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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
THE PATENT MEDICINE MAN.
He Waited Long Tor rcsnIis. ani They
Came with a Rush.

Ee Waited Long Tor Lcsrit-, ana Ahst
Came with Rush.
''It was more than 90 years ago that
decided tho thing was ready to be put
on the market" said the inventor Of u
compound that has now passed ont Of
the category of patent medicines and
become well introduced. The question
that bothered me was how 10 get the
stuff before the people and make them
personally acquainted with its qualities,
so that might find out whether
my own faith and confidence IN the
article were justified. But how was TO
get it into peoples hands? That was
the question that I had to answer.
/ went to the wholesale druggists, and
they said it would be useless to put it
ON their shelves, as nobody would buy
it, | sent il 10 doctors, but that did very
little toward getting the article into tle
hands of the people. / gave it away ut
fairs, and the result was that small
portion Of the people there got nearly
all of the stuff, while the others went
without any Plainly that would not
do. But didn't know yet what would
do.
after awhile it occurred TO mo that
| would start man in buggy driving
in a certain direction. He was to dis
tribute the stuff to every body he met ON
the road, and in that way the STUFF
would finally get into the hands of tho
people. was going TO have relays
enough to stretch a line across the
country and start man from the west
TO come east through the territory the
other man could not reach. Twas going
to send the stuff on ahead, SO that at
different points on the road the man
would be supplied with enough to give
away.
1.-The fellcw started on his long trip
and distributed thousands of packages
of the stuff. Other men started in differ
ent directions, and there were only
few thinly populated aud remote corners
of the country that could not have some
personal experience of my invention.
The men finished their trips and wait
ed. But no response cans. The people
whom had expected to answer with
cry for what l had given them remained
mute. a year passed, and every cent Of
available capital had gone into the
scheme. Thousands of dollars had gone,
and evidently no more had been done
toward creating demand than if the
stuff had been licked in closet and
left there. / strained hard, bat never
could hear the voice of the public call
ing for my invention. The months were
miserable with suspense and despair un-
til suddenly tho public. to speak meta
phorically, roarod at me. The rush had
started in way could never under
stand New York Sun.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
Much Too Liberal.

People who take all things literally
are apt to tread on other people toes.
Tho man Who walked in where he saw
a sign, WAX in" and who was or
dered out, was a literal man, and so was
he who went into pawnbfoker's shop
and demanded 40 shilhngs because there
was a placa,d in the window that read:
Look at this watch for 40 shillings. Z"
Il looked at it, said he, and now
want my 81. :"
The most amusing incident we have
heard is that of the country man who,
while sauntering along a city street,
saw a sign:
PLEASE ring the bell for the care
taker.
After rejecting for few minutes, he
walked up and gave the bell such q
pull that it nearly came out by the
roots. In few minutes an angry faced
man opened the door.
Are you the caretaker!" asked tho
bell puller.
Yes. What do you want?"
81 saw that notice, so rang the bell,
and now want 70 know why you can't
ring the bell yourself. London Tit
Bits
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
APres. Ruilt by Franklin.

81 once worked printing press that
was built and operated for a long while
by Ben franklin, said Colonel Charles
Gonter. 1.-The machine was quite a
primitive affair, but il answered the
purpose. Twas then boy in Lancaster,
Pa, and was learning the printer S
trade in the Office of the Lancaster
Union. John W Fornoy, who made
sach "a success of the Philadelphia Press,
was prentice with me, and we took
turns working tic cid franklin press.
twas made entirely Of wood except for
a marble slab th3.. answered the pur-
pose Of led. On this slab the forms
Of type Were placed. and they would
have 20 he linked with a long. clumsy
roller before each impTossiOn.
lone day Forney would WELD the
roller. and the next day 1T fell my turn
TO smear on the ink. We could print
about so or 10 sheets an hour The work
was laborious. but we performed it
cbeerfully because of the knowledge
that Ben Franklin had done the very
same work on the press many a day be-
fore we Were born. james Buchanan
used to come in occasionally and en-
courage US at our task ana predict q
brilliant career for both of us if we
stuck 20 the trade ge-xere then learn
ing.
This was way back iI 1871. and
I'm young man yet Eyests that are
crowded into the years since then con-
tain the history Of the building Of one
OF the most powerful nations be world
has every known, and the proct ssions of
EioI that have passed in revi, D. since
then ell for the pen of another z PfEtarch
to portray, and that cramped, tickety
htiie franklin press that John Wtkor-
ney and l used to work played big
part IN the making of the natioi} end
the making of the professions of len.
Still am not old. st Louis RI pb-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
A QUEER LITTLE ANIMAL.
The Australian Ducsbu Carries Sting
In Orc Leg.

