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U U Scientific American. A tMi.1wn.-Ir lllnrtrrt-d wklf. '-"' ." tli.u.l of UT -wiit.e- f..orri; 1 " " USE yi.'i i .'J!'.wJ'' 'iiu'wj m h-aia w m ... . . -i e Sri 1 V . ' V I J Mi i . 1 1 7 I - i. s A H A j I K Tunc Marks 51. AFTER FOSTY. After forty lorku grow thinner, We grow touU-r "tliorc'g the rub' Li 1 1 (?i-r lunger orourd I nner, Mjtrlc the mutuliUMl tab. AtVr f-.rty we irrw liazy. To the lad the girl rwigo Ttuy nuiy flirt with lKt ml Daiy While we lolu-r o'er our wine. Aflor forty saury nnssc Treat u I ke their own p.ipu ; No f.nraow of stolen kU, llillH-doox, Irate minnmiv Kut, their white arm calmly n-stlng On our KhouMiTS. If you p'.et". They will k (I am not jeUtig) After onr rheumatic knet! After forty fruyWi Ja rUlm n Quite '-a n of them" Kh me I Hin of sixty thus di'i'ume u ; We aire only forty-three! OiJ "Jim Crow," too, wrawli with pleasure Afler f irty on our phiz. Time, who jiicHH our lorks at lei.ure, WtnkKMt wag the horrid quiz ! What's the moral of the matter ? Tl::, and lny It well to heart : After forty light chatter. An no more the strip'.iug part ! I..-t us take with renl.-jatlon In old fogi.' r.mkfca pluci' ; Ti mm art worth ctiluvUou That of "growing old" with jro, Fearsou'ii Weekly. THE STOLES LOVE SONG. I had not been in a good humor for a day or two when Mr. Maswiu came iuto luDchtMsn, looking radiant. "I Lave been," he said, glancing my way, "riinee nine o'clock interviewing Mi.- Gweu." "I didu't know it took people so long to give their opiuious,' remarked Mrs. Tister. "You never ean tell how long it takes a woman to give ber opinioua on cer tain matters when she puts her mind to if," Mr. Mason replied, his eyes on me. "No," I said, "I do not know. I do everything by shorthand." Whereat Mrs. Fister aeemed puzzled. "Mims Gen is charming, as I have already told you," went on Mr. Mason. "iSheisa Girtou g'.rl. Her voice was trained in Paris by. Marciit-si. I sin sure by her speaking voice that sho sings like an angel. And she's In a sort of trouble, to. The love song in King Arthur's Knights is so poor she refuses to sing it, and she doesn't know where to get another." "A g'Kd love song would be the making of the KuiguU," he added, "for the score is rather dulL I've sug gested half a doz.m local o nnpjsers, but th lady is skvp'.ioil and says good songs are born, and not made." "Did you ever htar of such a thing," smiled Mrs. Fi-ter. "To the right man," concluded Mr. Mi.3 n, "it would be a hundred dol lars." "A hundred dollars !" It was Mr. Tredick who said this, his fork falling in his plate. Then be laughed at what he called his awkwardness, aud raised his enfiee to his lip. "Nora" thus Mr. Mason addressed me "you know everything; There can I get a love song by Monday ?" "Mercy!" I said, slightly Irritated; you don't think I owu an incubator of ditlits, do you?" "No," he smiled; "but I know you are shorthand in thought as well as in dei." I bowed. 'You seem to take considerable in terest in Miss Gweu," said Mrs. Fister, for we have beard a great deal about the lady for two or three days." "I do," be returned. "She is simp ly diarizing. Her eyes are a perfect blue, a rather unusual color in eyes, blue eyes being ordinarily gray." My own eyes are brown. "Her nose is perfect Grecian," be continutd. My own nose is sort of Gothic, I fear. "And then ber raoutb," he said, a Cupid's bow !" I never heard my mouth called that "I think she has fascinated you," Mrs. Fister said. "And then," I supplemented, "it is beauty in distress. Very likely Mr. Mason could write the song himstlf." "Ftrhaps I might struggle through the words," he absented, "but it is the muhic that I want !" "The music would not matter," cried I. "The words of a love song are every thing." "Who ever hear the words of a song?" he asked, gem rally. "No, no, Nora, you're wrong," and he rose to rush to the offloe with his "story" for the uest day's paper. I had half an hour to spare before re turning to the oflice, and as usual I went up stairs to freshen up my appear ance. Somehow I felt aunoyed that I had accused Mr. Mason of the ability to write the words of a love song what was I to Hecuba, or Uecub to me. But then, Charlie Mason's eu thusiaMU over the singer was silly. At dinner Mr. Mason was even more happy than he iiad been at luncheon. "I think I've found the man to make that song," he said. "A little 'cello player with a head like lic-ethoven's. I am going to the hotel to tell Miss Owen about him." And then he was gone. Mr. Mxsa always affected people, and even Mr. Fister aeetned influenced by bis desire to be of service to the singer, aud itogau to speak euthusiisli ca'.ly of music "Mr. Tredick," she said, the piano is not iu good tune, but I wish you would play something for us." Mr. Tredick followed us Into the parlor and seated himself at the instru ment and ran Lis fingers over his keys. I had never hoard him play before, and I was astouished