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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25
A VISIT FROM sAsrA CLAUS.
BY CLEMENT c. MOORE.


Clement c. Moore was born in New York. Jul,
10, l.7e. After graduating from Columbia Col
lege, he devoted himself with great success TO the
study Of the Hebrew, and in 1909 published He
brew and English Lexicon. In 1921 he accepted 9
professorship in the General Theological Seminar,
Of the Episcopal Church.
Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro
the house
Not creature was stirring,-not even mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney withcare
In hopes that st. Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visionsof sugar plums danced in their heads
And mamma in her kerehief, and in my cap
Had settled our brains for a long winters nap:
When out on the lawn there arose such clatter
/ sprang from the bed to see what was the matter
Away to the windew flew like flash,
Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow
Gave the lustrc of midday to objects below:
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But miniature Sleigh and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
knew in moment it must be st. Nick
More rapid than eagles his ccursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by
snow, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer, now,
Viren!
On, Comer on Cupid! on, Dunder. and Biiisen!
To the top of the porch, to the top OF the wall!
Now, dash away, dash away, dash away, ALL"
As dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky,
So up TO the housetop the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full OF toys. and st. Nicholas too
And then, i'm 4 twinkling, heard on the roof
The prancing and paving of each little hoof
As drew in my head and was turning around,
Down the chimney st. Nicholas came with bound.
He was drcssd all in fur from his head TO his foot
And his clothes were all tarnish'd with ashes and
SCOT:
A bundle of toys was flung on his back,
And he looked like peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes, how they twinkledl his dimples how
merry;
His cheeks were like roses, his like cherry;
His droll little mouth was drawn up like bow,
And the beard of HIS chin was as white as the
snow;
The stump Of pipe he held tight in his teeth,
He was chubby and plump, n right jolly old elf,
And laugh'd when saw him, in spite of myself
wink of his eye, and twist Of his head,
Soon gave me to know l had nothing TO dread.
He spoke not word, but went straightto his work,
And fid all his stockings, then turn'd with jerk
Ard laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave whistle
And away they all flew like the down OF thistle
But heard him exclaim, ere he drove out Of sight
= HcPpy Christmas 10 ALL and 10 all good n ighir
MAYNARD WIGHT.S CUHISTMAS
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25
READY MADE SoLp1ERs.-Fral

READY MADE SoLDIERs.-France
is endeavoring to improve her mill
tary arrangements and repair the
ravages ofthe war. One of the meas
ures toward that end is the establish
ment of Quitting stores in certain
localities. Of these M. Theirs is
reported as saying 1--WE must in
future be ready to go to war at
days notice, and the young soldiers
must be able, on entering dressed in
their civilian clothing, by one door of
the stores, to leave by the other
armed, equipped and ready to fight.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

In early times in California, militia
ry titles as handles to the name were
very common. John Phoenix tells
the story that he was one day leaving
San Francisco by the steamer. Ev-
erybody else was taking leave Of
friends-but he did not know a soul
in the crowd. Ashamed of his lonl J.
ness, as the boat showed off he called
out in a loud voice, ''Good by, Colo
mel y and. to his great delight. every
man on the wharf took off his hat
and shouted Colonel, good by ~
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

The Jacksonville (Fla.) Courier
hopes hereafter to have an ox-cart to
bring in election returns from distant
counties, so as to avoid the present
vexatious delays, and says: At the
lowest calculation, if the supervisors
walked, they could have reached
ere by this time"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

Wight says her husband has one pair
of socks she never has to mend, be-
cause the only use to which they are
ever put is to dangle once year on a
Christmas tree, to hold Kriss Krin-
gle's gifts to Mr.. and Mrs. MAYNARD
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

They do not shoot well in Barton
county, Kansas. Six people were
shot at in one week. lately, and only
one killed. And they call themselves
marksmen-those Western men
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

Thirty-two thousand sends were
once counted on the head of a poppy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

The supreme excellence in charac-
ter, manner, style, and in all things,
is simplicity.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

CASTELAR,, tbs Spanish orator, was
formerly type-setter.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-12-25

Seven thousand men are engaged
in the book-selling business in Leip-
sic.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Mustard Dealers Stirred Up.

