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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
Mailing Candy Ahrnad.

a young man who apparently knows
a girl in London came into the Office the
other day and asked whether candy
could be sent abroad through the mails.
So he was taken over 10 the postofiice
and the state Of affairs was laid before
an official, who instigated an inveStiga-
tion. After long time he returned and
reported as follows:
Il am very glad. said be, THAT you
asked that question. Its answer shows
a curious state Of affairs. In this coun-
try you can send candy up TO 4 pounds
as merchandise for / cent for each
ounce. If you want TO send candy
abroad you only have to pay l cent for
every ounces, but you can only send
II ounces in each package. If it weighs
more than II ounces you have 10 pay
letter rates, or 10 cents an ounce for the
whole thing.
That Is to say, you can send 10
ounces to London for cents, but it
would cost you 10 cents to send it to
Brooklyn. So if yOu are thinking of
sending pound il will cost you SLIGO.
The stamp department is right over
there"
THANK you very much, said the
young man. Il just happen TO remem-
ber that the doctor has forbidden the
girl 10 eat candy. New York Mail
and Express.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
KILLING WOLVES.
Some of the Methods Used to Get Rid of
the Pests.

the rests.
Whole families of the animals are
sometimes asphyxiated in their dens.
a wolf of the gray variety generally
makes its home by getting on the side
of a dirt gulch and burrowirg straight
inva ard until safe distance from the
surface is reached. There her young are
born and raised to sturdy cub estate.
When a cowboy locates a den in
which he believes the entire family to
be gathered, composite mass of cotton,
saturated with damp flour sulphur and
other noxious smelling substances, is
thrust into the den and set on fire. The
mouth of the hole is then filed with
clay tamped down solidly, and the i'm
prisoned wolves are speedily suffocated
within. In this way from 6 TO 10 and
IL wolves, young and old, are wiped
out at one stroke.
Another effective method is to bore
four or more holes i'll a flat piece Of
board and plug them up with beef fat
soaked in strychnine The odor Of the
fat attracts any wolves that may be in
the vicinity, and they lick the fat vora-
ciously until the leaveniDg of poison
does it's work upon them and they drop
dead. Very often as many as a dozen
wolves are killed off by this process be-
fore the fat in the holes is exhausted.
Strychnine inclosed in capsules is also
used. The capsule is thrust into Va slit
cut in a chunk of teef, and the wolf,
boltinp the meat whole falls an easy
victim. Steel traps. baited with raw
beef, are also tried with fair success -
Denver Repnblican
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
How Dees Gather Honey.

Bees gather honey by the aid of theil
trunk "Lowor lip" or tongue. >
which is used as AN instrument for ex
tracing tine nectar from flowers. The
tongue" of a bee is not, as was once
thought to be the case, tube through
which the juice is smoked, but is bull,
more after the fashion of fine broom.
With this broom the bee brushes or lap:
the honey or honey material from the
flowers, leaves. etc., and passes it down
a groove in the upper surface of the
tongue to the mouth proper. From that
point the Juice is conveyed through a
minute orifice into the first stomach, ~
vulgarly called the "honey bag" The
"honey bag" is a real chemical labora-
tory, where. by some mysterious process
which has not yet been explained By
science. the juices are converted into
pure honey. When the chemical process
OF transforming their nectar into yiscid
honey has been completed, the bee dis
gorges it into one of the cells made for
the purpose of a receptacle.
For years the microscopists and the
entomologists have been studying the
bees laboratory. but its workings are
at present among the unexplained mys-
teries.-St. Louis Republic
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
THEY DO NOT SIT.
Some Birds That Hatch Their Eggs b.
Queer Devices.

