Somerset Herald. utkii m east. Imc nf "Publication. i-hed erery Wednesday ".oral at 00 arlab'.j be ennf- We.Ar.pAld "P- Pa-lCT,leK1cUn IT, whea euhWher. do not uk. oat p,rwiUbbMri'PMl" rab- f . . tha former a tmcid gtre t f the present emce. Address The Somerset Herald, Somerset, Fa. fcED. W. BIESECKEK, r, up-stairs in Cook fc BcerUs' blck. -IGItGER.SaXL. ATTOK t i n , Somerset Pa. J I NR. SCOTT, I ATTORNEYS ATTORNEV-AT-LAW, J. KOOShi:, ATTOKNEY-ATLAW, Somerset, s. KNDSLEY. ATInKNEY-AT LAW, Somerset, I - U. TRENT. ATTuRNEY.AT-l.AW, , i;. KTLl ATTOlNEY-AT-LAW, Somerset, Pa. L BAKU, ATTORNEY -AT-iaAW, Somerset, Pa., V .raetlrc In Somerset and admlnlrifr. count les. entrusted blin will i-eiruptly fcu-d to. tFl" H 'TH. W.H.KI ITEU KfFKOTII KUI'PEL. ATTUKS ft S-A . i.ortn entrusted to their care will be iv anil iuimxuh tu ... m, L,V-oo Main i:ross street, opioslt tae iniiith Block. t. L.C. COLBOBS. ATTORN LIS-il t-A i ..u.'incMintru-teJ to our rare will be pwrcpt E .. ........ i'.,iwM.iDmn e in Soin- i'.! ill1' i .'..-- - - a CoveraiHina; u"i - ' rILLIAM H.KOONTZ. ATTORN LY-AT-I.AW, Somerset, Pa., 1 .-irri.n inn! attention to r.cfinees enirum t ;', In sVerwct and adenine cuntles. k- in rriiitinK n aw. WIS MKYERS. iTTltVl'V.ATJ.IkW. f Somerset, Penn'a. IcksiI ho'lnes entrusted, to Ms rare will be h ie.iinw!in.niu:i..nc uM .......... k i. ,..' store. 1. M Ki ll. PIT, II, ATTORN EY-AT LAW, Somerset. Pa. Y Mammoth Block, op stair. Entrance, Cnw street, foliectiot" made, estates L l c.tles eiatnlned. and all leira. business led ti. ith promptness inn iwcaij. KIM MEL, attui;ney-at-l.aw, Sumerset, Pa. 3 j rwrrf. ATTOKXEY-AT LAW. Somerset, Pa. .fe, n;-rtalr In Mammoth Klor. UN O. KIM MET a ATTORN LY-AT-LAW, . . iii.i......tct.lA hli rani il tUrnOlO I'urilirp-cmiyr.. - terror n-l adi-'lnttiit cnontU- w.th vmrl" i ....... i itu, Aifltn ihb street. EXRY F. PHI ELI ATTOK N EY - AT LAW, . tut uA Penplon Airect, Somerset, Pa. t in'Mammotn lilack. ALEXTINE HAY. ATTOKXEY-AT LAW t ,1 Heal.T In Real Ertate. Somer t. P will m! ti. all linslnewentruFtedto hi! ear with fc i'ttieM and Pdety . MUX H. I'HL. ATTUKX E i -AT-LA w Somerset, Pa, r irpmmptlT attend to all tolre entrnfted :n Mammoth Kulldlnx. G. OGLE. ATTOKNEY-AT LAW, Somerset Pa., L:e4 to with .rompttieiia and Cdelity. .j..ri..i hnfnHiintni4tfi1 to mT care at- J. M. LOUTH ER. L ( Formerly ol Stfjestown.) rursiciAS jJ.vd sirczos. h l.ieated lrmanentTT In omerwi tt me '.lrvoihia to!.-wIi. tmr Sduon west ol n) Hon 1. In rear ol Iru Store. majil. IL E. W. PLOUGH, noFATHlC PUYSICAS AD SVttGEOS !m hi wrriees to the peile of Some-wt t lidr.itT. 'nllr In town oreountry protrj.tly vir.it.. run t found at tmior nay rnint, - pnei.ally enmeed. t-im .n tfat (.ni.r ol IHamoud, over Kneiiper'f More. aprti (Htf lR IL s7 KIMMEL ' terrrs hi? prote1otial serriee to the rtti. f Soiiier-t and Vicinity. Vnlei.ro!r.in i;aire. 1 ran t round 'at hit :lice. on Main i-a't ol the I'lamond. b U. II. DRrr.AKER temk-rs his n.:tf!onal serrt'ea to the rttljenf of S.tti ar..l TKitiltr. imxe in reaijence ci .-uuu et en 1 1 the I'lamond. fR. WM. RAUCII tenders his p 8. C. K. S.J. M. MILLEX. M VH.SIT. Pa.. E rt attest!.) to the Frewrration of Natural leeth. Artit.etaJ a lnert4. ah z .araceed Mti:a.T.ry. oihre in r's f ti K;riot ureot, on-Jr esft ol Evan ai(':urh. OCt!-o. T T .11 V T TT T C ItNThST. ap Main icC k k. BeeriU !!I wk . Somer- Fa TL WILLIAM COLLINS. ' I'LNriST. SOMERSET, PA. " In Mammoth Work. aboT, llord t Prut - wt,rre h can at all times t found prepar- Jv all kindt ol orlc such as failinu. rm etrart:n. c. Araocial teethol all kinds, ol the tst luterial inserted. Oira lions -asted. DR J. K. MILLER has perma nentlT K-a- w. Mrltn lor the nrartlre, of ;.tj!esioo.t iftoe opposite Charles Krt sstne r.ure. tpr.-O, T-tt hlAMOXD HOTEL, STOYSTOWN. I'KNN'A. C -At popular and well known house has lately ikiraichiy and newly renttel wim all new ' best ! innuture. which ha made It a rery T' ler.oiipir plaee It the treli6 put.lic. - tai-ie ana r.Nv cannot soryasseU. all 1- a Drat rUss, with a lante pol Ur hall attached vanic Also larve UJU phhut nauiina. claw t.r.'ltii can he had at the lowest p. fpr.cn. ( j the week, day or meaL 5 AM VIX tTSTER. Prop, ai. E. Cor. Itam.Mi Surrr.cw ,Pa PRIZE. Send rents or jKt- .... t'.1 rwll. I rprf. m ?bfl.il f... wnieh will heln rnm to annn. er n.tit away than anythlna else in thin I'r"4 r4 in (..none opens hei.ire the work' oi eitner trx. swctm Irotn nrst hmr a .iu:n, .an. At oace address, Tara Aruu. Maine. lanA. TOW TO MAKE MONE V T. Suecesstm! Stlesnea I nay as hth k u if I n- a and expenses, oteatly em It HI pioyasent ruaran'.eed. 0 bk want 'Jtrt,oc n t neeasarr. Anr llr, maa sp,i. oa acres ander enliivatim. The VJT'lete v.im ktu)s in th Velte-i jes. aod ehuicM earietie of trait a ..." ad l.rr tmr. statln c. I'tiaa. pXECUTOirs N0TICI1 A I I at of rre.lerick Ollhert, late Somerset k,.. " . f'aierset t!o ra dec d. a, . ' ' . ur .mr,. n.Tiaar . .:.j7 '"-"j a'vcw w an persons ib lT.i . "' aMe.llaW pay- t t tw ifT b,nnt iaunaa4nst It to - irt a iacier. a sveum torn irh. u. Kijk.n a.ri4La.K, cavewiur. ( HPT Ike VOL. XXXIII. NO. 24. SAVE YOUR MONEY IN BUYING YOUR Ranges, Cooking and Heating Stoves, Cellar Furnaces, Fire-Place Heaters, Tinware, Copper ware, Sheetiron Lamp Goods of Lvery Description, Knives and Forks, Spoons, Soup Ladles, Granite Ware, Coffee Mills, Plated-ware, Toilet Sets, Cake Boxes, B.read Closets, Clothes-wringers, Egg Beaters, Llaw Cutters, Iron Stands, Fancy Spittoons, Slop Buckets, Hard Coal Parlor Heaters, Soft Coal Parlor