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" wvui ou colleo i,.ii,c uiiicc iu JIjiuuui.'Ui ti.ock. I0HXO. KIMMEL, J AliUli-Nr.i-AT-LA, buiuuret, txxeai to all busings eutmtd U bin m exiiutrrrt and aujoiuiu cotuU i in roapaia aud nueiuy. Ullicr uu Inalu CIW trtrl. auove Collruui oroccO' Stuns. TAMES L. PL'GH, J AXluiiMs-Y-AT-LAW buux' 't. Pa. OSict In Mammoth Block, ur , Kn" trt-KC oil Wiu C'ros fcireeL .o.ltcUoua Hale oUte utlei. claimant, ud aU ro d attended U) W.Ui prouipUlea i.u Ltlciiiy. A J. CuUJoEX. c coLBoas. ULBUIIN i COLIiOKX, AlloiiNKYS-Ar-UAW, tfomerat-t. Pa. AUbnKneM eutrusiea to our care will be rro-puy and IkiUiluily attended lo. Colleo oa mue in somerset. tfcr-l.ord aud adjuin nf oouiiUea. rarveyii ud eonveyauciii IjMOU reaMiuaOtc lexuia. TT L. BAER, LL A'iTORN EY-AT-LA W, Bumenet, Pa. pFmctice In Somerset and adjoining oeiiUta. An tiuwueao eulrualed to Uino. Will nive prompt attention. A H. COl l ROTH. W. H. KCPPEI lOFFliUTH A RUPPUL, V AlToKMi-YS-Al-l-AW, Soinerbet, Pa. Au iMuinese euirutted to their care will be !:. y aud piiucuiaHy attended to, Uint w Uji CruMi .-ocl, oppoaite ManiuioUi Loci. UL MAIISDKX, M. P., l'HYSU'lAN aud sl'UiiKOX, fto:uenet. Pa. l'!5tvtTK'.!t National ltaiik. au-iniou c'v u lo Hie tsire of the t;.r ami to u,r tn-aiuit-ut ol ctiromc aiaenai. -S:il anis at otlli-e. Xeleptioue. T V. CAP.OTHEI, M. D., U PHYeiCL S Al SLiiObOS. (Somerset, Pa. OSoe on Patr.Ok 8lreet, oppoaite U. B. TLurcii, ti catcall at offlce. DR. P. F. FHAFFER, PHYS1C1AX AD hUBGEON, bomerset. Pa. lenders h. professional aervicea to the ciU a o( suuirret and vicinity, uriioe comer tui Crv aud PaUiol UrceU DTi. J. M. LOUTIiER, PHYSICIAN AKUhUKGEON, 0a on ilaa ktreet, rear of L'rug store. JJK. H. S. KIMilELL, Tenders hi profewional services to the clU- a Souieriet and viciiiiiy. t'nieM pro .ot! y erimg-u be can be louad at bis of a ul Aui l, tal ol liuuuoud. J t?.McMILLEN, Viraduate in iieutiatry.) '" ! attention to the preservation 7 t,r',teeta. Arunciai seU iuserted. Jr,Jl'fc,h r' Kuanaileed mutaetury. urUce ZaZ.''L,W'!t H- k"vu ' ". - ' t'ruaa auii Patriot streeU. C. H. COFFROTH, Funeral Director. 3"ot 6G6 Main Crosg Et. Reaidt nee, Patriot Kt. fK B. FLUCK, Land Surveyor UW5W0E.NGISEEH. Listie, Pa. OPERATIVE MUTUAL FIRE CO., BERLIN, PA, luwrauw. at actual cwt by insur S Lowe, We injure Town and PMlrtj. Wri f,ir information. JA J. ZORN, Secretary. Undertaker and Embalmer. GO0DHEARSE, ined. SOMERSET Pa i 11 e VOL. XLV1I. NO. 37. a c I Delicate .V ."9 ,1 Children i They do not complain of anything in particular. They eat enough, but keep thin and pa'c. Thevannear fairlvwell. but have no strength. You cannot say they are really sick, and so you call thern delicate. What can be done forthem? Our answer is the same that the best physicians have been giving for a quarter of a cen tury. Give them I scon's Bausslon I of Cod-Ln er Oil u i:h Hypo pUosphitcs. It has most re markable nourishing power. It gives color to the blood. It brings strength to the mus cles. It adds power to the nerves. It means robust health and vigor. Even deli cate infants rapidly gain in flesh if given a small amount three or four times each day. 4kC and Sr.oo; ill druggists SrOTT A BOWSE, Chembii. New York. THE- First Nalional Ban: uK- Somerset, Penn'a. Capital, S50.000. Surplus, S37.000. UNOIV'OED PROFITS S.3000. oeposits cccivc in Laec aiioaaiALi aMOUNTa. PTLI o B(KO ACCOUNT OF MCCMNT, :, STOCK OCALCKS, HHO OIHIdl SOLICITtD DISCOUNTS DAILY. - BOARD OF DIRECTORS. CH AS. O. SiTLU GK . K. SCl-Ma JAMES U. PI till, W. H. MILI.KKL JOilN H. m"XTT. EOKT. 8. HCULi fKKD EIEdECKEB EDWARD SCrLL, : : PKCSIDFNT VALKNXINE HAY, : VICE PUEbll'KXT. HAKV EY M. BERKLEY, CASHIEH The fundi; and gecuritie of this ban a are se curely prolet-ted in a celebrated Coai.iaa Bfav suau Pkoof Kafk. Tue only safe made abao lutely buralar-proof. Jicob 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, as Cheap as the Cheajest. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. All work guaranteed. Look at my stock before making your purchases. J. D. SWANK. KEFFER'S HEW SHOE STORE! MEN'S BOYS'. WCKEN'S, GIRLS' trt CHILDREN'S SHOES, OXFORDS and SLIPPERS. Black and Tan. Iatst Styles and Shapes at lowest ....CASH PRICES. .. Adjoining Mr. A. E. UL1, South-east corner of square. SOMERSET, PA. 1 j -' . rr. m s x 5 I I: I !. 1 !"-o;t ociuy cr.M -s. v s F'' P' 'v yl0:,t tiKtlnclv cvtr I ' 'ti.' Li"'1 '-'!V: c-"-1" .l.tull.Icv. v.u;c. c::l t.K;.. T.i2 It Mt il 1 1 !.c:: s :-. i a: . '.'. ; h..ri:i, tl.: t j m : i c .io.I l(.;tc.i to tLtiiM.t i ;: rj ) ii or di:.ui'' ictn-, i:' I: utjLij-. ;;lo i-i m CMiDLES SjII i i i'l t lor? aiid si:, i.e . la lurno.iiz; v.h ovy keener Iii -.trt-1'' tr drrcr: tiers. tL r.Tinrt4rn OP.CO. Get an Education Th.bMtantfitiatir., Bt miod wi at CENTRAL STATE KORiiAL SCHOOL' LOCK BATCH (CltaMa Ce.), PA. Btrwr Taelty, enmm, gooA libtarf, Bioirs PD.rAto. in laboratvrf ana Iras is. BasdKjiB. baud m .xtea! fRrWdt. HlUfTlMt tunt le SkfaM, Stat. Sid t. M-O. 4ut la airtuw to rffoiir onvrM, Vfevoritaofltr in Mic. (ianrtli.Dd.TfBe. wni!T!. Sen 4 f l!lortrtd ct..-rs ixiu iuhjv ra.a. fimi, ts fa. vtM'Uiy BO YEARS' yV : 7fV EXPERIENCE AriTC iwiltne a .seC-lr and cKcrSptH! mar eutoalf a-ertK.n t-nr ointiwm trw v nether an lurenti'm I prnhW plentaM. Coiamartoa l.MiKrrt)T"iltetial. HwV-vkoB H.'iU ,.r,t Itw. tM.ln BlfeX'f f "nl alrt. faiMita ln throut'li lnn A Ua rauel Kral autua. it halt ciutis. la Uis Scientific Jlinerican. A fcsfKlwwnelT I!lwrraf4 !T. I rvMt -tr-Culatloa i.l mrMfil )..urnaJ. TermJa i y-r ; iiqrixu.fi- v... j r,:iiN!UGo.3e,B"'Nswlcrll t ft i S fi THE WHITE MAN'S EUEDE2T BY It'UVARD Klf-LISG. Take Dp the White Man's burden (Send forth the best ye breed Oo, bind your soui to exile ' To serve your captive' need ; To wait. In heavy harness. On fluttered folk and vlid Your new-caught sullen peoples. Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's burden In piiii-nce toab'de. To veil the threat of terror . And cheek the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times and plain. To set k another's profit And work another's train. Take up the White man's burden The savage wars o( peace Fill full the mouth of Katuine, A nd bid tbe sickness cease ; And a lien your coal Is nearest (The end for others sought) Wulch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought. Take up the White Slan's burden Nqlmn rule of kings. But toll of serf and sweeper Tbe tule of common things. The ports ye elm I not enter. The rouds ye shall not tread, Co, make them with your living And murk them with your dead. Take up the White Man's burden And reap his old reward Tbe bUni. of those ye better Tbe hate of those ye guard The cry of hots ye humor (Ah. slowly!) toward the Hunt; "Why brought ye us from bondage. Our loved Egyptian night Take up the White Man's burden Y'e dare not stoop for less Nor call too loud ou Freedom To clonk your weariness. By all ye will or whisper. By all ye leave or do, .'j The silent sullen peoples rball wriuh yoar (od and you. Take up the White Man's burden lUve done with childish days The lightly proffered laurel, The easy ungrudged praise ; Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years, ("old, edged with dear boughl-wisdom. The Judgment of your pe.TB. McClure's Mugazine. A NEAT JOB. BY W. PETT RIIHiE. The barred and padlocked van came out of the courtyard of the bknk into 8L Swtthin's Laue and was driven slowly and wilh great circtiruxlance down tit Cannou-et. station. Mr. Lrge, in his long frieze overcoat, sat on the box near the driver, for Mr. Large was one of the bank courier, red-faced and whiskered and sufficient ly rotund of figure, with a seafaring manner that not even a large silk hut could hide. Mr. Large told the driver that, this being the last day of the old year, he was making his final trip on behnlfof the bank; on his return the bank proposed to superannuate him, with a handsome allowance, and he did not kuow that he should not take a nice little hotel down at Ilythe, on which he had had his eye for some considerable time. "This," added Mr. Large to the driver, with bis usual caution, "this Is confidence, mind." The driver answered that it should not go any further, and that he knew when to keep his mouth shut and when to open it. "Iu our business," agreed Mr. Large, "you have to." At the station the padlocks were taken off the back of the van, aud three Lirge wooden cases, red taped aud sealed with scarlet wax, were taken out by the railway porters care fully aud placed iu a lirst-claas cum ptrtmeut. It was all done with a fine air of mystery, because to mention the uanneof Large' bank was to fill rail way men, and even custom officials, with awe and reverence. Especially at about the end of the year. "Might those cases conti.in bonds, inspector?" asked an inquisitive pas senger. "Well," said the inspector, shifting his lamp from one hand to the other, "they might contain anything." "Bat what do they coutain T' "Ah !" replied the inspector, evasive ly. "Now you're asking me some thing." There were not many pa-sengers by the night mail from Cannoo-sL, but among them there was a party of three, two well dressed, matronly wo men aud a luuffled-up man; the two women, when they bad seen the mufli-ed-upman Into a first-class compart ment and had warned him to keep his scarf over his chin, came hick and watched the proceedings with studied carelwness. "Wish your poor husband was alive, Catherine," said one in an undertone. "This would have been a job after his own heart." "lie was alwayt planning something of tbe kind," Bid Catherine, feelingly; "but he wa never spared to carry it out. tseemed as though he wasn't to be. Poor George !" The lady shook her head sadly. "I don't believe, Mar garet, there was ever anybody like him." "Fortunately," svd Mvgaret, there is somebody like this man Lrge." "Hu.sh!" remarked. the other re provingly. "And it's srme consolation to think that your poor 'usbandis looklDgdown now and seeing us three helping th foreign gentleman to manage a scheme that" "Certainly," conceded Catherine, with emotion, "it is a mark of respect, And there's no doubt it was Providence sent me here this morning aud let me listen to them miking the arringe tnenta. You sent the telegram to DjI afona'.l right?" "If Edward can only lcsr? off yes, dear, I wnt the telegram leave off be ing a silly fool for a little while it ought to pan out all right." "He's the only miu for the Job, and there's b-eu a rAre job to get the like ness right" The other lady was not optimistic. "I haven't been bis lawful married wife," she sid, "these two and twenty yedM without finding out that El ward has his fault. Haw'd it be to Uke our aeits before the train (-tarts?" At Djver the mul ommitioa of psxsengeM alighting at the low, narrow platforoi and, draped with ruy and decorated with p.irtmntem. descend ing the wooden steps to the Calais steamer wa s'ayed f-r a few moments while Mr. Large, with the imperial air o in SOMERSET, PA., that a Viceroy tyes to catch but can not, strode down, keeping a severe eye on the porters who were currying the three elaborately sealed cases. The crowd of passetigers had to wait while this took p'aee, and the cold wind, de termined to have some fun before the old year went out, blew their hats off and fluttered ladies' cloaks impudent ly. Then the ordinary passengers came down, and Mi. Iarge, who had changed his silk hat for a tweed trav eling cap that had Asps to cover his ears, and was tied securely under the chiu, nodded to the captain (who seem ed pleaded to see him), aud demanded a prophecy in regard to the Journey across. The captain said that it might perhaps bs the least bit boisterous, and Mr. L-irge answered he knew what that meant. Let the cases be placed in the strong room, wltere they would be secure from injury by sea water and he would take a private cabin. "Right you are, Mr. Large," said the captain. - "Not too early, 1 hope, to wish you a happy New Year. How's the firm?" "We're sending you a basket of game this year," remarked Mr. Large casual ly. ".Struck me your missis would like that better than cigars." "It all comes iu usjful," replied the captain, "where you've go't a family. See you aguiu presently." Tiie captaiu went up on the bridge. The Ia.