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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
Haunted Me.

A Workingman says: debt, pov.
erty and suffering haunted me fol
years. caused by sick family and
large bills for doctoring which did
no good. ! was completely dis.
couraged. until one year ago, by the
advice of my pastor, l procured
Hop Bitters and commenced their
use, and in one month we were all
well, and none of US have been sick
a day since; and / want to say to
all poor men, you can keep your
families well year with Hop Bit
tiers for less than one doctors visit
viii cost Christian AdUocdte.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
How to Save.

All men and women who
hard with mind or body are s
to periodical attacks Of bilious
which may end in disordered
neys or liver and dangerous i'll
A scot or s1.O0 bottle of Parl
Ginger Tonic will keep these orr
active, and by preventing the
tack save you much sickness,
of time and great expense. Ma
families are kept in perfect health
using the Tonic when Spring or I
sickness threatens. Delay at ST
time means danger.-Detroa Pr
See other column.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
Found

READING, June
the dead body of
born, of this city,
was found lying d
her residence in d
of decomposition.
sided alone, and as
ticed about the dive
days two of the neig
search of the premise
the woman lying on
supposed her to be SID
gave the body a push,
horror they found the
dead. They notified
authorities. is suppos1
a natural death during s
Monday, and as she occ
house alone, the fact was 4
ed until last night. Coro
held an inquest. The ol
said to have been well
very misery.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15

who "a not directly interested in hsy,ns y, -
WONDERFUL WAY OF NAoIiLzsl , ~. w.
fannels softer than they can{
10 &c fine sewing and e{k
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
Bosom friends-Shirt studs.

Had barbar's itch for years, terri
bly,. Doctors failed. Peruna cured
me. C. Beck, Allegheny, Pa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15

The people of Princess Anne,
Crisiield and other parts OF Somer-
set county, Nd, are greatly excited
over the reported confession of a
woman who is now on her death
bed OF having murdered a man
eighteen years ago. Two negroes
were executed for the crime in 1866
The murder occurred some time
during the latter part of 1862, the
victim being Asariah Dougherty
who was found dead in his store.
AS was then supposed, his money
was the incentive for the crime.
Suspicion rested upon two colored
men, who were arrested soon after
the murder was perpetrated, but no
money was found in their posses
sion and none could be found about
the premises of Dougherty. 1t was
generally supposed that some other
party or parties were accessory to
the crime, but time failed TO unravel
the mystery and the men arrested
were soon placed on trial for muir
der and found guilty and seEtenced
to be hanged.
The evidence upon which they
were convicted was purely circum-
stantial, all efforts to show directly
that they committed the crime hav-
ing tailed. The strongest evidence
A.. a., ,,,.,~<l<~.a.ru
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
The railroad frog can't swim.

Peruna should be used in all skin
diseases.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07

covering of the lower extremity is
averaged by the amount of clothing
around their bodies which are swathed
in from four to six padded silk gar
ments. Inside the pen the reporter
noticed several intelligent. looking Chi
namen wearing silver badges, denotlng
them to be agents of the several Chinese
companies. The reporter spoke to one
Of these and asked him why he did not
go on board the ship and explain to the
passengers the inspection they would be
subjected to, and other matters which
would have the effect of avoiding great
deal OF the confusion. The agent replied
that a recent order of the steamship
company or the custom house forbade
them from boarding the ship until the
passengers were all landed. The report
er asked the question for the reason that
1t was plain to see that the Chinamen
had no idea of what was expected of
them.
They staggered on the wharf under
their loads, and were pushed and
jammed around by the inspectors, with
out suspicion or previous information
of what the official pushing and jam
ming all tended to-. They looked like
drove of bewildered cattle in the receiv-
ing yard of slaughter house, and if
they hesitated in dazed, uncertain way
for IN oment, looking for some friendly
counsel or waiting for directing word,
they suffered the penalty of their inno-
cent ignorance by an unceremonious
but official clutch and bounce, all in
heap atop of some other equally obtuse
and struggling passenger. If China
man staggered and fell on the gang
plank his basket of household goods and
gods, scattered in all directions, were
kicked after him, some falling on the
wharf and some in the bay. The un-
lucky wretch would take the loss of his
goods hardly, but the inspectors were
too busy to treat him otherwise OF
course the agents of the Six Companies
helped their countrymen as much as
they could. In the excitement and
hurry of their first energetic reception
by the muscular inspector at the foot of
the gangplank they would unknowingly
drop bundles, which some inspector
would pick up and heave into the midst
of the confused mass of baggage, China
men and inspectors. If the bundle hit
Chinaman on the head the crowd on
the wharf cheered. The agents would
then run after the baggage so happily
thrown and endeavor to find it and
return it to its owner. The entire lot of
1,O40 passengers were inspected, chalked
and passed out of the pen in about three
hours.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07
Table p,Hote Abroad.

