Somerset Herald. TtL1MlO 11T nnsofPubUcation. A d rrrr; Wednesday moving at B OS if jid to advaacs. eUisrwIas S2M pjiai will be dlsoacCcufd ntS a3 "" wie, .uracriben do not Uk out i " ... u, held respotuibi 6x litKU- ttmor-J from ou poame to -)oja r- " Mns of U tnlltx rs p"01 0E A'11,, SoMaASJT, Pa. a VT. WALKER. ffiT WALKER, S rTOKJiKTft-AT-LAW. Ma KOTAKT PUBLIC. Somerset, Pa. cn-lie Use Court Hoase. ,uvi.Pitikbuia, Pa. ilTv-.tVr-AT-LAW, kxiiut, Pa. . , Uniting V BERKLEY. B ifailOAi-Al-l-A". BjaAAeST, Fa. i u AUOA-NaT-AT-LAW, oumoiMC, Fm. ...... e n.i A i lVfc A i -A TLA auumct, Pa. 3 W. EIE.-KCKEL, Aau-Ai.LAW. eumeniet. Pa. 3 ITJiuaf Houe Kow. opposite. Court w euiuan, Pa. F. J- ailuaJiAY-AT-LAW, ouiaenet. Pa. ' ouuienet. Pa., - ... ofncv.uunOun to business entrusted . iLt ii wwnd And aojoiuiiia; cobiium. itifr 4 ttuuse u, opposite the court I Aiiuh-NAiAT-LAW. ' oumenet, Pa. jw.fl m K1 EKAt. Will attend to All . . . . . with nnkinnUlM J iR' H. UHL, AlivaNJiY-Al -LAW. oumenet. Pa. t prcpT attend to All business entrusted . ad aueed wu ouuecuoua, AC VI- Tuii' 0. KIMMEL, J allub-Ntl'-AT-LAW. bomvrset, ra., i Ulead lo all business entrusted to his emre h iic-;'. oaiut on Mau Uu birod, JiiiiiLFUGH, AliOAAY-AT-LAW, cumerwt. Pa (.Cct iii Mussxxh Bi k, up uuta Knumace KiUO. UUa -'--' AUU Ail KKAl IIWUIB At- Ibiueil u iili tCuOiCj aiiil iit.-ilU. A J. COMMM. L. C CoiJOAH. ouiiicrwt. Pa, t2 biauiuB entmnd to our cato will be m--j uitl fnitiitiiiij kUuidxl to. .jUwclku jm. ncTUi aiiU uAitcyfctM iTi OAAia on tw IT I.BAER, LU Ailt) E5ET-AT LAW, Bumereet, Pa., i practice In Gooc-wt And Adjoining ooan- Aa buKQew eniniMol w hint wiii rosi?e A 1 Oorraorw W. H. Kerr su MTfiUlU A RUPPEL, ATiOKJt A X B-A 1 -U W, aumeriH, Pa, L. luai er ruMd to their care will be pm-j j puncfuaiiy iuruUt-J ui. Ouce ou T ,W. CAEUTUER.S, M. D. Ui ralaiCiAJ A1 trio W, . uukiiT, Pa. Jtn xi Clioo ftreet, next oour w PrinunK P. F. SHAFFER, i-hialtiAli AM irEGEOJf, td txiiu; oOice su Oour to D 2.ES. Tc3i ?roffor.i errricea to the dtiien Aud ncuiiLr. lnia proXaxjtaiij M cu be Ijuid at tua oino on Mam tft. AK D2. J. M. LOCTEER, PKTsICUX AXD 6CB3I0X ifcad peraaaently In Somerwt tor the f"- rufoaiuii. O&o oa Bain eueet. J)?-JS.MMILLEX liouuwv.) n -ra! a;oiioo to the preaerrAttoo of Tr :i:-fj ujactory. OS.ce In u.e J""t ii K.l.n-dweUej Ufc'e awre, oenHer Oils! Oilsl -::-r i "-''I'-niiii, uaka a ftiaity U 1 brands ot feinating it Lubricating Oils Aphtha and Gasoline, ba froa Peiroleom. We chaeajt "Jatjuo wiia ctctj Aoowb ?-0DJCT OF PETROLEUM Syws wxh the m.x Bnifonnljr Satisfactory Oils D THE -niericaii Market, Trade fcx 8fc-.-ot And rldiil opp'.laa bj CPOK a AI 'AAAAX AOC;AK, nomart. Pa. "Keii&DHOKQQU?. . . JWKItLKEHGBlb noaof Lamw thrrr !- ''w . ,' a.v- trirliaw ' tl-r.d xntic to ti. . V - ','rr: rr"' ' pewt-r aa4 "l iT -""ir- arm llacl. 7 i M if f- - ;-e , fcpart mi 1 lie VOL. XML NO. -THE- FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF- Somerset, Penn'a. CAPITAL SURPLUS SBO.OOO C14.000, Dt0IT nCCCIVCOIN LAROC ANOSMALL AMOUNTS. PAT ABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS OF MCNCHANT FARMCR. trOCK OtALCns, AND OTMCIIS SOLICITED DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS : LaRci M. Eicxb. Gbo. R. Bccix, Jaxis L. Pcgh, W. H. Mii.ua, Joh R. Scott, IL S. &ti.l, Fasd W. Bibbbcxkb. Edward Sctxl, : : : : : Prbsidext Valxxtikb Hat, : : Vici Pkibii)t Hakvet M. Bekklkv, : : : Cabhikb. The funds and ertirilic of this bank re securely protected in acelebrated Cor liss i5urglar-proof bafe. The only bale made absolutely urglar-prooi. Somerset County Katiooal Bank Of Somerset, Pa. Kk DtiblUKwi, 1877, Orfubed u I Nitltu!, 1890, CAPITAL, $50,000. Chas. J. Harrison, Pres't. Wm. 1 1. Koontz, Vice Pres't Milton J. Pritts, Cashier, xr. Directors: BAml Pnyder, Jtian r-jKx iiL, Joon U. bndr Jofc j.h B. I'iiTia, Jenune oturrL, Wm Kndslejr. Jouas M. Uwil, J4iQ St u fit. Harriaun Snrder, Nuana. Hiiier, Earn. B. Harrison. Curtorcen ot tbu Bank will rlTe the most liberal treatment conauwnt with tare banking. Pan: in:n r to ix?nJ monrT east or weal CAB be aecomuioaloJ by drail If r any amou&L and Tamatiiva fcreurel bT one of Itie- boid Oelenrated SAlea, with moat appruTed time Collections made in all pans ol the United dtata. Ciiaritv. modera. Aoooonu aad uepuaiu auueteo. FliEM TITLE Ml TRIST t! 121 & 123 Fourth Are., ; PITTSBU RGH, PA. Undivided Profits 1250,000. Acts aa Executor, (iuarJian, Assignee and Receiver. Wills receipted for and bt-Id free of charge. Business of residents and non-residenU carefully attended to. JOHN B. JACKSON, - President JAMES J. DOXyELL, Vic President FRAKKLIX ER0WX, SecreUry JAS. C. CHATLIX. Treasurer. COAL LANDS. One of the Richest Veins in the Somerset Region FOR RALE. The nnomneo w ' of Ue lauj Ireurre W. pile, ai'-iuiruiif toinernel v,.i.h ivnuimiK yy ai re. mxr or iem. in an - '. . r ...IiivAluin .it.1 in PI mi fflHJ . : j,d weii w.ten-o. A new and pood tarn on the premi. Tne 6. A- C K. K. run inroun iue ' ' larihue. iO.rUe de:nng lo mirie coal and f.re 1 1. j ne i-i i7 - ' aad bAi been ued for year by Ue lAniona.lroo 'be coal i a six foot Tern, and i of an une- quaMsa quauty ae j . uiu : Motstare. 0 i M Volatile CombiKible mailer. U.S3. f Fise-1 Carbon, 73 ".T. Coke.