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When a !adv btiya a Peruana or an Aara hau ta. ill i making a WISE PURCHASE. i, the preMTit mi' i bound to lat for two or lh."-- t--a--"o. at -t- T are a aanj, r-.uif'nat'ie r-rnit-nt. eai.y put on nd l-c (!" a"'1 a i!tal.'. article ft a:l ihr vrr a-o-a3 aear. j.i.l a fat-.uilem-pr.K i" fli.aud nice lor coo evenina-s ui Um aummcr. TEX. JAP. SCREENS, To eotre d.n In prt. weM an J.mn from the loc hett. irhtrr they are now rtaiid u, v of ?4 " .i" ""-. to 4 wi, n. to 4 Two Fire .win, $4 to i- otIvt lirrainjoo can w oca you 41 FIFTH ATI, PITlSBCBGH. PA. SWEDISH 44 AlMIealihg Salve," FOR XEfRALGIAlX THE HEAP. WEAK BAi K. OR PAINS IX SlIiE OR CKE5T, AKXESi IX THE JOISTS. SWELIJXiiS, And ail Uheumasw Pains, tares in from two to tiiii days. roa sals bt S. MARCUS, j-i-a. Or at YoBiw's Vr Sotnernet. Pa HOME XO. 41. BRUSLS. S11ILLIWS, f ITS, &f. A brui.e u a runtu,toa: .wellinw anr ln flaninialiuiu; nil. aul wnilid. are alike im turlMtMY u BjiumJ artion. thrtmcli wblch the ein are rlir)re.I, eirvuiail'in impeu.1. en&vfctiu aet m and p w eitu. Xatiirt. la impatient it trie, lo r.iilii tueli and paiu tn Wn..ine. brui, and .wellinc need a ooih ii influenrr, Uu in run and r..i:u.i liamif any uiw would p.ur a liquid reiueity into aai-inn aound. x mu an nalnre bruit tin; paiv Ujfether. aunorf al onee. JacoDsOili octhfi b t T II C- the injur1 imih u1 n-turet. rEOMPTLV AMU'EESWEJTIY. Mr. I'rtii hash. 49 Prr.n street. Iieiroit. Mkll.. y: "Pitrbinc I praiiKNl and tni ied di y arm; two aptiiwt. .ia l i. Jaixoa Oil cure! riM. ' Mr. .u.ui Sauwaid. Jr. (TiTydalei. Fred-en-bitrn. fr.vas. write, Angtii ju. " I u iutiy ri Wllh .-ylte: h.lf iwllle St. JaiMumuil ruretl me." llf VIRES. . AT 1'r.iiM.i.TK is. LoiAttK. TUE CHHLE1 A. T0GELE1 CO.. tjlbawm. . It is to Your Interest TO BUT TOCE Drugs and Medicines or JOHH IL SHYDEB. 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Tb FtAn..aM Oil Cmr.panr. of WttJhurvb, Pa mm.kr a srciahr uf niuuf-tunnc fr ihm Imjsl&ilic lra4e ttte Uunxl braudx of Illuminating & Lubricating Oils Naphtha and Gasoline, Thai emu be made frow: pptntnm. We cballangc cotsptniwa iU evrry kuowB PRODUCT OF PETROLEUM. 1 roo wh the most uniformly Satisfactory Oils 1" THE Axaerican ZMarket, Ask for ourc. Trade fiw Somerset and vicinity supplied by FREAS2 A Ki.KK-F.R. N)M KkKT. Pa. sepm-'W-lTT. Pianos - Organs The improved method of fiirten'ii? str nes of Pi no. lov-iiteil by U. one of ihe mo-t important lu ;.rtjem. ei er made, tnakirt tiie instrument more r.eiilr mu-i.ii in t.ne. more durable, aud iet hktlv tii get out o! tune. IVith the Mti i. Hanlin Onrart" ond Pitio ex-it-1 rhie-.y i iti.at cich itlieehi feireilenre in ai-v niiju! instrument, quality i f tone, trther thirr. ihiXith imrtnt are nin.'h ieKlhau tl.lN. An in-lrmneiit wtib uurau.K-ai Uies eao b4 be rood. Ii!u!traled raiaioue of new atyies introduced this seawn, sent Irce., Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., BOTOX. XEW YORK. CHICAGO, 400 Acres. 37th Year. SALESMEN WANTED. PKtJ.JU.ll-J A-IU. - To repreut one of the larret NrKSFRlFJ ia the cmntry. Vt e cu.raniee satfefai'tion to ail m. tofnr. No previous eaperienee neeewary. iaia. rj and espeni- from start. Address, Matins; ai?e. Us pes Cr. k Thomas Maple Avenue Xorsertes, S'K Chester Pa. rr.IT OF PARTITION. To ii!t sTnnkel ml John Karkel. reid- ins; ia sioavrreek Townnhip. tambriaCo." J'a. : rourad Kunkel. reidiof la Ki-bland Townhip. ambria fouoty, I'a. : fhrisiian Knnkel. rei-irna at FervMNny. Reaver To., p . a.lam kuiikeL rewdins: in Jo6ntowr. K.we Ann Knnkel. intermarried with John i-i. hart, reidme In Johnstown, Pa : Mary j Kunkel intermamen wm Jomi reea. r.i dmin ambna'rownhip. t.amhnal y. I'a. You ar hereby notiried lhat in r-orwan- of a vt'rit ia Partuiirti uwoet out of the irphans" I'ourt .4 Vwrwi Count. Ha aud t- meireeied, I will bowl an Hi'ineX oo the pr.mie, on the. real ete of Andrew sinnk-1. !eaid. siluate in Paint TowT,.ttn, Hummt c.Minty, Pa., on Fri day. thelMbdnyof lia. ltk a aeu an.1 where Tiai'nn anen.1 if you think proper. Snaairr orri- jl, K. is. JfcMILLEX. ai. enerit THREShllB Machines LVy Simpiet. moat dnraNe. ecu nranal and serfe, ia ue. no ;raio, rvan. it ready for thmark-t. Threshing Engines i"er saw Mill". ShtTwle iialiines H PreMKrs, ami SHao oani iiup'.enienu ge"al'y- A. B. r tRwCHAR fOMPAXT f-LInilled.) Feorl for Iliiw- I trmteii Cataxajoes Pennsvlvania Ar-irnlnral " urks, York, Pa. omer SOMERSET, PA., WEDXEDAT, NANNIE. " Tbe word of the m inJ to ths sea." Ton Would know her if yon saw ker One, forever afwr. Know h r by Aer eyes so true And her merry laughter ; Know her y ho- raaf mouth, Wh.ra the win U hav kua.;d her, B!ow .nc f.nm the jeented o uth, Naati that' my titter. Ia her hi ir of chestnut brown 8un!i .-tit rtiei ane.;i i : In hr eye dem jre, ca doa-n, t'apidllN a-restnir. Hare too neen hr' do j ya ' pose Y.M r uid aor. have mbved ber ; 'ar Jier l:pe a dimple hows M here Ixive. the raiea!, kneed her. White lnwrisil le, perfect fiav'r, Praajraat foam fr ra out the ei, tkar w hite sweet that live an hour. That the MI'.cw hrlnp to me, Sb' like thee, oh. fair and sweet : pan and wind have kUned bt r ; Hut 'laintier far. from brow to feet, AaemiMiu- aty suaer. A MOTHER'S REMINISCENCE. A LIFE-SKETCH. BT MIVASIS 1nll, JR. " Mother, what it) the matter with you thia morning?" "Oh, Iliipij! If you could have seen yoarst-l.'