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EniTO Herald: I send yon some verses written by man who learned the printer', art in the Hebald offlre In ltSO, when More head A Witt ran the plant. I worked thirty years at the business, filled all the station from "devil" to editor and proprietor, but am now living on a uinn near Amish, la. If yon think it worth a place In your paper. It will piratic the "dd man," a I am seventy-five year old. If you print It, please send me a copy of the paper containing it. Your truly, AmiHh, Iowa. . I). K. KliAVKR. Near the Pine Grove1 -haile In the sedgy glade. That never let the sun shine through. With a bubbling gush through the sand' cool flush, . The water came boiling through; And not even the purtvt nectar. Of which inspired poeU sing, I'ld I deem could be aa sweet to me As the water In the old t'olloe Hpring. Out by the old Coffee Spring. Where the pine tree wave and swing, There's never a draught, wherever quaffed, Like one from Ihe old Coffee Spring. Ion in the grassy glade, A cool and shady place To rest from the nice, the ball and the but. Full on my eager bee I've flung myself to taste that ; And never luis anything fcinee slaked my thirst, liko the balm that burst ' Fresh from the bright old Coffee Spring. Out at the old Coffee Spring How a sip from Its depth would bring My boyhood back, 'long the well-worn track That led to the old Coffee Spring ! Half a century has passed since I quaffed last The crystal nectar from that bright bubbling spring; Yet memory runs back. In my loyhood's track, Wh.1i with Ross and iJarl, and Weed and Meg, We played mumble-ty-peg, In the glade, 'neath the shade. And drank from the old Coffee Spring. Out by the old Coffee Spring, Where the evergreens loop and clirg; To give, I were fain, all the grape of Spain For one drink from the old Coffee Spring. AX OLD, OLD STORY. "It is of no use !" said Mary, desper ately. "I can't think of a single thing to say." She sat and frowned gloomily, biting the end of her penholder. Now and then fche ran her hand distractedly through her hair. This was a trick of hen when thinking hard, aud, aa a rule, the result was more startling than pleasing. -'It i of no use ,r' she said again ; hut thin time with adiflerent inflec tion. "I mustn't sit here and give way to lazinesH like this. If I don't write a tale, we can't pay the grocer's bill ! I must and will begin, only what on earth am I to gay?" Mary's brain was fertile enough, and her busy faon generally delighted in spinning love stories and the like. In the early days of her scribbling she had been greatly laughed at by her mother and sisters, but when welcome little checks begin to come in return for bulky envelopes sent through the pust the tone of the family altered, aud Mary had for some time been re garded as a person of importance. Perhaps they overrated her powers, for they had come to the conclu.-ioii that Mary could do almost anything. Mary's head was looked upon as a bank upon which an unlimited amount of modest demands could I drawn, and the girl now and then felt a trifle over whelmed as she realized what was ex pected of her. "Oh, Mary must write a tale," her mother would aay, easily, when an ad ditional expense waa suggested. So the fancy of the moment would be in dulged in, and Mary would shut her self up in the little room she called her own. from whence in due time she would emerge tirod, but triumphant.' On this particular morning, however. she racked her brains in vain. She tried her hardest to think of some slen der framework upon which to hang the usual mild lovemaking, but the more she tried to woo "the muse," the more obstinately did the said muse re fuse to respond to her advances. I feci exactly as if a wet fcponge had been pressed over my brain," she thought, despairinglj'. "There doesn't seem a single idea left," Just then a gentle rap came at the door. "Come in," said Mary, impatiently. She never liked being interrvpted when she was trying to work, aud just now she felt more than usually cross. Her face relaxed, a little, however, when she saw her visitor. You, John ! I thought it was Jen nie. I wondered whatever she want ed now." "Poor Jennie," said the newcomer, laughing. "Poor Mary, I think," rejoined Ma ry, dolefully. "Why whatever is the matter?" ask ed John Iiedmoud, taking a seat, an evidently preparing to make himself as comfortable as circumstances per mitted. He looked very strong and capable as he smiled down upon Mary, and the girl was conscious of a distinct feeling of relief, though she hardly knew its source. "Well," said Mary, "I feel worried and bothered. You know, John, how much all our folks have got iuto the way of looking to me for help in mon ey matters?" "Yes, I know," replied John, with a rather curious inflection. "I like to do it," said Mary, quickly, "It makes me very glad and happy to da it I should not say a word about it to anybody but you, but you already know these details. You are