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First National Bat
Somerset, Penn'a.
Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, S28.000.
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DIPOIT RCCCIVC IN LAHOe ANDSMALL
AMOUNTS. PATAiLe 08 OCMAND.
ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS.
STOCK DCALERS. AN D OTHIRS SOLICITCO
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CHAS. O. SCri-L, GEO. R. SCCLL,
JAMES U PUGH. W. H. MIU.EIl,
JO UN K. SCOTT, ROBT. H. BcULL,
FRE1 W. BIESEC'KER
EDWARD RCUlXs : : PRESIDENT.
VALENTINE HAY, : VICE PRESIDENT.
HARVEY M. BERKLEY, . CASHIER.
The fun1s and nerurillea of thli bank are se
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olab Puoof Safb. Tbe only safe oia4e abso
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Tts SoniBrset County National
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OF SOMERSET PA.
EitaalltM 1877. 0 u i KiUeMt, 1890
Caoital. - $ 50,000 00
Surplus & Undivided Profits, 23,000 00
Assets, - - 33D.QJ3D3
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Chaa. J. Ilarrison, - President
Wm. IT. Koontz, - Vice Trcsident.
MUton J. Tr-itta, - Cashier.
Geo. S. Llarriaon, - Ass't Cashier.
Directors .
Wm. Endsler, Chas. W. Snyder
JoKiah Specbt, H. C. Beerila,
John H. Snyder, John Stufll,
Joseph B. Davia, Harrison Snyder,
Jerome Stufl Xoah 8. Miller,
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U?lliions made In all part of the United
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A GOOD HEARSE,
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SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob D.. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Ooor West of Lutheran Church,
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All work guaranteed. Look at my
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BERLIN
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...WORKS...
ESTABLISHED 1878. THE OLD AND RELIABLE.
This is the 3th year of my busl
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at, a token of my appreciation of
the Urge patronage that I have
enjoyed throughout the county, to
run the business in tbe interest
of my patrons. I have instructed
my manager and salesman to fig
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ACTUAL COST.
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17.
THE GOLD-LINK
BRACELET.
The Story of a Girl's Inordinate Lore
of Finery.
BY L. M. MOXTOMERY.
Wbcn Aunt Marian came to visit
the Bella In their pretty village home,
both Muriel and her 6iter Flo were in
a flutter of delight. Aunt Marian was
Uncle Fred'a wife and they had never
seen her before. At first they felt
somewhat shy, for she was very stylish
and pretty, but their shyness soon wore
off, for they found her very kind
hearted and amiable.
Sht: delighted the girls with her
lively ways and her good comradeship,
and one of their great pleasures was to
go to her room and gaze at all the pret
ty things she had to show them her
rich, dainty dresses and hats, her fans
and jtarasols, her laces and her jewelry.
This last was what Muriel liked best
to see, for she bad a weakness for trink
ets. And Aunt Marian had such beau
tiful things sparkling diamond rings,
a pearl brooch, an opal pin, a hair
dagger set with turquoises, a gold neck
chain, with a heart-shaped locket, and
manj- others. Hut what Muriel ad
mired most was a gold bracelet.
This was of exquisite workmanship,
with slender chased links and a little
padlock set with a monogram with
pears.
"I value this more than anything
else I have, I think," said Aunt Mar
ian, as she sat with her jewel-box on
her lap and Muriel and Flo on the floor
beside her. "Not so much because of
its beauty or value, but because father
gave it to me the last Christmas I spent
at home, and he died soon afterwards.
I would not lose it for the world and I
seldom wear it."
Hue had clasped it on her wrist as
she spoke, and Muriel's eyes lingered
on it wistfully. What would she not
have given for a bracelet like that, she
thought.
I am not at all sure that Aunt Mar
ian's display of dresses and pretty
things was just the best thing for
Muriel, although Aunt Marian herself
had no thought beyond giving her
young friends a pleasure; she did not
dream that it might induce certain
little demons of euvy and discontent
to creep into their hearts.
It did not hurt Flo iu the least, for
she was a sensible, intelligent content
ed girl, who enjoyed looking at pretty
things for their own sake, and never
thought of feeling covetous or discon
tented on account of them. But Muriel
was very different. She was a pretty
brown-eyed girl of fifteen, and she
wanbxl a great many tbiugs she did
not, and could not, and perhaps ought
not, to have.
Ik-lore Aunt Marian's advent the
had been fairly well conteiited with
her own simple, pretty gowns and hats
and the little pin and brooch that were
her only jewelry. Bat her simple
finery seemed very poor and insignifi
cant beside Aunt Marian's city splen
dors. Flo could put on her new gingham
and walk serenely down the street with
Aunt Marian in her summer silk, and
enjoy herself thoroughly; but Muriel
could not. Foolish? Yes, of course,
she was foolislu It is always foolish
and maybe wicked, as well, to let
thoughts about our clothes, or envy of
someone else's, interfere with our com
fort and happiness.