-Aa, A.3i.i Pbosfhorua, 0-il Su'.vbnr. 1 0"t- Traces of lroc. Tot tenor aad farther partW.an anf'y to oLn. i. I lu at CHAS. K. PILE, Johnu n. Pa. Sucnerael. DREXEL'S IMWrOVTO EMULSION Of PURE fcOHw'E.SiA COD LIVER OIL WITH CMEwtCAAXY PURE HYP0PH0SPHITES0F LIME AND SODA, fo eoMSUMPnoN. nonchitis. couoms. - COLDS. ASTHMA. SCROFULA. - SKIN OISKASCS. NCKVOUS OISCASCS. - DISEASES OF CMILDSEN. - WMOOPINO COUCH. ANAEMIA. - catahrm. - cenesaa oes4utt, cta. sto. Tttij nlwabU wfeparmtio. cwres by Its awerttHe aad aer. power. It a tie e .!- "t a be o.a. tt eal iieesJed. qaKkiy ajaimiJated. . ahowi ia woaoertd acne aa bMwi. rja aad cr by a saewt markea laprovcaatBt tram Iswum toe aurawa. acrrowaeeav. toe acroi" aad arcfcilow tvelup. ftaaiiolr eaUireaeo. aad tb waana duewt of caiUbood. Toe dy aepM aerrow coadiaoaa, torn o Beaa. Ui Bed deep aad aifbt swean. it a pertea Qua. Ves tejaedy to be aad aw couKba. ocoa, ctwcBim. aaa.UrTiH, ace. aad bleesbaf throat, boaiwc aaTncliaBa a tbraat. morr erf caea aad aa oraa irrualed. iaa-ed aad oaeaaed coadttioae ol toe tbreal. toag aad caest. larre kottw 60 est per ksttU. Soli by dnffists paaiA,attetayadiirssBiie eaipt af 50 easU. - SOLE WiOTWlTONa, Winifenn i Brcwa Drug Co. BAXTIaIO"E. MR U. 8. A 37 STENG-EE IS ACAIK READY FOR BUSINESS. Stock taking now orer, we Lave got down to business again. Oar stock bas had a general overhauling, and in many instances goods are marked down to Half Price to convert them into cash and make room fur Spring Goo-Is, of which we have made some- heavy purchases, which shall arrive in due time. A lot more Dress Goods have been laid out on our FORTY-CENT COUNTER, as we wish to open out oar Spring Easiness with an entire Xew stock. LoU of other Dress Goods down to 10c, 12c, and 15c A lot of dollar goods marked down to T.V, Ladies all-wool Heavy Hosiery, in black only, reduced from 35c, to 25c These make a good hose for boys wear, If you are in any w ay interested in Children's, Misses', cr Ladies' Coats, come and see what wearedoiogonthem Pi ices have been knocked oat of sight. Ye have plenty of Gingham, Print Muslin, Table Linen, Toweling and Tow els, at Popolar Low Prices. JOHN STENGER Johnstown, The "Neverslip" Horse Shoe, ABSOLUTELY PREVENTS SLIPP'NG I safety and romfiirt lo home and driver CALKS are kFMuVAHl.K.' fcteel-oentred and shl.F-tiH AEPEMMi, ami remain ahamumil en tirely worn out. New ( aika ran be inverted in a few minaus aithout removing siKa from the nurc a lee l. SAVES MONEY an4 time lost waitinr at B".akTTjith ahoo. A void k ciamar lo hore a Jrft from freueDUf tv ftt'Dd for special OFFER o shoe for trial, all ii:t?d muh l uilti iu. r-iiy to be ok;.) on, wLuh are oiTert-ti ihl. iuu-f only at very low prictrb. larcuiar. yinxm, trie, mjuitru irc. J, E, SHIRES, BEDFORD - Pa. Cure B rlejht's IWaae, Imjv. lirare!. Xer romuet. Heart, I ru-ary or Liyer ihaae, Kun be a tired, languid feeling : inaction of ti e kidney, weakeas and poi-oii the blond, and nulns cause i remored you eannol have healtb. Cured me over rive years ago of Brit-ht Inkeaaca and IMfy. Mrs. I. L. C. Miller, Betbleuem, fa. I,uu0 otner timiiar teatimouiaia. Try IL Cure guaranteed. Cann's Kidney Cure Co., 720 Venango St PHILADELPHIA, PA. $15. as. $15. Fifteen Dollars has a power to draw, if correctly invested, which beats a lotterv. For Fifteen Dol lars vou can draw a nice Chamber Suite no blank tickets. Everj Fifteen Dollars deposited gets one Suite SURE. It's like getting dol lar for dollar. You hare Eeen or heard of our $16 Suite. What vou saw or heard of in that Suite you can find in this and more, you save a dollar too, which is an item to most of us. One tiling sure, if you buy one of these $15 Suites you get a reliable article from a reliable firm. The Suite will "stand by" you and we " stand by " the Suite. HENDERSON FURNITURE CO., JOHNSTOWN. PA. Here's the Place to Get Your Money Back! Kotice is tere'T g'.Ten to the pab'.Ic that I aa prepared to try sales and Audioes, t-at-i-synion jUArAnKed. DR. E. DAYNE, SOMERSET. PA. aa arbitnry word used to designate tas It bovr ( ring) which cannot be pnUed ot the watch. Here's the idea The bow has froo) ooeacaeao. A collar roas dowa inside tbe peadaat Isieml aod f.ts iota the froovea, firmly I.ckiac tb. bow tb peadast, ao that it cannot b j puiica w VW1WW H. It posit:e rrevents the loss cf the raich by thes, asi avcals injury to it from fjro: pirtg. IT CAN ONLY EE HAD with Jia. Bias Filled or other watch caaas bearccg this trade airi 1 rr;ch ctalcTS teH .hetn stiibout extra CMC aatca case taeaer mB ke sea! free buim bt the ssaaafactarara. KeystoneWatchCaseCo., f PtilLA DELPHI A. .-"HfPSA-VN'S 1 " " I ' .--:A li 4 Somerset SOMERSET, PA., All Run Down Always Tired, Sleepless and Without Appetite Blood Vitalized and Strength R newed by Hood's Sarsaparilla. CI. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: " For a couple of years, I was subject to feel- tags anything but good. I always felt tired, I could not sleep at night and the little I could eat did not seem to benefit me any. I Old Not Have Any Ambition to ro around or work and In tact was not able to do a good day's work. I happened to pick up a circular embracing advertisements and teaU mouials for Hood's Sarsaparilla, and after read- Hood's Cures tag them decided to give Hood's SarsaparlllA a trial. I have taken lire bottles and must ttT that I hare derived wonderful benefit from It A At Feel Like a New Man I would recommend It to all sufferers and wonM urge them not to hesitate but to decide at one to take Hood's SanapArillA." PaclM. Wkbek, 1111 North Tenth Street, Beading. Pennsylvania, . Hood's Pills are prompt and efikient, yet easy In action. Sold by all druggists. 