our Shingle to t superior to any In tb Ceanty. Sball b pleased to bare parties eme and l&sport oar sblngics betur La J leg lsber. Addre . E. M. LAMBERT & BRO., UK BERTS VILLE, SOM LKKT CO., Pa, ' wnrll aa. STAR&ARDTERS U o AND JOBBER IN Johnstown, Pa. SOMERSET COUNTY BANK ! (ESTABLISHED 1877.) CHARLES. J. HiEISCN. Iff. 1. PEITTS. President. Cashier Collections made in all parti of the United States. CHARGES MODERATE. Parties wtshlnir to send money West ean be ao- mmmwiated bv draft on New York In anr sum. Collections made witn promptness. TT. S. Bonds bongbt ana sola, money ana vaiaanies eocureu by uoe of Dlelwld's celebrated safes, with a Sar gent A Yale t0 00 time lock. ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. sr-AIUega holidays observed. ALBgBT A. KOSHB. J. Soott Ward. HOME & WARD SrtXTSSOKS TO EATON & BROS, SO. 27 FIFTH AVESUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. SPRiS? 57l882. NEW GOODS EVEEY DAY SPECIALTIES imbrclderlat, Laces, Willlnsry, Whit Goods, Haad kerchieft, Dress Trimmings, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Wuills and Reriao Underwear, la fantt' and Children's Clothing. Fancy Goods, Yarns, Zeshyrt, Mate rial of All Kinds for FANCY WORK, Gent's FiraisMii GcoSs, k, k rccat raToAO ia BxsHcTnrLLT aoLiciTSD, TOrders by Mail attended to with Prompt nem and Dispatch. TPXTPS "THE OLD RELIABLE." 25 YEARS IN USE. Hie Greatest Medical Triumph of (he Age. Indorsed all over the World, SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Lossof appetite. Nausea, bowels cos; tive. Pain in the SeacLwith a dull sen: satipnin teaaaxtyinjander the shoulder blade.' fullness after eat ing, with adismjBUhontcxeiori of body or mind. Irritability of temr er, Low spirl tstossof memory, with a feeling of Saving neglected some dntyt weannessTTDizziness, Flntterr tpg of the Heart, flotsbefore the eyes. Yellow Sbin.Headache,Restlessnes3 at night, highly ooIbrecTUrine. IT THESE W ASKINGS ARE TTKHEZDED, BZilCuS SSZA3I3 VTLL COSH El BaTTtLanS. TOtTS FILLS are especially adapted to och cases, one doe effects such a change of feeling as to astonish tbe sufferer. TneylsMvraae tbe Appetite, and canas tbe body to Take est Fleak, thus tlx; sys tem Is ssAartstietl, and by their Tanks AcUoh on tbe IHgretlv. ernas, atesns l.r Sltool. ar prc.1uncf1. iMce an o-Mt. TUTTS IIAlIt DYE. Gkat Hah or Whiskurs changed to a Kuitwr Black by a single application ot this pre. It impart a natural color, acts Instantaneously, fcohl by ImiggisU, or -nt by express on receipt of Office, 44 Murray St., New York FASHIONABLE CUTTER & TAILOR, Having bad many years experience In all branches of be Tailoring bus iness. 1 guarantee Satisfaction to all who may call an on me and tavor me with tbelr pat ronage. Vaars, At, WH. H. HOCH8TE ILEK) licmerset, Pa. mart CHARLES HOFFMAN, CA.oow Heaury Xiaffl7s) Btorej LATEST STILES til LOWEST PRICES. tSTSATISFACTIOM GUARANTEED. SOMERSET, T?J. At owtnt tree. No risk. Oep P.eader. If ua which nersoa of wiak great pay aU srritelor wansraJar I H. Haxurrr, Portland, M a. iiu ti verA. witn .moiui. eenaiBiT IIERCHAKT TAILOR K f f a week at home. U' I " I " bat absolutely ran II 11 llal not required. (Ill It. Jw.nt hnlHA mt iheres,yiiB; or old, ean omer RARE OLD BEX. From tbe Brooklyn Eagle. Rare old Ben, with the bias eye. Rare ami tough, and extremely sly ; Busy ell day, and op all night. Free of speech, and quick ia fight ; Up to snnff with your guileless tricks. The bold of your high hat full of bricks. Scoffed and hated and feared of men, Rare old Ben ! Rare and no gravy. Rare old Ben of the bunting mill, Running for office, time to kill ; Inde-deniocrat republican-Anti-monopoly-workingman-Labor-reformer-corumunist-High-license-prohibitionist-Greenbacker all things to all men, Rare old Ben ! Rare, and turned over. Rare old Ben of the sandy craw. General, Governor, man of law ; Red in his buttonhole blooms the rose, Red the blood in his bad eye glows ; When he is reaiiy to fight or talk. Some man is going to ''holler" or walk, B for Bunting, Butler, and Ben Rare old Ben! Rare, but not too rare. R. J. Burdetle. FIRST LOVE. BY S. B. Kate Dallas was the prettiest grl in society that winter. j People s ideas of beauty diner as widelv as the Doles, but Kate's dewr, scarlet lips, and pearl-clear complex ion, with its rich relief of golden hair and eyes deep, like the petal of a larkspur, claimed a sort of alle giance from everyone and I, as Miss Dallas fiance, of course was the mark of envy for half the young men