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I ConsiimDf ion I
i J is robbed of its terrors by ?
1 the fact that the best med- $
2 ical authorities state that it
9 w a vuiauie urease; ana
one of the happy things 0
0 about it is, that its victims
rarely ever lose hope.
0 You know there are all sorts of 2
secret nostrums advertised to cure 0
consumption. Some make absurd 0
Q claims. Ve on!v sav that if ltm A
in time and the laws of health are
2 Properly observed,
EMULSION J
r will heal the inflammation cf the
5 throat and lunp and nourish and r
? strengthen the body so that it can 1
J throw off the disease.
A We have thousands of lcxi. a
moniab where people claim they
9 havx been permanently cured cf
j this malady.
Soc. md Si.oa, !! drorEiv
0 SCOT! it BOW K t, Chcmuk, Nrw York.
First Naiional Bant
Somerset, JPeim'a,
Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, S44.O0O.
UNOIV'OED
PROFITS
S5.000.
oc posits kcccivc munactiiDtatu
MOUNTS, PAVftSLC OH OCa. MO
ACCOUNTS or MCMCMANTS. ANMCR,
STOCK OCAtCRS. AND OTHCfiS mOLICITEO
DISCOUNTS DAILY.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CHAS. O. N'1'I.L, tEO. R. KCULU,
JAMESi Ft'iH, W. H. MILLER,
JOHS R. KPOTT. KoKT. St'CLL,
KKEU H'. BIKSECKKB
EDWARD KTLL : : rRESIDFST
VALKNTINE HAY, : VICE PKEMDENT.
HARVEY M. BERKLEY, CAJsHIEH
Tb faiKlK nd ecurtilraof this bans sreie
curely prot4frtel in a wlebrmird c'oki.ihs Bcb
gli Proof iSatb. Tne only safe made to
lntelv bursiar-proot.
Jacob D Swank;
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Next 3oor West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
prepared to supply the public
with Clocks, Watches, and Jew
elry of all deacriptlona, aa Cheap
as the Cheapest.
REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
stock before making your
purchases.
J. D. SWANK
KEFFEB'S Mi SHOE STORE!
KEN'S BOYS . WCKEN'S, GIRLS' nd CHILDREN'S
SHOES, OXFORDS i-k) SLIPPERS.
Iilat-k and Tan. Ltet Style and Shapes
at lowest
-...CASH PRICES
Adjoining Mm A. E. Uhl, South-east
corner of square.
SOMERSET. PA.
pfcSeHit 50 YEARS'
7 EXPERIENCE
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Tb. BMt ot m lifa. 8" ssrtkods sd at
CENTRAL STATE KOHKAL SCHOOL
Llti k liittH ft'llaMw Ci, FA.
Htmg rsn'tr, rr"i ennn, cJ HSrrr,
modern ipvu.ta. !oor.wry
wam bm.'hm bMj:iin,il' ' rt"M
5..lt. ti-.nr, lt ivr, Wat. a J Vo (to.
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wnfr. r"-l t iilrld eite
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mr sofllv (Hid
1 r,iim effective! v ever
ia festive scene v.UcuU:rcun
by waicn csnuits.
The Unlit that liciMcrs
beauty's chana, that gicstl:c
finished touch to thctirr.sii;S
room or dining rocin, is Ujc
mellow glow ot
VAX CANDLESl
Soli ia aU colors andsUi.oc-
to harmonize with any u-.ier.or
hangings or decorttiota.
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There l bojr la our tows
(And b U woodrou ue).
Wbo. when tt rain com p. poariaf daws
Asd c!ou.H .'enpma th tkira,
"I'll jut Nniie the b I csa.
martrr how it pours.
And we'll haw sunaiune is tbe boos.
U it s raia oat el doors.
nsorhte worda swarm throne) bia brala
And clamor to b said.
Be shots hi teeth together ttfrbt
And aars. I'll liil yon drad
Coii-ss vou will be swrrt and kind
AnJ imod and full of fun;
lou ran t eome out until you are
Ko. not a aingle one!'
He thinLs whra he's a rrows up taas.
With wiar and aubrr (are.
Be'll do n wontiroua deed to tnakt
This rarth a Lrightrr p'.tct.
But nothing in this whulr wide world
Can pin more lasting joy
Or Rake more solid suusinc
Than just a little boy.
Jlary M. Tarks in Philadelphia Tiroes.
becauseToFTdeals.
'May I walk home with you?" be
asked.
It was past eight o'clock on a wet
winter night, aud they had just come
out of church, where the vicar had
been diootirsh)g eloquently ou tbe so
cial equality of man.
The girl looked up at tbe sky, opened
her umbrella, and said: "Yea."
"You think he wa right?" The
man nodded his head in the direction
of the buildinsr they had just Kft,
"Not at all," said she, with a little
t3of her head. 'I think he was all
wrong in general.,
"But in particular?"
"Yoa and I have nothing to do with
particulars," she remarked, kicking
away a stone that lay in her path.
"We are particulars" briefly.
"Xo, we are not," retorted the girl.
"We are most decidedly generals. My
father is (teneral Carwithen, ray grand
father was General Carwithen; your
father is a general dealer." This lat
ter was oaid under her breath.
