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The Somerset Herald.
EDWARD 8CTLL. Editor md Proprietor.
WEDXESOAT-
No, thebe's nothing the matter with
Hanna!!!
Hesatob Hanna is entitled to the
admiration of the whole country for
the bolters he has made.
The readiness of a renegade Iiepub
lican State Chairman for a deal with
Democrats is instructively illustrated
in Ohio.
SesatoiTHaxna is one of the f;w
senatorial candidates of last year who
went ixjuarely before the ieople and
wan approved.
Congress ia now-fairly eciiled down
to work in the first regular session. Its
action will be followed closely and
liOjicfuHy by the people.
Til E battle for supremacy of the low
ers in China has changed its weapons
from guns to cash. That is the real
and moot effective ammunition in all
modern warfare.
If United Htates Senators were elect
ed by the jwople Senator llanna would
be ail right. His candidacy was in the
IU puMican platform, and tLe voters of
Ohio approved it.
EX-COXOKESSJIAX FKEDEKIfK C.
Leonaku has been appointed United
ritates Marshal for the Western District
of Pennsylvania. Somerset County is
embraced in this district.
The kickers and bolters in the Ohio
Legislature, as is customary with such
gentry, made a sorry mess of it. It
was apparently for just such game that
your Uncle llanna was loaded.
The Government has received over
fifty million dollars for a railroad, in
the face of the prediction that it w ould
never get a cent. The estimates of
some ople have a shaky foundation.
The new year starts off with more
institutions running to their full capa
city than was the case twelve mouths
ago, which proves that the McKiuU-y
administration is not only on time, but
up to date.
KErKESKXTATIVE PEARSON", of
North Carolina, has declined to accept
the extra mileage voted the other day
on account of the extra session. He
will get himself disliked by the other
Congressmen.
Sek ketaky Shekmax says he can
not recall any previous instance of a
deal between the Republicans and
Democrats in Ohio. It is earnestly
hoped that the example prtsented may
be the last as well as the first.
Coxokessmax Arxoi.k, of Clear
field, says that he will not ie a candid-
ate for the Republican nomination for
Governor, but will aim lower. He will
be a candidate for the nomination of
Congressman -at -Large to succeed Ga-
lusha A. Grow.
The latest returns from Iiston show
that John L. Kullian received ten
votes for Mayor. As John was not a
candidate, this unrestrainable desire to
vote for him leads to the belief that,
had he formally entered the field, lie
might have won out.
Hox. Hex by K. Boyek, Kjieakerof
the House of Representatives in this
State, has been appointed Sujierintend
entof the United Stales Mint at Phil
adelphia, and it is generally conceded
that tne 1 resident has made a wise
and popular selection.
Thkee currency bills have already
leen introduced in Congress, but th.-re
is little disposition to deal with the
question. It is a subject that almost
any statesman hesitates to grapple w ith
unless he has devoted a great deal of
time and attention to its study.
Oxu reason why 1!8 Is going to lie a
iietter business year than lWi was is
that everybody think. it w ill be. The
immediate outlook is much brighter
now than it was twelve mouths ago,
and the general opinion is that it will
e still brighter six months hence.
There is no room for pessimists in this
country these days.
Somerset County's IJoard of Direct
ors of the Por received a valuable ac
cession when Mr. Manas Shoema
ker was sworn into office. He is one
of the county's best and most progres
sive citizens, and a very popular one.
We venture the prediction that, as long
as Mr. Shoemaker is a member of the
Poor Board, the affairs pertaining to
that office will be honestly, intelligent
ly and economically mauaged.
The Indianapolis Journal says that
it appears that a woman who was once
the wife of a regular army officer w ho
diud years ago without a pension has
married twice since the death of uer
first husband, but as the wife of the
third is drawing a pension which has
already yielded her 1,000. Cases like
this afford the opponents of a liberal
system of pensions ready w eapons for
attack.
This session of Congress mayor may
not be a long one, but it seems safe to
predict that Hawaii will be American
t -rritory before it ends. Undoubtedly
the annexation project is stronger now
than it was a month ago, w hen Con
gress convened. The land grabbiug in
China, aud the disposition cf Germany
and some of the other European coun
tries to pick up all the territory not ap
propriated by some other werful na
tion, baa raised up many new friends
for Hawaiian annexation.
The compulsory education law went
into effect on the first of the year. A
circular issued by the Sc1k1 Depart
ment says: "After January 1, ls!is, mi
nors under the age of sixteen year em
ployed iu any manufacturing establish
ment or mercantile industry must be
able to read and write the English lan
guage or possess a certificate of having
at ended during the preceding year an
evening or day school for a period of
fix teen weeks duly signed by the teach
er or teachers of the school which said
minor attended." The compulsory at
tendance law compels all unemployed
children under sixteen to attend school,
but exempts from attendance those be
tween thirteen and sixteen who are en
gaged in some useful employment or j
service.
Ox Jaxcary 1st the Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette
mailed a letter to edit
ors of Republican papers in every coun
ty in tbe State asking their views as to
the choice of the Republican voters of '
their respective counties for Governor. 1
In last Saturday's issue the Commercial-Gazette
published answers from
fifty-four editor, from tbirty-eiirlit
counties, a large majority of which
named CoL W. A. Stone, of Allegheny,
as first choice, with C. V. Stone, of
Warren, a good second. Among the
letters published we find the f ilowing
from the veteran editor of the Meyers
dale Commercial :
Meyeradale, Pa I believe William A.
