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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
A Thrilling Adventure.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.l


She was not old. and her face. haggard
with care and scanned with trouble, still
bore traces of great beauty. She came
into the Office with a 9nick, nervous
tread, and there was hunted look IN
the eyes that betrayed the fugitive. She
closed the door behind her and turned
the key in almost the same motion, with
a quick, instructive manner of a person
who had fallen into the habit of isolat.
ing herself from observation and pursuit
at every opportunity. She refused to
sit down, but said:
81 can tell you all you will want to
know about NE in very few words: am
a fugitive"
We told her We had guessed az much,
and We besoueht her to confide nothing
to us. We could no, help her, we said;
our duty as journalist wonld not per-
nit us to extend any aid to person fly.
ing from the law. She said:
81 do not want you to aid me in farth.
er flight; am tired to death. My own
conscience, more pitiless than the min
ions OF the law, has pursued me for
years with a whip Of scorpions. ! can
not escape its terrible laahinga. can
not t1y from my punishment if ! would,
and am anxious it should be over
Death would be a welcome relief, If i,
would but come"
Again we told the painting, weary
creature to tell none "f her stories 10 us
and advised her TO 60 TO the police bead,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
Planting Strawberries in September.

A reader of Scrihner living in New
Jersey writes to know if Strawberries
planted in the early part of September
will bear a crop of fruit next year. To
this inquiry / would say, Yes, under the
following conditions: LIST, the soil must
be rich, deep, and mellow; ID, the plants
must be of this years growth, with
healthy roots, and plenty of them, and
must be .ransplanied in moist or damp
westher, and if the weather continues
dry. must be watered freely few times,
always in the evening when the snn has
gone down; Sd, the straw berry bed must
he mulched before cold weather sets in,
with yard manure, to. be lefs on until
spring. With such treatment, bed of
strawberries may be set out ia Septem-
ber that. will yield, not quite as much
fruit as If put ou, in the spring, but
enough for famil. use; and the berries
will be, on the average, of larger size
than those of the spring planting p
7. Qninn. in Scritner for September.
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they ha an opportunity of buying a
choice article again at a high price.
The query is, where does it come from?
That work will tell'' i. safe axiom.
Take our advice. When your wheat is
ripe, go over The fields and hand pick
the be-t heads. Plant this, and repeat
the process every year, and you will
have an excellent seed-wheat for sale.
The same will also prove ,rue of corn,
and in fac, of every crop. Potatoes do
not depend so much upon the perfective
quality of the seed planted. but we be-
lieve il ia rule that sbonld never be
deviated from. the most perfect of their
kind. Experiments have proven that
seed and live stock are improved not by
frequent changes, but by great care in
propagating the best Exchange.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
Fifty.ThOusand Pounds of Nitr ).Gly.
cerine and Rend Rock to be Fired.

| From the New York Evening NALL
General Newton says that ihe blasting
out of the bottom at the He'll Gate ex-
cava,ions will probably take place about
the middle of September. 1t will re-
quire $4,000 pounds Of explosives to do
the work. The materials used will be
nitro glycerine, rend rock, and dynamite,
according to the nature OF the rock to
be blasted. Instead of placing the ex-
plosiyes in several large masses, it is to
be scattered over the rock in small
charges. Holes have been drilled into
the rock columns which suppor, the roof,
the number varying according the height
of the column These are TO be charged
with the explosives, and then i, is to be
exploded by means of electricity. The
blowing up is done in three sections, and
the effect will be TO crumble the pillars
and allow the roof to sink in.
The grea. opinion that the whole mass
is to he hurled into the air at one grand
blast is erroneous. Beyond few beau
tiful jets of water shot into the air, and
perhaps a few pieces of rock hurled above
the auriace of the ws ter. nothing will be
seen. When all is prepared The water is
to be let in and the chambers filled thus
forming what is called in engineering
pariance ga wet lamp"
The water will confine the force OF
the numerous blasts, and enable them to
act with greater force. After the explo.
sion ii will be necessary TO do consider
BILE dredging in the wav of hauling ont
pieces of rock This will take several
months, but will probably be completed
by next spring. The persons operating
the blast will occupy a position about
three hundred or four hundred feet
away.
The improvements will deepen the
channel about thirty feet, and allow of
| the passage of the largest vessels, where
before only crafts of light draugbt could
go. 1t is expected that the ocean steam
ers will take this route to and from Eu-
| rope, as it is shorter than the Sandy
Hook route by about eighteen hours
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Buffalo Bill's Latest Trophy.
from the Rochester Democrat. !

