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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-28
He was stronger now aud pro-

he was stronger now aud pro
ceeded:
"VInnie came to me, vision ol
all tuat Was lovely. Walking, l
sought her, sleeping, | dreamed oi
LEI, until lite Was Worthless without
her; but vinnie, my own Winnie,
rejccted ine, my love was throwh
Aslde. WIS inaddened, crazed /
tOrgvt the kIndness vi hin / called
tatner, forged hls nxilie and rail
away. i returned to iorcIbly claim
my bride, my Vinuie."
The blood strealued anew from
the mouth ot the young man, 1t
huwed III y CRIMSON tile, uyeing the
white snow at his teet.
"He has ruptured = blood vessel.
de nixy yet De spared. Can | call
aid ~ said Wlli, moved III spite oi
himself.
Ned shook his head, for already
the stiffeued limbs told that life had
departed. Tenderiy they iaid the
body down, aud Ned spread over
his gtastIy tace shawl which. ne
found lying near. The mournful
winds Of Miners Retreat sang the
lone requiem Of Fred Corners.
At last Will aud Ned managed to
extricate their wrecked sleigh from
the deep snowdrift, and were again
on the road. Was it any wonder
that Winnie clung to Will as they
came near her home again? Will
shuddered as he put the buffalo
robes over her, and thought where
she would be now, and how tue for
tune teller's prophecy would have
been fulfilled, but for the plunge of
the horses over the bank into Min
ers Retreat.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-28
Bewitched by His Future Bride.

More than one woman has worked
in the mines for her living in this
country as in the English pits. The
Philadelpbia Press recently men.
toned Mrs. Riginiary, Of Locust
Gap, who hauls coal with q two
horse team 10 customers. She for
iaerly worked at Excelsior colliery
with her husband, and it is related
that she could load wagons az
quickly and well as her husband.
Another notable example of this
kind is current among the miners
of Reliance colliery. Thomas East,
now deceased, used for awhile TO
bring his fourteen year old daughter
to the mines to help him. She did
the best she could until the boss put
q stop to it by sending her home.
East had family of girls and pro
posed to make them useinl in the
most convenient way 10 himself.
One morning, before the foreman's
interference, q miner saw the Lass at
work. He had not heard of her be
fore, and thinking himself bewitch-
ed or the bebolder of a vision, he
tainted from fright He lived to re-
gard her presence with less terror
for within q year she walked tothe al.
tar with him and became his bride
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-28

A correspondent, J. 7. S., of Co.
lumbus. Ohio. writes to the Grange
Bulletin as follows concerning his ex-
periencs with salt On wheat land:
Having learned through the col
umns of your valuable paper that
some of your readers have realized
good results from the sowing of salt
On land sown to wheat, | determined
to experiment on my soil. Accord
ingly in the tall of 81 | bought 8
barrels Of salt, some of which was
applied before the wheat was sown
and some afterwards.
s0wed the salt broadcast, put
ting on SOME parts l50 pounds, aud
on Others from $50 To 800 pounds
per acre. The wheat was sown UNI
der the most favorable circumstances
and came up well, and looked well
all winter, On threshing it, howev-
er. was disappointed, the yield not
being more than % bushels per acre.
| experlmented On the following
kinds Of soil: Cfsy, sandy loam,
coarse gravslly, very black, rich bot
tom, aud . very loose. mucky soil,
extremely rich in vegetable matter,
DC.
On all these various soils. the parts
on which salt was sow0 we're staked
'off, and eagerly sought to discover
any difference that might exist in
the growth or appearance Of the
wheat. There WAS no perceptible
difference in the growth nor any in
the yield. did not notice thai the
straw Was any stronger or brighter,
or the kernels better, where salt had
been applied than where it had not.
One OF the fields, about two acres
of which had been covered with salt
was sown to clover the following
spring. l intended blowing the crop
Of clover under next spring and
plant in corn, but as the clover was
80 heavy and the weather so fine the
last of September, cut it and har-
vested about tro tons per acre of
tolerably good hay, which am now
selling at IS per ton. do not con-
slider this hay good feed for horses
in active service, but it is very good
feed for cattle and idle horses. / OBJ
served that the clover grown on these
where salt had been sown was not
so thick nor growthy as the other. |
am convinced that the presence of
salt was the cause of this, as the soil
is not different and the clover seed
was s0wn the same day.
While | might realize other results
another season, my conclusion Is,
that as ageneral thing would not
profit much by sowing salt on my
wheat land. do not doubt that on
some soils that the application of
salt might give good results and |
think each farmer would do well to
determine for himself the effect to be
had by putting salt on his land.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-28

