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I'mnij utm t!irDcrn Xunn A to. rccelr tprrxal jtic. wtthuut cfinrae. la the Scientific American. A hni1nmfl ITlnrtmtM rklT. I.i-.lv"! rlr ci;!b!i"i if an n-ientm- Knut lernia. a., 5-,r: .ur m.-.tL. L bold tyall nrwlUr. filUNNSCo.36,Breii-"'NswYcrk li.au ai Ofuoe. c3 F et- VTsfc myUHi. It. C ntPOETAsr Ta advebtisehs. The crcjua of the couttry p-ijxrs is fonxd in Coni&toB'g Coucty is. -at Lit8 Slirewd TcrUHara ava tUcaiJv3 of these 1:-a, a rrry of vhich can IxJ had of RcnuugU Sroa, of STcw York t. Pi'.Lsburjf. v! A SOLDIER'S DOUBLE. EY I ll-VRI.FS LE'.VIS. About SJ days liefore (irant broke thrr-uii Ijv's lines at lcti.'rsburg and the boginuiug of the end cunie a por tion of my regiment captured seven Confederates and brought them int cti:p. My own company was a part of the Federal furce, but as I was on detached duty that week I was not with them. The iirst I knw of the Cipture wn when I heard the fctory that I had deserted to the Confederates an J been recaptured and would be shot. I visited company headiiuarters to ascertain what the talk meant ant there mtt with a Grange nceplion. I was there, wearing a blue uniform, and yet I was iu the guardhouse half a mite away wearing the butternut. I had been on duty at division head quarter;', aud yet I had been captured on the ad vance lines. I was at one j placed uuder arrest, aud it was an hour or more before the mystery was solved. Then it was found that one of the Confederate pri-ners wa my d"ubla. A the case excited a gtoddsal of com ment at the time I will give you the full particulars. My double was a member of an Alabama regiment. Wheu placed fcide by eide, we wera twin brothers. Each of us was 2) years old; eah 4 feet 5 inches high; each weighed 137 pounds. Our eyes and hair were of the same color. Kven our voices were the same, except that he spike with more of a drawl. The name of the young man was John Wake- tield. and we were born 1,'KJO miles apart and were iu no way related. We were as much astonished as the otlicers and surgeons M ho were called in to gaze, at us. No twiu brothers ever bore a closer resemblance, and they declared that even our gait was the same. I had not yet recovered from my as tonishment when the suggestion was made that I go into the Confederate camp as a spy on the Btre'vj'.h of the wonderful resemblance. I was given three days in which to pump Wake field. He did not know my object, or I should credit him with having told me less, although he was tired of the war and rather glad he had ben cap tured. I first got his family history com plete, then the towu from which he hailed, the nam?s of ni iny jeople and the situation of streets and public buildings, then the names of his officers and comrades and incidents of cam paigning. Having nothing else to do, and my aim leirig to acquire informa tion, I got from hiiu almost every in cident of his life iu tho;e three days and n'ghts. ... As my life would depend upon my being thoroughly posted, we canvass ed the most trivial incidents of his life at home and as a soldier. lie was a ready talker and had a good memory, aud of course these things helped me wonderfully. Wheu I wasijuite ready. I took his suit of clothes complete, aud he was given another. Then I was taken down to the front a'ld made a bolt for it. In other words, 0 ie of the Confederate prisoners es cped and dashed across the space which separated the opposiug lines. Not half a dozen men were let into the secret, and a I ran I was tired upon by half a regiment. They had promised me differently, aid I still cherish a bitter f eling against the oflieer who had charge of affairs aud obliged me to run such a r:tk. The bullets whizzed overhead aid tore up the earth at my feet, and it was nothing short of a miracle that I escaped being hit, I ran at full i-peed straight for the Confederate lines, and, on dashing over a breastwork, I found mjself in the midst of a Louisiana brigade of in fantry. A colonel questioned me as to my name, regiment, when captured, etc., aud I answered so promptly that 1 supposed everything was all right It wasn't, however. Federal spies had played the game before, and Confeder ate wit had liecome tharpeuid. I was seut to the headquarters of (ieneral Mahone, who was subsequent ly celebrated iu Virginia and national politics. He asked me the same ques tions which the colonel had put to me an 1 many others in addition. I saw tha' he was suspicious, and, braving all at one stroke, I requested that my captain be seut for. The Alabama regiment to w hich I was supposed to Uloug was stationed