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Writ for information. J A'J. J. ZORN, Secretary. 50 YEARS' 'EXPERIENCE Tftlnr JI om m Copyrights Ac iLl?- - pr.. ' J "I';I"n tree hh an Ui., S?HJ' m""' iL?nrlcaiL II U I r KY,.! - . :ari;'tJ.',onuj. Ten, . i . UiUiLI A, 0 'Kin s n o -IL JLJL vy VOL. XLYII. NO. 15. K ;j V -v -A. . i V They do not complain of . anything in particular. 1 hey 2 cat enough, but keep thin and x pale. Theyappcar fairly well, but have no strength, iou ! cannot say they are rcal'v sick, .and so you call them delicate. What can be done forthem? 2 ; Our answer is the same that i .u.t :: i 1. "f i.ic ucbi pity siciaiib iijvc uccn giving for a quarter of a cen- i; tury. Give them i Sceii's Eniulslen I of Ccd-Lker Oil ivith Hypo- X X phosphites. It has most re- I k- markable nourishing power. ii gives coior tome dioou. it brings strength to the mus- V cles. It adds power to the nerves. It means robust health and vigor. Even deli- V cate infants rapidly gain in j flesh if given a small amount three or four times each day. Sac. tr4 ft.no; 'A d-uisi 'JJ SCOTT & BOWSE, Chemists, New York. 2 First iiial Bail' Somerset, Penn'a. Capital, S50.000. Surplus, 834,000. UNOIV'DED PROFITS, 84,000. OCFCSITS MCCCIVC IN lfil tKDtdikLl IMOUXTt, PAYk.LC OM 00 ACCOUNTS or CNCHNT. AKMEDI, CTOCK CCALCRS. AND OTHim SOLICITCO -DISCOUNTS DAILY. - BOARD OF DIRECTORS. CHAS. O. WILL. GKO. II W TI.I, JAMES L. PCdH, W. H. MILLER, JOHN K. SXTT. I'.nKT. S. (ScULL, KRE'VV. BItLcKEB. KDWARIi S(T.i-i : : FRFSf PENT VALENTINE HAY, : VICE fKESI 1'EN I HAKVEY M. KEl.ivLEY. CASHlEii. The fuD'ls and st-ur1tie of itiis bn ne curelv pnu"!l iu a relelr.itii riKi iss Brt ui.au Pkook Sih. Xneouly Bale udenbM. lutclv liurKlHr-pnxji. A. H. HUSTON, Undertaker and Embalmer. A GOOD HEARSE, and everything ptruuning to tuninJs funi 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 descriptions, u Cheap as the Cheapest. REPAIUIXG A SPECIALTY. All work guaranteed. Look at my stock before making your purchases. J. D. SWANK. Beaver College and . . ilu5ical Institute, BEAVER. PA. IjK-aU-d on Hie Ohio Kivcr. 28 mil from rituiuirc. Klxtfii Ira'ln-ra. Nrw Imi : ! I i i i k mid itijipriirnl. An idtnii "iiml for yiris. r ail tt-riu o'i! !-pL Tlh. Writf forc&Ulo;ue. ARTHLR STAPLES, A. M.. Presidcct. Washington Seminary, NN'ashington, Pa. Fail term oprns Sf-pt, 14. Superior a1 viirtt !; In ail U.-iiartiiii ntt. For catalogue ad- m fus. m. n. McMillan. KEFFER'S HEW SHOE STORE! KVS BOYS'. WCHtli'S, GIRLS and CHILDREN'S SHOES, OXFORDS d SLIPPEKS. Blai-k and Tan. Iatft Styles and Shapes at lowest CASH PRICES.. A.ljoinir.e Mrs. A. K. Vh. Sonth-east corner of wiuare. SOMERSET, PA IMPOttTAKT TO ADYEKTISERS. The ereani of the country -papers is foend In Beniinirton'a Courtr B-jut Lisis. Lrewd adveruaera avail tlicmselvea of thoe lists, a copy of which can be tad of Kemingtoo Brua- of Xer York & Pittsburz. 3 &5 O r: S ft - 5 2 o S a a CI) o 3 o r- ft o cr u c 3 tf. ft a - a ft D - ft 5 5 WELN TO' COMIX' HOME! Kiv'.ali licvivy, llketo fcnoir Yh u yo' Ti,Uig lion,. ? li kon dist yo' mus' to s!ow, Wh.-ii yo' fvmin' hom? S.'ir.-e tie fiMilln' oltdih war Yo' is mUMity viular, Na:ii" in' got done tnivcl-i! fur W h a yo' ooiuin' hon-.i Mis-lali Ivwi y, wr In roH, V"h n yo roinin' home ? Yo' WJiri 111 It, Bis' to lllM, When yo' con: in' ionn Like In M.e yo" tt hni yo' Inn', Like to grab yo' l.y (If liaii. Like to yi li to bent de h:n' Win n yo' eomiu' Loii Jlit:ih lh-py, yo' ha cpii'.ik; V.'lu n yo'ooniin' liome? Mailt- di in Wii n.-rirurstt r shrunk, Wli-n yo' rouiiu' home? Maile i! iu Phl!!u;.''iiTS tam, Muded. -in fo'lncra walk Untie, Wide HI' G3ory plad she came "W h u j o' couslu' home ? Mistnh Iiewey, 'isr'use me, j.:eioe, 'hen yo' eosiiiu' homo? Set folkst at ounti r.'. When yo' ram In' houie? lUekon, from wh.it 1 inter, Feop'c like to make some stir, Mnl yo' at de di iot, sir! When yo'comin home? Miiitaii lk wry, proud of yo, Wheu yo' comin' honi"? Want tote'l yo' s'lihln, too Vli u yo' comin' ho:ae? Wan: to whispir; don't fo'i.-t. Watch dem kisin' (,-ir's, yo' bet? Ho'ison ain't done hlushln' yet When yo'eoinin' home? Mlslah Dewey, efyo' pl.e. When yo' comin' home? Swung lat Kinner to de hr.' Wluii yo comin' home? Ef dey 'jiiwu to get too ey, Null ti to de mast to t.'.y, Ien jus' U'"yfone en siy When yo' roinln home? Ueo. lloliart. In lialUmnre Aim riexn. miss TuSgTilwill. "Yef, I fclihll certuiuly marry Agues Lane. Slie's pretty and accomplished, and bttter tliari all, she's Miss Abigail Flint's heire's. The old Iudy'a worth half a million. Agnes is her niece and only living relative, and hhe'll get it all. A pretty giil with half a million dower in not a bad thing i.j take, eh, old fellow ?'' l'urke Norris stretched himself bizily as he propounded the query and stop- petl making rii;ar smoke rings long etioui:h to eye bis companion for a mo metiL CI lude I'.entleyV face was white, aud bis drooping brown moustache did ii')t wholly concenl the quiver of kin lips. "I you bve her ." be a.