L Somerset Herald. I STABUSHtD.1827. fernis ot Publication. -bed txetr Wedne1T mornlrn M 12 M r"t if naid In advance ; otherwise fz 50 . Ut be charged. ...non will be difcC-utinued until all r paid UP- Pojter neglecUuc "f'f w subscribers do not Uke out their 'j, beld responsible tortha S-bscrip- mmoruit from one pontofflc to an- office. Address Tut Herald, Som ihset. Pa. T A- lU"AnRNEY-AT LAW. (HmKlLiET, Pa. YcYlY M. BERKLEY . tr-.-. ukkCT, Pa. - unT r.FRT. U ' Allx)aiEY-AT-LAW, .1 . Mnffll! bomerset. Pa. TZTt f trrK EL. Y-AT-l b PrtuUuf House Kow. opportl Court fcllU' j. a. oule. ' .,,rr A gi.e, 7T('i.Ai T.S-A r.M', J-HSn-.u. ' Willi erset. Pa. F. S.EN1I.EY. TT i.fc.M,- --. .t. .t.t w 1 A"-'-- ,m-traet. Pa. l'-TKLANnuKNEY-ATLAW. Somerset,;!'-. II.TURNLV-AT-LAW. W. H. Kcrrm. A-t-'"""1 2?J STASIS: rLH. K"'XTZ,. .SUIIHTWt, Pa., . t..ni.m to hushns entrusted si! utiii.'uouw Kow. oHu Cuurt ,11 NO. K1MM1.U ATlVKNtV-AT LAW, somerset. Pa . - i ;... it miilMi tt hih I k care UrJ"..tv. Warn Ou Sire. 1 .-. . K..k More. ite r auti - TAMES LITGH ATTvKNEY-. "attukney-atlaw, Somerset. Pa. . ..1- .r..iir V.ntxance u Km. Colle.uou made, ertatea I0rJ '"" jro:or.-. L-aCoLBOEK. (,tL attuknevat-law homerwjt. Fa. bv;n tmt-d to onr care will be , r.nd fHl.fui!v atu-udwl U. on-uoui r tit 1 Wior.1 and .tj..iuiiir m- ";"rCev;uf:aua wuveyauciuu done on rea- D'UY. F. SCMKLL. 8imerM,t, Fa. J u.tr aufl 'iol A11- oflil:c 111 MlumoU' T"AL.XT1N"K HAY, AViuKNEY-AT-LAW. ' bouierM't, Pa. i WrtTln Kl Frtatc. Will att.-nd U all iactdJi'0'. . J A1TOKSEY AT LAW. v tuieret. Fa. W1 pmc-.vtlv attend to all lm.ii.e-. v b .m Sl..ue'a.n auird u collei tiou, Ax. Uf kt Vuumutli Bim k. D U. r. F. SHAFH It, 1HV-H1AN A.M'I K..r...-. vir.m.v -tt,,e in Fc-l..rlc. U..4. wit iu"T 10 i-..I"tliee. I V.CAl:lTHF.K M. TV 'J, ml IAN AM; i-1 K'.KON NMt.KM.T, FA. tut! Mhin Hreet. next dour lo Luilumo jna, .Vt;iit -k1I at ortiee. D P. H. S. KIMMELL, liis t,r.if. ioiial eniee to the flU-en (imt awl vieiuiiy. Vnlew vrolejmouaiiy trw Df u be (ouuil at bi ottic-e on Maiu t. te: ituunund. T?.J.M. LOUTKER. PHYSIflAS ANU KIKC.EON, H lKjtfd iiermatwutlj' in Komcmet for the i ot t ).n.t-io. Ofliee on Main wreel, k of liniif fttore. D ,t 1 C V'MH T VV iimulunif i JirnWrv.) t-'il attention u Uie iirewnratioa of i.ih. ArtlfieaJ Hl"ertea. All ;'v:.r.... ri''-i.t'ed BiitiitwUiry. Otlnte tu Uie :. M. M.lrcdwell Co.' nVre, corner ii ind fmnot Mrwu. Tr-JOHS BILLS, V DK.NTI5T. ajHitair. in Cook BeeriU Block. Tkp-UM. COLLI XS, U liENTl.-T. !c K:itj..er hUx k up-falm. where be fHind at :i t;me prepared udo all kindi ' n ti ' iiiiK- rpilaliiiit. e-lrartinK, AH!; ii i Ui "f all kinds and of Ibe beat l-iened. All work Kuarauieed. (HAELES HOFFMAN, MERCHANT TAILOR. (AboT He!Hey' Store,) '-tX Style., and LuwMt Prices. SATISFACTION CU ARAN TEED. Somersetr Pa. CURTIS K. GROVE. SOMERSET, PA. '"'IER, HLEKiUS, CARRIAGES, RING WAGONS, Bl'CK WAGONS. ASH EASTERN" AND WESTERN WORK furnished on Short Notice. fiintiEg Done on Short Time, i "ri i made wit of Tliorouglilf Smjnnsd H' xxf, Wthe tf lrrmawi St'rl, htllirtalitially tutni(t.. Neatly Finished, aud Tanted Ui pvi batUlacUon. p7 Crly rrrt Chcs "TTcrb-en. of All Kind? In My Line Ione on NoUoe. Fru REASON ABLE, and All Work Warranted. '-na F.iamine my Plot k, and Learn PrVoea 'tai-work, and furnish Heivea for Wind ktn:eml.er the pla.-e, and call In. CUETISK. GROVE. (Eaat of Court Bup) SOMERSET. PA iTAXTi;ii:- LUMBER, ti'T to oi:ii:rv. .rt W. C. WHITE IXMEER CO., ' So. aoiJaltimore St., Cumbcrlaud, Md. r 1 tie VOL. XXXVIII. -THE- FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Somerset, ZPcnn'a. o OEPOSIT RECEIVED IN LARGE AND SMALL AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS MERCHANTS, FARMERS STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED -DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: I-aKi M. Hi. ks. W. H. Miller, Jameh L. I'vuu, Cham. II Fikiikb, John U Sx.tt, ;ko. II. S. i ll. Fkki W. Bikski kkr. Fuward Srn.L, : Valentine Hay, : : PitiyiDENT Vice I'kesihent : : : Cash tic Andkew Park tit, Tlie furi'ls and securities of this Lank are Htrnrely irote tel in a celebrated (Vir- lis lUiiylar-proof Safe. The only Safe niaiie aimilulely litirglar-proof. Somerscl.Cooniy National Bank Of 'Somerset, Pa. Established, 1877. Organized as a Nation.!, 1890 CAPITAL. $50 000. Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't Wm. B. Freasc, Vice Pres't. Milton J. Pritts, Cashier. Directors: Wm. H. KHntz, JiB-iah Speciil. John 11. s-nyder, Juneph B. 1'avis, Pain'l Pnyilcr, Jonas M. I ook, John Stum. liarrbHiti Kovder, Noahs. Miller, Jeruuie Mutll, Wm. Endsley. CiirtiimerK of this Rank will receive the most IiU-iki trvutuieiit consistent with satebaukmg. Partiin wishini; to tid money cast or west can be aecouiiiKiatKl t y c'.ialt lor any uinotini. Money and valnablea ctired by one of I'lv bold's Celebrated Sales wilh laost approved lime loc: . t.tllcctioiw made ill all rts of the t'nited Mates. harKe? niislerate. Aieonnts and IieposiLs Solicted. mar."-Cm STOP! LOOK! LISTEN EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW WHERE TO GET THE MOST OF OF THIS WORLD'S GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY ? WE HAVE THEM. :::::::::::z::::::::::::Dishes.::::z"::"::::::: WHITE, yellow, glass, AND IioCKIXOIlAM WARi:, IN GREAT VARIETY. BASKETS, LaX iKINti-GLASSES, HANGING LAMPS, STAND LAMPS Iuiips of all Ik'wrijitions. Novelties and Oddities in China THE PLACE FOR FANCY & STAPLE GROCERIES IS AT THE STORE OF ED. B. COFFROTH, SOM IT-SET. TA DOWN, DOWN THEY GO! THE PRICES ON BLACK ASTRACHAN, AND Persiana Capes! On all Biaes, 34 to 42. we have noi many iu j. bo ii you wain A BARGAIN, Come aonn. When a lady buy a Persiana or an Atra?hant ape, he u making a WISE PURCHASE, Ak the urew-nt Ft yle is bound to last for two or three i-ason, at leat. Ti.ev are a warm, coinfonal.le a-ruieim easily put on and taken off, and a .iiialn article for ail the vear atotind wear, just as fash ionable in M-ring asii. fall.and nil or oool eveniK lu. the kummer. TKN JAP. SCItKEXS, To come down In price as well a down from the top shell, where they are " ini! r. one to 4. " Zj Woii-KtotS. Two Eire H-reei,f, 4 to U. Other tmrruiiw J'i can ace w hen you coiiit). 