1 1 NVTUfifS INSTRUMENT. i , the 1 ror which cnr-a on its wa And whirls N-m-ath tho old brush fe9 ) lt.iV.-s music in my rar t.xliijr: j Tn oue vt nature's ln.sirumi.nt I a ffiriu In;Tt' ,he hind'rinR atones, Y.t l.npinp carry in its ttmg tf mirpH-d "T and tnow'tones. E'en when a boy if e'er I had A wfuwd a. use of worldly lain The rath-nee t f thitt brok wing glad Restored my hnppy ?" Ard now hwf tho irkrone round To wbirh tin niy wTid pivo rent I h ar a sweet, r-'lierinp wund. The strain of nature' instrument. -Joe Cone in Booton Traveller. WHEN WOMAN tS NOT GRACEFUL Condition I 'der Whlrh Mm MnaN to Look Ataaard. Why is it that, notwithstanding the heirship aoeorded to wuman in the ab stract, the generally inaiiafres to look absurd wider conditions wherein men trv to keep their diniiiry? If it stereo typed couvention which hampers our judgments, rr are these things really facts? For instance, there is nothing re luarVable in an old pent Ionian crowing a street or even walking in a gale of wind, but place an elderly weman, somewhat portly, in tlie same situation, end the result is a caricature. Her pet ticoats outline her shape absurdly, a vast expanse of stocking fills a doubt ful gap. and her feet seem to straggle helplessly. Few women can enter a carriage, ..,.r.nt tlio sti-ns of a coach or hurry in to a hansom gracefully, while the spec t .f-V f.f a woman getting into a boat is f:ir from pleasing. A stmt Ltnyon a bi cycle gives f;iir cause for ridicule, and yVt fat iwople dance far more lightly and buoyantly than thin people. The slimmest girl cannot run prettily, and as f a- football, we have seen the re sults. Hut, to leave the sphere of athletics, a dowager in a low dress is far from pleasing, while the multiplicity of ob jects carried by a woman when out chop ping seems to hamper and render her movements awkward. Fhe has none of the convenient pocl ts affected by men, she is always seeking for her pocket handkerchief or strangling to extract her pn;e from the black folds of her gown, or burdened with au umbrella, a parcel, a satchel or with her dresj it self. On a journey she is hot and fins tend and iu a hurry nnd cnndiered with many cares, w hile a man drojis ca.-iiy into his seat, unfolds his pajier uiid smokes or thinks, impervious tc fiito. A w man is only really graceful w hen she is at i-est, lolling iu a carriage it sitting in a drav. -ng room or else dancing, when he has the genius for it Loudon Graphic The Toorainers. The Ti.urainers tliemst Ivrs arc com liril:ig to bth-.M a ttal-vart, biowb faced i-oj!;". witli contciitii-ent deep set in tl.etn. Tlie women iu their llr.c cot ton gov. us. w hite mutches sud unwieldy v.f leii hho's. are p'Vturt sme enough for aiiytliing, if their dark, slot like eyes and ready smiles be also taken into act-cunt. One sees fair faces among th younger girls Madonualike face's. It w-re easy to fancy that Agues Sorel, "the f::;pest of the fair," resembled tl U-st of Ihew when slie, tno, was young and had not yet caught tlie eye of a Ling. As for the men, they are what one would exjiect them to Ije in such a natural garden a hardworking class, prone to rejoice in all the festive leisure they can obtain. They love their uative province pas sionately; it is difficult to realize what they must have felt when, a quarter ol a century ago, the Prussian soM.ers trod their fields and vineyards nadir foot and burned their homesteads. I do not be lieve," 6aid oue of them to me the oth er day, "there can lie any other country iu the world better to live in thauTonr aine. We have so much sun even iu winter. Tlie climate is so mild and all things grow in it." All the Yeai KouinL PROMPTLY ANSWERED. General Kyan Conundrum IHdnt Rothrr the Irishman For a Moment. One of General Ryan's peculiarities is that he never tells the same story to the same man a sei-oud time. Not lou,r ui he wais talking nbont his travels in the United Kingdom. 'I had always thought," fcaid he, "that the famous Irish wit and reparti-e were ouly to l? found on the stage or iu Lever's novels, but I came away from Ireland with a very different idea. "I was stopping at a little country inn, and a game of cards was in prog ress. I wxs invited to take a band, and us an American iz-l Irishman I thought I ought to ket p up the rrpafatiou of the v miitry for sociability. I a.-ked what tiny were playing, and they replied 1 rty-five," an old time Irish game. I told them that I liaroly V-m-w the rules, but that I could play ;? ven up, euchre er nearly any other American card game. Dut they insisted on my taking a hand, uud I did so. One of the pages w ho was standing at the back of my chair, watched my hand pretty closely, and the first time I made a bad play he said. sott. voce: "Holy Moses, I niver see such a play in me loife. I wotidi r ph were the divil the intra cum from." I aid no attenti.in to him, of course,, and went on with the game. The next time I made a bad play, and it wasn't very long, he again said, talking to him h If, 'Ulud, niver d'd I see a 1:10:1 play the li likes of that.' I began to 1 au iioyed, but still I said nothing, although a man never likes to hear it said th.it he plays a game badly, but the man was talking to himself arid meant no harm. However, when he broke out the third time I could contain myself no longer. I turned around and said, "Look here, my frieiid, are you pl-iyiag these cards, oruml?' Tlie Irishman looked at me fur a moment, and then said, JCaythtr nv us, vonr honor, savin vonr prisiiice, sor.' "I joined the rest of them in the laugh, and said, 'WtlL lmys, order up; that puts eui on ma'" Cincinnati Tribune,. Cot Their Mnrfi Worth. American naval officers who were iii China during the late war tell of a day tiny spent ashore bioking for sport Foi a few yen, amounting to a'oout 4 cents, tiny wcured the ser"lcesof two ChinetT to fight for tlieir enti-rtaimneut. The first tight went on bravely, and as fights go iu China, not being rip to the Ameri can hippodrome tttyle, one of the Chi i:ese was whiped. But he was angry. As he moved away Irotn tlie scene of combat he found a stone, autL turning Ui;i