2Sc A STRANGE CASE. How an Enemy was Foiled. The following eraphir atatnrnent will ho Bsd wilh inten-einU-n-t: -I l uniiol d rliie the numb. rreepyRensattontliatexisH-il in my arm, hands ami h-es. 1 had lo rub and beat parts until iliey were rc. tomrrmoia in a measure trieoeau let-nnK imi u-u .i-u puK-esnkin .f them. In audition. I had a ttninrp srakiMNi In rr.y bi-U and around my m-iiit tiur-tiieraitli an inl-Tihlbie Vone feelinc in my atomac-h. I'liyi-iari4 an id It wascreepinit"paralys. frim which, aii-urd-Inir to ihi'ir uiitierii uni:luiin, tliens is no relief. nc it fa-una op-ii a -rxui, iwt ftay.it continue its inshlioos pntr- until it reiu-hex a vital point and thp sulterer tLi. Surh ciia my unxiairl. I hart ben dix'iorinz a year and a half -teadily. but ailh no par--.x-iilar ht-netit, when I u an adverti-x-nit nt t,f lr Mih' lLi-stiirative Nervine. tin-ured a bottle and l-can ii-.in It. Marvehnnt as It may seem, hut a few clays had pwea m-iore everv hit of that erw-py feeling had h ft me, and "there has not U-vu even the lichtet Indication of lt n-turn. 1 imw htl as well as I ever did. and have cairx-d ten tiounds In weight. thoui:h 1 had run down I mill to' to I .. rtmr iiiiers iiate u-i. -r. Al:b-s' Restorative Nervtueon nir recomen- clation, and it basbeen asatisfaiury in tlir ca--sa in mine." Jauies Kane. I. a Hue, O. Ir. Miles' ltest4rative Nervine i-sold by all tfrueeistft on a jxsilive ffuarantt-e. r wnt direct by the Ir. .Miiea Mediral -o-. Elkhart, Ind.. on r-eeipt f priee, il per bottle. it Un tie for .". eprrs. prepaid. It b free from opiate or daiieruu uxu FANCY WORK. Some Hi est Barstlns la IRISHPOINT LUxNCH AND TRAY CLOTHS Bought below coet of trangportation we are sellire at great barptins white and colored Bedford Cord Table Cor era, stamped ready for working. Sing ed Canton Flannel Table and Cosh, ion Covers, Singed Pluph Cushion Covers, Bargarran Art Cloth Table and Cushion Covers, all stamped with Newest Designs ; Hem-stitched Hot Biocoit and Koll Napkins. A new and large line of hern-stitched Tray and Carving Cloths from tiOcta np. Stamped Hem-etitcheJ Scarfs from 3octa np. Table Covers from dO eta. np. A . fail line of Figured INDIA SILKS, All New Patterns and Colorings. Also, Figured Plush, U and Inches wide, fn beautiful Colors and Designs. Art balin scares for the Central Covert and Cushion Covers. Waban ISretting, 46 inches wide, 50 cents per yard. In Pink, Blue. Oitve and lellow, iH t.W THINvi for L'raping Mantles and iloors. and for Draping Over Draperies. A new line of Head res. from 2'c up. Visit onr Table Unen, Towel, Napkins, Muslin, Sheeting aad Linen Department, by aJ means. HE & 41 FIFTH AVEN'C. P':t'jbarAh. Ps. S. SsU & Ca Wood St., Pinbnrg rtitu ix 'H0T0CPMIC SUPPLIES, lew cameras. Ie ct i ve Jameraa. and the ri mous Kodak, in seven styia. scad lor Caia- lugue tree. ARTISTIC JOB PRUNING A SPECIALTY. HARRY M. BENSHOFF, MAXUFACTURMG STATIONER -A5S- CLA BOOK MAKER. HANNAH BLOCK. JOHNSTOWN-PA. sMm. HOB WABD X7 n Tlae-s Brawdr Catarrh Is the n I I Sot, EaUeat U Tae. aad Cheaps. 1 I r: )sszsisissi I I Sold by DratxIMa arwat y aa I I I Skb . T. B.arHiaa. Warrea. fa. Li EST A BUSHED 1827. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1894. COUNSEL Oft have I counseled with myself And urged: "Be blithe and bony ; Yon have no name, you have no fame, Yon hava bnt little money ; Yet had yon name and shining fame And pocketsful of money. All as yon list, the very best Were to be blithe and bonny. "Some men of years less ripe than yours Are well beloved of Honor : No heartening glance at yon she throws Ah, do not dote upon her ! The clouds float white, the snn shines bright, Your eyes are clear as any ; The rose is nodding on the bush. Go you be blithe and bonny ! "These blue-arched skiea and sailing clouds With fresh sea winds a-blowing. Made young the olden days of Greece When mightier fame was growing. Then genius wrought iu marbles shine. Its pages still are glowing ; Yet happy who nor wrote nor carved. But saw the rotes blowing " II itfi'sfoa iiA, in tuck. Finnean's Absalom. I knew him from the time of his birth, twenty-four years ago, shook the nurse lew and physicianletw frontier communi ty in Jack connty, which was then on the foremost edge of advancing civiliza tion, to its foundation. Finnegan had been s respectable clerk in his native Ireland, at s starvation sal ary, and Mrs. Finnegan s poor depend ent who acted as nursery governess and general slave and scapegoat in the fami ly of a coarse, unfeeling, well-to-do rela tive. They had loved each ether long and faithfully, but timidly, and dared not venture marriage on poor Finnegan's pittance of salary. Bat thiDgs come to people even so far off as Ireland who wait patiently long enough, and do not die ; and when this pathetic couple were middle-aged s legacy came to Finnegan without apology for its tardiness, which enabled them to marry, and with which they immediately came to Texas, of alt p'acea, and bought, of all things, s cattle ranch. Horever, fate appears sometimes posi tively ashamed to be unkind to such in nocents, when they are delivered over into her bands ; and the Ffrinegana were as prosperous as most of their neighbors. Their loneliness was dispelled in the course of s Year or two by the arrival of s eon, the only child of this gentle pair, and the or'nariest baby that ever howl ed the roof off a shack. At 2 or 3 years old, when he got to be an expert oa his feet, and with his tisla, and his voice, he made the