American dealers In mustard are much
stirred by the action of London firm.
This firm claims bulls head" as its
trademark and has brought suits against
all merchants and manufacturers who
have made or sold articles bearing the
same device. The label is very COM
mon one on this side of the Atlantic,
and the number of houses that are in
volved is quite large. The aggregate of
the damages claimed in the suits already
commenced is over 81 100000, and it IS
estimated that if the prosecutions are
extended as far as they can be, this sum
will swell to S50,000,000. A meeting of
defendants, present and prospective, in
these suits, was held at New York, few
days ago, and steps were taken to unite
in conducting the defense. A state
ment that was laid before this gathering
claims that the device was used in this
country seventeen years before the Lon
don frn first claimed it as a trademark
and that one of the earliest manufac-
turers who used it had copied it from
photograph of pet calf. It was also
claimed that the London firm had pro-
cured their evidence against the de-
PENDANTS by sending agents through this
country to purchase cans of mustard
bearing "bull's head" label, and that
in one case, where the dealer had no
mustard with this label, he was request
ed by the spy to send out and purchase
some for him, which he did, and was
then sued for it. Such contemplate
tricks certainly give the action of the
London house the appearance of being
an extensive matchmaking operation.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
How He Rules His Wife.

Our friend Traddles, in Virginia, has
got his wife in proper subsection, and
means to keep her so. ooh ~ says he,
in telling about it, "there amt many
who know how to rule a wife properly.
Now, my old woman's one of the best
natured women in the world, but she's
got devil of temper. Whenever l
see she's got her mad up, if it's dozen
times a day, just quietly say nothing,
but kinder humor her, and she comes
round all right after while. Even
when she throws things at me, or gives
wild slash for me with the broom or
rollin'pin. just dodge, and she never
hits me the third time before l get my
eye on her and let her know disapprove
of such action on her part. Perhaps
have TO leave the house to show her this,
but she sees the point. Then, by being
careful not to irritate her, and letting
her have her own way, | manage to
make her do as l please. And you bet
l make her understand and appreciate
my discipline. Oh! l keep her under
perfect control. A man has to, you
know. Got to be boss in your own house,
or first thing you know you your wife
Will ride you down like you wasn't no.
body. My wife's perfect angel in her
natural disposition, but any other man
but me would spoil her.-Holden HILL
Mans.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
A Wyoming Complication.

Justice in Wyoming has been inter
rupted in manner hitherto unknown
in the annals of courts. A female JUS
tice OF the peace was recently compelled
to retire few weeks from the bench
Tor reasons not wholly enconnected
with the census of the Territory-in
short; on account of twins. Resuming
her seat in due course of time she was
again compelled to adjourn her court
IN consequence of the unwillingness,
not to say the inability, of her husband
to minister to all the wants of the
newly arrived strangers The husband
still maintains this position, and the
justice hourly adjourns the cases on
trial before her in order to attend to
her maternal duties. Wherefore the
clamorous sutton whose case is thus
daily postponed is fercely indignant,
and claims that the statute does not
authorize any court to place twins upon
It's calender in preference to other
cases OF undoubted priority. This is a
new complication of the woman ques-
ton; and the priority of twins over all
cases on the calendar of court pre-
sided over by female judge will proba-
bly, have to be affirmed by legislative
enactment whenever female suffrage is
recognized
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
How the PiuteS Live.
From the Virginia City Enterprise


