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ru ;: pmmptlv attend to all biuaueaa en
t iJ u limt. iiMi-y advuoea on oolleo-
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A 1 1UH.N E V-AT-LA W,
Somerset, Ia.
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iu p.iiirrt-t uJ ndjomtiig counties, with
ft aiurul nii-llty. Oltlee oil MaittLIwi
a ti. kinAe ioDiulU Oroeerj' "'ore-
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AMES L. Fl'liH,
AITOlt-N E Y-AT-LAW,
hoiuerset, Pa.
i.fin Mammoth Blo-k, up stairs. En
ta.:nv uu Mum t:mi IrevL CoIlertKu
tBkJv.niatwM-ttlrd, tilleexiuiu-i,nud ail
(. uurutr altruaed lo iLh piviupUiota
ttf i LOriliy.
1 J. O.'LlluRN. U C OJLBOKS.
tuLlitJKX & COLBOKX,
AITUHNEYS-AT-LAW,
iSomentet, Pa.
.ii huniunw fiitnifted to our care will be
m uipiij iid Uiliiluily aitruded to. Oulleo-
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i tSouientet, Fa.
JvVii pmoik-e in Soiiienset aud adjoining
Ali lUMUMrutruKtd to biui will
& fr.t prviuiirt alien liou.
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1 H. IWKRi TH. ' W. H. KCPPEL.
f H.1FFKUTH & HUITEL,
, ATTvjKN E YS-AT-LA W,
itSouiertitrt, Pa.
ii tuvinrk mtrutvd to their care mill be
-J;.VkuJ puui-ttiitily attended to. Office
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W. CAUOTHEIW, M. D.,
l'UiKIAN AM)M'IWtX)S,
tkiluelKet, I'a.
"if m rlri..t Street, near U. VL station.
I cali al oftiie.
tU- P. F. SHAFFER,
AS l-U V.-1CI AX ASU SURGEOS,
I Somerset, Pa.
I TraJn In, pnifti(Muil mTviceu to the citl-
uf .mrtet and VH-iuity. Office next
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I Il J. M. LOUTH ER,
kJ I'UVMi IAN ASbURGEOX,
t-- oa Ua.u ttnvt, rear of lrug store.
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YIL H. S. KIMMELL,
I 'Iiirr trif-M.Kiuil urnitn to Uie citi
.j 'ji ..:urrt and vicinity. I'nletas pro-
VM-tluii'y ft1.....Ml tu. n I. IMitifl t hiu of.
uu kiiu l KaSI of iMMluoud.
yi J. S.McMILLEX,
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m r'"'"" er L. H. bavis iVt alore,
Tier M.u t n aud falriol streeut.
H. lX)FFROTH,
Funeral Director.
tyjy Main en Su RtMidence,
34J Patriot St.
J. F. Ileacby.
Real Estate and Collecting
Agency.
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j AapMha & Gasoline,
U mad from Petroleum. We chal-
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Ertablbhas, 1877. 0rfli a Kitlsssl, 1890
O.
CAPITAL,
$50,000
SURPLUS AND UN- -
DIVIDED PROFITS 51D,UUU.
Chas. I. Harrison. Pres't.
Wm. H. Koontz, Vice Pres't.
Milton J. Pritts, Cashier.
:
Directors :
SAMUEL SNYDER,
JOSIAH SPECHT,
JOHN H. SN YDER,
WM. EX I ISLET,
JoXAS M. COOK.
JOHX STUKKT,
NOAH S. MILLER,
JOSEPH B. DAVIS,
HARRISOX SXY-IER, J ER 'M E STUFIT,
SAM. B. HARRISOX.
ruatnnvn of this bank will receive the mort
lilx-ral trtlnieiitcouisu-nt with safe banking.
Parties wishing- to send money eunt or wt
can be accommodated by draft for any
amount. . .
MoneT and valuables secured oy one 01 ine
boid's celebrated safes, with mot improved
time ka-k. .....
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States. Chaives moderate.
Accounts and deposiis soiiciica.
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Builders.
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COAL CAR WHEELS and AXLES.
New and second-haml Machinery,
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ERECTING OF HACHINERY A SPECIALTY
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m ART AMATEUR.
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Magazine.
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or plates I I I
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A SPECIALTY.
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MANUFACTURING STATIONER
AND
BLANK BOOK MAKER
IIAXNA5I BLOCK.
7
he
Johnstown,
Pa.
13.
ifUa Grave H iiaois
"Like a New Woman
f am feclins since I took Hood's Sarsanarilla. 1
was suffering from Iadi(e.Ura, Caiatrril
g Sarsa-
parilia
ad Rick Headache 4tf
and did not hsve any I Ul
appetite, I am glad to T.
ay Hood's Sarsapartlt rmnrmrwrw
bas cured n;e of eaUrrh and all my othof
troubles. Gkacb Wilson, HalnesTllie, X. X
Hood's Pills cure all Over Ills, eonstipar
tton, biliousness, sieic healache. Indlrestion.
