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toiucirt. Pa.
i.ittsi-iu Maiimmih Illock, up suirs. En-
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a . wtlitil. tult-s . laluiut-d.auj all
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(ULDOILN A COLIJORN,
Yj AlluK.NEVS-AT-LAW,
Souieixet, Pa.
(.iteam entrusted to our care will be
mi :. ai.d tiiitutuliy atteuded to. Colleo
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Minian Mir-ejing auj couveyauelug
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fomcreet. Pa.
prartK in Somerset and adjoining
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Somerset, Pa.
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a il t:L Clilsb sLIVeL OLtUOhlle MiAUIUlOlh
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s.,1,., vn iiiitv. Ulhee eorui r
f i. r- .1U i'atnot street.
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V- J- M. LUL'TilER,
' Pins-ii'lAN ami JsUIUjEON,
-y.ji.u street, rtarof Lrug store.
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1 x.i-iniiv. 1'ni..s tin-
S :' "t ! ii i- lound at hia of-
f -uix Jiu.u ha,; oi lnaiuuna.
kR. J M. MILLKN,
'iiauale iu Ieutislry.)
a'! i.t.iia to tiie preservation
I .i l l.s Artmcui s-lis lUMTted.
Ji ;'! i s t.iai-jiit, Kui,siu.-urv. tmiee
a nnr L. H. Iwvi & Co' store,
l. i Cii m and Patriot .ireetM.
K H. COF FROTH,
Funeral Director.
HV) Patriot
P'-'K V,. FLUC K,
f SI-' K!M.N-.i EXtilN KER. Ustie. IV
pils! Oils!
iui; 1l.:;,,'I'-a!',nKC.t Pittsburj; Depart,
.. .siMin;. r.i., inak.na sim-u.lt v of
,-";tJ:"'U t"r toe 1h, nies tic
'rJr ti.c iiUtt bmrnls of
' Jmin: -ting L Lubricating Oils
Naphtha (iasailae,
'' e.iIjs,r.Mlu UlIi. evcry kno.n
Product of Petroleum
Satisfactory Oils
-IX THE
ierican Market.
' Tre f"r Somerset and vicinl-
ty sui-p!i,i ty
tXsjK EEERITS and
KP.E-sE A KOOSER,
Sumeraet, Pa.
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VOL. XLV. NO.
V0RY SOAP
It Floats
When you pack for a summer outing, do not forget to take
some Ivory Soap. You will enjoy your baths the more for not
having to use the soap furnished by the hotel-
Tut Proctih & Gutsu Co. Dm
-THE
First National Bant
Somerset, Poun'a.
Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, S24.000.
DEPOSITS HCCCiVCDIN LANfiC ANOSMALL
AMOUNTS. PATASLC ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS.
STOCK DEALERS. AND OTHERS SOLICITED
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
LaRl-E M. HICKS, liEO. U. SCULL,
JAMES L rioll, W. H. MILLER,
JOHN R. SCOTT, HOBT. .S. SCULL,
EUEU W. BIESECKER.
EI'WARP SCULL, : : PRESIDENT.
VALENTINE H AY, : VICE PRESIDENT.
HARVEY M. 1SEP.KLEY, . CASHIER.
The funis ami suritli of this lank arc ae-
curvly prutwiod In a cell lrati-J Cokliss Rl"B
glak l'KOor Safe. The only fcafe made abso-luu-ly
burgUir-l'nof.
Is Somerset County National
OF SOMERSET PA.
Eitabiittwd, 1877. Organized at a Nttlonit, 1890
CAPITAL,
150,000
SURPLUS AND UN
DIVIDED PROFITS $23,000
CLas. J. Harrison, - Trcsident.
Wm. II. Koontz, - Yice President
Milton J. Tritts, - - Cabier.
Geo. S. Ilarrison, - Ass't Cabbier.
Directors :
Sam. R. Harrison, Wm. KmNloy,
Josiah SjHM-lit, Jonas M. Cook,
John 11. Snyder, John Stum,
Jih P. Iavis, Noah S. Miller,
Harrison Snyder, Jerome StuffL,
Cha-s. W. Snyder.
Customers of this Hank will receive the most
lilpentl I naitmeiit consistent a it h safetianking.
i'artiti wisiiinc t kcih! uioti.-y esist or a'est
can be aeeoin modaled by draft for any
amount.
Honey and valuable secured by one of Iie
ls.ld's eelvbmted safe's with must improved
time lock.
Collection made In all part of the United
SU:te. Clwre moderate.
Account aid deposits solicited.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and 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
Irt'Iarvl to wipply the public
with Clocks, VaUhtfs and Jew
elry of all descriptions, as Cheap
as the Cheapest.
REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at uiy
KttH'k lie fore making your
Tuircli.tses.
J. D. SWANK
ALWAYS
On Hand.
best in "The market.
Jarecki Phosphate,
Raisin's Phosphate,
Lime,
Crushed Coke,
Hard Coal,
Salisbury Soft Coal,
At the Old Stand near the Somer
set &, Cambria R. R. Station.
