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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06
New Advertisements
DUBLIc NOTICE

Notice 4 hereby given to all persons interested
thai application will be made to the next Log
~islatuFe By the Undersigned Commissioner If
Somerset county for the repeal OF the fuilaWing
laws. $50 far as Somerset county Is concerned. via.
The act approved the 18th day Of March. sso5. ts
clarifg that .all fines and penalties imposed ~
the 9urts Of Franklin, Adams, Somerset ana.
Fulton counties, which BY existing laws arc not
payable TO the Commonwealth for its use. are
hereby directed 10 be paid into the treasury of
said counties for the use Of a law library 10 be
kept I'm the Court Houses Of said counties Tor ths
use Of the Courts AMI bars thereof.
And the act approved April 5th, 1855. declaring
that the true intent and meaning Of the act 81
1Tth March, 1885. is ami Is hereby declared TO en-
brace under he terms, pains and penalties an fC-
feitcd recogniEanecs In the said Coarts.r
"a. II. WALTER,
VI. MILLER.
Attest III CoUNTRYMAN
JACOB NEtE Commissioners.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06

The Simplest, Most Powerful, Effective. Dura
bic, Reliable and Cheapest Pump In use.
It'll made al Of Iron. and Of a lew simple parts
II Will not Freeze, as no water remains ia ID,
pipe when not IN action.
II has nc leather 0r gum packing, as the sucker
and valves are all OF iron.
1t seldom, # ever, gets out Of order.
Il viii force water from 40 70 60 feet in The air bv
attaching a few feet Of hose.
its good for washing Buggies. Windows. water.
ing Gardens, sc.
IL furnishes the purest and coolest water. because
Il Is placed In the bottom OF the well.
TERNsl inch Pump, fl5; pipe. soc. q foot.
IS: +" 65c. "
Larger sizes in proportion.
WEYAND \ PLATT
Sole Agents for Somerset COUNTY.
Somerset, Pa, Nay Is, I57E
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06

RUNoRs from Harrisburg say that
a ferre lattle is progressing inside
the IeI.ocratic ranks; between the
frietd- Of Wallace, Buekalew and
Clymer, over the S~enatorship. Let
the heather rage !
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06
BOARD OF MANAGERS.

County. Pa 4f
J. o MEYERS. NIeversdslv S..
J. H.. UHL- Somerset. " Fa-
d "; SCHROHER, West Nevton: westm'd Co..
" N. STAUFFER Ma Pleasant weyusd "a
Penn5f. ~
H.BIEKSKUHNS, Greensburg. westn-d Co
Penn'a.
ABEL NJ. EVANS, Amreu To. wassHgtop
Co, Penn'a.
JAMES W. HAY, Richhm Up, Gzca County.
y lady. Carmchaeis. Green County. Pm
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06
CUSTER < PUGH.

The cabinet business IN all its various branches
will be carried on under the arm name of Pugh \
Sipe' at the old stand. opposite J.. II. Hite's hotel
A good assortment OF furniture always on hand.
Work made 10 order. Repairing done at the short
est notice. We keep a fun assortment of under.
takers supplies, collins Of all sizes. and the latest
STYLES W keepa good heIrsc. and are prepared
10 Furnish any size coffin at short notice, ana cheap
eT than any nrm in the c0uaty. Funerals at end
ed from 4 distance. None hut the pest workmen
are employed. Our chair MAKER did nothing but
follow chair mai ing for thirty years. We use
none but the best material. therefore guarantee
all our work. Parties needing anything IN our
line will do well 10 call and examine our furniture
before purchasing elsewhere. Thanking the 1ab-
lie for pass patronage, would respectfully solicit a
share in the future.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06

All the right, title, interest and claim of A. Ma.
han, Of, in and to the following described real es.
tate. viz:
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-06
NOTICE

The cO-par;nership existing between Custer 4
Pugh IS this day dissolved by mutual consent. All
persons knowing themselves Indebted 10 said Arm
are requested TO call ami settle their accounts.
oOtn note ami book accounts. on OF before the Ist
OF January, 1919, after which all unsettled me-.
counts Will be len In The hands Of an Ulicor for
collection.
Dec30. CUSTER < PUGH.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
Manners For the Young.