his late antagonist, struck him a blow that killed him. The murderer was sj.eedily beheaded, but the authori ties divided that it was uo ctaiccrn of the American officers if a mnrd result ed frtun their plan of amusement. One of the younger officers remarked : 'Ve not only got a fight, but a killing and an execution, all for 4 cwits. Voo coultlu't lieat those rates." Sentenced to Hibrria. A nobleman once entered into a con spiracy against the Russian emperor and was seuteuttxl to Silicria. His eyes w re bandaged, and he was put into a dark carriage, and for seven days and nights they traveled on and on, onlv st oj .ping to take food. At last he felt they must have reached Siberia, and in tlie utuitist anguish he perceived that the carriage had stopped, and the band age w as taken tiff his eyes, and he was in his own home! He had been driven round and round Kt. Petersburg the w hole time, but the fright cured him. Young Ladies' Journal A lady of genius will give a genteel air to hi r whole dress by a well fancied suit S knots, as a judicious writer gives a spirit to a w hole sentence by a single exjiresbiou. Gay. The Kentucky river bad its name from an Indian exjresiou, Kain-tuk-oe, "at the head of the river. " A MAN OF RESOURCES. Thl tVntiftt Va Willing U Aceonima Iate HU ratron. The dentist diiin't want to talk shop, he said, but he thought the story worth telling, so he told it. "Not long ago," he said, "a western railroad president came to Now York, and one evening was invited to dine with some of his friends here. The dinner was a particu larly jolly affair, and when the western man reached his hotel he w as in a mer ry mood. It was his custom to place his et of fab t4h under the pillow every eight just before going to bed, and he vas certain he had done so on this iar ticular evening. Nevertheless in the morning he w as unable to find them, searching high and low ia the room was of no avail, and finally he came to me for a new set. How long will it.take yon to make them?' he asked. I told him four or five days. 'Can't listen to anything like that,' he replied. 'I'll give you triple money to make them in 21 hours.' Yon eee people from Chicago think that money laughs at everything, even time. "All my arguing with the old fellow did no good, so I set It' work on hi teeth. Iu the meantime, however, I told my assistant to hasten around to the old man's hotel and make a scientific search of his room. The westerner insisted that he had drunk no more wine than usual at the dinnef, but I was satisfied that he was deceiving himself. I had not been long at the preliminary meas urements when my assistant called me out and handed me the teeth. He liad found thein in the pillowcase, where tho owner had put them instead of un der the pillow. "I returned the teeth and the railroad man was so overjoyed that he did not cancel the order, but told me to gt ahead with the teeth. ThcJ might conic iu bandy some time, ho said. He even nubent so far as to admit that perhaps, after all he bad drunk a glass cf wini too much the night before, and when 1 sent him my bill I received a check foi double the cmouut from biia." New York Tribune. THE BARBER'S REVENGE. A Tale of a Talkative Tonorial Arliot and Hi Gruff Customer. As be threw b.'niself back into thf embrace of the cushioned chair of a Union square barbt r shop he scowled fiercely at the barlier and buried hit f:ce in the newspaper. But the barbel didn't mind the cgV opening. He leaned over, garroted the b insorial pa tient w ith a towel and painted his fact with lather. When be bad flipflapped a razor once or twice along the strop be began mildly: "Nice day, sir." "Oh, is it?" answered tho other. The barber looked start led, but be tried again. "Puiicr says we're going to have inct weather now." "Thanks," was tho answer, "I know bow to read myself." At this rebuff tho barber kept si lence. But he shaved npninst the erain, tweaked the other's uuso and duulxtl soap into the comer of his mouth. The gruff man swore softly, the barbel smiled, and as a final act of violence grablied the other by the top of the scalp, and twisted his bead until the cervical vcrtebne creaked again. "Say," cried the gruff man, "my bead ain't no roulette wheel" But still tlie barber shaved on in si lence. He shaved and shaved, scraping the skin so close that it showed ragged under the blade. Then, leaning over, hi grabbed a handful of raw and tender skin and rolled it between his fingers until the other groaned aloud As the tear drops stole down the scarified face the barber administered the final taunt : "Do von shave yourself, sir?" "No," roared the gruff man, leaping up in the chair, "I shave my grand mother and sister's nieces. Then he buried his face in the paper and the barber smiled and smiled and smiled, while be rubbed alum into the sore spots en the victim's chin. New York Wurld. Vater Wheel. The point i made by a writer in one of the mechanical journals that the greatest obstacle now encountered ia the sueeessfr.l ojierationof water wheels is, from au Cv-onomical asjRu-t, the toe often entire absence of engineering skill in utilizing the jK.wer, and that many a water power would develop greater effi ciency were it properly controlled and had the turbine livu selected because of its adaptability to the conditions and been projtf'rly set. On their introduc tion, he remarks, turbines were used 6ingly, but now they are used eithel singly or in sets of twocr three cr more, as expedient, and iu batteries of sets by the use, too, of iron or steel lin stocks and feed pijK the exicn.e of in stalling has been largely reduced and far greater economy in the nse of water secured; the growing demand for large units of power has also been satisfied. so that whereas a few years back a 50:) horsepower turbine was almost unheard of, turbines of 5,000 horsepower are now employed. rlatUer Mean. "Speaking if dinners," said Haw kins, "reminds me of something I over- beard in the.-e very rooms not two nights ago. I always knew irmooks was of a saving nature, bnt I never believed that the fellow was downright mean." "How's that?" asked Bluffkins in differently. "Well, it was l:ke this. Tuesday night Snooks came in and began talking with Webb. 