One would naturally suppose the
situation at present with the Piutes
encamped on the hills surrounding the
city to be rather rough, yet we hear of
no sickness of any kind among them,
nor any complaint about anything
They come into town-men and women,
great and small-as regularly as usual !;
look as sleek as ever, and are just as
jolly as in midsummer. AS there is not
a stick of wood of any kind on the
hills where they are camped, or not
even sagebrush as large as a mans
finger, it is wonderful how they manage
to keep from freezing to death during
the heavy, driving snow storms. The
bits OF board and small sticks which
the squaws are able to find about town
scarce suffice to cook their meat, and is
SO scanty and precious that they dare
not venture upon the extravaganza of
burning it for the purpose of keeping
themselves warm. In order to keep
warm they must huddle in heaps in
their brush huts-old and young, great
and small, piling up together irrespec-
tive OF condition. By going to the dis
lance of 20 or 30 miles from the city,
they might find camping places where
the could obtain an abundance of wood,
but they would find their means of sub
sistence most precarious; in fact, did
they depend entirely on game, all would
starve to death. Here they are able to
find plenty of good, strong food, and
having that, they appear to defy the
lnclemency of the season. One stormy
night passed in even the best of their
sage brush huts-a structure resembling
a muskrat house-would probably be
the death of any white family that
might risk the trial; yet the Piutes
laugh at the storm, and in the midst of
the whirling cloud of snow, cry "Ha
hal"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Myths of Geography.

The myths Of geography, as well as
history, are dissolving before the re-
morseIess criticisms of our age. The
school boys of thirty years ago remem-
Der well the pictures OF the terrible
malestrom off the coast of Norway, said
to be fatal to all ships coming within
its destructive whirl The school boys
faith in this phenomenon was as strong
as the sailors faith in the Flying Dutch
man. But the poetry has turned to
prose in this scientific age, and the
whirlpool has lost all its horrors. like
the Scylla and Charybdis of Virgil. A
recent traveller says: There is no such
Whirlpool as PontipIdan and Pnrchas
described, and it is only when the tide,
current and wind are at 'loggerheads J
IN the narrow strait between Moskenaes-
soc and the lofty isolated rock of
Mosken, that any agitation is visible
Some such a circumstance as this, OBJ
served from the shore, and exaggerated
by the horror of the beholder, doubtless
gave rise to the prodigious legends OF
the maelstrom.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Hints for the Housewife.

English Iyy.-The use of English iyies
for the purpose of decorating living
rooms is more extensive every year, and
cannot be too highly commended.
Being very strong, they will live through
almost any treatment; but study their
peculiarities, and manifest willingness
to crafty them, and they will grow
without stint. Most houses are too hot
for them, as, indeed, they are for their
owners. Neither plants nor people
should have the temperature over sixty
five degrees Fahrenheit. Take care and
not enfeeble your ivies by excessive wa
tering or undue heat, and you will find
they will not seem to mind whether the,
sun shines on them or not, or in what
position or direction you train them.
Indeed, so much will they do of them
selves to render a room charming, that
we would rather have an unlimited
number of them TO draw upon than
anything else in nature or art. Do you
wish the ugly plain doors that shut off
your tiny entry from your parlor to be
arched or curved, like those in the
drawing-rooms of your richer neigh
Dor? Buy couple of brackets, such as
lamps for the burning of kerosene are
sometimes placed in, and screw them
on the sides of the door. Put in each
| plant of English ivy, the longer the
better then train the plants over the
top, against the sides, indeed any way
your fancy dictates. You need not buy
the beautiful but costly pots the flower
dealer will advise; common glazed ones
Will answer every purpose, for, by plac-
ing in each two or three sprays of
Coliseum ivy, In months time no YES
tiige of the pot itself can be discerned
through their thick screen.-Joaynal OF
| Horticulture.
Liquid Manure for House Plants.-A
lady correspondent of an eastern agri-
| cultural paper says: / notice LIQUID
| manure recommended for house plants.
As that cannot always be had, especially
in village IN winter, dirty suds in
which clothing has been washed, find,
will answer as well. I have been using
it once week all winter and my plants
never grew SO fast or looked so we'll.
| have a double Primrose, in three-inch
pot, on which can count over a hun
dred blossoms also some small bi-color
and white Geraniums, starting for spring
planting, only three inches high, the
leaves measuring four inches in diam
eter. My largest Gala stands three feet
two inches high; leaves, fifteen inches
also many other things, all of which !
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Murder and Suicide.