Some Birds That Hatch Their Eggs by
Queer Devices
1t is well known that the Australian
megapod is bird that is accustomed to
sit on its eggs. Ia certain parts Of Aus
tralia are found numerous mounds Of
considerable size and height which the
first explorers took to be burial grounds.
These were made by the Megapodius
tumulus, which uses them for Matching
its eggs. They have sometimes consid-
erable dimensions. A nest that is IA
feet high and 80 feet in circumference
may be regarded as large.
Each megapod builds its own nest
with material which il gathers from all
sides. and these are exactly what the
gardener uses in the month of March to
make his forcing beds-namely, leaves
and decompOsing vegetable matter,
which, by their fermentation, give off
an appreciable amount of heat. In the
forcing beds this heat hastens the spFout-
ing of the seeds. In the nest 1t sGffices
for the development and Matching Of the
young birds, and the mother can go
where she likes and occupy herself rs
she wishes without being troubled by
the duties of sitting.
In the small island Of Ninafou, in
the Pacific, another bird has Il some
what similar habit. in so far as il also
abandons its eggs but in place of OBJ
tanning the necessary heat from fer
mentation it gets it from warm sand.
The leipoa, or native pheasant Of Aus
tralia, acts like the megapod and watch
es the temperature Of its mound very
closely, covering and uncevering the
eggs several times a day to cool them
or heat them rs becomes necessary. Aft
er Matching, the young bird remains in
the mound several hours. 1t leaves on
the second day, but returns for the
night, and not until the third day is it
able to leave for good the paternal abode.
Revue Scientifique.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
Proved His Love.

They were two working girls, and
they happened TO meet the other day at
the restaurant where they eat luncheon.
The brunette ordered baked beans and
lemonade, and the blond selected fruit
cake and coffee. Tomorrow is pay dav.
you know" she said in reply to the
inquiring look of the other.
''Ohi Well, have you heard the news
about Mary? She's resigned.
Il know, said the blond. q was in
hopes I'd be the first to tell you. She's
going TO be married. -
Yes; in lovely blue silk. forget
the name Of the man she's going to
harry. He isn't very good looking. they
say, but Mary says he's intellectual.
She says
"oh, pshaw! You can't tell from
Harv.' -
4,a; but Sadie's seen his photo
graph, and she says he wears glasses. 4"
docs hei Well. Mary's lucky, if she
is redheaded Why, be would Just do
anything in the world for that girl. ("
'Humph!' said the brunette. That's
the way she talks now, but you can't
tell thing about it until after they re
married. -
"You can tell it easy enough in this
case. He's proved it already. - said the
blond warmly.
"Said he'd die fer her, suppose, +"
returned the brunette scornfuIly. Lots
of 'em talk that way before they have
TO pay the butcher.
This isn't talk anyhow. He's proved
his love, tell you''
How? Did he save her life, or tell
her that her hair is golden?''
Neither. he sold his bicycle TO buy
her an engagement ring. Chicago
Tribune
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31

Lord Leighton's house is to be PIE
sented to the nation, which in turn is
to maintain il in its present condition
as an artistic monument Of its late own
er. 1t is ungracious to discuss such mat
tiers too closely and every one will rec
ognize the good intentions Of the ladies
who make the generous gift. but some
day il will be necessary seriously to dis
cuss this business, now so much in fash
ion, of keeping Up the houses that are
associated with the memory of our great
men. One cay it is Carlyle, another it
is Turner, and sc. on.
There is little "boom," few Of
the faithful pour i'll OH the opening day
and examine the hat stand, and the
walking stick, and the dining room ia
BILE. and then they 90 away and straight
way forget all aboutit. For a year or so
stray Americans and provincials keep mp
a show of interest, and then the thing
becomes amere white elephant, of in
terest or Of use TO nobody. Lord Leigh
toms house is out beyond Holland Park,
and, as it is not to be either school, :
museum or home, who is likely after
the i.,st few weeks 10 take the trouble
TO go sfee or four miles to visit it?-
ST. James Gazette.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
PLACE NAMES.
some odd and Curious Names Of Places
In massachusetts,