ranch house so hot that the boys were glad to give it the cold shake, and be out on the range or in camp; and by the time he was 4 tie ran the ranch, whaled and bit any one that interfered, with him, and made himself such a ter ror that not s Mexican would stay on the place. Finnegan had to build s mess house for the men, although the head quarters bouse had not long since been made large purposely to have them all together. The foreman, who was myself, and the cowboys only stayed for love of Mrs. Fin negan Aunt Mary, we called her and I was always losing my best hands on account of the little cuss. He was smart enough ; he didn't lack enterprise and savey. He learned to ride and ride like the dickens, before be was 6. He used to fairly roar and cavort because the men would not stand still and let him rope them. He practic ed on every animate and inanimate ob ject about the ranch ; and by the time he was 6 he could ride a catting pony that was just lightening and ropes calf, or even s yearling with the best of us. In the course of s couple of years things got much worse. Heretofore we had only to stay away from headquarters house to be rid of him ; but now on his pony he haunted the camps, the outfits, the roundups, and was the most everlast ing, lively, ingenious torment. When he was about 10 or 12 I remem ber he was in camp one day when we were moving about, getting ready to go to a round np. He had a new California rope he was awfully tickled with, and he kept riding op behind the men, jerk ing the noose tight around them, arms ani all, so they were helpless till he got done whooping and laughing and slack ed upon them. I saw Frosty get out his big-bladed knife, as sharp as s razor, and when the kid, after awhile threw his rope over him, Frosty slashed it smooth in two at a point where it lay for a moment on his saddle horn. Rjbbie went back almost out of the saddle, as he braced back for the jerk that never came; and when be saw his new California rope cut in two bevelled with rage. He ran his pony np to Froaty'a and raised his quirt, blubbering like a great baby. "Yoa cut my ro-o pe! I'll ki-i-il yoo!" '.You little gadfly," said Frosty, catch ing his arm, "yoa touch me with that quirt and 111 pull you off your pony and wear you to frazzles with it. I'll stripe yoo like s zebra IU skin you. Yoa'H gt it once in your life if I'm fired for it before sundown. Now cut loose and quiri me if you want to 1" Bat the kid didn't want to any more. He had s taste of the sort of thing that would have cored him all along, and be went off as quiet as s Iamb and never did monkey with Frosty any mire. He followed Alex McRiven's outfit along one day Alex was one of my wagon bosses and kept up bis nsoal tricks of roping the riders, stealing things out of the mess case and charging the middle of the remuJa, scattering the horses in every direction. Finally Alex, a slow serious Scotch man, bnt aa hard to tarn ss s bafTalo ball when his blood is bot, jerked him off his pony and gave him a regular Scotch Covenanter thrashing. Those who witnersed the spectacle say was a most pleasing and diverting one Robbie howling like a pack of tim ber solves, with grief, terror and amaze ment, Alex, thrashing away consciect ioisly and methodically, almost with tears in bis eyes, as be reflected that Aunt Mary would execrate him, and Fin negan fire him immediately ; bat deter mined to finish the Lord's work st any cost to voang Finnegan's anatomy or bis own feelings. When be had done, be j bog-tied the bellowing victim, dropped I him in the wagon like a pig, pulled the little utddle off his pony and turned it into the remuda. Toward evening the outfit came to headquarters, and Alex, untied the en tirely extinguished Robbie, set him out ol the wagon without looking at him, and after putting the pony in the pasture and the saddle in its place went to the messhouse. Not a word was ever heard from head quarters about this awful treasonable deed, any more than there bad been about Frosty's little scrap with the kid, which made us all wonder if Robbie hadn't some decent points about him, and if plenty of thrashing might not, after all, make a man of him. At 1G the boy hail a little brand of bis own all stolen except what his father had given him for he was beginning to be the most audacious, skillful and success ful thief in the Panhandle. His earlier, and always his most extensive stealings, were from his father ; from them he graduated into a regular full-fledged rustler. The foreman of the Quarter Circle Z ranch met him one morning skirting around their pastures wilh his rope out and swinging, and Robbie had a very btue explanation of why he was there. He had always a branding iron in bis boot or about bis saddle. He mavericked his father's calves more freely than any others, and under the very noses of the old man's cowboys; and it was this heartless ingratitude, and his poor old father's untiring love and inexhaustable admiration and fondness a tenderness which followed and pro tected the young scamp from the conse quence of his rascality, and which refus ed to see or hear anything wrong about the boy that suggested to some one the descriptive title of "Finnegan's Absa lom," which immediately stuck and en tirely superseeded his proper same. I don't believe half the people in the Pan handle to which nealy-opened coun try I bad come to ranch fur myself, and they had followed later, when-he was about 12 knew that his name was Rob bert Emmet