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Somorsset, Penn'a.
Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, G28.C00.
OCPOSIT NCCCIVC IN LAK3C WDLl
MOUNTS. PTLC ON DEMAND.
ACCOUNT OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS,
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GEO. Ii. SCULL,
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EDWARD WTLU : : rKIIPEXT.
VALENTINE HAY, : VICE PKEhlKENT.
HAKVEY M. BERKLEY. . CAStllETw
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OF SOMERSET PA.
EiUbinhtd 1877, Orgin'.z u t Natloni!, 1890
Capita!, - $ 50,000 00
Surplus & Undivided Profits, 23,000 00
Assets, - - 333,33333
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Wm. LT. Koontz, - Vice rrcsident.
Milton J. rritts, - - Casliier.
Geo. S. Llarriaon, - Aas't Cashier.
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Joha II. Snyder,
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Jerome Stuffi,
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Somerset
SOMERSET, PA.,
15 CHRISTMAS LAJTD.
iln the btitus and gleam came Ibe Chrintma
iir.nin
To the little children there;
, And band in hand to the Christmas laud
1'.N"e;itli t i ii- Christmas skies m fair,
They went away In a inaijic .kii;h
j That tinkled with Kilver tM'lIs,
C'ver Ibe while' of the now, one nljlit,
j Where the Kln of the Cliristmas dwells.
j Tiiey saw him marshal Ills aoldicrs sinn'.l,
' Iu beautiful, tiriht brliiitden ;
. At the tapo' the drum th-y a tlictn me
j With euns and t;li Hiring blades.
' The little lf!ler were made of tin;
With palnti-d emits of rl.
And they drilled away, with their banneni
Kay,
I'.y a cute little ci plain led.
Hut alas T for the King o" the ChrintDa land,
And ti e march that his o!dieni made !
Kor the dolN were dritd in their very Uist
O the dolls were on dress puradc !
And they xmiknl no sweet al thu Koldiera
bnve
Ea'li bmutiful, fairy doll.
They dropped their guns for the muile they
pave,
Au' ran away w ith them all !
B it such Is the wonder of Christmas land
When in the morning light
The r'llldnn vuku from their ChrUttna
dreams.
There stood the sohllem bright ;
And the dolls were amiting their KWivUvt
pmili"
And they said : "From our bind po tru j
The soldiers brought us a thousand milea
To tile homes and heart of you."
Atlanta ConiUtttlon.
Other men had courted Melinda
Jonen, courted herassiduously,but with
out (success. They had been uieu of
part, tx; men who had money, men
who had bucked the tiger successfully,
or ridden a horse to a winning finish
but all their wooing had been in vain.
Melinda Jones was a hard-hearted, ob
durate, cruel flirt.
Against herobtinacy a yellow jockey
had no more power than a black trout.
All were her victims.
Melinda Jones was the brownskin
ned Cleopatra of the Tenderloin. No
Antony had yet apieared.
Then MUtah George Johnson came
on the scene.
Meorge Johnson was from Kentucky,
and he was black and ugly, but he had
cut bis eye-teeth. He was standing in
front of Madison's barber shop the day
ha first, saw Melinda. She passed hi
all her glory, hardly casting a glace at
the crowd of humble admirers who fol
lowed her with their eyes.
I'se gwine to make dat black gal
mine, hummed Mr. Johnson, and tiio
crowd greeted his presumption with a
guiraw.
Why don't you go in an' win hub,
Gawge, you say you're sich a god man
an' they ain't been nobody wahut
eu uh for huh yet?
I win huh. I win huh if I sets my
h ad to it.
CMtnph, niggah! what you 'spose
Melinda Jones wants wif you less'n she
put a red suit on you an' led you around
by a string?
Keep on ye' stringin', ol' man, but I
tell you Mistah (iawge Johnson win
dat gal if he puts hint mind down to it,
an you'll all l? goin' aroun' hyeah in
mou'nin'. I take my banjo an' play
iufr.mto' hull house an' she'll jump
out o the winder to me.
Oh, I don't know; you needn't think
that you're the sun, just because yo'
face is shin in'.
Mistah George Johnson took out a
red silk pocket handkerchief and slow
ly wiped the perspiration from his shiny
black face. Dat's all right, he 8aid.
Dat's all right, jolly to yo' heart's eon
tent now, fur you'll le cryin' after
while.
It'll be at yo' fuu'al then.
That night there was a long confer
ence between Mr. Johnson and his
friend, Billy Black. Will wm a popu
lar boy. Everyb'Mly liked him, even
Melinda Jones, supposedly because he
didi.'t try to eor.rU Well, the two
talked long together, and later ou the
dulcet strains of a banjo were heard
under the charmer's windiw, and Mr.
