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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-10-13

ing correspondence which the two car
ried on over the situation. The inebriate
was a sick man He needed medicine.
the drunkard be cured by moral suasion.
After awhile the home in Brooklyn
was given up, but through all these
long years Of heavy and varying labors
DR. Morris never gave up her hope Of
finding a remedy, a specific, for the
liquor habit
Strangely enough, for many Of us
look for nothing practical from a re-
former, the suggestion that led to DR..
Morris new work came from Francis
Murphy. While visiting at her Buffalo
home he told her of a liquor cure which
was being used with great success She
Immediately went to Chicago, investi-
gated the remedy and was convinced
that at last the lacking something was
in her hand
With tins remedy at her command,
with determination to begin anew
the work Of raising broken men and
women from worthlessness To useful
ness, and with preparation, an expe-
rience and personality extraordinary,
Dr.. Morris has opened home here for
the cure Of dipsomania and the morphine
habit She will not have it called an
institution. 1t has none of the ear
marks, or hall marks, oEe might say, of
an institution. 1t is home in every
sense of the word
She is decided about another phase of
the matter also. 1t is not cure for
worthless creatures, but veritable door
Of hope for men-men worthy of the
name--who have fallen through drink.
There is no shutting our eyes TO the fact
that there are thousands of these brainy.
educated. valuable men and womeD
drifting round like wrecks This is tie
class she chooses TO set back into pros
perity and peace.
1t is interesting TO see the home life
under her regime. 1t might be copied
in all homes to advantage There is
proper living without too much rule,
there is earnest direction without dicta-
tiOn, there is encouragement without
palaver and goodness without cant OF
course there is good cheer, for while
DR. Morris is able TO bring a good, big
thunderstorm down upon things when
they need clearing she herself is yeri-
table sunbeam. Buffalo Express
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So Hoti

"Oh, it is so hot'' said Betty. 1T
is so hoti Nanny, don't know what
/ shall do. it is so hotP'
Now, Betty was not doing anything.
She was sitting by the window, with
her head on the sill, and the shade OF
the big horse chestnut tree made little
GOODNESS, so nanny went on with her
mending and said nothing except that
it was hot and she was sorry for Betty.
Presently Betty saw a hand organ
man with a monkey coming. She raised
her head, and he stopped under the win
dow and began to play.
"Oh, NANNY" cried Betty, "the
monkey is dancingl May 90 out and
dance too? Oh, he is such dear little
monkey Now he is climbing up the
fence and walking along the top. Oh,
nanny, may | climb up and walk
along the fence2 Please, nanny, say
/ may" And Betty jumped up and
down and danced little steps like the
monkeys and tried to look like him.
but fortunately did not succeed.
II thought it was so hot" said
nanny. do You think dancing will
make you cooler, Bettyf"
II don't think it is so hot now," said
Betty. Not quite so hot, nanny.
You see didn't know what to do then.
It's always hotter when you don't
know what to do. but now l do know. "
Laura L. Richards in Youths Com
panion.
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woman,s Fitne.s to Govern.

Ask not whether woman is fit to
participate in the government, for that
was answered 1000 years ago. The
answer is preserved in the archives of
every house in every empire and repub-
lie since the world began. The world is
governed by man, and man is governed
by woman. In Rome woman abolished
the crown and established the republic.
She abolished the decemvirate and re-
stored the consular government. She
wrought the constitutional change
which gave the plebeian the right TO
hold the highest Office in the worlds
government When the master mind of
the worlds literature sought to solve
the problem which had baffied the wis
est man, he called a woman to the
bench, and in the character of Portia
we have second Daniel come to judg-
ment. Unfit TO govern? The contradic-
tion comes from hosts Of women who
stand today in the front rank of the pro-
fessions, who have acquired property by
their individual efforts. who have waged
a thousand battles and won a thousand
victories in the cause of charity, NOR
ality and humanity.-James Francis
Rurka
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The First Steamboat whistle.

