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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-12-28
A Happy Home.

A pretty story about a German
family discloses the secret of a hap.
py home, wherein joy aboundeth
though there are many to feed and
clothe.
A teacher once lived in Strass-
burg who had hard work to support
his family. His chief JOY in life,
however, was in bis nine children,
though it was no light task to feed
them all.
His brain would have reeled and
his heart sunk had he.not trusted in
his heavenly father when he thought
OF the number Of jackets, shoes,
stockings and dresses they would
need in the course of year, and of
the quantity, Of bread and potatoes
they would eat.
His house, too, was very close
quarters for the many beds and
cribs, to say nothing of the room re.
quired for the noise and fun which
the merry ninc made.
But father and mother managed
very well, and the house was pat
tern of neatness and order.
One day there came a guest to
the house. As they sat at dinner
the stranger, looking at the hungry
children about the table, said COM
passionately:
Poor man, what cross you
have to bearr'
81? | cross to bearl" asked the
father, wonderingly; what do you
mean ?o
Nine children, and seven boys at
thatw replied the stranger adding
bitterly. Il have but two, and one
Of them is a nail in my coffin"
"Mine are not, said the teacher
with decision.
How does that happen ~ asked
the guest.
Because / have taught them the
noble art of obedience. Isn't that
SO, children ?"
"Yes, sir" cried the children.
And you obey me willingly ~
The two little girls laughed rogu-
ishiy, but the seven youngsters
shouted:
"Yes, dear father, truly
Tien the father turned to the
guest and said: "Sir, if death were
to come in at that door, waiting to |
take ono of nv nine children I |
would say" and here he pulled off
his velvet cap and hurled it at the
door.
Rascal, who, cheated you into
thinking that | had one too many?"
The stranger laughed he saw
that it was only disobedient child
rem that make a father unhappy.
One of the nine children Of the
poor school teacher afterward be-
came widely known; he was the
sanity pastor Oberliu.
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Home, Sweet Home =

In the spring of 1868 two great
armies were encamped on either
side of the Rappahanoeh river, one
dressed in blue and the other in
gray. As twilight fell. the bands on
the Union side began to play The
Star Spangled Banner" and Rally
Round the Flag" and that chal-
lenge of music was taken up on the
other side, and they responded with
The Bonnie Blue Flag" and away
Down South In Dixie" 1t was
borne in upon the soul of q single
soldier in one of those bands of mu-
sic to begin a sweeter and more ten
der air, and slowly as he played it
they joined in a sort of chorus of al
the instruments upon the Union
side, until finally a great and mighty
chorus swelled up and down thearmy
Home, Sweet Home When
they had finished there was no
challenge yonder, for every band
upon that further shore had taken
up the lovely air so attuned to all
that is holiest and dearest, and one
great chorus of the two great hosts
went up to God ; and when they
had finished, from the boys in gray
came a challenge, "Three cheers for
home I" and as they went resound-
ing through the skies from both
sides of the river, something upon
the soldiers cheeks washed off the
stains of powder."-N. Y. Methodist
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That Little Hatchet.

"Come here, George Washington
YOU black apei' exclaimed Rev.
Aminadab Bledsoe, of the Austin
Bluelight Colored Tabernacle, to
Sunday school scholar who had
Just removed a big wad of some
thing or other from his mouth. The
boys trembling limbs carried him
into the immediate presence of the
irate shepherd.
"Yer was chawin' terbacker in de
house of de Lawd."
Il owns right up. parson. | was
.chawing terbacker, but | won't dc
so no noah"
George Washington, chawin' ter,
backer, am bad enough, Lawd
knows; but when yer has got SC
shameless yer don't chen try to lie
out of il, hit am time to take you in
hand, so you won't grow up and dis
grace the father of his country
Lean ober dat knee, George" And
for about ten minutes people living
ing several blocks off imagined theil
neighbors were preparing tough
beefsteak with an axe.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our special correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. II, 1Se

