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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-28
sCRIBNER's MONTHLY for 1854.

TTyHE unexampled favor accorded by the pub
4 lie TO the conductors of this Magazine has
enabled them to enter upon their fourth year
With the means of making il more attractive and
valuable to its large and constantly increasing
number OF readers than ever before. The Mag
azine begins with November.
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An Exauisite Cathedral.

The cathedral of Sienna, Italy, is
a marvel, writes correspondent
Perhaps some will say, after passing
several hours in admiration, that it
alone pays for a voyage across the
Atlantic. Its campanile has not
the graceful form of Giotto's at
Florence, and the alternate LAYERS of
black and white marble in the
church itself seem to detract from
its majesty. Rome has temples
more vast, but nothing so affiuent
in all that the imagination can con-
ceive or wealth can procure of APP
propriate ornament. Taine, in his
book on Italy, says this Duomo is
incompatible" and is to other ca
thedrals what Dante's poems are to
the songs of the troubadours. Com
pleted more than five hundred years
ago, whence came the wealth and
came the wealth and enterprise and
science and taste here displayed?-
Not surely from such a people as
live here now. As well might the
Actecs have reared the monuments
of Mexico. But these palaces and
cathedrals are proof of what the
italian race was once capable.
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MISCELLANY.
A Plan to Prevent the Freezing Of
Canals.


Canals.
The plan proposed by Mr.. Robert
Chesebro, of this city, for keeping
the Erie and other canals open dur
ing the winter, by means OF an ar
tificial warming of the water, seems
hardly to merit the serious consider
alton of the most susceptible of sci
entists, and yet we find several of
mechanical and scientific journals
discussing it with an earnestness that
is, at least, unexpected. That we
are bold race in all that pertains to
mechanical progress will not be de-
MED, yet this last scheme makes a
demand upon our faith and creduli-
ity seemingly too heavy to meet
vet, as others whose opinions we
have come to respect, hold them
selves justified in presenting the
scheme in favorable light, we can
do no less than give them hearing:
First, as to the plan as proposed by
Mr.. Chesebro, and that portion of it
which relates to the method of ap-
plying the heat. "To each mile of
canal" says the inventor, Il pro-
pose to use two boilers, located one
half a mile a part, from each OF
which two steam-pipes, each one
thousand feet long, run in opposite
directions along one bank of the ca
nal. These pipes are fioated about
four inches below the surface Of the
water, by being attached every few
feet by wires to small floats sufficient
to sustain their weight, which floats
are in turn to be fastened some six
feet distant from the waters edge,
where boats could not interfere with
them in passing. By this arrange
ment the pipe would always float at
tho same depth, whether the water
was high or low in the canal, and
its heating power would not be i'm
paired by contact with the mud on
the bottom or sides of the canal.
Through these pipes a constant
stream of hot water is to be driven
from the stationery boilers, and the
heat thus radiated from a pipe not
exceeding two inches in diameter it
is believed would be sufficient to
keep the surface of the canal from
freezing. Accompanying this des-
cription is a long discussion as to the
amount of heat required, amount of
coal burned, number of days in
which the application would be
needed, etc. We do not propose to
enter into a serions discussion of the
scheme at present, since, to be frank
with its author, we do not think it
worth our while. Yet it is but Just
to say that the editor of the Engin-
eeering and Mining Journal ''cer-
tainly thinks that it deserves a trial
upon a mile or two of canal;" while
the American Artisan, though of
fering strong and forcible arguments
against it, yet admits that "there is
no trouble about keeping the Erie
Canal open by artificial heat, and
perhaps with an expenditure of fuel
even less than the author estimates.
Whatever be the fate of the enter
prise, it is evident that Mr.. Chese-
bro has made it the subject of
thoughtful study, and presented
many facts that will be of interest
to the public, and of possible value
to science.-[ [Appleton's Journal.
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The Midland Railway Of England
is fitting up four trains, including
fourteen Pullman cars, with Ohm
stead's electric brake. They will
have Miller platforms and Allen pa
per wheels. The electric brake is to
be tried in France, Russia, Austria,
Norway, and South America. Is
it not singular that the inventor of
the palace car should be named
Pullman? though perhaps not more
so than the head of the great ex-
press companies-which conveys ar
ticles to the uttermost parts of the
earth-should be named Fargo.
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The Story of SharkeY.

