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S. kIMMKLL, 1. .,.t hif Tir.ife-fl.n-J enio m ibe rttiretw f r.erH and innv I nb- fWi-evLmauy -..i?w'. i- i -n be f.vuna 5 bu- tittiee on Main M., L-k i'-.-DKmci. D R. H. tKl BAKEH r' sfflriwf !!! viriiiiiy. ofht-ein ridkui oo Jf trrel wtt ! Uu-TOiHid. DR. J. M. Lot'TKEft, -itwr. st-rHn.) I'll. 1 IAS AND Sl K'tKOX. H-b- i-tM ft TMi-ii' iiiiy in S(UjT--t f"T the j.--;'tv "i it iplt-Hi. KHi tn; imj Main oirvvl, DR.J.S. M M1LLF.N. ..-.i-.i. ta Pmtotfry.) ,:vt atu-uti.in to the preservation of li. Iilur: tc lii. Aniti.-al Net iiM-ntl. AJ1 :'ti: .. (wira-hwd aaUaUH-wry. Ofliee in Baer t - k. '-iiuurv DK. JolIX FJLUS l'fc.Tl.T. .flirt- uj.-u.iT iii Ow.k Beerit Ri-k. DU.WM. t'OLI.lN J.KXTIST. "i"r in Knri.r'f UV- u!Utit. where be r f. Hili.t al a. . tini4 .r Jred U do ail killda '-ri t-ilit.. r.--iiitm. exlra.-lil.. At:ti.-.a! n-'th..f a!! kmd'aiidof the Us tai-rj lu-n-.!. AU work (r-arauteed. J. k. M1LLF.R Hi-j.nw!i!'.v !.-at in herliu fi the prae- I t' r t In j.rol. tift,. opiarite t Uarica i"a:aer k. I ; " I oiuei-ret CTotmtv IJauk. i .v.n- ' ' ETAiiLlsHfO 1.7T i i i C J h'iRPUfMS V I DCITTC i.nr.i0Ui'. m. J. mill a, ! Pl.il.tM. CavHIEJI. f 'j:i"-i.m made in all pan of the foiled Statea. CHARGES M ODERATE. tar! !.ii- t.. vud motu'v H-t ran bear- j . ii;!;.."!-,:! hY '!rft on N- Vrk in unv u?n. f. with a Sar- -M A la!. SllltlMH' K k- 1 Ai! Lel H..hdav Hterved. CURTIS K. GROVE. SOMERSET, PA. B!,lr. H.Ui.HS, ARKIA.E.s. I'iSO w AOOSft, W'CK 'AMIN AM. KATEi;s AXPWESTEKX Wt.EK FuniUhed on Shan Notice. Painting Done on Short Time. -rt i. m,.j, ,,t t 7Vo; sf Hood, auc It. (i.J sulaiuailv -ntnil.t. N.-tly Piuii.-vd. ji.i w anaut.-d u. give tn.ictiuu. 2?7 C2y First Class Tcrfcaea. b3"i,' AH Kind, in Mv Line Imne on lN.Kr. Pr-tA!.X ABLE, and AU Work Warraniei al. and EiimBr my ,. mad Learn . Ve , roik. and fnnin.h Stivef f Wind knB'ul,T tbe plaee, and .wll in. CTJRTISK. GROVE, ff'MA of imtl fldOHrl (JHakles Hoffman, MERCIUXT TAILOR. (Al.jvt Hefflef'a Kuav.) Aet tStyle-M, And Iiw-et Pritw. ATlSFACTION CUA RANTEED. i i Somerset ISTASUSHED I-7 Somerset. Pa. nn ae VOL. XXXVI. NO. 18. NO ONE NEED REMAIX A. Dyspeptic. " I have lecn stiffc ring for over twn year w fth lys Iepia. For the last year I could not take a drink of CftUl wator nor eat any meat without vomiting it up. My life was a misery. I bad hal re omuiendcd Simmons Liver IW'i'at.ir, of hich I am now tikina tlie Bocond Iwttle, and the fac-t is Uiat worU cannot exprw the rvlief I fl. My apj-tite i -ry ixvl, and I digest cvt-rytliina thoroughly. I Jwi well now, and I unwl Ut ! very Tllss. I am rWhhi: up fxt ; rfroni: fol and Simmons Ijvt-r lV'i'at 'r have done it atl. I write ihix in hoies of lx-n-eiiliiiir .me one w ho has cuirered a I di'l, and would take oath to thine Htate loents if dts!J.', K. S. 1! M l . ( . S'inu-'iM .Y, i. It is to Your Interest TO BIT Yi.fR Drugs and Medicines iBiesegker & Snyder. M ii f-..iB- to r. n. Bovn. None but the purest mid U-st kejit in st.k. as.'l wlien J n;- J.Mv(.ii,tf inert by sland iu. a.- nuin of tliem do, we de stroy tliein. n.tlier than im liii our cuMomer. You ran deH'!iii on liuviui.' your PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS tilled itl. ran-. Our j.rior" are as low as any ot tier liiM- -ia hour and on many arti l- much liwer. The jie.'lr of tin county jMH-m to know thi. and have riven n.- a lar-e !lae of tiieir (wtninaife. and w.- i-liall still cmtinue topive Tliein the v. -ry !-st (.nd f.'r tiieir motley. lo nut frf.-et that we make a sjieciaity of PITTIXCx TRU.SSKS. iTtiaruntt-e siiti.-fartion. anL if ym huvf iiail (rml-lf ii T 1 is li-nt'tiou, jrive ns a mil. SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES iu n-ul vi.rii t ; A full tAuf T Ix-iise. C-oii.t in aiitl have ytur eyes 'aminel. No cliatv ftr exam. natmn. aiid we areoontident wr t-ati nit vnr 1.n' aiui int. BIESECKER L SNYDER. 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PA i rtmirr- in it lrjiiiiAffva, X.icatuin i liviuUiiui and iiiiinii !nt4runi -xpfnrnfed ; t--hfrf ml hr:irti1 (rrilu.it of cnK'iri, rtate -. i KV KMLNTS V iiM-nirtuvf nKouifn. Su I ivrir M'lM uiul Tmiuiiig sm-IiouL Siie aid to JAMES ELDON, A. M., Principal, ;u..'- Tt-iyr. la k nave a, ru. AGENTS WANTED TO SELL- PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS liVPtVPIT Tht4P AT.ItT'V-i either M- nw-cy or Bod Silk, Brmi1i. or Plush, very haiid j Mf and dtirnMo- La-x air n-l-. ai-d ; rMii iy a-ur-il mr.i:L. ill TK-nijloyHl ptv I i.lt sht;!d wriu-1 n. tiuttit.Mialviv. AMrcw A. UoKTuN A CX., PhUa.itrij.iia. Pa, a-16- K7-lr. CYCr-ONE etruek Sumerwrt. and left GALVANIC OIL toiarantee.1 for Kheunuttim. Neuralgia. Head rhe. T'ah-fie. o!ie. paim. Sjirainx. Bruiwa, and B-TO. dd by Iminria BIESECKER 4 SNYDER. WORKING CLASSES;; are now preivd to fiinith all elam a un em pinruenl at hunue. the w imle rf the unie, w f. i Utl r fare nt.l.eni-. luil.. wen. ivut mim ' pr.ital.e. Per-no. of eilt.er w I easily earn f?ira i u. jft perevenii.aand a pr.rwiJ hub by dev.ina a their time to the liuwaw. B.yaad firfe. earn uearly a. ntiieb a men. That all alio i wneUn. mv aend their addnw aid brat the rte j uetw we make tba oiler. Iui:li a. are not well I wmned we a ill wnd one d.lar u. pay fur the. i tnwtue uf wriuutt. ol partH-ulant and outrtt free. Addrea. (-o--K eT)au A. !', P.iK! i Maine. 'i-Iyr. lYOUi ean live at b.ne. and make luun. nxwiev ai work oa than as anythiiijt eiae in the wucbi . -n.i-i u- A Belled You are rn.Ilr.- l.