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oa, uiaJ- m uuitTM'U ik-uioiU aul aA)Oio-
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, AlfORNEY-AT-LAW,
tSomerwet, Pa.
va pnu-'urt- in Somerset and adjoining
fccuut. A.i tuMm eutrusteu lo iiim will
eive ;ruiupi alw-iiUon.
A H. OOKFRt-iTH. W. H. KCPPE1-
J AlluKNtYb-Al-ULW,
Bouieniet, Pa.
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oa Hu cruo. hi reel, opouuU) tlnmiiiulii
JW. CAHU1HEIK, M. D.,
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Somerset, Pa.
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Somerset, Pa.
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Kuneral Director.
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Capital, S50.000
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DCrOBITS RCCCIVC: IN LAMttC ANDSMALl
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ACCOUNTS OP MERCHANTS, FARM CHS,
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-DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CHA8. O. SCCIX, GEO. R. SCX'LL,
JAMES U PfUU, V. H. MILXEU,
JOHN K. SOOTT, KOBT. a 8CITLU,
FKED W. BlKSEckER
EDWARD StXLL, : : PRESIDENT.
VALENTINE HAY, : VICB PRESIDENT.
HARVEY St. BERKLEY, . CASHIER,
The funds and sec art tie. of this bank are se
curely protected in a celebrated C0KLI88 BtTE
olak Pkoof Safk. The only safe made abso
lutely buntlar-proof.
Tl8 Somerset CcMy National
BANK
OF SOMERSET PA.
EitablUssd 1877. OriM!" iAtOoiil, 1890
Capital, - $ 50,000 00
Surplus & Undivided Profits, 23,000 00
Assets, - - 333,33333
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dios. J. Harrison, - President.
Wm. II. Koontz, - Vice President.
Milton J. Pritts, - - Cashier.
Geo. S. Harrison, - Asa't Cashier.
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Directors ,
Wm. Endsley, Chas. W. Snyder
Joeiah Specht, II. C. BeeriUs
John H. Snyder, John Stafil,
Joseph B. Davis, Harrison bnyder,
Jerome Stufll, Noah S. Miller,
Kara. B. Harrison.
rnMvnunnrthlihnk will receive t hp m(wt
liberal treatment consisu-nt witn safe bauking.
Parties wikIiiuk to seim nioney owuir
can ue accomiuouaiea ujr umv u;
.mount. . . ,
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hold's celebrated sales, with mo.t improved
time lock. ,
iMlectiona made In all parts Of the United
State. Charlies moderate.
Accounts and aepo&iut soucitra.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and everything pertaining to funerals furn
ished.
SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Ooor West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
jirtpared to supply the public
w ith Clocks, Watches, and Jew
elry of all deHcriptlons, as Cheap
as the Cheapest.
REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
stock before making your
purchases.
J. D. SWANK.
BERLIN
Marble& Granite
...WORKS...
ESTABLISHED 1878. THE OLD AND REUABLE-
-O-
Tliia is the 30lh year os my buai
uess at Berlin, ftnd I deMire to
make it the banuer year to vol
ume of busina. I ba there
fore decided to let protit go, and
as a token of my appreciation of
the largo patronage that I have
enjoyed throughout tbo county, to
run the business iu the interest
of my patrons. I have instructed
iny manager and salesman to fig
ure work at a price that will sim
ply cover
ACTUAL COST
Now is your lime to buy to in
sure the erection of fi rut-class
piece of work at COCsT PRICE.
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E- II. KOONTZ,
Propriet or.
F. C. I0LUKCEK, Maaatcr r Works.
JOHR 0. KEEFIR. Stnsrai Salesman
WHEKTBSS
For aTl Btuocs aod Knrmi
DisaASCS. Tbey prify th
Blood sad give Hsaltht
action to the enure srstca.
Cure DYSPEPSIA, HEADACHE,
COHSTIPATIOH . nclPlj(IPL.ES.
Wanted-An Idea
W esa tblsk
Ifclofr to pstr-.il?
rmt tonr Mmi- tbrr n brlu roa wsslil
Wrtle JOHN WaoDEKlflTIl.1 a CO, Psunt AUor
mrt, Wsahlacton, I. C . Ibelr pris. vCsr
ut Imo auadrsd LsrsaUous waalsO.
PILL!
THE LAND OF "MAKE BELIEVE."
It lies In the distance dim and svect,
m tbe borders of Long Ago,
And the road is worn by the little feet
That have journeyed there to and fro;
And though 3 oil may seek it by night or day
The Uutk. yon will never achieve.
For only the little ones know the way
To tbe land of "Make Be'leve."
Clad in their armor of Faith they ride
On the wings of their far cy fleet.
And we hear, as we listen and wait ouUld,
The echo of laughter sweet.
It lightens (lie lurdens of toil we bear,
lt brightens the hearts that grieve ;
Ti l we wish we could follow and enter there
In the land of "Make Believe,"
And oh, the wonderful tales that are told
t f the marvelous sights they see ! ..
For the weak grow strong and the young grow
old.
And are each what they wih to be.
Oli, the deeds of valor, the mighty things
Too bold for mind to conceive !
But these are everyday happenings
In the land of "Make Believe."
Would you follow the print of the tiny feet?
You must wulk as they, undenled.
