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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
Daniel Webster.

Mr.. J. Emery writes There is
one incident in Daniel Webster's life
that have never seen published OF
heard mentioned since it happened.
In 1919, l think it was that year,
the United States Supreme Court
gave its decision in the famous
Dartmouth College case. At the
commencement in 1920, Mr.. Web
ster was present and addressed the
students. At a meeting of the trus-
tees and faculty draft of five hun
dred dollars was drawn in favor OF
Mr.. Webster. Our resident, DIR.
Francis Brown, was very much cat
of health, and Mr.. Webster urged
him strongly to go South. Mr..
Brown replied that perhaps i would
be better to do so, but that he was
poor and unable to bear the expense,
Mr. Webster. without saying q word
in reply, stepped to desk in the
foom, took from his pocket the draft
Of five hundred dollars that had
been given, indorsed it over to Mr..
Brown, saying. shat will help you,
sir" On Mr.. Browns attempting
to reply, mot a word, my dear, sir,
not word, but 60 South and thank
God for the means" said the certain
ly then 'AGod like Daniel" Mr..
Brown did go South, but died the
same year, in the autumn of 1920.
This one act will balance ali that the
Ghouls are trying to dig UP Of faults
in his character
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
A Good Word For Oatmeal.

The oat crop, which is SO promi-
nent in our farming, is rarely utilized
for farmers tables. In somewhat
long acquaintance in the rural dis
tricts, we do not remember ever to
have met with oatmeal cooked in
any form. This diet j. favorite at
the breakfast table in our cities, in
the form of mush, and eaten with
sugar and milk, is an appetizing and
wholesome article of diet. But upon
the farm, the oat crop is very largely
a money crop, sold In the nearest
market or at the railway station. If
used upon the farm it goes to the
horse without grinding, or, if ground,
as provender for the pigs. Almost
everywhere we meet with corn pro-
ducts upon the table, Indian bread,
the convenient Johnny-bread, hasty
pudding, samp, hominy, corn bread,
and the finest of all summer dishes,
succotash-the sweet corn mingled
with the savory juices of the bear.
The wheat plant Is well represented,
in bread and other forms of cooking,
though it has ceased to be q product
of many northern farms. In all the
region where rye has taken the place
OF wheat, rye bread is staple article
of diet. Baked beans are about as
popular As ever, in the rural districts,
and are likely to hold their own
with the coming generations. But
oatmeal is ignored as a food fit for
man. Among the people who use
it, and In the analysis of the chem
ist, it stands confessed as one of the
most nutritious and economical
foods that can be used. The Scotch
people are living examples of what
oatmeal will do 10 make an athletic
race with plenty OF brain, bone and
muscle. The Scotchman's average
daily ration is u pounds of oatmeal
and pint of milk. On this he
thrives and performs the labor of the
farm. Analysis shows that oatmeal
is very rich in nitrogenous matter,
and comes much nearer wheat flour
in nutrative value, than is generally
supposed.
There can be no doubt that oat-
meal cooked in its various forms
might be added TO the list of our
dishes in the farming districts with
great advantage. 1t is one of the
best sustainers of muscle in the list
Of human foods.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
The Land of Opposites.

The contrarities of the Chinese, as
compared with us, have often been
commented on. The Rev. Selah
Brown writes about them in the
Christian Advocate. We shake
hands as a salution; a Chinaman
shakes hands with himself. He
stands at a distance, and, clasping
both hands together, he shakes them
up and down at you. We uncover
the head as a mark of respect; they
keep their heads covered, but take
off their shoes for politeness. We
shave the face they shave the head
and eyebrows. We cut our finger
nails they consider it aristocratic
to have nails from three to FIVE inch
es long, which they are obliged to
protect in silver cases. The China
mans waist coat is outside his coat,
and his drawers outside his trousers.
We blacken our shoes; he whites
them. We have soup as first
course at dinner, and desert at last
they have desert at first and soup at
last. Here people take wines ice
cold; the Chinese drink theirs scald-
ing hot. We bury in the earth
they on its surface. With us black
clothing is badge of morning; with
them white garments indicate the
LOGS of friends. In that land of op-
posites it is the old men who fy
kites, walk on stills, and play the
shuttiecock, and, to keep up their
odd wavs of doing things, they play
the latter with their feet instead of
their hands. In China women do
mems work. and men are the milli-
ners, dressmakers and washerwom-
en-. With US the right hand is place
of honor with them it is the left
hand. In dating letters we place
the year last: they write the year
first. They always speak of the
marinersis compass their own in
vention) as pointing to the south.
We pay our physicians when we are
sick they pay while they ale well,
but as soon as they get sick the pay
stops. Here men kill their enemies;
Chimaman gets revenge by killing
himself. We use a soft pillow
they block of wood They launch
ships sidewise, ring bells from the
outside, and actually turn their
screws in the opposite direction from
ours.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
The Largest Spring.

