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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-19
Hogs in California.

Stockton (Cal) Independent /
The tule lands of this county are ev-
erywhere inhabited by droves of hogs
that have doubtless originally been
propagated for domestic stock, which
have escaped into the jungle and have
become as wild as the famous game in
Testing the Black Forest, the hunting of
which affords so much amusement to the
German nobility. They live and thrive
on the succulent roots to be found in the
tules, and appear moderately fat when
ever they are seen. They are exceed
ingly shy, however, and it is only by ac-
cident that one catches glimpse of
them, as they instinctively avoid the
haunts of men. They are trapped and
caught occasionally in ingenious man.
ner by the tule farmers, who build small
but very strong corrals or pens on their
stamping ground. A heavy gate, made
to drop perpendicularly, is fitted so as to
close the corral when down. This is
raised and held by trap, to which a
string leading to the ground is attached.
| Barley is then scattered on the ground
inside the corral, and in continuous lines
for some distance in different directions
The corral having been built over the
trails of the hogs, they are not long
scenting the barley, and once inside the
corral they can scarcely fail to spring
the trap in eating the barley. A drove
of a dozen or more has before now been
captured in this manner. The young
ones are easily domesticated, but the pc
ones are slaughtered at once.
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Sagacity of a Connecticut Dog.

IUnionvilIe Comm Letter to Hartford Times.l
Our neighbor Chauncey Hart has a
dog that is remarkable for his apparent
knowledge of the English language, if
his owners statement is true-and as to
his veracity there is no question. Mr..
Hart is blacksmith by trade, and has
an acre or so of land which he cultivates,
and during the season of hoeing he rises
at about four o'clock in the morning to
subdue the weeds. His dog is always
with him. When the time arrives for
making fire to prepare the morning
meal, Mr.. Hart goes into the house,
makes fire, and says to the dog: "Go
call your mistress" He goes immedi-
ately to the bedroom and wakes her.
will pull the clothes off the bed, and will
not leave until she gets up. If Mr.. Hart
sees a pack-peddler coming he says to
the dog: " Carlo, there is a pack-peddler
coming" He will start off at once, and
prevent his coming on to the premises.
On another occasion Mr.. Hart walked
over to a neighbor's house just as the
neighbor came home with some bones
he had procured for his chickens, and
threw them out of the wagon. Carlo
| got one of them and brought it near
where they were talking. When Mr.
Hart saw it he said: "Carlo, that bone
doesn't belong to you; go carry it back
where you found it, and go home.
Carlo carried the bone back to the place
where he got it, trotted off fabout ten rods
towards home and sat down, waiting fol
his master. The neighbor also had {
dog about the same size that was in hear
ing. Seeing Carlo where he had sa
down, the other dog picked up the bon,
and carried it within a few feet of Carlo
there he laid it down and came back
little way. After waiting a while anc
seeing that Carlo did not take it, h
placed it little nearer, and came bacl
as before, and waited for Carlo to tax
it, but Carlo would not. The third tim
the bone was placed nearer-very clos
to him this time-but he would no
touch it, but sat there until Mr.. Har
went home. When he came up to wher
the dog was sitting he said: "Carlc
you may have that bone now." TIL
dog Immediately picked itup and carrie
it home. Nothing was said to either do
but the order to carry back the bone
But both dogs seemed to know what wa
} said, and the visited dog was determine
that Carlo should accept the proffere
bone as a pledge of friendship and as
, hospltable entertainment.
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Fighting Among the Clouds.