Prices Right.
Peter Fink
BANK
0.
MrsALUhl.
JVTEW SPRING GOODS. Xcw-
1 est styles in all kinds of
poods and lowest prices. A full
line of Cashmere and Serges in all
qualities. Splendid assortment of
Black Wool, Worsted and Mohair
Dres3 in Brocaded and Novelty
! Styles, suited for dresses and skirts
A Lig stock of newest styles ol
Novelty Press Goods, ranging in
price from 12 i-2 cts to $1 a yard
GREAT variety of Silks and
Silk and Wool Plaids, Ac, for
waists t dresses. Wash Goods for
desses and waists, including Swisses,
Lawns, Percales, Dimities, Crepes,
Moire, Chintzes, Cheviotte Prints,
Ginghams, Seersuckers, See. Splend
id values in Table Linens. Towels,
Napkins, Table Covets, Bed
Spreads, Poitiers, Furniture Da
mask Silk and Silkoline Draperies
and Cushions.
LADIES' Dress Skirts and Shirt
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 Muil and Lace Caps and
Hats.
NE -..'.; i - ns, SXi s, Gimps,
Ribbons, Laces. Ac., for dress
trimmings. A large variety oi
Cambric, Swiss and Nansook Em
broidery in white and colors.
Linen Sheeting, Stamped Linen and
Embroidery Silk.A vlarge assort
ment of Lace Curtains cheap.
Also Curtain Swiss and Scrim.
LARGEST stock of new Millin
ery Goods. All the latest
styles. A large assortment of Lace
and Button Guaranteed Kid Gloves
Fast Colored Stockings in Black
and colors for Ladies', Misses',
Children, Men and Boys. Best
dark, blue and light calicoes, 5 ets.
ool and Cotton Carpet Chain.
Mrs. A E. UHL.
ELY'S
CREAM BALM
Is qntekly absor 1
ed. Cleanses the
Nasal TasKim-, Al
y s I'uin aril In
iliumutioii. i Kills
tie.' Sor-s. Protects
Hi storetli!.: Sense
tl.e Meinni'une trout
CATARRH
1 Additional Cold
of TuMe an I Smell.
i lives Relief at once
nd it will cure.
COLD i HEAD
A particle Is applied directly into the nostrils
ami i aereeahle. f'nre '! cents at Druggists
or bv mail.
ELY LKOTHERS. Vi Warren Street, N. Y.
THE KEELEY CURE
Is a special boon to bonnes men who, narinr
drifted unconsciously into the drink habit ana
awaken to find the disease of alcoholism fastened
HI in them, rendering; them nnt to manage af
fmim reuirinir a clear brain. A four weeks
ouurae of treatment at the
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No. 4216 Fifth Avenue,
r-stnre to them all their powers, mental and
physical, destroys the abnormal appetite, and
restore them to the condition thev were In be
fore they indulged in stimulants. This has been
done in more than 100 cases treated here, and
among them some of TOttr own neighbors, to
whom we can refer with confidence as to the
absolute safety and efficiency of the Keeler Core.
The fullest and most searching inirestiration is
n vlted. bend for pamphlet giving full Inlurma
Uon. A
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err rwtent takea out h? tt I brouirbt bef'va
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sf ricntifif tericaw
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aJvBruscrs avail themselves of the Let, a
cops' of which can bo bad of "Etemingtoa
Brui. of Ker York 4 rhteburg.
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omer
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
LOVE, THE AWAKE5ER,
Iove ranie to earth in a woman's eyes
Where a needle noul In olumbcr lay;
And n touch of her roy flnfter tip.
A kls of her treinluou parted Hps,
Awakened him Uvd.iy.
He ainlled at her with a glad aurpriw.
Anil nhe aniiwered blm with a entile aKnin;
And Ills irreat a lilte wing h" w wild fain un
close.
Hut they were heavy with long n'lKKte;
Aa he strove to rise Iu vain.
And he filled t lie air with hi hIihiih Tul crlea
For the wasted atnngth that he could not
prove;
Hut she whimpered '1Ioh.' In 111 eager cure,
And dewed hi face with her burning tears
ud he rose by the power of love.
And forth together, in buppy guise.
Love and the Soul flew hund in bund;
Slnjrlng a perfect melody.
That echoes for all eternity,
Iu every age and land.
Arthur lllklnton Shaw.
KEFORK ANYTHING
IIA1TENEI).
There Are Two Ways of Looking at
Things, and Sarah Tried Them.
BY JAM ES C l'UUDY.
It i.i drea4lful to have to go on living
this way. I'm tired to death of it. I
believe there's not another girl any
where thttt bus so much to ut up with
as I have. I'd give anything for a
change anything !"
"What kind of a change do you think
you would like, Karah?"
"Any kind! I can't think of any
thing in the world that would not be
U tter thau this."