Silver spring. in Georgia, is said
the largest spring in the world. II
is the source os ihe 0klawaha river,
which is sixty feet wide at the start,
ten Seet deep, and with a curren,
iowing two miles an hour. All this
vast quantity of water comes from
the spring, whose only inlets are at
the bottom. 1t is about two acres in
size, and its mysterious depths have
never been explored. There is ga
Indian legend about Silver spzing,
Of course. Wenonah, the beauty oi
the tribe that inhabited the neigh
borhood, won the lore of Chulloo-
tab, a hostile ehiek Her wrathful
father slew the lover, and then vi
nonah drowned herself in the spring,
which was then small, but was in
stantly enlarged to the present pro-
portions by the Great Spirits abun-
dant tears of sympathy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
JIM's KIDS.

Jim was fisherman, up on the hill
Over the beach lived he an his wife
In little house-you kin see it still
An their two fair boys; upon my life
You never seen two likelier kids,
In spite o their antics an tricks an noise,
Than them two boys!
Jim would go out in his boat on the sea-
Jest as the rest of the fishermen did
And when he come back at night thard be
Up to his knees in the surf each kid,
A beck min and cheerin TO fisherman jim
He'd hear 'em, you bet, above the roar
OF the waves on the shore.
But one night Jim came sailin' home
And the little kids weren't on the sands
Jim kinder wondered they hadn't come,
And q trembIin' took hold O. his knees an
hands
And he learnt the worst up on the hill
In the little house, and bowed his head
The fever" they said.
Twas an awful time for fisherman Jim,
With them darlin'sa dyin' afore his eyes
They KEEP callin' an bick'nin' him
For they kind G. wandered in mind-their
cries
Were above the waves and fisherman Jim
And the little boat a sailin for ashore
Till they spoke no more.
Well, fisherman Jim lived on and on,
And his hair grew white, and wrinkles
came,
But he never smiled and his heart seemed
gone,
And he never was heard to speak the
name
of the little kids who were buried there
Up on the hill in sight o. thesea
Under willer tree.
One night they came and told me to haste
To the house on the hill, for Jim was
sick,
And they said hadn't no time to waste,
For his tide was a ebbin powerful quick
An he seemed to be wanderin and crazy
like
An a seein' sights be oughtn't to see
An had called for me.
And fisherman Jim sez het me,
Its my last, last cruise-you under
stand
I'm a sailin' dark and dreadful sea,
But of on the further shore. on the sand
Are the kids. who's beck MIN an calm my
name
Jess as they did-ah, mate, you know
In the long ago.
No. sir he wasn't afraid TO die,
For all that night he seemed to see
His little boys of the years gone by,
And TO hear sweet voices forgot by me;
An Just as the mornin' sun come up
They're holdin' me by the hands, he
cried
An so he died.
-Dey,per Tribtsae
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

Miss Miller, of Ferris, Texas,
chloroformed her fathers dogs and
eloped with the young man whom
her father had forbidden the premi-
ses- The probabilities are tina:
about a year hence she will con-
clude that her life would have been
less miserable if she had ehloroform-
ed the young man and eloped with
her father's dogs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
| newly-married couple

A newly-married eouple from
Wayback " were IN this city yester-
day, and of course. found an oyster
saloon the 6rst thing. How do
You want them, on the half-shell ?f
the waiter asked the groom. Nah
sir-ee, thar's no half-shell business
with this wedding trip; give EN- Ia
US on the whole shell.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