In marching from Alexandropol to
the passes of the Soughanlu Range,
where Mukhtar Pasha's army was posted,
the main column of the Russian army
advanced about one hundred and five
miles in two months. Alexandropol lies
at an elevation of 5,079 feet above the
sea, and Kars, forty-four miles distant,
is about one thousand feet higher.
Erzeroum lies one hundred and twenty
nine miles southwest of Kars, at an
elevation of 6,400 feet above the sea.
Half way between Kars and Erzeroum
are the crests of the Soughanlu, rising to
a height of $500 feet. The district be-
tween Bardess and Zewin, where the two
armies were encamped, is between $500
and 5000 feet above the sea. These
mountain defiles defended the best road
in Armenia; for beyond Zewin and
Khorasan the Russians could have
pressed forward without difficulty. They
could not capture those impregnable
passes their hope was thatthe left wing,
by advancing from Toprak-Keleh toward
the Koprikoi, would compel Mukhtar
Pasha to retire and leave the road open
! for the Russian center.
| Toprak-Kaleh, where the Russian left
wing halted before the recent engage
ments, is $500 feet above the sea. Be
tween this point and the river Aras are
the spurs of the Araratrange, over 1000
feet higher than the Soughanlu Noun
tains. The mountains near Zeidekan,
where the first battle was fought, rise to
to height of II, ,276 feet. At tDelibaba,
where the Turks achieved their sue,
cesses, the mountain passes are 9, 400 feet
high. The road on these mountains is
impossible for two-wheeled carts. From
Toprak-Kaleh there is a tolerable road
leading across mountains $500 feet high
to Kaghisman and thence to Ardost and
Kars. This was the only road by which
the Russians could send reinforcements
to the left wing when it was attacked by
the Turks in strong force, and it is the
only road by which this column can re
treat if its communications with Bayazit
are cut off.
| The Russian right wing, which cap
tured Ardahan and advanced to Olti
did not cooperate effectively with tn,
central column. The explanation is yer,
simple: The road is scarcely more thai
!, bridle-path, and not available for mil
itary operations. The same may be salt
of the road from Batoum to Erzeroum
along the Chowk-Su, and also of tn
southern or Meschingerd branch of tn
road between Kars and Khorasan
Meschingerd is $3.50 feet above the sea
and Geshevan is still higher, 10, 80 feet
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COnsumptiyes Cured.
New York sun. ]


A little million of sparrows chirped
and fitted to and fro among the iron
girders of the roof of the Thirty fourth
Street Market, the other day, as the re-
porter walked through it searching for
the abattoir and the blood-dlinkers that
are said to frequent it. Frank Houston,
a butcher employed by Phil. Dolan,
rested from slaughtering, and the re-
porter asked him whether people ever
came to the market to drink blood.
"To be sure they do, the butcher re-
piled. every many men and women
drink blood for their health. L haven't
seen any here for three or four weeks !;
but last fall and last winter we had
many, and they came regularly every
morning. They were mainly con-
sumptives. 1 saw more in the slaughter
house in Forty-sixth Street where
worked last than I have seen here.
They were all consumptives. l don't
know whether it's the blood or their
imagination that does them good, but
whichever it is, they certainly get bet
ter I don't know any of those who
come here, but many of them are
wealthy people who come in their car,
riages. I knew one fellow who got
cured. He had not been doing anything
| for two years-he was so bad with con
sumption; but he got better and better
drinking blood, and finally he was able
to go to work again"
"Was it hard work that he went at ?
the reporter asked.
"N-n-no," the butcher replied, limo
Gently; he went to tending barr
"These drinkers always come in thu
morning." the butcher continued, "anC
they always bring their own tumblers
Does blood taste bad? Well, I CUES
not. It's like fresh, warm milk, onl,
sweeter and warmer. We butcher
often drink it. I drink it myself an'
imagine it does me good"
A butcher employed by William Fitcl
told the reporter of young man name'
Garvey who had consumption, and dram
blood for it until he was cured. Th
butcher knew only one other blood
drinker by name Mrs. Courtlan
Palmer, widow of the late owner of tn
great market. She was benefited by il
The reporter was shown little gil
who had been stripped of her clothin
and was standing in a barrel filled to he
} chin with the partially digested content
} of the stomachs of newly-killed cattl'
The butchers said she was suffering frol
| scrofulous sore on her back, and th
cure lay in the medical properties of th
gastric juice in the fodder.
"Men, women and children ofte
come here" a butcher said, /" to cul
rheumatism, sores, and even palsy, b
putting their hands and arms or feet {
legs into the stomachs of fresh-kille
cows"
One butcher told of the custom TIL
Italians have of wrapping the melt of
cows stomach next to their skin fl
the cure of internal injuries, rheum
tism or consumption.
We don't take any money from al
one," said one of the butchers, " for fe
e it will spoil the cure"
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TOPICS FOR THE FARM
Cisterns for Cider-I noticed 50

