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I'nL j AiT'.'llS tY-AT-LA W, f tsoiuenaet. Pa. -KED. W. BIEECKEK, somerset. Pa. -e iu rriuUug Hour Row, opposite Court J .use. IL scurr, iSomerset, Pa. I. 1 I.'.wKl'l! , A 11 (JKX E Y-AT-LA W, ' 1 Isoiucnsct, Pa. i U. KOMNT- J- CHjLfc. f CIONTZ A OGLE, y Ariuii-vs-Ar-LAW, (somerset. Pa. " c-ve prompt attention to business cu . iu u. :r care in x .merset aud adjoiuiug ;u. in i'nul aoaso Itow, opofciu: '.ouri il-.iit. J-ALKNTINE HAY, I Ali-'lO.EY-AT-LAV, I tvjiuiivL Pa. nlWrrin RI Estate. Will atU-ud to IIX II. I'HL, AHui; EY-AT-LA W, tSouicrM't, Pa. il nn.:iipt;y H'.tend to all business en- 4.di. turn. Moiu-y ilVK,tKt-a ou coiiec- i ii. (.'IlK-e IU ilalillllOlU llHU k. IiHX U. KIM MEL, f A 1-R"l; EY-AT-LA V, I skIlclet, Pa. i .:; :t. nd to all business ejitrusUNl to bis I s.jiii. r. ! Mud adjoining couiilics, witU 5 .pUomiiil IidWiiv. oitieroa Main Lrotuj i, l oitn.tli B ijrvwrj' More. Lymes ithii, tSoiuerset, Pa. ':.tin MMiiimoth BliH-k. up tlairs. Eu- g oil Mam t nre. tm l. cie-tlouil I .i . oiales m-ttled. title examined, uud all u.kw alteuue-d to with yrouipUieaii 4 tdeiitv. C l.Y T.X. L. C. CULISUK. 1 tLliUUX & COLlIUltX, Al fuKN EYsj-AT-LAW, tSoiiierset, Pa. lmiiiM -titrustl to our care will be J ttlid talltiluliy Mtteiiu.'d to. Clleo- . iiia-le iu slurrM-i. iMNiioru anu aujoiu oiuiili. ur eying and conveyancing ou reusoiial'le u-rujs. i L. DA Ell, , AlRiRXEY-AT-IW, KoiucrM-t, Pa. 1 riartio In Somoix-t and adjoining i :u. Ail l.usin-s entrusted to biu will O-KFKi.'TU. W. 11. KCFPEL, I'FUIUTH A RUITEL, AHull-N El rvA 1-LiW, Somerset, Pa. l.u:aeM entrusted to their care will be i..v ai.a i.unetualiv attciideU to. titlice i-.u irur streel, i.'i'ir.ile Aiamuioltl W. 1 AUOTHEIIS, M. D-, I'HYMi lAN ANUML'lllitoX, skiiiierx't. Pa. T-t on Patriot Street, near K. IL Station. ; cw; at ollice. P. F. SHAFFEIl, i'a.lclAX iSbSUKGEOS, Somerset, l"a. :iAr pn.f..ioiutl sen ke l the citi- ttfKrtijepw-t and vicinity. Ultii next tolomiiit-rvuti HoteL :1 l J. M. LOlTHEIt, J iiM IA.N Axnsl ROEUX, f on Slain street, rear of Irug ittore. 4 ' yi II. S. KIMMELL, i-r his (nf,-i,,nnl wrvicw to the citi i SH.iiirr-t and vwiiiitv. I'nltA tro- 9 :u!i t-iij'ajd he can be l.Hllid at hi of- U Main su East ul I.Lalllolld. )IL J. S.M, MII.I.EX. I'J.-adliate iu lieutistry.) f "Tciai att. iiiion to the rT"atlon - .uii i-in. Artini ial u luwrtNt. Iv-rali.tti. ...i . . ... i r.. .. . ..k.u. vr.Viiiu tix ud 1'alnoi street. . H. COITIiOTH, Funeral Director. I Main Cr,H St. Ili-sideiioe, S-W l'atrit SL J. K. Beact y. Real Estate and Collecting Agency. -v. wUhhi- to buy or m-Il timmortoirn - n in..ii.r entity orelw-w hcrc. are "J . Ma. I at ..ur..ni.e iu Km .,-r bl.x-lc. 'V- a:t.nti..ii tN giv.n uall iiutil In es rsjarding i,ncn aI,a hmtion ol I'rojs-i-ascrnel.M. a two cm stamp to pix nwer. A EHV.EU A ItKAt'H Y. kne.K-r liKjck. Somerset, l'a. I Oils! Oils! k-uLl- . i '. 'ttsnurs Itepart- niaLu;"'"'. ,"ak.' -.M- ialty of tradt tne Huet brand of bating Abbricatine Oils aphtha Si Gasoline, f t he madr fr,,ra I-roleum. We chal- ".ecou.parhw,, with every known Product of Petroleum atisfaetory Oils -IX THE American farket, fjrutir- TrdetrSorm.-t.. it itiur a tV altnr.) i.-A a COOK EEERITS and UEASE A KlXJHER, Botneraet, Pa. 1 VOL. XLIV. XO. -THE- First National Hani" Somerset, Penn'a. Capital, S50.000. Surplus, S20.000. DEPOSITS RECEIVED IN LAR3C ANDSMALL AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS, STOCK DEALERS. AND OTHERS SOLICITED DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LaRCE M. HICKS, GFXJ. It SCULL, JAM FX L. PIUH, W. II. MI I.I. Kit, JOHX R- SCXJTT, IIOIJT. H. tiCI LL, FKEU W. BIESECKER. EDWARD SCXLL, : : PUESIDEXT. VALEXT1XE HAY", : VICE PRESIDENT. HARVEY M. BERKLEY, . CASHIER. The fundi; and securttim of this bank are se curely protected in a celebrated Corliss BfB blak Pkoop Safe. The only safe made abso lutely burglar-proof. The Somerset Coil. National BAN K OF SOMERSET PA. K: EitabMilwd, 1877. Orfiiktd u I National, 1890 -O. CAPITAL, $50,000 SURPLUS AND UN- DIVIDED PROFITS $lb,UUU. Kk Chas. I. Harrison. Pres't. Wm. H. Koontz, Vice Pres't. Milton J. Pritts, Cashier. X): Directors : SAMUEL SNYDER, WM. ENDSLEY, JOSIAH SPECHT, JONAS M. CKK, JOHN II. SNYDER, JOHN STCKIT, JOSEPH C DAVIS, NOAH S. MILLER, HARRISON SN YDER, JEROME STl'F'FT, SAM. B. HARRISON". Customprs of this bank will rwive the mnut li!era! treat men! consistent with uafe Intuiting. Parties w Ulitnt; to send nionev east or u,t can be accommodated by draft for any amount. Money and valuablf secured by one of Die bold's celebrated nafen, with mol improved time lin k. t 'olleclions nutde ln ell parts of the United States. Charge niotlerate. Accounts and deposit solicited. Wild & Anderson, Iron & Brass Founders, Engineers and Machinists and Enf-in Ituildrrs. -Manufai-turers of- COAL CAR WHEELS and AXLES. 