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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-10-09
, sSIGNEE,s NOTICE.

SSIGNEE'S NOTICE.
The undersigned Ass,gnees of ] q. Kimmel, J.
p. Eimmei. and ]. O. Kimmel * Sons, hereby
give notice TO all persons owing or indebted TO
said parties TO make immediate payment. 1t Is
desired and required to settle the estate as speedi-
ly as possible. Disregard Of this notice c0mpels
the Assignees to proceed to the collection OF ell!
debts by process law.
Somerset, Pa OF II. L. BAER,
Sep. Q. 1875 so. OGLE,
Sep. II Assignces.
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voluntary Assignment,
2nd Of Sep. ISIS, on petition Of Assignee by W.
VI koontz, Esq, his attorney, the Court appoint
III. =. Endsley. Auditor % dis rihute The fund In
hands OF the Assignee taand among thuse legally
eutitle thereto.
Extract irJm The rec rus certified Sep. ., ISIS.
FL. kOOSER. Pro.
Notice Il hereby given that 1 will attend to the
du;les OF the above appointment at the office Of W..
a. hooEtz, Esq In the borough OF Somerset, on
Monday, the lith OF U.tober. ISIS.
h. ENDSLEY,
Sci. - AmIif.r
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TIcan money make faster al work for rs than n
anything else. Capital not required we vii
start you. SO per day at home made by the
industrious. Men women, boys and girls want
ed everywhere to work for us. Now Il the
time. Costly outfit and terms free. Address
TRUE h Co. Augusta. Maine.
March "
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NO MORE HIGH PRICES!

Clothing, Hats, and Gents Furnishing Goods marked lower
than ever was known,
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give ye aspankin' afore the gal, which
| should a done had things turned
out the way thought they was. It's
blamed good joke, amt it ~ and
the man laughed with most aggrav
ating guffaw as he went back to rejoin
his wife.
But Billy felt bad and put out, and
was nearly mad enough TO cry. It
was too bad-just when he was feel
ing so grand and inportant-to have
this great burly man come along and
call him "bub," and sonny" and
crush him to earth by talking about
spanking" in a voice loud enough
for the angel inside to hear every
word. No wonder he was glum and
gloomy the rest of the evening, and
make no witty speeches during the
promenade to his charmer's home.
There win be no giggling over the
rigid cream next time.-B re0htast
Id5le.
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David Grey's Estate.

Over his forge bent David Grey,
And thought of therich man cross the way.
- Hammer and anvil for me-" he said,
" And weary toll for the children's bread.
" For him, soft carpets, and pictured walls,
a life of case in his spacious halls"
The clang of bells on bis dreaming broke :;
A flicker of flame, Whirl of smoke.
Ok in travis, forge grown white-hot.
Coat end hat were alike forgot,
AS up the highway, the blacksmith ran,
In face. and mien like crazy man.
"SchoCl house afrel" Mems hearts grew
still.
And the women prayed as women will.
While 'bove the tumult the wailing cry
OF frightend children rose shrill and high.
Night in it's shadows hid sun and earth:
The rich man sat by his costly hearth,
Lord of wide acres and untold gold,
But wifeless, childless. foTlorn and old.
lie thought of the family cross the way:
II would" hesighed. Il were David Grey"
The blacksmith luelt at his childrens bed
10 look once more ST each shining head.
my daFlings all safe! Oh Cod" he cried,
My sin in thy bOundless mercy hide
eOnly to-day have learned how great
l&ath been thy bounty and my estate"
Homo Journal.
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Tins Kit.

1t surprised the sinners and news
boys around the post office, the 9th.
er day, to see "Limpy TIM come
among them in quiet way and to
hear him say:
'Boya, I want to sell my kit. Here
is two brushes, a box box of blacking,
q good stout box, and the outfit goes
for two shillins'!'
"Goin' away Tim Fl queried one.
mot 'zactly, boys, but | want a
quarter the awfullest kind just now"
"goin' on q 'scursion ?" asked an
other
"Not to-day, but / must have a
quarter" he answered.
One Of the lads passed over the
change and took the kit, and Tim
walked straight to the counting
room OF one of the daily papers, put
down his money, and said;
Il guess can write if you will
give me pencil"
With slow moving fingers he wrote
death notice. It went into the pa
per almost as he wrote it, but you
might not have seen it. He wrote ::
"Died-little Ted--of scarlet fe-
yer; Funeral to:morrer, gon up to
Hevin ; left one bruther."
"Was it your brother p asked the
cashier. {a
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Tim tried to brace up, but he
couldn't. The big tears came up, his
chm quivered, hepointed to the no.
tice. ON the counter and gasped:
IL had to sell my Kit to do it,
b--but he had his arms around nv
neck when he d-died I"
He hurried away home, but the
news went to the boys, and they
gathered in group and talked. Tim
had not been home an hour before a
barefooted boy left the kit on the
doorstep, and in the box was a bo-
quet of fiowers.-Detroit Free Press,
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the cl,iommissary depot, and

