DEMOCRATIC COUNT* COMMITTEE.
Proponed Change In tlie KUIPH Governing
the Primary Election*.
JOHNSTOWN, PA., February 23, 1880.
To the Editor of lite Johnstown Democrat•
1 notice that some of the party leaders
are particularly active in urging commit
teemen to attend the meeting of the Dem
ocratic County Committee, which will be
held in Ebensburg to-dny. nnd strong ef
forts are. being made to have that body
take action to return to the delegate sys
tem of nominating candidates for office.
Now this question lias been submitted
twice to tlie people, at the Democratic
primaries, and each time there has been
an overwhelming majority in favor of re
taining the present system.
According to the call of Chairman
Gray, however, it seems that it is con
templated to have ihe County Committee
make this change, thus taking it out of
the hauds of tho voters to determine the
matter. Such action on tlie part of the
Committee is surely undemocratic and it
is very doubtful if it could be considered
legal.
Let the County Committee, if it sees lit,
su mit 'he matter again to the voters, as
that is the only proper manner in which
it can he changed.
There are good arguments in favor of
returning to what :s called the increased
delagnte system, and I have voted for
that plan each time the question has beeu
submitted, but I am strongly opposed to a
change being made by any arbitrary
method, such as is proposed now. Before
Chairman Gray and his committee take
any such action to-day, they shculd con
sider well that the voters have rights
which should not be taken from them.
Put the question again to tlie people but
do not arbitrarily force a system upon
. them which by their votes they have re
peatedly said they do not want.
DKMOCKAT.
JOHNSTOWN, PA., February 22, 1890.
'To the Editor oj the Johnstown Democrat.
I was met to-day by a gentleman who
takes an active part in politics in our town
ship, and lie urged me very strongly to go
to Ebensburg on Monday to represent our
district as a substitute for the County
Committeeman at a meeting 6f the Dem
ocratic Committee which is to be held
there. As I could not agree tj comply
with his particular request, which was to
urge that the present mode of nominating
candidates for office be changed in favor
of the delegate system, he dropped the
question and sought some one else.
Now, I want to say a word to the Dem
ocratic politicians and ringsters v> ho are
evidently working hard to bring about
this result. They say the party has suffer
* cd by the present system. I low '< liy
their friends not being able to sccursa
nomination wlien the people have a say
so ? True, the party has suffered defeats
hut that cannot be charged to the system
of nominating candidates. What lias been
more disgraceful then the wrangle under
the delegate system between Ivirby and
Nagle? And tbcsubsequcntdefeatofNagle
and demoralization of the party is
, clearly attributed to the delegate system.
And now when the differences in the
party are about healed, and the whole
ticket in the county has been elected.tbese
politicians want to return again to the old
system. One would think they were
workiu the in the interest of the Republi
can party.
The present system is undoubtedly the
most fair, as each voter can -express his
preferences for all the candidates. Take
a district of say 200 voters and under the
delegate system ninety-nine of them may
be practically disfranchised as if the del
egate of the 101 of them is elected, the
preferences of the others finds no expres
sion. Is this Democratic ? Anyhow the
County Committee has no right to make
this change, but the question should be
li ft the voters, and though I am convinci
ed'of the gteat evils of the delegate sys
tem, I will acquiesce in it when a major
ity of the voters say so, but 1 do not feel
that this County Committee has a right
to speak for us on this question. Let the
politicians heware, us the voters will not
submit tamely to have their rights tram
pled upon as it is proposed to be done by
this committee on Monday.
A DEMOCKATIO VOTEK.
For County Treasurer.
it i. i!i he noticed in our announcement
of candidates that Mr. Henry J. Ilopple,
of Ban- township, will be an aspirant for
the Democratic nomination of County
Treasurer. Mr. Ilopple is a farmer, aud
one of the most prominent citizens of the
northern part of the county. He is Pres
ident of the Cambria County Agricultural
Association, and is a gentleman of ability
and energy. He is a steadfast Democrat,
and if nominated would add strength to
the ticket. The Ebensburg Freeman says .
" The name of Henry J. Hopple, of Barr
township, appears among the political an
nouncements this week as a candidate for
• County Treasurer at the Democratic pri
mary election. To the people of northern
Cambria, Mr. Hopple needs no introduc
tion as he is known as an active working
Democrat, who at all seasons has been a
contributor of his time and means to the
success of the Dcmociatic party. No man
stands higher as a citizen than Mr. ilop
ple, and as a Democrat, he is worthy of
all honors the party can bestow."
