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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
DR.. sadler in Florida Until March 5tb.

The doctor takes his vacation i'm what
he considers the worst season of the ve,r
and consequently the least Inconvenience
to his patients. He will put in his time
at Mt. Dora. Fla. where he has some AZ
acres of orange grove. and where his
family reside most of the year on ac-
count of the much better health Mrs
Sadler enjoys there. That section Is the
highest I'm the State. very rolling, tim
bered with long leaf pine. interspersed
with palmetto and deciduous trees in
ravines and along creeks and around
springs and lakes. Lakes with clear.
sandy bottoms and pure water and so
thIcEiy intfrspersed as 10 give the name
lake -. county. The doctor would he
living there now were il not sstoo healthy,
for his business. When you want To- visit
Florida don't forget Lake county. When
your eyes or ears remind yon of nr. Sad
dler remember his return, March 5th.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Must Hang For Robbery.

CHARLOTTE, y. c., Feb. 6.-Monroe
Johnson, the condemned negro burglar.
now in Jail in this city awaiting execu-
ton. will undoubtedly be hanged next
Friday.
North Carolina is one of the few States
in which burglary is a capital crime, and
there has been disposition in recent
years ON the part of the Governor to
commute the sentences of such criminals
to life imprisonment at hard labor.
But Governor Russell declines 20 ia
terfere in the matter, and says that As
long as the law is on the statute books it
Will be enforced.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Dog Made Happy With Cork Leg.

CHICAGO, ILL.,. Feb. s.-By means of a
skillful surgical operation a valuable fox
terrier, owned by c. Raymond, has had
an artificial leg constructed of cork. Sew
eral months ago the dog was run over by
a wagon, and a veterinary surgeon ampu-
tated the left leg at the second joint.
When it was taken to the shop of the ar
titicial limb man and its new foot tried
on for the first time the sagacious animal
displayed all the symptoms ofjoy and
uses the cork leg as well as the others.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

1T MAY not be comforting to some
worthy gentlemen, hut il is thought
AT Washington. on word from Canton,
that Major Mckinley will adopt the
rule laid down 10y President Cleveland,
and only in exceptional cases will he
appoint to Office applicants who served
term under President Harrison. They
have had their share, he holds, and
must give way to Others with better
right 10 he hungry.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Wants a Bounty For Triplets.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. S.-A happy
father in Saltwater, Mimi, has written
TO the Treasury Department asking If
there is a fund from which bounties are
paid for triplets. The Department has
replied that 1T has no knowledge Of any
provision OF law authorizing payments
on such g.0unds,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Bull Fighting Is Expensive.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb 3.-Consul
General Bowen, at Barcelona, in a report
to the State Department, states that in the
latest bull fighting season. from April to
October last, there were AS bull fights i'm
Spain, and l2lS bulls. valued at $500 900.
and 57So horses, valued at $4,000, were
killed during the exhibitions. The num-
Der OF matadores was q, and for their
services they received upwards of s225.-
900
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

The number of petty swindlers who
successfully work upon their victims
sympathy appears to prove that benev-
olenee and prudence are not as intimate
virtues a. they should be. 1t is very
well TO blame the calculating head and
praise the warm heart; but then, it
should be remembered that the Heart
leaves the head to bear the brunt of its
emotional mistakes.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
A Noted Character Sent to Jail.

GREENsBURG, Pa, February 6.-Aust-
in Ruter, the first to be captured of the
celebrated eleven brothers of that name
who are charged with pilfering and rob-
bing the people of the Ligonier Valley.
was convicted in the Criminal Court here
this evening Of stealing hogs. Only four
of the brothers have been arrested, but
true bills have been found against nearly
all of them by the grand jury.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

Princeton. He has arrived at that time
of life when he does not need 10 worry
about anything. He has ample for
tune, a loving and lovely family all
the honors that can be gotten in life,
and a future that will give him much
time in which to fish and hunt. Cleve-
land is a lucky man.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

