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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

A correspondent from Shawnee this
week gives very disgusting account
Of Bookwalters visit to that place last
week. It is not only an insult to the
miners but to the county and the
Democratic party. Why it is that q
man in Bookwalters standing should
put such low estimate on a class OF
men who are noted for their intelli-
gence is more than we can understand
just snch actions as performed by Mr..
Bockwalter is what is giving the idea
to persons who are not acquainted
with them, the low estimate they place
the mining population. In all pro-
liability our candidate for Governor
will visit mining districts, and if Sc
mark the contrast between Book
walters visit and Mr.. Sites.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
Economy In Shoe. Making.

A shoe mandatory nowadays. that
is, one of any considerable capacity
will cost from $4,000 to $4,000 to
equip with machinery and improved
appliances. The econom es in the old
times were necessarily few. Now they
are such that not only are the waste
scraps of upper leather utilized in ex-
tracing the oil from them, but, after
the oil is extracted they are found to
make good fuel. At one Maasachu-
setts factory about two barrels of this
oil are extracted each day, and are used
in one of the processes Of finishing the
shoes. The scraps of sole leather re-
naming after cutting out the soles and
uppers are utilized for making heels.
while the neshings, so called, saved
from the splitting machines where the
soles are turned up, are sold to be
made into leather board. Boston Her
oLd.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

The Greenback candidate for Gov
ernor Hon. John Sites has always
voted and acted with the Democracy.
He stood by the party and labored
zealously for its success. When the
pirty fell into the hands of a corrupt
ring he refused to follow.
John w. Bookwalter who heads
the Democrtic ticket never voted for
a Democrat until last fall and would
not have been thought of had not it
been for the millions of dollars he is
said to be worth. Democrats from
principle which will you vote for
Mr.. Seitz or Mr.. Bookwalter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
Cheap Wool.

A correspondent in the Ohio Far
mer says:
To the American Wool Grower to-
day there Is no more interesting ques
tion than "How and wheIe can we
produce wool cheap enough to com
pete with foreign markets? With
out a tariff TO protect US we can not
grow WOOL"
The wool growers have it in their
own hands to make wool growing pro-
fitable. Cast aside your party prejr-
dices and cast your votes against free
trade. A united vote from the wool
growers will put an end to the free
trade issue.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

A number of Democratic papers
are finding fault and showing their
ignorance in lieing and blaspheming
religion on account of the religious
views of candid. tes. The CADIz SEN
TINEL says that tie IRISH CITIZEN, a
Democratic paper which refuses to
support Bookwalter, and the Catholics
have sold out to the Republicans and
pours its ignoronce on any and all
who will not be bought up by the un.
principled gang that are squandering
Bookwalter's money. Here is the
style in which they speak of Hon.
John Seitz, the Greenback candidate
for Governor:
"Old John Seitz is a Hardshell
Bahtist and has about as good a
chance of being elected Governor as
he has.of converting the world to his
religion. His political views like his
religion is seld I'm heard of. If Seitz
had been drowned when trying to
make a Christian of him in his infan.
cy the world would have one less po-
liticnl ass"
Mr.. Book walter had better muzzle
his idiotic lickspittles before it is too
late. Whether the Baptists will al
low their religion to be ridiculed and
insulted by the managers Of the Book.
walter Literary Bureau whose lip tol
whiskey and blasphemy far exceeds
their common sense will be made
known on the Second Tuesday Of
October.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

T. Walker, Cleveland, o.. writes: "For
Me last twelve months have suffered with
lumbago and general debility. ! commen-
cad taking Burdock Blood Bitiers about
six weeks sgo, and now have great pleas
urs On stating that have recovered my
appetite. my complexion has grown ruddy.
snd feel better altogether" Price $l.0O
trial size 10 cents.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

"A gentleman IN Cincinnati, Ohio.
purchased some fish. On cleaning
them a bali of singular worms was
found imbedded in the backbone. He
took them to DIR. Rome, who pronounced
them genuine trichine, and found. on
further Investigate N, that the fish were
full of trichin@. This is pronounced by
physicians very singular case, and the
first instance known where these
parasites have been found in fish.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

