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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19
Avoid Unnecessary Waste.

Every man in workshop ought
to constitute himselfthe guardian OF
his employers property, and not
only should be avoid waste himself,
but, as far as practicable, he should
discourage it in others. If this were
done, millions of dollars would be
saved to the country, much larger
percentage of profits would 90 into
the pockets of the employers, manu-
facturers would be enriched, and, in
the end. the workman would be
proportionately benefited. Strange
that these simple facts should have
so little weight, but so it is.
Waste by another is cruel to the
man who has to pay it does not,
cannot, benefit the person guilty of
it. and it is a dead loss to the ma
ton; and every scrap of material so
destroyed makes the product more
costly, and consequently dearer. In
the interest of worknen. il is i'm
portant that these facts should be
borne in mind. Wages bear a rela-
tive proportion to the cost of raw
materials, and both combined de-
termine the price OF commodities 4;
the cheapness of the latter augments
their sale, increases their production,
enhances the demand of labor, and
tends to keep up -7ages. If, there
fore, an obvious duty is neglected or
carelessly performed, the men main
ly responsible ultimately suffer ;and
that suffering will be in exact ratio
TO the cause which produced it.
One great remedy for the losses
incurred by waste is a closer super
vision of every detail of the under
taking, whatever il may he. This,
however, involves extra expense.
Ifthe men can contribute TO a saw
ing in this respect, they viii indi
rectly reap the advantage, To over
look this fact shows a lamentable
ignorance of the internal economy
of a workshop, and of the forces and
influences always at work for the
purpose OF bringing about a given
result. The men who complain Of
strict supervision are just those who
need it most, and VINO, without If,
would render large contracts next
to impossible, for the simple reason
that they would not pay, and there
fore could not be executed. Many
an employer has been ruined by the
wastefulness of his employees and
negligence of his foreman.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19
a ChiId's Notion About Thunder.

IL is seldom that any but distant
rumbles Of thunder are heard here
in this part Of Nevada. The sharp,
rattling peals that rent the air the
other day were, therefore, something
new and astonishing to most Of the
Youngsters Of the city. While some
rushed for their homes with eyes
distended and hair flying, others
darted forth into the open air and
began gazing wildly about to see
what busted One bright
little fellow, who was out on a porch
watching the descending hail as Il
ratified on the fences and bounced
upon the ground, when the inst
heavy crash came rushed indoors.
CRYING: 20, ma, ma Who's
shooting?"
God, my dear said the mother
aWhat did He do II for ?"
"Well, | presume, TO show US
that he is abroad in the storm-that
He is everywhere.
sWell-Well, cried the little fel-
low. with eyes fairly popping from
his head-@I'll bet He bursted His
gun that timer
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19
Saving Clover Hay.

1t is seldom we see clover hay in
the best condition. Such is its ma
ture-part being composed of coarse
stems, and part of delicate leaves
that it is quite difficult to save in
good condition. If it is put up in
the rick OF NOW while in good con-
dition to save the leaves-which is
really the best part-the stalks con-
tain so much moisture that it is
very apt to cause the whole bulk to
become mOuldy, which renders it
largely injurious, if not entirely un-
fit for animal TODD. If, on the other
hand, it is left to dry until the stems
are well cured, the leaves viii gen
orally crumble offqnd be lost. Just
the tine to handle it so as to avoid,
as far as possible, both these evils,
often becomes a very difficult ques-
ton and if the weather should not
be the most favorable possible, il be-
comes impracticable. How can
these evils be avoided2 / think
the following plan viii he found to
entirely obviate the evils spoken Of
As soon as the clover is sufficiently
cured for the leaves and small stems
to be in good condition. have NOW,
or other place, prepared with lay
er foot deep Of old hay or straw
that is quite dry. pat in enough Of
the partly cured clover TO make,
when well settled, one foot deep all
over the surface then another lay-
er Of straw and another Of clover al
ternately. till the NOW is fall, or the
stack is finished. The first and last
layers should be Ofthe dry material.
This straw viii absorb the moisture
from the clover. causing it to cure
bright and excellent, while the straw
itself Will acquire the flavor, and to
some extent, the nutritive properties
of the clover. II viii be found that
stock will eat both clover and straw,
thus kept, with greater relish than
they would the clover cured and
put up in the usual mOuldy, dusty
.ouI,4.a0
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19
Boys in China.

