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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09
Keeping Poultry to Enrich Lands.

Colonel Waring, in his Elements of
Agriculture" says: Poultry dung is
nearly in value to Peruvian guano lex
cept that it contains more water.) If
granted that hen will consume, of the
different kinds of grain, meat, and veg
etables, during the year, the equivalent
of two bushels of corn, which weigh
120 pounds, then it is certainly low
enough to place the excrement--the re-
suit of the digestion of these two bushels
as equivalent to fifteen pounds of gu
ano. As the manure from 100 fowls du-
ring year, would amount to $500
pounds of guano, taking the above sup
position as at least safe; and as 300
pounds is ordinarily sufficient for
an acre of corn, it will be seen that
the manure from 100 towels will make
compost enough for five acres. The ex-
pertinent has been tried by the writer,
of applying, to one acre of corn in the
hill, the manure of twenty hens one
year, mixed with swamp muck, in the
proportion of one part hen manure and
three parts muck, and the result was a
better crop than upon any adjoining
acre enriched, for sake of experiment,
with a good fair ordinary dressing OF
stable manure.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09
How Arizona Lost her Forests.
LEGEND OF THE UTEs.

A Legend of the Utes, for which am
indebted to the perucal of Major Pow
ellis Ms. notes, explains the cause of
the absence of woods in northern Ari-
zona. 1t is not long, and there is some
thing SO inexpressibly novel in its mat
ter, as we'll as in the fact of our draw
ing new mythogloy and fresh imagery
from the very heart of the continent,
that / give it, as it is remembered. 1t
is called "The Origin of Fire." and tells
how once upon time bright spark
fell from the point of reed upon the
ground, and the nightingale picked it
up in its beak and found it was fire.
And the mighty chief of the Utes asked
what it was, and the nightingale said it
was fire. And the chief asked if there
were any more in the world, and the
nightingale said, that far off in the
south, men were dancing ever about a
great fire, with songs and shouts. So the
mighty chief of the Utes made, and put
on fire cap, with long eagle feathers
upon it, and started for the people of
the South. And, as he went, he station
ed nimble runners of his tribe all the
way from the land of the Utes to the
Fire People, at intervals of mile. And,
journeying, he came, after many days,
to the Fire People, dancing with songs
and shouts about great fire. And he
mingled with them, but they saw that
he was a stranger and looked askant at
him. But he danced and sang and
shouted with them, and suddenly stoop-
ing, thrust the end of his eagle plumes,
in the fire, and they blazed up nightly
And the Fire People would have caught
him, but he leaped over their heads and
ran to the first man of his tribe, and
falling exhausted, handed him the blaz.
ing torch of plumes and told him to
run. And he ran and fell exhausted
by the second man, handing him
the plumes. And SO they ran, each man
catching the fire plumes from the hand
of the runner until the last man brought
it to the land of the Utes. And they
were SO rejoiced they put the torch tC
the roots of a mighty tree on the edge
of forest, and it spread in every direc
tion, and all the woods were destroyed
And the people of the Utes prayed
long and loud to the god Tawotz, and a
length he sent a mighty rain, which
quenched the fire. But turtle sat up
on spark of fire and kepti is alive dur
ing the rain. And this was the origin
of fire. The myths combined give 1
not uninteresting barbarie history of the
origin of the Grand Canon and river O
the Colorado, and of the absence of for
ests in this part of Arizona.-M s. Ser
eronce, in Old and New for December
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Sagaeity Of Birds.

