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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13
The Blue Laws ON Smoking,

In the old time there we're some very
stringent laws in Massachusetts against
the use of tobacco in public, and, while
the penalties were not SO heavy, yet
they were apparently rigidly enforced
for time. We quote from law passed
in October, 1882, as follows: cit is Or
dered, no person shall take any tobacco
publiquely, under paine of punishment
also that every one shall pay one penny
for every time he is convicted of taking
tobacco in any place, and that any Assist
ant shall have power to receave evi-
dence and give order for levyeing oft, as
also to give order for the levyeing of
the officers charge. This order to be-.
gin the 10th of November next" InSept,
ember 1884, we ediscoveranotherlaw on the
same article: "Victualers, or keepers of
an ordinary, shall not suffer any tobacco
to be taken in their houses, under the
penalty of 5 shillings for every offence,
to be payde by the victualer, and IL
pence by the party that takes it. Fur
ther, it is ordered that noe person shall
take tobacco publiquely, under the
penalty of 2 shillings pence nor
privately, in his owne howse, or in the
howse of another, before strangers, and
that two or more shall not take it to-
geather, anywhere, under the aforesaid
penalty for every offence" In November,
1887, the record runs "All fopmer
laws against tobacco are repealed, and
tobacco is set at liberty but in Septem-
Der, 1888, "the [General] Court, finding
that, since the repeating of the former
laws against tobacco, the same is more
abused then before, it hath therefore
ordered, that no man shall take any to-
baoco in the fields, except in his journey,
or at meal times, under paine of IL
pence for every offence nor shall take
any tobacco in (or so near) any dwelling
house, barne, corne or hay-rick, as may
likely indanger the freing thereof,
upon paine Of 10 shilhngs for every
offence nor shall take any tobacco in
any inne or common victualing house,
except in private roome there, 80 as
neither the master of the same house
nor any other guests there shall take
offence thereat, which if they do, then
such person is forthwith to oforbare, upor
paine of IL shillings 6 pence for
every offence. Noe man shall kindle
tyre by gunpowder, for takeing tobacco,
except in his journey, upon paine Of
IL pence for every offence"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13

the marrow window admits sufficient
light without letting in the glaring sun
shine too plentifully. Outside, the win
dows should be shaded with blinds. The
kitchen should be on the northeast cor
ner of the house-the coolest part
which Is convenient in the summer and
unobjectionable in the winter, because
it is easy to warm a room SO exposed in
the winter, while it is impossible to make
q room cool In summer that is exposed
to the MONDAY sun and has fire in it.
The kitchen, too, should be protected by
a summer attachment in which the cook
ing and washing may be done. The
windows of this place may be taken out
in summer and closed only by blinds,
and in the winter this room will serve as
a storage room for fuel and for protect
ing the kitchen from the storms and
blasts and drifting SHOWS. The pump
may also be put in this outer room. The
kitchen windows and doors should be
protected by screens of mosquito netting
to keep out the flies and yet admit the
air. A broad porch over the east side OF
the kitchen will be further protection
against the sun up to noon, and if the
kitchen is recessed or thrown back few
feet from the rest of the house the main
entrance may be placed here, leaving
small vestibule in which the front
kitchen doorway opens. Or this might
be made the rear door of broad hall or
passage through the house. But at this
time it is not our object to discuss the
farmhouse at further length than in
reference to the kitchen. which at this
season is of more than ordinary interest
TO the farm housewife.-H Ste,oart in
Ne,o York Times.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13
A Romantic Girls Experiment.

Says the Middletown Press A young
lady, aged eighteen years, with brown
hair and hazel eyes, who does not live
many miles from Middletown, and who
had been reading the story of the mes
sage written on an egg, conceived the
idea of doing something similar. She
is the daughter of farmer, but as the
product of eggs was not very large and
the home demand was brisk, she could
not get her message to market in that
way. An opportunity offered itself one
day. She overheard her father say that
he must take his apples to town, as there
were more than the family needed. The
apples were accordingly laid in the
wagon-house over night, to be marketed
in the morning. The romantic girl
wrote on little piece of muslin, in in
delible ink, her name "a fictitious one),
her address, and the two words: "Write
me-" She then rolled it up in q very
small roll, cut out a little piece of an ap-
pie near the stem, put in the roll and
closed it up, and then put the apple in
with the lot for market. In about a
week she heard from her message. The
letter was written to the address named,
and was evidently from some tramp or
vagabond, who had perhaps stolen the
apple from some grocer's stand. Almost
every word was spelled wrongly, and
the tone of the letter was coarse. The
young lady never replied TO it, and it is
safe to say that she will not make any
more experiments in that direction.
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The Greatest City in the World.

