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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30
ONE W0MAN'S WORK.

"Who having little yet hath ALL"
narrow sphere. how can you call It soe
Three pairs OF baby eyes look up in mine,
And seem the gates through which light
divine
Transfigures all my life with tcnder,.st glow.
Because cannot paint with artist skill
The changing e"lors Of the sea or Sky.
Because c.inno, write of visions high.
And move you all with pain or joy at viii.
Because u learning's shrine no gifts bring,
Nor take "a foremost stand for woman's
cause.
Beeause l trust unquestionins the laws,
That bring us snow-in winter. birds in spring.
You think niy life is circumscribed and cold
In what should make il helpful, rich and
strong
All, friend: these happy days are none too
long
For all the loving duties that they hold
Nor mas the art you love been all denied,
Forloveiiest pictures every day see
In chiidhood's careless grace and move
mentS free,
From waking morn tin dreamy eventide
Ny Eii;h's braids, now brown, now golden
bright,
!mprison tinis no artists brush has known:
The baby's deep blue eyes, that met my own.
In living beauty mock all painted light.
Nor do you, know my friend, the critics bold
We siory-teiiers in the children find
What store of wisdom and os wit combined
We need to point moral new or old,
And in reforms are we not learning late
\ still small voice need not be all in vains
These childish hands may bring the greater
gain
( ara W illing now To simply wait.
And In what science or philosophy
Can pass in interest the baby heart
Seeking IN untried ways to take its part
For good or III i'm life's great mystery?
God help us mothers all to live Alright,
And may our homes all truth aud Iove en-
fold.
Since life for Us no loftier aims can hold
Than leading little children in the light
EamG EhdicoH H,.JTIaa,.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30
He Was Powerful Lonesome.

The read up the mountain was hard
to climb on horseback, but when !
reached the top of the gap a beautiful
view was spread before me. Like a
strand of twisted silver the Cumber-
land river was woven in and out among
the trees of the valley, and far, faraway
the green of the forest stretched until
il faded into the blue OF the distant
sky. After gazing on the magnificent
scene for few moments | got off my
horse 10 fix my saddle girth, and while
| was about it mountaineer came out
Of the woods by the roadside.
"How are you?r said /. Have you
a piece of string that | can tie up this
girth with? -
Sorry, mister" said he, "but l
hain't."
''How far is it to the nearest house
Maybe | can get there
Likes not you kin; it's about half Il
mile down the mountain"
"Who lives there?'
"The Widder Blinkins."
Not Sam Blinkins' widow ," ask
cd in astonishment, for only week
before | had met Sam down in Pine
willie in "a timber trade.
mo; its Bill's."
II knew he had a brother, but i
didn't know he was dead" " said l, con-
siderabIy relieved.
"Hc amt dead" said he, grinning,
cts his grass widder."
'Oh, Bill has skipped, has he?"
''Well, sorter, you may say. You
see, Bill's wife owned the farm and he
kinder took it easy tell she got her
dander up, and then, Gaze he wouldn'l
work, she tuck il into her head to pes
ter the life outen him and keep him
from inj'yin his rest. 1t kip on frum
bad to wuss, tell at last she tuck cluh
an druv Bill often the place. And
told her he'd be derned ef he'd ever
come back forever"
"When did all this happen::'
"Only jist this morning"
''WelI, ! GUESS had better not stop
there, had ,"
sin course, mister" he said urgent
ly; 'she ain't fierce to strangers"
With this assurance / started of, and
rs | turned in the road he called to me:
"Say, mister, won't you tell the wild
der that you seen Bill up in the noun
tain lookin' powerful lonesome"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30
A Law Unto Herself.

She was li,Jle woman, dressed in
black, and having a bundle wrapped
up in gray shawl. She had a seat in
the middle Of a Grand River avenue
ear, and, as she took out her clay pipe
and began feeling for her tobacco, the
conductor stepped forward and said:
You musn't smoke here, ma'am."
"Why not::'
Against the rules"
''Who made the rules ~
"The company
Where's the Company"
''Down at the Office
''Weli, never allow anybody a mile
away TO tell me when shall or shall
not smoke. I've got wind ON my stom-
ach, and when have it | alIus smoke.
You kin trot right back to the platform
and be ready to jingle the bell when
anybody wants To get off,
And she found a match, lighted il on
the soleiof solid shoe, and pulled away
with a serene c1untcaancc until ready
to get of at Twelfth street.-D troR
Fro Pres.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30
told her the history.

