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E'r.ri' r of Ail KiT!'!fn Vy Line Pone on tiion Notice. Pr-tn twtAsc.S ABUt, and All Work Warranted. fAi. a:..! F.iiin-re try F-of k and Learn Pncea liu At,.o .i. fim-t-h i-.ve for Wind .. '. r i'.e yW. and tail ta. CTJETIS K. GROVE, (Ea of tAi:n liooH) fiOJSERSET. PA TAXTKI):- vruiTE LUMBER, TT To GUI EI YV. C. AY HIT II M'MEER CO, 5f y0. 3.1;iimow t., CiiniWUrxI. Md. AXI '. URAXT. !-.;ci e in le of ; ;-::'-t.pi --h tin- v r- trv i.-f 4 -:u r-; T...I..L 1. H..'i..-il .M . ! .si r.d r fH ifs and ,tAisHi H:lesliew. ..... .iiib irr ti ..ii i.iv aad i-ewitb F. J. .-i.Ii. 11 -LI VOL. XXXIX. NO. 5. FOB CHItEXX CUOLl.KA. 19 Huron ?t., SheboTfira, ii, Xot. 12, 1M. I hare le f Uao Jjs Oii for rhick.acUo-crm J- :vj -. .ta sctt K-.C- f et-a i:vryfot L' .Q o--'vl9- a.Ti-tc4 with .Ii '.ly' " "- tc dLiease naa -,- i-urlly :t,e.:d I recommend it as a rare enrr. It Las taved Be many diUara. H. A KrtJtXE, P,--vV rf '. TRADE CJJ' i.'.'jS MARK H J - 1 Fcr Sta-lemcn and Stcckmen. CURES Ca't. S!Tm5. Brja.j. Spra r. "ana. $4ra!nt. Li-KtKs. i...n"t. Crack.. Hrii. ScrtcMs. Lonlracana. f KSh WtaufMs. StrtngftAlt Son Tnroat D.t"iptr. Colic. WNtlow. PcK . Fi.t-ii. Turrori. Splints. R$tct an Spavia la toetr eartj iuj :a. Qjc.ien artti caca acua. At TRrojiM ao Dsiiitt. THE CHARLES a. VCGELEH CO. BanMra. Ha. Ayer5s Pills E vel all "lli'rs as a family myiicin?. Thwy are suited to every cuds tit inori. oit and oun. and. Ix'iug supir-co.-iid, are aTe abte tu take, purely v-gttable. they le-vo no lil t !Ii-.t. but strenplien and rec-iate tlie niw'li. liver, and bowU. ami rrtr eery wrgun to iu normal function. For use r.th. r at liome or abroad, on Und or tea, .ee I'iils Are the Best. Ayer's Fills have been used in my family for over tlnry years. We find theni an ex cellent niedKine in fevers, emptive disea-a, and all I IrouSles. and seldom call a j.iij-n ;iu. Tin y are alrcost tlie ouiy pill n I in oi.r ne'.giiborhood." Iie!mon C. Com!. Hour Landing P. v., W. Feliciana Parish. I- I have fen in t'ns eoimtry eisrht yesrs. and. durin? all this time, neither I. nor any men 1 her of n:y family have iis-d any other kind of nie.li' ine tiiau Ayer's PilH. hut tliese e always kwp at hand, and 1 should not Know how to jt along without them. A. YV. Sodcrherc. Lowell. M:iss. " I liavo ued Ayer's Cathartic Pills as a Family Medicine f.-r years, and t!h-y have always piven tlie i:rniot sat taction." Jonies A. Tuornton, I'eMvniinptOlu Ind. -Two boxes of Ayer's Pills cured me of s'cre headache, fr.m wlm !i 1 was low: a jiiffervr." Erxitna heyes, HbUarilstown, Mas. Ayer's Pills, PREPARKD BY Dr. J. C. ATES A CO., Lowell, a a. Sold by all lealers iu Medicine. -THE-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF- ..Somerset, IPenn'a. -o- OEOOSIT RECEIVEDIN LARGE AN D SM ALL AMOUNT.. PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS MERCHANTS. FARMERS. STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED. -DISCOUNTS DAILY. - BOARD OF DIRECTORS: I-aKi-e M. Hick. W. H. M1LI.EK. JaM.s L. Tl'.H, (HSS. H. FlsHtR, J..HX K SlSTT. till. K. SlX'LL. FkKD V. lilESEl'KEB. Enwr.n StTLL, : Ya; kntim! II v, : A'n: riKKtK, : : : ruonET Vice I'kesident : : : Camiiek. TIip furi'ls an-I wnriti of this bank I are (swuivly ri tes-te.l in ao-lebniteil C'.jr- !!. Liirgiar-frc-mr ate. J lie only M!e niaiie absilat-!y llur!ar-prrxf. Somerset Counly National Bank Of Somerset, Pa. Es tabli.hed, 1877. Orginlred as a National, 1890 CAPITAL $50 000. Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't Wm. B. Frease, ice Pres't. Milton J. Pritts, Cashier. Directors: Wm. H. Kootiu, J'Mah I.-ht. Jonti II. S:idiT. J' fh B. 1'tivis Sam'l Snv.kr. J.ioa. M. I..ha Stufit. Harrison .-nyder. Jcn.iuc sunn. Nlis. Mu.er, Wtn. F.n.L-k-y. Customers of (his Bar.k will receive the moet Lioerui tn.-alioeiil .-onsistent with sal. lu i.iij. Parties wishinir to send money eat or et can W atiT iiiiiiCAUii ty diall lor :.y amount. M..ner and valuables secured by one of Die K.ei sCvicbiaUd sales with tao-t approved tliue i;. . I'.iilections made In all parts of the t. cited Stale t liaJTKr-9 moderate. Accounts -id liepu.il swUrtcJ. BjarVstin. Oils! Oils! The Standard oil Corar-anr. of Pittsboreli. Pa , make a nvcialtv of manv.fariunur for tha Ixjmesiic trade toe tinest Lrawla of Illuminating ct Lubricating Oils Naphtha and Gasoline, That can be made from Pr-tmlesim. We challange oompanson with every kuowa PRODUCT OF PETROLEUM. If yoa wish the most uniformly Satisfactory Oils IX THE mericai .Market, Aak for oura, Traae for Somerset and Ticinlty anpiied ty rcvK A EEFRrrS A5D FKEA-s- a Ki-ER. AkksrT, Fa. -ftss.'5-:yT. Pennsylvania College women. SiiUAtrd in ft rV-autifitl prfe . rn a rofnrnmniiny rifi. m thesurnirbw of F'ltlwOurv. f-ti:ii ,;y ncl I ?rp?-1 hr x ! t.i- :c.Fi:lnir. -.xccv-r,t ff.iliiif frUie it iff Naturni 'it'ifv. s"ic-!MH n1 MtTiie- sn.:;"r?,in AAiii-rt, fvTT ttTirtiTi:iit wtl' riuip ! thrt iul'ith'it rr-iT to Mf Hf.i.rj E. FiX- Soi LOOK UP. y. r. p. look up I In the early morning Tothe mountains far away ; They are tinted with golden washing. While the valley U chill and gray. Look E for the day eomiof , And guther help for the fray : We l a: lie with doubts and temptations No strength of our own can stay. Look up : when the welcome nonn-time Glides into he day of care. When peace Sow? into our waitin? hearts Au ai,ser to our prayer. When fes'i our lather's teachings Prop iutoour live? with love. Wc look ajrain A promised help That comei only from abor e. L-ok up : while sunset glories Are liiixenni; in the west Wnl.e clouds of a: thy: and gold. Hing over the mjooUiu'A crest. Look up! while eening shadows Are Catherine s-lently, Anl thank our Faiher for the grace and help He givas u: day by day. THE RIFT WITHIN THE LUTE. ay ha::;et it.qx'ott