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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
Old Mining Camps.

An old mining camp in the growing
hours of dusk has an air of the most
peaceful acquiescence with the ways of
Providence. There is nothing else like
it in the universe. The sleepiest fisher
village which ever clung to black cliffs
above the lazy breakers and the white
shore will rouse when shoals of herring
fill the bay, or when the winter storms
come with their wild rage bearing some
doomed ship on the foaming rocks; the
sleepiest village of the valley grows,
though slowly, by increase in the value
of lands, and the drift of improvements
in the community. But the old min
ing camp is mystery to the thoughtful
inquirer. If man moves away, there
kindling-wood. Yonder was pretty
garden on the slope, but the progress of
the mines has cut the water bitches,
which, now cannot reach it, and SO it is
neglected and barren. Here is a build
ing = solid brick walls, iron shutters,
door which would withstand seige; it
was bank once, where exchanges could
be had on London, Hamburg and all the
great centers of trade; now it is plas-
tered over with red paper signs and oc-
cupied by score of narrow-lidded, vel
| low Chinese. Yet there are quiet,
shaded cottages and the most lovely of
homes in almost every one of these old
mining camps. Take little turn apart
from the decaying business center of the
town, and you will find what would de-
light the most care-hardened traveller.
Quiet men sitting on the doorsteps and
watching that last quiver of sunlight in
the pines which is SO eternally new and
glorious; fair women, in summer gar
ments of white, standing by fragrant
pillars of roses; chubby-faced children,
full of healthy merriment, slipping in
and out among the trees, or playing on
the terraced bit of grass plot beside the
grape trellis. All! we have at last found
out the charm of many a mountain
town which cynical tourists delight to
deny. There are abiding places and
homes of men here, also, even as in the
| fairest of valleys.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
Popularity of Beer.

Swine maketh glad the heart" said
the King of Israel; and the Hebrew
heart of David's day was gladdened by
a real wine, the wine of grapes; while
the ancient Egyptian heart rejoiced in
wine of barley-that is, beer. The inven-
ton of beer as a beverage is ascribed to
Osiris twenty centuries before the Chris
ton era, and it was known in the ancient
world as wine of barley. In the modern
time, the nationalists of Latin origin
drink wine more freely than those of
Saxon origin, who consume much beer.
The agriculture of European countries
is largely influenced by the popular de-
mand for beverages. Within the last
two decades beer has been rapidly gain
ing favor in Latin countries Beer sa-
looms now flourish in Paris, Rome and
Madrid, as we'll as in Berlin, Vienna and
Hamburg. In Paris, for example, the
annual consumption of beer has risen to
over one hundred million liters tabout
25o,OO0 gallonsl and many Parisians
have come to the conclusion that beer,
though inferior in attractiveness to wine,
allays thirst, stimulates digestion, re-
freshes the system, and is nutritive.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

ALL the English society weeklies are
now severely afflicted with the "inter-
viewing" mania, which has been intro.
duced from the United States, though
they try to disguise its American origin.
They call it by every other but its right
name. Celebrities at Home'n Per-
sonal Photographs" "Portraits in
Words" and a half a dozen other titles
are substituted for the straight, honest
American word, Interview" Game as
high even as kings is attacked. The
English interviewer in said to be a
geDtleman-sometimes diplomat, oc-
casionally novelist, now and then a
distinguished journalist; but never a re-
porter. Pens are hired whose owners
can sit on equal terms with the person
interviewed. The papers find this new
feature very profitable one.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

The Boston Post thinks the Rev.
Joseph Cook too hifalutin, and to con-
vey to its readers an idea of his vocabu-
larry, recites the following: "The other
day the Rev. Joseph Cook saw a street
gamin with bottle of liquor, and
grieved at the sight, said to the lad {:
Son, by the development of the in
herent propensity to Bacchanalian re-
velry we involutionize to the grade of
pachyderm. Quem deus vuk perdere,
prius dementat.' This judicious rebuke
had its effect. The god man passed on.
The lad dropped the bottle, staggered to
seat on the curbstone, and spent three
hours in meditation, at the end of which
time he was conveyed in hack to the
hospital"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

stringent. Some of the officers of an
other excursion boat were fined for
keeping up their fires on Sunday. the
court deciding that no matter what loss
the company might sustain by having
to suspend work on Sunday and miss
their morning trip Monday by having
to get up steam on that day instead of
having everything prepared Sunday, it
was, nevertheless, a violation of the law
to be doing that work on the Sabbath,
and it would, therefore, have to impose
the ordinary fine for violating the law.
An appeal was taken by the defense.
The law under which this decision was
made has come down from colonial
times. An attempt will be made to re-
peal or modify it at the next session of
the Legislature, but though it has many
opponents, there is large conservative
element in the state.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
The Sarcastic Tramp.

