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pky::un ANiJ wkiitxx,
T m'i Dm:a-iatif in SfrmTt for the
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tiieoti iti totb piv4rTation of
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M.T"nia Co. mure, corner
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"ERCHAXT TAILOR.
Style, and LowMt P rices -5Tl3KACTION
GUARANTEED-
SomerseL Pa.
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VOL. XXXYni.
-THE-
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF
Somers et, Penn'a.
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DCP-OBITS HECCIVCOIN CAUSt AM 0 SMALL
AMCUHTt. AYALC ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNT. MERCHANTS, .FARMERS,
TCCK 0EALtR, AND OTHERS SOLICITED.
-DISCOUNTS DAILY. -
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Urin V. Uitm. w. II. Mjllia,
Jaue. U 1'k.H. Cba. H. FL.KE1,
JoHII R 8l.TT, ;Ert. R. Sori-L,
FBI3 W. t'lESBl-KE.
: : 1'r.EftinEST
VlCK pKiHE"T
: : : Cash. Kit.
Valentine Hay,
Am.REW Pabher,
T!it ftinilsaml wnritirg of this ank
Arv m-ory r,n,terti iu f-.If bratwl Cor-
. i.urKinr-f.rooi The only Safe
nia.le alwoluiely BarlAr-jirwf.
STOP! LISTEN 1
EVERYONE WANTS TO KKOW
WHERE TO GET THE HOST OF
CF THIS WORLD'S GOODS FOR
THE LEAST MONEY ?
WE HAVE THEM
:::::: zzz: Dishes. in-zz
WHITE. YFT.rmr ct
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ASD WKCKIXUHAM WARE,
IN GREAT VARIETY.
LAlvt. IXKJKIX.i-OLA.'JMJ",
HANGING LAMPS, STAND LAMPS
LatDpeofali Descriptions.
Nove!ti8sandOdiiti23;i3hi.i a
ME PLACE FOR
FANCY 4 STAPLE GROCERIES
IS AT THE STOUE OF
ED. B. COFFROTH,
SOMERSET. PA
B. fe B.
A Sszzssj Cearazce Sale
ll el CH ell
Zzt3rs:73 Scale.
prices: made: to: talki
We must lArgply reduce these 6tocks
b-fore our Annual Inventory, FebruAry
I and will make the prices effectual in
doing it. Now for bargain, and reil live
ones.
At $1.00
.V) j.iftf 21 inch Guinet Blark Dress
Silkii, bic!i te feel confident in recom
menlinias having more aervice-jtiving
qiiaiitif than any f 1 Siik ever sold. W
are nillina to stand comparison of it
m-ith any $ 1.25 quality.
Dress t'ioorw Bei;.mxs. Lare lot
(probably 100 pieces ) of elegant quality
Imjvjrt'd Ilaids, Stripes and Mixtures
$1.X and $1. "Equalities, now marked oO
cents for this Clearance sale.
At l- cents.
li pieces double width (27 inch) Mix
ed Tricots 25 cent quality.
Also M inch Trico'sat 25 cents, full of
service and handsome in appearance.
100 pieces extra heavy Il-Till Flan
nel, 2S inches wide, at :50 cents regular
.V) cent ij'iality, specially snitables for un
derwear, and is the Flannel bargain of
the season.
Careful buyers w ill do well to write to
our Mail OnnER Dkpartvent forsamples
of above specials or other Dry (ioods val
ues. Catalogue fr.
Mail Order ilusiness a Speciality.
Boggs & Buhl,
115, to 121,
FEDERAL STREET
ALLEGHENY, Pa.
"public sale
OF
Yaliiarjls Real Estate.
BY VIRTTFofan oUr and denrenf the Cwirt
f (vwarwr wMm o( ist"rrt Unitur. Pa,
toe l!rvior of the Poor aud Hum of F.mploT
nwrutof Vin'v. will el! at tihii- 1 on
ttie prvn: - in eLervburf Borough, ."otarmet
Couuty, Pa., 00
WKDXESDM', FEBM-AKY 12, 1800,
at I c dirk p. the nndivided tiro-thirds in
lervM 1:1 oi and t" a rlain ptei-e or t of pnx.r.,1
itnatr1 la V4rl!rtirg honsish, I'a., adjoining
;nt'Kli fhatTer. lfc-tij.mil kluet-per. MaJoavlC
r"H't,t and Jt;B V intTS. eriiniiiE one and
ene njf arrcs mors o lem, tanuf a iwtmivj
frame
DWELLING HOUSE,
wa!.' and other ootbuiidir.. thereoB etwed,
ami sown as 'he rtusrl prmwrtT. betnt the prop
it i t u-.rxv lHiir. an :r.n perm la eiiarfe
of at Ui wtur of U rMr of Mitd couat f.
TERMS.
One tia'f easb. balarr in two eria! ancnal
;.a)R .iit. to 1-r.wuri-d by jutrnjent. oo lb.
mii.. Tn OFTeeot of ttie i-etiae money
to U paid ne the property t koucked down.
auxaM'F.r in vryR,
FkU tHI K E!.l Ed.
lnrwcaunot the Hs.
So
NO 32.
r.r IS M.atka.
Utchflcld. Eaba, San. 27. 1SI
I n.TrT4 lSracttths with pafas In th. ratati
f tin back ; pronoone4 iacurabl. hj phj
aiciarw; rovf.iwd to haw meat M th tins.
