ftS Somerset Hrald tSTUHtl Terns of Publication. r': '"' '.. .'. in advance, otnerwiie t2 M ;'T ' " ,v 'v t charced. """'ucUl be eon-unoed ntO eU ,j,4:j0p. Purte neslca. .hcn subarrtbtri do not take oat 55 B':' -roI i he He for cb- e-.'- v- rtt.'V---s " ' J F ve us the iuum of the fo" Sowa-bsst, Fa. Ys NOTAEV fCBUC, Somerset. Pa. ! . t-vrv M EEF.KLEY, Ill fciaAS, Pa. t.,-.-j:F.J- K-osei-1- i I . t, T. sneran. Pa, 5 ITT S.Efrf'.Tl-rr.AT.LaW. II. aumc. Pa. lt", v e;l.iXK.EK, scmerset, Pa. s a rra.--.-S EdC 'aom' KM1X J. G. Ouls. . sen- ..... i. , u .i r O rjM iaXT, Fa, 1Y ' ert,Pa. sumvrKt, Fa., ... mixtion iobuait.ea etrueted - . . . r t ks. -j o 1 v'LiI'iE HAY, ? aomeraet. Pa. I . . r.-. w:i tui'Qd to all I I H' E. I'HL. i . v 3 so ell bisineas entrusted J r .C on colietfiona, & Of- ,iut T''iIXO.KIMMF.L, ,J' inui.vti'-AlU. ir v all tasineia entrusted to hit care i'rr' al 1 aa-:ti ooucun, j.rompt-i- A-i 2 on iiai cru oubcV, ixvt -' .-tr t uooa sjre. Bumenet, Pa. C- x s HAmoUi Block, or Eatranc li i f'.-ni couwuoda ma-ie, t" t. cXAUi.ued. and a it-snu wisuwitt Z -iu and nacJU . a: Ccjou. I C. CoiJcaa. ;LuK' A COLBORN", AnuH-NtVa-Al-LAW. eumrraet. Pa. k--. -j.- euTrned to our cat will be -Ta iA-' iii-jp Aiu-iidtHl a. totievuona 'i" r- .-. tLiurd aui aa.Kiiuo uchia----iv.aaail tA-cvej Aacii iuue on ro- LBAEH, a AUUA.Ml-Ai-ui''. eomcnet. Pa., In SomenctanJ aijolnmj coon- i W. H. KlTMi. 1 fjiiuuTd A Krri'EL, J J Al"VM;i-Al-LAW. S somerset, Pa. I a: t- fsirurl to their caw will be r-: .-.j aj ..u'l.y a;u-ij;rJ to. C'tc on T w- CAUrTlirir-S. M. P. J. ids:'lA.s SmSLU.-KT. a. '. t : u tr-?t, nrxt door to pncunn D r. F. !?. FFER, 1 n 1 iAS A.NU erP.C,E'"'S. SUiAKSAT. I'A-. :-rf-- : sri to uie titiAtaA . v.:.j t- next dour to -l-.-'-.A. D "i. J. M. Lt .tl'TKEE, ."v. ). w. ) iEY;l :a AND pVE&EOS j . - ies'jT is Soae-wt foe the K-k- x x -! .:ua. 'olioc on ilaui etreet. :.J.s. v-MILLEX. i .. '"Tct :ct:in to -.he pirrrA:ino 1 - - : Ar. f a! n.'U laeul. i s " 1 ' - - -.:ilartrT. ol'. in ti iatorr. ul'.-e in tiie . ' - i 'w-.U co. a uore, etJnei Oils! Oilsl U.C ..j,-l l.ii Ua' li-T.ira':ing it Lubricating Oils . . . j'pnthand C ssohne, PRODUCT Of PETROLEUM. Jos w ihe .i u uciloniily Satisfactory Oils -IS TH -American Market, Qti T-ale f.jr a, , rn an4 Tldnity j f K t .EERIT ajtb F'ilUaa Jli-ER, Ju aaj.it. Pa. S'rr. 3 FRAkKUN STREET. "-HSiTOWS SUPPLY HOUSL i .i.r.u W H. WATERS &BR0. PLUMBERS, t iMi4 ' aew b-!M!iir. - : :v & the b.-Tmnwi R t--. . ""trn (Vcn'TlTAiA """'f to tor f-.iimuiof. gteaa - -Tt .w'rTe mtlb! attention to fj?J h"T ATl.f. HEATIV. ixnv "rs in inn rabniY i-rk'-T -pAR7MENT rarrya foil '-a V :tr jViuK. iwta and '.tJc, 1:jl"r Lu -VA4vtin W- ' t, tic Pricta uvtcal s 1 ; n tie VOL. XLI. NO. -THE- FIRST NATIONAL BANK OK- Somerset, Penn'a. CAPITAL SURPLUS S50.000. ss.ooc. DEPOSITS NCCCIVCO IN LARaC AN DSN ALL AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON OEMANO. ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS FARMCRS, STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHCftS S OLiCITE DISCOUNTS DAILY. EOARD OF DIRECTOHS : LaEii M. Hicka. W. H. Mills a, JlXD L. rcC3, CfiAS. II. FiSHIR, JOHM R. Sl-OTT, Geo. R. Film W. But ciib. Edward Scull, : : : : : Peaidext Vale.vtivk Hat, : : Vicb Piusidext Hauvey M. Bekkllt, : : : (.'auhiar. The funds anfi secr.ritiefl of this tar.k are lyocreiy prot?cted in acflebrated C-or-liss B'jrc!ar-pr-X'f Safe. The ot!y tafe niaJe absolaiely IiurKiar-j.roof. Scmersgt Coon! Haiional M Of Somerset, Pa. . y. tstabi'.shea, 1877. 0-ped u i itioai!, 1830. CAPITAL. $50,000. Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't Wm. H. Koontz, Vice Fres't. Milton J. Pritts, Cashier, Directopjs: Saml gnyilpr, Jue-iah pei'lit, J"i!iu H. t-uyVr, J-l b E. latiA, Jerome StiUlil, Wm. Eni-leT. J jM M l uuk, John 1!att-..3 nvder, Noahs. Xilier, " Saai. B. Harri-cn. Cnrtorar? oi iba B5k will rr-o-ire the moat li'iferai treatment fotoittcnt Willi fe back.n. hartirt iruicr to send roo:,tT cam or vert can be aecuci!riia-d by dratt fr nuy auiount. Money and eal'Ltrlr. geeured by uceof D(.e bo!d s (Jeicaraleti saXea, with must Approved Lune UxL. OiLcfllnm icade In all farta of the CnKed States, t'liaryt nuli rai Acooanu aiiJ Ihsiwmia Soilcted. marSm mum mu m tei cj. 1-21 Ji 123 Fourth Ave., PITTSBURGH, PA. Ccpiiai - - mm lindided Prof.U 200,000. ISS'JRES TITLE TO REAL ESTATE- Authorized to act as Exerntor, Administrator, Uaardias, Tm-tee, Assignee, KecdTr, Ac. I'EAl-S IS RELIABLE ISVESTltEHT SECURITIES. Rcts box in ite Sujienor Van'ts from id.uO per snnum npr.ards. Reef ive s deposit. and loans on mort gige and approved co'.Uttera's. JOHN E. JACKSON", - TrJect. JAMES J. POSNELI Vice IVesident. C. B. MoVAY, - Secretary and Treas. AMERICAN HOTEL. 0 ntJ ni Operated by S. P. SVEITZER, Cun:LrIad, Md. Thi" h'v.el i r.rt-cl!, ia a'.' it aprKjiotm. r.is, rnle;eii and refunr. Se-i. At ! iuel l'.a-ti-n m tt.e ut i!.e hed of bitiiiuiore rv-L .--.revl rN a :l nrw-r evvrr ft.-w in.icH-nl. Fin-tlaf porter attend all t:a:n. Lcroce to tne K.Uri f:-e f rUije. f.rettly Wa o: LLe ti'iel is a LM-rU. iAiver- Establislimenl, mbere nxr? of 'l .1. rj!-,r. -.r i bad at mS era'.e ral-. 1 ::e l-ar ! H 't.-! is t ktl wi-.b toe tnet )rrif tthi-. WiOesaud fcccrs. Ak on Laud a iare ttoca of Imported Cigars. Petca ant:e:pi:h:r Biasriraony ran baT li:t-ir inulj At-1 rarr r.