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3K' Ka.i Crua and Patriot alreeta.
C. H. C0FFR0TII,
Kuneral Director.
,J- fr.b Main Cross St. lwasideuce,
340 Tatriot St.
B. FLUCK,
Iand Surveyor
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VOL. XLYI. NO.
Are You
Easily Tired?
Just remember that all your
strength must coma from your
foo.1. Did you ever think of
that? I
I Perhapa your xausclos need
mora strength, or your norv os ;
or porhp3 your etomach
weak and caanot digest what
you eat.
If you need mora 6tran3th
then take
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo-
pho3phita8. Tha oil is lha most i
eisily chauged of all foods Into
strength ; and the hypophos- I
pliitea are the boat
M'iy toaica far the nerves.
X SCOTT'S EMUIj- I
-n O SION is the easiest 5
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ana quicxeai cure ior
weakthroats, for ?
couehs of every kind,
and for all cases of da-
biiitv, wsik nsrvcj,
and lo33 of flash.
Koc and Ji.oo, li druggists
SCOTT & BOWSE, Chemists tw York.
VfVi'iViiViVi'iVeViViViVmVun
An Easy
i Problem
J.
Never mind the bewilder-
incr arrav of fimirps nrp- S-
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sented by the Life As- f
surance agent. S;
Onl' two questions to be j
decided -
What is the company's earning
ability as demonstrated by
actual earnings in the past ?
What is its ability to pay as indi
cated by its accumulated sur
plus? Questions easily answered
by any " Equitable "
agent.
$50,000,000 surplus is the
bulwarkofEqui table"
strength.
EDWARD A. WOODS, Manager, :
5 Pittsburgh. 5
L FOSDSCK. General irent. 2
: Somerset. 5;
THE-
First laiioflai Bank
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Somerset, Penn'a.
Capital, 550.000.
Surplus, S30.000.
undivjocd nnn
PROFITS, UtjVWVi
ocpcsits ncccivr -in lahoc a dsmali
MOUNT.. PTLC OM Otai'll
ACCOUNTS Of MERCHANT. "Stl,
STOCK CCALCRS, AND OTMCM SOLICITKO
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CHAS. O. H IT.L. GrX). R. HCTLU
JAMKS L. fl'UH. W. H. M11XKR,
JOhLS K. S t ITT, KOKT. H. SCL-LL,
KKEU W. ElriiiXKivU,
EDWARD KtTTLLu : : PKEfinENT.
VALKNTINK HAY, : VICE PKfrisSinENT.
HABVEY hi. BEliKLEY, tSUlEB
Tbe funrtu and fiecuritlen of thin ftana ar ao-
curely prot-ciwi In a ceiehratt-d Colt L.IHH Ben-
li l.A K rmiui nAra. iucuuij mmv; unkic
lately burkiar-proof.
A. H. HUSTON,
Undertaker and Embalmer.
A GOOD HEARSE,
and everything pertaining to funerals furn
ished. SOMERSET - - Pa
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next Door West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
prepared to supply the public
with Clocks, Watches, and Jew
elry of all descript'ons, as Cheap
as th Cheapest.
ItEPAiniXU A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
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J. D. SWANK.
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1XV BUUTI1UW.M Warrea SlroeU N. Y.
tiM 50 YEARS'
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I'auaiU tAlten throurh Muno A iM. noulre
wperuti iwttu, without chire. in th
Scientific Jlmerican.
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IMPORTAXT TO ADVERTISERS.
The cream of the country papers Is found
la Remington's County fieat Lisn. Ehrewd
adTerticra avail themselves of tlipsa lists, a
copy of which csn be had of remington
of Sew Tork k ritfeburg.
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'I'LL PSiY; TOTJ FIGHT."
So you writ to ask my blcsslu', now the gov
ernor has sent
Notice of the .-ly move of your millshy reg
iment. Sly! it makai my blood ruu .wirt.T, like as
when I wan a boy,
An' iiia relied utt all gay an' Kinilln, with the
"thliliaoy;
Mar aco-ned like a u miner picnic, Jut as
now It secmii to you.
Bat the revelation fullered, as the truth Is
bound to do;
Still I Khali not try to keep you, though I un-
derxtand it well ;
Gd, an' take my benediction: Do your best
an' give 'em
'Taln't iu Ewcuiin terms I write to you; sol
emn time, a'n'l mude to cuas.
An I calculate this minute ia a ajbor one
with us;
There ain't nothin' low nor wickinl in my
heirt wh m my boy gout
Out for ligtnlu' may be dyln in his blue
mlli.hy clo'ras
Nothing that could shame or grieve him, or
his mother that we laid
Year ago there on the hilb-lde, underneath
the maple h:tle;
'o: I'm rev'rentau' I'm earnent when I say
good-by an' tell
You to go an' do your duty march an' meet
'em give 'em
Hueb I call the proper merit of the coward
hound that creeps,
Ioath-armeJ, on bis friendly vlcMut when
that friendly victim Bleeps;
That, whatever Is its terrors, tits. It seems to
me, the case
Of a nation that considers treachery a savin'
grace.