Muriel thought entirely too much
about that bracelet of Aunt Marian's,
and sighed whenever she thought of it.
If only she had one like it! How all
the girls at school would euvy her!
Wten Muriel went into Aunt Mar
ian's room with fresh towels the next
day, she found heivelf alone. Aunt
Mariun's jewel-casket lay open on tbe
dressing-table, and there, in its box, on
a lied of perfumed piuk cotton, lay the
dainty thing itself. Muriel picked it
up a little doubtfully and fastened it
on site had a pretty wrist nd the
bracelet became it.
"0;i, I do wish it were mine," she
said despondently. "I've always waut
ed a bracelet so much, and chains are
all tbe rage now. I might as well wish
for the moon, though, as for one like
this. It must have cost a great deaL"
She unlocked it and put it back with
a sigh; but she did not leave with it her
discontented longing; she carried that
with her wherever she wetit, and she
slipped In to peep at the bracelet a
great many more times than she ought
when Aunt Marian was out, forgetting
that the first Btage on the road of temp
tation is a very gradual one indeed.
One day Muriel received a little note
from Clara Howard Inviting her to a
birthday party the following evening.
Flo was not invited, as she was not
iu (Tiara's class at school, but she did
not fnel disappointed over it, for she
and Auut Marian had planned a drive
to the city the next day, to visit Aunt
Isabel, and they intended to remain
over night.
Muriel was in a flutter of expectant
delight. She enjoyed parties, and
Clara Howard's were always delight
ful, for Clara's father was rich and de
nied her nothing. She was sure of
having a good time and she had a pret
ty new dress to wear to it; besides, her
father gave her a new p"tr of slippers
far it and brother Charlie brought her
the very prettiest silver bslt buckle
imaginable.
Muriel dreed alone that night,
missing Flo's skill and aid not a little;
but very pretty, Indeed, she lkeJ
when she finished her simple toilet
and stepped back with a bit of pardon
able vanity to smile at the radiant
reflection.
But it takes a great deal to satisfy
some people, and Muriel was not satis
fied. She wanted a bracelet; all the
girls at the party would have one, and
she felt decidedly ill-used because she
could not have one, too. Then Muriel
thought of the gold link bracelet in
Aunt Mariau'a box. Oj, If she could
only wear that to Clara Howard'e par
ty! How the girls would envy her!
When people allow ideas like this to
take possession of their minds they very
often get into trouble. Muriel should
I have resolutely banished such thoughts
but she did not jnsicao, ine ioousu
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girl went into Aunt Marian's room
and looked lovingly at the little heap
of shining links lylug on the pink
cotton.
"I'm sure it would not hurt to wear
It just to-n'ght," "be murmured. "I
dare say if Aunt Marian were here she
would let me if I asked here. I'd be
just as careful as I possibly could be.
And nobody need ever know. I'd put
it right back In the box whenever I
came home. I know mother wouldn't
allow me if she knew, but I'm sure it's
not a bit of harm" which last speech
was a pretty certain sign that there
was harm in it.
M urlel knew very well that she was
doing a wrong thing, but she refused
to look the ugly thought in the face,
and she hurriedly took the bracelet
from its pink nest and clapped It around
her arm. The little padlock fastened
with a spring, but could be unlocked
only by the little gold key lying beside
it in tbe box.
"It isn't a single bit of harm,"
Muriel repeated, as she admired the
the effect.
But, nevertheless, she flushed very
guiltily, ten miuutes later in her room
and quickly shoved the bracelet upout
of sight under the lace frill of her
sleeve when her mother came in to in
spect her.
Half an hour afterwards she was the
centre of a group of laughing girls in
Clara Howard's dressing-room. Her
gold-link bracelet was noticed and
pounced on immediately by the keen
eyed bevy. A buzz of admiratiou and
questioning arose.
"Oh, Muriel, whtre did you get such
a perfectly lovely thing?" was the bur
den of the chorus, but Muriel only
smiled mysteriously and refused to say
anything about it. Kach of the girls
privately concluded that Muriel's rich
auut must have given it-to her and en
vied her iu proportion.
But Muriel felt very ill at ease and
honestly wished that the gold-link
bracelet was safe at home iu Auut Mar
ian's jewel -box. In the first place,
she hal not had a minute's peace of
miud since she left home lest it should
slip oil her arm iu some way and be
lost.
Then suppose Aunt Marian should
come back that night, after all, and
miss It before Muriel got home? When
Muriel came to think it over she could
not be certain that Aunt Marian and
Flo had really decided to stay away all
night. They had only talked of it.