A great mental quality which birds
seem TO have in excess of other animals
is very fine calculation of distance,
and this, too, in direct subordination to
their own well-being. 1t has been shown
again and again-and Mr.. Leith Adams
refers to some facts in support of il in
this essay--that as new weapons of offence
are invented many species of birds mar
rowly observe the range of the new bows
or guns, and keep out of range, not even
troubling themselves to go at all farther
than is necessary to be out Of range.
Quite recently we have read, though we
cannot verify the reference at present, of
some birds which adapt themselves,
within few days, to the increased range
of the rife, directly after they had learn
ed its range for the first time, having
been accustomed only to the fowling-
piece, and kept just outside the 1000
yards range, and whatever range il was,
retaining their composure perfectly at
that distance. We suppose the wonder
full accuracy of the travelling birds in
striking the exact point for which they
are bonnd, of which Mr.. Leith Adams
give us wonderful illustrations, is still
greater proof Of the same power. Mr..
Adams tells of swifts which, after eight
months absence in the South, at a dis
tance of some 1 300 or 300 miles, return
not merely to the same region, but TO the
same nests, which they had deserted,
and that, too, year after year, the indi-
viduals having been marked so that
there could be no mistake as to their
identity, unless there be such creatures
as claimants" to abandoned nests even
IN the ornithological world. Again, the
delicate adoption of the power ofgeomet-
rical measurmetn to the welfare of its
species, seems to be shown by the weav-
er-bird of India, which hangs its "elab-
rately-constructed, purse-shaped nest"
"from the tops Of branches overhanging
deep wells" in order to render it diff
cult for enemies to get at the nest with
out running great risk of falling into
the well.-The Spectator.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09
The CamphOr Tree.

1t ia something more than wonder
that tree, in itself so valuable In its
production, 80 absolute and 40 entirely
susceptible Of of successful cultivation
in the United States, should 30 long be
totally neglected by our agriculturalists.
As the camphor tree is quite as hardly
as any Of our apple trees, there Is, per-
haps, no good reason why il should not
succeed well wherever the apple trees
grow 1t Is indigenous to all parts Of
China, japan, Burmah, Chinese Tar
tary, and Aourishes even as far north
as the Amoor country; but il is found
in the greatest abundance along the east
eTn coast of China, between Annoy and
Shanghae. In the district Of Kwang Tung
and Funchein Il grows in dense forests
the trunks attaining sire equalling that
ofany Of our North American forest trees.
-AmerieoR Workiag People
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09
A Funny Suit.

A funny suit against an editor has
been decided in the Circuit Court at
Waukesha, Iowa. The Fays, proprie-
tors of the La Belle House at Oconomo-
voc, brought an action before justice to
recover $97 .04 for meals and cigars furn-
ished Ashley ID. Harger, editor of the
Oconomowoc Times Harger set up a
counter claim of $3.50 for putting" the
La Belle House Judgment was render
ed for the plaintiff, and Mr.. Harger ap-
pealed to a jury. The case excited
much interest, Harger being well liked,
and having solemn, earnest manner of
making very witty remarks. He testi-
fed that Fay would say to him: "Har-
ger, I've got nice dinner to-day come
in" "No, l thank you, Pm going
home" Fay would prevail on him to
stay, and after dinner the following col
loquy: Everything in there all right,
Harger?'' Everything excellence" :"
''Desert all right?'' Excellent" "Ice-
cream all right?" delicious, Mr.. Fay"
"Very well, remember this in your pa
per next week" In return for dinners
and cigars, Harger says that he told a
great many lies-editorially-worth
more than a thousand dollars. He
would never have presented bill for
lies had not Fay fallen out with him
and wanted pay for the dinners. Har-
ger pleaded his own case, and the jury
found verdict for him, which threw
the costs upon the hotel-keeper.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09

It is the solemn thought connected
with middle life, that life's last business
is begun in earnest, and it is then, mid
way between the cradle and the grave,
that a man begins to marvel that he let
the days Of youth go by so half enjoy
ed. 1t is the pensive Autumn feeling,
it is the sensation Of half sadness that
we experience when the longest day OF
the year is passed, and every day that
follows is shorter, and the light fainter,
and the feebler shadows tell that nature
is Fastening with gigantic footsteps to
her Winter grave. So does man look
back upon his youth. When the first
gray hairs become visible, when the un-
welcome truth fastens itself upon the
mind that man is no longer going up
hin, but down, and thatthe sun is al
ways westerning, he looks on things be
hind. When we were children we
thought as children. But now there
lies before us manhood, with its earnest
work and then old age, and then the
grave, and then home. There is sec
ond youth for man, better and holiel
than his first, if he will only look OIL
and not look back.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09
Sensation Of Starving.

