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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-23
Whitney's Subdivision of Brewster's Addition
to st. Paul.
Supposed owner and
Jacor;,1+;op
Block
ROsabeI Street. West Side.

Whitney & Smiths Addition to St. Paul.
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Lemke's Subdivision of Lot /, Block2, Scheffers
Addition to st. Paul.
Supposed owner and description.

Supposed owner and description.
Conrad Wurm. That piece of land of Lot
l, Lemke's Subdivision of Lot l, Block 2,
Scheffer's Addition to St. Paul, and being
between Randolph and Fort streets, being
in the ne4 of seq, section II, town
28, range %.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-23
WHEAT
MILWAUKEE,.
Oh ICAoC.

May wheat closed IN Chicago at 1855.
May corn closed in Chicago at 57Mc.
May oats closed in Chicago at 1890.
CORN
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
The Tramp and the Dog.

A big, lonesome looking dog sat at
the gate of a house on Cass avenue
yesterday. ewes full of tears and his
whole body shaking with cold. \
tramp, who had neither overcoat nor
mittens, and whose bare toes peep
ed through his boots, was making
his way up the street in search of
the right kind of a side entrance.
when he espied the dog and crossed
over and said:
"Well, now, this is an unexpected
pleasurel Upon my soul, but l have
found one living thing in this town
as poorly off as myself. Say. old
fellow, where do you hang out ?"
The dog looked at him through
his tears. but had nothing to say.
Tough, isn't it?n continued the
man. Il look old and seedy, and
you are the homeliest dog l ever saw.
That strikes a fraternal chord and
we meet on a level. haven't had q
square meal for week, and you
haven't seen bone for the past ten
DAYS. Even again, eh ?"
The dog shivered and whined and
got up and sat down. and the tramp
grew closer and said:
"No home, eh? Neither have L.
No one to whistle for you? Same
here. That's even again. / can
warm up my shakes with whisky,
while YOU have to grin and bear it.
That's where I've got the dead wood
on YOU. l can talk through nv nose
and tell fifty pitiful stories to excite
sympathy and bring out cold vict-
uals, while you have nothing TO say
for yourself and must take bones or
90 hungry. That's another for me.
On the whole I'm ahead of you, and
although you're only a dog I'm glad
Of it. It's something to feel that you
are one peg higher than an old yal-
Ter, homeless, hungry eur. So long,
old fellow"
As the tramp started to gothic dog
reached out and snapped at his leg
and then took a run for it.
Say, there. hold on :" called out
the tramp as he wheeled around. Il
said l was ahead, but III take it all
back You can lunch on my legs,
while I'll see this country tetotally
busted to New JERSEY if / don't die
of starvation before ] come down TO
eating dog! Even, old fellow-just
about even on the average, and no
use of any hard feelings over it "
FIRE. Pres.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
Killing Made Easy.

In the time of Napoleon it was es-
timated that it took 600 bullets to
be fired in battle before a man was
killed in other words, every dead
soldier represented his own weight
in lead. But the recent improve
ment in firearms has added to Its
efficiency. The greater range of the
rifle, as well as the rapidity with
which it can be fired, mas made it
thirty-tWo times more effective than
the old smooth bore. To be more
accurate, a military authority says
that the modern rifle is superior to
the old smooth bore in the following
particulars
1t Is eight times more effective in
accuracy, two-thirds greater in range
and penetration, five times greater
in rapidity of aimed fire, while the
weight Of the cartridges per man has
diminished, yet the number which
may be carried has been increased.
The added efficiency of the heavy
guns is no less surprising. The IA
nous Krupp now makes a gun of
nine inch calibre and eighteen tons
weight which Will send ball thro'
twenty inches of solid iron; and his
field gun, within a range of more
than a mile and a half, can be de-
pended upon to put every proiectile
into space of less than 200 square
feet. Taking into consideration the
breech loading rifle, better powder,
improved proieetiles, the lighter car
riages of steel, the science of artillery,
has been revolutionized. and one
battery to-day is more effective than
twenty of those so skillfully ham
died by the Great Napoleon. In the
next great battles some dreadful en-
gines of destruction will be brought
into play. The Hotchkiss revolving
gun can fire bursting shells at the
rate of so a minute. 1t can pour out
a continuous and deadly fire of 70
pounds of metal, OF 100 hits, every
sixty seconds. 1t is fearful to think
of the havoc which would be caused
by the guns of the future
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
4 Miners Thrilling Experience.

