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Somerset Couniy Rational Bank
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Established, 1877. Organized as a National, 1390
CAPITAL, $50,000.
Chas. J. Harrison, Tres't
Wm. 15. Frcasc, Vice Pres't.
Milton J. Pritts, Cashier.
Directors:
Wm. II. Knonti,
Jtoiith S.i-iit.
J..!.n II. Miy.liT,
Jo ).h It. lavih.
Smn'l Snyder,
joiiaa M. t ook,
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llarriw.n Mvder,
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j .-rome btuni.
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( nti.mer orthis Bank will receive the most
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DOWN
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THE PRICES
BLACK ASTRACHAN,
AND-
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to if you want
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TEX J AT?. SCREENS,
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Ine. ' ww t M. V fo one to 94 14,
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DAVIDS VILLE P. C (Somerset Co., Pa,
Agents for the
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WHITELY SOLID STEEL BINDER,
WHITELY AND CHAMPION
REPAIRS.
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Left at
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-o-
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Promptly.
Z9-K Sample Machine is now on Exhi
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TUnWMlR Machines $3S.
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r. 1 . .-,-
ouic es:
Somerset
SOMERSET,' PA.,
WHERE HE FOUND REFUGE.
He was called Kreat eihorter.
And bis richest deacon's daughter
Looked up to him with reverence too
great for words to tell.
But he fcreatly feared to court her
Tbouch his tender clances taiurht her
He loved the very rand-tracks where her
- footsy-tootsics fell.
But her father "kinder sorter"
Thought a preacher badn't oughter
Ihsturb the sweet sereneness of a happy
Pittsburg home;
So he took her 'cross the water
And within a year he bought ber
The dearest thing in husbands to be
found in modern Borne.
Though the preacher tried to hate her,
Well he knew that soon or later
Her face would come between him and
bis duty to his church,.
For he heard her tearful miger
Say she'd learned that Prince Tomater
Had bad three wives in Paris and bad
left them in the lurch.
And as now ber doleful pater
Hid with him desire to mate her.
He became a missionary and of heathen
went in search ;
Till on reaching the njnator
'Twa hard luck an allij.-ator
Felt pily for bis suffering and snatched
him 01T his perch.
-Vcu' York VYo uAi.
ISABEL'S PRIDE.
BY LIZZIE M. MULHER.V.
She is so intensely proud. It is tier one
great failing. You bad better look out
for your heart, Lindsay, for I have an
idea you would stake your all on the fa
tal throw ; with you, love would mean
life or death."
Lindsay St Clair laughed lightly,
though his handsome face flushed under
its bronze.
" You need not fear for me, Edson," he
said. " I am mt likely, even under the
spell of Miss Huntington's beauty, to for
get I am among the ineligibles. I am ra
ther anxious to see her, however. Proud,
penniless, beautiful, and ambitious very
descriptive.'
The friends turned a bowlder of rocks
at that moment, and then :
" Well, your wish wi'.l be gratified, old
fellow, almoHt as soon as expressed," Ed-
oon Martin said. " There is Isabel Hun
tington, now."
Looking toward one of the n cks that
jutted out into the sea, Lindsay St. Clair
saw, standing on it, a girl in a blue sailor
suit, a slim, graceful atigure, with the
wavts almost lapping her feet, her face
turned seaward.
A few moments later it was turned to
ward them, with a very faint, welcoming
smile, as Edson Martin bent over her
hand.
' This is my friend, Lindsay St. Clair,
of whom you have heard me speak,
Miss Huntington ; allow me to intro
duce li"i- St. Clair M Hunt
ington." The girl bowed slightly, her eyes rest
ing for a moment on his handsome, high
boned face proud, sweet eyes that droop
ed almost instantly at the passionate ad
miration that, despite their owner's
strongest effort, leaped into the dark ones
that met her own, as Linday St Clair
took in the peerless beauty of her lovely
face, the lovely face that, Lindsay St.
Clair even then knew, for ood or ill,
would be the one fair face in all the
world to him ; he knew then, as well as
he knew after, that whatever it brought
him, be would love Isabel Huntington
with all the passion of his heart, all the
strength of his nature, the one passionate
love-dream be would know.
That w as the beginning of a passionate
love-dream, a summer idyl, madly, peril
ously sweet for despite the warning of
some of the half-laughing, half-mocking
comments of others, he threw his whole
heart and soul into the mad hope of win
ning the love of Isabel Huntington.