Stone would carry the county tea to one
to-Uy. Whaterer opposition there is to
hnn is Battering. Somerset county this
year will have none of the "pig in the
poke business in it primary eieciion.
There will be openly avowed fctoue dele
gates and they will le ele-ted.
Yours, etc.
Lor. A. Smith,
Meyersdaie CorniuercUL.
"Eveuy old soldier w ho dii active
service should receive a jensioo," is a
familiar expression one bears, and it is
not far out of the way, either. A great
deil is said, both pro and con, wrh re
gard to the proposition which has leen
mule for the publication of tlu full
pmsion rolls. On the one hand, it is
alleged that the people at large have a
ri,rht to know who are enjoying tle
Government's bounty aud the reasons
therefor, while, on the other hand, it is
hed that many pensioners would feel
humiliated if the public knew they
were drawing pensions. We can not
see the force of this last objection. Men
who are fairly and deservedly in the re
ceipt of pension?, fur honorable service
rendered, have nothing to keep back or
be ashamed f. It is only those who
have succeeded in getting a place ou
that roll of honor by ways not alto
gether above suspicion who will object
to the proposed scheme of publication.
There is also, it may 1 observed, a very
general disposition to purge the lists of
those who have been planed there un
worthily, and to this no man with a
clean record can oijecL The pension
which is being paid to old soldiers aud
their w idows now is moiwy well tjient,
aud the American people are proud of
the boys in blue, who fought and gave
their lives f,jr their couutry, and a
small pittance each month is not be
grudged the old vt-U-rans.
Secretary Gage'i Becommendatioa.
Secretary ;age's recommendation that
the order of President Cleveland of May
(i, Is: Hi, ne modified l y taking out of the
classified service certain officials included
therein does not involve any questions of
the merit of the civil servi law itself.
It raises a question of equitable and len
eficial administration. Without making
the test cf fitness less searc hinp, it is pro
xisel to give a greater option of choice in
cases iu which the appointing ofiirial is
personally responsible for the misdoing
of hi appointee. This is altogether prop
er. The suggestion th:it the custodian
force employed in public buildings, light
hiHise employes not in the clerical service
and other like positions, where no aca
demic test of e.'liciency is necessary shall
also le eligible for appointment w ithout
competitive examination will also be
deemed a wise one. It is fcaid that the
President, who 19 a thorough believer in
the efficiency of civil service regulations,
looks with favor upon the suggestions of
the secretary of the treasury. I?y remov
ing minor objections to the rules in cases
in which their operation has proved inef
fective in bettering the publicservice, the
law would be strengthened Philadel
phia Record.
Eastings Asks Help Tot Cuba.
Ou Saturday eveuing Governor Hast
ings issued a proclamation calling upon
the people of Pennsylvania to aid the
starving Cubaui. He designates Charles
F. Warwick. Mayor of Philadelphia;
Henry P. Ford, Mayor of Pittsburg;
.Tames tj. Bailey, Mayor of Scranton, aud
John I). Patterson, Mayor of IlarrUburg,
as depositaries, '"to whom money, cloth
ing, provisions, and other necessaries
may be transmitted for sure forwarding
to Consul-General I.ee at Havana." He
asks the citizens not to turn "a deaf ear
to the pitiful cry which no;v comes from
our neighbors in Culia."
Secretary -of State Sherman on Satur
day also issuel an appeal, uuder direction
of the President, and appointed commit
tees to forward such money or supplies as
might I entrusted to them.
Tie Birtl or t"ae Greater" Hew York.
With the dawn of the new year the
"tlreater" New York is ushered into the
world a full grown giant. The problem
of municipal government in this country
is to be put to the supremest Ustonthe
grandest scale. Within its limits is con
tained a jKipulation equal to that of thir
teen of our soverign State at the last cen
sus, and as large as that of the original
tuirteeu Stales when the union was orga
nized. Provisions for the life and health
of this vast multitude of all nations and
eiitnes is an unsolved enig'in, but profit
ing by the experience of half a century's
success; thousands of sufferers in New
York and else-where can be wrested from
the grasp of that agonizing complaint.
rheumatism, by the timely and systematic
use of Hostettcr's Stomach Hitters, which
is moreover, a preventive of malaria
and kidney trouiilc. and asovereign cure
live of liver complaint, constipation, dys
pepsia, debility, sick headache and nerv
ousness. It is an admirable appetizer and
promoter of sleep, hastens convalescence,
and counteracts the infirmities of age.
WASHIXGTOX.
Special Tea-Day Excursion via Pennsylva
nia Eailroad.
5IXE DOLLARS EOUSD TEIP.
Washington is a most Interesting city,
The Capitol, the Congressional Library,
the National Museum, and the Monu
ment are among the great creations of
civilized man, and appeal with peculiar
force to every American citizen. Few
journeys, in fact, aro of more benefit
than a trip to thia city, the Nation's Capi
tal, and the scene of much of vital im
portance. To afford an opportunity to
visit it while Congress is in session, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Companv hat ar
ranged for a series of low rat'( ten-day ex
cursions to the National Capital, to leave
Pittsburg February 17, March 17, April
II, and May 12. Round trip tickets will
te sold at a rate of ft 00 from Pittsburg,
g.xd going on special train leaving
Union Station at fi 00 a. in., carrying
through parlor cars and coaches, and
making same slops as train No. 12 or on
ii-ain Xj. 4, leaving Pittsburg at 8 10 p. tii
eirrying through sleeping ears to Wash
ington; returning, tickets will be good
oa any train except the Pennsylvania
Liinted.