Johnson was singini a tender strain.
Melinda promptly blew out her light.
This did not seem like encouragement,
but the Bereiuder went away chuck
ling to himself: D.it's a good starl, shu
Hilly Bla'rk'a form was oa the b?lle's
sofa next evening. Law, Miss Lindy,
you d n't mean to tell me that you
blowed yo' light out while he was sing
iu'. Of cose I did. I didn't want that
niggah singin' under my window. I
don't know nothin' 'bout him.
Dju't know nothin' 'bout him?
Whew! whistled Billy; d ra't you tell
nob xly els? that they'd set yo' d ) u
as jest plum ign'ant, that's wuat they
would.
Why, who Is he? He aiu't so many,
I guess.
Ain't so many! Well, I reckon he's
a purty good few; yo' dou' know who
you'se a-foolin' with.
I never seen him before.
No, course you never; that's because
he don't hang out around uo sich parts
o' the town as this very much. He
lives up auinuj G.id'a people. The
lady began to show an accession of in
terest in the subject and her informant
went on: Why, that's Mr. Composer
Johnson; you'd ought to heard tell of
him.
No, I ain't never heard his name.
What did he ever compose, I'd like to
know?
Why, barrels o' songs; makes 'em up
right out of his own bed, po'try an' all.
You jest say to him: Gawge, sing us a
'riginal song; he'll jst set there an'
think a minute, an' then he'll pick up
that ol' banjo of his an' the way he'll
sing to you will b a caution au'
somep'n new, too. He can make any
song you watit him to. Why, that
man's the greatest musical g. nnius in.
New York, only they're holdin' him
back-on account o' his colah.
I ain't never heard none of his songs.
You ain't? Well, you ought to bo
around to the club some night when
they're givin' a smoker
I oughu't to be nowwherecf the kind
Mistah Billy Black.
Well, I mean there is where you'd
get a chance to hear 'eru.
I guesd I can get 'em in sheet music,
can't I?
Biliy was stunned for a moment, but
! he rose to the occasion: Naw, he said,
you can't git 'em in sheet music
( on't suppose Gawge is goin
to put
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1897.
out his songs that way so's anybody
could go around suigin' em.
If he's goin' to make auy money out
of them, that's what he'll have to do.
Well, I guess he will print one, an'
I bet it'll make hU lortuue, too. Look
at the money that fellow made who
wrote "After the Ball," au' some o'
Gawge's soujrs is hotter' n that, lie
kin do thom coon songs to a uevah
quit, au' you know, they're all the rage
now.
You must brin,; your fiiend up sorue
time, Mistah Black. I'm ve'y much
int'rested in music.
Oh, I don't tutiu'l he'll eoruo now,
Miss Liudy, efyoii put out the light
while he was siiigin'.
Mt-bhe he would if he thought I took
hiiu fur somebody else I do adiulaii
yo' cutr buttons so, Mistah Black.
Yes'ni mebbe he would come. I'll
try him anyhow.
Billy Black took his departure with
a very serious face, as if he were care
fully weighing tho chances for and
nguiust the succes of the mission
which Miss Melinda had given him.
But the remark that fell from his lips
as aoon as he had left tire charmer's
presence Wied the lugubrious expres
situi of his face. I'ohaw! he said, why,
o'l Ciawge is jest bound to win in a
walk; what a lot, o' human nature
thaih is in a colo'd woman.
About an hour afterward, perhaps by
accident, Bill aud Mr. Johnson hap
peued to meet directly in front of the
female's house aud under her open win
dow. Of course they could not know
that she happened at that very mo
ment to be sitting at her window ia
the darkness listening to the varied
sounds of Thirtieth street. Among the
varied sounds she heard this:
How'd do, Mistah Johnson? I jest
been talkin' 'bout you.
How'd' do Billy? Who you been
talkin' wif?
The lady in this house in a stage
whisper.
I do' know what that lady could
have to say about me. She ain't treat
ed me right.
That's all right now, Mistah John
son. I know all alxiut that, an' it was
a mistake. .Sue took you for somelanly
els..
Me fu' somebody else me, Gawge
Johnson? Oomph, that's wtlss still.
She mils' be very
She sh'; don't get riled now. I
wish you to go with me to call on her
some day,
Not on yo' life; nobody that insults
me that way.
But, I tell you, she didn't mean it
for you, an' that's di IT rent.
Yes, that is different Well, mebbe
some day I'll go wif you.
They mo.ed oil down street. Here
was what the fair listener in the win
dow did not her.r: Well, uow look
heau, Gawge, if y m expect to win out
in this game, you ve got to push mat
tahs. If I make a killin' to-night, we'll do
it to-morrow, an'' I'll stake you fu' true,
my Uy.