about town. And to tell tbe truth, I could hardly realize my own good luck. bue bad really pronaisea to De mine the fair, graceful young belle to become the beacon star of my home the guardian angel of my life! I tried to think of these things when I saw her the queen of the drawing room circles and the favor ite where all were fair ! And I tried, moreover, to remember them, when it happened, as it often did, that Kate was unreasonable or disposed to be capricious and exacting. " You are late to-night, Fernan do 1 " Ehe said, pettishly, one even ing as I came into her presence. She was looking bewitchingly pretty, with her chorry lower lip pouted a little, her pretty brow con tracted, and a deep carmine flush upon her cheeks, while the violet silk dress that she wore made her blonde beauty even more brilliant than its natural effect "Just five minutes, Kate, that's all ! " I apologized, as I eat down beside her, and drew her little hand into mine, by way of making peace with her. But she jerked it petu lantly awy. "Did vou brine the white tea rosea ? " " I couldn't get them, Katie, upon my word. There has been a floral masquerade somewhere up town and every tea rose is gone. I order ed a lot of white violets they are sweeter still!" " I don't want them," fretted my fiance. " When I say tea roses, I mean tea roses ! " " But, Katie, I'm not a magician, to make flowers blossom at midwin ter." "I won't have the violets, any way! said Kate, fanning herself violently. " Don't sit so close to me, Fernando you have been smok ing!" with a curl of her pretty lip and an indescribable grimace of disgust " Only one cigar, Katie, and I sup posed that the wind would have re moved all traces of that long before I got here !" I confessed, in laughing contrition. " I hate cigars I " " But, Kati! " "And you know it, Fernando Orr!" "Indeed, Katie. I didn't intend to annoy you." "But you do annoy me and you keep annoying me and " "Stop a minute, Katie!" There was a something in her tone that warned me to protect my own digni ty. " Do vou really mean what vou say?" "Yes!" she retorted. "I sup pose you take me lor a child, who don't" understand her own words, but I am not a child, and I won't be treated so ! " -Katie!" " And I won't be scolded either," went on the spoiled child, shrugging up her shoulders. " I'll never mar ry a man that won't indulge me and look up to me, and let me have my own way in everything. I can't bear to be snubbed, and governed, and scolded, and I won't I'll break the engagement first!" " Are you in earnest ? " I asked, gravely. She tore the diamond ring from her fore-finger, and gave it back to me. " There ! " she said defiantly. " I am free from man's tyranny now, at all events ! " Perhaps she thought I would in sist on her retaining the sparkling token of our engagement perhaps she expected a pretty little scene, wherein I should go down on my knees, and ask pardon for my cigar and the missing tea roses, and the five minutes of tardiness, and the various other delinquincies of which I had most undoubtedly been guil ty. But if any such impression had taken possession of her mind, she was very soon disabused of it I had already endured enough to bring me to the limits of my pa tience, and rose quietly op. "Good-by.then, Katie!" "Good -by, Mr. Orr!" I stopped at the door and then turned round. "Katie, if you should think bet ter of this during the next week I will come to you any time you choose to send for me." "You needn't trouble yourself," said Kate, haughtily ; " I shall not send," So we parted for fifteen long years. It was Love's first young dream with me, and I was a little in clined to be sentimental about it at first ; but then, years afterward, set ESTABLISHED 1827. SOMEBSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, when I married Florence Siloo, out in Chicago, I waa aa heart-whole a young gentleman as the United States coald afford. Florence waa not, perhaps, so radiently pretty as Kate Dallas had been, bat she had one ef those pure faces which make a man feel better and holier only for looking into its sweet lineaments ; and, moreover, Florence didn't ob ject to cigar smoke, and had a way of being satisfied with whatever of ferings I laid at her feet, whether they were tea roses or white violets. And when I saw Florence Silon sit ting opposite roe as my wife, I could not regret the abrupt termination of my first engagement, although I still remember Kate Dallas' golden hair and limpid eyes, and wonder within myself what luckless cavalier was the present object of her pretty despotism. " Fernando. I am quite 6ure you have missed the way." I burst out laughing at the be wilderment of my wife's voice. " It looks like it, Flora, I must 11 II A V P say. en, we must anve Dacn to the last cross-roads five miles if it I is a step !" I looked around at the fine old woods on either side of the solitary j road, in hopes of seeing something Hike a human habitation. , f .IT 1 T, . T 1 . iook, x lorence s i cnea tri umphantly, as I checked the horses, "ifrn't that smoke?" Florence shook her head. 