fte : Somerset Herald. of Publication. . ,rr- Wedilr morning at j J1 rr rhanred. . ilinvan"v ' L-uon " discontinued til notify " ,r moving from one poetofflo to hv,uld i the nme ,orm ""llMtWpn toffl Add- SOMUUT, Pa. f Ffi NOTARY PCBUa L Homtnwt, Pa. - t teVielfsl A t Somerset, l'enn'a. 1 laMit.2Jfloor- ., Mill Ulrd W biS r W'U "TTTv C. W. WALKER. U A TTOl ' N EYS-AT-LAW, Slid UIAUl I kuuw, Soinonwt, Fa. f . r (.j.po.:: ivurt House. No. 170 Fourth bU, Pittsburg, Pa. A. KKItKKY, Somerset Pa. J t,2;e ,bo Fisher's Book Store. l I - T T T leV Ah Al roKNEY-Al-EAW, bouieraet. Pa. GS in First National Bank. C. HOLKEUT, . A. Somerset, Pa. et with Jol'" l'"- .lit " - boiuei-Mft, Pa. I FU W. HIESECKEK, a i v - - Somerset, Pa. tcin Priuliug Uoube ltsw, oi-poBile Court F J AliultXEY-AT-tAW, Somerset, Pa. u H. KUONTZ. J. G. OGLE. KinjXTZ A OGLE, AT'oK-V EYS-AT-LAW, Somen-, Pa. Wi rv prompt atteulion to business en : u it- ir crc somerset and adjoining t.ini- iu 1'riut ttouse liow, oi-poslU. VALENTINE HAY, Aii(-iO.EY-AT-LAWt Koiuereet, Pa. w t in Ktl folate. Will attcud to t'. 'u:i.. riiirull to htocare with proiupU no-iaii iiiiviilj" TOHX 11. VllU J AH ..'ilS EY-AT-LA W, Hoturnet, Pa. VSi promptly attend to all business en iu In""- Money advauivJ ou colleo U'LJ. Ac OUice iu MiJUUiOlU lilock. T01LN O. KIMMEL, .1 . ( I- .1. V k -A fl AllXilUtl-Al-LAW, bomenet, Pa. WUIt;eud tosll busiiiowi entruuted to Ilia 6 ill KoiuerH aud ajoiinu oou.iUea, witii iinDipui(w "J tideluy. ottieeou itaiu CroM rjwi, twe CoBruUi Groeery fclore. TAMES L. IT;il, 0 AlTulO. EY-AT-LA W, Somerset, Pa. ('St in Maniniotb Block, up stair. En-t-M- u Mam ( HM MreeU CollecUolw DiJi-.Ui;o. M-ltled, title exaiiiiued,and all ina. tidMuo atu-uacd to ilu proiiiplue A J. CuLBt-iKS. L. C CULBOHS. '"'OLBOliX & COLIJOKX, J AlTultNEYS-AI-LAW, Kumerwt, Pa, A'.; busins ratruiiUd to our care will be pn.iiii.iir and faithfully alleuded to. tVlleo tit uiaJr in .Somerset, Bedtonl aud aujoin fci oihuil hurveynig aud couveyancinf CjL ou rtmMiuabie teruia. HL BAEK, . AITORN EY-AT-LA W, tSomerart, Pa. Will practice In Somerset aud adjoining; .suin. All buinteutruteU to him wiii ttxae proiiipl atU.'UUou. A H. aTRuTU. W. U. RCPPEL. noFEIlOTH & RUFPEL, V ATTuK-VEYS-AT-LAW, Souierxet, Pa. All batine entruKted to their ear will be i)di:j'anl punctually atu-udeu to. OtBee 01 Hun CruMi niveL, oppuiil Mammoth T V. CAROTHERS, M. D., V I'll YslCIAN ad SL'KOEOK, Soiuereet, Pa. Offiw oo Patriot Street, i.potite C. B. C:.un u. Lt callk at office. DR. P. F. SHAFFER, 1'HYMUAN ASUSfRGEOS, Somerset, Ia. Trtiifrs hi prifcs.ional nerx ices to the ciU tj uf Nun, rv-t and vicinity. Office next ijur to Cuiuiuereial Hotel. DR. J. M. LOUTH ER, PHYi-KIAX asu SURGEON, OEiton Main street, rear of I'rug store. D IL II. S. KIM M ELL, Tit bin pmf.wional service to the dU-- o.' N..IU, nt and vicinity. Unless pro-t-.illy ri:eiiprd he can be found at his of- un Jlaiu .-u. Last of tllaiuoud. D R. J. S Mt MILLEX, ("ruiluale ill Dentistry.) '''fttupreiai attention 1 the pnervation tnr natural tn-th. Artificial o-U lnsert-d. A i 'r!i..tv uaniniil satiHfactorv. tiffiee tsitiniiii over L. Jf. Iiavis A Co's store, OimerMalu Cn aud Patriot streets. C IL UOI FIiOTH, Funeral Director. SwtfJti Main Cross Ht. lUidence, 34J Patriot St. riLAXK 15. FLUCK, Lantl Surveyor MISIXG EXG1XEER. Ustie,"pa. p- 'eihM-r. J. F. Bcby. Real Estate and Collecting Agency. ihinj to buy or sell fcirTHn or town i t'-i" 7"T "' s""" """t eirtinty or elsewhere, are 11 loiraii m Mirofflce iu Knepjier block. mptsiiention will lie given to all mail n-j:-nt ''Sariliug ,nc and location of prop . - I '-ix ei" .- a Iwoeent clamp to pre M.wrr. hW Ell'ZER HKACH Y, Knepper lilock. touieraet. Pa. Oils! Oils! A.'amicIu.ririiilrCo Plttabunr fVpart """t. I itt.t.un. J'a makes a nwialty of "nuiaetunn for th ltomesUc trade liie Quest brands of laminating & Lubricating Oils XapMha & Gasoline, TtVn ni5f from Petruleum. We elial wujccoiuparuiou with every known Product of Petroleum Jf ro wish the must uniformly Satisfactory Oils IX THE -nerican Market. "oan. Trade for Somerset and vicini ty supplied by COOK BEERIT8 aud KREASE A KOOSER, tkmiemet. Pa. V 1 VOL. XLIY. KO. wry Soap The muddy tinge of shirts, handkerchiefs, napkins, and table cloths just from the wash, is often from the poor soap. It will cost little, if any more, to have thcia washed with Ivory Soap. Tut Paocru 4 Gambia Co, On -THE- First National Ban. Somerset, Penn'a. Capital, S50.000. Surplus, S22.000. DEPOSITS RECCtVCDIN LARGE AUDSMALL AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS. STOCK DEALERS. AND OTHERS SOLICITED DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LaRUE M. HICKS, GEO. R. KCTLL, JAMES L. PUGH, W. H. MILLER, JOHN K. SCOTT, ROBT. K. SCULL, FRED W. BIESECKER. ED WARD SCULL, : : PRESIDENT. VALENTINE HAY', : VICE PRESIDENT. HARVEY M. BERKLEY, . CASHIER. The funds and securities of this bank arc se curely protected In a celebrated Cobliss BCB- glab Proof Sack. The only safe made abso lutely burt'lar-proof. The SoniBrset County National BANK OF SOMERSET PA. Fjtabllihss. 1S77. 