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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
The Dark Side.

Some people will persist in taking
a gloomy view of everything. There
is a man of that kind IN No. /. A
neighbor happened to drop in tc
see him the other day and found
everybody lively except the head OF
the family.
How are you all coming on to.
day ?"
I'VE are all tolerable except Bob
He is laughing and joking because
he is going fishing. l just know he
is going to come home drowned, oil
bowling with fish hook sticking in
him somewhere.
swell the res. seem to be cheer.
full"
"Yes, sorter. Jimmy is jumping
and skipping about because he is
going to candy pulling, but /
know something will happen him.
| read of a girl in Philadelphia only
last year who was coming home
from a candy pulling, when a
drunken man threw his wife out Of
third story window and killed
her."
Killed who?'
'JimmyY
Why, no there he is
We'll, it might have been if he
had been on the pavement below
when the woman FELL
We'll, you are looking healthy
Yes; | feel just like the man did
who dropped dead in New York
last week from heart disease. He
was IN high spirits and had a good
appetite, and thems my symp-
TOMS
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

American and Italian Sumac,

1t has been demonstrated, and we
some years ago published the proofs
of the fact, that the American SUI
mac, properly prepared, was decid-
edly more valuable than that of Ital-
ian, and yet the latter sold in our
market at double the price obtained
for the former, the American varie-
ty bringing fifty dollars per ton.
The statistics show that not more
than eight thousand tons are yearly
bought into the market in the Unit
ed States, but, if properly managed
the amount may be very largely
augmented. The Scientific american
says that the difference against the
American sumac is caused by the
mode now pursued in its prepara-
ton, which renders it unsuitable for
making the finer white leather used
for gloves and fancy shoes, owing to
its giving disagreeable yellow or
dirty color. 1t has recently been
shown, however, that the leaves of
native sumac gathered in June and
July are equal to the best foreign
leave. The Importance Of this dis
covery may be seen by the fact that
the cultivation of the plant may be
carried on most proitabiy in this
country as soon as manufacturers
and leaders recognize the improve
ment thus obtained in the domestic
article, and by classifying it accord
ing to Its percentage of tannic acid
and its relative freedom from color
ing matter. advance the price of that
which is early picked and carefully
treated.
In lilly the sumac is planted in
shoots in the spring in rows, and is
cultivated in the same way and to
about the same extent as acorn. 1t
gives crop the second year after
the setting out, an d regularly thereaf-
ter. The sumac gathered in this
country is taken mostly from wild
plants growing on waste land, but
there is no reason why it should
not be utilized and cultivated on
land not valuable for other crops.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
English Coffee Houses.

The English temperance people
have long been fighting hot liquor
with hot coffee. Tney very sensibly
rely on this more than on lectures
for the prevention of drunkenness.
4 cup Of good coffee is furnished for
two cents and a hot roll for one
cent. This forms formidablecom-
petitor to a glass of hot whisky at a
little more than half its price. The
coffee houses are furnished with
plenty of papers, and the man who
sups his coffee may stay as long as he
likes to read or talk. The independ-
ent laborer who is fed at these coffee
houses has the knowledge that he is
no recipient of charity, for these
coffee houses are among the best
paying investments in Britain. Most
of the English companies pay div
idend of ten per cent. on the money
invested, and many of them more,
while all are self-supporting.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
An AEectionate Son.

A dog rushed out of a yard or
Galveston avenue and bit an elderly
lady. She was taken home in !
hack, and in about ten minutes bel
son, o big, stout, sixfooter, put in an
appearance and wanted to see the
owner of the dog, who expected tba,
killing would be theleast that would
happen to him. Your brute of q
dog has bit my poor, aged mother,
who is weak and feeble. She is
ninety years DID," and the sons
eyes filled with tears. Il am very
sorry," said the owner of the dog,
feeling very uncomfortable. 'Il
you are sorry, how do you suppose |
feel ?" and he buried his face in his
hands. "If she dies, who have !
got left in this cold, cold world to
saw and split that cord of oak fire.
wood / bought yesterday-and oak
is so hard to split with dull axe;;"
and the strong man shook all over
with suppressed emotion Galreston
Ners.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09


