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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
ITEMS FOE FIELD AND H0IzsE.

A GOOD WINTER DIsH.-Take green
corn, and ripe tomatoes; cook them
separately; and while hot, mix them to-
gether, half and half, and can them.
When used, heat them, and season them
to taste.
OUNCE AND APPLE JELLY.-Take
equal quantities of ounces and apples,
stew them separately till tender (the
ounces will take the longest, strain the
juice, mix it, and to every pound of
juice allow three-quarters Of pound Of
pounded sugar; proceed as for ounce
jelly.
MEDLAR.-Put ripe medlars into
jar with a very little water, bruising
them slightly as you put them in; tie
down the jar, and putt into slow
oven Tor ten or twelve hours. Strain off
the juice without pressure, weigh it, and
allow equal weights of sugar and Juice
Boilthe juice, add the sugar, and boil
again, skimming and stirring well till it
jellies.
OUNCE CHEEsE.-Pare the ounces,
and cut in quarters, removing the core !;
put them in a stewpan, with little
cider or water, and an equal weight of
sugar; boil until they are mashed up
and look clear; then pour into a Jelly
bag. The juice will make an excellent
| jelly, and what remains in the bag,
pressed into jars, thick and first-rate
cheese for dessert.
To PRESERVE PEACHES FOR COMMON
UsE.-Take ripe peaches, open stones
are the best; pare, stone, and quarter
them. To six pounds of the cut peaches
allow three pounds of best brown sugar,
/ Strew the sugar over the peaches, and
set them aside for four hours; then put
them in preserving kettle with hand
full of peach leaves, and let them boil
slowly for two hours, skimming it well
when cool, put in jars and seal them
Blanch some of the kernels, and add
them.
ALMOND CAKE-Blanch half pound
of sweet and three ounces of bitter al.
monds, pound them to a paste in a NOR
tar with orapge-fower water, add half a
pound of sifted loaf sugar, and little
brandy, whisk separately for half al
hour the whites and yelks of twenty
eggs, add the yelks to the almonds anc
sugar, and then stir in the whites, ant
beat them all we'll together. Butter
tin pan, sift bread raspings over it, pu
the cake into it, over the top of which
strew sifted loaf sugar. Bake in quicl
oven for half or three quarters of al
hour.
If we have made discovery, or i
| everybody knew it before us, we will
tell it all the same. AS soon as th,
cream shows signs of ceming," pou
into the churn two or three quarts o
: water-as near ice cold as il is possible
t and the butter will gather great dea
| quicker and come hard and firm. w
e tried the cold water on the start, an
. found it made the cream too cold an
t kept the butter from coming, but put i
at the last end it is capital idea, an
will save hours of churning in th
/ course of the season Butter will com
n in fifteen or twenty minutes, as a rule
f if. the cream is in the right conditio
e and temperature. as ..-u
!, THE saving of trouble is not the onl
d nor the principal reason why it is bette
e to have the barnyard and pasture COZ
e nected. If the yard opens directly j
the pasture, or into the lane leadin
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
" ANSWER HIM SOFTLY
BY N. g.

Answer him softly. You cannot know,
In the depths below
How sharp was the struggle, the SIGHT he made
Ere the price he paid,
And yielded his soul TO the tempter's power
In hasty hour.
Answer him softly: for Il may be-
Like the sturdy tree,
Which tested in many u storm, its strength
To berent at length
lie struggled full oft, and resisted well,
though at last he fell.
Answer him softly, lest you be tried
On your weaker tide,
Ard fall, as before you, so many have done,
Who IN thought had won;
Fall, too, ere temptation had spect its force
Ia its subtitle course.
Answer him softly; for none can tell,
When the storm clouds swell,
Whose baroue shall weather the TEMPEST or who's
Its venture shall lose
Speak gently; the weakest may stand the gale,
The stoutsst may fail.
Boston TruuelIeT.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
GLEANzNGS FROM THE MUSE.
sIGNs-
BIZ @. b. sTuART.