OUR esteemed friend, the editor of dp-
| pletons' Journal, INDUCES in the common
lamentation over the rough and boistcrous
manners of pupils in our public schools,
and especially in the lack of respect
| shown by young boys for their elders
That it is not from lack of school disci-
pline the editor admits, for a visit to the
rooms during school hours shows no lack
in this particular; but in public the man
ners of the pupils arc wholly bad. They
seem to respect neither places nor persons.
Without doubt this is serious evil, but
it is one not easily remedied. The lack
of reverence is defect in character which
naught but association with high and
truly noble persons and objects can cure.
This positive sclf-assertion of the young
which makes them irrevcrent is one of the
marksof their immaturity and no more
worthy of wonder or blame than the
greenncss OF an apple in early June.
young man once came to the German
philosopher Goethe with question. He
said: !" | hear, O great man, that you are
very wise. Will you tell me what expe-
rience is?'' The young man thought he
might learn the lesson of lifetime in a
single sentence. The philosopher an
swered: my young friend, experience is
that whicha man experiences in expericnc
ing his experience. " :" You are fooln' said
the young man and went his way But
years afterward the young man again Wis
tied Goethe and said :" You were right in
your answer. Experience can only be
known by those who have had expe-
rience.' So it is with the irreverence of
the young. Only time, experience,
Thought, and the sorrow and suffering
which inevitably come to all, mellow and
soften the crudities of youth into the ripe
wisdom of age. The editor Of the Jour-
nal would cure the evil by intoxicating
strict rules of department for the young
and make these part of public school
training. The remedy would be wholly
Intellectual AT its best it would only
make solemn prigs of boys; though, with
our national goaheadativeness, Fourth.of-
July enthusiasm and general feeling of
personal independence, it would be very
doubtful if it did even this. The policy
recommended may do for the social ideas
and manners of English and other Euro
pean nations, but is not adapted to longi-
tudes so far westward.
What, then, must be done? Ifill-breed
ing and staggering insolence toward 9TH
ers are the characteristics of American
boys, how shall the evil be remedied?
These questions are fair ones and deserve
fair answer. To know what is the mat
ter is the first point in setting out to rem
edy any evil. Lack of reverence is the
prevailing American characteristic so
dolorously and generally lamented This
arises in part from the feeling of personal
independence, and thus far is not vice
but one of the virtues-the foundation of
a true, manly character. We only need to
combine with this a recognition of and
reverence for what is intellectually and
morally worthy of reverence, and charac-
ter will be mellowed and rounded out in
the ripeness and fullness of a true man.
hood. Something of this can be
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
Killing Weeds.

IT is great mistake to cut off the tops
of thiStles, quack and other weeds whose
roots arc tenacious of life. Frequently
this is done in order to pillow the whole
under more eltcctually; but jointcr and
chain to drag the weeds down will gener-
ally effect the object When once turned
under the more top there is attached to the
roots the harder the latter find it to start.
When we transplant garden vegetables we
thin the tops severely to insure life, and
for converse reason we should not do
this with weeds. This spring we are
ashamed to say some mallOws got a rank
growth in a corner of the garden before it
was plowed. The first thought was to
NOV the weed, in order to pillow it better
but moments reflection gave us Il better
plan than this. We turned the whole
under as completely as possible, and to-
day June 15) every particle of the weed
has rotted The top was full of sap, and
this in the hot earth rotted so rapidly that
the roots attached to it could not get a
chance to rally. The growth of this late
planted cornerof the garden has been most
extraordinary and we have small doubt it
was due TO those dccaying mallows.
Notwithstanding the very severe winter
these weeds had lived uninjured in the
open ground and were ready to grow with
the opening of spring, having started i'll
tall after all the garden vegetables Had
been gathered. l do not recommend
growing mallows for spring blowing.
Possibly little rye sown on garden or
corn and potato ground would answer
every purpose and be less Objectionable in
many rcspects.-Ruruk Neto Yorker.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15