at his wonderful technique. He played a rhapsody of Liszt. In the midst of it a servant came to the uoor and beckoned Mrs. Fister, who went out. The rhapsody came to an abrupt con clusion, and the player turned aud looked at me. Then he pressed the keys again. Such a change. His fingers seemed to have become velvet, and the md ly he played coaxed the very heart out of me. I was glad he turned away from me and that he did oot look my way again, but, ending the tuue, rambled ofT into things that jnegled with the notes till they wove into intricate fugues. At last he roe ai.d closed the piano. Somerset SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY. "You have been very good," I said. "Good !" be repeated smilingly, in a sad sort of way. "Maybe the goodness is on you part- You are a musician. I seldom meet one." "A musician !" I repeated. "I can not play of any account whatever." "But you understand music," he said. "I have studied the theory of it," I told him, "as I studied anything I could get at for commercial purposes." 'That is scarcely what I mean," he said, and we left the parlor. Up in my room I picked up a book. But I could not read. Instead, I took a sheet of music piper aud tried to j t down the pretty, coaxing tune Mr. Tredick had played down in the parlor. I copied the tuue. I kuew a good deal about the intervals aud values aud the like and I have what is called a musical memory. I could even read it aud hum it after I had taken it down. "I can see him now," I said in the middle of this humming, "looking iuto her 'perfect blue eyes' and telling her about the little 'cello player with a head like Beethoveu's. It was apropos of nothing, but I felt warm. I had breakfast alone in the morn ing. I usually had it at seven so as to get down town by eight and do the transcribing from my notes of the day before. At luncheon Mr. Mason looked due north east, with a promise of rain. On the contrary, I felt quite cheerful. "I)you know," he said, "the 'cello player was worth nothing. I took him to see Miss Given last night aud she ridiculed his efforts." On the way back to the oflice I met Mr. Mason. He was walking with the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There was no need to tell me it was Miss Gweu; there she was, just as he had described her, aud more. I caught her glance, and that glance told me what a fascinating creature she mast be to meu au educated woman, gifted with beaut y aud a fine voice. Mr. Mason saw me and raised his hat. I felt that I shrank; the compar ison between me and the other woman was inevitable. At dinner Mr. Mason failed to ma terialize. "He had an engagement to dine with Miss Gweu," Mrs. Fister informed us. "It appears that she is determined to have that song, and he has found a new mau. Isu't it strange how incon stant some men are? I used to think it was you, Miss Nora, while now'' My laugh stopped her. "I'ray spare me," I said. The der woman floundered dreadfully, and was saying that Mr. Mason had been with me every chance I would give him, aud all that sort of thing, till I do not know what I should have done if Mr. Tredick had uot asked me if I should like to htvd a little tuuiia "What ehall I play?" he aaked me when we were in the parlor. "Something presto," I told him; "something full of fire and motion." His hands crashed on the keys, aud for five minutes the air seemed to scin tillate with flashing recklessness. I did uot know when he stopped the rush of it, but all at once I found myself think- j lug of mother and Bessie and wishing I were with them. Something that I j think was a tear fell on my folded hands, and I found that he was play ing the melody he had played the night before, the tender, wistful thing that seemed to coax the heart out of me. He was looking over to me, but I did not care. Then he left the piano and came to me aud laid his hand lightly on my shoulder. "My child," he said, "theonly thing is t hide our feeling from the world." Without another word he lfft the parlor. How angered I was ! How dared he! this poor, inconsequential man, with duns after him; his board bill unpaid ! But I weut up to my room and thought of sheep following one anotherover a fence, aud in a few minute I was sleeping the sleep of the jul. "Now, as I was taking down Mr. Wolfs notes next morning an idea struck me. Whether or not Mr. Tre dick was a comprehending man, why should he not put a hundred dollars in his pocket? This melody that he had played to me why should he not make it iuto a love song? And why shouldn't Charlie Mason know that it had been done at my suggestion, and thus be maie to understand that I didn't care a little bit for his admira tion for all the Misses Gweu in the world. I am impulsive; I suppose shorthand makes one so; it looks so little, and it is so much. At luncheon neither Mr. Mason nor Mr. Tredick appeared. I waited as long as I honestly could then I asked what bad become of the hitter gentle man. Mrs. Fister