flie Somerset Herald.! ESTABLISHED 27. j Terms of Publication, j , if uii re i n in--"--- . ,, .iiallwT:pu. will tlKUlMEiKa unui an h"Zt ar P'I UP romaiM msrWetfn . .-. - th aurarriti. Ibe t " " yap XhI SoMEKSKT II ERA Lb, ' SoMKKSET, Pa. V somerset, I'a. ,, .,0. Wnl Is ' ATTvKNtV-AT LAW. X somerset, Fa. ...... r.. A B.Ti" Bk'k- 1 T '" A somerset, la. X i-witutTNei, ro. S l -il:1.-.KNtV.TW kja SoUUTSel, I 'a. A I """vvv.li LAW. J. 1'KiTTS. .. ah"- sumewet. Pa. Tf UBAER. V,TI1 II aii r fcaienrt.Fi., ; ., .,.,.,T in an.1 a.!j..ii.inr cn.ui- j ,;:'A,r;.u',..tru-uxiu. iiu. will receive W. H- RITTEL. c uieret, na. ; . s,-.-,- rtinnarf " th-ir care win t j A", ,:' t..ii.fiii atteu.hsl u. tmu-e ou , S MaianMal. Dh- i AIIUB.ir.i-ii-""- : somens-t. Fa., j .- pr.-n-ptnth-nli. Ktwini entniwed j m -niirr-! anil a.y..llli xilill.--. ; .ms Htjiiw K"w. "PI""" ; . . .... .. r..hi. f-ur ttl 1 1 lit Ai!.fca. I ..u .urt hi f llV. fl;Ct Xtrl U. Ilti,nr Hi J K. uylfT ( i j iHV (i. KI A IT u ' B'lrit'I U li'i (ni-'Utte rm.w-i H t ,h:r ii bi !'"!. ' L lM"iH. I AlTvKNKY-AT I-AW. I siwwl Pa. t J v i...... ,.... Futranee ! ilT'-ril! .MIUUJ'l"l "- , I 1 r,j ir.-r.. ' - 1 ..,i,u. and ail k'al 1U11 1771 I- c Couobs. j I AiToKNEYS-AT-LAW, v - Simrrset. Pa. ! .i, iigM rafftM w eur care will 1 w ' !) fmiLPiKv au.-ti.'.r.l Ui (..lirtu.mi' j L'.u j.MMrrs-l. Iwdf-wJ -ij"i"ni u- i u',. nw 114: and cwuveyaucii duue un few- j WiT.!ij wn:is. UKNKY. r. M lIKLI-ATT0KNEV-AM.AV1, Somervet, l a. H, iMv and IVuMoii Aiwnt. t in MaminMh F... ' VaL1:ntink hay, " ponwnt-t. Pa. Als. n,-alwin Ktai Krtt. 'i" attt-nd to all lrasw i-Diresie-l to hi care iib naptuwa tt.lt tltT . Ti.'HN H. 1'IIU 'J ATTui.NEY AT lW. Somcrivt, Fa. 11 pr,,mp!'r at;'d Ui all buin' cumirted st.mvy'a.tvafwd on ouitocltuaa, ft,- it. Mammoth hun k. I) U. F. A. KHAIS. 1'HYslClAS AND H Kl.hU.V fc- jTi.-r.! Pa. ift'r in i Beeritt- Bl k. Secnud F W. D K. J. E. UIESF.CKEK, PHYSICIAN AN'tl Sl Kt.&iN. I SoMERsCT. Pa.. I V"t.-r h' ifi'Mima; mT'ic tn thr riliM-n. of 1 s !: -i ai.d i' iuiiv. in Pi cfti-e is. .l ui; fjit if l'lani'ind. j D ! H. KIMMELL, t . 1 . . .,,v.,i u.t-rirt tu t ritixena rmrl a it fund i hi othf on Miuu K., D R. H. UKl'BAKEK Tender! h j,mf,iiiiial services Ui the citizens f rtwi aud vi.-i:ntv. tithe id rnddeoeeuo ka:D lrt aest til lualaolid. Dr j. m. l.vti:ek, PHYSICIAN ANK STK(.EN, lis, lo,nM irmanenlly tn Somerset fr the r-rii. m-r ,,J hi .stlewum. t fli-e ou Main street. it. nrr .rf Iiitik su-re. DR.J.S. M MILLEN. ;rrvtiMt in Ivntiiiry,) tfcir tiaiuirni u-ib Artiti-tt uiKrul. All DR.JOUX B1IJ. ' 'ffi'-r umrji;i in & Btrit( RUnk. DR. WM. ( oUJNS. 'ff.f hi Kn1;er Wrk Ofuflmir. whre he i ftrtintl at li timw pTVfmrv to 1o U kinl ..rt . t)itiit(r. nnnjUiiutf. trxiracunif, Artiiitial jm'Ui of U ktmi Jtl (l tle nuifrmi iiirvrttl. All murk gurmeeL 1) R.J. K. MILLER H jtcnnaitnt.y loi-te1 in Berlin fm- th prf- Somerset County Bank. E.TJksiL!SHEto 17T.) CJ. HARRISON, K.J. PRITTS, PB1IENT. CaCHIM. (iiiiM,u auule tn all iiarts uf tlie Cntted state. CHARGLS MODERATE. Firth Kir.K i fc-ii.l hhmmtt ti ran I c- r..QSJlU,i tl i!raft ltn NvH. Yurit in aI;v wim. " l:rtrB!ii.i- with trmrttn4f. I'. S. Hw,r n -it- -if iu.iif .!-. .ratrd mU-, wiih fcr Wiiwttinr Kn-k. AU Uieul Hoii4av OWrvefi. CURTIS K. GROVE. SOMERSET, PA. Blis.lKS. sr.AiiUS. TAKKIA(iF. Sl'KIN', WAMiNS, Bt i k WACiONS. M' Eastern and western work Paatrog Done on Short Time. H.r iiri ma le om uf nr,HuihJii SewmM U .jod. ana w sohwjuKiaUy tur,nie!r,i. ..-atly F'llitshrd. aud w arrauir. tc mre Satiilactkoi. 27 F3stCass Workmen. s-t "t AU Kinds in Mr Line Pone a m vaa. pn. ktASCj.N .BU, and All Work Warranted 'au Exaann my oi,-k. and Leant . 'm-iiiirk, and nimi,h svive. fnr Wind ""n-miT tbt plant, aud rail in. CURTIS K. GROVE, ' taH of Court Houael (HAKI. HOFFMAN, MERCILXT TAILOR. Alv Heffley-, Sbuv.) 'rl. And Lowtwt Pric. STlSFACTION CU A RAN TEED. Somerset, Pa. Hie VOL. XXXY1. NO. 20. NO ONE NEED HEM A IX Iy.speptic. " I have lieen suffering fr over two years with Ih-s-pepsia. For the last year I could not take a drink of cold wat.-r nor eat any meat without vomiting it up. My life was mi wry. I bad had re ommended Simmons Liver Regulator, of which I am now taking the tieoond Is.ttle, and the fact is that words cannot express the relief I feel. My ap-tite in very good, and I dip-st everything tliorixijrhly. I sleep well now, and I used to le very nestles. I am fl--liillg UJ fast ; good stroll fiHul and Si ruinous Liver Le'ulator have done it all. I write this in holies of lien eritinc s line one who has suffered as I did, and would take oath to these state ments if desired." 11 8. 1'.AU.w Suniciuv, Xrh. It is to Your Interest T'J W Y YlffR Drugs and Medicines Biesecker & Snyder. SCt Kss 'Its To C. S. BOYD. None hut, the purest and best kept in stx k, and when Inip-Ini-niu-im rt liy siand- ins. as certain of them do, we de- ' stroy tlietii. rather tlmn im- pose on our -customer. Yuu can depend on having your PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS filled with care. Our prices are as low as any other rirst-clnss house and on many articles much lower. The jiple of this county eem to know this, and have pven us a larve share f their (at milage, and we sliall still continue tojrive them the very U-st mL for their money. lo not forv'i-t that we make a sjwcialty of FITTIXGr TRUSSES. We guarantee sati!i-tion, and. if you have had trouble in this direction, pive us a call. SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES in jfiviit variety; A full set of Test I .crises. Come in and have your eyes examined. No cbmve ft r examination, and we arecontident we can suit you. Lorn- arid see ne. lii-It-t fully. BIESECKER & SNYDER. EXCELSIOR COOK STOVE ALWAYS UMRDT. EIGHTEEN SIZES AM KINDS. All Massrs can lie Med! 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Winter term he iriua Novamtier lah. lieiorc iriakinir eiigare-ni.