'SonierseT Herald. l nc publication. ! a-iae morning Al . ,r.T ' , MtT'-?lion' , nmuiffiaa to I .... Ok I 'TUU lr-' ,.T.RY FCBtlC. ."i; boineraet, . i. fcun'S. tWrl Kou 1 I Xi.-Al-W. 4 . ... i tr-a - I , L t ' T . - - . -i V K. sCULL, J cjmcrael, x. C-OiJlcrbct, s ftiBUK B"" huW' 'wolUi Fa. Court I0 ''..ilNEV-Al-LAW. ' Somerset, Fa. itV-Ar-LAW, . .. LmU Somerset, i'a. ..... iw .n iii tjiihUicKfe eal- a. 1 """.o-oal. i. o. UAV. jAll'.Vs-Ai-J--, ucxL, . . .i i.. .1 ti is .Adk ell- il.a.wu uouiii- ouioi ou AiaJa Crow. liSEs L n oli, CMjiuersut, Fa. &.m Miinuwlli Uimk, up stairs, tu- a, mmu crw uwu coiiccUoii .(fciu v-uiwi, UUc ciuuiiUCTl, uJ aii c.ueiiaca lu iui pi-juii)laiti boiuerM.-t, Fa. tttiMw enlrutxl U uur care will be fciLuuiicu iKMiuta aul aUjoiii- T L BALK, Hi AilulC'tY-Al-LAW, fxjiuernel. Fa. CpicJc in tsomerx-l aud a4ji"'D8 aa. AjuuimcBoeiiirublca U luui ul .iadTEc'TH. W. H. KUFFKL. i Ai"iuU-Ni.i-Al-l-AW, .sonientet, Fa. t9lisJcnt.l u lU-ir care w ill be l:ui1 piiKauBiiy alleuueU lo. OlUce W.CAROIHEIW, M. D., t l"liloia.- AD&tJKui:) bolilcrsel. Fa. oa Pino. 6irw:t, OiUKaite U. B r(l P. F. SHAf FEI taXsiClAS A u SU KUEOS, tionienurt. Fa. sis profoti.imii serv ice to the cili- auuicni uu viciuay. Ollice corjer Ji.iua fiUiol iiictt. rlLj. M. LUUTHER, taisiUA-N AM &UBUrXS, wtw:!, rear of lru svore. y. E S. KlilMELL, tit pn.fioual Krvice to the clti Mt.vi nua VH'iu:;y. L'uIcmi pn- ft - f- T. ur II LIT IUUIIU 4l Ui. Ill Jua. si, t.i ui ljjiuioud. jU. S.ilcMILLEX, '"'i:t:iii to tlie preservation 'Stalk i iUArAl:i-u w&UKL.lirv. ( irtic. aato.rt 1. H. l.vi C Wore, 41 t-ru and I'alinH uwu. H.fOFFEOTH, Funeral Director. W iUlu Cross St. Iietideuoe, i0 IWiot fct B. FLUCK, Land Surveyor J"0LS(i E-SoiXtLU. UnUe. Fa. w C 1 ?8 c Q i Z o CD C "0 5 when .utacriber. do not 5: i . I HO VOL. XLYI. yp. can be overcome in atmno a!I Wastingr in Children by the use of Scotf s Emulsion of Cod-Liver Oil and the Hypophos- phites of Lime and Soda. While j it is, a scientific fact that cod-liver j oil is the most digestible oil ia ex- SCOTT'S Esr.lULSSQN it Is not only palatable, but it is already digested and made ready for immediate absorption by the system. It is also combined -with the hypophosphites, which supply a food not only for the tissues of the body, but for the bones and nerves, and will build up the child whea its ordinary food does not supply proper nourishment. be tare rott get SCOTT'S Emulsion. Sec that tfat nun and bsh are on the wrapper. T All druggists ; soc and i.oa. SCOTT & BOWSE, Chemists, New York. iyirisirii iiiimi kiH.itiiiiiViVnciiVniVVi. I It's Easy f; i To Guess... i That a life insurance fj company will pay : :j lare dividends in the ' ;r tuture. I It's another thin to ; J guarantee it. fc The only safe guar- j i antee of a company's j ability to continue to i Tay dividends is its j ; surplus. $50,000,000 Surplus f! I s Is the bulwark of i; ;H Equit ible strength. 5: : "The Equitable Life Assurance 5 5 Society." : 5 EDWARD A. WOODS, Manager. S: :? Pittsburgh. 5 L FGSCICK, General Agent, if Somerset THE- First IJf 1 Bank Somerset. F'otiti'r Capital, S50.000. Surplus, S3O.O00. unoepvAo?.ts. S4,000. DfaotiTiRtCKvt miaaeoUDlKtU AMOUNTS. PAYABLE OM Ot"0 ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS, fANWCM. 1TOCK OCALCftB. AND OTHERS SOLICITED DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. ClIAS. O. SCULL. ItEO. K. SCULL, JAMtSUPV-GH, W.H.MILLER, JOUJ B. S TT, ROKT. S. ISCULLs FKKU W. BIK.SKcK.KR EDWARD SCULL, : : PRESIDKNT VALENTINE HAY, s- VICE FKEflDKNT HAKVKY M. B ERIC LEY, tSlUEB The tuot and iKiiritin of this hunt are e curelv protect In a -letrxted Cuklims Bcb our Fuoof S ak. Tlie only safe wade abso lutel? burtlar-pixKjf. A. H. KUSTOM, Undertaker and Embalmer. A GOOD HEARSE, and everything pertaining to funeral, tarn Ubed. SOMERSET - - Pa Jacob D. Swank, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Next Door West of Lutheran Church, Somerset. - Pa. I Am Now preparexl to supply the public with Clocks, Watches, and Jew elry of all descriptions, as Cheap as the Cheapest. IlEPAIKIXG A SPECIALTY. All work guaranteed. Look at my stock before making your purchases. J. D. SWANK IXVS CREAM BU M la . rKwitlTt-rni. Apply into tb noairiia. II ttTZ.. cenu at lrnreta. cr br mail : wn.pV T IXY UKOTUtUS. Warren fcL. e ork C it. YEARS'. aX u sr ftJl iRMl mv CofYRioHra Ac AnTOIWWil". " . Ki an . . - .kiall in flHil I It"""' KIF svnar.l 1 rWT ItT s ..V. satrn A. (aa. nsCt!.T Ibr Scientific American. A hanme!y Itlurtntf 1 ?"r- KUN'HSCo.36,Bre"fNEwTcrk IMPOKTAKT TO ADYEBTllSEBS. The cream of the country Jper$ is bond ia liomir.gton'l Couctj Seat Lists. Shrewd dvcriscis svafl tLiaiisclves of tbe) litts, a, Copy of which can be hd of lietamgtoo Bro. of Xcw York i Httoburj. Tor .CcXox hfmt..bR vet. SO 4 wneDitkirr 42. D03TT LEAVE THE FARM. t'omo, 1kv, I have something to trll you ; Colin- iu-jir, I would U'lil-per It lo. You are llilnklui; of luivintlie homcstrjid, Ii'in't ttc iu a hurry togo. Tho city has many utlraoii.ms Rut think of the vires and tlua; When oui-cln Ihe vortex of Gtxhion, How oon the course downward bt-glna. You Ulc of Uie mincii of Anatralbi, Thoy are wralthy In gold, no doubt. Hut ah ! there Is gold on the farm, boys, If only you will ahovel It out. The mercantile life la a haxard ; Th goods are first high and then low; B -tU r rinS the old farm a little longer, Ivjn't be In a hurry to go. The great, busy West has Inducements, And so has the busiest mart; Rut wealth is not made in a day, boys. Don't be in a hurry to start. The