Somerset Herald I , publication. l-rO" mornlna at 3 j - eiB ..If"' ' .uv bs esargod. 1 ,ibwthie anUl aU lr ' ., J, Bot uk at . u obes iroc.a ai r Somerset mwvb. If How WsutlUnartoa Wm Elected. ESTJBIJ:SHEI 1827. tie; tt, bsjd ol ths former M clce. AJ--re -je Somerset Herald, Somenet, r. ... ..v - - ''iTIuKNEVS-AT-f.A-ir. Soa rut. Fa. TT.. r.TFECKER, Jlt (iomerw. Pa. ATTvh.VEV-AT-LAW, Scjnerret Pa. VOL. XXXIII. NO. 43. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. APRIL S, 1SS5. WHOLE NO. 17G0. To ReduceStock. in order to Make Room for tbe Purpose of enlarging and Improving my Business house, I will sell lor Cash all Goods ia m Line at Greatly Reduced Prices for the following thirty Days. -.7, c.-iVTT. ;I Ith kney-at law A ix a (vnen Ik mertet. Fa. KTTufET-AT.LAW, Somerset, Pa. 1'esley. I .tiuK.M tY-ATLAW, Somerset, P 1U Gallon Vater Backet. iWiall- Water Kucket... -Oallt4i Wafer bucket..... 12-4aart Il-h Pan. l-uart Iih Pan. 16-Uuart Inrh Pan j-Uaart Oovere-1 bucket.. ......... I Bucket.... 4-Huit Covered Brrket. Stuart Covered Burket. t int Fancv lea-Pot. . ......... 4-Piat Fanov Tea-Put -Pint Fancy TeaPirt 1 Pint Fum y Tea-Pot , I 7-Plnt Faucv Tea-Pi. 1 3 cjnan tf!-Bil;r. i Quart Uu If re B..iier Larire Wai-b-Buller (Xo. 9) t- TRr.M iTTvF.XEY.AT-LA- Al"-" Sumereet Sunjeren, Penn'a. AIK'ENEY-AT-LAW. 25 3-Quart Sane Pan,.. .....-.- I 1 SO 4 yuan Sauce Pan -- 3S i U. "art Carbon Oil Can.. .......... .......... 14 iii 4-Uoart J bus Oil Caa at SD 8-Uaart CerbonOll Can . ....... SO Queen CartxA Oil Can (Olaa) So 10 Flow Siller.... 10 IS Lantdrv Forks... tt ) koling Fins .. 1 S4 ToweiKoll-r .. M 11 Novelty Clothes W rineer IN 30 Knive and Furki(Si ufSli).. ....... ....... W St Tea tpooB(Sei of Six). - W 40 rl.ie 6inu (Setoi bii). ....... U 46 SpLllr 10 li St'.-ePoluuFoarKlnU)PerPaper - Meat Broiler. 15 1 uo Erg Wah Biai 10 BE A WOMAN", Somenet, Pa. cirr iTTc'K.NETATUAW. ,ei.tr Sumertet, ' a-, ret nl ai y lnlnr coantiei W. U- Kl'l'l'EL. ,. tA their care will be tbe ',ES. LC, OOLEOES. to nurrare will be lminj. v.tE :e- . .-..untie. Survey. reaiatle terms. tiTM H. KOOKTZ. lLL 1 ATTCKEY-AT-IWaW, . SvmerHJt, l a., . . tMcnM-'ntobn'ineM entrnst- .,,,.. er.-rureJ to "bire wiU I 1 , .-t-e and naeUty. Tlie above List contains but Few of the Many Hundred Articles I will Offer for Low Cash Prices for the next Thirty Days. Whether you wish to buy or not, Please Call and Examine the Largest Stock of StOTes, Tin ware and House Furnishing Goods ever shown in Johnstown. 280 Washington. Street, r P. S.Lo"l For My Xaiue on the Window. Johnstown, Pa. irr.n. ...... 4-rTW K'.'-k BP Mln tntrance. lT. ,ilnetf. "J l"rtl x1utiit1 V KIMMF.L. ATTX-KXEV-AT-t-AW, S'jmewt, Pa. f.J 'ATTukxEY-ATLAW. S..nfcriK;t, Pa. r ci-s jirt 1b Man.a.Ah Block. UN 0. KIMMF.L ATTCKXEY-ATLAW, Somerset, Pa. t-'i 1 Bf'ref ertrorted W bi ears -Xt ,:-T.iEir f 'Or'e with Iirrrcpt- EXRY F. CHEEL. ATTUKXEV-ATLAW, I ctrr r,J Pen'lin Airent, .mersei, : liiaia.-io jok. Pa. TO ODE PATRONS. :o:- SOMERSET COUNTY BANK ! (ESTABLISHKD 18T7.) CEiHLES.I.EAmSC5. U 1PE1T7S. President. Cashier Oft f Te heard gentJe mother. As the twilight hours began, Pleading with a son on duty. Urging him to be man. Bat nnto her bluevered daughter, Tbo' with love'a words qui teas ready Points she ont the other duty " Strive, my dear, to be a lady." What's a lady? Is it something Made of hoops, and si' is and airs, t"sed to decorate the parlor, like the fancy rings and chairs? Is it one that wastes on novels Every feeling that is banian? If 'tis tbh to be a lady. 'Tis not this to be a woman. Mother, then, nnto your daughter Speak of something higher far Than to be mere tashion's lady " Woman " the brightest star. If you, ia your strong affection, Urge your son to be a true man. Urge your daughter no less strongly To arise and be a woman. Yes, a woman ! Brightest model Of that high and perfect beauty, Where tbe mind, and soul, and body Iilend to work out life's great duty. Be a woman, naught is higher On the gilded crest of time ; On the catalogue of virtue There's no brighter, holier name. Collections made In aU part of the Vnltod States. CHARGES MODERATE. Partle wbhlnir to a?nd iconey Wet eaa be ac commodated br drall on New York In any ram. CSullertiunf ma-le wit a promitnexs. V. S. Bonds bonirht and told. Money nd valuable secured bvooeot lleiold I eelebrated saiea, wun a 2ar f ent h Yale t3. 00 Uim took, ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. Ai-AlHejra holidays obsemd.t AI.ENTIXE HAY. ATTdKXEY-ATLAW : I! r !n Kf! Eitate. Somer t, P i -i, all hn'irMf et.troJtei! t hi are : aw a-l t-t'.J . win with h?. F V. DL0UGII, irn ii. rui, ATTVEXET-AT law tiuintrsot. P all tciwn entrust 1 . ' v",' . .ri.1 on eitUectluns. -C Ol- rxisnwU BuUditjc G. OGLE. , ATTt'EX EY-AT-LAW, Somerw. Pa., -twtiit.u'teeffentrsrea to my fare t M to.:h J. n.;'tce6f anJ tdellty. J. M. I.orTHER. F Ttrerly ol S:iiyetcwn.) fHYSICUS iXD SFKCEO.V, ! we.-tEanently In Swwt f r the . m yt ..f.-inr. ffie 1 thvn t ol . Htfii. io reur ol l-ruj: su-rc. n;a J. '-TlTHir FHYilCAS ASD SVKGEOS x-rvWf to the peoj.leof Somerfrt "j. ! ia t.wn ore"UBry pTitly n lii.nnd at ortiop iir . rnijrbu t.:f-. ti..y Dir;urel. Aa.-f'ffie on r-T. h" Ilan-nt. over Kner.per"f ' n. aprS-MtL V. H. S. KIM MEL :m t jti -lmal jervlre to tbe eltl- -t i f uDil"at Lijcir.ce, on Main ?r ; : l-untvi:d. LT.rr.AKEH tenders his e f'Vir.l nerr!