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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Noble Boys!

This is the latest school boy compost
tion: az go to school to learn to read
and rite and siphor to slide on the ice
and traid off an old nife if l have one,
in summer to pick wild flowers and
strawberries and to get out of work hot
days, some boys has to go to school to
get out their mothers road, but | would
rather stay in winter than to go to miles
and set by n a cold stove and freeze my
toes. 1 like to go to school to see the
teachers scold the big girls when they
cut up. Some goes to school to fool but
! go to study when we are old we can't
go to school and then we feel sorry that
we fooled when we was young and went
to school. don't get no time to fool
anyway for have enough to do when
it comes to my geography"
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Minor Hints.

REMEDY FOR CRoUP.-IIalf tea
spoonful of pulverizcd alum in little
molasses. 1t is a simple remedy, one al
most always at hand, and one dose sell
dom fails TO give relief. 1t should,
be repeated after one hour.
FooD FOR CHILDRES.-At the recent
medical congress held at Marseilles, the
majority Of the doctors present agreed
that the best possible diet for children
was oatmeal porridge and sweet milk.
To Cure HoARsENEss.-W the
voice is lost, as is sometimes the case,
from the effects Of cold, simple and
pleasant remedy is furnished by beating
up the white of one egg, adding to it the
juice of one lemon, and sweetening with
white sugar TO taste. Take teaspoon.
frl from time to time. 1t has been
known to efectually cure the ailment.
Burns AND Whatever IS
good foT one is just az good FOR che 9th.
or. Cold water or snow will remove the
first fire or cold, then essence of pepper
mint, or strong solution of alum water
will harden the skin and draw out the
pain. Great care should be taken with
burns or freezes, not 10 break or rack up
the skin; and never put on drawing
ponltice, it makes a big sore. \ cloth,
with little mutton talIow or some soft
oil spread upon it, will keep out the air
and heal it where the skin is torn up
BEsT CURE FOR SORE THRoAT.-
Buy at any drug store one ounce Of
camphorated oil, and FIVE cents worth
Of potash. Whenever any soreness ap-
pears in the throat, put the potash in
half tunbler of water, and with it
gargle the throat thoroughly, then rub
the neck thoroughly with the camphor-
ated oil at night before going to bed, and
also pin around the throat a small strip
Of WOODEN flannel. This is a simple,
cheap and sure remedy. On going TO
bed put a small lump or piece Of chic.
ride Of potash in the mouth. Let it lie
in the mouth, and the cold viii be gone
next morning.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Is The Earth Approaching The Sun.

Mr.. X. A. Proctor, writing to the
London Times respecting letter ad-
dressed by DIR. Phipson TO French
journal. expressing the opinion that the
recent trans it Of observations are useless
because the earth is continually drawing
nearer to the sun, observes that it would
be something beyond a joke if DIR. Phip-
son were right; and therefore it may be
as well to point out that, while during
the last century there has been uncer-
tainty abont the suns distance, evei. to
the extent of millions of miles, astrono-
mers are absolutely certain that the dis
tance had not varied By hundred, or
even by ten miles, during that time. If
the earth had, as has been stated, drawn
nearer by one-thirtieth of her former
distance, the length of the year would
have changed by one-twentieth of it-
former length, or by eighteen days. A
changed ofonly ten miles in the last 100
years would correspond to change of
more than 300 miles since the length of
the year was first determined very ex-
actly. This would be about three hun
dred thousandth of the suns distance
and the length of the year would have
been changed by about two hundred
thuosandth part-that Is by about two
minutes and half. Now, it is known
that the Chaldean sidereal year; proba-
bly, far more ancient than the above
reasoning assumes, contained 365 days
hours and IL minutes, being not quite
two minutes too great. The suns dist
ance might, therefore, be diminished by
about eight miles per century. But in
reality we have no evidence in support
of such a theory, seeing that the Chald .
cans professedly selected such value
for the years as would make their
"saros" contain an exact number of
hours. Considering that astronomers
will be well satisfied if they can deter
mine the suns distance within 100, 900
miles, it is clear. Mr.. Proctor says,
that the maximum, change Of distance
we can admit. by which 100000 years
would be required to bring the earth
100000 miles nearer to the sun, is not q
very important point in the inquiry.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
POETRY.
OFT THE COLD.