Campbell &
Smith.
The
Peoples'
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We shall be rooeiving daily during
the month of 8.'iteinU'r, large i uvoie
cs of gools purchase! at the various
market centers of the world.
Thexe will be laeed u siile, as re
ceived, on the small profit ba.sis for
which this store is noted. Croat care
has lieon taken to selex-t only the latest
styles and liest values in
Silks,
Dress Goods,
Suits,
Wraps,
Millinery,
Infants'
Children's
and Ladies'
Underwear
and Hosiery,
Trimmings
and Laces.
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for Details Day by Day.
MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE CAREFUL AT
TENTION. Campbell
& Smith,
Fifth Avenue,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Iit1iret.il
II W fr Smith fit Id St.
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
prepared to supply the public
with Hocks, Watches, and Jew
elry of all descriptions, as Cheap
as the Cheapest
REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
stock before making your
purchases.
J. D. SWANK.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
nd everything- pertaining to funerals furn
ished.
SOMERSET - - Pa
omei
S01MERSET, PA.,
ON THE OTHER SIDE.
We go our ways In life too much alone.
We bold ourselves too fur from all our kind;
Too often we are dead to sigh and moan.
Too often to the weak and helpless blind;
Too often where distress and want abide
We turn and pass upon tbe other side.
The other side is trodden smooth and worn
By footsteps passing idly all the day;
Where lie the bruised ones that faint and
mourn
Is seldom more than an untrodden way.
Our selftMb hearts are for our feet the guide
They lead us by opon the other side.
It should be ours the oil and wine to pour
Into Uie bleeding wounds of stricken ones;
To take the smitten and Uie sick and sore
Aud bear them where a stream of blowing
runs.
Instead we look about the way is wide
A nd so we pass UMn the other side.
O friends aud brothers, gliding down the
years,
Humanity is calling each and all
In lender accents, liorn of grief and tears!
I pray you, listen to the thrilling cull!
You cannot, in your cold and selfish pride,
PaK guiltlesxly upon the ot her side.
Buffalo .Vrr.
INFATUATED JITH A WIG.
I have sometimes felt that I was con
stant ! the merest chance, and as my
marriage has turned out happily, I am
grateful for the interposition, though
taking no credit to myself. I ought to
say that I never told t'.iis story to my
wife, aud she would lie scarcely likely
to appreciate it if I did, but I mean to
set the truth down here, though I shall
not give the real names.
I will call myself George Grey and
my wife I will call Amy, nee Ferrers.
Well, I was engaged to Miss Ferrers,
and I loved her passionately, the more
jiassionately perhai because my posi
tion held out no prospect of my mak
ing her Mrs. George Grey for many
years.
She was the second daughter of a
rector In the shires, and I had met her
when I was in the neighborhood, fish
ing. An acquaintance took me to the
house, and it was a very pleasant one.
The rector was a charming man; his
daughters were worthy of him, and as
to Am', she was the loveliest and
sweetest girl I had ever seen in my
life.
I stayed down in Threogates (fish
injr) for nearly a month, though I had
originally intended to limit my visit
to a week, and I think that Amy was
sorry when at last I told her I had de
cided to go.
"I shall never forget this holiday of
mine." I said : "but now I must bring
it to an end, and get back to the dust
and crime of the Temple. Stewing in
chamber. I shall often think of Three-
gates, and the trout stream and and
my friends."
I'nconsciously, I ppoke as if I were
returning to a legal treadmill, though
if I received a couple briefs a year I
held myself extremely fortunate.
"I am clad you found It so enjoya-
able,"she murmured. "It Is a pretty
place, I think."
She had never looked so beautiful ;
I was saying "good-bye" to her; and
I was twenty-five. The result might
have been foreseen ! I took her hands
in mine, daffodils and all, and told her
that I loved her, that, I had never
loved before, could never love again.
I cried to her that I had not the right
to ask any girl to become my wife,
but my passion was stronger than my
self-restraint She was my world, my
all ; I adored her! Life without her
was too awful to contemplate. Would
she, could she, reconcile herself to
waitinc for a beggar who to-day, could
offer her nothing but the wildest de
votion that had ever lieen laid at a
woman's feet?
Words, altogether unpremeditated,
broke from nte in a torrent of fervor.
Mv heart pounded furiously; my excite
ment seemed even to communicate
itself to the rooks among the boughs
overhead, which cawed so violently
that they appeared to be drowning my
speech! When I ceased, her head
drooped, and my darling was all smiles
and tears at once. The daffdils lay
scattered on the lawn, and, I was en
gaged !
Well, I postponed my departure for
three days, and those days were de
lightful. Her father least mercena
ry of men consented cordially.