An Unfortunate Mistake.
New York Sun.
" I wish to say to the congregation,"
said the minister, " that the pulpit is not
responsible for the errof of the printer on
the tickets for the concert in the Sunday- I
School room. The concert is for the ben- !
efit of the arch fund, not tbo arcli fiend. ;
We will now sing hymn six : 'To err is
human, to forgive divine.' "
A SEMINARY IN KLAMBt.
Narrow K.oapo of Forty Girl. From (lie
BaUdlng.
A special dispatch from Austin, Texas,
says : " The Coronal Institute at Han
Marcos, thirty miles from here, was de
stroyed by fire yesterday morning at 3
o'clock. There were sixty persons asleep
in the building at the time. The dames
started on the second door, and when dis
covered the whole of the door, with stair
ways leading to Ihe upper story, were in
a blaze. Forty girls their ages ranging
from fifteen to twenty years, were on the
third floor and were awakened by the
smoke. Hushing from ttieir rooms in
their night dresses, they hurried down
the corridors to the stairway, but only
to find them a mass of fire. The situation
was appalling and the girls lives were in
danger. Many of them screamed, some
swooned, and others rushed to the win
dows and cried for assistance.
" Han Marcos is a smad town, poorly
equipped for fires, and very few people
had gathered around the burning build
ing, but those few encouraged the girls to
leay from the'winnows to the top of a gal
lery fifteen feet below. They were loth
to do so and stood huddled about the win
dows appealing for aid until the crack
ling dames warned them that the third
door was being devoured and would soon
fall in. Mrs. D. S. Comb, one of the
teachers, finally let herself out of a win
dow, and, dropping, landed safety on the
roof of the gallery and was greeted with
cheers by tlie crowd below, '.which had
greatly increased. Her success eucour
aged the girls and they made the leap,
and from the gallery reached the ground
on a ladder. Others escaped by sliding
down the bell rope of the institute, which
was dangling near the bell, being in the
tower at one end of the gallery. Many of
the girls fell from the rope, and several
were badly bruised, but none seriously
injured- Ten minutes after the last girl
left the galicry the whole of the third
door tumbled in and soon followed by
the roof. Everything in the building was
destroyed, the inmates escaping with
their night clothes only."
Official History of the Johnstown Flood.
The fearful dood that swept with sud
den and remorseless power through the
beautiful Coueraaugh valley and well
nigh wiped out of existence the opulent
and populous City of Johnstown, destroy
ing millions of property and thousands of
human lives, startled and shocked the
world beyond anything known for ages, if
ever. Long and tedious has been the la
bor of recovery and restoration. The ex
perience of actual sufferers,—clergymen,
lawyers, physicians, millionaires and la
borers, whith their dearly loved families,
some utterly lost, others separated for
ever, others saved as by a miracle from
tlie overwhelming Hood,—exceed in thril
ling interest the power of romance and
can only be told in their real intensity
of feeling by those who went through
the fearful ordeal and came out alive.
Hasty, premature, imperfect descrip
tions have been written by outsiders, but
finally there comes to us a true official
history of the whole momentous affair,
prepared by no less eminent a survivor
than the Rev. Dr. David J. Bealc, who,
after the flood was chosen as superinten
dent of all the morgues, and hence had
accurate knowledge of all the dead re
covered, and ot the most remarkable ex
periences.
By the urgent request of the leading
citizens of Johnstown aud of many emi
nent men ol the nation, such as Gover
nor Beaver, Adjt. Gen. Hastings, T. De-
Witt Talmagc, I). D., John Hall, D. D.,
Howard Crosby, D. D., Chauncey M.
Dcpcw, Mayor Grant, of N. Y., Jas. B.
Scott, Postmaster-General Wanamaker,
Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler, D. 1)., aud a host
of others, lie undertook this arduous
work and in its preparation he has had
the assistance of all the officials connect
ed with the different departments of the
work of relief.
This book, therefore, is not only ably
prepared and intensely interesting, but is
the fiist and only official work descriptive
of the most stupendous disaster ot
modern times.