1t was at the close of summer day
in 1865 that stranger walked rapidly
down the country road of Brighton--a
stranger to place not strange to him,
only as change made it so. His eyes
glanced eagerly from one side of the
road to the other; he stepped to pluck
q stalk of the wild snapdragon that grew
by the road side; he turned from his
path to mount an old bowlder.
"This Is here yet" he said, "and 1t
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
In the village of Salem. near SnriI

In the village of Salem, near Spring.
field, Ill, there is the old case of instru-
ments which Lincoln used when he was
Deputy Surveyor. In the old days
when the boys were out surveying they
had little contests in which each boy
tried to make the highest mark on a
tree with an AK. Lincoln's marks were
the highest. and several trees now show
them. A chalk mark made by Lincoln
on a floor, to show the meridian, is still
there.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
A Marvellous Cure

For all bod,ip ailments, arising from
/ impurity of blood, a torpid liver, irregu-
larity of the bowels, indigestion, constipa-
| ton, or disordered kidneys, is warranted
Prsce SI 30 trial eign 10 cert-
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

The mechanic or laboring man who
will cast his ballot for free trade is
ignorant of what he is doing as the
child that selects penny in prefer
ence TO adime.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
County Ticket.

We want our Wool growers to give
the Free Trade doctrine a careful
consideration and vote for their own
interests.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
Fell Gown.

Mr.. Albert Anderson, York Street. Buf-
fa!o, fell down stairs and severely bruised
his knee A few applications of DIR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil entirely cured him.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
Assignee's Sale of Real Estate.

on, SATURDAY October 1st 1881 at two o clock
Y in e afternoon will offer for Sale at pub
lie Auction on the premises, the following vaua-
bic real estate viz: In Lot Eo. 50, situate in the
town of Somerset, Perry County Ohio, and known
as the late homestead o. w. NJ. Ream.
Terms of sale, one fourth cash in hand and the
residue in three equal annual payments, the de.
ferred payments, to hear interest from the day of
Sale, and TO be secured by mortgage on the prem
ises. Appraised at $3166.o0. Title perfect.
SAMUEL X. REAM,
Sept. 1st 1881. Assignee of W. NJ. Rerm.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15
q Compound Tincture of the most vaiu-
able Ten.edies known to the medical
profession, prepared upon strictly
rflarY>.aceut:cai PRINCIPLES.

eg- We strongly recommend to mothers Prof.
fnrxer's Pleasant Worm syrup. II never
Iais is easy to take and no is required
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-15

Yes, he was well-nig1 gone and ne IT his rest;
The year could nor rene him; nor The cry
OF build ng nightingales about the nest:
Nor tnat soft freshness of the May winds
sigh
The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-28
Kentucky Horses.

1t is claimed that the fastest horses in
the world have been bred in the neigh
borhood of Lexington, Ky. Among the
more notable are Maud Stone, better
known as Maud S., record, 2:10a1; Wedg
wood, 219; Woodform Mambrino, e:ei:
Trinket, 3:194I; Dick Moore, 2:22; John
Morgan, a:24; indianapolis, s:s1; ami
Voltaire, 2:21.
The number of superior carriage, sad
die and trotting horses sent out from this
part of Kentucky is very great. A prom
inept breeder was lately asked the secret
of their superiority. He replied: There
is combination of causes. The great
majority of the horses here have some
good blood in them, and you will find 1t
crossed somewhere back in their pedi-
grees. The best strains of running and
trotting blood have been taken from here
to other States and they there fail to
produce the desired results. There is
something in the blue grass, the water.
the atmosphere, and the general climatic
influence, and much in judicious breeding
and training We force our horses to a
gait when they are one year old, and at
three years old they are pretty we'll de
veloped. The Northern men, however.
always improve them How long
have Kentucky horses held their high
places9'' was asked. The breeder re-
piled: "No one hereabout can tell.
know men who have lived here eighty
five years, and they state that from their
earliest childhood they have heard of the
superiority of our horses. Their fathers
before them had the same story to tell.
The fact is that somewhere in the past
there was brought into this State pure
strain of thorough blood, derived from
the best stock of the mother world, and
it has transmitted its qualities from sire
to son to the present time. 1t is lament
able fact that we have not the exact data
upon which to base history of the Ken
lucky horse"
The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-28
THE PRICE OF HIM.