two miles away, aud it was about 0 o'clock Ufore the captain arrived. Previous to his appearance I had been asied his came, which I gave correct ly, and had also described his person. When he reached headquarters, I mas sent for, and as I stood before him and two or three headquarters officers Gen eral Maboue asked: "Captain Thorn, this man claims to belong to your company. Is he a member or uot?" "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. "What's his name?" "John Wakefield, sir." "When was he captured?" "Four day9 ago, along with several men." "Are you positive that this is your man?" "Certain, sir. I knew him liefore he enlisted, and he has been iu my com pany for a year." That settled it. We were dismissed. and I followed Captain Thorn to the regiment. Oa the way I related the particulars of my capture and escape and he seemed considerably puzzled that General Mahone should have been so suspicious of me. There were a!xat W men in Company D. They all gath ered around me as I appeared and gave me welcome, and a young man named David Caany, who ha.1 been Wake field's tentma'c, put his arms around me and shed tears in his gladness over my return. I had learned my part so thoroughly that I was "at home" from the first. Xext day I met every member of the company, oiik-ers included, and wa?re ': I used nmues I made no mistake. I : fell into the ro itiue with the rest, aud ' after three days the curiosity of all had . been satirfied. ! You may say it was a wonderful thing that I could thus p-.s myself off and escape all suspicion, but I am only ' telling you what was known to Gen eral Grant himself. My orders were to ascertain Lee's strength on a line about four miles long. How I was to accom plish this after entering the Confeder ate lines was left for me to decide. Wakelied told me that he had a cousin In the Seventh Virginia, a young sol dier named John Winslo1. He had visited him whenever opportunity of fered, and this was a good excuse for me to get out f camp. I got permis sion from my captain to go, aud in hunting up the Seventh Virginia I took care to miss it and cover the whole front and have a look at guns and for tifleaiions. I fjuud Wiuslow aClast, but his greeting was far from cordial. The two had evidently quarreled about something on which I was not posted. ills was so sulky and unfriendly that I was about to cut my visit short w hen he gave me a searching look and ex claimed: " Why, you are not John Wakefield at all!" "Then who am I?" I asked, with a laugh. "I d in't know, but you are certainly not my cousin John. You look like him, but you are not he." It was queer that he alone should have suspected me, but something in my speech, walk or look warned him that 1 was a counterfeit. I laughed at him in a good natured way, hoped I would Cud him in a better humor when I vailed agaiu and started for my regiment, but I had not gone a quarter of a mile wheu I was overtaken, put under arrest and an hour later was once more iu the presence of General Ma bone. I am sure that the general had doubt ed me from the first. Indeed, after the war he told me as much and added that he was not quite satisfied eveu wheu my captain so thoroughly identi fied me. I was followed to his tent by Wiuslow, who baldly proclaimed that I was not John Wakefield. Tncn all the otlL-ers aud halfadozea men of thd company, including my teutmatc, were sent for, aud the gen eral heartily entered up m the work of trappiug me. My life was the stake being played for, and, though I was terribly anxious as to the outcome, as you may believe, I believe I displayed all the coolness and uerve which my best friend could have hoped for. Every offieer aud every man prompt ly identified me esJohn Wakefield, but to offset this Winslow said that his cousin had a sear on the neck, w hich could not be found on me. I denied the scar, aud then my capt .iu was re quested to ask me certain questions which the geueral suggested or wrote out. In reply I gave the christian name of father, mother aud sister, as well as a cumlier of uncles, aunts and cousins. I gave the names of many streets iu Montgomery, Ala., the names of many families, the situation of the statehouse, the Exchange hotel, police station, etc. I told the part taken by my regiment in various battles and skirmishes, and related a funny inci dent connected with my enlistment which Captain Thorn clearly remem bend. I had pumped John Wakefield so thoroughly and so plainly remembered everything, that I believe I passed the examination fully as well as or better tliau he could. General Mahoue had only one peg to