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Maxims for Young Man.

Always speak the truth.
Make few promises.
Keep good company or none.
Live up to your engagements.
Never gamble.
Drink no Intoxicating liquors.
Never speak lightly of religion.
Be just before you are generous.
Never be idle.
If your hands cannot be usefully en-
ployed, attend to the cultivation of the
mind.
When you speak to any person look
him in the face.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue.
Good character is above all things
else.
Never listen to idle or loose conversa-
ton.
Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
If any one speaks evil of you let your
life be so virtuous that no one will be-
lieve him.
Ever live misfortune excepted) within
your income.
When you retire to bed think over
what you have done during the day.
Make no haste to be rich if you would
prosper.
Never run in debt unless you see way
to get out again.
Never borrow if it is possible to
avoid it.
Keep yourself innocent if you would
be happy.
Save when you are young and spend
when your are old.
Never think that which YOU do for re.
| ligion is time or money misspent.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17
A Panther in the Chimney.

The following thrilling adventure is
abridged from the Ohio Farmer, and was
written by the lady who was the chief
witness of the scene. Her father was
one of the early settlers in the pine
forests of Minnesota. One afternoon,
near evening, but some time before he
was expected home from work, the
daughter was attending to some chores
outside when suddenly she heard pan
ther scream and leap from tree; and
she fed into the house. What followed
is best described in her own words:
There was a pan of fresh meat frying
upon the hearth, and it may be that the
asimal was attracted by the odor. for
after walking several times around the
house he climbed upon it and went to
the chimney, which, as l have said be-
fore, was large and wide. He paused
moment, snufing the odors that rose to
his nostrils, and then, after uttering an
other of those cries for which the PAN
ther is noted, he began descending the
chimney. Our faces were already
blanched with terror, but when we
realized that he was really coming,
pieces of falling mortar which he was
Ioosening, our feelings may not be de-
scribed.
Quick as thought Isnatched the straw
bed from its place and emptied it upon
the fire, not in such quantities as to
smother the blaze, but loosely so that in
an instant the whole chimney was filled
with fame.
There was the most doleful and piteous
howl in the chimney, and in moment
more the animal dropped upon the
hearth and rolled upon the floor. Mother
seized the two younger children and
sprang upon the table, and grandmother
grasped the next one and vaulted to the
farther side of the bed with an agility
that was perfectly surprising considering
ber sixty-fve years. Seeing the rest
perched away, l stepped into a high
chair used at table by the younger
children and stood there surveying the
scene.
I seized the ak and aimed blow at
the creatures neck, but he did not
remain lNlet enough to give me an accu-
rate aim, and l only succeeded in cut
ting his shoulder. Round and round
the room he went, bowling and whining,
while l followed him with the ak, strik-
ing a blow whenever l could get near
enough, but fully determined oput him
out of misery.
In the midst of this horrible din there
was loud halloo at the door, and a
tremendous knocking for admittance. and
l knew father had come home. Mother
reached from the table to unbar the
door, but as she pushed back the bar
she lost her balance and upset the table
with its precious load upon the floor just
as father opened the door and entered
upon the indescribable scene.
The animal crouched down upon the
floor for moment, uttering a sound re-
sembling a cat in pain and anger, when
by well-directed stroke almost severed
his head from his body, and in few mo-
ments he had ceased to suffer.
The astonished father had his gun in
his hand, but he had no occasion to use
it. His daughter had saved the family
alone. Such nerve and courage in a
young lady could hardly be found out
side Of backwoods life and scenes of from
| tier life.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

