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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-02-21

The Professor have a new conun
drum for you. Why is a mouse ike d
haysiack?
The Doctor-A new conundrum. That
had whiskers when was a boy. A
mouse is like haystack because the
cat'li eat ii. New conundrum. Ho. no
Ia. la.
The Professor-That isn't the an.
swer nj all The points Of resemblance
are these: You can't find n needle in a
haystack. and you can't find reedle
IN mouse. Some people VERY me
exceedingly with their afTecta Ion OF
superior knowledge.-Chicago Tribune.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-02-21

Teacher ito little Isidor who is very
poor at fractionSs-If need - yards
OF cloth FOR suit and the cloth costs
~ gulden yard. what viii the suit
cost
lsidor-To begin with. teacher. 3
yards would be enough for a suit. and
ven c>uld get i, at our store for . gull
Ten. The suit would cost you & gull
zen. Fliegenae Batter.
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-somethIng Hot,

Dorsay was AZ n dinner at DisraeIis.
which was not OF kind to suit the
fashionable gourmet and where every
thing had been cold. At the end of
dinner there was brought in some half
melted ice in a dish. Thank heavenr
said D'Orsay. AT last we have got
something hot"-Sir Algernon Vests
Recollectlons.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-02-21

Briggs-You don't know what you
are talking about when you call me 4
donkey.
Diggs-I'd like to know why don't
! once owned donkey for three
months.-Chicago News.
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setting a Neighbor Right.

- -sN'- ''''' t@a~h me
WAS thai your dog that was howl
Ing all night
Il guess il was"
why in thunder don't you feed
himT'
Heavens. man. ii's indigestion that
makes him how'll Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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ExEcUToR's NOTICE.

Estate Of Daniel ID. Johnson. late OF summit
township, Somerset county, Pa. deed.
L.tters testamentary on the above estate
having been granted to the undersigned by
the proper authority. notice " hereby given
10 AL persons indebted To said estate 70 ma ki
Immediate payment, aud those having claims
against the same 10 present them duly au-
thenticafed for settlement. ON or before SAT-
urdny. the 3iih day Of February, 1900, at late
residence OF decd
IRA ID. JOHNSON.
John X scott Executor.
Attorney.
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False portrIne.

School Examiner What Is the mean
Ing OF false doctrine:
Schoolboy- Please. sir. it's when the
doctor gives the wrong stuff to people
who are sick.-Boston Christian Re gis-
Ter
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-02-21

4 woman's logic comes ont even in
her sharpening a pencil She makes
her point in such queer ways.-Phila-
delphia Times.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-02-21

Horses were introduced into Egypt
by the shepherd kings less than 100
+. e. No horse figures appear on the
rarly monuments of Egypt.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-02-21

Don't you love an old fashloned
snowsiorm. PauIine?"
Yes. u the man who takes me ont
has new fashioned sleigh" Chicago
Record.
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II we did but know how little some
enjoy the Ersst things that they pos
sess- iiiers would not be SO much envy
in the world.
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acknowledged the tho leading National Family
Recognizing its the anu
publishers q" favorte home paper
alliance VIII them toi
papers ~ the trhing % per year -.
Every farmer and himself his family ana
mnny in which h lives Of
saniy and untngly for his brings DIS
news and happenings his the doing of his n
and prospects for different crop prices markets. an
weekly visitor which should wideawake
just think ofi Of papers only g
Send all orders to THE HERALD. SOMERSET
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A UDIToR'S NOTICE.

The undersigned having been appointed au
dior by the Orphans Court of Somerset
county. Pa. 10 distribute the funds I'm the
hands of Francis Rrant. administrator of Ma.
tilda Barron. deed. to and among those legal
" entitled thereto, hereby gives notice that
he will attend to the duties of said appoint
Inent at the Office OF COihorn & Colbsrn in
Somerset. ON Tuesday. Feb l3. \. H. la0n. ri
O'Clock In the afternoon OF said day when
and where all persons interested can attend
II they think proper.
Jonuary II. 1900. Auditor
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In pursuance Of the fa-cgning commission
he auditor above named will attend al his
Office In Somerset borougr. on Thursday. The
S'h day OF February, lsFl, u perform the du-
iies named IN The above coulmissiOn- OF
@hirh all persons interested will please take
Iotice.
JOHN o. KTNMFI.
January y, 1900 Anditor.
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CONDENSED TIME TABLES.
Baltimore and OHIO asilroas.
Somerset and Cambria Branch.