41 FIFTH AVE.. PITTSBURGH, PA. 400 Acres. 37tk Year- SALESMEN WANTED. To repreent one or the laret M RSKfcU In (t e c. untry. W e Ki.ar.mee t:fiu-lb.n to all ii tomcr.. Noprevi..exK-rience iieesry. Hala r and euc. from w.r Ad.irew, Mating age, Iloopcn BroR. & Thomas. Vaple Avenue Nunieriea, Weal Chester Pa. LUMBER IS ABTAKCIE ! BAW mii.ia MIINGLE STEAM ES0IKES, II AY I'KRSSE, Ac. U vou want a firsl PAW WIIX, send for t.Uil.ltne and fpeci-l price 10 inuvluce in your TtLAKJUHAH, CO. fUinlUyl.) York, Pa- HORNE WARD NO. 18. eumatisn, PROMPTLY CURED BY Cures Also: Neuralgia. Lumbago, Sciatica, Sprains, Bruises, urns, Wounds, Swellings, Soreness, Frost-bites, Stiffness, All Aches. THE Cha?. A. Yoje!erC-., lialtlmcro, Md. It is to Your Interest TO BUY YOUR Drugs and Medicines OF JOHH H. SKYDEH. BCCCEfS.R TO Biesecker & Snyder. None but the purest and best kc.t in stock, and when lrup become inert by stand ing, as certain of them do, we de stroy tl.ein, rather than'im jose on ou r customers. You can dejicnd on having your PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS filled w Ub care. Our iirioes are as low as any other firM-claas house and on many arii lea much lower. The people of tliis county seem to know this, and have given us a laro share of their patronage, and we nhall Mill continue tu give thciu the very host good for t!ieir money. Do not furft that we make a specialty of FITTIXG TRUSSES. We guarantee iwtif.fartion, and, if you have had trouble in tltis direction, give us a call. SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES in great variety ; A full set of Tst Lenses (Virnc in ami have your eyes examined. No charge for exuniinalioti, and we are confident we can suit you. Come and dee us. Respectfully, JOHN N. SNYDER. Oils! Oils! The Planitard Oil Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., makes a upccialtv 01 mauiihtciumig ior ine iKimesiic trade the finest brands of Illuminating & Lubricating Oils Naphtha and Gasoline, That can be made froai Petrolenm. We challenge compansuu with every known PRODUCT OF PETROLEUM. If you wish the most uniformly Satisfactory Oils IX TUE American .Market, Ask for ours. Trade for Somerset and vicinity rnpplied by COOK TiEERIT? asd FK.KASK A JiOOSER, Soxekt, Pa. aept'S9-lyr. Pianos - Organs II.C liii(nuru iiuiiiixj - ano, tnveutsl t.y u, Is one of theniONt iniortanl 1 ....... .. n, u lr in- t hi. in. rtim.it rrv. 1 . A ... rt 1. ..1 f rBt.nT.fr Kfrincra nf PI. IHIJ.rii iii.-ii ' r. inn-, ... - more riclily musieal in tone, more durable, aud lew 11.'. 11 f t I.IL UI'"'..- Ik nth the Maon & Hamlin Orcnn olid Pianos ex- eel rnienv in inai win. u m wie.-iui i.nriii. . . mu-iral intrutnent. i-iialitT of tone, other ig though imtiortaiit are much leotliau . An In-tntment with unmusical tone can- V. ltliiKirt.1 -alKliicrilPJI Of DCHf StVleS in till! thi. not in trodu-ed this seaxiii, seut fr;e. ... Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., BOSTON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. J. & JACOB KAUFMAN, JR. DAVIDS VI LLE P. 0., (Soinerket Co., la., Ajenls Tor the HE WHITELY HOOP POLE MOWER. WHITELY SOLID STEEL BINDER, WHITELY AND CHAMPION REPAIRS. -Orders for Machinery and Repairs I-rf-ll at J. H. Miller's Hardware Store, Somerset, P- will H Vttended to Promptly. Tr-a-A Sample Machine is now on Exhi bition at Mr. Milier'a Store, (all and see it. J. t JACOU KAUFMAN", JR., Davidsville P. O., Somerset, Ta. Machines Aa'AT Simplest, most durable, eco- a.wl t.rfi.Ot III tlM.. Wane 110 Grain, fleaim it ready for the market. , . t-s . and Horse Threshing Engines p.s. saw Mlk, Phingie Machines. Hay Pres-, and Mau dapl Implement generally. A. B. FARQCHAR COMPANY ((Limited.) Bend for Illus- I Pennsylvania Agrlcnltur (rated Catalogues W otas, ork, Pa. SSI if8l-m nllffiii'lnii' aa3l H 1 1ml Somerset SOMERSET, PA., WEDNjEDAY, THE GIRL WHO HELPS HER MOTHER. There are girls who paint aud girU who play And girls who dance with grace And girls who steal our hearts away With charms of form and face. But there's a girl whom I respect Much more than any other And as a wife I shall select The girl who helps her mother. Although it may be out of style, She grants her mother's wishes, Nor does she idle all the while Her ma is washing dishes. She has a kindly, loving way For parent, sister, brother, She proves a blessing every day, The girl who helps her mother. She may not read the latest trash Xor sigh for a flirtation, She may not care to make a mash Xor pine for a sensation. Such lives as hers with grace abound Add love for one another, She scatters sunshine all around This girl who helps her mother. IN AN OLD HAT. OR, THE W AT IN WHICH TI1K For si). WILL WAS An auction was going on at the old yel low farm house on the hill. Hachelor Earker was dead, and his heir, a yonng nephew whom he hud never seen since the boy was four years old, had eorno down to sell things ofl". Rumor said lie intended to tear down the old houe af terward and take money from the bank and build a fine hew residence, with a mansard roof. " It's a shame," said one or two. "Such a pit y Barker did not maku a will. He must have had some intention about such a prom'rty. He never could have intended all that weaJth to go to a boy lie did not like enough to ask over for the summer." The Doctor felt sure he would have founded a hospital, and placed him in it as a resident physician for life, if the will had been tnade. The clergyman knew he meant to do something for the church. The Profess or had heard him speak of a free library and