BUTTER was in use four thousand years
ago. Some of the original stock appears
to have held over.
A TEXAS stage robber has been caught,
and has employed a lawyer, who was one
of his latest victims, to defend him.
LAST charge of the proprietors of the
Southern Hotel, according to the chi
cago Times "To fire in room, fifty
cents"
SPRINKLE, sprinkle little cart; how 1
wonder where thou art. Come and lay
this fearful dust, ere our lungs fill up
and bust.
AN itinerant photographer down in
Maine, held a woman's baby as security
while she went out to raise fifty cents
for its picture.
AT Eau Claire, Wis, little girl two
years old was shot by her brother, aged
four years, who found his fathers re-
volver, and tried it just for fun.
HOTEL proprietors object to furnish
They fear that some of their boarders
might slip off leaving unpaid bills be-
hind.
FIVE miners who were imprisoned
eight days in Welsh mine by an ex-
plosion, were rescued alive. Four others
who were with them have not been
found.
New YORK Graphic; If you 60 to the
| hotel where Kate Claxton is registered,
you had better 60 down and sleep in the
umbrella rack, where you can get out
easily.
A CELEBRATED poet advertised that
he would supply lines for any occasion;
| A fisherman sought him soon after, and
wanted "a line strong enough to catch a
porpoise
| 1T sounds like romance to read that
over one hundred handsome American
girls broke through the ice last winter,
were rescued, and have married their
rescuers.
A CINCINNATI boy, who played
"Daniei in the lions den a few days
ago with four dogs, has had seventeen
holes burnt in bis legs with lunar caustic,
to prevent hydrophobia.
| BEFORE the war the States of Missis-
sippi and Alabama were the largest cot
ton-producing regions of the South, but
neither one ever exceeded the $50, 900
bales produced by Texas last year.
IT is proposed in France to supply
slabs of gun cotton as part of the cavalry
equipment to be carried in a sort of waist
belt, and used, if necessary, for the de-
struction of railways, stockades, etc.
MAGGIE WOODS, child of four-and-a-
half years, recently arrived safely in
Stockport, England, having made the
journey from Chicago, without any care
but that of the railroad and steamboat
employees.
MEMS feeling are always purest and
most glowing in the hour of meeting
and of farewell like the glaciers, which
are transpar mt and rosy-hued only at
sunrise and sunset, but throughout the
day gray and cold.
ORPHEUs G.. KERR tells in the GrapAit
how purely legitimate business transac
tions are consummated: "You are g
legislator. Will you vote for this bill
Let me see your jaekknife. / will give
you $4,000 for that knife"
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a ROMAN PICTURE
by MARY LOWE DICKINSON.

Close 10 the window I wheel my chair,
In the afternoon, when my work Is done,
To Get my breath Of the scented air,
To take my share OF the Roman sun,
The air that over yon moesy wall
Brings me the sweetness Of orange bloom,
The sun whose going carries us all
Out Of glory into gloom.
Calm in the light @the waning day,
And peaceful. the convent garden lies;
There, on the hillside cold and gray,
The frowning walls and the old towers rise;
To and fro In the winds soft breath
The bending ivy sways and swings;
To and fro on the slope beneath
Tne Roman pine its shadow hings.
To and fro the white clouds drift
Over the old roof gray with moss,
Over the s7ulptured saints that lift
Each 10 the say bis marble cross.
Over the stern old belfry tswer
Where, from It's prison house Of stone,
A pae-faced clock marks hour by hour
The chgnges that tho years have shown.
Free glad birds his prison share,
White doves In this old tower dwell,
No, for them tue call 70 prayer.
Not for them the warning bell.
As they fit above the caves,
How their whits wings catch the sun
While below through orange leaves
Cleans the white cap Of the nun.
spJtless kcrchiei, gown Of gray,
Forehead WRAPPED in band Of white
These must labor. watch and pray,
These must keep the cross in sight;
These are they VINO walk apart,
Who, with purpose undsfled,
Seek 10 Gil a woman's heart
Without home or love or child.
Ia II true that many hands
FIND that rosary a chain
True that meath those snowy bands
Throb full oft, q restless brain?
Trus that simple robe 81 gray
Covers oft troubled brefst7
True that pain aud PASSIONS sway
Enters even to this rest p?
True that at their holiest shrine,
In their hours Of greatest good,
Comes To them a voice divine
OF q sweeter wOmanhoOd
IL may be-how eaH tell
VINO, outside the garden wall,
Only hear the convent bell,
Only zee the shadows fall 2
The Galdzy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17

The wars of this century have been
the most bloody and costly since the
palmy days of Rome and Greece For its
ten great bloody periods, viz, the Ma
poleonic, Grecian, Crimean, Italian,
Danish, Austrian (1S66), Brazilian
American, Abyssinian, and Franco
German wars leaving out minor ex-
petitions and skirmishes-the figures
foot up $3S, S,967, 100000 expended, and
11,7OS,60O men destroyed from 1900 to
1871. Two-thirds of this aggregate out
lay of men and money are to be charged
on the ledger to Napoleon l up to his
closing battle fought at Waterloo,
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one of the flannel things hanging on his
back, and dashed out Of the right door,
while the company screamed and
pounded their knees and gasped for
breath and howled and declared that they
should die, they knew they should.
And that's the way the match was
broker IF, or rather, was never made.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17

