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VOL. XXXYIII.
Someisd Coiinlj National . Bank
Of Somerset, Pa.
EsUtlithed, 1877. Organbwi ai i Njtiena!. 1890
CAPITAL. $50,000.
Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't
Wm. B. Trease, Vice Pres't.
Milton J. Pritts, Cashier.
Directors:
Wm. H. Kconta,
J-uiti pt-..1lt.
Jn 11. Simler,
-Hin'l Pnrder,
J..nas M uk,
lian-:(atrti Snyder,
N'ii S. Wiiier,
ariul!ie MllTTt,
M m. En'Uey.
rntnmrf i4 t.i, rv.uk n ill rmivr the most
Lln-rai treaimcm coit-ifient wish sale banking.
Partii- wi-hing lo w-r.d nK-ncv eat or west can
I am nnxi'iu 1 y oialt ttr nny .n.(,r.t.
Monry aod vahiai).' f4-t:rel l.y one nf Iio
Nid ten-hraud i;h iaoH approved Uuie
.r.e.tion maJe in a!l jri of the Vnlied
Stales. moderate.
Ai-ouui and ln-iu solieted. marrfm.
-THE-FIRST
NATIONAL BANK
OF
Somerset, Penn'a.
DEPOSIT ttCCEIVCDIN LARGE A N D SMALL
AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS MERCHANTS, FARMERS.
STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED.
-DISCOUNTS DAIL.V.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
LaKc M. MkKt. W. H. JliLI.EB.
Jmp L. Fr.-H. Chas. 15. Fi.-hi;,
Johs R. S.'TT, i.n. K. Stll,
Fun. V. 1!iil- kin.
Kuwakii S i i.c, :
Vai.estisk Hav,
Am.kew Park tit,
; : : l'i:riijrxT
Vice Ti liii:nt
: : : Cashier.
Tlie funds n.l "vnntie of thi r.-snk
ait KK-tir.-ly pnt-t-.i in iIbra!e-.l (V.r
Ii.hb I!(ircriair-rrof f.-. The only Safe
made absolutely l.urgUr-proof.
STOP! LOOK! LiSTES
EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW
WHERE TO CET THE HOST OF
OF THIS WORLI S COODS FOR
THE LEAST MONEY?
WE HAVE THEM
-.zzz.zzz:: Dish es j::::z-::
WHITE, YELLOW, GLASS,
AND ROCKINGHAM WARE,
. IN GREAT VARIETY.
BASKETS, LOOKING-GLASSES,
HANGING LAMPS, STAND LA MI'S
Lamps of all rescriptins.
Novelties and Oddities in China
THE PLACE FOR
FANCY k STAPLE GROCERIES
13 AT THE STOKE OF
ED. B. COFFROTH,
SOMERSET. FA
DOWN,
DOWN
THEY GO !
THE PRICES
-ON"
BLACK ASTRACHAN,
AND-
Persiana Capes!
On all tjes. W to 4! We have n y. maiiy to
m it you wai.t
A BARGAIN,
Come iron. Wlfri a lady '" Femaca or an
Astra, tan t a, be it maniiira
WISE PURCHASE.
A trfe rrr-prrt KTle i Nmnd to !at for two or
three at kt- T: r are a warm,
eomfonah.e trrmenu ea.ry V"t on and
taken oil. and a ui'at.lcanifie Ur all
toe Tea' around wear. jwt a fn
fc.'ual.le H. prai!l fali.aud
nut lor rool rven.nifi iu
trie summer.
TEN JAP. SCIIKEXS,
Toeorne dewn in fri'. a well a. d.-.x from
Uie tot. !. il. w !..- inT are ...a-
ini r- one I- U. f one. to tM
to ! fine, to T wo Ki re rereen,
(4 to A Hha-r bara.ili TOO
ecu are w ben you come.
41 FIFTH AVE.. PITlSBrBGH. PA.
SWEDISH
44 All-Healing Salve'
FOR
NErRAUilAIS THE HE.P.
W EAK BACK, OR PAIN'S IX
flliE OB CHEST. WEAKNESS
IX THE JOINTS. SWELLINGS,
AfidaJl Rheumatic rain. orea In from two
to eignt day.
FOE tal-I T
S. MAKCTJS,
S Via. Or at Yowraj t nij Store. Botnem-t. Pa
HORNE
WARD
XOa 44.
CURES PERMANENTLY
Snfferaxt Saara ta Pain.
11 Sumner St., Crrclaad. Ohio,
Anf 1L1
In ltl T rriTed my m eluoblnj citH
Buu; Ktrered yean in iun and eouid sot Lift
my arm. It aa finaiiy eired ly C Jaeool
Oil JACOB ETZEX&FEKGE&.
Trif'mnniila Chea-rfally Rwwd.
Clironio lam the Heat Cure.
rTtres
TixrrMircc.
rr. a J rX aw AAA A JL m Aaa aal aai
rOOREfifflDAT1-
Vg1jnds, Clrrs, Swellings
by DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
iiaCHAS.A.VOtElEfl Cj. BALT0. M
It is to Your Interest
TO BCY YOUR
Drugs and Medicines
or
JOHH N. SNYDER,
SUCCESSOR TO
Biesecker k Snyder.
None but tl.e I'Urwt and best ltept in stock,
and a heti limy bean!e inert by Ktand
inp. as certain of tlieni do, we de
stroy them, rather than ini
Iose on our customers.
Yon can depend on having your
PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS
filled with care. Our price are as low as
l,:iy other first-class house and on
ma:iy articles much lower.
