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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
WHAT'S One Bullet to a BasketfuE

An incident occurred in the battle of
Franklin which / never have seen in print
The sanguinary battle VAS at its height,
and now and then there was soldier who
would not face the music, and, holding to
the idea that "distance lends enchantments,'
on all such occasions would exhibit his
faith in the idea by taking "leg-bail" for
the rear. These cases were getting too
numerous toward the close of the battle,
and Col, A. A. G. of the brigade, was
sent back to the rear to intercept those seek
ing for safety and return them to their re-
spective posts of duty.
Col. B-said he hailed one fellow who
was making tracks for some place of safety
with all the energy of despair.
"Halt! say, and return to your com
mand!''
The flying son of Mars took no notice o
the command.
"Halt! say, and go back to your post.
The soldier paid no attention to him.
The colonel now became exasperated, ant
yelled out:
"If you don't turn and 60 back to you
command l will shoot you, sir"
Without pausing in his flight the sol
dier yelled back to him:
"Shoot and be hangedl What's one bnl
let to basketful?"
Col B-let him CO. and after the bat
tie told the incident as a good joke.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
Sulphur for Scarlet Fever.

DR.. Henry Pigeon writes to the London
Lancet as follows: The marvellous sue.
cess which has attended my treatment of
scarlet ferer by sulphur induces me to let
my medical bretheran know my plan, SO
that they may be able to supply the same
remedy without delay. All the cases in
which used it were very well marked,
and the epidermis on the arms in each
case came off like the skin of snake The
following was the exact treatment followed:
thoroughly anoint the patient twice daily
with sulphur ointment; giving five to
ten grains of sulphur in little jam three
times day. Sufficient sulphur was burn
cd, twice day (on shoveD to fill the
room with the fumes, and, of course, was
thoroughly inhaled by the patient
Under this mode of treatment each case
improved Immediately. and none was over
eight days in making complete recovery,
and I firmly believe in each it was from
the treatment adopted. One was in a
large school. Having had large expert
ence in yellow fever last year and this,
feel some confidence in my own judgement,
and l am of the oponion that the very
mildest cases I ever saw do not do half so
we'll as bad cases do by the sulphur treat
ment, and, as far as can judge, ulphur is
near specific for scarlet fever as possible.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
The Human Will.

Ones life is, after all, given somewhat
into ones own hands. If you say 81 will
not" to any destiny that seems to shape it.
self for you, the seeming destiny is apt to
undergo decided change. There is
great deal in will. 1t is the men who say
"I will not be poor," who become rich; the
men who think, "Whatever is in me shall
come OUT" who become known to the
world, the men who resolve, "I will be up
upright" who are never overcome by the
temptations of vice. Historians have
written of soldiers that "did not know when
they were beaten;" but these were the men
who in the end knew they were victorious
and in the battle of life, not to know when
beaten is great thing. Disagreeable
people are usually so because they make nc
effort to be otherwise. a man may com.
pei himself to be interesting by fighting
with an unsocial disposition. 1t is only
the woman who declares herself homely
and makes no effort to dress becomingly
who is never actually so to others.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
A Strange Ambition.

We know of some young people who
have strange ambition 10 be considered
"great readers" They do not use the
word great in reference to what they
learn by reading, but in regard to the num-
Der of books and pages they have read.
They are not careful as to the qualit. Usu-
ally this class of readers select the poorest
quality, because they can get through 1T
qicker. Indeed, they sometimes boast of
the rapidity with which they can read a
book, as though it were an occasion of hon.
est pride to read a whole volume at one
sitting, They forget that it is not the am
ount of reading which benefits one, but
quality and the manner in which the book
is used Some get more good from page
than others from volume.
What would be thought of one who
shonld boast of eating everyth ing set before
him, without reference to the wholesome
ness of the food?
To eat large quantities of even wholesome
food would be very unwise; to eat all sorts
of food is greater folly still. Some would
call such man glutton, or "A gormandi
zer; others would call him pig.
Be select in your reading read only
what will do you good, and try to get all
the good out of it you can. Have an am
bition to be thorough reader rather than
a rapid one.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
The Wind in Winter.

There is something wild and weird in
the sound of the long winds that whistle
around our dwellings in the night time at
the present season. They are monrnful,
and they bear on their swift wings the
memories of other days. They remind Us
of faces that have vanished forever from
our view, and of hresides where the ashes
are now cold. They appeal to us for char
ity-for they know that they come past the
window without fuel, and orphan children
and scanty fare. Let US listen to the mourn
full winter winds, and, while they make US
sad, be taught by them to do what lies in
our power to make other hearts more
cheerful
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
BLESSED IS RESUMPTION.

