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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-01-29
Small Matters Of Courtesy

From Hgrpcrs Bazaar.
When one i asked % small dance
or other entertainment az private
house, he should answer in time toa!-
low his hostess % tiii his pace if lie i
unable 10 %. IL Is not mere matter
of form, as 81 many men seem to think,
bat il j. a matter of the utmost import
ance. Affairs OF the kind are not got
ten up haphazari, bat are carefully
thought out. The hostess knows Just
the people and just the number she
wants, and if those whom she asks do
not resbond, her plans are all upset and
the affair does not % smoothly.
Then, as 70 making dinner calls or
party calls. Il i a custom more hon
ored in the breach than in the obseT-
vance, fear, bat there may 5e more
excise in this ease. such calls are apt
To be stiff and stupid simply from their
formality. Many men absolutely re-
fuse t. make them, bat it is not good
form, and out of respect To- their host
esS,-s they should do .J.
There = one other little formali;v
that il j. surprising men whoare sup
posed to be well bred often fail to OBJ
serve. 1t i the writing of 80 called
Observation-Disclosures" letters. When one
has spent a day or two at a country
house, or has been making visit any
where with friends, ordinary courtesy
demands that on his return home he
shall write note 20 his entertainers.
telling them of his arrival, and thank
them for the pleasure his visit has given
him. 10 wnu!d seem a most natural
thing To do, vet some men constantly
neglect "a. This J. u thing that j. i'm
peTative, and no man can afford not 10
do il. one may perhaps Ia par'ionel
for emitting now and then 10 make din
ner calls, but there l. no eXcnse for his
Omiting his breadaut- -putter letter.
Attention t. such little matters -
these marks the difference bet1een the
thoroughbred and the man Who gOes
heedlessly along on his unconventional
way, treadinS on other peOle's toes,
and happy - long a. his comfort is un-
disturbed.
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in the habit Of getting 'halfseas over, "
or more than that, pretty frequently,
and on one occasion, after he had been
to Somerfield, having time with the
'boys," he started up the hill with his
load, which was something near the
limit Of his capacity. As he afterwards
told il, he said he had things all his
own way, until he came to the bend in
Of the road east of SJmerfield, when
the first thing he knew a man
was walking along with him. Sam,
being in "A good humor, addressed some
remarks Of an original character 10 his
companion about the weather, and the
kind Of night. The other party made
no reply, ~ sam said, and after much
effort on his part To- got up e converse
tion, with no success, lac became as
silent and tacitun a. his companion.
Aftera while they cSInc to sam board
ing house, AMI Sam said he must stop
said: "Come with me-" - sam went
with him until they came 10 the lane
leading up TO New Bury Church, when
he said 20 sam: "COme up here"
sam, who was afraid of nothing, went
along, and when he got to the church
the man went through the window,
which was not open. sam tried to get
into the church, by the way Of the
door and window, and finding he could
not, called his companion 90 come ont,
and then fired stones through the win
dows, after which he went home, and
told about his adventure. The stones
Laid around in the house next morning,
proof, at least, that sam had been there
even if his ghOstly friend had not. One
Of the men employed hy sam in the
stone quarry, got up one morning and
said he dreamed the night before
that he lost his shoes. Some Of his
feliow-wOFkmen told him that was bad
lIck, and that day the man was killed
by blast in the quarry. The writer
has dreamed Of losing his shoes a hua-
dred times. The writer attended his
first term of school in this Old church,
which, in the mean time had been utii-
lied for that purpose, other churches
having been built. lie sat on the regu-
lation slab bench, with feet nearly
yard from the floor. the fist day, and
in the balmy October afternoon, fell
asleep and tumbled or on the floor, 10
his own and the teachers and other
scholars modification; possibly more
Of delectation from the scholars.
Things, have changed since then,
school-house~ are comfortable and col
venient, bHilt with some reference 70
sanitary regulations, up-to date desks
and benches, school appliances, books
and material. 10 j. doubtful, though,
whether scholars enjoy themselves as
We did in the long ago. VI.
Addison, Pa.
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WINDING THE BABY.

