JUL tfMatflrffftffiTTMitmi ffWitf- M sTTo.'-i-j.r.-Mry. v- .ir-. i i The Somerset Herald Serins of Publication. hed every edD-ay ornHf at H 0 ns If P14 to advaooa ' 0'-hrwlM arartaMJ I chMTfd. . i.f.al .nil! &1I MCTlItMB wm v. OU n PoftaaaStevJ aaglMUsg , wbea sbieri do Dot taa t ber.rTir treason, ortoffioetoaa. should gl th th. twinwseat.tfiea. A-""1" The Somerset Herald, Somerset, Fa. f J 0 CONNOR. J. B. OWN .N OK. 1 lie So nner Bet era 1 1 let A Brilliant Young Man. ESTABLISHED 1827. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 51. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2, 1S86. WHOLE NO. 1S20. s . .TJ UU N 0W '""".Wr.r. . F fED W. BIFSECKER, attokney-atxaw Somerset, fa. as. attain In Ouofc a Beeriu Bloca. Tfokge r. scull. 1 wav- - - xner?e tF&. 2 w 1 u ! : j N ;F.: ON THE ENGINE. RUNNING A LOCOMOTIVE DEATHLY SICK. WHILE IL SCOTT, ATTOKNET-AT LAW, Somerset. 1. KOOSER, ATTOK J( ET-ATUA W, Somerset, Pa. v EM LEY. ATTOKNET-AT LAW, Somerset, Fa r TKLM. ATTOKNEY-AT-LA. Somerset, s'enn'a. jl.; Lit i' Mr -Cl'LU ATTOKNEY-ATLAW, Somerset, f. Trox, Ulan. Dr. Dorirf Krntudy, Bondavt. S. V. . licaa Hia I am an enrmeer the Old Colo ur ftatlruad. aod ran the Kail Klter boat train be tween rail River and Lowell, residing in Taun ton. For lea years I raftered everrtbinK but death from dysieisla. Ciltea 1 had such blinding si-K headaches that I ouuld bardie see. I think this da- tartly Ui irregular habits of eating anl partly to the tar of the engine. KemetBtK-r that I had tried every medicine 1 heard o, and had been treated by auue of the hen physicians in Taunton anl ly-'we'll. At this ertt ica'l time UK. HAV1I KENNEDY'S FAVUR XTE KhMEDY was recommended to me. It was new to me. and with my experience with medi cines, yon eau easily rorgire ine lor saying that I La i not a rticle of faith in it. I bad ta?n 11 but a lew days when 1 began to get belter. The raw and awe feeling lefi my ioiua'n, im t-ue snapping paint len mr Head, and on 1 was all right, and hare bm ever si-.. It if the only thing that ever did me the least good, ani It drove erery ache, ialn and di.-'ai-I irt comiilptclr oat of i.-y Nir. Tlow 1 kp kEN NEOYS FAVORITE KE'.MEDY with me or. A FRAGMKNT. my enwlne. ani it goes wherever I go. believe rA ('KITE KKMEliY will cure aar- hy. I I'lMTTS ' ATTOKNEY-AT law, Somerset, Fa. rtaire In Mammoth Bloelu I5AER, attokney-at-law, Somerset, Fa., . , m somerset and ad i.lnlo counties. i UUJVt tel W. ? I , ATTORNEY SAT-LAW. w. n.BrrrEi ' v : i -ju-tuaily attended to. will t i. C. OOLBOKS entruned to their eare Cross street, oj.toIt the (iEMutll Block. ."jmLB-'llS. OLBOIIN COLLin All v.'i..' " - intrnic.ed to our care will be prompt " ..t-i to V)lleetiiis maie In on reasonable terms. c :t'rU.iiord. and adjoining '"""?!, a Ooreyaiicinn done KOONTZ. Tf.T.TAM H. Somenet. Pa., hn.ln.i. SMltnlSt S-.Il fiWf ' .lmininirCuunUen, rrr ic ' ' - a or a FriEting H-HM6 KjW. ! D KNNI MEYERS .rl to his care will be an.1 n.lelirr. e Stee neit ilwt to Sny- ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW, M-incM entra(e.l to his care ! Ti I .rt iri:i , Iir-rp !' .. . . . . J MiS l. ruc,H, Somerfet, I a- Mammoth Block. P u,r"-,.Eol? v ; Tvna street. Collections made, estates !' earned, and all leg business t:cw! u. with pn.mpu.ese and Bdeli-.y. KIM MEL. Scmerset, Pa. g II nJ tf all business entrusted to his esw erset and adjoining counties w W im sad neiity- urno- on Main Cross sireet. ENKYF.SCHELL. ATTOKNEi-Al -t. " VmT and Fenfiii Agent, somsnes 14. ji'jlannnotB Black. IP Pa. VALENTINE HAY, ATTORNEYAT-LAW 4wi IMl'r In Keal Estate. Somerset t: -cm u. ail t.ulnes enirustea 10 u. tnotwaiaod hdety. J'1"5 Pa. care i H. I'HL. ATTORN EY-AT LAW w;n ppmptlr attend to all business entrusted .. l. V , r .,(ranM1 OB COllVClUWat, va OGLE. ATTOKNEY AT LAW, Somerset Pa., PtMskra! business entrusted to mj eare at- WJea u, w:th p'mptness ana ourn.j. D?u J. M. LOUTH ER. (Formerly ol Stoyeetown.) pnvi;ni.v asd srsaro.v. bu lard twnnanentry In Somorset I:r1h JnlrSOtlliS profession. Vmre auuw. " ' enral Hotel, in rear o! Drug Store. may 1 D R.E. W. BLOUGH, Tih1sts his services to the people of Somerset witit. falls In town or country promptly f-n.iedto". (ant found atothoe dy ornlght. r pilessloaallT encaged. -itlice on Si Vuinimroi IMamond. over KnepiT s SMSiors. aprlSMtU TP. H S K I MM EL 1 tinmen his nm'esslonal service to the eltl TT,. t vii.n. I nleslrrotei.o- . raiitw! he ran 1 lound'at his t fflce, on Mam si eut ol the luamond. rR. H I'.RURAKER tenders his I F'-r,far',- M-rwtith cttlrrt of Som DR. VM. RAUCH tenders his pt(f NtU wrvlcci to tb clilieni of Som rtHvl TinclTT. ' fr'T ( 4uor rt of Wyn k Bcrkeblle a DR.S. J. M'VlLLt, tGrndntilt in Dtntutry.) tlKEarT. P. O'tm nlnl tteDti"B to !h Prervtioii of b.-Tk, oil talr. hiitraXK oom ot wrw OCT.- -CUL, i Jewelry Store. 17 . JOHN BILIi5. DENTIST. OSetif rtaln bOork k Beerlt-iBlock.Somer- wt-Pa. D!L WILLIAM COLLINS. DENTIST. S iXEkSET. PA. fa's la Mammoth K"ck. atoT Koyd s Ivrug i'Tt wiitr ht n at all times l-e li .tid pretr tU'duail k-ls ol work, such as oiling, renu-a-lt extract irg Ac Artlncial teethot ail kinds. N!.t it best material inserted. Or-eratlusis -aniea. DPi.J. K. MILLER has perma rtlT heated In Merita f"T the practice ot ?? !miob. tillice or posit Charles Ktisstng. trisuet. aj. "o-tL ITELLIGEttT SOliv TORS Wsnted to Introduce MffllL'S MAGNIFICENT LINE-ENGRAVED OF GES. GRANT Jsstt.ete!. A pcrfVrf frtaj of art. I'm vej t.y Ir. Ntm"n. Her.rv Wad lteecher. ts sr.:r. licne 11. Stuart. Dr. Tlflanr. rtr. J. t. Whltticr. and boi-tn of oth- 1" t latanr.'y n, 1,1, It tlte h,mI ud ""t litr enrrcved itrit eier pul.iilie.i "Tit! ii .,!,. Value i'i tlte. iVii. For r . ..Mitis HI Bltaatn bkwk.. !-., mil.' V: HOFFMAN. tHARLES IEECBM1T TAILOR IiTEST STrJS Cl LEWEsT prices. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 1LIS.KT. Pa. thing. One night awhile ago John Lay ion. an engineer who runs themuio line boat tn.ln from B.ton. came on my engine tick as death. He was worn out with work, had a high fever, and whs so nervous he almost broke down crying. " Nonsense, John," I said : "cheer up : le got something on my engine that will set rou up in a jllty." 