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CT Tor rofmnatVia an ft-" Handbuok wnte ta JdLNJI CO- a Ba04iWAT. Mw oac. Oldrnt boreaa eeiinu paurnu tnAmrrH LUabtf aauuc c1tb in or ckarc la V tarcet dro1rln ef bt rrmUf.e pafer fa Ma bould ba without It WeeklT.j63.OOa vmt: aijuilxaiontht. AtdTa KlSi iMm Vuiuaasaa. S 1 iteuadwar, Kw Vur CltJ. IXFOBTAKT TO ADTIRTISSK8. Th cream of th country ppera ia foani ta Eenunfton'a Courty Seat lists. Shrewd drertiflen avail tbeawelTta of tbwa liata, ft copy of which can be had of Eaaiagtom Brei;)f 2ew York ft Pitttburg. lrs.AI.Uhl. l Scientific American k Aflency fA Ji jEJ THaoe marks DESICM PATEMTSt SS COPYRICHTS, tJ omer SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEIMBER 23. 1890. THEIR BAPTISM OF FIRE. Sensation of Tighter in Their Firs Battles. With novel ista who plume themselves on their realism a favorite subject of study latterly has been the feeling ami conduct of mildiers under fire. Patient, psychologic dissections of the soldier iu battle, at which the enthralled read er catches his breath and sighs, "llow t rue !" have made the fortune of more than one work of fiction. With such studies in mind, it may be interesting to read what a few actual soldiers, at random, have to say regarding their feelings in coining under fire. General U. S. Grant said that the in stant he heard the first hostile guu, when down in Mexico with Taylor as a sub-lieutenant, he felt sorry he ever enlisted. Shortly afterward he bor rowed a horse and rode into the thick of the fight against orders. From the frank admissions of a gallant company of veterans of the civil war, who have followed the example of their great commander, aud given np their Inmost secrets to the interviewer, the readers of this story will infer that Grant's ex perience In getting broken in are shared bv all men who have the stuff to make staving soldiers. Fitz John Porter was under Taylor also. He said : "Iu every case wheu shot passed by I always controlled my self so as not to permit the men to see that I was disturbed. My first expe rience was down with Taylor, and 1 recall a case i" point- Colonel Childs had a new regiment formed in square at Uesaca de la I 'alma, and when the Mexicans opened fire upon it the men lieirati to dodge. Colonel Childs told them to stop it, as it was unsoldierly to dodge. Taylor sat by on his horse, ducking, right and leR at every bulleL Said he to Childs: 'Dou't-stop-the men-Colonel. Ix't them-dodge-if-they- waut-to. It's-tierfectly-uatural-you know " Lee's old warhorse," Lieutenant General LongUvet, received his lap- tism under Taylor at the same time, He says that the first und of distant firing caused him to brat for tlie or deal. I5ut there was a lull before he us brought into action, and iu order to keep his thoughts from wandering, he took fron his breast pocket a picture ..t tin. inrl be had left behind. The calm, frank face looking into his di pel led all thought of danger, and he went aliMd like the niau he aspired to be. Inouirie. directed to the Green Mountain boy, who made a gallant iw-nr.1 h flcliu r. brouicht forth some responses which go to the root of this whole ouestion of liatUefti-W courage. General Lewis A. Grant, coomiander of the First Vermont brigade. MM of the fighting commands of the Army of the Potomac, said : "It is somewhat difficult to give my first experience under fire,' as I came to it somcwJiat gradually, and became a little used to it before being thrown into a severe eiigaceiuent. And my feelings were not the siuueon 1) occa sions. I dislike! very much Ut no iuto an engtigement, and feared the result, not ouly to myself, but tony comuiaul and the cause. Generally the first ex perience of a battle was that of trepi- oidation, but my natural pride aui feeling of responsibility and a knowl edge of jU effect upon the men over came it. lint it sometimes took all the aelf-control at oiy command to apjiear oa In i ami al. But this feeling of r..i.Llutioii never lasted lone. It never extended through a batU.". Governor frban A. Wotdbury, whose mute badge of courage is an empty sleeve, recalled ms nrsi exper rience under fire without liimeultj-, If it was then lie kt his right atol iSaid he: "As I emerged from the woods on the ot u field at the first lattle of Bull Bun, the enemy discovered us and commenced firing upon us with solid shot and shell. If I were to analyze iiiv own feelings I should say I felt a great sense of dangor, but not much fright. I had no idea of doing any thing else than to march straight ahead toward the enemy, which I was d ling al doutile quick when I received the wound alikh caused the loss of my arm. I realied perfectly well what was going on about me, the troops who were going off, and wb,ere the enemy were posted." General Theodore 8. Peck, a Green Mountain soldier, who lias a varan