-'lufd lo notn:n? Ly -)Tir.e at ti.l- Hottt where ;:r-en- ran te pro-r-jrri viixufi'.ft ia-e. l"a t te ttlt-ii in hr oio.el nackiDvn, L. t cuAe direb U tiie U'utel. Tie undf.rIirne-1 ha on fcacl a Urge ftoc'i of SOMERSET COUSTY WHISKY. Old Rye, Wni-h Le orTe-t a: Vl hn! and In mall q'iutii:e, at tue foi.owtug j.rne?: Two Tear old at 11 2S p- r ra'Ion. Four - -M - Ad lre a'U orVrs M V w. r.7. L'.9, and ICl Eal tLswrerit-.t-aaiOerUii.l. ML g. P. SWEITZER. Propr:wr. E. Til. BEAGHT, Veterinary Surgeon, treat :i enrab'.e disraw b irv 8eb i befr to. Hu ihe lau- and Imt roved re'e-n.ary u pial inmiuiei.l and a: piiaiiet. mo a CxAii pitte ttwniAy iibrary. Tfterisary Obtrttric a Specialty. A eoroplete nk (T TeU-rirary mr1k-Ine al waytou Hand, tncreby viBg uout.le aud aa- ...i r tMAtmt w t ' r-er week jiifna, wicu - - - - and np wards arfonlne u tr.-n'tn :il "'"j"!!. ConM.lt me r-.re sniinc l....... a:.d tacixe1 L. 1 La.'c Lreaud tetaniLu or oei-Jw .xe.uiy. KUre of iwiVm, miles wot of Sai;ury. Pa. i'itofl;caldri, ran lvi lie. - Id ST. CHARLES HO TE L "CHAS. S. GILL, Proprietor. Rates: $2.00 to $3 00 per day. Ta'.le nnirpae.l. P.pmodcled with ore ne rrwiod 6. -a-orai fm and lricao-Jewnl l:?ut in all nwtra. w t am Uandry aiiaibed to bouse. Cor. Wood St and Third Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. l i- S rf i'-i ! So 25. lir. Herman Hicks Of Eochesttr, X. Y. Deaf for a Year Catued by Catarrh in the Head Catarrh is a Co.vstttutioxal disease, and requires a Coxstititioxal Remedy Lke Hood's SarsaparillatocureiL Read: 'Tluei yeirt ao. as a result of catarrh, I entirety ! t n-.y iieartn; and w deaf for mora t;i 2 year. 1 tried Tartou Uinn to eure It, aud iuid several p!i, 'tieuits a'.t- c.it it. but no lintT.iveriei-t as ai'p.ir.-nl. I rwwla aixis. :ii uad. 1 was lnleudinj; puttiuj tiiyseJ usider Lie eare of a ;ieeia:it whea s nrn- cue s c :ed Uiat possibly liocd's Sar &a)iri.;a ui-.l do me some tuod. I ltran taMiig it without tle expectation of anr laluic help. To my nrpriw awa crsral Jay 1 fuund wlien I hod Likru t::ree tor.irS Luatn.y hear ia u rrtaraiax. I kept on til I bad Lk.en three u-nre. It is now over a year and I ean bear perfretly srrli. I ain troulled but Terr itu wiUi the catarrb. 1 coiisidr this a reaaarkmale rmae, aad corJxAliy PiXMinvenft Hood's Sarsaparilfa to all who bare catarrh.' Hesmax Hicks, 39 Cirvr Street, EocueMcr. X. Y. , HOOD'S riLLS are purely TeEetabie. audda sot purg. (au e gr.pa. Sold by all Amt&Mt. j PIC-NIC GOODS. Tic-nic Plates, per dozen, 7c Pic-nic Mags, Planished Tin, 5c Tic-nic Knives and Forks. 8c Pic-uic Sj-oons, per dozen, 10c Pic-nic Folding Cups, 9c Tic-nic Lemon Squeezer?, 9c Pic-nic flaskets, 25c NATHAN'S, lolesale Retailer. FANCY WORK. Some Great Bargains in IRISH POINT LUNCH AND TRAY CLOTHS Bought Wlow cost of trarFportation e are e!iin: at great bargains hite and colored Bedford Curd Tibie Cov er, stamped ready for working, .icjr ei lanton FJannel Table and Cush ion Covers, Singed Hnch Cushion Covers, Bargarran Art Cloth Table and Cushion Covers, all staaiped with Newest Desizns ; Ilem-ititcbed Hot Bi-uit and 1UU Napkins. A new and lare line of hem-etitched Tray and Carving Cloths from GOcts op." Stamped Herrnlitrhed Scarf from lcts np. Table Covers from M eta. np. A full line of Figured INDIASILKS, All New Taiterns ar.d Coloring?. AUo, Figured Plush, 24 and 33 inches wi.k in beaatiful Coion and I.iesijrra. Art SatiD S.nar for tLe Central tovera and Cushion Covers. "Waban USTetting-, asinohs wide, 50 cents per yH, in Pink, Bine, Olive and Yellow, THE NEW THING for Draping Mantles and Jjoors. and lur irapir.e Over l-aperies. A new line of H-ad-rets. trotn Tc np. Visit onr Table Linen. Towel, Napkins. Mutlio. t-S.ee! lag and Linen Departme&t, by all meana. HE FAR 41 FIFTH AVENUE, PiiLsburgh, Fa. 7" V.'O UNUSUA LLYGOOD OFFERS. Real Christmas Gifts, FlK.-Tbe meat- Holiday No. enlanred lo 2.V. rme of that br.fule of quarterly utiliea- lOtlA, -TALES FROM T0W?l TOPICS," Out Dacemttar first, ail aews and bosk stands aad railway trains, price iO cents, will b seat FEEE To all who send SI (A) lor a saon'ha' trial auboeripUoa to towist topics. The Jarcroat, raciat, stronjest, most varied nd.mertsining wk ty journal in tha wurldl. PEfrVP To all wbo wf!i sen4 F 00, will be itbi T'-wa T-t and " 7afr- rwa Tvra 7oj.-ta," fnun date oniil January L, 14, ews-smac 4 Nw. of the tnimi'able quanerly. (rerular prire I.' Mi and u aioctna of the greatest of fasuly waekiias r-)Ti!r pr-ee 4.ti per ye at i. c-Tafce one e the other ofTer at one. tad re jnit ia postal notes, order or ew Vora x cLaage w Ta T.plcs, 21 Writ ttl St, 2t. T 'Vis SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1892. BE THOU OUR GUIDE. When ti: rhadow fall around as. At the drin? of the day. And when danger thick surround as All alona; our darksome way. Let thy presence, Lord, be near us, G-ide us rently through the nUbt, Glee toy precious word to cheer us Tll we reach the morales "sol : Gnide ns gently. Father, guide us 'Mid the siisdowson our way, Hani ia hand Thyself beside us. Guide ns on to perfect day. When fierce storms In wild eomutocioa Eweep like demons through the air. And the anry wars of ocean Ecatler.ruin everyw here ; Do tnoo calm the raging billows. Fill our sky Kith silver beam, fenootb osrtueung, weary pillows. Give us rest and peaceful dreams ; Guide us eeiilly, Pstber. guide us As w ride :e mighty deep ; ITao J iu hand Tbyseif beside us. Give Thine o c beUjved sleep, n iwo Willi burdens Life ia weary. And with gnsving hearts grow col'l, When the war a.emt long and dreary As the years their cares unfold ; Give us streru;th for toil and sorrow, tVurm our bearta with heavenly lore. Gild our pathway with the morrow, brightly gleaming from above ; Giude us gently. Father, guide us Whate er oiir lot may be Hui ia hand Thyself beidc ua. O'er Life's sunset LUle to Thee. HOW WE STRUCK IT. One of Joaquin Miller's Frontier Tales. " If I bad only cpme here away back in the