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 1S.-On
Saturday evening nearly three hun
dred sufferers who had been driven
from their homes BY the waters, we're
huddled together in an old brick
building, occupied in former years
as a Soldiers Home. twas thought
to be safe from the highest water, but
the floods soaked through the foun-
dations, and while all were uncon-
scious of their danger the walls sud-
denly fell with frightful crash, bur
wing in their ruins all those who fled
there for shelter.
The cries that came up from the
falling walls, the screams of the wo-
men and children, the shrieks for
help, now and then silence for q pno-
ment by the roar Of another railing
wall or fioor Of the great brick build
ing, made the scene one Of indescrib-
able horror. A great crowd was
standing about the building when it
fell, but were 30 shocked by the aw-
full catastrophe that it was full FIVE
minutes before they recovered their
presence Of mind.
"A hundred willing hands with
picks and shovels started to work
and soon aVg ont from under the
brick aud mortar seven dead bodies.
The rest, by miracle. escaped. The
bodies Of the dead we're go mangled
that only one Of them, George Wolf,
has been. identified. They were all
Of the poorest class OF people. Sew
eral had their arms broken. One
young woman had her baby in her
lap when the walls feA and covered
il up BY wakipa an arch Of her body
and tsepsnG Tie child under her.
She vas 10 badly injured that it is
thought she will die. Her name is
Mary Allen. The child escaped
unhurt. Mary is just married una
year.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-28

How 10 GEr SIcK.-Expose yonr-
self day and night, eat too much
without exercise, work too hard
without rest, doctor all the time,
take all the vile Bostrums advertised
and then you win want to know
How TO GER WEIL.-Which 10
answered in three words -Take Hop
BitteSA
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-28

Fashion journals are properly
classl6ed Is the clothes pfesa
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-28
HEAsrRESDrNG SCENES.

News Of the accident soon spread
and a great crowd gathered about
the mouth Of the pit, where the
worimen were fishing out the al
uao.t exhausted and nearly drown
ed men who were alive at the bot
tom of the shaft. Many q wife and
mother knelt on the ground and
prayed fervently for the safety Of her
loved ones, and a. The heastrending
character ci tke calamity appeared
the g4ief Of the survivors was out
spoken and painful 10 behold. A
wife bent over the shaft as her brs-
band climbed up the ladder with the
dead body of his son in his arms.
She extended hsY hand TO receive
item, but was disappointed and
doomed to greater grisf, fox the man,
veyn ont By the despeEate Struggle
for life ard les The bedy Of hs son,
fell back into the pit and Was q hfs-
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24
A GHOST IN A BARREL.