On the second day of January last,
Hon. James A. Garfield, of Ohio,
made speech at a resumption wake
in Chicago over the supposed corpse of
the Rag Baby and closed with an ele-
giant and touching peroration as fol-
lows:
"Prices have settled to the old peace
level, the wrecks have been gradually
cleared away-the revival has begun,
and without undue exultation, we
may declare that the bells of the new
year
"'Ring out slowly dying cause,
An ancient forms Of party strife;
Ring In the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.'"
During the next thirty days John
Sherman with his little bond-hook-and
line, fshed $150,000,00O of money
out of the channels of enterprise, and
settled it down in his resumption keg.
Now letter comes from Vermont
written by j. r. Foster of Winooski,
dated February 10, and reports pro-
gress as follows:
"The very low and declining prices
of every salable commodity, and the
readiness that A per cent. bonds are
taken by those who have money are
not fattering indications that the wol
Of poverty and hunger will soon be
driven from our doors.
"Our county Jail is full Of tax pay,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

We heard a leading Republican of
this county say that che would never
again use his influence in the interest
of the Republican ticket or have any
thing to do with the conventions
That he had been deceived by the Re-
publican candidates and was the cause
Of others being deceived by casting
their ballots for Kelley and Martin
with the expectation of breaking up
the ring"
This man is one of the hardest
workers in the Republican party and
has as much if not more influence
than any other Republican in the
county. Had it not been for him one
and probably both of the Republican
candites who were elected would have
been defeated.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
The Worst Poverty.

Selfshness is poverty-it is the most ut
ter destruction of human being. It can
bring nothing to his relief; it adds sure
ness to his sorrows; it sharpens his plans;
it aggravtes all the losses he is liabia to
endure and when goaded to extremes often
turns destroyer and strikes its last blow on
himself. 1t gives US nothing to rest on OF
fly to in times of trouble; it turns our af
fections on ourselves, self on self, as the saE
OF a tree descending ont of the season from
its heavenward branches, and making no
only its life not useful, but its growth
downward.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
Be Independent.

Another impossible thing is to form an
independent character, except when thrown
upon ones own resources The oak in the
middle of the forest, if surrounded on
every side by trees that shelter and shade
it, runs up tall and comparatively feeble;
cut away its protectors, and the first blast
will overturn it. But the same tree, grow
ing in the open field, where it is continual
ly beaten upon by the tempest, becomes
its own protector. So the man who is com
PEELED to rely on his own resources form:
an independence Of character to which he
could not otherwise have attained.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

CONGRESSIONAL ABUsE-The Boston
Journal joins the Hartford Comm Cour-
and in defending those members of Con-
eress who supply themselves with prayer
books, opera glasses, ETC., at the expense of
the public Treasury. 1t says:
"Years ago members were Furnished
with stationary without limit save in the
discretion of each member. or course
abuses grew out of this, and to check or
avoid them altogether an allowance of
5000 year was made by law, many years
ago, for stationary, which members could
draw, not in money but in the articles gen.
orally kept In such an establishment, at the
stationary rooms, and have them charged
at Wholesale price. Any article not in the
store which member might call for was
furnished by the clerk in charge. If at the
end OF the year any member had not drawn
his 5000 the balance was paid him in cash.
IL would take large part of this sum to
pay tho postage of the average Congress.
man when his letters could few years
since go free under his frank"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
The Way to Obtain Health.


First study to acquire 4 composure of
mind and body. Avoid agitation or hur-
ry of one or the other, especially just be-
fore and after meals, and while the process
of digestion is goin on. To this end gov
ern your temper; endeavor to look at the
bright side of things: keep down as much
as possible the unruly passion; discard en-
Wy, hatred, and malice, and lazy head
uponsyour pillow in charity with all man.
kind. Let not your wants outrun your
means, Whatever difficulties you have to
encounter, be not perplexed, but think
what is right to do in the sight of Him
who seeth all things, and bear without re-
pining the result
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

England can't do without our beef, and
the restrictions on the importation of cat
tie will be removed March 8, after which
cattle arriving at Liverpool from this
country Mill be slaughtered in abattoirs To-
Gated on the docks of that city. Itappears
that the reports about the existence of ple
uro-pneumonia in American cattle were
greatly exaggregated. That disease is a
mild form of the dreaded Rinderpest, but
the scare originated from the circumstance
that some of the American cattle arriving
at Liverpool had bad colds, owing to the
inclement weather on the trip across the
ooaan
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
The Gift of Tact.