We were both young enough to be
able to afford to wait be said, and I
was adopted as one of the family with
out demur. The girls were warm in
congratulations no fellow ever had
nicer sisters-in-law and Amy was the
divinest little fiancee that it was pos
sible for human imagination to con
ceive. Yes, those three days wer- the
weeks that followed, when I wrote and
received a love letter per diem, and it
wm only as the weeks merged into
months, and the months into a j-ear,
that I legan to ak myself when and
how I expected to be able to marry.
I was depressed by degrees. My
prospects, as I have said were of the
vaguest I was still doing nothing to
speak of at the Bar, and even when I
ran down to see Amy, and she did her
best to cheer me up, the futility of her
encouragement was not to be blinded
by a man rsTsseased of a tolerably clear
sight
"We must be patient George," she
would sav: "everything will come out
right in the end, I am sure of it ; and
when the briefs are rolling in, we shall
look back at all this time and laugh."
At lencth I decided to do what many
another young fellow has done simi
larly circumstanced. I resolved to con
sign my profession to the deuce, and to
seek pastures new in America. hat
I proposed should beiuy plan or cam
paign in America is at this date not
very clear to me, but I remember that
it seemed to me then a most desirable
and practical step to take and not even
Micawber departing for Australia felt
more eonfident of "something turning
ud" on the foreign shore than I.
Of course, Amy wept, and was deso
late, but we had been engaged now for
nearly three years, and firmly, and
with the business-like lucidity on
which I prided myself I reminded
myself most strongly of theMicaw
bers in introspection ! I showed her
it was the only course for us. I said
that England I called it "the old
country" already was played out In
the United States, I olserved, energy
and youth had a chance of coming to
the front To cling to a sinking ship
aset
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1895.
the "sinking ship" was the Bar
was a cowardly and disastrous thing,
I declared ; and finally I (minted a
picture of my rising to dfctzy heights
in the United States, and her coming
across to meet me In twelve months'
time to be my wife.
The picture of making her home in
the United States did not seem to at
tract her, so I altered that part and
in the amended version I returned
after twelve months, with my pile in
my pocket, and we settled in London.
Beside Amy and her p?opIe(who
regarded me as a perfect hero, and
gave me keepsakes, to think of them
in the distant land) the only person to
whom it was necessary to announce
my intention was a maiden aunt of
mine, who lived in Dorking. She told
me frankly that I was a fool. As she
looked at me with a certain admira
tion, however, I was inclined to think
that in her heart of hearts she was not
without a sentiment of approval for
my action, aud I was firm once more,
and reiterateSl the arguments with
which I had favored Amy.
My relative gave me an excellent
lunch, and after wishing her an affec
tionate farewell, for she had always
been very nice to me, I went Itack to
town, aud commenced iny preiara
tions. My furniture, consisting of a desk,
an arm chair aud a few dilapidated ar
ticles which Hbrgot, I disposed of "at a
sacrifice."! ordered a couple of suits of
clothes clothes I understood were dear
in America and I tiooked a pit-wage on
the lermania.
Having put my affairs in order and
receiving, to my surprise, a letter from
Dorking repeating that I was a fool,
aud enclosing a check for fifty, I paid
alast visit to Threegates, folded Amy
in my arms and sailed.
I enjoyed the voyage immensely.
We had fine weather, sociable people
on board, and I was exhilarated by a
consciousness that I was doing a noble
and resolute thing. I smoked my pipe
with satisfaction and looked at the
ocean in the moonlight, and Amy's
photograph, with pleasurable senti
mentality. So much for the trip.
I arrived in New York with, the liest
part of a hundred jntunds in my purse
thanks to my aunt's lilierality and
I went to a hotel, and thence removed
to a comfortable boarding house in or
der to give myself time to look around.
No immediate prospect of making a
very large fortune presented itself, and
my money dwindled rapidly.
When I had been in New York a few !
months I was glad to forget my anxiety
in reading.
I learned that there was an admira
ble public library near by the public
libraries of America are better than
ours and one day I strolled in thereto
see what of the newest English fiction
I could prH'ure.
It was a huge building, and in the
upstairs room t which I was directed j
I found the attendants were all young
women.
The liook I had aked for was "out,"
but I was supplied with another. I
read it and returned it the following
afternoon, when the liook I most desir
ed was "out" again. This went on for
a week I always missed it and I ex
pressed my annoyance at last rather
emphatically.
As I was doing so my eyes fell on
one of the girls liehind the counter,
w ho rivited my attention in the most
extraordinary manner for an engaged
man. This girl I cannot find a prop
er adjective to describe her, well she
was iiecrless ! Her hair was positively
of the most glorious color I had ever
seen" on a woman ; there was a sou peon
of color in it only a sou peon, though
and it had a natural ripple in it all
over", from the whiteness of her brow
down to the base of her divine neck.
Under this, imagine blue eyes, aud you
will have an idea of what she looked
like a veritable goddess !
She had heard my exclamation and
moved forward with a smile.
'What is it you are asking for?" she
asked.