Breakfast on the continent always
means only bread and coffee; to the la
boring people it means bowl of broth
and a bit Of bread, or bread alone The
American, however, will find himself
served with butter and eggs or meat,
unless he has previously ordered a "plain
breakfast" when he will receive the
usual bread and coffee. The noted table
d'hote is perhaps the least susceptible of
change. Itusually is served at 6 o'clock
AN hour when the days toll is over
and the meal can be taken at leisure
1t is the social meal of the day, and all
the guests of the hotel are expected to
meet at the table. 1t requires never less
than an hour, oftener two, and unless
your company is entertaining, it is a
long and dreary process. Perhaps you
have been told that there will be ten or
fifteen courses, and if uninitiated, you
have your mind made up that for once
you will have your usual 'square meal"
but when the waiter, with neck-tie and
shirt front of immaculate whiteness,
brings you small piece of bread and
dish of slightly colored water called
soup, you proceed with quiet resigna-
ton, with the belief that you will have
dinner presently; but your curiosities is
only the more aroused when the plates
are changed, and, after a long, dreary
waiting, you receive very small bit of
fish, then the table is cleared again, and
you are served with bit of chicken like
a true American, you have dispatched
your bread long enough since, and you
take chicken and "play it alone;" but
you conclude it is " passing strange"
when you learn that buttered chestnuts
and nothing else, or bit of cheese alone,
will be served as course, and SO you
continue for an hour or two in patient
expectation of the meal that never
comes. My Yankee friend puts it ex-
actly right when he said There is q
mouthful to eat and then a square acre
of silence" / shall always respect the
American who, the other day, when he
had borne patiently until the meal was
half over, thundered out to the waiter,
Good gracious Life is too short to be
wasted in this manner, sir For heav-
ems sake bring me something to eat"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07
An immigrants Bath.
hrTHERE is the honest immigrant, !"
cold tho foil thin ,1aasonuo,

T'HERE is the honest immigrant"
i said the tall, thin passenger. 81
believe he is going to wash his face"
And really it did look as though that
was the mans mad intention. He had
gone to clear pool of water beside the
track, and was apparently getting realty
for his ablutions.
"See him peel off his raiment," said
the man on the wood-box.
g He hasn't very much to peel off"
the fat passenger said.
Watt" said the tall thin passenger,
he hasn't got started yet"
The immigrant first unwrapped COM
forter from his neck and then slowly
took off gray overcoat with short
waist and long skirts, reaching to his
heels. Then he unwound red wooden
comforter from his neck, and took off
short peal jacket of heavy blue cloth. -
Then he unwrapped a gray comforter
from his neck, and took off q leather
jacket, very tight-fitting and very greasy.
He then unwound long flannel scarf
from his neck and took Off black vest,
and then he released his neck from the
folds of gray woolen comforter, and
then he took off red vest and unwound
another comforter, and then he took off
another vest and flannel scarf that
was tied around his neck, and another
vest, and another comforter and another
scarf and another vest and another COM
forter and another vest
That man robbed clothing house."
said the cross passengeE.
The immigrant calmly unwrapped
from his neck a long woolen COM
forter-
Il WONDER" said the fat passenger,
If he got through the custom house in
that way ?"
And he took off another vest
Whyl" exclaimed the tall, thin,
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07