Early in May, 1874, the steamer
Rochester departed from Buffalo, bound
for Chicago. The engineer was a me-
chanical genius named MCGEE, and he
had constructed a steam whistle from
plans which he had seen in a scientific
paper. On the way up the lakes he blew
it at every stop, much to the astonisb-
ment and terror of the inhabitants.
just before reaching Mackinac the
Rochester, after lively race, passed the
steamer General Porter, Captain G. L.
eager. Engineer MCGEE celebrated the
victory by blowing his whistle deIisiye-
~ and noisily. When both boats reached
the wharves, Captain eager rushed up
in a rage, shaking his fist and daring
MCGEE to come down and face him.
"What are you squawking that thing
at me for?" he roared.
And if it had not been for mutual
friends steamboat whistling ON the
lakes might have been introduced with
a lively battle of fisticuffs. Chicago
Record
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The Girl bachelor.

There is no occasion 10 commiserate
the condition of the girl bachelors who
keep house. They do not want it, but
are rather to be enyied. This is a mat
ter of wonder TO those who worry about
women going into trade on the ground
that it will destroy their love of home.
On the contrary, it develops it The
woman who is forced TO earn her living
and resents it seeks the consolation Of a
boarding house. The real girl bachelor,
at least the sort with whom / have
come most in contact, Is not a dis
gruntled person who has known better
days and always takes pains to remind
you of it. She is healthy, hearty be-
ing, who wants. TO be sure, TO help out
the family income, TO relieve her father
Of at least one of his burdens. but she
is, more than anything else. an actual
aomemaker and housekeeper.
Il is the girl bachelor who loves chill
Gren and is not ashamed 10 say so, the
girl bachelor who lives not unto herself,
is so unwelcome that he may not have
a cup of tea and a cracker, be his visit
ne'er so untimely. 1t is the girl bachelor
who does not apologize for dust, or
care a rap for what the neighbors think.
or hope TO marry ricb man. She is
the future mother. because the volun-
tary one. Of better men and women.
My sunbonnet is off TO her. She is
settling the woman question while
other people talk Of it Financial indie
pendence for herself is the explanation
of everything. st LoHis Post Dispatch.
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Woman Toward Woman.

The new woman might well emulate
the virtues Ia which men excel. The
kindliness Of intercourse found among
men does not characterize the attitude
of woman toward woman. A man will
make himself comfortable on a long
journey, and at its conclusion will have
made an acquaintance and perhaps a
friend of his neighbor. But for a wom-
an to speak to fellow traveller of her
own sex without the conventional in
PRODUCTION is TO invite a snub. Should
she inform her neighbor at the dry
goods counter that she has found q GER
tain new lining for her frock most sat
isfactory, the information would very
likely be received with naughty stare,
plainly declaring the suspicion that the
informer gets percentage on sales.
There is small opportunity under such
circumstances TO love your neighbor as
yourself
The experiment has but to be tried to
demonstrate TO the graciously inclined
woman that there is little room for her
who would, even In a small way, wish
hcI eAStci Noiuau EOOA AuCA ulOh HSA
way. Steamers in passing each other
display white flutter of handkerchiefs
from the human freight aboard. but the
wayfariDg woman is considered a fool
if she incliBes TO that sort of gracious
ness on land. And yet a woman is not
necessarily either disreputable or de-
signing simply because she speaks to
another woman without introduction.
Graciousness, however, need never sug
gest familiarity. A helpful word may
be spoken with dignity and yet with
kindly interest, and she who resents it
is to be pitied for her lack of under
standing. a gracious Thank you, !"
even if the well meant information is
not needed, proclaims the gentlewoman.
-Delineator.
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Her Political AFFILIATIONS.