Would yon join in their fancies pure and
sweet?
You must be as a little child.
But in vain should we seek it by night or day.
The tusk we should never achieve ;
KtT only the little one kuow tbe a ay
To the kind of -Make Believe."
Youth's Compaulon.
THE TRAGEDY
OF BUCK ISLAND.
J NO. A. VTYETH IN HARPER'S WEEKLY.
Id northern Alabama the Ten
river makes its great southern sweep.
Oa the map the outliue of the pictur
esque stream is not unlike a grape
vine swing, with one end tangled
among the mountains of Virginia and
North Carolina and the other looped
over the Ohio at Tadueah.
The seat of the swing is in Marshall
county; for here, after fretting its way
for hundreds of miles in and out among
the mountains of the Appalachian
range, tearing bold Lookout in twain
for daring to stretch his giant form
aoross its path, baflled at Last in its wild
rush to the southern gulf, uuJ neern
ingly broken in spirit, it turns with
slackened and reluctant flow back to
tbe north, where, with the Ohio, it
joins in common tribute to the Father
of Waters.
Just in this bend of the river is a
group of Islands varying iu size from.
one-half a mile to as much as two miles
or more iu length, and from one-quarter
to one-half of a mile iu breadth. They
are among the most fertile of all the
southern lands, receiving with each
annual inundation, when in early
s-pring the snow in the northern moun
tains melbs a rich alluvial deposit giv
ing year after year back to the soil the
elements which a rank vegetation ab
stracts for its nutrition.
"Buck Island" is one of this cluster,
and contains about eighty acres of
ground. It was uamed in honor of a
inning old stag, which, in its dense
eanebrakes in the early settlement of
the country, long eluded death from
the huntsman's riik-and hounds. It is
now cleared and cultivated, paying rich
tribute in corn to the farmers' indust
ry. At the time of which I write,
however, it was almost wholly covered
with a heavy forest of tall oak, hickory
and gum trees, of which the leafy tops
shut out the rays of the summer sun.
while the soil from which they sprung
was hidden in a wilderness, of cane
from ten to thirty feet high, and so
thick that in many places a man could
not penetrate unless with axe or hunting-knife
he cut his way. In the early
days, when the frosts killed the grasses
on the uplands, the farmers drove their
cattle into these islands for winter pas
turage, where, upon the rich perennial
cane, they fattened until the freshets
of fpricg forced them again t- the
higher ground for safety.
In 13 4 the storm of war struck
North Alabama. It found it a para
dise of pleuty, aud left it a wasted,
blackened, aud desolate land. None
but those who knew the fertile and
beautiful "Valley of the Tennessee, in
the days of the old regime, when its
prosperity was a marvel, when its hill
sides were burdened with fruit and
foliage, and tiie vast plantations were
white with suowy cotton or yellow
with tasselliug corn, and then revisit
ed it after Appomattox, can realize the
change which had transpired.
As I rode through the valley, early
in IsCj, it seemed one vast burying
ground of the hopes, the happiness,
and the wealth of a jwople once pros
perous. From a single elevation I
counted the chimneys of seven ditler
ent plantation homes, standing like
gravestones over the ashes that were
heaped about them.
Now and then I passed a farm-house
which had escaped the general ruiu,
aud more frequently a rud shanty but
recently adjusted to a chimney several
aies too tall for it, or a cabin construct
ed of small logs, and covered with split
boards htld on the roof by weight-poles
iu lieu of nails. Fences and palings
were gone, and over Gelds and gardens
and yards stretched an almost broken
tatigle of weeds aud briers. Nor were
the towns exempt; w ithin a radius of
thirty miles, (Juntersville, Vienna,
Woodville, Camden, Lrkinsvil!e,
ISellefonte, Steveuson, Soottsboro', and
Claysville, all thriving towns were
i ped ou t by fi re. Aud, saddest of all
eame untimely and undeserved death
to many unarmed, helpless, and inno
cent cilizous; for the most cruel and
most uncivil of all things is civil war.
There were among the poorest and
most illiterate class in Northern Ala
bama goodly number who, while not
caring particularly whether the Union
was to be maintained or not, were very
particular in keeping out of the Confed
erate service. They hld it was a slave
holders' war, and as they never owned
and never expected to own a slave,
they did not why they should do
any of the fighting.
When tbe conscription laws were en
forced lliey dodged the enrolling offi
cers, and when pressed too closely they
left their homes and hid out in the
mountains aud caves or in the cane-
brakes iu the valley. When the South
ern fonvs were driven out of this sec
tion, anJ their cause was waning, these
fugitives ffl out of their hiding
plaot, took aides with the Federal
vtldies-rt, went with them as scouts or
guide, "Ton their own responsibility
SOMERSET, PA.,
organized bands of cutthroats and ma
rauders, plundering the homes of sol
diere, their former neighbors, now off
in the Confederate army, driving away
their cattle, appropriating their sup
plies, and at times murdering the men
too old or the boys too young to be in
their service, or any unfortunate sot
dier who, with or without a furlough
had slipped through the line to make
a hurried visit to the wife and childreu
or parents from whom he had been long
separated.
