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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-29

\ WOman's Ingenuity.

Elizabeth Lloyd King, alias Kate
Stondard, who is well known as
the murderess of Charles Goodrich,
brother of the Hon. w. w. Good
rich, and is now confined in the
Auburn State convict asylum, be-
ing denied the use of writing mate
rial, recently invented a new way OF
composing 4 letter. She was allow
ed books and magazines, Bible
and Testament, although not per-
mitted to lave scissors, had needle
and some thread. Taking the fly
leaf of a book she stitched upon it
single letters. and bits OF words that
would conn ose sentences, and very
neatly made out of fragments of
print the following letter:
Mr.. PAvEY, COUNSELLOR AT LAW:
SIR:-Please excuse this print
and paper, for ! have not been al
lowed to use any writing material
since last July. | would like to
consult you as soon as | can. VIII
you please call here?
Respectfully,
ELIZABETH LLOYD KING.
Auburn State Convict Asylum,
New YORK.
EDITOR OF THE SYRACUSE STANDARD;
SIR will you please oblige me
by giving to Mr.. Counselor Pavey
the above note? / do not know
how to address it. Please excuse
this print and paper, for | have not
been allowed to use any writing
materials since last July.
Respectfully,
ELIZABETH LLOYD KING.
Auburn State Convict Asylum.
New York.
The following address was stich-
ed upon another bit of paper, which
was afterward sewed on the re-
verse side of the card:
Mr.. d. c. Pavey, Editor of the
Syracuse Standard, Standard office,
Syracuse. New York.
1t must have required many
weeks to have pieced out the letter
The capitals where used only in
proper places, and great care was
taken as to punctuation. The
whole of the first letter was in bre-
vier type, and the most of the Sec
ond, and the words were nearly all
made up of single letters pricked
out of a printed page, evidently with
a needle, and then sewed on with
white thread. The word King
seems to have been cut out of p
Bible printed in agate. The stitches
were taken with such care as not to
tear the paper or to leave upturned
edges that would be apt to cause
any part to be torn off in handling.
The edges of the paper were neatly
hemmed. bne letter was delivered
to a visitor to mail, but it was taken
up by an asylum physician, who
has preserved it as curiosity.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-29
4 Drunkard Burned TO Death.

BUFFALO, Mar. 16.-The house
and saloon of Patrick O'Harra was
burned this morning and he perish
ed in the flames. O'Harra was
drunk the previous night and had
turned his wife out of the house in
her night clothes.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-29
$4,000 to Pay.

SCRANTON, Pa, March 15.-The
Court to-day awarded to Professor
J. +. Hawker, Superintendent Of
Schools of this city, $4,000 damages
brought py him against Morris
Goldsmith, a prominent merchant
of this city for signing libelous pc
ton the State Superintendent o
Schools
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-29

Mr. Clarence B. Stoddard, the
druggist, informed US that Mr..
Louis Hope, sufferer with rheu-
matism for a number of years, OBJ
tanned the greatest relief by the
use ofSt. Jacobs Oil.-Monroe { Mica.)
Commercial.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-29

Mrs. Lydia +. Pinkham, 233
Western Ave-. Lynn, Mass, is ra-
pidly acquiring an enviable reputa-
ton for the surprising cures which
daily result from the use of her
Vegetable Compound. in all female
diseases. Send TO her for pamph-
lets.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-29

The greatest cleanser and purifier
of the blood, Peruna, should be TAX
en- ever few months to prevent ma
larious diseases, and to cure them
when prevention was neglected.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-03-29
project.

