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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
\ Pen Picture.

The r9aut of Paris II at work on the
conc!n,.ing volumes of his History of
the Civil War in America. He is a
good painter, without overlooking his
pallet with color. Some of his pages,
that of his arrival at Washington, are
perfect pictures, which might be signed
by Meissonier, or any other of our bait
tie painters. For instance: while the
two hostile armies observed each other
between Arlington and Fairfax Court
house, balloon was sent up every even
ing to reconnoiter the surrounding eoun-
try. 1t was the only means of getting
sight of the enemy. As soon as we rose
above the primeval trees which sur
rounded the former residence of Gen.
Lee, the view extended over an undulat-
ing country, covered with trees, dotted
here and there by little clearings, and
hordered on the west by the long range
of the Blue Ridge which recalls the
first lines of the Jura. Thanks to the
brilliant light which illnmines the last
hours of an autumn day i'll America, the
observer could distinguish the slightest
details of the country which appeared
below US like map in relief. But in
vain does the We seek the apparent
signs of war. Peace and tranquility
seem to reign everywhere. The greatest
attention is necessary to discover the
ala ot tho aIora nf Sph
line of reddish earth marks the new
Notifications. However, as the day de-
clines, we see to the south little blush
lines of smoke. rising gently above the
trees, They multiply by groups and
form a vast semicircle. 1t is the Con-
federates cooking their supper. You
may almost count the roll of their arm,
for every smoke betrays the kittle of
half section. Farther of, the steam
of a locomotive flying toward the noun
tain, traces by line drawn through the
forest the railroad which bring the en-
emy their provisions. At the same mo-
ment strain of military music is heard
below the balloon. All the clearings
where We sought in vain to discover the
Federal camp, are filled by throng
coming out of the wood that surrounds
them. This throng arranges itself, and
forms in battalions. The music passes
in front of the ranks with that peculiar
march which the English call the goose
step Each battalion has two flags, one
with the National colors, and the other
with its number and the arms of its
State. These flags are dipped, the officers
salute, the Colonel takes command, and
a moment after, all the soldiers disperse
for it is not an alarm nor prelude of a
march forward which has brought them
thus together, but the regular evening
parade"
Is this not a picture from the hand of
a master? Many like it ] could set be-
fore yon, but the book is too we'll known
in America for me to make further ex-
tracts. Rivoral said, 1.-THE word is the
clothing of the thought, and the express
sion in its armor." The Count of Paris
finds both word and expression SO nat
urally that he seems never to have
searched for it.-[ Arson Houssaue.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
Don't Mortgage the Farm.

Keep your homestead free from mort
gage. No matter how promising the
speculation may be, how large a re-
turn the investment may offer, don't
mortgage your home to raise money.
We know of but one good cause for
mortgage on the homestead-hunger
The rate of interest to be paid for
borrowed money, added to taxes and the
current expenses, will eat up the best
farm in Kansas. Hundreds of homes
throughout the West are passing into
the hands of strangers under foreclosure
of mortgage. Money borrowed three OF
five years ago, al twelve or eighteen per
cent. interest on improved lands worth
al the time it was borrowed three times
the amount loaned, could not, in many
cases, to day be paid if the farm was sold
for it. Unexpected expenses, losses of
crops. poor markets, and one cause and
another makes the payment of the prin-
cIpal almost an irnpossibility. Money
loaners may glibly tell how easy it is to
pay the interest, and as times get better
meet the principal. Thousands and tens
of thousands of dollars released from
manufacturing enterprises Of the East
are now offering in every town of the
West. IF the contraction of the cur
rency continues, and we are TO reach
specie resumption in 1879, the payment
of the mortgages made to-day, will take
the farms upon which they are placed.
Shun the mortgage as you would a con-
tagiOus disease. The legislation Of to-
day is in the hands Of money, and all
that will guard, protect and make mon
ey more valuable will be done. Better
TO live IN the homestead cabin, with the
clothes ragged, and the implements old
and worn, than TO sign a mortgage,
which after years of worry and suffering
causes the home to go 10 the usurer.
Wait, if prosperity comes, the mortgage
will not be needed, if it does not all the
more reason for having the home clear
from debt. Mothers and fathers, if you
want the home for the children, don't
s1gn the mortgage.--[ Kansas Farmer.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
Escape From ChurclIs and Public
Halls.