The kind, shrewd eyes behind the
fiiteetaclea looked at the young girl cu
riously for a few moments. Miss I5rin
ton had come through many troubles,
and now faced life alone, but with
brave cheerfulness. Sjhe knew a good
deal more at sixty than she had known
at sixteen, but Harah Allen was not
quite ready to believe that yeL
"There are several million things in
the world a vast deal worse than this,"
said Miss Hrinton, quietly. "I only
hoe you may not have to find any of
them out for yourself."
With that she went out of the room.
Sarah looked after the briskly mov
ing figure, her pretty face flushed and
the discontented frown still puckering
her forehead, and called out in reck
less defiance :
"I hope I may !"
This was before anything happened.
That evening Sarah was still think
ing about the misery of having "to go
on living like this." Indeed, she had
thought of little else since that visit
to the rich cousins in the city. She
had been all the time in a state of pro
test against life as she had to live it in
the quiet little country home. Happi
ly, she was not yet past loving consid
eration for her father and mother, so
she did not intlict her complainings
UHn them. She had intended to spare
Miss Brinton also, during the lady a
visit to their house, but Miss Drinton
was such an obstinately cheerful jer-
son that people had to tell their troub
les to her seiner or later.
There was no reason whatever why
Walter should lie spared. There is no
use in having a iig, gooa-naiureu
brother if one be not at liberty to call
upon him for sympathy end help and
redress of all grievances. S Walter
was liov pared. Sarah followed him
out into the g:: .'en, when he went out
there after supja-r to rest himself by
working for two long l.'xirs, she vexed
his soul with the story of her discon
tent,
"I wish I were a loy, nineteen years
old !" she said at last, putting a dis
agreeable emphasis on the personal
pronoun.
"That means you wish I were the
girl, and only sixteen, so that you
might do big things for me. W hat
kind of things? What do you wish
me to do more than I am doing?"
Walter spoke a trille more sharply
than usual. Perhaps he was getting a
little tired of listening to grievances ;
perhaps he did not quite like lieing set
down in the hoy class and having the
rod of correction shaken over him in
this fashion. Sarah weut on with
what she had to say, precisely as if he
had not spoken.
"If I werea boy, nineteen years old,
I'd be "shames! to drone away my life
helping to manage a creamery in a
sleepy, moss-grown little town, and I
wouldn't do what I was ashamed or.
I'd have some ambition ! I'd go out
somewhere and conquer the world !
I'd get rich ! I'd make a name for my
self! I'd make my father and my moth
er and my sister proud of ine ! That's
what I'd do, if I were a boy, nineteen
years old V
It was so dark now that she could
not see the look on her brother's face,
and she was rather glad of that, as the
silence following her latest outbreak
continued ; it was a handsome face and
a gotwl face, and generally i t was a
pleasant face, but sometimes, of late,
she had brought an expression into it
that she would rather not see. She
was not afraid of Walter, but he could
make her a little uncomfortable now
and then.
"If I were a girl, sixteen years old,
I'd try to have a little sense !"
That was the answer she got after
all that long wait ; and the look iu
Walter's face could not be a pleasant
one if it matched the pitying contempt
of his tone.
"You're more of a baby now than
you used to be U-fore you could talk,"
be went on slowly, after another little
pause. "You're worse than a baby,
lor a baby can't be wicked. I can put
up with your talk aoout me, for it's
nothing but froth. I have a good place
and I get good wages, and am going to
hi a partner after a while, and father
and mother would rather have me
here with them than away off some
where, so I'm going to stay, whether
you like it or not. I know I'm not
much of a genius, but I've helped fath
er to pay for the little home, I'm help
ing to keep things comfortable now
that we've got the home, and I believe
I could not do much better than that if
I started out to 'conquer the world.'
It's you that I'm bothering about just
now, and my advice to you is, turn
set
ESTABLISHED 1827.
over a new leaf, and be quick about
It !"
"That's exactly what I wish to do !'
Sarah cried hi eager triumph. "Isn't
that just what I've been telling you over
and over, stupid ? I want to get out of
thisdisiual little rut; I want to get
free from this dreary tread-mill of
house-work and and all that sort of
thing. I want to live as other girls
live that are no better than I am. I'm
sick and tired of being jm mr, that's it !
Why, I can't have one single thing I
I want, not one ! It Isn't worth while
to live at all if I have to oh ! what's
that? Look, Walter, look !"
Walter had not waited for her to
finish her startled outcry; at the first
word of it he had dashed away tow
ards the house, leaving her standing
in the garden path, weak and tremb
ling with excitement and fear.
The house was on fire. The glare of
flames shining through the kitchen
window was the terrible thing they
had both seen, and now Sarah waited
an instant in dreadful fascination to
hear the crackling of the blaze and the
breaking of the window-glass and to
see the black smoke pour ouL
The house was on fire and they would
1m? homeless ; that was the desolate
thought that overwhelmed her in those
first few seconds, depriving her of all
power to move or even to cry out-
Homeless ! And they had such a pret
ty home, and they were all so happy
there together !
