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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
Farm and Garden.

Sore Backs.-Keep a watchful eye
for sore backs and shoulders among
the work horses. Should any occur
bath with carbolic acid and water,
and keep cloth wet with the solu-
ton on the gall until healed.
Calves,-The calf must have its
own shed, its own feed lot, its own
rations of grain, and its own rack of
hay. When supplied in this way,
with a proper amount of feed of good
quality, II will grow through every
month Of the year, and yield profit
to its owner.
Silos.-People are apt to build silos
too large and not deep enough. Six
square feet Of surface per cow per day
is about the right proportion to keep
the ensilage sweet. IL the sile is cut
down il Will injure ~ 1t comes TO the
air; they should feed the whole of the
crop Off every day.
Crops.-If the sowing of crop Il
not rightly done, all remaining labor
will bc in vain, 81 far as the effort to
produce full yield Is concerned. We
have seen men who leave this most
important operation wholly Ia hired
help. If there is any one thing that
the farmer should do himself, IL l. SOW
the seed.
The Boy.-The boy on the farm
will soon be the farmer. Ii is well
that his earliest impressions of the
calling TO which he belongs will be
such u to make him believe there IL
no place to live on like the farm, in.
stead of believing ii to he the place
from which he will escape as soon as
he i old enough,
Treatment,-Any animal that is
stunted in Its early youth will fail tn
make IL good an ultimate develops
ment ~ II would have done other
wise, no matter how much 1t i PAM
pered In later life. And whatever il
accomplished with it l. done at far
greater cost than would have been
the ease If il had been given fair
start.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
News Items.


\ Chinese soldier is paid 81 per month
and finds his own rations.
kept toll-gate several centuries ago.
There are still 40 ,Ooo bushels of 1873
wheat i'm store west of Winnepeg.
Dulcin, a new sweetening material, is
said to be 225 times as sweet as sugar. Ii
is used as drug only, and would be
dangerous on the dining table.
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the
throne of France, died at Stowe House,
! his London residence, NJ O'Clock Satur-
day morning, after long and painful ILL
ness. He served with distinction on the
staff of Gen. McClelland during the civil
war.
Ruth Brown Thompson, eldest daugh-
ter of John Brown, of Ossawatomie, Is
living ON ranch at Pasadena, Cal. She
is about 20 years old. but looks much
younger. She has been woman of
vigorous constitution. but is somewhat
broken in health now from a nervous
trouble.
During a political debate between ex-
Governor Wilson and Marshal Ninson,
on Trace Creek, i'm Wayne county,
West Virginia, on Tuesday night, a row
arose between the Camden and Wilson
followers. VIM. Frygel was shot fatally,
John Watts was stabbed i'm the thigh, and
Walter Hart was probably mortally
wounded.
a month ago Anderson Ferguson, an
old settler, of Grove township. ILL.,,
was found dead in field A considerable
SIM i'm cash, which he was known to
keep about the house. could not be found.
Finally, Mrs Ferguson, while hunting
for eggs, found in a hollow log glass
fruit jar, with tin top, covered with
clamps and containing over $1,000.
Louise Lease, the ll-ycar-old da tighter
of Aunt Mary Lease, shows that she has
inherited many ofthe traits of her mother.
In Topeka the other day she gathered one
hundred boys of the Reform school under
the trees and lectured them, telling them
they ought To behave. At the conclusion
she announced she would be a candidate
| for president some day and wanted them
% vote for her.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
INFLUENCE.

wonder Il eser a waNe ei'I,s out but Il presks
on a distant shore.
or fiiI any te-irs
rui the ftct-s of years
Arc stained through the cverrnore?
I wonder lever a day i born or an evening
10 twilight steals.
Bur they lrave q mark
Thrri' the gathering dark
Ia the point Of their golden wheels
wonder IL e,-era word Is said, or even a song
s. SUNG
Isuf their souls live on
When their sounds are gone
In the ralsre Of silence hunge
wonder Ir eAera life is lived but lis being
gives sweet 10 some,
But its hands teach still
Aud it, dream voice viii
speak after lis lips are dumts
And ~ il may be, thou forgotten one, when
the essis of thy life i filed,
That the world drinks up
Prom the shattered cup
Whatever and all that IS spilled,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
The Pottery Tree of Para.