Hes the smartest young man in
our class.'
Yes, but he gets drunk.
oh, but he's 50 fine-looking, SO
noble i.nd SO talented withal His
compc ition Yesterday was the very
best in our division. He writes
splendidly They say he's writing
for a magazine, no older than he is,
and not ont of school yet won't
he be a e..,at man, though, some
day ?
NO, ! don't think he will
why not p
He gets drunk
oh. that's nothing a good many
smart men get drunk. Every young
man has his wild oats to SOW {; and
because fellow gets little boozy
once in a while L wouldn't condemn
forever quite likely he'll outgrow
it when he gets older and sees the
folly of it.
More likely that will outgrow
him, and, as to his getting a little
boozy, I'm afraid he was a good deal
SO when the boys found him beside
the walk, the other night, and had
to carry him to his room, lodging
around street corners and skulking
through by ways so that none of the
professors would see him. | tell
YOU a person who drinks at all is
not to be depended on. The only
young men that have any conf
dencc in are those who let intoxi-
eating liquors entirely alone
We'll, l don't care he's good and
smart. anyhow, and l like him.
Il don't he gets drunk =
So the conversation ran on be-
tween two schoolmates, who were
walking just ahead of me. All,
how those words, He gets drunk =
kept ringing in my ears ! Possessed
of a noble manhood and glorious in
tellect I; blessed with the greatest
and best of Gods gifts ; having the
love and appreciation of teachers ;
admired and looked up to by asso-
ciates the pride and hope of a
fond father, intertwined in the heart
and life of a doting mother, united
in close and tender bonds with
brothers and sisters ; holding in his
hand the honor and good name OF
the institution with which he is con-
nected, of the society in which he
mingles, and yet-gets drunk
As natural consequence that
young man who drinks will gener-
ally blight the manhood that is
within him, change to curses the
blessings that are upon him bring
to dust whatever highborn aspira-
tions, whatever longings for great.
ness, glory and immortality may be
his blast the fondest hopes of par.
ents, put out the brightness of theil
future in the darkness of disappoint
Iment, pain and sorrow bring
shame and reproach upon brothers
and sisters trample upon the love
and confidence of his fellows
shut himself out from all goodness
purity, usefulness and happiness
| blot out the image of God that i:
stamped upon him, and drag him
self down lower than the brutes
Ay, SO surely does he shut himsel
out from heaven as he gets drunk,
. i--Geraldine GeJ1uliJ.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
The Youth oroar Lind.


There really ought to be some law
against the sale of dime novels to
Young boys. Instances occur almost
daily where the minds of young boys
have become so distorted by reading
trash that they are ready to slaught-
or their fellow beings in large quan.
titles. A boy who reads about some
avenger of the prail.c VINO chops
and splits bis cord and half OF In.
dian regularly every day, or somepi,
rate whose seuppers run off enough
blood every day to makea hundred
dollars worth Of blood sausage, gets
into an abnormal condition OF mind
and is wholly unfitfor the solid work
and low wages of real, everyday life,
He begins to accumulate pistols,
daggers and other junk, and longs
TO run a poniard into some false
Spaniard, and twist it around, while
he misses through MS set teeth some
drivel that he has read in 4 novel.
Such boy will not hoe corn. Near
Peru, in Illinois, the other day, a
sheriff found a cave where 4 mum.
Der of these boys, whose minds had
become inflated, had established a
sort of pirates glen. The pirates
We're not at home, being away prob
ably on an expedition to capture,
dark-eyed Spanish beauty, or ban
tam or shanghai beauty, and the
sheriff entered and took an account
of stock. All around were sinister
looking weapons of death and the
treasures and spoils of war, and
among them were twelve bottles OF
lemon beer. This in itself ought to
teach boys that there is no such thing
as realizing what novels tell about.
There never was Il novel yet that
told about the duke pacing back and
forth with a clouded brow, in the
elegant drawing-room OF his castle,
and then going to the sidebord and
draining hagon of lemon beer.
Not any. The duke always drains
a flagon of old Reinish wine, seven
hundred years old before he set out
to mutilate couple of townships OF
people. A boy ought to see by this
that if he is going to follow the dukes
example he viii have to use Reinish
wine istead of lemon beer. And
where would be the fun of slaugh-
tering those two townships full oi
people with skin full of lemon beer
or pop? 1t would be insipid; and not
only that, but ridiculous. Suppose
the duke should draw his rapier to
run person through the body, and
lust as he was about to say, Die
william" the gas from the beer should
come up in his nose. He would feel
like a fool. A boy who reads anoy-
el, and becomes all wrought up and
excited by novel, never thinks o
the author of the novel in New
York garret, who has starved him
self half TO death for money to buy
whiskey. and who changes his quar-
ters every month to save rent-h'
would be ashamed to be seen read
ing such stuff. The poor, broken
down scribbler who writes about th,
brilliant diamond of inestmable value
that flashed upon the bosom OF tn,
countess is probably wearing asheet
of writing-paper for a shirtfront,-
Peck Sun.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

