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irf TOeiet and vicinity I'nless pn.fcwiotiar.y
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in ivar irf lru Store.
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DR. WM. Ctd.I.INS.
1.ENT1ST.
In Knepner's Wisk upstairs, where he
fwi he fisinrt si !i times pc-ism-d to do all kinds
s.k iicb a tilling, n inilatiiir. extracting.
ArtmcsJ leeth .it all kini- and of the best
aistTiaJ mwne,i. Ail work guaranteed.
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a-.iipr sl.s-e.
Njmersft County Hank.
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c. J Harrison, m. j. pritts,
PkIIEKT. lAsHIEg.
tulti(nif lasde i ii pans of the fulled States.
CHARGES MODERATE.
rsmw a ii.hin to el inoni v w est can he ac-
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SOMERSET, PA.
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PRISOWAW.SS. BlCKWACOXS.
AND EAi-TEkS A NH WESTERN WOkK
Funiu-hed on Khun Notice.
Tainting Done on Short Tune.
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aii-1 lhe fc. in nmt M, Substantially
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tzfcl 2iy rat Cass Workmen.
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VOL. XXXV 1. NO. 22.
NO ONE NEED
II EM A IX
" I ha vp lf u witferini.
fur over two yrarn with Iy
Furthe Im4 y-ar I
coulil not take a ilrink of
mill mm r nor pat any meat
witlniut votnitinu it up. My
lifp uiis a niiwrj-. I hml
hail iv omiiit'iiiliHl Simmon
Liver K-ulatr. of which I
am now taking thp wcon.l
Ixittii-, anl the fait ix that
wonU cannot psprpwt the
ivlif I fci'l. My apjiptile
i vpry giMxl, anl I ilip'st
pverythinj tiiorotvhly. I
h1'i wt'll now, uii'l I u.-l
to he vpry rtnth-sH. I am
fli-shinsT np fust ; pK1 strong
foo-1 a n J Simmons l.ivtr
Kt'guiutiT have lnp it all.
I writp thic in hoHn if hpn
pfitini: a uie one who haa
stirtV-roI an I li.l. n.l would
take oath to them etate
mcntu if Iwireil.''
E. S. liii ioi .Vimctiw, AVi.
It is to Your Interest
TO KI Y YoI R
Drugs and Medicines
Biesecrer & Snyder.
St (1TJWOKS TO '. s. BOYD.
None Lilt the punt ami U-st kept in stak,
f amlwhcii I niliccoiiie inert by staml-
iiur, a certain of tlicm do. we dc-
' stniy thcni. ratlicr than itn-
j jsce on our customer.
You csm les nd on having your
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PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS
j tiHnl with care. tir rin"" are as low as
any other urni-cla.-" liou-ar and on
, maiiy artieUrs iiiueh lower.
The M.ie of this county seem to know
I thi. ami have jriven u a lar-e share of their
utrona.''. and we shall still continue tojrive
them t!ic ven- Im- foods for tlu-ir money.
lo not forjret that we make a specialty of
FITT1XGJ- TIUJSSES.
We iiiinime Kit i-fart inn. ttil, if you l.ave
had iniuhle in thi? tlirection,
jive1 i rail. ?
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES
In (treat vanity : A ftill set of Test Lenses,
t ome in and have your eyes examined. No
charve for cxamiimtioii. and we are confident
we can suit von. Tome and see me.
Resrt fully,
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PRKelLEM MuFFAT.
HOME.
In childhood' day the world to mall.
And though from how to huuw we roam,
A mother's aniile, a mulher'i heart
Will alwaya make each bourn the borne.
With cbildi'b faith we hear ber tell
Uf mansioiw fair and Hear'na bribt dome ;
But all ae know or dream of Heaven
We always and within the borne.
In after yean lh world tow wid ,
And dMani land and ocean foam
May KlnO'b between ; our bearta atlU turn
With Wive and Wiring for our home.
But ab ! the dread time cornea at laot ;
The heart If Milled, th. hand at rest ;
The faithful heart and willing hands,
Tbat made the home loved and blest.
Then wider, longer, grows the space
O'er which our loving thoughts muct dy,
Far, far, bcyonrijartb's confine small.
To " worlds of tight beyond the sky."
W ith tearful eyes and broken hearts.
Back to your childhood's faith we come ;
W here cr she is we know is Heaven,
W here er she dwells we stilt call home.
Albany Argot.
CAUGHT IN A CORNER.
" Yon will be caught in a corner one of
these fine daya my pretty Sly Boots !"
Klizatx'th An-hleiich turnel from the
hamper she was filling and looked imjui
ringly towanl her uncle.
In w hut way ? Not hy your monopo
lizing everything philanthropic, nor all
the pommodiliea of charity ?" she smiled
in roguish retort.
She knew what hia comment meant,
however; and the retort wan designed
to punish him for his attempt to tease
her. "
The girl waa sensitively reserved al
most to necretivenesH concerning her
charities, which were bountiful and al
most multitudinous.
Seemingly she was only a happy-hearted,
laughter loving young ladv, some
what impulsive, and of a nature neither
profoundly rvjective nor intensely sym
pathetic. And it was her whim not to
disclose the graver depths la-hind her gay
and dimplingnaak.