A clergyman, on taking possession oi
a living on the confines of Dartmoor
found it necessary to enlarge the house.
He heightened the one sitting-room and
made it into a tolerable dining-room,
adding a drawing-room and two or three
bedrooms. These improvements salts
fed his wife and children; but there
was one interested party whom he had
left out of consideration-the spirit OF
his predecessor, an old gentleman who
had outlived all of his family, and passed
many solitary years in the remote par
sonage. Sounds were soon heard of an
evening, as though figure in dressing
gown was sweeping in and out of the
rooms, treading with soft, yet heavy,
tread, and this particularly in the dining
room, where the old vicar had spent
the last years of his life. Uneasiness
pervaded the household. Servants Civ
ing warning and going away; no one
applied for their vacant places. The
daughters fell ill, and were sent away
for change of air; then their mother
was anxious about them, and went to
Ste uOW tiity WOiO SoihB oA, ohN ~ eiio
vicar was left alone, at the mercy of his
predecessors ghost.
At last, Mr.. Henderson relates, the
vicar himself was scared, and his church
warden promised to lay the ghost. A
jury of seven persons were convoked,
and each sat for half an hour with a
candle in his hand, and it burned out
its time with six, showing plainly that
none of them could lay the ghost. Nor
was this any wonder; for were they not
all acquaintances of his, so that he. knew
all their old tricks? But the seventh
person was stranger, and a scholar
fresh from Oxford. In his hand the
light went out at once. He was clearly
the man to lay the ghost, and he did
not shrink from his task he laid it at
once, and in beer barrel. But now a
fresh difficulty arose. What was to
be done with the beer barrel and its
mysterious tenant? Nothing occurred to
the assembled company but to roll the
thing into one corner, and send for the
mason to inclose it with stones and
mortar. This done the room looked
very odd, with one corner cut off.
Uniformity would be obtained if the
other three were filled up as well; and,
besides, the ghost would be safer if no
one knew the very spot in which he was
reposing. So the other corners were
blocked up, and with success.
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ANACORTES w. r., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER a. 1888

snatch at the wrist, but the chief eluded
his grasp, dropped the watch, and made
good his escape. The barrister contrived
to pick up the timepiece before it was
trodden under foot, when, to his aston
ishment, he recognized at a glance,
although the face was shattered by the
fall, that it was not his own!-which, +,
indeed, was reposing safe and uninjured
in his waist-coat pocket all the time '
He at once proclaimed his discovery, as
it was obvious that the loss must have
been incurred by one of his immediate
bystanders; but in spite of the full
publicity which the police advertise
ments and newspaper reports gave to
the matter subsequently, no owner ever
established his claim to the watch, which
rests under glass case in the finders
drawing-room to this day.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24
NO.. 36.

little conversation with the good Lord
lust as a child would with its father, and
then she got up and fired some medicine
down her grandma, and made her cup
of tea ON an oil stove, and toasted a
piece Of bread and poached an egg while
| sat there thinking. Do you know she
broke me all up. If it wasn't for that
old calico dress, and the shoes run
over at the heel, and the moth eaten
stockings, should have thought she
was an angel, and by gum, will pawn
everything l have got for her to get
things for her grandma, but somebody
else has got to chip in to buy gin for
the old man. can't run a HOSPITAL
and distillery both, on one cheap
watch, but am going to work for the
humane society next week, and that
girl can have all the money l make, as
long as the old lady's cough hangs on.
Say, do you think there is any bath
room in heaven where they can take
such dirty girl as that and make an
angel of her that will pass in a crowd?
Take the dirt out from under her finger
nails, and soak her hands in hot water,
and put cold cream on them, and let her
sleep few nights with rubber gloves
on, and 1 suppose they could make her
pass as an angel. Well, 1 have got to
go down to the Humane Society office.
l was in street-car the other night,
and the car was full, and got off the
track, and the mules couldn't pull it.
All the men sat there and wouldn't
get out. They read papers, and acted
mad, while the driver pounded the
mules. was on the back step, and l
yelled, The members of the Humane
Society are requested to get out of the
car and help push You ought to
have seen 'em. They all looked at each
other, and then they all got out, and
some of them looked ashamed, but they
helped the mules. The boss of the
humane society heard of it, and he said
he would give me job watching for
butchers who maui cattle. guess
can work my way up so I will finally
hold the proud position of looking after
lame horses that draw swill wagons.
Well, must go and send our doctor
down the alley, to sound the old lady's
cough, and have him charge it to pa"
AS the boy went out the grocery man
told the carpenter that boy had heart
in him as big as barrel, but you had
to watch the raisin box, all the same,
when he was around.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24
WHY CHILvERs DIDN'T.

