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'o'i..riv,a mitb ever- known
duct of Petroleum
n:ot ncifonnly
sfaetory Oils
-IN THE-
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Komsravt, Pa.
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VOL. XLY. XO.
V0RY50AIP
It Floats
Those who think that imported soaps must be the finest, da not know
that the materials for Ivory Soap are the best to be found anywhere.
The vegetable oQ of which Ivory Soap is made, is imported, almost in
ship loads, from the other side of the world.
Thi PaocTia A Gmwu Co, Cum.
THE-
First National Bank
Somerset, Pezm'a.
Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, S24.000.
DEPOSITS RECEIVED IN LJE AKDAU
AMOUNTS, PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS,
STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
LAltrE M. HICKS, GEO. R. SCULL,
JAMES L. PI GIL AV". H. MILLER,
JOHN K. SOUTT, ROBT. S. SCULL,
FRED W. BIESECKER.
EDWARD KCULL, : : PRESIDENT.
VALENTINE HAY, : VICE PRESIDENT.
HARVEY M. BERKLEY, . CASHIER.
The funds and soouritirs of this bnnk are e-
cv Tly protected in a celebrated Cokliss Bch
gla r Proof S a i s. Tbe only safe made alv
luU'ly buruUtr-prooI.
Die Somerset County National
AN K
OF SOMERSET PA.
Lttabilthed, 1877. Orfimzsd h t Nation!, 1890
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CAPITAL,
S50.000
SURPLUS AND UN-
DIVIDED PROFITS 5ZJ,UUU
Chas. J. Harrison, - President.
Wm. II. Koontz, - Vice President
Milton J. Pritts, - - Cashier.
Geo. S. Harrison, - Ass"t Cashier.
Directors:
Sam. B. IIarrUnt Win. Endsloy,
Josiah Spec-ht, Jonas M. Cook,
John II. Snyder, John Stufft,
Joseph B. Davis, Xoah S. Miller,
Harrison Snyder, Jerome Stufl't,
Cuas. W. Snyder.
On stumers of thin bank will recHvetheniot
lilierul treatment coUKiktent witliKafeliankinc.
can be accommodated by draft for any
jmiiiuL
. i .oIk.IiIm imiiitmI hr tint nf THw
(Kid'8 celebrated fcafes, with niOKt improved
time lock. .
i '..lu-imn, made In all rrt of the I nited
Statea. t'!iarK moderate.
Account ana aepoMis souciiea.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and everything- pertaining to funerals fura-
lKhed.
SOMERSET -
Pa
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door West of Latheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa-
Am Now
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with Clocks, AVatches, and Jew
elry of all descriptions, its Cheap
as the Cheapest.
REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY.
All work RuaranteiHl. Iok at my
stock before making your
purchase.
J. D. SWANK.
ALWAYS
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BEST IN THE MARKET.
Jarecki Phosphite,
Raisin's Phosphate,
Ume,
Crushed Coke.
Hard Coal,
Salisbury Soft Coal,
At the Old Stand near the Somer
set Cambria R. It Station.
-Prices Right.
Peter Fink
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fe.A.E.Uhl.
jyrEW SPRING GOODS. Xcw-
est stvlea in all kinds of
poods and lowest prices. A full
line of Cashmere and Serges in all
qualities. Splendid assortment of
Clack Wool, Worsted and Mohair
Dress in Rrocaded and Novelty.
Styles, suited for dresses and skirts
A big stock of newest styles of
Novelty Dress Goods, ranging in
price from 12 1-2 cts to $1 a yard.
GREAT variety of Silks and
Silk and Wool Plaids, Ac., for
waists it dresses. Wash Goods for
desscs and waists, including Swisses,
Lawns, Percales, Dimities, Crepes,
Moire, Chintzes, Cheviotte Prints,
Ginghams, Seersuckers, Ac. Splend
id values in Table Linens, Towels,
Napkins, TaUe Covcis, Red
Si reads, Poi tiers, Furniture Da
mask Silk and Silkoline Draperies
and Cushions.
LADIES' Dress Skirts aod SLirt
Waists. Ladies' Spring Capes
in Velvet, Silk and Cloth. Ladies'
Night Dresses, Corset Covers, Skirts
and Chemise. A handsome assort
ment of New Lace Collars and
Dress Yokes. Infants Long and
Short Dresses, Long and Short
Coats and Sacks. Great variety of
Children's Mull and Lace Caps and
Hats.
NEW Style Ruttons, Silks,Gimps,
Ribbons, Laces, Ac, for dress
trimmings. A large variety of
Cambric, Swiss and Nansook Em
broidery in white and colors.
Linen Sheeting, Stamped Linen and
Embroidery Silk.A vlargc assort
ment of Lace Curtains cheap.
Also Curtain Swiss and Scrim.