It was evident on the morrow that
George Johnson had made a killin.'
He came down the street in an entirely
new outfit check suit, patent leathers,
new hat aud caue he was gorgeous.
Billy Black wasfUudingcouveiiieut
ly at Miss Me'iuda's window. Law !
he exclaimed, jest look at ol' Gawge
Johnson; ain't he wahm? I'll bet a
dollah he's done sent a song away.
The damsel turned her eyes upon the
approaching spectacle and napped in
admiration. She stepjed back from
the window. Get him to come In, she
gasped.
Hyeah Gawge, Billy hailed from the
window, you must abeeu seudin' away
one of yo' songs at last.
Yes, I sent one away.
Well, you'e purty wahm.
Ye?, I'm too hot to hold, but this is
only the dvance anticijiation when
that song comes out, they'll have to
send a fire company with me when I
come down the street to keep me from
seorchiu" the houses.
Come ou in, Gawge.
Well, I do' know; I will drop in fo a
minute.
In a few minutes more the gorgeous
Mr. Johnson was bowing before Miss
Jones, aud she uiurmuri jg how happy
she was to fawm his acquaintance.
Tiien Biliy found it convenient to leave.
It need not be chronicled what words
passed between the two, but there is
one word ia love's summer-time voca
bulary which George Johnson knew
and uttered. It was lee cream.
When M. -linda passed the barber
shop on the arm of her admirer, the
idle crowd in wonder forgot to laugh,
and they did not recover until they
noticed George's new hat swinging to
ward the ground in profound salute, as
he passed them.
George took Billy's advice and push
ed matters, aud in less than tea days'
time there was a weddiug at the home
of Widow Jones, her daughter and Mr.
Johnson being the high contracting
parties. The groom's song, for some
reason, did not appear, but he makes a
killin' now and then, and the widow
keeps a restaurant, so they get on.
Billy Black is always welcome in the
Johnson household.
TLs Surprise of All.
Mr. James Jones, of the drug 5rm of
Jones i Son, Cowden, I1L, in speaking
of Dr. King's New Discovery, aays that
last winter his wife was attacked with
La Grippe, and her case grew so serious
that physicians at Cowden and Pana
could do nothing for her. It seemed
to develop into Haty Consumption
Having Dr. King's New Discovery in
store, aud selling lots of it, he took a
bottle home, aud to the surprise of all
she began to get better from first dose,
aud half dozjn dollar bottles cured her
sound and well. Dr. King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds is euaranteed to do this work.
Try it- Free trial bottk 3 at J. N. Sny
der's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and
G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin,
Pa.
Peach trees my be examined for
borers as late as the weather holds good
and if not yet attended to should not
be neglected longer. D not permit
these grubs to winter in the trees.
Sobman'i Temple.
A noted statistician and investigator
...1.. u- . I.. . .. c- . l. -. I- l...
w no new, iuui ol lllil'j lii nucu woi n o.u .
leen doiug some figuring on the c st of (
the temple of Solom-m, and says few j
jieopleeven in these days of palmy ex
travagance and millionaire displayhave
an adeipiate impression of the enormous
cost of the great temple. According to
Yillalpindut, the "talents" or g !,!, sil
ver and brass were equal to the enor
mous sum of 'i,S70,KJU,i.K). The wcrlli
of the Jewels is placed at a figure equally
as high. The vessels of gold, according
to Josephus, were valued at ll),ld tal
ents, which, reduced to English money,
was equal to "7 .i i.S).!. The vessels of
silver, according to the same authority,
were still more valuable, bein? set down
as worth JWltS,3. -!,). Priests' ve.st-ni'-'nts
and the robes of sing-rs, 2,0l
00"), and the trumpets, C,0. To
this add the exp;n-es of the building
materia', labor, etc., and sines wou L-r-ful
figures result. Tjn thou-iuil ni,-u
bewin cedars, 0),03 bearers of b.ir
dens, S ),!),) hewers of stone, overseers,
all of whom were employed for seven
years, upn whom besides their wages,
Solomon bestowed !,7::,!r'..). If their
d.iiiy foo 1 was worth 5') cents, the sum
total for all was k5.S77,03S daring the
time of building. Taa miterialsiu the
rough are estimated as having been
worth 2,5 tj,337,( V). This gives a total,
just for this much of the expanse, which
by no m ?ans express th'3 whole ot,
of lO,71,.),7iO,J7I, or abut $.j,h;,oii,-
SoS.lt).
Iron in the System.
Walker was one of thos-j who did n-it
believe in d K'tors, and he nsver lost
an opportunity of having a dig al them.
