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SCKERSET, PA.
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AND Ea-TIXS ASPWETESN V0EK
fun.4j.t.a! ob Short No-ire.
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VOL. XXXIX. NO. 20.
It is to Your Interest
to but rora
Drugs and Medicines
OF
JOHII H. SHYDEB,
grCCBWOB TO
Biesecker & Snyder.
Kone but th purest and brt ktpt in stock,
and when Ih-ups beicme inert by land
ing, as certain of them do, we de
stroy them, rather than im
on our customers.
Yon can depend on having your
PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS
filled with care. Our prices are as low as
any other first-clara house and on
many articles much lower.
The people jf this county seem to know
this, and have given us a large share of their
patronage, and we shall still continue te give
them the very bert gotxls for their money.
rvi not form that we make a siiecialty of
FITTING TRUSSES.
We guarantee satisfaction, and, if you have
had trouble in this ikrection,
give us a call.
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES
in great variety ; A full set of Test lenses.
Come in and have your eyes examined. No
charge for examination, and we are confident
we can suit you. Come and see us.
Respectfully,
JOHN R SNYDER.
STOP! 1001! LISTEN
EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW
WHERE TO GET THE MOST OF
OF THIS WORLD'S GOODS FOR
THE LEAST MONEY ?
WE HAVE THEM.
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WHITE, YELLOW, GLASS,
AND KOCKINGIIAM WAKE,
IN GREAT VARIETY.
BASKETS, LOOKING-GLASSES,
HANGING LAM IS, STAND LAMPS
Lamps of all Dew riptions.
Novelties and Oddities in China
THE PLACE FOR
FANCY k STAPLE GROCERIES
U AT THE STORE OF
ED. B. COFFROTH,
SOMERSET. PA
13. B.
THIS WEEK
WE OFFER
46 inch
Bla k iik Warp Cashmere. $1 W.
T, iin h
All-Wool FUck Serjre, c
3S inch
All-Wool Coiorel French Serges, 45c
And in the
SILK DEPARTMENT,
1!1 inch
Blai k Silk BnMdes. yij.
J. inch
Black Itegenre Sllki. 75?.
21 inrh
Bi k Silk IU adame, 'J.
Ula. k r,rr '.rain Press Silks, fgnaranUed
ls"c
And the
Great
Brocade Bargain's.
Clinch
Black Silk Brocades,
Value, el.30.
I'J inch
Brocade Silk VelTets.
Woven Brocades,
Y'ery fine quality in a!!
t toicrsi Shades,
W cents.
The identical ijuality that lias
Sjld heretofore at f 1 .
These and manr other specialties that am
rure to make these store ven mon- pH"'
than tver with careful and tcouoni .al buy
trs.
Vr::e
For Prices.
For Samph-s,
I'or a Catalogue.
And pet the it
For the least outlay always.
Boggs & Buhl,
113 117 1W. ami 121 Feceral Stirrt,
ALLEGHENY, Pa.
DMINISTUATOK'S J.'OTCE.
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Wx Twn., fkuns-rMl Ok. Pa.. c'4
Ij'ters'of AdmiinUTiim na b nbose raa
,.; lrn erauu-d to ihe nndrri -.led bT te
,,?ris-r autro.uv. nie is hereby oven oa
i'Tn.t.-t..tlsl to sa-d est..e t.. te lnsn-l-
ir MKUement on nirdv, Ncvrrnl-er
,Ti resldenwofU deccaned. in Vr-
er- Town-uAnc,Nni R roi-BVAX.
IL JEANK. 0LKHAV.
.t-y Admuiistrwtot.
"Gcnd and Hanest."
ti thai pr&isad:
"I baTatoaedSL Ja.
eobs Oil In my tamny
for years, and Bud U to
fee the medicine of medicinea
FOR GENERAL USE.
It It a -rood, honest medicin aad hooert men
wD not hesilMe to reeommend It to snfferint
tumanlty." JOHN P. ELE3IXON3.
Bookkeeper.
la Y-rrrr BotU. Ther tm Cw-re.
la
TRADE I
MARK
satire,
i.Unnnnirn.
BAlTn'Ma.'"tLnMv,uu"ftwu i
Good News!
o cue, who m williiij: to a'lopt the iiglit
course, uced be long afilicteU witli boll, car
biiiiolv. i'iuijik-1. or oilier cuiaueot:s eni;v
ti.Kis. Tiiete are tlie results of Nature- e(
lui ta efl piMsoumu and ellt'ie Dialler
fioui the M.axi. and show plainly Uiat tlie
syitfin is rhliliiiR iLseif tlirou(:li Hie skiu of
liupuritif whicli it was the kiiitimate work
of tlie liver and kultieys to remove. To re
store these organs to tiieir proper IiuicImmis,
Ayer's SarMpirilla is tlie meoitine required,
lliat ih other blfXMl-puntier can couipaia
w nil it, thouamls testify Uo have gained
Freedom
from the tyranny of depraved Mood by tlie
use of tins meilii'ine.
" For nine yean l was affiieted with a skin
disease that lij not yield to any remedy
t;n;il a frienil advised me to try Ayer's -Sal s.
parilla. With tlie use of tins medwiiie Hie
'ouiilaint disappeared. It is my belief that
no other t.l.xnl medicine could have eflected
w rapid a:il eomiilete a er.re." Andres
1). ;ar-ia. C. Yietona. Tamaulipa. M-ieo.
