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less otherwise indicated, their addresses
are, Somerset, Pa.
President Judge—Francis J. Kooser,
Member of Congress—A. F. Cooper, Union-
town, Pa.
State Senator— William C. Miller, Bedford,
Pa.
Members of the Assembly—J. W. Endsley,
Somerfield; L. C. Lambert, Lambertsville.
Sheriff —William C. Begley.
Prothonotary—Charles C. Shafer.
Register—Chas. F. Cook.
Recorder—John R. Boose.
Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike.
Treasurer—Peter Hoffman.
District Attorney—R. E. Meyers.
Coroner—Dr. 8. J. H. Louther.
Commissioners—Josiah Specht Kantner;
‘Chas. F. Zimmerman, Stoyestown; Robert
Augustine, Somerfleld. Solicitor—Berkey
-& Shaver.
Jury Commissioners—C. R. McMillan, Lis-
tonburg; W. J. R. Hay, Lavansville.
Directors of the Poor—Chauncey F. Dick-
ey; Aaron F. Swank, Davidsville; William
Brant, Somerset, R. F. D. No. 5. Attorney
for Directors, H. F. Yost; Clerk, C. L. Shav-
“er.
Superintendent of Schools—D. W. Seibert.
Chairmen Political Organizations—F. M.
Forney, Republican; Alex. B. Grof, Demo-
cratic; R. M. Walker, Berlin, Prohibition;
J. C. Lowry, Orphans.
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Bons in 4, 4 and 1-1b. boxes, always on
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known fashionable tailor, of
Chambersburg, will come to
Salisbury about March 8th,
with a choice line of new Spring
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Hot Water Bottles of all kinds, from
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The appeal for volunteers in the
great battle of life, in exterminating
ignorance and error and planting high
on an everlasting foundation the ban-
ner of intelligence and right, is direct-
ed to every member of this depart-
ment, would you but grant it audience.
Let no cloud again darken your spirit
or weight of sadness oppress your heart.
Arouse ambition’s smouldering fires.
The laurel may e’en now be wreathed
destined to grace thy brow. Burst the
trammels that impede thy progress,
and cling to hope. The world frowned
darkly upon all who have ever yet won
fame’s wreath, but on they toiled.
Place high thy standard, and with a
firm tread and fearless eye press
steadily onward. Presevere, and thou
wilt surely reach it. Are there those
who have watched unrewarded through
long, sorrowful years, for the dawning
of a brighter morrow, when the weary
soul should calmly rest? Hope’s bright
rays still illume their dark pathways,
and cheerfully yet they watch. Never
despair! Faint not, though thy task
be heavy, and victory is thine.
Only a few days ago I read how a
kind look and a tear of sympathy upon
the face of a clergyman led to the con-
version of a poor convict. Such kind-
ness is easily bestowed, and yet how
often it is withheid, even from those
whose souls are yearning for our sym-
pathy, those who know so little of glad-
ness, but have tasted to the very dregs
of life’s bitter cup. Yes, if we would
be truly happy, we must become so
busy and interested in trying to lessen
the suffering of othersthat we will for-
get our own misfortunes. As we jour-
ney through life, let us never hesitate
to turn aside into the path of self-de-
nial, if duty calls us there, for there is
always a blessing in duty, although it
may often seem to interfere with
pleasure. But whoever is truly noble
and worthy will keep this principle up-
permost in his mind. Let us do our
duty while the years come and go, and
although their lovliest season blooms
but to fade again, let benevolence
never fade from the path we tread, and
we may be sure that within our souls
hope and contentment, if not actual
joy, will ever bloom in all the freshness
and beauty of glorious springtime.
The Eighteenth century will stand in
history as the age in which the doctrine
of the rights of man developed com-
manding strength and popular sway.
The French Revolution in Europe, and
the American Revolution in this coun-
try, spread democratic ideas broadcast.