an oEc Lex.
Australia certainly holds the palm for
queer and uncouth animals, says Tho
Literary Digest. Chief among-these IL
the duckbill or ornithorhynchus. which
Sydney Smith described as "a kind CT
mole with wobbed feet and the bill of a
duck, which agitated Sir Joseph Banks
and rendered him miserable from his
utter inability TO decide whether it was
q bird or beast. IL was only recently
that it was proved beyond doubt that
shis curious animal lays eggs like a
bird, though this had long been reported
by travellers. Now comes the news that
it has sting on its hind leg. capable of
killing by its poisonous effects. We
quote from The Lancet:
For long time it was considered TO
be quite harmless and destitute of any
weapon of offense, although the hind
legs of the males were armed with
powerful spur, apparently connected
with gland. Then the opinion was adj
vanced that this might be weapon al
lied TO the poisonous armory of snakes,
scorpions and bees, all of which pcssess
a sort of hypodermic poison syringe.
Though one set of observers asserted
that this was the case, another set de-
MED it, and so Dr. Stuart determined TO
solve this question, if possible. he re-
ceived two independent accounts which
coincided perfectly, and from them he
concludes that, at certain seasons at all
events, the secretion is virulently pol
sonous. The mode of attack is not by
scratching. but by lateral inward move
ments of the hind legs. Two cases are
reported in dogs. One dog was 'stun2'
three times, the symptoms much resem-
bling those of bee or hornet poison. The
dog was evidently IN great pain and
drowsy, but there were no tremors, con-
vulsions or staggering. 1t is worthy of
note that a certain immunity seems OBJ
tainable, for the dog suffered less ON the
second occasion and still less on the
third. Two cases of men being wounded
are reported. in both of which the ami
mails Were irritated, one by being shot
and handled, the other by being handled
only. The symptoms were the same as
i'll the dog. No deaths are reported i'll
human beings, but four in dogs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL.
John Wosley's I'm Georgia Antedates Rob.
ert Raikes, lily Years.


John wcsley's I'm Georgia Antedates Rob-
ert Rsikes' Fifty Years
In recounting tho ministrations Of
John Wesley in Georgia, where the fa-
nous preacher sowod the first seeds of
Methodism in America, the Rev. W. J.
Scott, ID. D., in The Ladies' Home
Journal. claims that Wesley established
the first Sunday school in the world at
Savannah. In connection with his 9TH
er labors. which were indeed prodigious,
Wesley. soon after his arrival in Geor-
gia, in l736, began to provide for the
Sunday school instruction of the chill
dren Of the parish. His devotion to chill
dren at times almost amounted to in
fatuation. Children were likewise equal
ly attached to him, as shown in their
intercourse with him. Both On week
days and Sabbaths he gave no little at
tention to educational work. As pre-
liminary labor on the Sabbath before the
evening service he required them TO
convene in the church, at which time
he catechised them thoroughly and fur
nished them with additional teaching
from the Bible itself
In the present Wesleyan Memorial
church in Savannah there is Sunday
school room into which hundreds Of
children crowd for Sunday instruction.
The original school was less il number,
bat it was unquestionably the first Sun
day school in the world. When taught
by Wesley, it numbered between go and
10 scholars, but from all accounts there
Were few if any Indian boys i'll his ear
lier classes A very high authority. Sir
Charles Reed, NJ p, Ii. d., of Eng
land, is clearly of the opinion that this
Sunday school was the first founded in
the world, and that it antedates by
half century the secular instruction of
Robert Raikes at Gloucester, England,
as well as the first school in America
upon Raikes' plan which was estab
lished in the city of New York.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
enAxsas Tne llrrls onllpRsn sAY.