when they knows all / knows? Wild
der, Ill tell the whole town, I'll tell
the whole world, I'll put We in the
1og'--I mean the papers"
''Bcsh, sailor, that's nonsense.
Who'll have me !. Why, you will,
sailor; know you will"
Cit out o. my way, Tom Bolli-
vars wife. Me have you? Lord !
thought I'd find you crazy mad at
the idee o. him bein' dead an layin'
rollin' around wi the sharks an
sich in Davy Jones locker An now
to hear We +! On, woman, woman, We
don't know what ye've done I'll GO
back to my ship I'll hate all wo-
men for your sake; I'll never tell
who L"
''Sailor you shall have me now. y
LET me ont O. this here blasted
house"
Sailor, I'll lock the door. You
shall not leave this house till you
say you'll have me for your lawful
welded wife"
"Let me out ! I'll never say sich
words to you. Woman, you're a
bad lot, that's what We are-a bad,
ungodly, vicious creetur. Ye've
lied to me about lovin' your hus-
band so ye'd get me to marry We ;
ye've saw so many sailors, an think
we're all green alike. l don't be-
lieve We ever thought O. your hus-
band don't believe even the ba-
bies thought o their poor deceived
father
Not of their deceived father, sal
lor," she said, coming towards him,
the tears raing down her cheeks, her
lips smiling ''but their father, who
must always believe me true and
loving-their father / saw this bless
ed night"
"Who-who-their father-this
night I? Where is he ?-where is
the-?'
She threw herself upon his breast;
her arms clasped wildly about him
"Here, here" she cried rapturously,
"here is their father-my Tom, my
dear old boy." And then cried aloud
Babies, children, wake up! Come
to NANNY. for daddy's come home
daddy's come home from the cruel
cruel seas, and he's tried to make
nanny believe he was somebody
else, and that daddy was drowned
Oh, Tom | knew you when | open
ed the door | never could be mis-
taken in you, never, never, never J
And the patter of the children's feet
the crying of the children's voices
drowned Tom Bollivar's voice deep
er than any sea had ever drowned
Tom Bolivar.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
Raising Calves.

James Fisher, jr., of Harrison Co.,
Ohio, gives his way of making six
months calves equal to yearlings." !"
In the first place, after the calf is a
day old, | take it from the COW, and
/ have no trouble in learning it to
drink milk. | feed for one week on
new milk, and then change to sweet
skinned milk, the milk having
stood twenty-iour hours. | feed
sweet milk for the first three months,
and then commence adding little
much or bran.
Ii calves are kept growing all the
time for six months, YOU have no
idea low large they will be. As a
general thing calves are turned out
on grass after two or three months
care. Then they become thin and
potgutted, and when winter comes
they are but very little bigger than
when you quit feeding them. 1t is
bat very little more trouble TO keep
feeding n calfsix months then look
how large it will be.
Ii any kind of the young stock
get stunted it takes great amount
of extra feed to bring it up to where
ii ought TO be at six months or a
year old. Now let every farmers
wife or farmers daughter try and see
what she can make eout of her calves.
1t is as easy to have steers ready for
market at two years old, by giving
them the proper attention, as it is to
let them run and be half kept and
not marketed until three or four
years old.
What stock you keep, make it
your aim TO keep them in the best
manner. Keep no more than you
can keep growing all the time.
There is never any trouble in fat
stock always finding buyer. Make
it rule to feed high and feed plen-
ty. 1t should be your constant aim
10 see how soon you can bring yonr
cattle into market. And, in carry
ing out this plan, always give your
calves a good start, and keep them
growing right along. Mush and
milk is first rate feed for calves af-
ter they are three months old.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
Sayings of George Elliot.

