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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
Stop ScOWling.

Don't scowl; it spoils faces. Before
you know it your forehead will resemble
q small railroad map. There is grand
trunk line now from your cowlick to the
edge of your nose, intersected by paral-
lei lines running east and west, with
curves arching your eyebrows; and oh,
how much older you look for it. Scowl-
ing is q habit that steals upon us un-
awares. We frown when the light is too
strong, and when it is too weak. We
tie our brows into knot when we are
thinking, and knit them even more
tightly when we can not think. There is
no denying that there are plenty of things
to scowl about. The baby in the cradle
Howns when something fails to suit
The little toddler who has sugar on his
bread and butter tells his troubles in the
same way when you leave off the sugar.
''Cross" we say about the children, and
worried to death" about the old folks,
and as for ourselves, we can't help it.
Butwe must. Its reflex influence makes
others unhappy; for face answereth un-
to face In life as well as in water. 1t
bellies our religion. We should possess
our souls in such peace that it will re-
fleet itself in placid countenances. II
your forehead is ridged with wrinkles
before forty, what will it be at seventy?
There is one consoling thought about
these marks of time and trouble-the
death angel always grasses them. Even
the extremely aged in death often wear
a smooth and peaceful brow, thus leav.
ing our last memories of them calm and
tranquil. But our business is with life.
Scowling is a kind of silent scolding.
For PHYS sake let us take sad iron or 9
glad iron, or some smoothing tool o.
some sort, and straigten these creases
out of ohr faces before they become in
delibly engraven upon our yisage.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
What She Called Him.

A well-known educationalist vouches
for the truth of the following: A teacher
in lower grade in one of our public
schools received new pupil-a little
miss of six or seven years, named, say
Matte Brown. After taking her name
for the school rolls according to the GUS
tom, the teacher said:
'What is your papa's name, Mattie?'
"Mr. Brown"
eyes, but what is his first name?"
"Don't know-his name is just Mr.
Brown"
"Yes, yes-I know" then as bright
idea struck her, ''What does your NAM
ma call him?"
"Oh! know what you mean now, "
him darned old fool"
It is safe to conclude that the teacher
did not register the child's father as D.
o, If, Brown,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
Sign Lore.

A gentleman advertised in one of our
daily papers for an ice chest to hold so
many pounds of ice and new harness.
The wonder was why he wanted to keep
his new harness IN an ice chest, until it
was noticed to be an error in punctua-
tion.
A BARRIERS sign once read:
'fWhat do you think
I'll shave you for nothing and give you a
drink"
When his customers asked him for the
drink and refused to pay, he took them
outside and read to them:
"What do you think
I'll shave you for nothing and give you
drink"
Detached sentences often present a
quaint expression:
'Job printing! said an old lady, read
ing the familiar sign, ''poor man, he
must be awful tired of it, for he's been at
it ever since can remember!"
In druggists window at Chicago
there was for many years sign: car
tificial eyes," and Immediately under it:
"Open all night"
A merchant once told sign painter he
wanted neat sign with a couplet in
rhyme, painted in gold letters; when the
man brought the sign the inscription
read:
'Sugar and tea sold"
The merchant asked angrily where
the rhyme was, when the painter read it
to him:
"Sugar and tea
solid"
A sign on tobacco factory reads:
''Twenty boys wanted to strip"
''Shirts REINFORCED" is the legend in a
Detroit dry goods store. It means that
they are provided with double yokes.
"Mr. Jones Shirt Store" read an old
lady, cautiously. "Well, why doesn't
he get it mended?"
"Pocket-books reduced to fifteen
cents" (" was the notice in a store window,
and wag passing remarked that he was
reduced to nothing.
In Pennsylvania there was an old
house called the Harrowgate. In front
Of it and directly on the sidewalk hang
an old gate with this inscription:
sThis gate hangs we'll and hinders none;
Refresh, and pay and travel on;
Good ale for nothing tomorrow"
Another sign reads:
81, Patrick McDermott, lives here;
1 sell good porter, ale and beer;
I've made my sign little wider
To let you know keep good cider"
Detroit Free Press.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
Names of Countries.