Thomas Smith, one of the miners
at work in the Diamond Mines at
Braidwood, Illinois, where upwards
of seventy men lost their lives by
the mines sudden inundation, gave
his experience as follows:
Il went into the mine about 6
o'clock, and made my way at once
to to the 'wost Dip" about one mile
from the shaft. When | arrived at
my lay out | went to work, after
making some observation on the
strength of the roof, as it is my Gus
tom to do. With me there was
working a man whose name do not
know. About II o'clock we ate our
dinner and had Just begun to make
new insertion into the seam when
the voice of the driver, Joe Kelley.
was heard not far away calling out
that the water was coming into the
mine. l had been in the mine when
it was flooded in 1880, and so knew
of the danger that we must run if
we stopped to block up our coal, as
some of the men did, and so we
made for the shaft. mile distant,
at the top of our speed. AS yet |
had seen no water, and Twas Just be-
ginning TO think / would get out safe
when 1 heard a rushing sound of
moving water, and in a few sec
onds wave of water about one and
half feet high came rushing around
US, compelling US to retire before it
to a place not far from where we
started, and where another side gal
lery led to the air shaft Spurred
on by the belief that escape was al
most impossible, we ran as hard as
we could down the crooked passage,
bobbing up and down in the undu-
lating, surface of the roadway. When
we were about 200 feet from the
main shaft the water again struck
us and quickly rose to the depth of
three feet, so high, indeed, that ii
was utterly impossible for US to
make any speed. Near the airshaft
there are several places where the
passage dipped and then rose again,
forming a pit between each rise OF
the roadway. When we reached
this place the water was so gigh that
we had to swim across the holes, and
in doing so we jammed our heads
against the roof. Almost fainting
from exhaustion, we at last came
out at the air-shaft and were helped
up the stairs by willing hands. II
forgot to say that when | was nearly
up to the shaft l came across two
boys, who were swimming in the
same direction | was going. They
cried out to me to help them, for
they were tired out; but | knew
my only hope was IN rapid move,
and so was compelled to leave
them behind to perish" Smith
was the last man who ever came out
of the mine alive, and he was as hap
DIV man as could be found any
We IA ara
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
A Strange Tradition

Among the Seminole Indians there
is a singular tradition regarding the
white mans origin and superiority.
They say when the great Spirit made
the earth he also made three men,
all of whom were fair complexioned,
and after making them be led them
to the margin of small lake, and
bade them leap in and wash. One
obeyed, and came out purer and
fairer than before; the second hesi-
tated a moment, during which time
the water agitated by the first had
become muddled, and when he
bathed he came out copper colored
the third did not leap until the wa
ter became black with mud, and he
came out his own color. Then the
great Spirit laid before them three
packages. and out of pity for his
misfortune in color he gave the black
man the first choice. He took hold
Of each of the packages, and, having
felt the weight, chose the heaviest /;
the copper oolored man chose the
next heaviest, leaving the white man
the lightest. When the packages
were opened, the first was found to
contain spades, hoes and all the i'm
plements Of labor the second un-
raped hunting, fishing and warlike
apparatus; the third gave the white
man pens, ink and paper, the engine
of the mind-the means of mutual
mental improvement, the social link
of humanity, the foundation of the
white mans superiority.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