said that be had gone to rehearse a new mass at the church. This was the first I had beard of his being au organist, for ever si nee be had beeu lu the house Mr. Mason's admiration fr Miss G en bad usurp ed attention. The church, it appeared, was Saint Theresa's. "He expects to be there all day," Mrs. Fister said. "Aud I don't like to nientiou it, Miss Nora, but seeing that we're aloue, I might as well tell you that he offered me his gold watch this morning as security for- his board till be gets his money." Surely, then, the man would be glad of a hundred dollars. At four o'clock I left the oRlce. At Saint Theresa's I appeared to be the sole occupant of the church. I took back pew and felt that it was a rest to be there, away from the jir and jostle of the ouUide world, away from the the thought that that little world was alL I was sorry that Mr. Tredick bad goue, and I should not get the chance to speak to him in private to score the melody be had played for me, if it were his own, that Miss Owen might ?e iU Mr. Mason might write tbe words for it, for he had said he coul 1 do it, and ESTABLISHED 1 827. At any rate it was peaceful here, and I could get rid of the miserable feeling that had taken poHession of me for a week. For I am not usually one of the unhappy ones, as mother and Bessie always say. AU the same, as I sat there trying to compare the vast meauing of the Church with my ojfu paltry cares, there suddenly sounded far above me a thin strain of music. I am not easily startled; I have been a business woman too long for that, but that faint sighing tone made me almost leap to my feet. So Mr. Tredick was not gone, after all. There was no sound of voices; then he must be aloue, and I was for finding the stairs and going up to him with my request when there came a chord that stopped me. It was tbe strangest chord, wild and searching, and it broke off abruptly, aud a soft note took its place, a tone that glided iuto others and wove about me for a minute and forth came a rnehHiy. That melody! The passion of it! the hope in il! It was a part of the perpet ual light before the altar, a part of the Divine Compassion the lamp lighted up, a part of all the pain of life, of all that was sad aud human. It was love! Over and over it was played, over and over, as though the persistent reitera tion of it were its glory and its strength love, love, love! I had one of mother's letters in my lckct; I took it out aud with my pen cil drew the musical bar. I must do what I had thought to do this man Had sympathised with me when there was no one else, and he should be help ed against his foolish Tuples. Over aud over the melody was pluy ed. I jotted it down note by note until I had it all. I could not do much of the accompaniment; only a chord here aud there. Words came uncontrollably words I should neyer have written at any other time; but the meaning of the melody was with me. At eight o'clock it was fiinshed. I added a line to MUs Gweu and addressed it all to the thea tre where fhe should lie-in ber engage ment the following Monday. I bad signed no name to the note nor to the music Mr. Tredick could claim the song if it were aecept-d, and then I should tell him all. When I reached Mrs. Fister's I was trembling in every limb, and I went un perceived to my room. I wonder if I slept that night? In the moruing what I had done ap pealed to nie. I bad wronged Mr. Tre dick; 1 had wronged myself. The day was miserable one of reaction. I did not go borne to luncheon. In the even ing I went to the house in a sort of ter ror. They were all at VLe tabl, ond such a buzzing as Mr. Mason made Miss Owen bud received anonymously a song which delighted her and which was being orchestrated. Mr. Tredick was dull aud preoccu pied and paid no attention. When I left the room Mr. Mason followed me, 'Do you know," hesaid, "Miss G wen kuows all about Tredick. He wrote au opera over in Paris which' had great things predicted for it, but a love affair with a titled lady an affair, you know, where the lady was miles above him broke him up; he withdrew his opera and drifted away from every onn. MUs Gwen is delighted that through me she has agaid heard of him, aud will write to friends abroad, especially to Mar- choi, who used to know him very well. I will get your tickets for Monday night; I want you to hear the first per formance. And phew! what a 'story' I am making!" - A "story!" He thought nothing of what I was going through. Sunday I usually weut for a walk in the country with company. This Sun day I weut alone. It is depressing to go alone through paths you have en joyed in the society of another. I kept gettiug lower and lower. How could I explain it to Mr. Tredick about the Bong? If he were the genius Mr. Ma son said that he was he would be fu rious at any act, and But why the orize, even in shorthand ? When I bad sat an hour on the trunk of a big tree where Mr. Mason and I had often rent ed, I was as uncheerful