M. Jaroba j;l eomplrteiy cured lac. S. rt
tura ot pais la 4 nan. .
I.K VI T. M Ai SnELO.
Sra-m4 V Mn.
Knora. lud , Aaf. 1. Vm.
T reffVwl trTerat jrmn with pais in th.
h"ck: wa purwl by on bottir of . jaruta
Oil; hav. had no rrtnra. JuH-1 LICAi.
v Btiu-h la Back.
Abrrdeeo, D. T. n 31. 1ML
BnfHrd VTn.l ymr with chrooic eltrh
la th t).ck: no fivm np by docum. 11
bottiei of W. Jacobs 1 i! rami m.
HCKMA.M -SCHWATGEL.
f acofisOrf
WE DO NOT PLEDGE
Onrselves to keep abreast, hnt to keep
the lead overall others in selling yoa
rare, AixelntelT Parr, sod well Hstar
cd, Ripe Vlkiskics and Wiaes
At prices that make all other dealers hus
tle. Just think of it :
Orerhalt & Co' Pore Rye, five years old.
Full quarts $ 1, or $10 per dozen.
Still better :
Finch's (.olden Weddioc, ten years old.
Full quarts $l,or $11 per dozen.
rett-r still :
K'stnrkr Bonrboa, ten years old. ' Fall
quarts $ 1.25, or $12 per dozen.
And one of the most saleable Whiskeys
on our list is
The Pirjc F'ioht-Year-Old Eipobt
GtcKESHEiMKR. Full qts. $1. $10 s doi.
There is noVThiskey that has ever been
sold that has ?rown in favor with the
public so rapidly as our old Export,
and the simple n-aron is that it is
utterly impossible.to duplicate it.
There will never be any let op in the
purity and fine flavor in any particular
of the Pure California Wines we are
now selling at 50 cents per bottle,
Full quarts, or $5 per dozen.
In making up your orders please enclose
Postoflice Money Order or Draft, or
Regieter your order.
JOS. FLEMING & SON,
WHOLOAH AKD SETAIL
. DRUGGISTS,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
412 Marker St.. Cor. of Iiamond.
Oils! Oils!
Tie Ptacdard Oil Company, of Pituhunrh. Pa,
zoakex a Rpecialty of mauufactunne for tb.
Xwaeauc trade ta finest brands of
Illuminating dt Lubricating Oils
Naphtha and Gasoline,
Ttat can he made from Petroleum. We challenge
cocapanwa with every known
PRODUCT OF PETROLEUM.
If yoa wiah the moat uniformly
Satisfactory Oils
IN THE
-A-merican iMiarket,
Ak tar oora. Trad, for Somerset and vicinity
supplied by
COOK A BEERITS as
PREAsS A K( K l-KR.
aepttR-'SO-lyr. MoMaaarr, Pa.
It is to Your Interest
TO BCT TOC
Drugs and Medicines
p
JOHH N. SHYDEB.
SrCCEWOR TO
BlESECKER-4 SNYDER.
None but the purest and best kept in stock,
and when Drugs become inert by stand
ing, as certain of them do, we de
stroy them, rather than im
pose on our customers.
You can depend on having your
PRESCPJPTIONS 4 FAMILY RECEIPTS
filled with care. Our prices are as low as
any other first-class houne and on
many articles ssoch lower.
The people of this county seem to know
this, and have given as a large share of their
patrtmare, and we shall still continue t. give
thera the very best goods for their money.
Do cot forget thai we make a specialty of
FITTIXGr TRUSSES.
"W guarantee satisfaction, and, if yoa have
bad trouble In this direction,
give as a call.
SPECTACLES AND EYE-CLASSES
i gmt variety ; A full set of Test Lenses.
Come in and have your eyes examined. No
charge tit examination, and we are confident
we ran suit you. 0me and see tss.
Respectfully,
JOHN N. SNYDER.
TRADE C" I MARX
, "ir
Wiih . i - ii . ni l
JUL
SOMERSET, PA.. WEDNESDAY,
WOMAN'S LOVE.
Men say that woman's love is bought
With yellow gold and glittering gems.
With titled camn from o'erseaa brought,
With power, and plac, and diadems.
Perhaps 'tis so ; I cannot ht ;
I never had snch things to give,
And yet, around my humble way.
It shines, and makes life good to live.
There's other currency, I ween.
More potent far to buy this prize.
To win fur each roan's borne a queen.
With lovelight vpsrkling In her eyes.
The music and the brain we brine.
The force of nerve, the life-blood's flow.
The heart's Ibnd throb! Could any king
A guerdon costlier bestow ?
The eagerness to work, to slave.
To plod, to drudge, to fight through life.
The willingness to pinch, to save,
Alt lor the smile and kiss of wife ;
The loyalty that guards her name
And holds it sacred, pure, sublime
Are these not meet to ligH the Same
Thu glows adown the ih of time ?
M. J. Xemtr in SwuertUle Jtwnal.
INDIAN GRATITUDE:
Ia the fall of I SM, w hile I was carry
ings dispatch between two temporary
posts on the Arkansas river, and when
midway between the posts and twenty
miles from either, at the hour of noon, I
came upon an Iidian lying on the ground
between two of the monotonous ridges
on the plains. I saw him while yet forty
rods sway, and I knew that he was
dead or unconscious. Before I got to
him I discovered pony tracks, and knew
that be had come there on horseback.
