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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05
A Big Artesian Well.

The results of irrigation the past sea
son in South Dlkota have been very
gratifying, aud demonstrate that the
semi-arid portions Of the State by this
means can be msde a. productive as any
part Of the Northwest. There are two
distinct methods of irrigation in this
State-canals which receive their sup
plies Of water from the spring freshet
and from the overflow of rivers, and
canals whose water isobtained from ar
tesian wells. This season about 10000
acres we're irrigated in the country.
Among the noted irrigated farms Of
the North west is the Carpenter.
The farm contains 500 acres ofslight-
ly rolling prairie land. The arte sian
well has an eight-inch pipe down TO
sand rock. There the diameter was re-
duced and six-inch pipe reaches to the
artesian basin, 1000 feet below the sur
face. The normal flow of the well is
300 gallons minute, sufficient to irri
gate tract of 1000 acres. As matter
of preoaution the well is not permitted
to flow its full capacity. being reduced
to flow of 80 gallons a minute. The
well was put down six years ago, and
cost $500 At present prices it would
cost not more than $1,000
I had the rheumafisn1 so badly that
I could not get my hand to my head
l tried the doctors medicine without
the least benefit At last l thought Of
ChaInberlain's Pain Balm; the first
bottle relieved all of the pain, and one
half of the second bottle effected com
plete cure.-W. J. Holland, Holland
Va. Chamberlain's Pain Balm il
equally good for sprains, swellings and
lameness, as well as burns, cuts anC
bruises, for sale at all drug stores.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05
Ills Nathan ofIt

"Why," she asked, do 50 many Of
the poets write about goldenrod? 1t
seems as if every one Of them had tried
TO glorify it. "
"Well, " replied the man who had
worked on a farm, 1.-THE only explana-
tion can give is that the poets probably
never tried TO raise potatoes in field
where goldenrod had got good start. "
cleveland Leader.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05
Beat Him Down.

Two Irishmen were cleaning win
dow in a tall building. To facilitate
their work they had stuck a board out
Of the window, and Pat stood on the end
OF 1t which was outside and Mike on
the end inside 10 balance. Suddenly
Pat shouted:
"Moike, I've dropped me sponge.
IhOts all roight. III 90 down and
git Il.
When he got 70 the street, he found
Pat in heap on the sidewalk and ex-
claimed:
We'll, well, how did y',z git down
here 50 quick, Patg l ran all the way
down, but bedad yez hoy beaten me. :"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05
How to ronrhen p.ner-

4 plan for rendering paper as tough
as wood OF leather, it is said, has been
recently introduced on the continent. It
consists in mixing chloride of zinc with
the Ifnlp in The course of manufacture
1t has been found that the greater the
degree of concentration Of the zinc solu-
ton the greater viii lie the toughness
Of the paper.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05
Expensive Modesty.

What's tie matter, OLD man? You
look sad. -
Il am. just asked Farnsworth to
tend me So
And 1 suppose he said he didn't
have that much IL the world"
No. He had TO get $40 bill chang
ed in order to let me have what l had
asked for f'-Cleveland Leader.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05

Chinese nature is a curious branch Of
human nature. The Celestials not only
continue to buy as freely as ever from
their customers, the japanese, but many
Of the Chinese insist that they never
heard Of the war.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05

Timmins-I have never been able to
make mp my mind whether l an a
genius OF not.
Simmons-leis easily tested. Just act
like hog when you are In society, and
If you are a genius people viii admire
you for it.-Indianapolis Journal
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05

Imp ssible to foresee am accident.
Not impossible to be prepared fori'.
1r. ThamS-' Eclec:ric Oil. Monarch
sver pain
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05

For ra.ss, maps, &c, call on TIcI,e. Aeon -,
Aaaress ,,ils Inos- r Watt, 2. A. W. D., 80 Fiss5
h1soSrison, J. r Wood.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05

IMPORTANT To ADVERTISERS.
The cream of the country papers is found
in Rernirgton's County Seat Lists. Shrewd
advertisers avail themselves of these lists. q
copy of which can be had of Remington
Bros. Of New York s Pittsburx.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05

