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Old Hickory's Bluff Way.

Long years after the capture of Stony
Point, when Andrew jackson was Presi-
dent, visitor at the White House re-
marked that the Postmaster in his town
{who "theld over'') was an. emmy to the
President, had even been heard to call
himts scoundrel,' 7 and urged the removal
of the ill-nannered officer.
g What sort of person is hep inquired
the President. 7s7.4
i The visitor admitted that the Post,
master was an aged and honorable man
and incidentally remarked that he was
one of the survivors of the battle of Stony
Point M -
~ Whatp' said the President, rising
from his chair, "was he really with
Anthony Wayne at Stony Point?'
He certainly was" replied the
visitor.
Well, then, said Old Hickory, by
the Eternal! he has perfect right to cal
! me scoundrel every day in the week
and to be Postmaster during his natura
life -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24

- About Babies.-A sensible writer in
the Housekeeper's Department of the
Toledo SBlade SAYS: "Mothers, when
nursing Young children, should be very
carefulsof their diet, eat good, whole
some food, avoid pickles, lemons, and all
eour drinks unless you want your baby
t0.cry al night. drink tea or coffee, but
not too strong, with plenty of good
child when Sour blood is heated up to
fever beat Feed ii often. and all it
wants, pnd you viii have good-natured,
disppStio4 Or A pin that ails the baby.
AWprd abps1t the clothing. The cendi-
ti0h ana &Aeon should govern the, cloth
inx Veal babies need more than
strdpg onesF On such IiIse red flannel.
Ihit cImfes, make garment of old, soft
Hnen, and put next the skin. Keep very
young babies out of the draft, but give
them plenty of fresh air, and do not
cover them up too warm. Bandage
them, but not too tight; keep their feet
and hands warm, heating often bysthe
fire; trot them often but not tee hard,
they will sleep the better fof it; but
never throw them up in the air over
your head, NOT allow it to be done, it
makes them inhale wind, and they have
to suffer for it. sBatbe them every morn
ing in cool soft water, with little milk
or soda in if, and if weakly, rub them in
brandy and water after the bath, but
never feed them brandy, no, never, I'M
less ordered by agood doctor, and then
/ would NOT dust them over with
starch, chalk ,yor, if they chafe, pulyer-
ize tea-feaves very fine. Never put a
baby in low cradle, and ROCK as little
as possible; let them sleep as long as they
will, but Use stimulants sparingly, and
then only in extreme suffering"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24
J sMsfsty From 1ig,aaa,Ir. ].

~ 1t h 1leverttoo soon, says writer, to
go into the house when storm is rising.
When the clouds are fully charged with
electricity they are most dangerous, and
this fluid obeys subtle attraction which
acts at great distances and in all direc-
tions. A woman told me of bolt which
came down her mothers chimney when
the sun was shining overhead. n. P.
Willis writes of young girl killed while
passing under telegraph wire on the
brow of a hill while she was hurrying
home before storm. People should not
be fool-hardy about sitting on the porches
and by open windows whether the storm
is hard or not. Mild showers often carry
single charge which falls with deadly
effect. 1t may or may not be fatal to
stay out; it is safe to be in the house
with the windows and doors shut The
dry air in house is reader conductor
of lightning than the damp air outside,
and a draught of air invites it. A hot
\ fue in q chimney attractsit, so to speak.
People are very ignorant and reckless
Hab0ut lightning. T. have seen a girl of
eighteen crying with fear of lightning,
and running every other moment to the
window to see if the storm was not
abating, unconscious that she was put
| ting herself in DANGER If every one
would hurry toshelter as soon as a storm
cloud was half way up the sky, when
| certain that it was coming nearer, if
they would shut the doors and windows,
and keep away from them afterward, and
from bell wires, stove pipes, mantels,
chimney breasts heaters and mirrors,
with their silver-backs which carry cleo
| 4~sx -. IL
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A. PET ROBIN.
An Eminent NAfuraHst writes q Bird
biography.