such an intimate friend of the family, aren't you ?" A. -r.ri' inrltnnfrfk frion1 of t ll A fn m i- , j y ".;hoed the young man, gravely. AImd mother has often told you how easy i wa8 for me to earn a few pounds, hasn lt 8ie?' fl.rw nflon." answered the voune again, with the same gravity. p'ell, John," said Mary, lifting a of very earnest eyes to his, her ac- i lull oi sorrow iuu uismay. sometimes afraid I can't keep on ig It." Vhat makes you think so?" asked n, gently. I can't think of anything," said Milrv. the tears brimmine ud into her s. "l nave sai oere in is morning nearly an hour, and not a single iljea has come to me. And I didn't ESTABLISHED 1827. dare to tell mother and the girls ! my last story wa rejected. It was such a blow, for I had been counting on the money to buy Jennie's summer dress. She was rather cross when I told her she must wait awhile longer." My dear little soul !" said the young man, "you are overworked. . That is the simple explanation of the whole matter." The klnduess of his tone seemed to altogether break down Mary's compos ure, for after a luoiiicntarv struircle for calmness she dropped her head into her hands and cried heartily. John Redmond's face preseuted a curious study, so many were the emo tions that passed rapidly, over it. He made an involuntary movement tow ard the little weeping figure, but the next moment checked himself, and waited quietly until Mary herself spoke. I don't know what you will think of me I" she said, rather shamefaced ly, as she wiped her eyes. "I don't know what made me do it ! But I'm so much obliged to you for letting me have it ouL' I feel better now." "To be sure you do," said John, with a friendly and rather tender laugh. "I have always understood that a 'good cry' was a great luxury to young ladies." For pity's sake, don't call me a 'young lady V " cried Mary, with an assumption of her usually energetic manner. "I do hate that phrase." "Just as you please," returned John, easily. "What shall I call you? Nov elist? Journalist?" "Neither one nor the other," said Mary, flushing a little, a shade of her late despondency again falling upon her, "I am nothing in the world but a writer of penny love stories, and losing even the small amount of capability re quired for that." That is nonsense," exclaimed John, now seaking earnestly. "As I said before, you are overworked. You have beeu doing too much. You brain neels a rest, an 1 it ought to have one, Mary." Well it can't just at present," said Mary, shaking her head very decided ly. "There's Jennie's new dress ; and the grocer's bilL I shall know no peace until those two things are off" my mind." John was silent for a minute, but he looked troubled. "If I could just get an idea," said Mary, more hopefully, "I think I could work it out, I seemed to have used up everything I I have written about lost heirs, aud lost wills about the heiress who pretended to be ioor, and the ad venturess who pretended to be rich. I have told about the man who express ed the utmost detestation of 'the new woman,' and ended by falling madly in love with one. I have related the history of the girl who determined to have a 'career and finally gave up all for love. These things are worn out, John ! They have Itecome so feeble that I am ashamed to press the poor things int further service." John smiled. "They are far from dying, Mary ! They are full of vitality yet." Well, somebody else may have then," said Mary returning the smile, 'At least, for a while. I may be glad to fall back on them some day, but just now I should like something fresh. All sorts of queer things are oonstautly happening in real life, if I could only get to hear of them. John, haven't you an idea of any kind? Or some little thing that has come within your own experience ? Anything tnat lioids a tiny spice of romance, you know." John looked at her for a moment, and seemed inclined to speak. Then his mind apparently altered, and he shook his head. "Oh !" cried Mary, disappointedly, "that in too bad. You looked exactly as if you had an idea." "Well," said John, slowly, "a faint glimmering did seem to come to me, but I'm afraid you would think it silly." "Do tell me!" exclaimed Mary. "I shall be so grateful." "And I don't know that it is particu larly new," went on John, in thosanie doubtful way. "Well, never mind," said Mary, in a business-like way. "A great deal de pends on the treatment of the subject. Sometimes a very hackneyed theme can be made to sound quite fresh. I have noticed it in several instances. Go on, John.'' She fixed her eyes on him expectant ly, and a smile dawned in the young man's eyes as he looked at her. "Is it humorous?" asked Mary inno cently, as she saw the smile. "I don't know," answered John, re lapsing into gravity. "That entirely depends upon how you regard it. Things appeal so differently to differ ent minds, don't they?" 