Z
Since Yellow Hand the Cheyenne
warrior yielded up his life on the strength
and bravery of Buffalo Bill, it was re-
ported that the intrepid scout was to
honor this city with the scalp, the arms
and the dress Of the poor, but naughty
Indian. The report has become fact.
Yesterday morning they arrived, and
now they adorn the window of the Pick
wick cigar ctore, where they have at
tract-d the attention of large numbers
of people. The old man with his spec
tacles and the street gamin with his
wonderment, gaze in admiration at the
following articles: The scalp of the
noble Cheyenne head d-dress, shield,
blanket, bowie-knife, whip, bride and
blanket The shield has.the ghastly Or
nament of several Indian ecalps, thus
showing that his death dealing hand
had also been felt by those in whose veins
the blood of the red man runs. To the
scalp, which is about three inches square
is attached braided SWITCH of straight
black hair and about two feet long. The
head dress is the chief and most attrac-
tive part of the warriors costume. 1t
is five or six inches wide, and as many
feet long, and mad. of buffalo skin
The whole thing ia closely set with
feathers from that noble hird-the
American eagle. Each feather is tipped
with fine hair, attached with some kind
Of cement. The flowing end of this
headdress is ornamented with scarlet
cloth, sewed with green thread. Bells
are attached to the cloth, no doubt to
give warning when the brave was on
the warpath. This parahernalia sug-
gest the savageness and the impossibili-
~ to bring the red men under the sof.
influences of civilization.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

According TO accounts carefully kept.
says the New York Sun, of a trustworthy
instrument hanging in shady place,
and NOT exposed TO reflected heat, the
month just cloaed was the hottest ".
have had in New York for nearly sixty
years. The mean indicated was so Is
degrees. The nearest approach to it
was in 1866. II vas then 7S.7O-1.4l
degrees lower. The lowest mean since
l845 was in 1867, which was 72 33 de-
grees, difference of 7s5 degrees. Until
the 22d ult., the mean temperature was
above so degrees. except on the lst.. 9th
and 10th, and was above 20 degrees till
the 30,h. On the 9th the maximum was
100 degrees, and on the oath the mini
mum was 100 degrees, range of SO de-
grees. Rain fell on thirteen days On
the 30th and 31st 245 inches. Heavy
showers fell on the 1lth, in all 90 inch
es. The mean temperature for twenty
one years 1855 75l was 74.65 degree
last month was 5.54 warmer. The mean
in this city for forty three years is 53.l4
degrees.
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quarters and give herself into the hands
of the law, which would deal justIy and
we had no doubt, in view of her snfier-
ings and remorse, mercifully with her.
II cannot" she exclaimed, covering
her face with her hands and breaking
into convulsive sobs. 81 cannot, cannot.
You do not know that there are other
hearts would ache if gave myself mp
and told all. / want to tell my story to
some one who will pity me and advise
me. There are those whose hands are
as dark with inefaceable stains as mine
are, but who do not suffer the mental
agony that oppresses me. Shall ], in
order TO escape the lashines of my own
conscience, consign these, whose lives
are happy and whose hearts know no re-
morse, to the same punishment for which
] yesrn?"
We asked her, for our curiosity con-
9uered our canton, if it was possible
that one SO young and fair was the GEN.
ter of widespreading circle of crime
that held in its horrid entanglements so
many others beside herself?
AYE" she said bitterly, "if went to
the gallows through Court of Justice
! would lead with me, held by the same
terrible links>of evidence, gully train
of men hardened in crime and their
hands stepped in innocent blood"
woman, woman!" we exclaimed in
horrifitd tones, "in the name of heaven,
who and what are you?"
"oh, heaven help me!' she shrieked,
in voice that chilled our marrow. II
am old man Bender"
4 weird, wild hoop rent the silence oi
the sanctum, and the woman WAS alone
| There was a sound as of rising jour.
nalist scrambling up through the narrow
copy .tnbe, and the next instant bart
head with q quill over one ear bnrs
through the hatchway in the roof, and
followed by complete set of editoria
anatomy, emerged. and, running briak ly
to the rear end Of the building; disap
peared down the lightning-rod. and wa
seen no more until the next day at 3 P
NJ. We never saw the woman again
and wist not where she is; but we emil
in hitter derision when We read that tn
police have arrested an old man answer
ing the description of old man Bender
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A CurIous Phenomenon.