Some odd and Curious Names Of Places
In massachusetts
In the Middlesex fells some good old
colonial names are preserved. like jim
sIejerrv hill and Shillyshally brook.
SDot pond was named by Governor
Winthrop. who discovered 1t in the win
fer. because Of the many rocks that
showed through the ice and spotted the
surface. Powderhorn hill in Chelsea Is
said 10 have been bought from the In
dians for hornful Of powder.
The fact of misfortune to divers IN
known persons-whether trivial or great
does not appear-fnds a record IN Bad
Luck brook and swamp In Rehoboth,
Bad Luck mountain in Granville and
Bad Luck pond in Douglas. There may
be some association between Burncoat
brook and pond in Leicester and Spencer
and Burnshirt river, likewise In Worces-
ter county.
Drinkwater river is a felicitous name
for a stream Of good water. 1t Is IN
Hanover, and possibly there may have
beeu a family Of that name IN the neigh
borhood. Strong Water brook IN Tewks-
bury has quite different associations.
Sought For pond, in Westford, suggests
a long and baffied quest for the spot
through the wilderness in the olden
davs. One of the least euphOnious OF
names is Skug river in Essex and Mid
dlesex counties. Ii is worthy a place
among such English names as Worm
wood Scrubs, park in London.
The legend about the names of the
group Of islands on the south coast pre-
sents an instance Of how fancied resem-
blances give rise 10 stories. 1t is related
that these islands once belonged te a
man with four daughters. To Nancy,
the Oldest, the father gave the first
choice, and the fact that Nan took it,
j. recorded in the name of Nantucket,
the island she selected. Nantucket, Of
course, is in reality an Indian name.
Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth
islands went TO Martha and Elizabeth,
respectively, while for the fourth daugh-
ter, whose name has been lost to men,
ory, there was nothing left but the most
remote and undesirable of the group,
which was called No Mans Land, be-
cause its owner was a woman. The
Elizabeth islands, in fact, were named
for Queen Elizabeth by Bartholomew
Gosnold, their discoverer, whose name
has been given to the town that COM
prises them.-Boston Transcript.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
THE DOCTORS STORY.
AZ Experience That Followed Call at
Night.

AZ Experience That Followed Call at
Night.
-Four or FIVE physicians were talking
MP town the other evening at the home
of one, and the conversation later turned
10 shop. One of them had recently
moved his Office down town, and there
was some discussion as to tie advisable
ity of separating house and Office
"Well, said the separatist, 81 can't
see auy difference so long as / am at
nv oflice during office hours. f"
i set ne tell you story, - remarked
the Oldest man in the party. Thirty
years ago, when began practice, lived
in Virginia, and for a year or two
slept in my Office. Then married, and
my wife owned a nice house. and went
10 il 70 live. 1t sat back from the street
about SO feet and we decided that it
would be much nicer if we had my office
out on the street in the far corner of the
lot. Only so feet away, you will OBJ
serve, but still il was enough. In order
10 see such callers as came during the
night had night bell and speaking
tube connecting the front door of the
office with my bedroom. You see, l did
not want q patient TO escape under any
circumstances.
"Well, everything went nicely enough
for three years or So when one night
ring came to my bell 1t was then about
9 O'Clock IN the morning. and the ring
was hot one. | asked who it was, and
tie answer came from friend of mine
TO the effect that he was a mighty sick
man and wanted 10 see me at once.
told him to come around 10 the house
and would meet him at the door ard
take care Of him. Then / got up, and,
putting on my dressing gown and slip
pers, / proceeded to the front door. But
there was 10 one there and no one IN
sight on the way between the gate and
the house.
'That was odd, and went back and
called through the tube to know what
was wrong. | received no answer, and,
being quite unable to account for it,
took my lamp-it was very dark and
still night-and started TO 90 out and
investigate. Just as-I was about TO step
off the porch l lowered my lamp TO
get better light on the step, and there
at the foot Of the porch lay a body. l
turned il over at once, and as the light
fell on the face | saw it was my friend
who had only minute before spoken 70
me. He was quite dead And when an
examination was made, 1T was discovered
that he had died Of heart disease, and
so near to me that l could almost have
touched him. Possibly l could not have
been OF any service 10 him if l had seen
him when he first rang the bell, but the
possibility that / might so affected me
that from that day TO this 1 have had
my Office as near my bed as 1 could get
it. "-Exchange
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31