" I suppate,'aiid I'neleGay, shrntrging
his jolly old shoulder, and whistling
softly beneath his shaggy gray mustashe
" I suppose that thrust means you have
put me down in your black list as a pe
nurious and misanthropic- old bachelor.
WelL, my dear, if ev?r 1 do turn philan
thropist, I shall demand no credit for it.
I shall not hi'te my light under a bushel,
nor do my charity as if a kindly deed
were something of which I was half
ashamed."
Kli&abcth's very fair cheeks crimsoned
slightly, the laughing bine eyes sobered
in an instant.
"'Let not the left ham! know what the
right doeth," she quoted hastily, as if
some quick feeling had touched and jarr
ed her gentle composure.
" You do not consider the power of ex
ample," her Uncle ay continued with a
gravity which was not characteristic,
" Your example would arouse others to
help the needy, if you would do your
good work openly instead of bestowing
your alms and encouragement surrep
titiously, as it were."
" Yes, a flaunting of banners and a
blare of trumpets will always gain a fol
low ing of some sort, whether for giasl or
the reverse," Elizabeth returned with a
w ilful toss of her handsome auburn heail
" And if I should advettise myself as a
helper of the needy I shonld be distrac
ted by petitions from everybody and for
everything. I should cry myself ill lis
tening to tales of woe, real or fictitious.
I shouldn't have a moment left for sweet
idleness. I shouldn't have a hit of time
for choosing my dresses, for my dancing,
for my gossiping and my party going,
and for the remaiuder of my other neces
sities." "ttossiping, dancing and sweet idle
ness are somewhat unique in the line of
necessities," said Uncle iay, laughing
heartily as he glanced at her fair face,
w hich was as solemn and inscrutable as
that of the sphinx itself.
" If I should label myself with my pet
whims," Klixabt-th pursued as she indus
triously crammed and packed the hi.
hamper, " I should have no end of peo
ple imitating the same whims, perhaps,
so I should think better of them than
they deserve. And I prefer to judge
people by w hat they are not by what
they would assume to le just to please
me."
" Ah, I see ! You don't propose taking
inflated stock nor giving any definite
quotations of your own. You take all the
points and give none but you niay be
caught in a corner for all that, my fair
Sly Hats," her uncle ipeated.
Ion't be absurd.Uncle f iay," said she
looking half vexed at his raillery.
This keen-eyed, facetious old gentle
man had evidently guessed a motive in
her pet whim and his banter had dis
turbed her equanimity at the moment,
Just then there was a jangle and a
clash of sleigh bells, stopping suddenly
at the curb before the house ; the next
instant the front door gong clanged ;
there was the sound of a familiar voice
in the hall above ; and then she was sum
moned to the drawing room where the
visitor awaited her coming.
Elizabeth knew who the visitor was,
and there was a swift color on her fair,
cheeks, and swift light in her lovely
eves as she went slowly down to meet
him.
The girl had long ago decided tbat she
could love Julius Keith with her whole
heart, and for all time, only he seemed
so badly lacking in the one supreme at
tribute which most distinguished the
man w -horn she would chose to wed.
If Julius Keith were only a little more
benevolently inclined, if he only showed
a disposition to sympathize with the sor
rowing, to lighten the burden of the
oppressed, and brighten the gloom of the
destitute, he would have fulfilled her
ideal of all w hich seemed to her noble
and manly.
But he had never yet manifested that
in lispensable qdality of her perfect
ideal.
" Unfortnnate people often caused their
misfortunes; it was in many instances
the bad management of the poor which
made their poverty ; the existing condi
tion of things might possibly be bettered
but how, was a problem he was not wise
enough to solve," Mr. Keith would say
when the topic was mentioned.
And it was a topic too, he never seem
ed eag T to discuss, and one which he
often ended abruptly or by a jest. Per
haps be was not unfeeling; perhaps he
was not consciously irreverent in the jest.
But all the sail it Elizabeth sighed And
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
was troubled over what seemed such s
grievous defect of heart and mind.
!he would never trust her love in the
keeping of a man who bad neither pity
nor aid for th m who had fallen behind
in the race of life ; that she had firmly
resolved.
I thought you would like sleigh
ride," he said, as he held the white band
which she had extended towanl him in
greeting. The afternoon is unusually
fine, and besides, I have a'little project I
should like to suggest for yoar consider
ation." A phantom dance, or a race on snow
shoes, or something in the toboggan
line?" she said, looking interested too
intensely and demurely so, for sincerity,
if he could have interpreted it aright.
" Well, you can have any of those if
you like," he answered.
But he had dropped the soft white
hand, and Elizabeth wondered st some
vague change in his look and manner,
which she conld not define.
" I mast deny myself of any and of all,
even the sleighing, for to-day," she re
plied, with a regret that was unmistaka
bly sincere.
I hope not the sleigh ride," he replied
in surprise. " A party of our friends are
to meet us at Ie Yalso's. A band is going
out ; we are to have supper and a little
dancing ; ami then jaunt home by moon
light. We had counted on having you
with us, Elizabeth."
She took a mental view of the tempt
ing prospect the glorious sunlight, and
moonligt, with the dazzling skytibove
and the dazzling snow beneath ; of the
brilliant boulevard, with its splendor
and merriment of nodding plumes and
tingling liclls, of the band, of the dan-
I cing and the banqueting.
The v ew was alluring, certainly.
