jhe Somerset Herald. 3ar Firt County Superintendent and the Salaries Paid Them. rfcrms of Publication r.-i.hed vr Wednesday morning at . ff .ncum It P" " " " ,30 will lnv.rUl.iy . ...rinUon will be discontinued ' r, are P' nP- Postmaatera D ' . . Iirv at when uoscribers do not ,i-ynX w " ,Moat their paper wUl b. held responaibl. tM.obtcript-on. hirlba ruKln from one poatoffloa to -,olbarxul,1P" oau wMtn present offloe. Address SOSMT, Fa. P Fr WW NOTARY PC BLIC. Homtnel, Pa. 03k above C.BVin Kuypel. I'.rcrs E. MEYERS, s.u . Soiuereel, l'eun'a. .Ti i. u entrusted to his car. will be at- . . y. C W. YlLa.ttt. j'jaY & WALKE1-, AIToK'KYS-AT-LAW, and SuTAttY l'L BUC, bouieract, Fa fSceoplHiute Court Hosiaa. illUlOtiAl-U. No. 170 Fourth SL, lltuburj, Pa, A- BKKKEV , 4 j. At avaw- Pa. Ofirt KiliiT Rook frlore. UiVEY M. BERKLEY, Alv" - " bom.n-st. Pa. OlE e in Kirat National Bank. A. C HOLliERT, buuieraet. Pa. 03Sce won -oho U- l"uL G, fc,Uleo.E- t .. . ... f ArioUNtV-AT-LAW, Somerset, Pa. iiiLD. W. B1ESECKE11, Somerset, Pa. tic in Pruning House Bow, opposite Court J. fcouicrset, Pa. t . AliJilNEY-AT-LAW, bouieraet, Pa. - II. KUUNTZ- J. ti. CKiLil Koomz -t ogle, A 1TUB.N fc. 1 S-A MAW, Souu;rsel, Fa. u t ve prompt littentioa u buin en 1'" i'w io Hir o.iv iu noiK.-nM.-laua aajoiuimf tiuun. l rlul iio"-- "Ppo" IM (.oiiit Uouse "l TALENTINE HAY, AliulL.Ntl-AT-L.VW, tMiuvniL-t, Pa. , ln-ali-r in liil Estate. alU-nd to a.! w:ui-r ri.truli to liiire wttii prouiplr f) A'iluitAEY-AT-LAW, (joiueraet, Pa. Will promptly ;tid to all buin en iru.ioi io Ujui. Moii.-y aavain-wa on collec ting. 4c UUn-e iu ilauiuiolii Block. JOHN O. KIMMEL, Ai !Ott t V-AT-LAW, bomereet, l'a. WillalsrmltoaHbuMnoi entrusted U bi o.t in -v.iurrM-1 auil atljoiuiiu; cou .l-ea, Willi pruu-pluw ami Uaei.iy. OltK-e ou aiu Croaa fjvel, above loUrum urocery &lore. TAMES L. I'l'GH, 0 ATiuBNtY-AT-LAW, tSoiueraet, Pa. 05( in M:iinmoth Block, up amirs. En-triii-r u Maui inns stmO. ColIocUou luni?. nuh -ltil. titi eiainlned, and all . kusiiirts atteuaed to WHu prouipUiewi IL0 DJiriUV. A. J. COUWRN. L. C. CXLBOBN. rxLL0lCs" & CXJLliOIlN, j AlTuKXtVs-AT-lA", eouicraet. Pa. Ail buMnow utruted to our care will be f :vinpuyaiiii fkuuluily atlriia.-d to. Colieo Uone uuidr iu houirrvci, Brdtord and adjoin U4 twuiiina. (urveyiiig aud couvcyauciuf tuj uu naouiible UTUin. HL BAER, . AIIOBNEY-AT-LAW, nouieract, l'a. Wi!'. practice In Somerset aud adjoining -i!ta. All bUkiurM entrusted to liiiu WUl Tnxit piviltpl alldlUoU. A H. toFr-BuTB. W. H. BUPPEL. fXiFFMH & RUPFEL, J AnuilNEV-Al-l-AW, Souicreet, Pa. AU businos eiiirutr-l to tbeir care will be tvi:. valid .uii(-iUHily aiundwl to. Office Main CiOMi ktm.0, oipuniU! Mamniolii 1..VC1L. T W. CAUOTHEIIS, M. D., U PB YMC'IAN ASH SL'IUiEOX, toiuerset, l'a. 0!Ec on Tatriot Street, oosite I. B. I .u-rh. 41 calls at office. DR. P. F. SHAFFER, PBYMC1AN asubURGEOX, Doiiii-rset, Pa. Traidfrt his pnf(-tvional ar'icea to tiie citi tM of Nnueiwi and vlciuity. office next 4uor Iu CouniKTcial Uotel. DR. J. M. LOI THER, PBYnK'IAX AStiSl'RCEOS, t'Sit on Miin stnet, rar of lrus store. H. S. K1MMELL, ItrJfrj hit pnf-siional service to the cltl- u( Nmifwi mil vicinity. L'liless ln J"uliy eupicl lie can be found at ilia of--uu liaiu u. tat U Diamond. Vl J. S.M MILLEX, " lOraduate in leulistry.) jiv ipiria; attention to the nvnerratlon e:ui natural t-;h. Artilicial w-u iiuieri-d. A'-"prraii.msu;,raUwl aiiafiu-Ur)-. otlice naiim (V, r L. 11. luvii A l o's store, nirner Kaiu cnu and Patriot Hrwli C II. COFFUOTH. Funeral Director. Oa6oj Mv.iu cr(fSS t;u ltcidcnee, 2) 1'atriot St. pIUXK IJ. FLI CK, Land Surveyor jNIN'i EXt.IXKER. LUtle,"l-a. ' P- "rtUvr. J. K. Beacl-y. Real Estate and Collecting Agency. I 22T' "''''' l" l'a? r srll tannf ortown 1 '' Ja "' f"""'ft cuuly or elwwhrre, are tnT?, ' our "ra,,e Knriiprr block, t ri ii1"'.""" iven to all uiail in. tr'v ia " and location or prop-t-r . .. "ru 'i'ae two cent slallip to pre-P-y u.r. tVA tiTZtB A UKAt H Y, Kncpicr Block. boiiierM-t, Pa. onsToIlii -o- ''KVMif p..,h.,.. n... . uau,7,.,'-.,""" m P'"y ot a r inr iKimauc liit Cnl branda of lumsnating 4 Lubricating Oils SapMha & Gasoline, '""""nariaon with every known froduct of Petroleum U m h tle rnont nniformly Satisfactory Oils IX THE erican Market. Trade for Somerset and Tk-inl-ty supplied by JK BEERITS and t UEASE & KOOKER, Botuersct, Pa. 1 lie VOL. XLIV. XO. wry Soap 99ioo Pure Elisabeth R. Scovil in her book, " The Care of Children," recommends the use of Ivory Soap for bathing infants, and says: "There is no particular virtue in Castile Soap, which has long been consecrated to this purpose." Thi PaocTi A Gmsu Co., Cis-n. THE First National Bank Somerset, IPeiin'a. o Capital, S50.000. Surplus, S2O.O0O. DEPOSITS RKCCIVCD IN LAROC AMOSM ALt AMOUNTS, PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS. STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LaRCE M. HICKS, GEO. R. SCULL, JAMES L. PUGH, W. H. MILLER, JOHN B SCXJTT, KOBT. 8. SCULL, FRED W. BIESECKER. EDWARD SCULL, : : PRESIDENT. VALENTINE HAY, : VICE PRESIDENT. HARVEY M. BERKLEY, . CASUIEB. The funds and securitiea of this bank are se curely protected In a celebrated Cokliss Bra 6lak Proof Sa fe. The only safe made abso lutely bunflar-proof. Tie ScmsrEet County Katial BANK OF SOMERSET PA. Eitab Ithtd, 1877. Orgtzl u I Natloaa!, 1890. CAPITAL, $50,000 SURPLUS AND UN- DIVIDED PROFITS iy,OUU. O: Chas. J. LTarrison, - President. Wm. II. Koontz, - A'ice President Milton J. Pritts, - - Cashier. Geo- S. LTarrison, - Asa't Catliier. XT- Directors : Sam. K. Harrisou, Win. Etnlslcy, JoKiah Se-bt, Jonas M. Conk, Johu II. Snyder, John