TjlC Somerset Herald nruuwn rernis of Publication. .'...lad even WrtneedAJ Burning t (a 00 ' ,t in advaac ; otaerwia fz o -ass1' . rf.b'.T r be enrg4. irl paid up. I-oTJBaa.wrs uesietwug Mn rebCTih do " .. .111 be held repiibl for the tab. ,:tri"" ""rf removing fro" one ortofflo to aa 'psmtcace. Addr The Somerset Herald, Somerset. Fa. 7 , ow' ")" -n i"V-'B JSKIfc wv. it.i.i W. ( , A 1 Sua.asn-. Pa. llJ- ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW. Somerset. Pa. 0v.. in Cook Beerlta' Block. ' i- n crTTT.T. U Somerset Pa. j .Jll.-S Ttvf.Y.lTLAW. iKOienih, Pa. 11 I KOOl'-l'-, ATTOKNEY-AT UAW, e Somerset, Pa. 11 EVDSLEY. ' ATTOKNEY-ATLAW. ' Somerset, P C L- ATTOKXEY-AT law, J. au- buioereel, Penn'a r3 E 3 B- jiVU'K-rv.AT.tAW. At iv..... - Somerset, Pa. II. A TTOKN LY AT LAW, Somerset, ra., ., -i-ctr.SomeTe!andedininireounties. iw-i twusiejio hitn will t promptly " .TTORXEYS-AT-L.AW. V., ,,, en-rued to their car will be vuaiu-tb ' - . L. C. OllLBOKN. (J ATToKNfcYS AT LAW. , ,...i--TitMtnnurcnrwMbproriipt- ' r 1 uTL.!i..lulr. Counties. Srrej S'iKvtmK donjnrc...n.a,letnn. UhTi I AM H. KOONTZ U 1U' ATT..KNEY-ATXAW w..i .rire i-n-mpt attention to bonneee '" W'.:! iti" 1 -nj .j.oiuuur counties. t. ... hi. -irr m .-" 'i-eii muting U"; Di vI MEYER?. " " ATTOK.NEY-AT-LAW riemerset, 1 enn .., ..1i.nrt entrusted ''!"' . .T.,nn i.rouiptness and fidelity. '':j:', ;,rAu'nl-,Slreet,next door to Sny- ii .''- -re- J i h. riT.ir, ...iV.lT.HW Somerset, Pa. ,.- V.mnmh Bloc. np '. ' . st-ect. t'"llerii.n mad, ette i-V'rt T. S. waJ-!. .nd .11 l.l bu.me. to iib iTottriMM "J ndwuiy. M J TTuKXEY-AT-LAW, e S'.meniet, Pa. ( S-e ;-tairf in Mammoth Block. Ti,HN 0. KIMMEU .) ATTtiKXEY-ATXAW, " S menwt. Pa. VII attend to all Mielne" entrnrted to h! fare r r,l ad" l.,ln """V".,1 w. and tdell'y. dtoie M aln !tom itre.U TTKM1YF. srilELL. M ATTt'RX EY-AT-IjAW, VortT aDd Pni'lvn A(tnt, Someraet, t5re in"lmniot Black. Pa. VALENTINE HAY. e ATTORNEY -AT LAW And PeeVr in Heal Ktuw. somer t, P J"I i:imit'llt'tfine,lnlrtttlt0 n', jr-,o. tcesl and B'ielJ . THHN II niL. J ATTORNEY -ATXAW 7 Somerset, Pa Will nr iri.tlTattendtoll bnjlneea entrnrted t.. him Sniee idTunced on eollectloni, fcc. Hl- 4ii MatDBii'th Knildlnc. T (i. OGLE. , ATTORNEY-ATLAW, Someraet Fa., ifwj, rel bnflnew entrnrted to my care at !er..tei! to with pnmitneae nd .Mejlty. DR. J. M LOUTHEU, (FiTnerly of tiu.Tetown. ) rm sirus axd srBCEo.v, Hu Lntid permanentlT In Soinerfet fnr the par.W -t hH vn.1efH.rn. I dr V et l imtralHineL In rear ol IrK Store. D R.E.W. BLOUGII, iM.ro jthjc rnrsicAS asd svrceos Tfndmhli wrvleeii to hre"l''0' Somereet ndrlrteiti. call'tntnwa orenuniry promptly .ti.V.edt... an I loun.1 at 'Hi- !y rniuhl. it lew pmtwflmally erKed. -t"rtlre on i4i:ria rn.r ol liianiood, over "tL"!;' Sb Store. apr-Mtl. DR. H. S. KIMMEL tender" hia pTftrwtonal eerrlo to the eltl t.P.l S'leerwt aod Vietidt. 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You will save mosey by baying trom m. My stock is always Freah. ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY. LOOK OUT ! FURHITUBK AT HENRY HOFFMAN'S, JENNER X ROADS. PA. I Cortlnae I" manufacture. t mvoM and. all ma.leaol HolStlloLlt HHSITVKK, which I sell just as cheap is anv other dealer in Somer et fmintv. I will .leo take onlers for any fliy made Furniture my customers may wish to pur chase. 1 keep sample-books at my pine of Out ness, fiom which selections can b made. rasESTAma a specialty. All Vlnda nflTndert.klnar business attended to I with rare. I have two hearses tor hnrlal purpo. e a Black Hears and a White Me.rse. me i.t i tr especially T atiewllnat :hlldreo'. Funerals 1 keep on hand at all time Outline. Caskets and Ibhroads, and Sfhhe tXfltn for hlldren. 1 will I Also keep In stuck a nice lire or City 'aekats.eo. ; erod. at a sm.ll ad- .nee noclt. price Don't fail to call on me when in need of anything In my line. I ran do an well by yon as yoa can do els j where. Joct" f.m. HENRY HOFFMAN. each week than its Contemporaries. NO. 3. THE GREAT REGULATOR. Purely Vegetable. ARE YOU BILIOUS P Tkr Krgulator Merer f ran. I most cheerfully recommend it toa'l who sutler from Bilious Aita ka or any Disease caused by a disar ranged state ol the Llwr. KahsasCity.Mo. W.K.BEKNAKD. Do You Want Good Digestion f I aunVred Intensely with Full Stomach. Head ache, e'e. A ne.;hlior, who had taken Simmons Liver Regulator, told me it was a rare cur for my trouble. The first dose I took relieved me very much, and In one week s tune I was as strong- and hearty as I ever was. It it Ike fteal medicine J trer took for Vyptp$ia. Kichmokd, Va. H. O. CRENSHAW. Do You Suffer from Constipation P Testimony of Hiraw Wabicbr, Chief Justice of Ga : I have used Nimmont Liver Regulator for Omrtlpation of my Bowels, caused by Tempora ry Derangement of the Liver, for the last three or four year, and always trirt itcidtd benefit." Have You Malaria P I have had experience with Simmons Liver Regulator sine lHSi. and regard It as the orcl etl medicine of the timet for diseaees peculiar to malarial rreion. So rood a medicine deserves universal eomiuenoat Ion. REV. 