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F""". trta and finol tuixU.
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BERLIN
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Ctoeral ijiejmi.
VOL. XLVI. NO. 12.
la what give Hood 'ajfersa pari 11a It great
popularity, its constantly Increasing
sales, and enable it to accomplish it
wonderful and unequalled cures. The
comoinaiion, proportion and process
U3ed In preparing Hood's Sansaparllla
mm MLmi u 10 omer medicines, and
make Hood's Sarsaparilla
Peculiar to Itself
It :urea a wide range of dint-apes because
of its power as a blood purifier. It acts
directly and positively ujion the blood,
and the blood reaches every nook and
rornerof the human system. Thus a!l
the nerves, miwln, bones and tissues
come uuder the bci.ciicent inlluence of
Sarsaparilla
T!ii Oil- Tree I'.KmmI Purfir. 1 ; six for $5.
m 4 r:u . c,;:' ,mr ea,v u
a r I Jie.ras lo u rate.
THE-
First National Bant
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Somerset, Ponn'a.
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Capital. S50.QOO.
Surplus, S28.000.
OtPCIT BECEIWt. IN LAH6C ANOSMALL
AMOUKT. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMER
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CH.KS. O. H ULL, GEO. R. RCULU
JAM U I'l'liU, W. 11. MILLKil,
JOHN K. hOTT, KOBT. H.
KUKU W. BlESEtKKB
EDWAKDKirLU : : PRESIDENT.
VALENTINE HAY, : VICE PRESIDENT.
UAKVfcY il. BKUKLKY, . CASHJE&.
Tbe funt and securities of this bank are
eurely prwU-ctd in a eeU-bmted 1rlihs IH'R-
ola B PboofS a kb. The only safe made atao
IQU b bunfUr-prooC
TteOEitet tetj Mod "
BANK
OF SOMERSET PA.
EttabliiMrf 1S77. Orfiak u i Matltusl, 1890
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Capital, - $ 50,000 00
Surplus. Undivided Profits, 23,000 00
Assets, - - 333,03333
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Chas. J. Harrison, - President.
Wm. IT. Koontz, - Vice President.
Milton J. TrUta, - - Cashier.
Geo. S. Ilarriaon, - Asa't Cashier.
Directors j
Wm. Endsley,
JoMah Spet'ht,
John H. Snyder,
Joseph 1J. Davis
Chas. W. Snyder
II. C. BeeriUt,
John StuOt,
Harrison SnyJer,
Jerome StufTt,
KoaU S. Miller,
Sain. B. Harrison.
. . thi.h.nir will mMtTthr mofct
tlla.nl trealmeotcoimisA'nt witlisnfetwuking.
lunies wiUlnB to Mriid motley t or wet
can be accouimodaled by draft tor any
amount. .
MHiey and aluaiies seeurea uj one
bold- r'lebrled safes, wilii most improved
time look. . . . .
-..ii.i.,n made In all parts of the United
Kliifo. ChHies riixlr.le.
ACCOUUIS Sua aepin wnwww.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and everythinf pertaining lo funerals furn-
Mhed.
SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door West of Lutherta Church,
Somerset, - Pa-
I Am Now
pi -ed to ipily the public
with Clock, WaUbes, ainl Jew
elry of all dKTii.Uons, as Cheap
as the Cheapest.
IlEPAIULNG A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
utock before nuiking your
purc-hasf. .
J. D. SWANK.
Auk You r
CATARRH
DRUGGIST
for a genentus
10 cent
TRIAL SIZL.
ELY'S
Cream BalM
coiiliiiH no ciMralne.
ii reu ry nor any
otuer 1 uju rloui
It i quM-Kty ,i
nrlM-a. oives lu lu I
COLD 'n HEAD
at once.
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AlUyHlnltaiuatlon. Heals and PniUf" "'e
MiiulirMiir. IU-Uire tbe ?M-nie of T:u"te
sw-ll. Kull Slae jOc TrUl Sie 1U.-. at lru
or 'v timfh
Hood's
THE PUMPZIlff PIE.
I do not sing of the knlghti of old
M ho fought for a lady's algh.
Of Uie smoke and ioie of the batUe-fleld
I slug of the pumpkin pie.
let thnw who talk of the flying yacht.
And the waters that ripple by.
SUind on" to one side till 1 tune my hurp
And sing of the pumpkin pie.
The ladies niay chew on their caramels.
Or feaxt on an oyster fry ;
The dudes may gloat on a foreign dUli,
But bring me the pumpkin pie.
When sorrow sweeps over my weary soul
And the teardrops come to my eye,
I do not sit by Uie wall and mope
I hunt for the pumpkin pie.
If I'm ever married I don't want a feast.
With dlHhes to dazzle my eye,
But I'll bike my bride to the kitchen below
And we'll dine on a pumpkin pie.
While I'm alive in this dismal world
And until tbe day I die,
I'll pin my Uitn on a future world
That Is furnUlied with pumpkin pie.
J0XES, WIDOWER.