The Baltimore Gazette has been pub
fishing reports on the condition of pub
lie halls and churches IN Baltimore,
with respect to the opportunities they
offer for the escape of audiences in case
of disaster such as recently occurred
in the church at Holyoke, Massachu-
sets. AS was to have been expected, a
large number of the churches and pub
lie halls are complete traps. from which
terror-stricken audience would be un-
able to escape without loss of life and
limb. A petition has been addressed to
the Baltimore City Council, asking for
the enactment of an ordinance requir-
ing the doors of public buildings to be
hereafter erected to have their doors
hung so as to open outwardly. The
Gazette properly says that the ordinance
should not only require such precau-
tion to be taken against disaster in new
buildings, but in those already in use;
and so it should be as to all such build
ings everywhere.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
Charity to the Fallen-A Picture.

just eighteen centuries ago, the morn
ing beams had shed purple light DER
Olivet, and tipped with gold the stately
cedars Exchanging the brow Of Lebanon.
Within JerHsalem's Temple sat man
with tranquil brow and kindly mien,
teaching the multitude. He taught n
new and winning doctrine, twas of love
and charity to all; and as the lights and
shadows of the Temple fell across that
meek but saddened face, a more than
human beauty was revealed TO those
who fingered near and drank his saving
words; and as he spoke of his great love
all were en-aptured with the mystic
spell of his Divinity, and thought he
spake as never man spake before. But
10. Above the murmur of the multi
tude the noise of tumult rose, and press
ing toward the Nazarene the Pharisees
were bearing a guilty woman TO be adj
judged for sin. They charged her with
heinous crime, Caught in the act"
the punishment whereof was death by
Moses law; what says thou, Master?
exclaimed the Pharisees. But Jesus
answered naught. And as His meek
eyes wandered from the multitude to
the poor woman standing in the midst.
He pited her. She had been fair, but
passion marred the innocence of better
days and left the lines Of sorrow on her
brow. albeit, the grace of Judah's dark
eyed daughter hung round her still in
clouded beauty. A moment hence her
cheek was blanched to Parian whiteness
through fear of those who sought her
life, but now in presence Of that pure
and holy man, her womanly shame and
Consciousness of sin returned, and the
rich crimson tide mantled her neck and
face until it mocked her robe of Tyrian
dye; and as the changing hues quivered
DER her temples, betokening emotions
struggle her bosom rose and fell
tumultuously, and she sobbed with a
new felt penItence. Then Jesus stoop-
ed and wrote upon the ground, bnt the
multitude. impatient, clamored for indg-
ment on the woman's guilt, and Jesus
said: "He that is without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone at her."
and again he stopped and wrote upon
the ground; and they seeing thereon the
record of their sins went away, one by
one, until the woman was left standing
there with Jesus; and then He said:
woman, where are thy accusors?
Hath none condemned thee?" and the
woman answered: "None, my Lord"
and Jesus answered: "Neither will /
condemn thee; go and sin no more"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
When There's no More West to Go
To.

Speaking of the prevalent Western
immigration fever, theSt. Louis Repub-
lican observes:
Moving West is an American business
we have been engaged in it for hun
dred years. But what will we do when
there is no longer West to emigrate to?
That time has nearly arrived. When
it comes, the growth of the country will
thereafter react toward its center. Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee can be
doubled, and yet not reach more than a
hundred to the square mile. The coun-
try will grow in different way. Great
manufacturing centers will arise; inter
ior towns and cities will be built up; our
coal and iron resources will be develop
ed, ard the principal part Of our surplus
grained products will be needed for
home consumption. That is what Eve
will do when there is no longer West
10 emigrate to-"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