Which for years nn' years bis always burnt
an' pillaged an' oppressed
Killia' men by stealth at Dight-time, au' a-
tar liig out the rest,
Which has made a waste gomorrah where Its
biightin' power fell
Is It wrong for me to tell you to go out au'
give 'cm ?
ii, your daddy is a deucon, an he knows
the proper way
Of a stanch, professlu Christian to lead Ei-blc-class
an' pTiy ;
Y'ou are up there lu the city, I am here at
Palmer Send ;
You know just how many blestdn's. If I had
'em, I would send
Just bow many moral precepts your old sol
dier daddy Would
Be a minded to recite you ; but I'll only any :
lie good ;"
Iirt a gool Ik.j- and a soldier, an' when rhot
an' fire an' shell
Fly about, you'll know I'm prayla'; so you
tight an' give 'e:n .
REUBEN COLE'S CHANGE.
''And roses, Reuben?'' Ijeah Cole
said, quietly.
The seed catalogue lay open, aud she
could see the bunch of thrifty onions
on the open page. Reuben mot-t always
ended his list 'witli onions! There
wasn't time to wait any longer.
"And roses, Reuben?''
Rt-uben Cole bent over his laboring
pen, apparently deaf to the gentle,
wistful voice. His hand was paiufully
cramped, and the parallel lines indent
ed between his eyebrows told of his
mental toiling, i'louing half a day,
steady, on the windy side of Slone
Scrabble Hill was nothiug to this.
Leah could have helped him if she
had only dared to sutrgvst it; but to
htr simple vi.ion there was something
majestic and unapproachable about
Reuben with a pen gripped iu his fin
gers. It required all her courage to
mention her heart's desire the roses.
"Rut I'm bound I will," she com
muned with herself, stoutly. "I'll do
my part; an' that's all the Angel Gab
riel amid do if he wanted Reuben to
put roses onto his list.
Hut her heart failed her as she watch
ed Reuben's slow pen trace "two pack
ages of best onion seed," and then sign
"Reuben Cole," iu great quivery let
ters. It did not write "roses," and Le
ah Cole's plaintive face fell.
Reuben Cole was not deaf. None of
the Coles had ever been, even in their
eighties. It was a matter of pride with
them all.
He had heard Leah's gentle reminder
about the roses oh, yes, but he had let
it pass unheeded, just as he had the
year before aud the year before thaL
Leah always put in her oar for some
foolishness like that every time he sent
off his order for seeds aud berry canes.
One year it was floweriug almonds an'
some kind of Tartar honeysuckles. If
he got 'em once he'd have to again, aud
wasn't it all he could do to manage the
garden sauce ? They'd got to have that,
but they didn't got to have a whole
ms o' hushes an' il"wer beds littering
up the front yard. L?ah was real cu
rious about that.
The Cole farm was a prosperous one.
According to its place in the tasgath
erer's books, it ranked as one of the
thriftiest iu the township. There were
always the newest varieties of small
fruits iu its berry patch, aud the new
est kind of garden sauce in its garden.
IU field crops were fine its level mow
ing fields ouderfully productive. The
neighbors averred that they never did
see greener, heavier grass than grew in
Reuben Cole's meadows, and his loads
o' hay at haying time were sights to
behold.
Rut the front yard at the Cole's was
barren aud dismal. To be sure, there
were Leah's beds of old-fashioned flow
ers that she spaded and tended herself
w ith patience; but they had a discourag
ed hok, in spite of her care. The little
old-time ponies refused to blossom thrift
ily in such barren, undressed soil, and
R-ubeii culd not tpare any dressing
for iL
Bat the grass oh, that was the worst!
It tormented pw Leah's beauty-loving
eyes summer after summer. Shedidso
loug to see it brilliant and carpety, like
other people's front yard grass. Across
the street a little way down the bill,
and Hobbs grass was so green. You
cmild feast your eyes on it an' bury
your feet in its luxuriatlu tfclckncss
an' they always kept it mowed.
Leah Cole did her own front-yard
mowing. It was not very successful.
The day sfier the need list was sent
oil, Leah took her sewing out into the
yard. It was one of those surprisingly
warm, summery days that come some
limes in early spring, and site could not
resist the temptation of iL But she did
uot sew much. Khe wandered wist
fully around the big, bare enclosure,
girt in by its unkept fence. It took all
Reuben's time to keep the pasture
fences trim.
"it's a uice shaped yard," murmured
Leah. "It's got the 'possibilities' in iL
Mowin' an' drcin' an' fixiu' up the
bushes an' things land alive ! wouldn't
they make it I. ice? I'J like to see it
jvst once U fore I die !''
She went aboui pickiug out her
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
"sites," as she called them this corner
where she wanted a Tartarian honey
suckle like Amanda Hobbs' that little
longish place where she wanted a row
o' rosebushes this sheltered spot for
the flowering almond.
There were a g xxl many sites. They
dotted the forlorn little place all over,
and when Leah shut her eyes and
made believe, she transformed it into
a lovely little place.