One of the curiosities of Brazil is a
tree whose wood and bark contain so
much SILICA that they are used by pot
tiers. Both wood and bark are burned,
and the ashes are pulverized and mixed
in equal proportions with clay, produc-
ing very superior ware. The tree
grows TO height of 100 feet, but does
not exceed a foot in diameter. The
fresh bark cuts like sandstone, and
when dried is brittle and hard
DenlOresf lHdqazine.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
Appropriate.

a eountryman and his bride applied
AT the box office for tickets.
Orchestra chairs, parquet or family
circle?'' asked the ticket agent.
(which will it se, Marier?" said the
groom.
well" she replIe with blush,
"bein' a. how We're married now p'raps
il would be proper TO sit i'm the family
circle. y Tenas .Siffinas.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
That Tired Feeling

Is Il dangerous condition directly due
TO depleted or impure blood. 1t should
not be allowed to continue, as i'm its
debility the system is especially liable
10 serious attacks of illness. Hoods
Sarsaparilla i the remedy for such a
condition, and also for that weakness
which prevails AT the change Of sea-
son, climate or life.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
A Good Suggestion.

ROCHESTER,, n. Y.-John Davies o
this city, took severe cold and suffer
ed pain through the back and kidneys
His physician pronounced his case
gravel, and failed to help him. DIR.
David kennedy's Favorite Remedy
was recommended, and after taking
two bottles he considered himself
cured. 1t cures rheumatism and neu-
ralgia also.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
There is Danger in Delay

Since 1861 | have been a great suffer.
er from catarrh. | tried Ely's Cream
Balm and to all appearances am cured.
Terrible headaches from which had
long suffered are gone.-W. ]. Hitch
cock, late Maj L. ;. Vol and A. A.
Gen, Buffalo, y. Y.
Ely's Cream Balm has completely
cured me of eatarrh When everything
else failed Many acquaintance have
used il with excellent results.-Alfred
w. Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio.
Price of Crea IN Balm Is fifty cents.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
The Keystone Watch
Case Go. of Philadelphia,

the largest watch case manufactur-
ing concern i'll the world, is now
putting upon the Jas. Boss Filled
and other cases made by it, bow
(ring) which cannot be twisted or
pulled off the watch.
1t is sure protection against the
pickpocket and the many accidents
that befall watches fitted with the
old-style bow, which is simply held
in by friction and can be twisted off
with the fingers. 1t is called the
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19

If young an old persons would
spend half the money in making 9TH
ers happy which they spend in dress
and useless luxury, how much more
real pleasure it would give them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19
TRUE & CO., Box 400,
Augusta, Maine.
IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS,

TIE cream Of the country papers is found
in Remington's County Seat Lists. Shrewd
advertisers avail themselves of these lists, q
copy Of which can be had OF Remington
Bros. of New York & Pittsburg.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19

For nltcs, maps. &c, go tn Ticket Agent or
address TlIn- f.. Watt, Z. \. W. d., ITO Filth
Avenue, PittSbGrg, Pa
=. VI. Provost, j. r. Wood.
Genl Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19

The recommendation OF
Armstrong & HcKelvy,"
"9sy,ner-Bauman,"
"D1vis-ChanDers."
Fahnestock,
to you by your merchant is an
evidence Of his reliability, as he can
sell you cheap ready-mixed paints
and bogus White Lead and make a
larger profit. Many short-sighted
dcalers do so.
For CoIoRs.--National Lead Co.'S Pure
White cad Tr.tius: CGlnIs. oEe-pouDd can To
2s-pound keg cf Lead aud mix your own
pants. Saves time and annoyance in matching
shades. asd ;nSi.Tes tie beSt pant that u II
iess,blr TO PIT On wood.
Send Us q postal card and get our book ON
p,srGs and color-s sard, free; !; Will probably
save you good many dollars.
NATIONAL LEAD co New York
PstisbErg Branch.
German National Bank Building, PttSo1rR.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-19

Hoods Pills are purely vegetable,
carefully prepared from the best ingre-
dients. pc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12
No Chance in That Profession.