Heaters, Copper Kettles, Brass Kettles, Iron Kettles, Steam Cookers, Itice, Milk and Farina Boilers, Perfect 'affle Irons, Broilers of all Kinds, Meat Pounders, Mincing Knives, Saw Knives, Ami a Larpe .Stock of KITCHEN ARTICLES, will be sold at Low Frices. Call and examine tlie Good. f-iIiOok for my name on the window, and you will be sure to find the right place. :F:R,-A-isr:K: 280 Washington Street, THE Genuine MONOGRAM. loots ioes Can Be Had Only At As STAIiGAUDTEU is Sole Aircnt for them in Johnstown. Stargardtcr does not misrepre sent his Goods to his Customers. Stargardtcr has but one Low Price to all. Stargardtcr will save you fully 25 per cent, on vour Shoe Bills. Stargardtcr will sell you a Boys' good Calf Boot, Size 1 and 2, at $1,50. Stargardtcr will sell you Itub Boots and Overshoes, Cheap er than any other Shoe Store in Johnstown. Stargardtcr will sell you a Men's Good Coarse Boot at 1.S IF YOU M'AXT TO J! EDUCE YOUh Shoe Bills, GO TO L. OilNrE-PIlICE OPERA HOUSE SHOE STORE No. 212 Main St., Johnstown, Pa. A NEW ENTERPRISE. E. M. Lambert & Bro., Manufaetnrtrs of and Pealtrs la iWlile Pine asl Meet Steiles- Wa hart secured a Isl EW HVTTTiXi, And manutaetar Phlnales 00 the Jticblaraa Principle. We rat. and constantly keep on hand two Ktxiesoi toe Tarvws Kincs w ninitiea. f caarante ear Shlnciea to be superior to any in the County. Shall I pleased to have parties roue and icspeet cut all in i( lea before Loyicff alsawbera. Address E. M. LAMBERT & BRO., LAX BERTS VTLLE, SOJIEKStT CO-, Pa, lune 11 tm. STARGABDTERS STARGARDTER S Ware, w. - Johnstown, Pa. (ESTABLISHED 1677.) CHARLES. I. HAEE1E0N. M.J.PRITTS. Tr evident. Cashier Collections made In all parti of the United States. CHARGES MODERATE. Parties wl.hlar to send money Wert can be ac commodated ly draft on New York In any sum. Collections ma ile with promptness. C S. Bunds houitht and sold. Sinner and ralualiles secured Iit one of IHeluld'i celebrated sales, Willi a ISar Kect Vale t-J..U 00 lime lock. ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. asTAllleua holldcys oheerred.ta Albebt A. Hoeki. J. Scott Waed. HOME & TOD SrCCKSSORS TO EATON & BROS, X0. 27 FIFTH AVENUE, pittsburgh, pa. s:priS57i882. NEW GOODS TAT SPZCTALTISS Embroideries, Laced Milliner;, Whits Goods, Hind kerchieft, Dress Trimmings, Hosiery, Glorts, Corsets, Muslia tnd Merino Undorwear, In fants' and Children's Clothing. Fine; Goods, Yams, Zeahyrs, Kita rlals of All Kinds for FANCY WORK, Gent's FnndsUnE GooSs, k, k. TCCB FATBOXAOB is tusrsxrrn-LLT SOLIOTID. Ir-OrJcr by Mail attended to with Prompt ness and Iiispatoh. TOTTS POLLS "THE OLD RELIABLE. 25 YEARS IN USE. The Greatest Medical Triumph cf the Age. Indorsed all over the World SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss ofappetite. Nausea, bowels cos; tive. Pain in the Head. with a dull sen: satioajn thabaparJinjandeT the Bhoulder-blade, fullness aftereaN ing, with a disinclination to exertion ot body or mind. Irritability of temp, er, Low spiritLoss of memory ,witfi a feeUngj)havln?neg!ectedsome duty,wearineES. Dizziness, Flntter incof the Heart, Dot s before the eyes, Yellow jSkin-HeadacheiRestlessness at night, highly colorecTPrine. IT THESE WABinSGS AfiE TTKHEEDED, crr;-3 Z3zizz3 edcn ei iitiiu. TUIT8 PILLS are especially adapunl to auch caries, one dose lfecta auch a change) of feclina; as to astonish the sufferer. Thev latcreaao tiae Appetite, and eanse tile body to Take on e lesla, thns tlie avs tem Is atonrished. and by their Toaiic Action on the ISitreetire Ortraae, Rer far sttool. ft re firolqoet. Price tilj eemta. TUTTS HAIR DYE. iKT Hair or Wuiskfus chanRTd to Rux-r P.lack by a single application of thU 1TE. It lruparta a natnnil color, acta Itistatiraneooxly. Sold by IX-nggista, or wt by eiprws on receipt of 91. Office, 44 Murray St.. New Yor FASHIONABLE CUTTER & TAILOR, Harlne: had an.ay roan er periea w In alt branebaa A be Tailorinc baa. loess. I sraaraateo SaUsfactiua to all who saay call ap oa me an 1 farur me w Itk Uialr pat ruaaare. Vowrs, Ac, M. nocusTE n.Eix, ((nierset Pa. surl CHARLES HOFFMAN. (Aoore Hearr HofBejrSsj Star.) LATEST STILES Ol! LOWEST PRICES. GTSATISF ACTIOS GUARANTEED. SOMERSET :Pj3l. $661 mi at aona. AS outfit tree par ahsulntely rare. No risk. Cap- either sea. young or old, can make Brest par ail the time ther work, with absolute errtaintT. . . . . , . ri u a.l.l u. WTltclur innaauui tv n. a, a vi MmM MERCHANT TAILOR omer Marriage A 1 Mode, A hat, a cane, A nobby beau 1 A narrow lane, A whisper low. A smile, a bow, A little flirt ! An anient tow That's cheap as dirt! A hand to squeeze, A girl to kiss, Quite at one's ease Must needs be bliss. A ring, to date, A honeymoon. To find too late It was too soon! London Ladies Jours?. BLAINE SERENADED BY THK CITIZENS OF ACGLSTA, AND HE DELIVERS A LONG AXD ELOQVENT SPEECH. Augusta, November IS. A arp;e number of devoted personal and po litical friends of Mr. Blaine serenad ed him this evening as an expres sion of personal good will and ad miration of his conduct of the na tional campaign. They marched through the streets under the mar- shilship of Col. Frank Nye. When they reached Mr. Blaine's house their compliments and friendly re gards were expressed in a speech by Herbert M. Heath, Esq., of the Ken nebec bar. Mr. Dlaine responded as follows, bis speech being continu ally interrupted by applause : Friends and Neighbors The na tional contest is over, and by thei narrowest ot margins we have lost. 1 thank you for your call, which, if not one of jo3tou9 congratulations, is one, I am sure, of confidence