But then, the contents of the big ham
per were to Is? distributed. There were
the txtor, her sick, her sorrowing each
one waiting for her words of counsel and
comfort, for her more convincing tokens
of charitable intent in the way of bread
and medicine.
And then there was a distressed family
only a few hours before brought to her
notice fie mother dying, the father
temisirarily disabled by some almost fa-
tal accident, and the only child, a girl,
young ami fair like herself praying
Heaven f r the trifling help which would
keep their home unbroken in their sea
son of trial.
All this passed before Elizabeth's men
tal vision in a brief moment, as she sto!
listening to Mr. Keith's concluding utter
ances. And in that brief moment her decision
was made. The prosjiect was tempting,
and the gay party had quite counted on
her being with them, very likely, but the
afternoon was sacred to ttie unfortunate
ones whose grieving eyes would gladden
at her coming whose depths of misery
would seem but the deeper if she should
fait them.
" I am awfully sorry," she said at last
in careless words, w hich belied her seri
ous thoughts. " I should have enjoyed
the sleighing immensely. If I could have
had a little previous intimation of the
pleasure, I could have availed myself of
the compliment and joined our friends of
course. As it is, I unluckily have a pre
cluding eniragtnenf"
" With your dressmaker T Mr. Keith
observed smilingly, in a voice w hich was
somehow unlike his own.
" With Madame Sanbroke Oh. she is
an artiste, and one of the most exacting,"
said Elizabeth, catching the cue from the
observatiou and utilizing it to the utmost.
" Her creations are perfection exquisite
dreams of harmony or contrast ; but her
fitting seance, it is harrowing! anil her
bills are absolutely appalling, as poor
Uncle Gay can testify, if he would."
This diplomatic little fable charming
or otherwise produced the effect in
tended. Mr. Julius Keith bowed a courteous
deference to her excuses, and as courte
ously took his departure.
"How dearly, how adoringly I could
love her if she were only less frivolous,"
he thought as he once more took the
reins in his seal gloved hands and head
ed his belled anil prancing grays down
the gay w inter street. " But I might as
well, first as last accept the truth that
Elizalieth Archleigh hasn't a thought or
aim above her gloves and dresses."
' In the meantime Elizabeth Archleigh,
standing in the oriel casement of the ele
gant drawing room, was watching him
out of sight with eyes dim with tears.
"He hasn't an ambition above the pas
time of the moment," she thought with
strange bitterness. "Amid all the pag
eant of the snow carnival he will see no
visages pinched w ith want, amid the mu
sic of the sleigh bells ami banquet band
he will hear no wail of woe. His indif
ference to the moans of the needy is
" The rift within the lute,"
which will wideu more and more until
we two shall drift apart forever."
It was in an unwonted sobered and re
flecitve moist that Elizabeth started on
her mission of sweet charities.
Her las visit was to the afflicted fami
ly who had been incidentally mentioned
to her that morning.
But their immediate wants had already
been relieved.
" It was the rent that was bothering us
and Annie going w ild fearing the mother
and me was to be packed off to the hos
pital," the injured man said to her. "An
nie can manage all but the rent ; she's
earning a little, and Mr. Keith, as the
paid agent for us, thinks he can get some
lady he knows to give her sew ing at
home till I am on my leet and at woik
again."
Mr. Keith ; " she repeated wonder
ingly. " He is a rare feeling young man, is
Julius Keith," the other continued. " It
is many the likes of us, and of them in
sorer trouble, he is helping out of his
own pocket, or gett.ng them work,
which is often better. Mebbe, miss, you
be the lady he was to bring to see Annie
about the sewing."
In her surprise, Elizabeth was speech
less. To befriend Annie was the project Mr.
Keith bad w ished to suggest to her con
sideration, without a doubt And she
had responded so flippantly that he had
deemed any explanation useless.
How harshly she had misjudged him!
and how unworthy his love she most
have seemed in his sight !
Her surprise the next moment chan
ged to confused embarrassment as a door
opened to admit Mr. Keith himself.
Elizabeth had already risen to depart
and with an impulse to avoid his notice,
she stepped hastily into a dark corridor
that led to the descending stairs.
In the obscurity, and in her nervous
haste, she tripped upon something,
stumbled and fell.
She was on ber feet in an instant,
tiembling w ith excitement and mortifica
tion of her rather ridiculous disaster, and
in the instant she turned to stand face to
face with the young gentleman whose
observation she had meant to evade,
"Are you hurt?1 be began, and then
stopped in astonishment at beholding
her.
Her blue eyes lowered before his earn
est, comprehensive gaze. Her fair face
crimsoned ; her red lips quivered with
a smile which was half a girlish pout.
The young lady bad been caught in a
corner just as her Uncle tiay had predict
ed she would be, and the fact was not
altogether enjoyable, considering her as
sumed flippancy of the morning and her
fibs about the dressmaker.
" So you are the mysterious angel of
charity who has preceded me in half
the house, I have visited to-day," and
Mr. Keith smiled, as he led her down
to' his sleigh.
" And you are the gentleman who has
always held the poor accountable for
their own poverty," Elizabeth return
ed. u My love. I have never claimed that
fact exempted us from relieving their
wants," said he. "And now we are to
share the work together henceforth, my
darling, and I feel my content is com
plete." For, somehow, as they drove away to
gether to the sound of the merry sleigh
bells, me soft, white hand had slipped
into his ; "eyes looked love to eyes which
spoke again," and they knew that hence
forth they should journey side by side,
down the way of life.