The Nineteenth century did very much
to confirm and establish these princi-
ples, but it did much more to secure
the rights of woman. At the close of
the preceding century, house-keeping
and serving were about the only occu-
pations open to women. To-day there
is hardly any occupation which she is
not free tc enter. It is quite generally
acknowledged that she has the right to
do anything that she can do well, and
that, too, without any surrender of her
womanhood. Whatever other great
things the Twentieth century shall
achieve, we feel quite sure that it will
be characterized by a more intelligent
appreciation of the rights of children,
and better agencies and methods for
their training and development. It will
be the reminiscence of childhood.
OUR CHILDREN.
Home should be made the most in-
teresting and best loved spot on earth,
It should be the fountain of civiliza-
tion, the very word should touch every
fiber of the soul, and strike every cord
of the human heart with its angelic
fingers, a place centralized on the high-
er and becter things of life, bringing
forth in the highways and byways an
influence that will be felt by all with
whom it comes in contact. It should
be a place where the heart is, a place
where our feet may leave, but not our
hearts, a plaee where angels unfold
their wings, the place we love best, be-
cause it is the place where mother is.
Man can build the house and roof it
in, a resistance against-the storms and
elements; but the man with all his
genius and artisan science cannot make
the home; that ever has and ever will
be the task of woman. It is she alone
that can bring to it warmth and beauty.
Here she reigns supreme.
Let our homes be places of love, joy
and brightest sunshine, places of en-
during love that outlasts the wedding
day, and which produces a life of one
long, unbroken honeymoon, the mold-
ing place of character, a place where
the child breathes an atmosphere per-
fumed by the choicest flowers of heav-
en, where it finds the greatest earthly
security in mother’s loving, fostering
care.
WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does
not pay to advertise, he is simply ad-
mitting that he is conducting a busi-
ness that is not worth advertising, a
business conducted by a man unfit to
do business, and a business which
should be advertised for sale. tf
Interesting to Dickens’ Lovers.
Many of Charles Dickens’ famous
characters have been traced by one
of his biographers to their originals.
Paul Dombey was Dickens’ nephew,
Harry Barnett, a pathetic little crip-
ple, who died in his tenth year. Dora
Copperfield is supposed to have been
a Miss Beadwell, with whom Dickens
was in love at the early age of eigh-
teen. The belief that he drew the
character of Micawber from his
father is not upheld by the biogra-
pher, who has discovered in one
Richard Chicken of York, a more
probable model. This Chicken had
a subordinate place in the office of
an engineer wherein Alfred Dickens,
the novelist’s brother, was employed
for several years. William Shaw, who
who unconsciously sat for the por-
trait of the abominable Squeers, is
said to have been in actual life, “a
man of kind and humane disposi-
tion;” after his death his neighbors
placed a stained glass window in the
village church to his memory. Mrs.
Skewton, we are told, was a Mrs.
Campbell, “a lady well known at
Leamington who indulged in such
tight lacing that the slightest exer-
tion caused her to pant for breath.”
Captain Cuttle, that fine old boy,
made his first appearance in Pepy’s
Diary, that gentleman recording that
“he met a Captain Cuttle, a sea com-
mander, at the Royal Exchange.”
A Delicate Operation.
The plucking of ostrich feathers is
a very delicate task. At the proper
season a man carefully examines the
flock, and picks out those birds
whose feathers are ripening, groups
them into dozens, and pens them in,
so that they cannot run about and
injure their beautiful plumage.
When the plucking time comes, the
bird is enticed into a narrow, dark
passageway. The entrances are then
closed and the bird thus imprisoned.
A cloth bag is thrown over the crea-
ture’s head. Then the plucking be-
gins. Three men, perched upon plat-
forms without the pen, reach over
the board inclosure and with curious
scissor-like appliances pluck off the
feathers. Whatever wounds a bird
may receive are immediately dressed.
The tail feathers are pulled and not
cut, simply because they reproduce
better than other feathers of the os-
trich. While the plucking is in pro-
gress the ostrich keeps up a dismal
roaring. Were it not for the staunch
construction of the pen the creature
would kick the boards into splinters.
Treasure in Russian Churches.
The treasures of the various Rus-
sian churches are of fabulous value.