-h -.M il -. lit iWt- ivthe uiL Larue rarniii--nm- fmrn li.a ntjtn. lv outiit and u-n free. Heer n delay: -. v.mi mahiiur to .end n y.aur ad-irea. and h nd uul if vuu are w iae, you will W au al ouee H. Ma-JjnT Ai Co, PurUaud, Me, d-Ciilyi. CENTRAL THE WORLO'S OPINION. V"ho needs the world' opinion, A worldly judgement pas! Tis bawd on little knowledge And deal- with outward shows ; Infallible it tain would be. And limit human destiny. It stone the seers and prophets. And bunts the tliinkere down ; It cntcifie tlie navion. Aim! weaves Uie thorny crown ; Thmngh all the t onfolditif; years We trace it trail of blood and ttrs. On every thinp proprrenive The world s opinion frowns. And it pursues its victims With presexution s bound!. : And -s. iii.mi it ia tnte and just Before their formsaretiirnedtodust. Hut when a preat unfolding O.nies out to challenge all. The world is loud with raises From lip of great and small ; l's i,""Hl opinion comes bio late To help the giaal or serve the great. The tnte and ro.d have ever llcen fonv1 to battle hard At each advancing f.x.tstep I'na laitued by seer or hanl ; The welcome plaudit of" Well done?" tomes only when the Uittlc's won. Whoever adds to knowledge or widens human thought Must brave the world's opinion As something to be fought Must beat its opposition down Till victory secure the crown. IVrhajw me day the worldlings Will loam tiie good to know. When words will cease to flourish And useful things will grow. When men will recruize the new, And cease to war on what is tnte. Till then stand firm, ye leaders In every righteous cause. For surely you must con.juer Through God s and Nature's laws, Ai.d hasten on the joyous day Which gives to w isdom perfect sway. Who htwls the world's opinion And not his sense of tight Will grovel briig in darkness l!y shutting out the light ; 'Ignoring true humanity, U is soul a stunted thing will be. Why heed the World's opinion ? It can not change a fact, Nor set aside a principle. Nor modify an act ; It is as empty, foul or fai As bubbl.-s bursting into air. No man of progress alters, I'ut seeks the light withing. Which conic from fields immortal Where is no blight of sin ; Such never from their coarse will fly. Though all the world cry : " 'rucify ! " .Mai. kind lack mora courage. And fear to try the new. In sin prefer to grovel Than untried paths pursue : And hence the better new they spurn, Till sin's lalse fruits to a--4.es turn. Men have no faith in progress; They can not understand Why institution hoary Should fall by its command ; They shut their eyes and will not see Tiie light of truth that niaketh free. Who waits the world's opinion, And seeks for in- applause, Grows not beyond it stature. (iives help to no new cause Is ever deaf to all appeals, A clog Umju progression's wheels: Pursue your own convictions. The ay the tried have trtd ; lie truthful, sincere, honest. And leave the ret to lnd ; Tiie true alone mn battle sin. The urave alone can hope to win. 7. I). Curb, in Vkkuyo Timet. LILY'S VENTURE. AN EXTKKPK1KE WHICH PROVED ENTIRELY fATISFAtToKY. f Mr heroine man miiiewhat inappropri ately named, though she might be class ed in the rose-sj.ottcd Japan lily order, by which may be inferred that she watt fitr from lading s pale, ethereal flower. At the advanced age of eighteen she was beginning to feel quite grown up ; and the fact perplexed her, jiarticularly tut she failed to discover any means of broadening her existence, w hich seemed to grow narrower as she grew older. Her education was limited to the advantages the village srhool supplied, and she had read all the books available, from Pil grim's Progress" to the latent novel pro curable, and was still sighing for new worlds to conquer. Possess! of refined tastes., and the usual youthful enthusiasm for everything pretty and interesting, she was yet hedged into narrow limits by the very vexing question of ways and means. Her mother was a widow, and not over strong, whose limited income just enabled her to keep up the family credit, as far as external appearance went. And Miss Lily's pretty dresses were in now ise the least illustration of her mother's tasteful ingenuity. Cut mamma could render no assistance in devising some source of pecuniar- prof it suitable for her daughter w hile she re mained under the home roof, anything that would take her from her protection being an absurdity not to be dreamed of. My daughter w ill have to wait until her ship comes in, or until the fairy prince arrives,'', uiamiua said. But she heaved a secret sigh, nevertheless, and added : " I on't lie thinking, dear, of all the im possible things you would like to posHess but rather of how much you have to en joy." " That is all very well," thought Lily4 for old people and invalids, but with youth and health there must be something to expend her surplus ener gies on, which she would yet dis cover." The March winds were carrolling in a boisterous and noisy fish ion about the house, making the cosy sitting-room seem unusually cheerful. . Lily was scanning the weekly news; grandpa, with a look of calm content, was contemplating tlie distant mountains possibly trying to peer into the still farther and sunnier " beyond," into which -his many old-time friends had vanished. She laid down the paper with the de cisive audible couituttnt : " That's just what I'll doT " What are yon just going to dot" said the Mirer-haired grandsire, recalled again to the realities of time. But Lily waa not just then prepared to answer. My pUuajt," she said, with r omer SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, spectful dignity, " are not very definite yet." " ' A man of worxls and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds, you know "; and then she flew upstairs, to think un disturbed in the solitude of her own room, humming as she went a favorite melody. The doings of Miss Lily commenced to be very queer thenceforward, and mam ma feared she had taken leave of her senses. Her first absurdity was to hastily ar range for a visit to Uncle John's, and the next one was to mouut the track wagon beside a farm hand to ao-omplish the journey, having argued down mamma's objections, as she was nearly always able to do. And w hen, two days later, she was left at the house at an early hour, laden with a pile of books and pamphleta, mamma seriously demanded an explan ation of such proceedinog. "I had an idea, mamma, mine!" said Lily, " and not wishing to bother