The prayers the little children say
They are not fine of speech.
Bat they hold deeper mystery
Than any tome could teach.
And they reach farther up TO heaven
Than wiser prayers can reach.
TIE angels laugh TO hear each day
Tbe t5rayer, Tie little cllillren say.
The prayers the little children say
No toiling angel brings.
They pass right through the shining ray
That searches selfish things.
iThoy are SO little that they slip
Between the guarding wings
And God says, "Hush and give them wayi"
The prayers the little childr,.n say
The prayers the little children say
All il we knew the sanlci
For ours, so wise and Eaunt and gray,
Walk wearily and lame,
And by the time they come 10 God
They have forgot his name
Would we mny some time learn to pray
The prayers the bttla children sayl
Post Wheeler in New York Press
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

These stripes. " sighed the cony
make a man feel small" =" I
The kind woman who had come 81
the darksome place ocheer him smi
radiantly.
Only think" she urged, IN
much worse they would be if they \
the other way. Detroit Journal
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

In one country district Of Germ: p
pay weddings" were in yoeue u &tl
recently, each guest paying for hi Zen
tertainment as much as he would ft a
Inn and the receipts being placed hsid
10 set up the happy pair in theiyf ne'
home
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

In a home for sandwich men in Lon
con there are said to be several uni
versity graduates and medical men and
Sootchman who ran through ESQ, 600
il three years
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
Appreciation.

Il hope you appreciate the fact, sir,
that III marrying my daughter you mar
~ a large hearted, generous girl. F"
II do, sir with emotion), and l hope
she inherits those qualities from her
father "-Harlem Life.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Two Turks were at FreDch Lanquet
toward the conclusion Of the feast !:
frenchman selected a toolhIick from
the tray near him and politely passed
the tray on TO his neighbor. who. bow.
ever pereInptoriiy declined the of.er
eKcialming: mo. thank you. | have
already eaten two of the accused
things and want no more. San
Francisco Argonaut
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

In 1850 the average annual yield of
milk per COW in this country was 400
pounds; in 1890 it had increased to $500
pounds. But TO be very profitable
COW should yield during the year AT
lea 4 500 pounds of milk.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Is is my creed that a man has no
claim upon his fellow creatures beyond
bread and water and grave. unless he
can win it by bis own st.ength OF skill.
-Rawthorne.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Mrs. Van Dyke (as Van Dyke appears
at a. IN. Where have you been?
Van Dyke-I-er-
Mrs Van Dyke-Now, be careful
what you say, William. Don't think
,ou can throw me off the scent-Bos-
ton Herald
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
WI. CEAcAN,

WI. CEhcAN. CTrO HAe KNAS,
. ADAMS street. Ala &. Thirteenth street.
gheny. cancer Of hp. Tiftsburgh. cancer 81
yczTS- breast. years
Mrs. ATmbury,. Weaver'S Old Stand. Wesimors
land county, cancer Of lex. years. Mrs. James
forstcTS. Goal Mining Indiana county. Pa. eanc-r
Of shoulder. years Nj Roth. corner IhITty-siN
street and Pcun avenue. cancer oi cheek. 2 yc5rs.
E6- Horn, Harg street, Allegheny. Cancer Of ch-eS.
syesEs- Mrs. Stewart. 50 Grace street. Nj WASH
iugicn. I;ttShursh. cIacer Of y-ornh. years NrE.
]. Kelly. West Pittsburgh street GsecEshuFg. Pa
tlmor Of nose. years Nr. Stevenson. Is Parr
Way. Allegheny. tumOr on forehead. IS years. Ma
Lohde, e3o7 Shakespeare street Z. E. PittS aursh
cancer Of tTess-. years Mrs. Ecchans. cancer a
tseast. years. Mrs. Muller. c=neer Of breast.
years. Mfs. iias adis. cancer of womb. year,.
Mrs. Hotstat. eercer OF womb. years. NrS Lang.
hci cancer q womb year. Mr. MaiveT tetter oI
eczema. q ye7rs- Mrs Ec=R. Cancer Of the breast.
years Ms Si-se,v. career of womb. moaths
o. Rolsnsoa street. Asesheuy City "a. Adm
Black cancer on li2. StctO station. Beaver county
Pa AR Werner cauIsr OF reetu.n, Sol. Forty-ftih
street. PiitsAursn Ia Mrs Aplcr. Cancer on nose,
FfsnkstoWn SvenJe. Z. E.. Pittsbursh. Pa. Mrs
hsits, cancer Of the breast a. years OF age Curry
station, Bedhel township. Allegheny county Pa.
Mr. Mailer. cancer OF the lip aal tongue . ye.Tn
EHiosd' SoaeEset Soa.ty, pa
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Senators and presidents have climbed
30 high with pain enough. not because
they found tho places especially agree
able. bnt to yindicate their manhood in
Our eyes --Emsrson.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Have good dust bath on hand for
the fowls always, and provide plenti-
full supply of grit if they are kept In
small runs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
EAsT WARD.

