i i If en- w Ji r"', 7, k .1: -u ' M t. k, t A 4- 5f i f J i :e Sumerset Herald CSTABLISHED 1S2T. prras ol Ifublication b.ihed ewry Wednesday Loralag at R 00 a.num. If paid la advaaco oUierwlaa U M jarartabljbe charged, j t-jbscription will ba discontinued until all j4rieea an Pd P- ?ou Beglecting iTy n when subserlberido not taAeoattheii ' will be held neponsiblo torths aabaorlp- . iasfberi removing from oca postoOce to an- should gtf a the same of tea ftme ai , ;aiUA presort oAeo. Address ' Thi Soslesskt Hzbald, ' gOKXSSR. Fa. ilA BILLS & COOPER. DENTISTS. i e over Snyder- Drug store, fcoaserset, f) B operations pertaining to Dentistry formed. pl aeUti. IT-wo ml fS:,i tl.n.turel teeth. Artmci.i dent. urted. Also, teeth inerd wiuioiii vW . . SCARUTHERS, M. P. -,' mVilC'IAX AM) SIR "EON. i oe on Union street, next door w Punting EseKoW. ight calisaloJtce. ) R. P. F. SHAFFER, SOMXBSKT, r.. -,-iers bis profesiial services U) the citiiens 5" . nriniit iithca lit .l door to gra i aiiA,, ...... ' . : U , r - ' J taenia; Hotel. ) R, IL S. KIMMELL, Venders his proreSor.al service to the citiser-s Km aid vicm.sy. Unle profeMonsjy ged wont at hu ofhoe on alaon et r d lhamoiid. ,R. J. M. LOUTH ER, formerly tf stouo.j PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 4 located permanently to Somerset for the r i of hi pwfeion. Omoe ou Mam street, t .nar of lrug suire. TR. J- S- M'MILLEN, TM ncial attenUon totbe prenprratlon of i iiiuirai two. Arti8i uienea. au -roiTMrTreU.eUA Co. . au. corner .n Cro and Fatnot nuwia. ,R. WM. COLLINS, I I.I. VTUT m a. n drK whW llC iieruii inserted. All work guarauletd. TTEXRY. F. SCHKLlj II ATTvKNfcV-AT-LAW, A bomenet. Pa. Yunty and Peaaon Agent. Ottce In MammoUi :ik. VnirVTlVF HAY. ATIOKN EY-AT-LA w, iSomerset, ra. t. jo Dealer in Real Estate. iilirtS1aii eutruaed to Ju care iu prompuiwa TOES 1L OIL, fl ArTOKXEY-AT-LAW, omerset, Pa. h;vx prompllj attend to all bnMues emruM ta a im. Money ai ancvd on coiiecuoua, tc OI- e in JtfMiumuib hiot'k. h- A. BERKEY, J . AIIXIKSEY-AT-LAW, bOKKBSXT, Pa. t "ce In Odd Fellowi' Binlding. HARVEY M. BERKLE, attukxky-at-law. . oakuirr. Pa. ioe with F. J. Kooei, Eq. ' ATTOKNKY-AT-LAW, Somerast, Pa. Office with John H. UbL flVM. IL KCK)XTZ, J V ArHjiU.EY-AT-I.AW, j Somerset, Pa., I Will (rive prompt attention to business entrusted Ati tmre in twmrnel and adjoiuiug cniuiies. t'-e tu Pnntint Houe Eow, oppoaiu; Hie Court tlTOHXO.KIMMEL, U AiroKKEY-AT-LAW, eoinerset. Pa., Will attend to all business antnisted tt bis care isoffiersei and adjoining couuties, witu prompt- and bdelitv. t.irln-e on Ham Crua BUeel, f juve riner s xxjum. swit. 1 TAMES L.F-r GIL kl . -i-rv . u V rv. A T.T A W i somerset. Pa, I CSr In Mammoth Block, np stairs. Entrance in Main (Ton Olivet, foliei-tiona made, esiatea tt.ed. titles examined, and all lecal business a anded to with promptness and fidelity. L. C. Colboast. YOLBORX A C0LB0RX, Xj AnoK-NEYS-AT-LAW, bomenet, Pa. I all business entrusted to our ire wdl be VrompUj and failiifuily attended to. lolieeuoua .; .ad in SomemA, beolord and adjoining coun it.et. t-urvevrng and conveyancing done on rea x.asbis terms. 1t7RED. w. BIESECKEK, it Anx.KY-Ai-LAW,meTwtpL v.ffice In Printing House Row, opposite aTX .Clause. mPi;F. R SCULL. .JT ATTOitXSY-AI-LAW, K. Sam. J. C. OuLA. j PxYiTT X- OGT.K. Q 7Ttis.vA-i-ArtAr. SOMEKSET, Pa. T"! J I'fMVKR. H . " ATIVRKET-AT LAW, Bumerset, Pa. fTT s. exdsley. .-IA.. ATTOSiJirr-AT-LAW. bumerset. Pa. L. BAER. ATTOE.NEY-AT-I.AW, bomeixt, ra.. TUl praotire In Somerset and adjoining cona k A.i butanes entrusted w Jim wui reoeie roa;ii atlcuuuu. 1A. .H CopraoTH. . n. at rrai. JpoFiKuTii fe rxrrEL, iVj ATT)K.SEYS-AI-LAW, j somerset. Pa. All business ectruKted to tbeir care rill be Ittwdi.T and punetuallr aitendcd to. Ofliee on i kui Croae Miwi, opposite MacunoUi Bioi k. KE HOTEL AT CUMBERLAND :-0:- i liP. Sweitier. late ol Sand Patch, has purchased " THE AMERICAN HOUSE," At -m Vr'.and Mi. and has rriitted and refiir-u:-br.i tLe sa:d b.i thpxurh.vn. aud niade u s firt--!a. H'Hel to aecinmodie the trav eling public itb good Uiijie, and choice liquors at the bar. He alo ha in mnneetion with the Hotel a large sit:tv of fxei'.ser's Pure uid Rye Wbky lor sale by tt.rt.am-; or gallon at the foiioa ing pTM-e : Two Tear old at t2 00 per gallon. Tl.ree " M " four " " U w " ! T..r price o? the i'ir it 15 cents for each gullon. J Tae pni of the W hiskey aud Jug must aiways BBisat t!ie order, m nsch ul inure promps atlenuov and shipment, Addre&a ail orders lo S. p. SW EIT IER' J-2-'9(W0, CTVB EELAN D, KD. STILL IN BUSINESS I W. Y Ifley's Photocraph Caller fatront arc informed thai I am etiii in the KCSU33 BUSJHS.S3, And am at all times prepared to take all kinds of picture, from a Ti.ljpe r Cabiaft Ph.tographv To a Liie-ain rsvon. Instantaneous Pro- used, and all work puaraateed to be Balis facto ry. SJallery tip stairs, next to YougbTt "WJt. IL WELFLEY. 1 VOL. XL. NO. o. vfflnh Is more especially than any other a hereditary disease, and for this simple reason: Arising from Impure and insufficient Mood, the dis ease locates itself in the lympluUics, which are composed of while tissues; there is a period of foetal life when the whole body eon- Hood'S LS'4 ' wfule Uisues, and theivfore tlie unborn clifld Is SarSSpa- specially susceptible to tl-.ii ireailf,il ,1ie;ie Tiit titer. rilla Is a potent remedy for scrof ula, whether hereditary or acquired. It Is Hood's SarsaparilU, which expels every trace of the disease and gives to the blond the quality and color of health. (Jet Hood's. "When my boy was two years pnffrilw old he was altackwl and suf- -" fered a long time w itli scrofula Cured sores. The physician at length told ns to give him Hood's &ir- My Boy saparilla, which we did. Two boUles cored bun. He is now 10 years old and has not had any sin of scrofula since. We recommend Hood's Harsapariliatoall our friends." Mju. E. C. Curr-EE, 8 Kidder SU, Cleveland, O. Hood's -Sarsaparilla oldbyaUdniixUU. S 1: tixTorgj. Prepared only r C. L liCMJU a CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Hasa, 100 Doses One Dollar -THE-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Somerset, Penn'a. CAPITAL 8URPLUS $50,000. $6,000. DEPOSIT RECCIVEDIN LBRGC AN D SMALL AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS. STOCK DEALERS. AND OTHERS SOLICITED. DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: LaRcs M. HlCtB. AV. II. XllLI.KR, James L. TtiiB, Chah. II. FniHra, Jous R. Scott, Geo. R. StTLL, Fkep VV. RiKEr&ka. Edwaed rnTi.i, : : : : : Puesident Valentine Hay, : : Vict Pkexikext Axoreiv Pauklk, : : : : : Casuikk. TLe fumlg an.l sevnrities of this hank are pemrely rotex:t'l in arvlebratel Cor lias Rurglar-iircw'f afe. The only afe made ahsoluu-ly Burvjlar-proof. Somers&t County National Bank Of Somerset, Pa. Established, 1877. O-giniied is I Sjtioni!, 1S90 CAPITAL $50,000. Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't Wm. B. Frease, Vice Pres't. Milton J. Pritts, Cashier. Directors: Wm. H. Koontz, JiAh s-pe,ht, Joliii li. rajder, J'jsrph H. l'svis. Jerome bluHt, PamT nvder, Jona M. t ook, Jutin Siur!V Hrr',u .T.yder, Noah s. il.ncr, Wm. Endsley. Customers ol this Bank will receive the most liutrai treaim au eoiisuu-m w ith safe Laukiug. Par.ies wishing to n-nd money eat or west can be accomuidau-d by dralt fur any amount. Monev and valuables secured by one of Die bold Celebrated .Wcs, w ith most approved time locL. Collections male In all parts of the United Stales. Churee- miierale. Acoounla and Lviosil Solicted. mari-6m FARMERS, TAKE XOTICK. I have leased the ls-e warehoiv of Pct,r Fink, at the IS. A Ix-t-it. in SoiiH-rvet, for rears. Alo. wnrer.cuis at b-rhn anl '.ieinans. There 1 w:!l keep m hsnd dwnne tbe beasons. forileiivery and iebnuient to ail points every grade of FERTILIZERS manufactured by the w;ll known Susquehanna Fertilizer Co., ofOanton. Baltimore, Ml. I have spei;t 5 years among you, whiie tl.esegoo.ls haw been used to SOMERSET COUNTY Tor frea bai inc been introduced by Hon. O. P Shaver, oaiii lu the large number of my Matrons, whom 1 thank heartily, my .actus and mv!f niav ' nimble U ckI! U!t- rem .l perona.iv.'sui vaie ad van tmre ot your txcellei't inper to eali attention lot he merits ol our fertilize-, ar.d Wt leave p.sav rt. B Yodcr.of i'inrii.s.uuerset Coiintv. Pa . and nive;i. hae s.-llcili-d or.iers for the lail crop of t. tl41S. AMUitllS-lAUd- lug the strong competition. ivwTFipk, of Somerset, who reside near the de ,,. i acUng as delivery agent for me. By 1 r l!i!ig on hira. n i i,-arn our jKica. We can re-ship to any local point, on SI IORT N OTICi:, kA wonld prefer a; all times to have your (inters at- far in advance of immediate want- as prao t;,al as it enables u, M get our sro"l to tou in heiter m-chmiical oindiiion .n "benail ol Ue s.u;ui,anna t'eruiuer Company, 1 am. VERY EESPECT FULLY, A. J. KOSJEK. St. Charles HOTEL. CIIAS GILL, Prop'r T 'e tinsu: passed. Remodeled, with crhcaon naind mwr. Satural g and lucandesent lu-ht 11 rooms- .New -am laundry attaehed to the Uouse. LAtes, . to -. tr.i) . Cr. Wood fit. and TUr4 Are. Pittsburgh, Pa V e IX A SWING. Here's a picture of the spring (Happy springl : . It is beauty in a swing (nuch a swing ! V le of vine from garden bower . Where the blossoms fall In showers. With embroidery of flowers Pretty thing ! She is Beauty. Up she goes Iu the air. And there tumbles down a rose From her hair. 1 can catch I will nut miss it Tumble, tumble ah, this is tt And with Up of love I kiss it For my dear. "Swing me, wing me T' It is clear I am caught In a fairy, silken sua re AH for natnjht. For her sweet command are ringing. And she will not stop the swinging. Though the birds of love are singing Happy kH ; "Swing me, twing me." Hear her tones Rizu: and ring, "Till the heart within me groans Tired thing 1 But hex heart is like a feather ; Would to heaven, in just such weather, We could go through life together lu a swing. Alia a!a Cunfilutiun. KATE'S HUSBAND. "It does stem to me that these children will drive me crazy," said Kate Har land, as she ran info the sitting-room and drew her bahy from under a rhair which it had accidentally pulled over upon it-self. "Patience, Kate, patience," said her husband, who sat hy the window read ing the morning paper : Yon are too easily excited, my dear you should learn to to take things more coolly." " You dosv't know what you are talk ing about. Carl," said Kate, in a peevish voice. " You tell me to be patient, calm and cool, and accuse me of being irrita ble. Perhaps I am irritable, and I think you would be if you had to live with two mischievous children, day in and out, the year round. When you talk about a woman Wing patient and calm under such circumstances, I say you ilont know what you are talking about," K&te spoke ev.cited!y,-and gave her hus band a look of severity that was w asted, for Carl Harland did not lift hw eyes olf the aper he was reading. " You are just like all the others of your sex," Kate," he replied, shifting his eyes slowly to the top of another page, " I never yet knew a woman who didn't t-end a good share of her time complain ing of her lot in life. I said you were too easily excited, and I think you are. You always have let the housework worry you, ever, since you have been obliged to do it If I could afford to employ a girl to assist you, and you could get time to read and get oat and ransack the dry goods ctorea and have a good time gen erally, you would be comparatively hap py. I cannot afford to furnish you with an assistant, and it seems to me it is but your duty, under the circumstances to perform the work of the house without giving way to yonr temper, which makes you very disagreeable, indeed, my own dear.". " I do the best I can, Carl," said Kate, " but I can't help worrying and finding fault with the children sometimes when I am tired." " I can't see what there is about your work that should tire you, as you say it does," laying down his paper and turn ing to Kale, who was vigorously sweep ing: " If you had the responsibility of sup porting the family and had to work from morning till night as I do, then you might worry and complain of getting tir ed. You have never heard me complain, have you?" " I don't know that I ever have, Carl," said Kate, meekly, as she swung the new broom over the carpet, unable to see through the mist that was in her eyes. " You were a spoiled girl, Kate," con tinued her husband, " and I suspect that it would have been much better for us both if we had sever met ,but we are mar ried, and must make the best of the situ ation, and I sincerely hope that you will refrain from letting your temper get the best of you, w hen I am in the house. If I bad no more to do, and no more to worry me