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Litest Styles and Shapes at lowest CASH PRICES..- Adjoining Mrs. A. E. Ubl, South-east corner of square. ' SOMERSET, PA. A i.i'-vn .1.V 311 . - - - v " a - V " s " " v Llca l most scu.y ana ri.i jjl iy moit c:icttitly vcr W fca IJa'.lVi 6Ci.'li- v.inu mivu 'T.r; li.t t:.:l licl.UiS h;j-.ityi cbarci. ll.at gAtsf ibe lin'.j'i-l toi'.cli tc li tiiiav.ii.g rcja.ii or icci::, is ll:c -,;ilOi' &iJW Ol BWX CANDLES Soil ia all rclrs kut tj b-iri..ii: with any interior lia :ii;i;is i.r decor: tioi:s. ll -M v iii iisiM is vs Get an Education Tbs bwt oatfit to lif s. 8st BMtas a4 CENTRAL STATE OUAL SCHOOL LOCK HAVES K U.ua C.l, r. Stroos fsnltr, eoaws, food librarr, itiud.nl tppu-.tos in .bor.T7 sad cyuin obl Ssovla'.B. bsildiSM, .Ktraai. crossils. luriM bmo. stit Stt sii bM d.at. In sd iltio. to Ttin.m nonn, t,OTklunen-d Is Mne.l0"Iinil.Tj juu txswu. rs.. rrunp. Urt iim rs. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE ,4 Tracc Mr. A. nraiaNB 'flli' Corni3WT AC- .olesir a"rj,in oor vid frw .liwhiw sit nuw PT..hi..yeu?;tn4. r..Kmm. U.nclf e.iBdnttl. HMHlb'iroo'llU sent frm. lMK- mcency fur nniig wM.t. Scientific finuncatt. MID 1 yr- 9 n u 1 j n 1 e. I SirTf.-..r nU, . eod bysil wdterj. iUNUCc.'i-i'-H8wTcrk e 40. SHIPS AT SEA. Oh, many sh!j have I at sea That snlleJ away long years .; Snmt day the. 're coming back to me. Hut a lien and bow t r n not know. HoiiK-limes I aaDdcroa UiG sliora. And w.iu-li the fur borlzoD dim. Where vanished In tluiw; days of yore My argosies so flret and trim. I chu with eaicer eye tn' fffli .Tiiatdanee and smrkle In the light ; A rbiion fair my fond hrt craves. Alas, no sail U yet in sight ! ontimes I And upon the sand A broken plunk, a shattered spar, A bent and rusty iron band Oh, Toire'iOxs tale of wrecks afar. Then anxious fears crowd In my breast. And veil the sunshine In the sky. Khali thus my good ships end their quest? Hhul! this their fate be by and by ? OfrU'iid with shirs far out at sea. That sailed awav so lour airo. Someday they're eomlug back to the Hut when and how we may Lot know. Pen-hance with sails all rent and soiled. Ilattered and bruised thy ships may be. Of beauty and grace tbey may be despoiled. Heavy and slow It ey may come to thee. But come they ntorninx, noon gr right. With flying colors or broken mast. Our heHrxsVill cry with a thrill of delight. "Thank God thai our ships have come In al laiitr" ttoston Transcript. THE TRICKY LOCOMOTIVE. A Story That Puzzled the Farmer and the Schoolmaster. liY J. H. KIKW1X. It wa.Jut after twilight, the lamp had bteu lighted, the supper things cleared away, and Farmer Rloesom sat ia a chair ia the dining room, with the Bchool master, Mr. Birch, beside him. Outside, the moon made the laud spe as bright as day. Farmer Blos SJtn, looking through the window pane, thought he had never seen a prettier sight "How fine the night Is," he said; "the sky is eo thick with str that you can hardly see the blue." Tueu with out waiting for a response from bis com panion, he exclaimed: "Hallo! as I live, here comes that Bob Driver, again, and making straight for the house tool" Turning from the window, he looked at the r,-boolujater and chuckled: "Good thing we got supper over etrly to-night; fooled him this time." Mr. Birch smiled. "Bob is a fine, growing lad," he said, "and was one of my smartest pupils. I am afraid the people al Maple Farm d n't treat Lim any too well, and I suppose that U why he is always hungry." Further discusaion wa9 cut short by a knot-king at the door. "Come in," cried the two men, with one voice, and the subject of their re marks entered, bringing with him a rash of air that snatched the knob out of his fingers, and banged the door to behind him. "Good evening, gentlemen." The wordi had hardly passed Bob's lips when he was startled by the slam m'ng of the door. "I didn't do that, Mr. Blossom," he cried. "No, 3ob; I know you didn't Sit do n there," said the farmer, smiling as if he were glad to see him though he was not while Mr. Birch grasped the boy's hand with: "Good evening, Robert, I'm glad to see you;" which, indeed, he wa, for Bb,- aside from his other agreeable qualities, bad a faculty for telling tales of various kinds that quite wou the schoolmaster's heart being gifted him self with a passion for the romantic, and the best works of fiction. The farmer took but a passing inter est in such of Bob's narratives as he bad heard, for he considered this pas time, as well as the reading of books generally, a waste of one's leisure. B b Driver ws big and strong for a biy of sixteen, and had a laughing face and black curly hair. As betook a chair near the table, and began drumming on its side with the fingers of bis right ban I, his eyes took on a retro jective look, as he cast them for a moment on the floor, and, knowing what was expected of him, he plunged at once into his subject: "Did I ever tell you gentlemen of the time my grandfather first took bis new locomotive out ou the road?" he ask ed. -"I think not, Rbert," answered Mr. Birch pleasantly, while the farmer merely shook his bead. "V11," began Bob, my grandfather wa one of the first engineers to run a locomotive in this country, and, of course, the experience of riding behind the 