JUS I Somerset Herald. J iTMUtMID irtT nns of Publication i fterT Wedoeadtr morning at 0 t via if P'J 'ivnc- oUlen"" 12 S ..., Charged, f . .' vn be discontinued until ail 1 a pj up. FounAa1rs neglecting I -h.n 6u!-ribf do not. Ml out - "? ' . b bdd icsonKbis fu. Uienr- f t,.-nc.r.r.g torn one posttffie to i.uioiir-""""'"-" i tie preal oSot A"1" SoaiEEsrr, Pa j .7 C. W WALKER. Ik AlTOr:fYS-AT-LAW, I id NOIAKY FCBLio, J Somerset Fa. I .-ji'jtak':id c,in' fitti'OTs!l pa . Ain-ik- noaaaarr Pa. "..VvEY M. BERKLEY omasn. Fa. 1 i" riOi-fit-HT, J 3umTvt. r " .u.- oaneraei. i-a. ! ! - ouuic; es, j rri-- J. G. OOLK. lit '"r..T-ir. "ousfcibst. FA. I ooun.nsct, Pa., uvtj io buii':. entrusted ''"Ct'it-M aud sou-ics omuliw I ;?We . W U- Urt f -eiPa. 1 r -r Reti Mai. iU Altend W aH J.uioiTw tare wr-b. promr"" i.-a- . f:St&H-Al-LA. tPfc ' ..-t a'vaS v al". busine" entrusted 1 y.7i'v't." a' .i-wi oa ooiiecuuiii, !!. Of- fctJlKW .5.0.. . 1 ' "I i with .rumtl- 4ii-Jt---t-Al-A'. . ...... e t:i.ir&. tuLra ? t- J-XLIiiiru. ad J its. L ivi-Ni-Al-l-A, A.',;vc in SomMtel od AJjou.iag ooun- J off W.H.KUITK. i . i iXHii KCPi'EL, Ji AlioK.StVtS-Al-I-AW, j irncrwt, Pa. I e- ratd to thrtr cure w.U bt J t vi puui-RiAllT l'udd to. O&o on T I W. CARUTlIEr-S. M. D. .uiuuit, Pa. J fon I'jioa itret. next dour u pruiliu -4 i-iiyiUAS AM 61'RiiEOS, f oMAKaiT, Pa., uiij j -.KiissniABAi nei ! to Uie ClUXtrDI - ail v.uui'.y oajc dour U IL S. IAIMLL, 3 his fr-f.Kior.nl ncirices to the dt'.et) - u Lrj. tie JouJ tt oil ou Hui ou -4- . J. II. LGUTKER, reYilCUS AX SCSGEOS - inr.nc3tly 1o BomerfcH for th c u' t j i'rt!wioii. uueou Vtmwwt, 4 ..J.S.MM1LLEX, f-t ipv:; a'.icnUon to the preaervatlon ol ;f-tii Ar.fl H'U inwrtd. AU -ju.it t uiruiH'l Mit&iactory. Ottice in tne u.tiil M.T.i-dweil fe Co.'i store, cornel - A cru 4U it liUivi: itreea. sDils! Oils! - f i;U-.' Rrfir.ine to., rittKttrsh IVpart- . lv,.-V:ri!,i ft.. mk A tj-etialty of 5 Uu. u:ha.t orui of riffling it Lubricating Oils frthaand Gasoline, INDUCT OF PETROLEUM I !f jo-i tit mo 1 uai iomij Satisfactory Oils -IN XHfc- fVinerican Market, osa. Tnwle ta rtt and Ticinitj ! i I 5 boaEasAT, Fa. fTISTJG JOB PRUNING A SPECIALTY, UXmCTURiXG STATIONER AND fiH BOOK MAKER. JJjVknam ELOCK. JOHNSTOWN. PA. fiSH&aaSMQOlD'S I, -TS til? ftLLUscfcSESHbS " ' " la tt n L1. Krinwa 4 4L a.; tiw tt zvrms i.j si. rl f 'SH!,t,tr l;,.,....,, VOL. XML NO. -THE- F1RST NATIONAL BANK OF Somerset, Penn'a. o CAPITAL SURPLUS S50.000. 12.000. ocpoaiTS ncccivt din lahgc an dsn all ACCOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DCMANO. ACCOUNTS Or M ENCHANTS FARMERS, STOCK DEALERS, AND OTH ERS SOLICITED DISCOUNTS DAILY. - BOARD OF DIRECTORS : LaRcb J. Kicks. W. H. Millia, James L. FVqh, Ckab. H. FiCHia, Jobs R. Scott, Geo. B. Sculx, Fred W. Biksxcku. Edward Sctll, : : Valentine IIat, : : : : : President Vice Presidkst : : : Cashier, Haisvet M. Besklet, The funds and securities of this l;auk fiecnrely protectod in arelebruted Cor liss Burglar-proof bale, lne oniy k&le made absolutely Eurglar-proof. Somerset Countv Rational Bank Of Somerset, Pa. E;!i:!iM, 1877. Ornlzd u i Kitloaa!, 1893. CAPITAL, $50,000. Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't. Wm. H. Koontz, Vice Pres't. Milton J. Pritts. Cashier. Directors. sun-l Pnrdei, rf jiah : M. 4X)k John II. Suvlei Jf'!"1 "tunl. J..-,.h B. l'avia. Harrison ?ryder, Jerome ttufil. Soah a. Miller, Fam. B. Harrison. Cn-v!ners ol this lnk will rroc'.ve the most UU rai ireatmw.t lor.MMent ailh a.' banking t artiw ii-riii. to fui money e.t or can be awomin-iate.1 bj diait for any amount !,.uey and valuable urtured by one of lne bold ceiebrawd safta a itb most approved time 1i'ilert!oM made In all parti of the Cnlted tiuac. :nartfe moderate. Aceoonu And bepotau ooucted. BtAra-em miim TITLE MS TMS1 L 121 4 133 Futirth Ave., PITTSBURGH, PA. mm - - mw Undivided Profit 1250,000. Acta as Executor, Guardian, Assignee and Receiver. Wills rowipte.1 fjr an.l held free of vbare. Business of residents and non-resident carefully attended to. JOHN B. JACKS0X, - President JAMES J. D0XNELL, Vice President FEAXKLIX BR0WX, SeereUiry. JAS.aCUAPLlX. Treaiurer. How Much ? The question it it us in extenuiuj; inn already enormous buines if, nit how n.nt'Ii we ran Mt for tro merchandise, but for how little ran it bi sold! This . . ... i - tut exeinjiliaes Low ts to your iuujtm and j relit to trade itli cs. DBESS WOOLENS. Sjle of 5,000 yards double width Suitings half woo!, neat styles; every jaru worth 25c, Sot, to 50.:. all one price, and its a popular price, 15 Cents a Yard. 50 inch Grag, Browns, Tans, 25 Cents. you've paid 50o. for Dress Fabrics net SO good. 5,000 yards genuine I ai ported Tailor Suitings,. r r w-.l 4 in. Iim i.I new Fall colorings and the choicest of this season's styles-neat checks, stnpes ana nimuree, $1 a yard. ctrc. anil trnni ntoiPS tOO ffet f 1.40 a yard some fl-S and the uni versal selling price tne close! price tor these choice bress Fabric is $1.15, We sell tbem st $1 00 and you're ahead the ,4 ; irurAn Our Mail Order Department will send sauipks if you wisn: - Boggs & Blllll, 115, 117, 119 and 121 FtuVral Sired, - ALLEGE E.YA P. 4. 10 Mr. C. 21. Lauer "Nerves Shattered Cenerary broken down; at times I would fall verwitlia touch of tlis Tertl(;o;wa notable to Ri sit distance from tlie lioiis-. I w.i a aiiirroUe uua. Till day I , O iimea"ed n l o t;e .No. 2 of Hood's Ktrarnri!a. I ly-ra't t3 Icol Letter -ml 1 Iiow leel lAc a new duuj. Hood's I am T.or".;:nT again, an-l C-y n-t li.ive any of my f;ill. I Livo a porter! rirr." Cii.ts. if. La i i a, C50 W. Murkji tU York, l'a. 