Of these marauders "old lien Harris"
was the acknowledged chief and lead
er. In all the annals of crime proba
bly no more cold-blooded, heartless,
and inhuman brute ever trod the
earth. He lived near Vienna, on Point
Itock River, fifteen miles from my
father's home, aud of course knew the
roads and paths and trails throughout
this section, and the "lost ferries" ou
the Tennesse, He was invaluable as a
guide to the Union soldiers. He knew
"Buck Island," too, as will appear,
aud what I am about to relate is only
one of the many bloody deeds of this
bloody villian.
My witness is Mr. C. L. Hardcastle,
who now lives near Uurley's a station
on the Memphis and Charleston rail
road. Few men have had such a
thrilling experience as this man, and
fewer would wish to repeat it,
I knew the Kodeus, all of whom were
killed, and the fact of their murder is
well known to every one in and about
this section.
As Hardcastle was also shot, and left
for dead, and survived this frightful
ordeal, I hunted him up in 1802, aud
had him write me his story. It is this:
"On the mst of December, 1N13, I
was at home ou furlough. My people
at that time were living iu Marshall
county, Alabama, ou the northern side
of the Teunessee river. About ten
days before the expiration ot my leave
of absence we were alarmed by thesud
deu appearauce in our neighborhood of
the notorious Ben Harris and his gang
of marauders. Knowing that if we
were caught we would iu all probabili
ty share the fate of many others who
who had been killed by this murderer,
I, together with James M. ltjden and
1'orter Itoden, sought refuge in Buck
Islaud, where Ben Itoden had already
driven his cattle, and constructed a
rude cabin for the shelter of himself
and family iu case of necessity, aud iu
order to prevent his cattle from being
stolen by various parties of foragers.
''At this place of concealment we
were joined by the old Mr. Ben Itoden
himself, shortly after we arrived there.
We remained here in supposed security
until tbe morning of December 27,
when, about two o'clock, we were
aroused from our sleep by a knocking
at tbe door and a demand for our sur
render. To our dismay, we found that
we were iu the hands of Ben Harris!
"He demanded to kuow the place
where we had concealed our boat, and
we were promised our lives if we would
aid him and his men iu raising the
boat, whicii we had sunk, and ferrying
the stock from the island to the north
bank of the river. He was accompan
ied by a squadron of men in the uni
form of United States cavalry, f
"After we hail accomplished this
work we were taken a few hundred
yards down the river-bank, aud were
then informed that we had to be shot.
It so happened that old Mr. Koden had
long been acquainted with Captain
Harris, and he asked him to step aside
that he might speak with him private
ly; but his plea for our lives was in vain.
When he returned he told us that our
case was hopeless, and that we were
condemned lo be shot, aud we all then
saw that the object of Harris iu shoot-
ug us was to prevent it being known.
when the war might be over, that he
had taken cattle aud property belong
ing to Mr. Itoden. Harris stated to us
that if any of us wanted to pray, we
could do so, and that if we had any
thing that we wished to send to our
people, they would take it to them for
any of us. Porter Itoden gave them
several things to carry back to his wife
aud little children. I have since learn
ed that they never gave these things to
the widow they had made.
"Iu looking back over this horrible
experience it still seems to me tne
prayer Porter Itoden made for himself,
aud for ail of us, as we stood here with
in a few miuutes of eternity, was oue
of the most earnest appeals to the mer
cy of the Eternal Judge of Mau that
ever fell from the lips of mortal. When
he had finished we faced theni, aud as
we stood iu line it so happened that I
was the last one at the end iu the right
of the line, Harris aud his men began
the shooting from the head of the line,
aud shot them all from two to four
times each with their pistols. I being
at the foot of the line was the last one,
and at the flash of the first pistol-shot
aimed at me at close range I fell to the
ground as if dead. The ball, which
wounded me, passed through my right
arm, for I turned sideways to them as
they shot me, and the bullet cut the
artery in my arm. When they were
dragging our bodies to throw them into
the river, they stopped to feel my pulse
but, fortunately for me, they felt the
side which had already been wounded.
As the pulsation at the wrist was ab
sent, they threw me with the others
into tbe river, like so many hogs. As
I was plunged in the water unfortu
nately I became slightly strangled and
coughed. Some one said, 'Stick your
sabre into his d d body,' but I had
floated out from the bank, beyond the
reach of this weapon, when they shot at
me again but missed me. As they
fired I held my breath and sank under
the water, and tbey turned and left me
for dead.
"I floated under some drift-wood
which had caught in the trees ou the
bank of the river, and under this brush
I succeeded in concealing myself where
I could get air until sufficient time bad
elapsed for them to get away. I was so
jrreatly weakened from the cold (for
this was winter) and from the loss of
Vt this per' oil all traffic across tt. river
was stopped, aud toe lerry bonis were atiitled
and concealed in portuitts of the liver lilttlcult
.jma. and known oolv to a lew. When It
beoiiue necessary for oue of lite lillU Oed to
cross the river, the hole was pmgxvd, the
water bailed out, and wheo I tie ;iusite
side sras reached tbe plug was einorU. and
the boat again sank to the level of the ter;
nenoe the uaiue, "H ierry."
tUarris and his gang wer not eulU'ed In
the L iuonanny.
ESTABLISHED 3827.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 211. 1897.
blood that I was scarcely able to reach
the bank and crawl out of the water.
