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...'; ii :.( uuba..nt?4otiu U.kt out their
r Uib ht & rwvib! fur the av.bacrln-
Ttberi rerouTlm; from on pottofflpe to if
- !-nuid girt M the nun of the former M
u the prta-ent ottee. ASdreaa
The SoKEssrr Hkbald,
Sowkkt, Pa.
C. HOI-BERT,
. riORKlf-AT-I.AW,
Nomeraet, ra.
. with Jobn H. Cbl
.EI). W. CTESECKEK,
ATluKNEYAT-LAW,
Somerset, Pa.
a id Priming Houae Row, opposite Court
E"KGE K. SCn.L.
AlTUit.NfcV-ATI-AW,
boiijCTwt, Pa.
v,, IT. J. O. (K.l.E
X'TT fc ixii.K.
ATrihst:rs-AT i.a :
jickct. Pa.
J. K(KI.K,
, ATlviRNKT-AT LAW.
somerset. Pa.
r s. kn;si.kv,
1. ATluttSKY-AT-LAW,
Suntrset. Pa.
V. TKI'.NT,
, jklluKSEY AT LAW,
HoniCTKet, Pa.
i j. ririTTs,
1. A l JoJiNtY AT LAW,
l)iiifret. Pa.
in fxuui'-rwt Cwintjr Kan.
II.
I- VAY.K.
ATTOKNEV-AT-I.AW,
hdiiiinet, ra.,
ui j.rm iirp lu S-mK-rx t mid 'lj..imug nmn
An hiiini entruu-l Uj 'jiiu will rweivK
rj i nt;4-iituti.
S cnwtTH. W. II. KrwiL.
.iiiii:eT;itiUTi-EL,
l AITUKNEYS-AT-I.AW,
Nmu-rw.'t, Pa.
i l.iisim- enlnistcd U their rare will U?
i .ml .mHiuall) mu inlnl l-. ofln-e on
a i MriH-i. iMMie MummiHli blw k.
7M. II. K x iNTZ,
ATTOKNtY-ATI.AW.
Kuinct. Pa.,
Ui irive jif"11!'' Mtenttun toViiiiliifw i-ntnill
K iw ill htn-rrl ami .liiliilit rounllek
in l'rtiiiiiiK lloui How, uinxjiaie tU Court
" vl.NMS MKYEKS,
' ATTOKNEY-AT -LAW,
houirnict. Pa.
,i l"-f!i! liuMm.Ki Mitnint-l to hi -re will bt
o-i'-u ii witli .niin(lntiM. and tili-tiiy. Oflic
: u.kii Sirt-et, oi it! the lkurt 11 dux.
OIIXO. KIM M EI,
Al IMIt.tl-Al Wt
i homt'mei, ra.t
1!! tnnl to all bunine"" tfntnirttJ to bt car
-wiH.-rM'i aimI Ailj'iiiniiK itiuiiti1, wilb nniipl-
K:,1 ti-l-li:y. on. re u Maiu Una Btreet,
t t'ii.in-1' linik uire.
AMEs l. rrcii.
' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
hmierM't, Pa.
. i In Msmmoth B'.o k tip Hairs. Enlraiice
M ii rn tm;t. Collwtimia made, Mat
ii-l. till.- xamuiwl. and all Ixal ltUMUt al
tu ith i-rimiiuei and fidt-lny.
A 1. ( ..I.B..HS. ' L. C. COLBOBM.
( iI.i;oKX A COI.RORN,
V J ATTuKNEYS-AT'LAW,
txiiuerset. Pa.
"Q t.nfn' Fiitmtil to oiir rare will l
: B.l.'.w i d fuillilullv atti-ndmj to. Collvt'liotia
, l i'i' MiimTM.!. liiloril and adjoiniuK cou-
i:r.jlii)( and ronvc aiiilug Uout ou rea-
al'ii trrnifc.
r 1 KY. F. SCH EM..
I X ATTORNEY AT LAW
ooinerst't. Pa.
w;nty aiid Pension Agvnt. Office In Mammoili
.n-A.
fAl.ENTINE hay,
. ATTORNEY-AT LAW,
tnimerwt, Pa.
Imi Pt-alt-rin K-al Eiat6. W ill attend nVll
Jiii-o eniniated Uj bit care with prompuieaa
1 tiddity.
OU.N II. T HE,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(winemet. Pa.
will j.roiiivtly attend to all lminew etitnixtrd
turn Muiit-y M'aiu-ed ou eoilwlioua, Ac Uf
ii. Vaiiiinolb ltlia-k.
J. E. lUESECKEU,
PHYSICIAN AND FfRUEON,
SomcKKKT, Pa.,
.d-r' if professional ai-rvleea U the l itiienii of
. .rM-t and Miliuiy. Olbee iu ilioweker
m.t Inns SUire.
IL H. S. K1MMELL,
i.i. ..H.ionul b.r-fr tn the eltizena
i ' niieiel and n inilv. I nlexi. prolewHialljr
i if lie eau be found at bit oflicc ou Mam
L- Liiaimmd.
I)
M. 11. 1JKU15AKEU,
;tder liiii pmfi-w-ional wn iee to the ritireni
"ii rx l and M' lnr.i 'iin-e iu hjiuihitku
i;reet a eil ol luauioiiU.
I U. J. M. EOETIIEK,
i t ,y,murrly HuyUncn.)
; PHYSICIAN AND SCRuKOX,
! lot ai.d iK-niiHiiently In Snuenvf for tbe
r -.r-nee of In nniieiMuu. Ollnt: ou Main rtreet,
i n ur ot 1 rug store.
J.S. M MII.LEX.
1 J (Uradnali la Denitrify )
jni (.-pet ial atlention Ui tbe prtorrat ion of
i liAlurl leeth. Artitiial ! iUM-nwI. All
i 'tvlloiir (."laraliteed aatlMartory. Otln tu tlie
- .a:, over M . M.Tredwell & I'm. kUire, corner
; Ji Cro and Patriot kireela.
1)
Ii. JOHN BILIJS,
DENTIST.
.ec up-Uir In Cook A Bec-rlta Block.
DTI. VM. COLLINS,
KENTiST.
ifli -e in KnepK-r'a Hiork np-Uir. where be
1 1- fiHlli'l al ail time? prepared Utdo ail kiuda
vork.mifb a tillintr. n-xniatini;. eira-tiiig.
. ARim ial teetb il all klinU and of tbe beat
i; . ::ai lUM TU-d. All work euarauteed.
D
Ii. J. K. MILLER
i- fiermanrntly located In Berlin for the prao
r a .if b'. profeiiou. Ofln opposite Cbarlui
. : iter rtore.
t..'$meriset .Countv JBank.
iETALUSUKD 1ST7.)
C.V HARRISON. M.J.PRITTS,
Pr.SIliNT. C'AflHIK.
jeetioi made in all part of tbe I'uitwl States.
1 CHARGES MODERATE.
i..iln to "rud moncT Wc rn be ac-
: a 'wUuni b draft uu Ni-w York in ny uiu.