Il can't afford, said the man Of
moderate means, "to go to many places
of amusement, but am admitted free
TO the play with the longest run ON rec
ord, The Struggle of Life. New
York Sun.
The New York stock brokers are said
TO wear out the floor-of their stock ex-
changs eve.y five years
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-05
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
EASTERN STANDARD TING
IN EFFECT NOVEMBER 20, 1897
wEsrwAR-

Johnstown as follows: 'iOA a.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09

ization of the county as n separate local
district and until his nomination for the
presidency, Mr.. Lincoln was one of the
lawyers in attendance, and that he was a
favorite with the people of the county is
evidenced by the fact that the city bears
his name. His stories are yet repeated
by surviving pioneers who were county
officials at that time, and his legal SER
vices in many Of the trials of those times
are still remembered.
When the Chicago and Alton Railroad
was built through the county it did not
pass through the new county seat, Mount
Pulaski, nor the old one of Postville, but
it did pass within a mile of the latter
town. At this point new town was
founded and named in honor of Mr.. Lin
coin, who was was a friend of the men
who were its founders.
AT the sale of lots in the new town on
Aug. 20, 1853. Mr.. Lincoln was present
and expressed his regrets at having no
money with which to buy some of the
town lots. However, two lots opposite
the block set aside as the court house
square were given TO him by Messrs. Gil
let, Hickox and Latham as an attorney
fe> for services III the work of securing
the charter and deeds for the new city.
These lots Mr.. Lincoln owned until his
death and were not sold by his heirs IN
til about seven years ago.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09
TefeRraphic Brevities.

The suburban residence of A. J. Drexel
Jr., near Philadelphia, was burned. The
loss will reach 100000 and is covered by
insurance.
Mrs. Augusta Mack, the confessed mur-
derer of William Guldensuppe in New
York, is now in the womaH's prison in
Auburn, \. Y. d.
The Missouri militia viii collect money
TO aid the sufferers in Cuba. The 1ju-
tant general has appointed a committee
for the purpose.
The British steamer Darlington, Cap
tain Dunbar, laden with cotton, from Gal
weston Jan. 20 for Hamburg, went ashore
OF Marquesas keys, Fla.
Consul jenkins writes that United
States citizens travelling in Salvador must
have, besides a passport properly indOrs-
ed, d receipt for the road tax.
A bold attempt was made to hold up the
Citizens Bank Of Portland, Ore, but ow-
ing to the courage and thoughtfulness OF
Cashier A. w. Lambert the robber was
put to flight without securing a cent.
A Malta murder has been revealed at
New Orleans by the finding Of a trunk in
the open street in the rear Of the city
which contained the body Of an Italian
with the head almost cut from the body.
At Napa, Cal, in the presence of the
sheriff and district attorney OF Napa
County and of six other witnesses George
Willard Clark has confessed that he was
the murderer of his brother, w. A. Clark,
at St. Helena.
A house boat occupied by George At
kins and his two young daughters. just
bove Louisville, KY, was swamped dur
ing the night, and the occupants took
refuge in large skiff. The boat capsized
and all were lost.
Rev. III. z. Howell of the Welsh Pres
byterian Church in Columbus, o., was
stricken with paralysis as he rose to an
nounce the closing hymn at the midweek
service. He is the editor Of The Friend.
a magazine published at Utica, n. \,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09