Cisterns for Cider.-I noticed some
time since, says correspondent OF the
Country Gentleman, an inquiry as to the
feasibility of using a cement vat or els
tern for holding cider. l will give my
experience: / built vat in my cellar of
Rosendale cement and stone, using the
cellar wall for three sides of the vat !; the
fourth side was solid stone and cement
ten inches thick, with repeated coats OF
strong cement over all the inside. This
was allowed to remain two years before
using, and was as hard as cement could
be. The cider was put in, several bar
rels at time sweet from the press, until
the vat was full. Fermentation con-
tinued while I kept adding fresh cider;
then it seemed to cease entirely, and the
cider very soon became fiat, acquiring a
disagreeable taste. 1t also began to set
tie away, and the wet earth at the bot
tom next the outside wall showed that
| it was working through the cement. 1t
even oozed through the ten-inch wall of
| solid cement and cobble stone. l re-
moved all but abouta barrel of the cider,
putting it into wooden casks, where it
| has undergone a second fermentation
and is in a fair way to make vinegar.
The cider that was left in the vat has
been growing lower and blacker all the
while. The cement on the sides that
was once hard can now be scraped of
with ease. am satisfied that the acid
in the cider, and the lime in the cement
counteract each other. Each destroys
the life of the other. Cement will not
hold cider, and if it did it would spoil it.
Soap Making.-A lady says in the
Western Farm Journal: The task OF
soap-making may be very much light
ened by dispensing with the boiling OF
soap, and l think the soap much whittier
and nicer made cold. To make it, take
-fourths of pound of clear grease
to one gallon of lye. Heat the grease
and I've separate. Pour the grease int
the barrel, then the lye, stirring well
Set the barrel in the sun. Stir severa
times through the day. Cover at night
The lye should be strong enough to bea
common sized egg to the surface-no
out or above it.
The heating of the lye and grease ma,
be omitted, but it takes longer to max
and is not so easily stirred.
To those who live in coal-burnin
regions, and who cannot get wood ashes
/ will say that 1 have used white potasl
in the same way with good success. On
) year l had more grease than | coul
} make with what ashes had, and havin
a small quantity of strong lye when m
barrel was filled, left unused, l boile
the balance of my grease init justenoug
? to eat it; then made it up with concer
7 trated lye according to directions o
, packages. The result was excellent sol
soap, which l afterward made into
prime article of hard white soap, by sti
e ring salt into the warm soap until tn
r lye and soap separated, then cutting int
4 blocks and drying. l had before use
S the concentrated lye alone, but with
r poor, curdling soap as the result.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-19

factory are the usual ways of disposing
of broom that the inventive Yankee
has taken up the matter, and patented
broom-holders are offered for sale to
housekeepers. But one need not wait
for the vender of the Patent Broom
holder" to come along; just put two
wooden pins into the wall about two
inches apart, to admit the handle be-
tween and allow the broom part to rest
upon them, and you will not need to
buy, as you have as good broom-holder
| as can be invented
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Sheep Dip.-RuruL Neac Yorker:

Sheep Dip.-Rural Neao Yorker: We
receive many letters during the year ask
ing for information in regard to destroy
ing ticks and scab ON sheep. These pests
are very injurious and no flock can long
remain profitable if infested with such
vermin, as every shepherd knows to his
cost. Tobacco has been the great remedy
for many years, but lately the great in
secticides carbolic and cresylic acids
have come into almostgeneral use, being
both safe and in a form for immediate
use, which cannot be said of the old
kinds of sheep-dip, especially those in
which very. caustic liquids were used.
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THE HUSBANDMAN.

Give fools their gold and knaves their power,
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows field or trains flower,
Or plants q tree is more than all.
For he who blesses most is blest,
And God and man shall own his worth
Who tolls to leave at his bequest
An added beauty to the earth.
And, soon or late, to all that SOW
The time of harvest shall be given;
The flower shall bloom, the fruit shall grow,
If not on earth, at last in heaven?
john G. Whittier
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The Ill Luck of Northampton, Mass.