-e to tbe eltlimf of Pom "lir.s:tT. irhre in reudenc tn Jlain enot t l.un.ni. r- WM. TIAITII trtlfrs his It ifM r.jl tcrrl'-ci to the eitiieoof Son- -"-ounlJurtast or V. tvxe a Bcrkeblle's - t.-c S J. ! VILLl'N. (0'-.fcfc;t ,a Vriltitlrv.) MiKKIKT. PA i teL-.Wjo to th Prrserration of 1:'-l-".. Ar.'.ftpiRl aeif InatTte-l. AU ' r u-.a4 tj?:aeterT. in ". i .lii-i. Latraoce one li.rwe: )J0HNT.ILL. ' I-EXTIST. t!r liiv.i k Becrlts Block, Sonier- WILLIAM COLLINS. ' I'tXTlST.SOXEKSLT.PA. -"Utissnjotb B'rrt. ahiva Bov4 Irn "T PB T n fwni rrfTr- ,n l"lf of work, nrh w bUtK. rewu- !Jir,f"rr AnrSeUlteethMallktnda. t ssterial loaertej. Opvutions K. MILLER has pernia- iB iwTim lor f praTice nt (' Cbarlrf KrtJ-fnr- K'n aj. r; To-U. re i-AMOXD HOTEL, KTOYfcTOWX. l'KNX'A P.ial. ii , . i!?':'?a,,lyret!ttd wlthU new .rLi-Bre.bihta mane It a very r"I'WM plane t the traoellnr rublle. '' ano all t- ' ru"-"Ba lrw lml.H hall iturhal frt.' A1' Utk mnmT tblint-. tn. . ,L " I bad at tbe barest put l! t ek. Cy or meal. SAXriXCrfSTETt. Prop. !.. Cor. tHamoDd KtcMuwn,Pa We have completed all ourj changes now, and can boast of having the Finest Shoe Store, both as to Size and Selection of Stock, in this part of the State, AVp have iust double . the - amount of room, and double the Stock that we have everjiad, and shall make it an object to our patrons to help us do just double the amount of trade. Our prices are down to the low est margin, and the quality ofj our stock superior to anything ever offered in this neighbor hood. The readers of the Her ald are cordially invited to give us a call and see our Store, Stock and Inducements. We have some winter goods, in cluding the Celebrated Mono sram Boots and Shoes in stock yet, which we desire to close out before the Spring opens, and we have marked them down to a sacrificial price, in order to get them sold down during the short time remain ing before Spring. Ladies' Good Quality Rub ber Overshoes, 24 cents a pair. Don't forget (! STARGARDTER'S Mammoih Double Shoe State,1; 212 L 214 Main St., Johnstown, Pa. 1 Albzkt A. Hoax a. J. Scott Waba HORNE & WARD BrCOtSSOB TO EATON & BROS, X0. 27 FIFTH AYEXUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. SPRl5?51882. NEW GOODS E7S2Y DL1 SPECIALTIES Irbroidsrias, LacM, Milliaery, Wait Goods, Hand kerchieft. Dress Trimaiingt, Hosiery, GiovM, Corsets KhsIIr ad MeriM Underwear, In fants' and Children's Ctothinjr,. Fsacy Goods, Yams, Ztshyrs, Rats rials of All Kisds for FANCY WORK, Gent's MsMii GocJs, k, k TOCa FATKOKAGB IS KBSrBcmXLr aoUCTTCD. j-irOr3eT by Mail attended to with Prompt ness and Distiatch. POLLS Swit L. F. DARNELL, ORIBT, JOHNSTOWN. PA-, a sraciALTT r IJiE FLORAL WORK FOB "f (I it IPS. biddings, luncrals. &c. 'leta. "- sainy any ditrb LOCATED DIKKCTLT OR MAIN LlSE PITTS. 1IV. B.kO.E-L, THUS SAV 1NO EXTRA COST OF DHAT-VSO. . - ' ' Sltaate-1 en nmmitof Allerbeelcs, u- the wa ter tr e4d axmabla rtap. TbU wblnky is nuke by tbe kmbl-Uiiild iocess, and guar anteed perl?rtly pure and fuU proof. aWOraVrs jUtat Maw &1 Tttlwi. 'J . . - Special. Inonler tarfv Hotel Keepers aad Dealers a rrand opportunity never beion" Beed, will eoo- t In. . K MtahMii. tf la Malt In . r. V tt . tv. , City from to M) barrela, alvfiur lion tbo prirt- lle of lettiEK It li tn bond for three years, charg; Di but a ntisll sum (or nonire. oa hand 13d barren of Old Whisky, retailing at 12 to to txttt per gal km. Writ, tor toll particwlar hi roa-ara to largo quantities to ti. P.SWUTZLK. Supt, jaiLS, Sana Patch, I'm. SANDY'S DIAMOND. "Now, Sandy, it's your tarn ; why don't you read ? have vou lost the place?" Sandr straightened the tails of his rapped coat with an air of conscious virtue ; he was not given to losing his place, whatever the others might be. "Now, Judas said thi?, not be cause he cared for the poor, but be cause he was a thief, and had the bag," he read out in a shrill treble. "It was in awful pity they let him keep the bag, then," he added by way of comment. "Maybe they'd no ken he was a thief." suggested his neighbor, who was Sandy s chief friend and ally ; "and mavbe vou wad have helped yotjrsera bit now and again, Sandy, if you'd had as good a chance." "Speak for youroel, Sam Knox," was Sandy's lofty tetort. "I'm no thief, at any rate." "Boys, attend to the lesson," in terrupted the teacher, and the de bate had perforce to be postponed for the present. Sandy marched home after school swelling with indignant pride, utter ly declining Sam's usual escort. The two were friends more from force of circumstances than natural affinity. Both earned a scanty income m London, carrying parcels and mes sages from the railway to the differ-. ent quays; but tnougn tney Held the same profession, and were com rades to a certain extent Sandy by na means considered bam in the light af an equal ; his clothes were many degrees more ragged, ins shoes a thing of the past, or future, and in point of family connections j well, there could be no ' comparison between Sam's drunken father and his own thrifty, hard-working moth er, uecideaiy cam must . De maae to understand that he was not to disparage his superiors in public with impunity. The coolness lasted some days and might have lasted much longer, but for a startling adventure that befell Sandy. Trudging round the dock at the edge of dusk one evening, with a huge package for a coasting steamer, his foot 6truck against