as a girl could well be. It was nearly dark when I reached home. I did not sleep well that night. I heard Mr. Mason come iu. Wbeu he neared my door he paus ed for a moment, aud I heard a faint scraping on the sill. Then he wentoa. I looked. There were two bits of pasteboard tucked under the door. They were two tickets for Miss Owen's opening uighi. Two! The insult of it! I tore up one of them, aud was on tbe point of destroying the other when I stopped. If I did not go to the opera be would say that Never mind that, though. I had my breakfast early and met no one. I did not go to lunch. About five o'clock I went home and weut down to dinner dressed for the evening, and I was not ashamed when Mr. Ma son took me in from top to toe. He sat down beside me. "I'm glad you are going to bear The Knights. Wait till you hear that love song!" Just then the door opened. Mr. Tre dick came in in a good suit of black with a wide showing of shirt-front. "I am going to hear the rara avis," be said. "Mr. Mason has piqued my curiosity." I felt like fainting. Theonly thing I could do would be to appeal to his generosity and let him know the truth. I must have looked wretched, for when Mr. Mason left the room to hurry to the theatre Mr. Tredick came around to me. "I thought you would go," he said. "You must not go alone. Come!" When we got to the theatre I said: "Get only an admission ticket; tbe seat uext to mine will not be occupied." lie looked at me. 'I tell you it is so!" I said peevishly. So he went along with me to the front places. "I waut to tell you something," I said. "Not now," he returned; "you would teU me too much; you are iu no condi tion to tell any one anything. Here U the overture!" , He listened for a few bars, then talk ed quietly, soothingly to me. When INI AY 3 1. 1899. the curtain rose he turned to the stage. Wheu Miws Gweu made her appear auefc be was attentive. When she had euog her first aria he smiled. "She is a lady," be said, "but she is not singer. The fire is not there. If you bad a voice you would be a singer." I was too nervous to analyze this. In tbe second act the tiling happen ed. In this act the heroine, separated from the lord she thinks no longer loves her, gives herself up to her grief in the song I had stoleu. The singer was divinely beautiful as she stood there. The orchestra played a few bars of symphony, and then the sung. That song! The music, the secret of the man beside nie; the words, my own poor sucret! I clasped my bands till I burst one of my gloves, forgetting my surroundings everything. That beau tiful voice, the depth of meaning of the song! But a hand grasped my arm. My companion was ghastly. "My song,'J he gasped. "I wrote it for one I My poverty could not tempt me to sell it!" I kuew then that I must tell him. In tbe din of applause that followed the song I got him to his feet and out into the empty corridor. There came Charlie Mason. But I turned away from him. "Mr. Tredick," I said, "forgive me. I was in the church the day you played that song. I copied it, I wrote the words. You will get a hundred dollars for it It was selfishly wicked of me " "You!" interrupted Charlie Mason. "You!" cried the musician. "You to drag from me a thing uiaJe saciv.I by association; for I must have been think ing of you and your sorrow when I played it. You" Inside the prima donna was singing the song over aguin. "Tredick," Charlie Mason naid, "do you mean to say that you wrote that song?" But the man broke away from us and rushed down the corridor. Theu we saw him fall back. For around the curve of the pa-sage came a woman, her silken train sweeping after btr, her Lair blazing with jewels. At sight of him she gave a little cry. Then she went across to him. "Arthur," she said, "it is the song you made for me, and when I beard it I knew that I had found you at Lut." IiiM.Ie the lovely voice took a high note of exceeding purity as Charlie Mason said: "My 'story' is no good. It was the story of Tredick. I have been getting it from Miss Gwen for a week, aud now I can not use It! But there's another story, and it, too, is a love story, which I've been wanting to tell to tell to you alone " Hut, really, this is a shorthand story. Bobert C. V. Meyers, iu Saturday Fveuing Post. Married To Order. The newspaper reporters of the time of Alexander the Great, bad there been any, would have had the heaviest day's work of their lives iu covering the in teresting events that marked the day Alexander was married. Ou that day, says the New York Journal, authenti cated accounts tell us, no less than :?),- 202 meu and women were made bus- bauds aud wives. Alexander had cm- quered Darius of Persia, and he felt that this great achievement was impor tant euough to be signalized iu a con spicuous manner. Imagine the pride of a c mqueror who decides that it can be measured properly only by a wholesale giving aud taking iu marriago the like of which the world has never known. Alexander himtif