experience, and was one til oiiiiuia" nmwiv first came under fire in a cav alrv charge and skirmish. "We were so excited and interested in chusing the tnt iny," said he, "that there was not much fear about it. The next time under fire I was thoroughly friiM.iu at the commencement, but i,.t-,r,,n friiiL-mnoeared. and the su- "v ' . premc thought of whipping the enemy tv.k ivsHesjiiou. I think I never was in a battle but that I wan afraid, and in m si of the engageuienU it lasted throughout the eutire time wheu under fire. While this physical fear was upon me I had no desire to leave the field, but otherwise to whip the other side. I am confident that I had my wiU about me during all these trying times, and was cool enough to attend to busi- ne." General V. W. Henry, oiairl oftlifi T-nth Vermont, received his baptism of fire at Bull Run, with General Wood bury. His chief thought and anxiety were to get ft sight of the enemy. A chance view of some wounded men be fore going in shook his courage some what He saw a shell burst aud carry away the arm of his friend and com- rnilo Woodburv. "This caused me to think that war was a serious matter,' said he, "but stiil I kept on, as well as I could, bound too see the enemy, and when under musketry fire my courage returned." Vermont sent out a band of her Green Mountain boya on horseback, the First Vermont cavalry, one of the elite fight ing regiments of that arm of service. Colonel Myron M. Porter, now of Washington, wrote thus of his sins of omission aud commission ; "You ask for a description of my first experience under fire. I was reaUy too tadly scared to remember Just how I did feet I remember distinctly, set ESTABLISHED 1827. though, that I wished myself in any other place than that particular fight. A sickening, all-gone-weak-kneedf homesick feeling; a feeling which sud denly passed away, however, when the order to cliarge or fire came. After that the feeliug was one of excitement aud anxiety as to the result. Dying in a charge is sublime ; being killed before the charge is disappointing aud seem ingly inglorious. My experience taught me that fear always preceded the act ual fight. It is annoying to be struck when you cannot strike back. This is the way I used to .eel when I was a boy soldier. Now I expect I would be badly scared under all circumstances and conditions. Since tlie war I have heard a number of soldiers say that they never felt U tter than when they were under fire or in battle. Such a man writes himself dowu an ass, and, if he ever was under fire, it is safe to assume that he was a coward. Iu the old town of Plattaburg, sur rounded by classic memorials of com bat and separated by the waters of Champlain from his ancestral heath, yet within sight of its emerald hills, was found another Green Moun tain warrior. General Stephen Mortit of the Ninety-sixth New ork volunteers. General Mofrlt's badge of courage is not any empty sieeve. a pair of well worn crutches and an empty trouser leg turned back nearly to the hip joint are his souvenirs of the conflict. Like General Longstrect aud many others, whom it would be mere ly a repetition to quote, General Moflit found that the best way to avoid show ing off as a coward is to have some thing to do, no matter how trilling. I e said : "You ask me to give you my first ex- s . i i perience under nre, u scareu, uo much, etc. "I had my first experience under fire near Franklin, Va. We had just en tered heavy timber after a march of twenty miles from Suffolk. The Con federates opened upon us from a four gun battery. The tire was hot, but in effectual; although the shells flew thick aud fast, most of them passed over us. At the first note of the music of the flying missiles nature asserted herself, and her first law was very much in evidence. Ye, I was frightened, thor oughly frightened. At once I appre ciated the fact that I was trembling, body and limb, aud fearing that my men would notice my trepidation, I opened my haversack and took from it niece of hardtack and started in to munch it Hardtack was never hard er and dryer, aud how I got It dowu and finally digested it under the cir cumstances, the Lord ouly knows. "Did the fear pass off? Not until the lt u-hizzinir shell hatf passed over my head. "I had a like exterienee in every en gagement, with but two exceptions." Imagination has much to do and per haps is wholly responsible in cases of uncontrollable battle fright. Major Or lando J. Smith of the Fourth Indiana cavalry told of an instance of fright ex- in-rieneed beyond the reach of hullets. His regiment moved to Ball's lilutl tne day after the battle, the men knowing the story of the slaughter. At the crossing of the Potomac they saw dead and wounded victims of the field, one particularly harrowing sight, a corpse rolled in a blanket and slung to a pole. Two men bore the pole on