Mr. Shollicks was very angry.
Some one had broken his favorite
meerschaum, and replaced it in It's
case. He questioned his wife and
the servants about it, but they alike
professed TO be unaware that it had
happened.
Presently his only son came in.
George" said his excited parent,
do you know anything about his
broken pipe?"
Father" sobbed the lad, IL cannot
tell a lie. Forgive me, father II
was / who did it. l cannot tell a
lie. Forgive me, father! 1t was ]
who did it. l cannot tell lie!
Mr.. Shollicks patted the boys
head, in intimation that the offense
was forgiven, and then rushed from
the house to melt into an agony OF
tears.
But 1t was not the SCATTERING OF
his meerschaum that distressed him
now. He had quite forgotten it. A
worse thing had befallen him.
Heaven help me-" he moaned.
@Ever since my son was born it has
been my ambition, my dearest wish,
TO rear him for my own profession;
and now-and now! Oh, it is a
cruel blow!"
For NJ. Sholllcks was lawyer
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12
Apply the Proper Remedy.

It is evident from the present condi-
ton of labor that a great and distress
ing change has been and is en- ing.
To make a mistake in deciding why
this condition of industrial unrest and
idleness has set in would make matters
wo SO. To fairly understand what
the trouble is intelligent action can be
taken.
The Democratic party proclaimed
the old Calhoun doctrine of free trade.
The people elected them on that issue.
AS soon as this was done business adj
justed itself for the change. 1t meant
the destruction of our industries or a
heavy reduction in wages. To look
elsewhere 70 the diseass and to apply
any other remedy than protection will
only prolong the disaster,
We are in the midst of what our
past experience teaches us would re.
suit from the electi n of a party tc
power that would abandon the pro
tective policy. After lSl6, after 1885
ard after 1864 tell the same story.
Everywhere an abundance of every.
thing to add TO our pro perity except
work for our people. Without protec.
ton work for the American laborer al
American wages has never been, and
will never be, found. The party that
will not give us protection cannot give
us prosperity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

hand bags and fine leather goods
made in America are more durable
and for general taste quite as fine as
those made in England and France,
A well-known theatrical man, and he
is certainly good authority, states
that the best trunks in the world are
made in Chicago. The life of good
trunk from the jobber is limited from
one to three years, but there are
plenty Of trunks that have been pur-
chased there that have seen five to
fifteen years active service. There
are we'll preserved old sole leather
heirlooms that have seen half a cent
ury Of wear, but it has naturally been
intermittent.
The Worlds Fair furnished a par
ticularly fine showing in our favor.
Compared with loose-woven hampers
Of England, the snowy French trunks
in Checkered patterns with frail brass
trimming, the antique, raw-hide,
carved boxes from Brazil, our trunks
ranked easily first In point Of light
ness, convenience and durability. So
much for the grand trunk center.
CHAs. Il. NIXON.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

titles brought in from other points.
The market extends into New York
on the East and covers the entire
West to Asia, Africa and Australia.
While the business in Chicago is
comparatively new, mum Der OF
trunk makers have grown rich enough
to retire. OF course, there are
trunks; and again there are trunks;
and it may be remarked without fear
or favor, the vast majority OF them
are short-lived; the intense rigor OF
their exercises would knock out the
most robust constitution, and many
trunks have outward show, rather
than great structural strength.
Hence the merriment OF the baggage
smasher and the activity OF the
trunk producer. The great Ameri.
can public must have trunks and
plenty of them, for there are multi
tudes Of trunk-dwellers in this land
OF the free.
When our ancestors sailed over
from England they brought with
them great supply Of chests. AS
Chester was place noted for carved
chests perhaps some Of the most ar
tistIc came from that section, but
they were most noted as features for
household adornment rather than for
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

their peripatetic powers. 1t Is his
torical fact that our good grand
fathers travelled with saddle-bags
long before Saratogas were dreamed
of; their sons began TO assume the
coaching aud canal boat facilities,
convenience OF the carpet-bag, and
the dignity Of the portmanteau, and
eventually dropped into the raw-hide
trunk habit. This in brief Is the
genesis OF the fashion that has in
spired the great industry OF to-day,
under consideration. Common leather
hand bags, or patent veneered paper
hand bags, may be had cheap enough
of the jobbers. The finer goods OF
fancy feathers, alligator, seal, Rus
sian. or lizard, may be furnished with
gold, silver, ivory, or pearl fittings to
cost upward OF 81 900.
When it became fashionable to
take cuttings" at summer resorts,
the demand for trunks grew cor
respondingly, and the Saratoga with
the swell top swept into fashion after
the war. Even in the earlier days,
when sole-leather trunks and port
manteaus were the proper and sen.
sible style, base limitations began to
creep IN, and a Philadelphia firm
began to make buf-leather trunks
strengthened with fiat steel ribs.
Back in the '40's, the majority Of
trunks were made from pine and
whitewood covered with muslin. This
was lamp BACKED, coated with var
nish, and bound in green bands with
bright brass rivets. Prior to this
was the old hair-covered trunk (hides
tanned with hair on), with red leather
trimmings, then followed the sheep
skin trunk era; then came split
from sheep, russell creased, bound
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12
A Change OF Vote.