He had position enough, for he was
well born and w ell bred, and wealth he
would win yet for his beautiful love,
for his darling's sake.
And she did love him he could not be
mistaken, else why should her fair face
flush at his coming the dark eyes
droop beneath his passionate love glan
ees ?
More than once Isabel Huntington ask
ed herself the same question, and, stand
ing at the deep bay-window that over
looked the sea, one fair, bright day, her
heart answered her. She loved Lind
say St Clair with every throb of her
heart
She had longed all her life for wealth
and position. Her life had been so nar
row and pitiful, with the efforts to keep
op appearances and make both ends
meet.
She had seen her mother grow faded
and gray, worn and weary, with the strag
gle that never seemed to end, and she
shrunk from such a, future with a feeling
of dread only those who have gone
through it can Understand.
Then began the most bitter war wom
an ever wajed war with her own heart,
a war that grew more bitter as Vesey
Pel mar te lingered by her side, fighting
the ground inch by inch with Lindsay
St. Clair, and people smiled, prophesying
how it would end, for Vesey Ielmarte
wa little leas than a millionaire, even
though he was a man whom no one trus
teda man from whose glances wise
mothers sternly guarded their innocent
daughters.
So the summer waned, June roses
bloomed and faded, and then, one even
ing in the gloaming, Lindsay St. Clair
put his fate to the test, and told Isabel
Huntington the story'of his love.
He saw the fair lace pale and the Tio
let eyes droop, saw the little white hands
tremble, and so took heart for a favorable
answer.
" Isabel, I plaoe every hope of life in
your hands, to make or to mar. I love
you as man never loved woman before.
Darling, may I hope 7"
A long silence, and then : .
" Sweetheart, answer 111.3," he said.
" Isabel, may I hope T"
Hope 7 It all died out almost as the
words left his lips, and his handsome face
grew pale as death as the girl drew back
from him, her lovely face grow in j cold
and pale.
" I am sorry this has happened," she
said, slowly.
"Sorry this has happened !"
In the frenry of the moment Le grasp
ed her hand, his passionate, burning eyes
compelling ber to meet their loving
glances.
" My God ! Iaabel, are yon false to
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNEDAY, JULY 2, 1890.
your own heart false lo your own dear
J soul and the dignity of your woman
hood
The girl's beautiful fUce flushed,
" You forget yourself, Mr. St. Clair,' Bhe
said, cutting across her words, her voice
strangely calm. 1 think I would prefer
being alone."
"Forgetting myself" with a bitter
laugh "and so I am dismissed ! My God,
Isabel !"
" Miss Huntington," she said, very
coldly.
His face flushed.
Pardon me for my rudeness and my
madness, be said.
Then, without another word, he turned
and left her standing there standing
there paler than he had been himself for
a moment only, and then she sunk on
her knees, her hands outstretched.
" My pride has failed me when I need
ed it most!" she cried. "Oh, Lindsay,
uiy love ! my love ! come back to me."
And he? Straight from the latt hope
of a w oman's love, blinded with pain and
passion, to the fulfillment of a dream a
dream that had haunted him vaguely.
Three hours after his rejection by Isa
lel Huntington, he knew his dream had
leen a reality, that the miserly old un
cle, who had ignored him all his life,
dying, had made him bis heir and mas
ter of Norwood Homestead, the state
liest mansion in the country where it
stood. !
It seemed to hiui every one heard the
story before he told it himself, and the
congratulations poured in on every side.
"I will go away to-morrow just as I in
tended," he said, with a faint smile, " for
my dream of life is o'er. Far away in
another land I will strive to forget
her.
Ah, kind heaven, while life lasted he
would never forget his passionate love-
dream and its bitter ending.
He almost laughed aloud at the crnel
mockery of fate, and yet, after all, it had
been kind to him in showing him Isabel
Huntington's heart as clearly as it had
done.
To-morrow came at least it had be
come to-day lo Lindsay St. Clair, and he
stood on the spot where he had told his
love to Isabel Huntington. His heart was
filled w ith thoughts of her. ',
He had loved her so pasKtng well, and
she had proved so unworthy, and then
even as her name was on his lips, he
came face to face with her under the shad
ow of drooping trees.
