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The New York herald., 1873-12-27
TELEGRAM TO THE NEW Yosx HERALD.

BERLIN, Dec. 26, 1873
The Emperor William Is much better this
am0rnng.
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GENET REPORTED TO BE IN MONTREAL
MONTREAL, Dec 26, 1879
II Is rumored that Henry W. Genet, who escaped
from custody in New York lately, ia at present in
Montreal
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David's Holiday Hat for Gent1emoa.-
Ze9IS Broadway, near Duane street
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FRANCE.
Specie in Flow to the Bank.
TELEGRAM TO THs NEW YORK HERALD.

oed ear PARIS, Dec. 26 1873.
The specie in the Bank Of France has increased
IS, 900 francs during the week. "a.
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For Bronchial, Asthmatic and Pull.
monarv complaints BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRCcHkS
MANIFEST remarkable curative properties
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THE MODEL LETTER.-THE ART OF CORRR-
spondence as taught by professor Of English utera-
ture mailed or receipt OF 25 cents Address WILLIAM
ClIy ,uii Madison street Brooklyn. N. Y.
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The Poor Little Sufferer win Be Imme-
diateiy relieved by using MRS. WINSLOW'S 500 THING
STRUf for children teethng It sohens the gums, re.
duces inflammation cures Wind colic aays all pain and
gives the child quiet natural sleep, from which awakeS
inyiaorated and refreshed
Wigs, Toupces.-G. Rauchfuss, PrRctf.
cal WIG AND T0UPEE MAKER, a East Twelfth street.
near Broadway, New York.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
Cash Instead of Credit.

If the lesson could be permascnt
" learned that the cash system j,
better than the credit system, all the
suffering entailed 10y this monetary
crisis would he a dear price to pay
for it.
| People who buy for cash alway.
buy cheaper than those who buy o;
credit They buy, too, more closely
and select more carefully.
Purchases which are paid for when
they are made are limited more eX-
actly to the purchasers wants.
There is nothing like having to count
the money right out when the article
is bought to make people economical.
The amount of Indebtedness incurred
is not much considered when the pay
day is afar of.
Persons who do all their business
on cash basis know Just where they
stand and what they can afford.
Consequently they never find after
occasion for regretting, in turn oi
times, that they have INDUCED in this
luxury or that, which they would
have foregone had they seen what was
coming.
Real wants are few and can be
gratilied for cash. At all events,
they should always be limited to
what can be paid for in cash.
How much of anxiety, how many
sleepless hours, how many heart
burEings, disappointments, and re-
grets would be avoided if this rule
We're always strictly adhered TO.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
& Touching Incident.

4 gentleman who went up the
Hudson on the "St. John. tells this
story:
| had noticed, said lie, a serious
looking man, who looked as if he
might have been q clerk or book
keeper. The man seemed to be car
ing for a crying baby, and was doing
everything he could to still its sobs.
AS the child became restless in the
berth, the gentleman took it in his
arms and carried it to and fro in the
cabin. The sobs of the child irritat-
ed rich man, who was trying to
read, until he blurted out loud enough
for the father to hear
What does he want to distuab the
whole cabin with that squalling baby
for -
The man only nestled the baby
more quietly in his arms without
saying a word. Then the baby sob
bed again.
Where is the confounded mother
that she don't stop its noise ?" con-
tinued the grumbler.
At this the father came up TO the
man and said, Il am sorry that we
disturb you, sir, but my dear baby's
mother is in her coffin down in the bag
gage room Pm taking her back TO
Albany, where we used TO live"
The hard hearted man, saws my
friend, buried his face in shame, but
in moment, wilted by the terrible
rebuke, he was by the side Of the
grief-stricken father They were both
tending the baby.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
An Chic Giant.