1 UH.k out my bottle of Favorite Reme dy. Hrted his u-ad and gave him a good dose. He went to bed. Two days alter I saw blm, look ing hale as a butcher. Dan." he said, what was tint stutl rou gave tne the other night ?' 'lt wss UK. DvVIIi KENNEDY S FAVORITE REMEDY, Rondaut, N. YV saH I. " Well, I don't care wtioe reuieJy it Is. It's th thlni; for a man on i ne railroad. soaayweaa. lours, Dakiel Fitts. It la year own faall If you sufler from Headache. Indirection or Dyspepsia, i ne Dollar .ll buy you a tottle of t avorltc Remedy, and cure you. BILIOUSNESS May he 'rn;x'r!y tonntil an atTection of the liver. atnl can be tlmrounlily ctitvii bv the pratni regulator of Ibe liver auJ biliary organs. yean. Purelj Ye etable. TI-STIMOXIAIA To all sutTcring from M k Headache and liilious- ness : "Hare hcen a ictlm to the above for an-l. after tri tug rari--us rcroe'tics. mr onlr su--cvss .as in the uw ol SIMMONS l lVtK REO- l'LAT l. which never tailed to relieve me In 1 hours, and 1 can assure those sunortng frwm tlie above that tney would lie grmtly relieved by lu use. 1 speak not lor niyseii. not my wuoie umi ly. Y ours Re?ictlully. J. Zl. rll.l..ilAA. Svlma, AUbama. St'ebave tcstrj its virtue rH-tsonally and know that for Ii-jsia. ItiliottMiesa and Tbrobbine Iieadai lie, H i ibe best motlicine tlie world ever law. We have triexl forty other remedies Iwfore S-iMWONS L1VKK KEil"LATi ill, but none oftliem pave nt more than ttinporary relief; but the Kt-ni-lator not onlv relieved, but cured ns." Ed Teleprab and Messenger, Macon, (a. ItlLIOl S COLIC "SIMMONS LIVER REOVLATOR rragn me of a case ol long Mantling HiLiot s t'-.t.tc alter other tnedli-lnes uIUhI. I think it oneol the rkt family medicines I ever used. 1. J. La.llLH, Petersburg. Va. Vi bat if, while I sit here alone, A voice I hare not heard for years Should greet me in the low, sweet tone That onca was music to ruy ears ; And I should start from memory's sway, And, turning, find you sitting there Unchanged, as though 'twere yesterday Yonr feet went trippling down the stair. Or, if, upon some summer dsy, 'Mid song of birds and bum of bees, I should o down the woodland way To our old tryst beneath the trees ; And startiag back in glad surprise. I should behold you waiting there. The old light shining in your eyes The sunlight tangled in your bair. In vain I shall not see the glow Of wine-brown eves or catch the smile Of ruby lit; but yet 1 know That you are near me all the while. For I so loved you in that rage of suany years that my poor heart Would bleed atreah and count it strange To think Uod help us far apart. And so, when evening shadows creep And night falls softly o'er the lea. You touch my eyelids and I sleeps And sleeping, dreams of heaven and the. And when some summer morn shall break That fan ils mechilled by death's cold dew You need but kiss me I shall wake, And waking, be in heaven with you. Jean InjIetiJc. A RUSTIC COMEDY. J. H Sole Proprietors. lull- a-irr- I'rrpared by ZEILIN & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Price 1.W. SPRING IS COMt And evcrvoue needs to put tlieir system in pood condition, to guard against disease that mav cive vou serious trouble s in 'ESTABUSHED 1877.) LLIEAEEECI. U 1. FtllTS. President Cashier STlk'" ' U parts of th. fill ted CHARGES MODERATE. aad !Z ' Bowls 'Yai.iJ,.ltb a Sar- AuiSNTSSOLIClTEa aonoayi brrau.- during the Spring and Summer months.' .Simple remedies are jrencrallv what is needed. AVe t r carrv a verv superior stocK 01 Driufs and Medicines, and guarantee the strictest pu- ritv. We make a specialty ofj filling physicians prescriptions and family receipts. None but the Purest Drugs dispensed. We endeavor to keep m stock everything that is usually wan ted bv our many customers, but anything we may not have will be ordered in at once, on hort notice. But to change the subject You may be ruptured, and if l . ii so, we can supply you wiin Trusses mid Support- rs at prices much below those in the citv. or. as we do all of our own fitting, can safely say that a perfect fit will be guar anteed. Three-fourths of the russes sold do not give satis- iction, because tney are im- roperly fitted to the body. We have a private apartment - " ,t A. in connection wiin our store, or the proper fitting of these roods. Trusses for men, children and adies always in stock. If you it i r iave had trouoie nereioiore in us a trial a fit, or money remnuca. uo noi ior set that we have a most com. plete stock of Spectacles and Eye-glasses. Eyes that others have failed to fit, are the ones we want to try. Always call at my store when in town. You will be welcome, whether you buy or not. If we do not keep what you want, it jvill be a pleasure to tell you where vou can get it. C. 1T. BOYD The Druggist, IAXX0TH BUXX SOMERSET, PI' ettinr; fitted jrive and we will marantee AGENTS WANTDIVTS the largest, old eel -established, beet-known H wr-ae-rle. la the country. Moat liberal terms. I a eifuaied facilities. Prices h. Ueoeva Nursery. EstabUsbed IMS. w. at T. Ssaslik, tuesivva, a. Y. apa-tLeow. In theetragiug, forlorn, unbeau tiful Northumbrian village of Black ford there was, half a century ago, only one comfortable looking build ing. It wag not one of the dwellings of the coal and lime carters, the Ledger and ditchers, or the drainers, who formed the bulk of the popula tion, for their lew drooping roofs, mended here and there with tar paulin, spoke too eloquently of damp, draught and over pressure; it was not the red-tiled croft-house inhabited bv William Allen, the clever, lazy, kindly, cock-fighting, dog fancying, boxing, wrestling, swimming, beekeeping tenant of the little farm, for oac leordom and neg kct had combined with Willie's devotion to hobbies of one kind and another to create ol it and us sur- loundings an embodiment of pic turesque disorder : it was not the great austere loekine, square built 1'rwsbyterian meeting house, with its prison like walls and narrow windows; far less was it the slated, shabby genteel manse, for in cold wcatfier the effect of the whitewash upon it was to threate j the specta tor with a lit ot the ague. o; no any gusty day in November, when the very trees on the hilltops seem ed to have turned their shivering backs to the breeze