I told her.
"Oh," she said, "you see it is a new
book, and of course there is a demand
for it I'll tell you what I'll do ; the
next time it conies in I w ill save it for
you."
I thanked her cordially, and she
proved as good as her word, for the
following afternoon when I presented
myself she nodded directly she saw me
and held it up.
'I am awfully obliged !" I said.
"That was really kind of you. Have
you had it yourself?"
"Yes."
I changed my books every day now,
always going to that part of the long
counter where she was standing, and
always admiring her more fervidly
than before. I feasted my eyes on the
girl. If I saw her full face, or in pro
file, or if she had her Itack to me, she
was still conspicuous, stately and en
tirely adorable. I thought about her
when I was at home I could not lan
ish her from my memory.
How this might have ended who
shall say ? Did Amy's dynasty totter
in the balance? I fear, sorely and
tremendously I fear, that it did ; but it
was restored in a bewildering, and
even a disparaging fashion.
' Who can conceive my astonishment
when, on entering the library one
morning, I saw my divinity with her
hair cut short cropped like a lxy'a !
I was staggered breathless. Momen
tarily I had failed to recognize her,
she was so painfully chanced. Gone
those intoxicating ripples ! gone even
the richness of color ! gone the queen
liness of carriage !
"Why?" I gasped I could uot sup
press the question "my dear young
lady, why have you had your hair cut
since yesterday ?"
"I haven't," she said ; "it was cut
six months ago when I was ill. What
I have been wearing till it grew again
was a wig."
No ; I did not break down ; I even
stammered a suitable commonplace,
but the shock was horrible. I never
returned to the library.
And I married Amy yes ! I did not
make a fortune in New York, but my
aunt died very shortly afterwards, and
it was found that she had bequeathed
me the whole of her property a very
comfortable one. I married Amy, and
we are very happy together. Only
sometimes I cannot help wondering if
that other girl had been all I thought
her, whether but then there was no
such girl I was in love with a wig !
The Word Gentleman.
From Harper's Baxar.
There are two great defects in the
working of the English theory that a
gentleman must never, under any cir
cumstances, have worked with his
hands. The first is that it handicaps
every one who has so worked, and
makes it harder for him, even in the
American sense, to lie a gentleman.
People are very apt to be what is ex
pected of them. Assume that a whole
class will be clowns, and they are more
likely to lie so; assume that they are
to lie gentlemen, you remove half the
obstacle to their success. Hence much
of the flexibility of the American char
acter. Its ready adaptation. Since it
made no difference to anybody else
that Whiltier had It-en in youth a far
mer's boy in summer and in winter a
shoemaker, it made no difference to
him, ami nobody stopied to ask
whether he had sustained in childhiaid
the same refining iuthiciices with
IiOiigffllow and Lowell. In New
York, in Washington, one often en
counters men who have in early life
worked with their hands. In England
these men would have carried for life
the stamp of that exeriein,e some
misplaced h, some Yorkshire burr,
would have taniHil them forever. In
America the corresponding drawbacks
have lieen effaced and swept away.
No doubt climate and temperament
have something to do with this differ
ence, but the recognized social theory
has more. It grows largely out of the
changed definition of the wonl "gen
tleman." In America the changed
definition has let down the liars. The
word "gentleman" denotes a class that
is henceforward accessible to merit.
The other defect of the English
standard is that it epetuates, even in
side those who rank as gentlemen, a
pertK'tual feudalism, a wholly artificial
standard of social auliordiuation. This
IasLs eved to the present time. In the
autobiography of Anthony Trollopc
there Ls an especial chapter on the
question, "How a literary man should
treat his social superiors" a chapter
which is, to an American literary man,
first ludicrous and ihen pathetic.
Walter Beseant, in his "Fifty Years
Ago," enumerated the list of eminent
authors and scientists of the Victorian
per'unl, aud pointed with pride to the
fact that they had nothing to do with
the Court of Victoria Now" that he
has been knighted, he is descrila.-d as
wearing his title with an exaltation
that rather amuses his friends. Hut
the crowning illustration of the curious
attitude given by belated feudalism to
the author Ls to be found in the lately
published letters of Sir Walter Scott.
They are delightful in all respects but
one the absolute self-subordination,
the personal prostration, with which
he writes to every titled nonentity
alKiut him. Men younger than him
self, now utterly unknown to the
world at large, were treated by this
leading Scotch intellect of his day as if
they conferred honor by letting him
write to them; and the very grace and
naturalness with which it is done
shows how ingrain it is.
Publicity.
From Harper's Ilazar.
Newspaper notoriety has a jieculiar
charm for a large number of eople.
The mere fact of seeing their names
printed really printed in a real news
papergives them a kind of satisfaction
that they can not obtain in any other
way. The love of newspaier notoriety
seems to lie liorn In people. It is not
acquired, for you fiud it in the young
sters w hose age would permit them to
have gotten no farther iu the vanities
in this world than a faculty for swear
ing. A newspaper reporter under
stands this vanity of people I tetter than
any one else, for he hato deal with it
continually. And it would lie a very
dull man who would not be able to
turn it to his advantage very often.
