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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08
xEWsPHPER ROUTINE.

It is hard to tell, from this distance,
whether you are fitted for the hard life
of q newspaper writer or not. That is
the only question to be decided, for
qualification is quite immaterial. You
must be prepared to rise from your bed
as early as 10 a. m, in order that you
may have finished reading your private
mail by noon. Lunch is always paid
for by the Office, but you have got to
accustom yourself to but five courses
and to only two kinds of wine-some
papers stand three, including cham
payne, but they are the exception rather
than the rule. At p. m. you are ex-
pected to read the morning papers, and
II you are not too much exhausted by
the effort you can have a game Of
billiards for no well-regulated news
paper Office is without well-appointed
billiard room.
Att p. m. you are expected to tell
the city editor where you will spend the
evening, so that he can send for you in
case your friends call, and then you can
go to the theater, opera, ball or dog
fight, to which tickets and a carriage
will be provided. II you think you can
stand such laborious work, come on and
we will see what we can do for you; but
you must understand that there is none
OF the luxury to which you have been
accustomed in a newspaper Office.
Plain velvet carpets are good enough for
this class of laborers; lounging chairs
are of course indispensable, but they are
upholstered in plain satin with no tides.
Only one roll-top desk and four gold
pens are furnished by the Office; if you
need any more You will be expected to
furnish them yourself, But one sofa
and one silver drinking cup are allowed
to each man, 30 you can see there are
some disoomforts to be put mp with
Boston Poet
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rxpRo1rva PAsrURxa

The bare condition of our pastures
calls attention to methods of improve
ment. It is not any easy matter to get
a good pasture unless plenty of seed has
been put on. The amount necessary to
make good hay is too little for grazing
purposes. One plant can occupy
square foot of surface, and 5000 plants
have been counted in a square foot.
An English gardener, being compli-
mented ON a fine lawn, being asked how
he got the grass to grow 80 thickly and
lu1uriantly, replied, "We manure and
we manure, and we weed and we weed
for 800 years. Some lands are natural
grass lands and need neither wedding nor
manuring if they are not harried to
poverty by too-close grazing; other soils
need continual wedding and manuriug,
like the soil of the District of Columbia
that grows wild onions naturally. Iowa
soil grows grass naturally, but thinly-
seeded fields stand very little eating
compared with older and better-seeded
lands. Manuring is very beneficial to
our grass lands. No crop responds to
manure as quickly as grass. The hurry
in spring to get planting done often
prevents getting manure well out, but
any time in summer will do just as well.
Drought cannot take from the value of
manure. Rains spread its juices among
the roots of the plants. Grass grown
on summer manuring is sweet for winter
use. 1t will pay finely to clean up the
yards after corn planting and spread it
over the pastures. As regards the value
of a multiplicity of grass plants growing
together, it is we'll known that plant
makes the supreme effort of its life
when it prepares to blossom and bear
seed. Cattle are fondest of it just then.
It is most nutritious just then, and if
cropped makes most strenuous efforts to
carry out its efforts to reproduce itself.
Different kinds OF grass blossom at diff
ferent seasons, and the more kinds in
pasture the longer the period in which
some kind is doing its best. Our great
interest in raising herds of cattle, sheep
and hogs makes it imperative that we
make the best possible pasture. The
range from the best to the worst is g
wide one, and is indicative of the differ
ence in profit to their owners. 1t must
require three acres of ordinary in.
closures to keep a COW, and there are
pastures we know OF where one acre
will do the same. Our soil is much
alike all over the State, but management
is quite unlike.-Hoa. James Wilson.
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YuIgar Fashions.

