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YcYlY M. BERKLEY .
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W. H. Kcrrm.
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.SUIIHTWt, Pa.,
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TAMES LITGH
ATTvKNEY-.
"attukney-atlaw,
Somerset. Pa.
. ..1- .r..iir V.ntxance
u Km. Colle.uou made, ertatea
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jro:or.-. L-aCoLBOEK.
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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.
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T"AL.XT1N"K HAY,
AViuKNEY-AT-LAW.
' bouierM't, Pa.
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iactdJi'0'. .
J A1TOKSEY AT LAW.
v tuieret. Fa.
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v b .m Sl..ue'a.n auird u collei tiou, Ax. Uf
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tut! Mhin Hreet. next dour lo Luilumo
jna, .Vt;iit -k1I at ortiee.
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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.
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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.
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(Eaat of Court Bup)
SOMERSET. PA
iTAXTi;ii:-
LUMBER,
ti'T to oi:ii:rv.
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W. C. WHITE IXMEER CO.,
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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
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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
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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-
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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. '
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