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Somerset Pa.,
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4 P11TS1C1AS JSD SVBGEOS,
fHM locatd oeitnanentty In Somerset for the
i.raovl. ot hit iro!el-n. Otfice a doora W t ol
t entral Hotil, in rear of lru; Store. may 21.
pR. 11 V. B LOUGH,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICAS ASD SIRGEOS
Tender bis ferric? to the people of Rnmret
and Ticlnlty. t'allf in tnwn or country promptly
att.ndedto. in I loond at othoe dy .vrnlnhu
tinleiw professionally enitaaed. a-Otnce ..n
S'lUtheMst corner ol Diamond, over Knepjier's
Shoe Store. Bpra-Ktf.
DR. H. S. KIMMEL
tender his professional service to tba eltl
ci; ol Simeniet and Vicinity. Vuless pro(ejton
al enirsced he can be found at his office, on Main
St.. east of the Diamond.
DR. H. BRUBAKER tenders his
professional services to tbe eltlsenf of Som
erset and Ticlnlty. office to residence oa Main
stieet west of tbe Diamond.
DR. WM. RAUCH tenders his
limfessional services to the ci t liens ol Som
erset and Ti! inity.
i mice One door east of Wayne A BerkeMle'i
omiture siore.
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TR, JOHN BILI-S.
t J DENTIST.
' Office i stain In Cook fc Beeritj Block , Sutuer-
f - Pa.
DR. WILLIAM COLLINS,
DENTIST. SOMERSET, PA.
Office In Mammoth Block, above Boyd Drna;
Store where he can at all times be found prepar
.d todo all kinds ot work, racb as blllnc. reiro
lattna. eitracuna. fce. Artlncial teeth of all kinds,
and of the best material Inserted. Operations
warranted.
H.
HOWARD WYNNE, MD.
jnnxsTo '.v, rxs"A.
I'lsessesof the le, I'M. Nose and Throat
Specinl and f ii lu-ivs (irsctlce. Hcurs. 0 a. ta
sr. . Luifcer fc Oreea block, a Main tU
T !
'. THOMPSON. M. D.
BVRQEoN DENTIST,
Johnstown. Pa.
Hss had a professional experience of mora titan
tMrty years. Puuxa Tarra a Spsxiaitt.
'tt.ci rooms No. 't Main street (up stairs) over
Jolia Dtoen's Hardware Store. It will be neees
sar fur trsocs wha wsnt wurk done to make en
Kavemests beforehand. nctl6'82.
DR. J. K. MILLER has perma
nently located tn Berlin for tbe practice of
his profession. Office opposite Charles KrissinK
er s store. apr. xu, TO-U.
D
IAMOND HOTEL,
STOYSTOWN. l'ENN'A.
This popular and well known boon has lately
been thoroughly and newl refitted with all new
fed bestoi inrtiltnre. which haa made It a very
desirable stoj-plnt place Hir tbe tranelinir paaHe,
His table an4 rooirs cannot be snrpassed, aH b
ck erst class, with a lanre public ball attaeaatf
t the tame. Also lam and roomy tablina;.
First class toardinr: ran be bad at the lowest not
slble pricaa, by tbe week, uy or maai.
8 AM V EL CVSTF.R, Prep.
S.E.Oor. Dtasaead
Sustow ,Fa
APPITC Send eenta torpost
, IX I Mm Ih aire and receive free a
"i.ybotot Pw.i,sLtfi will help to tonsure
eT ritht away thaa anTtlilnx els in this
? T'd- All. of ettber sex. saoeeed from first hour.
' M breed roe.4 to furtane open lore the work
art, absoluielr .are. At oace address, Tara k
isismn, jsaine.
pXECUTOITS XOTCE.
L.ui. or Aetn Zimmerman, dee a. late of Som
erses. township. 6otaerset Comity, Pa.
liters testamentary en the aboea estate kar"
me twea rrasi4 1. tbe andersiinied. notice is
berbTiTea to all fmmu Indebted ta said estate
" ! t-ymem, .od loose bsvir.sj
It ' ."',,',.tb' nm ""1 present tbem dniy
tTi.1'
s- JOXAS XA1UER,
Exentidr.
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VOL. XXXIII. NO. 1G.
GREAT BARGAINS
IN
BRASS AND COPPER
KETTLES !
LARGEST STOCK
At Lowest Prices Eier Offered at f Mestfe aol Retail-
'FJ&JLETlgl W. HAY,
MANVFACTI BEK
Plain, Stamped, aud Japanned Timrare.
RANGES, STOVES AND HOfSE-IXBNISHINQ GOODS,
COPPE, SHEET-IRON WARE, AND BRUSHES..
-Ordcrs Solicited from Merchants Selling Ooods In In My Llne.-S
280 Washington Street, - Johnstown, Pa,
TO THE
Farming Trade !
We wish to call your attention
to the
IMMENSE STOCK
-OF OUR
Crkbraird Mole of Monogram
l.OOTS & SHOES,
Which we have Just Received
for the
FALL AND 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
FREE Ol COST!
Please bear in mind that we
are Sole Agent for the
Monogram Boots LI 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 bv buving Your
Fall and Winter
Stock from
Us.
L.
OISTE-PIIICE
SHOE STORE
No. 212 Main St., Johnstown, Pa.
