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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15

chosen, f" those timed souls who SO
a proloDgation Of the Preside -
Gcial life. profess to believ' -. ,ho
entire document is SO fte -
a bid 10 popular f. ~
term.
The very fac
,b,, \. of this charge proves
As enemies see and Fear
~, the pubic heart must be
,,.a. awhose plain, straightforward
, .ances are calculated to impress
&C country with his soundness on
all important matters pertaining TO
the national veal But despite this
cry Of abject partisan fear, the great
American public will recognize his
words Of wisdom so itly uttered
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15
THE WILSON PAGEANT.

Spite of the cold, last Saturday,
the sidewalks on Broadway from
City Hall were filed with a deep line
of people 10 see the procession es-
%corting the remains of Vice President
Wilson. The crowd waited from
three O'Clock in the afternoon till af-
ter SIX, when the passage of the
military and civil cortege in the
shadows and half-lights was more i'm
pressive than it could have been by
day. A mans good deeds are The
best flowers to heap upon his name,
and there r many such to tell Of
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15
SALES.
FridaY, December 10, 1915,


BY virtue Of a writ Of Fieri Facias issued out Of
the Court of Common Pleas Of Somerset county,
Pa. and TO me directed. / will expose to sale by
public cutlery, 1T the Court House, In Somerset, on
Friday, December 10, 1875,
the following described real estate, to wit:
All the right, title, interest and claim Of Z. II.
Marshall, of, IN and to the following real estate,
viz:
A certain lot of ground situate In Somerset Dor.
Somerset county, Pa, containing - acres, with
a three story brick store house thereon erected
bounded by lot Of II. G.. Beerits on the north, II.
+. Schell on the east. Main street on the south,
and Main Cross street on the west, with the ap-
purtenances.
Taken In execution as the property Of f. II.
Marshall at the suit of Patton X Hurst ct nj.
TERNS-Any person purchasing at the above
sale will please take notice that ten per cent of
the purchase money will be required as soon rs
the property Is knocked down, otherwise il will
again be exposed to sale. The residue of the pur-
chase money must be paid on or before the 9th of
January. 1876, the day fixed by the Court for the
acknowledgment of SheTiifs deeds, and no deed
will be acknowledged until the purchase money Is
paid in full.
OLIVER KNEPPER,
noy2i Sheriff.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15

0UT Of the eleven appointments
made by the new Democratic Post
master OF the House Of Representa-
tiyes at Washington, only n could
take and subscribe to the iroD-e'
oath. The one truly loil'
hailed from Connecticut, n
ten were o! course Cobff
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15
COSMETIC DEALERS.

One OF the curiosities Of the day is
the advertisement of q certain Mad
anne in one Of the leading dailies,
who makes a livelihood by removing
superfiuous hairs from the face. The
announcement gives very fashionable
hours, and is the first open advertise
ment noticed of a cosmetic artist.
though the existence of such a guild
is made known to passers on Sixth
Avenue by door-plates, which an
nouce that within hair of any color
is bleached and dyed a beautiful
golden shade by q few applications.
The Decessaries of life are the first
to feel the. pressure of a bad business
season. The vices and luxGries still
flourish. A man may 60 without
food, but never without whiskey and
tobacco. So woman may 60 with
insufficient undertaking, but she
will find the money in some way to
beautify herself. All these people
are doing a fiourishing trade.
BARNUM's SALES.
How many Of your readers did not
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15
.UBLIC NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given. that an application will
be made at the next session Of the General Assem-.
bly, of Pennsylvania. for the repeal OF the Act ap.
proved April sth. 1859, entitled AN Act to attach
Somerset County to the Middle District for the
Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania and for authority
to restore said county to the Western District Of
said Supreme Court.
SAMC I'll GATHER. JOHN X. EIDE.
L. G.. C0LBORN. W. j. BAER,
ED. SCULL. A.. ]. C0LBORN,
II. =. SCHELL, ii. L. BAER.
y. G. OGLE, W. II. RUPPEL.
VAL. HAY, J.. ii. UHL.
F. J. KOOSER. 10. KIMMEL.
A. H. COFfROIH, W. II. KODNTz.
ISAAC HSGUS. JAS. L PUGH.
W. H.. POSTLETHwAITE.
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BUSINESS