How loug I remained upon the ground
I scarcely know, but it seemed like a
long time before I was able to travel
about one mile to the house of my
brother-in-law, Mr. J. II. Stearns, and
there got some stimulants, food, aud
dry clothes. My friends then went
with me to the river, where I got a
boat and was ferried to the other side."
Such, with very slight changes in
phraseology, is the simple story of this
remarkable experience. Few persons
have ever gone so far Into the "Valley
of the shadow of death" and then re
turned. No doubt it was to the wonder
ful presence of mind of this unassum
ing and plain countryman that he owed
his preservation. Many a man would
have given up at once, lost bis self-con
trol, aud submitted perhaps with equal
courage to his fate. But this mau de
termined at the first crack of the pistol
fired at him to drop as if dead, and did,
courageously, notwithstanding, the
wound which had disabled hint, and
with two or three other shots fired at
his supposed inanimate body, remain
perfectly still, and by so doiug saved
his life. Despite this wound and two
others received In battle he survived to
give to the world a true account of this
horrible massacre, only one of many of
like ferocity which swept men to un
timely death, and left mothers and
wives and children helpless and broken
hearted. Such was our war; such are
all wars .
Speaking of Silver.
The explanation made officially, yes
terday, by the governor of the Bauk of
England, of the proposal which the
officers of the bank are considering, to
hold one-fifth of its note reserve in sil
ver, puts the matter in a light quite
diflerent from that iu which it was
presented by rumor last week.
It is true, that the bauk is willing to
avail itself of the permission given by
its charter to procure and hold the
amount of silver specified, but only
upon two conditions, namely, that the
French nvnt shall be oieued to the
free coinage of silver, and that the
prices at which the metal shall be
"procurable and salable" are satisfacto
ry, says the New York Sun. This
means, simply, that if the French gov
ernment will undertake at all times to
coin the Bank of England's silver into
coins convertible iuto gold, and that
the silver can be bought so cheaply
that the possibility of loss on it is re
duced within safe limits, the bank will
part with some of its gold, temporarily,
and accept silver in its place.
riiat the French government will
put France into a position where its
stock of gold will, practically, to the
extent of the silver held, uotoulyby
the Bank of England, but of the whole
world, be exchangeable for gold at will,
is unlikely. The Bauk of England can
not tender silver iu payment of de
mands upon it for more that $10 in oue
sum. No great quantity of silver is,
therefore, of any use to it, aud if it had
silver aud needed gold, it would at once
send the silver to France and try to get
gold forlL This process the Bauk of
France would resist by stopping gold
payments as it lias the right to do and
does frequently. Gold would, in such
an event, go to a premium in France
aud silver could be exchanged for it
ouly at a loss.
So far as the proposed measure is
counted upon to raise the value of sil
ver bullion it would te futile. The gold
reserve of the Bank of England is about
$173,000,000, one-fifth of which is fc3,
0)0,000. This sum would buy, even at
50 cents per ounce, only 70,000,000
ounces of silver, or but one-third of the
annual output of the metal of the
world, and after the 70,000,000 ounces
had been bought, whatever effect tbe
purchase might have had upon tbe
price would come to au end. Silver
would again begin to fall, the Bank of
England would be loaded down with a
stock of it as useless as so much lead,
aud which it could not sell without still
further depressing the market.
No Denial
A federal judge lately charged a jury
in a liquor case as follows: "In later
years there seems to have been a dis
position to deny or ignore judicial
knowledge as to what constitutes in
toxicating liquors, and the courts have
manifested a desire to disavow any j u
dicial knowledge on this subject. At
the same time some of the courts have
not hesitated to impute to juries an ex
tensive knowledge and information in
this regard. The court, however, will
follow the precedent established by the
decision of Chancellor Walworth upon
this subject aud will assume judicial
knowledge concerning intoxicating
liquors. In a trial in the state of Wis
consin, where this question arose iu
1.SS3, the trial judgo declared that a
man must be a driveling idiot who did
not know what beer was, and that it
was not necessary to prove lt to be an
intoxicating liquor.
"Later the supreme court of that
state, in passing on the charge of the
trial judge, declared that his rulings
in the case upon this question were not
only clearly correct, but if his peculiar
manner gave them force and emphasis
it was not only proper, but commend
ab'e. This court, therefore, will neith
er stultify itself nor impeach its own
veracity by telling you that it has not
judicial knowledge that the liquor com
monly known as 'whisky' is intoxi
cating liquor or that the drink com
monly called a whisky 'cocktail is an
intoxicating drink." Lease and Com-
nieut.
Something to Know.
It may be worth something to know
that the ve V best medicine for restor
ing the tired out nervous system to a
healthy vigor Ls Electric Bitters. This
medicine Is purely vegetable, acts by
trivimr tine to tbe nerve centres in the
stomach, gently stimulates the liver
and kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing oil impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improves tbe appetite,
aids digestion, and Is pronounced by
those who have tried it as the very
best blood purifier and nerve tonic
Try it Sold for or 51 M per bottle
at Snyder's dnu store, Somerset, or at
Brallier's drug strre. Berlin.
Food for Dairy Cattle.
The value of a ration, or system of
feeding, depends not on its cost but
upon the profit derived from its use.