4 Cleveland paper relates a nHm-
Der Of anecdotes illustrative Of the
strength and size of Abner McIlrath,
whom it dubs a giant 1t appears
that McIlath is "siXty-one years of
age. and is six feet seven and a half
inches standing in his boots, fairly
proportioned in form, without pound
OF waste hesb. He was and is a
giant in muscular strength. He has
lifted lee pouAds Of iron, and a
blow with his massive fist and long
arm is so powerful that on one occa-
sion, when some twelve or fifteen
sailors went out to bis place to raise
a muss," be thrashed the whole lot
and threw them one by one out Of the
door Just as one could throw so many
babies, and during that operation he
dared not double his fist for fear his
blows might prove fatal to some Of
the rowdies.
He formerly carried on the busi-
ness Of a cooper, and used to come
to town with his load of barrels. On
one occasion, while stopping at the
"Red Tavern" latterly kGowl as the
jackson House. and which is now
torn down, a snob from town, who
was out there with his turnout in the
shape Of q livery horse and buggy,
got into o difficulty with Abe, and
having insnlted him in some way or
another, Abe resented it by lifting
the buggy right up and straddling it
across the fence, and then got on bis
wagon and drove OFF TO town, whist
ling as though nothing was the mat
ter, and leaving the luckless wight
20 get his buggy off the fence as best
he could.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
Civilization Among insects

Sir John Lubbock, in his book on
Origin and Metamorphoses Of In
sects," states that if certain beetles
and other insects found in the nest OF
ants are ased by them for any pur-
pose, the ants must have more do
nestle animals than we do. II is n
well known fact that ants collect in
their nests q certain species Of aphis
or wood-lousc, from which they draw
honey, keeping them in fact, just as
we do COWS There is also a spe-
Gle Of red ant which does not work
for itself, but makes slaves of the
black kind. Certain remarkable spe-
cies of beetles are rarely, ifever found
excepting in ants nests; they are
blind and apparently helpless, Civ
ing no secretion of any use to the
ants, yet they are tended with much
care. Although these beetles are
never found except in ants nests, yet
there are many communities which
do not possess them. II, however,
one of them should be placed in a
community where it does not belong.
it is immediately killed aad eaten,
while the ants from the same nests
are kindly received. NJ Laspes,
who first observed these facts, con-
cludes that some ants are mere highly
civilized than Others. Sir John Lub-
bock hints that the ants may possl-
bly, have some feeling Of reverence
for the beetles. II they had only
been centipedcs, how easy il would
have been for Darwin to show the
gradual development Of fetch wor-
ship.
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: lame in his right leg, and s~a no par
ticuiar long tad-fealber 40 'ue ran ,
road man was turpfng away the bird
got I'M steam aSd gave the shrill whis-
tie Of the locomotive, and danced
ropnd Tke conductor threading the
aisle of a car. There could be no
foubt about it, but how changed
The railroad man asked the merchant
where he got that bird. He had
bought it of course, but he could not
tell from whom. The owner claimed
his bird, but the merchant did not
recognize his claim, so the case was
taken to court, and the bird too. The
bird-man ard FIVE of his friends all
swore like parrots that the bird had
just come up from the South, and
could not, therefore, be The claimants
bird. The railroad mans witnesses,
even, could not recognize the bird in
court as their old friend, with lame
left leg and long tail-feather The
owner was confident, however, and
told the judge that if the bird would
only speak he could settle the mat
ter.
Then the bird, as if he knew the
case was going against him, did speak,
and the judge told the man to take
his bird. 1t was found that his feath-
ers had been pulled, and cut, and
stained, and that toe-nail on his
right foot had been twisted and pinch
ed off, so as to make it lower than
the other one. But the mocking-bird
was believed in court before the oaths
of half dozen men. This case of
evidence will never be found in any
Cf the law books.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
Stable Floors.