The man did not contradict her; he
merely aked her if it made any differ
ence to themselves.
"I think we are, and always shall be,
as far apart as those two stars," she
said, sadly.
The rain bad ceased, and two watery
stars twinkled feebly in the gloomy
sky.
"I am nearly home now," she said,
after a little silence. "You bad better
not eome any farther. Good-night."
Tbe man apparently did not see tbe
hand she held out to him. He said
"good-night" laconically, but he turn
ed and watched her until she was out
of sight
Ouce home, she flung herself on the
bed in an agony of despair. Tbe man
found his friend awaiting him ou his
doorstep.
"Hulloa! You look a bit down in
the mouth, Needham. I knew this
buoinees wouldn't work satisfactorily,"
he said.
"It's working splendidly," answered
the other.
"Then what is it?" asked his friend.
Randal Need ham gave a little laugh
and shrugged his shoulders. "The tale
is as old as the hills, Arthur," he said,
"I am in love."
"Phew T' ejaculated bis friend.
"Oh, it's all right," said Needham.
"She's a perfect lady."
Arthur glanced around his friend's
study. Violins and bows galore litter
ed the n.oiu; music was the dominating
passion of the man's life.
"She doesn't know?" he a-ked.
"Not she!" answered Needham.
"She thinks my father is a general
dealer in only heaven knows what!
But I'll make her own she loves me
before she does know. No one here
has ever guessed my 9tory. I am a
poor violin tea"hr, pure and simple."
"Not so simple, either." Grosveuor
laughed.
The two men bad brought out their
pipes and sat purling away at them to
their hearts' couteul.
"Look here, I met an old woman I
know ou the street today," went on
Grrstfenor. "I told her I h staying
with you, and the asked me to dine
there; she turned up her lofry nose with
scorn at the bare idea of your joining
her select party at table. No one is
good enough for Mrs. Rauter; she has
her precious girl's future to ibink of,
and you are not an eligible."
"Rinterr' echoed Needham. "by,
that's the name of my best pupil's
mother. Are you going?"
'Is thy servaut a dog?" returned
Grosveuor.
Mrs. Ranter is one of the most arrant
humbugs on the face of this earth.
Nothing short of a title is worth any
thing to her," aid Needham.
"Oh, I know her," returned theoth-
. . ... i .,j ,
er. 1 loina sue wouta sen uer bjui
for position."
'If she had -.ne," added Needham,
and they both taughed.
"How did that 'general dealer' idea
get about?" ai-ked Grosvenor. He had
stopped smoking to refill his pipe.
'Oh, I don't kuow!" auswerrd the
other. "I epect Mrs. Rioter is at the
bottom of it, and I haven't contra
dicted it because it served my purpose
well."
"You were always a rum chap, you
know," said his friend "I can't think
how it Is that people don't see through
you."
Needham paused in the act of put
ting some coal on the fire, "I have al
ways had my ideals," he said. One of
them was to be loved and married for
myself alone. My father being out in
Canada made it easy for me to sink my
identity. And I've bad an ideal exist
ence, too, he added. "It's rather fun
to be snuibed when you know it Is un-
nesary."
Grosveuor lookea tuougniiuiiy inio
the fire. "I bad ideals, too, once upon
a time," be said. "I would have died
for any of them, any day. The diffi
cult part was to live up to them.'
"Don't outlive them, old fellcw,"
said Needham, "It is a mistake. When
the real shiuea in the reflected glory of
the ideal. It is aiways the better for it."
"Do you really think so?" asked Gros
venor, as he got up. "I am off to bed
now. If I atay up auy longer you will
be persuading me to follow your exam
ple, and I don't think I should find It
as amusing as you did."
Tbe next morning Randal Needham
was coming back from giving a lesson,
ben be saw Cecil Carwithen in front
of him. She was carrying her violin
case, and looked white and tired.
Somerset
SOMERSET, PA.,
"You must let me have that," be
said, masterfully, pointing to the case.
"And now tell me why you are looking
so pale this morning."
A slight flash mounted to her brow.
"I am tired," she aaid, briefly.
"That isn't all," h? replied.
At this moment Mrs. Rantrr bore
down upon them. She cut the girl,
and bowed icily to Needham. It would
not do for her to offend him; Kate waa
beginning to play the violin so well un
der bia careful tuition.
"Cecil," said the man, possessing
himself of her hand, "you know I love
you, dear. Couldn't you make up your
mind to marry me some day ?"
"It's no use," she said, sadly. "My
parents would never consent"
"Oh yes, they would!" In a tri
umphant tone.
'.'Our lives lie in different directions,"
objected tbe girt.
"But I make enough to keep you,"
urged Needham. "You need never do
a stroke of work. And I am not com
mon nor vulgar, whatever my father
may be. Cecil, say you love me."
The girl looked at him, and he read
the answer in her brown eyes. Then
she seized her violin out of bia band
and fled, leaving him staring stupidly
after her, with a whole world of joy un
his face.
For the next week neither saw the
other. Randal Needham went away
suddenly the day after, and stayed
away, to the surprise of bis pupils (for
it was term time), and the righteous in
dignation of Mrs. Ranter. "But what
could one expect of a man like that?"
she whispered confidentially to her
bosom friend, a lady whose great-niece
had married the great nephew of a
baronet.