SOUTHWARK
JohnstOwn Mail Express. ss.-RockwOoS ii.s5 q
m, somerset l2l7, StOyesto.vn 1928 Hoov
ersvtlle - - JohrstOvn l.BN d. m
'JohustoW1 Aecommodation.-gock ockwood q
p. N. Somerset SOP stoveefoS-u < N ETs,a,,
ersville s:43. JohpStnvcn c-3s
SDUTNWh1tF
'Msil.-JohnstoHsn . % am. n GOV ersvilIes q a
Stoyestown 81, Someret i-5s Rockvoof
l0-i5
Express.-Johnstown Sop. NJ. Hoove-uvill,
-. Siovestown ~. Somerset s.i5 Rock
wood $40.
ADaily.
F. d. UNDERWOOD
u Is MAkIIN General Manager
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
ss-rrss srssosaa r,~r
In EFFECT Eov. 10. 1889

oosDESsFD scEvDur.t
Traius arrive and depart fror, ths Stas,c,. -,
Johnstovn as follows o,
WESTV Ard
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T EGAL NOTICE.

lu r. state { In the OrphanS' Court
OF Of somerset lauufv
Urias schroclS, deed Pennsylvania.
sth January. 800 on petition OF Joeph
Niiier. administrator. etc of Uriah Schr,e X.
t;tr "t leff.r~on township. deed. (at t'ha M
oerS) the Court appoint Jonn o. Kimmrl
tsq .anditor to make distribution OF h,s
tied thereto.
SOMERSET COUNTY. ss:-
Extract from the RECORD certified Jan
uarya, loo.
-, JOHN S. sHAFRR.
SEAT Clerk
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It's Isrg lifC. M 6'V'ifT 70 u'
Interests and Ti'sIIi'y ci 'tr 90
People has won for it new 1itpo' :
years rolled by srd the origin 81 H'H,',
its family passed ." her ''"sio' 'iu
sdmirers are loyal and stesdia's
with fanb in IT. tepchipgs, End 'ofno'',
the information which Il brlrs'
homes and fiIesides.
As natural consequence II trF!
cid sge all the vitality ard vigor o. il ,.
stieuPthtTtd ~ q IiItrtd y 'Ie 'Ai =
flower half a century. u,
4 1t fss liVtd6I it, n 'iis- sc
y disI suTrcit Of progressive AueIl,rl,. :.
II Is ..Tbe New York Wftkly IH''
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-02-21
LIST OF APPLICATIONS
-FOR-
Liquor Licenses.

Notice is hereby given that tn,
applications Of the following persons foi
Liquor Licenses have been nled in the 0fiic,
of toe Clerk OF Quarter Sessions Of Somersei
county, Pa, and will be presented ta the =, j
Court for its consideration ON Wednesda y
February 18th. A. d. 1850.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
A Queer Strike.

Labor day seems to be a time for
general resort to the strike as means
There are strikes and strikes-striKes
for cause. strikes without cause and
strikes because. But the most unique
strike on record occurred in Brooklyn
last week. Joseph Brecht had worked
in the Havemeyer sugar refinery for
sixteen years at $3.50 a week. He was
promoted to be superintendent at an
advanced salary, and he struck. He
positively declined promotion. He was
given a week to consider the matter,
but still held out. Another week was
given him, but as he remained obdur-
ate he was informed that the firm
needed him as superintendent and un-
less he accepted the position he would
be discharged. Thereupon Brecht
committed suicide. He preferred
death to promotion. Perhaps this is
not the only instance of a strike being
suicidal, but the case of Brecht points
a moral. 1t is said that Brecht was
the only man among lne thousands
employed in the establishment who
was competent to fill The vacancy
caused by the death of the former SUI
perintendent. He did no. want the
position. The position sought him be-
cause he had made himself necessary
to the firm. He was the one man in
a thousand whose attention to duty
had qualified him for the superintend-
ency. The offer was a simple matter
of business. There was no sentiment
in it. The firm needed Brecht in that
particular position it was to their
interest to have him there. 1t was
also to his interest to be there, but he
objected. The moral of this is that
many men seek places or advancement
who are incompetent, and they think
the times are out of joint when they
do not get either. When the place
seeks the man it is because he has de-
voted his time to something beside
just earning his wages.-Pennsylva-
mia Grit.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
The Black Death
DEADLY INVASIcNS OF THE
BUBCNIS PLAGUE.