HIS CAREER AS A GAMBLER AND MAN
ABoUT-TowN-THE LOVE OF MAGGIE
JoRDAN.
William ]. Sharkey, who escaped
from the Tombs last Wednesday, was a
man whose face and faultless attire were
familiar to any frequenter Of Broadway.
He was generally regarded as hand
some fellow, though to student of ply
siognomy the essentially brutal and viii
lainous character of the man was writ
ten on his face. The son of an eminent
ly respectable citizen of Scotch descent,
Sharkey was adissipated young man, and
grew up to be a consummate scoundrel.
He was a professional gap.tler, and at
Yafions times fitted up faro banks on
Broadway. Prince street, and other To-
seaIities in this city. He was frequently
eryIuely at play and in the manage
ment of his banks. Z and reputed 70 be
worth at one time 5000 Like many
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-28

THE ALDINE, while issued with all the reg
uearity, has none OF the temporary or timely in
terest characteristic Of ordinary periodicals 1t
is elegant miscellany of pure, light and grace
full literature; and collection of pictures, the
rarest specimens of artistic skill, in black and
white Although each succeeding number af-
ffords fresh pleasure to its friends the real val
ue and beauty of THE ALDINE will be most
appreciated after it has been bound up at the
close of the year. While other publications may
claim superior cheapness, compared with ri
walls of similar class, THE ALDlNEiS unique
and original coneeption-alone and unapproach-
ed-absolutely without competition in price or
character. The possessor OF 4 complete volume
cannot duplicate the quantity OF fine paper and
engravings in any other shape or number of vol
uples for ten times lis east; and then, there the
chrnla.s hsxiHeSI
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Mr. Bass took a sent in the ladies' car
on the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road, some time last year, and was forci-
bly, expelled from it by the conductor
The expulsion has cost the railroad
company 81 800 damages, after a pro
tracted trial.
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other men Of his profession, he had, or
assumed to have, considerable political
influence, and vas thus enabled to feath-
er his nest at the expense of politicians
by the usual methods OF the political
strikers"
OF late yeas his fortunes were on the
wane. lie had made many enemies
among men Of his class, and was hated
and feared b. theIa. He had "A mistress
whom he Is said 10 have treated with
the hard, cold brutality of the veteran
gambler, but who clUng to him all The
more dearly for his ill-treatment. Aspir-
ing 20 play a bolder game than any
known to ordinary gambling houses he
went into Wall street, and speedily lost
the greater part of his money in specu-
la.ion. A year ago he met fellow
gambler in drinking saloon and forced
a quarrel upon him. The quarrel was
evidently premeditated by Sharkey, and
the true reason of his enmity to Dunn
has not been published, though there is
good reason to believe that there was a
woman in the case other than Sharkey s
faithful friend Maggie Jordan. The end
of the matter was that Sharkey cooily
shot down his enemy, and was arrested
and indicted for murde-.
During his imprisonment and trial
Maggie Jordan was with him every day.
His old "pals' had deserted him, but
this woman sold everything she had to
supply the worthless lover with the
means to have luxuries in his cell Du-
ring his trial she sat by his side, and
when he was found guilty of murder
her than it did upon the imprisoned
gambler. Sentenced to death, Sharkey' :
doom was temporarily delayed while his
counsel endeavored to procure for him
a new trial. 1t was finally evident, how
ever, that no new trial would be granted,
and the mans death seemed inevitable.
Maggie Jordan, however, determined to
save him. Little by little she brought
the various articles Of woman's dress
to his cell, and on Wednesday last,
dressed in the disguise thus provided,
Sharkey walked out of prison, leaving
his mistress to bear the consequence of
having aided him to escape.
Bad as the murderer was, the devotion
of this girl to him is something very pa
thetic. He has treated her with gross
cruelty, but she never wavered in her
loyalty to him. Now she has accom-
plished her task of setting him free she
will doubtless try to join him at the first
opportunity. What we object to her for
is this: the hope of placing herself with
in the power of cold, calculating,
murderouI scoundrel, who is as incapa-
BILE of appreciating her devotion now
as he was when he lived luxuriously on
the price of the woman's jewels and
clothing, and never seemed to think that
she was doing anything which he had
not the fullest right to expect.
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SNOW FORK COAL AND MINING co.