-ked, a little hukily. "Well er yes, I supprse so! liut then, it's not a hard matter to love a girl who w ill bring you a forluue like that. You iee, it's just this way with me, Claude. The la-t deal in wheat cramped the governor pretty bad!y, and he's cut down my allowance, liut, good-bye. I'll see you later on the board-walk." Rurke Xorris lazily arose, stretched himself, and sauntered out oa the park of the Trayniore, at which hotel be was stopping a couple cf weeks during thos balmy, spring-like days peculiar to Atlantic City in February. His footstejw were still echoing down the hotel hall wheu Claude Uentley sprang to his feet aud began to pace rapidly up and down the room. "The selfish wretch f he cried under his breaih. "A pretty husband he'll make; and uhe t.hii.ks he loves her for herself alone. I would lay down my life for her; and, were she a beggar, would gladly take her to my heart aud home and shower upon her the true love of au honest man. liut then, that can never be. Her old Auui is as proud as Lucifer. .She once told me to my face that people in trade bad no busi ness in society. Well, my two weeks' outing, oa the whole, has been far from enjoyable, for even the smiles that Ag nes Lane hr s deigned to give me have been torture, for she. has luta brought up in the same aristocratic school, and I now know bow utterly conventional they were. To her I am only the son of the family grocer, and she probably considers it great condescension on her part to notice me at all. I thiuk I'll go back to Philadelphia." He glance 1 at bis watch, saw that be had time to catch the limited express, and walked away to pack bis valise. Meanwhile Agnes Lane, coming up from a stroll along the board-walk, met one of the hotel servants, who held in his hand a telegraphic envelope. "The clerk said this was important, and I"' btgau the man, banding her the ni-.'ssag't. He stopied suddenly, for Agnes Lane had torn open the envelope, glanced hurrieily at the message it contained, and a wailing moan is-mihI from ktr lips. 'Your Aunt Abigail is dead." That is w hat she rtad, aud though she tried to control herself, tears of sin cere, heartfelt gritf sprang to her eyes, and a'l the sui shine and brightness setru- d blotted out of her life, for the o'.d fpinster, haughty the ugh she was, had bad a tender spot in her heart, which Agnes bad rilled completely. Vh( u a few days lattr Miss Abigail Flint's will was admitud to probate it was Kainid that th dead woman's en tire fortune would go to a noble charity in w hich she bad Ueu Interested du ring her life. The old spinster had always txen eccentric, t.nd the eon cludirg paragraph of her w ill read as follows: "I give and beq'ieath to rny beloved niece, Agnes Lane, my recipe for mak-, ing doughnuts, a copy of which is Iu : the bands of my lawytr, and will i turned over to her by my executors." Claude IV-ntley, Wlieving that Ag- j ties' heart w as another's, tried to forget : all about ktr, but he found that simply j Impossible. Her memory was constant- j ly present in his thoughts, and he j dreamed of her sweet face continually. J tflriA mnrninir th iiinir.r l.flrtncr of. ' - r - j i . Uentley A Sons was iu the ollio, bu-y looking over some accounts, when there was a timid Knock at (lie uoor, ana iiis brusque invitation "Come in!" caused the door to rpen. When he looked up, Agnes Line, dre-s .1 iu deep mourning, s'-ood U fore birn. "Miss Agnes !" he tried, and spring ing to bis feet brought her a chair, J thiukiug meanwhile that she bad ( never looked so pretty before aod iu- j wardly cursing the cruel fate that was to give her to another. There was an embarrassing silence, aed then Agnes, Son SOMERSET, PA., nervously removing her gloves, said: "I have come to you for for a l vice Mr. jfk'titley. As you well kuow, my AuutAbigtil was a very peculiar wo man. It was generally KHeved that I was to be her heir. This, however, is my dowry," and she handed him a w ritten per, the heading of which was: "My Celebrated Recipe for Mak ing Ioughuuts." "It's funuy, of course," she continued, with a gy laugh, "but I think I see a forlim a small one, It is true iu Aunt Abigail's rei ijie, and that's what I came to si-e you about to tlay," and then, drawing her chair up closer, she explained t him that doughnuts made from this recipe were so crisp anil light and gen erally !u-cious that every one who had ever eaten them would never forget their delicious taste. ' I am anxious to make my living," she said in conclusion, "and I think the doughnut recipe will prove a regu lar boiiatua. Your store has a repula tiou all over the city and your custom ers are among the best people, and I thought if you would introduce them for me aud take charge of their sale. for which I would pay a literal Com mission, I would, perhaps, be able to work tip a busiuess that would in time give me at least a comfortable iueome." Of course Claude IJntly was some what amazed at this proposition and lie hardly kuew what reply to make. Words that he would have likel to have said trembled on his lips, but w-ere not spoken, aud the result was the drawing up of a contract which both signed. At Claude's suggestion an advertise ment was inserted in the city pain rs and the next day the first lot of dough nuts was put on sale iu Uentley k Son's window. A fancy sign called attention to the delicious character of "Aunt Abigail's Doughuuts," and, to use Claude's own expressive words, "they sold equal to gold dollars." Fif:y dozen at fifteen cents perelozen were disposed of, and orders for more were taken abend. "Aunt Abigail's Doughnuts" became the town rage and their fame extended to other localities. It was found necessary to enlarge the "factory" several times and before many months asma.l arjiy t f work men were engaged iu their manufac ture'. The story got iuto the newspapers and Agues found herself cut by a great