Last night we parted at the door
held her hand moments space
And whispered. seeing not her face,
" IL you should wander ON the shore
yo-morrow when the day Is DER,
III bold IL as a sign Of graee"
Towhich she answered not a word,
And gave no sign that she had heard.
SO when to-day was red and spent
With angry battles In the west,
Through summer lanes went oppressed
BY hours Of doubt and discomfort,
Plucking a daisy as / went,
In anger half and half in Jest,
Asking ts EIis U'nfTaf g'' " In DsuF ~ BeGueoupf
" PGssfonHemslifr or 81 Point du t0utf''
A foolish jest-and yet / stood
Spollboupd, as one reads his fate
All things have meaning small and great,
PossioHHemenff the sign was good
Upruse three m8gpies from the wood,
n pair, aud one without mate
A wedding, so thep people say;
Good omens are abroad to-day.
Down TO the shore the waves ran free
In sunset colors, fold on fold,
Crimson ard ameth yst and gold
They flushed like an enchanted sea,
The new young moon hung white and cold,
turned the coin upon my chain,
And wished wish-not all In vain.
For over level wastes of sand
She came, with steps sedately slow,
Between the twilight and the glow
The shining sea, the shadowy land,
With favor In her on stretched hand,
And eyes whose smiling told me sol
Dear eyes, your sign OF welcome sweet
Made all the other signs completed
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

FROM j. NJ. PETTENGILL, OF Salisbury,
Mass.-I have sold more boxes of GRACE's
SALvE during the last four months than oi
any other like preparation in my store; in
fact it is the only Salve for which there is
any sale. This bespeaks the confidence OF
the public in its virtues and is in my
opinion valuable recommendation of it,
healing properties.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

WALTER SCoTT loved to tell story
of a certain baronet who made himself
the host of a number of ministers, seven
of whom were put into capacious
many-bedded room, where the butler had
carefully provided for each a bottle OF
beer and Bible. My friend," said
one of the divines, addressing this fnnc-
tionary, "you must know that the
Youngest minister reads aloud portion
of scripture to the rest; only one Bible,
therefore, is necessary. So take away
the other six, and in their place bring
six more bottles of ale.''
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
OUR STORY TELLER.
THE sTONE.CUTTER's STORY.

He was whistling over his work, care
less, from long custom, of the solemn
significance of the letters he was cutting
in the white marble. The June sun was
nearly at the end of the days journey,
sinking slowly to rest upon the bosom
Of the broad Atlantic, whose waves
washed the shores of the little seaport
town of Monkton. A stranger, hand
somely dressed in gray, with large, lus-
trous brown eyes, came to the fence that
was around the yard where the stone
cutter worked, and read the lettering,
almost completed, upon the tombstone
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For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

CLOCK Work is not more regular than
the liver, the stomach, and the bowels when
they are putt order with DR.. MoTT's VEG
ETABLE LIVER PILLS, supremely effective
and safe Alternative, cathartic and blood
depurent which promotes. thorough bilious
secretion, regular habit of body, sound
digestion and nervous tranquility. 1t is
the hest possible substitute for that terri
BILE drug, mercury. For sale by all Drug,
gists
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WLHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE TONIC

WIHOFT'S FEVER AND AGUE TONIC
This medicine is used by construction COM
panies for the benefit of their employees,
when engaged in malarial districts. The
highest testimonials have been given by
contractors and by the Presidents of some
of the leading railroads in the South and
West. When nell are congregated in large
numbers in the neighborhood of swamps
and rivers, Wiihoft's Tonic will prove 8
valuable addition TO the stock of medicines
and will amply reward the company in the
saving of time, labor and nancy. We recon.
mend it to all. WHEELoCK, FINLAY & Co.
Proprietors New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

. A BASEBALL match has been played
between 2,210 pounds of the population
of Guelph, Ont, and 2,167 pounds of
prominent citizens of Hamilton, the
former making thirty-four waddles,
while the latter could only pant round
the diamond seventeen times. The base
path was worn deep into the earth, like
a buffalo track, H..F
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

The footing of the list for 1864 is
SCI OF, while that for 1878 is hut $13.45
for the same articles. In 1864 laborers
received at the rate Of 81 per day, while
now the same class of workmen receive
from OIL to $l 20 per day; but the ST. a
day they now earn will purchase nearly
two and one-half times as much as the
81 they earned in 1864. 5sf tsz
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
Purifying Infected Rooms.