sroyyonn. f-uch a picture of peace as the pretty parlor was. w ith the pnnsliine ptjurint; in throtvli the winJow of flowers, with the Erenpon the hearth, tlie pale rose and bull' of the chintz draperies ami lounges, t'ie Ixx.'kK, the printfl, the greut lemon ttve in its carvoJ tub, anil, reposing on the rug before the fire, two cf the most S'Jperij cats that ever arched a back a great giT and lilack tirrine, with eves like jriods, and a tortoise-shell whoe b.'ty wus apparent as he lay at his full fall length, with his head reposing on the luxurious cushion he had made of lirimalkin. On one side of the fire sat a woman of some forty or fifty summers, with a paper spread open on her lap into which she was shredding a remainder of the bouquet of catnip which the pussies had recently enjoyed. She looked like one of those people w hom initinat has to take things easily, the system aware of its want of power to endure great nerv oils irritation without explosion, a nixxl n.itured liltie woman w ho must needs be happy herself, and to that end must have every one about her happy. The person standing in the window was very much the opposite of Mi Flor ry, tail, spare, dark and sour. In her early life she lost her lover, and she still reg'eUed him in crape, and had a way of makinir people who were not in crape re pret him, also. Theo? was some reason fr the want of resemblance between the two ; for although they passed as sisters, they bore really not the least relation to each other the old Judge having twice married a widow with a daughter, and having made the two daughters his own and left them his property, they contin uing in the home that fate and fortune had given them, bearing and forebearinj with each other and tolerably happy until the day a cat appeared to make a third. Yes, the parlor looked like a little cor ner of Eden walled in and furnished, especially with tnose towers w nere .ni.-s Panele's fingers twinkle-!, and with the bird singing in the distance. Ycu would not have dreamed that, instead, it was the very borderland of strife. Still, fur years a.S' when thos? est? had been kit tens, Miss Fiorry and Mtss Penelope had been on comfortable terms, and one day had been go!n by Eke another ia the house with a monotony that was peace itself. There was the morning paper, and breakfast anil the mail, and shopping, and charities ami dinner, and a nap and a drive, and callers and tea, and the evening pauer and the evening mail, and reading, and a game of zanken, and sleep. An l no question agitated them of more weight than whether Amelia Grey's dress was new or male over, or whether the stranger walking with Anna White was engaged to her, or whether they should have junket or custard for desert. And now Pet, the tiger cat, was an interesting little being when he came, so scrawny and preternaturally old in theexpression of his countenance that he was given the title of Grimalkin at once, w ithout w ait ing to earn it, so hungry that Miss Flor ry coo'.d cot appease hiui, and so wild that no precious shelf was safe from his scrambles. " I like a cat that I an hold," said Miss Penelcpe. " And I like Grimalkin," said Miss Florry. " And I mean to get a cat that I can hold," !aid Miss Penelope. " I hope Grimalkin will like him, then," said Miss Florry. And somehow the little dialogue left a bad taste in the mouth of each of them. Accordingly, it was not long before a fat, little dow ny ball of a kitten, born for warmth and pleasure and ease appeared npon the acene, curled himself up in eve ry comfortable corner from Miss Florry 's work basket to Miss Penelope's soup plate, made a cushion of Grimalkin, ami a slave of Miss Penelope. You're not going to call him Spot ?" said Miss Florry. " Doesn't it argue a great paucity of invention? And isn't it a dog's name ? "It's a cat's name now," said Miss Pen elope, rather sharply. " Spot 1 Spot ! Spot 1" called Miss Flor ry, trying it on and coaxing the pretty mite with her fingers. " Well, it's as good as Tabby. He is a tabby cat." " Then a tabby cat is a pretty cat, and the sponsor took him oS for a nap by her side. " Now look here, Florry," said Miss Penelope, a few weeks later, and when she had acquired a sense of possession in the new pet, " I shant have Grimalkin worrying Spot in the way he does." " Why, Pen, I should think it was Spot worrying Grimalkin stretched out at fall length on him " " Oh, now. But an hour ago Grimal kin wouldn't let him rest, teasing him into a regular fight. " Oh, I guess Grimalkin can take care of himself, lie's more than twick Spot s age." " That's just like yon, Florry. Yon always did take the side of the strong er." " Well, even the strong have rights," said Mi Florry, resuming her crochet ing. " And I've no doubt that Spot will be twice Grimalkin's size, presently," not to be diverted from the main issue of sot having LPr cat imposed on. The little cats grew and prospered, and had their saucer of cream.their cushions, mer SOMERSET, PA., WEDXEDAY, their ribbons and bells, caught their first mice, had to be tauitht severe lessons as to the canary, and had presently every reason to think that the kind ladies, the gentle maid-servants, the milkman and all the rest of the tunwje, existed special ly for their comfort. At any rate, Spot had soon every reason to believe that he himself existed especially for Misa Pene lope's comfort, being the first object of inquiry ia the morning and the last at night. If Amelia Grey came in. he had to be found and made to exhibit the ac complishment of giving his paw, and af terward receive his reward of a bit of chicken. Grimalkin looking on curiously the while as if he wished he, too, could give a paw ; but Grimalkin, sooth to say, liad not Spot's intelligence. Still, when it came to jumping for the peacock's feather that