"I think" says a correspondent OF
the Boston Gazette writing from Go
than, "that New York is responsible
for the vulgarest fashions, or else it
seizes upon the vulgarest of other coun-
tries, and hangs on to them with grip
that is hard to break off. The fashion
of giving costly presents on the slightest
excuse is not only run into the ground
here, but it has become perfect bug
bear. A young lady of my acquaintance
wanted to send some flowers to an En-
glishman in New York, who was a friend
OF her future husband, and lay i'll at
hotel. When she told her fancee what
she wanted to do he said 1t is good
thing that - knows we are engaged,
otherwise he would take it as a direct
overture from you; as it is he will not
know exactly what to make of it; but I
will explain that it is custom of the
country and does not mean anything
serious The fashion of giving expens-
i've German favors and costly presents
at lunch parties is now at its height !;
but the most vulgar piece of present
giving was that Of few nights ago in
connection with a theater party, the
giver of which had evidently racked his
brain to think of some means by which
no could show that money was no object,
and at last he hit upon plan. The
party numbered fourteen ladies, I
believe, and as each one entered the box
she was presented with a beautiful bou-
quet and q handsome present. piece
of iewelry or a fan. Now. if that is not
vulgarity carried to fine point, I
should like to hear of something that is.
To show how far this present giving has
gone, let me tell an amusing incident !:
A BRIDE gave lunch party to a dozen or
30 Of her girl friends, not long ago, and
to make the table look pretty she got out
. number of her wedding presents.
Among them were dozen very beauti-
full and costly table ornaments, that had
been sent to her from some foreign
country, and were pieces of fine work
that could not be replaced. There was
one at each place, and, to the hostess
horror, every one of her guests, with
one exception, after expressing admira-
ton for the things, put them in their
pockets. They were SO used to lunch
party presents that they took it fol-
granted that these were intended as
such. There was nothing for the un-
happy bride to do but send the remain.
ing one to the young lady who had failed
to take one"
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ENGILAGE.

Mr.. Goffart, the originator of the en-
silage system, states that his corn-fodder
for filling the silos is cut by women
with sickles. These French women have
great skill in the use of that implement,
and eight of them will cut easily two and
one-half acres per day, for which they
receive about 38 cents.
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--"--
THE KITCHEN.

LEMON CAKE.-Two cups sugar, juice
and rind of one lemon three eggs, add
ing one at time, not being previously
beaten three cups -four, one-haf tea
spoonful of soda, piece Of butter the
size of an egg.
BROWN BREAD.-Two cups of Indian
meal, one cup of -four, two cups of
sweet milk, one cup of sour milk, two
thirds cup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls
of soda, one teaspoonful of salt; steam
three hours, or steam all day is better.
BREAKFAST CAKE.-One cup of -four,
two-thirds cup of meal, one cup of milk,
one egg, one tablespoonful of butter,
one tablespoonful of sugar, one tea
spoonful of cream tartar, one-haH tea
spoonful Of soda; beat well, and bake
in quick oven.
BAKED Ok ToNaUE.-Soak the tongue
well in lukewarm water for about twelve
hours, scrape and trim it, stick it over
with cloves (about twenty-four) and boil
slowly, according to size, for two or
three hours. Then take it up and brush
it over with the yelks of two eggs, and
sprinkle it with bread crumbs, six
ounces. Next bake it to good brown,
basting it constantly with quarter of a
pound of butter. Put it on dish and
pour round it half a pint of good gravy,
with glass of wine. Serve with red
currant jelly.
RECIPE FOR WASHING the
clothes over night in clear water, or put
them to boil without soaking, with the
following mixture added to the water :
To one quart of soft soap take one Ia
ble-spoonful of kerosene oil, mix well,
and to three pals of soft water take a
large teacupful or half pint Of the
mixture. Let them boil ten or fifteen
minutes. Rinse in blued water, after
rubbing them in one suds of soft water.
This is good for prints, too, and will
save half the labor of washing, with
out boiling first. Hard soap can be used
instead of soft, if preferred.
BOILED TURKEY.-H boiled turkey
is not well managed it will be tasteless.
Choose hen turkey. It must be well
trussed and tied. Cut the legs at the
first joint and draw them into the body.
Fasten the small ends of the wings un.
der the back, and tie them securely with
strong twine. Sprinkle over plenty o1
salt and pepper and lemon juice, and
put into boiling water. Boil it slowly
two hours, or until quite tender. It il
often served in bed of rice with oys
ters; sometimes with caper sauce, celery
sauce and Hollandian sauce. Pour par
of the sauce over the turkey. Reserve
the giblets for giblet soup. 1t can bt
stuffed or not, the same as for roasting
ETTLE CAKES. - Did you ever ca
"ettle cakes?" They are handy to have
this time of year when fruit is scarce
and they keep well. Take one cup o
lard (or part butter), one teaspoonful o
cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda
one teaspoonful salt; rub lard in som'
ft ur, same as for pie crust /; mix will
three -fourths cup Of cold water. Thel
take one pound raisins, one-haf cul
sugar; chop fine and mix well. Nov
take pinch of crust, about rs much a
for thin cooky, put it down and pu
teaspoonful of the raisin mixture il
the center and pinch the edges up to
gether, to cover the raisins then rol
out about the size of cooky-th
raisins will stick out some. Bak
quickly. They are nice, and a chang
from cookies
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08
White 90. Color.