" I am awfully sorry about the patty
at Ie Yalo's, though," Elizabeth present
ly said.
" We have time enough for that yet,"
he answered, " if your dressmaker is
not an obstacle."
" Ion't remind me f the wicked fib
bing. I wonder you believed it," she
laughed.
Uncle iuy was delighted at the de
nouncemenL " Caught in a corner, eh ? Well, I told
ytm so '. " he chuckled. ,
Need of Practical Education.
I have been assured by learned pro
fessors that the collegiate course is mere
ly an exercise, useful in forming ami
strengthening the mind. Therefore, use
less studies become useful as dumb bells,
stiffening the mental muscles and impart
ing tone to the intelligence. Would not
useful studies and the acquiring of facts
needed in the" daily grind to come lie
equally healthful to the mind ?
The most our graduates acquire is
barely a smattering of each subject.
Why? Merely because there is not time
to give each branch of study conscienti
ous and exhaustive research. It may tie
ssked why, then, the number of studies
is not limited. The answer is simple.
Between the vanity of the parents, who
like to say that their sons are deep in
this abstruse, and tbe stubborn conserva
tism of the faulty, retaining Eighteenth
century sentiment in this Nineteenth cen
tury of practical life, the course is filled
with tares and there is no room for the
wheat.
Of w hat use are Latin and Greek to the
youth who must soon strip in the strug
gle for bread ? The barest excuse is that
they give an insight into the derivation
of language. Well? A dictionary will do
as much. Why waste four years in ham
mering verbs and nouns, declensions and
conjugations into a boy w ho is destined
afterward to sell coffee or soap? f wat
valuable use is t rench 7 It will take sev
eral years to learn, and in most cases not
worth a dollar to the future man.
Fathers, examine the studies pursued
by your sons. You will find that you are
spending your money and wasting their
most precious time storing up glittering
tinsel totheexclusionof hat can benefit
them in the sterner days to come. Cast j
them adrift upon the sea of life without a j
thorough education in some practical
subject of value to the world, and w hich
in a needy hour they coin into bread, and
vou are casting them adrift ,n ships of ; marr ln "w l'n" "
iead without a life t-reserver or a spar 8re' i" the n .ture of thing-, mutual aux
aboard. A sunken rock or a storm and ! iliarie!'' raI,i,uI "t"I't' P,ant.
thev are lost. j tl,at is' the r"lllllin-M an'- trr0""''. the
, , ... standing machinerv, and the prime mov-
If thev need mental exercise let them, i " . r
. , ers ; also, the fuel which is the source of
juggle with practical subjects mechan- , ,. ,
. e ' . power, and other supplies, and the raw
t, uouaeeiiiij(, iiissih, proiuewi
chemistry, arithmetic, and English lan
guage and phvsies. Let them learn how I
to keep accounts, how to handle tools,
how to build and work an engine, how to
detect adulteration in staples of commerce
how to understand the machinery of the
great practical world and not learn the
vagaries of the land of dreams.
If you have learned the bent of your
son's mind, confine him strictly to studies
pertaining to his r illing and cast all
otTTers away.
thir boys are not fools. They know
the nselessness of half the labors imposed
upon them, and, being Americans, resent
the encroaching upon their liberty.
Rather than Latin or Greek, tney take up
the fantisticoes of the poker deck, they
twankle a banjo, ami are erudite only in
the latest laws appertaining to .trousers
or collar. We neglect to give them
weapons to fight the battle, and they be
come skulkers iu the rear. Wa turn
them loose upon the world with no means
for employment ; they reply by becoming
idle and profligate, prematurely wasted,
the soul of Saturn in the body of Adonis,
crowded from the race for future and
fame by striplings of humbler life, whose
education ran in narrow lines, but was
sturdy and sharp as an ax to hew their
path. Henry Ctiy L'arUlm Aeir York
World.
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Report has it that the Emperor of Rus
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net and that upon one occasion he accom
panied tbe great Nilsson in one of her
songs.
Let ns so use the moments of the life
that is passing that they may win for us
a life that will never end.
NOVEMBER 9, 1887.
He Brought Out The Badger.
"A lot of youngsters were collected
one Sunday afternoon around a badger
hole in which there was a mighty obsti
nate old badger one of those old toughe
that you could knock sparks out of with
a hammer. Anyhow, the young sports
had pat all their imported terriers in to
him, and the old badger had come out
on top every time at least, he hadn't
'come out' on top because he hadn't come
out at all ; but when he and the dogs
got to chewing one another underground
he appeared to have away ahead the
finest appetite. A chap who was stand
ing hy looking on, said, kind o' sadly :
' I gtiess misters, that my old dog'd fetch
that badger out for you if you want
him out, that is.' The stranger was one
of those plank-shaped citizens, with
shiny hair, like seaweed. His clothes
might have been entailed clothes, in
which family had lived for centuries. and
the mongrel was a dog as nearly like his
master as a dog could be. Well, sir, the
young bucks took a long Vmk at them
both, and the more they looked the
more they laughed. The notion that
the cur could beat all their finely bred,
imported terriers just tickled them to
death, and first one, and then another,
and finally the w hole boiling of them,
oir. re.1 (o bet 20, 3U,40 to 1 against him
any thing that tbe owner liked, in fact.