'Hood's Pi!"s ara tlio br.t artcr-siinuer A XARROWESCAPE! How it Happened. TliP Mlowlns reaiarkaMo rvnl In a lartr'a life aili !nierel reader: '-Kor 'one lime I liad a tt rri'ile imln at my lie:i . s.! ! h lli:t-ten-l al!u-I iii.-esjiat!y. I hnti no m - itc and couid not le'i- 1 would 1 con,-iltu ioit no in Nd and ln-leh nas from my i-iiim-wli UMtil I tliuunlit every niiiiato tuld Ik my la-t. Tliere s u feellnn nf opprev-ion alxiiit my lie art, and I was afraid tu uraw a f nil br';ii ii, 1 eouldn't baeep a room viili .Mit MMhisr iliian and r,.iui7; lur ffl, liy tiie beln of New lie.irt'Curo all t!,:it is )ixi anti iwi nk anotner aomau. It furt? usii.a tlio New Heart t nre I bad taken different so-called renii-dios and be M tr'aieu by doctors a hlMfiit hiiv Iwneiit until 1 us tmili dlM-ouraced HDd ui-irusted. My liiisbund lo.ilit tne a Ixiuie 'f lr. Vjiies w Heart Cure, and aia lmbpy toay t never rerretied it, as 1 tow nuto a pien.il apiieute and l'l)aelL I i lt'lie1 lii ik uikIs In n 1 p:.u iikingtue reuH-iy, and now I wt'Urli Mi ,. Its tffii't In triy raso lias been truly marvel ous. It far Mirpasses any oilier medicine 1 bavo ever taken or anv benelit I ever re ceived from idi.vsiciaiis." Mrs. Ilarry Starr, l onhviue. i n.. iK-Toiier J l.f Ur. Miles' New Heart Cure Is solo on a KO"l- tlve puarant.'e liy all driiuijists or by tbo lir. nes Jietiic-a! n., tiKnxrt, tnu.. on receiptor bri'v. f 1 ner bot tie. i bolt less ii. esores tire- paid. Tbia preat discovery by an eminent tivvlalist tu heart di-ea-e. rontaius ttia.ei cyiau-a nor daugcroui drtifs. FANCY WORK. Some (a eat Bargains In IRISHPOINT LUNCH AND TRAY CLOTHS Bought below cost of transportation we are selling at great bargains w hite and colored Bed ford Cord Table Cov ers, stamped ready for working. .Sing ed Canton Flannel Table and Cush ion Covers, Singed Flush Cushion Covers, Barirarrsin Art Cloth Table and Cushion Covers, all stamped with Newest Designs ; Hem-stitched Hot Biscuit and Roil Napkins. A new and larje line of hem-stitched Tray and Carving Cloths from OOcU np. Stamped Hem-stitched Scarfs from S5cts np. Table Covers from SO cts. up. A full line of Figured INDIA SILKS, All New Patterns and Colorings. Also, Figured Plush, 24 and r..t inches wide, in beautiful Colore and iVns. Art S.ttin Squares for the Central Covers and Cushion Covers. Watoan Netting, 4f, irches wide, 50 cent per ysrd, in Pint, . Blue. Olive and Yellow, THE NEW THING for Draping Mantles and Doors, and for Draping Over Draperie. A new line of Head rets. from up. Visit our Tible Linen, Towel, Napkins, Musiin, Sheeting and Linen Department, by all means. 41 FIFTH AYENTJ, Pittsburgh, Pa. FAT PEOPLE. To rednce roar weieht luartT use Wll!ard-i Ob-jily lilis and loe l.r, Hiond a month. No in jury to the bea la. So interference with buM- no or flwure. MO STARVING, icry uuiiu up and tnijove the eiivral aealib. bcauuiy tba e-imiexin aud leave no WRINKLES. 'T .4. (rlwHI, 4 Aunurm .sr., Htmtimi'jr. .Nil.., wru. ftrrr b-Utr uf frlrt PtiiMmturrd a. vn:M (r-m 2JD JC"f i to lyuoivi Tr Jrii bftur ia till m t ttl'. 1 na m.yk pUturi iriiA the rrmlt. and &U rio :M I tu k-lp ya. Oar pitrons include Hby- iaas Hankers. Lawyer, and leaden of rocieiy. (Uu e"l are not toil ia drag mm ; all orders are ripptied liret:t trora our omee. rare per ekatre tOD or three paekapea for SS.0U by ntii preiud. I'aninilarn leled, t CU. AU correa- ponuence coununiuai. WILLARD REMEDY CO BOSTON. MASS Scientific Aaericao Acency for CAVEATS. TRADE MARKS. OCStCM PATENT. COPVRM3HTS. toJ ForrnfnnBattoa and frve Haadbook wrtt.tA Ml .NX A CO. JU kmnutiT, Krw fuu. fHdet asrsiaa fnr ecirfrj tititj bi Am-yn-m. I.rnT psttA taken Oct br n. U brrmabt betora ta paUic by a auuoe a fraa Qt caarga m im Larnat etmlatlr of mtr trUoUHe paper In tb worUL SplstKUdJr USunrcioo. o inteiiimii nan (iuid be without It. Wee'T. S.J.tlO a twi 11 Jv tf mootba Aldrenn AtCN.S A CO. tt J '"'s VS.A JtntaSww. Jcw lotk Uty. f ... i -t 7.. W v".-. t - .:.v.:.:, HOME TOD i c - - rv r j.---' omer SOMERSET. PA., WEDTESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1893. WHEN WE WORKED OUR TAX OUT. Oh, oar life was touh and teaifiU, and Its toil often fearful. And often we ptw fuiat beneath the load. But there came a giad vacation and a tweet al leviation. When we tried to work our tax out on the road. When we used to work our lax out then we felt the jjyn of lelviro. And we felt no more the prick of laWi goad : Then we hared the rldea treAitre of weet rest in fullcat mesmre When we used to work our tax out on tia road. There are sapient seers and sages who p relict, in comiuj aires. Life tragedy of labor will l o'er. An la glad full Hedged millennium will leap out the proscenium. Aud we'll play, but never labjr any more. But we look n a in the future for that hapr.y, halcyon hour, When we'll throw oft every burden, every load ; For our lMua bura in flower, and we dosed in leisures bower When we used to work our tax out on the road. When we used to work otr Ux out (if I let the KilUim fulls out). We had aonnui'.ciit conbMitinent and rep e. With uoUill or w k tornmber us, our K-t was sweet and sluxb.rous. And in deep, delieiou dreaming did we dose. The drowsiness of languid rest o'er eiery man was creeping Aud in a calm, serene content we all threw down our load ; Cue lew ofllfe's wail aud weeping, every blessed min was sleeping W hen we used to wore our tax out on the road. o.i l("u."fr l o-. RECONCILIATION. Why the Old Line Fence Was Torn Down. It was a close, sultry summer afternoon with scarce a breath of air stirring, while the sun poured his scorching rays from a cloudless sky. All about the old Curton firiuhouse a deathlike stillness reigned. There were no sou Dds of voices from with in, no creaking f