Finnegan. When he was about 19 t'ae old folks gathered him up rather suddenly and sent him to college. He had got to be a big, fresh-colored, rather fine-looking fellow, with an investigating blue eye, and a peevish under lip, the kind of fel low all the girls naturally go wild over, but no man could see without wanting to kick, unless his legs were paralyzed. I knew the whole Panhandle to a man thirsted for his blood, and yet he was safe from bodily injary for the sake cf his poor old father and mother. But everything could not be borne ; the old man was gently bat firmly offered an alternative; so off to college Absalom went. An account I incidentally overheard one day ran like this : "Say! Finnegan's Absalom's gone eff to college." "No "les. Country got too hot for him, and Finnegan sent him away." "What was it?" "Oh, they say he swung too long s loop for them, and they wasn't going to stand it any more." And this was a clear statemeii of the case in cattle vernacular. He was two years at college, spending his vacations at San Antonio and other cities. Then they had to bring him home. In the first place, his prodigality was about to ruin them; the cattle just wouldn't hold out. Then, too. it was jadiciousto withdraw him when they did, instead of waiting for expulsion. Shortly after Finnegan's Abssloin was sent aitay to Austin, the Finnegan house hoid bad acquired a new member. This was a half Mexican girl of about 15, whose parents, attempting to cross the treacherous Canadian at night, when the river was up, had missed the ford, gotten into the quick-sand and been drowned a thing easy enough of accomplishment in the Canadian, even in daylight, and without an extra big stream. Ysabel was the offspring of one cf those strange, incongruous anions yoa see sometimes on the frontier, where such odd jetsam and flotsam from the great sea of life are drifted and tossed together in fantastical combination. Her peregrinating father had lon been a sort of institution in all north and west Texas, in the guise of the harmless, necessary peddier. A Yankee of the Yankees, selling pat ent cd urns, new-iang:ed nouseuolJ im plements and reciptites tot making every thing in the world yoa wouldn't want in Texas includ'ngall sorts of perfumes. marvelous cements, furniture polish and fancy temperance drinks. A man of iron muscles and tremendoas will power, there seemed to be a lack in bim that prevented him from using his ramarka ble and varied forces except to the most trival ends. A crank, that lacked bat s balancing touch to be a genius ; full of strange contrivances and inventions, a devourer of all books and papers, author and admirer of all sorts of wild social, financial and political schemes. Only a little weight, a touch of con tinuity, a little sequence in his ideas, persUtence in any one line of thought or effort, and he might have been a statesman, a financier, a leader of men, and left bis mark upon his time and place, instead of one of fate's blank cartridges an adventitous Bohemian, blown idly hither and thither oy every little gust of destiny. It was in one of his outbursts of re forming social conditions, wiping out prejudices and breaking down race dis tinctions, that Jason Tattle married Felice Gomez. This girl was of a Mexican family of some traditions, a little property in land and cattle, and mocb pride, refusing to associate upon terms of eqtality with the ran of poor Mexicans in the country, and insisting apoplectically upon Castiliaa blood whenever such a matter was broached. They bad some teaching and a few old Spanish books which they read persistently ; and not one of them could be got to confess to the understanding of an English sentence by so much ss the turning of an eyelash. The funny part of the matter cams in the attitude of the Gomes family toward this marriage. They were furious. They proceeded to regard the connection as little better than ad-Bgrace, and to east Felice off, in the moot correct and edify. ice old Spanish manner. And so it came about that when, six Ji. JLO teen years latter Tutter and his Mexican wife were drowned in the greedy, faith less Canadian, that has stolen away so many lives entrusted to it, their 15-year-old Ysabel was left as utterly alone and forlorn as a little woodpecker or squirrel, orphaned before yet old enough to leave the nest; and the kindhearted Fin oegans, hearing of it, went and got the child and brought her home. Her posi tion in the household was a mixture of adopted daughter and petted, indulged servant. Being the only child, Ysabel was much educated and trained, in the most singu lar, erratic and contradictory manner, by her strangely assorted paren's; her mother watching and laboring inces santly to the end that the child should resd and speak only Spanish, and grow np an ideal Spanish senorita; and her father feeding her active brain upon the most emancipated literature, and in dustriously pulping the most advanced of his radical ideas into her receptive mind. It spoke well for the girl's native force and judgment that 6he really found out some things, formed some ideas, acd drew some conclusions of her own from the bewildering process. When she first became a member of the Finnegin household she was a slender slip of a girl, quiet as. a little shadow, but with amplw promise of beau ty if an eye had looked discerningly at her. And in the two years that elapsed that promise bloomed into most opulent fulfillment. Her form was pretty and