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RAILROADS.
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ToTAKE EFFECT
FRIDAY, JUNE s, 1874.
THE GALVESTON,
Houston and Henderson
RAILROAD.
Tbroo Daily Passenger Trains.

Tbroo Daily FaEsenEer Irhiuss
Leave Galveston at $40 n m aRd arrive at
Houston Mt $3.50 n m.
leave Galveston Mt $500 y m and arrive Mt
Houston at 500 y M, t0 lis0.
Leave Galveston At $50 p M and arrive nj
Houston at $50 p m.
Janve Houston at 6.lb m ANA arrive ~
Galveston NJ $50 a IN.
benve Houston 1000 m ana arrive at dnl-
weston al 2:3O p IN.
ieave Houston at ESQ p m and arrive ~
Galveston At 1880 y IN.
On Sundays passenger train leaves Calves
ton ut l0OD d M. Leaves Houston at 200 p M
The 0.in a nj train from Galveston connects
at Harrisburg with the Galveston, Harris
burg snd Fan Antonio railway. Comets at
Houston With The Houston and Texas Cen
trail railroad,
meets with the Houston and Texas Central
railway. N}4
The d.0O % m express from Galveston con-
meets with the International ana Great
Northern railroad mt Houston at pm:
The 1890 q m train from Houston arrives ~
Galveston at $50 p m. Connects with the
Ticket Offices, 100 fremont street, Calves
ton, aud NJ the depots.
Communication tickets 10 local points. one
Thousand aud Ave hundred mile tickets, can
be purchased ri the ticket Offices OF this COM
pany or from Galveston ticket ONCE.
u. n. NICHOLS, superintendent.
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Law Blanfs Of every description, tori sale
ana printed 10 order, at this ONCE.
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TIE WEEKLY HERALD,

ulE WEEKLY HERALD viii be pub
shpd every SATURDAY morning, iuhs0Uipr
van, sill per niHuili fl,b inr kiK in0nliiai
iyhuir IN HdVnnnp, No subscription luktn
luf 10 iasf pnrlni Than slN months,
Aly sriisnmenis inserted w the rnin " n m
pnr silnfp or ine lllai Insertion, ANA 70 cents
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Grand total vote Of the state....-.-'''' $4,000
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travelling agenn q, w. Beckett
Nov iurki u, F,llnWell, y. A, letlanell 8
lO,, and Hates tANke,
phiiHdnphia Co.. Wralhnlll 4 Co.
Oinclnnalil X, a. faryln,
New Orleansl lhOmRs Mcintyre,
ahreyepnrn w, N, SPARKS,
ilousi0n u, ", Cushing
Austin, Texas r. vOlgl,
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Condensed Through Time Gard
To points North aud East Via tho
Houston and Texas Central ny
AND CONNECTIONS.

Trains arrive and depart from Houston m
follows;
ACCOMMODATION. TnRorGn TRAIN.
leaves. 200 A, NJ Laaves.....,. am y. NJ.
Arrives.,..... $40 a, NJ. Arrlvosr.,- $40 y. NJ,
Galveston Freight and Ticket once, 70
fremont street.
New York city Freight and Ticket once,
wv Il. l.. MANCHESTER, Agent.
Visitors 20 above cities viii md tnoso Of
lcosa pleasant place Of resort their leisure
found.
]. WALDO. Gent Ticket Agent
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Total......--.".....-. oozSo
Coke,s majority in one hundred and
tbirty-three counties, 50,OOl. :,
No returns from the three small
counties of Liberty, McCulloch ana
Wharton. -
There are also twenty-eight morgan
lied counties total counties In tne
state. one hundred and sixty-four.. %,
Total vote returned for governor........' ioo'ooi
Estimated vpte Of the missing couh- .,a
Grand total vote Of the state,.......''.. iSS'OOo
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fHE DAILY HERALD,

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sn's New heiialns, IeFHeF Of i'aiHHs
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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-05-27
Gods Best Gift TO Nations.