'steam horse,' as people used to call it, was a novelty, then, and many excursion wtre made up, and people ptid for tickets, just for the pleasure o f riding around from one end of the line to the other." "A very idle practice, I should say," interrupted Farmer Blossom. "Just so," said liib, with a smile in t ledirectiou of theschoolmaster.which w is returned. "Well, one afternoon m; grandfather fetarttd out ith a b'and uew lowniotive, to wnicn was attached his regular train of three passenger cars, crowded with excur niouists. At the lat moment, and hii ii was too late to remedy the matter, he discovered that bis fireman iiH.l dewrted him Kone off some where on an excursion ofbisowu.I suppose aid without saying a word to any one, be resolved to do hisown firing on that trip; and a busy time be hai of it, as I've often heard my father say. Afterwards be thought that be might have got one of the train bands, or even a passenger, to help him, but then they would have been new to the work and would, most likely, only have got themselves in the way; and on top of It all my grandfather was so angry at the fireman that he never thought of asking the assistance of any one ou the train until after he had put five miles between himself and the starting-point, and then, feeling quite inde pendent, he concluded to let matters take their own course." At this moment Mrs. Blossom enter ed the dining-room with a pan of fresh biscui's, which the placed on the table, and Bob Driver interrupted hirooelfto exchange a pleasant greeting with btr. Rjb was qtilte a favorite with the old 1 s 1 Sonierset SOMERSET, PA., lady, and she at once ariked him to try j one of the biscuits, which he did, bolt- j ing it so quickly that she concluded be ; was hungry, and urged him to have another. "Thank you, Mrs. Blossom," said Bob warmly, as he quickly disposed of the second biscuit; "they don't make biscuit su good as these at Maple Farm, because they d u't know how." "Help yourself, Bob," said the farm er's wife, delighted with his compli ment to her baking; "there's plenty more where these came from;" then she left the room. The farmer looked as if he did not fully share his wife's opinion, but he Said nothing. "Let me see," resumed Bob, glancing at the pan, "where was I? Oh, yes well, evert h ing went along all right; the engine was working beautifully; aud It was well that it did, for my grandfather bad bis bands full trying to do the work of two men. lie had covered about thirty miles the loco motive waa only making tweuty six miles an hour, which was high speed for those days aud he could see that the track ahead of him was as clear and straight as could be for miles aud miles, so be did some more of the tire man's work, and then sat down on the floor of the cab to repair his shoes. My grandfather was not only an independ ent engineer, but he was independent, also, of the shoemaker, having learued that trade as well. 'Well, be cut the leather aud pegged and hammered the soles, and got so much interested In Jils tak that he al most forgot where be was. Jut as be bad begun the heel ou his second shoe he felt the locomotive entering, as it were, a new road-bed, aud glidiug aloug so smoothly that he wondered if they had already reached the much talked about sectiou, of which the di rectors had said the day before that it was so smooth that oue could hardly feel the motion in riding over it- Judg ing that this was the case and marvel ing at the eae with which the new locomotive was going, he gave no further thought to the matter aud kept on at histdioes until he had them to his liking. Then be got up, and natural ly, as every engineer does when his train is in motiou, be looked straight ahead and the first thing he saw was a round, white object with a colored top, lying on the left hand rail two or three hundred feet ahead. "My grandfather was a little curious to know what this object might be, and was just about to reverse the lever and stop the train, when he noticed that the landscape wa- standing still and that the object, whatever it was, ap proached no closer. He rublied bis eyes several times, and pinched himself to see whether he was awake or dream ing, and then he looked again. "Well, you can Imagine his surprise when he saw that not only were the tree and houses, and other objects, standing still, but the locomotive also. There was that brand new locomotive, standing stock-still in the middle of the track, with her wheels going round, and steam escaping as if she were do iug her duty, only it sounded soft, like running over a thick carpel! "When my grandfather reversed the lever, the loconjtive became as quiet as a lamb; then he put it on full again, and the machinery started to revolve and the steam to escape, and she con tinued to make almost as much ado as if she were going twenty-six miles an hour; but she never moved an inch. "My grandfather didn't know, at first, whether to laugh or to get angry, but be just then happened to think of the fireman, so he got angry; and he gave the locomotive such a talking to that he soon got out of breath. "What was the round thing on the track?" interjected the farmer, whose interest in the story was now aroused. "It was only a turnip," answered Bob, "about as big as two of these bis cuits put together," and he picked up the biscuits and crushed them together to illustrate the size of the turnip. 