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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

my deep satisfaction In your wonderful pro-
grcss nor shall | try, Words are cheap, but
cash Is, in such eases, the most accomplished
convcrsatlUnalst. Continue your efforts at
double your present salary. Incloscd please
find elk. for this week. Your afTectionate
FATuER
The inclosure bore in the lower right
hand corner the flowing signature of the
senior Somerby, and in the upper left
the symbol s, followed by the figure D.
In an ecstasy of gratitude Silas pressed
the letter TO his lips. As he did so he
observed the legend "Tum over" OBJ
scurcly placed in The lower corner, and
following instructions he read as fol-
lows:
i. S.-Your pecuniary circumstances are
now such that you will no longer feel the need
of cconomizing. A variety OF mild extraya-
ganccs, hitherto made inaccessible by lmita-
tion of income. are now within your grasp.
You will feel like branching out in many di-
rections. Men inyour circumstances smoke
fftecn-cent cigars, and drink wine-lipon oc-
casions. Their board sometimes costs them
as much as s45 week. Yours will cost you
precisely that amountc s..
Stimulated by these practical proofs
of parental pride, Silas fairly bumped
himself, so TO speak, during the next
year, and, despite the distracting inhu-
ence of large income, attended more
strictly than ever to business. One day
toward the end of the year he received
a summons from his father, whom he
found standing before the fire in his
private office. Judge of his surprise
when the good old man, laying his
hand affectionately upon his sons shoul-
der, said:
"Silas, my boy, you have been doing
nobly, ! have long intended to more sub
stantially reward your efforts than by
mere words of praise, and / have decid-
ed to let that reward come in the form
of a raise of salary. l am aware that
salary of 500 week will place you in
society to which your poor old father
can hardly aspire. twill beyour proud
privilege TO give suprers and TO assist in
booming the hack interests of this great
metropolis. i, alas! on account OF de-
ficiencies of early training and education,
and lack of funds, cannot tread these
flowcry paths with you; but the father
is content to live again in the son, and
to enjoy his triumphs in back seat.
can scarcely hope" he continued, his
voice trembling slightly, and big tear
rolling down his cheek, ''to keep you at
home with us any longer. Your new
life will be at variance with our simple
ways. You will, no doubt, feel like go
ing to one of the principal hotels, and,
perhaps, pay as much as sos week for
board. We cannot compete at home
with the crockeryware and silver they
will give you there to eat, nor with the
manifold discomforts of the place; but,
my boy,we can give you good, wholesome
food, plainly served, and hearty well
come at the same price, and, by heaven,
we willp' M
And they did. And somebody still
has place at their fircside, despite his
altered circumstances. Happy in their
sons success, the old folks never muir
mur, but put up with his late hours and
altered way of life with a self-denying
patience that is rare indeed. 50
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
SILAS SONERBY'S SUCCESS
HOW Ills INDUSTRY RESULTED IN
RAPID ADVANCE IN WAGES.