bankers and brokers arc wealthy, They rake In their thousands or ao ; Oh ! think of the frauds and deceptions lHm't be In a hurry to go. The farm is the Kafeitt and surest. The orchards are loaded to-day ; You're as free as the air of the mountains. And moaareh of all yon survey Bet ttr stay on the firm a while longer. Though profits coine iu nttherelow; IlenieniU r you have noth'tig to rlk, boys, Dou't bt iu a hurry to go. -Mrs. Nortis ii. Klaek lu rhoenixriUe Mes senger. AX 0PEX MOMENT. Something in the behavior, possibly also iu the appearance, of a womatt coming up the street, arrested Johu Selward's aitetitiou. He was approach, ing his own door and was not in a particularly receptive mood, for a sense of the nearer recurrence of those slight fits of bhiveritig which had been troubling him all day warned him un comfortably that ho was not ia his normal health. The woman had turned the corner out of the adjoining thoroughfare, had halted with what can only be describ ed as a jerk, and hurried across the road in a spasmodic way that some how, as he thought the matter over afterwards, conveyed to Belward tho imprew-ion that a recognition of her whereabouts had occasioned her a sud den shock. S might start one who, wandering heedlessly in an unknown : city, sees that an unnoted turn or two have brought him to dark byways where lurks the assassin's kuife. Explorers in an Eastern town may have come to as dead a pause, followed by as palsied a run, when their zeal for research has taken them unwittingly into tbe heart of a leper miarter. Akin to such mani festation of nerve-panic is the muscu lar twitch of a sleep walker awakened iu unfamiliar places. Hut it was acquaintance with the street and not strangeness of her surrouudiiiirs that bad startled the wo man, or Seiward was mistaken. He scrutinized her as tlie little distance lessened between her and himself. Then, for the first time (in retrospect, forsooth) and with a feeling of keenest surprise, so improbable did tbe thing seem, lie became aware that her face was very pretty. As this astonishing truth revealed itself to him he came to a standstill in the passage (his landlady, in vague recollection of a flowery style in tbe wording of her lease, called it the "heutrance 'all") and followed with his eye the veining of the hi leous var nished paper that represented marble with such pathetic artlessness. He saw not it, however, but the strange woman who was hurrying down the street. The fact that she was pretty made the deformity or injury a jest of th gods that might call for mirth, and was sorry enough for tears. He was shivering again. Cold wattr was running down his back. He hop ed he was not going to be ill. In an hour he knew that he was, and w hen he had tried uuavailingly to eat some dinner, he gave in and went to bed. Thither at about 9 o'clock his land lady, a motherly persou, who, as she often toll him proudly, was experienc ed in the sick room (having burkd four besides the two she had "rared") brought him, at her own prescription, a glasss of whisky and water, hot and stroug. "You've got a chill, Mr. Selward, and well I know them. You've not looked yourself this week, as, indeed, it was only this afternoon I passed the re mark. Drink this down like a gentle man, and perhaps we shall have you well an' 'earty be ruorniu'." Selward, whose teeth were chatter ing, did as he was bidden. Mrs. Holliek withdrew, after many last wordsand a promise that she would look iu "first thing," which she might do, she said, with perfect propriety, "being a mar ried lady let alone a mother," and then began tlie wretched night. He tossed and turned in fever. The strang er was forgotten. That his temples throbbed, acd that he could not rest were matters of more insistent gravity than that a woman had acted strange ly, and she has a misshaped body and a pretty face. At daw u he feU asleep. When lie awoke Mrs. Holliek was entering the room on creaking tiptoe. Belward was weary and unrefreshed. "1 I'm, we've got to take care of you, sir, that's clear. 'Ead achis I dare say, If I might t el t!u pulse. Fts !uick, Mr. SeUard, very jui k. You'll keep your ted, sir, as I needn't tell you, and if the oriije wauU a telegram the girl shall take iL" The massage was dictated and dis patched. "You don't feel like eatin' much, sir, I dare say," said Mrs. Holliek after & temporary absence from the room. "I've te.-ti a deal of sickness, and I know, lint we're not going to 've you let your strength ruu down. It is but dry toast au' a sjHt of tea. You'll lie better when yoj've broken fast, And so John Sel-ard felt. Bat towards evening his restlessness re. turned. Mrs. Holliek broached the sub ject of a doctor. Selward declared that his Indisposition was uotniag, ana mat a day or two would stje him well. Mrs. Iljllick visitod his room in the night, and was not reassured by his condi tion. In the morning he sent for a doclir ("unbeknown," as she explain ed to him ouUiJe the door of the sick room ou his arrival), with the result thit a lium was installed in her "kouJ flr bi.