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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-03-16
REPORT OF TIE
DIRECTORS OF THE POOR
HOUSE OF EMPLOYMENT
REPORT OF The
Somerset County, Pa.
For the Year Ending December 81,
1897

1881.
To Me Honorable the Judges OF ne
Court Of Quarter Sessions of the ft'aoe
and Grand Jury Of .Soaaerset Cofatst'
Ia compliance with the sixth section
Of the Act OF Assembly approved the
18th day Of April, iS45. providing ior
sithe erection Of a House Of Employ
ment and support OF the Poor 81 SAID
Countv.'f the undersigned Directors
herewith respectfully submit and lay
before YOU their report for the year end
ing December 81, 1897, showing the
number and sex OF all persons main
tained and employed in said House OF
Employment and supported or assisted
elsewhere, as well as the names OF those
who have died at said House OF En-
ployment during the year, and oi Inc
children by them indentured, With the
names Of their masters, their oecupa'
tions and callings.
We also herewith submit an account
of ALI sales, donations, devises and be
quests, and moneys received 10y OF iof
them.
In addition 10 the information reqni-
red by the Act of Assembly, the Board
OF lllrGClOI5 ubIthlln tLAA4ioA A-AN~-
suitable headings the names OF those
who have been assisted elsewhere, and
also the children who were maintained
in private families under the Act OF
Assembly, approved June Is, 1883, and
those placed with the Children's Aid
Society for maintenance and placing 10
homes, and the amounts paid for theiI
maintenance; also the names OF all per-
sons removed 10 other institutions for
medical treatment and teaching.
We also submit an account OF the re-
pairs made during the year, condition
of the farm, products OF the same, ma
terials made and manufactured, i'm
provements made or added, together
with such other items as may be of IN
terest to the Court, Grand Jury and
public. =.
All Of which is respectfully submit
ted aud certified this 3lst day of De
cember, A. ID. 1897.
Attest William Dun,
l.. G. Colborn, Harrison GOhu,
Iseal Clerk. J. w. Peck,
Directors of the Po r and House Oi
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-03-16
SCHEDULE-H.

Account OF moneys received by the Direct
Drs OF the Poor for the year ending December
II. iSI7. on account OF sales, donations, and
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-03-16
WONDERFUL RESCUE.
HOW SERGEANT VAUGHAN SAVED A
LIFE At A HOTEL FIRE.

A Member of the New York Department
Who Endangered His own Life to Save
"A Guest of the Hotel Royal VINO Had
About Given Up All Hope.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Chinese typewriter has been in
vented by DR.. Sheffield, of Jungcho.
China, which has a wheel carrying over
1000 characters, arranged in 30 circles
1t is said to exceed so far the speed of
the swiftest Chinese writer, that it's
value is assured.
Heretofore, perfumery has been de-
tached from flowers by soaking them in
lard. A Partisan has now found a way
Of gathering the fragrance by simply
soaking the flowers in water, process
which can be repeated several times
without destroying the flowers.
Nearly $4,000 patents were granted
by the United States patent office last
year, or more than in any preceding
year. Inventive genius is evidently
active in this country. Not one in a
hundred of these inventions will per-
haps ever come into practical use.
The total value of the mineral prod
ucts of. this country last year is re-
ported to be about $74O,OOO,OOO. The
greatest loss is in silver. The yield
was 2,37O,OOO ounces less than in 1896,
and the value dropped about $5, 100000.
The gain in gold was $4,000 ounces, or
S2,65O,OOO
During the course of recent lee
ture at Montevideo," says Science, ''Dr.
SanarelH stated that the serum he has
obtained from the animals with which
he has been experimenting, is effective
against yellow fever, and that it will
very probably cure yellow fever in hu-
man beings"
The Massachusetts, cattle commits
sioners' annual report, Just issued, says
that the number of cattle paid for as
victims of tuberculosis during the year
was 5,255, and the amount paid for them
was $179,867. Quarantine and killing
expenses and arbitration brought the
average amount paid for condemned
cattle to $34 per head.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
ELEPHANT BLOCKED TIE way.