ing 100000 victims in five months. In
1654-55 London suffered ravages by the
pestilence and 100000 died In 1920
one-third of the people of Marseilles
died, and the following year $4,000
died in Toulon and the whole of prov
ince. In 1743 nearly $4,000 died in
Messina. In 1771 the plague de-
stroyed $4,000 lives in Moscow. In
1885 Cairo again was visited by the
plague and one-ffth of the people died.
The bubonic plague, DR.. Wyman as
serts, is the same old plague that for
centuries past has made its appearance
at intervals in various countries and
which has been known in turn as the
Levantine, Oriental, black plague and
black death. OF late years, with the
advance of civilization and the adop-
tion OF intelligent systems Of hygiene
sanitation, quarantine and medical
treatment, the field of the plague has
been narrowed year by year, until now
it is almost exclusively confined to
countries like India and China, where
the conditions are always inviting for
an epidemic.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06

The empress of China is the one
oriental character that absorbs most
attention just now. TIE Hsi is not a
real empress, but a usurper. Origi-
nally she was not an empress at all,
but was given that honorary rank as
the mother OF Hien Fung's only son,
she being that emperors concubine.
Hien Fung was succeeded by Tung
Che, and this ambitious woman found
her opportunity when Tung Che died,
in 1875, without an heir Tradition
demanded that the new emperor be at
least an adopted son of some branch
of the royal family. The infant
Kwang Su, who is now the imprisoned
and deposed emperor of China, was
chosen. But he was not of the right
generation to be adopted as the son
of the late Tung Che, so he was intro
duced into the succession by adoption
to Hien Fung, and the present dow
ager empress became regent until he
should come of age, in 1889. She is
the young emperor's aunt.
This arrangement left the dead en-
peror, Tung Che, without an adopted
heir to perpetuate his line. To meet
this difficulty it was decreed that when
the child emperor should grow up his
first son should be adopted to Tung
Che. Herein the ambitious dowager
empress found her second opportunity
to seize the power, for the young en-
peror, Kwang Su, has had no children.
Having tasted the sweets of power as
regent, she reluctantly resigned the
reins into the emperor's hands when
he came of age in 1889, though for a
long time she was still the real ruler.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06

MRS. OTTO Won SCHAEZLER.
tractive to Otto Won Schaezler of Dav-
export, Iowa, that he was led to de-
cline recently a title of nobility and
moss-grown ancestral castle in Ger
many, which he inherited on the death
of his father. Four years ago Mabel
Canniff of Talcuta, ILL.,. met Otto Won
Schaezler. Their acquaintance ripened
into love and they were married. At
the time she did not know that he was
the eldest son of Baron von Schaezler,
whose country seat was at Castle Van
bach, near Munich, in Germany.
Eventually a cablegram, which brought
news of the death of the old baron and
summoned Otto back to the father
land to assume the title and estates,
gave her the first intimation of her
husbands titled ancestry. But Mrs.
Won Schaezler did not want to give up
her residence in the United States, and
her husband was well satisfied with his
adopted country and its institutions.
So the two went to Germeny and re-
nounced their claims in favor of the
bsron's younger brother. In return
for the tranference of his title. large
sum of money and an annuity were
settled upon Mr.. Won Schaezler.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
"PRAIRIE SCHOONERS" FOR
KANSAS CITY.

The Democratic campaign managers
are planning a surprise for the east
ern delegates when they reach Kansas
City to attend the national conven-
tion. They have had men out in Kan
sas and Nebraska. and even in Okla
homa, organizing among the farmers
and settlers parties to attend the con-
vention in prairie schooners." Sew
eral hundred people are now trek
king" across country from their dis
tant farms and will camp out on the
outskirts of the city in genuine west
ern style.
The convention managers are also
planning to use the prairie schoon-
ers" and their occupants as feature
Of the big parade which is to be one
of the events of convention week.
They will form one entire section of
the parade, and along the sides of each
of the canvas-covered wagons will be
stretched banners emblazoned with
Democratic slogans.
A particularly picturesque delega-
ton is expected from the Ozark noun
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
cuBA's POPULATION.
United states Census Shows That It Has
Decreased Greatly.

