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THE UMBRELLA WAR.
TIE UMBRELLA RlNG
Against Keep and the People.

KEEr has KILLED the shirt Pusncss with his superior
SHIRTS and low prices, and are determined to keep
hhfl out OF tho Umbrella business"
u you sell him any goods we couniermani our orders
ana Withdraw our patronage "
fhisis what the Umbrella Ring say to Manufacturers
Of Umbrellas Cloths aud Furniture
Manuiacturcrs o Umbrella Furniture arc generally
men ol small caIltal-complo oly under control of the
Umbrella Ring, They cannot atlori linden. nd.
entity This Is not surprising, hut that some 81 the
LARGEST Comni ssiun HOUSES IN this city equally under
the thumb Of the Umbrella Ring j. almost In rcdibc
KEEP determined to make Umbrellas. even without
the consent o the Umbrella RIM. and prr pared
tniulnish any quantity. made strictly ~ conformity with
Price"
KEEPS bingham Umhrcas-Thc Very Best ~ each
These are the hest that bo produced KEEPS silk
Umbrellas will soon be reaiy-cquhly cheap
We are determined to show u.s UMBRELLA Ring what
KEEP can do
Now, TO make "a general distribution possible,
Will supply the Trade at Cost
A coniyati-on OF KEEPS Umbrellas and Prices will
show dif renee in their favor " hfty per cent
No wonder the Umbrella RING wanted to Keep KEEP
out KEEPS Umbrellas Will not be confined to any
special parties, but supplied ~ the Trade At large
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EVERY DAY AND SUNDAY
fTFAMER TWILIGHT CAPT JNO HOLMES leaves
i2pth 81. Harlem, IS A Railroad Dock at 5OA "
lleth st at .....0 % slth. Il at .......p 10
$50 a. al .... y 81 A Grand st. at......y 10 A. NJ.
Jewell Dock, Brooklyn. 10 u 4
Landing at Neptune House AMI Seaside fOu At Rock.
away only Re turning. leaves the Beach At 30 T. VI
FARE, IS CENTS EXCURSION TICKETS ~ CENTS
0nnl MUSIC hnh Lrlrn .hnnn is M LnnrI
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SUNDAY EXCURSIONS to 4

tIHsIONt % ASTORIA. liar.
sicancrs MoRklsANIA. HARLEM aul siI ADY SIDE.
from FULTON Market SIP every SUNDAY - follows
LEAVES MORRIstNlA at $50 ~ 10 H. HIS
AN T. -, J. ~ ., 8 - % - 49, and IS + NJ
LEAVES FULTON MARkkr SLIP alto. 10. II A. VI and
y ". a. $50. SIS. !, 80. $50. 81. IS. and
LANDING Mt Grand 81 iipth - AMI suffers East
Ei'et iafk, connecting with steamer PETER CRAKY
TOT High bridge. FARE 10 CENTS
L n LbNp~INLEr SUPERINTENDENT
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NOrsss. 6artiaass. &t.

CHARLES W. BARKER, Auouoncer
- ftiNl uupAftltiDi the storm
bred iroi'rs ~ America. NcNt WEDNESDAY, Aus H. nj
II "cl" AT barher son, fattrrsalls corner of Broad
WAY ann Hh = 'ifs'n head az iashionahy bred nui
mai, WIN speed varying from three minutes down Ia
81 STOCK VIII AruNe mis- morning 10 be aud rode
Hn lrlnir sale ththlOguts ready, send tor
hid N 'NN
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Have You Money
On Deposit L?

Have you any security that safe or that it wnbo
next Fall and winter, when piuchins times may cau-a
runs on the banks' Would tho, be better wiulraws
part Of it, at least and invest land the prcsen,
priccs' Examine into this matter Come vlN. thu
property. and Judge for yourself.
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RrGyLAR SUNDAY nnAr

- ftn NfN AKIN.
lie last aui well known steamboat
THOMAS WAY
WI make her regular SUNDAY Ncw York and
N'wArA. lfaNlng numerical dock. Newark. VI
,Hnng 'w York, Pier -. r. foot oi Nc-ey IT. To-.
A No. Ipinx at BERGEN Point each way
FARE TNkNrN.F FIVE ttSrS
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Excursions.