told her the history.
Old Mrs. Tackaberry cried about tine
pink delaine that was her little grand
daughter Abby ElIen's, who died, and
about the brown Tibet that was her
daughter Amanda's wedding dress
when she married missionary and
went 10 China, aud died .here.
Then they all laughed at an ara
besqIe in one corner, which wa Jcr-
omc's yellow flannel dres--Phuebe
Jane had bccn q little afraid 70 tell Of
that, Jerome was IMPOSING in Il white
necliie. Aunt Cynthia would not be-
lieye that she had let the dre-smaker
make that dress, until she remembered
that it was the time when she scalded
her hand.
People kept coming in. Phoebe Jane
had an inspiration, and made Llewel-
lyn go and invite them. Ii becamea
good old-flshiOned neighborhOOd par
ty-'Just like a quilting" old Mrs.
Taekaberry said Everybody found
some Of their pieces in the rug, and
smiles and tears and innumcrable stories
grew out Of this.
The newcomers found the two fac
ti9ns apparently 80 recOuciIed that
they were surprised ont OF any ami
mostly they might have felt, and when
they came to r.hcar-e their music, il
happened, oddly enough, that both
parties had chosen the same hymn, and
they all sang together.
When they had finished rehearsing,
some One-PhGbe Jane never was quite
sure whether il was Jerome or the pro
fessOr-started ''Blest be the tie that
binds" How they did sing it Old Mrs
Taeksberry's thin cracked treble rang
out in defiance Of time and tune, and
when the hymn ended, tears were roll
ing down her seamy cheeks.
"f'm going back TO the church - she
said, brokenly. "Pve split my meetn's
and other folks long enough and
and-I'm going to do what I'm a mind
to, to home, when it comes sundOwn
on the Sabbath day, but 1 amt going
to knit a mite in meetin' again-nOt a
mite ~
There WAS great handshaking.
Aunt Cynthia and Father Breck ac-
tually shook hands, and out in the en-
try Old Mrs. Tackaberry kissed Ph05e
Jane.
In spite of the bad roads, there was
a great congregation ia the East Pal
estrina church next day. IL was the
professor who preached. He chose for
his text: blessed are the peacemak-
ers, and everyone look at Phoebe Jane
until she grew red to the tips Of her
ears.
Sine and LueIla walked homewari
together-Openly, arm in arm, and it
seemed like walking in Paradise, al
though one went over shoes i'm mud
Youths Cdsap0piOa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30
Comparative Areas.

Idaho Is twice as large as Arkansas.
Colorado is twice the sizs of Ala
bama-
Slmatra Is nearly a large as Cali
fornia.
Tunis and Ohio are nearly the same
size.
Ireland is about half the size of Mis-
souri,.
Cypress is almost As large as Cox
necticut
Australia is about the size of the
United States.
Canada is a little larger than the
Uuited States.
Europe i less than one-fourth the
size of Asia.
Arizona is almost exactly twice the
size of Missouri.
Portuguese Africa is AS large a.
Mexico and Texas.
Asia Is the largest continent, I6,OOO,-
40 square miles.
Korea is exactly the size of Kansas,
5000 square miles.
AMMAN, lO&OH square miles, is
I about the size OF Idaho.
Missouri is almost three times the
size of West Virginia.
Macedonia proper was near the size
of the state of Illinois.
Pennsylvania is almost thrcc-foIrths
the size of Missouri.
Portuguese Guinea is little larger
than New Hampshire.
Siberia has an area of 5000 mil,s,
about the size of Indiana
Brazil has one province larger than
any three Of our States.
Sasmania has 26,OlO square miles,
a little smaller than Maine.
Labrador is about the size of Mis-
souri,, 71,0J5 square uA;les.
The Empire Of Charlemagne covered
| about GO),0)) sqIarc mikes.
The Roman province of GauI was =
little smaller than Texas.
Denmark has l4,OD square miles,
a little larger than Maryland.
There are tnar P-oyinces in China
larger than any of our States.
The Island Of Mauritius and RhOB.
ISLAND are about the same size.
Ecuador has l13,OOO square miles,
about the size of New Mexico.
RoImania has 4S,0Da square miles,
the exact size Of Louisiana.
Java and Arkansas are Of nearly the
same size-j3,OOO square miles.
Pennsylvania has 5000 square mIIe=
more land that Ohio, or 45,OO0
Bolivia has 7SG,6n sqnare miks os
area, about the size Of Mexico.
Bulgaria proper has 5000 square.
miles, about the size of Indiana
Australia Is about the size of the
United States, excluding Alaska.
The two Americas are, combined, al
most exactly the area Of Asia.
Africa is three-fourths the size of
Asia, or I2,0O0,O 600 square miles.
Nicaragua and New York have the
same area, 5000 square miles.
Sardinia is exactly the size of New
Hampshire, or 5000 square miles.
The Palestine of the time of Christ
was about the size of New Jersey.-S.
l Louis Globe DonocrQk
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30
Transatlantic Liners.