St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Peters-
burg is sald to have cost £10,000,-
000. Its copper roof is overlaid with
pure gold. In the Cathedral of Ka-
zan the name of the Almighty blazes
in diamonds from a cloud of beaten
gold, under which are solid silver
doors twenty feet high. There are
1,400 churches in Moscow, many of
which contain priceless treasures.
From the Cathedral of the Assump-
tion Napoleon took from the church
five tons of silver and 500 weight of
gold, but its most precious treasures
were concealed. To celebrate the de-
liverance of Moscow from the
French the Cathedral of the Holy
Saviour was built at a cost of £10,-
000,000; its five cupolas are covered
with pure gold one-eighth of an inch
in thickness.—London Tit-Bits.
Long Views.
Persons who wish to put off the
evil day. of spectacles should accus-
tom themselves to long views. The
eye is relieved, and sees better, if,
after reading a while, we direct the
sight to some far distant object, even
for a minute. Great travelers and
hunters are seldom near sighted.
Sailors discern objects at a great
distance with considerable distinct-
ness when a common eye sees noth-
ing at all. One is reported to have
such acute sight that he could tell
when he was going to see an object.
On one occasion when the ship was
in a sinking condition, and all were
exceedingly anxious for a sight of
land, he reported from the lookout
that he could not exactly see the
shore, but could pretty nearly do so.
No Reason for Comment.
A lady had invited to dinner an
old friend who had lost his nose in
an accident. Taking her young
daughter aside before his arrival,
she cautioned her to be very careful
to make no remarks about Mr. Rob-
inson’s nose, as he was very sensi-
tive about it. At the table every-
thing went well for a time, until
Carrie, who had been studying the
guest’s face in apparent perplexity,
turned inquiringly to her mother,
and asked:
“Ma, why did you tell me to say
nothing about Mr. Robinson’s nose?
He hasn't got any.” — Harper's
Weekly.
Cities Growing Population.
Compared with New York and
Pennsylvania, New Jersey has been
steadily forging ahead in population
in the last three decades. In 1880
New York’s rate of gain was 168 per
cent. Pennsylvania’s was 21.6 per
cent. New Jersey's was 24.8 per cent.
In 1890 the gains were: New York,
18 per cent.; Pennsylvania, 22.8 per
eent.; New Jersey, 27.7 per cent.
Oleomargarine and Butter.
Analysis shows that, from a chem~
ical standpoint, oleomargarine varies
but slightly from creamery butter;
it is made by churning 442 pounds
of butter oil, 120 pounds of milk and
37% pounds of cream-made butter
and 13% ounces bi-carbonate of
soda. When this becomes a smooth,
creamy mass it 1s solidified in ice
cream freezers, and is finally worked
over with salt.
A Fight Among the Kurds.
Col. P. H. H. Massy tells of this
battle which he witnessed in the
course of his explorations in Asiatic
Turkey. The cause of the fight was
an attempted theft of sheep. He
says: “Some flocks were being driv-
en off across the Sipkanli Kurds’
border when the usual alarm signals,
shots fired and smoke fires kindled
at all the villages around, brought
clouds of horsemen galloping wild-
ly across in that direction. This did
not 160k very reassuring in the mid-
dle of so wild a country, where a hu-
man life is never worth that of a
good sheep, but we soon perceived,
by the yelling Kurds with grinning
faces who dashed past us, that to us
no harm was intended.
“We reached the village not far
from which the battle was raging to
find the flat roofs occupied by all the
women. Quite regardless of stray
bullets they followed the fluctuating
fortunes of their side amid the din
of their own shrill tongues, which al-
most drowned the thundering re-
ports of the Kurdish powder, any-
thing but noiseless or smokeless.
“It was soon over. The flocks were
triumphantly brought back, together
with the bodies of a few dead Kurds
and some others wounded. We
passed on amid the walling of the
women just widowed in a fight for a
few sheep.”
Our Example to Japan.
