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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13
A Pleasant Acquaintance.


He was fresh from the wilds of the
Southern country, where every man
has a record of dead. | knew him
when he was Major; now he is a
miner, with bullets in his tangled
hair and extinct craters all over him.
A place in his left ear would be rse-
ful tp hold a pen if his hand had
not accustomed itself to the use of
the revolver. The pen may be
mightier than the sword but it isn't
a patch on the revolver. "Yes," he
said Its a nice life-a real nice,
pleasant,agreeable life. Texans carry
their lives in their hands most of the
time. They carry other peoples in
their belts or their boots or down
the back of their neck. I would
like you to come down there" 81
thank you very much" "Yes: I'd
like to introduce you to an old
gentleman there, as genial an old
man as you ever met" "a Texan ?"
Yes but he's so kindly natured a
man I'm sure you'd like him. /
made his acquaintance under very
peculiar circumstances. He had
Just arrived. He came up to me and
said: Your names - Yes, sir.
that's my name They tell me
you're awful good You don't tell
me- Yes, they tell me you're aw-
full good. / think III just take shot
at you myself And the old gen.
tleman. in the most genial way,
stepped back little piece and fired.
1 wasn't scared. | walked up to
him and / handed him nv Gsttling.
Here. said /, you try this. That
gun of yours cant bit anything 1t
broke him all up and he's been one
of my best friends ever since. Come
down and meet him."
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13
A Queer Libie Suit.

AsBURY PARK, Dec. 31.-Wesley
B. Stout young attorney of this
place, has begun a suit for $1,000
damages for alleged libel against the
Rev. Thos. Hanlon, President of
Pennington Seminary. Young
Stout was student there a year ago
and was charged by DR.. Hanlon
with being concerned in some viola
tions of disciDline The Doctor pub
licly suspended Stout without giving
him any reason or hearing any de-
fence hence the suit. Stout has
engaged Senator Winfield and
Judge Hoffman of Jersey City to
appear for him.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13

A small family can live for a day
on these purchases. The coffee will
be sufficient for a big potful, and
the tea is enough for two drawings.
The rice and raisins make a small
pudding. The stale bread will serve
for a meal, and there is enough su-
gar to sweeten the tea and coffee.
Inc onions, potatoes and barley,
with the addition of a beef-bone
or piece of meat and a penny bunch
OF pot-herbs. will make a stew or
soup. There is enough soap TO
wash the dishes aud scrub the child
rens faces, enough oil and wick to
last all night. a scuttle of coal and
wood to kindle the fire in the morn
ing Then there are lard, molasses.
and the rext thing to butter, oleo-
margarine, and the two good-sized
pickles for a relish. The penny
groeers buy small stale loaves for a
half cent each and retail them at a
cent. Medium-sized stale loavesI
cost them one and half cents and
sell at two cents, and large stale
loaves they sell at three cents. The
coal they sell is coal-yard sweep
ings screened, and contains a good
deal of slate.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13
clean Hands.

According to the fearful expert
ments of DR.. Forster of the Italian
Medical Gazette, there is no such a
thing as the possibility of clean
hands on anybody Washed with
soap and water, with earbolic acid,
with all and any of the disinfect-
ants in common use, our hands will
still remain scientifically unclean /;
that is to say that preparation call
ed sterilized gelatine, absolutely des-
titute of living organisms, on being
touched by the fingers thus washed
and supposed to he clean, immedi-
ately develop living organism acquir-
ed from the fingers. But if the
hands be washed in a dilute solu-
ton of bichloride of mercury, or
corrosive sublimate, one part to 1000
parts OF water, perfect cleanliness is
attained, and no living organisms
are developed by the touch Of the
fingers. 1t is pitiful TO think that
we are so palpably made of the dust
of the earth but it seems that we
must endure it, since corrosive sub
Innate can hardly be made the ad-
junct of our daily toilets, and if it
were. then the next time we shook
hands, or took up a book, or went
into the street, we should but devel
op fresh crop of micro organisms.
TIE fact is that these discoveries of
science show us, If they do nothing
else, how fearfully and wonderfully
we are made. and if we regarded
them seriously, there is nothing we
could eat and nothing we could do
which would not make death seem
to hang imminent in the air. There
is only one refuge for the unscientif-
ic, and that is in whistling the whole
matter down the wind, keeping clean
to the best of belief, and letting the
micro-organisms take care of them
selves.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13

