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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-08
UDITORS' NOTICE.
MOTIFS

Estate OF John Herseh. late Of Summit twp,
deed.
Letters OF testamentary on the above estate
having been granted to the undersigned, notice
is hereby givent 10 those indebted TO it to make i'm
mesiate payment, and those having e-laimsagalnst
it. to present them duly authenticated for settle
ment or Friday, July 3rd, 1S74, at his late resi-
dence.
IACOB BOWSER.
WM. HERSCH,
mayGI Executors.
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Dear George" said an Indianapo-
lis yonng woman. 81 am willing TO
marry you if we have to live on bread
and water" "Well," said the enthu-
siastc George. "you furnish the
bread and I'll skirmish around and
find the water"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-08

A juyinile darby in Mississippi
shot his little sister, two years old.
because "the thing wouldn't walk to
suit him." She was not dangerously
hurt however.
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POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR.
SAMUEL TRENT.
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BROOKLYN Jan ], 1871

/ ask Theodore Tilton's forgive
ness. and humble myself before him
as l do before my God. He would
have been q better man in my circum-
stances than l have been. | can ask
nothing except that he will remem-
Der all the other breasts that would
ache. will not plede for myself |
even wish that l were dead.
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The Somerset Herald.
Republican, OuntyTicket

DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
JAMES i. PUGH
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OLIVER W. BOYER.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
Queen YictOria's Parliament.

The Parliament which is so soon
about to pass away into the region OF
history, is the eighth Parliament which
has been assembled under the reign of
Her Majesty, and the tenth since the
passing of the first Reform Bill. The
Parliament which was sitting at the
death of William w., in June, 1887,
came to an end in the following month
by the demise of the Crown, and the
new Parliament elected in the August,
which met in the November of that
year, was dissolved in June, 1841, haS-
ing lasted four years. Her Majesty s
second Parliament, elected in August,
1S41, was dissolved in July, 1S47, hav-
ing lasted nearly six years. Her third
Parliament, which met in the Novem-
Der of the same year, was dissolved in
July, 1852, having lasted about four
years and three-quarters. The fourth
Parliament of Her Majesty met in
November, 1862, and was dissolved in
March, 1857, having lasted four years
and a.half. The fifth Parliament OF
Her Majesty was the briefest in dura-
ton, having met in April, 1867, and
having been dissolved in the spring OF
1859, after life of little more than two
years duration. The next Parliament,
which assembled in April, 1859, lasted
six years, being dissolved earlyin 1866;
and Her Maiesty's seventh Parliament,
the immediate predecessor of the pres.
ent one, lasted from the spring of 1866
to the autumn of 1868, about three
years and half. The present, which
will hereafter be known as Mr.. Glad
stones Parliament, was elected in
November and December, 1868, anG
hence has enjoyed an existence of lit
tie over five years. Consequently it has
lived longer than any of its predeces
sors, except only those of l04l-47 and
1896. AS Her Majesty has nov
reigned for nearly 81 years, it will b'
seen upon an easy calculation that thu
average duration of the Parliament
which have been assembled at West
minister under Queen Victoria has beer
little over four years and half.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
Nutritiye Value of Black Tea.

Tea is not only to be considered as a stim-
ulant, but also as nourishment That people
who use tea are able to live longer and do more
work on an insufficient amount of food than
those who abstain from the beverage is attri-
buted to its power of presenting the waste OF
the body, and in the animal economy may be
compared to the financial proposition that a
penny saved is twice earned" From the
large amount of nitrogen it contains it may
also be considered, to a certain extent, direct
means of nourishment.- Exchange.
The above is rather too broad, for
tea does not agree 30 well with every
person. A person with weak digestive
powers-one whose food is liable to
"sour on his stomach" h"-cannot use tea
to advantage, for it " sours" readily.
Coffee used in moderation is best in
all such cases, for it has tendency to
prevent food from becoming acid in
the stomach.
The grand flourish about the bene-
fetal effects of tea on account of the
large amount of nitrogen which it con-
tains does the writer but little honor in
the way of showing up his information.
A. Vogal, the noted chemist put tea
through careful test which showed
that the extract made from a thorough
drawing of the leaves, gave 2.8 pei
cent. nitrogen, while the drawn leaves
gave 1858. From this it would seem
that tea contains 8. sc per cent. nitrogen,
but that, in order to get the benefit Of
it, we would be necessitated to not only
drink the tea, but to eat the leaves also,
the latter containing by far the largest
per cent.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
Mysterious Disappearance.