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Mood's Saved I Can Honestly Say This fly Life For fears I was ln a rery serious eondltioa with catarrh of the stomach, bowels and bladder. I suffered Intensely from dyspepsia, and In fact was a miser able wreck, merely a skeleton. I seem ed to go f i-aaa ta4 wr. I really wlnhed I was dead. I hail no rest day or night. I did not . : medicine of the wrong kind that It had poisoned me, and my Onger nails fcegaat taira black and eome off. I begrtn to take Mr. W. R. Young, Potter's Villa. Ta. Hood's farsaparilla. I had faith In the medicine, and It i'.IcI more for me than all prescriptions. I have gradually regaiaed perfect health, am entirely free from catarrh of the bowels, and pain in my back. My recovery Is simply mar clous. W. E. Yocno. Potter's Mills. Pa. Hood's Cures Hood's Pills relieve distress after eating. Campbell & "The People's Store Smith. Stock Taking Over. . . . Oar Surplus Stock is much larger than we expected. We find many lots of goods that must be sold during August, before the arrival of our Fall Inipoi talions, September 1st. Price will be no object we will not carry these goods into another season, so look out for extraordinary values during August in Domestics, Linen Goods. ; Wash Goods, Silks, Dress Goods, Ladies' Waists. Ladies' Wraps, Millinery, Ladies' and Gents' Underwear, Carpets, Curtains, Upholstery Goods, Furniture, Housefurnishing Goods, China Ware, &c. Watch the Pitt&burfl Daily Papers for Particular. Campbell & Smith, Fifth Avenue, PITTSBURGH, PA. Jacob D. Swank, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Next Door West of Lutheran Church, Somerset, - Pa. I Am Now prepared to supply the public with Clocks, Watches, and Jew elry of all description, as Cheap as the Cheapest. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. All work guaranteed. Iiook at my rtoek U fore making your purchases. J. D. SWANK. A. H. HUSTON, Undertaker and Embalmer. A GOOD HEARSE, nd everything pertaining to funerals furn ished. SOMERSET - - Pa omer SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, OLD FASHION E0SE3. They ain't no style about 'em. And they're sort o pale and faded; Yit the doorway here, without 'em. Would lie lonevomer, and shaded With a gMMl 'ml blacker shaddcr Then the morn In' glories makes. And tlie sunshine would look sadder For llielr good old-fashion's sak.-s. I like 'em 'cause they kind o' Sort o' mnkea teller like 'm; And I tell you. when I find a Hunch out whur the sun kin strike 'em It alius nets me thiiikin' O' the ones Mutt used to grow And peek in thro' thechlukln' (' the cabin, don't you know T And th.-n I think o' mother. And how she 111x4 to lore 'em When they wuzn't any other, 'Less she found 'eh up above 'em ; A nd biT eyes afore she shut 'cm, VhlsH red with a smile and said We must pick a bunch and put 'em In her hand when she was d.-ad. I!i:t, as I wuz a sityin', They ain't no style about 'em. Very Kaudy or displaying Hut I wouldn't be without 'em, 't'allse I'm happier Iu these iamb's. And the hnllyliHWks and sieh. Than the hiiinuiin' bird tlutt uises In the roses of the rich. Jm-rt n'hilcomb Hilry. A FAMOUS J LIMP. How George Washington Won the Tillage Beauty. George Washington was a wonderful jumper. Thackeray in "The Virgin- ianss," gives him the magnificent record of twenty-two feet three inches for a running broad. Vouivg Harry War rington writing home from England a description of a jumping match in which he covered twenty-one feet three inches, thereby beating his competitor, Lord March goes on to say : "I then told them that there was a gentleman at home who could beat me by a good foot, and when they asked me who it was, I said Colonel U. Washington, of Mount Vernon as you know he can and he's the only man in this country or mine that can do it." So if Thack eray is to be believed (Seorge stands the champion broad jumper of his time ; indeed, up to 1SS9, he could easi ly have won all intercollegiate champ ion comjietitions and most of the na tionals. What the agile young pater patriae might have accomplished with spiked slioes, a cinder path and a nice plank "take oil" no one can say, but it is not improluible that he would now -stand not ouly first iu jieace, first in war and first in the hearts of his coun- trymeu, but first on the list of running broad jumpers as well. It is rather unfortunate that the de tails of this remarkable jump arc not to be found, but I have discovered a very pretty little story which gives him a record only two inches short of that given him by young Warrington. In a pretty little village in Virginia there lived iu 17T a rich and eccentric old farmer whose daughter was declar ed to be the loveliest maiden in all the eouutry round. The lieautiful Annette was eighteen years of age, and of course had many suitors for her hand and heart. Some offered her wealth, some xsition, others nothing but love and labor, but, obedient to her father's wishes, she encouraged none of them. On her nineteenth birthday the old man invited all the youth of the village to a grand haymaking frolic, and they came, amoug them a dozen handsome young fellows who were known to still retain a tender regard for the fair girl whose natal day they had come to cele brate. The morning passed in merry lalmr. Iiynoou the barns were filled with the fragrant hay, and all were ready for the feast, of good things that had beeu spread under the shady branches. "Now, my lads," said the old man, after the banquet was some time over, "I've got something to say to you. It seems that a good many of you have been casting. sheep's eyes at my An