With blue, cold hands and stoekingless feet.
Wandered a child in the cherries street,
Children were many, who, housed and fed,
Lovingly nestled, dreaming In bed
CaroIled their Joy in land of bliss,
without a care or thought of this;
Thew were warm in humanity's fold,
But this little child was out in the cold
Out in the cold.
Bleak blew the wind through the cherries sleet,
Dashing along r0ugh the merciless street,
All furred and shawled, man, woman and child
Hurried along, for the storm grew wild;
They could not bear the icicle's blast,
Winter so rude on their pathway was cast,
Alas none pitied-no one consoled
The little wanderer out In the cold
Out in the cold
She had no father, she had no mother,
Sisters none, and never brother;
They had passed on TO the staI-world above
She remained here, with nothing to love,
"Nothing to love"-ohl men did not know
What wealth of joy that child could bestowi
So they went by and wOrshipped their gold,
Leaving the little one out in the cold
Out in the cold.
Wandered she on till the shades of night
Yelled the shivering form from sight;
Their, with cold hands over her breast,
She prayed to her Father in Heaven for rest.
When hours had fed meath the worlds dark
Huneered and chilled, she laid horself down;
Law down to rest while the wealthy rolled
In their carriages past her out in the cold
Out in the cold
Out in the cold-lol an angel form
Brought her white robes that were rich and
warm,
Ou t in the cold on the sleeping child
The sainted face of a mother smiled;
A sister pressed on her brow a kiss
Led her mid scenes of heavenly bliss;
And angels gathered into their fold
That night the little one out of the cold
Out of the cold
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Work of the M0und-BuiIders.

About twenty years ago Elijah CheeS,
who during the late war sought the Chief
Magistracy of Arkansas at the hands of
President Lincoln, was engaged in con-
structing plank-road from Mound City,
five mile above Memphis, TO Marion,
the capital of Crittenden County, ten
miles west of Memphis. In making ex-
cavations and embankments Mr.. Cheek
discovered strangely shaped bricks, of
which specimens were sent TO the writer
of this memoir. They were made Of
grayish clay, nine by twelve inches in
width and length, and four inches thick.
Mr.. Cheek supposed from the number
of ruins which he found every few rods
along the route of this old military road
that Spaniards, when they held the coun-
try, built palaces every where, and grew
enormously rich by cultivating the low
lands. He finally accepted the conelu-
sion, after hearing Il curious recitation,
of mound builders history written by
the late Cornelius Mathews, of New
York, that the old military road WAS
not the product of modern but of an
cient skill and toll. He then saw how
the ridge it traverses is artificial, how
it is wider where the richest mound
builder built his domicile, and how it Is
true that these people lifted up in the
lowlands not only countless mounds and
dug countless canals and aguadas, but
absolutely created, by uplifting the earth
that constituted them, broad farms Of
hundreds and even thousands of acres.
We of modern times are boastful of the
triumphs of engineering skill that brid-
ges rivers, npheaves levees, and builds
railways. These mound d-builders acbieY-
ed mightier tasks, and constructed road
beds that stagger credulity, and dug ca
mails infinitely more serviceable than
railways every where in the lowlands.
Floods ruinous to civilization and wealth
were rendered by them wholly impossi-
bic. Canals were not only the cheapest
agencies of commerce, but the area OF
water service exposed to the action OF
the suns rays was not materially lessen
ed, as would occur if levees could effect
their purpose and wall in the river. No
such changes in climatic or hygrometri-
cal laws resulted as would render, by
producing wet and dry seasons, the sue
cessful cultivation of cotton impossible
These mould-builders were wiser than
we. They cultivated the lowlands. first
regulating the distribution of water, and
making the country healthful by this
useful system of drainage; and then
doubtless there were at Memphis, "a at
St. Louis and Louisville,and other points
designated by remains of the mound
builders greatest works, magnificen
cities.-[ Harper's Magazine.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
A Marvellous ResuscitntlOn.

