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Cause of Failure.

Want of confidence accounts for
half of the business failures of the
day. C. n. Boyd, the Druggist, is
not liable to fail for the want of con-
fidence in DIR. Bosanko's Cough and
Lung Syrup, for he gives away a
bottle free to all who are suffering
with coughs, colds, asthma, con-
sumption, and all affections of the
throat and lungs.
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Buckland's Arnica saIvc.

The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chap
ped Hands, Chilblains. Corns, and
all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton, or money refunded. Price 25e
per box.
For sale by C. N. Boyd. iune2O.
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Not a particle OF calomel, or any
other deleterious substance, enters
into the composition of Ayers Ca
thartic Pills. On the contrary, they
prove of special service to those who
have used calomel and other mineral
poisons as medicines, and feel their
injurious effects In such cases
Ayers Pills are invaluable.
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Some Foolish People

Allow a cough to run until it gets
beyond the reach of medicine. They
often say, Oh it will wear away, but
in most cases it wears them away.
Could they be induced to try the
successful medicine called Kemp's
Balsam, which we sell on a positive
guarantee to cure, they would imme-
diately see the excellent effect after
taking the first dose. Price Scots.
and s1.00.
Trial size free at c. N. Boyd's Drug
Store.
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Hay Fever.

For Hay Fever recommend Ely
Cream Balm. 1t entirely relieved
me from the first application have
been a sufferer for ten years. Going
from home and neglecting to take
the remedy. had an attack ; aiiei
returning | Immediately resorted 10
it, and found instant relief. | De-
lieve had | begun its use earlier, !
should not have been troubled.
Collyer, Clerk, lis Broad street.
Elizabeth, n. j.
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"A Great Surprise.

Is in store for all who use Kemp
Balsam for the throat and lungs, inS
great guaranteed remedy. Woulu
YOU believe that It's sold on It's mei'
its and that each druggist is author.
izen to refund your money by '1s
Proprietor of this wonderful remed!
if it fails to cure you. c. \. BOyu'
has secured the agency for it. u.r
Price 80 cents and s1.OO lr''
size free.
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Crickets are so numerous in Wash
ington Territory that they have be-
come scourge. They are an inch
and half long, and are devouring
the crops. The people would like to
import some Digger Indians to eat
them up.
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These are Solid Facts.

The best blood purifier andsv...
regulator ever placed within s
reach Of suffering humanity. trpl.
Electric Bitters. Inactivity ~ 4
Liver, Biliousness, Jaundice. n.
stlpation, Weak Kidneys. or :.
diseases of the urinary ofps.. ''l
whoever requires an Appetite % !. 9 2
or mild stimulant. will aIwav. % y .
Electric Bitters the best and ::
certain cure known. Thev act W w
ly and quickly, every bottle gns'-, s-''
teed to give entire satisfaefion
money refunded. u 9
Sold at fifty cents a bottle bvc p
BOYD. T. !
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81 wish 1 was a saloon," said a
loving woman to her husband.
"Why ?" he inquired, with some
degree of surprise, ''Oh, because you
would run in eight or twenty times
a day to see me-"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-23

Half a million dollars in gold was
drawn from the bank OF England a
few days ago for shipment to New
York.
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GOLD :! 7:
that will put yeu in the way of making more mon
ey in a few days than you ever thought possible
at any business. Capital not required. We will
start YOU. You can work all the time. or in spare
time only. The work is universally adapted TO
both sexes. young and old. You can easily earn
from 90 cents TO SleO every evening That all who
want TO work may test the business, we will
make this unparalleled offer To all that not
satisfied will send 81 to pay for the trouble of
writing Full particulars, directions. etc. sent
free. Fortunes will be made by those who give
their whole time to the work. Great success alb
solutely sure. Don't delay. Start now. Address
SrINsoN Co, Portland, Maine. jan23.
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EXCELSIOR
COOK STOVES
ALWAYS SATISFACTORY
EIGHTEEN SIZESAND KINDS
ALI. PURCHASERS CAf 3E SUITED
MANUFACTURED BY
Isaac 4. Sheppard L Co., : more, Nd.
AND FcT Stl.l ~
r. b. Schell & Co.,
ieb2o.lyr. SOMERSET, PA.
EIGHTEEN SIZESAND KINDS
Rev. Father Wilds'
EXPERIENCE