-t truuk slid down the wooden gangway and was caught by the sailors on deck; a bell rang; the steamer whis tled a mournful, regretful note to indi cate its regret at leaving, if only for a few hours, the land of its birth; the engines grunted aud the steamer, mak ing a prodigious amount of white foam, we'nt out into the- dark, blustering night. Tbe lights of Dover town fringing the shore w inked ; a railway engine, anxious to show ofiygave an imitation of a cock crowing at early dawu. Snow began to fall as the end of the pier was passed, and the steamer showed premonitory signs of playing at pitch and toss. "Why, I declare!" exclaimed the matronly woman called Catherine, with great astonishment passengers were moving about mistily on board, aud many were going downstairs "I declare, if it isn't Mr. Large." "Well," said Mr. Large with reserve, "what of it?" "Why, don't you remembe me? I was lady's maid at the plaee in Pem bri.lge Square years aud years ago, when you used to come there courting." "That's a long time ago," said Mr. Large, uneasily. "Let bygones be by gones." "Rut isn't it marvellous we should run across each other like this after all these years'." "I dou't kuow alout being marvel lous," replied Mr. Large curtly. " 'Tisn't the lirst time I've len across the Channel, Although it may le the last." "For pleasure, I presume." "Then," said Mr. Large, "you'd presume wrong." "I shall never forget w hat a smart, good-looking, well-built young fellow you were w hen you used to call at Pembridge Square years ago." "I s'pose," remarked Mr. Iarge, with less frigidity of manner, "I s'pose I could hold me own with the best of 'em in those days." . "How that girl used to rave about you, Mr. Largo! I believe she wor shipped the very ground you walked on." "Was a bit gone on me, wasn't she?" said Mr. Large, chuckling. "Lord! the hearts I've broken one way and tbe other. What was your husband when he married?" "He was er a commission agent," said the lady; "used to dabble in near ly everything. There's a sister of mine on board." "Well," said Mr. Large, risiug, "I shall be getting down to my cabin; there's a little too much movement on the part of this steamer to suit me." "We're in the saloon, Mr. Large. My sister would like to see you, I ex pec'; her husband's vith her." "What's he?" "Well, he" the lady coughed and pulled her long cloak around her, "he's a commission agent, too." "Give 'em my kind regards," said Mr. Lirge, "I'd see 'em, only that I'v3 got important business in band this journey. May meet again,' per haps." 'Likely as not," said the lady. Midway iu the channel the sea was less boisterous, aud the steamer went more sanely. Mr. Lirge, muffl-nl up in his thick frieze overcoat, bad fallen nearly asleep on the couch of his cabin when he heard a tap at the door. He did not answer, and the door opened very gently. Assumiug it to be one of the sailors, he roared an imperative order to bring refreshments; the door opened wider and the two matronly ladies presented themselves. "It is tbe right cabin," said Cath erine. "Come on, Edward; come in and shut the door." Mr. Large sat upon the couch and stared at the three w ith undisguised astonishment. The mufild-up man kept his head down and examined the rlikorcf the cabin w ith an assumption of great interest. "Well," sail Mr. Large, satirically, ' I hope you're making yourselves thoroughly at home." "Margartt and her husband would insist on seeing you, aud the only plan was for us all to come iu here together.' "Pity there wasu'tsome other plan." "Edward, Where's that bottle of apecial you said you'd got?" Tae silent Eiward produced from the side pocket of his overcoat a large fiat bottle, and uncorking it, passed it across to Mr. Large. "Ladies first," sid air. Large. "I could no more tucu spirits," said Catherine, making a wry face, "than I could fly. I did have a sip when I lost my poor husband, and the mere amell of it brings him all back to me." "I was always a strict Rand of Hoper as a child," remarked Margaret prim ly, "and I dou't want to begin at my lime of life." There was nothing for Mr. Large to do but to wip? his lips wilh the back of bis baud, n-nl to each of his visitors, say that here was a happy New Year to them all, aud to Uke a long drink e r ESTABLISHED 1827. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1899. from the flat bottle. Having done which, he replaced the flat bottle on tbe table unsteadily and looked around for a few moments at the three with half-closed eyes. Then Mr. Large slipped from the couch to tbe floor. "Now, Edward," said Catherine with a prompt, decisive manner, "eff witn your scarf aud try to play your part." Edward obeyed silently, In the man ner of one accustomed to do as he is told without argument. This done, it could be seen that he bore an amazing resemblance to the stupefied man; his whiskers had been carefully trimmed in a like manner; be bad the same bur ly appearance and the same fresh-colored type of face. When he bad taken Mr. Large's frieze eoat and lied tbe traveling cap under his chin be looked rather more like Mr. Large than Mr. Large himself; when with a pair of scissors he cut off Mr. Large' whisk ers few could have correctly given the identity of the two men. "So far so good," Baid Catherine. Mr. Large was placed in a restful po sition on the couch of the cabin with his face to tbe walL He was breathing sterterously. "Now do listen, Edward, like a good man, aud attend to what we say. Tell him, Margaret, ouce more, what h's to do. Everything depends on him." "You go up on deck," said Edward's wife, hi a dictatorial way, "and you are you listening?" Edward replied briefly that his ears were not made of cloth. "You go upstairs and you say a word or two to the captain In a casual kind of way. You speak about the three cases of bonds that we saw tbem put in the strong-room. Very well, then. You give half a crown to several of the men, and you keep close to them while they carry them on shore. Dou't forget your name's' Large, and don't forget to be very friendly with the customs officers if they nay anything to you. You'll clear them through the customs here, mind, so that there shall lie no bother at the other end." Edward said that it was in this came clearance through the customs that he foreaw a chance of ructions. "Nonsense!" cried Catherine, sharp ly. "Don't Le so stupid." "Then," went on Margaret, enforcing her points by tapping her forefinger on the table, "then you have them taken into the train; they'll reserve'a first class compartment for you, and you'll find Monsoor Delafon on the platform. You remember Mousonr Delafon ?" M. Delafon remained in Elward's memory, it seemed, by r,a.-ou of the length of M. Delafon's noee. Edward said he could pick bint out of a thous and. "You won't have to pick him out at all. He'll come up to the carriage win dow, and you'll get one of the porters to uulock the door and let him come in with you aud the three cas-s. Theu on the way to Boulogne he'll know what to do with the contents of the cases, aud he'll know how to get them out of the carriage. He will leave at Bou logne and meet his friends." Edward said gloomily that it was all very well, but be w ished the job over and done with. "Ou the way to Paris you change your appearance in every possible way, and the moment the train arrives you nip out and make yourself as scarce as you can. Now, repeat it all over to me." . Eiward, like a reluctant schoolboy, repeated the instructions sulkily, rather a-i though he were anxious to avoid a caning, and Catherine, who had been writing, impaled the sheet of note-paper on tbe table with a pin. On it she had written: "D not wake me. Am returning to Dover." Then more injuctions were given to Edward by the two anxious women; the fact was once more impressed upon him that he had only to get the three cases in the train and all his trouble would be over, and a moderate compe tence assured tc him for life, "You'll be able to say good-by to work, Edward," said Catherine; cheer fully. Edward answered that he didn't kuow that he'd ever aid how d'ye do to it as yet, but be that as It might, he should not be sorry when he found himself on the boulevards. A job like this, said Edward, complainingly, told on a man's brain. "If you dou't.do your best," said his wife, severely, "I'll never forgive you." The two women went Into the saloon, and Edward ascended the gangway to the upper deck. Tbe lights of Calais were in Bight, and the captain, meeting him at tbe top of the steps, said cheer ily that he bad made a good journey. How had Mr. Large managed? Fairly well? That was right Eiward en deavored to evade the captain, but the captain, before going up on the bridge to superintend the entrance into Calais harbor, seemed anxious to be genial to tbe representative cf so important a bank, aud offered polite inquiries con cerning tbe health of other c mriers of the firm, Inquiries to which Edward in a low vf'i.-e returned diplomatic an swers. "I tell you what's wrong with you," said the captain, suddenly. Edward started. "You've caught a cold. lean tell it by your voice." Edward asked what else could be ex pected on a night like this. Enough to give any one a cold. When would the three case be taken out of tbe strong room ? "Won't have them out till tbe last moment," said the captaiu. "How many years have you been over on New Year's Eve with a little consignment like this? Pretty good number, I know. They'd be disappointed in Paris, I ex pect, if they didn't turn up as usual, ti'iiti looking forward to it, I expect" Edward, agreeing, said that nothing bad ever gone wrong all the time be had been connected with the bank, and he hoped, please goodness, that noth ing amiss would happen to-night "Ofteu wondered, Mr. Large," said the captaiu, "that you people don't send the things over by the Grande VI- .tesse service, jjst as ordinary people do. It would save all your expenses. But there, your people don't mind spend ing a little money so long as the till tig is done well and safely. Suppose I'd better be getting up now. If I don,t see you again, Mr. Large, allow me to wish you a very happy period of retire ment. You've earned it, and you ought to enjoy it Good night !" , Tbe passengers came up from below, and on deck a few unrolled themselves from rugs and tarpaulins. Some who had been ill were corking up their bat tles containing infallible preventives . irom seasicKness ana wonaering now they looked and whether their faces were very white. Edward dispensed his half crowns as one accustomed to tbat generous occupation, and tbe three cases were carried up to the pier, ou which stood a line of men belonging to the customs and to the Chemin de fer du'Nord; Edward followed