early fifties !' sighed a dreamy man to uie as we waited for the tram at Fraitvale last week. And another man chipped in and sigheii also as he said: "Flush times then, you bet, and big strikes; Lot I only got here in tba seven ties got here without a cent and have held my own riiat along V First let me one for all disabuse the popular mind about the flash times and tig strikes of the early fifties. Yes, there were big strikes, but they were, like the big generals of our great war, not the rule. Yoa hear of big strikes and yon hear of the big genera's. The thousands and hundreds of thousands that perished in the ranks yoa never hear about. For the benefit of the dreamy man who site waiting and lamenting let me say the openings and opportunities are better to-day than they were in the sev enties, and they were better in the seven ties than they were in the fifties. The wear and tear of life w as eo terrible then too. Every dollar cost about two dol lars and a half to get in those days. It has been estimated, and I think about correctly, that if each miner bad received twenty-five cento a day and boird for his labor and such labor six teen hours a day generally we would have ha i more gold-dust than wejjot in those famous "early fifties.'' oceai this deploring that yoa came so late to California, my dreamful friend. UI course we would all like to live over the itcpetnous old days again ; but I I doubt if you who don't get on today would have gotten on then. Better, far better for yon, or all, to settle down con tent by some sweet village in this fair land, where you can have clean clothe, good food, books, papers, the presence of woman and ail the healthful relinements that attend her, than sit eighin. for the days of o!d. Ycu can at least get your board and twenty-five cents a day, and that, be assured, is more than we got on the average to the man, notwithstanding all our privations. An old forty-niner from New Bedford, Ma.4., Mr. Haskics, who has written a very rfadab'.e book about his fellow ar gonaats and very impoirant bock it is, as it contains the names of more than :!,000 of them told me that of the 3,000 who came from his town, firt and last, it was hard to find more than a very few who were much ahead in the world. He told ae that on returning home after forty years he and Lis old friends took 3j0 of their select young men who came and compared their fortunes with ZOO similar young men who remained at home, and they fonnd that the propor tion of those who had prospered at bone was as ten to four against those who had come in forty-nine. On the other hand, they found, that notwithstanding the per ils and hardshifa, the proportion of ar gonauts still living was ten to three a.-ainst those who remained in New Bed ford. Some day, my dreamful friends who la ment your late coming and are continually taking the free local trains of Oakland in order to fly from as a contagion. I will sit down and tell ycu how to make fortunes right here by the Bay of San Francisco far easier than they were made in the "early fifties. " But for the pres ent the contract is to tell yoa how we struck it in the middle fork of Humbug creek. I had a "pard" for about a week, win ter of S"5. lie was not yet twenty, small for his age, and I was not thirteen. "A fool for lack, and so Tat Flannigan, the banker at Coos Bay, stated so Le said and Frank Campbell, of the Howlin Wil derness saloon, started us. Neither of cs, let it be frankly told, had enough practi cal sense to come in when it rained. Surely we would strike it, if there was a bit of truth iu the old adage. His name was Hi Wiliiams Miller, so he said, and he claimed to be kin of mine, but I afterward claimed that his name was Miller Williams. He was fearful liar, and bad about as much con science as a mbber band. Boots and pick and pan and shovel, bacon, flour, frying pan, beans and blan kets, and so, half hidden under oar huge loads, we crept oat of camp at midnight np tne narrow trail of the middle fork between high wal.s of snow. For be had a "pointer,' Le lisped, from old Boles, kiiled two years later in the Pitt river massacre. How in the world Hi Miller Williams managed to keep all this name I don't see. Names were rare luxuries in those days, especially long onesiike this, and many a good old man may be found in those mountains to this day with name and date and nationality all worn away and gone as from an old quarter. Bat the true silver, trout God, is still there. Three miles op the creek, a mile above the very Last cabin ; the last mile or two Eolid snow, soft and impassable by day because of the son, bat hard a steel by night, and here we laid down oar loads by daylight and took shelter in a brash shed built by Alva Bolts. We fried onr bacon and flat jack and ate like wolves. On the third day, discouraged and dis gusted, for not a color a yet had we erseic EST A BTiTRFTRD 1827. found, we took the tools and climbed up out of the canon to a warm mountain side that lay to the sua. It was pleasant here. Some tall, wild flowers had shot through the brown carpet of pine quills by t'. e edge of a foaming, tumbling stream, made muddy from a slide on the hiileide above. My "panr did not like work, but he was always making it ap pear that he was moving mountains. Af ter backing in the sun a bit he took the pick and ashed on np, and soon bad the bowlders tumbling and rumbling down the angry stream, while I sat there and pulled some of the prettiest flowers. It was like picking Ihe patterns out of brown bruasels carpet; they were so soft and fine and spirituaL They had such delicate, fresh tints d little stems, and the new blue blossoms