We call attention to the following
means of purifying foul rooms and in
fected places. It is important to know
this, and the means are very cheap:
"One of the best methods of fumigat-
ing an infected room, as well as the
most convenient" says DR. Chandler, an
eminent chemist in New York and its
official one to the Board of Health in
that city, 6" is to place some sulphur in
an iron vessel and pour a little alcohol
on it. The alcohol is set on fire, and be-
fore it is burned away the sulphur will
be ignited. There will arise from the
burning sulphur sulphurous acid and
gas, which, like other gases, will mix it.
self with all the air in the house, with
out the aid, draught or current. 1t
will penetrate to every crevice, and will
destroy the vitality of every disease
germ with which it comes in contact
How it destroys their vitality is not
known" s7a6a4 FH Hi f.=4. sriss
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
A Queer Creature with Crook Among
the Foothills.
TGOld Hill News

J. c. Martin, Jim Mcknight, Bill
Bird, and others, have recently come in
from prospecting tour north and east
from Virginia. While searching for
hidden ledge over the hills some five
miles north of the Badger mine, they
came upon veritable shepherdess
among the foothills Whatever of the
romantic which is usually attached in
the mind to thoughts of such an adven-
ture, in this instance give way to the
stern realities of the case. There was no
"fairy creature with her crook, tending
her fathers focks," but "a woman,
wrinkled and wry," and of three score
years leading herd of from two hun
dred and seventy-five to three hundred
goats. She was clad plainly, if not
neatly, in an apron like schoolgirls,
armless and open in 'front.'" simply this
and nothing more" She was making
her headquarters within the inclosure
| of three rough stone walls, with an old
wagon cover one-half the top, and the
front being wanting. Her couch would
scarcely do fcr Morpheus-wooing con-
trivance for modern belle. It was half
a blanket and sack ofwool for pillow
| The food on hand consisted of pound
and half of -four, which was used by
mixing it in water ana drinking it in
place of tea and coffee. She had also
two dried up slapiacks, one of which
she was nibbling. She added to these
luxuries such portions of the flesh of her
kids killed by coyotes as she was able to
recover. But the boys appear to have
caught the aged shephderdess away from
her home. She told them where she
lived, and invited them to call. It was
five miles away, over the mountains
In the course of their wanderings they
found the place, and accepted the invi.
tation accordingly, although the mis-
tress of the mansion was not at. home
They found there eight pounds of beans
and about as many Of bacon, eight chick.
ems and nary rooster among them. She
explained this to them on their return
She got hungry in the spring, and killed
the rooster, as the hens were laying, and
she did not care to eat 'em up. They
also found there sort of dress, and the
other half of the old lady's blanket. she
refused to talk much of her history OF
tell her name. She said, however, tha
she used to keep the house on the othel
side of the desert. At the time of the
Reese River excitement, her husband
left her, and she has never seen hin
since. She thenlived with Sam Dildine
but he had gone off and left her, taking
twenty-one head of her cattle, and she
, did not know where he or her kline were
She started in as a shepherdess, will
one goat of her own and two other
which were given her, and from thes
had sprung in six years her entire herd
: besides all which had died and beel
killed by coyotes This shows the ad
vantages of herding in Nevada. Whel
, the prospectors left her they gave he
provisions enough to last couple G
3 weeks,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

FoK upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN
children with never-failing success. 1t cor
reefs acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
collie, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery
and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. An old and well-tried
remedy. % cts. a bottle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
Tie Extended RnnuIartfY

OF DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is the best
evidence of its worth. Whenever you
want a light, white, sweet biscuit, delicious
pot-pie, elegant cake, or a choice pudding
DOoLEY'S BAKING POWDER should be used
Perfect purity and absolute full weight are
the watchwords of the manufactures.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

STANLEY resembles some of the popu-
lar poetry of the day. Several persons
are claiming his authorship; but he de-
nies them. He is self-made-is Stanley.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

DYsPEPTIc symptoms, low spirits, rest.
lessness, sleeplessness, confusion, sour
stomach, pain in the bowels, sick headache
variable appetite, raising food, oppression
at pit of stomach, low fever and 1anguor
Parsons Pwgatirc Pills give immediate re.
lief and will ultimately cure the disease.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

IT is a good doctrine yet: " He that
would eat the kernel must first crack
the she'll"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
Figures for the WOrkingmen.