close, and the women, with an epproving nod, remained on deck to come up with the bulk of tbe passengers. A man with a long nos standing under a lamppost coughed. A customs offi cial spoke. "Ab, Mwter Larch! How do you do? We await you always previous to the day of the year."' Tbe customs otficial smiled, and did it rather awkwardly, being a man who did not use himself to such weaknesses in a general way. "By there, if you please, Mr. Larch, follow me. How Is" here the cus toms official lowered his voice rever ently, "how is the baron ?" Edward said that the baron was among the middlings. He supposed it would not be necessary to open the cases, "But yes! How else would it be pos sible to charge tbe droits de douaue the duty?" Edward, hi a state of great perturba tion and dismay, protested. He always understood that there was no duty in France on bonds. "Farceur!" laughed the custom offi cer. "You are a horrible man for your little joke. The bank does not send bonds for New Year's presents to its friends in Paris. See?" ' The officer had pried open the top of one of tbe cases. "As ordinary! Boxes of cigars, cases of bon bons, packages of ah! the generous baron and his fortunate friends." The amazed and perplexed Edward begged to be excused for half a momeut while he went out to speak to a couple of lady friends. With these he held anxious consultation, and presently the three hurried away from the Gare Mar itime to the town of Calais. "This," said the lady friends breath lessly, and with much bitterness to EJ ward, as they hastened in the dark across the uneven ground, "this now, is what comes of trusting to a man." I Hack and White. A Funny Finn- Young Mrs. McRride had had so much trouble with impudent servants that she was on the verge of uervous prostration, and she would certainly have gone over the verge had the Mc Bride income been large enough. She finally became deserate. "John," she said, one day, "I have hired a new servant She isn't partic ularly competent, but of one thing I am certain she will not be impudent" "She won't!" cried her astonished husliand. "How do you know sfie won't?" "I'm sure she won't," replied Mrs. McBride; "and even if she is, I shall not kuow it. She's a Finn, just over, and she doesn't speak but four words of English." AU the next day Mrs. MeCride strug gled w ith the Finn. She talked herself hoarse. She would fairly shout her di rections, but shouts and w hispers were alike to the Finn. She simply could no understand. When Mr. McBride Came home at night bis wife was again on the verge. "Why do you shout so when you talk to her?" he asked, laughing heartily. "Why? Why, I simply can't make her hear!" cried his wife. "I am so hoarse I van hardly speak aloud, and 1 am completely worn out. What shall I do, dear ?" "Let me discharge her, of course." "Discharge her!" echoed his wife. "That's just about as sensible as the av erage man's suggestion. Discharge her! Discharge that Finn, who knows four words ofEuglishT'she soblied. "What g;od would that do? "Why, John, I have discharged her 17 times already, and she thinks I've been telling her to get dinner!'' Harper's Bazar. Becoming Mourain J. The girl whose slim and willowy pro portions are emphasized by wearing a boa around her throat is uot obliged to give it up even In deepest mourning. Euglish crepe is pleated into a ruching thick enough to form a boa, and this ba ii provided with long scarf eids. Great pains are now taken with the wardrobe of those "in m mrnlng." It Is no longer thought necessary to look like a frump, by way of showing res pect to the memory of the departed. Now the box of dresses sent to the be reaved ones are models of style and costly simplicity. It is also a faet that the woman who finds difficulty in pur chasing a bonnet or hat ready made, which shall be beeoniing, often finds something in the "seond mourning" case which can be adapted to her wanU with the introduction of a little color or a bunch of frtwers. The ruching of soft raousseliu on the edge of the brim is apt to render these chapeaux becom ing to the face which is not in itsy uth. Glorious Kewi Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargi'e, of Washita, I. T. Ha writes: "Four bottles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, which bad caused her great suffering foryfars. Tel ri Me sores would break outon her head aud fac-, and the best doctors could give no help; but her cure is complete and her health is excellent" ThU shows what thousands have prov ed, that Electric Bitters is the test blood purifier known. It's the su preme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running s res. It stimulates liver, kidneys and bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength. Ouly 50 cents at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and O. W. Bralller's Drug Su re, Berlin, Pa, " i - ' QUEER THINGS IN CUBA, Everyday Life in the Isle of To morrow. From the 1'iiiUdelplii.t K.iirl. One who is visiting Cuba in these days of her reconstructing can bring no U tter linanciul pit p than American greenbacks ; they nre so much easier to carry tbuu gold, and the premium on them is the same. If he brings the usual letter cf credit ' r draws on heme through one of the Island banks, be will find tbat the cashier's charges for the accommodation are quite in keeping with the Cuban idea that everything American is lawful prey, to be made the most of. The hotel-keepers etill require their pay on the basis cf Span ish gold, hut will readily allow f, per cent on American bills- The loeI merchants are glad to get our green backs at tbe same rate in exchange for their g'snls or the coin of the country, treatise most cf their business is doi:e in N'ew York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore uu the credit fystem, and the notes are convenient for trans portation w ithout the expense if get ting them changed into another form. But the cabmen, porters, servants and others of their class, accustomed to be ing cheated at every turn by their late rulers, will have nothing to do with any mouey they do not understand, and iusist on the familiar 3) eent pieces of the island, American dimes and nickels, and coppers for small change, or the dirty, K'ggar-handled, diseas" iufextedshinplaslers. Ifyou oiler them an American half-dollar, fresh and shining from tbe mint, they w i.l eye it doubtfully, try its edges In their teeth aud ring it on the sidewalk, if they do not refuse it outright TIIE TKA1L OK KoU.MEK SHAKPEKS. Some sharper of other days seems to have flooded Cuba with American sil ver In five and ten cent pieces, after having punched a fraction out of eac h for his own profit You may pick up a hatful of these small coins in the course of a day's transactions in auy Cuban city and never find a whole one among them. Not only do the muti lated pieces pass t their face value without question, but the islanders ap pear to place moot confidence; in the coin tbat has the greatest number of holes in it, as a proof that it is genuine else why did somebody take the trouble to punch it? A great deal of paper scrip, similar to that used iu the United States before the resumption of specie payment, circulates in Cuba, but ith this ImjorUnt diflVreuee: w lien ours became soiled or torn we could ex change it for new, while in Cuba there are no such facilities, aud the filthy bi s of paper, handled by leper and cirried about in the rags of the lowest classes, become so loathsome that one would rather forego his ' change' than touch it. A PIZ.LIXCi tTKRKNCV. Oue dollarof our. silver will purchase at least t2 Vj of this scrip, often more, according to the rate of exchange at the momeut Though based upon uothing, having been issued Indiscrim inately by a bauktupt government, it answers all the local necessities of trade, and is always used for carfare and small transactions. It was ground out of the paper mill nobody knows toexactSy what amount in 5, 10,3) and ."0 cent "plasters." One thing is well known, that every authorized issue of a given sum was enormously exceeded. Soven years ag au issue of bank bills of this small currency was entrusted to an estan'ishmimt in the diked States, and fll.nuO.OiW was printed in addition to the authorized amount! All was duly receipted for and signed by the orrupt Spanish otlicials, whj so the quidnuncs say divided the extra millions among themselves. It is as serted that the Captain-General under whose administration this financial stroke was accomplished came to Cuba a poor man, aud two years later return ed to Spain with 3,00"), nD pesos to his credit So thrifty were the proud hi dalgos who threw down a dollar when half of it was due (somebody else's dollar), and stalked haughtily away, sneering at the "Yankee pigV who waited for their change ! The other day I went into the Cafe La Luz to treat some of my newly ar rived countrymen. There were four of us, and each ordered a different bever age. I threw down a five-dollar Amer ican goldplece in payment. The 'smile dispenser' studied long with knitted brow over the knotty problem of change, and theu handed me back a Spanish five-dollar goldpiece and 4) cents in silver. This p'.eastKl the group so wtll that I treated again, givii g back to the saloon-keeper tbe Spanish five-dollar go.dpiecj. Tuis was easier for hi ai to reckon, and my chaure for the second deal was five silver dollar aid four cents. Though the price of drink-) is high in Cuba, it would seem that there is money to be made in tak ing them ad libitum, and the more liquor one buys the more money he fts ! To study the thing out It wu this way : There was 1') per cent prem ium on Americau gold o-er Spanish gold, and 3J per cent on Spanish gold as compared with silver. Thus, out of the original American five-dollar gold piece I bought eight expensive drinks and still had V in silver and dis covered afterward that the barkeeper bad swindled me out of 1 cents change. H'L- DAYS (i.l LuKE. In the Cuban calendar there are no fewer than 250 "holy days," Sundays included, in which nobody can be' le gally compelled to la'jor neither the man servant, nor the maid serva it, nor the ox, nor the ass, nor, perforce, the ptranger within the gates- With such extraordinary deftreuces to the saints and angels this ought to be tbe most religious country under tbe sun ; but, unfortunately, after hasty prayer In the early morning the uatives employ the remainder of their feast days iu bull-baiting, cock-fighting, the lottery, the ball, the theatre, Instead of atteit I ance on heavenly personages. Sunday Is the great gala day of the week, dis tinguished by the added brilliancy of every street tue in the bet clothes of tbe populace, oislerous masquerade processions, ten-foid activity in "shopo I WHOLE NO. 2482. saloons and theatres, and noisy per sistency of lottery vi nders. Bull- fight ing is as dear to the native heart as ever, though owinj-to bard times the expensive aruu-emer.t is now confined to a few of the larger cities and certain reasons of the year. But the Cu!tu village mu-t te K r indeed which has not its several cockpits in full bbtst at Ir-ist on- c'ay in seven, w herein crowds tfmtiitw't !':' ir !.i-t re:d on fav'rt birds and tro wild witheM itc r.iciit over thf edifying jctac!e .f tvo mist r al!e roosters clawing each other to death. The inveterate gambling propensity oi ike teoi ie ai-o finds vent in tiomi- liftis, clie.