But they could not bluff the old man off;
he stayed with them ; he seemed to have
more money along, too, than you'd ex
pect to find in such old clothes. And
the -0101 the boys kept sousing it to him
the more he kept taking 'em, till finally
they quit. And the bets were all laid
out on a bigstone. ,
" TYell, they stood around to see the
fun. It was pretty clear that some one
was going to fall awful sick before the
deal was over. However,' tbe visitor
didn't seem like he thought he was go
inif to be. He picked the mongrel up
and stroked him tenderly, and the old
dog winced a little mite, too, as if he
could see a chapter or so ahead of him.
' Put him in, said the boys, 'put him in !
' Kight now, gentlemen,' said the strang
er, and stooping down he prized him
gently into the earth stern first. Well,
sir, you should have heard those boys
laugh w hen they saw that. Ijiugh? Wei),
I should say they did laugh. For a
iiiinute(or two the old dog lay there w ith
his head out of doors -one eye reproach
fully on his master, the other cocked
anxiously back want. Then all of a sud
den there was a terrific yelp and a cloud
of dust, and he shot out of the hole with
the badger fastened into him. And for
the life of you you couldn't have told
thich looked the most fisilish the
young sports or the old badger. As for
the stranger, he raked in the bets, and
w hen he got a little way oft he turned
around, as if he had forgotten something,
and says he, mournfully, Boys misters,
I'm from Pecos county, Texas. I'm on'y
a school teacher thar, but they all know
me. Shuf s my name Eb'neezer Shuf
ask for 'Jovful Shuf.: " Nii..hV ami M-
The Factors of Wealth.
In mnch of the literature under which
the press has been groaning in recent
years, in regard to what is called the
" Lalior tiuestion," it seems to be quietly
assumed by the disputants, on one side,
at leiLst, that the value added to the ma
terial undergoing transformation in an
industrial establishment is wholly the
creation of the operatives through whose
hands the product passes; and hence,
that the appropriation of any considera
ble part of that value by the proprietor
or manager of the establishment, under
the name of " profits," is robbing the de
serving laborer of his just reward. This
position would be'tenahle, if it were true
that manual labor is the only foree con
cerned in the transformation, or requisite
to produce it. But, in point of fact, this
particular force is but one of several con
tributing to the result. There are, at
least, three besides so absolutely indis
tiensable to its accomplishment that
without the presence and active co-opera-
! tion of each and all of them it could not
! lie attained at all.
These are, first, capital ; secondly, in
ventive genius ; and, thirdly, adminis-
I trative ability. Ali these component
f rces conspire with labor and with each
; . i - .i . e e . i
material. Inventive genius is constantly
accelerating production and improving
! the product by applying the principles of
I mechanics to increase the efficiency of
J machines ; and, finally, administrative
ability furnishes that wise application of
means to ends without which no human
enterprise can 1 successfully prosecuted.
Inasmuch as no value at all can be crea
ted in modern manufacture without the
joint operation of all these forces, it fol
lows that they are all equally entitled to
an equitable distributive share in the
value which they unitedly produce. Nor
should there tie an odious distinction
made between the share ipverally allot
ted to them ; as we hear, for instance,
when it is said that Labor gets wages ;
capital gets profits " ; as if wages were
honorable and profits reprehensible.
What both labor and capital get is " earn
ings," and tbey are equally entitled to
them. Labor may get profits, too, as
well as capital, for profits are nothing but
the savings from earnings beyond the
cost of maintenance. Thr F'tnim fnr W
rrmhrT.
A Colo of unusual severity which I
took last autumn developed into a diffi
culty decidedly catarrhal in alt itschar
acteiistics, threatening a return of my old
chronic malady, catarrh. One bottle of
Ely's Cream Balm completely eradicated
every symptom of that painful and pre
vailing disorder. E. AY. Warner, 165
Hudson St, Rochester, 5. Y.
Highwayman in Pullman palace
Yoar money or your life !
Is you Mressin' dose remarks to me,
ah?
You bet I am. Hurry np.
Well, I am de pohtah of dis yeah car.
Oh, excuse me. How are von com
rade ?
It is the easiest thing in the world to
discover all the defects in a man when
we do not like him.
Transplanting Human Teeth.
The other evening I was asked by Dr.
J.H.Baxter, chief medical purveyor of
the United States aruiy, to dine at his
boose to meet Dr. Younger, the celebra
ted dentist of San Francisco, who was the
sensation of the dental set-tion of the con
gress. A dozen or more eminent dentists
were at the dinner, including Ir. Scott,
the surgeon at West Point, V Y., and
doctors from Detroit, fj llbuny, Montreal,
etc. Briefly, Dr. Younger is able to take
a tooth, which may have been extracted
months ago and plant it, so to sjieak, in
the mouth of another person where, in
the course of a few months, it becomes
firm, and looks like and serves the pur
pose, of a new tooth. He has pertonued
this operation two hundred times with
but twenty fail tires. He had a trans
planted tooth in the upper jaw, right
hand side ofj.is own mouth. He offered
to allow the doctors of the congress to
extract this tooth in puhlic and examine
its condition if they w ished to do so. He
had one or two patients w ith him, nota
bly a negro man, w ho had had the oper
ation performed successfully.