something something that glittered in the dim light "Justa bit of glass" he said to himself, turning it over with the toe of his shoe : and then he dropped his burden with a crash and swooped down upon his "find." It was a ring, dull and tarnished with mud, but neither crushed nor broken, and the "bit of glaBs" was the stone. It gleamed out like the windows on the opposite shore at sunset In his younger days, before he became such a practical person. he had firmly believed that Faradise lay over there ; he knew better now, but for a moment as -it lay- on his palm, he almost fancied it must have come from that region. Only for a moment; then Sandy was his cautious little self again. He rolled it up carefully with the private store of half-pence that even Lis mother, worthy woman, did not know of, shouldered his package and delivered it at the tiny booking of fice at the end of the quay, sturdily argued out the question of an addi tional ijenny on account of its size with the clerk, and got it, and then ho took hiruselt to a solitary corner of the dock wall and sat down be hind a sugar cask to consider mat ter. First and foremost, should he tell Via nAtltiir? 1 1 o ralkltr f Knn f-Vi f nol. iiitpniiA sea a a a a mm . ..n .m-, . v. I II I I'J Bf,rt? I-al lUI--wifiiMsTnicht insist upon delivering it chance of a possible reward ; and iSandy had an exceedingly oncom- fbrtable conviction that that was just what he ought to do. Yet he re- f i4xnenibered a boy-ho-fonnd a pock- A I ... . r . IliAmnrnrov ind fliftrt.n. -tfrtiru-fc vfc iu-j h - v. v v er -oa ly gave him a shilling for it; and another who found a telescope aad got nothing. Sandy felt that for tune lay within his grasp, and that if be had to barter it -awayfor "one shilling, or even live, it would be paying too dearly for principles. lie had heard of rings being worth hundreds of pounds, and if this was worth but one, or even, to be safer still, fifty . The tide, rippled in berow hiB feet unheeded, the long line of gas lanoitwinkled -like yel- flow stars in the black, restless river, the keen wind whistled through the rigging behind ; Sandy saw and felt nothing, wmrgil in btissrul Yisions two whole days he carried the gecrei atone, men ms reeponsiuuity became too heavy, and tacitly ig noring the differences, be waited on ftefjuav one dinner hour for Sam UCofopc, binding him over to strict se- orerj, inongn on una aeaa ne aaa titi to fear, for Sam, whatever his aiegs might be, bad never been bnerarn to do a shabbtf thin? to a 1 friend. , tiam. I've cot something to tell you.! I've had a find." "Odq bawbee or twa?" queried rj indifferently. "Just wait till you get a eight ofj it! ItB worth, more Daw bees than you ever saw all your days. say for but OLD "THE 25 YEARS RELIABLE." aBBBBBBBBBB IN USE. The Grsatnt Kedicat Tringipa of the Agft indorsed all over the World SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss of appetite- Nauwrn-boweiscos; . tiro. Pain in the fiead.witli a dnll sewrj . satioaja the bade parti Pain nnder tne snoniier blade, rallnesi ftftereau ing, with a disinclination to exertion ot body or mind. Irritability of temp er, Cow EpiritsJLossof memory .with a feeling of har-jig neglected some duty, weariness. Dizfiness, Flatter ing ofthe Heart, t)6ts before the eyes, Yellow Skin-if eadache,Kestlessnes3 , at night, highly oolored Urine. IT THESE WAE5I5GS ARE TOHZEDED, nsrsrs tsrisu tzh, cccs tt tziiLsa. : TDTTS PILLS are epeialjjr atapid to such cases, one dote effect, such a chaiiga of feelmir as to astonish the sufferer. Tsvey laentM Uto Appettte, andean, ! IholKxly to Tak. ra nnk, thus the avo toia is aowrtahrd, and by their Tonie acfllnH on the XMeratiro Orcmaia, Rrgw tar MmIi nrprolrir-l. Price S e at to. hit if ant or w ui'KEBs changed to a CuT Bi.ac by aauktfio apuOioaUeav -tills Pts. tt irMUl a auUau-iu eoior, ata liiMaiitaMusMly. aold by I gmt. W tit hv rxpiiwm-oelrof l. ? Office, 44 Uurref Sn.. FAfcHIOriABLE CUTTER BAILOR; ft?. ri v artngHBdmairy years ezperlews ia all braaehos of ho Tailoring baa. Ineaa. 1 guarantee i bauslaeuon to all T who may call up 4 on ne and favor Jt. bm with their pat- tttl. M. HOClISTErtEXl, Bmtnenat, Pa. CHARLES HOFFMAN, UEBuMmiLOLS tA.DOo Henry Heffley etore.) LiTESt STYLES H tCt ZZLtl it . imt fm. aw - - ' tsrSATimCWN GWtmUU). somebskt.;ea; CATARACT BUMDKESS loss o? rranspareiMT of tha leas, bebiad the poHl Klaht Is ed tlmra oat of IS, by removal of ' tboopoxjM bodv. Tbe pain of tbe oper- atB is never very revere, and ander tbo clfr.of tbm sns art hollo, by slatoig ps:a danoa I oy, tho oo atlas ia boms bv the Btost Umld. Tbo best iMroU.le nnlti are srevred ia all operattons oa li Eva mm Ear, J" sunI Tkraata. I, -wo. sma aiK ntiBauHi, paw "So you're not going to give it up to the authorities " sam asked enn ously, when he had beard the story, "And maybe get nothing at all, like Jem McCulIock, answered Sandy, shortly. "You'd not do that vourself. Sam Knox." - "No, I'd not," agreed Sam frankly "but you've always prolessed such a lot more. . -, A dull red flush crept up to San dy 's brow. lie had not counted up on Sam being sharp enough to view the case in that light "Anyhow let ns look at it" went on Sam magnanimously, pursuing that point no further. " Behind the 6Ugar cask, after infi nite precautions, the treasure was produced for inspection. "How much do you think I'll get for it ?" he