many of her old friends Rurke Norris pas-ted her ou Chestnut sfreet with a c Id stare. When the ou tents of Aunt Abigail's will were made public he bad ceased to visit her. As business increased and Claude was d-dly thrown more and more in contact with Ague's, he plucked up courage and one day poured out the story of his love and asked her to bd bis wife. Ha was ths htppiest man i.i Philadelphia when she bl jsbingly con sented. iurke Norris, whoss father failed without any asscls to sjieak of, gnash ed his teeth in imp.'teut rage when he read an account of the wedding, for the "doughuuts" were introduced and the reporter went on to say: "The bride w hose independence of character is well known iu society, first conceived the idea of introducing these delicious edible's to the public as a pleasant diversion, fehe has at) inde pendent fortune iu her own right, which was left to her by her father, the late John Lane." I I thought you were poor aud dependent on your industry for a live lihood," said Claude, when his wife confessed to him that her own inde pendent fortune was even greater that left by Aunt Abigail. "Rut you'll love me just the same, won't you Claude, now that you know that I am rich?" she said, and be, kiss ing her, -replied: "Indeed, I will !" "Doctor Cure-AIL" The field of nickel in the-blot ma chines is not exhausted yet. A I)utch technical paper furnishes the descrip tion and pictureof a peculiar novelty of this kind. It is called the "Doctor Cure-All," and Is constructed in the form of a mail, Usn w hose body are drawn a numlrer of square. Kach of these sjuarcs liears the name of sn ail ment, pain or illness of the port f the Usl v it is ou ; rest to each name is a slot for, the coin, anil just beniath a drawer with a handle which delivers the article wanted a medicine for the resjw-clive ailment. Thus a hiaibiche cure can be bad from the forehead, and a hair-grower just alve; toothache can be cured by droit obtained through one cheek, or by diminutive mustard plaster for the gum through the other. The mouth is a receptacle for cough dnqis and a malt touic can be obtained at the throat. A little farther iielow oue finds various porous plasters; then epsia tablets, SL'idliu powders, aud so on down to the feet. Within one f tot Is a dispen ser of corn ointment, while' the other will deliver elastic cotton rings to pro tect corns from pressure. Where the Illness is of a serious na ture for instance heart troub'e the slot machine w ill deliver a card to the liearest pbysiciati or speciali-t, but in this case the coin placed In the slot comes out with a card, which Is deliv ered free. Killed oa the Bail- Last vearon American railways oneJ person was killed In accidents out of every 2,7,474 persons carried. That is to say, you can lake a train, 2,27,474 times before, ou the the law of average, your turn comes to be killed. You will have to travel 71,00.,'.i'J miles on the cars before that turn conies, aud 4.541, -C4"i before you are Injured. If you travel ") miles every day fr 3JJ days in the year, you caa keep on at it ior7 3 years before your turn chines to be hurt. If there bad been railways when the Christian era began, aud you bad liegun to travel oa the first day of the year A. O. 1, and hal traveled 103 miles in every day of every month of every year siuce then, you would still have, iu nearly three million miles yet to travel before your turu comes to be kilkd. lerse ESTABLISHED WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER S I. 1898. A Erave Privats. The New York Sun ef-rrespondent at Manila tells the following story of the battle of Malate : "Private J. F. Fiu'ay, of C Company, First California, e-sjM ciaily distinguish ed himself. For such work as his Eng lishmen get the Victoria Cross. Finlay is detailed to Major Jones' transporta tiou department as interpreter. His mother was a Mexican, nud he learned Spanish tsfore he did Knglish. When ammuuition was seut forward Finlay was in charge of the traiu. He had ei ,jht carromatta loads of it, each car- romalta with a native driver. He started when the Spanish tire was hot te'st and went straight up through the open lields. The bullets buzzed and whistled all about hiai. They ripped through the lops of his carts, aud one of them hit otie of his drivers in the leg. r inlay Kept on as u Le were going after corn on a pleasant afternoon until he reache'd the old insurgent trench. Then he halted and his tra'a went for ward alone to find some ohe from the Tenth Pennsylvania to whom he could deliver the ammunition. That last hundred yards into our trench was what Captain O'llaru, a grizzled vet- erau who has seen a-plenty of hot work called a 'very hot place.' It was swept Incessantly by Spanish bullets, liut Finlay hunted arouud until he found his man, went back and got his car romattas, aud started forward. One of his ponies was shot just in the rear of our treuch. Finlay took it out of the curt and w ith the native driver hauled the cart along to its place, delivered his cartridges, aud started back. "0: the way he found Captain Hichtt-r lying iu the field where he had fallen. He jumped out of his carro matta, put the Captain in, and started on. Pretty soon he found another wounded man. That one was picked up, too, and lwck he went to camp Then he turned the wounded over to the surgeons and got orders to take ten carromattas to the front and bring back the wounded. Rack over that bullet swept Held he went again, as cool and unconcerned as if on a elrive through tiolden (Jate Park, did his work, brought iu the wounded, and turned iu to get whit sleep he could before the hard day's work began soon after day light. : "After he had sent forward every thing that he could to kelp the men at the front, General Greene went out himself. Ry this time it was after -o'd.x-k and the wor-t of it was over. The regulars were pumping in heavy volleys and the Utah boys were crack ing uway at their -undisturbed target practice and the atlKupt at tUnking' was replied.