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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

When person begins TO grow thin
there is something wrong. The waste is
greater than the supply and it is only a
question of time when the end must
come.
In nine cases out of ten the trouble is
with the digestive organs. If you can re-
store them TO healthy condition you
will stop the waste, put on new flesh and
cause TO feel better in every way. The
food they eat will be digested and appro-
priated to the needs of the system, and a
normal appetite will appear
Consumption frequently follows a
wasting of bodily tissue because nearly
all consumptives have Indigestion. The
Shaker Digestive Cordial will restore the
stomach TO healthy condition in a vast
majority of cases. Get one of their books
from your druggist and learn about this
new and valuable remedy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

EX-PosTMAsTER GENERAL JOHN
WANAMAKER has finally come TO the
conclusion not to become a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
State Treasurer this year and makes
public his decision in a letter to the
Executive Committee of the Business
Mems League. The unmistakable
signs of the early dissolution of the
Philadelphia end of the Combine and
the certainty that the friends of Sena-
tor Quay will easily control the next
State Convention, doubtless assisted
brother Wanamaker in arriving at the
wise conclusion that this would not be
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
ITO One Prayer S."

TOPEKA, Kan, April 9.-An amusing
fight is being made against Rev. w. q.
Todd, Populist preacher, who is q can
didate for superintendent of the blind
asylum. Rev. Mr.. Todd prayed for di-
vine guidance when GOV. Leedy was in
augurated. His enemies now charge that
he put in bill reading: ''To one prayer,
$500" TO the local Inauguration commit
tee.
Todd made record in the legislative
war of 1893 He was chaplain of the Pop
ulist house, which met in the same room
with the Republican house. The speak
ers occupied the same stand, and the
chaplains prayed for victory for their re-
spective organizations at the same time.
Todd prayed the longest and the loudest.
Now that the ''reformers' are again in
the saddle, due largely TO his missionary
work, he demands his reward.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

Under an act passed by the last Con-
gress a person defacing a gold or silver
coin of the United States is liable to a
fine Of 5000 and five years in prison
This stops tie bangle fad along with
other forms of coin DETACHMENT.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

Since 1857 Uncle Sam has built
twelve war-ships, and each has been
faster than the contract required. The
swiftest of all is the Minneapolis
which called for twenty-one knots and
made over twenty-three on her trial
..s.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

ONE hundred thousand dollars a day
is a neat sum TO add to the earnings of
the working people of one state in six
months time. The labor bureau of
Pennsylvania reports one hundred
thousand more men employed in this
state to-day than were so employed
prior TO the election of Mckinley.
This means one hundred thousand dol
lars day increased earnings by them,
TO say nothing of the increased wages
paid TO those who were employed, or
working on short time.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
Left Her Husband One Cent

NILKEsBARRE, April l0.-A curious
VIII hled yesterday bore the signature o
MIS- Anna Miller. Among the provisions
was one bequeathing, 10 her husband,
John Miller, one cent, to be paid him five
years after her death. The rest of the
estate, e,ineluding her life insurance policy,
was left 10 Mary Morrell, who Mrs.
Miller said, was very Kind to her in her
illness.
Mrs Miller held that her husband
lived for himself and did not help her in
any way to accumulate property.
Therefore he was not entitled to partici-
pate in the distribution. The husband
will not contest.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

ALTOONA, Pa, April ST shall liv,
until Mckinley comes into Office" saic
aged Benjamin f. Burley, an ardent Re
aubiican of this city, several months ago
and then | expect to die on April 8
lssa." Mr.. Burley was i'll when he Mt.
tered this prediction and he died to-day
as he said he would.
.Uncie Ben" as he was famfiiarl +,
known, forged the frames of the first en-.
gine which ran over the Pennsylvania
lines to Pittsburg. He was employed as
blacksmith by the Pennsylvania rail.
road for more than forty years.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

THE Venezuelan congress has rati-
fed and President Crespo has signed
the boundary treaty negotiated by the
United States and Great Britain, and
this ends the incident which once bore
a striking resemblance to a war cloud.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