-(ll elsewhere. ud Air new calaliarue U KEV. A. H. Nokt koss. . V., PlTTSBl KOH, P. Waslungtoa andJeffsrson COLELGE, , WASHINGTON PA. The KTth year hetiiw eteiuber Ittb. CaMCal, Sk-biitirie and prTraucy leniiien(. F. intiiciiiaiHrti euocerama ITejiaratory De partment apply to PruC. J. Atulii Mfaiuita. Prta dual. For CaLaloauewr aher informau.iti to PKKslDE.M MOFFAT. ONLY A WOMAN AFTER ALL. I met her at a country place. Where she was spending her vacation. And much admired her ftirni and face, Likewise Iter sparkling conversation. Slie was s Boston girl, but wore Xo spectacles nor pj;ie glas. Though be of learning bad s More An rich as other Boston '-jMca. The maiden was of beauty rare, CTis that, not learning, doth sway ns.) As Aphnxlite she was fair, lr Helen, spouse of Menelaua, But colder than Hiana fair, Who made a stai; of .r Actaus, And distant as the farthest star. That glitters in the empyrean. I loved her, and I think she knew Tiiat much from my admiring glances For she. as we acquainted grew, Siinewhat unbent to my advances. But when my love 1 would have told, I felt a dread, a terror seize me ; I feared if I became so bold. The maiden with a look would freeze me. At length a firm resolve I made For I was liord'ring on distraction That the ;n-)osal. I0112 delayed, I'd make, whate'er mistht be her action. That evening when alone I found her. Before she my intent divined. I boldly threw my arms around her. 1 felt her tresses brush my face. Their taint, sweet perfume thrill'd my senses, I clasped her in a fond embrace, Ketfardless of the consequences ; I kissed her lips oh. honeyed bliss '. I gave her hand a thousand squeezes. Aud ail she said to tne was this : "John, are you sure that no one sees us?" THE CASHIER'S STORY. " I have tried time and again to re-i-son myself out of it. I don't like the idea of going through life acknow ledg ing that I sin indebted to the supermitu ral tor my wry existence. I have never iielieved in the sus-rnatural. I am not going to believe it now if I can find any other way of accounting for my being here, instead of at the foot of a gravestone out on the hill yonder." We had been discussing spiritualism before the open fire in Charley's rojui, and had drifted from arguments on the condition of the dead to the relation of incidents of a mysterious character influ encing the lives of the living. " I don't like to figure as a creature of the mysterious," Charley continued, " be cause it seems to commit me to a belief in all sorts of outlandish anil unnatural things to inclose me in an atmosphere altogether unearthly ; but my only relief seems to lie in an utter repudiation of an occurrence too real and too productive of practical results to be repudiated, so you see I am in a good deal of a mess over it." Xow, Charley is one of the most tnat-ter-of-tact of men. At the down-town bank where he holds the position of cashier, such an admission on bis part would have produced a sensation. In the familiar circle where he sat that night it only provoked curiosity. This curiosity he at once pna-eeded to satisfy, begin ning w ith an abrupt question : Io you remember the night of the loth of ".March T No one seemed to remember, for no one answered. ' That is singular,' he said, after a mo ment's silence. ' At the same time you all took a great interest in at least one of the occurrences of that sauie night. I refer to the attempted bank rob bery." Certainly, we all remembered that. We had simply failed to locate it on the date given the night of the 15th of March. ' Well, when I left the bank that even in,' Charley continued, I was accom panied by Dick Munson, the paying-tell era pale, nervous little fellow, with a memory for faces and signatures almost phenomenal, and an instinctive ability to detect fraud. We stopped on the hank steps for a moment to speak to a custom er, aud then passed on up the street to gether. His moms are about half a mile further out than mine, and when we were kept at the bank later than usual, as on that occasion, we frequently dined together at a neat little restaurant not far from my chambers. We did so that night, occupying a table alone in a small alcove from w hich a w indow looked out upon a side street. ' We were well through the meal when Dick called my attention to the figure of a man standing on the outer edge of the walk, and facing across the side street. ' IV you remember ever having seen that person before this evening?' he asked. I glanced up carelessly and replied that to the best of my recollection, 1 then saw the man for the first time. Theu,' he added, nervously, ' note some peculiarity in dress or attitude, so you will know him if you see him again. Wait ; the face is the best index. He may turn this way in a moment.' As though influenced by our rigid scru tiny, the man on the walk turned almost Is'fore Dick had done shaking and faced the w indow where we saL I lon't look now,' Dick said, turning his ow n eyes away. ' He is watching us. When you do look, notice the upper por tion of his face. People of his kind usu ally point out their peculiarities by try; ing to hide them. Look sharp under the rim of the slouch hat he wears for some distinguishing mark.' ' While the teller was speaking, I got a full view of the man's face. The eye brows were very thick and black, and came close together. There was no arch to speak of, and the general etfect was that of a straight, unbroken line crossing the lower forehead. It was a face not ea sily forgotten. ' I thought you would find something there,' Dick said, when I told him what I had M-en. ' I was not quick enough to see the fellow's face, lint I should have known him anywhere, lie stood in front of the bank steps when we stopped there to-night, and has kept us in sight nearly all the way op. Unless he is frighten ed otf, we shall hear from him before long.' I laughed heartily at Dick's view of the matter, and nothing more was said on the subject until we reached my rooms. Then, placing his hand on my arm, he exclaimed : I I can't get over what we were talking about at the restaurant. I can't get that slouching figure on the edge of the walk out of my mind. Let me remind you once more to look sharp for that face herever you go. tiood night ' omer SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, He was off before I could- make any reply, and I went on op stairs, laughing quietly at what I considered the nervous fears of a tired out and naturally suspi cious man. Jn my sitting-room table I found a note reminding me of an important en gagement in another part of the city, and left hurriedly. To this day the janitor insists that I left my door unlocked, but I am positive that I did not. ' Not long tfter my departure, however, he found it ajar, looked carelessly through the rooms, saw that I was not there, and locked it. Had he been more thorough in his search he would doubtless have saved me a very strange experience. ' It was midnight when I returned to my rooms. The gas was burning dimly in the sitting-room, but the sleeping room beyond it was -in total darkness. Open ing from the sleepirg room was a large bath room, and adjoining this was a large clothes closet. I ba ked the door as usu al, turned off the gas and went to bed, as I frequently did, without striking a light in the sleeping room or opening the doors leading to the bathroom and clos et I was tired, and fell asleep immedi ately. ' How long I slept soundly I cannot tell. I am utterly unable to describe the first sensations I experienced. Dimly, and afar off, I heard Dick Munson's voice, speaking as though in terrible fear, or from an overpowering night mare. ' At first the sounds came to me like a voice muffled by the walls of a close room, and conveyed to my mind no dis tinct form of words. But the tone was one of warning, and told me as plainly as words could have done that I was in deadly peril of some kind. ' After time the voice ceased anil I heard, as plainly as I now hear the rum ble of wheels outside, the rapping of a private signal known only to Dick and myself, and used onlv in the bank when he desired to attract my attention toany face or suspicious circumstance in front of his window. ' This was rejieated several times. Then I heard the voice again, clear and ! distinct this time, as though a door or window had been ojiened in the room from which it proceeded. ' There was no mistaking the words this time. I heard them over and over again, as one hears wokIs in vivid d reams : ' Lock the bathroom door! I can't get that slouching figure out of my mind P ' With the words caine a feeling which I c innot descrilie, but w hich you have, doubtless all experiencrd a sensation of immediate personal danger coupled with a physical inability to control a muscle to meet it. ' The words and the private signal al ternated many times, and then I heard a crash such a crash as would follow the falling of a heavy window sash. 'Absolute silence followed, and with the silence came a sense of physical de pression, as though a current of electrici ty which had wrought my nerves to their utmost tension had suddenly been with drawn. I awoke instantly. When I say I awoke, I mean that I awoke to a con sciousness of the things immediately aliottt me, for it is my belief that my men tal condition previous to that time can not be described by the word sleep. 'I heard the City Hall clock strike one and tried to sleep again, but could not do so. 'I could think of nothing but the slouching figure I had seen early in the evening on the outer edge of the side walk ; I found it impossible to forget the mysterious words w arning me to lock the bathroom door ! I should have got out of bed and made a tour of the bathroom and closed it, but it occurred to me it would be a rather ri diculous thing to do. Men who pride themselves on a practical turn of mind dis ike to do ridiculous thingt-,even when alone. Besides, notwithstanding the ef fect produced ujion me by what I had heard, I regarded the matter as an unus nally clear-cut dream, and was not in the least alarmed. 'The longer I lay awake the more thoroughly did I become convinced that the nervous suspicions of the paying tel ler were alone responsible for my losing a good hour of sleep, and I resolved to make up for lost time as soon as possible by turning over for another nap. ' If I had not, as a preliminary step to the resolve so formed, raised myself in lied and made a great noise rearranging my pillows, jierhaps the most trying por tion of the night's experience would have been sjmred me. ' Be that as it may, the fact remains that before I hail arranged my pillows my attention was diverted from my task by three ratherstartling objects. , ' The first was a dark-Lintern pouring its round red rays full in my face. The j second was an unusually long and unnat- j nrally bright, self-cocking revolver loca ted within six inches of my mose. The third was a particularly villainous face, with thick, black eyebrows running to- ! gether above the nose. ' Was I frightened? Yes, but I scarce- j ly think my fright took the nsual form. I knew in an instant, as well as I know now, that it was not my life, nor the tri fling amount of money he might find in my room, w hat the intruder wanted. 1 recognized his presence there a) part of a well-laid plan to rob the bank. The in truder's first words confirmed my suspi cions. 'Get up ami dress yourself,' he said, in a whisper. ' We want you at the bank, if you value your life, be qnick about it and m-ike no noise.' The man's arguments were unanswera ble, and I obeved. ' You are to go with me to the bank,' he said, holding his weapon close to my head as I dressed, ' and open the vault. The first movement you make to escape or call assistance will be your last; My mutes are below. If I miss my aim, they will not. If we meet an orlieer at the bank, or on the way there, and you are questioned, yon are to say that yon want important papers left on your desk, and (ass on. You w ill not be harmed. We want money, and not human lite. Do you understand T 'In a short time I was at the outer door of my sitting-roan) dressed for the street. Never for an instant, in all my journeys about the room to secure my clothes, had Jie threatening weapon been removed from the close position of my set ESTABLISHED 1827. waking moment Still, I had not aban doned