Among the larger number of people
who voted for free-trade in 1892, there
were many thousands of foreign-born
citizens who had never experienced
the dire results of a Democratic adj
ministration. They had arrived here
during period of prosperity caused
by tho enactment OF the Republican
Protective policy. They had not
known disaster in this country, and
they did not fully appreciate the
prosperity that they met with here in
comparison with the poverty which
they had left behind them. We be-
lieve the striking object lesson"
through which they have pa sed dur
ing the last eighteen months will
prove very efficient instructor in
their polit cal education in this
country, which has dealt so kindly
and with so lavish a hand to all who
were willing to come and share its
fate and fortune. They will vote
differently in November.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

steele girl, the bride OF yesterday,
mothers with frightened little ones
clinging TO their skirts, and patri-
archs with silver hair, all mingle in
the restless throng that have peopled
the train. Up next to the locomotive
that stands languidly putting on the
track after its long run is the bag
gage car, filled with travellers, mani
mate, but quite individual In their
way, all having the distinction
of check in addition to a
name painted or tattOoed with
tacks on their person. Now the
luggage van in Europe is very
different from the baggage car in
America. Our trans-Atlan tic cous-
ms travel, comparatively speaking,
baggage light; pair Of porters (per-
sonally conducted) carry the hampers
and the little fiat trunks from the
baggage room to the van, carefully
depositing it, and the car man there
upon decorates the end Of the trunk
with little "paster" indicating its
destination. Here in America we
rush into a baggage-roOm, shout at
the imperturbable attendants, try TO
railroad three or four trunks through
on a single ticket, frown audibly
when the bags and boxes were
dumped in the scales and we get a
bill for excess" over $50 pounds Of
personal baggage. Then we pocket
our jingling brass checks, and let
those trunks alone until we arrive in
the place of destination, possibly
1000 miles away.
In the interim that blessed bag
gage has many adventures that no
society for prevention Of cruelty
takes cogniZance of; it is thumped
and banged, compressed and crushed,
flung about, the sport Of the cyclonic
baggageman, WHO appears TO take a
demoniacal delight in toying with his
charges. The little brown paper
trunk with tin trimmings, that be-
gan its travels in New York with
great steel-Shod sample trunk, is suf-
fering from acute appendicitis when
It reaches Chicago, and by the time
it is flung out in Kansas City it is In
almost complete state OF collapse.
The humanitarian who presides over
the baggage departments OF the Union
Depot in that city has almost made
a fortune in the Samaritan-like act Of
"roping" shattered trunks. 1t takes
q stalwart TO get away frem his
bailiwick without getting % cents
worth Of rope at every throw
This wear and tear OF travelling
paraphernalia neceSSitates large
sources of supply. Chicago is the
great center Of travel; last year
Frank Parmelee handled in transit
over half million trunks. 1t is per-
haps interesting to know that right
here is the greatest trunk and trav-
cling supply center in the world.
Over million trunks and handbags
are manufactured in Chicago each
year, exclusive Of the enormous guam
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

not guarantee to carry dynamite, bu
he can pack his hunting trunk with
a veritable arsenal, most inviting in
its internal arrangement. Devices
for the comforts Of all conditions OF
travellers have been studied out and
elaborated in detail, all subservlent
to strength and simplicity. There
is trunk for everything nowadays,
from the giant samplers, with an
assortment of fine watch movements,
TO the bulky bicycle. While we were
going to Europe for locks and find
ings twenty years ago, the European
trunk men are now adopting Ameri-
can Improvements and devices. The
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