There is one custom in the Celes
tial Empire that we would like tC
see turned loose here. BOYS in Chi
ma are not supposed to be response
bic until they arrive at about the
age of twenty years, and their pa.
rents held accountable for all theil
crookedness, Just the same as the
owner of any other dangerous ami.
maj is held responsible for damages
Supposing boy walks up and
throws a stone through your bay
window and skaters fine Gala and
busts the statue of the Sweet Singer
of Michigan, you do not 90 out and
chase him four blocks with an iron
rake and club him till he gets out
ofreach, but you just get an old hoe
handle that swings easy, and you
search out that boys parents, and
wear them out with that hoe handle
and mix them up with the sand,
Then if the boy don't behave him.
self You can 90 to other relatives OF
his, and gradually enlarge the circle
of your acquaintance, until You have
mauled the entire relationship. even
inclu1ing the old grandparents OF
the boy, and if any of these people
resist they are subject to imprison-
ment.
This law, apparently stringent, is
a good one. 1t makes parents take
more interest in their children and
look out for them more accurately.
1t encourages parents to know where
their boys are, and to keep their eyes
on them more than they do here in
Laramie, or in Greensburg either.
Why if that law were to 90 into
force here some men We know would
have to take an arnica bath twice a
day, and they wouldnthave a whole
bone in their body. We like to see
a bright, active boy, with good
health and sound lungs, but the
thriving blossoms that will develop
into a Jesse James, we have no use
for.
IF the Chinese law could be en-
forced here against those parents
who are breeding up 4 squad OF
hoodlums, we would not weep. 1t
would be q pretty active work for
the avenger and his hoe handle. but
it would institute reform at least.
As it is now. a building cannot he
left unoccupied over night before
every pane Of glass is broken and
walls smashedin. Now, if the own
er had n right to climb the male pa
rent of these boys and knock his
shoulder blades through his spleen
and tangle his works all up so that
hereafter his food wouldn't be any
benefit to him, it night arouse an
interest in his children so that he
would make them an ornament 10
You can't do much with a strange
boy, anyhow. If you spank him
with an old window shutter, he goes
home, tells his father. and the old
man tells him to 90 right back and
do the same thing and he will stand
by him. Then the boy returns and
and YOU start after him with
the intention OF killing him, but as
ne turns the corner quarter of
mile away and puts his thumb on
his nose and waves his fingers in the
air, you control your brutal temper
and go home
That's the reason why in twenty
years from now it will be bitter
cold day when the telegraph doesn't
give Us the particulars of twert-sev-
en- murders and thirteen train rob
berries -Nie's BOoperaa1
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19
Liver. Kidney and Br,sht's Disease

A medicine that destroys the germ
or cause of Bright's Disease, Diabe-
tes, Kidney and Liver complaints,
and has power TO root them out OF
the system, is above all price Such
a medicine is Hop Bitters, and pos
tive proof of this can be found by
one trial. or by asking the neigh
bors. who have been cured bv it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19
Fear Not

All kidney and urinay complaints.
especially Bright's Disease, Diabetes
and Liver troubles, Hop Bitters will
surely and lastingly cure. Cases ex-
actly like your own have been cured
in your own neighborhood, and you
can find reliable proof at home of
what Hop Bitters has and can do.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19

taken by surprise that she really
couldn't say anything.
And now, wife, what have you to
say about my financial mistakes?"
said Job, archly.
Mrs. Raynestord had no argument
suited to the emergencies of the case,
so she wisely said-nothing.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19

A savage Mexican leopard viii
snap at everybody coming near his
cage, but whenever a wheelbarrow
is brought, he viii sneak into a cor
ner and show every symptom OF
fear He probably stumbled over
one some dark night, and has every
reason to be afraid.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19

Write to Mrs. Lydia e. Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass, for names of ladies
cured Of female weakness by taking
her Vegetable Compound.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

HE RAILROADS AND THE PEoPLE.- The rights and wrongs of the railroad question would have been defined and settled long ago did they involve mere ly question of popular power The reason that unsolved problems are still presented, and that discriminations and other evils still exist, consist in the in- herent difficulties of the subject itself. 1t IS realized that they can not be made clear by legislation any more than the squaring of circle can be effected in that way. Both the people and the rail road men are working toward the same end as they never did before. The former have learned the unwisdom of acting blindly, while the latter know that abuses, which the people see how to remedy, will not be tolerated. We hear no more of subsidies of late, and the granting of special privileges is not what it used to be. And railroad com panies are very much more worried about each other than the people are worried about them. We fail to see the "growing strength of monopoly" and the anaconda business generally. We see, on the other hand, people alive to their rights, general lowering of rates, an improvement in accommodations and . gradual elimination of abuses.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
SOutl, Canaan