LARGEST stock of new Millin
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styles. A large assortment of Lace
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Fast Colored Stockings in Rlack
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Children, Men and Coj-s. Best
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Wool and Cotton Carpet Chain.
Mrs. A E. UHL.
ELY'S
CREAM BALM
CATARRH
In quickly alMrb
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Xattal Pussares Al"
ays Pain and In
tbtiiimalion. Heals
til" Sores. Protect
ltoiorethse St'ic
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Additional Cold
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Gives lU'iief at once
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COLD "n HEAD
A particle isapplied directly into! hem win Is
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THE KEELEY CURE
Is a special boon to business men who, baring;
drifted unconsclouMy into the drink habit and
awaken to find the disease of alcoholism fastened
op n them, rendering them unfit to manage af
fairs reuuirins; a clear brain. A four week
course of treatment at the
PtTT5BUR0 KEELEY INSIlltlE.
yo. 4246 Fifth Avenue,
itUyrrn to them all their pnwen, mental and
phrmoal, destroys the. abnormal appetite, and
restorrs them to the condition ther were In be
fiire they indulred in stimulants. This has been
done la mora than lno easea treated here, and
among them some of your own neighbors, to
whom we can refer with confidence as to tbe
aWlnte safety and efficiency of the Keeley Cure.
The fullest and most semrchinr Invert iration la
a vitcd. bead for pamphlet giving full Iniorma
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cream of tha country pspcra is fban.-t
tn Remington's. Courty Seat Una. hrerd
drertisers a rail themaelvea of these- tisU, a
nrr of which eaa bo had of BemiogW
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omer
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
AMANDA TODD.
BY M ARY E. WILKIXS.
Amanda Todd's orbit of existence is
restricted, of a necessity, since she was
Ixirii, brouglit up, and will die in thin
village, but there U no doubt that it is
ececntric. She moves apart on her own
little course ijuite wparatc from the
rest of us.
Had Amanda's lines of life lieen cast
elsewhere, where circumstances liad
pushed her, instead of hemming her in,
she might have liecome the feminine
apostle of anew creed, have founded
a sect or instituted a new system of fe
male dress. As it is, she does not go tc
meeting, she never wears a bonnet aud
she keeis cats.
Amanda Todd is CO, and she never
was married. Had she been, the close
friction with another nature might
have worn away some of the peculiari
ties of hers. She might have gone to
meeting, she might have worn a bon
net, she might even have eschewed
cats, but it is not probable. When
peculiarities are in the grain of a per
son's nature, as they probably are in
hers, such friction only brings them
out more plainly, aud it Ls the other
person who suffer i.
The village men are not, as a rule,
very subtle, but they have secmctl to
feel this instinctively. Amanda was,
they say, a very pretty girl in her youth,
but no young man ever dared make
love to her and marry her. She had
always the reputation of being "an odd
stick," even in the district schxl. She
always kept by herself at recess, she
never seemed to have anything In com
mon with the other girls and she al
ways went home alone from singing
school. Probably never in her whole
life has Amanda Todd known what it
is to be protected by some devoted per
son of the other sex through the mighty
Ierils of our village street.
There is a tradition iu the village that
ouce in her life, when she was about
" years old, Amanda Todd had a beau
tiful bonnet and went to meeting.
Old Mrs. Nathan Morse vouches for
the reliability of it, and, moreover, she
hints at a reason. "When Maudy, she
was 'bout 26 years old," she says,
"George Henry French, he come to
town, and taught the district school,
and he see Mainly, an' told Almira
Iiciiton that he thought she was about
the prettiest girl he ever laid eyes on,
and Almiry, she told Mandy. That
was all there ever w as to it, he never
waited on her, never spoke to her, fur's
I know, but right after that Maudy,
she had a bunnit, and she went rcg'lar
to meetin'. Fore that her mother
could scarcely get her Jo keep a thing
on her head out of doors alk-rs carried
hcrsunbuunita-danglin' by the strings;
wonder she wasn't sunstruck a million
times and as for goin' to meetin', her
mother, she talked and talked, but it
didn't do a mite of geod. I s'pose her
father kind of upheld her iu it. He
was most as odd as Mandy. He
wouldn't go to meetin' unless he was
driv, and he wa'u't a member. 'Nough
sight ruther go out prowlin' round in
the woods like a wild animal, Sabbath
days, than go to meetin'. Once he
ketched a wildcat, an' tried to tame it,
but he couldu'L It bit and chewed so
he had to let it go. I guess Mandy
gets her liking for caLs from him fast
enough. Well, Mandy, she had that
handsome bunnit, and she went to
meetin' rcg'lar 'most a year, and she
looked as pretty as a picture sittin in a
pew. The bunnit was trimmed with
green gauze ribbon and had a wreath
of fine pink flowers inside. Her moth
er was real tickled, thought Mandy
had met with a change. But land, it
didn't last no time. George Henry
Freuch, he quit town the next year and
went to Somerset to teach, aud pretty
soon we heard he lied married a girl
over there. Then Maudy, she didn't
come to meetin' any more, I dunno
what she did with the bunnit stomp
ed ou it," most likely, she always had
e-iusider'bltf temper anyway, I never
see her wear it arterwards."