Needham came back the day after
this charitable remark had been made.
He was in deep mourning, and bia first
visit was to General Carwithen. Cecil
was in the garden, and thither be
wended bis way after the interview
was over.
"I have come to claim you," he said;
"What has made father consent?"
asked tbe girl. Tbe toue of her voice
was incredulous.
"I have informed him of a few facts;
and now I must break them geutly to
you," answered he.
Tbe wiud bad ruffled Cecil's hair,
and he smoothed it back with a loving
gesture.
"I am not bound to work for my liv
ing," be said, "and"
"Well?" she queried, anxiously.
"Look at that!" be said, thrusting a
paper into her hand, and turning away,
so that he might not see her face. He
need not have been afraid.
Cecil read the marked paragraph:
"The funeral of Lord Conuingham."
There was also a likenef-s of the heir,
and it and the man sitting beside her
were identical.
Mrs. Ranter was considerably aston
ished the next morning to get a letter
in the ex-violin-master's baud writing:
"Lord Conninghatu regrets that he
will be unable to continue Miss Rant
er's lessons, as be Is leaving Leemin
ster." Still more surprised was she at the
announcement of his engagement to
Cecil Carwithen, which her daughters
read in the local papers a few mornings
later.
"Girls!" she said to those two yourg
ladies, "why didu't we ak him to din
ner ?"
Aud echo answered:
Paul's Budget.
Why?" St.
Tinht Lacing Stories.
Popular Revolutionary novels make
a point of de-tcribiug the tight coret
lacing of tbe heroine; but we need Dot
go so far back as 1770 to recall tbe tor
ture of tight stays. Mature women of
this generation may look to their moth
ers and grandmothers as examples of
upright women, not only morally but
physically. It was not uncommon for
stately lady to sit In church for two
hours without touching the back of her
pew. I he party-going classes literally
strained every point to reduce the waist
measure, Batl dresses were made with
a two-pointed waist, one In front and
one at the back of the corsage, and the
latter was made to close by means of
strong silk laces run through small eye
lets. No human being cou 1 1 have en
dured the pretMure, had it not been that
the waist was cut very low, and the
whole upper part of tbe lungs had thus
full play. Very short sleeves, some
times only a shoulder strap, also left a
fair portion of skin exposed. Both ma
trons aud young girls gloried ia the' ef
forts they made afier tight lacing.
THE COLONEL'S WIFE.
Once the writer happened to le at a
military post near New York. The col
onel's wife was going toa ball in which
she was to appear in a new pink silk
dress. Both her servants failed to make
tbe lacing meet. Her husband was call
ed in, and be, too, failed to draw the lac
ing together. "Call In your orderly
sergeant," said the lady, which was
done, and between tbe colonel and his
orderly sergeant the corsage was made
to meet over the corsets. Both wiped
the sweat from their brows, however.
when they got through.
A THRILLING INCIDENT.
A more thrilling incident of tight
lacing was of a young lady going to
her first ball. Iu the lacing of her cor
sage all the women of the household
had failed, and her brother was sum
moned to give his aid. After some fu
tile efforts he wound the silk lacing
around a bed-post, while the maid drew
tbe eyelets close together with a button
hook. Just as a beautiful fit had been
secured the young debutante took a
long breath of relief, and the silk lacing
snapped with a report like that of a
pistoL It waa 9 o'clock at uight, and
the stores were all closed, but the broth
er went forth and at last got a silk lac
ing at a barber shop. In those dayt
some fashionable young men wore a
short waist "stay" to make their shirts
set smooth, and the barber kept a few
of the laces to accommodate his dandy
patrous.
"It was almost a miracle, Burdock
Blood BiUera cured me of a terrible
breaking out all over tbe body. I am
very grateful." Miss Julia Filbridge,
West Cornwell, Conn.
The true life ia the life we live witl ia
ourselves.
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 7. 1 900.
The Bolters' Aiiaalt on the Senate.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Senators of the United States
are now getting a taste of the methods
that have been employed In Pennsyl
vania to overawe and browbeat the
people. The somewhat remarkable
speech of Senator Hoar on Thursday
unquestionably voiced the sentiments
of many of his colleagues. Letters at
tacking the character and political
standing of Senator Quay have been
dumped by the cartload upon the desks
of the Senators until the thing has got
to be a nuisance. Senator Hoar stood
it as long as he could, and then he very
wisely and in a public manner inform
ed those who are assailing Quay that
they are no better than ballot-box
stuffers. They are asking blci to vote
against the seating of Quay because
they do not like him and because they
want some one else, someone wholly
agreeable to David Martin, the political
highwayman, "Bill'Tlinu, the politi
cal contractor, a millionaire aspirant
or so for political honors and a few de
luded mortals, who think that all polit
ical virtue in Pennsylvania revolves
around a combination of ex-rallot-box
stuffers, political contractors and mil
lionaire aspirants for honors which the
people could not possibly be cajoled
in'o giving them.