It is cheaper to feed a ration costing
ten cents, which enables cows to give
two gallons of milk, per day, than to
allow food costing five cents, but
which enables the animals to produce
ouly oue gallon of milk during the
same period. If milk sells at 12 cents
per gallon the profit from the food
costing ten cents per ration is twice as
much as from the apparently cheaper
foods, but there is a gain in the value
of the manure and also in the use of
only one cow instead of two, as it
would require two cows to give the
same results as one if they produced
only the quantity derived from the less
valuable ration. At the Hatch Exper
iment Station two lots of cows were
fed ou foods differing in kind, one lot
receiving a "narrow" ration and the
other a "wide" ration. By narrow ra
tion is meant oue containing four or
five times as much carbohydrates
(starchy matter) as protein (nitrogen
ous matter), the wide ration consisted
of a pound more of hay daily than in
the narrow, and in that experiment all
the cows were given hay and sugar
beets. Corn meal and wheat bran were
given in the wide ration and gluten
meal and wheat bran in tbe narrow
ration. In the second experiment hay,
millet and soy beau ensilage were giv
en all the cows, the concentrated foods
of the narrow ration being gluten meal,
bran aud old-process linseed meal, tbe
concentrated foods of the wide ration
consisting of wheat bran and corn-
meal.
RKSl'LTSOK THE FKKItlNG.
With the narrow rations from ll.S to
12.9 per cent, more milk was obtained
thau from the wide ration (consider
ing the proKrtious digested, and the
narrow rations also reduced the c-xt of
production from 5 to 12 per cetiL The
average daily cost of a quart of milk
by the use of the narrow ration was
1 81 cents, and with the wide ration
1.97, while the same ratio of increase in
the amount of butter aud decrease in
cost was obtained from the narrow ra
tion, the cost of butter being 13.57
cents per pound for the narrow ration
and 1C.32 cents for the wide ration.
With the narrow rations the best cow.
in oue experiment, produced 12 2
pounds of butter in a week, at a cost of
14 cents pjr pniul, while in the sani-
experiment tbe best cow oa tbe wide
ration produced 9.32 pounds of butter
per week, at a cost of bJ.67 cents per
pound. In the second experiment
the best cow, on the narrow ration,
produced 12.S1 pounds of butter per
week, at a cost of 11.50 cents per
pound, the best cow on the wide ration
producing 'at the same time 10.92
pounds, at a cost of 12.71 cents per
pound. The same comparative results
were received from other cows in the
lots, though the quantities were less.
Tbe daily amount of food consumed by
six cows was, iu the first experiment,
as the narrow ration, was 3 pounds
wheat bran, 3.S.'t pounds gluten meal.
15.17 pounds hay, and 12 pounds sugar
beets; the wide ration was 3 pounds
wheat brau, 5.S.1 pounds corn meal,
19.17 pounds hay and 10 pounds sugar
beets. Tbe narrow ration, in the tec
ond experiment, was 2 8:i pounds bran,
3 pound gluten meal, 1.92 pounds lin
seed meal, 10 33 pounds hay, and 28 33
pounds millet and bean ensilage, the
wide ration being 1.92 pounds brau,
3 83 pounds corn meal and the tame
amount of hay and ensilage as iu the
narrow ration. Observe that the glut
en meal aud linseed meal provided the
larger proprtion of protein.
A Ship's- Log.
From Harper's Round Table.
Before the patent log came into ex
istence the old-fashioned chip log was
the only means of measuring a ship's
rate of sailing. It has one advantage
over the former, inasmuch as a vessel's
speed can be told by it at any given
instant, while the patent log is mainly
useful for recording a considerable dis
tance run. The old-fashioned log con
sists of four different pieces, namely,
the log-chip, the reel, the hue and tbe
sand-glass.
The log-chip is a flat piece of thin
board, loaded with lead ou the circular
side, so that it will float upright on the
water, and to which the log-line is fast
ened iu the same way that a low-kite
Ls rigged to receive the string. Thi'line
is 100 fathoms or more in length, and i )
divided into certain spacescalied k ri . '
The reel is made to turn very freely, so
that it will offer no resistance wbeu the
log-chip is thrown overboard. Tbe
sand-gla-w conUins just enough grains
to pass from one bulb to tbe other in
half a minute of time. This practice of
measuring a ship's rate of s tiling is
quite simple. The idea is that the
leugtb between each knot is the same
part of a mile as half a minute is of an
hour. Therefore the kuots are placed
at 51 feet apart. What is called heav
ing the log is thus performed. One
man holds the reel, another the half
minute glass; the officer throws the
log-chip over the stern and waits a
moment until enough of the liue has
run out to carry the chip out of the
edtly of the ship's wake, then calls,
"Turn." The man holding the glass
reverses it and watches until tbe sand
has run through, when he cries, "Stop."
The officer immediately stops the line
and notes tbe number of knots run off,
which number represents the rate of
speed per hour.
Backlen'i Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Itheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, aud all Skiu Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 23 cents per box. For sale at J.
N. Snyder's drug store, Somerset, or
at Brallier's drug store, Belin, Pa.
The most unique fence in Maine is
that of a Harpswel fisherman. His
front yard is composed of the swords of
sword fish, many of which havefigur
ed In exciting episodes.
Official's Terrible Journey.