reading room. Kvery one knew of something, and all the far-away cousins had expected legacies. Every one thought the arrangements all wrong, but the heir and the auction err, who had made an inventory of the old furniture the tall clock, the andi rons, the solid tables with leaves, the spinning-w heels, big and little ; the fiddle-back chaire, and ail those other jos sessions adored by the fashionable to-day but utterly despised twenty years ago as" old things that were not worth their keeping." The young heir would, if he built his villa, furnish it with " sets " of the latest style, with r.rnssels carpets, with white grounds and bright wreathes of roses scattered over them, " Can't get much for the old sticks," he said, " but I'd like to clear up and be done with it," Miss Camiola Drown, sitting at the front up-chamber window, cutting out calico abort-waists for Mrs. Black's five little boys, laid down her shears for once in her life, and with her elliows on the sill, watched the people as they walked or drove past, and entered in at the gates of the late .Mr. Barker's premi ses. . . ' " Poor Benjamin !" she sighed. " I wonder whether up in heaven he re members the day when he took me in and walked me all through (he old house ?" "The things are old-fashioned, Camio la, he said to me ; " but they were my mother's and before that they were my grandmother's. I like them, but say the word, and I'll new furnish.' 'No,' Bjn,' says I, ' what your ma liked to have, I don't want to alter. I like it all : its stuff' and then anil then he kissed me." Miss Camiola felt for her handkerchief as she said this to herself. "And we stood at the grand window and looked off toward the mountains. ' We're going to be happy as ever folks were,' said he. Here the tears began to fall. "Oh, Ben," she sobbed, " to think we fjuarreled after that, and didn't speak when we met But you never married, and I refused two offers good ones. But, I'.en, I guess we'll meet up there sometime and make up. Poor Camiola put her head down on her arms and cried softly among the purple blossoms of the wistaria that veil ed the window. No one could see her from the road. But her tears dried soon, and she came back to the present. They were selling the old furniture at auction. The claw-footed sideboard, the settle, the big mahogany cradle in which four generations of babies had been rocked all these dear old things that were once to have been hers, as Benja min Barker's wife, and she was a poor seamstress, an old maid going from house to house for her board and fifty cents a day ; looking forward to ftseble old age, and with an awful dread in her soul of becoming " town poor " at last. If she had married Ben, how different it would have been. " Why, - Miss Camiola ! you've been a cryin 7 saia irs. iac s lotta voice, just then, in her ear. Camiola started guiltily, but she was too candid to com plain of a cold or the sun in her eyes. "Well, I have cried a little, Mrs. Black," said she. " You see, we used to be friends, Mr. Barker and I, and I knew his ma, and I remember all that furni iure, and it seems a sin to sell it and tear down the old Louse, and maybe root up the lilacs and strawberry shrubs, and, pejhaps, cut down the trees. It was al most like home to me in Mrs. Barker's day." " Well, it must seem a sin to any one, and more so to you, Miss Camiola, said Mrs. Black. " But don't you want to go over and see the place, and what is going on ? You might as well just Uke a day,' or the reet of it I'm in no hurry, and you look tuckered out." Mrs. Black was kind in her way, and felt a certain pity for Camiola. She had heard that Camiola was once engaeed'to Mr. Barker, and might to-day have been a rich and important widow, insUad of a poor, lonely seamstress. " ( Jo along, Miss Camiola," she added. " I know you want to." "Did she want to?" Camiola asked herself; and from her heart came the answer, ' Yes." She would see the old home once ESTJBTISIIEr) 1827. more, see the old furniture ; and when she could get a chance she would go up in the garret and stautd where she stood with Ben that day.) Her old elbows should lean where hir young ones had pressed ; she would look out over the mountains, ami fancy Sierself a girl again, with Ben beside her, and bis engagement ring on her finger. And Miss Camiola thanked Mrs. Black, put on her show bonnet with the washed ribbons, and the shawl that had been so good once, but was faded, and even men ded now, and walked, up the road, turn ed into the lane, and entered the Barker garden. -1 The smell of the shrub came to her the lilac flowers wtre gone, but. fbs, wil low brandies kissed Jivt boiutet $9 alie passed under them. .:.;riS The neighbors whoi'saw her rJpduVd or spoke, but they were selling the tall clock, and there was, some excitement. Camiola stood at the door awhile, and listened to the bidding. Deacon Hicko ry got the clock : Mrs. Amos Mole the claw-footed sideboard. A Jewish lady from the village bought the trunks of women's clothing, sold unopened, for next to nothing. Aunt Barnabv. the washerwoman, got the tubs and irons very cheap, in a lot,, and soon and so forth. To Camiola it all seemed tragic She went up stairs where people were poking the beds and pillows, and exam ining the toilet sets and curtains, and she began to mount the garret stairs. " Not bin' up there," said a well-meaning person, w ho was dysoending. "Tain't worth while to lose breath a climbin'," Camiola did not answer. Nothing up '.there! How little people knew ! There was the window at which two lovers had plighted their vows. There, perhaps, lingered some ghost of her dead past, and his 'who had died el derly, and a bachelor. As her head arose above the floor, she ga7.ed eagerly about her. From the rafters hung some branches of withered herbs, and rome ropei of onions. The trunks had been carried down, and an old