In the antipodes of Leah Cole's hun
gry, w istful life it Ls possible she might
have been au artisL The artist's soul
was in her.
"I'd put the clump o' hydrangesover
here in this corner place kind & set
'em round carelessly in a scatterin'
hunch. They look real pretty so.
There's a clump in a yard over to Bux
ville. And the white laylac I'd like to
go about here. It would grow big and
need plenty o' room."
A white lilac was one of Leah's heart's
desires, too. She wanted a w hite oue,
oh, so much !
They were plowing down in the home
field, and the sound of the men's voices
drifted up to her through the clear air.
Reuben's voice w as hearty aud full of
enthusiasm. He was going to lay down
that field to clear clover.
"I winu they'd plow the frout yard
up," mused Leah, watching the long,
straight furrows grow. "I'd sow the
grata -seed myself. It's theonly way to
do. This old soil is more dead'n alive."
There were no children on the Cole
farm, and all the love and devotion
Leah Cole might have spent over little,
uneasy bodies, and all the time she
might have spent over little patch-hungry
pinafores aud frocks were centred
on this little, unkempt frout yard that
was so dreary, aud might be, land S so
beautiful !
It wouldn't have been so bad with
prints of little feet oa its graceless sod.
"I'm agoiu' to run up to John's be
fore the plantiu' begins, Leah. There's
some business I've got to do with him,
an' I need a little change," Reuben
said at supper time, lie said nothing
about Leah's going too. Did he think
she did not need a change ?
"Why, I would, Reuben. It'sa pretty
drive, an' they'll be tickled to death to
see you ! It'll do you good. Au' Reu
ben" her voice faltered the least bit
"An' Reuben, if you don't mind askiu'
John's wife for some slips "
"Slips? I s'pose you mean slips o'
plants an' thing, but I calc'late John's
wife has all she can do makiu' slips out
o' dimity cloth," for at John's there
were little children.
Reuben laughed and pushed away
his plate. But Leah rallied for thestc
ond attack.
"Mebbe she's dreadful bu.y, but
John's wife will always find time to
keep growin' things around "
"Of course. There's six there now,
if I remember. I guess they all grow
fast enough."
The immediate prospect of a 'change'
made Reuben unwontedly jovial. He
chuckled in pleasant appreciation of
bis little joke. But Leah was intent on
her own thoughts and remained grave
enough. If she could only have some
of John's wife's slips anJi nay be
and ! think of it ! John's wife had roses
all around the house !
"Au' John's real poor beside Reu
ben," sighed Leah's thoughts.
The last thing, as Reuben drove out
of the yard, she called out after him,
wistfully :
"If you're a mind to speak of the
slips, Reuben"
And then she went back to her work,
and Reuben rode along the pleasant
country ways with the beautiful resur
rection of spring all about him. The
air was full of the smell of newly-turned
sods, as he passed by fields fresh
from the plow.
The first birds back from their win
ter resorts tilted on limber twigs and
saug to him. It was spring spring
spring. R--uben Cole's blood quickened and
ran more thickly through his veins, as
the sap was flowing under the little
song birds' feet. -
lie passed a jogging couple in a
quaiut, ol J-fashioued wagon and
caught a glimpse of their placid en
joyment of eaeh other's company.
Tdeclare," he thought, "why didn't
I bring Leah along? I ruight've as
well as noL I'd go back now if I
warn't a third of the way to John's."
At John's a good many things inter
ested Reuben Cole, and a good mauy
things astonished him. The tiny farm
was just out of its winter dress, and the
spring cutting and fitting had not
begun.
"Ain't you late about your plowiu',
John?'f questioned Reuben a little sjr
prised. "Down our way it's till out o'
the way, and plantiu' will becomin'
alone pretty quick.
"Yes, I am late," laughed John,
cheerily enough, looking up from his
work he was helping his wife prune
the roses and shrubs. "You're ahead
this time, sure. But I told Lttty here
she shouldn't do all this pruniu' and
and tyiu1 up alone the plowiu' could
wait a bit. I)u't you worry. I'll
catch up with you."
John and John's wife were landing
over a white rosebush, and their hands
and fingers carne-logetber, now and
thea, in the friendliest nudges. Bth
of them were laughing with their
voices keyed to a spring music. It was
very pleasant out In John's front yard.
Reuben sat on the doorstep and re
volved new notious iu bis head.
"Why shouldn't I help?" wanton
John's voice. "Half this frout yard's
mine, an' I guess I want things to look
flourishiu' in it, too hey, Lettie?
What's that you say about men folks
not carln' for flowers? Take it back,
ma'am one, two, three.
A merry race ensued and all the little
John children flowed out of nooks and
crannies to join in iL
Letty came out of it breathless and
smiling.
"We're goin' to put the aster feeds in
under the windows this year," she ex
plained to Reuben. 'They'll look so
bright against the uuderpinniu'. And
the sweet peas over then) against the
fence and the pansy beds here, you see.