Youse betcher life dis amt no cinch 4 hustle
here all day
An do a. work an tend d kid an have no time
TO play;
While all a. uddcr kids i oat a-piayin roun
d block
And dough me work is finisht, yet has To- sit
an rock.
Says ma: Snow rock a. cradle, Kitty Ann,
An hook out fer a. baby, Kitty Ann;
Fer hes your little brudder,
An youse hasn't got no udder;
BE sure T. mind d. baby, Kitty Ann"
Deyer playin ring-a-rounder an at hop-scotch
l kin tell,
l wonder 4 took a sneak would he wake up
an yell.
Checwiz. fze been a-hustlin here since almost
eight O'Clock,
An now it's one, but still s'pose I'll hs.f T. sit
an rock.
l wish dere wasn't any kids. Dey Amt no use
atall,
Except L bodder folk and keep dem in all day
AN hawl;
Aw nav, dat's all bluff. Fer he's dc bes' kid
in d. block.
An dough its radder tough ON me, I'll ches' sit
siiil an rock.
An SO ches' rock a cradle. Kitty Ann,
And look out fer d baby, Kitty Ann,
Fer he's yer little brudder,
An youse hasn't got no udder,
so ches' youse mind a. baby, Kitty Ann.
John III. Le,ris ia NcIc York Sun.
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4 Household Treasure.

ID. W. Fuller, Of Canajohar,e, y. Y.
says that he always keeps DIR. King :
New Discovery in the house and his
family has always toGnd ;he very best
results follow its Use; that he would not
be without 1t, if procurable. G.. y
Dykeman D-uggisi, CatskiIl, Ny,
says that DIR. Kings New Discovery *
undoubtedly the bes; Cough remedy:
that he has used it la his family for
eight years, and it has never failed to
do all that i claimed for il. Why not
try remedy so long tried and tested
Trial bottles free at J. y. Snyder'S
drug store, Somerset, Pa, or at Bral-
lier's drug store, Berlin, Pa. Regular
Siza soc. and 81 90.
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Poor Fellow

Buzzing iu ny right ear.
Tur0bb.ug :n my hctd,
Arhag in my ~to--lcI,
Sending He o. bed
DiZzy So can't ~ee-
shooting pains iu bIrEt
Bless m., wh5t i- worse than
= -billous attack
There i certainly nothing much
more disasrceable, bat Or. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will soon
make you all 20. X" This Is the
greatest blood-purifier known. Nearly
everyone becomes more or less bilious
at times. At such times, 10y taking
as thousands do a few doses of the
Golden Medical Discovery, they are
often saved weeks Of actual sickness
The Discovery Is the only liver
invigorator and blood-puriier 80 posi-
lively certain in it, curative action,
that, once used, il Is always in favor.
By al dealer, in medicines.
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"And Betty had it analyzed,u Mana

"And Betty had it analyzed," Mana
interjected.
ats old tea," explained; "maybe
ss old as the teapot, and have great
mind to try it,"
"How delightfulr' said Van II. Cobb,
who would have liked 10 bathe in u
six-hundred-ye -year-old infusion.
al am afraid it won't have much
TASTE" Mrs. Vaughan suggested, but TO
the surprise of all, when, by common
consent, measured half dozen cups
worth into the teapot and poured in
the boiling water, a delightful aroma
filled the room.
''Just look at the Shining Onep' cried
Nan from the couch where Van II. was
packing her away in pillows.
a cloud of fragrant steam was is
suing from the dragons jaws, and the
effect was decidedly odd.
al will drink the first cup" / de
clared, "after the fashion of the an
clients when the hostess had to prove
the harmless nature of the food on her
own person."
/ am a great lover Of tea and like it
concentrated. The cup | poured out
for myself suited me TO perfection. 1t
WAS pale and had a greenish tint like
the tea of Ceylon; the taste was pecu-
liar, but it pleased me immensely.
"How do you like it?'' / asked, rs we
all slipped our cups together.
ATS too strong, Betty Nan OBJ
jected. "My cup is quite different
color from yours. Put in some more
water"
lifted the lid by the loop in the
dragons tail, and | noticed at the
time that the jaws of the animal were
well adapted for holding the lid, which
was dripping with condensed steam,
and would better be laid down upon
my drawn-work table cover.
"Isn't that convenient" | remarked,
fixing the dragons tail in his mouth
while | poured some more water over
the samovar.
Nan said something, but ! did not
hear it, for there was curious rumb-
ling noise in the room, followed by an
explosion which sounded like the dis
charge of a dynamite cartridge. At
the same moment the contents of the
teapot spurted clear up TO the ceiling,
and the mandarin teapot was blown
into a thousand pieces. The cloud Of
steam that filed the room, the severe
pain Of my burnt hands and the bleed
ing of cut over my eyes, together with
the shock Of the explosion, rendered
me speechless for a moment. The
catastrophe was followed by terror
stricken silence, during which | gazed
in bewilderment at Nan, then at Mrs.
Vaughan, and then at Van Rensselaer,
Cobb. None of them spoke, but yet
there was sound of voices in the
room-the voices of men talking in an
excited yet friendly fashion.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-01-29
Dry Goods, Carpets Curtains,
Dress Goods, Etc.,
AT
Fifty Gents on the Dollar.
AMI
MllilGFI, Fancy Goods, JeVslry,
Trimmings, ETC., at
twenty-five Gents on the Dollar,