-k" i.i th? courseof the sa me day. kJ U ill CJ 1 SOMERSET, PA., It was towards afternoon of that day thatSelward began to see pictures in the red calico blind. It hd baen pull ed down to keep the light from his eyes as he lay facing the window. The calico was very coarse, and was here and there closer in nieih than elsewhere. It amused him, and was even easing for a time to look for faces iu the grain. He found many faces with beards, faces with whiskers, facM with mous taches, faces clean shaven, wotneu's faces, faces that were of recognizable types; then faces he knew, a celebrity or two, reminiscences of photographs; Mrs. Holliek that was strange! H9 lost her and could not find hr again, though he stared at the spot where lights and shadows had given him a likeness. Then the faces bezan to bother him, and he saw laadscaps, tree-, groups of people notably some ladies of the sixties playiugcroijuat animals, monsters. The thing became a weariness and a vexation. Night came on. The blind faded with the growing of the darkness outside, but the "seeing" stayed. He saw beautiful phantasies. A girl fl'Mited iu the sky, and had a star upon her forehead. A peri sprinkled golden rose petals in the air, and a breeze wafted them softly hither and thither. Some fell with a gentle sound upon the corerlet. The nurse was bending over him to see if he slept. "No," he murmured, "they won't let me." "Who won't let you?" "The people." "What people?" He opened his eyes more w idely. "I'm talking nonsense, I believe." He paused and smiled. "There's no one there really I know, but I see peo ple." "Never mind them, Mr. Selward. Take this. Y'ou ought to have had it a quarter of an hour ago, but you were quiet, and I thought it would Is? a pity to disturb you." "I wasn't quiet inside my head," the patient said vaguely. What a long time it was since he had been really quiet siuoe he had had any rest! How nice it would be to rest! Ah, the .Teary tossing was beginning once more. Hw pillow would the nurse turn it for him? He was so sorry to be troublesome. Poor nurse, she must be so tired. How tired he was! If he could sleep! The people would not let him. It was the faces of women that he saw now. They were all lieautiful some radiantly beau tiful. They leaned over balconies as ac some pageant. They had most of then t long eyes and delicate skins, with ex quisite tints, aud their lips were all rosw red. They caught the eye, and they always showed a crescent of white and eveu teeth. How beautiful they were! He saw each one singly. She replaced the last, as slides oust each other in a magic lantern. But every one flaxen princess, raven gypsy or red-haired, peasant had time to smile before her place was taken. The beautiful smile was fatiguing. The beauty itself of the faces exhausted him. He shut his eyes aud tried to think of nothing. Oh, he was so tired and so thirsty. I la must ask for something to drink. The nurst rose at once aud held the glass to his hot lips. "You haven't slept?" "Not yet. You must be worn out. I am so sorry." She silenced him with a gentle smile and a word or two. Her smile wan tranquil aud quite different. She stood for a few moments with her cool hand upon his forehead. "Go to sleep," she whispered softly. Presently she returned silently to her chair. He was dozing. He woke with a cry and some Incoherent words. "Her legs were only two inches long," he said. "I tell jou I saw her. Her feet grew out of her body like a turtle' flaps. L?t me go, please, I can't stop here. Why do you hold me? I djn't know you." "Lie down, Mr. Selward ! You'll catch cold if you pull the clothes ofl your chest Do as I tell you lie down!" With some considerable strength she forced him back on to the pillows. "But I saw ber, and she had a square chest and big arms." "Never mind. She won't come near vox" "It isn't that," he said, scornfully. "As if I should mind that- It's on her account. It must be so dreadful, must it not?" "Yes, very. But don't think of her now." "I must, because you see, there wa no one else in the street. It was before you came. Ob, I must sit up for a minute." "Why?" "The room is all wrong. Here's the wall, here. It ought to be there, ought'n it, where the fireplace is? It used to be. And the door's wrong, too. It Isn't generally there. I can't make out where I am. Which way are we trav eling? Atu I facing or are we going backwards? I must know. I'll be quiet if you'll tell me." "We re not traveling, Mr. Selward. The room's not wrong. It Is just a- U-iiiaL I'll turn up the gas for a min ute and you'll see. There! It's all right. Isn't It ?" "Then I'm In bed ?" "Yes." "I've been ill, haven't I ? Is all thia for me ?" He touched the bedclothes. "Yes, all for you." "I'm the only one 111 note verjbod.y elsf ?" "Only you, aud you'll soon be bet' ter." Selward was silent for & few mo ments. "I've been dreaming," be atKI, with a little laugh, "I thought it doesn't matter what I thought, does it? It was only dreams." "Yes, only dreams," ! tue nurse. She laughed too. "Now you are yourself again, aren't you? I may turn the light down, and you will try to get some more sleep?" "That sort of sleep doesn't rest one) much. I feel as if I had been running: miles. I think I was running some where when I woke. Oh, ye?, I re member I was trying to help ttoa straago woman to get away. TUy set ESTABLISHED WEDNESDAY, MARCH i0. 