Ticki Not. sale in Pittsburg, at Union
Ticket oniee, J Fifth Avenu. and
b nion Station. For full information ap
ply to agents or Thomas K. Watt, Pas-
engi.r Agent eslern District, Fifth
Avenue and Smithfield Street, PitUburg.
Postage Stamps Suit
Says a Norrislown special of Tuos.lv
night: The caseofex-Prothonotary Sain-
uej t yee against the County Commis
sioners to recover fTS for jxistage stamps
furnished in the course of business in his
cilice during the past year was heard 1k
fore Magistrate IX M. Harry. Mr. Nyce
was the only witness called, and ho testi
fied that he purchased stamps to the above
amount and that they were used In the
office in the transaction of business of the
court of common pleas ef Montgomery
county. The law at present pro ides that
the commissioners shall furnish station
ery to the various offices connected with
the management of county business. The
magistrate decided that stamps w ere not
stationery, and gave judgment in favor of
defendants. An appeal was taken, and
the matter will be tasted in coarU
DUKRtrr EA5GEQ!
California Karderer Goes Upon the Gallows.
San ti-KXTiN, Cal., January 7. When
William Henry Theodore Ourrant died
on the gallows this morning for the mur
der of Blanche Ijamont, be gave an ex
hibition of coolness and nerve such as
has seldom been acea under similar cir
cumstances. Hopeful almost to the very
last minute that something would inter
vene to save him, he walked to ihe scaf
fold and made a f peech protesting his in
nocence, a calmly and with as distinct
enunciation as if he bad beea addressing
an assemblage of friends upon some or
dinary topic His face was pale, his eyes
were red, but his voice was firm, and be
stood as solidly as a rock while he pro
claimed his innocence and professed for
giveness to those who, he said, had
hounded him to heath.
There was not a hitch or accident to
mar the plans of Warden Hale in carry -ing
out the sentence. The noose wan ad
justed the trap was sprung, the stout rope
heUl, and Durrani's dead body dangled
at the eu.b The neck was broken by tbe
fall of four feet, and five minutes later the
murderer's body was cut down and
placed in the coffin.
Consistent to the last, Durrant died pro
fessing religion. But he died accepting
a', the last moment the comforts of the
Citholic church, instead of those of the
Baptist faith, in which he was reared.
I:ev. Ruler, a Protestant minister, had
arrranged to ascend the scaffold with Pur
rant, but the minister would not say that
he thought Purrant innocent, and the
condemned mau declined his services
unless he professed belief in his inno
cence. As the hoar of tbe execution approach
ed the prisoner became somewhat rest
less. His father and mother were ad
milted to bid him a last farewell. The
obier Durrant grasped his son by the
band and the young man then turned to
comfort his mother, who cried hysteric
ally. Durrant embraced her tenderly,
and saying, "The hour has come, for us
to part," pot her gently away. The grief
stricken mother was led to a private
room, where she remained until after tbe
execution. The father, however, went
to the execution room, and, supported by
two friends, saw his son meet death.
STuRr OF THK CRIME.
While Durrant was convicted of bat
one murder under the law, be was held
responsible by public opinion for th
murder of both Blanche Lamont and
Minnie Williams, and it is felt that his
death expiates one crime as much as tbe
other.
Durrant had been a prominent member
of tbe Emanuel Baptist Church for sev
eral years, and for a year previous to his
arrest has been assistant superintendent
of the Sunday School. In this capacity
he made the acquaintance of Blanche La
inotit and Minnie Williams. Blanche
I,imont disappeared April 3d, 1K9G, and
was never seen alive afterward. She left
the home of her aunt, Mrs. C. G. Noble,
oa that day to go to school. ,
Many members of Emanuel Church as
sisted in the search f r the miasing girl,
and among others was Theodore Durrant.
Ten days had passed since Miss Laraont
disappeared and her friends had almost
given up hope of ever knowing her fate,
when a discovery was made which led to
the finding of Miss Ij motifs body. Tbe
ladies of Emanuel Church were decorat
ing the edifice preparatory to the celebra
tion of the Easter Sunday services, when
the mangled body of Minnie Williams
was found, almost naked, in the library.
A number of ugly knife wounds and
some rags that bad been forced down the
young woman's throat told of the une
qual struggle she had made to protect
her houor.
From some of the young woman's
friends it was learned that she had been
seen the evening before with Durrant.
Durrant was arrested the following after
noon. From the first the police associa
ted the finding of Miss Williams' body
with the disappearance of Miss Lauiont,
and a search was at once begun in the
church for her ldy. At 10 o'clock Sun
day morning the Insly of Miss Lamont
was fonud. A broken door knob and a
turned bolt excited the suspicions of the
searchers, and the door leading to the bel
fry of the church was broken down.
At the third landing, lying in the cor
ner of the darkened belfry, tbe naked
lKuly of the murdered girl was found.
