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TO ONE 1TEW IU THE WORLD.
Few word, my lad, but welcome warms
tlieni all !
You came not like the wayiiide waif li n-
Houeht ;
We -atehrd the path and barkened for your
call.
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bruusht?
Foryoa what plans his Mutreos Fortune
laid T
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Iare
To hold the plow, the pea, the ready blade r
To smite the savage or carura the fair?
A pretty theme for speculative schemes,
A flower-like face within the fleecy fold ;
Dark eyes that hide dim, embryonic dreams ;
A Ming umung, a manuscript unrolled.
I hear men sny It Is a scurvy act
Tociill into an overcrowded rare
A coiiM-rlpt soul by fme nor fortune backed;
My answer U the Kiuilc upon your face.
Your trust, at least. Is mine without a flaw ;
The love I give, that love do you repay.
So, luind in liand, obedient to the Law,
Let you aud I proceed along the way.
Frank Putnam.
HOW HE WON HEII.
The jiotir tutor was alone with her,
and, though it was in the days when
men fought hard bunk-seven agaitmt
their own kinsmen if they thought it
was right, his heart throbbed just as
the tutor's heart might throb to-day,
with the difference that he had not
learned to count its beats, as our euaui
ored youth, SIX) years wiser have learn
ed to do iu a self controlled manner
eminently conducive to the steady iug
of that ob&treperous organ.
What mattered the great insurrec
tion, the cruelties of Judge Jeffries,
and a fugitive patrou with a price upon
his head when love had sought shelter
iu his heart, and she to whom he had
built a shrine was just as far away
from him as the width of' the table?
Of what eons tjueuoe that he was
the Lady Gertrude, the daughter of a
noble conspirator, aud he but a tutor
without laud or wealth? So he con
tinued his story, looking at his hookas
if he were reading therefrom.
"And the poor man lotJ the rich
lady, aud he dared not tell her oi nis
love, lest she would scorn him."
"Then surely he was fearful at a
nothing, which, tuethiuks, means he
was a coward, Master Humphrey."
"A coward, if 'twere cowardly to fear
the anger of his lady"
"Why should he exjuct such an
ger?"
"He had naught to offer her but his
love."
"Love were wealth enough, but I
am tired of your story. 'Tis not so
good as you are wont to tell, Master
Humphrey, and 'tis our last lesson,"
she added very gently.
"You will uot miss the lessons?"
"'o, not my lesson, ouly the stories.
I have loved some of thenL And t-he
moved restlessly iji her s?at, as if t-he
would say more, yet could not find the
words.
"But surely my fathershould be here
even now," site murmured at hist.
The poor tutor turned pale. "You
will go with him to Holland?" he
said.
"It would le too great a rik to ac
company him, but I follow to-morrow
if all succeeds as we have plauned.
Ah, if they should take him! They
have killed the duke. Why are they
uot satisfied? Poor Monmouth!"
"They w ill not take him!"
"Now, at the last moment, I am ter
rified lest things should not go well.
Look at the time! He may lie here at
any moment. Indeed he should be
here how!"
Then Lady (Jertrude rose hastily and
stood, tall even as the young tutor by
her side, with a look of eager impa
tience on her fair face.
"Not yet come, I think," said he.
"To cross the marshes ou foot needs
indeed an hour."
So they stood irresol'-te, each with
heart for one another and thought for
the alisent fugitive.
"There are learned men in Holland,
I am told," stammered ihe young man
irrelevantly.
"It is so rumored, yet, not luore than
that, there would still be room for
another, I am sure, Master Humph
rey.
Which pretty speech nigh over-
jwwered the equanimity of Master
Humphrey and threw him into a dis
courteous silent like enough to pijue
his noble pupil, who, inieed, felt she
had ma le him too bold and who lack
ed iu modesty, since he would vouch
safe no answer.
"Continue your story, sir," she said,
with marked coldness. "I have no
mind for lessons just now."
"There Is no more to tell, my lady,"
he said.
"Then 'tis a poor story."
" 'Twas a poor man."
"With a poor spirit."
"Nay, do not challenge him for he
hath an idea 'twere better to be poor
spirited than false hearted."
"Why should he be either?"
"Were it not a mean thing to harass
an unprotected lady and false to betray
the trus-t of her noble parent, his patron
when he was absent risking his life for
bis country r'
'To harass her would he wrong,
sir; to betray a trust a worse wrong.
Yet I cannot see that, if he loved the
lady well, he would be doing either of
these things."
"Madam, Mere I, your humble tutor,
the ioor man, would you still so rea
son.
