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THE PIE BELT.
You may talk of bigb-toned lands
Evolved by cooks from France;
And food that's axed by epicures
Their pleasures to euliaaee.
Frvuch flavors ne-er tempt my taste,
'or bmiRf r's needs supply ;
I'd much prefer to eat a slice
or good old pumpkin piej
I know not bow the pies are made,
In twi I do not Care
Their coinposiUiMi Is best known
To nutido and matrons fcitr ;
i.il Uniivsof the rural sort.
As gentle as they're wjse.
Tin y make them as their mothers did
Tboe toolhsome pumpkin pies!
rio here", a bumper brimming full
0 cider fresn and sveet ;
M'e'il drink a toat to those who knour
Jut wiuit is good to eat ;
A toiist to rural pnstry cooks
W hose skill deserves the prize ;
From eusi to west they are the best
They mate our pumpkin pie. !
K rati ford Kra,
THE PHOTOGRAPH.
My own poor holidays were of the
8caiJti-8t at the time of this narration.
I had enjoyed rny freedom for ten days
of Juue; but though the period bade
fair to live forever in iny memory, I
seemed to have been already a twelve
mouth back at work upon the eveuing
when I found Dick's letter awaiting
me at my lodgings :
Mr Dear Mortimer I am in towu
again at last. Arrived last night.
Come round and smoke a pipe to-night
if possible. I've a hundred things to
tell you. Meau while, if you will believe
it, I'm engaged. Yours, Dick.
The news he told n.e was the pleaa
antest possible, for I also, to tell the
truth, had learned in my ten days' free
dom how unenviable are the liberties of
the mere bachelor. I remained free for
the present, but I nevertheless hoped
to follow his example before the year
was out.
Oue an do a good deal in ten days
indeed I had fallen hopelessly in love
in less than that number of hours. But
I felt it rather too much to ask that
Mtud should have recognized aud
learned to reciprocate my feelings iu so
short a time, and mo I had not spokea.
All the same, I knew that it would be
a crushing disappointment tome if she
h id not accomplished it. Her home
was at Brighton, she once told me, and
she well knew my friends, the Mey
nells. For Maud I could find no words to
express her. I put my baud into the
breast pocket of my coat and drew out
a photograph. It was not a very good
likeness ; the hair was not dressed in
the fashion which had become familiar
to me, and that fashion, of a surety,
was the most charming that ever oc
curred to the mind of ing enious woman.
But still the picture had enough of her
to be for me the most beautiful thing
in the world, save only her sweet self.
I had stolen iu She was stopping with
the LuttrelLs, with whom I speut my
holiday at Saudy bar, and Madge Lut-
trell was a great friend of mine. She
bad detected or foreseen my devotion
to Maud, 1 1 hibk, evn before it revealed
itself to me. At any rate, I knew she
would be discreet, and, trusting to her
clemency, I had stoL-n the precious
pho'ogiaph out of her album upon the
morning when I left Bandybar.
Ihaisooa Cuished the meal which
stood readv for me and from which I
had been kept by Dick's note aud by
the emotions resulting from its perusal.
Then I found my hat and stick and my
very large-it pipe aud st out across
London to Dick's rooms. The place
was in darkness and untenanted when
I entered, but I knew that be would
not fail mi and strjek a m itch to dis
cover if he had left a note to tell me
when he would return. "Back at 8,"
it read. "Meanwhile there's baccy
and a new Stevensou."
It was now upon the stroke of 7, so I
lit the lamp, found Stevenson and pre
pared to spend an hour pleasantly. The
tine pas-ted in or t happily. At last I
laid aside the bo k and filled my pipe.
I walked across the room to take a spill
from the mauteUbelf and in a moment
f jund myself gazing at the photograph
of Msud Cameron the girl I loved,
the girl I hoped to marry.
It was in a frame of elaborately beaten
silver, already somewhat tarnished by
tobacco smoke, and beyond a doubt was
a portrait of Dick's rUncee.
- J turned away from the mantel her
face looked forth upon me like a stran
ger's out of that frjtrns aud took my
copy of her photograph from my pocket.
I laid it upon the table in the full light
of the lamp. It had not all her beau
ty ; her loveliness was h .lfof ever
changing expression, and so must needs
escape the camera. But still the picture
gave the lie to all the overwhelming
evidence whi-h had crushed ray faith
in her. For a moment I was couteut.