all hope. Surely between my rooms and the bank some opportunity for escape would present itself. I hail no intention of unlocking the vault. At the last moment I should have risked a few shots from the robbers' revolvers. My escort unlocked the sitting-room door, and paused with his hand on the knob. At that instant s sound of foot steps was heard on the stairs, the key was quietly turned in the lock, and I felt for the first time the cold rim of a revol ver on my temple. The steps passed my door, and the weapon was lowered. You all know what folio wed. Before the weapon could be raised again the door fell in with a crash anil the robber, w ho stood directly in front of it, was clubbed to the floor and handcuffed by a squad of policemen, led by the paying-teller ! ' Dick did not return to his own cham bers that night. We spent the time un til daylight in my sitting-room. At first he absolutely refused to explain his sud den appearance with the officers, f r Dick is a hard-headed sort of a fellow, who scoots everything that cannot be demon strated by set rules and fignres : but he finally fairly unbosomed himself, telling his story before I had even given a hint of my own mysterious experience. ' I slept soundly until nearly 1 o'clock,' he said, w ith the air of a man who ex pects to be laughed at, 'and thou I pass ed into a strange, trance-like dream. In that dream I saw, as plainly as I ever saw it in my life, the interior of your bath-room and seated at the fixit of the tub, where the opening door would have concealed him from any one looking in, I saw the man we had last seen opposite the window where we dined. I recog nized at once the slouching figure and the level line of eyebrows he theu at tempted to hide beneath the rim of his slouch hat. ' There was no light in the bath-room, or any whereabout the apartment, but I had no difficulty in tracing every line of his face, nor in seeing you sound asleep in your bed. My mind at once became filled with the one idea that you were in danger. In tny sleep I called out to you to lock the batb-room door, and warned you that I could not get the slouching figure we had seen on the edge of the walk out of my mind '. I could not make you hear. In my alarm I even gave the private signal we use at the bank. I act ually awoke to find myself sounding it on the head of my bed, and repeating over and over again the words I told you ofspeaking. ' I laughe I at myself for being a super stitions idiot, and went to sleep again, only to renew the experiences described to see the slouching figure in the bath room, and to repeat my cries of warning and the private signal. I awoke again to find myself standing by ruy open win dow (I must have raised it in my sleep, for I closed it on retiring) giving the pri vate signal on the sash, and repeating the warning words. How long I should have remained there I cannot say. My blows on the sash must have loosened the catch for the window fell with a crash. In a moment I heard the City Hall clock strike one. 'I was now thoroughly awake, but I could not drive from my mind the im pressions created by my singular dreams. Perhaps I should have gone to beif again only for the fact that the figure my dream had shown me in your apartment was the same I had warned you against on parting with you for the nighL I resolv ed to dress myself and seek you in your rooms. ' I was ashamed to come to your door openly at that time of night, with no ex cuse to offer for my presence save such a one as any ol.l woman would have laugh ed at, so I crept up stairs like a spy and listened. I saw the flxsh of the dark lantern at the threshold. 1 beard enough to satisfy me that something was wrong, so I went for the police.' Domestic Receipts. MrFFiNB. Cream together one cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar ; add three eggs and one pint of milk, stirring well ; then add one quart of wheat flour, with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one cupful of yellow Indian meal. Bake in muiiin rings, in a very hot oven. Hot Siora Apflk $aiuc. Pare and quarter the early sour apples and put to cook with just Biillicient water to keep from burning. Wheu done, add only enough sugar to take off the fiat taste, then put through a sieve into a vegetable dish : grate a very little nntmegonthe top and serve. Potato Ctoyt kttks. To make potato croquettes take one dozen of potatoes, tine ounce of butter, one gill of milk, lard. Boil the potatoes until mealy, put them into a bowl and take two forks in one hand with the points of the prongs turn ed outward ; break the potatoes with them ; while breaking add butter and tuiik, salt, and a little white peptier. Beat them until light, then form them into croquettes and fry a light brown in Urd. Sweet Waffijh. Six eggs, one pint flour, two ounces melted butter, one and one-half cups jiowdered sugar, one cup milk, one teaspoon ful nutmeg. Beat the white and yolks separately and very stiff; rub the sugar and butter together and work in first the yolks, then the milk, then the flour and whites. Bake in well buttered wafer or waffle-irons, very quickly, browning as little as possi ble. Roll them while hot upon a smooth round stick not larger than your little finger, slipping it out carefully when the cakes take the right shape. Cooked Chickex. Tender chickens cooked in the following way are as good as if tbey were boiled : Open them in the back, season and put them in a baking pan with a little water in it Turn an other pan over it and bake for an hour aud a half or two hoars, according to the size. If they are not brown enough when nearly done, take otf the upper pan. Cut off the neck before putting in the oven, aud boil it along with the giblets in half a pint of water ; take the bones out of the neck ; cut that, the gizzard and the heart into fine pieces. Mash the liver with a spoon and add tliein all, with the water in which they were boiled, to the Tbe people of Stratford, Con a, woke up the other morning and found that some one had painted every dog in the town a pale pink. OCTOBER 20, 1887. Like