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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

ton is generally deemed an action SO un
conventional as almost to border on ar
improperly. So, in our midst, thousand
of people in transit sit and stare O.
NOPE away minutes and hours of utter
tediousness.
This custom among us, which is
broken by but few exceptions, argues a
provincial shyness or lack of confidence
and courage unworthy man or woman
of the world. People we'll poised on
their own social mental or moral planes
are never afraid of meeting interiors OF
superiors. The acquaintance and as
sociation of daily half hour or hour or
boat or rail need never extend any
further as to time and locality. Indeed
the majority of association might bt
far more pleasant and profitable were
it restricted entirely to these conditions
The sum total of recreation to all NIGH
be very great. Why not then, in thu
cases implied, break our social ice an(
get what good we can out of each other
Ii we prove bores or are bored let u
retreat, accept the failure witt
equanimitv and IL to i~'nrove on
powers of pleasing. This travelin.
dumb show must be stopped some tim
or other. 1t will never be tolerated il
the millennium York; Graphic
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Dead issues old newspapers
SteubeHrille Herald.
You can tell dog-wood by its bark.
Whitehall Times.
Great hoax from little falsehoods
grow.-B0st0R TraUeler.
The crysis in Spain-That little
baby daughter. Philadelphia Bulletin.
The hay-cutter is the invention of
no one man. Almost every farmer has
had hand in it.-B0stOn Post.
Spectators in provision futures
can never tell which way pork will go.
1t is the nature of the hog to 60 wrong.
-Ne5c Orleans Picdyune.
A South Hill debating club is wrest-
ling with Can a community exist
without women?' We think it might
exist for while, but then it wouldn'
know what was going on.-Burtingtoa
HaUb-Eye. --E.-- -.
A Young man on Main Street says
ne is going to attempt the feat of going
forty DAYS without working. He says
# his EN- mployers do not watch him, he
thinks he can accomplish the task
Rockta'ad Courier.
Old red farm-house-big kitchen
twenty bushels of apples-forty boys
and girls come to the pairing bee
winks, mods, squeezes and a dance
after supper! Rise up. ghosts of by,
gone years!-Detr01 Free Press.
1t was at a Galveston hotel table
that child attracted considerable at
tention by sayingrepeatedly: 81 want
u cake" "You have had five or sly
! ,Iraa Ir- - rapIIaJ tho ,,,otbar EsTbara'
not the ones want. l want fresi
one."
They were in the wood, said he
looking things unutterable, Il wish
were fern, Gustie," '' Why" she
asked. .Why-p' 'raps-you-woulC
press me, too" She evidently
to do it. but it is the best to nip sucl
things in the bud; so she replied, I'll
afraid you re too green, Charley" Th'
poor boy almost blubbered.-BoStoi
| TrnnScTiUf
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
More NitrOgenOus Food for Pigs.