It is elegantly gotten up, splendidly
illustrated, and is published by the en
prising house of Faulkner & Allen, Phila
delphia.
We have no doubt that all who bought
the hastily issued, inferior books (the sale
of which was so immense) will be eager
to procure the genuine official history,
and thousand who did not buy the others
will surely want this, The sale by sub
scription will afford active young men and
women an unusual chauce to make money
fast. We hope some one in our commun
ity will speedily procure the agency and
give our citizens a chauce to secure this
deeply interesting and meritorious work.
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Carter to Hang oil April Uth.
Word has been received here that sev
eral convicted murderers have had their
death warrants signed by Governor Bea
ver, the execution to' take place on
Wednesday, April 9th. Charles Carter,
colored, of this county is among the num.
ber.
TALKS WITH HER ARM.
Whore a Dettf and Dumb Girl Carries tlio
Alphabet and How she Uses It.
"James V. Dorpman and daughter,
Lodge Pole, Nebraska," is written in a
bold hand on the register at the Ridg
way house. Mr. Dorpman is a tall, well
built man of 60 years, with a long beard
strongly tinged with gray. His daugh
ter is about IS years old. She has an in
telligent, pretty faco and the brightest
and bluest kind of bright blue eyes.
When Mr. Dorpman and his daughter
first came to the Ridgway house they at
tracted the attention and curiosity of the
guests by their strange behavior. Wheth
er in the parlor or in the dining room,
Mr. Dorpman always sat on the left hand
side of his daughter and tapped her left
arm constantly with the fingers of his
right hand, as though playing on a type
writer. liis fingers skipped nimbly at
random from the girl's wrist almost to
her shoulder and back again. At inter
vals he paused and the girl smiled, nod
ded her head or else tapped her left arm
in the same manner with the fingers of
her right arm, the old man closely watch
ing their movements.
The strange actions of the couple were
subjects of continual comment and spec
ulation among the guests. Finally some
one noticed that the father and daughter
were never heard to exchange a word.
They always sat quietly when in each
other's presence, and were always drum
ming on the girl's arm as if it were a
pianoforte. The girl kept away from
the other guests of her sex, and was
never seen in conversation with anyone.
At the dining tablo Mr. Dorpman gave
the orders to the waiters both for him
self and his daughter. When Proprietor
Butterworth met the young woman on
the stairs and said affably, "Good morn
ing," she never answered.
The strange actions of the couple oc
casioned such widespread comment and
curiosity among the guests that finally
Proprietor Butterworth approached Mr.
Dorpman while ho was standing at the
cigar counter one day, and after a few
minutes of general conversation asked
him to explain the cause of his constant
tapping on his daughter's arm.
"So you've noticed that, eh?" said Mr.
Dorpman with a laugh. "Well, that is
how I talk to Ilattie. She is deaf and
dumb."
Mr. nutterworth asked him how he
was able to converso with his daughter
by simply drumming on her arm.
"You'll think it is easy after I tell
you," he answered. "You must remem
ber that we cuiuo from an obscure part
of Nebraska, settled there with my wife
a quarter of a century ago. Eighteen
years ago, when Ilattie was born, there
was not a house within a mile of us, nor
a city within sixty miles. As the child
grew older wo discovered that she was
deaf and dumb. Wo were at a loss how
to communicate with her. We wore far
away from a civilized community, and
no one that we knew was familiar with
the sign manual for deaf mutes, so that
the baby grew to bo a child before we
could devise a scheme to talk to her.
"Finally my wife hit upon a novel
idea. She got a clever young fellow
who worked for us to tattoo the alphabet
on Ilattie's arm. The letter 'A' began
just above the wrist, and the letter 'Z'
ended just below the shoulder blade.
Ilattie was then 6 years old. In less
than a year by tins means my wife and
I had taught her the alphabet.
"Then we began to spell out words by
touching each letter very slowly with
our fingers. As the child learned we
becarno faster, and when Ilattie was 12
years old we were able to talk to her as
rapidly as a person can spell out words
on a typewriter. Ilattie, too, learned to
answer us by drumming on her tattooed
arm. Of course, for several years at
first, when we wanted to talk to her, or
she to us, she had to roll up the sleeve of
her left arm. Gradually her sense of
touch became so fine that she knew
without looking just where each letter
was located, and her mother and I, by
constant practice, were enabled to strike
these letters with her sleeves rolled
down.