- G.'.:c-1 CJrccn stayed at the front until af:er 3 o'clock, and then returned to camp. At daylight there was a sharp burst of firing by the Spaniards, but our men did not re ssuJ, aud there was no damage done. The wounded were all brought into camp aud the serious-' cases were treat ed at the brigade hospital. The others were taken care of at regiment il hos- pitals or went to their tents. "In the afternoon the eight dead were buried in the yard of the old con vent at Maribacau, hack of the camp. There were no colllns available, so each man was-sewed up in his blanket, and an identification tag was sowed fast to it. They were buried all iu one treuch, aud headboards were set up to mark the graves, bearing the names of the dead. The chaplain of the Tenth Pennsylvania tKk a careful descrip tion of the place aud the graves, with the names aud records of tho dead. "The surgeons worked all day over the wounded and did not get through until in the evening. They found sev eral very serious cases, some of which have since resulted In death. "General Greene issued a general order congratulating the Tenth Penn sylvania and the Utah battery on their 'gallant 6tand in the face of superior f jrcts' and their repulse of an 'attempt to turn our right flauk.' He also com plimented very highly the Third ar tillery and the First California on their work iu advancing 'under a galling tire' lo reiuforex- the Pennsylvaniahs." Discovered by a "Womxa. Another great discovery has been nihil, aud that too, by a lady In this country. "Disea-e fastened Its clutch s upon her and f.ir seven years she withstood its severest test, but her vital organs were undermined aud death seeme-d Imminent. For three months ilie coughed incessantly, aud could not s'eep. Sae finally discovered a way to recovery, by purchasing of us a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumpiion, and was so much relieved on taking first dose, that she slept all night; aud with two bottles, has leen absolutely cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus write W. C. Hamnick & Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial bottle-s free at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and G. W. Rrallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. Regular sie 0; and f I 00. Guar anteed or price refunded. The Cost of Hews. ' Should a war reported as this has U-en continue two yeare it would bank rupt the resources of every first-class uev.'-paper iu New York City. Every newspaper of the first-class has run so far behind since the outbreak of the war. To oue newspaper at least the wer l.ai mi'ant an added expense of m tre than 3,0J0 a day about $I,0e, 033 a year ?nough to eliminate all tho profits of the most profitable newspaper In America which at present is uu-. doubttdly the New York Herald. Three thousand dollars per tly has be n the extra cost of gathering war news fr the New York Journal. That sum p.-rhaps represents a maximum. Oth.-r nwsptpers have speut in pro portion to their available capital. For a newspaper, as for a nation, war has no rewarl save glory. It hurts the c.immercial end of the newspaper as of th3 nation advertisements diminish ing an 1 it adds greatly to theexpeuse. Cismopolitun. Tn the Bank of EogUn l there are s 'ver bars that have lain untouched fr two hundred years. I I b 1827. THE HAPSBUR0 TRAGEDIES. Emperor Francis Joseph's Life Has JBeen Fell of Sorrows- From the New York lleruld. Again fate has dealt a heavy blow to the houses of Hapsburg and Witteis- bach, adding another sorrow to that heavy burden which has borne down to despair the -ancient rulers of Austria and Bavaria. The spirit of tragedy seems to have marked them for its own and to have played with them in order to drive its lessons deep Iuto the hearts of men. The fate of the empress of Austria is but the climax of a life over flowing with heart-burning aud trag edy. Chief of the recent tragedie-s of the house of Hapsburg was the suppressed suicide In 1SS0 of the Archduke Ru dolph Francis Charles Joseph, sou of the emperor and heir to the throne, the one ou whom all the hopes of the im perial house had rested. Tnisairairis now known as tke Meyerling drama. Several versious of the tragedy have been given out, but the facts in the case probably never will be known to any oue outside the royal house. The archduke was deeply infatuated with the charms of the Rarone'ss Vet cera, a beautiful young girl, w ho re turned his love, lid w ished to be unit ed to her by morganatic marriage, but his father would not allow it, Ou the opening of January 20 the archduke met the barone-ss iu a gamekeeper's house not far from the castle of Meyer ling. In the morning both were found dead lying side by side.