English Clergyman While Cycling
Has a Strange Experience.
This story comes from Birmingham,
England: The clergyman of neigh
boring town was returning home on his
bicycle. He had been preaching in an
adjoining village, and this means of
locomotion was the one most suited to
his tastes and to his convenience. The
night was dark, and the rays of the
reverend gentleman's lamp did not
pierce far into the gloom. Suddenly
something seemed to loom large, vague
and ominous before his eyes. He had a
short sensation that he was rushing
on to some unknown doom; there was
collision with something soft and of
shape most curious, and away few the
machine one way and the cleric the
other. When the reverend cyclist had
pulled himself together he heard noises,
and there was a CLEAN of lantern
near at hand, Pickering as though in
dicative of much agitation. Through
the darkness came sleepy-lool1ing
man, rubbing his eyes. From him the
cleric discovered that there was an ele-
phant stretched across the rather mar
row road. The animal had been as
awkward as 'My Lord the Elephant
of Rudyard Kipling creation. True, he
was not blocking a rass, but he had
fallen in the road on his side, ard had
stopped there, refusing to move. He
belonged to a circus, did this trunked
obstruction, in course of transition
from one town to another, and since
his fall had been left in charge of two
men with lanterns, who appear to have
fallen asleep. Beyond few quiet and
quaint utterances, the elephant did not
mind. What the front wheel of the
bicycle thought about it is not known.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
LIsERTY OR REVENeE9

WOOdenleE Might Have Got of Jail
But Preferred to Keep COrkIeg In.
Two one-legged men were confined
recently in Jail in a little Kentucky
town One had a wooden leg and the
other, who was a greater rascal and had
had more means at his command, wore
a cork leg. Apparently well-behaved
and quiet, both men got the privilege of
the prisoners walk which ran around
outside of the cells. Beyond this was
the jailor'S walk and beyond that was
freedom.
The cork-legged man was really a
desperate character, but sly and cum
ming. He meditated much on therelation
of the jailor's walk to the outside world
1t was only a ''step farther he face
tiously told his companion, who ad-
mired his humor. In some manner he
became possessed of a file, with which
he converted a case knife into a saw
With this he succeeded in saving in
two one of the bars of his cell. He
made a confidant of his fellow prisoner,
who expected to join him in his es-
capesf The plan was so well concealed
that finallU nothing but one iron tAa--
which could easily be sawed in two dur
ing the night, stood between them and
liberty.
At almost the critical moment, Wood
enleg, thrusting his hand into his
trousers pocket-on the side where he
didn't feel, found that Corlleg had
robbed him of his pile, ffve-dollar
bill. he hesitated a moment Free
dom is sweet; he knew that, because he
had been deprived of his joys. But re-
venlge, to him, was sweeter. Just as
his companion, flushed with success,
was almost ready to step out into the
wide, wide world, Woodenleg squealed,
and the escape was frustrated.
The two are still confined in the Jail,
and while the one meditates upon
honesty being the best policy, the other
Ponders over the question: "Is liberty
or revenge the sweeter pm Y. Sun
Boiled Chocolate Glaze.
Place a small saucepan over the fire
with one pound sugar, one-quarter
pound grated chocolate and one-half
pint water; stir and boil till it will
form a thread between two fingers;
remove from fire and stir until thin
skin forms on top of glaze; then use
at once; spread evenly all over the
cake and set few minutes in a cool
oven.-American Queen.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
A WELCOME TO A MONARCH.

Reception Given by Mayor COIvIn, of
Chicago, to King KaIakaua.
Three men were discussing the pro-
priety of the call made by President Nc
Kinley upon President Dole. The dis
cussion brought out this story:
ST think old Harvey D. Colvin knew
how to do things when it came to enter
tanning folks from abroad, especially
misunderstanding said one of the
two. HE was mayor of Chicago when
Kalakaua passed over the country in
search of a loan. Colvin was rough and
ready, and wore a shirt with a ruffle
front and diamond in the middle,
which always made me think of bar
keeper on his day off. When the king
and his suite arrived in Chicago, Colvin
and his staff were at the station, and the
mayor took the king by the hand as
warmly as if the king had been ward
politician. The carriages moved quick
ly to the Grand Pacific hotel. Clark
street was jammed with people clamor-
ing for the king to come out. The
hour was early in the day. At the re-
quest of Mayor Colvin. Kalakaua
stepped out on the veranda and bowed.
The populace, unused to sights of kings
in flesh, yelled. Mayor Colvin waved his
hand and shouted:
His majesty, the king of the Sand
wich islands,
THE Populace yelled, laughed. and
hooted. Then the mayor, remembering
the early hour, turned to his royal guest
and said:
We'll, king, you must be tired. Bet
ter go and wash up and then we'll have
breakfast"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
COULDN'T FIND HER.
Lady Who Sent Senator Perkins Her
Card Wore Male Attire.