wls:epa on the uucar peted floors; while, without, even the songs of the bird were hushed. The dingy, forloradookicg bouse, with ils low unpainled, weather-stained exterior, its low doors and its small windows, was even more desolate and forsaken in ap pearauce than was its wont, and at lirtt glani t ne would have thought it com pletely deserted. But a closer observa tion proved that such was not the ca.e. Lsaac Burton, old aid Rray, and bent undtr the cares aud burdens of j ears of trials and toil, sat on the doorstep of the house with oia face buried in his hands, now and then casting a furtive glance through the open door in the direction of a bed in a corner of the room. Whiie he sat there the sun cra'A idd down the west ern sky, casting iU shadow obiupely through the open door, yet he seemed unmindful of the ftct that time was pass ing. Ruiing from the etejtf, finally, he stood an instant listening to the low, regular breathing that came from the bed, then walked out aurosss the neglect ed yard, muttering, half audibly ; ' She sleeps veil, but I don't like the 'pearance of her face." Reaching the crojked rail fence that separated the yard from the public high way, old Isaac stopped and for a little while stood looking down the hard, white road that ran through the long, straight lane to the easL The road was deserted, not a living object being visible on ail the two miles of it that lay w i'.hin his view. "She ort to have the doctor," he mut tered, "yit I don't like to leave her to go and fetch him. She looks mouty quare 'bout the fi'.-e an eyes, an' I'm afeered she's bad tuck." Then, after a short si lence: "If only somebody was passin' this way, so's I could send word to the mill an' git the doctor.' ' Then Isaiccast a look in the direction orthe mige, auurttioi a mile to tne west, where a small lo house, similar to his own, stood, and Eomething like a sigh escaped him. Shaking his bead sally, he turned away. "Neighbors 'd be powerful helpin' an' cimfortin' just now," he in used "an' I'd give a heap if we had some. I never got lonesome when Lindy was op an' about, but now she's down I feel like half the world is gone, an' it 'pears like I hope fer somebody to keep me company. Them people," nodding toward the home on the opposite ridge, "ain't no neighbors, an' no matter what comes I can't goto them for nothio'. " For some time old Isaac walked to and fro in the little pith leading from the gate to the door, then again he went and leaned over the fence to look down the road. Instantly his face brightened and a g'ul light came iato his eyes, f jt away down the lane he siw a man approach ing. Nearly a quarter of an hour passed before the latter came up, but Isaac wait ed for him and accosted him at once : "Sam, I never was so glad to see any body as I am to see you. Are you goiu' over to the mill ?" "Yes," Sam replied, after eyeing old Isaac inquiringly for almost a minute. "What has happened, Ike "Lindy is bad sick, S'aru," Ike said, in a low tone, "an' a.l night an' all day I've been stay hi' with her alone. I knowed, too, that she ort to have the doctor, but I was afeerd to leave her, an there wa'n't nobody to send. Yon kin tell Liui to come w hen yon git to the mill." "Yes, I'll tell him, Ike, an' if there's anything else I kin do fer you I'll do it, an' be g'ad to." "Xo; that's all. Tell him to corneas qiick as he kin, Sam." "Yes, I will. But yon, ort to have somebody to stay with you, Ike. Some body to help 'bout nnssin' an' tendin' on Mis' Burton." "I know that," Isaac replied, with s sigh and a slow shaking of bis bead. "I'd give a heap to have somebody here, but I can't git nobody now." For s moment Sam was silent, casting a glance first at Isaac, then at the bouse on the ridge to the west Isaac saw the action and understood. "Xo, Sam," he sail, half sadly half vindictively, 'Til never go there for s favor, never!" "In s case like this things ongbt to be different," Sam suggested. "People onght to forgive and forget, Ike." "Mebby so, Sam, mebby so ; but they wouldn't feel that way. All that's been said an' done in thirty years can't be for got in day." It was a little while before Sam spoke again. He wished to proceed just right set ESTABLISHED 1827. in his kindly purpose that of reconcil ing two long estranged families and for stime he was at a loss how to doit Finally he said : "Ike, if Mia' Martin felt inclined to come you wouldn't object, would you?" Isaac shook his head. "She won't feel so inclined, Sam. It ain't natural that she should." "I don't know," Sam replied. ' Mis' Martin lias a kind heart, an' she is eym pathizin' w ith the sick an' the needy. She's a good woman, Ike." She may be, but I ain't ready to say so. It's been thirty years since my fam ily an' the Martin's have neighbored, an' in all that time not a word had parted between us. It's hard to forgive an' for give after so lonj, Sam, an' I 'low Mis' Martin can't do it Slie may be a good woman, but she ain't good enough to do that." Sam said no more, but went on up the read toward the mill, while Isaac return ed to his seat on the doorstep. Lindy stiil slept, and her husband sat listening to her breathing, his thoughts ran over the conversation he had jdst had with Sam Gross. ' I'd be glad to have Mis' Martin here," he thought, "'but I ain't no right to ex pect her to come, even if she was Chris tian enough to forgive an' forgit. Three months ago, when Martin lay sick, I never went about him, ari' even when he died I kept awsy from the house, not so much us set in' him burried. I ain't no right to expect her to b a more forgivin' than myself." When Sam Grosj arrived at Mrs. Mar tin's house he went in and asked