H. C. GREENER, Sec. JIM. BROWN, Pres.
General Office, North East Corner of Public
Square and Columbus Street, Somerset Perry
County Ohio, (up stairs,)
"HERE can be seen the plat of Murray
w City, and can also be obtained any need
ed information relative to the purchase of lots
in the same. All communications relative to the
purchase of lots in said town, address to the
President, all other communications address to
the Secretary of the Company.
n. B. A Railroad will be built and running
through Murray City this season, connecting
with the Columbus & Hooking Valley Railroad
at or near Nelsonyille. Now is the time to Sc
cure bargains in town lots
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The teller of the Vile Marie Bank at
Montreal despises the way in which two
Yankees got $10,488 that he left on the
counter of his establishment, the other
day They were great lumber dealers
on the Ottawa River, and they wanted
to open an immense account with him,
and "You just look at that map on the
wall, Mr.. Teller, which shows where we
operate" they said. He looked, and
the men escaped with the money.
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Premiums for 1874.


Every subscriber to THE ALDINE for the
year 1874 will receive a pair of chromos. The
original pictures were painted in oil for the pub
fishers of THE ALDfNE, by Thomas Moran
whose great Colorado picture was purchased by
Congress for ten thousand dollars. The subjects
were chosen to represent ''The East' and 1.-THE
West'' One is a view in The White Mountains,
New Hampshire; the other gives The Cliffs of
Green River, Wyoming Territory. The differ
ence in the nature of the scenes themselves is a
pleasing contrast, and affords a good display of
the artists scope and cOloring. The chromos
are each worked from thirty distinct plates, and
are in size (12x16) and appearance exact fac
SMILES OF the originals The presentation of a
painter to the subscribers of THE ALDINE
was a bold but peculiarly happy idea, and its
successful realization is attested by the follow
ing testimonial, over the signature of Mr.. Moran
himself.
NEWARK, \. J., Sept. %, 1873.
Messrs. JAMES SUTTON & Co.
Gentlemen,-I am delighted with the proofs
in color of your chromos. They wonderfully
successful representations by mechanical process
of the oaiginal paintings.
Very respectfully,
(Slgned,) THos. MORAN.
These chrOmos are in every sense American
They are by an original American process, with
material of American manufacture, from designs
and presented to subscribers to the first success
full American Art Journal. If no better because
of all this they will certainly possess interest
no foreign production can inspire, and neither
they any worse if by reason of peculiar facil-
titles of production they cost the publishers only
trite, che equal in eUeyy respect to other cronOs
that sold singIy for double the subscription price
of THE 4LDINE. Persons of taste VIII prize
these pictures for themselves-not for the price
they did or did not cost, and will appreciate the
enterprise that renders their distribution posi-
BILE.
If any subscriber indicate n preference for
figure subject, the publishers will send Thoughts
of Home" a new and beautiful chrome, 14x20
inches, representing little Italian exile whose
speaking eyes betray the longings Of his heart.
TERMS.
IS per annum in advance, with Oil
Chromos free.
Dz8s~ For so Cents extra, the chromos
will be sent, mounted, vanished, and
prepaid by mail
THE ALDINE will, hereafter be obtainable
only by subscription. There will be no reduced
or club raie; cash for subscriptions must be sent
to the publishers direct, or handed to the local
canvasser 1cihOuf responsibility 10 the publishers
except in cases where the certificate given bear
ing the fac-simile signature of James Sutton & Co.
CANVASSERS WANTRD.
Any person wishing TO act permanently as
local canyasser viii receive prompt information
by applying TO
JAMES SUTTON g. CO.,
Plbtishers, ss Maiden Lsne, NEW Yc1aK.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-28

The serial story Of the year, Katherine
Earle" by Adeline Trafton, author OF "An
! American Girl Abroad" is complete, in the
hadds of the publishers, and will be commenced
| in the November number. 1t Is a charming love
! story by gifted and rapidly rising writer, and
we predict for il a wide popularity.
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Art Department. 1874.