When he was brought home ia a cab
with a broken leg and the medical man
had to be sent for, Walker was much
humiliated.
"Rather serious," sitd th-j mm of
physic and fees, "but you will get on if
you take care. I'll send you an iron
tonic."
"Don't want itP' exclaimed the pa
tier.t, shortly. "Iron is no good."
"Ivteuse me," returned the doctor,
stiJMy, "iron is good fjr the system."
And as Walker doggedly repeated his
objection he continued with some
warmth:
"It is leyoud all question, sir. In
whatever way iron enters the body it Is
good, and it is a mistaken notion to say
that it makes a man irritable."
"I beg to ditfer most emphatically,"
retorted Walker, desperately, finding
himself driven into a corner for an ar
gument. "I say it caus irritability
and therefore isn't good, and if you
want proof j 1st you sit '., a on the
business end of a tack. "
And he fell baek oa tha b l with a
look of triumph. Pearson's eekly,
Deafness Cannot b Cured
by l.cal applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is ouly one way to curedeafuess,
and that is bv constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inilamcd con
dition of the mucous lining of the Eu
stachian Tula?. When this tube is in-
llamedyou have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en
tirely closed, iK-afuess is the result,
aud unless the i::!l.irnmatioii can be
taken out and this tuiw restored to its
normal condition, bearing will be de
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is noth
ing but an inflamed condition of the
mucous Hurfaces.
We w ill give Oue Hundred Dollars
for auy case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that can not be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. C1IKXEY & CO., Toledo, O.
fciTSold by Druggists, 7-7-c
A Splendid Case.
He was a young and briefless attorney,
who had bjen gmteelly starving to
death in a downtown skyscraper for sev
eral years.
The other afternoon a stranger wan
dered into the olT'nv, evidently by nils-
take. He held a slip of paper in his
hand aud said hesitatingly that he was
lookiug for a lawyer by the name of"
"Ah, yes, cartainly, sir sit down,"
said the excited young attorney.
"Well, you see it's this way, mister,"
begau the caller," I've leea sued by a
feller out in Cicero. B,-tw-'ti yoa md
me, I hain't got any case at all; but I've
got money enough to m ike a !i ht, aud
I'm going to do iL"
"My d.-ar sir," cried the lawyer,
grasping the visitor by bilii hau ls,
"don't say another word. You have tiie
let case I have ever seen."
Free Pills.
Send your address to H. E. Bucklen
& Co.. Chicago, and get a free sample
box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A
trial will convince you of their merits.
These pills are ea-y in action and are
particularly effective in the cure of
Constipation and Sick Headache, tor
Malaria and Liver troubles they have
been proved invaluable. They are
guaranteed to be perfectly free from
every deleterious substance and to be
purely vegetable. They do not weaken
by their action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigorate
the system. Regular size 2oc. per lx.
Sold at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store,
Somerset. Pa., and G. W. Brallier's
Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
Sorry He Spoke-
On one occasion when a well knowa
wit was listening to the band on the
pier at Brighton, some medical studeuts
who happened to le there thought they
would have a joke with him, and ac
cordingly one of their number west up
with outstretched hand and said:
"Ah, good moruing, Mr. . How
do you do?"
"I am quite well, think you," replied
Le, "bat I really have not the honor of
your acquaintance."
"What!" said the student "You
don't know me? Why, I met you at
thezoo."
' Young man, accept my apologies,
but really I saw st many monkeys there
that it is impossible for me to recognize
them all again."
L
Fun at Fort Clark.
"There was fun down at Fort Clark,
Texas, ia the early SO's, when the lute
Col. Jock McKenjue 'Three Fingered !
M' he was affectionately nicknamed '
by the men under him of the Fourth
Cavalry was in co.mnaud of the pist.
"I don't thick any of us w ho wir
soldiers at Clark at the time w ill ever
forget how he made the F.rtirth Cavalry
baud put iu a wheffe day discoursing
musie to the mules iu the ctrral. The
way of it was this:
"The band leader was a 'square head.'
He belonged to the toady ami dog rol
ber type of enlisted men, I'm sorry to
say, and that was just the kind of en
listed man that Jock McICenzie ha 1 it hi
fur.
"Well, the enlisted men at Clark
wanted to give a hop, and a committee
of us was sent over to this band leader
lo scj about music.
" 'Forty dollars,' t-aid be, almost It
fore we'd told him what we wau'.e .
"What are you giving u?' sli'i ! one
of the committee. 'You play all iiig'at
at the ollioers' hops fur nothing, and
you only hit the junipers iu town frr
f:0 for a night's scraping and wind
pushing.'