StutTt, Joseph 15. I a vis Noah S. Miller, Harrison Snyder, Jerome Stufll, Chas. W. Snyder. riintomcrs of thin bank will reeeivethemost lilK-ral treat ineiiK-onsistcnt wilh safe IwnkltiK. Parties wiKhins to w-nit money eal or wesi can tie acconnuodHted by draft for any mount. Unniv and valuablns secured bv one of Die- bold's celebrated safes, with most Improved time lock. . ... . Collection made in all parts oi ine iniiea Slate. Charges moderate. Accounts and deposits solicited. Wild & Anderson, Iron A. Brass Founders, Engineers and JlaehlnWs and Engin Baildrrs. -Manufacturers of- COAL CAR WHEELS and AXLES. Xew and aeoond-hand Maeliinr-ry, 8haaiiiK, Hanjrer and I'uileys, lnjoclorH, Lubritatora, Oil Cuds. Etc ERECTING OF MACHINERY A SPECIALTY Strictly Firtt-Claas Work Guaranteed. Shop on Broad SL, near 11. A O. Ivpot Johnstown. - - Pa. A. H. HUSTON, Undertaker and Embalmer. A GOOD HEARSE, nd everything pertaining to funerals furn- lhed. SOMERSET - Pa HERMAN BAHTLY, 134 Clinton Street, 0HNST0WN. - - PA. DEALER IX Builders and Other Hardware, GloASS, f AINTS, 01b, VAR NISHES, ETC. Se Our Large Stock of Sleiqms. Bos Sleds, Sleigh Bells. Roses, Horse Blankets, Etc PRICES to suit the times. 24. Campbell & Smith. THE PEOPLE'S STORE, Fifth Avenue. It will pay you to come to PitUhurg and doyoralioppinjr at thi store. You know how we have done business these past twenty-five jTars. Many women who have now homes and families of their own came to this store when lit tle girln, with their mother to do nhojw ling. You first knew this store undc-r the finn name of Campbell, William son & Diek, then Campbell & Dick, now Campbell & Smith. The management, however, has al ways Ki'ti the saute and so have the methods of doing business. One price to all, goods marked in plain figures; no misrepresentation of goods and sat isfaction guaranteed. IJuying giKv.ls here does not dcjiend ujxin skill or knowledge of the goods your ten-year old girl can buy as well and as cheap as the nutfi experienced. shopier; and when we advertise a thing, we meau just what we say. While our princi ples of doing business are the same, this lias Ijccii a progressive store. You can get everything you wa:.t. Is it a Bridal Outfit? Everything of the very latest and best styles, from the white Slippers to the Veil. Do you Want an Infant's Outfit? Everything from the Diapers to the Christening Robes. Is it a Boy, Youth or Husband ? Everything in ready-made-Clothing and underwear. Is it a Lady or Child ? Everything in ready-made Dresses, Shoes and Underwear. Da you wait to Furnish your House? Everything ready for you not only ready made Redding, Table Linen, Iace Curtains and CarjK-N, but all kinds of Furniture and everything iu the way of Granite, Tin and Wooden Ware for your kitchen ; also Oil and (ias Stoves ami Ranges. One entile floor tilled with China and Earthen Ware, embracing the useful English as well as the genuine llaviland French China. As our Men's Clothing Department has been ojiened but a short time, we will give you a few extraordinary values. Men's Rlaek Cheviot Overcoats, $5.C0 Men's Dark Cheviot and Dark L'uion Sack Suits, - - - $5 00 Youths' Rlue and lilack, Dark Ciray and Mixed, single aud double Breasted Suits, - - - $5 00 Boys' Dark (I raj' Scotch Tweed Suits, - 83.50 Between Wood and Smithfisid St's. Jacob D. Swank, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Next Door West of Lutheran Church, Somerset, - Pa. I Am Now prepared to supply the public w ith Clocks, Watches, aud 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. ARTISTIC JOS PRINTING A SPECIALTY. IIARUY 31. REXSIIOFF, UAKUFACTURIKG STAMMER AND BLANK R00E MAKER HANNAM BLOCK. Johnstown, Pa. omer SOMERSET, PA., RESIGNATION. TIs awful hard to bow the head And say. Thy will be done," When everything looks dark and drear And the clouds obscure the sun ; To fold the hand we loved so well Tenderly over the breast, While our lip do ftvbijr wiiiHLar How calmly she doth rvsL Tlx awful hard to still live on W hen those we love prove false, When ftiilh Is dead and hope liat fled And we are temp.wt to.ed; To lauh and smile and hldo the wounds That perhaps will never hnl. So the busy world will never know The sorrow th.it we feel. Tin very hard to learn real well Tne lesson of the eros; To count the many tears we shed To profit, not to loss; To stand beside yea, to enter In The porta! of the tomb, Then look above, beyond It. Out from tiie awful gloom; To try and s. the little gleam That's shining ever so far; To hear the voice of the Master We still his children are. To sutler much, and still hope on. Knowing no consolation, Yet keeping the light of tilth aglow This, then, is resignation. ! ONE THANKSGIVING. BY EVA BUST. I was very cross that night All day things had gone wrong, and I had so much to do in the way of cake-baking and seeing to a thousand things licside. We were to give a supper on this Thanksgiving Day, as it was the thir tieth anniversary of our wedding. "leary me," I thought, peering in to the oven to see how the turkey was getting on. "I can't believe it has been thirty years since Toiu and I stood up lief.re Preacher Censor to get married ii really doesn't seem that long; but Preacher Censor has lieen dead and gone these twenty years, Tom's hair is as white as the rlour at the mill, and I well, I don't feel so very old yet, and wouldu't realize the flight of time so much if I hadn't Jam ie, here, with me," and I glanced at our child a man now in years, but to me always a child ; for he had never grown in stature since ten long years ago, when they brought him in, man gled and bleeding, his feet crippled for