hang a hojie on after putting me through my paces for a full two hours. My teutmatc was 6ure I was John Wakefield, and yet was a bit stringe since my return to the com pany. I aid not use tobacco any longer, and he had not heard me swear, though I had becu addicted to both vices before my capture, I claimed that I had re solved io let tobacco alone, as it was af fecting my health, and I had quit swear ing iu gratitude over my escape. The geueral was satisfied, and yet unsatisfied. He acknowledged that my officers and comrades ought to know me after being together for a year, but added that there was no great hurry to dispse of the case, and sent me to the guardhouse. At the end of two days I was escorted back to his headquarters, aud he played his last card. In his teut was a soldier dressed in Federal uni form, whom I took to be a deserter. There were also two men dressed as civilians, but I believe they were Con federate soldiers temporarily disguised. The geueral had two letters and a tele gram before him, and as I stood at at tention he looked up aud said: "Well, my Yankee lad, you are pretty sharp, and have stuck by your story, but you might as well make a clean breast of it now. You see this deserter from your lines, these citizens from Montgomery, these written proofs that you are not John Wakefield?" "Who do you want me to be?" I asked. ''I want your right name and the story of how you got Into our lines. You are a spy, and hanging is the pen alty, but, ow ing to your j outh, we may deci le to treat you as a prisoner of war." I declared that I was John Wake fi dd, and asked him to remember that all my company had fully identified me, and expressed my willingness to face any new proofs he might have t the contrary. He leaned buck in Lis chair and looked me straight in the eyes for a roomeut, and I knew he was a beaten man. He did not call up the men or read the letters, as they had been "prepared" for the occasion, and could not have helped him out. After what seemed fully ten minutes to me he quietly said: "Well, perhaps a mistake has been made. Y'ou can return to your regi ment." My two arraignments before General Mahone made me an object of curiosity and gossip in ray company, and wheu I returned it was to find all the men auiious to quiz me, aud two or three of them seemingly suspicious. The cap tain called me into his tent and ques tioned and cross-questioned me until hm declared that nobody but a fool coulj have taken ma for any one else. I put the men off by pretending to be angry, and three nights later, as we held breastwork at the front, I slipped away in the darkuess and re entered the Fed eral lines. Acting on the information I brought, Grant was hammering away on that portion of the Confederate lin at day break. Ten years after the war, as I smoked the pipo of peace with General Matone at a hotel In Rich mond, I put the Inquiry: "General, suppose you had secured proofs that I was not John Wakefield, what would have happened ?" "Can't you guess?" be replied. "Would you have had me shot?" "So, sir, I'd have hung you by the net k, and made a good job of it !" "I suffered for months from sore throat. Eclectric Oil cured me in twenty-four hours." M. 8. Gist, Hawesville, Ky Alive Only to His Duty. One day a riot was apprehended, and Donzelot was sent to the Pantheon to report the evenU in that quarter. Al ready the stones were flying, and the lawless mob had begun to tear up the barricade. One of Douzelot's friends saw him as he w as runniug by, and said to him : "What are you doing here? liun and save yourself!" Donzelot made no reply, and again his friend urged him to leave so-dangerous a spot. "I am not going to move," he said; "but as you are going, kindly take this copy along with you to the paper; you will save me time. An hour passed and the disorder was at its height. The mob had already begun to clash seriously with the au thority's. Suddenly the Garde Nation al fired a volley, and Donzelot fell, his breast pierced by a bullet. A 6urgeon rushed up to him. "Are you hurt?" he asked. "Yes," replied Donzelot, "seriously, I think. I can not use my pencil." "Never mind your pencil," returned the surgeon sharply. "The question is to save your life." "Don't be in a hurry," returned Donzelot, quietly. "To each man his own duty. Mine is to'get the story, and you must help me. Here, write at the foot of this page this postscript : 'SsW p. m. At the fire of the troops three men fell wouuded aud one was killed.'" Why, which one is killed?" asked the doctor. 