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
E. M. Lambert &Bro.,
MantiiactuiCTS of and Dealers la
White Pine aslHeisloctsailcs-
We hare eecored a
3SI EW JsTTTiXj,
A ad asaantaetnra Shlne;lee oa the Mleblaan
Prior Wiivi exMiaatlT keen on band
STARGARDTER'S
, twe anuiesol tbe -os ktaids ol Shins; lea. We
! snsarantee ear Sotrfc' to be supertur to any
' in tbe Canty. Snail U nles JMd to bare iwrtias
'cosae and Inspect oar eklnxle bekire bayiag
eisawnere. Aaareas
E. M. LAMBERT & BRO.,
LAMBKKT"1 tSOJaiKSETCOPa,
AND JOBBER IN
SOMERSET COUNTY BANK!
(ESTABLISHED 1877.)
CHAELES. I. EiEElSOH. M. 1. PEITTS.
President Cashier
Collections made In all parts of tbe Cnlte4
State.
CHARGES MODERATE.
Parties wishing: to send money West ean be ac
commodated by draft on New Tork In any sum.
Collections mail, with promptness. U. S. Bonds
bought and sold. Money and valuables secured
by oue of Dlehold's celebrated sales, with a Sar
gent k Vale S3jO 00 time lock.
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
sWAUlefra holidays observed.-
Albert A. Korbb.
J. SOOTT Will;
HORNE & WARD
SUCCESSORS TO
EATON & BROS,
X0. 27 FIFTH AVENUE,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
s:prig7i882.
NEW GOODS
EVE2Y DAY SPECIALTIES
lmfaroideries, Laces, Millinery, Whit Goods, Hind
kerchiefs. Dress Trimmings, Hosiery, Gloves,
Corsets, Msslie. and Merlne Uederwear, In
fants' and Children's Clothing. Fancy
Goods, Yarns, Zeshyrs, Mate
rials of AH Kinds for
FANCY WORK,
Gent's Fflriiisfti Goojs, k, k.
T6VR rATROHAQE IS BBSrncTTCLLT SO LICIT CD.
CT-Orxlers by Mail attended to with Prompt
ness and Dispatch.
TUTTJ4B
POLLS
"THE OLD RELIABLE."
25 YEARS IN USE.
The Greatest Medical Triumph of the Age.
Indorsed all over the World
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
Loss of appetite. Nansea. bowels cos?
live. Pai n in the Head. with a dull sen:
sauonjn the back part. Pain nnder
the shoulder blade, fullness after eat
ing, with a disinclination to exertion
of body or mind, irritability of temp,
er, Low spiri ts,Lossof memory,with
a feeling of having neglected some
dntyt weariness. Dizziness, Flatter
ing of the Heart, f)ots before the eyes.
Yellow Skin-Headache.Restlessness
at night, highly colorecTUrine.
IF THESE WAKKIITGS ABE CTHEEDID,
K3i; tSUZ3 TU SOCJI Bl SXTXU7SS.
TUtTS FILLS are especially adapted to
such cases, one dose effects such a change
of feeling as to astonish tbe sufferer.
They I sicreas c A p petite, and caosa
tbe body to Take m sVlrah, thus the sys
tem ts ssoairiahee and by their Temie
Actimn on tbe Disreetive Orfrasis, Kearat
rar Wtool. are prolaced. Price 3 eesita.
TUTTS I1AI1I UYE.
Gkat llAntorWiassiCRs chansred to a
Gloht IIlack byasinsrle application of
hi DTK. It imparts a natural color, acts
instantaneously. Sold by Druggieta. or
by czprese on rvoeint of S) 1.
Office. 44 Murray St.. New York
FASHIONABLE
CUTTER & TAILOR,
bad many
eznerience
branebes of
i U r ineas. 1
TaUorlna; bus
ts. 1 a-aaraatee
SatisiacUoa to all
whe may eall ap
oa me and favor
sac with their pat-
Yoars, Aa.,
WM. H. IIOC11TE TIsEISe
f4ensierH, Pm.
marl
CHARLES HOFFMAN,
UEBCHAIIT TAILOR
UfoTHcHemers BtereJ
LiTUT STYLES Ci LOWEST PEICES.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
SOMERSET, I3..
$66s
weec at fcoena. tt ootflt tree.
nay abeoiately eare. are ties. jep-
ital sot required. Keaoer, ll yoa :
want tiaslnesa at which usssims of I
ei'tker sex, yoana; er eio, oaa ssase great pay au
th time tbey work, with abeolate eertainty I
writefur pstrUcalars te B. Haiutt, snrUaasMle.
4 EJ
omer
THE UTIL.IT Y P GRCMBLING.
O rumble, grumble, jrumble on !
Old habits you easily can't lay by
Nevertheless, old Fanner John,
I read the troth ia your bright brown
eye;
Weather and market bae all gone wrong,
Year upon year you heaped complaint,
Your past produced but a doleful song,
Your faith in the future, alas ! is faint.
a
O, Farmer John, you're a truthful type
Of the land you lire in and love so
much ;
Your smile cannot make the crops grow
ripe,
Or send up tbe markets to such and
such.
O serious, serious Farmer John !
'Tis that old, deep feeling of discontent
That through plenty and famine has mov
ed us oi
For grumbling brings good government.
ltd ran Letnard in London Society.