nette. Now, loys, I don't care any thing about money or talents, book laming and soldier laming. I can do as well by my girl as any man iu the country ; but I want her to marry a man of my own grit Now, perhaps you know it, and jierhaps you don't, but when I was a youngster I could beat any one in all Virginia in the way of leaping. Look here !" He held up as he spoke three hand some medals. "And all of them won in fair fight," lie went on, "liesides which I got my old woman by licating the smartest man on the eastern shore. Now list en : I've taken an oath that no man shall marry my daughter without jumping for it There you have it, boys ; yonder's the green and here a Annette. The one who jumps the farthest on a dead level shall uiarry her this very eveuing." This peculiar address was received with great applause, and more titan one youth, as he bounded away for the arena of trial, cast a glance of antici pated victory upon the lovely prize as she stood blushing in-side her father. Propping their various amusements, the entire party wended their waj-, laughing ami singing, toward the vil lage inn lnTore which spread the green. In the center this plot of ground was bare and admirably suited to exercise of the sort iu which they were about to engage. Soon all was in readiness for the contest. The signal was gi-eu and the young competitors stripped of their coats and stepped forward. "Edward Grayson, seventeen feet !" cried oue of the judges. The youth had done his utmost, but it was clear by the look on his face that he had little hope. With a longing glance at the prize he could not win he left the grounds. "Dick Boulden, niueteen feet !" Dick, with a little laugh of satisfaction, replaced his coat and joined tbe on lookers. "Harry Preston, nineteen feet three inches !" "Well done, Harry !" shouted the spectators. "You tried hard for the acres and the homestead." Harry, who was a rattle-brained sort of a fel low, laughingly vowed he only jump ed for the fun of the thing. It was thought, however, that he would not have said so if he had felt sure of win ning. Charlie 8imm, fifteen feet and a halfr "Hooray forCharlie! Charlie wins!" set ESTVBTTSIIKD 1827. cried the crowd with good-natured sar casm. Charlie grinned, threw off his disappointment with a slight uplift of his shoulders, and was soon creating roars of laughter with his wit, which, by the way, was far more nimble than his legs. There was now but one leaper left, for several had liccomediseou raged and retired from the contest "Now for Harry Carroll !" shouted the spectators, and Harry stepped for ward amid great applause. Carrol was the ntliletej.f the village, and he was so general a favorite that everyone wished as well as anticipated his suc cess. Moreover he was a handsome youth and it Mas well knowu that be tween him and the beautiful Annette there existed a strong mutual attach ment. Harry cast a swift glance at his sweetheart and at the villagers, and with a gleam of triumph in his eyes he laiunded forward. "Twenty-one feet and a half. A magnificent leap!" cried the judge. "Hooray for Harry Carroll. Harry wins !" Hands, hats and handkerchiefs were waved wildly by the delighted villag ers, and the eyesof the happy Annette sparkled with joy. Now just liefore Harry had leatied, and while every one's attention was fixed utMHi him, a stranger had entered the throng unjierceived. He was a tall, gentlemanly young man iu a military undress frock coat, who had at that moment arrived on horseback before the inn. He was just in time to wit ness Carroll's great leap. The first burst of applause over, the spectators awoke to the stranger's presence. The man's handsome face and easy address at once attracted the eyes of the maidens, while his manly and sinewy frame, iu which were hap pily united symmetry and strength, called forth the admiration of the young men. "Mayhap, sir, stranger, you think you can beat that," said Charlie Simins, remarking the manner in which the newcomer scanned the are na. "If you can outleap Harry Carroll you beat the best man in the colonies." "Is it for amusement you are pur suing this pastime?" inuired the youthful stranger, "or is there a prize for the winner?" "The sweetest prize man ever strove for," answered one of the judges; yonder she stands." The stranger cast a resptctful glance at the blushing maiden, and his eyes looked admiration. "Are tlie lists ojien to all?" he ask ed. "All, young sir," replied Annette's father, with interest, his youthful ardor rising as he surveyed the proportions of the straight-limbed young stranger. "If you will try you are free to do so. Here is my daughter, sir; look at her and decide. With a smile the newcomer threw otr his coat, drew his sash tighter around his waist, and stepped forward. Annette looked anxiously at Harry, who stood near with troubled brow and angry eye, and then she cat upon the stranger a glance of piteous en treaty. All hearts st'd still as the young man bounded forward. Twenty-two feet and an inch !" The judge's words were received with murmurs of surprise and wonder. Not without a feeling of pity for poor Har ry, all crowded round the new victor, offering him their congratulations. The old farmer approachel, and grasping the young