. Yon have n idea bow badly off you were, llut the w orst of all w as, I overheard several apeak inf of it. It was too Lad, they Haul. I dou't want to avoid you, my dear boy ; but I will ask you to be more Careful ia future." "Well, niuthor, I will ; I will commence Uxlay honor bright I will. Will that do V " Yes, Ralph, I tan ak no more than that. And, dear boy, you will try I know." The foregoing had transpired between Mrs. Rachel Porlett and her only cltilJ, Ralph. She) waa a widow, but little be yond the middle ae, residing in an aris tocratic neighborhood, and moving in an aristocratic circle. The sxn. Ralph, waa two and twenty ; had lately (fraduated from one of the best of the New York collejres. and was one of the choicest spirits of the cial set a it'a which he aissixiate-i. He wssa handsome young fellow, brave and ?euerou. Roth he and hi mother had been left, by the late husband and father wealthy. 'Ve j can judge from the character of tbeircon- yersAtion something of the home inMu en. under which RLkiph Purlett had been reareil. " Ralph,' said the mother, alter a long pane, lowering her voice and sieaking with a slight tremor in her tone, ''is there anything serious betaeen you and that HapgooJ girl?" " Io you speak of Miss Kate Uap good r ' " Yes, of Kats Hsptfood. I hope, my son, joa will Cut sutTer yourt!f to be CMiie entangled ia that quarter.' "What have you-aginst the girl, mother y " Nothing at all against the girl, Ralph. She is very pretty, and I haven't any doubt she ia virtuous and gocxl ; but think of the society in which they move T Ralph Porlett's lip curled, and hi9dark gray eyes burned portentously ; but he made no further reply, ana shortly left the houie. Mrs. Mary Hapgood was anotLer wid ow, very differently situated from Mrs. Torlett. She owned the house in which she lived the gift of friends w ho bad honored and loved her husband in las prime ; and she earned a very comforta ble livelihood in the capacity of music teacher. She taught vocal music, and she taught the harp, piano, and organ. In truth, she earned more than she spent. Kate was her only daughter. She was in her nineteenth year, a queenly maiden, though not tall, nor so very etately ; but her beauty was regal, and her education was in keeping. She was now, and had been for almost a year, helping her mother with her pupils. We cannot say how many lovers Kate Hapgood might have had. "We only know that she hail loved in return only one, and him, alas! she fearid she should never marry. She sometimes w ihed that Ralph Porlett had never crossed her path. She could not help loving him, as her heart had gone out to him in spite of ber. He was so brave, sojhand.ome, so generous, and his heart was so tender and tiue. How could she help it? Oh! if only he had not that one fault ! If he could rise above that weakness, she felt that she could give up her life for him." Hei feelings were deep and powerful, and they were pure and nnseltih ; and Ralph Porlett knew it, and hence he lov ed her. She would have sacrificed much for the loved one. She might have sacri ficed her own life. It was her mother who put forth the'uteadier, calrm-r hand to save her. One evening, about a week after the conversation which we overheard be tween Mrs. Porlett and her son, Ralph met Mrn. Hapgood alone in her pleasant little sitting room, and then and there asked her if she would give him the hand of ber daughter. He was going on to tell how much, and how fondly, and how enduringly.he loved the dear girl, when the w idow stopped him. She was paler than was her wont, there wer hot tears in her eyes, and her nether lip quiv ered as she spoke, " Ralph', say no more at present I've loved yoa as I might have loved an own son, bad God so blessed me ; and I shall love yoa to the end. A nd should evil be fall you should any dread calamity rest open you none would sorrow more deeply than should I. Stiil, Ralph, I dare not O, I dare not give what yon ask." " Mrs. Hapgood " " Hash 1 I cannot argue with yoa. I will not reflect upon your life. I will do what I had once thought no power on earth could ever persuade me to do. I will tell yoa my own life-story, Ralph, and yoa will not need to ask iue another question." The widow brushed her hand utoss ber eyes as she paused in ber speech, and having assured herself they two were alone, she went on : "Ralph, I was, as yoa perhaps"anow, born and reared in this city. My father was a musician, and a maker of musical instrument, and naturally he called around him much of the musical talent of the metropolis. One of his closest and most valued friends was Ernest Hapgood i who was accounted the best organist of I set ESTLBLISHjED 1827. his time. Ernest Hapgood had son, Tbomaa, four year older 'than myself, who waa almost as good; a moaiciAn as his father. Almost every ruttsical instru ment nude he could pLay upon, and play well. At