The last English census shows that
London has been gaining rapidly in
population during the last ten years.
It now contains 1914, ,571 inhabitants,
or $50, ,311 more than 1871. It's in
crease was only little over IL per
cent, and yet SO vast was its popula-
ton in 1871 that, during the ten years
it has added more to that total in actual
numbers more people than our thriv-
ing city of Chicago now contains, and
nearly as many as are included In
Brooklyn, the third city Of the Union in
size.
During the period from 1870 to 1880,
New York increased % per cent. but it
gained only 264, 2s5 inhabitants, not half
SO many as were added to London be-
tween 1871 and 1881 and its population
last year was considered less than
third of that Of the English capital. If
our proportionate increase continues to
be SO much larger than that of London,
of course we will in due time catch up
with the older city, and put it in the
second place as to size but that day is
still far off, and as New York grows
more populous it may show smaller
rate of increase. The remarkable thing
about London is that city of such un-
paralleled magnitude, in the midst of an
old civilization, has been growing at a
rate which, if continued, will give it
double its present population less than
a century hence. Since 1861 it has
gained over 33 per cent. IF it keeps on
increasing in that proportion, by the
end of the first quarter of the twentieth
century it will contain about 10000
of people.
But such estimates of what will hap
pen in the future have only o curious
interest. Many causes may contribute
to make the growth of London much
less proportionately during the next fifty
years than it has been during the twen-
ty just passed. 1t is an impressive fact,
however, that SO vast capital, already
far ahead of any other city in the world
in population, should have increased
third in twenty years, and that il
should be now three times as large as ii
was sixty years ago.
The population of London was 1878,
900 in 1921. It has, therefore, gained
nearly $500, 900 inhabitants since then.
The population of New York was 1913,
FOG in 1910, and in 1880 it was nearly
ten times that. During the twenty
years from 1860 to 1880 it gained about
one-half, against the increase of one.
third in London between 1861 and 1881,
It is safe to estimate that at the begin.
ming of the next century we shall have
made another gain that would give us
100000. Even then, therefore, New
York would contain less than half the
present population of London; and, i
that city added third during the TWEEN
ty years, it would still contain nearly
three times as many people as New
| York.--Nea0 York San.
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The Art of Beauty.

Ugliness, once considered fate which
the gods themselves were powerless to
avert, has become of late years circum-
stance of no particular account, since it
is largely under the control of dress,
and by skillful notifications may become
more effective than beauty itself. Fash
ions were formerly created for pretty
women, but now seem to be In the inter-
est of the plain. A beautiful woman is
of course a princess in her own right;
she is worshipped and accordingly re-
stricted possessing all, and finding the
whole world ready to pay tribute, she
loses in degree her originality. She Is
so lavishly endowed by Nature that she
does not require to search curiously for
styles which shall enhance the sheen of
her hair, the glory of her eyes, the
pearl and rose of her complexion, or the
perfect lines of her form. With an ugly
woman, on the contrary, it is nothing
venture, nothing have" She is COM
paratively safe in pursuing to extremes
her craving for admiration. By sheer
audacity of inspiration she creates the
piquant, the irregular !; she makes mere
beauty seem tame. Probably few ladies
endowed with plumpness went to see
Mile Bernhardt last winter without at
least passing feeling of regret that
their rounded persons made it impossible
to initiate some of the subtle effects
which make that actress one of the most
elegant women of our time. For in
stance, her flowing white dressing-gown
in the last act of "Camille was poem
of dress, but fully-developed arm
would have spoiled the sleeves, which,
being spirals of lace were enough of
themselves to make the curves, and
needed little or nothing save skeleton
beneath. Our pleasure in such marvels
of dress is, of course, a perversion OF
taste, since no sculptor would wish to
model a feshless figure, however grace
fully disproportionately lcng limbs may
assume drapery. But we are all taken
captive by our passion for purely sesthe-
tic impressions. Dress has become an
art in itself, and the woman who wears
it is almost subordinate; it is senti-
ment, language, confession. Lip
pi'acotes Magazine.
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Mortimer Collins Little Friend.