I reached the body to find it that of a
young buck about 22 years old, and for
some time I believed him dead. lie had
been shot through the bead, as I sup
posed, as one side of it was covered with
blood, and while I sat on my horse and
looked down on him s dozen or more
buzzards were sailing in the air about us,
waiting for the feast. I was rather re
joiced that the force of hostiles was re
duced by even one, for every Indian was
s hostile ia those days, and I was about
to ride on when the supposed dead man
ottered a groan,
I was down beside him in a moment.
I had s bottle of brandy and a canteen
of water, and when I had poured some
of the former down his throat, and used
the latter to wash off some of the blood,
he opened his eyes and looked at me in
a way to prove that he had his senses.
I could speak the Sioux dialect 1 ke one
bora in the tribe, and I presently asked :
"Who are you, and how came you to
be in this condition 7"
"Why don't you kill meT" he asked in
reply.
"I have no wish to harm you."
."But the white man and Indian are
enemies. We kill whenever we can."
"If I found you seeking my life I
should try to take yours. As it is, yoa
are almost dead, and I am willing to aid
you in any way I can.
He looked incredulous, and composed
himself for the death blow; but as I
mixed some water and brandy and band
er! it to him, and again investigated the
nature of his wound, he finally explain
ed that be was s member of Little Crow's
band. The Sioux tribe, as a tribe, was
then split up into half s dozen bands,
each nnder the leadership of a sub-chief.
He would not fully explain what had
occurred, but told me sufficient to enable
uie to supply the rest. He had attempt
ed to ran off with one of the tub-chiefs
three wives, and had been pnrnied, over
taken and ieft for dead. The bullet had
not entered his skull, but had plowed
through the scalp clear over his head(
rendering htm unconscious for several
hours and making s terrible wound to
look at.
I took needle and thread from ray
pack and brought the scalp together
and stitched it in half a dozen claces.
It must have hurt him terriblv, for I
worked away as if mending s sift in an
army blanket, but during the whole
operation be never uttered s groan.
When I bad his head ia shape I divided
my luncheon with him and was amazed
to see what an appetite he had. Aa we
finished I said :
"Yon are not able to travel, and if you
were you are defenseless. What do you
propose to do?"
"I cannot return to Little Crow's band
for s time, if ever," he replied after a
moment's thought ; "a my white brother
says, I ui weak and without even s
knife. Let him tell me his plan."
"I should advise you to lie quiet near
the water hole for a day or two. I shall
return this way inside of two days, and
then you will be stronger. Here is one
of my revolvers to protect yourself with.
Too can also take this blanket and the
rest of my meat and crackers. I shall
make for this spot as I return, and I hope
to find you."
No Indian will give bis feeling? a way
in his face if he can possibly prevent it,
but this young fellow made no effort.
He looked his amazement and incredu
lity, and even he held the revolver in
his hand he stared at me as if be could
not comprehend my motive. We were
enemies.- I bad not only succored him,
bat had placed in bis hands a weapon to
enabl s him to take my life. He could
not help but suspect some duplicity on
my part, nntil I tamed and rode away.
It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the
third day when I returned to the water
hole, and failed to find my young war
rior there. I waited for s full hour, but
he did not show np. I was going away
feeling very bitter toward him, when I
discovered s trail showing thst a large
war party had passed there the day be
fore, and I knew thn that he had either
joined it or been driven away. The scene
of war was shifting every day, and by the
next spring I bad almost forgotten the
incident Hie facta leaked oat in one
way and another, and for s time I was
the butt of ridicule of all the officers and
scouts. My greenness in supposing an
Indian had any gratitude was bad enough
they said, bat the ides of ray giving him
food and s weapon brought down the
bouse.
Daring the early part of summer of
the next year I was detailed aa one of
the guards to accompany the stages
over s certain distance on the Smoky
Hill route. There were from three to
six of as with each stage, according to
the demeanor of the Indians, who, at
times, seemed determined to prevent all
travel. A skirmish of some sort was aa
every day occurrence, but one after
noon, aa three of as were riding ahead
of s stgs in which were three ciriiiana,
e
SO L
ESTABIZBHEID 1827.
e were ambushed! from a cut or ravine.
The party of Indians numbered twenty
one, and tbey did very singalar thing.
My two companions were shot dead at
the first volley, while ray horse was
killed. They did sot molest the stage
at all, although it could hare, been easily
captured, but let it go and turned their
attention to me.
When my horse went down I took his
body for a breastwork and opened a
rapid fire on the advancing Indi es,
while the stage driver whipped up his
horses and was soon out of sight. No
one man, no mattef how brjve and well
armed, could be expected to stand off
such s band of Indians very long. I
killed one and wound i another, and
then they scattered and circled me.
This deprived me of the protection of
my breastwork, and, knowing that I bad
no show whatever of re tcu, I stood up
and signaled the fact of my surrender.
It was taking a chance, bat it was the
only thiug left. I had reason to believe
that they would hold me a prisoner for
a few days before disposing of me, and
it was between suicide or hoping for an
j opportunity to escape.
The band came crowning up as I sur
rendered, and my first reception was
better than I had hoped for. They did
not, as a rule, feel as bitter against the
stage people and guards as they did
s gainst the soldiers. I handed out my
weapons, submitted to be bound without
a word, and was then mounted on a
pony and stationed in the center of the
band as it role off to the northwest.