My God ! was he mad or was he dream
ing
The lovely eyes met his with passion
ate pleading, the sweet, red mouth was
quivering, a red flush stained ler cheeks
and then she pleadingly held out her
hands.
" I heard you were going away," she
said. " Oh, Lindsay, one night of misery
has awakened my soul to iU own wel
nut wi.ut.a u.y Heart to a'uow ledge
of its own desire. Lindsa- if I ask you,
will you stay T
For a moment he looked at her in si
lence, a look of contempt t wiling over
his face, and then a laugh of jitter mock
ery broke from his lips.
"Lindsay St. Clair, the maiter of Nor
wood and aii its revenues, is a different
man in Miss Huntington's eyet from the
penniless, presumptious foo! that dared
to tell her his love late onlf festerday.
" Pardon me, Miss Huntingtrr),but I fear
I must go," he said. '
All over the beautiful fc swept a
crimson flush, but the proud clear eyes
met his with a fearless glanct
He went to speak again, lit she stop
ped him with a gesture, and turned
haughtily away.
She went straight to her rother.
" Mother, did you hear'anthingabout
Lindsay St Clair 7" she saiti
Mrs. Huntington smiled.
" I heard he was a riche man than
Vesey Delmarte. I would hve told you
last night, only you kept jrour room.
It is not too late. You have ot accepted
Vesey Delmarte, Isabel 7"
" Not too late? Ah, yes, to late !" the
girl said, and then she lay wite and un
conscious at her mother's fet
t
Three years later.
Who could believe that iaters that
danced all day in the sunght could
darken so suddenly, could crand moan
like living things in torture, 1 they beat
their wind-lashed breasts gainst the
reefs and the rocks that towied above
them.
Such a storm had not been;en in the
Jersey Highlands for years, he roar of
the waters over the reefs and gainst the
rocks, round the headland, suck terror
to the stoutest heart, and thairid light
ning lit np the scene at intorals, while
the deafening peals of thund rent the
air, and the rain came down'n torrents,
and the vessel, lying beyonthe reefs,
but dangerously near them, eked like
a toy boat od the hungry aves that
leaped around her, and then
" Boom ! Boom ! Boom !" ,
The hearts of the people Jhered on
the beach stood still, and 1 awful si
lence for a moment, and th, like one
voice, the cry rang out : j
"She has struck on the headnd reefs."
"My God, men, can yoatand idle
when help is needed in time danger?"
Lindsay St Clair cried. u, hundred
dollars to any and every macho comes
with me to their aid." j
Impelled more by his miner than
the promised reward, three oour of the
men helped him to launch boat and
leap-into it with him.
"My God, St. Clair, yon mu
ive mad!"
some of his friends cried.
here's no
hope of helping them unlesilie storm
abates. Your boat will moaurely be
swamped."
Scarcely making them
answer,
Lindsay leaped into the bej and lift
ing an oar, pushed out intcje boiling
waters.
" Have courage, men," hei
may yet need help ourselves
we
It seemed almost out of hum power,
but the men were determine.rid before
long the boat almost reachclje vessel's
side, and then Lindsay St. I.r sprang
to his feet
Ah, heavens! was be majr dream
ing 7 Neither one or the ot, for one
glance was enough, for thsiu.re, pale
face that looked down frtxinong the
frantic crowd on board the SlBird was
the face of Isabel Huntingtoj
Suddenly a cry went ufrom the
men.
" The boat is swamping !"
They were all good swimtk howev-
er, and without a moment's delay sprang
into the water.
Isabel's eyes turned to Lindsay, and
then above the storm his voice rac in
her ears :
" Leap, Isabel I will save you V
Without a moment's hesitation she
sprang forward, and then down ! down !
down ! and the next she knew Lindsay's
arm was around her, while with the
other he clung to the boat that had risen
almost beside them clung for a moment
only.
"My love, my love!" he heard her
murmur aa they sunk for the second
time.
" There is hope, Isabel," he said, as
they rose again, but the girl was fast
sinking into unconsciousness. "Be brave,
love, there are other boats putting out
to the rescue, and the storm is fast
abating."
" Lindsay," she whispered, us her eyes
closed, "Lindsay, I loved you always. I
did not know of the change in your for
tune when I a-sked you to stay that day."