Venus rises two and a quarter
hou-s before the sun. l. naturally
takes the old girl some time to kindle
a FIRE and get the tangles out Of her
hair before breakfast time. The sun
gets up earlier when the weather
gets warmer.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

At recent marriage ceremony in
one of the Providence churches the
contracting parties were thirty min
utes behind time and ibe organ peal
ed out: "Oh, dear, what can the
matter be-"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

That poor bedridden, invilid wife,
sister, mother, or daughter can be
made the picture Of health by few
bottles of Hop Bitters. Win YOU
let them suffer? when go easily
cured
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

A little girl was walking along the
street the other day, when she WAS .
very bow legged man with q short
coat on. "Oh, ma !" she cried,
.'Thore's q man with a tunnel under
himrs
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
/ think the value of fax straw for

think the value Of fax straw for
feeding stock depends generally on
how much seed there is in it. /
have stacked upon my place seventy
five or one hundred tons of fax
straw. have also a quantity of
prairie hay. which / do not value
verv highly for the wintering ofstock,
and l was obliged to fence it in to
keep it from being eaten up, while
my fax straw went untouched. /
would not give 80 cents a ton for
fax straw for feeding stock, as there
is not any substance in it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

He was a real estate agent, and
complained that he bad had three
adjoining houses to let since last
fall, and couldn't get rid Of them on
any terms.
What's the cause?" inquired a
friend.
Malaria ?"
No"
Rum mill on the corner?"
mo"
as the neighborhood infested with
eats7"
Mo-
What then?'
Well, there's a man who lives
across the way with his daughter,
and he's endeavoring TO make
an American prima donna out of
her.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

Be an earnest, growing, happy,
faithful Christian. For the Master
has need ofsuch, and such Christians
make live church.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18
IN the bottom was a rough horse

In the bottom was rough horse
blanket. Thrown over the edge was
a piece of rope, placed there to pre-
vent the lid shutting tight. Along
side of the child he found half of a
bracelet. evidently d cheap imitation
one, which looked as though it had
been torn off from the other
half. At the lower end of the box
there was a confused heap of baby
clothes, thrust in hastily. All of
these things Sandy took. He found
even the water in the spring beside
which the train had camped, to give
his newly discovered treasure a
bath, which seemedto do the little
one a great deal of good.
For one week Sandy stayed there,
spending his whole time looking af-
ter the baby. He saw the child grow
strong and bright, apd he saw that
the feeding, washingand dressing of
the "kid," as he had already christ
ened it, a source ofever increasing
delight.
At the end of that time, havin g
the broken bracelet carefu lly slowed
away in his saddle bags, Sandy
mounted his horse, and, taking the
kid in his arms, left the scene of
the massacre never to see it again"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

Some of the styles in spring bon
nets look very much like wreath of
flowers.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

"A pickpocket never lets his right
hand know what his left hand
doeEh.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

can 90 without Salts, Castor OH. Citrate Of Mag.
ne sia, Senna OF Mamma, and soon the whole ei
them. and what is better, 1t may be taken with
safety and comfort by the most delicate woman.
as well as by the robust man. II Is very pleasant
TO the taste therefore easily administered 10 chill
dren. /. IS the only vegetable remedy existing
which viii answer In place OF calomei- regulating
the action Of the liver " ithOut making you NE
long victim to the use Of mercury or b!ue piils.
II VIII open the towels in proper and wholesome
manner.
There is nothing like Fahrney's Blood Clean
er fur the cure Of all disorders of the Stomach
Liver. Bowels. Kidneys and BLADDER; for nervous
diseases. Headache, Costireness, Indigestion,
BiliOcs Fever, and all arrangements OF the IN
ternal vicerS- AS female regulator has no
equal in tbe world.
IAN ounce Of prevention Is worth more than
pound Of cure The PASAcKA viii not only cure
old standing and malignant complaints but Il one
Of the best preventatires Of such disorders ever
offered to the world You can avoid severe AZ
;Acks of acute diseases, sarh as ChoierA- Small
pox Typhoid. Bilious, Spotted and Intermittent
Fevers. by keeping your blood puriaed Lhe
dfferen; degrees OF all such diseases dePendni-
together upon the condition OF the okood-
be Sureis ask for FABRKES's BLOOD CLEANS
ER or PkxkcLa- as there are several other prep
srztiOns in the market, the names oi whies are
SsaFueEhar similar. o.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