WASHINGTON, Dec. II, 1881.
This has been week of somewhat
desultory speech-making in the Sen
ate, and Of presenting innumerable
bills in the House.
/ Senators Pendleton and Hill spoke
on the civil service reform question.
Senators Beck, Maxey, Anthony
and Garland had something to say
about Presidential succession, in
case of the death or disability of the
Executive. And Senator Sherman
! presented his three per cent. fund
ing bill, which, it is believed, will,
with immaterial modification, be-
come a law, it being essentially the
same measure that passed the
House last session.
1t is somewhat amuseing to see a
Senator make set speech. 1t is
such burlesque on Gray's lines /:
''The applause of listening Senates
to command" The Senate does
everything but listen and applaud.
The Senate dozes ON the settees it
smokes in the cloak-room it goes
down to the restaurant, and he treats
the orator with what casual OBJ
server might think disrespect But
the orator is quite Indifferent to the
indifference Of the Senate. He is
speaking over and beyond them.
His object is to spread his speech
on the record, and to have it noticed
by as many as possible of the eight
or nine thousand journals of the
United States. Senator Pendleton
is not a brilliant speaker. There is
an apparent lack of earnestness in
his oratory. His rhetoric is some
what verbose. He lacks the incest
precision in the choice of words.
Thurman or Edmunds can put in
twice as much prickly information
to the page. Then again civil SER
vice reform is not a subject upon
which the average orator can wax
eloquent. Though of the utmost
importance, it is dry and uninviting.
There is faithless apathy pervad-
ing political and official circles with
regard to the possibility of improv-
ing the present corrupt and perni-
cious system. The Ohio Senator de
serves praise for the persistence with
which he beseiges this black walled, |
and apparently inexpugnable men
ace to free institutions.
Last week Senators I.apham and /
Miller, of New York, had . brilliant |
reception given in their honor at
Marinis' Hall. And, to- ight, like |
reception will be given Speaker
Keifer at Masonic Hall. Do you
understand the agency and the OBJ
ject of these mammoth socio-p 'liti-
cal entertainments ? | wi tell YOU.
4 number of Goyernmt { ciyrks
frow New York and Ohio, feel inse-
cure in their places, and take this
means of introducing themselves to
the new Senators. and to the most |
influential man from Ohio. They |
wish to strengthen their influence,
because they know that influence
and not fitness is the accepted quail
fication for office at these headquar- 7
tere.
G.. is.
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New BLOOMFIELD, Miss, Jan. .,
1851 wish to say to you that ]
have been suffering for the last five
years with severe itching all over.
| have heard of Hop Bitters and
have tried it. l have used up four
bottles, and it has done me more
good than all the doctors and medi-
cines that they could use on or with
me. am old and poor but feel to
bless you for. such q relief by your
medicine and from torment of the
doctors. / have had fifteen doctors
at me. One gave me seven ounces
of solution of arsenic; another took
four quarts of blood from me. All
they could tell me was that it was
skin disease. Now, after these foul
bottles of your medicine. my skin is
well, clean and smooth as ever.
HENRY KNocHE.
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Il drink to make me work, said
young man. To which an old man
replied: That's right; thee drink
and it will make thee work Harken
to me moment, and I'll tell thee
something that may do thee good.
was once a prosperous farmer. Ihad
a good, loving wife and two fine lads
as ever the sun shone ON. We had
comfortable home, and lived hap
PLY together. But we used to drink
to make us work. Those two lads ]
have laid in drunkards' graves. My
wife died broken hearted, and she
now lies by her two sons. | am
seventy-two years of age. Had j,
not been for drink | might now have
been an independent gentleman, but
use to drink to make me work. II
makes me work now. AT seventy
years of age l am obliged to work
for my daily bread. Drink! drink
and it will make you work"
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Nasby's Carpet Bag.

Nasby writes to the Toledo Blade !;
Il hev inventid q new carpit bag
for the espeshal yoose Nv patriots
and agitaters. 1t is made NV thin
lnlv rubber with frame that folds
up into small compass, 700 take
the carpit bag and blow it up till it
bulges out at the sides ez tho it wuz
full of cloze and things and walk in
to lodging house and demand
rooms with confidence. That car
pet bag Dustin with valyoobles set
ties it. 1t looks solvent and every
thing is in looks. 700 stay on the
strength NV that bag, and hev your
meals sent to your room, and live
fat. Presently your landlady wants
money, and commences to watch
that carpit bag. Yoo can't get out
of the house with it, for that is her
anker and her hope. Very good.
Some evening you go to yoor room,
let the wind out Nv it, fold itup and
put it in yoor coat pockit and bid
her good evening, telling her 700
shell be home early, and she may
light the fire at 10, and the place
thut knowd 700 wunst knows yoo
no more furever. The first dark
place yoo come to yoo blow it up
again and go boldly into another
house and establish yoorself in conf
fort eff not luxury"
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My Husband.