Mrs. Fanny Jones of Flushing, L. l., IS visiting at Mrs. Walter Dickinson's. Mrs. Snyder, with her daughter and grandson left on Friday last, for Staten Island.
 Mrs. Chas. Connolly, who has been sick for several weeks, is able to be out again.
 The communion services of the two Congregational Churches were held at South Canaan, on Sunday afternoon. A goodly congregation were present A number of ladies brought beautiful bou- quets.
 The Ladies Aid Society will meet with Mrs. Manley on Friday afternoon. A work of great utility has been performed during the past week, in removing ob- stguctions which had accumulated in the Hollenbeck river. The work was con- mcnced at the bridge in this neighbor- hood, and will be carried to successful completion, where the river empties into the Housatonic. All lovers of beauti- full scenery should visit little water fall on the Barrack Mountain, near the residence of MT. Frederick Dean, the scenery IS wild and picturesque in the extreme and will repay any one for the trouble of visiting it.
 NlIIl River.
 MT. William Carroll moves to New York city this week.
 MT. Harry Adams went to Williams College on Monday.
 MT. Henry Gallop of Dalton is visit ing at J. Y. Atwater's.
 MT. William Huntley of Collinsville is visiting at F. W. Reyes.
 The sociable at Deacon Edwin Adams was very pleasant one. It was the first of the season.
 The boys gave MT. and Mrs. John Slsson serenade, last Saturday night. The principle instruments were tin pans and horns.
 Thomas Kelley takes the cake on po- tatoes as yet he having dug from one hill fourteen 14), which weighed seven (7) pounds.
 Clayton. A very refreshing shower last Sunday night.
 MT. Irving Lindsey is visiting friends in Stottsville, N.
 Mrs. M. Gardner has bought out her sister, Mrs. Halls share in the Dewitt Curtis estate.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
E'he Nation.

Since it's consolidation with New York EVENING PosT, has increased its facili- ltles in every department, enlarged it's size to twenty-four pages, and added many able writers to it's previous list. It is now pronounced by many of its readers to be better than ever before.
 Established in 1865, the NATION was 8 pioneer in this country as weekly journal of literary and political criticism of the highest order, conducted free from the control of party or interest of any sort. Despite precarious support during the first few years, it held per slstently to its original aim until it's financial success was assured. Mean while it had become recognized au- thorlty at home and abroad; it's editori- al management has been unchanged from the first, and its projectors intend that, with their present facilities, the NATION shall become more than ever be- fore the medium of the ablest thought of the time
 The form and style of the paper are chosen with view to the most suitable shape for binding, and set of the MA TON preserved, bound, and indexed, makes the most complete and readable record of current events of importance in the political and literary world avail able for the American public
 The subscription price has been
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Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
HUNDREDS of pale and suffering little

HUNDREDS of pale and suffering little
 children from the crowded tenement
 houses and dirty streets of New York
 are enjoying their first taste of whole
 some country life on the summery hills of Connecticut. It is for them an expe-
 rience never to be forgotten. Few of them have ever before known the simple delights of Natures commonest bless lngs-the joy of wide and sunny land scapes, pure breezes, the sight of hills and wales, the manifold delights of rural life for children. Most of these funda- mental conditions of a happy and healthy childhood are supposed to be universal ]; but in the overcrowded and foul "tene- ment houses" and close and filthy streets of New York they are so far from being universal that when, thanks to the "fresh air fund" the ill-clad, unwashed, and often prematurely aged and careworn children are taken out into the country. their delight and wonder know no bounds. The simple joys of rural life, the mere joy of fresh air, the sense of freedom-of blue sky, and of distance in the view-things which to most peo- pie are too common to be specially noticed, or even properly appreciated- are to these poor children like being suddenly intromitted to another and better world. Most of them only get a <tVny< hk ke- taste will do them some good It is a taste of what ought to be the child's life for all summer. A letter from Killing worth says: "All the children are de- lighted with hopper toads,' flowers, 'huckleberries' and rides, for the farm CTS nearly all have teams. One little girl, g years old, has earned 60 cents picking whortleberries, and thinks her. self rich.''
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
The september Century.