never lag behind in my pursuit of
the nimble and elusive dollar but think
OF Silas Somerby, and straightway push
on refreshed. In the hope that it NAV
encourage some fellow-:oiler, l will
briefly set down the story of his great
success.
He began his business life in the EN-
ploy of his father, in whose establish
ment he still remains, universally locke |
up to and honored by all whose position
in the house is inferior to his own. 1t
was arranged in the beginning that he
was to live at home, and that he was to
receive a salary of $40 week, half of
which was to be deducted in payment of
his board. His father designed thus not
only TO give his son a good start, but to
inculate at the very outset sound prin-
ciples of economy, and to accustom his
offspring TO the now almost absolute
practice of laying aside a certain fixed
percentage of his income to meet living
expenses. r
The son repaid the fathers kindness
with earnest effort, and at the end of six
months he was one day summoned into
his progenitor's private office, and thus
addressed:
"Silas, | have observed with great
pleasure your diligent attention to bust
ness, and have decided to raise your sal
AIRY in practical recognition of your in
creased value. After to-day YOU will
draw SIS week, instead of SO, as here
tofore. And, by the way" the father
added, as Silas turned to go, "as your
living will now be, naturally, upon an
increased scale of expenditure more in
keeping with your augmented income,
shall hereafter deduct Sl0a week, instead
Of So, for your board"
Filled with a gratitude too deep for
expression, Silas left the paternal pres
ence resolved TO deserve his kindness or
perish. He redoubled his efforts, and in
six short months more he again stood
one day, by particular request, before
his father, who said with a broad smile
of satisfaction draped about his benevo-
lent countenance:
MY boy, you are exceeding my fond
est anticipations. Such endeavor as
yours shall not 60 unrewarded. | have
deci led TO raise your salary for the Sc
cond time. Twenty-Five dollars is the
figure of the future, and may God bless
.you." 800
htit TIC plu hldii Ilduntls anu III "a
voice trembling with genuine emotion
Silas stanmered forth his thanks. As
he was leaving the room his father added,
without raising his head from some pa
pers over which he was busted: -.a7-f
"Oh, Silas, one thing more. | was
about to add that this change in your
circumstances will make great differ
ence in your mode of life. You will eat
more, drink more, in fact, lead broader
and fuller life in every respect. shall,
therefore, charge you $50 a week for
board after this date. Good morning."
In the next six months Silas surpassed
himself, and doomed things to perfect
ly phenomenal extent. He was not, con
sequently, wholly taken by surprise when
he found ON his desk one morning note
in his fathers familiar hand. Hastily
tearing open the envelope with hands
trembling with pleasurlble anticipation,
he read as follows:
Ny DrAR Sos. / cannot express 10 you
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
IA Partisan author has translated
Nhaknsnhcarnls y line nOiif hrief c.nAlc -
rho,e arc solid Faot..

The best blood purifier and system
regulator ever placed within the reach
OF suffering humanity. truly Is Electric
Bitters. Inactivity Of the Liver, Bill
business, Jaundiee, Constipation, Weak
Kidneys, or any other disease of the
urinary organs, or who ever requires an
Appetizer, tonic or mild stimulant. will
always find Electric Bitters the best and
only certain cure known. They act
surely and quickly, every bottle gauran-
tee to give entire satisfaction or money
Refunded. Sold at City cents a bottle by
+. u. Thc!n2-.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
1T WAS NOT THE MONSTER.


Over in the Northwestern depot last
evening three young ladies with loud
laughs entered the rear car of a suburb
an train and took seats near the back
door. Presently young man entered,
tipped his hat gayly, and began conver-
sation with them. One of the girls in
formed him that the brakeman at the
forward platform had been "real mean"
to them insisting that they should show
their tickets, and that when they final
ly did show them he scrowled ferocious-
ly upon them.
'fIc did, eh?" replied the youth, in
voice husky with emotion. II will
fix him. You just stay here, and if you
hear groans in minute, Just rest easy
with the knowledge that Pm grinding
him to powder. I'll lick the bark clean
off of him"
"Oh, please don't" they screamed in
chorus; 'please don't! You'll do some
thing dreadful. Let him alone. Don't
hurt him. He don't know any better"
They were tugging at him trying to
hold him, and he was pulling himself
away frantically.
"Let me gov' he exclaimed. "The
brakeman who insults you must lick me
or get licked. That all there is to that.
Let Inc go now. | won't be too hard
on him.
just then the brakeman himself, who
had entered the car at the back door
and been q patient listener to all that
had been said, tapped the young man
on the shoulder and inquired:
.'iWas you looking for me? If you
was don't leeanything prevent you from
finding ME. Pm right here now, or I'll
be here on the siding at Evanstown in
thirty minutes from now. If It's all the
same to you I'd prefer the latter place,
because I'd have more room and three
minutes more time"
The young mans jaw dropped, and
turning to the hdcj he said "This is
not the monster, is it, girls?" and they
anxious to prevel murder, replied to-
gether, "No, indeed"
That seemed TO settle it, but the young
man did not speak again for three-quar-
ters of an hour.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

The Chicago Telegram thinks it is
an easy matter for a man to keep a stiff
upper lip when the Thermometer Is way
below zero; but he is lei to take frosty
view of things, however.
When young woman is in love
she turns to the poets corner first on
picking up the local news paper. After
she is married, she turns first to the
advertisements of the dry goods stores.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
-"The hanniness Of man arises N