asked, deferring to Sams ludement for once. Ue was muca older, and might reasonably be ex pected to have some little experience in valuables other people's if not his own. "I mind of hearing a man once, that he gave 20 pounds one not near as biz as that; you'll not get as much, for who's go ing to believe you didn t steal it ; "Steal it 1" echoed Sandy in angry dismay. "Ay, but you've got to make folks believe your story, and wno are you going to get to buy it ?" "1 thought you might ken of some place." faltered Sandy, rather crest fallen. "Well, I ken of one or twa; IH look out and tell yet the mom." And then the conference broke up, and the two went back to their par cels. Sam pondered the matter over as he lounged about tne dec&s tnat day, Steady work was not his strone point and the diamond had taken a powerful hold of his imagi nation. He did wish with all his heart it had been his luck instead of Sandy's to have found it; he felt he could have made far better use of it "If there was any hope of his sharing it with a fellow, it would be dmerent, but he ll just Keep every penny to himself. Serve him right if he went and lost it again. Over and over that reflection crept up. Sandy had already strayed from the right path for, tne sake of the diamond, bam was the next to fall a victim to its fascination. He thought of it hour after hour, till it seemed as if he-must have it by fair means or foul, and he doubt ed fair means would avail with a lad like Sandy. Saturdays were busy days on the quays, and that next day both Sam and Sandy were hurrying backward and forward till long after dark. It was a gusty, stormy, mgnt and as Sandy went down one. of the gang ways on his last journey the steam er gave a sudden lurch that sent him and his packages flying across the deck ; worse still, out rolled the con tents of his pockets, and before Sandy had recovered his feet and his scattered senses the scrap of pa per shrouding the precious ring was lodged inside Sam '8 waistcoat. He happened to have been standing just under the gangway, and lost no time in availing himself of the unlooked for chance. It was all the work of a minute. I gathered up my properties and went back to shore without noticing my friend. Sam, fairly glowing with satisfaction at tbe beautiful way things had arranged themselves quietly retired to the deck wall to congratulate himself at leisure. No more heavy packages to drag up and down those steep bridges, no more 8upperless nights and breakfastles3 mornings. Sandy had built no taller castle around that diamond than he was building now. "Sam 1" broke in a pitiful voice, "I've been looking everywhere " for yoa. I've lost my diamond." "You've what ?" cried Sam, with an incredulous stare that reflected credit on his powers of dissimulation. "Lost it in that boat aQd she's awav now, and I'll never get it back It's hard." Sandy put his head down on the iron rail and groaned aloud in bitter disappointment Sam looked on in silence: he was naturalty not a hard hearted lad,and for a minute the impulse was strong to give the ring back; the feel of his empty pockets brought back more prudential considerations- "After all, it's only what he did himself," he argued; "he found it and kept it, and that's what I'm do ing." He made one or two ineffectual attempts to console poor, miserable Sandy, and got himself awav as speedily as practicable into a back street, where dwelt a certain German, who kept a kind of money-lending and general exchange and Darter es tablishment for the benefit of sailors and emigrant-. Saturday night was far advanced, and if he meant to reap any immediate benefits from his possession, it was necessary to lose no time. He slipped softly in and address ed himself to the proprietor. "I picked up something in the dock to-day, and I wad like to ken the worth of it gin I cared to part with it" "What is it?" demanded the man, briefly. "It's a ring a diamond one," an swered Sam, speaking under his breath. "Where is it?" Sam slowly enfolded the wrap pers, and laid it with a sort of gagp, in tbe man's dingy palm. How it glittered in the gaslight 1 Sam watch ed it with eager eyes. "A nice thing to have gone and given that away again, he said to himself. The German looked at the treas ure nnder the gas jet for a moment and touched it with his tongue ; then he threw it down on the coun ter with a short laugh. Diamonds, indeed I a bit of glass!" It's not I" ejaculated Sam with dry lips. "You're cheating !" The man knocked it smartly against the iron scales. Alas ! tbe unfortunate diamond vanished away into dusty powder. "But tbe ring that's gold !" cried Sam in despair. It was the one last forlorn hope. "Take it away ; no one would give you a sixpence for it" Sam picked it up without a word, V hen he got outside he flung it into the nearest gutter. Was it for this he had cheated Sandy, and made himself afraid to meet him for this? Why couldnt he have left him to find out the miserable cheat for himself? It was the very first time he had ever played a friend a shabby trick, and in wrath and bitterness of spirit Sam registered a solemn resolution that it should be the last The sight of Sandy's woe-begone countenance when they met at the school next morning also helped to strengthen it Sam realized, with a sinking heart, that he would never be able to explain to him how littie cause for regret he really