He might account himself master of
her love; might, if it pleased him, be
lieve that no man disputed with him
the kingdom of her heart. For a mo
ment, despite all evidence I believed
that she was still true to the unspoken
fact between us, that she could not be
tray rue
There was a sudden sound of foot
steps on the sUirs, a hand upon the
door, and even aa I thrust back her
photograph Into my pocket the door
opened and Dick entered.
"Hope you've not had long to wait,"
he said. "I ha i to b3 out for a while."
"Not long," I ansaered. "And now,
I suppose, I must congratulate you?"
Dick laughed. "D you only sup
pone? I am the luckiest beggar In the
world. But, never mind, you will see
her some day, and then you will speak
differently. You will envy me, madly,
for indeed But w e'll wait until you
have met her. Only I promise you you
mty safely veuture your congratulav- 1
tion-i. Here is her photograph, by the
bye, wretchedly bud one, but still not
all unlike."
He moved to the mantel and handed
me her picture, inclosed in that abom
inable frame of his. I took it from
him, and for a minute and more gazed
hard upon her face.
It is all true," I kept whispering
to myself. "She bs U'trayed me."
Dick watched me in nilence, evident
lyconviuced of my admiration. In
reality I was wouderiag whether it
would be better to tell him that we had
met.
Presently he broke silence. "Well,"
So
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SOMERSET, PA.,
he said, holding out his hand for the
return of her photograph.
"You are lucky," I answered slowly.
"She is very beautiful."
Aye," he said contentedly. "But you
don't know how beautiful ! This pho
tograph is a libel."
He put it back upon the mantelshelf
and selected a pipe. Then he stretched
himself in an easy chair.
"You two must know one another
indeed she is already eager for your ac
quaintance." I was steeled, I thought against all
that he could tell me, but upon this I
well nigh betrayed myself. Had she
admitted that her fancy for me I
knew that she did come near loving
me was dead. I could have borne my
burden uncomplainingly aud might
have forgotten. But that she should
deny that it had existed that she bad
ever known me that was past tolera
tion. "They live at Brighton," Dick con
tinued, "so that we are not too far
away to visit them. You must come
down some day with me. I want you
to know her."
There are times when it were uuwise
to be sincere.
"I shall be delighted," I said, even
while I. reviewed the excuses upon
which I should be able to rely in the
event of his some dy tendering a more
definite invitation. Then I turned the
conversation into another channel, and
in a little while, somewhat to the dis
gust of my friend, who bad much to
tell, I left.
About a month had passed when I
had a note one day from Mrs. Luttrell :
Dear Mb. Mortimer : We have
taken tickets for the Lyceum matinee
on Saturday, and three or four friends
are to meet us there. I wonder if you
are free that afternoon and would care
to meet us and go with us to the thea
ter. Yours very truly,
Frances Li-ttrelu
It was a miserable, foggy day, and I
half feared they would not come. But
though their train was somewhat de
layed, they presently arrived, and. we
took a cab alotig the Strand. Madge
looked unusually pretty, and greeted
me with a disappointing cheerfulness.
I had counted ou a little sympathy from
her, but her aspect was one of rather
mischlevousenjoyment. It would have
been timely enough if she had held in
store for me some very delightful sur
prise. She even referred to a matter
which I thought had escaped her ob
servation.
"I did not think that you would de
scend to theft," she said. "I woul I
have given it to you. And, of course,
you have discovered your mistake."
We were entering the theater as she
spoke, and there was a momentary
press of people, and I affected not to
lave heard her speech ; indeed I was
not a little angry. Her clumsiness was
obviously intentional, for I was well
aware that she in nowise suffered from
want of tact.
A moment later we were being shown
to our seats.
"Will you take the insid seat ?" sai.l
Madge, and I moved o'.iediently to the
last vacaut ouc, next to the lady whose
face was turned from me. I was just
taking my seat when she turned and
looked up at me. She had the grace to
blush, for it was Maud Cameron, but
there was no tremor in her voice when
she spoke a moment later.
"How do you do?" she said politely,
and in the same words I answered her.
Presently she leaued a little nearer
aud spoke to me in her soft, pretty
voice :
"You have nothing to say?" she said.
"You may talk, you know."
I turned to her with a look of desper
ation. Why could she not leave me to
myself? "I had forgotten," I said. I
must congratulate you or Dick, at any
rate."
"Oh," she answered smilingly, "you
may congratulate me also. Do not fear ;
it has hap;ened marvelously well."
"Marvelously well !" I echoed.
"Yes," she continued, "and particu
larly in that you are his special friend.
It is so nice for the wife when the hus
band's friend is n'ce. But why didn't
you tell him you knew the Luttrelln
aud me?"
I stared at her. incredulous of her
cruelty.