The children see to those. Oh, we're
goin' to look fine, I tell you! And
John's sent for some new shrubs too
let's see; hydrangea and a golden elder
and a smoke tree. Last year we got
that purple-leaved plum. You'd ought
eirse
ESTABLISHED
to see it by and by ! And we got the
j white lilac" John's wife said "lay
( lac," too "last year. Ob, yes, and
i that cunnln' little mulberry tree. We
' l . a a. .
try to get inree new ones every yes r.
When the frout yard's full, there's the
back yard."
John's wife laughed and went in to
see if the John baby bad waked upycL
"She's a great one for fixin op, Let
ty is," John remarked, proudly. "I
leave the selectin' all to her; then I
hel p set out aud tend. There's nothin'
like bavin' things kind o' pretty around
the house, I say that's as necessary as
havln' good potatoes and thick hay
crops. If you can't have both, have
six o' oue and half a dozen o' the other.
You chaps with the money can out
shine us, of course, but we'll do the
level best we can!"
All the way home Reuben Cole was
revolving his new ideas. In the back
of the wagon was a bulky bundle of
shrubs done up iu burlap. He had
driven ten miles out of his way for
these. John's wife's slips were iu a
moist packet under the seaL Halfway
home the ideas said there was going to
be a revolution in the front yard at
home. Two-thirds f the way, there
was going to be a revolution iu the
homely sitting room where he and
Leah sat together long winter even
ings. There was going to be some
thing new aud bright there as well as
in the little homely front yard.
Grand ideas brave ideas.
Three-fourths of the way heme, he
was going to help Leah set out the
things and prune them and dres them
for her. Poor Leah! She'd had kind
of a bard, uphilly time ef it try in' to
fix up thiugs around home. Come to
think of it, Leah was groa in' real sober
and old, late years Leah! and she
used to be ;he sprightliest, handsomest
little woman in the United States!
Happy an' cheerful, too, asalaughin'
child.
Four-fifths of the wry home, five
sixths, almost home!
Seven-eighths of the way; he is goin'
to give the little woman a surprise an'
see if she'd forgot to blush that little
soft red color that used to set her otf so.
Home, Aud Reutien Cole sprang
lightly down and kissed Leah's patient
gentle face. A little soft red color hur
ried into her checks aud made her young
again.
"Why, Reuben land!1 The House
wife. The Bluejackets.
From the Baltimore Sua.
In an address at Anu.j-olis the other
day t'uiuuiauder Thoit.as Xelaon, a re
tired naval ollicer, paid a just tribute
to the enlisted men in the navy. He
said that in a recent cruise the records
of 80 per ceuL o: tLc meu were fault
less, and only 5 per cent, of them were
bad. The other 15 per cenL had been
guilty of being uupuuetual or of some
trilling matter. He showed that oue
disreputable sailor makes more noise
aud attracts more atteuliou than a
hundred quiet and orderly ones, who
are not noticed.
The persouuel of the United States
navy, both olficers aud enlisted men,
has always been excellent, and the na
vy has been a credit to the country in
every instance where it has been en
gaged. The superiority of the enlisted
men over tbog-e of other countries, and
especially in gunnery and marksman
ship, has been remarkable. In the war
of lsl2 this superiority over the Brit
ish navy was admitted aud deplored in
Kngland. In that war and in other
wars in which the navy has been en
gaged the patriotism and courageof the
enlisted men have been couspicuous.
Commander Nelson said there was nev
er a call for volunteers to engage in
some extra hazardous service that the
number offering was uot greater than
the number required.
There is no reason to believe that the
men iu the service at this time are any
way inferior in courage and patriotism
and efficiency to those who fought un
der Baiubridge and Decatur.
Beats the Klondike.
Mr. A. C. Thomas, of Marysville,
Tex., has found a more valuable dis
covery than has yet beeu made in the
Klondike. For years he suffered un
told agony from consumption accom
panied by hemorrhages; aud wa9 abso
lutely cured by Dr. King's New Discov
ery for Consumpt:on,Coughs and Colds.
He declares that gold is of little value
iu comparison with this marvelous
cure; would have iL even if it costs
hundred dollars a bottle. Asthma,
Bronchitis and all throat aud lung
affections are positively cured by Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump
tion. Trial bottles free at J. N. Sny
der's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and
G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin,
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The Reason Why.
From Pearsou's Weekly.
The politician had been doing his
best to carry on a conversation with
the extremely sentimental girl, and
was becoming discouraged. She was
gazing through the window, and ex
ciairuea .
"See those distant stars! Did you
ever pause to think that they may be
worlds?"
"Yes, I believe I have."
"And that they may be peopled with
beings that hope and struggle as we do?
O! did you ever think of thoss peo
ple?" "No," he answered, "I never thought
of them."
Turning abruptly, so as to face him,
she exclaimed : "Why not?"
The politician thought for a moment,
and then answered coldly :
"For the simple reason, miss, that
they don't vote in my constituency."
Too Much for Him.
"That botany professor has lost his
mind."
"War excitement?"