were as blue as the eyes of a baby. Bat they went to sleep cloeed their eyes forever almost as soon as I pulled theui out of the warm brows carpet they were art new and tender. i neara a wild snout, an i springing up I saw two arms loaned in the air, and a little bare, black bead thrown back till the face looked straight up to the center1 of the blue tent of heaven. The big lit tle man walked toward nis majestically down the mountain side, tip-toeing, on epps! Ah, but he was tall ! Ve he Lad struck it Going back w 1th Li in we found the wa ter clear here, flashicg riown over a curi ously green and brown and white floor of bare bedrock, and here, right throah this, where his pick Lad struck, gleamed and shot and flashed a glittering seam of solid mea't, Ifyon could have sees those swinging, sweeping arms! That windmill that overthrew Don Quixote was nothing in its velocity and persistence. I was made to comprehend that the vein ran here and that it ran there ; was boundless ; that the mountain was in fact one solid mass of virgin gold ! Yet he said not a word only those arms. We got a piece of it out, more than a pound, and almoet pure. I battered off a piece of crag, rods op the hill, and that, too, was heavy, almost solid. We sat late by the fire that night after supper, and it was later still when he spoke for the first time, and then he spoke almost spasmodically : "To buy California first, all California, including this mountain of solid gold. That's it, yon see, before they find out that gold is so plenty ;'thea buy Oregon, on time; then come and get the gold; boy Ireland, poor Ireland! By Gcsh! Then bay England ; go right to Victoria and bay her crown and her throne on contract ; good lawyer, so she can't back out ; then come back and get the gold." He was silent for a time, and then with his face lifted far above tne as if searching for the north star, he said half savagely : "Say, straight overjth mountains to Yreka to-cight on the crust, Flannigan not to know a word, nor Campbell; straight to Yreka; got tnough already to hind contracts, bay California and Con tract with the Oreganians before to-morrow night r Another pause, then suddenly again: "Say, look here; I might kill yoa and keep the whole thing. It's ail my find, anyhow." A nd bless me if he didn't look as if Le might. Anyhow the camp fire was smoking on my side and I got up and leaned against a posL Then be got up, too, and said, ''Come on, let's go." I followed the desjerate little rascal, keeping behind him ail the way to Yre ka, w here we arrived j ust as Grvathoute A Micer opened their bank. Breathless and with face still lifted tar above me, tne boy who was going to buy Queen Victoria's throne and crow n and have her throw in Ireland, strode up to where Charley Slicer, now in Oakland, was buy ing dust and laid the nnggets before Lis eyes. "Bare stuff 1" YocngS!icer turned it over and over, took up a glass, loeked at it carelessly, and then handing it back as he turned to attend to some one else, said, xtto voice, "Yes, pretty pure copper." I got a job as cook on Greenhorn next day, and poor Hi, after getting himself into pecks of trouble and mixing himself np with me and my a Hairs, died at Red Bluff, with his face still lifted to the stars, I am told. Texas Target Shooting. Three or four drummers, borne from the West, were talking in the hotel office about some of the target shooting they ba 1 seerf auiocg the cowboys, says the iMruit Free Pmt, and the tales they told were evidently luted for heavy discount. Listening very intently and qiietly to all they said was an agricultural-looking man, and when they had finished he put in: "Some men mightn't telieve the sto ries you gentlemen have been telling," he said, "but i do. I've just got in from Texas, and I saw some shooting down there that would make me. believe any thing." "For instance ?" suggtsted one of the drummers as the new candidate appear ed to have some double about going ahead. " WelV he continued, in a grateful tone, " I saw several of the feats yoa mentioned, but one day I saw a thing that beat them tlL There was a compa ny of militia called the Crocket riflemen, or something like that, with about 190 or 110 men in it, shooting at a target at long range and making more bull's eyes than I ever witnessed. Finally the cap tain put op a target .twelve feet square with a six-inch;ho!e in the center at 200 yards, and formed the entire company in front of it. The command to load was given and then very slowly came 'Aim fire,' and by thunder, 'gentlemen, there wasn't a ballet mark on that targeL Ev ery ball had gone through the .hole in the middle !" The agricultural gentleman looked at the drummers a minute, and they looked at him and then rose silently and went upstairs to bed. A Hard Fight. The combined forces of the weather daring the winter mouths are exerted to destroy health. Coughs and Colds at tack as, which, if neglected, result in Pneumonia and Consumption. These diseases usually result seriously. Send for Pan-Tina, the (treat Cough and Con sumption cure, and save doctor bills. Trial bcttles of Pan-Tina free at G. W. Benford'i drag store. Brick White's Banties. It was the night before Thanksgiving, and two people were unhappy J. Knox Faber, newspaper man, because he did not Lave a pathetic idea for a Thanks giving story which was due on the city editor's desc the following morning, and "Brick" White, newsboy, because Le did Lave a pathetic idea for a Thanksgiving story, and at 9 o'clock that evening Fa ber was Icrossing City Hall park, New York, when a pleading toice adJreaed hi:n. "Hey, boas, please bay a yackstra. I'm stuck vid