DLSMOuTu ROgk.-Thc present week the
- beautiful steamer makes her last trlp- to kpckawAy
Beach, ns she leaves the evening Of The luth inst
the great Cam Meeting on Marthas vineyard and her
ANIMAL NpW ENGLAND efu
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15
The Unfair. Sea.

IF there is anything funny under the
sun. it is very thin, little man in a very
long ulster.
SPRING is close upon us, and the time
is not far distant when the ulster over
coat can no longer hide the patched-up
knees of the owner.
EVERY man is, in sense, three
different men. In the first place, he is
the man he thinks himself to be; in the
second place, he is the man other per
sons think him to be; and, finally, he is
the man that he really is.
"BEFoRE we were married." said he
to a friend, she used to say by-by SO
sweetly when 1 went down the steps"
"And now what does she say?' asked
the friend. "Ohl just the same," ex-
claimed the man-"buy, buy" "Ah !!
Isee," said the other; " she only exercises
a little different spell over you"
THEY tell story of man at Chicago
hotel, whose room was on the top floor,
the bell in which was out of order. Af-
ter wrestling with it half an hour, he
went to the window and collected a
crowd on the street below by waving a
pillow-case. When a multitude of fel-
low-citizens had collected he shouted
loud enough to be heard in Omaha:
"Some of you fellows 60 to that Office
and tell them to send me up a cock
tail y,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15
.Hasi1sa9s Chemicals,

Careful experiments, extending over a
series of years, plainly indicate that the
food of healthy man, engaged in
manual labor, should contain a regular
daily supply of about three hundred
grains of nitrogen and four thousand
and eight hundred grains of carbon.
Among badly-fed operatives, subsistence
has been known to be maintained on one
hundred and seventy grains of nitrogen
and three thousand grains of carbon,
but that was attended by feeble health.
The amounts required in health may
vary, according to circumstances, such
as temperature, the moisture of the air
and the amount of muscular work per
formed, but the average to be maintained
is as already stated. Little or nothing
is known of the supply needed for brain
work, nor do scientists pretend to under
stand much about the needed supplies
of elements present in the body other
than carbon and nitrogen, nor even
what difference it makes whether they
are supplied with regularity or not.
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s0SEETs.
ny n. W. LoSsrKLLow.

As fond mother, when the day is Ger,
Leads By the hand her little child TO bed,
Halt willing. half reluctant to be Led,
And leave his broken plsythings the heor,
sun xazing at them through the open door,
Not wholly reassured and comforted
By promises Of others n their s;eId,
Which, though more splendid may not please
him more;
10 nature deals with Us, anl takes away
Our playthingS one by one. and By the hand
Leads us 10 rest gently, that we go
Scarce knowing II We vi.h 10 go OF stay,
Being too fun Of sleep 10 understand
How far the unknown transeeads the what we
IN THE CHURCH YARD At TARRYTowN.
Here lies the gentle humorist who died
In the bri yht Indian summer Of his famei
simple stone. with but date and name,
Marks his secluded resting place beside
Tho river that he loved and gorifed.
Here la the autumn Of his days he came,
But tho dry leaves Of earth were all aaame
With tiLts that frightened and were multi
Piled.
How sweet life was his I; how sweet death
Llvina, 10 wing with mirth the weary hours,
Or with romantic tales the hears to cheer;
Dying 10 leave a memory liEe the breath
OF summers full OF sunshine and Of showers,
A grief and gladness in the atmosphere
-AlLanfic Monthly.
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L0ndon economist
In the able report upon Chill by Mr..
Rumbold, to which we lately referred,
we find some remarks on the effect that
has been produced by the destruction of
the woods that formerly covered the
country, which are well deserving of at
tention. During the past thirty years
an extraordinary extension of agricul-
ture has occurred in Chilli. Formerly
she was an importer of coins now she is
"a large exporter. The first impetus was
given by the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia; a great demand for wheat arose,
and Chill set to work to supply it. Then
the discovery of gold in Australia
opened new and profitable market, and
now Peru offers another outlet. In their
eagerness to produce wheat and barley
the peasants recklessly burned down the
woods on the lower Cordilleras, near the
coast. The progress in mining led to
the same results in the valleys of the
main chain of the Andes; the conse-
quence of this unwooding has been to
deprive the country of its due rainfall,
and to threaten its soil with sterility.
Thirty years ago, Mr.. Rumbold tells us,
travellers posting between Valparaiso and
Santiago-a distance of only ninety
miles-were sometimes, in winter, de-
tained as many as five days, by the swol-
len state of the river. and the heavy
roads, and it regularly took bullock-carts
a. month to make the journey. In 1872
"there were three hundred and thirty
five dry days, of which two hundred
and thirty-three were entirely cloudless
and one hundred and two either par,
TALLY or entirely overcast. There was
much rain on nineteen and it was show
cry on twelve out of the remaining
thirty-one days. In 1873, when the
winter was more severe, the rainy days
amounted to twenty-five, and the show
cry days to eleven. The result is that one
whom Mr.. Rumbold describes as great
authority, speaks of " the sterility which
is invading with alarming rapidity the
fields of the central region, now de-
void of woods, and the slopes of the hills
robbed of the vegetable soil, which
nothing now prevents the rain from
washing down into the Valleys"
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A strange Hestftxtfon.