to be late at breakfast AMI, as became
one in her exalted position, she made an
offense of this kind on Meg's part an af-
fair of great Importance.
Not that Meg in all the years she had
worked for Weaver & Co. had been late
to breakfast more than three or four
times, but the landlady never quite forgot
that Meg had at one time been her will
ing slave and any dereliction on her part
which was sayored of independence was
not thing to lghiiy pass over.
On the morning al question, the land
lady, much to Meg's SURPRISE greeted her
in an affable manner and her grim mouth
quivered with something which might,
under favorable conditions, have been
mistaken for smile, but which had had
so little practice that it merely succeed
ed in being grimace, rs she told her to
take her seat at the table and then pro-
ceeded to introduce her to new boarder
who had Just paid months board in ad-
vance.
Meg acknowledged the introduction, and
after the landlady had gone out ventured
to look at her Wis avis, and discovered
that he was a tall young man with
bronZed complexion and pair of brown
eyes which met hers frankly, and SEEM
cd to look right down into her foolishly
beating heart, and after the tough steak
had been served and he had gallantly fill
ed q glass of water for her Meg made up
her mind that he was different from those
whom she constantly met beneath that
roof and was undeniaby nice"
The young man, whose name was At
wood-"Mr. Thomas Atwood" as he was
called by the landlady-was disposed to
talk as he went OH eating his breakfast,
and as Meg was the only one at the
breakfast table he naturally talked to her,
and she soon learned that he was head
brakeman on one of the trains which roll
cd out of the city en- the iron rails be-
longing TO great railway line, and that
his home was in an Eastern city. She
told him that she also belonged TO the
toiing masses. and before breakfast was
finished they became very well acquaint-
ed, and Meg, as she pinned her veil down
close over her plain little hst, thought
Mr.. Atwood the very incest gentleman
whom she had ever met.
And so Meg's love story began, and as
the time few away it was apparent 10
every body that she was growing abso-
lutely pretty-happiness having much
power in this direction-and that the time
was approaching when the honest young
brakeman and herself would cease to be
lovers and become husband and wife.
Indeed, they had talked it all over, and
Meg had told Tom that she had saved
500 from her meager salary, and Tom
had confessed that "before he had known
her he had spent ali his earnings, but
since that true he had begun to put by
a little. and aow had $500. and that he
meant to work hard and get promotion,
50 THAT they could some time have
heu,e Of their. own." etc, just as humble,
Happy lovers always have done and al
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09

s MEG'S VALENTINE.

n II EG was only one of the "hands"
MI in the great factory of Weaver
L Il 4 CO.. and with about the same
regularity as the machinery she perform
ed her daily tasks.
Nobody in the factory had ever given
her so much as sympathetic glance; the
whirr of wheels, the grind of machinery
the everlasting hum of moving belts and
singing of spindles do not encourage sym
pathy, and besides Meg was quiet, even
timid, and her companions, after the first
day of now and then half curious, half
critical inspection, paid no attention to
her.
And yet Meg's trouble" had been a
romance; sort of flower which blooms
sometimes along the hedgerows with the
same beauty and sweetness as in the con-
servatory.
Born Was II snow about her orig
in; brought up, a, i: /, Ia. : '.aritable in
stitution, later as the chure girl In n
poara 49,, -'hich always smelled Of
di t and rancidity; anu still later as a
boarder at the same place, because It was
more like homo to her after her long, hard
days work at the factory, where she had
secured employment at the age of Is.
Meg's life had been an uneventful one.
Meg was ignorant, her schooling hav-
ing been encompassed by six months
course at grammar school in the neigh
Dorhood, and for which educational aa.
vantage she had toilcd for the mistress
OF the boarding house until her health
threatened to give way under the strain,
But since somebody, back in the past
of Meg's unknown ancestry, had sent n
drop of ambitious blood flowing through
her veins. within the six months she had
learned to read easy words, both in print
and writing. and she was proud of the
fact.
She did glory in her power to read and
spell out the meaning of such cheap books
as came in her way. and once having
watched postman deliver n letter ncross
the street. she was seized with a wish
that was somewhat akin to pain to re-
ceive letter from somebody-just to 500
If she could frame an answer.
She had never received letter and
thinking it over from this standpoint.
Meg felt that s q was very lonely and she
vaguely wondered how it all came abou1
that nobody in all the thousands which
made up the big city-the big city was
Meg's world-had cared whether she liy
ed or died.
Once sweet little girl, who was walk
ing with her nurse, had looked up into
her face and with that free fasonry which
knows nothing of rules and which has in
1T the element. nay, the very essence of
fraternity, had pressed tiny cluster of
violets into her hand
And so the days went on, to-day as yes
terday, tomorrow as to-day, until one
morning Meg oversight herself, by some
method of calculation which did not con-
slider time in the light of dollars and cents
added TO her income, and shp went to her
breakfast late. The landlaly was usu-
ally pleasant when boarder happened
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09
HEAVY TRADE BALANCE.
Immense Increase in Foreign Com
merce of United Stats.