Most of our readers viii be aware HAT
seeds such as those found in the mummy
cases Of the Pyramids, which have lain
long periods Of years in dedicated
state, will gcrminate when placed amid
their natural earth. Prof Won Held
reich, Of Athens. has recently met with
m analogous instance Of long-delayCd
termination in the seeds Of a species Of
poppy (Elomciumh which are proved
to have been in dormant or potential
state for l 500 years. The "slag" or re-
fuse meltinga from the silver mines Of
Laurium are again being examined or
turned over, for the purpose Of having
the metal they still contain extracted;
aud the seeds which were deeply imhed-
ded among the accumulated Stag are
now springing into life and vitality on
being restored to the genial influences
Of their native light and air. The age
Of accumulated Stag has been above
stated at 1900 years, but this long age
may be exceeded "a some parts ~ tho
mass. The germs or eggs Of animal life
also appear TO lie, in some cases, IN
dormant state for considerable periods.
The Rotifcrs, or minute animalcules,
inhabit our pools may themselves, and
ns adult forms, be dried mp by the sun
from their wstsrs, and be blown about
as mere dust specks, and may yet revive
and return TO vitality on being muisten-
cd with water. These faets increase tho
puzzling nature Of the physologiata
question, "What is life?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
EVENING.

When the long bright hours are numbered,
And the daylight beauty dies;
When the stars their nightly watch-hres
Kindie in the nightly skies
What is that which. gently stealing
Dream-like Ger the musing mind,
Gains each wayward thought and feeling
With a magic underlined.
Hark! the dash of distant waters,
Murmuring in their ceaseless play,
Comes upon the breath of evening,
Blending with the night-birds lay,
Whence the power that strangely sways us
As we list that mytsic tune,
Bringing back sweet faded memories
With the glances of the moon.
Now the evening star arises,
Brightly DER the wooded hill,
Gliding with her mellow rad lance,
Field and forest, fount and rill,
Knows't thou whence this strong emotion,
Stirring cen the fount of tears
Why the glance 80 quick and searching
Backward flies to childhood's years?
Is 1t memories of the wildwood,
Where in early life we strayed?
Or the moonlit haunts of childhood
Where we innocedtly played?
Is il name of friend or brother,
Hoarded long In memory's cell,
Or the mild glances Of our mother,
That awakes the mystic spell?
Deep within that cell is conferred
Yet what tongue eau speak the whole?-
Who reveal the hidden power
OF the strange, mysterious soul?
Ever unexplained, yet present
With our spirit dwells the power,
Potent thus to move or sway US,
In the pensive evening hour.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

disguise was not perfect. And | point
ed to the mutiIated finger.
"What do you mean" he shouted in
a defiant tone.
"Simply that your uncle's signature
to that will is forgery" I answered,
rising and confronting him. He died
on the 23d Of December. Your own
telegram to that effect is in existence. 1t
was on the Path, the day before Christ
mas, that you called on me to prepare
the document now on record as his will.
The inference is plain; you undertook
to manufacture this spurious testament
after your uncle's death, and wishing to
clothe your villainy in legal form, you
procured from me the required draft.
You, or some one at your instigation,
simulated the signature of the deceased.
The witnesses, who have since perjured
themselves in their depositions, were
procured in some manner best known to
yourself"
Enough, sir" he calculated, placing
his back against the door; ''you have
shown yourself in possession of a secret
the custody of which may prove danger
ousI"
81 am not unprepared for your threat,
/ replied. "In the first place, did not
come here unarmed; in the next, | have
prepared full written statement of the
facts to which have alluded, with in
formation, besides; of my present visit
to yourself This paper will be deliv-
cred to the friend to whom it is directed.
unless within an hour 1 reclaim it from
the messenger, who has been instructed
for that length of time to retain it"
His face grew livid. His frame quiv-
cred with mingled fear and rage, and
his eye cleaned like that of wild
beast at bay.
"What is your purpose?" he exclaim :
ed in a voice hoarse with suppressed
passion.
ITO keep your secret while you live, "
I answered, "on one condition"
Name it,"
That you write instantly to Julia Par
sons, renouncing all pretensions to her
hand, and absolutely Withdrawing your
proposal of marriage"
After moments pause, he hastily
penned brief note, which he submit
ted to my inspection; it was quite salts
factory.
"Be so good as to seal and address il" +"
I said.
He did so.
"I will see that it is delivered,"I re-
marked, taking it up and bowling myself
out.
When 1 met George Dickson that
evening, his old COLI ege look had come
back. He had great nears to tell me.
The next thing was to take me to see
Julia; and it is needless to tell what a
happy evening We three spent together,
and what happy marriage followed not
long after.
Eldridge Parsons, have just learned
emigrated for Australia, on board the
London, and went down in that illfated
ship.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
Too Much Interested in Politics.