What wonderful oil upon the machin-
cry Of human affairs, tact is To know
ust what to say, and when to say tito know
when to be silent and when to differently
listen, is great gift. No one can fully
appreciate this gift who has not had the
misfortune of living with laundering
person, who never moves or speaks with
out unintentionally wounding or offending
somebody. Continuity with such one
is fearful to the nerves, and temper too.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27


1t is our belief that if the Local
Option is left to a vote the class who
drink to excess will vote against the
sale of intoxicating liquor, or at least
large majority of them. They are
slaves to drink and it is almost an i'm
possibility for them to resist the temp
tation if it is near them after it once
gets hold on them. You often hear
the question asked, "why do you drink
it." They might as well ask the ques-
ton, "why do insane persons act as
they do" Little do they know what
an ungovernable appetite the drinker
has, or what he suffers when he gives
way to his appetite. Is is impossible
for him to give a description of it.
After spending weeks and months
at hard labor and has saved enough
means to pay his debts and have plenty
to live on, and money in his pocket and
in the best of health; he concludes
to take day of rest. No sooner does
he do so than his mind will turn to the
intoxicating cup; he soon finds the de-
canter staring him in the face when his
resolution will be broken, and in q
few days he will find himself out of
money, his clothes ruined, nothing to
eat, and deathly sick and in all prob
ability he has lost his situation, or if
he be man OF family, his rent is due
and the land lord taking steps to have
his family turned into the streets.
Our best mechanics have been made
botches and unable to get work on &C.
count of whiskey, hundreds of ouI
own county have been dragged down
to the grave frcm intemperance, many
homes in our village would be filled
with peace and plenty while they are
now filed with almost naked form;
of women and helpless children who
are crying for want Of food and cloth
ing. This is known to all who wish tt
acquaint themselves with the facts
There are children in the town O.
Somerset that have been without
bread for four and five days, caused
by the interperate father.
We say Danish the cursed stuff from
the land. We wish to God we had i
in our power to dispose of. We arr
opposed to liquor in any shape o.
form and will cast our ballot agains
the sale of it. 1t is the duty of ev
cry one to say what they think o
it, and if the Local Option bill pass
es, it is the duty of every man t.
not only vote but use his influence
in favor of banishing it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

q Six bar-rooms suspended in Frankfort
since the first of January. How is that for
q beginning?
Lewiston, in Maine, with 10000 popula-
tion, has not had an arrest for drunkenness
for twenty years.
During the last year the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union has dispensed Sc,
160 in charity.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Michigan
has adopted resolution declaring it anti
Masonic to retail liquor as bevrage.
Cool Burgess, the famous minstrel, who
has been thirty years in the profession,
signed the pledge recently at meeting
held in the Cooper Institute, New York
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

Here is quite description of what ev-
cry woman has been or hopes to be-A
bride. She quits her home, her parents,
her companions, her occupations, her a.
musements-every thing on which she has
heretofore depended for comfort, for affec-
tion for kindness, for pleasure. The pa
rents by whose advice she has been guided,
the sister to whom she has dared impart
every embryo thought or feeling, the
brother who has played with her, by turns
the councillor and the counseled
and the younger children, to
whom she has hitherto been the mother
and the playmate-all to be forsaken at
one fell stroke. Every tie is loosened, the
spring of every hope and action is changed,
and yet che flies with joy into the untrod
den path before her. Buoyed up by the
confidence of requitted love, she bids n
fond and grateful adieu to the life that is
past, and turns with excite hopes and joy
GUS anticipations of happiness to come.
Then woe unto the man who can blight
such fair hope, who can, coward like, break
the illusions that have won her, and de-
stroy the confidence love had inspired.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
Working and Waiting.

There are two things that always pay ev-
en- in this not over remunerative existence
They are working and waiting. Either is
useless without the other. Both united are
invincible, and invaribly triumphant. He
who waits without working is simply man
yielding to sloth and despair. He who
works wathout waiting is ftful in his stri
wings and misses results by impatsence He
who works steadily and waits patiently
may have long journey before him, but
at its close he will find his reward.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
; A Blank In Creation.

A man who does nothing is a mere cy-
pher. He does not fulfill the obligations
for which he was sent into the world, and
when he dies he has not finished the work
that was given to him to do. He is a
mere blank in creation. Some are born
with riches and honors upon their heads.
But it follows that they have!nothing to do
in their career through life? There are
certain duties for each one to perform. Be
something. Don't live like hermit and
die unregretted.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

Al the last vics-regal ball in Dublin the
London World avors that in spite of some
new presentations, the American daughter
in-law of the Duchess Marlbraugh, Lady
Randolph Churchill, in the back was de-
cidedly the most striking and artistic pic
ture in the whole Court circle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

Will the Republicans nominate a
county ticket this fall or will they
nominate ticket and before the elec-
ton withdraw portion of it in favor
Of the Democratic candidates?
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
The Best Testimony.