than you have, I should con sider myself an extremely fortunate per son." " Carl had risen, and putting on his bat he left the room, closing the door be hind him with an emphesis which indi cated that he allowed hi temper to rise aliove the point of moderation. When the door closecftjpon the form of her husband, Kate sank into a chair and, burying her face in her hands, gave her self np to tears. Harold, the eldest boy, tugged at Lis riiother's elbow, while the baby sat in the middle of the floor and looked in quiringly at her mother through her hi blue eyes, as if wondering that any oth er person on earth, but herself, Bhould have cause for indulging in such great grief. Kate had been Carl Harland 's wife for five years. They had known each other but a few months before they were mar ried. They believed that they loved each other, and as Carl was a prosperous mer chant in a thriving western town, there seemed to be no reason for postponing the day when they became one, so they were manried, and Kate bade adieu to parents and friends, to go to the house her husband had prepared for ker in the far country. In the second year oftLeir married life a boy was born to them ; a golden hair ed, brown-eyed fellow, the image of his father, and two years later came a gir't with the tender blue eyes and sweet face of her mother. Carl Harland and his w ife were supremely happy in the posses sion of their home and their children. Their love for each other increased with th. years, and they seemed destined to pass 'iirough life under a cloudless sky. One night during a great storm the wa ter came down from the mountains and swept through the valley destroying many thousands of dollars' worth of very valuable property. Carl Harland' place of business was wrecked ; the building iras torn timber from timber, and its contents carried away by the flood. The property was not insured against damage by water, and Carl awoke one morning to find himself penniless. This misfortune had a marked effect on Kate's husband. He Lad lost Lis cheer fulness ; he became irritable and critical omer SOJlLERSET, PA., in his manner towards his wife, who al ways tried to be brave and encourage her husband by word and deed to renew his efforts to rebuild the business of which he had been so ruthlessly robbed. The indifference with which her efforts in this direction were received had at last deadened the ambition in Kate's heart, and she had begun to enfold herself in the skirts of the gloomy mantle that her husband had wrapped about himself. She grew despondent and peevish, irritable and carelesss, and the last rear of the married life of Carl Harland and his wife were marked by many unpleasant scenes in which harsh words frequently prevailed. It was late in the afternoon w hen Carl came heme, on the day that he left his wife with the unpleasant words quoted above, and found Kate lying upon the sofa, suffering from a severe head ache. " More worry," he thought, as he sat down to a cold lunch alone ; '' well, I do think after all that if she is bound to wor ry, the best thing to do is to refrain from showing her sympathy. If she thinks she is treating me and the children right by acting in this manner, I think I shall let her get all the satisfaction that she can out of her headaches." Carl passed the evening in silence. He gave some attention to his children, but he was indifferent to his wife. Kate's head pained her so severely that she made no especial note of her husband's treatment of her. The next morning her head was no better, and she was so weak as to be unable to leave her bed. Carl did not think that she was really aa ill as she was, but he encouraged her "whim," and insisted on ker remaining in bed. " I have no work to-day," he thought, and this will be a splendid opportunity for me to show Kate how easily the housework can be done, if a person goes about it calmly, and takes some interest in it. It will probably teach her a les son. He was kind to Kate that morning, for he w anted his every act to impress her. He dressed tbe children, and set about preparing the breakfast. While he was arranging the dishes on the table Grace, the youngest child, crept up to the coal hod and tipped it over upon herself. The coal dust filled her mouth and eyes, and soiled her clothes. Carl, glad of the op portunity to show his wife how calm he could be under trying circumstances, gathered the crying child in his arms and talked coaxingly to her, while he bathed her face and hands and changed her dress. He had got the dress partly on, when the oatmeal boiled over. Carl set the baby down on the floor, and stepped to the stove to remove the kettle. Mean time Grace was frantically trying to ex tricate herself from the folds of the dress her father left enveloping her head. Carl picked her cp and said " peek-a-boo " when her head popped from the interior of the dress, but the tone in which he said it was not altogether cheerful, and when he buttoned her dress he drew it together with so much force that the seam at the shoulder was widely ripped. At this Carl's teeth bore together harder than usual ; that was all. After breakfast he prepared some toast and tea for Kate, and accepted her praise with a triumphant smile. After the dish es were washed and set aw ay, he bepan to sweep the carpet. He had scarcely be gun his work when he found his annoy ance in the person of the baby, who in sisted upon gathering up the dirt in her tiny hands, and scattering it on the car pet, which had just been swept After several vain attempts to get her interested in some other direction, he finally picked her op, and with a muttered "There, stay there, will you ?" sot the mischievous elf in her high chair with rather more force than was absolutely necessary. Grace was not pleased with this arrangement, and began kicking and screaming and rock ing to and fro. She swayed her body so wildly that she finally went over with a crash, and Carl, dropping the broom in the midst of the room, exerted himself to quiet the screeching child. He had suc ceeded in this when it suddenly occurred tc him that he had not noticed Harold since breakfast, and as the outside door had been left open on account of the heat it was probable that he had gone out and he might have fallen into the stream that ran through the field near the house. Hatless w ith bis skeves roljed up, and