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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

Demosthenes was not born an or
ator. He struggled hard and fail
ed many times. He was homely,
and he stammered in his speech,
but before he died they came hun
dreds of miles to him to get him to
open their county fairs and jerk the
bird of freedom baldheaded on the
Fourth of july.
Demosthenes had short breath,
a hesitating speech, and his man
ners were very nHgracefui- To rem
edy his stan Acng he filed his
mouth full Of pebbles and howled
his sentiments at the angry sea-
Plutarch says that Demosthenes
made a dismal failure of his first
speech. This did not discourage
him. He finally became the slickest
orator in that country, and 1t was
no uncommon thing tor him to till
the First Church OF Athens full.
| must now leave Demosthenes
and pass on rapidly to speak of Pat
rick Henry. Mr.. Henry was the
man who wanted liberty or death.
He preferred liberty, though. III he
couldn't have liberty he wanted to
die, but he was in no great rush
about it. When the tyrant asked
him what kind OF death he wanted,
he said he would rather die of ex-
treme old age. He was willing to
wait, he said. He didn't want to
go unprepared, and it would take
him eighty or ninety years TO pre-
pare, SO that when he was ushured
into another world he wouldn't be
ashamed of himself.
When he started in he was gentle,
mild, and quiet In his manner, out
later on, carrying his audience with
him, he became enthusiastic. He
thundered, he roared, he whooped,
he howled, he sawed the air, he split
the horizon with his clarion notes.
tipped over the table, kicked the
lamps out of the chandeliers, and
smashsed the big bass viol over the
chief fiddler's head.
Oh, Demosthenes was business
when he got started. 1t will be
long time before we see another Off
hand speaker like Demosthenes,
and |, for one, have never been the
same man since | learned of his
death.
One hundred and ten years ago
Patrick Henry said: Sir, our chains
are forged. Their claBking may be
heard on the plain of Boston. The
war is inevitable, and let it come. l
repeat it, sir. let it come"
in the spring of 1850 | used al
most the same language So did
Horace Greely. There were tour or
FIVE OF US who got our heads together
and decided that the war was iney-
table, and consented to let it come
Then it came. Whenever there
is large inevitable conflict floating
around waiting for permission to
come, il devolyes on the great states
men and bald-headed hterati of the
nation to avoid all delay. 1t is the
duty of the great orator TO howl for
war, and then hold some other mans
coat while be fights.-BiH Nye, an
the ArgoRau.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Golden Cleans.

The rays of happiness, like those
of light, are coloriess when unbrok-
en-.
Iknow of no such thing as genius;
genius is nothing but labor and dill
gence.
When man has 10 desire bat to
speak the plain truth he may say
great deal in a narrow space.
Some peoples hearts are shrunk
in them like dried nuts. You can
hear 'em rattle as they walk.
Many people take no care of their
money till they have come nearly
to the end of il, and others do the
same with their time.
Do not say 1T does not pay to
begin what we viii probably never
finish" The beginning may be
the part assigned to you
Death is the liberator of him whom
freedom cannot release. the physi-
clan of him whom medicine cannot
cure, and the comforter Of him
whom time cannot comfort.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Plants Used By Men.


1t is stated that the number of
plants used by men at the present
time does not exceed 1900. OF these
about 2,400 are cultivated in Amer
lea. The varieties used for food do
not exceed 600. OF edible fruits and
seeds there are 100 classed as vege-
tables, 100 as roots and bulbs. 30
varieties of grain, about 20 of which
produce sugar and syrup. In addi-
ton to this, perhaps, 30 kinds viii
Weld oil and s wine. The number
Of medicine supply plants IS nearly
double that of the fruit yielding,
amounting to 1 LIE, about $50 OF
which are employed in the various
branches of industry. OF the latter,
rs furnish dye stuff, wax, 16 salt,
and more than 40 supply food for
cattle. There are no fewer than $50
kinds of poisonous plants cultiva-
ted, among which are only 66 of
narcotic sort, the remainder being
classed as deadly polsons.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
A Midnight Call.

One of Detroit's prominent physi-
clans was routed out of bed the
other midnight to find at his door
an excited citizen who asked:
doctor, is Paris green poison ?''
Why, of course" "
Il thought it was, but wasn't quite
sure. Would two pounds of it kill
a horse?"
Certainly it would"
81 thought so, but didn't want to
bet on it."
IF your horse has eaten two
pounds of the stuff he is sure to
die.r
.'Oh, he is already dead-been
dead an hour"
And what do you want Of me
I'm no horse doctor ~
Il know it, but | want to know il
I'm obliged to bury the animal at my
own expense. What is the rule in
such cases 2"
The doctor gave himself away by
turning white clear back of the neck,
and when he let fly with bis right
leg the man was off the steps and
calling back:
Il suppose you were going to dc
that, but dent want to be too cap
tious about it until dead sure
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Wore thaa Firearms.

