The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-05-02
SOUTHAMPTON ITEMs.

SOUTHAMPTON ITEMS.
Trusting that a few items from old South
| ampton will not come amiss to the many
readers of your most worthy paper, the HER.
AID. / submit the following:
The sugar season has closed, and many
of our farmers harvested q very large
amount.
The farmers are busily engaged sowing
their oats and ploughing their corn ground.
Quite a number of snakes have already
been killed along the mountains
The grist mill of J. L.. Kennel is again in
ru~nningorder.
Jonathan Kennel, who has been suffer
ing from rheumatism the entire winter, is
| able to be about again.
Mr.. Adam Burket, of Pompey Smash,
Maryland, moved his family to this town
ship recently.
The new steam saw mill of Messrs. Simon
G. and Jacob H. Martz was introduced into
the Gladdens Run forest Saturday last. The
mill is from the Geiser Manufacturing Com
pany of Waynesboro, Franklin county, and
is considered one of the best mills in the
forests of Somerset county. The mill is sit
uated one mile west of Kennels Mills
Hereafter the humming sound of the saw,
and the shrieking whistle OF the giant
" Peerless will make the mountains
of old Southampton ring as they never have
before. W. p. M.
EDITOR HERALD:-We consider the space
occupied in the HERALD far too precious to
be occupied as it is, however We would just
desire q very small portion of it to make a
few remarks. The Mt. Pleasant correspond
ent, according to the sentiment shown in
his last communication, undoubtedly mis-
takes u replies for what he calls wrath
must we repeat the advice given him before
in reference to his n%eighbors? We do not
relish the idea of so doing, but if we must,
we will, though not in this.
In his first he asks us ito be a man and
call the church by her right name,w which is
Church of God" Our reply was and is yet,
we do not want to be men if that is the only
thing that will elevate us to that standard.
be asked us We could say NO. We have had
but little experience in life among men, I'M
less he intends to convey the idea that we
nave nothing of that description in our
parts, and as for calling things by their
right names and very plainly, we would re-
mark that we made use of The very plainest
name possible He appears to think it igno-
rance on our part. We are not certain, it
may be ignorance on both parts, but on his
part ignorance is so tremendously blended
with impudence, that no material difference
is in the least perceptible. Our moral
courage does not lack in the slightest de-
gree, and as he seems to have such good adj
vice for US he should not ask us to subscribe
our name to something he considers the
work of ignorance; he says he does not need
to come to Somerset to learn of the division
called Winebrennarians. Did we say he did?
No. He made inquiry concerning that di-
could, where he might hear of them, any
way that is the name in use here, and that
i. the one we intend to use, and should his
desire yet remain the invitation also re-
Does he think calling lis a boy angers us
or in any way degrades us? our answer is
emphatically 10. He was also a boy at one
time, was he not? Calling US a boy does not
us, no indeed no, for such we are.
we will become "a man. some day,
that is when our time of boyhoods wrathful
years has expired when we can peruse a
communication without having what he
calls ''wrath" to burn within us.
What is in his communications to excite
wrath ?' there Is no principle nor method
about them, there is no consistency there,
or if there is we are led to exclaim,
consistently thou jewel
But thou art set in a casket of mud"
He speaks of the change necessary to bring
us up 20 the point from which he ''came
Judging from this he must have
come from way up" and as he has come
down thus far he had better make ''sure
footing lest he go down farther. Now
comes our freedom and we subscribe our
name Very Truly Yours,
YAGER.
New Lexington, Apr. %, 1883.