A BRAVE WOMAN.
At Jlr. Lonsdale's aristocratic
mansion in Philadelphia the earliest
letters were brought in with tbe
rolls and coffee, so that Mrs. Lons
dale was languidly eating orange
marmalade when her husband read
out the contents of the letter with
the black edge which had just come
from Moon Mountain.
Left a widow 1"' echotjd Mrs.
Lonsdale. "And with six daugh
ters. What a very unpleasant cir
cumstance ! "
She was my favorite cousin.
said Mr. Lonsdale. " As bright a
girl as I ever saw. I suppose, Nao
mi " with a little hesitation we
couldn't take her in here? "
Take her in here?" repeated
Mrs. Ijnsdale. " Why where could
we put a widow and six young wo
men ? We actually haven't room
enough to accommodate ourselves."
44 W ell, well. I'm sorry for poor
Marv." said Mr. Lonsdale. 4 1
think she had the bluest eyes I ever
saw. Six daughters, and we never
had one. Perhaps, Naomi" with
the old hesitating formula 44 you
wouldn't like to adopt one?"
44 Thank you," satirically observ
ed his wife. 4 When I do receive an
adopted child into my house it will
not be the country article."
At the solitary little farm on
Moon Mountain, however, the same
topic was being discussed while
Mrs. Drix was sewing on the simple
mourning which the bereaved fami
lv could afford.
Helen was washing the dishes,
Rosie was darning the carpet with
woolen vara of the same color and
Lizzy was trimming seven p1
straw haw with bands of crape, as
inexpensively as possible. Susy
was picking over a shining tin pan
of dandelion greens tor dinner.
Esther, the youngest and rosiest of
them all. was feeding a Hock of
downv chickens, and Sarah, the
eldest, was absent at a neighbor's,
helping to make ud the spring out-
iits ot a nan a dozen ooys.
44 Sarah was always so handy with
the needle," said Mrs. Drix, with
pardonable pride.
But, mother," said Rosie, look
inr ud from her work with a trou
bled countenence what are we to
do?"
"Mother," said Lizzy, 44 our Lons
dale cousins in Philadelphia are
rich. Couldn't we go to them ? "
44 Certainly not," said Mrs. Drix.
4 1 wrote to them, telling them of
of our affliction, and they sent back
a letter full of common-places, with
out even offering to help us."
44 But they are rich, and we are
poor."
4-Yes, and they live in splendid
style, Hattie Cooley says," added
Susy.
44 Very likely," said Mrs. Drix.
44 But as long as there are seven
pair of hands in thi3 family, and
God spares our health, I do not pro
pose to turn genteel beggar !
44 But mother," began Rosie, who
was the care-taking member of the
family, I really think "
44 I've settled it all in my own
mind," said Mrs. Drix, stitching
awav until her needle looked like a
glei'm of steel lightning. "The
house is large, although it isn't built
after the latest fashion. The air is
wholesome and there is the Black
Spring, where people come to get
the water for ten miles around. I
mean to keep boarders."
"Hurrah for the little mother ! "
cried Essie, clapping her plump
hands. "And I may help you make
custards and do up preserves,
mayn't I, mamma ? "
Susv and Either shall help me."
declared Mrs. Drix. 44 Sarah can al
ways earn her living by tailoring
work. Helen shall go into the glove
factory; I'm told they seed new
hands there. Lizzy can help Mrs.
Dart, the milliner, and Rosie is to
be nursery governness at Mrs. Mil
lingham's. And if between us we
can't earn a livelihood it will be
vf ry 6trange."
Susy and Essie were delighted.
Rosie naturally regarded her posi
tion as a decided promotion. Hel
en, however, dropped a tear into the
pan of hot water which she had
just poured out
"The glove factory, mother?"
she repeated. 44 But it will be such
a strange, lonesome place. I dan't
think I shall like iL"
We must all of us try to like
our duty, child," said the brisk lit
tle woman. " I'm an American wo
man, aud they cannot discourage
me. This is a country for women's
rights."
II.
u Mary is going to open a boarding-house,"
said Mr. Lonsdale again
to his wife. . " She has requested me
to insert an advertisement in tbe
dailies for her.n
"Very laudable of her, I am
sure," said Mrs. Lonsdale with a
yawn.
"Suppose you were to go there
for a few weeks before tbe Saratoga
season opens ?n suggested Mr. Lons
dale. " You cant very well stay
here while the painting and repairs
re going on."
" I don't know that I can endure
that sort of living," said Mrs. Lons
dale dubiously.
u Mary Drix used to be the beat
set
KSTAJBLISilKJD 1.827.
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBEIi 1, IS84.
housekeeper I ever knew," answered
her husband.
" Do you suppose she will take
me cheap?"
" I should imagine bo."
So Mrs. Lonsdale wrote a patron
izing letter to her husband s cousin
bespeaking tbo beat room.
But when she got to Moon Moun
tain there was only one little square
room left. The fame : of the Black
Spring had gone forth in all direc
tions, and a newspaper editor had
promulgated an article praising the
delicious, pine-scented air and well
populated trout brooks of the moun
tains and the consequence was the
farm bouse was full.
" But this room is so small," said
Mrs. Lonsdale, fretfully.
u It's all I have left," said Mrs.