Singing. But Congregational singing may carry the appearance of brotherly love and sisterly regard (if there is such a thing), but it is sometimes far from entertaining to the person who takes no part in the perform ance. Recently, at a very fashionable place of religious worship, where uany untrained and unmusical voices ran riot over persuasive tunes, a man who knew more about the grain market than of buckwheat notes" lifted np his presum ed voice to assist in the presentation of a hymn of long and hallowed standing. A modest but determined looking fellow w ho stood just in front of him turned around, touched the singer on the arm, and said : " Do you live in this town?" " Yes," the singer replied, after allow ing his voice to full to the floor. "Are you a member of this congrega tion r I am, sir." " Is it not one of the aims of this church to treat strangers with marked courtesy ?' " It is," " Well, then, will you please do me a favor?" Certainty, if it is in my power. What can I do for you T' " Hush r "Hif-h!" the singer gasped. "That's what I said." " Is it possible, sir. that you don't want a loan to sing?" "h, I don't mind a man's singing ; don't care how much he sings, but I don't want him to give himself np to such distressing noises as you've been making." My gracious alive! has it come to such a pass that a man can't sing in his ow n church V " It has come to such a pass that you can't sing in any church." " You are insulting, sir." " And you are tormenting." " If you don't like my singing " " I tell you that I've got no objections to anybody's singing." " Well, if you don't like me, you" " rot ri 1 objections to you at all." By this time the hymn was finished and the congregation sat down, but pret ty soon another hymn was announced. The annoying singer again lifted his voice. The man in front of him turned and touched him on the arm. "What do you want with me, sir." " Want you to hush." " I came here to sing, and " " Why don't you sing, then ? Don't ob ject to your hinging, understand, but to tell you the truth, your voice carries me back to a time when I was very unhap py, a time when I raised hogs in the South, and, sir, since then whenever I hear anything that sounds like " " I won't worship in the same house with you, sir." " I willleave this place." "Thank you," the stranger replied and smoothing out the unpleasant expression from his face, he sat down and gave himself up to the enjoyment of the ser mon. Women's Flat Chests. Every woman will, of course, deny that she laces. A very eminent lady spe cialist of New York said, however, a few weeks since that you could not lay the weight of your finger on an exposed vein without limiting its natural flow of blood. She also said that she had not had a fe male patient for many months who had drawn a full breath, one w hich expand ed her iungs to their full capacity for a a year. The doctors and druggistscould, if they chose, tell a story concerning American women which would to the intelligent ear be startling. They say that a perfectly sound girl of 20 is un common in society. The female aristoc racy in one section of the land have de creed flat chests to be the proper thing, because many of them, through relaxed muscles and diminutive strength, were poverty-stricken in curving lines of beau ty. They had a fine working majority with which to pass the fashionable law. Those fiat chests were simply the result of a generation or so of dressing and living on the fashionable American plan. Items of Interest. One " of Germany's famous military bands will soon make a tour of Knglaud. In one week in New York thirty-two dry goods clerks lost their situations be cause it was ascertained that tbey fre quented pool rooms. A new artificial cork has been made by Potel, a tieruian scientist, from a mixture of glue, glycerine and tannin. It isehis tic, impervious, strong and durable, and verv cheap. The mass is also applicable to other pnrposes. Many of the destructive forest fires in California are said to be set by sheep and stock raisers, who. to get rid of the un derbrush and make open pastures the coining season, recklessly set fires in the midst of great forests. It is proptaed to make a hemic statue of Governor Shepherd out of asphalt. The material can 1 had for nothing and in the hands of an artist is caable of very liberal treatment. It is to She, h-nl that Washington owes her asphalt streets. It is said that the " American Cyclope dia cost $."00,000 before a cent was made out of iL Its maps and engravings alone cost $115,000. Contributors are paid at an average rate of $10 for 1,000 words, but special articles command spe cial prices, some as high as $o00. To be free-minded and cheerfully dis posed at hours of meal, sleep and exer cise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting. Let ns live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we fear ed death only because we were unac quainted with it. Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation ; they do not take anything in for their own a se, but merely pass it to another. Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whosoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and happy purchase In free countries there is often found more real public wisdom and sagacity in shops and manufactories than in the cab inets of princes in the countries where none dare to have an opinion until they come into them. eraic A Low Price. Ministers frequently meet with amus ing as well as puthetic circumstances in the performance of their parishional du ties. The payment of the wedding fee is one of the most trying things to the rev erend gentleman's gravity, when it is made by a certain class of men who seem to have no original ideas on the subject. The following incident was re Late. 1 by a minister's wife, and occurred in one of the manufacturing towns of .Massachu setts: (m one of the wildest of mid-winter nights, about nine o'clock, when we weie just thinking of putting out the lights and retiring, there came a furious pull at the bell. " Who can that be this