for a drink of water. She gave it to him, then a.sked him to stop awhile to rest. "I'd be glad enough to," Sam replied, mopping the perspiration from his brow, "but I'm in too much of a hurry. Comin' by Burton's just now, Ike he comes out an' says Lindy is bad tuck, an' that he's afcared slie's goin' off, an' be asks mo to send the doctor up, so I'll have to git 'long as peart as I kin. Poor LinJy !'' Sim went on, af:er a short pause, "I 'low that doctors an' medicine an' sicb likes ain't agoin' to doLer much good 'less she has pro er nutsin.' Ike can't 'iend on her wuth shucks, no matter buw fcurd he tries, an' if he goes 'bout i:i sight of'tr with that forlorn, sad look he wears, she'll die shore, jest o' that alone. She needs a good, cheerful woman n tias, Mis' Martin, sech as you'd Le. now." Sam stopped and waited, as if for a repiy from Mrs. Martin, but the did not speak, and he weut cn : "In cases like that," he said, "it's a great pity folks ain't got no neighbors, for good neighbors is a powor tf comfort :o the sick an' them ar is related to the sick. There's no know in' what good nussin' would do fer Mis' Burton, tier bow cn solin' a jrord o sympathy wod'. l be to poor old Ike in his loneliness. I feel fer them poor critter?, Mia' Martin, an' I do wish somebody would be neighborly with 'em." Again Sam paused, but Mrs. Martin eaid nothing, and he saw that he must speaker plainer in older to make the im pression he desired. "Mi's Mirtin," he continued, "life is powerful short an' if pjople expect to prepare fvr eternity they ain't got no time to waste in tMeless bickerin's. Them as expects to be happy in the next world can't atfjrd to spend their time here in contentions. Fer my part, Mis' Martin, I'd Late to let s cross fence atvreen two farms t land betwixt me an' my neigh bors, much lees betwixt me an' Heaven. Now fer thirty years that cross fence np there has kept you uns an Burtons apart nv.tkin' you enemies when you ought to V been friends an' neighbors, an' it was all on account of contentiousness. Either f imily would 'a' made up in a minut; if the other would V tuck the fust step, but neither would btidge an inch, an' so it's gone on an' on, all of you bein' as miserable as sin. Mil' Martin, 'tain't right People as hopea to be forgive in the next world must forgive in this. I pat it to you, now, Mis' Martin, if I ain't right?" "Sam, yoa are right," Mrs. Martin re plied. "That cross-fence trouble has caused me many sorrowful days, and there never has been a time when I wouldn't gladly have bnrbl the strife aud made friends with the Bartons. But I thought the first advances toward a re conciliation ouht to come from Isaac lie was moat to blame." "Mis' Martin," iiid Sam, "I don't know who was most to blame. I ain't no call to speak of that. But this I know: If a person is a true Christian an' wants to so act, that person mustn't stick at no fine p'ints ; an' in a eflf rt to about a leconciliation be must be willin' togi uiore'n half-way to moat Collier party. Scripture says, M la' Martin, to Mo good to them that de.spitefi;lly use you,' an' as Christians we're bound to do it." Sam spoke with deep solemnity, and it was plain that his words had a great eTcct on his auditor. Mrs. Martin wa? a Christian woman and she meant well, but, like many other good people, she fouad it Lard to humble herself. There was a long silence, during which a con flict between duty aud pride waed with in Mrs. Martin's bosom. "Sam ," she said, at last, "do yoa think Laac would not resent my coming into his housj?" "I know he wouldn't," Sam replied, promptly. "More than that Mia' Martin. 1 know he'd wtlcome you " "Then I'll go, Sam, an' let the outcome of it be what it may, I know I shall feel the better for goin'." Sam startM on bis way, happy in the thought of what he had accomplished and hoping that his efforts might lead to the burial of the difference that had so long keptj.be two families at enmity. Mrs. Martin went immediately to Bur ton's, end when old Isaac from bis seat on the doorstep saw her coming cp the yard path he waa more surprised than he ever had been, in all his life. However, he composed hsinself sutliciently to give ber s &ttiog reception and remove from ber mind all fear of her visit being con sidered an intrusion. At first there was an air of restraint about the actions and conversation of both, but that gradually died out, and in time they became ea.y and natural in their deportment The doctor came, but he could cot give Isaac any encouragement for he found tliat Lindy was in a dangerous condition, with little prospect of iaiprorement "She is very low," he siid, "and we can ho; e for no change for the better. I'm afraid she cannot hut long." And the doctor was right, for day by day the sick woman sank, and after the lapse of a week she closed her eyes on earth forever. All through the week Mrs. Martin stayed by the bedtide de voting herself to the invalid as faithfully as ever nurse did, receiving the blessings of her charge and the heartfelt gratitude of Isaac. Then, when all was over, she returned to her home happier than she bad been for thirty long years. A year passed, and the people of Pos sum Ridge began to wonder if the cross fence trouble was to be revived in court again. The time for which a stay of pro ceedings bad been granted had nearly expired, and at the next sitting of the court the case would be called np for further action. Isaac and Mrs. Martin had become neighborly, but neither of them had ever mentioned the cross fence, and the matter stood jut as it had before Lindy's death. People had talked a great deal about it, some conjecturing that old Isaac would