The people of this county seem to know
this, and haTe given us a large, share of their
patrons,'', and we fha'.l still continue tig:T
them the very larrt goods for their money.
Do not firbT-t that we make a sjaecialty of
FITTIXGr TRUSSES.
We guarantee satisfaction, and, if you have
had trouble in tliis direction,
give us a call.
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES
in preat variety ; A full set of Test Lenses.
Come in and have your eyes examined. No
charge for examination, and we are confident
we ran nu:t you. Co rue and see us.
Fspectfully,
JOHN N. SNYDER.
Oils! Oils!
Tt Standard iil Company, of Pltifbnrtrb, Pa
makea a eriatlTy of mauufanurinar for tha
Ikhbctuc trade tile finest brauda of
Illuminating & Lubricating Oils
Naphtha and Gasoline,
Thai can be made from Petrolenm. We challenge
comuaruon with every known
PRODUCT OF PETROLEUM.
If yon wiah the mast uniformly
Satisfactory Oils
IS THE
.American Xarket,
A-A fur our. Trade for Somerset and virtu! ty
supplied by
i
' (Wit A BEERrr IKS
I FiiEASK tfc Kiitt-ER.
I ae;-3-w. Sokkriikt, Pa.
I Pianos - Organs
The lTTjvnTif1 method of fanpnine rtriiur cf Pi
iur. in vent! hy i, t- rHrtt of :hr m'. iruMrtant
iniinveni-iib- pvt HjjiU mkii)E tbt-Ui-atniimut
mtrt nriiy m'frif! hi fcne, atore tiuraitie, aud
ln lUc.j to grl out o! tu.
lurb the Vum k Hamlin Ortrn otid Piano e
chii.y in thai tiH-h w tte'-liiefexceilenoe in
any moicl in-tnini'-nt, quaifty oftfioft. Other
lhfiii. taHieh m-i-oruuit are niuf-h li-$othan
thi. An m-tmmvnt wiih unmuiral Kmc
nt hf- llliiratt-d -ntnUrm-n of new tjlt-
ii)tniuced ibis lhmoii, . nt int-.
Mason 6c Hamlin
Organ and Piano Co.,
B'ifToX. NEW YORK. t'HIOAGO.
400 Acres.
37th Year.
SALESMEN WANTED.
To reprwnt one of the larrK M KSERIE9 la
lb rt;ritry. We guarantee aiiHfa-tiou uiaileu.
tanerK Nuprevt.au experienraa ncea.aaary. Sala
ry and it from start. Addrera, aialinr are,
II 00 pes Bros. & Thomas
Vapie Arenue Nuraeriea, West heter Pa.
TEIT OF PARTITION.
To Andrew Kunkei and John Knnkl. rw'S-
tm 1a Mianvcea-a i..wnii!p. iimiwii.v.,
Pa. : ourad Kunkei. t":dine In Richland
T..wnhi:a. 1 amtjfia fKioty. Pa : f'hriaiian
Kunkei. reliiir, at EemrManv. Beaver t'o.,
Pa. ; A'lam Kuukri. reaidinj; Ir Joiintwwr,
k.xe Aun Kunkei. l!iurmarnel with J.ihn
it.han. rewtiti in Johntown, Pa. : Jfsry
Kur.kei liuamiamed witn J.n Kee. rei
di ! m I aT.naTowiihip. imhrit't. Ia.
Yan are bi-n-l-y nMifird l bat is pnnaiaaee of a
Writ of i-ni:i.ar. limed out rf the orphan 'xwirt
of st"et louiriv. 1'aU. and to me irreted. I
wili hol-l an inqueat on the premtw on the real
ewate of Andrew Kiiuk.-i, lfurd. aituate In
paint Townhip. Jineret Countv. Pa., on Fri
day the IMI davof Mbt. a ben and where
ymi ran aitewi n you uiiu
t-liritirf ' Ofthil, i
K. S. Mt MILLEV.
BtM-rifT.
apr.. 1-aaj. I
JP Mar.hhes JSr
j J KimpieM. wwa-t durable. eo-
Iimjiil l SU a-
VTiqoi 30 Orain. Deaoa it ready fur the market.
Threshing Engines pj.'-el.w
MilK P:iHi7le !Haelitrp. Hsy Preme, and Btan
dard ln.pieme.ota irenerally.
A. B. FAByCHAB OjMPAXY (Umited.)
Pen.1 fcrrlllii. I Penusylvanla Afririlta ra
traied Ctalfjos worKs, York, Pa.
Sure 9J?k& V Cure.
son
omer
SOMERSET,
THE "DICKENS" GALLERY.
"Within the town of Weiasnichtwo
This famoubuiiJinR stands
And there the pic! are-lovers go ,
From all adjacent lands ;
And once I also chanced to sti,,
Among the rest, lo see
Tlis exhibition of the day
The Dickens Gallery.
An 1 first the face of Little Nell
Entiled on me from the wall.
And many a maiden form as well
Around the spacious hall.
There Little iKirritt's weary face
Recalled the Marshals? ;
And child-wife Dora filled with grace
The Dickens Gallery.
Sweet Dolly Yard en stood beside
The Pecksniff sisters twain,
And lit tie Dot and Florence vied
With Kate and Madelaine ;
"And Sairey Camp the next I found
With Uetsy Prig at tea.
And spreading scandal all around
The Dickens Gallery.
And opposite it a motley crew,
Siuike, Toots, and Marley's ghost,
Micawber, tjueers, and Pickwick, too.