time of night?" said my husliand. "Go and see for yourself," I aoswere 1. " Good eveniu', parson, I heard a deep voii-e utter as the door opened. " Purty powerful storm aout, aint it? Guess you wasn't lookin' for callers sich a night, was yon?" Br this time the parlor door was open- ed, and there entered a tall, gaunt, lan- tern-jawed man of some fortv vears of age, and a little tidgetv woman wraptied to the eves in shawls and veils. Thev both seemed very much abashed at mv presence and to inv remarks about the weather, and my questions about the warmth of the room, whether it was com fortable, they answered in the merest monosyllables. I succeeded, however, in nnw rapping the poor little woman, and the conversa tion grew li-ss and less, while they both sat bashfully side by side, seeming at a loss how to proceed with their important business. At la-4 the mail twisted himself to the edge of his chair and leaning toward his comaniin said : "Shall I tell the parson what we come over here fcr, Melindy?" " Yes, toll him, of course," she an swered. " We come to to git married. You see Mt-Uudy an' me's been keepin' company goin' on tew years last Christmas, an' to night I went lo see her an' she says how as we might just as well git married riIit away, and she'd do without a trossy. So I said right away means to-night, an' so I got the license and here we be. Melin dy air you ready, old girl ?" It did not take many moments to make them man and w ife, and when the last wonlsof prayer dropped from my hus- band's litis, the newly-made groom cram med one of his horny bauds deep into his pocket, and pulling out a handful of coin asked : " What's yer price for sich a job'" " h, I always leave that matter to the generosity of the parties concerned. " " Well, say, look a-here (in an under tone and turning his back to me.) do you think you could git along w ith a dollar an' a half?" Here Melindy pulled his coat tail and whispered : " Say a dollar an' a quarter, Sam ! That is a great plenty." Then all was silent for five minutes, while " Sam" counted out a dollar an 1 a quarter in one, two, three aiidtiv - cent pieces, and at my husband's direction, emptied the pile into my lap. I asked theui to sit down and get w arm before going home, w hich they ii I. I noticed that the bride was breathing very heavily, and I asked her if she had a coid. " Oh. nothin' but the azmy. I've been half dead with it for nigh unto five year. Sam thinks niehbe if I quit working in the mill I'll git better of it. I think my self bcin' married will be good ftr uie." When they departed Sam told us where they were to live, and insisted ou ns call in;; to see them. So one day w hen we were driving past their home I went in a moment. They had been married only six months, but it seemed to me Melindy had grow n much older and had the moot unhappy air about her conceivable. As sixiu as she had greeted me, she began pouring out her woes into my ears. "Oh, if I'd a' known what it was be was bringin' me to, I'd a' come to live with him an' to he one of his family. Why, he told me married life was Parry dise on earth, so he did, an' I never knowed as how he'd been married four timej,and had a lot a' younr uns scatter ed all over creation he was a-goin' to have me take care of. But after we had got dow n to housekeepin' they ail came home, and among 'em his sisters two young uns. That's one of 'em beating the dishpan with the poker. He's the strongest six-year old you ever see. He's beat everything in the house to flinders, r.ut the wost of all is that Sam takes a dram now au then, and comes home so cross an' ugly I don't know what to do! An' Sally Ann, by his second wife, is a stuck up thing and mocks me w hen I get to wueezin' unusual. An' mv agonv ain't no littler, and beside that ' I'm gettin' a weak back. I promise,! vou I d come to church, but such people as I hain't time for much religion." Here uie six-year om got into trouble rtth 111. f..it wtii.'H ni.ctiMl l li.iin, f polled from under the stove bv the tail, . , , . , . ,,.,... , ' , found areiuedv in pennyroyal and brush nd Mehndv living to the rescue. 1 made . , . , ' " , . 1 Ures, but nmnv of the poisoned ones got mv escape. . 11. ' 1 no relief. They nave not responded to Poor Melindy, with no time for relig- j treatment. Asa rule lime water, butter ion ! Who could have gr -ater new! for j niint and oxMe f lin(. ointment, into it than just such poor struggling souls as j whioh , iin!e wh;tt, pre, i f ,ifate has been yu j nibbed, will effect a cure. This year it I told the state of affairs to my hus- seems as though the poison had to run band who remarked that he thought that j itself ont. marriage tie was hardly worth even A gentleman, however, who after suf dollar and a quarter, at least to one of fering for ton day more tortnre usually the parties. I falls to the lot of man, finally got relief j in the following manner: He saturated a The Leaders in Oregon. J. K. Bolton, Druggist, Ashland, Oregon, writes as follows in regard to the Gilmore Remedies: "I am very much pleased with your medicines. They give fine sat isfaction. The Magnetic Elixir is one of my leaders ; tue Aromatic Wine is a very excellent article ; and the Pile Specific and Neuralgia Core are all you claim for them. Among the hundreds of remedies for affections of the throat and lungs there is Done that equals Gilmores Mag netic Elixir. In all cases of conghs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, asthma, etc-, it affords instant and gratifying relief. It is all well enough to say there is ! nothing in a name : but sod Dose a man! named Slaughter should start a summer J hotel, and call it Slaughter house? 