-s, baccarat and a thousand other games cf cfcauce and skill, in w hich wiitiii n may also indulge in the privacy of home and seldom without stakes. The Cuban female gfs into gamblirg with the same innocent zest which distinguishes her sister women of Northern villages, who find their highest ambition realized in the "lone- band" prize of progressive euchre. In this part of the world every table iu hotels, barrooms, clubhouses and cafes is in requisition all day long and far into tin niht on Sundays for gaming purposes. Iu these January days it looks odd enough to eyes fresh from the snowy north to see the marble floors of all the finest cafes sprinkled w ith damjtt ncd sawdust, with a view to cool :itss, like Bowery U-er halls in the thirsty days of August. I have ex c lient American authority for the t-tatcment that the Cuban barkeepers out-Herod Herod in the matter ol manufacturing c-eklai!s with energy and dispatch. The native compounder seizes tw o glasses one very large and beay, the other small and thin. With frantic baste be fills the former w ith lumps of if?, the latter with the liquors, bittersj e wee is and whatever else may le rtq-jired in tiie compound ing of a cocktail. Then. ith a swing ing movement which cau be acquired otiiy by long practice, he dashes the lee and fluids from glass to glass, as it his life depended on it, clicking the crystal like a pair of castanets, until all is thoroughly amalgamated in the big g!as. Then, w ithout losing a seeoud d time, he flings the mixture through a strainer into the little glass, which must be exactly even full ; atid then the recipient is expecttd to dash it down his throat with the same furious energy, to smack his lips and say it beats New-York "all hollow" and call for more. ii"v Acrr.AN munks water. The fu'iiiiest thing in the line of drinking ii to se the Cubans imbibe wuter from a "su'-nkey-jug" or perotie. The vesse I, by the way, which is fotu.d iu every house and hotel bedroom, is a delight to the foreigner, not ouly ly rcA-onof its art i.-tie Ixatity, but lecau.-e it keeps the water cool iu a compara tively iceless country. There are jus a''d j ig-", of varj ing shapes and sizes ail of gray clay, moulded iu quaint de s:g:i. Th.." commonest are round ai.d slender, w ith two holes iu each near the handle, w hich is en top. One hole is perhaps an Inch in diameter, through which t pour the water into the i'.ig, and the other, in a knob which marks the place, is not large r than the hollow cf a goose q iill. It is the old story of the bung and spigot Filled w ith water, the jug is hung on a peg or any con venient projection, iu a spot thf t is draughty. The currents of air cause the thick, porous clay to perspire, like a pntic-ut re-covering from "Santiago fever," and the result is that the water is rendered cad and wholesome. The Cuban fashion of drinking is uot to touch the vessel wilh tbe lips, but to open the mouth wide, aud, holdiugthc jug up, to tilt it until a tiny stream irickh s down the the throat, describ ing a six-iuch curve aud striking square on the root of the tongue. lOi nTIMi IS I RA. Apparently tbe highest social insti tution of Cienfuegos is the Sunday evening promenade in the plaza, and without it I really do not kuow how the youn people of the aristocracy would manage to mate and marry. During all the week senoritas of ihe tipper class are kept under rigid restric tion, neve r permitted to walk abroad alone and constantly watched by pa rents ar.d duennas, as if expected tc; rush to the Lad if allowed the smallest opportunity. This system of eternal vigilance would doubtless become a irksome to the guardians as to tbe opening buds were it not so soou over. At the age of thirteen a Cuban girl Is considered quite old enough to marry, I .n,i .., t.areuts hunt ur a m-in-law j wthout delay-unless, as is more com mohly the cas', some sub-rosa lover announce s himself, or a match, satis factory to paterfamilias, was arranged for her wilh the sou cf a friend while the pair were yet in their cradles. The leauty and charm .f the fair Cubans are as evauescent as irresistible while they last. Like the lovely wild (lowers of their island, they mature v ry early, but fade as rapidly. The prettiest girl w ill le plain liefore she is thirty, and a handsome middle aged woman is not to be found iu Cula if anywhere out- fchle the temj.erale zone. Discovered by a Woman. Another great discovery has been ma-.!e, aint that too, by a lady in this country. "Disease fastened it clutches upon her and f-r seven year she with stood its severest tests, but her vital organs were uudermined and death seemed immineut For three mouths she cougheJ inces-tautly, and could not sleep. She finally discovered a way to recovery, by purchasing of u a bot tle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, and wo si much reliev ed on taking first dose, that she slept all nigh-; and with to Kittles, ha Ken absolutely cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz " Thus write W. C. Ham nick A Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial b ttles free at J. N. Snyder's Drug Siore, S in -rset, Pa., an 1 G. W Brallier' Drug Store, Iterlin, Pa. Ileg ular size 3'K and $1. Every Kittle guaranteed. A prictcd notitv of tbe Pioneer Club, the famous women's club of Loudon, reads curiously to Americau club wo- miii. It i-: "Gentlemen are not allow- ia th smoking-room." Current Tonic.. A Japanese paper sjy that a soldier of gigantic stature and enormous streugth recently bad the honor of lad ing presentex! to the Etnperor. He is private Yantshita. of tbe Third Kegi- ment of Nagoya field artil.eiy. He en listed i- December last, and is no twenty-two years cf age. Ills mu-cu- lar strength U so great that be ctn car ry a field-pie e oil hi . O!:ot:ldtr mi l climb up a mountain where lor -et, are not available. Yamshila regularly re ceives two men's ratious, and his uni forms are made to order. A movement has been inaugurated lo have the first annual reunioa of th Bough Riders of the late war held at El Paso, Texas, because that city fur nished a great uumUr of tbe Tinier. Governor Bovclt has notified ex Governor Prince, of New Mexico, that he will visit that territory this year, aud while; down in the great South west the effort will be made to hold the reunion. If Keely had bad a good thing in the form of an inveutioti be would proba bly have .starved or sold it foratriiV, olk-erve-s the Boston Traveler. It is de plorable but true thai gold bricki find a readier market than genuine gtanls. The Eiiglndi shipUiil'l.ng firm of Short Bron- h:v lately made a rej-rt on tbe results f a seven years' experi-en.