1. B. WHARToN, Cor. See. Southern Baptist IheoloKical Semlncy. Safer and Better than Calomel ! I have been subject to lever spells of Conares tlon of the Liver, and have been In the habit of taklnar from 10 to 20 a-ralne of Calomel, which ecn erally laid me up for three or four days, lately I have been taklnr Siromona Liver Rearul.tor, which cave me relief, without any interruption to huainess. J. Hl'GO. M imiLEroRT. Ohio. J. H. ZEILIN A CO.. PHILADELPHIA, PA. PRICE SI OO. iull-'SMvr HAPPY CHILDREN. How toBakoTbena Kw Kee Ihem la Health, mm Ther will use l'r or tUi Beat, The joy ol every well-regulated household comes chiefly from the children. Thousands or aflertlonate parents do not take care of their chil dren. Through ienuranc more than culpable negleet they sutler them to fall sick and die, when knowledge mlitht have saved them to love and home. Dr. David KENNEDY oflcrs his " Favorite Remedy " as emphatically a medicine for th. children gentle in Its action, containing a rraZ iaererficnf rkalerer, going straight to the Blood, which, when Impute, is the seat and aourre of disease. "Favorite Rmedy" is the friend ol chll hood, and a lion 1 1 he fauod In every nurserv in the Isnd. Keep it in your house fur vour children's sake, as we.l as for your own Try it. and you will lie Klad you saw this article. Make no mistakes. The medicine Is ' Favorite Rcinodv " snd the proprietor's name end address. Dr. DaVid KENNEDY, Kowtout, N. Y. Onedol lara bottle. liao Stord for aa garni Iklaac Dr. Da vld Kennedy's " Favorlie Remedy " Is exactly what It claims ti be. and deserve, the praise that are showered upon It bya'l who have used It, Mr. Israel H Snyder. of Sauicertles. N. Y. says: "My Utile dauattutr was covered with Salt Rheum from hradtolcot : Dr. Kennedy's Fatoril Remedy cured her. This was two years ago." We ere not in the Hmbit of Pvjfinf any sort of patent medicines ia our columns, but we happen to know Dr. David Kennedy, or Rondcut. N. Y-, and can personallv testily to the excellem e of the medicine. htrh the Doctor calls ' Favorite Rem edy." And li a word of ours will persuade any bodr to ae it and thus find relief from suffering n"T-tnnal ethinette shall hinder us from say ing that word. For disease, of the blond, kidneys uowcis. it has no equal. We would not be wiihoct it tor five times the dollar that it eosta. UaUl Timet, Troy, S. 1'. ISAAC SIMPSON, llfM m llll STABLES. PATRIOT-ST., SOMERSET. PA. tf Ton Went to y a Coed ant Ckeef BUGGY, New r Second-hand, call on me. 1 also keep constantly on hand a f-anre Assortment of Fin Hand-mad Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Brashes, Lap Blankets, and evervtblnir to be found in a Ftrn-classSsddlery Good Teams and Riding Horses always ready for Mr. When In ared ol anything In my line, give me a call. ISAAC SIMPSON, may ,13. Sombbbbt, Pa. 17LECTIOI NOTICE. The Annaal Flection of the Fanner' Tnlon Association and Fire Insurance Ocmpenv of Som- ' erase donaty. will he held in Berlin on Tuesday, tbeSS'hdav of December. I -si. to elect a Presi dent. Vice President, Secretary and Six Direct ors, to serve the comic year. i By ( rder of the Board. ' BOV&.H. D. J. BRl'BAKER.Set y. ! hitf JQtK ome'S IN SCHOOL DATS. l;T lOnS O. WUITTIEB. Still sits the old school-liouse by the road, A ragged begger sunning ; Around it still the sumachs grow, . And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats. The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal frescoes on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping s.low to school, Went storming out to play ! Long years ago a winter sun Shone over it at setting ; Lit up its western window-panes. And low eve's icy freeting. It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled ; His rap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled. Pushing with restless feet the snow To rifc-ht and left, he lingered ; As restlessly her tiny hands The blue checked apron Angered. He saw her lift her eyes ; he felt The soft hand's light caressing, And beard the tremble of her voice. As if a fault confessing. " I'm sorry that I spelt the word. I hate to be above you, Because," the brown eyes lower leu, ' Because, you see, I love you." Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing. He lives to learn, in life's hard school. How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and his loss. Like her, because they love him. UNEXPECTED COfKTSHU. "I do wish jou'd sit down and keep quiet, Daisy ; you distract me eo, fluttering around the room like a Dira v Now. Miss Cybele Martin was a tall masculine temale, bard on the "thirties," with stin little curls, and goldrimmed spectacles, and a stand ud collar and cravat, like a man's and she was very busy among a pile of books and papers, preparing bard questions to annihilate her Sunday School class on the morrow, while little sixteen-years old Uaisy, with ber pink and white skin, and brown curls, and innocent blue eyes beat a retreat, mortified at having 'distracted her staid sister. "I suppose I shall learn better sometime," thought Daisy, "but ob, dear, I am