The editor of an Omaha paper. in
on several cases in that
city where children died from the
effects of taking cough syrup con-
tanning morphis, remarks that opi-
ates, poisons and narcotics ara more
dangerous than firearms. Mothers
should acse this, and furthermore
that different Boards of Health, af-
ter making careful analyses, have
certified that the only purely vege-
table preparation of this kind, and
one that is in every way harmless.
prompt and effective, is Red Star
Cough Cure. Mayor Latrobe, of
Baltimore, and the Commissioners of
Health. have publicly endorsed this
valuable discovery. 81 aa fa
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The official tables, as published
from a manuscript copy in the
ArDsy and Macy Journal, further
distribute all these classes of deaths
among the Union troops by states, it
being explained that the phrase
''other known causes includes
deaths resulting from quarrels not
amounting to murder, from being
shot by sentries or by the provost
guard and miscellaneous causes
This aggregate OF nearly 10000
deaths of Union soldiers must be
supplemented by like record of
Confederate soldiers, in order to
find the real number of victims to
the war in both armies. Then the
naval deaths must also be ascer-
tanned and added. MANY a soldier
and sailor met fate more dreaded
than death in being crippled for life
or made the prey of lingering dis
ease contracted in the service.
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TnE UNION DEAD.
Statistics Of the Union Soldiers
Who Died During the Civil war.

Twenty wears have passed since
the close of the civil war and now,
at last, careful official record of the
number OF deaths that occurred in
the Union army has been made. a
little more than twelve months ago
on the, I'd of June, 1884, General
Drum directed Mr.. J. w. Kirkley,
an experienced statistician of the
Adiutaat Generals Office, to begin
the compilation ofthis record. with
the aid of ten clerks. A minute and
exhaustive exploration of all attain
able official documents has now
produced table of statistics which
far surpasses in completeness any
thing on the subject hitherto exist
ing.
To state the grand result at the
Ioutset, the table shows a total off,
S53 deaths of commissioned officers
and 349,9l3 deaths of enlisted men,
making an aggregate of359, ,496 death
among the Union forces. The
period included in the record is, for
the regular troops, the interval be-
tween April Is. 1861, and August 1,
1855: for a portion of the volunteers
| it is prolonged beyond the latter
date until the muster out of each or
ganization. 1t will be remembered
that the troubles in Mexico and
Iother causes oceasioned the reten-
/ ton Of scme volunteers in the ser
vice after the downfall of the Con-
federacy. Indeed, as Mr.. Kirkley
notes, the last white volunteer or
ganization was disbanded November
| Is, 1867, and the last colored regi-
ment December 20. 1867, while the
last officer of the volunteer general
staff was not mustered out until
July l, 1869.
Yet, careful as the examination Of
the records has been, one lack rend-
ers it still far from complete. The
death registers of some of the largest
prisons at the South used tor the
confinement of Union soldiers are
missing. For the prisons at Aneri-
Gus, Atlanta, Augusta, Charleston,
Lynchburg, Macon, Marietta, Mobile,
Montgomery, Savannah, Shreven-
port and Tyler the registers have
not been secured at all, and the i'm
portance of these prisons is well
known. Only partial records were
had from the prisons at Catawba,
Columbia, Florence, S. c. Miller and
Salisbury. There have been ways
it is true, of partly working up these
deficiencies but on the other hand
as quartermaster General Meigs,
cited by Mr.. Kirkly, has shown, in
many Southern prisons three or
four corpses of Union prisoners
were sometimes buried in the same
trench and the number Of graves
only imperfectly indicates the num-
Der OF dead. Even in this most i'm
perfect record the number of Union
soldiers known to have died in cap
tivity was close upon thirty thous-
and-in exact figures, 29,409. The
late investigation, we may add, has
increased by about one-sixth the
records of deaths among Uuion pris-
oners
Taking Mr.. Kirkley's tables, we
derive from them the following gen.
eral results:
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

CINCINNATI, June 10.-Schneider,
who is in the Hamilton, Ohio. Jail,
sentenced to be hanged June 18th,
for killing his mother, confessed to-
day to the jailor and his spiritual ad-
wiser. He saia his mother had
threatened to poison his wife, and
had asked him to let her live with
him He agreed, but at supper a
quarrel arose and his mother de-
manded to be taken 70 the railroad
station. He took her, and on the
way she said that if his wife was
dead she would have . home. This
maddsned him, and he struck her
on the head nth . stone, and car
ried her of apd buried her. He
then invented the story that 2 tramp
met them and nurdered his mother
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