Thus old Mrs. Nathan Morse tells the
story, and somehow to a reflective
mind the picture of Amanda Todd in
her youth decked in her pink-wreathed
bonnet, selfishly but innocently at
tending in the sanctuary of divine love
in order to lay hands on iter own little
share of earthly affection, is insepara
ble from her, as she goes now, old and
bare-headed, defiantly past the meet
ing house, when the Sabluith bells are
ringing.
How ever, if Amanda Todd had elect
ed to go bareheaded through the vil
lage streut from feminine vanity, rath
er than eccentricity, it would have
been no wonder. Not a young girl in
the village has such a head of hair as
Amanda. It is of a beautiful chestnut
color, and there is not a gray thread in
it It is full of wouderful natural rip
ples, too not one of the village girls
can equal them with her papers and
crimping pins and Amanda arranges
it iu two superb braids wound twice
around her head. Seen from behind,
Amanda's head is that of a young beau
ty; when it turns a little, and her harsh
old profile becomes visible, there is a
shock to the stranger.
Amanda's father had a great shock
of chestnut hair, which was seldom
cut, and she inhcriU this adornment
from him. He lived to be au old man,
but that ruddy crown of his never turn
ed gray.
Amanda's mother died long ago ;
t'.ieu her father. Ever since she has
lived alone in her shingled cottage
with her cats. There were not so many
cats at first ; they say she started with
one fine tabby, who became the moth
er, grandmother and great-graudinoth-er
to armies of kit Urns.
Amanda must destroy some when
she can find no homes for them, other
wise she herself would be driven afield,
but still the impression is of a legion.
A cat is so covert, it slinks so secretly
from one abiding place to another aud
seems to duplicate itself with its sud
den appearances, that it may account
in a measure for this impression. Still
there are a great many. Nobody knows
just tbe number the estimate runs
anywhere from 15 to 50. Counting, or
trj Ing to count, Amanda Todd's cats is
a favorite amusement of the village
children. "Here's another," they shout
set
ESTiVBLISHED 1827.
when a pair of green eyes gleams at
them from a post But is it another,
or only the same cat who has moved ?
Cats sit in Amanda's windows; they
dare out wisely at the passer-by, from
behind the panes, or they fold their
paws on the ledge outside in Jhe sun
shine. Cats walk Amanda s ridgepole
and her fence, they ierch on her posts
and lly to her cherry trees with brist
ling fur at the sight of a dog. Amanda
has as deadly a hatred of dog as have
her cats. Kvcryoue which comes with
in stone throw of her she semis off ycli
ing, for she is a good shot. Kittens
tumble about Amanda's yard and
craw l out between her fence pickets
under ieople'a feet. Amanda will
never give away a kitten except to a
responsible person, and is as particular
as if the kitten were a human orphan,
aud she the manager of an asylum.
She will never, for any considera
tion, bestow one of her ki liens upon a
family that kees a dog, or where there
are many small children. Once she
made a condition that the dog should
be killed, aud she may beat times in
wardly disposed to bauish the children.
Amanda Todd Ls extremely persist
ent when she has selected a home which
is perfectly satisfactory to her for a kit
ten. Once one was found tied into a
little basket like a baby on the door
step of a childless and humane couple
who kept no dog, and there is a story
that Deacon Nehemiah Stock well found
one iu his overcoat ocket and never
knew how it tame there. It is proba
ble that Amanda resorts to these ex
treme measures to save herself from
cither destroying her kittens or being
driven out of house aud home by them.
However, once, when the case was
reversed, Amanda her"lf was found
wanting. When she began to grow
old, aud the care of her pets told upon
her, it occurred to her that she might
adopt a little girl. Amanda has a com
fortable little income, and would have
been able to provide a god living for a
child, as far as that goes. -
But the managers of the institution
to whom Amanda applied made in
quiries, and the result did not satisfy
them. Amanda stated frankly her
reason for wishing to take the child,
and her intentions w ith regard to her.
She wished the little girl to tend her
cats and assist her iu caring for them.
She was willing that she sl'ould attend
school four hours jter day, going after
the cats had their breakfast, and re
turning an hour earlier to give them
their supper. She was wilting .hat she
should go to meeting in the afternoon
only, aud she could have no other chil
dren come to visit her for fear they
would maltreat the kittens. She furth
ermore announced her intention to
make her will, giving to the girl, w hom
she should adopt, her entire property
iu trust for her cats, to include her own
maintenance ou condition that she de
vote her life to them as she had done.