On the wall of the woodshed which con-
stitutes the station at Dorsey's on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the follow
ing has recently been written in fair
commercial hand. "Bound for Virginia
in search of employment. Lodged here
one night and breakfast on dandelion
salad and peas-a delightful dish. The
polite attention of the walters at this
establishment ] can not too highly COM
mend to my followers. Edgar A. Wilk-
ins, of Bristol, England" The sarcasm
of this can be appreciated when it is re-
membered that the dandelions and peas
had to be plucked from neighoring
field, and that nobody lives within half a
mile of the station. But if Mr.. Wilkins
tramps much longer in this country, he
will demand bread, ham, and coffee for
breakfast, instead of being contented
with strictly vegetarian diet
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

The Sunday conflict is still raging in
Baltimore. The Postoffice Department
is willing that steamers and other COM
mon carriers shall transport the mails
oftener than they have contracted to do,
provided they do it gratuitously. On
finding, however, that little steamboat
at Baltimore was doing this to prevent
its Sunday trips from being stopped by
state law, the Postmaster General re-
fused to give it any more extra mails to
carry, alleging that the department
would not help the violation of local
statutes. The law of Maryland is very
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
Next Year's Advantages.

Next year should be a very prosper
Gus one for the clergyman. Besides be-
ing leap year, seven eclipses are an
nouced. Eclipses of the moon are wei
coined by lovers, but nothing encour-
ages courtships more than comet wi; h
a tail 5000, 900, ,000, 900 miles in length
sweeping across the heavens during the
summer nights. Notwithstanding it's
enormous size, young lady cannot
catch a glimpse of the celestial wonder
without leaning her head on her young
mans shoulder and have him point it
out to her
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
Pope Gregory to the Bishop.

lam informed that you, my brother,
teach certain persons grammar ii. e.,
Classics;) at this was so grieved, and
conceived so strong disgust, that | ex-
changed my former feelings of gladncss
for groans and sadness; for it cannot I've
that the praises of Jupiter and the
praises of Christ should proceed from the
same mouth. y A priest, asked
about the report, denies its truth; y
and if find the Information false, and
that you are not studying uifles and
secular literature, shah give thanks to
God, who has not suffered your mind to
be polluted with the blasphemous praises
of the wicked" san
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11


Gotes butes, and Uncle Ned he said:
"Johnny, one day there was a cote in
field, and it took after Bildad, wich You
better xplain to your bnited readers is
the new dog. Bildad he run toward
hi fence for to git over, but the cote it
cot him and buted him cruil on the tail,
and he wirled over and over, and lit on
the uther side of the fence but didn't
kno it coshe was bewildered, and scram-
bled back over the fence agin, lifely as
ever he cude, and the cote it let him
have it a other time, and wocked way.
Bildad he was. stonish dog, and shuke.
his head, much as to say: i never see
70 many buttigotes, one in evry feeldT ~
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

BURDETT, of the Burlington Hawkeye,
has bad opinion OF so-called great
men. He says: "a writer recently set
himself at work to get out a series of
papers on The Great Men of Amer
ica,' but, after diligently reading them
up in the journals of opposite political
faiths, he came to the conclusion that
we have none at present, and never had
more than one or two in all our history
as a nation, and that he could not find
out just who they were."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
THE chirping and singing of tn,

THE chirping and singing of the
cricket and grasshopper are frequently
spoken of; but they do not sing =
they fiddle. By rubbing wings and legs
together in such a manner peculiar to
the species these insects produce the
sounds which characterize them. Per-
haps our best insect instrumental per
former is the katydid.' Each wing
contains little tamborine, and by the
opening and shutting of the wings these
are rubbed against each other and pro-
duce the sound of katy-did-she-did,"
which can be heard at such long dis
tance, and gives the insect its name.
These sounds are supposed to be useful
in enabling insects TO find their mates,
or they may indulge in them for their
own qualification, and to add to the gem
eraI harmony of nature.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

In regard to the assertion which mas
recently been made that the sun never
sets on American soil, the Scientific
American says that this is boasting too
much; thatwe have really four hours of
darkness every night. as when the linger-
ing rays of the SUN are kissing the hills
of our furthest Aleutian island good
night they are saluting the hilltops of
Ireland with good morning, while the
breadth of the Atlantic lies between us
and davlieht
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

The mystery surrounding, the
Waynesyille horror appears to be pretty
we'll cleared up SO far as the identity of
the guilty party is concerned, The dis
covery of the body of the boy Anderson,
killed by his own hand. points without
much room for doubt to his being the
author of one of the most cold-blooded
murders in the entire history of crime.
But what could have prompted him to
the commission of it yet remains an
enigma. r
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
WOman's Business.
[Atlantic Monthly.l