"Were you that man, Master
Humphrey, I could but be sorry for the
lady."
"TU a fair answer. I crave your
pardon. Shall we continue the trans
lation?"
"Were you the man, in truth I
should le sorry for the lady to have so
inconsistent a lover."
"Inconsistent, madam?"
"Who will make you love, wherever
he may find a ready listener, though
in covert language that save him from
a declaration. Pray, Master Humph
rey, if it le as you declare, that you are
this man, convey my sympathies to the
lady."
N w the tutor rose in wrath aud
would have gone his way for without
doubt h!3 mistress was making sport of
him but the sound of faint footsie jm (
from behind the paneled wall arrested
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SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25. 1897.
his attention, and he stood still, con
sidering whether 'twere best to go or
stay.
"It is my father," said the girl,
aware that he alone knew the w?cret
passage.
Then Master Humphrey saw a look
of joyful relief rise to her pretty fane,
and he remembered how brave she had
been, how good and noble and fair she
was and how miserable a worm was he,
and so lifted his head in the pride of
humiliation, as humble minded folk
are wont to do, in such manner that
the Lady (Jertrude found him as beau
tiful and arrogant as a king, for all his
shabby clothes and slight stature.
"I may not see you again. He will
cross to-day I to-morrow," she said
in sudden haste.
"God be with you," answered the
tutcr, and he bowed low.
The fugitive noble stood In the shad
ow of the open paneling, and the
Lady Gertrude, full of apprehension
that he should stay too long, strained
an ear to catch any ominous sounds
from w ithout and drank in eagerly the
detailed plans he slowly explained of
his own escate to Holland and her
journey thither on the morrow by
another route.
When he ended, there was a silence
between them, as with those whose
hearts are too full to speak. It was
speedily broken, however, by a loud
ringing of the great bell, which rever
berated from the deserted courtyard
llow through the house The girl
hastened to the cant men t of the win
dow and looked quickly out.
"There are armed men," she said.
They have traced you here."
"Wary hounds!" he murmured, with
a look of grim humor. "To the hole,
but uot w iltilu. Twenty minutes and
I shall be beyond the must cunning
ferret's scent. God lie with you, little
daughter. Keep tlit-tn dallying there
awhile. Remember to-morrow at Mil
ium bridge, by nightfall."
The paunel fell buck, and the Lady
Gertrude sat down to her books and
made much pretense of mumbling to
herself as the old doorkeejer, scare
stricken aud panting, tumbled into the
room with au officer of the king's ser
vice at his heels. "Soldiers!" said he.
h, gotsl Oliver, what is their
will?" said she, not deigning to raise
her eyes from her book.
"No harm to so fair a hostess," ex
claimed the intruder.
Whereupon the Iady Gertrude slow
ly lifted her pretty' head and scanned
the uncomely countenance and fai
proportions of the oflieer with niucU
deliberation.
'Should fairness diminish harm, sir,
t were a pity there were no more of the
quality among his majesty's servants."
A truce, fair one, to a war of
words. lam here to crave your hos
pitality while waiting for the presence
of one who, lam informed, purposes to
visit his daughter between the time of
noon and midnighL You start! 'Tis
now hardly noon. We demand - to
know in the king's name at what pre
cise hour that interview is to take place .
" 'Twere well, madam, to save that
pretty bead, for those who wiiiully har
bor the treacherous Monmouth's follow
ers can receive no clemency from hU
iiior-t gracious majesty, King James.
Their life is the forfeit, man or wo
man."
"Sir," said Lady ( Jertrude after some
moments of seeming fearful del ihe ra-
ion, "I await my lord, my father.
here within au hour from now, and
may God curse you for a coward !"
The fat soldier grinned. The lady's
bark was not loud enough, but her bite
was, imfeed, most easily averted w ith a
threatening w hip, as was the way with
women. So he sat his broad iktsoii
down aud did all that which he
thought would lieguile so pretty a
shrew from her fretful humor.
Full three-quarters of an hour thus
passed, when news was brought by a
breathless soldier that the Earl of
W had lioarded a frigate not 1
minutes since and, as was related iu
all seriousness, had dolled his hat hi
acknowledgment of the fiery salute
from shore.
Whereupon the fat soldier got up iu
a fearful rage and kicked and swore as
only a gentleman soldier knows well
how to do, and si.arled aloud that
nothing should save the cunning judo
front the lively fate of Mistress Gaunt,
who, indeed, was burned to death for a
lesser misdemeanor.
But the Lady Gertrude lifted up her
proud head and said:
"Even so I shall deem my fathers
life most cheaply bought, sir."