For the first few days through which
strong and healthy man is doomed to
exist upon nothing, his sufferings are,
perhaps, more acute than in the remain
ing states-he feels an inordinate, un-
speakable craving at the stomach, night
and day. The mind runs upon beef
bread, and other substantials; but still,
in q great measure the body retains its
strength. On the third and fourth days,
but especially on the fourth, this inces-
SAINT craving gives place to sinking and
weakness of the stomach, accompanied
by nausea. The unfortunate sufferer
still desires food, but with loss of
strength he loses that eager craving
which is felt in the cashier stages
Should he chance to obtain morsel or
two of food, he swallows it with VOL
fish avidity, but five minutes afterward
his sufferings are more intense than ev-
er. He feels as if he had swallowed a
living lobster, which is clawing and
feeding upon the foundation of his ex-
i,tence. On the fifth day his cheeks ap-
pear hollow and sunken, his body at
tenuated, his color is ashy pale, and his
eye wild, CLASSY, cannibalish. The
mind wanders. At one moment he
thinks his weary limbs cannot sustain
him mile, the next he is endowed with
unnatural strength, and if there be q
certainty of relief before him, dashe;
bravely and strongly forward, wandering
whence proceeds his new and sudden i'm
r,t,lsa
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09

Jay Cooke q Co., are not 50 well of as
was reported at the time Of their fail
ure. They owe little over eleven mil
lions and their assests, including the
property of the individual members Of
the firm, amount to about thirteen mil
lions. But were they sold at once they
might not bring fourth of that sum,
while running through the devious
channels and complicated mechanism Of
bankruptcy the poor creditors viii hard
ly realize anything. 1t is proposed by
some Of the creditors to put the estate
in the hands Of trustee in order 10
avoid the loss consequent upon an imme-
diate attempt at liquidation. Mr.. Cooke
is confident that he can take the assets
and pay dollar for dollar on the indebt-
edness of the firm. The best thing that
can possibly be done is 70 make him
trustee under the forty-third section Of
the Bankrupt law. He understands the
business better than any other, and has
qualifications for the business that few
possess. In fact, his faith in the North
ern Pacific Railroad is unshaken, and
his enthusiasm for that enterprise il al
most enough to overcome the positive
knowledge of its utter worthlessness as
paying investment BY all means let
Mr.. Cooke have the settling Of his com
plicated and immense business, in justice
to himself and for the interest Of his
creditors 1t will be a thousand times
better than to let il go through bank
ruptcy, which is another name for legal
lied robbery. When Mr.. Tremain made
his motion in the House, the other day,
the prejudice against Mr.. Cooke that
broke out in howl Of disappoyal was
positively disgraceful. When Mr..
Cooke was rich every Congressman was
his friend and only too glad to show him
attention. Now tina, he is overWhelm-
ed by misfortune he certainly deserves
justice. At any rate, there is no reason
why the creditors Of this great firm,
many Of whom are really poor, should
be made to suffer ON account Of any-
body's prejudice against its head.-N T.
Grdlhic
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09
NUMBER 80.
Red and Brown Ant Fight.

The instinct of dumb creatures leads
them TO do many things that seem to
initiate human beings; and this is es-
pecially true Of the brutal art Of fight
ing White and red men can "go to the
ant" and see their own examples Of vi
ces as well as of virtue. The Wines
borough (Tenn.) Banner says:
William Norman, a citizen of this
place, while on visit to Lawrenceburg
last summer, was called into an field by
Mr.. Mclean, to witness a fight be-
tween two colonies of ants, one the
small red ant, about one-eighth Of an
inch long; the other a brown ant, about
one-fourth of an inch long.
1t seems that the brown ants had at
tackled fhe red ants in their holes, dri-
wing and whipping them outside. After
the red ants had been driven out, to the
number of several million, apparently,
they would take refuge under every leaf
and chip that could be found in the space
of three yards square, which was the
size of the battle-ground.
The brown ants would throw out sklr-
mishers, who would advance near to the
red ants, and were Immediately attacked
by the reds, and nearly annihilated the
survivors returning to the main body
The main body would advance upon the
red army, which would break ranks and
scatter in all directions, the brown ants
pursuing, and killing all they could
catch.
They displayed as much bravery, and
evinced as much judgment as intelligent
human beings. The red ants would not
risk an open engagement, but would in
stantly surround any struggling party,
and kill them, though they themselves
were afterwards exterminated. The
brown ants, on receiving information
from their scouts of the red ants, would
swarm out of their haunts by myriads,
their motions expressing the greatest
fury as they tumbled over one another
in their eagerness to fight.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09