ONE of the quickest passages of a law
on record was that appropriating $780,
600 for the relief for Mississippi flood
sufferers. The President sent his
message TO Congress urging such law
at II, nom. BY O'Clock the law had
been passed and the secretary of war
was selecting army officers to go to the
overfiowed region and distribute the
ralsaF
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

No great tower will be provided at
the Tennessee Exposition, but lovers of
the adventurous will get all the excite
ment they desire out of giant see-saw
with beam 80 feet long, pivoted %
feet above the ground. The car at each
end will hold twenty-five people.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

HARRIsBURG, Pa, April s.-Judge Me
Pherson handed down an opinion to-day
directing judgment of custer to be enter
ed against the Peoples Mutual Life and
Relief Association of York.
The company makes contracts to insure
adults and children, and the question be-
fore the Court was whether its insurance
of Minors is legal.
The Judge orders the company not to
issue policies of insurance on infants or
persons below q years, and directs it to
pay the costs. The suit was brought 10y
the Attorney General.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

THE delusion that the Mississippi
river can ever be banked up till ii he
comes overflow proof is shattered 10y
the present flood, which is two and a
half feet higher than any previous one
known. This, too, after an almost
century of levee building. The Father
of Waters will have his way.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

IT looks now as if the United States
Senate will not be organized by the Re
publicans. Addicks in Delaware and
Bradley in Kentucky, are the dogs in
the manger, and they both professed
to be Republicans, yet prevented the
election of Republican United States
Senators. They are the rankest kind
af Assistant Democrats.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
MISERY OF FLOOD VICTIMS.
Six Thousand Square Miles of Devastating
Waters.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April S.-SiX thou
sand square miles of land are under water
in the flooded district.
People who have sought refuge in the
towns on higher land are starving for
food. Many of these towns are cut off
from access except by boat, and the chief
steamers have been unable TO carry pro
visions sufficient for all the sufferers.
The relief work necessitates light draft
boats and the bigger crafts are unable to
reach far inland. All crops have been
swept away and live stock drowned IN
til, in some place, the famine almost
equals that in India.
Every effort is being made to alleviate
the sufferings of the people, and the en-
couragement given to the relief commit
tees of the different States by the Govern
ment IS having its effect
Every day different bands of refugees
are being discovered and taken to places
of safety. Several more losses of life are
reported. In some instances, people are
living in trees and in other instances,
many families are gathered together liv-
ing in common.
The many crevasses are taking the
water off the Mississippi and preventing
rise in the river. The breaks along the
banks are of great magnitude aud extend
from below here to above New Orleans,
La.
Two hundred people have been brought
into Grecnville, Miss, from Stoneyille,
Miss. They were all negroes and had
fed empty handed from their plantation
homes three nights ago to the railroad
embankment of the Valley Road. They
had been more than forty eight hours
without food, the water gradually mar
rowing the space on which they stood.
Two men passing across the country in a
skin saw them and fastened TO inform
the authorities here. 1t was a most pitt
liable sight. The children had grown too
weak TO moan and big men and able bod
led women were crying like babies.
Many of the children will probably die
from the exposure. When food was Civ
en- to the rescued ones they devoured il
| with the voracity of wolves.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
Silks.

The choicest wash silks we ever offered
at such prices:-
New Crystal Cord Silks, 35c.
Genuine Habutai Wash Silks, 35c-besi
wash silks made.
kaiki Silks, 2jc-in handsome stripes
and checks.
New Foulard and India Silks,
y, 35, 50, Toe, 81. 90
800 different pieces-designs and color
ings that show an artists touch-splend-
I'D for full gowns and waists.
In the interest of your pock etbook have
US send you samples of these; then you
can measure accurately, the length and
breadth of the advantages we offer, and
decide whether you'll save most morey
by buying here. We want to show you
by the most thorough test possible, how
determined we are to get your orders on
MERIr-and we think they have merit
enough more than usual TO win US the
preference.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report
there were 500 fewer business failures
during the first three months Of thl'
wear than during the same period OF
Last wear
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

TEN OF sixteen southern states con-
tributed votes in the support of the
protective tariff bill, and Democratic
newspapers and business organizations
commended them for it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
Ihe Ideal Nntionnl Blower.