A Norwich, Conn, dispatch of the
5th inst. says: VIM. Erving, an en-
ploye of DR.. Johnson, of Bozrah, to-day
shot and fatally wounded the doctors
daughter because she would not marry
him. He shot the young lady in the
presence of her mother, whom he also
attempted to murder by beating her
over the head with gun. Erving then
locked himself in a room and cut his
throat from ear to ear. When a surgeon
arrived from this city, he found that the
shot had only inflicted slight wound
on the side of Mrs. Johnson's face, but
there was terrible fracture on the side
and top Of the skull. 1t is supposed
that Erving, after stunning Mrs. John
son, beat the young lady's skull with
the barrel of his gun. One of the bar
rels was not discharged. Erving then
attacked the servant girl, who entered
the room, but she fed and gave the
alarm. Mrs. johnson died at o'clock
this evening.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
The Heather Chinee.

A day or two since, says Nevada
paper, couple of ladies who were out
collecting money for church purposes
stopped at the Piute House, Lower Gold
Hill. After calling on a number of per-
sons for contributors they asked John"
the Chinese cook, to give "dolla. p"
" hat for your wantee me give dolla ~
asked John. I'VE want you to give a
dollar to help the church." "Dolla
help church ?" cried John, opening his
eyes; what matter churcha?" It's
poor 1t needs money. Can't you give
me dollar" !" Me no sabe churcha /;
me poor, too. What you call church
what him name?" "Christ Church, :"
was the reply. "No me no give dolla, -
answered John decidedly; "me no like
Klist; Klist wantee too much money
money, money, all time money for
Klistl"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Chrome Cast Steel.

The report of Colonel Eads, the En-
| gineer OF the great St. Louis and Hi
nois Bridge, has brought into promi
nent notice an article of American
Manufacture known as Chrome Cast
Steel.
This steel is an amalgam of Chromi
UNI and Wrought Iron, and is produced
by melting the two together in the
crucible in the same manner as carbon
| steel.
Chrome Cast Steel has properties and
advantages entirely its own, and is es-
pecially adapted for tools of all kinds.
1t can be worked at white heat-nausl
be hardened at a very loa0 heat, and car
not be injured by over-heating" 1t can
be welded to iron or to itself; leaving
no trace of the weld; it can be worked
and revoked without injury and,
when made into tool, will do at least
so per cent more work than any other
steel, not excepting the highest priced
and choicest brands of foreign make.
These points alone must recommend it
to all mechanics.
By varying the proportion of Chromi-
UNI any required grade of steel can be
produced, and when the proper formula
Is once ascertained for any given pur-
pose, the same grade can be reproduced,
Gd iryfnitatma. with the utmost certainty,
thus making it perfectly uniform in each
grade, a claim no manufacturer (even
the best English) of carbon steel can
truthfully make.
1t Is said that near quarter of q
million of dollars had been expended
and lost in the effort to produce certain
bolts and slaves required in the bridge
above referred to, but not until the in
ventor of Chrome Cast Steel was called
into the arena was the work success
fully done, when, as appears from Mr..
Ead's report, every bolt and stave pro-
duced from Chrome Steel was success
full.
Chrome Cast Steel has a tensile
strength far exceeding that of any other.
In series of experiments, the highest
tensile strain obtained was 19S,O70
pounds to the square inch the average
result of twelve specimens was l79,98O
pounds, whilst the highest strength of
steel given in Peny's Metallurgy,
page $40, is $4,000 pounds per square
inch.
In its lower grades, therefore, this new
steel presents material for bridge
building excelling, in tensile strength,
any metal hitherto known.
In the higher grades of tool steel it
is equally excellent, the ease with
which it is worked lat much higher
heat than carbon steel will bear) rem
ders it very profitable to the manufac-
Jurer of tools.
Chrome Tool Steel was introduced
into the Chicago market in February,
1871, by Messrs. Hall, Kimbark & Co.,
and at the date of the great fire their
sales of this brand exceeded those of
all other brands held by them in stock,
and they have wisely determined here
after to keep no other brand of Ameri-
can Tool Steel.
We see no reason why this new metal
should not speedily supersede the use
of Carbon Steel.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
A Sharp Bank SWindle.
From the Kansas City (Mo.) New

