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AFTER GRACE.
A curate once courted a nic little niimi,
(Jr by name and by nature a sinner.
He never dared ak or Juki one little kins.'
P'rap. he thought by hU preaching to win
her.
His niiaa pAKslona'e cpeech when they aat
down totrether
'a A very floe day, or "Mont singular
Weather."
"An. nic! He Is vowed unto alienee, she ertsd.
"TI my niissUdi to make blm abjure IL.
P mui-t ak him to dinner. I'll nit by lilt aide.
And I really should think l could cure It."
Ko he iue, and they all trUd their hnrdeat to
in tke
Him nully at home. To lusure it
Ho wan sealed by jrar and. Ills alienee to
break.
Said her Hither (who couldn't endure It).
hornet ting the "bleKliig," "Now what will
you take?
I aliould like to aay Grace. (aid the
en rale.
St. I'-uPs.
A LUCKV FELLOW.
A lucky fellow! Well, yes, no doubt
I atn. To have come into tills line
place and $15,(I0 year Is a bit of luck
for any man. Of course, I was my
aunt's nearest living relative, and it
was only right that I should have suc
ceeded to this property on her deiutne.
Still, under my uncle's will she had an
absolute power of appointment, and
had the chow n to make the whole es
tate over to a total stranger, nobody
could have prevented it. At one lime,
iu fai'L, there really was a danger of
this occurring. Have you heard the
story? No? Then I think it will inter
est you, for some of its features are, I
believe, quite unique.
You never saw my uncle and aunt?
They were two nice old people, ex
tremely kind and good-natured, but a
trille eccentric. They were not cut out
at all for country people the position
in which they found tbemwelves after
my uncle purchased this estate. My
uncle, as you have doubtless heard, was
a self-made man. He amassed bis for
tune in cotioa-spinning. My aunt, be
fore she married him-, was a draper's
assistant in Manchester; so, naturally,
it was not to be expected that she
should have the haut ton. Neverthe
less, when they took up their residence
here, they went down better than you
might have supposed. This, I imagine,
was because neither of then) was in any
degree pretentious or vulgar. Indeed,
two more simple, uuafTecttd old people
I have seldom met. They always re
mained just what they were, and never
preteuded to be anything else. And so,
lieing kindly, simple and natural, they
soon made themselves liked by their
neighbors of all classes.
I have said that my uncle and aunt
were somewhat eccentric But they
bad, in their establishment, one who
was considerably more eccentric than
themselves. You really should have
seen John Simmonds, the butler, a dear,
delightful, faithful old creature, per
fectly devoted to the family, but one of
the oddest men you ever saw. He was
about the same age as my uncle, whom
be seemed to regard as a sort of broth
er, and whose interests be watched
over with more than brotherly solici
tude. To say that be was familiar in
his manner toward his master and mis
tress would be to convey a wrong im
pression. For he never took a liberty
or presumed on the affectionate regard
with which be was treated by them.
Yet lie often said to them things which,
if spoken by any other servaut, or in
any other manner than bis own, would
have sounded inexcusable and even out
rageous. That was just where it was.
The old fellow had a way with him in
this direction which somehow robbed
bis pKin-spoken utterances of every
tinge of disrespect.
"Don't thee be a fule, master," I have
often beard him say, in his I road Lan
cashire, to my uncle, when the latter
was proposing some step of which his
butler disapproved. And on one occa
sion a very memorable occasion at a
big dinner party, when one of the fot
men, in baudiug around the fruit, had
dropped a grape on the carpet, my
thrifty, keen-eyed old aunt, with fears
for her new Axminster, in case the
grape should be trodden into it, called
the butler's attention thereto as he
passed her, by saying very audibly:
"John, there's a greep on the flure."
John, just then busy with other mat
ters not to be postponed for a trille, ig
nored the remark.
After a little my aunt repeated it:
"John, there's a greep on the flure."
John was banding around wine, at
that juncture, and continued as if he
bad never heard her.
Another pause, and then my aunt
said it a third time, in a louder voice:
"John, there's a greep on the flure."
This was too much. By affecting not
to Lear her remark, although twice re
peated, the excellent John had done
his best to convey to my aunt, decor
ously, that her fussiness at such a time
was out of place. The third repetition
went beyond his patience. The wor
ried man, momentarily, got the better
of the impassive butler. He said, se
verely, to my auut:
"Don't bother!'
No more and no les-j. It had the re
quisite effect. My aunt made no farther
allusions to the "greep on the flure."
But one, at least, of her guests over
beard the remark a certain very rever
end dean who sat on my aunt's right
He was a keen humorist I saw bis
eye twinkle. Of course, be was too
well-bred to give any other indication.