'Mist from some low-lying stream, more likely," she said, increduously. " As if my eyesight were not more trustworthy than that ! I tell you, young lady, that is smoke. There's a rural cot among thoie ce dars, and I intend to cast myself and you upon the hospitality of these dwellers in the wilderness. I am hungry." " So am I." laughed mv wife ; " but I don't believe " I sprang out, picketed my horse to a tall sailing and gave my arm ostentatiously io my bright-eyed companion. " At all events," I said, " we'll go and see." Across the cool aisles of the mid summer woods through dense un derbrush and thickets of wild roses, that showered their pink petals round our feet as we walked over a clear stream, by the aid of a fallen log we made our way, until Flor ence's doubts were solved by the ac tual appearance of a little one-story cottage or cabin of unpainted wood, in a stump-dotted clearing, where a melancholy pig, rooting under the porch foundation, and a patch of yeliow-looking, stunted cabbages in the backgrdund, denoted something like civilization. "Ob, Fernando I " whispered my wife, as we saw a coarse-looking, shock-headed man, smoking a short black pipe on the porch, with his el bows on his knees and a greasy newspaper before him, while two or three sun-burned elves in faded clothing played around his feet " Let us go back ! This is such a hor rid place!" " I dare say we can buy a draught of milk, or even a raw cabbage here," I reassured her. "Why, Flor ence, child, you wouldn t make much of a Boldier! " The man looked as we ap proached, and we explained the di lemma in which we found ourselves. "Ob, of course of course," he said with a gleam of courtesy which showed that he had not always pass ed his life in these dreary wilder nesses. "Sit down; Jamie, call your mother. I believe my wife's somewhere round at the back of the house splitting kindlings." Florence opened wide her soft, brown eyes at this speech. "You are an invalid?" "An invalid?" with a hearty laugh, which plainly indicated the sound condition of his lungs at least. " Not much of the invalid about me, I guess ! " " Then why don't you split the kindlings for her?" asked frank Flerence. He arched his eyebrows with lazy scorn. " 1 don't believe in this business of Woman's I'ights and Female Suffrage," he answered, slowly puff ing the black pipe. " I'm for keep ing women down where they belong. If my wife isn't hard at work, she'll be whining and complaining about the days when we were better off I'm not the man to humor woman's whims. St Paul's better than any of your modern apostles, and he believed in keeping women at work. Florence was about indignantly to combat this position, when a lit tle bare-legged urchin came tum bling round the corner of the hut. " Mother ain't splitting kindlings, she's gone to the spring for water ! I hollered to her to come quick. Poppy wanted her." " That's right sonny ! " said our host, complacently. Almost in the same moment, a bowed -down, weary -loooking woman emersed from the wall of the woods below the house, carrying a brim ming pail of water in either hand a faded, bonnet less woman, whose yellow, lusterlees hair was twisted into a tight knot at the back ot her head, and whose brow was already seamed with wrinkles, though she had scarcely reached middle age. Yet thtre was an impalpable some thing in the wan face that strained my memory Btrangelv. " Kate Dallas !" I involuntarily exclaimed. She stopped and Bet down the pails coloring scarlet ; I saw that our recognition was mutual. " Let me carry them," I said ad vancing. " Needn't trouble yourself," said tbe master of the house. "She is used to it, arent you, Kitty? So yon know my wife, eh, sir ? " I introduced myself and Flor ence, and learned, in my turn, that my " first love " was married to Mr. Sykes, who bad failed in business three times in New York and its neighboring cities, ard had taken to w farming " by way