A moment later she was lifted, white
and unconscious, into another rescuing
licit
When he opened her eyes again Lind
say ht. (..lair was landing over her, all
his passionate love glowing in his eyes.
" Oh, my darling, the storm has given
you to me again. Sweetheart, will you
take up life again where we laid it down
three years ago 7 he said ; and weary
and weak as she felt at the moment, she
faintly smiled, and managed to whisper,
Yes."
A Double-Barrelled Joke.
The other evening, round at McGov-
ern's saloon, the boys were putting up
an elaborate practical joke on somebody,
and they asked old Capt. Skiddy, who
had happened in, to take a hand.
""o, gentlemen," said that estimable
old citizen decisively, "you don't catch
me taking part in any practical jokes. I
went out ot that business for good over
ten years ago."
"How was that?" asked the group of
beer exterminators.
'Well, it was in the winter oflSTO
maybe 1S7L I was living at Davenport,
Iowa, and a man came there giving bal
loon ascensions. One davit was adver
tised that the mayor of the town was
going up with him. .Now. the mavor
was a big, fat man, who always wore a
light suit ot clothes and a white hat. This
put me tn the notion of working off a
joke on the people. I got acquainted
with the aeronaut, and he agreed to as
sist in the scheme. We then got an old
"uit 'l2!1' cloi and fixed nP du"-
my, which we filled with sand, so that it
weighed about two hundred pounds, and
would therefore drop straight and heavy
like a man. The day of the ascension
there was over 30,0 K) people present, and
the excitement was very grat, as there
was a high wind blowing at the time.
After the balloon got up about a mile,
and maybe that far south of the town,
they dropped the dummy over."
"Big sensation, eh 7"
' "Well, I should say so. But that's just
where I lost my grip. While the crowd
was shouting and going wild with horror,
I just laid down on the ground, rolled
over, and laughed until I was just sick."
"Should think the crowd would have
taken a tumble, too," suggested the
audience.
"But just wait Of course the crowd
made a break out of town to scrape up
the remains, and I rushsjl home to get
my fishing tackle, for it struck me that
the most healthy thing I could do would
be to go fishing for a day or two, Before
I left the house, however, I was arrested
for murder."
"For murder?"
"Exactly. A lot of the boys accom
panied by the sheriff rushed in and col
lared me. They claimed that the dum
my had fallen on a farmer and driven
his skull clear into the heels of his boots.
They said that the balloontic had turned
State's evidence, and the chances were
that I would be hung before night'
"That was rough."
"Well, so I thought. I was just scared
plum to death, and begged the boys to
stand back and protect me. I ponied op
$i0 for legal expenses ; they hid me in
the garret of a neighbor's house. They
kept me there ten blessed days and there
wasn't a day but they struck me for a
twenty or two for contingencies. One
night the whole gang came around full
of beer on my money mind you and
said that they bad concluded, aa addi
tional precaution, to hide me in the hol
low of a tree about three miles out in the
woods. I saw through the whole busi
ness then, and drove them out with a
club. It was a good, square case of the
biter bit, I know, but they never let np
calling me 'Dummy Skiddy' after that,
until they actually run me out of town,
and I had to emigrate to this jumping
off place of creation," and the Captain
shook bis bead with a disgusted look
he paid for his hot Scotch and walked
out San Francitco Post.
Tricks of
Horse
tors.
Car Conduc
"Even the best of us, " he said, "some
times miss fare in a crowd, but itdosn't-
happen often, and that is because we
have things down o a system. On all
lines there are certain streets at which
we start to go through our car to pick tip
nickles. Often I am in doubt as to who
has not paid a fare, but I don't take
chances of wounding any one's feelings
by asking for it in that case. I mere
ly meander through the car stopping
now and then before any one I suspect of
not having antied up. The guilty per
son usually has pricks or conscience
when I place myself before him and clears
np all doubt by beginning to fish through.
his pockets for th nickel. That is one
of the tricks, and it saves many harah
words, for almost as often as you ask
man who really has settled, if his fare
has paid he will abuse you for intimating
that he is tiring to do the railroad com
pany. I have learned by experience
that it is better to chip in a nickle out of
your own pockets than to go aronnd ask
sng for fares when you are in doubt, and
most old time conductors will agree with
me." But(H llerald.
A good little boy in Georgia who was
kicked by a mule did not say naughty
words or go home crying to his mother.