0rfib u Mitlesi!, 1890 -O. CAPITAL, $50,000 SURPLUS AND UN- DIVIDED PROFITS $19,500. X Chas. J. LTarrison, - Trcsident. Wm. II. Koontz, - Vice President Milton J. rritts, - - Cashier. Geo. S. Harrison, - Ass't Cashier. Directors : Sam. B. Harrison, Jiwiah Sjiex-ht, John H. Snyder, Jwepb B. Davis, Win. EncMey, Jonas M. Cook, John Sttifft, NoaUS. Miller, Jerome Stuflt, Harriwin Snyder, Cbas. "1. Snyder. Customers of this bank will receive the most liberal treatment consistent witlmafe banking. Parties winhinc to "f'"1 tmrnev east or weet can be accommodated by draft for any amount. . , m ... Monev and valuables seenred by one of Dle bold s celebrated safes, with most Improved UE?llection made In all parts of the United States. Charres moderate. AocounU and deposits solicited. A. H. HUSTON, Undertaker and Embalmer. A GOOD HEARSE, nd everything pertaining to funerals furn ished. SOMERSET - - Pa; Jacob D. Swank, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Next Door West of Lutheran Church, Somerset, - Pa- I Am Now pnpared to snpi-ly the public with Clocks, Watches, ami Jew elry of all descriptions, as Cheap aa the Cheapest REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. All work guaranteed. Look at my stock U-fore making your jHirehases. J. D. SWANK. ARTISTIC JOB PRIUllHG A SPECIALTY. IIARRY M. BEXSUOFF, MAHUFACTURING STATIONER -AND BLANK BOOK MAKEB HAJTXAM BLOCIv, Jnhnstown. Pa e 3. Pure Campbel & Smith THE PEOPLE'S STORE. Grand Clearance Sale! Our buyers huvo lHurlit wasonahle and d'siralle: tMMNt wonderfully low prices, and we an -determined tocinpW iur shelves of all surplus sM-k. Jn order to do this we are selling large i-iiHiitititit of Dry Goods, Carpels, Curtains, Dress Goads, Etc., AT Fifty Cents on the Dollar. AND Mtej. Fancy M Jewelry, TriniiEES, Etc, at Twenty-five Cents on the Dollar, Not everything in our stock at "! and "coii the dollar, hut what i- i't even the newest and staple every -i !:.. g i.mI.-i are marked so low you can com-? hun dreds of mile to htiy and srill save money. We haven't room far detailsmention just a few to give you an idea of the val ues ottered. Thousands of others as good, and many of them ln.ttcr. Vt lour cajK-s trimmed with black Thi liet far and line.1 with silk, at if 6 75, 18.50, $10.00. and $12.00; fully one third l-low regular price. Fine Kl't-trie Seal Capes, 3") inches long, full sweep and satin lined ; re duced from $12.50 to $8-43- Ladies' all-wool Roucle Cloth Jack ets, f-hield front, Mandolin sleeves and velvet collar; worth 813.03 fur $5 03. All-wool black or blue serg-? skirts, lined with ji.TiMliue and biund with velveteen ; measures full live yards; all MnisheiJ seams ; worth $7.50 for $1. All-wool black llenri-.'ttas, excellent (pialit reduivd from 39c to 25c- A11-wki1 SiTge, all colors ; 4 inches wide ; worth 50c rolurcd to 3-ic. All-wtml twtvply CarjH-ts, lest made, 50c Coloreil I'a-hiiieres, 40 inches wide, reduced from 25c to 15c- All our trimmed hats that sold at $1 and $5 reduced to $1.00. Children' and Misses' untrinimed hats that sold at 25o and 59j for 5c Real Scotch Lace Curtains, 4 to fiO inches wide, vards loii:r, worth $2 50, iv duced to $1.25. Irish I'oint Curtains, the regular $30 kind for ?10 ; and the only rcasiii you get them at this price is that we have a surplus stock. Men's ?10 suits for .7.39- Men's 12 suits for 9.63. Men's ?10 50 tivercoats for s. Men's sl2 50 overeofits for ?10. Itoys' ?3 suits for sl-93 just the kind you want fcr sc1ih1 wear. . Roys' ! suits for -2."0; nice suit for either dnss or everday wear. SHH'ial values in Linen, Flannels, Calicoes and Muslins. & Fifth Avenue, BCTMCrN WOOO AM tSITHF ELD STRCt S. Pittsburgh. DIRP.CTONS for usinj Cream Balm. CATARRH Apply a particle of the l':i -ii w.-;i np info the iiotrii. After a moment ir:iv striH5 bnilh through the mi'. I'se tlir.' times a i:ty,!LncrinnilK pre f. tr.1, and before rvlu inc. head Eiy's Cnnni P: I lit llpl'llH Jltllt eltOlw-K the Natl ln?-K;iiceH Alluys l'ain uml in- COLD N HEAD flaiiinuilloii.lIe:ilsthes.ireii,l-nrt"Ct the mem hnine from folds, Kvton theSenws of timte and Miiell. The Italm in quickly abforln-d and (fives relief at once. Price 30 cents, at Druiru-iM or by mail. ELY WloTHEitS, 56 Warren Street, N Y THE KEELEY CURE Is a special boon to btrincs men who, harlnr drifted unconseiounly into the drink habit and awaken to find the disease of alcoholism fattened ........ ,hm rnrlnrin lh.m linflt til nillimif. fairs reunirine a clear brain. A four weeks course uf treaunent at the prmrjirRo; iceeley institute. Xo. 4246 Fifth Avenue, r"tnr to them all their powrrs, mental and r.hncif-al divtmra the abnormal ai.Delite. and restor- them to" the condition ther were In be fore thev indulred In stunulann. 1 nls has Deen doneiu'inore than lfiOO canes treated here, and m.ing them st.rae of your own neiplibori, to whom we can refer with confidence aa to the .twOiit ftjifi'tv and efficiency of the Keelev Core. The fullest and most scarchine: invertipstlon is n vitcd. bcud for pasphibt Kulcg full informa tion. C1W1TL CESICM PATENTS. rrtDVDinUTI atal F"T fnfnrmatlnB an1 free Hariri bock write to iL'.',( CO, tail BaoiWiT. Kl uK. 0!dl baresu i secur.n peients fa Amerlr. tverr rt. nt tak'B out hr am it broucht befors tas pui,iw by a actios given fjveoi chars ia tb f rienfifif titifaB Larcest ctrrnurllon of hit s-fentlfle psfier In the worid. spk-ndailr lliastrated. Vn luteMireot naa hmd.f withuut lu Weekly. fc3.00a year: iiAinlxmontlis. A IJn. MUKr iXKt fyfi-iHis3l Uruadway.fcvw VurkClty. CampDOli Sffll i Solentlflo American i 5A Lr TOB MARKS, f7j .? CESICM PATENTS. omer SOMERSET, PA., LITTLE MAID-O'-DEEAMS. Littlo Mald-O'Drcams, with your Eerie eyes so clear and pure ('axing, where we fain would sou Into far futurity Tell us what you there Iiehold, In your visions manifold J What is on beyond our Might, Hiding till the morrow's light. Fairer than we see to-day. As our dull eye only may. Little Maid-O'-Dreams, with face Like as in some woodland pla:e Lifts a lily, chaste and white, Fnoin the shallow to the light ; Tell us, by your subtler glance. What strange sorcery enchants You as now, here, yet afar As the realms of moon and star ? Have you magic lamp and ring. And genii for vassaling? Little Maid-O'-Dreams, confess You're divine and nothing less, For with mortal palms, we fear, Yet must you, dreaming here Yearning, too, to