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THEIR GRAVES.

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They lie together In the shade,
These graves Of mine,
Just where the light from
VIII ahna;E ~
.ARc.sslp.. Aacs srlss' issl .had0"' ''hsTGn6(
You ask who lie within these graves7
Ny summer friends
The friends who fade and fall away
When summer ends;
Tho friends whose warmth In but the nj
That summer lends.
(IHI tansv .~.piis1uss. iis1 assa4.s.A.+ ssa4s.A graves. ~
cound not bear
That other eyes should see my dead
So falsely fair.
laid the cypress their hears
And left them there.
And that all with sobbing heart
Tears falling fast
On the dead friends that had loved
..sDss..it I looked my last, Z .'fI- O II moi
And buried thun together with "I q ,
. murdered past A..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-06-24

= WHEN the publishers dress their beau
.iful new books in blue and gold they
tannot expect them to be red
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-06-24
Famous Bad Spoilers.


/, A writer in the Notes and Queries
notices some famous men who were bad
spoilers, as follows: cit must be admit
ted, he says, ssthat Hogarth spelled Ill
Che writes guilt for sgilt' in fac
simile I possess), and his education had
been avowedly neglected. "a
= " Nevertheless, instead Of cataloguing
his lapses,' it might perhaps have been
remembered that many of his contem-
poraries sinned nearly as much, and with
less justification. tss
Setting aside Her Majesty Queen
Anne, Marlborough, Peterborough and
others of rank, who may be held to be
above such trifiing considerations as
doubling the consonant, and SO forth, I
have found errors in scholars like War
burton lin Swift even.
"m letter of DIR. Watts, of pious
memory, the heavenly mansions is
written with t. -, ,sE.
= "But take Reynolds, who, as paint
er, is more case in point. In one let
ter of his, In Mr. Lockers collection, he
writes Communicate coffe-house,' 'adiu,
and Whales for Wales) twice.
! I'm his italian journal of 1850,
which also belongs to Mr.. Locker, I find,
on hasty examination strofies, 'Ap-
pollo,' sespeacially,' Agreeable Raj
tiel, and sRafele.' ~
N ssMany of these were no doubt due to
mere carelessness. So, too, were some
of Hogarth's,e though no one seems to
have excused him on that head, or to
have remembered that orthography In
theeighteenth century was not yet tine
rt.sH9as 8etis.As+@ 4s.lGSs Fa
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-06-24
The Open Sky.

It is strange thing how little, in gem
eral, people know about the sky. It is
the part of creation in which nature has
done more for the sake of pleasing man
more for the soul and evident purpose
of talking to him, and teaching him, than
in any other of her works; and it is Just
the part in which we least. attend TO her
There are not many of her other works
in which some more material or essential
purpose than the mere pleasing OF men is
not answered by every part of their or
ganization; but every essential purpose
of the Sky might, SO far as we know, be
answered, if, once in three days or there
abouts, a great ugly black rain cloud
were brought up over the blue, and
verything weI-watered, and $50 all left
blue again till next time, with perhaps a
film of morning and evening mist for dew.
And instead of this, there is not a mo-
ment Of any day Of our lives when nature
is not producing scene after scene, picture
after picture, glory after. glory, and work
ing still upon such exquisite and con-
slant principles of the. most perfect
beauty, that it is quite certain that it is,
all done for us, and intended for our per
petual pleasure. And every man, wher-
ever placed, however far from other
sources OF interest or Of beauty, has this
doing for him constantly. The noblest
scenes of the earth can be seen and
known but by few; it is not intended that
man should live always in the midst of
them; he Injuries them by his presence;
but the sky is for all; bright as it is, it
is not tttoo bright nor good for human
natures daily food" Sometimes gentle,
sometimes capricious, sometimes awful;
never the same for two moments to-
gether; almost human in its passion
spiritual in its tenderness-almos divine
in its infinity, its appeal to what is immor-
tai in us as distinct as it's ministry of
chastisement or of blessing to what is es-
sential. And yet we never attend to it,
we never make it subject of thought,
but as it has to do with our animal sen
sations; we look upon all by which it
speaks to us more clearly than to brutes,
upon all which bears witness to intention
Of the Supreme, that We are to receive
more from the covering vault than the
light and the dew which we share with
the weed and the worm, only as a sue
cession of meaningless and monotonous
accidents, too common and too painful to
be worth of moment of watchful-
ness, or a glance of admiration. -Rats-
kin. 1-a- p r. fsgfff,v Eeaa1z oaf 81 ds5g,
~
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-06-24