The greatest loss of life from fire in a
public building during the present CEN
tury was in church at Santiago, Chill,
December s, 1862. 1t was in the even
ing, and the building was crowded by
more than three thousand persons. The
church was festooned by gauze drapery,
and illuminated by thousands of lights.
Suddenly a transparency on the altar
caught fire, and the whole instantly be-
came mass of flame. The church had
but one door that could be reached by
the panic-stricken multitude, and that
opened to the inside. 1t was horrible.
In less than fifteen minutes about two
thousand persons, mostly women and
children, persisted. Tue Legislature of
Chill, after this disaster, passed an act
prohibiting illuminations of churches,
and requiring a sufficient number OF
doors of egress in every public building
to secure the speedy safety of an audi
| ence.
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THE following is attributed to Beecher

" Men and women, before marriage, are
as figures and ciphers. The woman is
the cipher ami counts for nothing till
she gets the figure of husband beside
her, when she becomes of importance
herself and adds ten fold to the sum of
his But this, it must be observed, oc-
ours only when she gets and remains on
the right side of him, for when she shifts
from this position he returns to his
lesser estate, and she to her original in
significance"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17
In THE SUNSHINE.
BY ROSE STANDIsH.


Ny cottage is low-browed and homely,
But my windows are brave with bloom,
And the opulent sun pours his riches
Into my narrow room
Wide open [ throw my lattice
And out fly sorrow and gloom.
our mansion, my lady, is stately
And grand as potentate's,
While fortune, with hands o'erbrimming.
On your lightest caprices waits
And slaves TO your idlest fancies
And all within your gates.
Your windows with costliest drapings
Are shaded-the veriest tomb
Is your grand salon, where the sunshine
Never pierces the sitting gloom
Where the spirit of darkness sits brooding,
And robs you of beauty and bloom.
Oh 1 envy you not my lazy,
With your small world at your feet
You may riot in splendor and pleasure,
But give me the sunshine sweet,
That makes of my cottage palace,
For kingly presence meet.
Boston TduscTiDk
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17

SOMEBODY who saw Edward s. Stokes
lately in a theater writes as follows to
the Chicago Inter Ocean: His nearly
five years of prison life have seemingly
told but very little upon him. There is
that same defiant expression which shot
out, so to speak, from his features when
he stood in the crowded Courtroom He
looked round upon the audience with a
cool unconcern, and whenever he en-
countered eyes staring at him he re-
turned the stare with good interest"
UNCOMMON hard ON him-Tddy
Lavender: Weally, now, hadn't
bettaw-haw-see you 'cwoss the COM
mon2 No? You're not afwaid of dom
keys?' Lady friend: Thanks, no, not at
all, though of course Pm quite too aw-
fully glad to get rid of them" (Tiddy's
twenty y-minutes-aiter reflection): Now
-haw-what the deuce did she mean by
that"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17
Remarkable Snipe.ShOOting.


He was a long, loosely-jointed red
faced man dressed in great yellow shoot
ing-sui. of corduroy, and he entered the
smoking cabin of Courtlandt-street
ferry boat with an easy, careless step.
His face was covered with stubby
growth of beard, and his hair was gin
ger colored and matted. He bore upon
his shoulders double-barreled bird-gun,
and he led by strong cord a dirty, yell
low, Jersey cur. He took his seat by the
door, and after kicking his dog under
the bench, folded his coat-collar above
his chin and looked grimly around the
cabin. Every body looked at him, but
nobody could guess what his ultimate
intentions were. Just as the boat splashed
out into the stream jolly German in a
snuff colored garb, rolled gracefully
through the cabin and dropped into a
seat near the man with the dog and gun.
He espied the hunter.
"Snipe @'
"Yes," was the surly answer.
"Well, Pll tell you wot; snipe is al
mighty thick around Jersey now. They
say Jersey is aboud covered over with
snipe."
"Is that so7" the hunter broke in as be
shifted his position. "Well, 1 guess Pm
the man that can git as many snipe in a
day as any one. Pll tell you what Pve
done many a time, if | do say it; and
yer can allus find me if Pm liar. !
shot three hundred and nineteen of them
in day, and Pd had a dozen more but
my dorg got after heron an chased hel
into a DANCED old mud puddle an got
drowned; otherwise, whar would l ma
ended :? I think I'd a skinned Jersey
from Sandy Hook, of all her snipe. Or
that very day atore ther dorg got stuck
in ther mud, he caught snipe himself
treed her, by CORY, and killed her. An
if / don't then -
Everyone stared at the story-teller un
til the German slowly arose and said
"Mine friend, dot is a ferry good story
but l will tell you one dot is so much
peter as dot is goot. Listen hafe {
leetle yaller cat dot is not much smallel
dan dat ar dorg. But she's hooper. d.
oder morning l heard a terrible racke
in the back yard, an l vent oud for te
see vat it was aboud, an vot der We
dinks / saw all in de gleemer?"
"Well, l don't know suppose moth
ing"
Nothings, nothings, yer say? Well,
tole yer. There was dot leetle yaller ca
of mine sitting in dot yard, und in he
jaws vas dot yaller dorg of yours an de
same snipe."
The man in corduroy slowly arose ant
walked out on deck.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17