He did not forget, however, to tell his
story iu bis own inimitable way at oth
er tables. And I'll wager there's hardly
a resident in their neighborhood in
whose repertory of local anecdotes this
is not included to this day as one of the
good things.
1 I could tell you any number of fur
1 ther anecdotes about John, only space
i precludes. This, however, may give
you some idea of what the old man was.
When my uncle died an event that
nearly broke John's heart the faithful
servant constituted himself more than
ever a guardian of the family iuterests.
He looked after my aunt almost as if
she had been a child. It gradually be
come evident that she needed some
looking after, too.. Her intellect bad
begun to fail a little since my uncle's
death. Not that she sank exactly into
a slate of dotage. But she became rath,
er foolish and weak-minded. And this
1 weak-mi ndednea of berg assumed a
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SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY.
most absurd, and, for an old lady, a
most incongruous form. It is bad
euough when a young lady develops
foolish sentimentality.
When an old lady does so, it is fifty
times worse. This is what my aunt
did. She imagined herself still suscep
tible to the tender passion at seveuty-
flve. she discovered quite a decided
penchant for flirtations. Really it was
downright laughable at first But the
time was not long in arriving when the
aspect of the matter grew less pronounc
ed. A serious, a disastrous consequence
liegan to threaten. I will tell you how
it was.
There had lately come into the neigh
borhood a certain retired major, by
name Mallaby, a well kept Individual,
who looked forty-five and was proba
bly sixty-five tall, handsome and of
ingratiatiEg manners and address. In
due course I called upon him, as every
body else did, and in due course he be
came rather a frequent visitor at my
aunt's house. Anything so flagrantly
absurd as an afl'air between my aunt
and this elderly bachelor I had never
imagined. And if it had not been for
John, my eyes would prohably have re
mained shut until it was too late. One
morning, however, John came into the
library, where I was alone, reading,
with a very perturbed expression on
his solemn face.
"Master Charlie," he blurted out,
coining close up to me, and dropping
bis voice to a low, confidential pitch.
"This woant du!"
"What wont do, John?" I was con
strained to inquire.
"This what's going on between thy
aunt and yon mnjor."
"Oh!" I laughed lightly. "That's
all!"
"And bean't it euough?" demanded
John, almost fiercely.
"It's silly of poor old aunt, of course,"
I said, "and it makes her rather a laugh
ing stock. Still, it amuses ber lo think
she's getting up a flirtation. And, after
all, there's no barm done."
"Bean't there?" rejoined John, in a
very significant tone; "oh, bean't there,
Master Charlie?"
"What do you mean, John?" I ex
claimed.
"Mean?" retorted honest John, evi
dently exasperated by what he consid
ered rny wilful obtuseness. "If thee
can not see, tbee's no better nor a fule,
Master Charlie,"
"You don'l. really mean that you
think anything serious is likely to
cirne of thesit foolish flirtations with
Major Mallaby V
"IVpends upon what thee calls se
rious. Home folks might call marriage
serious. Some mightn't That's what's
coming of it, anyways."
"Poob, man. Impossible! Why, aunt
is seventy-five."
"If she was eighty-five and the mar
rying fit took her, age wouldn't be no
hindrance, as it ain't a-been to many
silly old women before now," answer
ed John, seutentiously. "And I warn
thee solemnly, Master Charlie, that if
you or I or both of us don't interfere at
once, Major Mallaby will marry the
mistress. Which is the same thing as
saying he'll get her to leave 'im the
property," said John, with a troubled
shake of the head, "she being in that
weak, foolish state, aa she'll do any
thing at the worJ of one who gets an
influence over her."
I didn't laugh now. John's solemn
words were beginning to alarm me. I
knew he was a shrewd old fellow, with
a very keen insight into things, and by
no means the sort to take fright at
nothing. Besides, the result which be
feared, even if only a remote chance,
was fraught with consequences too dis
astrous to be lightly disregarded. I
therefore said:
"What's to be done, John? How
are we to put a spoke in the major's
wheel?"
John rubbed his bald bead thought
fully.
"I'd like to forbid the major the
house," he said after a while. But I
d ait we cau't very well du that, neither
of us being the master of the estab
lishment"
And then, after another pause, he
broke out regretfully: "Ah! Master
Charlie, Master Charlie, what a pity
thee'rt thee aunt's nephew, and can
not marry her theeaelf! That would be
a gran' way out of the difficulty, in
deed, if it wasn't for the table of affin
ities!"
"Really, John," I smiled, "even if I
wasn't within tbe forbidden degrees, I
could hardly bring myself, at my age,
to marry an old lady of seventy-five."