The Rev. z. p. wilds, well-known city
missionary in New York. and brother
of the late eminent Judge wiIds, of the
Massachusetts, Supreme Court, writes
as follows:
as z. 54fh ST.. Neic York, Nay 16, 1ss2
MEssRs. j. G. AVER & Co., Gentlemen:
Last winter / was troubled with a most
uncomfortable itching hunor affecting
intolerably at night, and burned so intense
ly, that l could scarcely bear any clothing
over them. i was also a sufferer from a
severe catarrh and catarrhal cough; my
appetite was poor, and my system good
deal run down. Knowing the value OF
AYERS SARsAPARILLA, by observation OF
many other cases, and from personal use
in former years, l began taking it for the
above-named disorders. My appetite i'm
proved almost from the first dose. After
a short time the fever and itching were
allayed, and all signs of irritation OF the
skin disappeared. My eatarrh and cough
were also cured by the same means, and
it is now excellent. 1 feel hundred per
cent stronger, and attribute these results
70 the use Of the SARSAPARILLA, which
/ recommend with all confidence as the
best blood medicine ever devised. / took
it in small doses three times day, and
used, in all, less than two bottles. / place
these facts at your service, hoping their
publication may do good.
Yours respectfully, z. P. WILps."
The above instance is but one of the many
constantly coming to our notice, which prove
the perfect adaptability Of AYERS SARsA-
PARILLA to the cure Of all diseases arising
from impure or impoverished blood. and a
wpakanaft rtr
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In New York they charge for ad'
mission to weddings.
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Building Manila.

Is the lightest running vehicle made. Gentlemen
buy them for their road driving. Business men
use them for running about. Ladies and children
enjoy them, in fact, everybody will have them.
Ten different stSles. Send for circular.
PoreHs Fertilizers, warranted pure or forfeited.
Powell's Tip Top Bone fertilizer Powell's dissolved
Bone etc. etc, and P0well's Chemicals for making
Fertilizer at home. costing only s2 per ton.
Agents wanted in every township. Also, any 9th
er implements or machines you may need, can
procure for you at less than factory prices Being
a practical farmer know what machines are best
adapted to our use aud have spent much time TO
get the BEST. My aim has been TO get machines
that are we'll made and durable light running.
easily operated. and that do the work we'll, and
think I have succeeded. aS-A fun line Of re-
pairs alpGys on hand You are invited 70 cali and
see before purchasing. These machines are al
ways on exhibition. and in season at work in my
fields. Nisitors always welcome, except Sundays.
sell above machines for less money than manu-
facturer's prices. Circulars by mail on applica-
tion. H III. FLICK
Mayheld Farm Lavansville Pa.
Farm southwest ofP. o. acr23-6m-
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together firmly, and it will save you many
useless and unavailing regret and many a


together firmly, and it will save you many
a useless and unavailing regret and many a
bitter enemy.
If you happen to feel little cross-and
who among us does not, at some time or
other ?-do not select that season for reprov-
ing your noisy household flock. One word
spoken in passion will make a scar that
Summer of smiles can hardly heal over.
If you are wife, never tease your hus-
band, when he comes home weary, from his
days business. 1t is not the right time.
Do not ask him for an expensive outlay
when he has been talking about the hard
times-t is, most assuredly, the wrong time
If he has entered upon an undertaking
against your advice, do not seize on the mo-
ment of it's failure to say, 81 told you so ~
In fact, it is never the time for those four
monOsyllables.
O, ifpeople only knew enough to discrim-
mate between the right and the wrong,
there would be less domestic unhappiness,
less silent sorrow, and less estrangement of
heart. The greatest calamities that over
shadow our lives have sometimes their germ
in matters that are as apparently slight as
this. If you would only pause, reader, be-
fore the stinging taunt, or the biting sneer,
or the unlSind seoff passes your lips-pause
just long enough to ask yourself, us it the
right time for me to speak?' you would
shut the door against many heart-ache.
The world hinges on little things, and
there are many more trivial than the right
time and the wrong.
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THE KATYDlD.