'They do," rejoined ifary promjjU ly. "Sometimes I hare written things which I thought were funny, but other people entirely failed to see the joke; and on the other hand, I have been laughed at for sentences which were penned iu perfect seriousness. Hut let us proceed with the subject in hand I wish you would begin, John, for the time is getting on, and I shall be mis erable unless I succeed in making a good start this morning." "There's a lot in making a good start, isn't there?" asked John, with evident anxiety. 'Oh ! a great deal," said Mary. "It is often the most difficult thing possi ble to start. Once fairly begun the work Is comparatively easy, because one thing seems to lead to another." "I see," replied John, reflectively, "Do go on !" said Mary, impatiently, at last. "Well, the fact is, Mary, I" with considerable emphasis on the pronoun "find a difficulty in starting. I think I could go on, if the subject were only begun." "Let me help you out," said Mary, with an air of resignation. "There is a girl in it, I suppose?" "Ob, yes," returned John, very de cidedly. "There is a girl in it; and an uncommonly nice girl, too." "Good gracious !" said Mary. "It Is all easy enough. Describe to me her appearance, character and surround ings. Tell me wbat she did, and how she did it Theit explain where the man comes in for there is a man in it, I suppose?" 'Oh, yes," said John, as decidedly as before. "There is a man in it." "Well, what about him?'' aked Mary. "Dear me, John ! I might as well in vent a thing myself, aud have done with it, if you can't tell me straight oft." "I'll tell your said John, with the air of a man determined to make the plunge. "Only Mary promise me oue thing. Don't laugh at my story." "Can't I laugh if it is fuuny?" re- oined Mary. "U isu't," said Jolin. "Well, not exactly. Kr in fact, I don't know how it will strike you, I meant, don't laugh at my clumsy way of telling iL" "Of course not," replied Mary kind ly. "And I'm sure I'm much obliged to you, John, for taking ail the trouble.' Well," began John, "this girl the girl I am thinking of, you know liv-1 ed at home with her mother and sisters. The father had died some years before, leaving just enough money to supply their hare wants, aud uo more." "I quite understand," said Mary, in a tone which had a good deal of "fellow feeling" in iL "So, of course," wentou John, "life was more or less ot a struggle wiin them. But, happily, one of the girls this sjiecial girl 1 begau to talk about developed quite a talent for for " "For what?" said Mary rather sharp ly- "tor painting," returned John quick ly. "She used to paint quite lovely little things, and sell them to the shops." 'Yes," said Mary, "But when does the romance begin, John ?" "I am coming to that," replied John. "Give me time, Mary." "Oh, of course," saiil Mary amiably. So after a brief pause, John went on again : "lears before, when these girls were quite little, their father had shown a great kindness to an almost friendless bov." Mary started, and a faint color crept nto her cheeks ; but John took no heed and his voice became firmer and clearer. To the action of that gtod man the boy owed whatever success cume to him in after life. He never forgot this, and he often wondered how he could best repay the debt he owed. Johu paused, but Mary did notseak. "And as the time went on lie found the debt increased rather than dimiu- i.ihed. For though his first lienefuetor had passed away, he had left kindly hearts behind him. And as the boy grew into manhood he prized more and more the welcome he ever received from those good women, and felt that in the whole world there was no spot so dear to him as the one they called home." Again John paused, but Mary made no ellort to break the silence. "He loved tliem all," said John, but" here anew tenderness crept in to his voice "he learned at last that for one of them he had the love which a man only gives to one woman in the world. She was not, I think, quite understood by her mother and sifters, much as they cared for her. She had a talent which she was glad to turn to useful account, but the others hardly realized that the task which was gen erally a pleasure, might at times lie pome very hard and wearisome. They thought it was play for her to sit down and paint, tj.) sometimes her heart failed her a little," Mary's face was very white now, but the color rushed suddenly back into it as Joint gently took her hand into his own. "This young man loved her, Mary- loved her more dearly than I can quite tell you. But he waited a long time before he dared to speak to her. He knew how much depended upon her in the home, and he felt he had uo right to take her away until his position would enable him to ofTer comfort to her aud those dear to her. It often seemed a weary while, and his heart often ached. But the time came at last. The time when he felt he was free to sneaky" He paused, and for a few minutes there was between them a deep silence, Then his hand clasped hers more fer vently, and he said: "Mary !" As if Irresistibly compelled, she look ed