man's hand, ex- ultingly called him his son, and said he felt prouder of him than if he were a prince, lo the oiaatniete me true patents of nobility were physical strength and activity. Itesuming his coat the stranger sought with his eye the fair prize he had, although nameless and unknown, so fairly won. She leaned upon her father's arm, pale and distressed. I'oor Harry Carroll stood aloof, gloomy and mortified, admiring the stranger and his ability, but hating him for his success. "Annette, my pretty prize," said the victor, taking her passive hand, I have won you fairly. Annette's cheek became paler than marble, she trembled and cluug closer to her father, while her drooping eyes sought the form of her lover. At the words of the stranger Carroll's face grew dark and determined. "I have won you, my pretty flower, to make you a bride tremble not so violently I mean not myself, however proud I might lie," he added, with gal lantry, "to wear so fair a gent next my heart I think there is a favored youth among the competitors who has a higher claim than mine. Young sir," he continued, turning to the surprised Harry, "nicthinks you were the victor in the lists before I strove not for the maiden, though one could not well strive for a fairer, but from love of the manly sport iu which I saw you en gaged. You are the victor, and as such, with the permission of this worthy assembly, you receive from my hand the prize you have so well and honorably won." The youth sprang forward and grasp ed the stranger's hand with gratitude, and the next moment Annette was weeping from pure joy upon his breast The place rang with the acclamations of the delighted people, and amid the excitement the newcomer withdrew, mounted his horse and rode briskly out of the village. That night Harry and Annette were married, and during the festivities many and many a bumper was drank to the health of the mysterious aud noble-hearted stranger. Passing ou several years we find that Harry Carroll has become CoL Harry Carroll of the revolutionary army. Oue evening the colonel, after just return ing from a hard campaign, was sitting with his family on the piazza of his handsome country house, when an ad vance courier rode up and announced the approach of General Washington and suite, who would crave the col onel's hospitality for the night The necessary directions in reference to household preparations being given the colonel ordered his horse aud rode for ward to niect the distinguished guest, whom he had never seen, though serv ing in the same widely extended anny. That evening, at the table, Annette, now the dignified matrouly, and still AUGUST 14, 1895. handsome Mrs. Carroll, could not keep her eyes from the face of the illustrious visitor. Every moment or two she would steal a glance at his command ing features and half-doubtiugly, half assuredly shake her head to look again and be still more p'JzzletL Her aWnce of mind and embarrassment at last I s came evident to her husband, who in quired affectionately if she were ill. "I suspect, colonel," said the goncral who had liecu some time, with a quite meaning smile, observing the lady's curious and puzzled scrutiny of his features, "that Mrs. Carroll thinks she recognizes in me an old acquaintance." And he smiled with a mysterious air as he gazed upon I Kith alternately. The colonel stared, and a faint mem ory of the twist seemed to lie revived as he gazed, while the lady rose impul sively from the chair, and bending ea gerly forward over the tea urn, with clasied hands, and an eye of intense eager inquiry fixed full ujm.ii him, sftxal for a moment with her lii part ed as if she would speak. "Pardou me, my dear madam par don ine, colonel I must put an end to this scene. I have become, by dint of camp-fare and hard usage, loo unwield ly to leap again twenty-two feet one inch, even for so fair a bride as one I wot of." George Washington was indeed the handsome young athlete whose myste rious appearance and disapearaucc in the native village of the lovers is still traditionary ; aud whose claim to a sub stantial btxly of bona title llcsh and blood was stoutly contested by the vil lage story-tellers until the happy denou ement which took place at thehospita ble mansion of Colonel Carroll. Seorge H. Westley, in Chicago Inter Ocean. Western Dast Storms. There is no perfect climate on the face of this round earth we call ours. Paradise may afford such ; but mean while, between here and there, is a chance to make a variety of interest ing observations. The dust storms of the "Great American iX-scrt" are not fully treated in the "attractions" of various new towns issued by siM-rula-tors. The dust storms of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona the whole des ert section in whatever State are im portant factors in the chances for com fort and success of the new settler. The signs of a coming dust storm are many. The air is electric, a feather will cling to the fingers, the sky is oft times gray and streaked, the children iu the schools, even the primaries are nervous. Suddenly the bits ofpajH-r in the streets liegin to whirl ; soon you will see the dust coming like a rolling storm cloud ; the sky is olise-urt.il ; everything out of doors is "on the fly;" the