A Norwich, Comm letter to the New
York Times says: The katydid is one of the
most curious and interesting insect in the
chronological kingdom. In its habits it is
exceedingly clannish, and its prediction
for certain localities and apparent distaste
for others that seem to be equally eligible
and inviting, are inexplicable. Year after
year it appears in uncounted numbers
among the trees in the locality it affects,
while a quarter of a mile away, in place
equally embowered, not a note is ever
heard, except, perhaps of an insect that has
strayed away from the crowd and is gradu-
ally winning its way back. In Hartford,
and in all the cities Of New England whose
streets are bordered by trees, there are GER
tain avenues that resound half the night
with the harsh, clocking concerts of innu-
merable katydids, while on the next thor
oughfare, though it offers every inducement
in the way Of foliage, nota katydid is heard.
In this city dark, tree-shadoWed Broadway
is so infested for two months by the insects
that passing strangers pause in ast0nlsll-
ment, mystified by the uproarious catter.
So loud and clamorous was the katydid
concert in the trees about the walls of Park
church, at the upper end of Broadway, one
Sunday two summers ago, that the Ofiicia-
ting clergyman was compelled to dismiss
the congregation, as he was unable to make
himself heard above the din. On other
umbrageous streets in this city, some of
them running PARALLEL with and not two
blocks away from Broadway, a katydid is
rarely heard. The same popularity of the
insects is noticeable also in the woods, there
being certain quarters that they frequent in
armies ana others that they perSistently
avoid. The fall cricket, which in appear
ance seems to be distant relative of the
katydid, is evidently not strongly marked
by the bump of locality, evincing no fastld-
iOusness in the choice of a singing box. 1T
takes it's place in tall tuft of grass, or on
the highest bough of an elm with equal in
difference. 1t is solitary insect, avoiding
crowds, and singing exclusively for the en-
tertainment and solace of its equally lonely
and melancholy mate. Its note is sad and
mournful, seemingly droning negation in
the debate, ''Is life worth living?"
The katydid is a native of this continent.
1t is sort of a night grass-hopper, though of
a purer, paler green, more slender OF body,
and more ethereal in its general expression.
Its organ of sound is a transparent elastic
membrane, in a strong, oval frame in each
of the wing covers. These membranes, by
the overlapping Of the wing covers, can be
made to rub against one another, and the
sound is produced by the friction. The
concert begins at evening twilight, becomes
most clamorous about 8 or 10 O'Clock, and
ends at midnight Occasionallya solitary
drowsy clack may be heard an hour or two
later. The katydid does not sing constant.
ly; the notes follow each other in rapid
succession for a few moments, after which
there is pause of two or three minutes.
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THE SPREADING ADDER.

How many readers know what a spread
ing adder is? And how many of those who
have killed one know that he will play pos
sum? How many of them can say that they
have seen a spreading adder bite: For the
benefit of all who have not seen this snake,
or paid any special attention to him further
than to hit him on the head with stick,
will tell few things about him. have
killed a number of snakes at various times,
and have generally worried them great
deal to make them fight, and the spreading
adder is the only snake that l could never
induce to strike; and more hideous snake
could hardly be found. A short, ,stumpy
fellow, rarely more than two feet long, he
gets about very slowly. In color he much
resembles water-snake, but he will change
his color considerably when brought to bay.
(Ths is the brown adder; the black adder l
have not heard of in this country.) But his
popularity lies in tactics when in close quar-
ters. If on meeting one you move toward
him slowly, he will generally proceed to
take himself out of the way as fast as posi-
BILE; if you rake him back with stick he
will turn and show fight. Stretching out
his ribs until those on the opposite sides of
bis body form straight line, he makes him.
self good deal like leather strap in gen.
eral shape. Half coiling himself, and rails
ing his head and opening his great three
cornered mouth, he presents an appearance
very trying to weak nerves. When in this
position he will hiss like a goose, and look
like very imp Of the pit But those who
know him know all this is mere bravado,
and laugh at the poor FOOLS efforts to scare
his enemy away. 1t is no question of "dog
eat dog" but merely question of which is
the worst scared, you or the snake. You
may now poke sticks in his mouth and push
him about he will not bite, but merely
raise his head little more, and blow and
hiss little harder. If you do not leave
pretty soon, he will. But do not let him get
away; keep him back, and worry him. AS
soon as he finds it impossible to escape, he
will pretend to bite himself, then roll, and
twist, and squirm in great apparent agony
SEE Seemingly dead. You can push him about
and throw him around as you please; he is
as limp and lifeless as dish-rag. But hold
a little fire to his tail, and you will find he
is not as dead as he would like to have you
think. If, as soon as he turns on his back,
you go off and leave him, he will turn over
and get away on pretty short notice. l
would not advise you to take hold of him,
as it may be when he refuses to bite stick
that he is merely waiting for chance at
something he knows he can hurt.-T o. Il.
in Nashville AdrOcate
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the deaf aunt, and spending most of her
time with that agreeable old lady. has not