that whistled through their branches and whirled away their red-tinted leases in a madcap dance, and the diminutive oot house looked, almost as though crouching to escape the blast, which the gaunt old mans faced in hag gard despair, the lied Lion Inn alone, with its comfortable overcoat of impervious thatch, retained its aspect of quiet comfort, and toward evening the ruddy glare of its kitch en fire preesingly invited the toil worn cotters to forsake their scold ing wives and brawling children, their scanty fires and draughty houses, and enjoy its comfortable warmth. And often at the game time, there would be a light at one of two attic windows that peered out from the roof like a pair of open gray eyes from under lids of thatch. For one of tnese attic rooms was the favorite resort of Adam Black, the thriving publican of Blackford. Hither to at night did he often re sort, if business was dull below, to smoke his pipe, to think over his plans and to calculate his ingoings and outgoings; for, as he would sometimes remark : "It took a deal of worry for a man as could neither read nor wriie to keep a true reckon ing," and Adam's natural abilities had not been brightened up by edu cation. That did not hinder him from be ing greatly liked and respected in Blackford. The wost that could be said abouthim was that he was rather hard, and as a matter of fact there wss little softness in his nature, though he never failed to greet his customers with a smile and a jest, and if the smile was a little mechan ical and the jest the worst for wear, it mattered little to quiet country folks, who were not ashamed to laugh at the twentieth repetition of a witticinm. And it was everywhere agreed that he kept a model public house never, for instance, al. owing any fighting to go on in a conspicu ous place, but forcing the comba tants to have it out, if they really meant business, in a secluded back yard, where they could bLck each other's eyes with th,? most perfect safety and comfort. Any man might go to the Ked Lion with the assurance that he would not be made a fool of. Adam, knew the drinking capacity of every full grown male in the neighborhood of Blackford.and would let nene trans gress his limit, or, if an accideut did happen, generally managed to avoid , anything in the nature of a public exhibition. And beeidts the villa gers all knew him to be, in their own languages game as a bantam. At times Adutn might in bargain making show himself not very scru pulously above board, and general ly speaking, what he couH get he took, but nevertheless he steered notably clear ot paltry meanness, and he was known to be stubbornly faithful to all his friends a man,on the whole, with a conscience not too troublesome, but fr from dead. In domestic life Adam was a martinet. He ruled his son Aleck, his red haired servant Bet, and even his niece Kitty with & rod of iron. Prompt obedience was the unwrit ten law of the household. Only Kitty, besides being the smartest, prettiest and cleverest girl in .Black ford, was so wayward and spirited that not even her nncle, who liked her better than he liked anybody else in the world, was able to keep her entirely under control. It was agreat grief to Adam when he found out that Kitty was in a mood to throw herself away upon Willie Allen Not that he disliked Willie nobody could do that but he thought him unlikely to be a good husband.thatis a thriving one, able to keep his family comfortable, 1 for ne never gave his mind to his business, but wasted his time over what Adam sometimes called his menagerie, for the croft-house was almost a Noah's ark in its way. The chance visitor was certain to find at every season of the year a litter of pups before the kitchen fire, and an old owl and still more ancient mag pie carried on an unceasing strug gle for the favorite perch above the kitchen clock. bat had once been the best bed-room was converted into a flight for canaries, and there were always hanging about cages containing finches, linnets, thrushes, blackbirds, and even sparrows, for Willie was a noted experimentalist in the art of crossing, and could show an assortment of the most trangely marked hybrids. The garden was stocked with bees and the barn with Russian rabbits. Twenty different kinds of fancy poultry were allowed to spoil the crops, and the dovecote was inhabi ted by as many varieties ot pigeons. In the pig-sty he had a tame bad uer. and there was a litter of foxes in one out-house and an otter in another. Whatever had life had a deep interest for Willie, as it had a deep interest for his lather before him, for, as well may be imagined, these tastes were inherited. But he gratified them at the expense of agriculture. Everybody said the croft would pay splendidly to a man who knew how to work it, but the Aliens were not likely to make a fortune there or anywhere else. It was, therefore not without rea son that Adam was set against his niece taking up with Willie. He considered it would be throwing herself away. And he believed that he possessed a powerful instrument for enforcing his own view for he had full command of Kitty's little fortune, something like 100,left her ness his niece had not expected to find. - - . ' i' -1 "Bairn,'' he said, "ya'il roe a life time if ye marry a' man like that. It might be fine a twelvemonth, but after he'll get worse than ever, and the work and anxietyll all fall on you. Better take a man like Aleck, that you can depend on to keep you comfortable thaa . one like Allan, that'll expect you to take care o' him." . : - Ah !" replied Kitty, M had Aleck Deen the man bis lather is X would never have looked to another, but I cannot trust him " That's where you're wrong, lass. Sandy's a well-bred lad, both on the mothers side and the fathers. There's not a better bred lad in Blackford, and blood is sure to tell. Hi may be quiet, but he's game, 1 warrant you. 1 could trust him with all I had." . . You'd better not, uncle : and as to the breeding, do you mind Meg's last pups that you expected to be so good, and still had. to drown, tor, says you, she bred back ? W ell, think Sandy's been bred back, and that'it whv I want nothing to do with him." " JNo, no, Kitty, it AlecK was