The trustees declared that they could
not conscientiously commit a child to
her keeping for such purposes, aud the
sr little girl orphan, who had the
chance of devoting her life to the care
of pussy cats and kittens, to the exclu
sion of all childish followers remained
in her asylum.
So Amanda to this day lives alone,
and manages as best she can. NoUsly
in the village can be induced to live
with her ; one forlorn old soul prefer
red the almshouse.
"I'd 'nough sight ruther go on the
town than live with all them cats," she
said.
It is rather unfortunate that Aman
da's shingled cottage is next the meet
ing house, for that, somehow, seems to
render her non-church-going more glar
ingly conspicuous, and then, too, there
is a liability of indecorous proceedings
on the part of the cats.
They evidently do not share their
mistress' dislike of the sanctuary, and
find its soft pew cushions very inviting.
They watch their chances to slink in
when the sexton opens the meeting
house ; he is an old man aud dim-eyed,
and they are often successful. It Is wise
for anybody before taking a seat in a
pew to make sure that one of Aman
da's cats has not forestalled him ; and
often a cat tlees down one flight of the
pulpit stairs as the minister asceuds the
ot her.
We all wonder what will become of
Amanda's cats when she dies. There
is a report that she has made her will
and left her property in tru-t for the
cats to somebody, but to w hom? No
lody in this village is anxious for such
a bequest, and whoever it may be will
probably strive to repudiate it. Some
day the cats will undoubtedly go by
the board ; young Henry Wilson, who
has a gun, will shoot some, the rest
w ill become aliens and wanderers, but
we all hote Amauda Todd will never
know it.
I u the meantime she is undoubtedly
carrying on among us au eccentric, but
none the less genuine mission. A home
missionary is Amanda Todd, aud we
should recognize her as such in spite of
her non-church-going proclivities.
Weak iu faith though she may be, she
is, ercliance, as strong in love as the
best of u . At IeJtst I do not doubt that
her poor little four-footed dependents
would so give evidence if they could
speak. Ladies' Home Journal.
How "Oil Hickory" Handled Thsm.
In ISSti Nicholas Riddle, president of
the United States Bank, threatened
-General Jackson with defeat if he did
not renew the charter of the bank.'
President Jackson replied: "Mr. Bid
die, if that is true, and I think it is,
I tell you here and now that if you can
control the electiou of any state in the
Union, that is too much to have in a
free country. And I tell you further,
that if you get a new charter from
Congress for that bank, by the eternal
I will veto that charter." Another
time a committee waited on President
Jackson on the same subject There
Were 300 of them, and they hinted that
if the charter was not renewed there
would not only be a money panic, but
an expression of violence. Said Old
Hickory to them: "Do you come here
to threaten me? If you ever dare to put
any of your threats into execution I
will hang you as high as Haman?"
Steuoenville Gazette,
The world's railroads reach 407,506
miles. I
"I "
JULY 15, 1890.
REMIXISCEXCES.
A notice of the death, of ex-Sheriff
Walker appeared in the Somerset pa
pers of recent date. Mr. Walker is
remembered as a jolly, good-natured,
big-hearted man, by those who knew
him forty years ago and more. A
good many years ago, when 'Squire
I toddy's hair Itegan to change from
glossy black to a silver gray, he was in
the habit of coloring it ami his rather
long whiskers with some sort of a
patent prejwtratioii, prepared aud rec
ommended for the purpose, as being
"strictly vegetable," containing no
mineral sulistaiiee whatever. This
was when the 'Squire was compara
tively a young mail, and before his
marriage rather late in life. On one
occasion the 'Squire was in Somerset,
when Mr. Walker came up to him,
and taking hold of the 'Squire's beard,
said, "Bill, why you not put a little
ticker on dat hair dye?" This expressive
question became a "by-word" in this
country, as long as 'Squire Itoddy liv
ed. Mr. Walker, outside of his exten
sive acquaintanceship through the
county, in consequence of his political
canvass, was known for his connection
with the hanging of Pritts, for the de
liberate murder of Weinier.
This murder was premeditated, and,
as hits been the case often before and
since, there was "a woman in the case."
Pritts was a man well up in years,
while Weinier was young.
Some years ago some one wrote a
communication in a Somerset paper in
regard to the murders in Somerset
county, and among the rest the
Huguel murder was mentioned. The
account there, as later on, one that was
written after the Nicely execution, by
Mr. K. H. Werner, was erroneous in
some particulars, and the writer cor
rected it, to some extent.at the tiiiu-, iu
a long communication in a Somerset
paper. As most people think, and as
Mr. Werner had it, the victim of the
Huguel murder was a drover, who was
killed for his money. The writer's
great-grandfather, 'Squire Me Lane,
was among the first, if not the very
first surveyors, in Somerset county,
and after the new county was formed,
he removed to the neighborhood of
Somerset, in order to be nearer the
count v seat,
The writer's grandmother, from
whom 'he obtained the facts, which
she, in her turn, had from her father,
was well acquainted with all the cir
cumstances. The two Huguel brothers
were French Canadians whose parents
came originally to tort ititJiesnp,
with the French army of occupation,
and remained there, and who, lacing
rather shiftless fellows, but apparently
harmless withal, by some mysterious
providence, drifted into Snncrset
county. They had been here and
there, in the neighborhood of Somerset,
for siime little time, with no occupa
tion or profession to make their ends
meet. They had become entirely pon
uiless, and were In desperate straits,
wandering around the country, wher
ever they could have accommodation.