stery shop of the Bentons DO you
imagine"
"Of course not r / cried with up
lifted hands, warding off any more in
dignation. II don't suppose any
thing at all. But what has sent you
struggling with that impossible front
room again ?"
"'Tisn't impossible" retorted Bess.
II have $40 all my own; that makes
$35 between us. Now if you girls
will follow my directions, we can
take that 1856 and furnish that room"
allow" / queried, helplessly;
while Harrie evidently thought it OF
no use to say any more to girl who
talked such absurd nonsense as far
nishing Is parlor with $35.
We were three orphan sisters,
keeping house together on an income
30 rediculously small that any outlay
for new furniture was quite out Of
the question, and yet the one desire
OF our three hearts was to furnish our
parlor, q pretty room, but bare as
any barn. We had q conveniently
appointed kitchen. and a cool clean
dining room, where we sat in the al
ternoons with our sewing. Our bed
rooms were comfortably furnished !;
but for the parlor we had not so
much as table.
Tomorrow our quarterly income
was due, but that we must live on for
The next three months. So the $35
left over from this quarter was all we
could possibly count on, and that
seemed too small a sum to think OF
in connection with the furnishing of
our front room.
Bess was our head and shoulders,
our right hand, our mainstay and
her capabilities in the way of getting
something out of nothing were truly
remarkable, as witnessed by the fact
of her having more money at the end
Of the quarter than both of US to-
gether though we had all the same
allowance for our personal expenses,
and Bessie's were the heaviest, on ac-
count of her being the largest and
requiring the most dress material.
Yet in spite of Bessie's genius, the
furnishing of that room seemed ex-
ceediDgly predetermined. 4 -...% 7 viii
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-. elbows wonuereu what me-
could want with him, but followed
with some reluctance.
aSee here, boy" said the man. TAX
ing a firm hold on Billy's shoulder
81 want to know what sort of re.
marks you was making about my
wife to that gal in there Tell me at
onest, or I'll larrup the ground with
yet" and the stranger gave him q
look that made his marrow culver.
"Why, bless your life sir" said
Billy in shaky voice, @ never MOTTO
ed your wife. and didn't say a word
about her. / didn't think Of such a
thing"
"That won't 90 down, little one.
I had an eye on you, and time and
again / saw you both look over our
way, an then go to gigglin'. Was
you maxim fun of Mariar's clothes +? I
want to know" and the man gave
him a cruel shake.
Il tell you, sir, 'pon honor, we
didn't once think of your wife. May
be we might have looked over that
way, but we didn't notice either one
of you. We were talking about
something else all the time, and laugh
ing at our own talk. Indeed we were.
don't 60 about making fun ofpeople,
sir-T was better raised"
dwell, hang me if l don't half be-
lieve you, bun, an I axes your par
don. Blow me, though, if / couldn't
a'swore you was passin' remarks
| about Mariar's clothes, an then litter
in about it to that little school gal
with We. know she's not rugged
up as gay as some women, sonny, and
she don't fam on a great sight O.
| style, but she is as good as the best
of 'cm, an, though she amt to say
purity, she knows how to keep the
house lookin' as neat as show win
der, an she kin make bushel of per-
taturs hole out in hard times coal to
anything that wears calico, an that's
what makes me say, little one, that
whoever undertakes to have gay
time by pokin' fun at her when I'm
around will wakeupthe worst hornets
nest he ever stumbled over. Hows'
never, there's no harm Done, Johnny,
an mighty glad of it. Ye're a bright
little Teller, an I'd hate like sin te
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A Blighted Pleasure.