The colt only asks for room to
stretch his growing limbs, and a root
sufficient to shield him from the storm,
undisturbed if he should see a star
through the crevice above him, and
feel the fresh breeze whistling through
crack by his side He wants a
well ventilated stable, and chance
to get out Of it whenever he desires
to do SO. And, above all things, let
him stand on the ground if possible,
while in bis box; and, at any rate, in
ward into which his box opens A
floor, especially wooden floor. is bad
enough for a mature working horse;
but tc colt it is almost destruction.
have no shadow of doubt that we
ruin thousands Of horses feet in this
country by our plank floors. The
wood, when drv, is q non-conductor
of heat, and tends to keep the hoof
above its natural temperature, and to
remove from it all its natural moist
ure; and when wet il hasa tendency
to rise above the surrounding tenn
perature by fermentation. Wet or
dry, therefore, wood, whether in the
form of a plank floor or sawdust bed
ding, is :ery injurious TO the horses
foot. And so thoroughly convinced
of this am | that | always provide
brick floors for that portion OF the
stall which is occupied by the horses
fore feet-a practice which has, with
the aid Of tar ointment, protected me
for more than twenty years of hard
driving On hard roads, from sorc-toed
horses, and has sent out of my sta
bles a foot which every farrier in
town recogizes the instant he puts his
buttrice into it, For the feet, then,
of the colt and the idle horse, furnish
the earth as a standing place; for the
feet Of the working horse, furnish a
brick or a stone floor Bv such a
floor alone can you secure your colt
a good foot, a good leg, q well shap-
ed ancle, and firm and substantial
knee furrU
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
ma. Be.. Bear story OF ,ae season.

The Roseburg (0regon) Plain
dealer relates: A correspondent
writing from Canyonyillc. sends the
following interesting incidnet which
occurred near thatplace: About Ten
days since Henry Bland and his wlie,
of Canyonville Precinct, went out
into the mountains TO look after their
sheen When about three miles
from home histyo dogs got after
bear. and after severe chase, sue
ceeded in compelling the bear to
climb q tree.-About the time Mr.
Bland and his wife reached the foot
of the tree another ferocious bear sud
denly putin an appearance ana say
agcly attacked the dogs in the lniile-
diate presence Of Mr.. and Mrs. bland
The Ggbt now became animated and
furious. dogs and bears rolling over
each other in the death struggle down
a steep mountain side into the can
Won below. Bland was armed with
a Henry rife, but dared not shoot
for fear Of killing his dogs. Now
came the question how to rescue the
dogs; only two cartridges were in
the rife, and these had to be used
TO the best advantage Mrs. Bland
urged her husband to go TO the assis-
tancs Of the dogs, while she, alone
unGrmcd, undertook to keep the ia
rocious. monster up the tree. lie
started down into the canyon, where
the conflict was raging, guided by the
growls and yelps of the dogs and
bear He arrived not a moment too
soon, for bruin was evidently getting
the best of it, and would only be
pacifed by the last shot from the
now empty rife.
1t was dark when Bland returned
TO his wife at the foot of the tree
The empty rifle was of little use, and
upon the determination ofMrs. Bland
to sit up with the bear, he started for
home for ammunition. The lady be-
coming reinforced by the bleeding
dogs, now felt that she was mistress
Of the situation. With no fire, far
from home, in the midst of craggy
mountains, this indomitable lady dar-
cd to hold at bay one ofthe most fero-
cious monsters of the forest The
bear, not liking his new home deter
mined TO descend the treee, but our
heroine, with stick and the barking
of the dogs, compelled Bruin to take
another thought Our huntress stood
guard until about ten O'Clock when
her husband and anothC- man came
TO her assistance. She then started
for her home through the deep ca
mons and gorges Of the mountains,
entirely alone, and it was at mid
night when she safely arrived at her
own dwelling
The next morning as soon as ii
was sufficiently light, the bear was
shot. lie proved TO be one of the
largest Of those known as the CHINA
mon variety.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
The Curse OF Drink

The appetite for strong drink ia
man has spoiled the life of more
women-ruined more hopes for them,
scattered more fortunes for them
brought to them more sorrow, shame
and hardship-than any other evil
that lives. The country numbers
ten-nav, hundreds Of thOusands-oi
women who are widows to-day, and
sit in hopeless weeds, because their
husbands have been slain by strong
drink. There are hundreds of thous-
ands of homes scattered over
the land in which women live
lives of torture, going through all
the changes of suffering that lie be-
tween the extremes of fear and de-
spair, because those whom they love,
love wine better than the women
they have sworn to love.
There are women by thousands
who dread to hear at the door the
step that once filed them with pleas
ure because that step has learned to
reel under the influence of the seduc-
tive poison. There are women
groaning with pain, while we write
these words, from bruises and brutal
tiles inflicted by husbands made mad
by drink. There can be no eXagger-
alton in any statement in regard to
this matter, because no human mag
ination can create any thing worse
than the truth
The sorrows and horrors of q wife
with a dLuukcn husband are as near
the realization of hell as can be reach
cd in this world at least. The shame,
the indignation, the sorrow, and the
sense Of disgrace for herself and her
children, the poverty and not unire-
quently the beggary, the fear and the
fact of violence, the lingering, life
long struggle of countless women
with drunken husbands are enough
to make all women curse wine and
engage unitedly to oppose it every
where as the worst enemy of their
sex -Dr H0iI1yd
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
A CoiorcdPreacher on The Fall.