- It was assert ed that the bareness had taken poison aud that the prince had shot himself. Another story is to the effect that a forester went to the house w here the prince was staying in order to ask the gamekeeper for some instructions re garding the hunt that was to take place. He knocked loudly at the door. A window was opened and a man jumped out and ran away. The forester aim-?il and fired. The fugitive fell, and when the forester walked up to him he recognized, to his korror, the crown prince, who had fainted. The shot had entered the prince's shoulder. The for ester called for help, and, with the as sistance of a man who ran to his aid, carried the prince into the gamekeep ers house. The baroness, seeing the prince in a faint and bleeding from a wound, im agined tbat he was dja-J. She imme diately took up her traveling bag and pulled out a phial. Before she could be prevented she drank its contents aud fell dead upon the floor. Soon afterward the crown prince came to aud was taken by bisownor elers to the castle of Meyerling. Here he ordered kis valet from the room into which he kad been carrie-d, aud here he placeel a pistol to bis kead aud tired a fatal shot. Letters of the prince and of the bar oness, found after the tragedy, ten i t disprove this version, and indicate a premeditated suicide oa the part cf loth parties. Then there were several witnesses who declare-d that they kad seen the bodies of the priuce and the baroness lying side by side immediate ly after the tragedy. A man by the name of Johann Trau- uilein, known by tke sobriquet of "15a- rou Schau," who died on Ward's Is land after a career of dissipation in the United States, asserted that he drove the crown priuce to Meyerling on the day of the tragedy, and told a very difierent story of the prince's death. He said that he drove the prince and a jol ly party of friends V) Meyerling. No women were in the party. Supper was served in the castle of Meyerling, and during the festivities the Baroness Vetecra suddenly made her eutrance iuto the supper room and with flashing eyes asked tke prince if it was true that ke kad renounced ker. The prince, after a silence, answt red that his father woull njtalljwany further relations between himself and the barone-ss. The latter then drew a revolver and fired at Rudolf. The ball wounded him but slightly, and he caught the infuriated woman in his arms. She managed however, to turn tke pistol against kerself and in flicted a mortal wound. A relative of the baroness then sprang up aud brought a ckampugne bottle with all kis might upon the head of the prince, who sank upon the floor and died. The lovers were then laid side by side upon a couch, aud all the w itnesses to the scene were sworn lo secrecy. The court, of course, bushed up the affair as much as possible, and so the story of the princess' taking oil lias never been authoritatively told. Yellow Jaundice Cured. Suffering humanity should lie sup plied with every means possible for its relief. It is with pleasure we publish the following : "This is to certify that I was a terrible sufferer from Yellow Jaundice for over six months, and w as treated by some of the lst physicians in our city and all to no avail. Dr. Bell, our druggist, recommended Elec tric Bitters; and after taking two lt tles, I was entirely cured. I now take pleasure iu recommending them to any person suffering from this terrible malady. I am gratefully yours, M. A. Hogarty, Lexington, Ky." Sold at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and U. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Ber lin, Pa. Under the caption "We Shall Never Forget Thee" The Delta Lighthouse (Greenville, Miss.) regales its readers with the following "powerful" obitu ary, which Is reproduce 1 j ist as origin ally printed: "Doatk with its steel and icy baud, his stole its way into the domicile of Mrs. Page, Mrs. T. How ard and Rev. Mass:'y, and taking from them their most dearest f.-ieud, iu the person of Mrs. Chartott Massey. their dear mother. Though she had been sick, quite eighteen mouths, neverthe less. Daughters and sous seldom be come worried with mothers. This mother died In fall triumph of faith. Daughters and her relatives, you can s'.-e her aeain, if you will. We extend in the bereaved family our heartfelt sympathies in your lows, while we know it is Heaven's gain. er-aid. ABOUT THE HESSIAN FLY. How to Get Sid of this "Wheat Pest. State Zoologist II. T. Fernald has ad dressed the following letter to the farm ers on the Hessian fly: This insect, which is very abundant in Pencsylvania, is often known as the "By" or the "wheat fly." It is respon sible for a large amount of loss each year, fU n elcstroy big one quarter of the crop, and is particularly injurious in wet seasons. LIFE ItlSTOUY. There are two broods of this insect each year. The winged fly appears in August and September, aud searches for the young winter wheat to lay its eggs on, and places them on the leaf blades, anywhere from otje to thirty on a blade. In four or five days the eggs hatch, and the young maggots crawl down the blade, enter the sheath, aud pass down to the joint, Here they stay, sucking the juice from the plant, until alstut the end of November, when they turn brown and harden. This is called the flax-seed stage. In this condition the-y pass the winter. In the spring, about the middle or end of April, they change to the full-grown form, the wiugpd fly. These, at once, begin to lay their eggs as before, and the history as already given for the fall brtxwi Is repeated; the flies from this brood appearing in August