bureau. A coat liting npon a peg ; over it, a hat. Camiola went to the win dow. She would not cry, for she had to face those people down stairs again ; but she muttered little moans of anguish as stood there. She realixel what life was at that moment, an I it seemed yery cruel to her once young, beloved, pretty, and hojH-ful!; now old, unloved, wrinkled, and with nothing to wish for. No won der she suffered. At last she turned her bck on the eternal mountains unchanged while lives were lived, and while youth lied and love departed, and graves weie dug and saw the coat upon the wall ; Ben's coat an old man's coat, worn long and carelessly and a big, broad-brimmed soft hat. The woman x went closer. She nestled up against the coat, and talked to it and caressed it and she took the hat in her hand and kissetl it. It was worth nothing. It had rain stains on it. Its shae was odd. Nobody wanted it. But what a relic it would lie to her of Ben ! only she could not ask for it. She could take it, hide it under her shawl all folded flat, as it would be, and keep it forever. Ben's hat her Ben's hat ! Why, she had a right o it And Miss Camiola obeyed the impulse, took the bat, and hid it neatly away. It seemed, almost, as though it were a theft Still, it would not be wrong to take it. When she came home Mrs. Black told her the walk had done her eood ; her cheeks were quite red ; but she went early to bed that evening. She bolted her door, and undressed in a hurry. She put out the light Then she felt for her shawl, in which the hat lay folded, and took it in htr arms. A certain jierfume that was always connected with Ben's hair was faintly noticeable an odor of bergamot. It brought the past back qiv i'lly. It almost seemed as though Ben's head rested on her heart. She clasped the old hat close, and kissed it " Oh, lien," she whispered, " I was ready to make up, but you was rich and I was poor, and I was proud. Oh, Ben, Oh, Ben, Ben, iny darling !" And for hoursshe lay awake the Cam iola of the past in the. darkness, which blotted out the changes in her face, and fell asleep at last, and dreamed of youne Ben and his perfumed hair, and heard him once more say that they would be happy together. She awakened sudddenly, in the early dann, and came hack to herself. She dressed herself, smoothed he prim bands of hair, tied on her black apron, pinned the cushion and the sheath of scissors at her side, and then l.wked at the hat. Of course it must be hidden away ; and she spVead a newspaper on the bed in which to wrap it, and paused to look at it once again. The inside of the hat presented itself. The piece of leather which lined the crown looked curiously thick. She touch ed it with her hand. Under it was a long paper folded into a narrow slip ; she drew it out and saw that something was w ritten on the outside. Taking the pa per to' the window, she saw that the words were these : "The Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Barker." At this Miss Camiola began to tremble from head to foot but she was a daughter of Eve. Softly and reverently, indeed, she opened the will ; but she did open it, and read it through, and when she had finished she crept into bed again and lay there sobbing for a long while ; for in it she had found stmnge things. Some of Benjamin Barker's money had been left to the hospital, some of his land to the church, and there were legacies for many people ; but the homestead, with all its furniture, garden, and farm land, and an income on which she could live luxuri ously, were bequeatrft'd " to Camiola Brown, spinster, in memory of the love I bore her all my lonely life." No wonder poor Camiola wept. But Mr. Black soon found out the cause of Camiola's agitation, and Mr. Black was a lawyer. The will was correctly made ; the witnesses were found. Why Benjamin Barker had put it in his hat lining no one knew. He often carried papers there. Perhaps he meant to leave it in safe keeping, but he died very suddenly, with hat and coat on, as he was about to drive out. But the will wus found, and was all right Nothing had yei been taken away. The money was refunded to the purchasers of the old furniture. The young nephew had a tolerable leg acy, and made do fuss whatever, aud one JUNE 4, 1890, day Camiola entered the homestead as its mistress. It, was a strange ending to her love story ,'f she thought. She was there at last, but how ? It almost seem ed to her as though some spiritual union had taken place between her soul and Ben's ; and in the sleeping-room, on a peg near the door, she hung his coat and hat,, There they hang always, and to the stranger who sees thein and looks at the mild old lady rocking in the great chair as she sews or knits, it seems as though the master of the house were within up stairs somewhere, perhaps, It often seems so, too, to Camiola. MEMORIAL ADDRESS: llfcl.iVEKED AT R(K KWOOI) IS THE MTiltR- a airm-ii iiy rev. theo. bach, iiiap- l.AIX OF WM. II. WELLElt POST SO. 510, (i. A. It , OS MAY 'Mr It, lSi'O. , Cuianuh i and I'dloio CJufiit : Once more have we assembled on the 30th day of May, the day that the na tion has set apart for the decoration of the soldiers' graves. Sacred are the memories which cluster . around the scenes of those eventful years from lSf0 to 1 ..". Those were years of sadness and of sorrow. Scarcely was there a house in our fair commonwealth, and throughout the land, that had not in its home circle a vacant chair. Duty had made its stern demand ; a nation had called for her sons to defend her rights and liberties. Martial music echoed from every hilltop and valley ; old men shook their heads and sighed ; the younger fell into line and marched to the place of conflict and of death, dem onstrating by their actions that they lov ed their country more than life. Thus in the course of events, ont of cir cumstances growing out of the war of the rebellion, there