The New York Tri6unc, which appear
ed on the morning of Good Friday, treats
of our Saviour betrayal in the following
striking manner, deducing from the his
torical fact spiritual lessons for Us all:
Every one of us is precisely in the
condition of this miserly Hebrew when
he was tempted. Into each of our lives
has come that divine goodness truth.
honor. call it what we WILL which Jesus
first made a visible force among men,
and which is now the only clevating
power in the world. Each of us, too.
has some miserable passion of his own
avarice, vanity or senSuality-whicl
urges us to put this saving quality out of
life, as far as we have the power. When
Il man turns his back on honesty and de-
cency, and gives himself up to swindlng
or drunkenness, or a woman goes delib-
erately away from her pure gi:lhood into
a vile middle age, both have voluntarily
done their part in crucifying the God
that still lives and moves among us-we
all know that. We all know. too, when
we look at the man on the gallows, the
drunkartl on the street, the Haunting
woman, wretchedest of all living crea-
lures, the price for which they sold Him,
and how soon the thirty pieces were
spent. These are common lessons: we
shall hear them in the pulpit to-day
But let us bring the matter closer. The
matron in the pew yonder. When her
children were babies with what tears
she gave them to her Lord. What hon
orable men her boys were to be: what
pure, high-soued Christians her daugh-
tiers. There are no more inane. worth
less fops about town now than her sons:
no vainer or more worldly tirts than her
girls. How their poor mother strove as
they grew up to dress them in the style.
to push them into society. Could the
admission to that worldly circle, and
those fine clothes, have been the price
for which she crucitied her Lord in the
souls of her children? 1t looks like it,
Up in the pulpit stands a man who, in
his penniless youth. was a jealous serv-
ant of God-one of those meek, holy and
humble men of heart, who, because of
their rarity, are rcckoned higher than
archangelS. What vapid, frothy words
are his sermons now. But they fill the
pcws, and he poses and mouths dramati- |
cally, thinking of his audience, and sell
dom of the One who also hears, invisible. |
Are the salary and costly parsonage
which this fashionable audience pay him |
but thirty pieces of silver, after all >
What has he sold for it? There are men |
who have parted with Christ for little
newspaper notoriety; there are others |
who have killed in thei Church the meek |
Jesus, whose name was love- and set up |
in his stead the viruleut preacher Of a |
relentless oreod which suits their own |
narrow brains, or single insignificant |
doctrine. This is the price at which
they value Him. Let each of us Judge |
himself; it is certain that the man i'll the
pew and in the pulpit, and Judas afar off,
are being judged elsewhere by the same
inexorable rule,"
The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-28
THE WAY TO WEALTH.

The way to wealth, observes an old
auth or, is open to all who are industrious
and frugal, both with respect to their
money and time; for time well employed
is certain of gaining more. Lay down
regular estimate of your time, and what
you must do in each particular hour and
day, and you will in one month acquire
habits of punctuality that will be aston
ishing even to yourself, and which will
gain for you a character for accuracy that
cannot fail to raise your credit, the prize
that all aim at, but few obtain. Apunc-
tual man is sure to be respected, and lie
is almost sure of thriving and becoming
rich, for punctuality comprchends indus
try and foresight-two of the most pow
erful instruments Of procuring wealth.
On the same subject DR.. Franklin says:
Remember this-"The good paymaster
is lord of another mans purse;' he that
is known to pay punctually ard exactly
to the time he promises may at any time
and on any occasion raise all the money
his friends can spare. This is sometimes
of great use. After industry and frugal
ity nothing contributes more to the rails
ing of young man in the world than
punctuality and justice in all his dealings,
therefore never keep borrowed money an
hour beyond the time you promised, lest
disappointment shut up your friends
purse forever.
Beware of thinking all your own that
you possess, and live accordingly. 1t is
mistake that many people who have
credit fall into. To prevent this, keep
an exact account, for some time, both of
your expenses and your income. If you
take the pains at first to mention particu-
lars, it will have this good effect-you
will discover how wonderfully small,
tritling expenses mount up to large sums,
and will discern what might have been
and may for the future be saved, without
occasioning any great inconvenience.
In short, the way to wealth, if you de-
sire it. is as plain as the way to market.
1t despends chiefly on two words-indu>-
try and frugality; that is, waste neither
time nor money, but make the best Use
of both Without industry and frugality
nothing will do, and with them every
thing lie that gets all he can honestly
and saves all he gets, necessary expense,
excepted, will become rich, if that Being
who governs the world, to whom all
should look for blessing on their honest
cndeavors, doth not, in His wise proSi-
lence. otherwise determine.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-28
Married People Would be Happy