1 Tj WHOLE NO. ISm. "Tekel Upharsin." Logically, the I ng struggle bet e n the Ifemocratic and the Republican party has been terminated forever by the Democratic victory of lv4. the trial of that party in powtr and its complete failure to tmvt the expectations which caused its success. Not many men, even of the most earnest Republicans, realize ho true this is or how important prac tical results are nt al lays strictly logi cal. But there is reason for anticipating that the Democratic party will be defeat ed in ISM, wiil piss forever from history. i and then men will wonder that precise- j ly this result of it trial in power was not j by all expected. i Between great parties the issue is osu- ally twofold: concerning principles and purposes, and concerning the men who lead or represent parties. The isnoe of principle has reused to exist, ls-3tie ! the Iremocratie piirty has proved that it j h:Ls no principles. As a party, it can not j be said to tie in favor of anything except I the possession of the otfices. Four-fifths i of memtiers want free trade. The ! h, ,,' ",a,,e inipwible l Tth F ' anything ; entrusted j wi,h Per. il is 1 '? 'th absolute j paralysis revenue legislation. That I involves fatal imttpacity, because some ! reduction of revenue is nessessary, and a j P-. hi, h "n,,t I1 an-v revenue , measure wnaiever c:innoi piissioiy govern J the country. A majority of the Iemo i crats have sympathy with the aims of j the State Rights rebellion. But there are enough I niou veterans in its ranks to make definite action by that party in the line of State Rights theories impiwsi bie. Most of its members want to erip ple and starve the Federal Government, to cut down its revenues and curtail its functions, liecaus-.- they do not trust the people in their corporate capacity. But those who want appropriations and jobs are so numerous and powerful that the party is utterly paralyzed for that pur pose also. It is a part v without purpose or principle. So the ist-iie is narrowed : has the par ty worthy leaders and representatives ; is it, in the selection of men, the better party of the two? Nothing but trial could determine. T.le people chose to give it a trial, and the result is here. .Men wno are noiieiessty ignorani or u j fully blind do nut see it. But elections are decided bv nien w ho see and think j and are not the slaves of prejudice. If was charged that the Republicans placed 1 and kept some unworthy men in office. Every political urbanization makes that mistake in some cases, and the people chose to see whether the Democratic par ty would do bettor, it selected for Pres ident a man said to be " better than his frty," but Mr. Cleveland surrenders his independence to keep his supporters. He was said to te sincere and honest ; be proves to 1 a man of cheep veneer ing, mil of the shallow bysicrisiewbich are most tsiious to Americans, and un able to resist the worst tendencies of his party. At the head of departments the purty places Mr. Bayard, whose melanc holy incapacity and British leanings make him offensive; Mr. Fairchild, a man found incompetent in New York for a less responsible office ;. Mr. Vilas, who has sadly lowered the efficiency of the postal service; Mr. Garland, a jobber more shameless than any other party ever kept in office ; Mr. Whitney, the slayer of the foremost American ship builder; Mr. Endicott, the cipher; and Mr. Lamar, whi.se department has be come notorious for mismanagement. For the Supreme Court this party selects a repudiator to decide upon the validity of repudiating acts, and a close friend of jobbers to decide upon telephone cases for the appointment of Mr. Lamar to th vacant justiceship seems to be cer tain. For the most important ollices at New York, it selects the tools of Hubert O. Thomison, and at Baltimore the tools of Goruian the corruption ist. In Ohio, Indiana, crimes by which the people are roblied of tle-ir rights are shielded by appointments and by a solid phalanx of Federal officials. Throughout the public servii-e the selection of jail-birds, of men notoriously unworthy or incom petent, has been unpleasantly frequent, and all men see that, to say the least, the character of the service has not fieen elevated or improved since Republicans went out of power. Such has been the result of the test. Claiming to have lietter principles, the Iemocratic party is found upon trial to ! nave noue- K w men, the party puts in less competent legislators anil less worthy officials. The logical result of the test is that the Iem ocratic party must lie set aside as unfit to govern, and if unfit to govern it is too unfit to exist. After it will come some party that has honest convictions and selects honest men to lead it. AVir Ynrk j Tr,'""u' Remedy For Poison Ivy. ' j Pe"Pe wUu hiive mnht ,1,,rin I th hea:t '1 u na at the "" 'r,,, hi h ,lU l'" of -N,-,r Jen-V !,ave !,uir,-r1 at in' fr"m a Pla"e , of nuit.w an 1 black gnat Others. I who preferred the mountains and inland attractions, have suffered greatly from ,iiiLt'.i.-t ivri rktijjin iw Vt o (i.rTiii.r slice of bread with water, and then spread over it a ;rl!y amount of soda. This plaster he applied to the eruption and kept the appiication moist by drop ping water upon the bread as fast as the moisture was alu-orl-ed or evaporated. This dissolved tie- la crysjaln on the skin, and giive tliiewt immediate and permanent relief. s lmu!y was he poj soned that at one time he had on his body twenty-one of these poultices, rep resenting twelve loaves of bread. "What did you y yonr friend is, Ton my?" "A taxidermist." "What's that?" I vv ny, lie s a sort 01 animal uprjoister ! er." j We talk of ereutive minds. That bt 1 but a figurative speech we can create j nothing. ' - i What a Boy in Blue had to lug through the War. First, bis weapon. Those were in-.!i-pen.sul'e the musket in perfect order within and without: the forty rmirwis of a; 1111 iinifion in the cartriiig.