married Statira, the daughter of the conquered king, and decreed that one hundred of bis chief officers should be united to one hundred ladies from the noblest Per sian and Medean families. In addition to this be stipulated that lo,tHj of his Greek soldiers should marry 10,0i Asiatic women. When everything was settled a vast pavilion was erected, the pillars of which were six feet high. One hun dred gorgeous chambers adjoined this for the hundred noble bridegrooms, while for the 10,0u0 an outer court was enclosed, outride of which tables were spread for the multitude. Each pair had seats, aud ranged themselves in semicircles around the royal throne. Of course, the priesU could uot marry this vast number of couples in the ordi nary way, so Alexander the Great de vised a very simple ceremony. He gave his hand to S.a'.ira an i kissed ber an example that all the bridegrooms followed- This ended the ceremony. Then fol lowed the festival, which lasted five days, the graudeur of which has never been equaled since. Efmaxkable Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plaiufield, III , makes the statement, tbat she caught cold, which settled ou her lungs; she was treated for a mouth by ber family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of con sumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion; she bought a bottle and to her de light fouud herself benefitted from first dose. She continued its use aud after taking six bottles, found herself sound aud well; now does her owu house work, and Is as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great Discov. ery at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, IV, and G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, P., large bottles oOc and flOO.. Coulda't Fool Johnny. Widjw Jones How would my little Johnny like a new papa ? Johnny (aged 5)-Oj, you needn't shove the responsibility ou to ma, nu. It isn't a new papa for me, but a new husband for yourself, that you are thinking of. Boston Transcript. We cannot djakiudir act than to speak of Wheeler's Nsrve Vitalize aud iu wonderful cures. IJiiney din, Ilijckville, Ini was cured by it after be became disciuraged with other treatment. For sale at Garman's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. and Mountain A Sou's Drug Store, Confluence, Pa. era Year's Grace for Schools. Deputy Superintendent of Publle In struction Stewart, in a conversation relative to the cut In the public school fund, said: "There seems to be a mis understanding in the minds many people as to the State appropriation made for the support of the public schools for the current school year, which ends on the first Monday iu June, ISiXi. In view of this fact it would be proper for S-.'hool Direo'.ors and others who are interested iu th? public schools to be rightly informed ou the subject. "The Legislature at the session of W'7 appropriated .j1.VX1,00O for the support of the public schools for the two school years ending on the first Monday in June, ls, and the first Monday iu June, 1SW, respectively. The appro priation of 10,000 made by tbe Leg. islature of 1W for the school year end ing on the first Monday in June, IS! is, has b-en paid in full. The appropria tion of fi,')i),CKi0 for the n-bool year ending on the first Monday in June, J K)l, will le paid after June of this year at such times as the State Treasurer will be able to meet the obligation. WON'T HAVE KKFEtT KOK A YEA R. "The 5,.VK),!0 which the school dis tricts will receive for the uext ensuing school year, beginning June 1W, will not be due and payable until after the first Monday in June, 1!h). There can be no excuse, therefore, for any reduc tion iu the wages of teachers for the next school year, beginning June, isif). Ou the contrary, school officers and others who are interested iu the educa tional welfare of Pennsylvania ought to do all they can to maintain adequate school facilities in all of the school (lis triets of the Commonwealth, aud to nitke such lilersl provision for compen sating teachers for their services as w iil justify the employment of the best teaching talent that can be procured. One other iiiU which seems to be misunderstood is in connection with the fact that some districts have not levied any school taxes whatever du riug the current school year. There are probably less than one Lalf dozen districts iu Pennsylvania which did uot levy any taxes for school purposes lat year. Hr'KKtT OF FKVEN MONTHS TERM. "Some districts do not, of course, levy a building tax every year, as such a spe cial tax is not necessary, but with tbe exception of three or four districts, all levy a school tax anuually. It is true there are townships which have con tinued year after year to levy a very low tax rate. Many of these districts have provided only for the minimum term of six months, but the Legisla ture, at the last session, enacted a law to extend the minimum school term to seven months. This act goes Into ef