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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
THE MOTH.

In the midst of his countless cares. a
man
Paused for one restless moments span,
To watch a moth its wings unfold.
Velvet and gold,
Where ii perched on his hand.
For a creature that must so soon be
dead,
i cannot understand"
Across the roofs OF the busy town
the mountains, bathe1 ia the sun, look
ed down.
On the shing sea,
While between the hills and the sea the
men
Came and went, and returned again.
And laughed and sorrowed and toiled
through all,
Because, whatever fate shall befail
To the labor of men no end may Toe.
Then from the sea and hills rose a
mighty voice:
''Why should they toll or grieve or re-
joice?
We who have watched the spreading
plain,
Where it lies and smiles bctwixt us
twain,
Have seen it fill for a little space
With these children OF a fleeting race,
And in ages to come shall see it again,
a smiling, sunlit, empty plain.
Oh. why should they care to live, alas,
If the JOY of living 50 soon must pass -
The hot sun shone on the misty earth.
81 have seen it, he said, lin the hoar
of its birth,
4 chaos Of fire;
And yet again [ shall watch 1t expire,
Till lifeleSs and gray,
Its mountains of rock have crumbled
away,
And its giittering seas with their toss
ing spray
are empty and dry, and the earth is
dead,
And the end of the whole is this he
said:
1T is ali as one with the fireily's spark,
That shines and is quenched in the 81
lent dark
Toe u. UadcrhiH, IN HaTpe.'s.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
Praying for Rain.

Ii was a common custom in this see
ton of the State not many years ago
for the people during a protTacted dry
spell To meet together and pray for rain.
In certain community in Armstrong
county, shortly after the close of the
war, lived an old lady who was de
voted Presbyterian. Nearly all the
rest Of the people in that neighborhood
were Methodists, and "a there was no
church convenient they asked the priv
Iege Of meeting i'm this old Iady's house
10 pray for rain, because il was large
and c,mmpdioIs, and they expected
big turnout, and there was great need
of moisture
The old lady had scrioa- misgiving-
about the meeting, bat - Z drought was
threatened, and the people were alarm
cd, she reluctantly consented.
The meeting was accordingly held.
The Mcthodi>ts came in from far and
near, and their prayers for rain were
long and earnest.
That night there come one Of the
fierc,st storms that had been known in
years. Fences were blown down, apple
trees uprooted, and gardens washed
away and it happened that the greatest
damage was done t. the farm occupied
10y the old Presbyterian lady The
next morning neighbor passed along
and spoke of the meeting the day 5e-
fore and of the heavy storm that follow
ell.
"Well, said the old lady, in a tone
cf bitter self rcPrOaeh, Il might know
ed better. Ii was just abOGt wha: |
expected. Them blamed Methodists
is alway over-dOin' things"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
Shrinkage in Farm Values.

According to official statistics there
was shrinkage Of s3,OO0,OO0. a. COM
pared with the values Of the year pre-
vious, on 1,OOO,OO acres Of land which
changed hands last year in 81 Ohio
counties. The New York WOrid says
"What Is tue cf Ohio is ulorc or Icss
i-l. OF thu agricultural hand in the
entire country. ir ha- been forced
lower snd l1aer from year to year un-
tii uoH tho ciuses ~ g.. decline are
growing cumulative iu tlrir cfierf-.
20 would require much space to
enumerate these causes la detail, bat
they may be summed up in the state
msn- that the government policies OF
the United States and Of Europe are
being dictated to an increasing extent
b. the cities, and in the cities by men
vino are ignorant Of nearly everything
outside Of their special line Of business.
The extent Of this ignorance in the
ruling class i often alarming in the
extreme % those who are sufficiently
well informed to understand it, ef-
fect-.u
When we compare the conditions Of
the people and tine business Of the
country in 1892 with those that exist at
present, there j. bJt little difficulty in
assigning a reason for this great
shr.nkage. With the markets Of the
world open to our cotton. IN att, ilbur
and grain with every mandatory
bclching forth smoke day aud night 10
move the spindlcs and looms with the
coal and minerals of the earth being
dumped into the fires and furnaces Of
founderics, smelters and rolling mills
with % per ceat. Of the labOrers con-
stantly employed at good wages, there
was no reason why land values should
not be high With all the markets of
the world closed % this country; with
factories and mines closed 10 - per
cent. Of the laborers and the remain
der working on short time at greatly
reduced wages ; with the products Of
our farms selling at eorrespondingly
low figures, why should lands retain
their value of two years ago?
Vhe World Is prObaly correct in
placing the responsibility for this IT,
ductiOn Of values upon the shoulders
of inexperienced men, but the only
remedy that We can see i for the peO-
pie T. await the Opportnniey to turn
down, by their votes, the rem aiming
few who We're elected To Office under
false promises.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
0nly the Reflection.

