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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

Gov. TURNEY, of Tennessee, granted
$50 pardons during his term of two
years. That is TO say, he did more foI
his party than any other Democratic
Governor, with the exception of Alt
LII
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

a BILL has been introduced in the
Kansas Legislature to postpone the pay
ing Of all debts for year. The man
who loaned the money is expected to
look cheerful.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03
Reduced Rates 20 Warrington on Aesoun
of the Inauguration via Pennsylvania

Railroad.
For the benefit of those who desire to
attend the ceremonies incident TO the in
auguration of President elect KcKiniey,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Will sell excursion tickets to Washington
March 1. ., 3 and 4, valid to return from
March to S, at the following rates -
From Pittsburg. $1,000; Uniontown,
$1,000; Connellsville. $3.50; Greensburg,
$3.50; BGtler, $1,000: Allegheny Valley
Junction, $1,000; Johnstown, $3.50; AL
toona, $3.50; Harrisburg, s5.06, and from
all other stations on the Pennsylvania
system at reduced rates.
This Inauguration will be most inter-
esiing event, aud will undoubtedly at
tract large number Of people from every
section of the country.
The magnificent facilities of the Penn
sylvania Railroad make this line the fl-
vorite route to the national capital at all
times, and its enormous equipment and
splendid terminal advantages at Wash
ington make it especially popular on
such occasions
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

GOVERNOR CARSON, OF Nevada, has
signed a dill recently passed by the
legislature. which legalizes ''glove con-
tests in that state upon payment of q
license fee of $1,000, which thus in
sures the Fitzsimmons-COrbett prize
figll;-ror Tsyada.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

TIE crusade against hign hats in the
aters has finally struck saag. Mayor
Waggoner, Of Atchison, Kansas, has
declared the anti-high-hat ordinance of
that city unconstitutional.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

MARK TWAIN is working hard in
London to make money TO pay his
debts before he dies. \ man like him
should have passed his last days in the
most perfec; bliss.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03
To Florida via Pennsylvania Railroad

10 tlorlda via IennsylVanla Rallroao-
The midwinter exodus has begun. The
discomforts and dangers of wet winter
weather are here, but to the southwark,
from a cloudless sky, beams beautiful
sun upon a blooming land.
The next Pennsylvania Railroad tour
TO jacksonville, allowing two weeks in
Florida, will leave New York and Phila-
delphia February 9.
Excursion tickets, including railway
transportation, Pullman accommodations
tone BERTH, and meals ea route in both
directions while travelling on the special
train, will be sold at the following rates /:
New York, 5000; Philadelphia, $500 /;
Canandaigua, sd2-S5; Erie. S53.S5; Pitts
burg, $500, and at proportionate rates
from other points.
For tickets, itineraries, and other in
formation apply to ticket agents, Tourist
Agent al 1895 Broadway. New York, or to
Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent, Broad Street Station. Phila-
dalnhia
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

WHAT the country needs is revision
Of the tariff along the lines of policy
laid down in the Pepublican platform.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

LYMAN J. GAGE, of Chicago, who
will be Secretary of the Treasury un-
der Mckinley, viii leave a So, 900 posi-
ton TO take one worth Ss.Oo0.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

NEVADA is a good State from which
to stay away. Think of it, The leg
islature has actually passed bill per-
uniting nrize-fighting.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

Now let Senator Peffer give notice
that he will not enter the lecture field
after his term expires, and all will be
fnrriYen.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

ONE of the saddest features of the
cold wave is the fact that it spurs up
the ''oldest inhabitant" to renewed ac-
tivity in prevarication.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03
An Historic House Raced.

