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ain't af.red uv snakeii, or tada, or
bugN
worms, or mice.
An' tLlnn 'at etrls are akeered uv I think are
awful nice!
I'm pretty brave, I guew. an' yet I hate to go
to bed.
or, wlien I'm tucked up warm an' unug an'
wlicu my prayer, are aaid.
Mother tell. Hie ''Happy dream!" and taken
away the li-tit
An' leaves ine lyin' all alone an' neriu' thins
at uij,'hl!
Horarlimea they're la the corner, vomeUux-.
they're by the door.
Sometime they're all a .tandin'in the mid
dle of the floor;
8oniftim tl ey area-sittin' down. Bometimes
they're walkiu' 'round
So aoftly and to creepy like they never make
a sound!
SoiiM-times they are as bku-k a ink, an' other
limia they're white
But the color ain't no difference when yn see
thirigii at night!
Once, w hen I licked a f l!er 'at Itad just
moved on our street
An' t.tli r sent nic up to bed m ithoul a bite
to eat.
I woke up in the dark an' xaw things standiu'
In a row.
A'lookni' at me oro eyed an' p'iutiu' at me
so.
UU, my! I wuz so akeered that time 1 never
slep' a nut
It ' klinost allu. when I'm bad I see thing.
at u is lit.
Lucky thing I ain't a girl, or I'd be skevred to
death!
Bein' I'm a boy, I duck my bead an' bold aiy
breath;
An I am. Oh, so sorry I'm a naughty boy, an'
th.-u
I promise to be better an I aay my prayers
again!
Gran'ma U-1U me that's the only way to
make it right
When a feller liaK been wicked lu' sees things
at uli;hl!
An' so, when other naughty boy would coax
me into siu,
I try to skwush the Tempter's voice 'at urges
me withlu:
An' when they, pie for supper or cake 'at '
big an' nice.
I want to but I do not pas my plate fr them
things twice!
No, rulher let starvation wipe me slowly out
of sight
Than I should keep a-livln' on an' aeeiu'
things at night!
Eugene Field.
k TRAGEDY
THAT FAILED.
With a thunder. storm muttering
among the hills, and a dozen loads of
bay in the cock on tbe big meadow, it
would have been sheer madness, of
course, to have allowed Amos Doxey,
tbe hired man, to go to the station to
meet the summer boarder. Not a man
could be spared from the hay-field that
afternoon; so Cicely Maynard, the hired
girl, was instructed to harness old Sor
rel and fetch home the young artist,
who had written that he would arrive
on the four-o'clock "mixed."
Cicely was only too glad to go. Like
most farm help, she looked upon any
variation of tbe everlasting routine of
daily labor as a blessing to be thankful
for. The four-mile ride to tbe station
through the woods and along the river
was in Itself infinitely preferable to au
afternoon in the kitchen arjd milk'
room; and then there was the added
pleasure of gratifying one'a curiosity
about tbe new boarder and have the
compauy home of a young man who
was also a genius provided you looked
at him from the right level. And al
though pretty Cicely had been for two
years engaged to Amos Doxey, the
hired man, she had not yet sufficiently
subdued her girlish sensibility to be un
mindful, in a demure and innocent
way, of the romance of riding four
miles alone with a young man who
could paint pictures, aud who lived in
the city.
Perhaps Amos, with love's clairvoy
aut insight, had arrived at some con
sciousness of Cicely's feelings, for, as he
denied himself his customary second
piece of pie in order that be might go
out and help his sweetheart "bitch up"
he said, with clumsy indirectness: "I'm
kind of sorry we're so driv' to-day,
Cicely. I'd a liked to have gone for
that young feller myself. It'll get back
your work considerable, I'm afraid."
"Oh, don't you worry yourself about
that !" laughed Cicely. "I can always
work twice as fast after I've had a good
time. It chirks me up so."
Thi9 was cold comfort for Amos, but
he was not naturally of a jealous dis
position, acd after making due allow
ance for the variety of inference impli
ed in the word "a good time." he did
not find it in bis heart to be very sorry,
after all, that Cicely should have an
afternoon's outing. He was just clim b-
iug into the hay rack to drive to the
meadow when Cicely started off with
old Sorrel. She nodded a smiling good
by, aDd Amos' s heart was comfortable
within him. He could not help think
ing what a lucky dog he ww-he, an
old bacbelorof thirty-five, to have won
this sweet blooming girl of twenty-two.
They had known each other for a long
time, both having been in the service
of the Judsona since Cicely was a child
of fourteen. Their friendship had been
strong, sincere and without frivolity,
and love with them bad been merely
tbe natural deepening and expansiou
of devoted friendship. In due course
they had become eugaged, and now
both of them were laying by every
penny in glad anticipation of the time
when they could le-se a little farm of
their own and "settle down."