of final settle ment in life. a You see that we are yery poor," began Kate, nervously, ana "Nothing to be ashamed of in that," broke in her husband, as she was stopped by a fit of coughing, the consequence of a black pipe, which Mr. Sykes had relighted and was puffing vigorously in her face. "You don't object to smoking, nowadays, Katie," I said a little mischievously. But I was sorry a moment afterward, when I saw the scarlet mount into her cheek. We remained only long enough to partake of a slight repast of crack ers and milk, and Katie turned away her head as Mr. Sykes pocket ed the bank bill I handed him, with a prufl : " All's fish that comes to my net!" Poor Katie ! I knew how mortifi ed she was, but I did not wish to witness her discomfiture. I have not seen my first love since ! The Duke of Wellington's Experi ment. In a gronnd-floor room in one of the large public buildings of London a man sat writing at a table covered with papers. He was a short, strong ly built figure, with a prominent nose, and face hard and massive as a granite statute, the set look pecu liar to men who have surmounted great difficulties and confronted great perils. Few, indeed, had had more practice in both than this man, for he was no other than the Duke of Wellington, and his crowning victory at Waterloo was still but a few years old. There was the tinkle of a bell out sidv, and then a murmur of voices in the anteroom ; but the duke nev er raised his head from his writing, even when his secretary entered and said. "if it please your grace, that man with tbe bullet proof breastplate has called again, and wishes very much to see your grace for a mo ment." The Duke's face darkened, as well it might, for the man in question was the most pertinacious bore whom he had ever encountered. The bullet-proof cuirass was his own invention, and he never lost a chance of declaring that the safety of the whole British army depended upon its instant adoption of this "unpar alleled discovery," which he carried about with him, and exhibited at all times and in all places. Had this been all he would soon have been disposed of ; but, unluckily, he had contrived to interests in his in vention one or two of the Duke's personal friends, and to get from them letters of recommendation which ven Wellington could not easily disregard. Something must clearly be done, however ; for al though the fellow had hitherto been kept at bay, he was evidently deter mined to give the Duke no peace till the matter had been fully gone into. For a moment Wellington looked so grim that the secretary began to hope for the order which he would gladly have obeyed, viz., to kick the inventor into the street forthwith. But the next instant the iron face cleared again, apd over it played the very ghost of a smile, like a gleam of winter sunshine upon a precip ice. "Show him in," said he, brief- The observant secretary noted both the tone and smile that accom panied it ; and he inwardly decided that it would have been better for that inventor if he had not insisted on seeing the Duke. In came the great discoverer a tall, slouching shabby, slightly red nosed man, with a would be jaunty air, which gave way alittle, however before the "Iron Duke's" penetrating glance. "I am glad to think that your Grace appreciates the merits of my invention." said he, in a patronizing tone. "They are, indeed, too im portant to be undervalued by any great commander. Your Grace can not fail to remember the havoc made by your gallant troops at Waterloo among the French cuirassiers, whose breastplates were not bullet proof whereas, it "Have you got the thing with you''"' interrupted Wellington. The inventor unwrapped a very showly looking cuiraps of polished steel, and was just beginning a long lecture upon its merits, when the Duke cut him short by ask ing, "Are you quite sure it ' bullet proof?" "Quite sure, your Grace." "Put it on, then, and stand in that corner." The other wonderingly obeyed. "Mr. Temple," Ehouted Welling ton to his secretary, "tell the sentry outride to load with ball-cartrige, and come in hereto test this cuirass. Quick, now !" But quick though the secretary was, the inventor was quicker still. The moment he realized that he had been set up there on purpose to be fired at, and to be shot dead on the spot if bis cuirass turned out to be no bullet-proof after al), he leapd headlong through the open window with a yell worthy of a Blackfoot Indian, and darting like a rocket .a .1 1 TJ across the courtyard, vanisneu