"The tattoo was not very deep, and by
the time Ilattie was 10 years of age it
had entirely disappeared, leaving her
arm as white and spotless as a woman's
arm could be. But she knows just
where each letter was, and so do I, for
I have been drumming on her arm ever
since site was knee high to a grass
hopper. Of course, I am the only per
son alive able to talk witli her, as my
wife died about six months ago, but I
hope to arrange so that she may bo able
to talk to others. While we are on east
I am going to get some one to instruct
her in the sign manual. She is bright
and quick and will soon learn."—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
Ronton'* I.l(rvary Janitor*.
Not long ago Gen. Corso received a
complaint from a well known woman of
letters, who passes the winter months in
Boston, to the effect that Iter copy of the
Atlantic Monthly was invariably delayed
much after tlio time when it should
naturally bo received. When finally it
did come to hand the leaves were always
cut and it bore the appearance of having
been read in transit. She was inclined
to the belief that some one connected
witli the postoffice, a carrier, perhaps,
was in the habit of taking it home to
read before delivering it. The complaint
seemed reasonable, and an inspector was
detailed to look the matter up. lie soon
discovered that the postoffice and its em
ployes were guiltless in the matter, but
that the janitor of the hotel in which
the lady had her apartments was in the
habit of retaining her Atlantic for a
time for his own perusal.—Boston Rec
ord.
Parnell's Counsel.
It is reported that the total amount
paid to Parnellite counsel is £20,000.
Sir Charles Russell received £7,000, Mr.
Lockwood and Mr. R. T. Reed (both Q,
C.'s) were paid £3,500 each, Mr. Edward
Harrington and Mr. Asquith, £1,500
each, and Sir Charles Russell's son and
the two other juniors were each re
warded for their labors by the payment
of £I,OOO. —Montreal Star.
Soon Over.
A sudden thaw in spring is a common
enough cause of the swelling and over
flow of rivers, but few people have ex
perience of what might be called "magio
rivers," which disappear almost as sud
denly as they are born. One such, how
ever, is described by W. 11. Mallock in
his account of Cyp us, entitled "In an
Enchanted Island."
On a certain evening there was a suc
cession of thunder showers, and then,
all the night, a heavy and ceaseless
downpour. "This," said my host, in the
morning, "ought to make a river." I
asked what he meant by this, and he
answered that the river below us was
rarely anything more than a dry bed of
pebbles, just as it was now.
But generally once—sometimes three
times—in the year it would suddenly fill
with water, flow for an hour or two, and
again become dry and silent. I felt that
the sight must he curious and wished
that I might be able to witness it.
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon a
servant came to my bedroom and asked
me to go into the garden. There I found
my host with an opera glass, standing
on the bank.
"Look!" exclaimed lie, pointing. "It
is coming. Listen! You can hear it."
1 listened and looked. lat last caught
a sound, faint and uncertain, as leaves
rustling in a dream. Then suddenly, far
away on the plain, I saw something flash,
like the head of a pointed spear. Grad
ually this prolonged itself into a slim
shining line, which presently took a
curve. For a time its course was straight.
Then it curved again.
In ten minutes, over the brown surface
of the fields the water had stretched itself
like a long, silvery snake, and the sound
I had hoard, growing every instant more
distinct, explained itself to the ear as the
voice of the stirred pebbles. The river
channel skirted the bottom of tho garden,
and thus, as the flood went by, we iiad
every opportunity of observing it. It
pushed itself forward, headed by a mass
of bubbles and scum; it split itself into
fierce rivulets, which, a moment later,
were drowned in the body of the stream;
it gurgled against banks; it circled into
transitory whirlpools.
Gradually, as we watched, its volume
seemed todiminish, and in an hour's time
there was only a trickling rill, over which
a child five years old might have stepped.
—Youth's Companion.
I'uiioh GI*U.SM.
"The bunch grass which grows so lux
uriantly upon tho western plains is a
curious plant," said a ranchman yester
day. "it grows everywhere throughout
the wit wherever there is the slightest
rainfall, and in the greatest luxuriance
along the river bottoms. It's a godsend
to the grazing industry, and although a
homely plant, possesses more of tho fat
tening qualities than the far famed blue
grass of old Kentuck. Indeed, much of
the fast horseflesh of the mountain dis
tricts owes its staying powers to a diet
upon this succulent grass. Spokane, for
example, took its full allowance of hunch
grass in Ids coltish days. Bunch grass
grows in thick hummucks, or hunches,
as the name would indicate.