DENMARK exports more butter than
the United States, although she has not
more than one-twentieth as many COWS
as we. and it costs twice as much to pro-
duce butter there as here.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-06-24

Child Of our children's children yet unborn,
When on this yellow psge You turn your eyes,
Where the biief record OF this May day morn
In phase antique and faded letters lies, Ir.
How vague. how pale our fitting ghosts will risei
Yet in our veins the blood ran warm and red,
For US the fields were green, the skies were blue,
Though from our dust the spirit long has fed,
We lived, we loved, we toiled, we dreamed Ike
you,
Smiled at our sirss and thought how much we
knew.
oh might our spirits for one hour return,
When the next century rounds It's hundreth ring,
All the strange secrets II shall teach TO learn,
To hear the large truths lis years shall bring,
lis wiser Sages talk. Its sweeter minstrels ningl
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
A B0y Again.

Sometimes an old man becomes boy
again, though too smart to drop into his
second childhood. An illustration of
this pleasant tendency was given, not
many months since, by an old man, with
several millions.
He was in the habit Of prowling around
the Office of the insurance company in
which he was Director. One morning
as he was thus investigating, he hap
pened to come across the dinner-pail of
the ofice-boy. His curiosity led him to
take off the cover. A slice of home
made bread, two doughnuts and piece
of apple-pie tempted the mnlionaire's ap-
petite. He became boy again, and the
dinner-pail seemed the one he had car
red sixty years ago.
Just then the ofice-boy came in and
surprised the old man eating the pie
he had finished the bread and dough-
nuts.
"Thats my dinner you're eating l''
exclaimed the boy, Indignantly.
eyes, sonny, / suspect it may be but
it's a first-rate one, for all that. I've
not eaten so good a one for sixty years. %
''There, - he added, as he finished the
pie, take that and go out and buy
yourself a dinner, but you won't get as
good a one, and he handed the boy a
S. bill.
For days. after, the old man kept re-
ferring to the frst-class dinner he had
eaten from the bows nail,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
The Power Of a Cyclone.

In discussing the two cyclones which
visited the Bay of Bengal in October,
1876, Mr.. Elliott, meteorological re-
porter to the Government of Bengal, in
cidentally gives some idea Of the cyclon-
can forces which are developed by such
storms. The average s'daily evapora-
ton :" registered by the Bengal instru-
ments in October is "two inches" The
amount of heat absorbed by the con-
version of this amount of water daily
over SO large an area as the Bay of Ben
gal is enormous. Roughly estimated,
says Mr.. Elliott, " it is equal to the con-
tlnuous working power Of 800, 900 steam
engines of /, ZOO horse power. A simple
calculation will show that it sufices to
raise aloft over As, 900 cubic feet of water
every twenty-four hours from every
square mile of the bosom of the bay,
and transport it to the clouds which
overhang it. When We extend the cal
culation from single square mile to the
area of the whole Indian gulf, the mind
is lost in the effort to conceive the force
which, in days time, can Lift 30, 900. 600
tons Yet it would be easy to show that
such figures, fabulous as they seem, do
dot adequately represent the cyclonic
forces of single storm. London Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
Rejected Manuscripts.

Authors have hard time to find pub
fishers before they win reputation and
their works become famous.
Thackeray carried his Vanity Fair %
to nearly score of publishers before its
merits were discovered, and Charlotte
Bronte had similar experience with
"Jane Eyre"
Kinglake could find no one wiling to
take "Eothen," ole of the most ele-
gantly-written works of our century, and
finally made it present to a publisher,
after frankly stating his bad luck.
Anthony Trollope, who has accumu-
lated a fortune by his popular novels,
received only $66 for his first years
labors in literature, and 500 for the
second.
Mr.. Motley's great book, "The Rise
of the Dutch Republic" was declined
by Mr.. Murray, 'swith compliments and
thanks" and Carlyle's " French Revo-
luton" was returned with the same
courtIy refusal.
Even Lord Macaulay had two or three
articles returned from the Edinburgh
Reuieao. This, however, was not due to
their want of merit, or to the editors
failure to discern it, but solely to the
jealousy of Lord Brougham. Any
young writer who hopes to win fame or
fortune without hard struggles may cool
his enthusiasm by thinking of such re-
pulses,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
Turkish Clemency to Vermin.