Mysterious disappearances that cause
years of painful suspense, says an ex-
change, and very often intense suffer-
ing, are, we regret to say, becoming
common. Young men, and old men
likewise, from lack of some honest,
healthful occupation, get the notion in
to their heads that either their wives,
their kinsmen, their friends, or their
acauaintances, or perhaps all OF these,
do not appreciate them as much as they
out hit, and, having brooded over it for
some time, decide at last to punish the
unappreciative ones by mysteriously
disappearing, and betaking themselves
to secluded neighborhoods from which
to enjoy the "rare sport" Of seeing a
number of worthy persons busy at work
telegraphing to every police station in
the country I; having photographs taken
for distribution among detectives, drag
ging ponds, canals, lake, and rivers ;
getting excited over rumored ''traces, "
or, worse still, identifying and giving
burial to the remains of those whom
they had never known in life. OF this
class the discontented, otherwise called
the eccentric, young husband, is the
most cruel. He, after permitting the
body of another human being to be
inferred in his family vault, and allow
| ing his sorrow-stlicken widow to admin
lister on his estate, and morn for him,
sometimes turns up again, and, as he
supposes, prevents, or balks, the desire
of the widow to marry some other man.
There was case of the kind in Williams
burg, a year ago, and there have been
several others since in the Western
States. The old, rich eccentric who
desires to witness q scramble for his
property among his hungry kinsmen,
sometimes disappears from the world
far awhile, and boys who have fed Oh
pernicious literature, almost break the
hearts of their parents by starting or
expeditions to undiscovered islands to
seize the Governments, snbdue the in.
habitants, and marry the daughters Of
the kings. But, much as we regret tc
hear of boys acting in this manner, we
should be better pleased if the number
of mysterious disappearances was made
up from their ranks alone. 1t is the
married men and the bachelors of ma
ture years who, nowadays, do most Of
the running away mysteriously, and
this fact is due, as we have limited be.
fore, not altogether, but in great
measure, to lack of heathful occupa
tion for men who have inherited the
wealth of working, Industrious
fathers without any of the natural gifts
that would make it valuable to them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
"Making Up With Her."

We old fellows have all been there,
and we can remember all about it. We
loved her-guess we didi-and we knew
that she loved in return. But one day
she gave Sam Tompkins smile, or
she let Tom Watkins walk home with
her under an umbrella, or she did some
other simple thing, and we got huffy.
We loved her all the time, but we sat
down and wrote her letter, dating it
at midnight, saying that we wanted all
those letters and that ring and that
photograph back. We hoped she
wouldn't return 'em, but we felt a
malicious pleasure in Furnishing her.
| The letter was sent or handed to her
personally, and we met her with cold
"good morning" as she came to school,
but bestowed our best smile on Lavina
| Wedge, the homliest girl in the town.
Our heart ached when we looked
across the desks and saw her slyly
reading the letter and trying to keep
back the tears but we went over to the
third girl behind to borrow geography,
and to the second girl in front tn bor-
row O grammar, and we were entirely
unconscious of the presence of the girl
we loved. We stood beside her in the
class as straight as pole, never letting
on that we saw her, and the mutual
agreement that if one missed the other
should do the same, in order to keep
together, was broken. We tried to feel
maliciously glad when we went to the
head and left her near the foot, but we
couldn't do it.
1t went on this way for three or foul
days. Once in while we caught hel
| L. ~ IL
as if she were some poor orphan with
no friend in the world and her note
said that she couldn't part with the let
ters and the keepsakes. We held out
bravely until it began to hurt us the
most, and then we got ready to "make
up" 1t couldn't be done suddenly
that would be acknowledging oul
wrong. We waited until noon-time
and then as she sat eating her dinner il
her seat we began looking for los
book. We thought it was under the
seat next to hers, and while we were
looking for it she spoke. We heard
but pretended not to, and she spoke
again. Then we coldly replied, but sa
down near by and asked if "she haC
those letters with her." She said no
and we moved nearer. She said i
wasn't her fault, and we said it WASH
ours, and somehow our fingers touched
No one knew what a burden o
anxiety was rolled away in five minutes
and how much clearer the afternoon
sun shone for it. She seemed deare
than ever before, and when the BROW
eyes cleared the tears away and th
merry dimples came back, we wondered
how we could have been such an un
feeling wretch, and yet it was the sam
thing over in less than six weeks. -
4 All, mel Those lovers who have hat
a smooth path and married withou
having quarrels and make-ups an,
jealousies will never know what tru
love is,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
A Curious Poison,