the age of two and twenty Thomas Hapgood, unde an ast-umed name, became leader of tie orchestra of one of our largest and beat theatres. It W is out of respect to his father' wishes that he took the now '' f win. However, it did not much matter. Everybody very soon knew the most popular musical con ductor in the city, and knew all about him. " Torn Hapgood was twenty-four when he asked me to be his wife. My father objected. I asked him bis reason: Said he: ! Molly, Tom Hobgood should never marry until he can say, with firm reso lution : I will drink no more! I know him well. He thinks he ia safe, hut I can see that his appetite is growing upon him.' And so my father went on. He said that when a young man, with such an appetite gaining the mastery, would not give it op, hia life was in danger of wreck and ruin. " I told Tom what my father had said, and I asked him if he would not stop drinking altogether. He laughed at me. He tried to convince me that he was safe ond finally he took a solemn oath that he would never drink afaia enough to show it, anil for several month 1 am sure hia promise was kept. And during those months my father died, stricken down with malignant typhoid fever. ."Six months alter my lreav:ment I became Tom Hapgood"' wife. I could not persuade him Ut quit drink entirely ; h said he couldn't look bin friends in the face, and refiue to sip a gUnA of wine with theiu. - " For six years after onr marriaze we were happy, comparatively. There could be no solid, substantial happiness for me after the knowledge had come to me that Tom's appetite was master. I know that he tried to curb it ; but be would not crush it under his feet ; sor did he make the attempt until it until it was too late. Like a man in frail boat, approaching Niagara, he did not make a determined effort until the tital current ind encoiu-pas-ied him, and hia ability to reach the shore waa gone from him. His apjielite had so grown upon him that he could not break it off. In hia prime Torn gloried in his strength, never realixiag never dream ing lhat his strength was gradually, but surely, going from him When his eyes were finally opened ; iad, in hia lucid intervals, he saw hid dinger, the dread current hail taken him fin its grap, and would nut let him go. f "Our child, Kate, was growing. I thought, beautiful, day hy .Jay ; ami he was as good and true as she was lovely. At length she became old enough to feel the cruel blight ; and in her prattling, childish way, with many a kis and many a tender caresd, she begged that papa would not drink. Oh, how I have seen the strong man weep and sob, as though his heart were breaking, with the little one held fast in bis arms! But why prolong the painful recital ? One day Tom came home and told me he had been discharged from his place of conductor, but they would stiil hire him if he was willing to play under the lead ership of another. A few short months he tried to do his part as second violinist, but, alas ! lie wan co longer the Tom IlajTjood of old. A few short months and he had no place anywhere, save at home and in the bar-room ; and you ran judge which of the two saw the most of him. " Even after that he tried to reform ; and Heaven knowns how 1 tried to help him ! I'.ut the man was gone ; the manly strength that might once have enabled him to conquer was his no more. A poor, broken, shattered wreck, aged and de crepit before his time, he went on the downward course. Can I tell you the misery, the anguish, the utter desolation of his home, of his w ife and child, dur ing thone dark and dismal month! aye, years years of such agony as only the drunkard's family can know. Tongue cannot tell it. " The end came at length. One dark, dismal night in midwinter,'when I had sat up till almost midnight waiting to care for him when he came my little Kite, then ten years old, I had coaxed away to her bed on that drear night, close upon the midnight hour, they brought my poor Tom home to me dead! dead! knocked down by a pass ing team in the street, and his life crush ed out benenth the iron-shod hoofs and ponderous wheels ! " Ralph, let a say no more to-night If you were not so much like what Tom was in his bright and buoyant youth, with the same great heart, the sAiue strong passions, the same generous na ture ah ! if yoa were different, I might not have told you this story. Oo home, Ralph, and may God, and all the good angels bless and keep you, now and ever more ! If in the end, I sliil refuse to yoa the hand of my precious Kate my joy, my life, ray only stay of earth you will know why I do it ; and I am sure yoa wiil not b'ame me." Ralph Porlett spoke not a word in re ply. He took the widow's band, and raised it reverently to bis lips ; then he tnrned and went away. Ralph did not act precipitately. On the fourth day after bis visit to Mrs. Hapgood, he called his mother into the drawing-room, and closed the door be hind her. " Mother," he said, I have a proposi tion to make to you. Yoa spoke to me on the subject of my drinking. I have been trying an experiment not that of letting wine alone for that was done in stanter bat, trying how it would seem