And f he walked out between the file
of armed men, w ho, indeed, were sorry
for so brave and fair a creature, taken
thus roughly a prisoner.
The poor tutor sat over his books in
the upper room of a small dwelling
house and wrestled with his thought
till he knew not which was conscience
aud which the devil most plaguing
him, for the Lady Gertrude hail said
that love was wealth; yet his rooms
betrayed no signs thereof.
He had a little piece of land not far
away, from which he acquired a small
income, 'yet with all these things he
could in nowise be counted rich.
Indeed, no, thought he, when hur
ried footstejis upon the stair liecame
confused with his wandering fancies,
and ere lie had time to weigh the
matter Lady Gertrude stood before
him.
And theu something of a sweet shy
ness came over her, so that all in a
great hurry she set to explaining how
she had been taken prisoner by the
irate colonel aud how, indeed, she had
escaped through the help of a cousin
among the oftioers, who, she avowed,
had once cared greatly for her.
. Then the boy aud girl, for tiiey were
not much else, looked into one anoth
er's eyes, as they had looked these
many past days during the lessons he
had set out to teach Iter. And now
there was no table between them, m
that he knelt down, and taking both
her little white hands in his he cov
ered them with humble kisses, which
the lady seemed to have no desire to
resent.
"So, after all, Master Humphrey,
you must needs take care of your pupil
still a little while longer. To-morrow
at Ballira bridge at nightfall there will
set
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be those waiting to conduct me to
Holland, where, I think, sir, yon told
me you had a mind to follow in search
of further learning. Yet till then I
must remain a prisoner here for fear of
my very life," laughed she.
Now, hardly had she spoke thana
clamor without sent the blood from
his cheek and fear at List into the
dauntless eyes of the Lady Gertrude.
"Quick! Within!" said he aud thrust
open the door of the narrow chamber
and closed it upon her. Theu the
steady tramp of men's feet echoed upon
the winding stair.
"In the king's name," said a tall
officer as he entered the room, follow
ed by several meu at arms.; There was
a strange look in his eyes as he met
the tutor's gaze, and he faltered in his
speech while repealing the common
formula. !
"There is no one here," answered
the student deliberately. ;
"It is ueccssary the place should le
searched," replied the olllcer, "aud I
must warn you that if the prisoner is
found your life will be forfeited with
out trial as a traitor harboring those in
conspiracy against his majesty's
crown."
"There is no one here," reiieated the
tutor.
"Search," said the ollioer. He had
grown pale as the )oor youth, who
bent with seeming inditlerence over
his books aud clung closer to his chair
as the men approached the little door.
which opened suddenly from within,
as a beautiful youth iu a velvet suit.
with fine lace ruffs and a mass of
brown, urly hair, falling negligently
about his shoulders, such as was theu
the fashion to affect, confronted the
officer.
"What noisy matter is this?" said he
haughtily. "Is there no place even
for students who, loyal to his majesty.
claim but the quiet of their chambers
to pursue the books which tell of
mightier deeds than those of the inter
nal wars of a diseonted people?"
Now a look of humor crept into the
otllcer's eyes as he liowed terhajis low
er than was necessary to so young and
haughty a youth.
"I am grievf d to so disturb you, sir,"
said he. "We have been misinformed,
for aparently the lady we seek is not
here." And he turned upon his feet
aud departed with his nit a from the
lowly roof of the poor tutor.
"Master Humphrey," said the beau
tiful youth, and his face was crimson
even as the skies after the sun hath set,
"you risked being hanged on high,
Master Humphrey, for me." And
there were tears in his eyes.
Then, indeed, did nearfy all Master
Humphrey's fortitude depart. "Lad,
'twere but a paltry thing to risk," said
he and bowed his head ts oue asham
ed, and witnin himself bethought.:
"Now, indeed, I cannot woo her, for
'twould be the way of a coward to thus
force advantage of a maid's gratitude."
But the while he was pondering she
stole up to him, aud he knew not how
it happened, but he wooed her just the
same. Pall Mall Gazette.
Question at Issue.
The Justice scratched his head aud
scowled.
"This is a serious case," he said,
"and the adjudication of it calls for a
gnat deal of legal learning aud a good
deal of common sense."
He looked around to see that every
one in the court room was properly
impressed, aud then continued:
"The allegation is that this man
spoke to this woman iu a disresjiectful
way, and that thereupon she swiped
him over the head with a broom. Am
I right so far?"
"You are," replied the two lawyers.
"After getting the lat over the ear,"
continued the Justice, "the man went
after the woman with a club and beat
her most unmercifully."