1Iom Inc hausaS lily (Ao.) News.
A well-dressed gentleman, who for
Identification we will call Smith, entered
the bank, and in a straightforward, bust
ness like manner, desired the bank to
advance him $500 on draft drawn
by banking firm in a neighboring
State. The parties being strangers, the
bank informed him that they could not
advance the money. "Well," said
Smith, sit will make no difference.
You can take the draft and send it for
ward for collection, and will wait until
you get returns This was agreed to
by the bank, and then the draft was
sent forward for collection. In due
time the bank received handsomely
gotten up draft on b hiking house in
New York, with the government stamp
printed in, for the sum of $500, which
account was duly paid over to Smith,
who departed.
The draft was sent off to New York,
and in few days the bank received the
consoling information that the whole
transaction was complete and success
full fraud and swindle
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
Terrible GunpOwder ExplOsiOn-FfVe
Men Blown to Pieces.

The powder-houses belonging to the
Miami Powder Company, located be-
tween Xenia and Yellow Springs, Ohio,
on the Little Miami railroad, exploded
about 10 o'clock on Monday morning.
Five men were killed-Mero, Ballard
and Robinson (white) and ConIey and
Duncan (colored). The bodies were
shocklngly mutilated and burned.
Conley was blown into fragments, and
nothing could be found of him but a
portion of his head. Samuel Miner was
blown across the mill-race, and his hear
ing partially destroyed. Others were
badly stunned, barely escaping with
their lives. All the manned were men
of families.
The shock was SO great that in ad-
Jacent towns and cities much consterna-
ton ensued. In Dayton the children
rushed from the school buildings, the
ire bells rang, and it was the general
apprehension that some great calamity
had occurred within the city limits.
In Troy and Tippecanoe the houses were
shaken as by an earthquake, and the
shock was distinctly felt at Urbana and
Aenia. A brick house, standing more
tnan a mile distant, had Its windows
completely blown out, and was other
wise damaged. Hundreds of windows
were broken at Yellow Springs.
The first explosion occurred in the
wheel-mill. This communicated with
the press-mill, where the powder in
process of manufacture is contained in
canvas bags. The double dry-house,
fifty feet square, containing a vast
quantity Of dry powder, came in next
for destruction. Then followed the
glaze-mill the canning-mill and packing
house. The mills were situated some
distance apart, but the conclusion was
SO great as to produce an explosion in
all. From twenty to thirty tons of
powder were in the destroyed buildings.
The company estimate their loss at
$4,000.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15
A CHASTITY Joke.

During the recent smallpox excite.
ment in Indianapolis, an excited
individual rushed into telegraph
office, hurriedly wrote dispatch, and
handed the same to the able and talen-
ted clerk. The message bore the start
ling information that the sender's wife
was down with the smallpox, and
closed with request that his mother
in-law would "come Immediately"
While making change, the telegraph
man said:
my friend, are you not afraid your
mother-in-law will take the smallpox
Without youchasa6ng an immediate
reply to the query, the dutiful son-in-
law remarked:
"Sir, are you a married man ?''
"No, sir, l am not"
"Then, sir, take my word for it, it is
all right. Just bring the old scoman along"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15

and give plenty of space between the
rows.
Black-Eyed Marrow.-Is very pro-
life, large podded variety, much used
by market gardeners, on account of its
cheapness.
In making these selections, it has
been my aim to name such varieties
only as have been thoroughly tested,
and such as cannot fail to reward the
cultivator.
There are many new and good varie,
ties, appearing from year to year that
should be tested by American garden.
ers, until they be either received or re.
jected, as their merits may decide.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-02-15

attribute to the use of my dirty suds
once week.
Last summer l watered all my roses
with it, and the rillar-roses with dish
water. The slugs scarcely troubled
chem and the blossoms were really won
derful, both in quantity and quality. I
think my Bait more Belle must have
grown over thirty feet last season. l
never have any Stops wasted. Bed
room Stops are just the kind to throw
around the roots of young shade trees.
l think that is what saved our Noun.
tain Ash last year from the borers at
any rate it never does any harm to save
all the Stops for grape.vines and hardy
trees.