Drix, 44 and I could have let it half
a dozen times over if it hadn't been
reserved for you, Cousin Naomi."
44 You'll take me at a reduction
from the usual prices, I suppose ? "
said Mrs. Lonsdale,
44 1 shall charge you just what I
charge everybody else, neither more
nor less." answered Mrs. Drix.
44 But I m a relative," pleaded Airs.
Lonsdale.
What cood does that do me ? "
said the widow, fixing her blue eyes
full on Mrs. Lonsdale. My terms
for a room of this size are 815 a
week."
44 But that is too much," whined
Mrs. Lonsdale.
" How much did you expect to
pay ? " aoked Mrs. Drix with a cu
rious sparkle in her eyes.
"In this wilderness here," said
Mrs. Lonsdale, " $10 would be "
"If those are your ideas we
shall never come to terms," said
Mrs. Drix. " But if you are really
cramped for money
" Mv dear Mrs. Drix you have no
idea of the perpetual demand on us
for money.
44 1 will take you for twelve dol
lars" Mrs. Drix completed her
sentence as if the other had not
spoken.
And the bargain was completed
Mrs. Lonsdale had not been in
the house a week before she took
her husland's cousin severely to
task.
" That horrid old man in the fad
ed olive-ereen suit has the best
room in the house." said she. "The
verv best 1 "
44 Yes." said Mrs. Drix, "he is my
mother's uncle. He was always
ffood to mv poor husband.
44 But I'm told he only pays half-
Drice ? "
44 Yes." confessed the widow.
" He is very old, and can't go up
and down stairs, so of course he
must have the first floor room."
" But he hasn't any property ?"
44 He ownes Carragee farm, across
the mountains," said Mrs. Drix,
but nobody will rent it of him be
cause the land is so rocky, and the
farm house was burned down last
fall when there were so many fires
in the woods. Bevond that he has
nothing."
Mrs. Lonsdale frowned.
" Nobody has any right to live to
be seventy years old without having
laid up some little provision lor the
future." she said.
" I was thinking," said Mrs. Drix,
"that perhaps cousin Mortimer
Lonsdale would contribute a little to
his support, as we are equally relat
ed."
44 You mav be very sure that he
will not," said Mrs. Lonsdale, with
emphasis.
" Very well," said Mrs. Drix
calmly. "He shall never want
while 1 can help him.
The very next week, however, Mr.
Darrow was found dead in his arm
chair. And by will he had left eve
rything he possessed to his grand-
niece, Mary Dm.
" I wish vou ioy of Carragee
farm!" said Mrs. Lonsdale. 44 Of
course you'll have to pay taxes on
it, so it will absolutely be money
out of pocket"
" It was all he had to give," said
Mrs. Drix.
Meanwhile tbe family was pros
pering, caran was engaged io mar
ry a thrmy young larmer oi me
neighborhood. Helen was earning
a good living.
Lizzy was contemplating the set
ting up of a small milliner's 6hop
on her own account and Rosie was
in high favor at Millingham's place.
Even Mrs. Lonsdale admitted that
her French cook could not excel the
creams, delicate cakes and delicious
puddines which these young dams
els compounded.
" I'm almost sorry our rooms are
engaged at Saratoga," said the city
lady. " I am getting rather to like
Moon Mountain. And your table
is decidedly good, Mary. And as
for the girls, I have grown to like
them very much."
Mr. Lonsdale himself entered as
Babe SpOctG "
"Well," said tbe lady airily, "what
is the news, Mortimer ? "
" Bad news," said Mortimer, in a
hoarse accent. " We are ruined 1
The business has gone to wreck
the cashier has fled to Belgium
and we haven't a cent to call our
own 1 "
Whereupon, naturally enough,
Mrs. Lonsdale went into hysterics,
screaming, " Oh. heaven ! we are ru
ined, ruined 1 My life has ended,
Mortimer I might as well die as
starye."
IIL
When Mrs. Drix came in, Naomi
was wildly loading her husband
with reproaches and struggling with
him. Mortimer Lonsdale stood with
something glittering in his hand.
Mrs. Drix went up to him and took
it away with gentle authority.
" Give me that pistol, Mortimer,"
said she. " Get up, Naomi, and
leave off crying and sobbing. If
you ever needed to be a woman, you
need it now."
" We are ruined we are ruined 1"
" I neyer can redeem myself," said
Mortimer, huskily. " You had bet
ter have let me shoot myself, Ma
ry." " Pshaw ! " said Mrs. Drix, curtly.
" Suicide is the last resort of the
coward. Don't you know, Morti
mer, that it ia always darkest just
before daylight?"
44 1 den't know what you mean,"
said he,
" Then listen to me. The old law-
yer has just come over from Carra.
gee farm. He says that they have
struck a rich vein of iron on the
rocky hills there. A stock campany
want to buy it of me for $80,000,
and I've agreed to Bell it Uncle
Darrow was as much your grand
uncle as he was mine. We'll divide
the money, Mortimer, you and I."
"But I've no right to it Mary,"
faltered he.
" Not by law, perhaps," said the
widow, "but you have by equity
at ail events, half of it shall be
yours. What do I want with fU,
000 ? Half will be great riches for,
me. lhe girls are all doing well
and I like to lead a busy life.
Mortimer, you must take it"
Nay,
lie turned away his face.