Five is the largest number of new teeth
Dr. Youuger had ever put into one
mouth. It is nei-essary to the success of
the operation that there shall be enough
of the bony process in which the teeth
grow naturally, called the alveolar, still
existing as a part of the jaw bone, into
which a new socket for the tooth can tie
drilleiL The tooth must also be a heal
thy one, with at !e-ut half of its proper
covering, called the jierisementuni, exist
ing. It is thought that life remains in a
healthy tooth for many mouths after it
has been taken out of the mouth. Dr.
Younger fills the nerve channel of the
tooth with gutta percha, which has the
merit of not aching. He then drills the
new socket, pnts the tooth in, and fastens
down the gnin. The tooth is tied in for
a few weeks, when lo ! it is a part of the
apparatus of the mouth, as much as if it
had been there originally. This natural
ly seems astounding, and the facts caus
ed a great sensation among the dentistd
of the congress. Dr. Younger transplant
ed a number of teeth in puhlic while in
Washington, English and other dentists
volunteering to permit him to do so. The
operation is not very painful, ami can lie
done in less than five minutes. There is
nothing now to hinder lovers from ex
changing teeth. Charlie can give up one
of his molars, and Mary can sway an eye
tooth.
In appearance Dr. Younger resembles
a (ierman, and theinflection of his speech
is very like a German's. But he tells me
he is a native of Chili, South America
He accidentally discovered the fact that
teeth can tie successfully transplanted. A
year or two ago a woman came into his
otbee in San Francisco who had had a
tooth knocked out of her mouth.
" DtK-tor," she said," I want you
to put this tooth back where it be
longs." "Nonsense! It cannot be done. It would
do no good,"
" But I insist that you do it."
" It would fall out. The mouth would
reject it. It is now the same as a foreign
sulistance."
" No matter, doctor ; I wish to have
the tooth put back."
" I am too busy to-day," said Itoctor
Younger, thinking to dissuade her. The
woman went away.
" I got to thinking the matter over,"
said Dr. Younger to me, " anil at last I
determined to try the experiment It
could do no harm. I sent for the woman
next day, and said :
' If you still w ant me to put that tooth
in, I w ill do so to please you.'
I cleaned it, cleaned out the socket, a Ad
put it back, fastening dow n the gum. By
(ieorge! In a month the tisith was as
sound and solid in her mouth as the rest
and has remained so to this day. She
eats with it the same a with her other
teeth and knows no difference. That
was the heuinningof my teeth transplant,
ing. The fact is now as well established
as any in medical or dental science."
After dinner at Dr. Baxter's the den
tists met in the parlor and discussed the
matter further. All went away convinc
ed, and resolved to try the new process.
Fuller Wallsr i Kniiiw City Jourwil.
end Drafts to Russia.
Having occasion to make a remittance
to a friend in tiermany while I was in
Moscow, 1 w as atsiut to inclose a 10 note
in my letter, when I was cautioned not
to do so, as there is a law forbidding the
transportation of any money into or out
of the kingdom through the mails, and
strhce officials have authority to open
letters w hich they suspect and seize any
money they may find therein, one-third
going to the government and two-thirds
to theotficial All remittances, therefore,
to insure safety, must be made bv means
of banker's drafts. I presume this is to
enable the government to keep track of
funds received or expended for plots or
conspiracies, but that such regulation ex
ists it is fortunate for the tourist to know
lest he unwittingly contribute to the
funds of some government official in the
postotfice department. The only way to
get foreign newspapers in Russia is to
subscribe for them at a Russian ptxtolfice,
where they will he examined on arrival
and the objectionable paswt-s blacked
oof of them.
"Mamma," said little Bobby, "can't I
have another piece of pie T
" No, my dear. Yon have had fuini
cient" " But why can't I have more T
It might make you sick. And if you
become sick yon might die."
" Die jnst like Johnny Brown
" Yes, my dear."
" Everybody said he went to heaven,
mamma."
" Yes, dear, lie was a good little boy,
and always minded what his mamma told
him."
" And people said, mamma, that he'd
be ever so mnch happier in heaven than
here."
That's right, Bobby. So he would."
" Do all good little toys go to heaven,
mamma?"
r Yes, dear."
" Am I a good little ooy, mamma?"
" Yes, Bobby is a iood little boy."
" Then why don't yon let me have an
other piece of pie? Don't yon want your
little Bobby to be happy V
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The Bell's Burning Words.
The front d air of a magnificent resi
lience closed with a violent slani. An
thony Jenlo, muttering angrily, cauie
down the steps. The door opened and a
boy, bright-eyed and full of mischief,
came up.
" Won't you bring me something?" the
child called.
"No, I won't," the uutn harshly re
plied. " You are so mean that I ought
never to give you anything."
" I didn't mean to be bad."
" Yes, you did. You are getting so
that there is no living in the house with
you."
" You do not love me then, do
you ?
" Nobody can love you when you are so
bad."
" Won't you let me kiss yon?"
" No, I won't. Go back into the
house."
Jenlo hurried away. He was going to
a distant part of the State to be gone sev
eral days.
" I ought not to have spoken to the lit
tle fellow that way," he mused, when he
had boarded tbe train. He took a news
paper from his pocket, glanced at the
headlines of a tearful calamity, and his
eyes fell upon an item hetded, "A little
tsiy's sudden death." He turned the pa
per over, and the first thing he saw was
"A child drowned !