- fc ' in'ii mmv ith i.nii'M.tiif. 1. S. liirtifis
i- .".( Mtltl Ui. Milllt-V lMi THlllfthlf' MtHMIPHli
r .rf '' ft1 vnt lut U.uI'k t U-hraud saltw, with a ems-Vt-
4 Yl limr lock.
lll AULKS HUFFMAN
! MERCHANT TAILOR.
! i
(Above Heffley'a Store.)
I T.,4i.Kt Wtylew, aind Iowit rrio.
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iTISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Somerset. Pa.
IsESMEN WANTETI
Permanent Situations nuimii- mJ
l'-t-y iiH-i t.xi hj ittt, lUiillC-
to U-KiTUH p. AiiritiHii run mic(MiJ wiiij
ivmitiit;' uui juu k-M'lli tiir njr'ia!t ).
t--r. W ri- Kl niifv, n vitK airr. IftM'kfrK
KKIKS 4lUbUrlH'ii lSw.J iUM'HKHTER, K.
(Nkjik tills pttper). WhTt Km.
i iKMIXIaSTUATOR'S NOTICE.
irnfUur E Own. d?r'rt. Ute of Wid.ll
. rrti-it 7 p.. rtiwret i J'.
1uots tjf flnthiir.iriUtHi on Iho wre estMl
hn iiit Ut-ii trttmrd to niiflt iinttj by the
'ilr uilio;uy, ii.m.tf i hrrftiy iciwa Ut m
(tt in-iit, and ttiwi- hnviiiy rt,iTn J-
tut- ttif nlHf felfttWt lhM dulf
tion off
CHAKX.ES E. CROSSEX,
Atimiii.itriuor.
We ha
aiitMil tiie 1l1.-x.--
T, 10 li !
-!t!t at
S k id utiiif; at,, ,n,i -, nr H
it
1. to acconiplinh the, " r,u' " "!.-''al
inuiuidttte ecoub ,i.,ry oud ii-u
OllOC,
VOOD.
Geneva, S. Y.
1 ne
yoL. xxxvni.
JACOBS 0II,
All
f l!l:U IL
Sprains, Stralnt,
Bruises, Wounds.
frJ Iiv I'r'xyi' and lnier.
Tht Chaa. A. Verier Co- Bait. Mi.
Curp
.wiTrtnurnETUHN ofiin.
T3Pvu5CISTS NuDrAUrSLVfYWrlE5
The &.w AVdcer Gh-BAira-MD-
'Try Ayer's Pills
For i:ii nmiitism, Xenraljia, and Cotit.
HU'iln'n Ijtnsing, tif Yonkcrs, N. Y.,
aaya: " Kei-immieinleil an a cure for
ciirouii' tostivemwa, Aycr'a Pills liavo
relievo! iue from thai trouble and alno
from liout. If every victim of tliia tliH
caae would lieed only tliree words of
mine, I could banish t unit freirl tbe land.
These word would be 'Try Ayer'a
I'illa.' "
'Hy the tie of Ayer's Tills alone, I
cured myself pemiauetitly of rlie'.uua
tixm wliirh liad troubled me wieral
months. These 1'ills are at oiit- karinlcsa
and ellectiial, and, I believe, would
prove a sjieciiic iu all cases vt incipient
Rheumatism.
Xo tncdii'ina conTd have served me In
letter steail." V. C. Rock, Comer,
Avoyelles Parish, La.
C V. Hopkins, Nerala City, writes :
"1 have used Ayer's for aixteen
vears, end I think'tliey are the bent Pills
in the world. We keep a Imix of them
in the liousn all the time. They have
cured meof sick headache and neuralgia,
Since taking Ayer's Pills, I have been
lice from tin so coiiijilainu."
"I have derived great benefit from
Ayer's Pills. Five years ao I was
taken so ill with rheumatism that I was
unable to do any work. 1 took three
Isixes of yer'a Pills and was entirely
cured, fcim-e that time I am never
without a box of these pills." Peter
ChriatcUbun, ijlierw-ood. Wis.
Ayer's Cathartic Pills,
FREPAHED BT
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lcwell, Mast,
Sold by all Dealers in Medicine.
Real Estate For SaleJ
JOHNSTOWN'S NEW SUBURB,
IVEo xli aruVI
VI.TH'UV.ll pi malm! nearly two mi) frtttn
Uic hart o( the toun, it i couuli U-U uli
Mum by (he
Rapd Transit Railroad,
On hi h trains nin every thirty tnimiteN. and
utter Jl'I.V H ill run ivtry tildtfii niunit.
Tit rv ii the. Mttm- a m the tret rarn, five
eents : time, rtiflit inniut(w. 'i iiU inakex Mox
luiin equal U a walk ot only four Hjiiari" truiu
the iHi-ulhee; in uilJitiou lu winch, the new
VALLEY PIKE
rum- thr.-nh the lieart of the Ttriterty and furms
ih iimni llMirttin; htrire, iimkini; a short Kvl
irivt' into J)iiiit4wii outh wm mudway and
heavy tilw'l hrnlu'HK.
Hie htTffe nuuitMTor hou-e alrea'ly ereete! at
Mo&liain have jn-liiietl fvery tmniern iiiipixtvc
meut, ainoUK whirl uiay be imntnHiotl
A GOOD SEWER SYSTEM.
The IVrtrim; m-wer HyxU'in htm Unn a-hi tw1.
with Kltish twiik. Over half a mile ol m wtT in
ul ready laid.
A Good Domestic Water System
11a alfMi !en prtvilel. ThernUare rrctn
It than hiinMwti rut' .
-NATU1IAL OAS
Rate are the Nrnir as in Johu.toiiu. This, to
Kether w ith the
WELSBACH INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT
Kor borne use (jive Minim every modern facili
ty. Tbe well kuou u
Von Limen CJrove,
1 be summer evening reort of Johnstown. Is sit
uated in the very heart of the pruvriy.
tin one mrt of tbe pmertv set by for the pur
puae. there are a large steel i'lam, a f oundry mid
m-vera 1 other fact or les, einployiliir lielher from
?ui to son men. and -vcral more likely to soon bv
located then.
over sixtv tastv house, already built, and tbis
number w ill Is doubled tbia year.
The lotsare 4-Ox 120 feet. The stns-ts laid out
for a width of ou leet. iuehidinic sideaalks.
TERMS LIBERAL. For irifs and infor
mation applv to
JOMNSiiX AI.I.KX. Aeent.
Ptslford Street Station, JolmstoH u, Pa.
niaylfi-tf.
CURTIS K. GROVE.
SOMERSET, PA.
BIGCIES, SI.KIliH3, CARRIAGES,
SPRISiWA(iONS, BL'CK WACOM
AND EASTERN AND WESTERS W ORK
Furnished on Short Notice.
Fainting Done on Short Time.
My work U made out of Vinmnphly Srntmv Wood,
and the H'M Iron nn'l .stfW. S;iltMHtislly
Construited, Neatly Finished, and
H a rr ah ted to give balisfacliou.