Tho ~'.sa"sita i'''2'erialis, fungus,
has long been known for its 1ntoxicat-
ing and poisonous properties. It has
sometimes been eaten by mistake, and
the results have proven fatal. Haller
mentions the cases of six Lithuanians
who perished at one time by eating
this dmanitd. Christison, among
other instances, relates those of four
French soldiers who were killed, and
others who were much disordered by
a similar fatal repast. Orfilla records
similar examples of its virulence, in one
of which whole family was poisoned,
and, although some were recovered Ey
speedy remedies, two died. Linneus
says that in Denmark the natives cut il
in pieces, which they steep in milk, and
it proves as destructive to flies as arsen
ic. DIR. johnson corroborates this fact
by stating that he has observed flies
which sip the dirty yellow liquor into
which the ananita dissolves, die al
most Immediately. The Ostiacks, OF
Siberia, the Kamschatdales and Kori
acks, employ the anaanita to produce
intoxication.
Pennant says "these infatuated peo
pie sometimes eat it dry, sometimes in
fermented liquor made with the
epilobium, which they drink, notwith
standing the dreadful effects which in.
eyitably follow. At first they are seized
with commissions in all their limbs,
then, with raving, such as attends Q
burning fever; thousand phantoms
gay or gloomy, according to their con-
stitutions, present themselves to theil
| imaginations some dance. others are
seized with unspeakable horrors. They
personify this mushroom, and if its
effects urge them to suicide, or any
dreadful crime, they say they obey itt
commands. To fit themselves for pre-
meditated assassinations, they take the
Mouchomore, the Russian name of this
agaric and such is the fascination o.
drunkenness in this country that moth
ing can induce the natives to forbeal
this dreadful poison.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
A Novel Cure for rheumatism.

An Englishman with rheumatic gout
found this singular remedy cure for
his ailment He insulated his bedstead
from the floor by placing under each
post broken-off bottom of glass bot
tie. He says the effect was magical /;
that he had not been free from rheu-
matte gout for fifteen years, and that
he began to improve Immediately after
the application of the insulators. We
are reminded by this statement, says
the Scientific american, of a patent
obtained through this Office for a
physician some twelve or more years
ago, which created considerable inter-
est at the time. The patent consisted
in placing glass cups under the bed
posts in a similar manner to the above,
and the patentee claimed to have effec-
ted some remarkable cures by the use
of his glass insulators.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDA

had no pa-t, until a cry, loud, an
guished, exceedingly bitter, laden with
terror and heart-break, cut through the
dead heavy stiffness. I felt hands hold
ing me back saw dark figures strug-
Cling across the white lawn then
Something was carried in and laid on
the soft furs before the blaze-8onee-
Ming, not Will, never Will any more.
The kind, strong hands gave back no
answering pressure to the cold clasping
fingers whicn clung to them; the low
ing eyes had lost their light he lay
beside her as he had lain not twelve
hours ago, on the same spot, in his own
hearth-glow ; but it was Will no longer
he was dead.
Something crueler and fercer than
the storm had been abroad that bitter
night. He had been tempted from home
to his death the murderer had reck-
oned on his loving heart answering to
the call of sorrow and sickness /; the
false message as to M'Carthy's illness
had been but a lure to draw the victim
to the tolls. He had set out on his re-
turn journey, dropped the doctor at
his own door with merry goodnight,
and driven away to his death. The
murderer only knew the rest.
ellis wife's white dress was covered
with crimson stains when we raised her
from her husbands body. She did not
faint or cry; she even smiled, q faint,
weary smile.
"fWill is so cold,' she said.
"When we brought her wine, she put
it to his dead lips.
"'Will first-poor Will 7 and even
while she spoke her head fell again on
his breast.
"All night she cluug to him with a
clasp which we could not loose without
using force, which 1 could not endure
to do. We sent for the doctor; he made
his toilsome way through the snow
only to tell us what we knew too well
already.
"Will was dead, and all night long
his wife lay motionless upon his breast.
Great fires burned; tables stood covered
for the master, who was never to feel
cold or hunger more. When the chill,
late winter morning broke, Mabel toe
had entered into the great eternal sun
shine of God"
The next day Aunt Lora took me to
the grave where wife and husband slept
| together. The moss" Gods blessing
on the grave had crept softly, green
ly above them; the scarlet letters at the
base of the white cross, which told the
story of William Forsythe Long and
Mabel his wife, cleaned redly through
the holly wreath which hung there, 6
message of love and remembrance from
the living to the dead.
No trace of the murderer was evel
discovered. ID.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
An Economical Wife.

The following letter from Lady
Compton to her husband, Lord Comp
ton, afterward earl of Northampton,
written in the year 1910, the eighth year
of James l., shows that our grand
mothers were not so sparing of their
husbands purses, after all, as some
would have us think them:
"MY SWEET LIFE.-Now I have de-
clared to you my mind for the settling
of your state, 1 suppose that itwere best
for me to bethink and consider within
myself what allowance were meetest
for me. L pray and beseech you to
grant to me, your most kind and loving
wife, the sum of G2, 900 ($13, ,000), quar-
terly to be paid. Also, would, besides
that allowance, have 9600 $4,000,
quarterly to be paid, for the perform
ance of charitable works and those
things I would not, neither will, be ac-
countable for. Also, 1 will have three
horses for my own saddle, that none
shall dare to lend or borrow none lend
but I, none borrow but you. Also, 1
would have two gentlewomen, lest one
should be sick, or have some other let.
Also, believe it, it is an indecent thing
for q gentlewoman to stand humping
lord and lady with a great estate. Also,
when I ride a-hunting or a-hawking, or
travel from one house to another, will
have them attending; SO, for either of
those said women, 1 must and will have
for either of them a horse. Also, 1
will have six or eight g. ntlemen, and I
will have my two coaches, one lined
with velvet to myself, with four very
fair horses and coach for my women,
lined with cloth and laced with gold,
| otherwise with scarlet, and laced with
silver, with four good horses. Also, I
will have two coachmen-one for my
own coach, and one for my women.
Also, for that it is indecent to crowd
up myself with my gentleman-usher in
my coach, will have him to have a
convenient horse to attend me, either
in city or country. And must have
two footmen. And my desire is, that
you defray all the charges for me.
"And for myself, besides my yearly
allowance, would have twenty gowns
of apparel, six of them excellent good
ones, eight of them for the country, and
six of them very excellent good ones.
Also, would have to put in nay purse
$4,000 ($10, ,000), and you to pay my
debts. L would have $4,000 ($30, 900
to buy me jewels, and "a, 900 ($20, 0,000),
to buy me a pearl chain.
"Now, seeing 1 have been, and am.
SO reasonable unto you, I pray you dc
find my children apparel, and theil
schooling, and all my servants theil
wages. Also, will have all my houses
furnished, and my lodgidg- chambers tc
be suited with all such furniture as is
fit, as beds, stools, chairs, cushions,
carpets, silver warming pans, cupboards
of plate, fair hangings, and such like.
$50 now that have declared to yor
what would have, and what it is tha
L would not have, I pray you, whe1
you be an earl, to allow me 2,00(
($10,000), more than now desire, ant
double attendance"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
Does Drummingn Pay !

