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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13

beneficial effects of the organization of
capital are obvious even to the stupid,
while the evil influences are secret and
insidious.
The corporations are rapidly drawing
the wealth of the world into few great
heaps. The great corporations are
crushing out the smaller ones or making
them mere subsidiaries. This work IS
going on every hour, bending every
thing to their imperious will; and that
will. influenced only by greed of gain
and lust of power, is forcing an auto
cratic principle into our democratic sys-
tenn of government, creating a distinct
class of citizens who are now demanding
special privileges, and reducing the
great bulk OF the people to slavery and
wretchedness. This will go on more
rapidly when the corporations gain more
power; and when the fact is considered
that it is only within the last ten years
that corporations began to exert their
baleful influence, the necessity for sub
jecting their will to the public will be-
comes apparent. The corporation is a
great power for good, if it can only be
brought under proper control. 1t is not
possible to carry ON the great industrial
enterprises Of the present age without
its aid, but it must be brought under
other regulations than those which now
direct it.
To get clear understanding of the
corporation it must be remembered
that its life is forever. After the agents
which now direct it pass into oblivion,
it will still exist, more powerful and
dominant than ever. 1t is an immortal
being above the agents which direct it
and the law which created it. 1t exists
to absorb wealth, and its powers to abb
sorb increase with time. This, con-
nected with its ability to evade re-
sponsibility-to shirk the burdens i'm
posed by the State upon all who need
the protection of Government-brings
to view the extreme necessity for reduc-
ing all the great public corporations-to
the condition of responsibility to the
public. The power of the corporation
to evade taxation is almost as great as
its power to absorb wealth. The cor
poration controls legislation and creates
Judges; it elects National and State
officers, and influences Boards of Equal
ization; it shapes things to absorb
wealth and evade responsibility. Chi
cd0o Express.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
A Jersey Joshua.

DIR. J. r. Yeager, of Burlington, N.
j., is known as the "Weeping Prophet"
He believes the mysteries of the future
are revealed to him, and mingles his
prophecies with tears. He does not
practice medicine, and it is doubtful
whether he deserves the title of doctor
at all. His business is that of a religious
book agent, and he maintains that he
can get the power at any time from
Heaven to make a person purchase one
of his books. Every sale he makes is
attributed by him to divine favor. One
of his claims is that he can stop a clock
at any time by merely commanding it
to cease ticking. He drives around in a
sulky, behind a worn-out horse which
he saws he never has to harness. He
merely stands outside the barn-door and
orders the animal to come out. The
door at once opens, and the horse ap-
pears drawing the wagon already har-
messed. He relieves his wife from cook
Jag meals, so he says, by simply re-
Questing the meat to cook and the pOta-
toes to boil. He took a great deal of
interest in the resent Guiteau trial and
became very much perplexed over the
testimony, spending several days in his
room seeking guidance in the matter.
Suddenly it flashed upon him from
above. The message informed him that
the assassin of the late President had
been crack Drained for two years. He
at once addressed letter to Judge Cox
conveying the Information, and offering
to testify in behalf of the prisoner on
the strength of his inspiration. He is
very much surprised because he has not
received a reply, and feels sure that the
answer must have miscarried.-N. y
IE-nrIJ
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Beats all--Tramps. Ya,oco5 Strauss.
When man makes his will he is
preparing for dead give-away.- Boston
Transcript
Alexander H. Stephens says he
weighs ninety-four pounds, but that is
too thin.-LoUeU Courier.
Ambitious youth: What is good
preparation for becoming poet? Crawl
ing through threshing machine. We
may get this young man into trouble by
this advice, but we givei it as sacred du-
ty to huInanity.-Bostoaa Post.
Where is the use in puzzling ones
brain over such intricate problems as the
origin of man and the whitherness of his
future, when one cannot tell so simple a
thing as how the small boy in rubber boots
gets his feet wet going twenty rods over
frozen ground?-Bosto's Transcript.
This is the season of the year when
the mince pie comes to town, and the
citizen comes down town after dinner
trying to pry raisin seed out of a hol-
low tooth with a buckskin mitten, and
he stops in the drug store and orders
another box of those powders for indi-
gestion.-Peck's San.
From the personal column of
New York paper we learn that great
many women are travelling around lect-
urine this season. We know a woman
who lectures without travelling around.
We had the sad pleasure of listening to
one of her strongest efforts few nights
ago, on our return Zone p. m. from the
theater Teras Siftings.
1t is printed as a. rather remarkable
fact that 'Washington's body servant
was not at the Yorktown Centennial.
His absence will not appear so strange
when it is explained that the old man
was down in Texas cutting seventeen
cords OF wood on that day. He wanted
to come, but business is business, and the
wood had to be cut.-Aorristoac7s Her.
aLa.
Did you ever See Bugaboop Ask
Mamma to Blow out the Light tonight
sitter YOU Go to Bed and Let you See q
Bugaboo. 1t has Big Voice like Bear,
and its Claws are as Long as Knife. 1t
will Bite Good little Children and Run off
with them to the Cold Dark Woods where
they Can never See Mamma any More.
If YOU are Good Beware of Bugaboos.-
DenUer Tribune Primer.
His cuffs came down to his knuckles,
| the parting of his hair was central, his
coat was six-buttoned, his trousers were
lean and his voice was languid, as he ap-
piled for an appointment. Aw, is
there any vacancy in this Department."
| he asked. And the old man looked at
him pityingly, as il were, and softly pat
ting the youths noble brow, said, ''Yes,
yes, 1 think there is. Go out into the
wide, wide world. my son, and try to fill
it before the commissioners run you in. -
And the young man turned longingly
away, and went, but he can't understand
to this day why, if there was a vacancy
he didn't tgetit.-Burlington Hoaok-Eye.
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How to Pluck Poultry.