MONROE, Mich, Sept. ., 1S1J.
Sirs:-I have been taking Hop
Bitters for Inflammation of kidneys
and bladder. II has done for me
what four doctors failed to do. The
effect OF Hop Bitters seemed ike
magic to me.
w I. CARTER
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

The THIMBLE.-The name of this little
instrument is said to have been derived
from "thumbell," being at the first thum-
BILE, and afterward thimble.
IT is a Dutch invention and was first
brought to England about the year 1905,
by John Lofting Formerly iron and brass
were used. but lately steel, silver and gold
have taken their places. In the ordinary
manufacture, thin plates of metal are in-
troduced into die. and punched into
shape.
In Paris, gold thimbles are manufactured
to large extent. Thin sheets of sheet-ron
are cut into dies of about two inches diam
eter. These being heated red-hot, are
struck with punch into number of holes,
gradually increasing in depth to give them
proper shape.
The thimble is then trimmed, polished
and indented around its outer surface with
number of little holes, by means Of a
small wheel. 1t is then converted into
steel by the cemmentation process, TEN
pered, secured and brought to blue color.
A thin sheet OF gold is then introduced
into the interior and fastened to the steel
by means of polished steel mandril
Gold leaf is then applied to the outside
and attached to it by pressure, the edges
being fastened to small groove made to
receive them. The thmble is then ready
| for usc.-Sel.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

SOME CAUSES OF HEART -DIsEAsE.-One
of your correspondents, in noticing some
deaths by disease of the heart, asks if it is
not true that such deaths are more fire.
quent than form erly; heart.disease is
more prevalent than it once was? A brief
answer to the question may, perhaps, di-
rect the attention of young people, espec-
ially to some common facts. There is an
increase of heart trouble, as there always
would be in feverish and hurried lives.
Many lives are intense enough TO strain
the whole human system, and increase
and hurry the circulation and finally
weaken it. A prominent English physician
has written his experience in the matter
of athletic exercises. Young men, boys
who are not fully developed, strain their
young muscles, hurry their breathing and
circulation, whether by athletic games
or rowing. Of those who consult him,
he found hardly one who had n sound
heart. The heart had been overworked,
and had been compelled to pump the
blood faster than it could bear, and its
power as heart was impaired for life
1t was older than the rest Of the body.
All excessive muscular exertion makes
mischief with young people, before the
frame is hardened and compacted by
time. The effects may not appear at
once, but will remain in the fact of less
ened and premature age-or death. The
growing use of what are called nervine or
stimulants, will increase the tendency to
heart trouble. Hurried circulation makes
the heart work harder and wears out the
poor pump earlier. Aside from the med
icines, which when taken habitually are
no more medicines (sinoe those are under.
stood to be only remedial measures fol
disease,) the growing use Of tobacco is Il
serious evil. If used at all freely, it most
certainly shortens life; and when takor
by the young [and boys who are scarcely
more than infants are now seen with ci
garettes,) it prevents full development
and dwarls and twists the whole nervous
system. In this weakness the heart shares
and many weak and trembling heart
which finally stops for very WEAKNESS, owes
its weakness to this powerful and deadly
nervine. 1t does not kill Mt sight, bu
none the less it does harm. A monkey
will eat tobacco with impunity, but j
does not follow that human beings will
bear 1t. And even men arc careful abou
the juice or oil. "Keep thy heart with nj
diligence may apply to physical no les
than moral well-being.-A Physician, n
~ Y. Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05
VOL. xxx.

amount in three months by investing in
land. But when a man comes here ex-
pecting that the "doilars of his daddies"
are going to roll right up to him. that is
where he is "going to be left" as the ex'
preston is here. A fairly well-to-do man
can make himself wealthy in few years,
and poor man can lose his. last shirt in.
side Of three months.
But must close this scribbling, for my
time is limited. l will add, however, that
don't like this country, and my advice to
the poor man, whatever it may be worth,
is, stay phere you are, for poor man is
far better off in the east than here in the
west. Don't think because men get great
wages here that this is the place for you,
for what does it profit you if you do got
largo wages if you have to expend it all
for board? A man without trade is better
off among the hills of his native state than
here in the Red River Valley.
Respectfully, ETC..
WN. JACKSON, JR.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