and of sanguire hope for the future. I thank you for the public opportuni ty you give me to express my sense ot obligation; not only to you, but to all the republicans of Maine. They responded to my nomination with genuine enthusiasm and rati fied it by a superb vote. I count it as one of the honors and Gratifica tions of m- public career that the party in Maine, after struggling hard for the last six years, and twice with in that period losing the State, has come DacK in tins campaign to an old-fashioned 20,000 plurality. No other expression of popular confi dence and esteem could equal that of the people among whom I have lived for thirty years, and to whom I aui attached by all the tie3 that ennoble human nature and gi"e jov and dignity to life. after maixe, indeed along with Maine, my first thought is always of Pennsylvania. How can I fittingly express my thanks for that unparalleled ma jority of more than eighty thousand votes. A popular endorsement which has deeply touched my heart, and which has, if possible, increased my allec tion for the grand old Common wealth ; an affection which I inher ited from my ancestors, and which I shall transmit to my children, but I do not limit my thanks to the State of my residence and the State of my birth. I owe much to the true and zealous friends in New England who worked so nobly for the Ilepublican party and its candidates, and to the eminent scholars and divine who, stepping aside from their oidinary avocations, made my cause their cause, and to loyalty to principle added the special compliment of standing as my personal representa tives in the National struggle. But the achievements lor the Re publican cause in the East are even surpassed by the splendid victories in the West In that magnificent cordon of States that stretches from the foothills of the Alleghenies to the Golden Gate of the Pacific, be ginning with Ohio and ending with California, the Republican banner was borne so loftily that but a single State failed to join in the wide ac claim of triumph. Nor should I do justice to my own feelings if I failed to thank THE REPUBLICANS OF THE EMPIRE STATE, who encountered so many discour agements and obstacles, who fought foes from within and foes from with out, and who waged so strong a battle that a change of one vote in every 2,0000 would have given us the victory in tne nation, itideed a change of little more than 5,000 ! votes would have transferred New York, Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut to the Republican standard and would have made the North as solid as the South. My thanks would be incomplete if I should fail to recognize with special gratitude that great body of work ingmen, both native and foreign born, who gave me their earnest support, breaking from old person al and party ties and finding in the principles which I represented in the canvaes the safeguard and protection ot their own fireside interests. The result of the election, my friends, will be regarded in the fu ture, I think as extraordinary. The Northern States, leaving out the cities of New York and Brooklyn from the count, sustained the Re publican cause by a majority of more than 400,000 almost half a million of the popular vote. The cities of New York and Brooklyn threw their great strength and influ ence with the Solid South, and were the decisive element which gave to that section the control of the Na tional Government A RATIONAL MISFORTUNE. Speaking not at all as a defeated candidate, but simply as a loyal and devoted American, I think the trans fer of the political power of the Government to the South, is a great national misfortune ; it is a misfor tune because it introduces an ele ment which cannot insure harmony and prosperity to the people because it introduces into a republic the rule of a minority: the first iostinct of an American ia equality equality of right equality of privilege equal ity of political power that equali ty which says to every citizen, ' Your vote is just as good, just as potential as the vote of any other citizen.' That cannot be said to-day in the United States. set ESTABLISHED 1827. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2b', The course of affaire in the South has crushed out the political power of more than aix million American citizens and hag transferred it by vi olence to others. Forty-two Presi dential electors are assigned to the South on account of the colored population, and yet the colored pop ulation, with more than eleven hun dred thousand legal votes, has been unable to choose a siiigle elector. Even ir those States where they have a majority of more than a hun dred thousand they are deprived of free suflrage, and their tights as cit izens are scornfully trodden under foot. The eleven States that com prised . THE REBEL CONFEDERACY had by the census of 18S0 7,500,000 white population and 5,300,000 col ored population. The colored pop ulation almost to a man desire to support the Republican party, but' bv a system of cruel intimidation i and by violence and murder, where- J a 1 1 ever violence ana inuraer are thought necessary, they are abso lutely deprived of all political pow er. If the outrage stopped there it would be bad enough. But it does not stop there, for not only is the negro population disfranchised, but the power which rightfully and con stitutionally belongs to them is transferred to the white population of the South to exert an electoral influence far beyond that exerted by the same number of white people in the North. To illustrate just how it works to the