Both of the lawyers nodded as the
Justice paused and looked to them for
confirmation of his statement.
"Wheu he got through with htr,"
the Justice weut on, "shi was black
aud blue from head to foot and nearly
dead."
"That's right," said the lawyer for
the womau.
"And after consulting with the
neighbors," added the Justice, she
swore out a warrant for his arrest on
the charge of assault and battery and
had him brought before me. There is
no dispute as to these facts, is there?"
"None whatever."
The Justice leaned back in his chair,
looked up at the ceiling and chewed the
end of a pencil.
"When the facts are known," he
said thoughtfully, "the law in the cae
is clear. As the matter now stands
there is but one point at issue that I
can see."
"Yes," said both lawyers aud both
principals together.
"And that is," explained the Justice,
"the relationship in which this man
stands to this woman. Unless lie can
prove that she is his wife I do not see
how I can do anything but find him
guilty of the charge made against
him." Chicago Post.
There is Nothing so Good.
There is nothing just so good as Dr.
King's New Discovery for consump
tion, coughs and colds, so demand it
and do not 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 refuuded. For coughs, colds.
consumption and for all affections of
the throat, chest and lungs, there Ls
nothing so good as Dr. King's New
Discovery. Trial bottle free at Sny
der's drug store, Somerset, or at Bral-
lier'a drug store, Berlin.
Regular size 50c and $1.00.
An English farmer, who reuts &X)
acres, gave the following list of crops
he plauted last spring: Forty acres
barley, 20 acres oats, 25 acres of wheat,
10 acres flax, 12 acres peas, 9 acres beans,
5 acres mangels, 5 acres devoted to the
house garden fruits, potatoes, etc., and
the remainder down to grass, and all
the stock ls kept that can be fed with
out buying feed of any kind.
Nate and Kate.
"I never waste affection on a horse,"
said the dealer. "They care nothing
for their master, or their home, or each
other. AH they care for is their fod
der."
"They are not all like that," said a
lady who was looking at the lot with
the intention of making a purchase.
"I remember an elegant pair of Mor
gan horses, Nate and Mate, brother
aud sister, owned iu Northfield, Mass.,
when I was a child. They were raised
in Northern Vermont, and when they
were brought to Massachusetts they
were sold to two different men, but
they were so homesick and balky that
they were of no use until Mr. Eastman,
an intelligent farmer, divined the
trouble and purchased them both.
"They worked or drove beautifully
in double harness, but one day Mrs.
Eastman, having occasion to drive to
the village, had Mate harness
ed to a light buggy, aud asked my
mother, who was a near neighbor, to
accomiany her, Mrs. Eastman's two
children staying with my brother and
me while they were away.
No sooner was Mate out of hearing
than Nate began to call for her, first
with low soft neighs, then with plain
tive whinnies, and at length with loud
squeals. We children were attracted
to the liarn by his frantic cries, aud, as
none of the men were about, we tried
to quiet him by giving him tid-bits;
but it was of no use he plunged about
until he broke his halter and escaped
into the yard. Fortunately, we had
sense enough to shut the strong gate,
and in spite of his wheelingand plung
ing about, he found hinw lf a prisoner.
Then uch alo as tiu re wa! He pranc
ed around and a:-riM the yard, ami his
calls for his mate were like terrific
shrieks; we children wiUht-l him
from the roof of a Jow slusl, where w e
had climlied so as to to le out of the
way.
"At length, after one of his calls, he
listened with his head in the air, and,
going to the side of the yard toward
the village, he stretched his neck owr
the fence and called again. This time,
away to the northward, we heard a
faint resp.
4 'They are coming!" said my broth
er. '.Mate is answering. I cau see the
dust! I cau see them! Mate is run
ning!"
That was the fact- Nearer they
came and nearer, the beautiful white
horse ona straight run, the two mot hers
in the light buggy helpless and terror-
stricken, holding the reius but making
no elfort to control the seemingly un
controllable horse. But as Mate ap
proached the house she slackened her
paee, turned decorously into the yard,
and trotted airily up to the gate to re
ceive her brother's welcome.
"Those horses fairly kissed each oth
er iu their delight, and of course they
were utterly unconscious of the desper
ate fright they had given the two la
dies, who sunk down on the green turf
and sobbed with thankfulness at their
i
escape.
" 'We could no more control the
creature thau we could control the
wind,' said my mother. 'The mo- j
ment she heard Nate's cry she took
the bit in her teeth and settled down
and into a run. Of cour-te. I knew
the harness was strong and the buggy
was safe, but I was afraid of meeting a
team, or that she winild make so short
a turn into the yard as to up.t us.'