And other", quite a host.
And Captain Cuttle, walking out,
With thoughtful face, we see,
Unpaged in ' making notes " about
The Dickens Gallery.
And fraternizing in a row
Sit Wegg and Carrier John,
And Scrooge, and Trotty Veck, and Jo
Xo longer moving on "
And Barkis, " willin" waitin' still
I'pon the wall, we see.
And many more whose portraits fill
The Dickens gallery.
And last within a tarnished frame,
A lace well known to me.
And, written undt raeath the name,
" I spells it with a we."
Then homeward wended I my way,
Across the Northern Sea.
In hope to find, some other day.
The Dickens Gallery.
ODD UNCLE BILL.
HT M AKY KYLE DALLAS.
Acy one who visited Mr. Norris at his
fine place on the licd-xm would be sure
to notice, after awhile, an old men who
wandered about the place dressed all
summer in a w hite shirt and linen vest
and trousers, and a fisherman's hat, and
ail w inter in a wool dressing-gown. He
was a meek, tall old man, and people at
first took him for a superannuated old
servant! but, finaiiy, his nice linen, bis
neat hands, and a certain well-bred tone
of voice, if, by chance, they beard Lira
ask :
"Who is that?"
If they inquired of Mi Belle, the eld
est unmarried daughter, she would an
swer :
"An old connection of mamma's; I
can't see why pa has him here horrid
thing!" - -
If they asked Mr. Noma's maiden sis
ter, she would reply :
" One of the blessings my late sister-in-law
brought with her into the family.
A miserable, ne'er-do-well of a rela
tion." If the question was propounded to pom
pous Mr. Norris, as he sat in bis arm
chair on the piazza, or drove about his
projwrty in one of his handsome vehicles
he would answer :
" Well, that's a sort of a relation of my
wife's, a ne'er-do-well. The black sheep
of the flock, you know. Always is one in
every family. For her sake she was a
very benevolent woman we let him
stay about He prefers eating by him
self; he's very stupid, very ; but she
wanted him here, and she had her way,
poor soul. I grudged her nothing. Yes,
that's poor Bill."
But if it was Miss Phemie of whom the
question was afked, she always an
swered :
" Why, that is Uncle BilL He' a lit
tle eccentric, but the dearest old soul. I'm
very, very fond of him, and be of me.
Dear old Uncle EilL"
Certainly Phemie was the old man's
only friend in that pompons household.
She it was who went np to his little room
with his meals, and sat with him while
be ate them ; w ho saw that he had the
newspaper and bis pipe ; who had fixed
that little, out-of-the-way place with a
pretty carpet, book shelves, a student's
lamp, lots of ornaments in worsted and
painted silk ; who neyer received her
monthly allowance without buying some
thing for him.
His pretty, snow white shirts were her
rift, and she saw that they were "done
op " properly. The flannel dressing
gown he wore in winter was of her con
trivance. In fact, up in that dormer roof
ed room there were hours that were more
home-like than 'any spent in the great
parlors or the big .dining-room, where
Miss Belle was only affectionate to " pa "
when she wanted him to give her more
money to spend ; and Miss Norris, the el-;
der siiiter of the master of the hou0
made bitter speeches in the pauses of the
needle work in which she was perpetual
ly engaged. Sometimes directed at her J
brother, sometimes at Belle, sometimes
at Phemie, but all wordtvja circum
spectly and clothed in such a guise of
piety that no one dared resent them. I
" What comfort yon are, Uncle Bill," j
Itiemie would say, as she poured out the
old man's coffee. j
And what a comfort you are, Phemie. j
If I w as a rich ancle, just home from In- j
dia, like those in plays and novels, yon
couldn't make more of me."
" I shouldn't make so much, uncle,"
Phemie would answer, " for you'd be a
victim of liver complaint, and that would
make yon ill-natured and you'd scold
me, and say naughty words. They all
do, yon know. Sow, you haven't any
money or stocks to worry about like poor
pa ; and you're not irritable, and I like
to be with you. You're like mamma, too.
You have her eyes."
" You are Susan's image," the old man
would say. " Ik yon remember the day
that you came to the hospital with
berr
" Yes," said Phemie. " I was just 12
years old, and mamma was crying over
the telegram.
4 My only brother, rhemie,' she said.
So sick that he may die, and so poor ;
that he's in a hospital.'
Then we came and I saw yon in bed,
and after awhile we brought you home,
and ma nursed yon well again.
"And died berocl( just as I got about,"
said Uncle Bill. " And your father and
the rw-t did not like a shabby old man
around the house. Well, I was lucky to
ESTABLISHED 1827.
PA., WEDNEDAY,
get a home, I suppose, and luckier sill to
find such disinterested love aa yours.
You're like Susan. She was the dearest
girl that ever lived. Yea, yoa're like Su
san." !
Bat they did not always talk thus, as
they were very bu?y cfien, over books ;
over Phemie's embro'ufery, for which he
designed patterns; teaching her little dog
a thousand tricks ; feeding the blind kit
tens Phemie save.! frora drowning; mak
ing a little well, frora which the canary
drew buckets of water. ; And Phemie and
the old man would wander off to the riv
erside, where be would fish, very seldom
catching anything, and she would read or
kniL
Xoce of the family knew of these inti
macies. Belle, older than Phemie by six
years, preferred that she should consider
herself a child until Miss Norm was
married. And Aunt Marcia dttestested
her for her resemblance to the sister-in-law
who had never been congenial."