you with it, have consulted with ancle ani auntie atajut my prospective gardening scheme." "Your what?" said unuuuia, in dis may. " Why, I've read that women can do it and I think there will be noliarm in try ing it. Uncle John thinks I might, in a small way, and has offered to help me, and I atn going to read up the subject Here are -these illustrated catalogues, that contain much informatijn, and then this " Gardening for Profit " is just w hat hits me, for it is the profits that I am af ter, first and foremost, and the sentiment of the thing afterwards." "Sentiment!" echoed mamma. "As if sentiment could be associated with on ions and cabbages and dirt. Have you yet considered the hibor involved ? Who is going to weed and tend this fine gar den? And who will manage the details of your elaborate scheme 7" " Myself Miss Lily Addington some available boys in the neighborhood, with possible favors from Uncle John lie sides." " Well," said mamma, resignedly, " I shall not opisise you. It will perhaps prove a serviceable lesson to yon ; and then when yon have tried the enterprise to your satisfaction, and have grown as sallow and as yellow as a tiger-lily, you will perhaps be thoroughly cured of your mercenary schemes, and conclude to let well enough alone." " Thanks, mamma dear ; your objec tions shall prove a stimulant ; I'm bound to disappoint you happily. If you w ill le good enough to furnish me with some long-w risted mitts vou know you have the pattern you made my last summer's Jersey mitts by and some cool, wide sunbonnets, I'll take the risk with my complexion." "Aunt Em gave me that idea ; yon see she anticipated your objections. And my navy blue flannel, properly shorten ed, will be just the thing for dewy morn ings. And if my ship should come in laden with strawberries, green peas and early vegetables, it will be none the less wel come. Who knows what lots of luxuries they may bring us. In time we may have a library, and in all probability a piano." Some one in the doorway with silver hair repeated : " A girl of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weexls." "You should have o -tinted grandpa in among the relief corps." " I shall be happy to," said the rosy maiden. " I didn't think you would gtterts my conundrum so soon. " But," smiling ly, "The enterprising firm of We, Us & Co dont mean to know what a garden of weeds is !" " First thing, I am going to start some sage and other plants in the house in shallow boxes, or more convenient sub stitutes. And then we will have ready some frames outside to use later that can 1 covered np on cold days and nights. Uncle told me also how I could raise to matoes, pepper plants, and those iin- j mense green roses called cabbages for sale, with very little expense." Mamma looked inexpressibly shocked, but Lily threw her arms about her neck, gave her a hearty kiss ana called her a darling, proud little mamma," and then went about her work, into which she in fused all the pent-up energy that had been in reserve so long. Her mother's caution and grandpa's eneouraireiiient kept her, as she said, " proerly balanced in her enthmiasm." A very important factor in the success of any enterprise. Uncle John, who was a market gur dctier, was as good as his word ; and hav ing studied up from some reliable au thorities, she kept quite well posted as to the proper methods of cultivating escu lent dainties. The neighbors across the way became inquisitive at sight of the uttustial fann ing preparations in progress ; a straw ber ry bed followed in the wake of the plow and harrow, and newly -planted raspber ry and blackberry cam-s gave promises of a future income. Cirandjia's opinions and tt book dif fered somewhat on technU-af points, but his assistance was valuable in many ways articular!y as he sharrd quite heartily in his favorite grandchild's interest. - The long row a of green peas and snap beans, planted at intervalsof twoorthree weeks, promised an exhaustless succes sion ; and there were crisp lettuce and cucumbers, beets and spinach, that went on the market gardener's load to the city very early in the morning, and these were little ripples, even though they brought only wholesale prices in the sea of fortune, the forerunners of the larger waves on which ber ship was steadily approaching. Miss Lily developed many business-like traits, and Uncle John was justly proud of his protege. When her particular branch of indus try was fully established, there came or ders from local boarding-houses, and in dividual summer residents, that brought better price- So that by the end of the first autumn her carefully-kept account book showed that, besides discharging her indebtedness she had something laid aside for the coming season's expendi ture and had still quite, a little pocket money to to be independent on. All this, besides paying the wages of a boy, w hich he faithfully earned by his devotion to bis pretty employer, and for the occasional a-tustaxtce of some poor children in the ricinity, who were glad to avail themselves of the opportunity of obtaining light work. set ESTABLISHED 1827. All through her work she proved sys tematic, thorough and persevering ; and after a trial of two years, even mamma voted it a success. For with mamma's pride, ber own commendable love of the beautiful, and the employment of the earliest hours of the day for her busiest work, she had kept her original charms, and added to them the sparkling attractions that an active life lends the face. The friends who criticised most censoriously the pro priety of her venture are now envious of its popularity, the difficulties being only rehearsed confidentially, and the success es apparent to every one. One listless maiden, unreasonably jeal ous of Lily's popularity and her public spirited activity in instituting their semi annual flower shows, rashly ventured an unfavorable comment in the presence of some ultra-fashionables, but received such a rebuke from Miss Lily's