biography.
Extracts from sketch by Samuel Lockwood in the
American Naturalist.
In the clearer light of these latter days,
a higher value has settled upon the So
called small things of nature. Itmay be
that Mrs. Partington spoke wiser than
she knew when she said: Human ma
ture is human nature, if you find it in a
cow" Let us attempt to tell the story
of tame robin.
Rob, for so we called him, was taken
from nest on Long Island. He was
turned a year old when he became one
of our pets, and very soon he had estab-
lished himself in our affections He
was very exacting of attention-so de-
monstrative and familiar.
Much sentiment is wasted about keep
ing birds in confinement. Does it not
generally come from such as are intol-
Grant of pets? cit is deprivation of
natural freedom" So thought the horse
in the meadow, as he beheld the ass
roaming in the unfenced sand lots. Even
birds may have hard times. Yes, / have
known the free wild birds to be starved
to death within the sound of a canary's
song. But perhaps Rob was unsenti-
mental, for it was plain, that prison or
not, he liked his cage. In it he was at
home and well to do-away from it, he
was adrift and unsettled.
The senses of birds must be very acute
I would instance in Rob's case that of
scent. He was extravagantly fond of
fresh beef, and though in different
room, could tell the arrival of the butch
er's boy in the kitchen, when he would
scream with impatience. Little strips of
raw beef were fed him. If, when receiv-
ing one nnorsel, he saw another in the
fingers of his mistress, he would drop it
on the floor of his cage and wait for the
next bit with nervous impatience; and
so would he do until he had secured all
that his sharp eyes saw, which done, he
ate these delicacies in perfectly orderly
way. How unlike dog which swallows
as fast as he can the meat given it. But
Rob was particular. The meat so PROV
identity put on the floor of his cage was
thus rendered dirty, and the knowing
bird would take it piece by piece and
wash it in his water-tub. This conduct
| showed the nearest approach to abstract
reasoning that l ever saw the bird make.
MANY of the birds like this condiment
of leisure with their food. How often
have l seen fowl pick up grain of
corn, then drop it and look at it, then
pick it up, drop and inspect again several
times, then swallow it, and all with no
| other logic in the matter than could
see, than to make the most of ones
blessings. So with Rob, having got his
store before him, he enjoyed it in a leis-
urely and sensible way. He was very
| fond of the Larvae which we used to find
| in chestnuts. Even these he would
smell afar off, and would go into costa
cies, making lively chattering talk, as
one was brought to his cage. The pre-
sentation of a spider was a grand event.
But as to earth-worms, he had soul
above all such. So far as Rob was con-
cerned, the early bird was entirely well
| come to them H
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Detroit Free Press Currency.

DCtlVAU AIOO OuAA VAACse
Britannia doesn't rule the waves as
much as Hanlan does.
Not one person in a hundred can tell
new -four from old except by observing
that the cooks hairpins stick tighter to
the new biscuits.
One pailful of hot water will clear a
corner of loafers quicker than four police
men, and the expense is nothing.
The first time that David Davis ever
realized his fatness was when he was a
boy of fourteen. The. other boys all
crawled through the fence and left him
alone with mad steer.
When a man cuts his hand off to avoid
going into the Russian army they take
him in all the same and make him do all
the sentinel duty, while. the able-bodied
soldiers get chance to sleep. 8.
Detroit hasn't had but one case of SUM-
stroke this year, and that man scrambled
up and ran away as soon as some one
whispered that his wife was coming down
street.
Canadian papers complain that the
| finny tribe are growing scarce in those
waters, and that member of Parliament
is now forced to take jug along to fill
up the intervals between bites"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24