Xo one in the boose knew, but some
one not of the household did, and shared
at times in them.
Sometimes, when the old man's rod
dangled over the water, a younger angler
would take his place near Mm a hand
some young fellow, with black hair, and
the brightest eyes in the world ; and
then the hours went by like hours in a
dream, and Phemie felt happy as she had.
felt when a child by her mother's side.
And Uncle Bill laughed, aud told fisher
men's stories. As for the young man, si
lent or talkative, he was always charm
ing. So thought Phemie. She was sev
enteen ; she had never had a lover. She
was well read in romantic lore. What
happened was only to be expected. In a
little while two lovers sat beside old Un
cle Eill on the banks of the pretty stream
and walked together as far as the little
gate in the hedge that nobody else used,
and. did not hide from the old man that
they parted with a kiss.
Fred Howard was net a fashionable
man only the son of a poor widow, who
had made a book-keeper of her boy.
What holidays he had spent he spent at
home. This was his midsummer vaca
tion ; he was bright, and good, and hand
some, but Mr. Xorris surely would have
had other views for his youngest daugh
ter. And so, one day, 03 the two, having
met accidentally on the road were talking
together, with an expression on either
face that made an old lady, who drove
past, remark to her husband :
" Hiram, take my word for it, them's
beans." 1
Mr. Xorris marched np behind the pair
and appeared like a very florid ghost be
tween them, with an ;
" I was not aware, Mr. Howard, that
you had ever been introduced to my
daughter."
The young man blushed, and then an
swered : '
"But. I have, sip by my friendr-fcef
ucc!e."
" Oh r replied Mr. Xorris, lowering his
tone a little. " Then you know my broth
er, Mr. Whipple Xorris, in the city ? He
is a relative I am proud of worth half a
million, if he is a cent."
" I have often heard of Mr. AVhipj.le
Xorris," replied theyoans man, frankly.
" But I have nevetmet him. I owe my
introduction to Miss Phemie Norris to
her ancle William ah ah.' The young
man suddenly remembered that he did
not know Uncle Bill's last name.
Her Uncle William !" repeated Mr.
Xorris. " Euphemia,doew young Howard
allude to your poor mother's unfortunate
brother, Bill?"
Pbemie bowed her Lead.
" Young Howard !" repeated Mr. Xor
ris, " That person has no authority to in
troduce my daughter. Consider yourself
a stranger to her henceforth."
Phemie looked at Fred. Fred looked
at Phemie.
"It is too late, sir," the latter raid. "I
love your daughter, and have won her
heart. She has promised to lie my wife."
Mr. Xorris stared at him, lifted his eye
brows, stared again through his double
eye-glass, and spoke sternly :
" I have one daughter who is a credit
tome. Lord McTab paid great attention
to her last winter. He has written to
ask my consent to her nuptials, which I
shall give, and he will return in the fail
to be married to her. An English noble
man would hardly like a brother-in-law
who makes, perhaps, twenty dollars per
week. My eldest daughter, Mrs. Tim
kins Trotter, has married a gentleman
who is esteemed the wealthiest man
in Mine vi He. My son is with !my broth
er in Xew York a man I am proud of.
Xow, I shall never make a fuss about my
Phemie. I only tell you this : If she
marries yon, I disown her. You can take
her, if she chooses. I shall never give
her a penny. She may have her clothes
and trinkets, and go. If she obeys me
she shall be, married or single, well pro
vided for. She is p'ain and nnprepofi
sing, but I know a young clergyman who
will attain eminence, who only needs my
permission to propose1. She might do
very well, with a proper portion, for him.
She has a thick waist, a large mouth, and
ordinary features," continued Mr. Xorris,
turning his eye-glass on bis daughter, but
a clergyman should not look for beau
ty." " She is the prettiest girl I know, and
if I may earn her bread and batter, I can
do it," said Fred Howard. " Yon give
her to me, sir?"
" Xo ," replied Mr. Xorris. " She may
give herself to you, if she chooses to be a
bepjrar."
Then she walked away.
As Phemie and Fred stood looking at
each other, Uncle Bill's head arose above
the shrubbery.
" I give my permission," he said, with
more than usual dignity, " and I am her,
mother's brother. I think you will make
her happy, young Fled Howard."
The maiden aunt and the sister, who
was to be the bride of an English noble
man, led Phemie a sad life of it for
awhile ; but one morning she walked out
of her home in her simple church-going
costume, and was married in the little
chapel of St. John. Old Uncle Bill, in
his old-fashioned broadcloth suit, went
with them, and gave the bride away.
Mrs. Howard was there, and a school
friend of Phemie's, and a fellow-clerk of
Fred'a. Xone of the Xorris family. A nd
after the wedding they were to go upon
a little trip." Phemie's trunks had been
sent to Fred's mother's little boose. The
bride was not as happy as she might
have been nnder other cireucastan.-es,
bat at home no one had ever loved or
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considered her since her mother's death ;
and Fred loved her, and she loved him.
Her only trouble was that she must leave
old Uncle BilL
That is hard," the old man said ; very
bard, Phemie," And then Fred held oat
his hand.
" Uncle Bill," he said, "we shall live in
a very plain way, but if yon will live
with us we will do our best to make you
happy, and shall be happy ourselves."
"Will you be so, boy?" cried Uncle
Bill. A poor old man like me eh ! re
ally r
. " Beally V cried rhemie, dancing with
joy.
" Really and truly, heaven knows."
And Fred grasped her hand and shook
it " You brought as together, Urcle
Bill," l.e said.