The New York Sun in the course of an
editorial answer to the inquiry OF young
married woman who writes for advice re-
garding the furnishing of her new home.
makes these suggestions;
LAS to chairs, first of all get those that
people can occupy comfortably, A chair
is not merely to be looked at, and 1t is not
intended to be an instrument of torture.
The same thing is true about sofas. They
especially should invite occupancy by
their comfortable appearance. Avoid
curved back chairs with carvings which
annoy those who sit in them, There is no
need of buying set of furniture with the
chairs matching in their coverings. Get
only the articles which by themselves
please you, no matter how great the va.
riety, taking care, however, to have them
covered with stuffs of agreeable tones of
color that 90 well together.
Paint the walls OF your hall plain tint
-Pompeiian red is good shade-and let the
washboard be dark brown, relieve the
edge of the ceiling with black line.
Paint the floor dark brown and shellac 1t.
Then lay strip of carpet half a yard wide
through the centre, put up some pegs to
hang coats on. provide table for hats, n
jar for umbrellas and a chair to sit on,and
your hall will be all rig1t. Avoid stiff hat
racks Of an octopus pattern. And
generally, in carpeting your house, don't
think it necessary to fit into every little
Jog. Leave space of lG to Is inches
around it, to be painted dark b'own and
covered with shellac. And let the carpets
be small in figure and quiet in tone.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05
State Religious Items.

The ST. Alhans Univers llists are purpus.
ing to erect new church the coming
summer
Rev. c. S Sargent of New Haven has
for some time past been confined to his
house by illness.
Rev. Mr.. Mason from Hamilton college
N. Y, has been engaged to supply the
pulpit of the Baptist church in Chester for
a short time.
The Rutland Herald in lis Benson items.
speaks very highly of a sermon preached
there by Rev. Prof. G. II. Dunton o! Troy
conference academy.
The Free Will Baptist church at st.
JohnsLury was burned last Sabbath; loss
$4,000. The society had Just freed them.
selves from debt and the loss will fall
heavily upon them.
Rev. DR.. j. Gibson johnson of the Rut-
land Congregational church has been Civ.
ing series of illustrated lectures on the
East" given under the auspices OF the
Y. NJ. G. A. They have been well attend
cd and Of great profit to all concerned.
It's stated that Polycsrp was converted
at nine years of age, Matthew Henry at
eleven, President Edwards at seven. Dr..
Watts ut nine, Bishop Hall at eleven.
Robert Hall ut twelve, while several OF
the bishops of our church, among whom
are Bishops Foster and Andrews, entered
the church at very early age. These
facts should lead the church TO be more
than ever active to secure the children.
Every parent who keeps his child from
Sunday school falls little short of moral
criminality.
The ST. Albans Messenger says: The
concluding lecture in Rev. Mr.. McAnn's
course at the Methodist church was listened
to last evening by n large audience. The
speaker took for his subject, blind men
in world Of beauty; poor men in a world
of wealth. The ideas involved in it were
treated with an originality and force for
which he is noted and proved very interest.
ing. Those who have attended tho series
will feel wellrepaida andregret that there are
not more TO follow. A net profit of some
$3.50 makes the ladies' hearts glad aid
goes far to pay the last $1,000 of debt on
the church, for which the pastor has toiled
long and Increasingly, leaving it pracli-
caliy paid for when he leaves the church
next month after three years service,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