The best gift of God to nations is
the gift of upright men-especially
upright men for magistrates, states
men, and rulers. How bountiful
soever the heavens may be in har-
vests; though every wind of heavens
would watt prosperity to its ports, till
the land is crowded with warehouses
stuffed to repletiOn with treasure,
that country is poor whose citizens
are not noble, and that republic is
poor which is not governed by noble
men selected by its citizens.
The signs OF decay in the life of
nation show themselves as soon as
anywhere else in the character Of
men who are called to govern it.
When they seek their own ends, and
not the public veal; when they
abandon principles, and administer
according to the personal interest of
cliques and parties; when they for
sake righteousness, aud call upon
greedy, Unsuitable selfshness for
counsel; and when the laws and the
whole frame-work..Of the government
are but so many instruments of op-
preston and of wrong, then the ma
tions cannot be far from decadence
When God means to do well by q
nation that has backslidden, among
the earliest tokens of His beneicent
intent is the restoration of men of in
tegrity and of honor-men who live
for their fellows, and not for them
IF Beecher.
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= Loose Gun on shipboard

A gun that breaks its moorings be-
comes suddenly some indescriba bic
supernatural beast. 1t is a machine
which transforms itself into q mons
ter. This mass turns upon its wheels,
has the rapid movements Of billiard
ball: rolls with the rolling, pitches
with the pitching, goes, comes pauses,
seems to mediate: resumes its course.
rushes along the ship from end to end
like an arrow, circles about springs
aside, evades, rears, kills, extermin-
ates. 1t is a battering ram which as
sails wall at its own caprice. More
over, the battering ram is metal. the
wall wood. 1t is the entrance of
matter into liberty One might say
that this eternal slave avenges itself
1t seems that if the power Of evil
hidden in what we call inanimate
objects finds a vent and bursts sud
denly out 1t has an air of having
lost patience, of seeking some fierce
obscure retributiOn, nothing more in
exorable than the rage of the inani-
mate. The mad mass has the bounds
OF panther, the weight of the ele-
phant, the agility of the mouse, the
obstinacy of the OK, the unexpected-
ness Of the surge, the rapidity of light
ming, the deafness of the tomb. 1t
weighs 10000 pounds, and it re-
bounds like a child's ball Its flight
is a wild whirl abruptly cut at
right angles. What is TO be done?
How to end this? A tempest ceases,
a cyclone passes, a wind falls, a bro
ken mast is replaced, leak stopped
a fire dies out; but how to controll
this enormous bruit of bronze? In
what way can one attack it? you can
make a mastiif hear reason, astound
a bull fascinate boa, fight a tiger
soften lion but there is no resource
with that monster a cannon, let loose.
You cannot kill it it is dead: at the
same time it lives. 1t lives with
sinister life bestowed on it bv Inlinity.
Prom Hugo'S Ninety Three.
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The Fish of America.

The fish of the United States are
unsurpassed in flavor in the world.
Sportsmen who, with rod and line,
have whipped European waters, say
there is nothing like them there from
the Norway fords to the Gaudalquiv-
er. Africa and Asia are both poor
in this respect. Even in China, where
fish is an abundant article Of food,
and is found in great variety, the
fish is coarse. The salmon of the
Scotch lochs afford the nearest ap-
proach to the succuience and tender
delicacy of our mountain trout and
the flaky tenderness Of our salmon
trout. Then there are the white fish,
the bass, the shad, and an innumer-
able multitude of others.
We have but one rival, and that q
prolific but small one. 1t Is the
French sardine when fresh. This
delicious fish, in few years, will
cease its rivalry, however, if reports
are true from the coast of France.
At present the sardine fisheries en-
plov 0.000 men, women and children
on land to prepare the fish for market
Each year shows an advance in the
price and diminutiOn in the catch,
and in no great time oyertishing will
have produced its usual consequence
"a failure of the fish.
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Mr. 5. Smith, Of WanmatOsc, Wis,
was the pricipal Of an academy, and
a man Of good education and supp0s-
ed good sense. Until forty years old
he remained q bachelor. Then he
fell in love with a schoolgirl who
was romantic enough to encourage
him until her parents talked her out Of
the idea. At this Smith cut his throat
The cash was deep and dangerous,
but not fatal. 1t left a long scar, and
seemed to cure Smith Of his passion.
\ year later he had a relapse.
This time it was a young widow,
who humored, teascd, and finally jill
ted him. He promptly got out his
razor again, and slashed at his jugu-
lar The result was Il scar, crossing
the old one like the ends Of saw
buck. Another year passed, and
month ago Smith fell in love for the
third and last time. 1t was a teacher
in his academy and she really inten-
ted to marry him. The wedding
day was appointed, and nearly
reached, when she suddenly changed
her mind because somebody told her
of Smiths two previous love affairs.
She could not marry a man who
bad loved two women before her.
and 50 eloped with fellow who was
too young to nave ever seriously
loved anybody. Smiths heart was
broken this time past mending. He
still owned the razor of blood m emo
ry. His grief was deeper than on
previous occasions, and so was the
cash. Smith is dead.
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The TireIess Brain.
BY !. r. MCDONALD.