'Ha'lor' be cried, as the flaky rolls fell apart, "I didn't mean to do that;" "Thai's all right," said the farmer. "Eat them, and take more if you want them." "Thank you, sir," said Bob, taking immediate advantagejof the invitation by filling his pockets. "Well, gentlemen," he continued, "by this time most of the passengers had discovered that the train had been standing still for at least fifteen min utes, so they came up and crowded arouud my grandfather, asking ques tions aniiaking all sorts of sugges- tiom as to the trouble. Some of them laughed, and said they gueseed the lo comotive was tired and wanted a rest One scientific-looking man poked all around the machinery, and said that the rails were probably magnetized at that spot, and the wheels could not get away from them. Another man said that somebody must have put oil or grease on the track; so tbey looked very carefully but could not find any. "The brakeman and the couductor," ontinued Bb, "reported that the brakes were all right, and so the whole crowd stood looking helplessly at that locomotive, working away for dear life, not knowing what to di next, and tak ing my grandfather's word for it that the machinery was in proper condi tion. - "My grandfather, by this time, was in what he called a 'white heat,' and he wanted to be left aloie, so he spoke to the crowd so earnestly that they all walked away rather quickly, and went Into a neighboring wood to stroll about aud gather flowers aud diseuss the sit uation, my grandfather promising to call them as soon as be had solved the difficulty. Well, he got down on bis bands and knee-i, the brakeman and the conductor with him, and they crawled under the engine and Inspect ed it, and then climbed into the cab and looked everything over, and work ed the levers and put on full steam, and my grandfather kept talkiug about the fireman and getting excited, but not one of them was smart enough to see what was wrong. "Xobody can puzzle this thing out,' said my grandfather finally, 'except the man that built It; but If I had such and such tools' and be told what hs want ed 'and some logs of wood, I might fix It myself.' As a last resort, he co a iludel to send the brakeman and the ESTA.B3LISHED 1827. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15. 1899. conductor back to ine nearest station for the tools and assistance, while he took an axe and went into the wood after the logs. He chopped and chop ped for about ten minutes, and when be had as much wood as he wanted, he returned to the traiu that la, be went back to where be thought he had left It but the locomotive and the three cars had disappeared." "Disappeared!" cried the farmer and the schoolmaster In one breath. "Wa," said Bob, "my grandfather was so astonished that he just sat down on the track aud cried. Then he th wight it was foolish for him to be have in that way; perhaps the con ductor aud the brakeman had found out the trouble, while he was busy chopping, and had taken the traiu and passengers away. But he reflected that they would have known better than to get themselves into trouble with the di rectors by such an action; so, not know ing what else to do, he shouted so loud and so often that the people all came running out of the wood, thinking that the locomotive had been repaired, and that this was the promised signal. "My! those biscuits are certainly good, Mr. -Blossom," said Bob, as be bit into another that he had been hold ing In his hand. "Yes, yes, I know," said the farmer impatiently; "hurry your story aloug, Bob, and tell us what was the matter with the locomotive, and I'll see that you get a whole panful to-morrow." Thank you, hir," said Bob; "all right, then; I'll cut It short. My grand father aud the passengers started to ruu along the track as fast as they could all except the sad-faced man ; they could not find him for they thought the train might stop again after a short run. My grandfather was terribly frightened, for he thought of the acci dents that might happen with no one to manage the locomotive; but in spite of that he said he could not help laugh ing when he looked back and saw the people running madly after him with their hands full of flowers, and their faces as long as his arm. "It all turned out Just as my grand father had expected; they had found the locomotive standing still again, and putting and blowing, about a quarter of a mile from the station, aud they had to get another locomotive to pull her in. "Then," said Bob, "they found out the trouble. The machinery was run ning independent of the levers because it had slipped a cog." "Slipped a cog!" exclaimed his hear ers incredulously. "Yes," said Bob, "my grandfather explaiued it all very clearly in techni cal terms. It was lu the early days of locomotives, you krw, and they were not so well built as they are to-day, when such a thing could not happen. You have seen belting slip off a pulley and stop moving, while the machinery kept on going, haven't you, Mr. Birch?" "Oh, yes," answered the schoolmas ter. "And both you gentlemen," added Bob, "have probably noticed the hands of a clock get caught and lose an hour or two, and