41 Mary," said he, " you have
heaped coals of fire on our beads !"
" Mary," sobbed Mrs. Lonsdale,
"you're an angel."
So Mr. and Mrs. Lonsdale settled
on a pretty farm on Moon Moun
tain, and, strange to relate, their on
ly son, Geoffry, eventually married
pretty Essie Drix.
" So you'll have to adopt one of
Mary Drix's girls, after all ? " jo
cosely said her husband.
" She's a perfect little darling !"
said Mrs. Lonsdale, who had soften
ed strangely of late; "and her
mother has shown me what a com
plete fool I made of myself. She
bas brought me to my senses, Mor
timer, and I think we are all the
happier for having been ruined."
Answers to Correspondents.
Aristophanes Your joke about
the bathing suit being so small that
it was carried in the pocketbook is
good. It is too good to use. It
will keep. At least it has kept all
summer, and this cold weather will
not impair it3 vitality. What we
particularly like about it is its air of
newness its unmistakable flavor of
originality. There is no veneer or
imitation about it. It is original. So
was the ark, Aristophanes, so was the
ark.
Margaret No, the South Sea Is
landers are not Cannibals ; they live
on fish. Every time they catch a
new missionary they have a dinner
of fried sole.
Nicotine The custom of making
genuine imported Havana cigars of
brown paper and wrapping them
with leather, had its origin among
the Connecticut cigar makers in the
hard times of eighteen hundred and
naughty five, when the tobacco crop
failed, and the most rigid economy
had to be practiced by manufactur
ers and consumers. As you say you
are only nineteen years old, it don't
make any difference to you what ci
gars are made of. You, can get just
as sick on burnt leather as you can
on tobacco, and you'll enjoy it just
as much.
Dreamer You must indeed be a
dreamer. Want to know where you
will find a poem containing the
line,
The melancholy Jays have come, the saddest of
tne year.
Never heard of such a poem, and
if the line you quote has any exist
ance at all, it must be in the airy
cobwebs of your own dreamy brain.
Dream out the rest of it, and we'll
print it for you. Send the MS. to
the business office; they'r offering
special rates on melancholy poetry
in car lots this season.
Melville Your drama covers too
much ground, like a Colorado cattle
company. It reminds us of a 44 pat
ent insides " newspaper, wtich con
tains in one column interesting and
interwoven articles on "Spring
Work in the Garden," "Summer
Bathing and Directions for Treating
Persons Rescued from Drowning,"
44 How to Collect and Preserve Au
tumn Leaves," and " Household
Christmas Decorations."
Westward Ho Certainly, son ;
go to California by all means. Glo
rious climate. First six months of
the year they pray for rain ; t'other
six months tney climb trees and run
awav from the floods.
Spiritus No. we don't know who
said, 4 The good die yung.' But if
you are no better than your spelling
you will live to cut your fourth set
of teeth, and 6ee a President elected
without a scandal.
Mabel This damsel wants to
know "Is there anything in all this
world worse than the rum traffic ?"
Well, we don't want to appear prej
udiced, Mabel, but we rather think
that for unadulterated badness and
irreclaimable worseness a tea store
chromo gets away with any
terrestrial horror now extant
Young Theologue Yes, we think
you might class gosn dum and
dad bing" as profane swearing.
44 Gaul ding " may also be considered
a swear word. 1 m swizzled is
another. All these words bear the
game relation to thoroughbred, sky
blue profanity that the pale-pink
Umonade of the Sunday school pic
nic does to the raw whisky of the
target company's excursion. Thev
are the outgrowth of a terrible strug-1
gle, a theological compromise ar
ranged by our Puritan ancestors,
who recognized with a faultless spir
itual vision and worldly acumen
the necessity of a pure life and a
sinless vocabulary, and at the same
time tbe utter impossibility of plow
ing a New Englaud stone patch
without a class of words designed to
relieve the overburdened mind and
astonished feelings every time the
plow handles broke a man's ribs and
extorted every last drop of vital
breath from his panting body Bur
dette. A Great Surprise
Is in store for all who use Kemp's
Balsam for the throat and lungs, the
great guaranteed remedy. Would
you believe that it ia sold on its mer
its and that each druggist is author
ized to refund your money by the
Proprietor of this wonderful remedy
if it fails to cure you. C. N. Boyd
has secured the agency for it
Price 50 cents and IJ.00. Trial
size free.
At a New York convention of deaff
mutes a pair of patent ears were
shown with which it waa found a
deaf person could hear better than
with an ear trumpet
eraM
MAIXE GRANITE.
The Quarry where tbe Granite Used
for tbe Government Boildinga Is
Taken r'rom.
All over the United States, in the
larger cities, may be seen great build
ings, handsome and costly specimens
of architecture, and structures which
are marvels of engineering skill, the
carved and polished walls and tow
ers of which once lay in rugged
masses on a little island far out on
the bosom of Penobscott Bay. This
island ia the southerly of a pictur
esque pair known as North Fox and
South Fox, each being incorporated
as a town, named respectively North
Haven and Vinalhaven. It waa o
long ago as 17C5 that South Fox saw
its first white settlers, and 24 years
afterward it was incorporated as a
town, naaned as above for John Vi
nal, Esq., of Boston, some of whose
relatives yet live on the island. The
southerly half of this sea-girt town
is one solid mass of beautiful gran
ite, and the quarrying of this Btone
has created a pretty village of 2,0o0
people at one of the many snug
coves Carver'B Harbor.