When a flower is found which can
arouse widepread and genuine patriotic
enthusiasm or has become associated
closely with some great and universally
beloved man or woman, it will become
the national emblem without the neces-
sly Of legislative action, except rs a
formal ratification Of a universal senti-
ment. Under such circumstances only
Will people relegate their personal
floral fayorites TO a second place. 1t
will not matter, when this event hap
pens, whether it is IA plant useful TO
man or a weed. 1t will become the na-
tional flower just the same. 1t was tins
continent which made the thistle the
national flower of Scotland and the
cornhower the national flower of the
German empire. and it must be simi-
lar chain Of circumstances which gives
us a national fiower.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
We Have at Last

A purely Art Store in Somerset where
YOU can get anything in the wall paper,
fancy queensware, Chinaware, or picture
frame moulding line at prices that are
lower than they can be bought in any
city. II is
SNyDER's ART STORE.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

Alaska's yield of gold this year IS es-
timated at SiO,00O,00O, which IS con-
siderably more than the big territory
cost the United States.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

THE Kansas wheat crop this year Is
expected to run up to $1,000 bushels
What does Kansas think now of Me-
Einlev times?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

McKIxLEY's first month brought a
SURPLUS. The rush among importers
eluseG it, but it is a surplus just the
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
Rnckvnnd Normal.

A normal and intermediate school will
he opened at lockwood, April 26, 1897.
For full information address,
o. o. SAYLoR.
lockwood, Pa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
Predicted Death Long Ahea6.

When the children need Castor Oil.
give them Laxoi; it is palatabIe.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
Self Denial.

Mrs. Grace-They say that men think
only of themselves, but it isn't so. I'm
sure Charles is the most unselfish Of
mOrtalS
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

Mrs. Blaze-As for example!
Mrs. Grace-why, he says he Is never
happy but when he is with me, and he
stays out evening after evening. There,
isn't that self denial for you?-Bcston
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14

Looking glasses. lan sizes in stock or to
order, caE be had at the right price at
SNYDEE's ART STORE.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
statesmen
WANTED

To sell our high grade inspected Nursery Stock
Many new specialties offered this year for the
nrsf time wel the standard varieties OF fruits
and ornamentals No previous experience ne
ce-sary. Write for terms, stating age, etc
HoOpes, Bro. & Thomas Maple Avenue Nurseries,
West Chester, Pa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-14
Cannot Insure Minors.

SNYDER's AIR STORE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
RESULT OF A FEUD.
Three Men Killed in Fight in Camden
County, Mo.-Two Partlows and
Old Man Price Dead.

LEBANON, Mo-, Feb. 3.-Three men
were killed yesterday afternoon in q
settlement of a feud over land between
the Price and Partlow families, resid-
ing on adjoining farms in the northern
part of this county.
Monday the younger members of
the families met in the edge of Cam
den county and a quarrel ensued.
Neither party was armed. The Part
low brothers gave the Price boys no
tice that on the next occasion of their
meeting they would be armed and
would insist upon settlement.
Late Tuesday afternoon three of the
Partlow brothers met William Price
and his two sons near the scene of the
meeting Monday. William Price, the
father, was unarmed, but was the first
to fall, shot through the brain by a
bullet from Winchester held in the
hands of Ben Partlow. One of the
Price boys fred both barrels of his
shotgun, loaded with buckshot, at his
fasher's =assailant, and both Ben and
Bob Partlow fell, Ben dead and Bob
mortally wounded with a charge of
buckshot in the stomach. The younger
Partiow, being unarmed, fled, leaving
the field in the possession of the
Prices. Bob PartTow died during the
night. As both families are noted fol-
their grit it is feared the end is not
vet.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11

REV. JOHN A. BROOKS DEAD.
Passed Away at His Daughters Home
in Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 3.