into his eyes. And iu that moment a full knowledge of what she had never before even guessed swept over her. She knew the s wet test of all earthly things that she loved, and was be loved. "You were quite right dearest," said John awhile later. "The dilliculty lies in making a start. Everything comes easily afterward." "The story is very hackueyed," whis pered Mary. "Bu, oh, John ! ' with a half mischievous, wholly tender look "isn't it wonderful how auything so old can be so interesting?" Household Words. A I,azy White an, The western Indians, although not fond of work, do not approve of indit. lent white men. The "heap good white man," in their estimation, is the white man who works hard ; and to Mt by and watch him as he toils seems to afford them never-falling pleasure. Some young "warriors" of the Black foot tribe sat in the shade one day watching a group of laborers w ho were constructing a grade for a branch rail road in Montana. They were com menting upon the workmen and their work, when a bicyclist, the first they had ever seen, came riding along the newly completed grade. The Indians watched the wheelman without a word until he passed beyond a knoll that hid. him from view. Then they expressed their sentiments con cerning him. "No good white man," one re marked. "No," answered another, with great scorn, "heap lazy white man sits down to walk." Youth's Companion. To Oiler a Reward of 109 Dollars for a case of catarrh that can not be cured, amounts to nothing except to sell the article. Do you know of any such reward being paid? Ely Bros, do not promise rewards in order to sell their well-known "Cream Balm." They orTer the most effective niedi canta prepared in convenient form to use, which is absolutely free from mer curials or other harmful drugs. era The True Cause for the Decline in Prices. Mr. David A. Wells, iu a late ex haustive article, after showing how preHistenHis are the arguments at tributing the extraordinary decline in prices of commodities to the apprecia tion of gold, has this to suy about the real cause: But if the opinions popularly enter tained respecting the universal decline in prices are not warranted, the ques tion next naturally arises. What has been the true cause? All who thorough ly and without prejudice studied the subject are agreed that it is to lie found in the following facts: That man with in the last thirty or forty years has at tained such a greater control over the forces of Nature, and has so compassed their use, that he has beeu able to dt far more work in a given time and produce far more product, uu-asurcd by quantity iu ratio to a given amount of lulxr, than ever before. How great luis been the average increase or sav ing in the world's work of production or distribution can not, erhaps be ac curately stated. But few investigators place it at less than forty per cent, and in some great branches of inddstry it has certainly amounted to "0 or W) per cent Taking a majority of other than hand-made commodities iuto consider ation, the saving of labor within the last thirty years has probably been equal to at least 40 ier ceut in produc ing any given article. We have here, therefore, a natural, sufficient and hoii-diputable cause of the remarkable decline in prices under consideration, and also for the continuance of such decline; for prices are still falling, and the only arguable and probable rea son why the decline exjierienced has not leeii greater is, that decreased cost has occasioned increased demand and consumption, which to a considerable extent has antagonized the natural ndency to decline. This decline in prices admits of many example of complete demon stration and illustration in resiect to cause; namely, increased production by reason of approved methods, or new conditions, which have resulted iu decreased cost, a supply in excess of current market demand, and contin uous decline in market prices. Iu otlier words, the price of any commod ity is fixed simply and solely by the proportions of such articles as are pro duced and consumed, and prices can not be, and are not fixed in any other wav. Take, first, the market decline in the price of wheat, which typifies more than any other one product the griev ance of the American farmer. The cause of this decline is the indisputable fact that more wheat has lieen, and is still produced not perhaps more than the world wants, but more than it is willing to buy. The average annual wheat crop of the United States in the four years l'i'-7:!, was itt.lsT.OOi) bushels. Since WK) the average crop has been aliout 570,OiJ,(XKl In 1S7.J there was practically no wheat export ed from (ndia, Iu India export ed ."t;,M,0U0bushfcla. In l"is3 the Argen tine States of South America were uot nani -d as a factor to the smallest ex tent In the world's wheat supply. To day they are among Its greatest sources of supply, and of their surplus product exported in H'4 tSO.OOO.O'M bushels. A few years ago there were but few reap ers aud