"How could I tell him?" I said in-
diguantly. You had denied acquaint
ance with me, and since you bad for
gotten, do you think I wished to re-
mem ber?"'
I was a trifle startled at the effect of
this speech. It should have silenced
her. I thought so at least, but it seem
ed as if I had injured her, and now a
greater indignation than my own arose
in bi r.
"It i not true," she said. "What do
you mean ? I saw him only a fortnight
ago, when I returned from Sandybar,
and I distinctly remember telliug him
that day that I had met you there.
Mother did suggest that he might bring
you down some Saturday ; but, of
course"
I interrupted. "You only saw him a
fortnight ago? Why, 'tis a full month
since he told me you were engaged.
And yet you have known him only a
fortnight?"
She looked at me with a sort of piti
ful amazement.
, "He told you he was engaged to me?
Why, he's engaged to Mary, my sister.
And besides"
A new life entered into me. The old
hope lived again. Yet I was convinced.
"He showed me your photograph,"
I said.
She looked at me a moment. Slowly
the bewilderment faded from her face,
and it appeared that she was mightily
amused.
'Did he tell you my name?" she
asked.
"He showed me your likeness and
told me you were engaged to him. I
don't remember whether he told tne
your name. But there was no need. I
do not forget so easily."
Maud chuckled. There Is no other
word.
"You have seen the photograph be
fore?" she said.
"I stole it out of Madge L'lttrell's
album the day I was to leave Sandy
bar. I thought''
"Surely it was a little curious to steal
the photograph of a lady you had never
met, for it is to Mary, my sb-ter, th t
se
ESTA.I3I,TSIIEE 1827.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2G. 1898.
Mr. Ferguson is engaged, and It was
her photograph you took from Madge's
album. She Is considered rather like
me."
"I was stunned with the sudden joy
and with the sense of my great stupid
ity. I knew that her eyes were upon
me, and I would have given worlds to
be with her for a moment only, away
from this great crowd of people.
"I burned it," I 6aid, "a month ago.
You will give me one of your own."
She answered nothing, and at that
moment the curtain rose. But I was
well content. Exchange.
How Ea Gained Courage.
A youth of eighteen who was in the
trenches at El Caney carrying a gun
was so badly frightened under fire that
he went flat on his face and was round
ly kicked by his companions, says a
writer in the Chicago Journal. Gen
eral Chaffee came along aud called to
him, "Well, you're a fine soldier."
Then he looked at the boyish face of
the kid and his face softened. "I sup
pose you can't help it," he said. "It
ain't so much your fault. I'd like to
get hold of the fellow that took you
into the army." By and by he put his
hand on the boy's shoulder. "There
isn't so much danger as you think for,"
said the General. "Now, you get up
and take your gun and fight, and I'll
stand here by you."
The by got up shaking like a leaf
and fired his first shot pretty near
straight into the air.
"That's pretty high," said the Gen
eral. "Keep cool and try it again."
In three minutes that kid was fight
ing like a Veteran aud as cool as a cu
cumber, and when he saw it the Gen
eral started on.
"You're all right now, my boy,"he
said. "You'll make a good soldier."
"God bless you, sir," said the young
ster. "You lAvcd me from worse than
death," and he was pretty close to cry
ing when be said it.
After a while the order came to retire
from the trench, aud the soldiers had
to collar that kid and haul him away
by the neck to get him to retreat with
biscomjiany. And at that he'd got a
bullet through the fleshy part of bis
shoulder an hour before? In the rest of
the fights there wasn't a better soldier
iu the company. :
Bits of CLina,
Over eleven million ans are exported
in one year from Canton, China.
The spoken language of China is not
written, and the written language is
not spoken.
Iu Cochin China the parties desiring
divorce break a pair of chopsticks in
the presence of witnesses, and the thing
is done.
The Chin h::v. devoted them
selves for nearly four thousand years
to the artificial propgatiou of fishes,
shellfish, fowls, pearls and sponges.
In China divorces are allowed in all
cses of criminality, mutual dislike,
jealousy, incompatibility of tempera
ment, or too much loquacity on the
part of the wife.
If a Chinaman dies while being tried
for murder, the very fact of his dying
is taken as evidence of his guilt. He
has departed, but somebody must suf
fer ; and his eldest son, if he has one,
is sent to prison for a year.
LI Hung Chang is said to head the
list of the great multi-millionaires of
the world, and to be worth nearly five
hundred million dollars.
All Knew the Place.