SOME of our readers may think this
contradiction, but it is quite possible to
grow pork with that happy medium of
fat and lean so much reliShed. The
greatest obstacle to it is the general
method adopted in feeding pigs. They
are fed on food merely adapted to lay
on fat, and with scant proportion of
albuminoids to grow the muscles or
lean meat. Pigs have thus been grown
and fattened for so long a time that
they seem to have taken on only lean
meat enough to hold the body together.
Except when on grass, the pig is piled
almost wholly with corn, which is ex-
cessively rich in starch and fat. Some
breeds have become so constituted that
they will get fat on grass. The pig, in
its natural state, does not get excess
lively fat, but is nearly as lean as beef
animal If young animals are fed on
nitrogenous food, such as skinned milk
and grass, they will be found to grow
rapidly-extend the frame and muscular
system. having only lat enough to round
out the body to comely shape. Pigs
should always be full fed; but this does
not necessarily mean cramming with
corn, which merely piles on fat till the
young pig becomes diseased. 1t is this
mode of feeding for so many hundred
generations that has transformed our
swine into Jumps of fat with a few
strings of muscle to tie the ball together.
To reverse this work of improper feed
ing will take some time, but it can and
must be done. Witness the change from
those overgrown fat hogs which were
Dragged of years ago, but are now
seldom seen, because the market does
not call for them. We do not under
value corn, which is the best fattening
food the American farmer possesses
but we should be glad to have them
avoid it's too free use in feeding pigs,
and substitute a more nitrogenous
food, such as oats. peas, wheat, bran
or middlings, little oil meal, de-
corticated cotton-seed meal, rye, bran
or barley-any of these. Corn may be
fed sparingly with clover or skim milk
Our Canadian neighbors can raise fat
and lean pork with grass, peas, barley
and corn. We must have grass diet
for pigs generally, and with this, grair
may be fed. Farmers sometimes for
get that the pig is a grass eating an
imal as much as the horse, and needs
fibrous food to keep him healthy
Nicely-cured clover is relished by pigi
in winter, especially when raised OF
grass. If you want fat and lean pork
strictly corn diet must be re
served to the last stage of feeding
simply to harden the pork; yet a littI,
may be fed all through the life of thu
pig, only giving these other nitrogc
nous foods with it. Pork grown in thi
} way is relished by most people, anc
will always find ready local market
the above has ever been discussed il
: our columns. At one time lard wa
the. most valuable of all the ho!
product; but it has ceased to posses
exceptional value, and now the desid
eratum in pork production is to brini
about good development of flesh
Home Weekly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
The Social Taboo.

The National unsociability of the
American Anglo-Saxon produces some
singular results. People by scores and
hundreds ride to and from their places
of business in the city to their homes
in the suburbs or surrounding country
year after year. Their faces are well
known and remembered by each other.
Not a word, not nod even, erpasses
between them. They sit apparently as
insensible to each other as so many
wooden statues. With women this
mutual taboo is even stronger empha-
sized. Miss A may be longing for some
congenial association among her own
sex during the trip. BY her sits Miss
G, who has made these trips morning
and evening with Miss A, and knows
her face as well as that of her own IA
ther. But never word do they speak
to each other. Both are conscious of
the other. Both are curious regarding
each other. Both may feel drawn
toward each other. Both might prove
for the. other interesting acquaintance.
But this frozen social taboo of nom
intercourse is upon them. 1t is an un-
written law seldom disobeyed. Both
possibly fear making overtures for fear
of repulse. Or Miss A may discern in
Miss G something which she deems to
indicate the measure of the tenth of a
degree below her social grade. So the
embargo is never raised and the two
remain strangers for life.
Between the sexes this social taboo
is still more strongly enforced. 1t is
so rigidly carried out that gentleman
sometimes fears performing II civility TO
an unknown lady lest it be taken as one
method of oilicious or presuming over
ture. For either to open u CONVERSE
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
What Allied Jones.

Brown and Jones used to be friends
real good friends-but there is chasm
between them now. Jones didn't know
of it until Brown had passed him sever
al times without saluting, and then he
determined to know what was wrong.
Hating him on the street, he began:
"See, here, Brown, what's come over
you all of suddenP''
"Sir?' replied Brown, with freezing
| dignity, as he drew himself up an extra
| inch.
s'What have / said or done to break
our friendship" continued Jones.
"Mr. Jones, you are not the sort of
man supposed you to be-" answered
| Brown.
g In what respect?'
| 'Sir, you were delegate to our
County Convention"
"Yes, 1 was"
"For the past seven years you have
professed to be my friend, politically
and otherwise"
| $50 have-so 1 have.'
"Do you remember, sir, of our hav-
ing talk about week before the con-
vention? DO you remember that l said
that isl hinted-that is
80, yes, you said that perhaps you
could be induced to accept the n0mina-
ton of County Treasurer.
"Yes, sir. [ SAID that l was in the
hands of my friends.
81 remember it now.'
"And 1 didn't get vote, sir-not
even complimentary vote!'
"No, l guess you didn't, and now
you blame me for it. Alas! Brown, how
little you know about our local politics
Why, sir, every man who has attended
ward caucus over three times knows
that when candidate puts himself il
the hands of his friends they at once
proceed to hold funeral and bury the
remains ten feet deepr'
Jones made motion as if to shake
hands and forgive all. but suddenly
changed his miud and walked on, care
fully placing each heel with thud ant
keeping his spinal column as stiff as
DOI<er-OetrOU Free Press
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
Hints for Bathers.