Mr. O. W. Weaver, Acting Commis
sioner of Labor, gave out a copy of a
graphic letter on the terrors of travel
across Cbilkoot Pass. The letter was
received from Samuel C. Iunham,
statistical expert of the government's
Department of Lalior, who bad been
assigned by Commissioner Wright to
make an investigation of the opportuni
ties which the gold regions in tbe Yu
kon Valley and adjoining territory af
forded for the remunerative employ
ment of American labor and capital.
The letter is as follows:
"Lake Lindkkmax, Alaskn, August
20. Commissioner of LaUr, Washing
ton D. C: Sir I left Dyea Monday
morning, at 11 o'clock, and arrived
here Tuesday evening, at 7. My four
Indians started ahead of me, but I
have not seeu anything of them since
the start, and am wailing for them
here. When I reached the foot of the
summit a terrible storm was raging on
the pass, and I presume the Indians
went iuto camp somewhere on the
other side to await better weather.
"It has been stormy rain, sleet and
snow alternating constantly ou tbe
summit since Tuesday morning, and
the situation is aggravated by piercing
winds of thirty miles velocity. I had
an awful experience coming across the
summit, I started out with my hand
bag strapped on my back, thinking
that as it weighed only 40 youuds I
could carry it. I managed to struggle
along to the head of navigation for
canoes, six miles from Dyea, aud was
there for.-ed to pay an Indian picker
$10 to carry my grip to S'.ieep Camp,
twelve miles from Dyea. I tqietit the
night at Shevp Camp, which is merely
a collection of tents, and started for the
summit at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning,
in a drizzling, cold rain. I employed
a packer to carry my grip front there
to Lake Lindermau, paying him
$1'.
"At the foot of the summit we met
perhaps 100 Indian and white packers,
who iiad cached their packs on the
trail above and were returning to Sheep
Camp to await an abatement of the
storm. We were warned that it was
dangerous to attempt to get over, but
as the wind was blowing the way we
were going we decided to go ahead, as
I felt sure my packers had gone on,
aud I wished to be there when they ar
rived. "The distance from the fiot of the
summit to the top is said to be three
quarters of a mile, but it seemed like
five miles. The trail ascends at an
angle of forty-five degrees, skirting
precipices where a inisstip would hurl
one 10U0 feet below, crossing tiie face of
glaciers as smooth as glass, and in
many places traversing the polished
surface of great granite bowlders hun
dreds of feet in extent Every 100
yards or so mountain torrents, fed by
the glaciers, and on the present occa
sion augmented by the rainfall, rush
across the trail, and have to be waded.
the water often coming to knees. Add to
this a gale blowing fifty miles au hour,
with sleet and snow rushing horizont
ally through the air, aud the tempera
ture at 30 degrees, aud you will have a
faiut idea of the horrors of my passage
across the summit.
"After struggling up a steep accent of
23 to 30 feet, I would be forced from
sheer exhaustion to rest for a moment,
but would scarcely stop before a chill
ing wind would cut me to the marrow,
and I would have to continue my
course to keep from chilling to death.
Before I reached the summit I was wet
to the skiu, and my boots were full of
water, and the added weight of the
water made it almost impossible to
proceed. I finally reached this camp,
at the head of Lake LiudenuAn, about
7 o'clock in the evening, having beeu
eleven hours in covering twelve miles,
so thoroughly exhausted that I oujj
scarcely drag one foot after the other.
"I had a letter from a friend to a
gentleman who is in camp here, and I
was kindly receive-1 by him and made
as comfortable as p Mxible in his tetit
As my Indians bad not arrived, I had
no change of underclothing, and was
forced to accept bis offer of a suit of
warm, dry underclothing, and thex,
supplemented by half a teacup fa 1 of
rum, brought some warmth back to
my bo ly. I remained in bed all day
yesterday, too thoroughly worn out to
move. I bad some fear of pneumonia,
but, with the exception of some sore-
nes, am feeling very well this morn
ing."
TKKAt HKKOfS CLIMATE.
"The sun has just made its appear-
a ;r, and old-timers say we are likely
to have good weather by to-morrow.
This climate is very treacherous.
change lteing very suddeu. On the
ocean side of the mouutains it rains
more than half the time, and rains
hard. On account of the continuous
rains the soil washes down from the
steep mountain sides, and wherever
there is a level place you will find a bog,
into which a man or horse siuks to the
knees at every step. This is oue of the
worst features of the trails, and makes
it almost impossible to use horses.
Many of the boggy places have been
corduroyed, aud I suppose by next
summer Skaguay trail, which is now
practically impassable on account of
the bogs, will be in fair condition.
At present tbe condition of affairs
on the trail is terrible, and hundreds of
men are bound to starve aud freeze to
death if they continue to come this
way. I passed at least 100J men be
tween Dyea and here, and not more
than 100 have got their outfits this side
of the summit Every 50 yards along
the trail are piles of goods, and I sup
pose there are provisions to the value
of $200,0U0 scattered along the trait
"Prices for packing and for all kinds
of service are practically prohibitory
for most of those who are attempting to
get in, so many are carrying over their
own outfits. Some of the Indiaus car
ry as much as 200 pounds at one load,
and make the trip from Dye to Lake
Lindermann in two days, returning to
Dyea on the third day, thus making
two trips a week. While most carry
from 75 to 100 and 125 pounds, it takes
a man with an adequate outfit a mouth
to get to the lake. There are many
here who have lieen five or six weeks
packing their outfits over, and are not
ready to start down the river yet.