A woman, notwithstanding she is the
best of listeners, knows her business,
and it is woman's business to please.
vote, but do say that the woman who
does not please is a false note in the
harmonies of nature. She may not
have youth or beauty, or even manners,
but she must have something in her
voice or expression, or both, which
makes you feel better disposed toward
your own race to look at or listen to.
She knows that as we'll as we do, and
her first question after you have been
talking your soul into her .'onscions-
ness is: Did l please? A woman
never forgets her sex. She would rather
talk with man than an angel any time.
Womanly women are very kindly critics,
except to themselves and now and then
to their own sex. The less there is of
sex about woman the more she is to be
dreaded. ssei sas
But like real woman at her best
moments-well dressed enough to be
pleased with herself, not so splendid as
to be a show and sensation, with the
varied outside influences that set vibra-
ting the harmonious notes of her nature
stirring in the air about her and what
social life to compare with one of those
vital interchanges of thought and feel
ing with her that makes an hour MEM
orable? What can equal her tact, her
delicacy, her subtlety of apprehension,
her quickness to feel the changes of tenn
perature, as the warm and cool currents
of thought blow by turns? AT one mo-
ment she is microscopically intellec-
tual, critical, scrupulous in judgment as
an analysts balance, and the next as
sympathetic as the open rose that
sweetens the wind from whatever quar-
ter it finds its way to her bosom. 1t is
in the hospitable soul of woman that
man forgets he is a stranger, and so be-
comes natural and truthful; at the
same time he is mesmerized by all those
divine differences that make her mys.
tery and bewilderment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

The story goes that the recent dele
CATION of negroes sent to Kansas by
Mississippi planters that they might
return and report adversely to the coun-
try and, If possible. put stop to the
colored exodus, were SO captivated by
the beautiful country and bountiful
harvests that many of them forgot to
return at all, while others went back
to tell their friends and neighbors of
the beauty and bounty they had found,
and TO induce further emigration.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

CARRYING Goals to Newcastle may
in time be an ordinary fact, for the ex-
haustion of the English coal fields is
only a question of time, while the
American supply is limitless. After
sending silks to France, jewelry to
Paris, horses to Newmarket, why not
Goals TO Newcastle2
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

Wise's sentence has been suspended.
Zeichman has been given a new trial. Brandt
planned the murder, and Drews was TO be paid
81 500 to execute it. He backed out, but got
substitute in Stichler, who was to receive $500
frow Drews for drowning Raber. Drews and
Wise have both made statements recently, the
former admitting that he was present when the
old man was drowned, and the latter claimed
to have no knowledge that Raber was to be
killed on the day he was drowned, but confessed
that he was in previous plot to have the in
sured murdered
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

WHILE our ears are constantly as
sailed by distressing reports of the fail
ure of crops in Europe, it is pleasant to
hear such a statement within our own
borders as that which comes from Mime
sofa. Fifty millions of dollars worth of
farm produce is the quantity the Min
nesotans expect to put in market.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

HARTRANFT signed more death war
rants than any Governor who ever held
the Office in Pennsylvania. His expert
ence in the hanging business is not ex.
celled by any public officer in the coun-
try. 1t did not happen through any
desire for blood, as he is pre-emiu emily
a sensitive man. Duty compelled it and
he fulfilled the letter of the law.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

AN ancient burial ground is being ex-
cavated by a local literary society at
Madisonville, Ohio. Many human bones
and stone implements have been found,
but the strangest discovery is that of
about four bushels of corn, thoroughly
carbonized, but retaining its original
appearance, except in color. The con-
lecture Is that 1t was put there as part
OF an Indissn burial rite,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

MoRMoNIsM received something of a
check month ago in northeast Georgia
by the killing of one of the saints, or
bishops, sent there to gather in disci-
pies. Now the disease has broken out in
Clay and Cherokee counties, in North
Carolina, and the people there have
taken it in hand in the most decided
manner, ordering the preachers to leave
for Salt Lake within thirty days.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

SEVERAL of Keats manuscripts are
now in the possession of DR.. Valeriau,
OF Rome. Among them is that of "St.
Agnes Eve" written on long thin paper,
and full of variations and corrections
Another interesting object is a copy of
Shakspeare's Sonnets," containing
autographic notes and three sennets in
Keats handwriting.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

MANY thousands Of honest, industri-
Gus women to-day are cooped up in the
wretched, half-furnished novels in the
city aud country, with want and misery
for companions, while Mrs. Cobb, the
murderess. lives in luxurious cell car
psted with Brussels" hung with lace,
and furnished with all that taste and
money can buy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

RUSSIA is about to tax all importa-
tions of iron. II the home product was
as superior in ether varieties as the
sheet-iron to all foreign makers, there
would be no use in levying duty, for
there would be no one to pay it. The
empire needs, however, many manufac-
lures Of the metal which the ingenuity
OF its subjects is not competent to
sunply
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