On the slopes of the Himalayas the
native women have a most curious plan
Of disposing Of their babies and keeping
them quiet while they are engaged at
work in the fields during the greater
part of the day. Before the mothers set
ont to work in the morning they wrap
their babies in swaddling bands, leay-
ing nothing but their little faces ex-
posed. Then the babies are taken and
laid under a ledge of rock from which
water is falling. and BY means of a
bamboo the water is made to drip gen.
tly on each baby's forehead. The effect
or the dripping water is most soothing.
and soon the little ones are all asleep
and remain motionless till taken up by
their mothers on their return from their
work, when they are carried off TO be
unTrapped, dried and fed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
THE MISTAKE SHE MADE.
Railroad Travellers Who at Last Under
stood Each Other.

She sat by the car window, gazing
out upon the unrolling scenery and pos
sibly dreaming of home and things like
that.
About six feet away from her, across
the aisle, was an empty scat, which at
the next station was filed by man
with a sample case. He was 80 years of
age or thereabout and was quite as dap
per Looking as if he were 80 and still
the knight to please every fair dame
who set her soft eyes upon him.
The lady was young and pretty. with
perhaps shade too much display in her
makeup. but still one could hardly say
that, for all is not gold that glitters in
such cases-or words to that effect.
When the man had sat down in the
vacant seat and composed himself for
the journey before him. he began to look
about TO familiarize himself with his
environments, and in the course Of his
visual wanderiDgs his eyes fell upon the
young lady. He gave slight start, as
people do when they think they see
somebody they know, and looked again.
The lady wasn't looking. of course.
But she wasn't asleep.
Not in the slightest
After a minute or two or three or
four of hcsitating investigation the trav-
cling man, for it was he, arose and very
politely and deferentially approached
the young lady.
1t was done as if he had been practic-
ing that sort of thing ever since he had
picked up the first sample case. Either
that or he was to the manner born.
Il beg your pardon. he said as she
turned from the window to meet him
with half startled, fawnlike move
ment not altogether unusual ON such
occasions, ''aren't you Miss Morton Of
Philadelphia"
She gave him a CLASSY stare with a
raw edge on it.
"You don't look like man." she re-
piled with an insolent air, "who would
try to work as old a racket as that on
me. Do / look SO green as thati"
1t was now his turn to gaze at her in
startled wonder.
''Oh, that's all right" she laughed,
moving over TO make room beside her,
land I'll forgive you You know A am
not Miss Morton of Philadelphia or any
where else. and so do 1 know it. But
sit down. I'm lonesome, and I'd just as
soon have pleasant little talk with you
as not. I'm to meet mamma at the sta
tion where we take dinner"
II beg your pardon, said the travel
ing map, backing away. 81 am sure if
you are not Mrs Morton / have no de-
sire whatever TO talk witR you"
Then he went back to his place, and
the flip young woman was rather in
clined TO the opinion that there was at
least one man on the road who could be
mistaken honestly.
All of which occurred between Wash
ington and New York within the last
two weeks. Washington Star.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
Cities Buried by Sand Storms.

Sven Hedin, the Norwegian traveller.
has discovered ON the north side Of the
kuen Lun mountains, and in the edge
of the great desert Of Cobb. the ruins of
towns which be thinks were buried by
sand storms about 1000 years age The
largest town was nearly 2 \ miles long,
and canal connected it and the sur
rounding country with the Kerija river.
The houses had walls Of plated reeds,
covered with mud and then coated with
white plaster, and on these plaster walls
were well executed paintings of men,
animals and flowers. Poplars, apricots
and plum trees had evidently fourished
thefe before the invasion of the sand.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
IoiIcd.