Revised returns of the statistical bureau
of the Treasury Department. just issued,
show the value of exports from the Unit
ed States for the calendar year 1897 &c
have been $1,000, T43 ,554. against S1,o05,'
S37, ,241 for 1896. and imports to have
been SI42. $50 during 1897, against
S6S1, ,579, 500 in 1896. The total of our
foreign commerce for the calendar year
1897 is 81, ,S42, ,374 ,904, larger volume OF
business than in any previous calendar or
fiscal year in our history. The trade bal
ance in our favor for the calendar year
1897 was $357. I'll, ,202, against S:924. .257,-
6So for 1896. For the two years last past
the outside world paid the United States
a balance of S6Sl .S69. 9.SS9. This balance
was largely paid IL gold and in American
bonds and stocks, though American tour
lists reduced the total by S50.00O,000 TO
SI5,000,000 LEFT yearly IN Europe.
Exports of corn for 1897 were the larg-
est ON record aggregatine $50, 12T,570
bushels. against .31 ,9u0, $50 The year pre-
cedihg, G9,000.000 bushels in 1896, A.
Go0090 in 1894. and 55.000,000 in 1893.
The United Kingdom was our largest Gus
toner, taking Sl,649.000 bushels, Ger
many 33, $4,000 bushels aud France g.
0TS,000. All Europe took III ,062,000
bushels and British Columbia 12,0000o0
bushels Exports of wheat and -four were
1902, ,943 bushels in 1897 against 100,
10I,091 in 1896. Flour exports fell off
nearly 2.500,000 barrels, and raw wheat
increased 26000.0C0 bushels. English mill
ers are recovering the gronnd lost during
the great depression Z few years ago.
The totals of lake commerce are as fol
lows: Exports for 1897 SI0.20S.50S,
against SG3, ,0S1, ,T20 the year preceding;
imports, SIG, 1913, 100. against S46,9G5, ,529.
Statistics of immigration for the first
half of the fiscal year 1S919S tJuiy l TO
Dec. 81 show Il falling off of S,t22 from
the low water mark of the corresponding
period of 1S96-9T, the total arrivals hav-
ing been 99,11J. This is the low record
since the Government supervision of inn
migration began in 1883. The previous
low mark was for the fiscal year 1869
$50, ,S32-which was decrease of 112
coo from 1896. Italy continues to send
in the greatest number of people, Russia
next and Ireland third.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09
TiDye Lottery Dav.

One of the most charming and ut the
same time plausible versions of the rela-
ton of the modern valentine idea to that
devoted Christian martyr, st. Valentine,
is the following:
The early Christian fathers, in their at
tempts to conciliate their pagan compat-
riots, with most coTlmendable tact and
insight utilized many of the popular forms
of NEUROLOGICAL celebrations to commemo-
rate Christian events.
One of the festivals, dear to the heart
of every Roman, was the feast of Luper-
Gala, when they did honor to their gods
Pan and Juno, not only with the ban
quet, dance and drama, but with pecu-
liar ceremony which provided a billet
box into which were dropped slips of pa
per inscribed with the ladies' names. The
bachelors drew out these clips and the Ia
dies whose names were on their papers
were benceforth installed as their mis-
tresses for twelve months to command
them - best suited their sweet wills. This
festival usually occurred in February,
and was therefore made use of by the
Christians to commemorate the birth
day of the martyr, st. Valentine. In time
it came to be called Valentines Day and
retained the love-lottery as its especial
feature
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09