Eor nearly half a century stone for
building and paving has been sent
from Vinalhaven, but it was not un
til the decade of 1S.30-C.0 that very
much was done. In 1851 Moses
Webster and J. R. Bod well, one a
New Hampshire boy. the other from
Massachusetts, went to the rocky
island, and with a capital of about
$300 began quarrying operations.
They had few tools and no machin
ery, but got out the stone as beet
they knew, and then slowly convey
ed it to the shore on drags drawn by
cattle. When the government built
two big forts in New York harbor in
1852 or '53, the contract for furnish
ing the stone was given to Bod well it
Webster, who managed to fill the
bill all right, and thus got a good
start in the world. Since then they
have prospered, and now do proba
bly the largest quarrying business
in the United States, employing
from 500 to 100 men as the volume
of trade varies, paying $25,000 to
$50,000 a month in wages, and keep
ing the whole island community
happy and prosperous.
To see 500 quarrymen, teamsters,
blacksmiths, cutters and polishers
all at work, "hammers and tongs,"
is an interesting sight. Were itliot
for the fact that granite is found in
strata of quite uniform thickness,
quarrying would be a most difficult
and expensive operation, and a great
part of the stone would be wasted.
When a quantity of stone is to be
taken out the first thing necessary i3
tc make a head,
downward through
that is to CUt
the horizontal
strata until a whole transverse sec
tion of a layer is exposed to the
foundation. Then, at the desired
distance back from this head, which
resembles a ditch 20 to 50 feet long,
the quarrymen drill what are known
as " Miller holes " in the granite,
which consists of three triangular
orifices, drilled close together, and
some depth into the stone. Gener
ally one group suffices ; occasional
two or three are drilled. Into these
holes are poured tremendous charges
of giant powder, which, when ex
ploded, start the whole mass of stone
as fajr as the " head " from its strata
bed. After that it ia easily split up
by driving little iron wedges into a
series of holes drilled on the dimen
sion line. Immense derricks, guyed
up by heavy wire rigging, and oper
ated by stationary steam engines,
swing ine stone lrom place to place
in tne quarry; rollers of iron and
hard wood are used for the heaviest
pieces. Ponderous trucks, drawn bv
heavy horses, go floundering along
toward the cutting shop, with great
Dioct-3 triced up under their rear
axles with chains. The truck wheels
being about fifteen feet high, it will
be seen that a large stone can be
carried in this way without dragging.
The quarrymen work the year round
and average $1.65 per dav ; bovs,
$1.50, and cutters $2.75 to $3.20. All
the tools, except one kind of ham
mer, are furnished by the company.
At the Sands Quarry, Vinalhaven.
not long ago, one of the largest if
not the largest pieces of granite ever
quarried was taken out for the Gen.
Wool monument, at Troy, N. Y. It
was from 10 to 15 feet square and GO
feet long. After all the labor and
expense, however, the monstrous
stone was found to contain a flaw ;
it was rejected, and another had to
be cut.
A beautiful monument for Dr.
William Gibson and wife, of James
town, Pa., (who are not yet dead, by
the way), is in process of cutting
here. It will stand on a sarcophagus,
and will consist of a tall pillar with
ornamental base and cap, to be sur
mounted by a statue representing
Faith. The work has taken two
yeara now, and the monument will
cost $05,000.
In Vinalnaven every man has
granite doorsteps, granite hitching
posts, and even a walk or curb of
granite before his house, at little or
no expense. One man who lives
near the shore has a wharf of this
neat white stone for his private use,
and there is no reason why all hands
shouldn't have granite houses, ex
cept, perhaps, that they havn't time
to build them, for there are thous
ands of tons of the material thrown
away for slight imperfections in
color.
That part of Vinalhaven which
has been dug up and shipped away
as granite of late years ia distributed
principally thus : Chicago Board of
Trade, Cincinnati Custom House
and Post Office : Atlanta, Ga., Post
Office and Custom House; Fall
River Custom House and Post Of
fice: East River Bridge; St Louis
Bridge ; basement and sab-basement
Albany Post Office ; lower part of
new State, War, ana Navy building,
Washington; basement and sub
basement, Pittsburgh Post Office ;
Welles building, New York, and
many miles of paving.
There is enough stone left on the
breezy little island to build all the
Poet Offices, big bridges and monu
ments for an indefinite period. All
they take away dosen't seem to
make much of a hole
During the last six years 87,217
youos men have left Prussia to es
cape military service.
o
WHOLE NO. 1733.
Dungeon Life.