"Meantime the horses having recov-
from their excitement were stand
ing in great contentment Mate was
nibbling grass aud pulling up
great mouthful, and holding them
over the fence to share w ith her broth
er, who took them deliberately from
her mouth.
" 'Is not that beautiful?' said my
mother. 'Their love seems almost hu
man '
" 'Yes,' said Mr. Eastman, coming
up, 'but it is an unreasoning love and
might be the means of doing much
mischief. I think I will put them in
to the brick teams, where they can
pull contitiunlly shoulder to shoulder,
and be happy.'
"This was done. I often saw the
beautiful creatures plodding away, aud
was thankful that there was no danger
of their leing again separated." Our
Animal Friends.
Why She Married Him.
It was their first quarrel.
"Well, I don't see how I came to
marry you!" she snapped.
"Same here," he returned.
"Whatever I could see iu you," she
contiuued bitterly. "All men are the
same, as lovers, but as husbands it's
different, dou't you know."
"Oh, ho! all meu sre the same as
lovers. Then you had a lot of lovers?
Thanks for your extraordinary candor.
I always thought you were a flirt, but
now you have spoken the words out of
your own mouth."
"Out of my own mouth! Can a ".ar
son fjieak with some one else's mouth,
you ninny? Why dou't you try to lie
logical as well as insulting? I suppose
it's too much to expect from one whose
brains are in his mustache, or in his
pretty feet. Oh, don't whine,. I kuow
your faults to a dot."
"Well, since you do," he added, "I
will be frank with you and say that I
have married you to give you the op
portunity to tell me my faults, so that
I could in time approach your owu an
gelic standard of perfection."
"Indeed, and I married you because
you were such an expert at repairing a
bicycle tire. Don't you remember
how you carried your jiffy outfit
around with you? You were so ex pert!"
"You used to tell me you married
me because you loved me."
"What a silly answer that was!"
"Theu you are a liar, too, eh?"
"I say I married you because you
were such an expert tire repairer.
When I quit riding the bicycle I'll
have no further use for you, do you
hear? Go out in the shed and clean
my wheel and let me hear no more out
of you for a weikf Detroit Tribune.
Lime water is considered verv eood
for scours iu lambs. Where it is to lie
fed to all sheen a ouart of slacked lime
is put in a trough and 50 gallons of
water put in. When thoroughly set
tled the sheep will driuk it without
hesitation.
Herald.
How He Made HU Start
"It doesn't seem to me that the
young doctors have the git up and go
that I had when I started in," declar
ed the old practitioner who had just
been requested to take a chair in the
faculty of a new college of medicine.
"I started in a little town without
money or without friends, and I w as
not long in getting all the business in
my line that was to be done.
"How did I manage? Well, it won't
harm no one to tell now. Fir-t, I
bought a horse, saddle and bridle on
time and established a line of credit
with the druggist, to whom I gave a
certain percentage of what I made
from the customers he sent me. He
had an enterprising little wife, who
went a good deal into society, and it
wasn't long till she had me one or
more patients in each of the best fam
ilies. AH she had to do was to tell this
friend that she looked run down and
needed a little toning up, or that one
how her complexion woul ' I improv
ed by a judicious treats -1 of the
blood. I can say honest I., -.at I was
not a party to sp.-culutiie methods,
but must admit that I was not better.
When things looked partii-ularly blue
to me I would rush to the stable, act as
my own groom, mount that venerable
steed and go plunging through the
principal street aud out into the coun
try as though tin a cavalry charge.
The druggist's wife found a five-year-old
paper telling of an epidemic of
small-pox iu an adjacent town and
quietly got the clipping into circula
tion. I vaccinated people for forty-
eight hours straight and then won
fame by curing a case of measles tlrtt
fortunately broke in at the time, and
leaving no marks. Between the drug
gist, his wife, the horse and myself
things went so well that I was very
comfortably olT and sufficiently cele
brated to get into the city. Young
do.-ior now seem to lack vim." De
troit Ye Press.
Profited ly a Ki.tak2
There are two meu iu Washington
who look much alike, and amusing
mistakes occur nearly every day with
one or the other on account of the ;e-semblaiK-e.
liecently one of the two
told a reporter of a number of his ex
periences which were due to his being
mistaken for the other man. One of
them is of rather an extraordinary ua-
ture, and it is very fortunate fir hiru
that the mistake occurred. He told the
storv as follows:
"One summer night I attended the
theatre with a young lady. It was a
performance, I remember, early in the
summer, at one of those times which
occur very often here in Washington
when we are thrown sudlenly from
winter into real summer.