twenty, 'an ef I don' sell 'eru de ole woman's goin to kill me banties." The speaker was a very small boy with a very large bundle of papers. Faber glar ed fixedly into the boys eyes until they filled with tears. "You're not lying to me? What's your name and w bat ore your banties T' "Hope to die boss, if I ain't giving it to ye straight. Me name's Brick White an' I got a banty rauty rooster an' a hen, an' they're me pets, an' ef 1 don' git enough money fer to bay a chickin fer Jen's Thanksgiving dinner the cle woman's guin' goin' to chop off the bantie's heads off." The boy w as sobbing now, and boring one cold and grimy fist into his eyes. Faber drew him out of the rush and interviewed him. "Ye see boas, when I was a fresh air kid las snnjmer over'n Jersey I got stuck on a couple o' banties. They'd come when I called 'em and eat out o' me hand, an' I hadn't seen no bantiei be fore, an' he was such a regular little slug ger, he was w'y, say, he'd sail into de biges' rooster on de hull farm an' do 'em, too, he would an' the woman she give 'em to me fer a present. I lugged 'em borne wid me and fixed up a coop in de windy, an' now every day de little hen she'll go 'chuck, chuck, tecack utT and lay de littlest white egg ye ever see, an Sullivan dat's de rooster he'll walk around de coop proudern'n's if he owned Fi't' aven'e. Me ole man was kill ed on de elevator railroad, and de ole woman she she washes an' Jen, that me sister, Bhe's been sick a long time. Doctor says she'll die soon, an' she's been wanting a taste of chickin ever sence she onct about four years ago, when she was in de hosFpittle. I want Jen to have the chicken, but I don't want her to eat my bauticfl, an' she wouldn't either if she knowed, but ma wouldn't let me tell her. I got me eye on a big chicken down to Wash'n'ton market, and I been hus lin' all day an' ain't got half enocgh mon ey yet. Ef I could get ri i of these 'ere papers I could " "Where do yoa live?" Faber aked coldly turning his head a a ay. "No. B-iyard streeL You'll take one of these yuckstms offen me, won't yoa ?" Bat the stranger had gone. With a de spairing glance at the big bundle of ex tras, "Brick" manfully dashed away his tears and again, cried. "Yackstra ! Yuckstras." Thousands of people buried by the the little shivering figure, but at the end of an hour only three papers had been sold. "Brick began to slowly work his way up the Bjwery. At eleven o'clock he reached home, tired, hungry ; cold and weeping bitterly. Ha ha J fif teen pipers left. S jlly's dead rooster," he moaned as he to k a last look at his pets before ti sib ling into bed. Early Thanksgiving morning a district messenger boy left two pickaxes at the door of Mrs. White's rooms. Oue was a great fat chicken labeled. Tor Jen," and the other was a big of feed marked '"ForSullivan" and when "Brick" saw them he yelled with delight, seizJ a wildly clucking bantam in each hand and executed a Bjwery war dance on the floor, and the city editor of the brightest evening ia New York, aared Faber that bis ' Brick White's Binties was the best thing be d done for the p-tper in six months. Golden Thoughts. Whn you cannot manage your busi ness the quicker you give it up the better. Every dish placed before the poor is taste.1 by Oar Father who is in Heaven. Every person is his ow n hell and there is none other than man makes for him self. The grave U a cushion of comfort com- parel to what some folks endure at their borne. A greater coward than he who dare not express bis opinions need not b looked for. Tottithf ully labor 6ix days of the week is a part of tan ouiaiaud to rest on the seventh. One good thought each day to think of is worth to man more than is ail the gold in the world. A greater fool than he who express i3 opinions merely to antagoDixs anotner neel not be found. Never aeceit as a leader any one who feira the resulL. The neater yoar oSoe the easier your business will move, The tattling busy body is the snake of the neighborhood. All persons are not asleep when yoa are. God is in a dancing room as much as in a church, as He is everywhere. To be a good helper is better than a poor director. Every falsehood told by a girl or wo man destroys a leaf of her loveliness. Pity the person who feels it a duty to fire a reproof at another merely to be rid of it. Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved. From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E. Hard, of Groton, S. D., we quote : " as taken with a bad cold, which settled on my Lung, cor.gh set in and finally ter minated in Consumption. Four doctors gave me op, saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Sa vior, determined if I could not stay w ith my friends on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial, and thank God I am now a well and hearty woman." Trial bot tUsfreeatJ. N. Snyder's drrg a" ore; regular size, 50c and fl. Every human soul has germ of some fiwers within, and they would open if th y could only Hal sunshine and free air to expand in. eralcl New Year's Gifts In China. The custom of giving presents, and par ticularly that of exchanging New-Year calls, is essentially Chinese, The coinci dence of these two rather peculiar acts of b-otherly lovs coexisting in Holland and Scotland should famish cause for thought. It is a little singa'ar, certainly that the Chinese, who are not an over charitaliie or forgiving race, should en join the forgiveness of all debts at the Ix-gintiicgof the new year. It is amusing spectacle ia Chinatown to see the creditor mercilessly Luuting down the debtor during the tew days that remain. No one is exempt from this necessity, for in order