one of Kate's apron's fastened to him, Carl rushed out in search of his boy ; he finally found him in the chicken house, breakiag tl.e china nest ejss, with a hatchet, which he picked up near the wood pile. Carl was disposed to give his son a thrashing but, remembering that it was the day of all days in which he must be calm, heTpicked up the child and car ried him into the house, where he found Grace busily engaged in creeping through the dirt that he had swept up, and scat tering it broadcast over the room. At the sight of this, Carl's nerves quivered, and he gave the broom a kick that sent it flying across the room, and the handle, coming in contact with an earthen cus pidore, chipped a piece out of the rim. " What was that, Carl ?" asked Kate, from the bedroom, feebly. " Oh, nothing at all," answered Carl, gulping down his wrath. " You lie etill, and don't worry about me. I'm getting along splendidly." Picking up the broom he swung it over the carpet a few times, and gathering op the dirt, he concluded that that was good enough to suit him, and if other people didnt like it, they could do it over again. It was an hour before lunch time, and Carl sat down to go through the morning paper. He mentally assured himself that he had not found it very tiresome to do the morning work. He had read about a half hour, when Kate disturbed him by asking what the child rem were doing. He had not thought of the children since he began reading. He found them in the kitchen. Some how Harold had got a bottle of mucilage, and he was engaged in " polishing " his sister's shoes with its contents when their father came upon theta. Carl smil ed in a weak, spiritless way, and remov ing the baby's shoes, set them aside " to be cleaned by Kate." After luncheon, when Carl came to wash the dishes, he found that the nov elty of the situation had worn off, and he did not move about the room as act ively as he had in the forenoon. The children were peevish and mischievous. They wanted then afternoon nap, a se ESTA -RTiTSFTRD 1827. AVEDXE SD A Y, JULY 22, 1891. once, when Carl had stepped into the dining room, Harold climbed up into a chairt and leaning on the kitchen table, tipped until tbe pan of dish water slip ped off and spilled over the floor. Uy the time Carl had reached the kitchen Grace had crept into the pool of water and her clothes were saturated. Carl's calmness was seriously disturbed and closing the kitchen door, punished Harold severely. Grace did not relish this treatment of her brother and the howling of the two children fairly made Carl's teeth chatter. He soon had dry clothes on Grace, and tucking the sob bing children into their crib, he went about his work. "I'll have a little peace," he thought "while they're asleep," and he became conscious of a still small voice within him which weakly asserted that after all Kate had a good many things to contend with of which he had known nothing. Kate's husband was on bis knees cleaning the dish water from the floor when there was a knock on the kitchen door and Mrs. Chantler, a near neighbor, walked in. "Excuse me for coming right in, Mr. Harland," she said, "I didn't know but I might be needed here. I saw you run ning around the yard this morning with your sleeves rolled up and an apron on, and I came to the conclusion that your wife was sick, and I see I am right. Poor thing, she works herself most to death. I suppose, of course, she's in the bedroom. I'll go in and see if I can do anything for her. If you have any trouble in getting that grease spot out of the floor, Mr. Harland, just try concen trated lye, then put sawdust on it and let it lie a few days. That'll absorb it you know. I guess I'll go right in and see Kate. I don't believe she'll care if I don't announce myself." Mrs. Chantler stepped into the dining room and shut the door behind her. Carl, with the floor cloth in one hand and a pail in the other, looked after her with an expression in his eyes that was really dangerous. '-I'll bet my life that she'll wake the children with thatton.ie of hers," he muttered. "She didn't know but she might be needed here, hey ? If I was a woman I would see that she did not leave the house with any doubt in her mind on that point. She has no business to run in here whenever she pleases." Mrs. Chantler remained ith Kate two hours, and with her ceaseless chattering contributed to the pain that racked the poor woman's bead. When she departed she cautioned Carl against letting the children make too much noise in the house, and suggested that for a day or two it would be much better for Kate if none of the neighbors were allow ed to see her. It was three o'clock in the afternoon when Carl had finished the work, and had just seated himself for tbe purpose of resuming his paper when the child ren awoke. Gritting his teeth almost savagely, Carl threw down the paper and gave his attention the children. "There's one thing that Kate does," he thought, "that I w ill not do, for I don't think it's right and that is to sit around the house and hold the children, when they might just as well be taught to amuse themselves." Placing Grace on the floor and instruct ing Harold to play with her, Carl took up his paper. The children gradually found their way into the sitting-room. Carl was deeply interested in an account of the discovery of a rich silver deposit in Colorado, when a crash from the sitting-room brought hira to his feet. With a bound he was at the door, and the shattered remains of a costly vase that he had civen Kate on the day of tbeir marriage, lying ou the floor met his eye. Grace had caught the covering of the table upon which it stood and pulled it off. Shivering with fright at the disaster, Harold had concealed himself behind the sofa, while the baby, unable to con ceive the extent of the damage that she had done, sat in .the midst of the debris and looked smilingly upon the white face of her father. Carl shook with passion. The shivered vase on the floor called to mind the day, years before, when he had led Kate to the altar and made her his companion. On that day he had promised to love and protect her and to give her his sym pathy in tbe time of trouble. Had he done this? Had he done his duty ? This was the question that arose in his heart, and turning away from the sight of the vase he went to the bedside of his wife and frankly told her how his