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RELIGIOUS NEWS.
The Reformed d Episcopal
Church.
Sermon by the Rev. John Vaughan
Lewis, Of Washington.
The Spirit Of the Religious
Press.
Progress of the Churches at
Home and Abroad.
The Special Work which Is Doing
in Chicago.
The RcV. DR.. DekoVen--.Prof. Swing
---Chicago Orthodoxy.
Progress Of the Churches at
Home and Abroad.
The Special Work which Is Doing
in Chicago.
The Rev. DR.. DekoVen---Prof Swing
---Chicago Orthodoxy.
Services in the Churches To-Day.
THE cuMM!Ns MOVEMENT

THE CUHMtNS MOVEMENT.
SERMON or TIE BEv- JOIN VAUGHN LEWIS, D.
ST. Jof1s's PARISH, I
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. ., 18s4.(
, 1874-02-01

70 fEe Edi5oT a The Chicago 7776aHs:
SIR: Doubtless Prof. Swing would reply that
be is his Own master, and. from purely person.
.! standpoint, he is right; but in q larger and
more liberal sonse he Ii wrong, for it ever Chi
caeo preacher belonged to Tho whole people.
Prof. Swing does. His preaching at the worlds
church (McYcker's) Was tnntamouut to his dedi~
cation to the ontre community. and SO the
hundreds rho hare listened to him there regard
ed it. They pronounce 1t d downright robbery for
the Fourth Presbyterian Church to tako Prof
Swing to the narrow confines OF its church on
the North Side. But, admitting that the Trustees
they made to give up congregation OF 5000 for
one OF LOO, and at the same time dou5le their
current expenses. Let them calculate what
they could hare procured for the $50. 900 which
their new church cost them. At $50 Sunday
for McVicker's Theatre, their $50000 would
haye paid lent fqr 1000 services during period
of twenty years! Vas the 5S0, 900 fsst-c!aBs
iuTeetuent Z
, 1874-02-01

7. z. n.
The Young Mems Christian Association makes
the following announcements Noon-day pray
er~meeting every day, from y m. to l2:45, in
Methodist Church Block, in 1ecture-1oom, and
on Saturdays in the large audlence-room, when
the Sunday school lesson is the topic discussed.
These meetings have been we'll attended and are
growing in interest. The one yesterday was led
By the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, of the First Pres
byteriau Church.
TIE ToKE FELLOWS,
. band OF young men connected with the Asac-
caHon, have charge OF and conduct the follow
ing meetings, which are free to all, and young
men in the city. especially strangers. are invited
to attend: Gospel meeting this evening at the
rooms No. 81 West Randolph street, conducted
by ". E. Clough meeting in Holt Houae sit
ting-1oon eye7y Sunday evening. led this eren-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
The Leisure Time OF Boys.

Every father of family knows
that there is time in the life of his
sons that gives him much trouble and
some anxiety. We allude to the Pc
riod Of boyhood, when exuberance Of
spirits and thoughtlessness are at
their hight, and when the studies i'm
posed by school discipline are entire
ly insufficient to find adequate employ
ment for their too active minds and
bodies. And it is not possible, or
even desirable, 10 increase the already
considerable application Of all well
bred boys TO the study of books and
the requirement Of learning. 1t is
not be wished that a youth Of twelve
should grow up to be conceited
would-be pedant OF twenty, and
boekworm Of thirty years Of age
Thus the task OF finding fitting occu-
patton for the leisure hours of boy
is no inconsiderable one, as few pur-
suits into which boy would plunge
with eagerness are suited for putting
in the way Of SO much impulsiveness
and want of consideration as most
boys possess. The question, then, of
how to amuse our boys. is one of par
amount importance and difficulty.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
Old Letters.