There ia or was lately (1871) a
Polish lady, the Countess of K ,
living in Paris. She wears a very
singular brooch. It ia encircled by
twenty precious stones, on a ground
of dark blue enamel, covered in the
centre by glass. And what does
this brooch contain? A portrait or
a lock of hair? No, only four com
mon pins, bent together in the form
ot a star! And she wears this in
memory of her husband, a Polish
nobleman, who waa put into prison
because he was thought to be a se
cret enemy to the government It
was a dark, deep dungeon, far down
under the ground. He had no one
to speak to, for no one was allowed
to see him but the keeper of th(
prison, and he of course was not
permitted to converse with his pris
oner. Uava, weeks, months passed
on, and he was still left in his dun
geon. He waa most miserable and
feared that he should lose his senses,
for his reason seemed to be giving
way. Oh ! if he had onlv some
hope some one thing to relieve his
misery, reeling all over his coat
one day he found four pins, and he
actually wept for joy ; yet what
could four pins be to him ? He took
them from his coat and threw them
down on the floor of his dungeon,
and then he went down on his hands
and knees and felt all over the floor
till he found them again. When he
bad succeeded in this he scattered
them again on the floor, and could
you have gone into his dungeon you
yould have found him croping on
his hands and knees for his four
pins. When, after six years im
prisonment, he was set free, they
still found him groping in the dark
for his four pins. It was all his
work. Nor would he leave his pris
on without taking his pins with
him. They were his beat friends,
because they had given him some
thing to do in his solitude and con
finement, and his Countess had
them made into a brooch which she
valued more than gold. They
had preserved her husband's reason.
The following is one of the most
aflecting records in existence. It is
from Count Gonfalonieri's account
of his imprisonment in the fortress
of Spieberg, above the town of Brun,
in Moravia, for a political offense in
the reign of the Emperor Francis of
Austria, who died in 1835. ile was
an Italian, and had conspired to dis
possess the Austrians at Milan : " I
am an old man now, but by fifteen
years my soul is younger than my
body ! Fifteen years I exirted (for I
did not live, it was not life) in the
self-Ranee duneenn. tn fpt unnars
I Dnrintr kit vears I hsrl n. rnmnnn.
never rightly distinguished the face
of him who shared my captivity in
the eternal twilight of our cell. The
first year we talked incessantly to
gether. We related our past lives,
our joys forever gone, over and over
again. The next year we communi
cated to each other our thought
and ideas on all subjects. The third
year we had no ideas to communi
cate we were beginning to lose the
power of reflection. The fourth, at
the interval of a month or so, we
would open our lips to ask each
other if it were indeed possible that
the world went on aa gay and bust
ling as when we formed a portion of
mankind. Te fifth, we were silent
The sixth, he was taken away I
never knew where to execution, to
liberty but I was glad he waa gone;
even solitude were better than that
dim, vacant face. After that I was
alone. Only one event broke in
upon my nine years misery. 0e
day it must have been a year or
mo alter my companion left me
the dungeon door was opened and a
voice, from whom proceeding I
knew not, uttered these words : "By
order of his Imperial Majesty, I
intimate to you that your wife died
a year ago." Then the door shut
and I heard no more. They had
but flung this great agony in upon
me, and left me alone with it"
The companion for six years with
Count Gonfalonieri waa a French
man. Count Andryane. who has since
published some memoirs of his own
life (" Memoirs d'un Prisonnier d'
Etat, par Comte Alexander A ndry
anne.") He mentions that Count
Gonfalonieri was liberated at the
Emperor'a death in 1835, and sent
to the United States, from whence
he returned to Austria. There,
broken dwwn by sorrow and suffer
ing, he wandered about for a fw
years, aud died at Urian, pied deSt
Gothard, December, 184G. Count
Andryanne adds the touching inci
dent that for a time Count Gonfalon
ieri was allowed to receive letters
from his wife, and when she was dy
ing she wrote several letters, dating
them at different future periods, that
he might, when delivered, think she
was still alive. This tender, loving
kindness was, however, cruelly frus
trated by tbe sudden information of
her death, so brutally conveyed by
order of the Emperor. Poor man!
he was spared no single pang. It
E leased God to " vex him with all
is storms."
Sufferers from the effects of qui
nine, used as a remedy ior cniiia
and fever, will appreciate Ayer'a
Ague Cure, a powerful tonic bitter
composed wholly of vegetable sub
stances, without a particle of any
noxious drug. Its action is peculiar,
prompt and powerful, breaking up
the chill, curing the fever and
expelling the poision from the sys
tem, yet leaving no harmful or un
pleasant effect upon the patient.
A deaf mute in Illinois bas inher
ited $2S,000 from Germany. He will
return to that country to live.
There are not sufficient school ac
commodations for the 13,320 chil
dren on the school list of New Ha-
yen,
Conn.
There ia a project on foot in New
York to remove Castle Garden and
make Governor's Island the immi
grant depot
A man wants to know what will
bring out a mustache. Tie a cord
around it tightly, hitch the cord to a
fence post, and then run backwards.
Fret Presi.
Balzac's Xcmo.
Every curious collector of the
memorable sayings of great men has
probably enriched his store with
Cromwell's request to be painted
with all his wart3. By the side of
that saying let there be placed what,
in posing for his bust Balzac said to
the sculptor, David d'Angeiera : "Be
careful of my nose : mv nose is a
world !" A truly remarkable world
this Balzac noee, which David ia to
hand down so carefully to posterity,
having a deep, perpendicular furrow
at its roof, being square at the end,
parted into two lobes, and pierced
by yery open nostrila,whereto waa
never seen the like in any mortal
nose whatsoever. A still more re
markable nose by reason of being
situated between such worlds of
eyea " black diamonds illuminated
by rich golden retlectiona " where
in waa a life, a light a magnetism, a
sovereignty, a seer-like penetration,
a rabelasian gayety never seen in any
other. But a most remarkable nose
for being placed near such a world
of a mind as few noses have enjoyed
proximity to since the original mold
of humanity waa cast and consecra
ted ; on the confines of which world
no man can linger without becoming
conscious that hia world of mind,
whether great or little, has received
a fresh impulse to orb itself more
nearly into perfectness. Therefore I
wish to draw near to it for a moment
before I evoke the general past of
which it was a part, confident that in
the end I shall have no apology to
mtke to any sympathetic souls who
may consent to bear me company.