to refuse the social glass how it would seem to tell my friends point blanr, that I had done with it forever. And how do suppose I found it V His mother was too utterly confound ed too deeply niystirled to speak, and be went on : "I will tell yoa ; I have found it not only the easiest thing in the world to do, but the grandest, and the proudest, and the best And whit U more, I bave al ready got three of my friends to join me. They have solemnly pledged themselves that I shall drink the first drop. They will never drink again if I don't And, now, my dear mother, what I propose is APRIL 16, 1800. this: That yon forthwith banish wine liquors of a!1 kinds, as a beverage from the house, Yoa shall never again pot the cup to yoar neighbors lips. N'ever again shall it be in the power of any young drunkard to say, I drank my first glass from the hand of Mrs. Rachel Poi let' Mother! have you the courage todoitr It was a pull, a terrible pull ; but the noble, generous, impulsive, right-minded boy conquered. And the next time he asked Mrs. Hapgood if she would give him her drughtei to be his wife, she an swered him by taking the hand of the gentle Kate and laying it within his firm and faithful grasp ; and blessing, deep, ardent, and soul-sent, accompanied the gift. We have only to add : Amid the many blessings that rested upon the happy pair, not the least was the love and good will of Ralph's mother, given to Kate in full and generous measure. And the time came in the w hich she was eager to 1 point out to their aristocratic friends the beautiful and accomplished woman she j was proud, almost vainly proud, to claim as her daughter-in-law. Do It Yourself. One of the commonest traits of human ity, taking it in general, is a disposition to wait for some one else to take a step that every one sees is needed, but which no one makes it his own business to take because it is "everybody's bo inew." Then there are so many people who, while not making a movement to take this step themselves, severely blame other people for not taking it Once, in a crowded street of a great city, a joor, overworked cab horse fell dow n on the pavement. I'uableto move, he lay there on his side, motionless un der the weight of the shafts and harneot. A crowd gathered quickly and encireW the poor beast. The cabman stood help lessly by ; be would bAve been powerless, even if he had not been so stupid, to re lease the horse alone. A man sauntered up. Lis hands deep in his pocket. He glanced scornfully up an down the crowd, and then said, as scomiui. v, 11a. -vo a pmutrj one ot r ' utr. 1 x . . ?:. ..r you that'll lend a hand to help the ,r est- So sayir.g, with a contemptuons shrug of his shoulders, and his hands still in nis pucaw, ne i.kw away. A woman faints in a public t.lace. A struL-irlin auffati? crowd rress.s sirut.gi.n0, sunocat.ng crow.i presws. ,,.).lr,l- v,. ; tv . .... ' i w crowd begin to exclaim, "Stand back ! tdve her air!" But not oue of them makes a move to stand back himself, and the crowd gath- r,B vuwrijr. To-. v "auons, noweyer, presently the right person is found to come for- ward, axsume the direction, and see that the proper thing is done. People who step forward in such an emergency are T I 4 I. - M . A. . a I I LM.a win to nave . gut 01 teauersnip ; m but a gift of leadership is only a disposition : to do the things that must be done. Each one who says to another, in a hearty and bonett way, "Lend me a hand, and we will gt-t the things done," trusting to mutual ue.p anu snggestion to carry it out, may be a leader, and his success when the thing is done, argues rry.-.MK .uu,,Miav .uuu.v silently helped him In the street of a city a private car riage, containing two ladies and a child, had, in turning a corner, locked wheels with a heavy truck. The horses attached to the carriaze were spirited animals, and finding that the carriage did not come when the pulled, they began to rear and plunge from side to side. The driver was help less, and tie ladies screamed with fright and terror. In another moment the carriage might have been overturned on the pavement, and the persons within dragged to injury and perhaps death. But a quiet man who stood by a, rather small man he was, too called ont to another who happened to be next to him, "Take hold of here with me." Together they seized the rear axle of the carriage and quickiy swung it to one side. It was no more than an inch, but it cleared the wheel from the tnuk. The ( carriage moved forward ; the driver, helalessne longer, reined the horses up, and the conveyance disappeared down the street It was in the thought that the leader- .v,; . ..!: ; i. 1 '"r ' " " " """ """"""- saIvsx. and not ia waiting Air others lo do the perfectly obvious thing to be ' 1 1 , , ' done, that we miy become leaders men. l"ja.'A'ji CuitifMinio'i. Falling in Love. "Falling in love," as modern biology teaches us to believe, L nothing more than the latest, highest, and most in volved exemplification in the human raw of that almost universal selective process which Mr. Parwin has enabled tiA to recoenixe throughout tha whole long series of the animal kingdom. The I " "frt, the lower on? Deiag pUc batterfly that circles and eddies in his ! renoa-h from the ground to allow a-rial dance around his observant mate ! orseand cultivator to pass freely on. is endeavoring to charm her br the deli- ! Jet!