They saw the drover, Pollock, if that
was his name, in a tavern, displaying
a considerable quantity or money,
and, after they had learned, by some
means, the direction he iu tended to go,
they left, and the larger of the two
suggested the idea of murdering the
man for his nnney; the sin tiler mau
demurred, but his scruples were over
come, aud they hid themselves in a
secluded place to await the coming of
the drover. They had not waited
long until the man they were looking
for, as they supposed, came alon?, and
they murdered him, in what manner
the writer can not now recall; the
presumption is by shooting. The large
man did the deed, the other man be
ing only an accessory; they hid the
body behind a log, and gathered all
the blood they could out of the snow,
and put it in the murdered man's mit
tens, which they accreted with his
dead Isxly. However, when they
searched the dead man, after they kill
ed him, they found no money at all,
or, at most, a very small sum. The
sequel showed that they had killed the
wrong man, the drover going by an
other road than the one lie had intend
ed to go by, and which they were
watching, thereby, evidently, saving
his life. The murdered man was only
an innocent youth on his w ay to see
his best girl, to whom he was shortly
to le married. The Frenchmen erased
all traces of 'the tragedy, as they
thought, and made haste to get out of
the country. Of course their method
of traveling was on foot, and their
progress was slow. If they had been
as smart as they should have been,
they would have taken the murdered
man's horse; but they allowed it to get
away, and as they failed to get any
money, their terrible crim i had been
committed for very little compensation.
Iu walking through the snow the large r
man stepped in the smaller man's
tracks, for quite a distance. Then
they tried walking backwards, the
large man still walking in the other's
tracks to make it appear as if there
was only one man, and he going a
contrary way. They stopped at a
house in the country to stay all night;
but by this time, the alarm had been
made, and pursuers were on their
track. Their device of walking back
wanls had deceived no one, and their
place of stopping was soon discovered.
The house was surrounded and their
surrender demanded. The large man
sprang from an upper window, and
made a desperate attempt to escape,
but, as he ran through the garden, he
was fired upon and killed by one of the
pursuing party. The small man was
captured without difficulty, and made
a full confession of the whole affair.
He claimed that he did not want to
commit the murder, but that his broth
er, who was older, stronger and of su
perior intelligence and experience,
compelled him to assist. This was
most likely true, as, from the best in
formation the writer has been able to
g. t, the man w ho was hung was of a
very inferior order of intelligence, and
consequently easily persuadctL
It is likely the place of the murder,
as given by Mr. Werner, is correct, as,
of course, the names of tbe Judge who
presided, and jury that served at the
trial, since the records of the county
eralcl
show it. The facts as given here, re
garding the murder, while lacking the
elalioration of a former communication
by the writer, which was written fresh
from the lijw of his grandmother, are,
iu the main, correct. There can le no
question that the Frenchmen killed
the wrong man. The custom of hang
ing criminals in the open air, in pul
lic, prevailed then. It is a little singu
lar that, in more than a hundred
years, only four men have been exe
cuted in Smicrset county, considering
the number of murders that have been
committed in the county, some of
them of the most deliberate ami cold
blooded character. Mr. Werner omits,
iu his pamphlet a murder that ccur
red in Somertield some forty years ago,
or more. In this case a man named
Thompson struck a man named Daw
son ou the head with an axhandle,
from the effects of which Dawson died
in a few hours. The plea of self de
fense was set up, and he was declared
not guilty. It is no wonder so many
go unpunished, when we consider the
able defense made by their lawyers.
In the Nicely case nothing but the
most overwhelming proof of their
guilt convicted them, for every possi
ble means was resorted to by their
counsel to clear them, and deservedly
so, since it was their duty. The charge
of Judge Bacr at that trial, Ls the grand
est and plainest exposition of the laws
of evidence the writer ever read, and it
deserves a place in all archives t tearing
on that subject. It was not the wri
ter's privilege to read the charge at the
time it was made, for which ommision
he is sorry but about two years ago
he read it the first time and has read it
several times since.
The murder committed in l.'rsina, in
which Mansful was princijiul, was a
premeditated and deliberate one. No
altercation took place. He simply
called the other man, an Irishman, to
the door, and shot him down in his
tracks. He, Roach, had borrowed or
hired a horse from Mansful and rode
him farther than he promised. There
was no possil.le excuse for the crime,
for Mansful was sitting on his horse,
aud the Irishman stood at the door or
window. The worst that could have
been done to Roach would have been
prosecution for theft.