This was about two hours before sun
. down. After riding for an hour, during
which several Indians questioned me ia
regard to the soldiers, we united with
another band of eighteen, who were hid
den away in a dry run about three miles
off the stage route. We had scarcely
come up when I recognized in one of the
warriors the young buck whom I had
cared for at the water hole the year
previous. Hejjave me s sign of recog
nition, and with it a signal that we were
to be strangers. He was one of the first
to declare my identity as s government
scout, and to argue that I ought to be
put to the torture at once.
Several other young men agreed with
him, but the older heads would not listen
to anything of the kind. I was greatly
shocked to find that this second band
held as prisoners s whie roan named
Cooper and a boy named Peters. They
had been captured together thirty miles
away while hunting for a lost horse.
The man seemed dull-witted, and did
not apparently realize what was in store
for him. The boy, on the contrary,
keenly appreciated "his danger and wss
all unnerved. He was only 16 years old,
pale and sickly, and when I saw him in
tears I could not reproach him, although
I warned bint that he would subject him
self to the contempt of the Indians and
provoke them to administer greattr pun
ishment-
At dusk we all got off together in a
northwesterly direction, and. after riding
a distance of eighteen or twenty miles
we reached an Indian camp on s creek
running into the Solomons river, This
creek is called "Wolf," "Bear," "Crow
and several other names, but military
records speak of it as Snake creek. It
was Black EagVs village, and numbered
about fifty lodges, but only the old men
and boys were at home, All the warriors
were off on the warpath. About half a
dozen, two of whom were wounded,
cams in, however, two hours after our
arrival, and next morning I saw one
bsnd of fourteen come in from the east.
Each prisoner was placed in a different
quarter of the village. A family near
the center of the village vacated s lodge
for my benefit, and when Mt alone I
found myself so securely tied that I could
neither move hand nor foot. A wairior
was pUced on guard at the door, and
aft.ran hour or two of rejoicing the vil
lage settled down lo sleep, I could take
no other position except lie on my
right side, and the thongs pained me so
that I could not sleep. I was facing the
door of the lodge, and it was within half
an hour of daybreak when s voice whis
pered in my ear :
"Let my brother keep up s stout heart
I will seek to release him when night
coas again."
It was the voice of the warrior I had
succored many months ago, and be had
entered the lodge from the back side. I
had not detected the slightest sound, nor
in his withdraw ing could I follow him.
The guard at the door appears to be
asleep, but if I bad been able to work out
of my bonds I should not have made s
move toward csuap.
Morning dawned soon after my visitor
left, and the w hole village had eaten
breakfast before 7 o'clock. About that
hour a warrior came in, untied me, gave
me a big dish oi soup and a large piece
of meat, and when I had finished the
meal my bands were tied behind my
back and I was led out and tied to a stake
and made to witness the torture infiicted
on Cooper and the boy. This began at 8
o'clock and lasted until noon. I was
satisfied from the first that tbey would
let the boy off lig-itly,as fear and anxiety
had wrecked his mind. Had he been
voluble and full of gestures, as insane
people usually are, I think tbey would
have turned him loose, but unfortunately
be was as one stricks i dumb. Tbey got
no enjoyment out of his sufferings, and
soon dispatched him.
Cooper was s strong, healthy man, and
he was nnder some sort of torture for
three hours before tbey finished him. I
wss to be saved until tire morrow, when
other warriors were expected in, and
the Tillage was to be broken np. At
noon I was taken back to the tepee, tied
as before, and no one came near me un
til sundown. Then I was given the same
food as in the morning, a guard placed
outside the door, and by 10 o'clock the
village was asleep. It was an hour later,
and I was lying in the stme position sa
the night before, when s knife carefully
cat the thongs. Then s hand chafed my
wrist and ankles to restore the circula
tion, and after six or seven minutes a
roice whispered :
"My white brother mast move as the
snake! Come."
I crept after him on bands and knees.
He led the way right through the village,
clearing the path of everything thas
might give the alarm, and we were well
out of it before we rose np. Then he
hurried me to a grove, where I found s
pony ready saddled, handed me s lunch
eon in a bark' basket and the revolver
FEBRUARY 5, 1890.
lent him so long ago, and, as I got my
seat in the saddle, he whispered :
"Yoa saved my life now I save yours!
Good ! Ride this way, and go fast nntil
daylight r
He disappeared before I could thank
him, and I rode away in the direction
indicated. By daylight I was 6afe at a
dugout on the mail route, and it was
eighteen months later before I beard of
my dusky friend again. Then it was to
learn that be hail been suspected of aid
ing my escape and was tomahawked as
s traitor. New York Suu
Indian Ghost Feast
Not long ago several hundred Sioux
Indians held a grand "ghost feast" in the
vicinity of Fort Lincoln, Dakota, and the
few whites who witnessed the ceremonies
were highly interested.
This carious feast is held in great rev
erence among the Sioux, but it will soon
be abolished by order of the Indian Bu
reau, and, like the great "sun dance," be
buried with the traditions of the past.
The feast is given by the relatives of
those who have died or teen killed in
battle. At the Fort Lincoln feast there
were six "ght.," represented by six
stakes about four feet in lenth, set np in
the ground within the medicine lodjje.
A piece of buckskin was sewed over
the top of the stakes, upon which were
marked eyes, nose, and mouth, to repre
stnt the head. Fifteen Indians, with
the big medicine man of the village,
were seated in a teepee, smoking, bat
rarely speaking to each other. Some live
coals were brought and placed before the
medicine man, who threw upon them
ssge brush, and holding some pemmican
in the smoke chanted a weird song.