He just tied the mule within five feet of
a beehive, backed him round to it and
let him kick.
-1, Jll JL Ob J
The Republican Platform.
The following is the platform adopted
by the Tpoblican State Convention, held
at Harrisbur on Wednesday of last
week :
Once more the Republicans of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in con
vention asseti. Lied, send fraternal greet
ings to their party brethren throughout
the Nation, and congratulate them and
ourselves upon the victory won in 1&S8
by the purity of Republican principles
and the patriotism of Republican citi
zenship. QCAT HONORED AND DEFEMKKD.
For the Chairman of our National
Committee, Mr. Quay, we feel a lasting
sense of gratitude for his matchless ser
vices in the last Presidential campaign,
and commend bis bearing under the slan
ders which his successful leadership of
our party has purchased for hiui. Asa
citizen, a member of the General Assem
bly, as Secretaty of the Commonwealth,
as State Treasurer by the overwhelming
suffrages of his fellow-citizens, and as
Senator of the United States, he has won
and retains our respect and confidence.
In keeping with the sympathy and the
duty of our party, we make the follow
ing declaration of principles for the bet
terment of political government and the
benefit of our fellow-citizens :
FOR A FREE VOTE AND HONEST COUNT.
We believe that every lawful voter has
the right to cast a free ballot at every
public election, and have it properly
counted and certified, and we call upon
Congress to adopt such legislation as will
prevent a suppression or falsification of
the votes of our fellow-citizens at elec
tions for officers of the National Govern
ment, and end political slavery through
out the Nation.
CARS Or THE SOLDIER.
Our care for the welfare of those who,
upon the field of battle, carried triumph
antly the principles of Republican faith,
will end only when tlie last soldier of the
Civil War shall have entered into his
honest rest, and we ask Congress to grant
a per-diein service pension to every
L'nion soldier and sailor who served in
and was honorably discharged from the
army or navy of the United States.
THE BOKDLR RAID CLAIM.
The claim which the citizensof the bor
der counties of our Commonwealth make
upon the General Government for reim
bursuient forthe loss they sustained in
their homes and property at the hands
of the Confederates during the late war
is one which National patriotism should
rpflnect and honor, and we tiro, nnon nnr
Congressmen the use of every proper ef-
fort to have it quickly and completely
satisfied. "
THE MCKINI.V TARIFF BILL ENDOitoKD.
We endorse the Tariff bill called the
"McKinley bill," in the form in which it
was passed by the House of Representa
tives, and we denounce the criticism
passed upon that bill in the English Par
liament as unwarranted interference by
a foreign nation with the right of the
American people to protect American in
dustries. PROTECTION FOR WORKERS AS WELL AS MAN
UFACTURERS. We reaffirm one of the earliest princi
ciples of our party when we declare that
American workers should, like American
manufacturers, receive National protec
tion ; ami we request of the General Gov
ernment the strictest enforcement of the
laws forbidding entrance into this coun
try of the pauper and contract labor of
foreign nations.
AGAINST OLEOMARGARINE AND ABUSE OF
THE I.MUOR LAWS.
We urge upon Congress the immediate
necessity of making such legislation as
wilt prevent the importation and sale of
oleomargarine and of intoxicating liquors
liquor in this Commonwealth contrary
to our acts of Assembly regulating and
restricting the same, and to empower
every State to enforce its local laws there
to in the manner and in accordance with
the intent and purpose with which they
were enacted.
FAVORINO BALLOT REFORM.
Ballot reform is and will remain the
watch-word of our parfy in every State,
and we especially congratulate our breth
ern in New York upon the fact, that al
though their Governor could defer, he
could not wholly defeat their efforts to
secure a free ballot for every American
voter throughout their State. We urge
upon the members of the next General
Assembly the duty to pass such laws,
and, if necessity should arise, to provide
for such changes in the Constitution of
our State as will insure to every voter
perfect secrecy and fredora in exercising
his right of suffrage.
THE STATE FINANCES.
For almost thirty years the finances of
this State have been under the control
of our party. During that time we de
vised a system of taxing corporations,
which serves as a pattern for and has
been taken as a guide by many sister
States in their efforts to collect revenue
for public purposes.
RELIEF FOB AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS.