- By the use of h'i step 11 cacy of hia coloring and to overcome her deM the fn,,t han-este.l, v., tha H;.r.l. of hi. .till Th. i n(1 the lines trimmed or nan died at will. peacock that strata about in imperial pride, under the eve of his attentive I bens, is re illy contributing to the future beauty and strength of bis race by col lecting to himself a harem, through whom be hands down to posterity the valuable qualities which bave gained the admiration of his mates in his own person. Mr. Wallace baa shown that to be beautiful is to be efficient ; and sexual selection ia thus, as it were, a mere lat eral form of natural selection a survival ot me nHCStintne guiw ot muiua, sc- - ., . . ... . . , . tractiverese and mutual adaptability, j producing on the average a maximum of the best properties of the rice in the re sulting offspring. I moat not dwell here upon this aspect of the eae, because it is one with which, since the publication of the "Iecent of Man," all the world has been sufficiently familiar. Grant Allex. The largest owner of real estate in the State of New York, except the Astor and Rhinelander families. Is said to be Miss Slary G. Pinckney. She is seventy-three years old. " A stitch in time saves nine," and if yoa take Hood's Simaparilla now, it may save months of future possible sickness. 1 "i r An Abiding Mystery. Anr man who should attempt to amuse his hearers nowadavs hr tellini a story of a jury who brought in a verdict, " Not guilty, but ifhedoes itairain he will get the fall penalty," would be greet! with cries of "Chestnut, chestnut," and woa!d beasHUred that thing was credited yejrs ao to the far west: was kiiuiorta;ized by Mark Twain in one of hi book., and that nobody believed it ever did happen, any. way. Yet the newspapers reported, and what the newspapers say must be true, thatonly a week asro at .Newark, .VJ. try- ing a case at quarter session-, a jury re- turned a verdict of " not cuilty, but we don't want him to do it az tin," and the verdict mas accepted. In tlieourt of general sessions in this; city last month a jTrr, after spending an unusually long time in con-i h'rir.ir tii'r verdict, came into court, and the cleric asked : " Have you agreed upin your ver dict?" " We have agreed," replied the intelli gent foreman. "What is your verdict, then?" eaid the clerk. " We find," sai l the foreman, safely, and with delitienttion, "that we stand seven for acquittal and five for convic tion." "Then yoa h3ve nt agreed at a'.!." said llie clerE, tvetily. " I guess you have agref.l to disagree," j said the judge, "but yoa had better try ! it again. A boor fellnvr who wm on trial f.r hi' ! iir.. jn ,t .., r.mrt not ion j terrible ahoek by the sudden chaaze from ; that it was so earne.-t. so furcil!s so cir j keenly an xiom hope to ir!ad certainty ,f ! ciuistanlial that even trie bell-boy was release, and then back again to black de spair, in the course of "one minute, occa sioned by the prex.se and exact pompos ity of thejury who was trying him. They, too, had takenalor.g time to con sider their verdict, and the pris-icer, a desperate villain, had a poor ease and looked for iio'hir.g but the worst, begun to thick that they might. sfter, a!!, disa gree. The anxiety apparent on hi? face told how the suspense had racked hitu when he again l'j el thej iry a. they !il- ; inlo court. In aiUriier cases, as a rule, m re form- j ality is used than for ordinarv crimes, so ! I tjje gjjj.j . (i,.!U!t.meii of the jarr, do von find I the ,,r;Rer .,..;... 0fmap!,r in the first .1 ' . ' : .1. . . uckict-, on vici 111 inc iiiu:,ui.eii. . 1. iin:. a serin t'reiereui e. nowever. v .u r , t , . , ' Now, the foreman waa a vouni lawyer i and that reference ia in favor of the , . .... ... ' niitt t n.l hii f t. th.t ...i.ht otijht to I show bis legal and tine judicial mind. i o he paused a moment, evidently repeat ing the question to himself, and tinnily said complacently, "Not gui'.tv. There was a stirof surprise ail over toe ' j an, the prisoner almost fainted with joy. Rut the jurvmea began to j remourtrite with their foreman, and he J ejndesmded t explain. f of course," he said "that we fi, .v. tttituIufr not millr of mnf)W : the first !egref?, as charge I in the indict- aient But we do find hiivj g'iiity of murder in the second degree." The prisoner burst into tears over the disappointment, though he at one tune , 0)IltelllpUte(i a worse with 8to;i(ji. tr but the Ual ntieawn had properK- , ' Md ,he r uUtion of hig .j. . forexactitadean-l ve.-Witv. The recognized locality at present for siory tellers to lay the scenes of jury ara- mas is in the new south, where the "darkies'' furnish ample material to draw from. In Florida, a jury in the Indian Viver county not long ago found, that "the diseased died by the will of tiod or or some other disea.se nnknown to the " 1..