self-constituted champions that she felt im pressed with the idea that active inde pendence was held in greater repute than genteel dependence. The interior of Mrs. Addington's house has been much tnoU-ruized. The library has grown so rapidly as to require a handsome bookcase, while winter music lessons and a hired piano point to the ultimate possession of that lnxury. Lily is smart enough to know that too many things at a time cannot le done well, and her summer-time occupation has little rivalry other than reading and recreative arts. One satisfactory luxury is that of a tiny rustic pavilion, embow ered with honeysuckle, clematis and climbing monthly roses, and from this watch-tower she overlooks her work, i plans, rests and enjoys the fragrance of the well chosen variety of easily cultiva- j ted flowers that bloom in trim beds over the turf in front of the garden, making aa pleasing a combination of the useful and ornamentall as is Mistt Lily her self, The elegant Mr. Aubrey, so the gossips affirm, finds it quite as delightful a re treat, and quite frequently avails himself of its fragrant shade. It is such an excellent excuse that he personally presents himself to deliver his mother's previously ordered fruit, or of ten assists in picking it, to assure Mine. Aubrey that they were fresh from the vines, at least so the undersized boy with very large ears, had overheard him say to Miss Lily. " And that artful girl," so an envious critic says, is so thoroughly disinterest ed in so lavishly furnishing Mrs. Aubrey with flowers, that it is no wonder she should eulogize her as the most intelli gent and tastefully dressed girl in the town." But as tlie rich Mrs. Aubrey is not the only recipient of like floral favors, the edge of this sarcasm is bl opted. Some unfortunates in the railroad qSmrter could attest to the same generosity. But, unconscious of the criticism of her motives, she enjoys her active life, with iu increased opi-jrtunities, and enters heartily into everything, from lawn teas to church fairs, while not neglecting her own immediate duties, and hosts of real true friends were ready to express their regret at tiie prospect of losing so univer sal a favorite, w hen surmises became cer tainties. Mamma wasaskel to accept Mr. Au brey in place of the fai ry prince. But Urcle John withheld his congrat ulation for the reason, he said, " that Lily was giving np a good business for a haz ardous undertaking, and Mr. Aubrey would assume the doubtful reputation of marrying a 'market gardener." A reputation," replied Mr. Aubrey, turning to I nele Johns wife, which Mrs. Harris w ill agree with me in being happy to enjoy." If this remark did not win Uncle John over, the following one did, in which he asserted, with a fond glance at his fian ce, " I shall be proud to prove that my future wife is not of the wax doll or der." By which you may infer," said Lily, roguishly, " that I endure a great deal of sun without melting." Ur fading either," came from Uncle John, in bantering suggestion of ber in creasing color. But Lily protested that his remarks were altogether too personal, and appeal ed to Aunt Em's opinion on the subject, which coincided with her own. Whereupon be offered the resolution, that " as she had heretofore show n such good judgment, her decisions should lie indorsed in matters matrimonial, and he hoped she would not prove a tiger lily in temper in her new relations, any more than she had copied its color in the past." Mamma understood the double appli cation of his raillery, and acknowledged it with one of her quiet smiles. " That fashionable color our city girls endeavor to cultivate as a proof of the ex tent of their rustication," observed Mr. Aubrey," but which I fail to admire it in its deepest shades. My summer's souve nir w ill not be so evanescent, and assur ed on that point no other possibilities w ill a.arui me." This last graceful remark must have been intended for main ma's ears, as the two other ladies were admiring Lily's fine chrysanthemum collection, and coin paring notes on flowers in general with so much enthusiasm they were nnaware of having an audience, till a cheery voice behind them was heard to say : Pomona is loth to resign her sceptre ! The maiden is lost in the gardener." A true story is told of an old New Hampshire d.ator, who was one day con sulted by a man suffering from rheuma tism. The physician gave him copious advice and ended with directions so con cisely put as to be easily memorized. " Avoid dampness," he said. " Yes. sir." " Keep warm ; keep your feet dry, and remember what I hare said about flan nels." "Yes, sir." "Take the medicine with alisolute regularity. Here is the prescription." The man expressed his thanks, paid his fee, and took his leave. As he reached the door the doctor called : " Oh, by the way, if any of these things help you, just give me a call and tell me, I've had rheumatism for over twenty years, and nothing baa ever helped me yet. tiood morning." Youth' Cvmpatt ion. hhiloh'a Vit&luer is what you need for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, IH-zinesa, and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle- !?o!d by jo. W. Benford A Son. OCTOBER 12, 1887. HIS PENSION RECORD. What President Cleveland Ha3 Done Compared With Oth ers. CiTrv.sBi Bi, Oct. .Hon. Edward Mc Pherson has written the following letter to Senator Allison of Iowa: GirrrYsm mi, Pa., Oct. 4, 1SS7. Hox. William B. Allison, IHibuque, la. My Dear Sir: The "statement" to which you ask my attention, respecting " President Cleveland's official record on Union soldiers, copied from the Xatitm nt I'u:ir, Washington, (I. C.) weekly pa per, tiears the marks of preparation for a pnrpose. That purpose is to show that the Cleveland administration is more en titled to the respect and confidence of the Union soldiery of the country than the administration of either Grant or Hayes or Arthur. It seeks to make the impression that Cleveland has been more lilwrai