Jones wan a luxurious fellow; be lov
etl the good things of life and hud thus
far been quite successful iu obtaining
thetu. Still, it was not the good for
tune that comes by luck that was his,
but it was the fruit of energy aud in
dustry. Jx-ft with a considerable pat
rimony, be had carefully improved hi
circumstance, until now, at the age of
3-, he was classed as one of the solid
neu of the towu iu which he had built
up his fortune.
For the Lwt two years Jones had been
a uevotea ciun man lor Jones was a
widower, and for two years home had
been a doleful place, full of the bitter
ness of bittersweet memories every
corner echoing a voice that was gone,
every room full of a vanished presence.
To-night he had not gone to the club
but loafed in his own library and ru
initiated. For, though Jones was
widower, it was his intention to re-
main such very little longer. The
echoes of the voice that was gone were
growing fainter, and he no longer felt
so sharply the inlluence of lle vanish
ed presence.
Just now he was engaged in that
venerable occupation, reviewing the
past.
He began with the wedding. He felt
again the hush of his heart as he had
felt when be had realized that Kliza
U th had given herself into his keep
ing, "lo nave and to liobi," lie wuts-
ered and his pulse beat strong. Eliza
beth looked from the shadows with the
old, sweet look of confidence and in vi
tation.
The face faded and Jones settled him
self to his neglected cigar, and, in the
smoke curls that drifted into the cor
ners, he saw visions. w
Children had come to them. He liv
ed again his hours of agony while
Elizabeth, his Elizabeth entered the
valley of pain; and his being throbbed
once more with exultant joy wheu she
had passed the valley and emerged on
the bright hilltops beyond, bearing a
precious life in her baud her pledge
of her love to him. "My brave Eliza
beth!"
Children had come to them one.
two and then a third, and Elizabeth
had found that the valley opened into
the deeper, darker valley of the Shad
ow of Death; and Jones, battled and
despairing had found that the brightest
hilltops beyond that valley were veiled
iu a mist he could not jieuetr&te.
He lived again iu the firelight here,
the dark, cold days that followed
the days that were months, the weeks
that were years, the years that were
centuries. He turned restlessly as it
flashed to him that of these centuries
there had been but two.
A tiny colli u stood in the corner there
aud Elizabeth's baby had gone to her
waiting arms. Two little, helpless
clinging girls remained lo him.
Housekeepers! His soul shuddered.
There was the tearful one, whose vocal
organs were paralyzed in his presence,
so that no conversation could be main
tained. She died, poor thing and
when she was gone he realized that she
had mitigated the toughness a little.
Still, be always thought of her, not as
m jierson, but "poor thing."
A jolly, rosy face thrust itself before
him. "Well," said a cordial voice,
will it be a permanent position?'1
Stuttering Jones had been compelled
to state that he could give no assurance
of jiermauency.
Next came the widow of tlie terrible
headgear, aud he had guttered iu si
lence. Rut since he had known Sue oh,
Sue was a jewel! She looked so haugli
tyand cold stitf, people called her.
Rut he knew how she could warm aud
glow, how her eyes could brighten,
how her cheeks could burn, aud her
ps curve distractingly. It made his
blood chase just to think, here in the
smoke, of Sue. And iu a week Sue
would be his. He swelled with pride.
He thought of his plaus of the future.
How well it was all arranged! He
dwelt with complacency on the fact
that his friends were iu the dark as to
his purpose. How discreet he and Sue
had been to l sure, and it had been
delicious, he having his sweet secret
with Sue.
"A widower is s remarked upon if he
chooses to marry; it is annoying.' Jones
had not confessed to himself that be
dreaded his friends, just now.
Jones loved to see things donede-,
cenlly and in order. He felt that this
season of rvtlection was a delicate little
attention due his past, and that he bad
proerly chosen a book he meant to lay
aside and look at no more. He threw
bis cigar into the grate, stretched him
self luxuriously and took himself to
bed.
The business day was nearly over,
when the boy announced a name anJ
Jones rose promptly aud advanced to
meet a trim little lady, with a clear,
fresh complexion and gray-blue, earn
est e-yes, whose color was matched by
the elegant gown she wore.
They proceeded at ouce to a matter
of business he bad in hand for her, aud
when that was attended to she sat
chatting for a few moments.
Jones liked Mrs. Mason. Aside from
his respect for her good sense aud his
friendship for her husband, she held
other claims upon his regard. He hail
known her long and well, aud she had
omer
SOMERSET, PA.,
been a neighbor and a dear friend of
Elizabeth.
"I hear you are to be married?" she
said, suddenly. There was qtiestiou'in
her voice, but not question that at all
doubted of being answered.
Jones chafed. It was uoue of her
business; it was meddlesome curiosity;
yet to himself acknowledging that she
had always shown unselfish interest,
ana that now he would, nay, must,
answer.
All he could attain to by his inward
rebellion was au attempt to soar light
ly above her. ' He crossed one knee
over the other, then crossed the other
over that, and said: "Well, congratu
late me, won't you?" and he succeeded
in saying it with a sort of nervous flip
pancy.
He could detect nothing but gentle
gravity aud she answered: "I cannot
do that."