what you say, I would have kicked him to the door sooner than let you marry hjm. But he's a true lad, for all bis backwardness, and has a strong notion for you a strong na tion lor you," Adam repeated. " But if Aleck was a bad, treach erous man, aud didn t care a bit lor me, would you leave me free to take anybody I like?" queried Kitty. cartainly, sartainly, answered her uncle. Well, if I thought his blood as good as his breeding I would ' take hi ib to-morrow," began Kitty ' '"but she stopped, for Adam was not lis tening. Something had caught his by making it a by-word, and he the full extent of the crime began or, and he gave him the directions likes you so much tnat he wouldn't to dawn, as he dimly recognized the ' to the official just left, seek i to get you into bad trouble, j shape, wigtt and and size of his "The trouble is," said the appli- by her father, Adam's elder brother, eye outside, and a stranger to his who had preced3d him in the occu nation of the Bed Lion. Whatever it amounted it was all in the big box that stood in Adam's favorite attic room,who like many other country folks of that time, held that his sav ing could not be safer than under bis own lock and key.J "If you marry Allen," he said to Kitty, and she new that no nice scruples about right and wrong would hinder him from keeping his word, "not a penny will you get from me!" The truth is that he had quite another scheme in his head. Why should Kitty look beyond his son' leck? I rue, thev were cousins, but the prejudice against cousins marrying was not strong in the neighborhood and then what advan ttgts there were ! Kate was a splen did manager, and Aleck, though he bad not his father spirit and clev erness, was a hard worter and very careful too careful, some 'people said, for whfreas his father was only keen and saving, he was as mean and hard as a miser. But in match making these are not defects to make a party ineligible and best of all, thought Adam, "there 11 be no need to divide the money." And according he spared no effort to en fore his will, so that poor Kitty had a hard time of it. what with her uncle's threats and the no more agreeable, persuasions of her money grubbing suitor, iet she was too spirited to yield, and in her inmost mind was resolved to have both the sweetheart and the money, for who i;eedd it if not careless, squander ing Willie ? It was i o fault in her eves that her lover cared nothing whatever for her fortune, though she would scold and rate him well for his in difference. One winter night, as she was returning from a neighbor ing village about three miles off, to which she had been sent by her uncle, Willie quite accidentally met her, and they had a happy walk homeward along a lane.on the snow covering of which the moonlight fell fair and sofdy, making the hard wheel tracks glitter and silvering the half-block, half-whitened hedgerows. Willie never before had seemed so true and earnest and loyal as Kittv poured into his ear the story of her persecution "Never mind, lass," he said ; "let him keep the money. I've little. but I'm not in debt, and if you'll but promise to come to the croft 111 ves, Kitty I'll sell every live thing I have and work day and night for you.' "No, no, Willie, there's no use for that; but do you think I'll give up my rights to please that wretched Aleck ? It's just what he wants, for me to marry you and leave every thing to him. He would be pleased to see me quarrel with uncle, for it's not me but the money he wants. But if he proposes again, do you know, I've a good mind to take him at his word, just out of spite. That's the worst I could do to him " "Whist! whiet!" Willie interrup ted her with ; "you're jokin', lass ; but 1 dinna like it. Say anything but that. You would never leave me for a bit of dirty gold." "Would I not?" queried Kitty, who was an incorrigible tease, "you'll mavbe see me make a run away match of it ave and glad you would be after a while to get quit of me. But here s the door. If I am not away, I'll maybe be in the wood on Sunday night,'" and she was off, leaving Willie to go home so thought- j ful that he quite forgot to feed his tame fox until awakened in the night by bis yelping, a thing that had never happened in his life be fore. Business was very dull in the Red Lion next afternoon, and Adam retired to his attic room, where Kitty had a cheerful fire, before which she sat knitting. Meg, the celebrated black and gray hound, of which Adam was very proud, stretched its aristocratic body out on the rug, while besides it reclined a very dif ferent looking dog. The roughhort, curly hair of the latter was that of a terrier, but its long face and limbs and slender contour demonstrated its relation to the breed of which Meg was a pure and beautiful speci men. Jake as he was called, was the very mongrel for a poacher. . Adam's conversation did not re late to his bounds however, but to his son. He referred to Willie Allan habits might have thoucht him wrapped in contemplation' of the winter sunset's reddened clouds, or the snowy landscape. The window commanded a view of a forty acre field which stretched away from the villagcardens to a great thick wood from which it was separated by a brook. In the very middle of it stood a solitary tree, the boughs of which shone like dark tracery in the evening light. " Look yonder," said Adam, pointing to the foot of this tree. A timid, limping, hungry hare, probably tempted by the remem brance of the vegetables it had some times on moonlight nights found in the gardens, was making toward them in little starts and runs, follow ed bv stopDanes. durinc which it would listen with its long ear prick ed up to listen to or scent danger. Could any Blackford man look on that sight unmoved ? It might have turned the old minister himself into a ooacher. and the temptation was quite too strong for Adam. The very dogs, by the eager way in which they starred up to follow him, seem ed to see a chance of sport in his looks. He was no sooner gone than Kitty did a very curious thing. Returning to her own apartment, she hurridly produced a big bunch of old keys and began trying the lock of Adam's chest until she got one te fit. Then she opened it and