In all political history there never
was such a man-hunt, the fag ends cf
which the Senate is now cognizant of
officially. The contest against Quay
is one of money, hypocrisy and inor
dinate ambition, an ambition that
stops at nothing. For four years Quay
has been fought because he would not
put his faith lu political hypocrisy and
because he preferred to stand by friends
and to face corrupt political asssassins
and defy tbem. The light against
Quay has brought into Pennsylvania
the most stupendous corruption that
could be imagiued. It has been found
ed upon corruption and the attempted
purchase of men In office. Penrose
was obliged to contend against tens
and even buudreds of thousands of
dollars thrown into tbe field and ban
died by unscrupulous men. Debauch
ery on the part of the anti-Quay and
aoti-Penrose "reformers" ran riot,
Never in all history was there such at
tempted corruption as was brought to
bear against him, and it is to the undy
ing credit of Penusylvania legislators
that they were proof against the cor
rupt methods of Quay haters.
Corruption has been the stock in
trade of the Quay opposition from the
very beginning, and has dared all to
win iu way. It has pursued Quay as
no man ever was pursued. It has
charged him with every crime. It has
called biiu an embeizer and a tbief,
aud when be faced his enemies in open
court and twelve men gave a verdict
declaring his opponents to be defamers
aud triumphantly acquitting him, tbey
repeated their villainous charges and
hired men to seitter them broadcast
Men who have grown rich In politics
can always command a certain support
and when millionaire- with plenty of
money to throw away enUi politics
they can always find plenty of con
verts, who will take their money and
shout for anything under the sua as
long as the money holds out. It is not
singular, therefore, that a handful of
meu are able to flood the desk of Sen
ators with letters directed against Q iay.
Some of these letters are undoubtedly
honest, for there are gudgeons every
where who can be played up n. There
are men who honestly believe that
wealthy but shady political bosses are
leaders to be looked up to, and that any
man who may teach a Sunday-school
one day in the week must of necessity
be a perfect monument of political vir
tue for the other six days. Bjt the
thing has been overdone. When a
man like Senator Hoar rebels, the
method' adopted must have liecotne
exedingly obnoxious Indeed. We
trjbt that o it of the billingsgate that
has been xured upon the unoffending
beads of the Senators of the I'uited
States the suffering Senators will be
able to gain for themselves some faint
ilea of the kind of a campaign that
his been waged agaiust Q lay in Penu
sylvania. When S-nators are told teat Q lay
has appealed to them on the ground of
poverty, tuey know better. Wheu they
are told that be has begged tbem to
vote for biiu on the grouud of friend
ship, they know that he has not a-ked
a single one of theui to support him.
When they are told that his only hope
of success is to bribe tbem outright,
they naturally resent the reflection upon
their own buuor, and tbey just as nat
urally begin to think that If such stuff I
is made use of to control votes in the
Senate, tbe falsehoods of a campaiga
in Pennsylvania must be somethiug
alarming. Naturally, too, they ask,
W hat does this Q Jay opposition amount
to, anyway? And then they look at
the figures. When they do this they
And that Quay carried the Legislature
in a contest before tbe people, and that
after he had carried it political treach
ery orgauiz;d a bolt against him and
kept him from reaping the reward of
his victory. Then, too, they find that
in the late November election Quay
was made the storm centre, and that
Pennsylvania gave not only a tre-nen-doui
plurality, but a great majority,
and that she actually, on the Q lay is
sue, Increa-ed her Republican strength.
This being the case, it is but natural
that the cartloads of letters, tbe result
of organization backed by unlimited
cash, should be swept into the waste
baskets and that Senator Hoar, a man
who can not be bribed nor browbeaten,
should take the flxr ia angry protest.
Said Senator Hiar, referring to the
letters he has received from Pennsyl
vania: "Now, what these gentlemen ak me
to do is, in substance, this: The Senate
is tbe court or judge of the elections of
Senators. I am one of the sworn judg
es, and these worthy gentlemen are
asking me to stuff tbe ballot-box and
make a false return in my capacity as a
sworn judge of elections, because they
think the Governor of the State ought
to have appointed somebody else. That
is the attitude which these worthy gen
tlemen are taking."
Senator Hoar strikes the key-note of
the opposition when he says that Quay's
opponents think that tbe Governor
ought to have appointed some one else.
Had Dave Martin been named, does
any one suppose t' at there would have
been a single protest from tbe Insur
gent hypocrites? Had "Bill" Flinn
been appointed, would a single letter
have been written from the forces of the
bolters? Had the Millionaire League
of Political Pirates been consulted, Is
there a Senator who thinks for one in
stant that the question of constitution
ality would have been raised? Not a
voice would have been lifted, and it is
venom, hatred, spite and the desire for
political revenge and personal political
profit alone that have produced the
outrageous assault upon Quay and upon
the integrity and tbe honesty of the
Senate by the political highwaymen of
Pennsylvania.
We say to the Senate once more that,
so far a Q i ay is personally concerned,
his acceptance or rejection can have no
effect one way or the other, for he will
carry the Slate In November next just
as he has carried it in the past, and the
Republicans of the State will then for
ever bury the hypocritical movement
which would elevate political treach
ery and political traitors and million
aire aspirants -at -any -price to office.
Quay's status will not be touched. But
the status of the Senate Itself will le,
for the rejection of Quay would make
pjlitical treachery fashionable, and
would hand over to a few men the
power to prevent any Senatorial elec
tion and thus to create vacancies with
out limit.