The speaker was on elderly negro
who had been ''hand" on one of the
vessels in the lower Potomac He
said the devil first tried to get Adam
to eat the apple, "but emmy man in
all he senses mighter knowed de debil
couldn't er done dat ar; Adams too
smart fur Old Nick when had muffin
but hisself ter tax care on But de
debil knew, Gaze he was in hahn fo'
de Lo'd frew him out'cn dar-he
knew dar was woman to be made
an so he just hove out de anchor an
waited fur de woman. When Eve
cum long he knew de'd got sure ting
on dat srapple; an he hove 'longside
whar she's sittin' an whispered in
her ear an say she's mighty nice gal;
an she's so tickled wild bis fine
speeches dat she JUS say guv her de
apple when he ask her don'ts she want
it,. De debil so pleased too see she
fooled so easy he liked to larf out
loud.
Women is mighty hard creeturs
to do anything sensible wid-dey
just go contrary every tim dey can an
when Eve got her min made up to
eat dat apple, she'd eat it ef de Lo'd
hjsself tell her let um alone. SOon's
she done eat it the debbil say TO his
self she made muss dat ar garden
Eben, aud she kinder hear what he
think, an make up her min to 'tice
Adam to eat toder one. So she cum
'longside one time when she seen
him settin' under de tree and say,
Adam, eat dis yer,-be's berry nice.
But Adam say be won't, and she
keep teasin' him an finally he's tieod,
an eats dat bad apple, an den de-
angle Gabriel ay along dar' an
drove'em bof outen dc garden an
say dey bof have ter work fur der
livin' But Adam never eat dat ar
apple ,cept Eve don gan 'ticc him;
an he didn't do it den less he love
her, an she such tongue, Ike all
de women, she make him b'liovc
black is white"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
An Unimpeaebable wttness.

The St. Louis Republican saws
Solomon was called upon to decide
some knotty cases oflaw and equity il
his time, and the records of his court
are esteemed pretty good authority
Among other cases he had to decide
one about the ownership of a child
which was claimed by two motherly
women. A suit something like this
lately came before Cincinnatijustice
and was decided on similar principles
A railroad man had an educated
mocking bird in his Office. The bird
could do great many tricks with
his voice, and among other initiative
utterances he could mimic a locomo.
tive whistle, and turn himself into q
full-hodged calliope upon proyocation.
He was little lame in his left leg
and among some pcculiarities Of
plumage he had one extra long fcath.
er in his tail.
The bird disappeared from his cage
one day. The owner, in a dav OF
two. visited the shop of bird-man to
look around the tuneluI prisoners.
One fellow appeared to know him,
but the man had no recollection Of the
feathered acquaintance. He looked
at him closely, and the bird seemed
TO say by the twinkling Of his eve
and the set OF his head: Don't You
know me?" This bird appeared to be
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31

ONE morning during the late war,
an officer riding through the woods
of North Alabama was attracted by a
tall lank country-man who seemed to
be using his best endeavors to reach
the top of large hickory tree.
Scarcely had be gained the summit
when rapidly descending, be started
up another tree few yards further
on This strange proceeding was
continued at least dozen times, the
countrymen climbing and descending
one tree after another for nearly a
quarter OF a mile. The officer at
length overtaking him, inquired the
cause of bis eccentric gyrations-
wall, stranger he answered. Il
was lyin' asleep under Won hickory
when a darned sqirrel dropped a
shell-bark into my eve. I'm goin' to
worry him till he leaves the settle
ment, if i die in the attempt
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
The IuviucibIe school Earns