originated the happy thought to organize the 'survivors of the loyal forces into a solid compact, called "The Grind Army of the Republic." This brotherhood is organized on the broad principle of " Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty into her ranks none can enter on whom a stain of treason rest. It is the duty of the living to keep sacred the memory of the dead. Sentinicntalisin and cant will never obliterate the scenes and experiences of those years from the memories of late comrades in arms. Their pains and aches, now felt by them, are silent memories of their historic past. A republic that would forget the services of its army, could not maintain an existence, for the existence of a republic depends npon the patriotism and loyalty of its citizens. j The war of the rebellion is over : but the effects of the war are, and will be forever, apparent in the history anil gov ernment of the United States. The three and a half millions of enfranchised freedmen are living monuments of our national struggle whe now enjoy the blessings of liberty as the result of the war. But there are many families to day who can scarcely realize that the gain of the nation was any gain to them. The desolation that took jiossession of their homes and bereft them of all their charms, has cast a shadow over their lives that no sunlight can penetrate. In these homes treason and rebellion are considered crimes of the most desperate character. The ability to suppress trea son in a government when its roots have entined about its heart, and the poison ous fangs of the scorpion monster have fastened themselves into the vitals of the nation to destroy it, is something entire ly different from conquering an external foe. Treason as dark as death, with designs deep as hell, lifted op her bony hands to tear down the flag of the country, to tram ple its sacred folds into the dust. These things can be forgiven, but, they cannot be forgotten, at loast by the soldiers who participated in the struggle to maintain the union of the states bequeathed to our fathers. We believe that" there is a God who watches over the destinies of nations, and that he does in some instances change the course of events to reach unforseen ends. Yet we cheerfully accept the broader sentiment of a free agency in a a national sense, the same as in individ ual matters. I have not the credulity to believe that God would have interposed in our behalf, if we had all remained at home in the north. National activity was required, and in dividual vigilance to preserve for us and our children the best form of government on the face of the earth. " Eternal vigi lance is the price of liberty." The time for silence on the subject of the rebellion has not yet come, and during the life time of my comrades it will never come. They cannot: blot out of existence their own history, neither have they any de sire to do so. It is not the object of the Grand Army of the Republic to engender strife ; nor to inculcate malicious feelings into the hearts of the young and rising gf aeration toward our conquered free men, yona the G. A. it especially call ed -to bury out of sight the deeds of noble daring and the untold suffering of our comrades. The patriotism manifested, and the heroism displayed during the war of the rebellion has scarcely a paral lel in history. The fairest pages of SparUn history can boast of no truer patriotism than ours. Dili Spartan wives'encourage their husbands to be true to their country, even at the cost of their lives, and our American women do the same? Did Spartan mothers give their sons to die in defense of their country ? Did Ameri can mothers withhold theirs? What sacrifices did the Grecians or the R oinaris make that were intelligent and reasona ble, that the union people of the north did not make? Did any soldiers ever die a nobler death than ours? We answer, no! Such a thing would be impossible to coniceve of. The thought of;;death is sad enough, but to think of dying away from home, among strangers, is sadder still ; but sad dest of all, is to think of dying as our soldiers died. Many died alone where they fell on the field of battle, in the woods, in the swamps, and among the rocks, alone ; no mother's voice to cheer and comfort them, no wife to wipe the death damp front the face or raise the fevered head a little higher. Rob bed of all the sacred influences of home, to die alone and be forgotten. No! Not forgotten! To-day we call their self-sacrifice" and loyalty to mind, and while the nation lives they will not be forgotten. They live forever, enshrin T 0 Ci ed in the memory of their grateful coun trymen. On one occasion two hundred wounded came to Philadelphia in the night ; they came unheralded, and they had to extemporize a hospital for them. The Christian women of the city took care of the wounded. A Christian woman pa-wed through the different wards of the hospital, with her sleeves rollod up, her hair dishevel ed in the excitement of the hour ; her face was plain, very plain, but, after the wounds were washed and th'? new band ages put around the splintered limbs, and exhausted boy fell off into hi first sleep. She put her hand upon his brow and he started and said in bis dream "Oh, I thought an angel touched me."J Mrs. Harris went into the hospital after the seven days awful fight before Rich mond, as she sat down -by a wounded drummer boy she heard him soliloquize : "A ball through my hotly, and my poor mother will never see her boy aptin, what a pity it is !" She leaned over him, and said shall I be-your mother and comfort you? he looked up and said "yes I will try to think she is here." lie told her what to write to his moth er and then said : "Hold my hands while I die." Upon this subject we will not be silent, for silence would in a short time bury the most sacrificing heroism into utter oblivion. As we love peace