Frequent and constant advertising
brought me all own."-A. T. Stewart.
"How can the world know a man has a
good thing unless he advertises possession
of it."-Cornelius Vanderbilt.
"Success depends upon liberal patron
age of printing ofices."-J. J. Astor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
The Soul.

The soul, the recipient of which cannot
be appropriated to selfish ends, incurs the
responsibility Of imparting to others, meas
ure, that which it receives from one and
all. And the debt must be paid in its own
kind; We cannot receive gold and pay out
brass without sin and shame; we canont
guiltless, palm of tbelspurious for the real
and for love and ligh, infinite, divine in
their essence, we cannot exchange the per-
ishing and fnate.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

The Ring Tribune is in favor of
Chinese labor. 1t wants the laboring
masses to compete with the rat-eaters
Of China.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

Julius Simon's son, Gustavo Simon, has
Just been married to Mile. Sourdis,
wealthy young Jewiss' The bridegroom's
witnesses were NM. Victor Hugo and Ju-
es Grevy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

Our Curt has salted down two hun
dred and sixty dollars and milage up
TO this time.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

1t keeps editors and other bloated capi-
talists quite busy nova days going through
their piles of bonds, and sorting out the
called ones for redemption. Cour-
ier.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

Abolish the Infrmary and let each
township take care of its own poor.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

General Emigrant Agent, North West corner
Fourth and Vine Streets, directly opposite the
Post office, Cincinnati, Ohio.
TO land buyers a free ride
Over Land Grant Roads.
/ am the only agent east of the Mississippi River
acting under appointment received from Cover
nors of Western States. My duties are to see that
you get reliable information and the best possible
rates on transportation.
Don't fail 20 call on or write me before making
any arrangements relative to moving your people
OF property.
no i make no charge for my seryiccs'ea
March &, 1873.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

The home for orpans in pauperdom
is not "fixed fact"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

The Legislature adjourned last Fri
day until Tuesday afternoon.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

Don't pay milage.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
TO Western Emigrants.

For maps, rail road time tables, Land Circulars,
Land Exploring Tickets, Low rates ON Household
goods and stock and reliable information relative
TO the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
Sale of Desirable Real Es-
tate i'm Somerset, Ohio.

TN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
| to me issued from the Probate Court of Perry
County, Ohio, 1 will offer for sale ut public out
cry, on the premises, on
Saturday, March 20, 1879,
at . o'clock in the afternoon, the late homestead
property of William NJ. Ream; being in lot No. SO,
in Semerset, Ohio.
Terms of sale:-One fourth cash in hand, and
the balance in three equal payments, to bear in
terest from the day of sale at the rate of per
cent. and be secured by mortgage on the premises
This is one of the finest ipieees of property in
Somerset. 1t is in good repair, has on it good well
and cistern, convenient out buildings, is favora-
bly, located for a dwelling and business purposes,
and the title is perfect
Appraised at $685., ,3313.
SAMUEL K. REAM,
Assignee Of W. NJ. Ream.
w. L: FINCK. Attorney.
February 20, 1s79,s6w sfS5 rs.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-09
Ingenious Revenue Swindle.

Collector Wiley and Deputy Collector
Eberman closed the.cigar factory of E. M.
EShirk, of Terry Hill, this county, yesterday,
because of an ingenious device to defraud
the revenue, which they discovered Fri
day. The plan of Making" an additional
five dollar bill by taking parts of four other
bills of the same denomination and pasting
them together, has been adopted with cigar
stamps, four stamps be converted into
five and thus making one stamp, or in
other words, defraudng the government
out Of sixty cents on every five boxes of
cigars stamped. The plan was to cut the
word "hundred" out of three stamps, the
word "one" out of three stamps, and by
manipulating the margin and industriously
and ingeniously pasting these pieces to.
gether you have five revenue stamps instead
of four-but not perfect ones, the word
"hundred" being missing from one stamp
and the word "one" from another.
Mr. Shirk denies that this manipulation
occurred in his factory although his brand
appears on every box. AS he manufactures
$4,000 cigars per month, the carrying on
of this trick to any considerable extent
might prove great loss to the government.
Collector Wiley put his seal on the estab-
lishment yesterday, and United States
Commissioner Slaymaker issued his war;
rant for shirk's arrest Saturday Lancas-
ter Nea0 Era.