and Sep tember to lay the eggs ou the winter wheat. This in brief, is the history of the Hessian fly. TREATMENT. From what has been given, it is plain that there is no treatment of the seed which will do any goe!, nor is spray ing of any possible use. Treat cueut here must be in other Hues. The best thing to tl for the protec tion of wheat from the tly is: 1. Plant a small piece of wheat early iu August f-o that it may come up early. and be found by the (lies when looking for a place to lay their eggs. This piece will, of course, !e full of maggots later. About the end of September plow this under, and do not use the ground for wheat the next year. By this method the flies will lay their eggs iu this early wheat, and as they die after egg-lay iug, few wi'l be left. 2. Do cot plant the wheat (except the small piece just stoken of), until about September 33th; by that time al most every tly w ill have died, and there will be none left to lay their egs when the wheat comes up. There is a tendency in Pennsylvania, as well as elsewhere, for the farmer each year to get his sowing done a little earlier than the year lit-fore. This i directly favorable to the fly. Wheat i)u as late as September -ulh will make growth enough so that it w ill not w inter kill, aud this method has been tried in states farther north than Penn sylvania for many years with success, 3. Some kiudsof w heat are less at tackeei by the fly than others. Rolling the field, with a very heavy roller, wheu the fields are smooth and free from stones, about the first or October, Is of value in some cases. Letting the sheep graze on the fields as soon as two or three blade's from each root appear, also helps, the sheep eating the eggs of the fly, along with the leaves. Crops on poor lanel usually sutrermost; heDce the u.-e of fertilizers to enrich the soil, aids in keeping down the insecL 4. Where the fly is already in the wheat, cutting a little higher than usual aud plowing tke stubble under at once, will kill the iusects lfore they have ckangeel to the wingeei stage. Burning the stubble is also benficial at this time. KIMMARY. The fly must be killed or starved. To kill as many as possible, plant a small piece early, as a trap for the fly to lay its eggs on, then plow it under and thus kill the fggs from wkick the spring brood comes. To starve the fly, do not plant until about September "JOth, so that the tly will die before it can find any wheat to lay its eggs on. If both these methods are used to gether, and if all who raise wheat in any regiou will work together to d this,' but little trouble from the pest should occur. Many farmers in the state are follow ing this plau already, and with good success. Oue writes: I plant a trap piece early, and my main crop late, and am never troubled with the fly, w hile some of the farmers in this township sometimes lose one quarter of their crop." If results like this can be obtained in suck an easy way, it will certainly pay to try thete methods. Lincoln's Faultless Diction. The Philadelphia Ledger publishes a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a Mrs. Bixby of Boston, which, the led ger says "has been engrossed, framed aud hung (n one of the Oxford (Eng land) University halls as a 'specime n .f the purest English and elegant diclhn extant.' " The letter has an additional interest. It is peculiarly appropriate now, when fomany mothers are mourn ing their sous, who were killed in bat tle or eutTered the worse death, that from disease. The letter follows: ."Dear Madam: I have been shown in the Sles f the war department a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts that you are tne motht r of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must lie auy words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so over w helming. But I can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the re public they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavemeut, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved aud lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. "Yours very sincerely and respect fully, AliRAHAM. J,IXe-CLN.'' Germany has more electric street railways thau any other Faropean country. Next In order come France, England, Italy, Switzerland Spain and B ,'lgium. WHOLE NO. 2-160. All Around the Farm. At the recent meeting in Boston of the Society for the Promotion of Agri cultural Science, it was slated that the English sparrow eats the caterpillar of the brown-tall moth w ith avidity. It would seem to have met this moth in England and to have acquired an ap petite for it. It has doubtless kept it in check there, and may do so here. At last tke use of tke much-maligned Eng lish sparrow has been discoveivtL It is never advisable to have extra large roots of teet or other roots used to plant to grow seed from. These large-grown beets are necessarily plant ed early, ami they dry cut during the w inter, so that the sprouts form, and the substance of the root, on which the seed largely dejteuds, is injured. Be-et seed sowu any time in August will give a handsome, smooth, medium-sized root, that may be kept until spring without beginniug to sprout. Such beet may not give 20 large a crop of seed as do s the large, cvergrown beet, but it will be much better seed to plant for a crop next year. American Culti vator. According to the Uuited States Cen sus Reports of ls!), tke value 0 the ir rigattel farming lands iu this country was jwsl 2S per acre, while the value of farm lands not under irrigation was but JiV.'