He sat stiffly, thiuking that if this
were a man, he'd know pretty well
what to do with him.
"I've had experience with a step
mother myself," she went on quietly,
as if thinking aloud, aud without
thought of influencing.
Jones started. Really, it was almost
indelicate iu her to talk this way. lie-
side, he had not thought of Sue as a
step-mother. That is surely au ugly
name.
"And I could never wish any little
human being so unhappy a childhood
as I had. My stepmother was a good
woman, and her ways were right iu
her own eyes. She was cruel not
physically, of course, - but in the thou
sand aud one ways that only a person
thoroughly out of sympathy with a
child can be. I tried my little best to
please her, and then have wept my lit
tle heart out to a sympathetic pillow
at night, that nothing I could do was
pleasant to her, and that she didn't
really want to be pleased. I was simp
ly crushed. If I had not been vigor
ous I believe I would have died."
fine pauseu, ami Jones round no
words. He told himself that he had
no need, nor no wish to defend Sue to
this meddlesome woman. "If I had
not been vigorous I believe I should
have died" the words burnt him. His
ittle girls were uot vigorous.
"I have thought of your poor chil
dren many times, but I cannot come
to Elizabeth's home how. I cannot.
I should only make a spectacle of my
self."
About anything so long ago?"
thought her listener, and then tie turn
ed restlessly, as he had done last night
when he remembered that it was not
really so long ago.
"1 can never pass the house without
seeing Elizabeth's dear face just as sh-j
stood the last time I saw her. She was
wearing the pretty blue gown with tho
gay little riblious you remember."
Jones nodded.
"She leaned against the pillar at the
corner of the veranda, and talked sau
cily to me at the gate. The clematis
vine she planted at the corner you
know laid one of its clusters on her
head. Her arm was raised hadn't
Elizabeth the dearest curves to her
arms? I just waiiU-d to lay my cheek
on her wrist and kiss the whiteness
often."
Jones' face was blanched. Eliza
beth's dear arms! He felt them clasp
him! He laid again his cheek to her
wrist and kissed the whiteness.
"One other time, among the last I re
member, I had said something I had
feared had hurt her, and I apologized;
then, going home on foot, I passed
our gate just as she left the carriage.
She stopped me to speak of what had
passed, and was so sweet iu her assur
nee of her love for me I loved her
so: l rememuerjust now sue looseu;
she was entrancing; iu brown, with
plumes on her broad hat that made her
hair glisten gold and her face look
ike a lilly."
Jones' eyes burued. "Slie was so
sweet in her assurance of her love for
me" ran through his brain. "God!"
he cried to his aching heart, "I loved
her so!"
"I never see the little girls without
seeing iu them dear Elizabeth's sweet,
sweet face."
She was torturing him! his skin was
larched.
"And" she said as she rose. Jones
ifted his eyes heavily. She seemed
taller than usual; he wondered dully
at it; "to see another there Iu her place,
caring for her liowers, or perhaps neg
lecting theih; sitting in her chairs, re-
liniug on her dainty couches, presid-
ng at her place at your table; to have
on giving your homage aud love.
holding her iu your arms and melting
her with your kisses, as if Elizabeth
had never been oh, I cannot bear it.
cannot bear it?"
A sob broke ou Jones' ear; he heard
door shut loudly, and looked up to
find himself alone.
And then, to his surprise, began a
truggle, in which his native common
sense could not conquer. "Oh, Eliza
beth, Elizabeth!" his heart called.
yearningly. He walked tbe room with
uneven, restless steps. He turned nerce
ly ou au inofleusive oftlee boy: "No I
can see no one."
I le thought of Sue.
What had he seen in Sue. , What a
stilf-backed, ungraceful walk she had!
How expressionless her face almost al
ways was.
He tried to recall the passions her
isses I. ail aroused him to, uui uis
blood refused to leap aud thrilL It
struck bim now that she was a thought
too eager; there had beeu a delicious
shyness about Elizabeth that no other
woman possessed.
He recalled some woman's un-
thoughtful remark that the Simpsons
were not careful housekeepers. Heav
ens, the daintiness of Elizabeth!
His mind was a blank; bis heart was
cold, save for Elizabeth.
Consciousness came to him, but
nothing could warm his heart.
This thing was a ghastly impossi
bility. He felt, as if somnambulistic,
he had assumed an obligation he could
never meet.
He returned to his desk. He wrote,
not pausing, for he knew what he must
say. Just the shortest way to break
the chain that was all he wanted:
My Dear Miss Simpson My mar
riage with you is an impossibility. I
fear I cannot make it plain to you, but
set
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1897.
the image of mv dear wife Ellzabetl
has come to me with so much force that
1 cannot feel It right to take in her
place one for whom I feel no more af
fection than I do for you. ou cannot
be exccted to forgive what must seem
so strange to you, but at least I fee
sure you could not wish the thing to
goon under the circumstances. Ire-
main very sincerely your friend.
James Jones.