life, caused by a fall from a beam In the mill. I thought it would kill me, at first, to see my once active, lionny, bright darling tramping around on crutches ; but somehow I got used to it as years passed us both by so used to it, in deed, that when Jamie asked me that Thanksgiving mornhig if I would take Dora for my daughter, I flared up at him aud answered him more sharply than I should have thought jaissible for me to answer my idolized boy. What right had he to leave me for Dora? Not that I disliked the girl, though she iva a strange sort of body living first at one house, then at an other. Our neighUirs were all work ing 'people and managed to get along without hired help, except field hands aud some such mnu-labor ; it was only at house-cleaning times that Dora was needed steadily, or when sewing was going to lie done, at marriages or funerals. It was a nap-hazard way of getting one's bread, but Dora was al ways busy ; for she M as as handy at boy's work as any lad in the village and had the advantage of being more intelligent. Dora would be just the wife for my son ; she was energetic, robust, strong, and smart, while he was the crippled son of a hard-working miller, who could leave him no money or estate when he died ; and H13, his mother, who could leave him only to the mercy of the world when life was ended. But I steeled my heart against his pleading voice and eyes, and gave him short, angry replies, until he could stand it no longer and hobbled away, slowly and tremblingly, toward the mill. My heart cried out for him; but I stifled its reproaches, and gave vent to my ugly feelings by spitefully dashing all manner of kitchen utensils out up on the porch. After the turkeys were tanned to russet and gold in the big oven, and the cakes were done, the ex citement that had kept me in a flurry all day suddenly left me, and I sat down in the disordered kitchen and had a good, long, hard cry over my poor lmy. Still I felt that all this trouble was Dora's fault, and I tried to hush my accusing conscience by blam ing her. By sundown all was ready to receive the expected guests. Dora had come so as to help me alwuit the tables, and I had treated her so coldly that her usually bright, sweet, sunshiny look fled from her face, and there seemed, oddly enough, a gloomy cloud spread ing, shadow-like, all over the house. Tom and Jamie came in late from the mill, for it was being repaired and the "master's eye" was required in cessantly. Jamie stopped on the porch, and before my very eyes with never a hint that he saw the anger flashing out of them he drew Dora's face down to his and kissed her. Then I was mad and said things that made me tremble at my unjust bitterness and hate, Jamie never aus wered me, but limped up-stairs to his own room ami stayed there several hours; as for Dro, she disappeared. By ones and twos and threes the guests began to congregate in my little best room until it was crowded, and they were forced, for want of space, to move on into the other rKnis or scat ter alout the garden. The young folks chose the latter place, as the night was mild as summer itself, and the big full m kh, that scemtl too heavy ever to rise above our heads, was floating slow ly up over the eastern hills. Tiie lov ers looked so blissful and happy that it made me almost sorry that I had driv en Dora and Jamie apart by my fearful tongue-lashiug, but my bark was worse than my bite and it was Jamie's own fault if be hadn't found that out long ago. For the next hour or so I forgot Jamie ; but when supper time came, I crept up-stalrs to his little ro-.nu and peeped in. He lay stretched on the bed by the window in the white m-wn-light, which was as bright a day, showing me plainly his poor, dwarfed foot, his useless limb, and his grand, wide forehead. He was still dressed. set ESTABLISHED 1827. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1895. but his overdrawn breath assured me he was sleeping. I felt that I had no right to call him back from that mysterious realm of sweet unrealities I, who had spoiled the possible beauty of the real so I quietly descended the stairs and invi .ed my merry guests to partake of the supper I had prepared for them. My face I wreathed in smiles aud none knew that the miller's wife did not join in the gayety of the hour. After supper the lovers went out again, in pairs, into the moonlight, the older folks returned to the parlor, and I, being left to myself, went up-stairs laden with good things a pice otter ing to my Jamie. I opened the door, I could never make you comprehend the terrible loneliness and emptiness of that little room Jamie was gone. I aloue knew of the dangerous somnambulistic habits of my son a habit that began in infancy, aud that, in boyhood, made him a cripple for life and now in heartrending tones I called to my friends to aid me in my frantic search from garret to cellar but to no avail. Suddenly the belle of the village a miss full of nerves and fancies came rushing into the house exclaiming: "A ghost ! A ghost !" "Where!" I cried, feeling sure it was Jamie she had seen. "Moving iu short, slow stejH along the scaffolding of the mill oh, I am sick with fright." "Save him, oh, my God, save him!" I cried, rushing out to the mill, follow ed by a crowd of awe stricken men and women. Yes, there he was, high up on the outside scaffolding of the mill, walk ing with wide, uuseeing eyes along the moonlit plunk. My very life-blood seemed clogged about my heart ; I could not stir or beseech the men to go after him my tongue cleaved to the roof of my mouth. On he came to ward a plank that was laid far out over the deep, sluggish