harvesters for wheat in Russia, aud hardly a grain elevator in connec tion with storage and delivery build ings. To-day llussia is rapidly intro ducing improved agricultural machin ery, with the result that its annual wheat product has increased from 10S, Vt'i.OiW bushels iu to :J00,000,XW in ls'.4. There has also been a very marked increase in recent years in the wheat crops of Austro-Hungary and of Spain. It is impossible, therefore, to resist the conclusion that the produc tion of wheat iu the world has leen in creasing much faster than the necessi ties of the world's wheat-eaters, and that the increased prlui;tiuu has been in the countries where wheat Is pro duced at the least cost. In addition to these conditions, we have now the an nouncement that the surplus of agri cultural products in Australia avail able for export, is in excess of the demands of the people of the United Kingdom for consumption. The increase in the average of the annual cotton crop in the United States iu the years from lS71-2 to lShlW W was more than 100 per cent, while the increase iu the population of the country during the same period was about y er cent. During' the same jxriod it is certain that the world's consumption of cotton did not keep tip with its production. The legiti mate sequel of this has been that iuiV- land cotton that sold in lv for ll.o cents ier pound sells now (August, sn for 7 ceuta. A UMYEUSAL niX I-INE. Similar illustrations of what has hap pened to the world's products might be multiplied to almost any extent; but space will admit of but few additional citations. In IVkS the metal alumi num sold for per pound. Its pres ent market value is less than 50 cents. Copper kettles which sold in lsikO for $2.")0 can now be bought for 7 cents, and this homely example illustrates the great decline which has taken place In the price of copper since 1SS0, i. e., from 2" cents to 10 and 11 cents in iStHi, which has been mainly due to the extraordinary productivene- of American mines aud new methods of mining and smelting. Pig iron sold for $-"s) per ton iu 1S73. The same grade can now le bought for $11. Be tween 1S73 and 1S92 the increase in the production in pig iron in the United States was 342 ier eeuL llecognized authorities state that since 1S'.0 the world's wool clip has increased 135 per cent Careful analysis has shown that the decrease in recent years of the four great raw materials of the world's in dustries iron, wheat, cotton and wool in consequence of over-supply of each of them in excess of current de mand, has materially affected the mar ket price of products (in the way of de cliue) whose average annual value is not less than 2,000,000,000 of gold dol lars. Again, the price of money, repre senting capital, has continually declin- country to consume your crops. You Id. VHOLE NO. 2355. e l since 1S71 in all gold standard coun tries, in almost as great a degree as ag ricultural or manufactured products. and to the great detriment of a large numlier of good people who own small capital invested in securities. besides carrying ou some busi ness or profession, and on the combin ed incomes from which they depend for a living. In 1H77 an investment of $10,000 could is? relied uiion for an annual in come of Ttwlay the same amount of money, in vested with equal secur ity, can not be made to yield more than f 400 per annum. Aud for this result which may lie fairly regarded iu the light of a depreciation of all prop erty, the conceded increase in the amount of the world's capital seeking investment is clearly accountable. Iu contravention of this conclusion, it is asserted that "money can uot com mand as big interest as formerly, as borrower) are too poor in collateral to bid for it." But the fact is, that the rates of interest are lowest in those countries like England aud France where good collaterals are most abun dant. Land unquestionably in recent years has also declined in value, due in certain and correct sense to over-pro- luetioii. The fixed acreage of the United States has not increased; but the tillable acreage has beeu enormous ly enlargoL Every railroad ttiat has beeu built at the West has brought millions of acres in con.ctitioii w ith the lauds of the older States and of other countries. It is the competitive supply of cereals and animal products of the American farmer that has low. ered the price of land and nearly starv ed the English agriculturist. HOW PRACTICAL ISUSIXKrM MUX REA SOX AlKiCT TIIK Ml CATION". It is most interesting and instructive in this connection to note how bust uess men generally throughout the world, though not given to much read ing of economic or fiscal treatises, have instinctively, as it were, recognized the axiom that the price of auy article or commodity is 'fixed simply and sole ly by the quantity proportions of such articles produced and consumed. Or, in other words by supply and demand; and have endeavored to regulate their material interests in accordance with it. Of recent illustrations of this, the following are most instructive. The business of manufacturing whis ky in the United States has for some time jvast beeu in a deplorable condi tion; and the average of its market price, exclusive of taxes, has been re norUrd as below the cost of production. There is no dilll-rence of opinion on the part of tlie distillers that the sole cause of this state of things is an over production of whi-ky; and that there can lie no jmssible improvement in their liu.