."An unpleasant business" he mused
as he dispatched it with promptness,
and sat waiting for the reply, which,
roused by such frank brutality, was
quite suflicient to conceal any hurt it
might cover :
Mr. Jones I have just received vour
odd note. As you say. I cannot lie ex-
pecied to forgive your duplicity, but I
can be thankful that I am saved from
a man who is either afflicted with a
diseased mind, or is completely under
the visionary control of moods. I am
not your friend. .
Sle Simpson,
Jones heaved a sigh actually, a sigh
of relief. "Sue has spirit; I admire
Sue!" he said heartily. ,
He walked home to dinner almost
gaily. He would live happy in the
memory of his happiness with Eliza
beth, and his dear little girls, dear re
plicas of Elizabeth, should be at once
his care aud his solace. They would
soon be companions oh, the years are
short, short!"
And Mrs. Mason? Mrs. Mason never
knew whether Jones had been engaged
or not to that girl. Rut she did feel
sure that she, Mrs. Mason, had "made
spectacle" of herself. Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
Don't Waste CoaL
The whole system of locomotion is
threatened with imminent revolution.
The two horses, one of flesh and one of
iron, one eating oats an I the other
cal, find their vocations going away
t-gether. Science threatens to burn
their carcasses ou tho same pyre.
Electricity oilers itself as a locomotive
force for the nations. The steam lo
comotive, vaunted emblem aud token
of the greatest of centuries, finds itself
ut the close about to be relegated to the
great ash heap of curiosities before
which civilization stands laughing.
But the thing is uot yet certain. We
cannot make haste to dig a grave for
the locomotive. It may ie that the
twentieth century will otill demand
that heavy, clumsy, but very efficient
brute whose olliee it has been for two
generations to carry man aud his pro
ducts to the euds of the earth. The
substitution of electricity for steam as
a motive force on the great railways
of the United Stales, which now seems
so imminent, will be, if it comes, the
most marvelous single change that has
ever occurred among the physios of
tbe civilized life of uiau. - .
Oddly enough, tbe eveut is held back
by one of the caprices of progress. The
strength of the locomotive is its imper
fection. The application of steam to
enginery is accompanied with an error
which has cost civilization more dear
ly than any other flaw iu her appara
tus. The acceptance of electricity as
the one great motive force is strongly
impeded by a circumstance which, ac
cording to all logical deductiou, ought
long since to have been obviated. This
circumstance lies in the application of
heat, or rather in the evolution of heat
and its economy in the production of
power. Fully four-fifths of all the fuel
of the world is thrown away. Tbe 70,
OOO.UUO people in the Uuited States are
burning up their owu most precious
resources with an absolute waste of
more than 80 per cent of the whole.
Victor Hugo c hided the l'arlsiaus for
seudiug annually through the sewers
2,0;X),0iJ francs into the sea. What
shall we say of the whole world
shoveling coal into the roaring throats
of 100,U)0,U)() furnaces? There Is not
au engine anywhere, or ever was, that
economizes more than 20 percent of the
fuel which it devours. John Clark
Kidp&th iu Brooklyn Times.
Sural Notes.
Look out for bristles on the man who
is forever prating about his courtesy
and great consideration for the rights
of others.
People are becoming more and more
shy of buying oor mutton, and there
fore farmers are aying more heed to
the raising and feeding of good sheep.
Although there is much in favor of
other rations oats is about the best
thing we cau give the calves. Mixed
with cornmeal it is a great milk pro
ducer for cows.
The best proof that there Is fair profit
in raising good cattle may be found in
the fact that the men who handle that
sort are not complaining about the
business.
The farmer who is making his land
richer every year is laying up the best
bank account possible. Robbing the
soil for present profits is never practic
ed by good farmers.
Sheep will injure themselves eating
salt only when a careless shepherd has
deprived them of it too long. Keep
the salt where they will take ouly so
much as is required to satisfy their
actual needs.
For Winter feed you should cut the
hay just as the seed begins to form.
After that, the food properties in the
stalk go into seed. This rule holds
good to a greater or lesser extent to all
grasses, but is especially applicable in
the case of timothy grass.
The large, coarse varieties of carrots
most used for stock feeding are not so
nutritious as is the shorthorn, which
grows most of its bulk near the surface
or slightly above it. As the shorthorn
carrot cau grow more thickly in the
row, it is nearly as productive as the
deeper setting varieties, aud it is also
more easily harvested. . Five to six
hundred bushels of the shorthorn car
rot may be grown per acre. This is a
paying crop at the usual price of this
root, Home and Farm.
Not His Fault.
Wife You told me that we would
go to the seashore every season after we
were married.
Husband And I would have kept
my promise at any cost had your fath
er known enough not to fail. Detroit
Free Press.
Vinegar and Turpentine-
It is great sport to edit a newspaper in
a town like Burlington where, for pe
cuniary reasons, police protection Ls
not spread all over the place like mush
rooms. It is more fun than chewing
tobacco or swinging in a hammock with
a beautiful silly girl who wants to talk
dress, lawn tenuis and boys all the
time. It is more fun than seeing "l'n
cle Tom's Cabin" walloped over the
stage by borne talent It is more fun
man Having a carbuncle, it is more
than most anything.