A Turkish family often remove from
one set of apartments to another IN
order to escape the feas and other yer
min. The insects take up their abode
between the badly-iointed planks and
under the rugs. They increase and
multiply, because the Turks are unwill-
ing to destroy animal Life. A lady,
familiar with Turkish manners, tells the
following story of the Turks clemency
toward feas
was once visiting at the house of a
Pasha lately arrived at Adrianople. The
Hanoun, a charming woman, was COM
planning bitterly to me of her rest hav-
ing been much disturbed the previous
nightly the abundance of these creatures
in her apartment.
One Of the slaves modestly remarked
that she had occupied herself in scald-
ng the floor Of the room her mistress
had slept in, and expressed hope tha1
she would not be longer troubled In that
respect.
A general cutlery against the slaves
want of humanity was raised by all the
women present, and chorus of &C Yaasa4G!
Gal,eah!" Pity! Sin y was heard
It is curious that they raised no such
cutlery when they heard of the frightful
destruction of human life that took
place a few years later among their Chris
tan neighbors IN Bulgaria, but q few
miles from their own secure homes.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
Aiming in Archery.

The first principle OF aiming is 10 De
sure to have the arrow, in drawing, di-
rectly under the right eye and lying
directly in the line of vision of that eye
as it looks at the point of aim. To do
this perfectly, observe the following di-
rections
l. Take position and mock the arrow
as heretofore described.
2. Raise the bow with the left hand,
drawing back the string with the right
hand as the bow is lifted.
3. When the left hand has reached
the due elevation for the shot, take aim
with the right eye (without closing the
left cye) over the point Of the arrow.
4. The aim being thus taken, finish
the draw by bringing the right hand to
q point just below the chin, and there
loose. as
IF the above rules are strictly followed
and the arrow, from the fixing of the
aim to the point of loosing, has been all
the time kept under the right eye, the
shot will be in the direct line OF vision
of that eye.
r. following this practice of aiming,
the upper limb of the bow must be
slanted to the right sufficiently to carry
the bow-string entirely out of the verti-
cal plane of vision OF the right eye,
otherwise two troubles will arise. In the
first place the string will be between
the eye and the arrow; and, secondly,
the string will touch the chin before the
draw is finished to the loosing- point.
When the bow is slanted to the
right the arrow can lie directly under
the eye, while the string is drawn to the
loosing- point under the chin, and when
let go the arrow will fly directly away
before the eye in perfect line.
Before beginner in archery can sue
cessfully practice aiming on correct
principles, he must fully understand the
laws of vision connected Herewith. By
fixing the eye steadily upon some distant
point, it will be discovered that this par
ticular point is seen by direct vision,
and all others by indirect vision. Now,
in aiming, the direct vision is fixed upon
the point of aim, and the pile of the ar-
row is made to cover this point; but the
gold of the target and the entire length
Of the arrow are seen by indirect vision,
except when the gold, as in point-blank
shooting, is also the point of aim.
The first thing then to master, is per-
feet control of the vision of the right
eye. To do this, some archers are COM
PEELED to close the left eye, a very Flap
pearing thing indeed, which should be
by all means avoided. To test your Wis
ion take an arrow by the feathered end,
and hold it in the right hand pointing it
at some distant object, keeping both
eyes open. When the point of the az
row seems to cover the object, close the
left eye. IF then the object is still
covered. you are aiming with your right
eye. A little practice In this way will
perfect your vision so that you can aim
with your right eye and at the same time
keep the left one open.-M0urice
TZao1aDson's book.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
Spanish officers Disputed.