such a silly little goose. She went on tip-toe past the door where Mr. Vining, the young min ister, was engaged in the revision of his sermon, for Mr. Viniog lodged at Widow Martin's, and Daisy felt ber youth and folly more painfully than in his dignified presence. She stood a moment in the door way, where the cheerlul July sun beams make a golden checker work on the floor, quivering through the vines, ana a sweet odor crept subtly in, of newly-mown clover-fields, and roees just blossoming along the gar den wall. "I know what 111 do." thought Daisy, as her pet, the kitten, darted away through the bushes. Ill have some of tbo?e ripe cherries." Daisy bounded down the garden walk, and deftly climbing the old stone wall, swung herself into the branches of the huee cherry tree, like a white-plumed little bird. - "Mother would be homhed and Cybele would have a fit," quietly thought Daisy, "but it is nice and shady up here, and the robin are stealing the cherries. I almost wish 1 was a robin, it is such a nice lile among the green leaves with the blue iky peeping through. Dear me: I hope that isn't mamma!" Daisy crept a branch or two high er np, as lootsteps came near the garden path. Alas! her premonitions were but too correct Mrs. Martin s cap strings were fluttering below, and Mrs. Martin s self had come out witn a dowi 10 pics currants, ac companied by Aunt Susannah, her eistT. "Now I'm caught," soliloquized our heroine, "i hope thev won t be long. I wonder what they are talk ing about. Mr. Vining, as I live!" And Daisy held her brenth, and secretly laughed to see how utterly unconscious the old dames were of her near vicinity. Yes. ' said Mrs. Martin, solemnly, "he's a good young man a very good young man." "There ain't no minister all the country round gives such satisfac tion !' said Aunt Susannah. "Them cabbages i9 comin' on finely, Lu cretia !" "Oh bother the cabbages !" said Mrs. Martin, tartly ; "it's about Mr. Vining I'm talking, Susannah ! But he ought to marry and settle down. A single minister can't do all the good he could if he was married!" That's true," assented Aunt Su sannah, "and Cybele would make a capital minister's wife." "She's the very wife he needs; and if 60me one would just put the idea into his head." "Perhaps be doesn't mean to mar ry." "Then he is doing very wrong, encouraging Cybelle the way he does, walking to Sunday School with her, and talking about the 'poor money,' and picking out the psalms and hymns with his head close to hers. " Of all creatures, I do dislike a male coquette !" "Dear me, Lucretia!" said Aunt Susannah, with mild remonstrance. "I don't suppose be ever thinks of the thing. "Then he oueht to think of it Some one ought to speak to him." Meek Aunt Susannah picked cur rants in perplexed 6ilence. "I don't really think he ought to trifle with my poorCybele's feelings; and she is sensitive, too," resumed the widow. "I'd be proud to be the minister's mother-in-law," said Mrs. Martin, e xultaut at the remnte possibility. "And Cybele is a very smart girl. You ought to hear her talk about free-will and foreordination ! why ! set ESTABLISHED 1827. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9, ISS5. Mr. Vining himself would be as lnnehfcW "I should think it very likely,'' said Aunt SuBann&n, dryly. Cybele bad neyer been her favor ite niece; she had lectured Aunt Susannah too often for sleeping in church, singing out of tune, and other venial sins. "I don't really know what to do about it," sighed good Mrs. Martin "I wish somebody would speak to Mr. Vining, and tell him plainly what his duty ia." "Haven V we picked currants enouch" hazarded Aunt Susannah. "1 s'DOse 60." said Mrs. Martin sharply. "You never had the trials of a family, Susannah ; and they come hard, though my girls are pretty good girls, after all. Cybele's tquite a model ; and Daisy's well enough, if she would sober down a little. And the two elderly ladies went in with their bowl of eparklmg cur rants, leaving their unseen auditor still sitting among the cherry boughs with her bright brown curls all blown about, and the scarlet velvet of her lips deeper and redder than ever. "Dear me," thought Daisy,"there's a revelation ! Our Cybele in love I didn't know women who wore spec tacles ever did fall in love ; and Mr. Vinine a male coquette well, I never should have thought that of Mr. ining. I really think, as mamma says, some one ought to speak to him. I've a great mind to speak to him myself. And fired with the ardor of her new plan, Daisy slid down from her perch in the cherry tree to the great astonishment of her- friends the rob ins, and ran into the house. "I won't stop to conBult mother or aunty," thought eager Daisy; "for I know they'd think I ought not to speak, jnst because I'm only six teen years old." So Miss Daisy stole like a white mouse along the hall, and tapped softly at Mr. Viuing's study-door. 