The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-11-14
BR0TuEEsyALLEy ITEMS

Splendid fail weather.
1 Plenty ofraiu, and sunshine, too to liven
everything up.
1 My big Brahna rooster was ailing for sew
cral weeks, and sure enough, last week he
died.
last Wciues lay the streets of Berlin were
as desolateas the highest peaks ofthe Andes
mountains.
/ Two more bears were seen near RoXbury
one day last week. They were pursued but
made their escape
The farmer who don get his fall plowing
! finished this fall, had better stop farming
and follow something else.
Aaron B7ant is down with typhoid fever,
and greatly to bis disappointment was un-
able 10 90 to the polls Tuesday
Remember the Democratic issue WAS
90 The Republican party must 60" Did sh'
! do ite Not 20 any very alarming extent.
/ Providence tayars the democracy once il
while; there &, plenty Of rain, the water i
high, and they can make the trip up sal
rivery easily.
Brothersyalley Republicans are fme
than ever. 4 number were not able to z,
/ 70 the polls on account of sickness, but mex
fall they will all turn ont.
The Grand Army Post at Berlin, which
was organized last June, uumbeTsat present
nearly forty members There are still quite
! a number ofold veterans in this vicinity
who ought tojoiu at once.
/ IJ>cem, 20 me the Republican party don
( 20 as easy ia tlenor.h as il has 10 90 down
south, where they make II 90 with the bayo-
net and shotgun. What do you think?
JD. Horner threshed over tniry thousand
bushels Of grain this fall with his new Geisel
separator He finished threshing last week
and is nov running saw mill with his
engine.
Last week the coliiers who were engaged
on the farm of J. J. Coleman, in burning
charcoal. finished up their work. They
burned between twoaudthrec thousand cords
OF wood into coal.
The reason roosters are so scarce is, they
arcau kept back 60 crow over the November
elections.-Somefsd Democrat; Hope they
are done Growing now. and of course the
market will soon be giutted with roosters.
oar retorla Governor reminds me very
much of the story of the thoughtful dog.
. Ufcour-eit occurred down south, and i as
follows. \ dog bit OF boys nose, and
swallowed IL; this showed the A01ghyUlaeSs
OF the dog had the dog swallowed the nose
without first biting it OF, 1t would have
proved fatal to the boy at once. But short
. ly some one shot the dog, and by and by
the boy died also. Just so with our GOV
ernor when he vetoed the bill to stop pay
mcut for our legislators. In my estimation
he was more h0uqhifd than conscientious,
Had he signed the bin instead Of vetoing it
this democratic legislature would have ad-
iourned at once. Bat the Governor Jared
Just like the dog. On the 6th of November
the people eofPeuusylyania shot lin polit-
ically. and by and by the Democratic leg
i,!ature will die also.
Last Tuesday Pennsylvania sounded the
keynote for next fall, and 1t was no mcer-
tain sound. either / had faith enough in
the people OF Pennsylvania to remember
the I,t. n ana 81 days of July, 1868, when
her soil was saturated with the BLOOD OF
more than 3.oO9 true and loyal men, who
were either shot down. or pierced with the
bayonet ola rebel who Of course was Dem
ocrar and whose Wondering bones and
blood in the cemetery at Gettysburg
are continually calling upon her voters to
keep sacred that for which they had to lay
down their lives. Last Tuesday the people
answered tie call Of our dead heroes, and
next fail Pennsylvania will answer again in
unspeakaLie thunder tones that She will
maintain that for which her sons had to
. shed their blood
Now AND THEN.