" 1 ought to have kissed him," he mus
ed. " But I was fretted," he said, in apol
ogy to himself. "A man that's worried
over his business as much as I am
don't know what he's saying half of the
time."
The first thin; he heart on stepping
off the train at the end of his journey
was the shriek of a child. lie shuddered,
and a little face, dearer to him than his
own life, suddenly arose before him.
Even w hile engaged in the transaction
of his business he constantly heard, in
the sweet, but troubled accents of a child
the words :
" You do not love me, then, do
you?"
At night he went to a theatre. A little
boy ran out on the stage. Jenlo went to
his hotel, lie tried to read.
" You do n t love me, then, do
you ?"
He went to Ni!, but could not sleep.
He tossed, cold and then feverish. A
uiidniu'ht U-1! ring out the words : " You
do not love me then, do you?" At last
be slept. He snw several men carrying
som -thing, covered with a black shawl,
on a litter. When the men saw him they
put down theii burden and hid their fa
ces. He lifted the black covering, and
saw the mangled body of his boy. With
a groan he awoke. " I must go home,"
he said. " I will not wait until morning.
He went to thetation. A train was just
starting. He would not suffer himself to
doze. It was evening when he reached
home. As he newred his house he heard
a man, in speaking to a companion, say
that the body of the boy hail not been
recovered.
"The little fellow's father, they say, is
away from home."
" Yes, so I understand."
Jenlo hurried along the street "Mr
wl !" he said, - Is that a hearse in front
of my house? No, it's a carriage further
down."
Everything alsiiit the bouse was still.
He shuddered as he opened the front
door and entered the hall. Then there
came a loud yel! of delight, and his boy
bounded down the stairs.
"Than iod !" exclaimed Jenlo,
catching him in his arms; "thank
Irtid!"
" What did you bring me?"
" I didn't bring you anything, precious,
precious, but to-morrow you may have
anything you want."
" I've had lots of fun since yon've been
gone," said the tsiy, while his father, in
prayerful happiness, still pressed him to
his bosom.
" I got a old cat up on the fence and
thro wed stones at her, anil she spit at me
and said wow-ow' and Willie Babcock
punished her with a s ick and she spitat
him and said ' ow-cut-er-row."
The quiet sleep of a thankful heart vis
ited the father that night No midnight
bell rang out burning words, A curly
head rested on his arm. A fai-e of sweet
mischief in repose nestled close to bialo
som. Thad Stevens' Defence.
A corresjiondt nt of the New Yrirk Tri
bmir tells how Thaddens, who was long
the leader of the National Hotie of Rep
resentatives, ome defended himselT from
a charge of libel by proving the truth of
what he had said. The defence proved
more effective than the original charge.
Stevens, in defending the public schools
that had with difficulty been legalized,
had said that the Pennsylvania Dutch
cared nothing for educating their sons
and daughters, provided they could im
port and breed fine pigs and cattle and
horses.
This was made the most of by Stevens'
enemies, and he had to defend himself
publicly w hen he got back to tettsburg,
an.t did it puhlicly.
"Isn't it true?" he said, "You, Jake
Snyder, have got a ram that cost you one
thousand dollars, and none of your
daughters can read? You, Hans Deit
man, paid four thousand dollars for a
bull, but make all your sons work, winter
and summer? You, Jimmy, Luotman,
own Westphalia boars and brood sows,
ami can't read yourself. Ion't yon love
your beasts better than your children
and your maids?"
The honest Itotchmen began to confer.
"That is right." they said, "he only
thp truth."
Diseases of Cities.
Statistics show that the French cities
suffer nnt from typhoid fever, the Eng
lish from scarlet fever, the (ierman from
diphtheria, and thp Austrian from con
sumption, the diseases of thp lungs, and
air passage hein- peculiarly fatal in New
York, also, as is more partirnlarly shown
when a en. me ! pome to include otrr
mortality from pneumonia, which was
252 in ttie 100,1X10 in 1W. .V. I. Nun.
For the benefit of young housekeeper
the following excellent method of starrb
ing is given : Dissolve two tablespoonftils
of raw starch and one teaspoonful of bor
ax in a pint of cold water. Dip the pieces
to he starched in this, roll them np tight
ly in a dry cloth cntil ready for ironing.
Aim at the best yon know, and keep
climbing if yon w ant to win.
Carriers of Contagion.
Hies, aside fruit being pe-ds, are actu
al conveyer of contagion. The fly can
communicate Tims froui an open sore,
anil carry this from one person or place
to another. This may not be credited
hot it bus been proved by direct pxperi
ment to be not orly possible, but an act
ual f ict. The common hours? fly, by
lighting on a diseased spot, either in an
animal or a man, and thence passing to a
healthy subject, has been known to im
part thp infection to the latter. Whether
tbe poisonous matter tie an animal virus
or germ of disease, a bacillus, does not
matter ; and in this connection it is well
to speak of other common methods of
poMuble disease infection. A postage
stamp may in various ways convey con
tagion. One of the simplest and most
plausible is that in which a postage
stamp, ptrtially attached to a letter to
pay return piwtage, is sent by a person
infected with some disease to another
person. The disease ut transferred, in
tbe first place, to the adhesive stamp
through the saliva, ami in being attach
ed to the letter by the receiver. th poi
son may be transmitted in turn through
tbe saliva.