1898. were after her, and Bhe could not keep up, because her legs were so short, aud I had to pull her along by the hand. How funny! Yen, put the gas down. I dou't think I'll try to go to sleep just yet" "Very well," said the nurse, "Call me for anythingyou want Don't hes itate however often yoi want your pil lows turned. Y'ou kuow I'm here to look after you." "You are good to me," said Selward. He dozed for a time, and then opened his eyes. Mrs. Holliek, in a pink flan nel jacket, was sitting beside him. "What time is it?" "Oh, you're awake, sir. It's nearly S o'clock Just a sup of milk you was to take. That's right And are you better, Mr. Selward?" Sunlight bathed the houses opposite' He could see tho window at which tbe woman had gazed. He looked at it with curiosity. As he looked he be came conscious of drowsiness stealing over him. He had long arrears of slumber to make up, and he yielded to the sensation gratefully. But his eyes, he is ready to swear, were open and fixed jipon the window opposite. It was higher than bis own, and clearly visible from the bed. He had read somewhere that you could hypnotize yourself by gazing steadily at a given spot Perhaps he was hypnotizing himself now. Someone was moving in the room behind the window. Pres ently the sash was thrown up, and a man, a dark man a foreigner, Selward thought from his look proceeded to seat himself on the outer sill, and, hav ing pulled down on to his tnighs the sash be had raised, to clean the glass with a spouge and washleather. He worked without interruption for some minutes. Then he tried to pull down the upper half of the window, but it resisted his efforts. Selward felt very nervous as he saw that the man was drawing his legs out and raising him self to his feet on the narrow ledge. He was holding with one hand to the woodwork of the sash now aud plying the wet sponge. How long he had been so employed Sidward did not know, when he (the watcher) became aware that some one else had entered the room a woman the woman. Sel ward saw her clearly in the sunlight the ill-shaped form, the pretty face; but the face was distorted by an evil pur pose. Something was going to happen. In a moment the thing was done. Her big stroug bauds had seized the window-cleaner by the feet At Selward's cry Mrs. Holliek sprang from her chair. "What is it, sir, for 'eaven's sake?" "He must be killed," Selward said( white as a sheet and tremb'iug in every limb. Mrs. II UioV". ran to the window to which he was pointing. "There's no one killed, sir. There's nothing happened." "He must Ihs smashed," cried Sel ward. "His body must be in the area. What do you tee?" he asked, when Mrs. Holliek protested that there was nothing the matter. "Everything as usual. They're tak ing iu the milk opposite. What did you fancy, sir?" "A man was cleaning that window. He'd have been smashed " "Lor", sir, how did you know about it? It was long before you come to lodge with me, and I don't remember as I've ever told you of it, but perhaps I have and forgot it" "What?" Selward was recovering himself, little by little. "Why, about the mrvn as fell from that very window. It a six years ago now, it must tie. He was cleanin' it when he missed his foot in' and met his death." "What kind of man?" "You do speak in a strange voice, Mr. Selward; your dreamiu's regular upset you. Big, black, foreign man he was, as 'ad come with the old gentle man as owned the house from foreign parts. Ho had strange servants, had that old man; tbe 'ouseniaid was a foreigner, too, and as for the cook, you never saw such a lookiu' woman iu all your life all body au' no legs. She'd a decent face, though, that I will tay, and it was gossip about here as the for eign man was carryin' on with both women. Y'ou look very bad, Mr. Sel ward. I think you ought to 'ave a little brandy just a spot to pull you togeth er. I'll ask nurse." John Selward was uot so well when the doctor saw him that morning. It was many weeks before he began to mend, but in time he regained his health. "What was the verdict at the in quest?" lie asked Mrs. Holliek abrupt ly, early In his convalescence. "Lor', sir, I couldn't think for a mo ment what you was alludiu' to. Death from accident it was. of course. It made me very careful 'of I 'ave my windows cleaned." John Selward looked at the dusty panes of his sitting room and smiled. Richard Pryce iu Illustrated London News. Millions Given Away. It is certainly gratifying to the pub- li.. tn b nnw it nn eniicern In the land m ....f frahl til crpIlfrntM to w u 1 v. " v ...m.v o the needv and BullVnng. The proprie tors of Dr. King's New Discovery for L Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have J given away over ten millions trial bot tles or this great meatcine; ana nave the satisfaction of knowing it baa ab solutely cured thousands of hopeless f-Hs.-s Asthma. Bronchitis, Hoarse ness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it Call ou J. N. Snyder, Druggist, Som erset Pa., and ii. W. Brallier, Druggist, Berlin. Pa., and get a trial bottle free. ReL'ular size 50o and $1.00. Guaran teed or price refunded. His Action- Mrs. O'Hoggarty "Phat Isyure hus band doiu' fer his rheumatism, Mrs. MeLubberty?" Mrs. MeLubberty "Dommlng ivery t'ing llsc" Brooklyn Life. Man and medicines are Judged by f what they do. The great cures by H -od's Sarsaparillagiveit a good uame ' everywhere. 