Our brains are seventy year
clocks. The angle Of life winds them
up once for all time, and gives the
KEY into the hands Of the angel Of
the resurrection Tie, tac, tic, tao,
go the wheels Of thought Our will
cannot stop them. Sleep cannot still
them, madness only makes them 90
faster. Death alone can stop them
by breaking into the ease and seizing
the ever swinging pendulum which
we call the heart, silence at last the
clicking of the terrible escapement
we have carried 50 long beneath our
wrinkled forehead. If we could only
get at them as we lie on our pillows
and count the dead beats of thought
after thought, and image after image
jaring through the ovcr-tired organ.
viii no body block these wheels, IN
couple that pinion cut the string that
holds these weights, blow up the ma
chine with gunpowder? What a pas
sion comes over Us sometimes for 81
lence and rest-that this dreadful
mechanism unwinding the endless tap
estry Of time, embroidered with
spectral figures OF life and death,
could have but one brief holiday.
Who can wonder that men swing
themselves from beams in hempen
lassoes that they jump off from para
pets into the swift and gurgling wa
ters beneath that they take counsel
of the grim iend who has but to ut
ter his one peremOtOry mOnosyllable,
and the restless machine is shivering
as vase dashed upon a marble floor.
If anybody would really contrive
some kind of lever that we could
thrust in among the works Of this
hOrrid autOmatOn and check them or
alter their rate of going, what would
the world give for the discovery ?
Men are very apt to try to get at the
machine by some indirect reason or
other They clap on the brakes by
means of opium, they change the
maddening mOnOtOny by the use Of
intoxicating liquors. 1t is because
the brain is locked up and we cannot
touch the movements directly that
we thrust these coarse tools in thought
and crevice by which they may reach
the interior, alter its rate of going for
a while, and at last spoil the ma
chine.
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White Turtles and Frogs.

The Des Moines Qowa) Register
asks its readers: did YOU ever see
white mud turtle, white frogs, white
tadpoles, and other unusual am
phibious animals bleached out to
Anqlo-Saxon complexion? If not,
you can see this curiosity by taking
Il walk to the paper mill The wa
ter in which the straw is boiling runs
of into pond connected with Coon
River. All the animals boarding
in this pond have had their color
changed to perfect white They
look as ifthey had been whitewashed.
This chemical change probably re-
suits from the properties in the water,
although that is or yellowish cast,
and lighter than the straw boiled
in it, hg
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= Successful Conundrun1.

John has never given you a ringz'
said Katie's sister to her one day
John was Katie's lover.
Never" said Katie with regret
ful shake Of her head.
And he never Will until YOU ask
him for it, ," persued the sister
Then | fear | shall never getOne,"
was the reply
"Of course you never will John
is too stupid to think Of such things;
and as you can never pluck up cour-
age to ask for one, it follows you will
never get one"
This set Katie TO thinking, and to
what purpose We shall see.
That evening her lover called to
see her lie was very proud and
very happy, fer the beautiful girl by
his side had been for several weeks
pledged to marry with him as soon
as the business could be properly
done, and John was a grand, good
fellow, too, Notwithstanding, bis
obIiviousness to certain polite mat
ters.
John, said Katie, at length, look
ing up with an innocent smile, ''DO
YOU know what q conundrum is?"
why, its a'kind of a puzzle-a
riddle" answered John.
Do YOU think YOU could ask me one
| couldn't guess
Il don't know. Ineyer thought cf
such things Could you ask me
Oney"
Il could try"
We'll, try Katie"
Then answer this: Why is the
letter (D) like a ring"
John puzzled his brain over the
problem for long time, but was final
ly forced to gire it up.
Il don't know, Katie. Why is
it,"
Because" replied the maiden, with
a very soft blush creeping up to her
temples, "IIe cannot be red without
it."
In less than a week from that date,
Katie had her engagement ring.
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How Quakeress stopped Borro~
Ing.