Another cause may be the infection of
the stamp with disease germs. The
stamp, having been exp-d in a room
where a diseased person lies, may be
come slightly moistened and thus retain
the germ. Tbat this is true can he prov
ed very simply by a microscopical exam
ination, it U even possible that an act
ive and tangible poison, such as arsenic,
may accidentally, or intentionally, be at
tached. We often see a person holding change
for a moment in the mouth, probably
not knowing that investigation has show n
that disease germs can be carried by
money. If one conld see through w hat
ban. Is the money has passed, they would
hesitate before using such a third hand.
Silver money is as bad as paper money ;
but while many would hesitate to bold a
dirtv bank note in their mouth, they
think that a silver piece, because bright,
is clean.
Cigar may convey contagiou, especial
ly syphilis. We have seen a note in
which a physician gave as an excuse for
not loaning a light to a friend, that he
w as afraid of contagion : but if he was so
afraid he should have been consistent,
and refused to smoke the cigar. Cigar
w rappers are in the cigar factories, espe
cially in Cuba, moistened with the lips
and tongue, and the girls who roll the
wrappers are by no means of the highest
reputation. Disease can le carried in
this way. Tobacco, contrary to the com
mon belief, does not desiroy disease
genus, and smoking will not confer im
munity from contagion.
Any one who uses a towel in common
with the public, or a piece of soap, or
brush and comb, or any requisite of the
toilet, run the risk of piwsible infection.
The subject of antisepsis, simply another
word for cleanliness, has not necessarily
brought to light many new facts, but has
set people to thinking of old one. The
germ theory of disease is to most people
a very vague one. There is a general
idea that disease is carried by genus,
and that the air is filled with these, and
it is a woniler to most people that every
one is not so afflicted, the laity concluded
that the germ theory is an absurdity and
a contradiction. They do not consider
the element of a fertile soil. The genu is
the same a a see,!, and all organic Usl
ies are reproduced by a seed. We must
plant sect in a soil suitable for it, and
the surrounding heat and moisture
must be adapted to it if it is to grow. A
we descend in the scale of 'organic life,
we find that some of the lower animals
can hardly be distinguished from plants,
and these are reproduced not by seed,
but by a process of division or budding.
A part of the animal is divided and sepa
rated, and forms a new animal.
A we descend in the scale, we find
that instead of seeils we have spores, as
in ferns ; but these serve the purpose of
seeds, and demand a fertile soil before
they can grow, frf many million spore,
but one or two may serve their purpose ;
the rest tlie without giving any result.
As we descend still lower we find that
fungi and moulds need not only a fertile
soil, but a peculiar soil, and many of
them will not grow except in or on an
other organic body.
In medicine, a common example is the
ergot of rye. Another is corn smut.
These, in addition to requiring a peculiar
soil, undergo an "alteration of genera
tion." Fir example, com smut is tirt
reproduced on the barberry leaf as runt,
and this rust in turn produa-e corn smut.
The theory of disease germs is founded
on the knowledge of tup action of the
lower animals and plant. The bacillus
may be an animal or it may be a plant
siisonou in itself, or simply a carrier of
contagion. It may pvpii In- a result of
disease, and have nothing to do with it
cause except a a foreign body. Still, as
we find it present, and find it always
present, we are necessarily in. luce. 1 to be
lieve that it is an active agent, but in or
der to reproduce itself it must have a fer
tile soil. This it finds, as a rule, in a per
son whose constitution is run dow n ff.m
overwork, lack of rest, poor living, or
disease. It may I- intna!tu-ed into the
system, or directly into the blsl,
through an oja-n wound, thus inducing
septicemia, a state of poisoned bl.ssl, or
it may be intnalui-ed indirectly into the
system through the alimentary system.
In this case it must be inhaled or eaten
with ftssj. In either case it is alisorhed,
or perhaps actively works itself through
the mucous membrane. Once in the
blood, the bacillus grows, as a mle, by di
vision, anil multiplies to an enormous
extent. Disease may also be carried by
a virus, which may in turn consist of
liacilli or of organic putrefai-tive matter.
The common example of this is the vi
rus of cow pox or of a snake, an actual
poison.
Either of the factors may bp present
on a piece of soup or money, or a soiled
towel, or a book that has been in con
stant use ; in fact, any article that has
been handled by a number of people ;
and we can perhaps realize how omni
present disease genus are. when we con
sider that washing our ban. Is in anti
speptie solution, and wiping them on a
perfectly clean antispeptic towel, we
shall find they are still, scientifically
speaking, unclean. Cleanliness, then, is
above all to be inculcated as a prevent
ive of disease. If not next to godliness,
it is surely next to health. .V. T. '..
7rA,or.
Don't Jest with the Bible.
A gentleman of keen wit used often
to point his remark with some apt quo
tation from the Bible. A friend h
greatly admired him was present in his
last hour, and asked with deep rni.
thy what was the future outlook.
'Yery gloomy, imleed,' was his response.
Surprised and deeply pained he hasten
ed to quote some precious promise suited
to the solemn hour.
'I have spoiled them all f r myelf,
was the answer. There ir not one bnt
is associated with some jest.
His light went out in darkness, though
his name was on the church roll. What
a lesson is here for all who are willing to
be taught by it ? Lay it to heart