The threatened shower did not come,
and the sweet sun cured bay was safely
in the barn long before Cicely returned
from her errand. Meanwhile the girl
was impatiently awaiting the arrival of
tbe new summer boarder. He had not
come in ou the "mixed" and Cicely
was just on the point of driving away
without him, when the station agent
came out with an open telegram, ad
dressed to Mr. Judson, saying that the
young man had missed his train, and
would come on tbe next, aa express,
which stopped only at a station three
miles farther down tbe road. Tbe tel
egram requested that he might be met
there.
Cicely considered the matter. She
finally came to tbe conclusion that Mr.
Judson would prefer to have her drive
on to tbe next station, returning home
two or three hours later than expected,
rather than leave the summer boarder
in a lurch. So she whipped up old Sor
rel, and reached May field in time to
meet tbe express. The young artist
was" profuse in apologies and x coses,
aa be piled bis luggage in tbe back of
me
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
the wagon. Cicely said nothing, save
to murmur once, with an embarrassed
blush, that it waa "all right." She
made room for the young man on the
stat at her side, and they were off in
tbe semi-shadow of the woods, where
the tree-toads were already chirping
and the katydids entering upon their
sharp disputes.
'Perhaps you're surprised that a
woman should come for you," said
Cicely at length, feeling as if some ex
planation of the situation might make
it seem a little less embarrassing, at
least to herself. "It looked like rain,
and Mr. Judson couldn't come himself,
or spare a man, because he had so much
bay out, so he sent me."
"Well, I'm glad he did," replied the
young man, with a frank smile. "I m
sure I shall enjoy your company much
better than I should that of one of Mr.
Judsou's hired men. or Mr. Judson
himself. I beg pardon may I ask
whether you are a relative of Mr. Jud
son s?'
'So, sir," replied Cicely, blushing
hotly uuder tbe ffect of the young
man's glance and his words. "I am
only Mr. Judson's hired girl."
"Ah!" said the artist, and for some
minutes he relapsed iuto silence. The
twilight slowly derpened iu the woods
as they jogged along, and louder and
more iuhistent swelled the chorus of in
sect voices. "He doesn't like me so
well since I told him I was a hired
girl," mused Cicely, bitterly. She did
not know why she should care, but she
did.
Some small animal glided across the
road in front of the horxe, aud even old
Sorrel shied a little.
"Shan't I drive?" asked the young
man, laying his hand oti the reins.
'No, thank you," replied Cicely,
firmly. "I'm used to driving, aud
used to the horse. And, besides, I
know the road better than you do.
There isn't any danger."
Her companion laughed. "I didn't
imagine there was," he said, with an
amused look at Sorrel. "Pardon me
for offering to relieve you. I did not
know that you were accustomed to
driving."
Cicely cast a side-glance at the young
man's face. She could not make out
whether he was laughing at her or not.
What a strange man be was! And yet
rather interesting.
Amos was leaning over the fence
watching for them when they finally
appeared, dragging slowly aloug
through tbe shadows. He opened the
gate for them, and aa tbey passed
through, Cicely said, with perfect
frankness, and without any attempt
at privacy:
'I couldn't help it, Amos. He didn't
come when he said he would."
'No; I missed my train, and bad to
come on the next," added tbe boarder.
"But, thank Heaven, I've got here
at last ! Are you Mr. Judsou ?"
"No," said Amos, curtly. "There's
Mr. Judson just coming out on the
porch. I'll bring in your luggage."
Cicely went into tbe bouse with a cu
rious intermixture of feelings partly
amusement, partly exultation, partly
regret. It was a new and not altogeth
er unpleasant sensation to her to feel
that her lover was jealous of her affeo-
tious, even of her civilities to another
man. It amused her to think that
Amos should be so sensitive and so fool
ish. But she was sorry that he bad suf
fered on her account, even while she
felt that she bad done nothing tbe least
bit wrong. As for there being any rea
son for jealousy that, of course, waa
absurd.
The young artist proved to be a very
agreeable summer boarder. He was al
ways courteous, good-natured, easy to
please, appreciative, entertaining and
lively. Mrs. Judson liked him because
he was always on time to bis meals,
praised her cooking, both by word and
deed, made no extra work even in tbe
small way of putting up luncbes, and
could talk intelligently of Jersey cat
tle, which were the pride of the good
woman's heart. Mr. Judson liked him
because be smoked choice cigars and
shared them generously, and was a good
companion to talk with on the porch
after supper. Cicely liked him, well,
she couldn't tell just why. And Amos
disliked him for the same excellent
reason.