The Wisconsin Bench and Bar gives
this incident as having occurred in a
Milwaukee court-room :
A German saloon-keeper was on trial
and had been sworn. One of the attor
neys began to question him :
"Mr. S., where is your place of bus
iness?" "For vot you ask me such foolish
dings? You drinks at my blace more
as hundret dimes."
"That has notihug to do with the case.
Mr. S., state to the jury where your
place of business is."
"De shury ! De shury ! Oh, Shim
Iny ! Every shentleman on dis shury
has a string of marks ou my cellar door
shoost like a railfence.''
His Honor here interceded in behalf
of the counsel, and in a calm, dignified
manner requested the witness to state
the place of his business.
"Oh, "excuse me, your honor; you
drinks at my blace so many dimes I
dinks you knows fery veil vere I keeps
mine blace."
A Clever Trick.
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Time to Stop.
"He called me a lobster."
"He did?"
"He did. Don't you think some
thing ought to be done about it?"
"I ndeed I do. The lobster has been
maligned long enough." Chicago
Post.
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Rheumatism, with its sharp twinges,
aches and pains. D you know the
cause ? Acid in the blood has accumu
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in Hood's Saraaparill which neutral
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they have been completely cured of
rheumatism by H ood's Sirsa'parilla.
Hood's Pills cure nausea, sick head
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25 cents.
A
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Holds the Record at a Marrying Kan.
There is an elderly, gray-haired man
in the Maryland penitentiary, says the
Baltimore Sun, who has made a re
markable record.
The man is James Clarke, about sixty
five years old, one-armed, and, it is
claimed, a man so singularly fascina
ting to women that he bad married 5-5
of them before he was arrested, nearly
four years ago, by detective Al Gault-
Detective Gault tells the story of
Clarke's adventures in Baltimore, and
expresses his belief that Clarke was one
of the smoothest talkers that ever "wag
ged a tongue." He says tbat there are
indictments out iu almost every State
in the Union against Clarke, and that
he is known to have married j women.
He says his charm was his wonderful
tongue, with which he was able to pour
forth in soft language such stories that
hardly a woman could be found to re
sist him.
It seems Clarke's regular game was
to pick out some youDg widow, with a
little money, represent to her that he
was quite a wealthy cattle owner from
California, and marry her. Then by a
little persuasion be would induce the
bride to turn over her savings to be
placed in the same bank with all his
wealth. After this was done, Mr. Clarke
simply "flew the coop" and never came
back.
"The singular part of this is that,
while he has been married V times,
none of his wives have ever prosecuted
him, and he is serving his term now
for stealing, and not for bigamy.
"Clarke, after being in Baltimore for
some time, became acquainted with a
Mrs. Sadie L. Culleny, who lived on
Robert street, and was said to have JO,
000. Clarke told her about his cattle
ranch in California, and compared her
with his dear departed wife, eminently
to Mrs. Culleny's advantage. Finally,
Mrs. Culleny decided to marry him and
go at once to California with Clarke.
No one was told except a very confi
dential friend of Mrs. Culeny's. Mr.
Clarke discovered a minister from one
of the counties to whom he promised
$" if he would perform the ceremony.
"On the eventful night Mrs. Culleny
invited all ber friends to the house
without telling them what was the oc
casion. She had rigged up a curtain
in the parlor, dividing off half the
room. The young minister arri-ed late
ou a car, having missed the carriage
sent for bim. lid found the guests as
sembled, and whispers going around of
what was about to occur. The minis
ter was taken apart by the confidential
friend and told that she suspected some
thing wrong, and did not like Mr.
Clarke's actions. He had, she said,
promised to give his wife a cheek for
(100,000 at the marriage supper, but was
acting queerly. The miuiater looked
stem, and ?aid he would talk to Mr.
Clarke. He and the bridegroom went
into a. room together aud before the
minister could start, Clarke was telling
all about his California cattle, and fi
nally told the minister he would make
his fee
"The jump from $ to $ V) rattled the
clergyman, and he came out and told
the confidential friend that the" bride
groom was perfectly straight, and a fine
geutleman. Finally everything was
arranged, and at the tinkle of a bell the
curtains were parted and the guests
looked upon Mrs. Culleny and Clarke
in wedding attire. There was much
surprise, but the young minister started
iu and married them in a business-like
manner. The rumor about the great
wealth of the bridegroom and his prom
ise of giving the bride a fliO.Onu check
at the marriage table kept the interest
stirring among the friends.