Nothing is SO good as it seems be-
forehand.
Troubles easily horn when every
body gives it lift for you.
Genius at first is nothing NOR;
than a great capacity for receiving
discipline.
There is no sorrow greater than to
love what is great and try to reach
it. and yet to fail.
There's sort ofhuman paste that
when it comes near the fire of en-
thusiasm is only baked into harder
shape
No story is the same to us after
the lapse of time, or rather, we who
read il are no longer the interpre
ters.
Every mans work pursued stead
ily tends to become an end in itself,
and so TO bridge over the loyeless
chasms of his life.
It's easy finding reasons why oth-
er people should be patient.
College mostly makes people like
bladders, just good for nothing but
to hold the stuff that is poured in
them.
It's an uncommon fine thing when
you can let man know what YOU
think of him without laying for it.
1t is very difficult to be learned ;
it seems as ifpeople were worn out on
the way to great thoughts, and can
never enjoy them because they are
too tired.
When the commonplace Eve must
all die" transforms itself suddenly
into the acute consciousness, II
must die and soon, then, death
grapples us and his fingers are cru
el ; afteward he may come to fold
us in his arms as our mother did
and our last moment of dim earth
ly discerning may be like the first.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
She Washed on Sunday

He only whispered it to a lady
friend who sat beside him in church
but it cost considerable trouble.
"There comes Mr.. Proud's wife
Do you know she washes on Sun
day? I've seen her do it." is whar
he said.
Heavens Can it be possible?'
CALCULATED the lady.
"Yes, but please don't say any.
thing about it.
"She didn't.
In exactly seven days by tho
clock everybody in church knew it
Ii came to the ears of Mr.. Proud
and he set about tracing the story
to It's origine. Mrs. Proud was be
ing snubbed by nearly everybody il
the congregation. Even the minis
ter forgot to take off his hat when
he passed her on the street.
There was some talk of dropping
Mrs. Proud's name from the roll ol
church membership,
Mr.. Proud became furious. He
went around town with a pistol in
his pocket.
He finally found the lady who
had started the report, and asked
her who her informant was. She
referred him to the gentleman who
had mentioned it to her in church.
Mr.. Proud jammed his hat over his
eyes and sought the miscreant.
'Did you say that my wife wash
ed on Sunday" asked Mr.. Proud,
W ith murder in his eye.
Certainly responded the man,
without budging muscle.
81 want you to take it back"
II can't. It's a fact, and | don't
see anything to get mad about. |
would't let wife of mine come to
church without washing. Would
you?
Tableau.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
Frightening Tinware.

One of the best things ever triec
for keeping tins bright is water lime
This is soft brown substance thai
polishes metals without scratching
the surface, and is very cheap. Also
rub your tins with damp cloth
then take dry flour and rub it on
with your hands and afterward take
an old newspaper and rub the foul
of, and the tin will shine as well as
if half an hour had been spent in
rubbing them with brick dust OF
powder.
Another good thing to brighten
tinware is common soda. Dampen
a cloth and dip in soda and rub the
ware briskly, after which wipe dry,
and it will look equal to new. To
prevent the rusting of tin, rub fresh
lard over every part of the dish, and
then put in a hot oven and heat il
thoroughly. Thus treated, any tin
ware may be used in water constant
ly and yet remain bright and free
from rust.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

A lady writer points out the fact
as worthy Of notice that, while the
men who commit suicide are almost
always unmarried, the women are
married or widowed This leads to
the inference that, while men
cannot i've without women, women
find life unbearable with men.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
How It was Done.

"How do you manage said a
lady to her friend, ''to appear SC
happy and good natured all the
tme? ?"
81 always have Parker's Ginger
Tonic handy" was the reply, "and
thus easily keep myself and family
in good health. When / am well
always feel good natured." Read
about it in another column. t. 16.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
Maine News.