and trouble of time and are still
bravely going the rounds. Very few,
If any, genuine sole-leather trunks
have been made in this country in
the past fifteen years. The trunks
from 1850 to 1860 seldom exceeded
80 inches in length. In the next
decade, the Saratoga period, they
expanded from SO to ~ inches in
length and were % to 30 inches deep,
and in order to be distinctly swell"
had back hum )ed like dromedary.
This justly aroused all the pent-up
enmity Of the baggage master, and
he has never quite recovered from it.
The fashion In trunks changes al
most every five years; the immense
arched top tin trunk, so popular a
few years ago. is now archaic, and
the flat-topped canvas-coyered trunk
is the proper thing, with the carriage
and steamer trunk in favor. Even
the veteran sole-leather trunk is not
proof against voracious and mischiev-
Gus rats and mice. 1t is remarked
that well-made trunks from here have
defled the assaults of the terrible ants
Of equatorial Africa, one Of the best
tests that could be put upon them.
The heaviest trunks are carried by
the jewelry drummers. They are so
well framed and securely bolted and
cross-riveted that they might fall off
a sky-scraper without breaking. The
trunks of commercial travellers are
built to battle with the world. and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

England, with an increase of popula-
ton 8. 10 per cent. in 1893 over 1886.
had in value an increase of agricul-
tural imports, apart from corn, 42.S PER
cent; flour, 1876 per cent; and wheat,
oats, and barley some 20.9 per cent
together in value over $40, 100000 OF
an increase. The idea was that in pur-
chasing from abroad, the people they
bought it from would in return buy
English manufactures but this is COM
pletely falsified. 1t seems past strange
that England should continue such q
foolish, one-sided policy when the
clearest evidences on every side are
against it.
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The Rooster He Wore on His Hat.

lhc ispoSteF no NOf0 On hha9
Come pause for awhile In your play.
My boy.
Aud put down your ball and your bat
Attend 10 me well
While "A story i tell
My boy.
Aud the rooster he wore on his hat.
his man was u laborer skilled,
My boy.
Contented and happy thereat;
For his job was secure,
And his wages we're sure,
But his heart with longing was filed,
My boy,
For a rooster to wear on his hat
One day some demagogues came.
My boy,
(For demagogues read Democracy
And spouted and brayed
In behalf OF free trade,
TIL they set all his fancy ahame,
My boy.
For a rooster to pin on his hat
He whooped like an I'm beetle loon,
My boy,
For candidate fussy and fat.
Whose inflated renown
Soon collapsed and came down,
And 1t fell like punctured balloon,
My boy.
On the rooster that sat on the hat
Now his partsans float In the soup,
My boy,
Along with the bill they begat
The cuckoos all sigh
For their vanishing pie;
And the rooster Is sick with the roup.
My boy.
Poor rooster that rode on the hat
And poverty sits in the seat.
My boy.
Where competence formerly sat,
And the La boring man,
Through this fatuous plan,
Is now left with nothing to eat.
My boy.
But the rooster he wore on his hat
Then take warning and never forget,
My boy,
Free-traders are blind as n bat
Their promise of good
Is adversity's food,
And the laborer long will regret,
My boy,
The rooster he wore on his hat
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12
Best for the Wage Earner.

The cost of living for the wage
Garner was less in 1891, after thirty
years of protection, than at any period
in our history since 1870 There was
an increase in the cost of living from
1910 60 1860 of three per cent. The
necessities for comfortable living that
cost the wage Garner ~ cents in 1910,
cost him 100 cents in $50, 1877 cents
war prices in 1866, and ~ cents in
1891. These estimates include every
thing needed for use by the well-to-do
American family.
The weekly earnings and weekly cost
of living from 1910 to 1891 were:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12
Trade Figures.

According to the official report for
the year ended June 30, 1894, the ex-
ports from Southern ports amounted
to 1906, l56, 694, as against s271, 715,.
OLA for the previous year. This in
crease of over $24, coo, 600 is directly
attributable to the growth of indus
tries and the general extension OF
business In the South.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12
APHORISMS OF NAPOLEON.

THERE is nothing terrible in death.
The only victory over love is fight.
WORDS pass away, but actions re-
main.
WHERE flowers degenerate man can
not live.
WE should wash our dirty linen at
home.
WE must laugh at man to avoid cry
inc for him.
IFAILEc; therefore, according to all
Justice, was wrong.