General Breckinridge was a warm
friend of Horace Greeley during the lat
ter years of the philosophers life. On
one occasion, speaking to the Hon.
Heister Clymer of his obligations to Mr.
Greeley, General Breckinridge sad:
"After the late unfortunate war between
the Northern and Southern sections of
the United States, you know i was COM
PEELED to fee for my safety. While in
Paris, cherries, friendiess, homeless,
and without country, / received n let
ter from Horace Greeley. 1t was filed
with the most tender expressions of re-
gard and sympathy, and urged me to re-
turn to my home. Come back he
wrote; go to your own beloved Kentucky;
aid in restoring the shattered fortunes
of the South and your country; and
will be responsible for your safety, and
assure your immunity from molestation
OF arrest Now submit to you, Mr.
Clymer, could I have done otherwise
than call upon Horace Greeley, or shall
l ever cease to respect and cherish him?"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

Whether it is a natural result of
champagne atmosphere, and strawberries
all the year round, we know not, but it
has become evident that there is some
thing in the air, in the soil, or in the
social conditions of San Francisco
which inspires the women of that sea-
girt peninsula with perennial yearn-
ing to kill lawyers. The number OF
lawyers who have been shot, or shot at,
By females in San Francisco, is really
appalling. Crittenden, McDermott and
Cobb are among the most prominent
cases, but the calendar indeed, abounds
with them; and now behold an attempt
to take off w. ii. L. Barnes. Old wo-
men attack young lawyers, and young
women murder old lawyers, and all sorts
of women precipitate themselves upon
all sorts of lawyers, as if there existed
a secret and mysterious propensity in
the female breast (as developed under
the influence of San Francisco fogs and
gales) to hit lawyers head whenever
seen.-[ [Sacramento Union.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

AsToNIsHING.-The progress made By
the WilsonShuttle Sewing Machine
Inventive skill has been taxed to its ut
most, and the result is the most perfect
and desirable machine for general and
family use yet produced. Ii is simple
and easy TO operate, il not liable TO get
out of repair, its work is the best, as was
shown by the frat premiums awarded it
at the Universal Exposition in Vienna,
1873, and il is sold at less price than
any other machine of its standard ex-
cellence. Machines will be delivered at
any Railroad Station in this county, free
Of transportation charges, If ordered
through the Company's Branch House
at 327 and 800 Superior Street, Cleveland,
Ohio.
They send an elegant catalogue and
chrome circular, free on application.
This Company want few more good
agents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
An Ingenious Plan for the Preserv-
alton of Peace.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: The
scares' has suggested to an ingenious
Frenchman a scheme for mitigating, and
the long ruu probably averting. the evils
caused by thus trifling with the peace
of Europe. His plan also has the merit
of meeting the views of not only those
who hold that international differences
should be adjusted by the sword, but al
SO of those who, on the other hand, ad
voctate "a resort TO arbitration Under
the new system there will be both fight
ing and arbitration; plenty of both. He
proposes that when two nations growl
and scowl at each other to such an ex-
tent as to make the general society of
nations uncomfortable, and TO agitate
the stock exchanges througont the Con-
tinent, it shall be submitted to an in
ternational court of arbitration to de-
eide whether the two nations in question
shall not be called upon to fight out
their quarrel at once, whether prepared
or not for immediate hostilities. In the
event of their declining to do SO at the
bidding of the court, they are TO be
simultaneously attacked by all the 9th
or nations, and to bear the whole cost of
the movements against them. 1t is i'm
probable, however, that they will bring
matters to this pass by refusing to fight
when desired to do so; for 1t may be
taken for granted that they would in
finitely prefer sanguinary tussle with
each other to being together engaged
in defending themselves against an at
tack of the whole cizilized world, and
being thus united by bond of sym
pathy totally at variance with their
mutual feeling of antagonism."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
The Destruction of Small Birds.