The imprint of five fingers buried in her
throat revealed the manner in which the
young woman met her death. Tbe post
mortem examination showed that mur
der was not the only crime that had been
committed. The evidence against Dar
nint accumulated rapidly, and on April
2Nt an information was filed against biin
by District Attorney Barnes, charging
him with tbe mu rder of Blanche Iamont.
The trial, which lgan on July 22d and
lasted until November 1st, wasoneof the
most celebrated in criminal jurispru
dence. Plucky Woman Beats a Tramp.
CtiAMnKRsnrim, Pa, January 8.
Single-handed, Mrs. Abraham Foreman
beat a tramp who became offensive in her
kitchen because she would not give bim
a drink of liquor. With a piece of brass
that lay conveniently near, she knocked
him down and before he could rise she
procured a pistol and would have shot
the tramp had he not begged piteonsly ur
mercy. He left the house at the muzzle
of the revolver, bleeding from a half
dozen wounds.
THE HOMELIEST MAJ IN SOXESSET,
As well as the handsomest, and others
are invited to call on any druggist and
get FREKatnal bottle of Kemp's Bal
sam for the Throat and Lungs, a remedy
that is guaranteed to cure and relieve all
Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma,
Bronchitis and Consumption. Price 2jc
and ode
A Partisan Testator.
Wii.kesbarrk, Pa., Jan. 6. A remark
able will is being contested in the Courts
of Bradford County. George N. Wilcox
left each of his grandson $1X on con
dition that they support the Democratic
party during life. Failing, the money
was to go to the Democratic National
Committee. One thousand dollars was
left to the granddaughters, providing
they married loyal Democrats. The will
is being contested on the ground that the
legacies are a tempUlion or bribe for tbe
advocacy of a particular political creed.
contrary to the genius of our Govern
ment and institutions.
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Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days.
Its action upon the system is remarkable
nnd mysterious. It removes at once the
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pears. The first dose greatly benefits;
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Somerset, Pa.
Taxes and Timber.
The list Legislature passed the follow
ing act which is of importance to many
of our readers :
"That iu consideration of the public
benefit to be derived from the retention
of forests or timler trees, the owner or
owners of land in this commonwealth.
having on it forests or timber trees of
not less than fif.y trees to the acre, and
each of said trees to measure at least
eight inches in diameter at a height of
six feet above the surface of the ground.
m ith no portion of the said land absolute
ly cleared of the said trees, shall, on
making due proof thereof, be entitled to
rtceive annually 'roiu the commissioners
of their respective counties during the
period that the said trees are maintained
n seund condition upon the said land, a
sum equal to eighty per centum of all
taxes annually assessed aud paid upon
the said land, or as much of the said ,
eighty per centum as shall not exceed the
sum of forty-five cents per acre: provid
ed, however, That no one property own
er shall be entitled to receive said sum on
more than fifty acres."
BANNA WINS IT ONE VDTE.
Baekt y Republicans Deal a Desta Eiuw to
Party Uisorgaairers. j
EE3TJLT RECEIVED TiTE SATISFACTION
THROUGHOUT THE C0UKTBT.
A feeling of satisfaction was felt by Re
publicans throughout tbe United States
yesterday afternoon, when the telegraph
ticked the welcome news that the Ohio
legislature bad declared for Mark A. ,
Hanna for United States Senator, for the ,
short and tbe long term.
In the House the 53 representatives w ho
had stood t, IVitw(.11 f.ir Sive.Uer rer
loyal in their support of Hauna. To this
.,.lu.p,,urV n.
number were added the votes of Mamul,
Griffith and Joyce, who hail stood in with
the combine in effecting the organization
of the House last Wednesday, but after
wards declared for Iiauua, making his
total vote in the House u and to this were
added the votes of the 17 loyal memt ers
of the Senate, making a total vote of 73, a
majority of one on joiut ballot for Senator
Hanna.
The Senate and House will meet in
joint session to-day when Mr. llanna will
be regularly elected, he having failed to
receive a majority of the votes cast iu tbe
Senate yesterday.
Columbus has been in a stale of wild
excitement for the past ten days. The
Hauna managers realized that they had a
hard road to travel, but with tbe sublime
courage that attended him throughout the
late presidential campaign and inspired
Republicans throughout the land. Sena
tor Hanna remained upon the ground
and personally directed his own cam
paign. Ex-State Chairman -Kurtz, mad
dened by a personal grievance, growing
out of the late presidential election, when
he was accusod of diverting a portion of
the campaign funds to his personal use,
and thought that Chairman Hanna did
not refute the allegation as promptly as
he should have done, although it after
wards appeared that Hanna was ignorant
of the charges and hastened to remove
the stain as soon as he learned of it, led
the battle against Hanna. Kurtz entered
into an unholy alliance with the Demo
crats by which he was ablo to organize
both branches of the legislature, but he
was unable to keep his followers in line,
after their conduct became known
throughout the state and the people call
ed upon them as their representatives to
lespect their wishes or resign theiroflicial
positions.
Charges and counter charges of bribery
and corruption were indulged in, but to
the credit of Senator Hanna, it must be
said that allegations of that character
were beneath his notice, and personally
he refused to reply to any of them.