A correspondent of the New York
Times writes from Oil City, Pa, as fol-
lows: William Harper, of Forest County,
has just returned from California with
Ss6, 900, being the principal and interest
of a sum that was stolen from himself
and two others twelve years ago. The
hardware firm of J. & w. Harper & Co.,
of Philadelphia, in 1866, desiring to
speculate in oil lands, employed man
named Edgar G. Martin, of Baltimore,
to go into the oil region and select suita-
BILE property for them. Martin came to
them highly recommended as an expert,
and also as to character and reliability.
He selected some land near Pithole, and
was intrusted with $4,000 by his en-
ployers to make a payment on the pro-
posed purchase. Hearing nothing from
their agent for some time, and receiving
no response to their letter, one of the
firm went to Pithole. There he learned
that Martin had not invested their
money in land for them, but he had gone
away from the place in company with a
chambermaid employed in the hotel
where he boarded. She had been a
danseuse in variety troop that disban.
ded there, and was the wife of the bar.
keeper of the hotel. Martin left wife
and six children in Maryland. Two ot
the firm who had lost the $4,000 subse
quently died, and in 1873 the survivor
VIM. Harper failed in business and re-
moved to Forest County, where he has
since lived in reduced circumstances.
About the 1st of February last, friends
of Harper in Philadelphia forwarded
him letter, addressed to the old firm
and postmarked San Francisco. Thi.
letter was from the absconding> agent
+. @. Martin. He was in San Francisco
and wrote that he desired to refund ths
money he had taken, and would do SO i
he was given immunity from prosecu
ton. Mr.. Harper started for California
as soon as possible, and met Martin
He had elegant apartments at an aris
tocratic boarding house. His mistress
Mrs. Warren, was still with him, anc
met Mr.. Harper resplendent in Jewels
Martin said that he had sailed at ono,
for Peru When he absconded, and hat
engaged in opening silver mines in tha
country for share of their product
He claimed to be worth $2,OO0,O 900. HI
was in California on business, and in
tended to return to Peru. He paid owe
to Mr.. Harper the amount stated above
He said he had provided for the famil
he left in Baltimore. and they had gon
to England, where his wife's parent
live.
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Luck doth wait, standing idly at the gate
wishing, wishing all the DAY;
And al night, Without FIRE, without light,
And before an empty truy,
Doth rndly say
" Tomorrow something may turn up;
Tonight on wishes must sup"
Labor goes, plowing deep the fertile rows
singing. singing all he day;
And at night, before the FIRE, besides the light,
And with a well-hlled tray,
Doth gladly say:
" Tomorrow Ill turn something up;
Tonight on wages earned sup"
81. Nicholas.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15

The horses of the great street railway
lines of New York labored through the
severe work which the wintry weather
imposed upon them only to become vic
Tins of cerebro spinal meningitis. The
horses attacked were first observed to
become weak in the legs and dizzy, then
unable to stand at all. Not all the
stables of the car lines have been visited
by the disease, but in the stables of a
Brooklyn company thirteen out of forty
attacked have died. The appearance of
the disease is attributed to the change
able spring weather.
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THE FAIR SEX.