Continues as dull as possible, and
faces, long enough in the fall, are
longer now. There will be no i'm
provement till spring. A whole
sale grocer just said to me there
amt no trade in nothin'." True, if
not elegant.
prETRn
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15

The Undersigned, assignee of John Nef, Will
offer at public cutlery, in Somerset borough, on
Wpdnpcd0U Dscop,La.. % JC-E
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How many of your readers did not
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-15

FORTUNES IN PATENTS,
The inventor usually is the person
who has the least good of bis work
The originator Of the Singer Sewing
Machine, worked in the employ OF
the company for years, at a salary Of
twenty dollars a week, and is there
now getting rather more than twice
that, while Singer, who appropriated
his brains, made out of The money
enough to keep a half dozen wives,
and gorgeous mansions all over the
world. The inventor of the Mower
died poor, though the companies
that took his inventions all got rich.
The new writing machine or Type
Writer as it is named, which bids fair
to rival the cce of the sewing
machine, being rs useful to business
men as that is to women, was sold
by its first inventor, a Wisconsin ed
itor, who lever yet got sever hun
bred and fifty dollars for it. The ad-
vantage from an invention, in q mon
ey way, increases with its distance
from the brain which starts it. On a
popular patent in view costing over
a hun dred dollars, the inventor gets
one dollar on each machine. Mag.
ni6cent l~iberality! Yet this was all
that vas offered him, and he was fore
ed TO take it.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

we'll loaded with fried tadpeles, another
containing bulrush roots, and large
piece of scorched kangaroo meat.
1t is quite evident that the blacks had
taken Billy's voice for that of some sort
of divinity, whom they thought it was
best to propitiate with a generous meal,
and then leave to his own devices.
Without attending to the savage offer
ings, or in the least understanding them,
the boy first assured himself that the
coast was clear, then took to his heels,
and soon left the rock far behind.
That this singular deliverance was in
answer to Billy's prayer, may perhaps be
questioned by some people; but all read
ers will agree, / think, that physically, at
least, it was good thing for him that he
prayed for deliverance. Without prayer
he certainly would not have escaped.
He wandered about in the scrub until
it was nearly night, when he fortunately
heard the guns fred by party of the
stockmen, who were out searching for
him. They had become alarmed at his
not coming in, and still more by Blinker's
coming home riderless late that previous
evening.
So Billy escaped unharmed at last !;
but either the fright or the smoke, or
perhaps both combined, brought on a
feverish attack which lasted a fortnight
or more. Ultimately, however, he re-
covered health, and, l am very sorry to
say, celebrated his convalescence by CIV
ing Blinker most outrageous beating.
So, while his prayers saved his life, it is
very certain his almost miraculous es-
cape produced no beneficial effect upon
him otherwise.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
Home Conversational Training.

The Baltimore american writes There
is no nation more fluent in conversation
than the American. The French are more
voluble, perhaps, their language permit
ting greater rapidity of pronunciation
than the English. Our best conversa-
tionalists are not rapid takers. One
trouble with us is, each one likes to do
all the talking; therefore Americans are
not good listeners. But mere talking is
not conversation. In almost all home
circles there is much talking done during
the day, but we fear there are few who
do not reserve their most brilliant con-
versational powers for other assemblages
than the home group. Many father
comes home tired; he has worked hard
and talked great deal, told amusing
anecdotes and displayed much wit. He
has come home to rest. He takes out
his paper and is soon oblivious to every
thing around him. Wife would like to
tell him many of the little harassing
Affections of the day, and would like to
hear some of his interesting experiences,
but if he were deaf mute he could not
be more silent, only an occasional grunt
answering her many attempts at c0nver-
sation; and the children, expecting the
goodnight kiss, and often not even that,
are not noticed. Such home, whether
the abode of wealth or otherwise, cannot
be a healthy and happy one. As a
parallax, draw around the evening lamp
of another home circle. The father tells
the anecdotes from the paper as he reads
them; the mother laughs her sweet, low
laugh, and the children burst into merry
ha has! To watch them as they ask
questions and listen to the answers and
patient explanations, the wonderment,
interest, and thought imprinted on their
young faces is picture for an artist.
This home education is heritage more
valuable than land and money and one
beautiful recompense in life is that in
making others happy we bring happiness
to ourselves. Parents who practise self
denial and endeavor by cheerful conver-
sation and playful wit to enliven home
life will reap rich reward in the better
thoughts and noblcr actions of their chill
dren, and will experience the true stand
best contentment themselves.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
Benedict Arnold.