" It'B lucky," answered Uncle Bill, "for
brother-in-law Xorris has turned me out
of his house for aiding and abetting you
told me that I might be town poor, if
I liked. I didn't, but I just said, 4 Very
well ; I'll go.'"
" I'll get your things and take them to
mother's," said Fred. " You'll be com
pany for her while we're gone; after that
one home for ail of as,"
Then the old man looked at them with
a smile ; looked at Mrs. Howard with an
other, and then laughed his sweet, good
natured laugh.
"You're two good, honest, generous
children," he said. And you're Fred's
mother, ma'am ? But I've an explanation
to make. Five years ago my sister Susie
beard that I was sick and at a hospital,
and took me to her house. She nursed
me back to tolerable health, and was very
good to me. Then, sweet, angel, she
died, ."he thought that being in a hos
pital meant poverty. I was paying fifty
dollars a week there. I have a fortune
that even Mr. Xorris would respect, but
seeing what he was, I took a fancy that I
would find !out what hia children were.
I've lived about the place as old Uncle
Bill, a poor relation. I wasn't wanted ;
even at the table I was despised by all
but Phemie. She. dear little girl, has
been a daughter to me, I told sister Sa
sitn the truth on her death-bed, and I
promised to d- any best by this sweet
girl ; and my money has been growing,
under good care, for live years. Why,
had I been the beggar they thought me,
I'd gone to an almshouse rather than eat
Xorris's bread all these years. As it was,
I enjoyed the joke. To think bow he
could have respected me if he had
known the truth. How he scorned me
for being poor, when I was a wealthy
man ; but let that pass ; we are happy
f together, and what need we care T'
There was great excitement at the Xor
ris mansion when the news reached its
inhabitants, and Mr. Xorris sent a formal
forgiveness to his daughter.
She was a good girl, and felt glad that
this was so, but she only begin to know
w hat real bapuiiiajsa. was. in. .tixa home
where she and those who truly loved her
lived contentedly together for many long;
and pleasant years.
In An African Camp.
The moment a suitable camping-ground
is reached, the loads are stacked, and.
with astonishing rapidity, born of fear
and daily drill, a strong, circular thorn
fence is built, insido w Inch we feel safe
yet not quite safe, for no man dares lay
down his gun or leave a single article ex
posed to the clutches of the thievish
warriors. These may be prevented from
stealing, but can not be punished if
caught in the act ; so that for them the
attempt is only rare sport for us, a con
stant source of danger and worry. Soon
the natives begin to appear. First the
women and married men arrived, th
former with clean-shaved heads, neck
and breast loaded with chain and bead
necklets, body enveloped in dressed ox
hide, and arms and legs covered with
thick iron wire coiled continuously
around to the weight of from twenty to
thirty pounds. Their features are good,
with but Pule trace of the negro, while
their bearing is, compared with the ne
gro, distin l!y aristocratic The" married
men, or e'dere, are more scantily dress
ed, osa-ally in a kaross of monkey or by
rax kin which partially covers the body
bi:'. w ith little regard to decency.
As the day wears on parties of w arriors
arrive from the various districts, re
splendent in red clay and grease, with
w hich they are liberally plastered al
most their only dress. Nothing else cov
ers their magnificent forms but a small
kid-skin over tlie shoulders. They march
ia single file, holding their enormous
speere blades two feet and a half long
vertically in their hands, their buffalo
hide shields depending at their sides.
They chant a war-song in stentorian
tones, and go through a variety of evolu
tions, which show in this rudimentary
drill their military instincts. The ques
tion ot the howja has now to lie settled,
with much decorous speechifying, for,
like the North American Indians, they
are born orators. The amount settled,
the iron wire and beads are sometimes
divided amicably, sometimes thrown into
the midst of the warriors to be fought for
as by beasts of prey. On these occasions
blood is frequently drawn. Joseph
Thompson, in trrilmrr' Maynzint.
Electric Currents of the Skin.
An interesting study has leen lately
made by Heir Tarchenoff of electric cur
rents in the skin from mental excitation.
Unpolarizable clay electrodes, connected
with a delicate galvanometer, were ap
plied to various parts hands, fingers,
feet, toes, noes, ear and back, and, after
condensation of any currents which oc
curred during rest, the effects of mental
stimulation were noted. Light tickling
with a brush causes, after a few seconds'
period of latency, a gradually increasing
strong deflection. Hot water has a like
effect, cold or the pain from a needle
prick a less. Sound, light, taste and
smell stimuli act similarly. If the eye
have been closed some time, mete open
ing of them causes a considerable deflec
tion from the skin of the hand. It is re
markable that these skin currents also
arise when the sensations are merely
imagined. Mental effort produces cur
rents varying with its amount If a per
son is in tense expectation the galvanom
eter mirror makes irregular oscillations.
In all the experiments it appeared that,
with equal nerve excitation, the strength,
of the skin currents depended on the de
gree to which the part of the skin bear
ing the electrodes was furn;sbed with i
sweat glands. Electrician. 1
ers
The Earliest Animals.
The earliest traces that can be found
of any living thing are the remains of
sea-weed and of the club-mosses that
grow in wet places. Soon, however, ani
mals appeared, and the layers of Silurian
rock are found in some place to be en
tirely composed of the shells of animals.
Sometimes these shells are very small,
but some are larger than those of any
animal now in existence. Nor is it by
any means certain that small animals
were created first Little and big seem
to have existed together. We find the
shells of animals so small at to be invisi
ble, except under the microscope, bide by
side with shells four feet broad. The
framework of the tiniest creature which
helped to make up these layers of rock is
extremely beautiful.