lift the tips Of your lingers to our lips ; Fearful still you may rebel High ami Heav'nly oracle! Thus though all unmeet our kiss. Pardon this ! and this and this! Little Maid-O'-Ifreams, we call Truce aud favor, knowing all ! All your mngie is, in truth. Pure foresight and faith of youth You're a child, yet even so, You're a sage in embryo Prescient poet artist great As your dreams anticipate. Trusting "od aud man, you do Just as Heaven inspires you to. James YVhitcotnb Riley in Ltvlict Home JfuriKt!. THE HERMIT DF FQUCHE. I'Y SISAX SHKITAItn STEVENS. No one seemed to know whence he came, or how long he had been there, when a countryman, more curious than his kitid, seeing the corner of a shanty through the b'sshes, stopped his ox cart and went down the slightly worn path to reconnoiter. The abode which re warded this trouble would scarcely justify even the name of "shanty," aud after a wonderiug survey of the then desert dwelling he returned to his carL "("land!" he ordered, emphasizing his command with a crack from his long whip, and he slouched along be side his oxen, with a gait and liearing so like their own weary slowness, med itating over tiie foolishness which had led any human being to select such a sjsit in which to dwell. Some weeks after, when he encountered Elijah, tall, dark and gaunt, with sombre dark eyes which seemed to burn with a consum ing fire, he ceased to wonder, and de cided that "the critter was plum cra zy." The sjot selected by the stranger for the erection of his shanty might well jiave given rise to wonder, even in the minds of the stolid country folk who frequented the road. It was ujion the bank of a stream, a fork of the Arkan sas, known to the jicople thereabouts as Fourche, and in reality a cypress swamp, from whose muddy, current- less depths the corrugated cypress trunks raise themselves high in air to end in dark green feathery foliage arch ing over and closing in like a green Gothic aisle in one of nature's cathe drals. From root to topmost branch, the water below faithfully reproduces the leafy arch, and so still and unruf fled is the surface of the swamp that the reflected image is as unwavering aud as clear cut as the original. Itush aud water plant thrive lietieath the trees, though little sun strikes through to help their growth, while dotted aliout here and there is that curious root form ation, the cypress "knee," which pre sents the appearance of an abortive tree, attempted, perhaps, by one of nature's journeymen, who found histak impos sible of completion. About twenty feet from the bank of this stream had lieen placed the hovel which had given rise to so much won dering comment. It was built of half rotten, discarded boards, and consisted of but a single room, whose one window closed with a wooden shutter. The de ficiencies iu the roo." were made good by a covering of tin, evidently con structed by the laborious melting aud b.-ating out of stray tin cans. On the outside of the house was a rude chim ney, built of lath, and plastered with mud. Within, on a floor of rough biards, stood a chair, table and bed, all unmistakably of home manufac ture, and evidently the work of awk ward aud unskilled haud. In one corner of the room, fastened to the wall, were two wide shelves. Cpon the upper one rested an oblong wooden lox, of a size which might have served as a colli n for a new born infant. This box was secured by a tiny padlock, and had evidently remained untouched for m mths, as evidenced by the dust and c bwels which had claimed it for their own. lleside theojien hearth hung an iron pot and skillet. There was noth ing in all the room to relieve its look of bare poverty save scrupulous cleanli Had one taken the pains to observe Elijah's way of living, he might almost have been led to believe that, like the prophet of old whose name he liore, he, too, depended upon the birds of the air for sulisistciice. For the most part such iKior living as he got came from the muddy waters at his door. He had a bateau and an old dug-out, which he had plugged up aud made sufficiently sound for use, and iu one of these he dailv paddled himself out on the swamp, to sit for hours patiently fish' iug for the tasteless tinny inhabitants of the water. When his catch was larger than he needed, he sometimes sold a string of fish, and in this way, supplied the few necessaries of his mea gre existence. Once or twice he bad worked for a few days at odd jobs for some of the neighboring farmers, but they were curious and asked many questions, and so he had ceased any at tempt to make his living among his kind, and now spent his days and nights beside the swamp, which seem ed but a sombre reflection of his own sombre personality. "That pore crazy critter '11 bechillin' it 'fore long, ef he ain't already at it," remarked a woman, glancing toward set ESTABLISHED 1827. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 189G. the cabin in the'bushes from her chair at the back of the wagon, as the oxen slowly slouched ver the long bridge leading to town. ; "He'll git so full er pizen, be won't stop shakin' this side er judgment." If the chills racked his bones and the fever burnt his body no one was any the wiser, for he endu red in silence, growing perhaps a trifle more gaunt and yellow as the summer wore away. The hours spent in his miserable hovel which were not given to sleep were, for the most part, passed in pray er. Kneeling upright on the floor, his body sometimes swaying in ecstasy, ofteuer rigid with his strong effort at self control, his voice would rise in sup plicatory cadence until it reached a commanding frenzy, in which he lie sought, implored, demanded of the Al mighty to help and save him from the temptation