A conceded authority on the " fash
ions" takes issue with Mr.. Worth and
maintains that he IL mistaken when he
says that white makes "crow-
feet" around the eyes conspicu-
ous. When the complexion is
pale or sallow this is the effect, but any
woman Of experience in the use OF color
as an aid to beauty will tell You that as
long as woman has good, healthy
complexion, whether she be blonde or
brunette, q white dress makes her look
younger than any other, providing that
it is a pure or cream white without any
blue tint, and that it is Ct cotton, linen
or wool, and if possible gauzy or semi
diaphanous, not of silk nor heavy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08
The French idea Of Women.

Women have no worse enemies than
women.
One must be woman to know how to
revenge.
Woman conceals only what she does
not know.
Woman is creature between man
and the angels.
Woman is more constant in hatred
than in love.
Most women curse sin before embrac-
ing patience.
Women who have not fine teeth only
laugh with their eyes.
Friendship between women is only n
suspension Of hostilities.
Women ask If man is discreet, as
men ask il woman is pretty.
When woman is no longer attractive
she ceases to be inconstant.
Women never weep more bitterly than
when they weep with spite.
The most chaste woman may be the
most vcluptuous, il she loves.
When woman cannot be revenged,
they do as children do; they CRY.
A woman and her servant, acting in
accord, would outwit dozen devils.
A woman forgives the audacity which
her beauty prompts us to be guilty Of.
Women like balls and assemblies az
hunter likes q place where game
abounds.
Woman is charming creature who
changes her heart as easily as hel
gloves.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08
Hints TO Yowng Lady Riders.

II n young lady be possessed of good
nerve, teach her TO ride, by all means,
but not otherwise, as it is flying in the
face of Providence but do not allow
her for moment to imagine that in the
curb-bit, the pommel and the stirrups
there is safety.
Let her learn to sit square upon the
saddle, with light hand upon the rein
tho lighter her hand the less her
horse will pull, and vice versa, as using
force against force she has NO chance;
and let one Of her first lessons be to ride
without stirrups. so that at any time she
may be independent Of it, and never so
ride upon it that her foot, driven home,
cannot be extricated in moment.
The habit should not be 30 long as to
impede her movements-just long
enough TO cover her foot. Then, in
case of fall, she may escape unhurt.
It may safely be conceded that at
least one-half of the accidents Of the
ladies occur In consequence Of cowardice
or nervousness, or Whatever it may be
called, which simply amounts to want
of nerve 10 act with determination at the
sudden appearance of an unlooked-for
danger.
A scream and the reins are gone; the
horse catches the oontagion of fear, and
q fatal casualty, which might have been
averted by one atom of confidence on
the part Of the victim, is the conse-
quence. By careful training this dan
ger may be obviated oompletely.-Frosx
Lesitss Ladys Journal.
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BRAIN-woRK AND BL00D-sUPPLY r