This worried her. And, moreover,
under all these surface bubbles of dis
comfort was the secret conviction that
she had done a very mean and unlady
like thing, something that Aunt Mar
ian and her mother and Flo would ter
ribly disapprove.
Muriel hated the very sight of the
gold-liuk bracelet before the evening
was over. If she could have taken it
off she would, but the litt'e gold key
was at home.
She was heartily glad when the time
came to go home, for her head was
aching and she thought, joyfully, that
she would soon be able to restore the
hateful bracelet to its place; and the
thought made her feel so much better
that for the first time during the even
ing she forgot about it in the laughing
excitement of the dressing-room while
the girls were searching for their wraps.
She weut home with a party of her
classmates and, her spirits rising amid
all tbe laughter aud chatter, she did
not once think of her unlucky adorn
ment until she found herself iu her
own room. Then, when she had flung
off her wraps impatiently and turned
up the gas, it was to find the bracelet
gone!
For a moment Muriel stared at her
arm in a sort of horror. It could not
be! It was too dreadful to be true!
The bracelet had bjen on her arm in
Clara's dressing-room the last thing
before she put on her wraps. And now
it was gone. When she realized it she
gave a little moan of despair.
Muriel did not steep much that night
you may be sure, and she cried a great
deal, which did not help matters at all.
Stie was up and dressed early, and out
before breakfast Eagerly she hurried
uj. the street, scantling the pavement,
until she reached the Howard house,
aud explained the cause of her unseas
onable appearance,
Clara was not up, but Mrs. Howard
listened to Muriel's distracted tale with
concern. A thorough search of the
dressing-room was fruitless. Muriel
hunted desperately and the maids were
questioned, but none of them had seeu
iu They looked thiough all the rooms
aud the hall in vain, and then Mrs.
Howard shook her head in disappoint
ment. "You must have lost it on the street,
Muriel," she said; and Muriel, with
fast-dropping tears, admitted the like
lihood of this and hurried home in de
spair. Her absence had not been noticed,
and she slipted up stairs to her room.
Nobody called her, supposing her to be
tired after the party, and it was there
Flo found her when she and Auut
Marian came home.
"Why, Muriel, what in the world is
the matter?" exclaimed Flo, as her
sister lifted her flushed, tear-stained
face from the pillow.
"Flo," sobbed Muriel, "shut the door
and come here, I have something just
dreadful to tell you. 0:1, Flo, I am in
such a scrape; aud there's no getting
out of it. I an 83 glad you have come
home. What will Aunt Marian tbiuk
of me?"
And then she sabbed out her remorse
ful confession. Flo listened in pitying
horror.
"Oh, Muriel! You don't mean to say
that you took Aunt Marian's bracelet
to wear to the party without asking
her!"
"Yes, I did. I know it was not right,
Flo, but I would not stop to think, and
I was crazy to wear it, And now it's
ost. and wiiat shall I do? I will con
fess to Aunt Marian right after dinner;
it will be awfully humiliating, but I
deserve to be humiliated. I feel crush
ed to the very earth, I have been vain
and silly and deserve it all."
After dinner Muriel went resolutely
to Aunt Marian's room. Aunt Marian
was reading by her window, and she
looked up with a smile at her pretty
niece. Evidently she had not yet
missed her bracelet.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 0. 1897.
"Well, dear, come and tell me about
your party. Did you have a nice
time?"
"No, not a bit. Aunt Marian. I had
a horrid time, because I did something
wrong before I went. I am very sorry
and ashamed, and I have come to con
fess."
And confess she did with a trembling
voice and a good deal of choking.
Aunt Marian listened In silence. Then
she gently drew tike girl to her and
kissed her.
"Don't cry, Muriel; I'm not going to
scold you. Of course you did wrong
aud I'm sorry about the bracelet but
it can't be heljied now. If you had
asked me, my dear, I would have lent
it to you."
"Oh, aunt, how good you are! You
ought to give me a dreadful scolding.
I am so ashamed of myself, but my
repentance won't restore your bracelet"
"Muriel," called Flo outside the door.
"Oh, Muriel," she whispered eagerly,
as the latter appeared, "here is a note
from the Howards, and I do believe
the bracelet is inside of it"
Muriel tore the envelope open with
nervous haste; out fell a little heap of
gold links and a padlock. Flo caught
It joyously.
"What does the note say?"
"It is from Clara," said MurieL "She
picked it up last night after we had
gone and put it in her own jewel-box
for safety. She was asleep when I was
there, you know, and so could not tell
me."
Muriel went back to Aunt Marian.
"Oh, aunt, here it is safe and sound.
I am so thankful aud relieved! And
truly I'll never feel tempted to do such
a thing again. I know what it makes
a person feel like, and am sure I have
learned a wholesome lesson."
"I think you have, dear," was all
Aunt Marian said.