"No, he couldn't classify more thna
Ciy of the Cowers on hia wife's spring
LaL" Chicago Record.
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1827.
MAY 4. 1 898.
"WAJIAMAXEa'S MISTAKES.
He Sizes Things Either Ignorantly
or Purposely.
Mr. John Wanamaker is going up
and down the state making many
charges against Republican leaders
and arraigning the last legislature for
what he alleges to be its many sins of
omission and commission, says the
Crawford Journal. He mixes things
which were not done, and bills which
did not pa.-, with things which were
done, and bills which did pass, in a
way which to say the least is disin
genuous, and which, in any one mak
ing fewer pretensions of great piety
and honesty, would be called thor
oughly dishonesL We will cite only
a few examples of Mr. Wauamaker's
recklessness. He alludes, among other
things, to the proposition to tax oleo
margarine. This bill did not pass. Yet
Mr. Wanamaker, iu speaking to the dai
rymen of Bradford county attempted
to arouse antagonism to Senator Quay
on account of it, holdiug him respon
sible for a bad measure which did not
become a law.
He alluded to the proposition to cut
down the school appropriation. But
this bill did not pass. Instead, a bill
did pass so changing the method of dis
tributing the appropriation as to bene
fit the country districts a bill asked
for by the country districts. Yet Mr.
Wanamaker is very severe in his de
nunciation of the legislature because
of the bill which didn't pass, and en
tirely ignores the one w hich did pass.
He talks grandiloquently about the
great w rong done the state by the
placing of state moneys in banks with
out interest. The same legislature
passed the bill requiring banks to pay
interest on all state money deposited
w ith them, and the law goes into effect
May 1.
He is very severe on the bill (vetoed
by Governor Hastings) changing and
increasing the mercantile taxes. The
bill hd some weak points, b'.it was iu
principle a just measure. It Wa3 e'e
signed to make such men as Mr. Wan
amaker pay a decent share of the pub
lic burdens Mr. Wauamaker's share
would have been about $10,0iK) a year.
He cuts a sorry figure advocating his
own personal relief from just taxation.
But the most reprehensible feature
of Mr. Wanamaker's reckless scold is
his claim for the "seventy-nix" (his
supporters iu the caucus) of all the
credit for all the bad measures defeat
ed, although the seventy-six were
largely iu the minority. He charges
that the legislature was Senator Quay's
creature, and charges him with re
sponsibility for all bad measures pass
ed or even introduced, but claims credit
for his friends, a inall and far from
uuited minority, for all good measures
passed and all bad ones defeated.
Now, Mr. Wanamaker ought to be
consistenL If the legislature was Sen
ator tiay's creature he ought to be
given credit for giKxl measures passed
and bad ones defeated. Mr. Wana
maker does neither. 'Instead, he holds
him responsible for all bad measures
which became laws, even for all bad
measures introduced, but gives no
credit whatever for the useful laws
passed nor ibe bad ones uot passed.
It is said that Mr. Wanamaker is
surprised that county after county in
which he speaks votes against him. It
is not surprising. The only surprising
thing about his campaign is that be
should imagine the people of this state
cannot see through such shallow, com
monplace trickery.
There are serious defects iu the gov
ernment of Pennsylvania which will l
remedied in time. The most serious
defects are in the government of Phil
adelphia, where Mr. Wanamaker is
hand-in-glove with those responsible
for the mismanagement. As we have
before advised him, the best place for
the work he is trying to do, if he is sin
cere, is within a stoue's throw of his
own store. When he has assisted in
giving Philadelphia a measurably hon
est government, in stopping Mutual
Automac deals, gas works lease jobs
(in which his closest friends are inter
ested, if he himself is not, ) and Schuyl
kill water jobs, he cau with better
grace come to the people of the state
and ask them to help in reforming
legislation at Harrisburg.
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Pies Male of Kuses.
After a bitterly-contested trial last
ing five days in the Circuit Court of
Montgomery county, I1L, the suit of
Mi Clara B. Hamilton agaiust Henry
Heston Thacker for breach of promise
ot marriage came to a close Tuesday.
The jury gave the plaintiffa verdict
for $-1,000 damage's. The amount sued
fr was $10,000. Both parties are
school teachers.
During the trial many of Thacker's
letters wee read, in which he address
ed Miss Hamilton in the most endear
ing terms. In oue he begged for a
pie made wholly of kisses.
"I would not be without Chamber
lalu's Cough Remedy for its weight in
gold," writes D. J. Jone-s, of Holland,
Va. "My wife was troubled with a
cough for nearly two years. I tried
various patent remedies, besides nu
merous prescriptions from physicians,
all of which did no good. I was at last
persuaded to try a bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, which promptly
relieved the cough. The second bottle
effected a complete cure." The Zi and
50 cent bottles are for sale by all druggists.
JLJLViL U
Youth and Age in War.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A native of Holland, an American
citizen by adoption, writes to a New
York newspaper that he is 53 years old,
but as able to fight as any man of 1T,
aud suggesting he formation of a corps
of men from 45 to S3 years old. He
thinks there are many thousands of for
eign-born citizens of the United States
who are ready and anxious to take up
arms for their adopted country in case
of war with Spain.