DIR. Dio Lewis declares that no.
water will cure every complaint thai
human flesh is heir TO, yet all the
same a good deal Of complaint GOMEZ
from people who get into hot water
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13

What l told my Wife" is the it'll
of new book. 1t is almost need
less to say that it is fiction.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13

A popular air with the ladies'
Sweet buy and buy"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13

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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-01-13

y ]. KooS.EEIRs; SCI ;rv..rLAw,
Somerset, Pa.
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I0HN R. SCOTT,
Somerses, Pa.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14

the county. A County Executive
Committee should be formed from
among the best and most energet-
ic men in the county, who favor
our cause, and this Committee
should see that each district in the
county is thoroughly organized, I
would also urge that the Prohibi-
tionists in every county immedi-
ately correspond with Frank Burt,
Secretary of the State Executive
Committee, at Warrington, West
Virginia, for instructions how to
organize the county and the dis
tricts. A thorough organization of
the friends of Prohibition will
prove the sheet anchor of success.
No great movement like the pro-
hibition of the Liquor Traffic, can
succeed without thorough organ
ization.
While Prohibition has made rap
id progress during the past year,
and there is much in the present
outlook to cheer and quicken its
friends to greater activity, yet we
cannot hope to reach the final
triumph without a thorough organ
ization of our forces. The liquor
dealers association has organized
the two old parties into one liquor
party, and to counteract this liquor
party, We must organize compact
aggressive Prohibition party
There can be but two parties touch.
ing this liquor question one for
and the other against the Saloon.
The Republican and Democratic
parties are for the Saloon; the Pro-
hibition party is against the sa-
loon.
Which will you choose, a Saloon
party or the Prohibition party2
The choice mast be made.
J. U. MYERS.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Prohibition In Louisiana.


NEW ORLEANS, July 2. SO
The elections this week in vari-
Gus cities and counties of this State,
in which the question of Prohibit
ton was voted upon, show the fol-
lowing results: Copiah county,
which has always been noted for
the great prevalence of drunken
ness, gave the Prohibition ticket
abont 1000 majority. During the
voting all business was suspended.
The town of Crystal Springs gave
$50 majority for temperance, and
in the neighboring towns on the
river majority of 1000 was given
against liquor selling. At Calves
ton, after the election, guns were
fred for the victory, and in the
evening mass meeting was held
and a mock funeral performed
personifying the burial of
King Alcohol. In the town of
Beauregard and Wesson there
were only thirty votes in favor of
whiskey, and the people in both
places held "joy meetings" The
people now claim that the money
formerly spent for rum will go to
establish schools.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Organize Organize !
Let County Conventions be Called.
ED. FREEMAN

ED. FREEMAN
Let the friends of Prohibition i'm
mediately adopt the advice of the
State Executive Committee Of the
Prohibition party of West Vir-
ginia, and organize the party in ev-
cry county in the State by calling
a mass Convention of all the peo-
pie of the county who favor the
Third party. l would suggest that
in each county where no organi-
cation has yet been effected, that
some good Prohibitionist draw up
Call for the mass Convention,
and get it signed by as many OF the
true and good men of the county
as possible, and have it published
in the county papers, and also IN
The FREEMAN, and use every effort
to secure a large attendance at the
Convention. 1t would be well for
the State Executive Committee to
furnish several good, reliable
and active Prohibitionists in each
county with circulars, giving
definite directions for organizing
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
The Effects OF the Rum Traffic
Insanity, Poverty, Crime.
g the Conscience Of the Nation Dead ?
From the Toledo Blade.