PHILADELPHIA, July M.-The owners of
the Ethel A. Merritt, one of the vessels fired
upon by Spanish cruiser, say the statement
about the location of the vessel when fired
upon is untrue. The Ethel A. Merritt ar
rived here yesterday. Capt. Rand said this
morning that he and every one of the crew
will swear that we were at lesst six miles
from the coast. On making second obser-
walton, am positive we we're seven miles
off. Mr.. Merritt will write the secretary of
state next week stating every member of the
crew of the Merritt will make affidavit that
she was more than SIX miles from the coast
at the time she was fired on.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
The Lost Well.

In the Sahara desert only a few wells
are found they are looked upon with
reverence as the gift of God. It is not,
as some suppose, vast fat region, but
mterspersed with mountains; rocks OF
country is SO difficult to traverse, for
there are no landmarks; the only trace
a caravan leaves is the bones of the
horses OF camels that die by the way.
Those who travel the desert carry water
and food enough to last them from well
to well and, if they lose the route, they
all usually perish.
An old legend tells us that certain
tribe had found well among the noun
tains, and around it they lived in per
feet happiness. The summer months
they passed on the banks of the Nile. 1t
was SO curiously hidden that it was i'm
possible to find it except in this way ::
One of the tribe stayed all summer
there, and on certain day watched for
the return of the others they having
arrived at certain white, camel-shaped
mountain, made fire, and the watcher
seeing this, built one on his mountain !;
thus were they guided to the oasis.
At one time the tribe returned and
built fire, but no response was elected !;
they waited, they sought for the path,
but all in vain, and they were obliged to
return to Egypt, losing from hunger
and thirst a very large number OF the
tribe; the secret of the approach to the
well had disappeared it.existed only IN
tradition.
Nearly 100 years passed, and young
man having escaped from the oppression
of the chief, made his way into the
mountains. He travelled three days in
search of well, wandering ancng the
valleys finally he was obliged to as
cend a mountain of dazzling wilderness.
He remembered the tradition-it was
shaped like camel Looking there, he
deserted In the far distance what looked
like the green tops of some palm trees.
Toward these he pressed. almost over
come with heat, thirst and WEAKNESS.
It was a beautiful spot the palm trees
had grown luxuriantly and tall /; only an
aged man resided here, surrounded with
species of antelope. He was the
watcher who had been left. He had
been unable to build the fire, having
fallen from the rocks. Nor could he
find the way out. Since then stones
have been set up to mark the way
Scholars CO97apdnS02e.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
The Irish Compensation BIZ.

LONDON, July 24.-Very urgent whips,
both government and opposition, have been
issued for Monday nights division on the
compensation bill. The resignation of Earl
Kenmore as lord chamberlain is again ru-
mored. 1t is believed most of the Irish
members will support the compensation bill
and that it will pass the house of commons
by large majority despite the opposition
whip and abstentions from voting. The Times
says "we believe the number of lords who will
vote for the compensation bill will be Curl
ously small. At least a third of the habitual
supporters of the government in the. house OF
lords will abstain from voting"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
The Burglar Wasn't There.

Too much presence of mind Is rare
surplus in man or woman. It may make
as queer mistakes as excitement itself:
A Southern lady, while preparing to
retire for the night, thought she saw the
eye of full-length portrait of Wash
ington wink. She had heard of burg
lars hiding behind pictures, but she did
not scream and faint. She took off her
diamonds, and opening o drawer as if to
put them in it, took out a revolver and
quickly discharged six shots into the
head Of the portrait and the servants
rushed in and found there was no burg
Lar there, and the $1,000 picture was
spoiled for nothing. Presence Of mind
and GOODNESS don't want to be aecompa-
MED by too much imagination.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
BRIEF rELEGRAAES.

The population of Little Rock, Ark, is
1919.
The first open Gotten bales of the season
were brought into Little Rock yesterday by
Henry Davis, oolored farmer on Ink
Bayou.
The Bolton (Eng.} cotton operators have
resolved to strike Wednesday unless they
have increased wages. The masters say they
will then enforce general lock out. affect
ing 10000 operators.
At st. Petersburg it is said it is difficult to
explain the crime of Ouzatis, as he was a
man of property. Some of the victims
money was found on him. Ouzatis tried to
obtain post under Gen. Skobelof in the
Turcoman expedition, but failed. This may
be one reason for the crime.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
Big Elms in New England.