'I hear you're going away on Saturday,' said Smxiks. " Yes, answered Webb. Tor three mouths. ' " 'And what are you doing tomorrow night r' " 'Wthiesday.' said Webb. I have no engagement for Wednesday. " 'And the next night?" " "That's Tlmrsday. 'I dine with the B lakes cn that day. ' "Dear, dear! "That's a pity," said Snooks, with a g:od bluff at disappoint ment. "I wanted you to take dinner w ith us on Thursday.' " Boston Bud get. Direction For Sterilizing Milk. Provide six or eight half pint Wtles, according to the number of timeg the child is fed during the 24 hours. Put the projMT amount of food for oue feed ing in each bottle nnd us a tuft of cot ton batting as a stopper. Have a sauce pan that the bottles can stand in conven iently. Invert a 1 .erf orated tin pie plate iu tha luttom and pat in emmgli water to come u1mvo the milk in the bottles. Stand the Imttles on it ; wheu the water boils draw tho saucepan to a cooler jiart of the stove, where the water will re main near the boiling jmiut but not ac tually Killing. Cover the saucepan and let the Ltd ties remain in it one hour. Put them in the icebox or a cool place iu winter. Ladies' Home Journal Appeal "My deur baron, what are yon do.'ng? Smoking two cigars at one tuid the s.une time?" "Well, yon see, my dear fellow, in this beastly hole yon can't get miy six penny cigars such as I am in the habit of smoking, and so I have to make shift with a couplo of threepenny onus. " Deutsche Warta Srliool Method Abroad. As a rule natural history and geogra phy are more delightfully taught iu Prussia than here. We gladly use its ma; is, colored pictures and natural col lections. School hygiene in Switzerland is enforced in wonderful wars. Skating vacations on well prepared ioefielils are prescrilied, and there are vacation colonies and "milk cures" for the sick ly. From Vienna coiues the demand for more playgrtrmids under tlie care of ex-pcrieiiet-d teachers maintained by the city and regularly attended. Lat Ro portof United States Commissioner of Education V. ILj-ris. Abraham Lincoln No man ever lived who wan more of a self-made man than Abraham Lin coln. Not a eircnnist intv of his life fnv oretl the leveloii'iiient which he had reached. lie had few teachers, few books and 110 intellectual companions. His father could neither read nor write. His mother died when he w as a child. He had none of those personal at tractions which would naturally enlist the sympathies and assistance of re fined nicn and w-onicn with whom he must have come in contact. He was miserably poor and was compelled to work among poor peo ple in order to earn his daily bread. There was not an influence around him that did not tend to drag him down, rather than lift hiinup. He was altogether an humble man, humble in conditions and humble in spirit. Yet, by the love of that which was good and great and true, and by hun ger and thirst of a noble nature, he was lei to the acquisition of a practical education, and to the development of all those peculiar powers that were latent within him. He was a marked and peculiar man. People talked about him. His studious habits, his greed for information, his mastery of the diffi culties of every new position in which he was placed, his intelligence touch ing all matters of public concern, his unwearying good nature, Ids skill in telling u story, his great athletic pow er, his quaint, odd ways, his uncouth appearance, all tended to bring him in to notice. In every circle in which he found himself, refined or coarse, he was al ways the center of attraction. He was a religious man. He ltclievcd iu God and his juTson.-il sujervision of the af fairs of men. He believed himself to lie under God's control and guidance. This unwearying faith in a Divine Providence lugan at his mother's knee and ran like a thread of gold through the inner exjHTicnce of his life. He was one of the most even te:ii peretl men, yet was the subject of great varieties of mood and extremes of feel ing. Oppressed with a deep melancholy at times, weighed down by the great problems of his own life, he was simple as a I my. He took delight in most trivial things and had a quick sense of tlie ludicrous. As a lawyer he was a close reasoner reasoned by analogy and enforced his views by apt illustrations. His manner of speaking was plain and un i;npassioiied, and yet lit was the author of the most lieautiful and elotpient pas sages in our language. The clearness of his statements, the unanswerable style of his reasoning and his illustrations, were remarkable. lie was liorn in Kentucky, l-'eb. 12, ISO! i, and was fifty-two years old when he lut-ame President. He had spent half his years in what was literally a wilderness. Horn in the humblest and re'iiotest oliscurity, gathering his ac quisitions front the scantiest sourtvs, achieving the development of his low ers by means of his own intuition, with none of the aids of wealth and social iiitiucnce, he raised himself by force of manly excellence of heart and brain into national recognition. Wiere Proclamations are Necessary. The Governor of Texas l as deemed it worth w hile to itie a grave procla mation, forbidding ivrtain jiersons from indulging in a prize fight within the limits of that state, and directing the duly appointed autliorit ities to en force the laws and prevent the widely advertised meeting U-tveen two pro fessional mutilators of human flesh and bone. Now, of course, the goveror's intention was a most proer and laud able one, and the action lie suggests is such as the local officers most certainly should take, but it is dillicult tolielieve that Texans of the Utter sort the great majority of Texans, that is will le quite pleased with this proclamation. It proves too clearly that the Ine Star i rising, and not clearly enough that it has already risen high in the sky. OUkt communities do nt find it necessary to declare so formally the purpise of etiforciiiir the ordinary laws by which i aif and projierty are pro tected. This matter, however, is one for