Never burn kindly written letters
it is SO pleasant to read them Owe
when the ink is brown, the paper
yellow with age, and the hands tha
traced the friendly words be folded
over the hearts that prompted them
under the green sod. Above all
never bum love letters. To read
them in after years is like a resurrec.
ton to ones youth. The elderly
spinster finds in the impassioned offer
she foolishly rejected twenty years
ago a fountain of rejuvenescence.
Glancing over it, she realizes that
she was once a belle and beauty
and beholds her former self in mir
ror much more congenial to her taste
than the one that confronts her in
her dressing room. The widow in
deed" derives a sweet and solemn
consolation from the letters of the
beloved one who has journeyed be-
fore her to the far-off land, from where
there comes no message, and where
she hopes one day to join him. No
photographs can vividly recall to the
memory the tenderness and devotion
of the children who have left at the
call Of Heaven, as the epistolary out
pourings of their love. The letter of
true son or daughter to true
mother is something better than an
image of the features; ii is reflex
Of the writer's soul. Keep all loving
letters. Burn only the harsh ones,
and in burning them forgive and for
get them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
Popular Su perstitiOns.

An Enghlish cotemporary says
1--WE really are a much more super
stitious people than some of us have
any idea. Thus it is gravely announc.
ed that, in spite of the hurry and
anxiety to relieve Cape Coast with
stores and munitions of war, the
steamer which was ready to start on
Friday was delayed until Saturday,
absolutly losing twenty-four hours at
Woolwich rather than sail on an ul-
lucky day"
In the teeth of this it is cheering
to read that: AT meeting of the
Wiltshier Archaeological Society, a
paper on .Omens' was read, in which
several modern superstitions were
noticed as prevalent; and Sir John
Awdrcy mentioned that he knew a
gentleman, an owner of an entire par-
ish, who was wakened in the middle
of Sunday night by a clap of thun-
der in winter, which was said to por-
tend the death of the greatest man in
the parish, but, though twenty years
have elapsed, the gentleman is liv-
ing yet. We have heard man de-
clare, on the other hand, that Friday
was his lucky day, and that be al
ways made it a rule to walk under
ladders"
The fact is, as regards sailing on
Friday, that it is found impossible to
disregard the intensely strong feel
ings of crew on this subject.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
sThc Good Old Times -

An agreeable relic of the good old
times" has been discovered, says the
Pail Mall Gazette, by a German pa.
per, in the shape of bill of charge
submitted by an cIecutioner of Bonn
to the authorities of Cologne in 1888.
The following are few of the items
contemplated in his estimate: ITO
quartering by means of four horses,
thalers, to beheading and burning, 8
thalers; to strangling and burning,
6 thalers to burning alive, 5 thalers
to break on the wheel alive, s thai
ers i; to behea1ing and fastening the
body TO the wheel, 6 thalers; to be-
heading, thalers; to beheading
after cutting off one hand, 5 thalers !;
to cutting off hand or two fingers,
! thaler. Tearing with red-hot pin
GERS TO be paid for at so much per
gripe; drowning or burying alive not
being usual in these parts, the, exc
cutioner will, in the event of such cx-
ecutions being required. ask as much
as for beheading or fastening to the
wheel-namcly, 6 thalers. To fasten-
ing screws on thumbs and legs, and
driving the same, thaler for the
FIRST quarter of an hour. for every
subsequent quarter of an hour, thai
er. The executioner reserves the
right of afterward receiving what
may be due to him for bis trouble in
setting limbs to right again"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
A Convenient Hammock.

The English troops employed i'll the
Ashantee expedition are supplied
with Mexican pocket hammocks
They consist of hammock of stout
Manila hemp netting for support OF
a person either lying or sitting, two
ropes and two screw hooks for attach
ing them to boards where buildings
are met with. The weight of the
whole when packed for carrying is
only one pound. These hammocks
are available for variety GfpurpOses.
Slung frem q pole, they can be used
in lieu of sedan chairs upon the line
of march for the sick and wounded, or
for general purposes of transport
Suspended by their ropes from two
continuous trees they are especially
adapted for sleeping in, n,either to form
an oben-air hospital or for officers and
men ubon the line of march and in
these latter capacities they were cx-
tensively used during the Franco
Prussian war. When trees are not
,obtainable, two stoutish stakes driven
into the ground at oppsite angles will
form a sufficient means of support
Another advantage Of this form Of
hammock is that it can be used as
foraging net and carriad over the
shoulder with the greatest possible
ease.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
brandy for Women.