Isiplcj Only First Class Workmen.
Repairing of All Kinds i My l.lne Done on
bhort Nonce. I'nco KEAijON bi.K, and
All Work Warranted.
Call and Examine my FUs k. and Iarn FrVes
t do Wairon work, and furnish 8eivea for Wind
Bfilla. Remember the place, and call in.
CURTIS K. GROVE,
(East of Court Honse)
SOMERSET. PA
IIOSTJETWilt
MERCHANT TAILOR.
(No. 2 Maxhotii BiK,)
OOJIZIISET, FA.
U1 the Iiti- Stylw
(lijovrmalllip, f
Lowosl I'ricea
iTtjterftilUnt'a
of WH
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.Ts t auLhtif
llKh i'l-y
4t;-rm'ttt ary
mrV lemeSU
O yrthout a
r"i od, he Las
lttgea.
ev' com.
For fure cP
no. i.
JACK'S FORTUNE.
Jack Dayton was 24 years of ap. He
waa handsome, as that term applies to
man ; he was xtadioas in an extraordi
nary sense ; lie was as sob r as a cold
water advocate; he was a lawyer, and
he was as joor as a church mouse, and
prouder than Lucifer before be was exil
ed from Heaven.
Jack I ay ton was as brave as a bengal
tiger, and his poverty never seemed a
burden and reproach to him before he
met liussie Vandorn. After that momen
tous meeting at Saratoga he felt that he
could hang himself because he' had not
been born with a silver spoon in Lis
mouth.
The fact of the matter is, Jack Dayton
was in love from the soles of his feet to
the crown of his intellectual head, and
because he was poor his pride stood be
tween him and Uie rich woman w ho had
stolen his heartlio. an unguarded mo
ment.
He. had been practically raised in a
lawyer's ollice. He had entered it at tlie
age of twelve as general utility boy, and
had left it at the age of 22 a finished law
yer, with a few hundred dollars saved up
during the long years.
) somewhere, Jack," said the fond
mother, "and stay all the summer. You
never had a vacation in your life, and
you ahould celebrate your admission to
the bar by taking tine. You have lieen a
hard student ; you have been a loving
an I a devote! ton. (j and take a va
cation."
Jack kisHcd her and took himself off
toSaraloua, the worst place on earth, ex
cept New port, for a poor man to go. Cut
Jack was bent upon celebrating his ad
mission in grand style, and within the
limits of f-WJ. So he went to Saratoga
and took a modest room at one of the
best hotels, and started in for solid enjor
ment and profitable review of his law
books.
But the Yandorns were at Saratoga, tx
and at the same hotel with Jack. He
got acquainted with tlie.n in no time.
He and liussie got on famously, in an
easy, procrastinating way. She was a
dashing, brilliant woman, with a sober
side the world seldom saw. She began
b.. s udying Ja-k. He was a social pi e
nomenon. He was the most nonchalant.
felf possed, and dignified young man at
the springs; a thoughtful, yet often hu
morous conversationalist. Everybody
wondered what a brilliant and fashiona
ble woman like Gussie Yandorn could
find to admire in a studious, self-possess
ed, and undemonstrative man like Jack
son Dayton. They were much together
about the hotel, "talking literature,"
some would say.
When Jack's $300 began to get down
to a fine point, he set about returning to
New York. Instead of taking him
through the summer, it had iufct taken !
hint sfcetreeks to" Saratoga lit a'fer qui
et way to eat the life out of it. There is
nothing like a summer hotel for eating
tip money. Jack had to go, but wanted
to stav.
While the two were out for a quiet
walk one afternoon, about the middle of
August, Jack said :
' Miss Yandorn, I go to New York
to-morrow. My vacation is at an end."
Miss Yandorn was as silent as a tomb
stone. Jack was surprised thereby, and
cast a hasty glance into her face. He
was startled. He could not nrstake the
surprise and bewildered expression on
her countenance his abrupt declaration
had provoked. His heart gave a great
leap, and then stood still.
' If I say I go w ith regret, it is because
you have made my stay very pleasant,"
he managed to say.
' Must you go ?'' asked Gussie.
' I must go. I am but a jioor young
lawyer, with a loving mother to support.
My dream hour is over. It seems like a
dream."
" What seems like a dream 7"
"The few weeks I have lieen here
and privileged to have so much ot your
society."
' I shall lie pleased to see you at
our liome in Jew lork, .Mr. Day
ton. "Miss Yandorn," said he, solemnly,
" we have always lieen frank with each
other, Let me be so now. Why ? I am
too poor to 1 numbered among your
New York friends."
" I shouldn't mind your poverty, Mr.
Dayton, ' worth makes the man, and
want of it the fellow,' you know."
" Yes ; but the world does not look at
it that way ; neither do I. I have got to
struggle for a place to stand. Some day
we may meet again. I pray that we may.
And it will seem a long time before that
day comes."
They parted.
When she reached her room, where the
luxuries that wealth alone commands
ere scattered everywhere, she sank into
an easy chair, and there was a sweet
smile upon her lijm.
" He will return to me," she murmur
ed to herself, "and I shall wait until he
does."
All this passed through Jack Dayton's
mind twoyvears after it had occurred.
He had had a hard struggle, ' With, all
his brilliant talents he had a hard time
of it to make ends meet. He was brave
and hopeful, and he nurtured these by
thinking of the brilliant woman he had
not met since he parted with her at Sara
toga. He heard of her often, but he pur
posely avoided meeting her.
" What's the use?" he would ask him
self. -Jack," Baid his mother, as he went
home one night, " I have never spoken
to you about your father, because the sul
jecl was a painful one to me. But I have
heard news to-day through his lather's
Lfwyers which I think you should
know."
" Well, mother, what's the news ? "I
have never taken any stock in my father
because you never told me anything
about him, and I concluded that he must
have w ronged you very deeply."
"He did, Jack. He thought he loved
me, but he did not. He married me, and
when he found that his rich father would
-v c nation tbe marriage, be deserted
twenty-five yeu-is he haa lived
JSh'inj; dran't ei7 hard, so I
i " sevard." lie never wrote tome, but'
trump, yer Itave id u0 a small quarter,
tip bia . now."
i)urt -11, yea," said Jack ; " I know you
was .he money, but I didn't know da
r'Mving and that lie it rich. I shall
coniI'te at.1ion to recover your rightful
f, 'tin money."
'v .
Somerset
SOMERSET, PA.,
" P.ut he is now dead, Jack."
" Iead ?"
" Yes ; he died in Iiris about a month
ago."
When Jack entered his ollice the next
morning his held whs full of the news his
mother had told him and pn jectit to look
into his fatder's allairs to protect his own
and his mother's interests. He had hard
ly got settled down to. work before a
spruce young man iu a footman's Jivcry
presented himself and handed him a
sealed letter. He read the letter with
mingled emotions. He put on his coat
and hat and followed the servant to tlio
pavement, and entered the magnificent
carriage in waiting.