slim branches of the scant cotton woods slash the air, and if you are un fortunate enough to lie out of doors, your eyes, nose, and mouth will be fill ed with alkali dust, while you ore striving to make headway against a whirlwind. If you are under cover, you will hasten to drop w indows and shades; but the dust is so flue it will pv-netrate whatever air can. The pat tern of the carjiet may lw obliterated, and in some of the worst ones in New Mexico an eye-witness has said that drifts have been fnrni.il ou the floor from one to two inches in depth. "How long does a storm last?" Sometimes an hour, sometimes time days coining with great violence at intervals. We have known one that continued a week, with the exception of one day for a recess. The effect upon a nervous temperament is distressing ; there is a desire to hide the head like an ostrich ; tj creep into some hole, to cover the face so as not to see the wild turmoil of whirling things. The irrita bility Is so great with some jiersons as to culminate in tits of weeping. This is followed by exhaustion. It is not improbable that sand storms had an influence in the building of the "clitr dwellings." A dust storm may occur at any time of the year, but the spring is esiiecially prolific. When the "kamsin," the wind from the doert, "blows," be it summer or winter, the worst kind of a storm may ride ou its wings. The huge, cone-shaped mounds of ossified structure, which stretch for miles here and there on the plains, tes tify to the whirling winds that over a thousand leagues of desert have had their mad sweep for centuries. By some, dust storms are considered scavengers. Some think the air seems purer just after one, and so it does, on the principle that the tooth feels better when it is done aching. Some think them heathful, as dry earth is a disin fectant, lKit the injury to the throat and to the nerves and the disastrous effect on vegetation seem to overbal ance this consideration. Hartford Times, The Name Aroused Her. Mr. Rudolf Lehman ii declares that he once found political animosity of great service to him in paititing a por trait His sister was a London lady who belonged to a family ronowmil for its stanch political opinions. It was the height of summer and very hot The lady was inclined to lie stout, and under the influence of the heat she now and then fell into a nap, to the serious an noyance of the painter. Her husband, who knew her weak ness in this regard, asked Mr. Leh maun in the lady's absence if he had experienced any trouble of this kind. Mr. Lehmann could not deny it "Very well," said the husband "the next time it occurs you just mention Mr. Gladstone, and you will have no further difficulty." The artist took the hint, with imme diate effect. Henceforth the lady was almost too wide awake. Youth's Com panion. "little, Bat Oh, My!" Thus ran the refrain to the old song, and the same may be said ofIr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They are little, but oh, my! don't they drive away the blues, expel malarial poison and bil iousness from the system, cum can stipution, sick headache, clear the clogged brain and cause the dejected sufferer t) bratM up and realu; that life is worth living after all! THE STORY OF JOHS BROWN, JR. His Stirring' Account of the Straggle for Free Soil in Kansaj- Chiit(ft) Jtcdtnl. The only man living to-day of the eighteen who, with John Brown, of Ossawattotiiie, struck the blow at Har jier's Kerry, is Jason Brown, w!m resides at Pasadena, Cal., and he is old, older than was John Brown, Jr., who died recently at the age of seventy-live, at his home tin Put-in-Bay Island. So lime passes away; the wide breach be tween North and South has narrowed, atid Is being bridged by sympathy and a better understanding. No o:te would have entered more heartily into the ceremony of unveiling the monument to the Confederate dead than John Brown, Jr., who had worn manacles in a Kansas prison for his hatred of slavery; who mourned a father and four brothers; who had seen the hair of his wi.e turn white at the age of thirty through grief and terror, and who had before him, until his death, the remind er of that terrible sacrifice of the pea-e and security of his family in an im becile son, born to him while he was a hunted fugitive. The writer of this sketch had an in terview with him on his Island hont one bleak autumn evening six years ago, when the summer guests had all departed from the big hotels at Put-in-Bay, and he could stride thu beach unmolested by curiosity or the camera For he was not only a historical char acter, but also a local celebrity a man who woultl make his individuality felt in any community. He had a robust frame, and stood half a head taller than the average men, even at the age of sixty-tight. He was broad of shoulder, st ron g of st ride, handsome of face, w i t it a shock of iron-gray hair and patriarch al white beard. He was free and cordial of manner, had a liberal culture, and ww uncompromising in principle. "Every man who deserves the name," he said, "has a principle for which lie sacrifices much or every thing. Mine is prohibition, Addition abolish ed. It's too early in the day to say that prohibition is not going to prohib it. It will when there is a Moses