" 'Forty dollars,' caid this queer duck
of a cornet cracker, and that settled it.
So we slid up to the old man's quarters
to s e what he'd have to ay about i'.
We would'nt have gone near him if w e
had not felt that the band leader was
trying to rub it in on us.
"One of us stated the case to him.
'"The band leader is trying to give
us the worst of it. Is anything to I
done?' was the wind up of Ihs state
ment. "The old man twiddled his thum'.s
aud smiled in a queer kind of a way he
had.
"'Pay him what he asks,' he sail
finally, and we left.
"We were disappointed in the old
man. It was the first time he had gone
bsck oa us on a fair prop-s'. ion.
"Well, the hop caaieolt'all right, and
we had a pretty big time. We paid the
band leader his $ U in advatp- ', and he
gave us good music, although it was'nt
1 10 worth.
"A lot of the officers, of the pit at
tended the hop and appeared to get as
much fun out of it as the nun. Col.
McKeazie showed up aluut midnight
with his orderly behind him.
" 'This is the way to d it,' said he.
'I like to see the oi'icers and men in
my command mix up. It promotes
good feeling and is goixl for theoiiieers
and good for the men. But I nuder
stand there has been a little contention
with reference to the music. Ah!'
"And he stroked his chin and went
into a reverb fr a minute or so, then
continued:
" Til see about that in the morning.
Go ahead and en oy yourselves until
reveille If you want to.'
"We took the old nii.i at his word
and kept the thing a-going uutil first
call sounded for reveille at 6 o'clock iu
the morning. Then all hands made a
break for quarters to stand reveille.
"It was still pretty dark, but we made
out the old man standing in the middle
of the parade ground. As he generally
staid iu ted until about h) o'clock in the
morning, we woudereil what was the
matter.
"After reveille roll call the o filet r of
the day wheeled to front tho cornel
and reported ail present or accounted
for.
"Ofiievr of the day,' called out the
old man, 'order the musician of the
guard to sound baud call.'
"Band call at that hour of the m r:i
iug, at reveille! The old man had us
all guessimr for fair.
"Tin members of the band had jut
gone down to their quarters from the
hop, dead tired after tile night's work.
The trumpeter blared the band call.
" 'Clap the double time on to the call,'
shouted tt; old mm to the trumpeter
and in alwut eight seconds the bands
men came hopping over the parade
ground, elbows up, their blouses half
buttoned, the ban 1 leader traveling iu
front like a man racing against time,
when he saw the old man standing on
the parade ground.
"The bind lined up close to the com
manding officer.
" E'n ah your music last eight was
pretty good,' said the old man to the
leader. 'You eh -were pretty well
paid for it, t, were y j n :?'
"The baud leader stood mute. It was
up to him to say something, but he
wasn't man enough, and J.-'.c McKen
zie hated to have a soldier to thumb his
buttons.
'"Mil yes good musie,' he went on
I might even say d d due music! I
like good music So do all of my offi
cers. So do all of my men. Bat I dare
say that neither myself nor my o!fi ers
nor my men are so fond of good music
as my mules. I don't suppose there's
such an extraordinarily musical lot of
mules at any post in this country as
that b inch of mules of miue down in
the corraL
" 'Humph! ban d leader, you will im
mediately get yourself and the band in
to heavy marching order and march
down to the mulrj corraL Tnere you
will render the best music of which the
band is capable until retreat this even
ing. Do not slouch the music, I shall
le around at intervals to see that you
do not slouch the music'
" 'Your bandsmen's dinners shall 1
seut to them at ntxn, and you an 1 they
shall btvelo minutes to eat it It esumo
the musie after 15 minutes of dining
and k-wp it up until first call for retreat
is sounded.
" 'O.lbjer of the day, dismiss the iaea
to thtir quarters.'
"Well, that male corril serenade was
worth a'iy m la's ui mey to hear an I
see. Tue oandsmen sat around ou bales
of hay, their heavy mirehin' ord?r
gear, down to the tiu cup and plate and
knife and fork, jangling every time
they made a move.
"We all took turns going down to the
mule corral to see the performance and
make the band leader feel gTd. We
threw ourselves full length on the grass
and chewed straws and watched 'em
puff and pant.
"The mules seemed to like the music,
by the w iggling of tht-ir ears, ouly it
made some of the old timers so sad that
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WHOLE NO. 2120.
they kept up steady 'kehunk' during
the entire 12 hours.
"The old mau turned up at thecorraJ,
picking his teeth, about 2 o'clock in the
afterii x:i. Some of the bandsmen, in-
cl.i
t'iiig the leader, who played fiist cor
net, wcr half .asleep right it: the mldd e
i 'a tuile. The "id mail noticed this.