'Then thee'd deserve to lose the prop
erty for sticking at such a mere trifle,
Master Charlie," retorted tbe old man
with severity. "But there! There! That
being impossible, it's wastiog our time
to discuss it We mun think, Master
Charlie we mun think what can be
done. 'I'll give tbe matter my atten
tion; and thee mun give it thine. In
the meantime," he added, "keep a boot
the boose. Master Charlie, and if the
major calls, don't on any account leave
him alone with thee aunt"
With this caution and another warn
ing shake of bis bald bead be retired to
attend to bis household duties.
Tbe major did call that afternoon,
and I carried out John's advice, taking
care to be present in tbe drawing-room
all the time. Very glad, too, I felt that
I had not neglected this precaution.
For from tbe way the major kept look
ing toward me, as if he wished roe at
Jericho, and from the various attempts
my aunt made to get me out of tbe
room by transparent subterfuges to
which I declined to tumble I began to
feel that the danger of which John had
warned me was very present and real.
and I found myself wondering that I
bad hitherto been so completely and
culpably blind to tbe matter.
When the major at length took his
leave, I was sufficiently polite to ac
company him to the front door. We
shook hands. Our respective manners
were civility Itself. But I think he saw
that I smoked his game. And I de
tected a lurking defiance in his eye as
he bade me adieu.
That night when John brought me
my whisky and soda into the smoke
room, be aked me:
"Well, Master Charlie, what did thee
make of the Major's manners toward
m is tress ?"
-'I didn't like the look of things," I
admitted.
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ESTABLISHED 1827.
"And hast thee thought of any dodg
to outwit tbe major, Master Charlie?"
"I can't say I have. Have you,
John?"
"I ain't 's sure. Good night, Master
Charlie."
Next morning he came to me again,
thL" time with a very long, grave face.
Iu bis baud be held an open letter.
"There, Master Charlie," be said.
"I've been and done what I never done
before. This letter be for the mistress,
but I see it was from the major, and I
opened it"
"I say! You shouldn't have done
that," I remonstrated.
"Should or shouldn't, I did," retorted
John, half defiantly. "And I'm glad
I did, too. Tbe major offers thee aunt
marriage ln this letter, and he's going
to call for his answer this afternoon."
- "Phew!" I whistled, in great dismay,
"What's to be done now?"
"Master Charlie," cried old John,
very arnestly, "thee aunt must be got
away this very morning, before the
major comes.''
"But bow's that to be done?"
"I think it can be managed, 'said
John, with a knowing wag of his bald
head. "Fortunately, the doctor's com
ing this morning to see the mistress
about ber eyes. He's a reel friend to
the family, is the doctor; and I doot be
disfavors the major's designs near as
much as you or I do. Now, if you'd
see him first. Matter Charlie, and con
fide to him the exact state of the case,
who knows but what he'd find tbe con
dition of the mistress's eyes so very
critical that he'd order her up to Lon
don to see a s.ieeialist this very day."
"I'mph! Sharp work, indeed, John.
But I'll sound the doctor and tee
whether he will help us in the way
proposed," I said, after a brief reflec
tion.
I did so. The doctor, a charming old
fellow, who had known me ever since
I was born, was divided between con
cern and amusement when he heard
w hat I bad to tell him.
"Hem! Infernal adventurer! I've
been afraid of this for months. And
your aunt is in such a foolish, weak-
minded state that she would probably
yield to bim. Hem! She must see a
specialist about ber eyes shortly. And
why not now ? Yes, Charles, yes! I'll
do you and her this service, my lad for
Indeed it w ill le a kindness to ber to
save her from the major. I'll see if I
can't frighten her into starting for town
at an hour or two's notice."
I was waiting for him in the ball
when be name down after seeing my
aunt.
"I've been as urgent as I could," he
said, with a shrug of his shoulders.
"But she declares it is impossible the
can go to-day. However, I met John
on the stairs asi tlppol Mm the hint.
He'll induce her to go if anybody tau.
Good old John; he has ruled ber so
long that be can make her do very
much what be likes. I think he's talk
lug to her now. You go and add your
persuasions."
I ran up to tbe morning room; there
I found John lecturing my aunt
"I can't let tbee run the risk of blind
ness, mistress. I tell thee, I can't per
mit it"
"But a day or two can make no de
ference, John, and "
"The doctor said every hour would
make a difference, and I reckon be
ought to know."
"He cousiders it most urgent that
you should lose no time, aunt," I
struck in.
"I tell you I won't go to-day," pre
tested my old relative, peevishly. To
morrow, if I must, but uot to-day."
John, however, was equal to the co
casion. He did not condescend to fur
ther argument. He took the high hand.
"If thee'll not take proper care of
theeaelf, mistress," he said, with d'-ter-mination,
"I shall do it for thee. I
knows my duty to thee, and don't for
get my promises to the dear master.