-to per acre. This fact gives an idea of the value of water to crops. It appears to increase the cash value of land four-fold. How to increase the water supply becomes the greatert con sideration, and the man who can uvise the means to preserve and distribute at will the rainfall of winter and spring will be worthy the honors of the age. Ten chemical elements are found to be essential tet the growth of agricultu ral plants. These are carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, jtotas sium, calcium, sulphur, magnesium aud iron. To this list chlorine and so dium, the constituents of common salt, are added by some authors. Manures and fertilizers are used for the purpose of conveying to the soil the three ele ments, nitrogen, phosphorus and pot ash, in available aud convenieut form, experience having demonstrated that practically all soils contain an abun elant supply of the other minerals for plant growth,- All farmers know that wood ashes are valuable as a fertilizer. But this value, as many kuow, is due very much to the material from which the ashes come. Thus ashes made from hard wood are more valuable than ashes made from soft wood. In fact, stime ashes from soft wood have not enough virtue to make it w orth while to bother with them. It has also been found that the val.f Ls largely governed by the part tf the tree from which the ashes are made. It is eleelared by chemists that the ashe-s of the young twigs are of more value than the ashes of the trunk t)f the tree; and the ashes of leaves still more valuable. Canada Experiment Farm experi mented with the preservation of un fertnenled grape juice. According to its report, the natural flavor of grape juice may be preserved intact by raLs iog the temperature of the juice grad ually to 17.) decrees Fahrenheit, keep ing it at this Kiint for ten minutes and the n quickly bottling it, taking care to use absolutely air-tight and thoroughly sterilized vessels. These vessels should be taken from a tank or kettle of boil ing water, immediately filled aud cork ed or covered with the least pcssible delay. It would be well to wrap each bottle with several thicknesses of news paper, or slide it into a paper sack, and iu any case to place it on its side and keep it Iu a ds'k room. Good Beads. Prof. J. A. Holmes, of North Caro lina, has written a letter ou good roads, in which he says: "Dirt roads are the most expensive roads that can be used. "Macadam reads, properly construct ed, are the most satisfactory and the cheajiest roads yet discovered. "Trained labor and competent engi neering supervision are as important in building public roads as they are in the building'of railroads, or auy other spe cial business. "Convicts make cheap arjd satisfac tory road builders, and every short-term convict In North Carolina ought to be at work on the public roadsof the State. "Hills and mud-holes, both of which ar avoidable, are the two most expens ive features about the dirt roads. "All road work skould be done with a view to its permanency. A poorly built macadam road is largely a waste of time aud money. "Gxd roads are expensive, but in the long run they are far cheaper than bad roads. ' The bail roads in North Carolina to day cost her jioople lu labor and money but little less than lO.GtJO.OtX) a year, and y et over two-thirds of the counties in the State will refuse to levy a small pittance of a tax for good roads which would help throw oft' this terrible bur den. "This enormous bad road tax is to day the biggest factor in the industrial depression from which our people are su tie ring. It is as real a tax as any man ever paid. It is the largest tax we pay-" The vie-toriesof Hood's Sarsaparilla over all Forms of disease Conclusively prove That it is an unequalled Blood purifier. It conquers ' The demon, Scrofula, Relieves the itching and burning of salt rheum.'cures running sores, ulcers, bils, pimples, and every other form of humor or disease originating in impure bli-xsl. The cures by Hood's Sarsa parilla are cures-absolute, permanent, perfect cures. They are based upon its great power to purify and enrich the blood. The sermon was from the words, "My cup ruune'h over; surely goodliest! and mere-y shall follow me all the day of my li.'e." S:x-year-old Jenny, on returuing home from church, was ask ed if she could repeat the minister's text and said: "Yes, Indeed! It was: 'Mercy! Goodos! My cup's tipped ovtrr " A CRITICAL TDIE. Daring the Battle of Santiago. SICK OE WELL, A RUSH SIGHT AND DAY. Tli Pxkt ' !U Bt It f :;; f lit a r a'S rVtst. Tiwir Heroic tfc-t is Gc'.t'rg ATrr,- 'b im! R.titi-t te ;rt FreM i.itt the Cay- P. E. Bctlfr, of rack-train No. 3. writing from ft-anUsi-D, de Cuba, on July id, c-jj-: "We all had dtarrli'ra 111 more or Icins violent form, and wheu we lauded we had no time to see a doctor, for it was a case of rush and rush night and elay to keep the troops supplied with ammunition and rations, but thanks to Chamberlain's Colic, Cheilera and Diarrhiea Remedy, we were able to keep at work aud keep cur health; in fact, I sincerely believe that at one critical time this medicine was the Indirect saviour of our army, for if the packers had been unable to work there would have been no way of get ting supplies to the frout. There were no roads that a wagon train could use. My comrade and myself bad the good fortune to lay in