-iues until the present sur plus stock, amounting to many mill ions (d gallons in the United States bonded warehouses, has parsed Into consumptiou, which will require a leriod of many months. Under such circumstances what have the Ameri can distillers decided to do? To obtain relief from some radical change in the coinage and use of silver? The idea does not seem to have been even so much as thought of; but all are of one mind, that it was expedient to entire ly suspend distilling for a lengthened period at least eighteen months; and it was claimed that unless this was done the present low market price of existing stocks would continue to de preciate. And in accordance with this view of the situatiou nearly all the large distillers in the United States have suspended operations. In like manner the cotton manufac turers of the United States, recogniz ing that an accumulation of many millions of unsold yards of their fab rics was depressing the market jjiiie of the same below the co-t of production, have, within a retvnt period, largely suspended tlivir production. lUc.ycU's can 1 bought for about one-half the price that was charged for them a year ago. Can anybody doubt that such a result has lieen due to a glutted market? Does anybody think that former prices can le restored by increasing our currency? Ask an Indian or Chinese merchant if the great decline which has taken place in recent years in the price of opium has been occasioned by any change iu the money with which it is bought aud sold; and, if his natural politeness did not prevent, he would laugh in your face and tell you that U was due to the circumstance that the Chinese had gone iuto business and were producing nearly all the opium they required for themselves. The American wheat-grower may as well recognize first as bust that the prices of wheat will not advance any where iu the world unless there is sub stantially a coiuplet failure in th crop of one or more of the great wheat producing countries. To represent to him that he is likely to obtain an in creased price for his wheat by any change iu the currency of his country is simply speculative nonsense. Sena tor Stewart hit it exactly when he told the American farmers iu 1S7I: "Your wheat will le measured by the same standard gold in Illinois as it is in Liverpool, and any man cau figure it. It is idle to talk about compromising on any other measure of value; the world will not accept it." If he pro duces, as he does, an amount in excess of domestic consumption, the surplus 'must be sold abroad, or not sold at alL If not sold out of the country and al lowed to remain at home, the producer of wheat will be smothered, as it were, in his own grease. The use of a debas ed currency as a medium of domestic exchange may augment the nominal price of wheat in the United States, but uot the price for which its producer sells his surplus abroad, which fixes the prices for the whole crop. If he imagines for one moment that he is going to be richer for thus marking up iu domestic price, he will be in the same box as the Scotch storekeeper who made himself wealthy by adding up the year of Our Lord in his tU mates of annual profit. Dp. Fowler's FL of Wild Straw berry has been used for forty years and lias never yet failed to cure a case of diarrhoea, dysentery, or summer com plaint in any of its various forms. Bryan aa a Tariff Raider. The record of the Hon. William J. Bryan as a tar in raider is like his record in some other matters, short and aekiug in wisdom. Mr. Bryan first appeared in Congress in iK-cetuber, ls'.il, aud in March of the following year he took on his coat, turned up his sleeves, and proceeded to demolish the tariff. He doubted or denied by Infer ence that there Is any difference In the cost of production between a free silver country where lahor 1 10 cents per day and the United State where labor Is $2 per day. The tariff, he de clared, brought the farmer nothing anyhow, but subsequently admitted that it was Immaterial to him (Mr. Riyan) whether it did or not. The tariff on wool, he contended, might as well go first as last, and he failed to explain why the farmers' product should be put upon the free list aud other commodities left dutiable. He trotted out ax new and original thut threadbare commonplace to the effect that the only purpose of a protective tariff was to transfer money from oue man's pocket to another man's jcket. He ignored the public benefits to the community which have resulted from