They sat on tine sofa They had
Just come To mutual understanding,
and he had measured her finger for
the engagement ring, and they were
in the first throes of tender reminis-
cence.
ADO You remember" he said, i'm a
trembling voice-''yOu do not rernembS T
when YOU first saw me-"
AYES. | do"
Did any thrill or throb tell your heart
this happy moment would come: No,
that could not be expected"
AYES, somcthing did seem to whis-
per that We might become man and
wife"
My darling - he said, and lac kissed
her fondly.
"Yes, | remember I saw YOU from
the window, leaving the house, and
| thought how awful it would be To
marry a bandy-legged man bat il
WAS only the glass in the window
that was uaeven and made You look
So.r
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
Politics and Whiskers.

The Republicans of Kansas, who are
again in the saddle, politically, have
CHOSEN Lueien Baker as their senator
in Washington, and a. Pelier's assOci-
ate. The pecuIiarity about Lucien j.
that he j. smOOthfaced, like Napoleon
BOnaparte, instead Of having a
sgpcra5undance of capillary adOrn-
ment, such n has proved, along with
his voice, the chief distinguishing
characteristic Of PETER There j. a
subtle connection between political
extremists and natural whiskers, which
may, perhaps, at some future time
make the barber shops of the United
States the railying point ofcOnservatism
and good orler. Every anarchist has
whiskers. No man could he an an
archist in the United States, or could
long continue to he one, unless he had
whiskers, or a beard, or both. All
radical rcfOrmers have whiskers the
more radical, the more whiskers. Under
these circumstances the election by our
Republican friends in Kansas of a
smooth faced senator seems To be
symbolical Of the return Of the people
of that state TO sound politics and sound
principles. Bakers election seems to
mark the reaction from the pro whisk-
er period of Peffer. Ii seems to show
that the connection link between public
unhappiness and surplus hair has been
broken i'm Kansas.
At the same time il would, perhaps,
be better if Peffer's new associate in
the senate was not clean shaved Re
publican, but clean shaved and clean
cut Democrat. \ Democrat taking no
stock in populism pOlled 27,O00 votes
for governor in Kansas in November,
and a Democrat who could poll 1900
votes anywhere since March I, 1885, Is
citizen deserving OF tine highest
respect and rewards, when there are
any.-Nc,r York SIN.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
Two Valuable Friends.

|. y physician can not always he
had. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains
Bruises and Burns occur often and
sometimes when least expected. Keep
handy the friend of many households
and the destroyer Of all pain, the fa-
nous Red Flag Oil, - cents.
>. Many precious life could be
saved that is being raeked 10 death
with that terrible cough. Secure =
good nights rest by investing > cents
for bottle Of Pan-Tina, the great REM
edy for coughs, colds and consumption.
Bottles of Pan-Tina sold at G.. W. BEN
ford's drug store.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
Entitled to Confidence.

Mr. G.. W. Benford, druggist, should
have the confidence of this communi-
"; his calling i one OF responsibility;
very often precious lives are entrusted
TO his care; taking the agency for sell
ing the celebrated Red Flag OIL should
be Il guarantee, il will do all that =
claimed for il, and no remedy eXcells
il for the quick care Of rheumatism,
neuralgia, sprain~ aud all bodily pain.
Price - cents.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
Bueklens Arniea salve.