We have paid off the debt which the
Democratic party of this State created
during time of peace. We have al
most extinguished the debt which the
Democratic party of the Southern States
inflicted upon us duriDg the Civil War,
and years ago we lifted from the homes
of all our fellow-citizens the burdens of
State taxation. But the depression un
der which our agricultural interests are
suffering has made the present system of
taxation bear too heavily on them, and
we therefore pledge ourselves to lighten
that burden, and as far as possible equal
ize taxation.
TAXATIOS OF CORPORATIONS.
To that end, we recommend that the
surplus revenue derived from State taxa
tion be used to lessen the taxation now
laid npon real estate for local purposes
by applying it, so far as it will in legisla
tive wisdom prevail, to the increase of
the appropriation for the support of the
common schools, and to making appro
priation for the care of the indigent in
sane, for the expenws of the jury syatem
and of holding the general elections. If
thereby there should be a necessity for
enlarging our surplus revenue, we favor a
just and equitable 'increase in the taxa
tion of the property of corporations.
We recommend that the local system
of taxation be so reformed as to permit
the taxation of money capital for local
purpose to such an extent as to enable
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WHOLE NO. 2032.
the local authorities to reduce the rate of
taxation upon real estate to a more equit
able basis. We require of the General
Assembly vigilance in making appropria
tions of the public money, and of our
charitable institutions, receiving State
aid, the strictest ewnomy in expendit
ures. DEMAND FOR AS INCREASE IN CURRENCY.
The phcnominal increase in our popu
lation and our commerce, foreign and.
domestic, w ith the decrease in circulation
of our National Banks, rentier it impera
tively necessary for the general good,, in
our judgment, that there shall be a
speedy and substantial increase in the
currency of the country.
GOLD AND SILVER MUST BE EtJUAI.
Uncompromisingly hostile to mono
metalism, whether ef gold or silver, ar.J
earnestly favoring the rise of both as coin
metals, the Republican party of Penn
sylvania demands the enactment by the
Congress now in session of such legisla
tion as will, while securing the illest use
of silver as money, most certainly secure
and maintain a parity between the two
metals.
president Harrison's administration is
ENIVJltsED.
We endorse the administration of Pres
ident Harrison, and declare that its wise
conservatism, its undoubted integrity,
and its manifest elliciency, deserve the
unqualified approval of the whole
Nation.
CONFIDENCE IN SENATOK CAMERON.
We greatfully record the continued
confidence of the Republicans of Penn
sylvania in the wisdom, integrity, and
statesmanship of the Hon. J. Donald
Cameron, our Senator at Washington, D,
C, so emphatically manifested in his
past services, and we accept them as pos
itive assurance of his faithfulness and
elliciency in the future.
THANKS TO SPEAKER REED.
e commend the course of the Hon,
Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the Nation
al House of Representatives, in manfully
preventing the obstructions of legislation
and the waste of public money, and we
tender him the congratulations and
thanks of the Republican party of Penn
sylvania.
CONGRATULATIONS TO GOVERNOR BEAVER.
We express our gratification with the
administration of Governor James A
Beaver, and congratulate him upon the
fact that his course has been marked by
wisdom, integrity, and that duty to the
welfare of the people which entitles him
to the esteem and gratitude of the Re
publicans 01 me .tate in all coming
years.
Unwholesome Sleep.
Not always is sleep "tired nature's
r-swe restorer. Sometimes, instead of
a balm, it brings. a bugaboo in the shape
of the nightmare. Man is a wonderful
piece of work, but his machinery may
be thrown out of gear and set a-whizzing
by so slight a thing as a late supper. An
indieatible Welsh rarebit at eleven p.
m. may result in a big, suffocating black
dog across his chest at one o'clock in the
raoiniDg; an overplus of loaf-pastry,
which his gastric juices can not conve
niently assimilate, may precipitate him
from a precipice in dreamland into an
abyss ; or a surfeit of iite ((e fuie ym send
him to a Morphean gallows, there to en
dure all the tortures of actual strangula
tion. This sort of thing, by the wav, is
only one remove from apoplexy, and the
incubus-ridden victim of inordinate and
untimely self-indulgence is likely enough
to be at last bedridden in his sleep by
nightmare too strong lor his vitality
even Death.