And she was right; Muriel was cured
of one folly, and she set herself reso
lutely to work to root out the rest
When her birthday came, Aunt Mar
ian gave her a pretty pin a golden
pansy with a pearl in the centre.
Muriel thanked her, and said:
"I'll wear it as a reminder, and
whenever I feel tempted to euvy any
one, or to fret over what I cau't have,
or to do anything that my conscience
does not approve of, I'll look at it and
remember the gold-link bracelet."
How to Take Oat Stains, Grease Spots,
Ink, Soot, Bast and Mildew.
The following recipe is highly recom
mend for its excellence in cleansing fab
rics without injuring tbe texture "start
ing" the color, however delicate: Urate
two medium-sized potatoes into a bowl
containing one pint of clean cold water;
strain carefully through a sieve, allow
ing the liquid Lu ui ir.Ui another ves
sel containing an additional pint of
cold water; let it settle and then pour
off the water and bottle it for use. It
may be put into a clean fruit jar.
Softly rub the soiled fabric or garment
with a sponge dipped iu the potato
water, after which wash it iu clean
water, dry carefully iu the shade, and
iron. Use the s;Jin;nt left after
pouring off the water for cleaning
heavy clothes, rugs and carpets.
To remove grass stains soak aud rub
the spots in water and cream of tartar.
If a garment is mildewed lemon juice
is said to remove the stain. If the stain
is bard to eradicate soak in a gallon of
water in which a tablespoon ful of
chloride of lime has beeu dissolved.
Rinse thoroughly.
Fruit stains may usually be removed
by pouring boiling water through the
stain, but if this fails add oxalic acid,
dissolving three ounces in a pint of
water. Soak the stains in this solution
for five miuutes and them steam it by
holding over a kettle of boiling water,
or hanging in the sunshine. Rinse id
ammonia when the stain disappears,
so the acid will be counteracted. Rinse
again thoroughly, so that the fabric
will not be injured. Javelle water is
recommeuded for wasting white goods.
Sprinkle salt on a wine stain and
pour hot water through it until it is
gone. Soak blood stains in pure cold
water; when the discoloration is drawn
out rub the article with soap and scrub
it If a garment is scorched it should
be huug in the sunshine for days.
Peach stains are hard to remove, but
they should be soaked for a week or
mire, if need be, in water In which
has baen dissolved a small quantity of
chloride of lime. Fresh stains from
coffee and tea, may be eradicated by
pouring boiling water through them.
If the stains are old soak first in cold
water and then try the boiling water
treatment Wash out chocolate stains
first in cold water and then in boiling
water.
For cleaning the spots on the carpet
ox gall or ammonia and water are ex
cellent Tbe proportion is one table
spoonful of household ammonia to four
parts of water, or use one tablespoon
ful of ox gall to one quart of water.
Apply with a sponge or flanuel, not too
wet, aud rub until nearly dry. Lime
spots miy be removed with vinegar.
This mmt ba used quickly and wash
ed off immediately. For soot, cover
with salt or com meal and sweep up.
To remove ink spots pour on milk, and
as it becomes colored absorb with a
blotting or other soft absorbent paper;
coarse butchers' paier i good. As
soon as the ink is removed wash with
warm water and castlle soap nothing
stronger to remove the grease of the
milk.
Cleansing cream made after the fol
lowing recips is highly recommended
for general use in the household. It
will remove grease spots from coats
carpets or any wooden texture, paint
from furniture and ink from paint
This cream will keep an indefinite
period: Cut four ounces of white Cas
tile soap very fine and put it over the
fire in a qnart of hot water to dissolve;
as soon as it Is thoroughly melted add
four quarts of hot water, and wheu
nearly cold stir in four ounces of am
monia, two ounces of alcohol, two
ounces of glycerine and two ounces of
ether.
Travelers are frequently troubled
with dysentery,' diarrhoea or other
bowel complaints brought on by
change of water aud diet One dose of
Dr. Fowler's Ext. of Wild Strawberry
will bring relief.
The Successful Suitor.
"I don't say as how yo've went back
on yer word," he said, as he sat down
on the stump in front of the log house,
"but the fack stan's thet ye've gone
an' married another man."
Tbe woman took off her sun bonnet
and handed it to one of the baiefoot
children who were hanging about
"Take that into the house," she said;
"an' the rent of you all run an' play."
Then, turning to her visitor, she ex
claimed defiantly: "Thar ain't nobody,
man or woman, as kin say that oucet I
gin my word I ever went back onto it
I told you long rgo, when fust they
was any prospeel; of my gittin' ter be
widder, thet thar wan't no use of yer
hintin' around about w hat I might do
in case any thin' happened."
"Ye said, though, thet I stood as
good a show as anybody else."
"An' so ye did then."
"Whut you was skeered about was
thet you'd git somebody as wouldn't
be good to the children."