Why One Man Harried.
Gen. Gor-on aaid he never married
because he never found a woman pre
pared to accompany him to tbe ends of
the earth. Such a woman Sir Henry
Lawrence did find. She went with
bim Into nearly every place in India
where his work brought him, however
difficult or dangerous.
One day the scarcely less celebrated
Lord John Lawrence was sitting in his
drawing-room at Soutbgate with his
frister and others oi the family. Look
ing up from the book in which be bad
been engrossed, he discovered that bis
wife had left tbe room. "Where's
mother?" he asked one of bis daught
ers. "She's upstairs," replied the girl.
He returned to his book, aud, looking
up again a few minutes later put tbe
same question to bis daughter and re
ceived the same auswer. Once more
he returned to his reading; once more
he looked up with tbe same question
on bis lips. Thereupon his sister broke
in, "Why, really, John, it would seem
as if you could not get on five minutes
without your wife." "That's why I
married her," he replied. Philadel
phia Ledger.
Their Lovely Dreams.
''Ob, I had a beautiful dream last
night," said Mrs. Peckham, "I dream
ed that you had done something heroic,
for which tbe people were all praising
you; but instead of permitting yourself
to lie carried away by success you took
me in your arms before tbe multitude
aud kirwed me, and cried aloud so all
might hear that you had had but one
thought In accomplishing your glorious
achievement, and that was my happi
ness." "That wasquite adrarn," Mr. Peck
ham answered, "but I had a nicer one.
I dreamed that you aud I had started
alone through a great forest, where
there were many wild beasts. We had
gone for miles into tbe depths, I fully
armd aud prepared to protect you
with my life. We were like another
Adam and Kve, the only human being
there. Oq aud on we went, you cling
ing to me and assuring rne of your faith
iu me, until finally '
"Yes, dear," she urjed, when he
hesitated.
"Until finally you let go of my arm
for a moment and got lost." Chicago
Times-Herald.
His Cunclusioi.
"John Henry," said Mrs. Cavil,
"take that cigarette out of your mouth
and listen to this."
After John Henry had awumed the
required position Mrs. Cavil read sub
stantially as follows.
"James McDonald, of Jer-ey City
Heights, was the owner of a big Mal
tese cat, named Jim, which he had
kept for 'X years. Jim hated cigarettes
The other day some young men g t tbe
cat into a room, closed the tbor and
proceeded to smoke many cigarrettes
In order to torment Jim. After frantic
efforts to escape, thecal lay down and
died."
"Now," said Mrs. Cavil, "what con
clusion do you derive from that, John
Henry?"
"From that," replied John Henry,
as he struck a match to re-light his
cigarette, "I deduce the conclusion
that no Maltese cat should try to smoke
cigarettes." Philadelphia Inquirer.
Having' a Great Ban on Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy.
Manager Martin, of the Pierson drug
store, luforms us that he is having a
great run on Chamberlain's 'Jough
Remedy. He sells five bottles of that
medicine to one of any other kind, and
it gives great satisfaction. In these
days of la grippe there U Dothing like
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to stop
tbe cough, heal up the sore throat and
lungs and give relief within a very
short tiins- The sales are growing,
and all who try it are pleased with its
prompt action. South Chicago Daily
Calumet. For sale by all druggists.
Harness Made of SteeL
A steel harness trace is one of the
latest productions of Sheffield. A nar
row strip of steel about an iuch wide
Is encased iu leather and used in the
ordinary way. The steel is of the best
quality and so pliable that it cau b
twisted.
Finger Exerciser.
The fingers can be strengthened for
playing musical instruments by a Colo
rado man's exerciser, which has a se
ries of spring-controlled cords set in a
frame, with rings at tbe lower ends of
the cords, which are slipped over tbe
fingers and adjusted in position at tbe
tip or base of tbe finger.
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PB.0GEESS I3f PAEMIJfO.
What the Tillers of the Soil
Accomplished.
Have
With the opening of the new year
and tbe approach of spring the farmer
will find himself busier than st any
other time before the ground is ready,
aud among the most important mattets
to be considered Is the improvement of
the live stock aud tbe varieties of
crops. It has been demonstrated in the
past that as many improvements have
taken place on tbe farms as in the
workshops, though differing In forms
and methods, and the farmer stands as
high In the line of progress as do those
in other avocations. The horse is made
to do duty in several capacities, and
breeding has produced several varie
ties, each adapted for speed or draft, as
occasion requires Cattle have been
greatly improved witbiu the pat half
century, each breed being classified for
certain duties. The cow is no longer
an animal for producing milk, as the
class that excels in milk production
may not prove superior for butter pro
duction It is tbe same with sheep,
swine and poultry also, for the farmer
can now select what he desires as a
farm animal. Breediug has separated
each from the other, and given one and
all peculiar characteristic which have
been secured by patient and careful
selection from the best. But for the
work of the breeders and farmers, who
have made such wonderful progress
with the breeds of live stock, the wealth
of this country would be much less
than at present, for it may le truly
ctaimed that the advancement of a na
tion cau be noticed in the suC'ssof its
farmers with live stock. The live
stock of to-day shows that our farmers
have kept pace with the progress of the
age. The cattle, horses, sheep an 1
swine of the present differ widely from
those existing ia the year ISO, and the
condition of tbe farms has improved
with the stock.