A Good READER There is one accom-.
plishment. in particular, which / would
earnestly Recommend to you. Cultivate
assiduously the ability to read well. stop
10 partcularize this because it is so very
much neglected, and because it is so elc-
yant, charming and lady-like an accom-
plishment Where one person is really
Interested by nj lsio, twenty are pleased by
good reading. Where one person is caps
bic of becoming good musician twenty
may become good readers. Where there
is one occasion suitable for the exercise Of
musical talent, there are twenty for TINT
of good reading. The culture of the voice
necessary for reading well, gives delight
full charm to the same voice in conversa-
ton. Good reading is the natural expon-
ent and vehicle of all good things. 1t is
the most effective Of all commentaries up
on the work of genius. 1t seems to bring
dead authors to life again, and make us
sit down famliarly with the great aud
good of all ages. Did you ever notice
what life and power the Holy Scripture
has when we'll read? Have you ever heard
the wonderful ell'ct produced by Eizt-
beth Fry on the prisoners OF Newgate, by
simply reading 10 them the parable OF the
prodisal sono Princes and peers Of the
realm, it is said, counted it IL privilege To
stand in the dismal corridors, among icl-
Ions and murdcrers, merely to share with
them the privilege of witnessing 'he mar
velous prthos which genius, taste and
culture could infuse into that simple story.
What II fascination there is in really good
reading What n power it gives one In
the hospital, the chamber OF the invalid.
In the nursery, in the domestic and in the
social circle, amCng chosen friends and
companions, how it enables you to minis
ter to the amusement the comfort, tie
| pleasure OF dear ones, rs no other art or
accomplishment can. No instrument of
mans devsing can reach the heart as does
that most wonderful instrument, the human
voice. 1t is Gods special gift and en-
dowmcnt to his chosen creatures. Fold 1t
not away in napkin. Ifyou would double
the value of all vonr o.lIer acquisitions, if
you would add immeasurahly 10 your own
enjoyment and oyour power Of promoting
the enjoyment OF others, cultivate with
incessant care this divine gift. No music
below the skies is CORAL to that OF pure,
silvery speech from II man or wom OF
high culture. .-JohH $. HaT.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

WoNDERrULH HEADS or HAIR.-Certain-
ly our lady readers will be interested to
know something of two damsels who
have heads of hair of unparalleled length
and beauty. The first is Miss Ida Terry
of Chicopee Falls. Mass. whose hair is
said to trail for half yard along the floor.
But the Rochester ErDress claims that
Hattie A. Miller of No. ia North street,
in that city. surpasses Miss Terry. Miss
Miller is five feet four inches in height,
and in all respects proposing. She kind
" consented TO take down her hair in the
presence of the newspaper man. 1t
seemed to fairly encompass her rs she
stood erect, and allowed it to flow grace
fully over her shoulders and along the
floor. 1t has grown surprisingly even in
length, and from the sclap to the end of
the hair measures exactly six feet and six
inches. thus allowing of trail fourteen
inches in length. Although such an
abundant growth would naturally be sup
posed TO give its wearer more or less
inconve nience. yet Miss Miller states that
she neither suffers headache from it nor is
obliged to bestow unnecessary time in
dressing it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

FREE MASONRY. The real origin of the
order, as we have it now, appears to date
from about the beginning of the eighteenth
century; while an extinct organization
which furnished the motive for Freemas-
onry, though having no immediate con-
nection with it, Is some three or four
centuries older. 1t bas been indisputably
proved that the institution of Freemasons
took its rise in the guild of operative ma.
sons which, under the name of the Frat.
ernity of Masons," was formed by the
architect and workmen employed from
the thirteenth to the fourteenth century in
the building of Strasburg Cathedral. The
flower and pick of the profession were
engaged upon this masterly ediice, and
they were naturally desirous of perpetual
ing the secret of such good work, Just as
the Comedie FrancaiSe preserves the ira
dlions of the art of perfect acting, Their
example was followed by other groups of
masons throughout Germany, and all
these different lodges were, some twenty
years after the completion of the tower of
Strasburg, merged inta one association
Their act of Uniformity was drawn up in
1889, and ratified by the Emperor Maxi
milan thirty years later by an imperial
diploma. They adopted the instruments
of the craft-the square, level, and com,
pass-as their emblems, and had Il secret
password; Liberty" which in itself gives
clue 10 the uterior aims of the society.
The Fraternity of Masons lasted until 1907,
when it was auhotativoly abolished by
the Imperial Diet
These are the simple facts about the
origin Of the society, or rather of the soci.
ETY. whose constitution served as model
/ for the more recent association which has
taken its name. 1t is essentially Euro
pean institution. has no claim to remote
antiquity, and has not the slightest immed
late connection with the east or the leas,
pretensions to antiquity. .--Sa!nrClay Re
rje1C.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