From the Toledo Blade.
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, of
New York, delivered an address,
on may 9Th, at the annual meeting
of the Massachusetts Law and Or
der League, held in Boston, in
which he used the following Ian
guage
"It is the conscience you must
touch, it is moral force that you
must create.
"Think of the cost of this traffic
to the State. During term of
seven years as Prosecuting lawyer
in the Federal service at New York
I have seldom, during these seven
years, known a case OF criminal vio-
lation of law by violence and force
of arms that was not either con-
ceived, or committed, or aggrava-
ted, by the use of intoxicating Ii
quor.
II have been present when the
chairman of the board that exam
ines jails, and poor houses, and asy-
lums of New York went through
those places; and 1 know it is the
simple testimony of thoughtful,
truthful people thatliquor, in some
form or other, is responsible for
three-fourths of the crimes Of vio-
lence, is responsible for three
fourths of the pauperism of the
State of New York.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Our Dayton Letter.
Notes and Notions about Politics.

The "Dow Law" is in the Judi
cial mill, and will be ground
through in the bye and bye. 1t is
causing a tempest in a teapot"
and Hoadly & Co. are to have
$4,000 for use of their profession
al brains while the case is pend
ing. The fraud and hypocrisy and
moral rottenness of the Saloon is
permeating nearly every depart
ment of life, and good men seem
to be utterly unconscious of that
sad fact.
But the greatest excitement in
Ohio has been caused by the action
of the Senate Committee to whom
was referred the "Payne case"
Thoughtful men of all parties here,
believe that there was the corrupt
use Of money in Payne's election ;
not less than $250,000 it is claimed
by those who ought to know. Two
candidates for the Presidency are
now disposed of. The friends of
Mr.Logan are much chagrined.
There is much division and
strife in the political parties and
the indications are that changes
will come, OF radical kind, in the
near future.
Prohibition is growing in every
State in the Union. With such
men as Fiske and Wolfe coming to
the front, the movement will have
increased power.
No man can forecast the political
future, for the reason that an over
ruling Providence, will have to do
with shaping it. There is no COM
fort in this to the mere politician,
but much to the patriot. The ten
thousand prayers Of the Christian
women of this country will be an
swered in the overthrow of the Sa-
loon and all its political friends.
These women are sneered at and
cursed by those who believe in
cred nose" politics, but their
sneers have no power to injure any
body but their authors.
The Dow Law has enabled one
village to obtain Prohibition and
this will be heralded everywhere
by those who are in favor of the
law.
Two thoughts are having more
recognition each month. The first is
that the Liquor Traffic, whether
sanctioned by the State or not, Is a
CRIMINAL business, and this fact is
being nailed down for all time.
The second is that whoever con-
sents to the traffic under a legal
form, is a moral partner in the bus
mess.
Whoever consents to the State
sanctioning by license or law, the
Liquor Traffic, puts into these
State slaughter houses, as capital,
his conscience. There is no get
ting away from this.
u. w.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
who are N0n-Partisan ?
DEAR BRO. LAsHER:

DEAR BRO. LAsHER:
From several articles in the J.
and NJ, the i'm preston is con-
yeyed that the only partisan work
done in dealing with the liquor
question is that done by the Prohi-
bition party, and that all other eff
forts are non partisan. This is far
from the facts in the case. In the
discussion of this question the
trouble usually lies in getting the
drink habit confounded with the
drink traffic. The drink habit is
a personal matter, and purely
moral question, and it must be met
by non-partisan arguments. l
know of no political party that
seeks to take this into politics.
Should you attend our Prohibition
State Convention in this city, July
% and 30, l know you would not
hear word advocating such a
course. But not so the question of
dealing with the liquor traffic.
This is and has been political
question these many years, as is
proven by license and tax laws,
regarding the traffic, for centuries
in this country and in the Old
World. The Democratic party
have a perfect right to champion
the plan of license, and the Repub-
lican party to take up the plan OF
taxing the traffic; and it is equal
ly true that the Prohibition party
has an undoubted right to champi-
on the plan of utterly prohibiting
the traffic in the State and nation.
The difference in the three par
ties lies simply in how they pro-
pose to deal with the traffic as a
party. The very nature of regula-
ton, by tax or license, is arrayed
against the plan of Prohibition.
No party that recognizes the traffic,
either as an ally or foe, can help
making its plan of dealing with
the traffic a political question.
There is no organization that has
or can blend these three plans into
one, and then call it non-partisan.
From their very nature they are
arrayed the one against the other,
and it makes no difference which
plan a man adopts, ne becomes, by
the adoption of such plan, par
tisan. It is no stigma to be called
a partisan, provided you are a par
tisan on the right side of any great
issue. But it must be quite I'M
comfortable to be identified with a
party which does not advocate and
represent your principles. Every
man should intelligently identify
himself with one of the three sys-
TENS of dealing with this monster
evil, the liquor traffic. But he CAP
not act without becoming parti-
san, as the several parties in Ohio
have announced their platforms,
and whichever plan he adopts, he
should accord to others the same
right that he claims for himself,
and not try to stigmatize one party
as partisan and falsely call the 9TH
ers non partisan, when each in its
chosen way is partisan.
Let every man be fully persuad-
ed in his own mind as TO which
party represents his principles, and
then conscientiously support such
party, without the abuse Of those
who may differ from him. eve
be all brethren" and have the
right to differ on political issues,
but have no right to remain igno-
rant, or to knowingly support a
plan that is an enemy to the Home,
and dishonor to God and His
Sabbath.
JOHN DANNER.
Canton, o., July 1, 1886.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Things that are Settled.
BY DR.. TALMAGE.

desire to say that some things
are in my mind settled about the
temperance movement. One is
that no President of the U. S.
will be elected for the next twenty
years without either the direct or
indirect consent of the Prohibition
lists. Another thing is settled,
that the only platform upon which
all sections, North, South, East,
and West, can stand in perfect ac-
cord is the Prohibition platform.
All sections equally invaded by
this common enemy, namely,
drunkenness; all good people Of
all sections are equally interested
in its overthrow. Another thing
settled: the temperance question
overshadows all other public
questions in Importance. 1t is
more than the Silver Bill, for it is
not question whether a vast null
titude shall lose twenty cents on
the dollar, but whether they shall
lose the whole dollar. More impor-
tant than the Tariff Bill, because
it discusses the lifting of the might
lest tax on ali our industries. A
greater question than any home
stead bill, because it protests
against the wholesale theft of
homesteads all over the land.
Greater than the Civil Service
question, because strong drink dis
qualities for Office more men than
are disqualified by all other causes
combined. Another thing is set
tied: new and competent and bril-
liant leaders are rising in all our
State Legislatures and in both
Houses of the American Congress,
and the brains and the eloquence
and the political acumen and the
moral worth of the nation are grad
ually taking sides for the peremp-
tory and eternal arrest of the liquor
traffic. While the three mightiest'
are gone-Horace Greedy and Will
liam e. Dodge and John B. Cough
their places are going to be taken
by men just as brave and just as
consecrated, and we hail the rising
sun of new and brigher day of
temperance advocacy. Another
question settled the bitter hostil-
ity to this movement and the mis-
representation in regard to it's lead
ers and the attack of news papers,
bought up body, mind, soul and
gizzard by the rum business, SO
far from retarding this heaven-de
scended cause, will only help it,
since no reform ever has succeeded
or ever will succeed until it has a
baptism of fire, and literary car
features and political hate are on
ly milestones on the way to victory.
Prohibition is born, and its wings
are spread for flight across this
land, and no power on earth can
crowd this Rocky Mountain eagle
back to its former shell.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14