Carl Penscn" is out in the New
York Times in letter addressed to
DR.. Stephen Smith, who, in a recen,
Young Mems Christian Association
"Aquarian' meeting asserted that call
men condemn, with united voice, the
use of alcohol as beverage for wo-
men" To this Carl Benson" sharp
ly dissents. THE majority of Eng
lish women" he says, whose means
permit it, are wine and beer drinkers,
and they are 6ne physical specimens u
By implication, he argues that Eng
lishmen, at least, approve of alcohol
ic drinks for women, and apparently
ranges himself with them, as he
draws glowing picture Of English
women's health and vigor, as contrast
ed with their American sisters lack
of stamina. Possibly, however, our
ladies still continue, as he gracefully
puts it, TO chill their interiors with
cold water" in spite of English pre-
cedent; like the obstinate Teetotaller
who had symptoms of cholera, and
on being warned that he must take
brandy or he would soon be in spasms,
cheerfully replied, We'll, l guess I'll
try few spasms." Mr. Carl Ben
soA" is Mr.. Charles Astor Bristol, of
New York city, gentleman of cul-
ture and somewhat addicted to let
tiers. We presume he is strongly in
favor of men taking some alcohol, as
of dispensing it to women, and that
he is endeavoring to make himself as
robust as Englishmen are known TO
be, using some himself. We venture
the prediction that his experiment
will be a failure.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
Flax Seed for Stock.

A correspondent of the Rurot heu
Yorker saws: Before llnseed CAKE
wo. made SO common in England
tho seed was a good deal used to tat
ton @ cattle and given as food general
" w. to Young stock, by the best old,
fashioned farmers can well re-
n,cn,bcr several homestesds, about
-. wears from 1920 to 1880. where
large boilers were fixed for the pur-
nose of boiling the SEEDS to aJelly'
which was done, as any one may sup
nose. by a great deal of water Oe,ag
used TO a small quantity OF seed. My
father used it frecley TO iattcn al
Kinds of animals, and | well recoiiec,
som. horses which had the finest kina
~ coat, their skins being full OF mot
lied spots and shining like a looking
class: and | have known cows when
have had no fodder but chopped
straw mixed with jelley and, per-
baps. a very little given in their racks,
without being chopped, which have
laid on flesh and fat faster than oth-
ers eating hay and meal.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14

! We would suggest 10 many p a.
rents who have been perplexed " i'll
this difficulty, to give their lads av er,
possible opportunity of acquirin g
mechanical trade. The industry ant
Ingenuity of boy of average abilie
may easily be made to furnish him
with never failing source OF anuse'
ment of the best order. The boy who
can produce or make something al
ready begins to feel that he is some
body in the world, the achievement
of resul, is not reward reserved for
grown people only And the educa-
ton of mind, eye, and hand, which
the use of tools mechanical apPli-
ances furnishes, is of great and real
value, beyond the good resulting
from the occupation OF leisure time.
Having nothing to do is as great a
snare to the young as it is to the full
grown; and no greater benefits can
be conferred on youths than TO teach
them to convert time now wasted,
and often worse than wasted, in pleas
ant means of recreation and mental
improvement
We say, therefore, to all parents:
Provide your boys with mechanical
apparatus and tools. There is no
greater pleasure to most boys than
the handling of tool; and many
great men and ingenious inventors
look back with gratitude and delight
to the day when they were first allow
ed to use the lathe, the saw, and the
plain.
The boy, whose time and mind are
now occupied with marbles and kites,
may be Watt, a Morse, or Besse-
mer in embryo;and it is certainly an
easy matter to turn his thoughts and
musings into a channel which shall
give full scope to their faculties. And
to most boys the use of mechanical
tools is the most fascinating of all oc-
cupations.
As logic and mathematics have a
value beyond accuracy in argument
and the correct solution of problems,
in that they teach men the habit of
using their rejecting powers system
atically, so carpentry, turning, and
other arts are of high Importance
These occupations teach boys to think,
to proceed from initial causes to re-
suits, and not only to understand the
nature and duty of the mechanical
powers, but TO observe their effects;
and to acquire knowledge by actual
experiment, which is the best way of
learning anything. All the theories
culled out of books leave an impress
on the mind and memory, which is
slight compared to that of the prac-
tical experience of the true mechanic.
Our advice is, to all who have the
great responsibility of the charge of
boys: Give them a lathe, or set OF
carpenters or even blacksmith's tools.
Give their mind a turn towards the
solid and useful side Of life. You
will soon see the result in increased
activity of their thinking capabilities,
and the direction of their ideas tow
ards practical results; and still more
obviously, in the avoidance of idle
mischief and nonsence Ito omit all
reference to absolute wickedness and
moral degradation,) which arc, to
too great an extent, the pastime Of
the generation which is to succeed us.
-Scientfc American
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
What n Yousg Lady Did.