The other day an awful looking man
entered the sanctum. He was six feet
high, four inches thick, and had a crop
of suu-burued whiskers that would
have made a good adornment for a
mythological god. He was mad.
Every second or so he spat out chunks
of froth like lava from the volcano
Vesuvius.
"Are you the dod-derntd guloot what
runs this paper? he demanded in a
voice that had evidently Wen dug out
of a prehistoric cemetery aud turned
up on the grindstone.
The man at the desk quietly oened
a drawer that contained some stones,
brick bats and chunks of scrap-iron,
and sweetly replied that he was the in
dividual. "Then you are the all-11 red skunk,
the dod- blasted weasel, the ram-jam
med, half-hatched turkey-buzzard that
I am look in' for; I want I want "
Want to jiay your bill?" suggested
the editor, "let me see your name is
Smith; all right, Smithy, 2S years at
11.50 a year, makes just "
"I want to know if you are the son-
of gun who put that piece iu the Ga
zette about equal parts of vinegar and
turpentine spread ou ows would keep
the flies t.llV"
Yes, oh, yes," replied the man at
the desk eagerly, "how did she work?"
The memory of it made the man
madder. He began to froth ut the
mouth grit his scantily-located molars,
wave his hands and stamp his feet.
The newspaper man saw visions of
grim death from apoplexy.
How did it work! How did it
work!" he screeched out in regular lo-
eomotivj style, "It worked beautifully,
mostd -d beautifully! I read that
thing in your cus.-d paper, and bavin'
more pesky flies than my cows could
kick olf in a mouth, I concluded to try
it. I made a whole barrel, and when
the boy brought tbe cows up for milk
ing, I just took a tree sprayer and
squirted them all full of it from head
to tail, bull, billygoat aud all"
"Well! Well! Well what do you sup
pose? It took that turpentme
about a minute to get down to
business. The cows squirmed, twisted
and bellowed; the bull started to hook
everything in sight, and the billygoat
ust butted the barn, spit, sputtered
and bleated like mad. Then they all
umped over the barnyard fence at a
lick, aud with heads up and tails
switch in' they ripped through the
cornfield, across the medder into the
woods and I guess they are going yet.
hain't seen 'em or got any milk
since, and I'm going to sue this pajr
to recover damages!"
"Did it keep the flies off?" anxiously
asked the man at the desk.
"Keep 'em orT! Why gol darn your
ugly tripe, there aiu't a fly ou earth
that could keep up with them cows the
way they were going after they jump
ed out of the barnyard !'
The lauk farmer ordered his paper
stopped, spat a quart of tobacco juice
on the door, aud left the oilice with a
General Wevler air. while the man at
the desk commenced au article ou
"Tbe Vagaries of Hainan Existeao."
Ruriingtou, X. J. Gazette.
Trouble For His Honesty.
"A queer thing hapjHMied to me,"
said Bailey, lighting a fresh cigar. "It
was only one of those incidents of street
travel that might happen to any one,
but annoying from the misconstruction
put upon it."
"Let's hear it," said the other fel
lows, making themselves comfort
able.
"I was ridiug on the electric," said
Bailey, "and iu the seat oposite was a
pretty girl."
"Oh, you consider yourself a judge?"
remarked one of the crowd.
'I certainly do, aud I let her see
that I appreciated her good looks. Rut
my admiration made no impression.
Tlie young woman busied herself in get
ting her fare ready, aud I watched her
as she deftly extracted a dime from her
pocket book and held it on the palm of
a pretty hand, ready for the conduct
or."
"You were hit hard, Bailey."
"Then I bethought me of my own
fare, aud as I was holding a newspaper
in my hand I rose aud dived down
into my pocket for a nickpL The con
ductor came along and I banded It to
him just as my vis-a-vis said:
"What has become of my 10 cents?"
"There she sat staring at her hand,
which was no longer occupied by the
piece of silver. We all looked for it,
but it had disappeared, and she found a
nickel with which she paid her fare.
At that moment I slipped my baud into
my overcoat pocket and found there
the 10 cent piece."
'How could you identify it?" asked
one of the boys.
I never carry money in au outside
pocket. Resides it had not been there
a moment before. No, I knew how it
happened. My paper had whisked it
from her hand, and it had dropped
from it to my pocket, as I explained to
her
'Was she surprised? What did she
say?"
"Roys, I can't tell you all she said.
Piyase don't ask me. She remarked
that no one could judge by appearances.
and she hoped it was my first-begin
ning in a life of crime; that if I bad
beeu hardened I would uot have re
turned it to her, but that probably I
saw that she suspected me, and a lot
more, while the fellows in the other
seats were guying me. Rut you can
bet your bottom dollar I never rind
any woman's money and return it to
her again. Not much, Mary Ann."
Chicago Times-Herald.
era
Darker View of Alaska.
J. C. Widstead, who since 1S!1 has
been superintendent of the United
States reindeer farm in Alaska, is of
the opinion that the stories of gold dis
coveries are exaggerated aud that with
the rus'j of people to the field this sum
mer there will be great sutfering among
large numlier of them before they re-
turn to their homes.