"My fare, for years, was covered Willi pim-pl.-s
and lintnors. tor whieh I could find no
r-medy till ! beicui to take Ayer's Sarsa
rilia. Three niMtlrs of this peat blond medi
cme eff'-etiil a thormiph cure. I confidently
recommend It to all suffennc '-tj similar
troubles." M. l'arker, Coucunl, V
Ayer's
Sarsaparilla,
raarAUES bt
EE.. J. C. AYES Sc CO., Lowell, Mass.
Soid by Iruciia. Worth JiaLoiUi.
-THE-FIRST
NATIONAL BANK
OF
Somerset, Penn'a.
-o-
DEPOSITS RECCIVCDIN LARGE ANOSMAU.
AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS MERCHANTS, FARMERS,
STOCK DEALERS. AND OTHERS SOLICITED.
DI COU rv DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
LaP.ii M. IlK Kfl. W. II. Miller,
James L. PttiH, Chas. H. Fuher,
Johx It Stott, Geo. IL Sccil,
FED W. BlEfECKEB.
Edwaku Sovll, :
Valentine Hav,
Andrew Pa Etta,
President
PnEMIt'ENT
: Cashier.
Vice
Tlie fur.ls and securities of this Iwnk
are peruMy protected in aelebrated Cor
lits Burjrlnr-prodf Safe. The only Safe
maiie abwilutely Buririar-proof.
Somerset Counly National Bank
Of Somerset, Pa,
Established, 1877. Orgaaed at I National, 1890
CAPITAL. $50,000.
Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't
Wm. B. Frease, Vice Pres't.
Milton J. Pritts, Cashier.
Directors:
Wra. H. Kofmtz,
J.isiah Sfscht.
John 11. Miydcr,
J-Ih B. lvi.
Fam'l Pnvder.
J. ma M. Vouk,
Jubn tuttl.
llsrrim Snyder,
Nuuhi Milicr,
En Wcy.
Jt-ronie &n:iil.
Wm.
Customers of thw Pnk will receive fie most
liiicnU treauneut consistent with sate tiankinir.
Parties wistiinir to "end mwy east or west can
te rt-omni;led by dralt for any amount.
Mooev and valuables seenre.1 by one of Ple
hci'id t'A!iebratdiftf, iUi niool approved time
'"Tiiileettons made in a!! rrts of the 1'alted
Si Ales l.barsre- nioiera'.e.
Accounts aad iA".it Solieted
margin
New Fall Stock
-ok- .. . ;.
Boots and Shoes
Are received and open ft yoar inspection at
" THE FAMOUS,"
52 Sixth Street,
PITTSBURGH, PA
THOSE IV VF.F.n of the f.ne and lighter
(twU-s of fsx wear will 6nd a a vl s.n.1 we 1
ss-ieetett t'- at ir stur-. but we v.ish to call
xxrtr siiecial aiteutlun to our
Heavy Kip and
Calf Bool
Calf Button and
Lace Shoes,
FOR TITS tUDlKi. ASD
Good. Solid School Shoes
eii,e ehlldren. We will :marante yoo a reat
v.n 'in romevi by nv ua
Wauu-em satftioo to ail. e invite
yoaujfivewaiiearljcalL
Rubber Soots and
Shoes in Abundance.
i. nawhHemn are here at the
i ym hondies and iwekitev. They wi.I be laaao
4 rare of free of eapense.
SOMERSET, PA.,
SO WHITE, SO SOFT, AND SO
SWEST.
See the chariot at band I eof love.
H reiu my Judy ii.leti !
L- lb it rira v in . wan or a d.ire.
An ! we!! the aar L-.ve goi.U th
As trot s Al! Leurts du duty
I'riio her iKnury:
Aid euimor si -lowiah. they mhrht
But en y su. h a ni.Ut.
Tht ;h?y fill v t- run by her s'.d N
Tt rjuli s'vord-, tW'sh Hhither the aonld
g'.idj.
IVi bat kk on he' (ti they d, Vgat
All that Luve woiid eanpriat-th !
I o but In k o.i be r Imlr, it is br (fht
As Lire tr hu it r atth :
P t inik, b r lini.cd' sracnthtr
Than word thet soothe her :
A" i tr her an-hert br iw ui'h a grace
6heds iuelf through th: tnw,
A-.jie Itcrd Inumpli n the. V.iid
All the gn:n. all th gJ-f the elci.-nt's
trife.
Have yo i e. n bat a IxUht li'y grow
BvfoTe rndv hard, have tiHU-hd it '
H ne yo-j mark- d but tae Ml or the wow
Ltfore lbs w il luuh stntitc'.ied it 1
Have y.ju fi !t the wo A ot the U v- r
Or swan' down ever?
Or have smelt u' the bud o. t'ue U.iiT
Or tlie nsrd in Hit firu ?
Or have ta-ttd lhAt bttf of the bee
i i:., hi ii hlte. oh. so uft, oh, su s cet U she.
A". 1. OMatereki'. AittTrtu r.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN.
"Now, see here, my frieml,' said John
Proctor, hbj hontst eyes looking gravely
into the tramp's fice, as he balanced a
coin t n the tip of his DDger, "to lew than
six men, Legging, have stopped me in the
streit to day; while down there at the
yard" indicating with his hand a row
of tall lumber piles surrounding a build
ing in the distance "we haven't had
three applications for wotk in a month."
"Try me,"
'T)o you imagine you would work if
you had the chance? I have had a little
experience w ith fellows of your sort."