THE WORK OF A CENTl'KY.
Since the year l.X) there have afso
been many wonderful changes ia the
varieties of fruits and vegetables. Tbe
tomato, cauliflower, celery, salsify and
other well-known vegetables were not
in existence a9 articles of f.od. The
cabbage was a soft-headed p'aut, knowu
as "collard"; the carrot was but a
small root, and the beet and turnip
were almost insignificauL The list of
fruits aul vegetables has been so ex
tended as to give almost an unlimited
variety. The fox grape was king iu
this country in IsOO, and the Concord,
Catawba, Delaware, Niagara and other
varieties were produced from it. The
blackberry, which grew along the road
sides and ditches, has bten brought
into the gar-leu and fields, while the
wild strawberry has been converted
from an insignificant berry into va
rieties which bear but little resemblance
to the original. Apples, peaches, pears,
quinces, plums, cherries, gooseberries,
currants and raspberries have also been
greatly improved and modified, so
much so that if one living 100 years
a;o could he brought back to life be
would be uuable to recognize some of
the fruits presented for Inspection, j
There has been uo 'chance" iu the im
provements made. Not a single breed
of animals or variety of fruits or veg
etables has been brought forward that
was not the result or skill and indus
try, and only a comparison with those
existing in the past ( which is Impossi
ble) will demoustrate what the farmer
has done. Others may have inveuted
labor-saving implements for his use,
but he has been forced to dispense with
the spinning wheel, the ltu aud
other appliances now unknown on in;
farm, but in his lines the farmer has
walked side by side with the inventors,
and with each new discovery on tne r
part he can point to a corresponding
improvement on the faroi as the result
of nis skill.
PKOUKKSS IN CULTIVATION".
With what may have been done iu j
the past there is yet more to do on the j
raroi. Iu toe year Ivrj the feraier
knew nothing of artificial fertilizers.
He did not even understand bo to'
feed for best results; iu fact, he consid
ered it ec momieal to turn his live stock
into the woods that each animal should
seek its food. Tbe suuuy side of a barn
was warm shelter, and the ox did
more ser .-ice thau tb? h rse. Tue list
of fruits was very short and the mul
berry was regarded as eutitled to a
p ace anion the fruits, the- walnut,
hickory nut, chestnut ani persimmon
holding high places in the affections of
the young people. The roads were fear
ful, and the shipping of produce to
market was very diffcult. Live sw:i
went to market "ou the hoof," arid
turkeys were driven iu large droves
hundreds of miles. The farmer no
understands th use of fertilizers and
plant footLs, and he actually employs
the bacteria of the soil to increase bis
yields of crops and puts bacteria iuto
his cream to make the proper bjtter
flavor. It is no exaggeration to state
that bacteria is sold to far ers to b
U9ed for different purposes, and before
another decade has passed the farmer
will probably be master of the drought
and be in position to control the moist
ure supply. What isrure in favor of
the farmer as coupired with inventors
of machinery is that he had no pitent
laws to protect him. His improve
ments passed out of his bands and be
came public property as soon as his
work was finished, and the only reward
he could secure was to make qu'Ck sales,
the first year, as competitors met him
the next with his own weapons. Great
fortunes have encouraged inventors,
but the farmer's work has beendne
without hope of any reward other than
that wbi3h could be derived from tbe
farm. Philadelphia Record.
"I am entirely cured of a nervous
trouble which rendered my life full of
restless gloom. I wish that others
whose lives are miserable could know
of its merits." So writes Rev. Mil
ler, South Whitley, Ind., of Wheeler's
Nerve Vitalizer.
Tbe superior merits of Brant's Cough
Balsam are cures quickest and largest
-25reents. For sale at Carman's Drug
Jtore, Berlin, Pa., and Mountain Jt
Jon's Drug Store, Confluence, Pa.
There ia no capacity for God's joy in
the heart until it baa emptied itself on
others.
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"WHOLE NO. 2529.
A Disgusting Habit.
Boys should early be (aught the he:a
o tsnes of the offense of spitting, both
from the basis of decency and danger
to public health. It is iuueh;asier to
prevent tbe formation of a habit of this
kind in a boy than to correct it in
man, aud herein lies the mother's part
ia the warfare agiiust spitting.
No extension of woman's rights ia
m-cessary to make mothers a power in
tnis uegitcted reilm. All that is re
quired is a return to a duty once faith
fully discharged but in tbe rush of
modern life neglected the viglanc ma
ternal supervision of boys during the
years in hich their habits are formed.
The boy who is taught that to spit ou
the hearth -the steps any where about
the house is an infringement upon the
rights of the family that will not be
tolerated, is not likely as a man to In
fringe upon the rights of the public by
spitting upou the sidewalks, the floors
or steps of public building?, or iu the
cars.
In the meaLliiue, however, there is a
generation of full-grown, active c pi Iters
to Le reckoned with iu the interest of
the public health, and it is the opinion
of those who Lave given careful atten
tion to the matter that these can be
reached more effectively by the dissem
ination of knowledge upon the sul'j-cl
thau by city ordinauets tr State Ia.
The Main Point.