-. sup plemented, if there was a prolwbility of iti meeting the enemy, by twenty or forty additional rounds in the knapsack. Second, the rations am) nntensils. While in rmi he had enjoyed a few " luxnrieis" i like corned beef, beans, fpl't peas, dea i sicated Vegetables, potatoes. Tinegar, nioiaases, rondles some of them very, ' rarely, others quite as often as their qual- ity made them welcome! If he had re ceived his due share (and who ever riew a "company cook" that had the ; credit of giving the "boys" what they ) were entitled to receive?) of these in ad ; dition to the standing marching rations, ' he had lived quite satisfactorily, so far as . quantity was concerned. But the three, : r five, or eight days' rations, which he was siq.powd to take upon the inarch . were shorn of all luxuries, and w hen the : haversack was filled, it contained as a i rule, very little save the regulation ten j "hanl-tack," a piece of generally excel i lent salt pork supposed to weigh about i twelve ounces, and a spoonful each of ; dry coffee and sugar for each day's ra tion. The sugar and coffee were gener ally mixed, placet) in small bag made for the purpose and stored in the most secure corner of the haversack. Here was the soldier's greatest add surest re liance. The solid food might fail ; it often did ; but by economy he could al ways manage to have material for a cup of coffee, and if the march had bei-n hard and the rations scant, the hot beverage with its gentle stimulations was so much more grateful. Hung over the haversack, or within it if there is room were the two indispensibie culinary arti cles the tin cup with the capacity of about a quart and a well blackened tin plate. A knife, a fork and a spoon frequently the three combined into a single pocket article completed the outfit in this direction. The canteen which hung beside the haversack was not likely to be filled at tbeturt. To or three pints of water would make a notable addition to the load; it would hardly be needed at the outset and after making a lew miles there would un doubtedly lie a chance to run out of the ranks, dip a cup of water from some spring or stream and fill the canteen w hile the march went on. Last of all there was the knapsack, and its contents varied most of all. What the soldiers hail of extra clothing was there it might be a complete outfit, but the chance was that it comprised at the best no more than an extra shirt, a pair or two of stocking possibly one of drawers ; though there might be an extra coat perchance adress coat, which was deemed too valuable to be thrown or given away. There were almost in variably writing materials, for every o portunity w as taken advantage of to keep the communication with "home" con stant, and in the pauses of a battle or "at the roar" many a hasty lice was written to infonn the loved ones that tbe writer had thus far escaped the casual 1 ties of war, or to give intelligence of those who hail not been so fortunate ; careful ly cherished mementoes filled some of the corners, a Testament or a pack of cards, ami not unfrequently both in close companionship. In addition to these articles, there still remained an overcoat to be stored away within the knapsack, the rubber blanket and tbe woolen one if the soldier was fortunate to have Is.th to lie rolled! and strapped above it, and a section of shelter to be disposed of somewhere. During the summer marches the overcoat was generally thrown away and replaced by a new one when the weather called for it, and it was wonder ful how tbe outfit thus specified wonld dwindle if the campaign proved espe cially trying. Nit infrequently the knapsack itself with most of its contents, would be left on tbe way. tbe blankets being formed into a roll and passed over the shoulder, as was the almost univer sal custom among the confederate. Words of Wisdom. We are martyrs to our own faults. To live fast means too often to die fast. Misdirected labor is waste of activity. Nearly all great nienjhave had remar kable memories. Io the truth yon know, and yon shall ie-arn the truth yon need to know. Feebleness of means is. in fact, the fee bleness of him that employs them. Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills be suffers, has a child to love. Extraordinary afflictions are not al ways the punishments of extraordinary gra-s. False men are not to taken into confi dence, nor fearful men into a post that requires resolutions. Rough on the Judge. I have ju-4 heard the following good story on Chief Justice Bleckly, hmvs a writer in the Augusta (Ga.) i lir-nurlt All who know Judge Bleckly and re call bis long wavy hair and beard wilt appreciate the story. Judge I'.le. kly was on his way to the Supreme Court one morning when he was accosted by a lit tle street gamin, w ith an exi-eedingly dir ty face, wi h tbe customary " Shine, sir?" He was quite importune, and tbe Judge, lieing impressed with the oppressive un tidiness of the boy's five, said : " I don't want a shine, but if you go wash yonr face I'll give yon a dime." "All right, sir." " Well, let me see you do it." The boy went over to an artesian hy drant and made his ablution. Returning he held out his hand for the dime. The Judge said ; " WelL sir, you've earned your money ; here it is." The boy said : " I don't want your money, old fellow, you take il and get your hair cut." Saying which he kuu (ered off. Prospectors are roaming atmat the mountain country of Tennessee, through which Rt:IroaLs are to pass, seeking ore besLs, which can now lie bought for merely nominal prices. Rich lead and silver ore have been found in several lo calities. In one immense cave in Put man county five distinct veins of lead, all valuable, have been found. An Important Element Of the succensof Hood's Sarrparilla is the fact that evey purchaser receives a fair equivalent for his money. The famil iar headline "100 Doses One Dollar," stol en by imitators, is original with and true only of Hood's Saraaparilla. This ran easily lie proven by any one who desires to test the matter. For real economy, bay only Hood's Sarwtparilla. Sold by all druggists. In many localities Hood's Saraaparilla is in suc.ii general demand that it is the recognized family medicine. People write that " the whole neighborhood is taki tig it," ete. Particularly is this true of Lowell, Mass. where it is made, and where more of Hood's SarsapariHa is sold than of any other Saraaparina or blood purifier. It is the great remedy for de bility, scrofula, dyspepsia, biliousness, or any disease caused by impure state or low cooditioa ttxt blood. Give it a triaL
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