"That was jist the p'int"
"Ain't I alius It-en ez p'lite an'
agreeable to 'em ez anybody could?"
"Sure."
"Ain't I bought 'em candy an' gin
gerbread bosses an' tin wagons?"
"Most liberal."
'An' n the Fourth of July didn't I
buy 'era shootfh' :crackers anr.ky
rockers an' roaming candles in'' a lot
of other things?"
"You done all that But you didn't
stay ter see 'em touched off."
" 'Cause I hattef go ter town, right
back ter town, that same afternoon."
"It was that day I made up my
mind ter marry Jake Spicer."
"Aud him a man weth a wooden
leg?' the other murmured indignantly.
"Yes, an' you'll, be surprised ter
know bow much them fireworks ait'
that wooden limb had ter do weth it
I knew how much store Jake sot by it
He took jist as much pride in that
wooden leg ez I do in my marble top
bureau. I give you credit fur b--in'
good natured most of the time, but
children is pesterin' an' there ain't no
tellin' how long a man's tetnjr is
goin' ter bold out weth them ez ain't
his own. When I seen the patient an'
accommodatin' way Jake Spicer rolled
up bis pant leg an' belt out that Wood
en limb fer the boys ter tack pni
wheels onto, I said to myself, There's
a man ez kin take sass an' disobejiue
an' not git riled; ef any body'll make a
second father ter them young 'uns, it's
him.' "Washington Star.
$100 Eeward, $100.
The readers of this piper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded diseA-u th.it science his
been able to cure in all itsstagesand that
is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a con
stitutional treatment Hill's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying tbe
foundation of the disease, and giving
strength to the patient by building up
tbe constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative piwt rs,
that they offer One Hundred D.dlars
for any case that it fails to cure. S.'nd
for list of testimoniAls. Address
F. J. CHENEY Jc CO ,
Toledo, O.
Ctt"SoId by Druggists, 7 c.
A Klondike Victim.
"I thought you said you were never
coming back unless you came with a
fortune?" There was something of a
sneer in the old gentleman's tone.
"So I did," replied the husky young
man whose face showed that he was
tired and whose clothes looked as if
they had been slept in. "Have all tbe
sport with me you can. I deserve it
for thinkin' that I knew more than all
my friends put together. I'm back
broke aud traveled the last few hun
dred miles on a freight train, but I
have a collection of eip.-rieucj that
may prove very valuable."
"I told you that you'd never get there
and that you'd never get back if you
did."
"That's right Just what you said.
I got through to Seattle in good shape,
but there's where I i-truck the suags.
I met two nice looking fellows there
bright and full of business. ' They
were going right through to the Klon
dike, had engaged passage on the next
steamer and would be glad to have me
join them. We could look after each
other in case of danger or sickness, and
then we could reduce our expenses
by pooling our interests. I was about
to close with them when a handsome.
fatherly appearing old man called me
aside to put me ou my guard. 'Young
man,' he said, 'we are overrun here
with sharks and gamblers trying
to catch victims as they come and go
to the diggings. Keep away from
gambling dens aud see that your mon
ey is secure all the time.' I told him
it was sewed inside ray drawers and
anyone who got it would have to get
me first He commended my pru
dence and shook my hand as I thank
ed him. That night the money was
stolen from my person while I was
asleep. The hotel-keeper furnished
me with transportation to Denver. I
was robbed by the old man, tbe two
young men or by someone else. The
thief knew where to look for that roll
of bills and it's gone.. That's all I
know about it except that the Klon
dike craze cost me every dollar I had
on earth and I never got out of the
States."-Detroit Free Press.
Eternal Vigilance
Is the price of perfect health. Watch
carefully the first symptoms of impure
blood. Cure boils, pimples, humors
and scrofula by taking Hood's Sana
parilla. Drive away the pains and
aches of rheumatism, malaria and
stomach troubles, steady your nerves
and overcome that tired feeling by tak
ing the same great medicine.
Hood's Pills are the best family ca
thartic and liver touic. Gentle, relia
ble, sure.
era
To Avoid Taking Cold.
It is not always sufficient to point
out a danger; it is often of even greater
importance to show how the danger
may be averted.
Most people properly recognize a
cold as avoidable, and think they are
greatly to be commeuded for the pru
dence they exercise in protecting
themselves; but if they did but know
it, they are really doing all they can
to make themselves susceptible to
colds by weakening their resisting
powers.
A German professor once wrote a
long treatise, with a learned title, on
how to avoid catching cold. After
tracing tbe history of colds from the
earliest ages, studying their caus
es and symptoms, and cataloguing tbe
remedies that have been used by the
most eminent physicians of all times,
he concluded with a short chapter on
prevention.
His plan was to inure the back of
the neck to drafts by liavhtg some one
direct a current of air u:i it from a
bellows three times a day.