That old men Lave sometimes been
the best and most successful fighters,
history abundantly shows. Farragut,
the great admiral of the Civil War,
was over sixty when he rau his fleet
up the Mississippi under the guns of
the Confederate forts below New Or
leans, and in spite of the warning in
regard to torpedoes at Mobile Bay, ex
claimed ' the torpedoes. Go ahead!'
Robert Anderson was 5 w hen he de
fended Fort Sumter. D n Carlos Buell
was 41 when he helped to tave Grant
from disaster at Shiloh. Joseph Hooker,
oue of the Ust fighters iu the Union
Army, was over 50 when he captured
Lookout Mountain. David D. Porter
was 52 when he commanded the largest
armada the world had ever seen, at the
capture of Fort Fisher. The beloved
John Sedgwick was 51 when he was
killed at the head of his corps iu the
Wilderness. George 11. Thomas was
H wheu he won the battle of Nashville,
one of the five most important batil. s
of the war, and George G. Meade was
4S when he won the most important
battle of the war. John A. Winslow
was 53 when the Kearsage sank the Al
abama. Jubal A. Etrly was 4!) wheu became
so near to capturing Washington. Jo
seph E. Johnston was 57 when he was
holdiug Sherman's army in check in
Georgia, and Robert E. I.ee was the
same age w hen he made his able de
fensive campaign of lsol.
It can not be said that the high posi
tions held by thtse soldiers exempted
them from the hardships of a soldier's
life. They did uot have to march on
foot, it is true, but they were often iu
the saddle day and night, and when
the private soldiers sle-pt they were fre
quently kept awake until nearly day
light receiving reports, considering
plans and Issuing orders. It is on rec
ord that General Meade got not more
than a few hours slet p three or four
during nearly a week of the Gettys
burg campaign. These soldiers of mid
dle life and beyond endured all the
hardships of a soldier's life and yet
maintained the marvelous energy nec
essary to the direction of campaigns
and battles.
Nevertheless, the young man makes
a better fighter than even the physic
ally sound man of middle life, because
the youug man nas not acquired the
habit of considering risks, a habit usu
ally confirmed in persons past 4 ). Wat
service rapidly age even young troops
in the development of caution, and it
is usually the young generals and the
fresh troops who are chosen for forlorn
hopes, of which truth Wayne at Stony
Point is an example, and it is experi
enced veterans, like Hanc.x-k's Second
Corps at Sailor's Creek, who sometimes
refuse to face the certain death which
earlier in their experience they would
not have considered .
Stone on lamination.
In a speech at a Republican meeting
at Athens, Bradford county, iu" th
subject of immigration, Hon. Wm. A.
Stone, Republican candidate for the
nomination for Governor, said :
"I have tried to further the passee
of a law which will restrict that unnat
ural and abnormal immigration which
annually is brought to our shores, and
which forces our laboring people into
competition with the paujer labor of
E irope. I have no prejudice against
foreigners; I would be glad to see them
all bettered iu their condition; but I
believe that the immigration to which
we are now subjected and have beeu
for the last twenty years has done us
great hanu an 1 will el us considerably
greater harm unless it is restricted. 1
believe that the laboring man is as
much entitled to protection as the cap
italist aud that if it is right to put a
tariff or an obstruction upon imported
articles for the protection of home cap
ital it is right to put a taritl or obstruc
tion upon foreign immigrants for the
protection of our laboring men and
women. Immigration is all right and
proper when eon fined to that normal
number which meets the wants of a
growing country, but it is w rong and
unjust when allowed in such unreason
able numbers as forces our lalotin&
people to work for wages which are in
sufficient to supply their wauts and of
fer them the necessities of life and re
serve their equality with their fellow
men. "Either one of the two things mut
take place; we must either restrict im
migration or force our laboring men
and women to work for European
wages. A laboring man can live as
cheaply in this country as he can in
any country iu Europe, if he is willing
to live as the laboring uiau lives iu
Europe. But he cannot maintain that
respectable equality among his neigh
bors which he has heretofore been ac
customed to maintain. If the immi
grants were divided among the dif
ferent States in proportion to the pop
ulation of the different States it would
be far better."
L. M. Farley conducts a large mer
cantile business at Liberty Hill, Ga.
He says: "Oue application of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm relieved me of a
severe pain in my back. I thiuk it O.
IC" For lame back, rheumatism, neu
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and scalds no other liniment can ap
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is intended especially for these diseases
and is famous for its cures. For sale
by all druggists.
Eapid Progress in Spain.
Diplomatic relations and the win
dows of Minister Woodford's train
were brokeu the same day. Detrcit
Free Press.
Bad blood and indigestion are dead
ly enemies to good health. Burdx.-k
Blood Bitters d-i.oys them.
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WHOLE NO. 2440.
m wm RETIRED.
Failing Faculties Said to Have Hade
Him Useless.