and more just to the soldiery than either of his predecessors. And it claims, in terms, that Cleveland has approved seventy-seven more private bills than (.rant and Hayes combined, and 127 more than Arthur. The "statement" is Cd.se. both its asser tions and its suggestions. t'ird. As to its assertions. The pen sion story of the Forty -ninth Congress is this: Pension bills p-ascd in the two sessions tl!l I'.iils approved by Cleveland (-is Bills vetoed by 'levelaml U't Bids became laws bv la;? of time without Clcveland'snpproval I.Vi Bill pocketed by ( levelaml 1 Total M! Of the bills passed 747 were in the tins session of that Congress and 202 in the second session. Of the bills vetoed 101 w ere in the first session and 23 in the second. The " pocketed" bill was in the first session. I make this table from the CcrrrrrUm id UrctTnl, the United States statutes and other data, and believe the figures to be exactly correct. The truth, therefore, is that President Cleveland "approved" about two-thirds of the bills passed, "vetoed" over one eighth and "dodged as to the remainder. .Sco.H'f. As to the suggestions of the statement. Its purpose is to contrast the Grant, Hayes and Arthur records with Cleveland's to the advantage of the latter Xow, what are the facts about those ad ministrations ? Of the 4V)3 pension bills passed under the Grant administration Grant vetoed eight two because the claimants' names were then on the pension roll : another because the clause in the act about the minor children of the soldier had no meaning ; three were vetoed because the names of the claimants were borne on the army rolls as deserters; another, be cause tiie name of the pensioner was not correctiy given, and Just because the sold ier's company was not correctly given. He signed -J8.". This is Grant's record on (tension vetoes. What is Hayes' and Arthur's record? Under Hayes Wi private pension bills were passed. He approved them all. Under Arthur 73 private pension bills were passed by Congress. He appro'ved them all. . Cleveland's approvals w ere but 6i8 out of f4!t paised, and are thus 120 less than ( taint's and Hayes' combined and tw less than Arthur's, out of a total 153 greater than the former and 213 greater than the latter. The contrast is what might have been expected in advance of investigation. Grant, Hayes and Arthur were actually engaged in the suppression of the rebell ion and were in full personal sympathy with the armies of the Union. Cleve land's record as president is not oat of harmony w ith his paswveness as a citi zen during the struggle. It is true, as claimed, that Cleveland signed the Widows' Increase bill. It is also true that be signed the Mexican War Pension bill, which awards a service jen sion as distinguished from a disability pension to the soldiers of that war. But it is also true that within ten days there after he vetoed the bill which proposed application of substantially the same principle to the soldiers of the army of the Union. His friends have the floor to align that extraordinary discrimination against the Union soldiers with this ex traordinary pretension of frier Nhip for them. It is a part of the suiie programme to claim also, that at this date there are more Union soldiers in th Government service than at any previous period. This ought to be true, considering the laws in herited by this administration from iu predecessors distinctly direct that prefer ence shall always be given, o'her things being equal, to the honorably discharjred Union soldiers. If it be not trne, this Administration most have steadily viola ted the law. But in view of the proved misstatements touching pension bills, and of what is known concerning the methods adopted in filling up thtasa classes of apjiointruents to which the Civ il Service law was construed not to apply and as to which, therefore, there was nel.l to lie no limn m uie uiscrenon oi i the appointing power, I am warranted in saying that until this last claim be clearly proved by published lisw of removals and appointments made, it must sutler from the discredit thrown upon its twin. Undoubtedly the Pension Otfice ts do ing a great deal of work. Congress inten ded that it should, when the additional agenU and clerks liberally given that of fice to meet the new and increasing de mands left iu Chief without excuse for delays. Had the Commissioner of Pen sions been less vigorous in administration he would have been simply derelict to duty. But that fact d les not hide from the public tlie other fact that while he has been granting many pensions to Un ion soldiers, and widely advertising it, his own immediate Chief and indeed the whole Administration have been engag ed, without advertising it, in "making an average" by providing comfortable and responsible department positions for large numbers of representative Ku-Klnx of 1873-78. Tliis has certain elements of fitness in it. An administration which was made by the Ku-Klux a possibility in our poli tics cjuld hardly tie expected to be indif ferent to the aspirations of the agents who chiefly bronght it into being. In this respect also, there is a contrast be tween Grant and Cleveland. Grant did release from the penitentiary at the close of their terms of imprisonment some of the Kn-Klox leaders who professed ifs erak pentance and promised obedience to law! But be did not invite them to share with him the administration of the Gov ernment. That crowning act of indi.rer ence to malignant crimes against citizen ship was reserved for an administration w hich contains within its circles of de partment chiefs not one man with the reputation of having helped his country in the hour of peril, and which now, lu dicrously enough, seek to pose as the special friend of men who snatched it from the brink to which, in zeal for sla very, the Democratic party harried it. I am very respectfully, EnwARn McPhersos. The Wealthiest Indian. Mat bias Split log is a full blooded Wyandotte Indian and was born