of the devil, and the weak ness of his own heart; endiug at last, when spent and weary with the force of his passionate outburst, with a sob bing iteration of "Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy; Ixrd, have mercy!" A warm sunny day in October, the sun beating down hotly on the stretch of white road, no hint of approaching winter, save in the steady autumn breeze which came with a sharp, cut ting sound through the half dead grasses, like a sigh straight from the heart of Nature, grieving, -ierhaps, over her fading loveliness. Down the sunny road walked a woman, a wom an in experience of suffering, though scarcely more thau a child in years. Her face would have been babyish, had it not been for her hollow cheeks and lack of color ; her eyes were large ami childlike, her mouth delicately moulded, her chin weak but pretty. She wore a slat sun bonnet pushed I ack as far as possible upon her head, in spite of the heat of the sun ; her limp calico gown had caught, and still dragged after her a long blackberry brier, but she walked on utterly oblivi ous of her apjiendage. She sighed with weary satisfaction when a bend in the road brought her within the shade of the cypress trees, and when, after a few minutes, she reached the long plank bridge leading over Fourche, she for the first time showed an interest in her surroundings. She paused in the middle of the bridge, and looked eagerly out over the dark waters, first up then down ; nor did her eyes relinquish their search until they encountered the shanty on the bank, partly concealed by the un dergrowth. Hurrying forward, with a look half expectant, half fearful, she reached the eud of the bridge and kept the road, until she discovered the now well-worn path Jeading to Elijah's hut. Into this she turned. With hesitat ing step, she went down this narrow way, and pausing at its end to push aside a glowing sumach that burning bush, whose flame-like bunches winter would soon snutr out she found her self close iieside the house. Inside, a man's harsh voice rose and fell on the still air : "Oh, Lord ( Jod, just Creator, spare Thy faithful servant; in Thy wrath and displeasure, give me not over to the buffeting of Satan, lest I be utterly lost and cast into the fiery pit. Take away from me the face of this woman who is ever before me, trying to drag me to perdition aud the barter of my sold. Smite the evil one that torments me, Lord (rod. I have ever been a faithful servant to Thee from my youth up. I have preached Thy word and regarded Thy laws. Thou didst say, 'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out,' and did I more I tore out my heart, and yet the evil one comes to me in the shape of this wom an atid tries to draw me back, to make me forgive and cover her crime and sell my soul to lie with her. Lord ttod, take this temptation away! Let me not slip into the fiery pit, else will I lielieve there is no God." The voice which had been climbing higher and higher, more frenzied and more impassioned with each appeal, finally broke into a pitiful sob, atid the woman heard the hysterical murmur, "Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mer cy." She stepped softly to the open door, facing which the man knelt up right and rigid in the middle of the room. As he saw the figure in the doorway, his face took on a ghastly pallor, and once more his supplication sounded on the still air. "There she is now, L-rd; I sce her plainer than ever. It is Stan himself taking the form of a woman to drag me into everlasting damnation. God have mercy un ine ! I know Tiiou art a God of wrath and punishment, but what have I done to be so tor mented?" "Elijah, Elijah !" exclaimed the wo man, and holding out her hands, she advanced a step within the little room. "llegone, fiend; thou shalt not have me!" exclaimed the man, springing to his feet atid retreating a step. "Elijah, Elijah," exclaimed the wo man, with a weak little quiver of the childish chin, "I ain't no fiend; don't you know me? It's Luella; It's your wife." For some minutes he regarded her in tently, trying to satisfy himself that this was a reality, and not a mere vivid impression of the face which had haunt ed his vision for so many weary months. Finally his tense form rolax-d slowly, ami he asked in an unnatural voice, "Whar did you come from?" "I come from home, whar I ben stop- pin' ever sence you sent me thar; but I won't go back; 'Lijah, I can't stay thar no longer. The folks is alius peekin' an' pryin' ter fin' out why you dun leP me. They 'low it must er ben some- thin' mighty bad ter made yer go off like that; and main an' dad ain't much better. Leiume stay here with you, 'Lie. I won't never do nothin' ter spite yer agin. If I'd a sensed how you was goin' to take oti 'bout that, I never in this wort' would er done it; but it didn't seem so bod ter me. I couldn't help loviu' pretty clo's an' gay colors, and it was just as natural fcr me ter ter want 'em as it was fer the pinks and pretty-by-nights ter blossom in the garden." She took a hesitating step nearer her husband, aud continued in pleading tones, as she saw no relaxa tion of his stern features. "I knowed it wa'nt right to git the dress unbe knownst ter you, but the sto' keeper 'lowed he trus' me, and I fixed it that I were goln' ter pick berries, and Jim was goin ter peddle 'em in town fer me, an' I war goin' ter pay fer it that way. After you sent me home and lef the place, an' I see how you looked at it, I fetched the dress back to the sto' an' the man tuk'it back agin. Won't you let me stay with you now, 'Lige? It don't look like ter me that was such a awfully wicketl thing." "Ef that was all yer had done, Lu ella," answered the man sternly, re lapsing into the