'Come in !" called out the clear sonorous voioe of the young clergy man. Not until our Daisy was fairly in the room did she fully recognize the awkwardness of her position. Then, with the roses mantling on her cheek and her head hung down, she stood a pretty picture of maidenly confusion. "M Miss Daisy" said Mr. Vining abstractedly, glancing up from his paper, and brightening up visibly when he saw who it was,"I am hap py to see such a little sunbeam in my study. Sit down.'1 "No, sir, I can't," said Daisy, tak ing courage. "I only came to speak to you, sir about being married." "About being married!" echoed Mr. Vining in genuine astonish ment. "Yes, sir," went on Daisy, twist ing her fingers together; "the peo ple in the parish think you would do so much more good if you were married." "So I might." assented the minis ter musingly. "I have thought of hat myself. "Oh, then you have thought of it sir ! ' cried Daisy delighted. "I am so glad." "Daisy, I have been here a long time." "Yes, sir; I know you have." "Should you be sorry to ha7e me go iway ?" Daisy lifted her eyes with a ro guish sparkle beneath her curling lashes. "You need not go away, sir; that is, if " "Mother said this morning she would be very proud to be the min ister's mother-in-law." Mr. Vining looked a little sur prised, but not at all displeased, as Daisy stood demurely before him with her roseate cheeks and dis heveled curls. "Did she really say so, Daisy?" "I heard her say so." "To you ?" "No, not to me, sir?" "Daisy would you like it?" !Oh,sir,I should be so delighted ?'' cried Daisy, clapping her hands gleefully. "A ministers wife has bo many trial to bear with Daisy." "Oh yes, sir ; but if she loves her husband " "Do you think my little wife would love her husband?" How strange it was to think of Cybele as a "little wife!" Daisy thought love must have cast a gla mour on the young minister's eyes; but she answered nevertheless : "I am sure of it, sir! Cybele is so sensible and so learned." "Yes, I know," answered Mr. Vining with something of a nuzzled expression of his face. "Miss Cy- ble is a very worthy person, indeed, and I shall be verv happy to be connected, however distantly, with her." Dair stared until her Hue eyes were like newly-opened blue-bells. What on earth' did the minister mean. Mr. Vining. however, appeared to be very clear on the subject of his intention" He took Daisy's band in his and drew her toward him with caress ing gentleness that the young girl felt to be very pleasant "But you. Daisy, my dear little wild flower, when you are my wife n "II" echoed Daisy, suddenly be coming as rosy as her own pink neck ribbon. "I your wife, Mr. Vining?" "Who else ?" demanded the young minister.with a puzzled countenance. 'I have been in love with you for the past three months, my Daisy. Nay, do not trv so tremblingly to escape from me ! Surely surely I am not so disagreeable to you as that?" "N no." hesitated Daisy, "it isn't that but I thought it was Cybele." Mr. Vining laughed. "I respect Misa Cybele very sin cerely, but I should just as soon think of marrying my Greek diction ary." "But I am such a silly little goose, and I am only sixteen, and mamma and Cybele are always scolding me i "But" mimicked Mr. Vining with nlavful fondness, "they will not scold the minister's wife ! And I shall neyer let the winds of heaven blow too roughly on my little Daisy "I can't believe it," said Daisy energetically. "But you love me, Daisy, do you not 7" "I have never thought o f it be fore," said Daisy, meditatively twist ing one of her cur.s aronnd her lin ger. "But I think 1 do." "Daisy ! Daisy child !" Half an hour bad elasped, and Mrs. Martin was calling loudly for dinner. "I never saw such a child," sigh ed the widow. Always out of the way when she ia wanted. Ob, here you are ! Where on earth haye you been?" "In Mr. Vining's study, mamma." "What were you doing there ?" ' "Talking to him, mamma, about his marriage," answered Daisy mis chievously. "Is Mr. Vining going to be mar ried ?" eagerly demanded the widow. "Yes, mamma." "Bless my soul alive! Cybele, do you hear that? And to whom?1' "To me, mamma." "Nonsense !" "But it isn't nonsense, mamma," cried Daisy triumphantly, showing a little gold ring with a blue stone that Mr. Vining had placed on the forefinger of her left hand. "And we are to be married in September next! Mamma, you will be the minister's mother-in-law, after all !" "Daisy, are you in earnest?" de manded Cybele. "Never more so in my life!" "Do you love him ?" Daisy sobered down aminute.and heldher face on her sister's shoulder I" loye him dearly, Cybele !" It was a disappointment to Cy bele, but she coagratulated Daisy in true sisterly style after all. It she couldn't be the minister's wife, it was next best to be his sister-in-law. And so began Daisy's unexpected courtship. Persian Customs. From the illustrated paper in the December Century by S. G. W. Benjamin, who has just returned from the court of Persia, where he was United State Minister we quote the following The manners of the courtly occupant of this Teheran mansions are guided by an etiquette that it is indeed a law of th Medes and Persians, which changeth not' The visitors send notice an hour or two previous to calling. If the visit is one of importance, notice is sent the previous