rFrpn the PhiladeIr-ia Ledger. August iS.l .
There il n very curious and interesting
phenomenon TO he seen at the Ctnten-
nial Exhibition in connection with the
Westinghouse automatic air brake ex.
hibii in the western part OF Machinery
Hall, near Column 6s, Section d. 1t is
no part Of the Westinghouse exhibit,
but il an incident casually discovered in
handling the faucets of the compressed
air tubes, used with that valuable ap-
paratus. One of these tubes, connected
with the principal reservoir Of compress
ped, air has an ordinary faucet, with q
nipple not much larger than that Of
gas-burner, though the orifice is consid-
erably greater. From this, when the
sir is turned on, strong jet Of air Is
thrown out, and this will sustain, in the
surrounding air, n ball or sphere Of
wood, glass. metal or rubber, without
any other means Of support. So far. al
though the sphere Is suspended in the
air by Invisible means, there is nothing
surprising when the JET OF air is elected
in vertical direction upward. But the
sphere is still kept in a slate of suspen-
sion in the air when the jet Of air il
thrown out at an angle Of thirty, forty
or even forty-fve degrees, sometimes
nearly stationary, but with a gentle os-
cillatory motion, sometimes rotating
slowly, aud sometimes revolving with
great rapidiiy. These variations are
mainly under the control Of the opera
tor. One would think that 10 order to
sustain the ball the air jet would have to
impipge upon il squarely perpendicular
20 the center Of the mass; but this il not
the case. The most curious phrases o.
the phenomenon are seen when the air
jet strikes the ball obliquely, to the
right or left, or above or below the cen
ter. The axis Of rotation is constantly
shifting, so that IL It starts at right an
giles to the jet of air, it will gradually
move around until the axis comes within
about twenty-five degrees of being in
the same line or plane with the air jet
itself. There is something in all this
that strikingly reminds amateur astron-
omers Of the obliquity Of the ecliptic,
the vibratory motion Of the earih's axis
and the procession Of the equinoxes.-
But perhaps the most interesting phase
ofthe phenomenon is observable when a
large rubber ball is used; then, as the ro'
tation OF the ball suspended in the all
becomes more and more rapid, the ball
changes from its spherical form, becomes
fattened at the poles or extremities O.
the axis Of rotation, and assumes th'
form OF an oblate spheroid, aattened a
the poles and protuberant at the equator
Just as our earth is shown 10 he by as
tronomers and physicists. Indeed, j
would furnish one ofthe very best mean
Of demonstrating the oblate spheroida
form Of the earth, and the cause of 1t Il
the eye. This curious phenomenon, de
veloped incidentally by the exhibit o
ono o.our most useful and valuable life
preserving apparatus in railway travel
IL we'll WORTHY the attention Of our sci
entirts.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
Keep Your Troubles Sacred.

A worthy wife Of forty yesrA stand
ing, and whose life was not made up Of
sunshine and peace, gave the following
sensible advice to married pair of her
acquaintance. The advice is 80 good
aud so we'll suited to all married people
ns well as those who are about entering
that state, that we here publish it for
the benefit Of such persons: Preserve
sscredly the privacies of your own
house your married state, and your
heart. Let no father or mother even
presume TO come between you two; or 10
share the joys or SORROWS that belong to
you two alone. With Gods help build
your quiet world not allowing your
dearest earthly friend to be the confdan,
Of aught that concerns your domestic
peace. Let moments of alienation, il
they occur, be healed at once. Never
no, never, speak Of it outside. but tc
each other confess. and all will come out
right. Never let the morrow's sun still
find you at variance. Review and re-
new, your souls will grow together ce
mented in that love which il stronger
than death, and you will become trIil,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
How to Restore a Meadow.