I'm going to telegraph for rooms, and
I'm going to give Saunders orders to
Kick thee things, mistress. We shall
leave to-day by tbe two o'clock train."
When faithful John assumed this dic
tatorial tone, it was wonderful whatau
effec t it bad upon my aunt She expos
tulated shed tears complained I hat
she was treated like a baby but she
yielded. By the two o'clock train bhe
left for London In company with ber
maid, Saunders, and the indispensable
John. I stayed behind to look after
the house. I saw the major when be
called. He was not a little chagrined
to find that my aunt bad gone away.
And for the first time he betrayed to
me a glimpse of the disagreeable side
of himself.
"Upon my word," be said to me,
rudely, and with a half-threatening air,
"you nurse that aunt of yours very
carefully, young man. But I advise
you not to make an enemy of me; I do
indeed."
"I have no wish to make an enemy
of you, Major Mallaby," I said, coldly.
"You'll regret It if you do," be retort
ed, as be mounted his horse and rode
away.
From his manner it was evident that
he felt sure of success with my aunt;
else be would hardly have ventured
thus to show me his teeth. And bis
departure left me both angry aud un
comfortable. My aunt had been tem
porarily removed from bis influence,
indeed, but be could easily, if he wish
ed, find out ber address in London,
and and altogether, I did not like
the aspect of things.
About a week later I had a letter
from John apprising me of the event
which I feared. The major had found
out where my aunt had gone and had
followed ber to town. He bad actually
been to call upon her that afternoon.
Would I go up at once? He (John)
would meet the 4:4- at Etiston with the
carriage.
I went op by that train, very anxious
and despondent John met me as prom
ised. I insisted on bis riding inside
with me, in order that he might tell
me just what had happened.
"About the major, John?" I began at
once, with keen anxiety.
"The major's a-been," replied John,
with a, to me, somewhat irritating
deliberation. "A nd he's a-gone away
again."
"Why, what do yoa mean? Has
aunt refused him?" .
"She has. Master Charlie.
"Good biz, Indeed!" I cried. I was
TT
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JULY 20. 1899.
afraid I was almost sure she she
would accept him.''
"Ay! so she would have, I believe, if
she'd been free. But she wasu't So
she couldn't"
"Not free? What do you mean,
John?"
"Listen, Master Charlie," said the
old man with an air of suppresad ela
tion. "Theeknowestlhaveawunner
ful power over the mistress to make her
du pretty well what I likes. I've a-ex-ercised
it in such a way as to spoke the
major's wheel for good and all.
"I thought to myself: 'Now, if I can
find a man as would marry the mistrvss
and not presoom upon it, one as would
be content just to be her husband in
law and nutbink els, some quiet,
steady, dependable man as would thor
oughly know bis place and wouldu't
blab if I can find such a man,' I
thought, 'and get tbe mistress to go
through the form of marriage w ith him
by special liceuse, say, and on the
strict q. t it would auswer the pup
poss as nuthink else would, for then
her marriage with the major would be
quite impossible.'
"I looked aliout for that man. I found
him, Master Charlie. I made the mis
tress marry bim. He's her husband
now ln law though in nuthink else,
nor ever will be. But he's spoked the
major; and that's all he wants. Canst
thee guess his name, sir?"
"Not you, John'."' I cried in amaze
ment "Ay, me," replied the old butler, qui
etly. London Truth.
Cheap Things in M anil a.
Paymaster Eugene Coffin, writing
from Manila, Philippine Islands, sajs
the New York Times, to a friend iu
Washington, says . "I am living at
the Hotel del Orient Tbe floors of the
hotel are of hard wood and all sawed
out by baud. The people have never
seen a sawmill. The staircases of the
first three floors of the hotel are of
rosewood. They use solid mahogany
here for the cheapest things. I took
out my rule the other day ami
measured some of the boards in the
tbior, and, to my surprise, they were i!
feet long and 30i inches wide. You
can hardly realize bow wide "h)J inches
is. Take a tape measure and mark it
and you will understand how amazed 1
was. There's a fortune here for the
man who will come in and start a saw
aud planing mill. They saw all their
lumber here by baud, a 'chiuo' at each
end of the saw. These boards have
been In use twenty years, and uot a
chink or a crack lu them.
"I bad nine duck suits made to order
for me here and paid in gold for
the entire lot I pay eight cents a suit
for washing it They never saw a
washboard here. They wet and soap
tbe clothes, then thrash them on the
stones, swinging them over their beads
as you would a flail. There is not a
cook stove in Manila save tLo;e brought
here by our boys. But they bave plen
ty of sewing machines. There is not a
flatiron on the whole island.