the Texans to settle for themselves. The really important thing is that the fight will not take place. How to Dispose of Surplus Babies. The inexhaustible energy of Ivlitor Sti ad, of the London 7.' and J!c r!f ir.f appears to have found a new out let. He has discovered that one of the wants of the modern world is a con venient baby exchange. There are families of bo many children, am there an- couples who have none. There are hi mies desolated by lnTcavemeiit, and others that are rendered almost as unbearable by the influx of a super abundance of little ones. There are infants that have I teen deprived of their parents by death, and there are fami lies of young ones that have succum bed to the grim destroyer. At present no medium of exchange exists that would tetitl to equalize the supply and demand, or to establish the balance le tween those who have too many liabies and thoe who have none. Mr. Stead is convinced that an exchange of this kind, and the extension of the practice of adoption, w ould have the effect of alleviating much misery. To plant more acresthaii can lie taken care of. It is shiftless to keep jtoor stock. A ptmr cow cuts as much ns a good one. To raise frogs and musquitos in the front yard. . To have a pig wallow in the road near the gate. It is a shiftless trick to employ the teacher w ho will work for the least wages. It is as liad to leave a family of Imivs and girls to grow up w ithout good Itooks and paiiers. It is a heartless thing for a farmer to allow his wife to work sixteen or eigh teen hours, w hen bis own work is com pleted in ten hours. On the farm, as elsewhere htislnind and wife should le equal partners. To wade through mud to the barn ami out buildings wheu goxl dry paMis can easily le made. To pay heavy doctor bills for wife ami children lie causc tlieir feet had become wet through luck of good paths. till! (i. M. I. tlli!li. M. 1. Thou wondniu healer, 'tis to thee Our vow we pay, our triliute bring; if thee we tell, of thee we sing. Who drn dygpepU' dire attark, Willi oilinipution at it h u n, Aimured slwHild Ik- n-Itef it niph If but to ti. M. I. they fly. Ily ii-rvouu.iM 144 1 sore oiiniuted With life a burden, robbed of nut, Then-bundnidKarewhofitin would know Where they to net relief call go. We point tot J. M. I. and say lie rured, tie lul.iy. light and ray. Follow the path that thousands tread, lie rured In heart, be cured In liead. What el. thin myittlr li. M. I. Hut tnild. n Mcdieal llisroverj'. That's just it. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Hold everywhere Buffalo Bill's Brave Deed. "That's right," said Gen. Ii. If. Cow on to a Cincinnati Time-Star man, "let the long-haired scouts have it. I was at Columbus wveral days ago and fell in w ith a party of army officers all of whom liad seen service on the plains. The lowest rank represent ed was a captaiir and the highest gen eral. I purposely turned the talk to scouts, and all of those present, hut oue officer a captain, stood up for Buffalo Bill, and he could name but one incident in his favor. Whatever he would say of Cody the others would offset with some joking remark, and the captain was finally pinned down to his one adventure. "That was a great thing, anyhow,' he insisted, 'he had a close call. 'Yes,' replied the others, 'but here were a dozen scouts present who wanted to make the trip, and nobody had any idea it was going to be attended with any danger. Yes, he had a close calL Give him full credit for that.' "So it went and the general opinion was against Cody's claims of being a daring scout It was also charged that his wonderful shooting is done with a cartridge comptised of fine shot, which scattered to a foot in diameter the mo ment it gets well away from the gun. He could not miss the glass I ml Is with such ammunition, and lie could not hit them with bullets such as Carver uses. I give this as a verdict of regular army officers who ought to know what they are talking altouL" Facts Tersely Told. The flying mouse is a recent discovery in the Cameroon county in Africa. It is a link between the hat and the true mouse, has a tail like a mouse and heavy gray fur, while its wings are not so well developed as those of the lat. It is now thought by mine physicians that death in cases of electric shock is due to a contraction of the arteries un der the influence of the current so great that the heart is not strong enough to overcome it and keep up the circula tion. Dr. Bertram Windle has found that hens' eggs hatched between the poles of a magnet "produced an unusual num ber of abnormal chicks." It also ap peared that the development of the eggs of trout was arrested by jnussing an electrical current through the water. The French artificial pearl is produc ed by boring a hole iu the shell of the oyster and introducing a small bit o," glass, which the animal covers with ' nacre," or mother of pearl, to stop the irritation. .Such pearls are flat on one sid.- and of less value than those produced naturally. G. YV. Johnson, a well known author ity on chemistry, writes that the taste of the cucuiiiImt is due to a Miisonotis sulistanee call.tl "fungin" that is found in all mushrooms ami fungoid grow th as well as in cucumlters. This jKiison accounts for the effect of cucumliers on some stomachs. Ixmdon nets about 14o,0n a year on the gleanings from its du-t -chutes, and it is estimated that under a projier sys tem the waste of New York would give the city a gross revenue of aUuit 7,ihi, IMJ a year. The estimate may le high, but it is undoubtedly true that the waste ought to bring in a large revenue. The tine hazard in electricity has led to the formation of an electrical bureau by the national board of fire under writers. The headquarters are in Chi cago, where an efficient system of in siiectioii and testing has been develop ed. The bureau issues to insurance agencies frequent rejorts of new electrical appliances and quarterly re jiorts of firwi caused ly electricity, with tietails of the exact cause when known. Tlie practical value of the dissemina tion of such information is found to lie very great. Professor John