Billy Spoonaker enjoyed the taste
of new bliss the other evening,
That is to say, he experienced that
exhilarating serenity that makes itself
at home in the youthful bre. st when
it's owner for the first time finds HIM
self bowlng over a marble top table,
watching the dancing light in par
OF eyes brighter than hope, while the
most hewitt ching Of rosy lips wade
into the ice cream, and make the sill
lest nothings the most precious gems
OF speech That's ne way it seemed
to Billy. OF course he will get over
it before the bl, ak trosts Of autumn
nip the potato vines and make him
chatter in his over-worn summer suit,
as he wonders why in err RI r-eation
woman wants Ia make a reFr'ger
ator OF herself all the year round
but just at that Tune he was under
going an ecstatic tlutter about tbt.
heart that filed his soul with sin4ip mo
birds and honeysuckle. The BOY folt
on good terms with all the world
and didn't worry about expenses -
He smiled as easy as going to sioen
and said witty things without k7o,r
ing it till afterwards. Oh, it wac ;ol.
wi They cooed and chatted and bah.
hahed, and then fell into conhd entia,
whispers, occasionally looking in the
direction Of another couple across
the way, but scarcely noticing them.
Not SO, however. t. other party.
The man was eying Billy with a
wicked look, and, when at length he
got up and started for the cashiers
desk, the man followed and tapped
him on the shoulder.
"Sne here, youngsfer," he said, with
a thick breath, 1T want word or two
with you privately. Come this way,
if you please" and the stranger step
ped outside OF the door.
Billy was in fog, and little
scared. He didn't ike the looks of
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-09-11
OUR 'FRONT.' ROOM.

"There" said Bess, sitting down
emphatically on the doorstep and
tanning herself with her wide straw
hat. There, that front room must
and shall be furnished p
II wish it might be-" observed Hat
tie obviously ''but l don't feel much
encouraged about it as yet"
'If were you, Bessie, 1 would or
der the suit in reps, and q tapestry
carpet" remarked sarcastically. 81
am afraid we cannot quite afford Au-
busson and satin brocade."
How much money have you Har-
rie ?" asked Bess, ignoring my irony.
Five dollars and forty-three
cents" said Harrie, after an inspec-
ton of the contents Of her pocket
book.
"And you F'lo.?"
Il have $1O," laughed /. eve shall
not be able to rival the Bentons, ! am
afraid, Bessie dear"
The Bentons were our snowy next
door neighbors, be it remarked,
whose gorgeous parlOr was at once
the admiration and dispair of half the
housekeepers in Norwoodville.
1.-THE, Bentons," exclaimed Bessie
with supreme scorn. "Do you sup
pose Florsbella, that / would sit
down III our 'front.' roe~e- e {. hore.tbe
~ ,..-.,S,.,, ]. l., .a-sSrs. -
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Il &n~--
was down, our front room was very
clean and cool to look at.
"But we could look at the pretty
mattting and blue grey paper in Mer-
rion's store just az well" said Harrie.
".And do not see where we are TO
get any furniture, our ancestors did
not leave us any antique chairs"
1--WE will make the curtains first,
said Bessie, cheerfully, coming in at
that moment, with her hat on and
a bundle in her hands. give just
been down street and bought the
materials y
And Bessie opened her bundle and
displayed roll OF snow white mus
lin and some pale-blue cretonne.
Il paid 40 cents yard for the
muslin" she said, land I bought Is
yards. Five yards to window will
be plenty it is so wide. And the ere
tonne will make charming shades. 1t
was so cents and here are six yards.
| Well make some lambrequins of it,
too, for the windows, and for that ug-
" wooden mantle shell. You can
make some blue and white tassels,
Harrie, like those on your tidy, but
| larger. And here are the fixtures
for the shades. They cost $50 fol
the three.
So we hung the blue shades i'll our
| three windows, with blue and white
crochet tassel pendent from each
and over them we draped the full
white muslin curtains, with pretty
blue lambrequins at the top. Harrie
| sacrificed her freshest blue ribbons
to loop the curtains, though Harrie ii
a blonde, and blue ribbons are very
becoming twisted among her yellow
ringlets.
aWhy, it is charming" she crie(
| admiringly, regarding the effect from
the doorway. 'Now Bessie bring il
the furniture
Ben will bring the table this even
| ing" said Bessie. "And | can prom
Use q lounge and two arm-chair'
and pair Of ottomans, there
my ideas and the money will Civ
out together
Ben did bring the table--a grea
round pine affair, OF his own manufact
ure, rude enough, certainly. but HI
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THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