The unusual favor with which the midsummer number of THE CENTURY was received IS not likely to be with drawn from its successor. the current issue, which numbers among it's special features fine portrait of Mark Twain. engraved by Cole, and printed as a frontispiece, to accompany @ charming paper [by Mir. w. D. Howells), on the humorist and his American rivals: a vigorously critical review of the war in Egypt, by General George B. McC Clellan, with forecast of its probable results; an important paper by Austin Dobson, the poet, on Bewick, the great wood en- graver, with many illustrations, includ- ing reprints of the most notable of his birds, quadrupeds, and tail-pieces- which thus receive the benefit of the best wood-cut printing; biographical sketch of the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti, by his friend, Edmund w. Gosse, with a portrait; humorous story, '"The Col Bill Williams Mine," by Joaquin Miller; reasonable sketch of the development of ocean steamships, illustrated; B. V. Sma!ley's second paper on '"The New Northwest, " giving account of recent trip along the proposed line of the North ern Pacific Railroad, across the Mon ana Rockies, and written in an enter taining way, from the prospecter's point of view, and accompanied by 8 map; 8 beautiful portrait, engraved by Cole, of the American lady who was the original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe, with sketch of her life, and her relation to the novel; an Illustrated travel article on ''Ningpo and the Buddhist Temples, ''by Constance ordon-Cumming; 8 sketch of ''The Academic Career of ex-President Wool sey," by George F. Fisher, with DOT traits engraved by Cole and Shussler, of the bust, by St. Gaudens, and the statue by Weir, and 8 reproduction of the gold medal presented to Dr. Woolsey by the professors of Yale; an illustrated paper on Main coast town, by Noah Brooks; practical hints on ''Going Abroad for an Education; editorials on "Darwin's s Attitude toward Religion; ''The Cour- tesies of Travel" and Herbert Spencer Tn America''; serial novels, poetry, book notices, Uers de societe, dialect humor, new inventions, etc.
 Of the two novels now running as serials in THE CENTURY, it is announced that MT. Howell's Modern Instance, which has been generally pronounced his best work of fiction, will conclude, with an unusually large and dramatic part, in the October number. It will be succeeded by delightful story of mining life, by writer who has already printed promising short stories in this magazine. This in turn is to be follow ed by another novel by MT. Howels, to begin early in 1883.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
PROTECTING EACH orHER

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Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

CONSUL CLIFFORD, at La Rochelle,
 France, reports that very large pro- portion of the brandy exported to this country IS adulterated so as to be unfit Tor use, and goes so far as to intimate that all French brandy might properly be excluded. The production of genu- inc brandy in the Cognac region ceased three years ago, and, although some dealers still have stock of the genuine article, there is practically no way of distinguishing good from poor, and all that we get is poor. The greater part of the article now in market is made
 EoA beohol, which is distilled from eraan, potatoes or beets, redgesd and = xit dzns snd S little real bran v pr dregS of wine to give the favor Some men get small raisins from the East and produce brandy from them, perhaps better than the article produced rom alcohol, but even the old stocks of Cognac, MT. Clifford says, are ''doc- tored" to suit the ignorant taste. Strict ly pure brandy would never be sent to this country. because it would be thought harsh and poor, and accord ingly doses of caramels and other things are added to give it flavor. The story sounds little sensational, but there is nothing essentially improbable about it, and so many details are given that there can be little doubt of its substantial truth. Apparently 8 new stimulant must be adopted for use in the sick-room.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
Prof. l.. Rogers is in town.

Hro1. IL. Rogers IS 1n town.
 Joseph Mundry is painting the Citi- zens Hall building.
 Dr. Clemens, A. C. Randall and Robt. Little are visiting at the seaside.
 The Housatonic Railroad Go. are ex- tending the siding on the west side of the track near the residence of Lewis Cady.
 Pope Chapman, Geo. W. Hall Hon. Daniel Brewster, T. Tucker, Sid. Reed, Wm. Cook and Ed. Dudley, took in the Hartford races last week.
 D. R. Kolepaugh, A. c. Crandall, G. " Capron of this place, and Bill Jen- kins and P. Loucks. camped on the shore of Long Pond, in Sharon, last week.
 Idlewild is spending week or two at the sea side; also taking in New Haven and New York. We hope sightseeing and sea breezes will do him heaps of good and that on his return he will give us good account of his sojourn.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
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Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
IT APPEARS that General Burnside died

IT APPEARS IHaC OeneraI bufnslue d1ed in poverty. He did not leave money enough to pay his debts All he pos sessed, even his jewelry and military accoutrements, including $3, 900 sword presented by the State of Rhode Island, are covered by mortgages. A plaster statue of the general, with military trap pings, remains in the studio of 8 Bos- ton artist, no payment having been made for the work. A bronze statue of himself and another of his deceased wife remain in the studio of Paris artist, small part of the cost only having been paid on them.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
Goii,l. swfster,t Melps.
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Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06

A member of the board of trustees of Millville, Iowa, advocated an ordinanc e to compel every adult resident to go to church once every Sunday.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
The drought has damaged tobacco,

The drought has damaged tobacco, it is estimated, to the amount of from $25, 900 to $50,OOO Wells are failing all around us, and springs and streams with water in them are becoming few and far between. Milk dealers find it difficult to supply all their customers, on account of the scarcity of feed IRoxbury cor. in Reporter.
Connecticut western news., 1882-09-06
BROKE INFO

THE enclosure of the subscriber, two-year IL old Heifers, color red and white 3 Year ings, one Heifer the other & Bull also one Calf The owner is hereby notified to take them away and pay all legal charges
 WARREN LEPEkN. Huntsville. Conn.,, Aug. 30th, 1882.