" Xot fpirit enough, not energy
enough, iu this music, he commented.
'Band leader, march your men around
the pest a couple of times and theU re
port back here.'
"When the baud got back from the
tour of the pf, the old man was still
at the mule corral, and he remained
there fTa couple cf h,Hjrs, suggesting
difficult com pi sitious to the leader for
the baud to J lay.
"When first call for retreat went, the
vneuiUrs of that t-and looked as If they
were ready to have a volley fired and
taps sounded over their graves, and
when the enlisted men gave another
h p tho following month, the square
head baud leader submitted a program
of isus-ie that he wanted to rend -r us
for nettling. We accepted the nth r."
New York Sup.
Do Not TeU the Truth.
No doubt the human race would con
sider it little sort of a universal tragedy
if there were r.o looking glasses. Yet,
iu stiite of their widespread u.-e, it is an
atnishiug fact that none of us have
ever seen ourselves as ol hers see us. In
the first place, the rejection iu the mir
ror does not portray our likeness w ith
airy attempt at accuracy. The hair is
w rong in tone; the eyes are not correct
in color, and our complexions are boje-Ii'.s-ly
libeled by this specious housis
hold deceiver. It is certain that if the
looking gais.SA.-s spoke the truth the sale
of various complexion washes would
decrease to half, for any fair akin bx.ks
gray and pallid iu the g'ass, ami num
bers of womea who have splendid com
plexions ruin them by trying to im
prove thun lcui;se they look lid in
the mirror. You may le i-.rta'ni that
however plain your face seems, it is by
noni'-ausso plain as it appears hi the
tell-tale piirrr.r. Secondly, y hi cannot
assume your natural expression while
pei ring iu the 1. Hiking trlass. The eye
must iie in a certain ;s;uou before you
can see ut all, and the eye, o fir as ex
pression is coip-erned, governs the face.
The consequence is that you can see
on!y oue of your expressions in the
glass, and that ex-ire-.-: oa is on? of at
tentive examination. All the other
expressions by which your friends
know you, favorable or unfavorable,
you have never s?eu, au 1 never will
see.
TjpV.iJ. And Dist-
Tii? reluf iV.ris't'p i f typhoid fever and
dust is referred tout some, l-eugth iii a re
cent coui'ii liiicaiiori to the Paris Acad
emy. I: was shown that iu the tuui
u:;T of 1n i there were Is cases of y
phoid t-ver in cer!ai: small barracks.
On examination the water supply prov
k! to Is? pure, but it was f und that in
the autumn of three cases of ty
phoid had occurred iu the room where
the ei
mi
began niiie months later.
Those furthest from the bed and the
r.xim siioV red hast- Toe ll joritig was
tuk :i up, the rooms diuf..eted aud no
ni iretypiioi l appeared. A few mouths
later 22 cases occ.irred in a barracks in
another town. The bull ling was small
and the rest of the to.vu fr-.-e from the
disease- This time som; dJst was Col
lected from the llar of the barracks,
and on examination it wai found to lie
infected with the sjK-cllic typhoid bacil
lus. The water proved to be pure.
From these cases it i.s concl J-led that
typho: 1 fever is spread by other means
tiuin the comm jiiiy ai'"-Ked belief of
by water alone.
Ei Good ti Yjarieli
The Medical and S irgical rt -porter
gives the following pra r.icd a Iviee:
Think deli'ierately of the house you
live ia your body. Make upyour mind
firmly not to a!u.-e it. Kit nothing
that will hurt it. Wear nothing thai
distorts or pains it. I not overload it
with fiavl or drink or work. Give your
self regular and abundant sleep. Keep
your body warmly clad. Do not take
cold, guard yourself a;; liust it- If you
fex-I the first symptom, give yourself
heroic treatai?:it. Get into a fine glow
of heat by exercise. This is the only
body you will have ia this world.
Study deeply and diligently the struct
ure of it, the laws that govern it, the
pai isan l penalty tint will surely f-d-!
a violation of every law of Kfe and
health.
Euckler.'t Arnica S alve.
Tii Best s live tit the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, fleers, Saltl.'heum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Haud
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Pile, or uo
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
ja-rfect satisfaction r money refunded.
I'ri'fil cents per box. For salt at J
N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa.,
or Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
WUIdt Farzn.
Iu Europe, t'.iec i'.tivati :i of the wil
low is in so.iu localities quite an import
ant industry. Ia fact, ir; certait parts
of Fran.?? the farmers do uot hesitate to
plant g 1 wheat land iu willow, and
the crop grows without any attention,
a twig planted iu m ist earth growing
up with great ran; l.ty, and the market
for the article is go o L la Cic regions
of La T rem blade and Arcachon there
are large plantations of willows aad
factories for the mitiufacture of roigh
baskets for shipping various commod
ities, these largely taking the ptaee of
the barrels used so extensively in this
Ouii'rv. It is in the Netherlands,
however, that the willow is most used.