"There are about 200 men here.
WHOLE NO. 2405).
Probably three or four of our boats are
getting away every day. There is one
sawmill here with a capacity of 1000
feet a day, ami it has all the orders it
can fill in three weeks. Lumber is
$500 a thousand, and is rising. A great
many whipaw their lumber, two men
turning out about 100 feet a day. A
boat carrying three men sells for $250
to $4X), according to the purse of tbe
purchaser. Wages of carpenters are
$12.30 a day aud board. Everything is
high iu price wbeu you can get it at alt
Whisky Ls 50 a drink and $3 a bottle,
and poor stuff at that. Alcohol Ls worth
$10 a gallon. It makes ten gallons of
Lake Lindermann whisky. Meats
can not be had for money, as every oue
is holding on to his provisions.
"I never saw so much selfishness
anywhere as is displayed on this trait
You pass bJO teople without receiving
a respouse to your respectful 'Gotal
morning,' and soon learn to keep your
mouth shut There are so many on
the trail that it is like walking along
the street of a city the individual is
lost in the passing throng, and you are
recognized only by acquaintances. If
you ask for food, in nine cases out of
ten it will be refused.
"I have made arrangements to go
down tbe river with a friend, who has
made the trip before. He expects to
be ready to start in four or five days.
and to make the trip in seven days. I
am patiently awaiting the arrival of
my outfit, but do not much expect it
until the weather improves.
"8 p. in. A packer has just arrived
from Sheep Camp, who says he passed
my outfit on tbe road and that it will
probably reach here tonight the weath
er having improved on the divide. A
I have an opportunity to send mail by
him, I close this letter with the expla
nation that il has been written under
great mental stress and physical suffer
ing. I have tried to give you a fair idea
of the bard.-bips of this journey, but I
feel my incapability to paint its terrors.
It Ls out of my liue. I will simply say
that no oue who has written on tbe
subject has over overstated its difficul
ties.
"A man who got in to-Ly over the
Skaguay trail says that is even worse.
He counted 172 dead horses along the
trail and several men have met with
serious accidents such as a broken
ankle, leg, etc. Several deaths from
drowning have occurred on both trails,
the swift current carrying packers down
stream and their packs rendering them
helpless.
"Some movement ought to be made
at once for the relief of the sufferiujr
which is bound to occur at Dyea and
Skaguay. Every steamship that has
brought people up will have all it can
do for at least two trips in carrying the
unsuccessful back to civilization; and
there ought to be some way to force
them to jierform the service without
com pe nsat ion.
"SAMCKL CI. Dl'XHAM."
Fall Farm Talk.
The composition of full-cream cheese
is given in a bulletin of information by
Dr. William Frear, of the Pennsylva
nia Experiment Siatiou, which is sent
free to all, in w hich it Ls staled that
experiments on a large scale, in five
states and provinces, show that aver
age factory milk very rarely produces
green cheese containing less fat than
the Pennsylvania legal standard for
full-cream cheese 32 per cent. Green
cheese loses aoout live per cent in
weight during one mouth's curing,
aud this loss is chiefly water. A green
cheese containing only 32) per cent of
fat, will probably be of standard "full
cream" quality after one month's cur
ing. Neither minor variations in
manufacture providing gross careless
ness te avoided nor variations in the
factory milk supply, uuless it include
much partly-skimmed milk, are to be
feared as a CAUseof d-'dciency in fat.
If the pasture is thin go over it with
a spike-tooth harrow, so as to scratch
the surface, or first use a disc harrow,
following with a spike-tooth, seeding
the pasture with the seeds of such
grasses as are indigenous to the soil or
of kinds that will thrive on the land,
but keep stock off the pasture after
seeding to prevent trampling aud
packing the surface.
Many failures occur with clover from
the use of poor seeL Crimson clover
has also caused disappointment from
the same cause, and at this season,
when it is being seeded down, a large
magnifying gloss will serve admirably
in assisting to detect the foreign seeds.
All clover seeds are miniature beans.
aud each kiud has its characteristic
appearance, which is easily recognized
after oue becomes familiar with the
shapes and c lor by examination of
the several varieties.
SpasJi par SecDni-
The snail, one-half inch.
A man walking, four feet; a
fist
runner, 23 feet.
A fly, 21 feeL
Fast skater, 38 feet
Ocean waves, 70 feet
A carrier pigeoii, 87 feet.
A locomotive, fi) miles an hour, 88
feet
Swallows, 22) feet.
The worst cyclone known, 3S0 feet
Tbe Krakatoa wave (at the volcanic
catastrophe of August 27, 1SJ3, in the
Suuda Islands), 91) feet
Sound in the air, 10J5 feet
The surface of the globj at sea level
on the equator, 1300 feet
The moon, 3230 feet
The suu, five and one-half miles.
The earth, 18 miles.
Holley's comet in the perihelion,
235 miles.
Electric current on telegraph wires,
7000 miles.
Induction current 11,0 (J miles.
Electric current in copper wire arma
tures, 21,000 miles.