BRAIN-WORK AND BLOOD-SUPPLF.
But, even if it is true that the larger
and healthier physique affords more
blood for brain use, says Nina Movais
in the Popular Science Monthly. it does
not follow that the larger the supply
the greater the amount of brain-work
possible. The argument assumes that
the brain has no limit to It's activity ex-
cept in the quantity Of blood that can
be prepared for it. But it needs no
ientific education to know that there
Ire other influences which limit the
thinkers activity, and that these hmita-
tons are somewhere in the mysterious
recesses of the brain, or in the forces of
which the brain is the organ. The
physical health of the brain worker may
be perfect, his digestion unimpaired,
his power to assimilate food the same,
and yet he may not be able to concen-
trate his thoughts or carry on compli-
Gated train of reasoning.
The defect is not in his body-that is
rs healthy as ever nor is it in any part
of the processes of blood-making- these
go on as before. The trouble lies in
the brain itself, whose capacity for work
is measured by some hidden standard of
its own. and which gives warning when
cessation of brain-work is imperative.
The body is a furnace whose power of
e>msuming fuel is greater than the capa-
bility of its boiler-the brain-to gener-
ate power. To keep the latter in good
working condition something more is
necessary than building and feeding the
fires. A supplementary but important
consideration is, whether the steam be-
yond certain point will not be pro
ductive of unpleasant consequences in
the form of an explosion.
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One Of the Lssess Ertraraoaaess.

Flower dresses are the last extrava-
gancc, and are made in two or three df-
fcrent ways. A dress Of palest pink
tulle, strewn with petals shaded from
deep pink to white, is one charming
fancy. Another OF tulle il small puffs
over silk has roses strewn over the sur
face with heads down, a Nemours, the
stem and foliage IN fiat embroidery,
while the flower In artificial. In third
the apron and front of bodice are OF
roses, Iilacs or primroses, massed to
conceal the foundation. At Nice ex-
trcme elegantes affect dresses covered in
this way with real flowers, and in their
first freshness they are ideally lovely
Boston Transcript.
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Their oeeup.s,on a.ne., /,

r. Y. PIERCE, NJ. D., Buffalo, N. Y: was At
tackled with congestion. Of the lungs, soreness
over the liver, severepain in the joints, burning
fever, and general giving away Of the whole sys-
tenn. Failing to findreiefi in remedies prescribed,
I tried your "Golden Medical Discovery" 1t
effected my entire cure. Your medicines have
only to be used to be appreciated. If every
family would give them trial, nine-tenths of
the doctors would, like Othello, find their occu-
patton gone. Yours truly,
L. B. MCMILLAN, M. D., Breesport, N. Y.
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AN English prisoner who had been
bitten by cat tried to simulate hydro
phobia and obtain an opportunity to es-
cape. He crawled on the floor, barked
like dog and became furious when ap-
preached but the physicians of the
hospital to which he was taken could
not be duped by these tricks, and fright
ened him into confessing his folly by
talking of testing him with large cleo
trio battery.
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NEVER go into newspaper office to
shoot the editor. If you do you had bet
ter take your coffin along. Many editors
have skeletons in their closets, and it is
no uncommon thing for "ghosts" to be
found about the haunts of printers,
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It's Star stan Ascendipx.

In recent call upon Mr.. w. H. Nc
Allister, 206 Front street, general agent
for the sale of the Star Chewing Tobacco,
he thus spoke to one of our reporters
81 was tortured with pain from acute
rheumatism, and cared not whether I
lived or died I tried st. Jacobs Oil
just two applications of which entirely
cured me. San Francisco (CaL) Call.
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FoR dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of
spirits and general debility, in their various
forms /; also as preventative against fever and
ague and other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-
Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by
Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by
all Druggists, is the best tonic and for patients
recovering from fever or other sickness, it has
No arsr1al
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Cou,a H.ra,y .,.ua on Her re...