"There is my contribution to the
funds" remarked Bess placing her
500 on the top step. I deposited my
SO beside it, and Harrie followed
with her SIS. '-' '''
Then we looked at Bess and wait
ed an explanation.
AZ have been reading in a magazine y
said Bess, "about woman who fur
nished her parlor with $50 and had
the prettiest room in town"
"But we have only $685." ] sug-
@And 43 cents supplemented
Harrie.
"Well, that woman bought some
things we need not buy" replied
Bess. "To be sure she had . set OF
lovely old chairs which belonged to
her great-grandmother, and which
have lust come into fashion; and
somebody gave her pair of pictures
and somebody else presented her with
statuette; and"
''Do stop Bess," l cried imploring-
| "; while Harrie went off in VIC
lent explosion oflaughter.
"Idon't suppose anybody viii give
us a picture, or beg the privilege OF
keeping piano in our front ROOM"
said Bessie candidly; although that
happened to the woman IN the maya
zine. What | want is Ben Brad
shaw's plane and saw, and Ben him
self to operate them, and an old bar
rel or two"
II suppose Ben and his tools are
to be had for a thank you and there
are barrels enough in the woodshed.
What are you going to do with them
Bessie ?''
"You shall see," said Bessie, smil-
ing wisely. "At present let us go to
Merrion's and get some of that lovely
staw mating for the floor"
"Straw mating will do very we'll
for the present." said |, "but when it
comes cold weather."
eve must not begin to think of
cold weather in May" interrupted
Bessie, perhaps by November some
good luck will bring us a carpet. In
Summer mating is a positive lux
ury."
We went to put on our things, of
course, preparatory to visiting the
carpet store, for we always obeyed
Bessie's order.
When we returned from the expe-
dition we were accompanied by a
man with wheelbarrow; and in that
barrow were 26 yards of blue and
cream colored mating, of a nice quail
ity, which we had bought for SO cts.
a yard; also eight rolls of pretty
grey paper at. Scots, a roll. When
The The cottage of eight rooms is stu;
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-four, two eggs, one teaspoon even
full soda; dissolve the soda in two
teaspoonfuls boiling water; stir sugar
and eggs well together, then add
soda and flour; flavor with lemon;
bake in moderate oven.
Cure for H0arsesaess.-Spikenard
root, sliced and bruised, and then
stepped in o teapot containing equal
parts OF water and spirits, and the
vapor inhaled, when sufficiently cool
ed, viii relieve the soreness and
hoarseness of the throat or Lungs,
when arising from a cough or cold,
Cmaarios.-If you keep canary
bird, let its food be very simple, and
it will keep well, and be good sing
er, but over feeding makes them dull
andsickly. Thejrfood should be simple
canary seed mixed with about one
quarter of rape seed. A bit Of apple
or q piece of loaf sugar once i'll
while will do no harm, and prove
very acceptable.
Water Rising for Bread.-Take a
quart pitcher and spoon, scald them;
Gil the pitcher half full of boiling wa
ter; cool to the temperature of good
hot dish water; stir in flour to make
batter as thick as -four pancakes
and a quarter teaspooful Of salt and
as much soda, cover closely, set where
it will keep quite warm, stirring oc-
casionally it Will raise in five or six
hours. Some prefer it to hop or brew
ers yeast.
Pork Pud2ing.-One pound of
salt pork chopped fine. twice the
quantity of dry bread crumbs (salt-
risings preferred) moistened with one
pint of boiling water, dozen sage
leaves minced, three eggs, one teacup
of sifted Indian meal beat the whole
thoroughly, add one-half teaspoonful
of soda and a little -four; bake in a
pudding dish and serve with sweet
ened sweet cream, or maple syrup
1t can be eaten with relish either hot
or cold. Makes good substitute
for sliced meat for supper, when
hearty food is required to satisfy hun
cry harvesters. For large family
the recipe can be doubled in quantity
without injury to the quality
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e stsc = soIlCr 5TOWng Vines
and suspended then at each corner
of the high old fashioned mantle-shelf
now prettily upholstered in blue Gre
tonne And our front room was fin
ished.
/ say nothing about the flowers
with which our room was adorned,
but perhaps they did more than any
thing else there to attract us and all
our friends. 1t was cool and tidy to
the eye, and all Summer our friends
kept telling us how pleasant it was
to come in there and sit down. Sam
and Mile Benton came in often OF
an evening, and they thought it a
prettier room than their mothers
grand parlor.
And all for $35.
And 43 cents" says Harie. -Bdl-
lo1fs Monthly
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planned it smooth and stained the legs
with amber,in imitation of walnut, and
even that did not matter much, for
very little of them showed when Bes-
sic had covered it with a sheer-cloth,
distracted from the DINING room.
"There nowp' she cried in tri-
umph; ''could anything be neater ? it
will hold piles of books and papers,
and that is all we want it for. Who
is going to lift the cover to see lift is
walnut /? We will cover it with white
cloth in the Summer (thank our stars
we have plenty Of table linen y and
next Summer / promise to save $40
from my allowance to buy cover
for it. [ had Ben make it nice and
big, because hate small table; |
like one that everybody can gather
around and be@ociable."
After the table followed al inter-
walls of day or two, the other arti-
cles which Bessie had enumerated.
First, alonuge-perhaps it would be
better called sofa--composed OF a
long packing box, with one side
knocked out, and o square block I'M
der each corner. These square legs
were stained with amber, in imitation
of walnut, like the table legs.
Bessie expended all the rest of her
money for blue and white chintz-a
distractingly pretty pattern, and got
at a bargain. With this she covered
that unpromising sofa, stufing the
cushions with corn husks; and the
two big square pillows were orna-
mented at each corner with Harrie's
pretty tassels. Upon my word the
sofa was as pretty an article OF
furniture as the Benton's had in their
house.
Then Ben brought us two large
casks, or hogsheads, or whatever you
call them, sawed down lengthwlse to
the proper heights for seat, and then
sawed crosswise, and board fitted
in. These also were covered with
the pretty chintz, and well cushioned
with husks, and they made the COST
est armchair imaginable. Harrie flu
ished them off with crochet and net
ted tides. Bessie's ottoman was
simply two soap boxes cushioned
with husks and covered with chintz.
We took few chairs from the 9th
er rooms and added to this array.
We cut engravings out of old maya
zines, and framed them with straw
and 2oaSse partoatte frames took the
fine landscape painting from the
dining room and brought it into the
parlor; Bessie brought down her pet
chrome of the "Cenci," from her bed
room and placed it between the east
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B4CIPEs.