1827. Tho Sonj of Caged Birds. I have never yet seen a caged bird that I wanted at least, not on account of its song or a wild flower that I de sired to transfer to my garden. A caged skylark will sing its song sitting on a bit of turf in the bottom of tbe cage ; but you want to stop your ears, It is so harsh, and sibilant, and penetrating. But up there against the morning sky, and above the wide expanse of fields, what delight we have i it! It is not the concord of sweet sounds; it is the soaring spirit of gladness and ecstasy raining down upon us from "heaven's gate." Then to the time and the place, if one could only add the association, or hear the bird through the vista of the years, the song touched with the magic of youthful memories! A number of years ag" a frbud in England 6ent me a score of skylarks in a cage. I gave them their liberty in a field near my p'.ace. They drifted away, and I never heard them or saw themtgain. But one Sun -lay a Scotch man from a neighboring city called upon me, and declared with visible ex citement that on his way along the road he had heard a skylark. He was not dreaming; he knew it was a sky lark, though he had uot heard one since he left the bauks of the Doou, a quarter of a century or more before. What pleasure it gave him! How much more the song meant to him than it would have meant to me! For the moment he was on bU native heath again. Then I told him about tbe larks I had liber ated, and he seemed to enjoy it all over again with renewed appreciation. Many years ago some skylarks were liberated on Long Island, and the? be came established there, and may now occasionally be heard in certain locali ties. Oue summer day a friend of mine was out there observing them; a lark was soaring and singing in the sky above him. An old Irishman came along, and suddenly stopped as if transfixed to the spot; a look of ming led delight aud incredulity came into his face. Was he indeed hearing the bird of his youth? He took otr his hat, turned his face skyward, and with moving lips aud streaming eyes stood a long time regarding the bird. "Ah," my friend thought, "if I could only hear that song w ith his ears: ' How it brought back his youth, and all those long-gone days on bis native hills! The power of bird songs over us is so much a matter of association. Hence it Is that every traveler to other countries finds the feathered songsters of less merit than those he left behind. The traveler does not hear the birds in the same receptive, uncritical frame of lf.ind as be does the native ; they are not iu the same way the voices of the place and the season. John Burroughs in the March Century. Knew the Witness. "Take the stand, Mr. PotU," said tbe young lawyer from town with an air of triumph. Judge Bloom, of the Blue Gizzard district, scowled at the witness as he took his place, aud the attorney said: "Mr. Potts, you wen present at the shooting scrape, were you not?" "Yas." "You saw the defendant take a pistol from his pocket?" "Yas." "You saw him fire at this man?" "Yas." "You saw him return the weapon to his pocket?" "I shore did." "Come down, Mr. Potts," said tbe lawyer. "For me to say anything after such direct testimony of this man's guilt would be an Insult to your Hon or's intelligence. I hope your Honor will make bis bond very heavy for his ofleuse is exceedingly grave." "I finds the prisoner not guilty," said Judge Bloom, with considerable vehemence. "May It please your Honor," ex claimed the young attorney in amaze ment, "how cau you render such a ver dict in direct cou II ict with the positive testimony of an eye-w itness?" "Jos' bekase I have knowed aiiil Potts fer fifteen years years au' never knowed him to tell the truth yit" - Atlanta Journal. A Clever Trick. It certainly looks like It, but there is really no trick about it Anybody can try it who has Lame back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervous troubles. We mean he can cure himself right away by taking Electric Bitters. Tais medicine tones up tbe whole system, acts as a stimulant to Liver and Kid neys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures Constipation, Headache, Fainting Spells, Sleeplessness aud Melancholy. It is purely vegetable, a mild laxative, and restores the system to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bit ters and be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Every bottle guar anteed. Ouly 50c a bottle. At J. N. Snyder's Drag Store, Som erset Pa., and G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. A Chapter on Man- Man that is married to woman is of many days and full of trouble. In the morning he draweth his salary, and lu the eveuing, behold! it Is gone. It U a tale that is told. It vanisheth, and no one knows whither it geth. He riseth, clothed In the chilly gar ments of the night, and seeketh th somnambulent paregoric wherewith to soothe bis infant posterity. He cometh forth as the horse or ox, and draweth tbe chariot of his off spring. I Id speudeth his shekels in the purchase of floe linen to cover tlie bosom of his family, yet himself Is set a at the gate of the city without sus pender. Yea, he Is altogether wretched. R il ert J. Bjrdette. Croup instantly relieved. Dr. Tho mas' Ec'.ectrlc Oil. Perfectly safe. Never faiLs. At any drug store. Meat may be kept sweet several days by covering it entirely with milk. Sour milk or buttermilk is as good as swiet mllk for the purpose. Me A Qieer "Word. Suppose a boy is reading a story, and he comes to the word "chatelaine." It may seem to him an interesting bit of language. He thinks he would like to kuow what it means. Cousenjuently, he shuts his book, keeping his fiuger iu the place, aud runs down stairs to where bis father is busy in the study. "Father," he says, "what is a chate laine?" We will suppose that his father is a man who lias sufficient information to give a general answer to the ques tion. "A chatelaine," he may say, "is the lady who is the presiding mistress of a castle." The boy opens his book and reads again the sentence iu which he found the word. Then he giggles. "That can't lie right," be says, "for here it speaks of a lady who 'hung a chatelaine to her belt' IVid;.