Boy said woman who came
around the corner with a market
basket on her arm, have you seen
nv dog ?"
''Black ?"
"No, heis a white dog
big ?"
NO, he is quite small"
Savage ?"
'No, he is very mild"
"Let's see," unused the boy, as he
scratched his head in a vigorous
manner. II hain't noticed nothin,
nor nobody 60 past here except
cross-eyed man who was staving
drunk, all covered with mud"
"Oh, he was nothing but my hus-
band, and 1 just pushed him into
the woodshed to sleep his liquor of
but I'm really concerned for fear
that my dog has got lost or stolen.
Ifyou find him I'llgiveyo anickle." !"
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TWO CHILDREN.
By LILLE T.. DARE.

Weary, after weary day,
The mother sat with dropping head;
Although some quiet angels sway
Was over the noisy household sprea'
Yet nervous, frctful, full of pain,
Conscious of failure in her strife,
She sighed, "Ah me- ,Tis all in vain
To try to live perfect life =
Then rcse her little daughters plant;
The child was cross and weary too
With the long, sultry play hours faint,
And feeling resi- and soothing due,
The mother was too tired 10 bear,
The child was far too tired TO know.
And 50. ere either was aware,
The word had ended in blow.
III.
Oh, what q sad and bitter wrong.
The baby, sobbing, went her way
Then rose a sorrow swift and strong,
That still to all excuse said Nay
1t was my dpiy:-every night
The child is apt to disobey;
1t was nay duty:--I was right"
Yet her conscience answered, Nay.
And soon with soft, regretiul tears,
She stood beside her child again,
And that low sighing sob she hears
That l. the aftertide of pain.
And 10 beside the little bed,
The child, alone with childish grief,
Her treasures by her side had spread,
As ifin them to find relief.
A broken doll-a china toy
A bit of ruby.tintcd glass
The picture ofa pretty boy
a bunch of scented ribbon-grass.
The mother gazcd till love and shame
Her bosom like tempest swayed;
Then softly breathed her darling's name,
And lowly knelt and lowly prayed:
VI.
u am child, dear Father, too;
My treasured household gaud and EAR
My worry all the long day through,
Must in thy sight but toys appear.
What am ! but little child
That knows not how lis best to live +;
Bs triiles vexed, by toys beguiled?
Oh, Father. pity and forgive"
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with ! l should never think of any,

: with | should never think Of an,
e body else"
D Jacks alive,n exclaimed her hu
band, as the old lady took snu
: most violently in her excitement.
5 "Here's Mr.. Kidd, cried Tom, {
: a mild young man came timidiy il
to the room. "Here Kidd, your a,
vice gratis is wanted. What sha
its name be ?'
, Mr.. Kidd was the assistant to tn
village doctor and passed the grea
er part of his time in remote col
. itages. His only relaxation was o.
, casionaily coming into tea with tn
Bradley's, as he wished to do on tn
present occasion. Before he an
swered Toms question, he went eel
enormously round to everybod,
bowling to some, shaking fingers wit
others, and asking them how the
all did.
i Whats pretty name for u girl?
continued Tom.
"Well-really. MrsYhomas,n hes
itated bland Mr.. Kidd, smiling. !"
hardly know, you are little tor
sharp on me, | think. A name is
very important affair.""
"My uncle was going to be married
to a great fortune, but the lad,
would not have himpn account O
his names. He was born in IT'S
and was called Lisbon Earthquak,
Kidd at his mothers express desire
because it had Just happened"
IL have known many great per
sons apply similar names" observ
ed Mrs. Bunnett, especially o
places but they dways appeared
absurd
II should think So" said Tom
Imagine man going through the
world as Tetbury Jones. Ho! ho
ho {!
And he made the hall ring again
with his laughter.
These were noble families that |
alluded to-" continued Mrs. Bum
nett "but still the custom was ri
diculous, to name a person after a
place. Suppose we call the child
Nancy ?"
Nancy, city of France, capital OF
the Department Of the Meruthe,' =
cried Tom in a breath quoting q bit
of school geography.
Mrs. Bunnett got very angry, in
deed. She turned away from the
ill-conducted young man, and said
to her husband
Mr.. Bunnett, we,must 90, or l
shall have no time to write those
letters tonight to my dear Lady
Owlet.n
"Oh, don't go yet, until We have
come to some arrangement, ex-
claimed Mrs. Bradley.
"Half asminute longer, mamma"
added Mr.. Bunnett, junior.
I'm sure we shall find one direct
ly," said his wife.
There is no difficulty in finding
q name," replied the old lady, with
severity, for she still clung to her
own. The great thing Is to decide
upon 1t. l shall say no more.
Come Kidd, cried the res less
ION, anotter shot "hat DO you
propose - =,
nave q sister miidiy repiied
'he assistant. >,
reie.siop .-iush --eAciaili'- ,i
e1 ION W .iie co'ppaiy geheiaiiy
hiuus go. SISTER "eii' "i'al
nel ,iaii,e ;,
.ruaehce'
anu very soou i'''i,e, ,s too
inoiai anu oiiai''c.eiis'nc' Mnat 90
you say 70 I1uuehce' iauies and
geh'ieiheh VI oe''er sum- Econo-
my rco'io"'y Dui'iiett-not
so pau.
a.i Waiting 10, you, MT. VIII
lams Duiiiie.t' sa'u 'he stately lady,
rising rom iie' c"aif at the last OIL
tense oi on 8
nan "a minute, exclaimed Tom
'fshaw l was only joking the
name can De sellied IN an instant.
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A man :. a wasbinafon he