As the three of us rode out from
Waterproof, La, on horseback, We over
took citizen jogging along as if at peace
with all the world. No introduction
was needed, and presently we were
chatting away on the most familiar
terms. After awhile, and when about
six miles from the town, we met man
on horseback who had shotgun lying
across his lap and a revolver on his hip.
"Morning, gents" he said as he drew
rein. GLOW far is it to town."
"Six miles," answered our stranger.
"And mought you be acquainted in
Waterproof?"
ga few"
"Mought you know chap as is named
Chilvers-Judge Chilvers I"
"Wall, I've seen him around"
"Likely to be thar now?"
al should say So"
"That's all--good-by."
We watched him out of sight, and
then one of the men said to the stranger :
"That chap had wicked look"
"Oh, he's on the shoot, he is"
"Is he going to shoot Chilvers?"
"He thinks he is, but he won't"
"Why?"
"Because I'm Chilvers myself. Per-
nit me to introduce myself"
"And why didn't you tell him who
you was and see what he wanted?"
"That would have brought on the
shooting and some of you would have
been his," he answered. ~ rather sus-
pect he is chap from up the country
about thirty miles who's brother l shot
in little fracas last year. If it's the
man he's terrible poor shot, and if one
of them ar hosses of your'n should get
hit you'd have to pay all damages"
"But won't he waylay you on your
way back?'
sNo, sir. I shall waylay him!"
That evening, an hour after our re-
turn, the Judge led his limping horse
into town, and when asked what the
trouble was, he replied:
"It's enough to disgust every decent
man! That fellow had five square shots
at me, and yet he must go and put a
bullet into an animal worth $200W
How the other party came out we
didn't inquire. The Judge didn't act
like man who would answer leading
questions until he knew whether the
horse could be saved.-[From the De-
troit Free Press.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24
AN AIR CASTLE.

| built house, in my youthful dreams
In sunny and pleasant nook,
Where might listen, the whole day long,
To the voice of gurglins brook;
A cottage with wide and airy rooms,
And broad and shining doors
A house with the hidden charms Of home,
And the freedom of out-ofdoors
Fair morning glories climb and bloom
At will by the eastern caves,
And on the doorstep and window sill
The roses shake their leaves;
And fair old-fashioncd llacs toss
Their purple plumage high,
While honeysuckles drop their sweets
On every passer-by;
Down at the end of a pleasant path
Is group of evergreen trees,-
Pine and hemlock, and spruce and fir,
With their spicy fragrances;
And sweetest picture or calm content
That mortal ever saw,
Under low-boughed apple tree
Is beehive made of straw.
There is room in the garden for all the flower
l ever loved or knew
Dear common blossoms and roadside friends,
And the florists darlings too;
There is room for thickets and beds OF moss.
And for dells of deepest shade,
Where all the birds Of the summer time
May warble unafraid.
How sweet to sit in the fragrant shade
In the hush of a summer noon,
To watch the bees at their happy task,
And listen their pleasant tune;
Aresinous smell in the resonant air,
From the gloom where the fir boughs meet
And the rippling warble of fearless birds
To make the stiffness sweet
have pictured it all hundred times
shall do it hundred more,
But shall never own the pleasant home
With roses over the door,
Never dream of mine came true;
1t is Fate's unbending law;
never shall see the apple tree,
Nor the beehive made of straw.
have pictured it all hundred times
shall do it again and again,
But never shall see my roses press
Their cheeks to the dewy pane;
Nor smell the creamy syringa flowers,
The odor of sweet-brier leaves,
Nor hear the swallows which chirp and build
Under my friendly caves.
But yet in the airy realm of dreams,
Where all my riches be,
/ enter into the heritage
Which is else denied to me;
/ have but to close my eyes, to find
My Eden without a flaw
The home, the garden, the apple tree,
And the beehive made of straw.
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Minnie Palmer burst into tears be-
cause the Edinburg students insisted on
joining in her songs when she sang
them on the stage. No wonder. We
should think it would make anybody cry
70 hear a party of Scotch students sing
funny song.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24

"Mercyl" exclaimed Mrs. F., as she
caught sight of the comeleopard, "just
look at the beast! What long neck"
eyes," replied Fogg, "the most re-
markable case OF soar throat ever saw"
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24