AMONG other suggestive designs en-
graved on wedding rings is that of a
SPIDERS web with fly in it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17

MANY physicians claim that the gen.
eral prevalence of diphtb eria is due in a
great degree to the gas which is thrown
of from coal stoves in ill-ventilated
rooms.
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EMERSON has a habit of writing down
every good idea that strikes him. even
getting up in the night to jot down some
valuable thought. We once commenced
this plan, but after spendinga few weeks
without sleep had to give it up.
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"SroP, stop, my DEAR" exclaimed
Mrs. A., &" don't burn those old papers,
l want them for Fanny and Bobby to
make lighters of this evening.
"Ah, yes" replied her obedient
spouse, /" a penny saved is as good as
penny earned; and now l think of it,
why not take my old love letters? First
rate things to kindle fame with, you
know"
"Oh, yes, excellent" rejoined Mrs. A.
/ am sure they are dry enough"
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Baltimore Bellies.

The Baltimore girl, says the Baltimore
Gazette, is placed in the midst of the hap
piest conditions for the perfect unfolding
of the latent possibilities of beauty.
Reared in a climate that knows neither
the rigors of the north nor enervating
languors of the south, she cometh up as
a flower. Moreover, the Baltimore girl
has what Alexander Dumas called q" the
highest alimentation of superior beings"
For upon the shores of the Chesapeake
alone do the terrapin, the bay mackerel,
the oyster and the canvas-backed duck
blossom in native luxuriance. The deli
cate, dainty and highly nutritious fare is
needed to bring to perfection the purest
types of beauties. 1t has frequently
panied US to notice that there is dis
position among some OF the Western
cities to hurl at each other accusations
of homeliness in their women. If we
may trust the Chicago press, the girls of
st. Louis have large feet. 1t is even said
| that at st. Louis wedding a derrick is ne
cessary to throw the slipper after the bride
st. Louis retorts with the accusation
that the Chicago girl has large ears. at
describes in detail how a Chicago girl
spreads out one ear tor parasol and uses
the other as fan. tits alleged also that
the Cincinnati girl has an unnecessary
development of the foot, and that she
uses a pumpkin as ball to darn her
stockings on. These ungallant remarks
are to be deplored. We concede the
beauty of the girls of Cincinnati, st.
Louis, Chicago and Boston, and we be-
lieve that if they were nurtured under
the kindly influence of Baltimore, they
would attain the highest possibility OF
beauty. The Boston girl is charming.
There is flavor of the east wind in her
voice, and suggestion of Goldfish balls in
her physique, but she is bright, intelli-
gent, bookish, artistic and selfreliant
She wins her way everywhere. The
Western girl is of exuberant health and
vitality; the Southern girl has dreamy
languor and grace indescribable. But
woman, beautiful everywhere in Amer
lea, reaches the pinnacle of perfection
only on the shores of Chesapeake Bay.
THEY have bank in Deadwood. Ths
paying teller wears red shirt, and sit
with his boots upon the counter, and tn,
President, when he isn't cutting off hi
coupons with bowie knife, amuses him
self with draw poker with Director O
. IWO III Iuc DdCk IOOu, using Ln6 DdnK'
funds in the pool.
EMERSON has habit of writing dow
every good idea that strikes him, eve
: getting upin the night to jot down som
valuable thought. We once commence
this plan, but after spending few week
: without sleep had to give it up.
MANY physicians claim that the ger
t eral prevalence of diphtb eria is due in
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17

MARIA is very popular name in
Illinois. When cat climbs a back
fence in a we'll populated neighborhood,
and plaintively calls out, Maria /"
twenty or thirty windows are hastily
thrown up from which protrude twenty
or thirty feminine heads, wildly answer
ing, WHAT"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-17