in spired of God to lead the children out ttf their bondage to drink. I don't feel the call as did my father. But it took the essence of abolitionism, con centrated through ten generations of Browns, to produce my father. It lie gan with Peter Brown, the carpenter who came over in the Mayflower. None of the family ever owned a slave, though the custom wascommon enough in the North in colonial days, and the Browns were always prosperous men. I remember once my father reading the Constitution of the I'nited States to his seven sons, and saying: 'Some one will arise and secure to the black man the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness guaranteed in that document. Home of the free! What a mock.Tyr lean rememlicr a hundred times in my youth how we were thrilled by my father's tremendous earnestness. As we grew older we noticed that he prayed often alone. We liclieved in him as the family of Mahomet liclieved in the prophet, and wo'ild have followed him uiiquestiotiingly at any tim'. When Kansas was opened for settlement, and the slavery question was U-ing agitat ed, he said: 'Now, lys, is the time. Kansas needs Free-Soilers who will tight and die if necossary.' Without a word of argument Jason, Owen, Fred crick, Salmon, and myself five Brown brothers went to Kansas with seed, fruit trees, livestock, implements, our young families, anil two squirrel rilles ami a revolver. "Six thousand border ru!U tis from Missouri had voted at the election of the spring la-fore. There were less than one thousand electors in the State at the time. We had the ague, and while we were sick our crops rotted. We lived in the midst of h istili- neighbor and were amenable to bad laws. The murder of Free-Soil men W-gan iu vt. Six months later these assassinations were avenged by the hanging of six pro-slavery men at Pottawattomie. Any one who had heard him, as I have a hundred tinu-s, would have known that my father was an in.-trument pr dilccd by the exigencies of the time that required him. I do not lielieve any volition of his owu could have prevent ed the march of events or his part in them. His failure was victory; his cause triumphed over his ik-.ttli. He headed no party, changed no law, won no kittle and suffered an ignominious death, but he left a principle that animated io.OnO.iss) people into action, lifted the burden of slavery from the South, and brought civilization for ward one hundred years at a single stride. Aud his soul goes marching on! I cannot tell you how my heart leaped the first time I heard that song. I never heard how it originated, but all at once half a million soldiers were marching to victory inspired by the soul of martyred John Brown. The Nation had just caught up with him who five years before had been swung off to immortality and immortal fame from the end of a rojie. "Harper's Ferry? I was not there. I was in Canada, getting supplies ; sup port the fighters. I missed the heuin necklace, bat I wear 'slavery bracelets yet" He rolled his sleeve alve his elbow, and showed a ring scar that sunk deep and encircled the arm. "That ring of skin came otr with some ropes in a Kansas prison. After the massacre of the six men at Pottawat tomie, Owen, Jason, and myself were captured. My arms were tied back with a heavy rot?, and I was forced t run before a cavalry escort all the way to Osawattomie in the hot sun. I went insane, and did not know when the ropes were removed, but I luid torn the flesh otT my swollen and bleeding arms in my agony, and there are the bracelets. I was in prison for months, wasted with fever aud violently insane, so that if I had not lieen chained to the floor, I should have killed myself, probably. They did not attempt to put any of us to death, because they were afraid of my father, who had his band of Free-S ilers in the swamp, but who rode in and out of the town unmolested So terrible had his name become that the border ruffians were afraid to come to vote in H V'., and the State was car ried for Free Sjii. Ojr work in Kansas ULO WHOLE NO. 2298. was done, but Brother Frederick was murdered, my wife's Lair was snow white, I was slowly recovering mind and strength, and my infant boy utter ed ouly scnsvle! babblings." The "boy," a man of thirty-two then, was sitting o:i the opposite side of the fireplace, smiling with imb-ciie a:n iability ukiii thf visitor. John Brown. Jr., swept his s'.iock of gray hair Ikw-'k with Ills hand, and resumed his story. "No, my father was not a large man, or ro'.u-t, like me. lie was only five feet ten incites, a:i I weighed b'.it It) )Unils; yet such was his asect that he carried the impression of a ma-sive buiid. He had a military look aud liearing, like the tiixl-l'earing Puritans. His eyes were a keen blue, under shag gy brows, and he rarely smiled, Irtit was serious and in-litative not sad, be cause never discouraged. He always appeared to his followers, and even to his eiicmii-s, to lie In I lie foremost ranks of in. n. Emerson once said that Cromwell was the only other man in history who would have justified a violent a-t on bis own part as a special commission. But of his erso:ial ap pearanee?ike John the Baptist crying in the wilderness. Only once in the last four years of his life did he wear a suit