The b,-St salvc In the world for cut-,
brui-es, -or.--, ulocr~. salt rhcum. feyer
-or,~. tettcr, chappc,l hands. chilblains.
corn- and all -kin eruption-, and posi-
lively cur,.S piles or no pay rcquired-
II j. guaranteed % give perfect salts
faction or usoney refunded. Price 25
cents per box For sale By J. v. Sny-
der, Somerset, Pa, or st G. w. RnL
ner's, Berlin, Pa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06
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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-02-06

Hoods pills are endorsed by thousands.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
Thirty.Flrst seml.Annual Opening

Mrs. Lizzie oDonnell, has return.
ed from New York City, where she
spent quite a time in buying her
fall stock of Millinery for this mar
iet, and as soon as it is all receiv-
ed marked and placed in the sleeves
aud show cases, she will brow her
doors open in her thirty lr,t semi
annual opening in this city, Mrs,
ODonnell, in addition to buying a
large and well selected stock Of the
latest lmportations and home crea-
tions, engaged the services Of an
expert trimmer and a corps of dress
makers whom she brought back
with her, and she will be better able
this fall to keep up with her orders
than heretofore, She will give the
date of her opening in these col
umns and will make this one eclipse
all former ones,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

Inst August while working in the
harvest field became oyerheated,
was suddenly attacked with cramps
aud was nearly dead, Mr., Cum.
mings, the druggist, gave me a
dose Of Chamberlains Colic Cholera
aud Dlarhoea Remedy which com.
pletely relieved me, now keep a
bottle of the remedy handy,
A, N, BUNNELL,
Centeryille, Wash.
For sale by Smith Drug Co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
Special Rates IN Effect via the Cotton
Belt Railway.

$1,000 st, Louis and return, ac-
count Exposition. Tickets on sale
Sept. 3D., 9th, 10th, 18th, nth, 10th,
26th and Goth, Oct, lst, 3D., 18th
and 18th, good five days from date
OF sale for return, For st, Louis
Fair, $l470 round trip, tickets on
sale Oct. 9th to 10th, inclusive,
good for return until Oct, 14th.
The above rates are open to the
travelling public, and for further
information apply to
G, u, HovEY E, w, GoDDoLD,
Gen'l, Agt. Ticket Agt.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
Loans Guaranteed.

II you want money on your resi-.
dence or business property, or for
the purpose of building home or
business house, No onAR0Es will be
made II loan 10 not approved.
Nothing gained nothing lost Our
company has the cold cash II you
have the security Drop a card, IL
you can not call at our Office, and
we will call upon YOU
WM. B0MAR n Co,
Corner Broad and st Line Ol2,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

Booker T. Washington, a negro
orator, was accorded the 6rst day
at the Atlanta Exposition to make
his speech, Twenty years ago a ne
gro would not have been accorded
any day to talk TO white people in
Georgia, Those Exposition fellows
are working the negro for some
thing.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

State of Ohio, City of Toledo, CO
Lucas County. 90
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm
Of +. ]. Cheney & Co., doing bust
ness in the city of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum Of ONE HUN
DRED DOLLAS Tor each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use Of Halls Catarrh
Cure.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this sixth
day of December A, D. 1886.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

The young Duke of Marlborough
has taken peep at Niagara Falls
and says it is all right. This must
be a great relief to all concerned,
for we have been reading for years
that the Falls was all wrong, on
account of the water cutting away
the rock. We are glad his noble
highness, the Duke, has travelled
this way and gave out the glad
news that the Falls is o. k.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

Patronige push and enterprise,
Huddleston Bros, always keep the
best of fresh meats, etc, and
promptly deliver same TO all parts
of the city
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

The city of Shreveport owns ten
acres Of ground donated to It some
years ago for a park The Caucas.
ian wants the city to trade the ten
acres OIL for the fair ground tract
and beautlly the latter for 4 park
Texarkaua should buy tract of
ground for a park.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

The policy Of England toward Ire
land, India and the United States
is the same She makes the peo-
pie dependent by making them poor
says the Silver Knight. 1t is the
financial and industrial policy of
England toward Ireland which has
prevented any serious opposition to
English rule. The poverty of Ire
land is the safety Of Great Britain.
The poverty OF India is all that per
petuates English rule in the Orient
The shrinking fortunes of Alneri-
can freemen under the blithing and
withering effects of gold contrac-
ton enlarges the power of creditor
England while it impoverishes the
wealth producers of America. Mr..
Gladstone's Economical Fabric of
foreign Indebtedness unknown in
all the history Of the world is an
object lesson showing where the
wealth Of America has gone and is
going.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
We Kcep tho Best