had. For weeks and months even years he might have to listen to the lamenta tions over that unparalelled loss. lhey had the conclusion of the Judas tragedy that morning. The two lads wandered round the quay afterward almost in silence, each privately repenting after his own fashion. If I had taken that diamond to the station," soberly remarked San dy, breaking into a long pause. "I might I might have got three or four pounds for it instead of just nothing. It served me right I m thinking maybe there was some al lowance to be made for Judas. Af ter all riches are an awful snare nobody knows till they get them." Ihev are, ejaculated Sam, with great fervor. "There's no depending on them, and I'm thinking well be just a3 well without any." Ah, but you never had a dia mond," retorted Sandy, with a sud den burst of sorrow for his lost treasure. No, I never had,' was Sam's truthful answer. Didn't Shut the Door. Eating Off Gold. Mrs. Astor's supper to twenty of her intimate friends was gicn Mon day night says a recent New York letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer. On this occasion the famous service of solid gold was used. These yellow dishes are seldom brought out from the Astor vault They cost S 100,000 it is said, though I have heard the figures exaggerated to $250,000. Anyhow, there is no great extrava' gance in them, for the metal can at any time be melted into good bullion and only the workmanship lost I have attended many ofthe Astor en tertainments, but never one when the gold utensils were displayed A friend who has had that inestimable privilege declared that she didn't en joy tne experience very mucn, al ter alL " In the first place " she said, "the edibles were completely overcome and dominated by the plates on which they were served. The dain tiest morsels seemed to have no fla vor at all, and after awhile I fancied that they became impregnated with a peculiar metallic taste. And then got it into my head that the man sitting opposite me wa3 a detective in disguise, placed there to see that didn t slip a plate into my oodice. le was afterward introduced to me, and I had reason to believe that his covert glances had been purely sen timental, but they spoiled my sup per ail tne same. JNo, tnankyou, ne china ware is good " What makes mo feel so bad dis time, 'uz bekase I hear sumpn over yonder on -de bank like a whack er a slam, while ago, en it mine me ef de time I treat my little 'Lizabeth so onery. She warn't only 'bout fo' year ole, en she took de ek'yarlet fe ver, en had a powerful rough spell : but she got well, en one day she was a-standin' aroun', en I saya to her, I says : "Shet de do'." " She never done it ; jis stood dah, kiner smilin'up at me. It make me mad ; en I says agin, mighty loud, I says : "'Doan' you kear me? Shet de do'l' "She jis stood de same way, kin smilin' up. I was a a-bilin' ! I says : " 'I say 1 make you mine ! " En wid dat I fetch her 'a slap side de hed dat sent her a-sprawlin' Den I went into de yuther room, en. uz gone bout ten minutes : en wen I come back dar was dot do' a-stand in' open yit en dat chile standin' trios' right in it a-lookin' down en mournin', en de tears runnin' down. My, but -I wuz mad. I was agwine fo' de chile, but jis' den it was a do' dey open innerds den "long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, kerblam ! en my Ian', de chile never move ! My brefi moa' hop out 'er me; en I feel so so I doan' know how I feeL I crope out, all a tremblin, an' crope aroun' en open de do' easy an' slow, en poke my head in behine de chile, sof en still, en all of a sudden I savs pow ! jis as loud as I could yelL She never budge ! Oh, Uuck, I bust out a-cry- m' an grab cer up in my arms, an sav : " Oh, de po' little thing ! de Lord God Almighty forgive po' old Jim, kase he never gwine to forgive hisself as long s he live ! Oh, she was plumb deef and dumb, Huck, plumb deef and dumr en I'd been a-treat it her so ! Jlarh 1 train: A Japanese Baby. A Dentist TelU A Queer Story. enough fer me. Stories About Sbiloh. " The strangest experience at Shi- oh ," said one of the listeners at a recent sitting of veterans of the war. were among the wounded after the battle. There was one case that came under my own observation Major Oliver JJenslow was surgeon of a Missouri regiment and was car ing for the wounded on one of the boats. He came to a volunteer of a Wisconsin regiment, who had made quick trip from his home and who had joined his regiment just in time for the battle. This man had been wounded in the foot, and the surgeon was at work amputating the shat tered member, when he discovered that the wounded soldier was Oliver Denslow Fease, his nephew, whom he had not seen for eighteen years." Speaking of .Nelson, said anoth er one of the quartette, 1 saw him meet his match on one occasion. He was given to superintend personally the crossing of rivers, and on one oc casion he made eight men jump into the water and drag out a half-drown ed mule. After an experience of this ind he came upon a wagon train stuck in the mud. Major I go, quar term aster of the Thirty-ninth Indi ana regiment, was working as hard as a man could work to get the wag ons out, and had his men in position for a lift when Nelson rode up. Pushing his way close to the Major, ISelson roared out : " Blank, you sir, what's the matter with that wagon ! liaising nis not lace, tne