THE happiness of man arises moie
from his inward than his outward cor
dition," says an exchange, which is
parabolic way Of saying that cucumber
out in a mans garden patch won't make
him as unhappy as it would If it were
located under the front elevation of his
vest.
j see they are serving refreshments
on roller skates in some of the restau7
rants" the husband said, as he laif
down his morning paper. Good graci-
ousw exclaimed the wife, "havc they
no plates?n
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

No matter how reckless a poet may
be in point of rythm, he will not attempt
to coin rhyme for Christmas" 1t is
one of those things that are too good to
use in that manner.
If the goose bone would make a
clean breast of it, it would own up to
having no more to do with weather pre-
dieting than teapot has to do with the
Franco-Chinese embroglio.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
VERY QUICK WORK.

Talk of your quick work" remarked
a Colorado man, II once knew a man to
clear twenty feet of land"
That's nothing; he ought to have
cleared that much in half day."
Half day? He did it in less than
second"
"How was that?"
"The Sheriff was after him and he
cleared it at bound.n
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
~ never patronize Patent Mcdlcines.

II never patronize Patent Medicines.
Don't you? Why not? You patronize
patent articles of a hundred varieties,
why not patent medicines. Because
they are often worthless. True, but
not always. Frequently they are the
very best in the world, representing the
widest experience. A. least we know
that DR.. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy is
one of these, aud for all troubles OF the
blood, liver anl urinary organs it stands
on It's merits, ami not on advertising,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
Eczema 1!

Eczema Is one of the ugliest and most
troublesome of all blood diseases. 1t
proceeds from humors In the blood which
are sometimes very difficult to eradicate.
For five weary years Mr.. j. u. Rodefer,
of Greendale, Va, suffered terribly from
this disease. lie writes; Finding no
relief in the many medicines till l used
Browns Iron Bitters, purchased three
bottles; from the use Of which l have
obtained almost entire relief. l reeom-
mend 1t to every one in my nelghborhoo l
for any disorder of the blood and as a
general tonic"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
---7'--I-----A--
Rnnklan's Arnira snlua.

The best salve in tn, worll for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers. salt rhuem, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblands,
corns, and all skin eruptions, anl posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satsfac-
tion, or money refunded. Price % cents
ner box
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

BY land or az sea, out on the prairie
or in the crowded city, Ayers Caihartic
Pills are the hest for plTgative purposes,
everywhere alike convenient, etficacious,
and safe. For sluggish bowels, torpid
liver indigestion, bad breath, flatulency
and sick headache they arc sure rem
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
-Providenee, II. L., sinners an

Providence II. L., sinners are now
besieged by tao cohorts of Salyationists.
General Booth having established 4
station there as rival to Maj. Moore's
people.
The. population Of Mexico, includ-
ing natives, Indians, Spaniards, and
those Of mixed blood, numbers about
l0,0o1,0O0. The area Of the country is
nc,riy seo,ec1 a1usre nile.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
non so GREEN As He LOOKED.

"Sce that country cousin over there
by the stove?' inquired Harlem clerk
of another yesterday, as a rural appear.
Ing customer entered and glanced curl
ou>ly around the store.
Yes, ] see him. What OF it?'
"Watch me take him down. Say,
mister" the cute clerk continued, ad-
dressing the supposed greenhorn, i've
don't keep whisky" arg
Wall, sonny, all Pve got TO say Is
that I'D save you a pile ov trav'l ef yer
did!' was the prompt reply.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

"A Weak Back, with weary, ach-
ing lameness over the hips, is a sign Of
diseased kidneys. Use the best kidney
curative known, which is Burdock Blood
Bitters.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