In a recent lecture an Englishwo-
man who had lived many years in
Japan dwelt upon the admirable
manners of the inhabitants of that
land, but said that she must admit
that in one place their behavior was
not above censure; on the railroad
trains she had been surprised and
disappointed to see them pushing
and crowding in a manner quite for-
eign to their habitual gentleness and
grace.
‘““How do you account for such a
thing?” demanded a voice in the
audience.
“It can be explained,” replied the
lecturer, simply, ‘only in this way;
In Japan the proper conduct for
every occasion in life has been pre-
scribed from antiquity. Conse-
quently, from childhood every one
knows just what he ought to do and
does it gracefully. But when the
railroad was introduced there was,
of course, no precedent for behavior
on trains; so the Japanese adopted
the American manners.”’—Exchange.
Poisons in Daily Drink.
Dr. W. Scott Tebb, public analyst
to the Borough of Southwark, Lon-
don, has been making an inquiry on
behalf of the Borough Council into
the constituents of tea, to ascertain
what injurious ingredients are pres-
ent, and in his report he contrasts
tlie tea drinking records of Great
Britain and the countries, says
teynolds’s Newspaper.
The only countries which ap-
prcach or exceed Great Britain as
tea drinkers are her colonies. West-
ern Australia is easily first with
10.07 and all the other divisions of
Australia exceed Great Britain. ;
“We drink far too much tea,’ con-
cludes Dr. Tebb. He calculates that
each person in Great Britain, on an
average, takes a dally dose of 3.6
grains of alkaloid and 9.7 grains of
tannin. This means that the average
tea drinker takes half as much alka-
loid and nearly as much tannin as
the maximum allowed by the British
pharmacopocia for an occasional
dose.
And of course many thousands of
people drink a great deal more than
the average dose.
Amusements of the Blind.
With closed eyes, two young men
in the blind asylum were playing
chess. The board they played on had
the black squares raised and the
white ones sunken, while the black
pieces were rough and the white
ones smooth.
“Give us this handicap on account
of our blindness,” sald one of the
young men, ‘‘and we will play as
quick and accurate a game of chess
as anybody. Give us checkers and a
checker board constructed on the
same plan, and there, too, our
playing will equal yours.
“I would rather be blind than
deaf,” he went on. “Blindness
doesn’t rob you of much. The blind
are excellent anglers. They play a
good game of euchre, or poker, or
bridge. They use cards that have
embossed pips.
“The blind are good runners, good
gymnasts. In our last sports the
hundred yards were done in under
twelve seconds, and on the horizon-
tal and parallel bars the giant swing,
the corkscrew, the straight arm bal-
ance and the finger balance were
executed in a way that elicited salvos
of applause.”
Walking for a Thousand Hours.
The latest remarkable feat in
walking has just been accomplished
in Manchester. For forty-one days
and nights William Buckler, aged:
fifty-six, an ex-sailor, tramped round
the track at the Ardwick Athletic
Ground, and completed his two miles
fifty-eight yards each consecu-
tive hour, the total distance tra-
versed in the thousand hours being
over 2,028 miles. —London Tit-Bits.
“Wild Silk” is Best.
It has been discovered that the
wild silkworm produces a silk with
more luster than does the pampered
worm of captivity. Those who are up
on silk culture claim that the tame
worm has lost most of its power be-
cause it is taken care of so well.
In Bouth Greenland the color of
the hair ribbon which a woman ties
around her head denotes whether
she be maid, wife or widow.
Idke Cures Idks,
Drunkenness is punished by Ime
prisonment in Norway. As soon as
be is incarcerated the delinquent has
no other food than a log of wine
morning and evening. The bread is
served in a wooden bowl full of
wine, in which it has been soaked
for an hour previous. The first day
the drunkard swallows his allow-
ance willingly enough. The second
day it seems less pleasing. At the
end of eight days of this regimen
prisoners have been known to ab-
stain altogether from the food thus
pitilessly presented. This course of
treatment finished, the drunkard,
except in rare instances, is radically
cured. Many renounce altogether
the use of wine, the very smell of
which creates a feeling of extreme
disgust. What the Lacedaemonians
did for morality by showing to the
young of the aristocracy their
drunken slaves, the Norwegians do
directed for the drunkards them-
selves. It is the treatment by sati-
ety and disgust. If “like cures
like” then there is sound philosophy
in this homoeopathic treatment of
inebriety.