The following countries, it is said,
were originally named by the Pheni-
clans, the greatest commercial people in
the world. The names, in the Phoeni-
clan language, signifed something char
teristic of the places which they desig-
nate.
Europe signifies country of white
complexion; so named because the in
habitants we're of lighter complexion
than those Of Asia and Africa.
Asia signifies between, or in the mid
die, from the fact that the geographers
placed it between Europe and Africa.
Africa signifies the land of corn, or
ears It was celebrated for its abundance
of corn, and all sorts of grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry-very
characteristic
Spain, country of rabbits or conies
It was once so infested with these ami
mails that it sued Augustus for an army
to destroy them.
Italy, country of pitch, from its
yielding great quantities of black pitch.
Calabria, also, for the same reason.
Gaul, modern France, signifies yellow
haired, as yellow hair characterized its
inhabitants.
The English of Caledonia is a high
hill. This was rugged, mountainous
! province in Scotland
Hibernia is utmost or last habitation;
for beyond this, westward, the Pheni-
clans never extended their voyages.
Britain, the country of tin, great
quantities being found on it and ada
cent islands. The Greeks called it Al
bion, which signifies in the Phnnician
tongue either white or high mountains,
from the whiteness of it's shores, or the
high rocks on the Western coast
Corsica signifies woody place.
Sardinia signifies the footsteps of men,
which it resembles.
Syracuse, bad SAVIOR, so-called from
the unwholesome marsh on which it
stood.
Rhodes, serpents or dragons, which
it produced in abundance.
Sicily, the country of grapes.
Scylla, the whirlpool Of destruction.
Etna signifies a furnace, or dark, OF
smoky.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
THE MARKETS.

CfNCINNATL-FLoUR-Fa Family, IS 5o95 rs;
ssgsy sgs g Ss 'P5ns .%%Sy % Nog e
sSoos Ne tier @ enees Gesnke le3 Y shts,
ear corn, ls@4sc. Oats-No 2white, 4sc; No. q
None offsrins. Hay-PIime to choice timothy,
i25. HogsL.Common, a 25@5 20; heavy packing,
$5 4o@5 30; butchers selections, se oO@6 80.
chickens, 81 15ss 90 ~ PER doz 70 PseS1siossHMess row ION
pork. sfs 2s@i6 So Lard Current make, lie:
FRuIr AND Raspberres, black, 81 90
Peaches, IS oo@4 90 per bush Cherries, IS 0O@
90 Per stand. Apples..New Southern, 50 oo@S 90
81 ro sors s 90 iSS n s r1sa and sp
Cabbage, 81 25@i so per br Tomatoes-Choice
Tennessee and home grown, 81 oo@4 90 per bush.
1915. Flour.E.tra family, s. 1904 rs; 4 No. !,
No. mixed, xsc. oats-No white, 4ac.; No 10 !
mixed. 4lc- Rye-No. 2, 81 O6. Hay-Is steady
and quoted At sls Oo@ls co. Mess pork, sl7 So
sides, s.6Oc.; clear sides, 1oc: Hams-sugar-cured
aaotsd s @ yue snd Srees
range from IS 10 to IS CO.
NEW YORK.-Flour-Good to choice Western
% ss "ss 1h,s prSesss
$6 25@s o. Wheat Ungrnded spring, 81 O091 2O
No .. winter red 81 21@i 25A; No winter s, red red
@i 2eN; ungraded white, 81 i5al %. Corn.Un:
graded, oi@56szc.; No. 2, 66957c. Oats-Mixed
Western, n l@4Sc White Western, 43@47c. Mess
-Wheat-No winter red, 81 2514
al 25a6. Corn-Western mixed, 54as9541ac Oats
White Western, 9S9S9c mixed do, 36937c. Rye
mossy Ra%s oso o.
in tierces, 12c.
INDIANAPOLIS -wheat-The market is weak;
No. red, 81 161a@l II. Corn-Is weak at 441a9
45o Oats New white, S62@S9c
TOLEDO.-Wheat-No. red Wabash, 81 2Osx.
Corn-No. mixed, 4Sc Oats-No. mixed, 29c.
for September.
LIVE STOCK
CINCINNATI.-CATTLE-C 50 259s 90;
qualities q 2595 as; common to fair oxen, IS oOa
81 5o@s Is. Hoes Select batchers' and heavy
es g. 80 80 Il ss9d %Sss soa Co. See
mon mon = 5o@s %; culls and tail ends, IS 5oa4 90;
21S94s.; some extra wethers 7lfc LAMps-Com,
mon to fair, 1880; good to choice, 5<@614c.; some
NEW YORK-Beef Cattle-Native steers, prime
9@l2Hc.; common to good Texas steers, s9955c per
shsep-Co%mon to Prime oo@a Vs. 7s S peT TsfS loo Ss
100 lbs, and Southern spring lambs IS SOFAS 2s her
100 lbs. Hoss-Corn-fed live Western, Sd 0O@6 80
per 100 lbs
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Beei Cattle - Prime
srs common l IL sSs seGa Sutshers Sassn
steers, z oo@4 Is; bulls IS Oogs so; dry cows and
stag x g. ;aS 2s@A A. 7s phiaaephiss, g i5@
Clipped, selling at s. 0ogS rs per 100 lbs. '"'p-
iNDIANAp0LIs.-Cattle- : Common to prime
shippeIs, o. 00s6 90; butchers IS OOS4 rs; stock
@s 10 per 100 bs WORKERS. Is sos Isl sisep@ 90 70
Common TO fancy. y 6006 90.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William ]. Coughlin, of somerville, Mass, says: "In
the fall of 1876 taken with BLEEDING OF THE LUNGS,
followed by severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh, and confined to my bed. In 1877 was adj
med to the hospital. The doctors said had hole in
my lung as big half dollar. At time report
went around that dead. gave up hope, but a
friend told of DR.. WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM
FOR THE LUNGS. got bottle, when, to my surprise,
commenced to feel BETTER and to-day feel better than
for three years past. write this hoping af
ficted with Diseased Lungs will take DIR. WILLIAM
HALLS BALSAM and be convinced that CONSUMP-
TION CAN BE CURED. 1 can positively say it has done
more good than all the other medicines have taken
ince sickness.o
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