then go on again, while the clock kept ticking all the while?" "Certainly," they answered. "Well, that's th way this was. You recollect, I told you my grandfather had the forward lever on when be left his engine, so the parts came together again. Hallo!" cried Bob, suddenly, "it's half-past seven, and I have an en gagement. Good night, gentlemen!" and off he went. "That's a strange tale," said Mr. Birch, as he rose and stretched himself preparatory totals departure, "but it is plausible and probably true; still, I pre fer a story wherein the moral is evident and well directed." Farmer Blossom wao disappoint d with the conclusion of the tale. He expected that Rob would get mixed up before he got through thinking that the boy's story was wholly Imaginary. "It has a moral," he grumbled. "The moral is not to set out a pan of biscuits while Bob Driver is telling stories." "Ha, ha, ha," laughed the school master. "Bob got some supper after all, didn't he?" Tombstone Has Reformed. Once Tombstone, Arizona, was the toughest place ia the WesL To-day it is both a moral and peaceful commun ity, in which during the past few weeks Dwight L. Moody has been holding re vival meetings. Id1h79, and particu larly in IS), there was not a more tur bulent, abandoned, hardened and de praved community, says the New York Sua, not even excepting Dodge City, Kn., or Leadille, Col. Its popula tion dwiodltd from DiS-J to 1SS5, when tha ledges of precious ores petered out, and with a population of about 2J0J it settled down to get a livelihood from herds of cattle and fl cks of sheep and from working a few little copper and silver mines among the mountains on the border between the United S'atea and the State of S jnora. Mexico. The people who remained were largely young men and women who had left good, old fashioned homes among the hills of New England and farni3 In Central and Western New York. For a dozen years Tombstone, with its lit tie public library, churches, public. schools and social aud literary societies, has been a mo ld town in Arizona. A Narrow Escape. Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada K Hart, of Groton, a D. "Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs; cough set in and finally termiu ated in Consumption. Four Doctors gave me up, saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Savior, determined if I could not stay with my friends on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial, took la all eight bottles. It has cured me, and thank God. I am saved and now a well and healthy woman." Trial hot ties free at J. N. Snyder'i Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., -and 0. W. Bralller'i Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. Regular size 50.1 and $100. "Guaranteed or price re-fundtd. Storiet of Animals. From the huge elephant to the tiny ant, the entire animal kingdom offers stories and facta which should enlbt the sympathies and engage the Inter est of the humau being who ban, in quaint, old-fashioned speech, "domin ion over thera." In the whole animal creation there is not to be found a creature more in telligent, more easily managed or more likely to become the friend of man than the elephant. The natives of India, recognizing this, treat him with ven eration and re? pec t; but, on the other hand, the ferocious brutish ness of the African negroes, Incited by the crim inal cupidity of Arab and European vory merchants, transforms Into a savage beast an animal best suited by nature to be man's associate. A Hindoo hunter was once known to have become so fond of an elephant which he had caught and tamed that rather than have his tusks sawed off for the sake of the ivory he allowed himself to live iu penury. A famous general once said: "The most piteous thing after a battle is the eight of wounded horses. The men are cared for, but the poor horses are left to die in agony. The horse enters in the spirit of a battle like a humau being. He shows no fear of death and no sign of panic n all the wild tumult of the battle's din. A home in one of the battle in the Murfreesboro fight had his skull split by a piece of shell so that one side was completely loosened. The driver turned him loose, but he walk ed to the side of the gun and watched the firing, following the shots with his gaze as if to note their effect on tin enemy. When he saw the team he had worked with being driven back for mmunitlou he ran to his old place and galloped back with the rett and when an oftleer pushed him aside, to have another horse put in he gazed at the newcomer with a most sorrowful ex pression In his eyea. Then, seeming to realize that the glory of battle was no more for him, he walked slowly away, lay down and died. The ofllcer who owned him declared that it was not the wound, but a broken heart, that killed him. A Collecting Nemeiia. "There's the best collector in Augus ta," and the head of au Augusta firm indicated the man ou whom his praise had been bestowed. "He doesn't look iL" 'No, nor anything like It, yet I be lieve that his appearance Is about 00 per cent, of his stock in trade. Just size him up. Did you ever see a more ingenuous face? He got his Job Just as he tfets mouey' from debtors that are bad pay. He came right to me and asked for employment. I told him that we were not In need of any one, and followed the usual form in telling him to call again. 