Here it serves for baskets of all kinds,
fences, cattle racks, wagons, wagon
tops trunks aud boxte. Evea the sig
nals along the river are paibted willow
wickerwork. The useof the willow for
breaking up tiie course of torrential
mountain streams and for use along riv
er barks for holding the earth in place
is also very important in these count
ries.
No need toufiVr with rheumatism,
lumbago, neuralgia, cramps or colic
Dr. Thorn is' E edtctri j Oil cures all such
troubles, and does it quickly.
Sew Itami.
lib-hard Jam, who, w hen 12 years of
ne in !s''!. left New Y-wk to travel
annuel ti world, his returned.
Mn. H inoah enild, a wealthy Atlan
ta, tit, woman nuuuin'm her intcntioni
of Uklti' ! women companions to Klon
dike. Tlie Pennsylvania I tail road Company
will construct a third track from Altoona
to GalnUm, at a cost of f i,il, Rivi'i
employment to 2' men.
Acitiss 1 17 tflnioeran.-w wo:nfn nf hav
inj ll liquor at their lni X Mnr. Ir. J.
S. Conner and I-cirtnet Wileo. of II aver.
have boon held fir Court.
Ia an opinion just 5h?d Assistant Secre
tary of the Interior Pavis holds that
soldiers' widows whoalre;uly have prop
erty interests aud settled incomes are uot
entitled to pensions.
Killed wilh Mind ragt beiiiuse he had
been rrjeateii!y refused employment at
the works of IheS. S. White Dental Manu-
factming Company, at rliilaJeph;,
Alexia Herkoft', a Polish alien, shot and fa
tally wounded the assistant superintend
ent of that concern upon the street -inertly
uiler noon hour Kri.tiy.
The annual mectii'g of P.altiiuoru's
Rainy lay t'iub wus held oa Friday iu
appropriate weather. It pmred iu tor
rents, but the wooicu happy. Iu
ahort skirts, boots and kaisintr they
braved mud and rain, and even those
meiubers who have carriages at ll.eir com
mand walked to the it;e-otitiI-
A Tennessee lady, Mrs. J. W.Towle, of
Philadelphia. Teim., has turn using
Chamberlain's Couh ltetucily for her ba
by, w ho ia suljectlo croup, and say cf it:
"I find it just as kmk1 as you claim it to
le. Since I've had your Cntjjh Ketnedr,
baty has beets threatened ith croup ever
so many tiims, tut I would give h'.:u a
uVseof the Ketneily and it prevented his
having it every time." Hundreds .f
mothers i.y thrj same. Sld by J. N.
St:yi!er, Somerset, I'a.
A rie.v ?l jicen'iack. will won make its
appearance. It is a ra.li.-al departure
from all previous lii-signs, showing a
largo spaeo of whitn paper, front and
back. Aa esjfle with extended wimts
hovering over tho nag and eapitol is. t!i
only illustration on the fice, an.l in the
corners is the ngure in scroll work. Tho
back is very plain, consisting largely of
a border ia aeometrical diiwigua.
Col. Henry A. Thomas, postmaster of
Boston, uavo a lecture tho other day on
the history of postoliices, and stated that
in the old colonial times there were only
seventy-five pnstofiii-es in Amrri.-a. Ten
years later tin ro werelWoiUw; in !-.-;,
4.Ci.il); iu lsisJ, lo,"1.) and bvday about
7o,tii) have regular postmasters, receive,
and deliver mail matter and employ 2,
ininiii employes, ineu and women.
There is no medicine in the wciMtqmd
to Chamberlain's Couh Itriucdy for tho
cureof throat and lung diseases. This is;i
fact that has been proven in mi inherit!
ca.sest. Here is a saiiipio tu tuousainis oi
h -Iters received: "I have tried Chamber-
aiu's Cough Remedy while mi Muring
from a severo throat trouble, and found
mediate and t .rs-tive relief. I can un-
hesitiitinttly recoamiend it." MooaR W.
Whitemokk, K.iitor Urand Rivers (Ky.)
ilernld. For sale at Snyder's drug store.
Soiut rset, I'a.
Thousands of Altoona workitigrnen are
jubilant over the bright prs:vts fr work
this winter. Il is expecUsI to be the
busiest winter in tho Altoona shops of the
etinsjlvatna llailroad Company for
years. Al Ueparimeiiu-t mu run si-.-.vt-
ly, aud, in order to koo; up w ith de
mands, night work will be necessary.