UTAH starts off with a senatorial
contest on her hands, in which the
charges made are not to the credit of
the members OF her legislature. This
is not good beginning for a State that
has just been given the honor of hav
ing a star in the country's flag.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

Az astronomer in Mexico has discov-
cred signs on the planet Mars by which
he is persuaded its highly intelligent
inhabitants are trying TO signal us by
means of geometrical figures. Perhaps
they are endeavoring TO collect the lat
est earthly data on arbitration treaties,
for Use in future celestial diplomacy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Enormous Obligations Of the Blair County
Court

Private investigation of the Blair coun.
~ accounts has shown that the amount
already paid the Barring & McSweeney
Detective Agency on the Bonnecka mur-
der case reaches the sum of so, 1860.
Calculating the commemorative ex-
penses on the trials of Frank Wilson and
James Larrell, the convicted murderers,
the amount expended will reach the enor-
mons sum of 10000. From present in
dications both the convicted murderers
may get new trial. which may even
double the sum.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE moral Of the Harrisburg capitol
fire IS that important State records
should be put in places where the flames
can not reach them. Fire is one Of the
few things in this world which does its
work with as much thoroughness as
celebrity
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Affecting All County Taxes.

HARRrsBURo, Pa, Feb. ga meeting
of the Executive Committee Of the State
Association of County Commissioners
was held here to-day. The committee is
considering the bill drawn up by Mr.. Co
ray. of Luzerne, limiting the county tax
to three mills in all the counties OF the
State. This was not regarded with much
favor. as it would plunge some OF the
counties into debt. as the county tax rate
now varies from II to J mills.
A NNUAL STATEMENT OF RE
~ ceipts and expenditures of the
Commissioners of Somerset {
County for the fiscal year ending jan
uary ., 1897.
ELMER +. PUGH, Esq, Treasurer of
Somerset County, Pa, in account
with the County Of Somerset.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE appointment of Lyman J. Gage
Is bringing praise to Mr.. Mckinley
from all parties. No more popular Sc
lection has been made by any Presi-
dent for any post in many years. Yet
this is just sIfch a choice as could rea-
sonably have been expected. Mr.. Ne
Kinley has wider acquaintance among
prominent men in all fields than any
President has had previous TO taking
Office since the war days except Gar
field, and he is good judge of mems
capabilities. All his appointments thus
far have given satisfaction.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

President CLEVELAND is preparing
10 vacate the White House. He will
have ss his guest on March Sd Major
Mckinley. and that will be the last
Function OF state he will observe. The
next day he will take his hat off the
hat-raek for good, and say goodbye.
cleveland has had a good time in the
White House. No President has ever
enjoyed life more than he with his fam
lily, and from all accounts he will have
just as pleasant time at his home ia
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE next Secretary Of Agriculture
practical farmer, a professor in an
Iowa agricultural college, and has serv-
ed three terms in Congress. He may
be pronounced equally equipped for the
forum and the plow-handles.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
To Remove the Ca)itcl.

Senator Thomas will Introduce a bin
in the legislature next week to submit to
the voters of the commonwealth the
question OF removing theCapital to Phil
adelphia. When the pebble get chance
at this proposition. the qiak r. City will
hnd out what small past Of the stale Of
Pennsylvania she is.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE people have given the Republic
can party the contract to manage this
Government the right way for the next
four years, and that contract viii be
faithfully carried out.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

WESTERN Populists are very plainly
showing that they regard fusion with
Democrats rs failure, and that they
intend 10 sail under their own colors in
future campaicns.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