"I had not been well at all that day,
and should not have gone to the thea
tre; but I thought I felt strong enough
to do so. I liegau to feel ill imme
diately after we took our seats. I did
not care to disturb my companion, and
thought I would await the close of the
performance, so I remained in my seat.
Wheu the first act was through I was so
faint that I was obliged to mention it,
and the lady and I went outside. We
were standing in the lobby of the thea
tre, waiting to go home, when a coach
man, dressed iu handsome livery, ap
proached me. He sp-ike respectfully
and said:
' 'My, but you're looking badly to
night. You must be sick, sir. You
look as if you wouldn't lie able to get
home.'
"I told him I had been taken sud
denly ill, aud he expressed consider
able concern, all in a perfectly respect
ful manner, as if he had known me
for years. He looked up at me a little,
as if making up his mind, and then
said:
"I tell you what I will do, sir.
The Senator's carriage is just outside.
and I know he won't be out for some
time. Just jump inside with the lady,
and I'll take you right home. We can
drive up there in a few minutes, and
nobody will know anything about it.
If the Senator knew about it it would
be all right any way, sir, as you are a
friend of bis.'
"I was feeling so sick and it seemed
such a lucky intervention, that I as
sented. The niau went outside, called
up a carriage with the footman ou the
box, oened the door and in we got.
Before he shut the door he asked me
where I wished g. I gave hint my
number. He then said: 'You dou't
live where you used to, do you?' I told
him I did, but that I wished to take
the young lady home. He drove us
to the house iu great style and we got
out.
" 'I should consider it a favor, sir,'
he told me, 'if you would give me the
coupons for your seats at the theatre.
If you do this, mayl I cau go and see
part of the show.' I did as he request
ed, aud he left after thanking me and
telling me he was much obliged for the
theatre coupons.
"I was so ill I never thought to ask
who the Senator was whose equipage
I had used. I understood the matter,
though, the man having mistaken me
for my double, who is well known to
most of the officials of the capital."
Washington Star.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only oue way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafuess is caused by an iuflamed con
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus
tachian Tube. Wheu this tube gets
iuflamed you have a rambling or im
perfect hearing, and when it is entire
ly closed deafness is the result, and uu
less the inflammation can be takeu out
and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caus
ed by catarrh, which Ls nothing but an
inflamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by ca
tarrh) tliat cau not be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
toT Sold by druggists, 75c.
"WHOLE NO. 2 40L
DIVISION OF C. S. A. COIN.
What Became of the Gold and Silver
Shipped from Richmond.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Judge Lewis Shepherd, one of the
lending lawyers of Chattanooga, ami
for years the attorney for the Cincin
nati Southern Railroad, gave a corres
pondent of the Courier-Journal the fol
lowing interesting story, the details of
which have never been printed, anil for
the truth of which he and Judge F. tk
in, also of Chattanooga, both vouch.
Judge Shepherd was au officer in
Vaughn's brigade, as was Judge Eakin
and they were both with the army at
the time the incidents of narrative oc
curred:
"When the (.'onf.sK-rate Govern
ment aiiamloiied Richmond as its capi
tal, nil its archives and treasures were
sent, under strong military escort, to
Charlotte, N. C. The banks of Rich
mond sent away their treasures under
the protection of the same escort. Pres
ident Davis and his Cabinet also came
to Chaiiotte aud established tcmjiorary
headquarters.
"Before they reached Char! itte Rich
mond and Petersliurg had fallen and
Lee had surrendered, anil in a very few
days Sherman and Joseph H Johnston
had agreed upon an armistice by their
celebrated jwtjier, under which it was
proposed that peace should be made
and the seceding States should re
sume their relations to the Govern
ment. "This treaty, if it had been carried
out, would have obviated reconstruc
tion, under what is known as the R.
constructiou acts of Congress, fur it
covered the entire suhjtct of rest in
tion of peaex; and return of the Sou th
tru States to the Union and of their
Senators and Representatives to Con
gress. This armlstiis.. was n pu liated
by President Andrew Johnson and bis
Cabinet on the ground that these mili
tary cm:na:i l-.rs had evH.-1- l their
jKiwtr in uud-rtakiug to settle the
terms on which theerriug States might
resume their political functions with
the general G n trimienL
"It i.iay beadmitted that these Gen
erals went a little further than tiiey
hail the right to go, but it cau not be
denied that they displayed a profound
statesmanship iu their comprehensive
yet terse settlement of a question which
afttrwarj so sorely disturbed Congress,
so nearly caused tbe conviction upon I
impeachment of the President, and so
completely bankrupted the Southern
States.