-"Stop the press yelled a country
editor to the consolidated devil, ccm-
positor and pressmen, who had Just
started in on his pile of three hundred
blank sheets, here's man who's come
a mile aud a qurater TO subscribe for the
paper and brung his turuips in advance,
aud l want TO give him a personal.
IA Partisan author has translated
Shakesphcarc's line, "Out, brief candlc:'
iuto French, thus: Get out short
candlerh That isn't as hal a. the
translation Of an exclamation of Milton 5
by a frenehman, who renders Hail,
horrors, hailr Thus: "How dye do,
horrors, how dye do?'
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16
Ell AITS,9
Vegetable Sicilian
HAIR REVIEWER

was the nrst preparatiopperfectly adapted 10
cure diseases Of the scalp, and the first suc-
cessful restorer OF faded or gray hair 10 It's
natural color, growth, and youthful beauty.
II has had many iinitators, but none have so
fully met all the requirements needful for
the proper treatment of the hair and scalp.
HALLS HAIR RENrwER has steadily grown
in favor, and spread It's fame and usefulness
10 every quarter Of the globe. Its unparal-
lclcd Success can be attributed 10 but ono
cause ne eniire .ia.dims't qJ usPyomises.
The proprletors have often been suSpxised
at the receipt Of orders from remote coun-
tries, where they had never made AN effort for
lis Introduction. "
The Use for short time ofsIfAtt's HAiR
kENEwER wonderfully improves the per-
sonal appearance. Il cleansesithe scalp from
all impurities, cures all humee, fever, and
dryicss, and thus prevents badness. IL
stimulates theweaiSened glands, aud enables
them to push forward new aud vigorous
growth. The effects OF this article are not
transient, like those Of alcoholic lprepaFA-
tlons, but remain a long time, which makes
It's use matter Of economy.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

"A Lesson In Physics; Teacher
What Is velocityP" Pupil-velocity
is what a man puts hot plate down
with"
"A man viii never appreciate how
rapidly kerosene and coal can be got
away with until he has had three of his
daughters courtel all through long
winter
How old are you MADAME" asked
a lawyer in q case of breech of promise,
and her attorney received five dollars
extra for helping her to cvade n direct
answer.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-16

my deep satisfaction in your wonderful pro-
grcss. nor shall try. Words are cheap. but
cash is, in such eases, the most accomplished
convcrsatlOnallst. Continue your efforts at
double your present salary Incloscd please
find ck for this week. Your aiTectionate
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Robert C, Winthrop's Washington
monument Grafton has just been pub
lished.
Nine. Patti declares that she is going
to quit the stage while her voice is in full
tune.
Edwin Booth has never seen any one
play "Hamlet" since. as mere boy, he
saw his father
Albert Sala, a brother of George A, Sa-
la, is a school teacher at Napoopoo, Ia-
waii.
DIR. Peabody, of Harvard, who was de
prived of his hearing by sickness a year
ago, has regained it suddenly.
Senator Sawyer takes with him to
Washington his family physician, who is
in attendance upon Mrs. Sawyer. an In
valid.
King Kalakua is the champion sncczer
of the Sandwich Islands, and hay fever
and malaria make his crown seem rim
of lead.
Gen. George II. Sheridan is preparing
an address to be delivered before the
grand army posts throughot the coun.
try.
Lieut.. Greely should be, in the opinion
the Liverpool Post, "the last man on
earth we should have thought likely tc
support the notion that the Garden ot
Eden must have been located somewhere
in the polar regions.
Gen. Logan has room fitted Up in his
new Washington house, in which ht
spends several hours day doing carPen
ter work. A large hennery and some
dog houses back of his mansion are trj
umphs of his mechanical skill.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
THE AMERICAN WOMAN.
Her Charms as They Appear TO
Much-TrayeIed Englishman