A q Blood Puri-
ner-this medicine
is highly recon-
mended for all
manner Of chronic
or old standing
complaints, Erup-
items OF the skin.
such as Pimpies.
B lote es and
X ash es. Ring
Worms. T etter.
Sal Rheum. Scald
heal, Sclofui1 VI
Kin gfs Evil,
X h e d N q { ism,
Pain In the Bones,
Side and Head.
and all diseases
arising froi.. i'm
urity of the
blood. With this
rare medicine in
your house 20 u
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-18

Parliament is the pow-wow behind
the throne.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-01-25
@ellli-Wes>lxly.

Next Spring, when the stream of
Immigration begins to flow westward,
much advertising of localities and
young towns will be done. The his
tory of past years justities this asser-
ton. Whole page advertisements will
appear in city dailies and those of
smaller size will appear in about every
paper in the land. Each inhabitant
western counties or villages will wish
to draw attention to his particular To-
cality, and each will in one way or
another contribute his mite toward
making up the general boom. In the
midst of all this rush and clamor, it
will be well nigh impossible for any
one place to attract more than Il mo-
ment consideration, and much of time
and money will be wasted without
producing any visible results.
If this he truE, Natia " AoE he bet
ter to do the advertising now" Is it
not better to present the attractions of
Stevens county, for instance, to fami-
lies in their more eastern homes now.
while they are thinking Of coming
west and induce them to determine to
come here as soon as the weather will
permit, than to wait until these fami-
lies have started and attempt to turn
them hither afterward% We certainly
think SO. We believe that If the num-
her of famers in Stevens county is to
be materially increased the coming
season, work must begin now: Let
each one speak well Qf home at all
times, In correspondence 70 friends
speak Of the advantages here offered
to farmers, cheap and excellent land,
markets, opportunities for business or
manufacturing. If your paper con-
tains any article which speaks credi-
bly, of a.nyth;Eg pertaining to home,
send it away after having read it your
8 elf and thus call attention to this rap
idly developing region. If each indi-
vidual will do all in his pQwer to
spread the kn0Wleage 0f the adEan-
tages Which this place offers to new.
comers, Morris and Stevens county
will have boom unparalleled in the
development of western cities.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-01-25
Agricultural Society.

In another column will be found the
| proceedings of the annual Meeting of
/ Stevens county Agricultural Society,
| and we would again try to impress
upon the farmers OF this county the
| Importance Of keeping up an organiza-
| ton which has for its aim, by theory
and practice, the diffusion of scuh
knowledge as will be of great import
to this and surrounding communities.
An agricultural society to be sue
cess in all its features, should have
| monthly, or some stated meetings
wherein the theory of stock raising
and of the products 9f tha soil III all
their various hearings, can be fully
and intelligently discussed; which
discussion will incite the members to
bring out ali the points in relation
thereto, giving them such theoretical
views, upon questions in which they
may be particularly interested, that
they can 50 use the knowledge thus
gained as to n+ska O. practical applica-
ton of it ON their farms.
Then, when the theories advanced
at the various meetings of the society,
have been tested by practical means,
and the results of these tests are dis
played at an annual fair, the success
of the society can be seen and felt in
proportion as those theories are made
beneficial or useless.
Some have an idea that a county
fair can be made success hy little
effort, and may be Of mushroom
growth. Not so, for the foundation of
success must first be built. One neces-
sary means is the selection of active
officers for the management Of the So
ciety, which has been done, but they
cannot alone make a good and pros
porous society4 members must also be
active and assist the officers in carry
ing out the plans by them devised,
and a feeling must be implanted in
the farmers, that their business is sus-
ceptible of improvement, and one of
the best methods of so doing, is the
information gained at the meetings
referred to, and the competition likely
to arise in so many striving to receive
| the benefit of the practical results of
their labor:
We understand the officers of the
society intend making a thorough
canvass of the county, in order to OBJ
tain enough life members at five dol
lars each, to fence the grounds and
construct suitable buildings for exhib-
itors, and we, hope they will meet
with the success such q project de-
serves. Big Stone county is in ad-
| vance of this county in the agricultu-
raj movement, but Stevens county
with her railroad facilities, business
activity, and natural resources, ought
to take the lead In agriculture.
Look to it farmers, and work for
your own interests, for if you will not,
who will for you. The success of this
movement will depend upon you, and
as you are to receive the most benefit
therefrom, it does seem as if you ought
to take the most interest in sustaining
all Agricultural Society.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-01-25
GENERALITIES.