All of the Buckeye leaders at Washing
ton were summoned to Columbus where
they labored with the members of the
legislature to keep their pledge to the
people who had electee! them and keep
Ohio in the Republican column. High
state ofliciabj resigued their positions
rather than serve uuder Governor Bush
nell, who was in full sympathy with the
disorgauizers and aided and abetted
them in their alliance with the Demo
crats. The Chairman of the State Committee
called a mass meeting of the Republicans
of tbe State, which was held at Columbus
Monday afternoon, and was one of the
most notable political assemblies iu the
history of the country. Almost at the
same hour tbe meeting was being held
Governor Bushnell was being inaugurat
ed for a second term, surrounded by a
horde of office holders. There was a
strange contrast between the two assem
blies; in the one the name of the Chief
Executive of the State was hissed and
booted, while in the other it was cheered.
Representatives of the Democratic Na
tional Committee were conspicuous in di
recting the fight against llanna and every
means was used toelecta freesilver Re
publican to succeed him in the Senate.
The Democrats cast their votes for RobL
E. McKissou, Mayor of Cleveland, for
Senator.
Tbo election of Senator Hauna is
stinging rebuke tc party disorgauizers.
who through personal feeling, were will
ing to surrender their party flag and aid
the common enemy in achieving victory.
Cutting Mountain Timber.
II. C. Huston, of Connellsville, Pa.,yc-
terday attended a meeting in Pittsburg
f the stockholders of several branch
railroads operated by the Baltimore am
Ohio company. Mr. Huston is the own
er of extensive lumber iuterests and saw
mills in the Chestnut and Laurel Ridge
mountains, principally in Somerset coun
ty. Fpr many years he has supplied the
Baltimore and Ohio company's Pittsburg,
Wheeling and Grafton divisions, includ
ing their branches, with ties, ln-sides the
other lumber required for the operation
of these lines. Fifteen years ago all this
timber was cut and put in marketable
shape cbse to the bauks of the Youghio-
gheny aud Casselman rivers, within easy
reach of transporting facilities. Now it is
necessary to haul the sawed ties by meai:s
ofsteam lumber roads extending from 10
to 20 miles back into the mountains. High
hills and deep valleys are no obstacles to
the little engines used, for they climb to
the tops of seemingly perpendicular
mountains as easily as they rumble over
a short level stretch. The effect the clear
ing of the mountain forests has had on the
rainfall of the district they covered has
been remarkable. Only in extremely
rainy weather or after the meltingofa big
snowfall is the Youghiogheny river now
entitled to the term "Dare Devil Yough."
At other seasons of tbo year a fisherman
can wade it t almost any piint liclween
McKeesport and Confluence with a pair
of knee high robber boots and keep bis
feet dry. Pittsburg Times.
Ho Uniform Big Enonga.
Congressman Acbeson, of Washington,
Pa, has introduced in the House a bill
granting a pension of f s per month to
William P. Bane, of Nineveh. Greene
County. "Pat" Bane, as he is familiarly
known, ia termed the Greene-County
giant, being over seven feet high in bis
stocking feet.
The gronnd on which Representative
Acbeson asks a pension for the "Greene-
County Giant" is that Raue contracted
rheumatism while in the Army, because
of insufficient clothing. The fact is said
to tie that when Bane enlisted no uniform
large enough to cover him comfortably
could le f und, so he had to get along
with clothin; that left portions of his an
aUimy, top, btltom, and middle, more or
less exposed to the inclemency of the
weather.
Poor aid Weak
Catarrh and Bronchial Trouble
Had no Appetite-Now Better In
Every Way-A Delicate Child.
"Some time since I took a sudden cold
and could not get rid of it. Being su bject
to catarrh and bronchial trouble I coughed
terribly. I lost my appetite and grew
poor and weak and I did not feel like
work. I began taking Hood's Sarsapa
rilla. In a abort time the cough disap
peared, I slept well, had a good appetite
and I waa better in every way. Last
spring I was not feeling well, I had no ap
petite and no strength. I resorted to
Hood's Sarsaparilla and soon felt more
like work. My little nephew was a dell,
cats child and had a humor which tron.
bled him ao he could not rest at night.
He has taken a few bottles of Hood's Bar.
as pari I la and now he ha3 a good appetite
and is able to sleep." Miss Abbib J.
Feeeman, South Duxbnry, Mas.
Hood's
Sarsa
parilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All drugcista. tU
HfVnd'Q Pillc are the but afler-dium-
"wu s I ills pnu, aid dinon. jisc
A MECHANIC'S VIEWS.
Oa the Most Important Local Question
We Have at Present to Discuss.
Opinions pxpntwwl pulli.ly thro'ish
this Dpwspnpcr by people in the commoner
walk of life wbo live in aouw dn-tant
State lack th interest which is attach
ed to opinion held by residents of tbe
Western art of Pennsylvania. Tne
furtnT have always a auspiinoua halo
about tliein which is atweot in the lat
ter. To put it plainly, the reader would
sooner believe the stutenicnt of a man
living in Oreensbnrg. Pn.. than the state
ment of a resilient of Woonsooket, R. 1-.
and when the (ireensburg citizen court
inquiry, the experience nliich fiows can
rertainly be derieuded duiu. Mr. Ams
Kioauian, painter, whose office and shop
. I at S3I . Otterumn strw-t. I1T1 on
f Bnishton art-one, Griwnsburg, Pa. Write
him if too are iu doubt about bis stst
rot.nt. anil ask him if it ia not true. Mr.
Eiaamnn aaya: "I can thank Dean's KiJ
nej Pill for the good health I am now
enjoying. I never felt better than I hava
since I took the pilla last winter. lSJd.