build these coral reefs and islands, and
foundations for cities and great chains of
mountains, is not the grampus or the
whale, or other huge monster of the deep,
but one of the smallest and apparently
most Insignificant of its inhabitants. 1t
is called M
THE PoLYPs, OR CORAL INsECT.A
This minute creature, at one. ex xtremity
the head-is about the size O. 4srefJ
small pins head, and its thread lii Nh
is perhaps a quarter or hSlf lBdh an
length, most of it seeming like Aat6ng
but pure white Jelly. At the head there
are about score Of ella, or fine threads,
branching out and scurving gracefully,
and giving a trumpetshaped form 10 the
whole. This is the wpndrous builder Of
those coral reefs, and lslands, and foun-
dations of cities and great ranges of
maintains. AA
By its peculiar poweE il secretes or
abstracts from the water carbonate of
lime, and builds it into the numerous
and VARIOUS forms of coral sowell known.
II w0rEs only under water, 20 that when
we find coral projecting above the sur
face-askwe often do we know that it
isthm elcyated by volcanic or subter-
|ranean force. X r.
~ Buf how marvellous that creature so
kfninute, and of such delicate organ
nm, should have the power of rearing
STRUCTURES so .stupendous that, in com
parison, the pyramids are mere mole
hills! What striking illustration of
the truth that "out of weakness He
creates strengthr The small and the
great are indeed all alike jim His hands,
when He links His own onpipotence to
them.
And is there not a .lessou> taught US
here? Can we not sees this encourage
ment TO persevering, and that hoveve
little may beadaily accosnpl lished yet, if
there, be daily progress, and 1daily-in-
creasing and beneficial results, the aggre-
gate will at last be grand beyond the
| power Of present conception?
The converse Of this is also true. ii
there be daily progress in the wrong
direction--if there be only slight, but
continuous departures truth and
/ virtue, and thus a daily streng thening OF
vicious habits-a daily tdeadening OF
moral sensibility, and |obscuripg OF
moral perception-then, the final results
in hideous moral deformity viii fal
transcend alfs0ur present ideas of what
is hateful abominable and vile. e
! One, or the other, must, of necessity
be the personal experience of us all
Which shall it be? 1t is for us tc
\ decide.
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How , to Keen cool.

e Sit on cake of ice and try to counter
felt the expression of an Esquimaux dog
in a similar position.
Leave off your vest and scarlet sus-
penders, and cnsconce yourself in the
breezy so1itudes of commodious duster.
Go out in the woods with pretty girl,
and allow her to fan the mosquitoes off
your noble brow. " s.'-'-i '' T..
Sleep on the roof of a piazza, and gaze
upon the trembling stars while the south
wind watts to your intoxicated soul the
amorous trillings Of the tom-cat.
Sit ON a book-agent-7-he is the coolest
animated thing known.
cold water down your bacS.
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Di.tre-.Ing Sy,nntom.

In the stomach and bowels may announce the
existence either of dyspepsia in the first or an
obstruction in the second, or the approach of
some eholeraic complaint, or simple sdiarhea.
Collie. bitter eructatons, pressing
down of the bowels, feeling of oppression or
futterng at the pit of the stomach, are among
these unpleasant symptoms. They and their
cause are speedily remedied by Hostetters 3
Stomach Bitters, single wineglassful often
causing an immediate cessation of pain. When
the difficulty continues, it is only necessary to
pursue the use of this standard carminative and
anti -dyspeptic medicine to- obtain entire and
permanent relief. Nothing in the composition
or flavor of the Bitters is in the slightest de-
gree objectionable. Medical men pronounce it
eminently pure.
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How women would vote.

We're the question admitted to the ballot, and
women were allowed to vote, every woman in
the land who has used DIR. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription would vote it to be an unfailing
remedy for the diseases peculiar to her sex. DR..
Pierce has received hundreds of grateful testi-
monials of its curative power.
Iowa CITY, Iowa, March 4, 1878.
DR.. Il. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, " Y:
DEAR SIR-For many months 1 was great
sufferer. Physicians could afford me no relief.
In my despair l commenced the use of youl
Favorite Prescription. 1t speedily effected my
entire and permanent cure.
Yours thankfully,
MRS. PAUL r. BAXTER.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24

WHAT are you WORTH" asked rich
old miser of a young man who was court
ing his only child Not much now,
but I'm coming into a large fortune in a
few years" was the reply. The marriage
took place, and then the old miser learned
that the large fortune which the young
man was coming into was his father-in-
laws
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ITEMS F0R FIELD AND HOUSE.