destruction of all fair elections, let me present to j'ou five States in the late Confederacy and five loyal States of the North, possessing in each section the same number of electoral votes. In the South the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Al abama, Georgia and South Carolina have an aggregate of 48 electoral votes. They have 2,800,000 white people, and over 300,000 colored people. In the North the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and California have likewise in the ncgrecate 48 electoral votes, and thev have a white population of 5,0l0,000, just double the five South ern States which I have named. These Northern States have practi cally no colored population. It is therefore evident that the white men in those Southern States, by USURPING AXD ABSORBING the rights of the colored men, are exerting just double the political power of the white men in the Nor thern States. I submit, my friends, that such a condition of affairs is extraordinary, unjust and derogato- rv to ttie mannoou oi me ortn. Even those who are vindicatively opposed to negro suffrage will not I deny that if Presidential ejectors are assigned to the South by reason of the negro population, that popula tion ought to be permitted free suffrage in the election. To deny that clear proposition is to affirm that a Southern white man in the Gulf States is entitled to double the political power of a Northern white man in the Lake States it is to affirm that the Con federate soldier shall wield twice the influence in the nation that a Union solditr can, and that a perpetual and constantly increasing superiori ty shall be conceded to the South ern white man in the Government of the Union. If that be quietly conceded in this generation it will harden into custom, until the badge of inferiority will attach to the Nor thern white man as odiously as ever Norman noble stamped it upon Saxon churl. The subject is of deep interest to the laboring men of the North. With the Southern Democ racy triumphant in their States and in the nation, the negro will be com pelled to work for just 6uch wages as the whites may decree wages which will amount, as did the sup plies of the tlaves, to a bare sub sistence, equal in cash perhaps to THIRTY-FIVE CENTS PEUXMY. If averaged over the entire South, the white laborer in the North will soon feel the distinctive effect of thU upon his own wages. The Re publicans haye clearly seen from their earliest days of reconstruction that wages in the South must be raised to a just recompense of the labor, or wages in the North ruinous-1 Iv lowered, and the party have steadily worked for the former re sult. The rever.-e influence will now be set in motion, and that condition of affairs produced which years ago Mr. Lincoln warned the free labor ing men of the North would prove hostile to their independence, and will inevitably lead to a ruinous re duction of wages. A mere difference in the color of the skin will not suf fice to maintain an entirely different standard of wages in contiguous and adjacent States, and the voluntary will be compelled to yield to the in voluntary. So completely have the colored men in the South been al-readj- deprived by the Democratic party of their constitutional and le gal rights as citizens of the United States that they regard the ad vent of that party to national pow er as THE SIGNAL OF THEIR BE-EXSLAVE-MENT, and are affrighted because they think all legal protection for them is gone. Few persons in the North realize how completely the chiefs of the rebellion wielded the political f ower which has triumphed in the ate election.- It is a portentious fact that the Democratic Senators who come from the States of the late Confederacy, all and I mean all without a single exception per sonally participated in the rebel lion against the National Govern ment It is a still more significant fact that in these States no man who was loyal to the Union, no matter how strong a Democrat he may be to-day, has the slightest chance of political promotion- 1 be one great avenue to honor in that sectson is the record of zealous service in the war against the Government It is certainly an astounding fact that the section in which friendship for the Union in the day of its trial and ag ony is still a political disqualifica tion should be called now to role over the Union. All this takes place during the lifetime of the generation that i'oucht the war. and elevates into practical command of the j The colors of paper and ink are American Government the identical j far more responsible for defective men who organized for its destruc-1 eyesight than cross-lights from op tion and plunged us into the blood-1 posite windows, light shining direct iest contest of modern times. Illy in tho face, insufficient light, or have Bnoken of the South as nlaced by the late election IX POSSESSION OF THE GOVERNMENT, and I mean all that my words im ply. The South furnished nearly three-fourths of the Electoral votes that defeated the Republican party, and they will step to the command of the Democrats as unchallenged and as unrestrained as they held the same position for thirty years before the war. Gentlemen, there cannot he polit ical inequality among the citizens of a free republic ; there cannot be a minority of white men in the South ruling a inabority of whit men in the North. Patriotism, self-respect, pride, protection tor person and safe ty for the country, all cry out against it. The very thought of it stirs the blood of men who inherit equality from the Pilgrims who first