My kidneys bare been weak and hare
troubled me more or less ever eince I n as
a boy, oat the lust few year very severe
ly. The pains throngh my loins were
often so aevt-re that I could uot get aroaud
to my business, and to do any work ne
ceskitating stoopimr or lifting was eutire
ly out of the question. The accretions
were irregular. freqowDt and distrein.
and on standing deposited a heavy sedi
ment. I bad doctored a rreat deal, but
without getting any satistactorr results.
When I aw I ikhd's Kidney t'ills rec
ommended ao bigiiiy, I thought I wonl 1
try theiu, and I got a box at a drug store.
I felt ao much ls-tter after the first box
that I continued the trentin.-iit for a time,
until I was tlioronjthly cured. I now have
no more trouble, and I am gluj to rec
ouiiueud a remedy which has proveu it
eclf ko true to the chiims made for it.
My son also nsed Donu's Kidney Pills,
and had eqn.-illy good results."
loau'a Kidney Pills, for sale by all
dealers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by
Fotcr-Milbtini Co., Buffalo. N. Y., fole
agents fur the U. S. Remember the name
Diran's and take no substitute.
Schools For Farmers.
Theannnal report of John Hamilton,
deputy secretary of agriculture and direc
tor of farmers' institutes, lias just lieen
submitted to Secretary Thomas J. Edge.
The cost of holding farmers' institutes in
Pennsylvania during the last two years
was ?!;,00i), exclusive of (he director's
salary and traveling expenses. During
ls;; and 1-0" there were 072 days of insti
tutes, of which 3Xi were held last year,
at a daily expense of The apportion
ment of the time to each county is m.-.de
on the basis of two days of institute V
every couuty having not over 1,0ml farms;
three days to each having not more than
l,'Und not over l,;Vl; afterward one day
for each 1,'iUO farms or fractiou thereof ad
ditional. Mr. Hamilton recommends that the in
stitute directors subdivide the state into
i istitute districts, each composed of scv
eal counties, anal appoint one or more
1 M-turers to have charge of each district.
Toese districts should be again subdivid
e 1 into comparatively small divisions and
establish a school iueachof thesesub dis
tricts whose members would meet once a
m nth to bear a lecture on some general
agricultural t pic, the lecturer being the
teacher, whise duly it should bo to vi-it
eieh school 'nice a month to deliver a lccl
ure and t; a Ivise in regard t'j auy other
mitters relating to agriculture that might
b-3of interest to the locality.
"They should also, when opportunity
o bold meetings in the fields, orch
ard-i. girdousand barns of the fanners'
a 1.1s Mr. Hamilton, "and call attention to
mv, improve 1 a.id more economical
m ;th point out defects in practice,
su jest remedies and thusassiet the far
mers in mealing and surmounting their
difliculties. This system should continue
fir eight or nine months of the year, from
s;nng until winter, and when winter
c imes advertise for au institute for each
county to last fur one week at which the
w hole corps of lecturers should be present
taking turns as instructors and exchaug
ing as soon as one instructor hits finishei
with another who will take up aditl'eren
topic. Several institutes could be in op
eration at the same lime iu diffcreut coun
ties, thus keeping the entire force engage
e l, tbe entire program to lie previously
arranged so as to comprise a thorough
and systematic course of instruction for
the entire state."
TRY GS&IS-r ! TRY GSAIH-0 !
Ask your Grocer to-day to show you
package ofGlt.VIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place of coffee. The chil
dren may drink it without injury as well
as the adult. All who try it, like it.
GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of
Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
grains, and the most delicate stomach re
ceives it without distress. 1 the price of
coffee. 2!cta per package. Sold by all
grocers.
Heroic Pursuit of Thieves.
Laxcastkr. Pa, Jan. 8. Charles and
David Sentman and John and David
Hoinsher, long suspected of extensive
chicken thefts, were arrested to-day at tbe
instance of H. M. Helm, a young farmer,
who last night detected thoquartet plund
ering a hen roost. Hehn suspected then:
and, seeing them drive out la-it n ght, fol
lowed their wagon. That they might in t
hear his footsteps ho removed his shoe
and iu his stocking feet kept them in view
foi four miles.
two other members of the gang are
still at large. During the past few years
thousands of dollars worth of pou'.tiy
have been stoleu iu this vicinity.
Qnay's Estimate of McKinley.
Pittburg Dispatch.
Senator tuay has lieen quoted as say
ing that President McKinley was the first
President since Lincoln who had not
ceased to be a polilicU when be became
President.
"What 1 did say," said the Senator to a
Dispatch correspondent to-night, "was
that President McKinley is one of the few
President.-1 siuce Lincoln's time who, in
becomiug President, has not forgotten his
political obligations. From my Maud
point this put the President on a much
broader platform.
"Some Presidents have seemed to think
that, when they gained tbe goal of their
ambition, it was their public duty to turn
their backs ou their obligations to their
fellowmen. President McKinley takes a
higher aud broader view. Moral and po
litical obligations are as binding as any
other, and some statesmen given to fine
distinctions have put their consciences in
this respect into cold storage when they
have achieved power."
Invents a Perpetual Light.
Looansi-ort, Ind., Jan 5. S. It. Nick-
um, wbo has for seven years kept him
self in a tighllr locked lalmratorv. has at
laht salixfied publiccuriosity by announu
ing that be has invented a perpetual light.