ami hate war ; as we love loyalty and bate treason ; as we love the good, the noble, and the true, aadlhatethe vile, deceptive, and the villainous, and teach the same to our children, so let us teach them of the sadness of those days. When thecal! came from our martyred president Lincoln, to the loyal sons of the North and South, the East and West, to defend their coun try against internal foes, when that si rocco of death w as threatening the life of the nation, let us tell them how thou sands of men bared their' breasts ami threw themselves into the track and died that the nation might live, while their comrades triumphed, for before them no man was able to stand. The thirtieth day of May has arrived again, a day which will be ever kept sacred by our countrymen. It is not a gala day like the Fourth of July, but it is a day of sad recollections and likew ise a day of silent rejoicing w ith gratitude to God for the preservation of our nation ; through the efforts of the now sleeping camrades, and of those who still survive. Let the evergreens ami boquet of flow ers be placed on each comrade's grave. This should be done on account of the cause they had espoused. The rightous necs of the cause for which .they strove has made them great. Men unacquaint ed with them in life, but men who en dangered their lives for the same cause shall place the speechless mementoes over their sleeping dust Therefore, in discriminate decoration between the blue and the gray is contrary ' to the rules of common sense and reason, it is placirg patriotism and treason on the same level. Treason should be made odious, and pa triotism should receive honorable recog nition. We bear the southern soldier no malice, and we are willing to forgive, and be forever friendsjn the future. But between the cause for which they, fought and the cause for which we, fought there must forever remain this difference that we were ngiit and they were wrong.- May that day never come in which the judgement of battles will be reversed and the surrender at Appamatox Court House go for naught. About twenty-five years ago at the close of the war about six hundred thou sand men were discharged from the army in the interval ot a few chort months. "The army is returning home w as the cry, what will the boys engage in ?" was the inquiry made by many men win entertained dark forbodings. The thought the soldiers would he worthless as citizens. Our volunteers were judged from the same stand point that the soldiers in foreign lands are judged who enter the army not from pa triotic motives, but by compulsion. It is a fact that a man who serves for a term of years in a standing army in Europe, will never be of much consequence after wards as a citizen. There is something about the discipline in the standing arm ies of Europe that destroys the inde pendent, manhood of its soldiers so that they ever afterwards lack pluck that necessarily characterizes success ia civil life. The character of our soldiers must be taken into (consideration as they came marching home, with bronzed faces and stern countenances, and steady steps, as they apjiearci in our midst. All these things are evidence of discipline and hard service. The will power of these men betoken ed something better than to become a crowd of unproductive parasites, who are to live the remainder of their lives at ihe expense of their fellows. It might be well to glance for a mo ment at these men as they left their homes and went to war, who were they ? wlrere did they hail from ? We see among them business men who have hastily closed up their business at a sacrifice, others leaving their business to the management of their partners in an improvident manner. The mechanic left his workshop the farmer his plough, emulating the spirit of General Putman of revolutianary fame. There is however one more class of sol diers I wish to mention, tlrat is the boys who enlisted from the age of seventeen to twenty one. Just in the forming time of life, when the boy was to choose his calling, profes sion or trade, he is called away into the army, to spend three or four years there. These were the most important years of his life, and tbey are necessarily spent without any direct reference to his future. Vague ideas in day dreams often flitted through the brain as to what his future occupation might be, but all the time lie was harnwsed with the thought that he might never reach home. The time ac tually came the army arrived at home. What will all these men do who have during the term of their army service lived altogether different lives from what they must live now. The United States will no longer furnish them theirrations; the bread question must be settled by themselves. The choice of a calling, business, or profession must bo made again by those who forsook their occupa tions at the beginning of the rebellion, and the boys who had aot yet settled in any particular calling stood again in the same place which they had occupied Ut- o WHOLE NO. 2028. fore they entered the volunteer service; with this disadvantage, however, that they were three or four yeat older, with their habits of life formed. Tiuie lost cannot be regained. The older men en gage again in their former calling or biiMi iiess relations, or adopt new ones. The boys chose trades and went to work with a wiil and learned them. Others chose professions and qualified themselves. Thus the great question, what the army would do, was settled and adjusted, so that the social fabric of this great nation did not go to pieces ; do, it did not even suffer a shock from that source. Business revived, and for several years after the war the nation enjoyed an unprecedented era of prosperity. The men w ho chose professions after the war, though they did it late in life, have succeeded beyond expectation. We find them on the bench, at the bar, presidents of colleges and