graiful ; but it was a curious air of individuality, a strong persona! and original note in her bearing despite its still demareneas, that piqued and attracted. And then, the rich red shining larnbentty through her creamy cheeks and breaking into open crimson on her full lips, the big, black eyes, with their long fringes downcast, and the flashing white teeth that helped to make dazzling her rather rare smile a'l of these were calculated to inflame the susceptible rnxsculine heart. All the unattached cowboys and cattle men in all the adjoining counties catt approving eyes upon this glowing beauty, and some had endeavored to do a little covert sighing at her shrine. The old people who had come to be very found of her, were now as careful and watchful of her as of a daughter, and Ysabel her self was a model of demure discretion. When Absalom came home and found this enchanting creature in the houe, his instinct was just to reach out and take possession of it to have and please himself with it. Wasn't it the same ss everything else on the ranch, his ? For once the old people opposed him stoutly and unflinchingly, and prepared to send her to a convent school at Trinidad. Upon the heels of a long and somewhat stormy interview with Ysabel, in which hd found her as determined in her views as the old people, and entirely satisfied to go away to school, he flung in upon his parents with the announce-' nient that he was going to marry her. At first blush this seemed as terrible to them, with their strict Old World ideas of caste, as that he should entertain less honorable intentions toward her. But their resistance was, as usual when the boy wanted anything, short-lived and their final capitulation entire. Of course everybody's notion of the matter was that Finnegan's had sirrp'y gotten another adoring slave ; and squad rons and battalions of her mafcuac admirers, with their weapons and muni tions of war all cleaned aDd primed, were breathing fire and waiting to defend her against the wrongs aad insults they felt sure would be heaped upon Ler attractive little head, or avenge them in large quantities of the very best blocd her wronger and insulter had about him. ain solicitude! Isabel needed no defense. As with all the women of her race and class, marriage made a great change in her. From being nobody, with nothing to say, she, became suddenly somebody. with a great deal, entirely to the point, to say. The dignity of her title", the possessions and position, was strong within her, and she showed herself en tirely capable of managing not only Fin negan himjelf, in a daughterly and de ferential manner, when he consulted ber to a conciliatory policy toward the JouDg bnllv. Capable of managing Finnegan ! She was only too capable of managing the entire ranch, and could have run lie entire Panhandle, financially, politically and sociallv. had she ever gxjt acy soit of cinch on it. It was not for nothing that she the daughter of her father, with her mother's balance aeight of unpretending, dogged persistence. Finnegan's didn't know itself. The ranch was gradually metamorphosed, and run on a piaa that came directly from behind those b'ack brows of Ysabel "a. Audits transforma tion partook humorously of the doal strands intertwisted in her nature. Through ber suggestion a live, hustling young business man was brought froo Kansas City to do the clerical work, and the handsome stationery upon which be wrote with his typewriter the ab'e and diplomatic letters evolved by himself and Ysabel in conclave bore a mat lithographed head which read : "P.ancho del Santa Cruz, Grade I HerM jrd catt.e Merino shep; imported Normao Percherona. Cattle and sheep grazed and herded oa shares." The cowboys used to assert that the cows on remote ranges were mysteriously a wire of the storm regime, and forbore straying off to the Salt Fork for the purpose of bogging up ai heretofore ; thai they came meekly in, unpersaided, at Dranding time, and presented their Calves to be monogrsmed j and that even the infrequent maveric-that Arab of plains who owns no master showed a chastened joy and pride in having Ysabel's rapidly increasing brand Y. T. F, over a Roman cross ing1 on his unfettered ribs, and sported it thereafter A a decoration, sot a badge of serfdom. Absalom had his allowance 1 liberal enough one and was not permitted to over-ran it ; and the place emerged from debt as time went on. Ysabel's made a clean sweep of sweaters, loafers, shirks, abases and all sorts of superfluities!, which bad sccummulated like barnacles upon toe easy going old Irishman and his soft hearted wife, and the Finnegans were on the road to wealth. She relapsed, almost immediately af ter ber marriage, into ber beloved moth er tone; and compelled ber bosband if aid o WHOLE NO. 2222 be wished to bold communication with her, to speak and understand Spanish. It was as comical as it was amusing to see how the tamed him. When be sought, in the early days of his subjuga tion, to relieve his overstrained heart by abusing his father and mother, saying to them what he would not dare to so much as look at her, be met with a violent and unexpVcted check. Ysabel was tenderly and gratefully at tached to the old people. She would roll thoe great black eyes on him, fairly nailing him, and with her arm stretched straight out at him, would ejacalate in her sonorous Spanish : "What ungrateful one! Wilt thoa speak so to my honored father and my beloved mother? Go hence with the evil