Cumberland News.
The tearing down OF an old log house
in Friends G1ysr 8eaiiffo--di .;sqonl.y p.
re's.2Sfls an interesting bit of history and
removes a very old landmark which was
famous for the fact that it was where the
first steel and edge tools are said to have
been made in Pennsylvania.
In the latter part of the last century
William McDermett emigrated from
Scotland to that section. He was a black
smith and edge toolmaker by vocation,
and operated trip hammer forge, and
manufactured axes, hatchets, augers and
the like. Mr. McDermett made his own
steel ont of charcoal iron, which he OBJ
tanned in that locality. The dam for the
forge was erected on a small stream
which flows from a large spring at the.
foot of a hill Of Cove Mountain, and is
called ''Black Spring" not from the col
or of the water, but from the first settler
whose name WAS Black, and to whom the,
land was warranted. In the log house.
which has been torn away, a daughter
was horn to Mr.. and Mrs. McDermett,
who afterward became the wife of Gov
ernor David II. Porter, and the mother
of Judge William 4. Porter, of the Su--
preme Bench of Pennsylvania, and of DR.
George W. Porter, of Harrisburg, and
Gen. Horace Porter. McDermetts en-
terprise did not succeed financially and he.
moved to Huntingdon county, where
Governor David X. Porter, then young
the handsome girl, whose name was Jo--
sephine, AMI made her his wife.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

Do NOT wait until people starve or
freeze to death, but give. Give at once.
If not money, then old clothes or food.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03
Sentenced to 100 Years.

= CHICAGO, H., Jan. 30.-Judge Ewing
has pronounced one of the most peeu liar
sentences upon Thomas Jackson, colored,
that has been heard in the Criminal
Court for several years.
He sentenced the man on five different
charges OF burglary, directing that Jas
soon as Jackson has reached the limit on
one he shall begin the service of another.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03
Tour to California via Pennsylvania Rail-
read.

The next California tour OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad Will leave New York
and Philadelphia by special train Of Pull
man palace ears February 24, visiting the
great Mammoth Cave and stopping at
New Orleans during the Mardi q ras Car
nival. Four weeks viii be allowed on
the Pacific Coast, and two days will be
spent on the return trip at Colorado
Springs and the Garden of the Gods
Stops will also be made at Salt Lake City,
Denver, and Omaha. This is one of the
most delightful and complete tours ever
planned.
Tickets, including railroad transporta-
ton, Pullman accommodations tone
double BERTH meals en- route carriage
drives, and hotel accommodations going
and return, and transportation in Cali
fornia. will be sold at rate of $3.50 from all
stations on the Pennsylvania Railroad
System east of Pittsburg.
Apply to ticket agents, Tourist Agent,
1896 Broadway, New York, or Geo. W
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadel-
ph;a
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

Why suffer from Indigestion? BurdoclS
Blood Bitters cures Dyspepsia and all
diseases of the stomach, liver and bowels.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03

-
they first come out-that's now-for
some things
New Silks,
New Wash Goods,
they're ready and being sold-sam-
pies sent if you write for thein-we
want YOU to do so-we'll esteem II a
privilege to place samples and prices
in your hands for consideration
New Wash Silks
., s5, 4Oc yard,
including beautiful Crystal Corded
Wash Silks in handsome colorings.
New Foulard and India Silks-de-
signed and produced by the most skill
full French Artists,
soc, Toe, Sl.00 a yard.
Choicest Wash Goods ever produced
are shown this season:
Irish Dimities, zoe, 25c.
American Dimities, Zoe, 12lc.
French Organdies and Organdie
Rayes, 25e, soc, 35c,
Madras Ginghams, Novelties and
Fine Shirtings-Inade in Scotland
by ID. & j. Anderson, 35c, 4Oc, 45e.
All Wool French Challis, pc, soc.
Silk Stripe Challis, soc, 60c.
New White Goods, sc to Sl.25.
Large lines of choice American
Wash Goods, &c, &c, Sc, 10c, l2lc.
Some remarkable surplus lots of all
wool Dress Goods at 25c and 500
yard
those at 2jc are 40 inches Wholesome
at the half dollar price were sl.S-
none less than 75c-see what extraor-
dinary values these are.
Any other goods you're interested in
write about.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03
E. E. B.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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The time TO get choice things IS when
they first come out-that's now-for
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-03
Receipts and Expenditures

or DIRECTORS POOR and HOUSE OF EMPLOYMENT
County, Pa for the ending December 81 A. d. 1885,
f. PUG Treasurer of the Poor House Somerset Coun-
with of
- the year ending December 81 A. d. 1896
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.