The man retorted so sharply that one
could almost have fancied the poor rem
nant of spirit still abiding in him stirred
him to something like wrath.
"That's always the way," he muttered.
''Say we won't woik ; then won't give us
abliow. I know we're a pntty lo down
lot, but some of us start out square
enough. If a man gets down there's no
getting up again."
There was something almost pathetic
in his very eullennew, as he shufued
.. a - " . I .
a way, ins ra-s njpptng in me riruug
bre ze, and ill-mated shoes clattering an
accompaniament to his gait.
"Come back here, will you ?"
John Proctor's voice whs stern and de-
cifctve. the tramp na:ieu, netnaicu,
looked away, and then ahuilleU tack j
again.
"Conic dow n lo the yard this afternoon
and 111 give j oo a job. But take this
and get filled op erst."
The man did not immediately extend
his hand to take the money. In the mo
ment or two that elapsed the young lum
berman thooght he detected a trace of
something allied to resentful prida in hi
hearing. But the illusion vanished as a
grimy hand closed greedily opon the sil
ver, and the fellow disappeared without
even troubling himi-elf to make any for
mal expression of his gratitude.
John Proctor looked after him with a
quizzical smile. Five minutes later he
knew his own name would be the toast
of a drunken crowd of loafers in the sa
loon around the corner. To be sure, it
wouldn't help to advance a certain Quix
otic reputation which bad attached itself
to him since his first advent in this little
Mexican tow n. But he Bteadily adhered
to his creed grant that ninety-nine out
of a hundred of this population were
thieves and mendicants, he was ont to
say that he preferred to be victimized by
the ninety and nine rather than miss the
hundredth man.
Proctor was deeply engrossed in mak
ing out an order for several car loads of
finishing lumber, when a shadow dark
ened the door, and the tramp stood be
fore him. He could net repress an ex
clamation of surprise. The vagabond
observed it, and his face lowered as he
asserted himself defiantly.
"Yes, I've come," he saiJ. "What are
yod going to give me to t'o V
John Proctor put on his hat and went
with him into the yard, where an empty
car was w aiting to be filled on an order
irora a neighboring town. He showed
the man a mall piece of paper tacked on
the end, and was about to explain where
he would find the material designated,
when the fellow threw off his coat and
deftly attacked a pilo of scantling, which
happened to be the firat item on the list.
"Hullo," said Proctor, gazing at him in
surprise, "yoo seem to know something
about this business."
"A little." returned the man, shortly.
The young lumberman took his way
back to the office. A little later the rud
dy visage of his foreman, Maxon, looked
in at the door as he returned from bis
dinner.
"Oh, by theay, Maxon, I have a new
man at work out in the yard. You might
keep an eye on him."
" "Now, Sir. rroctor,nMclaimed Maxon
in hopeless protest, "is it another of them
fellows r
"'.Veil, you see, he declared lie was
w illing to work, and it seems only fair to
give a man a chance."
The broad shouldered proprietor waa
avowedly, on the defenaive.
"So far as I am concerned, of course,
it's nothing to me," observed Maxon de
jectedly. "But it pots me out to see yoo
made a laughing stock all over the town.
It's a shame well, it's no use talking.
Yes, you may depend on me keeping an
eye on him, sir. These fellows will bear
watching. I say, though, Mr. Proctor,
haven't you got mighty close to mat
hundred r
Half an hour later Maxon looked in
again, his face lit up with mischievous
smile.
"Don't yoo want to take a look at your
new band now, Mr. ProctorT He is just
like the rest of them ; sitting on the lum
ber cile.all doubled op with pam.
At six o'clock, when the bands came
up to receive pay for their day labor,
John- Procter saw his protege standing
rtr . lint To.tAD.ce. The man made no
demand for wages and his employer took
uo notice of him. As the men filed out
the agent of the Plumbago City train, a
personal fnend ot Proctor s, came run
ning into the office with a package in his
iiand.
"Here, Proctor, run, them over quickly
and sign this receipt It's the $30CW from
Juaret A Signor. I haven't a moment to
spare.
The
luberman hastily counted the
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1890.
notes, signed hi name to the receipt in a
bold dashing hand, and the agent hurried
off.
Left alone, Proctor drew from his pock
et a long Russian leather pocketbook and
laid the notes carefully aside. As be
thrust this into his beast pocket he
chanced to glance toward the window,
and encountered the hungry eyes of the
tramp follow nig his movements from
without. As the man saw that he was
detected he paused, seemed about to
speak, then changed his mind, and saun
tered away carelessly. A vague anxiety
assailed John Proctor. It was long after
hours. There w as no help for it he must
be the custodian of his treasure nntil
morning.
Ae sat up late that night. The pay
ment of this sum was all that was neces
sary to make a trip a definite and tangi
ble matter. There was a pile of corres
pondence to be turned off, an 1 a letter to
be dispatched to that little woman in Illi
nois, telling her to discharge her music
(opils and make ready Sir his coming.
When he had finished his letters he sat
quietly for a while in his big arm-chair.
It was vey late when he rose and, lock
ing the doors and windows, proceeded to
the little inner room, where he slept.
He drew off his coat, and folding it care
fully, placed it beneath his pillow. Then
he examined the barrels of an Engliah
bulldog pistol, which hung upon a hook
beside his bed. Hea.s3ured by this pre
caution, he sank into a heavy sleep.
John Proctor awoke that night to find
himself assailed by a foe mightier than
his feeble imagination had pictured.