through the the outer gateway ; nor did the Dune of V elhngton, lrom that day forth, ever see or hear of him again. David Ker, in ji.ditok s Drawer, Harper's Magazine for October. Poltte Highwaymen. Minneapolis, Minn., September 18. A party of northern Pacific Railroad tourists from California, a gentleman and two ladies, who ar rived here, report that while driving through the Yellowstone National Park in Montana one day last week they were halted by armed masked robbers five miles from the Upper Geyser, and robbed of their money, watches and other valuables, but escaped personal injury. One ol the outlaws, a picturesque brigand nam ed "Gentleman Jep," took a ring from the finger ef one of the ladies and kissed her hand and returned the ring. The elenhant Emneror. onlv two inche.4 less io stature than Jumbo, has been Bold by auction in England for $500. eraM 1884. X Battlefield Bought for Gold. A very interesting event of con siderable importance, historically speaking, will come off at Mum fordsville, Ky., on the 17th instant It is no less than the unyeiling of a monument weighing thirty tons- It is eight feet square at the base, six feet square at the top and twenty five feet high, cut in one piece, of white oolitic stone, near Bowling Green, Ky. The monument i3 al ready in position and bears the fol lowing inscription : -South 42", west 90, poles dis tant, is the place of the sacrifice of Colonel Kobert A. Smith and a part of his regiment, the Tenth Missis sippi, on September 14, 1S62." - James Smith, of Glasgow, Scot land, Borne time ago bought the battle-field of Mumfordsville. with the view of erecting a suitable monu ment to the memory of his brother, Colonel Robert A. Smith. Mr. Smith i3 a millionaire and was heart ily in sympathy with those who fought for the lost cause. In 1SG1 he bought the uniforms, guns, horses and trappings for equip ping a battery of artillery, which he forwarded through the blockade to Jackson, Mississippi, where it join ed the Tenth Mississippi Regiment. He arrived. m N. Y. yeasterday with a number of friends and relatives, who will immediately proceed to Mumfordsville and pitch tents on the battle-field. They will remain there until the arrangements for un veiling the monument are com pleted. The monument is located on a hill near the Louisville and Nash ville Railroad, and is in the centre of an enclosure fifty feet square, around which a handsome coping has been set. Within the enclosure there are to be erected six other monuments, one in memory of the dead of each of the regiments that took part in the engagement. Cap tain James W. Fife will superintend the removal of the remains of the Confederate soldiers who were bur ied after the battle of Mumfordsville to the new cemetry. The headstones which will be placed over their graves are four feet high and one and one-half feet wide, and will each bear the following inscription : "In memory of the dead of the Tenth Mississippi Regiment, who fell in the battle of Mumfordsville, Ky., on September 14, 1SG2 Erect ed by their grateful State." Au.i rille American. A Great Flood In Chins. The steamer San Pablo arrived ihere last evening, bringing advices j from Hong Kong to the 14th ulti mo and from lokohama to theoUth ultimo. Information has reached Canton of a frightful inundation in the province of Kiangsee. The news is dated at King-Tax. the chief centre of the pottery manufacture and one of the four great markets of the Empire. 1 he floods lasted four days and the entire country was submerged to the depth of sixty feet. Whole towns were swept away. It is believed that fully 70,000 persons perished. It is feared that a pestilence will follow. Cholera has broke out at Amoy. The num ber of deaths is not given. It has been declared to be an infected port The province of Kiangsee is an impertant district in southeastern China nearly due north of Canton and running parallel with the coast but over 200 miles inland. It has a population of about 25,000,000. The province i3 mostly mountainous but is traversed in its centre by the Kan-Kiang river, a tributary of the Yang-tse-Kian. The Kan-Kiang in its northern or lower portion wi dens into the lake of Po-Yang, one of the largest inland bodies of Wa ter in the Celestial Empire, with a length of 80 miles and a width in places of 40 miles. The Women of Arabia. A letter from Arabia says : All the bravest men steal their wives, but there are some who do not Their method is a little different. Of a calm, moonlight night