have known persons on market day
to go out and kill twelve or fifteen fowls,
and to bring them into room where
there would be half dozen women and
boys pulling few feathers at time.
between their thumb and foreiinger, to
prevent tearing them. Now, for the
benefit of such. l will give our plan;
Hang the fowl by the feet by small
cord; then with a small knife give one
cut across the upper jaw. opposite the
corners of the mouth; after the blood has
stopped running in q stream, place the
point of the knife in the groove in the
upper part of the mouth, run the blade
up into the back part of the head, which
will cause twitching of muscles. Now
is your time, for every feather yields as
if by magic. and there is no danger OF
tearing the most tender chick. Before he
attempts to flap you can have him RS
bare as the day he came out of the egg
Journal of agriculture.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
SCHOOL. ANsi CHURCH.

The Gar is regular church-goef
and very fond of sacred music. He
maintains two fine choirs at Peterhof.
ii is estimated that the thirty-three
missionary societies at work in Africa
uaye secured upward of $4,000 converts.
-The Methodist Episcopal Board of
Education received last year 50, 256, and
aided about 100 students who are pre-
pairing for the ministry.
By vote of the Baptist Deacons at
Mendoza, Ind, a figure of Venus which
had been embroidered ON screen by
the pastor daughter was declared unfit
to be sold at the church fair.
The Tennessee Diocesan Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church re-
ports thirty-four clergy, thirty-two par
ishes, and 2,73S COMMITMENTS. The
combinations during the year were PSI.
The American Unitarian Association
has taken steps to have new commen-
prepared. 1t has also appointed mis-
sionary to labor among the Scandina-
vians of the West.
London last year provided additional
school accommodations for $4,000 chill
dren and now instructs at the board
schools and at the voluntary schools over
100000 pupils. Last year the cost per
capita was S3.1S.
The number of Baptist associations
IN Alabama is fifty-fve, with 1,435
churches and 10000 members. Besides
these are the colored churches, with
10000 members, making grand total of
5000 Baptists in the State.
Mr.. Robert A. Barnes, of St. Louis,
aas presented the Trustees of the Cen
aral Methodist College at Fayette, How
ard County, with the handsome sum OF
/ $4,000. The college will show its ap-
probation by founding the Robert A.
Barnes Professorship.
"A Canadian parson undertook tc
break up the good old custom of sleep.
ing in church By summoning the drowsy
worshipers before magistrate on g
charge of interrupting divine service.
But His Honor only dismissed the case,
| with an order to each party to pay its OWL
| costs.
"A number of Chicago men, includ'
ing Jewish rabbi, Bishop of the Re
formed Episcopal Church and the pastor
of Unitarian society, have addressed 6
petition to the Board of Education asking
that the first forty minutes in each schoo
day be devoted to instruction in unsec
! tartan ethics and psychology.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
The Hidden Danger.