Tbe writer had the convct idea,
although its practical application was
clumsy, and he was a long time in
reaching it The best and only way
to escape colds is to mec-t the causes
that produce them and not to run from
them. . - . .
.Let tbe body be hardened by a c-Id
sponge bath or even a cold plunge,
followed by a brisk rubbing with a
"scratchy" towel, every morning.
Let the clothing be adapted to the sea
son, though always as light as possible,
but keep tbe neck uncovered no
turned up coat collar, no mufil-r, no
boa. Never let the temperature iu the
house rise above seventy degrees in the
winter. Air every room systematical
ly every day, no matter hat the out
door temjR-rature may be. Always
have fresh air in the bedroom; there is
nothing poisonous iu the "night air,"
popular belief to the contrary notw ith
standing.
In a word, don't always be afraid of
catching cold; don't coddle but meet
cold and wet and changes of tempera
ture like a man or rather, like a
horse, and you will then run a better
chance of being as strong as a horse.
Of course you must strengthen your
armor where it is weak, but if you
recognize in yours At a weak place, a
"cold spot," don't cover it up with
more clothes, but toughen it, and
toughei. your entire body uutil it is
a homogeneous resistaut whole.
Youth's Companion.
There is Nothing so Good.
There Is nothing just as good as Dr.
King's New Discovery for consump
tion, coughs and cold, - so daxuaud 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 Dis
covery because you know It to le safe
and reliable, and guaranteed to do
g.aod or money refunded. For coughs,
c tlds, consumption and for all affec
tions of the throat, chest and lungs,
there is nothing so good as is Dr.
King's New Discovery. Trial bottle
free t Snyder's drug store, Somerset,
or at Brallier's drug store, Berlin.
A Eesnlt of Protest
The tones of the indignant man who
was addressing the clerk in the gas of
fice would have been thundering aud
impressive if it had not happened that
he had a high tenor voice. He tried
to talk so rapidly that he became con
fused, and when he had started in
three or four times without succeeding
iu stating his case with the emphatic
clearness that be sought, the clerk
leaned indulgently over the counter
and said :
"I think I understand."
"Oh, you do, do you? I suppose
you're another psychologist You can
read my miud the same as a nnu reads
the meter -merely by standing off and
taking it for granted."
"No," was the good-natured reply.
"But I catch your meaning. What
you mean to tell me is that your family-
were out of town during the month of
August"
"Yes, sir. Miles a-.vay."
"And during the mouth of July you
were at home burning gas every night
aud using a gas stove to get breakfast
and dinner on."
"Precisely."
"Aud, in the face of these two facts,
the amounts of the two bills were ex
actly the same."
"They didn't vary a penny."
"It's evident there is some mistake."
"I should tbiuk so." -
"Yes. It must be wrong. I'm ever
so much obliged to you for bringing it
to our attention."
The visitor gasped in astonishment
"It's a real luxury to meet a man
who honestly tries to keep track of
these things," the affable clerk went
on. "It stands to reason that you
ought to have been charged a great
deal more for July than for August
You wait here, and I'll have the ac
count straightened out for you in just a
minute." Washington Star.
Lid You Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
your troubles? If uot, get a bottle now
aud get relief. This medicine has
been found to be peculiarly adapted to
tbe relief and cure of alt. female com
plaint-, exerting a wonderful direct in
fluence in giving strength and tone to
the organs. If you have loss of appe
tite, constipation, headache, fainting
spells, or are nervous, sleepless, excita
ble, melancholy or troubled with dizzy
spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine
you need. Health aud strength are
guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and
f 1.00 at Snyder's drug store, Somerset,
or at Brallier's drug store, Berlin.
That an old silk handkerchief makes
an admirable duster for fine cabinets
and bric-a-brac.
That a teaspoon ful of powdered alum
mixed with stove polish adds greatly
to its brilliancy when applied to the
tange.
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ILO
WHOLE NO. 2110.
MAT KILL ALL LIFE.
Fear That the Big Ssn Spot Will Soon
Explode.
Astronomers are now watching with
increased interest tbe big sun spot
which has been in great activity for the
last two years, aud are speculating on
the outcome. It is said the molten
mass is likely at any time to burst from
the sun's surface. Professor Siverimus
J. Corrigan, director of the (Jixslst-ll
observatory of Carleton uuiversity, on
this subject says:
"A new planet may at any instant
break away from the sun, and the ter
rific explosion which will necessarily
accompany this breaking away will
produce a great disturbance of the en
tire universe, but particularly of tbe
earth, perhaps completely smashing it,
and surely destroying all animal life
on laud as well as in the waters.
"The results of my investigations ou
this subject indicate that the earth Is
closely approaching a critical epoch in
its career; yet tbe day or the hour of
vlsitatiou 'no man knoweth,' but these
results have convinced me that it is im
minent Iook to tbe sun.