Little children were brought in and
given the meat to eat, and some had
their ears pierced. The peramican was
also given to the others in the lodge, and
some placed at the feet of the ghosts.
Outside the lodge hundredsof Indians
were gathered, forming small, circular
groups of a dozen or so, bucks, squaws and
children in their respective places.
Around the outside of the medicine
lodge horizontal poles were placed, ami
to these the presents which tne ghosts
were to distribute were suspended, con
sisting of blankets, Jetgins, beaded moc
casins, tobacco bags, and eagle feathers.
After remaining for me time in view,
they were removed and placed about the
ghosts in the lodge.
The relatives now entered the lodge to
commune with the departed spirits, and
the presents were distributed to the fa
vored ones.
The sqnaws sung and cried, and made
great exhibition of their grief. They cut
their flesh with knives, suffering excru
ciating pains without a murmur to ap
pease the wrath of the evil spirits, so
that their loved ones mar bs joyful in
the happy "hunting grounds. -
Upon the conclusion of the feast the
lodge was taken down and the naked
ghosts left standing.
One Fact
Is worth s column of rhetoric said an
American stateman. It is a fact, estab
lished by the testimony of thousands of
people, that Hood's Sarsaparilla does
cure scrofula, salt rheum, and other dis
eases or affections arising from impure
blood. It also overcomes that tired feel
ing, creates a good appetite and gives
strength to every part of the system.
Trv it.
Bill Arp Among the Farmers.
Bill Arp, the Georgia humorist has been
among the farmers. He says:
" By invitation, I made a speech not
long ago at a farmers' barbecue in a
neighboring county, and I spread my
self in encouraging onr people to keep up
with the age, and I pictured the Xt.o
cence and honesty end independence of
s farmer's life in multitudinous language.
I was cheered and congratulated, of
course, and when I got through an old,
grizzly fellow, with brass-bound specta
cles, came up, and says he to me: " My
friend, you talk mighty well ; yoa talk
likes lawyer; but I would like to know
if yoa can tell me 'what kind of a calf
makes the best milch cow ?" " A heifer
calf," said L and the crowd just yelled.
I got the gnn on the old man, and so
says :
Let me ask yoa a question and yoa
may ask me another, and the man who
can't answer his own question must treat
to cigars."
"Ail right," says he, "now go ahead."
Said J;." Ilow does a ground squirrel
dig bis bole without leaving any dirt
around the top?"
He studied awhile and then gave up,
and called on me to answer.
" Why," said I, " he begins at the bot
tom." " Well, but how does be get to the bot
tom?" said the old man, as though he
had me."
" I don't know," said I, "I never did
know, and as it is your question, yoa
nin4 answer or pay."
The crowd yelled again, and the old
man surrendered and bought the cigars-
Munroe's New Explosive.
The new explosive discovered by Prof.
C. E. Munroe, the precise composition of
which is kept a secret, is reported to have
given very remarkable results in the tests
thus far made. The sew explosive is
claimed to possess greater violence than
ny now employed either in blanting or
military cartridge, while its chemical
stability is said to be assured. It is prov
ed to be insensitive to any friction or
percussion yet applied, having been ex
posed to the blows of a steam hammer
and those of a blacksmith striking with
a sledge upon an anvil. Unlike many
explosive mixtures, it is described to be
s true chemical compound of definite
composition, and well-defined properties.
Its main field is to be in military uses,
and the discoverer asserts that the con
tents of a common shell would be sntfi
cient to rapture the heaviest armorclad
afloat Though more powerful than the
explosive " A " which produced such tre
mendous effects at Annapolis, it is mnch
safer. Farther advantages claimed are
that it is smokeless, and as nearly noise
less as explosives can be. Its manufac
ture is said to be simple aad to require
no elaborate apparatus.
When a man is young he thinks to re
form the world, but when be gets older
be is quite satisfied if he is able to reform
himself!
7 T"7
HI e
ft
How a Printer Lost His Job.
A printer recently told Uie following
excellent story to s reporter of the Chica
go T-mta :
" I had a goo.1 job," he saiti,"io Mon
roe street fiction foundry one of thoe
prir.t shops where they publish stories of J
the 'Skeleton Hunter's Last Gargling
Gasp' order by the cord. It is the rank
est kind of rot, and is liable to give a
printer blood poisoning if he handles J
much cf it. It is the sort of literature
that induces little boys to get n j in the
night, steal the old man's pocketbook,
buy guns and start out west to refue the
imperial maiJen from the lair of th rob
ber chieftain and restore her to her ago
nized parents.
There were twenty printers and six li
ars, each a full-fie.Jged Aoansa, working
in the place. The bars sj.t at a table in
one end of the room grinding out those j
unwholesome stories as fast as we could j
ptt them in type. One day I got a wad j
of copy that wis positively sickening. It
was about a lovely girl who had been
captured anil torn from her home br a
heartless white desperado and his band
of bloodthirsty Apaches. The girl was
in a despetate fix. She either had to
marry the villain or become hisiwife, he
didn't care which, and he was then on
his way to a cave in the mountains, when
he was going to have the ceremony per
formed. "That night they camped in a rocky
gore two hundred miles from nowhere
and bound the unfortunate maiden to a
tree with the nsual buckskin thongs,
which cut deep into her tender a rista.