When he found his corn or any of his hoed
crop troubled in this way, he put the cul-
tivator at once to work, and this gave the
birds chance.
These little hints may be of service at
this season of the year. The war must be
begun early and with personal effort. The
ways and means need not be specially re-
ferred to. Only let it be recognized that
personal labor of some kind must be at the
bottom of success, and how to do it will
often suggest itself Germantown Telegraph.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

RECENT investigations have shown the
incorrectness Of the pretty stories of
insect-eating plants which have SO often
been given. Insects are often caught by
the sticky exudations of certain plants,
or otherwise, but no evidence can be
found to show that the plants digest or
eat the insects and thrive by an abundance
of such food, as has been SO often
asserted.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

They were two crafty and cautious old
vags. They met in the alley, looked
each other over, and one of them que
ried:
"Say, do you chew?''
He did, but he didn't want to spare
any. He therefore replied:
"Yes, chew gum"
"Sorry," continued the other as he
hauled out fine large plug and held it
up to the light. 81 don't use the weed
myself, and I was going to give this to
you. If I find any gum in any of my
travels through the alleys, I'll bear you
in mind. Tra-la."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
What's tho Difference2

A dyer in Quincy speaks nine Ian
guages. By the way, while we think of
it, what is the difference between him
and paragrapher? Simply this: One
is learned dyer, and the other burned
=. There, there, boys, keep cool
Don't shed your coat over little thing
like that.-Modesn Argo.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

The best people will vote for the best
man every time. And we Judge by the
number Of the st. Jacobs Oil constitu-
ency, that it is the best remedy for rheu-
matism known. Prof. Tice, of St. Louis,
among others, says so.-Rural Neao
Y0rker
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