words, and ma cried and told pa he
would 60 to hell sure, and pa said he
didn't care, he would kill the cussed
goat after he went, and | told pa the
minister was in the parlor, and he
and ma went down and said the
weather was propitious for a revival,
and it seemed as though an outpour-
ing of the spirit was about to be
vouchsafed his people, and none of
them sat down but ma. cause the
goat didn't hit her, and while they
was talking religion with their
mouths, and cussin' the goatinward-
ly, my chum and me adjourned the
lodge, and l went and stayed with
him all the night, and hain't been
hcme since; but | don't believe pa
will lick me, cause he said he would
not hold US responsible for the con-
sequences. He ordered the goat
himself, and we filled the order,
don't you see? Well, l guess | viii
go and sneak in the back way and
find out from the hired girl how the
land lays. She won't go back on
me, cause the goat was not loaded
for hired girls. She just happened
to get in at the wrong time. Good
by, sir. Remember and give your
goat kyan pepper in your lodge"
As the boy went away, and skip
ped over the back fence, the grocery
man said to his brother Odd Fel-
low, ''If that boy don't peat the dev-
il, then never saw one that did.
The old man ought to have him sent
to the reform school. "-Peck's Sun.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

Last fall a large herd of big steers
for market were being driven across
the country frem Musselshell to Bill
lings, on the northern pacific Rail-
road, where they were to be shipped
on the cars for Chicago. There were
about 1000 head, | should Judge
the property of a Mr.. DeHass. avery
young man. One evening a mill
tary camp had been made Just ahead
of the cattle, and on the same side
of the creek with them, up which
the herd was being driven. A storm
was coming up, and the cattle ex-
hibited some signs of uneasiness.
Mr.. De Hass sent word to the mill
tary officer that he had better get his
men, wagons and animals ON the
opposite side of the creek and cut of
the way, as he feared there was GO
ing to be might rum" The herd
ers were instructed to keep their
horses saddled and be ready to
mount at moments notice. The
cattle were very uneasy, getting up,
lying down again and shifting about.
AT last, about midnight, there
came sharp flash of lightning, fol-
lowed by a heavy peal Of thunder,
and in an instant the whole herd
were upon their feet. Mount and
whip out" cried DeHaas, and the
herder who was at the head of the
column drove off few of the lead
ing steers in the direction they were
to 90. All the others followed and
the herd was soon in full flight. The
herders made no effort to check or
control them further than to keep
them going straight; they rode at
the head Of the column, one on each
side of them swung to the right or
left to keep the trail; bluffs and
precipices were avoided, and the
open fiat ground courted.
The run lasted about two hours,
when a gorge was being neared, in
which the cattle would crowd and
break their limbs. They were now
quite tired, and the herders deter
mined to exert their authority and
stop the run.
The head of the colum was bent
out on the prairie, and circled round
and round until the cattle became
tied up in huge ball and could not
move at all. In this way they were
obliged to stand until morning, the
herders riding round and round
them, and keeping them completely
tied up. At daylight they were al
lowed to "open out" First the out
er edge scattered, then layer after
layer, until the huge pile of beef was
a herd grazing as quietly as if moth
ing had happened.-Cinannat Com
mTciGi
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
COMING HOME AT LAST.

The benishment was over long,
But it will soon be past
The man who wrote Homes sweetest song
Is coming home at last
For years his poor abode was seen
In foreign lands alone,
And waves have thundered loud between
This singer and hts own.
But he will soon be journeying
To friends across the sea;
And grander than of any king
His welcome here shall be.
He wandered DER the dreary earth,
Forgotten and alone
He who could teach Homes matchless
worth
Ne'er had one of his own.
Meath Winters cloud and Summers sun,
Along the hilly road.
He bore his great heart, and had none
To help him with the load.
And wheresoever in his round
He went with weary tread,
His sweet, pathetic song he found
Had fioated on ahead!
He heard the melodies it made
Come pealing Ger and DER,
From royal music bands that played
Before the palace door;
He heard its gentle tones of love
From many a cottage creep,
When tender grooming mothers stroye
To sing their babes to sleep
And whereso'er true love had birth
This thrilling song had flown;
But he who taught Homes matchless worth
Had no home of his own!
VIII Crleton IN Hpper's Weekly.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
Pre-Histeric Man