In Deerfeld, Mass, the Williams elm
measures in circumference at one foot
from the ground, 26 feet at four feet,
10 feet; at seven feet, 20a feet.
Another elm measures, at the same
elevations, 81, 49, and 10 feet.
Another measures 22a, 15a and 49,.
This last-named tree has spread of 100
feet. The Williams elm measures in its
spread at least $50 feet.
At Weathersfeld, Ct, there is an elm
which measures, at three feet and three
inches from the ground, q feet 5 inch
es. The girth Of this tree where the
roots enter the ground is So feet inch
es. Its main limbs are great trees in
themselves. Thus, the circumference of
the south branch is 16 feet inches of
the east branch, II feet inches north
west, 10 feet 8; Of the west, s feet z.
From north to south the diameter OF the
spread is $50 feet; from east to west,
l52 feet, and the circumference OF the
spread is 429 feet -Hartfard Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
Mosquitoes.

Among living creatures, can we find
one that so bellies its appearance as the
mosquito? What an innocent little
thing it looks ike Bloodthirsty? I'm
possible! Seas it alights before you,
thistle-down is bulky compared with
Is; the floating ghost of the dandelion
is coarse beside the slender outlines of
this airy gossamer. None of the garlze-
winged or beetle-backed atomies that
frolic in the sunshine appear less capa-
BILE Of inficting pain. AS the nimble
mosquito sings and dances airily over
your head, he seems innocent compared
to yonder black spider. And yet at
your slightest movement the spider
scuttles off, only anxious to get out Of
the way, while the little singer, so
graceful in the airy curves Of its fight,
retreats circle higher only to renew
his attack at your first unguarded mo
ment. His movements are as light as If
earthly elements had formed none of his
component parts, or as if he might live
on mist or dew, or as if his ethereal
frame found its support in the moisture
inherent in the air
What o mistake There is nothing
more bloodthirsty, and more persistently
intent upon satisfying his craving for
blood, than this innocent-looking hypo-
critic. The house-Ay, aighting on your
face and tickling you with his six
rough, spongy feet-had he a like power
to infict pain, to what annoyance would
you be subject! If to the domestic ami
mails was given, in proportion to their
strength and size, the power and will Of
the mosquito to infict torment, what
a world this would be; the lion and
tiger would be comparatively harmless.
Surely these innumerable and ubiqui-
tous little pests we're given to teach us
some lesson. We find their prototype
in the tormenting and harassing
nothings that worry our every day life !;
the sharp sting given under cover of
apparently smooth words, the buzzing
Of malicious tongues; the hints, the
innuendos that seem such trlfes and
yet do so much to poison our happiness
these are the mosquitoes that sting
the heart. You who find cause for
complaint that God should give life to
such tormenting things in the animal
world, is your conscience clear that you
have not acted the same part in a higher
sphere? Have your words and acts
been always so full of love and tender
ness that you have never willingly
inflicted pain upon those around you ?
IF you are careless Of hurting the feel
ings Of others, look at yonder insect de-
voting its ephemeral existence to its
own comfort at the expense of yours,
and say if you are not initiating the
mosquito with your greater powers,
and carrying the annoyance Of the
lower into the higher Christian
IaateIligencer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-25
Base Ball Games Yesterday.
Progressing Toward a Treaty.

Los PNos, COL, July %, via Lake City
Col July 24-The Ute commission held
their first grand council yesterday. The
principal chiefs and head men of the On
compahgne and several White river Utes
were present. The treaty was read and in
terpreted. No public discussion took place
in regard to its provisions. The Utes held
grand council last night among themselves
The result of the deliberations can only he
determined by their action at the next meet
ing of the commissioners. The remains OF
Mr.. Stickney, secretary of the commission
were buried yesterday.
DENVER, Col, July PA special to the
Tribune says an Indian meeting was held
between the Utes and commissioners at Los
Pinos Thursday. The Indians expected to
be located on lands in severalty, saying if they
were to be removed they desired reserva.
ton. Ouray replied, advising the Indians
to accept the terms offered.