The little coral animals commenced
their busy career during this age, build
ing limestone resfs and making the beau
tiful chains coral which can still be seen
on the limestone clifk in the Western
States. Another kind of animal, related
to the coral poly, and called a "crinoid,"
must have greatly added to the beauty of
the Silurian seas. We find its remains
in the shape of a curiously carved, six
sided body. From each of five sides a
lily-like arm was sent off, and the animal
was fastened to the rock by a stem run
ning from the center of the sixth side.
Professor Agaasiz called them "stone
lilies.'
Other layers of rock are composed
wholly of the remains of queer animals
called "trilobites." They belonged to the
same family as our lobsters, and varied
in sire from one-sixth of an inch to two
feet in length. There were two great de
pressions running lengthwise in their
bodies, which divided them into three
lobes. They had also the same ring-like
division running around the body as are
seen in lobsters. They swam on their
backs, and had the power of rolling
themselves into a ball. Probably this
was done to defend themselves against
some foe. Many were caught in this
position when the mud was changing
into rock, and kept for us to see. In
other layers of rock are found fossils of
different animals of the lobster kind.
Nothing like these old animals is found
now.
So many moliu&ks that is, soft ani
mals with hard shells, like the oysters
then swam in the waters, that this age is
sometimes called the "Age of Mollusks."
They w ere of all sizes and shapes, and
there were millions aad millions of them.
There was one, that belonged to the same
family as our nautilus, which was four ,
feet across. Another resembled a nauti
lus unrolled. It was from ten to fifteen
feet long, and measured a foot in breadth.
The remains of fishes are found, for the
first time, in some of the upper layers
belonging to this period. In Wales, ia
the land of the Silures, they claim to
have found one layer composed entirely
offish-bones.
Now, there is something we must keep
ia mind when we speak of "remains" in
geology, or else we shall be disappointed
when we see these foasils. If you should
ever break open a stone, and have the
great good fortune to find in it the re
mains of a leaf, what would those remains
be like? A real leaf? No, nothing, but
the impression of one. No wood no
pulp. Simply a picture engraved on the
hard rock. So, also, with the remains of
a fish, no body, no bones on ly an im
pression ; but so true a one that geologists
can tell even the way it swam, and, in
some cases, the nature of its food! As
yoa were told before, these remains are
called fossils. What a thrill of pleasure
it must give to find one yourself to
think that little bit of world history has
remained sealed op in a rock for centur
ies, waiting for you to find it !
So far, then, as we have journeyed in
our travels through the back ages, we see
a world of water, with such plants and
animals as live in water. It is true that
little patches of dry land existed, as at
the close of the first period ; and these
had even been increased a little by the
addition of beaches. But these bits of
land were so small, compared with the
vast expanse of ocean, that we are justi
fied in calling it a "world of water." It
must have been a very thickly inhabited
"water-world," since whole layers of rock
were made from the animals which swam
in its depths or paddled on its 6urfrce.
.Sj. Xieh ibwf'r Mjij.
A Persevering Prisoner.
"Perseverence will accomplish any
thing." I had these word3 for a writing
lesson once, and I shall never forget
them. It is a great thing to have perse
verance. There was once a man who was
shut np in a dungeon with walls 200 feet
thick, made of the hardest kind of stone.
He bad no tools except a pair of scissors
his brother had sent him in a loaf of
bread, but he remembered that a drop of
water will wear away a stone if it falls on
the stone long enough, and that a coral
worm, which is so small that you can
hardly see it, will eat np and destroy a
coral reef if yoa will only give it time
enough. So he said that he would per
severe and dig a hole through the wall of
the dungeon with the scissors and escape
if it took him a hundred years.
He ha.I been digging about a year when
the frjvernor pardoned him, and the
jailor brought him the joyful news. But
they could not get him to leave the dun
geon. He told the jailor that he had un
dertaken to dig his way through the wall
and eacape in that way, and that he was
going to stick to it no matter bow long it
might take. The jailor urged him to give
it up and walk oat of the door, and even
offered him 110 to give np his dungeon
to a new lodger, but nothing could in
duce hitn to change his mind. So he
staid in the dungeon and duz away at
the wall for forty seven years, and every
six months he had to pay a big bill for
damages to the jail, and he finally died
when he was half through the wall. This
shot, am hat a splendid thing persever
ance is and that we all ought to perse
vere. If. L. JHn.
A young man was calling on a Con
gressman's daughter the other evening,
when the father appeared at the parlor
door.
"May i come in?" he asked hesitat
ingly. "Oh, yes," she answered, "yon may, but
we have a quorum w ithout yoa."
Then be didn't.
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Noted Texa3 Fire Eater.
All over Texas Tkn Thompson note
was negotiable paper, says a writer in the
St Paul Plonker Vr.w, and no man who
ever presented him w ith a bill was treat
ed with anything but polite bisiness
courtesy.
I was introduced to Thompson at Aus
tin, Tex., and the meeting was not in a
saloon, a gambling hou"?, or even a hotel.
The place was a .juiet, orderly icecream
parlor, and Ben Thomjisun and bin wife
were eating strawberry cream at a table
nearby to a coterie of high school girls,
one of them being the daughter of Gov
ernor Ireland, of Texas.