Miss Florry waved in the air, the lonz and lank Grimallnn could leap np four feet, where the lazy Spot could barely clear the floor. " I really don't think you ought to make Spot give his paw so much ; it is a great straiii npon him," complained Miss Fiorry once, in a tone of jealousy of which she was not herself aware. I don't supjiose it's any more of a strain on him than it is on Grimalkin to jump for the peacock feather." "Oh, well, that is play, not an intel lectual exercise. It seems to me some times, that Grimalkin looks with scorn at the whole proceeding, as some old savage king brought into slavery might look at the dances of the other slaves be fore their conquerors." " IVar me ! I didn't know he was so snperior. Who is Urimalkin, anyway ?" - " I think he is an enchanted prince " said Miss Fiorry, scratching her head with her knitting-needle ; "or an afrit of the l jiatern tales ; some cabalisra would setbim free. There is a far-away look in his eyes that speaks of familiarity with the Prince of the Powers of the Air " " And w ho is Spot, then V " Oh, Spot is a cat," said Miss Florry, in her thoughtless mischief. "A cat!" " Just a cat, and nothing more." "I don't see how you can talk so about an innocent little confiding being ." cried Miss rent-lope. " I guess thera's just Jas much enchantment about Spot as there is aliout Grimalkin, and no more ' "T.ut you know Grimalkin is in Shaks peare," said Miss Florry, still mLchiev oiisly. "In fiddlesticks! Spot would have been if Shakaprare had known about him," said MifS Penelope, tartly. " But Shakst-eare didn't." " All the worse for Shakspeare, then Besides, it is Sbakspeate who says, ' Pur, the cat is gray,' so you see by that, that it is Grimalkin that is the cat and Spot who may be the enchanted prince." No, I don't. I see that Spol is all he ever has been, or ever will be just a cat." " Weli, I wonder what awfully wicked thing Grimalkin's done that he should be shutjup into a cat's shape if he was ever anything better," said Miss Pene lope and then came the explosion of all the pleasantry. " It's wicked !" cried Miss Penelope. " You, a professor, talk ing in such a perfectly sinful manner, as if you believe in metempsychosis and all the rest of the Buddhist wickedness ?" "I wouldn't be a simpleton. Pen," said Miss Florry. "I'm not claiming really that Griinalkin is anythings but a cat." "And a very common cat at that," cried Miss Penelope. "And if he ever was anythingel.se, it was something as much lower than a cat as an earthworm. "Oh, really, Pen, it's getting absurd," said Miss Florry ; and she put up her work to go out for a soothing and cool ing walk. But it was only a day or two afterward that Miss Florry was detected in fee-ling at dinner some of the biggest morsels to Grimalkin. "He has the biggest frame to support," she said in her defence. "He is no hungrier than Spot," said Miss Penelope, immediately putting down a saucer of cream for Spot. You ruusn't do that, Penelope," said Miss Florry ; "Spot spatters the cream all over the carpet," ' I suppose Grimalkin never does." "Grimalkin eats like a gentleman, and Spot like a glutton." "I niust say, Florry, you carry spite and animosity a : r.g way" Then: was certainly considerable ex citement aroused already, but yet the rufiled feathers might have been smooth ed hail not the cats at this point taken matters into their own claws. Grimalkin who had grown tired of standing on his hind legs and tapping Miss Florry 's for getful hand, had gone to Spot's saucer and thrust his nose into the 'dish, a movement that Spot resented by a smart box on the ear ; npon which Grimalkin drew back, and with a hiss lifted his own paw ; whereupon Spot, in conscious strength, rose and hurled his whole fat weight npon Grimalkin, who tumbled over in a heap. Tlie next thine to be seen ami heard was an indiscriminate mass of fur and yowls, and electric re bound of two imps with blazing eyes, and Miss Florry and Mis3 Penelope, each screaming, each crying, each rushing triumphant out of the room to her own sanctuary, each with a cat in her arms, tears on her face, and hatred, malice and all uncharitableness in her heart, The little cats, it will be seen, had grovfn unspeakably dear to the poor maiien ladies who had so little to fill their hearts. They were talked to and embraced and cnddled numberless times es'ery day. They gave as much comfort as they received, and a slight to either of them was a slight to that cat's intimate friend. If Miss Horry complained that her sleep was broken by Spot's sharp little meow, Miss Penelope was on her dignity ail day ; and if Miss Penelope remarked that Grimalkin shed his hairs and that he was spoiling every chair in the hoo.se, Miss Florry did not know whether her tears were those of anger cr grief. And if Miss Florry said she was tired of hearing cat-talk all day and would like a little English, then Miss Penelope replied that Miss Florry nevi did love animals, and for her part she had always observed that the character of people who did not love animals cat very defective ; and, on the whole, the two little cats were only so many fire brands. But the next morning after this par ticular scrimmage, as tlie two ladies met at the table, the cats having ignored their difficulty and sitting side by side await ing their portion, it seemed best for the ge ESTABLISHED 1827. mistresses to be no less forgiving; and Miss Florry graciously asked Mis Penel ope M her coffee was riht, and Miss Penelope passed Miss Florry the morn ing paper where breezy bits of scandal blew away the cobwebs, and by the time that Anna White came in to discuss it all was quiet again. For the gossip was of local interest. "This ail comes," said Miss Penelope, re ferring to it, "from that woman's being such a coward ; she has never