In the skeletons found in caves
and rocks belonging to the races of
men who must havelived thousands
of years before history began, are
found evidences that the same dis
eases fiourished then that now af-
flict humanity. Wounds were found
of course. as was to have been ex-
pected. but it is also clear that the
primitive man who lived in the stone
age before metals were used, and
when perhaps even fire was not vet
employed in cooking food, had dis
eases such as rheumatism, cancers,
distortions of limbs, and nndouDted-
" malarial troubles. This evidence
is found in the remains. Poets have
told US of the simple and happy life
of the golden age in the past but
scientific investigation has dispelled
these illusions, and establish the
fact that the lot of men, in the past
as in the present, was not a happy
one. II is the modern civilized man
who enjoys the best health, for even
in our day the savage races are more
prone to disease than those who lead
what seems to be an artificial life in
the best circles of modern commu-
mites. Our savage ancestry must
have led dismal lives. They were
exposed to all the fury of the ele-
ments, to the attack of wild beasts,
and worse than all, their untutored
imaginations filed the universe with
evil spirits, which demanded sacri-
fees, and filed their waking hours
with fearful phantasms. Within a
few hundred years, people in this
country believed in witchcraft, then
what must humanity have suffered
in the ages long ago when the whole
world was peopled with fetishes pos
sessing the power to infiict physical
harm.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

New BLOOMFIELD, Miss, Jan. 2,
1851 wish to say to you that /
have been suffering for the last five
years with a severe itching all over.
/ have heard of Hop Bitters and
have tried it. l have used up four
bottles, and it has done me more
good than all the doctors and medi-
cines that they could use on or with
me. l am old and poor but feel to
bless you for such relief by your
medicine and from torment Of the
doctors. ! have had fifteen doctors
a: me. One gave me seven ounces
of solution of arsenic; another took
four quarts of blood from me. All
they could tell was that it was skin
sickness. Now, after these four bot
ties of your medicine, my skin is
well, clean and smooth n ever.
HENRY KNOCHE.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
How to Develop a Boys Brains.

An incident in the school life Of
teacher, as 4 plated by herself, Illus
trates our pol 1t. She had charge of
school in country town early IN
her career, and among her scholars
was boy about IA years old, who
cared very little about study, and
showed no interest, apparently, in
anything connected with the school.
Day after day he failed in his les.
sons, and detentions after school
hours and notes to his widowed
mother had no effect. One day the
teacher had sent him 10 his seat, af-
ter vain effort to get from him a
correct answer to questions in gram
mar, and, feeling somewhat nettled,
she watched his conduct. Having
taken his seat, he pushed the book
impatiently aside and espying fly,
caught it with a dexterous sweep of
the hand, and then betook himself
to close inspection of the insect.
For fifteen minutes or more the boy
was thus occupied, needless of sur
roundings, and the expression Of his
face told the teacher that it was
more than idle curiosity that pos
sessed his mind. A thought struck
her, which she put into practice at
the first opportunity that day.
Boys" said she, "what can you
tell me ahout-fies 2r and calling sew
eral of the brightest by name, she
asked them if they could tell her
something of fy's constitution and
habits. They had very little to say
about the insect. They often caught
one, but only for sport. and did not
think it worth while to study so
common an insect. Finally, she
asked the Ounce, who had silently,
but with kindling eyes, listened to
what his schoolmates hesitatiEgly
said. He burst out with a descrip-
ton of the head, eyes, wings and
feet OF the little creature so full and
enthusiastic that the teacher was as
tonished and the whole school struck
with wonder. He told how it walk
ed and how it ate, and many things
which were entirely new to his teach
er. So that when he had finished
she said:
THANK you. You have given US
a real lecture in. natural history and
you have learned it all yourself, N.Y..
boy."
After the school closed that after
noon she had a long talk with the
boy, and found that he was fond of
going into the woods and meadows
and collecting insects and watching
birds, but that his mother thought
he was wasting his time. The teach
er, however, wisely encouraged him
in this pursuit, and asked him to
bring beetles and butterflies and cat
erpillars to school, and tell what he
knew about them. The boy was de-
lighted at this unexpected turn of
affairs and in few days the listless
Ounce was the marked boy of that
school. Books on natural history
were procured for him, and a world
of wonders opened to his apprecia-
tive eye. He read and studied and
examined; he soon understood the
necessity of knowing something of
mathematics, geograpy and gram
mar for the successful carrying on of
his faverite study, and he made rap
id progress in his classes. In short,
twenty years later, he was eminent
as a naturalist, and owed his success,
as he never hesitated to acknowledge.
to that discerning teacher.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04
Must Specify.