passenger, "he is no bigger than ann
And then he unrolled another COM
forter from his neck
"By Georgel" exclaimed the man on
the wood-box, "he'll get down to his
bones in two more 'peels'
And the immigrant calmly unbotton-
ed another vest
Suddenly the whistle of the train was
heard in the distance, and another of
the party of immigrants shrieked to the
would-be-bather
" Jarliche Jams Krund Bjorneske
Biorsnesaekessen Hodhicklendlenen
dgakrominieke thorlikijd sounden de
smockerick ach eada trainege ausgek-
ommek
And then the race began. The train
came along, waited three minutes, and
sped away, and long, long after we left
the station we could look back and see
that rash immigrant from the land of
Njordvaldsen shooting himself into a
job lot of parti-colored vests, and haul
ing upon himself an avalanche of COM
forters, in the vain hope of showing
himself under in time to catch the next
train.
have often wondered,' the jester
said, musing, "why the immigrants
never bathe from the time they leave
Castle Garden until they get to their
homes in the far West. l understand
it now. That man, in his laudable de-
sire to wash up, will lose a whole week
before he can dress himself And even
then he had not got undressed far
enough down to wash his neck"
Wauseon !" shouted the brakeman.
Was he on ?" queried the fat pass
enger. Was he on what 2 He wasn't
on the train by twenty miles, but he
was on whole Chatham street bank
rupt stock of vests and comforters, and
don't you forget it. What was he on,
anyhow"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07
How She Cured Him of Swearing.

The husband of Nashville lady was,
before his marriage, a furious swearer.
Through his wife's influence he left off
this bad habit, except one favorite cuss
word, which clung to him under all
circumstances, and which, to the great
annoyance of the good wife, he would
unconsclously use everywhere-the word
"damn."
Several months since he arose one
cold morning, before the servant came
in to make the wood fire, and, after
long effort, and the fruitless burning of
many matches, turned and said Sal
lie, this damn fire won't burn" To
this the good wife earnestly said Yes,
the damn wood is too green, and the
damn servant has forgotten to bring up
any damn kindling to start the damn
fire with" He looked at his wife in
absolute dismay, but at once saw the
point and said nothing.
A longer period than usual passed
without the favorite expletive being
used, but later on he wanted basket,
and said after looking for it: "Sallie,
where has the damn basket got to ?"
The wife, quietly, as if putting a child
to sleep, said: ''Ask the damn cook to
get you the damn basket-damn her,
she keeps it," AS before, he said moth
ing, but months have passed, and if he
damns anything it is not where she is.
She says it was like taking quinine, and
she always went and washed out her
mouth afterwards, but he is cured.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07
Then and Now.

Wendell Phillips, in lecture deliver
ed in New York, cited some striking
facts to show how wonderful has been
the advance in journalism of late years.
When the battle of Waterloo took place
the London Times devoted only one
third of a column to description of it /;
whereas full-pag history of the re-
cent Ute massacre of ten persons in
California was given to the readers of
our great dailies. Mr.. Phillips could
find no detailed account in any of the
files of the Boston papers of 1885, of
the mobbing of William Lloyd Garri-
son, which occurred in that year, and
was an event (which shook the city
while 1t lasted" President Harrison
had been dead ten days in 1s4l before
the news reached Springfield, ILL.,, and
then Abraham Lincoln would not be-
lieve it because it seemed impossible
for 1t to have come in so short time
Now you can buy in the afternoon a
newspaper in which yon may read the
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07
0striches.