fect at the beginning o the school year of is:', so that a majority of the town ships will doubtless increase the tax rate, iu order to meet the demands of the recent act of Aasserubly which re quires the schools to be kept open seven months a yew. "The statement bas been widely pub lished that many districts receive more from the State than is raised iu the dis trict by local taxation. This is true in many iustances, but with tbe extension of the school term these distiiets will doubtless raise an increased local fund for the support of the schools if neces sary to do so." He Wanti an Easy Place. Oh, that's it ; you want an easy place, do you? Oh, yes, I understand you, my boy. I have been right along there, myself. I traveled over that road many years ago, when I was, probably, about your age; so, perhaps, you will permit me to offer a word of advice. Don't you think of being an editor nor a lawyer, nora merchant; don't lie a m 'chanic, avoid all shops and store"; the army don't want you, the navy has no use for you; don't undertake the practice of medicine; keep out of politics; all kinds of public speaking and oratory let severely alone; d-.m't undertake to write for pajers; dou't, don't, my! don't you ever think of be ing a farmer; never do you soil your t little bauds with work, my boy; avoid all study, don't read, don't think; these are all are all hard. This is a busy world you have got Uito, young man, aud it has nothing but hard places for you; in fact, the only right easy place the world has for a man is the place of a dead man. Oh, vou have money and noble par entage have you ? That makes not tho slightest difference. You must build up a character of your own, young man. Geo. K. Edwards, in Barn's Horn. Story of a Slave. To be bound hand and f.xt for years by the chains of disease is the worst form of slavery. George D. Williams, of Manchester. Mich., tells how such a slave was made free. He says: "My wife has been so helpless for five years that she could not turn over iu bed alone. After using two bottles of Elec tric Bitters, she is wonderfully improv ed and able to do her own work." This supreme remedy for female diseases quickly cures nervousness, sleepless ness, melancholy, headache, backache, fainting aud dizzy spells. This mi ra-cle-workiug medicine is a godsend to weak, sickly, ruu down people. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cent. Sold at J. N. Suyder's Drug Store, Somer set, Pa., and G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa- Working far the Outer World. Few of us realize what the Shakers have done for the benefit of the out side world. They were the first to dry sweet corn for food, and to prepare gar den seed, medicinal herbs, and vegeta ble extracts for market. They were also the first to raise broom brush and make it into brooms, and they produced those far-reaching Inventions for pla ning matched boards, the buzz-saw, and the hydraulic pre-so. And, finally, It was they whodid away with wrought nails and quill pens, two stumbling blocks to our ancestors, l?ing the first t manufacture cut nails and to use metal for pens, brass aad silver being used for the purpose. 1 Id -Li. NO ULO WHOLE NO. 2190. Will Bear Printing Every Year. Abraham Lincoln's famous address at the dedication of ihe National Cem etery at Gettysburg, on the bth of No vember, lSifcj, will bear reproducing once year, as long as the llepublic shall survive. It would hardly be pos sible to embody within so small a com paAs more of sublime patriotism and lofty thought than it contains: "Fourscore nd seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a uew nation, WDcetved in liberty, and dedicated to the principle that all men are t rented equal. We are now engag ed iu a great civil war, testing w hether tbat nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long eudure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We Lave craie to dedicate a por tion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether lilting and proper that we should do this." But iu a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can cot consecrate, wecau not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remembtr, what we say here, but it can not forget w hat they did here. It is for us, tbe living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly ad vanced. It is rather for us to le here dedicated to the great task remaiuing before us, that from those honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full meas ure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of free dom, aud that government of the peo ple, by the people, aud for the people, kliail not jierish from the earth." A Cjuatrj Girl's City Experience Being a farmer's daughter, the eldest of a large family, and my father in rather close circumstances, I concluded to go to the city and engage in some thing, w ith the hope of bettering home finances. I procured a situation with a private