worlds ! Take thy face away from me till I have patience to look upt-n it ! Go!" And Absalom would stand irresolute, evading those compelling eyes, making deep.' rate efforts to get himself to the point of revolt ; but always doing event ually as he was bidden. This fellow, the holy terror of an entire section, was thoroughly broke to all sorts of gaits and any kind of harness by a little, soft, plump crap of a girl that woaln't weigh more than a hundred pounds ! He that was bellicose is meek ; he that was insolent M polite; be, the arch ty rant of Finegan's speaks civilly to his in feriors ; he that thought it brave to blaspheme, and witty lo be profane and impious goes to mam ay, to early mass of a raw and nipping February morn ing. AH these wonders were worked sim ply by the ascendancy of her strong, in tent spirit over his nou-y, ungoverned weakness. If she doesn't convert the goods she has on hand into a man, it will not be from lack of skillful, intelligent and per sistent effort in its evolution, develop ment, manufacture, manipulation ; and further, if she doesn't finally achieve her idea of a Spanish gentleman, it will only be because the stuff wasn't there. Alice M Arfj'ttrun in Califvrnia ToUt. Pain-Enduring Animals. The manner in which animals and birds endure pain should awaken the sympathy of all Clinking people. Horses in battle furnish a striking example of th s power of endurance. After the first s inging pain is felt they make no sound, bit bear it with mute, wondering endur ance, and when in the silence of the night a groan comes from the battle field it is because of loneliness - the cra ving for human companionship which is so .necessary to once domesticated ani mals. A dog will go for days with a broken leg without complaint, but the pleading wistful look would attract attention from any one not totally blind to all sensibili ty. A cat, wounded by stick or stone, or caught in some trap, from which it has either gnawed or pulled its way, will crawl to some quiet, out-of the-way place and endure silently agony which we could not endure. Ca'.tir will me-t the thurst of the butchers knife without s sound. The wild dove, with shot from the hunter's gun burning in its tender flesh will fly to some high bough or lie upon the ground and die, and no s .un J will be heard save the dripping of blood upon the leaves. The stricken deer; will speed to some thick wood and there in pitiful submis sion await the end. The eagle, stricken in high air, will straggle to the last, but there sill be no sound of pain, and the proud, defiant look wiil not leave the eyes nntil the lids c'oieorer them and chut out the sunlight they loved to sell. Fig3 and Thistles. The man who will steal chickens is often found hiding behind a hypocrite in the church. The glory of love is that it delights in doiegfer nothing what others will not do for pay. Yoa will mists it if yoa undertake to measure a man's religion by the length of his face. The only giving that has any maaning in the sight of God is giving that costs as something. It never takes much talk from a theatre going professor to kill a prayer meeting stone dead. The road to heaven is very steep to the man who is try ing to get there without doing any giving. The pastor m ho tries to carry bia whole church on his shoulders will soon be very lame in the back. The man who howls at the passing of the hat in church wiil pay a big hotel bill with a s-aileon his face. Whea a man says amen right it always means that he is willing to be pat down for his share of the expetae. The only reason why some peop'e are considered religious is because they in tie a good deal of noise lli.n't llir. in church The Right Spirit. A traveling Salesman for a Lvtroit dreg Lous J was standing on the stepsof a It- tie notion store kept by a colored woman in a town ia Arkansas when she caoie out and queried ; "Was jo a stranger around here. aab" 'I represent this bouae," replied the drummer, as he handed oat a eanL "I see. Ikoes yo' owa the bizness yo' If?" "Oh, no." "Was yo de senior pawdaer?" "No- "De junior T "No." "Wasyo backin' deon-arn wiJ yo' capital ?" 'No." "Jist sent oat to take orders ?" "That's a!L Perhaps I can take aa order from yoa ?" Wall, aah, if dat house bad duo teat yo' clean down vers to git an order from me, I ain't gwine to be mean aboat it. Pat rre down fir two bits worf of pep- pertnint esMtmce so J drap in yere at de eand of sixty days for yo' money?" Prfrwf Frtt Frt.n. The Jew as a Soldier. Kussians have told me that it iaa!u: t imiossible to catch the Jess for military service, owing to the facilities they enjoy of changic j their domicile. The rUI s have Vx n in Russia the repeat p-sir.i, blesfin to the Jens, ia that they K!v theru the means of peedi!y moving from plat e to pl.ee, transuding businesa in ;arls cf the country wherw tl.ey are frbidden, and disappearing w ilh their (:ft.:its to a place f safety be fore the goverutueut has become aware ot what has happened. Forged pass port are readily procured, and with these they move from point to point, sleeping on the train and transacting their business through the day. They avoid as much as puewible spending any time in a town where they might be called to account by the police. When the recruiting authorities come to hunt up their Jews for the military service which all Russians have to render, they are usually away from home, or bave been enrolled in some other towa or vil lage. If they are finally caught