dared to call her soul her own. If she had faced him down in the beginning but then, married women always are cowards ; their souls aren't their own. I'd like to see the man I'm araid of. it takes a single life to develop couiage in a wom an On, goodness! Florry! Anna! Help! Help V And Penelope had sprung up into a chair where she stood w itn her skirts tightly drawn" around her ankles, shrieking piteously, her eyes starting from her head, as she gazed on a little mouse that Grimalkin had proudly bronght into the room and dropped foi purposes of praise and torture. But Nora, hearing the outcry, had quickly swept both the mouse and Grim alkin out of the way. "It takes a single tfe to develop cour age!" laughed Miss Florry. "You know very Sell what I mean, Florry," ejaculated Miss Ten. "I mean for the ordinary dangers. Not mice, nor monsters." "Weil, if there's anything extraordi nary in mic " "It's extraordinary the way your Grim alkin brings them in here." "My Gri nalkin! (like that. I should think he was as much yours as mine." "He's not. I disclaim all right, title and interest in such a lank, miserable beast. Besides, I don't keep cats to catc'a mice. Spot would scorn such cruelty. There's something Inherently cruel in Grimalkin's nature." "I won't have Grimaikin spoken of so," cried Miss Florry. "It's a cat's duty to catch mice." "I don't think I need you to lecture me on my cat's dnty. "Yeurcat! Spot is as much mine as yours." "Well, lie isn't, then. He's my cat ex clusively. A nd of course, he's a bad cat ; all my pets are vermin. It's a singular thing that if any of the animals are in the wrong it should always be my ani mal !" And Miss Penelope betook her self to silence, and made an uncomfort able time of it for Anna White, who had come for a dish of gossip and had instead a cold blanket of sulks. War had begun. At dinner Miss Fior- ry was so unwise as to eive Spot a tid-bit from her plate. " "Pretty looking carpet we shall have of it soon," said Misi Penelope. "Well," sail Miss Florry, the evil one rising in her toq,"I ("ippose I have some rights in the carpet, if I haven't in the cat." "You know very well you are only feeding the cat to toll him away from me." "Toll him away from you ! I shouldn't think it would need anything more than tlie expression of your face to driye him away." "I don't choose to be insulted at my own father's table," said Miss Penelope, haughtily. "I rather think it's as much my father's table as yours," retorted the other. "For my part, 1 wish. 1 had never seen trie cat." "I daresay you do!" exclaimed Miss Penelope, nearly choking with wrath and a bit of crust "But let me tell you if I find you attempting to poison my cat " Miss Florry put down her fork speech less with amazement. Then she took a sipot water her lips were dry with an ger. "I don't know if I will ever speak to you again, Peneloi-e," she said. " to be accused of poison !" "I shall speak to you, and to some pur pose, too," Penelope answered. "If my cat dies 111 make you answer for it in a cour of justice. And I will let Pr. With ers and the whoie society, moreover, know just what a viper they are cherish ing in their bosom." "Then you'll be speaking of me. And that will be slander; and slander is ac tionable in a court of justice also. Two can play at that game. Aren't you ashamed, Tenelope, to make such a fuss about a cat? Women at our age. I am ashamed of myself!" "I should think you ought to be," said the implacable Penelope. And at LVat Miss Florry couldn't help laughing; and Miss Penelope took fresh dudgeon, and swept from the table in such an imposing manner as to upsot her water-glass and her chair and nearly swept the cloth away with her bef jre she slammed the door. I was cold a morning or two later, and Miss Florry, hovering over the grate, did not observe Spot at the window sill until Miss Penelope's voice, crackling with frost, exclaimed : "I snppose yon wouldn't let my cat in if he froze. I mast say the inhumanity of some people passes belief member of all the prevention of cnielty societies in town, and let a little creature perish out side the door I don't know what ycu can be made of. iueer blood some where!" "There's quite as much known about my blood as about yours," cried Miss Florry. "And if the cat wants to come in, he knows the way round to the kitch en, I suppose." "He isn't a kitchen cat, Being my cat, of course you think you can relegate him to the kitchen and send me to keep him company there." "I've never hindred your going into the kitchen." "I don't know how you could very well. It's as pinch my kitchen as it is yours." "I never said it wasn't." "I declare, Fiorry, you've become per fectly insufferable lately. I think you must lie awake nights trying to find out ways of tormenting me. There's your cat now, making eyes at my canary. I suppose that's ail right. Shoo Shoo ! scat, you beast !" cried Miss Penelope, stamping her foot. "You can't eat my bird, if your perfectly fiendish expres sion when lookink at her is winked at." "How silly you are, Penelope ! And the bird is hung out of his way! All cats' mouths water for birds ; Grimalkin's no more than Spot's." Tll thank yoa," said Miss Tenelope, I JULY 2.3, 1890. grandly, "not to mention Spot's name to me again." "Spot ! Spot ! Spot !" cried M Lss Florry, and even Penelope was speechless with surprise at the phenomenon. A call from a neighbor, inadvertently followed by his miserable bull-terrier, with wide open throat, careless whether Spot or Grimalkin were the quarry, so long as it was a cat, restored the t wo la dies, not to friendly relations but to what might be called a convention of the : Prwers. For before two sentences of greeting had been uttered tiie house was tilled, as if by a cloud cf smoke, with an uproar of yelps from the kitchen, and