Professor Felix Adler, in an address
on 1.-The Political AsIli.--.-..sGss o. IA an
en-" says:
I'm no oouutIy IN tkcre more defer
ence shown TO woman than in ours,
not alone ID the outward exhibition
shown them of courtesy, but genuine
respect, which comes from all ranks Of
society. Yet she is denied the franchise,
except in a few states, and there her
franchise is in most cases confined 10
local matters
Her position, it has been often said,
is similar TO that of infants, criminals
and the insane. Some even go further
and say it is worse, for the infant will
grow TO manhood and inherit the right
Of citizenship, the sentence of the Grim
inal will expire and his rights be re-
stored TO him, and even the insane per
son may recover his reasoning power
and enjoy the franchise again. In no
country is there greater liberty, yet it
was the intention of our fathers % limit
the male voters by property require
ment, which was swept away by tide
of democracy early in the century. Our
fathers probably never intended matters
TO be as they are, but their barriers Were
unable to stand before the rushing tide
Of young democracy. Then cane the
civil war, and the franchise was given
10 the colored man. yet it is still with
held from half of the population
Women need the ballot for self pro-
lection. 1t is true no class can safely
trust its interest TO another. This is to
me one of the convincing arguments in
favor Of woman suffrage, and i think it
should be worked for deliberately and
conscientiously- believe that when the
time is ripe they should be participants
in the government / strongly believe
that, but / believe the time, however.
is not yet ripe
In conclusion, Professor Adler said
that education was the argument to
open the gates. Great power, he assert
ed, did net beget freedom. Whenever
there had been great political success
there had been great political training.
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women. bicycle. and Consumption.

At meeting of the American Statis-
tical association DR. s W. Abbott, sec
retary of the state board of health of
Massachusetts, presented some figures
regarding the proportion of pulmonary
tuberculosis in females to that in males
in Massachusetts, The rate in 1851 was
l,45l females to 1000 males; in 1890,
1866 females TO 1000 males. and in
1895, only 974 females to /. 200 males
Eighteen hundred and ninety-fve was
the first year in the history of the state
in which the number of deaths from
phthisis in females was smaller than
that in males The fact that uniform
reduction in the rate of female deaths
began some five years ago, about the
same time women were beginning TO
ride the bicycle extensively, DR.. Alb
bott considers significant. and he is in
clined to attribute the decrease in the
death rate to the great increase in open
air exercise among women by the use
of the bicycle e-Sanitarium.
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Commendeble Action.

We learn that DIR. Peter Fahrney, of
Chicago, has placed through the legal as
sisiance of w. T. Omwake, Esq, of this
place, the sum of forty thousand 1000
dollars with leading Trust Company,
the income of which is to be distributed
annually during life among number of
relatives all of whom are natives OF
Franklin county, Pa, and which include
his only sister, who lives at the West
end of town, and also ID. ID. Fahrney, who
is now sojourning at New Orleans, La
Village Record.
DIR. p. Fahrney formerly lived here, in
the house on the South Side now the NJ .
Z. parsonage, which he built. He left
here about 1873 for Chicago and was at
the time in very moderate circumstances.
He, while here, was engaged in the pro-
prietary business and manufactured his
medicines for the trade. This he pushed
vigorously in the great city of the west
and is now Acknowledgements
Commercial
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Trained Nurserr Maids.