'He took the Invitation literally, walked around the square and dropped in to make another application. 'You told me to call again,' he said. 'Want a good man ?' I did the usual thing once more, carelessly asking him to call again. ''Another trip arouud the square and he put in his third appearance, once more Informing me that he was a good man ia search of a J b. I tried him again aud he proved to be a four-time wiuner. "Then it struck me that he would make a collector If he carried bis per sistency into his work, and he has proved a wouder. He has realized on old accounts that we had given up as hopeless long ago, simply wearing debtors down to where they would rather pay than be bothered any further. "One sham rascal, who makes no pretense of p ying his debts, told our phenomenon that be would have to get up very early la the morning to get anything out of him. Our man was at Ibis fellow's bouse at 2:39 a. m., routed him out and actually got the money. He never tires and never lets ago. "Another maddened debtor told him to sing for bis money, aud 'old reliable' simply took up a stool in the efiiceand sawed away ou 'Old Grimes L Dead' until he got the cash." Augusta (Me. ) Journal. When Ice Cream was New. When ice cream was first introduced many funny stories wtre told about it. It was first offered in the National Cap ital, according to an authority on the subject, by Mrs. Alexander Hami'ton, who had had it iu her home in N:w York. She used to tell with amuse ment of the delight with which Presi dent Jackson first tasted it, aud bow- he pronptly decided to have ices at the Exec; live mansion. "Accordingly," say9 the htorian, "guests at the next reception wre treat ed to the frozen mystery, and afforded considerable fun to the initiated by the reluctance with which they tasted it. Those from the rural districts especially eyed it suspiciously, then melted each spoonful with breath before consuming it. Their distrust was soon removed, however, and plates were emptied with great rapidity. "The man who made the ice cream was, oddly enough, a negro by the name of Jackson, who in the early part cf the present century kept a small confectionery store in Washington. Cold custards, which were cooled by setting them on a cake of Ice, were very fashionable, and Jacksou, at Mrs. Hamilton's suggestion, froze them by placing the ingrjd,cts in a tia bucket and completely covering them with ice. Each bucket contained a quart and waa sold for a dollar." Bed Hot From the Can Was the ball that hit G. B. Stead man of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible Ulcers that no treatment helped for 20 years. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve curetf him Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons. Corns, Skin Eruptions. The best Pile cure oa earth. 2 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold at J. N. Sny der'a Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and O. W. Brallier'a Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. Trickj Played oa Bankers. Oue of the things most eagerly sought after by the bankers," said Will iam A. Pinerton the other day, "is protection for their funds, and this de sire often makes them easy prey for slick couSdenee men. I don't mean the ordinary 'con' sharps, for any up- to-date banker can guard against their wiles. But there is a class of smooth talkers who do business with bankers in an apparently legitimate manner nd get the cash every time wjtbout taking any risk. Tnesu are the chaps who have something to sell in the way of burglar-proof or fire-proof devices. Many of the dealers and agents are reputable and straightforward In their business, but there are black sheep in all lines of trade, and the banker does not always get the kind of protection he thinks he has purchase. After he has been bamboozled a few times be be comes suspicious even of those who are honest and able to furnish him recepta cles which will give protection against the ingenious burglar who has been so much in evidence lately," relates the Chicago Inter-Ocean. "For Instance, when a banker, after such Investigation, does fiually pay a gtxid price for a first-claris safe, aud be- ins to rest easy, aloug comes a new schemer, who Is after his dollars, and assures him that bis safe Is absolutely worthless; that any burglar cau, by the use of the electric current, burn a hole any desired size Into his safe in a few minutes and easily extract ILsconteuts. But If the banker will buy an electric alarm system, which this ready exag gtrator has to sell, then any old box can be made burglar-proof. No safe has ever yet been robbed by the use of the electric current It Is positively Impracticable for such a trick to be per formed, and has been proved so upon at least two occasions by electrical experts. Wbile It Is true that any metal can be pierced or melted rapidly with electri city under certain favorable conditions, yet It la impossible for a bauk burglar to secure the required facilities. "The method by which some bankers ha'e been scared into purchasing elec tric alarm svstems which sound gongs la the streets, often give false alarms, and can be