In response to the query of a cores
pondent on this subject, the Ohio Farm
er says: "The rule is to top dress in
the fall or early in the spring. Fall is
the best, and az soon after moving as it
can be done. But in this case COM
post of barnyard manure, and earth,
mulch. ashes, etc, is better than the ma
nure alone. After a compost heap il
thoroughly fermented, but little is lost
by evaporation. Where land is liable
to wash, top dressing ia better in the
spring, early. Ashes are an excellent
top dressing for meadows, and so is
ground bone, superphospha,e, and etc,
material that can be applied as well one
time as another, as far as retaining their
virtue il concerned.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

TOMATO SouP.-Two quarts of beef
stock, two onions, one carrot, one turnip.
4 sprig or two of parseley. Peel and
cut the vegetables fine. Boil them in
one hour, then strain the stock carefully,
not allowing any of the vegetables to
pass through the sieve. Add two quarts
of peeled tomatoes; boil for three quar-
ters of an hour. Then, in large sau-
cepan, put two tablespoonfuls of butter,
and heat until it is light brown. Take
this from the Gre and add il to the stock +,
pu, in one tablespoonful of sugar, three
tablespoonfuls of flour made smooth in p
little cold water; stir we'll till it boils;
skim, and send to table in soup tureen,
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mark Twain ut Home.

Correspondence of the New Orleans Times.
Quite recently rode out on Farming
ton avenue to view the domicil of that
ktter-day eccentric, Mark Twain. and
was much edited by half an hours in.
spection Of the premises. \ queer
rambling edifice of variegated brick,
possessing innumerable steep gables of
different sizes, and two octagonal wings
sprawl on the top Of an irregular eleva-
ton, facing, Of course, to the rear. + ront.
ing the street is the kitchen, with row
of clothes lines before it, upon which
every Monday morning, curious pedes
,rians may inspect the family linen.
Opposite commanding fine view of the
stable, and overlooking steep slope.
where Hog river, the muddiest stream
in Connecticut, trickles at the bottom.
is the parlor. Before it, upon a wide
piazza, are scattered numbers Of easy
chairs Of rattan, tables Of the same ma
terial, and here also swings hammock.
I, il the pride of the fortunate proprie
tor that no two rooms in the building
resemble each other in the slightest re-
spect, and indeed a glance at the odd
hooks and corners, the projecting bal
comics, diminutive windows, and incom-
prehensive recessses would suggest an
architectural cnnundrum of extreme in
tricacy. To the left on entering the
grounds are several greenhouses, in the
rear spacious barn, and to the left OF
that servants house, in which many a
family might live comfortably. All o.
the buildings are of dull red, variega.
ted with bright crimson. and may he
described aa edifces of aboriginal ex
traction in their war paint.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

The San Francisco Chronicle inquiries
what the people of the East will think
when they read that in California a sim
gle machine turns out an average of eight
hundred sacks or sixteen hundred bush
els of wheat in day, while inst nces
are by no means rare of two thousand
bushels being ,hreshed in one day. A
paper published in the Russian River
section of California cities several in
stances of this kind, and further says
that the tract-twenty tive thousand
acres-on which the machines are at
work, will average fifty bushels 10 the
acre. One field of ten thousand acres OF
Propher wheat stands FIVE and halt
feet high, and is turning out an average
of seventy five bushels to the acre.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
How a Man Looks for Clean Clothes.

Did you ever nee a man try TO find a
shirt or a handkerchief or something in
the bureau-drawer where his wife keeps
her clean linen? 1t mostly happens
when he's in a hurry, when he has go,
his fireworks temper on, and his wife
has got the baby on her lap or she is
up to the elbows" IN dough. He finds
the white clothes arranged in such sym
metrical LAYERS as only a woman, after
long practice, can accomplish, and he
dives in good deal as he would fish for
nubs of kindling in barrel of shavings,
pitching everything right OK left on to
the floor. Meanwhile, "a he fails TO
get the required article, stewing and
swearing and offering mp selected ex-
pressions of relief to his feelings in
suppressed tone of voice, and vowina in
a way especially designed 10 reach the
ears Of his wife, THAT it does beat the
old-what's g name?-a thing can't be
put where it can be found
About this time his wife yells out
from below. that the article sought Is
right at the top, when he aarcas,ieally
wants to know il she supposes he has
"got no eyes" then tears around into
the linen at a more furious rate than
ever, swearing that the shirt amt there.
for he has got clear to the bottom. And
then he gathers everything up In a
bunch and rams them in anyhow. just
as he can grab them, in savage handfuls,
tearing around and jerking things all
over with a nervous looseness Then
| he sings out in a sort of distracted way
as if addressing no one in particular.
that he can always tell where to find
anything he needs at his place of busi-
pess in moment, that he keeps a place
for everything and everything in it,
place. Juh about the time he has
worked himself into red hot worry Of
boiling over impatience, and got the
whole room into litter, his wife glides
in and lays her hand upon the missing
atticle-right in the drawer where hi
jerked it out and then rammed it bacl
again-in that quie, waya woman ha
os maddenipg choleric husband int
a fit state for the lunatic asylum.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01
NUMBER q
st. Nicholas for September