In these days when all fields Of work,
especially woman's work, are said to be
overcrowded it is a relief TO find one
exception. This exception is the profes-
sion of trained nursery maids, the de-
irand being from 20 TO 100 per cent
greater than the supply.
We can graduate only about 2S girls
xear." said the superintendent of the
New York Training School For Nursery
Maids. "ard we have applicants for
several hundred during that time. The
subject Of training nurses for the care
of children is receiving each year more
attention. and intelligent parents are
beginning TO feel that the old idea that
any person could mind the baby is
about exhausted.
''Iu our training we co rot attempt
to give medical knowledge, for we con-
slider a little knowledge a dangerous
thing but we seek 10 make them
capable of taking a healthy baby and
keeping il healthy. The nurse learns
nursery hygiene in its bToadcst sense
with the rudiments of Kindergarten. AS
a life work for women this profession
seems much to be preferred 10 that Of
a shop or factory girl We have appli-
eants for our graduates from cyCIy state
in the Union and almost every country
in the world. Several Of cur graduates
are abroad now as nurses in the fami-
lies Of the nobility. OF course. as re-
marked at first. the demand is greater
than the supply, so we are forced to
answer No many times where we
would be only too glad 10 supply Z rood
nursery maid Only short while 40
we had an application from the West
Indies, and the place was an admirable
one. but we had no one TO send there
Every girl graduated is already engaged.
During the last two years there
have been similar schools founded in
Montreal. Newark, Brooklyn and De
troit All of these institutions have
been modelled after this school The
managers Of one of these have frequent
ly visited Us, and in one case sent their
superintendent TO us for several months
experience. Whenever a new institu-
tion of the kind is projected the call i'm
mediately comes. Have you not some
one whom you can send to MS TO organ
ize the workg We are always forced to
cay, No.
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The Cdr has known the Byers family, Of
Talbot, Ind, for n long time. and j. W.
Byers IL one of those deliberate men who
say little but read and observe much. Mr..
Byers has been suffering for tie past three
years with grip and kindred troubles. Ills
mother he's ever been a sufferer, resulting
later in the most aggravating form of TheE-
matism. Soaie time 40 Mr.. Byers was per-
suaded by n neighbor 20 try DR.. Williams
Pink Pills. IL didn't take long to set Mr.
Byers to talking about this remedy, and the
Call sent q special representative TO his home
20 ascertain the exact fac's. The suijoined
sworn statement Of Mr.. Byers is sufficient.
II tells the facts simply end briefly:
al know positively that | was cured by
DR.. Williams Pink Pills. | was persuaded
by one Of my neighbors, Maxcl Williams,
to try them, Us he claimed TO have been
cured by them. had the grip three times:
and was taken down with rheumatism, and
did not expect to live. The doctors said
would never get well. They advised me to
take 4 change Of climate. was reduced
from one hundred and thirty-hve 20 one
hundred and five pounds As soon Is ] be-
gan taking the DIR. Williams Pink Pills i
began TO gain strength and the use Of my
limbs was restored. | had been almost help
less for two years. the stiffness IN my limbs
had been painful in the extreme. But with
the use ofthe pills the pain ceased and now
am rs timber and as active rs when q hog.
a. | was also troubled n great deal with my
kidneys, but the ailment has entirely disap-
peared. have been subject for the doctors
FOR long time. Two reputable physicians
had treated me for months, and ] had spent
o large amount of money for patent mesii-
cines, but to no avail. As | said, finally
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An American Woman Abroad.

The wife of General Porter, present
ambassador TO France, is thus described
by the correspondent of the London
Telegraph: "A bright. sunny faced wo-
man, with berry brown eyes and gray
hair of that peculiarly attractive snow
fiecked. silvery gray that American wo-
men SO advantageously monopolize, sug-
gestive of a marouise Quinze Louis,
with powdered coiffure. and who has
won golden opinions from the many for
her pleasant and kindly way Of receiv-
ing. 1t may truthfully be said that in
no embassy in Paris are good looks or
elegance so well represented as at that
of the United States. Upon the present
occasion the ambassadors wife wore a
lovely gown of soft, silver gray, silken
material, slightly a traine and made
over pale green glace silk, the dress and
basqued corsage spangled lightly with
steel and inset with pale yellow gui-
pure, forming ficral design. branching
to right and left of the tablier in grace
full fashion, the green of the underdress
peeping charmingly from between the
trimming and spangled outline of the
lace foliage design. The corsage was
finished with narrow plaitines of cream
colored mousseiine de sole. Her excel
lency's ornaments were pearls and dia-
mopds ;"
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Mother
and Son.

Ftom a. cnn. Lafeuette. Ind.

| took DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie and here I am well. | believe that u
the most wonderful remedy ever made. /
need not cxt0l this remedy for all my neigh
bors know what my condition vas and what
cured me. They will all tell you that II
was Dr. Williams Pink Pills.
Ny mother, xho is seventy years old, was
also troubled with rheumatism and could
scarcely nsove. She was very wakeful at
night and Lad no appetite. She took FIVE
boxes Of Dr. Williams Pink Pills and now
she is IN perfect health, and does all her own
work on a farm.
tSicncd) J.W BYKEs."
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me this
10th day Of August, 1896.
JAMES GoODwINE, Notary Ppiiic.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are not looked
upon ~ n patent medicine, but rather as g
prescription. An analysis of their properties
shows that they contain, in a condensed form,
all the elements necessary to give new life and
richness - the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are an unfailing specific for
such diseases as locomctor ataxia, partial pa
ralySis, ST. Nitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia,
rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects
Of Ia grippe, palpitation Of the heart, pale and
sallOw complexio and the tired feeling re-
sulting from nervous prostration, all diseases
resulting from vitiated humors IN the blood,
such as scr0fula, chronic erysipelas etc. They
are also a specific for troubles peculiar 10
females, such suppressions, irregularities
and all forms Of weakness. They build upthe
blood. and restore the glow Of health 10 pale
and sallow cheeks. They are for sale BY all
druggists, or may be had by mail from DIR.
Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady,
n. Y, for zoe. per box, or SIX boxes for $50.
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Fire Little Brofher..