their should ers with the ghastly burden swaying at every step. Mounting the bluff, the raw Indiana soldiers were stationed under the crest, with their backs to the river, a second slaughter pen should the enemy attack. Distant firing could be heard, and the men were "scared witn ith the fear of being scared," as the Major expressed it. On coming under nctunl lire he experienced no fright equal to the one due to imagination Past-Commander iienry it. -uams of Lafayette pot, New York, respond ed for the west, as a representative oi one of Ohio's fighting regiruenU, the Oue Hundjed aud Twenty-fifth, known as the "Opdycke Tigers." Mr. Adams served a orderly captain of scouts, and staff officer "You auk for my experience when I was nrsi unuer lire, x iu j " my ideals and recollections of Napoleon .. . , .i w :il ...... and Mur.it were vivid, and it seemed as if we were to be glorified and not hurt. and it was not until warned by a show erof shot and shell that I sjeedily sought shelter. This occu rred at cross ing Little Harpeth river, in Tennessee, when our brigade drove out an Horn . ... r. - i : I . . 1 in ISO, out 11 was alter uaviug nii'i nu "v " '. .. , I ... - the fear of onO-Ting into an engage meut. "My second experience will please vou. I was marRer at tue neau i uie division, which was marching gallant lv. W'e approached Chattanooga and suddenly we ran upon an ambuscade, where the enemy was massed, aud a 1 , .. ...i : .1. r! -u. 1 volley was oeiivereu mcu insnu-u me out ot my ns, and I suddenly fouud mvself crouching behiud my horse in the road, in full view of my command, playing the coward. "However, in a moment, recovering from this dreadful situation, I mount ed my horse, but wished I were at home, and I felt that I would sacrifice every patriotic sentiment I ever euter taiued if I could only be out of that scrape. However, what seemed to be a month was but probably only one minute, when General Ilarkcr gave me orders to retire from the exposed posi tion," The soldier is stimulated by the uni form of bis calling, tle sense of tne power of the armament of which he is part, and bis elbow touch with men he hopes are braver than himself. It Is possible to be caught in a position where a show of cowardice would end uncomfortably for other reasons than disgrace and shame. A new western story teller, Walter Juan Davis, the hero of the encounter with the savage Geronimo, was asked how it felt to lie pounced upon by a baud of Apaches. Davis was a United States surveyor in the southwest New Mexico when Geronimo left the Mexi can sierras and ravaged the border settlements In 1S86. He was armed, as were his Mexican helpers, but none of the party bad been under fire. Mr. Davis tells his own story ; "We bad run something more than a half mile, in our forlorn effort to escape the fiends that were bearing dowu ujHin us, and now, dead fagged, we stopped at the crest of a little knoll to fight na we might and die as we had to. It would be silly for me to say that I was not frightened, for I was iu a tierfect chill of fear, which became almost rank panic when a bullet, from the first fire of the Apaches, sang its peculiar, blood-hunting song within six inches of my car. " 'Oh, God, to die like this iu this far away plain,' I said myself, as the cold wave swept over my flesh aud brought out the 'goose pimples.' The next instant I was as hot as a stove. The infernal, bloody beasts of hell V I shouted, aud in another tone aud another mood, 'We'll get a few, no matter what they do to us.' And as I pulled up my carbine and blazed away at the ou-swoopiug line of devils, I glanced about me and found that all my little party were with me, should er to shoulder, and the glimpse of their dusty faces and set, hard looks showed me th:it they, too, had passed from fright to fury." "General Nelson A. Miles' answer to the question was as follows : 'Concerning the effect of being under fire for the first time, I can say that the first battle scene was inspiring and exhilarating, and I d not remember that it produced the least trepidation- nothing like as much as the ellect af terward iu some more sanguinary en gagements, when we had learned to realize the serious effect of the enemy s fire." General Sickles said : "Before the ball opened I felt shaky, but soon re covered and had too much to do to think about danger. I was a colonel at that time. The higher the rank the more resiainsibility, and the man in the line with little to do except to wait for the enemy to shoot at him is in the most trying position of all." Diflercnce in details with agreement ... . . " 11 . in essentials is true oi oaiuenciu emo tions. These fresh talks of war-worn heroes bear out that statement. Some men would have dodged on all occa sions but for the fact that arrant cow ards didn't allow occasions to repeat hemselves. They