"Many of the fortune hunters," said
Mr. Widstead, "will return with far
more of experience than of the gold.
The resources of the country are great
and much gold undoubtedly has beeu
brought back, but only the successful
miners have given their story to the
public and the many hardships, com
bined with failure, have been only half
told. It u no place for au old miner,
but the young man, tempted by fortune
has a prospect to nerve him up to the
point of enduring the hardships inci
dent to the trip. Most people have uo
idea of the endurance required for a
trip iuto the gold country, and it s-eius
that they fail to realize that they w ill
be thousands of miles from civilization
aud entirely ujsm their own resources.
"Many of them are densely ignorant
of what sort of country they are going
into. This Is illustrated by the case of
a man who recently took his bicycle
with him. You can deend Uxn it
that he will be overcome the first
week alter landing. I honestly lielieve
that a person with a good iositioii
should stay where he is."
In the opinion of Mr. Widstead the
fortunes made In the early fur trade of
the Northwest Territories will be m ire
than duplicated by the Alaskan trad
ing companies. Just before he left last
spring two small v ess. Is remained las
than two weeks at Saudspit and did a
business amounting to nearly $1iW,ij
with the whalers coming farther north.
The Saudspit Is a natural harbor, a
short distance lielow the station where
Mr. Widstead was located, and the
whalers who have been operating in
the water to the north go there for
supplies and to transfer their return
cargo. These two boats took back a
cargo which included SVS.OuO worth of
whalebone, 11 bags of all Lind-t of furs,
3 hogsheads of ivory ami 4S bearskins.
valued at iJJ to $ K) each. Each bag of
fur contained about 500 skins, aud one
especially rare specimeu of fox fur sold
iu Loudon for i'oi. The ivory was
walrus tusks of the finest quality.
Iu some ways the jmnitiou of Mr. Wid
stead is not one to be envied, as there
were only three white men ou the rein
deer farm. The farm is a barren tract
of land only one degree s-nith of the
arctic circle, and it is here that the
reiudeer are cared for and with the pro
tection given them they ..rapidly in
crease. The farm was originally start
ed to give the Eskimos some profitable
occupation, but from the start was so
successful that its practical side was de
veloped. The reindeer are now dis
tributed from the farm to the mission
station, and there is uo danger of their
liecoming extinct.
Wheu the farm was started in Wd,
the government secured 17 reindeers,
and these by purchase and breeding
iucreased until lxt fall there were I,
17",. By this time there are probably
2,000 of the animals. A herd has been
given to one of the Eskimos, and he
has lieen very successlul in his care of
it. Under the government direction it
is expected that this highly useful ani
mal will increase until all demands in
that country can be supplied. Chicago
Record.
Size of the Universe.
Of all the open-air problems of nature
which appeal alike to the scientific-and
unscientific, none is more impressive
than that suggested by the grandeur of
a star-light night, What are the stars,
how distant are they, how far beyond
our vision do they reach into space?
Iu au address receutly given by Prof.
Simon Newcomb he traced the attempts
ruide to measure the distauee of the
stars from the earth, and added the
striking observation that "evidence is
accumulating which points to the
probability that the succesive orders of
smaller and smaller atari, which our
continually-increasing telescopic power
brings into view, are not situ: ted at
greater aud greater distances, but that
we actually see the boundary of our
universe." This remarkable statement
has begun to attract attention, and it
would be interesting to know what the
evidence is to which Prof. Newcomb
refers. We were only just beginning,
after centuries of mediieval superstition,
to get over the idea that the earth was
the centre of the universe, and that the
stars w ere specially created for its edi
fication. The more general belief nowadays is
that space extends infiuitely in all di
rections there is no reason why we
should understand what "infinitely"
means and that everywhere there are
worlds. Prof. Newcomb himself, in
the succeeding passage to the above,
gives some idea of tbe vastness of stellar
spaca. Ly ing on the deck of a steamer
he says, and gazing up at the constella
tion Lyra, he has often tried to calcu
late out how many millious of years it
would take his ship to get there, forget
ting all the time that the earth was
traveling iu that very direction at a
speed compared to which a steamship
Is extremely slow.
Through every year, every hour,
every minute of human history since
the first appearance of man ou the
earth, from the era of the builders of
the Pyramids, through the times of
Ctesar and Hannibal, not merely our
earth, but the suu aud the whole solar
system with it, have been speeding
their way toward the star Lyra on a
journey of which we know neither the
beginuing nor the end. During every
clock beat it moves ou this journey by
an amount which we cannot specify
more exactly than to say that it is prob
ably between Ave and nine miles per
second. When shall we get
there? Probably iu less than a million
years. Perhaps in half a million.
In cases of burns aud sprains, scalds
or any of the other accidental pains
likely to come to the human body, Dr.
Thomas' Electric Oil gives almost in
stant relief.
AO.
WHOLE NO. 2105.
A Burst of Sarcasm-
Kmni the Waiihlngtoa SUr.
The "sculptor's friend found him sit
ting in idleness with an expression that
was distinctly sardonic.
"What's the matter?" was the in
quiry. "Nothing to do?"