The sound of the kitchen door slam
med to roused her from that momen ta-
ry trance of helplessness and gave her
something else to think abjuL Walter
had rushed iu where the li r.i wit ; he
had put his life iu peril ! With a loud
cry she darted up the garden path to
the kitchen door. She caught a
glimpse through the window as she
ran pant it, and what she saw made
her giddy with terror. The whole place
was filled with flame and smoke, and
in the midst of it Walter was dimly
visible, dashiug madly alsnit as he
battled fiercely with the tntmy.
"Walter ! Walter ! Come out ! Open
the door !"
Siie was tearing frantically at th e
latch, tut could not get the door open.
Oh, it was terrible to lie so helpless
when he was perishing before her very
eyes ! And what would she do with
out him? There never was a brother
like Walter !
"Irou't come in here! he cried, still
stamping and tearing almuL "I can
manage this. You go iu the side door
and call the others. They've all gone
up to bed. There isn't much danger,
but they ought to get out Hurry,
Sarah, and then give an alarm !''
With a dry sob in her throat, Sarah
ran away to the side door. She could
help Walter more by calling their fath
er to pull him out of that furnace than
by going into it herself. It seemed
early for going to bed, but they kept
early hours in that house. Father,
mother and Miss Brintou must all be
sleeping very soundly, or they would
surely have been aroused by all the
noise that Walter was making. The
side-door was unfastened and she went
in and shut it after her ; she vaguely
remembering hearing that no doors
or windows must lie opened in case of
lire because of the draught.
She gascd and staggered agaiiist
the wall as she entered, the smoke was
so dense and stilling. The inner door of
thc kitchen had been open at first and
the smoke had poured all through the
house; and every window down stairs
had Uen tightly closed when the three
older jseople went to bed, so there was
no escape for it.
"Father! father! father!"
Sarah screamed the word again and
again when she could get breath
enough to scream, but there was no
answer, and no sound of movement iu
the rKms aliove. Terrified, strangling,
and with tears streaming from her
smarting eyes, she groped her way to
the stairs and ran swiftly to the upper
landing, calling as she ran. She stopjied
calling before she bad reached the
head of the stairs because she had no
more voice to call with; she was fairly
stilled by the smoke. She had not ex
pected that; they all slept with bed
mum windows wide open, aud she had
not thought of the smoke's collecting
in the upper story. She remembered
now that every up-stairs window had
been clscd just before supjier because
of a threatened thunderstorm, and evi
dently they had not been ojiened since.
That was strange, and it brought a
new terror to the distracted girl.
"They'll all be smothered iu their
b'ds liefore I can get iu and open the
windows!" she whispered to herself.
"And Walter said there wasn't much
danger! Father!"
She tried again to call, but the word
was ouly a choking gap. She tried to
find the door of her father's lied room,
but she was suffocating aud could no
longer stand.
"I must crawl with my face close to
the floor," she thought; "there's fresh
air there."
Hut she was so bewildered now that ,
she could not tell what direction tt :
take; she seemed to be iu the middle
of some horrible space, and when sli8
fouud the wall at last it was only tl
wall, and no door at all. And all thu'
Urn; the precious minutes were slip
ping away.
"I can't do one thing to help any
boJy!"she whispered hopelessly. "I'ts
hurry down stairs again and crT
some of the neighbors. Oh, why ca"0
they see that they are needed
come!
But now despair as well as fear of
hold of her. She was hoelessl y,jia.
in the overpowering smoke, and Jm re-
not find the head of the stairs; n At Al-
was so weak and faint that sh-ied and
grope no farther in any dInChi-
With a stifled moan she fell a'- xine
helpless. She could still thii fve been
although she could no ltitn9 n4ve
She wished she could not,linir wit,
dreadful to lie there helplesrts of New
that to-morrow she might
the wide world, with no Imported from
ter her; an orphan, anVher cities and
had such loving parewutr- A Kreat
erless, and no girP,. a,!n killed.
like Walter. And H!? l Xew York
. , . , Ml Their carcasses
or dead, and she courl om the M
And what was it L pUces. Forty.
-miss lirinion, oniy 1. company in
was it Miss linn ton
AUGUST 12. 1890.
And Walter, too; he had been vexed
with her out there iu the gardeu, aud
had tried to set her right And now
neither of them could ever heir her
say how sorry she was. Then the
thought came to her that she was to lie
spared the worst of all this terrible
trouble, for she would die with all the
rest of them. That would lie lietter.
It was a pleasant world, and she
would be glad to go on living in it if
she might live just as xhe had been liv
ing, with father and mother and
brother and dear old home; but what a
desolate, world it would lie without
them!
"Hello, up there."' That was Wal
ter's voke calling her back to life and
dim consciousness. Why, she thought
Walter was dead in that blazing fur
nace of a kitchen! "Are you there,
Sally?" the hearty voice called again.
"Come on down. Fire's all out, and
no damage done that ten dollars won't
cover, but there must lie no more
matches put where the mice Ml get at
'em! Why don't you speak?"
The last words quavered with anxie
ty and she heard him bounding up the
stairs, and bursting doors ojien aud
slamming window sashes up. There
was a reviving rush of fresh, pure air
through the darkness, and she was
able U) stir and call feebly.