rude speech from which he only escaped in his moments of reli gious communing, "I could er forgiven yer; for while I don't hold with vanity an' sinful bedizinen' of yerself in fine apparel you that was a preacher's wife, an' was boun' ter be a pattern I 'low I ought ter remember you was like that when I married yer. If a man catches a butterfly er "flutterin' roun' the gar den, he ain't got no right ter expect that ly puttin' it in er cage it's goin' ter lie anything but er butterfly. Even as it was, when I found out yer crime, don't you 'spose I was tempted ter over look it an' make excuse fer you, until I saw that it was the devil olll-riii' me you, that I loved, for my own immor tal soul? Don't you know that I wras tled with the powers of Satan fer hours before I got the strength ter come away an' leave yer? Don't you know that thar aiti't ben a day since I lef but I've seed your eyes er hauntin' me an' Iw 8eechin' me ter come back, till I have mos' give it up? Hut the Lord said, 'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out,' aud He give me the strength to hold out." "Why Elijah," she exclaimed, in puzzled surprise, "I ain't committed no crime. I don't know what you mean." "Thar ain't no gKx in denyin' it, returned the man sternly. "That don't make matters no better fer anyljody. You know, and I know, that you took the ten dollars that was collected at meetin' ter help Mother Hawkins pay her mortgage, thinkin' ter pay fer yer gewgaws with it. I knowed, Luella, yer was trirlin' an' full er vanity, but I never 'lowed yer love fer the sinful pleasures er the world would er tuck you ter such lengths as that." "Ilefore the Almighty God, Elijah, I knowed no more than a babe unborn 'bout the money. I never, s'help me God, even knowed yer had it. Do you 'low ter tell me thet was why yer went otTan' lef me?" The man gazed at her with sorrowful displeasure. The fixed lielief of months was not to be shaken by a sim ple denial. "Elijah, Elijah, don't yer believe me !" she exclaimed, a pitiful break in her voice, her childish face whitening with despair. "Oil, Lord God Almighty, what shall I say to make him believe me?" she question ed, smiting her hands together in help less dismay. "There ain't nothin' yer can saj, Luella. You know yer done it, an' tf yer was ter talk tel je-igment you couldn't make me believe nothin else. Circumstances is too strong agin yer. I fetched that money home after get- tin' it turned into one bill, an' it war the very day Abraham Skinner fell often the house, an' was so b id hurt. I had ter go right olf ter him, an' not wantin' ter carry that money with me. I put it behind the box what we kep' the baby's things in, thet same Ixix," he said, following her eyes which had quickly turned toward the corner. "When I come back from Abraham's I was thet forgitful I never thought ter take the money an' put it away tel next day, an' then I see it was gone. You 'lowed yourself, when I asked you, that thar hadn't lcn nary a soul bout the place whilst I was gone, an' that very day I foun' yer had bought a dress ter the sto', an' I knowed then that Satan had led yer captive, through yer vanity. I am t a goin ter tell yer how I wrastled them next two davs. tain't no use," he said drearily, "but it didn't seem no good tellin' yer fer I knowed you'd deny it, jest like yer have, add in' the sinfulness er lyin' ter the burden yer was already carryin' so I come away without saj-in' nothin' and you ought not ter have followed me ; 'tain't no use." With no look of appeal, only blank despair, which almost dignified the weak little face, the woman accepted her sentence. She had tiw often beat en out her puny will against the stotie wall of his opinion, not to understand fully the uselessness of further protest. "I didn't do it," she said, doggedly. "I don't 'low you'll credit me, but I didn'L" She waited a moment, and then, as the man made no reply, she pointed to the box ou the shelf and asked hum bly : "Let me take that, Elijah. I'll go way an' won't come back no more." No," he answered sternly. "It ain't fit yer should. I ain't never opened it since the day I lef yer, but it did look like ter me that you wasn't fit ter have anything thet was lef ter user the baby, so I fetched it with me." She acquiesced in the same hopeless manner, as she had accepted his judgment of her own conduct, merely saying in a dull voice: "I guess I couldn't hurt the baby now." She moved toward the door, then, pausing a moment, siie let ner eyes rest for the last time on her inexor able judge, when they flitted from his face to rest for an instant on the lox in the corner, and, turning slowly, she passed out into the yellow sun shine, and followed the path until it forked, then, after a moment's hesita tion, she went slotvly down the one which led to the water's edge. Within the cabin Elijah sat staring out at the spot where his wife's figure hail disappeared from view. Once he started up as if to call her back, but re straining his impulse he returned to his seat Outside a brooding stillness hung over the swamp, scarcely broken by the song of birds, as the day faded, and slow-footed evening came on. It was as if all nature sat breathlessly awaiting the finish of this tragedy of two ruiued lives. Little by little the set look of the man's face relaxed, the tight shut fingers slowly unclenched, and the down-bent eyes were raised until they rested on the shelf contain ing the box. Rising from his seat be era took it from its resting place, and put ting it on the table, sat down once more. It was covered with dust ami cobwebs. He brushed them tenderly ofXwith bis cmt sleeve, and a deeper look of mis ery came into his eyes as old memo ries stirred within him. He felt oin-e again the keen pang of pain which had shot through him when the baby's little life had gone out in darkness ; he saw Luella's dumb grief over the little coflin ; he rememb.