in an Indian village in Canada, and shortly afterward move! to Ohio. While a boy he wa? apprenticed to a carpenter and millwright, and although his wages were only f S per month young Splitlog thought he was getting rich. Splitlog's first ven ture was to build a steamboat, w hich he did in coui)any w ith his brother. They launched the Is rat U-n the St. Clair Kiver and started in the fishing trade. Uncle Sam soon became jealous of the boys and confiscated the boot on a charge of sninggling. Of his subsequent career, unique in American commercial history a Neosho correspondent writes as fol lows : In IS.2 the Wyandottes, who were the last of the Indian triles then in Ohio, by the treaty of the Upper Sandusky, ceded to the United States their lands in that State anil received in exchange land in what is now Wyandotte county, Kan. In 1S4o Splitlog came West with some of his tribe and found after his arrival at West Port Landing 'no.v Kansas City ) that he only had fifty cents in hispockeU. He induced an old Indian to g. his security for the priire of an axe. With this axe he cut cord wood for the steam boaU at he rate of twenty-five cents per cord, and after paying f..r the axe w hich cost 3, he soon saved enough to buy a (amy, and shortly afterward we find him with a heard of horses. About ISoO Splitlog was married to the granddaugh ter of the old man w ho went his securi ty for the price of the axe, and shortly afterward he began to build a mill. At this time he had no money to pay for labor, so he did the work himself. He selected the timber, cut and hauled the logs, and then had a "raising " that is had his neighbors come and help him raise the building. He furnished the mill himself with everything but the burrs. These would cost at that time $150, and Splitlog had no money. StUl he was determined not "to give tip the idea of running a mill." When in this dilemma, a steam boat which was unload ing a pair of burrs at the " landing " acci dentally let them fall overboard, and they sank into the bottom of the Mis souri River. Splitlog. learning of the low. contracted with the owner to pay him 2) for the burrs and take them up himself, which he eventually did after much trouble and hard w ork, and, having got the burrs out of the river, it batk but a short time to get ready to start the mill. The machinery was rigged for horse awer, and the day that Splitlog started he hitched in eight unbroken horses from his herd and earned eighty-live cents in cash, and in the evening he gave this money to his wife and told her to g to Northrup'g iSplitlog's present bankers in Kansas City) and buy them some thing good to eat, as he now had that much money that he did not need. Splitlog's mill was a success, and in 1.S32 we find him one of the leading men of his tribe. By the treaty of the Upper Sandusky the Wyandottes were not al lowed to alienate their lands, but in the year 1S33 a new treaty was made bet ween the Wyandottes and the United States which severed the tribal relation of the Wyandottes. After the adoption of this treaty, Splitlog began to speculate in real estate, atid altnough he can neither read nor write he has been one of the most successful speculators in the neigh bor hood of Kansas City, and is to-day worth over LO0O,0tJrt. About fourteen years ago Splitlog moved to Indian Territory, located on Elk River, near the Missouri line and about four miles from Titf City, rnd recently he became interested in a silver mine in Mclkmald county, Mo. With characteristic energy he began oper ations at once. He hired a mining ex pert named B.'F. licqtia, fr.in Chicago, to superintend the operation l the mine and becoming convimxsl that to develop the mines and build up the town of Split log a railroad was necessary, he, together with his partner in the mines, Moses W. Clay, commenced negotiating with the projectors of the New ( r!eans, Natchez and Fort Soott Railroad Company, and soon that company was formed for the purptise of building a railroad between the terminal points named in its title and running by way of Neosho and Splitlog City. This company being too slow to meet the vigorous ideas of Split lof and Clay, they severe.! their connec tion with the same, and Mathias Split log, Moses W. Hubbertand others organ ized the Kansas City, Fort Smith and Southern Railroad Company, with a cap ital of fc.000,(00 for the purpose of build ing a railroad from Kansas City to Fort Smith, passing through Splitlog City and Neosho. This road is now graded for aboi t thirty miles betwe-n Splitlog City and Joplin, and it is only a question of a few months when the cars will ran south ward from Soplin to Fort Smith, and Mathias Splitlog, the millionaire Indian, w ho is probably the richest man of his race, will be known all over the country as the only Indian railroad man in the United Stares. Long and Short Days. At London, Eng., and Bremen, Prussia, the longest day has sixteen and a halt hours. At Stockholm, Sweden, the long est day has eighteen and a half hours. At Hamburg, in Germany, and Dantzic, in Prussia, the longest day has seventeen bonrs. At St Petersburg, Russia, and Tobolsk, in Siberia, the longest day has nineteen hours and the shortest five. At Tornea, in Finland, the longest day has twenty-one hoars and a half, and the shortest two hoars and a half. At Ward huys, in Norway, tlie daylast from May 21 to July 22, without interruption ; and at Spilzbergen the longest day is three and a half months. At New York the longest day, June 19, has fourteen hours and fifty-six minutes; at Montreal, fif- teen and a half hours. WHOLE NO. 1801. He Had to Wait. On a Michigau Central train the other day as the " butcher " catne into the car with a basket of oranges, an old man, whose wife sat lieside htm, was very anxious to buv half a dozen, but she waved the boy on with : " He can't have "em. He never eats one without the juice runs down on hw shirt bosom." "Shoo! but I want two or three, Han ner," he protested. "You