An exchange says that 1t is reported
in England that French firm has dis
covered a method of making an artifici-
al sugar from materials so cheap that it
can be sold at a farthing pound. Con-
cerning which the Manufacturer and
Builder says: "When we consider that
sawdust is cheap and rich IN Ignite, by
which chemical treatment and mineral
acids may be changed into grape sugar,
we should not at all be surprised that
the above report turns out to be true,
and that sawdust is the material from
which this cheap sugar is obtained.
Changing old linen rags into sugar is a
well known chemical experiment. Such
rags are almost pure Ignite, while saw
dust also consists of Ignite, however,
with other Ingredients, easily remov-
ed. From rags to sawdust is but one
step"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-01-09

The best solution of the Transports
tion problem thus far proposed is found
in course which tends to do away with
the necessity for transportation. The
more it shall be considered by Western
men the more its importance will be
recognized, and the more clearly will it
be found practicable. The capabilities
of the West for consuming its own pro-
ducts and manufacturing its own goods
as clearly manifest, and will steadily de-
velop as time advances. The immedi-
ate which she now transports hundreds
and thousands of miles to reach the
consumer, because all the production is
here, and all the consumption belongs
to the East, may be to large extent re-
tanned and consumed on her own terrific
ry. Let the West but have its own
looms, spindles, and forges, as well as
its corn and wheat fields, its own nocks
and heards, and then, not only will
some important questions in political
economy have received their solution,
but the transportation question itself
will have lost much Of its insigni6canc.
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enough to add his portion of the story.
He explained that, after leaving his
friend Moss, he had been met and at
tackled by a man in an unfrequented
lane. They had a struggle, during
which he received blow on the head
that must have made him insensihAA, for
he remembered norhing more until he
found himself in bed in strange room;
how long he had lain .ilere he could not
tell. He had been taken home by a hu-
name market-gardener, who found him
lying senseless in the road, without hat
or coat: his injury proving to be a seri-
GUS fracture of the skull, and the death
like stupor continuing, he was left on the
hands of the good Samaritan, who, liv-
ing some distance from London, had no
chance of gaining any information about
him.
At this point George Denton took up
the narrative. His first step had been
20 obtain sight of the body; he had found
a peculiar mark on the right side of the
neck. which led to the suspicion that, in
stead of being the body of David Birch,
it was that of notorious burglar with
whom he had been several times brought
in contact in the course of his profession.
This was further proved when he found
on inquiry that Lightfngered Joe, as he
was called, was missing from his accus-
toned haunts, and one of his associates
remembered having seen him in the
neighborhood of Fulham on the night
named. Upon making inquiries in that
locality George learned that Il market
gardener had been asking whether any
one belonging to the neighborhood was
missing, as a man unknown was lying i'll
at his cottage.
Thus, step by step, the detective had
unraveled the mysterious affair. 1t was
thought that the drowned man had end
ed his nights work by getting drunk;
and losing his way in the dark, had fall
en- into the river. This was the history
= the mistake through which the young
carpenter had SO unjustly suffered. But
the old bird-fancier seemed anxious to
make up matters by full reconciliation
with his nephew, satisfying his grand
daughter by his unexpected liberality
towards the brother and sister, not for
getting a reward to George Denton for
his faithful service. Polly made no Sc
cret of her feelings towards John, and it
was easy to see how it would end With
the young people
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POETRY.
HOLLYHOCKS.