dismiss the case after Mrs. Martin's kinJness to Lis wife, some maintaining that he would not and some going so far as to predict that Mrs. Martin, in the forgiving disposition of her heart, would dismiss the case herself Sam Gross heard all that was Said, watch ed proceedings quietly, and even ventur ed to speak to each of the parties sepa rately, iu the hope of having theaSair settled amicably. But still everything remained in dou't and but a week must elapse before the coming on of court Sain shook his head sadly, feeling that, after all, his efforts had fallen far short of tiis cherished desired. Late one afternoon old Isaac donned his best clothing, and, taking down bis cane, walked up the road to Mrs. Mar tin's. The widow received him gracious ly, inviting Lim to a seat cn the Ion . rambling porch, and exerting herse!f to the utmost to make him fetl welcome. "Mia Martin," Isaac said, after they had exchanged a few commonplace re marks, "you know, of course, tha', the crcsi-fence suit is to come up in court nest week?" "Yes; I know it," the widow answer ed, sadly, "and I wish with all my heart that it wasn't. I'm tiro 1 of it" "So am I, Mis' Martin," Isaac ssi.l with a slow shaking of his head. "I wish now that eross fence had never xisled. It's been a source of sorrer to all of us, an', many's the time I've regretted deep ly that the suit was ever brought, aa' I've regretted it a thoustn tioies more than ever durin' the last year." "So have I," the wil isr replied. "If we had only been friends an' neighbors while Martin and Lin ly lived. We've missed a grjat deal, Mr. Burton, by our contentions, an' no jt that t'other two is ginewe ought to try to live better an' happier lives. We ought to drop the old suit an' bury our difference. Don't you feel so?" "I do. I've felt it for a long time, Mis' Martin, an' I come here this evenin' to taik the matter over aa' see if we I couldn't agree to a plan of settlement I j have a plan to o J;r, Jane, which, if 'twas agreeable to yoa, would settle the i trouble forever." j Mrs. Martin arched her eyebrows in surprise when Isaac spoke her first name for that was the first time in his life that he shown such familiarty. Yet she did not seem offended at all, nor did she ap pear displeased when he drew his chair nearer hers and looked into her face with an unmistakable tenderne 8. "Jane," he went on, in low soft tones, "we are gittiu' old, an' we're all aloue in the world. For thirty years we've been at strangers, an' we've each helped to si Iden the lift of the other. We can blot out the old trouble, an' the line-fence with it an' I feel that we ought to do it It's our duty to forgit the past, an' in the future try to make up to each other the happiness we've missed. We can make the farms one, Jane, an' then there'll be j no need ol no cross fence an' we kin make our lives an' interests one, an' then, j there'l be no need for no more conten- j tions." Isaac paused, but, as the widow did not raise ber eyes nor attempt to spea k he went on : ''I'm a lonely old man, Jane," he said, "an' want someboJy to keep me company through my few remaining years, an' nobody would suit me like you. I love yoa, Jane, for your kindness to LinJy an' I want you to forgive me for all of the past an' be my w ife. We can be com fortable an' we cau c'aeer each othar in our dcc'iinging days. Jan?, will yoa do it?" The widow lifted her face, beautiful in spite of its age, aa 1, lojkia into Isiac's eyes with an answering tenderness, laid hsr hands in his. "Ye, Isaac," she said, "I will be your w'fe.au' will faithfully try to fill Lindy's place in your Lome. A few days later the old cmple wore married, and Sim (irojs, who was pres ent at the ceremony, took to himself much of the credit for the happy termina tion of affairs, and not unjav.ly eilher. Isaac immediately tbreirf thfl old suit out of court, then pat niea to work to tear down the old linu fence and turn the two farms into one, just as the owners had turned their lives and interests into one. Thus the last vea'.ige of the old trouble was removed, aid the two sur viving litigants entered on a quiet, hap py existence at peace with all the world. Thomas E.MonfoTt,ia Lr.i.' Uj. Sacred to the Gods. Xear every temple in Japan are certain trees which are supposed to be peculiarly loved by the gods and to be sacred to them. Any one injuringor causing to be injured one of them will bring dora the wrath of the "kami" or god whose par ticular property it is. If the trees be in jured in the name of any one the kami avenges himself on that peraon ir.stead. So when a girl Cads lhata strain's love has cooled and she thinks revenge would be sweet she makes a straw manikin and calls it by bis came. If she is very vengeful she may also make end cf ber bated rival. At 2 o'clock at night (called the hour of the bull) she rises, an-l clad in a white nightdress only, with high claps oa ber feet, her hair hanging loose and crowned with an iron tripod, on which three lighted cradles are stuck, ehe proceeds to the shrine of th pitroa gvlofibe family. Sia Fiunrlseo Chronicle. er Too Rapid For Him. On the train coming out of Chicago I was addressed by an old chap cf who raid he lived in Western Michigan and owned and run a farm. Naturally enough, I supposed he bad been to the Fair, and inquired how he liked it. "It's a gaul-durned swindle !" be indig nantly replied. "How do you make that out? ' "Waal, when I got in I felt powerful thirsty and looked around fur sumlhiu' to drink. Party soon I fouud a sody water place and said I'd take a sassajiar illy in mine. Sassaparilly don't bring np the wind like some others' but it's a gteat thing to settle tne