The light, he says, is sealed in a glas
globe, aud will last as long as the globe
remains whole. The globes can be made
in any size and may be carried alxmt as
lanterns.
Nick n iu has allowed no one but his at
torneys and a few friends to see his in
vention. Those who have seen it say that
all that Nicknm claims for it is true.
Nickuni predicts that stock In electric
light plants will bo liecome worthless
when bis light is manufactured in sulll-
cient quantities. lie promises a public
exhibition this week.
T.ie larj of Leonard Bittner and h a
son, S. W. Bittner, in Juniata township,
this county, was destroyed bv tire, wiih
all the content-, on Sunday afternoon
last. A large crop of wheat and farm
machinery were consumed. The loss is
estimated at t2,VX), with less than fl.COO
nsurance. The barn ws built al.nt
fifty sears ag by John l!i !r. v h aftor-
wanla used it as a church ami preached
thoro freju'nily. Au attempt w as made
to burn the barn during the late war, by
building a fir, on the birn floor, but it
was cxtingiiu,M Iwforc the fire inHla
uui.h hr-adaay. Kier.-tt Kcpuhlin.11.
Mr. liiuner w well knoan in this
cojnty.
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We carry nothing but the ''Best" brands of goods
the markets arlord. We know just what you
need aud you will always find
stocked wan appeiiers
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Meats, Vegetables and Fruits.
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Kews Items.
Senator Quay says that
he will not
move his home from Beaver.
The steamboat Percy Kelsey, exploited
at Pittsburg, S.iturdry.killing six men.
The introduction of mechanical slate
pickers in the mines in tbe anthracite re
gion will tLrow 10,iiu boyst utof employ
ment. A tablospoonful of extrai't of birch that
Klmi-r Haines, of M'illiaui.Mrt, swal
lowed to relieve cramps, caused his
death.
Mary Morgxn, pretty and refined, de
spile a rapid life, lies in a St. Txiis hos
pital re overlng from her twul.th attempt
at suicide.
Captain Skinner may not after all le a
caudidatn for Superintendent of the lu-du-tlrial
School for Soldiers' Urphuns at
Scotland.
Four negroes were lynched last week
in the vicinity of Berrdtn, Ark. Two
were charged with indecent assault and
the others with murder.
The Nebraska Supreme Court liis af
firmed the sentence of ex-State Treasurer
Hartley to twenty years' imprisonment
for embezzling f7.Vi,i).
The Seminole Indians (Indian Terri
tory ) threaten to go on the war path to
avenge the burning to death of two cf
their tribe by a mob.
' Ellen Harris, a six year-old child, at
Harrisburg, N. C swallowed a thimble
recently, which was hx-ated by means of
X rays and successfully removed.
GaHeston, Texas, has a wheat blx-k-ade.
All of the elevators are tilled and
thousauds of cars are standing at th
wharfs waiting to lie unloaded.
?li) counterfeit silver ccrlifn-ates have
appeared in the east. They are said t ibe
such a perfect i illicit ion thit only experts
can tell them from giiumo notes.
William Putnam and ranis Johnson
were found frozen to death near Coulee
Citv, Wash. They had lost their way and
wandered in a circle for nearly It' miles.
Major Moses P. Handy, one of the lst
known newspaper writers in the country,
and Chief if the Bureau of Publicity at
the World's Fair, died on Saturdayj at
Augusta, tia.
Saturday night a mob broke into the
jail at Colfax, Washington, nd secured a
prisoner named Marshall, accused of
murder, and took bim to a tree in the jail
yard where ho was lynched.
Marcus MHJeisey and Palmer Simp
son, two Scimnolo l'iil:aus, who a few
days ago murd'-red Mrs. James Simmons,
were ourncl ;it the stake iu the .Seminole
Nation, on Friday night, by an Oklaho
ma in-ill.
The wardeu of the Allegheny c-.iunty
prison, in his annual report, submitted
last week, shows that it is possible to
kocp convicts for li cents a day. Least
wise that is all it cost to feed the 8,000
persons wbo were entertained by bim
during lt".
Frank Diehl, a prominent resident of
Portage, Cambria county, committed
suicide Saturday afternoon at that place
by hanging himself with a piece of wire.
He had been helping his brothers store
way some baled hay in the barn and
while they were atnent he took a piece of
wire from around one of the bales, tied it
to a rafter, and hanged himself.
Anthony Crablo was Instantly killed
by William Matthews, Sunday morning
at Vanderbilt, Fayette county. Cradle
was recently reliied from the peniten
tiary and comi.ig home alsmt 2 o'clock in
the morning disco cred Crable, ho had
married bis wife while he was in prison.
emptied the contents of his revolver into
his lodv.
Miss Julia Jing, twin sister of Catha
rine Ging, tbo victim of Harry Hayward,
has lost her soil agsinst the travelers' Ac-
ident Insurance Company to recover the
face ofan accident policy on her sister's
ife, which was tried at Mitunapolis,
Minn. Judge MeGee held that Iho mur
der was not an accideut nnd that Miss
(Jing was not killed in defending her rnvu
life.