Light, 180,000 miles.
Discharge of a Leyden bottle
through copper wire of one-sixtteuth
of an inch in diameter, 277,100 miles.
In cases of burns and sprains, scald
or any of the other accidental pains
likely to come to the human body, Dr.
Thomas' Electric Oil gives almost in
stant relief.
That sulphur will prevent vermin irt
bird cag-s if a piece is tied In a bag and
bung iu the cage.
That room where there are diptheria
patients should be fumigated by burn
ing a piece of roll sulphur on a shovel.
That a damp duster, fdlowed by a
dry Mic, Ls very beneficial in removing
dust aud giving a good polish to furni
ture. That au old silk handkerchief makes
au admirable duster for fine cabinets
aud bric-a-brac.
That a teaspoonful of powdered alum
mixed with stove polish adila greatly
to its brilliancy when applied U the
range.
That a sprain may be cured if the
part be kept saturated with hot water.
That fever blisters may be cured
by rubbing them with saltpetre, which
has been dipped in water for an in
stant. That the white skin of a raw egg, if
spread over a cut, will cure it
That charcoal should be thickly
sprinkled in a jardiniere in which a
damp flower-pot is to be kept
That children should be given alight
supper of bread aud milk at 3 o'clock
and be put to bed at 6:30 until at lea.-4 5
years nUL After thai their bed-time
may be fixed at 7 o'clock for several
years.
That a close watch should be kept
over all vegetables kept in the cellar
that no decayed ones are allowed to re
main over night This is the frequent
cause of diphtheria, etc.
That caudle grease may be removed
from a carpet by covering the spot with
a piece of brown paper, such as grocers
use, and pressing gently with a utoder-aU-ly-bot
iron.
That children may be greatly
strengthened by a daily salt bath. Sea
salt should be used for this purpose.
That a tablespoonful of ground mus
tard to a tumblerful of warm water is
the rule for an emetic
Odd TMngi in Life.
Bears are reported very numerous in
Idaho.
An official reporter shows that there
are issued yearly in tbe theaters of
Paris 2,890,0m) dead-head tickets.
There are "l.ouo more women than
men in the Slate of MasMocbnsetts, and
this excess Ls all iu persons over 14.
English women, as a rule, are taller
thau their American sisters, and the
Yankee ladies in their turn can Imk
dojvn at the geutler sex iu France.
Iceland has ouly oue policeman.
When he wants to wet bis whittle
with a hot bally be is never afraid of
tbe sergeant poking his nose around
the corner.
Palermo, Sicily, has au average of
107 cloudless days a year, and 2 days
of partial cloud and partial sunshine
which elsewhere would be classed as
fine days.
Evading the Law.
Youth's Companion: The London
Telegraph tells a story of a collier who
aniused himself with flying pigeous.
He had occasion to go down town with
a bird in a bag. He was about to toss
up the pigeou in the town hall square
wheu a policeman came up and told
him that he must not fly the bird there.
"Why not," asked the collier.
"lWause it is forWd len, aod I shall
have to lock you up if you do."
The collier, with the usual sharpness
of his kind, thereupon took the pigeon
out of the bag, set it on the ground,
stroked its wings aud said to it: "Aw
CJrn'd toss thee up hen, sothouiuun
walk whoam; dost yer? thou mun walk
whoam."
The bird, of course, rose in tiie air,
leaving the iliceman petrirt?d with
astonishment
The Black Miria-
In Boston's early days a negress
named Maria Lee kept a sailor's board
ing house near the water front She
was a woman of gigantic size and pro
digious strength and was of (treat as
sistance to the authorities in keeping
the peace. When an unusually trouble
some fellow was on tne way to tne
lockup, Black Maria, as Maria Lee was
called, would come to the assistance of
the policeman, and her services were in
such requisition f.r this purpose that
her name was associated with almost
every arrest mailt.
Black Maria often carried a prisoner
to the lockup on her shoulder, and
when the prison van was instituted for
the purpose of carrying prisoners it nat
urally enough was styled the Black
Maria. Journal of Education.
Physical strength and energy con
tribute to strength and character, and
birth may b hal by taking HoJ'i
Sarsaparilla.
Try, Try Aaia.
For night sweats, cjM sage tea.
For neuralgia, wet cloths of alcohol
and water, or pregrit or lau lanum
and water, and laid on a hot water bot
tle and the part steamed over it.
For pains in the stomach, a hot wa
ter bottle
For pneumouia symptoms, hot wa
ter bottles iu the hauds, under the
knees, under the arms and at the soles
of the feet.
For sprains or burns, tincture of
arnica.
For a cut artery, a small cord or a
handkerchief tied tightly between it
and the heart.
For bilious colis, s xla and ginger in
hot water.
For old iu the head, powdered bo
rax, snulled up the nostrils. GxkI
Housekeeping.
There Ls more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
nut together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease, aud pre-scril-ed
local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proven catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and, therefore, re
quires constitutional treatment Hall's
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the ou
ly constitutional cure ou tbe market
It is taken internally iu doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonfuL It acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
tbe system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address
F.J. CHENEY A CO.,
Toledo, O.
tuT3o!d by Druggists, 7-3c
That rough irons may be made
smooth by rubbing them on a board
plentifully sprinkled with salt
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