and a moonlight in the tropics is far more beautiful than here you may see an Arab sitting before the tent of his inamorata picking a stringed instrument something like our ban jo and singing a song of his own composition, lhis is his courtship. They are the most musical people in the world, llie courtship only lasts a week or two. If the girl is obstinate he goes elsewhere to win another girl by his songs and music. Sometimes the fathers mace the match: bat always the girl is the obedientIave. Her religion, her people, her national instincts, the traditions of her ancestors, all teach her to be the slave of her husband. The power of life and death is in his hands, and she bows before his opin ions with the most implicit obedi ence. It is only when the fair-factd Frank comes, with his glib talk of woman's highest duties and gran der sphere, with his winning man ner, with his marked respect so flat tering to a woman's soul, that she leaves her husband forsakes the teachings of her childhood, gives up home and friends, and risks death itself to repose in bis arms. After the Concord School of Phi losophy gets through discussing Emerson it might add something to human knowledge if it would dis cuss this subject, viz: Why is it that when two young men and two young ladies who are drifting toward affectionate acquaintance Bet out for a walk in pairs within Bpeaking of each other the young lady behind feels herself in duty bound to speak to the young man in front considers it equally her duty to.pak to the young man behind ; and why, if the young men should change partners this peculiarity would still be ob served ? It is strange that this should be bo, but it ia bo, and perhapa the Concord School of Philosophy can can tell ua why it ia bo if it will de vote its powerful mind to it "Dress does not make the man," but it makes the woman supreme ly happy. WHOLE NO. 1732. The Grass Tree. Down in Australia, that great is land where the Creator seems to have planted the seed of many of His wonders to be found in the vegetable kingdom, grows a tree that is little heard of by the outside world, but which is of inestimable value to the native, who depends more upon the productions of nature for exis tence and happiness than upon the creations of art and science. It is the grass tree. It is of small growth, being hardly more than a shrub. At the top are tufts of foli age resembling palms, from the cen ter of which a long slender spike shoots out covered with flowers of varied and beautiful hues. The base of the leaves of this tree furnish tbe native with food, it being very palatable when roasted. The sap of the tree is a balsamic exudation, which when exposed to the air be comes hard and dry. This is one of nature s best tonics for dysentery, diarrhcra and other intestinal mala dies ; it ia also used by the natives for healing wounds, which it does very quickly ; and when it U mixed with alluvial soil, if forms a very tenacious cement, which is used for caulking canoes. Health and Home. A Canlba! Snake. A Massachusetts correspondent sends to Nature the following brief history of a snake's meal off anoth er about hia equal in bulk : Some years since I was amused at the conduct of a small triangular-headed snake about ten inches long that I encountered in a road, who coiled himself and struck at me as if to dispute my progress. He was a pretty little fellow, gray spotted, and I picked him up and carried him home, deposited him in a small fish globe with sand and stones in the bottom. Here he lived content edly for several months without eat ing anything, although frequently tempted with various insects and other food. After three months or so my neighbor's children brought ia a tmall black snake, shorter but rather larger in diameter than my pet, and we decided to place the two together. Scarcely had the n)iv comer touched the sand than my pet glided rapidly around the sides of the globe and struck him with his fangs just behind the head. The black snake dropped apparent ly lifeless, the other retained his hold with his jaws, and winding his tail closely about midway up the body, stretched himself out and hia prey at the same time, till he seemed to dislocate his vertebra. We could hear the black snake crack. An hour or so later I found he had be gun to swallow him, having already got the head fiairly inside his jaws. I called my family and neighbors, and we watched the process for sev eral hours. He coiled the lower part of his body around his prey at the