"A Gaupting, graeeless hower." you say?
All wen, Il may be So
Il seemwbut YESTERDAY,
That morning long ago.
Z almost see the cottage yet,
The winding path-and Margaret.
Dew-pearls strung close on cobweb threads,
Cleaned in the dooT-yard grass,
And from the prim-lined garden-beds
Smiled mp 10 see us pass
Sweet, old-time blossoms, greeting thus
A fairer flower, unenvious-
We rested in the arbor-shade,
While through the open door
Stole bashful sunbeams, half-afraid,
And played upon the floor;
Or, bolder grown, with brightness fleet,
Touched her soft hair and forehead sweet.
A ight-winged breeze sailed gently by;
The lark's clear note afar
Through the blue spaces Of the sky
Slid ike falling STAR
never saw her look 50 fair.
All! If told her, would she care:
Within q scarlet hoTyhock
A pollen-laden bee
Deep plunging, made the blossom rock
She flashed a smile at me;
And with a motion swift and light,
She caught the silken petals tight.
Loud hummed the bee with angry wing
"Why thus so ill content?
The sweets you sought, poor foolish thing"
She said, Fare all unspentl''
Ny heart leaped up to hear her speak,
A sudden courage dyed my cheek
"DarlingP' cried, so let him fly.
And take me In his placei
Fast prisoned in your heart, could
Ask any sweeter grace?
could not struggle TO be free,
90 dear jailer kolds the key
Her cheek flushed like an opening rs>r.
No word her lips did say
| saw her little hand unelo=e.
The glad bee few away.
All me! twas forty years ago
My hair is gray-yet this know
I've roamed through many garden bowers.
Add blooming fields since then
In summer wildwood gathered flowers,
And in the mountain glen
Pulled haFebells from the moss-grown rock
Yet most hove the hollyhock.
= From The fE,fjae for Januzr,
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A Highland Dog-Trainer.

From Good Words.
l remember on one occasion, when Al
Ian was about to leave "the Names he
put his dogs, for my amusement, through
some of their drill, as he called it. They
were all sleeping round the kitchen-6re
the pups, freed from the girdle, wander
ing at liberty, when Allan said, "Go out
one of you, my children, and let me
know if the day is fair or wet" A dog
instantly rose, while the others kept
their places, and with erect tail went out.
Returning it placed itself by Allan's
side, SO that he might, by passing his
hand along its back, discover whether it
was wet or dry. &C., he again said,
"and tell the foolish child Zone of the
pups) who is frolicking outside the
house to come in" Another dog rose,
departed, and returned, wagging his tail
and looking up to Allan's face. "Ohl he
won't come, won't he ? Then go and
bring him in, and, if necessary, by force" !"
The dog again departed, but this time
carried the yelping pup in his mouth,
and laid il at Allan's feet. "Now, my
dear children, let US be gone" said Al
Ian, rising as if to proceed on his jour
ney. But ut this moment two terriers
egan TO fght,-though it seemed a
mimic battle,-whiIe an old, sagacious-
looking coolie never moved from his
comfortable position near the fire. To
understand this scene, though, you must
know that Allan had taken offense at the
excellent Sheriff of the district, because
of having refused him some responsible
situation on his property, and to avenge
himself, had trained his dogs to act the
drama which was now in progress. Ad-
dressing the, apparently sleeping dog,
whom he called the Sheriff. he said,
@There you lie, you lazy dogl enjoying
yourself when the lave are breaking by
uhseemly dispute and fights. But what
care you, if you get your meat and
drink? Shame on you Sheriff 1t seems
I must teach you your duty. Get up
this moment, sir,-or I'll bring this staff
down on your head and make these
wicked dogs keep the peacef' In an in
slant s'the Sheriff rose, and separated
the combatants. Itwas thus, that, when
any one offended Allan passed all posi-
bility of forgiveness, he Immediately
trained one Of the dogs to illustrate his
character, and taught 1t lessons by which
in every house he could turn his sup
posed enemy into ridicule.