For rates, maps, &c, call ON Ticket Agents or
address rhos- r. Watt, l.. \. W. d., 20 Fifth
Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
j. B. Hutchinson, j. X. Wood
Gen. Manager. Gcn'l Pass. 4
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Quotation. sir. is a good thing There
Is community of mind in sit. Classical
quotation is the parole of literary men
Eil over the world.-Johfhson.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Let him who neglects TO raise the
xailen fear lest when be falls no one
al stretch cut his hand to lift him
R-Saadi
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

Preserved fruits in a state fit to be
eaten have been taken from tho ruins
o. HerculaneuIn.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30

L(5l.E LURE tion. blt . theiT sorroS Of 10
tensht. nr. Stein-rt has removed 'hem Of Ten
Years Stznding and from persons - years OF age.
i- his own uei-hborhoot- Persons are requested TO
cal At his otce and the wonderful cures h- hs5
made aud which he has IA alcohol for safe keeping.
lie has 90 years praetice. aul stands IN the Fore
r.oSf -snk OF his profession Ihe following eases
cas- few cf those Who have beer c-ret. hy me:
Mrl EcScoEn. q Nccfvi4le. Pa c@E-sr CT
hrsa.l- a VAL iIlak Il ....se vi
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
GasTGsn STANDARD TisG-
TN EFFECT MAY IL, 1897.

coNDESsED SCHEDULE.
Trains arrive and depart from the station at
Johnstown as follows:
WESTWARD
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
The Cancer and Tanor Can Be-
Cured Without the Knife.

TO TrEIIN- EI- NNI--T II
been something that the nediczi
profession have never been Sh.s
TO discover; but al last Dr.
Steinert has discovered a reme-
dy. which If applied Will remove
Il in from 6 &c ) days.
There arc five kinds or Can
cers. namely: the Rose Cancer.
the Spider Cancer, the kiSsurs
Cancer. the Bone Cancer znd
the Wolf Cancer. There hsvs
been eases where patients have
paid sfso for 4 single preScrip-
l.. - -. -. a =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

pa ssng. where the women tread out the
clothes OF the weekly wash, where all man.
ner of refuse accumulates, and where the
Stops from all the houses are regularly
thrown. The slightest consideration will
make 1t plain that there could scarcely be
devised a more perfect system for trans
uniting contagion than this. and how well
1t succeeds may be illustrated by one case
among many. When the cholera plague
was raging in Asia Minor a few years ago,
the disease was brought to Caesarea by a
nan from Silva, who died almost immedi-
ately en- his arrival. That night his body
was washed in the court yard of the house,
and the water was thrown out into the
public street, when it flowed into a public
fountain not far distant. The next day
scores Of people drank at that fountain and
the day after that scores of people were
dying.
And it is interesting to note that while
the little band of Americans in the plague
stricken regions were making a brave and
successful stand against the disease fight
ing with the weapons of science. the Ar
menians were making blood sacrifices to ap-
pease tie angry gods, and were marching
about the city led by their priests lifting
their voices in dirge-like chants, and were
openly declaring that the missionaries had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR; Journey Around
the World. BY Marx Twain samuel L.
Ciemens). Hartford: The American Publish
ing Company. washington: R. A. Dinsmore.
gu Seventh street.
This Is the book that was to have been
so named that it would be recognized as a
sequel to 'Innocents Abroad" Many rea-
1t Is given the name it bears as being as
near to the truth as this distinguished
manipulation of the English language ever
permits himself to come. 1t Is, in fact, a
close description Of the work. 1t narrates
a series of incidents in a voyage by Mr.
Clemens through many tropical chimes,
though he did not exactly follow the
equator" But whether the incidents be
rare or common, dramatic or tame, they
are all given in that inimitable manner
that has become known the world over as
the style Of Mark Twain-that has eonvulsed
hundreds OF thousands of people and has
served IN consequence many good and use
full purposes. OF this book 1t is not es-
sential to be particular. Nothing can be SO
Elusive OF analysis as one Of Mr.. Clemens
volumes 1t sufices to note that the work
Is large. that 1t is well illustrated, that 1t
Is annotated with the epigrammatic wis
dom Of "Pud'nhead Wilson," that 1t mar
rates with more or less accuracy the ways
and means of civilized and barbaric lie In
the tropics and antipodes, and that II is
from cover to cover, essentially o Mark
Twain production.
JAVA. THE GARDEN OF THE EAST. BY mia
RHhamah Scidnore, author Of 'tJinriksha Days
IN Japan" New York: 1ne Ceotnfy Company.
IS Washingfoo: Brenfane&
Miss Scidmore b already wen known to
many readers through her delightful book
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
U N I'VE R SITY NOTES