Addison, Pa. M.
Hone Knew His Old Master.
A few mornings ago a crowd was
idly watching a issir old horse strug
gling vainly to pull a heavily loaded
wagon out of a rut in fifth avenue,
near Washington street, says the
Chicago Tribune. It was a task to
tax the strength of a vigorous, well
conditioned horse. Still, he bravely
responded to each call of his rouirh
master to try it again, until at length
weak and trembling, be refused to
further attempt what he knew was
beyond his yower.
There was something about the horse
which suggested that he had known
better days. His large, though dim
and sunken eyes, his small, trim ears,
clean-cut head, and broad, thin nos
trils, stamjed him as one itossessed of
aristocratic lineage, who in his young
er and better days bad known far
different things than hauling the wag
on of junk js-ddler.
The w hip bad Un applied, but to
no purpose, and there had been several
emphatic Mipgcstior.s from the crowd
that if the man expected his horse to
pull anything he had better feed him
occasionally, when a tall, broad
shouldered man moved forward out
from the crowd, where lie had lieen
watching the horse intently for several
minutes, and, approaching the man,
asked:
'Where did you get that horse?
At the sound of his voice the horse
pritkod up Lisears, and, turning his
head in the direction whence the
sound came, gave utterance to a low,
glad neigh.
Without waiting for the owner's re
ply, the man advanced quickly to the
horse's head, and patting it gently, he
said iu a tone of affectionate tender
ness: 'Poor old Joe; so they have
brought you to this. I somehow
thought it was you, old boy, when I
first saw you, but I couldn't hardly be
lieve my eyes, for you used to be a
mighty different looking horse from
this.
All this time the horse was rubbing
his head against the man's breast and
shoulders; and there was a suspicion
of moisture in the eyes of the man as
well a in the eyes of several of the
spectators.
4 1 never would have sold you iu the
world, Joe, if I had thought they
would ever bring you to this,' tha mau
continued. 'But never mind, old b yj
there's going to be change right away
now. You're g ing to have a nice big
stall, and you ain't ever going to do
another lick of work as long as you
live.'
And then turning to the owner he
asked: 'How much do you waut for
this horse?'
The former hesitated a moment and
then said: 'Forty dollars.'
He knew that he was asking four
times what the horse was worth, but
he concluded that the old owner would
not stand on a few dollars to get bac k
his old horse.
And he didn't, for he counted out the
?k), and handing it to the man, said:
'Here Ls your money. You are rob
bing me, but I must have that old
hoss.'
A few minutes later he was leading
him down the street, and as they
made their way along there were
doubtless many who wondered why
that well-dressed man should evince
such tender consideration for the p or
bony old horse which followed with
lame, faltering steps close behind him.
Tuberous begonias for winter bloom
iug must be kept in a cool, dry place
until July, or until they insist on grow
ing, in fact. When they refuse to
longer remain dormant and send up
their shoots of green from the dry bulbs
pot them and let them grow.
What seems but a simple diarrhoea
frequently develops into the most dan
gerous of bowel troubles, if neglected.
Dr. Fowler's Ext of Wild Strawberry
is a never-failing specific in all uch
cases.
WHOLE NO. 2810.
Rescued by a Clonibarst.
Rillits Mine's buckboard stage was
coming over Needle Pas in Arizoua a
t-otiple of weeks ago, and there were on
ly two poplo on board. One was
Mike, the driver, and the other was a
man going to work at the mine. He
may have had more than one name,
but he told the driver that he was
known as Jack, and that seemed to
satisfy the man who handled the lines.
They were delayed by an accident un
til darkness came on, and then they
derided to camp until morning in the
pine woods. The horses were unhitch
ed and the two men spread their blank
ets and lay down.
It was their intention to sleep, but
somehow their eyes were wide open,
and the drowsy god refused to come
their way. The strain had been very
great ou both, and a nervous condition
was the result And as they lay there
looking up at the branches of the pines
that glowed red from the firelight
against a sky of inky blackness, there
was not much wind, but it was enough
to cause the prickly needles to move
against one another and produce a
sound like the distant moaning of the
ocean. Mike heard the sojnd, and
listened to it in the hope that it would
soothe his mind and cause sleep.
He paid particular attention to the
change produced by every breath of
air, and gradually became conscious of
ait increase in the volume of soumL It
seemed to rise from the little breaker
falling on the shingle to the giant
wave dashing against a cliff before the
fury of the hurricane. At first Mike
thought that sleep was coming and
trie-d to help it along by continuing
the thought, but as thesHind increased
he sat up and looked into the darkness.