The Delaware county pa Amer
ic0n gives the following account of :
young lady's success in poultry rais
ing:
"In Concord, a farmers daughter
during the past year, had the care ol
his poultry yard. In the spring she
commenced with about sixty fowls Of
the common breeds, including one
Dominique rooster and several hen.
of that stock. She also had two
roosters ofthe Partridge Cochin breed
From these she raised $50 chickens.
When young she fed on cracked corn,
and Indian meal. During the season
she sold eggs to the amount of $50,
and from September Goth to January
18th she got ready for the market
$50 pair of chickens, which she sold
for $3.50. She thinks the Dominique
the best for the market, but they are
not hardy when young. She has
some hens of the Partridge Cochin
breed which weigh 6, Z, and s pounds
each. 1t will be seen by this state
ment what may be done by proper
attention to poultry, the profits being
perhaps larger than any branch of
farming 1t also shows that the bus
mess is one in which females may
engage with success. The time oc-
cupied in caring from sixty to hun
dred hens doesn't average more than
an hour or two a day. The exercise
is light and pleasant, and the change
from household duties is rather agree
able than otherwise. Indeed, we
consider the poultry business, as an
occupation, both profitable and inter-
esting Gathering eggs, setting the
hens, watching the Matching and
tending the young. has a charm
which, in connection with the profits,
is calculated to please every lover of
natures great working world"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
Made 60 ..See &c"

IL can't see it," said Buffer No
body read these little advertisements
Its preposterous to think it."
But" said the editor, you read
what interests your
Yes
And if there's anything that you
particularly want you look for it,"
Certainly"
We'll, among the thousands upon
thousands who help to make up this
busy world Of ours everything that
is printed is read. Sheer as you
please, / do assure YOU that printers
ink is the true open sesame 10 all the
business success"
And still Buffer couldn't see it.
He didn't believe that one-half of
those little crowded advertisements
were ever read.
Suppose you try the experiment, +"
said the editor. Just slip in an ad-
vertisment OF the want Of one of the
most common things in the world,
for the sake Of the test | will give
it two insertions free. Two will be
enough; and you may have it jam
med in any out of the way nook Of
my paper you shall select. Two in
sertions OF only two lines. Will you
try it?"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
Curious Gums.

The Baltimore american speaking
of a collection Of guns in a store in
that city, says:
Two Of these are unique affairs,
brought home recently by one Of our
worthey citizens Mr.. I. II. Oliver,
who has spent twelve years travelling
in all parts Of Europe, Asia and AZ
rica. They are of great length, and
Of the most antique construction.
One Of them has a barrel FIVE feet
long, made Of the finest steel, curl
ously carved, and inlaid with gold
and plstina. The inlaying is elabor-
ately and beautifully done. The
stock of this gun is of ebony, inlaid
with silver, pearl and ivory. The
flint lock, of antique pattern, with
springs and works outside the
plate, is finely inlaid with platina
The barrel and stock are bound to-
gether by six solid, elaborately
wrought silver bands, and all the
mountings are of silver or gold. To
the stock is affixed butt plate Of
ivory, very handsomely inlaid. On
its side is an elegant written Arabic
inscription, that nobody has vet been
able to decipher The gun was made
in Morocco, where there are twenty
FIVE gun makers, who with the crud-
est implements, tnrn out guns that
have great reputation in all North
ern Africa. Such gun as this was
brought home by Mr.. Oliver as a
curiosity, and cost less than one
thousand dollars. The other of the
two guns that he brought home Was
made in Algiers, has a similar i'm
mensly long barrel. flint lock inlaid
with platina, and ivory and steel butt
plate, a stock inlaid with silver and
coral This gun is not so fine as the
other, but is very curious.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
Plain Diet.