Lady Who Sent Senator Perkins Her
Card Wore Male Attire.
The owners of probably half the
cards that are sent in to the senators
are unknown to their recipients. Sen
ator Perkins one day recently, in re-
spending to one of those unknowns.
who happened to be of the feminine
gender, told the page who brought the
card to show the lady to the marble
room. He went out there a few min
utes later, expecting, of course, to be
recognized by the lady who had called
on him. None of the three ladies in
the room came forward so he politely
asked each of them in turn if she
wished 80 see Senator Perkins" Re-
ceiving a negative to each inquiry, he
started back to his seat in the cham
bcr when he met, in the corridor of the
marble room, the weather bureau man,
who is stationed there, and who is
often called upon by visitors to point
out senators whose faces are unfa-
miliar to the former. Seeing the sem
ator with card in his hand and a per
picked look on his face, he asked him
if he were looking for some one.
eyes, the senator replied, ST re-
ceived this card. and told the page
would see her in the marble room, but
she isn't there"
The weather man glanced at the card
and grinned. "But she is there, SEN
ator,'' he said, at the same time point
ing to an individual clad in broadcloth
trousers and Prince Albert coat seated
on soft in corner of the marble
room.
The card bore the name of DR.. Mary
Walker.-N. Y. Sun.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE sINeER.s FORTUNE.
when Death Separates the Great
Patti from Her Money.

When Death Separates the Great
Patti from Her Money.
The death of Nicolini, coming as it
has before that of Adelina Patti, prob
ably means that a large share of her
fortune will fall to American heirs.
Nine. Patti has few living relatives
Her nearest kinsman is believed to be
Alfredo Barilli, a popular musician of
Atlanta, Ga. Mr.. Barilli is the son of
the prima donna's half-brother, who in
his day was also musician. The half
brother was almost grown at the time
of the diva's birth, and it was by him
that the voice which was to make her
fame and fortune was discovered and
given its first development. Many tales
are told in the Barilli family of the
strict measures resorted to by the
elder Barilli to force his young charge
and pupil to diligent study, and of the
oft-repeated but harmless punishments
which resulted when in the exuberance
of youth she sighted her tasks and
failed to live up to the possibilities OF
her wonderful voice.
Although in the brief annals of Pat
It's life little or no credit has been
given to Sig. Barilli for his part in her
musical education, the singer herself
has acknowledged her Indebtedness to
him on the back of large photograph
of herself sent to him before his death
and just after PATHS first great Euro
pean triumphs. On the back of this
photograph, beneath his name and
hers, she has written: 'STo my first and
only teacher" This souvenir, furnish
ing as it does almost the only proof of
oil Do
with her career, is naturally greatly
priced by the family of his son, who still
have it in their possession.
Alfredo Barilli, an artist and man
of taste and culture, has always been
a favorite with his aunt, and has spent
several summers with her at Craig-y-
Nos. Two years ago his wife and chill
dren were invited to accompany him to
her castle in the Welsh highlands.
Every preparation was made to accept,
but sickness prevented them from GO
ing as a family, although Mr.. Barilli
himself paid his respects and expressed
his wife's regrets. During PATHS last
American tour, when she sang in At
lanta, the Barilh family were invited to
dine with the singer at her hotel, and
were the recipients of affectionate IA
vors at her hands. ~
The death of Nicolini, therefore,
places the Barillis in the direct line of
inheritance, as the indications are that
the great singer holds them in high re-
gard. They have an attractive and
artistic home just outside of Atlanta,
in suburb known as College Park, al
though Mr.. Barilli's musical studio is
in the city. There they live quiet and
unpretentious life. They have never
Haunted their relationship with the
great prima donna, nor by word or deed
encouraged the belief that they had any
expectations from her. Her photo
graphs, however, are enshrined in state
in their home, and every detail of her
life is followed by them with the great
est interest.-N- Y. Times
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
\ INSECT NURSES.
Bees and Ants That Look After the
Sick.