Much-TrayeIed Englishman.
Saws Archibald Forbes in his ''Souve-
Mrs of Some Continents:
.sThe frankness of the American young
woman has in it on the threshold a cer-
tain bewilderment and even embarrass-
ment for the British male person, espec-
ially if his collars be too stiffly starched,
She has so utter an apparent absence OF
self-consciousness; her mental balance
is so serenely stable; hel good fellow
ship, if one may use the term, is so nat
ural that he can not see his way easily TO
the solution of the problem. / assume
him to be gentleman, so that his iatui-
tion deters him from misconception Of
the phenomena that confront him.
!. ''She flirts. She it an adept in firta-
ton, but it is Irritation "from the teeth
outward" to use Carlisle's phrase, and
he is fain to own himself, like the fox
hunting farmer who tried unsuccessfuliy
to get drunk on the claret, that he seem
ed to ''get no forader." But, although
tho citidel of the fort seems 70 him
strangely impregnable because Of the
cool, alert self-possession of the garrison
/ have been told by heroic persons who
venturod to the escalade that, if the be
leagued be him whom fortune favors, il
will terminate an honorable siege by q
graceful capitulation.
Human nature is human nature alI
the world over, and there IS 40 greater
error than the prevalent one among us
that domesticity is not a leading virtue
of American married couples. That
there is too mnch of hotel life for Amer
lean families concede, and I am fully
conscious of the faults and evils Of the
system, but that it entails any impair
ment of the higher domestic virtues !
have failed to discover. It is not easy
to see how a woman is deteriorated as q
companion and friend OF mau-as the
participator in his aspirations, his trou-
bles, his studies, his higher life-because
her condition releases her from the duty
of deviting tEe details of dinner, from
the irritation of demoniaCal dOmestics.
from the drudgery of checking the gro
GERS pass book, and the sad realization
that all bakers are liars, and mostly rob
bers as WE'LL
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
STATE NEWS.


The court house at Gainesville is COM
p!eted at last.
The Gainesville Ice Company has ship
ped its first carload of ice TO Cedar
Key.
The Emporia Gazette has been re-
moved to Seville, and its name changed
to the Florida Gazette.
Next November the people of Alachua
county will have an opportunity of
adopting local option law, similar to
that now being enforced in Georgia.
Henry Hoyt, of East Gainesville, has
now growing fine patch of cranberry
plants. The plants have been out but a
short time, and have made q very vigor-
Gus growth.
The Banner estimates the value CT i'm.
provements made in Ocala within the
past two years as $500, 600. 1t gives fig
ures showing an actual outlay of oveI
$540, in the way of improvements.
Florida EpiscopaIians earnestly urge
the appointment of Rev. DR.. Scott tc
the bishops place in this State made va
cant by the death of Bishop Young. Dr
Scott has served the church in Florida
earnestly and successfully since 1842
and is gentleman of distinguished abil
ity and learning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-11
SALTWATER NEWS.
A Handsome Present to the Relief So
ciety-Sheet and Pillow Mas
Querade at the Rink.
Heavy Sentence for Forcing Boy to Drink
BERTHE Rope Stealers Get
Thirty Days.
OF for New orleans-Amusements an'
Instruction-Odds and Ends
for All
Sonethtna Nc Under the sun.

On next Monday evening the ladies are to
have something new at the roller skating
rink, which should remind one of Macbeth's
witches. 1t is to be sheet and pillow party,
which will certainly make cheap and conf
cal outfit. This sheet will be in graceful folds
around the person, with the FELLOWSHIP over
the head, the two corners reminding one of
the Indies caps worn in ancient times. There
will be a couple Of holes cut for eyes, and the
masquerade rig is complete. 1t will be a
novel sight 10 see the women in white NOV
ing on skates. The ladies who are in charge,
and are getting it up, aud who will issue the
invitations, are Mrs. W. F. Barstow, Mrs. w.
D. King, Mrs. c. L. Easton, Miss Gertie
Easton, Miss Maggie Shepard and Miss
Grace Welch. The masquerade will be de-
cidedly unique.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-11
4 Hnn6so,,lr Ircsent.

The funds of the Relief society were yes
terday morning increased by the presenta-
ton Thy Mr.. Burt Fuller, acting for the ladies
in charge of the charity bali given last Thurs
day EVENING" Of the sum Of Sl33.gO, being
the net proceeds realized. The ladies most
interested in its management were Mrs. JAS.
Sturtevant, Mrs. j. NJ. King, Mrs. w. c.
Masterman, Mrs. Geo. Hall and Mrs. Burt
Fuller, and Misses Easton, Shepard, May and
Gillespie. The ladies' of the Relief society
acknowledge with sincere thanks the receipt
of this splendid contribution to the society,
and assure the givers that it will be judi
ciously applied to alleviate the distress of the
poor and destitute in the city. L. was not
supposed that the ladies would have made
such a success Of the ball, bat they worked
hard for good object, and the citizens sup
ported them.