and brought before the military authorities, they usually have papers certifying that they are either too young or too old for the service; in fact, the military author ities regard it now as pretty well proved that of the three nullum Jew in the Rus sian Empire, hardly one is of military age. In this matter of deceiving the War Office the Jews are much assisted by their local Jewish officials, wbowe du ty is to register births and grant certifi cates of this kind ; but the matter at last went to such ridiculous lengths that the Ruseians have gone to the othei extreme, and now attach no importance whatever to any documeut which the Jew may produce, but draw their own conclusions by looking at him, and pronounce him of military age or not according to his ap pearance or their inclinations. I ventur ed to point out to my friend that there was little inducement for the Jew to en ter the army, where he was not apt to be treated w ith much consideration, bnt my friend replied that the behavior of the Jew in tegard to his military service was analogous to his behavior in regard to all his obligations to the state and every community except his own. " I do not know how it is with you in America." said he,"but with as, whenev er you see a Jew who is rich, yoa may be pretty sure that be has either contracted to furnish food or clothing for the army, or else bas been several times bankrupt. You would have great dilficulty in dis covericg a rich Jew who has not been bankrupt at leant once." Thet.errjuan Jew complains that bis co-religionists are not often stlected for military commands, and argues that b is therefore not equal before the law. The Jew is not often found as so officer in the German army, simply because the majority of German officers do not desire to serve with him. If the officers of a Prussian regiment desired a Jew to be come one cf their number, there is no law in the country that would stand in the way; fur in this natter of beco tu rning an officer the Jew stands on a foot ing as good as and no better than aCbrie tian. Every candidate for epaulets in the German army submits his name to the re.nment in which he desires to serve aod has to be elected into the regiment, much as though be were applying for admission into a rowing cluo, or any other semi social organization. German politicians who to-day cham pion the cause of the Jews tell as that during the wars of liberation Against Napoleon I. five and a half per cent, of the Jews who were of the military age entered th j Prussian army as volunteers, aod that one of the first soldiers to earn the Iron Cross in those wars was a Jew. From that day to this the Jews ia Ger many have borne a good record in the ranks of the army, although few of them have become otlieets From "The Rus sian ami bis Jew," by Poultney Bigelow, in ILiTjK'r't .V ';": for March. Grains of Gold. It is better to suffer than to sin. In bringing up a child, think of its old There can be no real lifd is no love. where there All sins are big, no matter bow small they look. No roan can sow idleness and reap prosperity. Al cavs look after things before they get by you, A civil toniu-j is abetter weapon than a bow ie keif.;. Those who would lead others should always look up. It enlightens a duty to resolve to per form it cheerfully. A desire to resist oppression iaimp'ant ed in the nature of man. It is useless to confess our sins, Unless we are willing to forsake them. Never do anything before children that you do n ot want them to i.-aitute it. Keep your heart full of sunshine, and (iod will soon give a face to match it. There is more help in aa ounce of en couragement than there is ia a toa of advice. In counsel it is good to see dangers, but in execution not to see them, aniens they are very great. The least and most imperceptible im pressions received in oar chilhood may have coBseq'iecces very important ami of a long duration. Harrison on Tsaes. The representatives of ViaaAn Jjngi clubs uf lodiana, luet Tuesday ia mass con vention in T'jiuiiruoo lla-l. President Harrison spoke. " Tber are turae who bold that fTn ex Pres'dnt abcuij be a deaf ccu'e," be said, " but that I am in- I c'lno" 10 uot. a man wao oaa (xsm hon ored by h i fellow eitiaeus wita law signes place in government O'lrflit t4 bave r interest iu things that cjricern the prosperi ty and ti'pmew of the pip-e or the glor ies of this (real . i-k.V.ry than he bad before ketouk oiliv . " The prvseot stjie of the ctuntry ia act j one of (axtaperily. - re presort d.sircwt is rv A doe to any 6.ie man. but i doe to the threat that an old eaktbiiabed policy is lo be reversed and a (jew ooe instituted. That is the r luse of the trouble. "A new creed has been adopted by Is Democratic party, and triey hava now pro mulgated a theory which resort to aatraor dmary and outrageous sys'ems of taxation. They waut to revive the irji'i'ikous dimi. taxation as the means of ra.ing tbe reve nue of (he national govern ascot. They want to tear diws toe gratvt system of r -torn duties by wbieb oar factories Were reared aad our aivaoc.-J prosperity acttiaaj aod cuamtaiuad. "Now tbua who c-y out agtiast taes very sajb war taze want us to ratsro U Iki same burdensome system thai never waa intended to be used except ia tia of war.' Law is s dry study ; bet tbe moisture of tears seem to have mocb effect oa a jury. The carpenter is not always a avatbs- raaiijta, hst is bandy with bis "ad a.
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