went home or to Canada. All men dodged on some oc casions, aud in so doing saved their fighting vim for the hour when it would tell. Slierman hit the rule that obtained throughout the army, when schooling Cameron's Highlanders un der their "baptism of lire' his owu, as well at Bull Kun. When bullets and shells began to tly the Highland ers very naturally ducked their heads. Sherman told them to keep Cool, as there was no use in dodging, for when ever the sound of a bullet 'or s'aeil could 1 heard the danger from it was over. Uesides, it man i kkik wen m soldiers. The words had barely left his lios when an immense shell came with its murderous "ka-swish ! ka- swish T a few feet above his head, Down went Tecuniseh until he lay prostrate along his horse's shoulders and neck, aud wheu he arose again it was with a very red face, softened by a smile. Very much amused that a preacher should be so weak in practice, the kilted Highlanders let the general know it, and "Uncle Billy" let him self down easily by saying : Well boys, you may dodge the big ones." New York Sun. Long Distance Journalism. The Long Distance Electric Typo- grapli company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $130,00). JotepU J. Reifgraber is the inventor. The electric typograph system is de signed to enable a newspaper editor to do not only his own work of writing, but that also of the telegraph operator and typesetters, while the performance of all their duties is facilitated, the editor is to "pouud out" a "story" on a 'tvnewriterlike machine which is alectrioally connected with a telegraph J l wiresystetn. His "story" will be au tomatically reproduced iu every new paper oill ie in the country connected with his wire and furnished with the instruments which compose the electric typograph system. This reproduction is to consist not onlv of the typewritten copy, but also of the type which is to print it By ni ?ans of a synchronizer the same keys that are tapped ia St. Louis would lie pressed on the corresponding typograph in Chicago. The typewritten copy or "proof would evolve at the same time that a sheet of paper containing perfor ations representing the different letters slim forth. This ierforated sheet is then passed into an attachment whiidi will be sub stituted for the linotype keyboard, and, much as a music box is operated, the perforations will work the tyjiesetting machine. The perforated slip par takes of the nature of a paper matrix Mr. Reifgraber says no new princi ple is involved in his invention, which was patented alwut a month ago. "It is merely a new application of old principles," he says. St Louis-Glolte- Denioe rat. The Power of Flattery. Two unemployed Thespians met on Sixth avenue the other morning. Neither had breakfasted, and neither had any idea whence "the price of a breakfast was tq pome. Tbp two men entered a restaurant however, and took seats opposite the cashier's desk. The pashier was a tall, Borawny, ordiuaty sort of a young woman. "By Jove 1" suddenly exclaimed one of the Impecunious Thespians, "what a striking rescmbluuce that young lady cashier bears to Mary Anderson." "Yes." his friend replied, doubtful ly. The meal finished, the man who bad flattered the cashier picked up the check and approached the cashier's desk. Putting his hand iu his pocket, he withdrew it with an expression of horror on his face. "I've left my purse at home. What shall I do?" he said. "Never mind," replied the cashier, sweetly. "You can pay just as well to morrow morning." "Diplomacy," his friend ejaculated, as the two men left the restaurant New York Times. era Worse Than Indians. "So you were a pioneer in the early days of the West?" "I was," answered the graybcard. "You lived among the hostile In dians?" "Yes." "Lived with a rille in your hands and in hourly expectation of being the mark for a hidden enemy's bullet?" "It was something like that." "I you know, I often think that a life like that must be terrible. I should think the mere strain on the nerves would kill a man in a short time holding your life in your liand all the time, always conscious that a moment's relaxation of vigilance may mean death." "Oh, I don't kuow," replied the graylieard. "When I came back from the West I was iW years old aud did not have a gray hair. I got off the railroad train and started to walk . . T aero the streef. Jiaii way oven heard the diugedest clanging and yell ing right at my heels I ever heard and somebody gave me a push that sent me clear to the curb. Then, when I looked around, I saw I'd come within aud ace of being ruu over by a trolley. Never had so narrow escape from In dians. "I weut iuto a saloon close by to get a drink and settle my nerves. While I was standing at the bar a couple of fellows trot into a scrap ami one of them threw a heavy iieer mug. Didn't hit the other fellow, but it came