The term nightmare is supposed to have
been derived from Mara, the name of a
demon which, according to the Scandina
vian mythology, pounced upon men in
their sleep and held the will in thrall
don. The old Saxons called the distem
per Elf-sidenne, or elf-squatting. With
the doctors, who are nothing, if not class
ical, it is Ephialties, from a mythic giant
of that name who undertook to climb to
Heaven, but, missing his foothold, turn
bled into the fathomless depths. Most
of us have probably been convulsed in
our sleep with the same sort of horror
which tho tripped-up Titan is fabled to
have experienced during his "lofty la'.l"
from the celestial battlements.
In our boyish days, or rather nights,
we were frequently pitched headlong
from the tops of sky-cleaving mountains,
throw over staircases and into wells from
which the bottoms had dropped out ; to
say nothing of falling, bed ana ail,
tnrougn irap-ioors in the floor into
illimitable chaos; or being caught up by
the hair into the realms of either and
there kept dangling and kicking, like a
jumping-jatk, w ithout any apparent pros
pect of rescue. Well do we remember
the start of terror with which we awoke
on such occasions, and the deep-drawn
sighs of relief which followed the con
sciousness of safety. It is doubtful
whether any waking agony surpasses the
torment that has been endured in dreams.
There can be little dout that many of
the specters of the dark ags?s were Maras
begotten of indigestion. Your Saxon
gormandizer, who sometimes feasted far
into the night on boar's flesh and veni
son pastry, washing them down with
frothy mead, mast have gone to bed with
his stomach in a nice condition. No
wonder that of the internal fermenta
tion, caused by such stuffing and swill
ing, hobgoblins and hippogriffii in end
less variety were born.
The surett way to avoid the night
mare, and procure that sound, heathful
repose, with which each day's life should
be "rounded off," is to live temperately,
regularly and honestly. Ah, honestly
for a troubb e ns Hence, as w ell as an
over-laden diaphragm, may engender
evil dreams. .V. Y. ledgrr.
The Purest and Best
Articles known to medical science are
used in Preparing Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Every ingr-e lient is ctrefjlly selected,
personally examined, and only the best
retained. The medicine is prepared un
der the supervision of thoroughly com
petent pharmacists, and every step in
the process of manufacture is carefully
watched, with a view to securing in
Hocu s Sarsaparilla the beet possible re
sult When a man mends the error of bis
ways it will usually be found that it was
a woman who sewed on the patches.
Good Dog Stories.
It Is a fact that some dogs in some war
know when you are talking about them.
This is especially true after they have
committed any serious offense. A friend
of mine living on the mill str.aui 111
New Brunswick, C anada bad a Nrg; h g
part St Bernard and part mastiff. He
was never known to I vicious or to
"hunt" any thing. I.arge flocks of sheep
were raised about the place, but when
lambs began to get plr.mp there wis
scarcely a morning but Mine fanner la
mented the loss of some i"t.sof his tlork.
Tlie people turned out with guns and
looked fur bear. "I have the rascal now ;
it's your dog. I saw him pinning borne
this morning at dawn out of my pasture.
When I went ont I found three dead
Iambs," said a farmer to my friend. The
dog was lying under tlie table during
these words. "I ll fix him," sai.l the
owner: "I'll shoot him to-day." No more
was said. In the afternoon he called the
dog, but he didn't come. No one had
seen him. No sign of him for that day
nor the next On the third day one of
tiie farm hands found him cowering in
the furthest corner of the hay mow in
the barn. He whined piteously as the
man drew near, and the po- - brute was
so weak from hunger and fear that he
could hardlr walk.
There is just one other story I should
like to relate, and it was told me l y the
persons owning the dog in Newfound
land. On that pa't of the.Msvt the people
live in coves five crsix tnle art.
There is no road between rtt .emei.t and
settlement. A wi.'i.ah a ! er ta.i
daughters from a nei.'hN. were
visiting persons in Le P.arivw-t m. About
four .hey set out for hoo.e. li.er had
not gone fifteen minutes lt-f .r. asr...
storm came on. It was a saj u't as a tor
nado. "Th ey are lost thev are !-t('
is what the people sai.!. No man t'.ere
could find them. "Let Rover go," aaid
one, and fastening a flask of spirits toti.,"
log's neck they led him to the path
which the travelers toek. He sniffed
about, then seemed so know what was
required of him, and set out in the blind
ing drift. The women had given them
selves up for lost, and were lying hud
dle.! together in the lee of a clump of
bushes, weeping and praying. Present
ly a large dog bounded in among them,
wagging his tail. After they had tasted
the spirits the women followed the dog,
and he led them back by the most shelt
ered ways. In these Newfoundland
drift-storms you can not see more than
thirty feet in any direction. Ilurj,rr'$
Younj PniU.