A colored man has been sent from
tals country to the college of Propaganda
at Rome. When his education is CON-
pieted, he will return to take charge of a
parish in New York, and will be the
arst Catholic priest in the country.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

The Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin!
What can have provoked him to pro-
family?
The fact is not generally known that
Edward was the original crowned Ed.
of Europe.
An exchange has discovered the i'm
portant fact that egotism is the dear
of most everybody.
Young men who were first called
"dudes," and later "slims," are now
known as "ciphers."
The t-st-stut-stut-stutterer is the
m-m-m-man who b-b-b-b-breaks his
wor-wor-word.
Bleached mouse is the latest favorite
shade. This will probably be followed
by the rat tan.
An inquirer having asked, "What is
the liquor question in Ohio?' the
Courier-Jo,trnal answers, "What will
you take?''
Mrs. Homespun, who has a horrible
time every morning to get her young
brood out of their beds, says she cannot
understand why children are called the
rising generation.
A difference: A friend of mine, when
told the other day of the death Of
well-known stock dealer, replied:
"Why, he's worse off than am. I'm
dead broke; but he's dead broker"
The train stops; an employe an
nounces the name of the station in a
voice completely unintelligible, "Spesk
more distinctly" says traveller: 1--WE
can't understand word you say" "Do
you expect to have tenors for $l8 q
month";" growls the railway employe.
A Yorkshire man whose we'll lately
caved in contrived to make the author
tiles suspect that he had murdered
man and put his body at the bottom of
the we'll, and took things easy at the Jail
while they dug his we'll out for him; he
now takes of suing the town for false
imprisonment.
Tiny Things:
Little drops Of water,
Little grains Of sand,
Make the milkman happy,
And the grocer bland.
A Mississippi man has just invented
big gun, which he thinks "will fill Q
long-felt want" The "long-felt want"
referred to is its ability to kill and wound
800 men out of a regiment Of 900 at
distance of 100 yards, and yet they say
that barbarism is dying out.
At the Geological Gardens. A largo
man leans toward the bench where the
bears are confined. He loses his foot
ing and falls in. Naturally, he utters
heartrending cries. The guardian rushes
up, and in voice full of reproaches,
says: "Monsieur, it is forbidden to
throw anything to the BEARS"
THE TINE TO ADVERTISE.
And now the merchant wary
Will deem It necessary
To have an advertisement well displayed,
played, played:
Within his local paper;
For that's the proper oaper
BY which to catch the coming autumn trade,
trade, trade
Things one would not have said:
Mrs. A.-"come and lunch with Ms
tomorrow. You will be interested In
the schoolmaster' BRIDE" Mrs. B.
"Oh, yes, how do you like herr" Mrs.
A.-"very we'll, only she's q little un-
used to the ways of society. Ishouldn't
like to ask her to meet nice people,"
There is not dude in Finland.
"Finnish dudes" says the historian,
''never live long enough to be completed.
They are used for crab bait before their
buttons be disclosed, and are thus
sensibly utilized in the liquid morn and
| dew of youth before contagious ailments
become imminent"
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DERSONS IN NEED OF LEGAL BLANKS,
such as Chattel Mortgages Quit-Claims, and
Warranty Deeds, ETC., would do well to make ap-
plication at this Office, where they can be OBJ
tanned at reasonable prices. Blanks printed 10
order on short notice.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24

And now the tennessee papers say it
is Andrew Jackson and not Andrew
Johnson whose head will adorn the new
four-cent stamp. There is a great diff
ference between the two heads.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24

A young medical dude thinks If vol
canos were vaccinated their eruptions
wouldn't be 90 dangerous.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24

APPLE CUsrARD.-Three cups of apple
sauce, one pint Of milk, four eggs; !;
navor and bake.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24

By arrangements with reliable land ATTORNEYS
In Olympia and Washington, ID. c., my custo-
mers can have their land business attended to
the same as if personally present at either place.
Parties wishing to purchase or locate Land
Scrip would do well to consult me. .
r1-All latest Land Laws, Rules and Decisions
kept on file. Land Warrants bought and sold.
Conveyancng, taxes paid, purchases and sales
ly remitted. Hu
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