Green fruit and bad vegetables, which are
particularly plentiful at this season of the year,
almost invariably disorder the stomach and su-
perinduce Cramps, Cholera Morbus, and what
is worse, Diarrhea and Chronic Dysentery.
People who desire to. preserve their health
should be exceedingly careful about their diet
at this season, and at no time should they be
without supply of PERRY DAVIS PAIN KILLER,
the safest srirest and speediest remedy for all
troubles of the stomach or bowels. AL drug
gists sell it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

It is said that one out Of every four real in
valids who go to Denver, Col, to recover health
corpse. The undertakers next to the hotel
keepers, have tho most profitable business.
This excessive mortality may be prevented and
patients served and cured under the care Of
friends and loved ones ut home, IL they will but
use Hop Bitters In time This we know. See
other column.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
Art and OIL.

The Norfolk Varginian of January 16,
1881, refers to the remarkable cure ef-
fected by st. Jacobs Oil in the case Of
Prof. Cromwell-known the country over
for his magnificent Art Illustrations
who had suffered excruciating torments
from Rheumatism, until he tried the Oil,
whose effects he says were magical
Reading (Pd.) Times and Dispatch.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

THEY say you can tell by the taste of
beer what the weather is going to be-
How nice. When your wife is uncer-
tain about going out with her new bon
net on, and says: Dear, do you think
it will rain ?" you can say: 'I'll see,
my love-" and go out and take drink OF
beer, and she can't find word of fault
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

''They cured me of Ague, Biliousness and Kid
ney Complaint, as recommended. had half
bottle left, which used for my two little girls,
whom the doctors and neighbors said could not
be cured. I am confident should have lost
both of them one night if I had not had the
Hop Bitters in my house to use. I found they
did them so much good I continued with them,
and they are now well. That is why I say you
do not know half the value of Hop Bitters, and
do not recommend them highly enough. B,
Rochester; N. Y.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

A BRIDGEPORT woman slipped down
on banana skin, the only case on rec
ord, we believe. In the fall she dragged
a man down with her, which has 90.
CURED before. -Daabtlry NeaOS.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostratlon
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PEpToN1zED BEEF ToN1c the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and life-sustaining prop
critics; is Invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
well, Hazard & Co., proprietors New York.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

YOUNG man, do you want to make your
mark in the worfdp Then never learn
to write your nsme.-Syracuse Stand
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
Don't Die In the House.

Ask Druggists for 'Rough on Rats" 1t clears
out rats, mice, reaches, flies, bed-bugs. 15c.
ONLY the genuine axle grease has the name
of Frazer on every package, and wears longer
than any other.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

IF THE bowels are sluggish and the liver tor
pid use Kidney-Wort.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

CIV Why WASTE MONEY! Young od
3; ! ]
0lA . Luxuriant mouatashe, flowing ,
~ - heads THICkEN, 6TkkNGThkN and -
Spanish discovery which has NEVER
FAILED. Send ONLY SIX CENTS to Dr. J. GoNzA- ~
Box Beware sf su tmitAssns
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

THERE is but one way to cure badness, and
that is by using CARBoLINE, deodorized ex-
tract of petroleum, the natural hair grower.
AS recently improved it is the only dressing for
the hair that cultured people will use.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

Has Everything Failed Your
Then try Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07
For Two
Generations

The good and staunch old
standby, MEXICAN MUS
TANG IMMINENT, has done
more to assuage pain, relieve
suffering, and save the lives OF
men and beasts than all other
Iiniments put together. Whyi
Because the Mustang pene-
trates through skin and flesh
to the very bone, driving out
all pain and soreness and
morbid secretiOns, and restOr-
ing the afflicted part to sound
and supple health.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07