A. Simpson, of Ifal eight, N. C, blind from birth, has mas tered mathematics "from addition to quaternions" mentally, has learned an cient and modern languages, and like many other blind people is a great mu sician. His blindness is without doubt the cause of his extraordinary mental development. It is thought tha- the too great use of the pen ami pajier or of slate and jiciieil to relieve of memory has a marked effect in checking men tal growth. The industrious blind, re lieved of this check, often accomplish what the seeing regard as miracles. Sweet Peas. Whether sweet peas can he success fully planted iu autumn dccuds largely on the latitude, says (Janhn ami J-hi'4itf. In the Southern States fall planting is a necessity, for this is the only way to give the plants a cisd soil in which to make a strong, early rst growth. Coining farther north, fall planting is safe up to perhaps the latitude of Washington, where the chances are aUut equal between planting iu late autumn and in Feb ruary. In Southern California peas must lie brought into blixmi as early as February, although the nights are so cool there that they may lie planted during any month iu the year. The rule oliserved by the large seed growers is to plant just ahead of the rainy sea son. I ndeetl they have acres of volun teer sweet peas that is, from seeds which were scattered on the ground during the harvest and 4 miles south of San Francisco these volunteer plants are in bloom by ine 1st of May and often early in April. Words to the Wise. She who would preserve a comfort able temperature during the summer should rcmenilier that the warmth fol lowing the consumption of ice cream soda is intense by comparison with the moment's coolness while it is being consumed, and that even dog-day heat seems refreshing after drinking hot tea. She who wishes to present an attrac tive appearance to the community should impress upon her mind that a dozen 12-ceiil ginghams make a woman daintier ami cooler to look upon than one silk mulle at a dollar and a half a yard. She who wishes to go through life easily, without any blighted hopes or dispelled illusions, will not listen too atteutive to summer vows of admira tion. She will rememlier that heat and moonlight combined effect even strong minds, and that irresponsibility bcgiiis with June. She who desires to lie pleasing to the eye and comfortable will avoid athlet iee as she would the plague. Tennis and golf, oars and whips are for those who do not mind being blowsy and disheveled. She who plans to take open -car rides anil ferry-htiat sails for coolness this summer should reineiulier that several hundred thousand of her fellow-citizens are planning tho same thing. Xw York WortiL Have you ever noticed how your system seems to crave sjial assistance iu the spring? Just the help required is given by Hood's Sar.-aparilla. Thirteen Tears Experience. Miixkk's Fai.ks Mass. "During the st thirteen years," said Mr. W. A. Johnson of this place, "my wife has lieen sick from kidney and liver com plaint ami ulceration of the stomach. At each time she has taken Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Ifemedy, and it cured her. It is a family medicine with us and many of our neighbors." He Still Lives. Gen. Forrest, during the late war, was once approached by an Arkansas man, who asked: "General, when do you reckin we are going to get something to eat?" "Eat," exclaimed the General, "did you join the army merely to get some thing to eat?" "Wall, that's about the size of it" "Here," calling an officer, "give this man something to cat and then have him shot." The officer understood the joke and replied: "All right, General." The Arkansas man exhibiting no alarm said: "liile me a ham, cap'n, stew up a couple o' chickens, bake two or three hoe cakes, fetch a gallon, o' so o' but ter milk, and load ycr guns. With such inducement, the man what wouldn't he willing to die is a blame fool." A hearty meal was prepared for the soldier, but he still lives. Mr. C. G. Strong, principal of the public schools at Anderson, Cal., says: "I have used Chamberlain's Pain Halm ami have found it an excellent remedy for lameness and slight wounds." Lameness usually results from a sprain, or other injury, or from rheu matism, for which Chamberlain's Pain Balm Ls espccully intended and un equalled. It affords almost immediate relief and in a short time effects a permanent cure. For sale at Ik-nford's Pharmacy. A business man came down to his office on a w inter morning w hen it was bitterly cold. "Whew!" how cold it is!" he said to one of the clerks. "Just shut that safe, if you please." The clerk obeyed with a puzzled ltxk. Then, when lie could restrain his curiosity no longer, he asked: "Excuse me, sir, but why did you tell me to shut the safe?" "Why," replied his employer, with a sly chuckle, "there are a good many drafts in that safe." "It is the U-st patent medicine in the world" is what Mr. E. M. Hart man, of Marquam, Oregon, sajs of Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Iteniedy. "What leads me to make this assertion is from the fact that dysentery in its worst form was pre valent around here hist summer and it never took over two or three doses of that remedy to effect a complete cure." For sale at Ilenford's Pharmacy. "Maw, w hat is a horrible example?" asked the youngest hoy, looking up from his ncwspajier. The eldest Imy stojis his figuring long enough to say, "Wait till you get into algvbry, and you'll find anv amount of 'em." One night when Mr. Isaac IJeese was stopping with me, s-iys M. F. Hatch, a prominent merchant of (uarteniiaster, Washington, I heard him groaning. On going to his room I found him suf fering from cramp colic. He was in such agony I feared he would die. I hastily gave him a dose of Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Iteniedy. He was stum relieved ami the first words he uttered were, "what was that stuff you gave me?" I in formed him. A few days ago we were talking alxiut his attack ami he said he was never without that remedy now. I have used it iu my family for several years. I know its worth ami do not hesitate to recommend it to my friends ami customers. For sale at 1 ton ford's Pharmaev. Why are ien-makers incited to wrong titling? Ilecatisc they make you steel jieiis and .say they do write. "A friend in need is a friend indeed." A friend advised me to try Ely's Cream lialm ami after using it six weeks I ln-lieve myself cured of catarrh. It is a most valuable remedy. Joseph Stewart, Grand Avenue, P.rooklyn, X. Y. My son wits afflicted with catarrh, I induced him to try Ely's Cream R1I111 and the disagreeable catarrhal smell all left him. He appears as well us any one. J. C. Olmstead, A ret da, III. Price of Cream Halm is fifty cents. "Are these colors fast?" she aked the new clerk. "Yes, indeed. You ought to see them when they one start to run." lift In the stilly nlifht Ere slumlter's chain h;ith Ixitind me. Sharp iain dart through my hesid. And chills romerrvc pin? 