"Neith- r is this tremendous disturb
ance of the earth aud the destruction of
all life upon it completely unprecedent
ed!. A similar detachment of solar
mailer by the same meau$ is known by
scientb to have occurred 53,000, OJO
years" ago, a peri.sl simultaneous with
the palaeozoic age, at which time all
animal and vegetable life then existing
on tbe face of I lie earth was completely
crushed out."
Comiueuting on Prof. Corrigau's
statement. Prof. Garret P. Serviss says:
'Every astronomer knows that the
sun is the parent of the earth and of all
the other kuown planets. The famous
discovery, two years ago, of tbe strange
solar elemeut, helium, in the rocks of
the earth, was really a beautiful proof
of the substantial identity of the two
bodies, tbe sun and the earth. Helium
ou tiie earth Is a murk of areulage,
like a peculiar strain in the bliaxl of an
auim.il. No astronomer doubts that
our globe, atid all its comrades, had
their origin from the sun.
"Tne idea which he suggests, that
the birth of a new world should have
the effect of destroying the life of an
older one, has a peculiar significance.
Granted that a planet may be born
from the sua iu the way he points out,
the cousequeuces iudicated might well
result Life ou this earth is possible
only through a very delicate balance of
conditions and forcc, and the evidence
is daily accumulating that even com
paratively slight di-turbanees in the
sun are capable of affecting that bal
ance in various ways." Chicago Trib
une. Stains on Table Linens.
For housekeepers at a loss to kno
how to get rid of stains on table linen
and napkins, the following m-y prove
helpful:
For peach stains use a weak solution
of chloride of lime. Linens must soak
for a long time. This is necessary and
important
Grass stains can be removed by using
cream-of-tartar and w:tter or alcohol,
which never status the iut delicate
fabrics.
For fresh tea or c tr stains use boil-
iug water poured on the spots over
some vessel. Hold the water at a
height stilllcient to secure force while
pouring. In old stains soak in cold
water before boiliug.
For wiue stains sprinkle with salt,
moisten with hot water aud pour boil
ing water through until the stains dis
appear.
For fruit stains use briling water. If
they do not yield use oxalic acid, allow
ing three ounces of the crystal to one
pict of waer. Wet the stained linen
with the solution ami place it over a
kettle of hot water or in the sunshine.
Rinse well as soon as the stains disap
pear; wet with amnion! to, counteract
the acid. Then riuse thoroughly again
This operation will save the linen,
which would otherwise be injured.
Bncklen's Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world forCuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, aud all Skiu Erup
tions, aud positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 2o eeuts per box. For sale at J.
N. Snyder's drug store, Somerset, or
at Brallier's drug store, Belin, Pa,
Growth of Ham an Hair.
Authorities diffL-r as to the rate of
growth of the human hair, and it is
said to be very dissimilar iu different
individuals. The most usually accept
ed calculations give C inches per
annum.
Inured to the Coll.
When asked if he was not afraid of
a temperature of ten degrees below
zero the late Tolman Willey, of Boston,
said: "Where I was born, sir, my
father one Sunday took me into a
meeting house which sat on four stone
(sosts with no other underpinning. I
sat in the church and listened to a
sermon on hell for 60 minutes, with
the wind howling underneath the
church and blowing 41 miles a minute,
with no fire in the stove and the mer
cury 40 degrees below zero. Do you
think I was born in a sugar box aud
nursed on heliotropes?"
Much too Good-Xatired-
"My wife has the most exasperating
temper," said the wiry little man.
"I am surprised to hear it" said the
other man. "I had an impression that
she was very good-natured."
"That's just what's the matter with
her. She won't get mad when she
ought to. The other morning I went
to the hydrant to get a drink and the
water was almost thick enough to
carve. And I began saying things.
Never mind, dearie,' said she. 'Just
think how nice it will be to scour the
tinware with.' "Indianapolis Journal.
Farm Topics of the Season.
Feed grain now If you have not oVn
it before; cottonseed meal and wheat
bran are profitable. If it is only a
cent's worth a day it will pay.
A poor cow in the dairy is like a dull
tool in a carpenter's hands requires
the expenditure f a lare percentage
of energy to obtain a mall percentage
of result
A much better prie ran b had
for winter butter, because the
supply is limited. This difference iu
price is all profit, for the cows must be
ktptandfed. It does not pay to let
them run down in condition, and there
is more time to do the work. Cows
fresh iu the fall give a longer flow,
which is kept up all summer with a
good pasture.
It requires but a small amount of
capital to get a start with sheep, and
in opening up a new farm they will
help materially to commence the iu
come, coiisuiuiug much' which would
otherwise go to waste, both in the pas
tures and in the etabl. s.