Mrs. Cooley, of Danbury, takes con-
siderably more interest in politics than
is compatible with the peace and good
order of the domestic hearth. The other
evening, according to the veracious
News, Cooley and his brother-Inlaw
were carrying the piano down stairs,
and after an awful moment of suffering
on Cooley's part they got the instrument
down as far as the first landing. They
were just trying TO get aronnd the cor
ner after having gouged three or four
chunks of plaster out of the wall and
broken two of the banister rails, and
Cooley, beaded all over with perspira-
tion, was just wondering whether he
couldn't relieve his feelings by splitting
the piano up with an ak, when Mrs,
Cooley made n remark. She was stand
ing below in the entry, very cool and
comfortable, and she could have brought
that piano down without running the
wall, when at this critical moment il oc-
CURED TO her to ask Cooley if he thought
Grant really did want third term. 1t
was the one straw too much. Cooley
dropped the piano on the landing, and
dancing down stairs in frenzy of rage,
he addressed Mrs. Cooley upon the gen
eral subject of her failings and foolish
ness in such language that she put on
her bonnet and went home to her mother,
with the expressed intention of taking
steps to procure a divorce upon the fol-
lowing Monday. IL seems to have
blown over, however, for only yeste, day
she was at home talking over the fence
with Mrs. Pitman about the propriety Of
trimming a brown overskirt with pink
silk. Her yearning about Grants de-
signs seem to have been satisfied some
how.-[Max Adeler.
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enough for man to light on, and no
more; he scrambled down a moment ere
the woman came rolling on. put out his
hand toward her, caught her shawl and
tore it from her body as she Hoated
down, and stared in horror as the wood
en- rag hung dangling in his grasp. The
snicide had kept her promise, and es-
capped from her imaginary poverty into
eternal sleep.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

The waste Of forest trees is becoming
more and more a matter of apprehen-
sion to the farmers of the Central West,
and even those of the Far West and
Northwest. Mr.. Hodges, Superintend-
ent of Tree planting in Minnesota, drew
recently in an address to the State Agri
cultural Society, startling picture of
the future effects of tree consumption.
Said he: Twenty five years hence, with
a million or more of population, our
pineries exhausted, the Big Woods
pretty we'll thinned out, the Mississippi
drying up, St. Paul and Minneapolis
three or four hundred miles above the
head of steamboat navigation, mercury
400 below zero, and the wind blowing a
hurricane, is not the idle reverie of a
dreamer" Though Minnesota is not
the worst off for wooded resources OF
any of the Western and Northwestern
States, it is estimated that one-third OF
her best agricultural land is rendered
unfit for settlement or cultivation
through want of forests. The families
of the State consume annually /, ,140, 600
cords; the locomotives use 900 cords
and the bridges and railroads $4,000
About as much more must be reckoned
for building and fencing purposes, and
that amount, credited merely to home
consumption, will strip 10000 acre.
annually. The st. Paul and Pacific
First Division have planted four mil
lion young forest trees on 147 acres, anC
as an inducement for others to do like
wise, Mr.. Hodges maintains that sec
tion of prairie planted with forest tree
will within ten years exceed the profit
from ten times as much ground in wheat
The inducements offered certainly justi
fly generous experiment in this direc
tion.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19
The Old Republic.

The Republic of San Marino-a lit
tie spot a few square miles around in
the center of the Italian Kingdom-has
existed longer than any other Republic
that ever existed without change. It is
governed by two Regent Captains, who
change off on the first of April and first
October, on the six months term, and
has no public debt-not speck-the
only Republic that can say as much.
The population is 1916 souls and the
army number $50 men, all told Its to-
tai expenses for the seven years from
1885 to 1872, were only 109, 1858 francs
or $22, 1000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

Roosters, says Josh Billings, are the
pngilists among birds, and, having no
suitable shoulder tu strike from, they
strike from the heel. When n rooster
gifts whipped, the hens all march off
with the other rooster, if he 'aint half
so bigg or so hansome. 1t is pluck that
wins a hen. Roosters, as claS-, won't
do sny household work; you can't git a
rooster TIA pay emmy attention tn young
one. They spend most NV their time in
Growing and strutting, and once in a
while they find a wurm, which they
make great fuss over, calling their
wives up phrom a distance, apparently
tew treat them, but iist es the hens git
thars, this elegant cuss bends over and
gobbles up the worm. Jist like man
for awl the wOrldl
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