Not everything in orr stock ut soc and
25c on the dollar, bat wha- isn't-even
the newest and staple everyday goods
are marked 80 low You can come hun
drcds of miles to buy and still save
money.
We haven't room for rdetails-mention
just a few to give you an idea the val
ues Offered. Thousands of others as
good, and many of them better.
Velour capes trimmed with black Thi-
bet fur and lined with silk, at So IS,
SO SO. $1,000, and $1,000; fully one
third below regular price.
Fine Electric Seal Capcs, 80 inches
long, full sweep and satin lined re-
dueed from $3.50 to se.4s.
Ladies' all-wool BoGcIe Cloth Jack
cts, shield front, mandolin sleeves and
velvet collar; worth si0G) for $500.
Atwood black or blue serge skirts,
lined with perclline and bound with
velvetcen; measures full five yards all
finished seams worth $3.50 for 81.
All-wool black Henrietias, excellent
quality reduced from 39c to Csc.
AIl-wool Serge, all coIors; Is inches
wide worth soc reduced to DC.
All-wool two-ply Carpets, best made,
50e.
Colored Cashmeres, 40 inches wide,
reduced from 25e to 15c.
All our trimmed hats that sold at 81
and IS reduced to Sl00.
Children's and Misses untrimmed
hats that sold at 25c and Soc for Sc.
Real Scotch Lace Curtains. "A TO so
inches wide, 5 yards long, worth
$3.50, reduced 20 SI25.
Irish Point Curtains, the regular $50
kind for SO; and the only reason you
get them at this price Is that we have a
surplus stock.
Mems SO suits for -. 80.
Mems SD suits for S9.69.
Mems SI0.50 overcoats for s..
Mems $3.50 ovcrcoats for s10.
Boys 3 suits for Il .9S- Just the kind
YOU want for school wear.
Boys Il suits for $3.50: nice suit for
either dress or everyday wear.
Special values in Linen, Flannels,
Calicoes and MuslIns.
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Intended to Catch Your Eye.

Don't skip this paragraph because it
is small. II is worth reading for il tells
about The Pineola Balsam, a certain
remedy for coughs, tickling in the
throat and the stopped up feeling in
the upper part of the chest. y simple
cough may turn into something seri-
Gus if let alone. IL ceases to vex
you and to keep you awake
o'nights when you have allayed
the Inflammation in your throat with
Ely's Pineola Balsam. The druggists
sell it for twon.y-five cents,
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looked around and beheld dozen
or more strange-looking figures, clad in
robes of blue and white, and wearing
about their necks amulets almost a
large as breastplateS curiously formed
Of golden scales. The faces of these
strangers were of the Japanese type,
and yet they did not exhibit the same
degree of refinement and intelligence
seen in the modern representative Of
the Aino race. One of the party step
ped towards me with smiling face. |
observed that he WAS an old man and
that he held one hand to his side,
where his clothing was stained with
blood.
Madame he said politely, but
with curious accent, ''in behalf of my
comrades and myself desire TO thank
you for having liberated us from the
cruel bondage we have suffered for so
long time-a bondage which |, the'
once famous Observation-Disclosures, who
beheaded the ENJOYS of Kublai Khan,
have shared with my noble taikos for
over five hundred years"
During this introductory speech ''the
noble taikos" alluded To sank upon one
knee and each touched his forehead To
the floor, laying his left hand over his
heart and his right hand over the
back of his head, to express, as | after
wards learned, the gratitude of both
heart and mind.
| glanced at Nan and the others.
They impressed me as persons who
heard and saw yet who were suddenly
bereft of speech.
"The spell of silence isupon youLall," ="
said Hojo-no-Toki-Numie. "You have
drunk of the Yulsal. But fear not, it
will pass. Long ago, in Japan, we
mixed it with the old wives tea when
they talked too much"
lie smiled with gentle dignity as he
spoke. The eyes of the noble ta:kos
twinkled, but they did not dare TO
smile in the presence of their divine
ruler. l opened my lips, hut no sonnd
came. 1t was most astounding.
"They partook of weaker draught, "
continued the ancient regent, waving
his hand towards Van II. Cobb, who
was staring rudely. ain them oblivion
will follow, but to you memory re-
mains. Lady, allow me. | will tell
YOU NV story"
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WHOLE NO. 1922.