"When the tupper was announced
and the couple with the others sat down
every one was watching and waiting
f r the event of the check. Old Clarke
knew they were sizing him up, and was
particularly deliberate about making
any move. Gradually every oue stop
ped eating lo watch and wait ou Clarke,
lie, without seeming to notice any
thing, reached bis hand iu his pocket,
aud, taking out a ntatly-folded slip of
paper, passed it covertly to the minis
ter. -The movement was seen by all,
and the minister quickly slipped the
paper in his pocket, with a happy feel
ing. As soon as the supper was over
the minister hurried out to see the size
of his check, and read with horror :
'Owing to the intense excitement under
which I am laboring, on this, the eve
of my marriage, I have not been able
to get to baDk to-day.'
"The poor preacher, seizing his hat,
fled from th house, into the carriage
and away. After he left, others began
to get suspicious, and there finally was
a fight, and poor old Clarke was thrown
out He weut from there to Mrs. Fields,
where he got the keys of her trunk,
and then left town.
"If he bad not made that $100,000
check promise it is probable he would
have gotten Mrs. Culleny's money in
the fame way in which he had that of
many other w idows. He was a remark
able man, aud only bad one arm. This
did n -t seem to affect him at all with
the women, and from Sacramento to
Baltimore he has met and married them
when he pleased."
"Clarke's time will rxpire within
less than a year. He was convicted in
March, 1S05.
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to the pub
lic to know of one concern in the land
who are not afraid to be generous to
the neetly and suffering. Tlie proprie
tors of Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have
given away over ten million trial bot
tles of this great medicine, and have
the satisfaction of knowing it has abso
lutely cured thousands of hopeless
cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarse
ness and all diseases of the Throat,
Chest and Lungs are surely cured by iL
Callst J. N. SiyJir's Drur Store,
Somerset, Pa., and G. W. Brallier's
Drug Store, Berlin. Pa. and get a trial
bottle free.
In some of the less accessible parts
of Norway visited by tourists there are
no inns iu the villages. The Govern
ment has now decided to grant in such
cases a certain annual sum to the owner
of a spacious house in each village, the
proprietor agreeing, In turn, to accomo
date four or miH guests if cdled
upon.
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Home, Sweet Home.
Wear old loose kid gloves when iron
iog, as they will save many callous
spots on one's hands.
If you wish a man to repeat his visit,
do not seek to detain him when he has
once risen to depart. Ask him to come
again at some future time.
It is well to keep a small paint brush
convenient for dusting the crevices in
furniture, aud all sKts that cannot be
reached with the dust cloth.
You can never become a successful
bo&tess if you do not keep informed
upon the principal topics of the day.
Read the best newspapers and good
literature.
When one has a clergymau as a
guest, it is customary to ask him to
"ask a blessing" upnu the fod, even if
you are an unbeliever. It is courteous
to do so.
When anything has been spilled cn
the stove, or milk has boiled over, ana
a suffocating smoke arises, sprinkle the
spot with salt, and it will quickly dis
appear. Never omit a note of thanks to any
person who has sent you a gift great
or trifling. Should you do so, you are
self confessed ignorant of all rules of
etiquette and gratitude.
When your hostess serves wine, do
not make open protest if you are a
White Itibboner. An almost imper
ceptible motion will tell the waitress
you refuse it, aad you will be respected
for ycur goldeu silence.
In Europe bags and wrappings for
Inclosing grain, etc., are protected from
vermin and from damp or dry rot by
coating the coverings with a mixture of
gas-tar and grease, combined with
chloride of lime or alum and saltpeter.
The abolition, or rather the modera
tion, of heavy, whiter tUnnels is part
of the new eloctriues of hygiene. Many
doctors now advise a gradation of
flannel uiderwear if they advise it at
all, and point out that it is much better
to increase the outdoor wear as occa
sion requires, than to keep the body
encased on warm, muggy whiter days,
as well as on sharply cold ones, in the
same weight of flannel.
It is import nt to remove tar, wheel
grease, e'e , from wash goods before
placing them iu the suds, and soap
should not be rubbed first on any stain,
as it will tend to set iL To remove the
tar or grease' from white goods, rub
with oil of turpentine and soap, alter
nating with streams of water. For
colored cotton and woolen good, rub
lard thoroughly into the spot, and let
it lie until the Ur seems loosened then
treat alternately with oil of turpentine,
soap ind water. Silks may be treated
carefully in the same manner, using
benzine instead of oil of turpentine.
Expert oa Upper Lips.
One of the favorite pursuits of Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, says Youth's
Companion, was the tracing of genealo
gies and family traits and characters.
At the opening of the term of the med
ical class one year, while he was cne of
its lecturers, he met for the first time a
young member who introduced hinwelf
as, let us say, a Perry, of Cambridge.