Crosse Field in Chicago Evening Post.)
1t is simply justice to Richard Hard
ing Davis to say that his letter giving
the details of the execution of Cuban
patriot was an excellent bit of de-
scriptive writing. albeit it was not
wholly devoid of these eccentric con-
structions which mar a perfect English
style.
We are not little disturbed, howev-
er, by one confession which seems very
strangely out of place in an article
which seeks to convey a strong moral
lesson. Mr.. Davis says:
Il confess to have felt a thrill of de-
lighted satisfaction when 1 saw, as the
Cuban passed me, that he held a cigar
cite between his lips"
Now, we admit that, at such time,
and under such conditions, we might
have easily overlooked the offenSe, but
we do not believe that we could feel a
thrill of delighted satisfaction at the
sight of a man smoking cigarette at
any time under any conditions. We con-
tend that this statement coming from
Mr.. Davis is not PRONUNCIATION of SEN
timent that should appear in a family
newspaper which finds it's way to the
fireside.
In the Cubans case we are told the
cigarette was the simple emblem of
non-chalance, but even non-chalance
in the presence of death has never i'm
pressed me as correctly provocative of
a thrill of delight. Mr.. Davis made SO
much of this cigarette that it fairly di-
vided the hOnors of the story with the
doomed patriot, for at last accounts it
was still burning where the Cuban had
drOpOed it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
SEEKING a REMEDY.

The bank failures which have recent
ly taken place in Chicago have led to
| the agitation of two very important
changes in the banking business of the
country Some of the leading news
papers of the city are advocating the
placing of banks under heavy bonds for
the security of the depositors and the
establishment of postal savings banks
for the security of the surplus earn
ings of the laboring classes.
Without entering into a discussion
whether or not these are the best ways
of remedying the evil, it is becoming
more and more urgent that something
should be done in the way of providing
better safeguards for the peoples
money.
Under the existing conditions, with
labor scarce and few profitable invest
ments in sight, people are more than
ordinarily inclined to hoard their saw
ings 1t is not surprising that they
should regard the banks as the safest
places for keeping their money. When
this dependence fails them ard they see
all they have swept away from them
by the rascality or mismanagement of
some bank official it is no matter for
wonder that they sometimes become
desperate and blow up the bank prop
erty, as they did recently at Holidays
burg, Pa.
The hardships caused and the bitter
ness of feeling engendered by many of
the bank failures which take place were
we'll illustrated in the meeting held at
Chicago last Sunday by the victims of
the Dime Savings bank crash. It IS
related that of the hundreds of deposit
ors who assembled to see what could
be done toward getting justice or re-
venge there was scarcely a we'll dressed
person in the crowd. They were poor
working people with calloused hands
They were ready for anything, no mat
ter how violent or disastrous to- their
own interests, so desperate were they.
Cool heads got control of the meeting
and peaceful, quiet counsel prevailed.
Who can say that it will always be so if
such things continue with the frequen-
cy of the past few months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
TIE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER
[From die New york Tribune.l

LFrom the New York Tribune
The resident of a large city who is
accustomed to- receive his paper daily
and who reads the news from all parts
of the world before he reaches his
place of business has an imperfect idea
of the average country newspaper, and
when an occasional copy reaches him
he is apt to sneer at the queer little
sheets with their personal gossip and
strange business notices. To those who
have seen the offices from which some
of these papers are issued there is moth
ing ridiculous in the little papers, and
the perseverance of their editors in
spires them with admiration and re-
spect.
One room frequently constitutes the
whole plant This contains all the
typesetting and printing paraphernalia,
a desk which the editor, who IS also
business manager, advertising solicitor,
reporter and foreman of the printing
department, divides with his assistant,
a library consisting of Bible, a copy
of Shakespeare, a red book, The Tribune
Almanac and some public documents
contributed by the congressman and
member of the legislature from the dis
trict, and ornaments in the form of
posters from the late campaigns, cattle
show and fair advertisements, and
cheap portraits of prominent politicians
usually constitute the outfit OF the one
room Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
SPENDING MONEY BADLY.