within a sixteeniu oi an men oi my rigni temple. "I started to walk up towu and the first crossing I came to a policeman grabbed me by the shoulder and jerked me across so quick it made my head swim. I looked to see what was the mutter, for there were no car tracks on the street, and I saw I had just escaped being run down by a hackman hurry- ng to catch a train. "Up-street a little further, somebody yelled: 'Look out T at me, and when 1 iumped. a biir icicle fell and struck where I had lceii stauding. "I got to my hotel aud was heading for the door when somebody grabled me and asked me if I wanted to be killed. They were hoisting a safe into a tecond-story window over where I d lieeu trying to go aud I hadn t more than get out of the way before a rope broke and it dropped. 'I went to led aud aliout midnight I was calied up by a bell ringing over my head and found the place was on fire, and I had to slide down a rope to escaiie. IJcing a sounu sieeper, inej i w i i l. . ..VI had hard work to wake me, and I had hiirelv touched the cround wheu the roof fell iu. "Wheu I looked iu the glass I saw the first streaks of gray that had ever showed themselves in my hair. Oh, there's dangers in civilized life as well as out on the plains !" Buffalo Ex press. She Didn't Like smoke. On a third avenue car this morning au inoffensive voung man sat on the ha k cat and Miffed at a vicar of the El Cablmge brand. At G rand street a little, wiry, nervous woman boarded the car. She paid her fare in pennies and then turned upon the young man. "You are no gentleman," she said. "I ain't a lady, either," said the young man cheerfully. "I only wish your father was here. ejaculated the woman. "Lucky for hlni he alu't," said the young man, "seelu It's leap year." The passengers laughed and the con ductor snickered. The woman was angry. She began to aouse tne con ductor and threatened to report him. "What have I done?" asked the con ductor plaintively. "Why don't you put that man off? wrathfullv demanded the woman. "He's smoking." 'He has the right to smoka' said the conductor. "Read that sign." The woman read, and then, with a very red-face, said : "Well, you have beeu insolent, anyway, and 1 shall report you ana have you discharged." "You may make your ctrcplaiiit. madam," said a fine-looking old gen tleman, who had listened to the fore going, "but it will receive no atten tion." "Who are you?" snapped the woman. "Merely one of the directors of this road," said the old .gentleman. The woman blushed and left the this Mail car. "Are you really a direotox of road ?" aaked a reporter for the and Express. "Nit," chuckled the old man. New- York Mail and Express. A Good Thin?. The summer resort hotel proprietor chuckled softly to himself. "They tell me," he said, "that the weather for the last week has been simply glorious." Then he rubbed his hands, together after the manner of a man who thinks he knows a good thipg when he sees It- '1 guess they're right," he went on. "J hadn't-noticed it particularly Ins- cause I've been so busy, but I guess they're right, Henry J" "Yes, sir," said the clerk, 1 ooklng up. . "Under the head of extras add twenty per cent, to every bill you make out for the weather we've bad. We can't afford to throw In anything of this sort at regular rates." Chicago Post. A Million Gold Dollars. Would not bring happiness to the person suffering with dyspepsia, but Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured many thousands of cases of this disease. It tones the stomach, regulates the bowels and puts all the machinery of the sys tem in good working order. It creates a good appetite and gives health, strength and happiness. Hood's Pills act harmoulously with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Cure all HverilH Ii cents. Id. WHOLE NO. 2356. An Hour's Walk. Have you ever thought of the dist ance you travel while you are out on an hour's stroll? Possibly you walk three miles within the hour, but that does not by any means represent the distance you travel. The earth turns on its axis every hours, ror tne sake of round figures we will call the earth's circumference 21,000 miles, and so you mu?it have traveled during the hour's stroll l.UUi) miles iu the axial turn of the earth. But this is not all. The earth makes a journey around the sun every year, and a long but rapid trip it is. The distance of our planet from the sun we will put at !)2,iXKV) miles. This is the radius of the earth's orbit half the diameter of the circle, as we call it. The whole diameter is therefore ls4,- 000,0(10 miles, and the circumference, la ing the diameter multiplied by 3.141;, is about o7H,000,0tA. This amazing distance the earth travels in its yearly journey, and divid ing it by 3w we find the daily speed aliout l,.Vi,0o0. Then, to get the dis tance you rode around the sun during your hour's