the deaf aunt, and spending most of her
time with that agreeable old lady, has not
necessarily appeared in this most veracious
narrative. We will only say that she full
filled the destiny of most women by marry
ing, and eventually inherited all her aunt's
property, on which occasion she wrote Pat
sy Ann a most afectionate letter, enclosing
the large amount of ten dollars. Patsy Ann
read the letter with streaming eyes, and
could not find words to express her appre-
citation of her dear sisters 'sgenerosity. When
Patsy Ann was about nineteen she lost her
mother, and she then devoted herself to the
care of her father, until he married again and
secured a brisk, intelligent and tigerish
woman, who soon made the house too hot
for the boys, and not only cured Silverskin
of "plumping down on things" but of many
of his pleasing habits which his first wife
had borne meekly and she did not hesitate
to "let on,' if he did anything to displease
her. She ridiculed his pomposity, contra
dicted his opinions, lowered his dignity,
usurped his authority, spent his money,
and broke his spirit.
Patsy Ann manifested her deep pity and
ways, but he never seemed to appreciate it.
He lost appetite asal flesh his Sunday suit
hung baggy on him he had no longer spirit
to stand on the front porch and twirl his
watch chain, and, finally, he ''plumpt down.
on his bed and rose no more. Patsy AIMS
grief was excessive at which the step-moth-
er expressed wonder
She had mourned deeply when her moth
er died, but that mothers death was not so
pitiful. She had passed away in an atmos-
phere oflove. There were so many toWeep
beside her death bed, SO many to regret her ;
but who beside herself cared for this poor
broken down father? Who else would shed
a tear of genuine grief? Not one.
But his obituary was a great comfort to
his daughter. It gifted him with every
virtue under the sun, and she would pore
over it, and grieve that she had never been
so priledged as to discover those noble traits
in him while he lived, and attributed it to
her own stupidity.
She slowly but entirely won the heart OF
her step mother, who was often heard to
declare that she was the only Silverskin she
ever saw who had either sense or feeling,
and that she would never part from her
while she lived; nor did she, and died bles-
sing her.
Patsy Ann never married, yet she is still
a Victim. Her heart continually OvertiOWs
with kindness, and not always on worthy
objects. She is so credulous, and so de-
termined to see only the good side of hui
man nature, thatshe is continually deceived.
Still, like the lamented Miss Jane Bryce,
she unweariedly devotes her time, her
means, her thoughts, and even her health,
to her fellow beings, and in so doing is
happy.
COLUMBIA, August 25th, 1884.
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A TIME FOR ALL THINGs.-Timeliness is
as important as fitness. The right thing
NAV become wrong unless it is in the right
time. Look we'll to the time of doing any
thing there is time for all things. Choose
the right time for saying things. If your
wife looks wearied and worn out, it is not
the right time to tell her that the dinner is
not hot, or that the bread is sour. Comfort
her-cheer her up. Use the ten thousand
little stratagems you were wont to handle
so skillfully in the old days to bring out the
smiles around her lips.
If you are annoyed or veXed at people,
Just remember it is not the right time to
speak. Close your mouth-shut your teeth
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sas Last year the government distribut- ,t!lt
2,912, 73O were given to Congressman. The
distribution is the most popular of the per-
quisites of members of Congress-. 1t be-
gan in a small way, but now 100000 are
appropriated for the purpose, and 160 wo-
men and fifty men are employed by the de-
partment of agriculture in putting up seeds,
which are of all sorts, from field-corn and
potatoes to the rarest flowers. Peas, beans,
corn and potatoes are put up in quart sacks
and the flower seeds in tiny envelopes.
The list includes over fifty kinds, while of
vegetables there are 12S varieties and of
flowers 131.
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asEHe who directs his life we'll understands