1t has been suggested by DR.. Turrel
that the rapid spread of the Phylloxera
grapevine louse, in France, is due more
than anything else, to the rapid EXTERN.
ination of the small birds of the coun-
try. It is we'll know that a regular dis
charge of guns is heard all over France
in certain seasons of the year, every per-
son who can hire or borrow musket,
entering into the crusade, and that an
indiscriminate slaughter is made of birds
of all kinds and characters. This view
of DIR. Turrel is strengthened by the fact
that in America, where the Phylloxera
originated, its ravages have never been
of any great moment. Even if the
birds themselves cannot reach the vine
louise, it is suggested that other kinds OF
insects which are attacked by birds,
leave the vine in a weakened condition
and more liable to destruction by paras-
ties.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

A New Yorker named J. B. Stone r
has invented an india-rubber life-saving
suit. which, he claims, will make the
happy possessor as safe on sea as on the
solid land. Once in it and the water, the
wearer is happy. The ordinary position
he assumes is a sitting one, but, tiring of
this, he adjusts a rubber pillow beneath
his head, and can peacefully slumber on
the heaving brine. Waking, he refreshes
himself with lunch, and then views the
broad expanse of blue above and blue
below through blue clouds of tobacco
smoke, though, if he prefer to dream in
the peaceful shade, he can hoist a silk
umbrella,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

Christians must give up thinking
about Christianity as orly means of
escaping future hell and arriving at
future heaven. They must show now,
more than ever, that, by union of low
ing and truthful hesfts, God comes here
Immortality begins here, and heaven
lies about us. So fight the good fight of
justice and truth, as the disciples of
Zoroaster tried to fight it; this is still
the true work of man; and to make n
union of these who wish to fight for
GOOD against evil-this is still the true
Church of Christ.-[James F. Clarke
d. d.
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The Wool Clip OF 1875.

1t seems TO be generally admitted that
the wool clip of California, Oregon and
Texas this season will be larger than
those Of last year and that the average
quality, except perhaps ofthe California.
woods, is also mproved.-These woods
come into market before tho=e of the
rest Of the country. The clip of Ken
lucky is said to he of very good quality.
The very great injury to sheep by dogs
has done much to decrease the clips in
several of the Southern States.
In the more Northern States, shearing
will be somewhat later than usual on ac.
count of the backward spring; hence the
clip will not go into market quite so
early as usual. Generally there seems
to be very firm feeling as to prices.
and it is not improbable that those who
sell early IN the season will realize as
those who hold longer. NOtwithstand-
ing the severe winter, there has been
sheep, and they came through the win
ter in at least usually good condition.
There have been very considerable
importations of Australian and South
woods, which have prevented the small
stocks from becoming entirely exhaust
ed. The trade is quiet in all depart
ments. There is the most demand for
delaine and combing wools.
Farmers have often been advised
against the policy of crowding all or
nearly all the wool clip of the year on
the market at once. 1t is little conf
cial to read earnest appeals in the New
York Economist to wool buving. to
avoid advancing the price of wool by
too much competitive buying. II holds
that ''the wisest policy in the purchase
of woods Is 10 bny as you go and take
the chances Of a raise or fall in the price
of the staple according to the demand
and prices obtained for manufactured
goods. By this means interest is saved
and the producer ceases to be a rival
bidder against his own interest. By this
means he can use his money for the
uses the capital is intended"
We do not see that any considerable
advance over last years prices is to be
expected, and there certainly can be no
good reason for decline in prices
Western Rural.
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A Model Speech.

There were few really eloquent
speeches on Decoration Day. amidst
hundreds that were only redeemed from
contempt by their earnestness and sim
cerity. The best speech that we have
seen reported anywhere. however, was
made in Cincinnati by quiet and un-
pretending but thrifty merchant, S. V.
Reid, who was Major in the Confeder-
ate ranks, and still "wears the gray"
This man, who probably never dreamed
Of being an orator, roae to the high
level of the truest eloquence, when he
said:
During these ten years you have
yearly plucked from the breast OF
spring the choicest flowers, with which
to deck the graves Of your dead, while
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