done by presenting, for admiration
and emulation, the examples of our
best and greatest men. By taking due
care to select men who are safely dead
and whom we can idealize somewhat,
the faculty of reverence may he cultivated
without danger of the rude shocks so often
imminent where men still living are held
up as public examples. Appeal to the
hero-worshiping faculty which all boys
have to greater or lesser extent; turn it,
ifpossible, from Jack Sheppard and his
like to men truly great and good. Abra'
ham, Lincoln Samuel Adams and Charles
Sumner are types of men whom it is
always safe to commend to young men
for emulation In the meantime let every
old or middle-aged man who wants re.
spect OF confidence do honest work in his
sphere of duty. Let him aim to purify
society of its shams and politics of its cor.
ruptions, and he will thereby accomplish
greater good in the training Of the young
than any amount of sage advice or per
functory admonitions. Neu Yorker.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
Lawn Dresses, Etc.

OLpFAsHfONED lawn, of solid color,
striped or sprigged, is used again for sim
ple costumes to be worn both in the house
and street on summer days in the country.
Furnishing houses show them ready made
in very pretty fashions for SIS. They are
of plain blue or lavender, with belted
basque, deep apron with sash ends or puffs
behind, and skirts of walking length
trimmed with three gathered founces
edged with italian Valenciennes. More
elaborate costumes are of sprigged lawn,
with imitation Malines lace for trimming,
and with many rows of thread insertion III
the basque and apron. The substantial
linen lawns that wear well and do not fade
are chosen in striped and barred patterns
mere lines of blue, black, brown or
cherry on white. Those with black stripes
and bars are very popular, and are enli-
vened by knots of cardinals red ribbon on
the belt throat and wrists The best quail
tiles of linen lawn cost forty cents yard,
while the mixtures with little cotton in
them are twenty-five cents.
Suits of American percale are also shown
in the furnishing houses They are made
of striped or plaid cambria, and also of
common prints in black, blue or brown
lines on white grounds, or, better still,
with dark grounds fsured with white.
They have two skirts Of simple shape,
simply trimmed with rufiie or folds
edged or bound with white The jacket
is singlebreasted sacquc, or else double
breasted like the English walking jacket,
to be worn with chemise Russo. They
cost from s. to $50.
Very pretty suits of white Victoria lawn
are made with jackets and long round
overskirts, trimmed with side pleatings
headed by Hamburg embroidery. These
cost S12 each; without embroidery, and
of poorer lawn, they are as low as s..
Imported skirts of colored cambria to
wear with dressing sacques are prettily
trimmed with fanciful pleating in points
and leaf shape, ornamentcd with tambour-
work. They cost from 81 to 81 each.
Ecru linen skirts, with pleating and an
embroidered flounce, are handsome
enough to wear with polonaises or with
the long travelling cloaks, listers, and other
steamer wraps. They cost from 50 to Sl2.
Summer balmorals of seersuckcr ging-
hams and of striped woolens cost from 81
to So. Those for 81 arc plain striped cali
co; The others have bias-plcatcd flounces.
Rough-surfaced Algerinc, sold for fifty
cents a yard, is used for basqucs and over
skirts to wear with black velvet sleeves and
lower skirts of velvet. The stutt'ls raw silk
with linen warp and irregular knottcd
threads of silk similar to the designs 50
fashionable in Knickerbocker wooden
goods The best designs are clouded
brown shades upon ecru or white; there
arc also irregular plaids of black or navy
blue on white.-Harpe1's B0zdF
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
Happy Meeting After Separation of
Fourteen Years.