There is just now warm discussion,
especially among dry goods jobbers,
relative to the value of "drummers, -
and looking toward breaking up the
drumming system altogether. Several
of our largest houses will send no sales.
men out this season. They propose to
make prices low, send out occasional
samples, and make the buyer feel the
real necessity of coming to market and
canvassing the trade. The present
condition of the interior trade shows
too plainly the evils of buying wholly
from road samples. Many who have
been wholly dependent on drummers
for goods are now asking for exten-
sions, and, in too many cases, have in
stock goods difficult to move. The
salesman drumming through the coun-
try is often too apt to consider the Gus.
toner and not his employer. Anxiety
to send home good full orders often in
duces him to neglect some important
fact that might curtail his patron s
credit, because it would reduce the sum
total of sales and might displease the
customer. Thus the customer gets
overloaded, and at settling day falls
back on the selling firm for special
favors. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
III business men spent one-quarte1
the amount of the expenses of "drum-
mers" in advertising in local papers,
they would make money by the change.
In the West business men have tried
this and found it to be the true way OF
making country trade,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
COntradicted.

A cousin of Louis Kossuth contra
diets in letter to the Chicago Times
the statement that Kossuth is in the i'm
pecunious strait the papers have placed
him in. He is not compelled to teach
for livelihood, having sufficient means
of his own to live upon snugly and
pleasantly. His two sons, who live
with him, are civil engineers, and can
earn largely more than enough for their
own support, and are but too glad to
share what they have with their beloved
father. He is now seyenty-two, and his
hair is perfectly white. He is by nc
means unforgotten by his countrymen
on the contrary, though not in accord
with the present order of things be.
tween Hungary and Austria, he never
theless enjoys the highest esteem of hiI
eountrymen,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
By and By.

whst will it'matter by and by
Whether my pat below was bright,
Whether Z wound through dark or light,
Under gray or a golden sky,
wl:5n look back on it, by and by Z?
What will it matter by and by
Whether, unhelped I toiled alone,
Dashing my foot against stone, -..
Missing the charge of the angel nigh,
Bidding me think of the by and by ?
What will it matter by and by
Whether with laughing Joy ! went
Down through the years with glad con
- tent;
Never believing. nay. not1
Tears would be sweeter by and by ?
What will it matter by and by :;
Whether with check to check I've lain
Close by the pallid angel Pain. +.
Soothing myself through sob and sigh;
GAN will be elsewise by and by?"
What will it matter? Naught, if L
Only am sure the way I've trod,
Gloomy or gladdened, leads to God.
Questioning not of the how, the why,
If but reach him. by and by.
What will care for the unshared sigh, :.
IT, in my fear of slip or fall,
Closely I've clung to Christ through all,
Mindless how rough the path might lie,
Since He will smooth it by and by
All ! it will matter by and by
Nothing bit this That JOY or Pain
Lifted me skyward, helped to gain,
Whether through rack or smile or sigh,
Heaven-home-all in all, by and by ,!
MARGARET J. PRESTON.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
A Great Hand at Whist,

One of the most extraordinary Incl
dents you ever heard of in connection
with whist occurred in Westminster
lately. Four gentlemen of the highest
respectability, with whom L am well
acquainted, were playing at whist one
evening. They had been playing a
couple of hours, when one of them,
after having dealt, found his hand to
consist of the whole thirteen trumps.
Two packs of cards were used alter
nately all the time, and this occurred
with one of them after being shuffled
and cut inithe usual manner. Can you
or any of your correspondents give an
other instance of this ever having taken
place? --.. .-7
An apparently well authenticated
case of the dealer holding thirteen
trumps, supplemented by three other
hands as extraordinary, was published
some ten years ago in Belts Life.
Our correspondents inquire as to
what are the odds against its happen
ing again. The mind is incapable OF
guessing the enormous number of pos
sible ways in which so cards can be
dealt equally among four players. 1t
has been calculated that if the entire
population of the earth, taken at one
thousand Millions of persons, were to
deal the cards necessarily day and
night for one hundred millions of
years, at the rste of deal by each per-
son a minute, they would not have ex-
hausted the one hundred thousandth
part of the number of the essentially
different ways in which the cards can
be distributed. The odds against the
dealer holding thirteen trumps may be
taken in round figures at one hundred
and ffty.nine Thousand millions 10 one.