"Here I am, Walter, but get father
and mother and Miss lirintoa out
quick! Oh, I'm afraid they must be
lead already! I was trying to get at
them when I felL"
"Dead? Not a bit of it! Here they jtll
are as fresh as daisies."
And truly, there they all were, land
ing over her with anxious faces in the
lamp light that had suddenly appear
ed; father, mother, brother, friend.
The three elders had gone visiting
while the brother and sister were out
iu the gardeu, and had been spending
the evening with neighbor Brown, all
unconscious of the danger their home
was in; that was the explanation of it
Aud their care in shutting every door
and window before they went away
til led the house with the smoke of the
kitchen conflagration, and had almost
killed poor Sarah.
"I'm so glad that Walter got to me
in time!" Sarah said contentedly,
when she had been carefully put to
bed and left temporarily in the care of
Miss Hrinton. "I didn't care very
much before he came, but I'm glad
now. I believe I could not find one
thing to wish for now!" She caught a
quizzical gleam behind the spectacles,
and smiled in answer to it. "Yes, I
know what you mean, but that was
before anythiug had happened. The
rest of you think nothing happened
but a little trumpery fire in the kitch
en that filled the house full of smoke,
but 1 can tell you that a great deal has
happened besides that, this evening,
Miss Brintou, a very great deal!"
A Pampered Relic
One morning a horse that had its
mane and tail done up in curl papers
aud was eating oats out of a gilded
manger iu a padded stall, turned
around and whinnied disdainfully at
a bicycle that was leaning against the
wall feeling too pneumatic tired for
expression.
"You are a mere drudge," said the
horse. "You are made to scorch along
dusty roads, you are never fed on any
thing more substantial thau wind and
nolxxly loves you as I am loved. See,
I am fed on fresh oat, hay and condi
tion powders, while you never even
have your bearings oiled until you
squeak, and besides you have wheels."
With that he gave a horse-laugh and
went on with his feeding.
But the patience of the bicycle was
punctured aud he procreded to make
some scorching remarks.
"You panijicred relic of barbarism,"
he replied, "you think because you are
fed aud cared for that you are of some
importance. I take my master to and
from business. I give him exercise aud
cost him nothing for my keep and I
never rim away. 1 am a faitlmii ser
vant, while you are merely a curiosity
kept to amuse the children. Your use
fulness ceased a century ago."
At this point the horse gave the hi-
cyc.va Kick mat punctured both lis
tires aud pied its spokes and sprckets.
Mora Some people argue like
horses.-Truth.
The Kind of a Flock He Had.
It Is related that in a small town not
far ydistant, the preacher in theonly
cliireh the place possessed was very
prly salaicd, and to make matters
vbrse, he couldn't get the miserable
s jpend promised him.
jMle became very weary of trying,
rith his family, to exist upon thin air
and faith, and on a recent Sabbath, at
the close of his discourse, announced
his intention of quitting the ministry
and trying something that would afford
i him a living.
"And at the last day," said he, "the
Lord will say to St Peter, 'Where is
your flock?" and St. IVter will answer,
'Here, Lord,' and so all theshepherds
will answer; but when He asks me,
'Where are yoursheep ?' how will I feel
when I am CDmiwlled to reply, 'I.ord
(Vi haveu't any ; mine were all hogs.' "
ailv. "
trinsii a Matter of Curiosty.
isHUes li.
nouuee inu jj tue prudeut man, "you
tyLVa,U.,s P my will to the best of
The ChiiM; J
wertttreat0I,lrlied the lawyer, "I've
decisions may be re carefully as I knew
bistoryof the Kcpub
ce'ved severer oxmdeinr signed and wit-
oervy than did its prcxy
pretne court in the saiti regular."
administration orPresid njore thing. j
-It invites anarchy b, ... i -President
Cleveland for f.i h 1
ample of Jackson in enf
laws by the armed power
when riot reigned in Chici who. ,u vour
"With these declaration get the mon-
and policy and with th over." Detroit
hind them, I have no
"Much as I love Dei
its history, I can ntUnexpected emer
have stolen itabauncJ chnJren n the
on its principles.
r's Extract of Wild
"Opposition to t
iifailing cure. It is
fidelity to Democrai
liberty, to progress
summer complaint
preserving in A me
eralc
Saved By a Song.
When the boundary line between Ten
nessee and Georgia was established it
passed half a mile south of the spring
Tuck-a-lee-chee-chee, among the foot
hills of thc Tuakas, and, as it crossed
one of the principal Indian trails, it
became a place of much importance.
There had already grown up a strong
rivalry If t ween the Tennessee tribes,
headed by Chief ltos and the ieorgia
tribes, headed by Major Ridge, both
half-breeds and men of extraordinary
ability as leaders. The establishment
of a new boundary line fixed the limits
of their resjective territories, and to
try aud harmonize as far as possible
the contending factious the govern
ment established a trading post there.