'round 111". I feel Mi sick, I mire hIimII die! All hone if cure Derm broken, lint tlitTf'aa "Pellet" all may try, A sure, unfailing token. Yes, a token of recovery in every case, as effective, and almost as magical as the famous "talisman" of fairy-lore. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a positive cure for all derangements of the liver, stomach ami howt-Is. "I was run over by a lumlvr wagon. Did not expect to live. Was terribly bloated. My friends bathed me with Dr. Thomas' Ecleetric Oil, and I was curetL We have great faith in Thomas' FIectric Oil." Mrs. Wm. F. Hahcock, Forvell, Jackson Co., Mich. To allow the barnyard to drain into tlie public road, or intoastream. Many fanners are guilty of this. Hay Fever, Catarrh and Deafness. Hay Fever has not the same c:iuse in all cases. It is positively certain, that, iu many cases it is from over sensitive branches of nerve in the nose. Dr. Sadler, Si4 Peiin Avenue, Pittsburgh, has found some mn where a touch on a certain portion of the inside of the nose caused a cough instantaneously, with watery discliarge from the nos and eyes. Last season several c.is.m sullen ng from severe hay fever were relieved im ludiately, a:i I rem lined free from all the symptonn up m ap plication of electricity to the sensitive parts. Catarrh of the nose and throat pn disitscK to an attack, ant! Ileafncss s caused in three out of four cases by Catarrhal inflammation of the ms-e jaml throat It is very rarely necessary to remove the bom's from the nose, as being practiced by a few spii-ialisti of the radical class. Olistruction of the nose and 111 Kith in breathing is most frequi'titly caused by thickening of the soft tissues and not deformity of the bones. Consult Dr. Sadler b.'fore sub mitting to such unnecessarily severe and exjiensive operations. Dr. Sadler is conservative and thorough in his work, and his 2 years ex K-rienci make his iiiotln di reliable and safe. Housekeepers Should Know. That one cup of yeast is equal io one compressed ycast-ciike. That very hot witter i now pre ft Tret 1 to Itdtl to stop bleeding. That hi tabli-siMnfiils of liquid are equal to one cupful. That a choice orange, lmth peel and pulp, sliced and covered with fragrant hot ten, makes a I leverage tit for the gods. That a too-rapid boiling ruins the flavor of any sauce; it must boil once, but should never tlo more than simmer afterwards. That a loaf of stale bread can In made quite fresh by lieing dipisil quickly into hot milk, ami then baked until dry in a quick oven. That to preserve the fresh green color of vegetables like p as and lieans the lid should never le put on the it while they are Isdling. That sawdust ami a chamois as pol ishers, after the cut glass haslieeii thor oughly washed in soap-suds, w ill make it glisten and sparkle. That rubbing silver or plated egg spoous with a little liquid ammonia and salt will remove the discoloration caused by the sulphur in the egg. That moult! can be kept from the top of preserves by putting a few drop of glycerine around the edges of the jar before screwing on the cover. That a paste made of jKiwdered iK. cacuanmi and water will quickly re move the pain caused by the sting of a wasp or bee; it should lie applied at once. AYm' York Worhl. Lots of Old Things in Japan. In one of his Toyko letters to the Chicago L'rcorfl, W. E. Curtis writes: One sees lots of odd things in Japan, and Mr. Kaneko, the Assistant Minis ter of Commerce and Agriculture, tells me that he is w riting a book on the peculiarities of his people. The Japanese address letters the re verse from what we do, writing the country first, the State or Province next, then the city, the street and num ber, ami the name last of all, which, when you come to think of it is a very sensible method, ami would lie encour aged by our jsist men and the distrib uting clerks iu ourjnst offices. The Jajmnese carelitiT has the blade of his plane fastened edge upward in the top of his IkiicIi, and shoves the lioard or the plank across it. He pulls his saw toward him, instead of shoving it away from him with his weight iqs 011 it. The needlewoman sews from her lody instead of toward it. The eye of the needle is at the jstiiit, and Un thread is not cut from the sjssd until the seam is finished, but is drawn along through every stitch. She tins a pa-jH-r thimble, oiled and waxed, instead of a metal one. When you buy a few yards of cloth the merchant always unrolls the w hole piece and cuts it off the inside end, in order that you may not have to take the part that is faded and shopworn. White st CityTn the World. There cannot jossibly lie a whiter city than Cadiz, unless it Ik- built of snow. The U-t way to approach the port is to take a trip on one of the small steamers which ply In-twecn the irts of Morocco and Spain. As you near the coast you see iu front of you a w hite mass w hich appears to In- tit Kit ing upon the water, just as you are. The first thought of a foreigner is that he is in sight of au itvberg. The white mass, glittering in the sun and render ed more dazzling by the blue sea and sky, looks exactly like a monster ice mountain partly incited, so that out line of castles and hills appears upon it; but ouly for a second does the illusion last, for you know there are no iceU-rgs in that part ami you are quickly in formed that you are hiking at Cadiz. No other ot her town in the world pre sents such a magic appearance. A Gentleman once asked a lawyer what he would tlo provided he had loaned a man f'sKl, ant! the man hud left the country without sending any acknowledgments. "Why, that's simple; just write him to send au acknowledgment for the ,uiMyou lent him, and he will doubt less reply stating it was only :S"m. That will sulficc for a receipt, and you can prtKiiil against him if necessarry." SAVED ! I r.