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A brother down the railroad says in his newspaper that "William Penn call ed this state Sylvania because of its wonderful forests." Let us see what the founder himself said on that sub ject, in a letter to his friend, Robert Vurner: "This day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with largo powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylva nia, a name the king would give it, in honor of my father. I cho-e New Wales, being, as this, a pretty hilly country, but Penn being Welsh for a head, as Penmanoire iu Wales, and Penrith in Cumberland, aud Penn in Buckinghamshire, the highest land in England, called this Pennsylvania, which is, the high or head woodlands; for I proposed, when the secretary, a Welshman, refused to have it called New Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn to it, and though I much opposed it, and went to the king to have it struck out and altered, he said it was past, and would take it upon him; nor could '20 guineas move the under-secre-taries to vary the name, for I feared lest it should be looked on as a vanity in me and not as a respect in the king, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentions with praise." This Welshman was William Blathwaytc, born at St Martin-iu-the-Fields, Lon don, and not in Wales. He was secre tary of the Lords of Trade and Planta tions, under whose direction and super vision the draft of the charter was pre pared. It was at a meeting of the couucil held March o, KS1, that the charter was finally issued, and it was ap parently during this meeting that Peuu proposed the name New Wales, then Sylvania, which latter would have been meaningless, because applicable equally to many other parts of the country. The characteristic portion of the name came from the king, and upon this William Hepworth Dixon iu his life of Penu remark that the change he desi red would have been granted quickly enough if the guineas had been offered to the king. For money Charles the Second would have betrayed the moth er who bore him. The honor which he conferred on Penn's father was the cheap payment of a debt. So the dis tinguishing element in the name of our commonwealth we owe to the disrepu table Charles. Iu this fashion does Dixon begin his bxik: "Sir William Peuu is oue of the suppressed characters in E.iglish his tory. By th? general historiau he is rarely mentioned, and there are some otherwise good collection of naval bi ography iu which his ninj des not occur. Yet in an age of great sea c y tains he stood in the foremost rank." Is not this strange? Not at all. In the Revolution "the navy was neutral and patriotic when every other power in the state sided with oue or oth -r of the factions." A1J to this "the over whelming interest that attaches to the purely domestic history of the period. There the marine played but an infe rior part The army occupies the cen ter of t le s'age." Where did Sir Will iam come from ? "The Peuns were au old family in the early prt of the loin century.. For many generations they had been settled in a district of Buck inghamshire, from which they received or to which they beq leathel their name." According to the founder, it signifies "a head," and U a word of Welsh origin. Iu Wales it was spelled with only one n, as also la Cumber land; bat in Buckingham with two. This latter county, having "the high est land in England," is in the south east, not far from London, where it is said fie name was spelled with two n's, while Cumberland Is in the far uorth, bordering Scotland. In the southeast the name was Penn, in the north and west it was Pen, and there is reason for believing that Sir William spelled it in this latter form. There is no document ary evidence of that at hand, but every reader of the diary of Samuel Pepys knows that that worthy invariably wrote Pen when he referred to the ad miral, to whom he did refer more times than auy man has ever numbered, and each time with "a cordiality of hatred which is infinitely amusing amusing b cause Pepy was man, woman, child, all In one, and therefore such a ban lie of absurd prejudices as existed not he forj nor sine. IVnu was one of the commissioners of the navy with whom Pepys served as secretary, or clerk of thi acts. II .