(ReV- w H. 2. Faunce, New York;
Non-productive expenditure is a sin.
A rich man might employ 100 men to
shovel snow from one side of the road
to the other, and then to shovel it back
again, but the result is zero and the la
Dor non-productive. 1t is in vain for
the rich man in such a case to say that
he has employed labor. If a Wall street
banker should resolve to sink a cask of
gold IN the waters of the Hudson he
would be furnishing employment to la
Dor, for. without aid, he could not do
IT, but the result is zero, and the pro-
cess criminal
Ii a man should spend $4,000 in flow
erS for his dinner table he would be en-
ploying labor in perhaps a dozen states
IN the union, but the result would be
something which lasts for few hours
IN a mil. ship or a mine would have
employed labor for half a century.
No more foolish excuse for luxury
was ever invented than the declaration
that IN It's pursuit one is employing la
Dor. The question at once arises, en-
ploying it for what end?. A hundred
thousand dollars is a large sum to in
vest IN that bit of canvas which we
call THE Angelus," yet that canvas
conce1Vably may have accomplished
more for the moral life of the world
than any other possible investment of
the money. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars is large sum for the mon
ument now rising on Riverside Drive,
but if it be important that Grants
memory should be vividly cherished by
the young men of the future, then this
is productive expenditure of the highest
kind.
Expenditure on self is sin, except as
1t conduces for our equipment for serv-
ice This fact brings forward the ques-
ton how much should one spend for
self and how much for others We
ought to spend on self all that we
need to fit us for serving others. A
man may spend hundreds of thousands
of dollars upon himself if thereby he is
being fitted for the service of his fell
low man. tour in Europe, a trip
around the world. mansion in Fifth
avenue, may be the best possible means
of such self development, such moral
and intellectual culture. that through
it a man can render to those around
him. To spend a dollar on self except
for self development as means of ser
vice is a sin. Luxury is a waste, and
waste is crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
BABY RAISING BY MACHINE.
rNFrs Isabella Witherspoon's Lecture al
l-'-- the Waldorf, N Y ]

MRS. Isabella Witherspoon.s Lecture al
the Waldorf, N Y ]
Woman purifies and strengthens eve
~ work in which she is engaged, When
she is herself a pure, true and good Wo-
man 1t is not in the home alone that
her influence is felt, but in every WORK
she undertakes and in every walk OF
life She has her place in the arts ana
sciences. in business and IN euucdllOndi
York and in each she exercises her pow
ey to make the world better. In the
c1,,bs and in politics she is doing great
vorLx a work which is scarcely appfe-
dated by the outsiders, the social put
TEXTILES who cannot understand her
methods or her motives.
7 was speaking some time ago 10
man about the progressive woman heF
outside interests, her clubs, etc, and ne
MT the question: w nat IS 20 peSOiiIS
IF the children? Who will take care OF
and see to their education when al the
women are at their clubs? VIII me
orovernment take charge of them rms
9%as a pleasantly, but the idea is not so
irnpractical and chimerlcal as II may
eaer7 In some degree the same is in
cIuded in all communal systems, as VII
ness our compulsory and gratultous ed
11catiOn in the public schools. Possibly
we NAV live to see the babies or the Wo-
man of today brought up in huge eleVa-
TORS with trained nurses, nundfeos Oh
rocking cradles and baby jumpers opef-
ated by a dynamo in the cellar, and par
atroric and babies food laid over the es-
+9bIiehment with faucets like gas or
Croton water. That would be one way
To dispose of the children problem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
GREATER NEW YORK.
CFrom the Philadelphia Ledger.)