He tried to rise, but foond himself on
able, oppressed by a terrible sense of suf
focation from dense volumes of smoke
which filled the air, through which vst
sheets of flame darted their forked
tongues toward him. Suddenly the wall
of flame and smoke was parted, and the
face of the tramp bent over him. He
was roughly shaken, pulled cut of bed,
half-dragged, half-carried through the
little private otfice into the larger room
beyond, where the fire had begun its
work of devastation. Tten voice and
memory came back, and t e shouted :
"My notes ! In my coat pocket under
the pillow. Let me go 1"
For an answer be was violently pro
pelled forward into the awns of some
men, eagerly crowding through the flam
ing doorway. He struggled to free him
self from their grasp. He fought fiercely
with them, and finally broke down and
cried liae a child. Maxon's tones recall
ed him to himself.
"Why, man, do you think we would let
yoo go into that fiery furnace again?
See, there goes the roof now."
The fire raged all night. John Proc
tor, after directing the efforts of the luen
who tried to quench it, walked wearily
away with Maxon.
"Maxon," he said abruptly, "did that
fellow who got me out last night come
out safely himself V,
"Now I think of it," returned Maxon,
"he went back a mlnuttfbut be got out
all right just as the roof fell in.. I
thought at the moment a piece of tilling
timber hit him, but he scrambled off fast
enough."
A dread suspicion assailed John Proc
tor's honest heart, but he repelled it
sturdily. He bad plenty to occupy bis
thoughts, for he knew, what not even
Maxon had guessed, that this disaster
had wrought his irreparable ruin.
If he could only have saved that $5000,
or if he had not been so ambitious !
Annie had been ready poor girl. She
had even proposeJ bringing her piano to
this new Southern town, and eking out
their income with the result of her own
labors. On one point he was resolved.
w henever be got square with the world
again he would put his pride in his pock
et, and humbly presenting himself before
the little woman, ask her to Bhare his
fortune, for better or worse. How long
will it be ? A bharp groan escaped his
lips.
Suddenly he rose and stood erect. His
quick ear had caught the sound of some
heavy body slowly moving over the
ground.
"Who is there V
"Only me. Is that you, boss ?"
John Proctor bent forward and per
ceived a man crawling along in the shad
ow of a pile of joists. As the figure
emerged into the moonlight he saw that
the fellow dragged one leg helplessly af
ter him. His euspicions melted away
beneath the natural warmth of heart.
"Are you hurt?"
"Only a falling timber, bos, but the
fire got into my eyes, and I can't see
very wen.
He had drawn himself to Proctor s feet
and stopped, turning a little opon his
side, bis head propped up with his hand.
"You see, when I came through the
door something fell against me, ana not
seeing you, and not being able to get along
very well, there were so many of those
Mexican thieves about, I was afraid they
might make off with this" holding out
a flat leather pocket book, which John
Proctor seized with a ghid excitement.
The man went on talking in a silent
wav.
"I wouldn't have liked to have yoo
think ill of me ; you're the first man who
gave me a chance since I got down.' I
wa'n't al ways a loafer, sir. 1 ou spoke of
my knowing something about thebusi
ness ; and to be sure I ought, if fifteen
years as a 'sorter in the Wisconsin lum
ber regions can teach a man anything of
lumber. But when m wife died
struck off out West. It's been bard luck
ever since and my little girl! back
there with her grandparents"
His voice seemed to fail for weakness.
" What have vou eaten to-day 7" asked
the other, sharply.
The man answered reluctantly, almost
in a tone of apology.
" Yes, see, sir down there among the
lumber piles how could I V
John Proctor was a mac given more to
action ttian to speech. He addressed the
man uow in clear, decided tones.
" Do yoo think you coiid hold on to
my back while I cArried you down to
the hotel r
" Why, sir it wouldn't be fit"
" Shut up! Put your amis around my
neck."
The office and bar-room of toe hotel,
a pretentious ediSce of Eastlake archi
tecture, held its usual quota of respecta
ble loafers when John Pjoctor entered
with the uncouth figure oa bia back. A
gurgle of laughter ran through the crowd.
The majority fancied the young lumber
man's braia had bees turned by hi re
cent losses, and that his dementia bad
taken the form of a violent development
of the weakness with which he had
been accredited. The laughter suddenly
ceased when the young man went straight
to the clerk, saying, in clear, ringing
tones ;
" Give me the best room yon have.
This man, who saved my life last night,
is badly hurt Some of y mi turning
to the idlers "go at once for the surgeon
of the Atchison road."
A dozen men sprang forward to relieve
bim of bis burden, to help him carry the
poor fellow to a comfortable room, where
be was gently laid opon the lied.
He soon recovered, and remained in
the yard. John Proctor had found his
hundredth man.
Fortunes in Small Inventions.
Every little while the newspapers take
np the suhiect ot inventions ana icu
their readers how many have nude for
tunes out of small inventions. The Pitts
burgh Dljfich gave the other day a list
of small things that hare made their in
ventors wealthy. It commences with the
pen for shading different color?, which
yields an income of $'200,003 per annum.
The rubber tip at the end of lead pencils
has already made $100,000. A large for
tune has been reaped by a miner who in
vented a metal rivet or eyelet at the end
of the mouth of coat or trousers pockets
to resist the strain caused by the carriage
of pieces of ore or heavy tools. In a re
cent legal action it transpired in evidence
that the inventor of the metal plates
ased to protect the soles and heels of
shoes from wear sold upward of 12,000,-
plates in 1ST:), and in ISSTthe numberOOO
reached 1-i3.000.000, producing realized
profits of $1,230,000.