stood on Plymouth Rock, and from the liberty-loving patriots who came to the Delaware with William Penn. It becomes the primal question of American manhood. It demands a hearing and a settlement, and that settlement will vindicate the equali ty of American citizens in all PERSONAL AND CIVIC RIGHTS. It will at least establish the equal ly of white men under the National Government, and will give to the Northern man, who fought to pre serve the Union, us large a voice in its government as may be exercised by the Southern man, who fought to destroy the Union. The contest just closed utterly dwarfs the for tunes and fate of candidates, wheth er successful or unsuccessful. Pur posely I may say instinctively I have discussed the issues and con sequences of that contest without reference to my own defeat, without the remotest reference to the gentle man who is elevated to the Presi dency. Toward him personally I have no cause for th slightest ill will, and it is with cordiality I ex press the wish that his official ca reer may prove gratifying to himself and beneficial to the country, and that his administration may over come the embarrassments which the peculiar source of its power imposes upon it from the hour of its birth. At the conclusion of Mr. Blaine's speech he invited a large crowd into his house, and for nearly an hour an informal reception was held, hundreds of people passing through the room. The greetings were es- pecially friendly and cordial. A Locksmith on Locks. " Locks ? Locks won't keep bur glars out. Why, I can open any kind of lock that has ever been jn vented, without key or combina tion," said a Washington locksmith. "That is, I open safes when the locks are out of order, or the com binations lost. Sometimes a man will oil the lock of his safe, but it gets gummed up so that the tum blers won't work, and he can't get it open. Some men are forgetful, and lose their combinations. Safes are sold at sheriff's sale sometimes, and the owner, being mad, won't give up the combination. When anything of that kind happens, they send for me." " No. If the lock is broken 6o that it won't work, I drill a little hole alongside the dial and pick the lock with a small bit of wire. If the lock i3 all right, only the combina tion is lost. I goto work to find it, and don't deface the safe at all. It takes me from three to lour seconds to six hours to open a safe, according to the kind, and the method I em ploy." " But how can you find the com bination? Does it not take a long time?" " By testing. As to time, it de pends upon circumstances. If I know the man who set the combina tion I can find it in a very few min utes. If 1 don't, it takes longer. You see, I study the character of the man. Safe openers are dangerous in a community fhey are alwavs watched by the police, iney Keep an eye on me all the time. I have them trying my doors at all hours of the night, and there's generally one somewhere around." "Could you open a burglar-proof time lock?" " I can open the best lock that was ever made in live or six hours. Tlioa 1 tr r I nftir. anfpa T wrmMn'f put "that much time on. They don't n'li- pnnm'h I insf. take R hammpri and break the knob off, and get into the safe ir. just about three seconds." "What do you get for opening a ' For a little three-second safe, I get S10. For large safes, such as they have in banks and biokcrs' of fices, and where they don't want the lock injured, I get $250." " Could you open the great safe in the United States Treasury ?" " Easily. I could get rid of the time lock aad everything in six or seven hours, and wouldn't make any particular fuss about it, either. No safe was ever made but it had some weak point known to the maker, so that he could get into it in. case the lock should refuse to re spond. If there wasn't, they would have to break the concern all to pieces if the lock broke. Now, I know where to find these weak pla ces. I can strike within a quarter of an inch of it every time. It i generally covered over by a thin sheet of steel or boiler iron, and, by cutting away a block three or four inches, which is easily done, I could drill into the best safe that has ever been made, it would not be any trouble for burglars to get into the Treasury safe if they understood locks as I do." Henry M. Stanley, the African traveler, says that when he sighted the Lower Congo it had a popula tion of only nineteen Europeans two English, two Dutch, one Ger man, two Frenchmen, and twelve Portuguese. era 1884. I'aper and Ink on Eyesight. email type. If these were remedied the principal cause of the mischief! would still remain, the real reot of the evil being the universally used black ink and white paper. These, says a writer, are ruining the sight of all the reading nations. He ar gues that the rays of the sun are re flected by a white body and absorb ed by a black one, and that we print our newspapers and books in direct opposition to the plainest correct principles of optical science. A book or newspaper as now printed and being read by us, the eyes do not see the letters which, being black, are non-reflective ; the outlines of the impressions of the type reach the retina, but they are not received by the spontaneous, direct action of that orpan. The whtie surface of the paper is reflected, but the letters are detected only by a discriminative effort of the optic nerves. This con stant labor irritates the nerves, and, when long continued, exhausts their susceptibility. As proofs, the writer cites the well-known fact that the human eye cannot long sustain the glare