-n t'ntold MiseryThe Experiencd cf Mrs. J. C Bonhottzer, of Cambria City. Mr. J. C. Eonholtzer resides at 103 jlcConaughy street, Cambria City. The rx;n-r;eiice she has had has ended happily for her. and in relating it, 'tis with the v. is'i and hope that others may prolit by the telling. Perhaps you know what it is to have a bad back, a lame, weak or aching one, and can appreciate the relief tint has been eccorded Mrs. Ilonholtzer. 'T is a great puWic benefit indeed to tell your townsmen and fe'low creatures hew safTniug can be lightened and life's burdens removed. This Cambria lady tells what she has to say in a plain, straightforward way that carries convic tion with it She says: "About five years ago I was completely prostrated by an attack of kidney disease, but I was gradually pulled around, and felt no more of the svtnptoras I had at the time until last spring, when I commenced to suffer with the old pain in mv back. It grew more constant and severe as the winter came and passed; I would feel it prcatest in the morning when I would first waken up, and before getting out of bed. Oh, how tny tides and back would ache. I be ni to be afraid that I would get as bad aj I was the fi'st time. I was so troubled when I beard of Doau's Kidney I'ilR found them highly recom mended at Griffith's drug store and began to use them. The result of taking them is a complete cure; 1 hare no more pain in my back whatever. I often think of how many hours spent in pain I would have been saved had I but known of Doan's Kidney Tills sooner." No need of people going around with a bad back when a remedy so simple and inexpensive ns Doan's Kidnev Pills can be had; a medicine endorsed by home testimony, by people in your State, your county, your town. Trom everywhere comes the same report, and there are no exceptions; wherever Doan's Kidney Pills are used backache is banished. l?or sale by all dealers, or mailed by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agenU for the U. S. Price, 50 cents pet box. ELY'S Cream Balm CATARRH I quickly aisorlMd. Cleanse the Nasul Passages, Allays I'atn and IntltiiimatitMi. HeiU the sore. I'roteelH the tin irane frtun A Iditionnl t old 11 .stores the Sense) of Taste and iSmell. itwilTcure COLD t HEAD A particle Is applied into each nodril end I ara.s-ul.le. Price jo rents at druggist ir by roil. ELY BROTHERS. W Warren street X. Y. IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISER". The cream of the country papers is found ia Remington's County Seat List, Shrewd acYBrUsera kvail themselves of those lists, a copy of which can be had of liemineton s. ... ..i. i. tv.. 1 0 iroi. m itcw iora. a. x nwiHirg. 1 yTT THE KEELEY CURE Tastrwrlal tvvwi tn brctnpa Bv-n who. harlnr drifted uiiroiiwlouftly into the drink habit and j awaken to ttul the disrate of alroholism fmoeiietl np-mthein. rendering them unlit to n.amureaf I bint renuiriiiir a clear brain. A four week cuurse of treatment at we PrmBURd KEELEY INSTITUTE. No. f 16 Fifth Avenno, : rtnrc to them all thefr powers inmital anl physical, ilculrtiys tho abnormal appetite, anil restore them to the condition thor weroinlw fure titer indulged in soiiinli.nl?. This lint bee it done in more than KiU catva treated here, ami mnng them tin of your own neighbors, to 1 whom we ran refer with confidfwe aa to tbo j absolute safety and efficiency of tht Keelry Cure. ! The fullest and mutt errhiiiir lnvwtliration ia ! n vital, beud lor pamphlet giving full iniomia . Lion. CONDENSED TIME TABLES. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 8omerset and Cambria Branch KOKTHWAKD. Johnntown Mall Kxprrns. Ittirk wood 5::) a. 111., Nomerxet 1:111. SloyeMtuwn Hoov- eraville 0.-U3. Johiislown t:U. Johnstown Mail KlDffm.-iorkwood 10: "0 a. n Kimrnn't 11:1V. MtjyeMnwn ll:i, Huov- erxville llrl, Joluiiduwn l.Tlo p. nu JohnMown AiTominodittion. ICorkwood .x.V p. ni., Sonierxet H:J stoyenlown ti;l, lluov ernYlilefc.'M, Jolin.sttittu 7: j0. Dally. BOI'TH WAKI. Mail. Johnntown (tiiOa. m., Hoovervllle7:ll, Stt.ytKtow 11 Si Somerset 7U, Koek wood b;J. Expnn. Johnstown 2-.) p. m., Honverxvllle .1:11, !Mve?iiown 3:i j, ftomersct 3V, Itoca WimkI l;jj. Sunday inly. Johnstown 8;30, Somerset 10Kt Kovkwooi! 1U-.2). EN NH YL VAN I A KAILKOAD. CaSTCRN STANDARD TIME. IN EFf EST MtY 20, 1895- COJCDBSS.-tKn fM'HEDL'I.K. Trains arrive mid depart from the station at Joliusiowu as follows: WESTWARD Western Kxpni .. 4:$ a. ni. Southwestern Kxprewt ' lobnslowti Aceommtidation t;:i7 M " AeeoinliMMhtlioii U:ii Piicirie Kxpn-Mi :.'4 " Wnv IWseiiKer " Mail " f-'Mut Line let, p. 111. JoiinnUiwu Aeeommodntlon. ........... y-M " EASTWARD. Athtntie Kxpress .. S'3t-teire Kxpr.'. Altoolirt Aceoimilodut liy Kxpris Main Line Kxpre.... Alt.ioret Aetoinmtidnt 5.-M a. m. .'k M'1 " Kin " ItCl'i " I'fti p. til. 4:1 1 " Ion... Mad Kxpr.ivs Joimstowu AeeommiN latiol l'hilail. Iphia Kxpri-MM Kal lane . lo-w For ni'i-s. mails. Ar., 0:1 II on Ticket Airents or address l li.w. K. Watt, 1. A. W. 1L, In) Kilth Ai-nt:e, rutiiur-, l"a. hi. M. I'rev.-t. J. K. Wood. ten'l M.'.na. r. Ueti'l 1'a.ss. Ast. YOUR EYE! We want to catch It! KVKRY FARM Kit in Somerset (A.iiiity who lists a eon I of Hemlock l'.ark or a Hiili" to tlisptisie of will liml that the O )N FLI KXCK TAXNF.RY t o., w ill pay the hightt cash priees for the name. Write for quotations to wixslow s. coi:i: a co.. Continence, Pa. JORDAN & HiNCHMAN. We are now ready with our new and larye In voice of K'.iie t'onfi-etioiiery (.oN, popular brands of ISiseuits and Cakes, Faney lioods of all styles, und everything else pertaining to a firsi-eiass house to fill orders promptly, and to supply resident families to any ex tent. Uootlsa!w:ys fresh, and aiwr.ys offi r etl at lowest figures. I'ul and see one of the finest assortments ever curried. JOBDAN & HINCHMAN. 