The little doctor l-xiked at him keen
ly, and said : "You areals one of the
W.'s, of Cape Cod? I know it by yur
upper lip."
The young man flushed, anlmnde
haste to answer that he never had beard
of the W.'s, and did not know any per
son on Cape Cod.
Bat the Doctor smiled obstinately,
and at intervals through the winter
would inquire whether Mr. Perry had
looked up his ancestor, receiving each
time the assurance that inquiry had
been made but no trace of this .'train of
blood could be found in the family.
One day Perry came to him. "You
were right, Doctor Holmes. We I ave
found in an old Bible record that my
great-great-graudmother was a W., and
came from Cape Cod."
The Doctor beamed with delight.
"No upper lip ever deceived me yet!"
he laughingly exclaimed, and carried
bis little triumph to all of bis friends
with as much pleasure as if it had leen
a long-lost treasure.
"I can't see how any family lives
without Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy," says J. R.
Adams, a well known druggist, of Ge
neva, Ala., in a letter inquiring the
price of a dozen bottles, that he might
not only have it for use In his own
family, but supply it to his neighbors.
The reason some people get along w ith
out it, is because they do not know its
value, and what a vast amount of suf
fering it will save. Wherever it be
comes known and used it is recognized
!s a necessity, for it is the only remedy
that can all way be depended upon for
bowel complaintSj both for children
and adults. For sale by all druggists.
The Boy'a Interpretation.
Bobbie "What are descendants, fa
ther? Father "Why, the people who come
after you. (Presently) Who is that
young man in the passage?''
Bobbie "That's one of sister's de
scendants come to take her for a drive."
Backlea's Arnca Salve.
The Best Sal ve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hauds,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale at J.
N. Snyder's Drug Store. Somerset, Pa.,
or G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Ber
lin, Pa.
"According to statistical returns the
suicide rates per annum a million of
population have risen' during the past
thirty years from sixty-seven to eighty
six in England, and from forty to fifty
four in Scotland. It is asserted, how
ever, that the tendency to conceal the
occurrence of death by suicide has di
minished sines insanity has become
more widely recognized as a disease ;
and this leads to the belief that
suicides on the whole lire not increas
ing.
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WHOLE NO. 21G5.
Fighting Indiaa Fashion.
The Indian method of fighting, as
shown at Leech lake, is a uniq-te type
of warfare, and as such a subject of
great interest to foreign military men.
The United States regular soldier is an
expert at it and has learned to tight
the Indian as the Indian fighU him.
Military attaches sent by foreign gov
ernments to observe the Spanish-American
war asked many questions from
American oftieers ou th is topic and con
sidered the veteran Indian fighter, rep
resented by such men as Gens. Chaffee
and Kent, as one of the best types of
soldiers, pays the Baltimore Sun.
Individual righting is the Indian
style. It was so in the days before the
Revolution, and a century has not
changed it. Tho Indian has adopted
many innovations taught biiu by :he
white man. He usually wears "store
clothes" in these dys and lives in a
house, even if it is only a leg but But
be tights as his forefathers did, seeking
to gain au aJvautage over his foe by
ambush or some ether form of strategy.
The Indian who can bide behind a
a rock or a tree and shoot down an un
suspecting foe who is passing is con
sidered much more of a hero than one
who will right in the open and die
bravely facing the enemy.
Indians on the warpath are com
manded by chiefs, who are generally
elected at a council fire. These chiefs
are usually the neads of large families
and command sq'iads of from 20 to 100
men, composed of their brothers, sons,
cousins aud other relatives. One of
the chiefs is known as the "great
chief," and is usually given this rank
for proweis iu war or hunting. He
occupies something like the same rela
tion to the forces under him that a
general or colonel has in the United
States army, but his authority is much
more restricted and is exercised only
in rare rase.
The usual method iu a ftglitsuchas
that at Leech Iike is for the chief to
aJvan -e and his men to follow him,
keeping near enough to see his move
ments and acting iu conformity with
them. When the foe approaches with
in rang general firing begins, one of
the chiefs usually setting the example.
When his men see him fire they fire
too, and so the rattle of the guus be
comes g'.-ueruL
It is seldom that an order is given to
an InJi.tu iu Little. He follows his
chief, picking out individual foes kud
fighting individually. His commissary
and quartermaster's arrangements are
attended to by squaws.
The United Stales regular. when
fighting Indians adopts their tactics
only when the luiians are near. The
skirmish foruiati.m is thea used and
the men dodge behind trees or rocks,
but they listeti for and quickly obey the
orders of their officers. If hard pressed
they usually assemble and throw up
hasty intrench ments, where they can
pour a collective tire into any foe that
may attack tbem.