Half a hundred sharp pointed spears
often arise from a single hump, and often
to a height of eighteen inches. In the
spring it is a delicate green, but later on
dries up, but cures to perfection upon
tlie root. During the winter cattle dig
with their noses for this grass concealed
beneath tho snow. However, if the
snow is covered with a crust, steers are
thus cut off from their usual food and
die off in large numbers, as it is a pecu
liarity of a steer that it never uses its
hoofs in removing the snow from the
familiar pasturage. Horses, however,
break the crust with their hoofs, and
thus stand the hard western winters bet
ter than cattle. The buffalo always
makes u>e of tho hoofs in uncovering
the food, and somewhere down in Kan
sas there is a stock farm where this fac
ulty of using the hoofs is being devel
oped by judicious crossing of buffaloes
with the native cattle. Minneapolis
Journal.
liecthoven's I.ist Pliino.
The "Beethoven's House society,"
Bonn, has recently acquired Beethoven's
last piano. It was made by the court
piano maker, Konrad Graff, who died at
Vienna in ISol. 110 went to that city in
the beginning of this century, and soon
gained a reputation by the excellence of
his pianos. The instrument in question
was expressly ordered from him by
Beethoven, In consideration of his deaf
ness, it was made with four string; te
each key, instead of the usual three
Owing to the strength of its tones,
Beethoven used it almost exclusively in
the last years of his life. After his death
it passed into the hands of the bookseller,
Franz \Vitamer, of Vienna; and, after
the marriage of his daughter to n Swiss
clergyman named Widntann, it became
the property of the Widmunu family in
Berne. Its genuineness is proved by
documents, and confirmed by the au
thority of Johannes Brahms. It is now
in the house in which tho great com
poser was born at Bonn. London
Standard.
!!♦ Died UA Doeg the Siviin.
A peculiarly pathetic incident marked
the closing of the life of Alonzo E. Stod
dard, tiie well known Boston baritone,
who died with typhoid fever. As lie lay
on his cot in tho hospital breathing his
last, a sudden inspiration seemed to re
vivify him, and, to the wonder of all, he
sat upright in his couch and began to
sing in his familiar, robust voice one of
his favorite operatic solos. He never
sang witli more feeling or with more
beauty of tone. Tho song was sung
from beginning to end, the last notes
died away, and just as they ended the
singer felt back in his bed, dead.—Peoria
Transcript.
Sfllf Preneryatlon.
Customer—What's the price of your
coal?
Dealer—Six dollars a ton.
"Weigh me out a ton."
"Ahent! Where the coal is weighed
in tho prcsenco of the purchaser I al
ways charge a dollar extra."—Texas
Siftings.
LOVE'S WAY.
They say it'a an old, old story,
That the soul of nature came
Of old, in an hour of glory.
As a loving heart of flame:
With tenderest human feeling,
For the proud, the hardened slave
Of lust, for the outcast, reeling
Through shame to a nameless grave.
And that stiil this old, old story
Is only a mystic dream;
Tlint creation's brightest glory
Is science and law and steam
But love has its science, older
Than the oldest worlds of time:
And its laws ami forces, bolder
Than the heroes called divine
It loves, and dies, and comes again;
Rejected, it flies away;
But conquers life through joy or pain.
Is god of each night und day!
—\V. H. Thorue in Philadelphia Times.
Scientific Paradoxes.
These scientific paradoxes are grouped
together in Blackwood's Magazine: The
water which drowns us, a fluent stream,
can be walked upon as ice. The bullet
which, when fired from a musket, carries
deatli, will be harmless if ground to dust
before being fired. The crystallized part
of the oil of roses, so graceful in its fra
grance, a solid at ordinary temperatures,
though really volatile, is a compound
substance containing exactly the same
elements, and in exactly the same pro
portions, as the gas with which we light
our streets. - The tea which wo daily
drink with benefit and pleasure produces
palpitations, nervous tremblings, and
even paralysis, if taken in excess; yet the
peculiar organic agent called theine, to
which tea owes its qualities, may be
taken by itself (as theine, not as tea)
without any appreciable effect.