OVER one hundred thousand sheep
were killed or injured by dogs in Ohio
during the year 1873. an increase of
fifty per cent. over the destruction of
the preceding year. The dog popula-
tion needs thinning out.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

HALF a century ago French law re-
quired the suspension of all work on
Sundays, bat it remained dead letter
on the statute books. 1t is now to be
enforced, as may be seen by the Paris
papers. This does not apply to recreation.
The museums and theaters are always
crowded on Sundays, and the public
exhibitions on the Champs EIysees are
better patronized that day than any
other.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

IssrEAD of losing Gibraltar, it looks
as though England was getting firmer
grip upon Tangiers. John Bulls motto
is TO get all he tan, and keep all he gets,
and II he does not live up to it, it is
owing tn circumstances over which he
has no control.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
VOLUME VII.

A SITE has been reserved on Bedloe's
leland, New York harbor, for the erec-
tion of Bartholdis gigantic statue.
Liberty Enlightening the World"
now rapidly advancing to completion in
Paris. The head will doubtless be
crowned with tiara of electric lights.
There should be as many of them as
there are states in the Union. This
gift of France to America will be one
of the future wonders of the world.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

CONNECTICUT newspapers are nov
discussing with some vigor, the pro-
posed amendment to the State Constitu-
tion making sessions of the legislature
biennial. The amendment will be voted
on next autumn. Twenty-six states in
the Union have already adopted amend.
ments OF this kind.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

The emigration of Southern negroes
TO the northwest is reported to be going
steadily forward. The later emigrants
are of better class and require little
assistance. The movement is expected
20 receive a great impetus after the
gathering OF the crops. '
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

GENERAL GRANT has been sued.
He IN one of the Trustees of the Metro
politan VI. E. Church, in Washington,
and the Baltimore Equitable Society
bring suit against the Trustees for an
overdue mo rtgage.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

NEw YORK cares for her ooor chill
drcn. Once every year about three
thousand of them are taken out on a
short steamboat excursion. and the
papers tell how much the little things
enioy life."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

than the occasion warrants. The fact that they
have used upwards of $25, 900 since the fever
appeared here, is spoken of as evidence of
waste, and many ask what is there to show
for it.
The Howards of New Orleans have always
aided their INDECENT yellow fever sufferers with
out calling on the public for subscriptions. with
out pay for themselves, and without buggies to
ride around the streets, working with an open,
free hand, and keeping nothing hid.
The Howards are an exclusive corporation,
permit no reporters to attend their meetings,
make no showing of their expenditures, except
such as they choose to ventilate, and while it is
admitted they have extended relief to many,
yet it is the general talk that large share of
the charity fund expended by them would not
bear favorable inspection. These few o /.
the remarks freely spoken there. Other hard
hings are also said.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

SUPERINTENDENT ELLIOTT, of the
Boston public schools, condemns school
exhibitions as they are too often con-
Quoted, and says that call the para
phernalia of rewards and punishments,
ranks, percentages, extras, merits,
checks and the rest are among the chief
hindrances to moral and intellectual
life,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

PROFESSOR LouTH, of Munich, has
published book to prove that HERO
glyphical inscription on a monument
discovered IN Lower Egypt by Mariette
Bey shows that the monument was
erecte9 by Moses.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

1T Is said the Dominion Government
will examine the Trent Riv er Works
shortly with the view Of ascertaining
the feasibility of connecting Lake Huron
with the Bay of Quinte by ship canal.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

CIGARETTE smoking seems to be quite
a fashion among English ladies', and is
the subject of much comment in Lon
don journals.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

ONE hundred and thirty.one women
have tSus far registered in Boston to
vote for the school committee.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

COLONEL HARPER of the Okotond
(Nfiss.) States threatens to come North
and lecture.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

A CHrSAMAS isthe cause of a divorce
suit between a white husband and wife
Ak Peoria, Ill. -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

The Jeanette may perhaps discover
the North pole, but who will discover
the Jeanettef
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

MUCH charity which begins at home
is too feeble to get out of doors, and
much that begins out doors never gets
into the home circle.-Go,canda Enter
prise,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

GENERAL GRANT has sailed for Yoko-
hama. He will be due In San Fran
cisco about the 2lst of this month.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

A MAN recently tried to pawn fan in
vain. he argued that it ought to raise
the wind, This is not original, however,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

THE Philadelphia Times wants some
one to invent an indestructible slate for
political uses.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
TOPICS or the 0lI

COMPLEX marriages do not appear to
improve the Oneida female complexion.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11

TIE welther-wise in Pennsylvania say
that the continued flight of wild pigeons
southwest indicates early cold weather.