-s, it says that the chatelaine was made of ham mered silver; so it can't be a lady who is mistress of a cintle." ' Oh," bis father replies, "that U dif ferent. There the word means a Utile contrivance ladies wear at their belts to hold chains from which they sus peud keys and tablets, pinboxes, aud such things." "Then how did you come to mike such a mistake?" the boy asks. "It was not a mistake," his father replies. "Tlie word means what I said, too." "It is queer that it should mean two such different things. How d.jes it happen?" the boy aks. Then the father if he happens to be the right kiud of a father puts aside his work aud says, "Bring me the dic tionary." The dictionary is brought, and open ed to tho word, and father anil son de vote a few moments to the inquiry how a single word can have two meanings apparently so different They Sud that "chatelaine" comes from the French, and was at firt sjel led cha!el&iiie, but that the 9 has dis appeared, leaving only a little footprint in the shape of an accent over the a. Then it is discovered that chatelaine is really a form of the word castellan, a short form of the Latin word castellan- us, meaning a man who is the keeper or owner of a castellum, or castle. And then the dictionary says "v. castle," so they turn back to castle. They find that castle conies from ca-tel or chastel, which is the same word in a dill Tent form, that now appears as "chateau," and that it comes -from the Latin cas trum, meaning a camp, while castruru comes from casa, the Latin for hut, a word stiil la the same form ia Italian. (A curious instance of this word is seen in the name of the boy who stood tijion the burning deck, Casabianea, which is simply "Whitehouse".) Casa is the same word as "ease," or cover, that is, a covering from tlie weather, aud that comes from the Sanskrit root eh had, which means a cover. Also from the same root come "cassock," "chasuble," and "casino," which, it may surprise you to learn, are rela tives of the chatelaine with which we started. Now, when we come to the meaning of chatelaine, we see that it meant, at first, the mistress of a castle that is, a keeper of the keys to its supplies and stores the housekeeper or housewife ; and ber name was applied to the little bunch of keys carried at her belt, just as in English we speak of a "house wife," meaning a little case or box that contains neilles, thread, scissors, thim ble, and so on. So now we can see ex actly how the same word can mean "a lady who is mistress of a castle," and "a little contrivance fir carrying at tbe belt keys and other useful things." After the bjy has learned all these things, he turns to bis father a little scornfully, and says, ' Humph! if I bad known you were going to look in the dictionary, I could have done that myself." Then, if his father doesn't say, "Why didn't you?" we ourselves may add that little moral tithe fable. Tudof Jeuks in St. Nicholas, Collars For Drunkards. A colonial gentleman, who now sits ou the Wandsworth and Clapham Board of Guardians, says Ti l Bits, amused his colleagues at their weekly meeting by stating, during a discussion upon the treatment of local inebri ates, that they bad an excellent way of checking excessive drinking in Mani toba. When a man had been twice or hriee convicted of drunkenness in tbe Police Courts he was sentenced to wear a brass collar, which marked him out among bis fellows as a person to whom no publican could with impunity serve liquor. The drastic measure often proved a cure. On the authorities be ing satisfied that the branded individ ual had served a sufficiently long term of probation be was uncollared and endowed with the liberty of drinks. Fashionable Honrs in the Fast The fashionable folk of Edward IV's court roe with the lark, dispatched their dinner at 11 o'clock, and shortly after S were wrapped iu slrmber, hays Tit -Bits. In the . Northumberland House Book for 1-112 It is set lorth that the family arose at ii in the morning, breakfasted at 7, dined at 10 and supped at 4 iu the afiernou. The gates were all shut at 9, and no further ingress or egress permitted. In lo"0, at the Uni versity of Oxford, it was usual to dine at 11 o'clock, and sup at 5 iu the after noon. The dinner hour, which was once as early as 10 o'clock, has gradu ally got later and later, until now it would be thought very eccentric in the fashionable world to sit down to table earlier than half-past 7 o'clock, while others extend it to 0. Ha Loved and Won. Tom "That friend you introduced at the club last night seems to be aniel aucholy sort of a fellow. What's the matter with him?" Jack "Disappointed In love, I l lieve." Tom "Too bad; got the mitten, I suppose Jack "O'a, no; he got the girl. Cai- cago News. HP j I f 0 Obi WHOLE NO. 2435. Shot With a History. A twentv-four pound round shot. with a short chain attaebed, now lying on the table of General Superin tendent Kimball, of the Life-Saving Service, ralU up a noted occurrence long since forgotten, except by a few old people, which was iu its time acele. brated case. The ball is no less than the first shot tired in the United States for tlie purpose of saving life, and after performing its noble service it lay for over twenty years in the bottom of the sea. On the 2Rh of December. 