A still more useful invention is the
"darning weaver," a device for repairing
stockings, undergarments, etc., the sale
of which is very large, and increasing.
As large a sum as was ever obtained for
any invention was enjoyed by the inven
tor of the glass bell to hang over gas to
protect the ceilings from being blackened
and a scarcely less lucrative patent was
that for simply putting emery powder on
cloth. Frequently time and circumstan
ces are wanted before an invention is
appreciated, but it will be seen that pa
tience at times is well rewarded, for the
inventor of the once celebrated roller
skate made over $1,000,000, notwithstan
ding the fact that his patent had nearly
expired before its value waa fully ascer
tained. The gimlet pointed screw has produced
more wealth than most silver mines, and
the American who first thought of putting
copper tips to children's shoes has realiz
ed a large fortune. I'pwards of $10X a
year realized by the inventor of the com
mon needle threader. To the foregoing
might be added thousands of trifling but
u-ieful articles fro.n which handsome in
comes are derived, or for which large
gums have been paid. Few inventions
pay better than the patented toys. That
favorite toy, the return ball, a wooden
ball, with a very unique elastic at
tachment, yielded the patentee an in
come equal to $30,000 a year, and an in
come of no less than $73,000 fell to the
patentee of the " dancing jimemw."
The invention of " Pharoah's Ser
pents," a toy much in vogue some years
ago, was the outcome of some chemical
experiments, and brought the inventor
more than $30,000. The sale of the little
wooden figure, " John Gilpin," was in
credibly large for many years, and a very
ingenious toy, known as the " wheel of
life," is said to have produced upwards
of $100,000 profit to its inventor. One of
the most successful of modern toys has
been the "chameleon top," the sale of
which has been e nor mo a. The field of
invention is not only vast and varied.
but is open to everybody, without respect
to sex or age, station or means.
The Bad Boy And Preacher.
A good story is told cn lie v. J. G. No
ble, the talented Baptist preacher of
Punxsutawney, anent the proverbial
fondnens of ministers for chicken.
In his younger davs Rev. Noble was
preaching in the wilds of Western New
York, and his duties required him fre
quently to visit out-of-the-way country
parishes and administer spiritual food
to the inhabitants. As was customery,
he dined or supped with one of the
brethren, and hen they -knew of bis
coming, the good wives, who took parti
cular pleasure in exhibiting their culina
ry skill, would put their bent foot fore
most, and if there was a solitary chicken
about the farm, it must be sacrificed.
One one occasion when Rev. Noble
had sat down to dinner and was endeav
oring to keep op the reputation of h is
profession for chicken consumption by
tearing the fibers of an old bird that
had fallen victim to the prideof his host
ess, her 9on, a boy of seven summers,
stood by the table and looked savagely
at the minister. His mother noticed him
and said :
"Johnny, quit looking at the preacher
that way."
"I won't do it," snapped the boy.
"Ain't you ashamed of you.-se'.f, to act
so naughty V
Provoked beyond endurance the hu
miliated' mother took the boy by the
shoulders and hustled him out of doors.
But presently . Johnny came back
again and stood in the door with tears in
his eyes and a half grown chicken under
bis arm. He looked first at the chicken
and then at the preacher. Then ad-
dtessiug the chicken, he said spitefully,
pointing his finger at the minister :
"There's the old d 1 that's eatin'
your mother."
They Knew Him.
Success in life may depend somewhat
on circumstances, hot it depends more
on the i -dividual," said Mr. Skate, who
is noted for his great wealth and penuri
ous habits.
" Jut so," said Billson, one of the mill
ionaire's audience.
When I first came to this town I had
half a crown. Now, what do sappose I
did with it?"
" Oh, that's an easy one," said BiI!son.
"Anybody who knows you, Skute, would
know what you did with that half
crown."
" Well, what did I do with it ?"
" Why, you've got it yet"
leading authorities eay the only prop
er way to treat catarrh is to take eonstir
tutional remedy, likj II jod's Sarsaparilla.
A Balloon Accident.
An ascension of thebalioon Patrietook
pjacefrom the Avenue de la Defence de
Paris, at Courbevoie, at 4 o'clock on the
afternoon of Sator Jay, Anjust31st Mr.
Paul Leprioce, the aronaut,and Mr. Geo.
Dumuit,oneof his friend., both of the
age of 10, years, were in the car. The as
cent was very rapid. The spectators who
were present saw the balloon assume
suddenly a peculiar shape. First it flat
tened out, then it assumed the shape of
a spindle, then that of a ball. They sup
posed at first the balloon was a dirigible
air ship ; but the real facta became ap
parent by the swaying of the balloon,
and thenjby the dreadfuil drop which
followed.
" The balloon has burst, and the poor
unfortunates are lust !" cried the specta
tors. This is what took place, as narra
ted by Mr. Paul Leprince, who has been
good enough to give ca the facts of the
cae.