ner of each, tiny Cupid done in pen and
ink or pretty water colors. The invita-
tions should read like this:
''Ye kind Saint Valentine cordially in
vites you to a heart party on the evening
of his festival day, from 8 till midnight,
at 65 Blank street.
The game of progressive hearts" oc-
cupies the first hour and half, taat is,
from 8 until 9:30, when refreshments
should be served. after which dancing
may continue until time to break up. There
should be an equal number of ladies ana
gentlemen invited.
Out of cardboard cut hearts and arrows
to the number of the guests. On each
heart is written some appropriate motto
or quotation, and on each arrow one that
shall match it perfectly, so that when the
two are read together they shall form
either a question and ~ answer, a dou-
bic exclamation or complete sentence.
On the arrival of guests q heart is given
to each gentleman, an arrow to each lady;
then follows the fun of finding partners.
There should be prizes in the form of
hearts, the ladies' being silver locket or
heart-shaped purse or pretty heart belt
buckle, the gentlemen's tiny scarf pin
of gold wire shaped like heart For
the BOBBY prize the lady has a Cupid with
broken wings sketched on a card, and the
man case of court plaster, on which is
inscribed Il heal all wounds but those of
love-"
All the table decorations should so lar
hs possible be heart shaped. Bake he
cakes in that form, cut the waters with
the old-fashioned heart cutter, and fo'
confections have sugar hearts and bon
bons with appropriate notices. Serve
everything which cannot be nodded, such
as salads, in heart-shaped dishes, and pack
the ices and jellies in heart-shaped molds
OF course, there are many variations on
this plan to be devised by clever brains,
and the more varied the more keen the
enjoyment.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09
Notes of Current Events.

spsniards in Cuba claim the insurgent
leader Rabi has surrendered.
Ex-President Cleveland now says that
he has always been opposed To annexation
of Hawaii.
Fire destroyed four stores and half
dozen offices and smaller buildings at
Somerset, Ky. Loss, 100000; insurance,
S65, 600.
A receiver has been appointed for the
w. f. Swards Lumber Company Of
Bridgeport, Conn. The liabilities are said
to be $150.000 and the assets 100000.
II is reported in London that Lord Del
amere's expedition has reached Fashoda,
on the river Nile, about 400 miles sorth
Of Khartoum. and at which place the
French expedition under Captain Mar
chand. repeatedly reported massacred,
was said to have arrived some time ago.
The Odd Fellows Mutual Aid Associa-
tion voted to go out Of business. Its as
sets amount to $3.50, and its liabilities to
500. 900, consisting Of unpaid death
claims. The association was formed TWEEN
ty-eight years ago by men prominently
connected with the Odd Fellows, but it
never had any official connection with the
order,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09

between the cars while on his regular run
and had been so badly injured that he
had died shortly after being brought to
the hospital. Before his death he had
asked for pencil and paper and had writ
ten the inclosed, and requested that it be
sent to its present address. ,"
Meg dropped the letter, and with the
calmness of one who has fast hold of de-
spair she read Toms last ms sage which,
with many breaks and .alEpSt illegihle
| tracery, ran as follows: Deer girl: /
have made my last-run and-have got to
say good-by-keep tite hold on the
brakes, and wth-love forever and ever,
/ am-your valentine"
That was all; only the story of two
humble lovers, and to-day Meg is again
in the factory. But, as | said, back of
her soft gray eyes is Il something which
is too sad for speech, too deep for tears,
and it will go with her all her days, and
who knows will fade only when she
is no more lonely, no more heart hungry.
Death is not the end; 1t is the beginning.
Utica Globe
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-09
a VALENTINE.
rWritten hv a married

written by married man.9
Into my presence came just now
A little child know not how.
Familiar, too, he seemed; and vet
could not tell where we had met.
His mien was nnoct mt and petld-
never saw falIer child
And yet. In most unseemly glee,
He cooked one wicked eye at me.
knew him then. The pretty boy
TOOK aim With the same silver toy
That Stays it thousands. "Wat!' cried !,
Don't shoot at me, my son; ON. fie''
ssFor you forget 1t was your dart,
Sent once with your own mf tchless art
That made me like the rest "a ool.
"Since then, alas. I've been at school!
For she. ah. yesl she still is fair;
Untouched by gray her dusky hair.
once she was loving; now you see
she rules the house, and she rules me-"
He said no word, but just took aim.
Straight tc my heart the arrow come
Forget me now. sir, II YOU dare!"
Cried Cupid, running down the stair.
Deep In my heart there Is pain
Mcthlnks ain IN love again.
Sweet, sweet. my pet. Ii Is not true:
Those foolish words | deeply rue
wonder II you are In league
With Cupid? Is II Loves intrigue?
l know not care not. but I'll sign
Myself your humble Valentine.
Puck