United states Census Shows That II Has
Decreased Greatly.
Reports of the population of Cuba,
based upon the census taken by this
country, show considerable of a falling
off. The total population of Cuba on
Oct. 16, 1899, determined by the cen"
us taken as of that date, was 1,572,79
he latest census taken under Spanish
authority was in 1887. The total pop
ulation as returned by that census was
1,631 ,6S7. Whether that census was
correct may be a matter of discussion,
but if incorrect, the number of inhabi-
tants was certainly not overstated.
Comparing the total population OF
these two censuses, it is seen that the
loss in the twelve years amounted to
$780, or 36 per cent of the popula-
tion in 1887. This loss is attributable
to the recent civil war and the recon-
centration policy accompanying it, but
the figures express only part OF the
loss from this cause. Judging from the
earlier history of the island and the
excess of births over deaths, as shown
by the registration records, however
imperfect they may be, the popula-
ton probably increased from 1887 up
to the beginning of the war, and at
the latter epoch reached total of little
less than 100000. 1t is probable,
therefore, that the direct and indirect
losses by the war and the reconcentra-
tion policy, including a decrease OF
births and of immigration, reached a
total Of approximately 200, 600. Havana
province in which most Of the recon-
centrados were collected, sustained a
relatively small loss in population.
Indeed, the population of Havana dis
trict, including the city of Havana, in
creased from 2O0,4 in 1887 to 242,055
in 1899, while nearly every other dis
trict of the province lost population.
Pinar del Rio and Matanzas, lying on
either side of Havana, lost nearly equal
numbers and proportions of inhabi-
tants. Santa Clara, lying beyond
Matanzas to the eastward, remained al
most at a standstill, while Puerto Prin-
cipe and Santiago, still farther to the
eastward and farther removed from
the center of hostilities, gained greatly,
the increase being probably due not
only to natural increase, but to the mi
grafton of people away from the CEN
ter of disturbance.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06

When Kwang Su began to exercise his
own will and to ally himself with the
reform movement of the young China
party, the dowager empress deter
mined to take the power into her own
hands again, and accordingly executed
the coup d'etat of 1898. her excuse be-
ing that Kwang Su had not fulfilled
his agreement to furnish an heir for
the bereaved line of Tung Che.
In view of the summary style in
which the dowager empress at once
struck off the heads of the young en-
peror's reform advisers, it has seemed
strange that she did not put Kwang
Su himself out of the way. The writer
in the nineteenth century thinks this
would have been done but for the vio-
lent protests that came from all over
the eighteen provinces of China, from
the outlying colonies, and even from
the Chinese in California. These pro-
testations of loyalty to the young
emperor are believed to have staid the
hand of the usurping aunt, for some
daring Cinnamon were not slow to re-
mind her that she was but a concu-
bine-relict of a former emperor, and
to call for the restoration of the right
full sovereign. These persons she pur-
sued with relentless hatred, compell-
ing the suicide of one. killing some,
driving others into foreign countries,
and offering reward of $4,000 for
the heads of Kang Yu Wei and Liang
Chi Chao, the most outspoken of the
reformers.
Out of this state of affairs the pres
ent Boxer riots have grown as vio-
lent expression of the reactionary
ideas of the dowager empress.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
Influence of Sports.

There are fewer corsets worn by
young girls today than formerly. The
craze for athletics and outdoor sports
is responsible for this condition of
things. The girl who plays golf can
not play a good game If she is encased
in a steel frame. The girl who rides
a wheel or is fond of aquatic sport can
not be an adept in either If she wears
corsets. These sports are paving the
way for the abolition of corsets by the
introduction of the short corset, which
is merely boned support, but yet not
just what we need. for 1t still has all
the bad points of the corset. After a
woman has gone without corsets for
some time, she will gradually discard
them altogether.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
Models of Warsb,us nam.ood

Eleven of the valuable models OF
American warships have been injured
during their transportation from New
York to Havre on the auxiliary cruiser
Prairie. The models were inclosed in
glass cases which were packed in
wooden boxes and slowed in the hold.
During the voyage the rolling and
pitching of the ship caused them 70
shift with the result that the glass
was broken and this in turn broke and
scratched the models, cutting their
rigging and otherwise injuring them.
The model of the Olympia suffered the
greatest damage II was thought ut
first that it would be necessary to have
worl;men sent from the Washington
navy yard to repair the miniature
vessels, but the French government
offered Assistant Naval Constructor
Gilmore facilities for doing this work
at the shipyard at Cherbourg, which
proposition was arceyted 1t is prob
able that the repairs will be of a tenn
porary character.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
The Chiffon Boa.