looked in. But no pile of gold met her eye. Adam had a second box within the big one, and it too was locked. Kitty did not seem at all disappointed. Without touching anything in the box, she left the lid fall, carefullv locked it, and put her keys baok where she had found them. Had Willie Allen been there to watch her next proceedings he would have been hurt and surpris ed, for the little flirt, after smarten ing nerselt up betore tne mirror. proceeded to the kitchen, where Aleck was busy polishing the har ness tor the Doctor s horse, which happened to be kept at the Red L'on. hnsconcing berselt snugly in the armchair in the corner, she plainly said, by look and move ment: "Come, woo me." Though Aleck, her cluwsy lover, did not lack the inclination to respond, he possessed none of that spirit ot gal lantry which ought to have made him quick to take the hint. Kilty's eyes were beginning to twinkle with amusement at her and his own em barrassment, when luckily Adam looked in with the hare, but he for got all about Jack's performance in bis pleasure at seeing the cousins so friendly. "Aha !" be - cried, "but you are too sly ones courtin' like that whenever the old man's back's turned," and in great glee he went away and left them. "What do you thinkof that, now?" said Kitty, laughing. "I wish it was true," said Aleck. "That is because you're a fool." said Kitty. "What on earth should we be Bweetbeartine for? W hat kind o lite would you live here it vou were married, Sandy? As long as Adam Black's here aad that raay be twenty years yet Adam Black will be master. And as tor you. youll toil and moil and mourn till the gray hairs come, and you'll get his money when you're past enjoy ing it. That's the look out for a woman with a notion to you, my lad." "I'H not deny you've hit it, Kitty. It's a poor spec at the best keeping a country public-house; the hinds haven't the money to spend. If I had father's savings now I wouldn't bide here past the term. I'd get a place nearer the pits them's the lads to spend.,' "If I were a man like you. Aleck, do you know what I'd do ? I would make a big try to get these same savings and bolt. If you were quick and clever enough they'd never catch you, and you could change j you name and get a new start" "An! I'ye thought o' that, but the old one's ower cunnin'. I believe he wears the key of the big chest always around his neck." "If that's all .your trouble, I know where to get a key. But would you not be frightened, Aleck ? Fo'k might call it robbery." 'That wouldn't be true. The money is mine as much as his, for I've worked hardest for it, and there's a lot of it yours, Kitty, and he wouldn't make much noise about from any mercenary motives, ; slipped in front, as if to avoid barrassing questions. line with a moderation aod impressive- it He wouldn't disgrace the same There would be murder, though, if he got hold ef us himaelf." That was the way iu which the elopement was planned. During the next few days the cousins were in almost constant conversation, and even shrewd Adam was deceived, and thought, poor man, that his niece had lorsaiten wiiiie Allan, not but because of the weighty advice he had given her. Never had he felt more serenely happy than on the next Sunday afternoon. The hare had been cooked exactly to his liking the fore parts in soup, the hind parts in pie ; and after a din ner that might have pleased an Em peror, followed by a taste of his fine old brandy brandy kept for the exclusive u?e of tho fox-hunting Squires who would son eliruea lunch at the Red Lion when their meet was in the neighborhood he sallied forth for his usual Sunday afternoon walk, pipe in -mouth, and Jack and Meg at his heels, "if you want a bit of sport," said Kitty to him as he was. going out. "take a turn in the forty-acre about dark." He had no chance of asking her meaning, for there were others about, but he said to himself: "Ah I she's a sharp one, is Kit. That means another good dinner, or I'm cheated, and he went his way, No sooner was he gone than a tremendous bustle began in the pub lie house, although it was shut on Sunday. Aleck did not know what to take and what to leave, "It's four weary miles we have to walk into Scotland, said Kitty, "so the less we have to carry the better, Aleck. That box 11 be a weight to take in itself, lad." Well have plenty of time, though. Bet can say w e ve gone for a walk, and he'll be as pleased as Punch. Hiv -you opened the chest?" "Yes," sai.l Kitty, "it's all right The -only pity is I could not open the little box, aud you'll have to take it with u." Darkness was just falling when the two fugitive's emerged from the Red Lin. The peacefu1 villagers were all within doors, for it was bitterly cold, and the sharp north wind had begun to drive stray flakes of bcow in front of it. Which way 1 should : they take ? There could be no doubt of that ; down the bill by the foot road, across the brook by the single plank bridge, through the wood until the highway was reached, and the: i a bold push to get across the border. Jtlanv a Northumber land lad aud lass in the old time had trudged to the altar in that style, but few of the gallants carried a treasure with them such as was under Aleck's arm. Many a sharp look . the runaways cast on every side, lest there should beany suspi cious witness of their flight, but not a soul did they see, and the friendly snow dropped softly ou their treach erous footprints. Neither said a word till they reached the old wil low, near which the brook was crossed by the trembling plank. Then Kitty grew nervous. " I'm frightened to cross the burn," she said ; " go you first." " Be quick, then," he answered ; "111 hold it"; and, getting swiftly to the other side, he seized the end of the unsteady bit of wood. But, instead of following at once. Kitty screamed: "There's Jack! your father must be chasing us!" Aleck stood undecided a moment, then dashed the frail bridge into the water. " Hide where you can, he shouted; "he can't jump the burn, and I'll make off with the money." Oh ! he'll kill me." pleaded the girl. "Dan't run awav from me, Aleck." " You shouldn't have been so slow," he retorted, with the box al ready under his arm. "Stop, you