The following table, being the price
list of whosesale grocers and dry goods
dealers in 1864, and the prices for the
same goods at the present time show the
difference:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26
The Markets.

Fairbanks & Co., scale manufacturers
already get three gold medals at Paris:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweet.
en- the breath, use Browns Camphorated
Saponaceous Deutifrice. 25 cents bottle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-26

IF any of the readers OF this paper do not
know of Jobnsor's Anodyne Linin,er,t we
urge them to find out about it. Write to DIR.
Johnson u Co., of Bangor, Me. 1t is the
most marvellous remedy in the world.
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(,incinnati Musical Institute.

Facade Instrument|i. MISS & FL; =. EyaSs Miss
EMMA CRANcH, Miss Annie \: March, Piano, Organ,
Vocal Music and Theory taught. Prof. II q Andre $
Ads Miss HATTIE Il. EVANS, $50 W. eth ST. Cint, o.
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LIGHTNING LETTER WRITER,

A fac simila copy made while writing original. No
extra work. Cheapest in use. Send fol circulars, %
sight For territory and rates address ChAhhksS
JONES ~ 40. Rockford, HI
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NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINE!

club rates. Time trouble and pense saved by sub
scribing through the Rocky Mountain Suhscriptien
Agency, which furnishes except local pub
lshed in the United States. Musical Instruments.
Sewing Machines of all kinds, Chromcs, Frames
Sewing Machine Needles and Attachments at re-
duced prices will also furnish Books Of ell kinds
at lowest prices, ROCKY MOUNTAIN STkR-
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write at once for our circulars. Agents can make
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VryHEN WRITING TO ADvERTIsERs please
w say that you saw the advertisement in this
nsrer ' IN. U.-Ss. =
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-04
Curious F acts About Blind Tom.

Blind Toms birthplace is Georgia, and
he began to excite attention as a musician
at the age of four years. All sounds af-
forded him delight; even the crying of
child caused him to dance about in state
of ecstasy. When at home he often bit
and pinched his hrothers and sisters to
make them emit cries of pain. If kept
away from the piano, he would beat
against the wall, drag chairs about the
room, and make all sorts of noises. When
in London flute was produced for him
of avery complicated pattern, and having
twenty-five keys. He frequently rises up
at night and plays this instrument, imita
ting upon it all sorts of sounds which he
may hear at the time. Once, when the
agent attempted to make him stop playing
piano in a high-toned hotel at 3 o'clock
in the morning, Tom seized him and
threw him through the door. In Wash
ington he threw a man down stairs who
came into his room. When at home in
Georgia he lives in building about two
hundred yards from the house and there
remains alone with his piano, playing all
day and night, like one possessed with
madness. Bad weather has an effect upon
his music. In cloudy, rainy seasons, he
plays sombre music in minor chord; and
when the sun shines and the birds sing
he INDUCES in waltzes and light music.
Sometimes he will hammer away for
hours, producing the most hOrrid discord
Imaginable. Suddenly a change comes
over him and he indulges in magnificent
bursts of harmony taken from the best
productions of the masters. Since his
childhood he has been an idiot, and he
played nearly as we'll at the age of seven
as he does now. But now his repertoire
is much larger, as he can play anything
he has ever heard. He now plays abou
seven thousand pieces, and picks up new
ones everywhere. 1t is curious fact tina
he will not play Sunday School music i
he can help it, having great dislike 70
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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-04
a TOLEDO RONTANOE.
A Long waiting Ending In a Happy
Meeting.
Toledo Blade .