A man in Washington hotel in a
loud tone of voice called his friend
back Just as he was leaving the din
ing-room, and then whispered to
him, "How far would you have got
if l hadn't called you back?" The
other, Strengthening himself up, re-
Piled in tone loud enough for all
to hear, mo, sir, won't lend You
s5. haven't got it, and if l had l
wouldn't let you have it until you
paid me what you borrowed two
months ago." His friend will never
call him back again in . public din
ING room.
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Conjurors astonish an audience by
taking rolls of ribbons from their
mouths, but then it is q common
thing to see a carpenter take ham
mers and nails out Of his chest.
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Jumping over a fence in the mid
die of the night and meeting a bull
dog that is an entire stranger to you
is one of those exciting little incl
dents of Life which 60 far to break
the monotony and rob existence ofa
tiresome sameness.
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Write to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham
233 Western avenue, Lynn, Mass,
for Pamphlets relative to the cura.
tive properties of her Vegetable
Compound in all female complaints
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Thomas 0. Thompson, Esq, the
Mayors Secretary, who some few
days ago slipped on banana peel
and sprained his knee, writes that
st. Jacobs Oil "acted like a charm y
I-Chic1co Tribune.
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fiad BARRIERS itch for years, terri.
biz, Doctors failed. Peruna cured
me. c. Beck, Allegheny, Pa
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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-03-02
GENERAL ITEMS.