eyes had been opened to his shortcomings ; how selfishness had devoured him, and how blind he had grown to his duties and her wants. "Kate," he said, "for give me for all my ill treatment to you. I have been in the hands of an evil spirit. This day the seal has dropped from my eyes, and henceforth I shall en deavor to be to you all that I have prom ised." And he was. Work. There has been so much justly said about the prejudicial effect of overwork, especially in using up the powers of man and cutting short his life, that it may be hastily assumed by some that work itself is opposed to length of day. This, how ever, is a fatal mistake. Whatever may be proved concerning the comparative tendencies of different employments to shorten life, it will always be found that a life of idleness w ill surpass them all. The faculties of man, used and not abused, serve not only to benefit thw world, but even more; to benefit himself. His health, happiness and length of life depend largely upon the regular, steady and full not excessive employment of his fpowers. He who neglects this law and suffers them to run to waste, leading an aimless and vacant life, will reap the penalty quite ts much in Lis own inferior condition, physical and mental, as in any external loss he may sustain. The Doctor and Postmaster Were talking about a case of serious ill ness, due to a neglected Cold and rapidly going into Consumption, which was promptly cured by Tan-Tina Cough and Consumption Core. Price 25 and 50 cents. Trial bottles free. Experience has shown sufferers with Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Liver Com plaint, in fret all diseases arising from a disordered system, that nothing equals Dr. Lee's Liver Regulator for these troubles. Try it At G. W. Beaford'g Drug Store. ID Women are the Experts. At a meeting held here recently in honor of the late Gen. Francis F Spinner formerly Treasurer of the United States, eays a Washington correspondent of the Boston J-nmuxl, Secretary Foster paid a tribute to him that was well deserved. Attention was especially called to the fact that Gen. Spinner was one of the first to recognize the merits of women as depart ment clerks and to give them position in the service. From Gen. Spinner's day the employment of women in the depart ment has become general. In many branches of the Treasury ser vice women have arisen to the proficien cy of experts. This is especially true as to the oils ce of the Treasurer of the United States, where the most expert rapid, and accurate counters of mutilated currency and detector of counterfeit money are women. A woman detected the first counterfeit $100 bill of a very dangerous issue. When called upon to explain why she thought it was counter feit her answer was: "I knew it was." It took a day or two for the engravers and cashiers to make a detailed explana tion so that bank officials could under stand the reason. However, it was dis covered that the same cashiers and bank officials had received a good many of the bills, while the woman had detected that they were counterfeit Gen. Spinner when Treasurer of the United States once said : "A man will examine a note sys tematically and adduce logically from the imperfect engraving, blurred vignette, or indistinct signature that it is counterfeit, and he will be w rong four cases out of ten. A woman picks up a note, looks at it in an apparently careless manner, after her own fashion, and says . 'That is counterfeit' 'Why?' the Division Chief will ask, and she will be sure to answer, 'Because it is,' and she is right eleven cases out of twelve." It would be wrong to say that these discoveries are the re sult of chance. They come from a keen perception, fine eyesight, delicate touch, and long acquaintance with the work. There is in one of the bureaus to-day a woman whose Division Chief says that her daily average of work is nearly three times that of a man who has been align ed to the same.duty, and who sits in the same room, yet the man gets twice the pay. The most saillful persons to identify the notes and bonds which were defaced and charred in the great Chicago fire were women. There was one mxss of charred paper from the Chicago fire amounting to $ltl5,iXX, consisting of legal tenders, national hank and fractional notes, bonds and coupons. They were so charred that they would crumble at the touch. This black mass was given to six ladies for identification, and in the course of time they accomplished their task. Other like amounts from that city were in like manner successfully identifi ed. A year later eighty-three cases of money similarly charred came from the great Boston fire. One case was found hy these same six ladies to contain ?'., 00(1. How they did it is described in this manner hy one of them : "After unpacking the money from the row cotton in which it traveled, as zeal ously swathed as the most precious jewel ry, the ladies separated each small piece with thin knives made for the purpose ; then laying the blackened fragments on sheets of blotting paper they decided by close scrutiny the value, genuineness, and nature of the note. Magnifying glasses were provided, but seldom, used, except for the deciphering of coupons numbers or other minute details. The pieces were then pasted on thin paper, the bank notes returned to their respect ive banks, and the United States money put in scaled envelopes and delivered to a committee of four, who superintended the final burning. The amount of all the money from the two cities identified was Sl'vUl, or over 76 per cent of the whole." Six months were required to identify the money saved from these two fires. Some of the woman are employed on what are known as "affidavit cases" cases where money is too badly injured to be redeemed in the usual manner. One of these expert women clerks saved the government $150,000 once. This money was lost in a paymaster's trunk, w hich was sunk at the bottom of the Mississippi Uiver, lay there for many months, and was almost a mass of pulp when it arrived at the Treasury. The express company, w hich was responsible for this money, presented the clerk with $500. A good many distinguished women have at different times been compelled to seek employment in the government service. Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, the widow of the "Little Giant1" reduced to poverty by her husband's unfortunate speculations, for a time held a clerkship in the Treasury. During the lifetime of her husband she was a brilliant leader in society, and while in the Treasury married an army officer of high standing. The daughter of a decayed Washington family was married from the Treasury to a wealthy ierman Baron. A niece of Gen. John Sedgw ick one held a place there. Mrs. Commodore Wainright, a descendant of Franklin, and two grand daughters of Jefferson have been clerks in the government servict Mrs. Attorney-General Brewster was a clerk in the Bureau of Internal Uevenue in the Treas ury Department, and Mr. Brewster, then a Philadelphia lawyer, occasionally came to see her when she w as a clerk. She was the orphan daughter of Robert J. Walker, once Secretary of the Treasury. A female cousin of Gen. ltawlings, form erly Secretary of War, and a cousin of William II. Seward have held govern ment clerkships. The daughters of Chief Justice Taney were employed in the Treasury until friends of their father raised a fund for their support Gov.Fairchild of Wis consin married his wife from the Treasu ry. A sister of Gen. lUibert Ould was a long time in the Treasury. The poetess, "Florence Percy," held a place in the Quartermaster-General's office until she was married, Rome of the more promi nent women writers of Washington were once Treasury clerks. Tbe daughter of Pittigrew King, the noted Governor of houth Carolina, was long a clerk in the Postoffice Department The list could be made a very long one. What's the matter old boy? Cant yoa meet your bills?" "Yes, confound it ! I meet so many that I can't pay them." T Q TP Knew She Would Come. One of the most touching stories Dick ens ever w rote was that of poor "LitCe Emily." It is hard for most of us to keep back the tears when we read of her wanderings in foreign lands, and of how Mr. Peggotty never gave lier up, but sought her everywhere until he found her and saved her. Just such things are happening in real life. Here is a story of a young Scotch girl. One day, while proceed'.p along the street, she came by a church and heard the congregation singing an old tune she knew w eil. She paused a incnient, and w hile listening, a sudden vision came to her of the home she had left, her father and mother, the quiet village and the simple and pure life that had once bee a hers. A longing swept through her heart just to creep over tbe threshold of home once more and sit at her mother's feet ; moth er was there, and forgiveness and lot e were there. So she traveled the long distance to the little village. She felt that she must not be seen by the neighbors. So, weary and footsore and lonjing though she was, 6he hid in the fields till dark. Then she waited and waited fearing that she could not make it right with "feyther" till "feyther" should be gone to bed, aud she could find mother sitting alone. When she came to the house her beat ing heart stopped in fear, for the lights were gone and she rememliered that the door was shut at night Yet at any rate she must see, and her heart leaped aain when she found that the door was open. Light as was her foot when she stepped within, one ear heard it, and het mother's voice, low and trembling with hope, spoke from an inner room : "Jeanie, is it you V "Yes, mother, and oh, I feared to find tbe door shut" "Ay, Jeanie, lass, the door has nae been shut siuce ye left" Repudiated the Contract. The three men were sitting on a bench just outside the little park takicg a sun bath when a man crossed .the street and asked w ho wanted to put in a ton of coal. "Up-stairs?" asked one. "No. It's for the kitchen rane." "Far to carry ?" asked the next. " iot a bushel basket and a coal-shovel?" asked the third. "Yes." The three volunteered almost as one man. "But I don't need three V protested the man. "There's only a ton of it." Then the dirtiest and raggedest of the lot slowly untangle his long h-gs, got up, and said impressively : "Boss, I tells yon what we does. I takes the contract, See? Then 1 sub lets some of it to my two side partners and we all stand in. Does I get thecon trect?" "Divide it up to suit yourselves," said the man. "Just go around to the alley I gate of that house across the road." "Dead easy money," said the chiefcon tractor as the three scullled along toward the alley. "I charges him a dollar for the job sure." "Go him one fifty. Bill," advised the first subcontractor. "That's fifty all 'round and a man as isn't a boardin' house boss is a soft mark on jobs around a house." "All right! I goes him the limit." The three filed in the alley gateand were met by a little pleasant-faced w om an. She was mild-mannered and all that, but she waj a woman, and when she asked quietly : "How much do you want?" they turned around and soleran ,ly filed out "It's no use," said the chief contractor, as he called the indignation meeting to order in theailey. "We una sag been played for suckers. We gets thirty cents from a woman for the job, when we wins one dollar or more from a man, and it ain't w uth while missin' the sun for three whiskies. A wotuan as is keepin' house knowg the prices. Chinvjo Trilnme. No Seat, No Sermon. Once having to preach at a chu rch in Regent street, on arriving at the door Bishop Wilberforce encountered, his friend Mrs. A in the act of retr.rn- ingto her cairiage. "What, going away ?" "Only because I can't get in." "Do you mean that you really wish to stop?" "I came on purpose." "Then take my arm." The crowd at the door was excessive. At last the beadle appeared, to whom the bishop in his blandest manner, saic'. : "You will be so good as to give tit-'S lady the best seat in the church." "Impossible, sir church quite full V The bishop, calmly, but with emphasint repeated his orders. "Quite impossible!" repeated tfw beadle. "I tell you, sir, the churrb i quite full." "Oh, but," was the rejoinder, "I won't preach if you don't 1" This alarming threat "at once opened. Bumble's eyes. "Ob, I beg pardon, my lord," winking "This way, niarm," And he deposited Mrs. A in the- church warden's luxurious empty pew under the pulpit Isni-lvn TT?