There is game Of foot ball scheduled for
this afternoon at the university between
the Colored High School and the reserve
eleven Of Howard.
Next Saturday the foot ball team from
Wayland Seminary will meet the first team
Of the university at the college grounds.
The last meeting Of the Christian En-
Ceavor was led by the president, and the
subject treated was, Not to be ministered
unto. but to minister" Tonight the topic
will be ''One thing / have learned from
Paurs life or writings" and J. d. Brown
will be the leader for the evening.
The December issue of the Journal will
probably appear next week or the one fol-
lowing.
The Eureka held no meeting last even
ing, but next Fridays program has been
announced to include the following fea-
Il res: Recitation, Miss Scipio; deciama-
ton. H. w. Payne; paper, j. e. Smith :,
reading. Miss WhitSell: debate, with r. s.
PIgh and r. II. Merriwether. affirmative
and negative speakers respectively, on
topic. Resolved. That intemperance has
been more destructive than war"
Last evening. under the auspices of the
Alpha Phi Literary Society, Professor G..
w. Cook read a paper entitled Shakes
peare's King Lear" The officers of the
society are !. Thomas Gillian, president; R.
Dawson Brister. vice president; I. T. Fox,
secretary. Invitation cards were issued for
the occasion and mailed to the friends of
the university.
A public debate will be given by the
Alpha Phi Society some time next month.
Georgetown University.
The solemn reception of the Sodality of
the Blessed Virgin Mary occurred at the
university Wednesday and thirty-two new
members received diplomas.
The junior law class elected officers for
the year last Saturday night after the
regular lecture as follows: President, Mr..
Heron; vice presidents. Messrs. Doyle and
Ralph; secretary. Mr.. O'Donoghue; treas
urer, Mr.. Kirby.
The dramatic club will probably take a
trip to Baltimore the latter part of the
winter.
The Merrick debate win be- held on the
I'D Of February.
Last Saturday evening a special meet
ing Of the Law School Debating Society
vas held. This evening there WIN be a
public debate. with Messrs. James Nc
Carthy and ]. w. Bingham, affirmative
and F. A. L. Schade and w A. Brown,
negative. as the speakers upon the cues
ton. Resolved, That the Hawaiian Island
Should Be Annexed to the United States"
Admission il by card
At the last meeting OF the Philodemie
Society the question for discussion was:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

scThe Heather Chinee In Pecultar.''
From the Louisville Times.
Gee Joe," the Chinese gentleman who
has found Jordan a hard road to travel
lately, once presided over a laundry on the
corner of 9th and Broadway, where his
gifts as singer of queer. outlandish songs
attracted the children of the neighbor-
hood to his place, and made him a prime
favorite with the young people. Gee Joe"
speaks some English, and his remarks are
always accompanied by bland, childlike
smile, such as Bret Harte mentions in his
poem about Chinese free labor.
One day the Chinaman was talking about
religion. Are you a Christian, Gee Joe?"
asked a lady, curiously.
"Oh, yes: go churchee: one very good
man. / real Mclean man."
"And where do you go?' asked the lady,
who was charmed to find that the infia-
ences Of religion and civilization had con-
verted the heather.
"Oh," remarked Joe. 81 go Warren Me-
mortal Churchee now. I Presbyterian, but
when I was in other town Baptis'. go
churchee where 1t do me most good. Gee
Joe real Mclean man."
And the airy manner In which he dis
coursed Of the practical side of his religion,
which was evidently for revenue only, cast
q pail over the good woman. and she now
questions whether 1t pays to convert sucn
heathens or not.