"When our boys first got here they
got 54 Mexican dollars for a Uuited
Slates twenty-dollar pieces, but the rte
of exchange has fallen now until it is
only two for one. We are paying off
tbe boys in paper money now, and the
natives take to our curreucy very kind
ly. They bave never seen so much
money in all their lives as our boys are
speuding now."
Tit for Tat
Chief Baron O'tJrady was once trying
a case in an assize town where the
court house abutted on the gren, says
the Buffalo Commercial. A fair was
in progress, and just outside the court
a number of asses were tethered. As
the counsel was addressing the court
one of these began to bray. Iustantly
the chief baron stopped the speaker.
Wait a moment, Mr. Bushe," he said
"I can't hear two at once." The court
r.iared, aud the advocate grew red.
But presently, wheu it came to the
summing up, the Judge was iu full
swing wheu another ass struck in,
whether by the counsel's contrivance
or not, who shall say ? Any how, up
jumped Mr. Bushe, with his hand to
hU ear, and said: "Would your Lord
ship speak a little louder? There is
such an echo in the courL"
His Life Was Saved.
Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen
of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a won
derful deliverance from a frightful
death. In telling of it he says : "I
was taken with Typhoid Fever, that
ran into Pneumonia. My lungs be
came hardened. I was so weak I
could' n't even sit up in bed. Nothing
helped me. I expected to soon die of
Consumption, when I beard of Dr.
King's New Discovery. Ooe bottle
gave great relief. I continued to use it,
and now am well and strong. I can't
say too much in its praise." This mar
velous medicine is the surest and quick
est cure in the world for all Throat and
aodJLung trouble. Regular sizs 50c and
$1 00. Trial bottles free at J. N. Sny
der's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and
O. W. Brallier'a Drug Store, Berlin,
Pa , every bottle guaranteed.
A Litter of Freaks.
William Alexander, an old colored
man living at No. 532 Biddle alley, is
the owner of a cat which gave birth to
a remarkable litter of kittens Tuesday
night, says the Baltimore Sun. Tbe
litter consista of four kittens, two of
which have only two legs apiece, and
these only the fore legs. Another kit
ten has three legs and not even a hint
of a fourth leg where that leg should be.
Tne fourth kitten has four legs, but Its
two back feet, Instead of having their
soles face toward the ground, are un
accountably turned upward.
Bismarck's Iron Serve
Was the result of bis splendid health.
Indomitable will and tremendous en
ergy are not found where Stomach,
Liver, Kidneys aud Bowels are out of
order. If you want these qualities
and tbe success they bring, use Dr.
King's New Life Pills. They develop
every power of brain and body. Only
25c at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store,
Somerset, Pa., and G. W. Brallier'a
Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
I
eraid
A Pair of Glove
"Well, well, it des seem kind of fun
ny that this should happen agaiu. I
have come home the last five years on
this 5-iO train; still nothing of this kind
has ever occurred before until the last
week. It's queer, but I'll advertise
this one. Maybe they are mates."
He drew the other from his pocket
and compared them.
"They are a pair as sure as I am Gran
ville Melton. Same color, size and all."
He folded them ami replaced them
in his pocket, took the evening pajer
and settled down to read.
Mr. Melton was a bachelor and resid
ed In W , a suburb of Boston. He
was a banker iu the latter city, liked
and respected by all who knew him.
On two different occasions ho had
found on the train a glove, which, after
investigation, proved to be a pair. S
he determined to find the owner.
In a few days, in the lost and found
column, appeared:
"Found Ou the 5:30 traiu to W ,
a pair of gloves; owner cau have by
calling.on . W. Melton 21ST St.
city."
The first morning a light-haired
damsel arrived and asked in falteriug
tones if Mr. Mellon was iu.
He smiled as he told ber that she
was talking with that gentleman; but
af'.er questions were answered tbe
gloves still remained ln bis possession,
and tbe young lady left the ottiee utter
ly disappointed.
Tbe ad. remaiued ia tbe paper over
a week, yet tbe rightful owner had not
put ia an apiiearauce, so he made up
his mind to have it removed.
It was nearly time for closing a.
Granville Mellon sat at his desk and
took the gloves out of the drawer.
"I guess I'll take the gloves home as
a souvenir," for, as he folded them, it
somehow brought to his mind bygone
memories.
"I wonder where she is now?" be
mused. "Strange that I never met ber.
Let me see, it is nearly ten years since
we parted. How foolish I was to be
lieve such false stories, but it's past
and gone now, and I am the loser."
He returned the glove to bis pocket,
closed his desk and prepared to leave,
when a woman stepped to the door.
"Is this Mr. Melton?" she asked.
"Yes, madam; but we' re closed now,"
he replied, kindly, trying to see her
face through the thick veil which con
cealed it
"I did not come to deposit, but came
in search of my gloves."