The carriage stopped liefore a rich
house in one of the fashionable np-towu
streets, and the doors flew open, as Jack
approached them.
He was led to a large bedroom. He
walked to the side of the bed, around
which two physicians and ono or two
servants were congregated. " Everybody
made way for him. A shrunken hand
was extended to him, and he grasped
it.
" Young man," said a faint voice, " I
am your grandfather. I wronged your
mother when she was young. Your fa
ther U now dead.. He was a rascal. I have
kept track of vou through the years since
you were born. I have not lone to live.
I want you to forgive me before I die. I
will not ask your mother to forgive me.
becau.se I have occasioned her too much
sorrow. All my wealth is yours. You
have only to see my lawyers, Jenks &
Jenk. You will find everything in shape
for my house has been in order a great
many years against this hour."
Jack sat down by the side of the lied,
thoroughly unnerved. He was a strong
man, but in this hour, when the past
was atoned for and death hovered about
the grandfather who had wronged him,
but whom he had never seen before, he
was as weak as a child.
" Forgive"
And the spirit of James Dayton left the
frail and wasted body, where it had lodg
ed for seventy years, before he could fin
ish the sentence.
Three months after the mortal remains
of James Dayton had been consigned to
the earth from which they came, Jack
Dayton presented himself at the Fiith
Avenue residence of Gu.ssie Yandorn.
His head was in a fearful state of agi
tation' After a short time, w hich seemed an
age to him, tho young woman entered
the pf rlor. He arose to his feet and ad
vanced to meet her.
" Miss Yandorn, you will pardon the
liberty I take in calling upon you ?"
"Mr. Dayton, you have been free to
call upon me, by invitation, for the past
two years."
" Cut I thought you may have forgot
ten."
Jav gage mto tier tyes a niameiit
with all the earnestness of the days since
they had parted. Her eyes dropped lie
neath his, and her face was sull'iised with
blushes. She had not forgotten. He said
w ith simple eloquence :
" I have not forgotten. I never could
forget. Your face has been w ith me ; I
have heard your voice since we parted
two years ago. I have come here to-night
to tell you that life is no longer endura
ble if you don't share it with me. I have
waited two ytars to tell you this."
" You need not have waited two years,
Mr. Dayton," she said, witii a rogucish
smile.
And Jack's fortune was not in the
money his grandfather left him, but in
the love of the woman that money had
secured him.
The Statesman's Return.
"Yef, the l.egislutur' has adjourned,
and the statesmen hev returned to their
constituents," he said in answer to the
question. Our statesman our particular
jim-ilandy statesman returned with the
rest, lie was sent down to represent our
neck-o'-the-woods. He was supposed to
lie Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and
John C. Calhoun biljd dow n and canned
up. He was supposed to be sharper than
razors and wiser than owls. He hollered
for reform, bellered for improvements
and shouted for glory. That enntakerous
cuss was going to amend at least four
hundred laws, reform every department
of State, secure our county a hundred
privileges, and knock the tar out of things
in general. We were waiting for him
when lie returned. He was first struck
by old Fete Jackson, who observed :
"Ixxik-a-yere, Johnson, w liar's that
law fur my dam?"
"Killed in committee of the whole,"
was his reply.
"You darned reptile! Didn't we send
you down tliar to loss the committee of
the whole and everybody else? I want
that ar' mill dam or blood '."
And Hi Wood was next inline, and he
said :
"Look-a-yere, Johnson, w liar's that
'ere law to protect my fish pond ?"
"Crowded out by the bill on light
houses." "She was, eh ! Durn your pictur', but
do you stand thar and tell me that yon
let some ramshackle light-house way off
on Lake Erie-kno -k the stullln' outer my
fish pond up here! What did we send
vou down thar' fur? What was ver doin'
all this time?"
And the third man was T'ncle Dave
Caker, w ho led off with :
"Look-a-yere, Johnson, whnr's that neu
skills district for my section
"It was knocked out by tryin' toamend
the title."
"She was, eh? Do you tell me that you
sot right thar' and didn't have the title
all right? That you let that 'ere House
bust up that bill and never got up and
uttered one yell ? Johnson, I kin lick
you with one hand tied to my foot, and
I'll lie durned if I don't do it."
"There was twenty-seven of us between
his house and the depot, all with a few
remarks to make. About thirty waited
on him next day, and on the next he
broke for the woods and is at present lo
cated in swamp about seven miles
away. He may be in along corn plant
ing, but if tie is, thar's about fifty more
of our people waiting to interview him.
We are bound to nutke hita tired." X.
Saved,
A fine family of children were all af
flicted with "scrofula. Two died early ;
the ret would soon have followed, but
for the timely .and persevering use of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which built them up
into a healthy and vigorou manhood.
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNESDAY,
The Otis Elevators at the Paris
Exposition.
The f.wt thatlndraulic passenger ele
vators of this well-known American type
are to be used ia the l,0;it foot high
Eiffel iwwer at I'aris fa a matter of satis
faction to all who Watch with interest
thepmgiei constantly beiug made by
our in.icuanicj and inventois. Thereare
two of these elevators to be used, in two
of the Jour legs of Jhe tower, rising to
the height of 420 feet, and w e recently
noted the fact of the shipment of SiK),
000 pounds of machinery to mn them,
which was all made! at the company's
factory, at Yonkers, X. Y.
There are tliree syatema of elevators to
be used in tho Eitl'ei tower. From the
grouud to w hat may be called the first
story, where great, restaurants will be
established, there will be four (levators,
two of the' Otis pattern and two of the
system of 11 iux, Conibaulzier, and Le
pape, iu which the. car is elevated by
means of a jointed piston, which has
heen onfpared to vertebra! column.
From this story to the next one about
400 feet from the ground, the Otis eleva
tors only are employed, in two of the
lys of the tower. The cars of the
French system in the two bottom lifts
are adapted to carry one hnudred ptts
sengeYs each, w hile tfie cars of the Otis
elevators carry only fifty each, but their
sjieed ia doubly that f the others. The
top lift, a vertical distant of 4!):! feet, is
made by elevators on the Edoux system,
in w hich tho carriage is worked by an
enormous piston. Toso who go above
the distance to the lantern will have to
climb a spiral btircas t,
The total height of the tower is OS4.24
feet, or 1(00 meters, bot the inclined or
curved part of the legs considerably In
creases portions, a vertical height there
in of 372 feet making an actual length of
the curved part of 4!4 feet The angle
of inclination in this portion varies from
54 degrees at the start to about SO degrees
at the finish, but the carriages are so
hung as to always accomodate them
selves to the varying angle, so that their
floors will be kept even. The stejis lead
ing to the diircrent landing places are
to fold up when the car is traveling.