'Mr. Davis, being advised that Pres
ident Johnson had brought an end to
the armistice, and repudiated the Sherman-Johnston
treaty, immediately be
gan efforts to prevent the capture of
himself and the tnasuresof the Con
federacy; the gold a:id silver of theCotw
federacy and that ef the Richmond
banks was loaded into wagons, and the
i'residetit of the Confederate States,
with his Cabinet Ministers, started
South with it g'.iar led by three bri
gades of ca '.a!ry Dibbrell's, Vaughn's
and Duke's.
"When we arrived at Washington,
Ga , it became appirent to Mr. Davis
that be c kiI 1 not with such a retinue
escape the vigilance of tlie Federal cav
alry, which was rapidly closing in on
him frotn every direction, so the mon
ey kegs belonging to toe Government
were ojiened and tlie silver was divided
among the boys, each, without regard
to rank, receiving ?ii.-V, and they were
granted indefinite furloughs. Mr.
Davis and his family and a much
smaller escort pushed ou further south,
ami was, a few days afterward captur
ed by the Federal.
"Meanwhile the ollicers of the banks
sought the aid of the Federal com
manders to return their specie to Rich
mond, and from them obtained a per
mit to return with it to Richmond,
and also a guard of sold it rs to protect
it on its return trip.
"Some of the officers and men of
Gen. Vaughn's brigade became ap
prised that a train of specie was being
carried North under Federal escort,
ud they jumped to the conclusion
that it was the property of the Confed
erate Government, which the Federals
had captured. They concluded that
their four years of hard service for the
Confederacy entitled them to a share
of this gold, provided they could suc
ceeded iu securing it from the Federal
guard. With them the war was not
yet over, and they acted upon the idea
that anytbiug was fair in war.
"Tiiey organized an expedition with
the view of capturing this m uey, and
followed the train uulil a favorable op
portunity of attack presented itself;
they charged the train, captured and
disarmed the guard, and proceeded at
ouee to knock the heads out of the kegs
containing the gold, and to fill their
forage sacks with shining twenty aud
ten dollar gold pieces.
"Several of them got away with as
much as JiiO.OlW apiece; some were con
tent with f.'Mt, and still others with
less amounts, depending upon the car
rying capacity of their forage sacks aud
saddle bags.
"Oue fellow legan to fill his sack out
of the first keg he came to, which prov
ed to be a keg of silver. I le was happy
wheu he lugged off his bag full of sil
ver dollars, but when he met his com
panions later in the rendezvous, where
tiiey stopped to count their mocey,
and found that, while he had such a
large bulk aud heavy load of money, it
only counted up about fl,tM, his com
rades, who were gotdbugs, disdaining
the silver kegs, had secured such large
sums iu gold, he liecame greatly dis
turbed over bis ill luck and greatly
otfeiided at the refusal of the others to
diide their gold with him his pre
dilections for free silver had cost him
many thousands of dollars and he de
termined to turu informer. Upon in
formation furnished by this siiver king
several of the goldbugs were appre
hended aud compelled to give up their
booty, but a number of them were wise
enough to keep on going until they got
safe away from the scene of their capt
ure. "Two of these men, officers of CoL
NeaPs Sixteenth Tennessee Battalion,
weut with their mouey, amounting to
joO.OUO, to a Western tow u and estab
lished a bauklug house; the town grew
to l a great city, and these banker
liecame men of grat wealth.
"I have heard it said that they sub
sequently lost their heads In a ral
estate boom similar to that which about
the same time struck Chattanooga and
dissipated the fortunes they had built
up on their captured gold.
' Two others, whom I kntw, inet
ed t'tieir booty iu the cattle business
and letime wealthy cattle kings, while
another liecame a weal! by ptauter in
TeVts.
-The Richmond bank i-pent a hrg
sum of money in a vain elfort to recov
er their money and detect the meu w ho
had got it. Some twenty years after
the war was over they got informal n
that the bankers and boomers of the
Western city were among the men who
hal captured their money, but they
had no way of establishing the truth of
the information, the w itnesses to the
transaction could not afford to tell on
them, and so their effort to get some
thing i-ack from this source came to
nothing.
"I give you this unwritten chapter
of the civil war to show how a handful
of rebel soldiers were seized with the
Klondike fever long before the Yukon
was kuown or Alaska had become the
property of the United States."
Wages in China.
How a Chinese workman manages to
support his family and remain sleek
and fat ou the wages he receives is an
everlasting mystery to tlie European
and American. The Chinese are a
people of marvelous economy. They
will supi-rt a family, furnishing fix!.
clothes, shelter, from a small garden
which they call a f-.rm, but which in
America would not more than furnish
au American family with early vege
tables.