It did not seem to very much concern
Mr. Blake, the summer boarder, wheth
er his natural ways proved agreeable to
others or not. lie went and came in a
quiet manner, going out almost every
pleasant morning to sketch or paint,
and spending his afternoons at home,
reading, writing, or at work with brush
and palette In his room. But whenever
Cicely went around, a close observer
might have noticed that Mr., Blake was
less absorbed in his book or bis picture
than at other times. The girl's fresh,
rosy beauty evidently caugbt his fancy.
His artistic temperament could not help
responding to the charm of form and
color embodied in her face and figure.
"By Jove! what a model she would
makeT' he said to himself one day, as
through a vista of orchard trees be saw
Cicely banging out the week's snowy
wash. "I'd like to paint her in that
very attitude and, by Jove, I will!
I'll get my pad and ask ber to let me
sketch her while she bangs out Amoe's
checked shirts!"
Thus it came about that Cicely crept
into a good many of the artist's pic
tures that summer. At first the girl
was reluctant. It made her feel awk
wardly ill at ease to pose, and, besides,
she wasn't sure about its being just
right. Then there was Amos; how it
did disturb Amos! She couldn't help
smiling over that sometimes, it was so
foolish. Bat the young artist's flattery
and tbe Irresistible way be had about
turn, combined with that shy vanity
which is as natural to a young woman
as strutting to a pigeon, gradually ovtr
came the girl's objections, and she
yielded to tbe strange new delight of
recognizing in herself an artist's inspi
ration. What romantic, almost incred
ible joy fur this young girl, who bad
always admired 'pictures above every
thing else in the world, to find herself
the heart and soul of an artist's best
creations! Was it not even better, she
reflected, than the power to produce a
picture, this real power and privilege
to be the picture itself?
As the weeks sped by, Cicely became
more and more absorbed In this new
rse
ESTABLISHED 1827.
ana wouaerrui romance mat nau come
into her life. It opened up an undreamed-of
world to the longing coun
try girl. To be able to contribute some
thing to art and something so rare
and precious as an idealsurely this
was grander and sweeter than any
thing she had ever imagined for her
self! She lived in a world of visions
from morning till night; and every
time she stepptd out under tbe sky,
away from the dingy farmhouse and
its duties, she seemed to be walkiag
upon the air. And yet not once did
she seem to realize that the young art
ist himself formed any part of the fab
ric of her dreams. It was tbe art that
she served, art that she worshiped, and
art that she was beginning to love with
such a passionate, absorbing devotion.
But Amos looked upon the infatua
tion of his sweetheart with other aud
more practical eyes. When she would
bring him some of Blake's sketches of
herself to admire, he would turn away
with a shrug of the shoulders and an
Inarticulate exclamatiou, half of con
tempt, half of mental anguish. But
Cicely never detected the anguish, and
it simply made her indignant Ibat
Amos should be so uuappreciative and
so "cross." Thus, through no con
scious fault or intent of either, the uu-
acknowledged breach between tbe lov-
es widened. Cicely ceaaed to bring
Klake's sketches to her affianced to be
admired, and ceased to speak to him of
her new joy and privilege as "an art
ist's ideal.'' After all, she reasoned,
Amos could not understand such
things; his nature was not capable of
it It would be better to confine her
self, when she talked with him, to the
common matters of every -day life,
which he could grasp.
Blake's conquest of the girl's heart
was so gradual that he himself did not
realize, until too late, how far he had
really gone with her. The revelation
came to him one evening, when be aud
Cicely bad strolled down to a little
grove on the river bank, where Mr.
Judson kept a boat chained to a tree.
Blake had sketched Cicely sitting in
the boat and bending over its edge,
with her hand trailing in the water.
Then the young people bad seated
themselves together on the bauk to in
spect tbe sketch. After agreeing that
it was very good, aud exchanging some
rather commonplace remarks about the
evening light on the river, Blake said,
with assumed lightness:
"Well, Cicely, all artists, sooner or
later, have to bid farewell to their ide
als, and I shall have to Bay good-by to
mine next week."
Some of the coloring seemed to fade
out of Cicely's face as she raised it ques-
tioaingly. "I don't understand what
you mean, she said, ' are you going
away?" .-
Blake looked search ingly into the
girl's eyes, as he nodded his bead. For
a moment Cicely sat flushing and pal
ing. Then an ungovernable sob broke
from her lips, and her fair young head
sank on tbe artist's breast, Iu an in
stant his arm was around her, and bis
kisses were raining on her lips and
cheek.
The young man's fit of passion spent
itself in a moment, and he started up
with an exclamatiou of vexation and
alarm. Amos Doxey, Cicely's promis
ed husband, stood towering above tbe
pair. But there was no lightning in
bis eyesonly a dull, hopeless, smould
ering pain. To Blake be spoke never a
word; but his glance of withering con
tempt was worse, a thousand times,
than the most stinging blow. Bend
ing over the now prostratetond sobbing
girl, be said in a firm, yet trembling
voice: "You must go along with him.