-red that moment of agony, when, standing at the head of the tiny grave, he had committed his first born to the earth ; then the night when he had awakened from sleep to find Luella gone from his side, and, searching, had discovered her iu the next room, alone in the darkness, sobbing out her misery, as she held one of the lutby's tiny dresses against her aching heart. He remcmiiered the loving care with which he had fashioned this same box, with awk ward hands, planing and smoothing the rough boards into a fitting recepta cle for the sacred relics of their child. There, on the back, was the hole where a knot in the wood had given way when all was finished, and Luella had jiasted a bit of paier over the place to keep the dust out. He had never ojiened it from the hour, when, hav ing judged and condemned his guilty wife, he left his home, bringing with him little else than these relics in which, to his austere mind, the moth er had forfeited all right The key was fastened to the padlock by a bit of faded blue riblion. He put it iu the lock, turned it, and lifted the lid, not to find the little clothes spread with the neat precision of a woman's hand, but stained and tumbled, and cut and ruined by sharp teeth. In one corner, a mass of fine cut cloth and pajKT showed the use to which these precious relics had lieen put. A bitter smile swept over the man's face; in the ruin and dotation which had come to his life even this could not be spared him. As he gazed at the stain ed, ragged little garments, at the nriss of debris in the corner, he felt that the crime and wrong-doing of bis wife had like the sharp teeth of this nit, cut and made havoc of all his sa cred memories, and that nothing was left to him but their stained and dis honored remains. He picked up the handful of trash, ami a bit of paper caught his eye. Ex amining it with a white face, he searched until one scrap larger than the others rewarded his effort. He seized it with trembling fingers; it was a bit of a greenback and bre, still uncut, one-half of the X which told its denomination. He sprang from his seat with a cry of horror. He saw the truth now; he had put the money liehind the lox, it had been dragged in by a mouse and there cut to pieces to prepare a nest for its j-oung and Luella ! L iella was in nocent. He rushed from the cabin, on thought upp.'rm st in his mini to find his wife and bring h -r b ic'i; to fling hiunelf before her and b.'g for forgiveness. Joy over her inn v ceiic-j was swallowed up in r.:n rse over his own conduct. As a drowning man is said to review th seenes of his past, he saw in one quick revelation his hard, fanatic nature in its true light; saw how he had worshiped a God in his own b ird unmerciful like ness, and forgotten his g.-nrle, loiig sutl'ering Master ; saw that selfish fear for his own spiritual welfare and the salvation of his own soul had 'made that soul little worth saving. When he reached the fork in the pathway where Luella ha 1 paused, hesitating, but an hour before, he would have turned toward tiie road, but a cloud sevmed to pas over his vision which blinded him for a sec ond ; then he saw, not the familiar surroundings of his cabin, but a spot somewhere iu the dark waters of the swamp. The trees and undergrowth were so dense that little light from the rapidly declining day forced its way through. Iu this dim light he saw Luella, the same look of hopeless de spair on her weak, childish fai-e which it had worn when she turned from the cabin door. She was standing uncer tainly in the bow of the rocking dug out, ami even as he watched he saw her release her hold of a bush by which she had steadied herself, and with one last look at the world she was leaving, plunge swiftly into the muddy depths Mow. Then the vision faded, and he stood again at the fork of the path, down which he ran toward the water, with ati unutterable fear in his heart. The dugout was gone. He sprang quickly into the bateau and unloosed its moor ings. He pushed himself from the bank anil began to paddle wildly. Oil, God, Oh, God ! which way should he go ! He could see the spot of his vision, but it was so like many other places in the swamp he could not tell in which direction to search. "Luella! Luella !" he shouted, starting the ech oes, which came back to him in ghast ly mockery. He paddled on, from time to time calling aloud, only to hear his voice return t him through the weird si lence. Ihe shadows deepened under the trees, giving an added gloom to the surroundings. A huge turtle, dis turbed by the unusual sounds, slipped from a log close beside him and dropp ed its great bulk into the muddy water. This was no unfamiliar sight to Elijah, but the dim light changed all thin. and he shuddered. "Oh, G.l, Oh, God!" he prayed, "only let the light last until I can find her." On and on he paddled, uutil at List he descried in the half darkness the dugout floating empty. He called aloud, wildly now, hunting iu and out among the bushes. Something floating on the water caught his strained gae; he came close beside it ; plunging his hand down he felt the soft slipperiness of wet floating hair. He had found her her white face still wearing the look of despair, as she floated, caught by her long brown hair tangled among the branches of a fallen tre. It seems strange that the hard drink er drinks the easiest. do WHOLE XO. 2323. A it Never Happens. This is aliout a man who put up a stove. It is unnecessary, perhaps to go furth er with it You know in advance jut how he swore and tore, and soiled the