Iu cities the laboring men receive the
merest pittam-e. In Canton, where la
Isirers are better paid than iu oth
er parts of China, skilled workmen live
on these wages: Shoemaker, ?4 p r
month; blacksmith, jo IT month;
line ivory carver, $12 per month; tailor,
i-1 per month; tine embroiderer, $4 per
mouth; designer, $ per mouth; silver
smith, $S per month.
The Chinese are superstitious, aud
the workmen support, in addition to
their temples and pagodas and pris!s,
which receive more iu proportion than
the churches of Europe and America,
idol makers, geomanecrs, fortune tell
ers, physiognomists, soothsayers, astrol
ogers and interpreters of dreams w-ho
exist bv thousands aud coin all the
money they want. Another thing
which makes mo. ivy fir a certain class
is the Chinese cu-tom of burning great
i(uai;tilis of "spirit moLey," imitation
coins, which are supposed to be legal
tender for dea l relative. Oue city
alone employs liVjn people in making
this cash for "hosts.
Peculiar super.itii ions embarrass the
workman. For instance, carpenters
aud builders have to exercise great care
in selecting a ridgejude for a house. It
must have neither cracks nor knots,
and in it a smail hole must be made
and tilled with gold leaf and the whole
!iea:n painted red. This insur g.Kid
luck for the owner of the house.
The tea trade employs thousands of
jiersons. The laliorers receive from $
to i 10 per month, according to their
grade of work. Chicago News.
Did You Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
our troubles? If not, get a bottle now
and get relief. This medicine has been
uiid to le peculiarly adapted to the
relief and cure of all female complaints,
pxerting a wonderful direct influence
in giving strength and toue to the or
gans. If you have loss of appetite,
u-onstipatiou, headache, fainting spells,
r are nervous, sleepless, excitable.
melancholy or troubled with dizzy
lis, Electric Bitters is the medicine
i.u need. Health and strength are
uuranteed by its use. 50e. and Il.n0
t Snyder's drug store, Somerset, or at
;rallicr's drug store, Berlin.
A S:nck-ap Cat
A small, grey kitten iu Kansas City
walked luck and forth in a store w in
dow the other day; conscious of her
raceful appearance she lifted her feet
daintilv and curled her tail up over her
back. Suddenly a nole in the store
startled her, and she lowered her head
and dropped her tail, as she turned
stealthily to investigate. This was a
mistake. For the tail came iu cout'tt
w ith a piece of sticky fly paper, and all
the efforts she made to remove it but
increased her disc mtiture and humili
ation. She shook her lithe body, and
the tail was wagged vigorously, but the
paper held her foster and tighter thau
it ever held a tly. She put her fore paw
down; it stuck. Her little hind paw
came to the rescue, and was held where
it fell. Frantic and mewing piteously,
she rolled over aud over, till enwrapped
iu a drapery of flypaper, she tumbled
off the window platform and w as gone.
No one knew where or how, with but
two feet free and those ou corners diag
oually opposite, she hail managed to
get out of sight and hear ing. But she
did it, aud the flypaper weut with
lur.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
Tlie Best Salve iu the world for Cuts,
iJruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sires, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and ail Skin Erup
tions, aud js-itively cures Piies,or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or mouey refunded.
Price 2" cents per box. For sale at J.
N. Snyder's drug store. Somerset, or
at Brallier's drug store, Belin, Pa.
The old-time fallacy that night air
was injurious to health has been ex
ploded long ago. If 34 cubic inches
of air are drawn into the lungs of an
adult and then driven out at each act
of respiration, how malodorous aud
stupefying must be the air of even a
large, unventihited bedroom occupied
by oue adult long before morniug.
To give you au opportunity of test
ing the great merit of Ely's Cream,
lialm. the most reliable cure for ca
tarrh aud cold in the head, a generous
10 ceut trial size can be had of your
druggist or we mail it for 10 cts. Full
size M eeuts.
ELY BROS.,
5; Warren SL, N. Y. City.
It is the medicine of all others for ca
tarrh, and is worth its weight in gold.
I cau use Ely's Cream Balm with safe
ty and it does all that is elaimed for it
B. W. Sperry, Hartford, Conn.
If you have dedicated tlie largest
and sunniest chamber to the "some
time guest" and slept in a seven-by-uine
one yourself, don't perpetuate
the suicidal folly another day. Such a
sacrifice is not essential to ths most
beautiful hospitality.
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