stomach. When I'd got it down I handed over my ckkel, but the feller says the price is a dime." "'That's robbery,' says I. " Regular charge," says he. "I never paid nut five, and I've bin in Detroit and all over.' ' ' It's ten cents here.' "' It was over half froth and I'm no hayseed. A felier picked my pocket of ?50in Detroit, but they didn't try to rob me on sody water.' " ' If ye don't pay I'll ra! a row,' says he, try ia' to 1 ok awful savage. "'llizandbc banged;" says I, and started erf, but a policeman gra'ibt-d me and run me ia, and after being locked up all night I was fined f 1 the next mornin.' That was this mornin, and I'm now oa my way hum." " Rut you are going away without see ing any of the Fair."' " F.xactly. D.in't want to see a blamed thing of it, an.l I'll lick my son F.benezjr fur coaxin' me to cum." " After goicg to so much trouble au l expense I should think yoa would have waited to run around for a day or tro, anyhow," I persisted. "No.sir. When I go anywhere and bump again a fei'.er who wants 10 cents a glass fur sody water, that settles rae. I know j'.-st what the rest of the show U, and I g:t my feet under m?, tighten up my sn. yeaders and start fur hum and go to hoeiii' corn. I'm a leetle o'-.i, and I hain't traveled around tlie world, but I know 'cuff to cmn in when it rains.'' D. ti-'it I'.;? ".v.-. Why Ha Never Married. Not long asp a mature spinster called J upon the famous after-dinner speaker Mr. Depew, and asked him to give Ler I some information about real estate. lie said there weie two tl :c;s Le knew nothing about, ar, 5 they tcrf women ind real estate. This reply amu.-:e-l her. ana she asKed him a number of questions j about people w hom they knew ia com- j mon. Alter she propounded the foiiow-! ing questions about a stammering bat he- lor she asked no more, but went her way. - "Where is Mr. Blank, Mr. IVpew ?" "lie is in the city," replied the only Chauncey. "IVcs he stammer as much as nsnal ?" "Oh, yes ; worse, I believe," said the orator. "S.raiige he never married." "No, it was not strange, dear lady. Rlank courted a lovely girl, lie told me about his courtship several years after it occurred. He proposed in this way : "' I d-d d dear a-a angel, I 1-1 1 1-lov jonT "' You need not prcctel further, Mr. Blank. I do not cara to be wooed ou the installment plan.' " Something to B 3 ProuJ Of. The proiuctsof the State of Washing ton are as followj : Anypple weighing 2 pound) and 4 strawberry 10 inches in circum ference. A bunch of grapes weighing i pound?. An onioa weighing 4 pounds and 1 ounce. A iotato weighing S pounds 4 ounces. A radish weighing ! pounds A beet weighing UO poanis. A pampkin weighing ti: pounds. . watermellon weighing Gl pours I. s. A cabnage weighing o'l pounds. A squash weighing 120 pound. Ti.nothy 7 feet S inches high. Clover o feet high. Alfalfa from a yield of 12 tons ptr acre. Corn stalks 14 feet high. A hill o; potatoes that yielded 4! pounds. Sixty -seven pounds of potatoes f.-om 2 pounds planted. Hops from a yield of '.yv.'2 poun l.i per acre. Oats fom a yield of 12) bushels per acre. A blackberry bush showing a growth of 21 fi-f.t this year. A branch froai a prune tree inches long with 4'i pvouds of fruit cn it. A lump cf coal weighing J lii.SoO pounds. A plank '0 inches wile, "i inches thick and 32 feet long, and not a knot in it -V. r. ; r. How False and Yet How Fair. A Portland nabob who purchased a pasr of horses a li. tie while igo under stand! that appearances can be deceptive. He especially admired Pegasus and Bucephalus on account of their long and fl w ing tills. But after the animals had been in his stable a few days, on a sud den the hoetitr rushed into his presence with a tail in each hand and a tale of woe in his mouth. The horses had been beautifully doctored by the jockeys who had sold them, and the doctored tails bad been so admirably patched out that only the currycomb had revealed the Secret h'H-id'M J'jtiriL The Editor First. At one of the stations on the Union Pacific road in the West I encountered a man rigged out as if g ing oa a hunting expedition, and when oppirtunity came I aked him what sort of game they had around there. "Daano," was his cirt reply. "Put yoa are going a hunting." "No, sir. The fellow who runs the paper at Rock Bend has bin saiiin' into me, an.l I'm goin down thar." "Oh II see! Yoa are goia; down to stoo your paper, I suppisj?' "The paper will proOibly stop later on, but my business to-day is to stop the editor !- As he had a Winchester, two revolvers anJ a knife, it looked as if his chances were A 1. Di'wC F. x Frtn. .1 1 Ml n U G WHOLE NO. 2204 Vhe Motorman's Lot. To one who has never tried it, nothing seems simpler than running in electric car. There are a good irany simpler things hor ever, and as a matter of fait seine men who want j bs es motormf n on the street railway have to give up be cause they ronnot karn t handle the car. I t t!,e first place, considerable s'ret-tu is required t- manipulate the brake properly, and in the next place there is a peculiar i:r)ti m turning the brake handle one way aud the crank for shutting off the power the other way at the same time that is not easy to learn. The local railroad has no regular school for training the men who aspire to run electric cars, but they have a regular s stem of teaching the recruits the busi ness, and every new man has to go through a certain line of training before he is allowed to take charge cf a car. When a man applies for a position as moioruiaa he is placed on the waiting list, aud when ihecouipany begins to get a little short of men and his turn comoe round he is sent fjr and put on a car with one of the experienced men. For about t ao days he stands on the front platform of the rir and watches the driver manipulate the brake and turn the current on and clt. A"er he has learned this and become fa ui'liar with all the curves and switches he is allowed to try his hand at running tha cor. The lirst thing lie d-.