of a white surface without in jury. The sunlight reflected from fields of snow, unrelieved by the col ors of other objects, or from the whit sands of the desert is, the world over, productive of ophthal mia. In accordance with this argu ment, if colored paper were substi tuted for white, tte eye1 of all read ing people would at once be reliev ed of a blinding strain a continu ous effort bound to result in perma nent weakening of the eyes. Nature and science, says the writer above quoted, tell us that the color of all printing paper should be green. Green grass covers the ground, green leaves are on the tres, and green is the color most grateful to the eye. Green newspapers would be a novel ty, but in time we would grow ac customed to the tint ; green school books would please the children ; but green grounds would sadly mar the high art engravings for which a number of American magazines have become noted. And, if our scientific friend is correct in his con clusions, green paper would sadly cripple the trade in eye-glanses and spectacles. Shot Down by a Cannon Ball. M. Boutibouse, the French savant, served in Napoleon's army, and wps present at many engagements. At the battle of Wagram, in lSO'J, he tvas in the heat of the fray ; the ranks around him had been terribly thinned by shot, and at sunset he was nearly isolated. While reload ing his musket he was shot down by a cannon ball. His impression was that the ball had passed through his legs below his knees, completely severing them, for he suddenly sank down, shortened, as he believed, to the extent of about a foot in meas urement. The trunk of the body fell backward on the ground and the man's senses were paralyzed by the shock. Thus he lay, motionless, among the wounded and dead all night, not daring to move when con sciousness partially returned,lest the loss of blood should be fatally in creased. That he felt no pain he attributed to the stunning effect of the shock on his nervous system and he wa3 still mentally too numbed to be able to reason as to why he had not bled ta death. At earlydawn he was arous ed by one of the medical staff, who came round to help the wounded. "What's the matter with you, my good fellow ? " said tha surgeon. "Ah. touch me tenderly, doctor," re plied M. Boutibouse ; "a cannon ball has carried off my legs !" The sur geon examined the limbs referred to and then giving him a good r-hake, said, with a laugh, "Get up with you there's nothing the matter with your leg3!" M. Boutibouse sprang up in utter astonishment, and stood firmly on the legs which he had thought lst forever. "I felt more thankful," said he, "than I had ever felt in the whole course of my life before. I had not a wound about roe. I had, indeed, been shot down by an im mense cannon ball, but instead of passing through my Iei;s. as I firmly believed it had, the ball had passed under my feet and had plowed a hole in the eart. beneath at least a foot in depth, into which my feet suddenly sank, giving me the idea that I had been thus shortened by fthe lwM of mylegs Potatoes tn Their Jackets. "Should potatoes be peeled before cooking, or should they be boiled in their jackets? I say most decid edly in jackets," writes Professor Mattieu Williams, "and will state my reasons. From Sfty-three to fifty-six per cent of the saline consti tuents of the potato is potash, and potash is an important constituent of the blood so important that in Norway, where scurvy once prevail ed very seriously, it has been ban ished since the introduction of the potato, and, according to Lang and other good authorities, it is owing to the use of this vegetable by a peo ple who formerly were insufficiently supplied with saline vegetable food. Potash salts are freely soluble in wa ter, and I find that the water in which potatoes have been boiled contains potash, as may be proved by boiling it dewn to concentrate, then filtering, and adding the usual potash test, platinum chloride. It is evident that the skin of the pota to must resist this passage of the pot ash into the water, though it may not fully prevent it. The bursting j of the skin occurs only at quite the latter stage of the cookery. Ihe greatest practical authorities on the potato Irish men appear to be unanimous ; I do not remember to have seen a prepeeled potato in Ire land. I find I can at once detect by the difference of flavor whether a potato has been boiled with or without its jacket, and this differ ence is evidently saline. Busted up the sky-rocket WHOLE NO. 1741. Those Tangled Ti-esees. "The name of the women who wear false hair is legion," was the startling statement to a reporter by a dealer in the deceptive hirsute yes terday. "Tell me something new," answer- ed th reporter. "In what form is all this false hair worn ?" "In every form possible," was the reply, "It is worn by young ladies for bangs ; young ladies who don't need to wear false hair, but who do to save the trouble of preparing their own. You wouldn't think so? Perhaps not, but a large percentage of maddens who have good hair of their own cover it up with store hair. Curious, isn't it? Then there are lot3 of old women you meet on the streets who apparently possefs lux uriant heads of hair, but who in re ality are bald as a billiard ball. Then you, of course, know all about the plain, ordinary, every-d3y switches which women hang over the backs of chairs at nights, and which prove a never-failing source of inspiration to the funny men." "Are these false bang made here?' "Right here. We have blocks to construct them on, and make a great many oi tnem. switches are made right here, too." 