blackguardly thief! Stop, I say !" hoarsely shouted bis father, running up from where he bad been looking after some rabbit. But the son turned in terror and fled not far, however, for a new comer appeared on the scene. Willie Allan, true to his appointment with Kittie, though he hardly expected to ree her. emerged from the wood. " Halloa," he said, placing himself in front of the up?" "Fell him dead!" yelled Adam. ' Let h:m go," said Kittv, but so softly that her lover chould not make out what she said. " You'd better turnback," he said to Alek. but the fugitive, brousut to bay, was desperate. Let me be, he said, or by IU sub you," drawing a clasp-knife from his pocket. " l ou scoundrel ! cried the oth er, in a white heat, " would you commit murder?" Willie was credited with possess sessing more science than any other man in Blackford, and where will you find good boxing if not in North Northumberland ? He made a feint, and the vengeful blade of his adver sary glittered in a momentary streak cf moonlight but to no purpose, for a side leap carried iu object out of reach, and Willie landed a left hander like a horse's kick just above the right eye of his opponent who fell all his length on the snow, and in a trice was divested of his knife, which the conquerer threw con temptuously into the brook. " Get ud and fieht like a man." be said', but Aleck was beaten. Adam was in ecstacier. " Bring the box rounds ld ; never mind that villain." Willie lifted it but on feeling the weight, said : No, ne, be can take it back him self. Lift it up and wade, and if you drop it or try any tricks, III break your head into putty." " Let me carry it around by the b:g bridge," besought the now thor oughly cowed Sandy. " No, by heaven I" said the other, ' through the burn you go ; " and, willing er not, he forced him to ford the current which a moment after he himself cleared in a running leap. "What is it all about?'' he then found time to ask. ! "You've stopped a bit of ugly work, j I'm thinking," eaid Adam, on whom money box iu the cloudy, uncertaia i cant, "that the young man there :s light "These two have been trying ! too busy discussing society affairs "Kitty, said runawav whats to rob me. "Never!" said Willie, you wouldn't do thai V " Come ud and make sure," Adam. With that they all began silently to retrace their steps, only Kitty em-was very thoughtful. Just as they were coming to the door he said to Adam in a low, troubled voice, which he tried hard to make indifferent: "Look here, Adam, you haven't lost anything by this row, and there isn't any use in exposing her, is there ?" " No," was the reply ; "but since they're so fond I'll make them mar ry and est up house by themselves." With that they entered the kitchen, where Aleck, all shivering with his bath, deposited the box on the floor. A cheerful fire-light Bhowed KWty, not, as might have been expected, with abashed countenance and the demeanor of a eulprit awaiting jus tice, but with heightened color and sparkling eyes far bonnier than ev er, as her oid lover could not help thinking. "There's our true blood," shei said to Adam, pointing to his son, "and this has been a fino nights work for him. It began with rob bine vou that's done so much for him : then the sweetheart that liked him so well as to run away with him be left on the wrong side of the burn, and then to draw his knife on an honest man ! You'll never seek to make me wed him now?" "That you shall, you shameless hussy," broke out her uncle. "You're not fit for Allan, and I'm sure, from what I'ye seen this night, he would not look at a thief." " No, I couldn't lo that, said Wil lie; "but there's no need for me here. And with a sad and regret ful countenance he was about to go, when ho was stopped by a burst of mischievous laughter from the im penitent but bewitching culprit ' It s Bet 8 box, she saiu. "Bet's box!" said Aleck; and "Bet's box!" echoed Adam and Willie. " Ay, B?t 8 box," said Kitty. "Sure enough, it is not my box," said the uncle, dragging it into the light; "it's tho same size, but not the eolor. But whatever makes it io heavy ?" That was soon discovered. The red headed servant girl cams forward with a smile on her gasping mouth that suggested the part she had taken in the trick. "There's a stone of shot," she said, "and there's the horseshoes from the back yard, and there s the rutv kevs that usvd to lie in the stable, and there's my old petticoaU stuffed in to keep them from jinp ling, and the weights and the flat-irons!" Bv teorge, said Willie. ne must h".ve meant to start a pack. Would you have stabbed me to save that dirt?" H didn't know what it was," Kitty answered for him. " I just wanted to try his mettle, so I put this box in the room of the other one, and it's back in its place now, neither touched nor opened." I m glad o that, lass, said the old publican, and though there was not much in the words there was something in the vnice that made them sink deep. "It would have been a bad dav for me when I found you turning against me. But Willie, lad, if you want to catch this ekittish filly you'd better be quick. Down to the minister's you go to-morrow nd get your names asked ; and as for you, you lubberly sumpb, after making a fool ot yourself like that, what's to come of you ?" . " Marry him to Bet," suggested Kitty. " The very ticket," returned her uncle. "Will you have him. Bet?" " Ay, that I will," said the loconic mai'I. " Youll go down to the minister's as well, then. And now, lass, bring us a drop o' that brandy, and put the kettle on and bring the sugar, and we'll christen the bargain." to give time to the public." "Ah." said the mayor, "perhaps it is better that I should go over," and he stepped into the office in company with the citizen. "Please pass me that index," said the mayor to the young man, who, on seeing the pair enter, was appar ently solicitous to be usefuL "Caa I serve you in any way," he inquired. "No, thank you," was the only re sponse, as the mayor quickly scan ned the index and furnished the needed information. Before pass ing out he remarked in a quiet but significant tone : "Young man, hereafter when you are too much engrossed with your private affairs to attend to the pub