defeated is a 'fake' pure and simple. Sime bankers have been eye-witnesses in Chicago to the process of burning holes into bank safes. This work is done iu a basement. In one room the banker sees a positive electric wire attached to a carbon dumped to a stick, a negative wire attached to the safe, a sheet-iron box lined with asbes tos with a hole iu the ceuter, fastened to the safe, a switchboard, and he sees the metal melt, but he does not see, lo cated lu auother room, great resistance coils immersed iu an immense trough of running water, and various other bidden paraphernalia. If the investi gator were allowed to see the whole out fit he would not worry one moment about having his safe robbed by elec tricity." High and Low Church. GilbertaS. Whittle contributes this story to the "Editor's Drawer" of Har per's Magizine for March : Rev. Dr. W , for fifty years the rector of a Baltimore church, is what is denominated "an old fashioned High Churchman," his views when he took charge of the work being much in ad vance of those about him. By degrees, however, new ideas began to creep in, aud a young clergyman, thoroughly imbued with these, was called to be the good doctor's assistant This young diviue, who wa very fond of arguing with the good old rector whenever the opportunity pre sented Itself, exe'aimed in a tone of some impatience : ''Doctor, I have always been led to suppose that you were a High Church man, but I must emfcss I d m t think you are a High Churchman at all." The doctor regarded bis young men tor for a moment in silence, and then said with a genial smile : "Mr. Smith, wheu I first took up my residence in Baltimore I lived 'way up town. Now I live 'way down town, and yet I have been living in exactly the same house all the time." What it Was For. The youn gest son of a distinguished citizen of this town, says the ew York Sun, went abroad with a liberal amount of money for a boy of his age not long ago, and after a month in London, where he has relatives, he cabled to his father : "Please send XHX) quick," and signed his name, Willie Blank. Mr. Blank, who is a generous man of large means, took this cable to the office of his eldest son and said in a puzzled way : "Willie has just cabled for j: Now, I wonder what the boy wants to do with it" "Cable and find out," was the sug eestion. and Mr. Blank sent to Willie Blank this message : "What do you waut money for?" A few hours later came the reply : "For Willie." The money was sent. Spain's Greatest Need. Mr. R. P. Olivia, of Barcelona, Spain, spends his winters at Aiken, S. C. Weak nerves had caused severe pains in the back of his head. Ou using Electric Bitters, America s greatest Blood and Nerve Remedy, all pain soon left him. He says th'w grand medicine is what his couutry needs. All America knows that It cures liver and kidney troubles, purifies the blood. tones up the stomach, strengthens the nerves, puts vim, vigor and pew life Into every muscle, nerve and organ of the body. If weak, tired or ailing you need It. Every bottle guaranteed only 50 centa. Sold at J. N. Snyder'a Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and G. W Brallier'a Drug Store, Berlin, Pa, "Colonel, you swear positively that your regiment never received a pound of embalmed beef in Cuba. How Is it possible for you to be so absolutely cer tain?" "Because my regiment never got farther than Tampa, sir." Detroit Free Prsa. Women love a clear, healthy com plexlon. Pure blood makes It Bar dock Blow Bitten makea pure blood. 1 T WHOLE NO. 2185. The Servant Question. When presumably capable women give up housekeeping and betake them selves to boarding because they can net get servants or manage them; when mistresses are palpably afraid of their cooks, and unable to prevent waste and even dishonesty in the kitchens which they hesitate to enter, although they are their own; when half the references given are not truthful, or at least mis- leadimr: when iutellieence onice are the last places where an intelligent woman expects to get satisfactory serv ants: when waxes erow higher while work grows even more grudging and careless, and when six mouths is the average limit cf a servant's stay in one household, so that an "old family ser vant" is practically as obsolete as the mastodon when all these signs show an utterly disorganized state of affairs iu woman's especial realm, it certainly does appeal to one's sense of humor to bear the suffragists assert that the fem inine vote would straighten out all the perplexities into which man's inability to cope with governmental problems has plunged the nation! If a woman can not rule one servant, or two, or ten, how can she wisely rule a city? If he can not formulate with her sisterhood of mistresses a working system of graded wages and reliable references, and reform the present con ditions in the kitchens of America, how is she going to reform the public service? If this one question over whelms her so that she sometimes breaks down with nervous exhaustion, how is she going to lift all man's bur dens and smooth the nation's pathway ? Since the earliest syllable of recorded time she has been struggling with strv aDts, and the nineteenth century finds her helpless. There are only two alternatives ei ther the servant question