According to the London Lancet it is
important to recognize that the only
virtues of water as used by the bather
are two-namely, its value as cleans
inc agent, and as q surface stimulant.
In this last capacity it simply acts as
medium affecting the temperature of
the part to which it is applied, or which
is immersed in it. Right views of fact
in reference to this matter are impor-
tant, because there can be no question
that some persons overrate the uses of
cold water, and run considerable risks
in their pursuit of them. Every bene-
fetal action that can be exerted by
bath is secured by simply dipping in
the sea, or very moderate affusion of
cold water! Except in cases of high
fever, when it is desired to reduce the
heat of the body by prolonged contact
with cold, a bath of any considerable
duration is likely to be injurious.
Then, again, it is necessary to recog-
nize the risk of suddenly driving the
blood from the surface in upon the
organs. The plunge" or "dip," or
g shower" or ''douche," is intended
to produce momentary depression of
the temperature of the surface in the
hope of occasioning a reaction which
shall bring the blood back to the sur
face with increased vigor, and almost
instantly. III this return does not take
place; if, in word, redness of the skin
is not a very rapid consequence of the
im.lerSion, it is impossible that the
bath can have been useful, and in nine
cases out of ten when the surface is left
white or cold it does harm. The meas
ure of value is the redness which en-
sues promptly after the bath, and this
reaction should be produced without
the need of much friction, or the bath
is not worth taking. The rubbing en-
ployed to recover the circulation lost
by the bath would probably have done
more good without it.
Another effect of the bath when it
acts properly is to stimulate the nerv-
Gus system, through the vast series OF
its terminal ibers which are distributed
in the skin. In this way also the action
must be very rapid, or it is not effica-
cious. Unless the vigor of energy is
quickly called out, the agent is useless
and if it produces either drowsiness OF
depression it acts mischievously, and
lowers the power it is intended tc
stimulate and augment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
A Lady Futile attempt to Smusgle a
SeaIskiu JACKET.

The Montreal Witness says: As our
readers no doubt know, the United
States Government is represented on
the border line by suspicious lot of
officials, who, when they see a Mon
trealer cross the lines wearing an ele-
CANT fur coat and subseq quently return
ing with an ordinary cloth one, jump
at the conclusion that another fall order
for fur coats has been delivered, or else
that the traveller has been doing q little
fur coat business on his own account.
They cannot seize the cloth coat, how
ever. but that Montreal citizen is after
ward a marked man, and a repetition of
such incidents naturally proves eXasper-
ating to these active Off cials. But it is
said a few of our American visitors un-
dertake the arduous daty of taking the
goods across the lines themselves with
out paying the usual customs charges,
and, doubtless, some succeed in their
attempt; but q lady who, with her hus-
band, left Bonaventure depot recently,
didn't succeed. She was very nice
looking lady, and wore the ordinary
travelling duster, and the officials here
found the baggage of the couple all
right and regular. They got on board
the train, entered United States terri
tory, and passed Richford without any
unpleasant incident to mar their trip
home, and at Newport, which is gen
orally supposed to be beyond the reach
of dreaded customs officials, they sought
| the Bellevue House for dinner, and en-
| gagged a room until the starting of the
train again. 1t has been said that if
you call the name "Smith'' in a pro-
miscuous assembly in any Anglo-Saxon
country a percentage at least of those
present will demand what you want of
| them; and so when the two came down
to the sitting-room, not J Ohm Smith, but
Mr.. II. L. Smith, the United States
customs detective, was among those
who noticed that the husband carried
for the first time q large parcel, while
the wife appeared much refreshed by
the short delay. AS the train went
bowling on toward St. Johnsberry, Mr..
Smith got as near as possible to the
parcel, and having no soul for scenery
himself, interrupted a delightful con-
verSation suggested by some of nature S
handiwork which lay stretched out be-
fore them by asking the abrupt ques-
ton, whats in the parcel?' A sud
den volcanic eruption from one of the
distant mountains would not have sur
prised the travellers more than did this
query, and noticing their confusion the
officer made mental note of the con-
firmation of an opinion he had held for
some hours tn It he was on the right
track, and at St. Johnsberry confscated
the parcel, which, on opening, he found
to contain an elegant and costly seal
skin cloak. The lady had worn it under
her duster all the way from Montreal to
Newport, and, although no doubt feel
ing disappointed, she left the Officer
the booty without making any attempt
to save it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
People Of New Enyllnd Factory Viii
lage.