The following letter from the great
statesman to his farmer, at Marshfeld,
was written forty years ago. 1t was re-
Gently communicated to the Phila-
delphia Ledger:
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John Taylor, by the time you have
got through this you will have read
enough. The sum of all is, be ready
for your springs work as soon as the
weather becomes warm enough, and then
put your hand to the plow and look not
back. DANIEL WEBSTER.
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tin chilling winter swains enjoy their store,
Forget their hardships, and re cruit for more;
The farmer to full feasts invites his friends,
And what he got with pains, with pleasure spends
Draws chairs around the fire, and tells once more,
Stories which often have been told before;
Spreads clean table with things good to eat,
And adds some moistening to his fruit and meat.
They praise his hospitality, and feel
They shall sleep better after such q meal"
Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1877-02-04
Cincinnati, eDnntaa, ben A. Stbruar 1877.

ben Stein nit beioen armen umi9!ineeno,
fniete Die gtanoI uno i9luh5te her3bres
fenb. 2eile trat Carlo ndber. Wtlt et=
mem Sab iprang bic Dirne auf uno luollte
flieben. gbsr Die hebeHbe Stimme Car
lo's, belt iie 5uriif \
v5ier bdtteit Du mid oomols umfoms
men loiien iollen. Jannetta Wenn i'd ges
wuBt hdtte, oaB Dn mid mein Qc6en lang
oh meineS VaterIonoes pera1ten ipiiroeI,
to1re th lieber In ben Sob aegangen !"
Sle ylanol wanote ben Ropf balb iiber
bic SCtulter ibm s,I. Sie Sbrdnen liefen
ibm fiber oas bubble mdnnli1e @e1ht.
Sic ipenoete iiA pollenos, iab ibn aufs
merfIaR an uno ldgte odnn:
DRarriI9er Bueb! g8enn i6 Sih net
aern uno irnmer on Sid bentt bdtf,
tbdt's MIDI oann 10 dr9ern, oaB Du elm
Wellher biit2"
gBieoer ergriFf garlo i6re Sanb; oiess
mai ue6rte lie i6m niht.
,Meine Nlutter tpar cine Seuti9e !"
lddelte er. palio bin i9 bios Elm bolber
Staliener."
0ertIdrt iab i6n Die ylanbI on
vSieblt Su's :. Warum bait Ou mir
oa5 nift 9lei3 9'iagt. SD bab's bod
g'iuubt, 0aB ib einem ganjen WellA'n ni6t
10 gut Iein f6nnt rpie Sir !" -
neber ols alte bemooIte Wrensseihen Der
2n9unenitabt rei9ten Ii1 3pei treue tiibne
Utenlhen Die Sanb Su einem gliidliden
8unoe, uno bod ii6er ibnen i'm blauen
Ietber umtreiite Elm 5ieinaoIer bic bOhife
Der bret 3tnnen.
Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1877-02-04
Sic ..@eltlid)e 8ldttcr"

tos sonniass att hes Cincinnati goIfstatts fnS Ssr
nntertannss, sepOmst nns sebnsn id ba'spt'
iaaIidj surd bic xrsfflt9ss bG BARN per5fsntI@ten
ersdbhinaen aus
Frsis 81 per sasr pertsirs. Ia carppa 81 per Sabs
ycrtcfret.
ain,eIne gummsrn: Sinf Gents, ppffr Sas gIdt ben
HabtiSd5sn Mbpnnsnten surd bic Etassr ms paus sts
icsrt pirb.
@slhisnbungen i5nnen per .Tonep Drber' essr rssi'
FTirtsn Brief auf unIer HiFifo eeuadbt perssn.
Die Cincinnati vOlksblatt COmpagnie,
b x 1414,
Cincinnati. 9.
, 1877-12-01

to the companionship of white men,
could readily converse in the English
language; experiencing no further
trouble than beng for short time lost
for An occasional word, This case is al
most without parallel in the history Of
language.
lie merits honorable distinction and
remembrance from the people OF this
Territory, as being one Of the first to at
tempt the cultivation OF the soil here, he
being the first white man who ever put a
pow into the soil of Cowltz plain; this
was ip 1889.
About 81 years ago he lett the service
Of the Hudson Bay Company and settled
on the land where he now resides, some
three or four miles from Victoria.
At that time the great Co. owned
everything there. He was the first man
independent of the Co. who took possess
sion OF the sol on Vancouvcr's Island as
II bona f,le settler. In conversing with
him one can scarcely realize the changes
that have taken place since that date,
when his adventurous life was exchanged
for that of peaceful cultivator Of the
soil.