at the curculio was to cut off a bough close
up to the trunk, place sheets under the
trees and with a mallet suddenly strike
the stump and thus shake the insects off,
which were then burnt Do this every
morning for week, and you can get plenty
of plums and they will pay handsomely.
DIR. Hall, of Illinois, improved on this idea.
He invented sort of wheelbarrow with
sheets spread on frames, which shook off
and collected the insects at once. He also
has plums in plenty and finds it pays. 1t
is, indeed, the experience of every one that
the war against insects, as against weeds, is
one in which we must personally engage
If we would have success. People think
that the climate is a fearful one, and look
with envious eyes on foreign countries
from which fruit flows so freely to our
shores. But all who have had personal ex-
sonai effort to keep off these animal pests
is something enormous and they laugh at
us because we sit down and do nothing but
cry over our hard fate.
OF course, we can get some help from
outside agencies, and of these birds are the
best. But even these we have to assist in
order to get the best results from their
work. We remember once when the GU t
worm question was one of the most engross-
ing with the press generally. Asking a
farmer friend what he regarded as the best
remedy, and we suspect that the great
world of dispu tants would have been sur
prised at his answer that he encouraged
the blackbirds, as the purple grakle is
called in these parts This, the white grub
and similar root-devourers, he thought he
kept completely down by encouraging
them. His neighbors shot at them when
ever they had chance, and they focked
to his farm, where they were protected
and they followed his plow and hoe-har.
row, to use his own words, like flock OF
ducks, and thus kept them closely checked
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

II ron want 10 buy 7hvssAsys, Go
usv Hdicrs, Hovss Posssys or Engines
(sithsr Portable or Traction, 70 use
purposes), buy he ''starvsd Roost-
sr" goods. s1zs Best Z ne Ch<op-
est" For Prics List and illustrated
Pamphlets-sent free-write 70 The
Aul.man 4 Taylor Company, MAns-
Aald. ..
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07


A great many articles in the columns of
some agricultural journals seem to be in
serted merely to fill up space and in some
instances do great injury. A case in point:
Having noticed an article going the rounds
of the press to the effect that lone pint of
salt placed in the hole when setting out
young peach trees, where old trees had
been removed, would make them grow
better" etc. l tried it this spring on some
twenty trees in young orchard. The old
trees had been removed year previously
Not a tree is now living where used the
salt, but where no salt was used they are
doing finely and making good growth
From experiments on small scale, / be-
lieve that the use of salt as a fertilizer, on
such lands as we have in Mississippi, is de-
leterious, no matter how small the guam
tity. In reporting experiments of any
kind, we all should be more careful in Civ
ing results. for each and every soil requires
peculiar food. We all know it would be
perfect folly to apply the same manure to
sandy land and clay land indiscriminately
and while salt doubtless is benefcially ap-
piled to growing grain in some localities,
its indiscriminate use may blast and de-
stroy the hopes of farmers in other locali-
ties. Suppose / had taken this widely
quoted paragraph, as ipse di1it, and placed
one pint Of salt around each of my I,0OC
trees, the loss would have been irreparable,
my trees all dead, and q years labor thrown
away Let Us make experiments intelli-
gently, and give them to the "WoRLD,'
stating locality, kind Of soil, and the re-
suit as it actually occurs.-Mis'is'ippi Far
mer.
SOME claim that there Is no improvement
in natures way. 1t is true II the cows are
never to be put to any other use than rails
ing calves, it is just as well to let their
| calves run with them in the natural way
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-05-12
A Rapid Exit from China.

The Chinese, said Professor Draper
to a New York reporter, paid great at
tention to astronomy in historical
times, and they have always linked
their knowledge of astronomy with
astrology. Historical events were noted
by their writers as taking place while
the stars held certain relations to each
other. Speaking of astrology in China,
1 am reminded of the unceremonious
way in which the late lamented Profes-
sor Watson, of Ann Arbor university,
Michigan, was compelled to quit the
Chinese empire about the time of the
transit of Venus few years ago. Pro-
fessor Watson, with another well-known
astronomer, was at the Chinese capital.
The emperor of China was taken sick
with the smallpox, and he died after a
. short illness. The event was looked
upon, as all great events are in China,
as influenced by the stars, and it be-
came noised.abroad that the two distin-
guished astronomers had so influenced
the stars as to cause the emperor's
death. The viceroy, who did not share
the popular belief, quietly informed the
astronomers that they might lose their
lives if they did not go away. They de-
parted in the night.