The cotton manufacture was begun
in the valley of the - early in the
present century, and gradually grew in
magnitude, till it had attained its pres
ent dimensions. Until within quar-
ter of q century the mill operatives
were almost exclusively Americans,
both by birth and descent. Old Gus
toms prevailed, and the community was
homogeneous The old New England
town community existed here in SINH
lar condition to what characterized it
elsewhere. Democratic equality pre-
vailed, and society as yet was not di-
vided into classes between which the
lines were sharply drawn. Mill work
ers were familiar with farm work, many
of them being the sons and daughters
of the neighboring farmers. Few were
entirely dependent upon work in the
factories as q means of livelihood, and
as result there was an easy independ.
ence of manner in all dealings between
employers and employed. Under such
circumstances labor disturbances could
not occur, since each workman had
other channels open to him, and there
was no large class who by their train
ing were restricted to one kint of work.
With the incoming of foreign pop
ulation by emigration a change has by
slow degrees been taking place, so that
the existing condition of society is al
most as dissimilar to the former state
as the manners and customs in one
country are different from those in an
other. The population in these villages
is now largely of foreign birth or par
entaGe, the native Americans being a
very small minority French Canadi-
ans and Irish form the bulk of the pop
ulation, and the indications seem to be
that the Canadians will in short time,
if they do not already outnumber any
other nationality. Besides these. there
is small number of English, Scotch,
and Welsh, and occasionally German.
The community formed by these het-
erogeneous elements has as yet no So
cial manners and customs that belong
to it as q whole. The advent of the
strangers is so recent that the various
nationalities have not become welded
together. Each people preserves in q
measure its former manners and pecul.
iarities, with some slight notifications
that climate and surroundings have
been able to produce. Little social in
tercourse takes place between the diff.
ferent nationalities, though they are as.
sociating more as they become ac
quainted, and intermarriages are much
more frequent than formerly.
The Irish were the first foreigners tc
come to these villages in large numbers.
They took the place of the Americans,
who little by little sought more con
genial employment, and were in turr
succeeded by the French, who now oc
cupy the ground and seem destined tc
prevail. These successive iniluxes o
foreigners seem like peaceful invasions
in each case the new arrivals gradually
supplanting their predecessors.-Atlaa'
tic MOnthiy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
A Legend Of Dead Lake.