The water which will allay our burn
ing thirst augments it when congealed
into snow, so that it is stated by ex
plorers of the Arctic regions that the na
tives "prefer enduring tiie utmost ex
tremity of thirst rather than attempt to
remove it by eating snow." Yet if the
snow he melted it becomes drinkable
water. Nevertheless, although if melted
before entering the mouth it assuages
thirst like other water, when melted in
the mouth it has the opposite effect. To
render this paradox more striking, we
have only to remember that ice, which
melts more slowly in the mouth, is very
efficient in allaying thirst.
Til© Wells of Tripoli.
The Friday market in Tripoli, Barbary,
held in the oasis, a little distance from
the town, is picturesque in the extreme.
On all sides the exasperating grating of
well pulleys produces a motif too Wag
nerian for uneducated ears, in a pastoral
symphony played by a full orchestra of
buzzing insects, grasshoppers whirring
shrilly, and the sun scorched palms
crackling their dry branches. In each
garden rise the two arms of a well, be
tween which an enormous leathern bag
mounts and descends on a rude wooden
pulley, the chief instrument of the above
mentioned music, discharging at each
trip a flood of water.
The negro laborer uses a camel, an ox,
sometimes fits wife, to give the motion
to the machine by going up and down
an incline plane. The movement does
not stop day or night during tho nine
months of the dry season, and it is
thanks to that water, which is life,
thanks to constant care, that the ver
dure of a semi-tropical vegetation blooms
gayly in the sand.
Under the protection of pomegranate,
fig, orange, lemon and banana trees,
through whose heavy foliage the sun
percolates, flourish maize and wheat,
vegetables and flowers of all sorts.
Above it all tho stately palms balance
their heads in the superheated atmos
phere —Scribner's Magazine.
Hot \Vatr and DyßpepHiu.
Another hydriatic method, which acts
by removing the cause of disturbance, is
the sipping of hot water an hour before
meals, in dyspepsia, writes Dr. S.
Barueh, in Times and Registci. The hot
water craze, which now has taken a firm
hold upon tho lay public, is but the legiti
mate outcome of r qablo therapeutic
application of wa \ liosc simplicity
commends it at oni die judgment of
the intelligent ph.. ion. Brought into
prominence by Dr. Salisbury, who com
mitted the error of most enthusiasts of
regarding it as a panacea for most dis
eases, it lias now been adopted by the
profession as a most valuable agent in
many gastric troubles. By removing the
process of fermentation, by cleansing tho
mucous membrane of mucous, it restores
tone and vigor to the gastric lining, and
enables the natural forces to come into
play. It is important to observe strict
compliance with tho rule laid down by
the originator, viz.: that the water should
be sipped as hot as possible, and that an
hour should elapse beforo a meal is
taken. Examples of failure duo to neg
lect of this rule are numerous in tho ex
perience of all medical men.
~'eremonioufl.
Frenchmen aro noted for their punc
tiliousness, but they havo no monopoly
of that virtue. A nice sense of propriety
occasionally crops out in quite unexpect
ed quarters.
"Pat," said the superintendent of one
of our New England manufactories, "go
down to the firm's office and wash the
windows."
Pat presently appeared in the outer
room with his bucket and sponges.
"An' I was tould to wash the windys
in the firm's office," he said to one of the
clerks.
"All right, that's it right in there,"
answered tho clerk, pointing to the
door.
"But they're in there," said Pat.
"Oh, never mind, go right in."
But Pat still hesitated. "Faith," said
he, "an' would ye plaze be after goin' in
an' intliroducin' me?"— Youth's Com
panion.
An Optiraiiit.
Jennie (mournfully)— Just look at our
lovely green grass. Surely, when the
snow comes, it will all die and wither.
Charlie—Never mind, dear. Look on
the bright side of things. Of course it
willjdie. But that will be our lawn fate.
—Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Old Doctors
Drew blood, modern doctors cleanse it;
lience the increased demand for Altera
tives. It is now well known that most
diseases are due, not to over-abundance,,
but to impurity, of the Blood j and it
is equally well attested that no blood
medicine is so eliicacious as Ayer's
Sarsaparilla.