If home trials were never told to neigh
bors.
If they kissed and made up afterevery
quarrel.
If they tried to be as agreeable a> IN
courtship days.
If household expenses were proportion
ed to receipts.
If each would try to be a support and
comfort to the other.
If each remembered the other WIS Il
human being, not an angel.
If woman were as kind to their hus-
bands as they were to their lovers.
If fuel and provisions were laid in dur-
ing the high tide of summer work.
If both parties remembered that they
married for worse as well as for better.
If men were as thoughtful for Their
wives as they were for their sweet hearts.
If there were fewer silks and velvet
street costumes and more plain. tidy
home dress.
If there were fewer "please darlines
in public, and more common manners in
private.
If wives and husbands would TAX"
some pleasure as they go along and not
degenerate into toiling machines. Re
creation is necessary to keep the heart i'll
place, and to get along without it is a hi:
mistake.
If men would remember that woman
can't be always smiling who has to cook
the dinner, answer the door-bell half
dozen times, and get rid of neighbor
who has dropped in, tend a sick baby, tie
up the cut finger of a two-year-old, gath
er up the playthings of n four-year-old,
tie up the head of a six-year-old, and get
an eight-year-old ready for school, to say
nothing Of sweeping, cleaning, etc. \
woman with all this to contend with may
claim it as a privilege to look and feel
little tired some times, and word of
sympathy would not be too much to ex-
pect from the man, who during the honey
moon wouldn't let her carry as much Us
a sunshine.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-28
WHOLE No. 2,OO7

was printed, copies of it might be distri-
buted at the door of the vestry ON the
evening of the entertainment.
'tYes," said the editor, "but it would
attract more attention in the middle of
sermon. 1t will interest large number
of your congregation, and help a good
cause; besides so much money is spent
upon the "paper," that don't see how
the owner can afford to print hand bills
to advertise it without increasing the
subscription price. In such 4 matter as
this we ought to be willing to help each
other
Then the gentleman saw the situation.
The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-28
A KEEN SATIRE.

We copy the following from an ex-
change. 1t is good satire and will no
doubt be fully appreciated:
lie was the manager OF church fair,
and one morning he walked into the
newspaper office and said:
"Want an item this morning."
"Of course" replied the editor
Whereupon the visitor laid the following
note upon the table:
THE ladies of the-Street Church will
give Il festival at their vestry hall next
Friday evening. Literary and musical
entertainment will be provided and sup
per will be served to all who desire. The
i'll such matters, and are sure
to provide good time. The admission
will be only Is cents, and it is certain
that no one can spend that amount to
better advantage. BE sure to go and
take your friends.
When the editor had read it, he said:
"Oh, | see, an advertisement.
NO. not an advertisement. We pre-
fer to have it go in the local column" re-
piled the manager.
And seeing that the editor looked skep-
tical, he continued:
at will interest great many of your
readers, and help good cause: besides
We have spent 50 much money getting up
our entertainment that we can't afford
to advertise it without increasing the
price of our tickets. In such matter as
this We ought to be willing to help each
other
Well,' said the editor, 90 If it goes
into the locals, | suppose you would re-
ciprocate by reading il little notice i'll
your church next Sunday
The visiting brother asked him what
notice, and the editor wrote and handed
him the following:
This paper, for the coming year, will
be the best and cheapest family paper in
Its proprietor has had much
experience and has had all the help which
4 large outlay of money can procure. His
paper has larger circulation than any
other in the county, and it is to be fur
nished at only 81. 1t is certain that no
one can spend that amount to better
advantage. Be sure to take the paper"
and subscribe for your friends.'
The manager hemmed and hesitated,
and then said, Solemnly, that he doubted
whether it would be judicious to read
such a notice, but suggested that if it
The Cecil Whig., 1881-05-28