-es after the car starts is to get nervous and wander how long it w ill take Iiiai to briri it to a standstill altera p:tssv!H-r has slnale-l. that he wants to git off. He begins to sweat and before a car has gone half a mile he is played O'.'.t au 1 is la I to give up to his teacher. This goes oa for about a day, or until the new man g.-ls a little confidence, and then he graduil'.y learns the t.-i- k of stopping the cir so q iick!y th.it it will bring the passeag r s to their feet. Ia a l iilion to this, he is obliged to gain a s-.i'li iv!i? kiioa ieJjj" tf the con str.i a of :!;? r.i Jtor to be aV:e to re pair .-.lifit brtaks and p-it in burned out f.M s. It is usua'lv" about two weeks be- fore he is fomp-.tent t ) take charge cf a car all ne, and evea then he can learn sk me" da v. .n::g more a'.'out runnuigonsevery Ha Cari9 at Last. ' J l.n," exclaimed the nervous woniar, 'there's a ltirKlar iu the honse ; I'm sure John r'ibb?d his ryes and protested mildly that it w:ts imagination. "No, it iii't 1 heard a man down SoJ.iLato .kabox of matches and went down. To his surprise his wife's sjjjjicious were correct. Sjaing tint he was unarmed, the barg'ar c.ivered him with a revolver and became quite sociable. "Isn't it rather late to be out cf bed ?" he remarked . "A-er a little bit," retdled John. "You're too late, anyhow, became I've Vss3 inrc-rgu a penou ot exiraoruina-jMr.-oeJevervthin-.oa. of the window W activity. According to astronomical and my po's have carried it i ff."' "Oh, that" all right I'd iike to ask on; favor of yen, ".hough." "What is ii?" "Stay here till my w ife can come down an i se; you. Site's been looking for you every night for the last twelve years, and I don't want her to be disappointed any longer." ll'irii'iiofv.i & ir. Used to Noise. They were in a quiet neighborhood and on a suburban car, but he conversation was being carried ru in a high key that kept the hoists turaic their heaJs the tinis to see w hat waa the matter. a I "Tl.cy live dosct ownon the 'I.' road," re'tiniked the drl ,'.-r as he liclel t! e bn.ke. "Yoa know who she is, then?'' '"Ols, no. I said I knew where si. e live L" "And may I ask how you know that?'' "Because they talk si lou 1. People who live in very noisy places get in the habit of not only talking loud but of pitching tiieir voices in a peculiar key. DlJu't you ever notice that? Well, it's so. The habit becomes si fixel they doa't know it themselves." -V" Fo.-i J.-'-'. A Fortune for an I ivontir. The man who shall invent a cheap ; was stratting throug'i Mi 1 way w ieu he and hiirmeless coloring matter that wiil ; saw the cage I lions over Ihe entrance of uive butter a pink tint will receive the I HHfaabeck's bail-ding. Alter gi.iug ai gratefal acknowledgments and poubtless j the captives to his hearts content heap something more sobstantial from a New proached the manager of the place an t York dealer ia batter. There is a distant j ?aid : is'an I where the natives consume r.o "I l-el you I can go iu dot rage mi-J butter but such as has a pink tint, that I dose lions vhen you feed nu on.; eexl iuviig been the color of the compound J my dinner at der some time, nnd dey thee used as butter before the genuine article reached the island. A Fienchmaa j coom ou I all right I." hit upon toe expedient of coloring pink I Tne manager declined to negotiate, the but U-rsv-nt to the island, and no yel- i giving is Lis r-svo- ti.at in case the low butter sella there. A New York I animals did conclude t' tackle the re lira, now sends butter to the islaa 1. but j prterh,themtnagT. would te blamed, has toed r it first with the Frenchman's I An 1 they did not it would remove cjI orir.g nutter, a somewhat expensive j f'l i the mlsi 1 oftlie public the ilea c i ye, and this is why a cheap and bole- 1 1 an:m tV ferocity, and that would dome pi.-ik is ne-.-de i.-.V ... 1". I .s'.... j h-.rt the business. j The reporter persisted: "i ." I do not Lis! Souday a g-ocsryman, who is den I scoo'oder n l ler pys, uu I d t prominent ia one of the village charc'a- ! a go.it i Jem for my Kiper." eJ, ban led Lis pastor a notice to read j The rn in ig"r aaid he appreciated t!i froru the p-i'plt aJ was smewhat sur- j enterprise of Ihe reporter. b;t tt'J prise 1 an 1 ialigiant when servici was 1 declined. concldJed, without h.3 announcement j The reporter was silent for a moment being read. Tne minister was eq iaily and then said, after aa i lea had hit hi:u: snrpris- i when a'oou! to rea l the notice to tia I the folio ving on tha paper : " Dear Sir Pleas, fin 1 ecc'osJ ? J, for which seu l mo a basket of peaches, if they are giod, a'ao two poaa !s of cheese and four piun.lsof gild cod fit h." Tuegrocerymin had been a little care les and gt hi papers mixed np. .I'V- It was th3 h;g';ly ci'tivatel g:rl' first effort at baking. " Dear mj 1" so? sii 1, " triere must be something wr-.i i:h t'oit loaf cf bread." " I think," replied her ta other, gently, " that you ha 1 better throw it a ir ay." "Throw away the first bread I ever baked ?" ' Yes; most of us have to. yoa know." "Xever! I know what IU do. I'll put some cuneiform inscriptions oa it and send it to tUeseaiiniry rnaseum," New girl What does papa like for breakfast ? Little Mabel He always likes meat a lythtng that we paint got. and The summer and lint half of autumn iu lx'jwiil long le memorable amcrg close observers for the phenomenal heat aud dryness recorded both in Europe and Arbtriia and for the telling elft-jt wfiich those atmospheric conditions had on the bar .'; . Ihs Ijtft i-s?ror,jer;t iit report 2 :rs-.'