that was not ragged, and that was on the scaffold. His hair grew long and wild in Kansas; his fu-e was un shaven for weeks. He wore a leather belt that bristled with knives and pis tols, and iu this garb he held religious services iu theswanqis and prayed with his band of men. '1. not despair he said; 'one and G sl are a majority.' It was tlutt little taud of men, with God, that carried the day iu Kansas for Free Soil. At home he was lik a child. He rocked us nil to sleep at night, and sang us bis favorite song 'Blow Ye tlio Trumpets, BlowT so that the martial strain sounded like a lullaby. Every thing weak and suffering found protec tion and comfort on that gentle breast. From Kansas, father and the other boys, with my brother in-law Thomp son and my young sister Anne- went to Virginia, where they lived as cattle-buyers under the name of Smith, until Harper's Ferry. Converts kept coming until .here were eighteen. You know the rest. "He did not hate the Smth. He hated slavery, the institution. The border ruffianism in Kansas was not the South, and be always said so. I believe he foresaw the reconciliation after the straggle, and believed that the whole moral at;notsp!iereof the eouutry would lie strengthened and sweetened bv the conflict Htf would have had 'love and tears for the Blue, tears and love for the Gray.' The kindliest. gentlest, bravt-st heart that ever beat in a hum in br.-tst was thatofOssawat toinie Brown. And the pr widest title I bear is John Brown, Jr." A LIa:a-Paz2lad Husband. There is a married man living who was badly frightened the o:her night. He sent a note to bis wife about ' o'clock to sav that he wouM not be at home until late. The messenger Isiy who delivered the note to his wife happen--! to i.i -n:io:i that he had gone to tne wrong house, and had Iven very wr.ithfully treated by a man for dis tur'.'ing him. The wife rend the note, w hich was on a scrap of pajer. She thought a moment Then she said to the messenger Isiy: "I'll give you a shilling if you take the note back to my husband and tell him that story without saying that you cam here at all." The Uiy iockcled the money and went back to the husband with the note. "Well, why do you bring this liack?" he asked. "Because they wouldn't take if. A null came to the door, and told me If I didn't go away he would break my neck for me." The husband did not stay out late that evening. On thecontrury, he got home as fast as the underground train could take him. He looked suspicious ly at his wife, and said: "I sent a note, but the boy must have taken it to the wrong house." "I siipp-tse so," said the wife inno cently, "I have'nt got it." The man was dying to find out if anyone had called, but he was afraid to ask. The B iirnin? Gold Mine. The interior of the Ctica mine, Angels Camp, Cal., the greatest gold producing mine in the I'nited States is tm fire. Shortly after the 7 o'clock shift went down the timbers in the slop, near the s:0-foot level were dis covered to be burning. The men were rapidly hoisted through the three shafts. Many of the miners were in an exhausted and faioting condition when they reached the top. The mouths of the shafts were staled, aud an inef fectual attempt was made to smother the flames with steam. The mine is now being tltkNled. 1,3 M inches of water pouring ino it The fire is not spreading to any extent It will re quire about Is,!.),!,) gallons of water to reach it, and it will then take alaait three weeks to pump it out The loss cannot be estimated with any degree of certainity, but is likely to reach a quarter of a million dollars. He Had Traveled. A Windham county man, who roumlcd ut seventy-five year of his life without ever going more than twenty miles from his birthplace, was one day answering the questions of a distin guished Western visitor who had come ou to the old town from far beyond the MbtsUsippi Valley to learn of the chibl hood of bis father and mother, who were born in Windham county. The old native gave the Westerner just the details the latter was seeking. "And I suppose you have always lived around here," said the man from beyond the Mississippi. "Oh, no," replied the native, "I was born two miles from here !" For any of those unexpected emer gencies common to children in the summer, Dr. Fowler's Ext of Wild Strawberry is an unfailing cure. It is ' nature's specific for summer complaint ' iu all its form?. A Mechanical Tii tar- To watch a tinker at his work, with soil 'erin g iron and rosin, one would little think that his humble sphere of t!r-fiihn-ss would over Is- filled by a ma chine. Inventors have lucn working for year., at a mnchine to nuk-f a tin .an. A few dsT-.-rettt design.