Ladies travelling through Canada
by rail are often greatly annoyed by
having their luggage unnecessarily
searched, but one of the officials re-
Gently got his deserts. II happened
that Yankee school-teacher, on her
way from Kansas TO Vermont, pass
ed through the Dominion, with a
trunk packed to bursting with moth
ing contraband. When the officer De-
manded her key she begged him not
TO open 1t, assuring him that it had
come through from Kansas, contain
cd simply clothes and books. and was
so full that it would be very trouble
soms to repack it. But be sternly
demanded the key, and maliciouslv
pulled everything out TO the bottom :
ihen-fnding her assertions true-he
returned the key and told her TO
hurry up aud get the traps back, "
as the train would soon move
What is that to me y' said the quick
witted woman II have the check for
that trunk, aud hold the Grand
Trunk Railway responsible FOR its
sale deliTerp. ] viii not take the
Key, and you may do as you please
with the trunk" Report says that
Official was very weary and red in
the face and rather profane ere be
finished packing that trunk.
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rhs. stove Pipe.

When stove-pipe time came around
Hans hunted up the missing Joint.
and lugged them into the house. O.
course he met with the usual misfor
tunes of finding non fitting Joints
crushing elbows, etc, etc. so that by
the time he was fairly standing on
the Oldest chair in the house, epdeav-
oring 10 complete the operation, ne
was in no mood to be riaed with. lie
got the lengths on The stove all right;
he also got the lengths in the chin
ney all right but the connecting
length was what bothered him Be-
ing short in tallness aud wide in thin
ness, it was very trying 10 reach up
st arms length and fit the perverse
joint. lie made Katrinc arm herself
with broom and stand in front of
the stove, ready TO push the rcfracto-
ry pieces together when he said the
word. He stood between the stove
and chimney, cautiously balanced on
a chair and reaching up.
Now, Katrine, shust Jam a lit
tle," was his order, when he had it all
ready. katrine "shust jammed lit
tle' with the soft end of the broom
and eliminated a most unexpected
howl from Hans-whose fingers were
carelessly placed between the lengths.
lie also said something which sound
ed like repetition of fam" but it
wasn't.
Again he fixed the pipe and told
katrine to hit it. katrine was get
ting a trine excited over the matter,
so in obedience to orders she swung
the broom with considerable effect.
The lengths on the stove tottered-
the length on the chimney swayed-
Hans felt that be was losing his bal
ance-down came the chimney lengths
-scraping Hans all the way down.
Hans was mad. He slammed the
pieces he held on the floor with the
rest and then jumped on it, and kept
on jumping and jumping until there
wasn't a circular piece of pipe left to
jump on. Then jamming his hat
over his eyes be made for the front
door.
We're are you going, Hansy" ex-
claimed Katrine, terrified.
"Vell, I'm going crazy, if | shtop
here mid dat sdove pipe"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31
Honor thy Mother

1t was cold, dark night in winter
The wind blew and the snow was
whirled furiously about, seeking tc
hide itself beneath cloaks and hoods
and in the svery hair of those who
were out. A distinguished lecturer
was to speak, and Notwithstanding
the storm the villagers very generally
vcntured forth to hear him.
William Amnesty, buttoned up tc
his chin in his thick overcoat, accom-
panied bis mother. 1t was difficult tC
walk through the fallen snow against
the piercing wind, and William said
to his mother.
Couldn't you walk easier if you
took my arm? ~
Perhaps | could" his mother re-
piled as she put her arm through hi:
and drew up as closely as possible te
him. Together they breasted the
storm, the mother and the boy who
had once been carried in her arms
but who had now grown up so tall
that she could lean on his. They
had not walked very far before be
said,
II am very proud tonight, moth.
err
Proud that you can take care Of
meYp she said to him with a heart
full of tenderness.
This is the first time you have
leaned upon me-" said the happy
bow.
There will be but few hours in
that ebild's life of more exalted pleas
ure than he enjoyed that evening
even if he should live to old age, and
should. in his manhood, lovingly pre-.
vide Tor her who, who in his hopeless
infancy, watched over Youfh's
Companion.