Look out" exclaimed a man over
whose face barber was moving bis
razor, you are cutting off my NOUS
tache."
"You didn't tell me not to cut it,
the barber replied. with me man
must always specify"
"All right" said the customer.
When the barber had finished, the
man arose from the chair, approach
ed the artist and gave him violent
kick.
Lock out, you are kicking me" /"
howled the barber.
You didn't tell me not to kick
you. With me a man must always
specify"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

There is no harm, says Walter
Scott, but on the contrary, benefit,
in presenting a child with ideas be-
yond his easy and immediate COM
prehension. The difficulties offered
If not too great or too frequent
stimulate curiosity and encourage
exertion-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

@What nonsense this is" exclaim-
ed Gotham belle, looking up from
a daily journal. "This paper says
that death has been busy in high
places this year, and some of the
most prominent men Of the country
have passed away" Why, / was
present al the very last party before
Lent. and there was Lot q leader of
the German who was not alive and
well.n
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

The modest department Of those
who are truly wise, when contrasted
with the assuming cir of the young
and ignorant, may be compared to
the different appearance Of wheat,
which. while its ear is empty, holds
up its head proudly, but as soon as
il is filed with grain, bends modest
"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

The question is asked US if there
is anything that viii bring youth to
women? Yes, there is. An income
of say $1,000 viii bring and number
of them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

A little girl says that when the
Bible speaks of "children's children"
il must mean dolls.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-04-04

Help yourself and Heaven viii
help You.
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Le Somerset Herald
|erns of Publication.

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paOn.
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Somerset, Pa.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-13
ceoroio,s Scsoui.CoutenniaI.

SAVANNAH, February 12.-The Sesqui-
Centennial celebration Of the settlement Of
Georgia by General James Oglethorpe and
coIonists was celebrated to-day with I'M
posing ceremonies. The day opened with
salute OF thirteen guns ut sunrise.
Crowds poured into the city from all quar-
tiers during the forenoon, 10000 people
being present. Governor Stephens and
staff, the General Assembly OF Georgia,
the civic commissioners OF Maryland and
Rhode Island, and distinguished visitors
from all parts OF the South were present.
The day was bright aud beautiful. During
the morning there was a grand military
display, 5000 soldiers from Florida, South
Carolina, and Georgia being present. At
the Theatre Governor stephens deliy-
cred an address. and was enthusiastically
received. The Sesqui-Cetennial ode, by
Paul II. IIayne, poet laureate OF the South,
was receied by General Henry X. Jackson,
Mr.. Hayne being too feeble. Then followed
a grand historical pageant, representing the
landing OF Oglethorpe and colOnists
from their ship under an artillery salute
and their reception by Tomochichi and
Yammacraw Indians. A sudden rain damp
ened the enthusiasm, but the celebration
will be continued tonight by magnificent
pyrotechnic display. Tomorrow trades
display will take place, and banquets will
be given TO distinguished guests.