major roared back : " You get out of this, blank you. The wagon's stuck in the mud. Any blank fool can see that." "Do you know who lam, sir?" shouted Nelson, in a fury. M Certainly I do," responded the major; "you are the pot-bellied quartermaster of that Ohio regiment in front and yoa can't boss me around. Nobody but old Nelson himself can do that" After receiving this reply Nelson indulged in a chuckle and rode away." Chicago 2eic$. " Well," said a prominent dentist to a reporter, A beautitul young lady came to me and insisted on having her really fine teeth pulled out and false ones put in their placs. I protested that it would be foolish, silly, senseless ; but she said no, she would have them out nd would not do it some other dentist would. " My teeth are not fashionable," said she ; " they are too long, and short little broad teeth like corn ker nels are all the fashion now, and no one admires mv n.outh, and I will have them." So I make her the teeth, and they cost her just $300. She couldn t see any one for two weeks after I pulled out her own They were the upper ones only, and I made them up with gold plates for a handsome young fellow who had his own teeth knocked out in a base ball game. The worst of it is that he ia in love with this very girl whose teeth he wears, and she knows they are hera. Just ponder on that." The Rise in the Value of AVotters. Some Foolish People. Allow a cough to run until it gets beyond the reach of medicine. They often say, Oh it will wear away, but in most cases it wears them away. Could they be induced to try tne successful medicine called Kemp's Balsam, which we sell on a positive guarantee to cure, they would imme diately see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Price oOcts, and $1.00. Trial sue free at C. N. Boyd's. Thirty years ago a rising publish er, full of drive, called on Mr. Geo. P. Burnham, of Boston, and was at tracted by a print of a horse hanging agairst the walL To hi3 inquiries Mr. Burnham replied that the litho graph was a young horse which had been sold for $1,000 to go to New Orleans. " What" exclaimed the astonish ed publisher, " one thousand dollars for a horse ! Is there a man in the country fool enough to pay that much money for a horse ?" The years rolled on, and it was only last suntaer that the telegraph flashed the intelligence to the four corners of the world that the richest man in the world had sold Maud S. for forty thousand dollars. The pur chaser ofthe queen was also down in the list as the purchaser of Dex ter at $35,000, and of Rarus at $3(3, 000, and he was the driying editor and printer who had expressed so much astonishment that a man could be found who was fool enough to pay 81,000 for a horse. Mr. Bon ner's idea ofthe value of a trotter has changed since that day. Turf, Field and Farm. Grant on the Surrender. When Kine the little Japanese ba by, was one hundred days old she was carried to the temple, just as some American parents take their little children to the church to have thorn christened, though Kine's par ents do not know or worship the true God. The priest wrote a pray er on a piece of paper and put it in to the prayer-bag, which was small and red crape, embroidered in white flowers and drawn together by silk cords. This bag containg the pray er was the "guard from evil," and it is devotedly believed by all Japanese to have the power of keeping chil dren from evil spirits, from delusion by foxes, for the people think that foxes can cheat or enchant people. and from all dangers. This little red bag was attached to the girdle behind. After bestowing a gift in money upon the priest the parents and relatives returned home with the little girl and held a great feast in her honor. Kine was carefully nursed and carried on the back of a faithfui servant who fastened her there by a long string or bandage drawn around the waist and legs of the child, and crossed over the neck and shoulder of the maid. Her lit tle head and bright eyes would bob on every side as her nurse walked or ran, and here she would go soundly asleep, or play as anv baby would. She was never carried in any per son's arms. Japanese babies seldom are. When Kine's aunts or cousins wished to coax her awav from her nurse or mother, they would hold their backs invitingly, and she woul hold their backs invitingly, and she would put out her little arms and go to one or another as she chose. Clasping tightly the neck of the fa vored one, and held there by tne feet or legs, she would be as happy a3 if cuddled up in the arms. A3 the baby grew and began to walk, little sandals made of straw were put on her feet These were fasten ed on by putting the great toe through a lop. hen she was a year old her hair, which had been shaved, was allowed to grow a little and then tied on the too in a very funny fashion. Every year it was worn differently. The following extract is from the proceedings of Congress, April 6, 1789: The president of the Senate, elec ted for the purpose of counting the yotes, declared to the Senate that the Senate and House Of Representatives had met &nd that he. in their pres ence, had op:iid and counted the i votes ol the electors for Prepident jand Vice-President of the United States, whereby it appears that George Washington was unanimous ly elected President. Whereupon the following certificate and letter, prepared by a committee