1t takes an expenditure OF nearly
so, 600 to carry a vessel like the Ma
iestic across the Atlantic.
\ ships steward, who sprang into
the sea and rescued a young lady who
had fallen overheard from an Atlantic
liner, has been presented with $1,000
by her relatives.
Ii is said that the first cost of
building fleet of Atlantic liners is a
trifie compared to the cost of running
them in less than three years it will
exceed the cost of construction, 80 enor-
NOUS is the constant expenditure in
wages. port duties and repairs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30
BOTTLE AND WILL
WASHED ASHORE.
The Strange Case Of Mrs. Parsons
Dying Statement.
From the san Francisco Examiner.

From the san Francisco Examiner.
\ strange story of an old letter,
which is at the same time put forward
as a Photographic viii nearly twenty
years old, is told as part of the iitiga-
ton consequent on the settlement Of
the estate Of Jennie Parsons, who was
favori,e with san Francisco playgO-
ers thirty-six years ago "a one of the
Vaudeville sisters.
The story of the will is told ON be-
half of the claim of Mrs. Minnie
Adams Brooke, and is here given as
such and on account Of its unusual and
romantic interest.
About year and half ago the Hi
bernia Savings Bank turned over to
the Public Administrator 81, 700 which
had been in the bank vaults since 1870
without a claimant. The money was
originally deposited in the bank by
Mrs. Jennie Parsons, who with her
sisters, Agatha ana Alicia, were billed
a. tilt Nstutlrh iiit -i>ttI> Si TIE blil
American Theatre on Sansome street
during the sos.
Six months ago two persons appear
ed to claim the forgotten money. They
were Beatrice VI. States aud William
G. States, Of New York, the latter a
physician. Being the children of a
sister of Mrs. Parsons they claimed the
whole e-tate rs the only surviving
heirs. Their proof of kinship seemed
10 be perfect and measures were taken
To effect a distribution of the estate,
when stop was put To the proceed
ings by a claim made by three resi-
dents of Fresno. These counter-claim-
ants are f. c. Parsons, Talcott Parsons
and Mary +. WheIan. They repre-
sented themselves to be the children of
Otis Parsons by his first wife.
Proceedings were begun on this claim
but were brought to an abrupt stay by
the appearance of another heir in the
person of Mrs. Minnie Adams Brooke
She claims to be the only surviving
heir of Mrs. Jennie Parsons by former
marriage.
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Papers We're being prepared and
steps taken in substantiation of Mrs.
Minnie Adams Brooke's claims to
heirship, when, about six weeks ago,
Mas. Brooke happened TO mention To
Mr. Mcdonnell, her attorney in Chica-
go, that she had letter from her
mother, written on board the ill-fated
Pacific before she fOundered off Cape
Flattery in 1879. The letter is said to
have been found in floating bottle by
seaHen on freight boat bound for this
port a few weeks after the disaster.
As soon a. she repeated the contents of
this important message from the dead,
as best she could from memory, Mr..
Mcdonnell recognized in it at once a
sound and legal holographic will.
\ vigorous search was made for the
precious document, and when hope
was about abandoned Mrs. Broohe's
daughter discovered il folded with an
old railway map and time table of the
year 1873, where il had lain for sixteen
years. While walking towerd the
crate to throw the folder in the fire the
Ietter dropped TO the floor. The dis
eovery of the will, in connection with
other and corrOboralive evidence, put a
new aspect on affairs, and J. s. Me
Conneli arrived here frgm Chicago
Thursday he has heen in close con-
sultation with his associates, Messrs.
Gum & Koscialowski, since his arriv-
al, and a. result this remarkable doe
ument was filed with the County Clerk
for probate yesterday morning.
The story of the sea-found will and
the romantic and tragic history of the
testatrix, who perished that awful
night i'm 1879 off Cape Flattery, is Civ
en-. a. related by Mrs. Minnie Adams
Brooke's attorneys. Mrs. Jennie Par
sons, her husband and ls-mon;hs-old
baby boy, Jamie, were among the pas
sengers who perished. They Were on
their return trip to this city from Vic
toria, B. c. Before taking passage
Mrs. Parsons had written TO her
daughter, then Mrs. Minnie Adams
Bowdish, to come west and meet her
in San Francisco. The letter also con-
tanned check for $500. Mrs. Bowdish
was on her way west when the wreck
of the Pacific occurred. In the hour OF
her supreme peril she wrote the letter.
1t was finished in the dark and by
the sense of touch as the water was
breaking in.
Nhou tho raassaIln nnrs Nrnr.a nrlarnl In
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30