The editor of the Hagerstown md. }
Mail is reveling in collection of ancient
letters, dated from 1777 to 1881, from
several noted persons connected with the
revolution, written to the Rev. DIR. Booth,
an ilustrious schoolmaster of that period.
He kept school on the banks of Antietam,
at place now known as Booths Mill, on
the Washington Branch of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, a property still in pos
session Of his descendants. Among these
letters is one from Benedict Arnold,
dated at Philadelphia, May 25, 1779,
sent in wagon with three hundred dol
lars and his sons, who were to be taught
and appropriately birched by DR.. Brown.
Arnold says "Wben the boys deserve
correction / do not wish them spared.
They have been some time in Philadel-
phia, which is a bad school, and my
situation has prevented me from paying
that attention to them / otherwise
should have done. / wish their educa-
tion to be useful rather than learned.
Life Is too short and uncertain to throw
away in speculation on subjects that per-
haps only one man in ten thousand has n
genius to make figure In. You will
pardon my debating to you, sir, but as
the fortunes of every man in this coun-
try are uncertain 1 wish my sons to be
educated in such n manner that with
prudence and industry they may acquire
a fortune, lin case they are deprived Of
their patrimony,) as well as 10 become
useful members of society" II is to be
feared, however, that the father subse-
quently injured the prospects of his sons
very seriously.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
Good Grit.

An honest faced stranger called on
Justice Potter the other day and inquired
what his honor's usual fee was for joining
a couple in the holy bonds of wedlock.
"The fee Is two dollars in case you
come here" was the reply.
"Less see," mused the man as he
handed out roll of bills; there's three
dollars for bedstead, eight dollars for a
secondhand stove, two dollars for dishes,
two dollars to run the house on, and
and that's every blamed cent?
$50 you arc short p inquired the
justice.
"There's the pile" replied the young
man, "but I'll knock the two dollars off
for dishes and give 1t to you, for Pm
bound to be harnessed TO my girl this
week If we have to bile 'taters in the tea
potp
And in less than an hour the two were
made one,-DefroH Free Press.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
Adventure.

They that go down to the sea in
ships see His wonders in the
deep" Much more forcibly may this be
said to those who go down under the sea.
A diver here narrates a curious adven-
ture he had with shark ut the bottom
of the ocean:
A man never feels comfortable on them ;
he can't tell what big creature may be
hiding under the huge quarterback sea
leaves which grow there. The first part
of the time l was visited by percupine
fish, which kept sticking its quills up and
bobbing in front of my helmet.
Soon after l saw a big shadow fall
across me, and looking up there was an
internal shark playing about my tubing.
1t makes me feel chilly in the back when
they're about. He came down to me
slick as / looked up. made at him and
he sheared of. For an hour he worked
at it, till could stand it no longer.
If you can keep your head level it's all
right, and you're pretty safe if they're
not on you sharp. This ugly brute was
twenty feet long, should think, for
when I lay down all my length on the
DOtUOu nt btIttCucu a. COhoiuCIdbiC way
ahead of me, and could see him beyond
my feet. Then waited. They must
turn over to bite, and my lying down
bothered him.
He swan over me three or four times,
and then skulked of to big thicket of
sea- weed to consider. knew he'd come
back when he'd settled his mind. 1t
seemed long time waiting for him.
At last he came viciously over me,
but, like the time before, too far from
my arms. The next time / had my
chance and ripped him with my knife as
neatly ss could.
A shark always remembers he's got
business somewhere else when he's cut, so
off this fellow goes. 1t is curious thing,
too, that all the sharks about will follow
in the trail he leaves. got on my
hands and knees and as he swan off l
noticed four shadows slip after him. /
saw no more that time. They did not
like my company.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