"Yes. I have plenty to do. Rut
' 'hat Is the use of doing it?"
"Never mind. Posterity will appre
ciate you."
"That's what I told the man who
runs the hotel where I live. He said
he thought so, too. Rut he also re
marked that posterity is likely to have
a great deal to think about, and won't
take the trouble to give tini the share
iu my glory that he unquestionably de
serves for having trusted me for my
Umr.L"
'-Perhaps your next work will bring
you success."
"No. Rut I have a fine idea aud I
am going to carry the effort to a con
clusion." "What is it?"
"A statue representing Adam. Of
course, I don't exjiect that it will bring
me auy recognition. I can't depict
him as wearing golf stockings or check
ed trousers or a Prince Albert coat, or
any of the other things that are consid
ered essential in modern art. But I
am going ahead to make the statue for
my own satisfaction."
"Then why are you uot busy alssjt
it?"
"I had dropped into a reverie when
you arrived."
"A sentimental oiood?"
"No. I was thinking about my sub-
j'ft. I was thinking of what a lucky
thing it was for Adam that when he
first made his appearance in clay there
was no committee to come around and
und rtake tocusi"ii him to oblivion."
The Toad a Valuable Frienl
Tlie Massachusetts experiment sta
tion, which examiii'd with a micro-
scojie the contents of the stomachs of 7
toads i:i Apr:!, ') in May, ii i:i June, lil
in July, 10 iu August aud 7 in Septem
ber U: in all found that M per cent
of the toad s food corisL-t of harmful
insects and 11 per cent was of such
beneficial insects as bees, spiders, lady
bujs, etc.
The stomach that doesn't flinch at
yellow jackets, w a-jw, blisters, beetles
and click beetles, or pinch bugs, would
seem to be prepared for a'lything in
the insect line, and it doubtless Is.
The quantity of food that a toad's
stomach can acomniodate is remarka
ble. In one were found 77 myriapods,
in another -V army worms, iu another
" KiTy moth caterpillars, in another
U aiiiA,-. cut wur-us, o uiyriapuds, li
sow -bugs, oae weevil and oue wire
wcrm beetle.
Iu twenty-four hoars the toad con
sumesenoug'i food to till its stomach
four tiiU'.-s. Feeding at the rate above
mentioned, a single toad will iu three
months devour over I0.!J insects. If
every leu of these would have done lc
damage, the toad has saved jlO.
Evidently the toad is a valuable
friend to the farmer, gardener and
fruit-grower, and can 1 made especial
ly useful in the greenhouse, garden
aud berry patch.
Mica Yet toDj.
On a vast plain the o.V,000,0ii0 sub
jects of (juetn Victoria are assembled
before her throne, and oa a table near
the throue are the five sacred books of
the East the Bible, the Verbis, the
Korau, the Tripitakas, aud the Zend
A vesta. Rising from her throne the
tjueen says: "L-.-t all thosj who be
lieve ia the divine in-pirati :i of the
Vet las take their sacred Uioks au 1 pass
out and away," aud 2W,0;xj,0j.) g. out
while but 1"iO,iXW,0 remain. Sadly
the Christian queen agaiu speaks:
"Let those who believe in the Koran
now leave." Her grief increases as
ud.iXW.OJ!) more g out, aud agaiu there
is au exodus of those who l-elieve in
theTripitaka, the sacred Kak of the
Buddhists, and in the Zend A vesta, tlie
Parsee Bible fc),0vX),'J more. Oat of
:V),OJ0,iJ0 only 50,000,000 remain who
accept thescripiuresof the Old and New
Testament as their Bible; and only a
part of these are heart believers in God's
book. This parable shows that tlie
disciples of Jesus still have much to do
liefore it cau be said that the glad tid
ings have ado ('.lately been made knowu
to every creature. The Advance.
The Tnie Remedy.
W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, 111.,
"Chief," says: "We won't keep house
without D:. Kiug's Ne Discovery for
consumption, coughs and colds. Ex
perimented with many others, but
never got the true remedy until we
used Dr. King's New Discovery. No
other remedy can take its place iu our
home, as iu it we have a certain aud
sure cure for coughs, colds, whooping
cough, etc." It is idle to experiment
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 lides is guaran
teed. It never fails to satisfy. Trial
bottles free at Snyder's drug store,
Somerset, or at Rrallier's drug store',
Berlin.
Kept His Word.
"When I heard the bicycle bell I
just stood on my rights and refused to
move, threatening at the same time
that if he ran iuto me I'd smash his
machine."
"Well?"
"I kept my word. He ran into me
aud I smashed the machine."
"What did he do?"
"He gathered it together."
"Rut you?"
"Oh," sadly, "they gather me to
gether, too." Philadelphia North
American.
Offered a Bargain.
"Do you think it's true that every
man has his price?" asked the heiress.
"I'm sure I dou't know," he answer
ed thoughtfully, "but if you want a
bargain you needn't look any farther."
Chicago Poet.
Prom the Philadelphia Ib-cnrd.