waters of the race the noise of his crutches ringing out in the awful silence as each step brought him nearer to death. Tramp tramp he was almost to the end now ; yet we dared not move lest we should wake him and make death a certainty. Nearer, nearer every wrong I had done him, every sharp word I had unwittingly given him, came crowding now upon my heart aud soul like so many accusing devils, torturing me to agony as I stood there watching him draw slowly to ward the end of the scaffolding. One more step will bring him to his death oh, my darling! my darling! I clutched Tom's sleeve Tom, who stood there, numb and almost paralyz ed. Suddenly over the roof, with cat like steps, crept the lithesome figure of a woman, who came to the edge, swung herself down to the scaffolding, and was close upon him as he stood upon the verge of eternity. With wonderful presence of mind she wrap ped her strong right arm firmly around a projecting beam, then quickly seized him with the other. I knew from his sudden tremor that he had awakened I saw him turn confusedly and look about him, then down, far down into the black line of the deep sluggish race. With a cry he reeled like a drunken man, his crutches fell from his uplifted hands, his poor crippled limbs tottered beneath the unaccustomed weight of his body, and, though she strained dtsjierately to support him, the one single left arm was too weak for so great a burden, and down they fell he and the woman down, down into the deep, black water. When I oiH'tied my eyes again the men were carrying Jamie and Dora, dripping and water-soaked, but still living, thank God, into the house. I fell on my kness before them as they lay glistening with water drops on the little horsehair sofas, and kissed the dear ones who were saved for me and cried like a laby for their forgiveness. Dora drew my face to hers and whis pered softly in my car: "Our mother!" aud then I knew I was the happiest old woman on this fair earth. By and by her pretty color all came back and she slipped away from us to change her drenched clothes for dry ones. And Jamie? When he was warm and dry he lay upon the sofa, his face lit up with a smile that glorified the little room ; it spoke voicelessly of his sudden blissful happiness and the eyes that he turned upon his foolish old mother were brim full of tender love and thankfulness. Thus ended one Thanksgiving Day ; and when the next one came my daughter Dora was the sweetest, most sensible little bride that ever gained her mother's love by her unselfish he roism. Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute- This widely celebrated institution, hunted at Buffalo, N. Y., is organized with a full stair of experienced and skillful Physicians and Surgeons, con stituting the most complete organiza tion of medical and surgical skill in America, for the treatment of all chronic diseases, whether requirirg medical or surgical means for their cure. Marvelous success has been achieved iu the cure of all nasal, threat and lung diseases, liver aud kidney diseases, diseases jieculiar to women, blood-taints and skin diseases, rheuma tism, neuralgia, nervous debility, paralysis, epilepsy (fits), and kindred affections. Thousands are cured at their homes through correspondence. The cure of the worst ruptures, pi!e tumors, varicocele, hydrocele aud strictures is guaranteed, witn only a short residence at the institution. Send 10 cents in stamps for the Invalids' Guide-Book (ICS pages), which gives all particulars. Address, Worlds' Dispensary Medical Association, Buf falo, N. Y. When the Rain is Heaviest A wind from the southwest gives the steadiest and most continuous rain; the west to northwest the heaviest, but the latter is an intermittent downpour. More rain has been known to fall in fifteen minutes with the wind veering from west to northwest than has fallen iu a day during a similar storm with the wind in the southwest, "AMERICA. The Monument of Samuel F- Smith, Who Died Last Saturday. I. My country, 'tis of thee. Swept land of liberty, Of thee I sing. I.iml where my fathers died. Land of the pilgrim's pride. From every mountain sidy Let Ircedoin ring ! II. My native country, thee, Lund of the noble free, TJiy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills. Thy woods and templed hills My heart with rupture thrills. Like that above. III. Let music swell the breeze. And ring from all tiie trees Sweet freedom's song ; Let mortal tongues awake. Let ull that breathe partake, Lrt rocks their silence break. The sound prolong. IV. Our fathers Gil ! To thee, Author of liberty. To thee we sing. Long may our land be blight . With freedom's holy light ; Protect us by thy might. Great Uod, our king. STEVENS' GREAT SPEECH It WAS MADE IS THE INTEREST OF FREE SCHOOLS. Eow tho Great Commorer Saved the Publie School System ia the Leg islature oa April 11, 1S3S, Jast Sixty Years Ago. From the Liineastcr Inquirer. In 1S34 the Legislature of Pennsylva nia, impressed by the fact that out of 400,000 children in the State only 150, 000 attended school, instituted the pres ent beneficent system of free education, wipiug out forever that stigma of pau perism which had up to that time ren dered ineffective legislation on this subject. There were but three votes against the bill in the House and one iu the Senate. But throughout the State sentiment was very different. The result was unforeseen. A tidal wave of rage aud indignation swept over the Commonwealth. All summer long the fight raged fu riously, and as election time approach ed the contest was bitter. Families were divided. Banners inscribed with "No Free Schools" were frequently