An old Quaker lady hit upon Il very
philosophical mode Of putting a stop
to the nuisance OF borrowing. Keep
ing her own counsel, the next time
her good man went to town he had a
separate and express order to pur-
chase a pound Of the best tea, and
also n new canister to put it in. As
he knew she already had plenty Of
tea, and also canister, he was puZ-
zled to determine what the old lady
wanted of more tea and new can
lister; but his questionings and rca-
sonings elected nothing mere than q
repetition of the order.
Jim, did | not tell thee to get me
pound Of the best tea and a new
canister? Now go along, and do as
| bid thee"
And 90 along he did, and when he
came home at night the tea and new
canister were his companions. The
old lady took them from him With an
amused expression on her usually
placid features, and depOsiting the
tea in the canister, set it on the shell
for special use. 1t had not long to
wait, for n borrowing neighbor had
frequent use for the aromatic herb.
The good old lady loaned generous
", emptying back in the canister anv
remittance of borrowed teas which
the neighbor's conscience inclined her
to make Time went on. and after
sonnet 'Hg less than the one hun-
dredth lime OF borrowing. the neigh
bor again appeared for Just another
drawing Of tea" when the olt-visited
tea canister was brought out, and
found to be empty, and the good old
lady and obliging neighber was Just
one pound OF tea poorer than when
she bought the new canister, which
now only remained to tell the story.
Then she made little characteristic
speech, perhaps the first in her life
She said: "ThOu seest that empty
canister. | filed it for thee with
pound of nv best tea, and have lent
it all to thee all in driblets. and put
into it all thou hast sent me in return
and none but thyself hath taken
therefrom or added unto it. and now
thou seest it empty; therefore | will
say to thee, thou hast borrowed thy
self out, and / can lend thee no
more.n
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Paragraphs Worth Remembering

Benzine and common clay will
clean marble.
Caster oil is an excellent thing to
soften leather
Lemon juice and glycerinc will re-
move tan and freckles.
\ dose of castor oil will aid you in
removing pimples.
Lemon juice and glycerine will
cleanse and soften the hand
Spirits of ammonia, diluted a little,
will cleanse the hair very thoroughly.
Lunar caustic carefully applied so
as not to touch the skin, will destroy
warts
Powdered inter is good for remov-
ing freckles. Apply with a rag mois-
tened with glycerine.
To obviate offensive perspiration
wash your feet with soap and diluted
spirits of ammonia.
The juice ofripe tomatoes will re-
move the stain of walnuts from the
hands without injury to the skin
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To the Mistress.

Insist upon housemaid's work be,
ing done in the morning, and her
dress changed before dinner.
Make her wear gloves to sweep,
clean CRATES, ETC., that her hands may
be fit to serve table.
Give her comfortable room and
bed to sleep in, and make her OBJ
serve perfect cleanliness in her per-
son.
Pay her wages regularly every
month.
Give her wholesome food, and plen-
ty of it.
Allow no perquisites, but let your
servants have the benefit of vour
cast-off clothing.
Provide necessary working uten-
sils for them, or you cannot expect
your work to be done well
Advise them to lay by half their
wages in the savings bank.
Insist upon early rising, and regu-
larity in kitchen meals.
Give your instruc tions clearly and
decidedly, and if anything is to be
taught, write down your directions.
Inspect bedrooms, closets, and
every room in the house daily.
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Homes