to pay his own debts he must in turn collect what is due to him. The debtor who cannot fulnl his obligations by New-Year goes into bankruptcy by the operations of a cus tom stronger than '.aw. He undoubtedly earns tt.e contempt of his fcliow-meo, but at least Le is free from their persecn tion. Ilia debts are forgiven, with quite as much sincerity as could be expected under the circumstances. Besides this painful phase of Chinese yuletide, there are other preparations to be made for the fitting celebration of the great three-day fttival, beginning with the first day of the first month. Tne red peach paper which has been remov ed from the doorway most be replaced, and therefore about this tiuje the proft."s siona' letter-writer of the Cainese quar ter takes his station on the street corner, andisb-isily employed in writing s;n tenccsof g-jod omen. Naturally some of these gr-a'.'emen are more popular than others, a letter-writer whoclaiaij to have passed one of the inferior civil service examinations, or who at one time has been connected with a fiiihionaMe joss house, being more in demand than he who has picked up Lis smattering of knowledge at school, or by w hat is an important tactor in Chinese education, self-help. It is quite customary, also, to bring these red paper slips to the joss-Louse, where for a trilling fee they are stamped w ith the seal of the josa. Certainly it is worth taking some trouble with a little piece of paper w hich is to do duty for an entire year; for as soon as the slips have been prepared and stamped, they are glued to the door-posts, against the time when the evil spirits shall return and make the last state of the man worse than the firt. The moral which the Sivioar pointed out to His disciples that sps modic effrt is inevita ly folloaed by re actions unfavorable to true spiritual de velopment is fully borne oat by the his tory of the Cainese people. From "A New Light on the Chine," by LL Bur den McDowell, in llirp-r iliyizlne for December. Somebody's Sweetheart She is going to be married '. She to! J me so the other day, and she said there were a good many tiling she did not know that I might tell her abouL Blea her I am 'sure she is somebody's sweet heart aad he is to be congfAtulated. ue waa'.s to know how she shall tell people she is enijfed to be mirried. Well, if I were in hi'r place I would have- a little entertainment of sjme sort a tea or an afternoon at home and. as ruy little i lady st.-.nJs by her mother's side, her mother can say, "You must w ish Doro- j tby ail happiness. Shi is enagvd to be j married to Mr. Charles Brown." Then, ! if this Is too much trouble let her moth- 1 er write a few letters to friends telling ! them of her engigemtnt and not i-npos-; in,; any secrecy, an J j ist giveCaarlie j permission to say to one or to men, "1 1 am sure yoa will be glad to know that Miss Dorothy Vernon his promised to be . uiv wiie a. .ci j ou ujic u&cu j either of these met ho-is of anr.ouacic; Uie cceagement there w ill be nodiu-r whatever of the whole town ia -hich i: ..i : i. . .. T, . -. iuj live uui iieariUir sikiji i iiicuw, Doitty wants to kaow-vou see she is a verv wise little woman, "and is :u.f t ma'keahomeforLerself-how she shall mark ber napery. Ihe prettiest way is to duplicate her ow n nietaod of writing her ini.ial.s, ia letters about two inch- high, with white contoa. ' a the shests these goj'it in the middle, below the upper hem; on the pillo slips they should be in the cect-e of the upper side, in the middle beyond the hem. Oa the napkins their placing depends very much on the size. They mast be so placed that w hen the napkin is ironed out, fold ed to a large square, aud folded over to a long shape the initials will be jut in the centre. The sime rule applies to their placing on the table-cloth, that is, about the position. Spread the table-cloth on the tab! ?, and let the initials corns where they would be j ist beyond the hostess plates. I have answered ail of Dorothy's questions, I hope to her satisfaction. And now that I am all through I want to say to her. "Dear girl, I trust that yoa will be a Lappy wife, a something that yoa will neter be, however, unless yoa make the una yoa Lave married a Lai py husband, and for this yoa must work and pray. iod bless yoa and teat h yoa to do wht is right." IIjiiu J.jnriL The laws cf health are taught in the schools ; but not in a way to be of much practical benefit and are never illustrat ed by livirg examples, which ia many cases might easily be done. If some scholar w ho had just contracted a cold was brought before the school so that ail could hear the dry, loud cough and know its s;gn":ficar.c; see the thin' white coat ing on trie tongue and later, as the col l developed, see the profuse watery expec toration and thin watery discharge from the nose, not one of them would ever forget wfcat the first symptoms of a cold were. The scholar should then be givea Chamberlain's Congh Remedy freelv, that ail might see that even a severe cold coa'd t cared in one or two d.iys, or at least greatly mitigated, when properly treated as soon as the first symptoms ap pear. This remedy is famous for its cures of coughs, colds and croup. It is made especially for these diseases and is the mott prompt and most reliable med icine known for the purpose. 