Reaping His Reward.
This happened in a first class car-
riage of an English train, smoking
being prohibited. The American in
the corner insisted on lighting his
cigar. The indignant Britisher in
the other corner protested, and pro-
tested in vain. At the next station
he hailed the guard, with hostile in-
tent; but the placid American was
too quick for him. ‘‘Guard,” he
drawled, ‘“I think you’ll find that
this gentleman is traveling with a
third-class ticket on him.” Investi-
gation proved this to be right, and
the indignant Britisher was ejected.
A spectator of the little scene asked
the triumphant American how he
knew about the that ticket. “Well,”
explained the imperturbable strang-
er, ‘‘it was sticking out of his pocket
and I saw it was the same color as
mine.”
Lightning's Strange Freak.
“Lightning, when in the mood,
has an ugly habit of drilling,” writes
an English observer. “It will drill
the hardest rock—rock which would .
turn cold steel; and not only drill
but vitrify it. They have found in
Cumberland channels from thirty
feet deep and from two to four
inches in circumference. The inte-
rior was hard and glazed where the
solid substance had been melted by
the stabbing flashes. Artificial ex-
periment has shown that a power-
ful shock from a battery will vitrify
finely powdered glass, but not feld-
spar or quartz. The lightning, how-
ever, does it in the manner described
—not in one place, but in many,
ground it divided into several
branches, each strong enough io
penetrate and liquefy the solid
rock.”
A Strange Coincidence.
Col. L. M. Buchanan writes that
his youngest son served in the South
African campaign as a trooper in the
Rhodesian horse. August 21, 1900,
the young man was reported as se-
verely wounded at Hamman’s Kraal
and his wound was described by the
surgeon in attendance as a ‘‘com-
minuted fracture of the left humer-
us,” out of which twenty-one splin-
ters were subsequently discharged or
extracted. On the same day in his
bedroom in Ireland the mirrer fell to
the floor and was smashed into many
pieces, receiving what the colonel
thinks might be called a comminuted
fracture.” The mirror had been in
its usual place on the dressing table
and the room was vacant at the time.
Micro-Organism in Butter.
Sometimes butter has a fishy
taste, and this led the Department of
Agriculture in Victoria, Australa, to
make an investigation, which proves
that the fishy taste in butter is in no
way connected with fish. One or
more of four specified micro-organ-
isms may be concerned in the devel-
opment of fishiness. Rusty cans or
any so-called tin utensils from which
the thin coating of tin is worn away
have a very deleterious effect on the
butter made from milk which the
cans have contained. The iron or
steel which becomes exposed by the
abrasion of the tin coating, although
it may be polished bright and kept
clean, has a bad effect on milk and
on cream.
Geese Raising in Hungary.
The plains of Hungary are well
adapted for the raising of geese, and
travelers in that country are often
entertained by seeing, from passing
trains, great flocks of geese, feeding
in the flelds and watched by goose-
herds. So many feathers are yielded
by these geese that four ‘‘bedfeather
markets’ are held annuallyat Buda-
pest, and at each market from 600,-
000 pounds to 700,000 pounds of
bedfeathers are placed on sale.
Punishing the Gods in China.
In Northern China, where a
drought has long prevailed, officials
have visited all the temples and
thrashed the idols for negligence.
Others have been put out into the
sun, that they may feel how hot and
dry it is. It is not uncommon in San
Francisco to see a Chinese joss
dragged out into the street and pun-
ished for neglect of duty.
Newfoundland’s Fisheries.
The mackerel fishery has been
practically extinct in Newfoundland
waters for the last guarter century,
cwing to the migration of these fish
to the American seaboard, So enor-
mous was the extent of the fishery
in former times that over 1,000 ves-
sels of different nationalities carried
on the pursuit there. :