The illustrations of THE ALDINE have won
a worldwide reputation, and in the art centres
Of Europe it is an admitted fact that its wood
cuts are examples of the highest perfection ever
attained. The common prejudice in favor of
''steel plates'' is rapidly yielding to more ed
ucated and discriminating taste which recog-
nizes the advantage of superior artistic quality
with greater facility of production. The wood
cuts of THE ALDINE possesses all the delicacy
and elaborate finish of the most costly steel
plate, while they afford better rendering of the
artists original.
To fully realize the wonderful work which
THE ALDINE is doing for the cause of art cul-
ture in America, it is only necessary to consider
the cost to the people of any other decent repre-
sentations OF the productions of great painters.
In addition to designs by members of the Ma
tional Academy, and other noted American art
lists, THE ALDINE will reproduce examples of
the best foreign masters selected with view to
the highest artistic success and greatest general
interest. Thus the subscriber to THE ALDINE
will, at trihing cost, enjoy in his own home
the pleasures and refining influences of true art.
The quarterly tinted plates Cor 1874 will be by
Those Moran and J. d. Woodward.
The Christmas issue for 1874 will contain spe-
cial designs for appropriate to the season, by our
best artists, and will surpass in attractions any
of its predecessors
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Prospectus for 1874 Seventh Year
The AIdine.

An Illustrated Monthly Journal, universally ad-
mitted to be the Handsomest Periodical in
the World n Representative and
Champion of American Taste.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-10-09

THE Two KINDS OF FRIENDSHIP
There are two kinds of friendship, one is
the affection of the greater for the loss,
the other that of the less for the greater.
The greater and the less may be differs
enccs Of rank, or intellect, or character,
or power. There are tho two opp9sites
of feeling which respectively characterize
tue masculine and the feminine natures,
the familiar symbols of which are the oak
and the ivy with its clinging tendrils.
But though they arc the masculine and
feminine types, are not confined to male
and female. Most Of us have gone
through both these phases of friendship.
Whoever remembers an attachment at
school to boy teebIer than himself, will
rccollect the exultng pride ofguardanship
with which be shielded his friend from
the oppression of some young tyrant OF
the playground. And whoever, at least
in boyhood, or youth, loved a man, to
whose mental or moral qualities he look
ed up with young reverence, will recollect
th' devotion and jealousies, and the all
most passionate tenderness, and the costly
gifts, and the desire of personal sacrifice,
which characterize boyish friendship and
which certainly belong to the feminine
and not the masculine type of affection.
Doubtless the language Of 10 Memoriam
is tender in tho extreme, such as a sister
might use to a brother deeply beloved.
But it is to be remembered that it express
es the affection of the spirits which rejoices
to confess itself the feebler; and besides
that the man has Iassed into a spirit, and
that time and distance have thrown a
hallowing haze Of tenderness over the lin.
eaments Of the friend Of the past.-F
". Robertson.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-10-09
Times Passing Away.