SHOOTING soldiers and imprisOning
women are still the most successful
achievements of Spanish warfare The
men who could make victims of refined
women simply because they are the
wives or the mothers Of soldiers among
the enemy have no right to call them
selves civilized.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE fact that the United States sup
piles the world with all of its condens-
ed milk proves that the American COW
is still an important factor in the mod
ern civilization OF the world.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Quay Leader Has no Opposition for Senator
Penrcse's Place.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. A Republican
convention was held in the 9th state SEN
atorial district in this city to-day to nomi-
nate candidate TO succeed Boies PEN
rose who was recently elected United
States senator. Ex-Magistrate Durham,
prominent leader of the Quay faction Of
the party, was the only candidate ed
and he was unanimously nominated.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE inventors of the roller boat
promise TO cross the ocean in three
DAYS. Their success is doubtful, but
prophets are not as confident as they
were that the ocean greyhounds have
reached the limit Of speed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE tariff problem will be settled
during the Mckinley administration,
aud in such a way as to be to the best
interests OF the government of the Uni
ted states and all its people
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

No CHINAMAN is allowed to take
mart i'm a New Year celebration until
he has paid all his debts. a custom of
this kind in other countries would in
sure a quiet holiday.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

THE Free distribution of seeds from
the Agricultural Department survives
all opposition, and Congress has appro-
nristed Sl2O. coo for their purchase.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

JANUARY resulted in an increase 10
the public debt of SI4,07s, 7:s5. A Re
publican revenue measure is the great
need of the country.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

Senator Goblin made the last motion in
the Senate. and Senator Grady put it and
declared it carried. The water was
streaming down on the Senators, and the
hands OF the clock pointed to / o'clock.
President pro TEN. McCarrell was up in
b is room fighting the fire. 1t was criti-
cal moment. There was no one to call
the Senate TO order. Senator Grady
mounted the Speakers stand and called
the Senate to order, hanging the gavel
while sparks dropped from the ceiling
Senator Goblin moved to adjourn, and in
a twinkle the motion was put, and the
Senators started for the doors. But it was
all done with great dignity, and in order.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

Pure blood and good digestion are an
insurance against disease and suffering.
Berdosi Blood Bitters keeps the blood
pure. she digestion perfect.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10

WHILE it continues TO meet in
church, the Legislature at Harrisburg
ought to do unusually good work.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
Receipts. DIR.

Taxes received from Collectors OF State,
County and Dog Rates for the years 1871, 1872.
lsr3, 1891, 1875 and ls.G.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
The Return. 10. All In.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.

From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The returns are not ali in, but it is un-
derstood that there is not n town of hve
hundred population in the State that does
not think it is just the place for the State
capitol. Let the populace rest easy the
capitol will not be removed from Harris
burg. 1t would be supreme folly even to
discuss the matter seriously. The State
owns in Harrisburg three department
buildings on y beautiful site, and an Exc
cutive Mansion on the river front They
could not be duplicated in another city
for millions of dollars. II is not to be
supposed that the State is going TO throw
away all this property. That there will
be great agitation for the removal of the
Capitol goes without saying. Some cities
in the State have already taken action,
and they will send lobbyists to Harris
burg to influence the Legislature, but
they may as well spare themselves the
trouble. Ii is stated to-day that Phila-
delphia Senator is preparing bill to sub
nit the question of removing the Capitol
To Philadelphia 20 a vote of the people OF
the State, and that he will introduce II at
the meeting of the Senate next Monday
night. We do not think that the people
of the State would vote 10 remove the
Capitol to Philadelphia, but the very fact
that such bill is to be introduced shows
the feeling in some quarters.
One of the sad things of the fire at the
Capitol is the number of poor old women
who were thrown out Of work, and who
will have 10 get along through the bal
ance of the winter as best they can. There
were about two hundred and fifty of
them, and they earned fifty cents night
scrnbbing and cleaning the halls of the
Senate and House and the committee
rooms. Many depended on the little
money they earned to keep them through
the year, and they were almost heart
broken as they stood and looked at the
great building going up in smoke. One
woman that Gossip knows, an old sol
dier's widow, was fortunate enough to get
work every night, and made three dol
lars week. On the money she made
during the five months of the meeting of
the Legislature she managed to keep her.
self until the Legislature again met She
has nothing now. and how she will live
is problem. Some of them, of course,
will have work, but very few, and great
many will have to look elsewhere for
means TO tide them over the session.
Tn re were some funny things at the
fire yesterday. One member of the
House, very much excited and desirous
of saving something, picked up one of
the nickel-plated cuspidors and cavorted
wildly to the door. He hurried out into
the storm, and deposited his precious
burden in the arms of park policeman.
Then he went back and rummaged
through his desk and selected box of
pens which he carefully put in his pocket
leaving his pencils and valuable papers
in the desk. They were all burned. In
the Senate one of the clerks rescued all
his valuable papers and then went back
and carried out a chair, asked what he
was going 20 do with the chair, he said
that the Senate would have to meet some
where, and when it did he wanted some
thing to sit on.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-02-10
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF SOM
II ERSET COUNTY.
LIABILITIES.