8. B. Fox, a music tiwhcr of Ilir.g-
haiuoton, X. Y., by thedeataof his father,
James Fox, of Brighton, Fugland, comet
into .he possession of au state value,! at
$;i,D!Ji). Tho eldor Fox h.u. great social
aspiratii-ns an I seut his son to Oxford
and then to a German univer. :ty. After
the sou had taken a course i:i lutisic with
t.imous iiuLst-T, he returned diomn. He
had teen in l-higland only ashorttmie
when he met Dora Bell, a oeaiiti'til young
woman. He married her against his
fa.Lei's command and was driven from
homo.
A oincidmiee at the Wiiito IIeis' last
Friday has been c omoiento.l it,))!! b
SHVerat e:ii;!oyis thero. Sh irt'.y betoro
n-.xjii oieiol tii.5 alt-i-thes was atira. ted oy
A shadow- near the t-.p of the northeast
pillar of the pot lieo. OeoKsorving it mora
closely it assumed thu form of a l.u-o and
then the outlines begin to so closely re
setnole thefeaturesof I'rtssi.lunt M'Kinley
that general atter.lioii was diro-tud to tho
phjnometion, w i:h the result that a nuiu-l-r
ol" attaches and visitors saw at:d
wondered at tin shad.ov, whi.-h s..m
passed away. No serious impression
was made tin t!io minds of tli-.e who
witnessed the sight, as at that time no
news had arrives! as to the iiinevt of the
Presideut's mother.
An exchaug-j slugs the song of the man
who wants l- "oe a Imy again. Here it
is: "C I like to tea boy a'ain, without
a woe or care, wtta irecKe-s Hc-iiu-re.i o n
my face and Inysce ! in my hah. I'd li'xts
to rise at i o'cl-s k and do a hundred
chores, and saw wood and feed the hoe
and lock tho stable dot. rs. And herd tho
hens and watch the let and take tho
mutes U driuk, and teach the tnrkeyt
how to swim so they w ill not sink. And
iniii a hundred cows ar.d bring i:i wood
to burn, and stand out in the suti all day
and churn and cu irn. V ear my limfc-
er's ce.st-otr clothes, and walk four milt s
to school, and g"t a licking every day for
breaking some old rule. And then tj.t
home again at night and do tho chores
... . . . . i ...... i i . . .
once more, iu;.k iao cows au i ieeu mo
hogs and curry mules a seore. Then
creep wearily up stairs b s.i--k iny litllo
Ijed, and hear dear o! I dad say, "that
worthless boy, ho doesn't earn hi. breath"
I'd like to a loy again; a boy has so
much fun; his life is just one round of
mir.h I ruin rise to set of Bun. I tiling
there's nothing pleasantor than closing
stable d'srs and henling hens and eh:ta
i n g 1 ices and doing evenirg chores."
I write tlhs to let you know what I
would not do: I would not do without
Chamlierlaiu's Paiu Balm in my house, if
it cost i li per bottle. It does all you rec
ommend it to do and more. J. It. Wai.
LAeK, Vv'allaceville, i. Cham'jerlaiifs
I'ain Balm is the, IkI household liniment
in the world, ami invaluable for rheuma
tism, lame back, sprains anil bruises. IS
ready for emergencies by buy ing a bottle
at Snyder's drug store.
Potato Crop Snort.
Not siuce ls!2 has the potato crop
of the I'uited States proved so nearly
a failure, says the American Agricultu
rist, in its fluid report of the yield of
1S;)7. Compared with the lilieral crv-p
of last year, there is an apparent fail
ing olf of nearly 3-) per cent, in ton
nage, and the quality of the whole is
greatly deficient. County ami town
ship returns from all the leading potato-growing
States show the yield
to lie 17l,io,iA against 21o,iii,iiO iu
1SJ1, au 1 2;,r)),irj iu lv. Tiie av
erage rate of yield i-r acre Ls plat.-ed at
it bushels, taking the country at large,
ag-.tiu.-t So bushels in f, in l.vj.
and C2 in 1S02.
The reasons for disaster to the potato
crop of ls.7 are about as varied as a
multiplicity of cases could make them.
Standing out with more promiueucj
than any other two factors are blight
and rot, a.s a result of extremes of
weather conditions. Excessive rainf til
here aud there, failure of germination,
later serious drought, rust, .-cab, insect s,
e'.c, have all bxen prominently ia evi
dence, though complaints of thus char
acter are less general thau for the two
first named. While the yield in bush
els) is small the quality is almost deficient-
Such portions of Canada as
make a specialty of potatoes, notably
Ontario aud the Maritime provinces,
show a general but serious shortage.
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