behave yourself! You want to get crimps and raise a great row, don't yon ? Th boy soon returned with boxed fig and the old man beckoned to him, and began to lick his chops. " Pass right on ! " said the woman to the boy. " He ain't eat a fig for thirty years, and I gti- he can go thirty more." The boy passed on ami relumed with peanuts. The old tiiHn Was ready for him but the wife prob-sted : " Mo can 't eat 'em. It's been ten years siix-e he h id a t.tli in his head, and he'd have to swallow 'em whole. No, Reuben, you let i-jntif alone." twenty minute more tie Is.y was back with candy packages, in which there were prize, and the old man ex claimed ; " I'll have one o' them or bust '. " "Then you'll bast." she replied, as she motioned the boy to pass on. " It's agin the Lord and the law to bike chances, and you wouldn't get nothing nohow." " But I'm going to buy suthin', Han ner." " Well, yon wait. You can't have ice .ream nor lemonade, and if he comes with popcorn or buttermilk don't you dare to raise a f iss. Jiist you wait. We'll lie in Ietpit at six o'clock, and then if then' happens to be a grocery nearby, you ean buy six herrings for five cenU. Herrings is something to stand by you, Reuben, and the heads and tails will keep moths away and are good to cure w arts. We've got to old for gewgaws, Reuben. What we want is the worth of our monev. The Election of the Future. When the right of sufferage is finally given to women and they both vote and hold office, we may expect to hear candi dates for office size up women at the polls. "Who are yon j.ing to vote for Bes sie?" "Oh, I really don't know. But don't you think it's perfectly lovely for as to have the right to ote at all ? " " Oh, it's too awfully jolly, for anything. But, do you know I was just worried to death for fear Ma lame Fittem wouldn't have my dress done in time for election day." But she did, I s : and it's just lovely. I was worried awfully over my election bonnet, but it came at the last moment or I wouldn't have come near the polls. Are you going to vote for Mamie Berke ley for city treasurer ? " " No, I'm not ; we've been 'out for a long time, and I think she is just hor rid." " I think so too ; she dresses away be yond her means now, and there 'd be no living in the same town with her if she was city treasurer. What do you think of Mrs. St. John f r Mayor." " Oh, 1 think she'd be lovely. She has such a queenly manner and dresses in such perfect taste : hut mtst of the girls are voting for Howard Percy for mayor; he's so handsome, yon know." " Oh, yes; but then he's so conceited, and such a dreadful flirt. He's engaged himself to half the girls in town just to secure their votes." " The mean, horrid thing! " " What do you think of Mrs. 1 -inter for Congress?" " I think she lstter stay at home and look after her children. There's six or s ven of them running around here now peddling out her tickets. IK tell me, Janie, are my frizzes all coming ont ? " are " No, they look nicely. Ho nitne . " Lovely ! your hair does frizz so beauti- fully. Look at Mr. Meek electioneering f.r his wife for representative. They say if she's elected she's going to leave her six-weeks' old babv at home with him while she goes to the Capitol for legisla- tive session, "Think of it! and won't she dress, though ! I'd vote for Hugh Mandeville, -nit they say he's engaged to Helen SuiyUie, and I can't endure her. She's around here some place trying to get the other girls to vote for Hugh." " I call that cheeky. But I shan't vote for him. Margie Montague is my candi date. She's going to invite me to Wash ington if she's elected." " How lovely that will lie !" I've half j a mind to vote for .Maggie myself. Do ; you know Belle Fielding and Libbie La- j velle have had an awful quarrel over the office of city councilman ? " 1 "No! How pert'ii.-tly dreadful ! , j " Isn't it ? Libbie accused Belle of buy- j ing np the votes with French bon-bon ; and boxes of kid gloves ; and Belle told j righ out before everybody that eight of Libbie s upper teeth were false and that her lovely waves were not her own hair." " How mean of Bell ! If I was Libbie I'd never forgive her. I intended voting for Belle, I shan't now. I cannot con scientionsiy vote for a girl who deliber ately gives another girl away in that shameful manner. It's a mercy she didn't know all I know about Libbie, or the poor girl might have been mortified clear out of tlie campaign. I shall scratch Belle." " I've scratched about everybody on my ticket." ' S have I. Mirt of the girls running for office are so horrid." "o tbey are." LscIujh-j. Agent (sell'Mg preparation for remov ing stains from clothingi " I have got here" Ser.mt (who responds to the agent's ring; "Excuse me, pleas?; but we are in great trouble here to-day. The gentleman of the house has been blown up in an explosion. Agent Ha! hurt much?" Servant "Blown to atoms. Only a grease spot left of him." Agent "Ha ! Only a greane spot, you say ? Well, here's a bottle of my champion Eradica tor which will remove that grease spot in two minutes." Have a care for s silent dog and a still water. China's Military Leader. The Mar.nis TsoTsnng Tang, the great Chinese military reader. li wsapisni- ted irnprriattfoinnttMsionerfitr the conduct of affairs on the Tnjiiiii frontier, is s-v- cnfv-tw.i vests ,M, ltt w i!g to his ?.