1t is noted as curious that the most
beautiful girls, and those with the
greatest social advantages, more often
die old maids than their hOmely sis
icrs.
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Mrs. Adams soon after came TO this
coast to escape the prosecutions of her
husband and his incessant demands
for money This was in the early'50s.
After she had been here seven or eight
years she read notice in one of the.
papers announcing the death of her
husband, George Adams, purporting
to have occurred in New York. With
in month the widow, as she supposed
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When the passengers were ordered to
the boats wild rush ensaej, and Mrs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30

\ day or two before taking her de-
par,urc for the east Mrs. Browdish re-
ceived the bottled letter and will, adj
dressed III an unknown and Irregular
hand, at the general delivery, Failing
to comprehend the Importance of that
las; written word from! the dead she
took ii with her and placed it among
her papers, where it lay forgotten for
nineteen years.
Though written in pencil, the docu-
ment when fOund was easily read.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-30

EDITOR Enaaiiilcr: am q stranger in your
city and bcreit OF a dear mother last Thurs
day BY the terrible calamity OF Cape Fiattery.
came TO meet that mother and finish my last
days with her. In her letter she wrote OF
having considerable means both cash and In
vestments. but gave no particulars. l have
right 10 know, but so far have been Gnsuc-
cessiul in my search. / must soon return to
my family in New York, and take ihis way to
appeal TO the public for information. Ny
mother was the late Jennie Parsons.
Address MINNIE ADAMS BOwDIsu.
General Delivery.
san Francisco. Saturday November 4 IS75
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-07
BIG CROWD IN COURT.
A slander Suit Brought by a Minister
 Creates Much Inter est.

Newport. R. l., March 6.-Before the supreme court this afternoon the suit for slander brought by Rev. Joseph Murphy of New York against Rev. H. N. Jeter of this city, both negroes, went to trial. The court room would not hold the crowds which desired to obtain ad- mission and which included cIergymen from this and other cities. w. J. John son (colored). a venerable member of the Massachusetts bar, is an interested spectator. Lawyer Douglass of New fled that defendant charged in church
 There was much delay in securing q jury and but two witnesses were put on during the afternoon. These testi- Bedfor is for the defense.
 that plaintiff was "a great rascal and thief and that Murphy had not acted toward defendants daughter and that he was seeking to break up the church. The witnesses displayed extreme and uncomfortable bitterness towards the plaintiff and admitted they were leaders of the newly organized church. which has resulted from the between these two clergy men.
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INCOME Y.lY CASES.
Arguments Were Opened in the Supreme
 Court Yesterday.