Then they all laid down and went to
sleep. In the Meantime old Zyke, tho
Hairy Scout, who was on the trail, sneak
ed np ju .t at daylight, when people slept
the soundest. Zeke sailed in and killed
twenty-five or thirty Indians with the
butt end of his trusty ritle. He didn't
want to shoot, for fear he would waken
the others. Then, after he had cut a
notch for each corpse in his gun stock
and hung the coarse, black scalp locks to
his belt, he released the girl, hoist! her
nnder his arm, jumped into the saldle,
and rode away.
" Ilertxle at fall speed for forty-e:glt
miles without stopping When night
ck!ed ia the bold scout palled rein and
went into camp. First he picketed hi
horse, then built a tire, fixed a cot of
leaves for the eirl, and grit her something
to eat out of his saudle-bags. This i
where I got in my work.
".The first thing Zeke got out of his
bags was several thick siices of fresh Vi
enna bread, wiih honey on them. Next
came cold boiled ham, cut thin, an apple
pie with a short! cripy uppe-crust, and
last a tender spring chicken, roaste.1
a delicate brown. Mind you, he had all
this stuff in a pair of sad lie ba in the
wilds of the Rocky mountains, three hun
dred miles from civilization, in the year
ofl.vSij. It made ue sick, but I resolved
that the poo giri should have one good
feed if I tlted for it. So I shoved in an
other paragraph like this, completing the
bill of rare :
"'After getting the girl started Zeke
reached into the saddle-bag and pulled
out a bowl of steaming hot consomme
and a broiled fresh mackerel, some dev
iled crabs, cold slaw, potato salad, a half
fry, Teal cutlets breaded, with totuato
sauce, green corn on the cob, some clam
chowder, stewed turkey, a portion ofricw
pudding, two cups of chocolate, pork ten
derloin, Rochefort cheese and a bottle of
Bass' ale, Saratoga chips, a plate of va
nilla ke cream, a Chinese paper napkin
slired cucumbers, some California grapes.
. , , "
" Pid it go V asked an interested lis
tener. " No, it didn't," said the printer, sadly,
" bat I did. The boss came to me next
morning with a proof slip and wanted to
know who was writina that storv. I
slid the author was caking a stagger ia '
that direction, but he wasn't giving the
girl a fair show.
'That may be,' said the boss, ' but if
he wants to run a cafe in connection with,
the story we'll hire a cook and make it
easier for yon.
" Then he told rot, that I was too smart
to be a printer, and had better go out
w here the cool air would strike me. I
went."
Boxing the Ears and its Results, j
The ytnr- has just made another vi- j
orous onslaught on the injarious practice !
of boxing t:e ears, once common in the j
schools, but now fast ami surely becom- .
ing obsolete. It is shown that serious in- j
jury may result from a sliuht but au.Ueii j
blow. Given early and skilled attention j
the wound may heal very kindly, but if j
i he beginning of mischief be overlooked
as it often has been, further sigts of in
i
(lamination soon follow, anl a deaf and I
suppurating tympanum is the usual re- i
suit. There is prarth-al wisdom in the j
statement thf.t this consequence most )
readily follows in thecase of por!y-de- j
veloped and underfed children. In them, f
an earache might not receive very strict
attention, and dUease might for a tin.
work havoc unimpeded. Where chronic i
suppuration exists already, and it is only
too common, s random knock on the ear
may, and has result-jd, in fatal brain
couiplicatP'os. The cke connection be
tween ear and brain should never be for
gotten. The practice of striking the heads
of school chiidien is al) most reprehen
sible. The writer has in mind the case
of a achoolrrate who was struck on the
head with a ruler by a bad-teaipered tu
tor. The temporary effects seemed to
pass away, but years after brain trouble
developed, and the subject of the injury
died in a lunatic asylum. A post mortem
revealed the fact that the csrue of death
was the blow received vears before.
Card of Thanks.
If the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam
should publish a card of thanks, contain
ing expressions of gratitude which conie
to him daily, from those who have been
cared cf severe throat sn i lung troubles
by the rise of Kemp's Balsam, it would
fill a fair-nixed book. How much better
to invite all to call on any druggist and
get a free sample bottle, that too may
test for yoarbclf Us power. Lare bottles
50c. and ii.
- A practical joker undettook to touch
yonng Mr. Wilson's neck with his flight
ed V cigar at Biddeford, 5te. He touched
young Sir. Wilson's celluloid collar in
stead. The collar promptly disappeared
and a big circular blister took its place.
Id
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WHOLE NO. 2011.
A Woman Marries a Woman;
An extraordinary story, first published
by a Vienna new jpaper and then gener
ally disbelieved, has since been confirm
ed in every particular, Mays a dispatch
from Vienna to the lnulm MiitAtrdL "A
younu man caliiaj himself Count Pander
i Vay, who pretended to have fallen oat
with his family ia Hungary, reamed last
August a teacher at Klajrenfurt, ased 27,
daughter of an inspector of woods aad
forests there. The njarriara took place
on a lonely farm is Hungary, s certain
Father Imre officiating at the wedding
ceivttiony.