=
Ter; put in deep baking dish 5cover with
bread crumbs and little oiled butter;
bake half an hours.
feeder apdstlfe best source of nitrogen for
plant grewfh, furnishing it in the best
form for assimilation, is a lso distributor
ofplant food, by aiding in the Diffusion
efetber elements upon which pahts grow
through the body of the soil.
BEEFsTEAK with tomato sauce: Take
one and half dozenripe tomatoes; skin
and scald them; put them in saucepan,
with onc-haH pint of good beef graSy ;
season with salt and pepper, put thehs 70
stew for one hour When the steak is
nicely broiled, pour this sauce upon it,
and send it to the table.
In the care and. management of the
dairy COW, the. Hlilking should be done
with reguiari ty as to time, andeaeh COW
be MIXED by The same person, and in the
same order from day TO day if possible.
10 change of mixers or change of time
4 for milking should be allowed, except for
the most urgent reasons 80
THE importance of an OCCASIONAL relish
ofsalt and wood ashes fOr an kinds of
Sock cannot be too highl ysppreciated.
",The most conyenient form in which these
materials are offered is in solid mass,
which admfts,6f dfiigent licking con the
part of theaninlal without getting more
of fire mixture than isdesirable.
u SyERBENAs SHOULD be grown in tenn
perature of from fifty to sixty degrees
After proper Towering, and before the
plants become exhausted, they should be
cut back to some extent, apdk manure
water applied around the roots once a
week, and the soil loosened This is to
prevent the black rust IF too dense
trim out some of the branches.
CHICKEN dressed with tomatoes: Fry
the chicken light brown; put tit'intO 6
dish; then pour into the pan in which il
was fried one quart of boiling water, one
onion chopped fine with parsley, four to
matoes little stewed, one tablespoonful
of butter rolled in one tablespoonful o.
\ foursa. Letsit stew.fer fifteen minutes
4 and then pour It upon the fred chicken
4 and ertc. This feeeiptiss for two hrg'
WATER can be kept cool for drinking
in warm weatherMbv' the following
method: Get fresh Xater,. let it be KEEP
in an ungIazs Epware pitcher
sNfapt around 4 three folds o
coarse cotton c1of copetantly wet
The theory of co<l1i f. fef in this man
ner is the abserF 2Rt from it b,
j the evapufations of 65etpre in thu
4 cottoh ssth. fsx ia1'| fmuces cold
compressien, heat
AxNexperieBeed eslle1eS gives tn
fol10wino nlefhod fir y jfecfual1y destroy
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24

4 ONE of the ,disagreeable features about
being near-sighted is. that man is in
danger of nistaking his wife for another
woman and being polite to her Des
Holmes Register.
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UPHAM'S
FreckIe, Tan and PimpIe Banisher.

A few applications of this preparation will remove
Freckles, Tan Sunburn, Pimples, Blotches on the
Face, and render the Complexion Clear and Fair Fer
sottening and Beautifyng the Skin it has no equal
Address JOHN F. HENRY, CURRAN 4 Co.. "a College
Place, New York, ~ tS -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24

! A COUNTRY girl, getting off train at
Cape May, was asked if she might be
helped to alight, and she replied that she
did not oke.-Nes0 York Herald,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24

The Boston Commercial Bulletin says
there is one field of labor that women
can never enter-collecting bills; for
women's work is never dun
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24

WE congratulate Messrs. Wheelock, Finlay
4 Co., of New Orleans, La, upon their happy
idea of giving to the public information of the
contents of DR.. F. Wiihoft's Anti-Periodic or
Fever and Ague Tonic, which of late has gained
such well-deserved popularity among the peo-
ple As far as we know, this is the only
proprietary remedy for the cure of Chills and
Fever, the composition of which is not kept a
secret. For sale by all Druggists.
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MALIGNANT AND SUBTLE INDEED is tho poiso,

MALIGNANT AND SUBTLE INDEED is the poison
of Scrofula, and terrible are its rayages in the
system. They may, however, be permanently
stayed and the destructive virus expelled from
the circulation with SCovILLs BLOOD AND Liver
SYRUP a potent vegetable detergent which
eradicates all skin diseases, leaving no vestige
of them behind. White swelling, salt rheum,
tetter, assesses, liver complaint, and eruptions
of every description are invariably conquered
by it. Druggists sell it. a
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24
CHEW
The Celebrated
MATCHLEsS"
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
The PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY
New York, Boston, and Chicago.

New York, Boston, and Chicago.
DEALERS will. of course, often recommend an
organ as best because they have it to SELL or
can make more on it. But it has been demon
strated Mt all worlds exhibitions for twelve
years that those made by the Mason Il Hamlin
Organ Co. excel all Others s4s
AUNIyERsAL REMEDY. =" Browns Bronchial
Troches - for Coughs, Colds and Bronchial Af-
fections, stand first in public favor and con-
fidence this has been acquired by test of
many years. 25 cents box. .szsf
THE attention of our patrons is directed to the
offer of Free Gift, by DIR. N. B. WOLFE, Of
Cincinnati, who advertises in another column
1t is valuable to the sick and should be care
fully read.
THE Mendeissohn Piano Co, No. u, East
18th Street, N. Y, sell Pianos at Factory
Prices. Write for catalogue.
For Pies, ETC., use c. Gilbert's Corn Starch.
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CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
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THE VOICE OF WORSHIP,
az L. o. EMERSON