Thompson was a smail-siaed man, yet
not slender. He was elegant, yet not
sho'f ily dressed ; his clothes indicated a
correct taste, a diamond stud and a thread
of gold watch chain comprising all his
personal jewe'ry. He was a handsome
man of lorty-five, with small black mus
tache and hal eyes.
Yet this man had a record of having
killed thirteen white men and tw ice that
number of Mexicans and Indians. A
few months later he was himself killed
in Sa" Anton:a; along with Kingfisher,
in a hand-to-hand convict with two other
men in the Van.leville Theater.
He was never known to take an un
fair advantage of an enemy, a number of
his victims having had the first shot at
him. Once, in a store, he ordered a man
with whom be was engaged in a lively
dispute to g'i outside and pass around
the block to the right ; he would pass
around to the left and meet him. Tbey
did so : the man blazed away at Thomp
son with a shotgun loaded with buck
shot, missed, went into the a: rat the
crack of Ben's revolver, and fell a corpse.
And thus w ith every case of Thomp
son's numerous killing, the prelimina
ries were always flavored with a dash of
dramatic Sensationalism.
As Thompson and his wife passed out
of the ice cream bazar, I noticed that she
had but one arm. The other had been
shattered by a Winchester ball at Den
ver, when she threw it across Ben's head
upon discovering a crouching form draw
a bead on him. At the time of his death
Thompson wa city marshal of Austin.
Willing to Shovel.
To be williag to begin at the bottom is
the open secret of being able to come out
at the top.
A few years ago a young man came to
this country to take a position in a new
enterprise in the southwest He was
well-bred, well-educate.!, and had the
tastes of his birth and education. He
reached the scene of his proposed labors
and found to his dismay that the enter
prise was alre&Jy bankrupt, and that he
wa penniless, homeless and friendless
in a atranpe land. II worked his way
back to Xew York, and in mid-winter
found himself without money or friends
in the great busy metropolis. He did
not stop to measure the obstacles in his
path. He simply stt out to find work.
He would have preferred the pen, but
he was w illing to take the shovel, and
the shovel it was to be.
Passing down Fourth avenue on a
pnowy morning he found a crowd of men
at work shoveling snow from the side
walks about a well known locality; he
applied for a position in their ranks, got
it, and went to work with a hearty good
will, as if shoveling were his vocation.
Not long after one of the owners of the
property, a uiil'.ionaire, passing along the
street, saw the voting man's face and was
struck by his intelligence, and wondered
what had brought him to such a pass.
A day or two later his business took him
to the same locality again, and brought
him face to face with the same man still
shoveling snow. He stopped, spoke to
him, received a prompt and courteous
answer, talked a few minutes for the
sake of getting a few facts about his his
tory, and then asked the young man to
call at his office. That night the shovel
area ended, and the next day at the ap
pointed time the young man was closet
ed with the millionaire. In one of the
latter's many enterprises there was a
vacant place, and the young man who
was willing to shovel got it It was a
small place at a small salary, but be more
than filled it ; filled it so well, indeed,
that in a few months he was promoted,
and at the end of three years he was at
the head of the enterprise, with a large
salary. lie is there to-day w ith ths cer
tainty that if he lives he will eventually
fill a position second to none in impor
tance in the field in which he is working.
The story is all tola in three words :
Willing to shovel. tjritin Vulun.
A Four Word Speech.
During the war Major Whain was a
Lieutenant in General Grant's regiment,
the 'Twenty-first Illinois, and was as
fortunately bodily then as he has been
since.
"We were in for thirty days at first
and had a Colonel who wore two pistols
in his belt and ma le speeches on dress
parade," he sai 1 t- a circle of friends at
the Ehbitt lat niht. "We refused to
enlist nnless we could have a new I'olo
njl, and the case was presented to Gov
ernor Dick Yates while the regiment was
encamped at Springfield. It was then
that Culon-! U. S. I iraut was assigned to
our regiment aud the Governor suggested
that the boys be enthused with seme
speeches by Lovran and one or two others.
The programme was . arried out, and the
boys, who had been worked np to a
three-cheers-an-l a-titrer state of mind,
and were accustomed to speeches from
their old Colonel, called for G'rant!
Grant! Colonel Grant." with the accent
on both words. There was a slight hesi
tation, and then Colonel Grant, who had
been sitting down, arose and made an
effective speech without exhausting the
English lantraaje. It could hardly be
divided into the three parts required by
rhetoricians, for it consisted of but four
words, to wit:
'Go to your quarters.'
"I told tl.e story ones at a reunion
when Grant was present, and the veter
ans took it with a storm of applause, but
the old commander never smiled. It
was one of thoe incidents of necessary
army discipline which he thought ought
never to be alluded to at reunions, and I
have never told it since." I'cuvw"ij0'
Sl.lT.
Miss Clara Barton is the only Ameri
can who is entitled to wear the Iron
Croat of Prussia.
A BITTER DOSE.
But the Democrats Must Swal
low It,
Tae PitbJsirijh Chroaieie Telegraph.
Speaker Keeai's "keynote speech at
Pittsburgh has struck terror intaj the
Democratic camp.
The Democrats now feel that the II
pnblican party means bisiness in its a:
temps to secure a free ballot and an hon
est count at the South.
Realizing this, they are about ready t-
throw up the sponge. They are gone,
and they know they ara gone. They
read the handwriting on the wall. They
will, of course, keep np a howl and "die
in tlie last ditch," as they have been do
ing right along ever since Appomatox;
but the Republicans will go right ahead
with the Federal Election law as they
did with the new rules in the House.