-.II.... .1.,!. .....I 1 ..... -"""- i-iiie-i, 0....1.1.I l.i.. show that they were not going to shiel 1 one 01 tneir own color, loun.l a negro prisoner "guilty, with considerable doubt as to whether he is the man." A man ha. I shot his neighbor's hog ! and the owner had hrm prnnecu'.e.l f.,r : malicious injury to property and wanted : hiin fined heavily, but the jury found j "the defendant guilty ia the sum ot i!.o! i in favor of toe hog." j "We find the man who stoie the mule j not guilty," is another verdict vouched j for on good authority, and a weary judge in despair over the tardiness of hiscol- ored jurymen, who delight tospend hours and hours- arg-jefy:ng an.ong them- ! selves over the most trilling points an t often ending them by tossing a penny, is ! said, to have blurte-1 cut in his wrath :! II VOIl I'll n f fi n.l it eenf f v.rir 1-1 . n ' J taktbonru th lnot i,.! IVUf,, these clear instructions were fi..Row! ex- v . . , ' , plicitly or not, tne records do 0"t .no New York i, Novel Training of Grapes. A grape grower in Bristol connty, Mas sachusetts, baa adopted a pi it which is of interest enough to describe, aitboiigti it is not new. He seWVout p i!- at suit- n . ' -.u. i- . able intervals. With s ua eron fet etn wherever there is a vin, and uron these stretches t vo strong wins at a proper j The advantages claimed are: Eise cultivation, and extra quality and quan tity of fruit. The sun ia.i a more? direct effect by this method, and this of course, is an obvious advantage, la many home gardens the old-fahioned trellis is being largely superceded by slake culture, and there is a decided gain in convenience. The following is Congressman Billy ' Mason's latest : A good bishop do vn in I Texa:, near the Rio Grande, on a conCr- . mation tour, stopped over eight with an I nonn.1. lL'iioranL greaser t-imi r i '.a r - . ' " " , ' . . I nisnop was ramer uencate an l trie hanJ i fare of the frontier had been a sore trial I "'r' " ' ' u"u ' ol lia'1 011 w,ln ? '- one oi sue Ligtit ungtvie at na.aK to him. On this evening he saw through ! one of filo:neI- an 1 5stain from f lava, wears a silver medal given him by the gloaming what appeared to be the I fc4in tor t,ro t,,w ,L.V ' then Pv the i of Turkey and a g.dd one from body of a fat hog being rttbbe.1 and scrap- ! Tery ,,t:le nntil the aaitnal is MSiy j t ueen Yictoria. On each are engraved ed by the whole family and he retired ' ,rrt,!- the words "Sebastopol, lckerman. Balak with visions of spare rib. and other pro- J.obanon, l a, there is a school UT Dd Xw-" m cine delec-acies that he expetrte-l to feast teacher who ha an inordinate desire for I Youngest Daughter . f "father of seven i upon ia the morning. But at breakfast sjj,, atlj frequently slumbers daring ' "Papa, I can't I poeitively can t stand thensual Jisheartenicg gru'i appeared j ,;ir! hours. Th-. holar being unable ! the strain : Im-m-must t-t-tell too! I on the pine table. The blsho? could not tlJ wtke hXm a jJ4 a? j had p!anne,, to fctor- t.n,ght " Pnp resist asking mildly what had become cf their book. and sUrte 1 bom. -"Just yiv hick ! What did vn want hog he saw them scraping the evening ; t ', v i j- , , , Peter Tv,n wh.vK.. i.-iK' . I to peaA b for . Now I suppose 1 ve got t oeiore. i "Hog?" sa'ul the greaser. " That wasn't no hog, bishop. We was just f scrubbing the boy for confirmation. " 1 Hay for horses ought to be of the best quality, and aevercverripe. j k : d. ai WHOLE XO. 2021. Wakened at Five. One day last week a gueet at one of th be.t hotels m w, perhaps, just as well not to b more exact was awakened at ! an unearthly hour in the morning by a 1 laud poun.lips; on L,dir "Who's there?" he asked. That is nut jut the way he put the question, but that was the gener.:! effect. "Wake up," answered a voice. "If. 5 o'c'.'xk, and vour train ;r?s in fortv u.i.mte." I It doesn't I'm not ing on any j train, uo way and leave me alone, This isn't exactly the language he used. j As a matter of f.-t. it d,n't come with- in gunaoi 01 11. u k, rwwi -.0 ,-unuay jchfad English, that is the meaning he intended toconvev " Come along, now : come alon." con tinued the voice. "Hustle, or you'll get left. They nil swear :it 90 when they're s'eiT'.v." " ' iet away from that dmr, young fel- l-.w, kt I'll brvak your net k," said-the I KUest. "I gness you're w tkin o: now," said the voice cheerful'.. "Harry up, or you'll miss your 'tus ; she goes iu half an h'jur." With that the voii-e departed. It's vi-tim communed vividly and pictur esquely with hiiiiself unl ii he drupped ot! to sleep. lie had no nire than fairly entered the land of Nod before the voice I was I 11 k ari.n. "Hi, there! Ain't you np yet ? Hump yeixif, now, r.r yon .1 miss yer tram. It w;u!-int do even to hint at the aiwordin - ioftherei.lv. Suffice it to sav conviiii-ed that he had made a mistake. Again the voice departed, and a;r.iin the j guest dropped off to sleep. Rang! banc! banz ! It was the bell- i boy jiouiniing 00 tiie door air-tin. The ! language of the guest was quite shocking to hear. I " You needn't ret mad," said the voice, ! p'.etisant.y. "I ain't calling you this I tii- e. I jtt-t come back to tell yoa you ! don't want no tr iin, after a!:. It's the i feller ivress th ? Lall." (""'. f 't . 