secret pOisOns," Mrs. Vaughan inter
posed. 'There are great many fe-
male infants who die in China and
nobody ever finds out what killed
them"
"Nan," ! said suddenly, "what be-
came of the teapot ,"
at Is i'm the ash barrel in thousand
pieces" she replied cheerfully.
at was not mandarin teapot, was
it%' | observed. SIT was not teapot
at all, and they were taikos Of Japan
and not mandarins. But Mrs. Waugh
an was right about the potter and
when the circle ended"
Betty, dear" said Nan, ''you are
not to talk. You have been very i'll
and the Doctors afraid Of your heart.
That wretched tea stuff was some kind
Of poison, and you have come pretty
near to dying"
Little by little heard the story of
how had risen to pour water in the
teapot and had tOppled over insensible,
knocking down the pedestal and shat
tering the gem Of Mrs BIS collection.
Nan insisted that there never occurred
any such an absurd fantastical scene "a
| described that it was all delirious
fancy-but then you know HojOnO-
Tokimune said they would all forget
it-all save myself.
| did not get better soon. DIR Stew
art said my heart had suffered greatly
from the poison and it was two months
before | was allowed to sit up. In the
meantime, Dick came home. Dr.
Stewart had written him ali about my
illness, and he said he could not stay
in FoOchow a day longer.
lie looked very pale and anxious, poor
fellow for he had many things to wor-
ry him.
"Betty, dear" he said to me one
morning, al am afraid I am in
trouble-financially."
"What is il, DicLey?' / inquired.
'Are you short on tea ~
short" he groaned. "There are
twenty thousand eases due New York
on the 18th consigned to me-"
That's an awful 10; of tea, Oh
served.
at is all that confOUnded Allan's
fault - Dick exclaimed. 81 told him
To order two thousand and he wrote for
twenty. 1t will take every dollar
have in the world to hold it, Betty,
and if the price should drop"
at won't dropw / said emphatical-
ly. at will rise, Dick. | know it
will"
eff could only unload about ten
thousand CASES he remarked.
Don't do il! / cried excitedly.
''Please DON'T There is going to be a
war, and you'll make your fortune,
Dick
He looked at me anxiolsly.
"Well, don't worry yourself, little
woman," he said patting my cheek in
an indulgent way.
He thought did not know anything
about it, but il was not two days later
that we heard the news of the rising in
COrea and the initial difficulties of the
great war which cost China the Lao
tung Peninsula. Within a week the
tea market felt the influence, and by
the time Dicks consignment arrived
prices had advanced 50 far that he
cleared on hisspeculation two hundred
thousand dollars. What HojO-ne-
Tokimune and his taikos had to do
with this must always be, of course, a
matter Of conjecture. - Phiidic,phid
Times.
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How to Press Seams

An ingenious woman has discovered
a new and satisfactory Nay Of press-
ing SeanLs.
\ rOlling-pin IS at the bottom of it
She has taken a ToliiHS-pia aud split is
in half, eOveFiGg il a. one would an
Ironing boaE,L Ii presses the seams to-
perfection, as il supplies n ourving,
smooth surface, and yet one which re-
mains firm beneath the weight OF the
iron.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-01-29

Ground that was SUBSIDIZED the past
fall has caught and will store large.
amount OF water that has recently
fallen.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-01-29

Even eatarrh, thar dread breeder OF
consumption, succumbs 10 the healing
influences OF Thomas Eclectric Oil.
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PIrrsaURd KELLEY INSTITUTE.