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HRa. CoRNEIIA ALLISON. Peosta, La.
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.r A HoMELY but sensible Philadelphia
girl. who never wore big hat at the
theater, has been married three times,
and on each occasion married rich.
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HANDLING COWS.

Mr.. A. B. Allen, one of the authorities
in America upon all subjects pertaining
to the breading and raising of cattle,
says in the New York Tribune:
In consequence Of the greatly in
creased introduction and breeding of the
Jersey COW, milk fever has become
alarmingly prevalent, and much more
fatal than formerly. This arises from
two causes-frst, the extra richness of
her milk, and, second, forcing her by
the consumption of an extra quantity
of rich food to an unusual production
of milk, beside foolisbly vieing with
each other to see which could obtain the
greatest weight of butter per COW during
single week, month or year, as the
case may be Frequent losses of highly
valuable animals from milk fever have
been the result of this objectionable
ambition. If taken in time, except in
the worst cases, milk fever is easily and
simply cured; but the best thing is pre-
vention. This is accomplished by put
ting the COW several weeks before calving
ON upland alone, of medium quality;
or, when there is much danger of sick
ness. this may be mixed with greater
or less quantity of straw; or, if fresh or salt
water meadow hay can be had, feed that
alone, or at least only add one or two
quarts of coarse wheat bran morning
and night, for the purpose of keeping
the bowels more open. Put lump of
Liverpool rock salt where the COW can
lick it at pleasure. If this is not at
hand, then give level teaspoonful of
fine salt daily in the bran. Let her
drink all she desires morning, noon and
night. If the weather be cold, take the
chill off this before giving it to the COW.
Pursue the same course for a week OK
two after calving. If the bag be very
full before calving partially milk it, af-
ter calving milk her perfectly clean
three times day.
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THEY are laughing at travelling En-
glishman who complained, in Syracuse,
81 oahn't get me luggage, for I lost me
brnsses. You know"
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The Worlds Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel,
at Buffalo, N. Y, destroyed by fire year ago,
is rebuilt and full of patients. For !. .lnvalid's 9
Guide Book" giving particulars and terms Of
treatment, address, with two stamps, WORLDS 8
D1spENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo,
NJ W
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Then ana Now.

ST. JosErH, Mo-, May II, 1881.
II. II. WARMER h Co.: Sirs-For . great
many years l suffered from kidney disease.
Nothing gave me relief. finally tried your Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure aud now am In perfect
health. MRS. THOMAS KELLY.
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The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall. Mich, will
send DR.. Dyes celebrated Electro Voltaic Belts
and Appliances, on trial for thirty days, to men
(young or old) who are afflicted with nervous
debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles,
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N. B.-No risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial is allowed.
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A PHYSICIAN says that nine-tenths Of
our American wives are totally ignorant
of everything that pertains to their own
health or that of the healthful rearing of
an infant.
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"WHY," said the esthetic editor as he
came into the sanctum, is my cigar
intense?" "Give it up, said Ephraim.
because it's too all butt" remarked
e. E., plaintively. His place is now
vacant H a
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EACH year $4,000, 900 heads of cab
bage find sale in the Philadelphia mar
kets, and 5000, 900 are converted into
sauer kraut.
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Ex-SANTTARY Com. RUFUS K. H1REMAN,
OF New Orleans, was cured of severe
attack of rheumatism by st. Jacobs Oil,
SO we see by an item in the Columbus
lGa. Enquirer Sila.
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"SoMr men leave enduring footprints
in the history Of their time," and some
leave unpaid bills in the hands of their
friends.
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LYDIA =. PNxHAM's Vegetable Compound
will cure all dsplacements and the consequent
spinal weakness, and 10 especially adapted to
change OF life.
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GovERSMENr bonds At present prices
net the owners q per cant interest--a
low rate for money. ~ ~
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THERE are more than {, 900 telephones
in Boston. The people have regular
"hello" OF time when they all get to
talking at once.-Ttras SJtings.