Hop Bitters, which are advertised
in our columns, are a sure cure fol
ague, biliousness and kidney com.
plants. Those who use them say
they cannet be too highly recon-.
mended. Those afflicted should
give them fair trial, and will be.
come thereby enthusiastic in the
praise of their curative qualities
Portland Argus.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

Write to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham,
No. 233 Western Avenue, Lynn,
Mass, for pamphlets relative to the
curative properties of her VDeErA.
BILE COMPOUND, in all female COM
plants.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

The British War Office authori.
ties have now detailed whole com.
pany of Royal engineers for instruc.
ton in the art of military balloon.
ing. A very small detachment had
until this change was made, been
engaged in balloon experiments.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

Here they are. Pretty as life
Never cry. Never wake up nights
Never have the collie. Handsome
babies hereF
A fat. red-faced man with u Jolly
countenance was standing on Broad
way near City Hall Park. holding a
tray OF pink, rubber babies on one
arm and talking very volubly and
in happy manner to the passers
by.
Perfectly sound, said he, as he
tossed one high in the air and
caught it as it came down.
Sound and healthy
Never wake you up night
Never have the measles
'Never run off from school,
Never hang ON the front gate
Either SEX
Here they are
a galvanized rubber-baby; only
ten cents for a galvanized rubber
BABY
Boy or grip said the toy sales
man, as man came up with smile
on his face, to invest.
L guess II take boy said the
man. Girls are SO hard to raise
and, besides they take so much
clothing
IF q galvanized baby was to have
the collie, what form would it take?'
asked the buyer, and how would
you treat it?'
Treat it, why sir, treat it with an
electric battery to be sure
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

The richest mine in New Mexico,
now worth three million dollars,
was originally sold for three dollars
in silver, a little gold dust. and an
old revolver But they don't all turn
out so well.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

Put on my tombstone" said the
dying man, "an epitaph stating that
| was scoundrel, thief and brute.
Then people will think l was good
man. Epitaphs always lie SO.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

A writer on dogs says that every
one given to sedentary pursuits
ought to keep dog, as the necessi-
ty of giving exercise to the dog will
give exercise to the man.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

AMonitor Indian, who was recent
ly convicted of murder, expressed
his opinion of the lawyer who de-
Tended him with delicious frank
ness: Lawyer too much talk ! Heap
foolp
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

Jennie Robertson, who died lately
at Nashville, was known as Soldier
Charley, because she had served
several years in male attire in the
army.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
Startling Scene.

A lion-tamer, a colored man nam
cd Alicamousa, came very near be-
ing torn to pieces by an infuriated
lion during a performance in a men
agerie at Birmingham, England, a
short time ago. The animal is a
vicious one, and few days previ-
Gus had shockingly mangled one of
the attendants, whom Alicamousa
rescued. Thelion afterward showed
symptoms of resentment at the Sc
we're punishment the trainer was
obliged to infiict upon him at that
time and several times afterward.
One Saturday afternoon there was a
great attendance, and the lion tanner
gave two performances. The first
was concluded in safety, but
as Alicamousa made his second
entry into the den the large lion
sprang at him and had to be beaten
back. While proceeding across the
cage the lion-tamer unfortunately
lifted his eyes from those of the lion
which was upon him Immediately,
amid the shrieks of the immense
crowd of spectators. Alicamousa
was clawed on both sides of the
face, struck to the ground, and bit
ten in the arm. The red-hot irons
were at once thrust between the bars
and the nan wriggled like an eel
from beneath the lion, the blood
streaming down his face and shoul-
ders. He discharged his revolver
three times in the lions mouth, and
gaining his feet, placed his back
against the side of the cage and at
tackled the animal with his loaded
whip, hitting it repeatedly between
the eyes until it was almost stunned.
The encounter had been watched
with breathless anxiety, but as the
tanner left the den the crowd
gave vent to their excited feelings
bv enthusiastically cheering him.
He was not seriously injured.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

Eggs are so dear that Jersey peo-
pie will not buy them unless they
have double yolks,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09

The Christian world is taking an
increasing interest in the religions
and civil affairs of India.