iic perhaps you would better step into the mayors office for help." "I never, observed the gratified citizen, "saw Lord Chesterfield's the orv of the tauciter in mode with the fortiUr un re applied with more crushing effect" Uouncr tbe Falling Tear. So a few weeks afterward there were two weddings iu Blackford, and when the village lads "roped" Willie Allan he gave them a whole half sovereign to drink, and was therefor allowed ta enter the croft-house with a thunder-storm of cheers ; but when they did the same thing to Alt ck hi morosely cut the rope with a knife, and that is why he ha been so un lucky ever since ; for if you co to Blackford now you will find the croft-house to be one of the neateot. prettiest and nicest houses there, while ever ince old Adam's death, which happened many years ago, the Red Lion has been so squalid, and dirty and disreputable that the marquis has serious thoughts of tak ing away the license and turning it into a butcher shop. Longman's Magazine. They engaged a new porter at the Lahr House. Everybody liked him, he was so cheerful, so obliging, and so rigorously and scrupulously exact in carrying out every order given him. On last Tuesday Mr. J. B. Johnson, the vice-president of the Omaha Chilled Plow Works, put up at the hotel. Mr. Johnson is a very dignified and polished gentleman, and extremely particular about his room and service. That evening a very extraordinary thing occured. Some say it was about 9 o'clock; others place it as late as 10:30. At any rate, somewhere near that time Mr. Johnson was amazed to see the door of his room open and a man step in. "Who the devil are you ?'' asked Mr. Johnson. "I am the porter,'' replied tho stranger, deliberately removing bis coat and rolling up his sleeves. e:l, what is the moaning of this singular intrusion?" inquired Mr. Johnson. Thomas did not reply. He spit upon his hands, executed a rapid and fantastic jig, and leaped sudden ly upon the guest "Help! Murder!" bellowed Mr. Johnson. "Crazy man killing me !" Shut up, ye dhirtv spalpeen!" e- claimed Ihomas, obtaining a firm grip upon the bust of his trousers and propelling him rapidly from tbe room, "it's none of the loikes ol ye that's wanted in a dacent house." "But, my good man." gasped Mr. Johnson, his words coming by ex cited jerks, "there is some mistake. Let me explain." "Nivir a ward, ye hoodlum !" re plied Thomas, rushing him toward the stairs ; 'we're onto ye. The house has had ye spotted " The next instant the guests in the j corridor were amazed to see two fig urcs, one sputtering ami kicking and the other grim and determined, shoot down the stairexse, plunge through tho lobby and disappear in to the outer darkness. In a few mo ments Thomas returned panting and rolling down his sleeves. "What in the name of heaven were you doing?" asked Mr. Weekly, the proprietor, when he recovered sufficiently from the shock to speak. "I was Kring that dhirtv black guard Jobrin," replied Thom;is. "Firing Liu:. Hold me, scmebody! Who put such an infernal idea into vour head?" "Here she is," replied Thomas, with an injured air, holding the slate before tho proprietor 3 eyes. "By the great horn spoon !" gasped Mr. Weekly, and swooned away. This waa what he read : "No 40; fire at 10:30." Lafayrfte Comet. The worst thing yoa can do for the average young lawyer i3 to send him to the Legislature. Tho county paper is nsponsible for thi3. The editor refers to him as the silvrr- tongued orator of the county. Very few young men survive this imputa tion. The silvery tongued orator must keep himself before the people. He is suddenly awakened to a reali zation of his own importance and he must maintain his position. Until the paper proclaimed it he did not know that he was a great man. He had often thought so but he did not know it His announcement as a candidate for the legislature came up as a joke. He had no idea of such a thing, but when he saw that hundreds of men were willing to give him a chance, he threw out his arms, embraced the epportnuity and became a candidate. By going to the legislature he lost his practice, but he smiled at this, for to him dis tinction in a political way is worth more than the remuneration of law. He neglects the law book and studies the ward and township. His friends, make him believe that he is a big man. He does not think for him self, but allows others to think for him. The sluggish boy who was in tho cilice with him is still plodding along. He could not be elected to the legislature. He is no orator. He tried to make a speech once, but stammered shamefully. The boys called him a mutton head. They declared that he would sever amount to anything. Ho knew that he was not brilliant know that ho must re sort to books. He read book after book, yet he had a poor command of language. He knew that he would never become a speaker, so, in bu miliatii: resignation, he devoted himielf to the study cf law. People often spoke of his brilliant friend. "He will make his mark," they said. "He is so quick. He can grssp an idea in a moment. Law is too dull for him. He is a statesman." Tbe brilliant young man goes to congress. The community is loud in his praise, but in congress he comes in contact with stubborn old fellows who have spent their lives in searching for facta. Fourth-of-July oratory don't amount to anything. He rants, bat no one pays any attention to him. His pet measure is defeated. His constituents are surprised. Me comes home and atteorpts to explain his course. He has done nothing has made no record. Election time draws near and he announces him self as a candidate for re-election. The people, ever forbearing, give him another trial. He does his best, but his best is nothing. He comes home at the end of his term and set tles down to the practice of law. Law book" are strange to him. He i'eels awkwurd when he goes into court 1 he dull boy who was in the office with him is a leading lawyer. He is no orator, but he has a way of stating facts, has a crisp and lucid manner of expression that strikes a jury. That big white house on the hill belones to him. Everybody says that he is a fine lawyer, ilia calm, dispasaionau; argnmenU be fore the supreme court are said to be- master-pieces