In what was intended for very pretty
speech great blunder was perpetrated
by dignitary of the church, who was
asked to marry young couple in a
country place where he happened to be
staying, and was also called upon to
propose the health of the bride and
bridegroom at the subsequent breakfast.
" To sum up all our good wishes for the
happy pair whom we have seen united
this morning." he said in conclusion,
we can not, am sure, do better than
express a desire that the result of their
union may prove strictly analogous to
that of the parents of the fair BRIDE"
Whereupon the fair bride" went into
the bridegroom's eyes flashed
daggers, the bridesmaids colored and
looked down, and the master of the house
blew his nose violently. He who had
caused all this commotion wisely sat
down and held his peace, wondering at
the effect of his innocent compliment to
the host and hostess. He soon, however,
found one to enlighten him. "She is
not their daughter at all" his informant
"but niece who came to
live with them when her father and
mother were divorced"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.


The Duck.
think II was stroke OF luck
To come into the world duck;
i fly, swim, l walk, you see;
What other can compare with mef
swim-far better than the swallow,
fly, and beat old Dobbin hollow;
walk-and thus surpass the trout
And other fishes, out and out.
But when did envy ever lack
A word Of Ill behind ones back?
IL makes me sick TO hear them talk,
They say waddle when walk.
And when fly with outspread wings
The swallows mOck-the saucy things.
They say dare not wheel or skim,
Lest should fall and break limb.
And yesterday pert young club
Gave me, he thought, hardish rub;
" That swimming ?' said he with laugh
{" call II only half-and-half."
Well, let them talk, II won't hurt me-
They are not ducks and brakes, you see;
Our graces put them In a pet;
All grapes are sour one can not get.
There's only one thing where fail,
try to sing-it's no avail;
got cold long time back,
And never get beyond "quack"
I'll take some lessons of the lark,
Next time hear him in the park,
Then won't folks listen with hush!
The duck sings better than the thrush!
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
Virtues or the Pumpkin.

At meeting Of the Farmers Club, a
correspondent wrote of the virtues of
the pumpkin, giving the following in
stance of its value for inflammatory
rheumatism: A woman's arm was swell
ed to an enormous size, and painfully
inflamed. A poultice was made of
stewed pumpkins, which was renewed
every fifteen minutes, and in short
time produced a perfect cure. The fever
drawn out by the poultice made them
extremely offensive, as they were taken
of. l knew man cured Of severe in
tlammation of the bowels by the same
kind of application.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
Denyer's Pride.

Denver, Colorado, has heroine. 1t
isn't overy town in this prosaic age that
can afford one, and Denver is proud, of
course. The other evening lady of that
place was sleeping in one part of her
house; an invalid gentleman, who was the
only other occupant, lodging in another
quarter. During the night she heard a
noise at the window. She did not scream
=" "Murder! F" Thieves" and arouse the
neiehbors. Neither did she faint. She
just simply went to dresser in her room
and got q long, sharp butcher-knife. As
the robber, for such it was, was entering
the window, she attacked him with this
weapon, and after cutting and slashing
at him awhile ended by giving him
deep stab in the chest that sent him back
ward to the ground. Here he was picked
up and carried off by his confederate,
much to the disgust of the police of Dem
vcr, who are on the lookout for the bur-
glars with which the town is infested.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

ROCHESTER, Democrat Now our hopes
are fully blasted. Lightning recently
struck feather bed. The geese must have
been fed on tacks. But we regain our
hope again, for we are told that Mis-
souri, farmer had COW and calf struck
by lightning daring thunder storm,
and, supposing them dead, they were
dragged off into pasture. In the morn
ing, having occasion TO visit the pasture,
he found the COW and calf as If no thun-
der storm had occurred the night before.
Hereafter we shall put our trust in veal
when it thunders,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

A BOILER used in running threshiDg
machine near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, ex-
ploded few mornings since, killing
William Owens and Henry Party, and
severely iniuring several others.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