educators in general, medical practitioners, and even the pulpit has received its proportionate share of them. It is with a feeling of inexpressible satisfaction that we refer to the grand success achieved by trie late soldiers of the Federal army. What country can boast of sii' h a record for her citizen soldiers? The fact is, that such results can be attained on!y v. :ien the moving cause of men liecoming soMiersus patri otism. The patriotism and courage that gave them victory on the field, will prompt them to noble achievements in the pursuits of civil life. There is no class of men in whom the Godly trait of character is so fully de veloped as in the late soldier I refer to charity. They who shared their last cracker on the march and drank from the same canteen have not abandoned the noble principles which they were practically taught and learned through the force of circumstances. All these schools of adversities have their advantages. Noble traits of charac ter were there developed and practiced with such unselfish devotion that in many instances it led to self-sacrifice. In an engagement at Dingle's Mill, near Sumpterviilc, S. C, a soldier was wound ed wittun thirty yards or the enemy s guns, where he had advance! to do some sharpshooting. Two men, without or ders, during a hot musketry fire and while canister was flying thick and fast, advanced across a burning stringer of a destroyed bridge, and brouht their wounded comrade safely to the rear and placed him into an ambulance. Here duty usurped the throne of reason, and the instincts of the soldier overcame the first law of our being, which is self- preservation. Men educated under such influences, by such stern teachers, cannot become small-minded, clownish and cynical ih their conduct with their fel lows in every day life. We think a fair and indiscriminate calculation will show. .that service in the army did not make men worse, a3 a rule. Comrades, the work of the battle-field is done and our record stands for inspection by our countrymen ; and for the last twenty-five years we have been engaged in another struggle in the battle of life. Old Father Time can not be outgener aled ; no flank movement can evade his attack ; his blows ;are felt and the scars are seen upon us all. Some heads are becoming silvered o'er, and our step is not so elastic as in former years. No doubt the next decade will make strong er inroads into our ranks than the last qur.rter of a century has done. This one question must be settled by each comrade .individually How will stand the record w hen the time for mus ter out comes, and we receive our final discharge? This question intelligent men should settle in a satisfactory manner to them selves. We all desire immortality, and in fact we all expect it in that land that is yet unexplored by us. May we all be come interested in gathering all the in formation we can about that country, whither we are all fast hastening, so that we may become qualified for citizwnship in that better country, where the sound ef war is never heard. Comrades, let us move steadily forward in the discharge of our duties, emulating the good, and discountenancing the evil, so that at last we may hear the approving sentence, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joys of thy Lord.'' The Boy Preacher Era. Another boy preacher has sprung up down in Georgia. He is Vi years old and draws great throngs to hear him. Oh, well, there's nothing remarkable or unusual alxjut this kind of preaehing. We have heard men of 00 years old preach .icrmons that a boy of 1 1 might have written. But we never thought it was owerfu!, preaching. It was calm ing, tranquillizing, sedative in its effect, and a fellow with a convenient post to lean his head against could erjoy it un til the congregation, rising to sing the closing hymn, brought him to present wakefulness once more. Thirteen-year-preachers are an out-growth of this cen tury. The great Teacher didn't think himself prepared to preach until he was amanof.'lO years, but then, that was nearly ,000 years ago. You take a boy with the advantages of a common educa tion now, and he is fully qualified to make a hop, skip and a jump right into places that would scare, the halo off an angel's head. By all means let the lo-year-old boy keep on preaching. But if we were his mother, which is impossible, we'd see that he ate his porridge earlier than usual Sunday evening, that he might close his service in time to be in bed by half past eight, any how. This is the era of "boy." A "loy soprano" is starring through the country; it is a wonder incredible his managerdidn't bill him as the "boy" prima donna ;" a "girl boy" is nothing new. By and by there will be the "boy basso profundo," and the "boy voter," the oldest boy," and the ' boy president," and about IS look out for the "Ixiy discoverer of America." He'll be brought our sure as guns. BnnU'lr. Wing Lee and his cousin, Joe Lee, of Flint Michigan, luundrymen, were con verted to Christianity resently, and they feel so good that they have placed a f 00 memorial window in the Disciples church there. Hood's Sarsaparilla has the largest sale of any medicine before the public. Any honest druggist will confirm th'u state mcnt. IHTERMTIOM C0HVES7IOH. The S inday School Workers of tiie Continent'Soon to Meet, The sixth international (tenth nation al. Sunday school convention, of the United States and British North Ameri can provinces, will be held in the city of Pittsburgh, I'a., Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 21, .", 'J( and 'S7, lS'Ki. The sessions of the convention will beheld in Mechanical hall of the exposition building, on Du Mesne way, between First and Fourth street-, legin ning Tuesday morning at 3 oVIork and olosinj with Fiiday evening. Three ses sions will be held daily. The general order of. the programme will be as follows : F'iiTt