"The newly tr.Arriel couple lived to
gether for soiue time, and afterwards
visited the girl's parents ia Klagenfurt,
where the father-in-law was constantly
fleeced by the alleged count. Quarrels
arose, and u!tin.jtely it turned out that
the young count's tales of himself were
sll inventions. The persons he referred
to were imaginary, and the inspector was
convinced be was a swindler. Something
stiil stranger, and indted, unparalleled,
soon came to light. Ere h-r.g it f wasound
that the so cai'.ed count was in reality a
woman of 30, the Countess Sarolta Vay,
daughter of the late colonel of Honveds,
Count LauJislaus Vay, one of whose
daughters, named Sorolta, had been edu
cated a boy.
"All her life she had worn male attire,
and recently ha.! appeared in the uniform
of the Honveds. :See published s collec
tion of poems under the name of Sander,
and Ax:iatt-d wich young men, who
were not in the ecret, in manly amuse
ments. From PeHth, where eccentricities
of that sort are hardly a rarity, she dis
appeared about a year ago, after which
she was not again heard of till her?rrest,
on demand of her nominal father-in-law
at Klaenfut. It is probable that Father
Imre was not a priest, and that the girl,
in going through the form of marriage,
only executed another eccentricity in or
der to proenre m uey, of which she was
in great need."
Wanted to Get Out.
He was an express messenger on the
Santa Fe a few days ag-. It was a night
run, and there were two messenzers in
the car. Just as it began to grow dusk
the train stopped at a stmtll station and a
dea l body was taken aboard. Nothing
in particular wa.s thought of this, bow
ever, and, as there was nothing to do and
the train would not stop again for a long
distant e, both messengers prepared to go
to sleep. One of them decided that the
box containing the body would be a
good place to rest on, and so be trranged
himself comfortably thereon and went to
sleep.
How long he slept be bad no idea, bat
suddenly, as if in a dream, he heard s
voice say :
"Let me out :"
The niesHcnger, startled, lay half awake
for a moment, when in no uncertain
tones came the words, spparently from
within the head of the box cn which he
slept.
,L n you, let me out"
It is quite a distance from where the
box lay to the end of the car, but the
messenger is positive he cleared it in two
jumps. Trembling with fear, he shouled
to his companion, but before he had a
cham-e to tell his story, that selfeaine
voice exclaimed :
"I want to get out of here."
A Family Gathering.
Have you a father? Have you a moth
er ? Have yon a son or daughter, sister
, , . T, . T.,,
I Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, the
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup, and all
Throat and Long troubles? If so, why,
when a saaiple bottle is gljtdly given to
you fe by any druggist, and the large
size costs on! v "rc and ? I .
Hunting A Lion.
Blrininglam, England, as the Paul
Maul haihjrt tells us, has recently been
the scene of an exciting iion bunt. - A
menagerie bad been established there,
and one of the cages contained a Nubi-ta
lion about four years old. One morning
the keeper entervd the animal's den to
clean it. While he was engtge-i ia this
duty his attention was momentarily di
verted. When he looked rouad he found
the cage empty.
The lion, on reaching the outer world,
seemed for a few moments bewildered,
but when a number of men approached.
armed with ropes and iron bars, he
lathed away, cl.ieely pursued by his
keepers, and scattering in every direc
tion the people who had come to visit
the menagerie. A group of children was
in his path, but the creature cleared them
at a bound, and made straight for a
neighboring brook.
After wading up the stream for about
fifty yar 1-t, the lion crept into an open
sewer, and there disappeared from view.
Hid pursuers began exploring the drains
near the brook, but without success until
Marcus Orenxo, the chief lion-tamer of
the men3."prii. beard the arimal roar.
He traced the sound with difficulty from
the manhole at the junction of the road
to th. outlet in the brook, w here the
lion Lad fir?t entered, and he at once
decided to crawl through the drain in
pursuit of the beaft
A transfer cag? wasobtained and taken
to the brook, ths drop d'or was lifted,
and the mouth of the cage placed sgainst
the opening of the drain.
By this time Orenzo had changed his
clothes Mr the hunt, and, armed with a
revolver and accompanied by a boar
honnd, he descended into the sewer.
Twice in succession did tie daring ex
plorer's pistol-shots r.n o:it, and the ani
mal's answering roar showed him that
he was on the right track.
Crawling alons, he canit sight of the
lion, which a first turned, at bay, but
after encountering another disharse of
the revolver, AhjiI toward the cage at the
other end of the sewer. The Ibn-tamer
crawled after, and the faithful boarhound
kept close at band. When the mouth of
the cage came in view, the do was sent
to the front, and gave at the word of cotn
ruaad a deafening bark. At this the
hon bounded up into the trap set for him,
and was promptly ca.'s-i aad carted away
to the menagerie.
The children's health most not be neg
lected. Colds ia the hea l bring on ca
tarrh and lung affections. Ely's Cream
Balm cures at once. It is perfectly safe,
and is easily applied into the nostrils. It
also cores catarrh, ths worst cases yieli-
Mistaken Identity.
A lady of this eity wTio is engaged to
s well known yocug society man, recent
ly made an experiment to try the tempet
and habits of her fiance, which nearly re
sulted in disastrous consequence. Read
ing her morning paper the saw an sdver
tiwenst nt for s douetic. The n'miber of
the house was that of her iover's, where
he kept a sort of s bachelor's hail with
his father, who wss widower. It oc-
! eorred then and there to ML-w H to
! supply the demand. Not in person, but
! by pioxy. She new of s tidy little tjer
j man who was bright and engaging, and
who wanted s place. She sent for her
and gave instructions as to what she was
to see and hear, and particularly chargtd
her to obnerve how Mr. F conducted
himself, w hat be ate, and if he was good
tempered and easy to pleas. Christine,
promised to watch everything and report
at the end of the week.