Up to this time the Democrats had con
fidently counted upon control'ing the
next House of EepresenUtires thmtu-ii
their fraudulent counts at the S.x'i,
aided by the Ohio gerrymander. If they
were let alone they would d.ubtk-s suc
ceed. They, of course, resrar l it as a
great outrage that the Conirre-ional vt.j
in the bulldozed Suts should be can
vassed by United Mate returning tar-U
as is contemplates! in the Hoar b.';!. but
they rgard it aa all right to have tee
votes counted by the Ka Mux Klan
The result of Southern election meth.jU
ia so far-reaching in its effect that the
Government may very properly step in
to prevent the crime of suppressing an I
completely changing the expression of
the public will. When whims Sutrs a:
the South, returning seven, ten 1
twelve members, can send their de'.eva
tions to Washington npon a less i.ve
gate vote than is cast in a sir.'? Con
gressional district at the North, otir sys
tem of representative trovernment is -object
to a strain it cannot long endure.
Upon such vital economic quest i. .-us as
the tariff it takes the votes of sever men
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and
other Northern States to eqaal the power
exercise-! by one man in S'ich lately r
bellious States as South Carolina, Ala
bama or Mississippi.
MB SWEr THE l pF.nVltoN.
Besides in many of the districts in the
Gulf States the negroes outnum'er the
whites four or five to one, or even more.
Now everybody knows that in these .!
tricts nearly all of the whites arel'em-i-crats,
while the blacks, a!m-t without
exception, would vote the n-pul lioan
ticket if their right of suffrage were not
denied. The black men have the con
stitutional right to vote and have their
votes counted, and are j'it as much an
integral part of American citizenship as
the blue-bloods and mujwurnj of Bea
con street, Boston.
What the Republican party projans.
even at this late day, is to secure the
rights of citizenship to legal voter every
where, from Main to Texas This, and
something more. It is cot proposed to
interfere with the election of State oiii
cers, and separate ballot boxes sre to !
used for receiving the Congressional vote,
so that the Federal supervisors can have
no pretext for attempting to exi-rrise a
supervision over the casting or the count
ing of local tickets.
This will secure to the Southern Stutes
the full measure of that "home rule"
about which they prate so eloquently,
and leave them free t- pursue their pecu
liar methods to keep the negroes fr
getting "on top." The state will be sov
ereign in those things appertaining to
the State, but the Nation projHiaL-s to he.
on hand to look after her own, in order
that the constitutional mandate declar
ing that representation shall bee-j'ial
may be respected even by men wha t.ii
up arms to nullify that Constitution and
to destryy the Government.
The mills of the gods grind slow, b;it
exceeding fine, and the Democrats might
as well prepare to take their medicine.
A Temperance Story.
An exceedingly practical temperan.'e
lecfure was preached to the freight
handlers at one of the stations of the
Pennsylvania railroad a short time ago.
says the New York Tnhnnf. The result
is that each man now wears a Mi:e rib
bon and all mysterio'is-iookiri casks
and barrels which are put off at that
station and for which there are no known
owners are left seveieiy alone. A few
months ago there came to this place by
express a big barrel unacromp-anie-i by
any thing and having no mark by w l:'i:-h.
the owner or its destination coal I he
learned. Therw was an oder of whi-iy
about it, and it looked suspiciously 'like,
a whisky banel. A tracer was sent over
the road, but nothing could be learned as
to where it came from, to whom it was
going or by whom it was owned. It
stood on the platform for a few days until
it became a nuisance. The freight-handlers
eyd it rather longingly, hut could
not get at it while it was in that conspi
cuous place. By tlie order of the stution
agent the barrel was taken to the l..ft of
the store-room to await for a possible
owner who might tarn up some time in
the future. It had been there for two or
three mouths when one of the express
companies' men went to the station a-at
and told him he was looking for a barrel
of alcohol w ith two skeletons ir.i-l. -f
it
The station agent remvn!?rt.I the
mysterious barrel and took the marcher
to the loft He immediately identified
the barrel as the one which he wis look
ing for. A kick from his foot produced
a hollow sound, followed by the rattling
of some dry object inside, A closer ex
amination showed that numerous g:;:.let
holes had been ma-le in the hea i, an 1
that tha holes bad been plujrgl ud w ith
m itches.
The station agent sent for the lreight
handlers to have them come to the loft
and help take the ban-el down.
"It's empty," faltered one of the tu.-n.
"Yes, I know ; but I want to if
there is any thing inside of it." said the
express agent, at the same time breaking
in the head of the barrel with an ax.
i Kit tumbled the two skeletons, to the
horror and dismay of the freight-handlers.
They were dumfounded and tle-i
from the loft instantly. Not oi.e of the
men turned np for work for thre davs.
AH sent around word in the morning
that they were sick. When they did
come back each wore a blue ribbon, an-I
they haven't since ben known to take a
drink of whisky. Un.:'3irce-1 freight is
absolutely safe at the station cow.
An Ext raordinary Tree.
One of the most extraordinaiy of Afri
can trees is that known as tbeha!ab.
It is almost a forest in itself, and serves
for a complete sylvan pa'acj on the
largest scale. Rarely growing more than
seventy feet high its branches extended
horizontally, supported by a trunk which
has a girth greater, it is believed, than
that of any other known tree. ine of
these extraordinary trees was found on
measurement to be forty feet in diame
ter. The age of another counting the
concentric rings was found to beJ 'J
years at the very least.
Every bonr in a man's life has its o n
special work possible for it, and for no
other hour within the allotted swia cf
years, tzA cites goae It will net ret