cariiet, and the pipe didn't fit and he skinmsl his knuckles and cut his finger and spilled soot down the back of his neck ami finally went up town and got six men to finish the job. "Johnson, said Johnson s wife at dinner yesterday, "I want you to coin; home early this afternoon. I want that sitting room stove up and going by Sunday." "All right my dear," said Johnson, "1 11 be boms at 4." Si that afternoon Johnson's wife sent the chi dren over to visit on the other side of town and stuffi-d rags in all the cracks to deaden sound. After a fervent prayer that all the neighiairs would lie out of town for a few hours that afternoon, she was ready for John son. He arrived promptly. "The stove is out in the woodshed," said his wife. The stove was not very large, and after Johnson hail dressed himself fr the occasion with the help of Mrs. John son, who had takm care to have his obi clothes and gloves handy, he got the stove to the luck porch without much difficulty. "It must lie blackened," said Mrs. Johnson, as she mixed the blacking. It blackened to a beautiful finish with very little rubbing and Johnson whis tled at ids work. Then he tacked down the oil cloth mat and Ihe zinc and kept on whistling. He took tiie stove in carefully and put it in the right plav. There was plenty of the old stove pile, and while he cleaned it in the alley with a stick Mrs. Johnson sat on the back iorvh and listened to him whis tle. The first joint went on :dl rirht, and the dau:jr stayed in place. The next joint fitted so well that Johnson almost stopped whistling in sheer admiration for it, and so did the next one. The el low fitted admirably and the collar and last joi:it went on like a top. There was not even a speck of soot on the papers Mrs. Johnson had spread on the carpet hi ten minutes more Johnson had a lovely fire in the stove and was in his business suit ag tin spick and spin read ing the paper while his wife got supper. It was just here that there was a sav age nude in Johnson's left ribs and be heard bis wife tell him to wake up and hustle out now for it had been daylight for h ilf an hour. "To;--! Sfrtte Journal. Hr.ise Cleaaiaj is considered and acknowledged to K a necessity. The nature of man is q piied to filth. If, however, the cleaning of the house is ni cessary to health, how much m re necessary to health, should we c insider it to keep the Temple of G kI the human body fre, from the taint of impurity. Dr. Pierce's (' 1 l.-n M.ilie.il Discovery is like the the thrifty housewife, going through every nook and corner, search ing out the aecumlated tilth, purifying the system and restoring perfect health. It's the only blood-puritier, liver and lung invigorator, so sure and certain in its curative action that, once Used. it is always in favor. Ti3 Presidential 0S&:2 Ex-President Harrison writes on The Presidential Office" in l1rmtni .'i ". . 11 ,!' Joiirmt'. In discussing the constitutional provisions for the selection of a Chief Magistrate he ouches u'ioii the discussion in the con vention relative to a plural executive for the nation, and upon the point presents his own views: "Exiierieiice basso fully justified the conclusion reached by a constitutional convention in this matter (a singleexecutive head I that no change has ever been suggest ed. The incumbent has never satisfied every one, but the discontented have ver sought relief by giving him a double. Executive direction should always lie single. When anything is wrongly done we must lie able to put a hand on the man who did it. The sense of restionsibility begets careful ness and that sense is never so perfect as when, after full consultation, the of ficer must go alone into the chamlxer of decision. In all of the recent reform ty charters this principle is made prominent by giving the Mayor the power to appoint the city boards and officers, and so making him resjion- ssble for the efficiency cf the city gov ernment. Tv. Presidents or three with equal power would as surely bring disaster as three Generals of equal rank over a single army. I do not doubt that this sense of single and personal responsibility to the people has strongly held our Presidents to a good conscience and to a high dis charge tif their great duties," The soothing, lung-healing virtues of the newly cut pine are all emliodied in Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, the severeigii remedy for coughsand colds, and lung troubles of all sorts. A man in P.arton, Vt, married his stepmother a few weeks ago. The match was interesting, but not success ful. Domestic difficulties) brought them into the police court a very few the weeks after their marriage, and troubles are not smoothed out ytt. Threw Away His Canes. Mr. D. Wiley, cx-postmaster, Hlack Creek, N. Y., was so liadly afflicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around with canes, snd even then it caused him great ain. After using Chamlxrlaiu's Pain Halm he was so much improved that he threw away his canes. He ays this liniment did him more good than ail other medicines and treatment put to gether. For sale at 50 cents per bott'e by Hcnford's Pharmacy. Eve was the only woman who evt r UTieved the man who told her she was th ; only woman he ever loved. Jimmy's Clob. A gentleman sat in a plain ofih-e puz zling his head over a is-rplexing ques tion. I f e was the agent of a lienevoleiit society organized to help the poor of a irrcnt city. The trouble was this : Thafik-viv i'ltf was at hand, and he had liof lir-tny elioii -h to do all that be ished to do on t!e- coiiiiiijr d y. lb knew, too, Many famiiie.- bo lived at starving int, to whom Thank-Diving gave little apparent P-Jisoti for thanks, lb- knew young men who did not h--itate to s-nd this- dollars on a sin!