W. E Curtis, writiug from Washing'
ton to the Chicago Record, under date
of April 25, says: Mr. Sherman has at
last been crowded out of the cabineL
His resignation of the portfolio of
State was handed to the President to
day aud accepted. His failing facul
ties have made him useless for nearly a
year, and he has leea intrusted with
no important responsibilities. Judge
Day, who is to be appointed to succeed
him, has been de facto Secretary of
State with the aid aud advice of the
President aud the affairs of the depart
ment have been conducted without
Mr. Sherman's knowledge. He has
attended the meetings of the cabinet,
but has had very little to say, and
what he has said carried no weight.
The members of the diplomatic corps
have not treated him seriously for a
long time, uot since a little affair with
the Japanese minister about a year ago,
which taught them that his assurances
could not be deluded upon.
Mr. Hoshi called upon him one day
to inquire concerning newspaper re
ports about the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands. Mr. Sherman told
him there was nothiug in them; that
he was exposed to annexation, and,
getting down a volume of his political
reminiscences, pointed out to the min
ister from Japan extracts from a speech
he made in the Senate several years
ago on that subject, in which he took
strong grounds agaiust the addition to
the Uuited States of any outlying ter
ritory. Mr. Hoshi cabled to his gov
ernment what Mr. S her ma u said. A
few days later, reading the announce
ment that the treaty had been perfect
ed Mr. Hoshi again called at the de
partment and received a second assur
ance from Mr. Suermau that the an
nexation of the Hawaiian islands was
not to be thougtit of. He sent another
cablegram to his government and the
next day the treaty weut to tLe Seuate
bearing the signature of the Secretary
of Stale. When he called for an ex
planation the Secretary of Slate con
tested that the treaty was negotiated by
oue of his subordinates and that he
knew nothing about it uutil he
attached his sig tature, as a matter
of form, al the request cf the President.
The Peruvian minister had a similar
adventure shortly after, and most of
ttie members of the diplomatic corps
learned by expe-rieuee long ago that
Mr. Sherman was only the nominal
tieud of the department, aud wheu they
yad any busiues to transact they call
ed upon Judge Day or Mr. Adee, the
seeond assistant secretary. Ouly a day
or two ago one of tlie ambassadors ;
weut to tne dep .rtiuent with a slip he
uad cut out of a newspaper purporting
to Ikj a semi official declaration of the
attitude of this government toward
privatee-riug. Wnile he was wailiug
(or Judge Day Mr. Sherman came iu,
aud out of respect the ambassador ad
dressed tae ioq iiry to him. Mr. Slter
ut:i loki lover tne clipping, return
ed it and said:
' fuis is nothing but newspaper gos
sip. We staud ou our treaties with
Spain. We shall observe all of their
stipulatious, and we shall expect Spain
to do the same.
1 ue ambassador loked up with great
surprise, but when he saw the secreta
ry had spoken seriously, observed that
oue would suppose all the treaties be
tween Spain and the Uuited States had
lieeu blo A-u up with the ivluluc. Then
he passed out of the room an I sought
Ju ige Day, who told him that the pub
icat ion was authorized, aud, while il
was not aa official utterance, it repre
sented the views of this government.
There have been many little inci
dents of this kind, which, but for the
lorbearanee of the ambassadors a'ji
niiuisters here, might have given the
United States a great deal of trouble.
If they had taken Mr. Sherman serious
ly nd had iusisted upon transacting
their business with him they might
have involved the Uuited States ia the
most embarrassing complications. But
they have understood his case aud have
not allowed themselves to be guided by
anything he says. Mr. Sherman has
supposeel all aloug that he was direct
ing the policy of the government iu
our Cuban and other foreign relations,
whereas he has had nothiug whatever
to do w ith them except to sign such
documents as Judge Day plao-d before
him, and it has beeu pitiful to see a
grand old man of his record and abili
ty standing iu such a conspicuous posi
tion, helpless and ignored.
For some time the President has felt
the neeeasPy tif having a stroug man
in the nicw of Secretary of State. Un
der ordinary circumstauces its business
might have been carried on by Judge
Day and himself, but during the pres
ent emergency be cannot carry two
loads, and he was compelled with the
greatest regret to intimate that Mr.
Sherman's health was so feeble that he
had better retire, as Postmaster General
Gary had done, in favor of a younger
and stronger rnau. If it had not been
for Mr. Gary's resignation the task
would have been more difficult than
it really was. Even then, Mr. Sher
man clung tenaciously to his position.
He insists that he was never in better
health in his life; that be has only been
alnent from his office five days this
winter aud that he is perfectly capable
of performing its duties, although he
admits that his endurance is not so
great as it used to be. What occurred
between him snd the President nobody
will ever know, uuless Mr. Sherman
himself reveals it. But the President
has finally unloaded him and has per
suaded Judge Day to accept the office.