"Cake walking business is becoming
to be a grand commodity," says a
Greenville, Miss., pajr. "But tf
course it's an old-time relic, and the
colored people seem to love it best But
we wuu'.d liSe Ust to see cur young
men who love it sj will to go and pay
their poll tax, and the youug ladies,
fjr their part, w e just don't kuow what
to say for them to d , unless we tell
them to run and run, till they get out
of the way of these Chinamen, Dagoes,
and you colored girls are old enough to
know who else. If you will" do that
you will have less time to walk cake or
cake walk, ma lame ; you little wenches
you."
Few meu iu this country are better
or more favorable known to the drug
and mediciue trade than Mr. E.J.
Schall, buyer in the proprietary medi
cine department of the Meyers Bros.'"
Drug Co., St Louis. He says : "My
boy came home from school with his
hand badly lacerated and bleediug,
and suffering great paiu, I dressed the
wound and applied Chamberlain's
Pain Bairn freely ; all pain ceased, and
in a remarkably short time, it healed
without leaving a star. Ftr wounds,
sprains, swellings and rheumatism, I
kno of no medicine or prescription
equal to it I consider it a household
necessity." Sold by all druggists.
The Cleveland Leader says that a
man registered in a local hotel the other
day, giving his place of residence as
Sleepy Eye, Minn. Half an hour later
another guest arrived from Painted
Post, Iowa. The clerk paid no especial
attention to this, but when the next
man to register boldly wrote "Woite
Pigeon, Mich.," after his name, both
the clerk and the b Kkkeeper began to
get Interested. While they were talk
ing alout the queer names that had
been given to some of our Western
towns a dignirt jd-I-vokiag mn stepped
up to the office, whirled the register
around, and scrawled "Horseheads,
N. Y."
"Many have said their children
would hava died of croup, if Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy had not been
given," write Kellem A Ourren, drug
gist, Scaview, Va. "People come from
far and near to get it and speak of It in
the highest terms." This U equally
true oi this remedy iu every communi
ty where it is known. Buy a bottle
at any drug btore and test it for
yourself.
Bombay is well supplied with water,
the quantity available for each person
being from 40 to 50 gallons per day.
No other Indian city has a supply ex
ceediug ten gallons per day per capita.
In a portion of II mover, Germany, a
local decree requires each farmer to de
liver to the authorities twelve sparrows
or sparrow-heads between October 1
and Iwcember 1, or pay a fine of six
marks.
Only oue pupil attends the Lovejoy
school for colored children, at Alton,
III., ami his education costs the city
near y ?liX annually. Thissura would
more than pay hi way through the
best university in the country.
The most spacious barracks in the
world are those at Warsw, w'aicl; ac
comodate soldier.
All Around the Faim.
The soapsuds ou a farm are of value,
and there la a considerable quantity
made during a year. If added to the
manure heap they are excellent in as
sisting to protect th manure from less
by eicars cf ascrnonia. Thers are c?r
ta'.u fat acid? frrned fisra thejapu
which unite !th jubilance !n the heap .
producing salts, and ai deccmpoaltlon
progresses there Is a breaking down of
compounds and the formation cf others,
the s:pul:-t informing more th.ou
their share in the alterations of the
sutstanre in the heap.
Put the young roses that havejust
rooted iu a cellar where the frost wilt
not reach them, but do not keep therm
too warm. If started very early in the
house, and set out in the open air after
frost has passed, they will make rapid
growth and bloom during the summer.
Old rose bushes may be cut back after
the ground is cold, and protected with
straw or old bags.
Some of the expert pickers of poultry
can take the feathers eff a fowl m
quickly as tc astonish one w ho does not
understand the operation. It is done
by dipping each carcass iu eold water
and allowing it to drip. Finely-pulverized
rosin is then dusted over and
among the fetthers, whih causes the
feathers to stick to the hands, even the
pin fc-athers coming out with but little
difficulty. Use the common crude
rosin, about half a teaspoonful for each
fowL
There are not many farmers who
would le willing to spread 40 or
loads of stable manure over the apple
orchard, yet if they would do so they
would find out that apples are profita
ble, as the manure would increase the
yield, improve the quality and make
them more salable in market If the
manure li not obtainable a fertilizer
consisting of 400 pounds bone meal,
3X) pounds sulphate of potash and 100
pounds of nitrate of soda will not lie
too large an application for oue acre.