A large business is done at Cape
Colony in the way of farming ostriches
for their plucking. 1t is only twelve
years since the business was started in
Cape Colony, and the industry is most
profitable. Last year ostrich feathers to
the value of $4,000 were exported
from the Cape. A guaranteed good pair
of birds, aged four years, can be pur-
chased for 81 900, and these bring in the
first year 500 for feathers. If the
breeder has ordinary luck they ought to
hatch twenty chicks, which when six
months old are worth from $40 to $50
each. Thus, in the first year, the farm
er is often repaid for the whole outlay.
The first plucking takes place when the
birds are about twelve months old, the
feathers being then worth about $3.50.
The next plucking realizes about $3.50,
and SO on, increasing in value as the
bird ages. Ostriches require very little
room, the breeding birds being kept in
small paddocks of about four or five
acres in extent, and they feed upon
Indian corn, or almost any kind of
grain.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07

words Queen Victoria spoke to her par
lament since the sun rose in England"
To illustrate the degree of enlighten-
ment afforded by newspapers, MIR. Phil
lips said: "The man who reads the
paper has telegraph wire that con-
meets him with the world, and the man
that does not read might as well be Rob-
inson Crusoe on his island"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-06-07

sB- The United States Treasury build
ingin Washington contains over 81 ,400,-
900 of unclaimed interest upon Govern
ment bonds. This sum is growing larger
every day. This money can be drawn
by applying for it to the Secretary of the
Treasury by those entitled to it, stating
the number of the registered bond upon
which the interest is due and unpaid.
There are thousands of person who have
bought bonds and not knowing how to
get the interest on them, prefer to lose
the same rather than expose the fact
that they have the bonds. Others have
interest due them and actually forget
the fact, and it lies in the Treasury
vaults waiting for them to apply for 1t.
Should one of the clerks in the bond
division inform person to whom in
terest is due Of the fact, and the same
be discovered, he would be instantly
discharged.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-22
Guatemala Women in the Turf.

We landed at Champerico. Its
matched huts, sheltered by royal
palms and surrounded by orange
groves, presented the ideal tropical
picture, which was well confirmed
by the ferYent heat of the sun. Our
curiosity being soon gratified we
strolled down to the beach. Several
hundred men, women, maids, youths
and children were tossing and
laundering in the foamy surf, the
large majority of them being unen-
numbered by even so much as a
linen collar.
There's your bright bronzed
of the SUM-" exclaimed our
poet in raptures.
"How about the sharks?" in
quired a-more practical traveller,
when it was proposed that we join
the bathers.
ooh, they won't touch you in the
surf" jolly tar replied. "Pve
never heard of anybody being hurt
by 4 shark in the surf"
Confding in this pleasant theory,
we participated in the general en-
joyment. The brown senoritas
manifested no surprise or disap-
proval and assumed prudish airs.
They laughed, shouted, and plunged
into the roaring breakers with as
much indifference as though they
wore the most elegant bathing cos
tunes ever manufactured. The wo-
men Of Central America are famous
for beauty Ofform, which is chic fly
due to the fact that they ignore
those appliances of civilization that
twist their paler sisters out of
shape.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-22
Gilt Edge Tonic cure. kidney Disease
What is Home.

Home is place where character
is formed, where education goes on,
and where people are impressed
for time and eternity. 1t is a place
to be happy in, and to start out
from for all good, honest and earn
est living. Very great is her re
sponsibility who is queen Of this
kingdom. To a very important
extent, she makes or mars it's COM
pIeteness. A fretful, fault finding,
narrow, incapable woman, in the po
sition ofwife or mother, can cloud
home with misery while she keeps
house well, and scrubs the floors
until they are as white as snow.
But the recording angel, surveying
her performances, will surely say,
This ought you have done and not
left the other undone." In home
there should be liberty without IL
cense, time for family intercourse
and space for personal solicitude,
room for the entertainment of
guests and the maintenance of So
cial life; and over all, a tender,
trustful, daily atmosphere of true
devotion and communion with God.
All this is not wholly, but largely in
the hands of her who is the central
thought and the well spring of
pleasure in every comfortable Chris
tain home, the dear, honored and
gracious mother. Let nobody who
is a house-keeper fear to magnify
her Office. 1t is a very sacred one,
and if she performs its duties faith
fully she is worthy Of no stin ted
praise.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-22
A Glasgow Factory Boy.