Jerry Hayes, an employee of the
Belmont Blast Furnace, fell from
an elevator on Saturday, receiving
injuries from which he died in a
few hours.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14

A crazy man, with large knife
concealed in his clothes, was arrest
ed while seeking admission to the
White House on Sunday, July 4.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14

Portland, Maine, has just cele-
brated the hundredth anniversary
of its Incorporation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

The conversation drifted to publishers,
and he told me pleasant little story in
which Mr.. Moore, publisher of the Rural
New Yorker, was the benefactOr. A natur-
alist of considerable note resided in Ian
caster city at the time He owned a lit
tie home, had q profession, but was not
rich i'll this worlds goods. Mr.. Moore
used to send Ia him all queries in connec-
ton with obnoxious insects, etc. The
naturalist would make drawing of the
insect give its proper name, explain its
habits, peauliarities, etc, all of which
would appear in The Rural New Yorker.
One Chistmas morning the naturalist
said TO his daughter:
My dear, there is turkey in the stove
to be sure. but this 25-cent piece is all the
money have In the world. Not Il bright
outlook"
Presently a needy neighbor dropped
in to solicit aims, and the naturalist
promptly handed her the quarter. He was
big hearted man. dcvout Christian,
and with sublime faith i'll Providence.
daughter, the money will come back
To me four fold"
just then the postman handed III let
ter. The naturalist opened it and found
in it a check for $50.
1t was from Mr.. Moore, who wrote III
substance:
You have been very kind in preparing
those articles for us from time to time.
You, no doubt, regarded it as a labor of
love but we must ask you to accept this
check, not rs a complete compensation,
but rs a slight expression of our appre-
citation of the value of your work"
"There, Mary, what did 1 tell YOU" the
old naturalist cried, his eyes filling with
tears.
This is true incident, and should the
Lancaster dailies copy it they will have
no difficulty in supplying the naturalist's
name.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
THE HOUSEHOLD.


A sensible writer in an exchange says:
Il am convinced that at least one quarter
of the work performed by women is un-
necessary, and that the world would get
along quite as well without it." am in
clined to go further still, and put it at
One-half. Il never find time to read,
said lady at whose house | was calling,
and at the same time she sadly threaded
needle with chenille, and remarking that
some people had so much leisure, she con-
tinued her work of embroidery, impos-
.ible yellow peaches on a red plush mantle
scarf. II had not even the merit of econ
omy, for the materials were as expensive
as they were hideOus. Any work that
serves to make home charming and low
able place Is a sacred duty to wife and
mother; but that which contributes TO no
comfort or enjoyment, frightful fancy
work that has not even any artistic merit.
Is, indeed, waste of time and energy
busy idleness.H
Husbands undoubtedly like to feel that
their wives are good housekeepers, but
husbands are very human, and once let a
woman sink the wife in the housek eeper.
and her husband will very likely fall INTO
the same habit. The ''over-clean" woman
is a nuisance TO her family and friends. |
once overheard conversation between
two gentlemen in a street car. whose
wives belonged to the above class, and.
though estimable women, were about as
close to goodness as cleanliness could
take them.
1t was during the season of that annual
horror housekeeping, and they were
coudoling with each other upon its miser-
les. They both voted it an entirely IN
necessary evil. and one of them said that
during its progress at his house every
thing was so ives that he always felt as if
there was an incipient food, while his
friend said he could endure the water, it
was the smell of yellow soap that he oh
iected to.
woman should never allow herself to
become a mere household drudge, and
when she finds that she has no time to
read an occasional good book, to write =
letter to friend, TO read a story to the
children. or to walk or talk to her hus-
band, she may conclude that there is
something wrong somewhere In her
domestic economy, and the more quickly
she recognizes and remedies the evil. the
better it will be for herself and family.