the neighbor was out there pulling at his dog, which would not release his hold, and the shrieking ladies had fallen on their caLs, and the cook was heating a poker' to make the dog's jaws let go, and Nora was wiping the blood from the floor, and it was all chaos come again. "Oh ! cried Miss Tenelope, when the visitor had taken himself and his dog out of the way, "to think of that monster attacking dtar, innocent little Spot!" "I'm sure I'd as lief it would be Spot as Grimalkin," said Miss Fiorry, impru dently. "And a great liefer," flashed Miss Pene lope. "I was going on to say," continued poor, stupid Miss Florry, innocently bent on koeping the peace, "if Grimalkin, wasn't better able to fight badr." "I wonder if ycu ever say anythine without a second meaning in it, Flora," said Miss Penelope, still trembling with the excitement. "Spot is just as heroic, just as good a fighter as Grimalkin." "Iear roe, I should hope so." "I wonder what you do mean. Or if you know yourself what you mean. I wonder ycu can feel and speak as you do about Spot, and then allow him to caress you so. If it were any one else you would call it the blackest hypocrisy" "It isn't any one else." "You may think," persisted Miss Pene lope, still caressing her favorite, whose fur nt ret suiciding made him resem ble a picture of the primeval hairv masto don, "that it's no matter, being a cat. But the principle is exactly the same. If you're a hypocrite o a cat you'll be a hyp ocrite to me. And I always thoaght yon were!" And at that, with an indignant look, but no reply, MLss Fiorry put down Grimalkin, and was about to retire from the room. "You l.al better go," said Miss Pene lope. "I should think you'd Iri ashamed to stay and look either Spot or me in the face. You may think I didn't see the glance pass between you and that brute's master. Bnt my eyes are good enough for that yet. You foryot your precious Grimalkin was there, and deliberately signified that you wanted him to set the dog on Spot. And he did." "I should like to box your eara, Penel ope!" cried Miss Florry. "I've no doubt yoa would." "Somebody ought to." "You cant't." "I don't wish to 1" "You just said you did! A pretty re mark for me to repreat?" And then the poor, wicked, indiscreet MLss Florry did escape. A few week3 of armed neutrality, in which Miss IVnelope went about, as Nora told the cook, w ith her face as black as a th ander-cloii l, when, to th? thorough discomfiture of the badgered and wretch ed Miss Florry, it was suddenly discover ed that Spot had disippeared. Mis5 Florry ventured to intimate that lie hail gone on one of his predatory excursions a little more extended than common. But when night came, and still he di i not tap with his usually imperious paw upon the window-pane, M.ss IVnelope did much more than 'ntitnate. "He has been male awuy with!" she cried. "That is what ha,s happened. I have been expecting it ever since you said you wished you'd never s-je him" "I didn't say any such thing!" "Yes, you uid." "I didn't. If I did, I meant I wished I'd never seen any cat." "It's the same thing. And nobody knows what you meant, I expected you'd have him made away with them, and now I'm sure of it. And I fiad that you've had Hsugh-on-Rats put round the stable pretending its for rats, I shall know very well what you had it put there for ?" "Well, then," sid Miss Florry, in an gry desperation, "what will you do about in?" "You'll see what I'll do about it! If I can't do anything else I will let the neighbors, the church, the whole com munity, know what a creature you are, that you murder little innocent .beings and gloat over their sufferings, and sic calmly by while" "I can't sit calmly by while you go on in this way, Penelope ; and you stop this minute, or I'll thrw something at you! said Miss Florry, giaded out of all pa tience and discretion. "I shouldn't be surprised if you did. You've killed my cat ; and the next thing you'll try getting rid of me. If I find yoa have killed my cat, I shall ex-j pect poison ia my own tea cup next" j "Meow-w, cried a sharp little voice un der their chair. "Meow-w." . The w hole house sprang to its feet ; and Spot was discovered between the floors where he had crawled and gone to sleep and been wandering round, nnable to find the way out. "He can't have been there without crying all this time ; you have heard him and said nothing," cried bis mistress. "You put him tiiere, you know yu did ! I never knew such a wretch as yoa have become. You, Flora, with yoar chari ties, and philanthropies, and prevention societies ! You ought to be expelled from every one of them, and you will be if I make a complaint of your treatment of this poor ptt" ML Penelope hail come to the end of her tether, and MLss Florry of her pi tience. Miss Florry felt that her own temper was torn to shreds, she saw that nervous pros ration must follow its con tinued irritation and her as constant at tempt at its repression. She felt that she would rather die than live another year with Pensiope and her ctt. "I wonder, Penelope," said sue severe ly, "that you are willing to live with such a wretch" "I'm not," said Penelope. "I feel dis graced that I've endured it as long as I have. I fehall take my .things and go to the Tredicks to-day. They want board- era. And if it Ua't my oa home, it is, tier at any rati, a p'are w here I can go and take my cat without fear of its being murdered !" "Glory go w ith you," cried Miss Flor ry, in one last spurt of wrath. And then came three or four hours of Babet, of confusion of tong'ies ami of trunks and ot parcels, and after that an evening of rest and quiet and heavenly peace ; and then days and days going by so softly and sweetly that Miss Florry almost forgot there was a cat in the world. She might have forgotten it en tirely but