The great hydraulic cylinder of the
Otis elevator, which s placed in the foot
of the tower, perpendicularly to the
cross pieces, is oi inches ia diameter and
41 feet long, v. hile tha' circulating pipe,
valve, and water chest are all 1) inches in
diameter. In this cylinder is a piston
fed w ith water from reservoirs placed on
the stage where the vertical portion of
the lower commences, or at a vertical
i height of .172 feet aliove the low er end of
fjie cylinder. The pi (ton rod operates
on a carriage liearing guide wheels and
multiplying pu!eys,"Tables thence con
necting with suuiouary' multiplying pul
leys, and the carriage being suspended
by six nqies of steel w ire. One of ttiese
ropes alone is designed to have sullicient
strength to bear the carriage full of pas
sengers without breaking. The carriage
is partly counterbalanced, and rises or
falls twelve feet for one foot movement
of the piston. I'nder the cabin is a
safety break, with tho jaws working
automatically in case of rupture of the
elongation of one of the ropes. S uiUijic
Aiiitrlnm.
Interested Peopie.
Advertising a patent medicine is the
peculiar way in which the proprietor of
Kemp's li.ilsam, for Coughs and Colds,
does it, is indeed wonderful. He author
i.es all druggists to give tho.e who call
for it a sample bottle I'ree, that they may
try it before purchasing. The large bot
tles are ."iOe. and $1. We certainly would
advise a trial. It may save you from
consumption.
The Two Johns: Or, Wasting
Or Saving.
John Thirsty and John Thrifty were
gofjd hiechanics and earned fair wages.
They had learned their trade with the
same master, and liecame journeymen at
twenty-one, within a few weeks of each
other.
John Thirsty, the elder, began life by
joining a club of young men who in
dulged in alcohol ir liquors, while his
fellow-workman, Thrifty, at twenty-one
became a member of a total abstinence
society.
After a lapse of ten years, trade becom
ing bad, their emyloyer had to stop his
works for a short time, and both were
thrown out of employment.
On the picture you see John Thirsty
looking, at a pile of empty beer barrels.
During the past ten years he had daily
drank 4 glasses of beer, costing 20 cents,
or $0.00 a month ; besides taking a spree
occasionally, and not only s-nt his
money, but he lost time and wages. He
is now reflecting on what drink cost,
and finds he had sjient for his daily lieer
alone, $72 a year, and ia ten years, $720 ;
ami had drank 'M barrels of beer, o0
gallons each. He is saying to himself:
"Tho; empty barrels are all I have for
the wages I have Fiient in beer during
ten years ; and they rwn Idong fo the
brriter."
On the other picture you see John
Thrifty, w ho stands ndmiriug his beauti
ful cottage, for which he lias just receiv
ed the deed. John Thrifty, instead of
spending 20 cents a day for beer like his
fellow workman Thirsty, took shares in a
building association, which in ten years
accumulated to 1,200, with which he
bought the cottage he so much admires,
and says to himself: "I can now live
rent free the remainder of my life ; and
the money I have been paying for rent,
I can now invest as a reserve fund, in
case of sickness, accident, hard times, or
old age."
Iet the moderate drinkingmen reflect'
whether they do not spend as much
money daily for beer, etc., as John
Thirsty ; and if it will nuj pay them bet
ter, give more enjoyment and happiness,
to follow the example of John Thrifty ?
Most workingmen, who havo drank
only moderately for ten or fifteen years,
have spentor " worse than wasted " mon
ey to buy and furnish handsome homes
for themselves. " Waste noL want not.'
You enn never know till you try, how
quickly a dose of Ayer's Fills wilt core
your sick headache." Your stomach and
tiowels need cleansing, and these pills
w ill accomplish it more effectually and
comfortably than any other medicine
you can find. . j
To face a danger ia to gvt at the exact
facts.
JUNE 2G, 1889.
One of The Gush Family.
I met him on the street to day. He
grasped my hand with both of his and
cried out, with characteristic effusiveness:
"My dear friend, I am delighted to see
you again. It seems an age since I had
the pleasure of looking uon voir face,
which is always radiant with intelligence
and goodness." After I had been liter
ally deluged with compliments, I asked
Gamaliel how they were getting along in
his church, for he is a Ctptist. He drew
close to me, and replied in low, confi
dential tones : " I tell you Old-school,
just between ourselves, that new preach-
erof ours won' do. Why, he gave us
yesterday two of the driest sermon I ever
heard. Half the people were asleep be
fore he finished his drawl."
I replied that I was sorry, for I had
hoped that Mr. A. would prove to be the
right man in the right place. We talked
on a few minutes, and just as I was try
ing to get away, a stranger with a white
necktiee came along. I had not yet seen
Mr. A., the new Baptist preacher, but
guessed at once that it was he, and I was
not mistaken. As stsn as Crolher Gush
saw him he disengaged one of his hands
from mine, and with it seized the new
comer, and cried : "Now this is Provi
dential ! I have longed for the pleasure
of making yon two noble men acquaint
ed with each other. I know that yon will
appreciate each other, for you are con
genial spirits."
After a fulsome dse of similar com
pliments he turned to Mr. A. and in a
Btage whisper, which he pretended I was
not to hear, but meant that I should, he
said : " My dear brother A, I want to
tell you how delighted we all were with
those excellent sermons yesterday. Your
expositions of Scripture were so able,
and your illustrations so graphic, that I
could have listened an hour longer with
out getting weary. I believe that the
LoTd has sent you here to a great work.
I hope that he will spare you to our
church for many years. Cut I urn afraid
some of the other churches in theassoci
atoiou will try to steal you from us."
I was so disgusted that I tore myself
away from the clinging grasp of Mr.
Gush and left him soft-soaping his min
ister. The poor man seemed to enjoy
the operation, and to believe that lie
really had a warm friend and ardent aj-
tnirer in the fulsome flatterer.
A few hours after, meeting Mr. Gush
again, I button-holed him and said, "seo
here, Gamaliel, how could you talk so to
Mr. A. about his sermons, when you had
just told me how dull and uninteresting
they were? " " Why, my friend Obadiah,"
he replied, without even the semblance
of a blush, "you know that I had to say
something to Mr. A. Of course I could
not tell him What I told you, so I told
him what I knew would please him. I
want to be on good terms with him as
longas lie is our minister.
"And in order to plcasehim you told
a mess of lies. Do you think that is
right? And ho about what you said to
me? Were you as sincere in that as in
what you said to him ? When you saw
me coming did you tell somebody else
confidentially, that I was a miserable
old fogy that it was a great bore to meet
and talk with me, and then rush tip and
declare that yon were delighted to meet
me? Do you always say to people just
what you think will please them, not
caring whether tt is true or false?"
Gamaliel saw that he w as caught. He
tried to escape in a profusion of profes
sions, as ceitain fish muddy the water in
order to hide from the fishermen.
Cut I held on to hiin until I had given
him a faithful lecture tion the sin of ly
ing. I assured him that in the day of
judgment he would not find any distinc
tion of color in lies, some w hite, some
black, onie gray ; but all would appear
equally hateful in the sight of Gjd; and
that all liars, the polite ones included,
would have their part in the lake that
burnetii with fire and brimstone. iSee
Cev. xxi S )
I report this incident, which is not an
imaginary one, because I fear that the
Gush family U very extensive. Some of
them, like my neig'.bor Gamaliel, may
be professors of religion and readers of
this paper. If so, I want to itsk them to
look in the Gospel mirror and see them
selves as God sees them.