day. You will go in a fashion suited to your social posi tion and the rank of the host Whether on horsebsck or in a car riage, you will be accompanied by a number of mounted attendant-. As you approach the bouse, servants, mounted or on foot, come forth to meet you, aud one returns with speed to announce your coming. A dozen attendants escort you to the reception-room. According to your relative rank, the hosts meet you at the foot of the staircase, at the door. or at the upper part of the room. Ihe question of seats is one also re quiring the utmost circumspection in observing the various shades of rank. If your rank is superior to that of the host, you are invited to occupy a sola alone, at the upper corner, while the host sits on a chair or on the floor at your right The left is more honorable than the right in Persia. If of equal rank he occupies the pof a with you; but if you are inferior, then the posi tions are reversed. The upper cor ner of the room is in any case the most honorable position. If a num ber are present of various ranks, each ore knows his place ata glance. The pa sine of refreshments is also a niatur 01 nnoeviating striciiietss, the number and quality depending upon the time of day and the char aster of the gnest. The Lalian, or water-pige, offere a fine opportunity for a display of Persian manners. According to precept and custom, a Mohammedan cannot smoke the same pipe with a Christian, and, ex cept on rare occasions when the host is aman of progressive views, a separate pipe is furnished for a European visitor. But among I er- sians it is the custom for the highest in rank to receive the pipe first of fering it to each in turn before smok ing himself. For an inferior to ac cept the offer is an incredible of fense against good manners. But each in turn after this ceremony takes a few whiffs at the pipe, all taking care to eject the smoke from the bowl before offering it to the next The attendants on such an . i i occasion leave tneir snoes ui door and retire backwards." Trades fur American Boy a. The trades of our country, of late years, have been almost monopoliz ed by foreigners. Ihe American boy, however, when he does take a trade, goes straight on to the top of the ladder. It seems as if our boys would rather be fourth-class lawyers or physicians, than earn tneir living hv working with their hande. Only the other day I read in a New York newspaper ol a lawyer in a riintnnt nitv whom I knew some u 1 ... .. . , ---- - years ago when I resided in that section ot the country, wno meraiiy starved to death. He made scarce ly any money, was too proud to tell of his wants, lived as long as he could on crackers and water, ana wna fnnnd one day in his oflice dead from lack of nourishment. He should never have entered the legal profession, for he had no ability in that direction. No bov, of course, should enter a trade unless he feels himself fitted fnr it- hnt nn the other hand, he should not, it seems to be, let the false pride against manual labor, which now nrevails to such a wide extent in our country, prevent him from endeavoring to ao oeuer wor with his bands than in his inmost thoughts be knows that he can do with bis head. Dn not snnnose that because it is recommended for animals that Ar nica & Oil Liniment is an onecBive nronaration. It will not stain cloth ing or the fairest Ekin. For sale by a N. Boyd. ZBBwBBwBtBwS?BKmVBBB Jokes- on the sealskin eacque are said to be fur-fetched. eralcl Where and How the General Govern ment Keep. Ita Prisoner. The United States Government tfkes good care of iu prisoners. I don't mean simply those now and then locked up for contempt by some Congressional committee for refusinr to answer ita Questions, and who notoriously live on strawber- ries, green peaa and reed birds in mid-winter. I speak of ordinary prisoners convicted ot crime under a Federal law by a Federal Court,' and sentenced as Federal convicts. The Government owns no penitentiaries, therefore it has to board its convicts at different State penitentiaries. The Attorney General, who has charge of Federal prisoners, makes contracts through hia agents wi;h different State prisons under which federal prisoners are received at bo much a head per annum. The Attorney General is very careful in selecting prisons to which Federal prisoners are to be sent None but the best will do. They must not only be se- cure, but they must be clean arm . .a i wholesome, well lighted and heated, well supplied with good food and under humane management No State prison where flogging is m vogue can ever get any Federal pris oners, l-.very year tne Attorney General, not content with each State's inspection of its prisoners, sends the General Agent of the De partment of Justice to examine ev ery Federal prisoner and the prison in which he is confined. This tour of inspection is no easy one. It takes in nearly all the States east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River. Other representatives of the Department inspect prisons west of the Mississippi. The United States eend no prisoners to Southern pris ons for