"Ye, my dear," said a New York
man to bis is year-old daughter, "1
wish you would do your best to capti
vate the heart of our coachman."
"And elope with him, papa?"
"Yes, my dear."
"Ah, I see; you dear, cute papa! You
want all the papers to say I atu a fasci
nating beauty aud a reigning belle."
"Well, that would help a little; but
that is not tbe main point."
"What is it, then, papa?"
"Why, tbe papers ill all say you
are the daughter of a millionaire, nnd
that will enlarge my credit- See? Now,
you run out to the stable; that's a good
girl.'" Ohio Srate Journal.
'Experience is the best Teacher."
We must be willing to learn from
the experience of other people. Every
te-tinjonial in favor of Hood's Sarsa
ptrilla is the voice of experience to you,
an i it is your duty, if your blood is im
p iraud ynui health failing, to take
tins medicine. You have every reason
to expect that it will do for you what
it has done for others. It is the liest
in dicine money can buy.
H'd's Pills are non irritating, niili,
ective.
A Zema- kable TnnneL
A new tunuel under construction in
Paris, in connection with the new electro-railroad,
is to have quite a novel
feat nr.-, in beiug lighte t up with elec
tric lights during the ptssage of trains
in the day tim wbeo there are no
Tg'its in the cars. On each side of the
tunnel, on u level with the windows of
the cars, is a row of electric lights,
a:i I the train o.i entering the tunnel
turns on the current, filling the tunnel
withatl'l of lig'it. aud on leaving
the runnel, by a similar automatic
switch, the train turns off the I ght-
It has been demonstrated repcatly in
every state in the Union and In many
foreign countries that C'hamoerlain'a
Cough Remedy is a cenaiu preventive
and cure for croup. It has become tbe
universal remedy for that disease. M.
V. Fisher of Liberty, W. V.,ouly re
peats what has beeu said arund tbe
globe when he writes: "I have used
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my
family fr several years aud always
with erfeot success. We believe that
it is not only the best cough remedy,
but that it is a sure cure for croup. It
has saved the lives of our children a
number of times " Ttds remedy is for
stle by all druggist.
Bobby Knew.
A Springfield lawyer has a son about
ten years old and a daughter about
twice that age. The boy ha been
around the court house a god d-al
with bis father, and the yung lady
has a steady leau. The ther evening
the young gentleman passed the houe,
an i tbe young lady desired to speak to
bim.
"Bobby," she said to her little broth
er, "won't you pi ase call to Mr.
Brown."
Bobby knew the state of affairs, and
he hurried to the front dtvir and called
out in the usual loud monotone of a
court bailiff:
"Johu Henry Brown, John Henry
Brown, John Heury Brown, come into
court."
Mr. Brown came lo, and Bobby
withdrew to a iafe place. Ohio State
Journal.
I want to let the people who suffer
from rheumatism and sciatica know
that Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieved
me after a number of other medicines
and a doctor had failed. It is the best
liniment I have ever known of. D. A.
Diggen, Alpharetta, Ga. Thousands
have hetn cured of rheumatism by this
remedy. One application relieves the
pain. I'or sale by all druggists.
His Sadden Belief.
"George," she said, and her brilliant
eyes sought the glowing embers. "I
don't believe you love me as you ased
to."
"Why, Fanny!" he exclaimed, slip
ping on hi dragon embroidered slip
pers, "you are my idol."
"ttut you don't show if; you don't
worship me a tiny bit."
"Fanny!"' and his voice rang with
all that is empyreal, "only the wicked
worship idol.."
And with a gaze of uncertainty she
again sought the embers. Chicago
News.
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Monarch over pain. Burn-, cute,
' prains, s'ings. In tant relief. Dr.
j Thomas' Edeetrie O.L At aoy drug
store.
,m.
A poor free lunch costs more than a
good dinuer.
TbowkM n n.4 a io:rl.ar.
Willie VisQinxtta uns trying to b
tooversatioual. but i:.c youu? woman
Wore glasses and looked severe, a .id
bcr mother surveyed itte scene with a.i
esprewsioa of anstert? tolerations Wil
lie ouht to have known better than to
call oo Meuday. wash day. anyhow.
Ilave you read any books lately f
asked Willie, with the inane grin which
be oses In society.
"Ye." answered the girt.
"lleen some pretty good ones written
lately, don't too think?"
"I baven't read any recent novels,"
she answered.
"Too ought to read some.
1 find ample entertainment In tba
classics." was the rejoinder, while her
mother looked on with an approving
smile.
"Oh. yes; Shakespeare, 1 suppose.
He's & good old, classic."
"1 read Shakespeare occasionally
when t read English. I also read Cornell:-
and Moller and Goethe and
Schiller, bnt only for diversion. Philo
sophic studies are my especial occupa
tion at present."
"By Jove"' exclaimed Willie admir
ingly. "You're getting to be a regular
bluestocking, aren't you?"
"A what!" repeated the yousg wo
man's mother grimly as she rose to
her feet-
"Wby. a bluestocking, yoa know
that is"
"No explanations are necessary.
Amelia. I ato going to tell tbe servant
to take tn the clothesline at once.
Hereafter neither of us will be at home
to Mr. Wlshlngton." Washington Star.
Wher Hoae.tr Calais.