He could see nothing. The sound
grew louder, and he could hear the
cracklingof breaking branches. Jack
also heard the sound, and both got up
thoroughly ah rued. The horses were
shaking like leaves,, showing plainly
that they were listening to a sound
they did not understand.
Louder and louder, until it had be
c m a roar that was all around them
and gradually coming nearer. At hrst
Mike thought it might be a storm, but
tin re wts hlx-ci.t that weird, whistling
sound alw ays an accompaniment to a
storm in the pines. Rut what it was
could not lie determined, and each
moment it liccame more terrible.
"I,et's run," said Jack.
"That's good advice," replied Mike;
"but which way?"
This was the worst of the mysterious
sound; it seen ltd to be all around them
at the same time and it could not hi
told where it came from. One mo
ment it came from the clouds, the next
it was near their fet t, aud by a thought
it came from all sides.
Suddenly it struck Mike that it was
a herd of wild beasts of some kin L but
thought it strange there was no bark
ing or growls nothing but the inces
sant rumbling and crackling. The
strain was becomiug tio intense, and
Mike concluded to hitch up and lie
ready to leave. He threw several
sticks on the fire, and then went for
the horses while Jack got the harness
in shape.
The animals were anxious to go, but
before the harness was over their backs
Mike heard a branch crack just behind
him. He pulled his revolver and fired
where the sound came from. This only
increased the roaring sound until it
was deafening, and an occasional hiss
could be heard.
"Let us hurry and get out of this,"
was all each man could say to the
other, as they backed the horses Into
position. Rut it was too late.
Before they could realize what had
hap(ened the crackling aud roaring
was just beside them. Mile looked all
around and ou every side he saw a doz
en of strange creatures. A close look
convinced him that they were mount
ain terrapins. He had seen them be
fore, but singly, and looked upou them
as harmless.
These were the animals that now
threatened, the two men, and in an in-
staut it went through Mike's mind
that they were different from those
he had generally seen. They were
surely older, an 1 ha 1 very likely come
from the Gulf in a company and got
lost Nov they wore hunting and
were angry and hungry.
Nearer aud nearer the turtles eame.
an I Mike aud Jack soon had to climb
iuto the wagon to keep out of their
way. The turtles crowded around the
wagon, and the wagon was the only
place of refuge. Mike thought the tur
tles might move on, aud did all he
could to frighten them by shooling at
them. It was al:n st d irk, a-i the fire
had leen buruing low, and as Mikt
could not aim, none of the bullets took
effect on the turtles backs. They soon
legan climbing over oao another in
their efforts to get at the m-n. At last
there was such a number all around
that the wagon commenced to move
and was forced to the side until the
hind wheels were brokea. There was
no hope of eseapo except to d a the
horses had done, and the chances were
very slim. Rut they had to do it, and
started as soon as the wagon broke.
Jack landed squarely on a turtle's
buck, bnt Mike slipped iu lvtween two
of them, aud it was several moments
before he was ready to start Then
they jumped from one turtle to another
for some time, and it seemed to the
men as if they covered the earth. Bat
they kept on aud knew that unless
they fell they were safe.
Soon there began to be a little space
between the turtles, and it appeared as
if tbty wtie gtltii g to the c"ge of the
herd; but they discovered that the tur
tles were also going in the same di
rection they were. Still there was
, nothing else to be done, so they kept
on.
It was hardly possible to see, but the
wo men were both aware that they
wfro getting out of the pine forest,
thisjgh the direction they were travel
ing was unknown to them. Suddenly
Mike, who was in the lead, stepped on
a rock that he mistook for a turtle and
fell forward down hill. They had
reached the edge of a canon, and as
there were not so many turtles, had a
chanco to climb on a large nick out of
reach of the creatures.
Here they had a ehancp to look
ar mud and saw that th sky was over
cast with cl'sids and that thay wer
safe unless the turtles stayed around
until they were tarved.
Rut there was a little water in the
bottom of the canon, and down the
turtles tumbled as fast as they could,
appearing to have forgotten all about
their p sih!e victim. Most of them
had reached the b tto:o, b it not before
a raiu-storm came up, and as Mike aud
Jack were still unable to leave their
place on the rock they were drenched
to the klu. But that was a good
deal better than being eaten by turtles.
And, as they sat for an hour watch
ing the turtles pass them on the way to
the bottom of the canon, the rain pour
ed down and daylight had made its
appearance.
After the last turtle had passed they
were compelled to sit w here they were
for some time to allow the storm to abate
a litt'.e. They put In their time watch
ing t'ie turtles rolling over one another
in the pools at the Uttoin of the can
on. Suddenly there was a roar like a cy
clone tearing through a forest, and
looking up the two men saw a wall of
water several fis-t high tumbling over
the boulders.
It was a cloudhtirst that.had caused a
freshet, and it was all tumbling over
the turtles like a Niagara, and iu a
mo in-nt they were all being churned
like chips. Their shells were cracked
and broken, aud they rolled over in
th wildest confusion.