There was nothing unusual about the
inflating operations. For a moment,
however, the balloon was carried by the
wind against the branch of an acacia
tree by the side of the road, but I only
heard the rustling of the branches, and I
did not think of the incident again. My
friend and I embarked, and in a short
time reached an elevation of lalO feet,
when we began to hear a peculiar whist
ling sound. I lookeid in the space about,
but seeing nothing, I climbed on to the
ring, and then discovered a tear of a few
Inches in length, partially filled by a
branch of acacia, which had penetrated
the interior of the balloon. At this mo
ment the isun dispelled the clouds and
shone with all its lustre upon the bal
loon. This produced such an expansion
as the gases within that the gas was not
able to escape sufficiently rapidly from
the valve. The fabric was stretched to
its utmost, with a dry, cracking sound,
and I immediately knew what woull follow.
" George, I cried, " the balloon is
torn, and will not be able to bear the
strain of the expansion, and will surely
explode f
I had scarcely uttered the words be
fore the tearing of the fabric like the
rustling of leaves could be heard, and a
blue cloud appeared about the opening,
where the gas was pouring through in
great Tolumes.
" We are lost !" cried George.
"The ballast - I cried, " the ballast '.'
Fortunately he did not lose hia head,
and in an instant two bags were thrown
out I glanced at the barometer, and saw
that we were 4.70 feet from ground, and
the fr ll began.
Without losing an instant, without re
ly inj at all, upon my equipment, I cot off
the anchor, I threw out the rope and my
overcoat, in fact everything of any
weight, and we prepared to throw off our
clothes and to cling, at the moment of
striking, in the netting above.
I noticed that, fortunately, there was a
strong wind blowing, which was carry
ing us along in an oblique line at the
rate of 35 or 40 miles an hour. We were
falling at an angle, and this, perhaps,
would break the fall somew hat
. The balloon was violently bhaken in
its flight, and kept swinging and sway
ing in a horrible manner, bui it was this
that saved us. During one of the most
violent of these swinging movements the
lower part of the balloon was thrown to
the opper part cf the netting and rest2d
there ainst the valve in the form of a
doiue, forming an immense iuiprovioed
parachute. At once the fall waa arrest
ed sensibly. Still we were only about
one hundred yards from the earth. I
cried to Dumuit throtv out more ballast,
and about 15;) more pounds more billai-t
in the form of sand, was passed over the
side. Now for our clothes. But there was
no time. Scarcely had we reached the
ropes attached to the ring when a terri
ble shock was fait, and we, and the bas
ket, and the balloon, and all, were roll
ed over on the ground together. We
were not injured, nor did we even lose
consciousness. This fitll of nearly a mile
was accomplished in less than fonr min
ute., during which period, as may be
seen, no time was waited.
I believe that our safety L due the
fact that neither of as lost our presence
of mind. The conclusion to be drawn is
that, even in an accident as se- icas as the
bursting of a balloon in mid-a'r, the stuff
out of which the balloon is m ale ia like
ly lo le formed into a sort ofpaichute
by the upward current of air daring the
downward flight of the b illo in. The oth
er lesson is that however ne tr .teath any
one mav be, it is always neressary to
keep one't. courage. Viul Itpri.tcs, Afrr'f
naut, in V luaKruttna..
Bison Gone Astray.
Acting Governor Melbarn, of Wyo
ming, has received a letter from the In
terior Department asking aViut the
whereabouts and safety of a heid of sev
enty buffalo that escaped from-the Yel
lowstone National Park, several weeks
oiro. ice missing nfr.i nas teen seen i
- m 1
several times lately in the Big Horn re
gion, and is now thought to be ranging
in the Red Desert, between Rawlins and
the Shoshone Indian reservation. A big
party of hunters went ont tc attempt
their capture last week. The State offi
cers expect to organize, nnder the direc
tion of the Interior Departtner t, an ex
pedition to round np the herd and drive
it back to the Park reservation.
W. H. Root, of Laramie, will, if this is
done, Lave charge of the exped.tion. It
will afford magnificent sport, as the route
along which the hsrd 'roust ho siriven to
the reservation is through th Big Horn
and Wind River Valleys, and aTosa two
mountain ranges through a cot ntry im
passable, except to riding at d ;sck ani
mals. ' Wyoming laws prob.btt the kill
ing of buffalo under heavy pena Ities, but
it is feared that the herd may b i discov
ed by sotne of the roving hnntir parties
of Indians, who will have no stTUples
about killing all they can. This herd is
said to contain the only bison iu the
United States in a wild condition.
In our time the third finger is visually
the one on which the engagement ring
is placed, also the weddiag ring, some
belief possibly existing in the old super
stition that a vein ran dinictly from this
part of the left hand to the heart.
"Did she give yoa anything. Bill?"
asked a fellow tramp. " Yes, She gave
me the cold shoulder, with, plenty of
sance."
WHOLE NO. 2050.
Marvelous Memories.
Mr. Stanton, the United States war
minister during the great civil war, bad
a very retentive memory ana wm es
pecially very well up in Dickenr works.
One evening in the early part oi i;o,
Dickens, then on a reading tour in the
States, was dining with Chas. bumner,
when Mr. Stanton and sotue others were
present The war minister was put to
the lee, and when started could repeat
from memory a chapter of any of Dick
enes books, ahowicg.a much greater
know ledge of the works than their an
th or could hnst. Mr. Stanton account
ed for this intimate knowledge of lik
ens by nient:on;r. the habit which he
had formed during the war of invariably
reading something by the author of
"Pickwick" before going to bed at n-ght
The lute Bishop Prime Lee, first Bioh-
op of Manchester, was similarly gifted. It
is related of him that once being at an
evening party, started by a lady with a
line from "Marmion," he went riht on
with the poem from memory, and could
have recited the whole. As a further
test the same lady quoted a few words
fro a a conversation in "Ivanhoe," where
upon the bishop repeated the whole cor
rectly from memory.