Arguments Were Opened in the Supreme
 Court Yesterday.
 Washington, March 6.-Arrangements were made in the supreme court of the United States to-day for the argument upon the income tax eases,
 At the opening of the court Attorney General Olney said that there were three cases relating to the income tax now before the court, two of them (the New York cases) presenting identically the same questions and based upon the same records; the third originated in the District of Columbia and was the only one in which the government was directly interested. That was suit, he said, for an injunction to restrain the commissioner of internal revenue from proceeding to carry out the law. The attorney general asked that the government might be permitted to ap- pear in the other two cases, however and he suggested that they be all con- solidated and whatever time was deeced reasonable for the argument might be given to counsel.
 Chief Justice Fuller asked whether counsel on the other side had anything to suggest in the matter, and MT. Shell labarger of this city responded that his firm appeared for MT. Moore. in he suit against Commissioner Miller He said he was laboring under some embarrassment from the fact that 1t had been arranged that ex-Senator Ed munds, who was associated with him, should make the oral argument in be- half of their client, but that he had been and still was sick with grip. He had received a telegram from Edmunds yesterday saying that he expected to be able to appear tomorrow and make he argument if required MT. Shella- oarger said that he had no objection o the consolidation of the cases, If it did not otherwise abbreviate the time to which they would be entitled
 The chief justice said that the pur- pose of consolidation would be for hear ing as one case.
 MT. J. C. Carter, who appears for the Trust company, in support of the law, observed that the ordinary rules governing the time for argument seemed to be inadequate.
 After consulting with his associates on the bench the chief justice announc- ed that they had decided to allot ten hours to counsel, five on each side, the division of which they might adjust lmong themselves. If it developed that this time was not sufficient, 1t would be enlarged
 The counsel have not arranged among themselves how the division of time shall be made, but it is probable that 1x-Senator Edmunds, MT. Joseph H. Jhoate and MT. Seward will speak 'or the appellants in opposition to the aw, and the attorney general and Mir | Carter for the appellees in favor of the | aw. The argument will probably be- gin tomorrow.
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ALTGELD AGAIN HEARD OF.
SENDS SENSATIONAL NOTE TO THE
 GENERAL .ISSEMBLY.

He Wants Imm diate Legislation to Stop
 Many of the Abuses Existing in the Man
 agement oi School Property-Instances of
 Affairs Mentioned.
 Springfield, Iill., March Ex-Governor Altgeld caused a sensation to-day by sending to the general assembly a communication requiring immediate legislation to stop many of the abuses existing in the management of the school yroperty, He instances the condition of affairs in Cook county where properties belonging to the school fund of the state are rented to corporations at rdiculously low rate.
 This land is mot subject to taxation and the scheme is for a re-valuation every six years and the charging of rental of 6 per cent of such valuation, but this is circumvented. Three of the principal newspapers of Chicago are referred to as large offenders in this respect and the Chicago Tribune is named in particular by the governor. It is also classed as a tax dodger of great ability.
 The governor in closing his communi- cation says: This peculiar kind of which waves the flag in one hand and plunders the people with the other, is getting entirely too com mon and is working infinite harm
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AN AssIsrANr PASToR
For pr. Twitchell of Dwight Place Church MT. Osborn to be the Assistant-A Yale nixfnitx, Ctudant

For Dr. Twitchell of Dwight Place Church
 Mir Osborn to be the Asslstant-A Yale
 Divinity Student.
 Ther has been a movement on foot for some time among the members of Dwight Place church to secure an as- sistant pastor to aid Dr. Twitchell in his pastoral duties. A paper has been circulated among the substantial mem bers of the church and it has been signed by quite a number of members. The paper sets forth that in view of the growth of the church in recent years and the consequent enlargement of the field of labor the pastors work has greatly increased. So the members believing it to be for the best interests of the church that an assistant be procured, that such action is in ac- cordance with the pastors wishes, and finding that MT. c. A. Osborn, a mem Der of the church, can be secured as assistant, measures will be taken to secure the services of this gentleman. A church meeting was held Tuesday night, at which hte matter was most favorably considered and approved In fact the church voted unanimously to request the society to procure Mr. Osborn as assistant for the fourteen months next ensuing. and there is no doubt but that the society will coin eide with the action of the church MT Osborn is student of the Yale Divinity school and will graduate in May. He will, however, take a post graduate course next year, and will devote one-half his time as assistant pastor in accordance with the desire of the church at salary of $1,OOO a year, the funds for which have all ready been subscribed. MT. Osborn is from Wisconsin, and has the esteem and regard of the members of Dwight Place church.
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Given Unlimited Credit.

Madrid, March 6.-senor Abarzuza, minister of colonies, read to the cham Der to-day bill providing the govern ment with an unlimited credit for the campaign in Cuba. The governor gen. eral of Cuba has teIegraphed request ing that endorsements be sent directly to Santiago and that they be made ready to take the field forthwith. The war office is pushing actively the prep arations for the expedition. There is remarkable enthusiasm in military cir cles. Detachments from all garrisrons are musteri ng rapidly at Santander, Cadiz, Corona and Barcelona. They will embark at the end of the week. Two million cartridges will be shipped on the cruiser cen Mercedes.