!905ced .z75S4its.-To seven pounds
Of fruit add three pounds of sugar,
one pint OF vinegar and tablespoon
tal Of every kind Of spice-cloves,
cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg.
Cookies.-One cup butter; put into
teacup one egg, one teaspoonfui
soda. two teaspooniuls sweet cream
and fill up with sugar; mix soft
enough to roll out I; caraways.
Ginger Snaps-One cup Of brown
sugar, one cup OF molasses, two eggs,
one cup of fried meat gravy. one
tablespoonful Of cider vinegar, two
heaping teaspoontuls OF soda, one
tea<poonful Of ginger; flour enough
to roll.
Potqto Soup.--Boil eight potatoes
and one good sized onion until tender;
strain through a sieve; add one quart
of milk, salt and pepper to taste, and
nearly one teacupful of butter; put
all in a saucepan and let it come to
boil. Serve hot.
Piccolnaini Cake Stir to cream
one cup of butter, three cups Of sugar,
and the white Of five eggs; then stir
gradually into the mixture the yolks
Of five eggs, four cups of flour, one
and hall teaspoonfuls of yeast pow
der, and one cup of milk; flavor to
the taste.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-08
The New Hampshire Election.

1t is only two or three days 10 the
New Hampshire election. AS yet
there has been scarcely any sembIance
Of the old-taslioned campaigns in that
nearly always closely contested State
The Democratics have adopted the
"still hunt tactics, partly with the
hope Of deceivlng the Republican
masses, but manly because silence is
their best policy There is nothing
really to be said agains. the I'd hin S.
tration of Governor Prescott, while
the current Democratic developments
in Washington are SO absolutely in le-
tensible and di&graceful--so much at
war not only with New England prin,
ciples, but even with the past pro-
LESSONS Of the New Hampshire De-
mocracy-that it is deemed adyisable
to keep them as mach out of the sight
of the people as possible. The POWER
of the New Hampshire Democracy
lies in their habit OF voting the regu-
lar ticket, and Of always coming out
in full force, regardless of their pros
pect at the polls. They will do so
next Tuesday, anil if they think they
detect any signs Of Republican apathy
they will of course work with extra
diligence, in hope 10 profit by l..
They will not have, however, this
special enc engagement. The advices
from all parts Of the State sh NV that
there is general determination of the
Republicans to go to the polls next
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Tuesday and re-eleet Governor Pres
colt, and mase sure of Republican
Legislature, and thus still keep the
Old Granite State as right as ever be.
fore the country. The public meet
insS that ha e been held have been
unusually well attended, and marked
with a good degree of enthusiasm.
II is gratifying to s5e the Jealous
actions Of the young Republicans
With young blood, sIpporiel by the
still indomitable veterans of many a
harl-fought field, in LehIif Of i'm
perisha5le principles, we cannot doubt
that New Hampshire will record an
other Republican yictory, which could
never come at a more opportune mo-
mcut than now.