The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Net After Many Years.

There was a remarkable scene at a
Northumberland avenue hotel on
Thursday. 1t seems that party of
newly-arrived Americans, most of
them strangers TO each other, We're
sitting at luncheon and one of them
was with an English friend, who had
called to see him.
The conversation between the two
naturally drifted back to the war time,
and the American, who had been a
Federal, describad some of his advent
ures, and how at one place the oppos-
ing soldiers used to work so near each
other in the trenches that they were
able To engage in conversation, and
surreptitiously exchanged tobacco and
tea-the Northerners having plenty of
the later and none of the former,
while the Southerners were in exactly
the opposite condition. But, he con-
tinued, the most curious 'swop' he
ever made was a small packet of quin-
inc for a pound of tobacco, TO which
the Confederate added a curiously
carved wooden pipe. That pipe he
had kept ever since, because he regard
ed it and the tobacco as having saved
his life; for somehow or other his SUI
perior officer had come to know that
he possessed a quantity of the tweed" "
and ordered him to report himself con-
cerning it. Before he could regain his
post skirmish occurred, and the man
who was in his place was killed.
At this point tall, sunburned
American with white hair and beard,
who had been listening to the other
with considerable emotion, interrupted
with, Excuse me, though ] am a
stranger to you, bnt didn't that South
erner tell you that the quinine was for
his little daughter, who was down
with fever?n
Yes" said the other, sand didn't
the Northerner say that his little girl
was i'll of fever, too, but he would share
her medicine with the other little one,
even without the tobacco"
"Why, yes" cried the original mar
rator, ~ believe he did, and that
was me-"
"And was the Southerner," cried
the other, "and here is my daughter,
whose life you helped to save, here's,
one of my grandchildren with her."
The Englishman who was present
says that there was then such scene
of Misunderstanding, introductions, and
congratulations as must have made
people at the other tables think the
company must have been visitors from
Bedlam. The Northerner had also a
daughter with him, who is a widow
and the embrace of the two women
who had never seen each other before,
but whose early lives had so closely
touched, was peculiarly affecting.
"And to think we should meet each
other so far from home, and in Eng
land, too,n exclaimed one.
s'God bless England for it, say l."
replied the other.-London Telegraph.
In recent letter to the manufacture
ers Mr.. w. +. Benjamin, editor of the
Spectator, Rushford, y. V, says: at
may be pleasure to know the high
esteem in which Chamberlain's medi-
cines are held by the people of your
own State, where they must be best
known. An aunt of mine, who resides
at Dexter, Iowa, was about to visit me
few years since, and before leaving
home wrote me, asking me if they
were sold here, stating if they were not
she would bring a quantity with her,
as she did not like TO be without
them.n The medicines referred to are
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, famous
for its cures of colds and Group; Cham
berlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism,
lame back, pains in the side and chest,
and Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel com
plants. These medicines have been
in constant use in Iowa for almost a
quarter of a century. The people have
learned that they are articles of great
worth and merit, and unequaled by
any other. They are for sale here by
Benford's Pharmacy.