-e of the eight hour day. Formerly the men U'gau work al i o'clock in 'the morning, took half an hour for brak fast at s o'clock, half an hour at noon for dinner, and quit work at - o'clock; but it is said that the day was so long that many employ lost muc h time from brenkiug down under the strain. They now go to wrrk at T '') a- in., take half au hour for dinner, au. I quit at .1 p. in., and the firm maintains that ou these shortened hours more work is done per individual, aud the general operation of the plant is much more economical. - An Oshkosh jinirnal announces a lec ture "by Dr. Haidekopf, our able health officer, before the Sanitary Imrrove ment Association, on 'The Beneficial Effect of Flirtation on the Public Health.'" U is reasonable to assume that "thrtation" is a typographical er ror for "filtration.'' A company organiz -d in Montana has written to the New York Board ef Health asking permission to sell horse meat lu that city, promising that the. animals to be slaughtered for the mar ket would be horses that had never been iu harness young stink, as well fed as Montana cattle, and "superior to beef." It is believed that many pur chasers would be found iu the f reigu piartcrs of the city. "Tbe Piscataquis Observer uses space t repjort that 'Gus' Oakes, f Snger Ville, Me., sixty years old, was turning handsprings on the streets Saturday," says tne Lewisiown evening Journal. "If Gus bad been niuety iive year- old it would have been worth mentioning, but everybody expects a Maine man of only sixty to be abls to turn double handsprings." Preparations are King made in Northamptonshire, Englaud, to par ticipate in the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Oliver Cromwell, which event will oe--cur ou Aprill ii next. Otieof the ways iu which it is prop.s-l to honor tli lay iu Northamptonshire is by a pil grimage to Na.se by bat 1 1 Ii bi the .!! of Cromwell's greatest triumph. This proposal has already lecn heartily aj proved in the county town, aud many prominent London free churchmen are to be invited to participate in the cere mony. In the Hotel Everett, one of New York's oldest hoftclries, a custom adopt ed fifty years ba-k is s:ill iu vogue. It is that of placing the reading of the thermometer immedi tU-Iy uu ler the late line of the register. This is the duty of the clerk who takes the early morning watch.' Year back, lfore Gotham's centre was a myriad of ho tels, thermometers were not so plenti ful, and nearly all the hotels adopted this custom of telling the if patrons the condition of the atmosphere; but the Everett is the only one to continue the practice now. The Americau Packer says that more than f1,(K),ox has leeti invested in the canning industry in the past four month. The total pack of toinat'- in the I'nited States and Canada was 1,e7,MX cases iu !s. In W; it was 4,li',4U cases. In IV s the pack for the t'uited States was .l.iili.rstM c-ases as compared with ",!".4,:-V for iv.17. Tbe total corn pack of the I'nittd States and Canada for was 4,":'H'.7 cases as against iJKis.TlO cases in Is'.'T. The timUrof the muff.dd ou w hich four murderers were banged at Ches tertown, Md., was afterward used in building a henhouse on ex Sheriff Plummer's farm. It is a significant fact that while other farmers iu the ueighlxirhocd have suffered from the depredations of chicken thieves, Plum mer's henhouse has never Ken robK'd. Tbe American Agriculturist estimates that there are 71,i),(i horses in the world. Of these ."siirsm) are in Europe, n.Uoo.iKK) in North America and 'J.IXX),!" in .Via. The mules aud asses iu the world are said to number tl.fKm.fXJO. Women'! Ways. "Penelope and I don't speak." "What's tbe trouble?'' "I got on the street car, thinking I could borrow a nickel from her " "Well?" "She had got on, thinking she could borrow a nickel from me." "Yes " "Neither of us had any money, so we had to set off and walk." Detroit Frew Press, He Fooled Tae Surgeons. All doctors told Benick Hamilton, of West Jefferson, O., after suffering H months from Uectal Fistuio, lie would die unless a costly operation was per formed; but he cured himself with five boxes Backleu's Arnica Salve, the surest Pile cure on Erlh, auJ the best Salve in the World. i cents a Kx. Sold at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset Pa., and G. W. Brolli t's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. At His Own. Valuation. The young man r-jca'U diver d;iu sels who have ref ised h'uu since last Christmas, then whispers tenderly: "May, I am utterly unworthy of you," and there Is the s b of a l-st soul in bis voice. "That's precisely what pap and mam ma think, George," she replies. And for a long time thereafter he Is silent Harlem Life. Scald head L au ecz-mia of the scalp very severe sometimes, but it can K I cured. Doan's Oiuluient quick and, atij !. a.. J permanent In its resultA etore, 50 cent, ai any aruj t . i - i i sruKv w- -
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