consisting of Mesrs. Paterson, Johnson, Lee, and Ellswor, were adopted by the Senate and signed by their Presi dent: Be it known, That the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitdd States of America, being con vened in the city and State of New York, the sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand sev en hundred and eighty-nine, the underwritten, appointed, president of the Senate for tne sole purpose of receiving, opening, and counting the votes of the electors, did, in the pres ence of the said Senate and House of Representatives, open all the cer tificates and count all the votes of the electors for a President and for a Vice-President by which it appears that George Washington, Esq., was unanimously elected, agreeable to the Constitution, to the office of President of the United State of America. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seaL Johs Langdos. New York, April 6, 17S9. Sis : I have the honor to trans mit to your Excellency the informa tion of your unanimous election to the office of president of the United states of America, buffer me, sir, to indulge the hope that so auspi cious a mark of public confidence will meet jour approbation, and be considered as a sure pledge of the af fection and support you are to ex pect from a free and enlightened people. I am, sir, with sentiments of respect, your obedient humble servant. Johx Laxgdox. To his Ex'cy George Washington, Esq. A Story of Thurlow Weed. A friend of mine, while talking of General Grant's illness, said : "The General is a wonderful man. He often speak3 volumes in a single sen tence. I remember that on one oc casion a rather cheeky individual was pestering him with questions about some of his campaigns, and the result not being to bis. taste, fin ally told the General that it was a commen criticism passed upon him that he had the soldiers, the money and the power, and that any man of ordinary capabilities would have succeeded with the same opportuni ties. Grant slowly rolled his cigar from one side of his mouth to the other and replied quietly : "I have heard of these criticisms before. There is only one answer that I can make. General Lee surrendered to me. lie aian i surrender to any I .V,. fT 1 .1.1 V T V - lieve that there were several efforts " .1 1 . maae in mat direction beiore x as- An Old For Dealer s Work:. Nearly a century ago a queer, stooped, weazen little man, shabbi 1 dressed and carying a green baize bag, full of papers, in his hand, was one of the most famihar figures in the streets of Phildelphia. The wealthy merchants begun to point him out as a poor youn French man, who had scraped a good deal of money together dealing in furs. He married a pretty young wo man of whom he was very fond, and if he had had a happy home, full of healthy boys and girls, we probably never should have heard of him. But his young wife soon became vio lently insane. He placed her in an asylum, and after that his home was limited to one bare room, scantily furnisned with an iron cot, desk and single chair. When the yellow fever broke out in the city, he went to the hospital where his wife lay ill with it, stayed with her until she died, and then, leaving all his wide commercial in terests, remained in the hospital to nurse the victims of the plague. This man's name was Stephen Gir ard. He was hard, grasping and cynical, but his heart held a tender warmth for the children who had never come to him, and he left his great fortune to found- a home for orphan boys. He carried out his pe culiar ideas in his plans for it Nothing in the buildings or in the teachings was to be a make-shift or sham. The very roof of the house must be of solid marble. The boys were to be taught no sectarian creed only to believe in God, and to lead upright lives. He did not aim to fit them to be educated gentlemen, but educated workingmen. Oirard college is a noble building of pure Greek architecture, which stands, with a village of its surround ing dormitories and halls, in the suburbs of Philadelphia. About five hundred orphan boys are fed, clothed and trained in it. With the last year an industrial school has been opened in it, in which the pu pils are taught mechanical arts. In nearly all the large Capitals in the world there have sprung up during the last half-dozen years agencies which furnish newspaper clippings at a specified price. The agency subscribes for a very large number of newspapers, and often in several languages, and provides to literary men, artists, actors, and politicians all reference made in the papers to tnem. bubsenbers also file lists of subjects upon which they desire information, and in this way authors, compilers and others obtain a vast quantity of matfer, carefully sorted and dealing with their sub jects from thousands of standpoints. A Prudent Father. sumed command of the Boston Traveller. army.' " A Startling Discovery. Mr. Wm. Johnson, of Huron, Dak., writes that his wife had been troubled with acute Bronchitis for many years and that .all . remedies tried gave no permanent relief, until he procured a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, and Colds, which had a mag ical effect and produced a perma nent cure. It is warranted to cure all Biseases of Throat Lungs or Bronchial Tubes. Trial Bottles Free at C. N. Boyd's Drug Store. Large size, $1.00. Butte, Montana, was "staked off