-m-I perjte and a!temioU habits still r-t-i!i. the physical and tnsutal vigor of i.is yiMitb. He is poor in purse, but Wars a character above reproach. He is al. a confirmed woman-hter and has no fam ily. He was born of p. or parents in one of the humblest sc ul grade, and it is mid that his tnarveloua success has been due to his own merits, and to the tu t that he never has suffered contradiction from any of bis subordinates. In person the marquis is short, corpalent and com monplace, with crafty black eyes, and a thin gray mouth. He is a late riser, but attends to all his official businew rapidly ami regularly. He represents the old Chinese spirit of hostility to all foreign ers, although he avails himself of Euro pean knowledge iu military affairs and tre-.iU foreign visitors with kindnesx. When vijiited by the meiuWrs of the Szchenyi expedition, he gave them a grand banquet consisting of forty-five courses, including cnoice loitay wine. But he could not resist the temptation U show his superiority tin the "hartairians," and said, seeing how awkwardly they managed their chopsticks : " You Euro peans are truly very helpless creatures. You cannot eat without two han.ls." Then, as a courteous host, he at once provided them with knives, forks and s-aions. When an especial Chinese dish appeared on the table, too, he exclaimed in a tone that did not admit of contra diction: "Mejo! Mejo! Yoa haven't got that in your country." When the Spirit Departs. There are many strange notices con nected with the exit of soul from the body at death. One is, and it issai.l still to obtain in this as well as in other coun tries, that the departure of life is delayed so long as any locks or bolts in the ho'iso are fastened. This is a common super stition in France and Genuany and is also found among the Chinese, who make a hole in the roof to let out the soul. In some parts of Holland when a child is dying persons shade it from the parents' gaze with their han.ls to hide the sym pathetic glance, w hich is supposed to de tain the soul. Every one knows how common the supersition regarding nurse in connection with death has been, as perhaps it still is. There was the " death watch " Tne solemn death watch clicks the hour of death. Then the howling of dogs at night has been long and firmly believed in. An other omen of death is the hovering of birds around a house and their tapping against a window pane ; another is the crowing of a iia-k at midnight. So, fires and candles have been considered indi cators of approaching death coffins fly ing (Hit of the former and winding sheets guttering down the latter. Indeed, the supersitionson the subject have been end less, and, if this be in reality an age of skepticism, and much doubt exists in our midst as to the reality of anything which we can neither touch, taste nor handle, there is some comfort in thinking that we have at least come to disbelieve, among other tilings, in much that is ridic ulous and mischievous. Many great men have expressed a wish as the kind of death they wanted to die, and they have mostly desired a sudden death. Oesar, Gustavus Adolphus and Nelson are among the number. Ciesar . was murdered, Gustavus Adolphus died on the battle field of Lutzen ond Nelson at Trafalgar amid the roar of cannon. Perhaps in this matter old Fullei, wno had thought over all possible nx-les of exit, arrived at the wisest conclusion : " None please me." (liuxyn llffiUi. Being a Reporter. The boy who would be a successful j journalist must enter the profession with , no vain ambition to hurry np and get his I name in print, or to be called an "editor." He must make up his mind to work j hanl and conscientiously ; and after a j number of years, take the position . l. f- ... l: u . - . i V ".. " -. ur seems io : oe aoapteo, resting content inerewiui. i If he comes to his work with a collegi I ate education, it will be well ; but it is ; by no means neccessary. Journalism, it must he borne in mind. La distinct from authorship, pure and simple. The journalist deals with the questions of the "lay; his knowledge : must tie on the tip of his tongue, or ratb- er, on the point of his pen, ready for ' nse at any moment. The author, on the : other hand, ran sit at home, write leis j urely, revise frequently. and consult books of reference to verify his statements. Some college-bred reporters are occas- I ionally both pained and surprised at their i first newspaper experiences. Such a ! vonnr man n. Iia.k in th. momir.-. m-r for his first report, on which, you , 1Ilav fnjv ,. hajl uivn tise att j possible pains. .lie has given an elabor ate description of the hall, the a p pear- anee of the audience, and of the lecture j he hits been sent to report. Yet he can not find his account al : though he is sure he wrote a column, j " May be it's crowded ont," says a ' brother reporter, and then adds " Why, ! no ; here it is ! It is rut down, and they've i put a new 'head' on it." Yes; there it is, away down in the j corner of the third page, next to the market reports ! It makes a column all but nine ! tenths ! i ( Kir college-bred young friend may In : very angry at such shabby treatment ; j but, if he is a sensible fellow, he soon J gt'U ttsd to it. Xirhnlii (ir A urpiA. Buying a Bonnet. Is mv hat done T in.iuire.1 a cold- looking lady at a millinery establishment one plaesant day last week. " Yes ma'am" politely responde.1 the shop woman, "it m to be here in a mo ment," An assistant soon brought up the hat, and while the customer was duly inspec ing it the proprietress ventured to in quire : " How tlo von like it, ma'am T" " It's simply horrid," was the reply. " But it is just as you ordered it," pleaded the maker. " Yes something as I ordered." was the short and sneering answer. " I am sorry, but " " Well, never mind," broke in the bny cr, with set lips. " what's the expense ?" "A-b-o-u-t fifteen shillings, said the shop woman, timidly. The money was paid over and the bat ordored to the honse, when the purchas er went ont, and immediately exclaimed to an acconianing friend : " Isn't it perfectly fovely ?" " Yes," she repIieL, "it's ravishing, ont bow could yoa talk so to that woman f " Talk so ! " exclaimed she of that hat ; " why, if I had let her know bow much I liked that hut she would certainly have charged me twenty-five shillings, lxit now, yoa see, I've got it for fifteen shill ings.' The other woman said she had not thought of that, bat woald profit by her friend's ripe experience, and never like an a-tkl agaiA until After she had bought it. ' '
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