Bath, hair, tooth, nail and clothes
brushes, handkerchief extracts,
toilet waters, soaps and all toilet
accessories.
7-2 SMITH DRU0 Co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

When Baby was sick, wo gave hor castorla
Whom rhe was Cld eho orIcd for casterlA,
Whcn She bocamc Mss sho eluug TO CaSlorla,
whsA nho had Children, abe gave thcm ces,cgts.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
rvoriucI

All the best grades of tobacco at
tue great bargain store,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

You can get you a piano on
monthly payments at Walker Bro
Tiers, on Rose Hill, See them,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
Wotmore Truss.

The Wetmore Truss fits anybody,
pleases everybody, endorsed by all
physicians and guaranteed.
SMITH DRUd Co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
1nnortant.

Fine jewelry, diamonds, watches
and silverware, One Price Only at
Sig Hecht's the reliable ieweler,
q 1S IL
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

Have your watches and clocks re-
paired by the old reliable jewler,
Il. l., Schuster. 1925
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally and acts directly on the
blood and mucuonS surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials free
4, j, CHENEY 81 CO., Toledo, 0.
aeN-Sold by druggists, 75c,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27

Patronl2e home INDUSTRY. Buy
your cigars of Koerner n Co., man
ufaeturers, 2l2 State Line Avenue,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
Sig. Hecht,

The money broker--business strictly
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
THE TEXAEKANTAN
F. @. WO0TTEN, City Editor.

LOG Al nTEITTS.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
The Best,

Pure, white CASTLE soap at zoe
per pound, SMITH DRUd Co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
Fidelity Mutual
LIFE ASSOCIATION,
OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.
QNCORPORAT d 1881

Insurance in force, $50, 900, 900
Death losses paid, 5000,
assets over 1000, 900
Surplus over 1000, 900
Has aratio of $1,612 assets to
every 800 liability, rs against an
average ratio of the Illegal Re
serve" companies of $113 to every
800 liabilities.
New business more than S2,OO0,OOO a
month.
Our Renewal Term Policies are espec-
tally adapted to these hard times. Com
pare these with the rates you are now
paying for your insurance:
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-09-27
Notice

Watches, clocks, lewelry and
type-wrlters repaired and work
guaranteed at Sig, llecht's, the
reliable jeweIer 61S Il
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-10-19
The woman Medlcal wrIter.

A London writer, with due respect
for women journalists, thinks that the
only department of a paper that should
be closed to woman writer is the med
ical-unless of course she is a medical
man. He goes on to say that the
medical columns of any London weekly,
it is easy to perceive. are conducted by
accomplished experts, but case has re-
Gently come under his notice where a
young woman who had failed as an art
critic was set to answer the medical in-
quiries of correspondents ON country
paper. Il forget to a decimal what was
the exact mortality of the district, he
continues, but the proprietor said if
she remained much longer ON the paper
he should have had no subscribers left.
One of her replies was something like
this: TO Daisy-Thanks so much for
your kind letter Yes. The mistake was
mine. 1t should have been quarter
grain of strychnine instead Of quarter
of pound for your fathers complaint.
How unluckyl Better lnck next time,
but / was so very busy. Yes. There is no
better shop for mourning than Jays. +"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-10-19
RATES or ADVERTISING.


The important fact has over and over
again been stated by those wo have in
vestigated the subject with scientific ex-
actness that only about or s per cent
of the total heat value Of coal is utilized
in an engine by heating transformed
into power. In tracing mp this loss it is
stated that there are required some
.202 degrees of heat, or heat units
not degrees of temperature-to change
one pound Of water into steam, while
during the absorption Of this amount of
heat the temperature Of the water re-
mains at 212 degrees. This immense
amount Of steam is rendered latent and
does not sensibly affect the thermometer.
Scientific authorities explain the cause
Of this loss in the steam engine as due
to the fact that the $50 degrees absorbed
by water in being transferred into steam
Pip degrees are apparent upon Their
mometer, and which, added to 900,
make up the 200 degrees above men
tioned-go into the engine unindicated
by the thermometer, leave in the same
manner and go to waste. New York
Sun.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-10-19
; burmese Girls.