Just above the VIII arves of Glas
gov, .on the banks of the Clyde,
there once lived a factory boy
whom we will call Davie AT the
age of ten he entered a cotton fac
tory as 'piecer." He was employed
from six o'clock in the morning till
eight at night. His parents were
very poor, and he well knew that
his must be a boyhood of very hard
labor. But then and there, in that
buzzing factory, he resolved that he
would obtain an education, and
would become an intelligent and
useful man. With his very first
weeks wages he purchased Rudd-
mans Rudiments Of Latin. He
then entered an evening school,
which met between the hours of
eight and ten. He paid the eX
penses of his instruction out OF
his own hard earnings. At the age
of sixteen he could read Virgil and
Horace as readily as the pupils of
the English grammar schools.
liz ASAb DSSdh "a SOulo Do Vi SSAA
instruction. In the factory, he had
been advanced from "piecer" to a
spinning jenny. He brought his
books to the factory, and placing
one of them on the Jenny" with
the lesson open before him, he di-
vided his attention between the
running of the spindles and the ru-
diments Of knowledge. He now be-
gan to aspire to become a preacher
and a missionary, and to devote his
life in some self-sacrificing way to
the good OF mankind. He entered
Glasgow University. He knew
that he must work his way; but he
also knew the power of resolution
and he was willing to make almost
any sacrifice to gain the end. He
worked at cotton-spinning in the
summer, lived frugally, and applied
his savings to his college studies II
the winter. He completed the al
lotted course, and at the close was
able to say, with praiseworthy
pride; Il never had farthing tha
l did not earn"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-22
Our YeuRg People
BOBBY BOY AND ROBIN BIRD.

"Oh, Robin, Robin bird.
Wise as wise can be-
Why do you sit on the chestnut bough,
Nodding your head at mef
Haven't yousany workto do
Hopping about all day!
liz 1t the whole of u Robins life,
To whistle, and eat and play"
"Oh, Bobby, Bobby boy,
Why shouldn't look at youi
i'll am only little bird,
| have plenty of work to do.
Don't YOU whistle, and eat, and play.
And play, and whistle, and eati
Don't see you at breakfast time,
And out in the sunny street."
"Yes, but Robin, Robin, Robin bird,
study as we'll as play;
I'm half way through my spelling book
And many lesson | say;
But you don't have any books to read,
A life that you must enjoy
wish was only q Robin bird,
Instead OF a Bobby boy"
"Ah, Bobby, Bobby BOY,
You don't know what you say;
There's nobody longing to eat you up,
Whenever you go &c play;
There's nobody ready to hunt your nest
And steal your innocent brood,
Or shoot you at sight with horrid gun
II you venture into the wood.
"But yonder the cat sits blinking
Her great green eyes, you see;
She'd break every bone in my body
If she got her claws on me.
I never can be any other
Than only Robin. you know,
While yo,, perhaps, from little boy,
A tall, strsng man will grow,
"And be win fame and honor,
Wherever your name is heard,
While my greatest-grandson Robin
Will be nothing but bird
So don't be idly wishing,
For God knows best, you sec,
When he made you pretty Bobby boy,
Instead ola Robin like me-"
-[Harper's Young People.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-22

well, he went to sec the hare, to
have it out with him. He found
the hare building a boat. ~ here
are you going IN that boatr SAID
the badger.
"Pm going to the moon, said the
hare. 'Come along with me-
There's another boat."
So the badger, thinking to
catch some fish by going on the
water, got into the boat, and both
launched away.
Now the boat in which Mr.. Bad
ger rowed was made of clay, which
soon begin to melt away in the
water. Seeing this, the hare lifted
his paddle, and with one blow sunk
the boat, and the badger was
drowned.
The hare went back and told the
old man, who was glad that his
wife had been revenged, and more
than ever petted the hare to the end
of his life.