Toledo Blade.
Yesterday occurred the happy ending
OF long and weary waiting on the part
of lady who was once the fairest of the
fair daughters of Toledo. Eleven years
ago she was betrothed, with her parents
consent, to young man of fine charac-
ter, but without what is considered the
mostdesirable of possessions, next to that
namely, money. Hesitating to take his
beloved from her pleasant home to sub
ject her to the trials that poverty entails,
he bade her farewell to go West to seek
his fortune. She had letters from him
full of hope and cheerful expectation.
until he reached Omaha, when they sud
denly ceased. The days wore into weeks,
the weeks into months, and then into
years, but still no word from the absent
one to the expectant girl, who waited and
watched all in vain. His friends gave
him up for dead, but she, with woman's
persistency, refused to think so, and de-
clared her belief that he, would some time
return to claim his bride. Suitors came
and went, the light of her eyes became
dim from weeping, the roses faded from
her cheek, and gradually withdrawing
from the scenes she had graced with her
presence, her very existence was almost
forgotten by society.
Two weeks since, while sitting alone in
her quiet parlor, the bell rang, and in a
moment more the door opened and a gen
tleman entered the room. The bronzed
and bearded man had little resemblance
to the slender youth to whom she had
plighted her troth so many long wears be-
fore, but the eye of love could not be de-
ceived, and in a moment more she was
clasped in the arms of him for whom she
had so long watched and waited. His
story was soon told. Leaving Omaha with
an emigrant train for the Pacific coast, it
was attacked by the Indians, and he was
taken prisoner and carried away into the
far interior. Every effort to escape was
futile, and he was passed from one tribe
to another, getting farther and farther
away from civilization as the months roll
ed on. At last, by fortunate chance, he
managed to deceive his jailOrs, and, after
incredible hardships, reached San Fran
cisco, three years from the time he left
Omaha. Here he encountered an old ac-
quaintance from Toledo, who, in answer
to his inquiries about the dear ones there.
told him that his betrothed was the wife
OF another. Stunned and heart-broken.
he made no attempt to communicate with
any one here, and was not undeceived un-
til few weeks ago, when, on a visit to
SanFraneisco from his inland home, he
had again received tidings through an old
neighbor, that sent him homeward as fast
as the cars could bring him hither.
The denouement was what might be
expected, and, this morning, the happy
pair started for their Western, home,
whittier the good wishes of their friends,
including those of the Blade, will follow
them
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-04

By Will Hardin.
I once knew a clever fellow who had all
kinds of ingenious appliances about his
premises. All the gates were elevated by
pulleys as the carriage approached and
passed through; and the wells ran all the
time by windmills. He had strange fix
ture by which he generated power to rock
the cradle, churn the cream and read the
morning news at the same time. The
same man has other eOntrivances, of
which to enumerate them, would be folly
and madness; and he has serious inten-
ton of yet turning the whole universe by
a crank.
The world no doubt suffers already by
the numerous cranks that are fastened to
| it and made to turn in different directions.
Progress is good thing; inventions are
| justifiable, but three-fourths of the appli-
ances to aid man are denominations and a
vexatiOn to his existence. Some of these
work only when they are new, that is,
when the agent is trying them; most new
er work at all, though glib and loud
mouthed puppies are braw1ing their ex-
cellencies at every turn. The world suf-
fers by too much ingenuity. The worthy
inventor finds everybody cleverer than
himself, who understand his machines
better than he does, and will tell him il
was invented twenty years before. They
cover it with improvements so that he sci
dom profits by his labor himself. Lengthy
pamphlets are always produced to shov
that not an idea was new, or that had no
e been known before the time of Pliny.
b The world is continually badgered b,
: an ingenious rogue who is peddling mag
: nificent promises. He has knack of sci
q ling you churns that will turn out half
L pound more butter than the same weigh
y of milk. He has more respectable broth
er who deals in great business enterprise.
He is little better than third brothel
who robs your pocket, or bids you stan
and deliver; he rObs you legally; h
scents roll of bills from afar; he has tn
skill of abstracting these bills withol
touching your pocket; he also enters ban
. safes without help of drills or acetic acit
or any violence whatsoever. Many
= these better class ofburglars become pu'
lie officers, and are chosen by vote to {
business.