seen. Meetings were held to consider the repeal of the bill ami the majority of the candidates owed their election to their avowed hostility to popular edu cation and their promise to vote for a repeal. Candidates who had voted for this bill and who refused to withdraw their support failed f re-election. The Legislature of lS3o assembled, animated by the ignoble purjw)-; of making any education impossible for two-thirds of the children in the State, save by registration as paupers. The members were overwhelmed with peti tions and memorials for the repeal of the bill creating the common schools, and it is hard to realize that etitioiis were seriously presented and defended which contained the names of men signed with a mark. The petitions against the repeal of the bill numbered but 4!, containing 2,r7."i names, while for reieal there were 5-s, containing 31.9SS names. The fact that universal education was more of a necessity in a republic than elsewhere was lost sight of, so alarmed were nnwt of the re monstrants at the idea of taxation for this subject From the beginning of March, ls., to mid-April the petitions poured iu ; at last ou the eleventh the Senate had repealed the bill, and it was before the House for debate. Sjieeeli after sjteeeh was delivered, all for the repeal of the bill, picturing how "the honest hard working man, aided by his children's labor, was ground down by taxation to educate his shiftless neighbor's chil dren." One argument deserves to be quoted entire : "Free schools are" the hot-beds wherein idle drones, too lazy for honest lalior, are reared and maintained. The free school system was originated and supported by its partisans for the pur pose of making places for men too lazy to work, and the school t.ix is a thinly disguised tribute which the honest, hard-working farmers and mechanics have to pay out of their hard earnings to pamper idle and lazy school masters." There was one man listening to the proceedings who was neither a dema gogue nor a coward. That man was Thaddeus Stevens. His home was then in Gettysburg and lie represented Adams county In the Assembly. Stevens never forgot the poverty of his boyhood. Crippled as he was he knew how terribly handicapped he would have been had he not received free that excellent education which made fortune and fame possible. He would not only have placed education within the reach of every child, but he would have enacted if possible "that no father or guardian should lie per mitted to vote who had not caused" one half of his children or wards, or if he have but one, that one to attend school during eight mouths of the years they are entitled to attend school." On that day of April as he listened to tho speeches pleading for and threat ening a repeal of the law making a general education possible in the great Commonwealth or Pennsylvania we mav imagine what he thought This is, in part, what he said : I will briefly give you the reasons why I shall oppose the repeal of the school law. This was passed at the last session of the Legislature with unex exampled unanimity, but nno member of this House voting against it It has not yet come into operation, and none of its effects have been tested by ex perience iu Pennsylvania. The pas sage of such a law is enjoined by the Constitution, and lias been recommend ed by every Governor since its adop tion. Much to his credit, it has been warmly urged by the present Executive in all his annual messages delivered at the opening of the Legislature. To re peal it now, before its practical effects have been discovered, would argue that it contained some glaring and perni cious defect, and that the last Legisla ture acted under some strong and fatal era delusion which blinded every man of them to the interests of the Common wealth. It would seeru to la; humiliating to be under the necessity, " iu the nine teenth century, of entering into a formal argument to prove the utility, and, to free governments, the allute necessi ty, of education. More than two thous and years ago, the deity who presided over intellectual endowments ranked highest for dignity, chastity and virtue, among the goddesses worshipped by cultivated p igans. And I will not in sult this House or our constituents by su pposi ng any cou rse of reason i ng neces sary to convince them of its high im portance. Such necessity would e de grading to a Christian age and a free republic. I fan elective republic is to endure for any great leng'h of tiui", every elector must have suiTicietit information not only to accumulate wealth and take care of his pecuuiary concerns, but to direct wisely the Legislatures, Ambas sadors, aud the Executive of the na tion ; for some part of all these things, some agency in approving or disap proving of them, falls toevery freeman. If, then, the permanency f our gov ernment depends upon such knowl edge, it Ls the duty of the government to see that the means of information be diffused to every citizen. This is a sufficient answer to those who deem education a private and not a public duty who argue that they are willing to educate their own children, but not their neighbor's children. Many complain of the school tax, not so much on account of its amount, as because it is for the benefit of others and not themselves. This Ls a nil-take. It is for their own 'oenelit, inasmuch as it jierjietuates the government and en sures the due administration of the laws under which they live, and by which their lives and projerty are protected. Why do they not urge the same objec tion against all other taxes? The in dustrious, thrifty, rich farmer pays a a heavy county tax to