Five little brothers set out together
To journey the livelong day
In a curious carriage all made Of leather
They hurried away, away
One big brother and three quite small
And one wee fellow, no size at all.
The carriage was dark and none too roomy.
And they could not move about
The five little brothers grew very gloomy,
And the wee one began 10 pout
Till the biggest one whispered: What do ye
sayY
Let's leave the carriage and run awayi"
So out they scampered. the five together.
And OF and away they sped.
When somebody found that carriage of leather.
oh. my. how she shook her heaii
Twas her little boys shoe. every one
knows.
And the five little brothers were five little toes
Independent
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
DR.. SARAH MORRIS. WHO TREATS
oRUNKe NNeSS As A DISEASE.

Trained Nursery Maids = Woman Engi-
neers-The Girl BacIeior-Her Political
Aspirations Women I'm Public Ltfe-An
Interesting Remiuiscenc--
Philanthropy and science occasionally
get ON speaking terms with one another.
When they do, it is a good thing for
philanthropy.
A Buffalo woman has embarked in
new work which will excite wide inter
est because it is one OF practical reform
The need for il is a need of the hour.
and the woman is DIR. Sarah Howe Nor
MS, known by thousands TO be giving
lifetime TO loving. earnest work for the
good Of the world.
For years and by degrees DR.. Morris
has been getting to this special task
the scientific and effectual raising not
of the dead, but of those sometimes
more hopeless, the inebriate. She has
endeavored TO reach them through the
Woman's Christian Temperance union;
she has looked into prohibition; she
has labored with drunkards individu-
ally and in the jails. Twenty-Five years
ago she established in Brooklyn the
famous Morris home, where hundreds
Of inebriates were cured simply by the
power of good hygienic living and
wholesome teaching. But there has al
ways been something lacking until the
year of grace 1896. What that some
thing is and how she found it make a
very interesting chapter of their own.
Thirty years ago Horace Greeley
said, Drunkenness is a disease, not a
crime, and he was roundly abused for
his idea. The habitual drunkard was
the cherished target of the pulpit, the
press, the reformer and the judge, and
these powers refused TO have their bulls
eve knocked out in that easy way. The
drunkard was jailed with enthusiasm,
and he has been kept jailed most Of the
time since ar large expense 10 him and
20 us 1t is only Of late that Greeley's
advice has struck home, and by the help
of scientists we are finding that 1t is as
wise to imprison man for drunkenness
as it is to cage him for rheumatism.
His disease may be, often is, his own
doing-most diseases are the result CT
our own mistakes-but disease, dipso-
mania, remains, and we now rightly turn
TO the physician for the solution of the
great temperance problem.
Dr. Morris was one of the first TO
come out and agree with Mr.. Greeley,
and she has her half of very interest
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ATOM AND YARRuM.

Nab, but to Robert W. Fitzsimmons.
Jr., who is IS months cid. Atom is
S47z inches high. and he will never be
taller. He is dark brown, black and
white-the horsemen say piebald. He
is the son of Rowland L. and of Stella,
and he was born two years ago ON a
farm on Long Island. near Jamaica. He
has dainty little hoofs which are Of the
color of old ivory, delicately shaped legs
and the oldest little whine, affeotionate
and pathetic. that one ever heard. He
is apparently an aristocrat, which may
be explained by the fact that his parents
have won premiums at the Madison
Square Garden shows for five successive
years.
Atom will find in Fitzsimmons' yard
Yarrum. who is only dog. taller than
he and a bear in comparison with the
weight of which his will be insignifi-
cant indeed.-New York Journal.