"People In the small towns op la
Connecticut," said the traveling man,
"appear to be much more honest thaa
tbey are In New York. Not one fam
ily tn ten thinks of such a thing as
burglar alarms, and half of them do
not even lock their outer doors when
they retire. But what Impresses uie
most are the street laundry boxes.
"Nearly every town of 0.X)0 or more
Inhabitants has several places where
laundry packages are received and de
livered. These places are generally
dry pjod. or notion store, or balier
dasberies. Suburhr.n merchants as a
rule tlo not kep their stores open much
Inter than 8 o'clock in the evening and
do not open Them until 7 or half past 7
in tLe morning.
-Tti;s does not suit all their patrons,
so It I no Infrequent sight to see out
sW.e the store a large red box with a
fair sized opening in the top. The box
bears the legend 'If the store Is closed.
pi:t your Liumlry In here.' Now. just
Imagine a New York laundry of'ice us
ing a receptacle like that! Why. five
rri!s:i.! after a pnekage wn deposited
In the l-ox It would be fished out, and
In so h'i:r Its contents would tn In the
possesion of some dealer In second
hand clothing. But up In Connecticut
the shen:e sihttis to work very welL
and all I c::n say Is that It Is a tribute
to tht- general honesty of the commu
nity." New York Herald.
Thr lecend of a Re 1 1.
The largest hanging beil in tbe world
13 In a P.i:tldhist monastery near Can
ton. It Is IS feet high and 4.1 feet la
circumference and I of solid bronze.
Canton has a pretty little fable con
nected with iu The story Is told by
Mrs. J. P. Newman In one of her
sketches of travel. The life of the
founder of the greatest bell of China
had beeu threatened by the emperor
because of his unsuccessful attempt
to make a bell having perfect purity
cf tcae. The liell founder's beaursful
daughter, witnessing her father's
agony while imploring the emperor for
tue more t r.iii. consulted the gods as
to the reason for failure. Being told
rhr.t should the blood of a fair maiden
mingle with the bell metal the result
would te secured, she. waiting beslue
her father until ahle to see ber face In
the molten ore. plunged in and was de
stroyed. To the sacrifice of this maiden
the Chiceye attribute the beauty and
sr. ectness cf the tone of the great bell
of Ta-Cung-tz. New York Times.
ftxtraordlaarr Car-M..,
Some very extraordinary carving
are to 1k found at Thomboo. on the
Irawaddy. where they are cut out of
the face of a high cliff rising directly
fro;:i the river Lank aid are of great
shie. They consist of a succession cf
rudely formed niches. In appearance
somethiug like the catacombs of Rome,
and these are full of large and small
ln::igis of P.uddha. who is represented
la several positions. On the summit
of tin- cliff Is a pagod.i of great sanctity,
which is visited every year by large
uumters cf pilgrims.
Three Masted Vhosaers.
It was on the great lakes that the
throe masted schooner first made its
appearance. The unique character rC
lake navigation created the necessity
for t!i;s t.vjie of "tailing craft because of
the fact that v.ith this class of vessel
sailors could handle the sheets from
the deck at times when It was Impossi
ble to go aloft In one of those sudden
storms which make the life of the lake
skipper an uncertain and anxious one.
Ainslee's Magazine.
Curiae as Permlelow. Habit.
The phtn of arresting people who
throw banana skins on the sidewalks
and of fining tbem or sending them to
the bridewell is all right as far as It
goes, but It does not seem as if the
right punishment had been provided.
Any ne guilty of that offense ought to
be sent either to the Detention Hospi
tal For the Insane or to the Ilome For
the Feeble Minded--CUcago Post,
Eacli.h A.traatosny.
Much more Interest Is taken In prac
tical astronomy In England than la
America. Astronomical classes are en
couraged by the use of the telescope
like that one on the East rieath, Lon
don, which Is a reflecting telescope of a
10 Inch mirror. The lectures are In
structive. Barn's Horn Blasts.
The soul fed upon husks never gets
fat,
Reason always walks, but love runs.
The best men are mother-made men
The cause of our not being esteemed
is in ourselves.
God pity the man who murders his
own innocence.
If there ia nothing in a man, his "op
portunity" never comes.
It is a blessing to have opinions; it is
a curse to be opinionated.
Tbe oue man who fails in character
has made the greatest failure.
He who boasts of a good deed shows
that he is not used to them.
There is a great difference between
faith in the fact of a god, and faith in
God.
It would be a sorry world if God had
left us out of bis plans, the way we
leave him out of ours.
Exposure toa sudden climatic change
produces cold in the head and catarrh
Is apt to follow. Provided with Ely'a
Cream Balm you are armed against
Nasal Catarrh. Price 1) c?nta at Drug
gists, or Ely Brothers, oii Warieo
Street, New York, will mail it. Tit
Balm cures without pain, doe not
irritate or cause sueeziog. It spread. it
self over an irritated and angry surface,
relieviug imanedillaey the paiuful in
flammation, cleanses and cuesr. Cream
Balm quickly cures the cold.
Oae Man's View.
"What i a degenerate, anyhow?"
was ask- J of the shrewd ol 1 lawyer.
"A degenerate is a fellow who baa
committed a crime and can't prove aa
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