Cicely, and you must give me back the
ring. It wouldn't be right no other
way."
Pw Cicely, with her face bending
almost to the ground, and her dishev
eled hair falling about it and graciously
biding it, tugged, sobbing, at the cheap
moonstone pledge, till it slipped off and
fell in the grafs. Then she searched
for it in a pitiful, blind, groping way,
and tucked it into Amos's big, brown
band, letting her fingers lie for a mo
ment with timid beseeching in his
rough palm. But Amos did not close
bis hand upon them. He lifted him
self up with such a sigh as the stricken
ox sometimes gives after he has been
felled by the hammer in the shambles,
and moved slowly away out of the
grove. And as bis footsteps died away
Cicely flucg herself downward in the
gram, shaking with ber sobs.
For some moments young Blake,
dazed, disconcerted aud ashamed, suf
fered Cicely to grovel at his feet. Then,
with half-angry impatience, be seized
her hand and raised her to a sitting
posture. "Come, come, Cicely,!" he
said. "It's a bad business, I know, and
we've both made fools of ourselves.
But let's consider the best way out of
it- I can't marry you, that's certain
I'll never marry any one. But I'll tell
you what I'll do. I'll take you up to
New York with me, and get you a good
place to work, where you can earn your
living and something more, and I'll be
friend you in other ways, and help you
all I can. I have several artist friends
who will be glad to have you pose for
them as a model, I am sure, and I want
you more or less for tbe same purpose
myself. What do you say ? Will you
go with me?"
In reply Cicely snatched her hand
from the young man's grasp, leaped to
her feet, and confronted him with blaz
ing eyes. "Do you think I would go
with you to live such a life?" she de
manded, fiercely, through ber sobs
"I would kill myself first! I would
drown myself in that river!"
"How inconsistent you are," sneered
the young man, "after you have been
prating for weeks of the joy of giving
yourself up to art, of being an "artist's
ideal P'
"Ob, it wasn't that; it wasn't that,
sobbed Cicely. "I see it all now. It
was because I was fascinated, blinded,
bewitched by you. And you must have
known it all the time, and led me on
just for your own amusement, since
you say you could never care enough
forme to marry me! Ob! I hate you
now; but I don't bate you half aa much
aa I hate myself. I wish I was dead
oh, how I wish I was dead!"
Tbe poor girl covered her face with
ber hands, and shrank away from the
man who, she believed, had deliberate
ID
JULY 12. 1899.
ly played upon ber affections. Wheth
er or not she wronged him iu this,
Blake pitied her now from the bottom
of his heart. He realized what a dif
ferent creature was this unsophistica
ted, artless, trusting country maiden
from other girls with whom he had
flirted, or tried to flirt.
They went up separately to the farm
house after it had grown dark. Cicely
would not let Blake walk with her, but
he followed her afar off, compassion
ately watchful. He was really auxious
lest the girl might do herself some
harm.
But, to Blake's surprise and relief,
nothing startling happened. During
the next few days the three parties to
this heart tragedy moved about their
accustomed duties like automata. The
iaces of Cicely aud Amos were set and
sphinx-like, and the feeble watery
gleam of Cicely's moonstone ring was
gone. But beyond that one might not
have suspected that anything unusual
bad happened. And on the day which
he had set with Mr. Judson the artist
waa driven to tbe station by bis boat,
with all bis luggage, including the
sketches and finished studies of Cicely.
Amos had gone off to search for some
stray cattle that afteruoou, and as
Cicely did not come out to say good-by,
no one thought it worth while to speak
to ber.
Fifteen years later Cyril Blake, who
had in the mean time made fame aud
fortune with his brush, was moved,
partly by curiosity, and partly by some
lingering urgency of conscience, to
make a summer pilgrimage to the
little country village where he bad met
so long ago the fair original of bis fa
mous "Maud Muller." As there was
now a "hotel" in the village, be chose
to go there as the place, where he was
least likely to have attention called to
himself.
The firt man he met on entering
the hotel office was Amos Doxey,
grown ample In proportions aud com
fortable in appearance.
"Wal, I declar'! Seem zif I'd seen
you before," remarked the Bturdy land
lord, as he shuttled to the connter and
whirled the register for his guest to
sign. The bearded artist hesitated for
a moment; then he dipped the pen aud
wrote wiLh a bold hand, "Cyril Blake,
New York city."
"Now do you recollect me?" be ask
ed, quietly.
For a moment the brow of tbe land
lord darkened and his firm lips twitch
ed. Then he got control of himself
and extended his baud.
"Yes, I do," he replied. "Clad to
see you, Mr. Blake."
"Honestly?" asked Blake.
"Yes, honestly. Wait a minute."
He opened .a door iu the back part of
tbe office and called, "Cicely!"