"Ah, did you lose a pair? Can you
describe them."
"Certainly, sir. They were light
gray, with pearl buttons."
He drew them from his pocket and
handed them to ber.
"Are they yours?" he asked slowly.
She gazed iuto bis face with pitying
glance and murmured:
"Yes, thank you."
Was it imagination, or whom did
that look remind him of? He watch
ed ber as she left the otfice. Then a
feeling of remorse came over him as he
seated himself in his chair and bowed
bis head. Why should the past come
so vividly back again ? Why should
those gloves make bim feel uncom
fortable, and where bad be seen that
look, and why didn't he detain her a
moment ?
He drew out his watch. "Only eight
minutes to catch my train.
He took bis hat, but bad gone only a
few feet when he stopped. "Who was
that I saw at the door? How I trem
ble! I am tired and nervous. It is
gone now."
He buttoned bis coat up tightly and
hastened to the depot
As he took the train and started to
peruse the paper, bis mind was so dis
turbed that he laid it down and gaz-d
at the passengers.
Opposite him was the face be had
seen at the door. It dazed bim as be
fore. Where had he seeu it? Care
fully he studied every outline aud noted
every change of expression, uulil he
was fully convinced. Then he rose
and took the seat beside her.
"15eg pardou, but are you not Miss
Warreu ?
She did not blush, but sighed as she
laid ber hand upon his arm aud gazed
earnestly into bis face.
"No, I am not Miss Warreu now, but
I am still Grace. You judged me very
wrongly years ago, but I know you
have found out differently.
She ceased speaking for she saw the
words caused him pain. In a few
minutes she began:
"You remember how you sent me
that letter of st;nging rebuke? I never
answered it because yoj accused me of
so much. I went west with my father,
and after be died I married fura home,
but my busbaud was killed four years
ago in Colorado; so now I bave come
east, hoping, perhaps, to right a cruel
wrong."
As she finished, his heart was too full
for utterance, so he pressed ber baud.
She was a widow, alone ia tbe world.
He was a bachelor, nearing bis fortieth
year, but the old flame of love was re
kindled and as the train puffed out of
W it left behind it two happy
hearts that bad been separated for so
many years.
. It is needless to say what took place,
but now Mrs. Melton often smiles as
she tbinks of bow ber gloves inten
tionally restored to her a lost happi
ness. Boston Post
No Right to Ugliness.
The woman who is lovely in face,
form and temper will always have
friends, but one who would be attract
ive must keep ber health. If she is
weal, sickly and all run down, she
will be nervous and irritable. If she
has constipation or kidney trouble, ber
impure blood will cuse pimples,
blotches, skin eruptions and a retch
ed complexion. Electric Bitters is the
best medicine in tbe world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys, and to
purify the blood. It gives strong nerves,
bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich
complexion. It will make a good
looking, charming woman of a run
down invalid. Only 50 cents. Sold at
J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset,
Pa., and G. W. Brallier'a Drug Store,
Berlin, Pa.
WHOLE NO. 2501.
The Strawberry's Same.
Iaeigh Hunt cnmplaius justly of the
EuglUh name of tbe "best berry God
ever niade, says the New York Tribune.
Tbe Italian name, which he especially
commends like tbe botanical one
"fragaria" Is given because of thefra
grance of the fruit Strawberry was
the name applied to the fruit by Eng
lish market boys, who were aocustont
ed to sell these berries strung on straw,
at so much a straw. It was not until
this century that the wild strawberry
ttegau to lie geuerally cultivated. The
sweet but miniature strawberry of the
field was ail the epicure of the eigh
teenth ceutury could enjoy. The
"bramble fruit," as the raspberry and
blackberry are called iu Kugland, seems
to "have been formerly as highly es
teemed as tbe more delicate strawberry
Izaak Walton seems to bave been
among the first to appreciate the su
periority of the strawberry, quoting a
vrtain Dr. IVtiIer as authority f.ir the
now famous saying that "doubtless
God could have made a better berry,
but doubtless he ne-er did." The taste
of the world has been cultivated iu
fiod since the early English day. The
course palate that recognized a delicacy
for Wings in lamprey eels, a fish which
tbe taste of the most uncultivated labor
er in the field would hardly tolerate to
day, eou Id scarcely be expected to ap
preciate tbe difference, between field
straw berries aud luscious blackberries.
Tbe grape has bee u always cultivated
a a fruit because of tbe wine, but all
berries seem to have been geuerally
despised by the ancients.