What is your opinion of your two
sons as preachers inquired friend 10 M
Clayton, an old Dissenting minister. Well he
replied quantity, but pleasantly, George has a
better show in his shop-window than John but
John has larger stock in his warehouse
Judge Macomber, of Rochester. has
Just decided again a point which has been set
tied by many similar decisions, to wit. that the
majority of board of trustees of church al
though sustained by majority of the congre-
CATION, cannot carry the property of the church
over to another denomination, if there is a
minority adhering to the denomination.
The Christian women of Mempbis
Tenn, nobly protested against the renewed de-
termination to celebrate Mard Gras with mas
querades, es5E as exceedingly donoralizinp and
tending 10 destroy modesty and virtue.
elMr. Moody mother, two of his broth
90, and a sister-inlaw, were received on con.
fesslon of faith into the Congregational church
at Mortified, Conn.,, on a recent Sabbath. Tbev
have hitherto been members of the Unitarian
Church.
When an old Dumfries man heard
that Thomas Carlyle was dead he remarked
" Ay, ay, he was adacent man, Tammas did he
leave ony money, think ye2
DR.. S. H. Tying, Jr., says that there
is now no Sunday in Cincinnati, only half a
one in Chicago and this is the tendency of things
in New York"
We now have returns from sufi-
Gent number Of countries to enable us 10 say
that the Week of Prayer was more generally OBJ
served this year than in any previous year.
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Rev. E. Rogers d. D., of this city,
so long the pastor of the South Reformed tDutch)
church. at the corner of Fifth avenue and
Twenty-frst street, resigned his charge last
Sabbath morning. This is a sore grief to his
people, who are warmly attached to him, as it
will be to his ministerial brethren in this city.
DIR. Rogers has been settled here over twenty
years, during which time he has not only won
the hearts OF his people, but the respect and con-
hdence of the whole community.-N. Y. Eran-
gclist.
Sometimes the clergy are represented
as severe critics of each other, but they may
plead against the accusation if it has any truth
In 1T. the example of men of letters. George
Eliot and Thomas Carlyle, have vanished al
most together from the worlds gaze. They
were the foremost writer's of their day Now
man, painting for literary fame, called on
Calyle for advice. Carlyle looked gravely at
the blushing boy. "a poor trade, lad, poor
trade | tried to read your George Eliot's
Adam Bede,' and now I'm reading the second
volume of her last book" rapping the volume
before him, and find it neither instructive nor
amusing but dull-simply dull" Then turn
ing the leaves he muttered, Poor Lewes, poor
Lewesl"
The Christian at Work says cit was
at a funeral that the officiating munster, Pres
W Vel iaH proIuer, saiu: Let us conclude these
services by singing the long metre doxology.
Praise God from whom ali blessings Aow.F"
This time it was Methodist brother who arose
at weekly meeting and said, Brethren, when
L consider the shortness of life. feel as if
might be taken away suddenly, like thief in
ne night" All this happened last week in the
State of New Jersey.
The commission under whose au-
specs collections were taken for the evangelical
work In France, represented by Messrs. Revil
laud and Dodds has recommended to the
" American and Foreign Christian Union the en-
largsment and more vigorous prosecution of its
work In Roman Catholic countries and requests
it to devote special attention to the inviting field
In France which is now white for the harvest"
Acting upon this suggestion, the directors of that
society have resolved to appoint the Rev. W. w.
Newell. Jr., as secretary for French evangelism
tion' with view to the more vigorous and sys-
tematic work which the churches of America are
called upon to assist.
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brightness, which were regarded as his enemies.
IS his victory regarded as fully decided. By
every eclipse of a shining heavenly body the
Egyptians were seized with apprehension and
trembling; for then the hostile appeared to
have gained an advantage over the friendly
power: The Book of Death reads: The
hair Of Osiris rose up (the hair of Osiris arose to
mountains, on account of the moon LIN the time
OF terror By this time of terror an eclipse
OF the moon is to be understood. AS such an
one on occurred under the reign of King Takelot
IL labout 800 B. CO.. the event was immorta.
lized, through an inscription at Karnak, as fore.
telling disaster. in which. it is said, it has hap
Pened to the heaven again to become invisible
and to the moon horror
Upon the death of the First born we will
merely recur to the dangerous disease neschu.'
peculiar to children, treated of in the smaller
of the two medicinal papyri preserved in Be-.
lin' and remark that among the Egyptians, as
among most other peoples Of the East, primo
geniture was held as of special consequence.
and the title of a semes or first born, was re,
garded so highly that even the sun god himself
was styled Thou Great First born, without an
equal ~
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
WILLIAMSON, Va, Feb. 2sth. l


MesSrs. EditorS,-Please make the following
Acknowledgements for the church at Williamson
Mrs: M. E: R., Charlestown, So; The Little
Folks" Burkville, l; unknown, ;" Charlottes.
VILE l. Mrs. S. NJ. s.. Collierstown, s; Rev.
w. E. B., 2; DIR. j. A. W., l; Elsie" Mont
gomery county, l W. j.. Covesville, Va, l 4;
Rev. E. D. W.. 10; Miss S. R., Martinsburg,
3; Friends in Fincastle, 10; A Friend" / :;
Mr.. H. H. NJ, l; Mr.. J. A. Templeton, Staun.
ton, l. A Friend near Low Moor, l. Leila.
Juliet, and George McCorkle, Covington, /; A
Friend in Staunton, 81 Ladies Aid Society,
Presbyterian church. Danville, Is; Member of
Harpers Ferry church, 2.
For all of these please return our sincere
thanks. We only trust that there are others
likeminded who, by coming to our help, will
make this enterprise success
Sincerely and gratefully,
EMMETT MCCoRKLE.
We have received at this office for the same
church, from E. M. G., Norfolk, Va, 81; N. E.
", Farmvllle, Va, 5; Mrs. f M. ", s. Mrs.
K, 3.
And for the church at Thessalonica Greece,
Rev. j. c. P, 81.