the simple reason that they are regarded as unfit Federal con victs in Arkansas, for instance, are sent to Detroit, Michigan. Major Strong, the General Agent, and his assistant, Howard Perry, are just back from this annual tour of in Bpection. They accomplished it in the very short space of two weeks. They did this by traveling day and night, with scarcely any breathing spells. There was no junketing about this trip, and it was a model to Government inspectors. In the course of their tour tL?y saw S.000 convicts. Every Federal prisoner is examined privately on these tours, and out of "hearing of the prison of ficials is asked about his life in the prison. If he complains of the treatment he receives his complaints are investigated. If they prove well founded he is removed from that prison to another. But in the last tour of inspection not a 6ing!e com plaint of this sort was received. The inspectors were struck with the ex cellence and abundance of the food furnished the prisoners. In many of the prisons the prisoners are al lowed to help themselves to bread. It is said to be wonderful how much bread some of them can eat A ne gro io a Delaware prison, a biz. strapping fellow, took ten thick slices of bread one morning a great armful. The Warden, who happen ed to be standing by. said : "Yon can only have as much of the bread as you can eat; you musn't waste it." Thereupon the darky sat down, and then and there ate every one of the ten slices and then "asked for more." Unlike our old friend Oliver, he got more, too. I tbs speaking of this to an old gentleman who used to be a United States Commis sioner in South Carolina, anil he said: "Yes, the Northern prisons afford the Southern darky such lux ury as he has never known. I re member that when I was in South Carolina I was instrumental in hay ing a great big negro, black as the top ol your hat, sent to the peniten tiary at Auburn, New York, for as sault with intent to kill. After he had been convicted and sentenced he swore that when he got out of prison he would come right back and kill me. When his sentence expired he did come right hack, and I got a revolver of the self-cocking variety, and kept it in an open draw er of my desk when 1 was in my j office, and in my side pocket when j I wasn't. Two or three dars after! i - i u .v.. t.: u..", i IIB RIH O ils Hie 1K. oi'ica "ui a tame -alk.no- into mv nffipp T wan nriont ........ H j - , to draw my revolver when 1 saw j that be wa9 smiling and holding out his band as though he wanted to shake hands with me. A he ad vanced toward tne he said: "Use powerful 'bliged to you. Mr. Jones, lor sendin' rue to Auburn : nebber had so good a time in mv life before; got fat. learned a trade and , V . n ter drinkin'. Ain't nebber goi drink any more,' and by that time he had heartily shaken my hand. And from that time we were the best of friends." Carious Custom tn Rnmla. The village of Minussing, in Rus sia, has been troubled by the pest rmong its cows, and the conscript fathers of the community held a meeting to decide upon the best C .. A A- .L - means oi putting a stop to tne caiam- It was agreed that resort should oe naa to in oiu caivonic custom m round ploughing. A Russian paper gives an account of the process.; seven virgins, two oia women anu , a young bachelor of good character, are elected. a rfal jrura At undnisnt a procession oi uie ..... e.i' oeastnts is formed, led by the two d the Cooi old women carrying pictures of saints. , ., -n ,aw book In the rear of the procession the; yb'jcn one?" seven maidens are harnessed to a uQe one at home plough which is guided by a young , , k e iloTiS Torjr Honor, man. A light furrow is Pgbed and 8bal. carry this case to the Su- around he -village ; and thereby ac-; e Co,oneL cording to the belief of the local eg- v . De ncultunsts, a barrier is P!priMne:.ln discharged from his fine against the evil spirit. He has no , f n, dj hla am fined $2 power to pass over me mvwiwi i - row. A aint?le trial of Dr. Henry Btx ter's Mandrake Bitters will convince j.'orty years' experience, in every any one troubled with costiveness, ' clime on earth ha8 proved Ayer's torpid liver or any kindred diseases rjberrv Pectoral to be the most reli of their curative properties. They ; able retrjedy for colds, coughs, and only cost 25 cents per bottle. For alI iurio. diseases. Neglected colds Sale by Mr. C. X. Boyd, the Drug- oft(n become incurable ailments, gist Mammoth Block, Somerset Pa. , Ve& w,th them in time, and pre-"-"" " i vent their becoming deepseated in A man's temper, unlike the kind-; the system. ling in a stove, if olten hred by bad match. WHOLE NO. 1795. La n col a aa Congressman. Elihu B. Washburn, our late Min ister to France, in an article entitled "Abraham Lincoln in Illinois," pub lished in the North Ameri at Reciew for October, thus speaks of the mar tyred President at the time of his i election to Congress. "Mr. Lincoln took hia seat in Con- ! gress on the first Monday in Decern ber. 1847. He sat in the old hall of the House of Representatives, and for the long session was so unfortu nate as to