a year and a half ago. , Now it is a city with daily newspaper, electric light etc, and ia called "The Silver Queea." The Right Reverend Bishop Gil- mouT, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the many eminent church dignitaries who have publicly added thier em phatic endorsement to the wonder ful efficacy ot St Jacobs Oil in eases of rheumatism and other painiui ail ments. ' . . ; Parlor lectures are popular. "Why, don't you take the daily papers at the house ?" was asked of a miss of sixteen, wno was looking up and down Howard street yester day afternoon. "Oh, yes; but about every other morning father suppresses them and we must go without the news.' "What dries he do that for?" "There's probably another elope ment with a coachman, and he doesn't want me to see the particu lars." "And so you buy the papers ?" "Just so all the morning and evening issues. Pa is a dear, good old fellow, but if he gets ahead of me he's got to stop the printing presses instead ot tne papers. Detroit Free Fress. The late Thurlow Weed, who was sometimes called "The Priam of the Press," because he was the father of so many newspapers, once told me an interesting incident of his life which has been inadvertently omit ted from his memoirs. It was dur ing the war of 1S12, when he was livin in Cooperstown, N. Y., the home of the yet unfledged novelist land was setting type as a journey man printer. "I was 19 years old, and I fell in love with Catharine Obtmnlermy landlady's, daughter, two years younger than I was. Her folks objected, very properly, to her marrying a strolling printer, with out money or anything else, and I agreed to wait About this time I got into a bad scrape. I, with three other young fellows, who were rather a hard lot was arrested on complaint of four girls whom we met at a prayer-meeting. I had never seen them before, but we walked home with them, and they made a charge of improper con duct against us alL The others got bail, but I had no rich relative, and prepared to go to jaiL At the ex amination I told the justice I had no lawyer and no money to pay one, when, to my great surprise, a lead ing attorney of the town, whom I had never spoke to and did not know stepped forward and gave bail for me and offered to defend me. It was Ambrose L. Jordan. I was delight ed. I did not go to jail, and at the trial the girls voluntarily declared that I was not a party to the offen sive transaction. I left town for a while, but came back in a year or two and Catharine Ostrander accept ed me and we were married. I nev er forgot Jordan. "Some fifteen years after that, when I was in Albany in a position of some influence, we were making up the Whig State ticket in conven tion. The principal officera had been placed in nomination, when somebody said, 'Now for attorney General. We must have a man down in the middle of the State." "I named Ambrose L. Jordan and he was made our candidate and elec ted. 'When he came up to Albany he said to me : 'I have some conscien tious scruples about accepting this office. You gave it to me because I defended you in Cooperstown when you wanted a friend.' "Not entirely or exactly,' I said. 'I merely reasoned that a man who would come to the rescue of an un known a"nd penniless youth for the sake of seeing justice done had the right ideas to make a good Attorney GeneraL' "Well," he answered,; I am not entitled to the credit you give me for either sagacity or right feeling. I gave bail for you and defended yoa because Catharine Ostrander came and made a fuss about yea and wouldn't give me any peace until I did it Letter appoint your wife Attorney GeneraL" "It was the first I knew of her agency in the matter. She had nev er told me daring all those happy married yeare." I have been troubled wiih catarrh of the head and throat for the last five years, About three years ago I commenced the use of Ely's Cream Balm, and from tbe first application I was relieved. The sense of smell, which had been lost wa" restored after using one bottle, I have found the Balm the only remedy, for ca tarrh I have used with satisfaction, and it has accomplished a cure in j my case. H. L. Myer, Waverly, N.Y. Why He Objected. "Judge Bigfncome sat down to the dinner-table and after being helped, asked his wife : "Mary, who is that freak of na ture I saw in the backyard?" "That is the new coachman I en gaged this afternoon." "Why, he's humpbacked and will look like a toad sitting upon the chime of a water-logged barrel !' "Perhaps so." "And he's got a bias in oie eye that would arouse the sympathy of even Ben Butler. "I notice that" "And his mouth looks like the hopper of a sausage grinder, his nose seems to be retiring from business and his ears are the size of the cinder fenders on a pulman car !" "I agree witu you. But why do you object to those items, judge ?" "Why, madam ? Because I don't propose that one of my daughters shall marry a combination side show I, at least have the privilege of wishing that my son-in-law can go about with his wife in good society without his very looks giving peo ple acute neuralgia of the optic nerves and frightening timid parties into possible catastrophe 1" The "freak" got his walking pa pers right away. As long ago as 1710 London had a one-cent evening paper? the Even ing Post. The eyes mirrors. of a bee contain, 1,000
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