distance of an inch or two from his jaws so tightly that it seemed almost to cut it in two, and then ap peared to curl himself together and force the portion between the coil and his jaw down his throat When that portion was injected he took a fresh hold lower down and repeated the action. The black snake disap peared quite rapidly, until the amount swallowed distended and stiffened the other so that he could not hold it with a coil. After this the process was elow and tedious, apparently being mainly carried on by alternate retractions of the jaws, and it took nearly half an hour to dispose of the last inch, which was of course very small. Finally he succeeded, and lay stretched out a singular looking specimen his out line destroyed by the convulsion of the reptile he had swallowed, which could plainly be traced through his distended skin. He lay quiet for several days and apparently digested the greater portion of it I never fed him again, and finally turned him loose, his parting salute being a vicious attack.upon my boot Home Influence. In a religious meeting recentlv, a speaker' said that if a child went wrong, it was because the home lite of the parents was not what it ought to be, and the sentiment 6eemed to meet with very general approval. We do not know what these people proposed to do with the declaration that the sins of the parents are visit ed upon the children even to the fourth generation. But whatever they mav do with it they will have a very difficult job on hand to get rid of the laws of heredity, as seen by all of us every day of our lives. If the child could be made all that it ought to be simply by training, the animal would also be Iareiy inde pendent of its parentage, and the problem of breeding would be very much simplified. The child ia sub ject to the laws of heredity. As the father and mother look into the eyes of their babe they have no idea, and can have none, as to what they can make ot the child, for they do not know what he has inherited, and must wait for time to develop it. Perhaps it has inherited from some where Hway back in the line of An cestry a passion or appetite which the best influence in the world can not wholly curb. Aa a rule a good home influence will be modifying in such cases, but not always. A doctrine such aa we have annnounc d aa coming from a speaker, is cal culated to do harm. It teachea that all the parent has to do is to live a correct life before his child. That is not all, though it is important The parent needs to be familiar with the characteristics of his ancestry, and if there are any marked weaknesses in it, it is againstthese weaknesses that he should do all he can to gnard his child. Tell the child frankly what those weaknesses were, and explain to him what his danger ia from them. Yery many wrecks of life, and in families, too. that have the most exemplary heads, are caused because of inherited weakness which the child might have guarded against if he had known it had a treacher ous enemy within itself. The Boston girl is consider ed accomplished when she can Bneeze without dropping off her eyeglasses. LJme Kiln Clab Dusit. " Genilem, dar am sartin tings dat it am well to bar in mind,' said the old man, as he slowly uncoiled him self and stood up. De man who boasti dat he can't be convinced by argyment hain' wuth de trubble o' knocking down. " De man who flatters hisself upon alius speakin' his mind am de werry pu3son who kicks hardest when crit ercised. "A shillin in money am mo' to be desired dan a dollar's worf ob credit " It am much easier to spoil a boy ob ten dan it am to reform a manob fo'ty. A man worf a millyon dollars may be friendless. Yew kin buy praise and flattery, but true frien' ship seldom soars higher dan de po' man's cabin. " De man who sees nuffin' good ip de world aroun' him can't have much good in hisself." Detroit Fret Pre. Graded Snakea. A long, lanky countryman recent ly entered the editorial rooms, and announcing himself as from Shouse town, said : " I druv up here this morning and about six miles oat of town I saw a snake lying m the road that I bet was tire feet long!" The editor briefly jotted down lager beer," and looked inquiringly at his visitor. " Don't you believe it ? I'll bet it waa over six feet!" exclaimed the man from Shousetown. The editor wrote "sour mash "on a slip and resumed attention. "lt'a a fact I ain't lying. It wouldn't be away from the truth if I said seven feet," continued the stranger, excitedly." "Rye" waa briefly jotted down