for Grimalkin's back arching round her chair, and his velvet paw now and then upon her cheek', I: was lonely, it would have been bitterly lonely but for Grimalkin, to whom she confided her thoughts ; but, lonely or not, it was peace an l rest. But ail good things have an end in this world. Four weeks had passed, weeks in w hich she had not seen or heard of IVnelope, and MLss Flurry looked up from her work jus! before twilight, at an imperious tap upon the w indow, and ia his dark brown and mottled gold sat Sj.t ; he bad escaped and come to his old haunt. She hesitated. But it had liet-a his home; how could she refuse to let him in. He tapped again, as if there were no doubt ia his mind about the duty. Sh o;ened the window ; the exile bounded in, fawned about hera moment made a rush for Grimalkin, and then found the place w here his cushion used to be, and wasjust curling himself round and round for repose in the old hollow. when the door burst open and IVnelnie had thrown her arms round Florry 's neck. "It's no use, Florry," she cried, in a flood of tears, "I must cute back ! Y'ou must let me come back! I have lost Spot, and I can't live away from yo.i any longer!" That night, in the remote recesses of an out-building, iu Florry w aUUng and softly crying to herself and Grimal kin, as she held the splendid tiger-cat in her lap and a sponge of chloroform at his nose. "I am ail she said I was," wept poor Mi Fiorry. "I'm a murderer. I'm putting r.n end to my own dear puss. But I cau't trust any one else not to hurt him. And it isn't in mortal power to live with Penelope and two cats in the house I The cat stretched himself comfortably, and put his soft paw up on her cheek in the olil friendly caress. ' Oh, my poor dear Grimalkin ! You've had the pleasantest part of your life. I did give you the i-reet pieces I'm gta-1 I did ! I hope there's a heaven for cats. I'm sure thev ; deserve it more than some human be incs. it won t be neavea lor me without one. I don't know what I shal! do. I shan't have a soul to speak to now. It's a blessing that Penelope's lover died be fore she married him. If she'd had children if S;ot had been a child, I should have had to take chloroform my self. Good-by, my poor dear," r.nd sob bing softly she left Grimalkin for the man to find, and went back to Penelope and Spot. Josh Billings' Philosophy. Vanity iz the superstition ov pride. Pure religion iz like good old Hyson tea it cheers, it cheers, but dozen't iu toxikate. I often meet in mi travels bigoted Christians who seem tew think they are the guardian angels ov ail virtew in the world. Such men would hav ns think tbey are bills ov exchange on the king dom ov heaven, when in reality they are only bogus currency, which passes among men by genral consent, provided it is de cently well exeknted. I preler an open and brass-mounted viiiian tew, a soft, timid, panting hypocit, who iz az unsafe az a sleeping snake, "Bewar ov the dog !'' also ov the wisp ering man, and the loud-talking woman. Piety, like beans, duz the best on a poor sile. A good wife iz a sweet smile from hea ea. If I wnz going tew pick up sum snaik, I certainly should take holt ov the father end ov him. This iz the way I handle ail ov mi subjects ; I find them less gard ed thare. A man dozn't aiwas gro wi.e az he gros old, but alwas gros old az he gros wize. The biifgest phool in the world hain't bin bora yet ; thare iz plenty ov time yet. A petted child iz like a bile that won't cu:n tew a bed. Public' honors in this county are quite often like the peacock's tail fustrste for a spread, but after they are shut up the glory goes with the tail. I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cow cumber flung carelessly on a woodpile tow-ripen, than to be an old bachelor. Thare iz no grater fun for me than tew pick a bladder. Windy pholks will pleae j make a note ov this. .Y. ". UVi'v. An Electric Freak. A marvelous case of electrical paralysis is reported from the Hosmer road, near Lockport, and it taSes the edge off most of the fictitious stories of lightning's freaks ever told. The house of Jasper Brown was the scene of the phenomenon. The electricity was so strong that the air was luminous and of a distinct blue color. Though there was no lamp burning in the house every person and every article could be outlined in the cerulean atmos phere is if through a haze ; great balls of stelnv fire, such as is sometimes seen on the rigging of ships, played and danced about the furniture, now perching npon the back9 of chairs, now slidina easily along the mantel top, now skating np and down the chandeliers. The family were so frightened that they could not speak. The electricity in the atmosphere made their hair stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine, and the strangest thing of all was that they could not move. The whoie family hail lost the power of locomotion. Every member was temporarily paralyzed by the electricity. Few mortals have ever experienced such a aisrht of terror. Their minds were filled w ith fear atd appre hension lest their power of locomotion was gone forever. But at last, after a duration of about five hours, the storm began to subside, the use of their limbs gradually returned to them, and when the storm was over they were able to move about as freely as ever. . IsjttU GUt-e-Dnrtorint. Some men are bora great, some achieve gTcatoesa, and some couldn't tell to save their necks how it happened. C Ml o WHOLE NO. iiOSo. He Determined to Quit Drink ing. A talkative old man attracted the at tention of every one in the car. He was very tall and very large, and his thick head of hair would have excited the en vy of the Chicago Bsard of Trade. "Where do yoa live ?" some one ask ed. "Live in Wilson, MLssoury run a news paper there. Fretty close picking, but b 