John Howard Payne aptfared Umui
the scene and was accuses 1 of inciting
the Indians to insubordination. He
was placed under arrest as an incendia
ry and carried to the council bouse.
The name of the place was changed
from the euphonious appellation of
Tuck-a-lee-chee-chee to the one more
easily pronounced of Bed City, because
of the color of the soil in that vicinity.
While Payne was held there one of
the first bands arrived, and among the
Indians was the Chi f Oo-chee or 1 tat
tling Gourd, a broken-hearted man.
He was moody and abstracted, and re
fused all invitations to the council
house, and would partake of no festive
enjoyments whatever, but sjf nt moi-t
of his time at the grave of his wife and
child further up the valley. At last one
morning he was missing front his ac
customed place by the camp-fire and
an alarm was immediately raised that
Battling (iourd had escaped. The
liatrol scattered in every direction in
search of him, and some of them lie
thought them of his fondness for the
sjsit where his loved ones slept, and
went in search of him there. They
fouud bim. Weltering in his own
blood, his body lay between, the little
mounds that covered his squaw and
pajHKse.
In some way he had secreted a bay
onet when the Indians were being dis
armed, and, brooding over his removal,
he became desperate, ami seeking that
lone spot, he chanted his death song,
fell ujHtn the point of the bayonet,
which pierced his heart, and died on
the sMt where he had often expressed
a desire to lie laid for his lat long
sleep.
The affair caused great excitement
and indignation. The malcontents
took advantage of the distressing occur
rence to stir up strife, and fears were
entertained of a mutiny. A grave was
dug on the sKt where he lay, and the
chief was buried by the soldiers, one of
the Moravian missionaries officiating.
Afler the servievs Were over John
Howard Payne, who had Ix-en a silent
witness of the pathetic scene, began
singing softly to himself the song
which has since lieen echoed through
every land on the earth. General
Bishop, who had kept a close scrutiny
on his actions, heard the song and
called Payne to bim.
"Young man," said the stern old
Indian fighter, where did you learn
that song.
"I wrote that song myself," replied
Payne.
"And where did you get the tune?"
"I composed that also."
"Would you let me have a copy of
it?"
"Certainly I will.
"Well, a man who can sing and
write like that Ls no incendiary. Ap
pearances may be against you, but I am
going to set you free. I shall write
out your discharge immediately, and a
pass to you anywhere you choose
through the nation."
Payne had lieen housed at the home
of a family living nearby, and on his
return there he exhibited his pass and
related the circumstances. This wus
the first time that "Home, Sweet
Home" had ever been sung in public.
Atlanta Constitution.
How Little Things Count Up.
The boy w ho laughs at his parents
for advising him to save his pennies
and the youthful clerk who charges his
employers with being niggardly l-e-causc
they spend sleepless nights de
viling method of economizing, might
learn a lesson iu the possibilities of ac
cumulation of small things from one
of the big life insurance companies that
has an agency in Pittsburg.
A policy holder went the other day
to pay bis premium. When the cash
ier handed out the receipt the policy
bolder discovered his name was not
written on the slip of paper. At first
he thought the omission was acciden
tal, but a further examination of the
receipt showed there was no blank for
a name to be filled in.
"Is this receipt all right?" he asked
the cashier.
"Yes, wha. seems to be wrong with
it ?"
"My name does not appear on the
receipt," said the young man.
"That's so ; we have made a change
In our system since you were here last,"
answered the cashier.
"But what is the purpose of it?
And is this style of receipt just as
binding as one on which my name ap
pears?" The receipt is all right. The com
pany keeps the record of it by the poli
cy uumlier. The reason that the change
was made is that the company saves
considerable money by omitting the
name, and insurance companies must
practice every economy possible these
days."
"Can't be much economy in omit
ting a name from a receipt," protested
the customer.
"No, not omitting the name from a
single receipt, but when it is left off a
few hundred thousand in the course of
a year it amounts to considerable. Our
company has dispensed with the ser
vices of one clerk since it changed the
style of its receipts. Writing in the
names on the receipts was equal to the
work of one man. Omitting the name
does not vitiate the document, and the
stockholders and policy holders iu our
company get the benefit of the econo
my." Phew r ejaculated the young man.
He was one who had been prone to de
clare it was foolish to economize in lit
tle things.
WHOLE NO. 2350.
Cruzen's Claim Was Saved.
Somehow we got talking aliout the
St. Louis storm. Bsithby had been a
locomotive engineer and used to run
into St. Iuis over the Vandal ia Line.
He remarked on the queer conduct of
storms of that kind, and said a cyclont,
or tornado would do anything, from
holding an auction to establishing
new religion. He said be once hail a
friend who went West to file a claim
and get s tar lis 1 to run for Congress.