In every household the daughter has
her appointed work. In all bat the rich
err merchants houses thea daughter 5
duty is to bring tie water from the well
evening and morning. Il is the gossip
ing place Of the village, this well, and
as the san sets there come running down
all the girls of the village AS they fill
their jars they lean over the curb aud
talk, and it is here that are ted the lat
est nc IS, the latest fiirtation, the latest
marriage. the little scandal Of the place.
Very few men come. Water carrying is
not their duty and there is apropert time
and place for Irritation. SO the girls
have tho well almost to themselves.
Almost every girl viii weave. In ev-
cry house there viii be loom, where
the girls weave their dresses and those
of their parents And very many girls
will have stalls in the bazaar; but OF
this will speak later Other duties
are the husling Of the rice and the max
ing of cheroots. OF course IN the richer
households there will be servants to do
all this. but even in them the daughter
will frequently weave, either for her
self or for her parents. Almost every
girl will do something, if it be only 70
pass the time. -Blackwood's Magazine.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-10-19
uNwELcoME GUESTS.


EAEAy Oh
Some years ago three young men were
camping in the Sierra Nevada noun
tains, killing deer. fishing and cooking
delectable food. One day il happened
that one of them had twisted his ankle,
and the others went hunting without
him. As he could not move about lac
was naturally somewhat bored. and aft
er reading awhile in the shade of tree
be fell asleep. Thus he tells what fol-
lowed
woke up with start and the feel
ing that something was about TO hap
pen. Something had happened. Fifteen
Indians sat in a half circle about me,
waiting for me to stir.
They had fixed upon me their 10 pairs
of black, beady eyes, and not one of
them moved a muscle. All of them had
guns, and, what was more important,
each had presumably two sound legs,
whereas was handicapped by my lame
ness.
/ looked at them, and they continued
looking at me. A lightning express of
speculation ran through my head re-
membered that the deputy sheriff of the
nearest settlement had lately shot an
Indian by accident and that the tribe
had sworn to have his scalp. Did look
like the deputy sheriff. Was it my scalp
they wanted?
Their eyes never wandered, but mine
did, for l could not help glancing at my
gun, at least 10 feet away, and at the
spot where big Indian sat composedly
on my cartridges. Finally one buck
made a remark
"Fishhookf" said he.
"No," said L mo fishhook /"
Silence again for 5 minutes. Then
another indicated by a glance piece of
venison hung up in tree and grunted
his approval of it, / nodded, and he
rose, solemnly took it down and laid it
ON the ground beside him.
A little, boyish fellow, with eyes
more restless than those of the others,
removed his gaze from me to a greasy
piece of red flannel beside me, with
which one of our men had been clean
ing his gun. | took it up and held it
out to him, and he accepted it with out
ward composure and, / have no doubt,
inward rapture Then we had another
period of silent reflection, and they
rose, stalked solemnly away to their
horses tethered in neighboring grove
and rode off. They had made me a
highly conventional social visit. -
Youth s Companion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-10-19
o eEMlNl.

A precious pair OF rascsis truly.
Up to all sorts OF pranks unruly,
Fun and frolic In every motion,
As many moods as the changeful ocean
Sunshine and tempest any day.
What has become o. the household quiet9
Gone and duoats couldn't buy It.
Where did you come from anyway
Does Leda know you have gone a-Maying-
Gone from the fields of gold a-strayines
Did the wafchful hosts II heaven say things
When you threw away your starry play thingsi
How they must miss yon ilka day
And such long, dark 3ourncy-sleepy,
And all alone. and hungry, weepy
You must have come by the milky way.
The world is brighter since yon love rs,
But the fields Of gold are dark above as,
For now. at night, when you are calling.
The glist'ning stars, like tears, are falling
Falling for their lost Gemini.
But though the weeping heavens miss you.
And Leda longs to hug and kiss you.
We cannot spare you-Clem and l.
e. A. jerks in Granite Monthly.