the best sort Of grammar. TO speak from
the heart and tell the truth is very good
logic, and will serve very we'll for rhetoric
also He who runs up a long score of good
actions succeeds we'll in arithmetic, and the
man whose life is starry with virtues is IA
nous astronomer. This is the kind Of edu-
cation which all people ought to have.
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lost it's spirit, and the body its elasticity at
forty years. And yet how many women
are faded and wan, shattered in mind and
health long before they are forty! All the
joy of life is not in youths morning. If we
so will it, we can to the last moments Of
life be at least negatively happy.
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WoMAN's WORK.-The quiet fidelity
with which a woman will dishwash her life
away for her husband and children is a
marvel of endurance. Here is the servi-
tude of a woman the heaviest-nO sooner is
her work done than it requires to be done
again. Men take jobs, work on them, finish
them and they are over for good and all.
The prospect for ending them and drawing
pay is alluring, but no such allurements are
held out for the wife. She washes Monday
and Monday the same garments until there
is nothing of them to wash; then they are
replaced by others of new material just like
them, and the rubbing and wringing 60 on
for ever. She mends the stockings with
tireless fidelity, the same holes meeting her
gaze week after week, for If there is darn
ed place in sock 'he' invariably puts his ir-
repressible toe through it. Every morning
the rooms are put in order only to be in the
widest disorder by the time night falls.
There are no jobs, each one different,
no pay day. The same socks, the same
room every time. There is too little bright
ness in the lives of women in the country.
They have too little help in their domestic
occupations. The nurse in a house where
there is baby to care for ought to be set
down as one of the regular expenses as
much as the potatoes of the family. A
mothers health, both of body and mind, is
worth more than additional acres of land or
finer live stock. The heart should not be al
lowed to grow old. Life should not have
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BaP The man who economies saves, and
he Who>sav most can invest most, and he
who invests most reaps most in the way Of
net profits. This Is the law in a country
where all roads are free to citizens. All
roads are free to the citizens of this country.
Thrift is not the absolute creature of stat
utes, though statutes may afford the means
of thrift. NORTH american.
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BaP Those who understand the value of
time treat it as prudent people do their mon-
ey; they make little 60 great way.
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PORTUGAL is a country which
figures in current history to very limited
extent. In the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries the Portuguese were great naviga-
tors and cOlonizers. They occupied some of
the richest countries on the globe. The
wealth of the East Indies and South
America and the Islands of the sea flowed
into Lisbon. In the eighteenth centuy the
British country began to plumber them of
their colonies. Napoleon occupied their
country in 1907 and the royal family fled to
Brazil. After the restoration Portugal de-
clined to nothingness. She has few foreign
possessions left and is noted just now as the
claimant of the Congo's mouth and as Sc
cret promoter of the African slave trade.
a recent statement of the financial stand
ing of Portugal is suggestive that the coun-
try is in very bad way, considering that
the whole population does not exceed 5000
600. The public debt Of the country is
about $500, 100000, or charge of SlG0 to each
individual, and the expenditures for the
past ten years have exceeded the revenue
by nearly 81, 100000, while not budget for
the last thirty years has appeared without
a deficit. There is little left Of the former
great colonial empire, and, like Spain, Port
ugal is in decay. The power which has rob-
bed her of the cream of her possessions is
Great Britain.