1S49, the British ship Ayrshire sailed from New ry, Ireland, bound for New York, with irj persons on board, most immigrants seeking homes and fortunes in the States. In those days transatlantic steamers were not numerous, the first regular line, the Cunarders, having b-en established only nine years before, and thousands of immigrants were transported in the sailing packets of the time. Six weeks later the Ayrshire was off the port of destination iu the midst of a northeast tempest, which rolled and pitched ber about with great fury. About midnight of January VZ, 1S0O, she struck bottom with terrific force, keeled over toward the beach, and the sea began to sweep over her sides iu great volumes that drenched aud terrifi ed all on board. Many of the passengers were women and children, who were either crowded iuto one of the small dock houses or lashed to the bulwarks and rigging to prevent their being swept overboard. The night was dark aud bitter cold, aud for two hours de spair reigned ou board, for there was little hope that the ship would hold together until morning, and no hope of escape should she go to pieces be fonithat time. However, about two hours after she struck, the half-frantie company lie held a flash of light inshore, then de tected a sound as of a inu'll d cannon, and a minute later heard the wreck be gin to settle d wn in the sand, and was finally wholly covered up. There it lay fur twenty-three years, when a heavy gaie set up a strong current along shore that dug away the sand and once more exposed the skeleton of tbe old wreck to view. A party of wreckers were soon on board, and in searching thecahiu came across the old mortar ball. There was no doubt of its identity, and it was returned to the companion ship of the mortar which sent it whiz zing seaward ou its errand of humani ty more than twenty years before. Since the recovery of the ball, it and the mortar have been ou exhibition at all the great inter State and interna tional expositions. At present they are awaiting transportation to the exposi tion at Oiuaha. When the Ayrshire was wrecked the life-saving service of the United States, now so important, was little more than a name, and many a ship's company was thereafter lost on the black aud ugly coasts of Long Island aud New Jersey. It is known that during the twenty years from l.s"W to 1S70 as many lives wera lost by shipwreck on the two coasts named as were lost under the present life-saving system iu the next twenty years on all the ocean and lake coasts of the entire country. The old life car has been superseded by a lighter, though larger one, and fur ordinary rescues a device known as the breeches buoy was adopted. By this agency two persons may betaken ashore at a lime, and when the num ber ou board is small, as is usually the case, it is much the handier and pre ferable appliance. A modern line-firing gun, to, has taken the place of the old mortar. This gun is the invention of Captain B. A. Lyle, of the Uuited States army, and a zealous member of the Life-Saving Board ou devices for rescuing the ship wrecked. To its design aud perfection he devoted himself as to a labor of love, and with the result that to-day the life saving service of the United States has the most far-reaching gun and the best equipments pertinent to it of any similar establishment in the world the gun, the powder, shot aud line be ing manufactured expressly for it. The old round shot aud mortar had their day aud are entitled to respect ful attention and. the gratitude of many a rescued cast-away, but the Lyle guu, with its extended range aud unfailing reliability, is as much ahead of the old-time appliance as the modern can non U in advance of the ancient car- ronade. Washington Star. An Opportunity Ton Now Have of testing the curative effects of Ely's Cream Balm, the most positive Cure for Catarrh kuown. Ask j'our drug gist fora 10 cent trial size or send 10 cent1, we will mail it Full size 50 conts. ELY BROS., 5) Warren St, N. Y. City. My sou was afflicted with catarrh. I indued hi:u to try Ely's Cream Balm and the disagreeable catarrhal smell all left him. He appears as well as any one. J. C. Olmstead, Areola, 111. Speaking of Trees. To speak of a "trv.-e" without men tioning its name appears as strange to a "fores; er" as if he spoke of horses and dogs only under the general name of quadruped, or as if we included chick ens aud men under the term biped. In truth, we ought to know more about the trees than we do, and to take every opportunity for learning so distinguish them at sight It is not enough to dis tinguish them by their leaves, for many of them are swept bare in win ter. A botanist says that the peculiar ities of diliVreut trees are more readily distinguishable in winter than in sum mer. For some time, I have suffered with rheumatism and tried every imagina ble remedy, without effect Mr. F. G. 8. Wells advised me to try Chamber Iain's Paiu Bilni, telling me that it had cured many cases of long stand ing like mine. I have used four bottles and feel sure that one more bottle will make my cure complete. A. P. Kontz, Claremore, Ark. Sold by all druggiats Crnelty and Treachery. Dr. Frank Chado, who for two years has served with the rank of colonel in the Cuban army under Gen. Calixto Garcia, and who was present when young Gomex committed suicide on seeing Gen. Maceo fall Is in New York , coining fr:ii Ilivana. lie eluded the vigilance of the Span ish authorities sod traveled under au assumed name. He says : "I have heara somethiug of the stories published in this country of the distress in Cuba and of the thousands who have died and are dying of starva tion. Nothing that has been publish ed, nothing that could be published, could tell the story as It U really. I know of my own knowledge that in many sections of Cuba they are dig ging up tLe earth for the worms that they may find. It Is not everyone who is able to dig. Moat