The other day a fond father who la-
Isirs upon a daily newspaper of Pitts
burg went home to find his young
hopeful about to engage in a fist
fight with a youngster of the neighUir
liood. He did not stop to question the
right or the wrong of the quarrel, for,
his perception being naturally quick,
he saw that his son's opponent had by
far the advantage of his adversary in
size and muscle. In fact, he saw that
his son was in a fair way to be made to
do the duty of a street sweeper. Of
course it was his duty to top such a
disgraceful proceeding as a street light
especially under the circumstances
mentioned. But his interfering with
the would Ite fighters in no way ap
peased the wrath or the thirst for gore
of the large boy. For, as he moved
away, the big fellow turned and said:
"Never mind, Bill, I'll lick yer into
a jelly when yer pop's not around."
This made the parent a little anxious,
as he knew that an onslaught meant a
sure victory for the other side, and as
he could not be around always to pro
tect his son he took advantage of the
knowledge of human nature which his
profession had given him.
A crowd of young boys had gathered
around to see what they thought was
going to be a fight, and as one of the
antagonists, after being interfered with,
walked away, their faces assumed looks
of disappointment, but the father soon
brightened them up.
"Say boys," said he, "do you want
your names to lie printed in the paper?"
Immediately a chorus of "Ytu bet I
do's" greeted him.
"Weil," continued the father, "if you
boys will Itand together aud see that
that big fellow doesn't lick Billy I will
put every one of your names in the
paper to-morrow morning."
This is why one of the morning pa
lters published the next day an item
which ran: "The Blank Athletic club
was organized yesterday. The princi
pal members are ." Then came all
the names of the boys who had sworn
protection to the newspaper man's son.
One application of Dr. Thomas'
Eclectric Oil takes aw ay the pain of the
most severe burn. It is an ideal family
liniment
era
SEXATOIt QUAY
AFTER VICTORY
HIS LAST THE GREATEST 8TEUG0LE OF
THE SILEITT KAN'S LIFE.
AN IRON HAND IN A SUE GLOVE-
From the New York Herald.
Senator Matthew Stanley Ouay,
whose matchless leadership in Penn
sylvania politics has been proven by
his election to the chairmanship of the
K.'publican State committee over the
strongest opposition that he ever en
countered, has a political history reach
ing back forty-two years. Perhaps
there has been no struggle in which he
has taken a keener interest than this
last one. He has not reached the jte
riod of decline in life, but is entering
upon that mellow age which give him
the strongest desire possible to main
tain his proud political iosition a few
years longer. He was eager fir the
test. The test came ami he is once
more master stronger in his strong
hold than ever before.
Bitter was this last fight (Juay wag
ed U-cuUse it was a family affair and at
this very hour of his triumph he joints
not only to his iron hand that killed
his foes, but also to his velvet gloves
that soothed the feelings of his beaten
bntthers. This is, in epitome, the secret
of Colonel (Quay's success in toli!ical
life. He knows when to use the iron
hand, and also when to use the velvet
glove. He steers when the fight is over
that lteautiful middle course which
captivates and charms human nature
because from it there Is scarvly any
room fir reaction.
You may no longer wonder where
Quay gets his fighting bhxid, for it is a
sturdy Scotch ar.cestrj' that gave it to
him. His father, a Presbyterian cler
gyman, reared his son to withstand
the storms of life and to make his word
a Imnd. And even in his tender years
he showed the drift of hU mind toward
political sagacity. When his father
brought home a Bible and a sword he
a-iked his son which he would have.
He was to chose one, ami the other was
to lie a gift, for his sister. The Uiy
wanted lioth. He chose the Bible le
causc he knew that the sword would
lie of no use to his dear sister. It is
m-edless to say that this shrewd move
worked beautifully.
While Quay was a student at Jeffer
son College, Canoitsburg, Pa, and dur
ing his term of study before admission
to the lar in ISVt, at the age of :M years,
he showed sagacity at all times in
everything that he did. His vigorous
passion for politics led him to make his
first impression in Beaver county and
the Western section of the State and in
1S.V5 he was api"int J Prothonotary of
the county, was elected to a full term
later and re-elected. Then came the
war and be liecanie conspicuous under
Curtin, the great War Governor. He
commanded the One Hundred and
Thirty-fourth Pcniia. Volunteers for a
time and at the battle of Fredericks
burg General Tyler complimented him
for his gallantry. Quay resigned from
the army on Decern! 7, ls.;2, to ac
cept the appointment of State agent at
Washington. A year later he was
made Military Secretary of the St ite,
and it is here that we date the real
U'ginning of his remarkable rise in
politics. He first worked to lie elected
to the State legislature, succeeding iu
istil. For two years he was the dovot
ed servant of Curtin.