This friend, one Cruzcn, stopjfd in a
valley of the Wasatch range iu Utah
and went to prosjsi-cting. He did
good deal of locating, and fouud what
he took to lie a good thing. Indura
tions were very promising. He started
to "do his work," which means the
jf rformam-e of the amount of work
siecitied for locators by the govern
ment. The land otlice laws aie to the
eli'ect that a man must do $100 worth
of work on bis claim within a year,
else be forfeits the claim, and the first
man who files anotiier location notice
gets the prope rty. Sometimes when a
prosjiector has a fine piece of property
promising richness, other jfople will
come up and locate near, so as to be
bandy tojump into the good thing
if the year passes without the first claim
ant building a bouse or making some
other improvement
Cruzcn knew his claim was first-class
but be fiMiIishly went to chasing after
strange gods, thinking be would get
something better. The months passed
and somebody else prowling around in
the neigh borhood of that original Cru
zcn claim found inueh mineral, and a
camp sprung up. Things were lsam
ing and the Cruzen claim was in the
uiidt of the rush without a spadeful
of work being done on it. Others were
anxiously watching that claim ready
to re-locate it as soou as the ."Jiioth day
should pas, aud the real owner was
far away ami knew nothing of the
fortune iu his grasp. But alsut four
days before the end of the year in some
way he learned of the situatiou and
started over the mountains pell melL
He was running a race against time for
a fortune, and time seemed to have all
the best of it Various delays held him
tack, and it was on the afternoon of
the last day of grace that he came
down from the mountains aud into the
valley, and some hours later he was on
his claim. He had two hours iu which
to do 100 worth of work to save the
claim.
What could he do? Certainly be
could not build a house in that time.
Then bethought of a well. That was
it. He would dig a ten-foot well, and
that wtsild let him out But he bad
no tools. He must borrow. He went
to the man on the next location and
asked for a spade. This fellow was
out of those who had been waiting to
adopt the Cruzen claim, and disap
pointed at Cruzen's arrival, he refused
to lend r sell any tools. The man
went to the next claim, with like re
sult. Nolsxly would sell or lend bim
anything.
He returned to bis claim iu despera
tion. He realized that it must be very
rich. There would be no chance to re
locate it, though, and it must be lost
He wearily sat d.wu beside a huge
boulder that jutted out of the ground,
feeling that his last hop was gone. It
had been a hot day and be had travel
ed fa-.t to get there. He was oppressed
by the heat and thought be was going
to faint from over-exertion. Suddenly
there was a crash of thunder aud be
looked up to see the heavens lined
with green, horrible clouds. In an in
stant the wind r.fse to furious might
and the clouds spat fire as they rolled
and churned aliout. The trees lwed
thcm-scl ves and dead pines shot through
the air. Then out of the awfulnessof
a black distance came a writhing,
aiiaky thing that hung from heaven
and earthward traveled with the fury
of the devil. Cruzen had never seen
anything like it He clung to the
shelter of his jutting pick. He saw
shanties leveled and" great pines cut
like a barber shaving otf a stubble
beard. An instant more and the
twisting tongue of vapor was in bis
territory. Up to this time it had not
stopped, but just as if crossed the liue
of hisclaim it balled and for a mom -nt
stood still, writhing aud turning atone
loint to the accompaniment of persis
tent thunder sound. Then, as though
changing its mind, if it had one, it
rushed acro-s the corner, and, taking
tip the shanty of the man who had first
refused to lend him tools, it lammed
that man right well. Then it was
gone.
Cruzeu hastened over the spot where
the twisting column had stopped.
Then with a cry of surprise be looked
at bis watch. Yes, there were still live
minutes to bis credit and there,
yawning If fore him, drilled by that
writhing, turning pillar of intensified
force, was a lieautiful round and evenly
dug well, the finest ever known in that
country. And the Cruzen claim was
saved. Chicago Heeord.
Legend of the Magpie.
One day as a Magpie had taken a
seat on the limb of a tree near the
highway, two travelers came along
and baited under the tree to rest. They
soon observed the bird, and, never
having seen one of its species before,
one of them called out:
"Behold the eagle ! What a noble
bird !"
How beautiful ! How grand V added
the other.
Filled with conceit, the Magpie be
gan to chatter her satisfaction at these
words, but she had scarcely opened her
mouth, wheu one of the travelers ex
claimed: "What fools we are ! I know from
what I have read that this bird is only
a common Magpie !"
"Aud let her begoue !" added his
fricud, as he picked up a stone and sent
it whizzing at her head.
Moral. A crow which had heard and
seen it all without being noticed him
self, now scratched his ear and mur
mured: "If some folks would only keep their
mouths shut what credit they might
get for what they dou't know." New
York World.
Love seldom attains the tincerty of
hate.
Letters That Here Went.
"See here, Iolanthe," said Mr. Ho-
and-So, and he a rone suddenly from
the conjugal breakfast table, "do you
e what the postman has brought
me?"
"It looks like a letter, my dear," re
turned his wife, as she sweetened her
second cup of coffee.
"It Ls a bill, Mrs. So-and-So. A bill
which," with majestic calmness, "I
have already paid."
"Then you can simp!y show them
a receipt and that wilt settle "
"Humph! That merely goes to prove
what thieves those people are. They
sent me uo receipt aud"
"Are you quite sure that you sent
them the money, dear? Sometimes
you "
"Of course I sent the money. Am I
a person to neglect my business atfaiis?