with a word of comment " Ten feet ! ten feet ! You wooden headed ink-pot ! There, are you going to believe that?" " Certainly," replied the editor as he scratched off-' Ikmrbon." " litre, my friend, is a 6nake card. You will notice under fire feet, they are lager beer snakes. By the foot they go from 'sour maah,' 'old rye' and 'bourbon' up to Diamond alley whis key. That's the highest grade, and ia only used for sea serpents. Good day.' The Worship of Gold. The worship of gold can bo shown to have descended to ua from sun worship, which, in some form or oth er, has been almost universal. In plain words, men took to collecting gold and making gold trinkets, chunus, and amulets, because gold was of the same color, and possibly of the same divine material, an the sun. The sacrednesa of gold seems indicated by Pindar, who, invoking Theia, the mythical mother of the sun god, exclaims, " Through thee it in that mortals esteem mighty gold above all things else!' Originating thus in the most absurd superstition the supposed likeness of the yellow metal to the color of the sun god'a face, the value of gold has prevailed over the world for eo many ages that it ha3 become a hereditary passion : and because of the value thus set on it, and for no other reason, gold ha9 long been the highest metallic me dium of exchange. Mr. Robert Brown, F. S. A., in hia learned and interesting treatise, "The Myth ot Kirke." remarks : " The links be tween gold and solar divinities are endless, and the circumstance sup plied a natural basis for the com mercial value of the metal." Else where the same writer observes : "The bright solar divinities are, of course, rich in gold, a metal origin ally owing ita importance to its yel low (sun; color, which made it at once semi-sacred and symbolic long ere it received an artificial commer cial value:" ' Facial Freaka. We have it on the authority of Dr. Karl Muller that in hia boyhood he knew a man who, Janus-like, had two totally different faces, one side laughing and the other crying. "Nat urally," he says, "I dreaded this strange double-face, with ita one side smooth, plump, comely, like a girl's cheek ; while the other was all scar red by the small-pox. This side of the face denoted churlishness, and while the other bore a smile, this boded mischief." The same authority ia also respon sible for the following story : "I waa once sitting in a cool underground saloon at Leipsic, while without peo ple were ready to die from the heat, when a new guest entered and took a seat opposite to me. The sweat rolled in great drops down his face, and he was kept busy with hia handkerchief, until aMast he found relief in the exclamation : "Fearfully hot!" I watched him attentively aa he called for a cool drink, for I expect ed every moment he would fall from his chair in a fit of apoplexy. The man count have noticed that I-waa observing him, for he turned toward me suddenly, saying : "I am a curioua sort of person, am I not?" "Why?" I asked. " Because I perspire only on my right side," he responded. And so it was. Hia right cheek and the right half of hia forehead were as hot aa fire, while tbe leftside of hia face bore not a trace of per sp;r:ition. I had never sen the like and in my astonishment was about to enter into conversation with him regarding his physiological phe nomenon, when hia neighbor on the left broke in with the remark : " Then we are oppoeites and counterparts of each other, for I perspire only on the left side." So the pair took seats opposite each other, and shook handa like two men who had just tound each other half. MAngied toy Ka(a. LY5XP0RT, September IS. On Tuesday evening Perry Long and hia wife, of Jacksonville, Lehigh county, were at a neighbors house, leaving their infant and a servant at home. The child wa3 asleep in the cradle and the servant in an adjoin ing room, when suddenly the child screamed. The servant rushed into the room and found that a lot of raU had attacked the liitle one. They had eaten the one finger nearly off and lacerated the hand seriously in several other places. The child was also bitten in the face and breast, and nearly died from loss of blood. A vigorous old fellow who had lately buried hia fourth wife waa ac costed by an acquaintance who, on aware of hia bereavement asked : " How is your wife, Cap'n Norris V y To which" the captain replied, with-' -a perfectly grave face. " Waal, to ye the trewth, I'm a kinder' wives just now." i II
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