is bigger than any question which man grapples with, or woman is less fitted to grapple with difficult questions than man. I hardly think that even the most daring suf fragist would choose the first of these as a tenet of fith; yet the other horn of the dilemma certainly w not calcu lated to convince America that equal suffrage is, as its supporters claim, the solution of all problems and the rem edy for all ills! Harper's Bazsr. A Near "View of Kipling. Imagine a short, thick-set man, with full figure, and round, ruddy face, dress ed with absolute style and cleanliness. but without apparent taste. This Is Kipling as his Brattlebor j friends know him. He is scrupulously exact in bis dres-s, appearing at noon lunch and evening dinner In equally careful cos tume. His bubiU of work seem, from the outside, at K af , to lie rather irregu lar. He walks much about the coun try and in the woods, drives often, and seems always to have leisure. Oue is as apt to see him In thefity, three miles from his bilL-Me home, Naulahka, In the middle of the forenoon or early in the morning as at any other time, until it is evideut that bis literary work takes no regularly prescribed period of the day. Evenings are usually reserved for bis family aud the few friends he has in r.rattleboro, and ii may be taken for Certain that not much work comes from his pen except during the day. This Is Kipling two or three years ago. What he is to-day, crowned with still more couspicuous laurel, no one In America perhaps knows outside the immediate family. Springfield Republican. Drinkers' Licenses. A drinking license is the latest legis lative Inveution, and its place or origin is Michigan. Under the provisions of a bill now under discussion al Iansing, no person caa buy liquor without first procuring a license from the county clerk aud ptiying $-5 therefor. In ad dition he must advertise the license in a newspaper, s that all persons can be aware of his habits. The idea is not original with the Michigan lawmaker. but was applied a dozen years ago In Virginia. In that state the fee was $1, a mucn more reasonaoie uemauu. , , , Probably the reason for such a bill is to remove the paint from various whi ted sepulchers. What must be the dis tress of many p rofessing teetotalers and prohibitionists when they cannot drink a drop of liquor, even for medicinal purposes, without being licensed! Such a law would compel a gol many vo ciferous abstainers to live up to their professions or else change their profes sions to suit their practices, observes the St Paul "Dispatch." As a temp-ranee measure, the driuk er's license would hardly be a success. The licensees, after paying the V and advertising bill, would feel la duty bound to use extensively the privilege thus ccarly purchased. There would be much drunkenness. Again, it would be necessary to lower or abolish the sa loon licenses iu all fairness, and then what a multitude of temptations would spring up all around ! As a means of checking the consumption f liquor, the drinker's license would not be a success. Working Day and Night. The busiest and mightiest thing that ever was made Is Dr. King's New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar coated globule of health, that change weak ness iuto strength, lisUessnesa into energy, brain-fag iuto mental power. They're wonderful la building up the health. Ouly 2- cents at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and G. W. Brallier'a Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. Words From tha Family Oracle. Never play a part. Be what you are and do not be ashamed of it If Heaven made you this or that or the other, you are that aud nothing else. You are only a plain person. Very well; It is good to be a plain person. You have no "grand aspirations," no "yearning after lofty thiugs," so don't pretend that you have. Oat with your opinions. If you think a thing Is wrong, say so; doa't wink at it because it is fashionable. Take tin cornmio seuse which Grd has given you, and use it For roses select a spot where they will always get the sun; keep them away from shade tree ; and climbers always do better upon the sunny sid of the h juse. The soil does not matter so much, if the place be not low and wet Chip dirt and barnyard scrap ings are good fertillcera, and should be well worked into the earth. If broody hens are properly treated nina out often will begin ti lay agalu within two weeks after being removed from the uest. But if tley are half drowned, starved a week, or bruised and abused It is more than likely they will get even with their owners by de clining to lay a single egg until they have fuliy recovered from their 115 treatment aud acquired their custom ary tranquillity. The farmer who keeps a flock of Leg horn chickens where they can run among the sheep, will 'be saved th trouble of either using Insect powder or dipping, as far as ticks are concerned, and if the sheep are full of ticks wheu shearing, if he will give the leghorns a good chance they will rid them of ticks equal to any sheep dip, and with much less trouble and expense, and they will also do the work well. Wash your hands in borax water in stead of using soap. The milk pails are l-etter and cleaner for having been rinsed in borax water. Use warm