Sick.
The care of the young is always con-
sidered one of the most important OF
the industries of the commune. Among
the bees and ants the care of the young
is relegated to the younger sisters, al.
though the elders do not scorn these
duties if they find their performance
necessary. However, the first work OF
the ant or bee just emerged from the
pupa state is that of nurse, and a most
tender and devoted one she is. Espe-
ciaIly are the ant nurses solicitous
about the health and comfort of their
small charges. In some species the
young ant grubs are assorted into sizes.
those of the same age being kept in the
same apartment, suggesting a graded
school. When the ant babies are hun
CRY they stretch up like young birds,
and their nurses regurgitate partly di-
gested food into the gaping, hungry
mouths. The nurses keep them very
clean by licking them with their long
tongues, and, what is more interesting,
are very careful to keep them in the
right temperature. When the sun
shines hot on the nest in the morning
the nurses carry their charges to the
they carry them again to the upper
nurseries. The nurses show great in
terest in the young when they emerge
from the pupa state, helping them to
straighten out their newly freed an
tennae and legs, then taking hand at
their education by leading them around
The city and showing them the ways of
the formic world.
All the members of the insect com
mune are shining lights in their devo-
tion to the young. The moment an ant
nest is attacked those citizens who are
not detailed to fight the intruders will
snatch up the babies and flee with
them to places of safety, or when hard
pressed will fight to the death for their
protection. This is worthy of note,
since it is not the mother instinct for
saving her young but is a race instinct
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
REMOVING THE KINKS.
COIOred Ministers in Washington
Preach Tint ''FIesh in Vcnity."

COIOred Ministers in Washington
Preach Tint |'FIesh in Vcrity.'' -
The colored ministers of Washington
are preaching that flesh = vanity
from point of view which does not
give their white brethren any trouble,
says correspondent in the ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Displayed in a show
window on one of the principal shop
ping streets is this sign:
Attention, colorcd people! Blank 5
take-out-kink will take the kink out of
your hair ard make it silky, soft, pliable
and beautiful
Then follow instructions for the
use accompanied by the guarantee of
harmlessness, and by other statements
calculated to encourage the application
of the. preparation. But the sign is not
what draws the coloreG people to the
window and causes them to remain
there with admiring gaze. The bottom
of the show window is piled high with
black hair in the natural state. There
is enough to make a good beginning
with mattress. Above are exhibits of
what 'Blank's take-out-kink'' can do.
Switches and bangs and braids and
other forms of black hair. soft and
glossy and wavy, are shown in strong
contrast with the raw material unGer-
meath. The sight is temptation Col
ored pastors of Washing ton have dis
covered that the fashion to expert
ment with 'take-out-kiEk" is sweeping
through their cations. They are
denouncing from the pulpit in vigorous
language the wickedness of trying 10
change the natural order of capillary
growth
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
A Ftne Point tn BanIzinE.

Banks do not usually accept checks
which call for one dollar more than the
amount of deposit, unless the customer
is well known, and the officers are con-
fident that he will promptly make up
the balance. Thus, if check for 5000
is presented and the maker has only
$192 to his credit, the paper will usually
go back stamped mo funds" But one
attorney recently got around that. He
had, after long dunning, secured a
check from slow-pay debtor When
it was presented for collection he
found that the deposit lacked eight dol
lars of the amount the paper called for,
and payment was refused. Thereupon
he promptly deposited eight dollars to
amount of the creditor and gained $192
by the operation, for the check was
cashed.-Worchester (Mass.) Gazette.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
THE cARE-FREE WENNEsE.
They Rarely Take Life Seriously, Un-
less at a Funeral.