On the Battle-Field.
Here is a description of what must
have been a rather trying afterp-xin
passed by a Connecticut man on the battle-field
of Cedar Creek. It is extra, ted
from Adjutant Vaill's "History of the
Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy
Artillery."
-Men from every company started out
the first thiujj after reaching camp to
look for our dead and wounded, many of
wbim lay not fifty rods off. Some of
them were just able to greet their re
turning comrades, hear the news of vic
tory and send a last message to il.eir
friends before expiring.
Corporal Charles M. Burr was sho.
above the ankle, both bones of his leg
being shattered. In a few minutes a
rebel battalion came directly over him
and passed on out of sight
Then, being alone for a short time, he
pulled off the boot from his sound leg,
put bis watch and money into it, and
drew it on again.
Next, a merciful rebel Lieutenant came
and tied a handkerchief round his leg,
stanching the blood. Next came the
noble army of stragglers and bummers.
"Hello, Yank, have you got any Yan
kee notions about you 7" they asked, at
the same time thrusting their hands into
his pocket They captured a little mon
ey and a few small traps, but, seeing that
one boot was spoiled, they did not med
dle with the other.
Then came ambulance, and picked up
the rebei wounded, but let ours. Then
came a citizen of the Confederacy, ask
ing many questions; and after him came
three boys who gave our corporal water.
Thus the day wore on until the mid
dle of the afternoon, when the tide of
travel began to turn.
The stragglers and bummers led the
advance : then the roar of battle erew
nearer and louder and more general ;
then came galloping officers and all kinds
of wagons ; then a brass twelve pounder
swung round close to him, unlimbered,
fired one shot and whipped off again :
then came the routed Confederate in
fantry, artillery and cavalry, all mixed
together, all on a full run, and strewing
the ground with muskets and einir-
ments.
Finally came the shouting "boys in
blue," and presently Pat Birmingham
was at Corporal Burr's side.
"Well Charley!" he cried out, 'I'm
glad to find you alive. I didn't expect
it We're back again in the older nip.
and the Johnnies are whiure.1 ail to
pieces."
A Story of Neil Dow.
A lady in London, who was very mn-
sical, wished to have a party devoted
solely to famous musicians. She desired
to have Neil flow there, and wrote to a
friend in Ayrshire asking him to bring
the Scottish strathspey player with him.
Neil accepted, and, being detained from
traveling in company with his friend
from Ayrshire, set out for the metropolis
alone. He found great difficulty in get
ting to the house, and arrived very late.
w hen he presented himself at the door
the servant put him into the kitchen and
informed her mistress that an uncouth
looking man was asking for her. During
the servant's absence Neil espied an old
looking violin hanging on the wall.
Curiosity made him look at' it and he
found it had been played upon quite
recently. He struck it with, his fingers
and it was in perfect tune.
Taking down the bow he began to play.
Never had he heard such good qnalitv of
tone. On he played, and when the .ser
vant returned he would neither stop
playing nor apeak to her. Tke rest of
the company were alarmed and proceed
ed to the kitchen There stood Neil play
ing as if for dear life. The fiddle had en
chanted him and he could not leave it.
The company called to him to stop, but
it was only by holding his right arm that
the music ceased. Thereupon Neii sanic
upon a chair and, wiping the perspiration
from his brow, said : "Lord, mem, sic a
fiddle!" All that evening the company
enjoyed themselves, and always at inttr
vals Neil was heard saying to his hostess :
"Lord, mem, sic a fiddle !" His thoughts
were chained to it and it is gratifying to
know that he carried it with him to Scot
land. Ex.
Hold It to the Light.
The man who tells you confidentially
just what will cure your cold is prescrib
ing Kemp's Balsam this year. In the
preparation of this remarkable medicine
for coughs and colds no expense is sparr-d
to combine only the best and purest in
gredients. Hold a bottle of Kemp's Bal
sam to the light and look through it ; no
tice the bright, clear look ; then rompaie
with other remediea. Price 'jv qi jej