William Rufus Day is a very peculiar
man. He stands unique among Amer
ican citizens. He has no political am
bition. He would rather go back to
Canton and practice law in the county
court than be the prime minister of the
greatest nation on earth. His present
honors have been thrust upon him. He
was offered the department of justice
in the original cabinet, and declined it
because he preferred to iive at his old
home and continue the practice of his
profession. He assisted the President
to solve a problem by accepting the of
fice as Assistant Secretary of State. It
had been promised to Bellamy Store r,
of Cincinnati, but Senator Forakef pro
tested and threatened to defeat Storwr's
confirmation if it were sent to the Sen
ate. Mr. Sherman's weakness was dis
covered about that time, and it became
necessary that the President should
have somebody in the Department of
State in whom he had absolute confi
dence and to whom Mr. Sherman
would yield his efficia! responsibilities.
Very few rueu could have filled that
bill, and Judge Day reluctantly came
from Canton at the urgent request cf
his old friend snd partner. No oue but
the President will ever know how faith
ful his service has been, and now hav
ing conducted the Cuban affairs so Ion?,
it Is impossible for Judge Day to let go
of them, and he has again, with great
reluctance, subordinated his own pref
erences and accepted duties and respon
sibilities for which h has no taste, but
which almost any other man would be
glad to assume,
Mother Has Rosy Cheeks.
"My mother was pale and could not
eaL She could hardly get around to
do her work. She began taking Hood's
Sarsaparilla and now she has a good
appetite and rosy cheeks and is able to
do her own work. We would not be
without Hood's, since it did her so
much good." Florence E. Powell,
Kelley Station, Pa.
Hood's Pills are the ouly pills to take
with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Cure all
liver ills.
Stone a Popular Candidate-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The great mistake which the Blank
enburg - Vau Valkenberj "Business
Men's movemeut has made is its at
tacks upon everything Republican.
The people do not believe that a "ma
lignant, contagious typhoid of Repub
lican management" abounds iu Penn
sylvania. If they did they would sup
port the Democrats, and there wouldn't
be much left of Republicanism. They
do believe that the Repub.iean party
has still a career of usefulness before it,
and that the party of McKinley, the
wise President and the great leader, is
needed iu this year of our controversy
with Spain.
The Republican party was the war
party of the 'Gus, and under McKinley
it must of necessity be the war party in
this Spanish contest. What more fit
ting candidate to lead the Republican
hosts to victory in Pennsylvania, then,
than William A. Stone, whose record
in Cougress has made him prominent,
not only in the State, but iu the nation ?
Congressman Stene comes from a
family of fighters. There were fot r
brothers, all of whom went to war.
Two of them were iu the old Buektail
Regiment. Oue of these was twice
wounded on the battlefields, aud the
other nearly starved in Audersonville
Prisou. A third, now dead from dis
ease contracted iu the army, fought iu
the same regiment with William A.
Stone, the probable candidate of the
Republican party for Governor. Will
iam A. Stone enlisted and mustered in
as a private before he was eighteeu
years of age, was promoted for gal
lantry to seixnd lieutenant and served
until the end of the war.
Will he do?
We think he Till !
Do the malcontents who are going
around the State for polUie'al purposes
of their own hope to beat Stone by
holding op the delinquencies many f
them fanciful delinquencies of the lat
Legislature? What ou the face of tl e
earth has a dead and gone Legislature
to do with the gallant soldier boy who
has served his State iu Congress with
the same zeal that he served his couutry
in the field?
Assaults upon the Legislature may
serve to give ammunition to the Demo
crats, but they can not barm William
A. Stone. He is beyond all assaults,
for his record is clean, and it is that of
au honest and manly man, one who
owns himself and has given every
proof of fidelity in the public service.
Yes, Stone will do, and it is about
time, on the eve of another war, that
the assaults upon the Republican party
should cease, too.
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Hi More "Unknown."
When the men of the regalar and
volunteer armie-a go into action they
will wear around their necks little tags
of aluminum, by which they may be
identified if found later on the field of
battle. In the last war it was often im
possible to properly identify the dead
soldiers, and thousands were burled iu
graves marked "unidentified." The
war department has prepared this sys
tem of identification, and it has been
decided that ou each tag shall be the
numeral assigned each man ou the
muster rolls, with the letter of his com
pany, battery, or troop, and his regi
menL. Th-se tags will be sent to the
troops in the South when it is evident
that a fight is on hand.
Mr. John Peterson, of Patoutville,
La., was very agreeably surprised uot
long ago. For eighteeu mouths he had
been troubled with dysentery and had
tri. d three of the best doctors in New
Orleans, besides half a dozen or more
patent medicines, but received very
Utile relief. Chamberlain's Colic Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy, having
been recommended to him, be gave it
a trial and to his great surprise, three
doses of that remedy tflected a per
manent cure. Mr. Wm. McNamara,
a well known merchant of the same
place, is well acquainted with Mr.
Peterson and attests to the truth of
this state men L This remedy is for
sale by all druggists.
Unlucky Little Alphonso.
King Alfonso "I wish to thunder
my ancestors hadn't tacked that XIII
ou to me." Minneapolis Journal.
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Into a father who chastises his children,
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