'tween old rails and new wool I manage to make a living. "How far are you going?" "Thought I'd go down to the Hot Springs." "Rheumatism?" "Oh, no. Just thought I'd go down there and boil some of the licker out of me. I quit dnniing for a while, but went to a sort of bampiet one night and got started again." "How old are you ?" "Eighty-two." "Pretty old man to get on a spree." "Well, but I wasn't so old when I got on it." "How long ao was itf "Forty odd years ago." "What! and haven't you got over it yet ?" "No, for I just kept on drinking. I'm pretty bad when I get started." "You don't meaa to say you have been druuk for forty years ?" "Yes, I do. Went to an old Whig banquet forty-three years' ago last June and have beeu whooping it np ever since till the other lay and then in a thought ful moment I said to my;lf that it was time to quit, and I did. My wife had something to do with it, too. 'Look here Godfrey,' said she, 'if you ever expect to make anything of yourself you'll have to stop drinking. It LsaU.ut time you made a success of your pajer,and I would ad vise you to quit.' "Well," the old man continued, "I took the ruatu-r under advisement and quit ; so now the reaction causes the ne cessity of a few baths. I tell you that after a man has been on a spree awhile it is a pretty hard matter to break right off. I don't intend to drink another drop. A man cannct att'ord to throw away his life. There is too much work to be done " Things Best Left Undone. Do not introduce your girl friend to the gentleman visitor. Instead, Bay, "Miss Brow n, will yo:i allow me to pre sent Mr. Jones?" Do not talk especially to one person when yoa have threw or four visitors. Make the conversation general. Do not attempt to take care of sny man's overcoat he has a vote and onght to be able to look aft ?r his own clothes. Do not ask people who they are in mourning for. If you don't know, wait until you find out, and in the meantime don't ask after the members of the family. Do not giggle when a smile wonld an swer, and don't talk in a jesting way about things that are holy to other people. Io not laugh at anybody's form of wor ship respect a toad praying to a mush room. Do iiot say the rules of etiquette are nonsense.- They are made up for your comfort and mine, and arranged so that the feelings of every human being are considered. Do not g?t into the habit of laughing at elderly people. It is not only unlady like, but it is vulicar. Ik not think it is clever to find out by pumping, the private affairs of your friend. There is no reason, why you should lay bare her heart for an inquisi tive flaw to peck at. Do not get into debt, but if you have been guilty, deny yourself everything possible that you may be free once more. Do not believe that all these doa'ts are not spokea to you in the kindest manner as from girl to girl, but one has to suffer and make mistakes for one's self to find out into just what pitfalls one is apt to tumble. Ist'i'iiS ll'iwe Jmir,ml. No Hag of Truce. "It was the closing day at Fr;dricks burg." says General Kershaw, "when s man by the name of John Kirklan came rushing into headquarters and said: 'General, I can't stand it any longer.' Referring to the wounded Federals lying in front of our breastworks, he said : 'Those poor fellows yonder are crying tor water they are perL-hing for water and I came to ask your permission to go out there and carry them some.' "Said I: 'Kirklan. you know it would be almost certain death.' " 'Yes, I know ; but I will risk it for humanity's sake.' " 'I don't think I ought to give you permission to go.' tid I, but I was so struck with his heroism that I let him go. He gathered some canteens, filled them w ith wafer md went over the breastworks. He g t a few seps and came running back. I thought his cour age had failed him, but he came to me and asked if he might put up a white handkerchief. Said I : 'No, Kirklan, we don't propose to use any flag of truce on this occasion.' "He got his canteen and went about from man to man, giving the wounded water. At 8 rt the enemy fired at him, but as soon as they saw his purpose, of course they stopped, and he remained out thereuntil he had given water to every one of those poor fellows. Atlmdi t'on utiiition. Calming a Mother's Fears. A boy -with tears coursing down his cheeks was led by aa excited woman into the office of an cast-side physician, a few days ago. " Can you save him, doctor?" demand ed the woman, ia a trembling voice. " What's the matter with the boy, mad am T responded the doctor. " He's swallowed some money." " How much. ?" " A cent." " Old style, or ne t ?" - New." The dortor gave a sigh of relief, and then, smiling upon tho woman, he said : " Don't be alarmed, tnA-lam Wipe the little fellow's eyes an 1 take im home. He'll not die this time. But let me give you a bit of advice, madam. Make that boy of yours understand that if he must eat money, he is to stick all the time to tha lowest deo2taoa..V. fl Tnnet. A Bona that Nd Brr,,ngr, ' " Frel, I think I left my spe-ta.V.e p rtitirs," aaid grandpa, after he'd sarchJ the sitting-room for hisasxastomeil he'p ers. "O dear," begin Fred, who alar-iv-s thought it a great nuisant e to go up and down stairs, unless he wanted something for Limseif and couldn't get any one to go ; but before h had finished hi rum bling oenten-'e little Lil'ie had 5epi!o'l her lap-fail of patchwork nn the sofa and with a cheery, " I'll get them, gran !;." was on her way up stairs. " Fred, you forgot to put yott tools away," mamma said, a little later. " Oh. dear, it's such a bother hi put everything away," fretted Fred. " Can't I leave them where they are till to-mor- row, for I will want to use them agata " No, I want them put away at once"' said mamma, in such a decided tone that Fred knew she required instant obedi