WHAT odd heads the ladies must have.
A Paris writer says that ladies will have
bonnets of seventy-two shapes to choose
from this spring.
RocKLAND Courier: The price of
kerosene is coming down, and the plea of
economy will soon have ceased to be an
excuse for girl turning down the lamp,
when her fellow comes to see her.
STATESMEN may argue, philosophers
ponder and mathematicians figure, until
all the universe is hazy with abstruse
chaotic ideas, but they can never bring
back happiness to the heart of the woman
who has lost the first pick at the spring
bonnets.
VELVET bands for the neck and arms,
finished with buckles and bows, are very
tasty, and are often worn, especially with
house dresses. The velvet that is usually
used is about an inch wide. Bows of
bright colored ribbon are greatly worn
with dark dresses, and are a wonderful
improvement. They are made in sets;
a set consists of six bowS-for the sleeves,
pocket, neck, hair, belt. They are fas-
tened on by safety pin, and can easily
be changed from one dress to another.
To the one for the belt IS attached rib
bon, which is worn loosely round the
waist, the bow TO be fastened to the skirt
of the basque at the left side of the back.
a few inches below the waist line.
A NEW style of costume, known as the
Breton bids fair to become quite
popular. A dress which we saw made
in this style was of plum color, vigogne
trimmed with the same color of velvet.
The bodice was plain in front; at the
back was one large plait and several
small ones, the whole fastened together
by wide garniture, each extremity of
which was ornamented with several lows
of fiat smoked pearl buttons. The pocket
was formed simply of bands of velvet to
correspond with the jupon and tunic,
which were trimmed with bands and
pluses. Added to this costume was an
outside jacket for street wear. This con-
sisted of long cuirasse back with vest
front, the latter somewhat shorter than
the jacket. The sleeves and deep turned
down collar were also trimmed with sew
eral rows of buttons.
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A PORTRAIT.
Red apples ia a sleepy orchard,

Red apples ia sleepy orchard,
Whose trees have branches gnarled and tortured
By slow west winds that never cease;
Warm cocks of corn, well-capped and steady,
For moss-hung garners, brown and ready,
Tall tokens of the years increase
Green ily-leaves whose parent river
September winds forget to quiver
In shallow silver pools of peace.
An autumn face, half gray, half rosy,
And futtering like an autumn pesy,
With tlueless strips of fading hair;
firm, sweet mouth, whose utmost bliss is
To drink the iyht of children's kisses,
Half dreaming of the years that were;
Soft looks that melt all eyes that meet her
To something purer, something sweeter,
So kind they are and debonair.
A life whose silent day has wasted,
And left undreamed of and untasted
The fruits Of all extreme cesire;
A matron-life whose seemly fashion
No frantic hopes no scathing passion,
Has worn with tears or scanned with fire.;
A life so calm that when it passes
Its fame must be as breath on glass is,
And in q stainless mist expire.
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AN object of profound admiration is
the Patient Female who languidly stands
in prominent place in public audi
ence, till some gentleman gives her his
own good seat and himself retires to the
back of the room. Such self-forgetful,
ness on her part is separated bya narrow
line from b-ld-z-g,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15

AS appointed by the Pope, two new
Bishops are announced for the United
States-one, the Rev. DIR. John Moore, of
Charleston, to be Bishop of St. Angus
tine, Florida, and the other Dominican
Friar Vinges, of Benicia, to be Coadju.
tor of Bishop o. Connell, of Grass Valley
California.
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A GERMAN has invented a machine
for turning leaves for piano players,
which, says an exchange, will do away
with the ornamental young man. If some
other German would invent a machine
for playing the piano, it would do away
with the ornamental young ladies.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15

A BLUE GLASS chimney on the parlor
lamp will bring a young man up to the
point of proposing to cross-eyed maiden
with store teeth, in three Sunday even
ipgs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15

NORFOLK, Virginia, has become the
second cotton port in the United States.
The advance Of the city in commercial
importance has been very rapid.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15

THERE is drank in London annually
ninety million gallons of ale and porter,
and three million gallons of gin.
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WHEN trade grew slack and notes fell
due, the merchants face grew long and
blue: his dreams were troubled through
the night with sheriff's baiiiffs all in
sight. At last his wife unto him said,
"Rise up at once-get out of bed /; and
get your paper, ink and pen, and say
these words unto all men: My
goods l wish to sell to you, and
to your wives and daughters,
too; my prices are so very low that all
will buy before they co." He did as by
his wife advised, and in the papers ad-
vertised. Crowds came and bought off
all he had; his notes were paid, his
dreams were glad; and he will tell you
to this day how we'll did printers ink
repay. He told us, with knowing
wink, how he was saved by printers ink.
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PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