a supply of this med iciue for our pack-train before we left Tampa, and I know in four cases it ab solutely save life." The above letter was written to the manufacturers cf this medicine, the Chamberlain Medicine Co. Des Moines, Iowa. For sale by all druggists. Lieutenant Sewell'i Kerre. What every officer of regulars docs, if he is, or intends to become an effi cient factor on the field of battle, is to attempt to win the confidence and re spect of his men, says the Camp Wikoff correspondent of the New York Sun. He endeavors to become well acquaint ed with their personal eculiaritieand he studies how to instill into them tbat spirit which, having no English equiv alent for it, we call esprit de corps. A captain usually has pleuty of opportu nity for this, the other company offi cers not quite so much so, and it some times happens that a lieutenant finds himself suddenly in command of a company which has been somewhat demoralized by the loss of the man to whose leadership it has lcome accus tomed. Then Is the time when be muit act swiftly and firmly, if te would avoid disaster. Such a crisis came to Lieutenant Newell, second lieutenant of company A, Twenty-second infantry, at El Caney, ami the choicest war reminirceuce of his men is how he came out of it. The firing had been sharp where he steod, and early in the fight the captain and the first lieutenant fell, leaving the com mand to Lieutenant Newell, who is a young Southerner. His men were ner vous and disheartened by their losses, aud their commander saw that unless he got them iu hand i-oou there would be some happening that would not lock well in the reports. Some of his men were out aheoei, skirmishing, and one of them, a mau who was jiopular in the company, fell. The lieutenant or dered his men forward to get the wound ed soldier. They stood still. Again he ordered them, but the'y did not obey. Turning to a sergeant whom be implic itly trusted, Lieutenant Newell said sharply: "Sergeant, I want you to go out w ilk me to get that wounded man." "Yes, sir," said the serireant. salu ting. The company stc-od anil watched them go forward. At the first glance the lieutenant saw that the soldier could not live more than a few min utes. He groaned out a request to be taken back to the lines to die. "AH right," said the otlicer. "We'll take you in a minute. Just lie quiet, and I'll stay with you." In two minutes, during which time Lieutenant Newell and his sergeant stood there under fire, the soldier died. Then the two went back to the lines. Nothing was said between the compa ny and the otlicer, who had just proved himself, but the nervous wavering of the line was over. The men stood like rocks, and when the order came to ad vance, they weut forward with aeheer. In three minutes they had passed the line that separates the tyro from the veteran, "That ain't in the book, sir," said the soldier who told this incident to the writer, "but, by G , that's the sort cT thing that wins battles!" Bucklen't Arnca Salve. The Best Salve iu the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapjieil Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay repaired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refuuded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store. Somerset, Pa., or ti. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Ber lin, Pa. The recently completed school census of Chicago shows that in one block iu the sixteenth ward there are but seven American-born residents out of a total of 2,727, the majority being Po'es, In another block there are 2,Vc Poles out of a t tal population of 2,-v4, the other man being a Chinaman. The total pop ulation of the city is estimated at 1.S5I, ss, which figures would indicate a growth of over 70 per cut since LS'JO. Commissioner Evans, of the Pension Oilice, has had prepared a statement showing that tip to September 2 there had been filed with hisollloea total of 24o claims for pension on account of the late war. Of these sV per cent, are in valid pensions. The details are: In valid, 110; widow, k; minor, 2; moth er, 4:; father, 21. Aa Editor's Gams law. A down east editor has drawn up some new game laws which be has adopted. The following is surninar-r : Book agents may be killed from October I to Septem ber 1 ; Spring poets frout March I to June 1; sa-aodalutont-'ers from April I to June 1 ; uiut.-relLi borrowers from A 11211st 1 to November I, and February 1 to May 1; while every tuan who accepts a newspa per two years and upon beiDg presented with the till says "I never ordered it, may be killed 00 the spot without relief and buried face downward. A well-known beggar who for mere than twenty years has freq tented the neighborh xsj of the Paris Opera House and the Church of St, HkIx was the other day prostrated by sunstroke. He Lwas taken to the Hospital of La Char- ite, where bank notes amounting to 300,000 francs were discovers! in a leathern t-elt the mendicant patient wore. A Berlin newspaper says that the or ders of decoration borne by the Em peror of Germany are worth over $230, 000. His principal aud most valuable decorations are the Insignia of the Black Eagle, the Order of St. J ihn, of the Garter, and of the Toisoa d'Or. In -til, he has over 233 crosses, stars, badges and other insignia. The future is uncertain, bat if yon keep your blood pure with Hood's Sar saparilla you may be sure of good heaitfc
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