?.- cf t'-t '.;!! i-JTing t f , rn the and fin.'.a?e t yields of the recently harvested natur ally reiievlithe UD propitious features of the season iu this country. The wheat production is put down ll.ll bushels per acre, being 17 bcshels less than was made of the crop a year ago. It is ex plained thai the small yield resulted from the drouth in the autumn of IV-', which caused poor germination and growth, ami ihe severe cold of last win ter killing much cf the winter wheat In the corn belt the drought was mora acutely and injuriously felt and conse quently it is not surprising that the gov ernment statisticians put the general con dition of corn this month at 75.1, against To. ia October, l"' a loss of 1.7 points. TuefquaHy bad or worse showing of the cotton crop oa the 1st inat. is thus official ly accounted for : Tne weather conditions have not bceu favorable, while prolra. ted and widely prevalent drought, excessive moisture in some places and the various insect ene mies of the plant have all contributed toward predaciagthe low condition." In some quarters it ia thought these estimates are too low. But, when the ex traordinary character of the past sum mer is considered, a decided and general shortage of crops both in Europe and America was a foregone and certain con clusion long before any statistical esti mate could have been published. M. Camille Flammarion'a scientific journal says : " The summer of Lv:; has been as abnormal as its spring. The month of Aug-ist will lie set down ia the front rank cf the most torrid periods ever ol served in France." Numerous like re ports were published in other parts of llurope during the summer, the phenom enal heat wave extending over both the coutiueataud the I'ritish Islands. At lea.t twice once ia June aud again on August ls the sim thermometer at (ireenwico registered 1 degrees Fah renfieit. The fail meteorological sunriiaries for August have not yet been published, but they will probably show that the excep tionally torri I and droughty midsum mer of IS'.; in Europe was general in a! I the gt-.tt agricultural regions of the northern hem .sphere, excepting sea board regions, w liere the lay of the va- tsor-bearicg monsoons, or sea-winds brought relief to the parched crops. In the L'ntted S.'ates the government weath er bureau reported that ia June "ia the lower lake tegion, the Middle Missouri valiey. New Mexico, Idaho an Eastern Washington tiis precipitation was the leasi on record for June," and drought or j a deficiency of rainl'til prevailed in many other sections, while "in Northern New England, Westeru New York, the upper lake region, tiie Datotas and the j South wel the month was the warmest June-oa recor.!.'' According to the same authority la.-t July "was warmer than t. ....... : .L .. 1 I 11.. i ' e aerae ia tae v. no suio .nm ne an i Lp;er Mississippi valleys and the ceu- tral and western lake region" aud other I iar -e interior areas, and "the w armest ' , 1 MU.y on rc-.oiu the Carolina., Kcrt- 'ucky and Central Texas. There seems to be no reason to doubt that these extremely important climatic excesses, widespread over the northern hemisphere, are to be accounted for ou the the theory that hot dry seasons in the great continental plateaus and val levs necessarily occur when the sun is authorities su-.-h a period commenced with ls':2 au l will continue till IS-. During the solar etae of exceswive dis turbance, usually lasting about three years, it seems that the winters an 1 springs have a tendency to be exception ally cold, though, paradoxical as it may seem, the midsummers and autumns are warmer and drier thin the average. However scientists may theorizj on the cause of these strango variationj ia the seasons, climatologic.il records appsrent ly aff.rd strong evidence, as the IIkhild has before pointed out, that variations of this kind a.-fuiliy occur in the extensive j central regions oi iue cou'.uienii!. Farmers and planters may thus draw ! profitable lessons frou the expfrience of i IS.'!, w ben planting for next year's work. It is not bke'y tiiat thu unfavorable coa- diiions of this yea-will be repeated in the same degree during isol. Bat the ' farmer will do wisely to provide, as far j as possible, agtiust their recurrence and i devote most of his land to those crops j which have done best during tii3 recent ; trying seasons. j Ha Dacided Not To Do So. I Tiie p-rn.'han". of fie Oer.can news I piper reporter ij a 'n.')ip"-i pieco r-i e.v:!:iivtt nes. i Not long a.ri a rerorter cf this clasi won t bav no attention me, und 1 vill ; "iltybeyo-i vol right. May b3 of I vot to 1,0 in der cage and tad mit der animals dey might ead ma ub, uad den der py vouid haf a scoob on me, aiud it T" An 1 another piece of exclusive news vanished. (''txiyo TWoi". A Peculiar Rabbit. Jim Xiinrod, who is very shortsighted, went out hu'iiing, and mistaking bis do,; for a rabbit peppered the uuf jrtunate brute. The doj howled d.smaily, bat Jim tarneJ to a f.irnd who was wilts him aud sail c u place n liy : " Iu ail my experienco I never befor heard a rabbit howl iike tEat"" Yawned and H w Jaw Stuck. Niw Yoaa. Oct 12 Albert Bellow of No. 1S3 Bowery, aH 30, ftoiahed bia work last night and then yawned. When be at tempted to "unyiwn" be lonnd h: mouth a wide open as S. nator Allen's was alt Wednelay night, Aa ambulance surgeon helped him oat of his trouile without fc"il'. Poat.s anU Coming Crops Seasons.
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