-saw Penn's signature over and often, a id though he occasionally misspelled names, it is hardly credible that he sh uld unifr.iily misspell one with which he was so familiar. There is a possibility, or even a probability, that the admiral was indifferent as to the spelling, and recognizjd either the Welsh Pen or the Euglish Peuu. His son always used the Euglish form of the name, but in 172 John, Thomas and Richard Penn, in a joint letter to James Logan, did say that he "might depend upon one of us seeing Pensilva nla immediately," and in one of the documents relating to the boundary question we read that "by the care aud vigilance of ye government of Pensil vauia this province hath hitherto found means to hold all the lands eastward of Sasquehanna," that "nothing can set tle the peace of Penailvania on that side lut an entire adjustment of the boundaries," and in the list of papers U ken to Maryland in May of 1734, was an agreement entered into a decade be fore between the proprietors of "Pen sil'a and Maryland." In a paper relat ing to Hannah Penn's interest, drawn up so late as 1700, the name of our com monwealth appears twice as rensilva nia. In an exhibit accompanying that paper we read of "William Penn, es quire, dece'd, late chief proprietor and g vernor of the province of Pensilva nii." In a petition from inhabitants west of the Susquehanna, during the boundary dispute with Maryland, the name of th j c mm n wealth is spelled as now, but that is the only instance if such fpellin which we could find in foe course of a considerable search through the old records. Perhaps it would be safe to say that as a rule the Welsh form of the name Is used with ,reference to the commonwealth, while the English form is invariable iu refer enda to the family. Charles named the province In honor of the admiral, and curiously it was long Pensylvania or Peusilvauia, perpetuating the older form of th6 family name, and perpetu ating Welsh rather than English mem ories, suggesting rather Cnurh cf England than tf'iaker influence. As Mr. Dixon puis it: "Secretary Blath wayte, a Welshman, objected to call ing the (J-iaker country after his native land" was it his native land? "the new proprietor then proposed Sylvania, on account of its magnilleient forests; and to this the king himself added Penn, in honor of the great admiral. It was a happy combination the For est Land .of Penn." Bast Way to Clean Carpets. The method employed iu the British factories for cleaning velvet, moquette, Aubissou, etc, carpets is the simplest, as to means, conceivable. It requires great faithfulness, but, given a g-d carpet to start with, if d o.ie every six months, should preserve the fabric in good order fjr twenty-five years. By this p assiu x ot a q-iaru-r of a cen tury the colors wi 1 b? faded, b it t:i-y will have faded so beautifully as to tie more grattful to the eye and better thau ever fulfill the carpet's mission, which is to be a background to the furni ture. Have two large pans of water, oue clear aud tepid and the other hot and soapy, made so by shaving "white curd" soap, say, two ounces of soap to two gallons of water. Have plenty of perfectly clean white cotton rags, free from thread euds and "lint." Take a square of the carpet at one time and wash the surface quickly with a clean rag and the soapy water. Take up as much of the soiled water as pos sible, then wring out this cloth into a third pan of tepid water. Take thi other pan of tepid water and wipe the soaped and clean surface well, being carefal as po-sibio io rab over, n it riib iu. Then wipe this with clean cloths until as dry as reasonable iu so short a time. Proceed with the rest of the car pet until finished, guarding against any shadowy boundary lines by going back of each square as you continue. Change the water at every third or fourth square; more often if the carpet needs it The very first square will give your reward of merit withiu an hour. Not only will the carpet look clean and feel cleaner, but it will le improved aud have greater strength and prettiness. This washing is gocxl for the textile, if the rule is followed and you do not get lazy over it, but rub faithfully and let the dry sunny air sweep over and raise each tuft of the weaving until as gocd as new. It is safer after illness to send a car pet away to the cleaner's, but id is doubtful if the special places fur doing this will employ any method so faith ful and simple, so reasonable aud so professional as this. Clean soap, clean water and clean white c tton cloths are the pharmacopoeia for the well being of all beautiful textile fabrics. Fea Pills. Scud your address to H E. But klen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will conviuce you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation aud Sick Headache. For 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 box. Sold at J. N. Suyder's Drug Store, Somerset Pa., and G. W. Brallier's Drugstore, Berlin, Pa. Instruction in Bcad-Buildirg. The