The poorest worker la the field can
now cultivate, at little expense of time
or lalor, fruit which would have leen
the envy of a king iu the days of the
riantageiieU or the Tudors. Those
haughty sovereigns were compell
ed to le content with an indiffer
eut supply of fruit It was a long, tor
tuous sailing voyage to the tropics,
and the supply of oranges and other
tropical fruit was very uucertain. The
fruit raised in England in the Middle
Ages comp-i.-eJ chiefly apples aud
pears, and quinces and medlars. These
fruits were rai.Mid almost exclusively
in the gardens of monks, for garden
ing was considered beneath the atten
tion of men of affairs. Justice Shal
lows' gard -n, with its pippins and
medlars, was as characteristic of bim
as any tliing els-, aud must have elicited
KaUtaffs unbounded contempt Tbe
fruit in those days was hard, and would
not Ikj tolerated to-day. CJuiucvs are
uot now considered tit for anything
but preserving, but in old English days
they must have becu eaten like apples,
for sugar was ts expensive for people
of ordinary means to think of preserv
ing them. Mid.'ars, a fruit very much es
teemed in the Middle Ages, was a
species of pear, so hard that it could
only be eaten w hen it was in a state of
incipient decay.
Kitchen Hints.
To clean a spice mill grind a handful
of raw ri-e.
Stone jars are better than tin boxes
for keeping bread during hot weather.
A whisk broom is just the thing to
clean a horse-radish grater.
Wood ashes put in a woolen bag and
placed iu the water will make hard
water soft
A special broom should be kept for
the kitchen aud pavements.
Drain pipes should be cleaned reg
ularly at least once a week w ith lime
a'er, earbolic acid or chloride of lime.
Pickles or viuegar will not keep in a
jar that has ever had any kind of
grease kept in it
Clam shells are more convenient for
scraping pots and kettles than a knife,
requiring less time to remove the burnt
surfaces.
If grease is spilled on the kitchen
floor or table cold water poured on it
at once will prevent the s.ot from
soaking into the wood.
Grease stains can lie removed from
matting by first wetting them with al
cohol and then washing them with
suds made from white castiie soap.
Put a little household ammonia on a
rug and clean off tbe rolls of a wringer
before putting it away.
If tbe ceiling becomes smoked from
a lamp wash off the blackened surface
with a little weak sjd water.
Satisfactory Explanation.
Jim Frye, of Hustonville, tells this
of Jim Coulter, of Middleburg. One
day when Mr. Coulter was at Liberty a
very youDg man with a very bald bead
came into the hotel. He was a stranger,
and Mr. Coulter, by way of commencing
a conversation, said to him:
"My friend, I am not asking to guy
you, but I would like to know bow it
comes that so young man is so bald."
"It was in this way," he replied.
"When my time to get hair came they
said there was none left but red, so I
told them I didn't believe I cared Ur
any."
As Coulter has a very red head be
was satisfied to let tbe conversation
drop. Stanford Interior Journal.
Volcanic Eruptions
Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob
life of joy. Buckleu's Arnica Salve
cures them, alio Old, Ruuning and
Fever Sores, Uh-ers, Boils, Felons,
Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Soa'ds,
Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pile
cure on earth. Drives out Pains and
Aches. Only 2 cents a box. Cure
guaranteed. Sold at J. N. Snyder's
Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and O. W.
Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
A Texas Giantess.
A Texas paper states that Jennie
Robinson, colored, of Burison County,
in thai State, weighs 44? pounds, and
she recently lifted a piece of machinery
which five brawny uegroen had vaiuly
attempted to raise. She was riding a
stubborn mustang last week, which
refused to cross a bridge. Jennie dis
mounted, tied tbe animal's legs, threw
bim ou ber shoulder, carried him
across tbe bridge, aud then continued
ber journey.
Not Mach Use for Party Wreckers.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
One of the mos-t insane of the party
wrecking orgaus complains loudly that
the recent appointments of census su
pervisors lu Penmylvaui were drawn
from the ranks of the stalart Repub
licans; that the appointments were
made upon the cecommendation of
U'tay and Penrose, aud it prinU a
brief history of each official named.
From these histories it appears very
conclusively that a hi,;h order of su
pervisors has been obtained; that there
ia not an uufit man among them; that
each one of the appointees Is a credit.
And yet this complaining organ isn't
happy.
W hat did it expect ? Has it believed
that the administration at Washing
ton is in the party-wrecking business
like itself? Has It supposed that a po
litical highwayman of Pittsburg aud a
discredited politician of Philadelphia,
trailing under tbe firm name of FUdu
A Martin (Limited), would receive
recognition at the Nation's Capital?
There has been nothing more disgust
ing in the history of politics than the
attempt of this firm of self-seekiug
political freebooters to pull down the
Republican party in Pennsylvania and,
like vultures, to grow fat upon the re
mains. The Federal administration is
not iu tbe carrion busiuess, therefore
it has passed by the Fliuns and Mar
tins, and every census supervisor Lt a
man opposed to the methods which
these leaders of persoual spite and envy
adopted at Harrisburg. Evidently
there is not much use in Washington
for the party wreckers of Pennsylvania.