support criminal courts, build jails, and jwy sheriffs and jail kcojiers, aud yet probably he never has had and never will have any direct personal use for either. He never gets the worth of his money by being tried for a crime before the court, allowed j the privilege of the jail ou conviction or receiving an equivalent from the sherifror his hangmen officers !. But we are told that this law is un popular, that the people desire its re peal. Has it not always been so with every new reform in the condition of man? Old habits and old prejudices are hard to lie removed from the mind. Every new improvement which has been gradually leading man from the savage through the civilized up to a highly cultivated state has required the most strenuous and ofteu perilous ex ertions of the wise and the goo I. But, sir, much of its unpopularity is charge able up n the vile arts of unprincipled demagogues. Instead of attempting to remove the honest misapprehensions of the people, they cuter to their pre judices, and take advantage of them, to gain low, dirty, temporary, local tri umphs. I do not charge this on any particular party. Unfortunately, al most the only sji.it on which all parties meet in union, is this ground of com mon infamy ! I have seen the present chief magis trate of this Commonwealth violently assailed as the projector and father of this law. I am not the eulogist of that gentleman ; he has been guilty of many deep political sins. But he deserves the undying gratitude of the people for the steady, untiring zeal which lie hits manifested in favor of common schools. I will not any his exertions in that cause have covered all, but they have atoned for many of his errors. I tru-t that the people of this State will never hi called upon to choose between a supporter and an opposcrof free school. But if it should come to that, if that is to lie made the turning point on which we are to cast our suffrages, if the oppo nent of education were my most inti mate personal and political friend, and the free school candidate my m:st ob noxious enemy, I should deem it my duty, as a patriot, at this moment of our intellectual crisis, to forget all other considerations and to place myself un hesitatingly and cordially, in the ranks of him whose banners streams in light. But will this Legislature will the wise guardians of the dearest interests of a great Commonwealth, onsen t to surrender the high advantages and brilliant prospects which this law promises, because it is desired by worthy gentlemen, who, in a moment of cause less panic and popular delusion, sailed into power on a Tartarian flood? a flood of ignorance, darker, and to the intelligent mind, more dreadful, than that accursed Stygian pool, at which mortals and immortals tremble ! Sir, it seems to ni3 that the liberal aud en lightened proceedings of the last Legis lature have aroused the demon of igno rance from slumber ; and maddened at the threatened loss of his murky em pire, his discordant bowlings are heard in every part of our land. The barbarous and disgraceful cry, which we hear abroad in some parts of our land, "that learning makes us worse that education makes m.-n rogues," should find no echo within these walls. Those who hold sae!i d.H'trines anywhere would bet lie object of bitter detestation if they were mt rather the pitiable subjects of commis eration. For even voluntary fools re quire our compassion as well as natural idiots ? Let all, therefore, who would sustain the character of the philosopher or philanthropist, sustain this law. Those who would add thereto the glory of the hero can acquire it here, for iu the present state of feeling in Pennsylva nia, I am willing to admit, that but little less dangerous to the public man is the warcluband battle axe of savage ignorance than to the Lion-Hearted Richard was the keen scimitar of the Saracen. He who would oppose it, either through inability to comprehend the advantages of general education, or from unwillingness to bestow them on all his fellow-citizens, even to the low est and the poorest, or from dread of popular vengeance, seems to me to want cither the head of the philosoph er, the heart of the philanthropist or the nerve of the hero. Who would not rather d j one livlnjf Jl- C-o A7IIOLE NO. 2318. deed than to have bis ashes enshrined in ever-htiriii.-.hed gold? Sir, I trust thtt when wf c nut to act on this quest-on, we shall take lofty ground look lieyond the narrow sp wv which now circam-icrilies otir vision U-yond the pi-isim;, fl.t'ting poi.it of ti.ue on which westatid and so east our votes that the blessing of education shall lie conferred on every son of Pennsylvania shall lie carried home to tiie jioorest child of the poorest inhabitant of the meanest hut of your mountains, so that even he may le prepared to act well his part in this land of freemen, and lay o'i earth a broad and solid founda tion for that enduring knowledge which g'ies on increasing through increasing eternity. Before he finished it was evident that opposition had al.uost faded away. At the coiielu.-i'iti of bis q-e.:? the vote was taken, and the bill to repeal was lost ; the school law was saved. The great courage and pnver of Mr. Stevens' defense of the puMic schools waashowu iu the fact that almost single handed and alone he met and vanquish ed a tremendous uprising of the com bined lowers of fear, prejudice and ig norance. In this great crisis he was fearlessly aided by Governor Wolf, who incurred the passing odium of his own party, but gainsl lasting honor from the firm stand he took in the cause of popular education. Ap?3aiiciti and iu Treatment It is in my a lo:i year since so rtr.ieii unscientific and unnecessary butchery has been indulged in as is recorded in the treatment of appendicitis in tiie Lot few years. Severe pain and uncertain symptoms that might le attributed to a dozen other causes arc charged to ap pendicitis, and a continuation of them suggests experiments to tiie minds of the d'K-tors, and the ojierating table looms up in the immediate future as the only hope for life. There are yet many physicians who insi.