Senator Wilson of Washington and
his brother, Harry Wilson, look very
much alike. One day in Spokane, where
the two brothers live, Senator Wilson,
who had Just returned from his legisla-
tive duties, was stopped on the street by
a man who had known him for years.
Harry" said the man, when will
your brother John be here?''
In day or two," said John with
out smile.
Tell him want to see him on an
important matter.
Certainly. said John.
"And you will not forget it?''
'I'll try not" promised John, and
thus another Office seeker was foiled. -
Washington Post.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31

George d. Prentice was a remarkably
candid man, illustration of which is
given IN tine anecdotes which follow;
but these are only few of the hundreds
TO be told:
Once when coming out Of a public
building in Louisville he was about TO
pass through double door which open
ed both ways Like the sensible man he
was he started to push at the door half
ON his right. A young man coming from
the opposite direction was pushing at
the same door. being his own left.
Prentice lost patience. and throwing
himself with all his might against the
door II few open and the young man
went sprawling on the mosaic floor.
Assisting the youth to arise, Prentice
remarked: Take my ad, ice. my son.
Keep 20 the right in your way through
life, and you'll never run against any
body but blamed fool, and you needn't
apologize TO him.
Will S. Hays, the famous Kentucky
song writer, was in the latter days Of
the old Journal river reporter for The
Democrat Hays was a very sudden
young man, good hearted, jolly, witty,
but lacking somewhat in reverence, and
be had a habit Of calling persons, even
old enough 20 be his grandfa;ac-, BY
their given names. Visiting Premise
one day as fellow poet, after some des-
ultory talk, Hays said:
Il supposo, George, you have seen
my last song
Prentice looked up at Bays. who was
seated cross legged ON Prentice's table,
and with a twinkle in his expressive
eyes quietly replied:
81 hope 50. Bill. >"
Bill looked around for second or
two. iss if something had tapped him,
and then slid down the baluster rail 20
the front door.-Chicago Times Herald.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
HE LOST A FORTUNE.
Or. There Are Moments When One Want
to Ee Alone"

Or, There Are Moments When One Wants
to lie Alone"
a middle sized man, with a gray
mustache and red tie hitched up on
his collar, walked through the restau-
rant, nodding TO acquaintance here and
there. As he stopped at the cashiers
desk nan who was seated at a table
noticed him, and, leaning across 10 his
vis-a-vis. said. Captain s.. United
States postal inspector and grand official
catcher Of green goods men. -
Yes" with interest from the man
across the table.
Sure. / have always regarded him
with a peculiar affection. He came very
near making me a rich man once-in
fact, almost made a wealthy citizen of
me-so well to do that l would never
have had to work again.
'How was that" with a shade of
incredulity.
''This way: About a year ago the
captain superintendent grand haul of
green goods men. The firm which he
raided was the largest, perhaps, in the
country and had unlimited capital
They had packages Of good money TO
catch suckers with, and this money,
amounting TO over $3.50, 900, was cap
tured and placed in big satchel by the
captain. / called on him for details of
the story that afternoon. He was alone
in the office There were three of us
the captain, myself and the satchel. He
opened the satchel and showed me
wealth beyond my widest dreams. l
hated to leave the beautiful vision.
And the narrator sighed deeply.
"Well, q" said his friend, Il don't see
how that was anything like making you
a rich man.
"You don't? Well, let me tell you
this: If the captain had turned his back
for inst six seconds / would have been
rich man Immediately. But he never
turned, and l had to go away again as
poor as when / came" +"
And with another bitter, heartrending
sigh he watched the inspector stroll out
into the street.-Chicago News
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a Conff rl .Iuhre.

An English lazy who had habit
Of dropping his MS was enc day prose-
cutting before Mr.. Justice Lawrance a
man for stealing, amCng other things,
a halter. Constantly and consistently he
spoke of " alter" and after an hour or
so Of this the judge summoned the clerk
of assize and seriously asked him, 'Is
this the crown courtY, "Y !, my lord,
/ believe So" was the answer Of the
wondering official. "Thank you. am
relieved. l thought | had found my way
into an ecclesiastical tribunal -