of logic. He ven turer nothing. With him everything is certain. The brilliant youn man becomes a cheap lawyer. With him everything is hap-hazzard. He re lies on his oratory, but his oratory fails him. He takes to drink. Years afterward he is a confirmed drunk ard. His wife and daughters sup port him. His dull friend is in the Un;ted States senate. ArLansaio Traveler. Taken for a Goose?. I-iilUming tho Buffalo. Aoecdute of JIajor Gaston. A characteristic story is told of ex Gov. Gaston when he occupied the mayoralty chair of Boston. A gen tleman, whoso sense of tbe dignity of a citizen was greater than his de velopment of physique, applied at one of the departments of the city hall for some official information. "It was a pretty dress she had on at the ball last night" said the young official, who was gossiping with a kindred spirit "I haven't a great deal of time to spare," interposed the citizen. "Say, Cholly, I do wish you'd in troduce me to that blond that waltz ed with you." And so the business went, the functionary showing no further con sciousness of the existence of the The herds of wild buffaloes were the first roadmakers ot the far south west. The instinct of these animals led them to select and keep open the best and easiest routes with refer ence to the topography of the coun try, and it is always found that these buffalo trails led to the best crossings of the streams. The earliest native tribes of In dians and the later invading tribes, ns well us the Spaniards, followed these trails, which, as civiiation ad vanced, became the roadways. An exception in one particular is to be made as to the Apaches, who struck out peculiar trails, leading from one point to another, well suited for de fense in warfare, and these trails as sume often, for this reaiou, a serpen tine course. One ot the oldest Spanish trails is of tbe date lb, and it extends fiom New Mexico into the present Sttte of Kansas. It thus appears that Europeans were upon tho terri tory of this State, supposed to have but a brief history, long before any Europeans had lan.'ed anywhere upon the Atlantic coat of North America, from the point of Florda to the shorts of Greenland, unless, possibly, the Norsemen may have d A farmer's wife had a flock of geese, the leader of which wa an old gray and white gander called El der. He was unusually large and fierce, and every creature of the farm stood in fear of him. The geese were kept in a pasture back of house, and the old gander allowed no tresspassers on this territory. Mr. Hunt, the farmer, at one time at tempted to let three young steers feed in the pasture, but he was forc ed to take them out. the gander flew at them with uch fury, beatiDg them with his strong wings. The entrance to the pasture where the geese fed was a dilapidated old gate. It was Mr. Hunt's custom to feed the geese with meal-dongh ev ery morning, just after the family breakfast The Elder learned to push this gate open and come out himself, but he never allowed any of hia flock to follow him. He would march proud ly up to the back door of the house ami wait for Mrs. Hunt to appear with the dough-disb. When she came out he would seize her dress and escort her to the pasture. When she was not quite so prompt as he thought she ought to be, he would give three or four pecks on the door with his bill to attract her attention. Mrs. Hunt at first, was amused at this habit of the gander's, and was quick to respond to his call. It seemed as if the gander was pleased also, at his success, for it was not long before he would go to tho door and rap three or four times a day. If Mrs. Hunt did not want to feed him, she would call out, "Go way. Elder, go way," and the gn der would usually waik back to the pasture. One forenoon the Elder had been to the back door three times. Mr. Hunt bad scolded him and he had returned to the pasture. About 11 o'clock ihe thought she again heard the old fellow at the door. "Go way, you torment! go way this moment" A moment later the heard the tape again, and somewhat louder than before. "Old Elder, you go 'way," scolded Mrs. Hunt and she emphasized it by throwing a stick of stove wood at the door. A hird time came the rans. and one so. This old trail acrots the prairies Mrs. Hunt dropped her work angri- was reopened by the Missouri trad era Lefore the day of railroads or turnpikes for conducting commerce by a more direct route with Santa Fe. Subsequently a famous trapper known as "Uncle Dick," who is still living, and who was a companion of Kit Carson, constructed a turnpike road along the more monntainous region. This was a still more favor able route, and the builder of the turnpike made a handsome fortune by taking toll at tl per wagon. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe T . : 1 1 f-1 1 , i ,.;t; than imni; hv . ns,r.9. "uu uow loiios. lUiaTOUlO, SDQ . J all t t 1 1 J - r til ly, went to the door and flung it open. "Oh, you" she began, and stop ped. For there stood her minister, Elder Harper, at the door, with a look of amusement in his eyes. Mrs. Hunt felt seriously confused for a moment, but at length ex claimed, "You. must excuse rao; I thought it was our old gander." "So I supposed." said the minis ter, laughing. "For your remarks weren't very cordial or complimen tary, aa addressed to me." Wl J I1UU. All wilts UBU UCA1U VI i ,vA , thi nartiralar Mtin thrnnch ininii P or pea would, however, aver that he ; was not the man to be trifled with. Alter an exasperating interval ne he quietly stepped over to Mayor Gaston's office. Hia honor, who was perusing a document beside a blazing hearth, was asked to look up the information. "Certainly," said the genial may- A flr til trmAa9 Vi i a knl.ll .f e prosperity of the turnpike is tfnvpiDg itthe door Was thereafter diseouraged.and he suffered the in dignity of having his wings clipped. A new gate took the place of the old one, and the Elder was confined to the pasture. As the greatest pain cure, St Ja cobs Oil is recommended by public men of America and other countries. Hon. Billa Flint Life Senator of the Dominion Parliament Canada, found it to act like a charm, Poetry Thoughts in bloesom. 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