Collins loved to notice and make
friends with the birds and "small deer
that lived around him, and often pleas
ant intercourse was carried on between
them. Like Thoreau, though in lesser
degree, he knew how to make friends
with the feathered folk that built their
nests in his trees; and the intimacy
seems to have proved agreeable on both
sides. Here is bit of cheerful gossip
about winter guest:
81 have made very pleasant aequain-
tance-a young and vivacious person,
musical and garrulous, grateful for small
kindnesses, and never a bore. He is, to
avoid the mysterious, a robin red breast
"a young cock, whose waistcoat has not
yet attained its fullest scarlet nor his
song its complete music. There are lots
of them on my lawn, in various stages
of adolescence; but this little beauty got
INTO my book room one morning, and
flew in a fright against the window
stunned. I took him up, and got him to
drink little water, and put him ON the
grass. He soon recovered, and now he
follows me all over the place. lie waits
to welcome me the first thing in the
morning. He perches on my knee as l
sit writing on the lawn, and twitters out
sweet low song. He is very inqui- i
tive about every thing new that comes
out when we encamp under the trees, ex-
amining work baskets, writing-baskets,
straw hats, W, til an evident thirst for
knowledge. Hs comes ON my writing
table to pick up crumbs; then suddenly
darts away in hurry to seize something
more enticing-a fat spider, or daddy
longlegs, or butterfly. There is some
thing curious in the friendship of this
feathered atom born out of gratitude. !"
Mrs. Collins adds in a note: "He
contirued to be friendly until the spring
of the following year, and spent the
greater part of the winter in the house,
thereby causing great jealousy to two
other robins, who were great favorites,
who used to watch for him to come out
of the house and attack him.-Ihe
Spectator.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13
The Seeds of Disease.

Most people think bad smells prolific
OF injection, and carrion and decaying
matter generally to be breeders of dis
ease. Some are quite satisfied when
the foul air is deodorized, quite unaware
that the infective particles may re-
main the, same. But we must not mis-
take here. Our success in battling with
epidemics will depend ON our getting at
the exact truth in the case. Liberia
soon becomes the grave of every white
man that goes there to stay; but the
keenest scent detects nothing of malaria
In the atmosphere. All may be fra
GRANGE and beauty where yellow fever is
decimating the population. It was the
finest parts of Chicago that were ravaged
by scarlet fever, while the other parts
were almost exempt. Diphtheria has of
late years had proportionately more VIC
ums In the mountainous regions of Mas
sachusetts than in Boston and our larger
cities.
The fact is, infectious diseases come
OF germs just as truly as the products of
our fields come of the seed sown. These
germs are almost infinitely small, but
their mature plants-they are strictly
vegetable-have the power to multiply
at an almost infinite rate. Each disease
has it own germ. Smallpox cannot
come from typhoid germs nor measles
from scarlatina; nor yellow fever from
cholera-and SO universally. They must
come each from its own seed, as much
80 as wheat, corn, the apple, elm or
oak. They cannot come without seed,
Tor science knows of no spontaneous
generation. But the seeds of higher
order require good soil, and other favor
able conditions. 1t is equally 80 with
the seeds of disease. Their choicest soil
Is filth, and there is no favoring condi-
ton equal to depressed state of ones
physical system-whether depressed by
bad food, impure air, sensual indui-
gence, long-continued anxiety, fear,
watching, or undue fasting.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13
Grandpa.

The grandpa IL a individual, aged
sumwhare between so and 100 years, of
a promiskious temperament, and liz
common occurrence in all well regulated
familys. Next to a helthy mother-in-
law, they have more aktive bizness on
hand than emmy other party in the house
hold. They are the standard authority
on all leading topicks, and what they
don't kno about things that took place
sixty-fve years ago, or will take place
for the next sixty-fve years to cum, liz
damage for emmy one to kno. Grandras
are not entirely useless, they are handy
to hold babys, and feed the pigs, and
are very smart at mending q broken
broom handle, and sitting coal ashes,
and are good at putting up the clothes
line ON washing days. hav seen grand
pas that could churn good, but kon-
slider it mighty mean trick to set an
old fellow ov eighty years to ohurning
butter. / am a grandpa miself, but
won't churn butter for no concern, not if
understand myself. / am az solid on
this konklusion az a craven image. I
am willing to rok baby all the time while
the wimmin folks are bileing sope, am
willing to kut rags, to work up into rag
karpets, they can keep me hunting hens
eggs wet days, or picking green cur
rants, or will even dip HANDLES, or kore
apples for sass, or turn a grind stun, but,
bi thunder, won't churn. / have ex-
amined miself on this subject, and will
bet iak knife, so long az he remains in
hiz right mind, Josh Billings won't
churn. Az general thing grandpas are
a set of konsaited old phools who don't
seem to realize that what they kno
themselfs IL the result of experience,
and that younger people hav got to git
their knolledge in the same way. Grand
pas are poor help at bringing up chill
dren, but they hav got precept, and kat
ekism enuff, but the young ones all seem
to understand that grandpa minds them
heap more than they mind grandpa
Josh Billings.
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A Pretty Picture.