Mrs. X., you are always at prayeruieet
iug, and lead the ladies' meeting. - You
are regarded as one of the mothers in
Israel. Cut elo you remember what you
said the other day when you heard the
door bell ring? You said : "Oh, dear me,
there is some stupid caller come to inter
rupt me, and I am so busy." And w hen
the door girl brought the card, and you
read on it the name of Mrs. Y., you said
again : mi, tlear me, wnat on earth has
brought her hereto-day? She ia awfully
tiresome." Cut you put on your sweet
est smiles and rushed into the parlor
exclaiming : " My dear Mrs. Y., I am de
lighted to see yon. It is an age since
you have been here. You must try and
be more sociable." And when after she
had talked and talked for an hour, and
yon listened as if you were sitting on net
tles, she rose to go, you said : " Oh don't
go yet, but if you must, be sure to come
again soon." Yon say that you were
merely polite. You could not be so rude
as to tell Mrs, Y., you were not glad to
see her. Cut does politeness justify ly
ing? Does not God say: "Wherefore
putting away all lying, speak every man
truth with his neighbor." Eph. IV. 2".
There is no exception here for what may
be called the lies of society the insincere
compliments and professions which are
considered necessary to keep the machiii- I
ery of social intercourse well oiled. Oil i
is excellent in its place. Cut friction is
useful sometimes, l'aul gives the rule in
Eph. IV. !", "speaking the truth in
love." Sincerity lubricated with charity I
is far better than polite and effusive in
sincerity.
The trouble with the Gush family is
that they cannot keep their own counsel.
They are ever and anon exposing them
selves as Gamaliel did in the case of Mr.
A. When yon, Mrs. X, tell yonr next
caller whota perhaps yon really like,
what a tiresome old dowdy Mrs. Y. is,
that caller will say to herself: "She was
no doubt as polite to Mrs. Y. as she is to
trand when I am gone perhaps she
will talk about me to somebody else as
the talks to me about her." Better far
have a reputation for blunt sincerity, for
saying offensive things because you
believe them, than for saying what
you don't believe in order to (latter
those yon talk with. Obtuliuk QltMianl
in Interior,
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Does It Pay to Use Commercial
Fertilizers?
The follow ing etway was read by farm
er X. C Critchlield, of Somerset County,
Pennsylvania, before the meeting of the
State Coard of Agriculture, at Crook
ville, Jefferson County, on June K!,
1SS!:
Does it pay to use Commercial Fertil
izers? I not only doubt my ability, but feel
confident that I shall not lie able to an
swer thequestion proponed in the subject
assigned me to the satisfaction of all.
For anything I knw, there may be those
here whose lands need no other fertiliz
ers than such as they themselves can
produce in the way of barnyard manure,
lime and such other fertilizing substan
ces as the careful and economical farmer
is able to collect about his own premises
and put in proper condition for applica
tion to his soil. If such be the case, cer
tainly it would be bad policy to lay out
money for what, by strict economy, they
may produce at home. In politics this
would not be sound Uepublican doctrine,
and for thus reason, if for no other, I
would oppose it Certainly no one is jus
tifiable, no matter what may lie the con
dition of his soil in laying out money for
manures of any kind, until he has made
the fullest requisilioii upon barn yard,
pig jn, poultry houses and every other
quarter of his premises from which he
may reasonably hope to receive any help.
Cut I know there are some of us w hose
lands if they are to be placed and kept
under cultivation at all, call imperatively
for the application of more fertilizing
substances than we can supply at home,
and the questions to be determined in
reaching a correct solution of the proli
leui I am to solve so far as we are con
cerned, are :
First : What are these substances or
elements that our soil needs ?
Second. How can they bo obtained?
and
Third : How w ill their cost compare
with the amount of benefit we may hojie
to derive from them?
To answer the first question requires
such a knowledge of bot'x chemistry and
botany as. an ordinary farmer, like the
writer, can not be expected to possess.
Even the very best chemists find it ex
ceedingly difficult, by taking sain;les of
varioussoils into the laboratory for anal
ysis, to determine just w hat elements of
plant food they lack, but by a careful
analysis of the jiwlact of the soil ; or, if
yon please, by an analysis of the mid, by
analyzing the different classes of vegeta
bles and plants it produces, the facts that
we as farmers need to know, have been
determined for us by scientific men.
From these fc'-jta that come to us, "cut
and dried" and ready to be applieel to
practical use-, we learn that a very large
Ver cent., more than nine-tenths of all
the elements necessary to all vegetable
life or plant grow th, Xature has provided
in the greatest abundance in the air.
These elements supplied by the air are
what are called the oreauic elements of
plants, and consist of carbon, oxygen,
hydrogen and nitrogen. Carbon exists in
great abundance, and in the form in
which it is needed to promote the growth
of vegetation, namely, carbonic acid gas,
the atmosphere is abundantly supplied
with it from the decomposition that is
continually going on of animal as well
as vegetable matter. Indeed all living
animals, the human ntce included, are
constantly making their contributions to
this supply by the chemical process that
takes place in the lungs at every inhala
tion of air, by which the oxygen needed
to purify the blood and fit it up for the
purposes of animal life, is taken from the
air, and the carlionic acid gas resulting
from the operation is thrown off by ex
halation to again mingle with the at
mosphere. Oxygen, the second of the
organic elements, is ono of the simple
gasses. It is abundant in nature, being
found in all animal as well as vegetable
bodies, comprising about 50 per cent or
one-half of their weight, so that although
it is one of the most important, if not the
most important element in all vegetable
growth, we need give ourselves no con
cern about the supply. It is here in the
greate-bt abundance and in such form that
it can be taken up ond utilized by our
grow ing crops just as it is needed.
Hydrogen, the third of the organic 1
ementa, is another of the simple gasses
of which nature h is also provided an
abundant supply, and in such form as to
lie available. It comprises a little more
than 10 per cent., or one-tenth of w later,
and is supplied by dew, rain, snow, and
every form of moisture absorbed by the
earth.
' Xitrogen, the last Lamed of the organic
element--, is also abundant in the atmos
phere, making up more than three
fourths of its bulk or weight, but unlike
the other organic elements, a sufficient
amount of it is not, in its simple state,
available for the support of vegetation.
In combination with some of the inor
ganic elements, it forms the nitrates or
salts that are, in soma countries, largely
used in the composition of commercial
fertilizers, such as nitrate of soda, nitrate
of potash, ic. Why it is, that like the
other inorganic elements, it can not be
taken up by growing vegetation in the
quantities necessary, scientists have thus
far lieen unable to discover. When this
discovery is made and the means ascer
tained by which nature can be prompted
to the accomplishment of tins great
work, it will be the realization of the
alchemists dream, not simply the con ver-I
sion of metals, but of air into gold. Until
euch discovery is made, we must resort to
such methods as are known for the sup
ply of this indispensable element.