Almost immediately a comely, ma
tronly woman came bustling in. The
face was the same as that of Blake's
admired "Maud Muller" only stronger,
riper, and stamped with firmer lines of
character.
"Cicely," said the hotel-keeper, with
tbe bluntness and commonplacenes of
a man long past bis days of sentiment.
"here's your old friend, Mr. Blake. I
thought niebbe you'd like to see him."
For a moment the fa- of Mrs. Doxey
blazed scarlet. Then she came forward
and offered her hand, as her husband
had done. "We made it up, you see,"
she said frankly, nodding toward ber
lord.
"Yes, got married a month after you
left," added Mr. Doxey. Couldn't run
any more ri ks, you see. James Buck-
ham, in Harper's Bazar.
A Hone Appreciatei Kindneis.
The wagon was heavily laden with
great bags of metal, too heavy for a sin
gle horse to draw, oue would have
thought.
It turned into a side street, and half
way down the block again turned into
an alley at the rear of a livery stable.
It required considerable tugging on the
part of the horse to pull the load up the
incline of the alley driveway, but he
did it, and the driver looked pleased
wheu tbe back wheel bad made the
rise and settled down to level ground.
At the barn door it was necessary to
turn the wagon around completely and
back in. Surely, one horse could not
do that. The turn was made easily
enough, but there remained, says tbe
American Farmer.
"Back him up, Jim!" said the man,
pulling lightly at the reins.
The horse braced bis front feet and
shoved.
Tbe wagon didn't move.
The man got down from tbe seat aDd
went around to tbe back of the truck
and pulled. "Back!" he commanded
The horse put every muscle to the
strain. "BackTThe wagon moved,
this time at least a foot. Two more
aud the back wheels would be over
the threshold of the barn door.
"Back!" The command moved the
horse to exert his greatest effort. There
was a crunch of splintering wood and
tbe wagon rolled back.
Not a blow bad been struck the ani
mal Ouly gentle words had been
spoken, and tbe horse had done tbe
rest.
And when it was all over tbe man
did not go on unloading tbe wagon
without a further thought of the great,
obedient auimal standing still between
the shafts. He went to him and took
his nose in his hands and patted him
between the eyes and raid: "Good,
old Jim! You did do it, didn't you? I
knew you would."
And the horse rubbed his nose against
the man's cheek.
It is pleasant now and then to see
such things.
A Victorious Defense.
"Dorothy has quit making me un
comfortable by telliug me that my hat
wasn't on straight."
"What stopped her?"
"Every time she did it I told her she
had too much powder on her nore."
Chicago Record.
"I owe my whole life to Burdock
Blood Bitters. Scrofulous sores cover
ed my body. I seemed beyond cure,
B. B. B. has made me a perfectly well
woman." Mrs. Charles Hutton, Ber
Title, Mich.
iieraio
SCIENCE IS AGRICULTURE.
Earicliinf the Soil While Deriving a
Profit.
Scientific farming means much more
than ia generally understood by the
term. Farmers are prone to suppose
that scientific funning is practiced by a
certain class of experitueLters only,
and that ordinary faraiiug is a differ
ent pursuit. The fact is that scientific
farming simply means the best system
that can be put iu practice. It is not
founded on theory only, but upon care
ful and laborious investigations of the
methods in general use. Every farmer
should consider himself aa a scientific
experimenter and should also aim to
improve his farm aud everything upon
it. Improvement is the foundation of
success in farming, and no rules can be
promulgated that can be made to ap
ply to all farm-. Tue best fanners are
those who make their farms piy with
out decreasing the fertility of their soils,
for when the soit becomes imj)overish
ed a large proportion of the capital in
vested iu the farm goes with that which
leaves tbe farm. Oue of the great ad
vantages iu dairying is that there Is a
large amount of material brought on
the farms such as bran, linseed meal,
cottonseed meal, gluten meal, etc.
which sulwtanees not only replace the
elements removed in the beef, milk
and grains, but the manure heap is the
accumulating point on which is de
posited tbe plant food of another sea
son. The scientific farmer is he who
does not fail to purchase the low-priced
feeding materials, make a profit there
from aud enrich his farm at the same
time; yet he may know very little of
what is termed "science," though bis
methods are really scientific and based
upon practical experience.
.SKILL IX FAKMIXCi.
More skill is required to properly
manage a farm than in any other occu
pation, as farming includes many dif
ferent branches of business ; and, while
some are more skillful as breeders, oth
ers are more successful in growing
special crops. Gardening includes the
forcing processes, while fruit-growing
requires a knowledge of insects and
varieties. In fact, there is no limit to
the field of the farmer's usefulness, aud
the farmer who becomes an expert in
any particular line follows scientific
methods just as surely as he who studies
aud observes in some oh-r direction.