An exchange beau ully treats this sul>
ject as follows: 1t is astonishing with what
rapidity time passes away, how the days,
the weeks, the mouths, and the years roll
round, carrying with them the li!o, tho
beauty, and the hope of this world into
vast and unknown future. 1t tscems but
short time indeed, since we last felt and
enjoyed the springs and buoyancc of youth
the delights of home, the influence Of pa
ternal love, the society and counsel of
friends, who now sleep in the grave, and
yet some OF us are aged, and tie majority
have attained to mature manhood. The
young Of the present generation are grow
ing up around US, but in our youth W.
knew them not. v bile we have been
passing on in the direction of the grave,
they have sprung up to occupy our places
and follow rapidly in the rear. Before us
we see the aged totteripg along to their fee>
blencss and leaning on their slaves, behind
US is the youth flushed with promise and
the unfit prattling in its mothers arms.
That circle has lccn kept up unbrokcu,
since the morning of the creation, that
circle will be kept up, unbrokcn until
time is lost in eternity
Our life is a moving pauorsma--tle pics
ture on the canvass pass before our eyes,
deligbting US for moment, but each con.
tanning solemn lesson and warning. Ilo
Is but al indifferent observer who does not
study himself. There il the ocean, the
lake, the river, the mountain, and the
vale, the one swells in its majestic gran>
deur and murmurs its defiant tones, which
arc heard upon either shore, the other
rests like calm mirror rejecting tho
light Of the millionsof stars that sparkle
in tho blue concave, the river Gasbes OIL
It's ways to the sea, the mountain lifts its
head among the clouds, and carries its
frowning shadows in the vale below, the
vale echoes to the songs Of its birds, the
hum of human voices, the lowing of herds.
while here and there is the busy town
with its active lite,i oeaseless conimotion,
its competitions struggles, its attractive
homes, and the spires of its churches
poi ting toward beaver. The bell rines
aud the picture passes away from our
sights 10 I've seen no more. Thus il is
with human life. II is an associations, OF
object, interests, attractions, aud beauties,
which bursts upon our sight, perform their
mission and accomplish their purposes.
and are then lost to sight. The bell tolls,
the canvas moves, the light are put out,
the vision is lost in darkness. Silence
rsigns, The curtain drops. and all is ended
in the sleep, the forgcttulncss, aud the
insenSibility Of the grave.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-10-09
Cure Fer Cholera nnd Yellow
Fever.

From the Memphis Appeal
EDITORS APPEAL Our people, who
have SO recently passed through the
deep and bitter waters of affliction from
the existence ola very malignant form
Of cholera, learned, on yesterday, with
feelings of profound and unaffected sym
pathy of the sufferings in your city from
that twin scourge, the yellow fever. /
was enabled, by assiduous bedside al
tention to a large number of cholera
patients, and an earnest desire to under
stand, group, and analyze the promi
nent features of the disease. to reach
conclusions and adopt n treatment
which has proven eminently satisfacto-
ry and successful. Under the use O
the means suggested, when opportunely
employed, anu in cases uucomplicated
with any pre-oxistIng organic disease Of
vital organs, The average mortality from
this pestiIence will, | am confident, be
less Lnan ten per cent.
Toe formula was arranged and adopt
ed because, according to my theory aud
observations, it fully met tue indica-
tons ot an ordinary case OF genuine
Asiatc cholera That TIL, disease i,
the result Of powerful poison existing
in the atmosp here of infected districts
or generated within the system Itself,
no intelligent mind can reasonably
doubt. Nor have ] any more doubt
respecting the origin Of yellow fever,
typhus fever, and, perhaps, La &c
class of other maladies which annual y
alflilt some portions oil the 0Or d. Ac,
cepting this proposition as true, | sub
NIT to my intelligent professional oreth.
rem is there any agent SO potent or 81
reliable in the treatment Of disease Sc
originating as clor,ne "in some one oi
It's multitudinous combinations II is
not assumed that the specific formula
employed in the treatment of cholera
would prove equally applicable in Q
case Of yellow ierve. II may be found
quite as potent in the one as in the
ether. But in view Of The powerful dis
ipiectant virtues Of clorine, am con
vincod that the fnrmaia, or suu,e kin
drcn contamination, Containing laryel,
OF this important agent, will not prov,
less effoctnal in the treatment OF tn,
; scourge which now aiflicts your people
than il has proven in the treatment o
cholera. These views and suggestion
are offered to my intelligent profession
al brethren with all becomiag defer
ence. The articles hastily prepared b,
me. in the midst Of the epidemic, OF
cholera its pathology and treatment,
: are but the framework OF q communi
, cation which shall. st my leisure. ofse
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-10-09
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FEMALE TEACHERS.

There is kiud of prejudice against fe.
male teachers in some of the districts.
Why this prejudice should exist, we can.
not tell. In many Of the public schools
females would make just efficient teach.
ers as males, For children they are su-
perior We are disposed to give them
the preference, because they will bring
to bear upon the young the importance of
teaching refinement in the schools.
There is great neglect on this point. We
need IN our schools more elevated tone.
Culture is too often lost sight of in the
schools. 1t would be great gain to the
educational i terests OF the county to offer
inducements to female teachers. They
ought to be encouraged to prepare them,
selves for the school room. No work il
mole appropriate for women than teach
ing school.