The inorganic elements of plants are
greater in. number than the organic, al
though they do not form nearly so large
a part of tins plant food necessary to the
production of any given crop. Perhaps
altogether, they do not comprise more
than one-twentieth part of the plants
gtown in our climate. Cut while the per
cent, of these elements combined found
in-the plant is comparatively so small,
their presence is just as indispensable to
the growth oi vegetation as ia the hair
spring to the movement of a watch, and
if they are not in the soil in suilL-ient
quantity, no crop can be grown with
profit. I shall name only such of these
elements as scientific investigation, as
well as practical experiment, lias proven
to exist in too small quantities in soil
that is kept under culti vat-em. They are
phosphoric acid, potash, and lime. These
three of the inorganic element and one
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WHOLE NO. 1980.
of the oreanie elements, ramely. nitro
gen, it will beeen from what has already
been said, constituto the sum total of
what we must, in so tie form, apply to
our soils that are dt p'eted and run down
if we hope to raise a ro!;t:i!le crop.
I now come to the :cond question to
be answered: If.jw cm they be obtain
ed? With regard to liine, it is needless that
I should s.:y anything to an audience
composed of Western Pennsylvania
farmers. We have it here in such abund
ance that we need but put forth our
hands and possess it. To secure the oth
er three indispensable elements In the
quantities we need them, is not so easy a
matter. They are all found in barnyard
manure in aUmt the following propor
tions: In every wagon load of one ton
there is about three po indsof phosphoric
acid, eight pounds of nitrogen, and ten
pounds of jHitash. Manures from the pig-
jH'n and poultry-home are richer at least
in nitrogen and pot.i.lt. This is one
source from which ti.ey can be obtained.
Anothersource of supply isalforded us in
the commercial fertilizers manufactured
ia every part of our country. It is true
we need not depend iqoit the manufact
urers of these fertilizers for the supply
necessary to make tip w hat we hu k in
birnyar.l manure, fir if we wish to sup-
ply ourselves w itii the machinery lieers-
strv, there is no reason why we may not
purchase the raw maU'ri il ami niaiui
futctire them ourselves; but, without
having tried the experiment, I am dis
posed to think that tlie large manufac
tories, w ith their superiorappliances and
advantages to be derived from purchas
ing and shipping material in large quan
tities, can supply them to as at a profit to
themselves for less money than we can
make them.
The third question to be answered lo
reach a solution of the problem I am to
solve, is : How will the cost of these
fertilizers compare witii the amount of
benefit we may hope to derive from
them?
This, as lawyers say, is "the pinch of
the whole case;" or, the knotty qution
of the problem. We ali believe that it
pays to use barnyard manure. I have
talked with men who say that it pays
richly to purchase it .it si 50 pet wagon
load of a ton, provided you can get it
near enough your home to haul it and
spread it upon the proun 1 at the cost of
another dolhir per ton. This will make
your barnyard manure est w hen applied
to the ground or crop, v.'"i jkt ten loads,
the amount usually applied to an acre of
ground. I have serious doubts as to
whether this will pay. Indeed, I ami
.tiii-e that those w ho say it does pay, must
succeed in raising a better crop and get
ting it to a better market than we do in
Somerset county. Cut it is no part of tite
duty assigned me to asct-rtain whether it
(ay to purchase lianiy.ird manure, for
so far ns nia:iy of 'is are coin-erne'', we
could not purchiisn it if we wished to;
hence, I have only introduced this mat
ti r for the sake of comparison. In one
ton of good phosphate, mid I take as an
example the brand I tis'.-d myself last
fall,) there is about six and one-fourth
times as much phosphoric acid as there
is in ten tons of stable manure, and of
potash there is about ore anil one-half
times as much, ami of nitrogen or its
equivalent, one and one-fourth, as much ;
so that it is difficult to make the compar
ison, it is noticeable, however, that in
the element of which the manure fur
nishes the lowest quantity, the phosphate
furnishes the highest, while in the other
two elements they are more ne irly equal ;
hence, to use this fcrtiii. -r in connection
with manure, or upon la id in w hich the
elements of manure recently applied
have not been exhausted, it is perhaps
safe to say that one tor. costing ?:;( would
prove of as much value as thirty tons of
stable manure at a cost of :'7; so, that
if manure w ill pay, whirfi 1 have already
said is quest ionahb, at the price named,
the "phosphate" or comme rcial fertilizer
must also pay, as the equivalent of the
ten tons of manure would cost but 10.
Cut, er!i:ips. I should not speculate
ujon this subject. Posnhlv the commit
tee apjiointed to prepare our program
wished me to give tlie result of some of
my ow n experience, w hich I will che-er-futly
tlo.
The spring after purchasing tiie farm I
now occupy, seven years -jio, I broke a
field of fourteen acres for corn. The sod
upon the field indicated only a tolerably
fair condition of t'.ie soil. This w as all
I had from w hich tojulg'. I came to the
place the fall previous, and as the pre
ceding summer h id lecn unusnat'y dry,
I had no means of determining hat the
field had produced the ytar before; but,
while 1 was plowing, tbe geiileman from
whom 1 purehatied said to me one day
that he feared I was makirg a mistake,
"You have no mannre," snid he, "anil I
am afraid tfutt field w ill net produce
corn." I answered that it must be placed
under cultivation at any r ite, or it would
never become tiny better. It v. as well
plowed and the ground thoroughly pul
verized. When the corn w as planted I
used fertilizer in the hill. Selecting what
I considered the Lest phi sphatu I could
get for the price, t.',S per ton,! putting it
on at the rate of 2 .) jsinn irt to the ucre.
Tho season was a favorable one for
corn, and my crop, mtauired in the
wnon bed, ws a little more than 1100
bushels of ears. My reighbors who
knew the field w.-re ash n :-he-1 at thy re
suit, and I whs wti! rati. --fled I hi i! acres
of the first, I followed the corn crop with
oats, again using 2M) lb of I hoephate to
the acre ; this time however the phos
phate was cf a diffiiti.t mum fact tire,
and cost S40 per ton. While the o;its
was grow ir.g, w h never I came near the
field, 1 eoultl distirgnifii the corn rows
of the yecr L fore 1-y ti e large g.cwthof
oats in the hills wlu ie the coin bad
grown, and whire the ground had
double application of the phosphate.