Total Indebtedness of the county 81. .93 IS
ASSETS.
outstanding taxes due county. s2I, ,Os6 gs
SOnERSET co UNITY, SIS.
We the undersigned Commissioners of ,be
Couniy OF Somerset, do certify that the fors-
going report exhibits true and accurate ac
M couni OF me receipts and expenditures OF The
uary =, 1857. '"ii-
NOTE.
The amount OF State, County and Dog taxes
ser lorth above includes collectors commits
siohs, -Nhonorations, rebates. &c which will
reduce the amount of taxes due the county to
a much smaller sum. ~
GEO. +. KIMMEL.
GABRIEL GOOD.
Ates,E l.. A. KRETCHMAN.
J, q. Emert, County CommIssinners
Clerk.
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-28

csption into which they are being led,
and I propose to do 1t.
Let us plant our free silver banner
at the masthead of our party Platform
and follow no man or set of men who
would try to swerve us in our onward
course. If the republican Office dividing,
principle-sacrificing populists desire to
join the republican party in Alabama, let
them go, and God grant they may; but
let all true populists fight under the free
silver banner and court the help and as
Sistance of free silver people only We
might consider the feasibility of a flu
sion with faction or party the main
features of whose platform were iden-
tical with those of our own, but to align
ourselves with a host of sMCieat carpet
baggers whose sole object has ever been
to place the yoke Of bonded slavery about
our necks and keep 1t there, never.
l, therefore. warn my populist breth-
rem to beware.
ED NJ. JOHNSON.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-28
BEST MONEY MAKERS.

Mer in Different Walks of Life Who Earn
Large Sums and What They Do With 1t !.
William Joyce. of the New York. base
ball team is probably the best paid hall
player in the couatry today, says the
World. This is not so much due to his
ability as a player as to the fact that he
combines the offices of manager and cap
tain with third la seman.
The National league limits the salar es
of ball players to S2.400 for the six
months work. This is very fair COM
pensation for men who would probably
be earning 50 day as laborers had not
the natioral psstime such hold upon
the people. OF course. The limit is often
overstepped. and joyce receives in the
neighho.'hood of $1,000 If the Giants
should win the pennant. Toyee's salary
Will be doubled. If he finishes one, two,
three he receives handsome increase.
On the diamond Jcyce's temperament
has wan for hi,n the so5rinnet Of "Scrap-
py Bill" off the ball field he is The most
comps nionable of men, His good nature
is unfailing.
Edward Bald. nclt SO long ago a
bu.soiher boy in Buffalo, makes his bicycle
and his sturdy legs bring him a 'hand-
some isicore these days. He is one of the
Tastes, riders on the professional circuit
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-28
OUR LETTER BOX.
No communications will be published un-
der this head unless signed by the author
Editor.
A POPULIsTs WARNING.