the building up of our great inihistria fabric, and took the untenable ground that customs duties, levied for reveuue, to build up the Nation, diversify it- industries, and for the general welfare of the people, were taxes for private pur loses. Nor was that all. He took the ground that free wool, though destroying the sheep industry, would increase the manufacture of woolen good in this country, which it has not, and he stub bornly refused to believe that we can manufacture tinplates in the United States, although we now make over one-third of the home consumption. His every utterance upon the taritr is at variance with history, statistics, and the experience not only of the United States, but of every other civilized na tion. Cleveland World. There is Nothing so Goad- There is nothing just as good as Dr. King's New Discovery for consump tion, coughs and colds, so demand it and do uot permit the dealer to sell you some substitute. He will not claim there is anything better, but in order to make more profit he may claim something else to be just as good. You want Dr. King's New Discovery because you know it to be safe and re liable, and guaranteed to do good or money refundoL For coughs, colds, consumption and for all affections of throat, chest and lung, there is noth ing so good as is Dr. King's New Dis covery. Trial bottles free at J. N. Sny der's drug store, Somerset, or at Brali ier's drug store, Berlin. She Succeeded- "There are more ways than one ta make a living," said a. demure little woman, with flashing brown eyes, to a reporter. "I know a woman who was left penniless in New York. She was. riding on the elevated railroad oue day. when she was struck with the same ness of the advertisements that are posted up in the cars. She thought that she could write gxid advertise ments, and she thought out a lot of little four-liue rhymes for a ertain ar ticle. She submitted litem to the ad vertising manager of that firm, and they were accejiteL and now she w making a lot of money every year with her verses extolling various wares." ' "Pshaw f said the blonde, who sat next to the demure little woman- "I know of a case right here in Butfaiu that discounts that.'' i uon t ueiieve it, saiu tue ueiuunrr little woman. "Well, I do, and I'll tell you about it to prove it. A friend of mine who had lieen doing some newspaper work: got the craze for writing advertise-nient-, and she went around to a lot of stores, only to find that they were well supplied with people to look after that branch of their business. She did find one firm that was willing to let her try her hand, and site began work. In icsst tlian a year she was comfortably off for the rest of her life." "Did she invent some new style of writing or something of the kind?'' asked the demure little woman, "No," replied the blonde, "but she married tht senior partner. " Buffalo Express. Sent it to His Mother in Genaxny. Mr. Jacob Es!?nsen, who te in the employ of the Chicago LiWoer Co., at Des Moiues, Iowa, says; UI have just sent some medicine hatk to my mother in the old country, that I know from personal use to be the best medicine in the world for rheumatism, having used it in my family for several years. It is called Chamberlain's Pai Balm. It always does the work." 50 cent bottles for sale by Be uford's Pharmacy. Cars of Eamlock Forests. It has rten been remarked by ex perienced woodmeu that lu-udtx-k trees, mixed with a pine growth, die when the pine Is cut otrand the hemlock al lowed to stand. This is accounted for partly by the udden exposure of tree which have stood years in the shade under the protection of the taller growth of pine, and partly by the drying out of the roots. The hemlock has a shal low root system, and suffers severely when the soil is dried by exposure to the sun aud wind. The same facts explain part of the injury which could be avoided under forest management. It has lieen supposed there is a kind of affinity between pine and hemlock by which one needs the companionship of the other in order to attain a full growth and maturity ; but theexplauntiou here given seems to do away with that idea as a pleasant fiction. It seems that hemlock, iu the instance referred U needs the protection of other dense forest growths in order to conserve tha moisture of the roots. Buckle n's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt IUieum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or m pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at J. N. Snyder's drug store, Somerset, Pa., or at Brallier's drug store Berlin, Pa. What is Sail About Women. Woman's sympathies give a tone, lit the harp of Aeolus to the slightest breath-Donald O. MitchelL Among all animals, from man to th dog, the heart of a mother Is always a sublime thing. Alexander Dumas, pere. The girl who wakes the poet's sigh L a very different creature from the girl who makes hU soup. Frederic Sheldon. 1 , , 3: U"
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