He assisted the latter in a futile effort
to check the asivndency of Simon Cam
eron iu the control of the iarty. Cam
eron, though in bad odor, was a tower
of strength, l.cuuse he controlled a
great fortune and was not afraid to di
vert it into the channel of politics iu a
business like way. Curtin was s.nn
hors de combat, and Quay was defeat
ed for the Sjieakership of the House.
Colonel Quay saw no personal advant
age in a continued warfare against the
Camerons, for J. IXtnald Cameron was
working with hf father. He was am
bitious to rule with thoc who ruled.
He aspired to control men in success
ful, not losing campaigns.
The conversion of Quay to the Cam
crouian dynasty was complete. At
this iicriod ItoU'rt W. Mackey was the
ablest lieutenant of the Camerons, hut
S.HHI he was replaced by this rising
star. The latter was more aggressive
and suited the time. Quay's zeal was
always burning; his macnctfm was ir-
I resistible. Where diplomacy or argu
ment or brilliant strategy was neiil.il;
where men were to lie approached by
persuasion in all the varied forms that
persuasion, iu political contests, is ca
pable of assuming ; where an enemy
was to lie won with overtures or legis
lation to be urged on to rapid comple
tion, Quay was the genius of it all.
Quay was not altogether careful of de
tail. He has always been the general
for a great emergency, where the very
recklessness of daring carries a minor
ity to victory.
Senator Quay can stand more abuse to
the square inch than most men. He
will not let you smite the other cheek,
but he will pull you aside by the coat
sleeve and begin to argue with you
He will tell you that you are wrong
and then proceed to show in a plausi
ble and friendly manner that he is not
i such a had man after all, but a very
genial hearted gentleman. His ability
to withstand abuse and slander lias
won him many friends. It is human
nature to admire a man w ho has the
pluck to endure the smites as well as
the smiles of men.
Personally'Senator Quay would nev
er impress one. He has no dandy man
ners, no love for dress, no desire to
shine in the social world, no liking for
the life of a literary man. He is in
many respects a composite character.
He can content himself alone, or he
can bj happy in the midst of his friends.
The Colonel is fond of the lone fisher
man habits, and he is equally fond of a
chat with those who know him. He
is not a conversationalist iu the sense
that he seeks to charm every person
who admires great ability. But when
a friend comes into his room in whom
he lias complete confidence he will
open the Honrs of ins spceen ami taut
interestingly hour after hour. Withal
iu his personal relations he is gracious
and unassuming. The man who ex
WHOLE NO. 2302.
pects to find in him a perfect type of a
mere jxilitieian will lie very much dis
apiointed. He is broad minded on all affairs,
and in the realm of literature he is no
novice. His reading is of the moft
varied description, and he has standing
orders with several publishing firms of
the country to send him alltiooksof
current interest His library is ntt
only well stocked and choice, l.ut is in
creasing everyday, and when be leaves
this life the man who strays around tbe
liook shrives of his home will find that
the "silent man" of Ik-aver county has
teen a reader of many liooks and has
profit! by the wisdom that they con
tained.
No adequate description can le given
of the personal attire of the junior
Senator from Pennsylvania. As he sat
in the convention at llarrishurg last
Wiilnesday he might have Uvn mis
taken for a countryman olVcn a lark at
the seashore, with a jf.iir of soiled duck
trousers, a neglige shirt and a dark
coat. Hetisikolt" the oat as soon as
the convention hall Us-am. t" warn
for him. On bis fishing trips he gen
erally w-ars tin oldest clothes that he
has in his warlr.il". But hcalwavs
drinks the fin-st whisky that is sol. I i;i
the laud.
Senator Quay is a man slightly aUive
the medium height. I L- h:is dropping
eyes, but when yHl talk to hint he is
not asleep. No matter how apparently
trivial the conversation, lie will listen
to every word you say, and will reach
an csiimate verv smiii as to whether
you are of any worth to him. It is
this faculty of being able t listen that
shows to the observant one the great
force of his character deli!Taiion.
Senator Quay dia-s not forget names,
when those names are of any Use. His
memory is very retentive, and in this
lies much of his presonal magnetism.
IK is at ull times courageous. When
he was challenged to go to the people
for his re-election as I nstnl Stales
nator in hi! he did s-, and the
victory came to him. He feels the
pulse of the people, and knows human
nature to its l;v-t chord.
At this hour his followers are broking
rcyoml the smoke oi tn; name just
nded. To them his election as State
hairman means not only a great
lepub!ie;ut majority in Pennsylvania
this fall, but the cbs'tioa o."a Uepubli
ean President in l".. They expect
litis to In- the chairman of the Ilepubli-
an national committee in Is:;. Mean
while the junior Senator is saying
nothing and sawing wood.
Only A Hayseed.