For peaceful old country town the
record of Northampton, Mass, for the
past half dozen years makes a most
amazing story. Back in 1870 the place
bonded itself Tor sii111, 900 to aid the never
built Massachusetts, Central Road. This
is reckoned a dead loss, and the total
payment, interest and all, will be 5000
600 before the debt is extinguished. In
that year the Edwards church was
burned, with loss of $4,000 above in
surance In 1874 was the Mill River
disaster by which fifty-one lives were
| lost, great deal of damage done to man
ufacturing establishments, several in
dustries driven away, and $4,000 worth
of town property lost. Then the town
had to pay $4,000 for the freeing of
Hadley bridge and $4,000 for that at
South Hadley Falls. Then came the
financial panic which has produced not
less than 100000 of failure there, in
Guiding one company whose capital of
$500, 900 has been wiped out. Then the
old bank was robbed of about 81 100000
and the old church, the pride of the
place, was burned. Now the Hadley
bridge has been carried off by tornado
Every injurious influence either of design
or accident-malice, ignorance, fire
wind and water-seems to have beer
spent upon the devoted town. By actua
computation it is reckoned that two
thirds of the amount of the grand lis
has been lost there in six years. 4e
the people are as far as ever from givin.
up. Manufacturing companies re-organ
ize, the Mill River dam is to be built a
once, and hope flows perennial.
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Maize Flour Toilet Soap
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JACKSON'S BEST
SWEET NAVY CHEWING TOBACCO

Was awarded the highest prize at Centennial Ex-
lence and lasting character of its sweetening and
favoring. Ifyou want the best tobacco ever made
ask your grocer for this, and see that each plIg
sons Best " on it. Sold wholesale by all tobbers
Send for sample to C. A. JACKSON 6 Gu man
ufsacturers, PelersburE, Va.
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The old gentleman who spent a for
tune in endeavoring to hatch colts from
horse-chestnuts is now cultivating the
eggplant with view of raising chickens
from it.
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"It Dis..grees Hi1h Me ;.

common remark. If you fake TUTT's Pills vol
can eat anything you like, and feel no bad effects
They act specifically the liver, stomach and bow.
els, causing free flow of gastric juice which is es
sential to good digestion
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THIS is the way the Turkish soldiers
look, as seen on the march near the
Danube: The soldiers looked very
wretched in their shabby and ragged
uniforms of coarse, discolored woolen
cloth, and most of them had their legs
wrapped up in dirty felt, tied with
strings, and wore goatskin sandals instead
of shoes and boots; but their polished
rifles shone brightly in the hot sun, and
the threatening, dark gray insolent eyes,
under bushy brows, gave the bronzed
square-built fellows peculiar expression
of energetic wildness. 1t is only fail
to conclude from their very aspect that
they are resolute enough in heart to risk
their lives for the Sultan and their faith
Unhappily for them, it is well known
that their superior officers are, on the
whole, either a set of old, ignorant fel
lows, bent on plundering their private,
rather than on doing any useful service
or young, naughty and impudent favor
ties, whose civilization consists principally
of an extraordinary aptitude for swal
lowing strong liquors or for indulging il
vicious pleasures.
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1877. NEW YORK.

TIE Sun continues to be the strenuous advocate of
reform and retrenchment, and of the substitution
of statesmanship, wisdom, and integrity for hollow
pretence imbecility, and fraud in the administra-
ton of public affairs. 1t contends for the govern
ment of the people ty the people aud for the people,
as opposed to government by frauds in the ballot
box and in the counting of votes, enforced by mill
tary violence. 1t endeavors TO supply its readers
a body now not far from million ofsouls-with the
most careful, complete, and trustworthy accounts
of current events, and employs for this purpose a
numerous and carefully selected staff and
correspondents. Its reports from Washington, es
pecialIy, are FULL accurate, and fearless; and it
doubtless continues deserve and enjoy the hatred
of those who thrive by plundering the Treasury or
BY usurping what the law does not give them. while
it endeavors to merit the confidence of the public by
defending the rights of the people against the en-
croachments of unjustihed power
The price Of the daily SUN is IS cents month, or
$3.50 a year, t-paid CT, with the Sunday edi'
tion. S7.7O year.
The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, SI.2O q
year, post tpaid.
THE WEEKLY SUN, eight pages of Sc broad columns
is furnished at 81 year, postpaid.
SPECIAL NoTIcE.-In order to introduce THE Sur
more widely to the public, we will send THf
WEEKL LY edition for the remainder of the year, tt
January l, Is7s postpaid for Half Dollar. Try it
Address, THE SUN, New York City.
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GLEANLNGS FROM THE MUSE.
LOVE AND DEATH.