The following is told of S. S. Cox by
a Washington correspondent: 81 can
joke all the defeated Republicans but
two," says Cox. "There is tender
mournfulness about old Poland and
Ellis HI. Roberts which dampens all at
tempts at gayety. Ellis hasn't smiled
once since he has been back and Poland
glares at me whenever 1 speak to him as
though l we're a robber Of hen-roosts." F."
asked Cox recently what he consider
ed the chief mistake of his life. He
said. "Neglecting to buy the Chicago
Times thirteen years ago, when it was
offered me for $50, 900"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

The physician whose sands Of life
were running ont" having finally got
out of sand, has been succeeded by other
ingenious individuals, prominent among
whom IS "the gentleman" who disposes
of his private library" through the
agency Of some dealer in second hand
books, tive or three times year. These
gentlemen, says Boston paper, always
manifest a striking similarity Of taste
in their colleclisns. which are certain to
contain a large number of works we'll
known to the trade Ms afIording good
margin for profit.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

In his New England Society dinner
party speech, Mr. Beecher said; every
man has at bottom tlat amount of phys
ical animalism that, if permitted, under
some circumstances will destroy him."
which is just as true as if Bunsby had
uttered IT,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

A negro woman in Pitt County. n. c.,
recently gave birth to triplets; the first
was white, the second mulatto, and the
third black. This all comes from Civil
Rights.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-19

An Indianapolis writer says that wo.
man with slight indications Of a nous
tache can love harder than those with q
bare upper lips. They are generally
sunparioF woman hesidea.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-04
s,x FRANCISCO STOCK REPORT
sax FRAscIaoo. November 2.
MORNING SALES.


sax FRlscIsoo. November 3.
,xsf MORNING SAILS.
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al5 Gould 4 Curry-I -, ,.,.,,o, A.,
Xxx Resi- 4 Belcher-4l 400 i0a 39A sob 80
$50 Ssvage-1l 10 % ,o,.oro
as Chollsr Potosi-63 81 y 81 60 O.
liz bale Norcross--s6 80
"a Gown Poiut-29 2SA % 27H
seo yellow Jacket-67 81 65 Gi1sb30 60
1890 importantly 81 "a
go Empire Mill-54
555 Kentuck-i3 l2h
9O0 Alpha-l6k lea
TS5 Beicher-Ish Is l9k 1871 l9s l9aba
2eS Con Yirginia-260 262R POI
5s5 Sierra Nevsds-l2a l2hb5
20 Confidence 1917
l7GO California--55 55l4 10 q 56b5O ooss
90 Bullion-49
IS Seq Belcher-70
10 Exchequer-l3 llh
800 0vermsn-46 AZ 467f
$40 Union Con-S&
$50 Lady Bryan-lA Ia
100 Caledonia-l5
545 Justice-25 25S
1890 Julia-1lb II ia
Isu Knickerbocker-2
$40 baltimore Con-lz Ia IL
10 Utah-6S
40 silver Hill-sh
$50 Comfy
20 Eclipse-6
80 Challenge
10 Dayton-4
go Rock Island-2ss ~
AFTERNOON SALES
AIS Meadow Valley 2's
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90 Eureka Con-l2h
400 Belmont-1k
l5OK K Con-64
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5000 for the Democratic State ticket,
elects the whole Republican ticket.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Senators Hitch.
cock and Paddock of Nebraska are here
urging fast mail train from Chicago to
Omaha in 10 hours in place of "a hours
as at present. There is a prospect of
success.
MINIATURES, Nov. s. Returns this
morning make it certain that the Republi-
cans have elected Ludington and the
whole State ticket ranging from 1000 to
5000 majority, and carried the Legisla-
ture by 80 majority on the first ballot.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The Cabinet
were in session about two hours. The
question of the Imprisonment of Brig
ham Young was taken up but without
further action than reference of the mat
ter to the Attorney General, who will
make an investigation.
Yesterday and to-day the freedman s
Bank was crowded with resident colored
persons drawing their portions of the
dividend of 20 per cent. Depositors re-
siding at distance are required to for
ward their books or other evidence
through some responsible banker or by
mail or express.