Last Thursday Ell. 7. Brooks, OF this
city, received notice of the death of
his brother, Rev. John A. Brooks, in
Memphis, Tenn, at 10 O'Clock Feb.
8. The death was the result OF
heart trouble of long standing.
The deceased was born in Kentucky
and was 60 years of age at the time OF
his death. About 1877 he removed to
Mexico and took the pastorate of the
Christian Church, and about 1880 he
resigned and went to Kansas City and
was pastor of the Sixth and Prospect
Christian Church during the years OF
1888 to 1892. In 1888 he was candi-
date for Vice President on the ma
tional Prohibition ticket.
In 1892 he removed to Memphis
and took charge of the Linden
Street Christian Church, which posi-
ton he resigned in 1894 to accept the
pastorage of West End Tabernacle OF
London, England. The climate not
agreeing with him, he returned to
Memphis last fall and took up his
abode with his daughter, Mrs. Ida
Davis, in Memphis.
John A. Brooks, Jr., and Mrs. Carl
Middaugh, of Kansas City, are chill
dren of his. Mrs. Thos. Gill, Mrs. B.
@. johnson and FL. T. Brooks, all OF
Mexico, are brothers and sisters OF
Mr.. Brooks. Both his father and
mother are buried in the Mexico Gem
etery.
The remains were removed from
Memphis to Kansas City and Inferred
in that city Sunday afternoon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
KISSED HER BABE AND EXPIRED
Mothers Life Goes Out as She Caresses
Her Dead Infant.

SEDALIA, Mo-, Feb. A burial
service was being conducted over
Goldie, the infant daughter of James
Letter, Missouri, Kansas & Texas
brakeman, yesterday afternoon. Mrs.
Letter was lying very low in an ad-
joining room with pneumonia, but
begged the privilege of kissing the
babe before the casket was closed.
The dead child was carried to her bed,
when she clasped it to her breast and
imprinted kiss upon its lips, then fell
back upon her pillow dead. The bur-
ial service was postponed until this
afternoon, when mother and babe
were inferred in the same grave. Mr.
Letter is also critically i'll with pneu-
monia, and Mrs. ]. o. Edwards, moth
or of Mrs. Letter, is so prostrated
over her daughters death that her re-
covery is doubtful.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
CCFFINS FOR HIS FAMILY.
A Great Bend, Kas., Carpenter Has
Made Ready .for Expected
Deaths.

GREAT BEND, Kas., January 3d.
AS soon as he had been informed that
his daughter, who had been suffering
from consumption, was certain to die
in a few weeks, William Gage, car.
penter of this place, began making a
coffin for her burial. Just after he
had completed it his wife was attack
ed with heart disease. He at once
began work on second coffin, which
he has just completed.
Both coffins are now in Cages
workship. They are of pine, with
walnut stain and varnish. Gage says
philosophically that he made them
because work was slack and that his
sick wife and daughter were not af-
fected in the least by their knowledge
of his work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
NO FLIRTING BY TRAINMEN.
Mr. Hood, of Barry, Proposes to Make
Talking to Women Mis-
demeanor.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, February A..
Hood, the Populist member of the
house Kansas City Lexow committee,
has introduced bill making it mis-
demeanor for trainmen to talk to or
intrude their attentions on women
passengers.
This morning Hood explained that
in Barry county he has a constituent
who has strict ideas of propriety. This
constituent, who is q merchant, writes
that on a recent trip on a railroad
train he saw a brakeman sit down by
a good looking girl and engage her in
conversation. The kind hearted mer-
chant thought the girl looked bored,
and out of sympathy for her he draft
ed a bill and sent it to his representa-
tive, with the request that 1t be intro
duced. Hood complied with the re-
quest.
The bill provides a fine of $50 to be
paid by the railroad company, one
half to go to the informant and the
other to go to the county in which the
offense occurred,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
Agricultural Notes.