When cows have bred and appear to
!-; barren the cause is usually that they
have h-eti made t' fat or kept too
closely in the barnyard without exer
cise. It is a waste of food to give cow
grain twice a day if they are not in full
flow of milk. When very fat, cows
will do bent on a pasture of scanty
herbage, on which they must travel
about for their food.
Every farmer who goes into del-t, or
mortgages his farm, should keep in
view th fact that ssier or later a
time will arrive when that debt must
1 paid. If capital Ls neelcd to oper
ate the farm the amotint borrowed
should be as small as possible, aud tho
ability to cancel the obligation in the
future should be carefully considered.
If a farmer will, or must, go in debt
the safest method will lie to invest in
manure or fertilizers, as the crops will
thereby Is? increased and the farm be
come more valuable.
The varieties of cantaloupes differ
very much. Those that are the most
attractive iu appearauce may tie defi
cient in quality. Tlie little Jenny
Lind and Netted Gem are of fine fla
vor ami excellent quality, but are
small. One of the best varieties is Ihn
Emerald Gem, which is of medium
size, dark in appearau of rind and
not very attractive, but is always a fav
orite with those who grow it. As soon
as ripe the melon loosens itself from
the vine, a peculiarity of the Emerald
Gem only.
Tlie value of trees does not solely de
pend u(miu the amount of fruit that can
be derived therefrom. Trees are orna
mental, provide shade, and give value
to the farm from several stand jioint.
A farm bare of trees will not be valued
at one-half the sum that would be esti
mated for one that contains them.
The first ot of trees is Imt little, and
in proportion to the capital iu vested
iu them the increased value of the
farm may le ten or a hundred-fold.
2uinccs are usually scarce in market
and far Is-Iow the demand. Not one
farm in a hundred contains a quince
tree, yet the trees will thrive well on
nearly all soils if the borers are pre
vented aud care liestowed, though the
quince, like other fruit, thrives best ou
soils that are not too wet.
The cows must first pay for their
Uiard U-fore the profit is giveu. If the
fiasl eaten d;s not come hack to the
fanner in milk and butter in suflicient
amounts to give a return for the cost
( including shelter and Ltlior) the un
profitable cows should be taken out if
the herd.
Evergreen hedges will last for years
if they aJe kept iu gfd condition by
careful trimming. The great sitsirge of
hedges Is the la.-ket worm, which can
however, I easily kqt iu check, but
which is not done by all, the result be
ing that the hedges in an eutire com
munity are sometimes ruined by the
negligence of a few.
If weeds are allowed to become dry
before they are turned under they will
rob the land of fertility, but if plowed
uuder when green they will quickly
decompose and restore to the land that
of which the land was deprived. Ry
plow ing under the green weeds there
will le P- seeds.
The hay press Is a valuable machine
ou farms from which hay is sold. It
copts more to load and unload lwwe
hay on wagon than the hay is worth
sometimes, especially if it is to be haul
ed to a distance, but the bales are han
dled easily and q-iiekly and save much,
labo'.
A merino ram sold for fS,000 in Sid
ney, and at other points iu Australia
from $0O) to jfVM) have been paid
for rams. These prices are high, but
the sheep breeders did not make any
considerable profit until they began to
buy the best rams in other iuutries.
Millet should now be ready to cut.
but if there is an abudance of hay and
other feeding material it will be an ex
cellent experiment to plow, the millet
under aud then broadcast lime liberal
ly over the surface of tlie laud, sowing
rye or crimson clover after applying
the lime. The lime and millet will in
crease humus in the soil aud improve
it iu several ways.
Apples need not be wasted. Those
that cau not be sold cau be converted
into vinegar. Good cider vinegar is
not as plentiful as oue may be suppotsf,
the market being supplied with imita
tatious of inferior kinds. Only good
apples should be used fr choice vine
gar. There is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other disesases
put together, aud until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pron
ounced it a local dlstase, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly fail
ing to cure with local treatment, pro
nounced it incurable. Science has prov
en catarrh a constitutional disease, and,
therefore, requires constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufac
tured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on
the market It is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to a tcaspoonful.
Il acts directly on the bl'oal and mucous
surfaces of the system. They olfer oue
hundred dollars for any case of catarrh
it fails to cure. Send lor circulars and
testimonials. Address
F.J. CHENEY A CO.,
Toledo, O.
ejarSold by druggists, 7oc
Something for Nothing.
"You can't get something for noth
ing," remarked the man who gives ad
vice. "My wife thinks she can," said Mr.
Meekton, with uu usual cynicism, "and
of course, I don't say she isn't right
wheu she says she achieved it"
"When did she make the experi
ment?" "Yesterday. She bought me a neck
tie." Washington Star.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
The Rest Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sires, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands
Chilblains, Corns aud all Skin Erup
tions and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or uiouey refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale at J.
N. Snyder's drug store. Somerset, or
at Rrallier's drug store, Relin, Pa.
More Wisdom.
"What is an old-fashioued patriot?"
"Well, he is a fellow who doseu't be
lieve that baseball ought to go ahead of
sUtesnjaoshlp." Detroit Free Pros.
ELY 1HUTU I Warren nira.i,. i-