opportunities for instruction in building different kinds of roads afford ed occasionally at fairs and institutes, aud by sample sections that have been laid under Government auspices, have been very valuable, and have aroused the people somewhat to a realization of theimpirtanceof regular instruct ion on this subject The Wore-ster (Mass.) Gazette suggests that it would be well if the state spent a portion of the enor mous sum appropriated annually fr the highway system ia holding insti tutes of instruction for highway super visor?, commissioners, selectmen, and all others who have to d with road building. It thinks the trouble with the highway builder usually is that he does not consider his businsa a pro es sion, and needs to learn from the expe rience of others. "By establishing a school for construction in road-building, the state could do a greater service to the public than by using theamount such a 'school would cost iu build iug macadam roads through the coun try." A Good Bsmsiy for BjlIj. "I never knew what a boil was until recently I have been atliicted with a number of these disagreeable eruptions. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparillu and in a short time it purified my blood and the boils entirely disappeared and I have not had any trouble w ith them since." Clareni'2 Hertz. Hazelton, Pa. Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy lo operate. Cure indigestion, headache. The names of the i2 members of the crew ol the British ironc'.ad Captain, which foundered in a gale off (Jape Finisterreon September 7, l-70, are in scribed on the open pages of a gigantic brass volume on the wall of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. It has been sug gested that a memorial of similar nature might with propriety ba created as a tribute to the Maine's dead. For some time, I have suffered with rheumatism and tried every imagina ble remedy, without effect Mr. F. G. 8. Wells ad vised me to try Chamber lain's P.iin Balm, telling me that it had cured many cases of long stand ing like mine. I have used four bottles and feel sure that or.e more bottle will make ray cure complete. A. P. Konlz, Claremore, Ark. Sold by all druggists. He Knew Whereof He Spike. UAninburg Telegraph. The Growler came down ttairs this morning looking as if he bad passed a very restless night His eyes were heavy, aud there were deep lines across his forehead. Likewise were his jaws firmly set He had a morning paper in his hand, and as be settled down to rea 1 the other boarders saw at once that he was in no mood for convert tion. There was a subdued conversa tion at the other end of the breakfast table in which the loidy in the piuk wrapper and the ribbon counter cleik joined, and then there came a squeaky voice from the small man who is trying to sell a patent He had joined in the conversation which, not very strangely, was about the Maine disaster. The man who is trying to sell a patent broke out with: "Oh, I'd like to be the Government of the United States; I'd go down to Havana and blow the whole blasted city out of the water. What this country needs is war red, bloody war with a quick victory and a good licking for all of the Spanish troops." The Grow ler was in the act of lifting bis cup of coffee to his lips when this ejaculation from the man attracted bis attention. He slowly lowered the cup and turned on the man. "You want war, do you?" he rasped out; "want war, eh? Real red, bloody war, eh? What do you know about war? Oh, you know all about it nit You are one of these fellows who fight with your mouth. What do you want with w ar, eh ? I lave you ever seen war ? I dare say that you haven't and yet, if you were to see a real war you would get down on your knees and pray that the country might never be again so alMicted. And jou would have this country plunge iutoa real, red, bloody war not only before she is prepared for if, but lfi.re she really is certain that s'ie luis the slightest grain of excuse f.T goii-g to war. And where would jn'j U' if war should come? FightiDg, I prisu.ue! Such fellows as you always do the fighting I don't think. You are one -f the fellows who are Johnny on the-spot, in your mind, always say ing what you would do if you were there, but somehow you never manage to get there. Listen, young man I re member the time " and here the Growler passed his hand across a fore head out of which shone a deep red scar "I remember the time when there was a real, red, bloody war on in this country, aud I hope to the good Lord that I will never again see one. I remember the good fellows who went out of this city by