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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.
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DR.J.S. M MILLEN.
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tfcir tiaiuirni u-ib Artiti-tt uiKrul. All
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'ff.f hi Kn1;er Wrk Ofuflmir. whre he
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R.J. K. MILLER
H jtcnnaitnt.y loi-te1 in Berlin fm- th prf-
Somerset County Bank.
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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.
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Wiiwttinr Kn-k.
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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
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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.
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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."
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T'J W Y YlffR
Drugs and Medicines
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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
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Sk-biitirie and prTraucy leniiien(.
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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