of the people are so weak that they are unable to move. They are dyiug by the thousand, not the men who are doing or hope to do the fighting that eveutually must end iu triumph, but the poor women, the children and the reconcentrados. Ruin is everywhere visible. Spain has been guilty of acts that must make civiliza tion stand appalled, and the fact is that they are intiuitely worse off today than at any time since the war began. Victory is certain for the Cubans in the near future." - Of the present f cling among Span iards at Havana, Col. Chado said that it was becoming more hostile to Amer icans every day. "There Is a feeling among them," he said, "that the Unit ed States is afraid to fight, and that they can do anything they please. I am as firmly convinced as a man can be that the Maine horror was not due to any submarine mine This belief is shared by all Cubans, that the Maine was blown up by a torpedo. Further, I believe that the torpedo came from the Spanish warship Alphouso, XII. As to our reasons for thinking so: First, there is the fact that the night before the Maine explosion the Alphonso, which had been anchored near, was moved to a safe distance away; second, the fact that not once since the day of the explosion has any seaman or ma rine from the Alphonso been allowed to go ashore. The only inference is that the official are afrai l the sailors might become Intoxicated and talk too much." Onr Moderation Let Spain Beware From the Chieugo Fust. While we strive to "keep cool and wait," in accordant? with the excellent advice of our superiors la diplomacy, we confess that we are greatly stirred by the reports in the morning papeis of the "insolence of the Spanish Press." We have learned that it Ls the custom of the Madrid and other Spanish jour nals to refer to Americans iu the most sneering aud contemptuous manner; that they have no hesitation In charac terizing us as "Yaukees" of the most abandoned type, and take delight iu applying to us such opprobrious epi thets as are never heard in the very best circlts. When we recall with what courtesy it is the habit of our journals to speak of Spaniards, how scrupulously polite we are in all refer ences to our Castilian friends, how stu diously we refrain from saying any thing that may be construed as iudeco, rous or ungentlemanly, our Indignation at Spanish "insolence" is with dilfi culty restrained. We warn the Span ish press that it must not enunt too much on our forbearance and that if it persists in its course of abuse we may lie tempted to throw consideration to the wiuds and utter a few well-chosen remarks concerning the uugraciou dons. We congratulate our brethren of the American press on their custom ary politeness and it pleases us that in this uuhappy controversy they have mildly spoken of the children of Spain as nothing worse than sharpers, trick sters, cowards, murderers and pol troons, but we freely admit that unless the toue of the Madrid journals is changed, they will be justified in pro ceeding to harsh epithets. For human nature is fallible and human patience may be exhausted. He Conldn't Flow. According to Youth's Companion a ci'rtaiu incident connected with the great Napoleon, while he was in exile at Elba, is commemorated in the island to this hour by an Inscription affixed to the wall of a peasant's house. A man named Giaconi was plowing when the f-tmous exile came along one day, and expressed an interest in his work. Napoleon even took the plow share out of tbe man's hand, and at tempted to guide it himself. But the oxen refused to obey hiin, overturned the plow and spoiled the furrow. The Inscription iun9 thus: "Napoleon the Great passing by this place in MDCCCXIV., took in the neighboring field a plowshare from the hands of a peasant ami himself tried to plow, but the oxen, rebellious to those bauds which yet had guided Eu rope, headlong fled from the furrow." Some Amos ing Hibernicisms. Sir Boyle Roche is best known to fame as the man who smelt a rat, saw him floating iu the air and nipped him in the bud; but a writer in the curreut Corn hill Las unearthed some less fami liar bulls from the same eminent source. For example, discoursing on the rela tions between England and Ireland. Sir Boyle declared that "he is an enemy to both kingdoms who wishes to dimin ish the brotherly affections of the two sister couutries." This Is, however, no better :;an the benevolent wish of the governor of Georgia, in his speech at tbe last Atlanta. Exposition, that the occasion might bean Interesting wedge wnicn wouiu oring about a more per- lect unity between North and South. The Original Bine Stocking. According to the Golden Penny the appellation "blue stockings' originated iu the dress of a Benjamin Stillingfieet, grandson of the Bishop, as he used to appear at the parties of Mrs. Montague in Fortman Square. He used to gen erally wear blue worsted stockings, and he was a very amiable and entertain ing man. Whenever he waa absent from Mrs. Montague's evening parties. as his conversation was very Interest ing, the company used to say: "We can elo nothioir without th .hi stockings." By degrees the assemblies were called "blue stockings clubs," and learned people "blue stockings." The Last Resort Washington Star. "General," said the excited officer, "the insurgents have cut off our retreat on the south and east" "Then we'll go west" "But they have been for a long time lying In wait for us ia the west and north." "Is there no loophole?" "None! What shall we do?" "Offer tuetn autonomy." rswrewr"