270272 Main Street, Johnstown. Pa. GOOD LIQUORS! and Cheap Liquors I5y calling at the OM IU-liuMe Li.p:or Store, "o.30: Maia St, and 106 Clinton St, Johnstown, Pa., all itiil.-i tif tlie choicest Ippior.s in mar ket can In; hail. To my oM custom ers this is a vcll-knowtl faet, an-1 to all others convincing proof will lie iiivcll. lloli't forget that I keep m hainl the greatest variety of Lienors, the choiivst liramls and at the lowest prices. P. S. FISHER. I BANTLY. 134 Clinton Street, JOHNSTOWN. - - PA. -HF.ALKR IX- Builders1 and Other Hardware QLsASS, f AINTS, 01b, VAR NISHES, ETS. See Our Iirue Stoek of Sleighs. Bob Sleds. Slcigh Bells. Robes, Honsc Blankets, Etc. PRICES to suit tlie times. ".irlTO iUinru.?i CAVtfll 0, 1 rvftUL MAKKS i C.k OBTAIN A PATFSTf For rnimj answer and an hrawst opinion, write to HI I At CO.. who have had nearly fifty .ears' upertenoj in the patent btuineM. rmumonica tlone strictly conftnent mi. A llaadbauk ol la. lormatinn enooernina I'atrat and tiw to ets. tain tbeia cent free. Alio a catalogue oi UMX-tiMD-leal and cientlflo bnoks aent free. Patents taken thmuch Muno Co. reerlTa pewai notice is the SclenllHr American, ami tbus are broiuht widely betnretlie pohlic with out e-irt to the Inrentur. This sttlendid pener. lasned weekly, eleaantly illnalrateil. baa by far the larvest rirculatlon of any scientific work in tlx WtiraL S3 a year. 8sn-ple copies sent free. Building F-litiuo, monthly. lios .ear. tlnrt "pies, ti cents. Rrery numtier rontaina beau tiful piaies. In colors, and pbotmrraphs of Bew houses, witb plana, enabline builders to show the) latest deais-na and secure contract s. Addreea at L.N.N A Co, Skw Vouk, 361 BaoAiiWAV vnn paivt niMn this j iJKJ JJX A llU PAPER ! so file in PrrrsitraoH t the A.lrt in Huresu at I so uis in rrrrsitraoH at ine Alrt sin Kuresu at I ?ur, "- I led tents. i T?Z EEiniTQTOlT BROS. I wko wUl soouau fci sayerualii la lJ-M raia HERMA THE i,s None Too Good When You EW' jn r k d i It i Jut n.t FRESH, PURE DRUGS, Aa it U To Jtive Confidence AT SNYDER'S You are always ure of getting the CurefuIIy TRUSSES FITTED. All of the Jtent and Moat Approved Tnixnea Kept in Sttxk fyttisfnetion Guaranteed. OPTICAL GOODS. GLASSES FITTED TO SUIT THE EYES CALL AND HAVE YOfl SIGHT TESTED. JOHN N. SNYDER, Somerset, - - - GREAT VALUE bITTbE MONEY. TUfl WW Ml a twt "nty-imw jiuni:il, is the It :itlins l:t piiMit'iin fainily jittja-r (,f !ilt I'nitttl States. It is a National Family Paper, ainl jrives all the & -r,.-r:-.i liews tif tho I'tiitttl States. It drives the eveiits tif fureisrn latels in ;l 1, shell. Its "Agricultural" tleti irtnieiit has lei tie-rinr in the t i.ii'.m-. Its "Market Rport" are ren-':iietl authority. Sejiarate ill partn.i i; for "The Family Circle," "'Our Young Folk," niul ' Science and Me. chanics." Its Home and Society" ctihimns (nniiiianil the utliniratii.ti ..f wives niul il uiirhters. Its irt-neral jiolirit-il news, t-iliti.ria's ai.il ili-.-is-hi'ins are eii!ii.n hetisivf, hrillia'it ami exhaustive. A STKCIAL CONTItACr enul l.-s 1 lie . somerset rieraiu ONE YEAR FOR ONLY $2.00. CASH IN ADVANCE. (The r.-tiiar s;i!crittiii!i for the tw itjH-rs is :5.t. ) SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT ANY TIME. A.Mress all ortLrs to THE HERALD. Write jour name aud a J dress en a postal Tribune Itniidin?, Sew York ( It, Wet-kly Tribimt' will be mailed te Louther's Drug Store, Main Street, This Model Drug Sicn is Favorite with FRESH . AMD . Medicines, Dye Stuffs, Sponges, Truses, Supporters, Toilet Articles, Perfumes, &c. Till IXHTOK filVES ! Ft SO 5 A I. ATTESTl'JS TO Til E COMPOl'M PI Nil or Loitters GREAT CARB BEING TAEKX TO TSE SPECTACLES, And a Full Line of Optical Goods large assortment all can be suited. THE FISEST BBMDS OF CIGARS Always on hand. It ia always to 'ntending purchasers, whether they buy from us or elsewhere. J. M. LOUTHER M. D. MAIN STREET - - Somerset Lumber Yard MASrrAtTritER AXD IEALRR AND WlloI.litAI.E AND Kf.taii.eb ok Lumber and Building Materials. Hard and Oak, . Poplar, Sitting. IMckrt, MiiltliS Mulnut, Yellow Piue. Flooring. Sali. Mar Kll- C berry, Milnsleti, lotrs, Italnsttersi. hrxluuh Lalli, A.hiiePlne UlituN, e trel TosN, l lr. A tfent ml linpofall it-.i.Int of I.umlnTniiil KuiMing Jl itt rial anj K.n.i1n ?-iaV k 'fl ' !ta k. At.s.1, tain furnish anything in the line of oar busin.- t,,r.l. r with r.m-'n-blt; prtmiptneiw, sut h an Bracket, ihIU-Ui-J work, ete. Elias Cunningham, Office and Tard Ojiposlte S. k C. R. R. IT WILL PAY YOU to bi y vont tfcmoriul Mrork WM. F. SHAFFER, SOMKPwSET. PKNX'A. . Manufaeturer of and Ivalrr la Fast era M'ork Kurnl.sh.Hl on Shtrt Xttlee MARBLE MD EUIilJ W02K. Al, Agent for the WHITK BUtXZK Person In need of Monument Work will nml it t. ilu ir mi, to ,-,u at mv h.o where a irop..rtiw-inT will be Kiveii theui aV-.-sHtisiiii-iKH) smtninttsnl In every rase, an.t IU VVT ,OW 1 vit KMviul iu-tUtu to WMU Bromt, Or Pun Zino Monument intrtvlue-l 1y n..v. w. .. Uinc. ft a d.-l,le. ini.n.ve -i in the t .,( M;,(eril ,l I t.iiMni i.ia.aii.l whii h UtU-ttlneJ u. Iw il.tt rti!ar Maiiuin. ni f.r our clmngible IU nate. tiive us a trail. tO. F. SHAFFER, BEST c i x i :s. liiiiit'iTaiit to S-etin- in the I'liyxlrinn to , frt-het Ri-ili-in I'I:li I'lpf.- Compounded. WEEKLY NEWS OF TjHE W0rLD f OR TPjf Le. WEEKLY I us t.irer this sj.I. u.l i.l ji.tinul a: ; i c rJ, semi it to tieo. Vf. Best. Ktom and Simple copj of Til w Tor jun. Somerset, Pa. Rapidl7 Beccming a Great Peopis in Search cf PURE . DRUGS. OXLT FRESH AND PC KB ARTIfl.ES. EYE-GLASSES, always on hand. From sari a pleasure to display our socd - - SOMERSET. PA Soil, Woods, SUUon, S0Ii:KET.f 1 ,.- I a I'lerT SMU iittti J r V a I Price tans. ... 'fscrewro rr MONUMENTAL eR02E f JVr-A.V, El PrescnptionslFaiiiily Receipls Over 500 i Beautiful IrAiinl G1
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