EATINlTzA The new and very favorite opera,
~ sens II now ready, with words in threi
languages, all the Music and Libretto complete j.
Price, 600 paper. e2.25 boards.
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-pINAE0RE Price reduced to 50 cents. The
usrs Vn1s same elegant edition heretofore
sold for q dollar. Complete Words, Libretto and
Music. All ready for the stage.
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The awenty sixth collegiate year Of this weli-known
and established institution will commerce Sc ptember 9Th
appeals its past success its admirable location ana
the recommendations Of those who know it best as M Its
guarantee to the public for the fHtiTre- MADAME
CAROLINE RIVE, With highly cultivated, ilssociaies
vii cotiiifes CONDUIT the Musical Department
For catalogue and Information, address, as hereiofore
REV.!L. ID. POTTER, ID. h.. President
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-21

young girls blowing the horns aud beating
the drums and cymbals astonishes the stran-
ger. They are modest-looking, and evident
~ Italians.
A grand Sunday-s;hool convention recent
~ of ten days duration gave the people of
Ocean Grove an opportunity to study the BIZ
BILE under competent masters. A model of
Jerusalem was exhibited under a tent. Five
hundred children took their wooden shovels
to the beach and were taught to execute a
huge model Of Palestine. They learned ac-
c%urately the geography of the Holy land as
they dug The Dead Sea- the valleys and
streams and threw up Hermon's peaks, Car
mels sides, Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, and
all the elevations of that strange land.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-21

THE CHILDREN OF Rum DRINkERs.-Dr.
Martin, of the .SuLDettere, Paris, has made
2 series of interesting observations on ner-
vous affections among the offspring OF alco7
holic parents His results may be summed
up as follows: In 50 families IN when one
or more members showed nervous excltabll-
ity with a history of alcoholic origin, there
were 4lO children. Of these, lOS-nore
than q ouarter-had commissions, and IN the
year 1874, 169 were dead; al were still
alive, but SO, !. e., more than one-thlrd OF
the survivors, were epileptic.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-21

Life insurance to most families i .lorc
necessary than tea or coffee. and cutie IS
essential as flour. The company having It
to sell sends It's agents forth to ma pur-
chosers. This is done to facilitate the
mutual convenience and interest of both
n~arties. The agents mission is Of immedi-
ate and vital Importance to those whom he
solicits, and if teey treat his opportunities
with indifference, the great mistake or
their life may be Embellishments 1ge.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-21
M HEAT FERTILIZER.

It viii soon be time for the farmer 70 decide which
Fertilizer he viii Hse under hs wheat another year. II
yoa viii write to the Propretors and secure one OF their
circulars. you VIII not be III doubt long. Like thous-
ands OF Others in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsyfvania.
and many in North Carolina, you Viii. on inses-lgafion,
be apt to use the HONE FERTILIZER q manure
shat is prepared at home, and made from STRICTLY
prBE CHEMICALS. Send for circular, with formula.
&c, to oO1h1S- CAi.hLh -.
re- AGENTS WAITED. Props, Baltimore, Nd
uy 10 IT.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-21
MO SKILLED LABOR REQUIRED, BECAUSE

\ 70 SKILLED LABOR REQUIRED, BLCAUsE
- sir,nHc;ty Of construction AMI strength Of material.
Absolutely safe as regards fire. Cheap = suit the
times. Price OF Eight Horse Power only 54t3.
large Screw. with Back and Forward Gear, 70 be
driven BY one belt, for packing cotton, Slp1.
Mr.. D. Wells, Of Tolsnot, n. g, say5: !" The engine
7 bought OF you | use with ORDINARY FARM
LABOR" q
". ~. Benton, Boykins, says; 81 easily ginned : to 3
bales \ day. / coIored man with no previous experience
operates it. | feel safe a. regards sparks
We could multiply testimony II necessary Send for
circulars as regards Engines and our celebrated Cotton
Presses for Hand or Power. TAPPEl Y STEEL,
may29-tf. petersburg, Va.