Nut growing is profitable, but it re
quires years to bring a uut tree to a
stage of growth where it will pay well,
hence only young farmers are induced
to devote land in that direction. Wal
nuts, chestnuts and butternuts would
improve with cultivation. In a few
years walnut trees will be so scarce
that the farmer who has a grove will
secure his own price therefor, the tim
ber being valuable.
This is an excellent time for looking
after the garden. As soon as the frost
kills the weeds or other growths rake
the garden plot over and burn the
collected material. Plow to the depth
of six inches and spread as much ma--nure
over the plot as can be spared.
There will be no dauger of applying
too much. The manure will be render
dered line by the frosts of winter, the
soluble matter will he carried down by
the rains and the garden will be ready
supplied with plant food in the spring.
When do9 the farmer make a profit'.' .
There are huudreds of farmers who
have become wealthy, yet they bave
haudled very little money aud have
had difficulty in meeting their obliga-
tions. There is oue bank account
which they do not draw upon, and the
deposits accumulate for years, and that
is tha soiL A farmer takes pr farm,
works it, adds manure, and receives
but little over expenses, but every year
his farm becomes more & rtile aud also
increases iu value. In ten or more
years the farm may be worth five times"
the original eoet, and It represents just
as much profit as though the farmer
had received money. All farms are, to
a certain extent, banks of deposit, where
the profits of the farm slow ly accumu
late. Inexperienced persons who under
take the management of bees will Mud
much to learn before they cau succeed.
The winter care is Important, for the
bees must not be kept too warm, and if
exposed they may perish. A special
house should be provided, which should
be kept at a uniform temperature.
When foods are f-.-d on the farm and
sold in some other form the valuable
elements of fertility are retained at
home, and as long as this is done the
farm may be cultivated to its highest
liiiiit of capacity, aud becomes more
valuable every year.
Kemarltabl. 5ivy Grcvta.
The remarkable rapidity with which
the naval power of th I'uited States is
being increased at the present titna my
b s realized when it is stated that fifty
five war veu- els are no under contruet
for the government anil their aggregate
toaage far exeeetU that of the vessels
b jildin j at any one time iu the civil war.
This vast construction program, which
has excited more attention abroad than at
hooie at been authorized gradually br
congress until tha ve-oeU soon to be com
pleted will place the Cuited States third
in rank among sea powers. In addition
to the enormous fleet, including auxilia
ries, ae-tuaily in coiumition at the pres
ent turn, twenty veN are in various
stage of readiness, and the shipbuilders
are huriiedly gtthoring tb unterial
for thirty-five others. lf tba fifty-live
vessels, eight are firxt-c!- boavily ar
mored seagoing battleships, thirty-eight
are torpedo boat-t, four are monitors and
one Is a powerful cruiser.
Sac. Lin. in the Army.
This is what is now perplexing General
Wood. A majority of the otlicers of the
immune regiment from the Southern
States abject to eatiug at the aam res
taurant with colored officers, tuoet of
whom are front the Northern States.
Some of the colored men, apparently de
sirous of bringing the matter to an issue,
formally reported that they could not
get served at the principal Spanish res
taurant, under existing Spanish law,
whereas the American law compelled a
proprietor of any house of public enter
tainment to sorve all who pay.
The restaurant proprietor involved
eoui( iaiued that if he served the colored
officers he would lose almoHt his entire
patronage, as a majority of hi customer
were Southerners. General Wood ha
appealed to the common sense of the
colored officer, and advise that the ren
taurant be turned itifo a club.
Howard Gould'. Bride.
Howard Gould, the third son of the late
Jay (couid, was married to Miss Viola
Katbrine Clemmocs, the aiHrexs. The
marriage ceremony wa performed iu
the gilt room of the Holland House.
None cf Mr. Gould's relative were pres
ent The ceremony was w iuiemed by
ily a few friehds of Mr. Gould and
halfadozou friends of Miss Clem moo.
After the wediing supper Mr. Gould and
his bride went onboard his yacht Nia
gara, and will spjQ 1 their honeymoon in
a cruise in southern water.
ItUawellknuwn fact that the relati v e
of Howard Gould did not want bim to
mirry Mis Cleium o It i said th it
they were so Incensed about it that they
will move to have half of his fortune
from his father's estate taken away from
him, under the terms of bis father's wilt
It i ia their power to enforce this pro
vision, and should they do so it will cost
Howard fo.000,000.
A fter being robbed of Vj0 by a young
wymao, Edward M. Aronatan, a Brook
lyn (N. Y.) youth, committed suidda
with gaa.