wa ter to riuse with. Mauy dairymen who deliver milk to their city customers in the large tin cans, rinse them ouce a diy with a solution of borax water; a small handful of borax to a large dish pa u-fill of water to wash the cans in. They use a brush to get them thor oughly clean inside. Borax kills the germs which cause milk to sour, and it costs so little, every one will be able to keep it Vegetable life is influenced much more by certain kinds of light rays than by others, and Flammarion, the French astronomer, has been enabled to esti mate the relative values of the different rays. Four hothouses, of red, green. blue and ordinary glass, were built, and vegetables of the same species were cul tivated in all The experiment showed that plants in the red house attained a much greater size than tlnwe in the blue house. The light through blue glass stunted the plants, which thrive better under green light, still better un der the chemical influence of red rays, and best of all in white light Experiments at the 'jio Station have demonstrated clearly that the apple scab is the chief factor in the destruc tion of the apple crop, and that this fungus can be kept under control by spraying, rour sptenuia successive crops were produced on the sprayed trees at the station, while the fruit oa the unsprayed trees ia the same and neighboring orchards was worthless. The director, Professor Thome, call attention to the fact that exhaustion of soil fertility, waut of water and insect ravages may all co-operate withscub or other fungous growth In shorteuiug the crop, and says: "If our orchard are again to produce the great crops of earlier days, we must, iu so far as pos sible, restore the soil conditions of thne lays; we must avoid the waste of wa ter in those sections w here rainfall is scanty by preventing the growth under the trees of weeds or grass, and by keeping the surface in such condition as to prevent rapid evaporation." Royalty in Irons. An English society paper tells the following little anecdote about the Princess of Wales. It appears that her kind heart interests itself not only in hospital life, but also In the welfare of prisoner--. Oce day she visited Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, and went into every nook and cranny, including the laundries and the kitchens, even tasting the soup and the bread. When she was showu some handcuffs she laughingly insisted on having them clasped on her own wrists. "There!" she said, "I suppose I aai the first Princess who has ever been irons!' Presently she held out her wrist9 to be relieved of her gyves. But, alas, the governor of the prison, unused to per forming such a task, was utterly una ble to move the locks, and there stood the Prim-ess, handcuffed and helpless, like any poor jailbird! The governor appealed to a warder to come to the rescue. The man looked confused and hesitated before submit ting bis rough hands to the touch of royalty, but the Princess, seeing bis confusion, laughed and iid kindly: "Ob, don't be afraid! I am ouly the am as other ladies." Aud the old man did as he waa bidden. A Remirkable Harder. Biddonden, a quiet country village in Kent, was receutly the sceue of a remarkable murder. The rector's daughter, a middle-agl spinster, had quarreled with several parishioners and wrote to six of them to meet her at church on a certain Sunday, a she wished to make up. It happened to raiu, so that only one of the persons addressed, a Sunday school teacher, at tended church. After the communion, of which loth p-irtook, the womau In vited him into the vestry and asked the curate to bs a witness to the recon ciliation. She then drew a revolver and shot the teacher- dea 1. Sbe had several spare cartridges ou her person, so that it is inferred that she iutended to shoot all the p.-rson to whom she had written. S ie w perfectly calm after her aot and has kept sileut about it Regarding a fiat's Tail- A rat's tail is a wo vlerful thing. Tne great naturalist Cuvier says that there are more muscles in this curious appendage than are to be fHind iu that part of the human aualomy which m most a-ltnired f.r iu ingenious struct urenamely, the hanL To the rat, iu fact. Its tail serves as a sort of hand, by means of which the animal is enab led to crawl along narrow ledges or other ditll mlt passages, using it to bal- ance with or to gain a hold. It ia pre hensile, like the tails or somemonKeys. By means of it the little beast can Jump up heights otherwise inaccessible, em ploying it as a projectile spring. German Method of Cooking Potatoes. To eight medium sized potatoes al low three ounces of butter, two table spoonfuls of fl ur, half a pint f broth and two tableppoonfuls of vinegar. Put the butter and fl-air la a stewpan, stir over the fire until the butter is of a nice brown color and add the broth aud vinegar. Peel and cut the pota toes Into long thin sHees, lay them ia the gravy and let them simmer gently until tender, which will take from tea to fifteen minutes, and serve very hot A leaf of any of the flavoring vegeta bles will be an improvement When a man's children can no long er ride for half fare ou the street cars he begins to feet that he U getting old. Atchison Globe.
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