Editor State Herald.
l am populist. I mean l am one of
the boys who were Matched out at st.
Louis, July "a, 1895. This convention af-
firmed that the financial and industrial
independence of the people of America
could only be obtained by a complete
revision of the constitutional liberties
which once were, but have now ceased to
be enjoyed by the people under the pre-
tended democratic administration of
Grover Cleveland. am a staunch ad-
vocate, Mr.. Editor, of that part of the
Platform which says: I'VE demand the
unrestricted coinage of gold and silver
at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 with
out waiting for the consent of foreign ma
tions." This plank in the populist plat
form rears itself head and shoulders
a bove all other reforms, because until
there can come to the great telling
masses but little if any relief.
Please let me inquire through your
widely circulated paper whether or not
the true populist of Alabama will con-
tinue to advocate and fight for this tbs ir
cardinal principle, the one of whichsthey
have long since boasted themselves as
the only real champions; or whether they
will fellow the lines mapped out by the
Montgomery Advertiser and the Alaba-
ma Monitor? Let me warn the populists
of Alabama against a repetition of the
disgrace to which the party subjected
itself last year by that unholy alliance
with its greatest enemy. the republican
party. | want particularly to urge upon
the minds of all earnest free silver popu-
lists that many of these populst-repub-
lican fusionists are the same who went
to Nashville, and who now have the au-
dacity to pose as middle-of-
populsts. Yea, my populist friends, their
programme is thus early being written,
the negotiations are now in progre SIS, to
lead you, like sheep, unsuspecting into
the same trap into which your boosted
leaders led you last year. and which
caused our party less of $4,000 white
votes in Alabama.
The sound money democrats. the re-
pubican-populists ard the republicans
have formed tbe conspiracy to wipe out
the free silver partysln Alabama. The
former constitute many of the monied
men OF She state. the middle-of- the-road
populist press and the latter the negro
vote. With these three forces against
free silver they hope 10 win.
1t is my forte to forewarn the honest
populists of Alabama of this snare of de-
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-28
GIGANTIC KICK.
Tobacco Importers CAIN the Dingley
Law Means Loss of Thousands eff
Dollars To Them Annually.

washington, July 27.--Tobacco men are
claiming that the new tobacco schedule
of the Dingley law means loss of
thousands of dollars to them year.
The paragraph is a part of section 3,
of the act which compels importers to pay
duty en- tobacco at tbs weight it goes into
the bonded warehouse. This takes from
the tobacco men privilege that has for
years been accorded to them by THE tariff
laws. Under the Wilson act, and pre-
vious laws, importers have had their to-
bacoo re-weighed at the time of its With
drawal from the bonded warehouse ard
on which weight duties We're collected.
The weight of tobacco is greatly reduced
during the bonded period by evaporation.
When tobacco arrived from along ocean
yoyage 1t is freely insufficiently cured
and has absorbed a large percentage of
moisture This moisture evaporetes in
the warehouse. Expsrts estima ate that
the importers save $25 to $40 bale on
Sunatra wrapper ard sometimes as hl2h
as $40 a balls on Havana leaf on the dried
OFT tobacco. Importers will now gain
rcthing by delay but must pay duties at
81. S5 per pound for the weight on tobacco
ct the time Of its arrival. They estimate
thlt the loss viii amount to ait least
$500 000
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-28
CAPT. P. SID JONES.

Respectfully and Lovingly Dedicated to
Our Esteemed Friend, p. Sid Jones.
You may talk about mardigras, or a
Barnums three ring show,
Ice or water carnivals, all these are
mighty slow,
Compared to what gets started and keeps
going round,
When that man from Alabama, Capt. P.
Sid gets in town.
There's a little bit of drinking and a
whole load of fun.
There are dice games that are losers,
and some that can be won;
There is betting on the prize fights talk
about Bonanza Ground,
And lot of Con- INDUCED in when Capt.
q p. Sid comes to town.
We are glad whene'er he comes here, and
hope to see him soon,
His beaming face lights up the way, and
drives away the gloom.
And when he stops comm TO this hot
cid town up here, ssssaS
We hope that twill be the angels that he
Will go to cheer;
And; while their harps are ringing, may
this here be their song,
There's darn good man among us, Capt.
p Sid's come to town. - So,
Chicago. June %, 1897 - -