ence. " Oh, dear, I never can learn this inpg lesson," he grumbled that evening when he sat down to prepare his recitations f r the next day. It's such a lot of work to translate all these sentences." Dr. Morton had dropped ia f.;r a little chat with Fred's father, and he looked up as he heard the impatient exclama tion. " What do vou think I've been doing to-day, Fred ?" " What, sir? asked Fred, g'ad of a di version from his books. " Breaking a little girl's arm." "Don't you mean mending it. doctor?" asked Fred, thinking that the doctor had made a mistake. " N'o : I bnjke it," answered the doc tor. "Some time atro this little girl brcki her ami, and it was very badly set, and has been so stiffever since that she colli I not use it as she wanted to. the makes laco very cleverly, and her earnings have been a great help to the family, but since her arm was hurt she has not been able to work at all. We held a consultation at the hoapital to-day, and decided that the only way to help the child would be to break her arm aain and reset it." " I thick I'd rather never b able to do anything than have ha! done, ' ex claimed Fred. "Why, that's unfortunate." remark d the doctor. "I've been thinking tl at there is a bone about you that ou'jht to be broken very soon if you exjicct to In come an active man. I've been meaning ta mention it to you for some time.7' Fred turned pale, He was rot at all fond of bearing pain. Where is the bone "' be akel. with a frightened tremor in hie voice. " Wiil you have to break it ?" "No; I can't very well bresic it for you," answered the due-tor. You cart break it yourself better than any one can do it for you. It is called the l-iz i h-mrP " Oh, is that what you mean?" And he was so relieved that he smilt d at the doctor's word. "Yes, my boy, that is the bone I m.-au and it is a bone you ousht to break very soon if you ever expect to be of any use in this world. It w ill take a pretty de termined effort to break it, for it's one of the totighest bones I know anything about ; but you can break it if you make the effort. Sviil you try?" " Yes, sir, I will," promised Fred, manfully, his face flushed with mortifi cation at the thought that he had earn ed a reputation for laziness. .v . l. It Was Recorded. During a certain sea voyaire the mate of the brig Y, who usually "kept t ue ! ?." was found one day to be unable to attend to the duty, because of inebriatii n, and the work was done by the Captain, whose last entry was, "The mate was dntnk all day.' On the following day. the mat have recovered from the effects of hi; indulgence, resumed bis former attention to the "leg" entries, when he discovered his superior's record, and immediate' remonstrated with that officer, askins : "What was the need, sir, of making that entry ?" "Wasn't ;t true?" demanded the coui mander, in a stern voice. "Yes," replied the delinquent, "but I don't see any necessity for making record of it there." "Well," rejjined the Captain, "as it is The Kiss Went Astray. A young red-cheeked Irish irirl landed at the Barge office the other day and was sentfto the information bureau to await the arrival of her aunt, a resident of this city. Just before sailing from Ireland the nie. had sent to the aunt a piece of the'stnff from which her dress had been made. The aunt was to recognize her relative by matching the piece with the dress. The aunt turned up with the p:e e, and, after hearing her name called o".t by Clerk Shoreman, went in to welcome the young immigrant. The anat stopped before the girl, carefully compared the drest with the piece, found that they matched perfectly, and announced that she was satisfied that the girl was her niece. The girl i nmediately hugr'd an I kissed the aunt. Clerk Shoreman, who had I oked at the queer identification with mm h in terest, asked the aunt to let him compare true, it had better stand ; it had better stand." At the close of the following dav when the Captain examined the. log-bx'k, he was astonished and pnvo'tel, finding entered thereon, "The Captain was sober all day." Summoning his sub r Mnate, he fiercely demanded ; "Why did yon make this entry ."" "Why, sir," said tlie mate, "it was true, was it not ?" "Of course it was true, but am I nt sober every day '." cried the now enrajed Captain. "Weil," replied the mate, "but as it is true, it had better stand ; it had better stand." Whereupon he turned on his heel and left the Captain's presence, but had not taken many steps when he felt a current of air caused by a rapidly -moving marline spike passing in dan'r ous proximity to one of his ao oustic or gans, having been hurled by the angry Captain. A list of the twenty-seven wealthiest women in the I'nited States is published, in which the first place is given to Mrs. Hettie Green, of New York, who is cr I ited with a fortune of f 0( ).') in her own right; Muss lEliibeth (i:tr- rett comes next, with sjfi ik),iji) ; Mrs. Terry, 0, iOX : Mrs. Mark Hopkin. f JO.iXX) ; Mrs. Edwin Stevens, ?; " !. 000; Mrs. John C. Green, f M.imuxi) : Mrs. Cyrus II. McComick, of Chi.-ao, tl'V.'"0'. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, s,. OQO.WU : Mrs. John Riy Barton, of PLiil adelphia, 7,OX,0) ; Mrs. Thomas A. Srott, wiilow of the rai!road President. -vT0O,lO ; Mrs. W;.T'ilu Armour, of Chicago, daughter of ."silas Cobb, S-j,!j,-t', while Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Mrs. Josephine Ayer, Mrs. Jane Brown. Mr. W. E. Dodge and the daughters cf I run cLs a Drexel, of Philadelphia, ar worth tt,fX),!jO each ; Mrs. Robert Goeltt aud Mrs. Jaye pay taxes on $-I,!-.' each. It remains however, for Mrs. Terry s baby daughter, not over thiee years old, to distance all competitors, with wealth in ber own right tallied at ? f0,CO0,0CO. T o
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