(From the Philadelphia Ledger.)
Much has been written concerning
Greater New York, but few have any
| conception how great a city it will be.
Only London will exceed it in popula-
ton, wealth and business. Its area
will be 306 square miles, or 1875, $40 acres.
It will have an estimated population of
S.43000o. Its bonded debt will be $216,-
Al, 593.
Its annual tax budget will exceed $685.
goo 600. The assessed valuation of its
real estate (New York, Brooklyn and
staten ISland) will amount to $780,
100000 Its parks and park lands will
comprise 1886 acres, not counting sew
eral noted roadways, such as the Har-
lem Speedway and the Coney Island
boulevard, which are under park con-
1t will contain 81 monuments and
statues, including Grants tomb to be
dedicated next April. 1t will have IS
cemeteries, comprising 5000 acres and
| containing a silent population of 4,OO0,-
OO0- Its public schools will contain 1885,
900 pupils and 1882 teachers. Its police
force will aggregate $500 and its fire
men 2,123 New York and Brooklyn
alone have 2,l3S miles of streets and
S9I miles OF sewers The capacity of the
water works will be 500, zoe, 600 gallons
and the miles of water mains will num-
Der 1873.
Within this mammoth city there will
be 1903 churches, with 720, III parishion-
ers and 800, 900 Sunday school scholars
The sitting capacity of the churches is
469,l59 The aggregate value of the
church property is $685. 71s 900. There will
be 6S libraries containing 1924 900 vol
uneS, 80 art galleries, 81 theaters with
a seating capacity of S8, 90, II halls for
music and oratory, with a seating ca
pacity of 3S, 900; 81 clubs of established
social standing, having IS 900 members:
two big universities and 90 other edu-
cational institutions.
There will be 10 hotels within the
city, not to mention several thousand
Raines law hotels" The city will
have seven bridges across the Harlem
and one across the East river Another
East river bridge has been started and
one across the North river is projected
Ihere are 80 different ferries. The As
INES OF street railway carry 1872, 900, 900
passengers every year over 464 miles of
track.
There will be upwards of 90 exchan-
seS ana other commercial Organiza tions
Ihere are 21S banks and banking insti-
tutlons in New York and Brooklyn
alone. and the clearings of the clearing
house aggregate SIS 0Oo, OO0. 900 a wear
The big city will transact considerably
more than one half the foreign COM
merce of the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
IDEAL MUSICAL GLUE.
(Fron the Hnme Marazinel

Vt IOtl the nome magazine
Our programme begins with two es-
says read and written by members APP
pointed at the preceding meeting. The
first is a five minute sketch of the life
of the composer of the day; the second,
the historical essay, details the mem
ora bic historical events which took
place during his life time. For instance
Beethoven lived from 1770 to 1927; but
we never think of him as being alive at
the time the Boston tea party took
place, and that the first steamship
crossed the ocean and the Monroe doc
trine was declared during his life time.
After the reading of the Essays each
member In turn reads her clipping or
anecdote of the composer or something
about the piece of music that she is
about to render And then goes to the
piano and says distinctly:
Ladies, the name of my selection isl
(whatever she has chosen.)
In that way we all know precisely
what she is performing, and that in it
self is a comfort, for the interest of the
listener is not apt to become faded if
she is able to give the piece local hab-
itation- After the programme for the
day is over, the president asks if any
member has more items of interest to
journment is made promptly, for after
all the great charm of a club meeting
is, like Sam Weller's letter writing, to
wish there was more"
We have passed so many delightful
and profitable afternoons in our little
Study club, that we wish that many
other musically inclined women might
seemed too explicit in describing the
club machinery, it is only that 1 wish
to blaze the way very carefully for you
who may come after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-06
DAILY FAKE FROM PARIS.
IFrom the Chicago Chronicle I

IFrom the Chicago Chronicle
Frivolous Paris comes to the front
with a society novelty so original as to
become a rage almost Immediately.
Pleasure seekers even with the most
jaded appetites are forced to acknowl-
EIDE that in the "5 o'clock phosphores-
cent tea" they have found something
new under the sun, even though il
might fairly be called a combination of
the stock in trade of spiritualistic fakirs
with the schoolgirl tricks of a juvenile
party. Five o'clock in France just now
is the twilight hour, when curtains are
usually drawn and lamps are lit. In
stead of lamps, the guests, the furni-
ture and the cups and dances furnish
the light at the phosphorescent teas.
On walls, ceilings, divans, chairs, car
pets and costumes there is spread a
phOsphorescent substance that absorbs
light during the day and at night
causes the room to glow with a weird
unholy light.
The effect is said to- be so unearthly
that every one moves about the room
with a cautious, tinid step, and the
converse ton is involutarily carried on
in subdued tones, as though a funeral
were the subject under discussion.
CHASTITY and ghostly seem the guests,
weird and woebegone the faces of the
servants who hand around the cleaning
teacups, while the hostess in her phos-
phoreScent costume looks like an I'M
holy wanderer from the spirit world.