If tbe farmer succeeds by tbe adoption
of the surest and most profitable sys
tems he should be all the more willing
to theorize and endeavor to further im
prove his practice. Farming at the
present day is rapidly drifting to that
point at which the farmer must be a
specialist and give his atteution to
sme particular line, lneaairymaa
who has devoted the greater portion of
his time to the improvement of breeds
and tbe production of superior milk,
butter and cheese would probably not
succeed should be venture iuto the
forcing of vegetables in winter, while
the florist would no doubt make a
failure with Held crops. These facta
demonstrate that there is always some
something to learn and that, as the
improvements occur in mechanics, tbe
farmer is more or less affected by the
chanires in economic conditions and
must adapt his operations accordingly
He must be a scientific farmer in order
to keep pace with his competitors in the
march of progress.
IXfREASIXO THE PROFITS.
Ill ordinary farming with field crops
alone there is much to learn. The siiu
pie rotation of the crops of to-day is
scientific farming compared with the
system practiced fifty years ago, when
the land was made to produce the same
kind of crop every year, or when a
grain crop was followed by another, as
it la now well understood by all pro
gressive farmera that the constant crop
ping of the land with one or two grain
crops in succession results in exuaus-
tiou of the soil, because such crops re
quire tbe same elements of piant food.
Every system of cultivation that does
not bring to the farm something from an
outside source leads to impoverishment.
but the farmer knows how to giu
nitrogen by using clover in his system
of rotation, and he thus follows scien
titic methods, because experience
proves such to be correct. He is aware
that narrow-leaved crops, such as wheat
oats and rye, should be followed pre
ferably by crops having broad leaves,
and he uses plants that require cultiva
tion in order to destroy the weeds that
would injure sowed crops. He also
rotates, so as to take advantage of the
crops that are produced abve the
ground aod those that yield roots.
while crop1 that prove the" least eX'
haustlve are followed by those of op
posite characteristics. Every time the
farmer studies and plans how to pro
duce at tbe least cost and for the largest
yields he is using "science" as au aid,
and every year farming is becoming
more scientific Philadelphia Record.
Story of a Slave.
To be bound hand and foot for years
bv the chains of disease is tbe worst
form of slavery. George D. Williams,
of Manchester, Mich., tells how such
a slave was made free. He says: "My
wife baa been so helpless for five years
that she could not turn over in 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 nervousnew, sleepless
ness, melancholy, headache, backache,
fainting and dizzy spells. This mira
cle-working medicine is a godsend to
weak, sickly, run down people. Every
bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold
at J. N. 8nyder's Drug Store, Somerset,
Pa., and G. W. Brallier's Drug Store,
BerliD, Pa.
The Savage Bachelor.
"I can't understand." said the Sweet
Young thing, "what Kipling meant by
half devil and half chili."'
"Nor I," said tbe Savage Bachelor,
"when both phrases mean essentially
the same thing."
In tbe meanwhile the small boy
boarder continued to play that tbe hall
was a railway and he was a freight
train Iudlanapali Journal.
Ti
1
WHOLE NO. 2502.
David Won't Be There.
It seems to be a fact that Brother
Mirtin was in earnest when he an
nounced the other day that he did not
expect to attend the State Couventiou.
nele "Rtsh" Hackett won't be there
A thcr, and some of the other boys ho
have been training with the Martin
machiue will find it convenient to tw
absent. Things are not going exactly
ht with the Martin combination
Wheu David went to IlarrLsburj-and
joined bauds with Contractor Fliun to
destroy the principle of majority rule
he had an idea that the w hole State
would rise iu his support aud follow
after him as its ereat leader. The State
has arisen, but in jvust the opposite way,
'enusylvania li 'publicans have no use
whatever for the Martt'is aud the
Flinn.i, and the result is that the com
State Convention will number
among Us memb-Tship only a few scat
tering insurgents.
And so David very wisely concludes
that he wou't take a baud this year.
He has beeu looking over the field iu
Philadelphia aud he has discovered
that out of the sixty-four delegates to
e elected he could not possibly con
trol over fifteen including himself and
Uncle "Rash." To turn up at Harris
burg with less than one-fourth of the
delegation would leave Brother Martiu
stranded high up on the beach. 11
d')es pot propose to make a showing of
his strength, or rather he does not care
to display his weakness. Aud so he
will permit his foes to run the conven
tion, and he will send to Harrisburg a
few gentleimn who will be entirely
harmless aud who will fall la with the
levlaratioiis of the majority without a
murmur.