THE GRAssHoPPERs FoRTY-EIGHT
YEARS AGo.-In the year of our Lord
1927, forty-eight years ago, the grass
hoppers came to Lower Canada in
clouds, and literally ate up everything
green excepting the greenhorns just
coming into the country. Our garden
had been sown around the fencing with
mustard profusely, and within fortv-
eight hours we hadn't living grass
hopper in the garden or around the
barns. The hoppers ate up every bit Of
the mustard. The consequence was that
they burst right open from stem to stern,
and we shoveled them into large heaps
and burned them, and the next year we
had comparatively very few on our
farm. presume could have this tes-
timony corroborated by some of the old
citizens of Montreal. list. Paul Dis
patch.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

CANINE DIssIPATIoN.-He's home
the dog. He "swooped" in through the
kitchen door about 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, knocked over the baby, kissed
him till he couldn't breathe and then, to
the question of "Where have yon been?"
retreated to a corner. One eye was bung-
ed up, apiece of his tail was gone, and he
limped in the of hind leg. He was about
as fat as lead pencil and looked as if
he'd been hustled out of primary
meeting. The girl looked at him and
exclaimed: "Now, that dogs been in
bad company" He had been ION bust"
lust one week
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11
The Test of Superiority.
Virginia CNev.) Enterprise.l

Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.l
Captain John, Chief of the Big
Meadows Piutes Winnemucca the other
day, accompanied by three wives, two
of whom are much younger than the
Chief At the depot he was accosted
by passenger of an inquiring turn of
mind, who asked him if the oldest wo-
man was not his wife and the others his
daughters. John Indignantly replied:
mo; me heap big Indian; all the same
Brigham Young. Me catch 'em ten
women. Mormon pretty good; 'Merican
man no good" Some ladies who heard
the convert alton looked with surprise at
the noble red man, and hurriedly board
ed the train, as if afraid that Captain
John might capture them if they VEN
tured TO remain eny longer on the plat
FORM
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

They say that the number Of aged
men who are in training for the Centen-
NAL would startle the country were il
known. Dazzled by the honors which
are bestowed upon centenarians, many
wrinkied old gentlemen have gone, like
prize-fghters, into a regular eonrse of
training to qualify themselves for an APP
pearance at the Exhibition. Look out
now and see that you don't get sold.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

At ST. Albans, VT, ON Sunday, Clifton
S. Weeks attempted TO kill Henry G
Greene, after setting his barn on fire.
and soon after shot himself dead.
Greene's wounds are slight. DisappoInt-
ed love and the belief that Greene in
fiuenced the object Of his affection cans
ed the tragedy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

The negotiations with the Indians
having proved failure. trouble is ant
icipnted in the Black Hills If the whites
return there. In encouragement to ad
venturesome miners, it is said that the
Sioux can muster from three to FIVE
thousand warriors, about half of them
armed with rifles and the remainder
with bows and arrows.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

An Irishman called at a drug store to
get bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Lini-
ment for the Rheumatism; the druggist
asked him in what part of the body it
troubled him most, "Be me SOUL" said
he, ~ have it in every houl and corner
er me-"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

All kinds Of marketable country pro-
duce taken in exchange for goods or
work at the Clothing Store Of Mains 4
Bro. A variety of goods and trimmings
on hand suitable for Mems Youths and
Children's clothing, good and cheap.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

Remember that all the piece goods
purchased at the Clothing Stors Of
Mains & Bro, will be cut out free Of
charge. Prices Of all goods lower than
elsewhere
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

A variety Of light-colored, fancy cas-
simeres, Of the newest styles, for pants
or for entire suits, for sale by the yard
or made up TO order, at the Clothing
Store Of Mains & Bro. Call and soc
them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-11

Paints, oils, varnishes, dye-stuiis,
brushes of all kinds, garden and flower
seeds, cheap for cash, at Skinner new
drug store.
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THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
Memorial Poem by o. w. Holmes.

The following poem, by DIR. o. w
Holmes, l. taken from the Bunker Hill
Memorial:
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J. o. SKINNER,
H. c. GREINER,

ESIDENT ENLIST,
TNHANKS the people Of Perry county for their
L. past patronage, and win merit the same in
future by being prepared with all the modern
appliances for doing the best work At fair pri-
ees. Once up stairs, two doors westof j. G.
Curran's Jewelry Store.