'Where does all the hair come from " From the old country, mostly. The peasant girls among the Alps!.., 1 1. l A i tit. h.iv- their hair nit rixrtilar.w u nn- nlv th .Wri.,n trZu it-. n, . . 1 .- . RmnfMl snrtrrrmiK TriMrrtirmu Inn J - - v . -. ...... .. w . - . enormous proportions, There are houses in New York which make a specialty of celling it." "You do not buy hair here ia the city then?" "Not often. It would be two much trouble. You ee, if we did we would have to clean it mid pre pare it generally, and the work in curred would be too great for the trifling advantage we would obtain. We occasionally buy hair, but not often." "How about wigs ?' "They are worn much moreexten ciuf.lr than rtcrtrala i.ni.i!.., Tt ...... .- .......v. people inins mar, Uiey can always tell a wig wnen a ni..n wears '1P but if an unfortunate b; . . , . . the best and attends to it that means get a new one about once a year few l-esides experts can de A wig will only tect the imitation, last about a year." it I f - L - ..A t J . o how aoouy lair-areng ; .eu res9.au.es nsir continually. When a woman is going out some evening, or receives company, and , -i - i , - cBAvi..- y.iTj utu.7v via Hat. iu.3 UtaOA . shethiniisshe can not comu heri,irili ,i,0 i,,,,.., i,i f ,l , , ! hair nice enouge, she ernes to us. j e have a girl employed especially ! for the purpose." j lira fYlnnv wnmn r.la.'ir.l. their h..-r! ,., J " now "Plenty of them. Half the blonde? vou meet on the street are made to order. It tells in tiaie. tliouh. Makes the hair rou-'li and brit tle." "Do you sell manv false mustach es and beards ?" "Not many. What we do Fell is mostly for amateur theatricals, and all that sort of thinjr. Boys buy them, too. By the way, you may deprecate the wearing of false bangs by girls all you wish, but I made a set to order a while ago for a young man ot this city. He is a dude of the first water, and I think that he wears these false bantrs now. Don't be lieve it ? It's just true as that I am standing here." IlM:Lrti'r (X. i.) Veinocrat and Chrorn l: "So Fond of the Pip1".' The affection of Scotch folks for the music of ti -eir beloved bagpipes has been the theme of many anec dotes, but few incidents are rnore in teresting or pathetic than the follow ing, which was frequently related by Mulreadv himself during his lifetime as a reminiscence of the days whin he and Yvilkie were intimate friends and fellow students at the schools of the Royal Academy. David Wilkie was then living in London with his mother and sister, his father, a Scotch minister, being lately dead. The Wilkies lived in a certain lont; street in the neighborhood of Port land-place, called then Norton st, but probably identical with the thor oughfare known at present as Great TichSeld-st. After a time Mrs. Wil kie fell seriously ill, and Mulreadv, who took a very friendly interest in the old lady, called frequently to in quire after bar. One day a he was gointr to pay his usual vwit he turn- ed into Norton-st, at the farthest end from the house where the Wilkies livtd, when, to hi. great surprise, he heard Uistinctly the music of bag pipes. He looked up the whole of the long, straight street, but no play er could he see, and yet the weird, shrill notes sounded loudly in his ears. Strange stories of ghostly unseen pipers came into his head, and as he walked in the direction of Wilkie's houi-e he was surprised to find that the muic became distinctly louder as he advanced up the rtreet. At last be racg the bell. Wilkie him self opened the door, and then the locality of the batrpipes became only too evident In the little front par lor sat a highlander playing away vieorouslv at some familiar Scotch melody. Mulready looked to Wil kie for an explanation, conversation being out of the question while the music was going on. Wilkie drew him inside the door, and signing to the man to stop for a moment, the kind hearted Scotchman in his broad accent explained to his friend how the poor old mother was dying up otairs and hew he had found for her the only music that she cared to hear. "You see," eaid Wilkie, "she's so fond of the pipes. Look oat for Your Head. j j No matter what parts it may final-1 ly affect, catarrh always starts m the head. There is no mystery about the origin of this direful dis-j ease. It begins in a neglected cold. One of the kind that is sure to be ! better in a few days." Thousands of victims know how it is by sad experience. Ely's Cresrn Balm cures colds in the head and catarrh in all its stages. Not a snuff nor a liquid. Applied with finger to the nostrils. Si range Troths. Dr. Sketchley, who has charge of the Ofctrich farra at Anaheim, was plucking one of the things oco day. When they pluck them a stocking is kept on the head to blind the bird While he can not see he ia nniff j but if his blinkers gt-t uncovered then he "goes for theplucker. The doctor moved his arm so as to dis turb the stocking, and instantly he saw what waslone and went head first out of the pen, not caring for any more plumes just then. As he tumbled head first over the fence the bird he was a jack one, of course let fly a kick which, strik ing a fence boar, made toothpicks of a whole panel length. The mules occupation as a kicker is gone in this county since the ostrich came. Lo An jelt's Esiires. HI3 HEARTY APPROVAL. A man's animosity toward a politi cal opponent is sometimes so bitter that it does not cease even when the opponent is lead. A year or two ago a gentleman who had figured most prominently, not only in the history of massachusetU, but in the history of the country, suddenly came to the end of a long and useful life. On the of the funeral one ot the stron gest political enemies of the deceas ed, and a man whose name is well known to every man, woman and child in the commonwealth, was asked, "Are you going to attend Mr. 