But greater than any of these was I-or.l
Mac luley. From a very early age the
retontiveneu of his memory was extra
ordinary. When only three or four years j
ofaehis mind mechanically retained
the form of what hs had raa 1, sj that, as
his maid said, he talked "quite printed
words." Once as a child, when making
an afternoon call with his father, he
picked up Scott's "Lay of the Last Min
strel" for the first time, and quietly de
voured the treasure while his seniors
were engaged in conversation. When
thev returned home the boy went to his
mother, who was at tb ti tsrofined to
her bid, and sitting down by her bed
side repeated what he had been reading
by the canto, nntil she was tired.
Later in life his wonderful memory
was always a subject of interest to his
friends, and occasionally was put to
searching tests. One day at a board
meeting at the British Museum, Macau
ley wrote doivn, from memory in three
parallel columns on each of fur pages of
foolscap, a complete list of the Cambridge
senior w ranglers, w ith dates and colleges
attached, f-r the one hundred years dur
ing which a record had been kept in the
University calender.
"On another occasion," says Trevalyan
'Sir David Dundas asked :
" 'Macauley, do you know your Popes?
"'No,' was the answer. 'I always get
wrong among the Innocents.'
" 'But, can you say your archbishops
of Canterbury T
"Any fool ," sai l Macauley, 'could say
his archbishops of Canterbury backward,"
and he went off at score, drawing breath
only once in order to remark upon the
oddity of there having been both an
Archbishop Sancroft and an Archbishop
Bancroft, until Sir David stopped him at
Cranmer." Maca iley once said that if
by any possible chance all the copies of
"ParaJise L-st" and "Pilgrim's Progress"
in existence Wery desroyed, he could
write both out aain complete from rec
ollection. When O'Connell wide his motion in
1S.'V for the repeal of the Union, Mr.
Tenntnt, member of parliament fjr BjI
fast, delivered a speech lasting for three
and a half hours, full of figures and cal
culations entirely from memory, in which
he trusted so cottipleteiy that he sent the
manuscript of Iilh speech to newspapers
before he delivered it Ills confidence
was not misplaced, fir the oration was
spoken without a mistake, or even a mo
mentary hesitation.
Another Irish M. P., Robert Dillon
Brown, member for Mayo, had the same
usef al faculty. He would dictate a speech
to an amanuensis, an I twenty-four hours
afterward witho.it looking at it or think
ing of the matter in the meantime, conld
repeat it word for word.
Woidfall, the editor of the M rru,y
Clirunir',; and brotaer of "Junius'" pab-
lishe', was ab'e to report accurately in
the morning the debate of the previous
evening, without taking notes.
In some cases the mental action involv
ed in feats of this n-.it are would seem to
be quite mechanical and unintelligent.
In the newspapers of January, 1S20 there
are accounts of an extraordinary man,
who was known as "Memory corner
Thompson." This min, although he
could hardly remember anything he
heard, could yet retain perfectly the
name) an 1 descriptions of large collec
tions of objects that met his eye. He
ciuld tak'i an inventory of the contents
of a ho lie from cellar to attic merely by
surveying then and coall afterward
write it out from memory. He could
draw from reccliectioa accurate plans of
many London parishes and districts, with
every street, alley, public busldin s, pub
lic houses, etc., da'y note 1, do n to the
minutest top-iraphical details, such as
oumps, trees, low-windows and posts, all
correctly marked.
Conspicuous instant of this mechani
cal kin I of memory are to be found
among the famous mental calculators.
Jebediab. Buxton was a celebrity of this
kind about the middle of the last centu
ry. He l ad but little education, and in
deed was not able to write his own name.
But in arithmetic and ia ab-trnse calcu
lations his powers were wonlerful. The
following is a specimen of the problems
which, when putlo the test, he solvsd
mentally in a few minutes : Find how
many cubical eighths of aa inoh.lhsra
are in a quadrangular mvss miasurlni
24,143,73'J yards long, 2,f.J2,7.;2 yards
w ide and 31,f'5' yards thick. When in
London in 1751, be was taken to see G r
rick as Richard HI, at Drury Lane. The
play did n A interest him much, but he
occupied hicr.seif in reckonin tli nu-n-ber
of words he h?ar 1 and iaountin;
the number of steps made by the dancers.
The American boy, Zirah Colburu,
who came to London in 1812, was a sin
gular phenomenon. He hail no know!
edize of the rules of arithmetic, and was
quite unable to explain ho ha arrived
at the answers to the problems submitted
tobim Mental power of this nature
would sem to imply aa unwholesome
development of one part of the brain at
the expense o' the rest The retentive
ness of such a memory as Lord Macau
ley's is to be greatly preferred to the ab
normal mental activity of an animated
calculating machine.
Tlie crowning weight of th season
the nsUliaer' blU.
premonitory signs of death also.- in the
account of the death of Falstaf the sharp
ness of the noee, the coldness of the feet,
gradually extending upward, the picking
at the bedclothes, are accurately describ
ed. For some tin; before death indications
of iu approach become apparent fpetch
grows thick and labored, the hands, if
raided, fall inatantly. the leapi ration is
difficult the heart loses its power to pro
pel the blood to the extremities, which
consequently become cold, a clammy
moisture oozes through the pores of the
kin, the voice grows weak and husky or
piping the eyes begin to ke their luster.