Avoid by all meahs the use of cal
omel for bilious complaints. Ayers
Cathartic Pills compounded entirely
of vegetable Ingredients, have been
tested for forty years, and are &C.
knowlsdged to be the best remedy
ever devised for torpidity Of the liv-
er, costiveness, and all arrangements
Of the digestive apparatus.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

More people, adults and. children,
are troubled with costiveness than
with any other ailment DR.. Henry
.Baxter's Mandrake Bittefs will cure
costiveness and prevent the diseases
which result from it. For Sale by
c. N. Boyd, the Druggist, Somerset,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The Sexton Of Nsw York church
has crank in his pew by turning
which be regulates the temperature
Of the house during service.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The Society has written, during the past tvsn-
ty yeAr< an aggregate Amount ef nrw assurance
larger than has been written by any oth8 con-
p2ny in the world.
The surplus fund Of the Soocisty on . four per
cent vAlrafisD, n larger than that Of ony other
life insurance company IN the world
TaE EQuIrABrE LzTE ASSURANCE SOCIETY L.
sues plain and simple Contract Of assurance free
from burdensone and technical conditions, and
1NDISPuTABLE after three years- All poll
eies, as soon a. they t~come indiPutab1e, are
payable INMEDfATELY upon snsisfsstpry
proof Of death, and legal release, vffhout the
delay usual with oth8r companies. BY this
rRonrr rArnrsr; the oeeenciary o. an Eq.its-
ana expensee. bat receives pecunia,y fefief -
quickly ~ n the amount ofthe assurance had
been invested In boud Of the 9overnmens Of the
United Ststes-
w. Frank Gaul,
Special Agent for Somerset Co.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

nm mn q p<srzfs gfrss sBsg send -
ftllI tiltI Ieents pessaKe and Dy na1 yog WI
lvVluuuget free package OF goods q lasEe
Eelu-. that will start you In work
a. slh Al once hrinx you IN mouey faster than
aaylAiEg else IL America All about the $500 0oo
"a =. lreserts With each tox. Agents wanted every
1le o. either sex, Of all ages, for all the time,
- slAfe TINE oniy. 70 work ror uslat their own
~ ~ Fortunes for all workers absolutely as
1.ne e ta88
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-15

Pittsburg Chroncle-T telegraph.
One of those singular incidents of brute intel
lgence that now and then cause men to pause
and ponder upon the inscrutable mysteries of
creation occurred recently in the city of Allie
gheny. A gentleman residing there had two
very intelligent dogs which he has trained to work
in tread-mill that runs his wife's sewing ma
chine, thereby relieving her of that labor. The
dogs take turn about at it, one working in the
morning and one in the afternoon. The lady
was recently making masquerade ball costume
which, of course, she carefully guarded all know-
edge of from her female friends One
lady especially had tried every means to
find out what the costume would
be, and an absolute enmity had grown
up between the two. The other day one of the
dogs was taken sick and the morning dog had to
do double duty. TO this he strenuously OBJ
jected, but was whipped until he did the work
At the masquerade bali few nights afterwards
the lady was deeply chagrined to see her rival
wear costume identicaly the same as her own
How she could have got the pattern remained a
mystery until the ladies became friends again
and the facts leaked out 1t seems the dog
knew of his mistresss desire to keep her costume
a secret, and, resentful for the extra work inn
posed upon him, had watched his opportunity
and taken the pattern TO her rival in his mouth.
After it had been inspected aud copied he had
returned it to its place, under the sewing ma
chine box, and carefully placed the scissors and
thimbe upon it as they had been. 1t really
looks beyond the power OF instinct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-15

erages "a to 25 ibs, 9alc cottage hams, 7ase;
California hams, 7aac; English breakfast bacon,
clear Ii i2c English shoulders. 6a4c for light 6lsc
for heavy; family shoulders pieces averaging 6 to
10 lbs &c; dried beef 1jc: bacon clear Sides light
medium weight &c. telies, do Sc; backs. do. 7alc;
French fitch, lib pieces, 7c Dry Sailed and Picked
McatsEnglish cured clear sides or backs (unsrnoked
714c; bean pork (clear) y brl 200 lbs, $3.50; clear
pork " brl 200 lbs SD family pork tcear) ~ brl 200
lbs $12; family beef ~ brl 200 bs $18; also in u
brs containing 100 lbs, at half the price of the bar
rels with Soc added, to additional cost Of
package Iard-Pure settlerendered in tierces size;
also in z brs and Sob tubs a6c advance price of
terces 4S ID tin tubs and 20 ID pals BE advance;
10 ID pals, lac advance. SaasageBologna in CLOTH
6ioc in skin, 7c
SEEDS.
TIMoTHY-$1. 500175 ~ bu; clover S5052 %
" bu bluegrass, extra clean Kentucky ST al 70
y bu red top 75c0$1 U bu orchard grass 81 500
l.75 " bu owing to quality.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
MONEY AND STOCKS.
Eew York Operators Make a Fruitless Effort
to Secure an Advance.