It is very wis of David; very wise
udeed. He has made bis little tilit.
and he has lost. The best that he can
do is to screen his weakness from the
public as far aa possible, and hope for
the better times that will never come.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
PhiIadelphiaWoraan'i WilL
The following extraordinary clause is
contained in the will of Sarah Jane
Lafoureade, who died recently in Phil
adelphia, leaving an estate valued at
t l,0i Hi:
'I desire to bs buried iu a nightgown,
and before closing the casket that a
small blanket le laid over me. I re-
juest that no flowers lie used on the
outside of the casket, but ouly a pair
ofptlms, an I th it my grave shall be
iecorated with cut flowers or green.
I prefer that a very s:u ill low, plain
stone be used to mark my resting place.
My nam inscribed thereon, with year
of birth and death, without naming
lay or month or Using the words 'boru
aud died.' Id. sire that black clothes
shall not be worn by any member of
my family after the day of my burial,
but that life, with its duties and pleas
ant diversions, shall be immediately
resumed by alL I wish to be taken to
St. Luke's church, and there the burial
service read over my remains, and do
especially request that none but my
family shall see me after death. I ask
aa a special favor that these desires be
carried out to the letter, and trust my
family may be spared any trouble in so
loing."
Star-Gazing Interrupted.
A young man in Manayuuk has a
telescope, and eviry night at l'J o'clock
he gets it out and starts at the stars.
Recently his older brother gave a beer
party, aud wheu, at 10 sharp, the
astronomer drained bis glass aud sped
away to explore the heavens, the host.
annoyed at such an abrupt withdrawal,
said:
"He doesn't look at the stars, you
know, that's a bluff. He looks at bis
girl s window. She puts little notes
there and holds a lamp so that the
light falls on them, and be reads the
notes through a teleep3, the yap!"
The beer had beeu flowing freely for
two hours, and on hearing this news
the guests decided that it would be a
good thing to yank the deceitful star-
erazer away from his instrument and
read the girl's notes themselves. They
did this, but the young man took it
very bard, and they had to lock him
up in the cellar. While he kicked and
shouted and swore down there the girl's
first bulletin waa read. Her house is
on a hill a mile away, but the note was
quite clear. She said: "Good-night,
my graceful boy." This message sound
ed funny to the recipients, and they
yelled it through the door at the pris
oner, who carried on outrageously when
he heard it. The next message was:
'Sweetheart, dream of me." More
followed, there were ten in all, and
they grew warmer as they proceeded.
The messages were shouted as they
came, into tbe cellar, and terrible noises
answered them. The prisoner had to
swear be would forgive and forget all
before he was released. Philadelphia
Record.
Remarkable Bescne.
Mr. Michael Curtain, Plainfleld, 111.,
makes the statement, that she caught
cold, which settled ou her lungs; she
waa treated for a month by her family
physician, but grew worse. He told
ber she was a hopeless victim of con
sumption and that uo medicine could
cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump
tion; she bought a bottle and to ber de
light found herself benefitted from first
dose. She continued its use aud after
taking six bottles, found herself sound
and well; now does ber own house
work, and is as well aa she ever was.
Free trial bottles of this Great Discov
ery at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store,
Somerset, Pa., and G. W. Brallier's
Drug Store, Berlin, Pa , large bottles
50c. aud II 00.
Only Proper.
"A dog is man's true and faithful
friend," remarked the young woman
who paused to pat a haughty-locking
mast i (foil the head.
"Yas'm," replied Mr. Erastus Pink
ley. "It's only nach'l he should be.
When we goes wifout meat ou de table
an' shoes on our feet to save up mouey
ter buy him a tag, 'tain' no mo'n de
cent fib de dog to reciprocate. Wash
ington Star.
How to Can Berries
In selecting berrlt for canning or
preserving, be sure that they ar r:pe,
dry aud freshly gathered as possible.
Berries that have laid over night are
not worth the trouble of handling. See
to it that cans to be used are sterilized,
tops and all, and the rubber entirely
new. If preserved acenrdinir to the
American custom, aliow three-quarters
of a pound of sugar to. each pound of
berries, or pound for pound, if prefer
red. Do not allow the ben ies that are
to be canned to stand in the sugar, as
it extract th juice and tougheas tha
berry. P'ace the fresh fruit into th
ran, shaking down well, but not al
lowing the berries to become crushed.
Have ready a hot syrup made of aujar
autthe juice squeezed from other small
er berries, and slowly pour Uie hot ryr
up over tbe fresh henics iu thejan,
leaving aa inch space at top. Have
ready a common wash boiler half full
of water that is about the same temper
ature as the cans holding the hot syrup.