The native Viennese is a jolly, good
natured, shiftless creature.
No people on the earth are so jolly, or
so easily and SO much amused. Go to
the Prater, the largest public park in
Europe, and from hundred different
beer-gardens comes the noise of toot-
ing brass bands and stamping feet and
beating drums. Merry -go-rounds swing
old and young, and dime museums and
music halls are as full of people as they
are empty of decency. Go to the thea
ters on any night, and you will find
them crowded by an enthusiastic audi
ence, the galleries filed by noisy stu
dents and working girls. The court
theaters, which present only legiti-
mate dramas and operas, have also their
numerous devotees. Go to the coffee
houses, of which there is one on every
corner, and you will find them full,
especially in the afternoon, with mer-
chants with their noses in the news
papers, and clerks slipping their Mocha,
and officers smoking their cigars, and
cue-pushing and card-shuff1ing youths.
At night these coffee houses become the
rendezvous of the lower element. I
have never seen the Viennese serious,
unless it be at a funeral, and 1 suppose
that even out of that he manages to get
some fun. Yet he is easily excited, and
although loyal and law-abiding, his
good nature may quickly turn into a
fiery passion, and Viennese riot is a
serious matter-Edward A. Steiner,
in Woman's Home Companion.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Greenwich observatory claims that
1T has little clear weather, sun and
stars are wholly invisible every other
day in winter, one day in four in fall,
one in eight in spring and one in six
teen in summer. In the 20 years end
ing with 1896 there were only eight in
stances of sunlight for IA continuous
hours.
The number of asteroids discovered
up to the present date is 423. A num-
Der of these small planets have not been
observed since their discovery and are
practically lost. Consequently it is
now a matter of doubt, until the ele-
ments have been computed, whether
the supposed new planet is really new
or only an old one rediscovered.
oil can be automatically fed to rap
idly revolving shafts and pulleys by 4
new attachment for ordinary oil cups
consisting of tube curved the way the
shaft runs, with a screw cap at the in
ner end, the outer end being left open
to receive air as the wheel turns, thus
forcing the oil through the cup instead
of letting it run to the top of the cup
from centrifugal force.
1t is supposed that Centauri, one
oe the brightest stars of the southern
hemisphere, is the nearest of the fixed
stars to the earth. The researches on
its parallax by Henderson and Maclear
gave, for its distance from the earth, in
round numbers, twenty billions of
miles. At the inconceivable rapid rate
at which light is propagated through
space, 1T would require more than four
years to reach the earth from this star.
The president of the Agassiz asso-
citation, Mr.. H. II. Ballard, recently
caught an ant near its hill, shut it up
in box, carried it $50 feet away, and
set it free in the middle of shady road.
What followed he thus describes: SIT
seemed at first bewildered. Then it
climbed to the top of ridge of sand,
erected its body as high as possible
waved its antennae for several seconds,
and then started in a straight line for
home"
Last year DR.. Abbott, of Philadel-
phia, published some researches which
tended to show that microbes which
could not accomplish the death of
healthy animals proved fatal to ami
mails under the influence of alcohol
A French Investigator has gone step
further, and has succeeded in demon
strating on irrefragable evidence that
alcohol not only destroys what we may
call natural immunity, but tends to
prevent the acquisition of the immu-
nifty conferred by the various serums
Stories of the ravages of termites,
or white ants come from the curator
Of the Australian museum at Sydney.
Some time ago they destroyed the roof
of the museum building, and it had to
be replaced with a covering composed
largely of steel and copper. Their
work, being carried on in the interior
of the timber, does not reveal itself un-
til the structure is about ready to fall
to pieces, and so it was only recently
that the fact came out that the ants had
also destroyed the underpinning of one
of the important floors of the museum
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-22
ANXIOUS 10 NANNY.
He Popped the Question Before dis
Wife Was Dead.

Wife Was Dead.
! Wtdowers, as well as widows, are the
targets for many jokes. Here is a
story they tell of farmer in certain
county not so miles away from ST,
Louis, says the Republic:
His wife had been in poor health for
some time, and one day he was called
in from his work because she was so
much worse. The neighbor women told
him to hurry to town for the doctor. He
rushed out to the stable, saddled horse
and galloped toward the village, few
miles distant.
AS he rode he met an interesting wild
ow. Shewas interesting because she had
been widow but six months, and the
departed one had left a good farm to
her. OF course, she wondered why
Neighbor Jones was hurrying so. She
called to him to know what was the
matter. He pulled up his horse, turned
toward her and said:
''My wife is very sick. They don't
think she will live, and am on my way
for the doctor" He paused and seemed
about to ride on, but thought struck
him. He leaned over toward the widow
and asked, anxiously:
IF she does die, will you have me2"