-t that operations of this sort are a!solate!y necessary ; but it is a hope ful sign of the times that some of the more conservative and experienced d octors declare that only in exception al cases is surgery p isitively necessary. As a simple home treatment, several patients have lieen immediately reliev ed by drinking large quantities of pure salad oil. This appears to have a U ue fic'utl effect upn the entire lining mem brane of the alimentary canal, the oil sensing to spread over the surface, al laying irritation, and softening what ever fiod products may have lodge 1 in the appen.iieal sac. The nonsens'.ca! theory put forth by one member of the medical profession that n infant was properly equipped for life until by surgical means it had lieen deprived of the vermiform appen dix, and thus fortified against future ilang-r, is tvo silly to deserve a mo ln -at's consideration. M:IIio:is : people have lived and died wiT.ho-.it even ku . ing there was such a thing, a:t I the proportion of deltas that can by any possible in -atls be attribute I to this cause is extremely sin t'.l. S n y day doctor and patient will realize that a thorough washing out and cleansing of the interior of the b sly is quite as liencfiekd as the same pr.Hvss applied to the exterior. It is as.-icrted by those who have a siLlieient experience to entitle their statements to consideration, that the thorough wahing out of the digestive apparatus by mean of tepid water, properly puri fied, would prevent at least haif of tile diseases from which humanity suffers. A' w York Ia1j. r. Rj7alMaich-2Iskinj. Interesting details are rep irted a'oout the betrothal of Prince Carl, of Den mark, to Princess Maud, of Wales. The news of the betrothal was a great surprise to all outsider, lieing known previously only to the m t intimate attendants of the Danish Court. It seems strange that it should have been an no. meed at a time when Princess Maud had just left Copenhagen with her mother, and the Crown-Princess of Denmark, Prince Carl's mother, was absent in Irohemia, visiting the par ents of her son-in-law. It is said that the young jieople had lieen in love for some time, but the Danish Crown Princess did not favor her son's choice, since she was not on very good terms with her sl-ff r-in-law, the Princess of Wales. The Crown-Princess would have liked very much a union of her son with i iccn Wilhelmine, of the Netherlands, which project had Kvu spoken of for a long time. The Dowager-Empress of Russia, however, was very much interested in the two young folks, and zealously worked iu their interest. She sincerely loves her sister, the Princess of Wales, and ha so en ergetically directed matters that she h ts persuad 1 the grandparents of the yojng pep!e, t!ie King an 1 t'iecu of Denmark, who originally were not in favor of a mtrriag.' between so near relatives, to sanction the publication of Prinee Carl's betrothal. It was the Dowag T-Kmpress of Russia who fought all tl young folks' baltle-, and who selected the ni mient when Prince Carl's in ither was absent to break the news to those interested. It was she who write an 1 edited the information which was given to the press. When lovely women overworks And anils too bite her health gives away. What rh'irm can soothe her melancholy.' What art can take the pain away.' One of the saddest cases a physician meet, is that of some sWeet, modest woman, who in striving to make Iter home life happy, has overtaxed her delicate constitution, until her health is so completely broken down, that her every moment i misery. Natural feeling of delicacy prompt her to defer consulting a physician until the most serious results have tn.-utd. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription removes the necessity of any embarrassing con sultation with a physician. Dr. Pierce has devoted a long active life to the closest study of woman's diseases, and no specialist iu the world is better fitted to prescrilie thau he. Complete direc tions are given with each bottle. For ieriodit-al pains, bearing dowu sensa tions, nervous debility and all uterine disorder, "Favorite Prescription" is a sure cure-. The first elections for County Super intendents took plc In May, 1 4, soon aftt r the passage of the law cre ating the office. That the law was not a very popular one Is a itintli-r of hirtry, and i shown by the very me igre salaries voted the superintend enis in some f the (sHiiitiei. Tiie fl lowing I:, the complete li-t of the first superintendent elected in each county of the State with the salary allowed. It will lie seen that th Ijwieaster county directors were more liberal In fixing the superintendent's salary than were the directors of any other county in the State: Adams !-. Id Wills J 300 NJ Allegheny. James M. Pryor l.ll UO ArmstPMig, John A. t'ampU ll SO - Utwer, T1ioiii:m N M-li. !.. ".'" Be,lf..r.l,T. W. It. MeFaildeu : " Iter'., W :n. A. ;. ! 'n ( Hialr, Hiig'u A. :;,l. ll a ilr i lf..r I, KioAnnel iluy. r " B -lcs. Joseph Fell l.CU 0 linM. r, I stac Black 3i JU t'aiii!ri. ilolert I. Johnson ( 'arboa, Jiwpii Il.Sirwers 4- W Centre, Wm. J. (.iImmi ) ou Chester, It. Agaew Fulliey l,r 11 Clarion, I?:liert W. rr ". IO Clearriel.l, A. X. Sehryver - : - ' Clinton, U. C. Alli-on W Columbia, J.al K. Bni.iiey S) ml Crawford, S. S. S.