family and went to work. But t.ie contract between my life there and at home was so great that I remain ed there but three weeks. At home I was a leader among my friends and as sociates; there I was not deemed worthy to associate with the family whose roof sheltered me. At home I gathered with father and mother, sisters and brothers, around the family altar, morning and eveniug; there I was denied this, pre cious privilege except on Sunday morn ings whvu I 2u no attkd uhiiruii. At home I sat with the family at the break fast table aud discussed with them the topics of the day; there I took my meals iu the kitchen iu loneliness and silence, aud they almost choked me. ,1 often glanced at the family gathered around the tea-table or library lamp f an eveniug, and it always filled me with a longing desire for home. My work was light and the people were kip.d to me, but I could not endure that loneliness and lack of companionship. How I did wish they would invite me into the library with them just one evening, any way. That room, with its well-filled bo 'kcases, leautifiil stat uary and rare paintings, had an almost irresistible charm for me, bul it was too sacred for my country-bred feet to tread exeept with a broom and dust cloth in my hand, and I wondered why it was 90. I do uot know whether my experience would be called a failure, a success, or a mistake, but I believe it was all three. I made a failure as a servant girl, but I gained knowledge concerning the "hired girl problem" tbat I could have gained in no other way. My object iu writing this article is to convince other girls thai home is the lest place. M. IL, Perry county, Mo., in Practical Farmer. Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but Skiu Eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures them, alio Old, Iljuniog and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Bils, Felons, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, S-alds, Chopped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains aud Aches. Ouly tile, per box. Cure Guaranteed. Sold at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and at G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. An Every-Day Sort of a Boy. A boy once applied for a situation. "We don't want lazy boys here," said the manager. "Are you fond of work?" "No, sir," responded the boy, look ing the other straight in the face. "Oh, you're not, aren't you? Well, we want a boy that is." "There aiu't any," said the boy, dog gedly. "Ob, yes, there are. We have h:vd over half a dozen of that kind here this morning to take the place we have." "How do you know they are?" asked the boy. "They told me so." "So could I, but I'm not a liar." And the lad said it with such an air of con vincing euergy that he was engaged at once. Bismarck's Iron Serve Was the result of .his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous en ergy are not fouad where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. If you waut these qualities and the success they bring, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Tdey develop every po.verof braiu and body. Only 2". cents. H1 1 at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and O. W. Bral lier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. Lady Now that you have partaken of a good dinner, are you equal to the task of sawing some wood ? Tired Tim Madam, equal is not the proper word. I'm superior to it. Scrofula, salt rheum aud all diseases caused by impure blood are cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which Is Ameri ca's Greatest Medicine. A Wel.& Cot. In the njiddh acs cats were very rare. Eveu with the ladies little dos were the 'amiliar household pets, and cats were regarded as almost a royal Dossesejoa. In Wale as early as the tenth century cats were protected by the goverment and their value fixed by law. Bfore a kitten could open Its eyes it was worth a penny : afterwards 't was worth two, and when it had caught a mouse its vsiue rod to fcur piaaie.K. The.- may etu ma!l pri ? afjr, but they meant a 'xnt deal then. Both cat aud peuuie3 are within rtaih of auy one, and the simplest little home my hve as guard tbe cat that "usee upon a time" kept watch in tbe kieg's granarKs. In Wales the prince bad his store houses thus protected, and the following story will show you how the theft of a cat was regarded: One day a small black kitten was missing. It was not vry big, but it had caught a mouse, and search was made at once. It wu fouui in a peasant's hut, ami his daughter coufessed that she had stolen it from the granary. The child declar ed that the kitten was frightened by the prince's two great wolf-hounds, and ha 1 taken refuge with her, and she h id not had the heart to give it np. The steward had father and child brought, trembling with fear, before ths prince, who cat on his throne, yawning and stroking his tawny h JUtlds. "What is the law ?" he asked. "The thief shall pay a