The farm w hich is well fed will feed
the fanner. It must be applied to the
stock as well as to the land, and by
feeding the stock well the laud may be
fed with the greatest ax-curacy, and s
the circle of feeding be made complete.
There is no poorer economy than iu
buying a poor harness because it is
cheap. Well-tanned leather with due
care will resist dampness, aud will
keep sound a loug time. Harnesses
should never be kept in the stable.
There is too much ammouia iu stables.
hich will quickly cause a hemes to
rot When used in warm weather the
harness should le cleaned often, and
kept soft and flexible with oil.
Make your butter as you please, but
if you want to get the best prices make
it as folks want it who buy it and pay
the best prices.
Lowland pastures should always
contain redtop in mine of its varieties.
It makes the cleanest, nicest looking
and sweetest turf of any grass. The
fiue-leaved varieties should I selected
for cultivation iu pastures. Meadow
fescue is a valuable pasture grass.
where the soil is good, and ou sandy
soils red fescue is perhaps oue of the
tiest species we can cultivate, associat
ing with it English Muegrass.
Always in saving lettuce seed choose
that which lias most leaves, and
which has grown w ithout interruption
from the seed. The practice in rtany
families is to pluck the leaves three or
four times, and when the leaves begiu
to be tough, let the plant send up its
seed stalks. Usually the largest crop
of seed will ome from the plant that
has the fewest leaves. Bjt H will not
be worth planting. Growu a .lettuv
for seed should bewwithooLdlsturbing
a leaf, each pUat will produce very
few seed. et seed from this nearlv
seedless lettuce is worth any amount of
the seed which is prtnljced in the
usual wav.
Those who intend to keep any smok
ed bains and shoulders for next sum
mer's use, should use salt for packing, -
It is more cleauly, and better in every
particular, thau ashes or other articles
commonly used. All that is necessary
Is to so place tbe meat that the pieces
411 uot touch each otlier, covering
well the top pieces. Tue salt wi.l uot
be wasted, aa it may be avd- over
again, or taken to make brine. Hams
packed in this way will not be musty
or dirty on the outside, nor will they
take any more salt thau had beeu al
sorbed before packing.
A calf dropped in the fall should lie
a good one to rear, that Is, of course,
providing it has gxxl blool and is of
likely appearand?. Tue calf begins
life in a war.u world; and one in
which fiies are not troublesome as dur
ing the summer mouths, and the little
animal has plenty of tima to begin to
grow, and become weaned and accus
tomed to hay aud gra by the follow
ing spring, when it is in first rate con
dition to go to pisture grasses. Tue
fall calf has much to recommend it.
aud there is gxl reason to expect it to
m ik-; a find cow.
There is no crop grown so easily and
with so little cost as late-sown-. turnips
in a field of well-cultivated corn, f Tue
shade of the corn will keep the turnips
from growing much until the coru is
cut Possibly also their growth will
be checked by the demand of the corn
roots for plant food. Bat in the Indian
summer that follows the first frost the
turnips will make a rapid growth, as
they will then have all the laud for
their own use. The turnip will eudure
a pretty heavy frost, and grow ag-iiu if
warm weather follows iL Bat in our
climate turnips can not be left in the
ground all winter, as they are In Eng
land. American Cultivator.
For many reasons fall planting Is
preferable to spring planting. There
is much more time to do the work
properly. The roots get firmly estab
lished during the winter. The tree or
shrub is theu iu condition for imme
diate growth on the opening of spring.
Nearly all deciduous trees aud shrubs
can be shipped and transplanted in
autumn to advantage; also, ruses in tbe
open ground, when slightly protected
with suitable mulching.
Many people are surprised to leant
that milk which is liquid has a larger
proportion of solid coutents than have
many articles of foot L Milk average
So per cent of solid matter, of which a
considerable part is albumen. It is
this which coagulates with heat, aud
still more when rennet is used. Pota
toes are HO per cent moisture, though
wheu the potato is cooked the starch
in it expands, making it seem much
heartier food than it Is. The solid of
the potato is mainly starch. That of
milk Is divided betweeu case ine. butter
fats and sugar, tbe last of which Is
found iu whey, which, eveu though it
be soured, shows by that fact that it
has had some sugar iu it
Many failures occur with clover from
the use of poor seed. Crimson clover
has also caused disappointment from
the same cause, aud at this seasou,
when it is being seeded down, a large
magnifying glass will serve admirably
in assisting to detect the foreign seeds.
All clover seeds are miuiature bean-,
and each kind has its characteristic
appearance, which is easily reeognUed
after one becomes familiar with the
shapes and color by examination of
the several varieties.
Palermo, Sicily, has an average of
lti7 chadless days a year, and day.
of partial cloud and partial sunshine
which elsewhere would be classed as
flue days.
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