A leafy background, two beautiful
trees, hammock swinging beneath, and
she on whom your heart is fixed. lazily
swinging in the same, is very pretty
picture, young man, very pretty and
we don't blame you tor being attracted
by a magnet of such wondrous power.
Even the Boomerang reporter was forced
to acknowledge that your evident infatu-
alton was pardonable. But consider if
your means will enable you to keep
that picture all your days, or whether in
the coming time it will not be supplanted
by chrome or wornout, jaded woman,
frying doughnuts over hot fire in the
middle of hot summer day. The two
pictures are intimately connected.-BiU
Nye's Boomerang.
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THE MARKETS.

ClNClNN ATl.-FLoUR- Fancy, " 65@8 10;
Rye Sour IS 7sss 81 1G1saf s Ko reS 3D.
g 4s149l as; amber, g 4sA; No: red, g 4s.
7O1zc. Oat,-No. 2 white, 4sc.; No 2 mixed, 4sZ
@4ze Rye, 81 1e31@1 II. Barley-No. 2 ian, 81 IS
Kentucky, sis5 per ton. Hogs Common, IS Is
G heauy sIye 52 sc &C. DID, s. as
per doz. Ducks, 81 5o@2 90; geese, IS oo@s 60 per
aoz ss5tsys aE 5 iaRSn
sugar-cured breakfast bacon I514 4@la1ac. do hams,
14A@i4hc. Tallow, s@ss4c, sIsAE-YelIOw re;
s1 76si5c. Woo1-Hnwsz6sa fine '1aed1rs @erino,
22@23c. fleece washed, fine, 36@S7c.; tub washed,
70 PRIME rH s
Michigan, 50 Oo@3 90. Peaches So 0O@3 SO for
choice to fancy. Grapes.Concoras, 4@41ac., and
@1 is per bush. and So OO@s 25 per brl. Sweet
potatoes, 81 5o@2 IS per bril- Cabbage, 81 oo@2 Is
per brl.
middling Orleans, 12c. Flour Common to good
good, 81 1893 90; Ohio spring family, Sc 1898 IS.
rsd 81 s a sa :gre 1eS Ssl si ii e
new Ne. 2 red, 81 5s@1 5e14: mixed winter red,
White. fss i 5isi 5i% cOrn"No No No.
74@75Ic.; No. white, SOC. Oats-White Western,
Sc sISss ss,s s4 Gssd ] ss1sa Mess pork
CHICAGO.-Flour-Fair to fancy winter wheats,
Sc 5O@s 25; Minnesota patents 81 5o@9 so. Grain
-wheat-No; Chicago spring, 81 411s; No. 9 Chi
Oats-No. 2, 47c. Rye-No. 2, 81 II. Barley-No
II. Flaxaeed, 81 4o@1 All. Mess pork, $40 90.
Whisky, 81 10.
ss 75S7 Is; choice fancy, IS oo@s so. Wheat, I,
s5ss o:,sINo.s white, Soc Soc Sye-So. 3 81 s g:
heat-No: winter red, 81 511z
al 5lss: Corn - Western mixed, 1890. Oats :
White Western 52@SSc ssa mixed 7 Western s,@ ,4s@5oc
NEW ORLEANS. -Corn-Lower; mixed, sOc !;
white sOc. Oats 56@57c. Hay, $40 Oo@22 90. Mess
pork. $40 5o@2O Is. Lard, 13c. Whisky-Western
rectifed, 81 1901 20.
TOLEDO.-wheat-No 2 red, 81 so. Corn -
High-mixed, 1870. Oats-No 2, 47c.
INDIANAPOLIS Wheat, 81 471a91 4s1a Corn.
67@671ac. Oats, 46@49c.
LIVE STOCK.
CINCINN ATI.-CATTLE-Common, 50 oO9s 90;
fair to medium, $3 25@4 90; common to fair ship
pers, 81 50@5 90; common to fair oxen, So 50@3 so;
stockers and feeders So 254 90; calves 80 003 90.
10; fair TO good packers, SC 46@6 90; stock hogs,
81 75@5 50. sHEEPo Common to fair, q 5o@s 80;
good S to choice 81 o9@5 o. LAMssmco%mon Is to
CHICAGO-Cattle-Exp cattle, Sc 40@6 IS;
common to choice shipping steers, $3 0O@6 TO- Hogs
Common to good mixed packing, s6 00@6 IS;
heavy shipping and packing, Sc sO97 rs.
NEW YoRK.-Beef Cattie-Dressed beef, IS 5o9
so for Texas and Colorado sides. and IS 50@I0 50
for native Sides Sheep, So 1895 90, and lambs
IS 0O@7 so. Hogs-Live, 50 1896 95 per 100 lbs.
dressed, IS 259s 75.
ANAPOLIS -Hogs-Packers, SO 40a6 90;
culis and grassers, $4 50@6 90. Cattle Shipping
cattle, s. 1896 90; butchers, So 1894 35; stockers
and feeders 81 6094 10. Sheep Common tc
| choice, 81 1904 30.
EAST LIBERTY, Pa Hogs, Philadelphia
| 81 0o97 80; Workers, best, 50 4o9 s IS; common
and tair, = 0Q0s 26.
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RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William J. Coughlin, of Somervle, Mass, says: SIN
the fall of 1876 taken with LUNGS,
followed by severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh, and confined to my bed. In 1877 was ad-
itted the hospital. The doctors said had hole in
my lung big half dollar. At one time report
went around that dead. I gave up hope, but
friend told me of DR.. WILLIAM HALLS BALsAM
FOR THE LUNGS. Igot bottle, when, to my surprise,
to feel better, and to-day feel better than
for three years past. write this hoping every a
fcted with Diseased Lungs will take DIR. WILLIAM
HALLS BALSAM, and be convinced that CONSUMP-
TION CAN BE CURED. can positively say it has done
good than all the other medicines have taken
inca my sckneasO
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13