Another disgruntled oran tries to
minimize the declaration of Represen
tative Bliss, of Delaware county, who
voted agaiust (i'iay in the Legislature
and who has now discovered, and has
said so, that the people of his county are
not with the insurgents. Its complaint
is that "nothing has been done to har
monize the party"; and it agrees with
the other organ that all the State and
Federal ortlces have been given to tbe
Stalwarts. Ah a consequence it holds
that the real feeliug of antagonism
amoug the iusurgeuts Is stronger to-day
tbau it was duriog the Legislative
ses ion. It ha-3 a rULt to its opioion,
but that opiuiou not sensible. Mr.
Diss is uuly oue out of several w bo aie
koown to bave changed their view-.
Men who have studied the situatiou
cannot agree with the organs. Nothing
has been done to harmonize the party,
larause there is nothing to do. The
I iepu!lican voters themselves are doing
the harmonizing.
Cau there be any doubt of this? How
cau there be in the light of the prima
ries throughout the State. Outside of
Philadelphia only about 20 delegates
to the coming State Convention re
main to be elected. The right is over.
County after county has placed the
stamp of condemnation upon the bolt
ers and would-be party wreckers. There
will be only a handful of insurgent
delegates in the convention. This is
the work of the plain citizens, not the
leaders.
There is only one thing left for tbe
vreckers and their organs to do, ami
that is to run for cover or turn lieino
erats and howl for llryan. The great
Republican majority is not iu the
habit of surrendering to a little minor
ity let! by such petty Uisses as Con
tractor Fiinu aud David Martin.
Shoo, fly!
Savages on "Devil's Horses."
The Sulian of Morocco, by the advice
of bis gravest and wisest counsellors,
has recently issued a decree prohibiting
the use of the bicycle throughout the
length and breadth of his empire, says
Le Petit Bleu ( Brussels . Nevertheless,
in other parts of savage Africa the
bicycle, if it has not giqierseded the
"ship of the desert," lists to some extent
taken the place of money, and natives
readily exchanged ivory for "devil's
horses;"' and, happy and proud, the
dusky aborigine may be seen gaily
"biking" on the palava ground or the
execution square.
A Colony of Silent Women.
There is a community of female
recluses at a place called Yunakawa,
about seven miles from Hakodate, says
the Yokohama MaiL A matron of
some fifty years presides, and her in
structions are implicitly obeyed. Tbe
women are all young, ranging from
sixteen to twenty-seven, aud some of
them are described as very beautiful.
The building stands in a farm of some
two hundred and fifty acres. But the
women do not eugage in any agricul
tural work. They spend most of their
time iuiK-ors, reading the Bible, aud
they appear to o!serve a strict rule of
silence.
Washing: Lace Handkerchief.
By putting lace handkerchiefs in
warm water iu which are a few drops
of ammonia aud using Castile soap,
they are easily washed and made a
beautiful, clear whife. Then d not
iron, but spread the handkerchief out
smoothly on marble or gbiss, gently
pulling out or shaping the lace. Just
before it is entirely dry fold evenly and
smoothly aud place under a heavy
weight of some kind, and you will find
handkerchiefs last thrive as long as be
fore. So Plutocrats for Him.
"What you readiu', Samuel?"
" 'Plutarch's Lives,' dad."
"Say it sgain. "
" 'Plutarch's Lives.' "
"You put dat book right down, son.
Dio't you know dem plutarchs is the
wust enemies dis yer country's got?
Dat's right, boy. El it wasn't for de
mill'onaires, and de trusts and de plu
tarchs, we all might be getting rich tu'
bappy. So dou't you read no more of
dat book, son; uot an udder line,"
B. P. Thomas, Sand Creek, Mich.,
says, 'Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer gave
me the first wink of sleep I bad ia
seven nights and made me feel like a
new man. It produce a natural sleep."
For sale at Garman's Drug Store,
Berlin, Pa. and Mountain A Son's
Drug Store, Confluence, Pa.
His Best Work.
A west churchman once asked tbe
late Bishop Williams, of Connecticut,
what the latter considered the best bit
of work be had done in that State
during bis long episcopate there.
"Well," the venerable bishop replied,
"perhaps the best work I did for the
diocese and fur the church as well, was
to keep a number of men out of the
ministry."
A wheelman's tool bag isn't com
plete without a bottle of Dr. Thomas'
Electric OiL Heal cuts, bruises, stings,
sprains. Monarch over pain.
There U nothing a manly man ad
mires more than a girlish girl or a wo
manly woman.