1 ' Y. The Flea. The flea is a rna!l animal, but mighty industrious. I; ha no settled place of abobe. Like tmi Arab, it is a nomad, r. u.. . i . v 1 VJ .1.-. t..j Id a. . ; ! ye' i teria'. I T!.e f'ea Is a great jumper. It can ride j along on toe back of its favorite dog, and ; should you be five f.ct aav. with one ! boaod it can ! ur the disUn-e and light 1 i on your coat t oilir, and then with a ! dexterous handspring it drop- down be- i j hind roar collar and is lo,: to sight It ! ir aa old saying that "a thin? nsst be ; to be aPIreciate,L" It i not so j ! r ' jth .fce fiea. If it wa. the Hew ia j -rial! that i: would never be appreciated, j j "A man ii koewn by his works so is a ' ' 2ex You look at the delicate tracery in ' j the Feulpturl nurble: that is man's ! j work. AH at once you feel an excrneiat ing bis- in the meddle of the buck ; that j is the flea's work. It i easv to tell what's biting yon. ! Of course the ilea is carniveroos. bat ! it never kills its. prey. It bites out wiiat i it wants and leaves its victim to suffer, I It never takes; to bites in the same j place. It !ea; merri'y from one spot to i another, browsing as it if.es. its ability saving it from iustant death in many j ca-e. The humble little S?a teaches o to i a-rar.-'j r..i;an.. .....I... . . ! - " ,.v.e.o e ; lie lll'l 1 ry 1 US j circr.-iistan.vs and not to des;,i-e small 1 iionir. ji is not in? easiest thinu in the "or!d to srui'e a.n! l.Kik pleasant and! . cuat vivaciously while a H doing ista. it please on your spine. Then I : w hen you feei that you were not built : right "To $; i,.j. L9arn to Use Both Hands. j Teach the children to ne both hand ; j they wiil tin i the knowledge useful ia af- terlife. Writers' cramf-j can becure-l in no j way but by rest If a 111 in, b? he a copy- isi, c.erw or a ti.egraprt operator, sits i down and writes fir eig'it ten or twelve hour a day. a fist a he can, he must expect to suffer, nn'es. he is unusual! v strong. We have mucnlar Imnds an 1 nervous i-na--tiorit which are lith! to 1 rircrvfru no.l,nlv.-nn, I .' v-vi. u wire .,-1 1. i telegraph operator g-.-ii out of i . i , , - i lie iii'l- rest, i ttiu.k of t-Tct.Dg a cure bv t!i ue iu" lir.i m-n-j is rioTiaen.se. Nature, and cat i-e alone, aided, perhsp, I'atniag witn coel water, which acU . . . as a tor.ic, can re-t .-e a eratnpe 1 or tireil arm. Why shouldn't people w hojhavea great d-al of wri ing to tlo learn to write with both ha-i !? Then, when one need. a rest, the other . an ba oa dutv. A". Y. L-l:f-r. Blind Staggers. Th's dieie th fi produce r:th apparent I caued by indigestion. "s'ion of the brain, . i. o.r sight and of gan- j j eral nervo'is poa -r, to t'nat t':ie pigs stag- j ger about ami run against obstacles j which may be in their way, as if blind. ! Very soon they fall over and become con- j vulsetl. o.erfeeding is the cais, and ! ; this fault is quite cotu-n o, for, a pigs t i are greedy and are usually given ail they j ; will eat, they eat too tmeh anl suffer! i froni indigestion, with the result above i mentionetl. Treatment is generally use less when t!ie brain is aff.-ctel. A prob- able rea.edv is to rve .,n iv. nnr . - -., - - r - -- - - "' vu. j one senior in years in this country, and ho certainly the most remarkable centenarian in Great Britain, was the 1 other day a.hnitte I in hU native town o Elgin a member of the local lodge of 01 i Ftliowa. i urner ne sen is nu tnensag-s over anotn- I strut ted ia changed for the better. IV , er wire : if the owner of a few horses j t-ore anjr Mone I3 u( tl U-d 0f th ; rides one t::i th animal can do no more J tJ aiaca.laiuize.1 is brought to a ; work, he gives h'm a ret f.r awhile, j de, the high piints being cut down Jut so if a map. suffering f.-o-rt a cramp f an.l the low places G.le-i with the earth in the h in 1 and arm wints tog-1 rnr-,1, taken fmra the high M.ints. Country Roads. Fmya trie Xw York Mail and pre. We take a special interest in the sub ject of country road-making. There in, it seems to us, a general and lamentable lack of sytmatic and well directed effort in the direction of road-makisg among the farmers of tbi cconfry. We srw pleaaed tv crwsrvw tha' is m eral Sfa'aa j the L!atiirew bve taken n tuwth- ject and are proposing the enactment of laws for the iiunrovementof public high way. It will be remembered that ft.iv ernor Hi!!, of New York, ea'.led the at ention of the Legislature to this" subject iu his last annual message. " Our highways in the rural districts," the Governor said, "are, as a general role, in an nnsatisiactory condition, many of them being almost iin passible without geat discomfort daring large partiocs i f the year, while few aw keit in a proper state of repair, f hy r far inferior to those throughout Eun'and and. several other countries io E'irope, while the public roads in New England are con spicuously better than otharst" A correspondent of the Buffalo f 'wtrirr prt-aeLls a vivid and truthful picture of the uiasoer in which theaonual buoiriet of road repairing is conducted under our present law. We quote from bis letter : About the first of June the man