TIE spot where StonewaIl jackson
fell is marked by a rough block of white
flint quarried in the Wilderness. It
stands 8 feet inches high and is feet
10 inches in breadth. Its surface shows
dents and scars, where the pilgrims have
scaled bits of it as relics and all around
are smaller pieces of hard rock that
have been used as hammers with which
to crack it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13

FORTY per cent. of English gold is SO
light as to be no longer legal tender.
The Bank of England sends gold coin to
the mint for recoinage at the rate of
FL ,O0O, 900 sterling year. The last call
ing in of gold coin was in 1842.
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Truth and Honor.

Query - What is the best family medicine
in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the
blood, remove costiveness and biliousness, aid
digestion and tone up the whole system. Truth
and honor compels us to answer, Hop Bitters,
being pure, perfect and harmless. See another
column.-TOledo Bldd-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13

Excavations in Yorkshire have brought
to light skeletons proved to be those of
Britons of time previous to the landing
of Caesar. One of the skeletons pre-
sents signs that the man was a martyr
to rheumatism.
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PURE COP LIVER On. made from selected
ivers, ON the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard &
Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet
Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all
others. Physicians have decided it superior to
any of the other oils in market.
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ga LADY had the flesh eaten off her arm by
scrofula Could see the sinews working.
sLindsey's Blood Searcher' cured her." J..
Ralston, Elderton, Pa.
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The vineyards in Gabriel valley,
Los Angeles county, CAL, some of the
vines of which are nearly 100 years old,
are yet very prolific bearers.
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We are 80 thankful to say that our baby Was
permanently cured of dangerous and pro-
tracted irregularity Of the bowels by the use of
Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same
Tho Parents, Rochester, N. Y. See another
oolumn,-Bufdlo Express.
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THE orange tree was brought from
China by the Portuguese about 1850. In
the year 1851 451, 900 boxes of oranges
and lemons were imported into Great
Britain. yielding to the customs 4S1 ZOO.
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ABOUT twice every month take dose of
"Sellers' Liver Pills." and always enjoy ex-
cellent health.
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The Best Preof of Merit

is uniform success, and on this basis Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is without doubt
one of the greatest remedies IN the land.
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DoN'T keep taking drastic pills-they do more
harm than good. KidneyWort cures constipa-
fi0n
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ssROugh ON Rats"
Ask Druggists for it. It clears out rats, mice,
reaches, bed-bugs, flies, vermin, insects. 15c.