What is known as Dead Lake lies be-
tween Lake Earl and the coast, about
midway on line from the mill to what
is known as Keller's Pond. There are
many strange stories connected with
this mysterious lake, which has no yiSi-
BILE outlet, and yet, despite the cease
less flow of a small stream which emp
ties into it, retains a uniform volume
of water. Its depths have been sound
ed, and though it has been asserted
that bottom was found at depth of
twenty-five feet, this must have been
very near to the shore, as others who
have dared to venture upon its dark
waters report that there is a cOnsidera
BILE area where no bottom can be found.
We visited this spot several months
ago, and as we sat in the deep shadow
of the bordering woods and gazed out
upon the silent lake our mind was filed
with awe, and we could easily believe
that the dark waters spread out before
us were fathomless. There is an old
Indian legend in regard to this lake.
Long years ago, long before the invad-
ing feet of the white man had sought
this coast, there dwelt here a numerous
Indian tribe. Many summers they lived
in peace and contentment. The waters
abounded with fish, the forests were
filed with game, and the Indian S
heart was glad. But at last came the
time of sorrow. One day the old chief,
while at the council, became angered
at one of the most, respected men of
the tribe and struck him to the
ground This one blow forever de-
stroyed the harmony which had un-
til then existed. The friends of
the gray-haired councilman rebelled at
the authority of their chief and cried for
vengeance. But the greater portion of
the tribe remained loyal and were VIC
torious, pursuing the vanquished and
fleeing enemy back among the sand
dunes near the coast. The heart of the
Indian god, Clu-te- -nog-gy, was filled
with wrath because of this discord
| among his people. ard he determined
| to inhict terrible punishment. The
| heavens became covered with menacing
clouds of terrible darkness, and the
wind swept over the shifting sands.
binding and blocking the way of pur-
sued and pursuer. Suddenly deafen-
ing sound broke upon their ears, and
like the jaws of mighty dragon the
earth opened beneath their feet and
they were swallowed from sight. The
storm burst in all it's wild fury, the tor.
rents poured into the gaping abyss, and
the ripping waters of Dead Lake now
lave the sides of that sepulcher. Tc
this day no Indian can be induced tc
approach Dead Lake. They tell the
story that two bolder than the other;
conquered their dread, and, building {
canoe, ventured upon its waters, bu
they were never heard of after ward
Its depths are said to be infested witt
reptiles of enormous dimensions, tt
which assertion a strong semblance o
truth is given by the report of F. W
Wilson, last summer. that he saw al
immense serpent in the vicinity of Lak'
Earl. This monster ophidian doubles
crossed over from Dead Lake, and as i
has not since been seen, the probabilit.
is that it has returned to its home. =
Del Norte (C0L.) Record.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

Hon. ii. G. Greiner introduced a
bill into the House last week to amend
the Code, P-ovidiDg for noting on GER
tair blanks furnished by the Mine in
spector the measurement of air in coal
mines.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

The sprague divorce srit promises
to equal the Beecher scandal. 1t is
said that Sprague's attorneys have
been in Columbus looking up Mrs
Kate Spragues early life. The public
will be apt to learn how it was that
the la'e Secretary Chs, horse whip
ped Dick Nevins, who was married al
the time. for paying attention to Miss
Kate.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

Near Deadwood a bull leisurely en-
sered house, probably to get away
from the flies. The woman fled in ter.
ror and summoned several men, who
found the bull in bedroom quietly
chewing his cud and so well satisfied
/ with his surroundings that it was nec-
essary to twist his tail until it kinked
before he would vacate the premises.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
A bill is before the Legislature t.

submit an amedment to the constitu-
ton to hold the election for State and
County officers on.the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November.
This should become a law and dc
away with holding two elections ev
cry four years and also prevent the
transportation Of voters into the
state at state elections. The people
will ratify ii if an opportunity is of
fered.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

How MOLD CAN BE PREVENTED ON
PICKLEs---Cut horse-radish roots in thin
slices lengthwise. and lay half dozen
or SO of these pieces on the top of each
crock of pickles. allowing them to re-
main until all the pickles are used.
Grated horse-radish will not do, as it
soon loses its strength and then fer
ments.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

&c To die of broken heart" is not
mere figure of speech, rs is generally
supposed. Medical works furnish rec
ords of many cases of death from rup-
ture of the heart, produced by some
organic disease, violent muscular excr-
tion, or powerful mental emotion.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

THAT farmer who has to buy two or
three times more tools than his neigh
Dor. because he does not take care of
them. will not find much profit in farm
ing.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

"PAssING Great Britain on a canter''
Is what Mr.. Gladstone recently said Of
the United Sthtes
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

Hon. Otto Dresel, a lawyer and
politician Of considerable note suicided
in c Columbus, last week.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

By boring man in business hours
you make him realize the value of time