Set tbe cans ou a wooden rack fitted to
the bottom of the boiler, and place
straw or kitchen towels lietweca the
cans to prevent their knocking togeth
er. Put the covers ou the cans, but not
the rubber. ISriog the water in the
boiler to a boil, and as soon as the
syrup iu the jars rises, showing the con
tents to be scalding hot, lift the jars
out on to a dry board. Fill each brim
ming fjl I with the scalding ftyrup left
in the saucepan, put on the rubber
and screw on the covers as tightly as
possible. Tighteu agaiu when cold,
wrap each can in paper, and set in a
cimjI, dry cellar, where the temperature
does not ri? above TO degrees. Tut up
in thi way which cloely rrsmMea
the celebrated Wl-shadon proivjw, the
Irerries will keep far years, retaiuiug
color aud flavor.
Farm Telephone.
I have a line oounectiug my resi
dence with tenant house, distauce as
run over oue aud one-half miles; one
half this distance I simply connect with
ordinary barb wire fence, pirt of bal
ance of way with a barb wire running
loosely over au old rail feuce, the bal
ance through woods aud across roads
and gateways ou a No. 12 wire nailed
to trees, etc., not an insulator or brack
et on the line. Simply staple! to posts,
trees, etc. The phone is similar to
Blake, but ettst me some less. Have
had line in daily use over fourteen
mouths and not a cent for repair, save
renewing battery material occasionally.
Has never failed to work, uo matter
bow hard the weather, save for a thoit
time, when oue battery froze up. We
bad to take it off, aud then found ttat
we had yet a pretty fair service with
battery ou one end only. Would not
d without it for ten times theC'Wt.
N. W. A ler. iu Farmers A lyix.ate.
He Fooled the Surgeon.
Aud itors told R'uick Hamiitou, of
West Jefferson, O., after suffering H
months froiu lU-ctal Fistula, he would
die unless a costly operation was per
formed; but he cured himself with five
boxes Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the
purest Pile cure ou Earth, aud the best
Salve iu the World. i"e. per box. Sold
at J. N. Snyder'a Drug Store, Som
erset, Pa., and (5. W. Brallier's Drug
S'nre, Berlin, Pa.
A Hen Mother-! Puppies.
A. W. liiehm, of Sioux City, Io., re
cently purchased a sitting of eggs; and
placed them under an old ben in his
hen house. In the same hen house
lives a terrier. A few days ago the
animal gave birth to eight white pup
pies, aid they were placed in a box iu
tbe corner. To the astonishment of
the owner, his hen left her thirteen
eggs and placed herself in full charge
of the puppies. Sre has beeu cuddling
tbe tiny pups under her wings, aud
will a'low no one to take them away
without a great fight. The mother of
the pups is ou friendly relations with
the hen, it would seem, for she lies on
the floor and seems to have uo objec
tion to the fistf r-uiothet. Iu the meau
time the expensive sitting of eggs
spoiled.
The Appetite of a Goat
Is envied by all poor dyspeptics whose
Stomach and Liver are out of order.
All such should know that Dr.
King's New Life Pills, the wonderful
Stomach and Liver li-inedy, give a
splendid appetite, sound digestion and
a regular bodily habit that Insures per
fect health aud great energy. Only 'S
cents at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store,
Somerset, Pa., aud at (J. W. Brallier's
Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
A Tiny Church.
The smallest church in actual use is
in Luffington, Sussex. It is about l'i
by iJ feet in the interior, with very
thick buttressed wal:, and so much ia
occupied by a disproportionate pulpit
that only about thirty worshipers can
crowd into the room. It was built in
mediaeval times.
Two 2tf others' Bibles.
Late last evening a tolerably well
dressed young man entered a junk
shop with an exquisitely bound vol
ume. The dealer gave him In return
for the book 10 cents. He bad sold his
mother's Bible for a drmk. A few min
utes later another man strolled in this
same place and bought that very Bible.
It was worth something more than 12.
"My mother," he explained, "gave me
just such a book two years ago, and
this one looks to have been used con
siderably. When she sees it she'll
think I've been reading it. That's
why I want to buy it." Knox ville Sen
tinel. There U one little maxim
That now t will nrue.
Which may brinf what U better
Than ncbea or fume.
All thoe who will heed it
Good appetite find.
Strong nenrae, josy cheek.
And Tigorof mind
It will banish dyspepsia.
Rheumatics and gout.
That Tirl Feeling comjuer,
lrive scrofula out.
And here is the maxim
It wisdom b sure
Take Hood's rianaparilla
And keep your blood pure.
Grocery Bepartee.
The Elder Here is a chance for you
to get sotnethin' fer nothiu', Hiram. A
feller advertises to cure the tobacco
habit free.
The Deacon Now ef it were a adver
tisement to cure the free tobacw habit,
I'd advise yxi to answer it this very
day. I ud lanapol is Jmi rual.
Sick nerves make a sick body, doc-tor
your nerve, doctor them with the right
medicine Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer
and you will have health. It cures
all nervous diseases even in their worst
forms. For sale at Garman's Drag
Store, Berlin, Pa. and Mountain A
Son's Drug Store, Confljenoe, Pa.