-.rs i) m Cumlx rhind, l Shelly . .in) On D.iil) !mi. S. I. Ingram . - 3 tJ beta war tieorge Smith -Vl fi F.lli, Win. B. t Hills "i ) F.rle, Win. H. Armstrong Fayette, Jhia V. (iibboiis 60 1 Forest, John . Il.iy '-) Fntukltn, Jane- MeLKiwell Fulton, Iti!, ri It is l' :) iri-ne, Jijltn .V. livjr'!',J) - IT- ') j 1 i u 1 1 r i I, ,ii, J -.-o s . liarr .. il 'O In.huna, Sam. 1. Boliinaii .. ' Jefferson, John C. Wagnman. S' fc Juniata, liavi.l Laiigliliti .. 3 00 Lancaster, J. I. Wiekershaia I,"i"i M Ijwren e. Tiio:u. Berry 0u ' Leliunon. John H. Klu- T'i IO L'high, C'.uo-l. s W. Os.pi-T -M I '1 Luzerne, Johu W. Li-tchcr. " t Lycoming. J. W. Barrel t AO ' McKean. Fortyre A. Allen -4) 'O Mercer. Jaaus C. Broiv:i ) "i Mifflin, KoU rt V. Kosrf .? oo Monroe, Charles si. Ix trick 3 Montgomery. Fphntim I- Acker i0 oO M:::tour, I'aul LeiJy S't) U" Northampton, Va!"iluc Hilburn...... '- Nortliuai's rfand, J. J. Itolniecsiiyder '&') l P .-rry, Adam Heigh? - ; Pike, Ira H. Newman- 1; IO Fottcr, M. 1L ; ? - ' Schuylkill. J. K. Kn wson I,' ' S niiers. u Jo-. .1. st.it.i:ian '- Sullivati. Stieh :r ! fledfor 1 - -Yi e S:i.i 'n-ili. W illar I Kicliardson- 111 ' I T'huh. J. F. Cilkins 1 4To to l'uion, J. S. Whitman - : o Venango, Maniey C. Ilct Ihc - 3' t ' Warren. Thco. I. Klwanls " Washington. John I. ev- : Wayne, John F. St.iddarJ Wi-l:nor.-!an 1, Matthew McKinstry, '' Wyoming. Cora- lius it. I.ine .. 1"4J o) York, JaeoaKirk ' ' Barial G jll in California. Treasure-seeking parlies re out in California, trying to find tiie gold stip sed to h:ie U-e;i buried by Spanl-h padres, pirates, miners, roi.UTs and other. Daring the conicuM of Cali fornia many of the Spaniard buried alias, or jars of silver, g l 1 and jew els, the hiding place of which were fonrotten in t!r-ir flight and fright, la-fore the American occupation there were no bank i:i California, and the Sptniar is k rpt tie-ir g ! 1 a:id silver in jars, which were either b irie 1 on the premise- or walled up in the adobe houses. T.ie m mey of the mission was kept iu the saiiie maimer. Each inis sio.i ha 1 a treavire r ;a, an 1 this fact was well known by bandits, sothecun ning padres carved holes in tiie thick walls and he;-;n-'tieu!ly scaled up the treasures in them. Wisely tiie missions were secularized by the Mexican government the priest had no chance to carry away their treasure and rather than inform the gov ernment o'.Ueiats. they perhaps let it re nt li'.i hi-l le:i. Till is the concn n be liefofbi.'i Mexicans a:i 1 Am-ricaii. an 1 h is ie I 1 1 is ,Teatdealof b arrowing aro in 1 to w ilis of i'ie mls-ion build ing by treasure hunters. The wall being uniformly six feet in thickness, they can stand a great fleit!, otherwise they would have fallen some time ago. A great d- ul that has U.vii written about leather sacks of gold buried under mission churches is fiction, but th. treasure seekers fondly believe tiiat there i some fact to it. The -I mis sion churches, they say, had from 0J to to sl Kl.tsiil at the time of the se cularization. It is affirmed that the padres did n-t carry any of the money away. S une of the treasure hunter get direct tips fi-o.u spiritualist. Another theory that there must le lots of buried gold in California! basted on the belief that in tiie early mining days the miners frequently buried the: r money until such time as they could re turn to the States. Many of theui were killed and the secret of the hiding places of their g.M died with them. There certainly was a great deal of buried gold iu California, besides that in the mine in a crude state. At several points of the bay of San Francisco pirates are said to have buried money. Teh-graph Hill in the northern portionof the city, is a favorite place for burrowing for pi rate's treasure, and frcq-ient'.y some of the soothsayer. direct fortune hunter to a particular sjt, where they delve and dig until stopped at the point of a shotgun by some property owner. Very little tr.ttsiire has been found, Imt lh faith of the digger seem to be unshak en. ('.''Vo, ;ii i . " v, X. V. .N" . Thj 3oj in Ciarch. It was his first visit to church, and his big brown eyes watched everything. He saw the new comer drop their heads on the jh-w and iu a moment raise them ng.iin. "Why il they p.;t their lit ad diuu'."' he wnispert-d to his sister, woo was u ith him. "They say a little prayer." she whis pered kick. "Rut they don't talk," argued Brown Eyes 'i''t convinced. "No, they think," answered his sis ter. "Shall I think a little?" was the next quest ion. "If you like," was the reply; and the big brown eyes were clo--,!. the sin dl hand folded, and the earnest little face dropped against the rail. In a moment or two the head was raised and the little fellow crept bock on the cushion. "I tried to think, "Now I lay me," he whispered, "bat I had to talk it, 'cause the words wouldn't stay dowu in my stummiek. Will God care?" he finished anxiously. No, Brown Eyes. G,d will not care. Of all who lowed their hea l in His sanctuary that morning, was there one whose soul was so honestly trying t pray as yours ? Even in the m st severe ease of sprain or bruise, cut or burn, Thoma.-, Eclectric Oil gives almost instant re lief. It is the ideal family liniment. A correspondent of an exchange sug gests to prevent apple tree ,'rom split ting where they grow in forks, taking a spro-.it that is growing on one branch and grafting in the other. The branch will grow with the tree and become strong brace.
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