-'.', A Colt with Horns. Scriven county, Georgia, has a genuine curiosty in the form of a coit, which car ries unmistakable horns on his head. He ia now nearly a year old and in no way remarkable save for Lis horns, which have grown with him until now they are nearly a foot in length and as handsome a pair as any cow ever tarried. The ani- 1 . S. A . A- mai ia mo proi-ny, vr was anm recrnuj of a farmer named Kavanaagh, who ha sold it to an agfnt of a dime museiua ha Boston. Kavanaugh says that the colt came of parents differing in noway from l'oe;r kind, and can only account for the perni arity by the fact that the colt's ntohr was severely gored by a savage cow a few days before he was foaled. The animal has never attempted to use his horns, and, it is said, seems not to know that he possesses, any such adornment or weapon The ether animals with which he is stabled and pastured, however, appear to recognize that there is eomethLcg abnor mal about him, and are unnimos ia giving hira a wide berth, evert threaten ing him with hoof and horn, when he ventures too near them. 1 A SLlu WHOLE NO. 2087. The Buzzird Party. The same forces that during the war season drove tens of thousand of Demo crats out of the party of their fatkers are at work to-day, and though the enforced exodus may not be so great in ISO as front ISO I to K-hV, it yet must We consid erable. The thing that Democratic lead ers never learn is that the people, wheth er classed politically as Democratic or Re publican, are A merican. The Iemocratic leaders always belittle America and ex alt foreign countries, and always, when there is diplomatic dispute or a commer cial rivalry between this Republic and a foreign nation, are loud in their protest that either the riht or the might of the .pteetion, or th might and the right of it, are against mi Mr. Blaine has brought the Behring Sea controversy to an honorable conclu sion. But during the whole progress the lemocratic press and the Democratic leaders were w riting and talking as Eng land would have theiu talk. They said that our claim to sole jurisdiction over the seal fisheries in Behring Sea was not goou in law, aud that the ineiliciency of our navy would prevent ns from making it good in fad. All that Lord Salisbury and Sir Julian Pauncefote said on behHtf of Britain had the mark cf w isdon in their eyes ; all that President Harrison 'and Secretary Blaine said ou behalf of the United States was derided by the Demo cratic press as lad law or bad logic. And when American diplomacy was success ful the I emocratic leaders had no word of congratulation to offer, though the IVinocratic people were proud of our Nation's trr.iroph. As in diplomacy, so in commerce. The tin-plate tariff has been in effect but a few days, and the leniocratic press, almost unanimously, is boasting that it never can result in the) establishment of American tin-plate works, is rejoicing in hope that the British monopolists of the trade will increase the price of tin-plate to American consumers, and is predict ing a speedy accomplishment of its hopes. It is true that rive American tin-plate factories already are at work, that twenty-three more are contemplated. But that the American tin-plate industry has not been fally developed in the ten days that Lave elapsed since it was afforded protection is a matter of great rejoicing U the Dmocrat:c leaders. The Demo cratic people w ill be pleased if American tin-ware is made as cheaply as English. The leniocratic leaders dread such an event. They dread every event that makes the Nation prosperous and inde pendent As in diplomacy and commerce, so in agriculture. A year ao the leniocratic leaders were as happy as buzzards in full scent of a corpse. Farm produce was selling too low, tinners were depressed ! and inclined to take the gloomiest view j of the future. The Democratic buzzards j swooped upon them. They croaked to ' them of "higher prices on account of the tariff" for w hat they would have to buy, and of lower prices "on account of the tariff" for w hat they would have to sell ; they fearfully ex nitrate 1 the nuaiber and the money value of farm mortgages, and they were happy in exact propartioa as they succeeded ia making the tUrmer miserable. It is otherwise fo-day. The tariff, except as regards tin-plate, has been in operation for some months. Sugar that was worth $1 per ten pounds now ia worth $1 per twenty pounds; shoes, clothing, farm implements, hardware, nearly everything that the farmer buys, are lower, or certainly not higher "on ac count of the tariff." and the grain that the farmcv seils is worth far more than it was a year avo. The truth aliout farm mortgHjcs also has come to be known, and it is that farms are less incumbered by mortgages than town property is, and that farm mortgages are being paid off quite as rapidly as city mortgages are. The result of these things is that agricul ture no longer seems moribund ; it is act ive and healthy and its followers are happy. Consequently the Democrats are m'werable. The buzzards have been dis appointed in their search for a corpse. They sit upon the fence and croak, "It won't l:tct long ; it is only a temporary recovery." As ia diplomacy, in commerce, in agri culture, so in National finance. A year or two ago the Democratic leaders were denouncing the ills of a Treasury surplus. "Why is not this money put into circula tion and the revenue reduced?" they asked. TheMcKinley bill was passed, and by it tariff dnties to the yearly value of from ?':0,OX),'h) to ?,ii,(MJ,WJ were wird out. The Treasury surplus was pnt into circulation. Part of it was re funded to States that had paid "the direct tax" in war times. Part of it was used for the construction of a war navy. Part of it was use 1 t) provide pensions for disabled soldiers or for the widows and orphans of dea 1 soldiers; part of it was used in li iuid:.tioa of the public debt. And now the I 'emocratic leader denounce the evils of a lack of surplus. "Why was not the money kept in the Treasury as a provision against . reign war or of tier like contingency?' is now their cry. In the war time the Democratic party came to be known as the Copperhead party. Its leaders and its press hissed and struck venomously at the life of the Nation. To-day it deserves to be known as th Buzzard party. Its leaders predict 1 the death of every National enterprise, commercial, manufacturing or agricultur al, iml they predict the bankruptcy of th .Nation. Every sign of National life seensti hateful to them, every possibility of 'aXional disaster's pleasant to them. They Are the dismal party, the party of disorganization, the buzzard