"Now, who can take from US what we have
known
We that have looked into each others eyes?
Though lowering night should blacken all the
skies,
The day is ours, and what the day has shown.
What we have seen and been, hath this not grown
Part Of our very selves? We, made love-wise,
What power shall slay our steadfast memories,
And who shall take from what is our own"
SO when shade Of the last parting fell,
This thought gave peace, as one deep comfort
hath,
Who, thirsting drinks cool waters from well.
But, sudden I saw that spirit without breath,
That body bodiess, that invisible
Maker Of visible woe; looked on Death!
We know not where they tarry who have died.
The gate wherein they entered il made fast:
No living mortal hath one who passed
Hither from out that darkness deep and wide.
We build on faith and some less bold have cried,
" Behold the butterhyi--the seed that's cast!'
Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast
What man can look on Death unterrihed?
Who love can never die They are part
OF all that lives beneath the summer sky;
With the worlds living soul their souls are one:
Nor shall they In wide nature be undone
And lost In the general life. Each separate hear
Shall live, and find its own, and never die
" The Old Cabinet" Scribner for July.
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In order to live justly and be re-
spected, we must refrain from doing
what we blame in others.
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Trouble i'm the Household.

We would advise every one interested not
to buy Yeast or Baking Powders, loose or
in bulk. They are usually made by unskill-
full persons, and have frequently proven
totally unfit for use. There is no guarantee
or responsibility attached to loose powder.
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is always put up
in. cans, warranted full weight, and abso-
lutely pure.
AFTER an experience of over twenty-five
years, many leading physicians acknowledge
that the GRAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLICoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENBERG VEGETABLE
PILLS, the most popular remedy of the day for
biliousness, headache, liver complaint and
diseases of digestion. Sold by all druggists.
Send for almanacs. Grafenberg Co., New
York,
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PHILADELPHIA Press: The Channel
tunnel, which is to connect France with
England, may have rival. NJ. st.
Hume, French constructor, proposes to
bridge the English channel. The space
from shore to shore is twenty-one miles,
reckoning from Cape Grisnez to Folke-
stone. Midway between is a solid bank
of chalk and gravel, on which, it is
claimed, the engineers can firmly build
not only the piers of their bridge, but
even harbor of refuge for ships in dis
tress. The scheme is regarded with
favor in france, but ridiculed in Eng
land, and, comparing the cost, there is
said to be difference of many millions
in favor of the open-air or daylight
route from London to Paris.
NEW YORK LETTER: Our ladies are
very gay this season. The bobtail Goa
of the Seventh seems to be the model fol
sacks; the sun umbrella chained to thu
side answers for a sword; broad golt
stripes adorn the shoulders and bosom
Altogether the appearance is glaring ant
| lOud
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CHEW
The Celebrated
" "MATCHLESS !"
Wood Tag Plug
TORACC0

PONDS EXTRACT for over twenty-five
years has been recognized in medical writ
ings as the great specific for Pain, Conges-
tions, Piles or any Soreness.
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VECETlNE
Prepared by H,R. Stevens, Boston, Mass,

NXyHEN WRITING To ADvERTISERS.
w pIease ssy that you AaW khe adverttsSs
nAeaa AA this paper
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Pimples and HumOrs OH
the Face.
Dyspepsia.

vEGETISE has restored thousands TO health
have been long and painful sufferers.
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yrcErtNE acts directly upon the causes OF tn
COMPLAINTS. 1t inVigorates and strengthens the VII
system, acts upon the secrotive organs and alAys
nammStion.
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FaintnesS at the Stomach

IfVEeErINE is taken regularly, according to dire
tions, certain and speedy cure Will follow It's use.
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Female Weakness.

vsssrISE Is not stimulating hitters which creates
fictitious appetite, hut gentle tonic wheh assists