No, I rvmenilfr distinctly tliat I wrote
the check and "
"Then perhaps it was lost in the
mails. I once wrte to New York for
some samples. You yourself mailel
the letter, and I never beard Where
are you going now?"
"I am going, my dear, to telephone
to that company. I shall tell them to
stop delivering ice, and I shall also in
form them that it is la-cause I decline
to deal with a band of organized rob
iers and" The rest was lout iu the
banging of the door.
After a brief but animated conversa
tion Mr. So-and-So returned to the
dining room.
"Well, ia il all right dear?" asked
his wife.
"It was all wrong, that's what it
was. Look here, Iolanthe, I want you
to get out my old business suit, put on
a few laittons and set a stitch here ami
there. I want to wear it bvday."
"But you said last month that it was
not fit to wear again."
"That was before I knew that you
had ordered ice from pirates. Now
that I find I shall be compelled to pay
all my household bills twice I shall
wear the old clothes and put away the
new ones for a rainy day."
"But why wear uew clothes on a
rainy day, dear? When you "
"I do not expect you to understand
the principles of economy, Mrs. So-and-so.
Be kind enough, however to
do what I ak, if you can remember it
long enough. It will be a great thing
when you to learn to remember things
as I do."
Five minutes later Mrs. So-and-S
lairst into the room with a white ob
ject in her hand.
"Just look what I have found in
the poc kct of your old coat A letter,
sealed, stamped aud addressed to the
ice company. You evidently wrote it
and forgot to mail it."
"Iolanthe S-and So," replied her
husband, pale but calm; "I shall over
lok it tills time, but if ever know you
to go through my pockets again I shall
apply for a divorce!"
SdooLj And Thread.
Spools are made chiefly of bfrch
wood. First, the wood is sawed into
stick-i f ur or live fet in length, and
from seven-eighths of an inch to three
inches square, according to the size
of the spool desired. The sticks are
sawed into short blocks, a hole is bored
through each block and they are then
thorougly dried in a hot air kiln.
The spool machine is automatic, but
it can not "feed" itself. The feeding
Ls usually done by a ly; he simply
places the blocks in a spout, being
careful to take out such as are knotty or
in any way defective. One whirl of
the little block against sharp knives,
shaped by a pattern, makes the spooL
The simioIs polish themselves by be
ing rapidly revolved iu a drum. They
are made into thousauds of shapes and
sizes, and are produced at the rate of
one icr second. One factory makes
one hundred thousand gross a day.
Briefly stated, the whole explanation
of how thread is numbered is as fol
lows: When s40 yards of thread weigh
7,su grains, a pound of cotton, the
thread manufacturer marks it No. 1. If
1,s0 yards weigh a pound it is marked
No. . For number oO thread it
would take 50 multiplied by 4- to
weigh a pound. There are ,W kinds.
of thread, and each kind goes through
hundreds of different pnxvsses be fore
it is ready for use.
UapDleon's Last Official Act.
Next day Napoleon performed his
last official act, which was one of great
courage, both physical and moral. The
national guard in Paris hail been recog
nized, but its officers had never been
thoroughly loyal to the Empire, many
of them being royalists, and some radi
cal republicans. Their disaneetiot
had been heightened by recent events,
but they were nevertheless summoneI
to tha Tailleries; the risk was doubled
by the fact that they came armed.
Drawn up iu the great chamber
known as that of the marshals, they
stood expectaut, the great doors were
thrown open, aud there entered the
Empepr, accomianied only by his
consort and their child in the arms of
his governess, Mme. de Montesquieu.
Napoleon announced simply that be
was about to put himselt at the bead of
his army, hoping, by the aid of Gol
and the valor of his troop, to drive
the enemy b?yond the frontiers. There
was silence. Then, taking in one
band that of the Empress and leading
forward his child by the otlvr, he con
tinued: "I intrust the Empress and the King
of Borne to thee-.mrage of the national
guard." Still silence. After a moimut
with suppressed emotion, he concluded
"My wife and my sou."
No generous-hearted Frenchman
could withstand such an appeal; break
ing ranks by a sponttneous impulse,
the orfk-ers started forward in a nuc.
and shook the very walls with their
cry, "Long live the Emperor V Many
shed tears as they withdrew iu respect
ful silence, and that night, on the eve
of his departure, the Emperor receivetl
a numerously signed address from the
very men whotse loyalty be had hither
to had jtist reasou to suspect. "Life c'
Napoleon," by Professor Sloaue, in th
August Century.
No Difference.
She "It seems rather hard, dear,
that you can't afford to take me on a
wedding trip."
"But, darling, you will never know
the difference. In the little flat I have
eugaged it will be just like living in a
Pullman car." Life.
Ha Explains.
Prisoner (in New Jersey) "I'm n
burglar, your Honor. I have no bur
glar's tools "
Justice "But you were found after
night with a mask on."
Prisoner "Mosquito, your Honor.
I'm a stranger her and I had to do
something." New York World.
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