Great corporations have sprung into
existence so recently that the world has
not yet learned how to manage or con-
troll them. It Is very doubtful if the
world understands their tremendous
power-if the corporations themselves
realize their own strength. The power
they exert over material things is clear
ly perceptible, and, as yet, that power
has scarcely begun to be organized and
directed with anything like singleness of
purpose. Even as it is now directed
everything 10 giving away before it; the
no longer impossible barriers, and the
lightning itself has become its service
able agent; 1t Is absolutely annihilating
time and space; 1t Is harnessing the
forces Of nature, and making nature
herself Its slave. All this we perceive
in the material world, and yet the pow
or obtained by the organization of cap
ital, when exerted upon material things,
Is often inharmonious and clashing.
Tho power which corporations exert
upon immaterial things is still greater.
though not so plainly apparent. It Is
forcing q change in our habits of thought
and methods Of government. 1t is un-
shaping all things, both material and
immaterial, bringing them into con-
sonance and harmony with the real
source Of this mighty power. the cor
poration. It Is making government, as
well as nature, Its slave. Lawmakers,
Governors and Judges are the creatures
Of corporation, and employ Government
In their service. Even the ''thought-
formers" of the world are working for
them. Tho "opinion molders'' are
their employees. The rostrum, the press
and the pulpit talk for them. They
perceive the great good that corpora
lions have accomplished IN the world,
so they are loud In their praises and
jealous in their services. without no.
ticing the direction in which they are
driving she Nation. or the new elements
they are forcing into our National life
In this condition of things is hidder
danger. Corporations are soulless ant
autocratic, and IL they control all things
all things which they control will bt
soulless and autocratic. The hidder
danger is concealed in the fact that thu
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
) nations of Europe:
These thirteen men own an amoun

1heSe thirteen men own an amount
of land equal to the area of Vermont
and New Hampshire, and more than the
four States of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut and Delaware. And
nearly all of these vast owners are for
eigners, whose rents will go abroad
and some day impoverish the people and
the country, as those of Ireland have
pauperized the people.
The day is coming when the posses
sion of land will be limited by law to
the needs and cultivation of the pos
SCISSOR, and the sooner such a law is en-
acted the lighter will be the struggle for
its emancipation from the slavery OF
monopoly. .rr
No absentee landlord or foreigner
should be permitted to own land in
America, and no man or corporation
should be allowed to purchase or hold
for speculation foot of American soil.
The title to the public domain is in
the people, the Government acting as
their trustee, and the minimum of 81. %
per acre was not intended to represent
its value, but simply fee to cover costs
of survey and distribution to actual occu-
pants. The Government has no more
right to sell the peoples land at the
minimum price to capitalists than it has
to sell the peoples liberties to despots.
-Chicdg0 ErpreSS. ...
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
"A communication from oberlin, O

"A communication from Oberlin, o.,
stated that the colored people of the
Buckeye State had concluded to adopt
the sunhower as their emblem, and the
assistance of the club in making it
national was solicited. Il doan' take
no stock in emblems," replied Brother
Gardner, as the letter was filed for an
swer. ''De LATEST crowd ever knode
had beaver fur its emblem. 1 have
seen dozen saloons wild bee-hives ober
de doahs. A man may take a white
dove fur his emblem an yit keep his
wife carryin' black eye ten months in
de var. If de Guild people of Ohio
feel de need of an emblem, de sunAow-
er is as good as any odder. It's a
flower which stays out all night widout
goin' to sleep mex day. You kin allus
tell whar' to find it. 1t grows faster
dan dc turnip, an produces bigger
head dan de cucumber. Dis club won't
pledge itself to any pertikeler emblem
at present, but will continue to do
white-washin' at de same reasonable
figgers, an put better shine on a
stove fur twenty-five cents dan any
odder club does fur fo'ty."-Dctro1
Free Press.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
"A Virginia Nimrod writes to n

"A Virginia Nimrod writes to Rich
mond paper describing an incident of
one of his hunting expeditions which
he says he can prove. He discovered a
hen-duck within easy range of his gun
and discharged both barrels, breaking
her wing. Pulling his boat little
nearer. he fired again, killing the duck,
apparently. He then picked her up, re-
moved the feathers and entrails, cut off
her head. and put the body in the water
to wash off the blood, when to his
amazement it swan away at lively
pace. He seized the oars again and aft
er an animated chase secured his game,
which gave him no further trouble.
The promising liars of the Sazerac club
could hardly beat this.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
President Garfield had q great on

President Garfield had a great curl
osity to know the history of things about
tradition concerning an alabaster clock
e hstorS CLOCK wheh has as ths sked
the White House time out of mind, he
set Secretary Blaine to rummaging
through the ancient documents of the
White House. The search was amply
rewarded. disclosing rs it did that the
timepiece, one of the most beautiful in
Washington. was present from Bona
parte to Lafayette. who gave it in turn
to Washington, who determined that it
should be handed down to his success
sors in the Presidential office. ....
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13

The pretended Baron de Lage, who
has been condemned to ten years i'm
prisonment at Basic, Switzerland, is an
American, and one of the worst impos-
tors living on the American continent.
He was convicted for obtaining 35, 900
francs on French Government bonds,
which were entitled to three francs, but
raised by him SO that they were SEEM
ingly entitled to 1000 francs interest.
When arrested he had 10000 francs in
gold and other valuables obtained by
fraud.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
The amount of knowledge possessed