full-grow n ewe with all its fleece," said the steward. Alas! the man was too poor to own sheep. "Failing this, the cat shall le hung u.by its tail " "tUlhrr bard on th cat," sai l the? prinoy ; and little M-rtha's tears ran down lir t.if. "And tiie thief shall pay a heap of grain high euough to reach the very tip of the tail," coutinued the steward. "Then shall we starve," murmured thi peasant. "After tolls and tithes there is so little left." Now the black kitten was brought int court, and seeing the dogs, and its little friend, it bristled up its hair with fear and mewed piteously to Mertha for succor. "The cat hath choeu the child," s ii.l the prince, carelessly. "I will remit the tine and give her the animal for her own." This law is still found amc.ng the old Welsh statutes, but it is no longer enfonrd. Antiquity of the Saw. Saws were used by the ancient Egyptians. Ouo that was discovered, with several other carpenters' tool in a private tomb at Thebes, is now pre served io the British Museum. The blade, which appears to be of brass, is ten aud a hIf inches long, aud an inch and a quarter broad iu the widest part. Tiie teeth are irregular, and appear to have betn formed by striking a bluat edg"d instrument against the edge of the plate, the bur, or rough shoulder, thus produced not being reuiovetL A painting copied in Kosellini's work oa Egyptian antiquities represents a man using a similar saw, the piece of wood that he is cutting being held be tween two upright p.sts. In other representations the timber is bound with ropes to a siugle pt, and iu one, als. copied by RonelUu:, the workmau is engaged in tightening the rope, bav in? left the saw sticking in the cut. In au eugraviujr given iu the third volume of Wilkinson's Minners an I Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, a saw is represented of much larger di mensions, its length being, by compar ison with the man, uot less than three or four feet. It does not appear that that the Kgyptians used saws worked by two men. The iuveutiou of saws was variously attributed by the Greeks to two or three individuals, who are supposed to have taken the idea from the jawbone of a s iake or the backbme of a fl-h. There is a very curious picture among the re mains discovered iu the ruius or Her culaneu.il, representing the interior of a carpenter's workshop, with two genii cutting a piece of wood with a frame saw, and on an altar preserved in the Capitoline Museum at B me there is a perfect representation of a bow-saw, exactly resembling, ia the form of a frame aud the twistud cord for tight ening it, those used by rnoderu carpen ters. From these remains it is evident that theses forms of the instruments were known to the ancients. Loudon Architect. Stand TJp to Fit a Sioe. "People, would find less diilb'tilty with ready-made shoe," said the ex perienced salesman, "if they would stand up to fit them on instead of sitting down. Nine persons out of teu, par ticularly women, want a comfortable chair while they are fitting a shoe, and it Ls with the greatest difficulty 3'ou can gt thetn to stand for a few minutes, even after the irhoe is fitted. Then, when they begin walking abot:t, they wonder why the shoes are not so com fortable as they were at firt triuL A woman's foot is considerably smaller when she sits iu a chair than wheu she walks about. Exercise brings a larger quantity of blood iuto the feet, and they swell appreciably. Tbe muscles also require certain space. In buying shoes this fact should be borne in mind.'' New York Herald. Monarch over pain, Burns, cuts, sprains, stings, lnsts.nl relief. Lr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. At any drug s'ore. Coula'nt Nams His Baby Dewey. (jlorge 'Wilder, of Madison, Wis., who is pursuing some special studies in Zurich, is highly incensed over the treatment he received at the bands of the local Health Department recently, says the Chicago liecord. A son having been born to him, he notified the prop er department, as is compulsory, and demanded tbe certificate which, accent ing to law, he must have. Being a patriotic American, he desired his sou's name to be George Dewey Wilder, but here he reckoned without his host, for Iheoilicial informed him that inasmuch as Dewey was not a name in any of the four languages spoken in Switzer land German, French, Italian and Ivimanish the name could not be ac cepted. After an hour's parleying the officials agreed, however, to name the young American George Wilder. Ins Sprinj Months Are most likely to find your blood im pure aud lacking iu the red corpuscle which enable it to 'jarry nourishment to the nerves aud other organs. There fore you feel weak, tired aud listless, aud are troubled with spring bumorsL Belief is given by ILnhI's Sarsaparilla which purifies, eor'c'ues and. vitalises the blood. Hood's Pills cure biliousness. Mail, ed fr 2o cents by C. I. Hood A Co., Lowell, Mass.
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