The now lamous grill room at Prince
ton Inn is open, and tbe students find it
easy to refresh themselves there, d
there, despite
Althi'iih the '
the tru-tets' em'arg.
upper classmen recognize the nfTi -:al or
der, they cleverly eet over the dilliciilty
by Icifing their right to enter t! grill on
the last word of Ihe section "no student
shsll frr.pjcnl." They say they merely
"drop in" occasionally.
Ilicbrrd Morg:sn, j.ist from lawson
City, throws new light on tho food sitm
tiou there and also on the general condi
tions aud present necessities of the camp.
Mc-.u, he says, is now a drug aud worth
but 'M to 4') ceuls, chiefly t ocanse large
te.-ds of moose and cariboo have lately
ps-sed Um ili-tri. t ai.d have been slaught
ered by the wholesale, one hunting nirtt
I bringing in as many as liny or more.
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FANCY TOILET SOAPS,
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LAtXUrkLSTOYES H HANGES:7,
Tln'V an' m.uU to nit t W.o xnct w:i.tc t-f
Hit? lMU-kfjM- Ht H IIWHit-nii1 (irsl.
, rv t'vl r.k;-r. g-vrf-i'L r.i:rs.
contitui tvrvtliin lu il t xtri -in' U;
nnnvt rati"! t. :tn t iifro rni. tit.
liuft; rial l tlf;sn, ' . -km:t,i.:i
Il' Vi)U wuiita :. v.-i 1 1 i n :.Vs-
in any phin- uy '. u c ! ft D HLLA.
Asc t htt,- w h 11 x- t tii-iii.
J. B. Holderbaum,
Somerset.
Fa.
I Jos. Home & Co.
The quality of whatever you
may choose from this store
of nearly .sixty departments
is so well kuoviri that ij'ial
ity comment is unnecessary .
Ac will therefore direct
you to some interestinir
jriecs and values made pos-
JANUARY
CLEARANCE
SALES,
X which are now goini on
X and will continue through-
out the month.
Fancy Colored Suitings
T hat were S. 110 and t'l i at tiiis
store of lowest prices, '
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Another lot of Fancy Suitings
that were lis-to s-V- a yard, will
be cleared at special pri -e of
3c a yd.
Black Dress Goods
Fancy weaves tbut wee sellivg
lieretoforw at 7-. fsi sod s.ti
yanl, all go into this Jati. Sai at
60c a yd.
Also other remarkable valiu i in
lii eBl n k lres omi.1s at
25C. 35C and 50c a yd.
Silks.
The values in Silks durirg this
January Clearance Sale ue li-e
gretitest knnwn. Fancy Silks tl.t
under ordinary circumstances
sell at T" -. S."- and 1 e- : yard, f .r
55c a jd.
At times, when impossible toccuiP
write our Mail order fV-;irf.-.r.t
ami we wi i tc ike tti .-ii
for yon, giving i 11 ti:e s;::i:e ad
vantxi;es ;is the customer at mr
counter.
525 527 Peni Ay,
P1TT33J1G. PA.
emptying:
the shelve
n-ft'rn 1. 1 C . . 1 -. , . .
iciiluom, aim 11 d is.-in? tlotie
more determinedly than ever U-fo
not al.it of surplus stock n serve.! -sin h
Low Prices on
Choice Goods
a-s were never before heard of.
Lots of folk have new or addition
al Jackets and Capes and children's
garments to buy and the 'rls need
i:w hcuchh unw -and new
are wanted
1 i
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this is the chance
of Mm .-... m i I .1 . . .
j-"' i uuj iiieiu get ciioice
tiling and save-an opportunity you
can 1 an r. to nus.s mvestialit
Send for saniple ff choice Drtss
(lools marked down to
25. 50 and 75c,
and fine -r0 inch Uroad. lotli, .j(V anl
hatulsorue Iliack goKls ."X) and 7 e.
Write for detailed information
about Suits, Waists, Fars. JackeU,
Cape-sand other uiisampleable goods
lieing secritictsj ja this eniptjing sde
everything with a pri.-e on to soil it.
Ladies' and Mi ' Jackets, half
price. Theniort remarkable facii;k-e
of choiev gods in the store's b's ,rV
ia your own interest, don't mi-s it.
BOGG3 & BUHL.
Allegheny, Pa.
nil MEAL iimsffo pil
U1L ) V'RV CHE'P ; A'o w ilTE LEAD J !
l ows. mik:h. II Ho..r yeurs on Hocsp
r..I.s elc. II .lit.. iUi-.s- or !:( -. M,,l
Ktrwufthnii.t pnluet-,ed piinu are lioui.if-n
Ivr power to :iii!iiu(..,.uaijIy . w,. ,kMl
Are iwi reeding itr'and Hunr Vekv flu.
H.np.,1 r .-l in t!,e Write tor,,r . in- !-,r
w hit.- Ivd. ask for-Xnompson s,-' or J(;a-, '
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WELL SVJADE
J::!"jre:.t .-tyles to s.:K
to -uit wen
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James B. Hoklcjliaii
IIVIIDAVVIIJ
Somerset, " -
1847.
Cliristmas it corainj and Holiday present.:
the saying faiaiiiar-
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Manicure,
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Gla-s Dottles
N"oveuie3 in Silver.
Facliet Poi!cv.-',
ralmerd ami Tenant's
fine rerfiiTiiorr.
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Fine CLmts of the r.u?t s. K i t LrntivU Ct-i
Ta!.Jt.-tj! and Ci.en in- Gi
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