In reading George Macdonald.
works, particularly Robert Falconel
and Ronald Bannerman's Boyhood
We have been struck with the ex
treme simplicity and even poverty
of the household arrangements, par,
ticulariy those of the table, described
as existing among Scottish people,
even of the better class, and quite
removed from poverty. Porridge
and oat-cake seems to be the staple
food, and luxuries beyond these are
neither expected or desired. Robert
Falconer's grandmother is described
as exceptionally dainty, for having
her oat-cake made with cream,
though she, like the others, seems to
have eaten without butter or any
relish.
In the late issued Autobi0graphy y
Of Thomas Guthrie, that worthy and
genial divine describes the fare of the
students of the University of Edm-
burg, at the time when he was q
college student there, as being of the
same Spartan simplicity. This OF,
dinary Iare, he SAYS, was tea once
a day, oatmeal porridge twice, and
for dinner "caller herrin,n and pOta-
toes. Butcher meat was a rarity,
which he does not remember tasting
more than twice during his first ses-
sion at college Yet DIR. Guthrie's
father was no poverty stricken peas
ant, but a bank agent and provost of
his borough.
Fancy an American family, not TO
say a boarding school or college,
counting itself well off while confined
to this sort of commonsl Yet if ma
tives of cold and moist Scotland live
and thrive on such food, something
a little approximating to its siniplici-
ty would probably not hurt us
Wilmington Commercial
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-01-14
Regular Eating

Half of all ordinary diseases, says
DR. Hall in his Journal of Health
would be bani.hed from civilized lie,
and dyspepsia become almostun knonw
ifeveryperson would eat but thrice .
d.v at regular times, and not an
atom between meals, the interval De'
inc not les. than FIVE hours, that be-
iur the time required to digest a full
meal and pas, it out Of the stomach,
Ua person eats between meals,
the process of digestion Of the food
already in the stomach is arrested,
until the last which has been eaten
is brought into the condition oi the
former meal; just as, if water is boil
ing and ice is put in, the whole ceases
10 boil until the ice has been melted
and brought to the boiling point, and
then the whole boils together.
But it is q law of nature that all
food begins to decay after exposure
TO heat and moisture for certain
time. II meal j. eaten, and In two
hours another, the whole remains un'
digssted for seven hours, before which
time the rot;ening process commences
and the man has his stomach full o.
csrbon-the very idea OF which Is
horribly disgusting.
As, then, all the food in the stom
ach is in q state of fermentive decay
it becomes unfit for the purpose o.
nutrition and for making good, pure
blood. Small wonder is it that dys-
peptics have such a variety OF symp'
tons, and aches, and complaints in
every part of the system, for there is
not one drop Of pure blood in the
whole body; hence the nerves which
feed upon this impure and imperfect
blood, are not properly nourished,
and as a consequence, become diseas-
ed. They complain" they are hun
gry-and like . hungry man-are
peevish, fretful, restless. We call 1t
nervousness, and no one ever knew a
dyspeptic who was not restless, hgsty
and essentially disagreeable, ftful,
and uncertain.
The stomach is made up of mum
Der Of muscles, all OF which are
brought into requisition in the pro-
cess of digestion. But no muscle can
work always. The busy heart is in
a state ofperfectrepose for one-third of
its time. The eye can worktwice in
second. but this could not be centin-
ued five minutes. The hands and
feet must have rest, ard so with the
muscles of tie stomach, they only
can rest when there is no work FOR
them to do-no food in the stomach
to digest Even at FIVE hours inter-
val, and eating thrice day, they are
kept constantly at work from break
fast until the last meal is disposed OF,
usually ten O'Clock at night. But
multitudcs eat heartily within an
hour of bedtime; TINS while the 9TH
cr portions of the body are at rest,
the stomach is kept laboring until
about daylight, and made 20 begin
again at breakfast time. No wonder
is it that the stomach is worn out
has lost its power of action. Many
girls become dyspeptic before they
are out of their teens, in consequence
of being about the house and nibbling
at everything they lay their eyes on
that is good to eat.