the thousands from old Camp Curtiu, and I rememlier when those regiments came back home, leaving many of those good fellows in Georgia's sands and Virginia's hills, I am not a fellow i-f emotional nature, but whenever I hear a man bawling for war I want to rise up and kick real hard. S;iy, if you had been in this city during the war, you would never give utterance to the wish that war would come again. The women of this place and of every other place the country over were frantic at the report of every t-.it ile, ii nd to see their faces as they sc.ituud the newspapers for lists of the dead and wounded was enough to melt a heart cf stone. Every woman who bad a sou, a husband or a broth -r at the front carried a bleeding heart about with her. There are men iu this city to day, gallant old soldiers, who do not want war. They are either on crutch es or are carrying an empty coat sleeve. Why, I know a man in this city who went into the army a mere boy, and he was not iu his first battle five minutes when a bullet tore a hole in his arm, and a mouth after he hadenlisttd he was back here In Harris-burg with an empty coat sleeve going to the High School to complete his education. That's what you call war. War! Great gee w biz ! I wish you could see a real w ar for a couple of months and you would revise your yawp!" Aud the Growler threw his newspaper on the floor and left the room. As the Growler slammed the door behind him, the loidy in the pink wrapper ak.-U. "Where did that man 1 get tlsat searacroMshisfoiehead?" The i landlady from behind the coffee urn ; said quietly: "He was a member of Gen eral Gregg's command and was slashed across the forehead by a Rebel trooper at the cavalry fight near the red barn at Gettysburg. His brother was killed by his sid." Aud then there was qu'et. Bicklen's Arnica Salve. The Beat Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 2i cents per box. For sale at J N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., or G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Ber in, Pa. A Punling Problem.' "I am very much troubled,"said John S. Wise, of Virginia, to a Washington Post reporter, r.s he walked across the rotunda of the capitol yesterday after noon. " I attended a session of the Daughters of the Revolution," continued Mr. Wise, "and one of the ladies who made an address had the several sheets which contained her remarks carefully pinned together. As she proceeded with her speech she would detach a sheet and put the pin iu her mouth. Then she would detach another sheet and put another pin iu her mouth. She kept this up for several minutes, and yet she continued talking all the time. I want to know what became of those pins. She certainly did not swallow them, and she did not remove them from her mouth. The thing was a mys tery to me at the time, and it is a mys tery yet" An assistant in the British Museum, Kenyon by name, is said to have made a discovery of great value to students of Greek In the piecing together and translation of the papyrus of the poet Baccholides. The deciphering of the manuscript, which occupied many month, gives to the world about 100 Greek wor ts not Included in the vocab ulary heretofore known to moderns. Brooklyn, N. Y., Vt IS l-sTS. My Dear Herbert: You are now fur th? first time really l'ucched Into life for yourself. Ymi go troiu your father's home, aud from all family conuectious, to make a new start, to cast out faults of whose evil you have had an experi ence, and to take on habits the want of which you have found to be damag ing. 1. Y'ou must not go Into debt. Avoid debt as you would the devil. Make it a fundamental rule: No debt cash or nothing. 2. Make few promises. Religiously observe even the smallest promise. A man who means to keep bis promises cannot afford to make many. 3. Be scrupulously careful in all statements. Accuracy and perfect frankness, no guesswork. Either noth ing cr accurate truth. 4. When working for others sink yourself out of sight, seek their interest. Make yourself necessary to those who employ you, by industry, fidelity and scrupulous integrity. Selfishness is fatal. 5. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else ex pects of you. Keep your personal stand ard high. Never excuse yourself t yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself, but 1 lenient to everybody else. . Concentrate your force on your own proper business; do not turn off. Be constant, steadfast, persevering. 