In 1861 Mr.. A. G. Bailey resided in an
interior county of this State with his wife
and daughter, then quite Il child. Early
in the wal he enlisted in the army, and
either from being sick or wounded, lay a
long time in the hospital. Amid the ext
gencics of war communication was cut off
between him and his family and in the
meantime circumstances compelled their
removal. Several other removals took
place subsequently and the husband and
hi. family lost all track of each other
After the war was over Mr.. Bailey sought
his family in every direction but could
learn no tidIngs of them, and they
mourned him as dead. After abandoning
the search for them he removed to Oregon,
where he has practiced law ever since
Having business in st. Louis, he arrived
in this city a day or two ago, and ycster-
day in looking over the directory he found
the name of lady identical with that of
his long-lost wife. Scarcely daring to
hope that it was the one he sought, he
started for the address indicated, and
when near the house encountered Il men,
Der of the family whom he recognized and
who recognized him, and in a few minutes
thereafter there was enacted one of the
most touching scenes that perhaps ever
took place in St. Louis. There was no
Enoch Arden business about it, either, no
third person having stepped in between
this devoted husband and wife thus hap
PLY reunited after such a long and sor-
rowful separation. Whether he will re
main with his family here or they return
with him to his home in Oregon we have
not learned, but it is to be hoped that
wherever their lot is cast the brightness of
their future may atone for the miseries of
their past life.-T. L0uis Republican,,
T,JI,y
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
How Tug Engineer Became Mill.
iOnairc.

DURING the late war father and two
sons entered the Third Pennsylvania Cav
airy and served until the father and one
son were killed and the surviving son was
sent home disabled. The father left an cs
tate valued at that time at about $500, 600,
and from the time of his death until about
a month ago the estate has been in litiga-
ton. During this time the survivor, JAS
Shay by name, determining to fit himself
out for life, with commendable persevcr-
ance has learned the trade of stone-cutter
machinst and engineer, and during last
winter worked at Dundee, in this State,
Us engineer in mill. Previous 10 his
leaving home at Philadelphia, however,
he placed the securing of his portion of
his fathers estate, as his heir, in the
hands of lodge of Knights Templar TO
which his father belonged, with Charles
r. Miner, Of Philadelphia, as special
counsel.
While at work in the mill at Dundee
Mr.. Shay became ambitious to add the
experience of a steamboat engineer to the
record of his life, and last winter pro-
cectlcd to Clevelandto secure an engineers
license. In consequence of an injury
received while in the army Mr. Shay has
a very strong impeachment in his speech,
causing him to speak very slowly; and for
this reason he was unsuccessful in getting
his engineers license. From Cleveland he
went to Buffalo, Eric and Toledo, renew
ing his applications and undergoing exam
nations, butwithout success; and the first
of last April he arrived in this city with
two dollars in his pocket aud a railroad
ticket to Toledo. He Immediately inter
viewed Messrs, Saunders & Cook, Steam
boat Inspectors at this port, was examined
by them and was told by them that he
had proved himself worthy a license as
second engineer on high pressure engine
or first engineer on a tugboat, and that if
he could secure such "a position they
would issue his license ~ -
The cost of a license is IS, which Mr..
Shay did not have, and so he informed
luC lAsPColois, piolhlsiHS " Stuti lllG
amount within thirty days. Sympathiz-
ing with Mr. Shay and admiring his per
severance, the Inspectors told him they
would issue his license and trust him for
its cost, and he departed for Toledo and
in less than a week had secured posi-
ton on the tug G. r. Hand The coveted
license was made out at this port and sent
to him, and Messrs. Cook & Saunders re-
corded the third license granted this
season to Toledo engineers where the APP
plicant was trusted for til cost
The tug Hand was engaged at Toledo
in towing scows-tenders to the dredges
at work on the harbor Improvements at
that portland Shay was in good spirits,
working faithfully, his license paid for,
and for the time being, as he says, g
had given mighty little thought to what
might or might not get from Philadel-
phia."
During the forenoon of Tuesday, June
/, Mr.. Shay was at work in the hold Of
the tug Hand tightening the brasses on
the connecting rod, when the hatchway
above was darkened, and, looking up, he
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
Saving Straw For Fodder.