Eew York Operators Make a Fruitiess Effort
to Secure an Advance.
New YoRK, March I4.-Money, 1G1a per
lent; offered at the close at per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 405 per cent.
Sterling exchange dull; sixty days, $4S3s;
light, s4s6.
Governments dull; four per-cents showed a
decline of / per cent. and the remainder were
unchanged.
Railway bonds dull and irregular.
State securities quiet and steady.
The stock market was very dull ali day. The
sbuIlS operators, at the opening, made
IN effort to advance prices, but
hey found the supply of stocks
larger than they expected. and the effort was
abandoned After slight reaction followed again
by stronger quotations, prices became steady,
and the fluctuations throughout the remainder
Hf the day were within very narrow limits.
There is still great deal of speculation regard
ing the next St Paul dividend.
Transactions 157, 600 shares to-wit: Lack
awanna IS 000 Lake Shore 13 000 Northwestern
10000, New York Central % coo, ST Paul 5000,
Western Union 5000.
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THE SIDEWALK LOAFER.


A Specimen of the Men Who Make Up the
Anarchists Gang. ask ~ -.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. ss--.
sHow do you manage to existl" / asked one
of these men, whom frequent sight had made
familiar. He showed his teeth in a broad grin.
"We manage it, he said evasively. -.se5 e434
"Come." said, tell me the secret of this
thing. Here you are every day, from morning
until night. You never work and you never
seem to be hungry Who are these men,-what
are theyl' ,.r.s u, .--s 81
Again the broad grin.
'sYou know as much as do I've been hang
ing around this corner all winter, and I'm blessed
if l know two men in the whole gang" asss,se
How about yourselfF a...s.
That's another matter; but even that's not
long story. I'm wire-worker by trade and
used to work at divers. There was some
trouble in the shop last fall and i went out
That settled me for the winter That's your
story"
"What have you been doing for living dur
ing the winter2" t- -, gas9s .5
Nothing"
"What do you live on9"
"Oh, there's generally bite at homen
"Who gets itp s4<ss = .s4r -
''The old woman"
s"rhe old womanW
"Yes-my wife"
"Worksl"
"Yes' with almost a tinge of pride in his
voiceG she's one of the smartest washerwomen
in Pittsburg. She's -"
] interrupted him.
"Aren't you ashamed to let your wife works"
He looked at me in surprise.
ashamed Not much. Why, it's woman's
place to help a man when he gets out Of work.
Don't you think so"
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Evansville . Terre Haute RaiIrOad.
Via Vandalia Line.l