He may have Urn a hayseed, says
the Topck.1 Stat Ji.ttrmil. He looked
t, but way down deep in bis eyes the
second time you looked you seemed to
not ie a suspicion of real "sliekness"
that esetinl von at first.
IK-held a ticket to Tecum.-h when
he got on the train at T tpeka, and he
gave it up promptly l tne c vniuci-tr
m demand.
When the ( inductor cauu through
the train after he hu l left Teeumsch
was surpris-d to see the sam? man
sitting complacently in the same seat.
"Ticket," said the condjetor.
"Haven't g it any," said the man.
"Then you'll have to pay," said the
conductor.
"Can't do it," said the man.
"Then I'll have to put you off," said
the conductor.
"What, right out here in the coun
try?" said the man.
"Bight out here in the country?" re-
plieu the conductor.
A great many of the other passengers
were interested at one, and the argu
ment continued. The conductor notic-
1 lie sai l afterward tint the mm
kept looking out of the win I t-v as Iu
talked am! did not seem t Ite iu a
hurry. Of course the train was running
all the time.
The farmer finally went down into
his pocket ami got out his purse. He
was not in a hurry aUmt it, and
after he had opened it seemed hist in
thought
Come," said the conductor, I can't
fool with you all day.
"Must pay or get otf, eh?" a-ktd the
farmer.
'I said that," replied the- man with
th-.- punch. There was another m -
incut's silence. The farmer took anoth
er look out of the window.
"I guess you cut put me otf," he
said.
The train was stopped and the con
ductor went to the rear platform to sav
that he got oil' and stayed off
"See that white house over there?"
asked the son of toil.
The conductor could see it easily.
"That is when I work," said the
farmer. "This is the nearest raiir-u I
that c urn's to it I'm much obliged t
you for letting mo off here. I wa-i afraid
I wouldn't be able to keep you interest
ed till we got here. Hive a cigar.'
And the grangerjump.il lightly t the
ground am! was gone.
The train was two minutes behind
time In-fore the conductor recovered his
breath.
"Well, I'll Ite !" he said in a
humble tone, and then he went and
kicked the newsUty.
Slack Vesper's Pageant.
St speaks Shakespeare of those dark
sombre clouds that we often see to
wards night They foretell a storm.
Just as surelv do functional irregulari
ties ami "female derangements" fore
tell a life of suffering or an early grave.
Ik; warned by these symptons. Thou
sands of once aftlieted women have
driven away disease and death, by tak
ing in time Dr. Pierce's Favori.e Pre
scription. Send for the doctor's large
treat ise,( HW pages) on diseases of wom
en. It is profusely illustrated with
wood-cuts aud colored plates and will
lie sent to any address for ten cents in
stamps sealed, secure from observation,
by the World's Disjiensary Medical
Association, Butl'alo, N. Y.
"These firemen must lie a frivolous
set," said Mr. Spillkius, who was read
ing a paper. "Why so?" "I read in
the paier that after a tire was under
control the firemen, played all night
on the ruins. Why didn't they go
home and go to U'd like sensible men,
instead of romping alstut like chil
dren ?" 7Vjw Sitiny.
Mr. Post And The Burglar-
"I should just like to ms burglars
takeoff any of my valuables, that's
all," said Mr. Ps! in the de-p bus
ton- .f r - .w.s ir fi'isdy tiv.
"But :ipp is be g it trio dr p ou
o i."' -ii ;g- t.d Mf. IV-'. Sh-j r-i l
the ne'.vspipr a:i 1 had ci'ig'it so;ji
of their viruaeular.
"I should like t i see h:ni-l just
would, rcifcrs'cd l:vr husltind in an
iiifun it'd oiet-; be would never live t )
Is- haiigi d."
''Knt you couldn't shoot him w ithout
a revolver."
"Wait until h-
-due-, Mrs. P. I
have several methods at my tin-.'er-'
en-Is, only don't you wake up and
squawk. A won em always hampers a
man at such a time; you just keep still
and let me settle with the burglar."
"You're quite weleonii-," said bis
wife. She Is-lieVi-d that Mr. P. Would
le friglstein-'l int'i a fit by the m;-r?
suggestion of a burglar.
As it hapjf-ne I, Mr. Post was awak
ened a few nights later by a light
Hashed in his fue, and opening his
eyes he saw a man standing over him
with a black mask on and a revolver in
hand.
"Your money or yo-ir life," siid the
burglar in the most birglari-f.n m in
ner. "Irt slnKit," implor -1 Mr. Po t;
"you might kill my wife. M iria!" -lu
called in an agoni.-il wbisp -r, but Mrs.
Post had U-en told tot often not i
"squawk" and sin- didn't.
"Shut Up," cimmaiided th" burglar,
"and ha-ld out the g ' 1 w.i'ci and th
money uu ler vo ir pillow. Stop k:ek
ingyour wif -, u il-s y iu w.ot m' t
sho -t b-r. S i:-!l out n tw, lik a m in."