GB According to Prof. Swing, ''thc
coming man will be temperate, c'laStc,
merciful, just, generous, large-heartcd,
good neighbor, and faithful citizep.'
Wnat n nice time the coming woman
will have.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-24

On the 18th tnst of inflammation of the brain, near
Parnassus, Mrs N. Jane, wife Of Wm c. Hedrick
and daughter OF Samuel Whitmore, deceased, in the
40th year or her age Her suffering for forty eight
hours was intense but her last moments peace
full and she fell asleep with unfaltering trust in
the promise OF her Saviour whom she had conhded
In for many years. Her funeral took place from the
M. E. Church South Rev. S. R. Snapp, her PASTOR
and Rev / n Campbell, of the Union Presbyterian
church officiating
Rockingham and city papers please copy.
In Baltimore, on the 4th instant, Walter Clement
Opie, aged 4years, and on the 20th Malcolm Hartman
Opie aged years, both sons of DR.. Thomas L. and
Sallie Opie.
In McGaheysville, Feb. 18th, Mrs. Harriet Fultz
aged about 81 years.
Near East Point, Rockingham county, on Monday,
the 14th, Mr. Henry bennett, aged about % years.
In Staunton, the 18th, of paralysis, Mrs Martha
S. Johnson, wife of E. F. johnson, aged 48 years.
Near Staunton, on the 10Th, of inflammation of the
stomach, Eddie HUFFMAN, aged year and months.
On the 18th, at Fairoaks South River, Augusta CO.
Henry Going STAGE, aged ten months, son of H. l..
and Mary STAGE.
At his residence, near Greenvlle, on the 4th inst
of consumption, Mr. John Crst in the 70 year his
age.
On the 5th, at his sons residence near Greenyille
Mr.. Henry Crist, at the advanced age of 95 years.
On the morning of the 18th inst. at the residence
of his MOTHER in Baltimore, Mr. James M Mcvegh
aged ~ years, son OF Mr. Hiram and Mary McVeigh
Near Dale Enterprise, Rockingham county, at tn
residence of d. A. Heatwole, her son in-law, Mrs
Catharine Driver, aged IS years.
Near Middlebrook on the 18th inst, little Wallace
Warren, son of George and Ella NJ. Msh, aged about
IS months This dear child was lent but season
to these youthful parents, and then the Saviour
took him, and now he rests securely in His arms.
Yindicator please copy.
At his residence in Lexington, Va, on the 3ist of
January, Mr. Henry Norgrove, in the Goth year OF
his age. Mr.. Norgrove born oxford in
England, and had been resident of Lexington for
nearly is years.
Mrs. Margaret Thompson, wife of J. J. Thompson,
died at her home at the mouth of Buffalo, Rock
bridge county, the 9th Inst of consumption She
was sister of the late John W Hamilton and Col. A
J. Hamilton Mrs the mother Of ten childen,
all of whom living.
Near Swoope's Depot, in this county, on the 14th,
Mrs Elizabeth Shuey,wife of Captain George Shuey,
in the 90th year Of her age. Her FUNERAL services
were held at her husbands residence, where large
congregation assembled The services were conduct
ed by Rev. S. L. Smith, the pastor, and by Rev. j.
Miller, of Staunton, after which her remains were
buried at Mt. Tabor Evan. Lutheran Church.