IF cereal grain be harvested at the
proper period and the straw be cured as
it should be, the crop will make large
quantity of excellent fodder. But in many
instances straw is rendered unfit for fod-
der by being allowed to bleach in the
rain, dews and sunshine. The fact that
straw becomes brittle as it dcadcns shows
that it has lost its albumcn or gluten
which gave it tOughness, and, as the water
or sap was given off simultaneously with
its electricity, the albuminous compounds,
the most soluble and volatile constituents
Of vegetation, doubtless escaped with the
evaporatcd sap. We can easily make a
comparison between the nutritive value of
dead brown standing grass and wcll-made
green hay, and the measure of difference
will afford a good criterion by which to
estimate the amount of nutritive substances
that escape into the fleeing air in the
process Of ripening our seed bearing for
grain crops. Ard such substances are for
the time lost orwafted away on the winds
wings unless We provide some means of
attracting and retaining them. IIavingno
means of measuring the amount ofnutritive
matters thus escaping, we can assume
them at onc-third; calling the seed an
other, and the dead straw the remaining
third. So then one-third of nutritive sub
stances Of our crops escapes into the air in
the state of gas during the process of
ripening in summer and fall; and so
every season. Unless we can attract those
gases back again and retain them for the
nourishmcnt Of them third of the food of
next crop-and SO of each succeeding one
must be supplied in the shape of ma
nurc or by further cXhauslurc of the soil.
Considering, then, how few manure more
than once III seven years, and how many
not once in twcnty-is ii any wonder that
the best Of soils are run out, Impoverished
exhausted of their op-tceding substances,
as is now being done with the best lands
throughout the Mississippi Valley: Es-
pccially is it any wonder that barrenness
ensucs when in the majority of cases ma
nure is not supplied nor are the escaped
gases attracted, fixed and combined for
the succeeding crops substances-N. Y.
Ug;uIf "
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
New Tops on Old Pear Trees.

THAT the pear is long-lived tree the
famous Endicott and Stuyvcsant pear
trees, going back 200 years or more, at
test. Yet we frequently find trees that
look old at fifty years and less, with dead
limbs, messy trunks and fruitless boughs.
These old trees are often seedlings or of
poor varieties that have offered no partc-
ular inducement to their owners to care
for them. A crop of astringent or sour
pears is not much missed when it fails.
These old trees sometimes occupy lawns
or fields near the house, and will repay
abundantly the little care that is needed to
give them new start and to graft them
with standard varieties. Some twenty
years ago we took up one of these stunted
old trees at distance from the house and
removed it, with block of frozen earth,
upon stoneboat, to rich border pre-
pared for it in the fruit-yard. 1t made a
growth of a foot of wood the first season.
1t was then grated with IN improved va
rety; the crafts took kindly, began to
bear the third year, and have yielded good
crops of delicious fruit ever since. Five
years ago we grated an old tree in the
garden, which bore only indifferent winter
pears, about second-ratc for cooking, with
the Paradise of Autumn. We began to
get pears the second season from the
gratis, and have had them in increasing
quantity every year since. Last year it
yielded over three bushels of splendid
fruit, worth at least $50. The secret of
success with these old trees is to stir the
soil all around them as far as the roots ex-
tend to manure literally, TO cut out all the
dead wood and, about the second season,
when the tree has got a good start, TO com
mence grating. We take three seasons TO
put on a new top, beginning with the
highest limbs and working down. In re
ncwing the vigor of the tree almost any
kind of manure or compost is available.
Wood ashes is one of the best fertilizers
Old bones, well buried, will paya large
interest on their cost. The contents of the
privy-vault and the cesspool, composted,
are exceedingly valuable in renovating
these old trees. In stirring the SOIL care
should be taken not to break the roots
with the pillow. We attach about equal
Importance to the stirring of the soil and
to the fertilizing, in the process of renova-
A
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-07-15
Not Used to Kindness.

els THIS the postoflice?n inquired ;
stranger the other day as he approached
the stamp-clerk's window.
1T isl was the reply.
And you have stamps hcre:''
| "Yes, SIR
"Willyou be so kind as to please sell me
one?"
Il will"
| " | am very sorry to have to bother YOU, )
continued the stranger while the clerk was
tearing off the stamp, "but l want tt
send letter out and | hope you'll excuse
me- z-
"That's all right said the clerk.
| 'sles, believe it is all right sale
the stranger. Il am a thousand times
obliged for your courtesy, and now | wan
to beg one more favor. Can l mail thi,
letter here? 90
why, of course
Can Il Here, give me your hand
young man. I've lived around and abou
for over forty years, and I've seen hare
times. l amt used to this sort O. kind
ness, and it goes right to my hearth
And itcouldn't be said that he was drunk
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