who j ha9 a tas jj against him will t warnei to work hia road Ux. At ; s oVioc on the morning in question j he liiaj9 hjs iow nJ gpe, into the j w-on reporUto the path master. He ; hitcUe4 bu team the pIo ,nJ p;0 a few furrows in the ditch, and then a'.l hands eit down on a fence corner to give the poor horses a rest Af;er d.seusning the crops and telling what a wonder.nl cow that air heifer's goiu' to be and h.iw much the old woman and gals think of tiiat old horie, which ov-cupies about an hour, the team is hitched to the ra;r and some of the louse earth is scraped in heat's into the middle of the rd ; then comes s.nother rest for the horses and another series of yarns, and then diurier. After dinner a sa is discovered that needs a load of dirt, so it is throw n into the wagon, and all go to see that it is safely deposited. "When 5 o'clock comes the owner of the team, wagon, scra-r an. I plow is credited with a day's work f.r himself, a day'. work fur his team, a day's work for hU plow, a day's work for hi scraper and a day's work for his wagon, in all five days' work, and probably five or six other men are credited with one or more day's work, when one energetic man and a pair of horses could have done mure work in half a day than the whole of them, and the road is left in sji h con dition as to make hiin who rides over it sea.sitk. If it has been sm.W'thed down, the top of the road lied is perfectly tlat. i an l when the first heavy rain conies the wheels cut down and throw the dirt no until the edges are higher than the cen ter, and the road is thereafter a regular mudhole." IMPROVEMENT IX XFW IER-!:V. At last year's session of the New Jersey Legislature an act was passed which is ! -rU-in" ?reat satisfaction in that State. It ;,,;;...! the t'.inntv Road law. the.. I vet i . . anti purpose 01 wnicn is ute acquirement, 1 - ,ii-, I improving, and maintenance of pubnc , r. . . -tj tJr.,.;, n- 1 roads. Concerning its oteraaons, a - . I proiuiiieuk resi.-iciifc ui t .!... I said: i "The County Road act provides that any public road in any county of the State may be declared a county road by the 'onnty Iitrd of Chosen Freehol ierw in that county, and be'omes such by the tiling of a map with the clerk cl the county defining the road ; and tiiat mi.n ey may lie rainetl by atith board for tlw contractioD and care of all such roa.U in any county. I'nion CouDty is entit!el to thecreiiit of this new system. The act was prepared and presented by its citizens, who have for several years deemed seme such road law a necessity for toe permanent improvement of the public roads in central New Jersey. "I'nion county ha, availed itself of this new law to a greater extent than any other county in the tate. The ltoard of Freeholder, unanimous in fa vor of the law, proceeded at once to de clare as county roads the principal mads leading from Elizabeth to Rahway, fr 0.1 1 tab way to Weettield. from Kozabeta through Westtieid to I'iaiddeld, front Plainrield through West field to Spring field, from Springfield to Summit, tn in j .-tjtth to pring'leld j iM ,1 arij fifty t; fty thousand dol lars have a! road y been rai-! for mac- ) a' IJLiUW.iil l.IL I -'. -5 AO4 ,01 1 11' ! them in repair for oee year. They have j all been surveyed, the ma; have lieen I filed with the County Clerk, and hua j drei's of lalairer. most'y Italian, are now engaged in their mnst ruction. t me i cr'wbers, of w hich there are haif a doen or more in the county of I'nion. are run ! ninz to their full capacity, cracking stone for top dressing, while srore of teams ire hauling stone in blocks for the solid ! r.,nn.lai..n . t..n ia ikmI in the ex j construction of these coantv r-is cept track rot-k, which is all quarried from the roonntains in Westiield. This n k abounds in thes mountain, and the iippiy is inexhaustible. "Trie whole appearance rf the locali ties where these road are heieg eon- "The new coitty r-a.Ls are very p pc- Mar. Those few w ho feared the expense j at firt are now more than satistied with i the imnrovemenf as thev DMmu a'd f "ie wipnnenien.ii ss ti.ey pnigres. . ao it is safe to say that there is not a tax payer in the county that would have i he new law repealed, or the old condition of things restored, to save the finail ex pense inecarred. County r'ads under the new law will soon become gecera! in most of the counties in the Slate, fstc- i ia;iy if buiit w ith the ecouomy, care, and thoroughness which characterize the preseut Board of Chosen Freeholder I'nion County. We want more coiitty roads next year, and the present btard to construct them, or a board equally a good." Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond. Ya.. the coIorel clergyman who won fame by his sermon. "The Sua l)i Move," is growing old, but his fifty years of preach ing do not seem to have leawtied th' vige.r with which he presents his favorite i theme-. j Barnard McKiernan. of 1'h ' lixvii. stop yoa l"1 A New York heiress, wh.we income is a thousand dollars a day, U having a piano painted by a professional decora tor, which wiil cost fifteen hundred tkil-kira,
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