The amount of knowledge possessed
by the average Mormon applicant for
citizenship is aptly illustrated by the
Dutch saint who applied to one Of the
district courts for citizen papers: "How
long have you been in the United
States?" asked the Judge. "Vell,"
answered the Scandinavian, 81 never
vas in de United States in mine life; you
see dot ven leave my country l cooms
right to Utah, and I been here efer
since.-Sah Lake Tribune.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
The CHICAGO journal savs that

The Chicago Journal says that q
book-keeper OF a South-Water street
commission house recently in making
returns to country shipper, deducted
the commissions and sent them to the
countrymen, keeping the proceeds for
the firm. The Journal did not state
whether the transaction favored the firm
or the shipper.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13

1t is singular fact that none of the
children of the Presidents like the White
House as residence. Garfeld's little
son and Arthur's little daughter both de
nouncc the house.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13
Harper's Weekly.

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posit in politics. its admirable illustrations, its
carefully chosen serials, hsrt stories sketches and
poems, contributed by the iormost artistic add aa-
thors of the day, IL carries Instruction and enter
tainmert to thousands of American homes.
1t will always he the aim Of the publishers TO
make Harpa's Weekly the most posnlar and al
arctive family newspaper in the world. ,,esa 81
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13

The man who was rocked in the
Grade of the Deep" must have slept be-
eeesn aAeces of wAter.-Oa CGtp Der
~vek.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13

The best cure for ia. -sis htedness IL
to overlook the faults OF ypur friend
Baltimore Ererg Saturday q
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Land Monopoly In America.

The growth of land monopoly in
America is becoming alarming, as will
be seen by the following list of thirteen
owners and the number of acres held by
each:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-13

There are POI chartered railroads in
Texas.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-12-09

Leaders Of the Democratic par.
ty propose a reform to be inaugu.
rated at the next session of Con-
gress. all over the line, and, a
reduction Of the expenses in all
the departments. The Internal
Revenue law is to he done with !;
bills for appropriation are to be
watched, and only those of a de-
cidedly public and national neces-
sity are to be allowed to be passed,
civil reform in all its departments
is to be inaugurated. The Demo.
Gratis hold in hand the next presi.
dency if they are not allowed to
be led astray by demagogues and
m%onopolies that have carried meas
ures through during the republi-
can ascendency in congress.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-12-09

During the last heavy rains
craw6sh we're to be seen travelling
all over the public roads. They
were most of them females with
big families of small crawfsh at.
tached to the appendages with
which these insects are invested
on the under part Of the tail.
Last year about this season the
same phenomenon was noticeable
on the thoroughfares, and the win
ter was mild. We accept the
present recurrence as the sign of
another mild winter. We may be
mistaken nevertheless, but we
have reasons to believe that the
sign will hold good. Time will
tell, for we are as it were only at
the treshold of the cold season..
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-12-09
A REAL NECESSITY.

We presume there is hardly a
lady to be found in our broad
land who, if she does not already
possess a sewing machine, expects
some day to become the owner of
one.
The household Of young wife
is now considered incomplete with.
ont a sewing machine.
Next to her lover the thought
uppermost IN the mind of the
maiden just blooming into woman
hood is a sewing machine.
When asked by her parents or
Alliance what her Christmas or
birthday present shall be, the an.
swer in a majority Of cases is, "a
sewing machine"
But after the mind has been full
ly made up to purchase one Of
these indispensable articles, the
question arises as to what kind Of
a machine to buy.
1t should be so simply construc-
ted that the most inexperienced
can successfully operate it. The
other points mainly to be consid-
cred, and which are the most de-
sirable, are durability, rapidly,
regularity Of motion, uniformity
of tension, and silence while in
operation.
The "Light- Running New
Home" fills the above require.
ments, and is said to combine the
good points of all other sewing
with the addition of
many Ut w Improvements and labor
devices.
The price is no higher than
that of other machines, and every
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-12-09

A few days ago a young lady
and a young man of Gadsen, Ala,
were secretly married. 1t was
considered best TO keep the mar
riage a secret for a lew days, and
accordingly the young lady re.
turned to the house Of her father
and the young man returned to
his bachelor lodgings. The next
day his heart yearned after his
bride, and he went to her fathers
and demanded her. The parents
refused to give her up, as she was
only sixteen years old. In the
meantime the ardor Of the young
lady's affection had cooled and
she declined to go with her hus-
band. The young man is non
plussed and disconsolate.
The water power of the Ma
CARA Falls is calculated to be
equal to four and a half millions
of horse power.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-12-09

lady who is the happy possessor
of one may rest assured she has
indeed a treasure.
All who send for the company's
new illustrated catalogue and en-
close their advertisements (printed
on another page will receive a
set of fancy advertising novelties,
of value to those collecting card.
&c. Their address is, New HOME
SEWING MACHINE Co., 80 Union
Square, New York.