Via Vandalia Iine.)
Leave Indianar lis .t715 am 11:55am p, 10 40 pms
Leave Terre Haute tl04o am, 800 pm p, 400 ANS
Ar. at Evansville -i400 pm, 700 pm p I;Zo am .
Leave Evansville . 1905 am 1890 am p, B. 70 pms
Ar az Terre Haute 1000 arn, 2:17 pmp, 1859 pms
Ar. at Indianapolis 1880 pm, 4;4o pm p 800 am 8,
tDaily except Sunday. All other trains daily. r.
parlor car; $, sleeper.
ViaI & st. T.. Ry.)
Leave indianapolis. f1:lO am, 1885 pna
Ar. at Evansville. ,f4:00 pm 7:05 pm p, THO am
Leave Evansville ia 05 am, 1890 am p S:15 pm
Ar at Terre Haute 1000 am, I'll pmp, ll;59 pm
Ar at indianapolis rs: 10 pm, 6:25 prnp $40 ams
{ tI,aily except Sunday. All other trains dali =
parloT Car; ., sleeper.
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nshed by Elliott s. Butler absracters of titles room
No. 3. Etna Building: ..~ s.se 90 .-
Kate II. Root and husband to Ellsworth
L. Olcott lot Al in Edwards subdivis
ion of square 10 in Johnson's heirs
addition to indianapolis 100000
Louisa ID. Seibert and husband to Annie ev
nj. Knannlein, part of lot 279 in Amasa
Stone ct al g subdivision of outlots 60
81 and the south half of 81, in Indian
apolis Northumberland. $4,000
Frederick Detz and wife to Frank Men
ges, lot So in Vajens subdivision of
part of outlet I0S in Indianapolis 49, $4,000
Sylvanus Jackson and wife to Martha f..
Smith, part of the west half of the
northeast quarter of section "a town
ship IL north, range east.-.-,. 675.OO
Asa q. Pettibone and wife to Mary E.
Rusie, lots As and 40 in Pettbone &
Richards Highland Home addition to
John J. Sullivan and wife to Alice i. Be- o'o'oo
hymer lot 4 in Davis Allen &c Lingen- @ -
felter's subdivision of lot or block 81 in
Hanna & Hanways Oak Hill addition
William G.. Lockwood and wife to f. NJ
Snelhouse lots and 2 in James Fran.
cess subdivision of lot So in Fletcher's
fourth Brooksde addition to Indianap-
obs. 10000
William Tolin to Benton T. Tolin. part Of
the east half of the southeast quarter of
section 20, township II north range 2
east, containing 81 acres, more or less;
also, part of the east half of the north
east quarter of section %, township II
north, range east, containing 4 63 100
acres. 10000
Matthew ID. watson and wife to Eliza L.
Newcomb, lot 2 in William Sullivan ct
al, commissioners, subdivision, in In
dianapolis. 1OOO. 90
Charles f. Coffin and wife to Lukas Hull
bing lot 90 in S. Yandes's subdivision
of the east part of outiot 129, in In
dianapolis. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
The In dianapolis Thil Coupling Company O0'OO
to William III. Nedlinger part of the
west half of the southwest quarter of
section 30, township II north range 2
east containing 2 26-100 acres. 100000
James Nelson and wife to the Indianap-
oils Thrill Coupling Company, part of
the west half of the southwest quarter
of section 30, township II north range
east containing 2 20 100 acres. 5000. 90
Peter r. Straupe ct al. to Frederick W.
Schake lot 168 in Phebe II. Daugh-
erty subdivision of outlot 80 in Indian.
ap6is. ;: - 10000
Frances E. Gibson ct al. to Charles W.
Shearer, part of the east half of the
southwest quarter of section 81 town
ship g north, range east .--..:. 1925. 90
The Citizens National Bank of Indianap-
oils to Volney T. Malott, part of lot 5
in square 65, in indianapolis. AZ SOC. 90
Conveyauces Is; consideration. =. S64, $4,000
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The Editor and the Cats.

Albuquerque On. NJ Journal.
Once more let us remark--and we do it as
calmly as we can under the crcumstances--if
some man woman don't keep those darned,
internal cats from off our front porch there's
going to be row in this locality that will result
in breaking the heart of every old maid in the
Territory. There were seventy-four cats on
foot porch from Ii o'clock last night until
o'clock this morning and all you could hear was
''mey aw, spit, spit, come over in our yard, let
60 my tail, me aw, y-a-a, y-a-w." Darn a
cat ANYWAY
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Looked on the Bright Side.

Texas Siftings. ~
AS DR.. Blister was driving out in the suburbs
of Austin a lady ran out of a house, and, hating
the Doctor asked: Doctor, how is old Mrs.
Peters coming on?'
"She is sick woman, but think she will pull
through all right" replied the Doctor
"You do! Why, her son-in-law, Bill Smith,
told me there was no chance whatever for her
recovery"
''Well, you see he is hopeful kind of fell
low. He's always looking on the bright side of
things
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Toronto Globe.

IOTUHCU GIOUt.
Two Polish religionists were on a journey
on hot summer day. Have you anything
with you, Matthiasw yes, a bottle of Hunga-
dry tongue" Good. Then we will divide our
provisions" ''Very goodl Begin Matthias
produced bottle of wine from his wallet, and
its contents were honorably divided. After this
had been DONE Matthias, wiping his mouth,
asked his fellow traveller to bring out his provis-
ions. '.IY' answered Tiloff ''Why, yes your
dry tongue" II haven't got one nowl' was the
reply
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They Clasped Hands.

New YORK TAI
Popular Preacher--"Ah, Mr.. McGin, / was de-
lighted to see you among the congregation of my
church the other night. hope it will not be the
last time"
Mr.. McGin-''No, sor, I'm fur you now all the
time, and if yez wants any help fur missions OF
anything just you call on me-
II cannot tell you how surprised and pleased /
am at this sudden reformation. What do you
think of my series of sermons against roller
skatingp ss M 80
First class. That's why 7 am fur you"
Thanks. You see these ungodly Kinks have
nearly emptied my prayer meetings. .r.f. ag4
''Yis, be jabbers, and they've entoirly emptied
me Saloons