walk, divide again by 24, and the result is about 60,000 miles. But this is not the end of your hour's trip. The sun, with its entire brood of planets, is moving in space at the rate of 11,000,000 miles in a year. This is at the rate of a little more' than 4.'W,000 miles a day, or 1S,2."0 miles an hour. S, adding your thr-e miles of leg travel to the hour's axial movement of the earth, this to the earth's orbital journey, and that again to the earth's excursion with the sun, and you find you have traveled in the hour &,2o3 miles. Cincinnati Knquirer. Exeunt Cheering. It is reported that when the German man-of-war litis went down in a ty phoon oil the Chinese coast the other day, the captain and the crew gathered on the deck and cheered for the Em jieror as they were swept down into eternity. One likes to U-lieve in such stories of brave deeds, but, alas ! one can not help rememtiering the number of exactly similar stories which have so frequently been discredited when history undertook to reviao her first account. There was the French Vengeur a notable example. She was part of the French licet defeated by the British under Lord Howe on June 1, 1704. Ac cording to the legend iu vented by Ba rere and U-sung by French poets and bewept by the French public ever since, Le Vengeur refused to surrender, the crew sunk the ship, and all went alive into the deep shouting, "Vive 1 liepublique !" This was the first version of history. And now for the amended one. It shall be given in the words of Carlyle : "Alas' Alas! The Vengeur, after fighting bravely, did sink altogether, as other ships do, her captain and above two hundred of her crew escap ing gladly in British boats ; aud this same enormous, inspiring Feat, and rumor of sound mort piercing, turns out to he au enormous, inspiring Non entity, extaut nowhere, save as false hood, iu tha train of Rarere." Car lyle, however, thinks that the story should bo henceforth memorable as "the largest, mt Inspiring piece of blague manufactured for some centur ies by any man or cation." New York Herald. He Meant Well. The story of the Irishman who wrote his friend, saying, "Telegraph nie it you don t get this letter," was equaled in a local business house. One of the cilice men came down and found that he had left his keys behind. He sent to his wife for them, and the niesxcuger returned with the informa tion that the kevs were not there. At this juncture George ,a fellow-clerk, said. "Why, I found your keys." "Where are they?" said the first clerk. "I have them in my pocket," said George. "I pushed a note through the slit of your desk telling you that I had them." "Well, you idiot," said the first, "how was I to get the note when the desk was locked?" New Orleans Times-Democrat, Tabhy. Many jieople suppose that tabby is a name applied to cats in general. It really means cats whose fur is marked in a certain way, aud so there are both male and female tabbies. The tabbies are divided into banded and spotted furred cats. The name Is th rived from A tab, a street in Bagdad celebrated for the manufacture of watered silks, which, when sold In England, were called atabi, or taflety, and from their resemblance to watt red silk the banded and brindled cats were called tabbies, it is one or the com monest of olors, or markings rather, and is fouud m many breeds of cats. but a uniformly marked tabby is com paratively rare and valuable. St. Louis Post-Dispatclt. A Big Difference. Servant "Johnny t'rew t'rough th windy, mum, an' pane of glass?" his ball broke Johnny's Mother "Well, that' nothing to make such a fuss about. Accidents will happen; and, besides, we dou't owu the house, aud intend to move next week." Servant "But th' ball struck that chiny tea cup you cot with a half- pound of tea and smashed it all splinters." to Johnny's Mother (angrily) "What Send that boy right in to me! I teach him to be more careful the next time T' Puck. "I have nothing iu the store that sells so well or gives such general satis faction as Dr. Fowler's Ext. of Wild Strawberry. I always recommend it iu cases of summer complaint or bowel trouble of any kind." C. A. West, lUinaborough, O. A Dreadful Contingency. 