AS the colder weather is gone fur
boas are laid aside and in their place
are mufTiers of chiffon and tulle. For
one white taffeta was chosen and was
laid in wide, full plaits, edged with
black velvet ribbon. Down the front,
almost to the bottom of the skirt,
there falls a deep panne fringe. An
other style is in white chiffon edged
with narrow black satin ribbons. This
is made on a high neck band with lit
ties capes over the shoulders and long
frilled ends. These styles can be cas-
lily copied, in any becoming color, and
the American girl who possesses such
a fixing" to wear with her street
gowns may step forth into the spring
sunlight with the certainty that she
is wearing the --latest thing from
Pa is"
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
"Hunr~ His Pol

Justice Hawkins was once accosted
at a railway station by rough fellow
who seemed very anxious to assist
with his luggage. Struck by his friend
illness, Sir Henry said: You seem
very desirous to assist me-" That's
what am, sir" replied the man. you
see, sir, once you did me good turn"
Yes" said the judge. when and
where, pray?" when ye 'ung Crooked
Billy" replied the man. ME and
Billy oncet was pals, but we fell out,
and Billy said as 'ow next time e
chopped eyes on me ed do for me
with knife. l knowed Billy and
knowed ed do as e said. and so @
would IL you 'adn't Jung i'm in time.
So I'd like to do you a good turn, too
Sir Emery" u
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
ALIVE BY MOUTH ORGAN.
Tobias Davis Makes Unique Play i'm n
Police Court.

Tobias Davis Makes Unique Play I'm u
Police Court.
"If it were not for my mouth-organ
l would have been dead long ago.
When / couldn't find music anywhere
else used to make it myself" Tobias
Davis, who says he "wanders," told
this to Justice Kersten at the East
Chicago avenue police court 1T is
not music; it is noise" was Officer
Pauls criticism. What Davis thought
was music and what Paul thought was
noise was given to the world from the
top of barrel in Wells street Sunday
night. Davis had stood on the barrel
and played his mouth-organ till the
policeman arrested him. "He split up
his music with vocal selections. They
were a little worse than the mouth
organ. They could not have been
much worse" said the officer and
Davis grew indignant This big man
with the star had not so much soul
for music as a 10-year-old boy. To
have him criticise my music is the
hardest blow l have had to suffer-"
Davis drew the mouth-organ from a
chamois-skin case and asked for per-
mission to play for Justice Kersten.
I'll prove l am a good player" he
announced. mot in this court" said
the justice. "I'll discharge you if
you'll promise me to take your instru-
ment to some Other precinct" And
Davis promised.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
DUSE AND D'ANNUNZIO.

81 will kill D'Annunzio," says Eleo-
nora Duse, the great Italian actress,
and her countrymen applauded her re-
solve.
In I'll Fuoso" (fre), a novel pub
lished three weeks ago, Gabrielle DAN
nunzio, the Italian writer. drew a
graphic picture of Duse, whose roman
tic love for him was the talk of Eu-
rope a few months ago. The materials
for the story were obtained from the
actress herself. who, in her self-for-
getful affection, told the young novel
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06

ist the full history of her pathetic life.
D'Annunzio has pictured the heroine
of his book with brutal frankness, and
has laid bare the great artists heart.
IN their way the Confessions" of ]. j.
Rousseau are scarcely more complete.
D'Annunzio cynically avowed his mod
el in the beginning, but has been forced
by public opinion into a denial that
he intended to portray Duse. The
heart-broken actress, however, will not
tolerate lies and apologies. She brave
ly admits herself the heroine of the
book. He has stolen my love and sold
it. l will kill him." she says.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
"ONcE A|UBJFC5"ETC

Cases continue to arise calling for
the specific application of the Amer
lean doctrine. One of these cases is
just reported. Maurice Tiehm, nat
uralized citizen of Hamilton, Ohio, asks
the government to secure the release
of his son Albert, held in Alsace, where
he went as a visitor, and where he is
in danger of military conscription.
The noble spirit of fatherland love in
duces increasing thousands of adopted
Americans to visit every year the old
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06

precCndents frequently reaffirmed that
doctrine may not We violated with i'm
punity by any foreign government.
Americans may go safely whltherso-
ever they list, provided always that
they respect the laws of the lands In
which they sojourn and observe the
laws of the United States relating to
citizenship.
The Yale expositor., 1900-07-06
A Sermon I'm Rrief.

A man met bull in field. "Pn
toss you, and see who stays" said the
bull. He tossed, and the man lost.
The moral is. that It is never safe
to indulge in a game of chance. espe-
cially when all the odds are against
you.-Phfladelphia North American.