But it only lasted a moment, and
then the water rolled them down the
canon out of sight of the two men on
the rock.
By this time the rain had ceased and
Mike and Jack went to look for their
horses. San Francisco Call.
To The Moon, 33 Miles.
The huge block of crystal w hu h will
become the mirror for the great tele
3,ope has safely arrived iu Paris. If all
goes well the exhibition of 1M will Iw
able to boast of a distinct feature.
Whether the moon's features w ill be
equally distinct is another question.
IrofesMr Iioewy thinks not, but M.
Dcloucle is still determined to carry
through his idea.
"The moon one yard off." It was
thus the scheme of the gigintic tele
scope was spoken of in the papers, but
M. Delonele, however ambitious he
may le in Central Africa, protests that
he never had so preposterous a notion.
He claims that it will lie possible to
throw on to a screen views of our satel
lite brought within a distance of thirty
eight miles. This remains to be seen.
However, everybody will wish M. IH.
loncle, and still more especialy bis
share-holders, every success in what
one must still regard as an experiment.
The new telescopic mirror th1?
largest ever made. It was cast at Jeu
mont, a manufacturing place, and th
last French station on the line to Liee,
Cologne, and Berlin. This splendid
block of homogeneous crystal weigh
3,0) kiligrames. Its diatu -ter is 2.0 1
meters and in its present nearly rough
state it cst 1,0J. Of course it was
conveyed to Paris in a special train. It
was wrapped up in heavy felt blankets,
protected by hoops of soft woo.l, with
metal tires, mounted on pivots. Thus
packed, the mirror was tightly wedged
in a case that was placed io the wagon
on a bed of hurdles and layers of hay.
For greater safety, the train stppa 1
on'y once, at Tergnier, and went at as
slow a pace as a royal train, escorted
by a railway iuspvetor. It was insured
to it full value. The sam-e afternoon
it was removed from the northern ter
minus to the workshop. The mirror.
before leaving Jeumont, went through
a second grinding of its faces, being as
smooth as a fine plate glass. But for
telescopic purposes this sort of smooth
ness is roughness itself. The finishing
processes will take two years and six
months, and by m re exrxMlitious pro
cesses than any hitherto in use, which.
moreover, will give greater accuracy
than anything known.
Hitherto astronomical mirrors and
lenses have been polished by hand by
slowly rubbing the glass with the
naked hand, sometimes, but not al
ways, moistened with oil, albumen,
and other substances, which are the
m iker's secret. The drawback of this
process is that the mere heat of the
h ind may cause the surface to warp.
The new mechanical process, of
which particulars are not given, will
produce a surface approaching a tnte
plane, within the one-thousandth part
of a millimeter. Even this marvelous
finish will leave a margin, astrono
mers say, for errors. The whole finish
ing process will cost ,tJ. The sil
vering will not cjst anything to speak
o'.
Tiie mirror will be mounted on two
arms ten meters long, and will be set
in moiion by machinery of the usual
sort. The rays gathered from plain-t-ary
space will le reflected horizontally
through a mammoth tube sixty meters
long, Ltid on piles of masonry. The
lenses of flint and cro-.vn glass will le
one meter twenty-five centimeters, the
largest in the world, and the images,
enlarged 6,0)J times, will be thrown
on to a screen which thousands of
people will view at a time.
The nitxm will, if all goes well, In?
brought within thirty-ei ght miles, Lut
it is most doubtful whether images on
this scale will prove correct M. Loewy,
the Assistant Director of the Paris Ob
servatory, who has s'jdmitted some
splendid photgraphs of the moon,
believes that the limit f ninety-four
miles he lias readied is the utuus-t
practicable for a long tuna to come.
Larger images will be indistinct.
At a Flower Woman's Bier.
A famous character of Potsdani, com
monly known by her nickname of the
"Walking Flower," or "Potsdam's
Auntie," died the other day, and her
funeral was one of the most remarkable
events of recent date. Every cfiictr
who had ever been stationed ut Pots
dam knew her, sim-e for ."W years past
she had the sole privilege of peddling
fruit aud flowers iu all the barracks
and officers' quarters of that military
town. Through her iKisiuess she be
came aeqiuiiuted with the old Emperor,
William I. with Emperor Frederick
aud with the present Eni.eror, and
they never failed to speak to her, If
they perchance met the old la ly in the
street Hernamewas Annie Booth,
and although not much of her ante
cedents was known, she could not de
ny her English birth. She must hav
been handsome in her early days, and
quite well educated, for she fluently
spoke English, Freuch and Italian, be
sides the German. At her funeral
more than 4)0 orlicers, among them
several generals, followed the bier on
foot, and the music was famished by
three full military bands, the muMe
corpsof tha Gatrd lluisars being in
the lead in parade uniform end on
horseback.