Has, among its most interesting arl!
cler. a delightful little story by Eliz
Wood called THE La, d of the Orig;
a good common sense Talk with Girls :
by Olive Thorne on "a Taste for Read
ing;" and very funny poem by Laur
E. Richards, entitled John Bottl,
john"
"How the Children Cruised in tn
Water Witch" by Z. W. Olney. 9TH.
Races at Shark Bay" by Rebecca Har-
ding Davis, and Rosy" by Mary L. B
Branch. are all admirable stories. "a
Children's Party" contains some practi-
cal hints on very good way to be benev-
olent; and the number abounds in poems
OF which Bessie Hills my Ship on thu
Ocean" and Carrie w. Thompson's tive
of Them" are very sweet and daint,
bits of verse. Then, too, there are sew
eral excellent pictures scattered through,
the pages. such "a "a September Eve
ming" and "By the Brookside," and the
very comical sketches of Little John
ny and the Mosquito" and "Whiiewash
ing the Baby
The article on "Our Colonial Coins
with its thirty illustrations, and the
amusing poem of THE Buckskir
Breeches," have Centennial interest
while Mrs. Oliphant's admirable pap-r
on Windsor Casrle," and the sketch o
the brave Florentine "Ferrncci," con
vince us that some interesting event.
did really happen before the 4th Of July
1776.
The generous instaliment Of Mr.
Brooks's "Boy Emigran,s" is full O
dramatic incident and frightened b,
three excellent engraving; and the de
partments are as lively as ever, the "Le,
ter-Box" being unusually large.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

On a high trestle on the Lake Ontario
Shore road stood a scissors. grinder with
his machine on his back, an Italian
with harp. and another with a
fiddle, at about the center Of the
trestle. A train approached; it could
not be stopped before it reached them,
nor could they step aside. Horror of
horrors! But they were not ground in
to atoms. The scissors grinder laid his
machine down on the iies where they
projected beyond the rail; the harpis,
laid down his harp, and the violinls, his
fiddle in the same manner; the train was
then almost on to them; each Of them
then got down, grasped the end of tie,
Swung off the trestle, and hung there
over the abyss till the train passed, af.
ter. which they climbed back on to the
trestle, and when the train disappeared
were putting on their instruments and
preparing to resume their journey.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Mr.. Josiah Henson, whose character
and career supplied Mrs. Harriet Beech.
er Stowe with the original conception of
Uncle Toms Cabin" is now in Eng
land seeking aid In his efforts in be
half Of the Wilberforce Educational
Institute at Chatham, Ontario. Canada,
his private property has become involv-
ed, and unless help is given him he will
he left without support in his old age
Mr.. Henson Is now in his 88th year, and
revisits England after the lapse of a
quarter of century. Several members
Of Parliament have generously assisted
him, among whom are Sir /. Foxwell
Buxton and Mr.. S. Morley.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Southern notes as remarkable fact
that his audiences, in whatever quarter
of the world he has gone, invariably
laugh at the same jokes and award the
same amount of applause to each point
made. II was the same in Paris. in Lon
don and New York. and he considers his
idiosic play, therefore, . good measure
Of human nature all the world over.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Wild Bill was buried in full suit Of
hroadcloth with his rifle beside him. Al
the head Of his grave on the mountain
near Deadwood is large stump, on
which this inscription is deeply cut: "a
brave man; the victim Of an assaxain-J.
B. Hickock wild Billy, aged forty
eight years: murdered by Jack Mccall,
August 2, 1875"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-01

Let every unhappy married woman
in the land at once "adopt" az per the
following advice of the Saturday Re:
view: "The happiest life Of woman ia
perhaps attained when she adopts the
opinions Of reasonably intelligent
husband and conscisnsiously shinks
they sse her ewn."