If the astronomical view that the moon
was once a part of the earth's mass be
true. the moon in the early age must have
revolved much nearer the earth than now
and must have caused prodigious tides
upon its parent planet, as recently shown
by Prof. Ball. Prof j. S. Newberry finds
n geological evidence a refutation of this
theory-to the extent, at least, of proving
conclusively that no such tides could have
existed since thes commencement of the
geological record. He does not hesitate
to assert therefore that the astronomers
are in error in regard to the moons gene
sis; or that if it was once portion of the
earth, the separation took place at a period
so remote that it had receded to nearly its
present distance before the dawn of life
on the earth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

BURNING LAvA.-A young woman who
lives at Papaikon, Hawaii, writing of the
lava flow which has been pouring from
the great volcano for more than year.
saws: The volcano is about two miles
from the sea. 1t sometimes pours with
great rapidity; then, slowing up, the flood
moves slowly, grandly on. We took
horsessand rode the seven miles that In
tervene between home and the mountains
with great rapidity, leaving the pack
horses to take their time. The party con.
sisted mostly of women, and, rs you
know dare do almost any thing, we were
in the lava within an hour after leaving
home. We fastened the horses in a safe
place and went out to the crust; but be-
fore we were aware we were obliged to
90 back and move our horses, for the lava
was creeping toward them, and they be-
came frightened. While standing on the
crust we could distinctly hear the rush
and the roar beneath, as it ground its way
over the rough earth. 1t is extremely
hard 10 get specimens, or rather to keep
them, they are so brittle. Oh, wish you
could have seen what have seen. There
were the most wonderful cascades that
poetic fancy can picture. The lava poured
down in gulches and canons, dropping in
to the water with Kissing boom as if q
thousand demons were struggling for
somesmastery; or would stealthily creep
around you and hem you in and cut you
off il not watchful. 1t has power of fas-
cination that makes the looker.on almost
forget himself, and before he is aware he
is in terrible danger of being swallowed
up. 1t follows the footsteps rs If deter
mined with relentless fury to overtakc at
last. Our party selected II high knoll at a
sale distance and pitched tents for the
night. Three times during the night we
had to move, for the lava had turned its
channel and was coming toward us, Ii
increased its speed so rapidly that we
could not go to sleep, and we watched the
creeping river, or rather lake Of fire, until
the dawn. We finally had the tents and
horses moved across deep ravine and
considered ourselves safe. 70 our surprise
the lava not only rushed into the mouth OF
the gulch, but out acrost tho corner and
poured down the side, forming the most
wonderful cascades of fire the mind can
conceive. The water steamed and hissed
and foamed; it fought desperately, boiling
and leaping three or four feet, but it was
crowded out and forced TO take refuge in
a lower level. could not sleep, and so l
sat and watched lin fact did not dare to
80 to sleep lest might not escape. You
cannot imagine the difference in view it
presents by night as compared TO the view
by day. The one is living, acting fire 1.-THE
III =,
less stream, that fills every depression
swallows the little lakes, drives the rivu
lets away in the steam, makes desert oi
tho ilowery valley, waste of the rict
plantation and stops only when engulfet
in the ocean. Thousands Of acres of val
liable property have disappeared and still
the streams are moving steadily on II
various directions towards the soa,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-05

Fun AS A MORAL FoRCE.-Fm is as
distinct moral 70 CO rs prayer. A good
hearty, healthy laugh will clear the cob
webs out of the brain, renew tho blood,
tone tho nerves, and drive all thought Of
committing llagrant wrong from the mind.
1t banishos worrying care and knlts human
ity in common kindred. Every mission
ary society ought to provide amusement
Preaching services, prayer meetings, sun
day schools, philanthropic organizations,
and even charity we'll bestowed get no
closer to the hearts of tho humble than do
those who induce them to steal an hour
away from cXaoting toll to recuporate
their energies and renew their moral vigor
by rational enjoyment. This done, and
the work of getting in communion with
them is complete. Laugh with those who
laugh, ard weep with those who weep,
and see if by contributing to their mirth
you cannot cause them to forget sorrow
aud to stop thinking of the battle of life
long enough to realize that men aud
women were mado to bs inviSorated by
fun, morally, mentally and physically
Albany Express.