Bat before the week was ap the giri
reported with all her beloogings and her
eyes overflowing with tears. She had
been aeked to black Mr.' F 's boots,
and be bad ordered her about as if she
were a dog, and be wouldn't eat any
thing but gruel and toast, and he swore
at her because she forgot to wajth off the
front steps. Then Miss H sat down
and wrote to her lover :
"Yoa are a brute. No man who wts
not a brute wooid ask a woman to black
his boots and swear at her for a moment's
forgetfuinesa. I consider that I bare had
a narrow escape."
There was a frantic man went tearing
up 'die avenoe that evening and ruthed
into the presence of Mita H , but it
was some time before he could make her
understand the truth of the matter, or
that he was not thst manner of man.
The girl bail not seen him at all, but had
been employed by hisdyspetie old father
shorn she knew solely as Mr. F. It
was simply a case of mistaken identity.
A Story of Dom Pedro.
A story is told of the ex Emperor which
well illustrates his character. When with
the Empress be visited the Centennial
Exhibition in Philadelphia, and attempt
ed to examine the exhibits, he was
wedged in immovably by a gaping, ex
cited, but good aatured mob. He bore
this patiently for two days. On the third
day he resolved on a bold change.
"I shall gee nothing," he said to his
secretary ; fcI must be incognito. Pro
cure me some disguise."
The next day a stout farmer, with a
coat, not of the newest, his wife on his
arm in a rather shabby merino gown,
shouldered his way through the gates,
and spent the day in a close study of the
educational systems of different coun
tries. They thus quietly and unnoticed
continued their observations for a week.
One day they met a group of twenty
Brazilian civi! engineers, students front a
great polytechnic school. The young
men' stopped, hesitated in amazement,
and then, with loud cheers and great ex
citement, saluted the farmer and his
wife, bowing to the ground and kuwing
their hands.
"It is the emperor," one of tbem ex
plained, with tears in his eyes, to a by
stander. "He is more than our king ; he
is the father of the people! Out of his
own scanty parse he supports me and
nine other orphans at our school. In
every country he has his orphan boys in
colleges and universities that they may
bring knowledge of all arts snd sciences
to Brazil. He has just made a tour of
Europe, and he comes here to find new
inventions and ideas that may be usp ful
to his people."
The boys gathered closely around Dom
Pedro, while he asked each as to his
health acd success. He knew each of
"his boys" personally, and was loved
by them with a deep, grateful affection.
Education.
A Ietroit father has undertaken a little
educatienal venture with his own chil
dren, and be is trying to make them give
np slang, the use of ambiguous terms of
speech and other peculiariites affected by
the youth of the day. Yesterday he ask
ed his 14-year-old daughter where a cer
tain book was.
" I haven't any idea, papal" answered
the yonng lady.
1
f th
"I didn't ask yoa for ideas," said the
sternly ; "just answer my ques
tion. Where is that book T
"On the top sheif in the book case,"
recited the girl like a parrot.
"Can you reach it V
"Yes, sir."
There was long
waiting impatiently
silence, the father
for the book. At
last he asked :
"Nellie, why don't yoa bring it?"
"Bring what, sir?"
"The bock I wanted."
"Too did not say yoa wanted me to
get it," said the daughter, in a demure
voice: "yoa ajked me if I could rach
it."
"Nellie," said the father, as a smile
made his mustache tremble, "get that
book like a good girl and bring it here
to me."
"Now, you're talking sense, pop; III
have the book here in a jiffy," and she
whisked off after it, while the father
sighed over the degeneracy of the times.
D-trrit Frte Prm.
The Young Lawyers Mistake.
Being told that in one of the Russian
law courts there is a case which has been
on the docket for more than 400 years,
we are reminded of the humiliating fu-t
that our own beloved country is very
young. Still we are proud to say that in
the brief time of our national existence
we have succeeded in accumulating a
large and choice assortment of case s
which not only show oar excellent in
tentions, but give evidence that in time
we will have the most elaborate and.
costly collection of antique law cases in
the civilized world. We believe we have
no such champish lawyers as the one of
whom the story is told in London. When
be was a young man his father retirt-d
from practice, leaving the businern to
him. Within jl week the young lawyer
came home, and proudly proclaimed :
"Well, father, I have done in three
days what yoa couldn't do in all the
yers of your practice."
" What is that, my son T
" I have set'led that Noe estate case.'
" Settled it, my son? Settled it, did yoa
sa y ?
"Yes, father, I settled it in three dayp
and I could have done it in one if the
judge had been at home."
" Yonng man," said the astounded pa
rent, " you are an ass, consummate ass.
Why, sir, four generations of yoor ances
tors have lived on that c.ise and grown
rich, and yoa and your children's chil
dren might have done the same if yoa
had not been an eg regions ass." With-
Experience of a Lady Mission
ary. Miss Eneline C. Hanns. missionary
for First Baptist charch, Troy, N. V,
says : "I am glad to state that Pr. David
Kennedy's Favorite P.emedy, of Kon
doat, N. Y, cared me of Catsrrh of ths
Bladder, Kidney trouble arid Constipa
tion. I would add that I always oaed
tfcjs Jsrci leased wiih tt cvtwea:
cf my pl.4iin.