Day The morning and afternoon sessions will be given to a conference on organized state, territorial and provincial Sunday school work. The privilege of participating in these discussions w ill 1 accorded to all accredited delegates, who at the time are merabera of state, territor ial, provincial or county Sunday school organizations, either as oilicers or mem bers of executive committees, and to no others. A committee to nominate officers for the convention will be appointed to report at the evening session. Evening Session The election of of ficers. Address of the president-elect. Addresses of welcome and responses. Second Day Morning Session lie ports of special committees ; report of executive committee, supplemented by an address by Mr. William Reynolds up on our field work. Report of the statis tical secretary ami of the treasurer. Afternoon Session Reorfs of the delegates to the World's Sunday school convention at London, England, iv-'1. Of Sunday school work in other land-., and of the International Lesson commit tee, through the Secrfctary, Rev. Warrtn Randolph, D. D. Evening Session Addresses on the work of the International I-esson com mittee, and of Sunday school work in other lands. Third Iay Morning Session Report of the special committees. Election of the new lesson committee. The work of the international committee and finance. Afternoon Session The entire session will be given to the work of the primary department. Evening Session Address on Sunday school work. The book. The teacher. The teaching. Fourth Day Morning Session Re ports of committees. The World's Sun day school convention, to be held in the United States in !"'. or 1 Normal institutes and assemblies. Afternoon Session Addresses on Sun day school work. .Teachers. Training. Systematic beneficence. Missions. Tem perance. Fivening Session Closing address. Each state, territory, and province, having an interdenominational Sunday school organization, is entitled to repre sentation in the convention. Delegate must be elected by the several conven tions, or appointed by the executive committees of such conventions, or state association. I-iach delegate must be furnished with a certificate signed by the proper officers of the state, territorial, or provincial or ganization, and for uniformity these cer tificates in blanks will be furnished to states, territories or provinces by the in ternational executive committee. All duly accredited delegates will be entitled to hospitality, and these only will have the right to vote in the conven tion. It is earnestly desired that thesf delegates lie carefully selected from among the best workers in the various organizations, as mutters of the greate-t interest to all friends of Sunday schools will be considered by the convention ; among others, the following : The improvement of the work done under the direction of the international Sunday school executive committee. The question of a uniform course of normal lessons. The election of a new lesson commit tee. The report of the delegates to the World's Sunday school convention in London in 1S9. The plan for co-operation in Sunday school work throughout the world. The World's Sunday school convention to be held in the United States in ls;) or IS! a It is expected that all railroad and steamboat lines will return at one-third fare, or in some cases possibly at less rate, those delegates who pay full fare in go ing to the convention. The reduction can only be obtained on the "certificate plan." That is, parties desirisg the re duced fjre must take a receipt at the railroad ticket orlice ( when starting for the convention'', and on presentation of this receiptor certificate they will be entitled to purchase return ticket at reduced rate. Full particulars may be obtained from Mr. W. N. Harts horn, chairman of the committee on transportation, 50 Bloomtield street, Bos ton. Mass. In view of the imorUnce of this con vention of Sunday school workers it is re quested that frequent and earnest praver be offered that wisdom i-iay lie given to all who have direction in the preparation for this gathering. That sus Christ, our Divine Lord, ma v be glorified, that the Holy Spirit may be honored, and that the inspired Word of God may 1 magnified by all who participate in the exercises. And that the blessi ng of iod may rest upon mid crown the deliber ations of the convention. In behalf of the Executive Committee, B. F. J taws, Chairman. Pennsylvania's quota of delegates is one hundred and twenty, of which about sixty will be apjointed by the various county associations and the remainder by the State Fixecutive Committee. It is expected that every county will be rep resented, and that our quota will be fill ed. Credentials will I issued by the chairman of the State Executive Com mittee. Arrangements are being maie for a "Pennsylvania Headquarters ' at; d badges will be forwarded for ail. The railroads east of Pittsburgh will charge one and one-third fare for the rourd trip, and those west one full fare, on the certificate plan. W. S. Ross, M. D., ( h tinr.an. Perhaps no loc.il disease h u puz'ed and battled the medical pn fewion more than nasal catarrh. While not immedi ately fatal it is among the most di.'tress ingand di -justing ills the fledi is heir to, and the records show very few or no cases of radical cure of ehiouic catarrh by any of the multitude of modes of treatment until the introduction of Ely's Cream Balm a few years ao. The suc cess of this preparation has been most gratifying and surprising. In 1S40 a master mason of rpividenco R. I., stamped his initials on a copper cent and put it in circulation. In taking some change the other day he found li is coin. After fifty yrs of wandering it had returned, and he Tool aottak. htradrpda 4 dollars fcr it. ' :ts. u- vc. 13 rn .Wo lOOlls: ta rmneea.
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