'Your money, and quick, too!" nid I the tall burglar. " For good neW sake, don't make m much noise," hissed the unhap py householder as he sat up In bed. ' Why not?" "You'll wake the baby." The short burglar laughed brutally. He hail heard the old irag when be was a child at his mot tier's knee. "Wot if we do wake the baby?'' said the tall burglar. "If the buby cries," groaned the unhappy victim, "it will sour the temiier of my wife's pet dog, and then I there'll lie hades to pay." With a glance of deep coin onse ra tion the burglars softly stole away. Cleveland Plain-Dealer. The True Remedy. W. M. IUpiue, editor TUkilwa, 111., "Chief," says: We won', keep house without Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Experimented with many others, but never got the true remedy until we used Dr. King's New Discovery. No other remedy can take its place in our home, as iu it we have a certain and sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Whipp ing Cough, etc" It is idle to experi ment with other remedies, even if they are urged on you as just as good as Dr. King's New Discovery. They are not as good, because this remedy has a record of cures and besides is guaranteed. It never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles free at J. N. Snyder's drug store, Somerset, or Brallier's drug store, Berlin. Too Strong for the Sheriff. "Why, Renin! How is it you are at large? I heard you were to be ar rested. Did you escape the Sheriff?" "Yassir! De Sher'ff couldn' hoi' me." "The Sheriff couldn't hold you? How is that?" "Yo' see, sah, I'd b'en eoon-huntin' de day befor' an' somehow or udder I done got too familiar with a polecat, an' de Shee'ff hain' no mo' dan took a holt er me dan he real ice I wux too strong fo' 'im, sah, an' he wifdraw from de argymeii' like he ben shot from a gun." Boston Courier. Tree Pills. Send your address to H. E. Buckten & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince yu of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of 'onstipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed lo 1 perfectly free front every deleterious substance anil to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomath and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 2."e. per liox. Sold at J. N. Snvder's drug ston, Somerset, or Brallier's drug store Berlin. Why He Disliked the Fanner. Dere seems ter le a good deal of talk about de needs of de fanner," said Modding Pete. "Seems ter me like de trmer'a gittin' er ter'ble lot er 'tentiou dese days." Yes," replied Meandering Mike, "ar." wot ever de farmer wants, I'm agtn." "Wot fur T' "Wot fur? Ain't ye got no spirit at all? I don't believe in haririu no resentment, but I never kin fvrgit dal de farmer is de man dat g-a- rar,' Ik country roads lookin' fur liiirvet hands." Washington Star. A Delicate Compliment. "Mabel," said the man who favors free silver, "that young man who calls to see you remains altogether too late. It was after half-past 12 when he start ed for home last night." 4 'I can't help it, father." "Can't you give him some kind of ft hint ?" "I did; but he said he had too much respect for your sentiments to think of leaving until hi minutes to 1." Wash ington Star. Better Than $103 Reward. On receipt of ten cents, cah or stamps, a generous sample will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh aud Hay Fever Cure Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demonstrate it- great merit. Full siae 50c. Ely Brotheks, 06' Warren fct.. New York City. I suffered from Catarrh of the worst kind ever since a boy, and I never hoped for cure, lait Ely's Cream Bal m seems to do even thtt, M my ac-jU&int-ances have used it with excellent results. Oscar Outrun), 4- Warren Ave., Chicago, I1L Fitted For His Place. "This is the saddest case ( all, and vet he achieved his ambition." The keeper paused, aud with pityiDg eyes the visitors gazed on the hopeless. expressionless face of the patient from which all traces of intelligence had vanished. "I low did he come to this sad state?" "He was out of work and irudeavor- ed to make himself eligible to serve as ft petit juror." Truth. A Boy's Chances Spoiled. Farmer's Boy "Father, why can not I rise in the world the same as other men? For Instance, why can not I some day become- Secretary of Agriculture?" Old Farmer "Too late, too lute, my sou. ou know too much about faruiin'." New York Weekly. Id a recent letter to the manufactur ers Mr. W. F. Benjamin, editor of the Spectator, Rushford, N. Y., says: "It may be a pleasure to know the high esteem in which Chamberlain's medi cines are held by the people of your own State, where they must 1 best known. An auut of miue, who resides) at Dexter, Iowa, was about to visit nu ft few years since, and before leaving home wrote me, asking ne if they were sold here, stating if they were not she would bring a quantity with her, fts she did not like to be without them." The medicines referred to are Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, famous for its cures of colds and croup; Cham berlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism, lame back, pains in the side and chest, and Charalierlain's Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel com plaints. These medicines have been in constant use iu Iowa for almost a quarter of a century. The people hav learned that they are articles of great worth and merit, and unequaled by any other. They are for sale her by Benford's Pharmacy.
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