25 and 53 cent bottles for sale. FeTT effrts are more unsoccesoful, few labors are more nea vailing than those of of the reformer who has not reformed himself, cf the liberal giver who does not p iy his dabta, of the maa who, without any soecial direction in life, is occupied In guiding and directing other. WHOLE NO. 2158 Bound to Do His Duty. During a strike on one of the eastern rosvU they had to pick cp anybody they coald to man what trains had to be run. Thelengineer and conductors on the fast trains stood by the company, but the braketnen were out The superintend ent bird one big bulky fellow fellow, who give his name as Boscome, to act as brakeman on the Chicago limited. "Now, boas," he said to the superin tendent, "yoa just tell me what to do and yoa bet your boots I'll do it. Do yoa want any strikers killed ?" "No, no. Don't you meddle with them unlets they me-Uie with yoa. Yoa won't have very much to do unless something goes wrong with the train. Tnen yoa help as much as yoa can, and do what the conductor te! la yoa to." "And if thiegs go smooth, what do I do then?" Just shout the names of the stations." When the Chicago limited started out at t o'clock that night Boscome was on one of the sleepers. Everybody wasia his berth trying to get to sleep, when Boscome put his head in the door and yelled : "Brenton Corners 1" To de Liud," cried the porter, aghast, "yua uus-sont call de names out in a sleeping cah ! "You tend to your blackin' boots and don't interfere with me. I'm a doia' my duty, aad don't you furgt t it." People put their Lea-Is out from be tween curtains and wanted to know what lunatic was abroal. The sleeping car conductor expostula ted with Bojcouie, but everytime a lot of lights dashed pt-tt the Le brakeman yelled "Muggins's Junctions," or what ever name was next on his list. The i train conductor at last came tlon.j and said he would put Boscome off, brt the I stalwart brakeman asked Lim to try it if ' he thought he could do it. I "I ain't got nut bin' agin you, conduct- j or, sai l Bjsecome, but I in a doin what the superintendent told me to do, and yoa bet I'm going to ob?y orders. Stijjrins's Crossing '" The conductor pulled the bell rope and the train slowed ap. "Anything wrong with the train, con ductor?" asked Boscome anxio'tsly. "Yes. Tne air brake's on tire. Yoa run bick there about a rod and you'll find a bucket of water beside the track. Bring it to me." As tne train started up again the con ductor shouted to Boscome, who was trying to catch up : "Next time yoa get on a train yoa do what the conductor tells you to. tjait running after us; you can't catch the limited. Tramp back and report to the superintendent.' Btril Frrr tres. How a Chinaman Kills a Chicken. One might imagine that the Chinaman who gorges h'.mseif with broiled rits and ; es from which the boarding fcehools de bird' s test soup wou'd eat any kind of j rive the bulk of their scholars should be meat pe pared in any manntr, tut such is j sternly checked when and wherever it not the case. John Chinaman has his ! raveals ii-!f. Coarse langtae is apt to religious notions about such things as i develop ir.to ru le behavior, and both wtliasofher pec pie. M.ny f the al- aliie are a di . g'ace to the rysteni which tuond eyed inhabitants of Chicago are ! professes to endow the people with the not very good liaddLists S nee coming. I b'.esairgs of education. Ifltie "tone" of to the city they have become apuetit d ! popular sob-ails be not an efficient cor Bat watch the ortnodox Clmnuivi J rtctive efiirevrrer.ee and roa diners in w'nen he g es to the mirkt for his S la day chicken. II will not take a dea ' one because the probabilities are that the fellow who killed it w is not a belie .'ef in Gautama and had chod its bevl of wiih a ha'chet, Iiischickea raa-t havs its head on and be vcrry m ich alive. John w ill go to the coop, and stir the feathered prisoae ' up with t stick. If Le nodes one that c scales aal Hitters about iaa lively luiiiner Le aid luy it. ll-i lit no as- of a j 1 iio's'i, bi.ki ai j I'rar!C i H-v:". ""Je a sclec'i a L3 Ues the chicken hoineahve. zetsout adirtv little i ' - - mi, aneeis oei.re m males wmeqaeer i motions with his hands, mombiesa Lw j . t0 a shelva or draper a I knife with a double edgvd blade which is extremely sharp, and with much cere-ir-OLy whacks of the head cf the fow'. This done he returns to the image, and kaceling agiin ap!ogijs f r having committed such a wicked deed and pro ceeds to prep ire too chicken fr dinner. Chicsg) Tnbun?. What Is a W.f a. The pretty school teacher, for a little d.venisement, had asked her class for the beet original definition of "wife" and the boy in the corner had promptly mpoud ed, "A rib." She looked at him reproaehfaily aud nooded to the boy with ur.-auiy eyes who seemed anxious to say something. "Man's guiding sta.- aud guardian angel," be sail ia response to ths no'J. "A helpmate," put in a little flaxen hair giri. "lae who sjothes man in adversity," e;igg"rted a detuure little girl. "And sptn.ls Lis money when he's fla-?h," ai le i tae incorrigible boy in the c jrcer. Tntrs was a lull, aad the pretty, dark eyed girl said elo ly : "A wife is the envy of spinsters." "Oae who makes a man Labile," was the next suggestion. "And keeps bi:u from making a fool of himself," put in another girl. "Some one for a man to find fati't with when things go a rong, ' said a sorrow ful little maiden. "stop rignt there," said the pretty little echoot teacher. "That's the bs-tt ' definition. Later the sorroafal little maiden sidled np to ber and asked : "Aren't yoa goirg to marry that hand some man who calls for you every day ?" "Yes, dear, she replied, "bat with us nothing will ever go wrong. He says so himself. " Good Looks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of ail the vital organs. If the liver be in active, yoa have a bilious look ; if yoar Stomach be disordered yoa have a dys peptic look, and if yocr Kidneys be af fected yoa have a pinched