September Manhattan.
Stanley African Servant.
Mr. Stanley has with him his fa
vorite servant Dualla, a slim Soma
li of 20, picked up at Aden, who baa
acted as his confidential attendant
for the last five years. No one could
fail to be attracted by hia bright, in
telligent face, his genial smile, and
hia answers to some pleasant badin
age which his master exchanged
with him at luncheon, showed a sur
prising readiness and grasp. With
the various points of the Congo
question he is thoroughly convers
ant, expressing hi3 opiniona with
much decision ; of De Brazza, of the
missionaries, of the Portuguese and
so on. The length of the Congo,
from Leopoldyille to Banana Poirt,
he ia known, and when he appears
at a station he is at once recognized
as the representative of Mr. Stanley,
as whose ambassador in advance he
often acts. In fact, Dualla ia a dip
lomatist of consummate tact, which
does credit to hia teaching. Hia
English is wonderfully good, and at
prewnt he is aquiring the art of
writing. " Dualla is getting whiter
every day. Do you U3e Pear's soap,
Duella?" asked Mr. Stanley, laugh
ing. But Duella had not tried its
virtues. This is not hia first visit-to
London, though it possesses great
attractions for him. I am afraid he
prefers the gayeties of Paris. Duella
is getting homesick and ia going
back to Aden for a time, at least, to
friends. " Duella thinks the white
girls are very pretty, but I know
there is a dusky Somali maiden in
the case, eh, Duella?" Duella blush
ed, laughed, and beat a hasty re
treat That he has faith in England
is evident from the fact that out of
the i."350 he has saved from hia
wages of 80 a year, he has invested
250 in consols. The odd 100 he
has spent in presenta for hia friends,
like the thoughtful fellow he is.
Origin of Common Oaths.
The expression, " Don't care a
damn," is said to nave been invent
ed by the Duke of Wellington. Ita
derivation ia most innocent, the
damn referred to being an Indian
coin, a dam, of infinitesimal value.
The curse in " not worth a curse " ia
identical with the plant "cress."
The expression is so used in a work
of the fourteenth century. " Piera
Ploughman's Vision." The English
were known as "Goddams" as far
back aa the time of the Maid of Or
leans. Joan addressed the Earls of
Warwick and Stafford, when thy
held out to her hopes of ransom, aa
followa : " I know you well. You
have neither the will nor the pewer
to ransom me. .You think when
vou have slain me you will conquer
France, but that you will never
bring about. No! although there
were 100,000 Goddama in this land
more than there are !" " By Jingo "
comen to us from the Basque peas
ants, who have long sworn by Jin
coa, which is the Basque name for
God.. " What the deuce" ia said to
bave reached aa far back aa the Nor
man conquest, when "Deua" waa a
favorite exclamation among the Nor
man knights. We now come to the
vulgar and objectionable epithet
"bloody." This baa been said to
have originated in the aristocratic
oath of days gone by, " By'r Lady,"
but we are assured by our present
authority that it is simply the Ger
man " blutig," which our soldiera
brought with them from the Nether
lands. The word, which ia now sel
dom heard except in the mouths of
the lowest of the people, was not
considered objectionable. It ia used
by Dryden, bv Sir Geerge Ethendge
in the " Man of Mode "; by Shakes
peare in "Macbeth," and other
plays ; by Beaumont and rletcher
in "PMlaster "; in Piera nougn
man," and we find Dean Swift
writing to his luve, Stella, " it growa
bloody cold, and I have no waist
coat." Laws have often been made
against swearing. In March,
a quartermaster in Cromwell's reel
army ws found guilty of swearing,
and condemned to have his tongue
bored with a red-hot iron, hia sword
broken over hia head, and himself
ignominiously dismissed the service.
A writer in later daya proposed to
deal with the habit in a different
way. He said the clergy encourag
ed swearing by declaring it to be a
sin, and that the custom would die
out if it was believed to be a virtu
oua one. He added that a clergy
man of hia acquaintance not only
assured hia congregation that swear
ing was not wrong, but constantly
used oaths in hia sermona in order
to prove that it waa right X Y.
Evening Telegram.
Tho Oldest Man in Somerset
As well aa the handsomest and
others are invited to call on C. N.
Boyd, and get free a trial bottle of
Kemp's Balsam for the throat and
lungs, a remedy that is selling en
tirely upon its merit, and ia guar
anteed to cure and relieve all Chron
icand Acute Coughs, Asthma, Bron
chtia, and Consumption. Price 50
cents and 1.00.
Since boyhood I hav been troub
led with catarrh and hay fever, and
had been unable to obtain perma
nent relief until I used Ely'a Cream
Balm. It haa eured me. E. L.
Clickener, New Brunswick, New
Jersey. Price 50 cents.