party. They I encourage nothing, they create nothing, v- th conserve cothin''. They feed upon f ... fc jigpa aa,i fatten upon decay. At pres- ent there neither is disease nor decay in public affairs. Hence the Buzzard party is lean and hopeless. di' iyo Inter (Aran. Merely a Hint. I merely throw that out as a hint," remarked the old gent going into the porto, after a slight scuiile in the hall. "What, papa," in quired the daughter, -waiting in the parlor. "That young man who has been com ing here ever night for three months," snapped the father, and the girl under stood alL The miners of Carbona.lo and Beacon Iowa, have voted to declare their strike off, and return to work. Teaching Children. "There may be too many and too pro traited religion e.terci.a f. r ihiMren. All teachers and parents Catholic as weil as Protestant 0'1,,'ht to be very cau tious in this r-rd ; for if !t'ii,)ii be rendered it'irdtunotuw aud t:na:.iiablj that tender a, afterwar.U the y.iuth. who has always associated it with a'.ooiu, w hes eii-aucipntcd froci home and s. L.d influence, may renjttc it et.t:?ely, au.t try to rv-l.-v- it fa!- or l .'.Hvt'ii. r should he r-er vere, he may ohil" oiut of tlsose '..xiniy iteople w ho seem to be perpetually iu amoral Ktmiht jacket and who look at the laughing portion cf humanity as though they were necessa rily predestined to damnation. Hebe comes a man who renders rvli;:on itself repulsive, and people begin to think that if his gloom in the iuspiratian of religion then the religion liut inspired it cannot be true, or, at least, it is very doubtf il. La Grippe Again. During the epidemic of La Grippe 'Lift season Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and C-uts, proved to be the best remedy. Reports from the many who used it coniirui this statement. They were not only quickly relieved bnt the disease left no bad alter results. Wd ask you to give this remedy a trial, and we guarantee that you will bo sa".;s;ied or the purchase price will lie refunded. It has no eputl iu LaGrippe, or any Throat, Chest or Lun trouble. Trial bottles free at J. N. Snyder's Dm St jre.' Lare bu!en, ."Gc. and $1. Went Him One Better. A judge and counselor bein: upon in different terms, a client of the counsel's making his appearance at the bar witU his jaw terribly swelled, the j'i'.ou ru marked : "Mr. , this client of yours would make an excellent counselor; he's all jaw," which set the court in a rear of laughter against the counselor. On silence being restored, the eounx 1 replied : "My lord, I think he would make, a better judge, for the jaw is al on o:io side." The retort turned tiie ia yh a5'iii.-t the jude, and from that day they w-;ie on the best terms of friendship. Lwlm Catarrh in New England. Ely's Cream Ba.'m gives satisfaction to every one usin it for catarrhal troubles. G. K. Mellor, Druggist, Worcester, Mass. I believe Ely's Cream Balm is th best article for catarrh ever offered the public Bash fc Co., Druggists, Worcester, M.vss. An article of real merit C. 1". Aider:, Druggist, SprinCeld, Mass. Those who use it speBk highly of it. Geo. A. Hill, Druggist, Springfield. Ma.-?. Cream Balm has given satisfactory re sults. W. P. Dratr, Dru'ist, SprirgaVl I Mass. The Great Benefit Which people in run down state of hea": derive from Hood's Sarsaparii'.a, conclu sively proves that this medicine ''makes the weak strong." It th-s not act like a stimulant imparting fictitious strength, but Hood's Sarjuprail'A builds up in a perfectly natural way l.!1 the weakened parts, purities the blood, a:id assists to healthy action those, important organs, the kidneys and liver. A DisappointmenL: First man on horseback Did yoa go to the hanging bee this afternoon ? Second man on hortebui-k No, was it much of a time ? First man on horseback No, nothin' extra. Just as they were goiii' to hau g the feller somebody lx 'u-1 and that made him atad.-sohe scd he' lick the u.an what luffed in three minutes if they'd let him loose. The sheriff let him iooso and he licked the feller an' then licked the sheriff, an' while the fellers went across the street to get a drink he stole off and got awaj , T .-t Slj'iayt. A Good Idea. Jack had been away on a three years ... . . rr , 1 - . 1 I .. cruise, llissuipmate, lorn, iia.i cueu in the first month. Jack had now returned home and it was his paiu'ul d'tty to break the news to Tom's poor wife who had been waiting patiently for her hus band's return. Jack could fare an ocean brine, he said, and enjoy it,bi:t two Jro;.s standing in a womaa's eyes were too much for him. In his dilemma he went to Jim, another shipmate. "How shall I do it Jim? How shall I begin r "Ion't begin at all," said Jim ; "Just tell her Tom died three years ago. She won't mind it much ; it was so long ago. you know." "Begorrah, Jim," Said Jack, "I never thought o' that Why, she won't even have to put on mourning will she?" Diir,l Ff Prt.'. If you would do good whenever yoa have an opportunity, you will . r.erai'y ls9 very busy. Glorious Record. Since the introduction of the Famous, Pan-Tina Cough ami Consumption Cure in this vicinity, the death rate from Con sumption has dcreased wonderfully; it never fails to effect a cure, 1'ri'f 2t cents. Try it Trial sizy bottle free. Ih Lee's Liver Regulator ha-i nu ra to relieve the suffering of mankind than all other medicines ; it cures all stomach, and liver troubles. For sale at Soon N. Snyder Ditig Store. Tbe diplomat who said that tale-bearers could not occupy Li! places never saw a monkey go np a C'x-oanui tree. A man is obliged to die Lofore Lis w ill amounts to anything, but that ox'a w uuua is always in force. The more a person has of inherited or natural dishonesty, the easier dor ' he be lieve evil reports. A Kind Friend. Is what they rail that Famous IJeciedy; Red FiAif Oil. it quickly cures Rheuma tism, Neuralgia, Cuts. Bruises, Birns, Seres, and ail pain- 11 u l for luAa or beast No other medicine has won for itse.f such confidence as Dr. Lee's Liver Re-g'i later. It is the best combination 'or the cure of all Kidney and Liver Complaints. For sale at John N. Snyder DruS Store. There is no proper service of God that does not begin with loving and tenderly caring for children. Amercuant advertises - good all roaed baseballs." This seems foolish." This seems fool ish. Base bals that are not all round are not good at all. ! t f i e- - t n