And Mr. I'.t-t did s'.e '.l o il. II give
tip his watch and th nil of l.iiis h;-h-id
neglivti-d to b.rik; a:i l tb -u had
the satitfaction of bearing the burglar
say :
"I've half a niin 1 t t sh t you, any
h tw."
"For heaven's sake, don't sIhsiIT'
gisjied the frightened mm.
Then the burglar laughed uproari
ously, pulled oil his mask and handed
I tack the wateh and money to Mr.
Post.
"M a-r-i-ar
"Yes, ifs me," answered Mrs. Post,
regardless of grammar. "I just wanted
to show you, Mr. Post, that yo.i aren't
half as brave as you think y i i are, and
I suecveded, too, didn't I?
In c tn-iderati iu of his u irrow e-cajs-,
Mr. Post forgave his wife !u r
burglarious esejpad--. l.i.--i '
1'rt.
Care cf a Bicycle.
U? plenty ' g.d oil. Tin re are
loo kinds on the market, but it all
I-mies out of the same barrel. Ther
is, however, a diil'en-iie,- in oil, but the
wor-t of it is better than none. For a
bal! hearing liie oil should lie thin and
of a quality which w ill tend I evapor-at-
rather than "gum." In't get the
alcurd id-.-a tiiat yon .
bearing by t much oil.
"enough is as -.n as a
injure your
(If i-otirse,
fva-t." Hut
you couldn't injure the U-aring if you
used a quart of oil on it eueh day.
Any oil Ls very injurious to rubU-r,
and the principal danger from over
doses of oil is that it may run down on
tli- lire. A m ichine which has leeii
I standing through the winter wants
cleaning. If you are an exp-rt and it
will do you any gnu I to take the l-ur-ings
apart, do it, hut it won't do the
leari:igs any gsxt.
Tukc out the saddle rod and T:ir a
j tablcspoonful of the common, everyday
i "servant girl's delight," by dealers
called kciosene oil, into the hole where
the rod was. In nearly ail ili-.ichincs
the opening through the saddlcpwt
tube communicates directly with the
inside of the crank shaft lies ring, and
henee the kerosene will run directly o:i
the shaft.
O:' course, if your franc isn't built
that way don't do it, but squirt the oil
in through the oil hole. Having tilled
the U-arings with the deadly kerosene,
spin the shaft until the oil which runs
out is no longer black it may lie nec
essary to repeat tile operation two or
three times then wipe the parts thor
oughly, applying a few lrojs of your
regular oil, and the Inuring w ill lie all
right.
Clean the Utirings in the wheels t!i;'
same way, except that greater care
must lie taken to avoid spilling the
tire.
The safest way after drenching the
la-a rings and running them thorough
ly is to lay the machine on its side un
til the kerosene has run out, which it
w ill do in a few minutes, though if you
can leave it in a reclining posiiioii over
night so much the U tter.
A S trenuous and Severe Conflict
From the Philadelphia l'r.-ss.
The conclusion was n it reached
without a strenuous and severe conflict.
As the result of that tremendous and
earnest struggle the victory remained
witii S .-nator Q i.ty. Iu the end it was
clear and unmistakable. I-.-t it U" free
ly and u:trvs-rved!y acknowledged.
Twenty-four hours Ivfore the conven
tion met Governor Hastings, on ill-
tiiut pledges, and assurances, had a
majority of the delegates. But it is the
heaviest artillery o: the day of the bat
tle that ciunts and S .-nator Quay,
with his great resources, succeeded in
overturning that majority and making
one of his own. The vote on tempor
ary chairman was the crucial test, and
the nominal maj irity was thirty. Of
this number six were contestants who
had no valid claim, but who came in
under the compromise. B .- l icing the
analysis to its plainest terms, Senator
Quay had twelve more than one-half
the convention. It was enough, and
when it U-came clear it -settled the
struggle. Senator Quay had won in
the greatest buttle he has ever fought
with the m ist pro ligious ctl'irt he has
ever put forth agiin-t the in tst formid
able oppsitio:i he h is ever encount
ered. The Cijarette.
A careful chemist recently made an
analysis of an ordinary cigarette. This
is the result: "The toliacco was found
to lie strongly impregnated with
opium, while the wrapper, which was
warranted to lie rice paj-ier, was proved
to lie the most ordinary quality of pa
per, whitened with arsenic. The two
poisons combined were present in suf
ficient quantities to create in the smok
er a habit of using opium without be
ing aware of it, his craving for which
can only lie satisfied by an incessant
consumption of cigarettes." These
facts ought ti lie sufficient to stop the
manufacture of the deadly thing, and
all men who are victims of the cigarette
should lie tilled with alarm. But man
ufacturers will continue to turn out the
poisonous little roll by the ten thou
sands, am! the smokers by the thttu
sand will smoke smoke until they are
dead.
'TU impious
sad. Youitj.
in a good man to be