" One of my children bad a large sore
lire ik out on the leg. We applied
simple remedies, fur a while, thinking
the re would shortly heal, lint it grew
worse. We sought inedieal advice, and
were told that an alterative medicine
was necessary. Ayer's Sarsaparilla
being
Recommended
nbnvo all others, we used it with mar
is !■' >s results. Tint sore healed and
health and strong! llv returned."
J. J. Annsipiii,. Weimar, Texas.
"I find A' l "'s snr.upnrilla to bo an
ndmirable i ' ec lv tlieetircof blood
diseases. I presii ilie it, and it does the
work every time." L. L. Pater, M. D.,
Manhattan. Kansas.
" We have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla
here fer over thirty years and always
recommend it when asked to name the
best hlood-purilier." W. T. McLean,
Druggist, Augusta, Ohio.
"Ayer's medicines continue to he the
standard remedies iu spite of all com
petition."—T. W. Richmond, Bear
Lake, Mich. • ,
Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
I'REPAUBD BY
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Price $1; eix bottles, $i Woith $5 a bottle. f
HOW IT WOKKED.
Good morning Jack .' why 1 haven't
seen you for a month past. What in the
world is the matter with you ? You seem
to have renewed your youth."
" Well Phil. I have. Don't you remem
ber the last time I saw you, how misera
ble I was ? Sick and blue, and in that
sort of mood a man gets sometimes when
he feels the most noble thing in life is to
go straight to the devil."
" Not so bad as that, I hope ; at all
events you didn't go that way you arc
looking far too happy and hearty."
" Thank goodness, no ! or rather, thank
Vinegar Bitters. Do you remember that
day 1 saw you last, when you recommend
ed that remedy to me so persistently, and
I was first vexid and theu half convinced."
I remember it perfectly, and you
needn't sny another word upon the sub
ject ; your looks tell me that you took the
medicine."
"No doubt of it: everybody remarks
upon my improved looks and temper: but
I must really tell you all about it. 1 got
the old style, as you recommended, and
didn't mind the bitter taste at all. I fin
ished the bottle in about two weeks, and
was greatly improved, so much so that
I determined to change off and try the
new style.
" Well, how did you like it ?"
" You told me your wife preferred th
new style, 1 believe; well, I must say lagre
with her. I like the old style very much
but the now is a finer, smoother, more ex
pensive preparation."
" I believe it is; in fact. I have heatd
s:>, and 1 wonder the McDonald Drug
Company sell it for the same price they
do the old style, because it is really a very
costly preparation."
" Well, that dosn't concern us Who
was it said that people fancied themselves
pious sometimes when they were only
bilious? No matter! I was only going to
say I hat 1 believe people often seem wicked
when it is only their liver, or their stom
ach, or some other cantankerous organ of
the body so out of order they couldn't be
good if they tried."
" And if all the miserable dyspepsia,
and victims of biliousness, headache and
the thousand and one ills that flesh is heir
to would only take Vinegar Bitters, what
a happy world this would he "
" 1 should recommend the new style."
" I never go back on the old style."
" Well, they can pay their money and
take their choice, for both kinds work ad
mirably."
i)iiq i'l'iiipi'M;; ,' iiiMeeii >\su> nc
■''
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ch i :./• 'S)A
The Great Blood Purifier
and Health Restorer. Cures all
kinds of Headache within thirty
minutes—Try it.
The only Temperance . Bitters
known. It stimulates the Brain
and quiets the Nerves, regulates the
Bowels and renders a perfect blood
circulation through the human veins,
which is sure to restore perfect
health. beautiful book free.
Address, R. H. McDONALD DRUG
CO., 532 Washington street, New
York.
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ITIUIII- ghow§ tho |ma || en d of th- tele
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out experience Better write at once We pay ail expreu charges.
Address, H. HALLETT A CO,, Bo* BHO, PORTLAND, MAINE
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
-Estate ot Conrad Maker, deceased.--[-ot
ters ot Admlnlst rat ion n the estate of conrad
linker, late ot Johnstown borough, county ot
Cambria and State ot Pennsylvania, deceased,
having been granted tothe undersigned, not ice
la hereby given to all those knowing themselves
Indebted to said estate to mako immediate pay
ment. and those having claims against said es
tate to present them duly authenticated tor set •
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