's funeral today ?" "No," responded the distinguished gentleman, deliberately, "but ( dry ly) 1 wish you to understand that I heartily approve of it" liorfon (la. SIXTY CART LOADS OK FISH. A farmer who was in town from Wells related a remarkable circum stance which happened in his town one day ladt week. For some time past tne herring have remained away from shore, and the fishermen were unable to obtain theia in everv large ; numbers. All at once they began ! to come in-shore, even in immense j numbers, probably being frightened by dog fash or blue fish. The nurn ! her kept increasing, and when the ! "uc "u"." . k a V1 vl auuui I . . .,.-. . . . : T .1 r l a . acre. completely covered with the fn r- . ' linn. all 3ULUD ffLHJU. . . ' ! fish. In some snot, where there was a depression in the sand, the fish were piled into the depth of about five feet. The farmers in the vicinity soon learned of the fact, and they flocked to the shore and secur ed cart-loads of the fish to he u.sed on their firms as fertilizers. One farmer obtained sixty cart-loads." Bid,h-for,l (3I'.) Time. A CAT AXD A SPARRW. Remarkable stories are told of the ail'- etion xhown by certain animals tu .Viird others of a different species. Tl.e Union Mi tU' ul,' cites an iustiinc t a . . , -,, tt f fcC ! , ,e(j i v contrary character i finM Mi t w 1 n it "t liaa Ot ,lil nn-I fir.intinal i ....... . . u.jv . a . v.,a if tsat i kitil if n n'airtie.n in nnlm.tlt," ; " m a r -a Htii.Vt.tVil A 14 UUIIUdiSs A eat caught a yparrow, and, after firtMa; i r.' cirifa nf it winra rnr,iman- i ,!ri .,AV?nv w;tll ; rirfar!,t..rw t.. devouring it. But tho bird sent its bill into the cat's no.-e to such pur- I 7 " J an aa iit it av a " i po.e as to demoralize the animal, ; ui)d ho rfctreate(1. The two theu be came cljse lriemU Xi ate, drank ! an j gleI.t together: the bird rode i ..., i ,j ,.,.. ,v, v..u "a wvy vsuA.'a iiwi, etui. ivULU iu foo(J UQtil tLe 8paow h;ul gatis. fied it3 aopetitfc 0ne morning the binl lol;nd li)e window 0 " an(I .- i. 4 ' j ieeiing strong 01 wing, too uncere monious leave. The cat neither died nor o its appetite, a circum stance which is regarded as most as tonishing in view of the current sen timental anecdotes. A IRMiIIX; E1RDS UMBRELLA. In front of a window where I worked last summer was a butter nut tree. A humming bird built her nest on a limb that grew near the window, and we had an oppor tunity to watch her closely, as we could look right into the nest from window. One day there was a very heavy shower coming up, and we looked to see if he covered her nest during the storm. But when the first drops fell she came and took in her bill one or two or three large leaves growing close to the nest, and laid it over so that it completely covered the nest ; then she flew away. On looking at the leaf we found a hole in it, and in the sidecf the r.est was a small stick that the leaf was fastened to or hooked on. After the story was over the old bird came back and unhook ed the leaf, and the nest was perfect ly dry. A merit-tin Sfxirdman. SIX LI0N-5 LOOSE. Crockett made the greatest name for himself of any lion tamer, not in England alone, but also in France, Germany and America. I remem ber well the time when the six lions were ltose at one time in Asteley's. The Sangers had sent the beasts up from Edmonton the night before. Nobody to this day knows how they got out of their dens; but it was thought at the time that some one of the grooms with whom the man ager was very unpopular, he used to fine them so mercilessly had let them loot-e maliciously, that they might get at the horses. There they were, anyhow, loose and mad in the place, smelling the horses, and mad to get at them. They had already killed a man and half eaten Lim, when Crockett arrived ; without halting an instant he da.hed in among them single handed, with on ly a switch in his hand, and I'm ole?t if he didn't manage to den them all single handed. That was a nerve for you. At that time Crockett never drank. Archibald. Fjrh;. HALF A MILLION FOR A PAIR OF BOOTS. In the last few weeks of the war a Confederate, serving under Lee wrote hr-ine to his father that he was almost barefooted, and completely discouraged. .s soon as the old man received the letter he mounted his mule and set off at a gallop, but was soon halted by an acquaintance, who called out: "Hello! has there been another fight." "Not as I've beard of; but I've got a letter from Cvrus." "What does Cyrua say ?" "He's out o' butes and clean dis couraged." Antf where you going? "Down to A oner Smith's to borry 3700,000 to send to Cyrus to get a ch eap pair o' shoes, and we're going to write hiaa a long, long letter and send him a box o' pills, and tell him to hang on to the last ; for if Cyrus gets low spirited and begins to let iro the infernal l anks will be riding over us afore we kin back a male outer the stable." "That's so that's so! nodded the other. "I ken let voa have the money myself, as well as not I was saving up to buy three plugs o tobacker and a tax o' matches all to once, but the army mustn't go bare fut when il only takes $700,000 to $300,000 to buy a purty good pair o shoes. Attti in IiipaUh.
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