est needs Of the age. II is q need
founded upon another great necessity
true manhood and true womanhoOd.
We know how valuable to society is
a great, good man; we know that
the price of a "virtuous woman is
above rubies" If we need any proof
of how highly human culture, and
humanity itself is regarded by mans
Creator, we have it in the fact that
He gave His own Son to uplift man
from the depth into which be had fall
len by sin. If we need anv proof
that home life is the normal, we have
it in the fact that the family institu-
tion was heavcn-ordained. If we
need any proof that good homes are
the nurseries Of human virtue, we
have but to open our eyes and look
around us.
To certain extent does the mis-
sion Of the true home correspond
with the mission of christianity.
Each is an elevating power. Each
recognizes the other as one with itself
in the great work Of bringing man
nearer the Divine Nature. If we
desire evidence that humble homes
are or may become especially favor
ed as the fostering places Of human
excellence, we have this in the fact
that thence has already sprung so
large a proportion Of our noblest
citizens. We may imagine something
of what may be in store for US when
the possibilities of home life shall have
become household study, when it
shall command the general attention
of earnest men and women.
When mothers shall realize that in
their quiet way they are but walking
in the path marked out by Divine
wisdom when they shall feel that in
making it happy and aiding in its
mental development, or uplifting it
near to heaven, through the magne-
tism of their souls, they are but fol-
lowing out Christ's work; when pa
rents shall look upon the details of
home life, not as the mere means of
gaining n subsistence or of acquiring
wealth, but as the humble steps by
which they and their families may
climb the heights Of virtue-mav
gain footing nearer the world above
US, and by which society may be
m ade better-then will the mothers
and the fathers work have assumed
in their own minds something of the
dignity which each really posses
Ses.
1t would do US good to now and
then sit down and think of these
things. The world goes hard with
some Of us-there is a great deal Of
wear and tear. We get fretted-dis-
couraged perhaps-and think our
life is made up too much of little
things, possibly question in our
hearts, what Is the use Of all this
struggle ?" If then the "still small
voice. may speak to US, Child, thou
art walking the only way to all that
Is good, and to all that is great
Forward in the name of humanity
and Of God" it may renew our
strength.
Do not let us, then, despise the
day of small things. Rather let us,
from the material at hand, build up a
pyramid of grandure and endurance.
Let US cherish home ideas, study
home scie ence, and let our toll be
Sweeteaed with the thought that our
home life will be made brighter by it,
and, this brightness will be in some
way reflected to the outer world.
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The Yellowstone Expedition.

CHICAGO, Nav 13.-A special dis
patch says that two members of the
Yellowstone expiditiOn having return
ed to Bezeman, Montana, report the
whole party returning The CON-
maud penetrated the country near
the vicinity of Tongue river from the
first to the twenty sixth of April.
The force was harassed the entire
time by Indians. Four pitched bat
ties were fought in which one hun
dred Indians were killed. Skirmish-
ing was continuous, bands of from
one hundred to q thousand Indians
lowering around. The whole outfit
is in a battered and exhausted cOndi-
ton. The party lost one man killed,
named IL. Yates, and two wounded.
Twenty horses also were killed.
Members of the expedition assert
that rich mines exist in Big Iron
Mountains, but the vigilance of the
Sioux made prospecting out of the
question.
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Public Opinion

The influence Of public opinion f.,
greater than il generally imagined
and a. il makes our reputation, 10 f.
well that wctake some thought ofthe
impressions we leave, and show a de-
gree Of respect for the sentiments and
cherished opinions Of society. We
have heard men say that as long as
they acted conscientiOusly and did
what was right, they cared very little
what people thought Of them; reason
ing highly commendabIe in itself, that
may bo very well for one who would
isolate himself from society and the
world, but it seems founded on a
somewhat selfish basis. " Happiness
was born Il twin, and TO be indi1er-
ent topublic opinion we must exist
within ourselves alone. since no one
in this world is wholly independent,
for the happinnss we receive. Many
a reputation has been uudeservingly
lost, and many undeservingly gained.
Great genius may moulder away in
solitude, the world ignorant OF It's
genius still while the efrOntery and
persistence Of some ignorant egCtist
may carry him before the world as a
man Of mark. An accident may
raise him to heights he is unworthy
to attain, ifthe tide Of public opinion
but bears some first good impression
on its bosom and carries it into the
great ocean Of society. Yet he Is put
a pigmy 70 the colossus whose own
thoughts in solitude are his sole COM
panion5.
Public opinion is the barometer Of
the social atmosphere in which we
live. 1t is signet placed by a COM
munIty to mark worth, and a man
can no more journey through this life
without a currant Of public opinion
following, than 4 vessel can cross the
deep without a wake Some may
imagine 1t presumption or cOnceit 70
think they exert sufficient influence 70
attract attention. Yet every life Is
iraught with interest in the particular
sphere of its existence and we are in
it what we are thought TO be. The
character is % ourselves what we
really are % the world il is what
or public opinion makes it;
and although q man may be fully
conscious Of bis own virtues and his
own worth, the world alone shall saw
to bis memory he leaves
Footprints on the sands VI fTimc.-
or sinks into oblivion.