When the oats was harvested and
threshed, I had "2i bushels measured
from the machine, which whs considera
bly over weight. 1 tlo not now remem
ber what it weighed, but I suppose the
ot luudiels per acre meumirvd fiotu the
machine, was equivalent to U) buhe!s
of 112 poumls per bushel. The o. was
followed with wheat. One hundred
bushels of lime to the acre was apreaJ
upon the gro nd, and aga:n 2t' pound
of thej 0 phosphate was applied with
the drill, to each acre. I do not remem
ber what amount of wheat was produced,
as I did not keep1 it separate from other
w heat harvested the same year, but it
was a frlr crop, and I am ure could not
j 'l.tV" :"Vt "i- 1 U-I!".s ! -
I U it f; !:e w heat ;r i, -en . . vw !, . -. I
j v.v t. :'f mowed t!i:s -; t e of ground
J t!:r.o ycats m ut ctsp-in, (.ii.it'g .t
re-t less than .uciagv during Ire I
yc-irs of two tons -r acre, yearly. -i ti.e
rssj .,-!;;!. ry of i:y. T sum 'i; the r--l
t ! :s vi'jfJ, w- liivi" :
I l-t (IK. I ' .
ir.:l or c.c;i '"" v .' -ri-.t i :i" t
l J-Ji per i :, y
ri-oul or,.it crop.1 ibs. ptiospb.oe
m in 4 .
liair. j4 ; bur. linie 7 il nj
Total cot of fertilizer..
tiui or gor-s riiop;
s;.
the
Corn. ."M buji shelled
price thai year
On 7ee.
la!. t.i bus. (i, V.. tne prK-v Hut
year ui (.v
Wln-iii, 1 b (,i i in, pru
that year ; i)
Hay. e toiia in J yean y si j j-r
ton r. ito co
Tola! Ta'aw of the product per acre. l.'j i
iH'duct $H :;0 e-ct of fertilizer?, ami
you have anct priilsctof $10I..7. What
proportion of this timount i n'd hate
been raed without the cse of any fer
tilizers, or by applying the lime only, as
it was applied to the last griin crop. I
am of course unable to tell ; but that the
amount exiier.ded f ir ferti'.Ucr.i has made
a good return I do not for a moment
doubt.
In conclusion I would say that I be
lieve that to secure the liest results from
commercial fertilizers, we iiiu it lie sure
to use a sullicient quantity. As already
stated, four-fifths of all plant food that is
needed, nature furnishes w ithout trouble
or cost to the farmer, but in the grow Its
of all plants eac h of the constituent ele
ments they contain is taken up or utiliz
ed in its proper proportion ; hence if your
soil rbottld possess enough of all tiie ele
ments it needs exi-ept one, you will fail
as completely as though all were want
in.;. It is but one of the applications na
ture makes of the immutable law, that
" He who offends in one point is guilt v
of the whole." That I may be understood
Ujien this point let inettse an illustration
that will make il plain to all. Yi.il have
a machine that you wish to run by
,tt:im
io:ir engine stands iu the
place, and tho belt from driv
I proix-r
ing wheel to puiley is proj-erly adjust
ed. The Imiler of Jhe engine is tilled
with water, and the end of the hose
connected with thw automatic pump is
dropped into the tank from which tlie
loiler can be replenished w ith a fuil siqw
ply of water as it is needed. The c -ui
aud wood containing the heat alworlied
from the sun in the ages past, are lying
in the fire pan ; but although you have
all the agencies you need except one, and
that one not a direct agent, hut an indi
rect one, will your engine move, or your
machine run? Xo! All the power that
lies locked up in that water and coal and
wood, w ill continue to lie there as inact
ive as an Egyptian mummy until you
apply the tire, by which the heat contain
ed in the coal and wood is set free, which
in its turn converts the water into steam,
and your engine moves. And to carry the
illustration further; suppose the wood and
coal to be applied iu quaiitites inadequate
to the capacity of the !iier ant! the quan
tity of water it contains, will the excellent
condition of your engine, or the abund
ant supply or water on hand avail any
thing ? You may have sullicient fire or
heat to emit steam enough to pr-abice a
feeble motion of yonr engine, or the ma
chine it is to run, but if you had tin
water of tho oceiii at your command, it
would not help, unless you had the
amount of heat necessary to utilize it or
turn it into statn. You ".will have no
difficulty in applying this illustration.
If you have in your soil less nitrogen
than is needed, a stijrabuudar.ce of the
other elements can not make up this
deficiency. The soil w ill produce or.ly
so much of a crop as can find enough of
this one element to support it, and all
else that your soil contains must lie there
inactive.
One word as to how you shall pur
chase your fertilizer, and I am done.
Never buy a fertilizer without knowing
what it contains. If you buy from an
agent, ask him, instead nf showing vim
one of the sweet smelling bottles con
taining a sample of tlie " goods,' w hit h
you nor no other man could tell fo.m
that much ground coal ashes, to sh"W
you one of the latest reorts of the
analysis made of the different pi os
phatcs sold in oitr State, by the State
Chemist. S-e first that it contains a good
per cent of phosphoric aciil, potash and
available nitrogen or ainonia; and next
examine thf commercial value, w hich in
most cases will 1-e a pretty fair ft ?t of
w hat it will le worth to your crop. Cuy
from first bunds if you can. and if yu
can not, buy as cheaply as you can from
the agent. If there is anything that the
farmer needs to buy without nii-lille-nien's
profits being added to the pine, it
is the fertilizer he applies to his soil.
A Country Editor
Church.
Coos to
The editor of the lewli'l Inr r at
tended church for the first time last Sun
day. In about an hour he rushed into
the office and shouted to the telegraph
editor.
"Wh it in blazes are you fellows doing
How about the news fro.ii the seat of
war r
"What news?"
"Why, all this about the Egyptian
army being drowned in the Ked Sea.
Why, the gospel chap up at the church
was telling about it just now and not a
word of it was in this morning's paper.
Hustle 'round, you fellows, ami gvt the
acts, or the . Sivit w ill get a beat on
us. Look spry, there, an I run an extra,
edition if nee-essarv, w W'e I mit up a bul
letin board, Great English Victory in the
Soudan. "'
A Great Battle
Is continually going on in the human
system. The demon cf impure blood
strives to gain victory over the const, tu
ti in, to ruin health, to drag victims to
the grave. A good reliable medicine 1'ke
Hood's Siirsarai ilia is the weapon w ith
which to defend one's seif, drie tlie des
perate enemy from the feld, ami restore
peace and bodily health for many years.
Try thi I peculiar medicine.
The Power of Sympathy.
Dr. Howard Crwsl-y toi 1 an annecdotc
to iiluslrate tiie poer of sympathy.
The Doctor said that a short time ago be
was on a Fourth Avenue horse car when
a drunken man entered and be.sn using
profane an I vulgar language;. S ;us of
the men in the ear spoke very sleuily to
tbe intru lt-r and told him to "uut up."
Tiie man went on cursing worse than be
fore. Dr. Crosby went over to tuui an I
began talking to him in a soothing
manner. The drunken fellow quielwl
and iu a few moments got ot to leave the
tar. As he did so he scowled savagely
upon the men w ho had spoken harshly
to him. Then he turned to Dr. Crosby,
his face beamed with amiability, and put
ting his lmnd affectioua te on Dr. Cms
by's back' he said :
"Ah, old feller, yorl know how it is
yourself." S. V. T-tftniiu.
A minute means a goot deal, notwith
standing you affict to hold it of no consequence.