draw one of the most un desirable seati iu the halL He par ticipated but very little in the active business of the House, and made the personal acquaintance of but few of the members. He was attentive and couscientious in the discharge of his duties, and followed the course of legislation closely. When he took his seat in the House, the campaign of 1S4S for President was just open ing. "J was again in Washington part! of the winter of lS4y (after the elec tion of General Taylor), and saw much of Mr. Lincoln. A small number ot mutual friends includ ing Mr. Lincoln made up a party to attend the inauguration ball to gether. It was by far the most bril liant inauguration ball ever given. Of course Mr. Lincoln had never seen any thing of the kind before. One of the most modest and unpre tending persons present, he could not have dreamed that like honors were to come to him almost within a little more than a decade. He was greatly interested in all that was to be seen, and we did not take our de parture until three or four o'clock in tlie morning. When we went to the cloik and hat room. Mr. Lincoln had r.o difficulty in finding his short cloak, which little more than cover ed his shoulders, but after a long search was unable to find his hat After an hour he gave up all idea of finding it. Taking his cloak on his arm, he walked out into Judiciary Square, deliberately adjusting it on his shoulders, and started ell bare headed for his lodgings. It would be hard to forget the sishtof that tall and slim man, with his short cloak thrown over his shoulders, no hat on, starting for his long walk home on Capitcl Hill at 4 o'clock in the morning. And this incident is akin to one related to me by the li brarian of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Lincoln came to the library one day for the purpose of procuring some law books which he wanted to take to his room for examination. Getting together all the books he wanted, he placed them in a pile on a table. Taking a large bandana . handkerchief from his pocket he tied them up, and patting a stick which he had brought with him through the knot he adjusted the package of books to the stick, shouldered it and marched off from the library to his room. In a few days he retnrned the books in the same way." Why He -Ca.ed.' As Missi we rode out from a town in sinni to view a plantation a commercial traveler for a New York house expressed a desire to go with us. He procured a horse and ac companied the party. A mile and a half from town we came to a writ ten notice posted on a board, and everybody stopped to read it It was a notice of Sheriff's sale, and the colored man who tacked it up was Ptill on the ground. The no tice was badly written and worse spelled, and the drummer laughed loud and long over c-a-f for calf, d-e-t for debt, and "sheruf" for sheriff. "What's wrong wid dat notis?" naid the colored man, in a very edgy voice. "It's too funny for anything," was the reply. "Some one had better go to school." "Dat's me, sab. I'm a constable an' I writ dat off." "Oh, you did ? Well, I hope the c a f will be sold." "Yes. pah. You come 'long wid me. sah." "With you?'' "Yes, sah. I 'rests vou, sah." "What for?" "Contempt ob court sah. Come . , T,Pn.!.alolne- "Where?" "Befo'de Justis, sah. Well see ! about dst caf." The drummer was advised against resistance and finally permitted himself to he taken before a colored Justice nearly two miles from the pot. The constable had picked up I made and swore to a complaint and ! , , :j i the drummer was duly arraigned on the charge, although his Honor seemed very uneasy about it The Colonel acted as "counsel for the prisoner. When the case was ready he said : "Your Honor, who is the court ?:' "I is, sah," was the dignified re ply. "Has this man 6hown any con tempt of vou?" "No, sah." "Then how can you try him for .pmri, of urt r , r, . The old man scratched his bead, r - - - - . ., ,aw id(J down and rDje(j . Ppe ' isoneram discharged, but hey- o l coflt(J ,.R , -, r vn.., ' of his innocence, where do you gel . cta on , for - a fool of higBlf an, Ret. I tin' dis court all twisted up in a 1 hard knot afore white folks." t High toned A fife. How le Manses Hen Manure. Now that cold weather is here and farmers Bhut up their hena more than in warm Weather, a few hint i ou the best way to manufacture hen j guano, or compost may be sppro j priate. The first thing is to provide something to hold the manure, old barrels are just the thing, but good strong boxes will do very well. They will, however, soon decay, and be useless, unless protected with oil or gas tar. If the contents are likely to be moist, gaa tar will be the best thing to use. The number of barrels to provide must correspond with the number x( hens ; there should be one for every ten bens. Then if the weath er is dry enough before freezing up to secure a quantity of road dost, fill all Lnt one with the road dust, which is the very best absorbent you can get and if dry the barrels may stand anywhere, under shelter, without the freezing of the contents. If dry earth or dust cannot be ob tained, the