7. The art of making one's fortune Is to spend nothing; iu this country any intelligent and industrious young man may become rich if he stops all leaks and is not iu a hurry. Do not make haste; be patient 8. Do not speculate or gamble. Y'ou go to a land where everybody is excited and strives to make money, suddenly, largely and without working for it They blow soap bubbles. Steady, pa tient industry is both the surest and safest way. Grecdiniw and haste are two devils that destroy thousands every year. !). In regard to Mr. B , he is a Southern gentlemau; he is receiving you as a favor to me; do not let him re gret it 10. I beseech you to correct one fault st vere speech of others-; never speak evil of any m.m, no matter what the fact may be. Hasty fau!t-fi'ii!iig, and severe speech of absent pevpV, is not honorable, is apt to be unj it and cruel, makes enemies to yourself, aud ?s wicked. 11. You must remember that you go to Mr. B not to learn how to manage a farm like bis. Oue or two hundred acres, not forty thousand, is to be your future homestead; but you can learn the care of cattle, sheep, the culture of wheat, the climate, country, manners and customs, and a hundred things, that will be needful. 12. If by integrity, iodustry and well-earned success you deserve well of your fellow-citizens, tLey may, in years to come, ask you to accept honors. D not seek them, do not receive theiu while you are young wait; but when you are established you may mukeyi ur father's name known with honor iu halls of legislati n. Lastly, do not forget your father's aud your mother's God. Because you will be largely de prived of church privilege, you need all the nerve to keep your heart beforj God. Bjt do not despise small churches and humble preachers. "Mind not high things, but condesceud t meu of low estate." Read often the Proverbs, the precepts enjoined iu the New Testament May your father's GihI go with you and pro tect you. Henky Ward Beech tit From all over the country com words of praise for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Here is a sample let ter from Mrs. C. Shep, of Little Rock, Ark. : "I was suffering from a very severe cold, wheu I read of the cures that had been efftcted by Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. I concluded to give it a trial and accordingly procur ed a bottle. It gave me prompt relief, and I have the best reason for recom mending it very highly, which I do with pleasure." Sold by all druggkt'. Dodsins the Question. It is dangerous to possess a reputation for superior knowledge or wisd m.' It is hard to live up to it. Next In import ance in knowing everything perhaps is to be ranked the ability to conceal one's i gnorauce. "Brown," said Jones, "Smith and I, here, have had a dispute and have agreed to leave the decision to you. Which is right -'To-morrow is Friday,' or To morrow will be Friday? " "To-day is Siturday, isn't it?" said Brown, after some reflection. "Yes." " Then neither oue of you is right" Au J he waived them aside. Youth's Cmipanion. 1 The good people of Louisville, Ky., were recently start' ed by the appearance on the streets of that city of a stylishly dressed young woman with a pipe iu her mouth. The pipe was of briar root, with silver inouutiug aud a curved amber stem. Tue good quality of the tobacco which the young woman smok ed has been attested by masculine ob servers who caught a whiff of its rich aroma. What next! Boston's municipal legislators are con sidering the advisability of borrow ing 7j3,0W for tha establishment of twenty playgrouuds for the children of the streets. The Committee on Cities favorably reportej a bill providing for this improvement ou Monday last Meanwhile, the Philadelphlaus inter ested in the equipment of Dickinson .Square as a children's playground are with difficulty raising the few hundred dollars necessary for the purpose. Over;' hundred young women are at present enrolled iu the various de partments of the Swiss Universities. , The University of Geneva heads the t with 331 female students; VHi are at Zjrich; sixty each at Lausanne and Berne, and two at Basle. Many of these are Americans. Does it pay to grow all the food for stock on the farm? If a farmer grows his food and sells from his farm, with out bringing anything on it, lie will at some time reach a point when be will find his farm becoming poorer. He will be compelled, in order to pro tect the fertility of his soil, to buy fer tilizers, or some concentrated food, that makes the manure richer. The farmer who invests largely in linseed meal, bran and middlings will not be compelled to invest so largely in fer tiliser as be who grows all the food fcr stock on his farm. i i
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