No. 42.5 fifth Avenna,
restores 70 them ell their powers, mental and
physical, destroys the abnormal appetite, and
fs-tores them TO the condition they were in be-
fore they INDUCED in stimulants. This has been
donein more than 100 cases treated here, and
o amOng them some Of your own neighbors, TO
whom we can refer with confidence as 10 the
absolute safety and efficiency of the Kelley Cure.
The fullest and most searching investigation ID
n yited. send for pamphlet giving fun iniorma-
ton. q
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''The potter, Tish-yen, was also a
magician, and under his evil spell we
have lang uished for over five hundred
years"
The taikos sighed deeply. 1t was
like the rustling of rushes when the
tide flows high.
at is the law of magic" resumed
Hojo, "that every spell has counter
charm, and Tisn-yen decreed that not
until that circle was complete-that Is
not until the dragon shoIld take his
tail in his mouth, like the serpent OF
Egypt-should and my companions
be free. You madame, when you placed
the lid of the vase in the mouth of the
dragon, fulfilled the law, and our bon
dage was ended. We rose then in our
might and slew the monsters. Behold
upon our breasts the tokens Of his
DOWNFALL
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my noble companions. To die was
not permitted us, but we were given
over to the Dragon, to remain forever
in bondage"
A smothered groan from the taikos
suggested what a horror their long inn
prisonment had been.
Madame" continued Hojo in a
voice that trembled with emotion, ''the
vessel in which we have been confined
was not intended for the use to which
you have put it. 1t is a sacred vase in
which the blood of victims was kept
warm for the altar of the dragon god"
l shivered and sense of faintness
crept over me when | thought of the
tea we had drawn in this terrible YES
sci. / did not dare look at Mr.. Cobb.
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The Van Buren press., 1896-08-01

1.-The Republican platform declares
that the biz tallic system should be
restored, but asserts that we, as a
people, are helpless to secure bimetallism
for ourselves until foreign nations come
TO our assistance. We cannot afford TO
surrender our rights to legislate for our
people upon every question; and so
long as the right is disputed, no other
question estn approach i'm POI tan ees.
| appreciate the desire manifested at st.
Louis to consolidate all the free silver
forces and regret that they did not
nominate Mr.. Sewall also. He stands
squarely upon the Chicago platform and
has done much for the cause. The
Populist platform is on many questions
substantially identical with the Chicago
platform. 1t goes beyond the Chicago
platform, however, and indorses some
policies which do not approve of. All
that / can say now is that my action
will depend upon the conditions
attached to the nomination. | shall do
nothing which will en6anger the success
of bimetallism nor shall / do anything
unfair to Mr.. Sewall. =
Assuming that the acceptance of the
nomination by you would be unfair to
Mr.. Sewall - was asked Mr.. Bryan,
"how could conditions shape them
selves to permit you to accept2''
The question was adroitly evaded by
the jocular remark that if all things
now perplexing were made plain it
would be an infringement upon the
field of journalistic conjecture.
The complications that seem
imminent because of the seeming
necessity of putting up two sets of
Bryan electors in case he remained the
candidate of the Populist party, Mr..
Bryan replied, was one of the
difficulties which time must be trusted
to remove.
Mr. Bryan was seemingly as cheerful
over the situation as he was when he
received information of his first
nomination at Chicago.
The Van Buren press., 1896-08-01
Mr.. Bryan Defines His Position.

LINCOLN. Neb. July 25.-The Hon
W. J. Bryan tonight made the follow
ING statement:
when the Populists decided to
nominate the Vice President first.
Senator Jones, chairman of the
National Democratic Committee. wired
me as follows: 'Populists nominate
Vice President first. If not Sewall
what shall / dor l favor your
declination in that case.
Il wired Immediately as follows: I
entirely agree with you. Withdraw
my name ii Sewall is not nominated.
These dispatches were published in
this morning : papers and the conyen-
ton understood my position. In spite
OF this they have seen fit 70 nominate
me. Whether | shall accept the
nomination or not will depend entirely
upon what conditions are attached to IT.
Nv first desire q to aid in securing the
immediate restoration by the United
States Of the free and unlimited coinage
of gold and silver at the present legal
ratio Of sixteen to one, without waiting
for the aid OF consent of any other
nation.