1t will pay you to put soil for oats in
good condition before sowing.
The fertility of the soil may not only
be maintained but constantly increas-
ed by proper rotation. We suggest
that some of our readers give their
method of rotation.
1t is more than likely that good
seed corn will be scarce in many To-
calities the coming spring, as corn in
pens, as rule, has not kept well, and
many farmers will select seed from
this kind of corn.
A writer in an exchange says shred
ded corn fodders makes good feed,
good bedding and good manure. Shred
when perfectly dry and store under a
rainproof roof, in not too great bulk,
and it will keep all right.
An Indiana farmer says he has tried
corrosive sublimate for preventing
scab on potatoes with gratifying re-
suits. The sublimate is poison and
should be handled by careful persons.
1t does not injure the hands but is
deadly when it enters the stomach.
A Virginia correspondent of an ex-
change says that the best rotation fol
tobacco in that State is wheat, clover
then tobacco. He says the man who
plants tobacco on a clover sod, and
applies not less than 1000 pounds of
high grade fertilizer, is sure to make
large crop OF good tobacco.
Prof. Morrow says that one promi-
nent advantage of growing moder.
ate acreage of wheat in many parts oi
Oklahoma is that IL the fall is favor.
able for the early sowing and growth
of the crop q large quantity of valu
able pasturage can be secured at {
time when the prairie grasses are los
ing their palatability, and again in ths
spring, and this without seriously re-
ducing the yield of grain.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
Conversions.

Those received by conversion dur
ing the recent revival at the Presby-
terian church are: Edith Brown,
Maude Mckee, Matte Lou Maddox,
Lena Wright, Bertha Stevenson, Ed
die Wilson, Oscar Collins, Richard
Helm, Earl Brown, Louis Mckee, Geo
Baker, Orlando Gamble, Jas. Northern
l.. j. Myers.
By letter: Mrs. Robt. Mcconnell
Sadie Mcconnell, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos
Brown and Mr.. and Mrs. Wood Mad.
dox.
At the Promenade Street. M. E
Church by profession: Roy Morris
Richard Kidd, Daniel Campbell, Siey
Galloway, Annie Hopkins, Lillian Der,
ringer, Mrs. Ella Derringer, Clarencs
clements, Nellie Pitcher, Fred Brown
Pearl Schleppe, Thos. Issacs, Mrs
Flora Lawder and @. L. West.
By letter: e. NJ. Rowland.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
Circuit Court CullingI

Coons VS.. Beagles; judgment for
$1,073.25.
First National Bank VS.. Robinson; !;
Judgment for $372.20.
State vs. Coleman; pleaded guilty
and fined 81.
Cardwel VS.. Stewart; bill of excep-
tions filed.
Pool vs. Daniel; judgment for
$132.31.
Pool vs. Rutter; judgment for
$225.52.
Pool VS.. Dugan; judgment for
$205.s7. =.
Field vs. Woodson; judgment for
s203.
State VS.. Gene Fender; pleaded
guilty; 2 years in penitentiary.
Clark, receiver, vs.. Hughes; tried
by court; judgment for defendant.
Berry VS.. Mitchell; Judgment fol
plaintiff for possession Of land.
Hanna vs. Beshears; trial pending
before jury.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
The Next Meeting of the Missouri
horticultural Society.

In answer to the invitation from the
Mexico Business Mems Association
inviting the next meeting of the Hor-
ticultural Society to hold its meeting
in Mexico, the editor of the LEDGER,
who is Corresponding Secretary of
the Mexico Business Mems Associa-
ton, is in receipt of the following let
ter, which explains itself:
R.. NJ. White Corresponding Secretary of the
Mexico Business Men g Association.
COLUMBIA, Mo-, Feb. 3.-Your kind
and cordial invitation to our society
to hold its annual meeting at your city
has been received and filed with 9TH
er invitations. This matter will have
due consideration at the meeting OF
the Executive Committee and your
letter will be given due consideration
and you notified of the result.
i. A. GOODMAN.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-11
SOLD HIS WIFE FOB s25.
Strange Transaction in Lieu Of Di-
vorce to Dissolve Marriage.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Feb. A.
John Lane and his wife, Mary, got
tired Of marriage, so, for the sum of
$25, to be paid by J. FL. Hurst, John
sold all right and title to Mary, and
Mary relinquished all claims upon
John. This peculiar bargain counter
disposal Of a wife was made by bill
Of sale signed by both Mary and John
and Mr.. Hurst, and witnessed by 8. r.
McMasters and Thomas Jones, two
neighbors. After completing the deal
all hands celebrated the event In the
most fraternal way, and 1t 10 said that
the purchase money is now pretty
well expended.