In the garden of the late Andrew
Johnson's residence is magnificent
willow, grown from twig taken from
the willow which bends over the grave
of Napoleon Bonaparte on the island OF
st. Helena, and sent to the ex-President
A twig from this noted tree will be
planted over Mr.. Johnson's grave on
Johnson's Hill.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

The Empress Eugene is about to COM
mence a suit in her own name, and as the
guardian of her son, before the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine, for the recovery
of various objects of value, especially
certain statues and jewels deposited at
Pierrefonds and Fontainebleau.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

DURING the first three months Of 1876
Germany exported 1856 horses and i'm
ported 20,066, while during the same pc
riod France exported [, ,S42 horses, and i'm
ported 3,648.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

PRESIDENT GRANT will be the guest
of Senator Conkling, at the meeting Of
the Army of the Cumberland, at Utica,
September 10 and 16.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

"DID my mustacbe trouble you 2" said
Blobbs to his sweetheart. No, only
felt little down in the mouth" was the
answer.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

A WEED destroyed before IL ripens its
seed may save the labor Of destroying a
hundred next year.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

THAT august and ancient tribunal, the
Court of Queens Bench, has passed away,
after an existence of thousand years.
The Court sat on the 9th of October for
the last time, in all probability, though
it does not cease to technically exist un-
til November. To Sir Alexander Cock
burn belongs the distinction of being the
last Lord Chief Justice of England.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
BLOODLEss VICTORIES.

Let others write OF battles fought
On bloody, CHASTITY fields,
Whence honor greets the man who wins,
And death the man who yields;
But will write OF him who fights
And vanquishes his sins,
Who struggles through the weary years
Against himself, ant, wins.
Here Is a hero staunch and brave,
Who fights an unseen foe,
And puts at last beneath his feet
His passions base and low;
And stands erect in manhood's might,
Uudaunted, undismayed-
The bravest man that drew sword
In foray or In raid.
IL calls for something more than Drawn
Or muscle TO overcome
An enemy who marcheth not
With banner, plume and drum
A foe forever lurking nigh
With silent, stealthy tread,
Forever near your board to-day,
At night beside your bed.
All honor, then, to that brave heart,
Though poor or rich he be,
Who struggles with his baser part
Who conquers, and Is free.
He may not wear hero's crown,
Or fill hero's grave;
But truth will place his name among
The bravest Of the brave.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16
VOLUME iii.


Sheen OF satin ard simmer OF silk,
And rustling ribbons of rainbow ray;
Roses up-looping gossamer lace,
Fairy-fne as the cataract's spray;
Roses holding the sun in their hearts,
Dewiest grasses and mignonette,
Vines a-tremble, geranium leaves
All Of them fit for coronet.
The same glad sunbeams over us fall,
But never the same lot comes to all
Flowers so perfect, bees hardly would know
They never drop Of honey could win.
wonder II human flowers are thus,
Lovely without, but no soul within?
Laces and flowers, and garret room,
A girl whose youth Is forever gone;
With skillful fingers she fashions with care
Prettiest ball dress under the sun.
The same glad sunbeams over us fall,
But never the same lot comes to ALL
In daintiest robe and slippers OF ease,
Reading the latest novel out, .
Plentiful tears for fanaiful woe:
(She has the tenderest heart, no doubt)
Nothing OF care to bring her distress;
Life with its Joy, has but just begun;
Beautiful Maud has beautiful dress,
Prettiest ball dress under the sun.
The same glad sunbeams over us fall,
But never the same lot comes TO all.
I" Oh, isn't it lovely9 A perfect iti
The making? that is triae, you know.
can't be bothered with that-oh, no
hope he will offer his hand
As novels say, will really propose.
My dress is certainly sweetest OF all.
LiZzette, wish to alter that rose"
The same gled sunbeams over us fall,
But never the same lot comes to all.
Morning came again after the fall
Came as Ii comes, in gladness or gloom,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-16

The preparations for the reception of
the Prince of Wales in the East have be-
gun. Extensive alterationsan and improve
ments are being effected in the Govern
ment Louise, and the East India Railway
Company is constructing royal train,
which will consist of five carriages-one
of them state reception saloon, one a
sleeping carriage, two carriages for the
staff, and one for the Princes personal
attendants.