-? f.H'. He knew young !adis who thought nothing of wasting more or li-ss dollars a week on candy. Twenty five cents would buy a sumptuous din ner for a starving child. Many hundreds of the extreme! p.ior b.-oked to this man for one good dinner at Thanksgiving time. F-r one day in the year they hoped to have enough to cat. How was he to give it ' Suddenly three or four dirty faces ps-ercd through Hi" window; a timid knock followed. Five street loysaiil two somewhat tattcr-d little girls troo; ed in. The agent n-cognii-d them rs mcmlicrsof the city mission school. He said, pleasantly : "Will, children, what can I do fir you to-day V" "Nothing," answered the children, vaguely. "You, Jimmy, you tell," said one of the girN, giving the tallest lxy a shove. Jimmy fumbled in his raided pocket, a:el slowly prod i t a h n l;"ol of pen nies and small change. "We fe'iers are a club," .-aid be, with a grand air. "There's twenty of us, mister." "We gals are in it, bxi," interrupted tiie girl who gave the shove. "We, all of u-, an I the gals, too." responded Jimmy. "We come from Cummin's Al!--v' and we're a club to lulp Thanksgivin". Here's nine dol- lars and nin-etv cents." The agent stared at the large sum col lected, at what cost of self-sacrifice only the givers could --a v. dt's for tlii-ui that can't git no di.i- nt r, exciaime-i toe little sjioiiesman. 'Is it .'"' exclaimed tie- g-xxl man. lie hardly knew what to sav as he glanced at the jsmr clothes and shrunk en cheeks of the "cluh." ''Yes," said Jimmy, stoutiy. "there's plenty -. Hirer l::aii us, m:-vr; we re a club to help 'em. We didn't care if we lidn't have a dinner fir two or threo lays so's that we miht give real poor 'o'.ks fine." "How many dinners wi'.I nit.e dollars and ninety cents gvt?'' asked a little girl, rattier hungrily. What kind of a dinner?" iii-piind the agent, with a perceptible weakening 1 his Voice. "turk.y S;:d sttiffin' a:id-ai:d puddin'," cried the chiMrcii, eagerly. "That will cost pt-rhv-s twenty-five nts apies-v," -aid the agent, "aid your money wid give a r;ite l;!a!is- giving dinner to as many :s thirty-five hungry s.'j.le. You have d-::e nobly, children, and I'm de!ig!.ud t!.;it you have 1st ii s i kind an ! 111 n:ght oil f- r others." Tiie dinners wire Ito'ight. "The club" distributed them. The children's- first plan was to put a cahbage in w i?h eae:i dinner, t..e agent savs. j;nt tntrt were no. cabbages i to go a rniin. I. Sithey cut i-ik'-h cabbage into ,jtiarU-rs. anil put one p:e-e into each l ag. That club of f -.VLiity povt riy-strii -k. ; children worked until nine o'clock night on the day ls-t',i,- Ti.aiik-givir g dLstrilintiiig t:.ir:v-!ive dinners to ts.- ple xsr r than themst ! vcs." Tais is a true story, and o:i- th:.t should make our t:isV blood tingle wi ! something akin to sliaine. lmfa: A Lonrr. Lcn? Si?h. Pope talks 1k! it wat'iing a si::h frcn iinin s to me i i:e. . lo::. long sig: that would lie. Talk a'oout si::hii;g why, if a!! the sighs of the women o the world, for just on-- day, could b gathered in one sigh., it would !e Ion: enough to reach from here to the fa: thest fixed star. Hut thousands of w men suffer and sigh because the vii tims of disease. Others would sutl". as sorely and sigh as often if they ba llot lieen wise enough to ue I'l Pit rce's Favor; e Prescription. This i a wendenai rcc-.;;vratir of waste- trcngth and of sovereign efficacy i al! th--se derangements and maladii peculiar to their svx, by which th vitality is slipped and the seeds leaf!) are so-. n. IU-. IL V. Pi::;u ::: I ur i'.f- hav taken the "Favorite Prescription" an I can recommend it to any UnIv thr suffers with any female disease I hav tried several d -Cors" prescriptions in none did me the go.! that yours did. Yours respectfully. M ATTIE TEUIiY. Post Mistress, Sherrer Hill, DalU Co., Ai.L. A former superintendent of the Ne Haven, Conn., almshouse died an ii mate of that institution a few days ag ile was removed from office tweut. two years ago, K-cause of cruelty to tl inmates. About a year ago he w. obliged to seek shelter in the almshou for himself. Orange shipments from P.iversid Cat, averaged forty car loads a L during the first two weeks of th month. Thesupp sufficient f.r the Eastern markets, of the Caiiforn'a largely due to th, Florida growt rs. y of the fruit is n iiamls t tf "s geed ft-rtur i:-r;c rrowers I! fortune .f t! A Saaker's Opinion of Scijtj. Some yee.rs ago I know an ilder the Shakers w ::!". r, d from mai of his brethren in having tliong much about the scvia! structure of b sect, though their communal life w rather favor.i'-I- to thinking iu ai: them. We were talking one day the life of the w-.rl-l. which I iK f-in! and he said in eo;icssi.i!iof my gro-.i at on; piint, "If g d s.viety vt what it appears to '- on tiie surfait could in'-1 find fault with it IftKS; iu s-H-'ety laehavcd toward one anotl from motives of real kindness as th le-have now from motives of tioiitcin s,H-:ety wou'd W all image of Ilea v. for in society you s-e p-s-ple defer one another, the strong give way to I weak; the brilliant and the gifted w not put the rest ai a disuvaiitage, a they all seen i to meet on an equali The trouble is that tle-ir U-havio merely a convention and not prineij th -y U-'.i.tve U-aiitifully from jnilitu and not from kindness." W. D. lb ells, in Century. Our eople are growing more j more iu the habit of looking to H ford's Pharmacy for the latest ami I of everything in tiie drug line. T sell ChamU-riain's Cough Rein famous for its cures of bad colds, cr and wh.mping cough. When in r of such a nudicisie give this reined trial and you will lie more thau pi ed with the result.
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