In death at old age there i a gradual
dulling of all the Vxlily senses and cf
many of the mental facult'es, memory
fails, judgment wavers, imagination gesj
out like a candle. The ninsvles and ten
dons get stiff, the voice breaks, the cords
of the tabernacle are loosening. Small
no Lses irritate, sight becomes ditu, nutri
tion goes on feebly, digestion is impaired,
the secretions are insumcient or vitiated.
or cease, capillary circulation is clogged.
Finally the central organ of the circula
tion comes to a stop, and this stoppa.'e
means a dissolution. This is the death
of old age, which few attain to.
Many people have an idea that death is
necessarily painful, even agonizing, but
there is no reason whatever to suppose
that death is a more painful process than
birth. It is because, in a certain propor
tion of cases, dissolution is accompanied
by a visible spasm and distortion of the
eountenance that the idea exists, but is
as nearly certain as anything can be that
these distortions of the facial muscles are
not only painless, but take place uncon
sciously. In many instance, too, a coma
tose or semi oo mat e state supervenes,
and it is altogether probable that more
or less complete nnconsciousnes then pre
vails. We have, too, abundant evidence'
of people w ho have been nearly drowned
and res'isciUted, and they all agree in
the statement that after a few moments
of painful struggling, fear and anxiety
pass away, and a state of tranquility suc
ceeds. They see the visions of green
fields and in some cases hear pleasing
music, and so far from being miserable
their sensations are delightful. Put where
attempts at resuscitation are sK-cesnfu',
the resm-it tted persons almost invariably
protest againtt being brought back to
life, and declare that resuscitation is ac
companied by physical pain acd acute
mental misery.
Death is a fact which every man must
personally experience, and consequently
is of universal interest, and as facts are
facts, the wiser course is to look them
squarely in the face, for necessity is coal
black and death keeps no calendar.
Cosmopolitan New York.
A Yermonter who spent last Sunday in
this city and who desired to study lin
guistics for a day, found that it would
coet him very little trouble to hear ser
mons in twelve languages outside of his
native American vernacular. He con
cluded to hear Hebrew in the foreman,
Bohemian in the afternoon, and Pia t
Deutche in the evening, while he wonl 1
take his breakfast at an Italian eating
house, his dinner at a Spanish posada,
his supper at a French restaurant and af
terwards spend a few hours in strolling
through the polyglot streets on the east
side. In this way he pawd a profitable
Sunday from morning till midnight, but
found that he had as yet learned but
very little of the multiplex glotology of
New York. He has made up his mind
to spend next Sunday here and get a few
more lemons in the lingo of other races',
inducing the Celtic, the Chinese, tie
swedish and the Kentuckian. Afterward
he hopes to return to Vermont and hear
the voice of his Green Mountain tnoiher.
-.v. r. .su.
Forced to Leave Home.
Over 00 people were forced to
thir homes vesterdav to call at
leave
their
druggist's for xfrn trial package of Lane's
Family Medicine. If your blood is bad
your liver and kidneys out of order, if
yoa are constipated and have headache,
and an unsightly complexion, don't fail
to call on any druggist to-day tor a ;,-
sample of this grand remedy. The ladles
praise it Everyono likes it Large-size
ackage, 50 cents.
A shoe social " is one of the amuse
ments of Rich H 't. Mo. Ail the girls go
behind a screen M l stick the toes of their
shoes out underneath its lower ede. The
voucg men selecttneir pinner uj dom
ing their initials or. the templing shoes.
At a recent party one of the boys charg
ed that their best girls gave other boys
tips on toes.
He Yelled Kemp's Balsam.
I yell "Take KemVs Balsam, the bst
cough cure." I always do when I hear a
man cou;h, and I can't help it. It savel
me and it w ill cure you. I was threatened
with pneumonia last w inter and it broke
it op. It helps the children when their
throats are sore, cures their coughs, and
tastes as good. The first dose helps you.
So writes A. U. Arnold, engineer of West
Shore Ry., atCanajohaire, N. Y.
"Amer'sis a funny country," said a
foreigner the other day in the bearing of
a Bowton reporter. " If you ask a pers. n
to oblige yon with a twocent stamt, he
feels insulted at your offering Lim th
money for it, but if you ask him for a
match, he sartical!y asks you why you
don't buy some."
The Provisions.
Fanner Jenkins " I want that barrel
o' flour and that tub o' butter, the three
hams, them potatoes and turnips, acd the
rest o that truck."
Widow Simpkins " Lindo' goodds 1
Now what do yoo want o'them things 1"
Farmer Jenkins "Wall, rrn see's how
I'm 'xecutor of your lata husband's will,
and the jedge says I must procsd at oust
to carry out tlie purvisions."
The clipping party is the predominant
young folks' amusement in the neigh!r
hood of Yardiey. A person is given a
pair of sciamrs, blindfolded and start-d
towards string suspended from the ceil
ing. If he does not s ieceed in clipping
it as he passes by he must pay a forfeit,
but as a rebate, js allowed to k'ws the
belle of the occasion.
Mra Din widdie Look here, Mr. Bush
el, that bog powder I bought of you was
misnamed.
B'ishel What name would you sug
gest. Mrs. Dinwiddie?
"Humbug powder."
The body of the t'ieen of Core i who
died June 4, is still kept in brine, m
process of embalming being unknown
there. The body will be kept for five
months, according to the castoa of tije.
woantry, acd then bcried.
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