lot k. Secure good health and yoa will have good looks. Electric Bitters is the great alter ative and tonic, acts directly on these vital o'gana. Cures rimples, Blotches, Boils, and gives a good c:mp'exion. Sold at J. N. Snyder', dreg sL re, 50 cento per bottle. Teachers' Local Institutes. The following are programmes for the Teachers' Local Institutes to be held at va rious places throughout the county : 1'k.t . ti x x i for a Local lasutuU of Stonycreek town " ship to be held at LauibertsvLUe, Decem ber 9 aad I J, laifj. Recitation E- G. Ruas. How to teach physiology to beginners A. P, Kiuimel. Select Reading V. W. Muler. Use diacritical marks in the school room C. E. Ricgler. Dialogue Jesse Scfcrock and Harry StulL First lesson in reading Miss Ida B. Speicher. How to interest small pupils J. B. Schrock. Recitation Miss Stell Bowser, Class Drill G. W. S mucker. What constitutes a school? Albeit Lambert. What are the evidences of a teacher's success? P. S. Spaugler. How to cuiti.ate the mental faculties of young pu;ils R. J. Brant. Duties of pupils and patrons L G. Carver. Impromptu Class G. W. Smacker. The programme will be interspersed with music and queries. Cox ITT IX. rKOOR-taUS for a Local Institute to be held at Hoov ersville, IV, commencing Satarday after noon IVceaiber 10, 1J2, and continuing two sessions. Opening exercises. Beueii's of free text bocks Prof. F. G. Fry burg. Ho can we make teaching pay ? George Kuna:e!. Relation of tit x ns to the schools S, S. Shlag. The teachers at home Geo. Lohr. Courtesy in thd schoolroom P. V. Schlag. What constitutes a teacher? R. M. Rinnictr. Written work in the school room -a) ia primary grades Anna Koehler. oi In advanced grades C. Foster Cable. Recitations Hermini Shaffer, M. L. Wilt, Harry Hoffman, Emma Fike, Idella Shaff-r. E-aays Carrie Rhod-., J. E. Johnson, The programme will be interspersed with music, queries, and work by the school. Ail friends cf education are cor dially invited to attend and Uke part in the institute work. Com. Rafiiement in the School. Public !f the children of the positively and relatively poor are seldom fortunate enough to have homes in which they can make life studies frot.i models of good manners, they should find those models, impressed upon their attention by exam p'es as well as by precept, in the schools which the law of the land compels them to attend, aad in which orlerly habits, olieiienr'e to rules, defer ence to their teachers and systematic self control should be no leiis assiduously taught to tr.em thin arithmetic, history and g--' griphy. lastnciion in these es sentials of civilized human intercourse, wbich like the BritL-h constitution, ia a product of intelligent and timely com promises, might constitute an important stride of prigrers in the direction of that suavity of manner aud civility of ad drees w hich are leading featured of "edu cation," regarded from the Italian point of view. Above all the lamentably prevalent tendency to indulge in coarse language of ycung folks belonging to the social cU.-- those whom it g r.fcfses to int!uen-e the sooner it is aiiereJ and eiev.ted the bet- M.ke It's like owl times to see yoa asin, Pat. Why did yoa niverwroite me a lelti.er since last we tuet?" Pat .)i i didn't know y -r ad !res. M tike. M ke j Thin why in tiie tame o' sinse, did ye i not rite far it? ! IVpa We::, Tcmaiy, atd how did yoa ; like it? T.'-iitny . m ho has I ee.i lakri j u t ii m i, 1 r 1: c li -st ti me Very u.uch. i i jilee-i. liver binly had to ket p very qaitt, hut one man (tood up and talked r . , . , , , , - - - Ma.'gv Jaoge ll.llipas is a rcmaika b'y easy man to gtt Si'-mainled with, don't yoa thin ? Vabeley I never no ticed it, Mit-f- tie i, though ; I had not kcoan hi.u for over an hour Weforw I borrowed a dollar of hiui, and im-ide (f the ntxt hour fit so well aiqtiaiut- 1 ed that he refused to lend me aooiher j one. Figs and.Thistles. It i-, hard to tiai p-.-o?!e in misfortune who w ill no' stick that somebody else has not been to olauie fir k. TLe devil's ur on earth was to try to destmy the home, an I he has been at the same thicg ever since. They are not building any mansion ia heaven for peop'e w no aw neither Lot cor cold in religion ma'ltrs. Judas was Dot the only man who Ui3.ie a prat t.ce of professing sympatiiy kr tLe poor to !:i le hs wu uirauness. A son of Mr. M. L. i" r, a merchan f,f tlibraltar, N. C-. ai eo iia lly arliicted with rlieu:iiitis:u for a ye.tr or more as to be unable to work ti go to uhocl. Iiis father couclu led to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm on the boy. It ia cured hi in and Le has since walke! one ind a half n.iies to School snl back evtry school dsy. ."Ocerit bottles for sale. "What weie tef talLer ci'ieicg le- nul.r' "1 could not hear them wrong side of the door." I was on the Frptii it ni s:jua:!i, colic and c'.iolera morbus thsre is nothing better than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and DianLOL-i Iirmed. A tit : Do of P.ke's Peak the air is so rartnei that cits taken there invariably have fits and die brfore they g?t acclima tized. N J very rh-ft .-ic c :i tell the merit cf Hood's S.r-part!la as well as the cures accomplished by this excellent medicine. A good deed is never loet ; he who sows crurteey reaps ti ien-Uliip, and ba ho plants kindness gathers iove. Vt- T i trs no miy be a 1 wol an 1 a yard wide, but he is goods that will not wash. A m ti a-)-r f illy reslia s thj wealth of information he doesn't possess until first child begins toa-k qaewtione. When a married moonshiner dies, hi widj can keep a secret st iiL
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