-, I:avs ' t v.: r vj-'tt out, '.."J! la', t o!e::t i-. Ui V.ij!i. r in." ;un-'. Tins -lilei s Is.ili t'ie ti-ps ;,u. Uittonis ol" round cans on to the cuu ImmI:) s; wis-s, cools and ili-charges the cans without any other IiaO'l'.Iip than putliic; the cans into the atltoioat ii- fct-dilig ?ev"ne. The i-niis are pol into the feed. Tbe feed delivers the cans rf elly t-ntr.il on the chucks of the carriers. Movim; from the left to the right the cans as sume an inclined Msition, uudoneend f the can is rolled Ibri.iib a Uilii f molten solder. Al't r jc-ing through the batSt the carrier brings the (tan again to an upright Mwition; it then passes an automatic wiper, and after that a cooling pipe. By this time the can has completed a full circle around the machine, niel the currier is now swumr, by nu-aiis !' cams, into the inner circle of the machine; this at th sum" time turns the can end for end, and it goes now in this inner circle through the same oj r.il ions of sobb-r-v.i, wiping and ia!in, as alx.vc !, scribed, arter w hich the cans are auto matically discharged from the machine and the carrier swings again into the outir circle to receive a fresh can. Its compactness is one of the virtues of this machine, buting the process of soldering the can desori!-s two full revolutions around the machine. This eiial.ics this bit of inaci.iriery to Iw btiilt in half the space that has here tofore liecll required. A Cycler Tricked a Judge. The consternation with which even the most distant approach to the apear ance of censuring royalty is still re garded in some parts of Ivirojie is amusingly shown in an incident whicli has occurred at ( 'op-nhageii. A well known w ag and cyclist was summoned for ridini; on a footpath leading to Lyngoy Church. "You have l.vn cycling on the Lyng by Church fia.tjctth," said the judge serenely. The cydi.-t admitted it. "You are fined four kroner." The ofl'-nder took out the coins and laid them down. "May I a-k, your wor-'aip," he in quired, meekly, whether Prince Wul-ib-mar and PriR'-css Marie have per mission to cycle on the path ifl ques tion?" The judge l.aiked uneasy. 'Tin-no certainly not. Is this your first of fense'."' "It isand will V my last" "In tiiat Case," said the judge, "I w ill let you off w ith a caution this time." The culprit picked up his money, Iwwed and walk's olf. As he reached the d sir, the ju lge's cariosity over came his discretion. "Wait! I'id you actually see Prince Waldemaraud Princess Marie riding on that path?" 'I! your worship certainly not," replied the wag, with a look of mild surprise; and then with a twinkle in his eye he disappeared, leaving the judge to what mut have liecu queer reflection.. Ciiiness Cooking. This knowledge of what we are phas ed to call artificial digestion runs large ly throiigh all Chinese cocking. Whenever l tears, eset-ia!!y the heavy and indigotinle class, are to lie em ployed as food, the cook iucrea-es their tissimihitive character by the iw of p:ptoiiiferis tripe and vinegar. I Lave often out of curiosity examined the num-ero-os :n ide dishes of the Mongol-c-jisine with a view to ascertaining their constitution. Whether it was sols or stews, ragouts or fricassee-' , ot roasts or Isiiled, I have found trijie finely shrcded or thinly sliced in three dishes out of every five. The ratio was largest ill households of wealth, where well paid cooks were the rub, an l smallest in those where the conditions were otherwise. As they dis-overed the peptic virtue of tripe in all f.l unima'.s, they likew ise found the same quality in the gi.'.ar I of the bird king dom. They have employed the giz zard even more liberally in their cook ing than they have the tri;e, and they regard it, as is the scientific truth, as the mst valuable of all animal tissues. "An Ex-Consul to Anmy" in Diet etic and Ilvgitnic Gazette. Lemin Jaice tor Iron Surface. Lemon juice applied to oast iron ar ticles gives an excellent finish to the surface of the metal. It turns the p r tio:i of u!ishcd oast iron to which it is applied to a bronze black, and when touched over with shellac or varnish to preserve it. Too much lemon juice would set-in to be a weak aud ineffect ive acid for metal; lut every one knows bow- tii kly a knife blade of steel will blacken when Used to cut a lemon, and the darkening of polished iron bv the acid is wry beautiful. long -Distance Whispers. Professors Burrill and Davenport, of tne I niversity of Illinois, claim to have discovered by accident a remarkable phenomenon in the Garden of the ( iods. at Ctdorado Springs. The fact is thU: If a p.-rsm plac.-s hioi-s-lf near the centre of the east side of the rook north of the entrance and another stands up on the hill opp:ite. across the valley. distance of a! nit a third of a mile, common conversation can le distinctly heard between the jKtrties. They low ered their voices as much as possible and were able to hear raeh other very distinctlv. Estimating a Horse's Height. The Aral have two methods of esti mating the height to w hich a colt will grow, the first U-ing b stretch a cord from the notstril over theearsand down along the neck and compare this meas urement with that from the withers to the feet, and the other method being to emu pa re the distance Utween the knee and the coronet In the first method it is considered that a colt will grow as much taller as the first measurement exceeds that of the second, and the second method, if tlie f nqsirtion U as two to one the hor.e w ill grow no tal ler. The Last Word. Mrs. C Have you made up your mind where you are going this sum mer? Mrs. B. Not yet. I am awaiting John's preference in the matter. Mr. C. Do you always defer to his choice? Mrs. B. Not exactly. I wait until he decides ou a place, and then I in sist on going somewhere else. TT
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