STRONG BUTTER-A billy goat.
THE man who takes the most interest
in his business-The money-lender.
The "blue glass must be a ham@o-
pathic remedy, on the principle that
panes will cure pains.
some of the hotel walters remind one
of the millennium, they are such good
time coming.
THE annual egg product of Maine is
estimated to be worth at least half
million of dollars.
THE three things most difficult are
to keep secret, to forget an injury, and
to make good use of labor.
LANGUAGE is the amber in which
thousand precious thoughts have been
safely imbedded and preserved.
GOLD, Notwithstanding it continues to
go down lower and lower according to re-
ports, will never get so low but some per-
sons will stoop for it.
WORRIED mothers may be interestedin in
learning that the shingle cure is the best
remedy for boy whose tooth begins to
ache about fifteen minutes before school
time.
STRAWBERRIES have appeared but
the best way to cook beans is to bake
them in porous earthen pot. placing
piece of fat pork in the top so that it
may trickle down and hug the beans.
A WESTERN political organ that in
quires "where are we drifting?" is in
formed that from the character and Ian
guage of the article, the average reader
would suppose it was in the common
sewer.
ENTERING the house of one of his
congregation, Rowland Hill saw a child
on rocking horse. "Dear me-" ex-
claimed the aged minister, chow WON
drously like some Christians there is
motion but no progress"
On coming for the first time from
wretched garret in an inland manufac-
turning town to the sea-shores, a poor
woman gazing at the ocean, said: L am
glad for once in my life to see something
which there is enough Off
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Haunted 6y a TeEt.
MOODY in Boston,


Twenty years ago was a wild and
reckless young man in the town of which
I have been speaking, Mortified, and
was working in field with a man, and
he was weeping. And asked him why
he was weeping, and he told me very
strange story, which sounded strange
then, because | was not Christian. He
said when he was a young man (he was
then in middle Gfe) he started out from
that town to make his fortune, and, as
he left, his mother gave him this text,
"Seek first the kingdom of God"
He forgot all about the text, but went
from one town to another, but got moth
ing to do. He was very anxious to get
money. After he had been away from
home some time, he went into a church
and the minister preached from the text
which his mother gave him. The passage
went deep into his heart, but he was
seeking after money and didn't want to
be Christian. Finding nothing to do
in that town, he went to another, and
then another; and it wasn't long before
ne u6dIu duOlu6I StIuuUu 1IOlu tuC SouC
text and it troubled him very much.
But he didn't want to become a Christian,
and thought he would get rich faster
without having Christ, and thought he
would put off the question until he got
settled in life-just as great many peo-
pie in this building no doubt think.
Finally, he said he wouldn't seek the
kingdom of God till he got a position in
life. Then, with tears trickling down
his face, he said God had given him some
property, but no sermon ever touched his
heart since. After l became a Christian
1 thought would go and see that man,
and found that he had been taken to an
insane asylum, and while there he would
keep repeating the text, " Seek first the
kingdom of God" The next time went
home found him ~ his farm house. He
was idiotic. He didn't know me, but
reached out his finger and said, Young
man, Seek first the kingdom of God"
The text had followed him al through
life. The next time went home l found
he was buried.
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Sdgacity of a Gahder.
TTorsnto Globe.J

A correspondent informs us that in
the village of Droyton a grain buyer
several weeks ago saved a gander from
two dogs who were acting rudely to-
ward him, and ever since he has shown
the greatest affection for his protector
in fact, he never leaves him while in the
market, and if he enters store or other
place of business, the gander will re
main outside the door until his guardian
comes out, and always greets him with
kindness, which he shows by making a
great noise, tapping his wings, wagging
his tail and following him wherever he
goes. He is the observed of all observers,
and is certainly curiosity. He can be
seen every day in the village following
his protector from door to door. The
perceptive faculties of the gander are
remarked by everybody, and particu.
larly by strangers, as he will perceive
his protector in the morning as he comes
to business, several blocks away, and
will Immediately fly to him with every
demonstration of joy.
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THE BABY.

Full short his journey was no dust
OF earth unto his sandals clave;
The weary weight that old men must
He bore not to the grave.
He seemed cherub who had lost his way
And wandered htther so his stay
With US was short, and twas most meet
That he should be No deliver in earth's clod,
Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet
To stand before his God.
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They are never alone that are ac-
companied with noble thoughts.