MASONIC INsUR.>NCE.-The tenth
annual meeting of the Minnesota Ma
sonic Relief Association was held in
st. PaSl yesterday. The report of the
Secretary showed membership of p
1888: death losses during the year, "a:
amount paid to widows and orphans
during the past year, $4S,Gi,st total
receipts during 1889, S5353S6.9S; total
disbursements, sol ,4S3.65. There have
been fifteen assessments to pay the
twenty=four death claims during the
past year, the other nine having been
paid from the surplus, which leaves
the cost per $1,000 from 80 to $40.
The committee on permanent fund
reported adversely to its adoption,
which report was adopted.
Division B has membership Of 226,
and there has been but one death. The
limit Of thls diYisiohfs 1000.
At the election OF officers, Fred JOSS
and o. Whitman We're elected direc-
tors from Red Wing.
Before the end of this year Dakota
will have Il population of over 100,
people. The Democrats sluggers in
Congress will find it a pretty good
sized contract to keep Dakota 2rt of
the Union hecaHsa tar eit1zBifs don't
yats 10 suit t'hem.-Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The present condition of public edu-
cation in New Hampshire does not
tend to prove that New England is the
seat of Intelligence. 4he superinten-
dent of Fuhlic instruction says there
are pa towns in the State with orga-
nized schools, but falling off since
last year of eighty-nine in the number
of districts, and within the last year
eighteen public schools have gone out
of existence, together with twenty-one
graded schools and four high schools.
And the superintendent says the
schools in existenee 80 gat do
thoTougA work. ; .'''
General Sherman S son whoi is study
ing for the priesthood and intends to
become a Jesuit, recently delivered
lecture in Baltimore, in which he
warmly defended the inquisition es-
tablished by the Catholic church in
Spain, In the thirteenth century
Litchfield News Ledger.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-01-25
STATE NEWS.

Minnesota is becoming something
of State. The receipts from all sour
ces the past year were $3,20l ,4lG.79.
The expenditures We're $a,05S, PIT 81.
The increase of receipts in Il year is
over a million dollars.
There have been some fine lots of
dressed hogs brought into town the
past week, among which was IL hogs
of John Simonette, of st. Henry, that
weighed 2,594 pounds-making an
average of 327pounds. Luke Skelly,
of Tyrone, also had very good lot of
six hogs that weighed 1,740 pounds.
John Thurston, of Lexington, had two
hogs that weighed 7sa pounds, and L.
L. Franklin, of Ottawa, marketed eight
hogs that weighed 1880 pounds, seven
of which averaged over 300 pounds.
f. Landkotf, of Tyrone, sold Taylor Il
Co. seven hogs that weighed 2,l26
pounds, the heaviest of which turned
the scales at 4S0; and Henry Rimmer-
man, of Cleveland. sold the same firm
six hogs that weighed 1861 pounds.
Martin Hounder, of st. Henry, this
week sold III. c. Smith six hogs that
weighed 1881 pounds-an average of
3S0-which is one of the best lots sold
here.-Le Sueur Sentinel.
Will some of our flrmers "do like
wise ?''-ED.
Th4 ti9neer Press ofSaturday says:
Regent Nelson, O. the University
board, offered resolution at the meet
ing yesterday, providing for the orga-
nization of a department of medicine
on the plan embraced in the elaborate
report OF Drs. Leonard, Hewitt end
Folwell. Regents Hubbard, Pillsbury
and Clark were constituted COM
mittee to select and nominate the medi-
cal faculty. 1t is understood that this
is the inception Ct {, moyement which
will give MINNESOTA one Of the most
medical Institutions in the
country. The standard ofthe profess |
sion should be elevated to the highest
poS;'ls pane sgs sfSn b1 l institution
plan Willie substantial super-strue.
ture,