next beet thing is finely pulverized soil, which will of course contain considerable moisture, and must be kept in barrels or boxes, so as not to freeze. If road dust or soil is used, the more clay it con tains the better it will be for the purpose. Alter you have your barrels all ready, the rest of the operation will be simple and easy. All you haye to do is to place a layer, say an inch or two, in the bottom of an empty barrel, and throw in the cleanings oi the hen house ; then another por tion of the dust, and another layer of the cleanings. The thinner each layer of the two is, the more perfect ly they will become diffused togeth er in standing. Proceed in this way with each successive barrel. Next spring your barrels will be filled with a very powerful and most val uable manure. You may add to its value by pounding and cracking up fine all the refuse bones you can find. Sprinkle the famectj of bone among ihe layers of manure, which will cut and work them down. By a little care and attention you will secure a supply of manure, the val ue and quantity of which will sur prise those who first make the trial. All yon will have to do in the spring will be to pulverize and work over the mass, so as to be evenly and finely applied. Farm Note. Flax raising has become one of the leading industries of Minnesota, 126, 845 acres having been devoted to this purpose last year. Butter tubs should be thoroughly cleansed and then socked in brine before packing down butter in them, which will materially assist in pre venting the butter from being taint ed. A few years ago grain growing was the main reliance of the Iuwa farm ers, but they are gradually drifting into dairying, experience having convinced them that it ia much more profitable than grain growing. California has, according to offi cial returns, 120,932 acres planted in grapes, in tne grapes tor market were 54,970,227 pounds. In the same year 144,987 boxes of rai sins were made, and 14,355,612 gal lons of wine. A Bally Time. Samuel came home from school the other day with his clothes torn and burst into the room where bis mother and sisters were planning with some ladies how to advance the good manners and gentleness of their youthful offsprings. His mother had already descanted at length on Samuel, bis virtues and helpfulness to his playmates. " Why, here he is himself," she proudly shouted as he came in, threw his second reader on the pi ano, and unobtrusively stepped on the kitten's tail. " What have you done at school to-day?" asked one of the visitors. " Oh, 1 had a bully time. And without a moment's hesitation he opens with a grin a begrimed mouth and in the cavity thus created ap pears a bloody ridge along the jaw, minus four or five teeth. 44 Oh. ma, I licked two boys bigger than I am. Can't I have my picture taken with my month open to send to Uncle JuieVrortland Tranxcript. Fonnd It Kverywhere. A traveling man relates his troub les in Iowa under the prohibition law ; "I went into several saloons in different towns, and was always met by the same story : "Don't sell any liquor: got nothing but pop and ginger ale.' I tried some of the 'fizzes' but they were very weak, and I got sick of it "See here," said I, "I'm traveling for a Chicago liquor house, and I haven't mv samples herp. I'm very dry, and I've got to have liquor. Here's a dollar; let me go down in the cellar." I got the liiinnr. After that I had no trouble. I found whisky in a creamery in a can with a false bottom ; drew beer out of a coffee tank by a mere wink : found brandy in a molasses barrel, snd was treated by a man who took a bottle out of his cork leg. I got whisky everywhere. At farm where I stopped to get a drink of water I was pnrprised at pump ing whisky out of a well. There was a barrel of it there. There's plenty of liquor in Iowa, but prohibition has made it all bad." How they Order It In France, If the teller of a French bank has doubts as to the honesty of an un known customer, he does not trust to his memory to recall the features of the person he suspects.bat calls on science to protect the bank. Hegives a private bignal to the cashier, and that responsible officer, while the tel ler is in the act of making payment brings the photographic cameraf con veniently placed beside him, but in visible to the customers). bear upon the unsuspecting party, and on leav ing the bank he leaves a proof of bis identity behind bim without in any degree being conscious of the fact As this experiment has only been at work a Bhort time, it would be pre mature to pass a hasty judgment upon its merits. Where the Cat Tail Cosne Frona. "Ephlum, what makes ro manjr cat tails grow in dis heah pon"?" "Well I would say ! Doan you know? Why dey grows up from kittens dat people hex drownded in the pon' of course. Pea's like you wim'men folks doan know nuffin Toout aglicnltghah' Life. Tone up the system by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It will make you feel like a new person. Thous ands have fonnd health and relief from suffering by the use of this oreat blood purifier when all other means failed.